PART VII. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 



OF THE 



IOWA STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION 



HELD AT DES MOINES, IOWA, 



November 20, 21, 22, 1907 



OFFICEES. 



W. B. BARNEY, President Hampton 



L. S. EDWARDS, Vice Presidext Arlington 



W. B. JOHNSON, Secretary Des Moines 



F. M. BROWN, Treasurer Cedar Rapids 



The Iowa Dairy association met in its thirty-first annual con- 

 vention at Des Moines, and was called to order eWdnesday evening, 

 November 20, 1907, at 7 :30 o'clock, President W. B. Barney, in the 



chair. 



ADDRESS OP WELCOME. 



H. R. WRIGHT, DES MOINES. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: — I have discovered that when 

 anyone falls down in this association I am called upon. Now I have 

 not the slightest thing to say in the line of an address of welcome. The 

 mayor has gone to a wedding but in view of what we know about his 

 family I judge it is not his own wedding. 



The village of Des Moines, as you know, is a little out of the dairy 

 belt. About the only real bona fide dairyman I know of In this town, 

 besides myself, is my friend Mr. Wallace, who publishes a farm and dairy 

 paper. The fact is the business men and the people of this city, with 

 whom your officers have had to deal, have dealt very liberally with this 



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