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you have not shipped any tubercular bacilli to your customers in New 

 York city whereby they will have tuberculosis or anything of the kind. 

 The fact is the butter industry is not only a great thing commercially, 

 but its product is one of the necessities of life, as well as a luxury. It 

 is one of the most easily digested and most completely digested foods, 

 its food value is greater than that of any other food put on the market 

 pound for pound, its actual cost value compared with the price in money 

 is not greater than the price of beef or bread or anything else of food 

 value, so you are not only making and sending to the markets a whole- 

 some product, but you are making and sending to the markets, at any 

 price we have had in the last four years compared to other prices, an 

 article which is about as cheap as anything that anybody buys, and that 

 is the reason why people everywhere, from the time of Abraham down to 

 the present, have estimated butter as a proper and legitimate article of 

 food, have given it an honored place in the dietary of the family and 

 have devoted themseles to its manufacture and sale. 



The ChxVirman : We have with us a gentleman that I believe 

 you would all be glad to hear from. In view of the fact that we 

 have this time to spare, I have been requested to call on our former 

 president, Mr. S. B. Shilling, to say a few words to you. 



REMARKS BY MR. S. B. SHILLING. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I declare I do not know what to say to you. I would think, after 

 holding the position as long as I did, you would be tired of listening to 

 me, and another thing I think your president should have appreciated the 

 embarrassment of my position in standing before you without notice 

 and not have called on me to talk to you when I really do not know what 

 I want to go after you for. There are a great many things I shall want 

 to tell you 'before the convention is over and hope I will have an oppor- 

 tunity to talk to you again. 



1 have just been talking to Brother Olson, who is a competitor of 

 mine, and he said this was the greatest audience that a first meeting of 

 the Iowa convention ever had, and I believe that is right. I do not think 

 we ever started out with a convention where the prospects were as good 

 and where we had as large and enthusiastic an audience as we have here 

 tonight. I want to congratulate you on that. I had some misgivings 

 about coming to Des Moines because I thought it was almost all politics 

 down here, but it looks as though just at present we had some dairymen, 

 too. 



Now I want to say just a word about the matter that was mentioned 

 by your president, that is about the condition of Iowa. You know I have 

 stood before you for the last five years and have begged and pleaded 

 and urged everybody to do something along that line; I have been down 

 here to Des Moines and labored with the legislators until I have been 

 afraid I would be kicked out of town, trying to get that appropriation for 

 our association, and in many instances I did not get even a pleasant look. 

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