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this the local secretary can get right after the buttermaker and make 

 each buttermaker go to every patron he has with a petition, and if we can 

 get every patron of every creamery in the state of Iowa to sign a petition 

 and turn it over here to our legislative committee, the legislature can- 

 not turn us down, we will be too strong. But the trouble is, we have never 

 been organized to go to work at this right. If we can get some good, wide- 

 awake fellows in these different sections that will go after the butter- 

 makers and stir up these local meetings and get these petitions out, there 

 is no doubt about our getting an appropriation to support this organization. 

 Our association has always been supported by the buttermakers and by 

 their good friends, the different commercial people over the state, but 

 it is a shame for the state of Iowa, with the amount of dairy business 

 done in the state, that the Iowa Dairy Association has to beg for funds 

 with which to carry on these meetings. It is a shame and disgrace to 

 the state. The only way to avoid this is to organize, get together and go 

 to the legislature in such a body that they cannot turn us down. 



There are a few minor points I might mention along with this, and 

 that is in regard to the state meetings and the National Buttermakers' 

 meeting. The local secretaries can do a wonderful work along this line. 

 I know of quite a few men that are not here today because they knew 

 of no one that could take their places. The local secretary can get in 

 touch with the men that are idle and are willing to take the place of a 

 buttermaker while he comes to the convention, and that will help some 

 of the boys. Not only that, but he can get his local meetings together 

 and get the boys lined up to come to the meeting of the state association 

 and of the National Buttermakers' association in a body, get the boys to- 

 gether and get {hem to work in harmony. That is the best way I know 

 of in which to do things. 



I hope you will consider this and will take it up at some other meeting 

 when we will have a little more time to consider it. I thank you. 



The Chairman : I wish to say I fully concur with Mr. Edwards 

 in all he has said and I sincerely hope that you will talk this matter 

 over and bring it up a little later. It is a matter that is worthy 

 of consideration and I believe it is the only way to get shaped up 

 so we can go before the legislature with any prospects of doing 

 anything. 



We will now stand adjourned until 1 :30 this afternoon. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Meeting called to order at 2 o'clock by President Barney. 



The Chairman : Gentlemen, we will open our program this aft- 

 ernoon with an address by Chief Webster, of the Dairy Division at 

 Washington. 

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