478 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



It is safe to be assumed that no member of the Iowa State Dairy association 

 was on that committee because they were needed in the legislature and 

 they would have been glad to have them return. 



Now, my friends, we have long known where our bread comes from. 

 All that was necessary for us to do was to look out of our windows and 

 observe our great mills situated within our borders, but never until tonight 

 have I looked upon the faces of those who. told us where our butter came 

 from. Very few of our citizens are proficient in the art of butter making, 

 but all of us are proficient in making the butter fly. So that is why Cedar 

 Rapids is a good butter market. 



My friends, you are indeed welcome to our city. I hope your meeting 

 will be one of pleasure, as well as profit, and when you have finished 

 your work here and returned to your respective homes we hope that it will 

 be with pleasant recollections of the city of Cedar Rapids and her people 

 who bid you welcome. I thank you. 



President : We are honored by the presence of an ex-member 



of the legislature from Walker, Hon. IT. J. Nietert, who will respond 



to the address of welcome. 



RESPONSE TO ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



II. J. Uietert, Walker, Iowa. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I presume the president has tried to punish 

 me a little bit by his slight reference to the uncomfortable position I 

 at one time held in this state, but he doesn't know all of my history or he 

 wouldn't refer to that. 



I am sure we have all listened with much interest to the address of 

 the honored mayor of Cedar Rapids. He has warmed the cords of friend- 

 ship and fratenity in the hearts of the members of this association by 

 the most cordial welcome through him from the citizens of Cedar Rapids, 

 and on behalf of the members of the Iowa State Dairy association I wish 

 to thank him and the citizens of Cedar Rapids through him for this wel- 

 come. This certainly is a city that all should be proud to visit. It is a 

 young city but its growth has been marvellous in the last decade. It has 

 grown from a small town in the 80's to its present population of over 30,000, 

 and I dare say there is not a city of the same population in the country, 

 whose inhabitants are so greatly marked for their good citizenship, 

 integrity, industry and good morals. By a man's acts we judge him, 

 and by the acts of the inhabitants we judge the community. When we for 

 a moment stop to view the surroundings, we observe that this city was 

 set in beautiful environments and situated most happily. We find that it 

 is a most energetic and progressive class of people that populate it. You 

 will observe that they have most beautiful structures here, both in their 

 many large and substantial churches where all the religions of modern 

 denominations are represented, where God is honored and revered by the 

 citizens, and in the many monuments of education, its public schools, high 

 schools and colleges, which disseminate and spread knowledge in the young 

 minds and teach our boys and girls to make good citizens. By our system 

 of education the perpetuity of this country is assured, because no country 

 can under our form of government succeed in ignorance. We go further 



