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with proper care the same quality of butter produced as where it is sepa- 

 rated at the creamery. To me it looks as though it was a matter of 

 education, and whether we can educate the people up to a standard to 

 erable them to do this is a question and considerable of a question in my 

 mind. But we may be on the threshold of the greatest progress we have 

 made. 



Another reason for the lowering of our grade is this. Iowa is the 

 first state in the Union which engaged in the manufacture of butter to any 

 extent. It is the home of the creamery industry. When John Stewart 

 hauled that load of lumber and built the first creamery over near Man- 

 chester he little thought he was laying the foundation of a system which 

 would extend to every country in the universe. If the name of John 

 Stewart occupied today the place it should in the history of the country 

 it would be among the benefactors of the human race. And I hope to see 

 the day when his memory will be honored in the way it deserves, when 

 instead of sleeping over in Anamosa in an unmarked and almost unknown 

 grave, the dairymen of the country will build him a monument, and they 

 can never build the foundation too broad nor the monument too high to be 

 commensurate with the good done by John Stewart to the dairy industry. 



But the reason I had started to give was this. We were engaged in this 

 dairy business before any other state and our creameries are older than 

 those of any other state. They were built with a limited knowledge 

 of sanitary conditions and surroundings and today they have grown old, 

 and in many of them it is impossible to get the best results. I am happy 

 to say that all the new creameries have been built with a view of sanitary 

 surroundings, and I predict this, so far as the other states are concerned; 

 that when their creameries are as old as ours they will be reaping the 

 same results. 



Another reason is the lack of interest taken by our state legislature. 

 We have certainly been handicapped in a degree no other state has been. 

 For instance, over at the institute held at Tripoli last week I met Prof. 

 Haecker of Minnesota, and he told me that Minnesota, with less than 

 600 creameries, has eight creamery inspectors. Iowa has over 900 cream- 

 eries and only one inspector. The Iowa legislature has ignored the dairy 

 interests and we as a consequence are suffering. I asked Prof. Haecker 

 what the Minnesota state dairy association received and he said $2,000.00. 

 One year ago you appointed a committee to go to Des Moines and ask for 

 $1,000.00. We have not yet received it. Prof. Haecker made the statement 

 that when the Minnesota association asked the legislature for $1,000.00 the 

 latter asked if they couldn't use $2,000.00, with the result that Minnesota 

 occupies today the position to which we entitled. Wisconsin gets $1,000.00, 

 and little Nebraska with less than 300 creameries gets $1,000.00. I wish 

 to urge this association to make some strong resolution, that the matter 

 be taken up again and that it be taken up in time. The trouble was the last 

 time the committee didn't get to Des Moines as early as it should have. I 

 would recommend that a strong resolution be passed at this convention, 

 asking our legislature for the aid we are justly entitled to in this con- 

 nection. 



