492 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



"With all truth it may be said of Charlie Knight, that he is indeed a Knight 

 of the Golden Circle — the sixty pound tub of genuine western extra cream- 

 ery butter. 



Alone for the man who keeps a family cow. Is there any of the 

 old sentiment left, and this cow should be a Jersey, a dainty matron with 

 soulful brown eyes, a golden skin, little incurved horns, of fawn color, 

 and always and ever the family pet. With her well fed and cared for 

 follows good living for all — cream for the coffee and oatmeal, pudding 

 and milk for supper, rolls of nice butter, pats of cottage cheese, and 

 pitchers of buttermilk, a drink fit for the gods; and then as the straw- 

 berries get ripe, you go out and pick a heaping panful, and getting the 

 Jersey cow, the berries and the sugar bowl into happy conjunction you 

 return thanks that verily life is worth the living after all, and realize 

 some of the sentiment which inspired the poets of old. 



We once heard Artemus Ward deliver a lecture in St. Louis upon 

 the Mormons, during the whole of which he never once referred to the 

 polygamous crowd. I see that I have been following his example, ignor- 

 ing the topic of this address, and so I will close by saying that milking 

 is the fly in the ointment of even modernized dairying. While far 

 enough advanced to raise our babies on a bottle, we still have no ma- 

 chine which will milk a cow. It is best that this should be so, else the 

 small dairyman would have no show in the business. So long as this 

 work is done by hand, just so long will the emergency arise which forms 

 the title of his address — that of having to milk a kicking heifer in fly 

 time. A good man should not attempt this job, unless he is out in the 

 pasture or away back behind the barn. It is an experience destructive 

 alike of dignity, good morals and church standing, and a man should 

 always let his wife, or the hired man with no soul to save, do this job. 



I speak of a cosmopolitan audience — the man who keeps the cow, 

 the creamery operator who makes the butter, the sharp New York and 

 Chicago men who buy and sell it. the makers and sellers of creamery 

 supplies, and the people who eat the butter, the product of these joint 

 labors. 



While the poetry and sentiment may be and probably is, pretty 

 much obliterated by the use of modern methods and machines, it still 

 remains a fact that no product requires more intelligence and skill than 

 the pound of creamery butter, score 97. the production of which forms 

 the special business of this meeting of the Iowa State Dairy Association. 



President: This closes the programme for the evening. I 

 would ask all holding railroad certificates to please hand them to 

 the secretary this evening. You stand adjourned until tomorow 

 afternoon at 2 :00 o'clock. 



