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with the result that we were given $10,000 for the biennial period. We 

 are very sure that it will be an easy matter to show the next legisla- 

 ture that no money was appropriated by the general assembly which 

 has been of more benefit to all the people than has this. The fact that 

 we shall be able to properly account for every cent that will be used, 

 and to show that we have collected many hundred dollars to defray 

 the expense of speakers at dairy meetings and pay State Dairy Expert 

 Van Pelt his extra salary, should make it comparatively easy to get 

 this appropriation renewed. 



I would recommend that this be made an annual appropriation of not 

 less than $7,000 and that the law be amended to make the state dairy 

 expert's salary $2,000. It would be well enough to put the $1,500 limit 

 on the assistants, but a strictly high class man like Prof. Van Pelt cannot 

 be secured at less than $2,000. and it is too much of a tax on our dairy 

 friends to ask them to donate the $500 a year as they have been obliged 

 to do for the last two years. 



Our legislature should remember that the cost of living has materially 

 increased in the last few years, and that when they go on the market 

 for help they come in competition with commercial institutions that 

 are willing to pay a salary commensurate with the service rendered. 



Last year the association employed Mr. Patterson as an assistant. He 

 did his work so well that when the North Iowa Dairy Improvement As- 

 sociation was formed he was induced to accept a place with them. 



Briefly, the plan of this association is as follows: Ten creameries 

 agree to an assessment of 1-10 of one cent per pound on their output; 

 this fund is used to pay Mr. Patterson's salary and expenses and he 

 devotes his entire time to them and their patrons. The Government 

 has wisely authorized one of their experts, Mr. F. L. Odell, to give this 

 work a part of his time. 



This is the first association of its kind that has been organized, and 

 although the work is new, splendid results are already being shown. The 

 work is being watched by the entire country. 



The work at Algona under the direction of Mr. E. B. Heaton, Junior 

 Dairyman, employed by the Government, is a new one and the state is 

 most fortunate in securing this aid. The plan is to place Mr. Heaton's 

 services at the command of a community for a term of three or four 

 years. To begin with, he secures all possible data as to their conditions. 

 He is expected to devote his time to teaching the dairymen and farmers 

 how to produce more and better dairy products by breeding up their 

 herds and by the use of more scientific methods of feeding. He is 

 supposed to spend a part of his time with their creamery. 



This work, as we understand it, is to be under the direction of Hon. 

 B. H. Rawl, Chief of the Dairy Division, Washington, D. C. Mr. Rawl 

 has asked the professor in dairying at Ames and the State Food and 

 Dairy Commissioner to co-operate with him in the management of the 

 work and they have consented to do so. 



This association has always been progressive. This is evidenced by 

 the fact that we are putting on this year, in connection with the regular 



