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greater and more useful to the state of Iowa. I bid you Godspeed in your 

 new undertaking, and I hope you will live to see the day when Iowa 

 will be recognized as the greatest dairy state in the Union. I thank you. 



The President : I have an announcement to make. The Holstein- 

 Friesian Association will meet in this auditorium tomorrow after- 

 noon at 1 :30. I would like to ask if Prof. Curtiss is in the house. 

 He was supposed to arrive this afternoon. Tn his absence I will 

 ask Mr. Julian to just say a word to us. 



Mr. Julian : Our president is a man that I have a great deal of 

 respect for and I consider his judgment good, but when he calls 

 on me to take the place of Prof. Curtiss I have just made up my 

 mind that I have been mistaken. 



When I first came to Iowa there was very little thought of the 

 dairy cow. There was no way we could fix it that we could get out 

 a magnificent gathering like this. I remember even only so short 

 a time as three years ago in a little talk I made Mr. Barney said 

 that a few years ago I would not have dared talked that way against 

 the dual-purpose idea. I want to say in regard to Mr. Barney. 

 When he took up this work as president, the Iowa State Dairy As- 

 sociation was just a straggling association. The buttermakers had 

 full control of it and a few were doing the best they could to create 

 dairy sentiment in Iowa. There is a magnificent gathering of 

 people here today and the grand speeches we have heard and the 

 splendid cattle we have seen can't be duplicated in any other state 

 in the union, and I am glad that Mr. Glover has stated that fact. 

 There is no area of land that is as fertile and will produce the 

 great crops that this fine state of Iowa will. I don't say this in a 

 boasting manner. I have been .all over the state and I say that 

 there is less waste land in this state than in any other similar area 

 on tin 1 face of the globe, and I look for the time when it will be 

 orie of the foremost states in the production of dairy products. We 

 have seen upon these grounds one of the most magnificent exhibi- 

 tions of dairy cattle in the United States, and I dare say that 

 there is no state that will put up as fine a show as we have. It has 

 been said in Hoard's Dairyman that Iowa was a dual-purpose state, 

 but I want to say to Mr. Glover that Iowa is showing these fellows 

 a few things and they are simply following. Nobody in Wisconsin 

 thought of the cow test until Mr. Marsh suggested it, and a number 

 of other men in Iowa became interested and they have gone on 

 until they have produced wonderful results. 



I want to say a few words about the growth of the dairy senti- 

 ment in Iowa. Last nisrht it was my fortune to come down on 



