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the train with a number of men from Kossuth county. These men 

 a few years ago didn't talk dairying. Last night we didn't talk 

 anything else. Today these men have one of the best creameries 

 in this state. A few years ago where the Fenton creamery is lo- 

 cated now we held one of the first dairy meetings in the county, and 

 we formed a permanent organization. At that meeting I was told 

 by one of the men that propably not twenty men present had ever 

 attended a farmers' institute before. 



The people of Iowa have no good excuse for anything else but 

 good cows. It is your own fault if you don't, for you can easily 

 weigh and test your milk and find out. I thank you. 



The President : The election of officers will be tomorrow morn- 

 ing. We will have another good session when the buttermakers 

 will have the floor, and I hope a large number will be present. 



Adjournment. 



-THURSDAY MORNING, 10:15. 



The President : The first order of business this morning is the 

 election of officers. This is the time for nominations, and I want 

 to say a few words myself. About twenty-seven years ago I at- 

 tended the first state dairy convention. It was at Algona. At that 

 time there were a few cow men present, and only a few. Soon 

 after that it sort of drifted into a well, I don't know what, be- 

 cause I didn't attend until about seven or eight years ago. At 

 that time I attended a convention at Cedar Rapids, and I have at- 

 tended every convention since. I was elected vice-president, and 

 it seemed rather peculiar that I should be elected an officer at the 

 first meeting I had attended in sixteen or eighteen years, but that 

 was the case. I was given to understand that I was supposed to 

 sort of get the dairymen into the meetings. I set about to do that 

 work as well as I knew how. I think there were about four men 

 who owned cows at that Cedar Rapids meeting, and I was one of 

 them. It looked as if I had a big job on my hands, but notwith- 

 standing that I understood very well that if our association was 

 made what it should be the cow men and the buttermakers and the 

 kindred interests should be united. I had become acquainted with a 

 young man a short time before and in some way we drifted to- 

 gether. Shortly after I had been made president I appointed him 

 chairman of the Legislative Committee, and I want to say to you 



