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an artificially painted flower equal to Nature's blushing rose? Can 

 Congress "by law make water flow up hill? Can Congress by law turn 

 hungry wolves loose in sheep folds and reasonably expect that they will 

 not destroy the sheep? Can Congress by law make beasts of prey ply 

 their natural instincts by dayli'ght, rather than by darkness? If Congress 

 can do these unreasonable things, if it can defy natural law and com- 

 mon sense, doubtless than it has also the power to make good by law the 

 assertion that oleomargarine, a heterogeneous compound, mechanically 

 mixed in a machine, the child of greed, sold for gain, is the peer of butter 

 as a food, the product of nature prepared in the living organism of the 

 cow — man's best friend, from the beginning of his earthly pilgrimage 

 as a race, the prototype of the kindliest gift of God to man — our mother." 

 In conclusion, I want to congratulate the Iowa State Dairy Association 

 upon this excellent show and convention, and upon your initiative in 

 bringing the cow into your meetings and making her so prominent. 

 Certainly in an association composed of both buttermakers and dairymen, 

 you are following out the right idea of co-mingling for co-operation and of 

 practical demonstrations. I thank you. 



FRIDAY EVENING, 8:15. 



The President: The first speaker of the evening will be W. W. 

 Marsh, of Waterloo. I know of no way I can introduce him that 

 will be more appropriate than to say that he is the owner of the 

 Dairy Maid of Pinehurst. 



ADDRESS. 



W. W 7 . MARSH, WATERLOO, IOWA. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I remember a few years ago 

 of reading of a man in Chicago by the name of Dick Wells. There was 

 a race horse of that name, and on the strength of what the horse did 

 this man broke into politics. One night when he was making a speech 

 some fellow in the gallery learned who he was. He said, this man is 

 named after a horse. Mr. Barney introduced me as the owner of Dairy- 

 maid of Pinehurst. I don't know, at this period in our development in 

 Iowa, but what I would like to be known as a man who- had done what 

 he could to point out the vast difference between a mighty modern 

 machine for turning the roughage into a very valuable food product, and 

 I thank my friend Barney for introducing me as the man who owns 

 the greatest cow in the last Iowa contest. He has been kind to me 

 several times in his introductions and I have learned to like him. 



I have been asked how it was that Barney and Shoemaker and I — 

 with evidently rival interests, one a breeder of only Holsteins, the other 

 Jerseys and the other Guernseys, get along so well. I say in answer to 

 that, it is because we are all satisfied with what we have. Barney feeds 



