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that great body recited a similar experience. Every one had been raised 

 on a dairy farm. Every one told how they had hurried out after the 

 cows on frosty mornings and had warmed their feet as Mr. McKinley 

 had seen this boy do. 



I want to say that the home means contentment, and contentment means 

 better living, and I tell you good people of Iowa that we have a great 

 problem of conservation facing us here. We are all believers of conserva- 

 tion when it is in the mines of Alaska or on the Pacific slope, but I be- 

 lieve conservation, like charity, should begin at home. These men who 

 are keeping cows are the real conservationists. If they have their way 

 we will have in Iowa true homes — real homes. You never will build 

 homes in Iowa; Iowa will never be truly great as long as we treat our 

 farms merely as a place to secure a competency on which to retire. We 

 must build homes on our farms, and instead of saving the money to 

 buy a lot in town we must put that money into the home, a permanent, 

 beautiful home. You look over the people of your own acquaintance — 

 men who have worked on farms in Iowa, and every one's ambition 

 was to go to town. Every member of the family was racing to beat 

 them to town. I recall one instance of a man that owned several sections 

 of land in Iowa. He started out to make it a dairy farm. I visited him 

 one Sunday, and, looking over the fence I saw the bull he expected to 

 breed dairy cows from. I told him I had seen that animal before. That 

 man had put a milking shorthorn at the head of his herd to keep his 

 boys on the farm. Today one of them is driving a dray and the other 

 working in Waterloo in a factory for $2.25 per day. Draw an indict- 

 ment against that man, against the people who led him to do it. The 

 state is covered with tragedies of that character. We love the state. 

 If we love it as we should we love its farms. We know that the home on 

 the farm and the farm for a home is the destiny of every man who loves 

 the state. I thank you. 



The President : In introducing the next speaker it is only fair 

 to say that this is the third time within a year that the Iowa State 

 Dairy Association has called upon him. I mention this to show 

 that he is interested in the work that we are interested in and all 

 work of this kind which is of importance to the state. I have the 

 honor of introducing to you Governor Carroll, who will address 

 you. 



ADDRESS. 



GOV. B. F. CARROLL, DES MOIXES, IOWA. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I don't see why anybody should have been 

 invited to speak here except Mr. Marsh. I thought I had been thinking 

 along some practical lines with regard to the advancement of the dairy 

 interests of the state, but I find that my thoughts have been so super 

 ficial that I hesitate to offer them to this audience. 



