590 BOARD OF AGKICULTURE. 



community that will not get ten cents a bushel for the corn they put in 

 their steers. They drop the cow which they are used to and go into a 

 business that they are not acquainted v\'ith, but they are coming back 

 towards the dairy. 



Dr. Woolen: The question has not been answered as suggested by 

 the first question, why Iowa succeeded so well and is known as a dairy 

 State. An address was made here yesterday by our Secretary, showing 

 what Indiana was doing compared with two or three other States. Now, 

 as far as steers are concerned, and as far as dairying is concerned, the 

 profits are the same in Indiana as they are in Iowa or Illinois. The 

 question is for something to help Indiana. Iowa don't need any help. 

 Iowa gets six hundred thousand dollars appropriation, and we go to Indi- 

 anapolis this winter and we get what we can. 



Mr. Schlosser: And that isn't very much. 



Dr. Woolen: I have been on the committee a time or two to get five 

 hundred dollars appropriation for the dairy interests of this State, and it 

 was very humiliating. I don't think I was ever more humiliated than I 

 was when I went with the committee for five hundred dollars. I think 

 the suggestion about nationality has a good deal to do with the dairy 

 interests in Indiana. The northern part of this State is not like the 

 southern part, and so we have all kinds of people as well as all kinds of 

 soil in Indiana. I would not give Indiana soil for that of any other State 

 in the Union. I am a native Hoosier, and I think Indiana has more 

 resources than any other State of its size. We can't have the Scan- 

 dinavians here, because the prices are too high. They Avere one of the best 

 emigrants that ever came to America, and Iowa and Wisconsin have been 

 -very greatly benefited. The next twenty-five or fifty years of those 

 States' history will show the good results of this population, but that is not 

 Indiana. We are here in Indiana. We are here at Purdue University. 

 We are here as the Indiana Dairy Association, and the question is how can 

 we help this along. I have Avorked my brain along the line of co-operat- 

 ing; I work my place on the co-operative plan. I would give anything if 

 I could make a contract with a man on that half basis that was talked 

 about, or I furnish two-thirds. Two-thirds of the expenses and every- 

 thing. I am glad to get a chance to do that. 



Mr. Drischel: The time is up. We have had a good deal of discussion 

 on starters in ripening of the milk. I do not approve of resolutions, but I 

 do approve of a good live committee for the Legislature as a starter that 

 when they appear before the Ways and Means Committee of that Legisla- 

 ture that they will impregnate the members of that committee with bac- 

 teria and germs for the good of this Association, 



