618 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



What I want to get at, I niulerstand from the President of this or- 

 ganization, a year ago I was a member of the Legislative Committee, and 

 if I understand him aright I was chairman of that committee. Now, 

 to square myself with this organization, I want to say now that this is 

 the first time I have ever had any intimation whatever that I was a 

 memlx'r of the Legislative Committee, and secondly, I have not shown my 

 hand at all, and 1 know, of course, under these circumstances this or- 

 ganization will excuse me for not taking any interest in the matter, and 

 1 have no desire to be chairman of the Legislative Committee for this 

 reason: In the tirst place, it not only takes time, but takes money, but I 

 am perfectly willing to serve on that committee this year, and I will say 

 if the other members of this committee will give as much time as I will, 

 we will do some good for the dairy interests of Indiana. I would like 

 after the meeting adjourns to meet the members of that committee. 



Mr. Drischel: Mr. President As a nu'mber of that committee, I 

 want to go further than that; recognizing the fact and lieing on the com- 

 mittee some four ye.-irs ago, and knowing the results that we olit.-iined 

 at that tiuH', we w:int the ;ictioii of the farmers, the dairymen, ;in(l the 

 creamerymen to lielji us in this case. As .Mr. P.urnside says, we have got 

 to go there and present this matter, pay our own expense, and we want 

 you gentlemen here to present this matter to your Itepresentatives and 

 Senators. Impregnate everj^ man with the idea that this dairy industry 

 is growing up both in the school here and in tlie farms and in town, and 

 assist us in that line of thought, which will go a great ways. You can 

 make personal pleas to your Representatives and Senators and help us a 

 great deal that way. and aiuiounce the fact that the dairy industry is 

 going to be an important factor in this State. In the meeting before the 

 Ways and Means Committee of the Legislature there will be aljle people 

 favoring the horticultni'.al industries and pi-esenting their pleas for an 

 .apjiropriation. The Horticultui-al Association gets one tliousand dolliirs, 

 and we get tlie mere pittance of five hundred dollars. On that score I 

 think it is an injustice. With the horticulturists the fruit produced in 

 the fall is in sixty days after maturity barreled and shipped off. There 

 is no taxation on that, ])Ut there is with us, and also on the cattle or d;iivy 

 cow, :ind the creameries cost from .^.jOU up to .^flnii.diio. In my county 

 thei-e is a capitalized or im-orporated creamery of ."f;iUt),(KJO. 



Mr. Burnside: Just one more thing I would like to say in connection 

 with that Legislative Committee: There is a bill before the Legislature 

 now which was presented by Mr. Parks, of Marshall County, which is 

 a bill to prohibit the sale of oleomargarine in the public institutions in 

 the State of Indiana, and 1 believe that committee wauld like to know the 

 pleasure of this organization in regard to that bill— whether we ought to 

 go to lndi:ina])oIis and push th;it ))ill or not. 



