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utive Committee issued a call for a national meeting 

 of representative dairymen. As a result the Colum- 

 bian Dairy Association was organized. Under the 

 auspices of this organization plans have been matured 

 on a scale never before undertaken. 



The World's Fair Commissioners, through their 

 chief of Agriculture, Mr. Buchanan, who, with 

 an amount of liberality unhoped for, has seemed 

 to appreciate our every want, have arranged 

 for a dairy school, providing buildings for a 

 working dairy, and barns large enough to accommodate 

 three hundred of the finest cows in America. This is 

 intended and undoubtedly will prove to be educational 

 in its scope as well as the grandest display of the kind 

 ever undertaken. 



But let us not forget that this is a national affair and 

 that its success will reflect no especial credit or honor 

 upon our State. If we expect to hold the proud posi- 

 tion we now have among our sister States something 

 must be done and that quickly. To this end, waving 

 the formality of an invitation, I would suggest that the 

 Association appoint a committee whose duty it shall 

 be, after thoroughly considering the matter, to formu- 

 late some plan by which the entire Dairy intelligence 

 and strength of the State shall be combined to secure a 

 display that shall be a credit to all concerned. 



I feel confident that the State Board will be glad of 

 suggestions from this committee. Certainly we shall 

 lose nothing by asking, even persistingly urgin g. 



There is one subject that comes up at every annual 

 meeting. It never will down, but nothing practical 

 has yet been the result of our discussions. I refer to 

 the adulteration of "butter and cheese. 



Speaking from the standpoint of a dairyman, as well 



