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commodities of merchandise. One of your chief objects is to 

 improve the qualities of butter and devise better means to pre- 

 serve the same and give it a golden color. I think it may be 

 said that the use of butter and its qualities keep pace with civ- 

 ilization. The higher the civilization the greater is the use ot 

 butter and the finer are its qualities. We all like good neighbors, 

 good childreu, good men and women, and good butter. It is in 

 universal demand. The converse of the proposition is also true. 

 The better the butter the better the people. At all events, poor 

 butter finds few takers, and good butter is taken by everybody 

 when it can be got. All over this state, in almost every com- 

 munity, can be found cheese factories and creameries ministering 

 to the wants of our people. Every meal must remind us of the 

 dairyman's efforts. You have become successful rivals with 

 foreign manufacturers of cheese. The Switzer and odoriferous 

 Limburger must give way to our domestic products, which are 

 more palatable and less offensive to the American olfactory. 



You have for your motto, " The Cow ; s Queen." You will 

 find this queen on all these fertile farms around and about us, 

 you can see her graze on the prairies south of our city or on 

 the hills and in the valleys on the north ; I may add that corn 

 is king in this section of the state. On every side of our city you 

 behold this king and queen. Does this not explain why you have 

 selected this city as the place for convening your association to 

 do good in this rich and prosperous section of our state where 

 this king and queen go hand in hand ? This country flows 

 with milk and is enriched with corn. I have heard it remarked 

 that venders of milk do not always strictly comply with the 

 rules of ethics, especially when the quantity of milk is insufficient. 

 It is often made to mingle with its weak associate in order to 

 increase its supply. This the consumer abhors, for milk and 

 Water people are not much sought for in your business, and I 

 have no doubt this association would regard such practice a vice. 



When we invited you we knew upon which side our bread 

 was buttered, and from the exhibits of butter I have seen I am 

 satisfied that there is a sufficient quantity of gilt-edge butter in 



