16     WISCONSIN CHEESE MAKERS' ASSOCIATION
with twenty-five hundred Cheese Makers here at the convention.
It seems reasonable to expect to have five hundred cheese exhibits
competing for the five hundred prizes, listed in the convention prize
list.
To acconiplish this requires work. To develop our membership this
next year, and to have more exhibits from each county and town in the
State where cheese in produced, we must have a couple or three good
live wires to compete with each other to see who can do the most
good work in the town to boost the convention-to interest the makers
and secure their membership, to interest the merchants,. bankers,
cheese dealers, box manufacturers, coal dealers-in fact everybody
in the town that does business with the cheese maker-to secure the
donating of prizes for the best cheese from that particular town or
county. Every member of this Association can do valuable work
in this way, by stimulating interest in the minds of other people.
We have about thirty honorary members listed on the first page of
the Convention program and we ought to have more. These come
from about twenty towns. There are a good many other large sized
towns in the state-and each one of these ought to have an active
busy bee live wire man working for the next year's convention.'
It isn't too early to begin thinking about it right away. So if there
is no honorary member in this list from your town it is up to you
to make up your mind that you are going to be the honorary mem-
ber from your town next year, and that you will write into the
Secretary's office early in the fall and get some suggestions and
directions as to what work you can do as an honorary member.
I feel sure that the present earnest growth is due to the active
work of the members all throughout the State. The officers of this
Association, for 33 years have done all they could do to make the
Association successful. The recent large growth is due to an extended
activity in the membership throughout the state and that is the
thing which must produce the growth in the future. So we are not
passing the buck in asking you to go to work-we are simply leav-
ing the buck where it was in the first place and reminding you of
the fact that the reponsibility is yours. You are in the majority as
compared with the officers-the majority of the work must be done
by you. If you will do it we will have the biggest Cheese Maker's
Association in the world,-as we ought to have.
The Secretary's office at the Republican Hotel is open all day
and most of the night and he will be glad to see any of you up there
and get acquainted with you and if he can do anything for you-
if anybody needs any particular services of any kind or gets into
trouble, or wants to get some information, drop into the office.
Next year we want to have a bigger program, more members, more
prizes, more cheese. We will have to move upstairs into the bigger
Auditorium rooms when we outgrow this set of rooms that we are
using now. Among the enterprises that'the Association has under-
taken recently-is an employment bureau, * and the Vice-President,
Mr. H. A. Kalk at the table over here has charge of that Employment
Bureau. Anybody who wants to hire a man, a cheese maker or