STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION. 



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as good a quality as some of them sell with a pump and pulverized 

 chalk. 



President .Johnson: We will have to leave this subject and pass on 

 to the next, which Is 



INDIANA DAIRY INTERESTS AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



H. E. VAN NORMAN, SUPERINTENDENT, LAFAYETTE. 



Indiana's Dairy exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition occupied 

 one section in the immense refrigerator provided for the exhibition of but- 

 ter. The section was 12 feet high, having an eight-foot floor space and eight 

 feet square of triple glass front, and in common with others was- cooled 

 by ammonia expansion coils. The display consisted of butter in commer- 

 cial packages, tubs, prints and in form suitable for table service, the 

 whole arranged in an attractive design, presenting a pleasing contrast 

 to the sculptured figures from the other States. The chief feature was 

 a structure consisting of four columns, two short ones in the foreground 

 representing by the number of prints required to make them the number 

 of pounds of butter annually produced by the average cow of Indiana, 

 as reported in the last census. In the center background two tall columns 

 connected with the shorter ones by a balustrade of unwrapped prints. 

 These tall columns showed the number of pounds of butter produced in 

 one year by a good cow. 



The superstructure surmounting the tall columns consisted of prints 

 bearing wrappers from those creameries in the State which market their 

 butter in parchment wrappers, arranged in a pleasing design around ihe 

 scroll, "Indiana." 



The prints in the lower portion of each column bore the mark in large 

 type, "Cost," while the upper part bore the legend, "Profit," thus show- 

 ing what proportion of the total year's production in each case was 

 required to pay for the feed consumed. In the case of the average cow 

 the short columns showed 167 pounds as the annual production of the 

 average Indiana cow, of which 158 pounds were required to pay for the 

 feed consumed, leaving only nine pounds profit. In the case of the tall 

 columns there were shown 30.3 pounds as the annual production, which 

 is secured by many successful dairymen, of which 164 pounds must be 

 sold at market price to pay for the grain, roughage and pasture consumed 

 during the year, leaving a profit of 130 pounds, thus presenting to the 



