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One hundred pounds of ground soy beans is superior to oil meal or 

 cotton seed meal and is being grown in some localities of Iowa. A 

 ration not quite as satisfactory as the above may be made up of equal 

 parts by weight of corn and cob meal, or cracked corn and ground oats. 

 With this clover hay and corn ensilage should be fed. Generous feed- 

 ing of milk cows with thoughtful management of the herd will do more 

 to increase production of butterfat than anything and develop a higher 

 cash market for Iowa's corn and oat crop. 



STATE DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSION. 

 W. B. BARNEY, Commissioner. 



We are inclined to believe that the suggestions offered on 

 this poster were more or less popular at this time, as we have 

 issued over 60,000 copies, all of which have been distributed 

 over the state and they were mailed out only upon request. 



There has been very little change in the consumption of 

 farm butter. However, I still believe, as I have stated in pre- 

 vious reports, that ''While the use of good dairy butter upon the 

 farm, or in towns adjacent to the place of its manufacture is not 

 to be condemned, I feel that in general Iowa dairymen would 

 profit more and more by sending a good grade of cream to the 

 creamery, instead of converting it into butter on the farm. This 

 applies, particularly, to dairy butter, which is traded in at the 

 country store for merchandise, a practice which is still in vogue 

 in many parts of this state. In many instances, these country 

 stores receive such a large amount of dairy butter, of widely 

 differing grades, that the only means which they have of dis- 

 posing of it, is to send it to the renovating plant, where it is 

 manufactured into low-grade butter. It is almost impossible to 

 estimate the loss sustained from this practice but it is safe to 

 say that it is very large." 



This not only applies to the farmer, or producer, but to the 

 country merchant as well and I am inclined to place the blame 

 for considerable of this loss upon the merchant, for the reason, 

 that very few, if any, merchants are making a differential in the 

 price per pound paid for the different grades of dairy butter. 

 We understand that a great many Iowa merchants are more or 

 less worried over this proposition, at this time, especially in 

 southern Iowa and I would recommend as a solution of this 

 problem, that all Iowa farm dairy butter be paid for strictly ac- 

 cording to grade or quality. 



Reports from creameries show that over 5,000,000 pounds 

 more of creamery butter was sold within the state than during 



