TWENTIETH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI 495 



The breeder who ignores right methods and up-to-date practices is 

 like the child playing with fire— you can't tell when either will be burned. 

 We have had too many examples of this kind within the last year. I call 

 to mind a breeder who was about to hold a sale. The date was fixed, 

 and quite an amount had been spent for advertising. Just to put on the 

 finishing touch, he called in a veterinarian and applied the test. About 

 sixty per cent of the lot reacted. No one wanted the balance, so the 

 sale had to be declared off. Had a test been made a few years earlier 

 the probabilities are a few reactors would have been found and if they 

 had been taken out and a follow up test made, the percentage of loss at 

 time of sale would have been so small as to be of no consequence. 



The tuberculin test measure may really be considered as an insurance. 

 It helps care for a part of the loss that is sustained by the breeder or 

 owner who is unfortunate enough to get his herd infected. It encourages 

 the young breeder to go into the industry. It says to him, "If you will 

 do so, the state and Government jointly will stand between you and 

 a total loss if your herd becomes infected." The older breeder who 

 does not take advantage of the law has a rather narrow vision and in 

 my way of thinking, will find the business unsatisfactory and not at all 

 proHtable. 



Though we are a little late in taking hold of a good thing, let us 

 show our neighbors in Minnesota and Wisconsin that we are none the 

 less in earnest than they have been, and we will soon have in Iowa 

 a long list of accredited herds. 



DAIRY PRODUCTS 



As stated elsewhere, a conservative estimate of the income received 

 by the State from its dairy products, places the figure at $143,064,933.17, 

 derived from the following sources: 



Creamery Butter $43,969,285.47 



Ice Cream 6,600,000.00 



Market Milk 27,700,000.00 



Cheese 330,000.00 



Farm Dairy Butter 18,000,000.00 



Condensed Milk 965,647.70 



Skim and Butter Milk 15,500,000.00 



Fertilizer 30,000,000.00 



If the campaign in southern Iowa is productive of results, a rapid 

 increase in this total may be expected within the next few years. 



In every instance except one, the figures given above show an increase 

 over last year — the exception being farm dairy butter. I regard the 

 decrease of revenue from this source as being a hopeful sign rather 

 than something to be regreted. I believe that the time has come when 

 it is far more profitable for the farmer to sell his cream to the creamery 

 than to manufacture it into butter himself. For this reason I am pleased, 

 rather than disappointed, to note that the tendency is to sell the cream 

 and purchase butter from the creamery. 



