SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART V 'iU 



Many Missouri shippers sboii took advantage of this situation 

 by consigning their eggs to Iowa pionts for reshipment, thereby 

 securing the high price of the Iowa product. Being unrestrained 

 and interested in price only, these shippers used this method of 

 marketing their low grade eggs and shipments containing rots and 

 spots as w^ell as shipments of good eggs. A demoralization of the 

 r^outhern Iowa market was threatened. Our inspectors working in 

 co-operation with the federal authorities have this year put a stop 

 to the practice hy prosecuting over thirty offenders. 



Within the borders of our own state there were thirty-two suc- 

 cessful prosecutions for the sale of bad eggs during the month of 

 July and August. The largest consignment effected was shipment 

 of 500 dozen ; these being unfit for food were ordered destroyed. 



Figures for production of eggs during the year 1916 are not 

 available, but during the year 1915 Iowa farmers marketed 120,- 

 930,552 dozens of eggs for which they received $20,593,720, a sum 

 about equivalent to one-tenth the value of the corn crop of the 

 same year. ' •'i 



A conservative estimate of the result of our activities shows that 

 we have secured for the Iowa farmer an increase of $500,000.00 in 

 return for eggs. \ . ] 



WORK OF THE LABORATORY. 



Chemical analysis made in the laboratory of the department 

 from November 1, 1915, to November 1, 1916 : 



Cream and Milk 1,636 



Ice Cream 254 



Paints and Linseed Oils 56 



Miscellaneous Food Products 250 



Stock Foods 208 



Bacteriological Analyses 661 



Samples for Attorney General 247 



Samples for County Attorneys 45 



Samples for Commission of Pharmacy 24 



Samples for Board of Control 2 



Agricultural Seeds 1,096 



Total 4,479 



Samples of milk and cream examined by local state milk inspec- 

 tors Avorking under the State Dairy and Food Commission : 



Boone 395 



Burlington 814 



Cedar Rapids 2,104 



Clinton 756 



