372 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



This was the start of the Dairy Cattle Congress and it has been grow- 

 ing ever since until now it is known everywhere. However, this brings 

 us down to the present and its present history you know. 



Again, in behalf of the association, I thank the Mayor and people of 

 Waterloo for their cordial welcome. 



The President : The report of the secretary and the report of 

 the treasurer will be made tomorrow. I take great pleasure in 

 introducing to you at this time Professor Lee. 



THE BUTTERMAKER OF TOMORROW. 



BY C. B. LEE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER AND DAIRY SPECIALIST, 

 WISCONSIN FOOD AND DAIRY COMMISSION. 



Never before has there been such a demand for trained creamerynien, 

 operators and makers as at the present time. This is not due to an 

 increase in the numbers of creameries alone, but to the necessity of the 

 smaller creameries, be they co-operative or individually owned, adopting 

 methods that will make it possible for them to compete with those insti- 

 tutions which for years recognized efficiency in every phase of their 

 activity. Only a few months ago, one of the large creamery companies 

 picked a University man at a handsome salary in order that the value 

 of their efficiency department might be increased. The managers and 

 officers of the leading co-operative creameries are beginning to ask the 

 question: "Are we doing our duty to the farmers of the community 

 who entrust us to handle twenty to thirty million dollars a year?" 

 During the past summer two factories with a combined output of over 

 1,000,000 pounds of butter realized that the quality of their product 

 and method of marketing was causing a loss of one to two cents a pound. 

 An individually-owned creamery located less than 100 miles from these 

 two plants for the month of March last sold two-thirds of its output 

 at nearly 3 cents net per pound higher price. 



A few months ago a paper stated that Iowa was manufacturing one- 

 seventh of the nation's supply of butter. Wisconsin for years has con- 

 tended that one-sixth was her share. These two states, with Minnesota 

 to the north and west, completes a center where nearly one-half of the 

 creamery butter is made. 



The factory problems of these three states are similar not only as 

 to source of the raw material, but the handling of the product from the 

 farm to the market as well. The makers should follow a standardized 

 or unified method. The creamery buildings should be of permanent 

 construction and in charge of men who can be looked to as leaders of 

 the community. 



The entire dairy industry and its finished product should reach such 

 a degree of perfection as to invite the most rigid form of state and 

 national investigation that may be demanded by the consumer. 



OTHER LINES ^lAKE PROGRESS. 



The farmer of tomorrow is not the man of yesterday. The object 

 in view may be the same, but the goal is reached by the improved road. 



