378 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



I tell it sometimes to show that this proposition of only washing the 

 separator once a day is just a habit. If you wash it once a aay, when 

 you begin you get an idea that it is sort of a hardship. But after you 

 get the habit it ceases to be a hardship. What would you think of a 

 lady who thought that it was undignified to wash the breakfast dishes 

 and then wash them again when she used them for dinner and supper? 

 But it is just as uncleanly to use a separator in the morning and then 

 use it again in the evening without washing it, and it would not prove 

 to be such a great task to wash it each time it is used if you would 

 once get the habit. 



You know we have to do things a little bit better these days and 

 there is a pretty good reason why. We have a war on at this time and 

 this is largely responsible for the high prices we are receiving for our 

 butter, cheese, and other dairy products. When this war is over we 

 know what is sure to happen. You know that the party in power has 

 taken off a great deal of the tariff. Politically I refrain from men- 

 tioning this fact except as it applies to dairy products. Just as soon 

 as this war is ended we are going to have a large amount of dairy 

 products imported here. These imported products will come into com- 

 petition with our inferior grade of products rather than with our better 

 grades. Now I want to say that if all the buttermakers of Iowa can 

 make a grade of butter which will comply with the Iowa trademark 

 standards they will be making a products which will pass all foreign 

 competition and they will have nothing to fear but the fellow who 

 doesn't make a good grade is going to suffer. I want to warn you again, 

 then, that we are going to have to do things better in the future. 



I \ as very glad to hear from Lee with regard to conditions over in 

 "Wisconsin. I have for a long time been of the opinion that our creameries 

 over here should be licensed. We license the operators and a good many 

 mercla-.ts throughout the state and I am not so sure but what the 

 creameries would find it a good thing. Where it is not done I believe 

 that the creameries should pay the cost of the buttermakers' testers' 

 licei:se. All we have to pay for this license is $2.50 a year, whether 

 it is for a buttermaker or a cream buyer for a large centralizer, but 

 I bcl eve that the creamery should pay it. 



Now, I am rather strong for licenses. I want to tell you why 

 the people that we don't license in the way of merchants, etc., have 

 been trying to get in on it. I remember very well that last winter a 

 committee from the bottlers came to me and wanted to know how to 

 get in on this license proposition. I said, "Now, why do you want to 

 be licensed?" "Well," they replied, "we feel very certain that there is 

 no way in which we can spend $2.50 or $3 that will help up as much 

 in the way of advertising as to have a license on our walls saying that 

 our place was inspected by one of your men." Well, the Senate put a 

 provision or an amendment into our license law but the House didn't 

 see fit to do anything further in the way of license. We should license 

 all of the restaurants in the state. Demands that this be done are 

 coming in every little while. 



