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buttermakers we can, but we are not giving him the material from 

 which he can make it. In Denmark they deliver their milk to the 

 creamery every day of the week except Christmas day. In New Zealand 

 in a number of their creameries they deliver the milk to the creameries 

 twice a day, morning and evening, and butter is churned from each sep- 

 arate lot. By adopting this system the people of New Zealand have 

 been in a position to establish a reputation for their products. On the 

 English market the New Zealand butter is a close competitor to the 

 Danish butter. Large quantities of New Zealand butter are sold on the 

 Pacific coast and wherever it is sold it is noted for its quality. The 

 American butter has today a splendid reputation, but I assure you, gen- 

 tlemen, that unless the delivery of sour cream to the creameries is pro- 

 hibited it will mean a great injury to the reputation of our dairy pro- 

 ducts. ^■^•i/i'H3 



These ideas which I am hero trying to present to you are not new. 

 In 1907 Professor McKay delivered an address before the members of 

 the Chicago Dairy Show in which he said: "The so-called large cen- 

 tral plants through their avaricious greed for business, like swift run- 

 ning rivers, have created obstructions for themselves which they cannot 

 control. In other words the fierce competition for business has resulted 

 in making the farmer careless and indifferent about caring for his 

 cream. We are all a little lazy, and do not work any more than we 

 ha^e to, therefore, if a farmer can sell his cream without giving it much 

 care, he is going to do it. 



Concerning the question of competion; if a dozen or more of the so- 

 called co-operative creameries adjacent to one another or in the same 

 country, would organize and hire a competent dairy expert to look after 

 the leakages in the different plants and to see that each creamery se- 

 cured a just overrun, a uniform quality of butter would be the result. 

 Then the organization could sell this butter as one lot to the highest 

 bidder, and if they bought the supplies for all the plants at one time, 

 which is possible, tljey could secure them at the lowest prices. Such an 

 organization could meet competition from any source." 



When we realize that Iowa is one of the oldest and the greatest 

 dairy state in the Union will it be proper for us to sit back waiting for 

 reform to come from the other states? No, I consider that Iowa must 

 be the leader and I believe that the Iowa State Dairy Association as 

 a representative of tbe dairying industry of our state should take an 

 active part in the matter of promoting reforms that will be of benefit 

 to the consumer as well as the producer. The creamery men small and 

 large all agree that the cream supply should be improved and I will at 

 this time propose that a member is appointed by the local creameries, 

 another by the creameries receiving cream by rail and that they appoint 

 a third member and that these three men work in conjunction with the 

 officers of the State Dairyman's Association formulating such rules or 

 plans as they deem necessary for the purpose of improving our cream 

 supply and that they shall be at liberty to bring the matter up before 

 our legislators and demand such legislation as they consider essential 

 to bring about results. 



