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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 CHEESE. 



The manufacture of cheese in this state is extremely small, only 

 about a half million pounds being manufactured in nine factories. 

 The hand separator and the shipping of cream have superseded 

 the cheese factory almost altogetlier in this state, though natural 

 conditions have long since made it certain that cheese factories 

 could not profitably exist in very many localities in competition 

 with creameries, and there seems to be no reason to suppose that the 

 future in cheese making in this state will be different from the 

 past. 



CITY MlhK INSPECTION. 



The growth of the city milk inspection in this state is indicated 

 by the following table showing the number of permits for milk 

 dealers issued in the years from 1896 to 1900. The years end in 

 every case on the 4th of July: 



1896 1807 189f 1899 1900 1901 1902 



190 1904 1905 



1906 igo: 



1908 1909 



Number . 



566 620 574 676 714 784 821 



783 78 827 



803 1006 



1078 1149 



Cities 



Popu- 

 lation 



Inspectors 



Burling'ton 



Cedar Rapids . 



Clinton 



Council Bluffs 



Davenport 



Des Moines -. 



Dubuque 



Fort Dodge 



Keokuk 



Marshalltown . 



Muscatine 



Ottumwa 



Sioux City 



Waterloo 



Total 394,737 



25,318 

 28,759 

 22,756 

 25,321 

 39,797 

 75,626 

 41,941 

 14,369 

 14,604 

 12,045 

 15,087 

 20,181 

 40,952 

 18,071 



Oscar C. Hoerr 



Dr. J. W. Griffith 



F. R. Allen 



H. A. Lennox 



H. J. High 



J. P. Morey 



Dr. F. J. Kennedy 



D. C. Benjamin 

 Arthur J. Anderson 

 Dr. E. M. Singleton 

 Dr. .Tohn Tillie 



E. B. Hill 



O. N. Hanson 

 Theo. Peek 



Very considerable progress has been made in the cities listed 

 above in the direction of sanitary milk. Some of the cities, notably 

 Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque and Marshalltown have adopted 

 ordinances providing for city milk inspection at the expense and 



