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will remain closed during the winter months, planning to reopen 

 in time to do much of the spring business. With a normal season, 

 we believe many of the creameries now idle will be organized and 

 manufacture butter during the coming year. 



A MOVE TO IMPROVE IOWA BUTTER. 



After having made what we know is a marked improvement in 

 the quality of Iowa eggs, we are going to see what we can do to 

 help the quality of the cream. 



Nearly a million of what is known as our "Bad Egg Warning" 

 have been sent out within the last year. This is only one of our 

 various plans of educating the producer. We believe in educa- 

 tion first, and prosecutions as a last resort. We will have to ad- 

 mit that we were obliged to make a good many prosecutions to get 

 results and get rid of the bad eggs and the end is not yet. 



We have sent to the creameries for distribution among their 

 patrons, a large quantity of our bulletin, ' ' Care of Milk and Cream 

 on the Farm." Speakers from this department have addressed 

 Farmers' Institutes, Dairy and Creamery meetings, warning the 

 farmers time and again that there was altogether too much poor 

 cream on the market to make the class of butter that sells for top 

 prices. We realize that a great many of the producers have made 

 a very general improvement in their products by bettering the 

 conditions about their places in the way of putting in ice houses 

 or water tanks for the purpose of cooling and keeping their milk 

 and cream in good condition. Besides this, many new milk houses 

 have been built and others remodeled and cleaned up. 



We expect to keep up this kind of work and from this time on, 

 supplement it by having the Assistant Dairy Commissioners, where 

 their time will permit, visit some of the most flagrant violators 

 on the farm. Within the last few weeks we have made several 

 successful prosecutions under the new sanitary law, enacted by the 

 35th General Assembly. Part of Section 1 reads as follows : ' ' Every 

 dairy, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel, grocery, meat 

 market, or other place or apartment used wholly or in part for the 

 preparation, sale, manufacture, packing, storing, or distribution 

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