310 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



weight or measure. "The average citizen buys an auto and builds 

 a shed over it but when he buys a scale he digs a hole in the 

 ground and buries it," 



Housewives should have scales and check the weight of every 

 purchase. This will detect errors of honest merchants and find 

 the crooks of whom there are still a few even in Iowa. 



Not the least effective branch of the department's work is the 

 weighing of various commodities to determine the accuracy of the 

 label or of the weigh ticket. 



The statutes authorize inspectors to "enter or go in or upon 

 any stand, place, building or premises ; or to stop vender, peddler, 

 junk dealer, coal wagon, ice wagon, or any dealer whatsoever, for 

 the purpose of making the proper test." The irregularity of such 

 inspections makes it impossible for dishonest dealers to know when 

 their loads may be reweighed and this uncertainty makes them 

 more cautious and renders the work of the inspector more simple. 



The department is anxious to serve the needs of the people and 

 solicits requests for assistance and suggestions as to how condi- 

 tions may be improved and every buyer and seller insured full 

 weight and measure. 



lowans almost without exception wall count it a duty, yes a 

 privilege, to be conservative, thrifty and honorahle in every trans- 

 action dealing with food stuffs, ammunition w^hich America will 

 need in abundance to bridge the greatest crisis in the nation's his- 

 tory and make the world in truth safe for democracy. 



THE WORK OF THE IOWA STATE DAIRY ASSOCI- 

 ATION, 1917. 



The work of the Educational Department of the Iowa State Dairy 

 Association has been changed to a considerable extent during the 

 past year. Since the Association received its first appropriation 

 eight years ago most of its work has been devoted to the prelim- 

 inary and very necessary task of creating an interest in dairying 

 among all of the farmers of the state. This work was accomplished 

 by the operation of seventeen special dairy trains. These tours 

 have covered every railroad in the state and have provided dairy 

 meetings of some kind in practically every town. 



That this preliminary work has brought results is indicated by 

 the increased demand ,for speakers on dairy subjects to attend 



