342 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



After they began to grade the butter in Canada, they sent a 

 shipment to England and it was pronounced equal in quality to 

 the butter there. The excuse that some men in this state may be 

 tempted to offer, that the climatic conditions vary widely in 

 Canada and Iowa, will hardly hold, for if any disadvantage exists, 

 considering the fact that in Canada the temperature frequently 

 falls in the winter to as low as sixty dgerees, wdiile in Iowa it sel- 

 dom drops below tw^enty, it is Canada and not Iowa which suffers, 



I think it is up to every creamery man to consider this proposi- 

 tion and to decide for himself and I hope as many creameries as 

 possible wall take a step in that direction of producing uniform 

 quality once we are read.y to work it up. 



Mr. Stephenson : I take pleasure in introducing to you at this 

 time Mr. Kraege of Wisconsin. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : I am pleased indeed to extend to you 

 the greetings and the good will of the dairymen of Wisconsin. In 

 Wisconsin w^e have a keen interest in the work that is being done 

 in the state of Iowa by your State Dairy Commission. We have 

 learned to have a very high opinion of that great educational 

 institution w-hich you have at Ames and we have a great deal of 

 respect for the state of Iowa as an agricultural state and once in 

 a while some of us from Wisconsin come over into Iowa, and I have 

 at this time, for the purpose of listening and learning rather than 

 that of imparting. 



I wonder, however, if you realize the greatness of the oppor- 

 tunity that is 3"ours. Daily w^e are told that this great and terri- 

 ble war is to be one more of bread and butter rather than of the 

 bayonet and bullet. 



We are beginning to realize, that the nations in Europe at war 

 are getting closer and closer to the point of starvation. The ra- 

 tions of the men at the front are being reduced from time to time 

 and also the ration of those at home. Within the past six weeks 

 the King of England has urged the people of England to reduce 

 their rations at home 25 per cent. Twenty-eight million cattle have 

 already been slaughtered in the nations over there for meat pur- 

 poses. Only three weeks ago, the government of Holland ordered 

 the slaughter of 500,000 cattle for meat purposes — Holland, the 

 nation of the Holstein cow is forced to slaughter 500,000 cattle 

 and this isn't going to be the end of it and that means to the 

 people of America that whereas we formerly imported our dairy 

 cattle from these nations we must now export. 



