296 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



This investigation has been made for the purpose of answer- 

 ing the many inquiries we have received during the past few 

 months. We have not attempted to state what may be considered 

 a reasonable profit for the producer or what milk should sell 

 for, but to reach a fair conclusion as to the cost of producing 

 market milk. 



IOWA HERDS WiIN AT NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW. 



For several years past the National Dairy Show has offered 

 a special prize for the best twelve animals of the folloAving breeds 

 owned in any state or foreign country: Ayrshire, Guernsey, Hol- 

 stein and Jersey. It is rather unusual for one state to win two of 

 these prizes in one year. It is still more significant for the same 

 state to win two of the awards two years in succession. 



Last year contributions from the herds of Geo. W. French, 

 lowana Farms, Davenport, and the Galloway-lMesser Farms Com- 

 pany, Waterloo, Iowa, won the special prize for the Holsteins, w^liile 

 the herd of W. W. ]\Iarsh, Waterloo, won for the Guernseys. Cattle 

 from these same herds were shown at Columbus, Ohio, where the 

 1917 show was held and W'On again. 



When you take into consideration that the National Dairy 

 Show is the world's greatest show of dairy cattle and that all of 

 the best herds from IMaine to Washington and Texas to Minne- 

 sota, as w^ell as many imported cattle of the various breeds are 

 shown it would appear that it was not worth while to go beyond 

 the boundaries of our state for high class dairy cattle. A win- 

 ning of this kind is of no small value. 



MARKET MILK. 



The market milk situation during the past year has presented 

 many new problems which were 'given very little consideration dur- 

 ing the pre-war years. Common with all articles of foods, food for 

 man and feed for domestic animals, the market price of milk has 

 climbed steadily upward. 



Previous to the present war the creamery was the controlling 

 factor in the price of market milk, in Iowa, and the condensary, 

 except in its immediate neighborhood, was not a factor. Today 

 owing to the unusual and heretofore unparalleled demand for 

 condensed and evaporated milk, the condensaries are using every 

 effort to obtain all available milk and are able to and do pay prices 



