EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V 301 



past year do not show a large decrease in the amount of butter 

 made, the fact remains that during the summer months there has 

 been a decrease and with the high prices offered for feed and the 

 large number of farmers who have discontinued to milk, it does 

 not seem that there will be any possibility that the rest of the 

 year will make up for the loss sustained during the summer 

 months. 



We believe that the quality of Iowa butter is improving and 

 we know that the conditions under which it is manufactured are 

 each year becoming more acceptable. Our inspectors and buyers 

 on the market report an improvement in the quality of butter 

 made during the past year. Scoring contests also indicate an im- 

 provement. 



Butter manufactured at Burt, Iowa, by Mr. Paul Macauley won 

 first at the Convention of the National Creamery Buttermakers' 

 Association at Milwaukee in competition with butter exhibited 

 from fifteen states. The score on this butter was 98. Mr. Macauley 

 again demonstrated his ability as a buttermaker by winning first 

 prize at the Iowa Buttermakers' Convention in Mason City one 

 month later. The score at this convention was 97^2- We note, 

 with a great deal of satisfaction, that the Burt Creamery is one 

 of the creameries making Iowa Trade-Mark Butter. 



The executive committee having control over Iowa Trade-Mark 

 Butter has been criticised because of the fact that it has not been 

 more liberal in allowing the use of the trade mark and the results 

 of the scoring at the last buttermakers' convention show that 

 the work of the board, while slow, has been very effective in se- 

 curing makers of butter for the brand the highest class to be had. 

 Butter entered by each of the five creameries which have been 

 allowed the use of the trade-mark scored 95 or above at Mason 

 City. Iowa Trade-Mark butter is not made by as many creameries 

 as we had hoped, but the butter that does bear the trade-mark is 

 the best butter to be had in this country. 



Iowa creameries are improving each year. Since November 1, 

 1916, twenty-four new creameries, some of these costing as much 

 as $15,000, have been built in new localities or to replace old 

 creameries. The creameries which are being erected are not only 

 ideal from the standpoint of convenience and sanitation, but they 

 are credits to the communities in which they are located, when 

 considered from the standpoint of their permanency of construc- 

 tion. 



