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point of quality, when we have a butter-fat standard, so that this 

 over-loading will be done away with. There were only a few tubs 

 here that were gritty in salt, which shows that the boys have been 

 careful along this line. The butter that was poor in flavor was mainly 

 so on account of old and stale cream, the flavor indicating poor care 

 of cream before it has reached the creamery. This is something that 

 must be overcome before our butter will be of a quality that it should 

 be. There was considerable weedy and feed flavors in the butter, but 

 these are not nearly as objectionable as the sour, cheesy and stale 

 cream flavors. 



Now a few words of praise for the good points. There were only 

 22 tubs scoring 90 and below, and as butter scoring above 90 is 

 considered good table butter, and when you consider that the average 

 score of all this butter is 94, you can understand that it is a very fine 

 lot of butter, and, barring deterioration, I am sure you will And it 

 so when you look it over. The most of it was good commercial 

 butter, butter such as the dealers are anxious to get and such as will 

 go through to the consumer without a complaint. And there were 

 about 20 tubs of the finer quality that were rich, sweet and clean in 

 flavor, fine aroma, fine in workmanship and appearance — in fact, 

 nearly perfect butter that it is a pleasure and a privilege to judge. 

 Conditions have been ideal for the making of good butter, new grass 

 and cool weather. I am glad that such has been the case, and this, 

 coupled with the skill of the Iowa buttermakers has resulted in a 

 fine exhibit of butter. 



As I said at first, this is my first opportunity of judging Iowa 

 butter, in Iowa, and I am frank to say that I found a better lot than 

 I had expected, and I will say further, that if you boys send such 

 butter as this to the International Dairy Show and the National 

 Creamery Buttermakers' Association convention, the other states will 

 have to look well to their laurels, or Iowa will win the prize cup 

 and the prize banner. I thank you. 



The President: Our government never does things by halves; it 

 never employs poor men and it never sends out poor men. We are 

 favored tonight with S. C. Thompson, in charge of the Dairy 

 ^Manufacturing Investigations which are being done by the U. S. 

 Dairy Division, and I take pleasure in introducing him to you. 



ADDRESS. 

 S. C. Thompson-, Washixgtox, D. C. 



(In charge of Butter Manufacturing Investigations Dairy Division, U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture.) 



Those of you who had the pleasure of hearing your president 

 address this meeting this morning, heard him condemn the dual-pur- 

 pose cow. I don't know how you are going to consider me. I am of 

 the beef type but am working for the dairy interests. 



