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of a milk house to place the tank in to protect the cream cans 

 and cooling water from the sun and hot winds in summer and the 

 frost and storms in winter. 



PUT UP ICE ON THE FARM. 



Most any kind of building will serve the purpose of a cheap ice- 

 house to store ice for home use. Anything that will keep the sun 

 and rain out Avill do. A cheap ice house could be constructed in the 

 corner of a shed or against another building. All that is necessary 

 is to provide some drainage and cover the house on all sides, top 

 and bottom with about 12 inches of sawdust or 24 inches of hay or 

 cut straw and protect the covering from the weather. 



YEARLY TESTS. 



We are pleased to announce that W. W. Marsh of Waterloo, Iowa, 

 has continued for another year his offering of $1,000.00 for yearly 

 tests to be conducted by the Iowa State College under the super- 

 vision of the Iowa Cow Culture Club. The work being done this 

 season is really of more value than that of previous years for the 

 reason that this Marsh Contest is encouraging quite a number of 

 fellows to make yearly tests of their cattle, a thing which has not 

 been done in the past, but is a thing which really means more to 

 the dairy industry of the state than anything else. 



NORTH IOWA DAIRY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 



The North Iowa Dairy Improvement Association under the lead- 

 ership of G. W. Patterson as dairy expert is now on its second 

 year's work. The objects of the association are to improve the 

 quality of the product and to increase the production of the cows. 

 Much has been done to improve the quality of the cream delivered 

 to the creameries. The dairy expert has a complete check on 9,004 



