TWELFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX 



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The owners of this butter in the hope of receiving a price which 

 would enable them to sell without loss waited until the beginning 

 of the new butter season before disposing of their holdings. The un- 

 loading of this large amount of poor butter during the spring 

 months demoralized the butter market to such an extent that prices 

 remained at a low figure until the dry weather began to reduce 

 current receipts of fresh butter. 



The butter market has apparently recovered a normal conditijn 

 and the prices are at present high enough to return the producer a 

 good profit if he has the right kind of dairy cattle. 



SHOWING AVERAGE MONTHLY PRICE OP EXTRA WESTERN CREAMERY BUTTER 

 IN NEW YORK MARKET. 



BUTTER OUTPUT. 



The amount of butter produced by the creameries of Iowa for 

 the year ending July 1, 1911, shows some increase over the pre- 

 ceeding year. This increase, amounting to 2,783,684 pounds, is a 

 little surprising when we take into consideration the extremely dry 

 summer and the general shortage of feed throughout the state. 



"We find that quite a number of Iowa creameries have begun the 

 manufacture of ice cream and forty-one plants reported having 

 manufactured approximately 250,000 gallons during the year. This 

 is in addition to the ice cream manufactured by the regular ice 



