310 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The consumption of milk, in our large cities, is constantly increas- 

 ing. This means better prices and more prosperous 'times for all who 

 are engaged in dairying. 



Today the cow is queen of the animal kingdom, the milch cow I 

 mean, and with the advancement of land she will be sure to hold her 

 high position. 



THE SECRET OF HARMONY IN A CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY. 



F. W. STEPHEXSOX, LAMOXT, lA. 



Mr. President, Brother Buttermakers and Ladies: I assure you that 

 I am glad that I have been able to attend this convention at Cedar 

 Rapids. I have never attended a convention in my life without gain- 

 ing some information, some knowledge, that I have been able to go home 

 and apply to better myself and make money for the corporation for 

 which I have worked, whether a State convention, an annual conven- 

 tion or a convention of the Eastern Iowa Buttermakers' Association. 

 After I have been to a meeting of this kind, after I have been to a place 

 where they have been scoring butter, it seems to me that I can hardly 

 keep out of it. I have never yet exhibited a tub of butter but I have 

 been satisfied in my own mind that I have received benefit from doing 

 it. It has been truthfully said that the student never rises above his 

 teacher. So you and I as buttermakers of the State of Iowa can 

 never influence our patrons to rise higher than we are ourselves along 

 the line of cleanliness. 



The subject on which I am to read a paper tonight is "How to Maintain 

 Harmony in a Co-operative Creamery," and I would suggest that we, as 

 buttermakers, put forth every effort to clean things up at the factory, 

 because a buttermaker has no right in the world to preach cleanliness 

 to his patrons when he has a dirty creamery himself. I would say, 

 therefore, let us take these things home to ourselves-; these things all 

 go to maintain harmony in a co-operative creamery, every one of them. 



Now I have a paper here that I wish to read if you will bear with 

 me for a few minutes. 



HOW TO MAIXTAIX HARJIOXY IX THE CREAMERY 



Is a subject upon which very little has been written or said. It covers 

 so broad a field that the time allotted will not allow for a full and de- 

 tailed paper. I will, therefore, touch on only a few of the more impor- 

 tant conditions, and confine myself to harmony in the farmers' co-opera- 

 tive creameries, leaving the discussion which should follow to bring out 

 further information. 



Harmony is one of the great essentials in the creamery, if not the 

 greatest. In fact, this is not only true of the creamery, but in every 

 field of work. Without it, failure is the inevitable result, and I believe 

 more creameries have been unsuccessful and actually failed or closed 

 on account of a lack of this pulling together or harmony, than from any 

 other one cause. 



