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on brick so one could walk around and not "mire" down. Improvements 

 for Iowa butter. In the name of demons below, what would you do? 



Another place where all cream was received, emptied into a vat, cooled 

 down and churned; creamery frightfully dirty; did not pasteurize or use 

 a starter. Within ten feet from creamery a hog lot, containing from 50 

 to 100 hogs were kept. The aroma from this place was something 

 terrific. Flies in countless numbers. It seemed that every fly had a duty 

 to perform; flying from creamery to hog lot and back again; wade 

 around in the hog wallow and then to the cream vat; washed the mud 

 off their feet in the cream. Regular feet washers. Inoculation was a 

 part of their business. Improvements for Iowa butter! 



Here is a creamery I am proud to make a statement from. Receives 

 all hand separator cream; pasteurize and use a starter; creamery neat 

 and clean; had a place for everything, and everything in its place. But- 

 termaker could go into his creamery any dark night and pick up any 

 tool he wanted. Making good butter; paying good prices. In the past 

 two years this creamery has had a remarkable growth; business increas- 

 ing every year. Here is a man helping improve Iowa butter. What a 

 contrast between this creamery from the one before it. Improve the 

 opportunities that you have. You may think that you are not doing very 

 much, but you have tried. It is the man that takes advantage of the 

 situations as they present themselves that wins. If you cannot have a 

 "starter can" use a "shotgun can." If you cannot have everything you 

 want, take advantage of what you have. 



I was in a hand separator creamery where the buttermaker could 

 not get any whole milk to make a starter. Instead he made arrangements 

 with some of his patrons to bring him some "sweet, thin cream." With 

 this he made his starter, and a very good starter he made from it. This 

 is an example of what you can do if you want to. This man took ad- 

 vantage of the conditions. 



At a convention of this kind the hand separator gets its share of 

 abuse. There is no use going into any argument about the hand separator. 

 We all know the standing of the machine. It is the people that are 

 abusing them. Some are washed every time they are used; some once 

 a day, and some whenever the spirit moves them. Some keep them in 

 a nice clean place; some in barns, and some close to a hog pen where 

 it will be handy to feed the hogs the skim milk; they want things handy. 

 Where the latter conditions exist we will not have any improvement in 

 Iowa butter. 



As I before stated, we should have more commissioners in the field. 

 Line up this hand separator proposition and get a better grade of cream. 

 You will then commence to see improvements in our butter. If the peo- 

 ple' are aware that a dairy commissioner is working in their vicinity 

 they will be mighty careful what kind of cream they deliver, and mighty 

 careful where their separator is kept. 



It is impossible for two men to make a thorough canvass of the State 

 and keep things lined up as they should be. I am willing for my part 

 to do anything I can; go anywhere, if I can help improve Iowa butter. 

 My interest is in this grand old State of Iowa. 



