SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK-PART VIII. 353 



AVERAGE WAGES OP BUTTERMAKERS. 



Reports of monthly wages paid 64 buttermakers of the State' 

 show an average salary of $69 per month. Nearly all of our cream- 

 eries are operated the full twelve months and the average annual 

 wages of the buttermakers is somewhere from $800 to $850, an in- 

 crease of about $75 to $90 a year over the increase shown in the last 

 annual report, and an increase of $22 5 annual average wages over the 

 wages paid five years ago. The increased size of the creameries, 

 the greater value of their product, as well as the greater demands 

 for ability and skill on the part of the buttermaker, have brought 

 about this increase in wages paid. While $69 is the average wages, 

 $100 a month is a common figure for first-class buttermakers in first- 

 class creameries, and the State has lost several buttermakers at much 

 higher salaries. The facts indicate that the buttermaker of skill and 

 experience and good record is easily able to demand wages much in 

 excess of the average. 



PASTEURIZATION OF SKIMMED MILK. 



The following law was enacted by the Thirty-first General Assembly, 

 and became effective July 4, 1906: 



Be it Enacted by the Thirty-first General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 

 Sectiox 1.- That every owner, manager or operator of a creamery 

 shall before delivering to any person any skimmed milk cause the same 

 to be pasteurized at a temperature of at least one hundred and eighty- 

 five (185) degrees Fahrenheit. 



Sec. 2. Whoever violates the provisions of this act shall, upon 

 conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor 

 more than one hundred dollars. 



Under this law the managers or operators of five creameries have 

 paid .fines of $2 5 and costs each for violating same. This depart- 

 ment did not attempt- to inflict fines upon creamery operators who 

 were merely dilatory about arranging to pasteurize skimmed milk 

 until about the 1st of September. The notifications sent out were in 

 a few cases absolutely ignored, apparently on the theory that the 

 forced, hence prosecutions were absolutely necessary to make it ap- 

 pear that the law was intended for the proper purposes and that the 

 department was expected to enforce it. The Commissioner very much 

 regrets this necessity. 

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