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son of this is ttiat many of the maliers are changing from the grass 

 to the dry feed conditions, and starters do not work the same, the tem- 

 perature is changing and the result is the maimers have not changed 

 with the conditions. Ii talies a little time to get adjusted. 



Another great fault I have with our system of scoring butter here 

 is the method of picking out a winner. I would prefer classing the 

 butter,— say Class A all butter scoring 97 and pay the premium pro 

 rata. Butter scoring 97 I would put in class A, butter scoring 95 I 

 would put in Class B, butter scoring 93 (which is extras) I would put 

 in class C. In the final contest in scoring butter, we bring up here 

 probably ten tubs of butter and there is practically no difference; if 

 that butter were placed on the New York market it would sell for the 

 same. The hutter is practically the same but under our present method 

 we have to take a first, second and third. "We pass up and down that but- 

 ter and probably work hours to find which is the particular tub we think 

 the best, and after we get through that is only the opinion of the 

 judge that that particular tub is the best. Possibly pass another 

 judge along the same line and he would pronounce the whole lot first 

 class; he might pick the first tub or the second tub as the winning 

 one. I think the practice of giving a gold medal, or a silver medal or 

 anything of that kind is wrong. If three tubs score alike, give them 

 the same prize. We have tubs that score 95 and a number that will 

 run the same at 93, and it is only reasonable that we would have the 

 same result at 97 or 98. Once in a while there stands a tub out from 

 the rest, that tub we might score as a grand prize. 



In taking up Professor Smith's argument about building up our 

 export trade, in the United States we manufacture 1,500 million pounds 

 of butter. This butter or the milk furnished for this butter comes from 

 ten million cows; it is produced on four million farms, furnishing 

 employment to nearlj- one-tenth of our population. The value of this 

 butter is three hundred million dollars, or five per cent of all our 

 agricultural products. Of that enormous quantity of butter we make, 

 94 per cent is consumed at home, leaving us onl}' 6 per cent for export. 

 Under the present conditions if we can keep up ' the standard of our 

 butter, it will only be a matter of time until we import butter unless 

 we increase the present make of butter. That question does not 

 bother me as much as keeping up the standard of our butter to extra 

 at the present time. I tell you I am seriously troubled about the con- 

 dition of butter in our own state. 



In the state of Iowa we make about one hundred forty million 

 pounds of butter. That includes the butter on the farm and in the cream- 

 eries. Figuring on the basis of 20 cts. a pound, there is twenty-eight million 

 dollars. I am satisfied, feel confident that with intelligent educa- 

 tion we can double that amount of butter without keeping any more 

 cows. We have at the present time two state inspectors giving instruc- 

 tions in buttermaking. If we had three or four or five instructors 

 going through this state giving instructions to the farmer, testing his 

 cows, weeding out poor ones, giving instructions in feeding and the 

 care of milk, the amount would be doubled. But we have met a 



