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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



office quite complete reports of the amount of business done, and the 

 table given below shows the aggregate for the State. For obvious reasons 

 the amount of business done by each factory is not given. It is sufficient 

 to say that the product of these factories ranges in amount from fifty 

 thousand pounds to two million two hundred and fifty thousand pounds 

 each, and that seven of them put out half a million pounds of butter each, 

 annually. 



It is impossible to state just how much of the stock from which this 

 butter was made was produced in Iowa, for the reason that some of it 

 changes hands a number of times before it cx)mes to the process factory 

 and so the renovator cannot tell the origin of the butter. Perhaps not 

 more than one third of it is Iowa butter originally. 



NATIONAL STATISTICS. 



Number of pounds of renovated butter made 54,658,790 



Total number of factories, about 63 



The managers of these, factories have shown a disposition to obey in 

 all its features the United States Renovated Butter Law, although they 

 have objected very strenuously to some features of the law, as well as 

 some of the rulings of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of 

 Agriculture. Their business, moreover, shows a remarkable increase over 

 the business done in the previous year. Attention is called to the fact 

 that the figures for the year ending 1903 are statistics for the first year 

 under the new renovated butter law and the figures for the year ending 

 July 1, 1902, are the ststistics for the year immediately preceding the 

 operation of the United States Renovated Butter Law. This large in- 

 crease is doubtless due to the fact that before the law went into effect 

 butter was renovated in a small way by a very large number of factories. 

 The taxing feature of the law has served to concentrate the business in 

 the hands of the larger operators, as will be clearly shown by the average 

 product of the thirteen factories of the State. There is every reason to 

 believe that the business of renovating butter and selling the same is one 

 of the most profitable branches of the dairy industry at the present time. 

 In this connection there is given herewith a letter from the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to the Secretary of the National Association of the Process 

 Butter Manufacturers in answer to a request on the part of the process 



