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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



THE PRODUCT OF IOWA'S CREAMERIES. 



It is impossible to get complete returns from all the creameries. The 

 following table shows the figures of milk and cream received and butter 

 made at six hundred and one of the six hundred and sixty-one cream- 

 eries of the State, and in a general way at least shows the relative amount 

 of milk and cream produced and brought to the creameries in each county. 

 The reports show very generally that four pounds of cream are necessary 

 to make one pound of butter and so about seventeen million five hundred 

 thousand pounds of butter, or about 29 per cent of all that was reported, 

 was made from cream instead of from milk. 



TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF POUNDS OF MILK RECEIVED, NUMBER OF 

 POUNDS OF CREAM RECEIVED, POUNDS OF BUTTER MADE, POUNDS 

 SOLD TO PATRONS IN IOWA AND SHIPPED OUTSIDE THE STATE, SO FAR 

 AS REPORTED BY THE CREAMERIES. 



