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and about half of that, or eleven million, the value of condensed mill:. 

 The largest single item in the value of dairy products is the value of milk 

 and cream consumed as such. If you stop to think, the large cities must 

 require enormous quantities of milk and cream for the consumption of 

 the population, so the largest single item is two hundred seventy-five mil- 

 lions, the value of milk and cream consumed as such. 



Now, the whole products of the dairy Iowa ranks fourth; New York 

 first, with a large city consuming enormous quantities, has fifty-five mil- 

 lions as the total value; Pennsylvania second, thirty-five millions, an- 

 other large city there; Illinois, with Chicago in it, the third, twenty-nine 

 millions; and Iowa fourth, with no large city, the aggregate value being 

 twenty-seven millions. So you see that we rank well up to the top. Well, 

 now, if that be the history of the past and the present, how about the fu- 

 ture? 



There are a whole lot of fellows, you know, that are pessimistic along 

 about this time of year. The creameries are not making so much butter, 

 some of them have to shut down- for a while, and a whole lot of fellows 

 think the whole business is going to the dogs. You do not need to worry. 

 The farmer does the thing that he must. Do you believe that? I say, he 

 does the thing that he must; he thinks he does it because he likes it, but 

 it is not so. He raises corn in Iowa because he must, the soil and climate 

 are conducive to that; he does that because he must, although he thinks 

 he likes to do it. For the same reason he raises hogs and cattle, and for 

 the reason of adaptability we produce butter here, and will continue to 

 do so. 



Think of the states now that produce the largest amount of dairy 

 products. Beginning at the Atlantic ocean, straight across the continent 

 to the other ocean, we would find dairying were it not for the arid region 

 in between. Then south of Mason & Dixon's line, there is no particular 

 interest in dairying there, and there never will be, for the reason that 

 the business is not adapted to that sort of country. 



If that be true, that the dairy business thrives where it fits the case, 

 and it does fit the case in Iowa without a doubt, then it must be true that 

 in the future w^e will continue to produce large quantities of butter in the 

 State of Iowa. It must be true that other states will surpass us, but we 

 do not care for that. AVe will have seats in the band-wagon just the same. 



Now. the farmers of Iowa and of every other place know this thing 

 to be true. They do not like to milk cows but know this is true, that the 

 milking of cows and producing of butter and cheese (in a community 

 where cheese is made) is the surest thing the farmer can do; it is a sure 

 thing, you can not fail at it. And so, for that reason, when hard times 

 come we milk lots of cows; and for a similar reason when times are easy 

 and everybody is prosperous, we let up on it, and that is the situation in 

 Iowa at the present time. T.here has been considerable decrease in the 

 last four or five years and that is the reason. There are a lot of people 

 scared and think we are all going out of business as creamery pro- 

 prietors and butter-makers, but they are scared too soon. When condi- 

 tions change then the increase which has characterized the past will 

 again be found to be true. 



