566 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Farmer B now looks at his watch again and says, Mr. Butter-maker, 

 it is now nearly 6 o'clock; I have to unhitch and take rhe cows along 

 with me; it is milking time. 



"VVe have now found that while Farmer A finds it dees not pay him 

 to keep cows for profit, our Farmer B, on his eighty-acre farm, is able 

 to sell one thousand dollars worth of product every year. 



Die Moral von der Geshichte. zu erkennen ist nicht schwer. Noi 

 every farmer can make dairying a success. The reasons for this are 

 many. As a rule we find the man on a small farm is more successful 

 in dairying than the one who is farming on a large scale. 



To make dairying a success, even for the good dairy farmer, the 

 following conditions must exist. He must have a good market for his 

 product at all seasons of the year. 



The road to his local creamery must be kept in shape, so that his 

 product can get there. A good feeling betw^een the creamery manage- 

 ment and all his patrons must exist, and harmony. 



For the latter the creamery operator is responsible to a great extent. 

 He has to be a good butter-maker, has to know how to keep his machin 

 ery and everything in and about his creamery in first-class condition. 

 But besides this, he has to have many other good qualities. He shouid 

 be strictly honest, and do justice to all. Wherever he finds room for im- 

 provement, he should not hesitate to tell his patrons in a quiet way and 

 not let his temper run away with him. 



He should urge his patrons to assist in testing milk and cream, and 

 in this w^ay learn his patrons and make them familiar with all the 

 details connected with creamery business. 



This. I think, would do away with much suspicion. The more the 

 dairy farmer gets familiar with all these parts, the easier it is for all 

 to co-operate. 



While our State Dairy Commissioner. Mr. H. R. Wright, and his as- 

 sistant. Mr. P. H. Kieffer. aro doing all that is within their power to 

 improve and work for the interest of the dairy inlustry of our State, 

 there is still lots of work that has to be left undone. It takes more help 

 to do it. I therefore ask the audience, and especially the officers of ^he 

 Calhoun county institute: Would it not be good policy to urge our 

 Representative. Mr. J. H. Lowrey, to help to work with us along this 

 line. If the legislature of Iowa would follow the good example of Min- 

 nesota in regard to dairy interests. I think it would be a great improve- 

 m,ent for our dairy industry. 



DAIRYING ON THE FARM. 



H. F. Hoffman, before Cherokee County Farmers' Institute. 



The subject of dairying on the farm is one that perhaps has received 

 less attention at institutes held in this State than any branch of farm- 

 ing. Surely much lesp than any of equal importance, if indeed there 

 15 such. 



