518 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



enemy of one is also the enemy of the other. The market of the dairy 

 products may be divided into two classes, sending off the cream on the 

 one hand and the whole milk on the other. Under the head of the latter 

 would come the whole milk creamery, cheese factory, condensing factory 

 and supplying the demand for city consumption. These methods, and 

 gathered cream as well, are all legitimate dairy propositions and each 

 without doubt has greater usefulness than the others under certain con- 

 ditions. 



You will naturally ask why builders, owners, and patrons of these 

 factories should, after working together for years in building up these 

 markets, changing from gathered cream to whole milk, the patrons of 

 500 of them, go back to gathered cream again. Well, it was like this, 

 while the whole milk creameries and cheese factories owned by firms, in- 

 dividuals, and farmers as well, were run as a dairy proposition, those 

 interested not expecting to get anything out of it only as they could as- 

 sist in making it a prosperous business and profitable to all, and, al- 

 though these markets were advancing dairying very rapidly in their re- 

 spective localities, yet there seemed to be no way they could afford to 

 buy space and influence in dairy and farm papers of the country. So 

 are you surprised that, when these papers found they could contract with 

 the gathered cream interests for large sums; could hire to work for them 

 at fabulous rates when they could not sell space nor hire at all to the 

 whole milk methods (when you consider these facts, the inducements on 

 the one side and the lack of inducements on the other) the cheese in- 

 dustry, whole milk creamery, dairymen, and farmers have not had a 

 square deal? Can you not see that for each cheese factory or whole milk 

 creamery, that these willing workers could put out of business and estab- 

 lish gathered cream in its stead, they had at once from $5,000 to $20,- 

 000 of the farmers' money to divide, which has proven very profitable and 

 satisfactory to those in the deal. 



One farmer wrote to a farm paper of this state, saying he was keeping 

 cows and could send his milk to a whole milk creamery four miles away 

 or he could buy a farm separator and send his cream off on the train, and 

 asked which he should do. The answer received at once was, "There is 

 no question what you should do. You should buy a farm separator and 

 send off the cream by rail." I then learned he received about $16,500 per 

 annum for space and influence in the farm paper, which he was conduct- 

 ing. You see, if all had followed his advice, all the cheese factories and 

 whole milk creameries of this state would have been destroyed. Yet, he 

 is supposed to take interest in conserving the resources of not only the state 

 but the United States. The methods that did not bring advertising 

 money to him, he could not recommend. The method that did bring this 

 large amount of money into his pockets looked good to him. My dear 

 confiding brother farmers, do you think he was advising this farmer to 

 act in his own interests or was he seeking to influence him to act in his, 

 the editor's, interest? Inasmuch as the editor has hired out to the 

 gathered cream interests for $16,500 per annum and they were doubtless 

 much more critical readers than you, how could he represent your inter- 

 ests and, as' money flows so freely into the paper for promoting this sys- 



