PART V 



EXTRACTS FROM THE STATE DAIRY COMMIS- 

 SIONER'S REPORT, 1904. 



H. R. WRIGHT, DAIRY COMMISSIONER, 



CONDITION OF THE CREAMERY AND DAIRY 

 INDUSTRY. 



The creamery and dairy industry in Iowa has a history during 

 the last five or six years that amounts almost to a revolution. 

 Not only has the number of creameries in the State in these 

 years first increased and then decreased very materially, but 

 these changes have not been uniform throughout the State by 

 any means. There has been a general falling off in the practice 

 of dairying in the State but this falling off has been very much 

 more in the western and central parts of the State than in the 

 so-called dairy district in the northeast quarter of the State. 

 It is evident that the causes of the decreases have not affected 

 all sections of the State alike. Six years ago there were still a 

 few gathered cream creameries in the State, but no cream was 

 sent more than a few miles from the farm on which it was pro- 

 duced and none was shipped by rail. At present none of the 

 former gathered cream creameries have changed their manner 

 of business ; more than half the creameries of the State receive 

 more or less cream; sixty-one of them, and among the largest 

 ones, ship cream by rail; there are sixty -five creameries that are 

 exclusive hand separator creameries, more than twenty-five 

 thousand hand separator patrons in the State and 40 per cent of 

 the butter made in the creameries is made otherwise .than from 

 whole milk. 



