270 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGR1CULTURI3 
and cattle, a state where intelligence and intellect is equal to any other 
locality in the world, a state that should boast of the quality of her 
butter. It would mean millions of dollars to her people, for the markets 
of the world would be asking for our butter. It would mean that a pro- 
ducer who attempted to market a stale and unwholesome can of cream 
would be made to feel that he had committed an unpardonable sin. 
These are not impossibilities. It only requires the united effort of the 
creamery industry at large, it only requires the will and stick-to-itiveness 
to carry it through, and the necessary laws to back us. 
If we want to make better butter then let us rally to the front. Call 
the united forces of the business to arms, buckle on your armor, go out 
and fight the evil. Do more than grumble about bad cream. Join forces 
and work in harmony for quality and for laws that will help you and the 
whole dairy business in general. 
Ring out the glad tidings that Iowa's loyal creamerymen are going to 
work for quality. The zenith is on yonder mountain top and the banner 
is inscribed with the word "Quality." Rescue it and the vanguard of 
safety will carry us on to higher and nobler things. I thank you. 
The Chairman : We have quite a little time and we can have a 
few minutes for discussion. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Eckles, of Missouri: I think that this question of good 
butter is largely in the hands of the creameries. What incentive is 
there to the farmer to produce a clean and sanitary product when 
his neighbor gets the same price for a dirty product. It seems that 
the creameries ought to go for some of these conditions themselves. 
We must furnish instruction for the farmer and teach him how to 
deliver his milk and cream to the creamery in good condition. That 
is the first thing to be done. 
Mr. Bower : We certainly need laws like Mr. Odell has outlined, 
and we need men to enforce them. I do not think for a moment but 
what it is possible to enforce them. In my home territory we have 
thirty inspectors going around among the farmers enforcing the 
laws. As a result Canadian cheese stands throughout the land for 
quality. This is also true in Denmark. The buttermaker should do 
all he could along this line, and I believe that government inspec- 
tion is absolutely necessary along with it. 
Mr. Credicott, Chicago : I wish to say a word along this line. 
I have had a chance to observe the butter quality in the market, and 
when I made the statement that the average of our quality was 
deteriorating I was severely condemned. I saw in Chicago the other 
day a sign for oleomargarine which was very suggestive. It was in 
a street car. It read : ' ' The user of Holstein butterine has a guar- 
