318 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
[Note. — The above resolution and remarks could belter have been 
directed to those who were empowered with authority to provide funds 
for the improvements necessary at the State Fair and Exposition Grounds. 
The State Board of Agriculture has done a good work the past seven 
or eight years in adding necessary improvements at the State Fair 
Grounds. Not only have they expended the surplus of each fair, amount- 
ing in the aggregate to over $200,000.00, for additional permanent equip- 
ment, but have secured from the legislature from time to time additional 
funds for the same purpose. The dairymen must know that the needs 
of the fair are large and varied, and that it takes time and money alone 
to provide suitable buildings for all purposes. As to the exhibit of 
dairy cattle, in our judgment the fault for the scarcity of dairy cattle 
shown lies with the breeders of these cattle and not with the fair 
management. The classification offered is up to date, but the lack of 
interest taken in getting out a good exhibit by the breeders is deplor- 
able. It would appear that with the splendid field Iowa now affords for 
the sale of dairy cattle, those engaged in breeding this type would take 
greater interest in seeing a good exhibit at the annual State Fair. Just 
a word of advice: don't be selfish. If conditions with reference to stabl- 
ing are not as they should be, remember the conditions of other exhibitors 
are equally as inadequate, and in many instances, worse. Lend your 
assistance for the betterment of the improvements in all departments; 
they are as necessary as new cattle barns. — Editor.] 
Chairman : The next is an address by Prof. Bower, of the Iowa 
State College. 
THE BUTTERMAKER IN HIS RELATION TO CREAMERY MANAGE- 
MENT. 
PKOF. JOHN BOWER, AMES, IOWA. 
Mr. Chairman, and Brother Dairymen: The subject that I have chosen 
to deal with is, as stated on the progarm, "The Buttermaker in His 
Relation to Creamery Management." In one sense it is needless at this 
moment to point out to the makers before me just how intimately they 
are related to this important subject. Many of you believe and rightly 
believe that without the buttermaker not much butter, good nor bad, 
excellent or indifferent, specials or extras, would be made. In that sense 
you are right but it is in a more general sense and later in a more 
particular sense that I wish to speak to you. 
As you are aware two great systems of management with modifications 
are engaged in a struggle for the butter-fat trade of this country. Of 
these systems I have naught to say at the present moment. V/hat I desire 
to do is to point out in both systems the importance of the maker as a 
factor in the successful management of the creameries in either system. 
Taking the co-operative system, in which most of the makers here 
before me are interested, I believe that the maker makes or unmakes the 
system. This is becoming more and more noticeable as competition be- 
comes keener. By that I mean that the success of that particular 
