*rir:e 
Wise. Cry. 
Difference. 
27 
33% 
6.5 
31 
36 
5. 
25.8 
32% 
6.8 
26.2 
331/4 
7. 
20.4 
25 ys 
5.3 
18.8 
25% 
6.7 
18.4 
263/4 
8.2 
18 
27 1^ 
9.2 
330 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
buying. 
No. days 
January 4 
February 4 
March 5 
April 7 
May , 9 
June 9 
July 9 
August 7 
It has been charged that the centralizers pay different prices on the 
same day dependent on whether there was local competition or not. 
February 25, 1908, Fairmont Creamery Company paid prices as follows: 
Gallatin, Mo., 34 cents distance shipped, 230 miles. 
Stew^artsville, Mo., 30 cents; distance shipped, 180 miles. 
Hamilton, Mo., 40 cents; distance shipped, 220 miles. 
Albany, Mo., 29 cents; distance shipped, 210 miles. 
Difference of 11 cents. 
This is the testimony from the sworn statements of the centralizers 
themselves. No evidence has as yet been produced to show that the local 
creameries pay different prices on the same day to their patrons. 
On the standpoint of quality it is general knowledge that the quality 
of our butter had deteriorated in the last ten years, and speaking on the 
subject Chief Webster said, "As the systems exist now, the local creamery 
is making by far the best butter. 
.The longer distance cream is transported the greater the impossibility 
of making good butter. To make good butter you have got to have as 
short a time as possible between the milking of the cow and the getting 
of the butter in the tub. 
It has been shown that the local creamery serves best the interests 
of the producer, the farmer. It is equally in the interests of the con- 
sumer. The interest of the two classes, the producer and the consumer, 
are bound up together. The consumer desires good butter and is willing 
to pay a good price for it, and any system that lowers the quality of the 
butter manufactured will ultimately harm the producer. His interests 
demand the production of a superior article and such is the demand of 
the consumer. 
The local system is the only one that furnishes opportunity for proper 
inspection and supervision on the part of the state, and our experience 
in the past has demonstrated the great value of such inspectors and as 
a rule such supervision has come largely from the insistent call of or- 
ganized dairymen, and it seems to me that if the future is to see the 
proper development of the dairy business along proven lines, then cer- 
tainly the dairymen need the protection of organized effort. I thank you. 
A motion was made by Mr. Wright, and adopted, donating $150 
of the association funds to aid in carrying on this work. 
