342 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
The plan pursued by the more successful condensed milk factories 
is as follows: 
First, a formal contract between the management and the pro- 
posed patrons is entered into, which contract specifies the duties and 
obligations of each party to the same and upon the part of the 
patron who agrees to furnish milk from a definite number of cows ; 
to provide clean barns; to care for his cows and to milk them in 
a cleanly manner ; to use clean utensils for handling and transport- 
ing milk ; and to keep the same in a clean milk house provided for 
that purpose, and to thoroughly cool the milk after each milking. 
He also agrees to permit inspection of his bams, cows, dairy uten- 
sils and appliances by representatives of the management and to 
take all needful pains for the production and delivery of a clean 
product. 
Second, a system of inspection and instruction by a milk inspec- 
tor employed by the factory, is persistently followed, an inspection 
of the milk as it arrives at the factory, and a further inspection 
of the dairies, cows and appliances of the patron. 
From a theoretical standpoint, the foregoing plan is especially 
desirable and easy of adoption in any large co-operative creamery 
in the state. A competent person employed by the creamery to 
work among the patrons of the creamery would almost certainly 
insure a very considerable improvement in the quality of raw mate- 
rial furnished. The average creamery aside from the large central 
plants in this state, produce about 140,000 pounds of butter annu- 
ally. An increase in the value of this product of a cent a pound 
would employ a person at $100 a month for the year, so that the 
expense would almost certainly be easily provided for by the in- 
crease in price received for the improved butter, and such a man 
could easily more than earn his salary in the assistance, advice and 
instruction along other dairy lines that he might give to the patrons 
of the creamery ; or the expense might be cut into by two adjoining 
creameries employing a man to work among their patrons as sug- 
gested above. 
A cent a pound means $1,000,000 annually to the milk and cream 
producers of the state. If such an increase can be secured by an 
expenditure of even half a million dollars, it ought to be undertaken 
Everybody knows and acknowledges that such an increase in the 
value of Iowa's creamery butter is easily possible by improving the 
quality of the raw product which now comes to the factories. Ex- 
perience has shown that the efforts of the buttermaker so long 
