EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAE BOOK— PART VIII. 



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TABLE No. L 



Showing average monthly price of fancy western creamery butter in New- 

 York market. 









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November 



December 



January 



February 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September -— 

 October 



Aver. val. per 

 lb. per year 



.2113 

 .2250 



.lyoo 



.20tO 

 .1900 

 .1880 

 .1530 

 .1500 

 .1500 

 .1675 

 .1930 

 .2290 



.2325 



.2290 

 .2040 

 .2042 

 .1937 

 .1980 

 .1580 

 .1687 

 .1687 

 .1860 

 .2025 

 .2235 



.2337 



.2160 

 .1975 

 .2100 

 .2075 

 .1902 

 .1790 

 .1881 

 .1835 

 .2000 

 .22(32 

 .2400 



$ .1885 



$ .1971 



$ .2065 



.2600 



.2720 

 .2650 

 .2500 

 .25.50 

 .1960 

 .2012 

 .1950 

 .1960 

 .2100 

 .2150 

 .2190 



$ .2487 

 .2540 

 .2262 

 .2250 

 .2212 

 .2099 

 .1900 

 .1925 

 .1960 

 .2050 

 .2110 

 .2200 



$ .2278 



.2412 

 .2510 

 .2425 

 .2862 

 .2840 

 .2825 

 .2275 

 .2195 

 .2131 

 .1990 

 .2170 

 .2362 



? .2165$ .2416 



.2650 

 .2920 

 .2762 

 .2600 

 .2860 

 .2725 

 .2200 

 .2160 

 .2012 

 .1940 

 .2075 

 .2100 



.2317 



.2423 

 .2270 

 .2517 

 .2452 

 .2284 

 .2012 

 .1803 

 .1767 

 .1793 

 .1947 

 .2095 



$ .2417 



$ .2140 



.2481 

 .2688 

 .2910 

 .3218 

 .2807 

 .3008 

 .2371 

 .2049 

 .2056 

 .2111 

 .2068 

 .2184 



.2350 

 .2480 

 .2650 

 .2709 

 .2700 

 .2188 

 .2017 

 .2022 

 .2062 

 .2257 

 .2462 

 .2811 



$ .2487 



$ .2375 



$.2762 

 .3164 

 .3080 

 .3254 

 .3061 

 .3069 

 .2501 

 .2380 



. 2481 

 .2483 

 .2781 

 .2915 



$.2826 



CITY MILK INSPECTION. 



The growth of the city milk inspection in this State is indicated by 

 the following table, showing the number of permits for milk dealers issued 

 in the years from 1896 to 1907. The years end in every case on the 

 4th of July: 



Cities 



Inspectors 



Burlington .. 

 Cedar Rapids 



Clinton 



Council Bluflfs 

 Davenport -— 

 Des Moines — 



Dubuque 



Fort Dodge — 



Keokuk 



Marshalltown 



Muscatine 



Ottumwa 



Sioux City — 

 Waterloo 



25,318 

 28,759 

 23,756 

 25,321 

 39,797 

 75,626 

 41.941 

 14,369 

 14,604 

 12,045 

 15,087 

 20,181 

 40,952 

 18,071 



394,737 



Oscar C. Hoerr 

 Chas. B. Thomas 

 Dr. J. AV. Griffith 

 H. A. Lennox 

 H. J. High 

 J. P. Morey 

 Harry Barmierier 



D. C. Benjamin 

 A. .J. Anderson 



Dr. B. M. Singleton 

 Dr. .John Tillie 



E. B. Hill 



J. B. Huffman 

 Theo. Peek 



The inspection and tests carried on by this department in fourteen 

 cities lead to the belief that there is very little adulteration of milk by 

 skimming or watering, and little adulteration with chemical preserva- 

 tives or coloring matters. In the city of Des Moines during the summer 

 months the chemist of this department has analyzed over six hundred 

 samples of milk secured from city milk dealers and not a single case of the 



