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low production per patron by the centralizers is uniformly low and is 

 about half as much as the production in the best dairy counties. The 

 tables given below are first figures reported by three central plants in 

 different parts of the State; second the statistics compiled in Tables 1 

 and 2 of this report for the counties indicated: 



County 



Us. 



t;^ 





Buchanan . 

 Chickasaw 

 Delaware -. 

 Fayette — 

 Kossuth _-. 

 Palo Alto - 

 Winneshiek 



Total 



1,570,562 

 1,859,679 

 2,875,738 

 3,758,483 

 2,226,227 

 1,599,935 

 2,422,288 



16,312,851 



114 

 135 

 156 

 154 

 154 

 123 

 113 



Average number of cows per patron 8 



Average number pounds of butter per creamery 174 877 



Average number pounds of butter per patron 1,212 



SHIPPING RATES ON CREAM. 



More than a year ago creameries in the northern part of Iowa raised 

 strenuous objections to the extremely low rates on cream which certain 

 railroads were making to Chicago. The net results of these rates was 

 that the Chicago centralizing plant could get butterfat into Chicago in 

 the shape of cream for less money than the State of Iowa could ship 

 butterfat to the same point after it was made. On representations made 

 by them, in which the dairy commissioner joined, these rates to Chicago 

 were raised to rates practically equivalent to rates for like distances ob- 

 taining inside the State of Iowa, though not all the railroads joined in 

 the raise of rates. Later an attempt was made by the Beatrice Creamery 

 Company to have rates in Iowa lowered by authority of the Railroad Com- 

 mission. This effort was opposed by the dairy commissioner and the 

 rates from Iowa have remained the same as they have been for a number 

 of years heretofore. 



It is apparent that a large number of producers of cream in this State 

 are, under present conditions, compelled to transport their cream to mar- 

 ket from a distance that precludes a possibility of any transportation 

 other than rail transportation. As heretofore suggested, there is no point 

 in Iowa further than seventy miles from two or more centralizing plants, 

 and hence it is apparent at once that the necessity for a low rate for 

 cream shipment does not obtain over greater distance than suggested. 

 Efforts to reduce cream rates have been along the line of reducing the 



