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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



merit of a better product, namely, creamery butter; so that, it is now- 

 selling for exactly what it is worth in comparison with creamery butter, 

 whereas, under former conditions, it was fraudulently sold as creamery 

 butter and for a creamery butter price. At any rate, these losses to the 

 makers of this packing stock affects Iowa farmers to a very small degree. 

 for the reason that only one and a half million pounds of the renovated 

 butter made in Iowa originated in this state. Nearly seventy per cent 

 of the renovated butter stock was purchased outside of Iowa. Practically, 

 the farmer who makes the butter which eventually goes into the reno- 

 vating factory loses the amount of the tax upon it, which is a quarter 

 of a cent a pound, and any other difference in price of packing stock 

 caused by the new law is accounted for by the fact that it eliminates the 

 illegitimate profits that were obtained by selling the renovated butter for 

 creamery butter; and this small loss may be easily changed into a 

 considerable profit if, instead of making a cheap grade of butter, which 

 must be renovated in order to be palatable, the farmers will patronize 

 the creamery that is able to make the best and highest priced kind of 

 butter. 



SHOWING AVERAGE MONTHLY PRICE OF FANCY WESTERN CREAMERY 

 BUTTER IN NEW YORK MARKET. 



The following shows the totals of butter shipped to the various markets 

 of tne United States as reported by the creameries of the state. Not all 

 the creameries reported the destination of butter shipments: 



