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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



REPORTS FROM CREAMERIES RECEIVING HAND SEPARATOR CREAM ONLY. 



The first table shows very conclusively that scarcely any creameries 

 are paying more for butter fat in cream than for butter fat in milk. 

 Theoretically, the cream costs less money to make into butter than the 

 milk, but the difference in quality more than compensates for this 

 difference in the cost of manufacture, so that the usual practice is to re- 

 ceive the cream and milk by weight and test and pay for them on the 

 same basis. 



From time to time reports have been circulated that in different 

 localities the hand separator was being discarded by its former users. 

 The reports given here in answer to the question: "Have any of your patrons 

 abandoned the use of the separator after using it a reasonable time?'" 

 do not bear out the thought that the users of hand separators are gen- 

 erally disappointed in them. The hand separator in Iowa is no longer 

 an experiment, and if the owners of hand separators in general were not 

 reasonably satisfied with the use of the separator, much larger numbers 

 of the machines would have long since been discarded. Such not being 

 the case, it would seem very certain that the hand separator patrons 

 of the creameries reported in the foregoing tables are well satisfied with 

 the use of the separator and prefer the hand separator system to the 

 whole milk system. It this be true, then the increase in the number of 

 hand separator patrons in Iowa in the future will be equal to the increase in 

 the hand separators during the last several years because the satisfied 

 patron is the best possible advertising medium for the sale of other 

 machines. That this is true is further shown by the almost uniform 

 answer that the use of the hand separator is now increasing. The 

 number of hand separators reported in 1898 was 904; in 1899, 1.762; in 

 1900, 3,332; in 1901, 5,231; in 1902, 8,323, so that the increase for the last 



