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cries became so general, or in localities where conditions are much different 

 from the average farm conditions in Iowa. 



The plain fact of the matter is that cheese factories are not now, 

 and never have been, popular in Iowa, for the reason that the operation 

 of the cheese factory does not fit into the usual farmer's plans of raising 

 bogs and cattle. If our farms were forty or eighty acres, instead of 160 

 or more acres, the plan of our agricultural operations would have to be 

 different from what it is, and the making of cheese would no doubt be a 

 popular and profitable industry. The man who sends his milk to a 

 creamery has left in his skimmed milk the very thing that he needs to 

 raise the pigs and the calves, to which he will later feed his corn and grass 

 and hay. The man who sends his milk to a cheese factory has no such 

 valuable by-product, and is almost as restricted in the raising of pigs and 

 calves as the man who milks no cows at all, with the additional dis- 

 advantage that he must raise his claves by hand, while the man who milks 

 no cows at all can let his calves run with the cows. Cheese factories in 

 Iowa might be made profitable if they could secure the patronage of a 

 reasonable number of cows, but experience shows that in most cases they 

 cannot secure such patronage, and that the creameries can secure the 

 patronage, and hence, in the competition, the creamery has the advantage 

 over the cheese factory. 



Adams 



Appanoose . . . 



Benton 



Black Hawk. 



Carroll 



Cerro Gordo. 

 Crawford 



Clarke 



Decatur 



Floyd 



Greene 



Guthrie 



Hardin 



Howard 



Humboldt . . . 



Jefferson 



Johnson 



Keokuk 



Marshall 



Monroe 



Muscatine 



Page 



Poweshiek . . . 



Story 



Taylor 



Washington . 

 Wayne 



Totals .. 



Averages. 



44 



$ 1,000 

 1,7(J0 

 7,000 



2,000 

 2,200 

 1,200 

 1,250 



500 

 5,000 

 5,000 

 2,000 

 2,000 

 2,500 

 1,000 

 3,700 

 3,000 

 2,500 

 4,000 



750 

 1,500 

 1,600 

 4,000 

 4,000 

 3,500 

 3,500 

 5,400 



1,7C 



ss 



e8 

 tt c 



as ja 



415 

 9.2 



O 9) 



144,000 

 588, 426 

 413, 829 

 ,947,697 

 318, 583 

 109, 637 

 500,000 

 600,000 



13,000 

 850,000 

 739,000 

 900,000 

 750,000 

 146,2.8 

 335,000 

 738, 750 

 176,000 



11,000 

 210,000 

 262, 980 

 350, 000 

 980,000 

 669,(00 

 061,866 

 950, 000 

 503, 617 

 658, 374 



26, 926, 967 

 641, 118 



(U 



13,680 

 62,000 



198,000 



290,000 

 28,083 



111,364 

 50,000 

 60,000 

 1,200 

 85,000 



274, 710 

 90,000 

 75, 000 



112,620 

 33,000 



166, 375 



15,000 



1,100 



124, 066 

 27,000 

 35,000 

 93,000 



154, 912 

 10,600 



182, 000 



141,616 

 64,634 



2, 499, 960 

 59, 522 



55 

 110 

 229 

 48 

 50 

 18 

 33 

 10 

 40 

 94 

 50 

 54 

 85 



162 



15 



25 



80 



55 



120 



160 







200 



1,931 

 46 



100 



255 



1,100 



360 

 200 



It i 



1,200 

 300 

 250 

 5U0 

 100 

 500 



800 

 100 

 150 

 500 

 600 



"l,'300 



525 



1,140 



10,020 



286 



Average-number of pounds of cheese per cow, 200. Fifty-nine cheese factories must 

 make d, 511, 798 pounds of cheese worth approximately {350,000. 

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