506 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



FIGURES. 



W. B. Smith & Sons of Columbus, Ohio, in a recent reply (January 

 27, 1903) to my question asking cost of production, said: 



We looked the herd over the other day. They are fed 30 pounds en- 

 silage, isy 2 pounds grain as follows: 4 pounds bran, 4 pounds malt 

 sprouts, 3 pounds corn, oats and barley, 2% pounds distillery gluten, and 

 about 15 pounds corn stover from which they will get probably 4 pounds 

 and about 5 pounds hay, mixed timothy and clover. 



The cost is 23% cents per cow per day, and our milk cost us per 

 gallon, of 8Vi pounds 7.31 cents. 



We get 16 cents, but the cost of men cuts profits all to pieces, we 

 find the cost to run the dairy in a good sanitary shape cost us 5% cents 

 per gallon, we use nothing but pure bred Holsteins, I figured out for a 

 neighbor who had just gone to the wall, he was using Jerseys and 

 Grades, that his feed was costing per cow, 21 cents, his milk was costing 

 him per gallon, 11 cents and he trying to sell it for 10 cents, or he was 

 doing all the work and loosing one cent per gallon. 



What the people need more than anything else is figures, figures, 

 figures, so that they will know what they are doing. 



Encourage the consumption of our butter and milk in every way 

 possible. The average butter making quality of our milk in Iowa is re- 

 markably below that delivered in the Elgin district. The average milk 

 delivered is not clean and will not make good butter. It might be well 

 for our legislature to still further encourage our dairy industry by giving 

 the dairy commissioner more helpers. Prof. McKay is doing a great 

 deal. If the directors of these co-operative creameries would establish 

 and enforce as rigid rules as condensers have they would without doubt 

 improve the quality of butter two cents a pound. It can be done. Our 

 dairy commissioner is investigating the per cent of fat in the various 

 milks delivered in the cities in Iowa. We need improvement here also 

 as to cleanliness. And when consumers have as much confidence in the 

 cleanliness of Iowa milk as the people of DeKalb. Illinois do of Gurler's 

 milk, there will be more consumed on our tables. Improve our quality 

 and the demand will increase. Improve the dairy herds and encourage 

 liberal feeding and our profits will increase. The country is ready now 

 for this reformation. 



President : If there are no questions we will pass on to the 

 next paper, "Creamery Centralization," by C. B. Hubbard of 

 Independence. Mr. Hubbard finds himself the victim of such a 

 severe cold that he has asked Mr. Carpenter to read the paper for 

 him. 



Me. Caepentee: It gives me pleasure to stand before this 

 body of men, and some ladies to read this paper, even if I can not 

 give you something of my own production. There is one distinc- 



