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624,000 cows. It is estimated that 50,000,000 pounds of butter in addition 

 are made from farm dairies. The total butter product of this state is one- 

 tenth of all made in the United States. Iowa sends over 80,000,000 pounds 

 of butter annually into other states. New York is next in importance as a 

 butter producing state, and then come in order Pennsylvania, Illinois, 

 Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio and Kansas. If the Iowa dairymen would 

 adopt a system of scientific feeding and give their herds better care and 

 provide for their comfort in winter, conservatively speaking the 80,000,000 

 pounds of butter shipped annually might be increased 50 per cent, increas- 

 ing the revenue of tbe commonwealth $8,000,000. 



Centralization would enable a large central organization to have a 

 food instructor delivering lectures in school rooms or halls, on the proper 

 combinations of the farm grown grains and roughage, concentrates and 

 mill feeds when necessary to secure the best results from their herds. The 

 departure from the present system of manufacturing butter will be cen- 

 tralization. It is as sure to come as the rising and setting of the sun or 

 the revolution of the old world on its axis. The only thing that will hinder 

 the desirable and should be coveted condition, that will increase the profits 

 of the dairymen, will be the unwarranted prejudice of men who do not 

 investigate sound business principles. The bugaboo is the oft-repeated 

 old, old story — monopoly, absorbing the profits or usurping the rights of 

 others. This in itself would be a menace to the perpetuity and welfare 

 of the organization. 



In a country where capital is seeking employment to so plentiful as 

 in our country, creating freedom of competition, any creamery organiza- 

 tions that attempt to exact from the milk producer more than a legitimate 

 return upon capital and service, write the charter of their own defeat. 

 "We have many proofs that this great law does not sleep and that it will 

 not be suppressed. There can be no permanent extortion of profits beyond 

 the average return from capital in any manufacturing or transportation. 

 Any attempt to maintain either must end in failure, and failure ultimately 

 disastrous, just in proportion to the temporary success of the foolish effort. 



It is simply ridiculous for a party of men to meet in a room and attempt 

 by passing resolutions to change the great laws which govern human 

 affairs in the business world. These words are from one of the greatest 

 political economists of the age. Permanent success is not obtainable except 

 by fair, honorable dealing, by irreproachable habits and correct living, by 

 displaying of good sense and rare judgment in all the relations of human 

 life, for credit and confidence fly from the business man, foolish in word and 

 deed, or irregular in habits, or even suspected of sharp practice. The 

 creamery organization depends for its existence on the product of the cow. 

 It has no other source of life. Individuals may come and go, we will all 

 sooner or later pass from active life, but the land, the country, its resources 

 will be here permanently; the herds and the creameries, and they either 

 will prosper together, or be poor together. Unprincipled men may engage 

 in the business and flourish for a time and fail, however, the law is posi- 

 tive as the law of gravitation, will soon do away with all such illegitimate 

 competition, and only the survival of the fittest will permanently exist, 



