402 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



Member : You say that the other party who accepts poor cream 

 can't get any more for his butter than we can. Butter is being 

 sold today in Waterloo and Cedar Rapids that if shipped would 

 not bring within 5c a pound as much as it does here. 



Mr. Ross: I heartily agree with Mr. Rawl when he advocates 

 the grading of cream, and it is working out successfully wherever 

 it is adopted. As an illustration I will cite you to a creamery in a 

 town where there are three cream stations. This creamery made 

 a difference of 3c a pound between perfectly sweet and other 

 cream. When he began he had 40 cream and about 20 whole-milk 

 patrons. There were only five of the 41 that got 3c more than the 

 other fellows at first. At the end of four months, however, only 

 four did not receive the highest price. These patrons had access 

 to the stations but it wasn't long until the stations only got the 

 bad cream. I would say to the gentleman from LaPorte, if these 

 stations will take the bad cream and pay a top price for it, let 

 them have it all. The more poor cream they get the quicker they 

 will go out of business. 



Member : While they are meeting your prices, at a great many 

 other places they pay below and as long as they do that they won't 

 have to go out of business. 



Mr. Rawl : Have you ever tried to offer two prices for sweet and 

 sour cream? 



Member : I did last year. 



Mr. Rawl : I believe you should give that matter a thorough 

 trial before you give it up. 



Member : I believe it would be all right if the creamery had full 

 control. But let Mrs. Jones* receive 26c for good cream. Mrs. 

 Smith may come in with some not so good and you pay her 2c less. 

 It will require a whole lot of talking to get her to understand why 

 her cream was not as good as Mrs. Jones'. 



Mr. Stephenson : It seems to me that there must be lots of 

 people throughout the state in the creamery business who are 

 chicken-hearted. We all know it is wrong to take poor material 

 and pay top prices for it. We have a right to reject it. I have 

 been a buttermaker for many years. A little over two years ago 

 there were three cream stations came into my town. They put in 

 sixteen cream separators, and they operated them for a time. To- 

 day there isn't a single one of our patrons with a hand separator. 

 They tried to keep their cream a week. I said, "Gentlemen, you 

 can't do it." They came in with their cream and I couldn't take 



