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it. "Why?" they asked. "Because," I told them, "our butter 

 is sold on its merits. One can of your cream will spoil a vat of 

 our cream." "Very well, then, we will take it up town." Re- 

 fore they went I took thorn into the creamery and had them ex- 

 amine a sample of cream from the vat. and then a sample of their 

 own can. When asked which cream they would rather use, they 

 said, "Yours, of course." To some patrons you can say you must 

 do so and so, and to others you can't but you can bring them to 

 see where it is to their interest to bring to the creamery a pure 

 t produce. I say it can be done. 

 Mr. Barney: I am sorry to close this interesting discussion, but 

 we have another address. Mr. J. J. Ross, who needs no introduc- 

 tion : 



INSPECTION OF IOWA CREAMEBIES. 



J. J. ROSS, IOWA FALLS, IOWA. 



When our secretary asked me to prepare an address for this convention, 

 I found myself at a loss to decide on a subject that would be of interest 

 to both dairymen and buttermakers, and at the same time select a sub- 

 ject that had not grown old from having been handled from year to year 

 at these annual conventions. I finally decided to try and interest you peo- 

 ple for a few minutes on Inspection of Iowa Creameries, and the duties 

 of our creamery inspectors, and possibly to make a few suggestions that 

 in my opinion would be beneficial to the betterment of the one great im- 

 portant industry in which we are all interested, and which we are all 

 striving to develop and promote, that is the dairy interests of this great 

 state of ours. 



I am certainly glad to see so large a number of dairymen present, but- 

 termakers as well but the buttermakers have always been a loyal bunch 

 and we naturally expect them. It is certainly gratifying to see so large 

 attendance at this our thirty-fourth annual convention. It goes to show 

 that there is becoming a greater interest taken in dairying, that the pro- 

 ducers of the raw material are waking up and are being made acquainted 

 with the fact that there is no other branch of diversified farming so 

 important to the progress of a community. 



They are beginning to understand that the all important problem of 

 preserving the soil can be best solved by the liberal use of barnyard ma- 

 nure. Not only does the dairy herd make this possible, but dairying is 

 more remunerative than any other branch of farming when properly car- 

 ried out. 



The magnitude of the dairy business in Iowa can perhaps be best un- 

 derstood when it is learned that the dairy commissioners' report for the 

 year 1910 will show 562 creameries, an increase of 10 creameries over last 

 year, and we learn that there are 5 more under construction and will be 

 in operation before the first of the year. Besides the 562 creameries there 



