448 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



They make a beautiful lawn in front of the creamery and often plant 

 small groves back of the creamery. It is their object to build an estab- 

 lishment which will look cheerful to the butter maker and his helpers 

 and inviting to the farmer who patronizes it. Every man in town as 

 well as every farmer in the community takes greater pride in their cream- 

 ery than in any other commercial establishment in their town. Their 

 creamery is an establishment which they have not only built merely 

 for themselves, but for their children and grand children as well. 



I was impressed with the remarks that W. W. Marsh once made in 

 reference to the European custom of building farm houses which would 

 stand for centuries. I am not able to show you such old creameries, 

 as the creameries were not constructed until recently, but I have seen 

 many homes in Europe which have been built for over 100 years, 

 and the modern European creameries of today are built substantially 

 enough so they, with proper care, should remain in good condition for 

 a century. 



Gentlemen, this is the system we ' eventually are coming to in this 

 country, not only in constructing our farm houses, but in constructing 

 our creameries as well. If we had started to erect suitable, substantial 

 and fire-proof buildings and equipped them as a creamery should be 

 equipped, it is questionable that we would have had the failures among 

 the co-operative creameries as we have had in the past. Would not 

 farmers have taken too much pride in that institution to abandon it 

 by selling their cream elsewhere? 



We have recently had many creamery fires in our state. Some of the 

 creameries will be rebuilt, while others will not. We have started to 

 write each unfortunate creamery secretary and are offering our assistance, 

 if we in anyway can be of assistance to him. We at the same time urge 

 upon them the advisability of replacing the old building with a fireproof, 

 structure and we find that after a fire the word fireproof sounds better 

 to them than at any other time. In this work our Boosters Club can do 

 a great deal of good. We should make a strong effort in the way of 

 encouraging the farmers to rebuild in case of fire loss, providing that 

 the locality has a sufficient number of cows so it will warrant the opera- 

 tion of a creamery. 



It is with a great deal of satisfaction that we, during the past year, 

 have added a few practically fire proof buildings to our list of co-opera- 

 tive creameries. One of these is the co-operative creamery at Germania, 

 Iowa. This creamery is built from hollow cement blocks size 8 in. by 

 8 in. by 16 in. These blocks were bought at Albert Lea, Minn., and cost 

 18 cents each laid down at Germania. The floor is of cement and the 

 chimney is made from concrete reinforced. For reinforcement they 

 used about 600 feet of 1 inch pipe which they had on hand. The chim- 

 ney extends into the ground four feet. The base is four and one-half 

 feet square and they used one part cement for four parts of sand. The 

 partitions in the building are all made from cement block. The size 

 of the building is 30 by 60 feet and 11 feet high, and has a shingle rooL 



