468 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



In looking back through former reports, we notice that the at~ 

 tention of the legislature has been called to the fact that this de- 

 partment is very short of help. Without heeding this, they have- 

 continued to enact legislation which has increased the work of the 

 department without giving the extra help to enforce the new laws. 

 The anti-discrimination law and the law for falsely manipulating 

 the Babcock test were both much needed laws and could be made 

 more effective by the addition of at least two more assistant dairy 

 commissioners at salaries of not less than $1,600 each. We wish to 

 lay special emphasis on the compensation they shall have as any 

 high class buttermaker is now receiving from $1,500 to $2,000 per 

 year. 



To properly do the work in the state, four men are barely 

 enough. The two Ave now have are obliged to spend too great a 

 share of their time on the road, as their services are much in de- 

 mand and covering so large a territory their trips are necessarily 

 long. One more clerk will have to be added to the office force at not 

 less than $1,200 per year to keep pace with the increased business of 

 the department. 



Permit me to call your attention to the fact that the receipts 

 of this department for the five months from May 1, 1909, to Sep- 

 tember 30th, inclusive, were $4,072.44 and for the same period in 

 1910, $8,672.26, showing a net increase of $4,599.82. 



Several new T laws will be enacted by the incoming legislature 

 which will make the duties of the department still more arduous. 

 It is recommended that future legislation should authorize the em- 

 ployment of a certain number of inspectors for both food and dairy 

 work all to be paid out of the same fund and authorized to do work 

 in either department. If no provision of this kind is made the 

 State Milk Inspector should be transferred to the dairy department 

 as his work is of such a nature as to make this almost a necessity. 



Dairying in Iowa has gone by leaps and bounds for the last 

 three years. There are,many reasons for this and the work of the 

 Iowa State Dairy Association is chief among them. Two years ago 

 last spring, the campaign to interest the legislature in their behalf 

 was started, and it lasted nearly a year with the result that they 

 were given $10,000 for the biennial period. We are very sure that 

 it will be an easy matter to show the next legislature that no money 

 was appropriated by the general assembly that has been of more 

 benefit to all the people than has this. The fact that they will be 

 able to properly account for every cent that will be used, and to 



