ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX 471 



DAIRY TRAINS. 



The dairy train run over the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail- 

 road in southern Iowa, by the Iowa State Dairy Association, was 

 the beginning of a new era in that part of the state and the inter- 

 est in dairy work has been aroused to such an extent that several 

 new creameries have been built and the demand for dairy cows and 

 pure bred dairy sires has increased within a year more than one 

 hundred per cent. No section of our state is better adapted to 

 dairying than the southern part and we must give that territory 

 special attention as the opportunity is here now for development. 



NORTH IOWA DAIRY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 



Last year the Iowa State Dairy Association employed Mr. Pat- 

 terson as an assistant. He did his work so well that when the 

 North Iowa Dairy Improvement Association was formed, he was 

 induced to accept a place with them. Briefly, the plan of this as- 

 sociation is as follows: Ten creameries agree to an assessment of 

 one-tenth of one cent per pound on their output. This fund 

 is used to pay Mr. Patterson's salary and expenses, and he devotes 

 his entire time to them and their patrons. The government has 

 wisely authorized one of their experts, Mr. F. L. Odell, to give this 

 work a part of his time. This is the first association of its kind 

 that has been organized, and although the work is new splendid re- 

 sults are already being shown. The work is being watched by the 

 entire country. 



EXPERIMENTAL WORK UNDER C40VERNMENT SUPERVI- 

 SION. 



The work at Algona unaer the direction of E. B. Heaton, Junior 

 Dairyman, employed by the government, is a new one and the state 

 is most fortunate in securing this aid which is entirely at the ex- 

 pense of the government. The plan is to place Mr. Heaton 's ser- 

 vices at the command of a community for a term of three or four 



