588 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



come much larger and that causes a darker shade, and I have seen butter 

 mottled when it was caused by tlie cream becoming too sour, and that is 

 when cream has become over-ripe. 



Mr. Drischel: I would like to ask you from a business standpoint with 

 reference to butter making as a profession. We have 70 creameries in 

 this State. You have several hundred over the State of Iowa, and have 

 only been in the business a few years, while we have been struggling at 

 it for several years. Explain to us your method of getting the farmers 

 interested. 



Professor McKay: We have in our State an organization sometimes 

 called the Butter Makers' Association. We run this in connection with the 

 institute work, and we are endeavoring to send speakers that can talk on 

 dairy subjects to the institutes. I think the success in Iowa is largely due 

 to the mixed population. We have a great many Germans and Danes and 

 men who readily see the advantages of dairying and they take up dairying 

 from that standpoint. It is largely a question of people. 



Mr. Gurler: Is it right to use the word "man" altogether there? Don't 

 the women have much to do with it there? 



Mr. Drischel: Both, 



Mr. Gurler: Isn't it a fact that the dairying develops more rapidly 

 where the women are more interested and will go out and milk? Don't 

 you think that is a fact? 



Professor McKay: Yes, and that comes largely from the Scandinavian 

 population. 



Mr. Drischel: Does your state take pride in making your appropria- 

 tions as small as possible from the Legislature? This is a new building 

 (referring to the Purdue University Agricultural Building in which the 

 meetings were held.— Ed.), and this is the first appropriation by the State 

 for agriculture. What has your State done in that respect? 



Professor McKay: Our State, at the last session, appropriated six 

 hundred thousand dollars to the Agricultural College. 



Mr. : I am not a dairyman, but I think Mr. Drischel has touched 



the point exactly, and I think the farmers ought to ask for a hundred 

 thou-sand dollars and go after it and we will get it. 



Mr. Drischel: It is a fact that dairy products today are below other 

 farm product. 



