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MODERN DAIRYING 



diffusion of bulletins on the same subject from 

 other states), are yet of marked value. 



These bulletins present some curiously in- 

 teresting information, some of which may be 

 here indicated. 



In Iowa, for example, a state with large 

 dairy interests, a recent bulletin shows in en- 

 tertaining fashion that the dairymen of that 

 state could sell four hundred thousand dollars' 

 worth of water in their butter each year, if 

 they would only conform to the standard the 

 butter-using countries of Europe have estab- 

 lished. England, referred to as the greatest 

 butter-using nation, with other European na- 

 tions, wants butter having sixteen per cent of 

 water. Tests made in a single year, 1902, of 

 eight hundred samples in four hundred cream- 

 eries distributed over eighteen states, developed 

 the fact that there was an average of eleven 

 and eight-tenths per cent of water in American 

 butter. In Iowa alone, the change to sixteen 

 per cent would result in increasing the yield of 

 butter each year about two millions of pounds, 

 "which would mean," in the words of the bul- 

 letin, "a financial increase to the dairymen of 

 Iowa of about four hundred thousand dollars, 



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