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This is a very important item with our farmers in Iowa. Large 
tracts of vacant land adjoin nearly all our Northwestern Iowa farms, 
over which cattle may range at will, free of cost to the owners. The 
profits from the annual increase of stock are very large. To attempt 
the introduction of any system out in this part of Iowa, which would 
require the hauling of the skim milk off'the farm would be a very dif¬ 
ficult task. 
Having no interest in cans or creameries of any kind, I simply 
state the two essential benefits that accrue to the farmer in going into 
this new system of dairying, ist. The saving of labor not having to 
leave his grain farming to haul his milk to a distant factory. 2d. The 
retaining ot his skim milk in good condition on his farm for his calves. 
To the factory operator, the advantages of the new system are not 
so great as to the farmer. But what is for the best interest of the 
actual tiller of the soil must be first considered. He is the one to be 
cared for and catered to in the long run. 
In order to make the new system a success, the patron must be 
honest, and must not conspire with cream gatherers to defraud the 
factory, or practice any of those petty dodges we have had to meet in 
our short experience. 
I don’t want to go before Illinois farmers and dairymen to vent 
my spleen, or make any complaint about Iowa farmers ; but I would 
say that I consider it the duty of the farmer to encourage by word 
and deed any legitimate creamery enterprise, wherever started. 
My efforts have been by many derided and my motives im¬ 
pugned. From the first I was told we could not make good butter 
out of our wild or natural prairie grass, and also that we could not 
afford to pay for cream what it is worth, and send men around to 
collect it. Both of these obstacles we have overcome. Our butter 
has been shown at Elgin in October, and was declared of as good 
quality as your average creamery, and as to giving enough for cream, 
we have paid from fifteen to twenty-five cents per inch or guage on 
Mr. Fairlamb’s can since starting. 
I consider that Mr. Fairlamb’s invention will be to dairying in 
the wilds of the west, what Robert Fulton’s invention was to naviga¬ 
tion in the east. By adopting Mr. Fairlamb’s plan, new settlers on 
our prairies can combine and start creameries everywhere as soon as 
they can get an assured patronage of i,ooo cows. They can afford 
to pay a first-class butter maker to manage for them, and if they will 
all be honest and cordially co-operate together, they can make just as 
good butter under this new creamery system in the plains of Iowa or 
of Southern Minnesota as can be made anywhere in the world. 
I don’t want to advocate this system lor Illinois or the older set¬ 
tled portions of our country ; but for the new settlers on our prairies, 
for the pioneers of the genuine dairymen, I cordially endorse this sys¬ 
tem as being a wonderful step in advance over the average home¬ 
made butter-making system. 
