Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-05
Buttermakers of United States
to Make Concerted Move
ment to That End
HAS lNcREAsEDPRlcE oFeuTTER
Present Statute Has Resulted in In
creased Profits of s45,ooo,ooo to the
Dairy Interests of the Union-oIeo
Men Have Discovered New Methods
of Evadins the Law.

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session of congress amend the presen
law taxing oleomargarine. making
more stringent. At last nights meet
ing of. the State Dairy Association
Charles Y. knight, of Chicago, said tina
the law last year reduced the sales o
oleomargarine 100000 tubs, resulting il
) cents a pound higher prices for but
tcrmaking and profits Of s45,000,000 70
the buttermakers. The cleo men, how
ever, have discovered how to color thei
product with palm oil without detec
ton.
Governor Cummins was to hav.
spoken last night, hut was unable L
come thru overworll. Speeches were
made by Director Curtiss, of the expert.
ment station at Ames. State Labo.
Commissioner Brigham and Senator
| Ericsson. of Boone.
Buffalo sent delegation yesterday t.
work for the location of the national
convention. The committee announced
that it would take week or two t.
consider the offers.
The address of Professor Curtiss fol-
lows in part:
| A few years ago when 1T was believed
that the dairy belt of the United States
would always lie east of the Allegheny
mountains, pertinent question asked
was, Can anything good In the way
| of dairying ever come out of the west
| About that time lows. concluded to go
into the dairy business. She made her
first appearance in a national contest
at the Centennial Exposition in 1876
| and when that contest was over Iowa
butter carried off the gold medal and
highest honors. The old stone cream
cry in which this butter was made re-
mained for many years as a landmark
by the side of little spring in the edge
of Manchester, the county seat of Della
ware, the pioneer dairy county of
Iowa. Since that time our dairy inter-
ests have grown until Iowa occupies the
proud position of producing more
creamery butter than any other state in
the union and about one-fifth of all the
dairy butter made in the United States.
If the Iowa COWS were to go out on a
strike for sixty days there is scarcely a
family table in America that would not
feel its effect. Nor is that all, but for
five years past the Iowa State College
creamery has each Winter sent an Iowa
born, bred and educated boy to AM
herst to teach the sons of old Massa-
chusetts to make strictly hrst-ciass,
prize winning, housekeeping butter.
And more than that. Iowa boys haVe
made butter that has taken the highest
rank in national contests in competition
with 500 exhibitors from every dairy
state in the union: and lowa-trained
boys are today making butter In pracu-
cally every dairy section in the United
States. Gentlemen. ] take no stock I'D
the doctrine that the dairy interests OF
Iowa have permanently decliiNed or that
Iowa butter has deteriorated, even IL
hcur buttermakers nave fallen out OF
the first prize ranks in recent nation
n, contest. The Iowa buttermakers are
no cutters. They are not made OF that
kind of stuff. This experience Will only
stimulate them to higher and better
efforts and the dairy industry is des-
tined to become q more important rae
tor in Iowa agriculture than ever pc
fore.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago the farmers OF
the older parts of Iowa awoke TO a real
ization of the fact that their lands
would no longer produce wheat profita-
hlv under existing conditions. 1t was
then that they turned their attention to
dairying. and they have in the mean
time not only placed Iowa in the fore
most rank in all other agricultural
nroducts, but our farms will also pro-
duce more wheat and better wheat per
acre today than ever before in the his
tory of the state.
In selling $1,000 worth Of wheat from
an Iowa farm at present prices we sell
with it about $3.50 worth of fertility. In
selling $1,000 worth of corn we sell
about $3.50 worth of fertility-or con-
stituents which would cost the farmer
this amount If he were obliged to buy
commercial fertilizers to maintain the
fertility of the farm. But we can con-
vert s., 900 worth of corn into beef, pork
or mutton and sell it in that form and
not remove over $25 worth of fertility
from the farm, or we can convert $1,000
worth of feed into butter and not re-
move a single dollars worth of fertility
with 1T. Butter is almost wholly pure
fat or carbon and 1t adds nothing to the
value of productive capacity Of the soil.
We probably shall never be obliged to
pay out much money for commercial
fertilizers in Iowa If we farm intelli-
gently, but we have already learned
that we can not grow wheat indefinitely
or constantly draw upon even a boun-
tiful store of plant food without dimin-
ished returns. The fact that this lesson
has been learned and is coming to be
universally recognized is the main safe
guard and the strongest feature of Iowa
agriculture. We not only produce an
average of a million dollars worth of
agricultural products for every day of
the year, but we know enough to feed
over one fourth of a million dollars
worth of produce on the farms every
day. No other state in the union APP
proaches this amount and there are
only five other states that feed even
half as much. BY this means Iowa not
only leads in agricultural products but
conserves her resources.
The manifest tendency Of modern
times is toward specialization and con-
centration. The creamery system is
the outgrowth of this movement 1t
puts under the control of one man what
was originally the work of forty men
and women. The conditions surround
ing the work and the results achieved
are decidedly favorable to the one man
system. This process is going still
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