The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1911-04-07
What State Dairymen's Associations Can Do

| keep the good COWS and by the use
Of good sires produce daughters that
are still better, save them, rear them
under the best conditions for growth
and development and each generation
make better the herd from the stand
point Of milk and butter production,
never failing to sort out by the use
Of the scales and the Babcock test
those individuals which do not pay
for their care and feed and yield
reasonable profit besides.
Farmers Are Interested.
It is surprising the interest that
these short-cOurse students take IN
their work, for, as matter Of fact,
they do better work during the five
or six days while the opportunity is
presented than do the real college stu
dents. who feel that their opportuni-
ties for education are to last for a
period Of four years instead of for one
short week
The Iowa State Dairy association
also furnishes lecturers for farmers
institutes one of which is held in
every county in Iowa, supported to an
extent by the appropriation from the
state In the past there has been
very little encouragement to the far
mer, who attended the institutes,
along lines of dairying because the
available lecturers were few, but now
that the state has come to the assist
ance Of the State Dairymen's associa-
tion it is possible for the latter insti-
tuition to supply speakers free Of cost
except for their travelling expenses to
every farmers institute in tho state
that signifies its interest in the real
business Of dairying.
Probably one Of the best opportuni-
tics to do good Is found at the an
nual meetings of the patrons Of the
500 creameries located in Iowa At
this time the treasurer reports to the
patrons-numbering from 80 to 500
what the financial condition of their
creamery is and what the profits have
been during the past year. On such
an occasion more interest Is displayed
than at any other time. because the
patron feels that the business is large
ly his--which Is a fact. If it is pos
sih,e, and usually it is. to show him
whore his organization can be more
successful and pay larger prices to
the patrons for their butter fat during
the coming year. he feels that it is
TO his advantage to grasp the opportu-
nifty and in this way much good re-
suits to the patrons in the community.
Probably the best manner of assisting
these creamerymen Is to form associ-
ations and already in Worth county
the North Iowa Dairy Improvement
association has been organized with
ten creameries cooperating The but
ter made by these ten creamerieS is
taxed by the organization e-tenth
produces in her creameries over 1,000,-
000 pounds Of butter and in this re-
speCt leads, as rule, all other states
in the Union. Judging from this but
ter income. together with the income
from the city milk supplies and from
other by-prOducts Of the dairy COW, 1t
has been carefully estimated that the
dairy business OF Iowa means an an
nual income Of $60,OOO,000, and it is
q fact that the chief factory to be
found in nearly 500 towns in the state
is the factory where the cream pro-
duced on the farm is manufactured in
butter and shipped to market
Possibilities Of the Iowa Cow.
Owirg to the fact that a great por-
ton of the butter produced in Iowa