Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-04-21

heep the good cows and by the usa
OF good sires produce daughters that
are sun better. save them, rear them
uhuer the best conditions for growth
anu 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
u 'he scales and the Babcock test
.hose individuals which do not nav
ior tnelr care and feed and yield
reasonable profit besides
Farmers Are interested.
IL Is surprising the interest that
these short-course students take in
thelr work, for, as a matter of fact
tney do better work during the five
OF 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-
ton 1t Is possible for the latter insti-
tuition to supply speakers free of cost
except for their travelling expenses to
every farmers institute in the state
that signifies it's interest in the real
business of dairying.
Probably one of the best opportuni-
ties 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 so 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 fact. If it is pos
sihle. and usually 1t is. to show him
where his organization can be more
successful and pay larger prices to
the patrons for their butter fat during
the coming year, he feels that 1t 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 one-tenth
produces in her creameries over l.U00.-
900 pounds of butter, and in this re-
spect leads, as a rule. all other states
in the Union. Judging from this but
from the city milk supplies and from
other by-products of the dairy COW, it
has been carefully estimated that the
dairy business of Iowa means an an
nual income of $6O,000,000. and it is
g 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
butte" and shipped to market.
Possibilities of the Iowa Cow.
Owing to the fact that great por-
ton of the butter produced in Iowa