Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-06
'sUTrER DEINo SHIPPED INTO
STATE FROM AUSTRALIA AND
NEW ZEALAND.
CELLS AT PRICE MUCH
LOWER THAN HOME PRODUCT
Quality l. inferior Vet IL Lacks Adul.
tsratien end eals Can Net d Pre-.
vsntsd-crsamsr;ss Must Maintain
Quality in Order 70 Meet New Com.
petition and Obtain Best Prices.
Special to Times-Republtcan.


Des Moines, Dec. s. - Iowa. butter
n.ast all be of best quality. Compeh-
ton from New Zealand and Australia
has appeared. Butter churned 10000
miles away il on the market in Iowa.
w. B. Barney, dairy commissioner,
mas In his office samples OF this foreign
butter purchased in the open market
in Iowa. It was sold for 25 cents a
pound. 1t proves to be butter that will
score about IS. Government experts in
Chicago scored 1t little higher. 1t is
not adulterated but is not Of the quail
lily OF best Iowa creamery butter.
It 10 learned that within the past
few months million pounds of this
butter from the other side of the world
has been received on the Pacific coast
and from there distributed to the mar
kets Of America. A large quantity
went to Chicago. Some Of this was
shipped back TO Cedar Rapids ami
there sold to bakeries and restaurants
at Is cents a pound. It was from this
source that a sample was received and
sent to the state dairy office.
Must Maintain Quality.
This Is what it means" said Mr.
Barney. that we must keep ON en-
phasizng quality and making butter
in Iowa that will sell at the top price
and thus avoid the competition which
cheap butter viii have from the an
tipodes. It is very gratifying to know
that the records show Iowa butter was
sold last year at an average of q cent
a pound or more above the average
price of butter at the central markets.
That means that strictly first class
butter Is going out from the cream
cries. and it also means that we aro
getting results from the educational
campaign by farmers giving more at
tention to the care Of their milk and
cream so that all our butter Is selling
at higher prices. The butter from New
Zealand can not come into direct COM
petition with our best grades of butter.
All we need to do Is to put on the mar
ket only that quality Of butter that will
sell for 35 cents or more pound and
we will not feel the effect Of this new
competition. If it should prove such"
To Preach Quality.
Quality of butter will be a leading
theme on the next dairy train which
the department viii run. Good results
have followed from dwelling long on
this subject and better are to be an
tictpated. But the dairy train this win
ter will be managed on = little differ
ent basis
Prof E. S. Estel, in charge Of this
extension work. dairy expert for the
department. has Just completed ar
rangements for the next dairy train to
start from Des Moines about the LIST OF
February and to run for four weeks
over the Burlington railroad.
We will make some changes in our
plans" he said. for We plan to make
longer stops at the towns visited. We
will stop whole day at some Of them,
a half days at others. and in some
cases. perhaps, make three towns
day. We will carry alon9 our dairy
cows and exhibits of feeding stuffs and
a showing Of results for the soil. etc.
But we plan to have a sotr OF institute
and dairy show at each stopping place,
with special features Of popular inter-
est. We will have boys Judging con-
test and will arrange for q boys con-
test in keeping dairy records. The
agriculturst Of the Burlington system
will be along with US and give us aid.
We will not make so many towns but
will cover the field more thoroughly.
for we have been all over the system
before. We are going to have the best
program yet"
In some of the western counties o.
the state the Central Western Dairy
Association has been formed from
which excellent results are expected.
Organization is urged by the depart
ment in all cases.