Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-20
NORTH CENTRAL IOWA DAIRY
ASSOCIATION HOLDS MEET.
ING AT NEW HAMPTON.
MOST SUCCESSFUL SESSION
IN HISTORY OF ORGANIZATION
Excellent Program Of Addresses Given
Before Record Breaking Crowd in
observation-disclosures Display Of Butter
Which Scores Very High in Quality
Foreign Competition Discussed.
ec.aI 10 Times-Republican.

New Hampton. Marcn 20--The most
successful meeting in the twelve years
history OF the North Central Iowa
Dairy Association was held in New
Hampton yesterday. There was a rec
ord-breaking attendance Of butter
makers, a program of interesting talks
and a large display of butter that
scored very high in quality.
The meeting was held in the Ea giles
hall and was presided over by the
president, S. c. Flickinger OF Carroll.
The first speaker of the afternoon
was Howard Reynolds Of Mason City,
who is vice president of the James
Rowland Com mission Company Of New
York. He talked on the subject OF
Foreign Butter" and its relation to
home products. The chief foreign
competitors are Denmark, New Zea-
land. Australia, Argentina and Siberia.
He says that Denmark leads in both
quantity and quality. Since the re-
duction OF the tariff on butter. Iowa
farmers are meeting real competition
with foreign producers. He says the
result Will be that it will raise the
quality Of the home made butter and
in this way will do good h says the
outlook for this year is uncertain. but
that he expects 10 see a drop in pr!ees,
because of foreign com ne..tioA.
Compete Win Worlds II arSet
S. B. Nichols, also Of Mason City. a
representative Of the Star Union Line,
followed up the subject of Foreign
Butter" and the effect Of the decrease
of the tariff He stated that butter
could be shipped from London and
Copenhagen and Australia to New
Nork as cheaply as il can be from New
Hampton, with the inevitable result,
that we are up against the markets
Of the world" There are 20.0o0,000
pounds OF butter in cold storage at
present. 7l3 creameries in Australia,
one Of which turns out 100000
pounds Of butter annually. 50 Iowa
farmers need not think they can con-
troll the butter market Of the world
His judgment is that buttermakers
ought TO reject bad cream. and raise
the standard Of their butter to meet
this increasing competition. He be-
lieves that Iowa butter ought 10 bring
the London market price plus the
tariff and plus the freight to New York
in order to cope with the foreign pro-
duct Since September. at the decrease
of the tariff. there have been 100000
pounds Of foreign butter imported.
Increase Herd Efficiency.
J. J. Ross, assistant dairy commits
sioner. gave an instructive address. He
thinks Iowa has little to fear from
foreign competition if the farmers VIII
test their COWS and increase the hut-
ter fat efficiency of their dairy herd.
Danes live on land worth $500 per acre
and make # pay, but the average out
ter fat for each COW in Denmark Is
245 pounds annually, WHICH IS 100
pounds higher than the average for
Iowa. This shows what can be done
here if the farmers will get busy and
study their herds Of dairy COWS. He
told of the difficulty in getting farmers
10 wake up and test their COWS. ana
said that only one out Of fifty can be
induced to try it. He said, in part:
THE butter maker ought not to snoul-
der all the blame for the quality prop
osition The farmers ought to share
the responsibility too. Until we can
get the farmer educated where he can
grasp the need as quickly as the but
terrnaker. we shall have trouble. we
want to reach the farmer who is not
wide-awake enough to come to these
meetings for aid and instruction.
Mr.. Ross told Of the good work that
has been done in Hardin county, where
the buttermaker and the school teach
er cooperate in teaching the hlgh
school pupils TO use the Rabcock test.
Fortv-iye minutes each week were
given to this instruction. Has 1t borne
fruit? Well decidedly yes. There
was no. one creamery patron testing
milk and cream before Dec. and no"
twentv-seven out Of eighty patrons are
! using the test regularly
| RIares Centraiizins Creaneries.
! Mr.. Ross stated that the greatest
! trouble that contributed TO loWa's pres
eot low grade Of butter were the cen
| Trailing creameries, and the fact that
itre farmers were considering too much
| +f7e price received for the butter tat
! and not enough the cost Of production
and the present rate of profit. lie saio
that some farmers are losing money
| even while getting 30 cents or more
| for butter fat, and that II their heros
were properly selected and fed they
could sell butter fat for II cents and
still make money.
| An important feature Of the meeting
was the display of butter exhibited toi
nrizes. Loving cups were won by f
NJ Yell. of Sumner. scoring 9s.5: H. &
! S.endel of ScarrvilIe, scoring 1925
and Thomas Saddler. of Oelwein, scor-
inc "a There were twenty-on exni0'
itors and their ranking was exception
ally high.
At the business meeting the follow
ming officers were elected for the en-