Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-01-07

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ter must all be of best quality,
Competition from New Zealand
and Australia has appeared. Butter
churned $4,000 miles away is on
the market in Iowa.
w. B. Barney, dairy commission
er, has in his office samples of this
foreign butter purchased in the
open market in Iowa. 1t was sold
for 25 cents pound. 1t proves to
be butter that will score about 85.
Government experts in Chicago scor-
ed 1t little higher. 1t is not adul-
terated but is not of the quality OF
best lowe creamery butter.
1t is learned that within the past
few months million pounds of this
butter from the other side of the
world has been received on the Pa
cific coast and from there distribut-
ed to the markets of America. A
large quantity went to Chicago. Some
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Rapids and there sold to bakeries
and restaurants at 25 cents
pound. 1t was from this source that
sample was received and sent to
the state dairy office.
This is what it means" said Mr..
Barney, that we must keep on en-
phasizing quality and making but
ter in Iowa that will sell at the
Itop price and thus avoid the compe-
tition which cheap butter will have
from the antipodes. 1t is very graf
flying to know that the records
chow Iowa butter was sold last
year at an average of a cent q
pound or more above the
average price of butter at the CEN
tral markets. That means that
strictly first class butter is going
out from tn e creameries, and it al
so means that we are getting results
from the educational campaign by
farmers giving more attention to the
care of their milk and cream 50
that all our butter is selling at high
er prices. The butter from New
Zealand can not come into direct
competition with our best grades Of
butter. All we need to do is to put
on the market only that quality OF
butter that will sell for 35 cents or
more a pound and we will not feel
the effect of this new competition.
If it should prove such"
Quality of butter will be a lead
ing theme on the next dairy train
which the department will run.
Good results have followed from
J dwelling long on this subject, and
J better are to be anticipated. But
the dairy train this winter will be
managed on little different basis.
Prof. E. S. Estel, in charge Of
this extension work. dairy expert
for the department, has Just COM
pleted arrangements for the next
dairy train to start from Des
Moines about TIE 1st of February
and to run for four weeks over the
Burlington railroad.
I'VE will make some changes in
our plans" he said, 'for we plan to
make longer stops at the towns Wis
tied. We will stop whole day at
some of them, half day at others
and in some cases, perhaps make
three towns a day. We will carry
along our dairy cows and exhibits
of feeding stuffs and showing Of
results for the soil, etc. But we
plan to have a sort Of institute and
dairy show at each stopping place,
with special features Of popular in
terest. We will have a boys judg-
ing contest and will arrange for a
boys contest in keeping dairy rec
ords. The agriculturist OF the Bur-
lington 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 be-
fore. We are going to have the
best program yet"
In some of the western counties
of the state the Central Western
Dairy Association has been formed
from which excellent results are ex-
pected. Organization Is urged by the
department in all cases.