Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-01
IOWA FIELD FOR
CHEESE MAKING
FIFTY ADDITIONAL FACTORIES
NEEDED TO MEET DEMANDS
OF STATE TRADE.
TIMED MILK ALSO
HAS TO BE IMPORTED
Twenty -four Cheese Factories and
Three Milk Condensaries Fail to Sup
ply Wants of Jobbne TraGe-Wood-
bury County With Only Three Cheese
Factories Leads in Output.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Mo!nes, Dec. Iowa needs nifty
additional cheese factories to produce
the cheese sold by Iowa wholesalers
and the make OF condensed milk IN
this state is 2SJ,U0O cases short Of the
demands OF the Iowa distributors. THIS
Is the statement OF State Food and
Dairy Commissioner w. B, Barney in
his annual statement to Governor
Harding.
There are twenty four cheese fac
tories in the state and three milk con-
denSaries. With the scarcity OF meat
and the efforts being made to conserve
meat more cheese is being consumed
than under normal conditions.
The annual report shows that Iowa
dairy industries on the whole are max
ing a wholesome growth in spite Of
war conditions. The make of cream
cry butter for the year ending July !
was 95l269,6S5 pounds, which IS about
1000. 400 less than the make last year
but larger than was expected in view
Of the fact that the high cost Of feed,
beef, has induced the sale of many
dairy COWS for beef. Commissioner
Barney declares however, that of late
the selling of COWS has been checked
II not stopped altogether because OF the
prices being paid for milk and cream
Big Ones in Northwest.
Woodbury. county, with only three
creameries. leads all Of the other coun-
ties OF the state in the total output of
commercial butter. Polk county with
four Creameries is second. Dubuque
with thirteen is third and Bremen with
twenty-three Creameries is fourth. Tho
output in each one Of those counties
was over 5000 600 pounds of butter
There are thirteen counties in the state
whore the output was over 1000 900 IN
each county.
The butter output in the five high
est counties follows: Woodbury.. r.
6Ss,977 pounds: Polk, 46S9l699: Du-
Fayette. 3,O29 ,N63.
Woodbury. and Polk county particu
larly receive cream from a widespread
territory. On the other hand the cream
cries in Bremen county receive most
Of their cream from their own county
as does also Fayette.
Seven Counties Without Creameries
Seven counties in the state have no
Creameries whatever. These are Madi-
son. Warren. Jefferson, Clarke, Ere
mont and Decatur. All Of these coun
ties are in the southern part Of the
state. The large creameries In Des
Motnes draw their supply of cream
largely from southern Iowa and from
railroad points in northern Missouri.
The total number Of creameries in
Iowa is 451 and Of ice cream factories
+21. Twenty-four new creamery build
ings. some of them costing as much as
$4,000, have been erected in the pa
year. Some of these are to replace old
buildings while others are new enter
prises.
A campaign is now being conducted
in southern Iowa to Increase interest N
dairying and in the establishment OF
creameries. The state dairy depart
ment is cooperating with other dairy
experts IN this effort to arouse inter-
est in dairying.
The period in the report Just sub
mitted Is from July l. 1915. TO July l.,
1917. The dry weather in the late
summer Of 1916 had much to do with
the falling off in butter production in
the period just reported on, the state
dairy commissioner explains.