Iowa
Old Press
Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler, Iowa
July 13, 1921
BUTTERMAKERS IN CONTEST
Some of the most prominent creamery operators in Iowa are participating in
the educational butter contest conducted by the dairying department of Iowa
State College. Butter is exhibited in this contest monthly and is judged by men
who are recognized as experienced butter judges.
In the July contest first place in the whole milk class was won by F.H.
Harms, Tripoli, with a score of 95-1/2. H.C. Ladage, Strawberry Point, was
second with 95. A. Fenger, Whittemore and A.P. Anderson, Graettinger each had a
score of 94 in the gathered cream class.
Other buttermakers deserving honorable mention were R.J. Allenstein, Bremer,
H.C. Stengel, Northwood, A. M. Hein, Hull, and C.N. Hart, Plymouth.
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A writer says of our forefathers: "They came, not to fine houses such as we
have now, but to the prairie shack and the log cabin. Sometimes all their
belongings were stored in the covered wagon that brought them here. Instead of
gas ranges, they had to solve cooking problems much as the Boy Scouts out on a
hike, have to solve them today. The spinning wheel and the loom were depended on
for clothing. Life was a struggle attended with hardship, but it made a sturdy
race and they builded better than they knew." Yet people today kick and grumble
and think they are having a hard time. The condition today is a paradise in
comparison.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; July 2004]