The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1886-08-05
OI4IO DAIRY AND FOOD COM.
MISSION.

ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OFFICE
T. JEFFERSON, o., Aug. Srd, 1856.
Mr.. EDITOR The farmers. restau.
rants, and hotel keepers are charged
with gross fraud in the manufacture,
use and sale of imitation and imperfect
butter.
| wish to call the especial attention
OF these three classes To our late dairy
and food law in Vol So. Ohio Laws,
Pages ITS to ISL. 1t will be well for
them all to read these new laws very
carefully and understand them per-
fcctly, because we expect to see them
enforced most thoroughly in Ohio
very soon.
Our Commission have given you all
ample time to put yourselves in pro.
per condition to obey the food laws of
Ohio, and the press of the State are
very kindly giving timely warming.
10 the farmers we would say that it
is possible for some of you to improve
the quality of your butter and help
put down the excuse now offered for
the sale of imitation butter. 1t is an
outrage and crime for you to buy bo-
gus butter and mix with yoIr own
manufacture, and then send it to mar
ket for 1arm butter, thereby helping
IL rum the whole farm craft.
City people charge you with doing
this. 1t don't seem to be possible that
a farmer in Ohio ever dad such trick
but quite likely if it ever has been
done it was by huXters who palmed
themselves off in the city for farmers.
At all events we desire you to watch
your neighbors as well a. yourselves,
and if you learn of a guilty man, in-
| form the commission, so that he may
be properly punished.
Do not keep back your butter from
market this hot weather because it is
cheap. (unless you have perfect cold
storage for iD and then next fall after
it becomes stale and rancid, pack it in
tubs or jars not quite full, and then
vopeer over the top with a layer of
good, fresh sweet butter. The first of
| fense of this kind will cost you fifty
| dollars, the second one may cost you
| five hundred dollars and possibly i'm
prisonment besides. Ali of you read
carefully sec. Sth of the law. Restau-
raut keepers and hotel keepers should
look very carefully to sec. 7th of the
same law, for heretofore We have found
many of you guilty, and have taken
the butter from the table offered us to
eat ami had it analyz ii, and it proved
|
est priced hotels to i've the greatest of
Tenders, because they seek to ornament
| their tables with uniformly colOred
butter, and also save money. They
all can we'll afford to put themselves
10 the trouble to buy genuine butter
from the first hands and run no risk
of imposition, and thus furnish pure
and wholesome food to their guests.
For the manufacturer of perfect
creamery, dairy, or farm butter We
| would most respectfully refer you to
the teachings of Ohio Farmer Sam.
But there are some things about the
business that our experience has
proven necessary to adopt in order to
insure fair success.
First, good healthy cows, with plen.
ty of good pasture feed and good water
Dig wells in your farms if you don't
have good living water from any other
source. Do not expect good pure milk
from mud hole water that is full o.
wigglers and other parasites.
Second, have your milking perform.
ed in a cleanly manner, so that the
operator can stomach it" to drinB
himself, and occasionally test him.
Third, the good housewives ought
to fold cloths several thicknesses anG
place them inside their tin milk
strainers, and pass the milk through
them all, so that no sediment can eve
be found in the bottom of the mill
vessels. Keep the milk in a good coo
place while the cream is rising ant
where il will be free from all unpleas
ant odors.
Fourth, scald every tin vessel yol
use about the manufacture of butte
every time it is used. Do this thor
oughly or all is lost.
Fifth, keep the cream in good coo
place and do not keep it long enough
: to have it spoil or get bitter, but churl
1 often and as SOON as the cream is il
5 lit condition.
Sixth, do not paddle, squeeze, q
mash the butter when working it s
as 10 spoil all the granulations, bu
e leave the grain as coarse as possible
4 then salt it TO suit your own taste, S
= that one person, at least, will be suite
with the job.
4 Seventh, pack it in packages of til
h proper size, all ready for sale. so ths
Il no re-wOrking or re-packing need
made, and be sure to have each pacl
= age all of even quality, so that whe
the food inspector or dealer puts b
n tryer down through the whole packas
II he cannot draw up fifty dollar fiji
:, for you, either in color or quality.
II. TALCOTT,
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