Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-02-13
FRAUD ON WISCONSIN.
Baneful Effect OF Filled Cheese
Shipments on Great
Industry.

Madison, Wis, Feb. 6I[Special1 /
At the session of the State Agricultural
society this morning. w. A. Henry, dean
of the college of agriculture at the state
university, gave an address on ''The Ne
cessity of Immediate Legislation for the
Protection of Our Cheese Industry
He cited the fact that in 1880 the United
States exported cheese to the value of
$12,11O,OOO, and in 1894 to the value of
but S7.1SOOOO, decrease of 40 per
cent, while in the same years Canada
exported in 1880 cheese to the value of
$3,9OO.OOO, and in 1894 $15,5OO,OOO, an
found the explanation of these anoma-
lous conditions in the reports of Consul
Neal at Liverpool, Consul r. J. Mac
Bride at Leith, and in an advance copy
of the secretary of agriculture at Wash
ington, all to the effect that the importa-
has become so marked and so deleteri-
Gus to the trade in United Stat ties cheese
that the association of provision deal
ers in Glasgow and Liverpool have
memorialzed the Legislature of Wiscon-
sin to enact laws or to provide some
means to prevent these filled cheese be-
in" nasSed off upon dealers and consum-
ers for other than they really are. Con-
sui MacBride quotes Mr.. Osborne's sug-
gested remedy before the select COM
mittee of the House of Commons that
foreign governments should be made
responsible for the quality of the article
IF" Mr.. Henry said, eve could hon.
estly state that the United States was
consuming homemade cheese in much
larger quantities than ever before, there
mi"ht be some consolation to set over
against all of this blacklisting from 9TH
er countries. But such is not the case.
grumblings and complaints that our
cheese is not what it used to be, that
one cannot now find u good piece of
cheese when he calls for it. etc, etc.
Filled cheese, skim cheese, poorly-made
cheese and dirty cheese have apparently
entered into trust to ruin the cheese
market and obliterate even themselves
in the end.
Though the manufa cture of filled
cheese in this state was absolutely pro-
hibited by our last Legislature, and
though there is no filled cheese being
so far as Commissioner Adams is aware,
our dairy interests are still suffering i'm
mensely because of the fraudulent use
made of it by the dealers in filled
cheese. Filled cheese in enormous
quantities is manufactured in Northern
Illinois at creameries where the skim
milk is compounded with lard and cotton
seed oil for this purpose" He proved
the fraud being pra cticed on the name of
Wisconsin by quoting letters from deal
ers showing that a product bearing the
stamp of the 'Wisconsin state cheese
Inspector" was being sold guaranteed to
be first-class, at ~ cents per pound,
when it is well-known there is no such
officer as Wisconsin state cheese in
SpectOr.
AS a remedy Mr.. Henry called atten-
ton to the bills introduced in Congress
n n
ny th % CG9i anu 80 Sauef fm5
cheese be placed in the same category ais
oleomargarine. that all factories where
it is manufactured be licensed, the prod
uct taxed. and that all compound cheese
shall carry a distinctive label; Mr. Sau-
erhering's bill providing among other
things that each state secure from the
treasury department of the United
States a state trade mark; and he urged
every person attending the convention to
write to his member of Congress urging
the pressure of these or similar meas