The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-29
FORPURE DAIRY PRODUCTS
COMMISSIONER ANDERSON IS
WAGING A STURDY FIGHT
Several Prosecutions at Duluth Last
Week-COnv1ctiOn Were Secur-
ed, TOO-What the Law Requires
Is to- Be Rigidly Enforced
Courts Are In Hearty Sympathy
With the Pure Food Laws.

The week just closed has been a very
gratifying one to the officers Of the
state dairy and food commission, a
number Of prosecutions for violations
Of the law having been brought to a
successful close.
Inspector Snyder at Duluth, has
perhaps led the van in this recent cru
SADIE, and that, too, with DISTINGUISHED
success, number Of Zenith city gro
GERS and restaurant proprietors hav-
Ing been brought before the bar of JUS
t1ce for selling oleomargarine, while
one dairyman was raked over the Goals
for selling cream below the required
standard Of fats. The Minnesota stand
ard for cream Is fixed absolutely by
law. and, while trif1ing discrepancy
may In some cases be condoned by the
officers, such a divergence as was
shown by the Duluth analysis, the
cream being 30 per cent below the law,
will not be permitted.
Commissioner Anderson declares that
the crusade Of the present Is to be con-
tinued whenever an offender is detect
ed. The work Of making over 1000 in
spections annually. as matter of rou.
tine, to say nothing Of the cases of
complaint, makes 1T difficult for the
department to spend much time in de-
tectiVe work, but, nevertheless, the
contest Is to be waged to the end.
1t might not be out of the way to
remind some of the delinquents, not
necessarily Intentionally so, Of the va
rious requirements Of the Minnesota
law.
General Laws of 1889, chapter 247 as
amended. provide that no person shall
keep unhealthy cows for the produc-
ton of milk, and provides a penalty
for so doing. This law also blishes
a standard for Minnesota full cream
cheese, which Is As per cent of fats to
total solids.
The law further provides that it shall
be the duty of the dairy and food COM
mission to issue a. pure food seal Or
stencil to the cheese manufacturers Of
the state, bearing these words: Min
nesota Full Cream Cheese"
This chapter furthel provides that
all skim cheese manufactured or sold
by wholesale or retail dealers be marx
ed in plain letters "Skim Cheese" and
in the room where the cheese is sold
posted in large letters, Skim Cheese
Sold Here" This law also makes a
standard for milk, which is 81 per cent
butter fats, and 20 per cent standard
for cream. Foreign fats added to the
product Of the COW are not admissible
under the law. Chapter LA, General
Laws 1887, provides that patent butter
Chapter IL, General Laws 1891, Is
known as the Minnesota Pink Oleo and
Butterine law If the manufacturer
or merchant deals in those products,
he must have them colored pink This
law has just been held constitutional
by Judge Lochren, In the United States
circuit court
Chapter 172, General Laws 1887, Is
known as the Minnesota Oleo Table
law. 1t provides that all hotels, dim
ing cars, restaurants, boarding house
keepers serving oleo to their guests
shall have posted on the walls Of dining
rooms "Oleomargarine used here or
on the bills Of fare.
An adulterated product so labeled
cannot be sold as a pure food product.
The dairy and food commissioner Is
charged with the enforcement OF all
dairy and food laws Of this state, and
the fines upon conviction Of any per-
son or firm range from S. to $100. In
the case Of cleo or butterine, the con-
flscation of their products. There is
one more product tabooed, and that is
the product known as "F'illed
Cheese" This product Is not admis-
sible as commercial product in our
state, and Is contraband and confis-
Gated by the state as Oleo or butterine
is, and sold by the order Of any COURT
Of competent jurisdiction for anything
but human food. These products are
generally sold to soap manufacturers,
except filled cheese, that going many
times to fishermen for fish bait and
for net fishing.