The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-10
OLEO MEN SHOW FIGHT
STATE DAIRY DEPARTMENT EN-.
GAGGED IN PROSECUTING VIO-
LATIoNs OF LAW
RIGHT TO USE coIoR1NG


Right to Pass a Law With Such
Provisions = Case That Starts I'm
the Municipal Court May Go to
the Supreme Bench.
Last week was one of unusual activity
IN the department Of the state DAIRY and
food commission. Assistant Dairy Com
missioner White was engaged during the
entire week in prosecuting and closing I'D
cases against people and firms alleged
to have been violating the food laws. In
the several cases brought against manu-
facturers of lard, for placing their prod
uct on the market in an improper man.
ner, nearly all entered pleas of guilty
and paid their fines.
In Minneapolis last Friday one of the
most important cases that was ever
brought by the food commission was
tried before Judge Holt. The Hammond
Packing company was the defendant and
the point at issue was the right of manu-
facturers Of "oleo" to use coloring mat
ter. The case is the result of recent laws
passed by the legislature TO take the
place of old ones that were held TO be
unconstitutional by the supreme court
of the United States It is more than
probable that the present case, like all
those that have preceded it, will find it's
way to the highest court in the land for
final decision. The food commission
hold that the state has a right to make
a law that will prohibit manufacturers
of "oleo" from coloring their product
so that 1t will initiate butter while the
manufacturers say that such law would
be unconstitutional and woald ruin their
business If allowed to stand. The case
will undoubtedly be followed with inter
est by all interested in the food laws
While the local members OF the dairy
and food commission have been blsily
engaged in the cities the out-of-town
people have not been idle. The inspectors
are at work among the creameries and
continue to send in reports Of Lncleanli-
ness found in different localities. The
department will exert every effort to i'm
press on farmers and creamery men that
good butter can only be made with clean
utensils.
George A. Lasage, who has been an in
spector in the Duluth district, has been
ordered to report for duty IN this dis
trict. There will be no one appointed to
take his place, and the work that has
been done by two men in the Duluth dis
trict will now fall entirely on the Shout
ders of Inspector Chadbourne. Commits
sioner Bowler is Of the opinion that he
will have no difficulty in doing the work
alone in a satisfactory manner.
Just at this time when the inspectors
of the state dairy and food department
are reporting the finding Of unclean uten-
sis in connection with some of the cream
cries. the following article from the Farm,
Field and Fireside is timely
There is serious trouble in every cream
cry in the land over certain of the pa
irons not keeping their milk cans clean.
The difficulty is largely because the pa
tron does not understand the necessity
of a clean can. He has never made any
special study of this point, and there is
no reason why he should know all there
is to be known on this subject. But in
such a case, he ought to be willing to
take some other mans word for it, who
| does know, and because he will not do
| this Is the cause of all the loss and
trouble that ensues.
Farmers complain, says Hoard's Dairy
man, that their skim milk sours too
every patron would Thoroughly clean
and scald his cans with boiling hot water
| before he puts his milk into them to
the milk would be in much better condi-
ton to keep to start with. <~
| Then, if he would do the same thing,
and add to it, securing the seams with
| brush after the skim milk is enptied
| from them, the can would be in much
better shape to receive the fresh milk
| at the next milking.
It is evident that a great many pa
irons and their wives do not really
know what 1t means to clean a can so it
can safely hold milk, and not faint it.
few years ago herds of dairy cows
which would yield an average of 300
pounds Of butter each year were so scarce
that 1t was hard work to convince the
majority of dairymen and farmers that
such herds existed. If convinced by the evil
dence that such was the case the claim
would at once be made that the cows
which did were being ruined by high feed
ing. The advance of knowledge about
the capabilities of cows has changed all
this and now every feading and observ-
ing dairyman knows that the right kind
of COW will give 300 pounds of butter
year without being fed in such a manner
as to do her any injury, and that such
cows produce butter at much lower
cost per pound than those which give
only 200 pounds of butter each year There
are now hundreds of herds which have
passed the 300-pound mark 1t will not
be long before the S00-pound mark will
be considered the dividing line between
profit and loss.-Indiana Farmer
The creamery at Roscoe, a small sta
ton six miles east of New PaynesviIIe
on the Great Northern, burned Saturday
july l. The loss is estimated at 5000,
with an insurance of only $1,000. The
plant was owned by a farmers co-opera-
tive company, and at a meeting held be-
fore the fire had entirely burned out ar
rangements were made for the rebuilding
of the concern Work will commence at
| once, and the new plant will be in opera
ton within ninety days. About 500 pounds
of butter was also burned.
Winona dispatch says: The story of
the larceny Of $50 pounds of butter from
| the creamery at Ettrick, Wis, has Just
| come to light. 1t was, according to re-
| port, taken by Vaughan and Ross Nc
| Keeth. who live near there, and was con-
! cealed at their home for a time This oc-
CURED in March. They repacked the
| butter in" jars, and then destroyed the
! f1rkins. They brought the butter to WI
mona, and disposed of it to grocers and
| dealers here. The theft was discovered
! and search instituted. Lynn McKeeth
was arrested and bound over to the grand
| jury charged with assisting in concealing
stolen property. The other two boys, for
whom warrants were issued for grand
larceny, got wind that they were sus-
| pected, and took French leave before
/ the officers arrived. They have not been
| heard of since. The boys were engaged in
| operating farm, where they lived with
their mother. They were well-to-do, and
| had no reason for committing the burg
| larry charged against them,