El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-29
Dairy Notes.

| Dairy Notes.
| Illinois has at last law that will
| give some protection to the makers
Ind consumers Of dairy produce. I'm
fortunately the law is SO worded that
the fines for violation of all trespassing
can not be collected prior to July 1,
| 1900. Thus the manufacturers are to
have more than a year to work Off
their manufactured stuff on the pub
| lie. However, we will not grumble
very much if we can have the law en-
forced, according to its letter. Illinois
is charged with being the state in
which the greatest number Of adulter-
ated articles are manufactured, and
perhaps she will be able to get rid of
this kind Of fame. There should now
be no delay in appointing commission
ers that will impartially enforce the
law.
| A paper of Pecatonica, Illinois, re-
ports the breaking of the shaft to a
cream separator and a general shake
up in consequence. One man was
knocked senseless by being struck by a
part of the casing to the separator
howl. The revolution of the bowl was
at the speed of 5000 times per min
| ute, and the centrifugal force was con-
sequently great. The broken pieces
flew like bullets and it is regarded as
marvellous that some one was not kill
ed. This is kind of accident not at
all peculiar to separator machinery.
All kinds of machines that require fast
revolution are subject to it. Even
grindstones in our large factories and
| navy yards have been known to fly
to pieces and do great damage to prop
| erty and persons. For this reason
machines like the Babcock tester are
| encased in metal, and should not be
operated except when the metal cover
| is closed.
Minnesota has taken up the question
Of renovated butter and has passed
| law that prevents the placing of reno
waited and process butter on the mar
ket, except under proper restrictions.
The restrictions are mostly in the line
of having these goods sold for what
| they are. There are said to be three
large factories of these goods in Min
Desota and a number of small con.
Germs. .srx.
Dirty Dairy.
When is dairy clean? The safest
answer to this question lies in describ-
ing when a dairy is dirty, and dan
gerously dirty, too, says the New York
Farmer. When woodwork in the dairy
gives off smutty, musty, fusty, acid,
rank, and spoiled buttery smell, it is
dirty. When tin vessels-such as pals,
cans, dippers, cups and skimmers-
after being Thoroughly washed" give |
off sour1sh smell, or show dark lines |
Of matter in the folds and seams of the |
tin, they are dirty, and the dirt of |
Just such sort and in just such places !
as to encourage the bacteria in the air |
to drop down upon it, to crawl into |
1t, to feed upon 1t and to multiply in |
it until they swarm in it and are ready |
to launch themselves into the milk |
put into those vessels. When the win |
dows, walls, floors and fixtures in the |
dairy are unpleasant to the smell when |
the room is warmed up, there is dirt |
present-enough dirt to have an effect |
upon the flavor and other qualities of |
the milk and of the butter made from |
it. When vessel, from which milk |
is removed, shows a layer of black |
sediment in the bottom, smelling with |
unpleasant suggestiveness of the barn |
yard, there is dirt, plain, straight, I'M
mistakab1e dirt there-dirt that is I'M
pleasant to think of as a component |
part of milk that is to be used by |
humans as food. No dairy showing |
these things in any degree can really |
be called "clean," or decently clean, |
Or BEAUTIFULLY clean. Hardly any other |
occupation on earth makes such de- |
mands for cleanliness and offers such |
difficulties in the work of securing |
Cleanliness as the milk and butter and
cheese industry.
Too Much Oleo.-Recently the writer
made a shipment of butter to Tampa.
Fla, to a reliable commission mer-
chant. While the butter netted a fair
price, the merchant wrote as follows:
There is so much oleo here, and it is so
low, that it's a hard matter to sell good
butter" What is true of Tampa is
true Of almost every large town in the
South. There are no effective laws to
keep the stuff out of sur markets, or
to compel the sellers to dispose of it
dnder It's true name. Thus it is that
the Southern dairyman is operating
all the time under disadvantages, COM
peting in price with a counterfeit ar
.icle. Something surely must be done
to protect the legitimate dairy inter-
ests of this country from the injury
done by the sale of oleomargarine I'M
der the name and in the semblance of l.