The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-26
OLEO USERS WATCHED
STATE DAIRY AND FOOD COMMITS
SION is GIVING THEM STRICT
SUPERVISION
CoTToNsEED IN DIsFAvoR

Inspectors Are Hot on the Trail
of Those Who Are Using It
Users of UncIean MIX Cans Are
Also Giving the Department
Agents Some Occupation These
Summer Days.
The state dairy and food department is
pushing the compound and substitute and
adulterated~ lard producers hard. Samples
of the stuff are being taken from all their
depcts in Minneapolis and sent to the
laboratory to determine of what it is
made. Suits have been brought where the
analysis showed that the contents of the
tank tub or can were not pure lard, and
where the label did not comply with the
law 1t is but fair to say that they came
down, like Davy Crockett's coon when
that Nimrod pointed his rife at it. Those
against whom complaint was lodged have
entered pleas of guilty and paid the fines.
and the others have agreed to label all
their product as the law requires. Now
tie department will pay its respects to
those who make use of the substitutes in
providing food for sale. These are re-
Quired to hand to each purchaser of food,
whether in hotels, restaurants or baker
les, a card stating that the food was pre-
pareo with substitute" or "adulterated"
lard
Inspector Sweet found the restaurateur
of a railway construction camp feeding
the workmen on oleomargarine down near
Austin, without having the notice reQuir-
ed by law posted about the walls of the
car restaurant. He sent in samples for
analysis and proceeded to enforce the
law on the analysis showing 1t to be oleo.
The restaurant firm Immediately hung
out the white flag and offered to pay the
minimum amount fixed by the law as a
fine if the department wouldn't shoot. 1t
also agreed either to quit using oieo or
post the cards.
Inspector Mcconnell has been transfer
red from Minneapolis to Mankato and put
on special field duty, looking after viola
ticns of the dairy and food laws, especial
ly those relating to oleo and compound
and adulterated lard. The extent to which
lard is compounded with cottonseed oil
and beef stearine, the lard forming but
80 per cent of the mixture, has mad de-
pressing effect upon the market price
. of both lard and hogs, and If the use
OF it can be diminished by the activity
of the department 1t will materially aid
the farmers of the state in that branch
of their products.
The office force of the department is
now all In the field and the secretary is
running the office while Maj. Bowler is
rusticating in Michigan. Assistant Com
missioner White is answering calls from
creameries for inspection and instruction,
ana Inspector Glover is looking over
cheeseries, but not skipping any cream
cry that may lie between. Inspector
Chadbourne, in the north, is looking over
the few creameries in his district. Cen
orally the inspectors find the cTeameries
in good shape, but now and then one has
tn old ciStern, into which the separator
discharges its skimming, located near,the
building, with it's odors loading the air
ard inevitably affecting the butter. Farm
ers pump this milk back into the cans
in which they bring fresh milk and thus
supply the faint that is found in their
milk Dirty cans, the seams full of
cheesy matter, are frequently reported
and the offenders duly warned. In some
cases the drain from the creamery dis
charges a short distance from the cream
cry, and this hot weather will soon fill the
air about the creamery with doors that
are not from "Araby the best to the
serious impairment of the product of the
creamery. The department is calling the
attention of the managers in such cases
to this defect and advising them of the
effect upon the prices of their butter. This
condition is exceptional, however.
The inspectors connected with the state
dairy and food commission are busily en-
gagged in inspecting and visiting dairies
, he LOW doc
that all diaries must be kept clean and
wholesome, and in addition to this safe
guard, the reports of inspectors after a
visit to Il dairy are always open to all,
and are generally made public through
the newspapers. 1t can be readily seen
that a bad report would injure a dairy
mans business under these conditions.
Last week State Inspector F. c. Gibbs
finished a visit to each of the diaries in
Washington county, and his report should
be priced very highly by the dairymen
of that section. Among all the diaries
not one was found that was not in good
condition. The utensils and barns were
found to be clean and the animals were
all we'll kept and in good health. -
Much of the milk from these diaries is
marketed IN st. Paul and Minneapolis
so that the people of these two cities
may rest assured that they are getting
good, clean, wholesome milk and cream.
The following item is from Farm, Field
and Fireside: The twenty-second annual
convention of Ontario dairymen was held
at Kingston Jan. 10, 1S99 and was at.
tended by several hundred members As
Canadian cheese holds all enviable repu.
ta1on and is one of the principa
Canadian exports, some OF the points
brought out at the convention are worthy
OF consideration by American cheese.
makers.
The principal address was made by the
president OF the association, D. Derby