The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-19
AGREE TO LARD LABEL
PACKING COMPANIES GRANT ONE
OF THE DEMANDS OF
THE STATE
UNCLAIMED MILK CANS. TOO

Department, Which Has Found
That Many Creameries Have Been
Getting Tainted MILK as a Re-
suit of the Dairyman's Careless
ness.
The efforts of the state dairy and food
commission to stop the use of adulterdt-
ed lard and ''oleo,' except as permitted
under the laws of the state, are meet
ing with success. A number Of confer
ences have been held between members
of the department and representatives OF
the large packing concerns, and these have
resulted in promise, made by the pack
ing companies to comply with the laws
relating to compound" lard. All the
companies have been given until July 1
to prepare labels and get themselves IN
readiness to obey the law. After that
date every pound of compound lard
put out will hear a label stating that it
is adulterated lard.
The commission does not intend to
stop with the manufacturers but will also
endeavor to compel the retailers and US
ers of Compound lard to comply with
tho laws, which provide that any article
containing compound lard shall, when
sold; be accompanied by a card stating
that fact, so that the purchaser may
know what he is getting. Two or three
cases have already been brought against
such offenders and it is the hope of the
commission that these will prove warn
ing to other violators..
Last week the members of the state
| commission found a "renovated' butter
plant in Minneapolis. The owner was
| arrested, pleaded guilty and paid his fine.
During the past week the inspectors of
the stale dairy and food department have
been investigating creameries in different
parts of the state and in number Of
instances it has been found that tainted
milk was being delivered to creameries.
| Investigation proved that this was due
| to allowing milk cans to go uncleaned.
This is in direct violation of the state
| dairy and food laws, and in every case
reported the department notified the
creamery patron that milk cans must be
! kept clean or the patron would suffer
| the consequences of his neglect.
Several creamerieS were found where
there was improper drainage, with the
result that butter was tainted. All such
cases were reported and the department
notified the creamery managers to make
| improvements. The department is doing
! all i'll its power to insure the marketing
! OF good, wholesome butter from the coun-
! try creamerles and is meeting with I'M
| qualified success.
j. R. banks, OF Rosendale, Wis, had
! the following interesting item in the last
issue of the Farmer:
The safest and Surest way to improve
| the dairy herd is by using a. pure bred
| sire whose ancestors have been careful
| ly studied and found to be superior cows,
| either in the production of milk or butter;
whichever may be desired.
First of all, decide which breed is best
suited to your purposes and then use
only pure-bred sires of that breed. 1t
is great mistake to change from one
breed to another every few years, simply
| because you are not getting ahead finan-
cially. 1t is more likely that the farmer
himself is at fault rather than the breed
of cows he possesses.
| OF course every farmer who is trying
to make profit at farming is expected
| to have a Babcock tester; also a pair of
scales and weigh the milk of each cow,
so as to be able to keep only such cows
as are making good profit for their
owner.
THE selection of sire is one of the
mosr important duties which deyolve
upon the farmer, and too often is consid-
cred the least. The cost should be only a
secondary consideration when purchas sing
| a bull to head the herd. One hundred
dollars is only small price if the bull
Is what he should be- If he is not Won
can't afford to take him at any price.
l. you have a good sire use him as long
as possible without inbreeding, as YOU
can't afford to take chances buying
9th
announcer, II you have good one al
ready.
When you see a farmer trying to buv
bull for $25; or even less, he is usual
! ly one who thinks there is no money
III keeping dairy cows. If he only knew
II, the TACT is that he can't afford to use
a $25 bull, if he ever expects to make a
success of dairying. Of course YOU can
get pure-bred bull at this price but
.heTe Is great difference in pure-bred
bulls, and the cheapest are usually found
10 De the most costly in the end
| In breeding to secure good dairy COWS
the important factors are breed, feed ant
| management, and good results cannot n
expected if either of these be neglected
! breeders are apt to rely too exclusively
on breed, but many a well-bred ANNA
mas proved failure for milk cow fol
lack of attention to the other two noin+s
milk the foundation is laid, but the gu
perstructure remains to be erected. j
during calfhood she be fed on fattenine
| 1oods, there will be an early established
tendency to turn food into flesh that |:
inconsistent with good milking quality
IL she be not early accustomed to an
abundance OF coarse forage, she will grow
up with undeveloped stomach capacity
and this, too, is fatal to the milkine
character. If she does not receive the
care and management necessary to he1
comfort and the development of milkins
power, the pedigree behind her wi;
amount to very little in making a good
| milking animal. We see every day gooi
beef calves with beef heredity behind
them spoiled in feeding and management
and In like manner good, inherited milk
ing possibilities may never reach fruitior
because of the failure of the owner t.
feed and develop in such a way as t.
make good mixer of the possibiIitie:
breeding has furnished.-Iowa Home
| stead.