The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-24
DAIRY LAWS REVISED
SOME RADICAL CHANGES yNnrp
THE PROVISIONS OF THE
NEW LAW
THE TEXT OF THE ENACTMENT


service-AIl Milk Must Contain
Specified Amount of Butter Fat
Law Prohibits Use of Preser-
natives. .7
The dairy laws of the state were thor
ousniy revised at the recent session of
the legislature, and all were incorporat ed
under one general law
A number of changes were made and
among the more important were the fol-
lowing:
In future any person or company own
ing two or more cows must pay a. license.
The time for using the milk of freshen-
ing COWS Is extended from two to five
days.
All milk sold must contain 3k per cent,
putter fat and in addition must be
cooled and have the animal heat taken
OUT In most states per cent butter fat
Is all that is required.
ALI creameries will be required to nav
q license fee Of 81 for every wagon in
use. In the past creameries might oper-
ate dozen wagons on q single license
Among the laws passed by the legisla-
ture that will be of interest to dairvmen
was one prohibiting the use Of preserya-
tives.
The bill, in full, Is as follows:
Section l.. Any person. firm or corpora
tlon, VINO shall sell or offer for sale. or
conslgn, or have In his possession with
intent to sell to any person or persons.
any milk, cream, butter, cheese, or any
other dairy product, or who shall deliver
TO any creamery or cheese factory, milk
hn RIO 1fc
ter or cheese, to which has been added
any preparation in powdered or LIQUID
form, known as preservatives, or any
other compounds containing antiseptics,
snail be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction therefor be punished
by fine of not less than twenty-five nor
more than one hundred dollars for each
and every offense.
This shall not be construed to prohibit
the use of salt in butter.
Sec. 2. The state dairy and food COM
missioner and his assistants, experts and
chemists, by him appointed, shall be
charged with the proper enforcement of
all the provisions of this act.
Sec. 8. In all prosecutions under this
act the costs shall be paid in the manner
now provided by law, and the fines, re-
sulting therefrom shall be paid into the
state treasury and placed to the credit
of the state dairy and food commits
SionerS fund.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage.
In a recent issue Of the Breeders Ga
zetter Thomas Rough of Mower county.
Minnesota, has a communication, In
which he praises Hereford cows very
highly. He says:
For more than forty years I have
handled Hereford cattle, and never but
one instance have 1 met of a Hereford
cow that did not produce milk, enough
/ to make a good calf. To the contrary,
when a boy in the county of Shropshire
which adjoins the county of Hereford
shire. Eng, I can remember herd after
herd of Hereford COWS MIXED for dairy
purposes, some making butter and some
cheese, and this on lands that the rent
at that time was from $40 to SIS per acre;
so it Is easy to see that these people
were not milking Hereford cows for their
health. have seen steers driven out Of
turnip and straw yards on these Here
ford dairy farms raised on skimmilk
from "a to 26 months old that were sold
to go to London market for $50 sterling
(about $1,000 and upward that had eaten
no grain, with the exception Of the last
thirty days or SO a little oilcake.
Now let us come to Minnesota. where
time and again lately it has been demon
strated that soil. climate and skill smile
upon us In dairy products. and we lead
the band in these products; but Here
pay well here. and If Mr.. Norton will
ocome to Mower county I will take him
around and show him registered Hereford
COWS that produce a calf every year,
and some of them have to suckle two, as
one calf is not able TO save the udder, and
these cows will weigh from 1900 to 1.600
pounds and more on grass alone. 1 have
just sold a three-year-oid registered
Hereford bull and two bull calves at very
good figures, and 1 know that these three
animals never nursed anything but their
own dams. So It Is very plain to my
mind that the Hereford COW, properly
selected, properly fed and properly milk
ed, will take her place in the dual-pur-
pose ranks. With regard to the COW
spoken of as not giving milk enough for
her own calf the gentleman who owned
this cow told me the other day that she
had raised good many helferS for him
and every one of them were good milk
ers, and one of her cows has to have two
calves to suck her to save her udder.
The wonderful advance in dairy meth
DDS, in creamery and cheese factory ma
chinefy, which has come in twenty
years, leaves us with but imperfect recol-
lection of how things were managed be-
fore that time
In 1873 at the International dairy fair
held in New York city, the first public
exhibition of a centrifugal milk sepa-
rator (the Danish Weston) was made.
That marks the beginning of the era Of
a most wonderful progress in the me-
chanics of dairying. Mr.. Gilbert w.
Latham. in his address before the Ne
tional Butter Makers convention asks
this: Can we for moment imagine
ourselves in an age where the separator
is unknown, and the 49,, 900 cows of neigh
boring Iowa have their annual milk
product CT 2,2o0, 900 pounds of milk set
In shallow or deep pans. and make 90,0O0,-
900 pounds of butter, instead of 100 600 900
pounds
This march of improvement has affected
every part of this great dairy system,
much more than it has the man on the
farm. Yet he is the man behind the
gum after all. Every step in the hand
ling of milk has been cheapeued and
rendered moro effective, yet there are
thousands of farmers who are producing
milk just as extensively as ever This
should not be. The farmer should be
just as keenly alive to the economy of
better ideas and methods as any man
in the line.
The one who keeps cows at a loss Is
usually man who doesn't believe in i'm
proved cows or improved ideas. 1t is
said in Holy Writ: For he that hath
to him shall be given: and he that hath
not, from him shall be taken even that
which he hath"
The first man is one who improves on
his opportunities; who is teachable: who
gathers unto himself wisdom (knowl-
od&al and nv uaa ~ wisdom gathers