The Saint Paul globe., 1900-11-23
Bl)NER D)NS HIS PAINT
DAIRY COMMIssIoSER is ON THE
TRAIL OF THE BUTTER
WORKERS
USE OF PREsERVATIvEs A BANE
That LIS the Contention Of the Conn
missioner, Who Says He Has
Consistently Pursued
the Offenders.


Dairy and Food Commissioners J. NJ
Bowler is on the war path with paint.
feathers and tonahawk and the only
alt rnatiVe for the Pioneer Press and the
dairy concerns, Of, the state selling
Worked-over butter will be to run the
gauntlet
When butter gets SO strong and de-
composed that it crawls off the table
upon which II is placed, it's time to rall
a halt, said the major yesterday, ANA
when the Pioneer Press juggles facts and
figures to misrepresent the workings Of
this department it's time to call another
halt"
For the first time yesterday the at
tention of the major was called to an
article printed in The Pioneer Press, Nov.
2, under the heading, Costly Reform for
the Farmer; Lind's Dairy Departments
Blow to Process Butter" In defense OF
the department he Immediately dictated
the following:
This article was evidently intended
for erect IN the campaign and bears all
the ear marks of having been prompted
by the Crescent Creamery company,
which has experience with the depart
ment in the matter of renovated butter,
as given. IN the body of the article. The
purpose of the Crescent Creamery COM
pany evidently was that of revenge
against the dairy department for not per-
mlItlng them to violate the law at Will.
II 1t mad been published a week earlier,
In time to reach the creamery men and
dairymen of the state, instead of help
ing the Republicans, would undoubtedly
have cost them many votes If the Pio-
neer Press wants to take up the cause of
renovated butter and process butter put
upon the market unlawfully, against the
genuine dairy interests of the state of
Minnesota, 1t is welcome to do So. and
to all 1t can make bV IT.
Il imagine, however, it will prove like
the hot end of a poker, they will want
to drop 1T. The Crescent Creamery COM
pany has endeavored to put their pro-
duct upon the market without complying
with the law, which requires that every
package of said butter must be. labeled
with the words renovated butter in
letters of a certain size. The depart
ment has steadily EendeaVored to make
them comply with the law, and that is
all.
TN regard toTthef- case where boracic
acid was supposed TO have been found
in the butter, it is, true that the chemist
did report to the commissioner that the
sample Of renovated butter contained l
per cent of boracfe acid. There could
have been no politics in it because the
chemist referredaato was a Republican
who held Office with the former admin
fstration. He simply made an error in
his analysis. The Inspector relying upon
it did warn the public. as it was his
duty to do. butts at the request of the
AISSCSII INISdIQGt ySHzCOI1lpdD d SdIupt0
was submitted as stated, for analysis
before the government chemist at Wash
ington, who reported that the sample did
not contain boracic acid but he did not
report, as alleged stflat is complied with
the dairy and food laws of this state.
That question was not submitted to him.
This was done In a spirit of fairness
and in order to arrive at the truth, and
aid justice.
.'Whatever characteristic may dominate
the Crescent Creamery company, graft
tude certainly Is not one of them. AS
for anything like decent treatment at
the hands of the Pioneer Press, this de-
partment has never expected it, and has
never received it. This department has
never questioned the right of the Cres-
cent Creamery company to supply It's
customers with renovated butter made
out of axle grease of any old thing. 1t
has merely endeavored to enforce the
law which required them to be fair with
their customers, by letting them know the
true character Of their product.
For the <beneft9so of the public, I will
state that we have several cases against
violation of the dairy laws. If the public
will watch the proceedings of the munich
pal court, they will have a good op-
portunity to ascertain how far the COM
pany comes from complying with the
law in the quality of their product and
their manner of placing them upon the
market" ~ ~
1t might be we'll to note here that the
Wisconsin Dairy company has Just been
fined 500 in the municipal court at Min
neapolis for using formalin in cream.
Joseph Milton, of the Milton Dairy corn.
pany, was fined $50, Nov. IA, for using
formalin in cream. The Crescent COM
pany has been using alum in It's cream.
E. R. !de, conducting branch for the
Crescent company, has, 1t is charged,
been selling renovated butter for cream,
cry butter. The case is now in an at
torney's hands The Crescent people
claim that all their renovated batter Is
labeled "Renovated.' There are any
number of companies all over the state
that have been using preservatives in
cream and butter. and Mai. Bowler is de-
termined that everybody shall be brought
to time if his department can get at
them He is there to enforce the food
laws regardless of the interests of the
Pioneer Press or the violators of the
laws
What the department wants impressed
upon the minds of consumers and sellers
is the fact that renovated butter must be
sold for what it really is.