Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-11-28

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These little things in sight.
Ripley D. Saunders, in st. Louis Republic.
(|s Necessary Dairy Leg1slat,on.
H e. C.Adams, state dairy and food
commissioner of Wisconsin, delivered
an address at the National association
of State Dairy and Food Departments
Of the United States, held in Milwaukee
last week, on the Necessary National
Legislation Relative to Dairy Products"
He said in part:
'.Extensive adulteration of foods in
the United States has given rise to the
enactment, in nearly every state, of
laws regulating to greater or less ex-
tent the manufacture and sale Of food
products. New York, Massachusetts,
and Ohio have been the leaders in
this class of legislation"
"Food adulterations are of sufficient
extent to warrant not only the inter
ventton Of state authority but the pow
er Of the national government as we'll.
It is estimated that 83OO,OOO,OOO worth
of adulterated foods are sold annually
in the United States"
"a national pure food law has been
under consideration by congress for
several years and there are now pend
ing in the lower house of congress two
measures of this character. 1t is now
urged, In opposition to national law,
that the regulation of food adulterstion
should be left to the states, aud that
the states have clear and undisputed
right to prohibit or regulate such adul-
teration through the exercise of their
police powers"
"Nationsl legislation, however, is
needed, because only portion of the
states have taken up this matter Of food
Legislation TO any extent; and In others,
where the laws are adequate, they are
practically dead letter because of the
failure of state authorities to enforce
them. There comes pouring in over
the boundaries Of every state which has
efficient laws and good administration
flood from every direction of msnufsc-
lures sold in violation of the laws of
the state into which they enter. The
evils of food adulteration would be
very greatly lessened ii they were con-
fined by strong national law within
the limits Of the state in which they
originated. The evils of food adulter-
alton are not and can be defended. It
is not only within the power of congress
to 60 to the limit Of its authority in
this matter, but 1t is the plain duty of
that body to adopt the most stringent
possible legislation"
Mr.. Adams then spoke of the purport
of the Grout bill, also of the bill of Sher-
man of New York and concluded as
follows.
"More and more public sentiment is
becoming aroused and public judg-
ment informed as to the character and
effect of food sdulteration. The efforts
Of friends of pure food laws should be
steadily exerted in the direction of So.
curing strong and uniform state legis-
la:ion and the enactment by congress
of as radical restrictive and prohibitive
national legislation as the constitution
al power of that body will warrant"
Feed and Care of Cows.
Liberal feeding will produce the larg-
est quantities of milk that q COW is
capable of producing, but tho only
method by which the composition of
milk produced by herd can be perma-
nently improved is by proper culling
and breeding to bulls of strain known
to produce rich milk.
u While the quality Of milk cannot be
appreciably changed by the food given
so far as Its contents of fat and other
components are concerned, we know
that the flavor Of milk Is easily affected
by the fooo. Familiar examples ar,
turnip flavor, leek, onion and rye flavor,
, In the milk, which unquestionably il
most cases have their origin directl!
from the food eaten.
The quality of the butter fat and O.
the butter can, however be readil!
changed by proper selection of foods
, The most marked example is perhap
that of cotton-seed meal, which will
produce hard and white butter tia
is lacking in flavor. Carrots and pas
turs grass, on the other hand will max,
q yellow and high. favored butter.
, The most important point in feeding
dairy cows and making success O
dsirying is that the dairyman shal
know intimately the wants snd habit
of all his cows and shall feed each on,
according to special needs. Good re
suits in feeding dairy COWS cannot b
; obtained by treating the herd as unit
If feeding standards are constructed t
I permit Of or encourage such practrce
: they 9ill do more harm than good.
!, 1t may not be out Of place, In con
) clusion, to call attention to the fac
that feeding the dairy herd is only one o
) the factors upon which success in dairy
4 ing depends. Without attending t
general wants and comfort of the COW
t they will not do their best. The COW
( should be housed In an airy, well VENT
: lated and comfortable stable, wher
a they will not freeze In cold Winte