Cañon City record., 1900-06-28
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daily Notes.
The health authorities of Chicago are
.naking war on the use of formalin In
milk and doing it successfully. A large
number Of milkmen are pleased at the
direction affairs have taken. as they
did not want to use the preservattves.
but were forced into 1t by competition.
People that buy milk should not be too
ready to discard milkman because
his milk SQUIRE under adverse circum-
stances. When ordinary milk keeps
for several days In hot weather 1t IL a
pretty good sign that there is some
thing In It that should not be there.
VI course we recognize the fact that
here and there are dairies SO perfectly
managed that their milk will keep for
several days under proper degrees of
cold. But most milk is not of that
kind. 1t il far better for people to
have some sour milk on their hands
once in awhile than to have all the
time milk that is drugged.
1t is difncuIt for us to understand
why Joseph H. Wilkins should be par
doned out of prison before he had
completed his term of imprisonment.
more than any other prisoner. He was
sent to prison because he had repeat
edly removed revenue stamps from
oleomargarine packages. contrary to
the revenue laws. The press dis
patches from Washington report that
he was pardoned few days before his
sentence expired SO that he might not
III rIst Oh w
want to preserv. the citizenship OF
man that despises the duties of citizen
ship? Men tina. have the interests of
the farmers at heart will certainly be-
lieve that the act was in response to
the influence of the great oleomar-
garine manufacturers. who fought so
hard to keep Mr.. wilkins out OF prison
that they succeeded in keeping his
case In the courts for about three
years.
Prosecutions under the food laws are
not always decided ON their merits.
This IL illustrated by the case anept
process butter that was tried at Jack
Michigan provide that all process but
ter must be labeled process butter.
Armour & Co. have been shipping proc
ess butter into that state. labelling II
butter. The state OF Michigan began
prosecutions on case that came be-
fore a police Justice at Jackson. The
state brought the best chemists. who
asserted that they had examined the
butter and nnalyzed 1t and found II
process butter. This testimony was
backed up BY the highest chemists in
the last. But other chemists testified
ON the side Of Armour & Co. that they
were suspicious of the reliability OF the
other chemists. as they did not know
that their processes were reliable. not
having used those processes them
selves The finding of the police jus
tice was mo cause of action" II all
the testimony Of noted chemists IL to
be set aside in that way. what are the
chances for the enforcement OF the
law7
Some of the Chicago papers ere tax
ing up the agitation TO compel the au-
thorities to raise the standard of milk
from 8 to per cent. Some OF the
newspapers have articles 80 headed
that one would suppose the city Of
ficials to be opposed to all reform in
the question OF milk supply. They
blame the officials because they say
that 3 per cent is high enough. The
officials are right. and the daily papers
by the stand they appear to have taken
show how little they know about the
facts in the case. We're the standard
raised to per cent the people of Chi
cago would get very thirsty for milk.
There are multitudes of cows, prob
ably majority Of those supplying
milk to Chicago. that give less than
4 per cent milk. Then, too, cows vary
greatly between any two milkings,
this variation being sometimes a full
one per cent. Thus COW that gives
4 per cent milk at one milking may
give only per cent at the next. this
condition depending on numerous cir
cumstances. The purchaser that gets
per cent OF cream In his milk has
no reason to complain at his treat
ment. In most of our states the STAN
dard is per cent. and In our most
checsemaking states the
requisite for cheesemaking is per
per cent milk The fact is that much
OF the milk being sold is nearer 2
than per cent.