Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-23

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cries, But Buriness in Good
Condition Generally.
Recommendations For New Leg
islation..Not Much Oleomar-
garine Used in Iowa.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. 23.--In the fifteenth
annual report Of the Iowa dairy COM
missioner made to the governor today
the commissioner, b. P. Norton, makes
several important recommendations as
to the new legislation for the benefit of
the industry. The first of his recon-
mendations relates to assistants. The
who should be an expert. Mr.. Bouska
was appointed and has gone about the
state inspecting creameries and engaged
in the work of preventing illegal sales of
bogus butter. But in some other states
with no larger number of creameries
they have five or six such assistants or
experts. The Iowa commissioner recon-
mends that several be added to the list
in Iowa. He hopes to secure not less
than three and there is work for all. He
also recommends that the glass testing
tubes be all supplied to the creameries
thru the office OF the commissioner. 1t is
| notorious that the glassware provided
by the firms in that business is inaccu
rate and variable. The commissioner
now furnishes one sample testing tube
to each creamery. All the glass should
come thru the same office and be tested
before being sent out. He would change
the law in regard to the sending in of
reports from creameries, fixing def
mite time for such reports and reducing
the penalty for failure. This would Sc
cure better results. He also suggests
that creameries be required to furnish
their patrons exact statements of the
business done, to avoid the confusion in
cident to irregular methods of doing
business. He also suggests that 1t might
be we'll to require buttermakers at
creameries to have a certificate of COM
potency and submit to an examination.
The appropriation for the Office for the
period ended April I, 1900. was $4,000, and
the balance unexpended at that time
was s3093.7s. The salaries are not paid
cut Of the specific appropriation for the
department. The number of prosecu-
lions by the Office during the year was
very small as compared with those of
other states, because of the exceptional
conditions existing in Iowa. The sale of
oieomargarine, says the commissioner,
is more or less difficult in a butter state
like Iowa, because there IS no large
number of Iowa people demanding
cheap article and because Of the natural
pre- JUDGES that exist in favor of pure
butter. 1t is true that a few hotels en-
oeavor to use the spurious article with
cut the knowledge OF their guests or the
dairy commissioner, but there is every
reason for believing that the use of oleo
margarine in this state is very small in
amount and that it is practically con-
fined to railway boarding camps and
similar places where board is necessarily
furnished. 1t is well known that the
wholesalers of meat now handle butter
G: all grades as we'll as oleomargarine,
and that they are selling quantities of
process butter" as well as small lots of
o,eomargarine. The dairy commission
err is glad to get information of the ship
ment or receipt of any oleomargarine at
any time and will prosecute the offender
ia the extent of the law. A considerable
number of Investigations of complaints
has revealed the sale and use of low
grade Of 'reworked" or process" but
ter and oleomargarine among few of
the best hotels. There is no law in Iowa
relating to the sale OF the process but
ter, but the oleomargarine law is so COM
prehensive that instances OF its legal
sale or use in Iowa are extremely rare.
Specific reference is made in the report
to a case in Delaware county, where one
who was indicted for having yellow oleo-
margarine was acquitted; the forfeiture
of cash bond by a leading hotel keeper
Of Mahaska county who was caught
with yellow cleo; paying of fines by two
railway contractors in the same county
and placing another under bonds to APP
pear at court; prosecution of a man in
Clinton who sold oleomargarine in ten
pound tubs. but refusal of the grand
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partment refuses to regard a solicitor
for oleomargarine a dealer in the goods
The laws of Iowa require that cream
cries must be kept clean. In two in
stances the assistant dairy commas
aioner has given the creamery owners
the option of prosecution or rebuilding.
City milk inspection has given rise to
some interesting cases, and one of which
went to the supreme court where the
lower court was reversed. A Des Moines
man paid fine for using formaldehyde
as preservative, but prosecution Of the
persons who were alleged to have sold
him the milk failed.
There We're not as many creameries
and skim stations in Iowa this year as
last year. the net loss being thirty-four.
The following tables snow comparisons
for three years in creamery statistics:
Number Creameries- 1899. 1900. 1901.
Individual ownership...... SOL 524 49T
Cooperative .............. S49 1854 $50
State ownership. ........... i
ss7 1914 900
Plan of Operation
Gathered cream ........... II So 50