The Republican journal., 1903-04-09

and adjourned at 9.3O The roll or accounts
was passed. Following are the amounts
under the various appropriations:
Contingent ........ Sl,ooo 10
| Fire department ent..... 17712
Uiphwavs 20S AZ
General school purposes. s........... 10y 90
| Free text b0OkS... .............. O. ~
| Repairs and insurance. ............ !oI
| School contingent. ..... ........-.. ol.oo
| Free library. ........ 81 16
| Total. .................,.. ..'.''' Sl' % "
The trustees of the Wilson Fund reported
that for the current municipal year the
means of popular instruction to which the
fund be applied be the Belfast Free Libra
ry. The report was accepted.
Petitions for sidewalks were presented
and granted as follows: Of Belfast I'M
provement Society, Condor street from
| Northport avenue to the shore; OF ii. A.
Drink water and others, Charles street be-
tween Park and Grove streets; OF j. l..
Colby and others, Cedar street from Salmond
street to j. L. Colby's house.
City Marshal II. f. Mcdonald reported
for March that the police had given night S
lodging to two men and made one arrest for
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| without trial.
The compensation of the road commits
sioner was fixed at $500 per year, including
the use of his team
The compensation for labor on the high
ways was fixed at Is cents per hour for ii
man: Is cents for yoke of oxen 125 cents
for a horse; suitable equipments to be fur
nished and tools kept in repair by those en-
ployed, except drills for stone work.
| Ms. Lord was elected Port Warden.
The usual amounts were granted to par
ties who maintain watering troughs.
| The matter of the claim of David w.
| Over was deferred to the next meeting.
The report and resignation of W. l..
West, milk inspector, were received and
accepted. The report is as follows:
To the Mayer, Aldermen and Common
Council of the City of Belfast,
Gentlemen Il beg leave to submit my
report as inspector of milk for the seven
months ending March lst, 1908, and also
respectfully tender my resignation, as my
duties for the U. 5. government preclude
the possibility of my continuing as your
milk inspector The milk, and allied prod
ucts, consumed in Belfast are furnished
bv about five hundred cows which are
| worth at least twenty thousand dollars.
The milk used in the city in IA year is sold
for about thirty thousand dollars, and with
the business of the creamery added, makes
| a total business of about eighty thousand
dollars. Thirty-two persons have register
ed at my office during the year as dealers III
milk. Twelve of these drive INTO the city
daily and deliver from carts three are mar
kpts, and the remainder persons WHO sell
milk from their houses.
During the seven months | have made 3S
inspections, IS of which have been chemical
tests of milk procured from the carts both
with and without the knowledge OF the
driver, from bottles or cans which had been
delivered to consumers. from markets,
where it was for sale, and direct from the
COWS MIXED by myself, thus eliminating
all ssibility of fraud
Thirty-siX of these samples were between
| three and three and one-half per cent put
ter fat TWenty-oue We're between three
and une-half and four per cent. butter fat.
| Sixteen were more than four per cent but
ter fat and this | consider an extremely
good showing for the milk supply OF Bel
fast The remaining twenty-five eXamlna-
tOuS We're what are termed FORM tXalnlna-
ton, and consist of a physica examination
of each COW and IL careful inspection OF the
food and water supply, carts, cans, bottles
and ali utensils used in connection with
handling the milk Particular attention is
also paid to the ventilation, the manner of
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conditions, drainage, etc.
! No contagious disease has existed in the
milk herds during the year. \ few simple
diseases have been found and in each in
stance the owners have willingly co-operated
! with me in iSolating these cases.
A vrulent epidemic OF loot and mouth
disease has existed in parts OF New Eng
land. but none has appeared in Belfast nor
in any part of Maine. | have, as hereto
fore, used the Babcock Tester and Que
yenne Iactometer principally in making the
tests as this method is the most practical
and sufficiently accurate for all purposes.
No evidence of adulterati0n OF milk has
been found nor do be ieve any exists. A
number of complaints have been made to
me of poor milk-milk not keeping, etc,
but upon investigation ana some changes IN
the manner OF handling the supply, have
invariably been able to correct the trouble.
The farm visits have been source of graft
fcation to me, as each year | see some
newer and better method being put into
use, and "a feeling of emulation seems to
exist among the milk producers, each try
ing by laudable means to have the pest
product No food is more universally
used in a raw and uncooked state than
milk no food is so much used by infants
and invalids, and none furnishes better
medium for the growth and transmission
of germs than milk. Therefore there is
need of constant, careful and scientific in
spection as the only means OF maintaining
a pure and wholesome supply.
| wish to add in closing a word of com
mendation of the milkmen. | have found
them very courteous and ready to adopt
any newer and better methods and suggeS-
tions tending toward Improvement
Respectfully submitted,
W. L. WEST Inspector.
J. b. Darling was elected milk inspector
at salary of $50 per year.
In Joint convention the following officers
were elected:
Policemen George W. Frisbee and James
A. Nickerson, Night Watch; Cotton W.
Mears, John Dollotf, Horace B. Smalley,
NJ. C. Murch, c. w. Folett j. W. Jackson.
John O. Black, w. H. Clifford, Fred Mason
B. S. Staples, Amos A. Cocord, Henry G..
Roberts, John NJ. Crosby, Walter J. Clifford.
Surveyors of LUMBER. S. Carter,
Ralph B. Cooper, Sanford Howard, A. T..
Stevens, }. c. Durham, Augustus, Clark,
William K. Keene, f. |. Rankin, b. b..
Greenlaw, George E. Michaels, Fred
Holmes.
Weighers of Coal and Hay-Edward Sib-
ley, A. d. Hayes, f. e. White, ii. C..
Pitcher, C. 5. I}ickford, \. f. Keen, Geo.
A. Russell, A. NJ. Carter, Roscoe Black, f,
W. Ellis
Measurers of Grain and Salt Edward
Sibley, c. S. Bickford, II. c. Pitcher, Au-
gustus Clark, L. 7. Shales, G. W. Folett
Measurers of Wood and Bark-F. G.
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