The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-23
.' TIME BEGINS
Food Commissioners Finish Their Set
Program and Come to
Minneapolis.
Tomorrow They Will Transact the
Annual Business of the
Association.

The last program session Of the state
dairy commissioners convention at ST.
Paul was held this morning. 1t was of
a miscellaneous character and the attend
ance was lighter than usual.
The visiting commissioners spent the
afternoon in Minneapolis and will dine
this evening at the Commercial club Spe-
cial trolley cars at the Ryan hotel took
the party by the Como line, visiting the
state university, the Pillsbury mill
Lake Harriet, Minnehaha Falls and view
ing the city from the roof of the Guaranty
building. Tomorrow afternoon they will
visit Fort Smelling and White Bear with
dinner at the St. Paul Commercial club
in the evening, and Saturday will be spent
at Minnetonka.
Tomorrow morning will be a very i'm
portant session. The nominating com
election and the talk is that Minnesota
will be honored by the presidency, W..
| w. P, Mcconnell being favorte for the
place. Resolutions will be adopted and
the all-important national food law VIII
| be reported by the committee that mas
been, working on 1t. st. LOUIS mas m
| yited the association to meet in the expo
sition city next year and the invitation
will doubtless be accepted.
| To-day's proceedings began with an ad-
dress on Corn Products and Their Fur
ity,'' by DR.. T. E. Wagner. He defended
the use of glucose and corn syrup, on
the ground that the supply of cane syrup
cannot fill the demand.
| H. B. Gurler OF De Kalk, ILL.,, leadlng
dairyman who furnishes certified milk
to his patrons spoke on the Importance OF
pure milk supply and sanitary methods IN
caring for milk, especially for the use OF
infants. He described the methods used
on his farm.
M. A. scovel Of the Kentucky expert
ment farm followed with a description OF
their dairy methods va H.. -.-..
Purity in Kentucky Dew .@
R. G. stol Of Lexington KY. spoke on
| 1.-THE Purity of Distilled Products He
eulogized the product Of Kentucky distll-
tleries for it's purity and reviewed its his
tory from the days Of the pioneers. He
described the close supervision the gov
eminent exercises, weighing the grain used
and tracing it thru all the processes finalyq
weighing and sealing the product AND
keeping watch of it in bonded warehouses
| so that the customer is assured Of the
purity and age Of every barrel. tits after
it goes to the wholesaler and retailer thai
opportunity comes for adulteration.
| Since 1897 distjllers have been able tt
bottle hwisky in bond when it is more thar
four years old. This bottled whisky car
also be guaranteed to be pure. What the
distillers want is regulation that will pro
1 hibit dealers from adding chemicals to the
pure goods to ''ripen'' it artifcially. lmi
, tation whisky should be so branded
Whisky made Of prune juice and spirit
rock candy syrup and peach juice, adulter
ated with green tea or raw beef should b
so labeled The whisky interest is thu
greatest source of revenue the government
has. bringing four to five times the orig
inal cost of the product. Therefore tn
government should employ every means t.
protect the public and the manufacturer.
1I@o y Sc od xxytfh of
eloquent eulogy of Kentucky and of Min
| nesota hospitality, winch Drought dOW1
the house.
!, E. H. Taylor of Frankfort, KY, dis
+ cussed the same subject. He criticized
, the statute authorizing rectifiers as Civ
ing every facility for adulteration of thu
!, pure product. He declared that the rec
!, tifers, by their persistent advertising
, sold great quantities of spurious whisky
} and made the "bottling In bond &C
8 ineffective.
President Bailey appointed the follow
' / ing committees at the close Of the morn
$ ing session:
standards-M A. Scovill, Kentucky
t r. E. Doolittle, Michigan; J. H. Shepherd
0 South Dakota; E. n. Eaton, Illinois; MI
F'rear, Pennsylvania; A. L.W inton, Con
. necticut; Richard Fischer, Wisconsin;
i s. Ladd, North Dakota; ]. Q. La Bach
s Kentucky; Julius Hortoet, Minnesota
5 Herman Harms Utah.
r .Nominations-M. A. scovell, Ken
$ lucky; Moroni Heiner, Utah, and r. A
e Doolittle, Michigan.
VI Rulings-George K. Hutchinson, Penn
sylvania; A. H. Jones, Illinois,; J. T
Emery, Wisconsin; Horace Anken1
Ohio; A. A. Kaufman, North Dakota
H. II. Wright, Iowa; Alex Mcpherson
Z Idaho.