The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1903-06-04
Pure Food Law.
commissioners Lay Out
Rules and Regula-
tiOnS for Public
Guidance,


The Dairy, Pure Food and Oil COM
mission held an important meeting
yesterday in the Office Of Secretary of
State Gibson at which the report Of
State Inspector Alexander Mcpherson,
who has been observing the workings of
the law in Oregon and Washington,
was received and discussed.
Judge Maryatt presided and Secre-
tary A. p. Gipson, Professor H. T..
French and Secretary of State Will H.
Gibson were present with Inspector
Mcpherson.
The pure food law passed by the
seventh legislature was discussed in
its minutest details and those sections
bearing on dairy products interpreted
for the guidance of farmers add dairy
men.
The use of gasoline as an illuminant
and motive power as heretofore will
not be interfered with.
Rules and regulations for the guild
ance of those affected by the operations
of the pure food law have been formu-
lated as follows:
| CONCERNING MILK.
Rule 1. Milk sold by milk vendors
or milk peddlers shall not contain less
than per cent butter fat and per
cent solids other than fat A can con-
tanning milk from which the cream has
been removed or containing less than 3
per cent butter fat or 8 per cent solids
other than fat shall be labeled SKINNED
milk" in large plain black letters each
letter being at least one inch high and
one and one-half inches wide, said words
to be on the side not below the middle
OF the can or package where they can
be easily seen. Cream shall not contain
less than 1S per cent butter fat.
Rule 2. Milk drawn from cows
within IA days before or four days after
calving, or having any diseases, ulcers,
running sores or putrihcation of any
kind shall be considered impure and
unwhelesome and sale thereof is pro-
hibited.
Rule 3. Any milk or cream that has
been exposed to or contaminated by
emanations, discharge or exhalation
from persons or animals, or to which
has been added any boraX, boraic acid
formalin, formaldehyde or other poison
GUS substance which prevents or tends
to prevent the normal bacterial action
of milk, is declared to be impure and
unwholesome and the sale thereof is
prohibited.
COWS MUST BE CARED FOR.
Rule f. Cows will be considered in
an unhealthy condition when they are
confined in close and lily ventilated
stalls or where they are compelled to
breathe emanotions from manure pile
or from wet and uncleanly stalls.
Rule 5. The sale of milk from COWS
kept by family in which there is an
infectious disease is prohibited.
| REGARDING CHEESE.
Rule6 Cheese shall be made ex-
clusively Of milk or cream and shall
not contain any added substance other
than salt, rennet and harmless coloring
matter. Cheese shall not contain less
than 80 per cent of butter fat. All
cheese containing less than 80 per cent
of butter fat shall be labeled skinned
cheese" in full face capital letters, not
less than one inch high with ink that is
not easily removed by moisture. The
sale of any cheese containing less than
Is per cent of butter fat, or so-called
filled cheese, is prohibited; Edam Brick
stein, Pine Apple, Limburger or Swiss
cheese or any handmade or fancy
cheese is excepted. Cheese not manu-
factured in the state shall be subject to
the same rule.
AFFECTING BUTTER.
Rule I. Butter must be made ex-
clusively from cream. 1t may be col
ored with harmless matter not injurious
to health.
Manufacture or sale of process butter
or renovated butter or any other article,
product or compound made wholly or
partly out of any fat, oil or any other
oleaginous substance, or compound
thereof not produced directly and
wholly at the time of manufacture
from unadulterated milk or cream i.
prohibited, unless the package in which
the butter is sold has marked on the
side of it process butter, renovated
butter or butter compound" in print
ed capital letters one inch high ant
one half inch wide with ink which il
not easily removed. All brands OIL
markings must be displayed in con
spicuous way SO the public may b.
fully advised.
| All butter Skinned into this stat