Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-17
Dairy Department Will Pr:
cute For Measuring Instead
of Weighing Out Cream
USE OF THE STANDARD PIPETTE
Anyone Using it For Measuring Sam.
plies of Cream into the Bottles Gets
Too Low Results and is Subject, Up.
on Conviction to $500 Fine or Six
Months Imprisonment.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Oct 1.-THE state dairy
department has determined upon lit
tie crusade for a reform which will be
appreciated by the farmers and cream
cry patrons Of the state. 1t is found up
on Investigation that the method OF
testing cream for butter fat Is not IN
accordance with the law in many
cases. The law requires that purchas-
ers Of milk and cream s. secure
from the state dairy commissioner a
standard pipette for measuring milk
and testing the butter fat. When 1t is
filled to a mark on the glass tube II
holds a certain weight OF milk. Inc
test discloses the per cent OF cream.
But the use of the same article to test
cream produces different result, for
cream is lighter than milk. and II the
test is to be correct the cream should
be weighed into the testing tube. not
measured. The custom Of farmers
bringing their cream to the creamery
instead Of the milk has grown up
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that time milk alone was contemplated.
The dairy commissioner has just sent
out IL circular to creamery managers IN
which the law as it relates to milk
alone Is quoted, and attention Is called
to the fact that the statute contem-
plates testing Of cream as well as milk
and that the subject is covered by the
statute relating to the use of false
weights and measures. The commits
sioner then says:
That the use Of a pipette in cream
testing will not produce correct meas
urenents OF butter fat. is the tesh-
nony OF every dairy authority. without
a single exception, i'm the United
States, and the use Of pipette instead
Of the scale In cream testing is vio-
lation of both the statutes above mem
toned. The mau who uses a pipette Tor
measuring the samples of cream into
the bottle gets results that are too low
by one or two points, and hence pays
for less butter fat than he ought to pay
for He violates the laws and Is sub
iect. upon conviction under either OF
these statutes to fine Of $500 or inn
prisonment in the county Jail for six
months.
In further explanation OF the matter
the dairy commissioner quotes from
bulletin of the national department OF
agriculture in reference to cream test
ing:
There is only one way of securing
true sample, and that is to weigh the
cream into the test bottle with a dell
cate pair Of scales or balances. Anyone
desiring correct results should not use
the pipette measure for cream. There
are 100 many conditions entering into
the problem to make the pipette meas
ure at all reliable. The cream, in pour
ing to get uniform sample, will In
corporate more or less air. Very often
gas bubbles. The specific gravity varies
with it's richness. Thick and viscous
cream may contain large air bubbles in
it's body which do not move readily to
the surface.
1t is estimated that there has been
a, great loss to farmers in the state the
past few years by reason of measuring
out the cream for the test instead Of
weighing it out. The dairy department
practice.
The state treasurer has not yet been
given information on which he can es-
innate the amount of collateral inheri-
tance tax the state will get from the
Callahan estate, but his early esti-
mates will not be far out Of the way.
Deputy State Treasurer Quincy Willis,
who looks after the tax collections In
person, roughly figured from the news
paper reports that from the special be-
quests listed, the state will be taxed
on about 100000, which would be $685.
900. How much the residue of the
state will be is not known, but 1t will
probably amount to $2,000,000. The
state will get tax on all the bequests,
even the churches and charitable pur-
poses outside the state, except where
real property passes direct as in the
case Of two farms disposed of directly.
About 100000 Of the bequests will be
found exempt. A number of close
questions are likely to arise in the
case. For instance. when the bequest
OF Mrs. Callahan to the Home for the
Aged, was administered, the tax was
paid, and Mr. Callahan was one of the
executors. Later the home recovered
it is IL charity, tho it is only semi-public
in nature.
A strong effort is to be made to Sc
cure Gov. S. r. Van SAINT, of Mime
sofa, for a speech in Des Moines before
the close of the campaign. The gov
ernor is understood to be desirous of
addressing meeting here. He has
a warm spot in his heart for Iowa. and
If he should come here, he would be
able to draw big crowd and say
some thing of interest. The governor is
not doing much in the Minnesota cam
paigll, where tho reactlonary elements
have selected the candidate for gov
erno,- and many prominent republicans
are refusing to support him.
The late "Pansy" Hopkins. who died
at sCenton, s. D., was for many years