Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-01-14
PREACHED BY STATE COMMITS
SIONER EMERY.
AT CHEESEME MS MEETING
Head of Wisconsin Dairy and Food De-
partment Makes Address at Conven-
ton in Miiaukee Explaining Laws of
Sanitation and Declaring He Will
Enforce Them Fully.

Milwaukee, Wis, Jan. S.-Dairy and
Food Commissioner J. @. Emery pro-
claimed the gospel of cleanliness to
the cheesemakers yesterday, urging
that they use scrupulous care in max.
ing their factories always clean and
sanitary. He explained the new state
laws on this subject and declared that
it was the determination of the state
dairy and food department to
theoretically enforce the laws. His
address was in part as follows:
Il am sure it would be more agree
able to all present, Il instead of
speaking of the law, could have been
assigned the duty of proclaiming the
gospel of cleanliness in Wisconsin
cheese factories. That cleanliness is
next to Goodness, is an old and
familiar maxim. In it's application to
cheese factories, | am of the opinion
that it would not be too much to say,
that cleanliness is Goodness. am
quite sure that the cheesemakers who
ones who most need instruction as to
the laws relating to cleanliness in
cheese factories. The cheese makers
who never attend the meetings of this
association are the ones most needing
such instruction. Perhaps some of
these will be reached through the
volume of your published proceedings,
70 nv in
spectors and possibly by the con-
stable.
That scrupulous cleanliness in
cheese factories, their floors, walls,
watts, pipes, cheese-makers, in the milk
received and mode of manufacture is
absolutely necessary to the highest
quality of the product is matter of
common knowledge and general as
sent. In theory, it has been so long
and generally admitted and in
practice so much neglected, that the
Legislature of the state no doubt con-
cluded that a law with adequate
penalties for it's violation might
doubtless be made to contribute to the
securing of so necessary and profit
able condition, and chapter 67 of the
laws of 1903 was in consequence
enacted"
The commissioner quoted the laws
and explained each section. Con-
tinuing he said:
"The first section of this law is in
tended to reach the dairymen who pro-
duce the milk or cream for delivery
at creameries, cheese factories, city
milk supplies, etc. Section 2 is in
tended to reach the same class and
also all persons who sell or deliver
milk for sale or consumption to
cheese factories, creameries, etc. 1t
is the purpose of section 8 to make it
imperative upon the operators of
cheese factories, creameries. ETC.,
that they reject from their factories
all unclean or unsanitary milk. The
law is evidently intended to be
stimulant to spinal columns. If the
cheese factory operator allows I'M
clean or unsanitary milk to go into
his cheese product, he can not shift
the responsibility upon the patron,
because the law places it upon him.
Should he plead ignorance as to the
quality of milk he receives, he is to
be reminded that through the use of
the Wisconsin curd-test, taifis in
milk from filth or other causes are
readily detected. The legislature evil
IDENTITY intended by this act, calling
into use as it did, the exercise of the
police power of the state. to protect
the great consuming public against
filthy and unsanitary food products,
Incidentally it's effect is to improve