The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-17
NO MORE EMBALMED MILK.
City Food Inspector Says 1t Is Thing
of the Past.

There will probably be no embalmed
milk scandal in Topeka this summer.
Conditions have changed since 1903.
According to City Food Inspector J.
w. Farnsworth, the day of the small
independent milk dealer in Topeka is
about over. The man who ''pailed' half
a dozen bovines in the dim light of the
dewy morn, and sold the product on
a milk route" is likely to become a
thing of the past, and the day of the
embalmed tactical fluid a fading mem
DRY.
The thing which has put the small
diaries out of the retailing business is
the development of the pasteurizing in
dustry in Topeka. Now the dairy farm
ers sell practically all of their milk to
the pasteurizing plant at wholesale,
and the pasteurizing plant does the de-
/ livering to consumers.
Topeka will never have cent milk
again, said Food Inspector Farms
worth. THE price is now cents for
pasteurized milk, and 1 suppose that
nearly all of the milk sold in Topeka is
pasteurized. Some of the men who are
own delivery wagons, but their bust
ness has fallen off greatly. l think
! there are not more than six or eight
| Independent dairy routes in town. I
/ notice that one dairyman who still runs
his own wagon, and who claims that
| his trade is as good as ever. sells a
/ big can of milk to the pasteurizing
plant now. whereas he used to have TO
buy milk to supply his customers
There are two full fiedged pasteur-
/ izing plants in town. One is run by
j. z. Nissley's company. which does
| most of the business of the city. The
other is run by o. Z. Walker, who
\ has n sort of private concern west of
/ town, where he pasteurizes all the
milk from his herd of dairy cattle.
| Several other dairies which are con-
Il Il tad
and from which the milk sold is just
| as good as milk can be, are still doing
| a good business in Topeka. But the
| indications are now that the day of
| impure milk is about past. Topeka
will probably not have such trouble
with formaldehyde and preservaline
as it has had in the past.
1t may be that the strict milk ordi-
| nance passed last March by the city
/ council has had something to do with
| the downfall of the Independent milk
| dealers This ordinance was drawn
/ with great care to prevent the adulter-
alton of milk. and the use of all kinds
I of preservatives.
1t provides for a system Of rigid in
| spection of dairies. The punishment
/ for selling SKINNED milk instead of
unskimmed. and for putting formalde-
/ hyde and other chemicals in the milk
! to prevent souring is a heavy fine.
/ There are some well posted milk ex-
/ perts who consider that it is well nigh
/ impossible for a dairy farmer who
/ does not have ice or some effective
artificial means for cooling milk to
retail his product without using some
\ sort of preservative to keep the milk
\ fresh in the hot summer weather. The
milk man who begins his rounds at
| about o'clock in the morning prob
ably does not get through till noon.
/ and by that time, some of his morning
milk is almost ready to sour. 1t is
1 this condition of affairs which led to
the extensive use of Dreservatives-
| Pasteurized milk. on the other hand,
will keep for Sc hours in a room Of or
binary temperature, or in the hottest
weather by putting it in the cellar. No
/ ice is necessary for keeping pasteur-
/ lied milk. and for this reason it is real
! ~ the cheapest kind Of milk for a great
many people to buy.
Food Inspector FarnswOrth will with
! in a few days begin his June inspec-
4 ton of the diaries of the city. TIE new
1 city ordinance provides for four in
spections year. This is the first in
| spection made under the new ordinance.
and Immediately following it. the
/ licenses good until next December will
/ be issued. The ordinance provides for
\ the issuance of licenses in December of
each year. The milk dealers are re-
quired to come in and register in No
vember of each year. and the first in
spection is made in December If ev-
erything is found to be properly con-
Quoted at the dairy. the license is is
sued by the food inspector. But the
license can be revoked at any time