Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-01-11
FOR BETTER
WISCONSIN CHEESE
COMM SSloNER EMERY POINTS
WAY TO IMPROVEMENT.
CLEANLINESS IMPORTANT
Purity of Milk and all Materials and
in Manufacture Fundamental in
Bringing Product of High Quality
Address Before Convention In
Milwaukee.

Milwaukee, Wis, Jan. 6.-Before
the convention of the Wisconsin
Cheese Makers association yesterday
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
j. Q. Emery delivered an address OF
much interest and importance. HIS
theme was What Must Wisconsin
Cheese Factories Do to Improve the
Quality of Their Product?The address
follows:
THE first thing necessary to be
done by Wisconsin cheese factories to
improve the quality of their product
is to recognize the need for improve
ment. When every cheese factory i'll
the state shall recognize that there is
a distinct need for improvement, a
very important step in the way OF
progress will have been taken. First,
then, say, let every factory recognize
that there is need that it improve the
quality of is cheese; not that it reco
nize that some other factory should
make improvement, but that it should
itself improve the quality of its own
output.
Let the owners of factories, which
factories have survived their useful
ness and are no longer fit to fe useo
as place to manufacture a food prod
uct for the public's table tear those
factories down and IN their stead. con
struct, on suitable sites, new and up,
to-date factories, In the construct on
of all new cheese factories. let only
such sites be chosen as furnish opn0r-
tunjty for suitable drainage and other
sanitary cond tons. Let every chees.
factory that can not be removed
reasonable distance from pig-sties.
barn yards or other nuisan IS, be torn
down. The business of cheese-making
in Wisconsin is sufficiently important
AMI remuneratiye to afford suitable.
up-to-date plant.
Let cheese factory owners see to
it that their factories are equipped
with such appliances as will enable
the cheese maker to keep the factory
in a thorous , clean and san tary
condition and to manufacture a cheese
to meet the highest demands of the
best markets. Then let them employ
only such makers as can fulfill the
above conditions and then demand
that those conditions be met. Let
them pay such competent cheese max
ers a reasonable compensation for
their services, and enable them to
maintain a decent and respectable
standard of living; and let them fur
nish them wholesome living rooms
outside of factories. No principle or
economics is more fully established
than that the standard of living af-
f3cts materially the quality of service
re 1dered
Let the cheese makers see to It
that they themselves and that all the
factories in the state are, at all times
kept IN a scrupulously clean condition.
and thus furnish an example of neat
ness to patrons. Let them obey the
letter and the spirit Of section 4. of
chapter 81, laws of 1903 which is as
follows: Any person, firm or corpo-
ration who operates a creamery CT
cheese factory shall maintain his prem
ises and utensils in a clean and SAM
tary condition.
LET every cheese maker obey sec
ton 3, OF chapter 81, laws of 1909,
which reads as follows: NO person.
firm or corporation shall knowingly
manufacture for sale any article Of
food from unclean or unsanitary milk,
or cream from the same Let him
use persistently the Wisconsin curd
test to determine the quality of the
milk offered by patrons BY means OF
this test, the clean character Of tie
milk offered can be as unerringly de,