New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
HOW AN INSPECTOR WAS FOOLED.

sometimes Wnen the inspectors visit dairies
they find the farmers fully equal TO the emer-
Eency and no nunlskulls their own ground.
Zone day one OF the departments inspectors
brove up 10 the home OF a dairyman in West
hhester County. The owner came down to the
gate to meet the stranger.
How are ye stranger" he exclaimed in a
tsospitable manner. Anything I can do for YEP"
Il am milk inspector from the Department
ef Health, and have come to examine your
farm" replied the stranger
Why, certainly. sh'u'd be glad TO show We
Ground: Jest wait I'll I get a coat in the house
Hnd I'll take ye round. Want TO look a little
Gecent ye know, when you gents are round
s5est tie your horse at thet post and I'll be right
Dut" With this the farmer disappeared inside
fhe house. He was gone only a moment but
aetween the time he disappeared from the view
Sf the inspector and his reappeerance in a coat
elis wife:
Milk inspector outsidel" Jerking his thumb
hoWaro the WINDOW Tell the boys 10 clean
mp the barnyard while keep him moving about
ahe place
',Now. Inspector" he said, as he stepped ont
fcf the door, IF ye've got your horse tied ri
fake you first TO the place where We pasture the
COWS and show you how We water 'em Then
Vel work our way round the pastures back to
1he barn"
IAN right that VIII be a first rate PLAN" the
anspector replied
on they started. They wandered across the
soelcs until they came TO the stream where the
cattle daily dipped their moist noses They
ltraced their way through several pastures and
lSbout half an hour later, following the deeplv
eV'orn cowpath, they reached the BARNARD and
stable. There was certainly nothing TO COM
plain Of regarding the condition Of that bsrn-
iSard and stable! "The boys had done their
E~ork thoroughly, and. like the Arabs. stolen
sway. Everything was IN apple pie order. and
karner on the excellent care he gave his dairy
l1t was not until some time later that he learned
how he had been fooled
Apparently less milk IS now adulterated than
Sornerly. This is thought 20 be due 10 the stiff
zines which have been imposed lately Accord
sng 10 MI Atkinson, where 33 per cent of the
samples brought in by inspectors last year were
iRdulterated, only 10 per cent now show anv
Rdulteration. He declined to say exactly what
hAe percentage Of this was milk and what
oream. He said. however. that as SKINNED and
iwatened milk are classified as edulterated the
percentage Of specimens OF milk found TO be
fHduterated considerably exceeds that of
cream. Cream, he says. IS sometimes thinned,
ep5 then thickened by the addition OF gelatine
starch.
II IS difficult TO locate the point where the
milk Is edulterated. for the department IS not
empowered 90 seize IL before II reaches the city
u could be ta1npered with by the farmer, at the
Ieoeiving and shipping station OF the wholesale
dealer in the country, by the latter at Jersey
City. before IL wes brought across the river or
81 this city, or by the retailer. The retailer
seems 20 be the who most frequently has
70 suffer. Doubtless he IS not always the one
who has done the tampering. but like the per-
Bon who surreptitiously passes counterfeit coin
which ne did not make and whose maker he
does not know, he is guilty OF giving currency
are not above adulteratfng milk when they have
a. opportunity is evident from the recent dis
ccvery by inspectors Of quantity Of formalde-
HYDE Ia locked room at the creamery IN Bloom
tng Grove, Orange County, conducted by the
metropolitan Milk and Cream Company.
Where Is the milk adulterated?" said a dairy
man Of Orange County last week 10 q Tribune
representative. "I'l tell, and tell you straight
There are 900 or ], 700 cans of cream coming
in on the Erie Railroad, say. What becomes OF
the sldm milk? The farmer doesn't get IL. He
hes 10 take his milk to the shipping station Just
as II comes from the COW. II must contain It's
maximum OF butter fat. You drive up TO the
creamery and you hear the humming OF the