Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-11
Iowa Wholesale Grocers Getting
Ready to Comply With Its
Provisions
HELP IOWA MANUFACTURERS
Believed That the Law Will Work to
the Advantage of the Manufacturers
of Food Products in This State =
Retail Merchants Will be Safe in
Buying Iowa Products.

Des Moines, April 11.-Iowa whole
sale grocers and manufacturers are
preparing to comply with the new pure
food law recently passed by the leg
islature and which goes into effect in
part July of this year. 1t is having
it's influence on the manufacturing and
jobbing business already.
1t provides that all goods purchased
or received by either wholesale or re-
tail dealers of this state prior to July
/, 1906, shall be exempt from provis-
ions of this act to July 1, 1907. This
gives opportunity to the grocers to sell
the present stock on hands before the
law goes into full effect.
The fact that the jobbers have bust
ness in adjoining states where no pure
food law exists will not only make it
possible for them to sell some of the
articles which would not pass muster
In Iowa to outside trade, but they will
be compelled to keep certain popular
selling brands in stock to supply this
trade.
he GIleCl vi lIle XIV OIl uOWci
featuring products in the food
line, it is believed, will be stimulating.
Retail merchants will realize that they
will be safe in buying Iowa products,
for the close supervision maintained by
the pure food commission will keep all
Iowa products up to the standard and
make it very dangerous for an Iowa
manufacturer to adulterate. Pure food
laws which obtain in other states adj
joining Iowa, especially in Minnesota
and Nebraska, make 1t mandatory for
the retailer to handle only pure food
products and they too will be looking
to the product Of a state where pure
food laws obtain.
This condition is being recognized by
the eastern canning factories where
corn is canned. These eastern fac
tories have been using an ingredient
known as saccharin for bleaching, so
that the corn will meet the popular de-
mand for white corn. According to
Mr.. Rupert Baxter, prominent Maine
corn packer, who has just returned to
his home in Boston after trip thru
the west, they are going to give up
this practice.
| The wholesale grocers in the middle
west, especially in the Missouri valley,
have announced that they will not han
die canned corn unless the cans bear
the stamp "This package is prepared
in. conformity with the provisions of
the pure food law" AS result of
this stand, thousands of cases OF can
ned corn are still in the hands of the
packers unsold, and, under prevailing
conditions-a glutted eastern market
and low prices-a heavy loss threatens
producers.
''The day Of bleacfer and saccharin
has gone by" said Mr.. Baxter recently.
"Jobbers are so afraid Of trouble be-
cause of the agitation over pure food
and pure food legislation that they will
not handle food products unless there
is a reasonable guarantee of immunity
from interference by officials. This ac-
ton has really been forced upon the
jobber by the retailer, the latter finding
such a sentiment among consumers
against the use of the bleach and
sweetener that he has been compelled
to refuse to handle anything except the
safe article"
w. j. Pilkington, publisher of the
Iowa Trade Journal. believes that Iowa
manufacturers will profit by the law.