The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-03-30
lis Rep,r Will Not Be creditable to
Herds Hereabouts.
BARNS ARE IN FILTHY CONDITION.
Section Of Late Made Statute Which
the Milk Dealers Should Read
Over Very Carefully.

Mankato, March 24.-TO the People OF
Mankato: | wish it were possible fol
me to say 81 have the pleasure of max
ing this report" but owing to conditions
[ must say instead shat it becomes my
duty to report the conditions of the
dairy herds and barns from which the
milk supply of Mankato is brought"
Under direction of the dairy and food
department and by request from the
board of health of Mankato this inspec.
ton was made.
To say the least 1 was greatly sur.
prised to find some of the herds and
barns kept in such filthy and unsani
tary condition and knowing as l do the
impossibility of getting nice, clean, pure
sanitary milk from dirty cows kept in
poorly ventilated and dirty barns, ]
shall endeavor to have those that come
under this head either cleaned up or
I shall enter complaint and bring prose
cution.
| Following is an extract from the new
law governing this most important sub.
| ject, and any violation of the same is
punishable by a fine of not less than
SIS nor more than 500:
Section 6. Impure Milk and Cream
No person shall sell unwholesome or
adulterated milk or cream.
Milk or cream that has not been well
colled and aerated, or to which preserv-
atives of any kind have been added !;
milk drawn from cows kept in a crowd
ed condition or in places not well ven
tilated or lighted, or which from any
cause are filthy or unsanitary, or from
unclean or diseased cows, or those fed
with distillery waste, brewery grains,
waste of vinegar or sugar factories, gar
bage OF decayed substances in any FORM
eXcpent ensilage from silos properly
lnanaged milk drawn from cows with
in fifteen days before, or five days af-
ter giving birth to calf; and milk or
cream which has been kept in or near
stables where any animal is housed, or
in any building attached to such stable,
or in any place where bad air exists.
and cream taken from unwholesome or
adulterated milk, shall be deemed un-
wholesome and adulterated within the
meaning of this chapter.
Milk from which any normal consti-
tuent has been distracted or milk con-
tanning any substance not normal con-
stituent thereof, or more than eighty
seven per cent of water, or less than
thirteen per cent of milk solids of which
at least three and half per cent shall
be fat, and cream in which there is less
than twenty per cent of butter fat or
which contains any foreign thickening
or coloring substance or any abnorma,
ingredient whatsoever, shall be deemed
adulterated; nor shall any article of
food be manufactured from unwhole
some or adulterated milk or cream ex
cept as herein provided.
No person producing milk or cream
for market, or exchange or for manufac
turing the same into articles of food
shall feed mich cattle any distillery
waste or brewery grains or the waste
of vinegar or sugar factories, or gar
bage or any substance which is decayed
and unhealthy.
Some of the herds and barns were in
good condition but those that were not
had better get in line at once, as | have
been directed by the commissioner to
make another inspection in the near fu-
| ture, and at that time the report will
be published in full, yours for pure
milk, J. c. Joslin, inspector dairy and
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