Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-06
New Iowa Pure Food Law
Likely to Affect the Quality
of Iowa Butter
PENALTY FOR SPOILED CREAM
cresmerymen Who Have Bcen in Habit
of Purchasing Spoiled Cream and
Using it in the Manufacture Of But
ter-Unclean Practices to Be curbed.
Other News of Interest.


Des Moines, July 6.---Iowa butter
which has a good reputation abroad is
TO gain - still greater reputation II the
new law which went into effect July
Fourth and the efforts of the state
dairy and food commissioners depart
ment to enforce the same are effective.
Stiff competition among creamery men
in the state has heretofore operated
to force them to buy amy kind Of cream
use of the machinery cream separators
turnout the country. some of the cream
is unfit for use in any article of human
food and as a result some of the butt
ter made in this state has not been
of the quality calculated to make the
state famous. Now there Is law in
force fixing n penalty both for selling
and for buying for the purpose of man
ufacture any cream that is unclean, un-
healthful, adulterated or unwholesome.
The enforcement has been placed upon
the dairy and food commissioner and
Commissioner Wright said today that
he would not inspect cream and then
advise its return when found not up to
standard. but would proceed to invoke
the law on the first case that he dis
covered.
Manufacturers of cream separators
have been in the habit of persuading
farmers and farmers wives to buy the
machines. According to Commissioner
Wright the machines are all right IL
they are washed in boiling water every
time used To wash any Of them
takes several hours and the thrifty
housewife rebels at spending a few
minutes in Swimming her cream with
"A hand separator and then spending
an hour in washing 1t. AS result
she runs some water thru it without
taking it apart and cream that Is not
washed out spoils. The next cream
that is run thru is spoiled by that that
sticks to the separator from the first
using and this process continues. The
old fashioned ladle skinner insures
the best buttet. The law cannot en-
force it's use but 1t can enforce the
use of good cream IN the manufacture
of butter for th Nrket
Not only is the separator oper-
ating against Iov credit In the but
ter market of tn tion, but farmers
do not like to take their cream to mar
ket every day. AS a result Of the fierce
competition between creameries some
will take the cream when It is several
days old. BY that time 1t is spoiled.
Carloads of cream reach this city every
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which will be from one to several cans
of cream which IS frothing out the tops
of the cans, the cream being in state
Of ferment. or course relatively there
is but small per cent Of the farmers
wives who will use unclean cream sep
arators or who will keep cream sew
eral days before taking it to the
creamery or shipping it to the CEN
tralizing plant. But these few who do
do such things hold down the reputa-
ton Of the entire state for good but
ter.
The law heretofore has been against
selling such cream but it is difficult
to enforce such law against farm
err when the creamery man to meet
competition Is telling the farmer white
lies to the effect tina. his cream is all
right. During the last session of the
legislature an amendment was added
to the law fixing a spenalty on the pur-
chaser ofsssnch cream with a view to
converting it into an article of human
diet, as well as on the person selling
it. and this penalty is not less than
$25 nor more than 500 with liability
for double damages to the person de-
fraudet!.
The government At Washington is
lust now engaged in experiments with
Iowa butter as to Its keeping qualities.
1T is claimed that the climate and grass
Of Iowa are the best for butter there is
in the world. Iowa has as good a
chance to be famous for butter as has
Holland, but the avarice of man has
been operating for some time against
the gaining Of this reputation by the
human trait Of palming off an inferior
article on the theory that the other fell
low will not find 1t out. The other fell
low, however, has always found 1t out.
Iowa cannot make good cheese because
of the lack of spring water and the
proper climate, but 1t has been demon
strated that it can make the best but
ter there is. The experiments of the
department at Washington Just now
are being diaacted towards testing the
keeping quality of butter. The best of
the butter made in Europe can be melt
ed and CONCEALED and melted and con-
gealed several times and is just as good
after the last melting and congealing
process as when first made. Some Iowa
butter is now being put to this test to
determine it's keeping qualities. Dairy
Commissioner Wright believes that the
possibilities Of the Iowa butter market
have no limit and proposes to enforce
the law to the letter for the benefit of
the future Of the market Incoming
trains at every big creamery town are
being watched closely and poor cream
will not only be condemned and dump
ed out but the person who sold 1t, and
the person who bought it subjected to
a fine of from $25 to 500.
AS the new law is of vital interest to
every person who is supplying cream to
any creamery it is here given in full:
From Chapter 10. Title "a, Code.
Section 1889 Sale of impure or
SKINNED milk-skimmed milk cheese
labelling purchase Of unwholesome
milk or cream.-If any person shall
sell, exchange, or expose for sale or ex-
change or deliver or bring to another,
for domestic or potable USE or to be
converted into any product Of human
food any unclean, impure. unhealthy,
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