Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-17
Iowa's Creamery Business Hand
icapped By Lack OF Sufficient
Inspectors to Do Work
ONLY TWO IN ENTIRE STATE
Creamery Men Complain That Their
Work is Necessarily a Farce--Ad-
joining States Have Eight and Nine
The Menace in tuberculosis in Live
stock.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-R Republican.
Des Moines. Sept. 17.--lowa's dairy
business is handicapped b. the lack of
inspectors. Iowa has two inspectors
where Minnesota and Wisconsin have
eight or nine. Creamery men COM
plain because the creamery inspectors
do not inspect. They want the in
spectors to visit their creameries and
remain a week, as they do in other
states To do that would require ten
years to cover the state of Iowa with
the present force of two inspectors,
for there are $50 creameries in the
state Yet it is that kind of hlspec-
ting that is booming the creamery bus
mess in other states.
In some Of the creamery journals the
question is being asked: What is.
the matter with Iowa?" ard it is being
claimed that it is behind other states
when 1t ought to rank ahead OF them.
The inspecting that has made Min
nesota, Wisconsin and some other
states boom in the dairy industry is
done by sending an inspector to
creamery for a week. fIe goes over
the creamery, and if there are any
Weaknesses he points them out. Then
he goes out over the territory that
supplies cream to the creamery, and
with the authority of a state official
tells the creamery patrons the neces-
sity Of certain treatment for the
cream. 1t must be kept cool and must
be delivered to the creamery each day.
Patrons are prone to keep 1t several
days, so they will not have to make so
many trips to the creamery, and are
not prone to use ice in summer. Fur
thermore, not all creamery patrons
keep the cans clean and dirt lowers
the quality of the butter made from
the cream.
The creamery business always booms
after an inspector has visited 1T In
that way. The public likes to have
things from officials. Eut with only
two inspectors in Iowa, it is necessary
for them to give their attention closely
to running down violators of the law,
and they are busy about all the time
with that.
The last two sessions of the legisla-
ture passed q number of important
bills relating to the creamery business.
1t provides punishment for those VINO
fail to keep their milk pals and pans
clean. 1t provides penalty for US
ing spoiled cream in making butter.
1t also provides that all skinned milk
shall be pasteurized. There are COM
nIaints that this last law Is being vio-
lated
1t is claimed by scientists that hu-
mans get tuberculosis from cattle and
hogs. The hogs get it from the cattle,
because the hogs are fed on tne
SKINNED milk from the .creameries 1t
is a custom for the patron to take
milk to the creamery, where the cream
is separated and the patron takes the
SKINNED milk back and feeds 1t to the
hogs and calves. 1t is rot pasteurized
and If any Of the cows have tupercu-
losis the disease is thus rapidly spread.
Since the milk is all mixed together,
if one COW has tuberculosis it is about
as bad as tho they>all had 1t.
Secretary Thomas, of the state board
Of health, believes that the statement
Of the committee Of the state board,
made in its report published yesterday,
that tuberculosis is the most serious
contagious disease in the state ana
rapidly becoming menace to pubic
health will do great deal OF beneht
because it will arouse the attention OF
the public to the methods and means
of combating tuberculosis.
If tuberculosis were contagious dis
ease such as typhoid fever or cholera,
striking it's victims down suddenly,
there would be public clamor for i'm
mediate radical steps to put an end to
the trouble. But Tuberculosis creeps
on so quietly and it's means of propa-
cation are SO secretive. that the punlc
does not seem to become alarmed IN
the least till some loved member OF the
family is recommended by the family
physician to seek milder climate"
and then too late the patient is sent
away not to be benefited.
Secretary Thomas is convinced that
the most effective means Of stamping
out tuberculosis is to stoy ,uberculo-
sis in cattle and swine an to stop the
habit of Americans to s,pj n every COR
ner, on street cars, on cps, in public
places generally and even in their
homes.
The committee of the state board
of health appointed to conduct an in
vestigation has made partial report
hut will continue the Investigations
and will conduct tests Of cattle in
every section of the state. The report
was made public yesterday iii the pub
lication Of the Iowa Health Bulletin.
In it the committee states that one Of
the worst troubles is the owners OF cat
tie. When $40 COW Is discovered to
have tuberculosis the owner looks at
the loss of that $40 as horrible ca
lamity and tells what a lot of milk the
COW gives. OF course the loss Of $40
COW is serious blow to most dairy
men, but If the COW is not promptly