Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-23
Iowa and Her Neighbors Get
Together For Uniform En-
forcement Of Food Laws
OFFICIALS WORK IN HARMONY
Dairy and Food Commissioners and
Chemists Agree on Plans Regarding
enforcement and Exchange Of Re-
ports on AnaIyses-Meetine Hold in
st. Paul.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 23.-North and
South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois and Iowa have gone into
combine on the pure food law. 1t Is
proposed by the pure food and dairy
commissioners of the six states to ad-
minister their pure food laws as near
Iy uniform as it will be possible in or
der to accomplish the best results.
When the state laws were passed the
grocers fought them, Mt least the
wholesalers. on the claim that the mat
ter should be taken care of by ma
tional law so as to be uniform.
II. r. Wright, state food and dairy
commissioner, has just returned from
St Paul, where the food commission
,ers of the six states held a conference.
The wholesale grocers complain that
when they fix label for one state
1t is found that it will not fit another
state and that the shipping clerks
sometimes make mistakes and ship
goods intended for Iowa to Minnesota
and Minnesota goods to Iowa and
trouble follows.
At the meeting In ST. Paul 1t was
agreed to work in harmony and make
the requirements as nearly uniform as
possible to do under different laws All
Of the states require that there shall
be no deleterious substance In the
food and the commissioners have about
reached an agreement as to what Will
be considered deleterious in all the
states Further meetings will be held
to care for other matters as they
arise.
Furthermore the chemists Of the
states will work in harmony and eacn
state get the benefit Of the work OF the
other states. 1t has been discovered
by the chemist of the North Dakota
commission that wholesalers are put
ting alum into pickles, mustard ana
horseraddish. The chemists are un-
able to explain it. Alum is prohibited
In other foods but 1t was never sus-
pected that they would put 1T In these
things for there no known reason for
so doing. The North Dakota chemist
claimed the manufacturers could give
no reason and he hence inferred that
they were so in the habit of putting
something in that when other things
were ruled out they put in alum be-
cause 1t was the handiest they had.
The commissioners decided to prohibit
its use.
Iowa business men who have been
Il re-
reciprocal demurrage bill. They claim
that the law works in theory but NOT
in practice. In Texas the law mas
been in force for some time. It Is
rarely made use of by the shipper
however, because the shippers have
found that the railroads dislike the
law. Consequently when shipper
does take advantage of the law In an
effort to get car the railroad Will use
up the limit of the law OF six days be-
fore turning the car over for use. 1t IS
claimed that at times the railroad Will
have a car which it could furnish long
before the six days are UP but If the
/ shipper makes the statutory requ1sltlon
| for car they will not let him have it
| till lust before the expiration of the
| time. In other words they use the
privileges of the law as club over
the heads Of the shipper to keep him
from taking advantage of the law.
Shippers will rarely take advantage OF
the law except in very extreme cases
| because they feel that they stand
better chance to get the car in h'1r-
nv if they do not. In any event the
railroad has the advantage.
| When the rifle range fixtures are
completed at the new state camp
grounds and rifle range north of Des
Moines, 1t will be one of the finest
in the United States. 1t Will be as
| long as any and will have all the
facilities. The greatest regular dis
| tance at which the range can be used
for the full range will be 1000 yards
| but for special target practice for
greater distances a part Of the range
can be used up to 1,400 yards. That
is the farthest that there Will ever be
shooting with rifles. That is more
| than three-ouarters Of mile. In ad-
! dition the range affords extra targets
for pistol shooting, which can be used
at the same time that the regular rifle
| targets are in use.
It is learned that the State Agri-
cultural College is making some in
vestigations along the lines of tuber-
| culosis in cattle and that the college
| will be prepared to take such action
as will result i'll greater stringency
| in the enforcement Of the laws against
tubercular cattle. This action will re-
suit In great benefit to the state.
| The Thirty first general assembly
| passed a law that provides that cat
| tie shipped into the state OF Iowa for
| breeding purposes must be considered
| in a state OF quarantine Immediately
| on their arrival until tests have been
made by the state veterinarian. 1t Is
understood that very little attention