Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-13
PURE STUFF
WARNING GIVEN 10 CLEAR THE
STATE OF IMPURE DRUGS
AND FOODS. B

Il Grand Forks Herald: Dealers in
whisky and patent medicines through
out the state should take pains to see
that their stock is cleared Of all kinds
Of unlawful goods before March %,
for On and after that date Pure Food
Commissioner Ladd and his assistants
will institute an active campaign of
law enforcement. For number of
weeks Prof. Ladd and his staff have
been kept so busy instructing the $50
students who are studying chemistry
at the A, G. that they have had little.
time to travel over the state and make
Investigations, but before the last Of
this month the winter term at the A.
e. will close, and then their hands
will be freed and they will be able to.
give attention to the strict enforce
ment of the pure food law.
Prof. Laid is not only planning a
very active campaign Of law enforce
ment, but he has several other mat
tiers before him which will be taken
up and pushed vigorously during the
coming spring and summer. He ex-
poets to begin some important expert
ments and investigation into the
chemistry of North Dakota soil, which
may lead to valuable results.
During the past few weeks, Prof.
Ladd and his assistants have devoted
what little time they could spare
from their college work to preparing
the machinery which is to be used in
the denatured alcohol experiments,
and they are also making arrange
ments for the erection of the expert
mental seed mill, the erection Of
which was provided for in a bill
which recently passed the legislature.
At the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Paint Grinders
81 900 was donated to the local ex-
pertinent station, asking that it be
used by Prof Ladd in making expert
ments with various paint compounds.
The paint manufacturers hold that
sublimed white lead, silica and other
similar chemicals are just as good ma
terials for the making of mixed paints
as the genuine white lead, and they
have asked Prof. Ladd to make the |
tests with view to determining Whe-
there or not their contention is correct.
The association has agreed to abide
by his decision. whatever it may be,
and should he find that these ma
teria1s are not as good as regular
white lead, the use of the chemicals
will be discontinued at the factories.
This would have an important effect
on paint manufacturing Prof. Ladd
has been notified that the sum do
mated is now available, and he will
begin his experiments shortly.
One thing which is very pleasing to
he officials at the local experiment
station, and particularly to Prof Ladd,
Is the fact that the bill which was
introduced in congress by
Congressman Marshall provides for
national paint law modelled after the
North Dakota law. The bill was intro
duced too late in the session to be-
come a law. but Congressman Mar
shall accomplished his object in get
ting the matter before the national
law-making body, and he will push it
at the next session of congress.
Other states are following North Da-
kota in this respect. Thirteen state
legislatures have passed pure paint
laws this winter, and eleven Of this
number are patterned after the North
Dakota law.