The independent., 1907-02-07
FAVORS THE DAIRY MEASURE
s. C. Bassett Tells How Ii Will Be"e"
fit the State.

CTRRON Neb.. Jan. 3O.-To the Ed
for of The Independent: There has
been introduced into both branches Oh
the Nebraska legislature dairy COM
mission bill known as house roll NO
1856 and senate file No. 1879 The pro
visions Of this bill were thoroughly
considered and discussed at the last
annual meeting of the dalrymen as
sociation. at which were present more
than 200 dairymen, and the bill was
unanimously approved and recon-"
nended for enactment into law: This
measure provides for the creation OF
n dairy commission because 1t Is be-
iieyed that the value and importance
of the dairy industry to the people OF
the state (an industry representing an
investment of more than twenty mil
lion dollars, see statistical map in l905
report of Nebraska dairymens asso-
citation, which report may be had on
application to the secretary warrants
the establishment of such a commission
with power to enforce the dairy laws
Of the state; under the provisions OF
the bill the governor would be the
dairy commissioner but the deputy
commissioner and four dairy inspec
tors must be appointed on the recon-
mendation of the professor of dairy
husbandry at the state university and
the officers of the state dairymen'S as
sociation; this is required in order that
the working force Of the commission
shall not only be familiar with the
dairy industry but also have practical
as we'll as scientific knowledge of test
ing cream and milk. This bill makes
it unlawful to sell, or manufacture into
butter to sell, milk or cream which is
unclean or that has been kept in un-
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The proper enforcement of such a law
will prevent the dairyman from selling
cream which is unclean and will also
prevent the keeping of cream, at cream
receiving stations in undesirable sta
tions in undesirable places sucn as
| the store room of some grocery store
surrounded by onions, fish, oil or rotten
vegetables and then manufacturing
| such cream into butter to be sold at
a low price to the great detriment of
the entire dairy industry. 1t will be
the duty of the dairy inspectors to in
spect places where milk and cream are
produced and kept and to see that the
law is complied with; improvement in
the quality of cream means improve
| ment in the quality and price of
creamery butter; a better price for
butter means a better price paid for
cream and if by inspection and the
education which naturally goes with it,
it is possible to improve the quality o.
cream sold so that it shall bring one
cent more per pound for the butter
fat which 1t contains than was paid
the past year, this increased price
would pay ten times over the annual
expense of the dairy commission.
Perhaps the most important provi-
sion of the bill is that relating to the
testing of cream, with good reason
there has been more dissatisfaction
connected with the testing of cream
than any other feature of the dairy
business: while the dairymen of the
state have been selling. annually, fifty
million pounds of cream there has ocen
no fixed. established and legal method
for testing cream although all cream
was tested Tor supposed to be) and
paid for on the basis OF the pounds Of
butter fat which II contained This
dairy commission bill not only pro-
vides a legal method for testing cream
but IL does still better: II provides
that before any person can engage In
the business of testing cream at any
| place where cream II bought and sold,
| he must first pass an examination 10
/ determins that he In qualified To do