Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-31
DAIRY. PURE FOOD
AND OIL COMMISSIONER
Submits His Biennial Report to Commits
sion. of Which W. 6. HOWE is
President 1t.

matter of fact l have not had the
time TO spend IN connection with
weights and measures that is prob
ably intended by the law. l have
been furnished by the state COM
plete OF tilt of u. S. Standard
weights and measures, consisting
of Troy, apo.hecary and avoirdu-
pois weights, lineal, liquid and dry
measures.
of avoirdupois weight and COM
bined it with my work as Food
Commissioner.
AS State Dairy, Food and Oil
Commissioner have condemned the
following list of illegal goods:
Baking powder for want of prop
er label, 20 cases and 500 cans;
dried and evaporated fruit on ac-
count of being worniy, 1872 pounds;
jams containing illegal preserva-
tiv-s, in case lots, 10 cases and
$50 cans; tomato soup, 10 cases
AMI 1913 cans; tomato catsup, cas-
es and $50 bottles; imported French
peas, 90 cases and 10 cans; Mara
schino cherries, 854 bottles; sugar,
colored cake sugar, 27 pounds;
syrup, improperly labeled, a cases
and 70 cans; extracts, improperly
labeled, bottles; fruit cookies, i'm
properly labeled, pounds; cheese,
improperly labeled, 1872 pounds !;
: | vtN
: 3e2 pounds; spoiled meat in butch
er shops, 1924 pounds; minced
ham, 647 pounds; Goldfish, 90 cas-
: es and o64 pounds; vinegar, 81
barrels; meat preservatives found
in butcher shops, 20 different
brands, aggregating os3 pounds.
The French peas and meat pre-
scrvatives were confiscated and
with few exceptions, were de-
stroycd.
We have at present "a crcamerics
and cheese factories in actual opcr-
alton within the state and 10 that
are not running on account of a
lack of milk and cream.
These "a crcamcrics produced
about o76, 700 pounds of butter,
. which sold for an average price of
24a cents per pound, making a
total of $241, 500. In addition to
:. the above there was shipped out of
u the state about 500, 900 pounds OF
cream to be made into butter, cheese
J and ice cream. There are a great
many small cheese dairies in thf
q state and the output of these cheese
dairics together with the cheese
: made at the cheese factories and al
- the crcamcrics amounts to about
" $40, 900 pounds. Amount of but.
" ter made in the state or as near a:
can be asccrtained, 2,700, 00(
II pounds; amount of butter consumed
u annually 4, 100, 600 pounds; butter
shipped in by retailers 900, 22(
pounds.
: have tested 147 samples o
u milk with the Babcock milk tcstcl
~ andf ound it averaged 4.O1 per cent
'o butter fat. l have found very littl,
.olcomargcrinc or renovated butte
! in the state and what l hav'
= found has all been properly labcle'
and stamped.
The following is an aggregate o
:, the amount of ham, bacon, lard
:, etc., as nearly as can be ascertaine'
from reports of wholesale houses, t
IS be redistributed, shipped into tn
: state in 1906:
10 Ham 10, I'll, $50 pounds; bacoi
is 2,242, $50 pounds; dry salt por
"a 542, SIS pounds; lard 1886, 20
30 pounds; butter 400, $50 pounds
Il. cheese e4s, 600 pounds; eggs 61, 90
&c dozen.
al One wholesale house sent in
very good and complete report an
es as it is all products that can an
n should be produced in this state
s, except the raisins, deem it Of in
ny portance enough to give it space.
IS, Ham 221, $50 pounds bacon 227,
in O55 pounsd; lard los, 400 pound:
tie butter 1877, 600 pounds; cheese So,
nd 600 pounds; canned meats 2, 80
d. cases canned peas 80 cases; car
e ned fruits $500 cases; canned bel
Ter ries 500 cases; canned tomatot
IRE 5000 cases; canned corn, 700 case.
ed beans 225, 600 pounds; eggs 90, OC
ed dozen; dried and evaporated fruit
/ raisins and currants $40, OC
lid pounds.
he We have but one canning estal
n 1ishment in the state and they ser
90 in the following report, which
.pt deem quite a creditable bushes
ne Cor a small plant: