Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-11
Looking For Trouble? Then En-
gage in rhe Creamery Business
in The State of Iowa
"ovER.RyNn AND MUCH WATER
Government Inspector Surprises Some
Concerns by Telling Thorn They Are
Losing Money, and Why-More Ex-
pert inspectors Needed to improve
Quality Of Iowa Creameries.
,ecial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des MONIES. Nov. lift you wish
man" This is the way the creamery
men of Iowa feel about it ut least.
About the time II creamery is salts
fled that everything is running we'll it
is informed that it Is not having
lenough "tWer-run" and when 1t gets its
'over-run" fixed up, along comes u
government internal revenue collector
and "pinches" the place for putting In
too much water, and there is fine
and government license, all of which
foot up to about $1,000 or so.
"Over-run' is Greek to the layman
but very essential TO the profits OF the
creamery. One hundred pounds of but
pounds or butter. This is due to the
fact thai. there is some water in but
ter and some salt and some other
things. The government allows 16 per
cent wafer in butter. IL there Is more
the government brands IT as adulter-
ateds butter and the creamery must
take out a license for making adul-
I.terated butter.
/ b. d. White, formerly of Minnesota,
but now of the dairy division OF the
department of agriculture. is endeav-
oring to make life easier for the
creamery man and to assist him in
/ making more and better butter To
this enl some OF the creamery men
make reports to him monthly. Some
times they get letters back telling
them they are losing money. One
| creamery got a letter telling that it
was losing over $1,000 u month be-
cause of not enough "over-run" and
the butter maker was paralyZed with
fear. At times, however,. the failure to
| have "over-run' is more imaginary
| than real and it is later discovered
1 that the real reason was that the but
ter maker is not putting in enough
water and again in error in making the.
| test OF the butter fat Tests some
times show more butter fat in the
cream than there really exists
One creamery in Iowa was found to
be actually losing 500 day thru err
ror in making butter by allowing the
butter fat to go off in the butter milk
and skinned milk. The cry of the
creamery men is for more expert in
| spectators which would aid in increas-
ing the good reputation of Iowa but
! ter.
An extremely sensational article
| charging all sorts of cruelty at the
st.N1
Pleasant. Ia formerly, appears in
the current number of the Physical
Culture magazine, published in New
York.
| The article is anonymous as all
such attacks always are. The editor
says that he vouches for the truth of
the statements. The state board of
control will institute an investigation
as to the truth of the charges and as
| to the personality of the author and
the responsibility of the magazine and
the writer Of the article.
| No dates are given in the article but
the person who writes 1t says that he
| has been employed in a large number
of hospitals, enumerating eight alto
gether, and now is in New York in
similar employment. 1t is quite ap-
parent that the times he refers to are
prior to the assumption Of the control
of the state institutions by the board
of control.
After a general discussion of the
subject of brutality of hospital attend
ants, the author of the sensational ar
ticle gives Instances in eastern insti-
tutions of the death Of patients thru
abuse by keepers Turnout the arti-
Gle he alludes to himself and attend
ants as keepers and to hospitals as
asylums which leads to the belief that
his service has been of the old-time
variety when brutality was a rule in
the care Of insane, and which passed
years and years ago in Iowa, especially
with the administration of the board
of control.
"The condition of things described
| by the writer cannot be possible. now,
at any Iowa hospital" said John
Cownie of the board of control, when
his attention was called to the sensa-
tional article in the magazine yester-
day. 1T is true that we have in
stances in which attendants have
shown incompetence for their work,
and these people have been dismissed.
When an attendant gets out of pa
tience with insane persons 1T shows
unftness for the work, for they are
as irresponsible as children and must
| be so treated. When we have found
an attendant who was not fitted for
the work we have discharged him.
The board has been gradually seeking
to supplant male attendants with
women They have better control over
patients and treat them on the whole
with more consideration, naturally.
The women who are engaged in the
work now in the Iowa hospitals are
pleased with it. The women in all of
the hospitals are attended exclusively
by women.
'"The board of control visits each of
the institutions monthly. Under the
law patients may make complaint per-
sonally and by letter to the board.
Many of these are made, of course,
and each one is carefully investigated.
The insane are not afraid to make
their wants known. The board has
kept careful scrunity of the manner
in which the institutions have been
managed, and it is impossible that the
things charged by this man could have
occurred within the last ten years to
the extent described.
1T will be the purpose of the board
to make a thorough investigation of
the charges made, however, and the
magazine and the author will be