The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-01-18
City Attorney DALEY Is Pre-
pairing Ordinance.
FOR MILK SUPPLY INQUIRY
Fargo Plan Will Probably Be Follow
ed; Council is in Frame Of
Mind to Act.
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
City officials were busy today on the
matter of preparing an ordinance for
the inspection of dairy herds and the
milk supply of the city. City Attor-
ney Daley, Health Officer Edwards and
Aid. Atchison were all busily engaged
in the work, going over the ordinances
in force at st. Paul and Fargo, n. d.,
and the provisions of the state law for
the eradication of disease among cattle.
The Fargo ordinance is an admirable
one, although somewhat expensive to the
city, and Aid. Atchison believes that the
same thing can be accomplished in Man.
kato at less expense. If its provisions
are enforced it will fully protect the
milk consumers, whether they be pa
irons of a dairy or buy their milk from
a neighbor who has cow.
The Fargo ordinance provides that
owners of dairies must take out IL
cense before they can sell milk or cream
within the city limits. In taking the
license they agree to abide by the pro-
visions of the city ordinance. The license
fee is $l.5O, and the city recorder keeps
record of the licenses. The mayor
appoints milk inspector, who is to be
a veterinarian who is graduate of a
reputable veterinary college, and who is
to receive 500 month and give bond
for $1,000 for the faithful performance
of his duties.
The inspector is to inspect all diaries,
both the manner in which the cows are
kept and fed and the manner in which
the milk cans and other utensils are
kept, and is to test the cows for tuber-
culosis and other diseases. Each animal
is to be tagged in a permanent way aft
er having passed the inspection. Cows
that are to be deemed unfit for dairy
purposes and removed from the herd are
those that have diseases accompanied by
fever or due to septic absorption either
following or accompanied with partiru-
abscess or those accompanied with per-
sistent diarrhoea. The inspector is to re-
port to the city recorder. The cattle adj
ded to the herd are to be inspected at
| once.
The inspector has power at any time
to inspect and test any cows in the city
from which any milk is sold, but where
the cows are owned in the city there
are to be no inspection fees, but where
cattle are tested outside of the city
limits, and which furnish milk for city
consumers, the owner is to pay the act.
ual expenses of the inspection. The
owners of single cows who furnish
milk to not more than three customers
need not take out licenses, but their
cows must be tested the same as dairy
cows.
The inspector is to inspect the milk
and cream sold in the city, and no one
shall sell milk or cream from a cow or
dairy nerd, the animals in which have
not been subjected to the tuberculin test
for tuberculosis within one year pre-
Viously.
The licensee is to notify the inspector
of any contagious or infectious diseases
that exist in proximity to the place
where the cows are kept or the milk or
cream is kept, and 10 seller of milk Is
to permit any person afflicted with such
diseases to 60 near the milk cans or to
handle the milk or any utensil used. No
impure, unwholesome or adulterated
milk or cream is to be sold or offered
for sale. The conditions surrounding
the milk production must be clean, and
the conditions shall be considered un.
clean when cow is MIXED within if
teen days before or after parturition,
when the cows are fed on distillery or
other unhealthy food or watered with
polluted water. when kept i'll crowded
or unhealthy conditions, when the at
tendants are afflicted with or exposed to
contagious or infectious diseases, OF
when taken from COWS suffering from
any disease.
The penalty for violation of the or
dinance is fine of not to exceed $50
or Imprisonment for not to exceed ten
days, or both.
There are number of other provis-
ions, all looking to the cleanliness and
wholesomeness of the milk, aside from
these outlined above.
Aid. Atchison believes that milk In
spector can be gotten who will devotsS
a part. of his time to the work for $2rs.
a month.