The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-28
FOR ADAIRY PAPER
One Is Proposed by the Com
missioner.
Would Give Commissioner
Medium to Reach Producers.
A MEETING is HELD.
Secretary Crumbine of Board of
Health PrOffers Help.
Food Inspectors Used to Look
After Diaries.

| Kansas may have an official pape
| devoted to the subject of dairyins
| This is one of the innovations pro
| posed for adoption by the new STATE
| dairy commissioner, H. C. Kendall, a
the meeting of the state dairy com.
| mission held Thursday at the Office O.
! F. d. Coburn.
The need of newspaper devoted t.
| official information from Commits.
s1oner Kendall to the milk sellers o.
the state was mentioned and EN-
phaSized by a committee of half q
dozen of the leading creamery men OF
the state, who attended the meeting
and expressed their views on how the
work of the commission might best
be carried on, and what can be done
to improve the quality of Kansas but
ter.
All Of the creamery men thought
that the only way to raise the butter
standards of the state would be to
educate the farmers to take better
care of their cream.
I'VE can't do it, said the creamery
men, because when we try to get the
dairymen to be more careful in
handling cream, they think we are do
ing 1T to make a little more money.
And the competition between the buy
ers for different creameries is such
that we can't turn down cream which
doesn't come up to a given stand
ard"
The representatives of the cream
cries offered to pay the cost of print
Ing paper to be edited by Mr.. Ken
dali, giving to the farmers official in
formation over Mr.. Kendall's sig
nature concerning the care of cream,
and the improvement of the raw ma
terial from which Kansas makes its
butter.
Some of the creamery men sue-
gested that the dairy commission
should establish definite grades for
cream. and fix things so that the
farmer who brought in the best
grades should get the best price But
other creamery men said that such a
grading system would curtail the pro-
ductfon of cream, which is just what
the creameries want to increase.
Crumbine Offers Help.
DR.. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the
state board of health, and chief food
inspector for the state, attended the
meeting, and when it was pointed out
that the new dairy commissioner was
given no assistants, or inspectors, with
which to see that the Operators at the
THE state has given to the food in
spection department a number of in
spectors, and 1 am willing to CO.
operate with Mr.. Kendall in every way
possible to help his work. If our in
spectors can be used by Mr.. Kendall in
his, work, I will be glad to give him the
benefit of their assistance
While the food inspectors are travel
ing from town to town looking after
the groceries and manufa curing
plants, it is part of their business to
inspect the sanitary condition of the
creameries and skimning stations, and
their work can therefore be easily
broadened without much extra expense
to do the work needed by Mr.. Kendall.
The state of Iowa has four inspectors
in it's dairy department.
Those present at the meeting toda y
were H. c. Kendall. the dairy commits
sioner who will take office of July /,
Prof Oscar Err of Manhattan, Prof.
J. T. Willard of Manhattan, and F. D.
Coburn, secretary of the state agricul-
tural society. Besides there were the
representatives of the creameries and
dairying interests.