Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-28
State Board OF Health Drops the
Plan as Too Expensive to
the Public
MORMON TRAIL ACROSS IOWA
Historical Department to Mark Route
of Flight Of Band Across State -
Iowa Joins Mississippi Valley His
toricat Association - Plans Coop
erative Work.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

Des Moines, Oct. 2S.-Certified milk
at Sc cents quart. Can Iowa stand
it?
This is q question that the Iowa
state board OF health discussed at its
last meeting. The state board has on
numerous occasions taken up the ques-
ton Of pure milk supply for Iowa.
The fact that tuberculosis Is more
prevalent in the dairy districts Of nor
thern Iowa than in the southern,
where there is less milk to drink, is
we'll known to the state board. Re-
vinced that tuberculosis comes from
milk.
AT the las meeting of the board
the question OF having nothing but GER
tiled mix sold was discussed. New
Iork has certified milk. One or the
members CT the board asked II the otn-
ers knew just wnat that meant ana
when they were told that it meant no
milk sold for less than So cents a
quart the subject was speedily
cropped.
Before milk is certified to by the
board of health in New York every
cow is tested for tuberculosis. They
are tested ever SO often to be sure they
don't get it. They are given an anti
septic bath evehy few days to keep all
the germs off them. Furthermore the
stables in which they are kept Is made
anti-septic, the water the COW drinks
is boiled and then acrated and the food
the COW is given is inspected regularly
and rigidly supervised. Then the sci
entitic men are not real sure that the
.hilK is pure so the milk If Dasteurized.
The cans and bottles and pals into
which the milk is put are boiled reg
ularly after each using to be sure they
are anti-septic and when all these pre-
cautions are taken the scientifice men
pronounce the milk harmless and =
certificate to that effect is attached to
the bottle. But all this costs money 80
the milk man has to charge 36 cents
a quart.
The Iowa state board Of health Is
afraid that the people of Iowa would
rather have tuberculosis or not drink
milk than to pay 36 cents quart. At
future meetings they will seek for
some other method of guaranteeing
pure milk.
Edgar r. Harlan, assistant curator
at the historical department, is going
to take up the proposition of marking
the Mormon trail across Iowa. But for
a mere coincident in the history and
literature of the country the Mormon
trail would be as conspicuously dis
played in the literature of the country
as is, the Santa F'e trail and other
famous routes across the country be-
fore the time Of railroads. When Mark
Twain went across the country and
wrote up his trip he went up the Mis-
souri, in boat as far as possible and
started from Omaha. Others who re-
counted their travels In literature Of
the early days started from Kansas
CITY, Because of the Missouri river
they all got past Iowa before they
started.
But the old Mormon trail is as i'm
portant to the history of the country
as INe odIle re ltdl VI any OA sAS
others and immigrants by the hum
dreds of thousands passed that way.
Lately the other trails of the country
have been marked by monuments and
markers 1t is the desire that the
Mormon trail be marked in the same
manner before the exact route Is lost.
Iowa has joined with other states in
the formation of the Mississippi VAL
ley Historical Association, which was
formed at Lincoln, Neb., last week
The states of Missouri, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin
and Kansas are in the association and
it will affiliate with the American
Historical Association. The intention
is that the association will assist mem
bers in searching for historical data
and exchange duplicates and the like
SO as to make collections as complete
as possible. 1t is quite frequent too
that one state comes into possession Of
historical relics and other things that
are Of greater value in some other
state. These are exchanged.
EsTHERvlLLE ENTERPRISE SOLD.