The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-15
Milk Inspector Meets Dairymen
on Their Way to City.
Has Many Samples of Milk to Be
Tested.
COUNC1LMEN'S RUSE.
Took Their Wives to Late Meet
ing of Council
To Show Reason Why They Staid
Ont Late Nights.
RUSE.

The milk dealers who dive outside or
Topeka will have to find a new road by
which they can enter the city and de-
liver their milk to the stations and
creameries, or else they will find it nee
essary to take more care with their
milk and give it good record at the
Office of the city milk inspector.
Every morning D. NJ. Campbell, the
city milk inspector. watches the milk
men as they enter the city and stopping
them in the middle of the road he de-
mands a sample of their product, cho-
sen by himself and taken in behalf of
the city. No more questions are asked
and nothing more is heard of it unless
enough to have a COW who is afflicted
with the dreaded tuberculosis or who
possesses a wife who does not wash the
milk bottles properly. Today DR. Camp
bell is testing 40 samples which he
procured from incoming farmers and
milk dealers and before the day is over
he will have made the complete test and
rendered his judgment. If all is well
he lets it go as such. If something is
the matter he writes the dealer concern
ing the circumstances. If the dealer
fails to pay any attention to the mes
sage of the milk inspector Police Judge
s. S. Urmy is given the honor to con-
fer with the gentleman who conducts
the white fountain of youth-and the
milk law comes into effect.
In his report to the city council Mon
work of his department since it has
been put into effect much to the sat
isfaction of the council
At the present time. DR.. Campbell re-
ports, there are but 1000 COWS register
ed with the city clerk and he estimates
there are $500 such animals that are
furnishing the city with milk. There
are many reasons why the registration
is not complete. First. the registration
of their cows is new requirement for
milk producers and some of them have
delayed doing it waiting to see if the
city really means business. Second,
dairymen were asked to register only
the COWS giving milk at the time of
registration. This was at the season
when the number of COWS giving milk
was lowest of any time in the year. An
other thing some of them thinking that
they might sell their cows and thinking
that some of them would soon be con-
demned for tuberculosis. delayed the
registration. Third. the registration has
been largely voluntary on the part of
the producer because the city inspector
has been engaged in giving the tuber-
culosis test ever since the first of Oc-
tOber. Fourth, on account of the mag
nitude of the task of beginning this in
spectlon and because the Continental
Crea merry company is selling milk In
the city at this time. However begin
ming the first of January the whole
matter will have been completed and
every COW taken into account. Some
people kick on the price of registration
and at the same time many of the pro-
gressive dairymen in the state are
paying more for the tuberculosis test
alone than the entire cost of the To-
peka inspection.
The Topeka inspector has been great
ly assisted in his work by the hearty
cooperation of the Dairyman's Asso-
citation of Shawnee county and by the
officers and members individuality
The tuberculin test has been admin
istered to % herds of cows by the To-
peka inspector, aggregating about 500
animals. Thirteen per cent of these
were condemned for dairy purposes
ken and recorded. Thirty diaries COM
prising about $50 COWS have been scored
according to the official score card for
Kansas.
The inspection of milk sold on the
streets and from milk depots grocery
stores and restaurants has for want of
time received very little attention from
the city inspection department 1t has
been deemed that the cleanliness of
the diaries and the health of the herds
is of first importance The milk itself
needs the first attention-and the water
after.
DR.. Campbell has suggested to the
council that the city milk inspector
needs an assistant, and needs one bad.
For instance, none of the milk sold on
the streets or in grocery stores is
watched by the department. 1t is nee
eSsary to take samples every day from
the dealers and test them for germs of
various kinds. This cannot be done
long as the inspector is out among
the herds giving them the tuberculosis
test and keeping the diaries in good
condition. This has to be done in or
der to make the original source one of