The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-24
IS GIVEN A SHOCK
Milk Inspector Slips Up ON I'm
suspecting Farmer.
Watches While Water "Acci-
dentally" Got Into Milk.
is LET OFF EASILY.
Released After a Promise to Be
More Careful.
Fruits of DIR. CampbeII's Early
Morning Drive.
is LET OFF EASILY.

City Milk Inspector DR.. d. NJ. Camp
Dell has been keeping his team busy
the last two weeks inspecting the milk
in the country before the farmers COM
mence their "pailing." The other morn
ing Professor Wilson, of the State Ag-
ricultural college, was in the city look
ing over the office and implements of
the city milk inspector and in order
that he might watch the process with
little understanding he accompanied
DR.. Campbell out on one of his early
morning trips. 1t happened to be the
trip to the A. ]. Owens farm, a few
miles north of North Topeka. The two
experts arose long before daylight and
drove through the cold crisp air to the
home of the farmer in question-but
they did not come too soon as the farm
er and his wife were just putting the
finishing touches to their ingenious pat
emit of making five gallons of milk out
of four gallons. This is an art above
the usual performance of the magician
and still one that any and almost every
Kansas farmer and dairyman has used
on and off the stage ever since the COW
was invented.
When the two officials arrived at
the farm house 1t was still dark and the
kitchen door, together with large sized
hay burner" threw enough light on
the scene to follow out the clews and
witness the daily manufacture of the
NillSu6Q WdIGT-Cdll6Q milk. MI.
Manufacturer was just following the
well beaten trail from the barn to the
Well when the two men drove up. They
stopped the team outside of the rays of
light and, unnoticed, they watched the
exhibition If the innocent COWS stand
ing in the barn could have seen what
happened that morning they would
have groaned with disgust at the mutt
lati0n of their private product. The
farmer carried the milk to the farm
well where the Mrs was busily engag-
ed in the profitable task of skimming
the milk of the night before and pour
ing it into the cans that would soon
be on their way to the thirsty Topekans.
The milk merchant arrived at the well,
dumped some of the milk in a nearby
can-which had mysteriously been Civ
and the daily duties were finished. |
Then with a sigh of satisfaction the |
farmer and his wife walked arm and |
arm into the house to eat some of the |
butter-au from the profitable disposal |
of the water cured milk Mr.. Campbell !
and Professor Wilson advanced at this |
stage of the game and with a peculiar
bell informed the farmer of the things |
he had seen.
Needless to say it was the same old |
story. The farmer had been washing |
out his milk cans and by sudden slip
of memory forgot to empty the water /
and poured the precious milk right in !
upon the damp substance, little sus-
pecting that there could be such an |
accident" The Swimming deal was
first questioned and then admitted but
with promises never to do it again. The
farmer said he never SKINNED his milk
of course he didnt-his wife did it
for him. Owens was arrested but re-
leased on his promise to be careful
But there is one consolation for Mr..
do this kind of thing. 1t has been
neglected in Kansas to such an extent
that the farmers have lost their con-
science and allowed things to drift on
1t does not hurt milk to in
sert little of the H20 but it is cheat
ing the consumer-and still, what we
don't know won't hurt US" Since the
new milk inspector has been in Office,
however, the farmers have been having
a hard time to get back to the original
methods of obtaining milk and They'll
learn that the COW is the only
permissible milk fountain after all. DR..
week who was formerly a saloon
keeper in Topeka. He has been in po-
lice court SO many times and has had
so much experience with the former
he simply held up his
hands and said: Yes. sir. 1 am guilty
what is the fine?'' But the time has
passed when a plea of guilty will let
the city inspector made this plain to
him. He gave a number of we'll con-
structed excuses and promised that heI
would never enter the territory of the
family COW again. His milk is being
watched in order to prove his asser-
tons.
Such are the experiences of the Off
cial milk inspector. Long before the
commence their daily yells.
DR. Campbell has his team hitched and
is spinning toward the farm yard of
some suspected farmer. No one knows
In what direction he Will go and no one
knows when he is in sight. He travels
under the protecting shadows of the
early morning and his horses steal up to