Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-05
Frazier FINDS
FILTH IN MILK
City Food Inspector Rounds Up
UncIean Diaries and De-
Iiyers UItimatum.
PREMISES MUST BE CLEANED
otherwise, He Threatens, Permits to
Dispense Their Product VIII be
Withdrawn from Offenders.

City Food Inspector Frazier found,
upon tour Of inspection yesterday,
three diaries where filthy conditions ex-
list in an extent that is truly alarming.
In one or the four diaries inspected he
found conditions almost ideal, but III
the others he has warned the proprle-
l,tors that il they did not mend their
ways he will close them up and with
draw their permits. The only good dairy
found yesterday was the Meadow Farm
dairy, conducted by George Guest. This
is a new dairy and the score was 52I.
points. The minimum number OF points
allowed by law which will permit the
continuance of a dairy Is As. The other
three places fell considerably under
this.
Probably the worst place visited yes
aterday, If it is possible to pick any with
good points out of the lot of three bad
ones. was the North Star dairy con-
Quoted by Mrs. Annie Berg. Mr.. Fra
zier regrets that the conditions found
there exist, because Mrs. Berg is i,
widow and is probably not so much 4 t.
fault as others, whose circumstances
would more readily admit Of improve
5lnent. Filth, the accumulation of years,
was found in the milk trough. This
trough is also used to water the stock.
The barn is crowded and the cows have
been milked in this filthy place which is
little more than a pen. Bad doors
stihed the inspector and the. milk was
allowed to stand until strained in the
midst of these unsanitary conditions
without a cover Flies. dust and other
disagreeable substances were falling
into the milk. The inspector has told
Mrs. Berg thatif she will milk her cows
in the open air and place covers on the
milk, keep the cows clean and provide
a, more sanitary drinking place for.
them, She viii be permitted to sell her
milk pending the Improvement of con-
4 ditions In her COW stable.
FILTH DROPS INTO MILK.
Dirty boys milking dirty COWS and the.
straininE cloth SO clogged with flies,
dirt. hair and filth that the milk would
hardly pass through 1t, sums up the
conditions found at Howe sBrothers3
dairy Just out OF Murray, according to
the score card of Mr.. Frazier. The COWS
ave all good on this dairy but three,
and these have varying affections
which drew comment from the inspec-s
TOR He has advised this dairY that i
must milk In the open air, cover the.
milk cans and clean, up generally on
main of withdrawal of its permit to sell
milk in this city. The score wa 8 81 =:
points. or 1879 points under the require
ments of the city ordinance. s.
Horses, chickens, pigeons and cows al
{mingle in q happy family under a root.
sheltering with them breeding, place
for vermin and an abiding place for an.
aflor5 that Is revolving, all coupled WIZ
z a. swishing of liquid filth beneath the,
sdecaying boards of the stable floor when
one treads about at the COW barns OF
the Family Dairy conducted by. Mar
croft Brothers This place scored 26
and the product is selling. al - quarts
for a dollar Just without the barn Is
manure pile which is the accumula-
ton of ma ny years, and a visitor to the
place yesterday in company with = :
spector Frazier declares that when the
cows get tired they might easily lean
against the fumes from this ancient of
fal heap TO rest. Through the cracks
in the floor offensive filth oozes and
swishes about with every tread of the
foot, emitting an odor that assails the
nostriI with such ferocity That the in
truder seeks hasty escape from the
place. The same demands have been
made at this place as at others. and
unless it complies, Inspector Fra zier de-
clares that he will close 1t up.
NOT ASKING TOO MUCH.
",rhe people of this city should be
willing to pay 81 for IL quarts OF milk
up to the government standard, as We
reauire,,' said Mr.. Frazier today. For
il the people realized what they have
been drinking for the past years, they
would not drink or use milk in any
form unless assured that the conditions
.,I,t re, lar, RI, con-