Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-11
FIRST RECORD OF BIG CON : ms
OF IOWA SOON TO ss
COMPILED. 2
DIRT IN MILK IN IOWA
NO LONGER TOLERATED
Dairymen and Shippers Being Prose.
euted for Disposins Of unclean Dairy
Observation-Disclosures Wright to
Wage Campaign All Over tho State
-Pure Food Agitation Growing.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Molnes, June 11.-Secretary OF
State Hayward is preparing to send
out June %. 1900 notices to corpora
tions in Iowa, notifying them that un-
der the new law they must In July
make report of their business to the
secretary of state and pay an annual
at the office of the secretary that there
will he about 5000 live corporations in
the state. This will result in the small
annual fee bringing to the state treas
urer $4,000
The companies are required by the
new law to tell In their report the
name and address of the corporation
and whether the name has been
changed during the past year the
principal place OF business. a list of
the officers and directors. the amount
of capital stock. designating tho pro-
portion of common and preferred,
This will be the first time record
has ever been secured In the state OF
the membership OF the various cor
porations and the officers, with the diff
ferent proportions of stock 1t will give
some interesting statistics regarding
the commercial development of the
state. The law requires these reports
to be made TO the secretary in July.
The law, which was passed by the
Thirty-third general assembly, became
effective on publication.
Dirt will no longer be tolerated In
milk in Iowa. The fact that 1t is mud
dy weather and pastures are over
flowed. will not excuse the milkman.
There must he no dirt in milk. State
Dairy Comim ssioner, n. r. Wright has
Just caused the arrest of A. Terry, a
milkman of Des Moines, and O. H.
Brunner. OF Granger, n dairyman. Ter
ry was found with dirty milk In his
possession He explained 1t was Just
the way he bought 1t from Brunner
The dairy commissioner caught some
of Brunner's consignments at the In
terurban station and found dirt in the
milk. He has filed information and viii
prosecute Drummer. AT the dairy COM
wet muddy weather was responsible as
the cows get in the mud Explanations
count for nothing" said Mr. Wright
MILK must be clean. You should wash
your cows before milking" So both
will be prosecuted. MIR. Wright says he
will wage the campaign for clean milk
all over the state all summer and ev-
cry man discovered selling dirty milk
will be prosecuted people should re-
fuse to buy milk, when they find sedi-
ment in the bottom of the bottles" he
says. There is always more dissolved
in the milk than Is In the bottom"
DIR. Paul koto. state veterinarian, Is
laying his initiatory plans for the es-
tabishment of state labratory near
Des Moines this summer for the man.
ufacture OF hog cholera serum to be
distributed free of charge to farmers
thruout the state. The law providing
the establishment Of this laboratory.
passed by the Thirty-third general as
sembly last winter, becomes effective
July 4. 1t carries with 1t an approprl-
alton of $4,000 All this amount. how
ever can not be placed in a laboratory
as portion will have to be retained
to buy animals with which to manu-
facture the serum.
This will be an interesting exper-
iment station in Iowa. The serum af-
ter made is tested on guinea pigs to
ascertain the strength. The operation
of innoculating animals, extracting the
blood. then extracting from 1t the
serum, the testing of the serum on
other animals, all will go to make an
interesting process which will prob
ably be inspected by every stock raiser
that comes to the capital city. AS yet
location for the laboratory has not
been made. 1t will be near the city.
Pure food agitation Is going to
eventually settle down TO the question
Of sanitation" said State Food and
Dairy Commissioner Wright, in COM
| menting onaconditions. 1.-THE pure food
laws have done marvels in bringing
about purer food. The work of the de-
partment is growing smaller all the
time with reference to detecting harm
full preservatives and the like in foods
One Of the chief developments will he
In inspecting foods to prevent dirt. We
will probably in the future secure strin-
gent laws along this line. am sure
we will when the people awaken to a
consideration OF what they really are
eating. What we need is a law COW
ering methods employed In bakeries.
meat markets. etc, and the the wagons
used to deliver the goods. have seen
deliverymen wipe the perpiration from
their face on their coatalheve and then
load up the same arm with bread that
was sold and served on tho table. New
York has some stringent laws on man.
agement and operation of such places.
Iowa will have them but the advance
ment can not all be made at once.
People are demanding purcr. cleanc,
food They viii get more stringent
laws as they realize conditions exist
ing"
Sugar Down 10 Cents.
New York, June 1i.--Ail grades of
reAned sugar were reduced 10 cents