The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-05
GOOD milk AFTER
January FIRST
City Dairy Commissioner Gives
Farmers Time to Make
improvements.
SOME LAUGH AT THE LAWS
ZIG CONCERN INsTRUcTs SHIP
PERs TO IGNORE WARNINGS.

thousands Ct gallons Of milk VII be
excluded from the Salt Lake market
after the first Of the year, unless the
farmers who ship here make improve
ments at once" said the city food and
dairy commissioner yesterday.
"The city ordinance has been IN ef-
feet for several months now, ana has
been given much publication through
the press. There is no excuse for q sin
Gle farmer in the state not TO know
what are the requirements in Salt Lake.
They viii have to live up to them or
their milk will be refused. I viii send
out orders right after the first OF the
year closing salt Lake TO all who neg
iect to comply with our rules.
81 have made dozens of trips during
the summer and fall to diaries in Salt
Lake, Utah and Davis counties, in
structing the farmers on what i'm
provements must be made and what
care must be taken in preparing their
milk for Salt Lake. In Salt Lake and
Utah counties, as a rule, the farmers
have taken an interest in the better
ment Of the supply, and have spent
thousands Of dollars in improvements,
but in some parts Of Davis county, es-
pecially at Layton. they pay no atten-
tiCm to what have said.
'This matter has gone far enough,
and at the end of the month 1 propose
20 take steps. After the first Of the
year no milk will be allowed in Salt
Lake for which permits have not been
issued from this office If a farmer has
only one or two cows, and sends milk
TO some central station in Salt Lake, he
must receive a permit based upon the
condition of his cows sheds and meth
DDS. The fact that the central station
IS clean and sanitary viii not be enough.
The milk will have to come from good
Scores Of 50 Points.
1--WE have insisted upon a score OF at
least 80 points, as outlined in the gov
eminent reports. OF course, if dairy
comes a few points below this and there
IS an apparent effort on the part Of the
farmer to deliver good milk and do what
the ordinance says, he viii not be de-
MED the right to ship milk to salt Lake.
But ia many instances our orders
have been unhee5ed in every particular.
I have Just finished a round Of the
diaries at Layton, and find them TO be
in bad condition. No Improvements
have been made, the barns are generally
in a frightful condition, and viii close
the local market to these people unless
improvements are made. l have given
them more than six months now, but
nothing has been done. It may hurt
some Of these places to deny them the
right to sell milk in salt Lake, but 1t
Will help the man who is trying to do
he right thing. When the others find
they cannot ship milk here without
making Improvements, they will likely
get busy And after a permit has been
denied, I will make it a point to see
that radical changes are made before 1
allow the farmer to ship milk.
Most Of the milk from the Layton
farmers is sent to the salt Lake dairy,
and I have instructed this company
that the farmers will have to improve
their conditions, or I will refuse to allow
the milk to come into Salt Lake. The
farmers too. have been instructed for
the last time It costs too much time
and money to keep telling them about
this thing, and then see them laugh at
your instructions.
Dairy Defies Law.
"Word has come to me that at least
one Of the large dairy companies has
sent out quiet instructions to farmers
who ship to it to not pay attention TO
instructions which have sent out. This
company has told the farmers, so am
told that they need not improve their
conditions, but that their milk viii be
received in Salt Lake Just the same.
We viii see about that. There viii be
q good many surprised farmers right
after the first OF the year. We can keep
the milk ont Of salt Lake if the ordi-
nance is not complied with, and I will
not allow this milk TO come in from
unclean diaries after the first Of jan
uary.'
The scoring OF the small diaries at
Layton was most disappointing to the
food and dairy commissioner. as all fell
far below the so points required by or
dinance. The Salt Lake Dairy company,
IT Is said, is doing everything possible
10 improve the conditions and have the
farmers take up better methods.
The company is now building a re-
ceiving station on the Bamberger road
at Layton which is a model, according
to the food and dairy commissioner, and
but for this the farmers would get al
most no score at all. The scores are
as follows: D. B. Harris, %; A. II. Ad-
ans. "a; e. Wiggle, p; J. II. Adams
27: ]. l. Adams. %. j. King. "a: T.
Green, %: S. Z. Simmons. p; d. Sim
mons. 20; J. S. O'Brien, 26, and Joseph
n. Morgan, "a.
A. II. Adams is building a new stable
and making improvements which will
likely bring his score up to standard.
The city commissioner says the others
are doing nothing.
s22.5o Coats al $500.