The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-14
BARNARD STATES
BEER VERY PURE
Says BreWeries Are Most
Sanitary Plants in the
United States.
ARE EXAMPLE TO MiLKMEN
STATE FOOD AND DRUG COMMITS
sIoNER DOES NOT ADVOCATE
DRINKING BEER, BUT HE PAYS
IT COMPLIMENT.

indianapolis. Aug. 14.-H. E. Bar
nard. state food and drug commission
l. err, does not believe in beer drinking
not on your life. He does not ad-
vocate it, nor does he advise people
to drink beer. But he does point to
the breweries as the most sanitary
and clearly food producing place in
the country. He says bottled beer is
the only real pure. sanitary food pro-
duct that is on the market in any
form.
This may seem strange. but Mr..
Barnard believes the food producers,
especially milk and butter men of the
state would do we'll to study the sani-
tary management of breweries. He
proposes to impress on the milk and
butter men when they meet in this
city soon in their annual meeting, the
fact that diaries are too dirty, as they
are operated now. and that the dairy
men could learn much in cleanliness
from the breweries.
He Gives Advice.
THE milk and butter men of Indi-
ana ought to go in a body and visit
the breweries of this or other states
said Mr.. Barnard. lin order to see
how clean a food producing establish
ment may be made. The brewers. in
order, to protect their trade have been
compelled to resort to the cleanest
and most sanitary methods of produc-
ton, until it is a fact that the clean
est and most sanitary food on the mar
ket now is beer. The trade in this
article has been fraught with so much
Opposition that the manufacturers
have resorted to cleanliness as an ad.
vertising feature, and they have made
it pay. Then, too. the product of the
brewery is a perishable article of ex.
ceedingly short life unless it is pre-.
lpared properly and cared for until it
is consumed.
1T is in the breweries that the SAM
tation has been brought to as near a
perfect condition as is possible in a
food producing establishment. The
water used in the material is all dis
titled, the hops and malt are abso
lutely clean before being allowed t
enter into the manufacturing process
the watts, pipes, etc, are not merel.
washed, but are scalded and thorough
ly sterilized before being used; thu
! bottles before being filled are thor
oughly sterilized by being washed il
caustic soda. And If that were no
enough, when the beer is placed in TIL
bottles it is pasteurized by being rul
through hot water. which would xii
every germ that might have escape
!. the warfare conducted against it Il
the process of manufacture. The pei
son who opens a bottle of beer j
O assured absolutely that what he ha
before him is product absolutely fire
from germs and perfectly clean. 1t l
c also true that he may know that h
r has before him almost the only man,
: featured food product which is know
=, to be absolutely pure.
!. Economic Measure.
r But the dairyman seems to believ
s. that it is not necessary for him TO tax
It any such precaution as has been tai
1t en- by the brewer. He ought to b
put up against the odds which hay
or NduSCu tiC ia C"V1 W duOpI
s. surroundings as an economic measure
AS it is. he draws the milk from til
10 COW into pail which has been mer
in ly washed, and in lukewarm water an
a. not too clean water, at that. The mil
,e is then placed with out proper pr
e. cautions for killing the germs contai
L. ed therein. into bottles which ha,
id also been merely washed in wat,
er through which many bottles have bee
washed. The bottles are then sol
re and if not used at once the milk b
IN gins to spoil. a thing which never ha
r. pens to beer unless the bottle is ope
" ed and the contents exposed to Il
cir.
b. The trouble is that milkmen ha
he had things all too easy all this tin
as While the brewers were being pests
NJ ed almost to death by the public al
I'd were prompted to install the best pt
'ly sible apparatus for manufacture in
Ike der to protect their trade. the mi
man was permitted to go on his We
on producing milk under unsanitary &C
ry ditions."