Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-17
important Meeting is Held in
Connection With the State
Food Commission.
STAFF OF LIFE. AND BUTTER.
Some Sidclights on How the Consumer
Pays the Frcight-s:o, 900 Lost
On Cured Meats.

4 !
terday with number of mannfac
| turers in Judge Lewis court room
where they discussed various topics o
interest to them. The question of conf
polling the bakers to place labels OF
their bread giving the date it was
baked and the weight, was taken up
Frank Erath of the Superior Baking
company said that it was impossible
to bake loaves of bread that did not
vary in weight. Adolph Levy of the
Vienna bakery said the same thing.
Herman Harms. city chemist SAID
that he had analysed number OF
loapes of bread that consisted of from
40 TO so per cent water. This was due
the bakers said, to8the different kinds
of -four Utah flour will not take rs
much water as eastern flour, but ~ is
much harder to get good results from
1t. Most of the bakers blend the Utah
product with the eastern flour ana IN!
when they do better results are OBJ
tanned
BUTTER PROBLEMS.
The butter question was also taken
IN and the commissioners said tllat
2Cnsfe5 were 'IlulitDeE u liiIils NY S'sT
selling butter which was not manu-
featured by them. although il bore
their labels. The commissioners IN
sisted that the makers name Replaced
upon the product and then the words,
4.'nade for and distributed bysa certain
5firm.', In discussing the weight of but
ter w, II. Jensen said that it was a
acricus matter to consider. The butter
loses moisture quickly and it is hard
TO get it exact, he said.
o. I'll. Hewlett stated that cheese,
baking powder. extracts, coffee and
other products put out by his firm were
marked and given the exact weight.
This was found an easy thing to do,
except in spices which shrink.
s..And we can do this and compete
with eastern manufacturers. he said.
r.without any trouble. am in favor Of
making the weight on all the packages
where it can be done. and let the peo-
pie know what they are getting.
SHORT WEIGHT ON HAM.
The complaints of short weights on
cured meats was taken up. 1t was
found that the eastern packers did not
allow anything for shrinkage or for the
wranping OH their meats when they
We're shipped. When the cured meat,
such as hams, bacon, etc, reaches Sais
Lake there Is a shrinkag e of 5 pei. cent.
In "a year, IT. was estimated. that the re-
5tailers pay $4,000 on cured meat WHICH
they do not receive.
j.. d. Mcdonald said that the net
weight was placed on all their candies
that were packed. He declared that
he would have saved $4,000 in the last
three years on candy pals alone, II
he had known Utah could have been
Disseminated against. He said that
many manufacturers packed rs pounds
of candy in a 30-pound pail. The two
pounds, he said, would pay for the pail
but he did not think that 1t was the
right thing to do.
PICKLE REPRESENTATIVES..
%. w. Mount of the Mount Pickle
company snid that 1t was impossible
for his firm to label everything. He
admitted that he used benzoate of soda
as q preseryative. He defied anybody
10 put up pickles and not use some kind
of a preventative, Mr.. Mount was
sure, however, that the barrels were
full weight.
The commissioners expressed their
thanks to the manufacturers for meet
ing with them. The opinions expressed
will guide the commissioners in max
ing a set of rules to be followed.
Those present at the meeting We're:
j. S. CARRIER. Willard Hansen. state
food commissioners; Herman Harms
state and city chemist: o. H. Hewlett
of Hewlett Brothers; s. w. Price, presi-
dent of the Salt Lake Retail Mer-
chants association; Walter Frazier.city
food inspector: j. G. Mcdonald: Leon
Sweet of the Sweet Candy company:
w. F. Jensen of the Jensen Creamery
company. Il. D. Miller, Intermountain
Milling company; Frank Erath. SD
iperior Baking company: G. W. Mount,
Mount Pickle company; Adoiph Levy,
Vienna bakery: Lorenzo Hansen. Cache
Valley creamery; Mr.. Cooper. Utah
Milling company: George A. Hone, Utah
County creamery and member of the
state hoard; John Holley. fruit and
produce dealer.
BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN