The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1909-02-11
THE DA|RYMEN
OF COLORADO
AT THEIR SECOND ANNUAL MEET
ING DECLARE FOR MILK
SUPERVISION.
ASK new LEGISLATION
DESIRE ACTION TO PREVENT
SPREAD OF DISEASE
AMONG CATTLE.

Denver.-Laws more stringent for
the safeguarding of the public health
through dairy products than the ply
sicians have proposed were advocated
by the Colorado State Dairymen's AS
sociation at the second annual meet
ing in the st. James hotel, Wednesday.
says the Denver News. The point
raised was that milk should be guarded
as closely as possible to insure the
health of the community.
The typhoid fever epidemic of three
months ago in Denver, in which six
deaths were traceable to one dairy, was
the direct cause of this strong stand
taken by the state dairymen. The alb
solute necessity for pure milk as a
guaranty OF public health was the main
! theme Of the meeting.
To bring the dairy products of Col
orado to their highest perfection B. G.
D.. Bishop, present dairy commission
er, was employed as travelling repre-
sentative at a salary of $1,SO0 year
and expenses.
| His work will be in addition to that
OF the state dairy commissioner and
the latter's inspectors and in addition,
| too, to the city milk inspector of Den
yer. 1t is believed by the state dairy
men that Bishop will be the means of
iraugurating campaign of purity. to-
gether with the enforcement of new
laws they hope to have, that will place
| Colorado in the front rank of states
with pure milk supply.
The meeting was one of the most
| important ever held in any state by
! the dairymen. The steps the Colorado
| dairymen have taken for pure dairy
products are more advanced than that
taken by any other similar organiZa-
ton This, in tabloid, is what the Col
orado dairymen are after:
Efficient state and local commission
ers, whose appointment and conduct
of office are removed from political in
fluence.
A system of registration of all herds
and individual COWS by means of per-
nit issued after inspection by recog-
nized authority.
A model dairy plant at the State Ag-
ricultural college to teach approved
methods to dairymen and ranchmen.
Compelling all dairy and import cat
tie for breeding purposes to be tuber-
culin tested and properly marked and
branded.
| Legalizing medical milk commits
sion for the certification of milk.
Regulating. supervising and render
ing uniform the Pasteurization of
milk.
A system of grading by the state
| dairy commissioner, with publication
Of the grades.
Senator Skinner. in his address be-
fore the association, said that Colora-
do with its natural facilities for the
production of milk in its climate and
the facilities for the culture of alfalfa.
If the dairy industries were fully de-
veloped. would equal. If not surpass,
any similar industry in this state that
alfalfa was shipped out of Colorado Tor
feed for milk-producing cows. while
their products. in the form OF butter
and cheese and even cream, were ship
ped into the state.
Senator Skinner advocated lowering
|
State Agricultural College. The COL
lege, he said, should be storehousc
of knowledge. where dairymen could
get information desired. and that such
| information should be furnished free
A committee was appointed to act In
conjunction with the committees from
the State Medical Association, and the
committee from the different wom-
an'c clubs, to place before the Lesis-
lature certain bills for the prevention
of the spread of disease, especially tu-
berculosis, among the cattle OF the
state. The committee is composed or
NJ. A. Skinner of Colorado Springs, f.
i. Hornbaker of Boulder and B. G. ID.
Bishop of Denver.
The following officers were elected:
President, M. Z. Penrose of Denver;
vice president, M. M. Sinton OF Colo
RADIO Springs; secretary. B. G. ID. Bish-
Cd of Denver, and treasurer, w. A..
| Groom of Boulder. The board OF d.
rectors for 1909 is: V. /. Provost. Pu-
eblo: /. s. Morse, Denver creameries;
c. w. Hail. Denver; NJ. A. Skinner.
Colorado Springs: w. A. Groom, Boul-
der; the president and treasurer ~