The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-02
FRAZIER IS AFTER
JENSEN CREAMERY
Commissioner Denies State
ments Made to City Council
by Company.
FAN0RS REQUIREMENTS
OF MILK ORDINANCE
He Also Says That a Test for
Cream Should Be Re-
quired.

The communication sent 10 the city
council and read al the meeting Mon
day night from the Jensen Creamery
company has aroused the ire of Walter
J. Frazier, city food and dairy com
missioner The Jensen company, in its
letter, asked the council if the opinion
Of the authorities be that the ordinance
respecting milk Will be permanent fix
turc, especially in that which relates
To the temperature of the milk. The
law requires that milk shall be al least
% degrees cold. The Jensen people
say that water in temperature ranges
from 81 10 % degrees and that if the
provision of the ordinance be insisted
upon tho Jensen interests would be
compelled TO establish eight cooling sta
tions, one at each of the three railroads
and five on the county roads leading
into the city. This the communication
stated would cost approximately $50
900; perhaps more. The expense Of
operating the stations would be some
thing like 5000 Il month for each. The
creamery says that in other cities tenn
pcrature is not a test: that germs can
live as easily in cold milk as in warm
milk, and do so live; that even filth
can exist in cold milk, and does so ex-
ist
Finally, the Jensen people said that
the cost Of milk would he increased >
1-3 cents the gallon. or % per cent. The
natural inference from tins is that the
consumer in The end must pay for the
cooling stations and their maintenance,
Denied by Frazier.
Mr.. Frazier denies that temperature
requirements are absent in other cities.
- In most cities the requirement is 10
,,p IN Il. n.,,1 i 7l ,..l. tl,s,N
it bc made 30 degrees here. As for
the threat that the price Of milk will
he advanced. that is all bosh The
crcamcrics bny milk from the farmers
now at Is cents a gallon and sell it for
20 cents. When YOU understand that
these figures apply to thousand gallon
lots. daily, You can sec that there is I'm
immense profit in handling milk
Furthermore. continued Mr.. Fra
zjcr. Herman Harms. the city and
state chemist, when the milk was
brought into court, showed that one
gallon of water had been added to each
two gallons oS milk. akng tho product
therefore only thirds puro milk. II
has been proven that when milk comes
TO the creamery carrying more than the
requirement III butter fat. il is stand
ardized by reducing il with water and
thus adding to the quantity
ought TO be built and kept in operation
He denies that they are prohibitivcly
expensive. He points out that tho cool
ing station at Pleasant Grove conducted
by W. A. MaXhcld is model cstab,
lishmcut. and he declares there is no
reason why others receiving milk in
quantities. should not have like plants
Mr.. Frazier SAYS he will also suggest
another amendment TO the present
/ pTI 3,s
for cream rs well as milk. He SAYS
some of the cream contains much acid
and some of it is not fit for human
consumption.
Sale is Forbidden.
The commissioner Wednesday for.
bade the sale of milk from the dairy
of Mrs. Anna Berg State street and
Thirteenth South. Mrs. Berg is n wild
ow and makes her living by tho sale of
milk from n few cows. She has been
repeatedly notified that she must obey
the ordinance with respect TO clcanli.
ness, and that her cows must submit
the authorities Mrs Berg has ignored
all of these suggestions, and has con.
tinued to sell impure milk. The sale OF
the product for use in the city is there
! fore ordered stopped.
Commissioner Frazier has completed
the scoring of the dairics at Mount
Pleasant, The farmers. be says, have
not come up to the required standard
hut he believes the scoring next month
will show "A marked improvement, mas
much az the producers arc being made
to see the necessity of 'toeing tn,
scratch. The result of the scoring is
John Ashton, G COWS, score IS: IL. J
| Wright eight cows, score 81; Albert
| Harris, fiyo cows, score 50; George Dit
man. eight cows, score "a T.. A. Uar
ris. SIX cows, score 80; {, V johnson
twelve cows, score 4S: j. T. Wrigh
four cows, score %: a. H. Cobblcr tiv,
COWS, score 81. c. j. Johnson, 81,
COWS, score -. Fifty per cent is thu
! government requirement