The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-14
OA|RYMEN To MAKE
EXHIBITS At FAIR
Those Who Supply Salt Lake
Propose to Show Best
Product on Earth.
KEEN FOR COMPETITION
Tests Are Severe, but Pro-
ducers Are Eager to Meet
Requirements.

Dsirymen who supply Salt Lake City
with It's milk and cream are willing that
their product shall be put 10 the test,
and are confident that II viii have moth
ing TO fcar from being Judged by the
most severe standards.
The Utah State Fair association. work
Ing In conjunction with the city and the
state food and dairy departments. has
arranged for competitions In market
milk and cream, which are arousIns con.
siderable interest among the owners OF
dairy herds. Walter j. Frazier. city food
and dairy commissioner. thinks he can
promise that there VIII be ut least nfty
dairymen from Summit Davis salt Lake
and Utah counties. whose milk or cream
comes to the Salt Lake City market who
Will be on hand Ia enter this compeu-
tioD. Mr. Frazier says he expects about
100, but he Is willing To cut the hsure
in twain and even then. he says. the
showing Will be remarkable.
AT the recent national dairy show at
tended by Mr. Frazier, where the COM
petition was open to the United States
and Canada. there were only fifty
samples Of milk presented In competi
ton. New Jersey and Washington and
Canada and Kentucky we're among the
regions represented and Utah had pro-
portionately more than her share. too.
But at the Utah state fair there Will
he Just AS big and Just as keen a COM
petition and II Will be Judged just as
closely. In faCt. the ndt4onH! STANDARDS
will be applied In the scoring,
Dairies Invite Tests.
Eu, ii is said that there are now close
10 100 dairies supplying their product 10
Salt Lake City that have nothing TO Tear
from the application OF the most rigid
tests that have yet been devised
The rules for the competition are COM
parativcly easily observed. II is provided
that entries In the market milk class
shall consist OF four quart bottles Of milk,
and In market cream OF four pint bottles.
the product exhibited To have come from
. rtah farm This milk must be shipped
iu !cH ;u Secretary Horace 5. Ensign.
iu rare of tho Utah Ice & Storage COM
lany. where every provision win be made
~" its reception. Only milk produced or
Monday. September %. o. one week be-
foIc the fair opens. Will be entered. |;
Is necessary that uniform date be set
in order 10 make tho competition fair
To all. II Is Furthermore necessary that
the date be set n week in advance Of the
state fair in order that the scientific tests
may all be completed in good time.
II has been arranged that state and
City Chemist Herman Harms and CITY
Eacto rloiogist II. w. Ashley shall test
the samples entered In the contest for
bacteria visible dirt. fat solids. acidity
fair in the matter OF flavor and the like.
whcre varying local conditions may ar
feet tho product. without in the least
having any detrimental effect, Secretary
TUclSn UdS dIldHtfu NIltl lE' JUU Ss1'.
for favor and odor Of milk shall DC done
ny men well acquainted with the dairy
ing Industry In each OF the four counties
named.
These tests Will require the use OF two
bottles OF milk or cream. the case
may be. from each exhibit. The two bot
lies left. II the exhibitor wins any prize.
are 10 bs placed In cold storage and OK
hihited At the state fair, together with
The score made by each dairy winning
prize.
Tests Are Accurate.
4 score card system has been adopted
which brings the testing of milk down
"a scientific accuracy. and leaves little
n the personal equation" to interfere
with the justice Of the awards. For ex-
ample. a total of "a credits OF pos
siblc 100 arc allowed for the bacterial
test. II tho bacterial count Is less than