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INSPECTION
Of DIARIES
BY The State Of Ohio Is
Recommended
BY Dairy and Food COmmiS.
Si0ner Strobe
Reduction OF Taxes By Dem.
tCratS Early Shown
What Factory Inspector
Beafns Has accomplished
Commissioner Miller For Uni
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Columbus, o., Feb. 2-State Dairy
and Food Commissioner Strobe has
recommended that the state inspect
all dairies. City boards of health now
DO this. 1t has become a serious prob.
lem how to supply the many large and
rapidly growing cities of the state
with pure and wholesome milk and
dairy products. The rules adopted by
city boards of health, under which
milk and cream are produced for the
markets, differ materially. Milk that
cannot be admitted under the rules of
one city, may or may not be admitted
In another. This renders uncertain
the supply and quality of milk and
cream for our cities, and works a
great hardship upon the proprietors
and managers of dairies. Practically
adj OF the dairies are located without
the corporate limits of municipalities
and therefore beyond the Jurisdiction
OF local boards of health. II the con-
aitions under which milk and cream
are produced do not meet the munich
pal requirements, all the city can do
Ia to prevent the sale of these pro.
ducts and drive them to some other
market.
1t is manifest that If milk and
cream from any particular dairy are
unit for consumption by the people
q one city, they are unfit for any 9th.
or city. Another serious phase of the
qaestion Is the possibility at all times
sf a milk famine in cities that ex-
eisde milk and cream in considerable
quantities, resulting in discourage.
nent to the dairy industry and fur
tier curtailing the milk supply. The
logical solution for this problem
seems to be thorough state inspec-
tion to secure the best possible sani.
tary conditions for producing and
marketing milk and cream. Should the
General Assembly see fit to carry out
this recommendation the force of
state dairy inspectors necessarily
would have to be increased, but the
additional number employed would be
small compared with the number that
10 now required for the same work of
the several cities. In addition to the
saving In the aggregate for the ex-
henses for inspection, the work would
be absolutely uniform and there would
se no discrimination anywhere, eth.
er against any city or against any
dairy. The plan has met the approval
sf all who are in any manner experts
n the production of milk and cream
and those hoving to do with the mar
keting of such products in the cities.
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Democrats Reducing our Taxes
A leading merchant relates, says the
Rayenna Democrat, that lady who
visited his store last week after max.
ing the customary semi-annual visit |
to the court house was SO elated over
the fact that her taxes were 80 much |
lower than last year that she spent |
aA of the difference between the
amount OF the taxes this year and last |
year In trading.
And 1t was no small amount either,
as the sum was $16 less taxes than
for the previous six months is GER
tainiy a large sum, and means that
her total taxes must have been very
large. However, a pleasing consider.
alton is that the merchant, who by
the way is leading Republican real
ly comedies that the low taxes are due
to the policy of the present state Dem
acratic administration to limit the
tax rate to one per cent, and make an
equal distribution OF the tax burden,
which has brought about the placing
on the tax duplicate OF large sums
belonging to railroads and other cor.
poratons that have heretofore es-
capped large share OF taxation!
In State Factory Inspector Kearns
union labor has true friend and
an efficient officer in the state house.
nder the Kearns administration there
has been decided increase in the
amount OF work done and the good &C.