The Penn's Grove record., 1913-12-05
RIGID MILK INSPECTION.
Creameries and Diaries Made &c
Clean Up and Keep That Way.

Creameries and Diaries Made TO
Clean Up and Keep That Way.
A. l. Goehrig, chief inspector of the
division of diaries of the State Board
of Health, complied with the request
of the Bridgeton Commercial League
for information on Estate creamery
and dairy inspection" The policy of
publicity has been determined upon
in order that wider knowledge may
be had of dairy affairs and their effect
upon the public health.
After Mr.. Goehrig had discussed
clean surroundings for cows to get
hygienic milk, he called attention to
the new laws for eradicating tuber-
culosis among dairy animals and said:
''The State Board of Health now re-
quires a thorough disinfection of all
dairy premises where the disease has
occurred" This work is done by the
inspectors of the dairy division.
The inspector sounded a warning
against rushing off mornings milk to
market without cooling. This is a
practice the State board is trying to
break up.
The old idea that straining milk
made it clean was dealt a blow by
Mr.. Goehrig when he said: "Clean
milk requires very little straining.
straining removes the coarser parti-
cles of dirt only, but by no means
eliminates the fine or microscopic
dirt. Purity in production is the only
thing, and that the State demands"
Mr.. Goehrig then showed how in
adequate is the force of five men in
the employ of the State, which has
10000 milk producing farms. This
would mean 1000 inspections per
year per man, or 6 23 farms per nan
per day. Despite this handicap, fifty
dairymen were stopped selling milk
during the last year, and hundreds of
notices were sent to dairymen, who
cleaned up and kept selling milk. Mr.
Goehrig instanced some municipali-
ties where the local boards of health
kept up the work after the State
board had scored the diaries from
which supplies were gotten. This co
operation means keeping a municipal
milk supply clean after it has been
made so by the State board.
Divorce Law Discussion.
The divorce laws are again the sub
ject of discussion, as if they were
adaptable to every peculiar case of
domestic difficulty. 1t is absolutely
impossible to make a rule to meet
every instance of domestic infelicity.
1t is exactly the anne as if a man
asked that his neighbours case Of
trouble should be settled according
to his own experience. Who would
be willing to submit his domestic rela-
tons to his neighbor's formula? The
only rule for the divorce laws is a
fair submission of the facts to a wise
judge, and his view of all the circum-
stances regarding the probability of
the couples happiness, and their rela-
lions to the public. No law is great
enough to meet these incessant varia-
tons of life, but a wide privilege to
the courts of decision will make the
paths to justice easy and direct.
Insurance Company Losses.
The number of automobile fatalities
is taking on a serious business aspect
through the large losses to life insur-
anc companies from this cause.
Companies report having six to ten
policies a week, some for large
amounts, payable on this account.
The time may come when a special
rate will be required, and in any case
the average premium is affected. The
great cause Of accident appears to be
ignorance or carelessness of the plain
! rules of the road.