Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-11-27

when we once are awakened to the dangers that
they may bring aud the ease with which the flies
may be held in control. Flies are not like birds
going from place to place. They seldom
go more than a few hundred yards from the
place of their development. If all the refuse ma
terial, garbage and manure from. the stables
were properly cared for and promptly removed
under the control of city officials and an ordi
nance prohibiting the tolerance of these pro-
ducts for a period of more than six days we
should soon be at the end of our troubles in
this direction. From the time tho egg is de,
posted in the purifying mess of manure, gar.
bage or other filth until a fully developed fly
has come from the magot, requires a period of
from eight to ten days. Therefore if these waste
products, be frequently removed or disinfected,
there can he no place for flies to develop. 1t is
useless for one family to attempt to rid them
selves of flies with proper disinfecting or the re.
moval of such refuse, when every other family.
perhaps, in the same block or community have
conditions most favorable for the development
of these germs and disease carriers. urge
therefore upon you as members of the fedora
ton to use your influence in every part of the
state to secure the enactment of proper village
and city ordinances, and in the creation of a
public sentiment which will demand proper
sanitary conditions and the right disposal of
waste products and garbage, Then in ten years,
if not less, we shall have come to the flyless age
or so near so that we shall wonder how the PEG
| Pile could have tolerated in our day and time the
things which are so common now, because so
little has been known with regard to the dan
gers that come to us from their presence. In
the early season is the time to destroy the flies
as much as uosSible, for a single pair of flies in
one season will be the progenitors of millions
of flies in II e later summer.
You may be Interested to know thatduring the
present year wellave introduced a new feature
in our food work in North Dakota, which we
expect toenlarge and develop in the future and
that's in the more careful scoring of business
places. where food products andbeverages are
manufactured, handled. distributed or treated
in any shape CT manner. Even in the milk sup
ply We go back to the farm and study the sani-
tary conditions, the c haracter of the water sup.
ply, the health of the animals as we'll as OF the
people who furnish the milk to the town. More
and more this must come to be an important
feature. Farther than that 20 each manufac-
turer, dealer or store in the state we are now
furnishing a copy of the summarized score,
which may be posted up in the store if the pro-
prietor desires to do so that the public may
know what the sanitary condition has been
found to be, not only in the front part of the
store, but in the back room cellar or basement,
toilet aud surroundi ngs end you may rest as
sured that where the score card is exhibited the
score for the place is generally above S. per cent
and approaching 100, but where the score is be-
low IS you will not find the score card onexhibi-
ton, The public should take notice of this and
! where the score card is not shown there
must be some reason for it and it would be
we'll for the patrons to take notice of the fact
and see that conditions are made better. For
YOU I r might say, that We are just
now inaugurating a new plan, and that instead
of scoring Individual places or stores we are in
the future planning to score the town. That is
put into a single town all the inspectors for Sc.
veral days, or as long as need be to make a
thorough investigation of the character of the
food supply. water supply, milk supply, of the
sanitary conditions in and around the places
where foods are handled; the sanitary condi.
tion of the alleys. The care of garbage and
waste products. And then instead of reporting
on the individual stores write up the condition
of the whole town, showing the character of
the products that are handled in the drugstores
the purity of the food products handled in the
grocery stores, the sanitary condition of the
meat markets and slaughter houses; the facili-
ties afforded the help the character of the milk
supply and of the water used in soda fountain
supplies and other soft drinks.
Then the public will be BILE to compare town
with town as to the conditions which exist and
l am sure that we Will see more marked impro-
vements than have come in the past, even though
today iii these respects North Dakota Is far
ahead of many of her sister states, for nowhere
in this state in general do You find articles of
food exposed upon the sidewalks, and in our
better stores no longer are food products ex-
posed upon the floor, where they can become
contaminated and yet such conditions are too
often found if you will take note of some of the
cities outside of North Dakota. I might deal
for a considerable time with other features of
our food work, but enough has been said to
point out to you what has been accomplished
and the benefits that have come to the public by
the enforcement of ourfood and sanitary laws.
TEXTILE FIBRES.
Not all the sophistication, adulteration and
misrepresentation by any means is confined tc
the question of foods. There is hardly an ar
ticle today that comes into the home or into
general use but what there are those who are
producing limitations, authorizations. or a pro
duct which is misrepresented.
The writer's not one who would prohibit
from sale any harmless article that the public
might desire. If there are those who wish fol
ground cereals, cocoanut shells and olive stone!
in place of part of their pepper they shonlt
have an opportunity to purchase the same, bu'
there should be no misrepresentation, the!
should know what they are getting.
If there are those who want to buy water ant
pay freight and tomato prices for canned waite
in place of tomatoes shipped from the eastern
states, they should be permitted to do so, blu
the labels should be truthful. If there ar
those who want inferior oysters soaked in waite
to make them appear better than they are, an,
have added water in place of oysters they Shout
be given all opportunity to purchase snch pro
ducts. but no man should be privileged to sci
such products as oysters but under a truthfU
label that would read something like thi
second grade oysters or culls bloated in sof
water not always pure and 40 per cent of adde
water. Then the truth would be known, bu
when this is done no one seems to care to pul
chase this class of products.
If we turn our attention again to textil