Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-07

heS IauTants ana nOteIS or the clIy have recently been receiving attention from the milk inspector. pr. D. J. Sha- han. who made some early morning calls, securing samples of milk which he has sent to the state laboratory for andy SIS. As result Of his activity ne had a dozen samples of milk to send in. From the report made from the state laboratory Dr. Shahan learn ed that much of the milk that is being dispensed is of very good quality. but there was one sample that was found very plentifully watered.
 Another sample that was sent in evil dently puzzled the chemists somewhat. The report stated that this sample was either very good milk or very poor cream It showed per cent. of but terfat, which is about double the amount of butterfat expected in good milk For this particular case the milk inspector believes he has an explana- ton which is suggested by some cir cumstances which arose when he was obtaining the sample. His call was made at such an early hour that he did not see the proprietor, but an ern- ploye who answered his ring at the bell said at first that they had no milk, but she thought they had some cream. She went away to get a sam pie of cream. but when she. returned said she had found some milk and gave the inspector the sample he asked For
 From the way the sample analysed The milk inspector figures it out that
 
 should be rich enough by loading it up with some cream before passing out the sample.
 Another thing that the milk inspec- tor has inaugurated since he has held t.le office has been to compel out town dealers who send cream here to take cut licenses. The whole number of milk licenses now issued in the city is about 15o.
 Milk dealers who have attempted to escape the net weight law. operative since Jan. II. which provides that packages of food must be marked with the net weight, have lost another point In the fight for the exemption of their product since Attorney General Light has rendered an opinion that milk in bottles e IS package and must be marked. A bill eXempting milk from the provisions of the law is before the committee on public health and safe ty and is to be reported soon- There now seems to be nothing for the milk dealers to do but wait for the result of this committees report on the bill. The attorney generals opinion on the matter is as follows:
 Hon. Hubert F. Potter, dairy and food
 commissioner, Hartford Conn.
 Dear Sir: I have your favor in which you say:
 Chapter 1s4 of the Public Acts of the general assembly of 1911 is as fol- lows:
 Chapter 134
 Public Acts of 1911.
 An act concerning the sale of food in package form.
 Be it enacted by the senate and house
 of presentatiVes in general as-
 sembly convened:
 Section Amy person who shall sell, pr offer for sale, food in package form. unless the net quantity Of the con tents be plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package In terms of weight, measure numer- tca1 count; provided that reasonable variations shall be permitted and that allowances shall be established by rules and regulations made from time to time by the dairy and food com missioner and the director of the Con necticut Agricultural Experiment sta ton. shall be subject to the penalties provided in Chapter 255 of the Public Acts of 1907.
 Section 2-The terms person" and food as defined in Chapter 255 of the Public Acts of 1907, shall apply to the provisions of this act, provided. not include confectionery and shelled nuts when offered for sale in packages st a price not exceeding ten cents each.
 Section 3-This act shall take effect from it's passage, but no penalty shall fe enforced for any violation of the provisions of Section 1 arising from the sale of food prepared and enclosed in package form prior to IS months after the passage of this act.
 Approved July 1I 1911
 OoeS tue dDONe pTOF1S1OH IH0ntlbn0Q in Section l that allowance shall be established by rules and regulations confer authority on the dairy and food commissioner and the director of the Connecticut A Agricultural Experiment station to postpone in any manner the enforcement of this law in the case of particular commodities, where imme- dfate enforcement seems to work a hardship to nanufa cturerS and deal CTS? For example. many thousand unmarked milk bottles are now in use, each of which is considered by us a package which the law requires shall bear 3, statement of the net contents. < gummed label is impossible, be- cause it would inevitably come off in the sweating of the bottle when taken from storage for delivery The print ing of ca ps with net contents would sif,NoIve Keeping g barrels of caps on hand (SvheYe pasteurizat ton is done), one each for each day of the month for quarts, 4pints and half pints, as de- -Zz q -e-z