The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-02

Discussion Of the milk inspection
ordinance in council two weeks ago,
and declared by DR.. Hurry, state
health officer, to be about the best he
has ever seen, was completed last
evening at a meeting of city officials
and dairymen and referred back to
the ordinance committee and health
department for further tinkering.
1t was plainly evident last night
that the ordinance, if it goes through
council without being badly mutilated,
or If it goes through at all, is going to
have very rough voyage.
The section providing for the tu-
berculine testing of all dairy herds,
which escaped criticism at the meet
ing held last Monday night, received
conspicuous attention, for the most
part unfavorable, even being prodded
by J. o. Bachelor, who for some
time has made a practice of having
all his cows regularly and systematic
ally tested.
criticise Test Clause.
The provision in the ordinance per-
hitting the dairy inspector, If he is a
licensed veterinarian, to practice his
profession, when private work does
not conflict with his official duties,
was criticised by two councilmen, who
| insisted that the dairy inspector de-
vote all his time to his public affairs.
| Dairymen laughingly remarked that
if he performed one-half of the duties
provided for him in the ordinance the
| inspector would have no time for any
other work. City Attorney Bond de-
Tended that section Of the ordinance
by declaring that the prosecuting at.
torney were permitted to engage in
private practice which did not con-
flict with their official duties. 1t is
said that a veterinarian who has a
weather eye on the job of dairy in
spector under the new ordinance is
a staunch champion of that section of
, the measure.
| The section which provides that ice
cream must be made of milk and
cream from tuberculin tested cows, or
from pasteurized milk and cream,
brought forth opposition until Howard
Hoover, a local ice cream manufac-
turer, declared he had no opposition
to that provision.
Those who spoke against the tu-
berculin test section of the ordinance
| last night declared that properly to
test all dairy cows was impractical,
because one man could not do the
work 1t was pointed out that dairy
men are constantly changing cows,
and under the ordinance a COW can
not be used until it has successfully
undergone the test.
| Job Too Big.
| DR.. Hoover, a local veterinarian,
when asked If he thought the dairy in
spector could supervise all testing
remarked that it would be possible if
there were four hundred day in the
year. He also asserted that In his
opinion commercial tuberculine was as
good as a serum as that used by the
government, although the federal ex-
perts do not hold this opinion.
J. o. Bachelor then asserted that
the testing of dairy herds which fur
nish milk for Fort Wayne was a fake
and sham.
| 81 test all my COWS regularly be
cause my patrons demand such milk,
but l don't think very much of it,
Bachelor asserted. ANY dairyman
as a matter of fact, can defeat prac-
teal inspection by testing his own
herd with commercial serum. 1t can
be applied frequently without hurting
the COW, and such practice would
prevent the inspector from obtaining
any satisfactory results from tests.
81 can have my COWS tested salts
| factorily, because l keep the same
| herd all the time. 1 raise my COWS
from calves up, so any inspector would
only have to visit my dairy once a
year to make his official test. But the
majority of dairymen are constantly
changing their herds, and each time
a new cow is added to herd the in
spector would have to be call in tc
make a test"
Consider Old Law.
Councilman Weishaupt then asked
Mr.. Bachelor what he thought of the
present milk inspection ordinance, and
he said that if it was amended to give
the inspector more authority, and {
few minor changes were made i
would be an excellent one. Council