Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
TO AIM FOR BETTER
COUNTRY BUTTER
State Food and Dairy Department to
Wage an Active Campaign.
BULLETINS BEING SENT OUT
ALL OVER THE STATE
Contains Advice On How to Care For
Milk and Cream on the
Farm.

Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 5.-Bettel
country eggs, now better countr!
butter-that's the slogan for the lat
est propaganda of the dairy and foot
department.
Commissioner Barney is goin,
right after the business. This is wha
he says on the subject:
After having made what we know
is marked improvement in the quail
ity of Iowa eggs We are going to sex
what We can do to help the quality
of cream.
Nearly a million Of what is known
as our Bad Egg Warning have been
sent out within the last year. This
is only one Of our various plans o1
educating the producer. We believe
in education first, and prosecution
as a last resort. We will have to ad-
NIT we were obliged to make a good
many prosecutions to get results, and
get rid of bad eggs. and that the end
is not yet.
Bulletins Sent Out.
I'VE have sent out to the cream
cries for distribution among their
patrons a. large quantity of our bull
letins Care of Milk and Cream on
the Fa1sa So aakIs5 vi this dapal 8
ment have addressed farmers insti-
tutes. dairy and creamery meetings
have been held warning the farmers
time and again that there was alto
gether too much poor cream On the
market to make the class of butter
that sells for top prices. We realize
that a great number Of the producers
have made very general improvement
in these products by bettering the
conditions Of their places in the way
of putting in ice houses, or water
tanks, for the purpose of cooling and
keeping Their milk and cream in good
condition. Besides this, many new
milk houses have been built and 9TH
ers remodeled and cleaned up
I'VE expect to keep up this kind
of work, and from this time on sup
plement it by having the assistant
dairy commissioners where their time
will permit, visit some of the most
fragrant violators on the farm.
within the last two weeks we
have made several successful prose-
cutions under the new sanitary law
enacted by the 35th general assembly.
Part of Section 1 reads as follows:
Every creamery, dairy, cheese
factory, restaurant, hotel, grocery,
meat market, or other place or apart
ment used wholly or in part for the
preparation, sale, manufacture, pack
ing, storing, or distribution of any
food, shall be properly lighted, drain
ed, plumbed and ventilated, and
conducted with strict regard to the
influence Of such conditions upon the
purity and wholesomeness of food
therein, produced, and for the pur-
pose of this act, the term food as
used herein shall include all articles
used for food or drink
Must BE Clean.
THE courts have held that milk
and cream come within the meaning
Of this act and we believe no one
will dispute that they are articles OF
food. This being true, why should
this department stand for the oper-
alton of cream separator In a hog
house. Last week would be dairy
man donated $25 to the school fund
of Fayette county for this privilege.
Besides this he paid the costs OF the
case. One other offender was fined
SIS and costs. while two others In
CLAYTON county contributed $40 each
and costs. We wish to give these
prosecutions the publicity they merit
as warning to other wilful Offend
ers.
"The old saying that cleanliness
is next to Godliness does not seem
TO appeal to some of the cream pro-
ducers. If these people alone were
the sufferers for the gross negligence
we would not feel so vitality interest
ed. They do not appear to know OF
care how much loss or damage they
are doing careful neighbor, with
whose their filthy product Is mixed
in going to the market. neither arr
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