Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-12-16
FORMULATE PLANS
OF CREAM GRADING
Dairy Experts Agree and Creamery
Men Agree on Method of
Standardization.
GAIN TO CAREFUL WORKERS
WHO FOLLOW THE ADVICE
Believed That System Adopted Will
Make for Improvement of
Product.

III food experts and dairy men rep
resenting the different states can
bring it about, Iowa, Illinois, South
Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri and Kan.
sas and perhaps other states will es-
tablish method of Standardization
of cream conceived to better the quail
ity of dairy products and place pre-
MUM on high grade cream and milk
Professors from the agricultural
colleges in conference with state
dairy commissioners and creamer,
men from the states indicated Friday
at the Slavery hotel in Des Moines, af-
ter several hours discussion ADOPT
ed the following resolutions:
Three Grades Established.
That three grades of cream be
established known and described as
follows:
Special-Special grade cream IS
sweet cream, suitable for table use,
and such as will not curdle in hot
! tea or coffee.
First Grade-First grade cream
shall consist Of cream that is clean
to the taste and smell, slightly sour,
containing not tc exceed 4-1O of /
per cent acid, and not less than 80
per cent butter fat and free from
| my allr I'd NJ nd Ai,N,,
matter.
Second Grade - Second grade
cream is cream that is too sour 20
grade as first grade, or may have
weedy or undesira BILE flavor or odors,
all other cream shall be deemed lille
GAL
| Illegal Cream-Illegal cream is
cream that is very old, rancid, moul-
dy, dirty or curdy, or that is pro-
duced from an unclean separator OF
that is stored, handled or transported
in unclean cans, or that has been
produced, handled, separated, stored
or transported in violation of the
dairy, pure food and sanitary law,
and the sale, purchase or manufac-
/ ure of such cream for any human
food purposes should be prohibited
by statutes.
EARNED by Experts.
The resolution as adopted was in
all essentials that returned during
the morning session by III. r. Wright
Of the Beatrice Creamery company.
Des Moines, who was chairman o.
the first committee. The adopted
resolution was prepared by j. H..
Frandsen, professor of dairy husban-
dry of Nebraska university; John B..
Newman, first deputy food commits
sioner of Illinois, and A. p. Ryger,
dairy expert of South Dakota. Prof
c. Larsen of the South Dakota agri-
cultural college acted as chairman.
and A. G. Bennett state dairy COM
missioner of Missouri, acted as secre-
tary. w. B. Barney, dairy and food
commissioner OF Iowa, was promin-
ent in the shaping of the resolution
Those assembled did not represent
an interstate organization, but came
unofficially to do what they could to
straighten out the unsatisfactory con-
lditions relating to the dairy, pure
food and SANITARY laws. 1t was held
that under the present statutes the
phrasng is such that evils have arts
en- that not only lower the grade Of
butter, ice cream and other dairy
products but practically remove the
incentive of the farmer and the dairy
man to maintain the highest posi-
BILE standard of cleanliness and quail
ity of milk and cream.
To Promote Cleanliness.
1t is hoped by the delegates that
the sense of the resolution as adopt
ed will be incorporated in the stat
utes of all the states. Uniformity O.
dairy laws is greatly to be desired be-
cause Of the interstate character Of
the industry.
| Under this Standardization, 1t is
believed that the farmer and dairy
man who endeavors to keep his m!lcE
cows in the best possible condition
and who exercises the greatest meas
ures to insure cleanliness in the
handling of milk and cream will ben
eft in just the degree he achieves
these things, instead Of, as now, the
low grade product receiving practi-
cally the same return as the hlgh