Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1915-04-30
WATCH SALE OF EGGS.
Federal and State Food Officials De.
termined to Enforce Law.

officials in the enforcement of the food
avs in connection with the sale of
rotten eggs, according to State Food
Commissioner Frary, who has just re-
turned from Chicago, where he was
called to attend a conference on this
question. The active cooperation be-
tween stc.e and national food inspect
ors, which last yea resulted in catch
ing a number CT prominent shippers i'll
the drag net of the law, will be con-
tinued and vigorous measures ADOPT
ed to put an end to the traffic in eggs
which are unfit for food. Commits
sioner Frary has been appointed a
member of a special committee of the
National Association of Dairy, Food
and Drug Officials to study problems
related to the egg industry and it was
for the purpose of outlining the work
of this committee and adopting plans
for the present eason that he a
called to Chicago. DR.. Carl L. Ais
berg, chief of the bureau of chemis-
try, Washington, D. c.; DR.. S. J..
Crumbine, secretary Of the Kansas
s%tatestate board of health and chief
food n drug INSPECTOR; Geo. J.
Weigle, Wisconsin dairy and food
commissioner, and representatives of
the Illinois state foo department and
of the federal food inspection bureau
in Chicago were in attendance. The
committee also held joint sessions
with representatives of the National
Poultry, Butter and Egg association,
an organization whose members in
a1yIn tho rri ;yo1 ~h;D~o~, ~r rD,,J
try products. The conference agreed
that the following eggs should be ex-
cluded from shipments: Eggs partially
Matched, eggs with yolks stuck to the
shell, moldy eggs, heavy blood rings,
black rotS, black spots and all other
eggs of an unwholesome character.
1t was thought necessary by the food
officials to thus efine the eggs, which
are not to be shipped in order to over
come a practice which grew up last
year under a ruling made by the gov
eminent inspectors. BY stopping en-
tirely the shipment Of rotten eggs it
is thought the practice of feeding con-
sumers spoiled eggs in highly favored
bakery products will be permanently
discontinued.
Another matter Of perhaps more i'm
portance which the conference dis
cussed was a systematic educational
campaign for more and better eggs.
The officers of the National Poultry,
Butter and Egg association agreed to
cooperate with food officials in carry
ing on a continue campaign for edu-
eating the farmers and dealers to the
n that eggs may be freed from the
stigma which now attaches to this
most valuable food product on account
of the careless and INSCRIPTIONS prac-
tees Of some members of the trade.
Bulletins of information will be sent
out from the association offices and
food officials will do their part in
disseminating all useful knowledge OBJ
tainable to the producers and middle
men. This is in inc with the policy
of the South Dakota commissioner as
evidenced in the campaign last year
for better eggs Rooster day." which
met with such success. will be again
proclaimed and larger numbers of old
birds will be slaughtered.
Boy Makes Fine Record.
Vermillion.-John Henkin, Of Elk
Point, S. D., a senior in the North
western university medical college,
mas made an unusually fine record this
year by taking two first places and
one second in competitive examina-
lions held this spring for interships,
according to an announcement in the
Chicago papers, with a photograph of
himself. Mr.. Henkin secured these
places in competition with students
of medicine in the leading universities
and colleges of the west, and the hon
or therefore is not a slight one. He
secured his early training in the COL
lege of medicine of the University Of
South Dakota, where he had an ex-
ceptionaily splendid record as a stu
dent, leaving here w years ago to
complete his work. Mr.. Henkin took
first place in the competitive examina-
ton for interships at the St. Louis,
Mo-, city hospital, second in the ex-
animation of the Michael REESE hospi-
tai, Chicago, and another first in the
examination of the Cook county hospi-
tai. This last accomplishment is the
n priced most OF all since it is the
ambition Of all western medical gradu-
dteS 10 secure an appointment TO tnaC
institution. Henkin was recently BAN
quoted by his class as an apprecia-
ton of the honors taken by one. Of
their Humber. It goes without saying
that the state of South Dakota and the
university are proud of his successes.
"Dry" Area Growing Larger.
Pierre.-The Anti-Saloon league
yearbook just out shows that South
Dakota's dry territory has increased
from 6S per cent of population under
dry regulation, 1914, to 70 per cent in
1915. In 1914 a total of 1874 persons
held federal retail liquor tax receipts,
which includes drug stores and all
other places selling liquors, and in
1915 the number has decreased to
LOOP.
Another Creamery.
Pierre.-The machinery for a new
creamery at Ledgepole in Perkins
county will help spread the cream
business for the west river section of
the state. Thousands of head of milk
m p ho.-r hoo~ 1l111S -1- A. r-----.