The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-01
VETERINARIANS
T0lNsPEGT MILK
IN BIG CRUSADE
Board Of Agriculture Decides To
Publish Official List 81
Filthy Diaries
WILL Try T0iAR0OsE "a A,slss'
PEOPLE 10 cooPERATE
Important Steps 10 Protecl
Health Of Consumers Have
Been lnauuurated

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The board Of agriculture and fors
estry, at its regular meeting yesterday,
decided to instruct the veterinary dIvi.
sion to inanRurate an official bacterial
examination Of all milk offered for sale
in Honolulu. The board WIN probably
begin this work about the middle Of
January. " >ir Asisyl
At monthly intervals tabular state.
ments showing the condition, Of the milk
sold by each dairyman and BY the varil
Gus vendors who peddle milk not pro.
cured from. their own diaries will be
published. !, s
10 Protect MIX Users
The territorial yeterinariants have
been making bacterial counts Of the
city milk supply for the last six months
or more, but the members Of the board
have hesitated to make public the Re-.
suits Of these tests - p 4 Y II
Many lots of milk have proved In.
expressibly filthy. The. veterinarians
have endeatored TO secure betterment
Of the conditions under which many
dairy herds and individual " family .
cows are maintained, but without much
success. 4.
The board Of agriculture Is now Of
the opinion that It viii be impossible
to enforce sanitary handling Of cows
and milk unless public opinion Is
aroused. The only way. to do this 10
20 let the public know what daifymon
exercise ordinary. sanitary precautions
ia handling the milk which they sell
and what dairymen are absolutely uni.
regardful Of the rights Of their custom,
ers in this regard. \. g'
FILTHY Stables Make Poor MIX shs
VI Milk from pedigreed cows may be 81
handled in the stables and milk rooms
THAT IL is Absolutely poisonous as human
food by the time Il reaches the con
sumer.
Milk from healthy animal Is as
pure as any food can be when il /,
first drawn from the cow. But II the
or the animal 5 skin is eaked with dung
and mud, or the milk Is strained
i through unwashed sleeves into, dirty
buckets and cans, or Is left exposed
to the air Of filthy stables, II quickly
becomes infected with the germs Of
decomposition, and Is then q. carrier Of
disease rather than q healthful food.
Scientific Control Aimed At
To the eye one sample Of milk Is q.
good as another, but when thest rains<
meteorological examines II he can testify
infallibly whether the milk has beer
handled in a eleanly manner or other
wise. There is no reason why any
dairyman should sell nnciesn milk.
4 The board Of agriculture now take
the stand that the public are entitle'
to what they pay for. The only va,
to compel those dairymen who are care
less Of sanitary methods In milk han
ding to amend their ways Is to 10
the public know which are selling cleal
milk and which unelean. These bac
terial counts, when published, viii Prov
an exact index Of the care and degfe'
of cleanliness employed by the differ
emit dairymen. ,sl, y
The routine reports of the various d
visions for the month Of NOvembei
were accepted and fled. David Haughi
reported that 1850 trees were dis
tributed for planting on Arbor Day.
sinful Trail and Mountain Club
The board granted permission TO Dr.
w. T. Bingham for one Of the EN-
a ployes Of the Bishop Museum TO coilec'
scientific specimens on government for
est reserves. This request, which Is |
recognition Of the legal control whicl
the board exercises over much OF thu
public lands throughout Hawaii, brough
out caustic criticism Of the high-handes
manner in which various members o.
the Trail and Mountain Club have Gu
and slashed paths and byways through
the forest reserves, I'M utter DISREGARD
of the powers Of the board.
WIN Go for 4 Hilo Plantation
The board voted 70 undertake
through the attorney generate depart
ment, vigorous effort to force TIL
Hilo Sugar Company 10 pay for som
5000 worth Of building materials whicl
Is the property Of the Territory ars
which, It Is alleged, was wrongful.
sequestrated by the company At Oh
time the board discontinued the Hill
quarantine station. W. M. 0iflat'
stated that he considered the reported
action Of the Hilo Sugar Company il
this matter an outrage.
Forests as Revenue Producers Z,
The application Of T. Nobriga 70
permission to cut dead timber IN tn
Tantalus forest was refused. The boar
voted to defer the utilization Of stump
age ini forest greshreesfu until nho 4lftP4
Of the newly appointed fofestef, c... y
Judd. The work Of cleaning up Of III
reserves and thinning the planted for
ests will then be advertised and let y
the highest bidder, the board being Il
favor Of making the reserves a sourc'
Of revenue to the Territory.
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