Evening journal., 1915-01-28
TRI-STATE packers
DISCUSS The TRADE
Best Methods in Spraying
Also Discussed by Govern
mCnt Experts
STATE INSPECTOR
SUBMITS REPORT

The annual meeting of the Tri-State
Packers Association is being held to-
day at the Hotel DUPONT with about
sixty packers from the states Of New
Jersey. Maryland and Delaware in at
tendance. The meeting was called to
order by President Walter 0. Honeck
er. of Smyrna.
A number Of addresses were deliver
cd in regard to cannery inspection and
also on the matter of spraying. "The
Tomato Blignt-lts Cause and Cure, %
was the ubject of an address by Dr.
w. A. Orton of the Bureau of Plant
Industry Washington. DR.. J. B. $.
Norton of the Maryland Agricultural
College. spoke on the Proper Spray
. ing of Tomato Plants" There were
also addresses by DR.. b. j. Howard of
the Bureau of Chemistry, Washington: (:
Dr. Shoemaker, Bureau of Plant In
/ dustry, Washington; DR.. Bigelow. Ma
lional Gamers Association Labcrator-
les, Washington DR.. A. X. Beasby
cannery inspector of Maryland.
DIR. William K. Messick, of Reho-
both Beach, State canncry inspector
addressed the association in part as
follows:
Gentlemen / cannot express Ia
! you in words the qualification and
, pleasure it brought me TO know that
the men highest in the councils of the
canning industry of the State OF
! Delaware have almost to a man. raj
/ lied to my support in my endeavors
! to carry out the provisions of the
statute with regard to the canning
/ business.
"Not every Gamer in the State
oheyed the law; few made no at
/ tempt, but every one who had any re.
spect for his business, any plans fol
the future, any appreciation of his re.
sponsibility as manufacturer oi
! foodstuffs did earnestly work to this
end in view, and while / Travelled
during the past season 5000 miles
/ and made over 800 inspections. / was
compelled to cause but two arrests
for the violation of this law, as
against eleven last year.
"One of the most difficult matters
for me has been to keep the operators
of factories alive to the necessity O
the disposition of waste, and [ have
had numberless excuses from then
for not doing so. On the occasion o
one visit to factory / would fint
conditions good and the next day iI
the same factory they would be sucl
that one could scarcely believe tina
the difference could possibly exist
Where the distances are so great.
fail to see how il is possible for m'
TO remedy these faults; indeed,
should need no suggestion from m,
I..A 81 -Ia
I be glad to remedy the fault and
look at it that since IL is one of th'
requirements of the statute il wal
meant to be enforced and can TAX
no other view of II.
1T does not necessarily follow tina
ones plant must be extensively equip
ped with the latest or most approves
machinery or mechanical apparatus &
be sanitary but ! cannot conceiv
how the operator. who knows that hi
product is to be consumed in tn
home. can be content to be negligen
as to sanitary conditions when h
knows that ultimately the price h
will receive for his goods will. in
measure depend upon the condition
under which they are prepared an
packed and put on the market. II /
fast coming to this and you. whetho
you may agree or not, may take
for granted as being true.
in your own homes and familie
YOU demand that cleanliness i'm a.
preparation OF your food be the chic
factor and do you think il unreasou
able that esM1rs demand the same =
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