Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-06-23
no;rvmen and Board of
Health Approve Measure,
Councilmen Would Alter.
SMALL TAX IMPOSED
ordinance Creates Position Of Milk
i,sneetor and Clearly Defines Dairy
Product That May: BE Sold as
Milk in Pine Bluff.

al ordinance which has been pre-
hSared after series of conferences
toiweei1i re personalities of the coun-
III The board of health and the dairy
mon was introduced and given its
first reading at the meeting of the
council Monday night, and notwith-
standing the many indications that
+he terms of the ordnance are ac-
centable OF the board of health and
tha dairymen, the indications are the
cmncil, at it's next meeting, will en-
deayor to eliminate some of the regu-
lations and adj others
As it was .read5 last night the ordi-
nance demands, in specific: and de-
tailed style, the installation and
Maintenance of modern, SANITARY
conditions on the dairy farms, in. the
harms. in the delivery wagons and
.eyerywhere else the milk Or cream
or aything connected with the dairy
products.
The ordinance, creates the posi-
ton of milk inspector, whose duty it
shall be to inspect the milk, the
dairies and creameries or other
places where milk or. other dairy
products are handled. The salary
has not been fixed, but under the
ordinance it will be paid by the city.
il'rhe license or privilege tax undar
the ordinance is. based upon the
number of COWS, ranging as follows:
For one COW, 81 per year; two. or
three cows, S. per. year; -four to ten
COWS, IS per year; more than ten
COWS, $3.50 per year. :. 80.
The ordinance says there. shall be
10 adulteration or water in milk
nor any preventative, foreign or I'M
healthy ingredient, constituent or
substance.
No cream shall be sold or offered
for sale which contains less than IS
per cent of butterfaf.
II is violation of the ordinance to
sell or offer for sale milk containing
more than 1926 per cent. of watery
flaid, or which has less than $50
per cent. of milk solids, exclusive of
bitter fat, or which contains less
than 1925 per cent. of butterfat, of
tue specific gravity of which, at a
temperature of 60 degrees Fahren-
heit, is not between 1929 and 1.0933,
or which contains any pathogenic
bacteria, or which is produced by a
herd any COW of which is diseased
there being necessary exceptions to
some of these regulations in the
natter Of SKINNED milk and butter
milk. ! i vi;
The ordinance states that skinned
milk shall contain not less than $50
per cent, of solids, and the con-
tainers shall be marked plainly
skinned milk" in letters not less
than one inch high. The wagons in
which milk is delivered or hauled
shall bear the name and license
number of the owner, in letters net
less than 2 inches high.
Hotels, restaurants and other
places handling milk or dairy pro-
ducts for sale are included in TIE
ordnance, and the inspector is given
the Usual authority to take samples,
to condemn, or confiscate milk. or
to exclude it from sale or delivery
in Pine Bluff, If there is violation
Of the terms of the ordinance. or II
samples or inspection is denied.
The penalty for violation IS fixed at
fine of not less than SIS nor more
than $50, and each day shall constl-
tute a separate Offensa.