Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-04-13
STATE LABEL ON
DAIRY PRODUCTS
AsSEMBLYMAN MkoWAN INTRO
DucEs BILL TO sTANOARDiZE
BADGER FACTORIES.
WOULD FORM CONTROL BODY
Committee Would Establish Standard
of Butter and Cheese Based
on Cleanliness, Purity and
Manufacturing.
Madison. April 6. 1915.

Madison, April 6, 1915.
The first steps for creating stand
ard for Wisconsin dairy products are
provided for in bill by Assemblyman
McKowan. The bill provides for the
rigid standardization of factories
which desire to use proposed state
label upon products. This label will
be known as the Wisconsin state
brand. Such brands, as guarantees of
purity and weight, are in use in a
number of European countries.
The bill provides for the creation of
a control body, to be composed of the
dairy and food commissioner, the pres
ident of the state board of agriculture,
the head of the dairy division of the
University of Wisconsin, and one
member chosen by the executive COM
mittees of the Wisconsin Dairymen's
association, the Wisconsin Cheese
makers association, the Wisconsin
Butter Makers association and the So
ciety of Equity. The dairy and food
commissioner will be chairman.
This control committee will estab-
lish the standard for butter and cheese,
using as a basis cleanliness, purity
and conditions of manufacture. 1t will
also establish the scoring standard, to
be used to determine whether fac
tory is entitled to use the state brand.
A dairy or cheese factory will have the
right to make application to be scored,
so that the use of the brand may be
granted for its products. The dairy
and food commissioner Is given au-
thority to require applicants to file a
bond with him to maintain the stand
ard of product the committee requires
as a condition, and fee based on the
output is also collected. The commits
sioner is permitted to collect such in
formation as is necessary to admins
ter the law. Money received for fees
or from bond forfeitures will be used
to make known to the public the ex-
istence of the Wisconsin state brand,
and the conditions under which it is
used.
UrgeNew Agriculture Board.
mittee on agriculture, Speaker Whit
tet appeared in support of the spe-
cial joint investigation committee
bill for creation of a department of
agriculture by the abolition of the
state board of agriculture, the state
board of immigration, the board of
veterinary examiners, the state live
stock sanitary board, the state in
spector of apiaries and the Office of
state veterinarian and merging the
activities of the boards and offices
aboHs he'd in the new department.
Speaker Whittet set forth the ad
vantages which advocates of the
measure contend will accrue from
the consolidation proposed. The
bill provides for three members of
the department of agriculture. each
with salary of $4,000 a year.
Peavey Opposes Plan.
Former Assemblyman H. II. Pea
vey of Ashland, a member of the
state board of agriculture, said it was
impossible to qualify three men to
carry out the provisions of the pro-
posed bill The passage of the bill
would do great harm to the state, he
said, by discouraging the great in
dustries it would affect He said that,
while there had been cry against
loose methods, he thought the Gill
was inconsistent with itself from that
standpoint.
Single Board Plan Big Issue.
Members of the legislature and
others are realizing the state board
of education measures proposed by
Gov. Philip is the biggest thing of
the legislative session. That it is a
constructive measure which, carried
to a successful issue and a practical
workable law, will be monument to
the Philip administration that will
overshadow all else and last long
after other reforms are forgotten.
While the idea of central board
has been tried with varying degrees
of success IN other states, it is
claimed it will be left for Wisconsin
in this. as in other matters, to take
W and work out a successful plan
for intelligent cooperation of all the
educational activities of the state so
the best results be secured and the
greatest harmony obtained and put
a stop to the present differences and
endeavors on the part of different
educational classes to get the largest
slice of the appropriation pudding.