Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-03-20
COTTON SEED MEAL BEING SOLD
IN iowa LACKING in
PROTEIN.
WAR CAUSES SHORTAGE, :.
Cleaning Process Now Followed In,
jures Quality Of Meal - State Food
Department Holds Meal IL Being
Misbranded and Threatens Proseeu-
tions Unless Brands Are Changed.

| Des Moines, March 20.-Much of the
cotton seed meal now being sold in
Iowa is falling short in protein, the
state food and dairy department has
discovered. Inspectors have been
picking up samples in various parts of
! the state and an examination by the
chemists in the dairy and food de-
partment reveals much of 1t short on
protein. AT the same time manufac-
turers are receiving high prices for
their product. ~ S8t'~s
| And the war Is the cause Of this, it is
said. Gun cotton is high and all cot
ton is bringing high prices and the
cleaning processes now followed in
jure the seed more or less for feeding
purposes chemists explain. Hence the
| cotton seed meal is not SO strong of
protein as formerly. y, FIJI H.
| Feeders in Iowa buy large quanti-
ties of this meal and it is high priced.
A deterioration in the quality means
big loss to them, the dairy and food
department points out. With the pro-
| tein falling short Of what it is marked
on the packages sold the cotton seed
meal is misbranded and the depart
ment threatens to prosecute rnanufac-
turers unless they change the. labels on
their meal and show exactly how much
protein there is in their product.
The food and dairy department de-
clares 1T has to keep constantly on the
alert to see the pure food laws are
| lived up to in these days of so much
food being sold in packages. Both
| food for man and for animals has to
be watched. h. -.
| This is great day for selling food
| in packages" said Ben c. Iliff, deputy
food and dairy commissioner. Manu-
facturers of food products devise all
sorts of canned and boxed foodstuffs
and it is high class stuff for the most
| part too for the public will not buy
it, unless it is. But it, has to be
watched closely to see that it meets
the requirements of the food laws as
to weight and proper representations
on the packages. The public has
grown educated to buying package
stuff instead of in the bulk and the
package food products business is In
creasing all the time"
Milk Fever No Longer Feared.
| Milk fever in dairy cattle is. mo
Longer feared by dairymen and veteri-
narians since the air pressure method
Of treating this, disease has come into
general use so Dr.. j. I.sGihson, sta te
veterinarian declares. 1t used to be on
| the dairy farm that the spring of the
year was dreaded because Of the
amount Of milk fever which developed
and when COW got milk fever she
had small chance Of recovery. In
fact DR. Gibson says that formerly 50
per cent OF the cows which took this
disease died. Now he says not 5 per
cent of them die. -
This method of pumping air into
| the bag to relieve milk fever was dis
covered by accident said DR.. Gibson
| a few days ago. "Over in Denma rll
an old fellow by the name Of ~Schnide
had some kind of liquid treatme
which he had devised and the liquid
| was pumped into the cows bag by air
pressure. One day he sent two, Of his
assistants out ito treat q COW which
had milk fever and when they got to
the farm they discovered they = had
| none of the liquid but they had the
pump all right. So they just pumped
air into the cows bag and came home.
They agreed they would say nothing
about it. and no one would know but
that the COW had been treated with the
fluid These two young fellows were
surprised to learn that this cow got
well in the course Of few hours after
| this treatment. They began to think 1t
over and finally told the old, man
Schmidt He began studying on the
theory of the effect Of oxygen on the
germs which caused the fever and de-
cided that there was Virtue in this air
treatment. He worked out his theory
in practice and it proved to be cure
which always worked. That was some
fifteen or twenty years ago and since
then the method Of pumping air into
the cows bag to relieve milk fever has
come into general practice among
veterinarians and it does the business.
i state Sued ,For Damages.
| The state OF Iowa has been made de-
PENDANT in 4 damage suit case In which
lEllen Dugan, of Des Moines, Is asking
damages to the extent Of $1,000 for
lfall she says she received on the CAPT
toll extension grounds during the ICY
weather. She says she sun g
lbroken leg thereby ard was compelled
to spend time and money in the, hos
lpital. The executive council has re-
ferred her claim to, q, committee TO In
Ivestigate. ..3 Il 81
"a 10 RSopsn Thomss cass.
The state board OF parole has SET
Tuesday OF this week IN the date for g
bearing on the appli xficn Of Charley
lThomas,, OF Des Molnes. for q pardon
Thomas has been IN the penitentiary
lat Fort Madison since 1905. He was
sent up on conviction s6fa the murder
OF Mabel 15roisp;saa u: E 1s .Ea
found floating IN ths pes Moines river