The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-22
EGG CLEANUP
is STARTED IN
SIXTH DISTRICT
Arrests of IL Persons Made by
State Officials
In Five Counties on Order OF
L. A. COngdOn.
PRODUCERS AND SHIPPERS
They Have Been Sending Bad
Eggs to Market.
Similar Action VIII Be Taken
in Other Localities.

In an effort to protect the public
against bad eggs a crusade was today
started against Sixth district farmers
and egg shippers. Seventeen arrests
were announced today in Osborne,
Rocks, Norton, Phillips and Smith
counties. The arrests were made un-
der direction of L. A. Congdon. super
intendent of the division of foods and
drugs. under the state board of health.
Congdon declared the campaign
against egg law violators would be
made state wide.
Producers and not dealers are those
against whom the state department
will direct its fight. In the drag net
which dropped today in the Sixth con-
gressional district, several farmers
were caught. Egg shippers were also
arrested on state warrants and whole
sale prosecutions are to be made in
the state, Congdon declared.
1t was announced from the state
food and drug department today that
the federal government would lid the
state in it's fight for fresh eggs Fol-
lowing the arrest in the Sixth district
counties today, it was stated that .he
government would at once send in
spectors to the state. These men will
investigate shippers who have con-
signed eggs from one state to another.
tn local situation.
To Become Statewide.
Every section of the state will be
investigated. according to a statement
by Congdon. The first move was made
IN the Sixth district and will 1nne-
diately extend to counties in other
districts 1t is the plan of state Of
ficials to get right to the source or
II uble In their campaign the state
fficials will direct their efforts
against the producers and shippers.
That means trouble for the farmer and
tn egg dealer.
This is our first move in a state
wide campaign said Congdon in dis
cussing the report of seventeen arrests
in Osborne, Rocks, Norton, Phillips
into every section of the state. and
reach every locality where there is a
report of sales of bad eggs. We want
to get the producer, not the man
who runs a little store and is the vic
tim.
Results of Tests.
Under the ruling of the state board
of health, a case of eggs which tests
Is or more bad eggs is held as adul-
terated. As a result the entire case
is rejected and the man who sells
the egrs is subject to prosecution
under the state food and drug act.
Reports from some of the Sixth dis
trict counties show that in several
cases farmers and shippers disposed
of cases of eggs which tested more
than four dozen rotten or impure eggs.
Following the move against egg
dealers, the state also took up the
fight against ice cream dealers. Cong
don today received kilograms from
two inspectors who reported arrests
of ice cream dealers in Hutchinson
ard Great Bend. Both men, it is
oharged. made sales of sub-standard
zee cream.
The state law provides that ice
cream must test IA per cent. Persons
who manufacture or sell ice cream of
a lower standard are subject to prose-
cution on state warrant. Ice cream
conditions in a number of towns are
heine investigated with the prospect
that numerous arrests will be made.