The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-07-21
PURE FOOD
RESTAURANT. HOTEL AND FOOD
ARE THE SUBJECT OF LEGAL
ACTION UNDER THE LAW.

Vermillion. July 21.-Members of
the state food and drug department
staff have been unusually busy of
late on account of the warm weather,
and a grist of prosecutions has fol
lowed in the wake of their activity
The summer season is always a
strenuous one for the food inspector,
and when hot weather comes on so
suddenly as it did this summer, il is
sure to cause more or less grief for
the careless food vender That per
ennial source of trouble and stanches
the filthy slaughter house, is in for
it's share of attention, as witness the
fact that three proprietors of meat
markets have paid heavy fines i'm the
past few days. One at Stratford was
assessed $25 in the Aberdeen munic-
ipal court and two at Redfield We're
fined $50 each for slaughtering an
imals in filthy insanitary places.
Any relaxation in the care with
which the baker keeps his shop these
hot days is likely to be regarded
with fine is evidenced by the pros
ecutionl Monday in Sioux Falls of
baker at Garretson. He was fined
$40 for maintaining an unclean
shop. restaurant keeper at Red
field was fined $25 for serving food
i'm an unclean and insanitary place
The department, through the inspec-
tors and by letter, had advised the
offenders of the laws requirements,
and given warning that prosecution
would likely follow further failure to
operate under decent conditions
Inspectors have also been busy
Gambling eggs and have found some
cases which warranted court action.
A farmer at Highmore and one at
Peeyer were each fined by local JUS
tices for selling rotten eggs, while a
merchant at Parkston was fined $40
and costs for selling rotten eggs to a
produce buyer in Bridgewater. Sew
eral inspectors are candling eggs and
watching closely for violations of the
state law 1t is extremely crafty
ing. however. to the department to
note the remarkable Improvement in
the quality of eggs marketed this
year as compared with former years.
Three years ago such period of hot
weather as has prevailed during the
past three weeks would have caused
the market TO be flooded with eggs
OF very poor quality This year.
however. because of the far greater
care being exercised by farmers and
merchants, it is difficult TO find a
lot of eggs in which there are a suf-
ficient number of bad eggs TO justify
criminal prosecution To be sure,
the inspectors are unable TO find but
a small part of the total violations,
but the number which they find is
so much less than in former years
that il is very good evidence that
better eggs are being marketed in
South Dakota today than ever before
at this season.
In another town last week an in
spector of the department caused 10
be destroyed lot of bedding infect
ed with bedbugs. Ten mattresses,
sixteen comforters and lot of filthy
mating and rugs. together with two
bug-rdden bed springs, were hauled
TO the town dump, saturated with
kerosene and set afire The hotel
from which these furnishings We're
taken is now being thoroughly reno
waited and cleaned on recommends
ton Of the inspector, and no new
bedding will be placed in it until the
cleaning is completed.