Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-06-24
By S. c. Richards, V. S.

getting a square deal in the matter
of dairy inspection: That they never
have had a square deal: That the
deal they are getting is unscientifc
as well as unjust: And that we never
can have justice, harmony and good
feeling until the dairy-inspection sys
TEN of every town and city in the
country is completely overturned
and remade along lines justified by
sanitary science and economy in the
production of milk.
No decent dairyman objects to the
interest which city people take in the
quality of his milk Such interest j.
quite natural. When milk was drawn
from the COW and used promptly, OF
was strained and put away in a COO
place, as it used to be when every
family had its own COW, there was not
much in the qaulity of milk for the
consumer to worry about. But the
farmer who produces milk will have tc
admit that the consumer has a license
to worry now
Milk comes from farms never seen
by one consumer in thousand. i
is consumed in such away that filth
and disease are hard to trace. The
consumer is so far from the producer
that the tendency is for each to for
90, about he other The milk is
shipped long distances, and is sub
ject to neglect on the part OF various
persons after it leaves the farm, so
that milk which is perfectly good
the barn. maybe utterly bad milk al
the depot in the city. Therefore we
must recognize the propriety OF
dairy inspection and the necessity foi
dairy inspectors.
Why is it. then. that from time inn
memorial there has been constant
friction between the dairy inspector
and the dairyman?
That there is such friction cannot
be denied Friction always exists
between the Inspector and the inspect
ed everywhere. But are banks as
hostile to bank inspectors as dairy
men are in many cases TO dairy
inspectors? Almost certainly not,
Tnere are reasons for this.
Many dairymen fail to see the pro
pricty OF proper inspection and car
renters, blacksmiths. plumbers, cob
blers and other persons, with no
knowledge OF dairying or sanitation
fave been appointed dairy inspectors
in various parts OF the country. The
dairy Inspector must be respectable
or he will not be respected. He must
be an expert in the true sense OF the
word, or he will do lot more harm
q m good.
But an improvement in the charact
er and qualifications of dairy inspec-
tors will not do much until the milk
Authorities in the cities know some
thing besides theory and what their
rnaided eyes can see about dairies
and dairy barns, have no more to dc
with the production of clean mill
an they have with the making
icric acid.
Near Cleveland, Ohio. is a dairy
arm that is one of the finest in the
United States. Every floor is made
e concrete. carefully waterproofed
There is not wooden Beam i'll the
l..3ilding You might set fire to the
ay before the cows and it would moi
erdanger the barn Floors, walls
stanchions-everything is smooth
olean and sanitary. The milk room
l., built just off the COW barn and un
der the same roof. 1t is divided
from the barn by twelve inch hre-
proof wall, and there is not window
4 door, or even crack forming "a
connection between the barn and
milk room.
The Inspector refused to allow milk
from this barn to be sold in Cleveland
because the milk was stored awaiting
shipment in a room which was under
(, e same roof as the dairy barn. Sc
ese people had to go work and built
new milk room, where they have
irstalled new pasteurizer, and bot
t ng rooms, and they are now sell
ing a large amount pure milk each
day in Cleveland
The inspectors might just as wei
lave objected to the milk room be
cause it was under the same sky "a
{ c COW barn. 1t would have beer
] st as sensible. Perhaps the law
gave the inspectors no discretion. L
50 that is the very point | am max
ias. Our dairy-inspection laws
end regulations are based on the
ignorance. now no longer excusable
os the so called scientists Of the CITY