The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-03-22
INSPECTION IS. DEMANDED
Forty-Three Farmers Are Notified to
Clean Up Barns and Cattle and State
inspectors Promise to Make Second
Visit When Arrests May Be Made.

twenty-five per cent of the diaries
contributing to the milk supply of the
city of Kenosha are. filthy; Kenosha
wants inspection first and pasteuriza-
ton afterward -
This was the declaration of G. 3.
Lee, state dairy and food inspector,
who came into Kenosha late Thursday
afternoon after making an inspection
Of lot of farms in Kenosha county
which are contributing to the milk
supply of the city.
II don It want to say that the ma
ioritv of the farms about Kenosha from
which milk is being shipped and hauled
to Kenosha are dirty, but [ do say that
most of the milk being sold in the city
is dirty milk. Seventy five per cent of
the diaries contributing to the Keno
sha supply are maintained in what the
state knows as passable condition.
but the milk from the seventy-fve per
cent is mixed with milk coming from
the dirty barns and dirty cattle and
the net supply is no cleaner than that
coming from the twenty-five per cent
dirty places Much of; the condition is
due to ignorance and it is going to
continue at least in part until the city
of Kenosha extends it's inspection serY-
ice, not only to the examination of
cans of milk brought into the city for
sale, but to the barns and cattle where
this milk is produced. There are
few scrupously clean places in Kenosha
county and we were proud of them.
These men know how to produce the
best possible milk and how to handle
it after it is produced. In some of the
cases men who have rented farms are
spending the money which they would
be compelled to spent for fines, to
clean up the places and put them into
something nearer the condition demand
ed by the state pure food department.
Most Of the men who hapdle the COWS
declared their complete willingness to
comply with every order made by the
state and those who do not comply will
be arrested and. forced to comply by
court order when we make a second
inspection within the next few days.
We are not in any way opposed to
dissemination and the milk supply of
Kenosha should be pasteurized, but
milk from dirty diaries and dirty cows
can not be made clean by pasteuriza
ton. You can take out the germs and
the micr obes, but the essence of the filth
will remain. Kenosha must clean up its
milk supply by inspecting the source OF
it and by repeated inspection"
Inspector Lee and Inspector Van
Duser, both of the state department,
spent three days making. inspections in
this county and while not all Of the
farms selling milk to Kenosha were
taken under consideration. most of
them were visited, Inspector Lee de-
clared that Kenosha county farmers
were wav behind the times in the ques-
ton of handling dairy products and
that only a small per cent of them had
any idea of modern methods. He attri-
buted this to the fact that manv of the
men selling milk We're renting the land
and that the owners of this land were
unwilling to do ANYTHING to improve
buildings and make them fit place for
the production of healthful clean milk
The state officials held long confer
ence with the officials of the Kenosha
health department before leaving for
Madison on Thursday night and the
local officials were given lot of inter
esting facts on which to base a crue-
SADIE for cleaner milk. The local of
ficials will follow closely the demands
Of the state inspectors and it is ex-
pected that lot Of milk now being
sold in Kenosha will be condemned
and the farmers forced to clean
up before the milk is allowed to be
brought to the city again.