Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-03
MAY TAKE MONTHS
TO PUT CLEAN MILK
LAW IN OPERATION
No Serious Objections Presented
and Farmers Are Generally
Cooperating.
10 PC. DISEASED IN KENT

Not for many weeks, perhaps three
months, will all the cows IN Delaware
have been tested for tubefcuin faint,
according to- statements mnde today by
State Board Of Health offeials. While the
law requiring that all cows shall have been
tested showing freedom from ttibeTcu-
losis or else have the milk pastcurized that
producers sell from their herds, became
effective August 1, yet because of The in
ability 10 test all the herds by this time. the
State Board will not be able To enforce
the test certificates for considerable time
Hundreds of applications from farmers
seeking to- have their herds tested poured
into the offices Of the State board at Dover
Yesterday and today II s estimated that
there ls enough work ahead Of the State
board' at Dover yesterday and today.
for the government veterinarians who arc
making the tests 20 keep them busy for
two and perhaps three months.
The health officials are having trouble
obtaining the data from each farmer and
retailer A producer may send in his
maine ms a producer but not state 10 whom
he sella his milk The retailer may send
in some Of the producers who sell 90 him. bat
not all Of them Some of the local boards
Of health were slow in fling the nanea of
applications IL is said were not complete
80 that there is much checking and re-
checking n terssary.
So fnr M the State health officials ran
observe, there IL no general movement
opposed to the law with the exception of
the Milk Producers Association n this
county which. II is now expected will
meet with tho State HoRrd of Health at
Dover on Thursday The contention the
producers have cited as objectionable, Il
is believed, ran Lc explained to their
entire satisfaction They want n know
If they will be paid for any COWS that are
killed hecausc they orc diseased To sueh
quest toner's the State health officials say
that they should be paid within month .
time after the snimal.is killed The State
pays its bills once month and vouchers
for the animals killed will take the regular
course IN tho State financial system.
KENT COUNTY cows 10 p c. DISEASED
One Of the questions that arise during
this period of regulating the milk Of the
State and also placing Il on a basis that
can compare with many other common
wealths, is how many cows are diseased
which fact would Indicate what percentage
of danger tho citizens had bean under
going for years. The results Of the cow
testing are IN too primitive state at
present to do murh moro shan estimate,
and but one county, Kent, has been
pretty vell probed In Kent county,
haaing the estimate ON the cows examined,
there are about 10 per cent diseased.
In New Castle county il is not expected
shat the rate will run as high as this, be
cause many Of the herds arc fancy bred
and not raised particularly for their milk
producing qualities.
The situation in Newark. where the
producers at first decided not to have their
cows tested, has been cleared up The
producers decided after thought TO
agree 10 the test, and this solved the
problem for the State health officials
1t is expected that the placing in
operation Of this law will not be effected
without many little objections and bothers
and that II may be a year before it Is
fully in force in every town and section.