The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-06-30
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1t is generally known by the dairy
farmers Of Tennessee that the leg
islature Of 1919 passed a law requir-
ing all dairy products used in the
manufacture Of ice cream to be pas
teurized. and that a license fee Of $40
year was charged all persons manu-
featuring ice cream for sale. This
bill is known as Chapter 17S, Acts
of 1919, and was passed at the re-
quest of most Of the ice cream manu-
facturers Of the state. The enforce
ment Of this law was entrusted to
the department Of agriculture under
the state dairy commissioner
From the first this law was I'M
popular among the very small ice
cream manufacturers, who did not
have pasteurizing equipment, be-
cause it made it necessary for them
to either buy this equipment or buy
pasteuriZed milk and cream from a
plant which had it to sell. Many
dairymen selling their milk to these
small plants did not like this law be-
cause where the small manufacturer
purchased his milk from a plant
which pasteurized, instead Of buy
ing the necessary equipment, the
dairyman had to find other places
where he could dispose Of his milk.
During the last week Of the legis-
lature a bill was introduced by Mr..
Cummins, Of Shelby, repeating sub
Section Of Section 2 of Chapter
178 Of the Acts of 1919, which re-
CURED all dairy products used in the
manufacture of ice cream to be pas
teurized. This bill amending the
Acts Of 1919 is embodied in Chapter
1876. Acts Of 1921.
Since this amendment by the last
legislature, ice cream manufacturer
in Tennessee does not have to be pas
teurized, and farmers may now sell
their raw milk to an ice cream fac
tory not equipped to pasteurize it,
which they could not do under the
law as it formerly read.
AS a result Of this amendment,
several small plants and drug stores
have started the manufacture Of ice
cream in small towns instead Of hav-
ing it shipped in, as present express
rates made the cost of shipment al
most prohibitive. Thus a demand
for milk and cream has been created
in these localities and the dairy in
dustry thereby stimulated.
It is interesting to note that plants
which either had, or installed, pas
teurizinp machinery when the com
pulsory pasteurization law was passed
are still pasteurizing their milk for
ice cream since the law has been
amended. They have, continued to
pasteurize because they know that
pasteurization gives them better
product and is the only sure way of
always having pure milk and cream,
thus always guaranteeing their Gus
toners pure ice cream.
Dairy farming is one Of the most
profitable forms Of livestock farming,
and with all conditions of soil, elm
ate, etc, so well suited to the de-
velopment Of the industry in this
state, should receive more attention
from farmers.
The conservation Of the fertility
Of the soil is one of the greatest
problems Of agriculture. Farms in
almost every community, and even
entire counties, can be pointed out
where the fertility of the soil has I
been vastly increased by livestock /
farming and the most marked ex-
amples of this are in connection with
dairy farming.
There is constancy and certainty of
returns in the dairy COW. This APP
peals to the farmer with small capital
as readily as to the man of larger
means. Dairying is not a specu-
lative business. The returns are
constant and can be depended upon.
The market price varies less than any
other farm product. It is what might
be termed a "money crop" because
the COW is constantly converting all
crops into marketable product. For
this reason dairying should be given
more attention bv the farmers of
Tennessee. No state in the Union is
better adapted to its development as
a profitable industry.