The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-07-01
Fact for Dairymen
BY w. T.IMAGRUDER, Jr. STATE DAIRY
COMMISSIONERS

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1t lie generally known by the dairy
farmers of Tennessee that the Legisla-
ture Of 1919 passed q law requiring ell
dairy products used in the manufacture
OF ice cream to be pasteurized, and
that license fee of $40 year was
charged all persons manufacturing ice
cream for sale. This bill is known as.
Chapter l76, Acts of 1919, and was
passed at the request of most of the
ice cream manufacturers Of the State
The enforcement Of this law was en-
trusted to the Department Of Agricul-
tule under the State Dairy Commission
er.
From the first this law was unpopu~
lar among the very small ice cream
manufacturers who did not have pas
teurizing equipment, because it made
it necessary for them to either buy this
equipment or 10 buy pasteurlzed milk
cream from a plant which had IL to
sell. MANY dairymen selling their
milk to these small plants did not like
this law because where the small manu-
facturer purchased his milk from .
plant which past surized, instead Of
buying the necessary equipment the
dsirymen had to find other places
where he could dispose of bis milk.
During the last week of the Legisla-.
ture bill was introduced by Mr.
Cummins Of Shelby, repeating SUBJ
section 5 of Section 2 of Chapter us
Of the Acts of 1919. which required alb
dairy products used 10 the manufacture
of ice cream to be pasteur;zed. This
bill amending the Acts Of 1919 is en-
bodied in Chapter l26. Acts of 1879
Since this amendment by the LAST
Legislature. ice cream manufactured in.
Tennessee does not have to be pasteu-
rized, and farmers may now sell their
raw milk to an ice cream factory not.
equipped to pssteurize il, which they
could not do under the law as it formep--
ly read.
AZ result Of this amendment, sevs--
eral small plants and drug stores have
started the manufacture of ice.cream Ina
small towns instead Of having 1t ship
ped in, as present express rates made=
the cost Of shipment almost prohibitive. :.
Thus demand for milk and cream hae-,
been created in these localities, and thes'
dairy industry thereby stimulated.
1t is interesting to note that plants
which either had, or installed. pasteuriz-
ing machinery when the compulsory
pasteurization law was passed are silk
pssteurizipg their milk for ice cream.
since the law has been amended. They
have continued to pasteurize because
they know that pasteurizstion gives
them better, product and is the only
sure way of always having pure milk
and cream, thus always guaranteeing
their customers pure ice cream.
Dairy farming is enc of the most
profitable forms of live stock farming.
and with all conditions of soil, climate.
etc, so well suited to the develop
ment 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. Fsrms in almost every
community, and even entire counties,
can b, pointed out where the fer,ilitv
OF the soil has been vastly increased by
live stock farming. and the most mark
ed examples of this are in connection
with dairy farming.
There is a consistency and certainty Of
retprnsin the dairy COW. This appealsto
farmers with small capital as readily ss.
to the man of larger means. Dsirying.
is not speculative business. The re
turns are constant and can be depended
upon. The market price varies lees.
than any other farm product. Il 10
what might be termed money crop
because the cos is constantly convert
ing oil crops into marketable product.
For this reason dairying should be given.
more attention by farmers:of Tennesses.
No State in the union 10 better sdsptsE
to it, development as profitable in
dustry.