Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-19
MEAT milk LAW
BEFORE COUNCIL
FINALLY PASSED
State Uniform Inspection Law
Formally Adopted AS Part of
City Marketing System
STAPLETON is INSPECTOR
All Carcasses Brought Here for
Sale Now Must Be Inspected
Before Offered to Trade

City council in regular session last
night formally adopted the Georgia
State Unioform Meat and Milk In
spection law, in addition to providing
for enforcement Of proper inspection
of these products under municipal
supervision.
DR.. S. F. Stapleton, Americas vet
erinarian, was elected city Inspector,
at a salary of $500 month, and
fees placed upon inspection service
will bring in revenue sufficient to
defray the expense of the entire de-
partment.
No municipal slaughter house is
provided for in the ordinance as
passed, though precautions are
placed upon the manner in which
meat may be slaughtered, and city
authorities have power under the
ordinance to condemn any carcass
slaughtered except under approved
conditions
Provisions of the ordinance ap-
plying especially to commercial dali
ries here provide ample security
against the sale of impure or dis
eased milk in Americus. Not only
are all Diary cows to be inspected pc
riodically, but an occasional bac-
terial count will be run, this being
done to insure a proper butter fat
content as well as to guard against
impurities in the milk sold.
At last nights meeting che dairies
here were all represented, with Roy
Emmet, of w. Il. Emmett & Sons,
acting as spokesman for those pres
ent. Emmet, speaking for the COM
mercial dairies of the community,
heartily approved the ordinance be-
fore its adoption, saying the dairy
men here were all willing to pay
voluntarily the fees named therein to
secure the protection which scientific,
inspection will provide their patrons
Previous to presentation of the
ordinance to council, Chairman E.
j. Witt of the finance committee of
conna, conferred with Americus
butheA and dairymen, when the in
spection fees provided in the ordi-
nance were discussed and agreed
upon. These provide that dairymen
shall pay into the city treasury 20
cents per month or $2.40 per an
mum for each cow in their respec-
tive herds and that for each beef
carcass inspected a fee of 80 cents
shall be paid and for each hog car
cass similar fee of 20 cents by
the person offering the same for
sale. This makes the provisions of
the ordinance applicable to every
person selling meat of any descrip-
ton in Americus, including farmers
who slaughter their meat before
bringing 1t into the city for sale to
butchers or individuals.
A provision of the ordinance COW
ering inspection of carcasses is that
whenever a carcass is inspected the
entire viscera of the animal shall be
submitted to the city inspector for
examination, and that where such
vlScera IS not produced the carcass
shall be classed as doubtful and its
sale prohibited until the viscera, in
cluding lungs, liver and other parts,
be produced and passed by the city
inspector
Inspected carcasses will all be
formally stamped when passed, and
such stamp will remain thereon un-
til cut away by the consumer or
butcher, seals for affixing such
stamps being ordered last night.
The provisions of the ordinance are
effective and Dr.. Stapleton began
his inspection duties this morning.