Imperial Valley press., 1924-01-30

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dairy service, California Department
of Agriculture, who has been in the
valley for the past few days al
tending Dairy Week and Dairy Day
activities and conferring with dairy
men over the county, Is intensely
interested in helping Imperial county
put over proper milk inspection. MIR.
Frey was one of the speakers and
one of the attendants at the meeting
of the "clean milk committee
which met Friday afternoon to adopt
uniform measures regarding county
milk inspection.
Mr.. Frey has kindly prepared the
following article, setting forth fully
the need here for such inspection
and the best methods to follow in its
adoption:
In additTon to the need for more
dairying as an economic factor in
the agriculture of the Imperial Val
ley, you have milk problem. II
is the problem of consistently safe
supply of market milk of which the
public may partake freely with a
justified sense of security. The de-
partment of agriculture of the state
of California knows this is true
from a survey recently made ard
from observation during the past
few years. The people in the cities
of the valley have recognized this
problem as manifested by spasmodic
efforts to establish inspection, with
varying degrees of success.
California Law
The welfare of all the people is
the primary consideration. The
health of our younger generation is
of greatest concern to parents and
thinking people of any community
We know that milk IN adequate
amounts is necessary to the proper
development of the bodies and minds
of children, as are dairy products
essential to vitality, vigor and STAN
ina of adults. But the same nutri-
tional 4. elepents~swhi make. milk
such an excellent food for mankind
make it an ideal medium for the rap
id growth of bacteria. Nature in
tended that milk for infants should
never touch anything but mucuous
membranes. In our modern prac-
tees the milk of cows comes in con
tact with the.surface of several uten-
sils or pieces of equipment. 1t is
sometimes handled by many persons
and several hours elapses on its
journey from the cow to consumer,
Hence, the. necessity for adequate
safe guards.
Mix inspection as conducted un-
DER the Pure Milk Law of the state
of California, not only affords pro-
lection against milk borne epidem-
les of communicable disease, such as
typhoid fever, but also affords pro
lection against those less spectacu-
lar, but no less serious, and far more
common intestinal disorders known.
as "gas' collie, summer complaint,
diarrhoea, indigestion, etc.
From a consumers viewpoint,
and as father of children, would
rather pay fair price for milk
which l know is always safe than
to pay five cents a quart for milk of
unknown quality. For unknown
quality always means inferior milk
sometimes and sometimes means IN
ferior milk all the time.
Condemn System
In recommending adequate safe (
guards for the market milk supply
of Imperial Valley, we do not con
denim the present milk supply. Only
system, or better, lack of system m
der which II is produced and dis
trtbuted.
From the viewpoint of the goJd
,dairyman, efficient inspection does
three distinct things which are lie
sirable and of very great importance
TO him. First, il overeomes grief. y
Every dairyman knows what this
means. From time to time his milk
sours too quickly in spite of his best
efforts TO prevent. 1t goes - off y
in flavor. Then come complaint and
loss of business. He cannot afford,
If small distributor, TO pay for
special services of trained tech
nician to locate and overcome tie
difficulty. At such times the sys-
tematic assistance of a good lnspec-
tor is greatly appreciated. Second;
1t overcomes illegitlmate competition
Every dairyman exerting his best
efforts to supply the most tunda-
mental food TO the public in clean,
wholesome condition at a reasonable
price, knows what it means TO meet
competition based on price cutting
rather than quality. Milk careless
ly produced and handled may be sold
for a cent or two less than that
produced under necessary preeau-
tions. Unfortunately the public has
no way of recognizing this inferior
quality many times until real dar
age has been done. An alert il-
spector recognizes inferior milk
promptly in his laboratory aud is j
a position to place reliable informa-