Show TO KEEP TAB ON DAIRY CONCERNS i Score Card System Expected to Purify Products in This 11 State i NEW BUREAU IN OPERATION ill BUTTER CARTONS MUST SHOW 1 t ACTUAL WEIGHT CONTAINED i The state food aud and dairy dahy commission at t once put into operation a score eore scorecard j i i card system which will w l compel ream cream I en ne e cheese factories condensed milk factories and dairies darlea to H e up to the i I government standard or 01 go out of oC buM busi business bu t I I ness Dess tell p j The state lItal food and dairy datri commissioner I has bas been authorised to lo make frequent ami regular gular inspections il II and to 10 score these on onI I f F t such cards as are already authorized aU by bythe bythe the t bureau of animal industry of the fed federal federal federal eral department depart of agriculture A rating 1 of ot 4 on these the e cards carda will be minimum and dairies or other oth establishments establishment fall falling ing below this tide average avera e will be lw prosecuted as aa unsanitary f This will help very greatly to purify l 4 the dairy products of the state but per f hape the trie t le greatest assistance In the ef of efforts forts of at the new commission l n to compel 1 the Mile ette Ie nf of pure food will wilbe be publicity which will attach to the Inspection I The j i carda cards will be accessible and the averages ii f will Mill be published bed if It the newspapers wish to use uee them The average dealer cares earea i tar far more about the publicity than about c I a 8 small fine and it is 18 likely that the In Insistence by the tile commission on the freest I r publicity in all matters connected with r I its ita work will do more than the most I 1 stringent of regulations At least the y members is s believe so 80 and this is the pol pot policy polIcy icy which the state food and dairy com corn commissioner missioner will wUl b be directed to follow ri The board as also siso it a rule that I f j all flour Clour offered for salt sak la In the state shall I have the net weight of ot the contents t I marked or stenciled on the package In InI 1 I which it is contained This will go Into r operation on July 1 of DC the present year t 4 j At the last meeting Thomas Thomaa A Wil Williams I 4 liams Iiams of the th commission asked the I 3 f tion of ot rules providing g that all aU fowls I I placed in cold storage snaIl shall li be drawn and d that all cold storage articles offered for J i I sale shall be plainly marked at such This r will win coma up at the next regular meet meetIng meetIng j Ing of the board beard which will be on Wed June is lb I I J J The TIle bureau has hat decided d that all butter f offered for sate sale in the state must have L I stamped or branded on the wrapper the theS S name of ot the manufacturer and the actual 1 number of ounces contained In the wrap wrapper wrapper S j per Any variation of more than a half halt I 4 1 ounce from fr m the th stamped weight will VItI bring about prosecution t i It has haa been claimed by the dealers that J butter Is IB subject to such shrinkage as would make such a rule rul a hardship The board had four tests made by Herman HermanI I j a Harms state chemist and before 1 ting the tile rule last laft week received his hia hi re reo report reI 1 J 11 1 I port Tort This ruts flowed that four pounds of oC r butter in pound packages exposed for periods varying front from 17 to X 2 days showed 1 a shrinkage of oC grains in one of ot the 1 packages exposed for 17 days 17 grains in I 1 two others and HO grains In one exposed expo for X 2 days In the case cue of one of the packages exposed for 17 11 days daS the paper r wrapper weighed 31 11 grains when dry and 15 it grains when dipped In water The 1 water which the paper held weighed 94 91 grains 1 1 4 The score cards which the commission C lias adopted will be kept on file at the theoffice II 1 0 office of at the state food and dairy cum corn commissioner cornI I if I i missioner and will show the standing of ot otI I each establishment in n the state |