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Show FRAZ1ER IS ffl I JEHSEMCREAMERT Commissioner Denies Statements State-ments Made to City Council by Company. FAVORS REQUIREMENTS OF MILK ORDINANCE He Also Says That a Test for Cream Should Be Required. The communication sent to the citj council and read at tho meeting Monday Mon-day night from tho Jensen Creamery company has aroused the ire of "Walter J. I'razicr, city food and dairy commissioner. com-missioner. The Jensen company, in its letter, asked the council if the opinion of t lie authorities be that the ordinance respecting milk will be a permanent fixture, fix-ture, especially in that which relates lo the temperature of the milk. The law rerpiircs that milk shall be at least, ii") degrees cold. The Jensen people say Hint water in temperature ranges from 5-1 to u'5 degrees and that if the provision of the ordinance bo insisted upon the Jensen interests would be compelled to establish eight cooling stations, sta-tions, one at each of tho three railroads and five on Ihe county roads leading into the city. This the communication staled would cost approximately $20.-000; $20.-000; perhaps more. Tho expense of operating the stations would be something some-thing like $200 a month for each. The creamery says that in. other cities temperature tem-perature is not a test: that germs can live as easily in cold milk as in warm milk, and do so live; that, even filth can exist in cold milk, and does so exist. ex-ist. Finally, the Jensen people said that, the cost' of milk would be increased .1 l-.'l cents the gallon, or 2n per cent. The natural inference from this is that tho consumer in (he end must pay for tho cooling stations and their maintenance. Denied by Frazler. Mr. l-'razier denies that temperature requirements arc absent in other cities. "Jn most cities tho requirement, is or ;"0 degrees and 4 shall ask (hat it be made o0 degrees here. As for the threat lhat tho price of milk will be advanced, that is all bosh. The creameries buy milk from 1he farmers now at K! cents a gallon and sell it for 20 cents. When yon understand that these figures apply to thousand-gallon lots, daily, you caii see that there is an immense' profit in handling milk." 'Furthermore," continued Mr. Fra-zier. Fra-zier. "Herman Harms, the city and slate chemist, when the milk was brought into court, showed that, one gallon of wilier had been added to each two gallons of milk, making tho product therefore only two-thirds pure milk. It. has been proven that w'hen milk comes to the creamery carrying moro than I ho reriuirement in butter fat. it is 'standardized' 'stand-ardized' by reducing if with water and thus adding to tho (uantity. " Mr. "Fra.ior says that cooling stations ought to be built and kept in operation. Ho denies that I hey are prohibitively expensive. He points out that the cooling cool-ing station at Pleasant Grove conducted by W. A. iMaxfield is a model establishment', estab-lishment', and he declares there is no reason why others receiving milk in quantities, should not have, like plants. Mr. Frnzier says lie will also suggest another amendment lo the present ordinance, a provision requiring a test for cream as well as milk. He says some of the cream contains much acid, and some of it is not fit for human consumption. Sale is Forbidden. The commissioner Wednesday for-' bade the sale of milk from the dairy of Mrs. Anna Berg. State street and Thirteenth outli. Mrs. Berg is a widow wid-ow and makes her living .bv the sale of milk from a few cows. She has been repeatedly notified that she must obey the ordinance with respect lo cleanliness, cleanli-ness, and that her cows must submit lo the tuberculin test. According to the authorities Mrs. Berg has ignored till of these suggestions, and has continued con-tinued to sell impure milk. The sale of the product for uso in the city is therefore there-fore orderod stopped. Commissioner Fra.ior has comrdeted the scoring of the dairies at Mount Pleasant. Tho farmers, ho says, have not come up to the required standard, but. he believes tho scoring next month will show a marked improvement, inasmuch inas-much as the producers aro being made to see the necessity of ''toeing tho scratch." The result of the scoring is: John Ashton, G cows, scoro -IS; H. J. Wright, eight cows, score 'M; Albert Harris, fivo cows, score IIS; Gcorgo Dit-nian, Dit-nian, eight cows, score HI- Ji. A. Harris, Har-ris, six cows, scoro ('. V. Johnson twelve cows, score 4S: J. T. Wright four cows, score 20; A. JO. Cobbler, live cows, score .".'t;, C. J. Johnson, six cows, scoro ,'J2. Fifty per cent is the government requirement'. |