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Show PARRY IS ACCUSED OF 1TFJK MILK Dairy and Food Commissioner Commission-er Files Complaint With County Attorney. FIVE SAMPLES TESTED All Are Found to Fall Below Requirements Made by the Law. Following receipt of a report from Herman Harms, stato chemist, in which it -was declared that five samples of milk, taken from a single shipment to Bingham "by 8. A. Parry of Mldvnle, woro below standard and contained water, J. C. Lambert, deputy etato dairy and food commissioner yesterday filed complaint with the county attorney, charging Parry with a violation of the pure food laws. The penalty for tho first offense, In the event of such a violation, Is at least J50, but na Parry was convicted on tho same charge onco before. In 1300, tho state dairy and food department will ask that he bo given a Jail aentenco in cace of conviction. Tho five samples of Inforlor milk were secured by air. Uimbort Wednesday morr.lnjr at the D. & R. G. depot at Mld-vale. Mld-vale. Tho shipment consisted of fifty frallons, contained in five ten-gallon cans. Tho state deputy took samples from each can. Here la tho result of tho test mado by tho state chemist, to whom the samples sam-ples were submitted: Butter Total fat. Solida. No. 1 3.1 9.57 below standard Xo. 2 3.1 D.47 bolow standard No. 3 3.2 10.07 below standard No- 2.2 9.75 below standard No. 5 2.7 9.12 below standard Tho standard amount of butter fat, or tho minimum amottnt allowed by the pure food laws, la 3.2. Two of tho eam-ples eam-ples reached this scale. However, none of the flvo reached tho standard of total solids, which Is 12 por cent. The securing of tho samples of milk from tho Parry dairy Is the result of somo dotcctlvo work dona by .Mr. Lambert Lam-bert since complaints wero received re-carding re-carding milk sold In Bingham. Condas brothers, to whom the mlllc wan consigned, con-signed, have boon arrested four times on tho charge of selling inferior milk. It was decided at last to look to tho source of the Condas mlllc It waa learned that Parry supplied their entire amount and tho samples were taken with tho foregoing fore-going results. Stato Chomlot Harms declared in his report tlmt "all samples submitted show abundant evidence or watering, and sam-plo sam-plo No. 5 la nlso moro or loss dirty." |