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Show WEIGHT AND MEASURE LAWS RECOMMENDED Willard Hansen and Deputy File Reports Covering" Two Years of Work. A law requiring all manufacturers of butter to put up their -product in prints of standard size to bo fixed by the state, is recommended to tho legislature legis-lature "by the state senior of! weights and measures, "Willard. Hansen, 5n M3 biennial report, filed with Governor Spry yesturday. Such an enactment is held to bo essential es-sential if the practice of defrauding tho public with short; weight butter is to bo stopped. Quoting the report of J-1. S. ilolbrook, a government dairy export, ex-port, who investigated butter weights in Utah Inst summer, the state sealer points out that nmuufacturors throughout through-out the, state aro undoubtedly endeavoring endeav-oring to produce a fiftocii-ounco standard stand-ard and aro selling product mudo in nfteeu-ouuco prints as a full pound weight. Amendments In the present law- so as lo require destination weights by tho railroads on coal delivered to retailors; re-tailors; an amendment requiring all j owners of weights and measures on , which general merchandise is weighed for sale to the publie to report their various dovices to tho stato soaler 'whenever asked for a report, and an amendment prohibiting aii3' but expert and licensed machinists from undertaking undertak-ing to repair incorrect scales, are urged as necessary safeguards for the public. Hanson, who is ex-officio sealer, appends ap-pends the report of his deputy, J. W. Condio, who has had charge of the weights and measures department over sincn ifH creation bv tho last legisla ture. Condio goes at length into his operations during the past .two 3'oars, pointing out just -what conditions exist !in this regard throughout tho stato, what improvements have been effected and what remains to bo done. Condio reports ono instance of a defective de-fective wagon scalo whereby tho farmers farm-ers of one district were cheated out of $32.50 per da'. In the matter of shortage iu weights, of coal delivered to TCtail dealers throughout the state, the stato inspector inspect-or urgently asks for special legislation. MTany cars of coal delivorcd at Salt Lake and other cities fall abort by several tons, ho says, and rcweighiug! is always fraught with delay. A. law rcouiring destination weights is urged. During the two years covered by the report Condio conducted lo9() inspections inspec-tions of weights and measures. Of this number DDI wero found correct, 51)9 incorrect and 11G -wore corrected on order of tho inspector. The total expense of the department was i"ii)12.-Ifi and the total fee collected was SlSoT.Tjj. |