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Show UTAH CREU men mm. Formation of Association j Suggested by Food and Dairy Department. Regulations Intended to Eliminate Bad Practices to Be Issued. Plans looking to tho formation of r. statewidc organization of the cream-cry cream-cry interests fqr the primary object of developing the dairying industry in the state and of fostering better trade practices were formulated at a meeting hold yesterday at tho office of Walter . Boyden, state dairy and food commissioners. com-missioners. Manufacturers of dairy products from many sections of the state met with the members of the state department and suggested that a preliminary step toward such development devel-opment wouid be the promulgation ol regulations by the commission as would eliminate many of the bad practices which are now said to exist, due in a large measure to competitive conditions. condi-tions. , . As u concrete method of bringing about, such an organization it was suggested sug-gested to the commission that it issue regulations in conformity with those 1 cccn tlv adopted at a national meeting meet-ing of creamery interests with the federal fed-eral trade commission. The latter regulations reg-ulations were the result of a conference confer-ence held early this month in Omaha. Trade Practices Considered. The meeting yesterday was called by Gowimissioner Boyden to discuss the alleged al-leged trade -practice of over and under testing of cream purchased from farmers. farm-ers. The praetico was uniformly condemned con-demned bv the creamery men present as being an item of considerable expense ex-pense in manufacturing as well as having hav-ing a tendency to disrupt tho business generally. As a further step in the list of possibilities pos-sibilities of food conservation it was suggested that the state department should vigorously enforce the state laws which prohibit ' the sale or offering for sale by farmers of -cream which is unfit for consumption. It was asserted bv the butter manufacturers that oft-times oft-times farmers will bring to the buying stations of creameries in the farming districts cream which is so old as to be worthless. At times the agents in order or-der to secure a new customer or to hold an old one, will buv this product, which must be thrown away when it reaches the central plants, entailing a direct economic, loss. The state dairy and food department will vigorously enforce ' this law, Commissioner Boyden announced, an-nounced, and he also suggested that instances in-stances of this sort should be brought to his direct attention by the cream-cries. To Eliminate Waste. Along the lines of suggestions of the federal trade commission, resolutions for the regulation of trade practices were submitted by tho creamery men and those present announced an-nounced themselves as in accordance with the spirit of a campaign for better bet-ter cream and the elimination' of food waste. The resolutions suggested deal m part with the practice of overtestmg and undcrtcsting with the deliberate idea of securing a customer. Another problem which increases the operating expenses of' the dairies is the furnishing furnish-ing of cream cans to the farmers. The cans which are thus furnished are in manv instances lost and in no instance, it was said, are the farmers as careful care-ful of the cans as if they wore required to furnish the receptacles themselves. According to the report of the creameries cream-eries the expense of the cans equals in some cases as much as two per cent of Hhc cost of butter-fat. It is just as logical, t he butter-fat purchasers hold, that their customers should furnish them with machinery to mako butter. Some Methods Criticised. The purchasing or offering to pur-ehase pur-ehase dairy products at prices not warranted war-ranted bv" market or trado conditions or paving higher prices to one class of shippers or rollers than to another, or the paying of different prices at different dif-ferent 'points at ihe same time, except the inequalities occasioned by freight rates and quality of commodity bought, Or difference made in good faith to meet fair competition, as distinguished from price discrimination intended to or having the effect of creating a mon-opolv, mon-opolv, were also . declared unfair in the resolutions. , , ,a It was suggested that Utah should have a regulation governing the pur-chasing pur-chasing of butter according to grades. This is the established custom in Colo-rado, Colo-rado, Town. Nebraska and Kansas, according ac-cording to the report to the food commissioners com-missioners and it is held by the cream-erv cream-erv men that such a ruling here would , have a tendency to increase the grade of butter produced because the farmer would have an incentive to bring in the best grado of butter-fat if be were to receive a higher price for it. Under Un-der the conditions prevailing now in Utah there is no grading of butter-fat. Whether or not the food commissioners commis-sioners have the power to act in this matter is a question in the mind of Mr. Bovdcu, who believes it might be considered con-sidered as legislative and therefore should be considered by the state legislature. legis-lature. He has taken the question up with the attorney general asking for a ruling. |
