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Show CRITIC REFUTED ! BY CITYSEALER Replying to criticism of th state oommLuloncr of agriculture. C W.I Wall, city sealer of weights and measures, Tuesday denied that his' department waa deficient in the! matter of prosecutions for short-weight short-weight practices. - After a state inspector seised 1000 pounds of allegedly short-weight hnttar, Hsvid V, Smith, agriculture commissioner, charged that tha city bureau of weights and measures ?hM not filed a singleshorl-weight complaint in four years, yet one state inspector in a single day can go out and seise 1000 pounds of but 1 ter and file complaints." "My department has one man to assist me and we are called on to inspect not only weights, but mess- j urea ss well, and are Inspecting! more scales and measures in Salt I Lake City than Mr. Smith handles! in tha rest of tha state," Mr. Wall said. "However, I do not care to enter into any controversy, but Mr. Smith'a memory must be faulty, as wa have had prosecutions." |