Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-06-25 | Page 16 | New Law Needed regarding Weights

New Law Needed Eegarding Weights Reaponalbtllty for having abort eight ace tea and measuring; devices de-vices should b placed oo th dealer rather than oh the atat. and leg- I station looking to thut cud will be nbmltted to th nt kglalatlon, la what Hugh J. Cannon, chief of th food and dairy department of the atat board of agrlcultur, told th board at a, mllnf bald Tudoy aCternoon. "Th law aaya that w muat In-apct In-apct nil acalaa nad me eu ring d-vlrca d-vlrca one n yar," Mr. Cannon aald. '4 hla ta utterly Impossible and, aa It la Illegal to all commod-(tea commod-(tea weighed on acalaa which hav not bn Inspected within n yaar. many lawbreaker ar made." Knforcoment of th egg law la occupying tha tint of Chief Cannon Can-non and tha Inapeotorg of hla de- apartment, many caaee of ag r- c1vd bolnf condemned aa unfit for food. In that the agricultural Inapeo-1 tlon actlvitioa depend largely upon the aeveral count lea which muat finance the problem, H waa decided de-cided by th board that legislation will b naked to finance th I nape r-Iton r-Iton In every court y. Inspect or H. J. Webb addressed tna board on th matter of th eradication of weeds, and suggested that tha atat hould assume th cost of th work r-vther than tha Individual farmer. Just aa the atat now assumes, tha uoet of livestock which are destroyed de-stroyed pp. account of tubercular trouble. , Htate Aptarlat D. H Hlllmon reported re-ported to th board that th honay crop would b light thla aeaaon. aa tha'colonl of bee which ar ununlly shipped Into th state from California war atopped.thla aeaaon on account of the quarantine which haa been In effect against that tat, v