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Show SOME BAKERIES I UNSANITARY Ixgan, Feb .". Willard Hansen Jr., fitafp dairy and food commissioner scored the prepared foods that are on the market urged cleanliness among manufacturers and producers of foods and rapped some of the Kfnli bakers lu'.rd in a speech delivered at a conjoint con-joint session of the farmers' roundup round-up and housekeepers' conference here tonight. Hp said that a law in the interest of further cleanliness was absolutely necessary, as there were too many persons afflicted with contagious diseases dis-eases handling articles of common use while they were being prepared Quoting an article In the New York Globe as to the refuse used by bakers, bak-ers, such as wormy currants and raisins, rai-sins, rotten eggs, bad nuts and fermented fer-mented fruit, he said he had ascertained ascer-tained that the same practice was being followed by some bakers In Utah. The present high prices, he said, were an Inducement to the bakers bak-ers to commit this sort of fraud. He said he had often been asked why his department did not confine its efforts to instructing the people rather than prosecuting them and replied re-plied that while the people had been Instructed for many years before tho food bureau was created, he found when he assumed office that there had been practically no changes In dairying methods in 30 years. Since that time there has been an incrense in efficiency of 100 per cent, he deli de-li clared. He told the farmers who used prepared pre-pared foods that they were selling their wheat from 50 to 80 cents per bushel and then paying at the rate of 24 a bushel for it when It was returned re-turned In the form of prepared food There was more nourishment, he said, In four ounces of wheat ground in a coffee mill than there was in a whole 5 package of prepared food He urged farmers to have their daughters trained train-ed in the art of preparing these dainties, dain-ties, rather than have them taught accomplishments and then buy the prepared article. Profit In Cows. Things pertaining to dairying were the topics of discussion at the farmers' farm-ers' roundup today and practically all phases of that Important lndustr were treated A K Risser of the United States department of agncnl ture talked of dairy buildings and the n 8,te Professor McNatt discussed feeding for milk and H. E. McCartney talked on feeding dairy calves. A most interesting inter-esting talk was made by J. Y. Hendricks Hen-dricks of Richmond, who told what up-to-date dairying had done lor his town. He pointed out that while the average yield of butter fat among the cows of the state 16 150 pounds per annum, and the average yield in Cache county Is 164 pounds. In Richmond, where careful attention has been given giv-en to breeding, the average is J54 51 pounds According to Mr, Hendricks, $800 000 is paid the farmers of this county I for milk every year. |