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Show REGULATION OF j GAS PROPOSED Discharge Pipe Returning to Tank May Be Banned By State SALT LAKE, March If. Handling of ga.xollne is to te regulated in Utah In the future If a regulation now being preparedr by Hie state board of agriculture agri-culture Is passed at the next regular session of the board on Monday. The State dairy nnd food department is planning to make it unlawful for any: service station to have any discharge pipe leading back Into the gasoline storage tuni The regulation Is drafted as a result of Investigations which have been made from time to time b the burea'i Speaking of (hee Investigations, John A. Isratlson. deputy- dairy and foed I cm mNsloner. said some of the deal-, ers were unquestionably defrauding i the motorist .f the full measure for which he pay- Some tanks having I the visible method of dispensing ga6- line have an Inner opening by Which I mme of the gasoline ma be drained j hack into the storage tank at the sum" I time the tank on an automobile -s 1" I ing filled. The proposed regulation.! '.r tamalann dnIA 1.1 n1f 11,1. , ,i . ner return pipe unlawful and would i have the dispensing devices so con-i structed that once pumped Into ths overhead tank the gasoline could noi be returned except through the hose. IHVJ 1TO IXSPRI 1 lN Compultoty Inspection and labeling of shipmpntfl Of potatoes Is to be Inaug- J urated by the bonrd of agriculture at this session, according to announce-1 nient made by H. J. ebb. state crops! pests Inspector for the board The compulsory inspection and labeling as' to grade is to be reUlr-d in carload shipments, both into and out bf tht! State, and is to be taken as a means iof aiding t lie marketing of the Ui I I I product; The experience of the past year ha! proven the nrresslty for having this I compulsory feature to the regulation. now in ogue. Mr. Webb said The Mack of grading- has not only depre-j dated the price paid for the Utah tu-l 'ber on the markets outside Utah, but I has led some dealers to announce thr- positively would not market the Utah crop unless 11 u; first inspected " I graded. H KKKY ( iPTRATIOX The board o; agriculture Is also I 1 ' have presented before It for consideration consid-eration the proposed regulation pi pared by the commissioner of agriculture agri-culture and the dairy and food bureau j governing the operation of bakeries, j particularly n regards the sanitary conditions and the weights of brea I n lueii ma be m irketed The -ecutlve officers if the agricultural department de-partment have ii ichod an agreement as to the tani'.ir;, regulations and has tentatively reached coneluslons as to tho standard weight of ,'oaes. The! I !. i Mi l.riVAVlir nr.. its t . i . I ,r ,f.'f,r,. ' the board for the purpose of recommending recom-mending some change in the regulation regula-tion governing llle Weight ol In.iV. : EGG LAW l i)H( LMLM Enforcement of the egg law refuir-j Ing . aiidllng is to be reported to the board. Conferences have been held with representative dealers and producers pro-ducers and the enforcement practical-! ly agreed upon The labeling t ;-:-as to where I hey have been produi I and their standard iv tu be required also The commissioner of agriculture Is, to n port on the pr gress of the campaign cam-paign to increase the consumption o." dairy products to dale. Among o til r l Iters im l.efo i the boa rd for its con Ideri ire tho I approval of some 126 claims for cat-tli cat-tli ightered i'1- the anti-tuberculosis I work. The board has agreed upon a poll) of i tying to the owners of cat-: tl( 10 slaughtered one-half of the ap- praised value aftei ll - 1 and the amount p ild by I he t d rai goveri -ha i boi - deducted providing thut noi more thai 100 be paid "-i juire bred stock and noi more than $50 I or. gTade animals. 'i he board w ill probabl h i he i c -cent outbreak of cattle scabies in Em - j .-r.- . ounl ' up for consider itio well as the recent outbreaks Of hog cholera in several sections. , oo |