Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — IOWA HAS PURE MILK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IOWA HAS PURE MILK.

The HawJceye Inspection System— A Good law That Is Kl|fi<lly Enforced. There are no pale, sickly or unhealthy babies in Iowa; they are all lat and jolly. This highly satisfactory condition of Hawkeye infants is,

directly due, so Dairy Commissioner Tupper claims, to the fifst-class milk law in operation in the State and the able manner in which it is enforced. lowa, it is admitted all around, has one of the best dairy laws

that were ever framed. From the very day it went into effect, however, the quality of the milk used in the principal cities in the State has steadily Improved, and now it Is found that the products of the dairy there are way above the legal standard. Milk to be good must, according to the law, contain 3 per cent, of butter fat. During the month of July, out of the many tests that were made in various parts of the State, there were only four dealers whose milk was 1 per cent, higher than the legal figure, while the bulk of the milk barely passed the law. Tests made a month later, however, showed the milk of fifteen dealers to contain 4 per cent, of butter fat, and now it is rarely that the tests show less than 3.50 or 4 per cent. Commissioner Tupper is uow satisfied that there is no State in the Union where purer milk is sold. The law provides that any person who shall sell, or exchange, or expose for sale, deliver or bring to another for domestic use, or to be converted into any product of human food whatsoever, any unclean, impure, unhealthy, adulterated, unwholesome or skimmed milk, or milk taken from an animal having disease, or was taken from an animal fifteen days before or less than five days after parturition, shall, upon conviction thereof, be lined not less than $25 nor more than SIOO, and be liable in double the amount of damages to the persons on whom such fraud shall be committed. The law authorizes the dairy commissioners to appoint agents in every city having over 10,000 inhabitants, and to collect samples of the milk sold in such cities. It is their duty to forward such samples to the office of the commissioner in Des Moioes. The compensation of such agent at any one time is not to be more than $3 for collecting and delivering the same to express companies. The law also provides that the number of times samples are.collected in each city shall not exceed an average of thirty times during any one year.

A. & C. TUPPER.