Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1910 — Wrapping Bread Order Suspended. [ARTICLE]

Wrapping Bread Order Suspended.

The state board of health has decided to postpone for six months the enforcement of its order that all bread delivered by bakers to retailers shall be wrapped A special meeting of the board was held and representatives of the master bakers of the state were heard in opposition to the order, which was to have taken effect on July 1. In the meantime, a commission consisting of the secretary of the state board, Dr. J. N. Hurry; the state food and drug commissioner, H. E. Barnard, and a third man to be selected by the association of bakers, will make a thorough and exhaustive inquiry into the entire wrapped bread question, and report the result of their findings to the state board in its regular meeting in October. One thing which prompted the board to postpone the taking effect of the order was an experiment made on breads in the statp laboratory. Beginning a week ago, the state food and drug commissioner purchased various lots of bread daily in duplicate loaves. Half of this bread was wrapped and half left unwrapped. When the board members examined the bread in the conference held recently between them and the bakers the unwrapped bread was found dry, as was expected, stale and unsalable, except in the case of the Vienna breads. The wrapped white bread was found in most instances soft, mouldy and soured. Vienna bread which was wrapped, showed up with the crust moist and soft, which : the bakers declared, rendered it unsalable, insofar as the value of this bread is to be found in the hard crust. In the matter of weights and moisture, the wrapped bread had the advantage, but it showed up badly in other respects. “This board,” said Dr. Hurty, “does not desire to inflict an injustice on any one. We felt that six months given to a wider and more thorough consideration of the question would lose the state nothing, but on the other hand, might prevent the board from imposing an injustice on the bread makers. We concluded that we could afford to move slowly, and adopted the resolution giving the bakers an additional six months and ample opportunity to prove that we were wrong in the original order. The bakers, in their behalf, presented an astonishing lot of material for careful consideration.” If you are not satisfied > after using according to directions two-thirds of a bottle of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets, you can have your money back. The tablets cleanse and invigorate the stomach, improve the digestion, regulate: the bowels. Give them a trial and get well. Sold by all dealers. ** c Our Classified Column does the work