Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1911 — INSPECTING DAIRIES [ARTICLE]

INSPECTING DAIRIES

Chicago Board of Health Wants to Know About Conditions. Dr. H. C. Becker, sent here l by the Chicago board of health i to look after the conditions ofl dairies the product of whjch is shipped to that city, meets with some little opposition once in a while from the dairymen, we understand. This’ is no doubt due to a misunderstanding of the object of the health authorities of Chicago. While this inspector has no real legal right to come to *rrother state and inspect dairies, Chicago certainly has a moral light to inquire into the conditions of dairies the product of which is shipped to her city for consumption. This inspector’s expenses are paid by the City of Chicago, and no charge or fee whatever is to be paid by the dairyman whose dairy or farm and dairy barns are inspected. It is not compulsory, this inspection, but it one refuse to allow inspection the fact is reported and no milk, cream or butter from that dairy can be sold nor will be accepted in Chicago. The inspector is not sent out for the purpose of condemning dairies, but rather to improve the conditions of same, and he gives many hints for the betterment of conditins which must appeal to any sensible man. That some dairies are almost filthy we all know, and if their can be improved by suggestions of a qualified inspector—and they must be improved or they can ship no more dairy products to Chicago even though they find,a sale for butter at the local should be welcon ed, especially by those dairymen who endeavor to maintain good sanitary conditions about their premises. While this inspection is new here, in the more prominent dairying sections it has been going on fev some time and the dairymen who ‘want to do the right thing a 0 endorse it.