54 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ofe. Doc. 



THE MONTHLY BULLETIN 



This Bureau issues in periodical form a monthly bulletin giving a 

 statement of the list of licenses issued by the Bureau during the 

 month, a list of the analyses for the same period, and tabulated state- 

 ments of prosecutions terminated for violations of food laws. These 

 formal statements are accompanied by editorial and other matter 

 informing the public upon the products, legal control, sanitary con- 

 ditions and uses of foods. This publication is issued to a list of 

 14,000 food manufacturers, dealers, and other citizens, and is made 

 the veliicle for legal announcements as the}^ are made. The copies 

 of the bulletin issued during 1914 contained 843 pages, of which 

 203 consisted of matter other than official service announcements. 



COLD STORAGE CONDITIONS IN 1914 



In my annual report for 1913, reference was made to the diffi- 

 culties found in making consistent interpretations of tlie several pro- 

 visions of the Cold Storage Act of May 16, 1913. Several modifica- 

 tions of previous issued regulations were set forth during the cur- 

 rent year. The requirements of the law were better understood and 

 the difficulties of its enforcement were greatlv diminished. There 

 remained, nevertheless, many difficulties. The number of licenses is- 

 sued for 1913 was 87. Two new warehouses took out licenses dur- 

 ing the present year, making the total number of license applications 

 to date, 89. Of these licenses, five were cancelled by request of the 

 owners a short time after they were issued, and 12 more firms have 

 failed to renew licenses for the period beginning August 14, 1914. 

 The total number of warehouses now under license is, therefore, 72. 

 Most of the warehouses that have withdrawn from the storage of the 

 foods enumerated in the Cold Storage Act have done so because they 

 concluded that, under existing conditions, the business was no longer 

 profitable. Most of these withdrawals were in the case of small 

 plants located in small communities in various parts of the State. 



As previously stated, the number of cases successfully prosecuted 

 during 1914 for violations of the Cold Storage Act of 1913 was 83. 

 One of these was for failure to take out the license required; 64 of 

 the cases were for failure to mark cold storage products; two for 

 the removal of cold storage marks; one for re-entry into storage, 

 without official authorization, of food previously cold-stored; two for 

 storage of food beyond the legal time limit; one for selling as food 

 cold storage beef which had been stored beyond the limit, and the 

 remainder, 12, for selling cold storage food as ''fresh." All cold storage 

 warehouses have been periodically visited by the agents of the re- 

 spective districts and are reported to have been kept in satisfactory, 

 sanitary condition and in satisfactory state of equipment for the 

 conduct of the cold storage business. 



