FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VI 407 



When the present commissioner took charge of the Department 

 in 1909, the annual revenue from licenses, tax tags, etc., amounted 

 to $9,593.24; for 1910 the amount turned over to the State 

 Treasurer was $17,435.30; for 1911, $20,892.97; for 1912, $22,- 

 049.02; for 1913, $36,504.52; and for the year ending November 

 1, 1914, the earnings of the Department are $43,842.40. 



As all fines under the Food laws go into the county school fund 

 in the county where these cases are prosecuted, this should be added 

 to the earnings. At a conservative estimate this amount would 

 reach $5,500, making a total of $49,342.40. 



As compared with an adjoining state with 150,000 less people, 

 we find that for maintaining the Dairy and Food Department for 

 the year 1912, the cost per capita was two and ninety-four hun- 

 dredths cents for that state, and for Iowa fifty-eight hundredths of 

 one cent. 



"VVe beg leave to call your attention to the fact that no other 

 State Dairy and Food Department has the number of laws for en- 

 forcement that we have, and that the greater the amount of work, 

 the more help is necessarily required to properly look after the 

 work, and the greater the cost. In some states the same work that 

 is done by this department is divided up — ^two, three, or four com- 

 missions or departments doing the work. We do not speak of this 

 because we think it a good or economical plan but to call the atten- 

 tion of the Legislature to the fact that the criticism by some people 

 on account of a multiplicity of commissions does not hold good so 

 far as this department is concerned, with its twelve different laws 

 to enforce. 



WORK OF INSPECTORS. 



We have been trying out the plan of having some of our in- 

 spectors do all kinds of work. Those designated in the list given in 

 this report, as "Assistant Dairy Commissioners and Food In- 

 spectors," have been looking after the enforcement of all of the 

 different laws in the territory they cover. By reference to our 

 former reports you will find that this plan of work originated in the 

 Department some four years ago, and not with the Committee on 

 Retrenchment and Reform, or the special Efficiency Committee as 

 some have been led to believe. 



