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of any food, shall be properly lighted, drained, plumbed and ven- 

 tilated, and conducted with strict regard to the influence of such 

 conditions upon the purity and wholesomeness of food therein 

 produced, and for the purpose of this Act, the term 'food' as 

 used herein shall include all articles used for food or drink." 



The courts have held that milk and cream come within the mean- 

 ing of this act, and we believe no one will dispute that they are 

 articles of food. This being true, why should this department 

 stand for the operation of the cream separator in a hog house. 

 Last week a would-be dairyman donated $25.00 to the school 

 fund of Fayette County for that privilege ; besides this he paid the 

 costs of the case. One other offender paid $15 and costs, while two 

 others in Clayton County contributed $10 each. We wish to give 

 these prosecutions the publicity they merit as a warning to other 

 willful offenders. The old saying that "cleanliness is next to God- 

 liness" does not seem to appeal to some of the cream producers. 

 If these people alone were the sufferers for such gross negligence, 

 we should not feel so vitally interested. They do not appear to 

 know or care how much loss or damage they are doing a careful 

 neighbor with whose cream their filthy product is mixed in going 

 to market, neither are they at all solicitous of the welfare of the 

 buttermaker who is using every effort to make a grade of butter 

 that will score 92, or better, so that the creamery may receive a 

 price that shall reflect credit on the management as business men, 

 and fairly compensate the real dairyman for his hard work. 



"We believe that the unwashed separator has had more to do 

 with low grade butter than any other evil. 



"We are writing this as a warning to the filthy offenders and 

 to say that unless they clean up and change their methods they will 

 be obliged to do so after having donated to Iowa's school fund. 



TRADE MARK FOR IOWA BUTTER. 



This department has been co-oj)erating with the Dairy Depart- 

 ment of the Iowa State College at Ames working out plans for a 

 trademark brand for Iowa butter. Mr. M. Mortensen, professor 

 in dairying at Ames, spent four months this summer in Denmark 

 and Holland and brings home with him much valuable data. 



