530 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



an earlier date. Indiana and several other states have had a law 

 of this kind for a number of years, 



A matter of importance which we think the legislature over- 

 looks, is the necessary help that is needed to enforce new laws 

 when they are enacted. The fact that a law is enacted and placed 

 on the statute books means little or nothing if we are not given 

 the necessary inspectors and other help to see that it is complied 

 with. 



COST OF MAINTAINING DEPARTMENT. 



We think that some unjust criticism has been made of the De- 

 partment on account of the fact that it has not been self sup- 

 porting. In the first place, it was not the intention of the 

 framers of the Dairy and Food Laws to make this Department 

 self supporting. The Government appropriates many hundred 

 thousand dollars yearly for the enforcement of the Dairy and 

 Food Laws. When the present commissioner took charge of the 

 Department, the annual revenue from licenses, tax tags, etc., 

 amounted to $9,593.24. Last year it had increased to $22,049.02. 

 This year, ending November 1st, 1913, the earnings are $36,504.52. 

 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 $42,004.52. 



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 $.0307 for that state, and 

 for Iowa, $.0095. 



This year on account of the increased revenues, the Depart- 

 ment will be almost, if not quite, self supporting. We beg leave 

 to call your attention to the fact that no other state Dairy and 

 Food Department has the number of laws for enforcement 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. 



