298 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



The Department this year has not found any dairy situation 

 needing correction that it could not handle under the present Dairy 

 and Sanitary Laws. The Iowa Dairy Law has been enforced by 

 the Dairy and Food Commissioner since 1892 and in its present 

 amended condition seems to meet the emergencies as they arise. 

 The basic principal of our law, that the state rather than the mu- 

 nicipal authorities should set. standards for the purity of market 

 milk, has been embodied in the recent dairy laws of several states. 

 This feature of the law is proving itself more valuable each yeai? 

 and states which grant to cities the power to adopt their own 

 standards for quality are finding such plan undesirable. 



The milk supply of our cities has been showing a gradual im- 

 provement, particularly the product of the larger city milk plant. 

 Several modern city plants have been put in operation this year 

 and there has been the normal amount of improvement of older 

 plants. There has not been a single out-break of any disease in 

 any of our cities which has been attributed to the milk supply. 



The location of one of the largest army cantonments at Des 

 Moines has been a tax on the already short supply of milk in 

 the vicinity. The Department is co-operating with the Federal 

 Public Health officials in the inspection of the cantonment supply 

 and the dairies supplyi]ig it. The following regulations govern 

 the sale of milk at the Camp : 



RULES AND REGULATIONS EFFECTING SALE OF MILK AT 

 CAMP DODGE. 



GENERAL. 



1. MiUt shall conform to the requirements of all the State Laws of 

 Iowa. 



2. All milk dealers before offering milk for sale shall obtain a milk 

 dealer's license from the State Dairy and Food Commissioner. 



3. Licenses will be issued only after an inspection under the supervision 

 of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner. 



PRODUCTION. 



1. All milk shall be obtained from healthy cows at least five days after 

 and not less than fifteen days before calving. 



2. Cows shall be kept clean and their flanks and udders shall be brushed 

 or otherwise cleaned before milking and the cows shall be milked with 

 clean, dry hands, or by clean, mechanical apparatus. 



3. Milk shall be removed from the stable to a suitable place immedi- 

 ately after milking each cow and shall be Immediately cooled to a tem- 

 perature of or below 50 degrees F. and kept at or below said temperature 

 until delivered. 



