NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 
349 
COMPARISONS. 
1897118981809 
1900 
1901 
1902 1903 1904 
1905 1905 1907 1908 
Total number of creameries and skim 
stations 
Ownersliip. 
Individual — 
891 
501 
954 
516 
967 
501 
994 
5?4 
960 
497 
919 
377 
792 
306 
691 
655 
90S 
593 
190 
319 
85 
594 
187 
1.4 
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Co-operative - 
349 ^9 349 3G4 360 370 
37 1 8S 116 1 105, 102 1 165 
l| 1 Ij 1[ 1| 1 
3.50 335 316 
1:3.5 113, 132 
li 1| 1 
3191 263 
Stocli company 
State property 
87 1 103 
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CITY MILK INSPECTION. 
The growth of the city milk inspection in this state is indicated 
by the following table showing the number of permits for milk 
dealers issued in the years from 1896 to 1908. The j';ears end in 
every case on the 4th of July: 
1893 
1897 
18981899 1900 
1901 
1902 
190311904 
1905 
1906 
1907' 1909 
Number _ 
555 
620 
574 
676 
714 
784 
821 
783 
780 
827 
83310061078 
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Cities ^tjg- Inspectors 
Burlington 
Cedar Rapids 
Clinton _ - . 
25,318 
28,7.59 
22,756 
25,. 321 
39,797 
75,026 
41,941 
14,36) 
14,604 
12,045 
15,037 
20,181 
40,952 
18,071 
Oscar C. Hoerr 
Dr. J. W. Griffltli 
Cliarles B. Tliomas 
Council Bluffs 
Davenport 
H. A. Lennox 
H. J. High 
Des Moines -- 
J. P. Morey 
Dr. F. J. Kennedy 
Fort Dodge 
Keokuk - 
D. C. Benjamin 
Arthur J. Anderson 
Dr. E. M. Singleton 
Muscatine -- 
Dr John Tillie 
Ottumwa _- 
E. B. Hill 
Sioux City _ 
0. M. Hanson 
Waterloo 
Theo. Peek 
Total 
394,737 
The law authorizing city milk inspection under the direction of 
the dairy commissioner was passed about twenty years ago and was 
intended to cover only the question of adulteration of milk and 
cream by skimming or watering, a practice which was then quite 
prevalent. The results from inspections have demonstrated quite 
relatively infrequent. During the last five or six years considerable 
clearly that the adulteration of milk and cream in such senses are 
efforts have been made in the way of examining milk and cream 
