ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 40-5 



ing this gradual change from the whole milk creamery system to the hand 

 separator system, the att< ntion of the dairy commissioner's departm< at has 

 been called to the inferior quality of cream produced. Previous to tnis 

 time the state inspectors gave more time and attention to the sanitary 

 conditions of creameries with only a few complaints of poor quality, but 

 as the hand separator system gained ground and creamery patrons seemed 

 to gradually get more negligent of the care and handling of cream, there 

 was a lot of complaint from the creameries about poor quality and we 

 found that the butter manufactured was gradually deteriorating. At first 

 there 'was no little criticism of the hand separators, but in time nearly 

 all agreed that the separators were a good thing for the farmer. They 

 also came to the conclusion that just as good butter could be made from 

 cream skimmed at the farm as from that skimmed at the creamery if the 

 cream was properly cared for and delivered to the creamery 

 in as good condition as it was necessary to deliver the milk. 



At the present time there is no complaint about the hand separators as 

 it is realized they have come to stay. But there is a lot of complaint about 

 the poor quality of cream offered for sale and in my opinion this is one 

 of the most important questions that is confronting the dairy interests 

 today. When an inspector visits a creamery today for the purpose 

 of making an inspection and gets to the point where he asks the butter- 

 maker what his chief trouble is invariably the answer will be "poor 

 quality of cream." They tell us that if it is possible they would like to 

 have us go out and visit some of their patrons and try to persuade them 

 to improve the quality of their cream. Very frequently we have complaints 

 come to the office asking for an inspector to come at once and go through 

 their cream. We find by investigations covering the entire state where 

 cream is sold to creameries or delivered to cream stations, that not all 

 the cream is bad. Indeed, we find only a small percentage to be in bad 

 condition. The greater portion being sold is of good quality but there 

 is possibly about twenty per cent of the cream offered for sale that is 

 poor and in most cases this is mixed with the good cream thereby injuring 

 the entire amount. 



Going farther to find the cause of this poor cream it is found invariably- 

 due to carelessness on the part of the patron, such as in using unclean sep- 

 arators and the mixing of warm cream with cold. "These are very simple 

 and easy matters to remedy if once we could bring the parties to under- 

 stand the necessity of delivering only first class cream. 



A serious complaint of the violation of the dairy laws is in reference 

 to the acts passed by the thirty-first general assembly, especially that 

 section referring to the manipulation of the Babcock test by under or 

 over reading the same. In fact complaints are so numerous that I be- 

 lieve were it possible for the state to employ a dozen inspectors they 

 would all have been kept busy looking after complaints of this kind dur- 

 ing the past three or four months. As it was w r e found ourselves two or 

 three weeks behind and at the same time both inspectors were investigat- 

 ing the violation of this statute. There have been a number of prosecu- 

 tions made and a large number of complaints investigated where we could 



