474 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF. AGRICULTURE 



to appoint a city inspector, with the understanding that the same 

 man shall be both city and state inspector. But we emphatically 

 disparage the tendency in some cities to make this a political job, 

 and insist that the appointee be the most efficient man available. 



The greatest need that is confronting the public today with ref- 

 erence to the milk question is education both on the part of the 

 consumer and the producer. 



Men more conversant with the dairy business as a business should 

 be made members of our Boards of Health. 



The law requiring all milk wagons, stores or places where milk 

 is sold to take out a license should be amended so as to include all 

 municipal corporations. The Commissioner should have the right 

 to withhold a license from an applicant whom he may deem un- 

 worthy or revoke any license issued by him to an owner who violates 

 the terms thereof. 



The adulteration of milk and cream by the addition of any pre- 

 servative has practically ceased in this state. Most of the prosecu- 

 tions are based on the sale of milk low in butterfat or on sales of 

 unclean milk. Very few samples of watered milk have been secured 

 and most of the milk found to be low in butterfat is in that condi- 

 tion because a part of the cream has been removed. 



Quite a few of the creameries continue to buy milk by the hun- 

 dred-weight and where this custom prevails there is considerable 

 temptation for the producer to remove a part of the cream before 

 offering the milk for sale. About one-third of the prosecutions for 

 the sale of milk low in butter-fat have been made against patrons 

 of creameries buying milk by the hundred-weight. The balance 

 were for the sale of such milk by dealers, mainly in the large cities. 

 Six cases were successfully prosecuted for false manipulation of 

 the Babcoek test. 



Table showing number of permits issued to city milk dealers for each 

 year from 1903 to 1910. In each case the year ends on July Fourth. 



1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909, 1910 



Number 783 780 827 803 1006107811491106 



