344 THE MILK SITUATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



SEO. 12. Ice cream; regulation. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or 

 corporation to sell, offer for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell, ice 

 cream that has been placed in cans not properly cleaned or in rusted cans, or 

 ice cream made from unwholesome cream, or ice cream containing less than 14 

 per cent of butter fat : Provided, That fruit ice cream may contain as low as 

 12 per cent butter fat 



SEC. 13. Unhealthy cows. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or cor- 

 poration to sell, offer for sale, trade, or exchange milk produced by unhealthy 

 cows or by cows milked or handled in the same stable, corral, or place of milk- 

 ing where such diseased cows are kept. The health of the cow shall be deter- 

 mined by a competent veterinarian. 



SEC. 14. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell or 

 offer for sale any milk or cream within the city of Topeka unless the cows pro- 

 ducing such milk or cream shall have passed the tuberculin test administered 

 under the direction of the live stock sanitary commissioner, and shall be sub- 

 sequently tested under the same authority as frequently as may in the judgment 

 of the milk inspector be necessary. The milk inspector shall have the author- 

 ity to administer, whenever he deems it advisable, any approved test for tuber- 

 culosis to any cow producing milk or cream for sale within the city of Topeka, 

 and his findings shall be final unless reversed by the live stock sanitary com- 

 missioner : Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to cows 

 producing cream sterilized by heating to a temperature of 190 F. and used in 

 the manufacture of ice cream. 



SEC. 15. Preservatives. Any milk or the products made therefrom found to 

 contain any form of preservatives shall be condemned for food by the milk 

 inspector, and any person, firm, or corporation offering for sale or selling any 

 such milk or milk products or trading or exchanging the same in the city of 

 Topeka shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof 

 shall be punished as hereinafter provided. 



SEC. 16. Inspector to visit score cards. It shall be the duty of the said 

 inspector to visit, or cause to be visited, as frequently as he deems necessary, 

 all dairies and inspect and score the same according to the score card author- 

 ized and used by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and he shall have the authority to revoke the registration 

 certificate of anyone maintaining an unsatisfactory dairy and of anyone sell- 

 ing milk from such dairy. A copy of the score card shall be left with the 

 owner and such information given as will assist the producer to improve the 

 sanitary conditions or remedy such defects as the score card indicates. A copy 

 of the score shall be filed in the inspector's office. The said inspector shall 

 make reports to the city clerk annually, or oftener, as the commissioner of 

 parks and public buildings may direct. 



SEC. 17. Inspection; qualifications; power; samples. The inspector must 

 be a competent man and he shall prove his proficiency by passing an examina- 

 tion, both oral and written, which shall be prepared and given under the 

 direction of the State dairy commissioner and the professor of dairy hus- 

 bandry of the Kansas State Agricultural College. 



The said inspector shall have authority to enter, without previous notice, any 

 dairy, milk depot, ice cream or milk salesrooms, or any place where milk or 

 cream or their products are kept, sold, or prepared for sale and take such 

 amount as will prove a sufficient sample to perform the necessary tests, such as 

 may be desired by the said inspector. 



Where the said inspector finds any milk indicating the presence of water or 

 the removal of fat it shall be his duty, whenever practicable, to visit the herd 

 where such milk is produced and see the herd milked and the milk mixed, after 

 which he shall take a sample of milk and seal the same with the seal of his 

 office and keep the sample locked in a cool place until he has secured a sample 

 of the next regular milking. The sample must be in proportion to the milk 

 given at each milking. The per cent of solids not fat and the fat of these 

 collected samples shall be considered the standard of the said herd, provided 

 these samples are collected within four days from the time the suspected 

 sample was collected and tested. 



SEC. 18. Milk wagons; inspector; duty. The inspector of milk shall provide 

 himself with proper instruments for testing the purity of milk, and he shall 

 have authority to stop any wagon or person carrying milk for sale or selling or 

 offering for sale in the city of Topeka at any time or place and either test or 

 procure a sample of the same : Provided, The inspector of milk shall not detain 

 any wagon or person engaged in carrying milk for a longer period than is neces- 



