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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
United States Government Articles
The Straight Oil-tempered Knives
with the inward shear, the narrow
throat and heavy feed rolls, the
closed elbow Blow Pipe make the
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A Bargain Collection of
FLOWER SEEDS
FOR 1 2 CENTS
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f rnh Mb, iur to nm ui
bloom this hum, tf, 64
Colon; Phlox, H Colon; T
bens, 18 Colon; Pinki, 13 Col
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l'i Colon i Poppy, 8 t'oiori;
Stocki 10 Wfttki, S Colon; Hit
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poaUry.' Tlh how to wtX $-K)0 -er acr ar jear on any farm
trven 6 to 100 arret, fl PMttralon. 10c &cbpT;25e a jaar,
il-'iu'1iatiacopToDc book. tftaurrei'irMlaf. Writ tonight
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Water Tanks
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ASK your friend to buy
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to California, via the
Pacific Northwest.
Jail Men for Shipment of
Rotten Eggs in New Jersey
SEVEN of the men connected with the
Western Egg Yolk Company and the
Excelsior Baking Company, so-called, of
New Jersey, who were convicted of con
spiracy to violate the food and drugs uct
in the interstate shipment of rotten eggs,
have been sentenced in the Federal Court
at Trenton, N. J., to terms in prison rang
ing from three months to a vear and a
day. Hyman Lewis, Bernard Edelberg,
Samuel 'Edelberg, aud Morris Sladkus re
ceived the latter seutence, Herman Zwlck
er and Harry Lewites, six months each,
and Scheir Weissman, who was recom
mended for mercy, three months.
Some of the defendants, it was proved,
were doing business under the name
Western Egg Yolk Company, and others
under the name, of the Excelsior Baking
Company for the purpose of purchasing
eggs which had been condemned and de
natured in New York City and selling
them to bakers in Jersey City, N. J., in
violation of the Federal food and drugs
act.
In practically every shipment of eggs
there are certain to be at least a few that'
cannot pass the candling test and are,
therefore, discarded by dealers. In a
large city like New York the eggs rejected
in this way will amount in the course of
a day to a considerable number. The
law forbids their use for human food, bnt
permits them to be denatured and sold
for technical purposes, the chief outlet
being tanneries.
The Western Egg Yolk Company, it
was proved, purchased these denatured
eggs, but instead of selling them to tan
neries, or finding other legitimate mar
kets for them, removed the denaturing
substance and sold them to certain New
Jersey bakers for use in cheap eake and
other similar articles.
In July, 1913, a lot of eggs trans
ported from Now York in a wagon be
longing to the company was seized in
Jersey City. The containers in which
these eggs were shipped were branded
"spots," "rots," and "not intended for
food purposes."
Investigation showed, however, that
this labeling was merely a subterfuge to
avoid interference by the Federal authoil. -ties,
and that there was a definite plan
to sell the eggs to bakeries and that the
Western Egg Yolk Company had been or
ganized for this purpose by a number
of men who had been prominently identi
fied with the egg business In New York
City for some time.
The Department of Agriculture, there
fore, did not content itself with the seiz
ure of these eggs, but continued its in
vestigations until sufficient evidence was
collected to warrant the Federal District
Attorney of New Jersey in securing In
dictments for conspiracy.
Law for the Protection of 1
Birds Is Still Effective
MANY of the press comments on the de
cision of the United States District
Court, rendered March 20, at Topeka,
Kan., holding that the Federal migratory
bird law is unconstitutional, according to
the United States Department of Agricul
ture, are erroneous aud are apt to mislead
the public concerning the real situation in
this matter.
The Kansas decision, like a former de
cision to the same effect in the Eastern
District of Arkansas, is limited in its op
eration solely to the district in which it
was rendered. Neither decision settles or
nullifies the law, and the exact contrary
has been held by the United States Dis
trict Court for South Dakota. The Ar
kansas case has been appealed to, and is
now pending in the United States Supreme
Court.
The art of Congress protecting migra
tory birds stands effective until the Su
pneme Court finally decides the Question
of its constitutionality. In the meantime,
it is incumbent on every law-abidiug citi
zen to observe its provisions and the regu
lations. It is the duty of the Department
of Agriculture to enforce this law and the
officials in charge will endeavor to do so
as long a.? it is in force.
Reports of violations will be carefully
investigated aud when sufficient evidence
is secured they will be reported for prose
cution. In this connection it should not
be forgotten that an offender against this,
as in the case of other United States laws,
is subject to prosecution any time within
three years from the date the offense is
committed.
Mad Mule Kite.
The Oregon State Board of Health has
treated many persons for bites by mad
dogs. Recently thex received the first
patient that had been bitten by a mad
mule. C. E. Brown, a young farmer of
Ford Rock, Lake County, applied to Dr.
Calvin S. White for the Pasteur treat
ment. Brown said that his mule had
been bitten by a mad coyote 40 days be
fore. The animal had been sick and he
wag trying to doctor it. While attempting
to give the mule medicine, it turned and
bit Brown on the arm. The mule died
of rabies and Brown left at once for Portland.
New Standard for Condensed
Milk Is Made by Government
CONDENSED or evaporated milk should
be made from the whole, fresh, clean
milk produced by the complete milking of
healthy cows, and contain a definite
amount of nutritive materials as indi
cated by milk fat and total solids, accord
ing to a food inspection decision issued
by the United States Department 1f Agri
culture. The definition embodied in the
decision will guide the officials of the
Department in the enforcement of the
food and drugs act.
The product, to be in accordance with
the definition, must contain not less than
25.5 per cent of total solids and not less
than 7.8 per cent of milk fat.
The total solids include all the sub
stances in the condensed or evaporated
milk except moisture, nud are, therefore,
an index of the actual food value of the
product. The Department officials are of
the opinion that by fixing a minimum
below which neither the total solids nor
milk fat may fall, a condensed milk of
high 'nutritive value is insured. It is
' stated that no tolerance whatsoever below
the quantities fixed in the decision will
be permitted.
The definition also requires that the
milk must be from cows properly fed
and kept, and is intended to prevent the
sale of condensed milk made from milk
from cows fed upon unwholesome feeding
stuffs, such as swill and brewery slop, or
which have been kept under such insani
tary or otherwise unfavorable conditions
as might impair the quality of the milk.
The definition for condensed milk as
' embodied in the food Inspection decision
is the same as the definition and standard
, recommended by a joint committee from
certain state and National organizations
having to do with the enforcement of laws
relating to foods. The organizations rep
resented on the joint committee on defini
tions and standards are: The American
Association of Dairy. Food and Drug Of
ficials, the Association of Official Agri
cultural Chemists, and the United States
Department of Agriculture.
The joint committee on definition aud
standards is the ontgrowth of a move
ment to increase the efficiency of the en
forcement of state and Federal food laws
by the adoption of uniform standards.
The standard for condensed milk has al
ready been adopted by a number of
state's. Additional legislation will be re
quired in some states before it can be
made a legal standard In those states.
"Death Camas" Proves
-Very Deadly to Sheep
lEEP your sheep from the death camaa
Jl (Zygadcntts), says the United Slates
Department of Agriculture to ranchmen.
Cattle and horses should also be. kept
from this herb, although actual fatalities
from the poisoning are almost entirely
confined to sheep. Nausea, muscular
weakness and coma are some of the prin
cipal symptoms of the poisoning. There
is no satisfactory medical remedy, but
affected livestock, if kept quiet for some
time, will often recover.
The death camas (Zygadenus) is most
dangerous early in the season, not because-
the plant is more poisonous at that
time, but because it is more likely to be
eaten at that time when other forage is
dry. Later, sheep are less likely to eat
a large quantity, because of the greater
abundance of other food. As a matter
of fact, most of the eases of extensive
poisoning have occurred before the flow
ering of the plant, which occurs in the
lute Spring.
It is impossible to make even an ap
proximate estimate of the losses of sheep
because of the Zygadenus, but it is cer
tain that they are very heavy.
Investigations have led specialists to
believe that many of the losses in Ore
gon, Utah and California, which were as
cribed to other poisonous plants were
really caused by the death camas, and
without doubt this plant is one of the
sources of the greatest loss to sheep own
ers in Wyoming and Montana. It Is Bald
that In 1909 in one county in Wyoming
20,000 sheep died because of the Zyga
denus. The death camas may be recognized by
noticing its leaves, wtiich are grasslike, .
long, narrow and shaped as though they
had a keel. They grow from a bulb. The
flowers are greenish-yellow or white. The
plants are perennial, blossoming in the
late Spring or early Summer and then
disappearing. .
This poisonous herb occurs abundantly
in the mountain regions of the North, and
although found very widely throughout
the United States, it is only In the West
ern region that It has become of sufficient
Importance to be noticed. The plant is
sometimes called wild onion; other names
applied to it are the soap plant, alkali
grass, squirrel food, mystery grass and
poison sego. .
There have been cases of human poi
soning as well a stock poisoning as the
result of eating the deadly herb. Most
of the cases have been children who found
the bulbs attractive and have collected
them instead of the edible camas. There
have been a number of fatalities, although
most cases recover.
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