Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments At Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition TUESDAY JULY 16. FIRST SESSION. July 16th to 19th, '07 In the absence of First Vice President E. F. Ladd or any of the other vice presidents, they having been delayed, the train from the west bearing the western delegates being late, the convention was called to order promptly at ten o'clock, July 16, 1907, at the Convention hall of the Inside Inn, Jamestown Exposition, by Secretary Allen. Secretary Allen read a letter from Hon. Horace Ankeney, president of the association and former dairy and food commissioner of Ohio, in which Mr. Ankeney stated that he was unavoidably detained at home, and that he questioned the propriety of his presiding at the convention in view of the fact that he was not actively connected with the Ohio department. After reading the letter from President Ankeney, Secretary Allen notified the delegates and visitors present that Hon. F. J. H. Kracke, naval officer of the port of New York, who was to deliver the introductory address, had not arrived and that the convention would stand adjourned until two o'clock. TUESDAY JULY 16. AFTERNOON SESSION. At two o'clock sharp, Prof. E. F. Ladd, commissioner of North Dakota, and vice-president of the association, occupied the chair and called the convention to order. MICHIGAN. department of agriculture, second division, No. 23 Park Row, New York City. Mr. F. M. Greene, representative, Department of Agriculture, Albany. Mr. E. F. Burke, representative, Department of Agriculture, Albany. NORTH CAROLINA. Mr. T. K. Bruner, secretary, State Board of Agriculture, Raleigh. Prof. W. M. Allen, food chemist, State Board of Agriculture, Raleigh. NORTH DAKOTA. Prof. E. F. Ladd, food commissioner, and chairman of the convention of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments, Fargo. OHIO. Hon. Renick W. Dunlap, state dairy and food commissioner, Columbus. Dr. James H. Beal, chemist, Dairy and Food Commission, Scio. PENNSYLVANIA. Hon. James Foust, dairy and food commissioner, Harrisburg. Dr. William Frear, chemist, Dairy and Food Commission, and chairman of the Food Standards Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, State College. SOUTH DAKOTA. Hon. A. H. Wheaton, state food and dairy commissioner, Brookings. Prof. J. H. Shepard, chemist, Dairy and Food Commission, Brookings. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. Dr. W. D. Bigelow, chief; Division of Foods, Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture. Mr. Ed. H. Webster, chief, Dairy Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agricul ture. Mr. W. G. Campbell, chief United States food and drug inspector. Dr. Joseph Hoeing Kastle, hygienic laboratory, United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, Washington, D. C. Prof. R. E. Doolittle, chief of New York Laboratory, Department of Agriculture. Prof. A. L. Winton, chief of Chicago Laboratory, Hon. A. C. Bird, state dairy and food commis- Department of Agriculture. sioner, Lansing. Prof. Floyd W. Robison, chemist, dairy and food. commission, Lansing. MINNESOTA. Hon. John McCabe, assistant dairy and food commissioner, St. Paul. Prof. Julius Hortvet, chemist, dairy and food commission, St. Paul. Mr. W. W. Wall, secretary, dairy and food commission, St. Paul. Mr. J. G. Fowler, inspector, St. Paul. MISSOURI. Hon. R. M. Washburn, dairy and food commissioner, Columbia. Mr. Louis E. Cline, assistant chemist, dairy and food commission, Columbia. NEW JERSEY. Mr. R. B. Fitz-Randolph, director, state laboratory of hygiene, Trenton. NEW YORK. Mr. Ivan C. Weld, assistant dairyman, Dairy Division, Department of Agriculture. Mr. H. H. Wagner, food inspector for the state of Virginia, Department of Agriculture. VIRGINIA. Prof. E. W. Magruder, chief chemist, Department of Agriculture, Richmond. Dr. C. M. Bradbury, assistant chemist, Department of Agriculture, Richmond. Mr. W. T. Holdsworth, milk and food inspector, Richmond. WISCONSIN. Hon. J. Q. Emery, dairy and food commissioner, Madison. Dr. Richard Fischer, chemist, Dairy and Food Commission, Madison. WYOMING. Hon. E. W. Burke, dairy and food commissioner, Evanston. Prof. Henry G. Knight, state chemist, Board of Hon. Henry H. Kracke, assistant commissioner, Health, Laramie. Delegates to the Convention, from City Pure Food Dapar ments Not Members of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments. KANSAS CITY, MO. Dr. N. P. Cutler, general food inspector. Dr. E. C. Levy, chief health officer. Representatives Present from Allied Associations, Commissions and Leagues. Prof. H. H. Weber, member of the Food Standards Committee of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, not recorded as member of a state or national food department. Mr. William F. Snow, representing the Pure Food Commission of the Medical Society of the state of California. Miss Alice Lakey, chairman, Food Investigation Committee of the National Consumers' League, Cranford, N. J. Mr. E. G. Routzahn, director, American Tubercu losis Exhibition of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Henry Beach Needham, secretary, People's Lobby, Washington, D. C. Former Food Control Officials Present. Hon. E. O. Grosvenor, former dairy and food commissioner of Michigan, Detroit, Mich. Manufacturers and Their Representatives Present. Mr. Edwin C. Johnson, secretary, National Association of Manufacturers of Food Products, Boston, Mass. Mr. F. E. Holliday, vice-chairman, Committee on Proprietary Goods, National Wholesale Druggists' Association, New York. Mr. Dana T. Ackerly, of Breed, Abbott & Morgan, attorneys for the National Wholesale Grocers' Association, New York. Mr. D. D. Colcock, secretary Louisiana Sugar Exchange, New Orleans, La. Mr. W. E. Robinson, representative, National Canners' Association, Bel Air, Md. Mr. Percy T. Morgan, president, California Wine Association, San Francisco, Cal. Mr. William M. Griffin, Fruit Growers' and Packers' Association, San Francisco, Cal. Mr. H. W. Hoops, representing the National Confectioners' Association, New York. Mr. T. E. Lannen, attorney for the National Confectioners' Association, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Sebastian Mueller, H. J. Heinz Co., Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. L. S. Dow, H. J. Heinz Co., Pittsburg, Pa. Dr. David Weson, Southern Cotton Oil Co., New York. Mr. W. D. Richardson, Swift & Co., Chicago, Ill. Mr. W. W. Archer, Armour & Co., Chicago, Ill. Mr. A. Lowenstein, chemist, Nelson Morris & Co., Chicago, Ill. Mr. Alick G. Richardson, vice-president, J. Hungerford Smith Co., Rochester, N. Y. Dr. T. B. Wagner, Corn Products Company, Chicago. Mr. Willis P. Anderson, secretary, J. Hungerford Smith Co.. Rochester, N. Y. Mr. H. L. Harris, Pacific Coast Borax Co., New York. Mr. H. B. Meyers, THE AMERICAN FOOD JOUrnal, Chicago, Ill. Mr. F. N. Barrett, American Grocer, New York. Mr. W. O. Bates, Barrels and Bottles, Indianapolis, Ind. The first address on the program, entitled "Publicity in the Enforcement of Pure Food Laws," by Hon. Edward K. Slater, dairy and food commissioner of Minnesota, was read by Mr. John McCabe, assistant dairy and food commissioner of Minnesota, Mr. Slater being unable to attend, and is reproduced in another part of this issue. The second address on the program was by Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, entitled "Co-operation Between the Federal and State Authorities." Dr. Wiley being absent in Europe, no paper was presented to the convention. The third address on the program was entitled "Cooperation Between the State and Federal Authorities," by Commissioner A. H. Jones of Illinois. Mr. Jones had not arrived at the time he was announced on the program, but appeared the following day. The fourth address on the program, the second delivered at this session, was entitled "Possible Accomplishments by Independent City Action," by Dr. W. P. Cutler, general food inspector, Board of Health, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Cutler read his paper and interjected remarks with reference to coal coal tar dyes and also upon the work of co-operation between the manufacturers, wholesalers and dealers in Kansas City, in which he stated that co-operation between these parties and his department had brought about a better understanding and feeling by which he has been able to accomplish more than could have been expected without this co-operation and in most cases he found the manufacturers anxious to comply with the provisions and requirements of the Kansas City law. Dr. Cutler's address will be found in another part of this issue. The fifth address on the program, entitled "Food Control Work in the South During the Past Year," by Hon. T. K. Bruner, secretary, Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C., was not read that day, Mr. Bruner not having arrived at the convention; and the convention proceeded to hear from Hon. A. C. Bird, dairy and food commissioner of Michigan, on "Commissioners' Rulings," which was well received |