DAIRY AND FOOD DEPARTMENT:
An Inventory of Its Biennial and Related Reports of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Minnesota. Dairy and Food Department. | |
| Title: | Biennial and Related Reports of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner. | |
| Dates: | 1886-1928. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Printed biennial reports, accompanied by typescript copies of some of them and of supplemental reports. Included in the biennial reports are reports of the commissioner, assistant commissioners, clerks, chemists, and field inspectors. They are complete except for the eighth report (August 1898-July 1900). | |
| Quantity: | 1.5 cubic feet (4 boxes). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
While topics vary from report to report, most contain financial statements (covering salaries and office, postage, travel, and equipment expenses), a summary of court decisions, lists of cases prosecuted with fines collected, lists of creameries by county, and a reproduction of Minnesota laws passed dealing with dairy and food products.
Some issues include reports of the chief chemist, which contain studies on the chemical composition of milk, butter, oleomargarine, cheese, and other food products. Other issues include commission bulletins, statistical tables, barn inspection reports (larger cities), herd inspection reports (number of cows, stable conditions, milk produced, etc.), as well as the scores of winners of milk and butter contests at county, state, and national exhibitions. Also included are analyses of milk, butter, cheese, vinegar, lard, wine, honey, syrup, and spice samples conducted by the commission's St. Paul lab and by the field inspectors.
The typescript biennial reports are largely or entirely duplicated by the printed reports. Most of the typescript supplemental reports, which include financial statements, a few annual activity reports, reports of dairy inspections (1890, 1893), and a laboratory report on powdered milk (1921) probably are not duplicated in the printed reports.
The 1st and 2d biennial reports (1885-1888) were issued by the State Dairy Commissioner. The remainder were produced by or for the State Dairy and Food Commissioner.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Dairy and Food Department. Biennial and Related Reports of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Provenance:
The published reports are an amalgam of miscellaneous accretions; the typescript reports were transferred from Governor's office: Reports and communications to the Governor.
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: None; 256; 980-28; 996-109
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 990017330770104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Box | |||||||||||
| Stack row 121, alphabetical | 1 | 1885-1886. | |||||||||
| (1st). Printed, bound; brittle. | |||||||||||
| 1887-1888. | |||||||||||
| (2d). Printed, bound; brittle. | |||||||||||
| 1890. | |||||||||||
| (3d). Printed, bound; brittle. | |||||||||||
| Supplemental reports (typescript), 1890. | |||||||||||
| Report of first assistant dairy commissioner, H. C. Howard; reports of inspections of individual dairies. | |||||||||||
| 1892. | |||||||||||
| (4th). Printed, bound; brittle. | |||||||||||
| 1893 Report of inspection of milk dealers about Minneapolis, May 22, 1893. | |||||||||||
| Folded oversize chart, with cover letter and newspaper clipping. | |||||||||||
| 1894. | |||||||||||
| (5th). Printed, bound; brittle. | |||||||||||
| 1896. | |||||||||||
| (6th). Printed, bound; brittle. | |||||||||||
| 1898. | |||||||||||
| (7th). Printed, bound; brittle. Plus typescript synopsis. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| Stack row 121, alphabetical | 2 | 1900. | |||||||||
| (8th). Printed, bound; brittle. | |||||||||||
| 1901-1902. | |||||||||||
| (9th). Printed, bound; brittle. | |||||||||||
| Letter to Governor summarizing financial condition, August 4, 1903. | |||||||||||
| 1904. | |||||||||||
| (10th). Plus report on creamery statistics (reprinted extract). | |||||||||||
| 1907. | |||||||||||
| (11th). | |||||||||||
| 1909. | |||||||||||
| (12th). Plus report of the chemist (reprinted extract). | |||||||||||
| 1911. | |||||||||||
| (13th). Plus report of the chemist (reprinted extract). | |||||||||||
| 1911. | |||||||||||
| Typescript resume of the year's activities (Dec. 30), accompanied by a copy of the Dairy and Milk Inspection Law and related circulars. | |||||||||||
| 1913. | |||||||||||
| (14th). Printed, paperbound; somewhat brittle. | |||||||||||
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| Stack row 121, alphabetical | 3 | 1914. | |||||||||
| (15th). Printed; somewhat brittle. Accompanied by typescript version. | |||||||||||
| 1917. | |||||||||||
| (16th). Printed. Accompanied by typescript version. | |||||||||||
| 1918. | |||||||||||
| (17th). Printed, bound. Accompanied by typescript version. | |||||||||||
| 1920. | |||||||||||
| (18th). Printed. | |||||||||||
| Laboratory report of R. M. Washburn, 1921. | |||||||||||
| Report on the composition, quality, and nutritional value of powdered milk, with some comments on other powdered dairy products. Typescript, accompanied by photographs. | |||||||||||
| Financial statement, Division of Feed Inspection, 1921. | |||||||||||
| Report, Dairy and Food Department showing receipts and expenditures of fees, 1921. | |||||||||||
| 1922. | |||||||||||
| (19th). Printed. Accompanied by typescript summary. | |||||||||||
| Report, Dairy and Food Department showing receipts and expenditures of fees, 1922. | |||||||||||
| Report, Dairy and Food Department showing receipts and expenditures of fees, 1923. | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| Stack row 121, alphabetical | 4 | 1924. | |||||||||
| (20th). Printed, bound. | |||||||||||
| Report, Dairy and Food Department showing receipts and expenditures of fees, 1924. | |||||||||||
| Report, Dairy and Food Department showing receipts and expenditures of fees, 1925. | |||||||||||
| 1926. | |||||||||||
| (21st). Typescript. | |||||||||||
| Report, Dairy and Food Department showing receipts and expenditures of fees, 1926. | |||||||||||
| Financial statement, Division of Feed Inspection, 1927. | |||||||||||
| 1928. | |||||||||||
| (22d). Typescript. | |||||||||||
| Report of chief chemist, 1928. | |||||||||||
| Typed carbon copy. | |||||||||||
RELATED MATERIAL
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Creameries -- Minnesota.
- Dairy plants -- Minnesota -- Inspection.
- Dairy products -- Minnesota -- Analysis.
- Dairying -- Minnesota.
- Food -- Minnesota -- Analysis.
- Food adulteration and inspection -- Minnesota.
- Organizations:
- Minnesota State Dairy and Food Commission.
- Minnesota State Dairy Commissioner. Biennial report of the Minnesota State Dairy Commissioner.
- Minnesota. Dairy and Food Department.
- Minnesota. Dairy and Food Department -- Management.
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