The Newtown bee., 1893-03-10
MILK AND TOBACCO.
Convention of Milk Producers and Tobacco Grow CTS at New Attributable Address by Dr Jen- kins.

President E. G. Seeley of the Housa- tonic milk producers association called the meeting to order at l.45 a. m., at New Milford's town hall last week Thurs day. The report of Secretary Marsh was read and accepted. The report of the treasurer at their last springs meeting showed a deficit of 63 cents; March I, 1893, there was a balance of $4.62 in the treasury. The report was accepted.
 Mir Flynn of Gaylordsville opened a discussion in regard to the collection of producers cans and thought there should be a live can collector on the Berkshire division.
 MT Adams of West Cornwall said that it is hard work to get that almighty dol lar from most farmers live can col lector at every station is what is most needed.
 President Seeley said: This can col lecting business is labOrious, important and expensive; collector on this road and in New York
 WOULD TAKE MORE MONEY
 than this association ever saw. Bell col lects the cans in New York for those pro- ducers who send him $1 per year. 1 am we'll satisfied with Bells work he wears his badge and has authority to take can wherever he finds it. We should look out for the cans after they are left at the sta tion and we need a good man at every station to have an eye to this business. Things get mixed up on the roads. One man ships from Station on the Shepaug road and once in a few months he goes over to South Kent, Station on Housa- tonic road, for a load of 10 or dozen cans. If you go to New York and fiud your cans in possession of some saloon keeper, oil dealer or in fact any one who has no business with them, you can lay claim to them, but that is ali the good it will do you; you cannot take those cans. If a man owes you $25, more or less, for milk, you cannot collect it according to the laws of the state of New York. You
 MUST SELL YOUR CLAIM
 to some resident of that state. I know what I am talking about, because I have been there. I think it comparatively easy matter to care for this matter on our own roads.
 MT Adams of West Cornwall said that he lost bran new can; Bell found it af- ter it had been gone three years and q dealer and it took six months to get the smell of oil out of it.
 MT Flynn wanted to know what could be done to prevent stopping" of cans. The o. & W. road had man shadowed, followed, and shut up for this business. It was done back on the road. President Seeley was at Harlem station one night, late train was in; on the plat form near the Shepaug car he saw two men with tin pails walking down IN THE SHADOW OF THE CARS. When they spied him they made it their business to get out of the way lively. Complain to the railroad company about it and they ask, ssWho does it?' MT Flynn said the railroad company are pub lie carriers, agree to carry goods to the end of the journey and should employ de- tectives. The consumer suffers more than the producer, who suffers enough. Mir Adams of West Cornwall knows how some men are bounced. He stood on the freight platform at his station one day and saw railroad employe fill can lid with milk from the top of one of his (Adams') cans. He informed the en- pIoye that he supposed that milk belong ed to himself and asked what business he (the employe) had with it. All the sat isfaction he obtained was stYou go to -i" Adams went to the station agent learned the mans name, had a lawyer send letter to the Bridgeport headquar. I ters and that man was out of job in 8 day or two. The milk business is not l worth a cent to run itself; it NEEDS VIGILANT wATCHFULNEsS. President Seeley has watched the diff. ferent roads for few years and finds nc road that gives better satisfaction than the D., l.. & W. That road carries nc milk for individuals; all is done through creameries. If eight or ten men each send small quantity of milk to New York that milk is tempered with and nc creamery would allow it, nor would the railroad company. The milk that goes over every road should go into the New York market in just as good shape as if it went through a creamery. In union is strength. The men who hang back, stay back and don't look into things are the ones who finally find the most fault.
 MILK WAS MILK
 20 years ago and what was milk then will not be looked at now. The question is, ssShall we stop here and disband or shall we hang together for while longer There is yet lots of room for work. ldoing great good for the producer. Al