The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29

and extended cordial invitation to everyone to accept the hospitality of the club. The dinner served left to be desired, and the tables adorned with cut flowers, and the ta- bles presented an inviting appearance r. as the doors to the dining room were swung open. sion J. H. Hale took the platform to reply to MT Merwin, and was received with rounds of applause, as he punc- tured MT Merwin's arguments. MT Hale said he started agricultural life at salary of SIP 50 month. Fl saved ! money, borrowed more capital and bought farm. 1 know what it is to be mortgaged and to pay those mort oages off. I don't know where MT Merw1n gets his statistics. The farm gages as never before in the history of the country. The farmers of this country are prosperous. The founda- tion of all prosperity lies in agricul- ture. The railroads of the country have gross income of over two billion dollars, while the products of the American farms amount to more than seven billions of dollars. If few here and there have left the farm there is should have dyspepsia: Agriculture is on the upgrade. In the recent slump in Wall Street the farmers of l the country drew half million dollars from the Savings banks and bought ou- of the heart." Referring to the telephone question MT Hale said: | Connecticut is the onlysstate in the Union that has tied the hands of the | telephone. More telephones are used where there is competition. Put in the automatic telephone which re- duces the cost of operation" To the | members of the Country club, MT Hale | said: ''Get back in the Grange just as soon as you can and aid us 1n prOmOt- | ing this question In reply to MT Hale Vice-President Simon Bradley, who presided during
 the afternoon, said that while some of
 the members of the Country club
 didn't belong to the Grange they were
 in favor of a better telephone law and
 would do what they could to bring 1t
 about.
 J. Nelson Hutchinson was heard
 with pleasure in ssTrial by Jury" and
 other recitatiOns.
 Chairman Bradley introduced pr
 Haskelhof Bridgeport to speak on the
 milk question as man who didn't
 stated emphaticaily that he was not
 antagonistic to the milk men. He said
 he was interested in the milk question
 from 2 sanitary point of view. The
 milk supply of Bridgeport is very bad.
 said the doctor.
 "What is the trouble with the
 milk?" said voice in the rear of the
 hall.
 ''It is dirty" promptly replied pr
 Haskell.
 'Don't they strain it?" asked a
 second.
 "They strain out some of the dirt,
 but not all of it, said the doctor.
 Nellis Sherwood here arose and said
 6c quart.
 Iverson Fanton arose and said: ''It
 seems to me we are not starting from
 jsss't5 s'5 1,t the right point. What is pure
 pr Haskell said the question should
 be stated: "What is necessary to pro-
 duce clean milk? Pure milk means
 clean milk, and clean milk means
 To another questioner, Dr Haskell . stated Providing milk is kept abso-
 lutely clean, you have clean, pure : milk. Milk should come up to cer-
 tain standard. Every summer there : are dozens of deaths of infants fed on
 bottled milk, whose death is directly e traceable to impure milk. The careless y dairyman is thus directly responsible E for the death of these children. Scarlet . fever and typhoid fever are sometimes T dairyman should first have healthy 3 COWS. A good many COWS have tuber- g cuIosis. Tuberculous COWS as 8 rule Q will produce tuberculous milk. Tuber- CO"S SglOu1u D0 lSOidUcu d the rest of the herd. pr Harrington, }, professor of hygiene in Harvard uni p versity, told of an epidemic of scarlet ? fever which came directly from one farm. A child in the mothers arms had scarlet fever. The mother had e charge of the milk supply and an epi- t demic of scarlet fever followed where e this milk was served. Within short
 time an epidemic of scarlet fever oc- T cured in Boston, and finally in the e milk depot it was found the "milk n taster," whose business was to take a \ spoon and go from can to can and taste
 of the milk, was suffering from sore e throat and 8 red tongue. This taster had scarlet fever. A good many milk ,: men have poor facilities for cooling g their milk. I have made an endeavor d to have milk inspector appointed in l; ordinary cleanliness milk can be pro- duced that is clean. l shall be glad if l can help any farmer improve his t milk conditions
 n Are they not selling as good milk e in Bridgeport as the people are willing v center of the hall.
 T. '1f it is going to cost more to be 0 clean than it is to be dirty. then you e ought to have more for your milk, ; :, quickly retorted the doctor; r. of milk as it is to-day is not enough. 70 "1s there any milk that goes into L. Bridgeport that you approve of?" asked e one farmer of Dr Haskell. y '"That is not fair question:" re- 0 piled Dr Haskell.
 a ''Do you think milk is any worse IT now than it was a few years ago?"
 asked one farmer.
 r. John Lobdel stated that he believed 1T most of the milk in Bridgeport is - giving satisfaction.
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