The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29

 everyone to accept the hospitality of 2 the club. The dinner served left nothing to be desired. and the tables were filled twice. Each table was bles presented an inviting appearance as the doors to the dining room were swung open.
 At the opening of the afternoon ses- sion J. H. Hale took the platform to reply to MT Merwin, and was received with rounds of applause, as he pupc- tured MT Merwin's arguments. MT Hale said he started agricultural life at a salary of SIP 50 month. "I saved money, borrowed more capital and bought farm: l la know what dsd 1t sr. IS to gages off. I don't know where MT Merw1n gets his statistics. The farm CTS of the country are paying oil mort gages as never before in the history of the country. The farmers of this 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 seven billions of dollars. If few here and there have left the farm there is no reason why my young brother | should have dyspepsia. Agriculture is on the upgrade. In the recent l the country drew half million dollars 1 from the Savings banks and bought | choice stocks to hold. I am speaking ou- of the heart. J Referring to the telephone question MT Hale said: Union that has tied the hands of the l 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 in promot- ing this question:
 In reply to MT Hale Vice-President simon Bradley, who , presided Iass .d during { 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 it about.
 J. Nelson Hutchinson was heard
 with pleasure in sTrial by Jury," and other recitatfons.
 Chairman Bradley introduced Dr
 Haskell of Bridgeport to speak on the | milk question as man who didn't
 back water. In opening, Dr Haskell stated emphatically that he was not
 antagOnistic to the milk men. He said
 he was interested in the milk question
 from sanitary point of view. The
 milk supply of Bridgeport is very bad,
 "What is the trouble with the
 milk?" said a>yoice in the rear of the
 hall.
 Ut is dirty" promptly replied Dr
 "Don't they strain it?" asked a
 second.
 ''They strain out some of the dirt,
 but not all of it, '' said the doctor.
 Nellfs Sherwood here arose and said
 the wholesalers ought to get at least
 Sc quart.
 Iverson Fanton arose and said: .It
 seems to me we are not starting from
 just the right point. What is pure
 milk?"
 Dr Haskell said the question should
 be stated: "What is necessary to pro-
 duce clean milk? Pure milk means
 clean milk, and clean milk means
 cleanliness"
 To another questioner, Dr Haskell istated: Providing milk is kept abso-
 lutely clean, you have clean, pure i. milk. Milk should come up to a cer-
 tain standard. Every summer there : are dozens of deaths of infants fed on
 bottled milk, whose death is directly traceable to impure milk. The careless 2 dairyman is thus directly responsible 3 for the death of these children. Scarlet , fever and typhoid fever are sometimes : disseminated through milk. The l dairyman should first have healthy B cows. A good many COWS have tuber- culosis. Tuberculous COWS as a rule will produce tuberculous milk. Tuber- ? culouS COWS should be isolated from the rest of the herd. Dr Harrington, ? 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 ? charge of the milk supply and an epi- [ demic of scarlet fever followed where 3 this milk was served. Within a short
 time an epidemic of scarlet fever oc- cured in Boston, and finally in the milk depot it was found the ''milk taster," whose business was to take a spoon and go from can to can and taste
 of the milk, was suffering from sore , throat and red tongue. This taster had scarlet fever. A good many milk men have poor facilities for cooling their milk. I have made an endeavor to have milk inspector appointed in , Bridgeport. It seems to me that with ordinary cleanliness milk can be pro- duced that is clean. I shall be glad if . I can help any farmer improve his milk conditions.
 "Are they not selling as good milk in Bridgeport as. the people are willing to pay for?'' asked one farmer in the 2 center of the hall.
 : "If it is going to cost more to be clean than it is to be dirty. then you ought to have more for your milk, ,"
 quickly retorted the doctor. ) Dr Haskell said he thought the price of milk as it is to-day is not enough ) "1s there any milk that goes into Bridgeport that you approve of?" asked one farmer of Dr Haskell. That is not fair question: re- ) piled Dr Haskell.
 "Do you think milk is any worse now than it was a few years ago?"
 asked one farmer.
 John Lobdell stated that he believed r most of the milk in Bridgeport is , giving satisfaction.
 Nn11iS SharwOO6 stated ho hol no1-