The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-10-14
DEALERS EXECUTIVE
BOARD PLANS CASE
Producers Will Present Expert les
timony as 10 Conditions
on Farms.
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4JVt are tQudLig buo9 III PASPe'iiii7
their case.
The hearing will mark the begin
ming of the work of the Chamber Of
Commerce committee which intends to
make a thorough and exhaustive in
quiry into the milk situation, not only
in the District, but in other cities and
abroad.
Evidence presented before the board
next Thursday will form the ground
work for the chambers probe. The
committee will attend the hearing and
take full notes of the proceedings
Many of the witnesses there may 5e
asked later to appear before the cham
ber's committee to give further in
formation.
Will Call Experts.
Z number of experts on various phases
of the milk question will be brought be
fore the Commissioners by the various
bodies interested. it was learned today.
The breeding Of COWS viii be one point
on which the advocates of the tubercu-
lin test will dwell. 1t Is claimed that
at present farmers breed COWS for the
. quantity of milk they give rather than
for the quality 1t is now considered
Inevitable in one standard breed, II
, was said today, THAI when cow
reaches the age of SIX years she VIII
have become hOneyCOmbed with tuber-
Cular germs
The results Of various experiments
made 10 raise COWS that would not give
so much milk a day, out would live con-
siderably longer than the present aver
3 age life Of a COW will be presented the
Commissioner
Members of some Of the interested or
ganizations are preparing statistics TO
show the prevalence of tuberculosis
cot a.
given to show the reliability OF the
1uberculin test and the danger OF human
infection with bovine tuberculosis.
Some Of the statistics being prepared
BY the dealers organization relate 10
infant mortality and milk feeding
Health Figures Misleading.
THE hgures in the Health Depart
ment office are misleading isaid
Chairman Trundle today Unless one
investigates them with his eyes open
he will go wrong. An analysis Of
the departments own statistics shows
that the Health OFFICER makes a mis-
statement when he attributes the nigh
death rate among infants 10 raw milk
infection. As a matter of fact, the
records show that more children fed
on condensed milk and other prODrie-
tary preparations died than those fed
These facts can be proved by the
Health Departments own records. and
the Commissioners must discount one
If they wish 10 deny the other"
Mr.. Trundle SAID the proportion OF
babies fed with raw milk in the Dis
trict was small.
representative of The Washing
ton Times visited thirty-fv homes OF
families in moderate circumstance
where %here was at least one baby
between six months and four years Of
age
of this number twenty were fed or
condensed milk. twelve parents used
paSteurized milk or barley water, and
but three purchased raw milk for in
FAINT feeding. OF these three two pre-
pared the milk by formula given by
The dealers also have gathered fg
ures concerning the widespread use o
condensed and powdered milk prepare
tons for children, and these figure!
will be presented to the Commissioner
on Thursday.
Producers Active.
Producers are taking a lively inter
esre IL the hearing. They viii be rep
resented BY their attorneys as well a
bv experts to sustain their contention
that the enforcement Of a tuberculii
test will mean a milk famine The
will attempt to show that the test \
impracticable as wei as unnecessary
The Health Department is roundl!
scored for its methods in a Statemen
issued today by Prof II. T. Button
director Of the Manassas Agriculture
School
ssThe issue is learly drawn between
the producers on one hand, who unani
moUsly oppose the compulsory test an,
the Health Board, who Just as unani
mOusly are Clamoring for a chance &
test all cows he said.
Now. no one charges that tubercu
Iosis is not a dangerous cattle disease
or that II is not an equally dangerou
a Ta.aT- - Il
called authorities claim that it can b
transmitted from cattle to men, and n
one claim sthat any appreciate humble
of cases are so transmitted No on
doubts that a person who has tuberCu
lOsis and splits in public can and doe
give the disease 10 well people, or tina
IS per cent of the fatal cases are due Z
that cause alone.
Inspection Necessary.
$50 we dairymen say: "Wry strain a
a gnat and swallow a camel Agar
no dairyman wants to- ell milk fror
sick COWS or from a filthy stable. w
all agree that inspection is right an
necessary, only we dc object to some q
the inspectors whose lack of sense an
judgment has made them a laughin
stock.
IF each man bred his own cows an,
kept them from year to wear, a test 10
tuberculosis would be Of value but no
one dairyman in ten does raise his owi
cows Suppose a herd is tested an
given a clean bill Of health: in mos
cases new cows viii be added within
month or what value is the test? w
cannot have all the cattle in the State
Of Virginia and Maryland tested. and
We expect the dairyman is going TO re
port each fresh COW purchased, we r
Likely to be disappointed
Would Spell Ruin
ITO the small dairyman a rigid on
forcement of the test means a practices
eonfscation OF his business. We a
know that tuberculosis is widespread
but not often dangerous. If the cattl
are kept in light and well-yentilate
stables and fed a good ration. the dis
ease will die out, just as il VIII anon
people who live a sanitary. whOlesom
life.
Another injury which the test
working is in the uncertainty which
brings into an otherwise safe business
The great need of our dairymen is 10
better cows, and 7 know of a doZc
men who are on the point of introduS
ing pure-bred dairy blood into the
herds. With the change, and even II