Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1910-09-23
Raise In Price or Milk.

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the meeting was to consider the increase
of the price of winter milk The price f.
nally settled upon is "a cents a gallon,
for the reasons presented by the vice-presi-
dent of the association, John B. Diamond,
OF this county. He said
THE price of feed has gone up from So
to SD ton, and spent all day yesterday
trying to purchase fresh cows. They cant
be bought at any price"
Twenty-Five cents was the price the pro-
ducers received for their milk last winter.
Cream was advanced 10 cents gallon,
The Milk Dealers Association of Wash
ington met the following day to consider
raise in retail prices. No decision was
reached for the present,
Charging that methods in vogue at the
Health Departments Office threaten milk
famine, and declaring that officials in
charge of milk inspection are by S. W.
Woodwards own Statement "woefully in
competent, the Milk Dealers Association
declared war to the finish on the Health
Office regime.
The dealers claim they have been re-
fused hearing before the Commissioners
through influence brought to bear by the
Health Officer" though a promise Of such
a hearing was made public in the news
papers This is one instance, they say, in
which they have been 'misrepresented
through the press, and efforts have been
] made diSo-odit tl.o S.0sooiatiOn''
To FIGHT For HEARING.
Through former Secretary A. S. Trundle,
who at his own request was made chair
man of the executive committee in order
to carry on the fight, notice was served
that the association would insist on
hearing or start a campaign of publicity
that would force the Commissioners to
recognize them.
Mr. Trundes statements follow an ad-
dress made Friday night at the Dealers
Association meeting, which was heartily
applauded by the members and Endorsed
by President w. A. Hartranft
The Health Department in direct viO-
lation of law, is daily refusing to issue per-
mits to Maryland and Virginia farmers,
and instead is foisting off on them So
called temporary permits not authorized
by any statute under the sun" declared
Mr. Trrundle.
This procedure, the dealer declared, was
driving dozens of the small milk producers
out of business because Of the uncertainty
of their being able to shpmilk for any given
length of time after they had arranged for
its production.
MILK FAMINE IMMINENT.
"A milk famine is imminent II such con-
ditions continue" he said. land ii won't
take any trust to force the prices sky high
unless some higher power calls halt on
the unwananted procedure at the Health
Department"
Protest was also made against state
ments given out by the Health Department
calculated to alarm milk consumers"
Whether they know it or not" Mr.. Trun-
die said, the Health Department is playing
directly into the hands Of the manufac-
turers of unwhOlesome and deleterious milk
powders and condensed milks. We don't
complain, because they are decreasing the
demand for milk. We are now selling milk
at loss in order to keep our customers to
the time when the retail price will give us
some little profit But we do protest against
the ultimate effect of this miscOnceptiOn and
the trust busters might investigate the
real combines which manufacture these
powders and compounds"
WHAcK AT CHIEF.
Declaring that there was no use mincing
words in the face Of a such contingency, "
Mr. Trundle declared that what the milk
dealers must fight for was practical and
competent man at the head of the Health
Department who hadn't too many theories
to contend with"
1--WE don't want laboratory chemist, :"
Mr.. Trundle shouted. we don't want "A
man who would make before convention
of farmers the astounding statement that
the hair ought to be cut off cows tail so
that she could not ieck dust in the milk
pail. Doesn't he know there is Humane
Society in Washington and Virginia, where
he was talkingY
"We don't want a man who would stand
up before cattle raisers and say that bowel
affections Of babies we're due TO the hand
| q ,,,tlL L.t, a. han al haH
no such troubles. Does he know anything
at all about the difficulty Of raising calves
on this very account
"Why, when DR. Woodward made these
and other equally astounding statements
at Leesburg recently body Of farmers got
up and left the hall and could not be in
duced to come back
The Health Departments own records
show. Mr.. Trundle said. that an average
Of six babies using condensed milk died to
one that uses cows milk.
CONDENSED Milk FATAL
Mr.. Trundle took fling at the tubercu-
lin test lie declared il was only matter
Of time until this will be done away with
But until that time. he said, lit looks
as II the farmers in this vicinity are to be
put out Of business. Already they are selling
cows for beef to New York buyers.
THE test is spreading tuberculosis among
the cattle. The number Of tubercular cows
is growing at an alarming rate. And the
Health Department Is inOculating the same
animals over and over again at such rate
that many of them are immune and the
test couldn't prove whether they had tu-
berculOsis or not.
TEST OPEN To DOUBT.
THE worth Of the tuberculln test is to-
day open to serious doubt At the recent
meeting Of the International Commission
Of Control Of tuberculosis in Domestic Ami
mails. which met in Buffalo. New York. the
test received body blow. There were