Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-08
CARNEGIE HELPS DIX milk PROBLEM BIG
Contributes $4,000 to Demo- Dry Pastures Curta Supply
cratic Fund in New York. Sent to Washington.
BL 0W TO THE REPUBL LICANS RAIN is BARREN HOPE
Magnae Doesn't Like Roose Frost Likely It
New Nationalism' Should
HEARST FALLS INTO LINE BURDENS PROVOKE PRODUCERS
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RAIN is BARREN HOPE
Frost Likely to Nip Grass if II
Should Get Green.
BURDENS PROVOKE PRODUCERS
Threats to Go Out of Business Be-
cause of Exactions of District
and Federal Governments.

Even with much more rain than has
! fallen in the last twenty-four hours it
is doubtful. in the opinion Of many dairy
men, if grass fields in the dairy farm
region that supplies Washington with
milk can be saved to give green pas
turase to the cows.
| Except in a few favored localities. like
| the country about Alexandria and al
! Chevy Chase. where local showers have
| occurred in the past month, the ground
| is so dry that several days of steady
downpour are needed to soak it properly.
Even should the rains come and the
grass revive, it is feared that frost would
| blight the grass fields before the cows
can derive good from them.
Green Pastures Southwark.
Below this city and Alexandria and in
Virginia south of Alexandria the fields
today are looking bright and green. The
| rain has done them a world of good and
cows can pasture upon them.
But in the region from Frederick, Md,
by Harpers Ferry and down the Shenan-
doah valley of Virginia, whence comes
| the bulk of the local supply Of milk.
there has been no rain for several
weeks. Not only are the pastures dry.
but the streams in which the cattle were
watered have gone dry.
COrbin Thompson, one of the largest
handlers of milk in Washington. states
that he had drove of a dozen cows on
pasture near Harpers Ferry. About two
weeks ago the owner of the pasture noti-
fed him that he could no longer take
care of the cows, as there was no water
on the place.
1t was necessary for him to send the
stock to farm on the Potomac below
this city. This. MIR. Thompson says,
gives some idea of how dry it has been
in the country.
The rains will certainly help Dealers
are looking for an increase in the sup
ply. but to what extent they cannot esti-
mate.
Nearby Supply Still Short.
There was no increase in the supply
car. containing $500 gallons of milk, from
CoOperstown, n Y, arrived here, how
ever, early this morning and was placed
on the market.
This milk, 1t is stated, was taken from
the cows yesterday morning and was but
seventeen hours on the journey from
Cooperstown to the Union station here.
The milk was in ten-gallon cans and ar
rived in good condition for the trade.
town producers, states that this milk is
less than twenty-four hours old and is
as fresh as much Of. the milk coming to
Washington from local sources. Mr. OFT
has sent in an order for another car to
arrive here tomorrow morning.
1t is proposed to bring three carloads
per week to this city from Cooperstown
as long as the local supply is unable to
meet the demand.
Threats to Go Out of Business.
1t is probable that the tuberculin test
which the local health Office proposes to
enforce on the dairy farms in Maryland
and Virginia will cause a number of
dairy farmers now supplying milk here
to go out of business.
They are, it Is asserted, greatly annoyed
by the exactions of District and govern
ment inspectors, and say that there is
therefore little profit in the business. If
more burdens are put on them, thew de-
clare, they will sell off their stock and
go into other branches of farming.
As yet, however, all the milk producers
in the nearby country who have been
shipping here, are still doing so, and none
has yet gone out Of business, as has
been asserted.