The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-22
Milk Dealers
 Against New Law
,WouIds Cause Shortage of Cattle
 In The State
This Would Result in Serious -a Shortage of MiIk-Their Ob-
 jecti0ns Are Presented To
 Governor. Baldwin

Hartford, J uly PA number of the Heading milk dealers in this vicinity
 are exceedingly anxious that the pro- posed law as to bringing cattle into lthis state shall not become a law, al-
 though it has passed both branches
 In company with their counsel, Hon.
 Lewis Sperry they called on Cover .nor Baldwin Thursday. who has the lbiil in his hands. and stated their case against it. Ehe governor gave no signs of vetoing the measure, but he itold the visitors that their proper course was to get the bill recalled from his hands and he agreed with them that he would not sign it Thurs 7 day. No other legislative day inter- venes until next Tuesday.
 The opponents of the bill contend that they were caught mapping. The 4bill was defeated by a heavy vote in the House when it came up, but no- body thought it necessary to move and defeat reconsideration thus making
 the vote final. So later, when there were fewer members from the coun- try present, it was reconsidered and this time was passed and hurried over to the Senate, which also passed it.
 They contend that the House is real fly strongly opposed to the bill, and they will endeavor on Tuesday to se-
 cure a recall. The opponents of the
 measure say that if 1t becomes a I1aw 1t, will result in very much re- ducing lthe supply of home-produced
 milk
 One of the large milk dealers in the city said yesterday that there
 were double objections. The first was
 that in his. opinion the project was developed by veterinarians with view to enlarging their business and
 possibly, as had been intimated, to
 supplant the dairy commissioner al- fancy that. But he said the second was the practical objection. Under the rigid and almost impracticableI conditions that the law prescribes, it is doubtful if enough cows would be
 Drought into the state to meet it's an- nuaI demands.
 He told some interesting details of the milk business. He said that the notion Is wrong that milk farms raise 1 the COWS they need They cannot afford to bring up their own heifer calves, for the milk these consume is | worth more than 1t takes to buy a | COW. Accordingly, the calves are | sold. whether they are males or fe- males Then more or less cows give | out every year and are sold to itiner- | ant butchers and the places of these must be made good. As the supply | lS uOt EdI6oQ dt aOIII6 IuuSL D6 | sought elsewhere and Massachusetts, | Vermont and other states send multi tudes of cows here every year. If this supply should be cut off. there would be shortage of home-produced milk.
 He further called attention to the a absurdity, as he called 1t of shutting down on importing cattle and yet per- mitting dealers to buy milk in the states where prohibited cattle are kept, so that the people of Connecti- cut are still liable to get milk from the same cows that are forbidden to come in here to be milked. The only difference Is the time 1t takes to bring in the milk and the effect of the jour ney and exposure on the milk He said that our own laws were adequate to deal with the tuberculosis ques- ton, and he was confident that. if the proposed law went into effect, there would be lot of trouble in con sequence.