Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-04-12
BIames The Faddists.
From the Washington Star of Saturday.

From the Washington Star of Saturday.
THE price of milk in Washington vii
be near the price of champagne. and tina
ought not to be, for some of us canno
afford champagne" This prediction wa
made this morning by Representative
Carlin, of Virginia, who was one of a trit
to appear before the House District com
mittee in favor of the bill introduced by
} Representative Lewis, of Maryland. The
bill provides that the District of Columbis
shall pay the farmers for all cows slaugh.
tered under the tuberculin test. Represen
tative Carlin fired few shots into the
health office of the District of Columbia.
Representative Lewis spoke in favor Of
the bill. of which he is the author, as many
Maryland farmers have their farms in his
district. State Senator Blair Lee. of Mary.
land, spoke in favor of the bill. and the
hearing closed at noon, after D. W. Baker
former United States Attorney in the Dis
trict of Columbia, had appeared. not as an
attorney, but as "a victim of the tuber.
culin test"
Representative Carlin said the District
has all kinds of laws on the subject Of
milk, except law to pay a farmer fol
cows slaughtered under the tuberbulir
test. He also paid compliment to Vir.
ginia cows
II think in the District here they are
getting pure milk. know they are get
ting from us the same milk that Virginia
babies fatten on and grow to manhood on
but which the health officer says is fatal
in this city The tuberculin test means
death to 80 per cent of the cows to which
it is applied with the great expense to the
farmer, whose investment may be wiped
out. Therefore some one ought to pay for
the death of those cows
THE District of Columbia not only fixes
the kinds of springs the cows must drink
FROM but tells the farmers what sort OF
COW sheds to build. what sort of food the
cows must eat, and now they prescribe the
tuberculin test. The bill to provide for
some payment to the farmer simply meets
the conditions which have arisen from the
activities of the faddists of the District OF
Columbia, and to compensate the farmer
for the slaughter of the cows.
THE same health officer who brought
these farmers into business without the
tubercuin test now wishes to wipe them
out with the test. The price of milk, I'M
der the conditions prescribed by the health
officer, will be about the price of cham
payne. and that condition ought not tC
exist for some of us cannot afford cham
pagne.'
Representative Carlin further on in his
argument inferred that the health officer
had never raised a COW and might not
know one if he should see one.
State Senator Blair Lee, of Montgomery
county, Md. made the statement that the
farmers of Maryland and Virginia are sub.
jected to rigid tuberculin test, but that
farmers of New York and Pennsylvania
and far-away States can ship bad mill
into Washington with only slipshod test
if any test at all, and that the present
health regulations concerning dairy pro-
ducts in the District actually result in a
discrimination against dairy farmers near
enough to the city to be under the con-
slant watch of the health inspectors.
ut has been admitted to be-" said Sena-
tor Lee, that the health officer has not
the personnel to make inspections of these
PARKWAY farms. 1t would appear. then
that these farmers, whose locations are sc
far away, can ship their rotten milk to the
District of Columbia and get it sold. Thai
keeps the price down. but if the same
rigidity should be exercised in their case
as is exercised in the case of Maryland
and Virginia farmers the price of milk il
Washington would jump"
D. w. Baker said that if a man wants
to be dishonest he can easily evade the
tuberculin test by doping" his cattle 6
few days before the test is made.