Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-11
ASK APPROPRIATION
FOR ACADEMY DAIRY
Congressman Linthicum Offers Bill
in the House.
100000 AMOUNT NEEDED.
Farms Of w. B. FiDkbine, aud c E.
RemsOu, Said to be Among Sites
Under Consideration. II

representative Linthicum, of Mary
land, introduced a bill in the House
late yesterday afternoon calling for
an appropriation of $1,000, 0t0 for
the establishment of modern san
itary dairy farm near Annapolis for
use by the Naval Academy.
The bill provides authority for the
purchase by the Secretary If the
Navy of land within reasonable dis
tance of Annapolis for such a farm
and also for the erection of dairy
farm buildings, the site and struc-
ture not to cost more than SIO0, 600.
The project for the establishment
of such farm has the Endorsement
of Secretary Meyer and the Superin-
tendent of the Naval Academy, and
grows out Of the success of the intro
duction at Annapolis of a very small
herd to supply milk for the officers
and midshipmen at the Academy.
These cows were bought little more
than year ago, following an outbreak
OF typhoid fever among the midship-
men, which was traced directly to
mil from certain dairies where the
produces was infected.
That led to the recommendation of
the medical officers at the Academy
for the establishent of a private herd
for the institution. The recommen-
dation was followed, and with small
herd the results were so gratifying
that the authorities of the Academy
recommend the establishment of a
dairy farm of sufficient capacity to
supply the Academy with all the milk
it needs
The Linthicum bill was referred to
the House Naval Committee, which is
deeply interested in the subject, and
it is expected to take favorable
action at this session. The site for
the farm will be left entirely to the
Navy Department.
1t is not alone, however, for en-
larging the farm and increasing the
supply of milk that additional and
is to be acquired by the Government.
On the contrary, il is well known
that somebody erred in locating the
present dairy n the site that it now
is IL is on the Government reser-
walton, the site where the old marine
camp and target range used to be
and just across the county road from
the buildings OF the Naval General
Hospital Incidentally. there has
been much protest against the con
tinued existence OF the dairy there,
because of the bad odcrs, which. il
is said, are obnoxious to patients
in the hospital.
1t is seated that the naval officials
have not taken definite action as to
the site that will be chosen when the
appropriation for the new dairy farm
is available. Several places are be-
ing urged as most suitable for il,
among them the farm of Mr.. Wilbur
b. Finkbine, on the western out
skirts of the city, and of easy access
to the Government reservation by way
of the West Annapolis road, and the
Greenberry Point Farm of Mr.. Charles
E. Remson. Naval Academy Off
cials, it is understood, have discussed
the proposition of locating aross the
river on property already owned by
the Government, contiguous to old
Fort Madison.
Much Of this property is, however,
taken up by the naval rifle range and
the experiment station, and the camp
of the naval aviators also are located
there. Both the farms of Messrs.
Finkbine and Rsmson,it is urged, ar
excellently adapted for the purpose,
and it is un ierstood that the owners
are wiling to sell,providing, of course,
satisfactory price is offered. That of
Mr.. Finkbine probably would be of
even greater access than any other
site under consideration, being some
what closer, and all hauling could be
done by wagons instead of by water,
in case site across the river should
be chosen.