Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-07
IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE REEIECTS
President C. D. Whitman and Others Begin Their Second Term-Reports Showed Important Accomplishments in Past Year--Dr. Charles E, North Gives Address Upon Improvement of Milk Supply.

| make these possible must ask for l cooperation in each town, ones that l instructions and who are also willing | to have field meetings on their place
 when the results of the experiments
 are to be calculated.
 We want to get the county organ l ized into agricultural clubs or societes where there is not a grange 1 The county agents report mentioned
 also the organization of a COW test
 ing association in Lebanon with others 1 to follow, the growth of the boys and 1 girls agricultural clubs. the offer of
 a $50 prize by the New London Day,
 which is to be used in a stock judging contest.
 Farm Survey Results.
 In our farm survey. which is a
 study of our farming as business, we
 find that on the whole the size of the industry should be increased; that our dairy COWS are poor; that better ones are necessary for profitable dairy1ng; that the. cows are poor because they are scrubs and scrub bulls are being used; that we need more pure bred
 sires, that more money crops should
 be raised; hay anl potatoes are sug- gested as the best two crops and fruit
 be increased: that better rations. more
 silos and crop rotations should be
 used: that orchards should be better
 cared for
 Board of Directors.
 Directors representing each town
 Gardner. Bozrah; Hamilton Wallace, ] Colchester; Rev. c, F. Eldridge. East Lyme; Charles B. Davis, Franklin;
 Edward Geer. Griswold; Irving F.
 Crouch, Groton; D. A. Hoxie, Lebanon;
 B. T. Avery, Ledyard; James E. PaI- | mer, Lisbon; Ray L. Harding, Iymei c. A. Beebe. Montville; John D. Avery, North Stonington. Ernest E. Rogers. New London: Woodbury O. Rogers, Norwich; B. e. CauIkins, Old Lyme; Everett P. Barnes. Preston; H. k. Houston, Salem: F. A. Barnes, Ston- ington; 4. Ladd, Jr.. Sprague: ID. By ; ron Gallup, Voluntown; Ezra J. demp- stead. Waterford.
 Recess was taken at 12.So and there , were about 100 who adjourned to the ; Wauregan house and enjoyed the dim ner that had been arranged for the
 members of the league.
 pr. North on Milk. , The league meeting convened again 7 at 2 in the afternoon, when there was 7 an attendance of about 200. includlns many women. and the feature or the meeting was a highly instructive Ster- ! eopticon talk by Dr. Charles E. North : of New York upon the subject The l Economical Distribution of Milk and 5 the Improvement of the MIX Supply ' The lantern was operated by Joseph D 7 Adams.
 Dr. North was introduced by County l Agent Lincoln.
 At the opening of his talk pr. North ! indicated what a complicated prooIen D it was to control the milk supply, ar
 fecting both the private consumer an6 2 the private producer, thus making T n even more of a problem than the con : trol of a city's water supply. . He said that he proposed to tall
 along three lines, cleanliness, safet.
 and cost, and in development Of thu t first he showed a number of views O t improper cow stables and then O e model COW stables, from which proceed
 clean milk. He said that it was JUS s as possible for the ordinary dairymal e to produce clean milk as for the mil n lionaire, and he gave as the five essen Il tials for clean milk producing. the fol IF lowing: Covered milk pails, cooling D with ice, sterilize utensils, bacteri
 tests of milk, and payment based ol -e bacteria tests. It's a financial and no g a philanthropic basis on which to ap ,- proach the milkman.
 d On the point of safety, Dr. Nortl ,- spoke especially of what had bee It shown to arise from milk that cam l. from COWS with sore udderS In tn ss instances to which he referred an epi
 denic of tonsilitis was started and dis e 1 eases that followed in the wake of tn r tonsilitis cases were erysipelas perit Is onitis and infiammatory rheumatism 70 The doctor said that it seemed that " " might be able to show that sore udder ts in dairy COWS may mean core throat n in persons.
 > Taking up the local price situation al he said that while in Norwich peopl
 were accustomed to pay eight cents 10
 milk, they possibly did not realize tha
 such actual food value as they obtai le for eight cents worth of milk could b 10 obtained in no other product for les ,h than P cents. But the difficulty = that the producer of clean milk can ;h make his customer believe that it j in any cleaner than any other milk Tn 9e remedy is to have the health board es
 tablish grades for milk, which coul S. then be stamped and sold on it's Quai 1T ty. He thought that two grades ( T. milk would be right for this city, whil r. many cities have four, five pr si Id grades. He hoped, for the sake of oJ Is, pocketbooks and our health, we w'oul S. treat this as a municipal matter, al e. ranging for milk distribution throug l- central station and for the grading. ( a- milk\
 1- From Boston Chamber of commerc -d John C. Orcott and J. H. Cutler, bot ,d from the Boston chamber of commerc n also spoke along the lines of milk SUI eo ply and distribution.
 50 Election of Officers. ns By vote of the meeting the director ea u5 were empowered to elect the officer &- retiring to an anteroom for that pu1 ~ pose.
 2n The following officers were re-elec Is ed: President, c. D. Whitman. Wate, 'is ford: first vice president, J. D. Waugh IS Norwich; second vice president. Jot A "A, D. Avery. North Stonington; treasure es Charles l. Smith, Norwich; secretar IT. E. C. Jewett, Norwich. IT IT Committees were elected as follow eu Executive Committee-C. D, Whi n man, w. O. Rogers, Norwich; T. ls Crouch, Groton; c. B. Davis. Franklin oL J. D. Avery. North Stonington. to Finance Committee-Robert W. Pc SSe l1ins. Norwich, chairman; to elect fol U others.
 d. Membership committee chairma us Dr. +. D. Hill, Norwich: press commi 1e' tee chairman, E. c. Jewett.
 4 The directors from the towns we @ @o each to name two persons on u dS membership committee E. P. Roge
 of New London appointed F. s. Hitcl ' cock and Dr. E. c. Chapman J. re Palmer of Lisbon named R. R. Barb ve and r. L. kanahan. Ray Harding sw Lynne named Judge Marvin and J. Y on Stock.
 n- It was voted to date all men1bershi he received at the meeting and up, . ed April 1st good up to April 1, 1916. ld. goodly number of applications were T