Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-05-09
Grain Statesmen
in Newburgh, N. Y.
Representatives of RalstOn- Purina
Company Open Conference
Yesterday.
URGE FOOD ECONOMY
Officers Lecture Salesmen-Grain
Mills Offered to the
Government.

Representative of the Ralston-
Purina company of Buffalo and st.
Louis opened a three days conference
in this city yesterday morning with
headquarters at the Palatine hotel.
Statesmen from New York, New Jer-
sey and the New England states are
present. 1t is the annual eastern
conference of the statesmen and dur
ing this week there are SIX conference
es of the representatives of the firm
in the different sections of the coun-
try. The company is one of the dig
gest grain corporations in the country
and the purpose OF the conference IN
The Palatine is for the officers of the
firm who are in attendance to lecture
the statesmen on the best manner of
disposing of their goods and the man
ner of getting the most usefulness
out of the products. The statesmen
are being given lectures and after
this meeting they will be expected to
lecture, explaining the different uses
and the way in which to secure the
best results. In this present situa-
ton of the country the company is
extending every effort in order to en-
Tighten the people of the conditions
of the care of grain, poultry, ETC., and
they are giving expert advice in en-
couragIng economy.
The conference opened yesterday
morning at 8 o'clock with President
William III. Danforth of St. Louis
presiding. Other officers of the COM
pany present were: A. F. Seay, treas
urer of the St. Louis; u. L. Hedrick,
manager of the Buffalo mill, E. T.
Hall, manager of the ST. Louis mill.
The men were given thorough talk
on Of hn hnx
are handling and were told to urge
the buyers to do all in their power to
assist the people in getting the best
results
The Ralston-Purina company has
offered its mills to the United States
government and until such time as
they are accepted the officials are
working on a conservation plan. 1t
is to use the food and products of the
company with a greater degree Of
efficiency and to adjust the work of
the firm in order to give the statesmen
the benefit of expert experience in
discussing the uses of the products to
give the people the knowledge of the
work to enable them to secure the
most benefit. They discussed the
killing Of poultry and it is the inten-
ton of the company officials that this
should not be encouraged.
Save Your Hens and Kill the ROOs-
tiers.
The hens and other poultry should
not be destroyed as there is coming
time when thenation will be in nceu
of it. The representatives listened
to the discussion by the officers of the
raising of poultry and other facts
pertaining to poultry.
The firm has six mills in the Unit
ed States in the following cities: st.
Louis, East st. Louis, Buffalo, Nash
vile, Tenn, and Fort Worth, Texas.
Another meeting was held last eve
ming and the men viii meet every
morning and evening during their
stay in this city. Today there was a
discussion on food for cows and
calves, and on Wednesday the repre-
sentatives viii talk on food for hors-
es, mules and human beings.
&C. F. McGof, representative for
Vermont adv.