The Press., 1917-04-26
CONNECTICUT HAS
 CROPS COMMITTEE
Governor Names Board to Work
 For Food Production.
HAS OFFICE IN HARTFORD

Practical Farmers and Business Men
 Named-J. w. Alsop, w. C.. Cheney,
 c. T. Davis, J. P. Elton, G. M. Land
 CTS, w. H. Lee, R. w. Perkins, Robert
 SeovilIe and c. l. Stoddard Members. .
 The Connecticut Committee of Food Supply, created by Governor Marcus H. Holcomb to consider means by which this state can produce the largest crops possible and utilize its lands to the utmost, opened an office in Hartford within forty eight hours after the appointments were announc- ed. The committee was named by Governor Holcomb under the power given him by the emergency law re- gently passed by the legislature. Un- der this the governor may take any action he considers necessary to meet the situation caused by Americas en- try into war. The members of the committee are Joseph w. Alsop Of Avon, Clifford I. Stoddard of Wood bridge, Charles T. Davis of Middle town, Robert w. Perkins of Norwich. Wilson H. Lee of Orange, Robert Sec vile of Salisbury, George NJ. Landers of New Britain. William C. Cheney of Manchester and John r. Elton of Wa terbury.
 Many individuals and organizations have taken up plans for increasing the food crops this year. There are home garden committees in many COnnecti- cut towns and cities. The plans of the governors committee will in no way interfere with the factors which are already working for the same pur- pose. The effort will be to coordinate all work along these lines, to encOur- age the effort of the individuals and groups and to help any man or any or ganization which has a plan for in creasing Connecticut's food prOduc- ton.
 The office of the food committee is on the second floor of the Connecticut Mutual building in Hartford. Stuff, cient space. has been leased for the committees offices and rooms for gath, erings of small groups of interested persons. The telephone number is Charter 952O, Hartford, and the mem bers of the committee car be reached at the offices at any hour.
 Who's Who on Committee.
 Joseph w. Alsop is a member of the board of trustees of the Connecticut Agricultural college and of the Con- necticut experimental station in New Haven. He served one term as a rep resentative in the state legislature and was twice elected a member of the ex- ecutive committee of the Hartford county farm bureau and is an eXten. sive tobacco grower. His home is in Avon.
 William c. Cheney is 6 business man and a farmer. He is member of the big silk manufacturing concern, Che- ney Bros. of South Manchester, and a director of the Hartford county farm bureau. He is also commissary gen. eral on the governors staff. His home is in South Manchester.
 Charles T. Davis lives in Middle. town. He is a practical farmer and is head of the state grange.
 John r. Elton of Waterbury is treas urer of the American Brass company, the largest brass manufacturing con- cern ill the country. He is an aide de camp on the governors staff.
 George NJ. Landers is a manufactur- CT in New Britain and a man of wide interests. He was twice elected mayor of New Britain and was .. member of the senate in 1913.
 Wilson H. Lee is a resident of the town of Orange. He is owner and. operator of the Fair Lea Dairy farm one of the largest in the state He is president of the New Haven county farm bureau.
 Robert Scoville of Salisbury is business man with large interests in Connecticut and other states. He is owner of one of the best herds of Guernsey cattle in Connecticut. His farm in Salisbury is one of the best in the state.
 Clifford l. Stoddard served two terms as representative from Woodbridge 1 He is a trustee of the Connecticut Ag- ricultural college and a member of the state board of agriculture.
 Robert W. Perkins of Norwich is a business man of long experience. He is president of the Shore Line Electric Railway company and a member of 1 the New London county farm bureau
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