The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-21
OUR VIEWPOINT
 NEWS LETTER
Special to The Times.)

Newtown, Nov. 21 - John W. Mitchell of Dallas, Texas, who is vis- iting Newtown, gave an instructive outline of the cattle question to a group of grangers and members of the Mems club after the meeting of the latter organization at the Inn last night. Young Mitchell accompanied his father, George Mitchell, who brought 2,00O head of Aberdeen-An-, gus cattle which were sold to the abbatoirs in New York city last week. The price obtained covered the addi- tional cost of transportation from Texas, and was an in.tia1 experiment to frustrate the monopolistic tenden- cies of the beef trusts. These Texas range owners think they have blazed the way for the cattle raisers of the beef-producing stateA of the West. To the claim of the dairy interests of the Eastern states, that the milk supply is threatened by the scarcity of cows, Mir Mitchell said the remedy was in the hands of the producers, by pre- venting the slaughter of female calves and requiring that they be raised to the age of three years, by legislative
 
 Oklahoma, Kansas, and both the Dakotas. Connecticut Is dominated by the farmers, and the remedy is in their own hands, but the cupidity of the average dairyman in the Eastern l producing section is at fault, who greedily takes his $10 for day old calf from the city purveyor of veal instead of raising the calves for three years to replenish or enlarge 1 his herds. This exposition of what is the matter with the milk question in New England and New York state, by the Texas cattle raiser has aWak- ened the farmers here, and already many grange members are agitating i the matter, and it is believed that the | general public will aid the agrarians in bringing about legislative action this winter. Representatve-elect W.
 H. Sanford was an interested auditor, and believes MT MitchelTs suggestions gives food for thought.
 The November meeting at the Inn
 Tuesday night was fairly well attend
 ed. Over and after enjoying the ex-
 cellent spread served by Landlord Corbett a general discussion ranging
 over the war, problems of reconstruc- ton and reorganization to the milk problem, occupied the participants
 Rev. W. c. Crayener, rector of Trinity
 church. was admitted to membership
 Judge Nicholas c. Downs of Stam-
 ford returned to his home after
 spending four days at the Newtowr
 Inn, and visiting in Zoar district where he spent many of his youthful |. years, and to which spots his willins feet return n annual vsts.
 The inventory of the estate of th' late Charles G. Peck was filed in tht probate court ths week. It totaIet [ nearly $12,000 perst nal property, ex 1 clusively as the real estate, consisting I of the Main street residence had beel l previously deeded by the testator t, ] his friend, John c. Beers.
 f MT. and Mrs. Joe Orman of Dan B bury are guests for a week of MT. ant s Mrs. James E. Coroett at the New l. town Inn.
 D Newtown's Roll of Honor has on = more gold star added this week t
 commemorate the death of Privat
 Carl Slater, who died in France o
 pneumonia, Oct. 4, the notice o \ whose demise was received by rela ' lives in Sandy Hook Saturday night A from the War Department in Wash
 ington.
 The activity of the district super ,, visor of state roads. W. D. Grant, conspicuous and both divisions of tn h trunk line are being repaired by tw
 separated forces of road workers wh c are applying the tar coating to wor
 out roadbed before winter sets in.
 Michael J. Lillis of Jeanville re
 ceived the grievous intelligence of tn
 death in Nevada of his brother, Law V rence Lillts, whom he mas not seen fc u years. The deceased is also survive
 by Martin Lillis of New Milford. Id