Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
CARY CALLS ON GROCERs
FOR THEIR COOPERATION
Local Food Administrator Cautions
HousehOldcrs Against
boarding.
WHITE TO MEET FEED DEALERS
Conference on Tuesday Over BulIc-
tin Which Caused Meeting OF
reed Dealers Here to Protest.
Successful Farmers Institute.

'uSScsSiul FARMERS institute.
- ~ cary. local food administrator.
Is sending out letters to the whole
seie Grocers and jobbcrs Of Richmond.
The text OF which is AS follows:
My Office is flooded with reports
OF retailers selling -four without sub
stitutes. as required by the rules. and
your cooperation and that of your
statesmen in Informing your customers
VIII greatly assist in reducing these
iolations and Will tend 10 save your
customers from penalty. | inclosc the
latest list of substitutes. which is com
plcte, 30 far as | am informed. These
will DE sufficient for your statesmen.
and l Will appreciate it if you will
have additiona! copies made for your
customers
"A number Of CAGES Of boarding. due.
II is hoped. mainly TO ignorance and
thoush,lcssneSs. have also been report
ed. and the attention Of your custom
crs, AS well as of the public. should
be called 10 section OF the food bill.
which reads as follows:
THAT any person who willfully
boards any neccssarics shall, upon con
viction thereof. be fined not exceeding
$4,000 or bc imprisoned for not more
than two years. or both
Tho loyal attitude and co-opera-
ton on the part OF Richmond whole
salcrS and jobberS is as gratifying az
II Is helpful. and the above surgcs-
lions are submitted in tho confident
expectation OF a cordial reception and
resp"nsc on your part.
COLONEL WHITE: TO
MEET FEED DEALERS
Tuesday. al 1890. Colonel l.. B.
White. food administrator for NirEi mia.
Will meet by appointment in his Of
fee Director benjamin l.. Purcell or
dairics, feeds and bakeries. and tho
committee appointed By the disgruntlcd
feed dealers OF Virginia in convention
here last Tuesday. when. after wrang-
Hing over what is technically known
as Bulletin No. from 1880 Ia tho
morning until 3 o'clock in the after
noon, they failed 10 come TO any sat
isfactory agreement. The committee
is composed OF the following repre-
sentative feed dealers r y. Jennings.
Lynchburg; G. q. Lindsey Roanoke;
s r. BcvcridE.. Richmond. J. VI.
GwaItney. Norfolk: ". f.. Richardson.
Jr.. Richmond.
The offending bulletin was prepared
by Mr. Purcell, who contendcd at the
convention that the schedule Was It fair
one and should he satisfactory TO the
feed dealers. Colonel White Will hear
the arguments pro and con and de-
eide the matter. Feed dealers in the
State will abide by Colonel Whites
decision in the matter.
The State Division OF Markets Will
no longer issue the suggested price
list each Friday. as heretofore. when
there was no local food adminiS;ra-
tor Sow that there is FOOD admin
istrator for Richmond. tho director or
the price considerations committee for
the city, Or. l.. Eaton. who IL also
director Of markets and transporta-
-, u Ia -
lis, each week from his Office in the
Chamber OF Commerce. b. 6. Moomaw.
Jr. State director Of markets, viii
retain the dictatorship OF tho price
considerations and transportation COM
mittccs on Colonel Whites stan.
ALL-DAY MEETING At
PRINCE. GEORGE COtIT
There Will lie IN all-day mass meet
ing OF farmers at Prince ticorc- Court
hous. tomorrow. when food, farm labor
and general agricultural topics VIII be
discussed. H. Z. Moomaw. Jr.. OF me
State Department Of Agriculture" VII!
speak on The Farmers Relation 10
the Food situation and the Govern
ment" other speakers viii he present
from the State Agricultural College at
Blacks hurg and representative farmers
of Prince George County
\ state activity which has assumed
vital Importance in view Of the present
crisis in the food situation is that OF
Tho Farmers Institute y very sue
cessful Farmers Institute was held
this week. when a special train over
the Virginia Carolina Hallway carried
prominent speakers and experts on aE-
riculture and live stock, who We're spe-
cial representatives OF the agricultural
d.partmcnts and divisions Of extern
sions of Virginia and North Carolina.
as we'll as the United states govern
ment spoke on the best methods of
all kinds of farming and stock raising
best adapted TO this particular section
OF country.
The special train left Abingdon last
Monday morning. ON the trip to Elk
land y. c., fourteen stops were made
and thirty-xwo speeches, TO total OF
1850 people The names OF the men
COMPOSING the party and the subject
on which each spoke are listed below:
Jesse NJ. Jones. director of extern
sion. Virginia polytechnic institute.
subject. safe Farming During the
War
f. G. Moomaw, Jr.. chief of Market
Division Agriculture. Subject. Co
Operative Marketing. and Fruit Grow
ing"
r. $. Merry. cheese specialist. Sub
iect. How Farmers Make SO Per COW
After Selling the Calf"
F. r. Parker. director of Farmers
institute North Carolina. Subject,
"Farmers and the War Crops in Gen
oral. and Their Requirements
George Evans. North Carolina. eN-
mort on sheep and hogs. Subject. How
10 Make Money on sheep and Hogs
Russell RI. Gist. farm demonstration
for Washington County subject. How
10 Test Your Seed Corn.
A. j. Huff. Glade Spring. subject
Live Stock