Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-31

the surrounding towns voted to estab fish a cooperative pasteurization cor poration with a plant in some central ly located place in Norwich for the pasteurization of all milk sold in Nor wich and vicinity. the estimated cost ofswhich would be $65,000 or $7O.o00, at a, meeting held in the Commercial School rooms in the Chamber Of Con1- merce building on Wednesday evening. At the meeting there were well over a hundred men interested in the pro- auction and sale of milk. Present at the meeting was Captain H. c. Cody, in charge of the New London federal sanitary district Lieut.. W. F. Pur- rington, associated with the office of Capt. Cody, and Lieut. Commander l Newton of the U. s. Naval district, and other members of the sanitary com 1 mission.
 Capt. Cody opened the meeting and explained the purpose of the civic san l itary commission, saying that the Connecticut health department had asked the federal commission to CO., ( perate with them in making the New London district more sanitary espec- ially as it applies to the naval forces stationed in this vicinity. l. is the purpose of the sanitary commission to interest the public in the problem and value of intensive health work now,
 as a war emergency measure and la 1 ter as a post bellum necessity. The | work is divided into five groups: first, contagious diseases, the cure and pre- vention; second, investigation of the water supply. making sanitary and 1 safe for consumption; third, tne milk
 supply, making it pure and free from l contamination; fourth, the control of | inc nf il. l rants and meat markets and making
 them comply with the regula tions;
 fifth, the venereal disease, establish ment of clinics and prevention.
 In regard to the milk proposition
 which we have met here tonight to
 consider, said Dr. Cody, this is 8 sub
 iect which I have little to do with but
 Dr. Burlington, who is associated with
 my office and has had considerable ex-
 perience along these lines in the south will speak.
 l Dr. A. W. Burlington after stating | that his orders came from higher up
 and were straight from the shoulder
 said that after Jan. 1. 1919, all milk
 sold in New London county or the New .cndon sanitary district must
 either be certified, grade A or pas teurized milk. The first two classes
 are practically out of the question
 with the average farmer or milk pro- ducer. so that the most feasible way
 would be the .pasteurization of the
 milk. There are three ways in whicf
 this can be done, said Dr. Purringotn
 Either you can get together and form a cooperative corporation. or let ut
 interest local capital or take it up our
 selves. It is up to you!
 Dr. Cody then called upon Lieut. | 6
 view of the naval side, saying tha
 there was no milk used in any maya
 station that was not pasteurized. H'
 said that many epidemics had broker out through impure milk and cited ont
 case that has occurred in the vicinity
 of New London recently. All min which comes from what appear to b. spotless dairies is not necessarily pur,
 as contagion may creep in througl
 make milk pure is by pasteuriZatio1 or to kill the germs by heat. Tn pas
 teurizing milk it is heated to 142 de grees, not boiled. and then scientifi
 caIly cooled. The navy insists that al
 milk be pasteurized.
 c. c. Smith of Storrs College a rep resentative of the U S. Bureau o Markets of the U. S. Department o Agriculture, was the next speaker. MT. Smith told the producers tha it would be very difficult to produc certified, or grade A milk and tha
 the only economical means Of com i Eplying with the government orde would be in the pasteurization of tn i milk This means of course will meal | many thousands of dollars in expense [ namely for building, equipment , trucks for collection and distribution [ There are three ways to do II. Rais q money in a cooperative corporatio f among yourselves, interest local ca pi . tai or get outside capital. The frs way, said MT. Smith, is the most ad e visable. He then explained co-opera '. tive plan whereby each investor ha . only one vote, no matter how man a shares of stock he holds. thus pre- ! venting any one from holding tn
 controlling stock. He also explaine T how the plant after it was starte T, would pay the expenses from a mar ], gin between the buying price and tn i selling price of the milk and the d1vi a dends or surplus money would be pal Ii cut to the stockholders according a the amount of milk they had put int . the plant during the year. He strong ii ly advocated the establishment of
 operative corporation.
 Many questions were asked refatlv LO IQS 6SIdDllSUIII6HL Ol SuCl pidl ', and these were satisfactorily answere II by either .Dr. Cody, Dr. Burlington (
 Mir. Smith.
 The meeting was then turned ovt
 to County Agent F. c. Warner wt
 took the chair and asked for a cor r. entrated action. J. D. McCarth a president of the Norwich Milk Pro e ducers Association, presented the fo
 lowing report:
 Ie Some time ago the directors of u
 Norwich Milk Producers associate l. were called together to hear from D S. Cody and MT. Burlington the informs e. tion which they have repeated here t J. night before us all. The matter can
 to us like a thunderbolt out of cle; 'e sky more so perhaps than it has
 you tonight. But in all fairness - Dr. Cody and Mir. Burlington we wal
 to acknowledge our appreciation their attitude in bringing this matte r l which is so vital to the milk industr l. to the attention of the milk produce II first.
 II We are convinced that the publ II health service intends to have Il Il consumers in Norwich and vicini II served with pasteurized milk regart |. less of any action we producers m; l take in the matter. That they a II taxing InlS step III SooQ Ialtn al | with spirit of cooperation is ev | denced by their first bringing it to |
 That there are other means of pr | curing pasteurized milk, which m; . not take us into consideration, h
 been pointed out. and we owe 1t B. the public health service to me tn them with as much fairness as tn IL have shown us. A careful study e, the situation shows that we shou $. immediately develop plans which " ne enable us to successfully market 0 el milk under the new regulations. a. These regulations provide that 0