Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-08-28

State Ddlrymen Meet.
Maryland Association Doing
S4,OOO,OOO Business A Year.
After being organized only year, the
Maryland State Dairyman's Association
is doing business of more than $4,000
600 year, it was announced last Satur-
day at the annual meeting of the associ-
alton, and moreover, it has put milk pro-
duction on stable and sensible basis
fair, they assert. both to the producer
and the consumer.
The meeting of the association was
largely in the nature of lovefeast.
There were about 500 members present
in the big hall of Odd Fellows Temple
when D. G. Harry, president, called the
gathering to order and made a brief in
troductory address. in which he dealt
with some of the plans for an educational
campaign in the interest of greater con-
sumption OF milk, and also for protect
ing the dairymen against abuses, such as
the constant theft of milk cans. l. W..
Heaps, secretary and treasurer of the
association, submitted the financial re-
port, which showed that the association
had receipts last year of approximately
Sc, 600 and had a balance in hand of near
S., 500. 1t was voted to assess members
an additional one mill per gallon of milk
sold through the association for extra ex-
penses should that be deemed necessary
by the directors.
DR.. A. F. Woods, president of the
State College of Agriculture, in an adj
dress declared that the people of Mary
land consumed only about onehalf of the
milk they needed in order best to pre-
serve their health. In spite of the dis
cussion about high prices, he stated that
milk was proportionately much lower
than other foodstuffs, considering it's food
values, and that the dairymen are not
making more than fair profit on their
production. Nobody, he said, expects
them to produce and sell milk at less than
cost and fair margin of profit, and that
the dairymen are not going to do it.
The Federal Government. he said, is
arranging for a five-year survey of the
farms of MARYLAND in order to show how
conditions which are holding back the
farmer and reducing production may be
remedied. This survey will pay particu-
lar attention to dairy farms with the
view of showing how expenses can be
cut down to the profit of the producer,
the retailer and the consumer There
are leaks in the dairy business which
caused an aggregate loss in Maryland Of
$500, 600 year.
CDR. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, and other experts" said Dr.
Woods, "have told US repeatedly in the
last few months that the people of Balti-
more are not consuming as much milk
as they should, and that the health of
the city is thus affected. These men are
looking out only for the health of the
people. They know the health-giving
properties of milk. They are eager for
the spreading of propaganda that will
awaken people to the needs of drinking
more milk. They have asked you men
to produce as much milk as you possibly
can and to sell it at the lowest possible
price.
We are trying to do this, but we know
at the present time that the people are
not consuming half as much milk as they
should.
1--WE have not half the number of cows
we should have in this State. We must
get more. We must establish a bond of
union between our dealers and the con-
sumers and ourselves and let everybody
see that we are playing the game on the
square.
Zone thing the public must not forget
The farmers are entitled to better hours,
better pay and better living conditions,
the same as other men. The improve
ment of such conditions will bring about
an increase in the cost of production
an honest increase, the farmers are going
to try by efficient work, by putting forth
their best efforts for every minute of
their working day to cut down their ex-
penses not only for their own benefit,
but for the benefit of those who are de-
pendent upon them.
eff we did not have SO many strike
in this country, so much wasted efficien-
| cy, we would hear less of living expenses.
told railroad friend of mine the other
day that if there were not so many strikes
on the railroads there would not be so
mahy losses. and that the salaries for
which railroad men yearn would come to
them readily without agitation. All the
farmer wants is to be considered like the
rest of men. H e deserves no more and
he wants no less"
Samuel Jordon, the highest paid coun-
ty agricultural agent in the country, who
halls from Claredon county, Missouri,
and draws $4,000 year, also made an
address in which he discussed some of
the problems of the milk producers and
plans for keeping the business on stable
basis. and Prof. ]. A. Gamble, of the
department of animal husbandry of the
State College of Agriculture made an
address on the butter fat basis of selling
milk.
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