Connecticut western news., 1919-12-18

LlCS III CI1o SIX SCdCSS CONcISu Dy IuC |Dairymen's League attended the annual stockholders meeting of their organization at Jersey City on De- |cember 9th.
 In size, representation and enthu- siasm this was one of the most re- markable meetings ever held in the history of agriculture. From start to finish there was a spirit of optim- ism, both as to the future of their industry and as to the fundamental principles of Americanism, upon which the country as whole must go forward. Reports of the various officers were read and unanimously adopted.
 The principal adsrdeses were given by Milo D. Campbell, President of the National Milk Producers Fedora tion, who kept his audience on the edge of their seats for over an hour, and by John D. Miller, Vice-Presi- dent of the Dairymen's League, who emphasized some of the progress that the organization has been able to make in spite of it's enemies.
 The new board of directors met on the day following the annual meeting and organized for the new year, electing the following officers of the Dairymen's League: e
 President, R. D. Cooper, Little Falls, N. Y.; Vice President, John D. Miller, Susquehanna, Pa.; Secretary, Albert Manning, Otisville, N. Y; Treasurer, Bruce M. Fitzpatrick, Roxbury, N. Y.; Executive Commit tee: R. D. Cooper, Chairman (ex-offi- cio) Little Falls, N. Y, Albert Man ming, Otisville, N. Y, F. H. Thomson, Holland Patent, N. r., H. J. Kershaw, Sherburne, N. T., Geo. w. Slocum, Milton, Pa. Following are the reso- lutions adopted by the convention:
 Resolutions
 Resolved, that the Board of Direc- and the Dairymen's League be one and the same.
 Resolved, that this organization heartily endorses the principles of the Capper-Hereman,B Bill now pending in Congress, which is designed to clari- fly the law so as to clearly permit collective bargaining by farmers and their organizations, and we voice the conviction that farmers of the nation should no longer be subject to the against them under the provisions of the present Anti Trust Law, and
 Be it further resolved, that copy of this resolution be sent to each United States Senator and member of Congress in the six states in which this organization hash mem bers, to wit: New Year, Pennsyvva- mia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Masso- chusetts and Vermont.
 Resolved, that we extend to the various Farm Bureaus and Farm Bureaus Managers our thanks and pprecition for the vluable and eff cient service and unstinted aid they have at all times rendered to the Dairymen's League.
 Whereas, an increase in the retail price of milk over the present high prices would probably vary materi- ally reduce the consumption of milk to the ultimate injury of the produc- CT, and ,.'
 Whereas, milk cannot be produced by the farmer at the present prices at reasonable profit to the farmer, principally on account of the high cost of by-product protein feed, and
 Whereas, the cost of such by-pro- duct protein feed is out of all pro- portion to the amount paid the far mer for his whole grain, be it
 Therefore resolved, that in our opinion a committee should be ap- pointed by the president of the Dairymen's League to take up the matter of securing for the farmers a square deal in the purchase of by product protein feeds.
 Resolved, that in our opinion the functions of the Dairymen's League are only partly performed in placing it's whole power in the direction of better milk prices.
 Resolved, that the question of feed costs is fully as important, if not more so, than the matter of selling milk,
 Whereas, the milk producers are required to conform to the sanitary regulation of as many municipalities as their product may enter, there by subjecting them to the expense and of multiple ideas; there fore in the interest of simplicity, economy and efficiency, be it
 Resolved, that the legislature of the several states be requested to enact lgislation placing the sanitary regulation and inspection of milk producing and handling methods and in the country in the hands of the State Department of Health as provided by legislation proposed in 1916 in New York state Legislature.
 Mrs. Blanche Southern of New