Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1922-03-21
COUNTY AGENT NORRIS
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The public meeting held last night
under the auspices of the City Coun-
Gil developed practically unanimous
sentiment in favor of municipal reg
ulation of the milk supply furnished
the city, although the particular form
which that regulation is to take was
deferred for official action by the
Council at special meeting TO be
held on Tuesday, April e.
The principal part in the discus
sion last night was taken by George
W. Norris, County Agricultural
Agent, who showed his thorough fam
iliarity with the subject in explaining
The provisions OF the proposed ordi-
nance submitted by the Rotary Club
and in answering the various ques-
tions asked i'm connection with IT, Mr.
Norris spoke heartily in favor OF the
ordinance, stating the good effects
that would necessarily come from IL,
and concluded that il could lie car
ried out on practically a self-support-
ing basis without any additional fnan-
cial burden on the city. In answer
TO a question, he said IL ought not
TO, and in all probability would not.
mean any increased cost of milk TO
the consumer. lie added that in fact
the experience in some places had
been to decrease the price, under SIM
liar milk ordinances He suggested
$1,000 as fair license fee to be paid
by each dairyman. the total number OF
Ahcm he approximated at thirty.
However, the amount Of these license
fees and the manner and basis for
Collecting them was a point OF de-
tail which, the discussion developed,
would have TO lie worked out for the
inal draft OF the ordinance, as il is
not provided for in it's present form.
II seemed 10 be the general senti-
ment that the cost OF carrying the
ordinance into effect should not ex-
cecd the amount derived from license
fees, and that this would lie found TO
he feasible.
Cooperation Assured
Mr.. Norris also explained that the
State Board OF Health and the De-
partment OF Agriculture would un-
Ioubtedly cooperate free OF charge
in the meteorological and inspection
WORK called for by the ordinance,
which would be under a City Milk
Inspection Bureau. OF which the City
Health Officer would be the chief.
The meeting. which was called to
order by Mayor Jones at o'clock,
was attended by a representative
gathering, including delegation from
the Rotary Club and the Dairymen's S
Association. Ridgely p. Melvin was
called on, as a representative OF the
Rotary Club, to open the discussion.
MIR. Melvin stated that what the Club
| was sui hitting was the main idea
of a regulated pure milk supply and
that it was the substance, rather than
the form, OF the proposition that
was being emphasized. However, he
said, the ordinance submitted as a
basis of discussion, was the product
of careful study, particularly by the
dairymen and Mr.. Norris and il its pro-
visions could be carried out with but
little. If any, additional cost to the city
over and above the revenue received,
il would be a fine and progressive
measure to have. He suggested that
this could practically be done through
the license fees. He said that the
President of the Rotary Club OF Fred
crick had reported that the operation
of this ordinance there had proved to
be big success and that the city was
proud of it.
How Dairymen Stand
Philip b. Cooper, Chairman OF the
Dairyrnen's Association, in stating
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