Evening star., 1936-07-25
ONE LAST PROTEST
FINISHES HEARING
p. ON MILK CONTROL
Proposed Order Now Goes
to Wallace for Veto or
PRONUNCIATION.
INDEPENDENTS ASSERT
PROTECTION is FUTILE
Women's Clubs Federation Direc-
tor Declares, However, That
1t Will Help Price.
RY BLAIR BOLLES.

Independent dairymen supplying
Washington with its milk registered
final public protest today against set
ting up Federal control of milk price
and milk output for producers selling
to District distributors.
Coleman c. Gore, a Loudoun County
(Va.) milk broker who handles the
output of 81 farmers for Fairfax Farms
Dairy, asked the Agricultural ADJUST
ment Administration to turn the
Washington milk problem over to the
Federal Trade Commission for a three
month study.
His suggestion was vehemently Of
fered few minutes before the Six-day
Department of Agriculture Auditorium
hearing on the control agreement was
brought to close.
You can't give us the protection we
can give ourselves" Gore told A. A. A.
officials. The distributor won't let
you"
Decision Now Up to Wallace.
When Gore sat down the 10000
page record was made complete by a
letter from Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley,
approving the suggested control
1t will help the farmer price Of
milk and stabilize the market, Mrs.
Wiley, who is director of the Gen
eral Federation of Womens Clubs
and widow of the famous pure food
and drug pioneer. believes. She owns
a 1,000-acre farm, devoted partly to
dairy products, in Loudoun County.
Veto or PRONUNCIATION of the con-
troll order depends now on Secretary
Wallace, who will act after study
expected to take two or three weeks.
To become effective, the order must
first be approved by two-thirds of the
producers supplying washington or
the producers of two-thirds of the
milk coming into Washington.
Dairymen to Vote for Control.
It is almost a foregone conclusion
the dairy men will vote for control.
The agreement was asked by the
Maryland and Virginia Producers As
sociation, made up of 1,1O0 producers.
Farmers shipping to Washington to-
tai 1,4O0 or 1,500.
Secretary Wallace can, if he sees
fit, overrule the producers request.
The control order, if made opera
tive, would put the Federal Govern
ment, through an administrator. in
the position of referee of the price
and production of milk for each pro-
ducer supplying the washington
market.
To escape the control orders juris-
diction, an 85-gallon-a-day producer
from Centerville, Va, threatened yes
terday at the Department of Agri-
culture auditorium hearing to estab-
1ish cooperative farmer owned dairy
unless the agreement we're amended
in certain respects.
Louis Akar, a Frenchman who be-
came a gentleman dairy farmer two
years ago for the fun of it, said he
knew 10 or u producers ready now
to join him in such an enterprise.
Akar objected to a section in the
agreement which he thought would
reduce to 40 gallons day the amount
of milk for which he could receive
the top price.
Price War Predicted.
Joining Akar in attacking the pro-
posed agreements base-rating section,
which fixes the amount of top-price
milk, was o. N. Terpening, who op-
crates the 800-acre Rock Springs Farm
near Rockville, Md.
Terpening predicted a price war
among distributors supplying subur-
ban Washington If the scope Of the
marketing area affected by the agree
ment were not widened.
A distributor who locates his plant
on the outskirts of the city, Terpen-
ing said. and buys milk from the
same farmers supplying Washington,
is not compelled by the agreement to
pay the same price as the distributor
with plant inside the District line
Thus, he testified, the low-price
buyer can supply Chevy Chase, Md.
consumers, for instance, more cheaply
than the high-price buyer in WASH
ington.