REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE WASH- 

 INGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO INVESTIGATE THE MILK 

 SITUATION LN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



I. INTRODUCTION. 



At a meeting of the Washington Chamber of Commerce held Octo- 

 ber 11, 1910, the following resolution was adopted: 



Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the chair to investigate 

 the milk situation in the District of Columbia and report forthwith to the 

 chamber. 



Pursuant to the terms of this resolution, the following committee 

 was appointed by the president of the chamber: J. Louis Willige 

 (chairman), George W. White, Benjamin W. Guy, Thaddeus C. 

 Dulin, and William D. Hoover. It was determined at the initial 

 meeting of the committee to arrange for a series of public hearings, 

 to which the representatives of , the dairy and dairy-farming inter- 

 ests, the railway transportation companies, and the general public 

 should be invited. Meetings for this purpose were held in the cham- 

 ber rooms on October 21 and October 25, 1910. Mr. A. S. Trundle 

 and Mr. Corbin Thompson appeared before the committee as special 

 representatives of the Dairymen's Association of the District of Co- 

 lumbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and W. A. Hartranft, president of 

 the association, and Messrs. W. A. Simpson and J. W. Castle, mem- 

 bers, also gave testimony before the committee. Mr. John Thomas, 

 president of the Milk Producers' Association of Maryland, Virginia, 

 and the District of Columbia, was unable to be present at the meet- 

 ings of the committee on account of illness. Dr. William C. Wood- 

 ward, health officer of the District of Columbia, and Dr. G. Lloyd 

 Magruder, a member of the Medical Society of the District, also 

 appeared before th committee. 



The committee, at the suggestion of the honorable the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, held a conference with the officials of the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry of that department on October 28, 1910, which was 

 participated in by the following-named gentlemen in charge of the 

 several divisions of the bureau, in addition to Dr. A. D. Melvin, 

 chief oi the bureau, whose patience and courtesy, as well as that of 

 the other gentlemen named, is hereby acknowledged with the thanks 

 of the committee : 



Dr. A. D. Melvin, Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry. 



Dr. A. M. Farrington, assistant chief of bureau. 



Dr. John R. Mohler, Chief of Pathological Division. 



Dr. R. W. Hickman, Chief of Quarantine Division. 



Dr. E. C. Schroeder, Superintendent of Experiment Station. 



Mr. B. H. Rawl, Chief of Dairy Division. . 



Mr. L. A. Rogers, in charge of research laboratories, Dairy Divi- 

 sion. 



