BOSTON WOMAN HONORED BY 

 BELGIUM FOR SAVING BABIES 

 BY HER 'CLEAN MILK' EFFORTS 







THE SUNDAY HERALD 





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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1924 





Mrs. Charlotte Barrell Ware of 

 Boston has just been honored by 

 the Belgian government, which has 

 presented her with a gold medal, 

 suitably inscribed, for her work in 

 saving babies through her interest 

 in clean milk. 



Mrs. Ware, long known as the 

 "cow woman" to farmers and dairy- 

 men both in this country and abroad, 

 found the medal and a letter notify- 

 ing her of the honor awaiting her 

 in her Pinckney street home when 

 she returned from Rome, where she 

 has been working with the Interna- 

 tional Institute of Agriculture and 

 attending the seventh conference. 



She Receives Inquiries 

 From All Over World 



Not to know of Mrs. Ware ia to non- 

 fess Ignoratice of some of tho most In- 

 teresting pfroblems of agriculture, for sho 

 Is one of the few women in tlie United 

 States worltlng to solve those problems. 

 At her desk In the State House she re- 

 ceives communications from Brazil and 

 from Denmark, from .Scotland and Tlic 

 Netherlands, from Buda Pest and Kan- 

 kakee, asking about '-ondltlons here 

 and conditions thci-". l-i hr:- capacity 

 as .secretary of thr- Aniprioan commit; 

 tee on the fnternati-inu! institute she 

 mu.'it KPc that fach Individual receives 

 the correct unswcr. and she does. 



ronseqiiontly. her entire interest does 

 not centre In clean milk and clean 

 milk production, although she Insist.^ 

 that her present work is a direct out- 

 growth of that former work, when, as 

 manager of ''The %\'arelands" in Nor- 

 folk, she conceived the Idea and put 

 on the market the first certified milk 

 In this country. From that idea have 

 come the move recent development* 

 and the consequent Baving of infant 

 life, thus publicly honored by the Bel- 

 gian government. Uncle Sam al.so has 

 honored the Massachusetts woman, and 

 she .sits in many conferences at M'ash- 

 Ington, where her advice and erxperl- 

 ence are earnestly sought by those 

 committees that have the Interest of. 

 the farmer and the solving of his 

 problems greatly at heart. 



Is the Maine farmer anxious to kjiow 

 how world prices will affect his pota- 

 to crop? Does the milk farmer In New 

 Hampshire become anxious over the 

 imports of butter from Denmark, fear- 

 ing its effect on the current market? 

 Has there been a blight on the cotton 

 in Egypt, thus affecting the crop that 

 is now bursting into bloom in South 

 Carolina? Has the citrus crop in Sic- 

 ily been ruined b.v a hurricane? 

 ANSWERS THROUGH INSTITUTE 



These are a few of the questions that 

 come to Mrs. "Ware's de.sk and are an- 

 swered by her through the medium of 

 the International Institute of Agricul- 

 ture at Rome. Probably the Maine 

 farmer does not know that Rome is 

 responsible for his information, nor 

 does the milk farmer of New Hamp- 

 shire realize that in Rome statistics 

 are kept of every pound of butter pro- 

 duced in Denmark and the amounts in 

 the Etorehouse ready for shipment. 

 The South Carolinan knows that his 

 information comes from somewhere, 

 and the grower of lemons and oranges 

 on the coast of California realises that 

 the market has been affected by a 

 storm and that his fruit is bringing 

 more motley. But just how the service 

 works, and why, is a fascinating story 

 and one that should best be told by 

 Mrs. Ware, the American woman who 

 knows more about it than almost any- 

 one else in the country. 



Her storjr begins back in 1$13, in tiiose 



days before the war, when the first 

 international conference was held In 

 Rome. With Dr. Kenyon Ij. Butterfleld 



and ,T, Lewis Kllsworth. then commis- 



sion 



of 



she 



delegate. The institute itself had been 

 founded by David Lubin. a United 

 .States citizen, who had conceived the 

 Idea of such nn Institute, but had failed 

 to convince the rjnited States of its 

 worth. Ho had failed also In England, 

 :d it was only in Italy that he was 

 accorded a welcome and the attentive 

 of King Victor TLmariuel, who gave 

 the money for the white marble building 

 out of his rivate purse. 



The idea of the Institute was to act 

 as a clearing house for all market re- 

 ports. All information affecting agri- 

 culture was to be forwarded to Rome; 

 all data regarding crop conditions, to 

 prevent any future repetition of the 

 famous Leiter corner on M'heat. 

 be sent there. Labor conditions in the 

 world, pests that were affecting the 

 crops — ail conditions that might 

 or lower the world's markets — were to 

 be reported by the individual govei 

 ments and then sent out by cabli 

 they come now by radio — throughout 

 the world. 



SCOPE BROADENED 

 "It was that first conference that 

 attended in 1E>1S that gave us an idea 

 of the scope of the plan," Mrs. Ware 

 explains. "Once in Rome, we divided 

 and worked on the committees into 

 interests naturally fell, 

 th the dairy committees, in 

 ime. Trieste and as far 

 Budapest. We sent a committee dc 

 into Egypt and another into Russia 

 study various conditions there. 



"The institute functioned throughout 

 the war and the conventions 

 sumed immediately after, Ija 



died in 1919 and the <:■'--■ 



stitute then passed ii-j 

 the United Stat 



which 01 

 worked 



'id Lubli 



\1 



ed 



David bt 

 I lit- 



, the institute ever since. 



I How the institute affects the farmer 



' away back in the hiU country of Maine. 



the lemon grower of southern California 

 and the cotton grower of the South, as 

 well, Is best Illustrated by a story that 

 they delight in telling at the headquar- 

 tf-rs in the State House. In one of the 

 big southern hurricanes of the past 

 summer all the lemons were blown off 

 the trees in the plantations In Sicily 

 and the crop was practically wiped out 

 The report of the calamity was sent 

 at once to Rome, telegraphed to Paris, 

 and thence sent by radio to Arlington 

 and Washington. It went out ail over 

 the country, immediately. So swift was 

 the service that the California lemon 

 grower actually had the Information 

 before it had happened in Sicily— owing 

 to the difference in the time. 



