Show WEBER WEllER COUNTY AWAKENING I Addressing the Liona LIons club on Thursday Professor Fred H II liter Mer rill Mer-rill rill nh dairy expert did not mince words He Be said Weber county Is asleep to one ot of the tho biggest t opportunities that can come como to any sec section tion of or the country countr In Its failure to realize the possibilities of or dairy Ins dairy Ins Ing Professor Merrit has bas been stad-ing stad tug Ing dairying in all parts parte of lC the United States and Is la competent to draw conclusions as to the tho degree of neglect by our people le He declares that no city in the country offers offer the f dairyIng that Ogden does j g fH f fee notes that the the w J f nod the feed are here and need nud fe ft e but utilized to produce g results Cheese is Imported by Ogden to the tho tent Client of oC o pounds an- an annually an annually butter Is la brought ought from Idaho and even the milk su supply ply Is Interior said Professor Protessor MerrIll notwithstanding all the tho natural reo re re 1 our es that could be made to meet the local and furnish f I a surplus for or outside Markets This Thia Is Ie im an Indictment which bas been supported by every man who has 1111 investigated the dairy In Weber county Ogden valley Is one oue of ot the ideal of If all sU dairy districts The winters are Invigorating the sum sum- summers summers mers cool and teed feed Is la plentiful The water In the streams Is pure By developIng dairying Ogden valley could become a paradise for the owners of ot pure bred dairy cattle It If Ogden tomorrow should re- re resolve re resolve solve to make Weber county the leadIng dairy county In the state 1 ten tea years yeu the wealth of the county would double and many a ahome ahome ahome home now in uncertain circumstances circumstances stances would be 1 Ith prosperity Professor ProCessor Merrill touching on In the quality ot of the milk and butter now produced started that tbt the present city ordinance governIng the Inspection of oC milk in Ogden does not go far Car enough Ho He refers to the ordinance passed In December December ber requiring pasteurizing of mIlk beginning May 1 He Ie would allow no milk to be sold that Is Ii not paa The ordinance referred to permits the producer or of o milk to sell his raw product but prohibits dealers to handle any but pasteur pasteur- pasteurized pasteurized milk The law as framed framed met wIth considerable opposition from Crom the raw rw milk dealers as they claImed It 1 entail great hard hardships hardships ships and drive many of oC them out i of oC business Then there are a num num- number number I ber her of or owners of oC small herds who I sell Bell their milk direct to custom rs and the city commission decided It I land would be unfair to the small emaH pro pro- producer producer duc ducer r with Ith a few Cew customers to toI compel them to give ve up I theIr opportunities of ot a II livelihood lor I or so BO cripple them by taking away their direct market as to work It a severe hardships The Tho commission oaB as disposed to gradually op the tho solution of lC the problem and thus avoid hat bat might prove to be confiscation of ot the tho Interests of DC the small email producers I I Whether r milk be bo pasteurized or sold as a raw product there thero must be close inspection and a rigid en enI of ot the rules of It sanita sanitation I tion and therefore the big eSsen list Is Inspection |