CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 764-I Edward Garrett Cowen to Be Captain
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1928 - CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 764-I Edward Garrett Cowen to be captain. The message also announced that the Senate ha·d passed bills Ralph Christian Bing to be first lieutenant. of the following title, in which the concurrence of the House of Clinton John Harrold to be first lieutenant. Representatives was requested : PosTMASTERS S.1769. A.n act for the I'elief of the legal representative of the estate of Haller Nutt, deceased; and DELAWARE S. 2720. A.n act for the relief of David 1\IcD. Shearer. William H. Evans, Newark. The message further announced that the Senate had passed GEORGIA the following resolution : · Vera H. Cummings, Warthen. Senate Resolution 218 LOUISIANA Resol-ved~ That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the an Nettie Sojourner, Amite. nouncement of the death of Bon. THADDEUS C. SWEET~ late a Repre Minnie M. Baldwin, Bernice. sentative from the State of New York. John A. :Moody, Cotton Valley. Resol· ved~ That a committee of 10 Senators be appointed by the Vera M. Canady, Eros. Presiding Officer to join the committee appointed on the part of the Harry Preaus, Farmerville. House of Representatives to attend the funeral of the deceased Repre David S. ·Leach, Florien. sentative. Edward A. Drouin, Mansura. Resolved~ That the Secretary communicate these resolutions· to the J. Wiley Miller, Many. House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the family of Edwin J. LeBlanc, Melville. the deceased. William F. Hunt (Mrs.), Meridian. Resolved~ That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the Otto J. Gutting, Oil City. deceased the Senate do now adjourn. Teakle W. Dardenne, Plaquemine. The message also announced that pursuant to the foregoing James H. Gray, Pollock. resolution the Presiding Officer had appointed l\Ir. CoPELAND, A venant Manuel, Ville Platte. l\lr. WAGNER., Mr. Gt.TRTIS, Mr. ROBINSON of Arkansas, l\Ir. BING Samuel A. Fairchild, Vinton. HAM, 1\lr. REED of Pennsylvania, Mr. HALE, Mr. WALSH of Keary E. Ham, Wilson. Massachusetts, Mr. SwANSON, and 1\Ir. EDWARDS members of the MASSACHUSETTS committee on the part of the Senate to attend the funeral of Mary M. Langen, Lancaster. the deceased. MISSOURI THE DAIRY INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH John M. MatheR, Aurora. Mr. BUSBY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex Charles F. McKay, Knox City. tend my remarks in the RECoRD on a subject akin to the subject Euward F. Walden, Morehouse. of agriculture, being the subject of the dairy industry in the Frank L. Mertsheimer, Pleasant Hill South. NEBRASKA The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the request of the gen tleman from Mi~sissippi Milton R. Cox, Arapahoe. There was no objection. Arvid S. Samuel: on, Axtell. 1\Ir. BUSBY. Mr. Speaker, the eye of the dairying industry Walter G. Mangold, Benningto-n. of the Nation is being cast over our country for the most favored Robert J. Boyd, Trenton. fields in which to economically and advantageously develop that NEW JERSEY industry. William 1\I. Matthews, Berlin. In very recent years the dairying industry has looked over the Raymond Johnson, Riverside. Southland and there has discovered those essential elements so G. Raymond Beck, Roebling. necessary to its most advantageous operation. There it has Alfred T. Kent, Summit. found a sunny climate but a section where the temperature in NORTH CAROLINA the summer months rarely goes higher than 95 degrees. It has found long grazing seasons, mild winters, inexpensive grazing Annie L. Stanton, Stantonburg. lands, and amply supply of water and running streams-all VIRGINIA provided by nature as aids to this great industry which must Elroy Shelor, .Meadows of Dan~ grow to supply a large part of the sustenance of the N a tftm. Richard F. Hicks, Schuyler. Southern dairymen are following tbe trail of the dairy cow to farm stability and community prosperity it is indicated by a .survey of the 16 Southern States showing the growth of dairying HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the South to a farm value estimated at easily $275,000,000 as against $230,036,832 estimated by the Bureau of the Census for WEDNESDAY, May 2, 1928 this group of States in 1925. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. That this figure will be considerably increased in 1928 is the The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., offered conviction of those watching the remarkable flo.od into the tbe following prayer : South of new capital from manufacturers of dairy products of other sections, who are beginning to show keen interest in the Again, our blessed Heavenly Father, the clouds hang low and dairying possibilities of the Southern States. the shadows, dull and dreary, fall on our reluctant path. We In this light it is easy to understand that the future of dairy wonder what day of the week, we wonder what night of the ing development in the States below the Ohio River in 1927 is year when our idols of earth shall shatter and we shall know more secure than at any time since the cotton-growing States just what the human heart has to bear. Our brother and first actively launched forth upon dairying enterprises 15 years friend, the conscientious and capable servant of state, has dosed ago in the face of the boU weevil's relentless march from the his eyes in death and gone out in silence. Shaking off in Texas border to the northernmost boundaries of the cotton strange, resistless power, so swift the flight, so sudden the fall, States. and swept beyond the boundary of the stars and touched Last year's growth in farm value of dairy products is not eternity. Oh, God is God, and somehow, some way, His plans the significant feature of the outlook for this industry's growth will work out, and he who does his best shall never mourn in in the South ; the coming in of new dairying capital is the devel vain. The heart-stricken family. Oh, the deep fountains of opment causing observers of this industry to believe that the grief from which their sorrows flow ! Oh, be with them, dear tide of America's mighty dairying industry at last has set forth Lord, as theiJ: mute hearts go out to Thee and as their feet are on a southward trend just as the cotton-mill industry earlier summoned to tread a way so hard and lonely. Comfort their picked out the South as offering conditions altogether more poor, sick hearts and take them to Thy breast. Amen. · favorable to its success. In the South's record of dairying progress, the year 1927 The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and will go down as the year of the coming in of the condenseries approved. and cheese factories. While one milk condensery was estab MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE lished at Starkville, Miss., in 1926, and a few Southern States A message from the Senate by Mr. Craven, its principal clerk, a few years ago began to interest themselves tn cheese-manufac announced that the Senate had passed without amendment a turing possibilities, it was in 1927 that leading manufacturers bill of the House of the following title: of cheese and cop.densery products from other sections of the H. R. 10151. An act to amend section 9 of the Federal reserve country began a deluge of investments that yet will grow int~ act. · several millions, in the opinion of those closely following this CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE }lAY 2 ·~ trend, among them L. J. Folse, general manager of the Missis and probably exceeds 3,000 pounds a year now. It is esti .sippi State Board of Development, who estimates that dairy mated that Texas produced 48,000,000 pounds of farm butter manufacturing projects begun in 1927 and 1928 will approxi in 1927, sold 15,000,000 pounds of butterfat to creameries, mate $2,500,000 in Mississippi alone before the year is out 850,000 gallons of cream, and 36,000,000 gallons of whole milk, this in investment in plants and equipment, to say nothing of with a total value of dairy products estimated at $45,000,000, corresponding growth in investments in cows and farm equip as against $33,442,933 estimated by the Government for 1925. ment to keep pace. The number of cows in Missouri increased to 827,000 in 1927, Impressed with the success of the Borden Condensery at and creamery production is estimated at 73,000,000 with the Starkville, erected at a cost of $750,000, the Carnation Milk total farm value of dairy products estimated at $65,000,000. Products Co., Oconomowoc, Wis., one of the largest condensery Alabama's creamery output in 1927 is estimated at well in ex manufacturers of the Nation, erected a $500,000 plant at Tupelo, cess of 2,000,000 pounds, although the Government's 1926 esti Mis. ., in the spring of 1927, followed by another plant at Mur mate was slightly less than 1,000,000 pounds. Arkansas easily freesboro, Tenn., in the summer of 1927, the Pet Milk Co., in manufactured 2,500,000 pounds of creamery butter in 1927, a 1927, established condem:eries at Mayfield and Bowling Green, gain of more than 1,000,000 pounds over the 1926 estimate. Ky., and Greenville, Tenn., and early in 1927 had begun erection Georgia is estimated to have produced approximately the same of a condensery at Ko ciusko. amount. Kentucky's production is estimated at 22,000,000 The. Borden Co. followed up the successful operation of its pounds; Maryland, 1,000,000 pounds; Mississippi, 8,000,000 Mississippi plant in 1927 by erecting plants at Lewisburg and pounds; Oklahoma, 23,000,000 pounds; South Carolina, 1,000,000 Fayetteville, Tenn., in 1927.