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cinnati is received by rail. Dairymen sell by beer-measure, 'while many 

 of the grocers and dealers sell by wine-measure. Prices are the same 

 for summer and winter. Hotels and milk-dealers pay 5 cents to C^ cents 

 per qnart. Retail price of milk, " dry-fed," 10 cents per quart ; " slop- 

 fed,-' 8 cents per quart. There are about two hundred and fifty dairies 

 in and around Cincinnati, averag:ing thirty cows and 40 gallons of milk 

 per day. Probably one-half of the dairymen use "dry feed," including 

 brewers' grains, corn-meal, bran and shorts, and sheaf-oats, the other 

 hall using still-slops, refuse from starch-factories, with oil-cake, &c. 

 Many wealthy families in the city and immediate suburbs keep their own 

 cows. 



G. A. Martin, agricultiu'al editor of the Commercial Advertiser, Buf- 

 falo, !N'ew York, writes that the prices received by farmers at stations 

 fourteen to twenty miles from that city have been as follows : From May 

 1 to September 1, 2i cents per quart ; from September 1 to November 

 1, 3 cents ; from JS'ovember 1 to May 1, 3^ cents. Milk is forwarded by 

 rail from all points distant more than live miles from the city. Freight- 

 charges are paid by the city dealers buying from farmers and retailing 

 to consumers, and amount to 1 cent per gallon for every twenty miles of 

 distance. The city retail price per quart, for the six months commencing 

 May 1, has been 5 cents ; for the six months following, G cents. Pro- 

 ducers and dealers sell by wine-measure. Erie, Chatauqua, and Cattar 

 raugus Counties are peculiarly adapted to dairying, which is, conse 

 quently, their leading agricultural interest ; they furnish the city with 

 an abundant supply, generally of excellent character. The Erie County 

 Co-operative Milk Association, organized by dairymen in Alden and 

 Aurora Townships, opened a depot in Buffalo May 1, 1872, for the pur- 

 pose of supplying milk directly to consumers. The sales commenced 

 with 50 gallons per day, and soon reached GOO gallons daily. The asso- 

 ciation is now in a prosperous condition. 



Mr. F. B. Shalters, of Beading, Pennsylvania, secretary of the Berks 

 County Agricultural Society, writes that that city receives all its milk 

 from farms within a distance of five miles. Retail prices, 8 cents in 

 summer and 10 cents in winter, jjer quart ; wine-measure only is used. 

 During the summer the receipts are increased about G,000 gallons per 

 week, for the numerous ice-cream factories, some of which are very 

 large establishments, operated by steam. The factories -pay 20 cents 

 per gallon, delivered. Pottsville receives about 1,000 gallons of milk, 

 weekly, by the Philadelphia and Reading road, and the Lebanon Valley 

 branch takes about 240 gallons per week, from the west part of the county, 

 to Harrisburgh. 



In the city of Washington small amounts of milk are received, daily, 

 by the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Orange, Alexandria and Manassas 

 roads, but the demand for country milk is urgent, and the business by 

 rail is increasing. 



The Piedmont Milk and Produce Association, receiving milk on the 

 Orange, Alexandria and IManassas road, from points in Virginia up to 

 about eighty miles distance from Washington, commenced operations in 

 February, 1872, and during the summer of that year received an esti- 

 mated average of 250 gallons daily; winter receipts up to the middle of 

 January, 1873," averaged not over 80 gallons per day 5 total receipts for 

 the first ten months, 36,520 gallons. Sales are on commission ; pro- 

 ducers furnish cans, 5-gallon and 10-gallon sizes ; freight is paid at the 

 city terminus, and is charged to the farmers' account with the associa- 

 tion. Gross prices to the producer, in summer, 5 cents per quart ; in 



