MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 87 



hour, or less than Ic per hour. If the labor of the farmer's wife and 

 children was not charged for, and all of the $2,626.87 above other ex- 

 penses, including paid labor, remained for the operators themselves, each 

 operator would have received $ .0106 per hour for his own labor. 



TABLE No. 32 

 RETURNS EXCEPT MILK SOLD WHOLESALE 



Amount. Price. Value. 



Appreciation on Cows 



Milk used by Families 160,223 qts. $.071 $11,374.82 



Milk Retailed, used for butter and fed to stock 118,869 qts. .070 8,268.43 



Manure recovered 20,612 tons 1.77 36,429.00 



Feed bags . . . . 627.00 



Calves born (value at birth) 1,831 7.22 13,211.75 



Total $69,911.00 



Table No. 32 shows the receipts from other sources than milk. If 

 there were appreciation or increased value in cows it would appear in 

 this list of items. It is set down as one of the items, but no figures are 

 placed opposite this item, for the reason that there was no appreciation on 

 the farms as a whole. 



The milk used by the farmers' families is charged for at the average 

 League price for the year. The slight difference between this figure and 

 the figure actually received, as shown in Table No. 24, is more than made 

 up by the cost of hauling milk to the shipping station for the milk which 

 was shipped from" the farm. Some small quantities of milk were retailed 

 by farmers themselves, and these amounts are included in the receipts. 



The producing territory was divided into three regions because the 

 character of the farms semed to indicate a natural division of this kind. 



The more important points of difference between the character of the 

 farms in these regions is shown in Table No. 33. 



TABLE No. 33 

 COMPARISON OF CONDITIONS IN THREE DAIRY DISTRICTS 



Farms Dairy Cows Acres Value Acres of Value 



Region. Visited Per Farm, of Land. Per Acre. Pasture. Acre. 



Kiss, N. Y. . . . 24 15.8 180.3 $ 54.00 60 $32.00 



Wayne and Livingston 



Counties . 33 22 179.2 134.00 33 86.00 



Monroe County 84 14.3 98.5 197.00 17 109.00 



The farms located in the Bliss regions are for the most part devoted 

 to milk production, having comparatively small sources of income outside 

 of the income from milk. The farms in Monroe County are many of 

 them engaged in the production of apples and other fruit as well as 

 general farm crops and are located near enough to the City of Rochester 

 to make it convenient to haul considerable quantities of wet brewers' 



