1863. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



161 



For the Kew England Farmer, 

 THE PRICE OP MILK. 



Mr. Editor :— This is a subject which pos- 

 sesses much interest for a large number of the 

 readers of the Farmer. It is one of those matters 

 upon which much has been said, but very little 

 done, ujion the side of the producers, the matter 

 having been left entirely to a few milkmen, who 

 have, for tlie last few years, so well improved their 

 o])portunity, that milk is now bought by them at 

 prices very far below its actual cost of production. 



Whenever the prices of other tilings have been 

 a little less than usual, the price of milk has been 

 reduced also, but now, when everything which the 

 farmer must ])urchase has gone up from 50 to 400 

 per cent, above former prices, tliese milkmen seem 

 determined to keep down the price to about the 

 old rates, if possible. 



I wish to ask if there is not a remedy for this 

 state of affairs ? It seems to me that there is, if 

 milk raisers would only bestir themselves a little. 

 Why should not they do as other manufacturers 

 have been doing, and call a milk raisers' convei 



SCHOOLEY'S PATENT ICEBEBQ 

 REFRIGERATOR. 



Schooley's upright formed refrigerator, an accu- 



rate cut of which we present above, contains every 



tion, to establisit an equitable scale of prices, and j improvement covered bv all the patents issued to 



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bchooley, uinship and Fairbanks, up to the year 



invite all the towns which are interested to send 

 delegates ? The idea seems [)racticable, and if a 

 few influential men would only start the thing, I 

 think it might be easily accomplished. The j)res- 

 ent time seems to be a favorable one, and there 

 can be no question, I think, that, at the present 

 retail prices, the milkmen can afford to pay a much 

 higher price per can than they are now paying. 



Are all of our farmers aware of the fact, that 

 the can of milk which they have sold for from 22 

 to 25 cents, is retailed iu the city for six cents per 

 quart, wine measure, amounting to nearly or quite 

 sixty cents per can ? X. Y. z. 



Middlesex Conaty, Mass., April, 1803. 



Remarks. — We understand that a law has just 

 been passed in the Legislature, which declares 

 that "Whoever buys or sells milk by any other meas- 

 ures, cans or vessels, than those sealed as ijrocided 

 in the loth section of the General Statutes, shall for 

 one violation pay $20, and for a second and each 

 subsequent violation $50. Enforce this section 

 of the law, and another in relation to the adulter, 

 ation of milk, and farmers will soon get a fair price 

 for what they have to spare. 



Women with Rakes a\d Spades. — One of our 

 agricultural contemporaries says : "These times 

 are bringing out the best qualities of our Ameri- 

 can women ; but there is one sort of out-d oor la- 

 bor which should be partict|)ated in by women in 

 all times, and that is gardening. Xow is the time 

 to commence operations for the season. If the 

 ground is wet, and you have no thick boots of 

 your own, pull on a pair of brother's, fling on one 

 of those butter-bowl hats, draw on a pair of leath- 

 er gloves, and sally forth on a reconnoissance. 

 Rake off the mulches and let the sun have a shine 

 at the tender crowns which are just ready to 

 break through the brown husk and show their em- 

 erald lances. Make up your minds what to plant 

 and where to plant it ; put in a few seeds of early 

 cabbage and peas, in a warm nook, and make up 

 your minds to follow out such a good beginning, 

 every day or so through the season." 



1.S63. The ice chamber in this refrigerator is 

 ])laced at the top of one side, and not across the 

 top, as in those formerly manufactured ; this ciiange 

 being made to prevent any moisture from collect- 

 ing on the bottom of the ice floor in the preserving 

 chamber. The door to the ice chamber opens 

 from tlie front and not from the top, as in all other 

 styles, making it more convenient to put in or get 

 at the ice. 



The following is what Professor Nathaniel Hill, 

 Professor of Chemistry at Brown University, says 

 of Schooley's Refrigerator : 



"In the month of August I experimented with 

 Schooley's Refiigerator, also with several other 

 kinds, in all of which I placed a dish of onions, 

 some milk, and custard pie. The refrigerators 

 were then closed, locked, and sealed, and not 

 opened for twenty-four hours. Upon examination, 

 all oftiiem lUT sciiooLEv's were highly charged 

 with the odor of onions, and the milk and' |)ie were 

 strongly contaminated with the taste of onions. 

 The inside linings were dripjjing witli water, and 

 the entire atmosphere was saturated with vapor, 

 and the milk had become sour. In the Schooley 

 Refrigerator the linings in the Provision Apart- 

 ment were dry and the atmosphere pure. There 

 was no accumulated odor of onions. In the milk 

 and pie no taste whatever of onions could be de- 

 tected. The milk was i)erfectly sweet." 



This refrigerator is sold by Curtis cV Cobb, 

 seedsmen and florists, of this city. 



Teaching a Colt to Back. — A correspondent 

 of the liural New Yorker gives the following di- 

 rections : 



We should hitch him up to a cart or wagon that 

 stood on an elevation, with a gradual slope one 

 way, so that the cart or wagon wouM run buck it- 

 self, and try to back liim until successful ; then 

 try on level ground ; and then a small load. Thus 

 by degrees you can succeed in teaching him to 

 back nearly as much as he could draw. 



