1188 
September  0,  191 G. 
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DOWN  and 
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Testimony  of  Milk  Men:  What  the 
Committee  Found 
Cost  of  PROntrCTiox. — Some  of  the 
things  the  Wicks  committee  upturned  in 
the  hearings  in  the  dairy  counties  have 
been  astounding.  Right  here  in  Oneida 
County,  as  good  a  dairy  county  as  there 
is  in  the  State,  wide  interest  was  ex¬ 
pressed  at  the  hearings.  There  was  no 
guesswork.  Farmers  came  with  their 
cost  sheets  the  same  as  the  manager  of 
a  factory  might  come,  and  laid  before 
the  committee  their  sworn  figures  of  the 
cost  of  operating  a  daii'y.  One  man 
showed  his  wages  were  two  cents  an  hour, 
and  a  loss  of  $818.  In  the  matter  of  the 
cost  of  milk  production  it  was  proved  be¬ 
fore  the  committee  with  deadly  monotony 
by  wituess  after  witness  that  the  busi¬ 
ness  of  making  milk  is  carried  on  with 
small  •profit,  with  low  wages  or  none  at 
all  under  present  priees.  Farmers"  ac¬ 
counts  all  bore  a  striking  similarity. 
These  figures  offered  by  M.  C.  Jones, 
Oneida  County,  may  be  taken  as  typical 
and  fairly  representative : 
First  inventoi'y  . 82.145.00 
Cattle  bought.  .  170.00 
Interest  .  104.12 
Milk  hauling  .  228.75 
Labor  .  887.00 
Equipment  .  11.41 
Buildings  . 108.00 
Miscellaneous  .  44.40 
Roughage  .  1.162.40 
Concentrates  .  525.80 
close  questioning,  he  had  shipped  to  New 
York. 
I x di vi i ) u at.  Records. — Despite  the  as¬ 
sertion  by  one  witty  farmer  that  he  didn’t 
keep  books  because  he  didn’t  want  to  lie 
scared  to  death  by  the  figures  of  how 
much  he  lost,  and  that  "if  all  farmers 
kept  hooks  there’d  he  few  farmers,”  care¬ 
ful  records  are  kept  by  many  individuals. 
Farming  is  getting  to  he  too  much  like 
business  to  permit  its  being  run  at  loose 
ends.  Where  individuals  do  not  keep 
hooks  for  themselves,  the  milk-testing  as¬ 
sociation  and  farm  bureau  agent  keep 
books  for  them.  O.  F.  Ross,  Farm  Bu¬ 
reau  agent  for  Oneida  County,  gave  in¬ 
teresting  figures  for  157  herds,  containing 
2,363  cows.  Taking  the  best  herds,  42 
of  them,  with  751  COWS,  he  found  the 
average  production  of  milk  was  5,138.8 
pounds  per  cow  per  year.  The  average 
price  received  was  81.534  per  hundred 
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guesswork  that  the  production  of  milk 
is  carried  on  at  loss,  nor  that  cruelly  op¬ 
pressive  methods  have  been  practised. 
When  the.  report  comes  to  be  published  in 
its  entirety  it  will  linve  some  startling 
conclusions.  Things  can  not  go  on  as 
they  ore.  Fildei*  unprofitable  conditions 
the  great  dairy  interest  of  tho  State  of 
Now  York  will  dry  up.  The  milk  trains 
which  go  rumbling  down  to  the  metrop¬ 
olis  day  after  day.  carrying  thousands 
and  thousands  of  quarts  of  this  necessary 
food,  will  cease  running.  The  living  cost 
will  mount  higher  than  ever.  There  is 
small  hope,  however,  that  the  cupidity  of 
the  milk  distributing  companies  will  de¬ 
crease.  Their  actions  in  the  last  few 
weeks  in  arbitrarily  increasing  their 
prices  would  indicate  this.  A  new  deal 
is  called  for,  a  deal  that  will  establish 
closer  relations  between  the  man  back 
ou  the  kills  and  the  housewife  who  each 
morning  takes  a  bottle  of  milk  in  from 
her  city  doorstep  or  from  the  dumb¬ 
waiter.  Iu  its  'broader  aspects,  too,  the 
present  agitation  presents  another  crisis 
in  rural  life.  If  it  results  in  no  bettering 
of  conditions  for  the  farmer  it  means 
a  further  diminution  of  folks  hack 
on  the  farms;  it  means  that  more 
will  seek  the  more  profitable  and 
less  toilsome  life  of  the  industrial  towns 
in  the  valleys.  All  of  which  means  a 
destruction  of  that  virile,  independent 
populace  which  has  ever  been  the  soul 
and  sinew  of  the  Empire  State. 
WALTER  n.  MAIN. 
CREDITS, 
Second  inventory  . 
Cattle  sold  . 
Manure  . 
Milk  used  in  house.  .  .  . 
Milk  in  chees  factory.. 
Milk  at  condenscry 
Total  . $4,560.70 
Loss  .  818.08 
Returns  per  man  .022  per  hour:  cost 
to  produce  100  pounds  of  milk  $2.18 ; 
price  of  milk  per  cwt.  $1,524. 
A  Tangled  Sttrject. — If  figures  were 
all  there  is  to  it.  the  milk  question  would 
not  be  so  complex ;  hut  evidence  shows 
that  the  dealings  have  ramified  until  they 
extend  into  politics,  fraud,  graft  and  all 
sorts  of  unfair  dealings.  What  the  deal¬ 
ings  of  the  big  milk  companies  are.  with 
their  city  customers  is  a  matter  for  con¬ 
sideration  elsewhere:  hut  their  dealings 
with  the  farmers  show  oppression,  ac¬ 
cording-  to  evidence  adduced  by  the  State 
committee. 
Hampering  Co-operation. — Evidence 
was  given  of  farms  whose  barns  were 
scored  when  their  owners  displayed  symp¬ 
toms  of  independence.  Along  the  same 
lines  were  the  elimination  of  milk  sta¬ 
tions  which  were  run  on  the  cooperative 
plan.  While  it  is  possible  to  ship  milk 
under  the  co-operative  plan,  the  milk  con¬ 
cerns  are  careful  to  keep  co-operative 
companies  from  getting  a  foothold  in  the 
city.  They  kill  them  off  in  one  way  or 
another. 
Missing  Records. — There  was  an  un¬ 
pleasant  half  hour  for  Leonard  B.  Sayre, 
manager  of  the  Levy  Dairy  Company’s 
receiving  station  at  Canastota,  when  he 
was  asked  for  the  Teeords  and  daily  re¬ 
ports  of  his  station  for  the  past  two 
years.  When  he  said  he  had  destroyed 
these  records.  Judge  George  W.  Ward, 
of  Little  Falls,  N.  Y.,  who  is  the  at¬ 
torney  for  the  Wicks  committee,  and  to 
whose  persistent  cross-examining  many  of 
the  facts  learned  in  the  hearings  are  due, 
took  him  in  hand.  He  told  him  that  in 
destroying  those  records  he  had  violated 
a  State  law  which  requires  that  they  <be 
kept  two  years.  After  a  spell  of  Judge 
Ward’s  grilling,  Mr.  Sayre  confessed  he 
had  not  destroyed  his  records.  lie  was 
told  to  bring  them  to  the  hearing  the 
next  day. 
Skim-milk. — Does  New  York  ever  get 
skimmed  milk  under  guise  of  whole 
milk?  C.  E.  Dexter,  who  runs  the  station 
at  Wampsville,  of  the  National  Dairy 
Company  of  Brooklyn,  reluctantly  testi¬ 
fied  he  had  oi’ders  to  ship  two  cans  of 
cream  a  week.  As  a  specific  instance,  he 
said  on  August  G  he  dipped  a  can  of 
cream  from  seven  or  eight  cans  of  milk. 
The  residue,  the  skimmed  milk,  he  said, 
was  sold  to  farmers.  During  July,  he 
testified  he  had  about  65  cans  of  skimmed 
milk  on  hand.  This,  he  admitted  after 
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This  is  just  the  time  of  year  that  most 
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I  am  also  churning  from  six  cows  and 
prefer  to  think  W.  M.,  page  10S0,  is  fill¬ 
ing  his  cbuni  too  full.  I  use  a  10-gallon 
churn  and  churn  every  other  day.  On 
an  average  I  churn  in  seven  minutes, 
never  over  10.  I  dispense  10  quarts  milk 
and  two  quarts  cream  every  day,  and 
made  183  lbs.  butter  last  month. 
I  would  suggest  W.  M.’s  cows  do  not 
get  salt  enough,  which  is  a  common 
source  of  trouble  at  this  time  of  year. 
Give  cows  access  to  salt  bricks  during 
milking  periods  and  half  the  trouble  will 
lie  removed.  Use  a  churn  thermometer, 
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perature,  which  is  from  GO  to  G4  deg. 
for  sour  cream,  68  to  72  deg.  for  sweet. 
Sweet  cream  never  makes  as  good  butter 
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gest  the  addition  of  water  one  to  four 
of  cream.  This  will  both  hasten  and 
make  a  more  complete  separation.  I 
often  use  water  to  bring  my  cream  to  a 
proper  temperature,  cold  or  warm  as  oc¬ 
casion  may  require.  If  not  needed  for 
tempering  use  water  same  degree  as 
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butter.  n.  o. 
Lake  Mahopac,  N.  Y. 
“For  two  years  I 
have  been  feeding 
SAL- VET.  Be¬ 
fore  that,  I  tried 
many  other  rem¬ 
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three  hundred 
hogs  and  seven 
horses.  SAL-VET 
keeps  stock  well 
and  prevents  dis¬ 
ease.” 
Frank  D.  Kali, 
Bloomfield,  Coen. 
My  shoats 
were  very 
wormy.  After 
other  remedies 
failed.  I  fed 
SAL -VET, 
which  cleaned 
out  tho  worms 
and  put  all  hogs, 
sheep  and  horses 
in  condition.” 
H.  O.  Norris, 
Koute  No.  1. 
Center.  Mo. 
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