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Milk  Contest  Still  Unsettled 
The  milk  question  is  still  unrloculecl  as 
regards  Boston  market.  Without  doubt 
a  great  deal  of  milk  is  being  withheld  in 
Vermont  and  New  Hampshire,  the  ship¬ 
ping  seetions  except  a  few  in  the  north¬ 
ern  end  of  the  State,  have  been  more 
closely  organized  owing  to  the  efforts  of 
Secretary  Richard  Pattee  of  the  New 
England  Producers’  Association  and  a 
number  of  deputies  who  have  been  travel¬ 
ing  from  town  to  town  addressing  the 
farmers. 
According  to  several  county  agents, 
who  wore  present  at  the  National  Dairy 
Show,  more  than  one-half,  probably  00 
per  cent.,  of  the  milk  formerly  shipped  to 
Boston  from  Vermont  is  being  kept  away. 
In  New  Hampshire,  a  large  part  of  the 
milk  also  is  being  kept  back.  It  is  be¬ 
ing  for  the  most  part  made  into  butter 
by  the  producers  or  sold  to  creameries 
which  have  no  connection  with  the  Bos¬ 
ton  contractors.  It  is  reported  a  few 
creameries  have  been  Teshipping  their 
milk  to  Boston,  but  most,  of  it.  as  drawn 
by  the  producers  appears  to  have  been 
kept  out  of  that  market.  The  weak  point 
in  the  milk  struggle,  according  to  the 
Views  of  a  group  of  county  agents  rep¬ 
resenting  all  but  one  of  the  New  "Eng¬ 
land  States,  has  been  the  hick  of  thor¬ 
ough  preparation  and  organizing  in  the 
milk  territory  ns  a  whole.  The  associa¬ 
tion  seems  to  have  confined  its  special 
efforts  chiefly  t.o  Vermont  and  New 
Hampshire  and  large’  numbers  of  the 
Maine  shippers  for  instance,  appear  to 
have  no  idea  of  the  meaning  of  the  con¬ 
test.  There  is  also  a  lack  of  systematic 
preparation  for  quick  disposal  of  the  pro¬ 
ducts  to  independent  sources  during  the 
strike 
At  the  conference  of  county  agents  at 
the  show,  much  interest  was  expressed 
in  the  methods  adopted  successfully  in 
Now  York  State  where  according  to  the 
statement  of  an  assistant  director  of  the 
State  farm  bureaus,  many  cooperative 
creamery  plants  were  started  in  small 
communities,  and  plans  are  being  ar¬ 
ranged  to  establish  more  of  these  cream¬ 
eries  to  take  care  of  the  surplus  and  to 
bring  large  concerns  to  terms  more  quick¬ 
ly.  In  such  communities,  the  farmers 
are  in  position  to  say  to  the  contractors, 
“You  must  take  the  milk  at  our  price  or 
we  will  take  care  of  it  at  home.”  Some 
of  these  plants,  it  was  reported,  were  es¬ 
tablished  on  a  stock  subscription  basis 
and  were  paying  10  per  cent.,  the  plant 
being  rented  to  the  small  dealers  with 
the  provision  that  the  farmers  could  take 
over  the  plant,  on  demand  in  Spring  or 
Fall  when  the  time  for  settlement,  of 
milk  prices  arrived.  Some  of  these 
plants,*  however,  not  being  able  to  han¬ 
dle  the  creamery  output  in  this  way, 
were  making  no  profits,  but  would  of 
course  serve  to  handle  the  surplus  milk 
at  any  time.  Some  of  the  prominent 
milk  shippers  and  officials  present  from 
New  England  States  pronounced  this 
plan  more  promising  than  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  costly  plants  for  distribution  in 
large  cities.  The  county  agents  as  a 
class,  seem  to  take  the  stand  that  they 
cannot  engage  directly  in  organizing 
their  milk  producers.  The  initiative 
must  come  from  the  farmers  and  the  New 
York  men  declared  they  had  all  they 
could  do  to  keep  pace  with  the  farmers 
of  New  York  State  in  the  recent  contest, 
but  all  through  New  England  the  agents 
seem  to  be  in  close  touch  with  the  milk 
producers'  movement  and  are  giving  them 
valuable  assistance.  They  agree  pretty 
generally  that  a  closer  organization  tak¬ 
ing  in  the  whole  shipping  territory  is  a 
prime  essential. 
The  Worcester  County  Producers’  As¬ 
sociation  appears  to  have  given  up  the 
idea  of  selling  milk  at.  auction  in  Bos¬ 
ton  for  the  present.  They  are  somewhat 
divided  in  their  course  of  action,  a  large 
part  of  the  milk  is  being  sold  in  the  mar¬ 
kets  of  the  smaller  cities,  some  is  being 
shipped  to  Boston  at  the  contractors’ 
price  and  some  is  being  sold  at  tbe  pro¬ 
ducers’  asking  price,  a  basis  of  50c  for 
(SRj-qt.  can  delivered  iu  Boston.  The 
trend  of  sentiment  as  represented  by 
prominent  shippers  and  dairy  officials  at 
the  show  seems  to  favor  closer  organiza¬ 
tion  and  more  perfect  arrangements  for 
prompt  local  use  of  milk  withheld,  rather 
than  to  try  selling  the  milk  independently 
in  the  city.  The  future  of  the  present 
contest  with  the  contractors  seems  to  de¬ 
pend  on  whether  the  work  of  organizing 
and  withholding  the  milk  can  more  than 
keep  pace  with  shippers  who  have  re¬ 
lapsed  and  are  again  shipping  their  milk. 
It  is  agreed  that  in  view  of  the  advanc¬ 
ing  milk  prices  all  through  the  country 
and  the  still  higher  prices  being  record¬ 
ed  for  grain  feed,  there  is  no  question  of 
the  reasonableness  of  tbe  producers’  de¬ 
mands  and  that  it  is  mainly  a  question  of 
the  same  close  and  effective  organized 
effort  that  has  operated  with  success  in 
other  sections. 
The  milk  dealers  and  contractors  who 
held  a  session  with  150  in  attendance  at 
the  dairy  show,  seemed  ready  to  admit 
that  the  price  to  consumers  must  be  ad¬ 
vanced,  but  seemed  inclined  to  meet  the 
other  side  of  the  proposition  by  urging 
fanners  to  increase  production  and  re¬ 
duce  costs.  Professor  ,T.  I..  Morse  of  the 
Harvard  Medical  SeEbol  addressing  the 
dealers,  declared  that  “The  only  way  to 
protect  the  public  health  from  contagious 
diseases  is  by  pasteurizinz  the  milk. 
About  300,000  infants  die  yearly  in  the 
United  States  and  it  is  directly  up  to 
the  milk  dealers  to  adopt  such  measures 
to  safeguard  the  public  health.” 
G.  B.  tf. 
Caneadea  has  a  small  receiving  station 
of  the  Richardson-Beebe  Co.  of  East  Au¬ 
rora,  N.  Y..  who  make  cheese  for  the  pa¬ 
trons  at  $1.50  per  ewt.,  or  ship  it  them- 
seves  at  their  option.  They  made  cheese 
from  March  10  to  .Inly  1  ;  dune  14-20  in¬ 
clusive  netted  ns  (patrons)  $1.2413  per 
cwt.  of  milk  and  we  had  our  whey.  Fol¬ 
lowing  is  what  we  have  received  since : 
July  1-31,  $1.25;  Aug.  1-9,  $1.40;  Aug. 
10-31.  $1.50;  Sept,  1-15,  $1.00  and  ex¬ 
pect  $1.00  for  balance  of  September  ;  they 
shipping  to  New  York  City  from  here, 
averaging  about  90  10-gal.  cans  daily. 
The  company  never  publishes  any  price 
in  advance,  it  being  impossible  to  find  out 
what  we  are  going  to  receive.  Now  all 
but  two  have  united  with  the  League, 
and  are  disposing  of  our  milk  in  various 
ways.  On  our  street  we  are  going  to  a 
cheese  factory  five  miles  distant,  taking 
turns  going,  so  it  is  not  much  of  a  hard¬ 
ship.  Same  factory  paid  its  patrons 
Sept.  4-17  inclusive,  $1.72  net  for  milk. 
Since  quitting  the  milk  company  their 
superintendent  has  called  on  me  offering 
$2  per  cwt.  for  my  milk.  I  can  prove  all 
the  above  prices  by  my  factory  state¬ 
ments.  B.  B. 
Caneadea,  N.  Y. 
Silage  corn  badly  frosted  here,  also 
corn  to  be  busked ;  corn  is  green  yet — I 
mean  not  ripe.  Apples  plenty,  also  pears, 
peaches  fair  crop.  Potatoes  very  scarce; 
have  been  getting  23c  wholesale  for 
Spring  chicks  here,  except  last  lot,  which 
was  20c.  Milk  10c  retail.  Eggs  40c  re¬ 
tail.  F.  a.  M. 
Sharon,  Pa, 
Dairy  cows  are  selling  from  $75  to 
$150,  that  is  for  grade  cows  at  auction. 
This  is  not  a  horse-raising  country,  and 
not  the  season  for  sales.  The  stores  are 
charging  48c  for  good  creamery  butter. 
Our  local  creamery  is  charging  its  pa¬ 
trons  42c  for  butter  and  paying  about 
the  same  to  the  farmers  for  butterfat. 
Wheat  at  our  local  mill  $1.30,  city  mills 
are  offering  $1.50  to  $1.54.  It  costs  the 
local  mill  7e  per  bushel  to  Philadelphia 
so  you  see  the  “milling  trust”  is  not 
working  for  nothing.  Oats  50  to  56c  ac¬ 
cording  to  grade;* crops  in  this  section 
fairly  good.  Hay,  either  baled  or  loose, 
is  bringing  from  $1  to  $1.50  per  ton 
ahove  quotations.  Local  market  men  are 
getting  $1.40  to  $1.50  per  bu.  for  po¬ 
tatoes  for  full  truck  or  wagon  loads. 
Rutabagas  are  worth  $L25  bu.  retail ; 
commission  men  are  writing  for  them 
and  offering  $1  in  large  lots,  blit  there  are 
none  in  this  section,  the  crop  being  a 
complete  failure,  being  utterly  destroyed 
by  aphids.  Milk  shipped  to  Philadelphia 
market  4!4e  for  .September;  will  be  5c 
for  present  month.  There  is  at  present 
a  movement  on  foot  among  the  farmers  of 
this  and  adjoining  counties  to  endeavor 
to  better  prices.  Our  local  pork  butchers 
are  paying  $15  per  cwt.  for  dressed  pork, 
delivered  at  the  shop.  Peaches  have  been 
selling  from  75c  to  $1.25  per  10-qt.  bas¬ 
ket  of  from  fair  to  good  quality.  To¬ 
matoes  have  been  bringing  from  35  to 
75c  per  basket ;  cabbage  scarce  and  high. 
Poultry  about  the  city  quotations;  eggs, 
fresh,  35  to  40c.  F.  o.  D. 
Edison,  Pa. 
Hay,  $9  to  $10  per  ton  delivered  lower, 
grade  less  JB'ee.  Cows,  $50  to  $100,  as 
to  age  anogeneral  makeup;  milk,  $1.60 
for  September,  with  10  cents  for  score ; 
$1.80  offered  for  October,  but  rejected  by 
League,  and  so  goes  to  cheese  factory. 
Cheese.  19%<\  Eggs,  part  trade,  41^c. ; 
cash  stores  pay  30  to  33e.  Tub  butter, 
38c,  packed  jars.,  39c.  and  brick,  40c. 
Black  Creek,  N.  Y.  J.  b.  h. 
Higher  price  for  milk  given  by  Erie 
County  Milk  Association,  is  possibly  be¬ 
cause  they  have  never  paid  any  dividends 
on  the  stock,  and  the  extra  price  they  pay 
now  and  have  in  the  past  is  intended,  I 
understand,  to  make  up  this  dividend  in 
another  way.  This  was  the  first  milk 
association  in  Erie.  It  pays  .04.65c.  per 
qt.,  delivered  at  plant;  Erie  Pure  Milk 
Association,  .04.50;  independent  peddlers, 
.04.50  (a  few  are  payiug  5c.  qt.).  The 
above  prices  were  advanced  from  4c. 
about.  Sept.  1.  Cows,  $75  to  $100;  none 
raised  in  this  neighborhood.  Hogs,  live, 
11  and  11.25  per  11).;  calves,  liog-dressed, 
17c.  per  lb.;  Spring  chickens,  live,  ISc. ; 
butter  No.  1,  35  and  37c.;  potatoes,  to 
store,  $1.50  per  bu. ;  potatoes,  to  families, 
$1.65;  tomatoes.  20-lb.  basket,  30  to  40c, ; 
canning  factories,  $10  per  ton.  Wheat, 
$1.35  per  bu. ;  rye,  $1.12 ;  oats,  50c. ; 
hay,  Timothy  No.  1,  $15  per  ton,  baled. 
Hay,  Timothy,  No.  1  loose,  $12  to  $13 
per  ton.  E.  M.  D. 
Erie.  Pa. 
Milk,  $2  per  cwt.;  potatoes,  $1.25  per 
bu. ;  eggs,  35c.  per  doz..;  butter,  35c.  per 
lb.;  oats,  58c.  per  bu.,;  corn,  $1  per  bu. 
Fowls  and  chickens  from  15  to  IS  cents 
per  lb.  Cows,  from  $40  to  $75 ;  bulls, 
5c.  per  lb.,  live  weight.  Ilay,  Timothy, 
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prevent*  burnlDjr.  Just  tho  thing  to 
heat  milk  tor  calves  or  pigs.  Prac¬ 
tical  for  household  use. 
Also  Dairy  arid  Laundry  Stoves,  VVaterand  Steam 
Jacket  Kettles,  hog  Scalders,  Caldrons,  etc. 
•Stff'Writeus.  Ask  for  our  illustrated  catalogue  J 
D.  R.  SPERRY  &  CO.,  Box  15,  Batavia.  III. 
