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Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 21, 192,” 
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The Milkman in Southern New England 
The New London (Conn.) Day says 
that 10 years ago there were 21 dairy 
farms along one road leading to the city. 
Now only eight of these farms are pro¬ 
ducing milk for distribution. Foreigners 
of various nationalities arc taking up the 
business, and the men of New England 
stock are slowly giving up. As to why 
this happens, tlie Day gives the explana¬ 
tion, which will probably be endorsed by 
most New England farmers who have 
tried to peddle milk : 
The man who serves an SO or a 100- 
tpiart milk route lias learned what it 
means to work. lie has 80 or 40 cows 
to feed and keep clean and well, besides 
milking them twice a day. Of course he 
must keep at least one hired man, whose 
wages and food are an item. If he were 
to attempt to raise grain, with prospects 
of failure of crops through drought or 
too wet weather, there would be more 
outlay for wages. Itather than under¬ 
take the uncertainty of grain raising he 
buys his grain, and here is the item that 
knocks the spots off the profit in dairy 
farming. (train is high and getting 
higher, nod a 10 -minute talk with a 
dairyman will convince the ordinary per¬ 
son that grain liis risen in price all out 
of proportion with the price that the 
•producer gets for milk. 
One of the Waterford men who is mak¬ 
ing a last stand to keep up a business 
which lie has been working at for nearly 
80 years, soys: ‘ I get up at 8 a. in.*: 
■ milk, load the cans into the wagon and 
come to town. About once a week, per¬ 
haps not quite so often. I find one of my 
customers has moved, leaving me to col¬ 
lect a milk bill if I can. It may be a 
bill for $5 or $(>, or it may be for $3. No 
matter bow small my business I cannot 
afford to lose it. Once a month I have 
to gel home extra early, tog out and 
come to town to collect—the customers 
like to see me when they pay their milk 
bill. I sell a pint customer four cents’ 
worth of milk a day. At the end of the 
mouth he pays me $1.24. If he wants 
extra milk I must have it. even if I have 
to buy it. When I complete my collec¬ 
tions, if I am lucky enough to find all my 
customers at home, l go around to the 
grain dealer nud leave say $ 02 . $70 or as 
high as *78 with him. There goes my 
profit. P.y the time. I am through buying 
school shoes for the children, pay carfare, 
ail occasional doctor's hill, taxes, meeting 
my obligations to tlie* butcher, the grocer 
and the hired man. I sit down and say, 
‘Keep at it long enough, old man, and 
you'll land in the funny house.' But 
you can't slop. The farm won't sell for 
building lots, and if you gave the stock 
away to prevent them eating their heads 
off', the tax liens would pile up (ill the 
town would sell you out.” 
“The Portuguese, Italians, Hebrews and 
Poles will work hard for what they can 
tVan up, following a kind of plan to 
lake no wages, blit call the net income 
interest on money invested. They differ 
in their views from the earlier settlors 
as to what to expect and, expecting less, 
are content with little. 
“Everyone in a dairyman’s family 
works. The youngest can climb up to the 
hay loft at evening milking to throw 
down Imy to the cattle, while their elders 
tows. When the evening tnilk- 
ii g is ov i it is dark, hut ordinarily there 
are still chores to do. At 8 o’clock it is 
lid at 3 ,i. m. qr 3:30 it is 
time to get p. The morning’s milking 
s to be dor and then the start to town, 
I bwr- i rhe tiresome part of the dairy¬ 
man’s daily grind. 
“Quitting a warm bed for the interior 
• f the cowshed on a frosty morning and 
then driving from three to five miles to 
the music of rattling milk cans, to dip 
and pour from 50 to 100 quarts of milk 
is no slight task. To have to watch that 
the hired man, having spilled the con¬ 
tents of a milk pail on the ground, does 
not substitute a few quarts of water on 
the morning the health department in¬ 
spector is most likely to waylay the cart 
for 1 ho purpose of taking a sample, is 
another annoyance. Sitting up at night 
to doctor a sick cow is a common occur¬ 
rence with the owner of a large herd, as 
it is with the parents of a big family. 
“In brief, there are so many obstacles 
to be encountered that most of the old- 
time milkuieu feel they would do better 
to retire in favor of the foreign-born 
milkman, who is willing to do the hard 
work for the sake of the .small amount of 
profit.” 
Pays highest 
Trapp or s and Ooltoctors 
—you can’t afford to taka chances with 
your furs—be careful where you ship. Get 
more money by shipping to BLUSTEIN Jn 
New York—the gateway to the fur 
markets of the world. 
Why Wo Can Pay, 
More Than Others 
We pay more for fura than others because 
of our great New York and foreiirn mar¬ 
kets. We charge no commission—Baving 
you another B or 103. If requested, we 
will hold furs separate and quote you our 
best prices. If not satisfactory, we return 
your furs at our expenso. Send at once 
for latest Price List and Shipping Tags. 
Wo will place your name on our mailing 
list bo you can keep posted on the great 
New York fur market. Write now—our 
prices will surprise you. 
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1 76 W. 27th St. New York City 
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with McCormick-Deering Shelters 
and Grinders driven by Interna¬ 
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fit should 
I 1 V cK I man who grows stock 
be equipped to grind tbe feed 
work when you Have an Interi 
Engine for power, and McCormick 
and Feed Grinders to do the work, 
a ramy day now and then will give 
nutritious stock food that will add 
your year s profits. 
If you will stop in at the store of the McCormick- 
Deering dealer, he will show you International Kero¬ 
sene Engines in 1^, 3, 6, and 10 h. p. sizes. And 
white you are there, ask him about McCormick- 
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sizes ranging from hand shellers to 2 and 4-hole 
and cylinder power shellers for custom work. 
The grinders are built in sizes and styles for every 
farm. Find out about these necessary machines 
next time you are in town. 
Gentlemen: 
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supply of Shipping Tags. Keep me m 
posted on the New York fur market. ^ 
Name 
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