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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 24 
Live StockandDairy 
A CO-OPERATIVE MILK STATION. 
The Boonville (N. Y.) Mill< & Cream Co. 
was incorporated in the Winter of 1901-2, 
and during the Summer of 1902 we erected 
a fine creamery building, getting the same 
practically completed about October 1 last. 
We were then ready to use the building, 
except that It was not filled with ice. The 
Mutual Milk & Cream Company of New 
York had purchased the milk at this town 
for some years, always doing as they had 
agreed to do. and after considerable nego¬ 
tiations we decided to allow our station to 
remain idle until we could provide it with 
ice. We therefore entered into a contract 
to sell our milk to the Mutual Milk & 
Cream Company until April 1, 1903, at 20 
cents per can less than the New York Ex¬ 
change price, with a schedule of guaran¬ 
teed prices in the contract below which 
the price should not go. All milk pur¬ 
chased by the Mutual Company at this 
place is purchased of the Boonville Milk & 
Cream Company, and In December we sold 
about 53,000 worth of milk, which was de¬ 
livered by 33 farmers, or about 80 cans per 
day through December. In the flush of the 
season we ship about 300 cans a day. We 
have let a contract to All our ice house 
with ice and expect that next April we 
shall begin using the new station. 
There is no doubt that the building of co¬ 
operative plants aids to make the farmer 
much more independent and to place the 
New York dealer where he knows that he 
must use the farmer fairly or he will lose 
the milk. By owning the station the farm¬ 
er can when dissatisfied .secure another 
dealer, or manufacture the milk at the 
station, while when the station is owned 
by the dealer the farmer is compelled to 
deliver to him or keep the milk at home. 
'I’wo years ago there was not a single co¬ 
operative plant on this line of railroad, 
while to-day wc have six coSperative plants 
out of 14 stations on the Black River Road, 
and two more are now being organized. It 
is but a short time before we shall have 
on this line a majority of cobperatlve 
plants. When all others do as well, and 
when (hey all come to see that by cobpera- 
(ion among the creameries they can aid 
each other just as cooperation has aided 
and made independent each local com¬ 
munity. then there can be effected an or¬ 
ganization which will mean to the New 
York dealers that they must do business 
with their producers on business principles, 
and must meet them half way to talk over 
a business proposition. I firmly believe 
that this time is coming. It may not be 
ihis year, but the more the New York 
<lcaler abuses the farmer the (luieker it 
will come. T believe many New York deal- 
ms will be glad to see it. for many of them 
arc fair men and want to deal fairly with 
the farmer, but in many instances they 
.arc compelled to force down the price in 
order to compete with their unfair com¬ 
petitor. When the farmers arc united the 
low-piiced and unfair competition can be 
frozen cut. and some of them arc now 
making records which will live when they 
ai’c gone. c. 
A GOOD AYRSHIRE COW. 
'I'lic home dairy tests reported by the 
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association contain the 
record of the cow TJlly Ayr. Fig. 23, page 
.50. which in one year gave 8,477 pounds of 
milk, which tested 4.23 per cent of butter 
fat and made 409 pounds of butter. We 
asked the owner, W. V. Probasco. of Cream 
Ridge, N. J., to tell us more about the 
cow. and asked W. G. Tucker, of Elm Val¬ 
ley. N. Y., who bred her, to tell how to ob¬ 
tain a herd of cows like her. 
IJlly Ayr 13994 was dropped Decem¬ 
ber 28, 1896, and at beginning of test 
was four years and three months old 
(April 1, 1901). Her last calf previous 
to beginning of test was dropped Oc¬ 
tober 8, 1900. During the month of 
June, after she had been milking eight 
months, she gave 1,119 pounds of milk 
in one month on good pasture and a 
very small quantity of feed, and 8,477 
pounds for the full year, 4.23 per cent 
fat, and 409 pounds butter. In the Sum¬ 
mer she liad pasture and about six 
pounds of feed, mostly bran; in Winter 
six to eight pounds of feed composed of 
corncob meal, wheat bran, cotton-seed 
meal, malt sprouts and a small quan¬ 
tity of buckwheat bran, which 1 like 
was kept up in stable and given hay. 
She was only shown at fairs a few times 
—four I think—and won three first 
prizes; won first prize at Trenton In¬ 
ter-State Fair as a yearling in a class 
of seven, in 1898, and first at Mt. Holly 
in 1901 and 1902 in a class of four. As 
to obtaining a herd of such cows I know 
of but one sure way, and that is to buy 
cows that have already made the rec¬ 
ords. That would be a little expensive, 
but one extra good cow is worth more 
than two that are only fairly good for 
foundation stock. w. v. probasco. 
You want to know how to get such a 
herd. I bought in 1882 six, the best I 
could find; then I bought the best male. 
I could find, and have had no trouble 
in breeding such cows. Following are 
some of the records of the foundation 
of my herd: Aldine 7704, 14 years old, 
gave in one year 9,282 pounds of milk; 
was strong and healthy, and bred until 
19 years of age. Her daughter Princess 
Aldine 7815, 10 years old, gave 14,300 
pounds of milk. Aldine’s full sister, 
Carrie 2150, gives 50 pounds of milk a 
day at 12 years old, and her daughter 
Irene 7773 gave 60 pounds of milk a day. 
These are part of my foundation herd. 
W. G. TUCKKK. 
VViNTiiK Layers.— Relative to the query: 
"What proportion shells out?” wih say 
dial in my experience covering two Winters 
and feeding for eggs, 1 have found no 
trouble in procuring an egg yield of 40 to 
55 per cent monthly from April-hatched 
pullets. It is my candid opinion that this 
yield cannot be procured from hens. But 
during the years when I was breeding the 
"winners” in the exhibition halls, I freely 
confess our Winter egg record was next to 
nothing. My experience will not permit 
me to tell whether or not this was due to 
breeding for fancy or to my failure to pro¬ 
vide the proper food from which to pro¬ 
duce Winter eggs. But one thing of which 
I am fully convinced is that Leghorns as 
layers will hold their own during Decem¬ 
ber, January and February with any breed, 
and beat them out during the rest of the 
year. chas. w. newman. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
Working the Udder.—I n reference to 
the Wisconsin Experhnents in manipulat¬ 
ing the udders of cows to increase the milk 
flow. I would say that owing to the fact 
that these manipulations must be very 
gentle in order that the udder shall not be 
injured, and also that most milkers would 
be unwilling to spend the necessary time 
in order to manipulate the udder carefully 
and properly I do not consider the scheme 
feasible for dairymen. If the cow is regu¬ 
larly milked by the same milker at the 
same time each day, and milked quickly 
without any talking, singing or swearing 
in the stable, she will give down all the 
milk th.at nature intends the dairyman to 
have. To my mind the manipulations 
would have a sort of stimulating effect 
w'hich would only last for a time and then 
the animal would tend to return to her 
normal production. I do not think that it 
w'ill pay a good milker to go through the 
manipulations, with each cow', because I 
doubt whether an easy-milking, large-pro¬ 
ducing cow, which is quickly milked by a 
milker who has good strong flexible hands 
and fingers, can be induced to give enough 
milk for any length of time to pay for the 
extra time and trouble. R. J. w. 
Sugar Grove, Pa. 
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Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
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B. F. SHANNON, »07 Libert y (Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 
irnQrY Dill I —Kour weeks old; dams In 
llClfwCI DULL pedigree have records from 
16 to :i0 pounds of butter in seven days; at a low price 
if taken soon. lUA P. WATSON. Fredonia, N. Y. 
Three grandsons and one grand- 
UdlwClw daughter of Exile. Solid color. 
Bulls 4.5 and 12 months old; heifer, 15 months(scrved). 
J. ALDUS HERR, Lancaster, Pa.,R. R. No. 4. 
IpnCFY Dill I choice Jersey Bull for 
llCnwCf DULL sale. Dropped March 61,1902, 
a descendant of Princess 2nd, whose butter test is 
46 pounds \2\4 ounces in seven days. Send for tabu¬ 
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A. S. BEEKMAN. South Branch, N. J. 
REGISTERED JERSEYS FOR SALE. 
Thrce-y r-old Heifer, two-year-old Heifer, Imth 
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five for $136. Write for pedigrees or come and see 
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The Gem Incubators 
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lEDCEY Dill I SALE-A two-yeaiH)Id 
lICndkl DULL grandson of the famous 
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made over two pounds of butter a day: bis dam made 
over 17 pounds of butter a week at Hood Farm. We 
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He is one of the best bred young bulls ever offered for 
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