1905 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
541 
WE PURE MILK CO. CONTRACT. 
Shall If Be Ratified? 
The amount of milk produced In this 
vicinity has increased very much since the 
rains of about July 1. Members of the F. 
S. M. P. A. here are generally feeling 
highly elated over the new deal as made 
with the People’s Pure Milk Co. T think 
every milk producer Interested will be only 
too glad to ratify contract. a. e. m. 
Erin, N. Y. 
The local union of the F. S. M. P. A. is 
out of business. The last officers elected 
would not act. As far as T know they do 
not care to reorganize, none would take 
any stock in the new deal. They are all 
willing to get a better price for milk, .-end 
willing the other fellow should put in the 
cash and time to win out. n. s. w. 
Ferndale, N. Y. 
Worcester Section 217, F. S. M. P. A., is well 
satisfied wdth the action of its committee 
and will stand by and carry out its part 
of the contract between the People’s Pure 
Milk Company and the F. S. M. P. A. 
We do not expect smooth running from the 
start, but believe that final perfection will 
be reached if farmers will keep in line. If 
we have not the right men at the helm we 
can change. We have the men when we 
need them. e. s. 
Worcester, N. Y. 
I have been unable to see many of the 
milk producers who are members of the 
F. S. M. P. A. Those I have seen think 
well of the arrangement, and will get into 
line as soon as they can. I am three miles 
from Big Flats, and all the milk on this 
street up to within a mile of Big Flats 
goes to Elmira or Elmira Heights, and a 
good portion of it contracted to April 1, 
1004. I believe all would prefer to send to 
Pig Flats if prices are satisfactory. 
Elmira, N. Y. h. m. f. 
T have talked wMth a few of the members 
of the local section. T think they will not 
be in favor of the clause changing the price 
from month to month as long as they 
maintain an average of 2% cents per 
year, as it allows them to get our Sum¬ 
mer milk too cheap. We get about the 
same prices for our milk as their schedule 
says now excepting the stock, which our 
members care but little about, without 
signing any contracts whatever. If we do 
not like their prices we can go somewhere 
else. Conditions have changed since we 
signed the contract, so that we cannot 
make milk at the same price we could then; 
wages are higher, feed is higher, with no 
sign of coming down. Most of our members 
find that it pays better to make as little 
Winter milk as possible to get them to take 
our Summer milk, which we can make 
cheaper on account of the price of feed. 
Sauquolt, N. Y. c. e. b. 
I understand that nearly all members of 
the Poolvllle Cooperative Creamery have 
agreed to the contract. The producers here 
are not now organized and know but little 
about it. As to the contract or scheme to 
buy the milk there are some things about 
it that it will take time to solve, and one 
of these is securing control of the city 
trade. Those who can get milk can deliver 
it, and those who do not have milk cannot 
deliver it. As to price I think it quite high 
enough. I do not see that there are any 
restrictions as to how much any producer 
may increase his milk, which may lead to 
a large surplus, as it does not seem to be 
the number of acres that regulates a man’s 
milk supply so much as the prospects of 
selling. If the people should sell the co¬ 
operative creameries they have built, to 
this company, and it may be the object of 
this company to get control of these cream¬ 
eries, the people and F. S. M. P. A. would 
be Just as badly off in three ye.ars as they 
were four years ago. The milk supply is 
extra good now for the time of year. Feed 
in pasture is good. The grass is growing 
finely now, and those who are not in too 
much of a hurry will secure an average 
crop of hay. e. l. h. 
Hubbardsville, N. Y. 
I think the producers’ sales committee 
deserves a good deal of praise for their 
personal sacrifices and untiring efforts tt 
benefit the milk producers. The New York 
Consolidated Milk Exchange has the pro¬ 
ducers by the throat. They make the price 
and Impose conditions to suit themselves, 
and all the farmers have to do is to submit 
and say nothing. The contract with the 
Pure Milk Co. gives the producers a marked 
advance in price Independent of the stock 
feature, furnishes clean cans, no station 
charges or ferriage, and I have no doubt 
at the producers will have a representa¬ 
tive on the board of directors. Tenant far¬ 
mers may object, being more or less tran¬ 
sient, and not considering the stock of any 
Value, but if the affairs of the company 
are honestly conducted the stock will be 
valuable and the producers will have, and 
reel an interest in the business which neces 
sarily follows ownership. I believe the 
larmers will generally ratify the action of 
the sales committee, and that a more pros¬ 
perous condition for all concerned will re¬ 
sult from the new deal. This of course is 
taking for granted that the new company 
will arrange to receive the milk as per con¬ 
tract. and pay promptly. Our local section 
of the F. S. M. P. A. is nearly dormant, 
and has been for over two years. Our milk 
is taken by a Wilkesbarre firm and I think 
most of it goes to New York, a good share 
of it as cream. Station is owned by two of 
the largest patrons, and rented by the year 
as shipping station. Patrons here furnish 
their own cans to deliver to station, clean 
same, are charged 20 cents per can for 
station handling, five cents ferriage and 32 
cents freight, which charges taken from the 
Exchange price leaves us net 64 cents per 
can of 40 quarts or 1.6 cents per quart now. 
I think the creamery is rented till January 
1, 1904, and patrons thougn not all under 
contract, will probably stand by this buyer 
till his lease expires. e. o. o. 
Wysox, Pa. 
MARKET NOTES 
ROUGH ON THE BUTTER.—Delays on 
the railroads, resulting in cars running 
short of ice, together with the hot weather 
of last week, brought some butter here in 
a condition so decidedly liquid that it 
slopped out of the tubs, which in some 
cases lost one-third of their contents. 
What was ieft was rushed into refrigera¬ 
tors as soon as possible, but butter once 
melted is not easily put into salable form. 
It is probable that the transportation 
companies will have to bear some of these 
losses, as they were clearly at fault in 
letting the cars get out of ice. We saw a 
truck load of eggs which had evidently 
been in a railroad smash-up as well as hav¬ 
ing suffered from heat. The juice was 
running out of the cases, and a fragrance 
not exactly like that of a rose garden per¬ 
vaded the surrounding atmosphere. 
FRUITS.—The extremely hot weather of 
last week made havoc with perishable 
fruits that were being packed or in transit. 
Peaches suffered severely, many arriving 
badly specked and selling at 75 cents or 
less per carrier, less than half as much as 
they would have brought if in good con¬ 
dition. Some of the Georgia peaches have 
grown to very large size this year, but on 
the whole this is not an advantage from 
a market point of view, as the overgrown 
fruit is not desirable for canning, and is 
too high-priced for ordinary fruit-stand 
trade. Most of the new apples are small 
and unsatisfactory. Most of the easte 
cherries on hand now are the sour varie¬ 
ties, such as Montmorency and Mayduke. 
’They bring good prices, as much as 75 
cents per eight-pound basket in some cases, 
and are considered excellent for pies and 
preserving. It would seem that these sour 
varieties are entitled to a larger place than 
is given them by most planters. Water¬ 
melon dealers have been making up for 
the dull June, and prices remain well up 
for anything nearly prime. Southern musk- 
melons show a wide range of price, and a 
good many complaints are heard of poor 
quality. The muskmelon is an uncertain 
quantity anyway. No crop is more sensi¬ 
tive to adverse conditions, plenty of hot 
sunshine being necessary to put the de¬ 
sired Indescribable richness into this rough- 
rinded fruit. We believe, however, that 
poor seed is responsible for some of the 
insipid melons. They are pumpkins by 
nature, and no amount of sunshine, feed¬ 
ing and culture can make anything but 
pumpkins out of them. 
THE seed question properly comt 
within a discussion of market matters, an 
is of utmost importance to the produce; 
whether growing for home use or marke 
From the standpoint of dollars it does nc 
pay to use anything but the best seed ol 
tainable. The public craze for bar^air 
in everything, and the generosity (?) < 
cheap-John seedsmen has put the bette 
element of the trade in an embarrassln 
position, many seedsmen finding themselve 
obliged to cater to this bargaining d« 
mand, w.hen they know that it Is directl 
contrary to the interests of the buyer Th 
flye-cent package Idea has been abusei 
Most five-cent packages contain twice a 
much as should be expected if the see 
was what it ought to be. The small pack* 
has its place for the miniature gardei 
but it should be small in quantity as we 
as price. The failure of many amateu 
gardens could be easily traced to the bai 
gain-counter seeds bought on the stre« 
or in some three and five-cent store. I 
speaking of a well-known seed house a 
experienced gardener recently told Ui 
The bulk seeds that they furnish mai 
ket gardeners are all right, but the pack* 
amd mail-order stuff is not nearly so good. 
Why was this? Because the mark* 
gardener who knows his business will nc 
plant anything but the best seed, whil 
the amateur may take it for granted ths 
a seed is a seed, and that Its pedigree an 
bringrin^ up are of no material accoun 
It is quite easy to figure out what a noun 
of the choicest muskmelon seed shoul 
sell for. Take the quantity of first-clas 
melons required to make a pound of see* 
To their market value add the cost c 
saying the seed, and a fair profit for whole 
sale and retail handler. The result will t 
but little less than $1.50 per pound unles 
for ypy heavy-seeding varieties or' an ur 
usually dull market. We doubt wheth* 
a man can raise his own seed for any les 
if he gives it the proper amount of ‘selec 
tion and rogueing, the main advantag 
would be ^at he would know what he wa 
getting We know of one foreign seeds 
man who sells his choicest seeds by coun 
In a fair test of a variety of his seeds v 
found that every one germinated, a resu 
which more than paid for the extra pric 
charged, although it is doubtful wheth* 
such a showing would always be had. an 
this may be carrying the matter to a 
oxfrdno. ^ ^ 
When you write advertisers mention The 
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‘‘a square deal.” See our guarantee 8th page. 
“I’ve losi Ten Pounds” 
A man says. ”IvOok at this." And h* 
over-laps his coat to show how loose it 
is. There are some people who can lose 
/a/ to advantage, but the loss of flesh is 
one of the accepted evidences of failing 
health. As flesh-making processes begin 
in the stomach, so 
naturally when 
there is loss of 
flesh we look first 
to the stomach for 
the cause. And 
the cause is gen¬ 
erally found to be 
disease of the 
stomach and di¬ 
gestive and nutri¬ 
tive tracts, result¬ 
ing in loss of nu¬ 
trition and conse- 
q u e n t physical 
weakness. 
Doctor Pierce’s 
Golden Medical 
Discovery restores 
the lost flesh by 
curing diseases of 
the stomach and 
other organs of 
digestion and nu- f 
trition and ena-; 
bling the perfect j 
digestion and as- ’ 
similation of food 
from which fleA i 
and strength arc i 
made. 5 
«My wife was for j 
five years troubled ; 
with indigestion of' 
stomach and bowels, . 
bloating and severe { 
pain at times during i 
the entire five years," vmtes Mr. T. Milton g 
Unger, of McConnellsburg, Pa. "Her heart was 
aSbeted, and she took a purgative every few ( 
days but only received temporary relief. , 
got very poor in flesh and I bought one bottle 
of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery fVoa 
our druggist and after taking it she said she feU 
like a new woman. Has no more trouble wit* 
stomach and bowels, and has no pain nor bloat¬ 
ing. Has gained fifteen pounda in weight.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets cure con¬ 
stipation and biliousness. 
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New York State Fair 
Syracuse, September 7 to 12, 1903. 
$60,000 in Premiums and Purses. 
It will be the Best and Largest Agricnltural Exhibition ever given in the State 
More cash offered than formerly. The number of classes in all departments have been 
increased. 
beginning Seiitember 7th, 1903 
Live Stock Exhibit 
promises to be larger than ever. New classes have been added in the Cattle, and Swine 
Departments. Pull classification for 
Poultry, Pigeons and Pet Stock 
The increased interest and cash offered in this Department pi*omise one of the 
Poultry Exhibits ever held in the States. 
The Implement Display 
. the unusual large exhibit of last year. A new dock and increased unload¬ 
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care will be given to locating the Machinery Exhibit in advantageous positions. 
The Domestic Department 
will interest the ladies. More classes than formerly have been added this year to this 
department bringing It up to date. To appreciate the additions made, a copy'of the prize 
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Dairy Exhibit 
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Fruit and Flowers 
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