1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
171 
MILK THAT KEEPS SWEET. 
Good After a Week. 
A few days ago I met a New York 
man who is very much interested In 
farming and all connected therewith, 
and in talking various matters over 
we got to milk and feeding milch cows. 
He told me that he had had a talk with 
the manager of one of the large milk 
dealers in New York or Brooklyn, very 
recently, who told him that milk from 
silage-fed cows would not keep any 
length of time, and 'that the milk dealers 
did not want to handle It on that ac¬ 
count. He wished to know what my ex¬ 
perience had been, seeing we have four 
silos here. It so happened that I gave 
some milk a pretty hard test during the 
hot spell we had in the end of last May. 
On May 25 one of our drivers asked if 
he might duplicate a quart of milk 
which a customer had (or said he had) 
the day before, and which, it was claim¬ 
ed, had gone sour. I asked if he had 
any other complaints. He said he had 
not. I asked the other drivers if they 
had any complaints of sour milk, but 
they had none. I then told them that 
they were to duplicate no milk, as we 
knew how our milk was put on the mar¬ 
ket, in A1 shape, and that as soon as 
delivered our responsibility ended, and 
anyone who did not want to take our 
milk on those conditions would better 
get served elsewhere. I then told the 
drivers that I wanted a bottle of milk 
put in the cold room when any of them 
had one left over, to try how it would 
keep with fair treatment. Next day, 
May 26, one had an odd bottle left over. 
I dated the stopper and told the bottler 
to put it aside in the cold room for two 
or three days, when we would sample it. 
As I was very busy getting corn plant¬ 
ing along at that time, I forgot all about 
the milk till reminded of it on the morn¬ 
ing of June 1. I thought it would hard¬ 
ly be worth trying, as I was sure it 
would be sour enough then. I told the 
man to bring it out and we would see 
what it was like. On taking out the 
stopper and smelling of the bottle, it 
had a nasty stale odor, but no acid 
smell. I removed about half an inch 
of the cream, and smelt of it again, and 
(ould detect no sourness, and a very 
faint trace of staleness. I put a new 
stopper in and shook up contents of 
bottle, poured some into a glass, and 
was very agreeably surprised to find it 
quite sweet. I asked half a dozen or 
more people to taste the milk, not know¬ 
ing it was a week old. They all pro¬ 
nounced it perfectly sweet and good, ex¬ 
cept my wife, who said it was quite 
sweet, but did not taste just fresh. If 
you remember, we had quite a hot spell 
at that time, and this bottle of milk had 
been on delivery wagon for half a day 
before being put in cold room, which 
has a temperature of 42 to 43 degrees. 
How much longer do the milk dealers 
want milk to keep? Perhaps some 
others of your readers can give some in¬ 
formation on the above subject, which 
may be as interesting and valuable to 
farmers as to milk dealers. 
The bottle of milk was in one of our 
fiber cases while on the wagon, so that 
it did not gain more than three or four 
degrees in temperature. If any of your 
readers have tried fiber cases, I would 
like to know what they think of them. 
I would feel as though it would put me 
out of business if I could not get them. 
Some very hot day this Summer I shall 
take temperature of milk when going 
out, and when it comes back, and time 
it is on wagon, and let you know the 
result. A. MACKELLAR. 
Rockland Park Farm. 
A Good Wagon 
begins with good wheels. t’nlc.i 
the wheelM tire good the v agon la 
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xu u vchiclu, hurueati, 
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Eureka Harness Oil Is the best 
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JUNG HARNESS COMPANY. Mfrs. 
uia Church St., Owego, N. Y. 
STEEL WHEELS and HANDY WAGONS 
of every stylo and priee aro made In our 
mammoth factory and sold direct to farmers. 
We supply all trucks used by U. 8 . Qovt. 
Farmer’s Handy Wagon Co., Saginaw. Mich. 
.THE. 
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A tool every owner of 
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A tool for every farmer or 
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Carriages 
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MAKE less on each sale than any other 
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Save All Profits 
but the inukers, when you buy a carriage, 
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THE COLUMBUS CARRIAGE & HARNESS CO., Columbus, Ohio. 8lu « lB 8t, ; up 
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No. 3034— Huggy. 
Price, $38.30 
Biliriry Harness. 
$8.15. 
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OF FLOOR SPACE. 
The largest manufacturers of vehicles and harness in 
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WE SHIP ANYWHERE FOR 
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Do not ask for one cent in advance, but if money is 
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if everything is not perfectly satisfactory. 
We save you 
Money 
On everything 
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Vehicle and 
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No. 707. Extension top Surrey with double fenders 
complete with side curtains, storm apron, lamps 
and pole or shafts. 
Price §80. Just as good as retails for $110. 
invested in a postal card 1 , directed to us will bring 
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ELKHART 
Carriage and Harness Manfg. Co, 
ELKHART, INDIANA. 
No. 725. Stanhope Phaeton, with lamps and fenders. 
This is a specially broad seat, high hack vehicle, 
providing unusual comfort. 
Price, complote with shafts. §70. (loot! as sells for $100. 
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