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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 22 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THE COUNTRY'S MILK TRADE. 
Reading, Pa. —Most of the milk used 
in Reading is supplied by the producer 
directly to the consumer. Farmers come 
into the city every morning and supply 
families with fresh milk. The supply is 
generally good, and the consumer pays 
six cents a quart for the milk he gets, 
both Winter and Summer. There is an 
occasional inspection and analysis of 
milk by a chemist appointed by the 
board of health. J. s. k. 
Bancroft, Mich. —There are two or 
three small dairies supplying milk to 
private families at five cents a quart. 
Outside of this most of the farmers sell 
to creameries at 16 cents per gauge for 
the present month; 14 cents during the 
past Summer. These creameries keep 
several men on the road, the route of 
each extending from 25 to 30 miles. 
Breeds of cows are Jersey and Short¬ 
horn crossed. No official inspection at 
this immediate point. e. d. l. 
Nashua, N. H.—The milk consumed 
in Nashua comes from near-by towns, 
Hollis, Hudson, Dunstable, Litchfield 
and Merrimack, within a radius of 10 
miles. A very few farmers drive in and 
deliver milk, but almost all the milkmen 
(about 45) live here in the city, and 
drive out in the afternoon for the next 
day’s supply. The average price paid 
the producer is 214 cents per quart. The 
retail price for the last four years has 
been five cents per quart, but August 1 
the majority of the dealers raised the 
price to six cents. A few are still sell¬ 
ing at five cents. We have one milk in¬ 
spector; test 12 to 13 per cent solids. 
Cows kept are mostly of mixed breed, 
the Holstein blood predominating. Milk 
is sold both in bottles and from the can. 
To my knowledge we have had but one 
arrest for adulteration, and the suspect¬ 
ed seller was let off on a suspended sen¬ 
tence. He immediately went out of the 
milk business. s. a. j. 
Jackson, Mich. —Jackson is supplied 
with milk by men whose farms are from 
one to six miles from the city. The milk 
is delivered in bottles daily. Some have 
their barns arranged with stalls, a water 
supply to each of the cows, and during 
cold weather the cows do not leave 
them for weeks at a time. Very few 
have enough pasture for the cows. I 
think all feed the year round gluten 
meal and wheat bran mixed, about seven 
cents worth to each cow daily during 
Summer, a little more in Winter. Green 
rye is about the first crop the cows get, 
then oats and peas. Sowed corn is the 
principal crop, and some of the milkmen 
feed it the year round if they have silos. 
All agree that the silo is the cheapest 
way of producing milk. From 100 to 150 
quarts per day is about the amount sup¬ 
plied by each man; five cents is the price 
per quart. All are studying how to 
make the business more profitable. They 
have an inspector to inspect the build¬ 
ings and condition of the cows. w. w. 
Fayetteville, Ark. —This is said to 
be a town or city of 4,000 inhabitants. 
The dairy business is concentrated, con¬ 
ducted by one man and 20 cows. The 
milk is brought from the cows on the 
farm to town in bottles, to the amount 
of 17 gallons per day; milk 20 cents per 
gallon, cream 80 cents per gallon, bot¬ 
tles cleaned with soap and water by 
consumer and returned. No inspection; 
cows are fed bran, corn chop and pea 
hay; silage not used. Jersey cattle are 
used by the dairy. The rest of the peo¬ 
ple get their milk supply from neigh¬ 
bors. Cows are pastured, mainly road¬ 
side, Crab grass, careless and bitter 
weeds, and fed some at home. The ma¬ 
jority of them evidently have rubber 
necks, they reach through a barb-wire 
fence, pull up first and second row of 
potatoes, and eat the tubers. The man 
who keeps a private cow at the expense 
of the public, can be seen very frequent¬ 
ly at morn and dewy eve looking for 
her, constantly asking each passer by, 
“Hev yer seen airy cow?” J. f. r. 
At Kalamazoo, Micii. —Our milk sup¬ 
ply comes from the farms surrounding 
the city, most of them within a radius 
of six miles. It is handled by milkmen 
many of whom own a farm and keep 
from 15 to 20 cows, buying from their 
neighbors what more they need to sup¬ 
ply their regular customers. They pay 
three cents a quart. The milk is deliver¬ 
ed to their customers either in bottles or 
measured out, just as the customer 
wishes. There is an official inspection 
provided I beneve by the State, but how 
thoroughly carried out I cannot say. 
Milk retails now at five cents a quart; 
cream 25 cents a quart. The cows are 
largely Jerseys and Durhams; some 
grades. There are some very fine herds 
of purebred Jerseys. About one-fourth 
of the milk supply is Handled by the 
Kalamazoo Sanitary Milk Co. They use 
2,500 pounds of milk per day. This milk 
is Pasteurized, the company using one 
of Potts & Nelson’s Pasteurizers. The 
milk is delivered to customers in bottles 
only. e. v. f. 
At Canton, Ohio. —The milk supply 
of the city of Canton is almost wholly 
produced in the immediate surrounding 
country, and brought to the city in milk 
wagons by men who buy the milk of 
the producer. Occasionally a producer 
also distributes the goods; very little 
milk is shipped into this place. Each 
dealer is required to pay a license fee of 
several dollars. They are subject at all 
times to an inspection of milk as to 
gravity. The price runs from four cents 
in Summer to six cents per quart in 
Winter. As to breeds—the overwhelm¬ 
ing majority belong to the mongrels. 
The inspector makes visits and exam¬ 
ines the stables and surrounding condi¬ 
tions from a sanitary point of view. If 
he discovers cows that in his opinion 
give milk unfit for food he condemns 
the cow and forbids the sale of its milk. 
As to tuberculosis, he can only make the 
tests when requested to do so, hence, in 
the absence of the tuberculin test, noth¬ 
ing definitely is known as to its quality 
in this respect. Some of the dairymen 
aerate their milk, and some of them fur¬ 
nish milk in pint and quart glass bot¬ 
tles. So far as I am aware, there is but 
one sterilizing plant in operation in or 
about this city. w. h. m. 
At Bellaire, Ohio. —This is a town of 
about 9,000 persons. The supply is most¬ 
ly furnished by about 20 distributing 
wagons, which sell mostly at retail, al¬ 
though a large quantity is left at gro¬ 
cery stores for sale to their patrons. 
The handling of milk by these stores has 
greatly injured the retail trade of the 
milk wagons. It is only of late years 
that milk has been sold by the grocers, 
and as not a few of them have milk 
shipped to them from points out on the 
railway lines at a low figure, namely, 
about 10 cents per gallon, including 
freight, they have been underselling the 
price usually agreed upon by the deliv¬ 
ery wagons; consequently, a great deal 
of milk was sold by stores last Winter 
at three and four cents per quart, while 
wagons were asking six cents per quart. 
A few years ago milk easily brought 
eight cents in Winter and six cents in 
Summer. It is a general complaint that 
store milk is very poor in quality. Sev¬ 
eral wagons are bottling their milk, 
which is the method we have adopted. 
Mostly scrub cows are used. A good 
many Holsteins and their grades are 
kept, also a sprinkling of Jersey blood 
may be seen. We keep registered and 
high-grade Jersey cattle, and are pleased 
with them. No official inspection has 
yet been made to my knowledge. 
w. s. M. 
MILK AND BUTTER PRICES. 
The Milk Reporter recently said: 
The Rural New-Yorker says: “Looking 
over the July prices for the past four years, 
and taking the prices of milk and butter 
at the end of the month, so as to give the 
benefit where the price of milk was ad¬ 
vanced during the month, we find that in 
1896 milk was 60 cents a can and butter 15 
cents a pound. In 1897 milk brought 54 
cents and butter 15 cents; 1898 milk 54 
cents, butter 18% cents; 1899 milk 64 cents 
and butter 18, while the present price is 70 
cents for milk, and butter quoted at 20 
cents. From this it would seem that the 
present price of milk, as compared with 
butter, is lower than at any time for five 
years, except in 1898.” The R. N.-Y. is in 
error as to quoted milk prices if it refers to 
the New York market or Exchange price; 
the correct figures being for 1896, 80; 1897, 
77.6; 1898, 80, and for 1899, 86.8 cents per can 
of 40 quarts. 
Regarding this item, I will say that 
the prices given by me were those found 
on a farmer’s bills as they lay before me 
at the time of writing. According to the 
Milk Reporter’s figures they are too 
high for every year except 1898, as I 
was writing from the farmer’s stand¬ 
point. When milk is sold on the Ex¬ 
change prices the farmer is supposed to 
get that price, less 20 cents a can for 
handling, and whatever freight there 
may be in excess of 26 cents which, here, 
is six cents. That is, farmers about here 
are in the 32-cent zone. Eighty cents 
for July, 1898, less 20 cents and six 
cents, equals the 54 cents per can given 
by me. Other years the farmer received 
a little more. The point that I wished 
to make was that the farmer is receiving 
less for his milk when compared with 
the price of butter, or, perhaps the milk 
dealers would say that butter Is abnor¬ 
mally high. The comparison, however, 
remains the same. Prices of milk or of 
butter have not advanced, I think, as 
have the prices of things the farmer has 
to buy, and this at a time when the ad¬ 
vance in butter and milk seems to be 
due to a shortage on account of the 
drought. h. h. l. 
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