1902 
the RURAL NEW-YORKER 
47 
THE ADULTERATED MILK LAW. 
The Dealer’s View Of If. 
The pure milk proiblem is one of the 
most difficult questions with which the 
inspectors of the State Agricultural De¬ 
partment and Board of 'Health have to 
deal. Violations of the law in regard to 
adulterated milk must be punished 
wherever found, but under the present 
system it may easily happen that one 
man suffers for the sins of another in 
this matter. We give the following 
statement made by a reputable firm 
which was fined for selling milk below 
the legal standard. Tiie R. N.-Y. is glad 
to give all sides a fair hearing: 
“Unfortunately we cannot deny that 
we paid a fine to the State Board of 
Health. We know that many farmers 
look upon New York milk dealers as 
thoroughly bad and dishonest. There 
are some who may properly be classed 
thus, but others try to do an honest busi¬ 
ness. We represent an associattion of 
about 20 farmers, and have been selling 
the milk from these and about 30 neigh¬ 
boring places for nearly 30 years. In 
that time we have learned to have sym¬ 
pathy for both ends of the business. As 
dealers we do not claim to 'be saints, 
but we do sell the best milk we can get, 
, and that without manipulating it in any 
way. We are jealous of the reputation 
gained in supplying continuously for 25 
years some of the most particular cus¬ 
tomers in the city. Yet in spite of all 
this we were fined for selling adulterated 
milk.” 
“Under what circumstances?” 
“Let us look at some of the workings 
of the New York State agricultural law. 
A farmer when detected offering for sale 
at a creamery milk 'below the State 
standard of purity can demand that the 
inspectors come to his barn, take a sam¬ 
ple of milk drawn from the cows in his 
presence, and if that sample is found to 
be below standard, the matter drops. 
The cows are dishonest—the farmer is 
all right. Now suppose this milk was 
taken In at the creamery and shipped to 
the city. An inspector boards the truck 
as it leaves the ferry, and takes a sam¬ 
ple, which he finds to be adulterated. 
The dealer has no chance to prove his 
innocence. The law says that if he has 
in his possession milk testing more than 
88 per cent water, and less than 12 per 
cent solids, three of which must be fat, 
he shall pay a fine or be liable to im¬ 
prisonment. No defense tending to show 
his innocence of intent to defraud will 
avail. Here are two clear-cut cases. A 
farmer who had been bringing five or 
six cans daily to our creamery was de¬ 
tected one morning with a can in which 
there appeared to be much more than 
the regulation 88 per cent of water. 
Nothing was said to him, but next morn¬ 
ing an inspector was on hand, and the 
same thing was found again, five cans 
of good milk and one about 25 per cent 
water. He demanded an examination of 
his cows, as he had a right to do under 
the law. The report was made that his 
cows gave milk that was deficient in 
solids when drawn, and therefore the 
case would be dropped. During the 
same month a sample of milk was taken 
from one of our trucks as it left the 
ferry in New York and reported by the 
Board of Health to have the following 
analysis: Water, 88.32; total solids, 
11.68; fat, 3.45; solids not fat, 8.23; ash, 
.73. This was deficient less than one- 
third of one per cent in solids, although 
.45 per cent albove the standard in but¬ 
ter fat. Yet we were fined, and there 
was no chance to prove that we were 
not responsible for the shortage. No 
one is more anxious to prevent the sale 
of adulterated milk in New York than 
the members of our association, and we 
claim that the law should ( be changed 
so that the dealer as well as the farmer 
may have a chance to prove his inno¬ 
cence of intent to defraud.” 
The only apparent change in the law 
to obviate this would be the doubtful 
one of lowering the standard so as to 
include these low-grade cows. Certainly 
the authorities can take no dealer’s 
word, and the man in whose hands the 
fraud is found must suffer the penalty, 
though innocent. A protective measure 
would be the sealing of all cans at the 
point of shipment. This would put the 
responsibility upon those in whose 
hands it was sealed, and the city dealer 
would be safe from arrest unless he 
watered the milk himself. The com¬ 
plaint is also made that railroad men 
tamper with the cans, helping them¬ 
selves to what they want, and filling the 
cans with water. Sealing would prevent 
this, and in many ways would be worth 
far more than the trouble and expense 
of doing it. 
THRIFTY DAIRY STOCK. 
The picture shown on our first page 
was sent with others in the recent prize 
competition. The sender wants us to 
understand that the farm produces 
“something besides boys and calves,” 
but judging from the healthy specimens 
shown in the picture these products are 
well-bred at least. That little chap on 
the fence can do his share to make 
things lively. He is a sturdy specimen, 
and will grow up into a good citizen, 
able to handle his share of public and 
private duties. The calf will come to 
the front later; such stock would nibble 
a hole in a farm mortgage. If the other 
farm products are as sturdy as these 
two there need be no complaint. 
MILK NOTES. 
Prices in New Jersey.— George Clark 
creamery at Lebanon, $1.25 per can, 55 cans 
a day; Samuel Levy creamery at White 
House, $1.20 per can, 25 cans a day; G. C. 
Dorland creamery at New Germantown, 
$1.20 per can; Three Bridges price, $1.30 per 
can. The farmers are milking light. I am 
soon going out of the milk business. Cob 
feed $1.15 to $1.20 per 100; last year this time 
price 55 cents per 100; cornmeal, $1.35 to $1.40; 
hay about the same as last year. Feed is 
about double last year’s price, and milk is 
only 10 cents more a can than last season. 
White House, N. J. q. q. c. 
At Ermira, N. Y.—The milk situation is 
quiet here; good demand but small supply, 
many of the producers making mostly Sum¬ 
mer milk. The shipping station paid (net 
at station) October, .0235, November, .026, 
December, .0310 per quart. Feed is high; 
cornmeal, $30; bran, $27; middlings, $28. 
The local section of the F. S. M. P. A. has 
as yet made no preparation for taking care 
of their milk, although some members are 
in favor of doing so. Elmira creameries 
and milk dealers are making an effort to 
secure milk in this section, and are getting 
a portion of it. h. m. f. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
Milk Scarce. —The milk business is very 
quiet this Winter, the supply at the ship¬ 
ping station being about two-thirds what 
it was last year, or less than 100 cans daily 
now. All producers have reduced their out¬ 
put materially, and some have disposed of 
their entire dairy. The price has been $1.45 
per 100 since December 1. The prices of 
feeds at the mill are about $25 and $26 per 
ton for bran, $29 for meal and $27 for gluten. 
There have been about 200 tons of hay 
shipped from here this season, and as much 
more is baled and ready to ship. The price 
has been about $9.50 in barn. We had a 
sample car of sugar beet pulp here in No¬ 
vember, which did not prove a success. To 
close out the last of the car the dealer 
finally found a man who would draw It 
away by promising him that if it was not 
worth drawing for manure he would pay 
him for hauling it. The outlook for the 
future in milk is not very bountiful. Those 
farmers who are milking are not feeding 
with anything like the energy of former 
years, and those who are not milking are 
feeding little or none at all, and the result 
must be thin cows next Spring and Sum- 
mer. H 
Hubbardsville, N. Y. 
Effect of a Creamery.— The farmers 
through this section have their work all 
done. We have a prosperous Grange, with 
about 70 members. We buy our feed by 
carload lots, also groceries and coal by 
wholesale, so we save the retail price. The 
present retail price of feed is: Meal, $30 per 
ton; oil meal, $35; bran, $24; gluten meal. 
$30; oats and corn ground, $1.60 per 100. The 
potato crop was good, but rotted badly in 
some places; they sold in the Fall for 50 
cents; present price, 90 cents; will go to 
$1 in a short time, for a good many have 
been shipped and they are scarce now. The 
oat crop was a failure. The farmers have 
not enough for seed. The farmers here 
have got tired of the milk business, so 
they built a cooperative creamery last Fall 
at a cost of about $5,000, and have fitted it 
up with the latest improved machinery for 
making butter and handling milk. As soon 
as we were ready to start the factory, the 
milk dealers came to us and wished to buy 
our milk. “How much will you take for 
your milk?” was asked. This is the first 
time we ever heard that question asked; it 
took our breath away. We sold our sur¬ 
plus milk for 3% cents per quart. The 
shipping station is paying $1.24 per can of 
40 quarts, so you see what cooperation will 
do. If the farmers will stick together and 
take the advice of the F. S. M. P. A. they 
can get for their product a fair living price. 
We have about 500 cows pledged for five 
years, and a good many outside to come in. 
It is the only way to handle the milk ques¬ 
tion; take the surplus, make butter, raise 
pigs and calves with skim-milk, etc. 
Great Bend, Pa. w. h. 
FEED FOR A HORSE. 
Would the following: combination of mixed 
feed have any ill effect on a horse: Equal 
parts each of corn, bran, carrots and sweet 
potatoes? Does this combination of feed 
contain the necessary ingredients for a 
balanced ration? What difference is there 
in the feeding value of salt hay and baled 
Timothy hay? Does the latter contain 
twice as much nutriment as the former? 
Pomerania. N. J. a. l. 
It would not be satisfactory : to try to 
make up a ration for a horse on the 
basis given. The horse will do very 
well on corn and bran, and he certainly 
relishes carrots, but sweet potatoes have 
not heretofore been recorded as fed 
horses, though I know of no reason why 
they should not eat them to a certain 
extent. The horse, however, has a com¬ 
paratively small stomach, so that suc¬ 
culent foods should not be counted on 
as much of a part of his diet. I should 
say that three or four good carrots a 
day, if one had them to feed, would be 
a good thing for the horse, but that 
would perhaps be enough. Further, the 
horse is more subject to colic than our 
other farm animals, and an unusual feed 
of roots might promote this trouble, and 
therein ill effects would ensue. A horse 
receiving plenty of good hay this Win¬ 
ter with a light feed of corn and bran, 
and three or four roots daily, should do 
well on light work. 
According to American feeding tables, 
1,000 pounds of salt marsh hay and Tim¬ 
othy contain the following substances: 
Pro- Carbohy- 
Water. tein. drates. Fat. 
Timothy . 132. 59. 740. 25. 
Salt marsh hay... 104 55. 741. 24. 
These figures show a composition very 
closely related, with the balance in favor 
of the Timothy. This fact, however, 
should always be borne in mind. The 
analysis does not tell everything. For 
some reason, besides that shown in the 
analysis, Timothy has always proven a 
palatable and popular food for horses. 
The horse has found out that he likes 
this grass for hay. Whether salt marsh 
hay will be eaten with a relish or not 
will depend upon circumstances. Its 
condition of maturity and success in 
curing will have something to do with 
this. Even then the writer is not in a 
position to advocate its use, from lack 
of knowledge of its practical feeding 
quality. On the face of its composition, 
however, it should compare favorably 
with Timothy. c.-s. plumb. 
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