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February 8 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MILK NOTES. 
At Fig. 38’ Is shown the Maple Grove milk 
wagon bound for the condemsery at Mt. 
' Upton, N. Y. The round trip,' about 20 
miles, is made''every day. An average load 
Is about! 75 cans, and three horses abreast 
do the hauling. The outfit is owned by 
Asel Hendrix.. The milk is the product of 
several dairies, and 10 cents per 100 is 
charged, for hauling,.... The illustration and 
facts given are from the Otsego Journal, 
of Gilbertsville, NL Y. 
. Ohio Milkmen.— We are in the best sec¬ 
tion for dairying in Ohio; two companies 
from Pittsburg have milk stations near 
here, and they have been only paying us 
•for milk delivered at the factory $1.25 per 
190 pounds from November 1 till April l. The 
average price tney paid delivered from 
April 1 last till November 1 was only 85.67 
cents per 100 pounds. We met January 16 
to organize. Can The R. N.-Y. readers give 
us some ideas that would help us to organ¬ 
ize and form a union? L. e. m. 
DeWey. O. 
r» r *• **'♦ • /- • _ % 
An Anti-Silo Man.— The Unadilla Val¬ 
ley is one of the finest dairying sections 
In the' world, and the New Berlin Branch 
has the name'of doing ihdre business than 
any other railroad line of Its size, the 
length being only about 30 miles, and yet 
It is a common sight to see the milk train 
with from six to nine milk cars fly past 
every day on their journey of 200 miles to 
New York City. A few years ago nearly 
every farmer in the Valley caught the silo 
fever, and every farm, with hardly one 
exception, owned and operated a silo. One 
result was that the dairymen stopped rais¬ 
ing grain, thereby having to buy more 
grain than they really could afford to pay 
for; second,; they plowed more ground than 
could be properly fertilized, thereby run¬ 
ning the soil out. The expense of building 
and also filling the silo with the expensive 
machinery, would not pay for what extra 
milk’the silage would make',-and we know 
of a great many dairymen who make more 
milk without silos than those who have 
them. One in particular cleared $600 from 
Feed is very high: Gluten, per ton, $28; 
bran, $26; sugar corn, $25; sprouts, $21; 
malt, $22; cornmeal, $29. h. 
Killawog, N. Y. 
A Co-operative Success.— Our creamery 
is a decided success. It cost $3,000, and is 
cooperative. The stockholders have re¬ 
ceived 30 per cent dividends a number of 
times. Two separators are used, and it is 
run all the year. About 100 patrons fur¬ 
nish the milk. In September last 160,264 
pounds of milk were received, and 2,505 of 
butter made. Average price per 100 of 
milk was $1.10; average price for Octo¬ 
ber was $1.20; average price for Novem¬ 
ber $1.31. The patrons received the skim- 
milk; it is worth 25 cents per 100 to feed 
to pigs. L. H. N. 
Union Centre, N. Y. 
New Jersey Situation.— The milk situa¬ 
tion at this place is about as usual, except 
that all the milk that is shipped is contract¬ 
ed for. The price as agreed between ship¬ 
per and dealer for the year 1902 is to aver¬ 
age $1.20 per 40-quart can, the price chang¬ 
ing through the year, running from $1 to 
$1.40, but making an average of $1.20. About 
15 cans are shipped at present, two cans 
to Jersey City and the majority to Perth 
Amboy. The shipping station at Sunny Side 
is shipping about 15 to 20 cans per day, the 
same bought at one-half cent per quart less 
than Exchange price. Price of feed is as 
follows: Bran, $25 per ton; shorts, $26; corn 
and oats feeds, $27; oil meal, $32; brewer's 
grains, 30 cents per 100. The outlook for 
the future is that feed will continue at these 
prices until the new crop is harvested at 
least. The dairymen who have ponds on 
their places have their ice houses about full. 
Stanton, N. J._ w. a. 
JERSEY-HOLSTE/M CROSS. 
Such a cross, if carried but one gen¬ 
eration, may work very satisfactorily. 
After the first generation, peculiarities 
will be very likely to crop out which 
have laid dormant, and will be unde¬ 
sirable. This is quite generally the 
A BIG LOAD OF MILK. Fig. 38. 
. 24 cows on an S6-acre farm, after all hired 
help and feed bills were paid. The owner 
of the farm, being in other business, hired 
all of the work done. Silage is harmful 
to cows’ teeth, and a cow will give out 
quicker when fed with it. We heard an 
experienced cow dealer say that he would 
prefer a cow nine years old that never has 
been fed silage to one at seven that has 
..always had this food. We have the same 
system of feeding our cows as the farmer 
who cleared $600 from 24 cows. In the 
morning, before milking, we feed hay. 
Then all of the grain is fed at noon with¬ 
out any fodder, and at night cut corn¬ 
stalks are fed. By this system of feeding 
we save one-fourth of our fodder, labor 
and time. We changed from the old style 
of feeding to the new in zero weather, and 
the 10 cows we were milking at that time 
gained about a half can of milk. This 
Winter we only know of five silos in opera¬ 
tion; quite a contrast to five years ago, 
when nearly every farmer owned one. 
Mt. Upton. N. Y. o. R. M. 
Central New York.— At the annual 
meeting it was decided not to renew with 
the F. S. M. P. A., but to handle the mat¬ 
ter locally, which I, with many others, 
thought unwise, but the majority rules. 
Before October 1 all but about 15 cans of 
the 190 being delivered at the station pre¬ 
sented a schedule of prices for six months, 
which was refused. We rented our cream¬ 
ery for a year and contracted our milk to 
‘it at the net price to patrons of two cents 
above creamery quotations in Winter and 
creamery quotations in Summer. I think 
that they are shipping 60 cans per day. 
One man was selling nearly all of his milk 
to them for December and January, 
which was better than he could do in 
butter. I am very sorry that we are not 
in the F. S. M. P. A. If anything is ever 
accomplished it must be done in union. 
experience in crossing breeds. If I were 
to use a cross of these two breeds, I 
should prefer to be guided by the class 
of dairying I was engaged in as to the 
nature of the cross. If selling milk 
only, the better plan would be to use 
a Holstein bull of a deep milking strain, 
on Jersey cows producing very high- 
class milk. Thus the yield of milk from 
cows from such a cross might be con¬ 
siderably increased over the yields of 
the dams, and while the fat content of 
the milk would not be as high as with 
the Jersey, it would no doubt be quite 
satisfactory to consumers. If making 
butter only, then the Jersey male on 
Holstein females would give the best 
returns in butter fat, and I believe a 
class of milk that would produce butter 
of the very best quality. In either case, 
the male used should be selected with 
much judgment. Commonplace grade 
bulls will not do. The male should be 
from first-class ancestry, of record 
character, and not only quite masculine, 
but also prepotent. In fact, to-day 
there is little excuse for one to buy a 
purebred bull from dairy breeds, and 
especially Jersey and Holstein, except¬ 
ing from a cow that has to her credit 
a milk or butter record coming within 
the breed standards. So also a bull 
should come from ancestry on the 
sire’s side, which shows great prepo¬ 
tency, and the ability to produce off¬ 
spring of record-making character. It 
is most unfortunate that so many in¬ 
ferior males are used in service on the 
farm. Many breeders know better, yet 
they pursue just such a method. With 
such men, it does not make much dif¬ 
ference how they breed or cross. They 
will always cry, “Farming does not 
pay!” Yet they themselves are at 
fault. 
If first-class breeding bulls are use<j, 
as a rule the offspring will resemble the 
sire rather than the dams, and so I 
should look for a herd with Holstein 
type where the male was of that breed, 
or of Jersey type if male of that breed. 
In either case, the results of the first 
cross might be expected to resemble the 
male in breed type. After the first 
cross I should expect many difficulties 
to crop out to maintain a uniform type. 
c. s. PLUMB. 
The best solution of the corn fodder 
problem as yet offered In The R. N.-Y. ap¬ 
pears on page 51 over initials C. J. W. 
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