1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
299 
the milk situation. 
Supply , Prices, Prospecfs. 
Putnam is not a very large milk produc¬ 
ing place, and has a home market for a 
large per cent of it to daily customers. 
There is no cooperative creamery here. 
There is one run by one man, who buys 
what cream he can get. There are a few 
who ship to Boston, in all. about 125 cans 
(85 quarts), per day. The contract for the 
next six months has Just been sent out, 
and is about 2y 2 cents per can higher than 
last year, which is fairly satisfactory. 
They require more ice in cooling and a 
more even supply. Cows are in fair con¬ 
dition and rather fewer in number than in 
the past. w - R - H - 
Putnam, Conn. 
I do not know the exact amount of milk 
the Bordens are receiving at Mt. Upton. 
They had, I think, about 170 patrons last 
year, and April 1 they had 20 new ones. 
I think we shall make more milk this 
year than last. We have a butter and 
cheese factory each side of us, which, I 
think, has been osetul in keeping up the 
price. Grain has been so high this Win¬ 
ter that but very little milk could be made, 
but this Summer, I think, with the fol¬ 
lowing prices for milk, we can do well: 
April. $1.20 per 100 pounds; May, 95 cents: 
June, 85 cents; July, 90 cents; August, 
$1.05; September, $1.25. Cows are looking 
well this Spring; a larger number will be 
milked this year. f. m. w. 
Mt. Upton, N. Y. 
There js not so very much of special in¬ 
terest which can be said just at present in 
regard to the milk question. We have no 
cobperative creamery in this locality. The 
Rockdale Co. handle the milk at Rockdale, 
They buy on the Babcock test. The Bor¬ 
dens have a plant at Mt. Upton, four miles 
north of Rockdale. Their prices for the 
Summer seem to give quite general satis¬ 
faction, as they are a little higher for 
April, May and June than they were last 
year. The Bordens have at least 180 pat¬ 
rons at Mt. Upton this Summer, or about 
60 more than one year ago. The price of 
feed has been so high during the Winter 
that the farmers in this locality have not 
been feeding as much as usual. But I 
think it is safe to say that there will be 
as much milk produced this Summer as 
heretofore, if not more. c. b. m. 
Rockdale, N. Y. 
Franklin Bros, receive about 160 cans of 
milk daily, which is shipped as cream to 
the Bordens. The Beakes Dairy Co. re¬ 
ceives about 50 cans, which is shiped as 
fluid milk. Cows are in good condition; 
about the same number has been kept as 
former seasons. Farmers in general are 
not feeding much, if any more than half 
amount of grain usually fed, so, of course, 
the supply is not as large as usual at this 
time of the year in this locality. Whep 
-ows go on grass, I think there will be 
about the average supply. The cooperative 
creamery at this place was not a success, 
for the reason that merchants and law¬ 
yers were allowed to take stock, and they 
wished to have the whole management of 
the concern, which gave general dissatis¬ 
faction and caused lack of patronage after 
the first year. The price for six months, 
commencing April 1, at Franklin Bros., is 
five cents less per can than Borden prices 
for four-per-cent milk, with some varia¬ 
tion in prices as to quality of milk. 
Sidney Centre, N. Y. j. w. h. 
We sell our milk to the Mutual Milk and 
Cream Company, of New York City. They 
send us up a contract, agreeing to pay 
within % cent of Exchange price for six 
months. There are a few farmers who do 
not sell pure milk, and some who do not 
care for their milk as they should. This 
company has paid as much for this milk 
as for pure milk, well cared for. We, who 
sell pure milk, claim ours is worth more, 
so we have not signed the contract. We 
receive but $1.20 per can for milk through 
January, and $1.10 in February. We have 
agreed to sell for six months for within 
one-quarter cent of Exchange price. There 
is no cooperative creamery near enough 
to affect us locally. We think the coopera¬ 
tive movement in New York State has 
helped us. The supply of milk from this 
section will decrease somewhat, as farm¬ 
ers reduced stock last Fall. About 100 cans 
of milk are shipped daily (on an average) 
from Falls Village. h. o. 
Falls Village, Conn. 
On account of the high price of feed for 
the past two or three years (especially, as 
anticipated, of the past Winter), Winter 
dairies have decreased. At four shipping 
stations in this section the Winter supply 
was below the normal, and the complaint 
at each point just now is an unprofitable 
short supply—one or more shipping sta¬ 
tions may be closed on this account. We 
would naturally expect an unusually large 
product for shipment from this vicinity the 
coming Summer, but I predict as small a 
flow of liquid milk from Susquehanna 
County, Pa., as there has been sent out in 
an - v IJ,le of the past 10 years. More cows 
have been out of profit and off feed during 
the past six months than before for years; 
consequently in poorer condition. A grow¬ 
ing dissatisfaction with the price and treat¬ 
ment of producers of shipping milk has 
culminated in the diversion of every quart 
of milk to the cooperative creameries that 
they can handle. Were the cooperative 
factories sufficient to handle the entire 
product, the milk shipping business would 
be inconsiderable for the coming season. 
It is to be hoped that producers will awake 
to their best interests, and get fully pre¬ 
pared to husband their dairy interests, as 
they deserve. I am happy to note an in¬ 
creased interest in this direction during 
the past year. n. r. j. 
Tiffany, Pa. 
The Harford Creamery, located at Har¬ 
ford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., receives daily 
about 20,000 pounds of milk, which is jpan- 
ufactured into butter, except a small por¬ 
tion, which is sold in the cream. They 
paid their patrons for January and Feb¬ 
ruary 33 cents per pound. The company Is 
cooperative; the stockholders receive seven 
per cent on money invested. There are at 
present 125 patrons; in tne Summer there 
are more. Feed has been so high that 
some have quit Winter dairying. Farmers 
who have had a Winter dairy have fed 
much less this Winter and Spring than 
usual. The output of the creamery for 
1901 was $65,000. They have a skimming 
station at Gibson, about 600 cows. They 
are adding another at West Lenox; this 
one will have about the same number of 
cows. There is prospect of still another at 
Lenox. The patrons and people generally 
think there is nothing like the Harford 
Creamery. I have a purebred Holstein 
dairy, and send my milk to this creamery. 
Cows in this section are thin in flesh; the 
Winter has been hard, and the tack of 
grain is the cause. The supply of milk 
has been much less than usual, and will 
be till grass. There are fewer cows in the 
county than a year ago. The cooperative 
plan of making butter is better than sell¬ 
ing milk; better for the farm, for we have 
the skim-milk for calves and pigs. One 
farmer near by who sells his milk, told me 
his January check lacked $5 of paying the 
feed bill for the month, and for February 
he had $1.50 left. e. w. w. 
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