1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
43 
Milk and Meat. 
New York Milk. —Commissioner Chas. 
A. Wieting, of the State Agricultural 
Department, thinks that New York’s 
milk supply has grown purer under the 
enforcement of the milk-standard law. 
He gives the amount and value of the 
milk coming to New York City for the 
past 10 years as follows : 
Year. 40-quart cans. Value. 
1888 . 6,062,216 89,652,500 
1889 . 6,630,278 11,675,500 
1890 . 8,141,983 12,085,000 
1891 . 8,269,953 14,128,677 
1892 . 9,084,781 15,116,668 
1893 . 9,303,315 16,249.354 
1894 . 9,485,028 16,107,648 
1895 . 9,336 827 16,778 823 
1896 .10,079.417 15,781,881 
1897 .10,338,356 15,872,841 
1898 .12,382,106 17,458,759 
He says that the routes over which milk 
is taken to the cities of the State, are 
increasing in length and number. More 
farms and cows are producing the sup¬ 
ply than ever before. He thinks this is 
partly due, at least, to an increase in the 
demand for milk, caused largely by the 
fact that the milk laws are better en¬ 
forced. 
Life of the Milk Bottle. —Our loss of 
bottles is much less than some of your 
subscribers report. We use Climax, tin- 
capped milk bottles, and find that our 
loss, including lost, strayed, kept and 
broken, averages just about two-thirds 
of one per cent per trip, which makes 
the average life of a bottle just about 
150 trips. We keep close track of bottles, 
ask for them if forgotten, and rarely 
lose a bottle by customers keeping it. A 
few are broken by customers using 
water too hot in washing. The greatest 
loss is by chipping the tops. To pre¬ 
vent this, we use cases for carrying, 
which have thin board partitions. Milk¬ 
men must be very careless if their bottles 
are all lost or broken in an average of 
35 trips. Delivering in bottles will prove 
satisfactory only where the utmost care 
is used, both in washing and sterilizing. 
If unwilling to take great pains along 
these lines, better not use bottles at all, 
for dirty bottles are an abomination. 
Especial care is always necessary to 
cleanse thoroughly, every trip, the tin 
caps, and necks, as they are sure to catch 
dirt, and become sour and unfit for use 
unless sharply watched. b. f. a. 
Sanitary Milk Tickets.—I inclose 
milk tickets used by me ; the inclosed 
represent $1 worth —18 tickets, quarts. 
A quart is torn in half to make pints. 
Sold to 
Date .. 
Paid.. 
ONE QUART 
ONE QUART 
milk: 
MILK 
E. A. PECK. 
E. A. PECK. 
ONE QUART 
ONE QUART 
MILK 
MILK 
E. A. PECK. 
E. A. PECK. 
They come in pads of 50, the stub being 
left on pad for reference, the same as 
in a check book. e. A. peck. 
Connecticut. 
Artificial Legs for Animals. —A re¬ 
cent R. N.-Y. raised the question of arti¬ 
ficial legs for domestic animals. This 
reminded me of a report that was circu¬ 
lated three years ago, about a farmer’s 
wife up in northern Vermont fitting a 
clothespin on to the stump of a hen’s 
leg that had frozen off. The story was 
that the hen stole her nest the next 
.Summer, and brought off a whole brood 
of chicks, and every one of them had a 
deformed leg. However, last Summer, I 
■did see a hen with one leg gone at the 
knee, on one of our Vermont farms, and 
1 suggested to the woman in charge of 
tthe poultry, that she fit a short section 
■of horn on the stumpy leg. The farmer 
ihad recently dishorned a lot of young 
■cattle, and there were plenty of horns 
lying about the yard. I also observed 
•that, by so doing, she would have a 
genuine Leg-horn hen ; but she had her 
own ideas of doctoring hens, and did 
not take kindly to my suggestion. 
c. w. SCARFF. 
New York Meat. —The Commissioner 
of Corrections in New York, in adver¬ 
tising for bids for meat for his depart¬ 
ment, stated that the meat must be 
killed and dressed in this State. This, 
of course, would shut out western beef. 
Agents of the dressed-beef companies 
went to law to compel the Commissioner 
to exclude this demand from his pro¬ 
posals. Judge Nash of the Supreme 
Court has decided that that requirement 
shall stand. He says : 
It may be that the proper management of the 
cuisine of the department requires that beef and 
mutton of freshly killed animals should be sup¬ 
plied, and not that brought from distant places 
in refrigerator cars, fully cured and ready for 
use. 
It was claimed that the Commissioner 
desired to protect State industries and 
keep out western beef. It is a good 
thing if he had that idea in mind. Cer¬ 
tainly New York City receives benefits 
enough from the farmers of the State to 
justify them in making some return of 
this kind. We need more such demands 
and more of such decisions. 
Cheese Law Needed. —Agricultural 
Commissioner Wieting, of New York 
State, calls for a National law to protect 
State trademarks. The Government of 
our State should be authorized by law to 
file a State trademark at Washington, 
which is to be used only on goods manu¬ 
factured within the State for which it 
was filed. At present, New York suffers 
from the competition from fraudulent 
cheesemakers. Full cream cheese is 
nearly all branded with the New York 
State full cream trademark. This is a 
guarantee to the consuming public. Out¬ 
side dealers perpetrate a fraud with in¬ 
ferior cheese made in other States, and 
shipped in to deceive the public. Mr. 
Wieting, through his agents, has found 
cheese in southern States bearing New 
York full cream brand, the particular 
number of which had not been issued 
from his office for five years. This shows 
what fraudulent dealers are doing, and 
how they are using a brand which be¬ 
longs to New York dairymen. A Na¬ 
tional law, as indicated, would remedy 
this fraud. 
Better to Bottle Milk. —I have found 
that there is less expense and trouble in 
delivering milk in bottles than by dip¬ 
ping it from a can. The bottled milk 
commands a better price. As the bottles 
hold just one quart, there is no over dip. 
Milk dipped from a can seems to lose 
from four to five quarts for every 40- 
quart can. We used to deliver 440 quarts 
of bottled milk daily, besides several 40- 
quart cans of dipped milk, and always 
found the bottles the most economical 
way to deliver. 
Our bottle bill averaged 30 gross of 
bottles per year, at $9.50 per gross, which 
amounted to 8285, or a loss of 4,320 
bottles a year. Suppose we deliver the 
440 quarts, or 11 40-quart cans of milk 
by dipping it from the can, and overdip 
or lose four quarts of milk for each 40- 
quart can, there would be a loss of 44 
quarts of milk on the 11 cans daily, 
which, at seven cents per quart to the 
retailer, means 83.08 per day, or 81,124.20 
per year. Deduct from this the loss on 
bottles, 8285, which leaves a balance of 
8839.20 in favor of the retail dealer who 
uses bottles. There is even a larger 
balance than this in his favor, because 
he gets eight cents per quart for his 
bottled milk, and his customers like it 
better because of the bottles ; the cream 
shows up better, the milk looks richer, 
and is much cleaner and handier, both 
for the customer and dealer, j. m. d. g. 
Stevensville, N. Y. 
New Jersey Milk. —Secretary Frank¬ 
lin Dye, of the New Jersey State Board 
of Agriculture, thinks that the farmers 
of New Jersey are giving too much at¬ 
tention to the production of milk for the 
New York market. This, he says, was 
once a profitable work, but prices of 
milk in the large cities have fallen too 
low. He thinks the competition in the 
cities has brought down the wholesale 
price in the markets to about what the 
farmer should be paid. The wholesaler 
has not borne the loss, but has thrown 
it back on the farmer. The price of cows 
has gone up, while the cost of breeding 
them has not fallen in proportion to the 
decrease of the price of milk. Mr. Dye 
thinks that, in many parts of New Jer¬ 
sey, sheep would be more profitable than 
milch cows, and if the price of wheat re¬ 
main where it is, that grain would pay 
better on many dairy farms. Mr. Dye 
advocates the formation of producers’ 
and consumers’ leagues, near cities. The 
city members should be served by the 
country members with the products of 
the farm at a fair profit to the farmer ; 
the city members should sell the farmers 
what they need. Mr. Dye says there are 
40,000 farms in New Jersey, valued at 
8160,000,000 ; the machinery and tools of 
these farms are worth not less than 
8156,000,000, and there are over 100,000 
voters in New Jersey engaged in farm¬ 
ing as a business. 
It is undoubted^ a fact that our 
grand¬ 
mothers, 
the pio¬ 
neer wo¬ 
men of 
the coun- 
Stry, led 
more la- 
borious 
lives 
than the 
house¬ 
wives of 
to-day. 
In spit* 
of this 
fact, they 
bore 
their hus¬ 
bands 
healthy, 
robust sons and daughters, and did not 
become weak, complaining invalids as a 
consequence. 
There are probably several reasons for 
this. One is, that they lived more in the 
open air, and another, and probably the 
most influential of all, is that they were 
less prudish than the women of to-day. 
They were not ashamed to know something 
of their own physical make-up. They were 
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a womanly way. Women now-a-days suf¬ 
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weakness and disease of the distinctly 
feminine organism, rather than consult a 
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their own husbands. They imagine that 
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