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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
April 22 
The Milk Trade. 
THOUGHTS ON THE MILK SITUATION. 
BETTER MILK AND LESS OF IT. 
Squeeze Water Out of the Cow 
Butter Will Not Pay. —The principal 
topic among the dairymen for the past 
few days has been the failure of the 
representatives of the Milk Producers’ 
Union to make a deal with the so-called 
milk trust. The producers generally 
seem to think that this has been a death 
blow to the Union. They talk loudly in 
public of taking out their milk, and 
making it into butter and cheese ; but 
very few seriously consider such a move. 
To an outsider, this would seem to be 
the logical way to force prices up in 
the New York market. But there is 
one serious drawback to this plan : The 
milk produced for the New York market 
is produced to sell, and not to make but¬ 
ter and cheese. 
Let us look into the matter a little: 
The milk delivered at the milk stations 
in this vicinity will not, at the outside, 
make over 3% pounds of butter to the 
100 pounds of milk. The butter is now 
worth about 20 cents per pound, which 
gives us 70 cents per 100 pounds for the 
milk with about 10 cents added for 
skim-milk, or 80 cents m all. But we 
must pay three cents per pound for mak¬ 
ing the butter, and about two more for 
shipping and selling, which takes off 17% 
cents from our 80, and leaves us 62% 
cents per 100 pounds. The station is 
paying the low price of 75 cents per 100 
pounds, and what farmer is going to 
knock off his nose to spite his face, by 
taking out his milk and losing 12 % cents 
per 100 pounds in the operation ? 
Milk Too Thin. —The trouble with 
this milk business began when the first 
cheese factory was built and began tak¬ 
ing in milk by weight, regardless of its 
composition. The men who had beeu 
making up their milk at home, at once 
saw that the cow to be profitable now 
must give a lot of milk, and that the 
quality had ceased to be a factor. When 
the shipping stations were built, a 
greater stimulus was added to the craze 
for the big milking cow, and as the Hol- 
steins are generally conceded to be 
the biggest milkers, they were most 
sought. The man who had Holsteins to 
sell always dilated on their ability to 
give a lot of milk, and even if one did 
give rich milk, this fact was concealed 
because it might be taken as an indica¬ 
tion that she did not give so large a 
quantity. 
After the poor-quality cow became 
firmly established, the Babcock milk 
tester was introduced, and it, at least, 
opened the eyes of the consumer, if not 
the producer. The big-milking cow has 
continued to produce the milk to sell, and 
it has teen sold. There has been a lot 
of it, and the quality has been poor, so 
the consumer has held off, and the price 
has gone down to induce him to buy it. 
A very natural consequence, yet the pro¬ 
ducer seems surprised. Let us suppose 
that a farmer leads his horse out to 
drink. The water is roily, and the animal 
refuses to touch it. Would it be good 
policy to jump into the brook and dance 
around and kick up a lot more mud to 
induce the animal to drink ? Or would 
he better lead him up above the cause of 
the disturbance where the water is pure? 
If the horse drinks at all, the latter thing 
is what he must do, and why would not 
the same plan be a good one to follow 
with these milk consumers ? 
Start Now. —Many young heifers are 
being raised every year. Let us squeeze 
a little of the water out of this milk 
business. This Spring, let every milk 
producer place at the head of his herd a 
bull from a rich-milking gow. If he 
wants black-and-white cows, let him get 
a black-and-white bull; but insist on 
the rich-milking ancestor. In time, the 
quality of the milk will be better, and 
the consumers will want more. But the 
quantity will have decreased. Will the 
price go up ? I will just bet a bull from 
a seven-per-cent cow that it will. But 
if it should not, the cows will be giving 
milk that will make butter, and they 
will be giving milk that will make nice, 
soft cheese. Then will come the time 
when the dairymen can withdraw their 
milk without loss, and the consumers 
will lose something that they very much 
want. 
I will admit that this is a rather cruel 
way to do. Train up the people to drink 
milk, and then make them pay for it; 
but “all is fair in war”, and these 
are days of warfare. Therefore, my ad¬ 
vice to each local section of the Milk 
Producers’ Union is this : Don’t send a 
delegate to New York to find out what 
has become of the boss; but send one 
anywhere to find the best butter-bred 
bull he can, with instructions to buy him 
for the mutual benefit of the organiza¬ 
tion. J. GRANT MORSE. 
Madison County, N. Y. 
MILK PRODUCERS AND THE F.S.M.P. A. 
Reports are coming in from the farm¬ 
ers who joined the Five States Milk Pro¬ 
ducers’ Association in the hope of in¬ 
creasing the price obtained for their 
milk. Many of the farmers are now 
finding fault with the officers of the 
Association, and appear to be willing to 
leave it; others advocate the plan of 
making the Association still stronger, 
and putting themselves in a position 
where they may be ready to take advan¬ 
tage of any change in the market. 
Some fault is found with the com¬ 
mittee for securing the power of attor¬ 
ney on milk from cheesemaking districts, 
which had never before been sent to New 
York. From various points, complaints 
come that creameries and condenseries 
are refusing to accept milk from farmers 
who belong to the Association. 
At the meeting at Binghamton, it was 
voted to refuse to sign a contract for a 
longer tei m than six months. Some of 
the buyers evidently purposed to cut off 
those who were prominent in the Asso¬ 
ciation. This is a short-sighted policy, 
and in the end, will work against these 
buyers, for it will drive the farmers 
closer together, and make their organi¬ 
zation stronger. 
The New York Produce Review, in 
commenting on the failure of the Five 
States Milk Producers’ Association, 
makes the following statement regard¬ 
ing the attempts to increase the price : 
The values of milk in its different channels of 
outlet—city supply, cheese or butter manufacture 
—must always be coordinate. If means could be 
found to cheapen the cost of butter manufac¬ 
ture, competition between factories would throw 
the amount of the saving largely into the pock¬ 
ets of milk producers; so, also, any real economy 
of milk distribution would enable producers to 
get higher prices for their milk, until the extent 
of production should be increased so much as 
again to force values to a lower level. But for a 
company or combination of associations to ex¬ 
pect arbitrarily to fix the price of milk in New 
York above its natural level, by simply getting 
control of a large part of the supply, is prepos¬ 
terous. So soon as the price was fixed above a 
parity with the rates obtainable for cheese and 
butter manufacture, the whole milk product 
would be clamoring for sale in New York, and 
an arbitrary maintenance of price would be¬ 
come totally impossible. Probably it was this 
evident fact which scared out the capitalists who 
were depended upon to back the recent attempt, 
and we venture the prediction that no plan of 
raising milk values which is based upon similar 
principles can ever become successful. 
PRICE OF FEEDS. 
City bran, per ton.16 50 @17 00 
Spring bran, 200-lb sacks, per ton.16 76 @17 00 
Spring bran to arrive.16 00 @16 50 
Middlings, as to quality, per ton....16 00 @18 00 
Sharps, per ton.17 50 @18 00 
Red dog, per ton.17 00 @17 50 
Linseed oil meal, to arrive and spot...24 00 @ — 
Cake.23 00 @ — 
Cotton-seed meal.2100 @ — 
Brewers’meal and grits, per 100 lbs.... 97 @110 
Hominy chops. 75 @ 80 
Coarse meal, western. 83 @ 87 
MILK AND CREAM. 
The total daily supply last week was 24,134 cans of 
milk, 162 cans of condensed milk and 543 cans of 
cream. The average Milk Exchange price since April 
1 has been 2J4 cents a quart net to the shipper. 
Dr. D. Jayne & Son—Accept my very warm thanks 
for your generous donation of Dr. D. Jayne’s Expec¬ 
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India, August 21,1894. 
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