1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
SELLING SKIM-MILK. 
HOW THEY DO IT IN CONNECTICUT. 
Who Buys It? 
[The Connecticut laws permit the sale of skim- 
milk at retail when it is properly marked as snch, 
and is not sold for whole milk. How does this 
sale affect the general milk business? What 
class of people usually buy skim-milk ? Do 
people who buy it, also buy cream ? Is it a wise 
thing to permit such sale under suitable restric¬ 
tions ?] 
Skim-Milk a Temperance Drink. 
I believe the sale of skim-milk is a 
good thing for both the producer and 
consumer. The milkmen sell a great deal 
of cream ; of course it leaves a great deal 
of skim-milk, which is sold to poor fami¬ 
lies and for puddings and custards, and 
on the street to workmen to drink, also 
in factories. There are many people 
who are fond of drinking milk, who can 
drink skim-milk but cannot drink whole 
milk. I think it would be a great ad¬ 
vance in temperance if skim-milk and 
buttermilk could be sold mo e largely. 
I have never heard of any one baying 
cream to use with skim-milk, but a large 
amount of cream is sold to be used as 
cream. s a. g 
Terryville. 
A Success at Hartford 
The sale of skim-milk in our city af¬ 
fects the sale of whe^e milk very little. 
The amount of whole milk sold per day 
in Hartford is 32,000 quarts ; the amount 
of skim-milk is 1,800 quarts per day. The 
skim-milk is usually sold to bakeries, 
cheap restaurants and the poorer class 
of foreigners. The price is usually 2 
quarts for five cents at retail. People 
do not buy skim-milk and mix with 
cream. The sale of skim-milk I con¬ 
sider not only wise, but just, as it 
enables the poor to buy perfectly pure 
food at a price within their means. In 
conversation with one milk inspector he 
informs me that the skim-milk sold in 
the lower part of our city is bought by 
people too poor to buy whole milk The 
skim is gathered in the afternoon, by 
men in the business, from the farmers 
that sell their cream to the creameries ; 
then it is packed in ice, which keep3 it 
perfectly sweet, and delivered the next 
morning. The price to the farmer is % 
to 1 cent per quart, which brings him 
more of an income than he could get for 
it in any other way. The country 
around Hartford contains many very 
fine dairy farms so near that no milk is 
ever shipped, while in New Haven it is 
very different ; much of the milk has to 
be carried by rail. How the sale of skim- 
milk would affect such cities I could 
not say. c. l. l. 
Hartford. 
No Injury to Whole Milk. 
Our creamery has sold as high as $10,000 
worth of skim-milk in one year, to 
peddlers, who paid us one cent at the 
creamery, and sold it for three cents, or 
two quarts for five cents. It does not 
particularly affect the general trade in 
new milk, but it is an immense benefit 
to the farmers who sell their cream, and 
then receive one cent per quart for the 
skim-milk remaining. It is purchased 
by all classes and conditions of people. 
Bakers particularly use it in consider¬ 
able quantities. With restrictions, it is 
eminently wise and beneficial to all con¬ 
cerned. There is room for skim-milk in 
every community. Great quantities are 
sold in this State. No fault is found by 
the new milk interest, and the public 
generally find that skim-milk at two 
quarts for five cents, is a good invest¬ 
ment, consequently, the new and skim- 
milk peddlers have flourished side by 
side, the one not apparently affecting 
the other injariously, or causing any 
rivalry in routes. Teams have run from 
Farmington to the neighboring cities of 
Hartford and New Britain for the last 
18 or 20 years, and have done more to 
put the milk industry on a stable basis 
from the creamery standpoint than any 
other ir fluence, really adding one-third 
to the income with us. Whole-milk or 
cream-gathering creameries practice 
selling skim-milk with us. At one, the 
milk is taken from the creamery ; at the 
other, it must be picked up from the 
farmers. Our statutes govern the mat¬ 
ter so thoroughly, that the skim-milk 
peddler in this State has been always 
free from prosecutions, and is recognized 
as being an important public factor in 
economy and profit. A. b. w. 
Farmington. 
A Boon for Poor People, 
Yes, the Connecticut laws permit the 
sale of skim-milk at retail, when it is 
marked as such. I don’t think it is al¬ 
ways marked,though, but a large amount 
of it is sold in cities and small towns. 
In regard to the sale of skim-milk affect¬ 
ing the general trade in New York State, 
I don't think it hurts it. A large amount 
is sold for drinking purposes, also for 
cooking, and poor people use the larger 
amount. The people that buy the skim- 
milk do not buy the cream to use with it. 
I think it wise to permit the sale of skim- 
milk, if clean and not watered. It can¬ 
not be shipped a long distance and ped¬ 
dled out and always be sweet. In our 
town, it is sold largely. Poor people 
buy two quarts for five cents. It will 
make quite a meal for children, and is 
healthful for them ; with a little bread 
or crackers, they enjoy it to a high de¬ 
gree. The separator milk doesn’t keep 
as well as the deep-setting or ice-cooled 
milk. Skim-milk makes the calves and 
pigs grow, and why not the children ? 
As for myself, I always take the milk 
that has no cream, to drink or for bread 
and milk. m. e c 
Wallingford. 
STORIES OF ANIMALS. 
STRANGE FOUR-FOOTED PEOPLE 
Separating Hawks.—-A man in In¬ 
diana had an unfortunate experience in 
trying to separate two hawks fighting 
in a field, lie picked up a stick to drive 
them apart. It was probably some head 
of a hawk family chastising his wife. 
At any rate, at this interference, both 
hawks pitched into the man. Ha suc¬ 
ceeded in killing one, and with the help 
of a hired man drove off the other, but 
before the battle was won, the peace¬ 
maker, or at least a good part of him, 
was nearly torn in pieces. The next 
time that man sees a fight between an¬ 
imals, he will, probably, let them settle 
it in their own way. 
An Onion Nest Egg.—A. I. Root, in 
Gleanings in Bee Culture, talks of using 
an onion for a nest egg. Now he says : 
“ One of the girls in the paper-room in¬ 
forms me they tried my new invention, 
but the good old hen did not seem to like 
the onion ‘ flavor,’ and left her nest and 
hunted a new one. Now, I think that 
hen must be too aristocratic; but if it 
works that way every time, we have a 
big invention still. When you want to 
1 break up’ a hen that is determined to 
sit, give her a nestful of onions. If she 
goes off in a huff, you have broken up 
her sitting. If she sticks to the nest, 
you can give her a lot of nice eggs after 
she has had the onions a few days, and 
she and the chicks will be free from ver¬ 
min.” 
Admiral Sampson’s Bantam. — Ad¬ 
miral Sampson says that, when he came 
back from Porto Rico, he brought three 
Spanish Game cocks, and gave them to 
his two boys. The boys locked them in 
the barn and went to school, suddenly 
remembering, sometime afterwards, that 
they had locked a little Bantam rooster 
in with them. During the forenoon, the 
women folks heard a tremendous racket 
inside the barn ; this kept up for an 
hour or so, then all was quiet except for 
an occasional vigorous crow. The boys 
came home in fear and trembling, ex¬ 
pecting to find their Bantam rooster 
turned into meat. When they opened 
the door, they found one of the Spanish 
Game cocks lying dead on the floor, with 
the Bantam perched on top of him, and 
crowing for dear life. Another Span¬ 
iard covered with blood, had crawled 
behind a barrel, while the third showed 
his Spanish blood by flyiDg up to one of 
459 
the rafters. The American Bantam had 
whipped the three of them as he usually 
does. 
Woman and Dog.—A woman in Jersey 
City was attacked by a Newfoundland 
dog, and slightly bitten. Being afraid 
of hydrophobia, this woman insisted 
that the dog should be killed, and also 
insisted that she should be present at 
the dog’s execution. This seemed like a 
singular thing for a woman to desire, 
and she has received a number of anony¬ 
mous letters from friends of the dog, 
who comment in strong language upon 
her desire to see blood spilled. Her an¬ 
swer is that she is afraid of hydrophobia 
and will never be satisfied that the dog 
is dead until she sees him k ; lled. In the 
meantime, a smart lawyer has raised 
the point that no court has a right to 
order a dog killed, and that this wo¬ 
man’s only remedy is to sue the owner 
for damages. Until the Supreme Court 
can settle this important question, the 
dog will evidently remain alive. 
Don’t! 
Don’t think if you buy a 
farm separator you must 
buy something compli¬ 
cated and hard to man- 
»ge. 
Don’t think that because 
one kind of farm separa¬ 
tor requires an hour to 
wash it that all do. 
Do n’t think that constant 
repair bills are a necessity 
just because some one 
with a complicated sepa¬ 
rator has to pay them. 
Don’t think that some other 
larm separator is as good 
as the SHARPLES, be¬ 
cause an agent for 
the other condemns 
the SHARPLES 
Send for 
No. 25. 
P. M. SHARPLES, 
Buanchkb : West Chester, Pa. 
Toledo, O. St. Paul, Minn. 
Dubuque, la. San Francisco, Oal. 
Omaha, Neb. 
Top Price Butter. 
The kind that a fancy private 
trade demands, is colored with 
“ALPHA-DE LAVAL” 
CREAM SEPARATORS. 
De Laval Alpha “Baby” 
Crtsain Separators were 
first and have ever been 
kept best and cheapest. 
They are guaranteed su¬ 
perior to all imitations and 
Infringements. Endorsed 
by all authorities. More 
than 150,000 in use. Sales 
ten to one of all others 
combined. All styles and 
sizes— $50.- to $225.- Save 
$5.- to $10.- per cow per 
year over any setting 
system, and to $5.- 
per cow per yea r over any 
Imitating separator. 
New and improved ma¬ 
chines for 1899. Send for 
new Catalogue containing 
a fund of up-to-date dairy 
information. 
THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR GO. 
Randolph & Canal Sts., I 74 Cortlandt Street, 
CHICAGO. I NEW YORK. 
A Reliable Batter Color. 
W R & CO ’S IMPROVED THE PUREST 
OF ALL COLORS 
Endorsed by EminentChemists 
and Food Experts. 
Nothing else used in making butter has as many 
endorsements from chemists and food experts, as 
well as leading buttorniakers, as Wells, Richardson 
& Co.’s Improved Butter Color. Prof. Witthaus, the 
eminent New York chemist, has made a thorough 
analysis of this color, and endorses It In the highest 
terms, while chemists of various State Dairy and 
food departments have also made exhaustive tests. 
A trial is all that is needed to show how much 
superior this color Is in natural shade and uniform 
strength to the old-fashioned, muddy colors that are 
stili used by a few butterraakers. Over 90 per cent 
of the butter made in this country Is colored 
with it. 
It you are not using this color, send four cents 
for postage on a free sample, to the manufacturers, 
Wells, Richardson & Co , Burlington, Vt. 
SUCCESSFUL DAIRYMEN use 1 cents worth 
SHOO-FLY 
Thatcher's Oromge Butter Color — 
the color that does not contain 
any poison. Send for a sample. 
THATCHER MFC. CO., Polsdam, H. Y 
Saves 3 quarts milk daily if used in time. 
NO FLIES, TICKS, VERMIN OR SORES ON COWS. 
Thousands duplicate 10 gallons. Beware of imitations. 
“ I have used several so-called * Cattle Comforts ■ 
none equal to ‘SHOO-FLY.- It is effective and 
cheap. Used 100 gallons.” H.W. Com fort. Falls- 
t ngton, I'a., President Pennsylvania Dairy Union. 
Send "25c. Money refunded if cow is not protected. 
SHOO-FLY MFC. CO., 1005 Fairmouut Ave., FIIILA, PA. 
The U. S. Triple Current Separator 
Just as Recommended. 
gLjjl Columbia Falls, Me., April 24, i8qg. 
I I am perfectly satisfied with the Improved U. S. 
f fegg ffl Separator. It has proven to be just as recommended. 
-(■--'‘•'•ASS * Am tllor °ughly convinced that I am getting more 
A' cream from the same number of cows, hence can 
/frfij' \l3nF" make more butter. GEO. E. GRANT. 
\Jrl Wl The Best Separator on the Market. 
lHB.nl West Haven, Vt., April 2 q, i8oq. 
fi *5 II I have used a No. 5 Improved U. S. Separator 
LI _If two years and I have found it to run easy and do 
good work. After two years’use less than one-half 
tr M H the weight of the handle will start the bowl. I con- 
/■ H sider the U. S. the best separator on the market, and 
m M cheerfully recommend it to an v one wanting a first- 
jS sL class separator. O. O. HITCHCOCK. 
Write for illustrated catalogues with full 
'ftps " c '* ir 1particulars and hundreds of testimonials like 
' the above. 
VERMONT FARM MACHINE CO., Bellows Falls, Vt. 
KILFLY. 
More Milk, More Money, More Comfort 
for Cows and Milkmen. 
A Liquid Mixture of Untold Value. 
Applied with Childs’ Electric Sprayer. 
Protects cows from the torture of flies, thereby increasing the 
amount of milk. Absolutely harmless to man or beast. 
Put up in one gallon cans. 
Patented January 26,1898. 
Once Tried, Always Used. 
ELECTRIC SPRAYER 
Convenient and Practical in Every Pa-ticular. 
Throws a very fine spray of any of the liquids and mixtures usually 
used for destroying insects, hugs, etc., and for keeping cattle free from flics 
iuu mg the summer weather. Cau lie thoroughly cleaned after using a poisonous mixture, 
wlneli !s eonvemently donohy removing the cover. Especially recommended for spraying potato vines 
with laris green, also all kinds of plants, hushes, vines, trees, ami interior of henneries, with any desired 
formula. Sample Lot—One gallon can KILFLY and one Sprayer, securely packed, expressed to any 
address (except in State of Maine) charges prepaid, upon receipt of *2.00. Special prices for quantity 
Agents Wanted Everywhere. 
• quantity 
CHAS. H. CHILDS & CO., Utica, N. Y. 
