1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
895 
MILK FARMERS CORNERED. 
Some Plain Advice. 
“Nine times out of 10 it is easier to 
produce a crop than to market it to ad¬ 
vantage.” This was the remark of a 
thoughtful farmer, and others will agree 
that the satisfaction of seeing a big crop 
grow is often diluted by the thought 
that perhaps it may have to be sold at a 
figure that will leave no profit for the 
time and labor expended. The farmer 
has long been the target for advice of 
all sorts, good, bad, and worse. Lec¬ 
turers and writers on farm economics 
have fired at him their guns, loaded with 
ponderous words and thunderous theo¬ 
retical powder—not of the smokeless 
sort. He has been told to go this way 
and that to get away from his troubles; 
often contradictory advice, yet he has 
taken this cold discomfort patiently. 
Probably the milk producer Who has 
dropped diversified farming entirely is 
having the hardest time at present. 
Making “bricks without straw” would 
be an easy task compared to paying off 
mortgages at the present prices for milk 
in some sections. He is in position to 
sympathize with the treed raccoon. It is 
not a pleasant experience for a man to 
be treed. There are more suitable places 
for a residence than a tree top, and 
sweeter sounds than the howls and 
growls of wild animals waiting to make 
way with him. There is no use in tell¬ 
ing a man that he is treed. He knows it. 
Some speak of farmers as martyrs, but 
no other people on earth have so good a 
right to be (independent. If some are in 
unfortunate places, they need help, but 
calling them martyrs will not help them, 
and will give lazy ones an excuse to put 
on a sort of I’m-a-martyr-and-can’t- 
help-myself air, and give up making an 
effort to get out. A preacher said: “If 
you are in a tight place, ask the Lord 
for help, and then wear out your shoes 
looking for a job,” which is only another 
way of saying that “The Ix>rd helps 
them that help themselves.” 
If a man has made mistakes, it may 
be profitable to study them, not to 
mourn over them, but to avoid future 
similar blunders. I talked with a num¬ 
ber of farmers in a milk-producing sec¬ 
tion of eastern New York, and their 
ideas of the causes of the present diffi¬ 
culties are embodied in what follows: 
When there was a good profit in milk, a 
man would say: “My 10 cows pay well; 
why will not 20 pay double?” That was 
all right for a few, but when whole com¬ 
munities did it, that weed of nearly all 
industries, overproduction, appeared. 
Then again, people seem to get the mi¬ 
crobe of extravagance from prosperity. 
Young men who had inherited farms did 
not remember that industry and wise 
economy had paid for those farms, and 
that only industry and economy could 
keep them intact. They hired more 
help. They bought carriages and spent 
their time on the road. They bought 
butter and meat instead of producing 
them. They bought cows instead of 
raising them, even mortgaging their 
farms for this purpose. They seemed to 
think that a milk farm was like a clock, 
which, if wound up once a week and 
oiled a little now and then, would run 
along all right. Some men saw what 
was coming. They raised cows, which 
were sold to the farmers at a profit. 
Others bought the calves, which the 
farmers would not bother with, and 
made money out of them. These men 
simply did a little thinking, while the 
thoughtless were losing at both the buy¬ 
ing and selling ends. Solomon’s remark 
about the prudent foreseiing the evil 
and getting out of the way, while cer¬ 
tain others pass on and are punished, 
will apply here. Overproduction, ex¬ 
travagance, and lack of attention to 
business, all unnecessary evils, got them 
into trouble. 
The remedy Is as plain as the Bible’s 
advice to thieves: “Let him that stole 
steal no more.” It is plain, but not easy 
to take. But what of that? Easy things 
are not always best. No man was ever 
cured of consumption by shutting him¬ 
self up in a room and taking Quackem’s 
Sure Cure. His only chance is to get out 
in the sunshine and pure air. It might 
be easier to stay (in his room and die, 
but, if he wants to live, he must do hard 
things. If a man has been producing 
milk exclusively, how can he go at some¬ 
thing else? It may mean a temporary 
loss of money, which he cannot afford. 
But other business men change plans 
when they find that they are wrong, 
often at great cost of labor and money, 
that is, those who succeed do. It is said 
that only one business man in 10 attains 
anything like success. The others wal¬ 
low In troubles as bad as any mortgage- 
burdened farmer knows of. A city man 
who spent 'his early life in the country, 
said: “I work harder now than I ever 
did on the farm. My business problems 
go home with me. They are in my 
thoughts at night, and get up with me in 
the morning. It is think, plan and 
change plans, work and dig and scratch 
to keep up my end. I must do this or 
get left.” This was an exceptional case. 
This man works unreasonably, and will 
shorten his life, but only by careful, 
hard thinking, studying of his condi¬ 
tions, planning and acting, can any man 
expect to succeed, and the farmer is no 
exception to the rule. w. w. h. 
Texas is discussing an Angora goat show, 
to be held in Dallas next Spring, with the 
idea of encouraging a higher standard of 
excellence in flocks. 
An Oregon farmer with a lot of damaged 
wheat on hand is feeding this grain to a 
herd of 60 hogs. As soon as the porkers 
are turned off, he will feed the damaged 
wheat to steers in stalls. He estimates 
that by this procedure the animals will 
pay him 50 cents a bushel for the grain, 
which is unfit for milling purposes, bring¬ 
ing better returns than No. 1 grain. 
I think that the bob-veal shippers are 
rather scarce; I do not know of any in our 
section, although a few years ago I knew 
of several. The farmers begin to think It 
best to raise more cows, to make more ma¬ 
nure, to put in more coarse fodder, and by 
so doing they are keeping more stock than 
usual. Young stock is quite high, and 
farmers are paying rather more for calves 
to winter than they are worth to shippers, 
paying prices ranging from $8 to $15, ac¬ 
cording to quality. Nearly every farmer 
has a drove of calves, where three years 
ago there were but very few to be found. 
Greene, N. Y. b. w. p. 
Oleo in New Jersey.— The New Jersey 
State Dairy Commissioner has a good deal 
to say about oleo in his annual report. 
He acknowledges that much of the stuff 
is sold in New Jersey as butter, and says 
that this State is the central shipping 
point for it to New York and Pennsylvania, 
Camden and Jersey City being the main 
depots. The Commissioner says: 
“We have had a very busy year chasing 
after oleomargarine dealers. Under the 
oleomargarine law there was a total of 959 
samples collected and analyzed, 898 of 
which were bought in the open market for 
butter. Of these, 50 samples were proven 
to be oleomargarine and 848 were pure but¬ 
ter. Sixty-one samples were bought as 
oleomargarine and were found to be prop¬ 
erly and legally marked and labeled, as 
were the tubs from which they were sold. 
Forty suits were commenced during the 
year for the illicit sale of oleomargarine 
and 26 cases are still pending. A total of 
$1,800 has been turned into the State Treas¬ 
ury for fines collected.” 
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