1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
383 
DAIRY AND FARIA NOTES. 
Cow Dyspepsia! —Did you ever hear 
of it? Well, feed your cows liberally 
when you feel like it, and reduce the 
feed when you feel otherwise; follow the 
system with these alternating periods of 
feasting and fasting and indigestion 
siu’cly follows. 
Kapsu Milkino! —I am inclined to 
think much teat trouble comes from 
harsh milking. Living in the Black 
River Valley we are on the border of the 
lumber district, hence get many mm 
who work in the woods at times. These 
men are frequently poor milkers—not 
slow milkers. They milk too fast. Nine 
farmers out of 10 judge one’s milking 
ability by rapidity. I formerly did so 
myself, but I think otherwise now. 
These men would milk as one would 
handle logs. The milking machinery is 
a delicate system. These often exceed¬ 
ingly sensitive membranes must be 
manipulated 600 times a year. Is it any 
wonder we have bunches in teats, con¬ 
tagious garget, swelled udders, etc.? 
Si.owEii WoKK.—My experience and 
observation is that men who are active, 
hustling, nervous fellows, who by the 
way make things go, have more teat and 
udder trouble than the easy, happy-go- 
lucky farmer, who takes his time in 
milking as he does m everything else; 
milks nine cows instead of 12 in an hour. 
Is this to be construed as an argument 
against activity? No, but a lesson can 
be drawn. I.earn conservation of en¬ 
ergy. We talk about conservation of 
soil moisture, but it is of far less value; 
often a fellow can do more hustling sit¬ 
ting still than in his most rapid move¬ 
ments. I think that milking is one of 
the places where this notion can be safe¬ 
ly applied. I do not mean that the slow, 
indifferent milker is necessarily a good 
one. It is the man who milks just as 
the cow wants to be milked. I have sat 
down and milked many times when th? 
cow would step and step—not a kicking 
cow; I thought then it was cussedness 
on her part. There might have been a 
vein of evil in her make-up, but I am 
willing to own up that I was milking 
that cow too fast, or, putting it another 
way—trying through each pressure of 
the hand entirely to exhaust every drop 
of milk that came into the teat. She did 
not like such close pressure. If I had 
used one minute more at each milking 
it would have been time well spent. 
Some men are very strong in the hands, 
and do not realize how hard they 
squeeze when milking. 
Women Milkers. —Women are better 
milkers than men on account of their 
delicate touch. This last idea brings to 
mind the dairy work of a Wisconsin 
woman, Mrs. Addie F. Howie, of Elm 
Grove, whose reputation is established 
in her own State and is now spreading 
abroad. I listened every day for four 
weeks to her talks on dairy subjects, 
which, to say the least, were fascinating. 
She told in a modest, womanly way of 
her methods of breeding and feeding her 
“business partners.” I was impressed 
particularly with a point she made in 
favor of women managing dairy farms; 
that they could more fully appreciate 
the wants and needs of this delicate ma¬ 
chine, dealing as we are in her mater¬ 
nal functions. Upon reflection, can you 
not remember when Mother’s suggestion 
has saved the loss of a valuable cow? I 
have heard Henry Van Dreser many 
times credit his mother with the reme¬ 
dial suggestions he was giving. Yes, 
after all, it was Mother who knew how 
to do pretty near everything, as every 
good honest man will testify. I do not 
believe it makes much difference how 
the teats are milked, provided only that 
gentleness is used in manipulation. Of 
course every one understands that regu¬ 
larity and no change of milkers is al¬ 
ways orthodox. 
Alfalfa Notes.—O ur Alfalfa has 
come through the Winter in flne condi- 
tjpn, and gt presept writipf, Ma/ 13, 
is a foot high; pretty good! I have 
never grown a crop that has presented 
so many phases of character. It required 
a long time to learn how to grow it in 
our climate, and I am not sure of my po¬ 
sition yet. Wherever it will thrive the 
protein question is solved. It must have 
a rich soil, well fed, free from a hard, 
stiff hardpan subsoil. The rock must 
not be too close, as it is in many places 
in the lime-rock sections. I am bound 
to stick to it, and win, if possible, hav¬ 
ing declared in favor of making the 
farms produce more protein. 
Corn Planting. —For the past two 
years we have planted our silage corn 
thicker, 12 quarts to the acre, and we 
shall repeat it again this year. The 
change has reduced the ear growth; 50 
to 75 bushels of ears to the acre seems 
to be about right. It is impossible to 
find a kernel in the manure. With 100 
bushels to the acre we often found 
whole kernels in the droppings. We are 
planting our corn later than was for¬ 
merly considered prudent. The results 
briefly told, are that land which has 
been worked frequently for four weeks 
and planted from May 20 to June 1 gives 
a more rapid growth, with fully as early 
maturity. Cultivating a stiff sod is much 
more cheaply done with three or four 
horses with a heavy harrow than with 
light tools or hoes. The latter is simply 
out of the question if profit is consid¬ 
ered. II. E. COOK. 
THE MILK SITUATION. 
The Five States Milk Producers’ Asso¬ 
ciation was organized in March, 1898, 
for the avowed purpose of securing a 
living price for milk. For the 10 years 
preceding the price as fixed by the New 
York Consolidated Milk Exchange had 
gone down, down, until the average 
monthly price for the year 1897 was 2.34 
cents a quart delivered in Jersey City. 
For the year 1900 the average monthly 
price per quart was 2.74 cents, an ad¬ 
vance of four-tenths pf a cent per quart 
secured beyond a doubt by the efforts of 
the F.S.M.P.A., for the quantity of milk 
produced has increased sufficiently from 
year to year not only to supply the in¬ 
creased consumption, but to continue 
the “surplus” which the Exchange is 
constantly struggling to keep down, urg¬ 
ing its existence as the reason for reduc¬ 
ing the price of milk. This means an 
advance of $500,000 annually to the milk 
producers supplying New York on up¬ 
ward of 30,000 cans daily furnished. It 
is found that the local sections owning 
or controlling their shipping stations 
are receiving the best prices for milk. 
At Tully, N. Y., about 50 milk producers 
withdrew from the New York shipper 
and built a plant for themselves and 
commenced cheese making, selling milk 
in New York only when they could ob¬ 
tain a satisfactory price. In 18 months 
after taking the business in their own 
hands they received $7,000 more for their 
product than they would had they con¬ 
tinued to furnish the New York dealers 
at Exchange prices as formerly. 
The milk from about 1,000 cows is de¬ 
livered in Owego, N. Y., either to be 
shipped or manufactured into butter. 
The milk has been sold up to this time 
at Exchange prices. A stock company 
has been formed this Spring, a plant 
erected, equipped and rented to a shipper 
at a price that makes it a paying invest¬ 
ment. The shipper also contracts to pay 
the producers for all the milk they de¬ 
sire to furnish him, 17 cents per can 
above Exchange prices at which they 
formerly sold their milk; also 17 cents 
a can more than adjoining stations con¬ 
trolled by New York dealers are now re¬ 
ceiving. When this arrangement went 
into effect the New York dealer they had 
been furnishing lost all fear of the “sur¬ 
plus” and offered to pay, and is paying, 
the advanced price. Of course the but¬ 
ter factory, allowing for the milk re¬ 
turned, must pay the same price. Allow¬ 
ing the usual estimate of five quarts of 
pjiljc s.nniial d^lj^ f^yer^ge per 
would make Owego’s production 125 
cans daily. Seventeen cents a can ad¬ 
vance above Exchange prices now being 
received is equivalent to $21.25 a day, or 
$3,888.75 for the six months from April 
to October. Assuming the advance of 
the Exchange price of four-tenths of a 
cent a quart for the year 1900 over that 
of 1897 to continue for the next six 
months would give Owego producers 
$20 a day, or $3,660 for the time men¬ 
tioned more than they were receiving 
for the same quantity of milk in 1897, 
making in the aggregate $7,548.75. No 
close observer doubts that these results 
have been achieved by the efforts of the 
F. S. M. P. A. The Association is urg¬ 
ing the local sections to secure control 
of their several stations, about 40 having 
been secured during the past year, and 
when a sufficient number has complied 
it will be able to dictate the price for all. 
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