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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
i79 
Skim-milk cheese is again before tLe 
legislature of New York State. Mr. C. W. 
Stevens, in behalf of the sticklers for the 
honest reputation of American cheese in 
the markets of the world, has just intro¬ 
duced a bill providing that the objection¬ 
able cheese shall be conspicuously labeled. 
Road improvement may be overdone in 
some places in the opinion of some, judging 
by the bill which Mr. Huson has just 
introduced into the New York legislature 
providing, as an amendment to the high¬ 
way act, that not more than §50 shall be ex¬ 
pended for tools or scrapers in one year in 
any township without the permission of a 
majority of the tax-payers to be assessed 
therefor. 
An amendment to the commercial 
FERTILIZER ACT, now before the New York 
legislature, provides that every person 
offering any fertilizer for sale at a price ex¬ 
ceeding §10 per ton, shall cause an analysis 
of the fertilizer to be made by the Chief 
Chemist of the New York Experiment Sta¬ 
tion at Geneva, and conspicuously display 
a copy of the analysis on the packages con¬ 
taining the fertilizer. Every precaution 
not needlessly vexatious to the trade, 
should protect the purchasers of commer¬ 
cial fertilizers from fraud. 
An amendment to the dairy laws of 
New York State will shortly be brought 
before the legislature. It is loudly claimed 
that under the present milk law, the cream¬ 
ery men who buy milk from the farmers, 
are accustomed to flood the towns and 
cities with skim-milk which is generally 
palmed off as full-milk and always dis¬ 
posed of at cheap rates, much to the injury 
of the honest milk-producers whose un¬ 
skimmed product has to compete with the 
skimmed article. The law is to be changed 
with a view of preventing this unfair com¬ 
petition. 
English Importations of American 
Cattle.— Quite a profitable branch of 
Scotch and English farming used to be the 
feeding and fattening of imported Amer¬ 
ican cattle. Ater their long rail and ocean 
journey even the best of these were greatly 
improved in weight and condition by a 
run at pasture with supplementary feed, 
and a large number of “store” cattle were 
annually imported for the express purpose 
of being fattened by English and Scotch 
farmers and graziers. The embargo on 
American cattle during the last 12 years 
has, of course, killed this profitable bus¬ 
iness, as all imported American cattle must 
be slaughtered at the port of debarkation 
within 10 days after landing. A large 
number of Scotch and many English farm¬ 
ers have lately been urging the abrogation 
of the embargo. There is little likelihood, 
however, of any immediate change in the 
law at present in force. Last Monday Mr. 
Henry Chapin, the head of the Agricul¬ 
tural Department, insisted that the Amer¬ 
ican Government was not complying with 
the conditions of the Act of 1878, and there¬ 
fore that the present restrictions could not 
be relaxed. He alleged that last year 47 
American cattle affected with contagious 
pleuro-pneumonia arrived in England, and 
that a bull suffering from the same disease 
was lauded on February 21 last, at London 
from New York. It would appear that the 
number of diseased American cattle that 
arrived in Eugland last year was nearly as 
great as during the worst year of the 
plague here. What is the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry doing besides writing reports 
and making promises 'i 
The Inter-State Commerce Law.- 
Wheu this law was passed by Congress, 
about two years ago, farmers generally 
expected great advantages from it in the 
way of lower freight rates in general on 
railroads, and in particular they hoped 
that au end would be put to the practice 
of charging more for hauling goods for a 
short distance than for a long distauce 
over the same line in the same direction, 
where the long distauce terminated at a 
point at which competition existed by 
water or other rail routes. Indeed, this 
practice was the worst grievance urged 
against the railroads and in favor of the 
law. A full or partial compliance with 
this clause of the law has, however, caused 
great discontent among the farmers of the 
West, and especially of the Far West. 
The railroads could bring the rates for 
“ long hauls ” and “ short hauls ” into pro¬ 
portion either by lowering the rates for the 
latter, raising those for the former, or 
doing both. It is charged that while they 
have lowered the “short haul” rates only 
a trifle or not at all, they have in all cases 
raised the long-haul rates, in many in¬ 
stances so high as to render them prohibi¬ 
tory in regard to the transportation of farm 
produce to distant markets. Senator Pad- 
dock of Nebraska, says that owing to the 
excessive railroad charges to Chicago and 
New York, corn in Nebraska and Iowa is 
worth only 12 cents per bushel, and that 
the railroads have nearly doubled their 
long-haul rates since the law went into 
force; while they have rarely made any 
reduction whatever in short-haul rates. 
He has just introduced into the Senate a 
bill amending the 'law. Among other 
things, it provides that if, on investiga¬ 
tion, it appears that the product is one of 
the necessaries of life, such as grain or the 
products of grain, and that upon it a justly 
lower rate is indispensable to enable it to 
be transported to market, such transporta¬ 
tion rate, so far as the long and short haul 
clause is concerned, shall be considered an 
exception to the rule. It is also provided 
that a long haul for such product shall be 
500 miles or more. Eastern farmers main¬ 
tain that their Far Western brethren de¬ 
liberately chose the advantages of settle¬ 
ment on the cheap, virgin soils of their 
section against the disadvantages of long 
distances and heavy transportation rates 
on their produce to market, and they do 
not look with much favor on a measure 
likely to intensify still further the disas¬ 
trous competition they have to meet with 
cheap Western produce. The Far West¬ 
erners, they say, appear determined to 
secure all the advantages of the free, virgin 
lands of the West, and also of the high 
markets of the East, to the ruin or great 
loss of their brethren on the high-priced, 
long-cropped lauds near the latter. 
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