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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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A WOMAN’S FARM NOTES. 
QuAlity in Cream. —When we began 
to produce cream for the market, we 
thought we would buy a jar of the cream 
kept in stores and compare it with our 
own. The jar, when we got it, bore a 
label which stated that the contents were 
pure and had been Pasteurized. We ex¬ 
pected to find the cream of superior qual¬ 
ity, and we feared our own would suffer 
by comparison. We tasted it. It was 
sour, bitter, and had an indescribably 
disagreeable taste. It may have been kept 
too long in the stofe; that would ac¬ 
count for the sourness, but it would not 
excuse the bitter taste nor the other ob¬ 
jectionable flavors. Our own cream shone 
by comparison. It was fine-flavored and 
critical testing could find no unpleasant 
taste. Now, a jar like what we bought 
and one like ours bring exactly the same 
price. That does not seem right. A su¬ 
perior product should bring a higher 
price, and there must be many people who 
would gladly pay it. Resides the question 
of quality there is the healthfulness of 
the product 10 be considered. One of 
the State inspectors was talking with me 
about the diseases of cattle, and he re¬ 
marked that he did not drink milk any 
more unless he was personally acquaint¬ 
ed with the cows it came from. At the 
time I thought him rather fussy, but 
since then I have come to agree with 
him. I saw a bad case of tuberculosis 
once and I never shall forget what a 
distressing sight it was. The cow died 
of the disease. About a week before her 
death her milk had been mixed with other 
milk and sold. There are other cases 
where diseased cows are overlooked by 
careless inspectors, and their milk sold 
to go to the cities. When one sees some 
of the miserable specimens of “bologna” 
cows going to the stock-yards and re¬ 
flects that milk from just such animals is 
being sold every day, is it not enough to 
make one hesitate to use milk one does 
not know about? Then there are the 
herds that are all right as to health, but 
are kept in filthy, unventilated quarters 
and never carded or brushed. Milk drawn 
from cows under these conditions can¬ 
not be of good flavor, nor is it likely to 
be if the cows are fed cabbage, turnips, 
or city swill. The milk from diseased, 
filthy, badly-fed cows goes into the city 
or town and brings just the same price 
as that from a clean, healthy, well-cared- 
for herd. If the better class of cus¬ 
tomers could see the two sets of condi¬ 
tions, would they hesitate to pay two 
or more cents a quart extra for the 
clean, healthful product? 
Value of High-Grade Goods.— One 
who is ambitious cannot be satisfied to 
do poor work or produce an inferior arti¬ 
cle, and if he takes pains and has a su¬ 
perior product, it is discouraging to get 
no more for it than he would if he were 
slovenly and unscrupulous. “The laborer 
is worthy of his hire,” and it seems to 
me that the way for such a man to do is 
to make his product as perfect as possi¬ 
ble, advertise it thoroughly, and demand 
the higher price that it is worth. It 
would be up-hill work at first, for there 
are many people who cannot tell a good 
article from a poor one, and there are 
others who like the good article, but are 
not willing to pay any more for it than 
for the poor. Still, persistent effort ought 
to discover a class that is fastidious and 
not parsimonious. One of the best ways 
to advertise such a business would be 
to invite inspection. If it were a dairy 
product that was for sale, and everything 
about the premises was neat and orderly, 
and the cattle were clean and healthy, it 
ought to be an impressive object lesson. 
There are so many points where one may 
fail in producing good milk, for exam¬ 
ple ; and failure at any one of these points 
makes care in all the others go for noth¬ 
ing. In producing cream there are even 
more chances for failure, and in butter 
making most of all. In the line of mar¬ 
ket gardening it might be easier to get 
good prices for a good article than in 
dairy farming. There is an enormous 
difference in the quality of vegetables, and 
as some of the most perishable ones, such 
as peas and sweet corn, are more in the 
nature of luxuries than are staple prod¬ 
ucts, like milk and butter, it ought to 
be easier to get a slightly higher price 
for them. The producing of perfect vege¬ 
tables is not as exacting a business as the 
highest class of dairying, but care needs 
to be used in selecting varieties and in 
getting the crop to the consumer in per¬ 
fect condition. 
Co-operative Farming.—I notice the 
question of A. B. C. as to whether co¬ 
operative farming would pay. It is my 
opinion that it would not. I have never 
seen it tried in the way he describes, but 
I know that numan nature is the same 
under all sorts of conditions, and that 
such a combination would be likely to fail 
for that very reason. Five men equally 
capable and willing to work, each one 
finxiouS to do his full share of the hard 
labor, and each one honest and able to 
see the other men’s side as well as his 
own, might make a success of co-opera¬ 
tive farming, but when one reflects how 
few men there are like that, it seems 
rather doubtful about finding the five. We 
Americans like to he our own masters, 
and are jealous of our rights, so it is 
easy to see that with five heads to this 
concern the chances are that there would 
be trouble. It is inevitable that there 
would be some who would work harder 
than others, and that would cause feeling. 
Then, too, if some one of the departments 
failed, the one at the head of that particu¬ 
lar branch would be blamed, and perhaps 
unjustly so. In A. B. C.’s plan, one man 
is to take charge of the stock, and an¬ 
other of the fruit growing. Now the lat¬ 
ter would have practically nothing 
to do from October to April, while the 
other man would have to he in the tread¬ 
mill every day in the year. This would 
not be fair, and it would be almost impos¬ 
sible to adjust things satisfactorily. If 
each one of these men is an expert in his 
own particular department, why should he 
not buy a farm especially suited to his 
needs and run it the best he can? I fail 
to see the benefit of combining. 
SUSAN DROWN ROBBINS. 
L. E. OKTIZ, General Manager 
HIGHEST GLASS JERSEYS 
GOLDEN STREAMER 65000 
Son of Forfarshire out of Gor.DKv Stream 8th, 
born Feb. 22,1901, and considered the best Jersey bull 
that ever crossed the Atlantic as a two-year old. 
„ A tew choice Bull Calves for sale by GOLDEN 
8T REAMER and GOLDEN FERN'S LAD out of im¬ 
ported cows. 
Specialty—Y oung Bulls and Heifers, all ages. 
Also Imp. CHESTER WHITES and BERKSHIRE 
FIGS. Standard-Bred BLACK MINORCAS and 
WHITE WYANDOTTKS. 
HT Correspondence solicited. 
GEDNEY FARM, White Flains, N. Y. 
I WHITE SPRINGS FARM, 
GUERNSEY HERD. 
Headed by PETER THE GREAT OF PAXTANG 
No. 6246 and BLUE BLOOD, No G'-ilO. 
Such Cows as Imp. Deanle 7th, 502.9 lbs. of butter 
in one year. Sheet Anchor's Lassie. 476.2 lbs. of but¬ 
ter in one year. Azalia of Klorham. 400 lbs of butter 
in one year. Lucretla 3d, 508.4 lbs. of butter in one 
year, etc., etc. 
The herd numbers about forty carefully selected 
animals. Registered and tuberculin-tested. Breed¬ 
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of heifer and bull calves of all ages. The winnings 
at the New York State Fair lor 1904 comprised 13 
first ami second prizes, and one champion¬ 
ship out of 17 entries. Prices very reasonable. 
For further Information and catalogue, address, 
ALFRED G. LEWIS, Geneva, N. Y. 
Please mention Rural New Yorkkr in writing. 
Note. 15 choice t to year old heifers for sale at 
from SHOO to $300, also several mature bulls. 
Separators 
We want you to know Tubular 
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j The low can, enclosed gears 
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West Chester, Pa. 
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