1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
38i 
MILK NOTES. 
M'ost of our milk comes from the farmers 
of Worcester and adjoining towns: a very 
little comes by rail. It is peddled from 
these new low-down wagons; no milk trust 
here. The peddlers pay the farmers from 
28 to 30 cents per can of 8*4 quarts, and 
sell to customers 38 cents per can, and six 
cents per quart retail. Butter fat average 
is 3.8. Bottled milk is increasing. There 
is both State and local inspection. Offenders 
are brought before the court and fined from 
$1 to $r>0. There are a few milkmen who 
sell Jersey milk who get eight cents for quart 
retail. H. it. 
Worcester, Mass. 
The milk situation in this section is far 
from promising. The memory of last sea¬ 
son's low prices has discouraged many far¬ 
mers, and fewer cows titan ever are to be 
kept. At present the skimming station oper¬ 
ated by the Ilorseheads Creamery Co. is get¬ 
ting most of the milk at New York Exchange 
price, less 20 cents a can, a net of 94 cents 
a can of 40 quarts. Many are talking of 
hand separators and making butter, as butter 
in local markets commands 30 cents a pound. 
Stock, with few exceptions, has wintered 
nicely; plenty of fodder on hand with mill 
feeds high and going higher. Cornmeal is 
.$25 per ton; bran $24; oats 40 cents a 
bushel. Cows, new milkers, are worth from 
$25 to $40, according to quality; strippers 
from $15 to $25, with very little demand 
for either grade. Indications are that dairy¬ 
ing has reached low-water mark, and will 
improve in the future. Certainly some im¬ 
provement must be shown, or we must go 
out of business. a. b. k. 
Van Etten, N. Y. 
We like your paper, but must say we don't 
like the pessimistic way that some of the 
writers write about raising hogs, cattle, etc. 
We say to them all there is money in every¬ 
thing. If you are In a locality where you 
can’t make money out of hogs, don't raise 
them, and above all don't howl, as that will 
not help the readers in this and other com¬ 
munities, where we can make money raising 
hogs by the carload. We can see also that 
the writers in your paper do not have nearly 
as broad a view as the writers in our Min¬ 
nesota papers and are not near as ready to 
throw a dollar expecting to get two back. 
We sell our cream locally, and this is what 
our books say for 1904: Nine cows, all 
told, (504 gallons cream at 65 cents, $392.60 
cream, 669 pounds, $23.68; average per cow, 
$46.22; total, $41(5.28. In addition all the 
butter and cream for family and skim-milk. 
All the feed was raised on our farm and 
crops were considered a failure here from 
black rust. e. J. s. 
Fergus Falls, Minn. 
Most of the milk in our town Is supplied 
by small farmers and milkmen who keep 
from 10 to 50 cows, who live near town, and 
who retail their own product. We also, have 
a small creamery owned by the operator, who 
buys milk from farmers farther out, and 
also receives a limited quantity by rail. 
There is no local trust or organization, but 
there is an “understanding” by which the 
retail price is kept at 25 cents per gallon 
all the year. The wholesale price is 12 
to 18 cents. Most of the dairy stock here 
is of the Jersey breed, so that the per cent 
of fat is quite high, l’robably two-thirds of 
the milk is retailed in bottles. There are 
no inspectors except the patrons (who, how¬ 
ever, are pretty well posted), and no State 
laws to obey that we know of. We think the 
New York law which prohibits the sale of 
skim-milk is a very unjust one, both to the 
producer and consumer. The greatest draw¬ 
back to successful dairy work here is the 
lack or almost entire absence of competent 
help. Judging by the "ads” in the dairy 
papers we are not the only ones so troubled. 
Hannibal, Mo. E. G. C. 
ANOTHER SIDE TO SQUAB RAISING 
Annie I,. Rogers is no doubt terribly dis¬ 
appointed with her results in squab raising 
as stated in Hope Farm Notes, page 233, and 
one can hardly blame her for feeling so badly 
about it. She' simply made the fatal mistake 
of so many beginners who buy stock not prop¬ 
erly mated. The numerous "Illuminated 
Text Books” are only printed to catch the 
unwary and induce them to buy of their 
stock. These parties are not true breeders 
of pigeons, but simply dealers who buy and 
sell, and as they pick up birds wherever they 
can it is hardly probable that they know or 
take the time to investigate whether their 
birds are mated or not. I, like your Massa¬ 
chusetts correspondent, have been raising 
poultry for many years, and shall continue to 
do so, as I have regular customers, but; the 
demand for squabs was frequent, so last Fall 
I started in with 20 pairs. I have had just 
as bitter an experience in buying poultry eggs 
as Annie D. Rogers had with her pigeons 
(fortunately one person's experience does not 
decide an industry), so I read all I could and 
made inquiries. I was fortunate enough to 
find a breeder (not a dealer) who had reliable 
stock, and he gave me just what I asked for, 
namely, nothing but well-mated Homers from 
one to two years old that were then working. 
I did not buy any "Illuminated Text Book," 
but I did send to the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture for their Bulletin of 
Squab Raising (free), which is reliable. I 
had no fancy equipment, as the “Illustrated 
Text Books” advise, but just the necessities. 
M'y birds arrived October -6, 1904. The first 
eggs were laid October 29, and the first 
squabs (six pairs) hatched out November 14, 
1904. When 1 last counted them about three 
weeks ago, after having them just 4% months 
since first hatching. I had 105 squabs, with 
30 eggs hatching in the nests. I have lost 
from various causes eight pairs of squabs, 
due to inexperience mostly. This is just a 
starter, but I find it is at the rate of five 
pairs of squabs per pair per year—not re¬ 
markable, but profitable. I have now quit 
selling squabs, as I want to increase my stock. 
I also find with such stock I can sell my 
young as breeders at very good prices. 
The R. N.-Y. is a most welcome visitor to 
our farm, and I feel sure you will give your 
readers a fair hearing of my experience, for 
I am certain that pigeons of the proper sort 
will pay as well on the farm as chickens, 
with less labor for proper care. 
Allegheny Co.. I‘a. jknnie CONNEh. 
CUTTING CLOVER INTO THE SILO. 
C. G. W., Still Pond, Mich., asks about 
clover in the silo. After filling my silo two 
seasons, my advice is to put the clover in 
every time. My first filling was done with 
whole clover, nicely coursed and packed by 
forkfuls, and should be hauled as soon as 
possible from the mowing. I used from five 
to eight pails of water to each two-horse 
load as put into the silo. There should be 
not less than 15 pails of water. It came 
out rather dry, but no firefang, and was 
heartily relished by the stock. No loss. Next 
filling was cut into the silo. I placed a tank 
of water so a stream ran on to the carrier, 
and ran about 18 or 20 pails of water to each 
load of clover, and to me it was a perfect 
silage. As to keeping or feeding immediately, 
use the same judgment that one would with 
corn silage. I feel delicate about advancing 
an idea in opposition to II. E. Cook, but tak¬ 
ing the chances of drying the clover in the 
field, the best one can do if it is dry in 
handling will be a loss from the leaves; if 
not dry, it will burn, firefang in the mow, 
and without fair weather we are liable to 
have a discolored unpalatable feed for the 
stock. The expense of getting into the silo 
may be a trifle the more, but the chances 
are for the best quality of feed. I would say 
use plenty of water, and the silo. 
_o. h . SMITH. 
A Si'ckixg IIeifeb. — I have a nice year¬ 
ling heifer that persists in sucking; will suck 
cows that give milk or cows or heifers that 
don't. I kept her away for six months, but 
it made no difference. I have tried a ring 
in her nose; did no good. Calf weaners to 
wear in nose are no good. The only thing 
that answers is a halter filled with tenpenu.v 
wire nails filed sharp. If she must always 
wear that I'll let some other man tend her. 
Can any one help me? She is good stock, 
and I hate to part, with her. e. d. g. 
Massachusetts._ 
A microbe on a dollar bill 
Abode in peace and plenty, 
But moved one day—and starved to degth, 
Its new home was a twenty. 
—Chicago Tribune. 
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