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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
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THE PRICE OF MARKET MILK. 
Tbe article regarding price of milk was 
of particular interest to me, and I would 
like to know more about the subject, as I 
am a new beginner in shipping milk. Tomp¬ 
kins Co., I take it, is in the outer zone, 
and for March we should receive $1.60 per 
100, should we not? Will the Exchange 
help us any to obtain the prices established 
by them where shippers fail to live up to 
them? Is it understood that the shipper 
shall cut the price enough to pay expense 
of running the receiving station? 
Groton, N. Y. J. w. c. 
The area over which shippers of 
milk operate is unquestionably widen¬ 
ing. Cattaraugus County and surround¬ 
ing territory has already come into the 
milk-shipping business to quite an ex¬ 
tent, not for Buffalo and interior cities, 
but for New York City. I now have 
an inquiry before me from Tompkins 
County, which is in the 32-cent zone, 
indicating that New York dealers are 
active there, and asking about prices 
that are paid and should be paid to the 
farmers. This price paid by dealers 
is by no means a certain sum. They 
buy milk as they would potatoes. If 
they can buy at a low price, very well. 
If competition or the demands of pro¬ 
ducers compel the payment of higher 
prices, they submit as gracefully as 
possible. Some standard or basis has 
to be selected on which to buy. If al¬ 
lowed to do so the dealers always sug¬ 
gest the standard. They fix it as fa¬ 
vorably for themselves as they think 
the producers will stand, or can be 
made to submit to. In one case it may 
be a butter-fat test, and they may pay, 
at the lowest I have ever heard, four 
cents less a pound for fat than the 
wholesale quotations announce for but¬ 
ter, or as high, at the highest I have 
known, three cents above the highest 
quotations for Philadelphia prints. 
That is an enormous difference,fully 
50 per cent. Not a large n^riber of 
dealers adopt the butter-fat basis for the 
purchase of market milk, unless 
be in some certain sections. i\ 
localities the price announced b. 
den's Condensed Milk Co. is use 
other dealers, as well as the *Bo 
themselves. This does not 'ftean 
Borden’s price is paid, necesstmly. Ii 
may be in some cases 4te cents a hui 
dred under that price, and I have kno 
some dealers to buy at 10 cents nm 
Others may pay five or 10 cents 
for three months, as much over for 
three other months, and the same for 
six months, or the time may be di¬ 
vided into four-month periods. 
Still another basis for buying is the 
Milk Exchange price. The Milk Ex¬ 
change is an association of dealers, not, 
I think, a corporation or company. The 
Exchange buys no milk. The individ¬ 
ual members of the Exchange buy milk, 
each on his own account. The Exchange 
members vote a price, usually as often 
as once a month, and frequently oftener. 
This price is used as a basis for buy¬ 
ing and selling in New York City. The 
price at which wholesale city milk is 
sold need not be the Exchange price. 
It may he at a premium or a discount 
from that price. So far as the country 
buyers are concerned, who buy on Ex¬ 
change quotations, there may be as 
great or a greater variation than that 
noted by those buying on the Borden 
schedule. The difference in the two is 
principally this: The Borden price is 
announced for six mojiths at a time, 
while the Exchange price is for an in¬ 
definite time, usually, running one to 
three or four weeks, and is subject to 
change whenever the city dealers see 
fit to get together and vote a change. 
Now, let us remember that dealers buy 
as they can, whether the Borden, Ex¬ 
change or butter-fat basis be used. In 
some cases the price the dealers pay is. 
Exchange less 26 cents freight, and less 
five cents ferriage. That would proba¬ 
bly be in what is known as the 26-cenfc 
zone. Even then some buyer may offer 
the full Exchange price, making no de¬ 
ductions, while another in a different 
locality may think that competition is 
so light that he can deduct freight, fer¬ 
riage and 20 cents a can station charges. 
There are four freight zones: 23-cent; 
26-cent; 29-cent; and 32-cent. The Ex¬ 
change quotation is supposed to mean 
that the milk is to he delivered in Jer¬ 
sey City, and that five cents per can be 
deducted from the quotation for the 
charge for ferrying into New York. 
While the Exchange quotation is thus 
varied into four different prices, regu¬ 
larly, in addition to the local changes, 
the Borden price has only two such 
sets of quotations that are regular with 
that concern. In the 23-cent, and 26- 
cent zones one price is announced, and 
in the 29-cent and 32-cent zones an¬ 
other, which is usually 10 cents a hun¬ 
dred less. Now let us remember that 
dealers buy as they can, whether the 
Borden, Exchange, or butter-fat basis 
he tised. Remembering this, an ex¬ 
amination of the annexed table may be 
of some interest. This table shows 
in comparison the Borden and Ex¬ 
change prices for the year 1908. 
Net 
Net 
Quotation 
Net 
Net 
26-cent 
32-cent 
40 qt. Can 
26-cent 
32-cenfc 
Zone 
Zone 
26-cent 
Zone 
Zone 
100 lbs. 
100 lbs. 
Zone 
100 lbs. 
100 lbs. 
Jan. . 
$2.00 
$1.90 
$1.91 
1.87 
1.81 
Feb. . 
2.00 
1.90 
1.81 
1.75 
1.79 
Mar. . 
1.80 
1.70 
1.71 
1.63 
1.57 
Apr. . 
1.60 
1.50 
1.61 to 1.51 
1.46 
1.40 
May . 
1.30 
1.20 
1.41 to 1.31 
1.22 
1.16 
June . 
1.10 
1.00 
1.21 
1.05 
.99 
July . 
1.25 
1.15 
1.31 
1.16 
1.10 
Aug.. 
1.35 
1.25 
1.61 
1.40 
1.34 
Sept.. 
1.50 
1.45 
1.51 to 1.61 
1.46 
1.40 
Oct. . 
1.70 
1.60 
1.81 
1.75 
1.69 
Nov. . 
1.90 
1.80 
1.81 to 1.91 
1.78 
1.72 
Dec. . 
1.90 
1.80 
1.91 
1.87 
1.81 
In the 23- 
and 29-cent zones the 
com- 
parison would he a little more favora¬ 
ble for the' Exchange, since the Bor- 
dert price would remain unchanged, 
while the Exchange shows three cents 
better than the prices here given. 
A % % H. H. LYON. 
Facetious Foreigner : Aw, me good 
man, pardon my ignorance of geog¬ 
raphy, but will you kindly tell me what 
the capital of this country is?’’ Solemn- 
aced Yankee: I’ve forgot how much 
is, mister, but Bierp Morgan has the 
ndlin’ of most of it, I believe.”—Chi- 
go Tribune. 
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It was used in 
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the 
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in 1908. 
Ask your drug¬ 
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and accept no substitute. 
CHR. HANSEN S LABORATORY. 
Box 1106, Little Falls, N. Y. 
WESTERN CANADA 
320 Acres Instead of 160 Acres 
As further inducement to set¬ 
tlement of the Wheat-Growing 
luuds of Western Canada, the 
Canadian Government has in¬ 
creased the area that may be 
tuken by a homesteader to 320 
acres—160 free and 160 to 
be purchased at only $8.00 
per acre. These lands are in 
the grain-raising area, where 
mixed farming is also carried 
on with unqualified success. 
Araiiway will shortly be built 
to Hudson Bay, bringing the world’s 
markets a thousand miles nearer these 
wheat fields, where schools and 
churches are convenient, climate 
excellent, railways close to all set¬ 
tlements and local markets good. 
“It would taka time to assimilate the reve¬ 
lations that a visit to the great empire lying 
to the North of us unfolded at every turu." 
Correspondence of an Illinois Editor, who 
visited Western Canada in August, 1908. 
Lands may also bo purchased from Railway 
and Land Companies at low prices and on 
easy terms. For pamphlets, maps and infor¬ 
mation as to low Railway Rates, apply to Sup’t 
of Immigration, Ottawa, Cun., or to the 
authorized Canadian Government Agent. 
J. O. Duncan. Canadian Govern¬ 
ment Agent. Room 30, Syracuse Bonk 
Building, Syracuse, N. Y. 
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AN EXPERIENCE 
AT THE BELLE MEADE FARM 
T HE Belle Meade Farm of Bed 
ford, Mass., is well known 
for its thoroughgoing and 
scientific methods, and is a model 
in many respects. Its big stables 
are all covered with Amatite 
Roofing. The owners write us as 
follows: 
“It is now nearly three years 
since we put your Amatite Roof¬ 
ing on our new 300 ft buildings. 
This Roofing is now in its third 
winter and has gone through 
without a leak, and there is every 
indication that it will be good for 
many years. The buildings with 
this light, sparkling Roofing and 
the red trimmings as painted, are 
very attractive in appearance, and 
altogether we are much pleased 
with your Amatite Roofing. We 
are contemplating the construc¬ 
tion of some further buildings for 
our Shetland Ponies, and mean to 
use more of your rooting.” 
If the Belle Meade farm people 
had chosen a “smooth surfaced” 
roofing it would have cost them 
more in the beginning and the 
difference would have become 
greater every year. Those roofs 
were laid in 1905. In 1907 they 
f would have required a through 
painting, which would have to he 
repeated in 1909, and every two 
years thereafter. 
The Amatite, however, has find 
no painting, and needs none. The 
mineral surface takes care of 
that. When the roof finally 
wears out and the owners of the 
Belle Meade Farm compute the 
cost of their Amatite Roofing 
they will put down “for the Ama¬ 
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of same, nothing.” If they had 
used a painted roofing there would 
1 probably he several coats of paint 
! to figure on, besides the original 
cost of the roofing, and the total 
would he several times as much 
as Amatite. 
It does not matter whether 
your roofs be large or small, it is 
wasteful to use anything but 
Amatite. 
Let us send you a free sample, 
together with a booklet telling 
more about Amatite. It will save 
you money later. 
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