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THE RURA Lv NEW-YORKER 
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“ME FOR THE OLD COW.” 
I have been reading the article, 
“Chemicals and Clover in Wisconsin,” 
and also the comments on same. In 
another part of the same paper I read 
that a new fertilizer trust has been 
formed, with our friend Meadows at 
the head. As you say, there is no 
doubt that we can keep up the fertil¬ 
ity of our farms without the cow, but 
I have great confidence in her, and I 
believe that I would prefer to trust 
her rather than the new fertilizer com¬ 
bination. If bossy refuses to yield a 
fair share of milk and fattens herself, 
why, we can sell her for beef. But I 
fail to see how we are going to profit 
by the fat accumulated by the fertilizer 
trust. Me for the old cow. We have 
harvested a big crop of hay—about $600 
worth, if we cared to sell it. In fact, 
I have never had such a fine crop or 
got it in such good shape. Some of my 
neighbors have hardly begun haying. 
They have been hauling peas to the 
canning factory. These men are dairy 
farmers, and will haul mill feed home 
all next Winter to feed with their over- 
rpe hay, which they have neglected to 
harvest on account of the peas. Now, 
I contend that if these men had sowed 
their “pea land” to Canada peas and 
oats, and let them get ripe to grind for 
their cows next Winter, and had cut 
their hay when it ought to have been 
cut, they would be ahead in the long 
run. You see the canning factory man 
must make a profit on the peas, and the 
feed man must make a profit on the 
grain he sells. Then there is the item 
of hauling away the peas right when a 
man and his team are worth—well, I 
would not take my team out of the 
hay field for $10 per day. It looks to 
me as though these farmers were mak¬ 
ing themselves a lot of trouble so that 
two men could make a lot of profit. If 
a man is a dairyman, he should be a 
dairyman. When he goes to monkey¬ 
ing around raising crops to sell and 
making the cow a sort of scapegoat to 
eat up what he can’t sell, he would bet¬ 
ter quit dairying altogether. A cow 
will make manure out of dry cornstalks, 
but she won’t make money, and you 
have proven that we do not need her to 
make manure. I honestly believe that 
the general-purpose cow in the hands 
of the all-round farmer is the curse of 
the dairy business. She makes no 
profit for her owner, but her milk does 
add to the volume of the dairy product, 
and lessens the profit of the real dairy 
cow in the hands of the real dairyman. 
New York. j. grant morse. 
THE MILK SITUATION. 
The New York Times of June 20 gives 
out the information that the Association 
for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 
in its efforts to procure pure milk for 
babies and children under its care, has 
been operating several milk stations from 
which to supply these people. The success 
of the undertaking becoming known, has 
made a demand for better millk all through 
the city. Evidently those in charge of the 
milk stations have found it difficult to 
get the quality of milk ‘they desired and 
their next move is to start a “model 
dairy,” not far from the city, and demon¬ 
strate that clean, pure milk can be sup¬ 
plied to consumers at the present market 
rate. A company is being organized by 
the New York Milk Committee of this Asso¬ 
ciation, and among the shareholders are 
Seth Low, Loton Horton, of the Slawson- 
1 lecker-Sheffield Farms Company, and Dr. 
Samuel Lambert, Dean of the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons; while Stephen 
Francisco, president of 'the largest produc¬ 
ing firm of certified milk, has endorsed the 
plan and signified his intention of becoming 
a stockholder. Several dairy situations are 
under consideration, but the choice has not 
yet been announced. The plan of the 
“model dairy” is to demonstrate how clean, 
pure, wholesome milk can be made and 
handled at least possible cost and sold to 
the consumer at present market rates. In 
figuring on the cost of this kind of milk, 
it is evident that they have discovered ft 
cannot be produced successfully at present 
prices paid to farmers, even with the new 
apparatus they expect to use. They frankly 
state that sanitary precautions necessarily 
increase the cost of production of milk. 
They propose to use a 40-quart can in¬ 
vented by a man named Proost and bear¬ 
ing his name. This can is filled at the dairy 
and sealed. The local dealer draws out the 
milk by compressed air, which passes in 
on one side of the can and bubbles up 
through the milk—thus thoroughly mixing 
(•ream with milk and forcing it down an¬ 
other tube to the stop valve. The milk is 
there to be drawn off into cardboard bottles 
and sold to consumers. Time and labor 
of bottling and handling at dairy is saved, 
also trouble of collecting and cleaning bot¬ 
tles. done away and loss by breakage 
avoided. The “model dairy” will handle 
all kinds of milk, raw, pasteurized and cer¬ 
tified, and tuberculin-tested cows will be 
kept. 
Mr. Wilbur Phillips, secretary of the 
New York Milk 'Committee, says: “Of 
course, merely erecting a model dairy in 
the midst of a farming community, we do 
not expect to bring the dairymen to the 
views of scientists and bacteriologists, but 
we have a system of making sanitary con¬ 
ditions pay the farmers." Measures requir¬ 
ing care, rather than financial outlay, will 
be encouraged, and a larger price offered to 
farmers for milk so produced. To farmers 
who add equipment, undergo expense and 
further care, tuberculin test, etc., a second 
increase in price will be given. This will 
make it worth while for the farmer to be 
scientific in his methods. The whole dairy 
is to be managed on business principles, 
and its working plan and financial prog¬ 
ress made public—the expectation being to 
make a reasonable profit and demonstrate 
that clean milk is a practical commercial 
possibility. This milk will be sold at the 
seven milk stations of the association, oper' 
ated since last Spring, and elsewhere as 
there is demand. Already a desire has been 
expressed for more stations in the Bronx 
and other localities. The estimate for 
plant, equipmen t, including compressed air, 
cans, store furnishings, horses, trucks, etc., 
amounts to $11,760. while there will be a 
capital of $16.240 to meet expenses. Daily 
outlay for milk, cheesecloth, corks, paper 
bottles, etc., will be $60,208; daily sales 
estimated at about $100,000. These fig¬ 
ures are based on the amount of milk now 
sold at the seven milk stations. This is 
certainly a step in the right direction. 
These men evidently begin to see and un¬ 
derstand that if they desire a higher grade 
of milk, in order to procure it, they must 
pay the producer a fair price, giving him 
the benefit of the profit that is his just 1 
due, and the encouragement to adopt mod¬ 
ern means and methods. Here is a begin¬ 
ning at the other end of the line! The 
Dairymen's League has begun work among 
the farmers, opening their eyes to their 
rights and opportunities, and how to re¬ 
cover the liberty they have lost, and now 
the consumers are taking up the matter, 
beginning to realize the necessity and sat¬ 
isfaction of pure milk and the fact that 
farmers cannot afford to produce such milk 
for pleasure, it is their chief source of 
revenue, and in order to work successfully 
they must realize from their labor some¬ 
thing more than a mere living. This is 
most encouraging and it behooves these 
two opposite, but not opposing, societies 
to continue as they have begun, till they 
reach a meeting place; the league work¬ 
ing for a better price for milk in behalf 
of the producer; the associat ion for better 
milk for the consumer. It is the duty of 
the league to fix in the mind of each far¬ 
mer that for this increase in price he is to 
send out milk that cannot fail to satisfy 
the consumer and demonstrate that once 
given an opportunity, the farmers are 
ready to carry out their part of the work 
in this pure milk campaign. 
The middlemen will finally sec that they 
can no longer buy and sell as they choose, 
there is a power now that comes from the 
knowledge of each party of the others’ 
needs. As I have said before, enlighten the 
consumers, arouse the farmers, bring them 
together, let them keep the dealers within 
proper bounds and the battle is won. Far¬ 
mers, you who desire to conduct your dairy¬ 
ing on the same business principles as 
other men use in their affairs, awake; 
the men of this new association are figur¬ 
ing on milk production and its cost; fol¬ 
low their lead and be ready to state at 
what price, considering the present cost 
of cows, feed, labor, etc., you can afford 
to make and sell milk, allowing yourselves 
a reasonable profit. You need not give out 
anything except your price, unless you 
choose. The milk companies know what 
it costs them to handle and deliver milk, 
and what is their profit, and they keep it 
well to themselves. If those figures could 
be exactly ascertained we would hear less 
about the “prosperity of the farmers.” 
You have the same privilege regarding your 
expenses and profit, and yet the farmer 
who dignifies and honors the title and 
stands for fair methods, can well afford 
to come out and say: “It costs me thus, 
and so to carry on my dairy, I feed and 
work on such and such a plan,” because 
the intelligent farmer would scorn to make 
a profit at the expense of some one else. 
In fact, his fault has been and still is, 
not standing up more boldly for his rights. 
In judging others by his high standard, 
he has been slowly hut surely betrayed. 
This is the time to enlighten the consumer, 
convince him that the present low price of 
milk to the producer that is such a loss 
to you financially works ruin to him physi¬ 
cally : that when you received a fair price 
for the fruit of your labor, he will receive 
the grade of milk he desires, probably at 
the same price he pays now. Working for 
the common good will bring satisfaction 
and new life at both ends of the line. 
Farmers, if ever opportunity knocked at 
your door, it is now. S'ee to it that you 
grasp it, use it,, hold it fast. m. b. li. 
PINEHURST SHROPSHIRES 
In 1907 wo won Champion Ram at Chicago Inter¬ 
national, and Michigan State and New York State 
Fairs, and every first prize at Vermont State Fair. 
In 1908 we won Champion Ram at Indiana and New 
York State Fairs. This year we have bought at a 
cost of $900 the First Prize Royal Ram in England. 
Our Rams this year are better than ever, and we 
have reduced the price 30# from last year. Don’t 
fail to send for our Circular, giving price, breeding 
and description of Rams: we are making a special 
offering, so buy early and get first choice. 
Wo pav not only great care to get the BEST in im¬ 
porting BUT EVEN MORE CARE IN SELECTING OUR BREED¬ 
ING FLOCK. This is undoubtedly the reason our 
flock lias such a great reputation. 
HENRY L. WAROWELL, Springfield Center, New York. 
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Steel Stall & Manger Partitions, 
Litter and Feed Carriers. 
- Agents Wanted. 
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THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST 
Why buy an inferior 
STANCHION 
When yon can get the 
McGuire 
For sale by the Merrill Co., 
Toledo.O. Philadelphia Far¬ 
mer’s Supply Co.,Phila., Pa.; 
Joseph Breek & Sons,Boston, 
Mass.: and T,. A. Green Manu¬ 
facturer, Ogdensbuig, N. Y. 
Dish Pan Drudge 
Don’t be one. A leading farm 
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Toronto, Can. 
Winnipeg, Can. 
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Galloway 
“ BATH IN OIL” ‘ 
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Take 
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A BOG SPAVIN, PUFF or 
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THE MODERN SWING STANCHION, WATERING BASIN, 
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Write to-day for full information and prices. 
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rDllMD'C IMPROVED 
UKUmDd WARRINER 
STANCHION 
Henry H. Albertson, Burl¬ 
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new Stanchions add greatly 
to the comfort of my cows.” 
WHY TORTURE 
yours with rigid stanchions? 
Send for specifications 
_of inexpensive yet sani- 
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THE ORIGINAL 
Lined with wood, with Thumb Post Latch 
DURABILITY Best Material and 
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COMFORT Hunf On chain* allow¬ 
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CLEANLINESS Keeps the cow In 
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Strongest, most durable fence 
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f Do away with old hame strap. 
Horse owners and teamsters 
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Material For Making 
FIVE GALLONS 
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Write for detailed information 
and copies of letters from users. 
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Martinsburg, W. Va. 
!C CHAIN HANGING 
CATTLE STANCHION 
The Most Practical 
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ever invented. 
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will clean them off permanently, and 
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Death to Heaves Guaranteed 
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jj. Distemper Cure. 
$1.00 per can at dealers, 
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