1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE PRICE OF BUTTER FAT. 
We have been sending our cream to 
the creamery less than a year. They 
have paid as follows per pound butter 
fat: November, 1907, 33 cents; Decem¬ 
ber, 33 cents; January, 1908, 33 cents; 
February, 33 cents; March, 32 cents; 
April, 31 cents; May, 28 cents; June, 27 
cents; July, 28 cents; August, 31 cents. 
The average for last year I am told was 
above 30 cents per pound. Butter is 
sold in the local market, which during 
good times is one of the best, but for 
the past several months, owing to shut¬ 
downs in shops, or factories working on 
short time, the demand for butter has 
not been very good. The creamery is 
run on the cooperative plan; it pays its 
running expenses and six per cent inter¬ 
est on the investment, and the balance 
is divided among the patrons pro rata. 
While there is no doubt in my mind but 
what the oleo bill has been a decided 
benefit to the farmers, yet to what ex¬ 
tent I cannot say, though I can remem¬ 
ber not many years back when cream¬ 
eries paid 18 and 20 cents per pound for 
butter fat here in New England, and I 
think in some instances even less. On 
the other hand, owing to the difficulty 
(even during these slack times when 
men are plenty) in getting good help, 
and also the high cost of grain, it is 
costing more to produce a pound of 
butter than ever before The only way I 
can see out of it for us is to 
keep fewer cows and better ones, and 
give them better feed and care. Cer¬ 
tainly men out of work or on half time 
cannot pay a fancy price for butter and 
the bulk of butter sold must be used by 
the laboring class. There may be other 
remedies, but this one is within our 
power, and if the unprofitable cows 
could be weeded out it would cut off the 
surplus that when forced on the market 
demoralizes it, and the profitable cow 
would not have to pay the board of the 
cows that are not paying for their feed, 
and there are many such. e. r. d. 
Connecticut. 
Dairymen in this section are paid for 
butter fat as determined bv the Babcock 
test. The price received is governed by 
the price of butter in the large markets, 
with a little variation due to contract¬ 
ing for a certain amount each week, to 
reputation of creamerv, to style of pack¬ 
age, etc. Some cru».—eries contract their 
butter for the season at from one to two 
cents above Chamber of Commerce 
prices. The price of butter fat is some¬ 
what higher than a few years ago, and 
the increase is laid by many to the oleo 
bill. I enclose a table of prices paid by 
a local creamery which is a very fair 
average of prices paid in this section: 
Year 
1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 
Jan. 
. . . 
30 
26 
29 27% 33% 34 
Feb. . 
• • • 
28 
29% 32 28 33% 37 
Mar. 
, , , 
28% 26 
28% 27% 33 33 
April 
• • • 
25 
23 
28% 23 29 30 
May 
• • a 
23% 20% 23% 21% 26 26 
June 
• • ■ 
24 
19 
21 21% 26% 26 
July 
... 
22% 19 
22 22% 27% 26 
Aug. 
. . .22 
22% 20 
23 25% 28% 27 
Kept. 
.. .24% 23% 
22 
23% 28 32 
Oct. 
... 25 % 25 
23 
24 30% 33 
Nov. 
... 27 % 27 
25 
25% 32 30% 
Dec. 
. . .30 
26 
26 
27 34% 32 
These prices are for milk delivered or 
for cream taken at the door. Cream 
delivered brings one-half cent more. 
Most farmers use separators and about 
25 per cent of cream is gathered. 
Vermont. G. M. hazard. 
COST OF A COW’S FEED. 
The cost of keeping a cow one year can 
be figured in two ways, first, the cost of the 
feed fed, second, by the value of the feed 
at market price; both ways have their ad¬ 
vocates. The man who can raise three 
tons of Alfalfa and 15 tons of silage corn 
to the acre will make the best showing by 
figuring the first way, and one who can pro¬ 
duce only half as much to the acre will 
figure his cost at the mai’ket price of the 
feeds fed. I prefer to charge the cow the 
market price of everything she eats, and 
make her pay a profit to pay me for her 
care. A ration of 40 pounds silage, seven 
pounds clover hay and eight pounds of a 
mixture of oil meal, cotton-seed meal and 
bran or oats equal parts by weight, fed 
from October 1 to May 15, or 227 days, 
would require 4% tons silage, 1589 pounds 
hay, 1816 pounds grain feed. Figuring at 
present prices, with silage worth one-third 
the price of Timothy hay the 4*4 tons would 
be $12.75; the clover hay at $8 per ton, 
$6.35; the grain will average about $30 
per ton, or $27.24 for the Winter fufding, 
making the cost for the 227 days $46.34. 
The above ration should px-oduce more than 
30 pounds of milk daily from good mature 
cows. If V. F. will grow Alfalfa he can 
cut his grain ration down just about one- 
half. With good silage and Alfalfa hay, 
Winter butter can be made for less than 
10 cents per pound. I wonder what the 
“old timers” who still patronize the cheese 
factory from about April 1 to November 
will say about feeding a cow neai’ly $50 
worth of feed during the Winter. A little 
investigation some time ago showed that 
only one of the 90 patrons of the cheese 
factory secured $40 each from his cows. 
Livingston Co., N. Y. c. .1. hunt. 
Regarding the cost of feed to keep a 1,000- 
potind cow in our locality, would say this 
is rather a difficult question to answer; 
the price of feed has never been so high. 
In our locality cows are pastui’ed about six 
months of the year, at about $2 per month ; 
the other six mouths stable fed. A cow 
giving 30 pounds 4 ’4 per cent milk per day 
in Winter would require about the following 
feed, provided she was capable of assimilat¬ 
ing the following ration : 35 pounds silage, 
five cents; six pounds gluten meal, eight 
cents; 2*4 pounds wheat bran, three cents; 
one pound oil meal, 1 % cent; 10 pounds 
clover hay, seven cents; total, 24% cents 
per day; 182 days or six months at 24% 
cents per day, $44.59; six months pasture, 
at $2, $12; total, $58.59. Two years ago 
this same cow could have been fed for 
about $12 less per year, feed being cheaper. 
While this ration is rather expensive, yet 
it is cheap for a cow giving 30 pounds of 
4% per cent milk per day, which at five 
cents per quart would be about 70 cents 
per day, $21 per month, or $120 for six 
months. The other six months she ought 
to pay for her feed. This would leave a 
balance for labor and capital invested of 
$63. A cow giving this amount of milk 
for six months I believe should have a 
portion of cornmeal to keep her in sufficient 
flesh, although cornmeal by some scientific 
men is utterly ignored in the ration for a 
dairy cow. j. aldus herb. 
Lancaster Co., Pa. 
Umbilical Hernia. 
1. I have a colt seven weeks old which has 
a navel rupture. He was all right when 
born. Can it be cured and how? 2. What 
can be done for fistulous withers? e. s. 
1. Let it alone if it is small, as such 
conditions usually are outgrown in a year 
or so. If it enlai'ges have it operated 
upon by pulling up the slack skin and the 
sac after reduction of the rupture and then 
inclosing them between wooden clamps. Re¬ 
covery without opei-ation often may be ac¬ 
complished by rubbing a little iodine oint¬ 
ment on the rupture each other day. 2. 
Send us a full description. A case of fis¬ 
tula is treated on page 775. a. s. a. 
TO 
DR. DAVID ROBERTS, Wisconsin Mate veterinarian, 1906-7-8 
Are You Losing Calves? 
If so, You Should Lose no Time in Stopping Loss. 
Contagions Abortion can be wiped out of 
your herd with the Dr. Roberts’ Anti-Abor¬ 
tion^ Treatment. It has never failed, and 
last year alone over 1000 herds comprising 
more than 23,000 head were treated. 
Here is one case among thousands where 
the loss was stopped. 
Lost 1000 Calves in One Year 
De Motto. Indiana. % 
Replying to your letter of the 14th, regarding the 
abortion in our cows, and as to the benefits derived 
fromyourtreatment, will say lliave watched these cows 
very carefully and notice their condition Is much ini- 
recovered from the disease and in every way the treat¬ 
ment has proved to be a success. 
Yours very truly, O. ERF (Signed) 
Our Guarantee to You 
Where the Dr. Roberts Anti-Abortion treatment 
fails to wipe out the disease of Contagious Abor¬ 
tion we will return the entire cost of the treat¬ 
ment. Or, we will purchase for cash any herd 
from which Dr. Roberts’ Anti-Abortion Treat¬ 
ment fails to wipe the disease. 
Do not wait till you are sure you have 
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MAKE SURE THAT YOUR COWS ARE 
FREE FROM ABORTION NOW 
Herd Bulls of Northern Indiana Land Co. Dr, Roberts’ treatment stamped out 
Contagious Abortion from this Herd. 
proved from last year. Last year, we lost nearly 1000 
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By C. D. Shook, Supt. 
Wiped out the Disease from 17 Herds 
The following letter from Prof. O. Erf of 
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sity confirms the testimony of private owners. 
Dr. David Roberts’Veterinary Co. Aug. 7,1908 
The 17 herds that were treated with Dr. Roberts’ 
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