1911. 
"THE HURAIi. NEW-YORKBK 
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milk:. 
Fistula of Milk Duct. 
Since January 1, 1911, the N. Y. Ex¬ 
change price of milk has been $1.91 per 40- 
quart can, netting four cents per quart 
to shippers in the 26-eent zone. 
Farmers are selling milk to dealers at the 
scale of 15 cents per gallon, the dealers re¬ 
tailing at eight cents per quart, while 
others are selling cream at Elgin quota¬ 
tions. There is not much doing in the 
poultry business in this locality. n. e. b. 
Massillon, Ohio. 
Milk rn Alton, Ill., our best trading 
town, sells for 25 and 30 cents a gallon 
delivered in quart bottles by nearby farm¬ 
ers. Others wholesale it for 15 cents a 
gallon. We are not in the milk business; 
we make butter and get 35 cents a pound 
the year around. We aim to sell 100 
pounds a week on an average, but fell a 
little short of that this year. a. x. 
Bethalto, Ill. 
The milk in Winnebago Co., Ill., is 
handled in the following way. Some farm¬ 
ers separate their own milk and sell butter 
at from 27 to 35 cents a pound; other send 
their milk to creamery at $1.70 to $2 per 
100, 10 cents less for hauling. Farmers 
who live within five to eight miles of the 
city of Rockford sell their milk to peddlers 
at 3 cents a quart. Of the 50 or 60 milk 
peddlers in Rockford but four per cent, ped¬ 
dle their own milk at six cents a quart. 
Prices on grain and feed at present are: 
Corn, 35 to 40 cents ; oats, 28 to 29 cents 
a bushel; bran, $24 a ton ; oil meal, $37 a 
ton; cotton-seed meal, $34 a ton. Farmers 
mostly feed their own grain. j. l. 
Cherry Valley, Ill. 
A large condenser, with branches along 
the coast, is located at Mt. Vernon, our 
county seat, which takes the greater part 
of our milk in this county. The company 
hires teams to pick up the milk at the 
ranches and haul to the condenser, charg¬ 
ing 10 cents per hundred for hauling, and 
pays $1.90 per hundred pounds in the 
Winter, and $1.35 per hundred in Summer 
when it tests from 3.7 to 4 per cent butter 
fat. They also had gasoline launches on 
the river (Skagit) carrying milk from up 
river points to the condenser. Some of 
the dairymen have separators and ship the 
cream to creameries along the railroad, 
getting 42 cents per pound for butter fat. 
Dairymen near town supply the demand 
by the quart, about six cents per quart. 
Grain is high here, but not quite as high 
as it has been, retailing as follows: 
Cracked corn, $28 to $30 per ton ; wheat, 
about $32; oats, from $24 to $28 ; shorts, 
$1.25 per 100 pound sack; bran, 90 cents 
per 80 pound sack. r. h. p. 
Clear Lake, Wash. 
We have a young cow three years old 
that got a hole in one of her teats on a 
wire fence. The hole Is about in the mid¬ 
dle of the teat, and it leaks through the 
udder. When I milk her the milk runs 
out of the hole in the center and end too. 
Will you tell me if there is any way to 
close the hole? j. n. 
Xew York. 
Put a strip of surgeon’s plaster around 
the teat to cover the hole referred to. This 
will still allow of milking, but if leaking 
continues, from under the plaster, remove 
it and paint the orifice with flexible col¬ 
lodion, coat upon coat, and then put on 
* new strip of plaster. When the cow is 
dry the fistula should be done away with 
by operation, which can only be properly 
done by an expert surgeon. a. s. a. 
A Water-proof Stable Floor. —H. A. J 
asks on. page 1016 for information with 
regard to a waterproof stable floor. Con¬ 
crete, if properly mixed and placed, will 
give the most satisfactiou. A wooden floor 
laid in pitch or asphaltum would make a 
tight floor, but would not be as durable 
as concrete. The woven wire fencing which 
E. S. B. suggests as a reinforcement would 
be of more value if placed nearer the bot- 
tim of the cement, thus giving more chance 
to fasten it to the plank floor, and greater 
protection irom dampness. The greater 
thickness of content above the wire would 
be less liable to be broken by rough use. 
A good grade of fencing should be used as it 
will be needed as long as the floor is in use. 
The thickness of the concrete is not the fac¬ 
tor to be considered except as far as 
strength is concerned, its waterproof qual¬ 
ities depending on density. A 1-2-4 mixture 
is rich enough if coarse sand and small or 
broken stone under one inch is used; but if 
the sand is fine the cement should be in¬ 
creased 15 per cent. The concrete should 
be wet enough to be quite mushy and the 
wooden floor should be thoroughly wet be¬ 
fore placing concrete. Tamp until water 
shows on top. The surface should be 
trowelled smooth before the concrete has 
set hard, and the surface should be kept 
wet for several days to prevent too rapid 
drying. A slight pitch should be given to 
carry liquid to a gutter or drain back of 
stalls. A good plan would be to carry the 
concrete up around the sides about six 
inches high to protect sills and side of 
barn from damp. One bag of cement will 
Some farmers produce milk and peddle 
it out, and get from six to eight cents per 
quart, according to the amount the customer 
takes. Cream is sold ranging six to eight 
cents per one-half pint. Some farmers sell 
milk to peddlers who do not produce any 
milk themselves; ranging price is three 
cents in Summer and four cents in Winter. 
Some farmers separate their milk at home 
and deliver the cream two and three times 
a week to railroad stations where it is 
shipped to creameries and receive price ac¬ 
cording to the amount of butter fat it con¬ 
tains ; 27 cents per pound butter fat at 
present time. Some sell their milk to deal¬ 
ers in Cedar Rapids, they selling same to 
consumers at from six to eight cents per 
quart, the farmer getting from $1.25 to 
$1.75 per 100 pounds, depending on the 
season of the year. Corn in this locality is 
bringing 34 cents for new and 40 cents'for 
old, shipping price. Cedar Rapids local 
market is paying from 40 cents to 50 cents, 
depending on quality and demand. Oats, 
shipping, 26 to 27 cents local Cedar Rapids 
market, from 27 to 28 cents, according to 
demand. Hay tame, $13 to $14 per ton; 
wild, $10 to $12; straw, $5 to $6; pota¬ 
toes 50 to 75 cents per bushel; wheat, 75 to 
85 cents. e. j. w. 
Palo, Iowa. 
The wholesale price of milk in Erie Coun¬ 
ty, N. Y., is about 13 cents a gallon, freight 
being .paid by purchaser. Some producers 
are getting 16 cents for the Winter for 
extra milk, but very few have extra milk 
in cold weather. The Buffalo market takes 
all it can get for a large radius around the 
city, and then there are times when the 
supply is inadequate, because a large num¬ 
ber of farmers take their milk to cream¬ 
eries, of which there is quite a number. 
Milk contracts are made from May first 
usually for one year, milk payments month¬ 
ly. The city retailers have an organization, 
the farmers have no union, although one 
was started several years ago; the farmers 
here have to take the price offered them by 
the city retailers or quit. The farmers are 
mostly selling two cans of eight gallons 
each, but some sell four, six or eight cans. 
It is mostly shipped to Buffalo by rail, al¬ 
though several hundred cans are hauled by 
wagon daily. There has been some falling 
off of producers the last year, and many 
more promise to quit the coming year. The 
present low price of milk and strict sani¬ 
tary inspection by the city and State health 
departments, coupled with the high price 
of feeds and fresh cows, is very detri¬ 
mental to the profitable production of milk ; 
therefore many choose to take their milk to 
creameries or take up some other branch 
of farming that pays better. s. s. 
MILKING MACHINES. 
Is there any milking machine that will 
really do the work well, and cows take to 
them all right, so that they are really a 
good thing to own for a herd of 20 cows? 
i* j.s getting so hard to hire men to do the 
milking that we surely need the machine. 
Franklinville, N. Y. e. n. r. 
The use of milking machines does not 
seem to be gaining rapidly. A number 
of machines have been introduced and tried 
practically. Some are still being operated, 
but they have not "revolutionized” the 
dairy business as predicted. It is now 
P™e to sum up the matter fairly after long 
trial. We would like to hear from those 
who have tried the machines. Are they 
really practical? * 
make about 4% cubic feet of 1-2-4 con¬ 
crete, or about six cubic feet of a 1-3-6 mix¬ 
ture. H. A. J. had better order two or three 
extra bags of cement rather than be de¬ 
layed for lack of material. r. b. g. 
Bridgeton, N. J. 
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