1911 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The N. Y. Exchange price Is $1.91 per 
40-quart can, netting 4 cer ts to shippers 
in the 26-cent zone who or ve no station 
charges. 
Farmers are selling their milk here for 
five cents per quart. Hay brings $12 to 
$18 per ton; corn, 40 to 50 cents per 
bushel. Wheat bran costs $1.25 per 100 
pounds. 
Not much milk retailed. Harrisonburg, 
county seat, population about 5,000, is all 
the market we nave. That is supplied by 
three or four dairymen at five cents per 
quart. Only one creamery in this section 
and it is breathing its last. It is sold 
by producers to consumers direct. Grains 
as follows; Wheat. 95 cents; oats, 44 
cents; barley, 65 to 70 cents; corn in ears, 
$1 per barrel of three bushels; hay, $14 
and $17 per ton ; fodder, six cents delivered. 
Bridgewater, Va. n. l, s. 
In Lisbon the farmers peddle nearly all 
the milk consumed, and receive 7 cents per 
quart. What is sold wholesale is from 14 
to 20 cents per gallon. Lisbon is a small 
place of about 3,500 population. Our best 
market is East Liverpool, about 10 miles 
distant. Wholesale price for milk from 16 
to 20 cents per gallon, farmer to pay 
freight on electric line. There are several 
farmers who peddle milk and receive 8 cents 
per quart. I suppose East Liverpool has a 
population of something over 22,000. 
Lisbon, O. w. k. g. 
The price of milk in this locality is $2 
per hundred pounds delivered at the con¬ 
densing plant. Ivahoka also has an agent 
of S. P. Pond & Co., who buy milk at the 
same price, also cream, paying at present 
26 cents per pound butter fat. Milk when 
peddled, brings six cents per quart through 
the Winter months. Butter at present 
brings 25 to 30 cents per pound. Hay is 
worth about $14 per ton; corn 35 cents 
per bushel; oats 26 cents; bran $1.25 per 
hundred. H. w. s. 
Kahoka, Mo. 
This is a grain country; wheat, corn, 
oats and hay, and in clover seed belt 
mixed husbandry as we call it. There are 
two farms close to Hieksville that make 
a specialty of milk bottled and peddled 
around town at seven cents per quart. 
Country butter sells at 20 cents per pound. 
The cream wagon from Nappanee, Ind., 
comes through here twice a week, gathers 
up cream, and by cream test gives 28 
cents per pound for butter. This butter 
comes back to our town for 32 cents per 
pound, and is retailed out at 35 cents. 
Ilicksville, O. L. p. w. 
Consul George Ilulon of Saloniki, Tur¬ 
key, reports the following milk note from 
that country: “The sanitary inspector of 
Saloniki has adopted the following plan 
for insuring to the public a supply of un¬ 
diluted milk: He has ordered a supply 
of cans fitted with valves working in such 
a manner that a liquid may be poured out 
but not in. Another opening permits the 
cans to be filled with milk. The cans, 
when they are full, are taken to any one 
of four inspection depots, where their con¬ 
tents are chemically tested, after which 
this second opening is closed and stamped 
with an official seal. All the dealers will 
be supplied with these cans and obliged 
to use them as soon as they are secured.” 
A large quantity of the milk produced 
here is sent to the St. Charles Condensing 
plant and the remainder to cheese factor¬ 
ies. Condensery prices for Winter are as 
follows: October and March, $1.40; No¬ 
vember, December, January and February, 
$1.55. Cheese factories average from 85 
to 90 cents per 100 for the season. Bran, 
$20; cotton-seed meal, $33; coarse grain 
mostly fed on farms. Increased acreage 
of wheat was sown last Fall and is look¬ 
ing well. Apples, unsprayed, $1.50 a 
barrel; sprayed, cooperative, $3.50 on 
board. Potatoes fair crop, badly infested 
with dry rot, will be scarce in the Spring. 
Farm land as high as $100 an acre. Milch 
cows $50 to $100. Dairying is a specialty. 
Ingersoll, Ont. w. w. n. 
Milk business here in Northeastern Ne¬ 
braska is mostly handled directly from the 
farm to the consumer at somewhat various 
prices, from 5 to 7 cents per quart, and 
that by farmers near cities for immediate 
or daily use. No milk is shipped. Nearly 
all farmers have their cream separators, 
and all milk is separated immediately after 
milking. Cream is delivered to nearby cream¬ 
eries or shipped to distant large centralized 
creameries, as Omaha, Fremont or Beatrice, 
Neb. Deliveries are made once a week in 
Winter and tri-weekly in Summer. Ci’eam 
or butter-fat as tested is paid a certain 
price, according to season and volume of 
product. The average price for the season 
this year was about 25 cents per pound. 
Butter fat testing from 30 to 40 per cent. 
Pierce, Neb. c. L. 
The greater quantity of the milk around 
here is handled by the two Borden fac¬ 
tories, one each, in Sterling and Dixon. 
Their prices for an average six months to 
the producers is $1.85 1-3 per hundred 
pounds. The wholesale price of milk by 
the dairyman to the producer is $1.85 per 
100 pounds, and the retail price to the 
consumer is seven cents per quart. Corn 
is low in price according to the yield, be¬ 
ing only 36% cents for No. 3 yellow, to as 
low as 32 cents for no grade. Gats are 
getting hack into the old ruts again, 26 
to 28 cents per bushel. Hay is high, but 
scarce, ranging in price from $10 to $20 a 
ton, according to quality. Baled oat straw 
is as high as $11 a ton. Keep up your 
work in favor of parcels post, as the ex¬ 
press companies are regular extortionists, 
and so far as i can see our Senators and 
Representatives are all in cahoot with 
them, and against good, clean, honest law¬ 
making. T. c. 
Dixon, Ill. 
THE COST OF MILK. 
„ On page 1187 there is an article headed 
Cost of a Quart of Milk,” in which it is 
figured out that it costs six cents to pro¬ 
duce a quart of milk on even so large a 
farm as one keeping 40 cows. It is hardly 
worth while to analyze the statement to 
show how fallacious it is, as any dairy¬ 
man knows that if it was so he could not 
exist. Bat to show at a glance how little 
. there is to the statement it is only neces¬ 
sary to look at another column of th6 
same issue where a number of your cone- 
.VOPdents from Illinois and other States 
i on .Hon the current prices for milk in 
U riv respective localities from which they 
u ritt as being from $1.50 to $2 per 100 
pGunds at the creamery; which is the 
equivalent of from three to four cents a 
quart. Now any well-informed person 
knows that at that price farmers are able 
to maintain themselves and prosper on 
land that sells from $75 to $150 an acre. 
They may not be getting as much for 
milk as they should, but manifestly it is 
not costing them six cents a quart to pro¬ 
duce it. w. H. D. 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 
R. N.-Y.—This is not a fair comparison. 
The high priced milk was retailed and 
made under sanitary inspection which made 
expensive care and stables necessary. The 
other milk was sold at wholesale and did 
not stand the same inspection. Another 
thing to be considered is the cost of fod¬ 
der and grain—nearly twice as high in 
Massachusetts as in the other States men¬ 
tioned. What we want is to have some one 
tell us whenever the figures given are too 
high. _ 
Bitter Milk. 
I have a cow that gives bitter milk in 
the Fall, about one month before she should 
go dry. This is the third Fall. I gave 
three bottles of medicine for digestive 
organs, but it did no good. All through 
the Summer the milk is fine and very rich. 
Can you tell me of a preventive? m. 
New York. 
You should dry the cow off six weeks 
before calving. It is quite common for the 
milk to be bitter in taste if milk flow con¬ 
tinues right up to calving time, and it is 
best for the cow to have a rest from lacta¬ 
tion before calving. To dry her off reduce 
milk-making food and leave a little milk 
in the udder at each milking. Great care 
must be taken to avoid causing inflamma¬ 
tion of the udder. If any symptoms of 
inflammation appear treat as so often ad¬ 
vised here for garget. A. s. A. 
Reduced Milk Flow. 
I have a cow 13 years old that came 
fresh June 21, 1909, was farrow last year 
and came fresh again this Fall, November 
12, 1910. She gave milk till she freshened 
and when she came fresh only gave four 
quarts a day for two weeks, and now Is 
only giving six quarts a day. I am feed¬ 
ing her corn fodder morning and night, 
good hay at noon and eight quarts of grain 
a day. I am feeding her equal parts of 
meal, wheat middlings and buckwheat 
middlings. She seems to be healthy ana 
in a good condition. Is there anything to 
do to start the milk, or would I better 
dry her off and beef her? She is one of 
my best cows. e. l. s. 
Pennsylvania. 
Give her a pound of mixed meals per 100 
pounds of live weight as a day's ration 
and let dried brewers’ grains, cotton-seed 
meal and bran form part of the ration. 
Prefer mixed clover hay to Timothy hay. 
If possible feed some silage or roots. Warm 
drinks of flaxseed tea containing black 
strap molasses, given two or three times 
daily, shoTild help to start the milk flow. 
Keep her indoors in a clean, sunny, well- 
ventilated stable, and take chill off drinking 
water. a. s. a. 
Leaves ix Dry Streams.— The streams 
of Long Island, especially along the south 
side, are dry. In their lieds are thousands 
of loads of decayed leaves and vegetable 
matter which would make excellent ferti¬ 
lizer. Why don’t the farmers draw it and 
use it as a compost or top-dressing? So 
far as can be seen from the main thor¬ 
oughfares no effort has been made to uti¬ 
lize it. It may soon be covered with water 
if we have the nsual Fall rains. 
j. H. G. 
Q0O/ of the World’s 
vO/o Creameries Use 
DE LAVAL 
Cream Separators 
Ten years ago there were a dozen 
different makes of creamery or fac¬ 
tory separators in use. Today over 98 
per cent, of the world’s creameries use 
DE LAVAL separators exclusively. 
It means a difference of several 
thousand dollars a 
year whether a DE 
LAVAL or some 
other make of sepa- 
rator is used in 
a creamery. 
Exactly the same 
differences exist, on a 
smaller scale, in the 
use of farm, separa¬ 
tors. Owing to the 
fact, however, that 
most farm users do 
not keep as accurate records as the 
creameryman, they do not appreciate 
just what the difference between a 
good and a poor separator means to 
them in dollars and cents. Nine 
times out of ten the farmer can’t tell 
whether or not he is wasting $50 to 
$100 a year in quantity and quality of 
product through the use of an infe¬ 
rior cream separator. 
Now, if you were in need of legal 
advice, you would go to a lawyer. If 
you were sick you would consult a 
doctor. If you had the toothache you 
would call on a dentist. Why? Be¬ 
cause these men are all specialists in 
their line, and you rely upon their 
judgment and skill. When it comes 
to buying a separator why not profit 
by the experience of the creamery- 
man? His experience qualifies him 
to advise yon correctly. He knoios 
which separator will give you the 
best service and be the most economi¬ 
cal for yon to buy. That’s why 984 
of the world’s creameries use the DE 
LAVAL exclusivelv. 
There can he no better recommen¬ 
dation for the-DE LAVAL than the 
fact that the men who make the sep¬ 
aration of milk a business use the DE 
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