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MILK. 
Since January 1, 1911, the X. Y. Ex¬ 
change price of milk has been .$1.91 per 40- 
quart can, netting four cents per quart to 
shippers in the 26-cent zone. 
weight, $6.75 to $7 per 100; cattle (live), 
$4 to $4.50 per 100 ; veal calves, $4 to $6 
per 100 . liens aud springs, 8 cents; 
turkeys, 18 cents; old toms, geese and ducks, 
10 cents; all above poultry prices live 
weight. H . s. s. 
Juniata, Neb. 
'THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
111 
A man would be fooling away his time 
peddling milk here with land $200 per acre; 
he can raise from 50 to 100 bushels of 
corn per acre. I took a share of $100 in 
a creamery and lost it. We make a little 
butter and get 25 cents per pound the year 
round for it. This is no dairy country; 
mainly corn, oats, some wheat and clover." 
Franklin, Ill. j. w. s. 
Milk mostly sold to dealers and retailers 
by farmers. Pittsburg is our market. Prices 
are -0 cents, delivered for about six months, 
and remainder of year average is about 15 
cents wholesale. I supply my own and 
several neighbors’ milk direct to consumers, 
using an auto truck, supplying about 250 
families. Those milk customers also fur¬ 
nish a ready market for all our farm prod- 
nets. p. A. C. 
Gibsonia, Pa. 
They do not sell milk in this loealitv but 
wT'pnnV 1 ,! s 39 cents at the ranch and 
39% cents delivered at the creamery The 
price of milk in Seattle is 20 cents "a gal- 
* n ^L 32 contR retail. Grain 
«o , Q h J ?rf ‘ 1 *or Whcat at $ 32 $37 a ton. 
oats, $28 to $35 a ton. Oats will yield 
from 75 to 110 bushels to the acre. " Po¬ 
tatoes do very well here also. Price of 
hay from $17 to $20 a ton h M 
Clallam Co., Wash. 
- T J™ nn r i ncipa J niarkot iR Mansfield, a city 
of 2o,000. Some of the farmers peddle 
their milk in bottles or open cans for seven 
cents per quart: By far the greater part 
or the supply is sold through a pasteurizing 
plant which pays SI.70 per 100 (delivered) 
for milk analyzing 3% per cent, butter fat. 
This is retailed at seven cents. Several 
wagons run through the country collecting 
ixt n V, K? making a small charge, varying 
with distance from town. w w n 
Mansfield, O. 
^J hP « re ju, no t , a groat doal of milking 
done in this neighborhood. What there is 
Is separated with hand separators and the 
cream sold, which is worth from 26 to 28 
, Th f, rp I s a great deal of cattle 
and hog feeding done here. Corn is worth 
34 cents in town, and 37 to 40 cents is 
So"! b /.„ feodors ’ Oats. 27 cents; hav, 
$8 to $10. Hogs are $8 per 100 ; stock 
an « /r o<i,n g steers. $4.50 to $5.50: fat cat¬ 
tle, $(> to $7 per 100. Horses arp very high ; 
ones, $150 to $300. Land. $150 to 
$200 per acre. h e h 
Dysart, la. 
Most of the milk is hauled to local 
creameries, one at Fosters. O.. the other 
two at Loveland. The prices from the 
Froneh-Bauer Co. are SI .60 per 100 for 
four per cent milk to $2 for five per cent 
milk. People dissatisfied with their tests. 
This price is September 1-May 1 . Model 
Hairy Co. at Loveland pays 14 cents a gal¬ 
lon for four months, to 15 cents per gallon 
for four per cent milk for eight months. 
The remainder of the milk is made into 
butter, sells at 25 to 30 cents, according to 
season. Poultry raising not carried on 
very extensively. p. B . c 
Loveland, O. 
On page 46 T notice an account of a 
couple of Mr. Cloud’s cows. T also have 
one cow T am proud of and which heats 
Mr. Cloud's a little. This cow dropped 
her calf, so T began saving her milk 
March 9, 1910. From then until July 16 
she gave 5,595 pounds of milk besides what 
was used in the family, for this was the 
only cow T had. Since that time T have 
had two cows and T cannot give the exact 
figures, hut by weighing her milk sepa¬ 
rately at times and averaging it for the 
month of course I can tell within a very 
few pounds. From July 16 to January 16 
no /I 188 £' ven 3.791 pounds, or a total of 
9,386 pounds, which is safe to say is cor¬ 
rect for the season as T am still' milking 
this cow once a day and getting a fair 
mess which we will make the above state¬ 
ment a present of. You will note Mr. 
v*°u<3 received for his milk a fraction over 
$1,57 2-3 per 100 pounds, which brought 
him more money than T received, for at no 
time did T receive more than $1.55 per 100 
pounds and that only one month, conse¬ 
quently my returns were $124.89. and 
$1T5 received for the calf when dropped, 
$126.64. Had I received for my milk an 
average of $1.57 2-3 it would have netted 
me nearly as much as Mr. Cloud with his 
$.> calf thrown in, or $147.98 my returns. 
■I congratulate all who have as good cows 
or better than any of these, and let me sus¬ 
tain Mr. Cloud's opinion ; it does not pay 
to keep poor cows. t,. v. n. »c. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. 
In the small villages there is very little 
milk sold, as quite a number keep a cow 
for family use. What is sold, usuallv 
sells for five cents per quart. At Hastings’, 
which has a population of about 12 . 000 , 
and Is the nearest large town, it sells for 
from five to 10 cents. It is peddled by 
dairymen, who live close to town, and as 
far as I know, sell their own milk, without 
purchasing from others. They sell at six 
cents or seven cents retail, and five cents 
when larger quantities are taken. Two of 
the large dairymen have recently sold their 
herds and discontinued and gone to general 
fanning. A new enterprise has recently 
been launched, selling milk at several of 
tn<' grocery stores at eight cents a quart. 
It is called certified and is bottled. I un¬ 
derstand it is purchased from farmers and 
It Is the intention of the promoters, if suf- 
! * rado can he worked up, to ship 
milk in on the train from nearby points, 
purchasing from the farmers. I have not 
learned what they pay. One man said he 
Paid 10 cents a quart for milk from cows 
tested for tuberculosis. So you see there 
Is quite a wide range of prices, without 
anv apparent organization. There is eon- 
slderable cream sold all through this part 
of the country. Price varies, now about 
30 cents I believe. Butter, 25 cents to 
ce hts. Hay unusually high here. Both 
Alfalfa and prairie hay selling in town 
to $15 per ton. Bran, $1. per 
100 ; wheat, 80 cents a bushel, corn, 33 to 
3o cents; oats, 25 cents; these are prices 
paid farmers at elevators. Hogs, live 
RAISING DAIRY COLTS. 
I have been thinking lately about the 
cheap farms that are for sale, how they 
could be made to pay; I mean those that 
are a long way from market. First buy 
a cheap farm and buy a good span of 
mares to do your work and raise two colts 
every year; keep 10 - cows and a good bull 
of any breed you like ; best have the cows 
come fresh in February or March. Let 
calves suck them until May * they can be 
weaned then. Go to some milk producers 
and buy all the heifer calves you can get 
and put two calves on each cow all Sum¬ 
mer. The calves can be bought for one 
or two dollars each. The calves will very 
soon learn to help themselves and be fine 
by Fall. Now you have 40 head to winter; 
suppose you continue this for two or three 
years. Ho you think it can he done? At 
the present price of cows it will pay bet¬ 
ter than producing milk. Soon as land is 
in good condition you can keep sows and 
raise pigs. A man must have some side 
line for a few years. Let me know what 
you think of the plan. d. f: 
Meriden, Conn. 
R. N.-Y.—Has any reader tried such a 
plan 7 
Heifers with Cough. 
What is the matter with two of my young 
heifers that have had a very bad cough 
since early Spring? One is two years old, 
and the other three years old. What can 
I do for them? j. r. k. 
New York. 
Cough is merely a s.vmpton of irritation 
due to any one of a large number of dif¬ 
ferent causes. Without an examination it 
would he impossible for us to say which 
cause is present in the case of your cows. 
In cattle tuberculosis is to he" suspected 
when cough proves chronic, and we therefore 
advise you to have them tested with tuber¬ 
culin. This test will determine definitely 
inside of 24 hours, after injecting the 
tuberculin, whether the disease is or is not 
present. a. s. a. 
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Crop of 127 Bushels Yel- 
low Flint over one of 133 
Bushels White Dent at 
the New England Corn Show at Worcester, Mass. 
!^~ Because of Greater Food Value 
The Protein, Fat, Sugar, etc., contained in the crop 
of 127 bushels yellow liint (equal to 103 
bushels crib-dry shelled corn) grown by 
Perley E. Davis, Granby, Mass., was . 
The Protein, Fat, Sugar, etc., contained in the crop 
of 133 bushels white dent (equal to 83 
bushels crib-dry shelled corn) was 
Difference in food value in favor of Flint Crop 
4934 Lbs. 
4102 Lbs. 
832 Lbs. 
According - to feeding: values approved by Dr. J. B. Lindsey, 
MassacTiusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, the Davis 
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produce . . . . H 55 lbs. of beef. 
While the Dent crop would yield . 951 “ “ 
Prof. R. M. Washburn, Vermont Experiment Station has 
figured out that if the Davis crop was fed for milk, it would 
produce . . . 13,051 lbs. of milk, 
and the Dent crop . . . 10,746 
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