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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
MIL 
New York exchange price is $1.S1 per 
40-quart can, netting 3% cents to shippers 
in 26-cent freight zone who have no addi¬ 
tional station charges. 
Some of the farmers peddle their own 
milk and get eight cents per quart, and 
others sell by the 100 pounds and get 
from $1.90 to $2 per 100. F. f. s. 
Poland, O. 
Milk around La Salle (population, 11,000) 
is generally sold directly from the farmer 
to consumer. There are seven or eight 
farmers to one dealer running milk wagons 
here. The retail price is seven cents per 
quart; wholesale, about 15 to 20 cents 
per gallon. The city health officer tests 
samples for butter fat every month or so, 
which is the only inspection milk gets 
here. There is a movement on foot to estab¬ 
lish a modern milk station in La Salle, the 
purpose of which is to supply clean and 
modified milk to the needy and poorer 
classes of sick infants of La Salle and 
neighboring towns. Butter sells here at 
from 35 to 40 cents per pound ; fresh eggs, 
40 cents per dozen ; hay, $18 to $20 a ton ; 
corn, about 38 cents, and oats, about 30 
cents per bushel. p. a. w. 
La Salle, Ill. 
I am getting at present 18 cents pel- 
gallon in Lorain, which is the price in 
Cleveland; a few may be getting more, 
some less. You will see by the notice below 
it has been cut to 16 cents after the 16th of 
this month : 
“ We wish to notify you that from the 
10th of January we will pay 16 cents per 
gallon for milk. We agreed to pay the 
market price of milk, and as this is the 
price now, we feel that is all we can pay.” 
The price to the consumer remains the 
same—which is seven cents per quart in 
I-orain and eight cents in Cleveland—up 
to April 1, when they drop one cent a 
quart generally. These two cities work 
together in making prices to the producer. 
You see this drop goes to fill their pockets, 
and the consumer is not benefited by it. 
Oberlin, O. w. H. h. 
MILK PRODUCED AT A LOSS. 
The item from W. H. IX, page 49, and 
The R. N.-Y. note following, prompt me to 
write. The milk consumed in the city of 
New Y'ork is made at a loss to the pro¬ 
ducer. All milk for the New York market 
is made under sanitary inspection. This 
inspection is under the management of the 
New York City Board of Health, whose 
agents inspect the stables, milking utensils, 
milk cooling, milkers’ clothing, etc., and 
require that a competent veterinarian ex¬ 
amine the cattle periodically. The cost of 
fodder and grain is practically the same 
in the other four States producing milk for 
New York City as it is in Massachusetts. 
This month the Bordens price is $2.10 per 
100 pounds—the highest it has ever been 
since 1 can remember. The New York Milk 
Exchange price is four cents per quart, or 
$1.88 per 100 pounds. How do dairymen 
maintain themselves and sell their milk 
at a loss? The dairyman raises his pas¬ 
ture, fodder and at least a part of his 
grain feed. Instead of selling these at the 
market price he feeds them to his cows 
and gets less than enough milk from the 
cows to pay market price for food con¬ 
sumed. He probably also raises some po¬ 
tatoes. rye, buckwheat, apples and poultry. 
I hose are _ sold and the price therefor is 
invested in western grain by-products 
which are fed to the cows who do not re¬ 
turn him 100 cents to the dollar invested. 
The milk which the average cow gives will 
not bring enough in the New York City 
wholesale market to pay for the feed she 
eats. I congratulate the city of New 
York on its abundant supple of pure, clean 
milk at a price to the consumer lower than 
almost any other article of food of equal 
value, hut the producer should have a living 
profit from its production. G. g. gibbs. 
New Jersey. 
Lice on Calves. 
The indications are that the Dairymen’s 
League is entering upon a period of its 
most rapid growth since its organization. 
Several prominent speakers have volun¬ 
teered to go anywhere the milk producers 
wish assistance in forming branches of the 
organization. This assistance can be se¬ 
cured without expense to the locality by 
applying to the secretary, Albert Manning, 
Otisville, N. Y. 
The retail milk trade here, Geneva, Ohio, 
is all handled by the creamery, no peddling 
done by farmers. The retail price is seven 
cents per quart Winters and six cents Sum¬ 
mers. Farmers who sell milk to the cream¬ 
ery company get $1.50 per 100 pounds the 
year around, while those who ship to Cleve¬ 
land get prices ranging from 18 cents per 
gallon Winters to 12 cents Summers, less 
1% cent per gallon transportation charges. 
Cows are scarce and very high. h. r. f. 
The price of milk here is six cents per 
quart, delivered. There are no dealex-s 
in milk here. Some of the town people 
keep a cow and sell milk to their neigh¬ 
bors, and some of the farmers sell milk, 
’mere are no dairies in this locality. One 
man was running a dairy and shipping 
cream, but has sold his farm, so suppose 
will have to quit. He kept nine cows. 
Turkeys sold here at 18 cents jxer pound, 
live weight, at holidays, and chickens are 
10 cents. H. s. a. 
Hopedale, O. 
This is not a dairy community, but 
very few farmers keep more than three or 
four cows. The better class of farmers 
separate their milk and ship their cream 
to creameries, doing their own shipping. 
The price of butter fat is 28 cents a pound; 
has not been over 32 cents this Winter. 
The wholesale price of milk in the village 
is 12 cents a gallon, retail six cents a 
quart. Present price of chickens, 10 cents ; 
turkeys, 17 cents a pound. M. l. b. 
No. Baltimore, O. 
Milk sells for $1.40 to $2.10 per hundred 
to the Van Camp Condenser Co. Some is 
sent to the creameries, skimmed and re¬ 
turned ; prices for butter range from 20 
to 30 cents a pound. It is retailed in 
bottles for five to six cents per quart. 
The Van Camp people get the bulk of it, 
and the Holstein cow’s product ranges 
from 50 cents to $1.20 a day gross. Eggs 
are gathered by hucksters and go to cold 
storage men ; most of the prices from 10 to 
25 cents during Summer, Winter 25 to 30 
cents. A good many crates are shipped to 
grocery firms and private customers in 
Cleveland and Chicago, who pay from four 
to 12 cents more than local dealers. Poul¬ 
try shipped to New York; milk, eggs and 
poultry business pushed pretty hard here. 
Edgerton, O. J. r. w. 
I have a number of calves six and eight 
months old that went into Winter in good 
ord>r, but are growing thin rapidly, and 
I find they are covered with lice. 1 have 
washed them thoroughly with strong to¬ 
bacco water, and it seems to have no effect 
on the lice, but seems to weaken the calves. 
Can sulphur be fed to get rid of them, and, 
if so, in what quantities? Can you suggest 
some other way of getting rid of lice? 
Connecticut. m. h. b. 
Feeding sulphur will not rid calves of 
lice. Dusting it freely on the back has 
some effect, and so has the feeding; but 
one must clean up, disinfect and white¬ 
wash the stables, else calves keep infested 
all of the time. Pyrethrum powder used 
freely on the skin has some effect on lice 
when washing cannot be done. Calomel and 
lard rubbed along back bone is effective; but 
treated calves have to be kept separate to 
prevent licking. Four ounces of stavesacre 
made into a tea with one gallon of boiling 
water makes a sure destructor of lice on all 
animals. a. s. a. 
Cow with Cough. 
I have a cow about nine years old that 
has a bad cough, also a slight rattling 
in her throat as she breathes. There 
doesn’t seem to be any growth or swelling. 
She is in good condition, appetite normal, 
and gives three and one-half gallons of milk 
daily. Will be fresh about May 1. I 
have been feeding a tonic, but it doesn’t 
seem to have any effect one way or an¬ 
other. How do you apply the tuberculin 
test? c. h. p. 
Nebraska. 
Tuberculosis is to be suspected, and the 
cow should be tested with tuberculin. The 
test should be made by a qualified veteri¬ 
narian or some one authorized to do such 
work, Consult the veterinarian of your 
State Agricultural Experiment Station as 
to having the test made. a. s. a. 
Thin Mare. 
What can I do for an old mare, 18 
yeax-s old, that is poor and somewhat knee 
sprung, that ran out in pasture all Fall? 
Coat rather rough, little lumps on her hide, 
eats well. What kind of liniment can I use 
on her legs? m. r. 
Have her teeth put in order by a veterin¬ 
ary dentist. Feed sound, old oats, bran, 
mixed hay and roots. Add a few ears 
of corn at noon in cold weather. Give 
Fowler’s solution of arsenic twice daily, 
commencing with two drams at a dose for 
a week, and then gi-adually inci-easing to 
half ounce doses. As a liniment use a 
mixture of one ounce each of aqua ammonia, 
and turpentine, with four ounces of drug¬ 
gists’ soap liniment and water to make 
one pint. Rub in twice daily. Bent 
knees in an old horse will not be likely 
to straighten up again. a. s. a. 
Rena Ross'* 
Renrd 
Ayrshire Cow 
of the World 
owned by 
J. R. Valentine 
Bryn Mawr, Pa, 
Make All Your Ration 
Produce Profitable Milk 
A LL the ordinary ration you feed 
does not go into milk. A con¬ 
siderable portion of it is wasted 
because it forms a solid mass in the 
cow’s stomach and does not digest easily. 
Dried Beet Pulp made from our native sugar 
beet, succulent and palatable, loosens this 
mass, assists digestion, makes all the ra¬ 
tion produce milk, increases any cow’s milk 
within a few days, 10# in three weeks. 
The greatest milk producing records have 
been made on Dried Beet Pulp. Valancey 
E. Fuller, Editor of “Practical Dairyman,” 
writing of “Rena Ross”, and the five cows 
that won the French cup, stated Dr. P. C. 
Palmer in cha/ge of feeding, stopped growing 
roots altogether, preferring Dried Beet Pulp. 
Dr. Palmer said. “It not only made more millc but proved 
very beneficial to the health of the cows. It is fed in ad¬ 
dition to com silage.” 
More Milk, Healthier Cows— 
Here’s the Way 
We have arranged with your dealer to 
supply you a sack of Dried Beet Pulp. Just 
show him this advertisement. If the cow you 
select does not give more milk in three weeks 
wc authorize the dealer to refund your money. Read what 
we say to him in this advertisement. See him today so you 
can get started soon. You are to decide everything yourself. 
To Dealers Everywhere East of the Mis¬ 
sissippi River Except in States of Wis¬ 
consin and Michigan: 
You are authorized to sell to any dairyman who will 
agree to give the feed a fair honest trial, one sack of our 
Dried. Beet Pulp and to guarantee to refund the purchase 
price if after the dairyman has fed it to one cow for three 
weeks the cow has not increased her milk production; we 
will reimburse you for your expenditure. If you do not 
carry Dried Beet Pulp in stock, write us quickly for our 
proposition. Please mention this paper. 
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621 Ford Building, Detroit, Michigan 
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