1911. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
YOUR CHANCE 
To Save Money and 
Make Money Has Come 
to You at Last 
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The Cream Separator 
Youve Waited For 
When you buy a Cream Separator you 
want a machine that guarantees skim¬ 
ming to a trace; which cleans easily; 
which may be operated with so little 
effort that a child may run it: which is 
so carefully built that it will last prac¬ 
tically a life-time, and a machine which 
is sold to you at a price which you can 
easily afford to pay. 
The Macy Cream Separator will 
fill every requirement. Thousands of 
dairy farmers throughout the United 
States are now using this splendid 
machine. It has been manufactured 
and sold for the past five years, and it 
is rapidly displacing the widely adver¬ 
tised Cream Separators sold at two 
and three times its price. 
We want you to get our story. We 
want you to know the Macy Cream 
Separator. It will add from $15.00 to 
$20.00 per cow per annum to your pro¬ 
fits. It will pay for itself in just a few 
months, and give you better service and 
more lasting service than any other 
Cream Separator manufactured. 
Do not be misled by the claims 
made on behalf of other Cream Sepa¬ 
rators. Do not be influenced by the 
sneers and insinuations of the manu¬ 
facturers of the old style Cream Sepa¬ 
rators who are constantly attacking 
those manufacturers and dealers who 
are selling more up-to-date machines. 
Learn the Truth 
Investigate for yourself. American 
Farm Folk are the most intelligent 
citizenship we have, The farmer thinks 
for himself; he reaches his own con¬ 
clusions. and then he acts. All that we 
want you to do is to get our proposi¬ 
tion, We will leave all the rest of it to 
you. We will send the Macy Cream 
Separator to your farm to be tested by 
you-to try out in competition with any 
other Cream Separator manufactured; 
none of them are barred. We want 
you to run the Macy beside the other 
Cream Separators. Try it on hot or 
cold milk: test it for butter fat; test it 
for easy turning; for easy cleaning; 
submit it to any test that you may 
think of or the agent of any other 
Cream Separator may suggest. Sub- 
mit it to these tests for 30 days, and 
if at the end of that time the Macy has 
not demonstrated that it is the best 
Cream Separator from the standpoint 
of skimming efficiency, easv running 
easy cleaning, simplicity and durability 
and return it to us, at our expense of 
transportation charges both ways. 
We Want to Send You 
our Cream Separator offer. We want 
to tell you how you can save one-half 
or two-thirds on your Cream Separator. 
We want to tell you how to add from 
$15.00 to $20.00 per cow to your income, 
vv e want to tell how to get morecream 
and better cream from your herd than 
you have been getting in the past 
Just write us a letter or a postal card 
to-day saying, "Please send me your 
Cream Separator proposition.” and we 
will send it free and postpaid. 
A»k for Separator Offer No. 7801 
R. H. Macy’s Attractions are their Low Prices 
34 th St. and Broadway, New York 
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to wait for quiet day. 
Bows Timothy, Clover, Alsike, Alfalfa, Millet, Turnip, etc. 
Two sizes: 14 ft. and 18 ft. Auger feed. Wood frame. Satii- 
ftwtton guaranteed, prompt shipment. If your dealer 
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STAR SEEDER CO., Box R, Shortsville, N. Y. 
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New- York exchange price $1.S1 per 40- 
quart ean, netting .‘5% cents to shipper in 
26-eent zone who have no additional sta¬ 
tion charges. 
According to the latest returns, the New 
York City district consumes 1,834,000 
quarts of milk and cream eveiy day. This 
is about 100,000 quarts a day more than 
last year; and since the average daily per 
capita consumption is reckoned at a third 
of a quart, this indicates an annual growth 
of 300,000 in the population of the “metro¬ 
politan district”—which territory includes 
Newark, Paterson, Jersey City, Yonkers 
aud the nearer suburbs, in addition to New 
York City itself. 
No milk is wholesaled in this locality. 
Tn Russellville it is retailed at five cents 
a quart. In Georgetown, the county scat, 
it is worth six cents; most of the milk is 
taken to one creamery and the farmers re¬ 
ceive Elgin prices for the butter fat. The 
creamery, pays for the hauling of the milk. 
Some milk is separated by the farmers, 
and the cream is shipped to Cincinnati, a 
distance of 45 miles. The Tri-State But¬ 
ter Co, pays Elgin prices and the freight. 
Co.:nti„ butter is bringing from 14 to 20 
cents in the local market. Eggs, 15 to 20 
cents; corn, about 65 cents; wheat, 90 
cents; hay, $12 per ton; good horses, $150 
to $300 ; good cows, about $50. a. j. h. 
Russellville, O. 
In Cincinnati, the French-Beaur Company 
handles most of-the milk. They pay whole¬ 
sale about 17 cents a gallon, and deliver 
from their own wagons in the city at about 
eight, cents a quart, the milk coming in to 
the city every morning on different railroad 
cars, and they make and deliver a vast 
quantity of ice cream. The suburban towns 
arc supplied with milk mostly by local 
dairymen and farmers at eight cents a 
quart. Eggs and poultry of ail kinds find a 
ready sale, here at good prices, being near 
a large city. I am located seven miles 
from tlie center of Cincinnati, and am most¬ 
ly engaged in growing fancy fruit, for which 
there is a good demand at all times. 
Madisonville, O. ,t. c. 
Very few farmers in this immediate j 
vicinity have a dairy in connection with J 
their farms, lint nearer tin 1 city (Cincin¬ 
nati) they peddle their milk at seven to 
eight cents per quart; shippers get from 
11 to 12 cents net per gallon. The surplus 
butter the farmers have is either sold to 
private customers at 30 cents a pound the 
year round, or take it to the store and get 
20 cents in Summer and 30 cents in Win¬ 
ter. and they sell on a margin of five cents 
per pound. All poultry is sold alive; 
priee ranges from 12 to 15 cents for hens, 
and two to four cents higher for Spring 
chickens; retail price, dressed, in Cincin¬ 
nati. 22 to 25 cents for hens, and 25 to 
30 cents a pound for Spring chickens, ducks, 
turkeys and geese on same basis, h. e. s. 
Sharon villa, O. 
MILK IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
The price received for milk shipped to 
Boston varies according to distance. The 
first or nearest zone receives the highest 
price ; the second of 20 to 40 miles receives 
one cent a ean less, and so on, the price 
decreasing the further away from Boston 
you go. Under the recent freight rates 
filed with the Interstate Commerce Commis¬ 
sion at Washington, the cost of transporta¬ 
tion is-as follows: Tn the one to 20 mile 
zone, two cents per 8% quart can; 21 to 
40 miles, three cents; 41 to 60 miles, four 
cents; 61 to 100 miles, five cents; over 100 
miles, six cents. This rate I understand is 
without icing, one-half cent per can is 
charged for icing. The above rates include 
baggage car shipments, .which are not iced. 
Most of the Boston milk is bought under 
contract. One exception to this is the Aldon 
Brothers, who pay a level price during the 
season and take whatever amount is sent 
them at any time. Their priee, however, is 
less than that paid by the other contrac¬ 
tors. The Deerfoot Company pay the high¬ 
est price and probably are the most partic¬ 
ular in regard to dairv conditions, care of 
cows, etc.. They grade the supply sent 
them thus; A dairy can send as many cans 
each month during the year as it sends dur¬ 
ing. the months of November and December, 
which are considered the short milk months. 
Thus, if 10 cans a day, or 300 cans a month 
are sent in these months, this amount or 
less can be sent during the rest of the year, 
but not more without special consent. If 
only two cans a day, or 60 cans a month 
are sent in these months, no more than this 
ean be sent in* the other months. The C. 
Brigham Company and the Whitings, which 
are both controlled by the same men, have 
a different plan. They contract for a cer¬ 
tain number of months, usually six, to re¬ 
ceive a certain amount of milk each month 
for the term of contract, tint they give a 
certain leeway; thus if a farmer signs a 
contract to send five cans a day, which 
means 150 cans in a 30-day month, he can 
send not less than 132 nor more than 168 
in that month and receive the regular price 
for that month. If he sends some month 
when milk is plenty over the 168 cans, he 
gets one cent a can less than the regular 
price for that month for every can he sends 
in that month. If he sends over 179 cans 
he gets two cents each can less, and so on 
according to what extra amount he sends. 
If on the other hand milk is short some 
month, and he sends less than 132 cans, he 
gets cut in the same proportion, according 
to how short an amount he sends. If when 
milk is short ho sends over the 168 cans, 
the contractor takes all he sends and pays 
the regular price for that month, hut no 
bonus. If when milk is very plentiful he 
sends a small supply, or loss than he agreed 
to, it is all right, he gets the regular price. 
These firms also grade the price for the 
six months, or whatever the length of con¬ 
tract may be. They may agree to pay 37 
cents a can as the average price for the 
term of contract. Take the months of Sep¬ 
tember to April for example : For Novem¬ 
ber and December, the short supply months, 
they will pay 39 and 40 cents respectively; 
for October and January, 88; February, 37; 
March 36, and April, 35. This works to 
their advantage, as they pay the highest 
when they receive the least, and pay the 
lowest when they receive the most milk. 
Strictly first class cows are not often 
found for sale in Massachusetts, and when 
they are some one gets them very soon. 
Massachusetts. e. p. 
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