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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 25, 
In effect March 1 the New York Ex¬ 
change price was reduced one-half cent to 
$1.01 per 40-quart can, netting 3% cents 
to shippers in 26-cent zone who have no 
additional station charges. 
At a meeting of the Dairymen's League 
at Middletown, N. Y., March 7, it was an¬ 
nounced that the league had gained con¬ 
trol of 80,000 cows, and that it would soon 
be ready to dictate terms to the Milk Ex¬ 
change and dealers in New York. Dairy¬ 
men representing 3,000 cows signed the 
league agreements at this meeting. The 
Dairymen’s League was formed in October, 
1907, with 5,000 cows. It was then stated 
that the league would be able to dictate 
what prices should be paid the farmers for 
•their milk when it controlled 50.000 cows. 
However, the league now claims to control 
the output of 80,000 cows, The league is 
organized throughout New York, New Jer- 
sey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, and was 
incorporated last August in New Jersey. 
A good many farmers are in the milk 
business; most of them ship their milk 
to Columbus, O., by electric railroad. The 
price received for the Winter months is 
15 cents per gallon and in Summer 13 
cents per gallon. Some of the farmers are 
buying separators and ship cream. There 
is no retailing of milk here, but in I’atas- 
kala, three miles north of here, milk is re¬ 
tailed at five cents per quart. In Colum¬ 
bus, O., milk retails at from seven to 10 
cents per quart. Chickens are raised in 
considerable quantities and are sold largely 
to dealers. The price for old fowls at 
present is 11 cents per pound. Broilers are 
from 15 to 20 cents per pound, according 
to weight; live turkeys from 18 to 20 cents 
per pound. Ducks bring about the same as 
chickens. s - 
Licking County, O. 
American dairymen will be interested in 
knowing what English farmers obtain for 
their milk. In England the dairymen ap¬ 
pear to be well organized, different associa¬ 
tions taking care of the milk supply for 
the different markets. The Midland Farm¬ 
ers’ Association for example decided that 
seven months in the year they would charge 
18 cents a. gallon for milk and for five 
months 14 cents. These prices are for 
milk delivered by rail. For special dairies 
and high-testing milk extra prices will be 
demanded. The Central Association of 
dairy farmers which supplies London with 
milk met in that city recently and fixed 
the prices at which they w.U sell milk at 
20 cents a gallon for six months and 15 
cents for the remaining six. Some of our 
American farmers will think they are in 
Fairyland when they read of a body of 
dairymen actually deciding what they 
shall sell their milk for. 
Those Dairy Figures.— On page 129 
the statement of income from “Ilillcrest 
Is a very interesting showing of the re¬ 
sult of efforts of three persons of the ages 
named. Certain no other occupation could 
be so arranged to produce a living for 
three persons without considering the item . 
of improvement, value not stated. The item 
of three horses seems excessive for a place 
of this size, and the bull is a star boarder 
with a herd of 10. The butter average of 
300 pounds per cow does not indicate either 
special good cows or more than average 
care. That the sales management is good 
is evidenced by the price obtained for but¬ 
ter, but the fact remains that the profit 
at this farm is in the quality of butter the 
lady makes, and that the “old man" is only 
making half a hand. The results obtained 
are capable of great improvement with less 
labor, if that spare horse, bull, and the 
poor cows were replaced with better butter 
cows. Figure it for yourself. 
Pennsylvania. R. c. 
In England they have a Board of Agricul¬ 
ture that tries to be useful practically to 
dairymen. This board learned of a case in 
(France where a milkman was convicted for 
selling adulterated milk. The evidence 
against him was based on the assumption 
that it is possible to make the cow water 
the milk either by feeding her on watery 
food or making her drink a large amount 
of water just before being milked. On this ) 
theory the Frenchman was convicted. In j 
order to test the matter this Board of Agri- ! 
culture made a test of seven cows. They > 
handled them in various ways, part of the j 
time on dry fodder with as little water as 
they could get along with, and at other 
times feeding roots and all the salt they 
could possibly give in order to induce the 
cows to drink more water. The records of 
milk were carefully kept, and the milk 
was tested frequently. They fed some of 
these cows up to six ounces of salt with 
each meal so that it caused purging of 
the cattle. The result was that they found 
that the amount of water taken by the 
cows had no effect on the quality of their 
milk yield. In other words, the conviction 
in the French courts was based on the 
false presumption that water and watery ! 
foods would weaken the quality of the 
milk. 
The Foley Milk Bill. 
We have mentioned the Foley milk bill, 
which would create a State milk commis¬ 
sion to regulate the price of milk. As 
first introduced this bill covered New 
Y’ork, Buffalo and Rochester; it has since 
been amended so as to apply to New York 
City alone. The last hearing was held at 
Albany on March 8. Mr. J. B. Coleman, 
who is pushing the bill, said that he con¬ 
sidered seven cents in Summer and nine 
cents in Winter as a fair»price to the con¬ 
sumer. lie said that the producer now 
obtained only 2% cents out of nine which 
is paid by the consumer. Efforts have 
apparently been made to make farmers be¬ 
lieve that in case this bill passed they 
would receive even less than the price now 
paid. Mr. Foley, who introduced the bill, 
said that it would not affect them in this 
way. The dealers and manufacturers are 
as a rule opposed to the bill and they 
made apparently a strong showing before 
this hearing. There is no particular sen¬ 
timent back of it from the farmers and 
dairymen as they are unable to see wherein 
such a bill will be of any benefit to them. 
FEEDING APPLE POMACE TO COWS 
I have a cider mill, and would like to 
know if there is any way I can keep the 
pomace to feed stock in Winter. W T ould 
it do to put it in silo with corn? I would 
like to know what use can be made of 
pomace. c. h. y. 
Richford, N. Y. 
I have fed over 200 tons of apple pomace 
in the past few years, at the same time 
supplying particular customers with butter 
and cream. I have never had a word of 
complaint from this cause. No silo is 
needed to keep it for Winter feeding, and 
pomace made last Fall, if simply in a pile 
out of doors, is all right to feed yet; in 
fact I have fed pomace three or four years 
old from a large pile out of doors. If 
handy I would prefer having it under 
cover, where it would be handy to feed 
from, and if the pile is good size, it will 
heat before cold weather sets in, and hold 
the warmth a long time, making it nicer 
feed for the cattle, it does not even spoil 
on the outside of the pile until the fol¬ 
lowing Spring or Summer, if left standing 
that long, and after that the inside is as 
good as ever, apparently. I would not 
bother to put it in silo with the corn. It 
would be just that much labor wasted, so 
far as being necessary to keep the pomace. 
Start in feeding .lightly at first, and in¬ 
crease until cows have all they will clean 
up. If a cow gets so much as to sicken 
her of it, which we have often had happen, 
just cut down the quantity, or leave it 
out of the next meal, and she is soon ready 
to handle it heavily again. Pomace is far 
safer to feed than apples or potatoes. Ap¬ 
ple peelings from canning factory have 
given us trouble, as the cider is not taken 
out of them and they get very sour, so as 
to spoil the milk, cream and butter, when 
fed heavily, after lying in pile for a time. 
The juice that comes out of the apple is 
the dangerous part of it. The man who 
is wintering his cows on hay or dry fodder 
and can get a load of apple pomace for 
them, will soon see the value of it in the 
increased flow of milk, provided, of course, 
they are not all “dry.” i. c. R. 
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More doing ft— 550 are hundreds of others, and I want 
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1^. The Quaker Oats Company /MS 
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day, 13 of these cows havo been milked 
sinco last March and April. 
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J. E. MURRAY, Freedom, N. Y. 
The Quaker Oats Co., 
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#4 Cows 
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