1911. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
483 
MIL K. 
In effect March 1 the New York Ex¬ 
change price was reduced one-half cent to 
$1.61 per 40-cjuart can, netting 314 cents 
to shippers in 26-cent zone who have no 
additional station charges. 
Milk is handled here by the Ilelvetta Milk 
Condensing Co. Milk routes are established 
on all the principal roads going out from 
six to 12 miles gathering in the milk. The 
present price is $1.75 per 100 pounds. I 
am not prepared to give the minimum or 
maximum price; think an average price 
would be $1.50 per 100 pounds. The com¬ 
pany pays out for milk about one million 
per annum. Poultry is given much atten¬ 
tion and farmers realize nice profits from 
eggs and market poultry mostly sold to 
local buyers. Cows are bringing from $50 
to $125. Land from $80 to $200 per acre. 
Ohio. s. N. F. 
At a recent convention held at Fargo, 
North Dakota, the connection between clean 
milk and high-class butter was strikingly 
shown. Some of the defects in the samples 
of milk scored were: “Visible dirt,” the 
result of unclean cows, stables, milker or 
utensils; “stale flavor,” caused by not prop¬ 
erly cooling before bottling. Milk bottled 
while it contains animal heat is likely to 
develop disgusting odor and flavor, and 
sours quickly. The other defects mentioned 
were; “Kitchen flavor” and “salty flavor.” 
The latter is the result of some physical 
derangement of the can, and the former 
from cooking odors, stored vegetables, and 
sometimes tobacco, where smoking is 
allowed in the house. From the same farm, 
with a sample of milk that scored nearly 
perfect in respect to visible dirt, was ex¬ 
hibited a sample of butter, doubtless made 
from the same milk, which received the 
highest score on flavor. Again from the 
same farm with a sample of milk showing 
much visible dirt was exhibited a sample of 
butter that scored lowest on flavor. 
SANITARY MILK PAILS. 
Bulletin 326. of the Geneva. N. Y., Ex¬ 
periment Station, deals with milk pails and 
experiments made to improve them from the 
standpoints of convenience and cleanliness. 
One of the best of these improved pails is 
THE STORRS MILK PAIL. Fig. 163. 
shown at Fig. 163. This is called the 
Storrs pail, and was devised by Prof. J. 
M. Trueman. A careful comparative test 
of this with the ordinary open pail showed 
that the bacterial content of the milk 
drawn in the Storrs pail was only half that 
in the other under the same stable condi¬ 
tions. Pictures of other pails will be shown 
later. 
Wild Onions and Milk. 
Tell the farmers who have plenty of wild 
onions on their farms what to feed to cows 
to destroy the smell or taste from the milk 
and butter and you will certainly confer a 
great favor on the farmers. w. b. b. 
Virginia. 
We cannot tell, and doubt if there is 
anything that will do it entirely. We have 
heard charcoal and cooking soda suggested 
—the charcoal because it absorbs and holds 
gases. If anyone knows we would like to 
share his wisdom. 
An “Oleo” Senator. 
I like your sentiments on the reciprocity 
question, as you say “a farmer must cut 
his own swath.” A good place for the 
dairyman to commence is on the oleo ques¬ 
tion. I notice we have a Senator in this 
State (McClellan) small enough to intro¬ 
duce a bill in the interest of the oleo peo¬ 
ple. Think of the great State of New 
York, foremost in dairying, represented in 
its Legislature by a man so devoid of 
patriotism that lie will for money deal a 
death blow to the leading interest of the 
State. The bill 1 refer to seeks to allow 
manufacturers and others to sell or give 
away coloring matter to tint uncolored oleo, 
also to brand with names suggestive of 
dairy butter. The first thing 1 did when 
this bill was called to my attention was 
to send a protest to the Senator and As¬ 
semblyman—for whom I voted last Fall— 
against their giving it their support. At 
least two buttermakers in this State have 
been indicted by the Government for selling 
fitter containing over 16 per cent water. 
Jt the law is so zealous of the public 
health 1 would like to ask why more con¬ 
victions are not secured under the law 
w bieh prohibits the sale of oleo as butter, 
and why the penalty is not as severe in 
such cases as for adulterated butter. Dairy 
farmers should insist that oleo should not 
be sold or transported in any tub, box, 
dish, parcel or other container unless said 
containei* is marked “oleo,” and that all 
material used for wrapping or securing 
said package of oleo- must be branded 
“oleo.’ If oleo is just as good as butter 
let the manufacturers show their faith in 
their goods by advertising them. 
New York. g. e. h. 
A Gloomy Milk View. —It looks as if 
New England farmers, especially those de¬ 
pending on the production of milk, would 
have a hard time to make both ends meet 
in the future if various things turn out as 
they look to us now. Our President is work¬ 
ing against us in urging reciprocity in farm 
products, especially dairy products, which 
will, if it goes through, hit us hard. The 
contractors are threatening a nine-cent cut 
on Massachusetts milk, and seven cents on 
out of the State milk, and as under pres¬ 
ent laws they can bring milk from Canada 
for five cents a can freight, just what we 
are paying only 28 miles from Boston, we 
are practically helpless, as a strike under 
these conditions would do us no good what¬ 
ever. If the Saunders law is repealed I 
cannot see where it will do us any good, 
as it will not stop the distant or outside 
milk at all. It seems to me it means just 
this; milk business except for local mar¬ 
kets is dead in Massachusetts. This must 
affect and reduce the price of hay and such 
products, and drive farmers into other busi¬ 
ness or other kinds of farming, the pros¬ 
pects of which are not really encouraging 
at present, or for the near future. Farm 
values must drop in spite of city buyers, 
some of whom are at present helping keep 
up the Boston milk supply by making large 
quantities at a loss just to amuse them¬ 
selves farming, having money to throw 
away, and are doing just that and hurting 
other producers and farmers by so doing. 
Hopkinton, Mass. a. e. p. 
An Interested Party. 
I notice in your issue of March 25 that 
Mr. L. V. Axtell, of Perry, Ohio, writes 
an article saying that Missy of the Glen 
should not be required to “come back.” 
Has it occurred to you that Mr. Axtell is 
almost as much interested in Missy of 
the Glen as Mr. Taylor himself, as he 
bred Fernwood of Homestead 7448, who 
sired Missy of the Glen, and sold him 
to Mr. Taylor? Possibly this accounts 
for the position Mr. Axtell takes in the 
matter. I should say, offhand, that he is 
what might be called an interested par¬ 
ty, and would be rather anxious to have 
Missy of the Glen’s record remain on the 
list of the Advanced Register, as he un¬ 
doubtedly has some of the same blood in 
his herd, and it would, of course, affect 
their value. 
Massachusetts. R. L. S. 
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Blind Teat. 
I have a cow with one bad teat; I can 
get no milk from that quarter. I tried a 
milking tube, but it did no good; the teat 
is full and soft, has been that way for two 
or three years. What would be good to 
shrink that quarter, as I don't think it will 
give anv milk, and I don't like the looks 
of it. L. J. R. 
Ohio. 
Do not attempt to open the blind teat 
duct, as to do so would be to spread infec¬ 
tion and probably spoil the entire udder. 
Rubbing t£ie abnormal quarter twice daily 
witli a mixture of equal parts fluid extract 
of belladonna leaves and camphorated oil 
will tend to lessen milk secretion and pre¬ 
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