1911. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
616 
M X I_i 
The Xew York Exchange price is $1.41 
per 40-quart can, netting 2% cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-eent zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
Most of the milk is shipped to Cleveland 
from Geauga Co., also from Portage and 
Cuyahoga counties. Farmers get 14 cents 
per gallon for their milk delivered in Cleve¬ 
land and the peddlers sell it out at seven 
cents per quart. It costs the farmer iy 2 
cents per gallon to get it to Cleveland. 
Geauga Lake, O. j. a. s. 
The milk dealers in the East seem to be 
organizing, and I wish it reached as far 
as Michigan, for we have to sell to the 
creamery, and take a test such as they 
choose.to give us (which isn’t very big at 
any time), and price the same way. Farm¬ 
ers lost so much on lamb feeding'the past 
Winter that it makes one feel that we 
would like to see farmers organized as well 
as those we have to sell to. a. g. w. 
Dairying is on the Increase all through 
this section. The average price of milk for 
the next six months is $1.25 per 100 
pounds. There are no farmers going out 
of the milk business that I know of, but 
some who stopped a few years ago have 
commenced again. The price of cows is 
about $75 for grade stock and from that to 
$150 for purebreds. The pride of grain is 
from $3 to $5 per ton cheaper than in 
former years. j. a. C. 
Rockdale, N. Y. 
The milk producers are now trying to 
organize a stock company to include all 
territory that ships milk to Cleveland, 
which covers a «radius of about 40 miles, 
each stockholder to take stock by his prob¬ 
able milk product: that is, if he produces 
one can -per day, his stock is to be $25 ; if 
two cans $50, and so on, always according 
to amount of milk produced. The place of 
business is to be in Cleveland, and to have 
sufficient capital to purchase, handle and 
market the milk of its stockholders, paying 
them a nominal price and distributing to 
them at close of season their respective 
shares of the net surplus. There is to be 
a director to attend to milk at each main 
shipping point. By this means the farmers 
handling their product at both ends are 
likely to receive for their product what be¬ 
longs to them. Only those who produce 
and ship milk to the company are to be 
stockholders, and those w r ho enter the com¬ 
pany are pledged to stand by it. sending ; 
their entire product for a definite period. 
All milk in this vicinity is shipped to 
Cleveland, bringing at present time 12 to 
13 cents per gallon, with a deduction of 
two cents per gallon for freight. When 
bottled and sold to the consumer in Cleve¬ 
land it bringj eight cents per quart. The 
farmer has had no voice in determining the 
price of his product. Often he does not 
know just what price he is receiving. The 
dealer fixes the price and changes it at his 
will. The price to the city consumer has 
remained constant during the past Winter, 
and three times within the last four months 
the price has been cut to farmers. The 
price has been entirely in the hands of the 
purchaser. I. T. 
Cleveland, O. 
them.” This is no new story, only one that 
is growing larger year by year. God helps 
those who first help themselves. Why could 
not the farmer be his own trust, and sell 
his own milk? The dairymen about Bur¬ 
ton, O., are attempting to solve this ques¬ 
tion and are forming a great milk holding, 
and selling company, and propose to, if not 
handle, have an equal voice in saying what 
the price. shall be, and whether contracts 
made shall be lived up to, and without re¬ 
bate. The sale of city milk is a matter not 
controlled, or really influenced by the com¬ 
mercial value of milk for butter and cheese 
making, as the consumer is not in any way 
related to the great dairy markets, and 
knows no change of price, save the seven 
cents in Summer, and eight cents in Win¬ 
ter. hence the farmers are justified in the 
contention that cutting the Winter prices 
without a corresponding reduction in the 
city retail price, is not warranted, nor capa¬ 
ble of justification. So all success to the 
Geauga County milk insurgents. At Ra¬ 
venna, O., 30 miles south, a great farmers’ 
cooperative company is being formed to 
handle all of the farmers’ produce, and 
do his buying on as large a scale, behind 
which is the great millionaire capitalist, 
Dan R. Hanna, and out of which it is ex¬ 
pected that the farmer will get more than 
35 cents of the consumer’s dollar. Of 
course the story is that such attempts are 
soon bound to come to grief, but the fact 
is that this company will contaiu no more 
stockholders than does the United States 
Express Company, and by sticking together 
they every year harvest an important and 
munificent ’•melon” crop. Why in smaller 
degree may not these farmers harvest 
‘‘Summer squashes” to say the least? 
Ohio. JOHN GOULD. 
There are a goodly number of dairymen 
in this vicinity, most of whom sell sweet 
cream, for which we receive Elgin prices 
for shipment to Pittsburg, Pa. For sour 
cream, which is shipped to Cleveland and 
there made into butter one cent below El¬ 
gin prices is received by the dairymen. 
Those who sell milk receive about $1 per 
100 pounds; a part of milk is bought by 
Mr. Hudson, and after being sterilized is 
shipped to Pittsburg, and a part of it is 
bought by a local firm and manufactured 
into sweitzer cheese. J. w. H. 
Ravenna, O. 
“The Portage County Farmers’ Supply & 
Selling Co.” is the name of a corporation 
organized under the laws of the State of 
Ohio, by the farmers of this vicinity for 
their benefit. Their intentions are to find 
a better market for their produce than they 
have at present, and also to buy their sup¬ 
plies direct from the manufacturer, thus 
cutting out the middleman’s share. The 
milk prices here are not very uniform as 
you will see. The price down town this 
month is $1.00 per hundred. It retails at 
seven cents per quart. The cheese factories 
are paying SO cents per hundred. At the 
condensery near here they pay $1.15 per 
100. Some ship their milk to Cleveland 
and got in April 14 cents, May 11 cents a 
gallon delivered. There is also a cream 
buyer here who buys the cream at the 
houses and pays Elgin butter prices for 
the butter fat that it contains, e. j. p. 
Ravenna, O. 
MILKING THE OHIO MEN. 
The milk situation in northern Ohio since 
January 1 has been far from satisfactory 
as to price. The disappearance of all our 
cheese factories and creameries has thrown 
the milk into the city trade, and the bulk 
of it goes to Cleveland and Pittsburg. The 
four large milk companies of Cleveland are 
now merged into one, even the great ice 
cream plant is part of its holdings. There 
are many independent dipper peddlers, but 
they follow pretty closely in the wake of 
the big company. The large Cleveland and 
Pittsburg companies have many stations in 
this territory, where milk is collected, but 
these pay a lower price for milk ; as exam¬ 
ple, the Winter rate for city milk was 18 
cents, but only 15 cents was paid for 10 
pounds at the stations. The farmers have 
ceased to have any say as to prices, terms, 
or length of contract. Last Winter it was 
the understanding that the 18-eent rate was 
to continue four months, but this “con¬ 
tract” was short lived, for in the middle 
of January the price was cut about two 
cents, then cut again, and again, and before 
March 20 the price was down to $1.05 for 
an 85-pound can. The $1.50 rate was cut 
first January 15 to $1.40, then $1.30, then 
in February another cut to $1.10, and is 
now $1. During all this time the retail 
price of milk was held by the dealers at 
strictly eight cents a quart. Agreements 
were not to be talked about. If the farm¬ 
ers got two and three cents A quart for 
milk, that could be sold for eight cents, 
“they should kiss the hand that smote 
A NEW SORT OF “HORSE COMPANY.” 
I have been an interested reader of 
the various “horse company” articles 
appearing in The R. N.-Y. during the 
last few weeks. I know of a Belgian 
stallion that was sold to a company of 
ranchers in Wyoming for $3,000 that has 
been an almost total loss. Hence no 
“horse company” for me. But here in 
Nebraska a new plan is being put into 
effect, that seems to me to be full of 
promise. Briefly it is this: The Nor¬ 
folk, Neb., Commercial Club is import¬ 
ing 60 young Belgian mares of a uni¬ 
form type, good conformation and great 
weight, which are to be sold to the 
farmers about the neighborhood at exact 
cost. The club is also bringing over two 
of the best stallions that money will 
buy, and will keep them for the benefit 
of the farmers. That ought to produce 
results as well as some fine colts. 
Beatrice, Neb. J. H. T. 
R. N.-Y.—It ought to and will. It 
will also produce more, for if such a 
plan can be carried out fairly it will lead 
to other forms of cooperation. If farm¬ 
ers find that they can get together in 
buying a horse so as to squeeze out the 
bluff and fake they will get together for 
other purposes. Then they will see the 
business and political frauds that have 
been living on them like leeches, and 
they will do the rest. True cooperation 
is the hope for farmers. They must be¬ 
gin at home, with neighbors and friends, 
and learn to make the little organizations 
complete before they can hope to make 
the big ones go. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
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