1911. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
M I I_, K 
The New York Exchange price is $1.31 
per 40-quart can, netting 2*4 cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-cent zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
Just now we are milking 15 cows; some 
of them are fresh, and some have been 
milked since last September. We are get¬ 
ting about 350 pounds of milk a day, and 
at the shipping station this would bring 
$3.15. But we do not produce the kind of 
milk that it pays to sell at the station. 
During the week just closed we sold 64 
quarts of cream at 25 cents per quart. Then 
we made 116 pounds of butter, which we 
sell to private customers at 28 cents per 
pound. Besides this we have our skimmed 
milk and buttermilk which we feed to pure¬ 
bred calves and Berkshire pigs that pay a 
good price for their feed. 
Madison Co., N. Y. j. g. m. 
R. N.-Y.—We make this 2450 pounds of 
milk and $48.48 income with the skim-milk 
to be added. About two cents a pound. 
Dairying is not as profitable as it used 
to be. Cows are worth double or more than 
they used to be and help costs double and 
feed and mill stuff are double or more than 
formerly. If we counted the price of our 
labor and hay In aditlon to mill feed, 
there Is not a dairy in this section that 
would pay out at the price of milk the 
past Winter. I will tell you what the feed 
men say, and let you form your own opin¬ 
ion. They say that three-fourths of the 
dairymen in this section do not any more 
than get their feed bill paid before it is 
time to commence to feed again in the Fall. 
They are changing; they are raising more 
young stock and less cows and raising more 
grain and small crops. T think we dairy¬ 
men have to change to something else or 
lose our homes. I am going into raising 
berries and small fruits and garden truck. 
Norwich, N. Y. A. N. S. 
In my mind the price of milk is not as 
much as it ought to be to the farmer. 
There will have to be some way provided 
so the producer will get more of the profit 
to make dairying pay. Cows are very high, 
too high for the farmers to buy for profit, 
and all kinds of feed are high. I don’t see 
where a farmer can make much to pay from 
$60 to $100 a head for cows and $31 per 
ton for wheat feed and cotton seed meal, 
and $28 for gluten, and sell his milk for 
$1.25 or $1.30 per hundred and haul it to 
market, I don’t think farming in this sec¬ 
tion would be profitable without a dairy, as 
there is scarcely any crop that can be de¬ 
pended on for profit. There will have to 
be some way for the farmers to organize or 
the Dairymen’s League may prove to be 
the proper thing for this purpose to protect 
the Interests of the producers. 
Kortrlght, N. Y. R. L. S. 
The following bill was introduced at Al¬ 
bany by Mr. Miller: A new section for the 
agricultural laws providing that no person 
shall manufacture or sell, or offer for sale, 
a cream that is produced by taking original 
packing stock or other butter and melting 
it so that the butter fat can be drawn off, 
or by taking butter oil or melted butter and 
mixing them with fluid skim-milk or con¬ 
densed skim-milk and water, or any other 
cream or milk product and emulsifying 
them, without marking the packages to in¬ 
dicate the nature of the cream. It also 
prohibits the manufacture or sale of cream 
known as process or renovated or homegen- 
ized cream without the words “process 
cream,” “renovated cream” or homogenized 
cream,” as the case may be marked on the 
package in letters at least one inch in 
length. The package must also contain a 
statement of the actual percentage of butter 
fat contained in the mixture. 
Reduced Milk Flow. 
We have a cow fresh in April with her 
second calf. When she came in last Spring 
one fore quarter of her udder was much 
swollen, and for some time could get noth¬ 
ing from it but a little clotted milk. I 
did everything for it I could think or hear 
of formation, nibbing with oils, etc.; got 
her over that trouble, but she never after¬ 
ward, for the whole year, gave more than 
one-fonrth as much milk from that quarter 
as from the others. Will she ever again 
give as much from that teat as the rest, 
and how shall we treat her before and after 
calving? She is now dry. F. K. k. 
Ohio. 
We do not think it probable that she 
will ever come back to normal milk flow 
from the affected quarter ; indeed it is to be 
feared that when she has her next calf the 
quarter may again become inflamed and 
further shrink in milk secretion or become 
entirely dry. To prevent such a course 
Pjrotect the udder against bruising and 
chill, keep stall floor well bedded and dry. 
Do not ret her lie down out of doors. 
Avoid sudden changes of food. Milk gently. 
A * calving time give a pound of epeom 
salts and half an ounce each of saltpeter 
and ground ginger root in three pints of 
warm water, well sweetened with molasses, 
if udder tends to remain caked give half 
an ounce of fluid extract of poke root and 
two drams of powdered saltpeter night and 
morning until congestion subsides, also fo¬ 
ment udder with hot water twice daily and 
o I 11 * 1 with a mixture of one part each 
cf fluid extracts of belladonna leaves and 
poke root, and two parts of melted lard, 
used warm. A . s . A . 
TESTING BUTTER FOR MOISTURE. 
There is a Government law which 
fixes the maximum amount of moisture 
in butter at 16 per cent. In case there 
is an excess of moisture a fine is im¬ 
posed of six cents per pound. A good 
many creameries have exceeded this 
limit as a result of their attempt to 
make a large overrun. From my ex¬ 
perience I find that very few farmers 
make butter containing this amount of 
moisture. As a rule their butter con¬ 
tains only about 11 to 12 per cent. 
There has been an attempt recently by 
commercial firms buying up creamery 
butter to put a stop to the excessive 
incorporation of moisture by careful in¬ 
spection of the butter sold in the mar¬ 
kets. A good many creameries have 
been fined. I feel that people who have 
been buying butter of farmers and who 
are now buying elsewhere because of 
the fear of too great content of mois¬ 
ture are making a mistake. As I have 
said, the farmers’ butter runs much be¬ 
low the limit in moisture, and as a rule 
good farmer’s butter is fully as good as, 
if not better than the average creamery 
butter of to-day. 
It would be practicable for a farmer 
who is producing a large amount of 
butter to put in a simple moisture test. 
About the simplest one that I know is 
what is known as the Irish moisture 
test. This requires a set of accurate 
balances, a small aluminum beaker, an 
alcohol lamp, and a set of accurate 
weights. This apparatus can be pro¬ 
cured from any creamery supply com¬ 
pany at a cost of about $7. The test is 
very simple to operate, and any man 
who would be fairly accurate in his 
work could tell whether or not he was 
getting an excessive amount of moisture 
in his butter. In brief the test is as 
follows; Weigh out 10 grams of but¬ 
ter in the alumnum beaker, which has 
first been counterpoised. Then remove 
the beaker from the balances, leaving 
the weights as they were when the sam¬ 
ple was weighed. Hold the beaker over 
the alcohol flame until the moisture has 
been drawn from the butter, being care¬ 
ful that none of the butter is allowed 
to boil out, and that the operation is 
not carried so far as to burn the sam¬ 
ple. A good method of determining 
whether or not the moisture is a$ 
evaporated is to hold a small mirror 
above the beaker, and if any vapor 
shows on the face of the mirror the 
test is not complete. After a few 
times of operating this test the operator 
can tell by the appearance of the butter 
when the test is complete. The beaker 
and contents are then allowed to cool, 
when they are placed again on the bal¬ 
ance, and the small weights are placed 
on the opposite pan of the balance until 
enough weights have been added to off¬ 
set the loss by evaporation. Then the 
moisture contents is the amount lost 
during the heating process. If the Irish 
moisture test is procured these small 
weights are graduated to per cents and 
by adding up the number necessary to 
rebalance, the per cent of moisture is 
obtained accurately. There are a large 
number of other tests that could be used 
by the farmer, but I think this is the 
simplest and most practicable for this 
purpose. w. b. liverance. 
Michigan Agricultural College. 
1 
Modern barns make 
675 
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secured—time and labor can be saved every day by cutting in 
half the work in caring for, feeding and watering the cows and 
cleaning the stalls. Thus barn expenses are reduced. The extra 
cleanliness, together with the comfort, freedom and protection afforded 
the cow increase the milk yield and improve the quality of the milk and 
greatly lessen the danger of disease or accident to the stock. 
James Sanitary Barn 
Five patented features save enough on feed and 
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KentMfg. Co. 
2630 Cane St. 
Ft. Atkinson, Wit. 
How many cows have 
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State. 
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the calves of "scours,” cows of contagious abortion, or 
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ELY TIME 
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For summer uses special prices on quantities. 
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►64 years experience prove truth of this <_ 
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1554 Columbus Road Cleveland, Ohio 
THE 
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$1 worth saves $20.00 
-, -- in milk and flesh on each 
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Before You Pay Me a Cent 
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and hero is a sample of what they say of the ONE remedy that has no 
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“I never ey 
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the proper ai 
60 days—yon . 
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