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June 24, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A GOOD MILK DAIRY. 
On page 642 P. G. tells of a good 
milk dairy. I would say yes, the rest 
of us are way behind the times. I cut 
out that clipping last Winter. I see 
nothing unreasonable in the statement, it 
only shows what can be done. I set my 
mind on just such a dairy three years 
ago. I am milking my first heifers this 
season, and time will tell how well I suc¬ 
ceed. But the point I want to bring out 
is, why will a dairy farmer insist on 
going it blind? You can go in nearly 
any dairy barn and see him milk a full 
pail from one cow and two or maybe 
three in the next, and all fresh about the 
same time. Some will laugh at this, 
but I have both seen and done it my¬ 
self many times, and this very thing is 
pulling many a dairyman back to-day. 
Why wait? Try keeping a record of 
your dairy and see how soon you will 
sell or give away those poor cows. It 
costs the same to keep them that it does 
the good ones. Why milk three cows 
for one cow’s milk? Why call a man 
a liar because he does what you can¬ 
not? There are many strange things 
in this world. I would like to hear 
from some of the good dairymen of 
The R. N.-Y. I have a cow due to 
freshen August 4 giving 20 to 22 pounds 
of milk a day with no signs of letting 
up. Some claim a cow should go dry 
two months at least. I have got to 
stable and starve this cow or feed her 
well and let her milk what she will. I 
say give her good care and feed. Am I 
right? F. P. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—Mr. F. D. Kershaw, who 
owns the dairy in question, sends us the 
following: 
In your issue of June 3 P. G., of 
Fulton, N. Y., seems to question the 
veracity of the report of my dairy for 
1910 which I sent M. R. Dyer, of Syra¬ 
cuse, and printed in Syracuse Post- 
Standard. As P. G. resides but a 
few miles north of Syracuse, and I am 
located 17 miles south, if he will come 
to Syracuse and take the Syracuse and 
Suburban R. R. to Edwards Falls, I 
will be glad to meet him, and pay his 
expenses from Syracuse here and re¬ 
turn, if I do not convince him that the 
herd did all that is claimed for them. I 
will also show him herds that paid their 
owners from $120 to $145 each. Mr. 
Dyer submitted your letter to me for 
further report, but I have no desire to' 
answer because three years ago I sent 
you a report of same herd and was 
called everything but a truthful man, 
and it opened up so much correspond¬ 
ence that I was tempted never to re¬ 
port again. If the gentleman from Ful¬ 
ton (P. G.) will call on me I will show 
him my books and verify my figures for 
him. I will also show him how I re¬ 
ceived a gross income of $33.13 per acre 
from my farm in 1910, $21.72 per acre 
in 1909, $23.80 per acre in 1908; that is 
for each and every acre. I would not 
mind taking up the controversy if I had 
the time, but I am very busy. 
_ P. D . KERSHAW. 
MILK. 
The Now York Exchange price is $1.31 
per 40-quart can, netting 2% cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-ccnt zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
Milk producers throughout New England 
are much interested in the case which the 
Federal Government claims to have against 
the milk contractors, the railroads and the 
secretary of the milk producers’ association. 
The general information is that the prose¬ 
cution is in earnest and that it will be 
pushed to the end. This may involve con¬ 
ditions which will make it difficult to ob¬ 
tain conclusive evidence. The jury in a case 
of this kind may not be with the prosecu¬ 
tion. The violation of the Sherman law in 
this case apparently consists in the combi¬ 
nation of the three great milk contractors 
who are said to control 86 per cent of the 
milk entering Boston. The charge will no 
doubt be that this combination was made 
in order to fix a lower price for the pur¬ 
chase and a high price for the retail sale 
of milk. The New England milk producers 
generally believe that this is what the com¬ 
bination was made for. The secretary of the 
milk producers company has also been in¬ 
dicted. The charges made against him 
are not generally understood nor is the pur¬ 
pose of dragging the producers into the case 
understood. This trial when it comes about 
will be most important. Evidently a move 
is to be made against the milk producers’ 
company. This will involve the right of 
producers to do what others have been 
doing, that is organize for the protection of 
their interests. If such a company as these 
producers have formed could be success¬ 
fully prosecuted under the Sherman act, 
then the whole cooperative movement now 
gaining grounds in this country will be in¬ 
terfered with. There may come a chance 
for the court to construe an aggressive 
combination like that of the milk contrac¬ 
tors is “unreasonable” while a defensive 
combination like that of the producers is 
reasonable. 
The people around here are very much 
discouraged about the milk business. We 
are now getting 77 cents for a 40-quart 
can; last month we received 87 cents. The 
regular road price here is three cents higher 
than we receive. Our station is three 
miles from a railroad so the product is 
taken over with teams and three cents per 
can is taken for drawing. Part of the 
time the milk is made up here at the fac¬ 
tory into potcheese and cream and when¬ 
ever there is a shortage of milk, the milk 
is shipped to Brooklyn. We are now hav- 
insr another inspection of the dairies and 
all who do not score 35 on methods are 
given 10 days to bring their score up to 35 
points or stop drawing milk. In Canastota 
the consumer is paying six cents per quart. 
Canastota, N. Y. n. f. c. 
The milk is mostly peddled by the farm¬ 
ers themselves. We have but one dealer 
who buys his milk. He pays from 12 to 16 
cents per gallon. Milk sells at retail at 
seven cents per quart in Winter and from 
to 614 in Summer; by the gallon to ho¬ 
tels and restaurants at 18 to 20 cents per 
gallon. Butter retails from 25 to 35 cents 
per pound, depending on the season. Some 
farmers furnish it by the year at 30 cents. 
Old hens sell at 10 cents per pound to the 
meat market, live weight. H. s. j. 
Iowa City, Iowa. 
There is but very little milk handled 
here, none shipped out. The town is sup¬ 
plied by farmers near at eight cents per 
quart. The farmers farther away make 
butter, and sell in the town, but the stores 
only pay in trade, from 20 to 30 cents per 
pound. We have been trying to get a 
creamery established here, but have not 
made it out yet. I believe milk might be 
shipped from here to Norfolk, as milk 
there is scarce and high. This is a good 
milk producing section, if there was a good 
outlet so there would be some inducement 
for farmers to go into the business. There 
are a great number of fowls raised here, 
but the stores only pay in trade for eggs 
and fowls, so the most of the farmers that 
raise in large numbers ship their own eggs 
and poultry to commission men in Phila- 
delphia^,and New York. I\ e. x. 
M a ry land . 
THE BELLOWS MILK CASE. 
In regard to the Bellows milk case, it is 
no matter how many times the case is 
appealed, each court will decide in favor of 
the Board of Health of New York City or 
any other city. I said that on the starting 
of the suit, and the dairymen must bow 
to the gods of New York City if they wish 
to furnish milk to the city. 
Ucl. Co., N. Y. E. E. STEBBINS. 
Mr. Bellows asks the opinion of your¬ 
selves and readers. The merits of the 
matter I know nothing about, but under¬ 
stand it is an action between him and the 
Board of Health of New York City, that it 
has been to the Appellate Division, and he 
has been beaten, and is thinking of appeal¬ 
ing to the Court of Appeals. My advice is 
don’t do it. Why not? 1 will try to tell 
in a few words. The constitution of our 
State is nowhere in sight of any of its 
promulgators where boards of health are 
concerned. You can plead your rights of 
liberty and pursuit of happiness, and due 
proceeds of law. They are not in it I am 
sorry to say, if the little gun called “police 
power of the State” is invoked, unless there 
are millions invested in the business af¬ 
fected, or thousands of individual parties 
to the action. Mr. Bellows is nowhere in 
this action. Let him ask his attorney to 
tell him what the police power means, and 
what the courts are doing in cases where 
this power is being invoked, and he will 
have a better idea and more respect for 
the board of health and its powers, will 
wonder what our constitution was written 
for, whereabouts our courts are drifting, 
and what is going to become of the indi¬ 
vidual. Mr. Bellows must learn that might 
makes right to-day. What it will do to¬ 
morrow don’t know, and if he has made a 
mistake and got hold of the soiled end 
of the stick, drop it and forget it, and try 
a different method with the board of 
health. The method 1 shall not suggest, 
but if the board of health presents any 
obstructions to his business, if he or his 
friends can’t argue it away, back right out 
and leave it alone, and come up from an¬ 
other direction, but let the law show where 
the board is concerned. I don’t know 
what it is myself, and could only tell by 
thrashing it out, and I would not undertake 
that unless it was a case where there were 
millions involved. Then I should expect 
the court to say, too much money for the 
police power in this case. I have given Mr. 
Bellows my views of the matter, not the 
merits. I have tried to answer his cry not 
in the way he would like to have me an¬ 
swer, but as the way it will end an appeal. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. j. bosenckanz. 
“Adulterated” Milk. —At a recent trial 
for adulteration of milk the facts presented 
to the jury were as follows: The inspector 
tested the milk with the Babcock test, find¬ 
ing only 2.8 per cent butter fat. Four days 
after he made a test at the man’s barn, re¬ 
sulting in 4.04 per cent butter fat. He left 
similar samples as required by law with 
the defendant and took similar samples to 
the State chemist for a retest by the Adams 
test, who found in the first sample 9.17 per 
cent total solids with 2.83 per cent fat. The 
barn sample tested 13.24 per cent total 
solids, 4.23 per cent fat. These tests were 
all made while the milk was sweet and be¬ 
fore fermentation had taken place. The 
defendant took his samples to the chemist of 
the School of Technology at Potsdam, N. l r ., 
but in the meanwhile the milk had become 
sour though there was no evidence offered 
that any suspicion of tampered milk was 
aroused. This test was by the Babcock 
test. In the factory test there was found 
11.8 per cent total solids and 4.2 per cent 
fat. The barn sample showed 13.07 per 
cent solid and 3.04 per cent fat. There 
was a difference of opinion between the ex¬ 
perts when asked in court if the souring 
of the milk would make any difference in 
the fat content as shown by the Babcock 
test, and they flatly contradicted each 
other. This milk had a legal examination ; 
there was no question that it did not con¬ 
form to State requirements according to 
the manner and method of proof adopted by 
the station, consequently the man was fined. 
Even the jury was obliged to accept the 
State version of the affair, which the court 
evidently accepted with a reservation, as it 
imposed a fine of $50. Right or wrong, 
there is evidently something to be improved 
in the State management of this class of 
criminal cases. e. e. i. 
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Fantim’s Zac. Taylor, imported Guernsey bull, head 
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ALLAMUCHY FARM HOLSTEINS 
We offer well bred bull calves out of A. R. O. 
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FOR SALE 
Two Choice Thoroughbred Guernsey Bulls 
Ready for service. Price, $50 and $75 each. 
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Eight Angus Bull Calves 
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AT LAUREL FARM 
we have on hand some half-dozen sons of Fern’s 
Jubilee, 73852, A. J. C. C., from ten months down 
to a few days old. All out of good cows. Discount 
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Breed Up-Not Down-To r r„ri,™™ 
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is now offering a limited number of 
BERKSHIRE PIGS 
from eight to twelve weeks old, of 
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CALVIN J. HUSON, - PENN YAN, N. Y 
I ARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHW00D — Regular Summer 
" Offering of Bred Sows. Eighty at our home farm, 
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SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES.- 
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Have 4 sows bred to farrow in July; late, toser- 
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REGISTERED BERKSHIRE PIGS 
From Son of Berryton Duke, Jr., 77341, and 
well bred Sows. 
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Fine, large strains; all ages, mated 
not akin. Bred sows service Boars, 
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Pups, Beagles and Poultry.Writefor 
prices & circulars. Hamilton & Co., Ercildoun Pa. 
LARGE ENGLISH YORKSHIRES. 
Last Fall Pigs from Prize Winning, Registered 
Stock, for sale at reasonable prices. 
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Alfalfa Lodge Yorkshires 
Short Nose Type, March Pigs. 
JOHN G. CURTIS - - Rochester, N. Y. 
QHELDON FARM registered Durocs. Pigs of both sex. 
0 B,red Sows. Service Boars Best of breeding. 
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