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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
August 12, 
JVE I Ij K. 
The New York Exchange price is $1.51 
40 pe -quart can, netting three cents per 
quart to shippers in 2G-ccnt zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
The world’s greatest cheese will be ex¬ 
hibited at the National Dairy Show in Chi¬ 
cago at the International Live Stock Amphi¬ 
theatre, October 26 to November 4, 1911. 
The cheese exhibited at the last Dairy 
Show weighed over 4,000 pounds and was 
the largest Cheddar cheese ever made. This 
year’s cheese will weigh over 10,000 pounds 
and will take G5 tons of milk and cream 
from G,500 cows milked by 1,350 men; 18 
expert cheese makers and 25 assistants will 
be employed in the construction of the 
cheese, which will be transported to Chi¬ 
cago in a specially constructed refrigerator 
occupying an entire flat car. 
In this vicinity dairying is in an unor¬ 
ganized and backward condition. Towns 
and villages of this part of the Ohio Val¬ 
ley are, I think, almost entirely supplied, 
at least the family trade, by local dairy 
farmers. Price to families six cents in Sum¬ 
mer, eight cents in Winter; seven cents at 
present owing to unusual drought. Such 
milk and cream as I have heard of being 
shipped goes mostly to hotels, restaurants, 
ice cream makers, etc. The price appears 
to be generally based on the Elgin butter 
price, with perhaps 10 cents per gallon ad¬ 
ditional on cream. There are no silos here 
yet, and most farmers keep but few cows 
for milking. If the silo solves the Winter 
feeding problem then we are in this locality 
just that far behind. However, conditions 
appear likely to improve. It seems likely 
that spraying will restore fruit to its 
former importance in this hill country. 
May and June were probably the driest 
and hottest here in a generation. Pota¬ 
toes are about a total failure. Meadows 
on low moist land short, on uplands noth¬ 
ing. Corn on well prepared and cultivated 
land has stood the drought best of any¬ 
thing. H. K. G. 
Newport, O. 
Milk here is bought by the Mutual Milk & 
Cream Co. of New York City, who pay Bor- 
den's prices. The price last month was 
$1.10 per hundred pounds, or 2 1-3 cents per 
quart. This month (Julyl the price is $1.30 
per 100, and the price for August is to be 
$1.50 per 100. This August price is a 
trifle less than 3 1-5 cents per quart. These 
prices are for milk delivered at shipping 
point. From there it is shipped to New 
York and the consumer pays from eight to 
GO cents per quart for it—10 cents for a 
half-pint glass half full at a restaurant. 
Dairymen are not saying much about the 
price of milk or the future condition of the 
business. Very little grain is being fed at 
this time of the year, and they do not feel 
the cost of production. Lust year all crops 
were good in this section. Dairymen had 
an abundance of fodder and lots of corn 
and oats, and did not need to buy as much 
feed as usual, therefore they did not feel the 
cost of the milk so much, though some of 
them did not get market prices for the hay 
and grain that their cows ate. This year 
the hay crop is very light and when in the 
Fall the dairyman feeds much purchased 
grain, and, because of reciprocity with 
Canada, gets a lower price for his milk, 
there will be grumbling in plenty, and the 
Taft Administration will get a good share 
of it. Dairy inspection, as conducted by 
the New York City Hoard of Health, causes 
unnecessary hardship to some. To illus¬ 
trate : A man’s milk was refused at his 
nearest creamery (milk receiving station), 
of which he had been a patron. From the 
producer’s standpoint there was no just 
cause for refusing the milk. The man now 
carts his milk six or seven miles to a 
creamery where butter is made. As he has 
only a small dairy the cost of carting his 
milk takes a large part or all of the profits 
that might be his could he sell at the sta¬ 
tion nearer his home. g. g. gibbs. 
Warren Co., N. J. 
I consider the milk situation here the 
most favorable of any in the State. We 
have no millionaire farmers or any who 
are doing business for the fun of it. TheJ 
are all in it as a business proposition. This 
section has been almost exclusively devoted 
to the milk business for more than 50 years. 
They started in as soon as the Harlem R. II. 
was built through the country. They have 
been tied to a cow's tail so long that they 
have grown fast. They do not know lio \9 
to farm it in any other way. Talk about 
getting out of the milk business, and the 
answer is, “Well, what’ll you do?” Once 
in a while one gets disgusted and sells out 
his dairy. But it is only a short time be¬ 
fore he is back in again. They cannot get 
along without the monthly milk check. The 
fact that selling milk turns farm produce 
into cash quicker than any other style of 
farming is what keeps most farmers at it. 
While we do not feel satisfied with the 
price paid we realize that we are more 
favored than some other sections. The 
great disadvantage the farmers of my age 
have labored under is doing business on a 
falling market. Our fathers, who went into 
the milk business before the war of the 
Rebellion, when milk brought three to four 
cents per quart, when war prices prevailed, 
made money, but their sons who began at 
those high prices suffered the consequences. 
When I began for myself milk was worth 
six cents per quart at the factory. Cows 
brought $100 per head, and land was worth 
$100 per acre. Money was flush. But 
prices kept falling for years, until milk got 
down to two cents for the Summer and 
three cents for the Winter, and farm values 
Went to almost nothing. Those wex - e trying 
times. But latterly things have been pick¬ 
ing up, and we are doing better. What the 
future has in store I hardly know. But I 
do know that if present prices are not sus¬ 
tained some of us will go to the wall. We 
cannot do business, support our families, 
keep buildings in repair, and farm equip¬ 
ment up to date on tliree-cent milk. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. H. v. u. 
ANOTHER COW REPORT. 
I promised to report production of cows 
for comparison with the hens. I am slow, 
but here is report for May and June, 1911 : 
No. 1, freshened May 18, 1911, com¬ 
menced test May 21. 
lbs. but- 
Ibs. milk fat ter fat 
Gave during May. . 378.7 4.39% 10.97 
Gave during June. 11G5.5 4.67% 54.43 
No. 4 during May 891.3 4.34% 37.68 
No. 4 during June 1107.65 4.48% 49.62 
No. 5 during May 478.0 4.59% 21.97 
No. 5 during June 1154.15 5.09% 58.75 
Total butter fat in May, 76.62 lbs. 
Price received, 32 cents.$24.52 
Total butter fat in June, 162.80 lbs. 
Price received, 40 cents. 65.12 
Total .$89.64 
No. 4 commenced test May 8, freshened 
April 29. No. 5 freshened May 8, had milk 
fever, commenced test May 18. Cost pas¬ 
ture at 25 cents per week, hay, soiling 
crops and grain, 20 cents per day each, 
$29.70; profit for May and June, $59.94. 
Cows ai'e purebred Jersey, all have fine 
calves. Skim-milk is figured at 25 cents 
per 100 pounds, is fed to Jersey calves 
and Berkshire pigs, so this is a low esti¬ 
mate. Milk and cream sold during Sum¬ 
mer at six cents for milk, 40 cents for 
cream, 30 to 35 per cent fat, make butter 
in Winter. Pastures no good, so feed 
grain, one pound per day for every pound 
fat produced during week, have no regular 
ration. Cows cost us $100 each two years 
ago; have one heifer and two bulls from 
them this year. If we get $100 each for 
them at one year old, which we will, surely 
they are worth $50 each at birth. 
CHAS. B. DAYTON. 
Susquehanna Co., Pa. 
A CURSING CLERGYMAN. 
How would you like to have Rev. L. S. 
Osborne for your minister? No, thank 
you ! y. s. 
Putnam Co., N. Y. 
This man sends us a clipping containing 
a letter from the Rev. L. S. Osborne, of 
“the leading Episcopal Church in Newark.” 
Mi - . Osborne explains the use of the woi'd 
“damn” and then says: 
“And so I say advisedly and soberly 
‘damn’ the ice trust and the milk trust 
and the farmers and the cows, and every¬ 
body and everything that is making this 
hot weather an excuse for boosting the 
price of ice and milk. The sugar trust 
may be faulty, and the Standai'd Oil Com¬ 
pany not all that can be desired, but they 
don't conspire to kill sick babies.” 
What we would like to do with Mr. Os¬ 
borne would be this : Put him out among 
the hills in a neighboi'liood where farmers 
must depend for their living upon shipping 
milk to New York. Then let him cui-se 
the cows and the farmei's who get between 
them about 30 cents of the consumer's dol¬ 
lar. It is easy for this man in his “lead¬ 
ing church” to be smart and flippant and 
class farmers and even their cows with 
the “ice trust” and “milk trust,” but he 
ought to be ashamed of himself to do it, or 
to teach city people that the farmers are 
conspiring to “kill sick babies.” What is 
the matter with such a man anyway? His 
brand of the “milk of human kindness” 
seems to be adulterated with a desire to 
be “smart.” 
A HOT DAY IN IOWA. 
We began to do things slowly at 5 
o’clock a. m. I say slowly, for we are 
short handed. Over a week ago Walter fell 
out of a cherry tree and bx-oke some bones, 
and that left LaVern and an old man who 
can keep up with the boys for a time on a 
pinch. But he does not like to. The first 
work was to milk tlii'ee cows and look 
after the hogs and pigs, then breakfast. 
We then put two loads of hay into the 
mow that had been left in the driveway.the 
night before. Then LaVern went to the 
field to mow and I hunted the coolest place 
to look over the daily papers, but was 
soon disturbed by a telephone from a hotel 
landlady saying that she wanted a dozen 
chickens right away quick, Walter and 
the thi'ee women and two grandchlldi'en 
were about I'eady to start for a church pic¬ 
nic, so they took the chickens. The 12 
weighed 23 pounds and sold at 20 cents a 
pound, and they were the last of about 100, 
the first hatch. 
There were about four acres to mow and 
as LaVern had to help catch the chickens 
he did not finish before dinner. When the 
picnickers left they told us to help our¬ 
selves for dinnei', which we did to our sat¬ 
isfaction. There were other things, but the 
best for this hot weather was separator 
skimmed milk right out of the ice box. 
You will say thin, but we eat the cream, 
too, but prefer to have it go through the 
small separator. Our people are very fond 
of inilk in hot weather; it took nearly a 
gallon for LaVern’s and my dinner. The 
milk was cold, but the thermometer said it 
was 100 degi'ees in the shade outside. After 
dinner LaVern finished mowing and I with 
a side delivery rake threw four swaths onto 
a space that the loader would cover. Our 
hay is light, yielding from three-fourths to 
a ton to the acre, and we get a load by 
driving aci'oss the field 80 rods and back, 
hut haymaking is hot work with mercury 
trying to climb out over the top of the 
tube. We had to drop the hay into the 
mow without mowing away. It will be a 
job to get it out. but it will probably be 
cooler. The load that was cut after dinner 
was not quite dry enough, but we wanted to 
finish; that which was cut before dinner 
was well cui-ed. The hay was not over¬ 
ripe, but the ground is hot and the sun 
hotter, and the hay thin. It is the first 
time we have finished haying in June. 
We shall commence making hay of our oats 
Monday, July 2. They are short and grain 
will be light. After finishing the hay I 
milked the cows and LaVern looked after 
the pigs. We had had our supper before, 
and it was nine o’clock when I was ready 
for the bathtub. A good day’s work done 
under uncomfortable conditions. j. s. 
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