1911. 
'n-lE RURAL NKW-YORKER 
867 
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The New York Exchange price is $1.51 
per 40-quart can, netting three cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-cent zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
The farmers who attend the coming fair 
of the Chester County Agricultural Asso¬ 
ciation, West Chester, Pa., are to be given 
a practical demonstration on how to se¬ 
cure pure milk and the proper manner to 
preserve it for shipping to Philadelphia. 
The managers of the association for the 
fair, which will be held September 5, 6 , 7 
and 8 , have arranged for the demonstration. 
There is to be a herd of fine cows at the 
track during the entire time of the fair. 
The milking is to be done with machines 
made by a local firm, separated, cooled to a 
temperature which will insure its accept¬ 
ance by the Philadelphia authorities, and 
shipped. An effort will be made to set a 
new record for the time necessary to milk 
the cow properly, prepare the milk and ship 
It. Fifteen cows are to be used in the 
demonstration. 
Nearly all of the dairymen’s associations 
within a radius of 00 miles of Philadelphia 
have sent their replies to the Railroad 
Commission accepting the invitation to pre¬ 
sent their side of milk refrigeration during 
transportation. The side of the dealer and 
the Reading Railroad Company was heard 
August 8 . The various associations will 
have representatives at the hearing. It is 
not expected that all of these associations 
will be in favor of compelling the railroad 
to supply refrigerator cars, as last year 
at a conference held at the University of 
Pennsylvania Veterinary School, a wordy 
war was waged over a resolution favoring 
refrigeration, the result being failure to 
adopt the resolution. The argument of 
those opposed to refrigeration is that the 
railroad would charge more for such service, 
making production unprofitable. Others ar¬ 
gue that the railroad should be compelled 
to furnish the iced cars without any in¬ 
crease in rates for the “public good.” They 
say that the Reading's rates are now far in 
excess of the Pennsylvania, which supplies 
refrigerator car service. 
The situation here is rather unhandy, as 
it is a number of miles off the railroad, and 
our product and supplies must be hauled 
by teams. Our Summer seasons are rather 
lied with the' creameries and are sending 
their milk to the station, thereby getting 
a very little more ready money. If they 
would bold to the creamery and raise 
milk, as they should, with the extra fer¬ 
tilizer they would keep on the farm, they 
would be a long way ahead of shipping 
their whole milk. The long dry spell we 
have had here in northern New York has 
cut down the milk production about one- 
third, but I think that with the price they 
are getting for milk and a good outlook 
for higher prices, the farmers can well 
afford to feed the cows and make milk. 
I would like to say just a word about the 
delivery of milk. The time has come when 
the man who takes the best care of his 
milk is going to get the most money out 
of it, even at the creameries. The time 
has been and some still cling to the idea 
that anything is good enough to send to 
the creamery to make butter. I have no 
sympathy for the man who will hustle 
around and make all the milk he can and 
then not take care of it when he gets it. 
I have had to return several thousand 
pounds this Summer, delivered at the 
creamery before 8 A. M. that was not fit 
to feed to pigs. The common cause is not 
washing the cans clean and not cooling at 
all. when fifteen minutes’ labor would save 
dollars. 1 do hope the farmers will wake 
lip to the fact that they must take care 
of their cans and cool the milk and de¬ 
liver it in shape, if they expect to get all 
there is in it and make a profit. 
Franklin Co., N. Y. george e. morse. 
CATTLE WITH DEPRAVED TASTE. 
"Some cattle in South Africa have pecu¬ 
liar tastes. A farmer writes: ‘The cattle 
on this farm and on farms where stiff sick¬ 
ness appears are always ravenous after 
bones—sheep dying on the veldt have barely 
time to rot before the cattle have eaten up 
every bone—and why is it that only on 
these farms where there is such a craving 
for bones do you find this disease?’ ” 
This note from the Mark Lane Express 
will interest hundreds of farmers who have 
written us about their cattle. Such ani¬ 
mals have a depraved taste—drinking filthy 
water and gnawing old bones or fence rails. 
They do not get enough lime and phosphate 
in their food to supply the needs of the sys¬ 
tem. The remedy is to feed fine ground 
bone in the grain. The best grain foods for 
such a condition are bran or oil meal. 
Abnormal Milk. 
I have a Jersey cow which I bought three 
months ago. Iler udder was caked some 
but that came out all right, but she has 
always given stringy milk more or less, 
l or a few days it will be all right, then 
it will come again, not always in the same 
teat. I had a veterinarian's advice and 
medicine, but it does not cure. Is it be¬ 
cause she is old, or what would be best to 
do with her? I have about decided to try 
and fatten her for the butchers, but oil 
account of her being a fine cow I dislike to 
d, \ f s .°\ . R. g. 
Michigan. 
short, which is another great drawback to 
dairying in this vicinity. The dairymen 
look mostly to Summer dairying for this 
reason. Even as we are handicapped we 
think there is a good profit in dairying. 
Cheese is the principal product into which 
the milk is made, and as Jefferson County 
has a reputation for good cheese we get 
the highest prices for our product, and 
milk being of a fairly good quality it pays 
pretty well according to the price per 
pound of cheese. The farmers seem well 
pleased with the prices paid for milk, and 
figure that they are making a good profit. 
The only expense is the care of the cows 
and pasturage, grain being fed only for 
a short time in the Fall and for a' time 
before the herd begins to freshen again. 
We may look for the improvement of dairy¬ 
ing here each year so long as the farmers 
receive from $1 to $ 1.10 per hundred 
pounds of milk, as we have been getting 
this Summer. e. r. c. 
Worth, N. Y. 
Boston Prices. —The price of milk for 
August is 84 cents per 8 Vu-quart can, de¬ 
livered on cars at station, or one cent more 
if a contract has been signed agreeing to 
abide by and live up to the regulations of 
the Boston Board of Health. Two and 
three cents are deducted from this for de¬ 
livering to car unless the dairyman carries 
his own, in which case be receives the full 
amount. The June total delivery to Bos¬ 
ton was 7,825,810 uarts, against 8,870,- 
820 for the month of June a year ago. 
July figures are not out yet, but will fall 
much short of this, I believe. The Ellis 
milk bill, which gave the whole control of 
enforcement of the law in regard to pro¬ 
duction. transportation and sales of milk 
nto the hands of the State Board of 
Health, was passed by the Legislature, 
vetoed by our Governor and the veto sus¬ 
tained after a hot fight. a. e. p. 
FIGURES FROM A BUTTER FACTORY. 
We receive mostly whole milk and run 
cream from separator into open vat. The 
vat has spring water at 52 degrees running 
through it to cool the cream. I add from 
five per cent to 10 per cent of good starter 
ahout the time I start the separator and 
stir often. I do this to get the cream 
cooled to GO degrees before 1 lpave it at 
three o’clock in the afternoon. Sometimes 
I have to add a little ice direct to the 
cream in order to have cream 54-50 degrees 
when I churn it the next morning. I wash 
the butter once with water about 54 de¬ 
grees and use six pounds salt to 100 pounds 
butter. Distribute salt well "and work un¬ 
til dissolved. This is a sample of the but- 
.Vu r , that scored 95 at Cornell .July 27. 
ibis factory is owned by the Columbia 
Creamery Company. The butter is all put 
into one-pound prints, packed in 50-pound 
parchment-lined boxes and handled in 
Springfield. We pay the farmers one and 
one-half cents above Boston Chamber of 
< ommeree quotations for assorted sizes, for 
the fat in their milk delivered at the fac¬ 
tory, and give them their skim back. July 
milk netted them about $1 per 100 pounds, 
i here are other creameries near by, also a 
shipping station that. sends milk to New 
lork. The station paid $1.15 for July 
milk. Some of the farmers are dissatis- 
Try milking her three times a day and 
at night rub the udder with melted lard. 
Avoid all causes of bruising and chilling 
of the udder, and make no sudden changes 
in feeding. If she does not then improve 
better fatten her for slaughter, as it does 
fiot pay to fuss with a chronic case of 
garget. It should be remembered, too, that 
tuberculosis of the Udder is sometimes pres¬ 
ent in cases such as you describe, so that 
it always is well to test such cows with 
tuberculin. a. s. a. 
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