1911 . 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
©11 
M I L K. 
The New York Exchange price is $1.61 
per 40-quart can, netting 3^4 cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-cent zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
Five members of the English Guernsey 
Cattle Club are preparing to compete for 
prizes at the National Dairy Show, Chi¬ 
cago. October 26-November 4. There will 
be 13 cattle, four each from the herds of 
Sir Everard Hambro and Sir Joseph Tech- 
bourne, and two each from Sir Henry Len- 
nard and Canon Farrar ; and one from Lord 
Falmouth. 
Thank you for the side you take with the 
people and against the fakers or get-rich- 
quick schemes. There is something almost 
as bad. if not worse, around us—the so- 
called tenant farming. The landlords, most 
of whom have one or more farms to rent, 
care nothing for their property so long as 
they get the rent, as it is almost always 
cash rent. Dairying and trucking is done 
on our market. Scranton milk is handled 
by several companies. Prices differ with 
different months, varying from two cents 
to three and one-quarter cents, and when a 
farm, say, large enough to keep 25 cows, 
will cost $400 and taxes, it makes one feel 
like going somewhere else. J. L. M. 
Pennsylvania. 
The milk from this section is all shipped 
from Onativia Station to Newark, N. J. 
The price for the last year has been as 
follows: For the six months beginning 
October, 1, 10 cents a can less than the 
New York Exchange price, and for the 
six months beginning April 1 16 cents less 
than the New York Exchange price. Feed 
of all kinds is very high ; bran, gluten 
and corn meal ranging from $28 to $30 per 
ton. Cows have been high for the last 
year, $75 to $85 for good ones, but are 
a little cheaper now, as a great many 
are reducing their herds because of the 
scarcity of hay. The milk from this sta¬ 
tion has always been handled by Seiler 
Bros., of Newark. N. J. H. G. F. 
La Fayette, N. Y. 
Cost of Milk.— At the Canton. N. Y., 
agricultural school, figures were made to 
show the cost of keeping nine cows and 
one bull for one year. Here is the state¬ 
ment : 
Value of grain feed.$369.78 
Value of farm produce. 564.83 
Value of pasture. 60.00 
Value of labor. 309.16 
Depreciation of herd.'. . . . 110.00 
• _ 
$1,413.77 
The income is given as follows: 
87.229 pounds of milk at $1.59..$1,386.94 
Calves sold . 15.00 
Value of manure. 262.35 
$1,664.29 
From these figures the following state¬ 
ment is made: 
Per 100. 
Cost of producing milk.$1,493 
Average selling price... 1.59 
Profit from herd.250.52 
Profit per cow. 27.83 
Those were good grade Holstein cows. 
They averaged 9,692 pounds each, this 
being far above the average. Yet we see 
that if the estimated value of the manure 
is taken out they ran nearly $12 behind. 
Thus If a man keeping these cows were 
to pay himself hired man’s labor he would 
be obliged to take profit or interest on 
investment out of what he could get from 
the manure. Take the year through, it 
is doubtful if the average farmer would 
receive over three cents per quart for his 
milk. With cows giving less than these 
cows gave the cost per quart or pound 
would be higher than here stated. Can 
any farmer make good milk for less than 
three cents per quart through the year 
and pay himself fair wages? 
Milk Regulation in Massachusetts. 
There has been much discussion by all 
parties interested in regard to getting some 
laws passed by the Legislature which would 
regulate the milk business in this State, 
and in fact all milk which would come into 
Boston market, in a fair manner both to 
the producer and consumer. Rome laws 
have been passed which did not settle the 
matter down, but rather kept it stirred up, 
and seemed to favor others rather than 
producer and consumer. Finally two bills 
were framed: one called the Howard bill 
was considered by the producers to ne fair 
to all parties. This put a commission in 
charge. It would consist of three members 
of the health board and three members of 
the State Board of Agriculture. Under this 
bill, if it became a law, the two most in¬ 
terested parties would have about equal 
representation. The Consumers’ League did 
not like this bill, because it gave agricul¬ 
tural interests too much say on the ques¬ 
tion. They wished to have the whole say 
about the matter, so by persistent work 
and lobbying had the second or Ellis bill 
substituted for the Howard bill. This bill 
called for a commission of five, two per¬ 
sons who had had experience in the pro¬ 
duction of milk, one sanitarian and two 
doctors, to form laws and regulations to 
be executed and enforced by the State 
Board of Health, they to have full power 
to settle and decide all questions and con¬ 
ditions, and no appeal could be made from 
their decision. They would have power to 
take any action they chose, and no one, 
not even the Governor, would have any 
power to question their decision or inter¬ 
fere in any way. We believed such power 
as this to be unsafe. We believed they 
would discriminate and tie us up so that 
we would be put out of business, as they 
proposed to bring about such reforms as 
they saw fit without any extra cost to the 
consumer in price of milk. 
These laws would also apply to and con¬ 
trol the milk sold in all towns and cities 
In the State. The local boards would have 
no say about their own milk supply, hut 
would take their orders from headquarters. 
e believe each town and city is able and 
should manage their own local supply. We 
also believe we have not bad fair and im¬ 
partial treatment in the past from the 
State Board of Health. Any person who 
wished to sell milk must first get per¬ 
mission from the State Board of Health. 
After much discussion this bill finally 
passed both branches of the Legislature 
and went to the Governor, who did not con¬ 
sider it a safe bill to become a law in 
Massachusetts, so urged on by the per¬ 
sistent kicks of the farmers he vetoed and 
sent it back to be voted on again. The 
farmers were now fully awake to the situa¬ 
tion. and individually and collectively they 
urged their representatives to vote against 
it. The State and Subordinate Granges 
took up the work also, and the bill failed 
to get the necessary two-thirds vote in the 
House, and so was killed. 
The Consumers' League consists of a 
certain class of people who have time to 
kill on their hands, and have taken up this 
matter of better milk as a fad. thinking 
they are doing a great work. They demand 
that the farmer produce bettor and cleaner 
milk at no greater cost to the consumer. 
As the farmer is now producing good milk, 
as the rule far better in most cases than 
he is being paid for. I do not see how 
satisfactory results can be obtained unless 
a reasonable plan, fair to all parties, is 
worked out, and the producer is able to 
obtain a living price for what he produces. 
If this same Consumers’ League has money 
to spare, as I believe they have, they might 
use some to good advantage by establish¬ 
ing and running a receiving and distribut¬ 
ing station for the sale of good milk in 
Boston, run the same at cost, and pay the 
producer, who is willing to come lip to 
their standard of perfection in production, 
a reasonable price for doing so. and sell to 
the poorer class of consumers at cost of 
production and delivering. They would in¬ 
deed be doing something to be approved of, 
and would find the farmers willing to meet 
them half way. a. e. proctor'. 
Garget. 
I have a good cow which has a swollen 
milk vein; seems to do no harm as far as 
the passage of the flow of milk is concerned, 
but it is sore. When I am treating it I 
rub it with camphorated oil, but it is still 
swollen yet: her milk has white threads in 
it sometimes. She gives three gallons of 
strained milk per day, has now been fresh 
14 months. She runs out on the commons. 
She has given five gallons of milk per day 
until the weather got so warm, and looks 
fine. She coughs of a morning sometimes, 
and she has a lump iu one of her teats; she 
gave bloody milk out of that teat when 
her last calf was young. Is it dangerous to 
use her milk? j. e. l. 
West Virginia. 
The ■“milk veins” carry blood away from 
the udder; not milk. The symptoms de¬ 
scribed so strongly suggest the presence of 
tuberculosis affecting the cow and her udder 
that _ we would not feel justified in pre¬ 
scribing treatment. The milk from a tuber¬ 
culous udder is dangerous to man and ani¬ 
mals. Have her tested with tuberculin. 
A. s. A. 
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Pain quickly without Blistering, 
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Strain*. Painful, Knotted, Swollen Veins, Milk Leg. 
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