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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 21, 
MILK. 
The New York Exchange price is $1.81 
per 40-quart can, netting 3% cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-cent zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
At the National Dairy Show, Chicago, 
October 26-November 4, a $1,000 trophy 
with second and third prizes of $250 and 
$100, will be given for the best herds 
of five cows of any one breed. The cows 
need not all be owned by the same person. 
Entries close October 15. 
Prices paid for milk, $1.50, average price 
per year, and retail about five cents per 
quart. Prices for live stock: Cows, from 
$25 to $75 per head; yearlings, $41; 
heifers, $15 to $25 ; bulls, three cents per 
pound, live weight; horses, from $50 to 
$350; hogs, six cents, live weight; calves 
for veal, seven cents per pound. Poultry, 
10 cents per pound. Hay, from $8 to $12 
per ton. Oats, 50 cents per bushel. Corn, 
$1.50 per hundred. Manure, $1 per load. 
1 do not know the price of corn silage at 
retail, because we farmers feed it out to oqr 
own stock, but I should judge it is worth 
one-half as much as hay for fodder. L. s. 
West Martinsburg, N. Y. 
The Bordens control the price of milk 
here. The price for the next six months is 
as follows: October, $1.75 per 100 pounds; 
November, $1.90; December, $1.90; January, 
$1.85; February, $1.80; March, $1.65. 
These prices are about 1.0 cents lower than 
the farmers expected. The hay crop is 
short and corn is not what it ought to be 
on account of the dry weather. I do not 
think there will be as many cows as usual 
this Winter; many had to sell their cows 
on account of fodder. Hay is $15 per ton 
In the barn. Farmers are not satisfied 
with the price of milk. Feed is high. Bran, 
$28 per ton ; gluten, $30 to $34; cornmeal, 
$30; oilmcal, $40. M. n. B. 
Poolville, N. Y. 
The Michigan Condensed Milk Co. pay for 
milk, October $1.75 per 100 pounds; No¬ 
vember $1.90 per 100 pounds; December, 
$1.90 per 100 pounds. Retails at Herki¬ 
mer, eight cents per quart- at Frankfort, 
six cents; at Ilion, six cents. We have had 
but few auctions yet. Cows, fresh milkers, 
$50 to $75. No. 1. hay, $18; No. 2, $16. 
Potatoes $1 a bushel. Apples, Fall, 50 to 
60 cents per bushel. Apples, Winter, $2 to 
$2.25 per barrel. Pork, $9.50 per 100 
pounds, up to 200 pounds, over 200 pounds 
$9 per 100 pounds. No silage sold yet; 
manure never sold only at city stables at 
50 cents per load. Apples fair crop; pota¬ 
toes one-quarter crop; corn good. 
Frankfort, N. Y. P. A . 
New Zealand is becoming a great dairy 
section. It bids fair to have more dairy 
cows to the mile than any other country. 
Dairymen have studied to find an output 
for their milk. They are finding it iq 
powdered milk, vast quantities of which 
are being made from skim-milk. This is 
used for various purposes such as infant’s 
food, tea or coffee, or for cooking and also 
for making milk chocolates. The physi¬ 
cians recommend it to their patients as 
food, and thus great markets are devel¬ 
oped. It is largely used also for expedi¬ 
tions to the South Pole, where with dried 
meat and biscuits it gives the chief de¬ 
pendence for food. The expedition just 
starting for the South Pole has ordered 
two tons of this powdered milk. The de¬ 
velopment of this industry is expected 
greatly to increase the prosperity of New 
Zealand dairymen. 
An all day session of the congress of 
the national commission on milk standards 
called by the New York milk committee 
was held October 5 at the Academy of Medi¬ 
cine, 17 West Forty-third street, New York. 
In accordance with the resolutions adopted 
by the commission at its Spring convention 
an effort is being made to decide upon a 
classification and standards suitable for 
adoption by the health boards of all cities 
in the United States, and the meeting was 
devoted to a discussion of the reports of 
special committees. The commission form¬ 
ally adopted the report of the committee on 
classification, which provides for four grades 
of milk, certified, inspected, pasteurized and - 
cooking, only the first three to be used for 
drinking. The report of the committee on 
bacteria, which was also adopted, recom¬ 
mends that in the first grade of milk 
the bacteria shall not exceed 10,000 to the 
cubic centimeter, in the second the number 
shall be limited to 100,000 and in the 
third the maximum shall be 1,000,000 before 
pasteurization, and 50,000 after pasteuriza¬ 
tion. The fourth grade, known as cook¬ 
ing milk, must also be pasteurized be¬ 
fore it shall be pronounced fit for use by 
official inspectors. 
Milk Organization Proposed. —Recently 
a conference was held at Newburg, N. Y., 
at which two representatives of a New 
York organization who claim to have a 
large capital, proposed a union with the 
Dairymen’s League, which is becoming a 
strong factor in favor of the farmers. The 
object of the union is to eliminate the mid¬ 
dlemen, but the league committee were 
somewhat wary, postponing action until the 
New York Union and its backers could be 
investigated. The league is affiliated with 
the State Grange, the following committee 
being appointed to investigate further the 
proposition:: President, J. Y. Gerow; 
Oscar Bailey, D. II. Siltern, L. M. Hardin, 
A. Manning, Otisville, N. including the 
Dairymen’s League vice-president, Warren 
D. Haggerty, of New Jersey. 
Another Milk Hold-up. 
“Has a city a right to shut any and all 
farmers’ milk out of its markets, regardless 
of its purity, and sanitary condition, unless 
its own officials have first entered the prem¬ 
ises, and inspected and approved all the 
conditions and methods found?” 
I have never heard of as good a case 
for a test suit as my own recent experi¬ 
ence. That was the only issue involved, 
and it was squarely defined. The trouble 
started over a little horse manure that had 
accumulated while we were at our haying, 
in a field at the back of the barn, where 
my cows are never allowed. The inspector 
must have discovered it as he was driving 
by the farm on August 7. The Board of 
Health of Middletown sent me a notice by 
mail under date of August 9 that my milk 
would not be allowed in the city until it 
•was removed. It so happened that I had 
it removed when the notice reached me. 
I was selling my milk to a neighbor, who 
was peddling it in Middletown in connec¬ 
tion with his own milk. Both of us live 
outside of the city in the township of Wall- 
kill. I notified my neighbor in writing 
that I had ‘‘complied with the require¬ 
ments of the Board of Health, as per notice 
of August 9, in all particulars,” and paid 
no further attention to the matter. On 
August 22 he refused to accept the milk, 
saying that he had given my written notice 
to the health officer, who told him that his 
license would be revoked if he accepted any 
more of it until after my place has been 
again inspected and O. K.’d or words to that 
effect. The point raised at this time was 
that everything had to be done “subject 
to the approval of the health officer.” It- 
looks as if he was looking for another day’s 
pay. On the 24th he showed up in an 
auto, looked around, and gave me an in¬ 
spection card on which is written “Con¬ 
ditions good and satisfactory.” I can 
swear that they were exactly as they were 
when the mil* was stopped. This card 
Will prove from his own mouth that he 
stopped the milk when “conditions were 
good and satisfactory.” I bad to feed my 
milk to the hens at a pecuniary loss, and 
my neighbor had to pay an extra price 
to get milk to replace it. o. w. mapes. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
A 9000-pound load of Dried Beet Pulp ready for delivery, starting ouf 
from our Agency in Deposit, N. Y. 
Get One of These Sacks 
We Want Ten Thousand Farmers 
Each to Get One of These Sacks 
W E have Ten Thousand 100-lb. sacks of Dried 
Beet Pulp that we want to send to ten thousand 
cow owners within the next two months. 
Every sack will go out under this positive guaranty: 
That it must please you or you get the sack free, 
A 100-lb. sack will provide Dried Beet Pulp daily for 
one cow for three weeks—usually a trifle more—long 
enough to test out to your own satisfaction that it will 
—bring and keep the milk production up to the 
greatest limit of flow. 
—keep cattle healthy and ( especially ) free from 
digestive disorders. 
—give cattle that sleek, fine appearance which 
is the outward sign of perfect condition. 
It is no trouble to feed Dried Beet Pulp. Feed it dry, just as it comes 
from the bag, or moisten it. The latter method is the way we advise 
doing, because we believe that moistened bulky food is more com¬ 
pletely assimilated. 
But how you feed is not a condition of this test or of our guaranty. 
DRIED BEET PU LP 
THE FEED THATS GUARANTEED 
We know that you want to get the most milk possible at the least 
possible cost, If we can’t help you do that, we don’t propose to make 
you pay for having tried our plan. 
We do know that with many thousand feeders Dried Beet Pulp is an 
invaluable part of the ration. No other food seems to retain bulk in 
the stomach to an equal degree. The result is that the concentrates 
—the protein portions—are more fully digested. Therefore, a given 
amount of food will make a larger amount of milk than with any 
other combination of feed. 
How to Get a Sack for Trial 
Go to your dealer where you buy 
your feed and get a 100-lb. sack of 
Dried Beet Pulp. Include it in the 
daily ration (cutting out some other 
feed). If you write us, we will tell 
you, free, how to change the ration. 
Keep a record of the amount of milk 
you are getting now. Then compare 
it with what you get while feeding 
Dried Beet Pulp. 
When the 100 pounds are all used, if 
you are not satisfied go to your dealer 
and he will give you your money back. 
If your dealer does not handle Dried 
Beet Pulp, write to us and we will see 
that you are supplied. 
Our Protective Guarantee 
We guarantee that any sack of our 
Dried Beet Pulp bought for trial, 
either direct from us or through a 
dealer, will prove satisfactory to the 
buyer, or we will refund the pur¬ 
chase price. 
Larger quantities can be bought with 
the privilege of trying one sack and if 
found unsatisfactory, the entire pur¬ 
chase price will be refunded if the un¬ 
used portion is shipped in accordance 
with instructions to be received from us. 
Dried Beet Pulp is uniformly satisfactory in the feeding of horses, 
steers, hogs, sheep and poultry. We have a little, helpful book called 
“Feeding for Larger Profits.” We want to send you a Copy, so ask for 
it. It will give you some new facts on the feeding question. Address 
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The larrowe Milling Co., Box 608, Ford Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 
