1911. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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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. 
'* Borden Prices ” and Dairying. 
Fearing lest your editorial references in 
respect to the Borden milk concern might 
give an erroneous impression to some, I 
take the liberty of sending to you an edi¬ 
torial clipped from our local paper, which, 
serving an almost exclusively dairying com¬ 
munity, would seem likely to reflect pretty 
accurately the opinion of dairymen in south¬ 
ern Otsego county. I think it is worthy of 
note that, while the butter value of milk is 
something like 40 cents less than last year, 
the Bordens have reduced their price per 
hundred on the average only about 12 cents, 
or less than % cent per quart. Of course, 
not much reduction to the cbnsumer could 
come as the result of this. As the son of 
a dairyman who has sold milk to the Bor¬ 
dens for many years, and being about to 
enter the business myself, I think that I 
am fairly well informed on conditions here 
and not likely to be partial to the Bordens. 
However, this much I know, since their ad¬ 
vent ten or a dozen years ago my father has 
become successful and well-to-do, and I think 
it no exaggeration to say that farm pro¬ 
perty in this community has doubled in 
value. Four-fifths of the farms in this val¬ 
ley look prosperous, with largo barns, silos, 
first-class equipment and thoroughbred cat¬ 
tle very much in evidence, while a dozen 
years ago not one farm in ten would answer 
to this description. During this period wo 
have been getting from 50 to 100 per cent 
more from our milk than we had ever re¬ 
received before, and the Bordens have cer¬ 
tainly averaged better than any other mar¬ 
ket. A couple of years ago there was a 
fine plant erected here as a sort of co-oper¬ 
ative concern for butter, cheese, sizing, su¬ 
gar making, etc., but at no time has it 
been able to offer as good returns as the 
Tordens and I understand that it is about 
to shut down. Whether the Bordens are 
robbing the consumer or not, I do not pre¬ 
tend to say, but while the producer, per¬ 
haps, has not been getting as much as he 
ought, it is quite certain that he has been 
doing very well in this community. Of 
course, we would like more if we could get 
it. and perhaps there is some system of dis¬ 
tribution that would give it to us, but, in 
conclusion I wish to state as my honest con¬ 
viction that farming in this community of¬ 
fers at least as high returns upon the brains 
and capital invested as does any other occu¬ 
pation Were it not so, after five years of 
< ollege experience I would not be choosing 
it as a life career. rr. c. M. 
It. N.-Y.—The clipping referred to after 
saying the average Borden price is 12 cents 
lower than last year, says : 
“Notwithstanding this the condensery 
has had no more successful contract day in 
its history, 44 new dairies being signed on 
that day and on the few days preceding 
when the books were open, and an aggregate 
of sixty odd dairies being under contract in 
excess of the number at the same time last 
year. The fact that the contract price is 
not adhered to as a hard and fast propo¬ 
sition when the market will warrant declar¬ 
ing an advance over the figure named for 
any month is largely accountable for this 
great influx of new patrons and the return 
of many old ones.” 
It is not entirely fair to compare butter- 
fat prices with high class whole milk. Vast 
quantities of milk suitable for making but¬ 
ter would not be accepted by the Bordens 
for shipment. Dairymen who make it 
would be forced to increase the cost of pro¬ 
duction before milk which they might sell 
to a butter factory would be accepted. We 
have stated that the Bordens have reduced 
prices as compared with last year. At the 
same time consumers pay Just as much as 
ever, the cost of distribution is no larger 
and the Bordens are evidently making “more 
money than they know what to do with.” 
Tt is a bad situation where a concern can 
dictate prices at both ends. If there were 
free competition when prices to farmers 
fall consumer’s prices would also fall. More 
milk would be used and the demand would 
make a bettor price to dairymen so that 
the situation -would adjust itself. As it is 
there is no fair adjustment. 
Dairying in the Southwest. 
When I read in your paper of the trouble 
in the way of low prices dairy farmers re¬ 
ceive for their product at the North and 
East I wish some of them could be directed 
this way. In this section of the country, 
northeast Texas. Southern Arkansas arid 
Louisiana, the dairy industry has not been 
started. The opportunities around Texar- 
kana. a city of 25,000. arc fine for a number 
of dairy farmers. There is no creamery 
here, nor nearer here than Little Rock, 150 
miles away. The retail price of milk here 
is five cents per pint straight: milk to 
hotels and restaurants wholesales at 25 
cents per gallon. Buttermilk brings 15 to 
20 cents per gallon ; skim-milk 10. Ordinary 
farm-made butter is retailing here this week 
at 35 to 40 cents, separator cream butter 
bringing the higher price. Even at these 
prices milk and butter Is scarce. Bermuda 
grass and Japan clover cover the wild lands 
around here and spring water Is abundant. 
Ihere are only about four months of 
weather that approaches Winter tempera¬ 
tures. Sufficient buildings of all kinds can 
he erected here at one-half or even less 
than the cost of buildings at the North 
and East. Good labor is practically not to 
be had here at any price. Of course ne¬ 
groes are plentiful, but they are entirely 
unfitted for dairy work, and their aversion 
to thrift and frugality renders them un¬ 
profitable. This country Is a fine habitat 
for the Jersey and Guernsey cattle, owing 
to its equable climate. e. h. t. 
A New York Dairy Farm. 
Arose at 4.40 a. m., and as we are using 
a dilution set for making butter, I drew 
off and emptied the milk, watered team and 
fed hay and grain. As Sunday night was 
cold and rainy, the nine head of stock were 
left in stable; this saved a three-quarter 
mile walk to get them. I fed them corn¬ 
stalks, washed off udders and milked six, 
washed milk set, strained milk, put in water 
and covered set. I then cleaned off team 
and cleaned out stable, fed 27 pigs and 
answered a call for breakfast. After break¬ 
fast, cleaned cow stable, harnessed team, 
drove one-half mile and ran corn harvester 
until 12 o’clock. Returned home, watered 
and fed team and the 27 pigs ; ate dinner, 
hitched up team, returned to the machine, 
drove one mile further and cut corn until 
6 p. m. Returned home, bringing har¬ 
vester,, put out team and unharnessed them 
and took 30 minutes for refreshments. 
Watered team and fed grain. Milked six 
cows, fed them grain, strained milk, put in 
water, threw down hay and fed team, 
cleaned them off and bedded for night. Fed 
27 pigs, shut up buildings, came to the 
house at 8.50 p. in. 
Now, as the Hope Farm man figures, the 
milk that “Molly” gives at the price he 
would have to pay, I will figure this day at 
what I would have to pay, if a man could 
be found to do it: 4.40 to 9 a. m. at 17% 
cents per hour, 75 cents; 9 a. m. to noon, 
with team, 50 cents per hour, $1.50; 1.30 
p. m. to 6, with team, 50 cents per hour, 
$2.25; G.50 to 8.50. at 17% cents per hour, 
35 cents; total, $4.85. h. g. Phillips. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
Cattle run higher than common; last 
Spring cows from $35 to $60. I sold three 
at $48 a bead, hay from $15 to $20 per 
ton, oat straw $8, rye straw $8. I do not 
know of any silage being sold. Chickens 
alive, 12 and 14 cents pound, pork nine to 
10 cents; butter 28 to 30 cents; milk three 
cents a quart; manure 50 cents to $1 a 
load; horses running from $150 to $250. 
Low man, N. Y. e. s. C. 
We attended an auction October 3. Cows 
sold from $17 up to $42; the last men¬ 
tioned was a fresh milch cow. We bought 
two for $23 per head. We bought a sow 
and nine pigs for $23.50, pigs three days 
old. Another sow with seven pigs ready 
to wean sold for $33. A team that cost 
three years ago $500 sold for $405. We 
bought $48 worth of corn in the stook at 
22 cents per shock. The rest sold for 23 
cents per stook. There were four bushels 
in six stooks. c. B. s. 
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