1911 
THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
1106 
MILK 
The New York Exchange price is .$1.91 
per 40-quart can, netting four cents per 
quart to shippers in 20-cent zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
Cattle, milch cows, are selling from $40 
to $00; hay $20 a ton. Buckwheat $1.50 
per 100; oats 55 cents per bushel. Milk 
is selling at 3% cents per quart at milk 
station at Erin. We have a cooperative 
creamery at Breesport, and pay the patrons 
the highest market quotations for butter, 
less three cents per pound for making and 
selling. The price was about 26 cents net 
for the month of September. Potatoes are 
selling from 60 cents to 80 cents per 
bushel. Young stock and old cows are 
selling cheap, as fodder and grain are so 
high. F. w. C. 
Breesport, N. Y. 
Prices paid for milk here, $1.40 per 100; 
average price per year, 3 cents per quart. 
Auction prices for live stock, October 17: 
Fresh cows. $50 to $75; yearlings, $27; 
strippers, $25 to $40: horses. $50 to $200. 
May, $10 to $15 per ton; silage, $3 to $5 
per ton. Market prices for veal calves, 
seven cents per pound; live weight, bulls, 
three'cents per pound; poultry, 10 cents 
per pound. Hogs, six cents per pound. 
Oats, 50 cents per bushel; corn. $1.50 per 
ion: potatoes, 60 cents per bushel; cab¬ 
bage, $10 per ton; apples, 60 cents per 
bushel; gluten, $33 per ton ; molasses feed, 
$25 to $30 per ton ; buckwheat, $1.30 per 
100 ; manure, $1 per load. H. L. H. 
Do Buy ter, N. Y r . 
We get for milk this month, October, 
$2 per hundred for 4.50 per cent milk, and 
3 cents added for each point till five per 
cent, making $2.15 per hundred for five 
pm* cent milk. November $2.05, Decem¬ 
ber $2. January $2, and February $1.90. 
This for flat price; add 15 cents for each 
hundred for five per cent milk. We sell 
to Sheffield Farms Slawson-Deekcr Co., 
New York City. Stock is very low this 
Fall. Spring cows are selling from $15 
to $25 each, and Fall cows and due to 
freshen soon at about $40. Hay is sold 
from $14 to $20 per ton. $14 for loose hay 
and $20 for baled hay. Silage and manure 
are seldom sold in this section; at least 
I never saw any sold. j. d. 
South Kortright, N. Y. 
Cold Water First. —It is quite a com¬ 
mon practice in washing milk utensils to 
start with hot water. This is not the best 
method. In boiling milk a skin forms on 
it. The hot water likewise hardens this 
on to the sides of the milk vessel, making 
it hard to remove. The better way is to 
first rinse the utensil in cold water, and it 
should be rinsed as soon as it is emptied 
of milk, or else the milk will dry'and then 
rinsing will not so thoroughly remove it.— 
N. D. Agrl. College. 
More About Borden Milk Prices. 
I was somewhat amused while reading 
the article on page 1061 entitled “Borden 
Prices and Dairying,” and am much more 
alarmed about the real situation than that 
some might get an “erroneous impression” 
from your previous editorial. I think 
there is more danger of II. C. M. giving 
an “erroneous impression” to those not fa¬ 
miliar with the facts. The clipping sent 
you was written by a resident of a neigh¬ 
boring town where a Borden plant is lo¬ 
cated. Neither this plant nor the town 
is situated in Otsego Co. The writer was 
justly loyal to his home town, and no 
doubt stated things correctly. But it is 
some of the statements made by II. C. M. 
to which I wish to refer. First he says 
by way of apology for the Borden’s reduc¬ 
tion of 12 cents that the butter value of 
milk is about 40 cents less than last 
year, while the fact is that previous to 
making their contract for six months from 
September 15 they had the knowledge that 
the market had recovered from the slump 
in early Spring, for in August butter fat 
brought within 15 cents per hundred pounds 
of milk at test of 4%% of one year ago, 
and September within five cents. These 
facts are proven by the prices the fann¬ 
ers received who patronize the plant which 
I imagine H. C. M. referred to, and is 
alarmed about its continuing in operation. 
He gives the Bordens credit for increase 
in farm values and improved farm build¬ 
ings in this locality. I admit that farm 
values have increased here as well as in 
sections of the country not yet acquired by 
the Bordens, and I assert that nine out of 
every ten in this vicinity who have made 
improvements of note have made them with 
capital which they possessed before the 
advent of the Bordens, or else it has come 
to them from some other source than pro¬ 
ducing milk, and so far as farm values 
doubling in 10 or 12 years that is simply 
absurd. I will admit an increase of from 
10 to 20%, and do not attribute this or 
the price of potatoes or apples or stock 
to the Bordens. Middlemen, and especially 
those having a monopoly, are not caught 
raising the price on the articles upon which 
they speculate farther than conditions com¬ 
pel. If my friend will get the late report 
of our Secretary of Agriculture lie will 
find that only one-third of the population 
of the country is engaged in agriculture, 
while a very few years ago two-thirds 
were engaged in that pursuit. With two- 
thirds of the population buying instead 
of producing I imagine prices would na¬ 
turally advance, and it seems to me the 
farmer is entitled to at least a small part 
of the advance. Your writer says: “We 
are getting from 50 to 100% more for 
milk than ever before,” but says nothing 
about the cost of labor, living, grain, etc. 
Surely I don’t know where he could have 
marketed his milk. Perhaps he has im¬ 
proved his method of production. There 
lias been no time in 25 years, even- in 
1885, when doubling the price would not 
top the Borden prices. The cooperative 
plant referred to has paid some months 
more than the Bordens, and for the first 
Six months of operation averaged better. 
Tfty> prices are comparatively better during 
the Stemimer months, when the flow of milk 
is large ^and cost of production least. Many 
°f our fajnners make no extra effort to 
run two dafS^es (one for Winter and one 
for Summer), Nlmt figure as much as possi¬ 
ble to make theY farm produce what milk 
they sell, and prefer to patronize our 
creamery atlier than put in ice, spend 
the time to cool, and otherwise meet the re¬ 
quirements of the Bordens. I have no 
prejudice against the Bordens, but on the 
other hand I favor competition as a small 
help in our present condition. Let my 
friend keep in mind that a farmer can 
make nothing on low prices, but if he ever 
makes anything it will be during a period 
of high prices, and I see no excuse for his 
working for nothing during low prices and 
then feeling sorry for the speculator and 
giving him all the cream during high prices. 
I am with the editor of The It. N.-Y. ; 
keep on educating the people, and public 
opinion will force the trusts and monopo¬ 
lies to loosen their grip e. v. f. 
September 15th on a Dairy Farm. 
The morning of September 15 found 
Hunt Farm folks out of bed by five o’clock, 
our usual hour except during the very busy 
time. We aim to be at the barn by that 
time and then through the Winter we 
even things up by staying a little longer 
in the morning. We were expecting silo 
fillers and thrashers. We plan to do both 
of these jobs at the same t-ime; while it 
makes rather a long trip for The good wife, 
she would rather have it so and then be 
through with it for a year. Five o’clock 
found the writer starting the kitchen fire 
and 5.15 in the cow barn milking the 
Jerseys. Spencer, our son, and the only 
one of o»r three boys who has decided that 
the farm is good enough for him, spent tht; 
hour until six caring for the horses, after 
which the milk was separated and at 6.30 
we were at the table. Forty-five minutes 
was there spent, and then the pigs, chick¬ 
ens and calves were fed. Half past seven 
found Spencer at the door with his horse 
and carriage, ready to hunt up the silo 
men and a little extra help. Just as he 
was starting the telephone rang and a 
call from Fuller Brothers, breeders c^f 
registered Holstein cattle, asking if Mr. 
Hunt could come right over to take some 
photographs of some young calves that 
they had advertised for sale. As my 
camera is always ready for any emergency, 
with the fastest plates made for use with 
live stock and slow isochromatic for land¬ 
scape views, I was in the carriage and on 
the way in less than live minutes after the 
call came. This calf has since sold for 
$300, Breeders of scrubs sit up and take 
notice. Spencer found that the silo men 
would be at Hunt Farm by the 18th, and 
he hustled home and 11 o’clock found him 
with the three horses hitched to the corn 
binder and the writer in tne darn, room 
developing the pictures taken of the live 
stock. 
At 12 we were all ready for dinner. 
Spencer spent the afternoon cutting corn 
while the writer spent an hour takiug a 
picture of a neighbor’s field that was com¬ 
pletely given over tc- weeds. Two hours 
were spent in putting salt on the weed 
Linaria vulgaris, or as it is commonly 
called, butter-and-eggs. This weed has a 
good start in this town, hardly a farm that 
is free from it. 
From four to five was spent visiting 
with my brother and his wife, who are 
on a visit here for the first time in 24 
years; five o’clock is milking time and it 
is done on time unless something unusual 
happens to prevent. Six found milking 
done, milk separated, calves fed, pigs also, 
and we were ready for supper. When I 
asked the housekeeper for her report of the 
day she says, “Why, I cooked three good 
meals, swept the floors, made the beds and 
a thousand other things.” The farm is a 
busy place if success is made, and this 
year has shown us the advantage more 
than ever before and value of driving the 
work instead of having the work drive us. 
To-day, October 23, I am taking a picture 
of a potato field that is ’way ahead of my 
report last year, and I suppose when “.T. 
B. W.” reads it he will think I am a good 
one to figure potato yields. 
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