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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 2, 
Local dairymen at Anderson, Ind., made 
an advance of one cent a quart in milk 
prices November 20. The new schedule is 
six cents a quart wholesale and seven cents 
retail. The dairymen explained that they 
could not meet with the requirements of 
the State Board of Health and sell milk at 
the old rates. The dealers have combined 
in the Anderson Dairy Association and are 
a unit in advancing prices. Eleven of the 
local dairymen were arrested the week pre¬ 
vious on 'charges brought by Deputy State 
Food Inspector Tucker, in which he alleged 
that most of the milk contained visible dirt. 
One dairyman pleaded guilty and paid a 
fine of $21 and costs. The newly formed 
association adopted a resolution asserting 
that the present pure food law should be 
repealed, and condemning Inspector Tucker, 
who has “treated them in an unfair man¬ 
ner,” they say. Charles E. Davis and Dan¬ 
iel Wilson were chosen to lay the resolution 
before the State Board of Health and to 
make formal charges of incompetcncy 
against Tucker. 
The “Ellis Milk Bill.” 
It seems generally acknowledged that 
Gov. Foss of Massachusetts owes his rc- 
elec.tion to the farmers, and more particu¬ 
larly to the milk producers. He vetoed 
what was known as the “Ellis Milk Bill” 
largely because the milk producers demand¬ 
ed it, and “the farmers stood by him.” 
The point at issue was that this Ellis bill 
was called a “consumers’ ” bill, framed from 
the standpoint of the people who buy and 
consume the milk. It centralized the con¬ 
trol of making and selling milk in the hands 
of the State Board of Health, giving the 
farming interests no representation what¬ 
ever. This lack of representation for milk 
producers was the argument against the 
bill, and the farmers sustained Gov. Foss 
for his veto. The following statement is a 
fair expression of the opinion of many 
farmers : 
“There was a strong feeling among the 
milk producers against giving the State 
Board of Health absolute power over their 
business, and there was the same feeling 
that the same rules would not be as strictly 
enforced ("if they could be at all) in the 
other States which also ship milk to the 
Boston market, as here in Massachusetts. 
Now our cattle and barns are inspected by 
local inspectors with satisfactory results, 
and with other laws in force there is little 
chance of impure milk going upon our mar¬ 
kets in this State. Perhaps as sensible a 
part of this bill as any as originally drawn 
was that which made a criminal of a man 
who sold even a quart of milk to a sick neigh¬ 
bor and did not have a State license to 
make milk. This was later amended so 
five quarts could be sold a day without such 
license. This amount evidently was de¬ 
cided upon to encourage some small farmer 
who wished to sell a few quarts to his 
neighbors to keep a rundown or farrow 
cow. If part of a cow’s milk was fit to 
sell, why forbid a man to sell the rest of 
it? I believe Gov. Foss did the right thing 
in vetoing this bill, and the reasons he gave 
for so doing should convince anyone of its 
injustice to the farming class. 
“In regard to my personal opinion, would 
say, first, that I am opposed to giving any¬ 
one absolute power over the business inter¬ 
ests of others: that it is not well for the 
average man to enjoy such power, or for 
others to submit to what they feel is an 
injustice without any chance of appeal. We 
have here a very arbitrary law for the pro¬ 
tection of roadside trees., and considered by 
some good lawyers as unconstitutional, 
where absolute power is given one man. I 
know such power can be used unjustly and 
even for graft: that such laws as en¬ 
forced is a great hardship to the small pro¬ 
ducer. Massachusetts has many small farms 
where former owners earned part of their 
living working for others in small shops 
built upon their own farms. Those are 
abandoned to-day. and many such places 
support a family by producing a variety of 
products for local markets: eggs. milk, 
vegetables, fruit, etc., and even wood and 
lumber on its poorer land, and all can be 
sold within a few miles of home. Such a 
man finds it hard to follow rules that 
might not injure the business of a large 
dairyman. There are many opportunities 
for those who wish to sell their labor here 
and the milk producers find the labor prob¬ 
lem harder as the years roll by. They do 
not object to clean and pure milk or rules 
which they can practically carry out: but 
cast-iron rules are hard to make which fit 
the cohditions of all. Will they, by their 
weight, crush the life out of the under dog 
in the fight of the small producer for a 
living wage, is a question the future must 
decide.” h. o. mead. 
A Fake Cow Trade. 
Here is a new one in the cow fraud line. 
We have told several times of the rogue 
who steals a good cow out of a pasture and 
leads her through the country for trade or 
sale. This liar usually has a job off some¬ 
where and must dispose of the old “family 
cow.” He hates to let her go so cheap, 
but is compelled to do so. The buyer 
thinks he has a great bargain, only to find 
he has bought a stolen cow and must give 
her up. The new fake operates as told by 
one of the victims : 
“A man came to my home last Saturday 
in my absence, and prevailed upon my wife 
by misleading and false statements to ex¬ 
change our cow for one he was leading. Our 
cow was a fairly good cow, sound, and 
giving eight to nine quarts of milk and 
worth $45. Upon my return an hour and 
a half later I recognized his cow as one 
kept all Summer in the vicinity, and which 
w r as considered to be affected with tuber¬ 
culosis and unsalable at any price to any 
man who knew the cow. She is a finely 
bred cow, as he contended. He made my 
wife believe she would give five or six 
quarts of milk, and better, with good treat¬ 
ment (which latter claim is no doubt truer. 
As a fact she gives three quarts. He said 
positively and repeatedly, in answer to her 
recreated questions on that point, that she 
was sound and all right. I have applied t - 
the State Veterinary to have her tested : if 
she is free from tuberculosis I should reckon 
my loss at $30 at least, as it is a question 
if she could be brought up to a flow of 
milk that would pay for feed alone through 
the Winter. If she reacts I would not have 
had her put into my stable for the time 
I shall have to keep her if he had piven me 
the cow and a ten-dollar bill. He could 
not have induced my wife to swap the cows 
if he had declined to state so positively 
that the cow was sound. He even had the 
nerve to try to get $10 to boot. I ought to 
add that he started away with his cow 
after my wife had said she couldn't do any¬ 
thing about it, but his statements about 
the value of the cow had made such an 
impression upon my wifi® that she thought 
it was letting an unusual opportunity slip, 
and she called him back to ask if he would 
trade. Before that he had tried to sell her 
the cow for $30, saying he had paid $25 
to a poor woman, etc., etc. 
How Milk Inspectors Vary. 
The following report is from a govern¬ 
ment expert. It will show the injustice 
which may be done a farmer when his milk 
is accepted or rejected on the basis of our 
arbitrary “inspection” : 
“I was recently invited to go into a 
certain Illinois town to instruct the in¬ 
spectors in the use of the score card, and 
to familiarize them with my ideas relative 
to the subject. The first day we scored 
only two dairies, one in the forenoon and 
one in the afternoon, taking plenty of time 
to discuss among ourselves and with the 
dairymen each item involved and the rea¬ 
sons for the score assigned to each. The 
next day we went to another dairy and each 
one scored it. working independent of the 
others. When we had finished our scores 
were compared, and the result is shown be¬ 
low : 
Equip¬ 
ment. Methods. Total. 
Inspector . 11.90 12.00 24.50 
Mr. A. 10.25 12.70 22.95 
Mr. B. 9.80 11:45 21.25 
Mr. C. 14.75 13.80 28.55 
“The widest difference was 7.3. The 
smallest difference between any two was 
1.7. One was 1.55 below me and another 
one was 3.25 below me, while the high man 
was 4.5 above me. 
“This seems to me to be a fair illustra¬ 
tion of the beauties of the score card sys¬ 
tem of inspection in that different persons 
scoring the same dairy, even when some of 
them are considerably inexperienced, will 
come as near together as the above figures 
indicate. The rating of a dairy when prop¬ 
erly done is not a thing of mystery and un¬ 
certainty. Any milk producer who will be 
honest with himself can score his dairy as 
well as the inspector, and the final rating 
will come very near being in absolute agree¬ 
ment. I have had a few bits of experiences 
where the dairyman was more severe with 
himself than I was, and rated his dairy a 
few points lower than the figures I gave it.” 
At an auction on November 13, cows 
coming fresh next Spring were $20 to $30 
each; fresh cows, $40 to $00; yearlings, 
$15; last Spring calves, $7. This stock 
was common or scrub, and not in very 
good condition. Horse, weight, 1,300 
pounds, 20 years old. sound and a good 
one, $50; horse, 17 years, $74; eight-weeks- 
old pigs, $2; brood sows. $12 to $16; hay, 
$20 per tou, which is $4 or $5 above gen¬ 
eral market. Potatoes, 75 cents per bushel. 
Apples are worth here 30 to 50 cents; not 
much demand for them. Butter. 25 to 35 
cents per pound. Local creameries run on 
cooperative plau paid 35 cents for butter 
fat for mouth of October. Milk at Mont¬ 
rose. Pa., Bordens, with Borden prices. At 
South Montrose, 10 cents under Bordens’ 
for four per cent milk. c. D. d. 
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In 14 Colors,, 
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BEAUTIFUL PAINTING 
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In 14 Colors 
Do You Expect To See The Day When These 
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Dan Patch 1:55 
1 Mile in - - - 
- - 1:55 
1 Mile in - 
- - 1:55% 
2 Miles in 
- 1:56 
14 Miles Averaging - 
- - 1:56% 
30 Miles Averaging 
- - 1:57% 
45 Miles Averaging - 
. - 1:58 
73 Miles Averaging 
- - 1:59% 
120 Miles Averaging - 
- - 2:02% 
Dan Has Broken World Records 14 Times. 
Dan is also Leading 2:10 Sire of the World for liis age. 
Sire of ‘‘Dazzle Patch” the Greatest Speed Marvel 
of tho World’s History, which paced a half mile in 
fifty-nine seconds, and one-eighth of a mile in 
thirteen seconds, a 1:44 Clip, when only 28 months 
old, in 1911. Also Pearl Patch 4 year trial 2:04, 
Some of Dan’s Colts will be Champion Trotters AS 
well as Pacers. Why not Raiso or Buy One? 
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Ho has paced more Extremely Fast Miles than all the Combined 
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