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'artiH, RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
M ILK. 
The New York Exchange pr’.ce is $2.01 
per 40-quart can, netting. 4*4 cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-cent zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
The patrons of the Dairy Products Co., 
at Bainbridge, N. Y., held a meeting in re¬ 
sponse to the call of their executive com¬ 
mittee January 13,. and as a result of their 
action received from the Casein Mlg. Co., 
100 per cent of their pay for November 
and December milk remaining unpaid, less 
about two per cent expenses of the com¬ 
mittee. Under the present arrangement the 
farmers have contracted their milk until 
October 1, 1912, to the Supplee Alderney 
Dairy Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., at Borden 
price's. This company lias leased the cream¬ 
ery building of the Casein Mfg. Co. 
A public meeting of the New York Milk 
Committee was held January 22 at the 
United Charities Building to discuss meth¬ 
ods for insuring a cleaner and safer milk 
supply in New York City. Dr. Charles E. 
Nortli gave a comprehensive idea of what 
was being accomplished at the milk sta¬ 
tion of the Dairy Demonstration Comapny, 
at Horner, N. Y., where, by paying the 
dairymen premiums to obtain milk with a 
minimum per cent of bacteria. Stephen G. 
William®, chairman of the New York Milk 
Committee, then threw the meeting open 
for discussion. Taking advantage of the op- 
portunity a man spoke who said he was 
Myer I. ‘ Bloch, a former milk dealer, who 
had been forced to retire from business be¬ 
cause of agitation aroused by the New 
York Miik Committee and similar organiza¬ 
tions. He characterized the movement as 
an evil which would tend to drive the small 
dealer out of business, and he sought to 
prove that milk delivered from a can was 
as healthful as the most carefully bottled 
article. Four hundred milk dealers invited 
to attend the meeting stayed away. 
Health Commissioner Ledcrle of New 
York said January 22 that two-thirds of 
the milk dealers in this city had reported 
to the Board of Health what grade or class 
of milk they would sell under the new 
classified schedule adopted recently by the 
board. In all, 000 dealers were requested 
to inform the board by January 18 what 
grade or grades they expected to sell, and 
as a third of them have not yet signified 
their intention, Commissioner Lederle said 
they would soon have to do so. or the 
board would “jack them up” to know the 
reason for the delay. The Health Commis¬ 
sioner said the public did not realize as 
yet what a stupendous change would soon 
be brought about by the compliance with 
the board's milk regulation project. He 
declared that as soon as all the dealers 
had been heard from the board would be¬ 
gin enforcing the order as rapidly as was 
possible. , , , 
“It will not only affect the nnlk deal¬ 
ers,” said Commissioner Lederle, “but the 
farmer as well. The man. who has a dairy 
that is not up to sanitary requirements 
will find he cannot make as much profit 
as the farmer who has a thoroughly sani¬ 
tary dairy. A safe milk will be •within 
the' reach’of rich and poor alike when the 
whole order is in force.” 
BOSTON MILK. ___ 
The supply of milk and demand for same 
for Boston consumption is about normal. 
Still the large contractors are not over sup¬ 
plied, and the Whitings are looking for 
new routes in Sterling and other towns 
where there may be an opening to secure 
a supply of good milk. They are also 
offering to take all the milk sent from their 
present routes at the regular station price, 
which is 35 and 36 cents per sy 2 quart can. 
Graustein & Co. have offered to take back 
and pay in advance for the same a supply 
of milk which they formerly received but 
which has lately been shipped to an inde¬ 
pendent peddler who has failed and thus 
left the farmers in a hole. The usual course 
of the contractors is to begin to restrict 
the amount they will take in January, as 
milk often becomes more plentiful about 
this time. However this Winter grain is 
high and fodder also, especially good hay. 
and many are short of feed and obliged to 
sell some' of their stock at sacrifice prices. 
Stock that is in good condition enough to 
sell for beef brings fair prices, but anything 
else except first-class large milkers sells 
for the buyer’-s own price. There seems to 
be a difference of opinion by good authori¬ 
ties, even doctors, about sterilized and pas¬ 
teurized milk. Some of these think that 
milk so treated is dangerous for infant 
consumption, and that clean pure milk is 
much saf 9 r and better to use. One doctor 
so lectured at the Harvard Medical School 
a short time since. About the same time 
Dr. Charles E. North advocated that all 
milk should be sterilized, stating this was 
more important than inspection. There 
also seems to be an awakening in the mat¬ 
ter of inspection of dairies, some now tak¬ 
ing the common-sense view that more de¬ 
pends on the man who looks after the 
dairy in regard to producing pure and clean 
milk than on the stable. This view is held 
by the Secretary of the State Board of 
Agriculture, Dr. North, and many other 
prominent men. Something certainly 
should be done to reduce the inspection to 
one authoritative head, and thus cut down 
expense and in the end have more common 
sense conditions and better results. 
The B. C. M. P. U. held their annual 
meeting this week at Boston, and elected 
now directors and officers. The general 
situation and condition of milk production 
and disposal of same was gone over and 
new plans discussed to better the general 
condition, which is not now and has not 
in the past been satisfactory to the mem¬ 
bers or farmers in general. It is hoped and 
expected that good will come out of this, 
and that all will take hold and push the 
matter ahead and improve conditions all 
along the line. There is much to be done 
and much will be done if everybody does 
Ills part, as we think they will and show 
they have confidence in the future of this 
body and the things it stands for. namely 
better prices, better conditions and fair 
treatment. Another meeting will be held 
in February to complete the reorganiza¬ 
tion and plans now considered. One im¬ 
portant move made will be to establish the 
secretary in an ofiice in Boston to spend 
his whole time looking after the interests 
of the organization, and keep in touch with 
conditions, etc., of the market at all times. 
and so be in best possible position to take 
advantage of conditions favorable to us 
when such occasions occur. 
The New England Homestead has always 
denounced the Saunders Milk law, as has 
also the B. C. M. P. U., claiming the 
farmers got more for their milk by selling 
to contractors under the old leased ear 
plan, and furthermore, that the less num¬ 
ber of contractors or milk buyers there are 
in the field the better the price we would 
obtain. But there is another way to look 
at this matter. Suppose only one con¬ 
tractor supplied the milk to Boston and 
every farmer had to go to him to sell his 
milk, said contractor could pay about what 
he pleased to any section. He could pay a 
fair price in one place until he got a good 
trade started; at the same time in an¬ 
other place cut the price to balance this. 
The farmer would be obliged to sell to him 
or go out of business. If the farmers 
should strike, the single contractor could 
by paying a little extra in other sections 
get all the milk he wanted. There would 
be plenty of folks ready to sell if offo v <xi 
a little bonus. If for instance Maine 
farmers were being offered 40 cents per 
can and Connecticut farmers were only 
getting 32 cents; think the Maine farmers 
would refuse to sell for the 40 cents until 
Connecticut was paid the same? I much 
doubt it. I may be dead wrong, but I 
think it safer to have a little competition 
than have one man or one company of men 
control things. I believe a contractor should 
have the right to lease a car if his business 
demands it, and the majority of producers 
from the section in which he loads said 
car are willing, and I think present laws 
which perhaps do not allow this could 
and should be amended so this could be 
done. We know that the Whitings who 
now control a large share of the Boston 
milk market and have interests in Provi¬ 
dence and Worcester are dead against the 
present Saunders law, and would give a 
good deal to see it repealed. Why is this 
when the extra cost of shipping milk above 
the old leased car rate has not come out 
of their pocket but out of the farmers? 
Is it because the Whitings love the farmers 
so well they hate to see them paying this 
extra cost? This may be the case, but 1 
think few believe it. a. e. p. 
Ilopkinton, Mass. 
Prices for Western Butter. 
Not long since a reader at Monmouth. 
Ill., sent us his local paper with prices for 
farm products in the local market. Among 
other items we found the following : 
“MONMOUTH CREAMERY PRICES. 
“We pay 37c. per lb. for butter fat. 
“Price subject to change every Tuesday. 
“MERCHANT S PRICES. 
“The following quotations, paid by Mon¬ 
mouth retail grocers, are furnished daily* by 
Scott Bros. & Co. : Butter, 32c. ; eggs, 30c.” 
It seemed strange that butter fat should 
sell at 37 cents while farm butter brought 
25, and we wrote the Monmouth Creamery 
about it. The reply follows: 
“The daily quotations by our local papers 
of local products is generally incorrect and 
unreliable. At the time of this advertise¬ 
ment the creamery was paying 37 cents for 
butter fat, and sold their butter to the 
local merchants for 37 cents. The mer¬ 
chant retailed it out at 40 to 42 cents. At 
that time he would be selling country but¬ 
ter around 35 or 37 cents, for which he 
would be paying around 30 cents to the 
farmer. At the time of the advertisement 
they were probably paying Mr. Farmer 
around 30 cents for his butter. This cream¬ 
ery was but recently organized, and al¬ 
ready the merchants are finding a scarcity 
of country butter, as many of the farmers 
find it very convenient and very profitable 
to sell their cream to us. The local mer¬ 
chants for a long time have paid the farmer 
pretty much what they pleased for his but¬ 
ter, but since our organization they will 
have to bid more for the butter or he will 
sell his cream.” 
Fat cattle four to six cents; hogs, 5% 
to six cents live weight; horses, sound, 
$100 to $250; milch cows, $00 to $125. 
Hay, $20 to $24 per ton; corn, 60 cents 
per bushel; wheat, $1 per bushel; oats, 50 
cents per bushel; potatoes, $1 per bushel; 
straw, 25 cents per bale; chickens^ eight 
cents per pound live weight. Butter, 35 
cents; cream, 20 cents per pint; milk. 10 
cents per quart; no milk shipped. Eggs, 
40 cents per dozen. No silage sold. Ma¬ 
nure. 25 cents per load. i. a. P. 
Illinois. 
There were a large number of public 
sales last Fall, goods and stock selling high 
for quality. Good horses sell for from $150 
to $200; hay, $15 to $18; Alfalfa hay, $20; 
stock cattle, four to five cents a pound; 
milch cows, $40 to $60 each; hogs, six 
cents: milk, $1.25 per 100 pounds; butter 
fat. 35 cents. No hog cholera. Some corn 
to husk yet on account of too much rain. 
Clover seed, $11; apples, 50 to 75 cents; a 
large crop but not keeping well. Potatoes, 
80 to 90 cents; farmers’ butter, 25 cents; 
eggs, 30 cents. No silage sold. Farmers 
are just beginning to build silos and raise 
Alfalfa. We have 25 acres which is cut 
three times, three tons to acre. t. c. k. 
Dekalb Co., Ind. 
Silo Experience. —Reading in The R. 
N.-Y., page 44. of silos, would say that I 
have been building silos for 16 years, cob 
house, stave with rod-hoops and with wood 
hoops. The wood hoop is the best that I 
have found. I built one 16 years ago and 
it is just as good now as ever. I have calls 
for many of them now, but have to let 
someone else build them as I am 78 years 
old and must stop. They are put up with 
two thicknesses of one-inch boards with tar 
paper between; they are freer from frost 
than the four-inch cob house. If more 
than 12 feet is needed I should advise two 
instead of one larger. In C. L. M.’s an¬ 
swer he says that the ouward pressure is 
considerable. I will give my experience of 
this. I cut into a 12-foot silo about 26 feet 
high one day and the next day about three 
feet more, when the barn and silo burned 
and left the silage standing. It stood there 
three days before it tipped over. This 
proved to me that there was but little 
pressure outwards. g. d. s. 
Angelica, N. 1'. 
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