1912. 
170 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
JVE I L 
Tbe New York Exchange price is $2.01 
per 40-quart can, netting 4%. cents per 
quart to shippers in 26-eent zone who have 
no additional station charges. 
Very “Rich" Milk. 
I inclose a clipping that may interest 
you. The situation is certainly rich, what¬ 
ever may be thought about the milk. 
New Britain, Conn. w. G. u. 
The clipping referred to is taken from 
the Hartford Courant and is evidently the 
dream of some reporter: 
“At this juncture Mr. Davis called at¬ 
tention to an exhibit on the stage showing 
the difference in production from cows. On 
one side of the stage was shown the aver¬ 
age daily production of the Connecticut cow, 
which was live quarts of milk and four 
pounds of butter. The daily rations for the 
average cow were bulletined as follows: 
Hay, 15 ibs. at $20 ton.15 
Corn stalks, 1 bun. at $8 ton.02 
Corninoal, 6 lbs. at $80 ton.09 
Bran, 2 Ibs. at $26..... .03 
Water, 75 lbs... 
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“In great contrast to this exhibit was 
one day’s production from one Connecticut 
cow not yet three years old, whose product 
for one certain day was 44 quarts of milk 
or 21 pounds of butter. This splendid ani¬ 
mal’s average daily output for one year 
was 15 quarts of milk, eight pounds of but¬ 
ter. The daily rations for this Connecti¬ 
cut cow were not so much more expensive 
than the other, and were given as follows: 
Silage, 40 ibs. at $5 ton.10 
Hay, 10 lbs. at $20 ton.10 
Mixed grain, 10 lbs. at $30 ton.15 
Water, 100 lbs. 
The dairy business is in its infancy rn 
this part of western Illinois. Our land 
here is very valuable, around $200 or bet¬ 
ter for our best land, and the farmers raise 
corn, oats and some wheat and keep, as a 
rule, only enough cows to furnish them¬ 
selves with butter, cream and milk. A 
good many cattle (steers) are fed around 
here, and in that way they dispose of a 
great deal of the corn. The cattle are pur¬ 
chased in the West and fed from 30’ days 
to several months, depending npon the size 
of the steer when purchased. Some (very 
few) of the farmers have a herd of several 
cows and find them very profitable, and 
since the new creamery was started I think 
there will be more cows purchased. There 
are very few silos here, but those who 
have them are very enthusiastic over them, 
and I believe they will soon come into gen¬ 
eral use in our neighborhood, as they have 
in the eastern part of the State. The 
farmers here feed their cows clover hay 
and shock fodder, that is. corn cut when 
green and before the corn is picked and put 
up into shocks. Some farmers give their 
cows ear corn, while others will have the 
com ground. The cow business, I think, 
has been sadly neglected in this region. 
The quality of the cows in general is poor ; 
no attention lias been given to feeding them 
in a scientific manner ; very few cow barns 
are in evidence to give them warm Winter 
quarters. The chief objection to them on 
the part of our farmers is the work re¬ 
quired in keeping and milking them. 
Monmouth, Ill. j. a. T. 
This causes our correspondent to break 
out into song as follows : 
I often heai-d of cows and sicb. that fur¬ 
nished milk amazin’ rich ; but these here 
cows sure take the cake, unless it’s some 
reporter’s fake. With butter 43 per pound, 
the man who owns a plot of ground and 
four or five such cows as these, must wade 
in wealth up to his knees. Connecticut, 
great is thy fame! Your cows put other 
cows to shame, from Maine to Gulf and 
Golden Gate, you beat them all as sure as 
fate. They boast of six per cent of fat 
from fancy stock, just think of that, while 
yours, my thoughts I cannot utter, are giv¬ 
ing eight-tenths liquid butter ! w. g. b. 
I know of no one around here who does 
not depend on pasture and the feed store 
for most of their Summer feed, and most 
of them cut out the feed store. Most of 
the farms in this vicinity contain consid¬ 
erable rough laud, and the low prices re¬ 
ceived from the cheese factories do nut 
offer a great inducement to the farmers to 
be progressive. Of course it is the pro¬ 
gressive farmers who are making the great¬ 
est profits, nevertheless low prices tend to 
discourage those who are just “hanging on.” 
Western New York. m. 
The annual meeting of the Chautauqua, 
N. Y„ Co-Operative Creamery Association 
was held recently. There was a good at¬ 
tendance of stockholders present, and the 
reports as presented wore highly satisfac¬ 
tory, as they showed that the association 
is now entirely free from debt and on a 
paying basis. Among other figures pre¬ 
sented were: Number of pounds of milk 
received during the year, 2,938,689; num¬ 
ber pounds of cream. 323.253 ; pounds of 
butter made, 200.900. The amount of 
money paid to patrons during the year was 
$54,842.82. 
Is Up to Producers. 
I appreciate your effort to get for the 
producer more of the consumer’s dollar, but 
it is uphill work when the producer will not 
help himself. Here we are trying to en¬ 
courage the dairy industry, but have had a 
hard road to travel, owing to the) fact that 
it has been hard to get a fair price for our 
cream. The creameries would all agree on 
a price, and four years ago we were getting 
as low as seven cents below the Elgin quo¬ 
tation. ^Ve then organized 1 the Ozark Dairy j 
Association, and have raised the price till 
we now get one-half cent under Elgin, and 
the creameries which last year offered us 
2 y 2 cents under Elgin have been paying 
one-half cent more for cream in the towns 
where we have an organization. Some of 
our members will even take their cream over 
there and merely help to keep us down, and 
many farmers will not join at all on ac¬ 
count of the one-half cent, when they know 
that in this country where there is no organ¬ 
ization the farmers are getting three cents 
less than we are. What can we do when 
our own people will not help? It is all 
right to knock the middleman, but little 
can be done until we get the producers to 
see tbe necessity of sticking together. As 
long as so many producers will sell them¬ 
selves for a few pennies there is not much 
hope. We have been doing very well; we 
have an organization of 720 farmers, and 
have 13 stations. Keep the good work 
going, and maybe some day they will wake 
up. N. p. J. 
Seymour, Mo. 
An investigation is being made hy the 
N. Y. City District Attorney to determine 
whether the present high prices of butter 
and eggs can be traced to an unlawful 
combination of dealers. There is no doubt 
as to the fact that speculation and a gen¬ 
eral understanding among dealers is the 
cause of the excessive prices, but whether 
any unlawful acts can be proven remains to 
be seen, as men become skillful in technical¬ 
ly keeping the law and yet evading it in 
spirit. 
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For information write C. L. Yager & Co., Binghamton, N.Y. 
Letter to a Congressman. 
We are often asked what to say to a Con¬ 
gressman when we ask his support for needed 
legislation. As a rule one should write just 
what he has in mind and use his own lan¬ 
guage. Here is a good letter one of our 
readers wrote Hon. Theo. W. Beardsley,, 
who represents the 20th District of New 
York—the counties of Sullivan, Orange and 
Rockland : 
“Dear Sir : A strong and clever campaign 
is being conducted at this time by those in¬ 
terested in the manufacture of oleomargar¬ 
ine to secure the x’epeal of the 10 cent tax 
now imposed on the product when it is col¬ 
ored to imitate butter. Articles and editor¬ 
ials, evidently inspired, are. appearing in 
the press calling attention to tbe iniquity 
of the tax and the resulting high price of 
butter—a manifest absurdity when one con¬ 
siders that the price of colored oleo, tax 
and all, is still far below the price of but¬ 
ter and that it can be purchased uncolored, 
for just what it is, without the tax or the 
added price thei’eof. Butter is in short 
supply and high and it is undoubtedly being 
maintained, so far as the oleo interests can 
control it, at high figures in order to in¬ 
fluence opinion concerning the oleo tax 
which they are fighting to have repealed. 
“Anyone can now buy oleomargarine for 
just what it is—without the tax if uncei- 
ored, or with the price of the tax added 
if they desire the colored product, and in 
all probability the chief result of the re¬ 
peal of the tax would be the sale of much 
colored oleomargarine as butter in spite of 
laws designed to prevent this, resulting in 
fraud on the consumer and injury to the 
producer of real butter. It is an unfor¬ 
tunate fact that the farmer lacks the ma¬ 
chinery and often the initiative to combat 
such a campaign as is now being made b.v 
the oleo men, but that they may become 
alive to tbe issue has been demonstrated 
before in this State, and we urge that your 
influence and vote be used to uphold tbe 
interests both of the agriculturist and the 
ultimate consumer; these interests in the 
last analyses are common. h. g. 
For Worms This Month 
Read 
These 
Four 
Letters 
I’ll Stop Your Worm Losses 
I’ll Prove ft Before You Pay 
Don’t let worms breed contagious diseases among your hogs this year. 
Don’t let them kill off the young pigs and rob you of your season’s profits. You can prevent it 
if you will just take “a stitch in time.” Now is the time when worms begin to get in their deadly 
work. Now they are breeding, multiplying* by the millions in the stomach and intestines, and if 
you don’t get the best of them, they will surely get the best of you. Let me show you how. I’ll 
get rid of stomach and] free intestinal worms in your hogs, sheep, horses and cattle and prove 
it to your satisfaction (not mine) before you pay me a cent. I’ll do it with 
THADt MARK 
Rii u s. pAT.orr. 
my hogs double their 
weight in 50 days. It is 
a great conditioner 
and worm de- 4 
stroyer. / 
E.E. SHULL, 
LaCynge, 
Kansas. 
The Great Worm Destroyer and Conditioner 
I’ve done it for thousands and in addition they write me they never had stock 
thrive better, look better and bring them such profitable returns. Here is my offer to you. 
Send No Money — Just the Coupon 
Simply fill in the coupon, tell me how many head of hogs, sheep, horses and 
cattle you have. I will then ship you enough Sal-Vet to-last them 60 days. You- pay the small 
freight charge when it arrives—put it where all your stock can get free access to it— and 1 they 
will doctor themselves. They eat ft as they do salt—just as they need it, and at the end of 
the 60 days if you don’t feel satisfied, write me and I’ll cancel the charge. I take your word as 
final—I let you act as judge of its merit—I put everything up to you. How can you risk loss— 
how can you let your stock drag along when they should be thriving, growing into profit when 
such a fair, open offer like this is put at your disposal? You have all to gain—nothing to risk. 
Fill out and mail the coupon now. Don’t put it off—lest you forget. Read the letters above. 
Sidney R.Feil, Pres.—The S. R. FEIL CO _Dept. RNY Cleveland, Ohio 
Prices : 40 lbs., $2.25; 100 lbs., $5.00; 200 lbs., $9.00: 300 !bs., $13.00; 500 lbs.. $21.12 '* ^ ^ 
Sal-Vet always comes in original “Trade-Marked “Packages. Never sold loose in _ _ 
Look for the ‘ 'Sal- Vet' * trade-mark—it is your'protection against imitations and substitutes /’ 
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I have been in the hog business for 
30 years and have tried every known 
remedy for hogs, but have never found 
anything equal to your Sal-Vet. It cer¬ 
tainly does the work and is easy to 
feed. I feed it to little pigs, boars,preg¬ 
nant sows and find it O. K. I will 
never be without Sal-Vet. 
C. F. MARSHALL & SON, 
Per G. F. M. Monroe, la. 
“I had a lot of sick hogs and I lost 
five of them. I began feeding them Sal- 
Vet, my losses stopped and the hogs 
soon got into a fine, healthy condition. 
V. P. UNDERWOOD. 
R. D. No. 1, Roachdale, Ind. 
While I cannot say positively Sal-Vet 
kept my hogs from having Cholera, I 
had no such sickness while my neigh¬ 
bors almostwithout exception losthogs 
from Cholera. I certainly have great 
faith in Sal-Vet and it is all and more 
than you claim for it. 
J. C. CONOVER, 
Chrisman, Ill. a 
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while feeding a bunch of fat- 4 
tening hogs and can say it Jr 
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