1912. 
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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
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N. Y. Exchange price $1.91 per 40-quart 
can, netting four cents to shippers in 26- 
cent zone. 
Hay is not graded here, and milk is not 
sold, only what is retailed in the town; 
that brings six and seven cents per quart; 
the milk is separated and cream sent to the 
creamery. The price received at the 
Spring Hill Co-operative Creamery for De¬ 
cember was for butter fat 41.8; for butter, 
35.5 cents. There is no silage or manure 
sold here, only a few loads of manure from 
town that go for 25 cents to $1 per load. 
Waupaca, Wis. w. h. 
Cows bring from $40 to $85, with fancy 
occasionally reaching $100. Silage seldom 
sold. Hay $16 to $20 in barn. Short crop. 
Manures never sold except as they go in a 
farm sale. I think milk brings about 25 
cents for an eight-quart can, but most Ash- 
field people send cream to the Ashfield Co¬ 
operative Creamery, which paid 39 cents 
per pound for butter fat for the month of 
December. January is more, but have not 
the figure at hand, as a month is kept in 
arrears. Hothouse lambs about $11.25 at 
present date. R. c. H. 
Ashfield, Mass. 
Corn 79 cents and most of it is poor 
quality. Hay is selling for a fair price; 
clover $14, mixed, $16, and Timothy $1S. 
There is not any silage around here for 
sale, but 1 think it is worth about $3.50 
per ton. Manure is worth 50 cents per load, 
chicken manure 50 cents per barrel. Cattle 
5 to 5Vi cents per pound, according to 
grade; cows, $30 to $50. Good horses from 
$150 to $200. I do not know just what 
milk is selling for now; I make butter. 
Potatoes, $1.10 per bushel; eggs, 36 cents 
per dozen. B. F. w. 
Hanover, Ind. 
Hay (Timothy), per ton, $20; Red-top, 
$12; clover, $25 ; oats, per bushel, 55 cents; 
corn, 75; grass seed (Rod-top), $18 per 
100 pounds; Timothy seed, $19 per 100. 
Cattle and hogs, local dealers always fol¬ 
low St. Louis market reports. The auction 
sale idea does not give a fair price in this 
locality. Milk delivered at the door sells 
for eight cents per quart. Eggs are now 
35 cents per dozen, and country butter 30 
cents per pound; creamery 42 cents. 
Chickens, eight and 10 cents; turkeys at 
the holiday season were the cheapest in 
years, selling at 22 cents. ,s. b. n. 
Flora, Ill. 
No manure and silage sold about here to 
my knowledge. Good hay selling from $18 
to $22 per ton. Potatoes, 85 cents to $1 
per bushel. Beef, $7 per 100 dressed, pork 
$8 to $10 per hundred; poultry 16 to 20 
cents dressed. No sheep raised; veal, 
dressed, 10 to 12 cents per pound. This 
section is devoted almost entirely to dairy¬ 
ing, producing cream which is gathered 
from the patrons and taken to Easthamp- 
ton to the creamery. During 3 911 the price 
of butter fat (that is what the cream pro¬ 
duces) ran from 33 to 41 cents per 
pound, an average for the year of 37 y 2 
cents; this cream is produced mostly by 
using various makes of separators, some 
using the creamer. The test of cream 
ranges from 15 to 30 per cent butter fat. 
The creamery remits to its patrons the 
20th of each month for the amount of 
cream for the month preceding. The skim- 
milk goes to the raising of pigs and calves. 
But few potatoes or other vegetables raised 
to sell. On account of high price of hay 
and grain, milch cows are selling much less 
than a year ago. They can be bought at 
present fresh from $35 to $60; a year ago 
they were bringing from $50 to $85. 
Ches' . 
lesterfield. Mass. 
H. L. M. 
“MILK AND WAR.’ 
your demands are complied with. This 
does not sound like peace to me. Every¬ 
body is demanding something from every¬ 
body. If the State has any business with 
you, you are ordered to do so and so in 
the curtest possible manner upon the most 
trivial subjects, and the law is freely 
quoted to you even if the communication 
is written upon a postal simply notifying 
you that the State has a little business 
with you. It is made very plain to you 
that it will be useless for you to say any¬ 
thing for yourself, as they know you to be 
a rank violator of the law, and that if your 
lawless career is not checked the public 
will suffer untold hardships. 
Getting Russianized. —It seems to me 
that in some respects our government grows 
to resemble the Russian government more 
every year in that excuses are being found 
to pry into everyone’s most private affairs. 
When Russia was upon the verge of war 
with Japan she advocated the abolition of 
war. I sincerely hope that President Taft’s 
efforts to promote peace will not turn out 
the same as the Czar’s did. It does not 
look like peace to me to have inspectors 
as thick as mosquitoes on a Jersey marsh, 
all demanding that you do something differ¬ 
ent from what you have been in the habit 
of doing, with one headed for your barn, 
another for your beehives, one or more for 
your fruit trees, together with the numer¬ 
ous census takers, school inspectors, moth 
catchers, cattle bureau men, slaughterhouse 
inspectors coming singly and in droves, is 
enough to make a peaceable man shiver, 
and if he becomes nervous and is afraid 
he will do something desperate if he does 
not get out of sight, and so he takes to 
the tall timber, he is liable to find men walk¬ 
ing around there, protecting the squirrels, 
rabbits, deer, crows, etc., which will later 
help destroy his crops. If you have had an 
idea that you owned this land and could 
control it you will be surprised to find that 
these gentlemen have posted signs telling 
you what your rights are this year, but 
next year they will be different and a new 
inspector will come around who was put in 
by a new batch of legislators, everyone of 
w'hom must get some new law or fad 
through or be • forever discredited. 
Making Inspectors. —The thought often 
occurs to me that if we continue to in¬ 
crease our inspectors in number we shall 
have to have some way to identify them. 
I do not feel like having perfect strangers 
poking around my premises. Anyone can 
put on a tin badge and gain admission to 
your property and do you much damage, 
perhaps, before you have found out the 
fraud. All these things don’t look like 
peace to me but seem more like some one 
was looking for a fight. I never had so 
much law quoted to me in the first 40 
years of my life as I have had in the past 
four years, and I don’t believe I am so 
good a citizen to-day as I was four years 
ago, and judging by the way other people 
with whom I come in contact, talk and act, 
it is having the same effect upon others 
also. In these days when everybody has to 
have a license to do anything, I often think 
of the liquor licenses granted in cities (an 
old relic of selling indulgences). This is the 
way it works. You work for my man and 
you will get your license if my man is 
elected, which depends upon how much you 
do for him. How long will it be before 
all licenses are obtained in the same way? 
Massachusetts. Harris b. chase. 
An Inspector-Ridden State. 
PART I. 
Saving Babies. —At the present time 
it is fashionable to talk of saving babies 
by demanding that farmers furnish milk 
which shall arrive in the markets, no mat¬ 
ter what the distance it must come, or 
what the weather, in such condition that 
any mother who is incapable or not willing 
to provide milk for her child may go to 
any corner grocery and procure cheap milk 
suitable for her baby at any time. The 
thing is clearly impossible, and if it were 
possible it would not be advisable. In a 
city not long ago, I stepped into a market 
to do some trading, and while there a 
man came in who, with much satisfaction, 
displayed a pocket partially filled with 
cigar stubs which he had gathered from 
various places wherever the smoker hap¬ 
pened to throw them. Upon being ques¬ 
tioned as to the use he would put them to, 
he replied that he should chew them, and 
also remarked that a man was foolish to 
buy chewing tobacco when so many cigar 
stubs were lying around. Now I don’t 
think that a man like that requires quite 
so good milk as a baby. If the cities are 
really suffering for milk suitable for babies 
it is up to them to provide such, as they 
are responsible for the conditions under 
which these children are born. It is un¬ 
reasonable, unjust, and improvident for in¬ 
habitants of cities to insist that all milk 
sold shall be fit food for suckling infants, 
and when they demand such miik they are 
not promoting peace but are looking for 
trouble. I honestly believe that the farm¬ 
ers of this State or any other State would 
gladly cooperate with mothers in providing 
good milk for their children at a reasonable 
price. 
Babies and Law. —The farmers do object 
to the noise being made by a horde of 
greedy politicians who would desert the 
babies and their mothers the minute they 
become convinced they could gain votes by 
so doing. Now some of the people who 
claim to be trying to promote peace through¬ 
out the world are the ones who are demand¬ 
ing pure and rich milk. Now a demand 
implies that you have force to back up 
the demand, and that you will use it unless 
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