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TOE KUKA1V NEW-YORKER 
March 9, 
M ILK 
N. Y. Exchange price $1.81 per 40-quart 
can, netting 3 % cents to shippers in -26- 
f cent zone. 
An Inspector-Ridden State. 
PART II. 
The License Question. —In some places 
the people are moving heaven and earth to 
get the liquor license out of politics, at the 
same time requiring that the most common 
kinds of work shall be done under a li¬ 
cense, with State inspectors to watch over 
it. State politics are already creeping into 
our schools even out in the country through 
the Influence of the numerous State boards, 
Inspectors, truant officers, school superin¬ 
tendents, in fact, you will find the State 
inserting a Anger in everybody’s pie, poking 
for a plum (like Jack Horner sitting in the 
corner), and all done that the State may 
strengthen its political machine. This 
does not tend towards peace, but leads peo¬ 
ple to disregard the law and to hold it in 
contempt. There is no doubt in my mind 
that this mania for regulating everything 
sprung from the effort to regulate the trusts. 
The wealthy men and corporations finding 
themselves about to be regulated, shifted 
as much of the regulation off upon others 
as they could to create a diversion In their 
favor, believing no doubt, that the whole 
thing would become so odious to the people 
that they would rise up in disgust, and 
knock the whole thing into a cocked hat, 
as the college professor wished to do to the 
silver-tongued orator of Nebraska, once 
upon a time. 
“Independence." —Knocking anyone or 
anything into a cocked hat is not a peaceful 
pursuit, and whoever starts in on that 
layout is bound to have trouble; although 
it may lead to peace after the fight, every¬ 
body will not live to enjoy the peace. The 
best preventives of industrial or civil war 
we have at present are our national and 
State constitutions, which are being as¬ 
sailed upon all sides by all kinds of men. 
In years gone by, when a people wrested 
from some tyrannical ruler a written con¬ 
stitution they had, or thought they had at 
least, advanced a long step towards inde¬ 
pendence. Let us not take any chances in 
losing any of our independence. Let us 
tolerate a little dirt in our milk rather 
than sacrifice our independence. Now that 
we have no tyrannical rulers but that can 
be deposed by peaceable means because of 
these constitutions, a certain element in our 
population has come to think these same 
constitutions must be changed in such man¬ 
ner that they become tyrannous of them¬ 
selves and enable the officers of the govern¬ 
ment to bring pressure to bear upon indi¬ 
viduals, or groups of individuals to extort 
money, confiscate property, or deprive of 
civil rights. 
Town Inspection. —It is reported that 
the richest town in this State has carried 
on an investigation of its own in regard 
to milk production in other towns, spending 
therefor thousands of dollars. If this rich 
town had been peaceably inclined it would 
have taken those thousands of dollars and 
bought a farm and investigated themselves 
in regard to the production of milk. They 
would have obtained a lot of valuable in¬ 
formation without stultifying themselves by 
prying into other people’s business, which 
always is provocative of a breach of the 
peace. They probably would never have 
investigated any farm but their own, and 
would have gone to some reliable milk pro¬ 
ducers and said, “We want good milk, we 
are willing to pay for it,” and they would 
have got it. -' 
Peace Through Fighting. —My father 
died when I was a boy, but be lived long 
enough to teach me that a good way to 
promote peace was to mind my own busi¬ 
ness, and right here I will say that if my 
neighbor has a healthy cow and he feeds 
her upon a healthy diet, but not one that 
will produce rich milk (like green rye for 
instance), and he wants to sell that milk 
to me and I want to buy it, I shall do so 
whether the milk is up to standard or not, 
and if any inspector interferes, then, like 
the Scotchman, I will have peace if I have 
to fight for it. I have seen it reported 
that when a law was under discussion in 
Washington, giving inspectors the right to 
enter homes without permission, to inspect 
home life and conditions of children, a 
Senator from Louisiana arose and said, 
“Law or no law, they shall not enter my 
house without permission.” This is not 
peace talk but fight. It is said every home 
has a skeleton in it and that wise people 
keep them in the closet. It does the world 
no good to have them paraded before the 
whole world. Perhaps you say these in¬ 
spectors will be gentlemen. Get acquainted 
with a dozen inspectors appointed from the 
ranks of ward politicians, and see if you 
are willing any or all of them should be 
allowed in your home without your per¬ 
mission. HARRIS E. CHASE. 
Massachusetts. 
Stock cattle and stock hogs scarce, but, 
because of scarcity and high price of corn, 
selling cheap, four to 4% cents per pound. 
Corn selling at auction at 75 cents to $1 
per bushel; hay, $15 to $20 per ton. Milk 
scarce and selling at the county seat at six 
and seven cents per quart. Q. R. 
Springville, In<L 
The Milk Producer's Share. 
So much has been said in the past year 
regarding the farmer’s 35-cent dollar that 
I wish to write about the milk question. 
Do you think at the present price of retail 
milk the producers are getting a fair return 
for it; taking Into consideration the price 
of feed, of help, and the general wear and 
tear connected in producing clean healthy 
milk? Most of the dairymen in this sec¬ 
tion sell milk to Bordens or some other 
concern selling milk in New York City or 
New Jersey. At the present time we are 
not recognized on contract day; we simply 
take what price the Borden Company 
sets (and if the truth were known, they do 
set the price of milk) or keep it home. They 
say they can’t afford to pay more for it. 
If that be so why are they building new 
plants all over, and at the same time pay¬ 
ing from five per cent to eight per cent 
dividends? 
To put my meaning in a small space, 
would say that if every man selling milk 
to-day would join the Dairymen’s League 
and stand firm in a body, figure the cost of 
producing a quart of milk plus a fair 
pro-fit, how long would it be before we 
would be recognized by the trade and given 
at least what we asked for our milk, a fair 
price? The R. N.-Y. goes in many homes 
where it is read with interest and praised 
for the good work done in years past in 
helping to cut the middlemen’s profit. Why 
cannot you help the Dairymen’s League to 
the front and give us a good word now 
and again? Surely the farmers must wake 
up and see that they must organize, if they 
expect to be recognized in business. Go 
Into any store, wholesale or retail, and tell 
them you will give them so much for an 
article, see what they say. “We want so 
much for it, take it at that or leave it.” 
And it is so in every branch of business, 
all but the men who produce milk for the 
wholesale market, and they cannot even set 
a price on a pint of milk and get their de¬ 
mands. O. W. SHELDEN. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
Horses sell from $100 to $225, according 
to age and quality. Mules, $250 to $500 
the span. Cows $40 to $85 ; calves, $12 to 
$20; fat cattle about 50 to 75 cents per 
100 pounds, less than St. Louis and Chicago 
prices. Shotes, stock hogs, $5 to $12; brood 
sows, which are very scarce on account of 
cholera, are worth $18 to $35. All kinds 
of feed very high and scarce. Timothy 
hay at public sales, 90 cents to $1.10 a bale; 
clover hay, 75 to 85 cents; oat straw, 60 to 
70 cents; wheat straw, 35 to 45 cents. No 
silage sold, very little put up last Fall on 
account of very wet weather. Quite a num¬ 
ber of silos in county. Very little manure 
sold, livfery stables sell some for 75 cents 
to $1 per load delivered nearby. Corn a 
very poor quality, selling 50 to 60 cents 
a bushel. Oats, 50 to 60 cents a bushel; 
clover seed, $14 bushel. Butter fat 33 cents 
at local creamery; prices are governed by 
prices at Elgin. Country butter, 30 cents 
a pound ; eggs, 30 to 40 cents; hens, 10 to 
II cents a pound. Potatoes, $1.25 a bushel, 
none raised last season. Owing to the se¬ 
vere Winter wheat prospects are very dis¬ 
appointing. F. L. M. 
Jacksonville, Ill. 
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