1912. 
THE RURAL, IMiDW-YORKEK 
476 
N. 1*. Exchange price $1.81 per 40-quart 
can, netting 3% cents to shippers in 26- 
cent zone. 
THE DAIRYMEN’S LEAGUE. 
I have been elected president of a branch 
of the Dairymen’s League. The farmers 
are subscribing stock, but we are holding 
list for information and to hear from you. 
We want to be satisfied that it is not a 
scheme to sell stock and make a haul and 
then disappear. We want to know bow 
much is promotion stock and who is to hold 
the control of 51 per cent. milk. 
New York. 
The Dairymen’s League was incorpor¬ 
ated in 1907, under the laws of the State 
of New Jersey with authorized capital 
of $100,000, shares of which are $2.50 
each. The plan is to allow producers 
one-tenth of a share for each cow in 
the subscriber’s dairy. Ten cows 
qualify the producers for one full share. 
The permanent organization was not 
completed until January 29, 1910. There 
are now nearly 3,000 stockholders, and 
50,195 cows represented up to Decem¬ 
ber 1, 1911, the income has been $11,- 
097.48 and the expenses $8,137.97, leav¬ 
ing a balance of $2,959.51. Since the 
report Tioga county has come in. The 
proceeds thus far have been used to 
extend the organization. The secretary 
and treasurer are the only paid officers, 
and their combined salaries are only 
$700 per year. The officers make a full 
and detailed financial report and are 
giving proper accounting. Of course, 
this is an organization for mutual bene¬ 
fit, and at this stage cannot be called 
an investment in the usual sense; but, 
if properly followed up it should prove 
of great benefit to milk producers. We 
would like to see the league get right 
into the city trade and make market for 
some of the mitk of its members. The 
policy should be to avoid middlemen 
and get direct to consumers. If a start 
of this kind were once made it would 
not be long before every producer in 
the district would be a member of the 
league. There is no promotion stock 
and the control on this plan would, of 
course, be in the hands of the producers. 
It is one of the few cases where the 
people to be benefited have undertaken 
to organize a company for themselves 
without any attempt of anyone to profit 
by the promotion. Whether it suc¬ 
ceeds or not, the effort is in the right 
direction and we would be glad to see 
it strong enough to come into the mar¬ 
ket and secure a fair share of the con¬ 
sumption price of milk. 
Those Creamery Promoters in Maine. 
As regards those creamery promoters, 
will say first the sample copies of The R. 
N.-Y. came safely and are being used. 
Early in February two men claiming to 
represent the Burnap Building and Sup¬ 
ply Co. came here and began talking up 
the project. The milk made here has two 
outlets, Borden's condensed milk factory 
at Newport and D. Whiting & Sons, of 
Boston, Mass., have a receiving station 
here. As many farmers wish to have 
skim-milk for feeding to pigs, calves, etc., 
the butter factory scheme was favorably 
received, and a list of about 35 names was 
secured out of the proposed number of 56 
to 60. February 24 a session of three 
farmers with these men was held and after 
a few leading questions, the article by B. 
Walker McKeen in The R. N.-Y. was pre¬ 
sented to their attention, to which they 
made their own comments, but went back 
to their hotel headquarters at Newport 
without trying to do any more soliciting 
of names until about a week later, as the 
weather had been very uncomfortable and 
bad traveling; then they tried to get dif¬ 
ferent men to go out with them, but all 
answered as being ‘’busy at home.” 
Nothing more has been heard; it is sup¬ 
posed" they wont to Ellsworth, Me., from 
their references to the place. J. e. f. 
Corinna, Me. 
At an auction held here recently fresh 
cows sold from $60 to $80. Milk wholesales 
from four cents to 4% cents. Hay at the 
barn from $15 to $25 a ton ; do not know 
of any silage being sold here. Apples from 
$3 to $4 per barrel. Butter 35 to 40 cents; 
eggs 25 cents a dozen. g. a. a. 
Cheshire, Conn. 
Horses sell for $150 to $250; cows $30 
to $40: hay $12 to $14: eggs 20 cents; 
butter 30 cents; pork eight cents; pota¬ 
toes $1 per bushel. Milk six cents per 
quart. No silage raised here, no manure 
sold. j. H. 
Washington Co., Me. 
Good cows bring $60, good hay $20, sec¬ 
ond-grade $17, third grade $13. Good sec¬ 
ond-hand horses weighing about 2,000 pounds 
brought $225 at auction per team; sheep 
five cents pound, live weight. Milk brings 
six cents a quart the year round, butter 
about 27 cents the year round, r. j. g. 
Springfield, Mass. 
Live stock is moving very slow on ac¬ 
count of scarcity of feed. The following is 
an approximate list of current prices in 
this vicinity: Horses $100 to $175; 
cows $30 to $50; hay $20 to $25; silage 
practically none sold; corn 70 cents per 
bushel; potatoes, $1.25 per bushel. No milk 
shipped; make butter; butter (last three 
weeks) 26 cents; eggs (last three weeks) 
17 cents; hens 10 to 11 cents per pound; 
fodder seven to eight cents in sheaf last 
Fall; none to be had at present. Manure, 
none sold at all. j. s. h. 
Emmetsburg, Md. 
Horses sell for from $100 to $200: milch 
cows $50 to $100; veal calves seven cents 
to eight cents; hens 16 cents alive, 18 
cents dressed; turkeys 18 to 20 cents. 
Hay sells for $16 to $18 in the bam. It 
is worth $20 to $22 in Binghamton, r. 
New York. 
Timothy hay. ton $22 at hay press; 
clover hay $21; rye and straw, $18; corn 
70 pounds to the bushel. 80 cents; Jersey 
eating potatoes $1.40: wheat, bushel. $1; 
poultry, dressed. 19 cents pound: eggs 2 
cents a piece. Six-weeks-old pigs $7 a pair. 
Milk is 4% cents for eight months and four 
cents for four months. Cows from $50 to 
$80. e. c. T. 
Dutch Neck, N. ,T. 
Grade cows bring from $30 to $60 each; 
baled hay. $22 per ton: hay in bulk, $15 
to $20 delivered, according to quality; po¬ 
tatoes, $1.20 to $1.40 per bushel. Cream¬ 
eries pay 38 cents for butter fat, returning 
skim-milk. Butter, 38 and 40 cents a pound 
at store. Silage not sold in this vicinity. 
Manure, about $1 a load: oats, about 55 
cents a bushel; beef from farmer. $6 to $7 
per 100; veal, 7 y? cents a pound at car; 
bob calves, $1.50 to $2 each. j. p. g. 
Fair Haven, Vt. 
Silage is not sold here. Stable manure 
from 50 cents to $1 per load. The Bor¬ 
den prices for milk here are: April, $1.40, 
May $1.15: June $1. July $1.20, August 
$1.35, September $1.50. This averages 
$1.26 per 100 pounds. Apples $1 to $1.50 
per bushel; potatoes $1.25 per bushel; on¬ 
ions $1.50; butter about 30 cents; eggs 20 
cents; oat straw $8 to $10. Nearly all of 
our produce is marketed in Binghamton, 
ten miles from here. a. C. G. 
Castle Creek, N. Y. 
Cows sell for $40 to $50, giving milk or 
fresh soon; yearlings $10 to $12. Two- 
year-olds not coming fresh, $15 to $18. 
Last September pigs bring $7 to $8. Hay 
sells for $16 to $18. Shelled corn per 100, 
$1.50; oats, 66 cents per bushel; silage not 
sold here. Not any manure sold here. 
Milk is bringing $1.60 to $1.75 per 100; 
butter was 41 cents in January; in Febru¬ 
ary, 37, March, 33. Potatoes $1 per 
bushel; apples. $2.50 to $3 per barrel. 
Maple syrup 80 cents per ga’ion in cask; 
$1 in one-gallon cans. b. g. w. 
Danby, vt. 
There are not many sales at auction of 
farm produce, but think prices are about 
as follows for medium : Cows. $30 to $50 ; 
calves (when dropped), $3; milk, to cream¬ 
ery, $1.80 per 100. but to be 25 cents lower 
April. Milk, bottled and delivered in Rut¬ 
land, six to nine cents per quart. Eggs, 
20 cents; retail, 28 to 30 cents. Butter, 
25 to 30 cents: retail, 30 to 38. Potatoes, 
$1.10 to $1.25 per bushel. Hav $16 to 
$20 in Rutland: no silage sold' in this 
vicinity. Dressed pork $S to $8.50 per 100. 
Most of produce in this neighborhood goes 
to the local market at Rutland. d. d. h. 
North Clarendon. Vt. 
Following are the prices common in this 
vicinity, private and public sales: Apples 
60 to 90 cents per bushel; buckwheat about 
$1.50 per 100; butter 30 to 35 cents per 
pound: cabbage, scarcely any to be had at 
2% to three cents per pound; corn at mill 
$1.40 per 100; mixed dairy feed $1.60 per 
100; chickens 18 to 20 cents per pound 
dressed: eggs 20 to 25 cents, fresh: po¬ 
tatoes $1 to $1.20 per bushel. First-class 
teams $400 to $500 per pair, mostly west¬ 
ern horses. Grade dairy cows, fresh or 
springers. $50 to $60: hay. $16 to $20 a 
'ton; good oat straw $8: silage when dair¬ 
ies have been sold $4 per ton. This has 
been a hard Winter following the driest 
Summer known in years, which makes fod¬ 
der scarce; help scarce and of a very poor 
quality. c. M. 
Fulton. N. Y. 
No auction sales of farm produce locally. 
Cows sold in this town for $25 to $75 : 
calves for fattening $2 to $3; veal calves 
nine cents alive; 13 to 15 cents dressed; 
hogs dressed nine cents. Live poultry, fowls 
13 to 16 cents: broilers $1 a pair early, as 
low as 15 cents a pound late; roasting 
chickens 16 cents. Eggs, from 20 to 55 
cents wholesale. Eggs for hatching $4 to 
$5 per 100. No silage sold; cornstalks $8 
to $10 a ton ; hay $18 to $25 at barn. $30 
retail for best. Rye straw $20 delivered. 
Small amount of butter sokl. Apples $2 to 
$3 a barrel. Milk sold largely at whole- 
stile. dealers coming to farms or part way. 
according to agreements; price 4% to five 
cents ; at retail, eight cents in town ; eight 
to nine cents in city; cream 45 cents 
quart. An attempt is being made to get five 
cents the year round. w. t. b. 
Berlin. Conn. 
High prices, as we count them, are pre¬ 
vailing for all farm products in this sec¬ 
tion. Horses are bringing from $100 to 
$300 each, depending upon age, condition, 
weight, etc. Colts are in good demand at 
S50 to $100 each. Good mule colts bring 
about $75: mules from $300 to $500 per 
pair. Good cows of no special breeding go 
at $40 to $75; well-bred cattle bring more 
than this. Shotes sell at seven cents per 
pound gross. The hay crop was very small 
throughout this section. The price is about 
$26 per ton. Corn fodder brings from seven 
to eight cents per bundle. Milk is sold In 
our town at eight cents a quart. This is 
the price delivered to the homes. Those 
who sell in quantity receive six cents a 
quart. Butter is 30 cents a pound, eggs 20 
cents a dozen. Seed potatoes are priced 
about $2 per bushel. The wheat and grass 
have stood the Winter well. c. w. h. 
Brunswick, Md. 
We are situated in Saratoga Co., half 
way between Albany and Saratoga Springs. 
Auctiou prices: Horses $100 to $300 ; milch 
cows $45 to $75. grade stock; bulls (com¬ 
mon), $25 up; brood sows $25 up; 
hens, 75 cents to $1. Sheep, not enough 
to compare. Hay, $21.50 to $25 in 
barn, purchaser to do hauling. Oat 
straw $10 and up. per ton; silage, $12 
to $14 per ton; corn, per 72 pounds, 85 
cents and up; oats 32 pounds 60 cents and 
up. At private sale, potatoes, very scarce. 
$3.50 and $4 per barrel; butter, retail. 
40 cents per pound; eggs, retail. 33 
cents a dozen; wholesale. 25 cents. Pork, 
dressed, eight to 10 cents: calves, dressed. 
12 to 14 cents; poultry, live weight. 10 to 
14 cents: hav $20 to $24 per 2000 pounds; 
rye straw (long) $12. loose; oat straw, 
loose, $10. Many farms are changing hands 
this spring. People are coming from the 
cities to try their hands at farming. Prices 
of farms are higher than usual. F. s. t. 
Clifton Park, N. Y. 
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