1912. 
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N. Y. Exchange price $1.71 per 40- 
quart can, netting 3% cents to shippers in 
26-cent freight zone who have no additional 
station charges. 
THE MASSACHUSETTS MILK SITUATION. 
As the month of April draws near the 
thought is in all milk producers’ minds. 
What are we going to receive for our milk 
this Summer? The Whitings and Grau- 
stein & Co. arc willing to continue the Win¬ 
ter price through April, but the Hoods have 
not as yet conceded this, and unless they 
do the outlook is doubtful. It is an old 
trick for part of the contractors to agree 
to a price and one or more of the others 
hang off and thus block the whole proposi¬ 
tion. Unless a fair price is agreed on the 
gradual dropping out of dairies will con¬ 
tinue, as it has the past year or two on ac¬ 
count of unsatisfactory returns from the 
business. Chicken business and fruit grow¬ 
ing are gradually driving out the dairy, or 
reducing them to home requirements only. 
The attempt to force the passage of the 
Ellis bill in this general court session has 
failed, as the committee failed to report in 
time to have a place on the calendar, so it 
goes over to the next session. 
The Consumers’ League, chiefly in the 
person of Mrs. Putnam, worked every 
dodge they could, even sending letters all 
over the State to various farmers whose 
dairies had been reported satisfactory by 
the State Board of Health, asking these 
farmers to \ jrk for the bill, as it was to 
their advantage to have the unsatisfactory 
ones brought up to proper conditions. At 
the hearings held by the legislative com¬ 
mittee on this and the Meaney bill the 
opposition had the best of the question, al¬ 
though to read the Boston daily papers one 
would not think so, as these seem to take 
great pleasure in taking a fling at the farm¬ 
ers whenever an opportunity offers, or they 
can make one. Several doctors at the hear¬ 
ing claimed that many children died be¬ 
cause of the poor and unfit milk. One old 
farmer replied that it is more likely the 
doctors instead of the milk was the trouble. 
The doctors also favored the score card 
system; the same farmer said he would 
like to see the score card used on the doc¬ 
tors. Dr. Mullowney, head of the Boston 
board, was asked whether if the Ellis bill 
was passed giving the State board all this 
power desired, would the city board still 
continue to inspect as at present. The 
answer was they would. The question was 
then asked why was this double inspection 
needed, but a satisfactory answer was not 
given. In a report recently made to the 
Boston board by this same Or. Mullowney, 
he states 500 dairies have been excluded 
from Boston market in the past year be¬ 
cause the owners would not make the 
changes ordered by this board. This looks 
as if the health board has at present 
power enough without asking for more. 
The doctor also states that no milk over 
36 hours old is sold in Boston. We are 
a little inclined to doubt this, as some of 
the milk comes nearly 300 miles. It is 
claimed some of the condensed milk sold in 
the city is years old, and a bill is being 
pushed to have the analysis and date of 
condensing put on the packages. A new 
company has been capitalized for $900,000 
in Boston which has taken over the Boston 
Dairy Co., formerly operated by the 
Graustein Co., ami is known as the Boston 
Condensed Milk Co. In time of a flush 
milk supply the surplus can be condensed 
and thus avoid any loss along this line. 
The Graustcins have made large profits in 
the past, and will undoubtedly continue *to 
do so in the future under the new plan 
and management. The report of the meet¬ 
ings held March 30 has changed the situa¬ 
tion somewhat, and if true we will go 
through April on about the Winter prices, 
a3 this has been reported agreed on be¬ 
tween several of the contractors and the 
producers who supply them. 
The Hoods tried a smart trick which ap¬ 
pears so far to have failed to work. The 
usual custom has been to send out con¬ 
tracts to be signed and returned in about 
10 days. Instead of these they furnished 
a register at the several stations, stating 
the prices they would pay, and requiring 
all who wished to sell them their milk for 
the six Summer months to sign their 
names before three o’clock on the day the 
registers were posted or the company 
would not agree to take their milk. Some 
were scared, thinking if they did not sign 
they would lose all chance to sell their 
milk at all, so they signed, but many held 
off, and the company not getting as many 
names as expected backed down some, or 
so at least it looks so if reports are true, 
and many of those who signed will not stick 
to the agreement now they find others get¬ 
ting a better price. a. e. p. 
Massachusetts. 
Selling Milk to Retailers. 
Can you offer a suggestion relative to 
securing a sale of milk direct from producer 
to retailer? k, t. 
New York. 
Two special difficulties stand in the way 
of an individual farmer selling milk direct 
to the retailer in New York. The first is 
that many of the retailers who would make 
most desirable customers have so little 
capital and business standing that credit 
could not safely be given them. Second, a 
large proportion of the retailers them¬ 
selves do not know the day before how 
much milk they want. The wholesaler’s 
wagon comes around in early morning, and 
they get whatever seems necessary, depend¬ 
ing on weather and previous day’s trade, 
and pay cash for it. A change in tempera- 
ture may mean a difference in tbeir day’s 
sales of 20 to 40 quarts. The only way that 
tarmers can get this direct trade at present 
is by banding together and having dis¬ 
tributing places and wagons of their own 
in the large cities. This plan is entirelv 
feasible and should have been adopted loug 
ago. It is not necessary to start in on a 
large scale or with any trumpeting about 
putting the milk trust out of business. All 
that is needed is to get facilities for dis¬ 
tributing and then ship the milk to market 
and use common sense in' handling the 
trade. Then they will have whatever profit 
there is between the railroad terminal and 
the consumer. Retailers who sell two to 
four cans per day now pay the wholesaler 
5% cents per quart, delivered at their store, 
as most of them have no wagons to get 
supplies from the railroad. 
The Wheeler Milk Bill. 
The Wheeler milk bill passed by the 
New York Legislature was vetoed by Gov. 
Dix. This bill provided that “a person 
who shall sell or exchange, or offer or 
expose for sale or exchange, any milk ac¬ 
tually produced by a cow or a dairy, which 
is a fair sample of the milk produced daily 
by such cow or dairy, and to which nothing 
has been added and from which nothing has 
been taken, shall not be guilty of any 
crime on account thereof.” This means 
that natural milk from a cow which con¬ 
tained only 10 per cent or even less of 
solids would be considered legal. Some 
cows are noted as giving very large quan¬ 
tities of thin milk. In some localities the 
tendency seems to be to breed such cows, 
and this law would have encouraged it. 
Gov. Dix vetoed the bill on the ground 
that under such a law .dealers could and 
would water milk and claim that this wat¬ 
ered stuff was “natural.” It would be 
impossible to convict them. 
Cows sold at auction go from $35 to $75; 
young pigs are selling now for $3.50 apiece. 
Fowls are worth 12 cents per pound; eggs, 
18 cents a dozen; butter, 30 cents a pound; 
hay, $20 a ton in the barn for the best; 
silage is not sold around here. Manure is 
not sold here either; everyone has a use 
for all they have. Milk is worth three 
cents a quart delivered at the car. Maple 
syruo, $1 a gallon; maple sugar, 16 cents 
a pound. p. n. v. 
Buckland, Mass. 
The average price for the ordinary cow, 
sound and all right, is about $50. Year¬ 
lings go for about $15, and two-year-olds 
at $25. Hay finds buyers at from $15 to 
$16 per ton at the barns. Silage is not 
sold as far as I know. Potatoes are sold 
from 90 cents to $1. Oats from the 
thrasher are selling at 55 cents. No corn 
for sale. Milk, or rather cream, is sold 
upon the test for butter fat basis; last 
month (January) we received 39 cents 
per pound. The price for February will be 
considerably lower, probably not over 31 
cents. Thus we would receive for one 
quart of 30 per cent cream only 18 cents, 
with butter fat at 30 cents per pound. 
Eggs are bringing 30 cents. c. s. a. 
Benson, Vt. 
Prices run about as follows in sales that 
have been made thus far: Cows, from $3J 
to $50; two-year-olds (heifers) $25 to $35; 
yearlings, $15 to $22; hay, $10 to $17 per 
ton at barn. No silage sold in this vicinity. 
Hogs alive, five and six cents. No horses 
sold to any extent; most of the farmers 
are raising colts, but not many for sale. 
No manure sold. Milk brings $1.65 per 
100 pounds at car. Potatoes $1 per bushel, 
no wheat grown. What corn, oats, barley 
and buckwheat are grown are used by the 
growers mostly. Maple sugar not being 
made to any extent as yet, most of the 
farmers just commencing to tap their sugar 
lots now. Most of the farmers that make 
butter in this neighborhood sell to regular 
customers in Rutland City at 33 to 35 
cents per pound. Eggs from 25 to 27 
cents per dozen. Calves alive bring from 
four to seven cents per pound. C. H. a. 
East Clarendon, Vt. 
Fixing Oi.eo Coi.ott.—A news note from 
the Ohio University states that oleomar¬ 
garine must be white, but in recent hear¬ 
ings before Congress, in connection with 
the Lever bill, the oleo manufacturers con¬ 
tended that there is no such color as pure 
white and that they could not comply with 
the law. This led the Dairy Union, which 
is leading the fight against the sale of col¬ 
ored oleo, to request Congress to appoint 
a committee to establish a standard of 
white that could be used ’by the oleo 
manufacturers. The members of the com¬ 
mittee are Geo. L. Flanders, of New York ; 
M. P. Hull, of Michigan; Geo. M. Whit 
taker, of Washington, D. C.; G. L. Mc¬ 
Kay of Illinois, and Oscar Erf, of Ohio, 
Prof. Erf is doing the experimental work 
for the committee. 
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State of New York. 
STATE COMMISSION IN LUNACY 
Purchasing Committee for State Hospitals, 
Room 138, Capitol, Albany, N. Y. 
Sealed proposals addressed to t.he Committee will 
be received until 2:110 P. M., APRIL 23, 1912, at the 
above address, for supplying the New York State 
Hospitals for the Insane with 601.280 lbs. of butter, 
to be taken from May 20, 1912, to September 1, 1912, 
for storage, in accordance with specifications. 
Biiis will be entertained from owners or operators 
of creameries in Now York State only. By apply¬ 
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