634 
April 20, 
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. 
NEW YORK GRADING MILK. 
New York City proposes to grade the 
milk that is sold there, or rather, the plan 
is not so much to grade the milk as to 
grade the stables from which it comes. 
Curious as it may seem, the milk is of less 
consequence than the barn. It is not real¬ 
ized apparently, that the real condition of 
the milk as it leaves the farm depends 
much upon the individual who handles it, 
little on the scoring of the barn where it 
is produced and less upon either, under 
usual conditions, than upon the after hand¬ 
ling. Be that as it may, the city health 
hoard says milk, other than certified, shall 
be grade B or grade C, and that the grade 
is to be determined by an- inspection of 
the farm premises, not of the milk as de¬ 
livered to the consumer. I do not mean to 
be understood that no other inspection is 
to be made, but that the city board sets 
out now as previously to compel farmers 
to do certain things which the dealers 
ought to look out for and to pay for. 
It is important to know what determines 
the difference between grades B and. C. 
Stable and conditions must score 68 points 
to get B, and this must include 25 on 
equipment and 43 on methods. With this 
comes the various methods of scoring. At 
one place where the scoring lias been done 
this Spring, since the new arrangement has 
been made, the inspection has lowered the 
average score by about ten points from that 
previously made. This is enough to throw 
many, who were previously up to what Is 
now the B grade, into the 0. This is much 
in the interest of the dealers, it is thought, 
because the supposition is that B milk as 
delivered at the creamery will bring more 
than O milk. As yet nothing is known 
regarding prices. There seems to be noth¬ 
ing to hinder dealers from using grade 
of milk as delivered to them in the B grade 
when they sell it, if it reaches the require¬ 
ments of the board when it is offered for 
sale at retail. It is too early to say posi¬ 
tively how tills will work out, but judging 
the future by the past, the scheme appears 
to lie one concocted in the interests of 
dealers, if not grafters. The only cure for 
the annoyances now thrust upon dairy 
farmers by those who have nothing to do 
but invent fads and hobbies, is to form a 
strong organization that shall have capable 
leadership. Such an organization might 
compel the purchase of milk upon its merits 
in open competition without the interfer¬ 
ence of health boards further than to de¬ 
termine the quality of milk that may be 
retailed in the city. H. H. lyon. 
Hay, fair, $25 to $26 per ton; pigs, $5 
per pair; shotes, $7 per pair; horses, 1000 
to 1200 pounds, $125 to $250; cows, $40 
to $80; chickens, 15 cents; eggs, 21 cents; 
butter, 25 cents; milk, 18 cents a gallon; 
wheat, $1.15; no oats, no corn for sale. 
Abingdon, Md. T. w. H. 
Cattle are selling at seven cents per 
pound. Ilay at $12 per ton, loose. Corn 
and meal, $1.70 per 100 pounds. Milk, 
six cents per quart. Milch cows from $40 
to $50. Potatoes, $2.75 per barrel. Eggs 
22 cents per dozen. H. P. 
Dennysville, Me. 
Fat cattle four to 5% cents a pound, 
alive; hogs, 5% to six cents; milch cows, 
$40 to $80; hay, $10 to $16 per ton; 
potatoes $ 1.10 per bushel; chickens, nine 
to 10 cents, alive; butter, 35 to 38 cents; 
eggs, 23 cents per dozen. No silage sold. 
E. Wallingford, Vt. h. l. d. 
Horses $250 to $300; cows from $40 to 
$60. Yearling colts from $100 to $150. 
Ilay $20 per ton. Potatoes $1.50; eggs 16 
cents; butter, 20 cents. Dressed beef 
seven cents. This was the coldest Winter 
ever known. Snowing to-day (March 20), 
one foot on the ground. G. w. s. 
Newport, Pa. 
We never have any auction prices; we 
sell to the market. Potatoes $3 per barrel; 
turnips 75 cents a bushel; beets $1 ; car¬ 
rots $ 1 ; parsnips $ 1 ; eggs, 16 cents per 
dozen; butter, 30 cents per pound; milk, 
six cents per quart; hay $10 at barn, 
t'ows from $30 to $50; a fair farm horse 
$125. Oats about 60 cents per bushel. 
Perry, Me. a. m. 
Cows, $30 to $40; horses, $75 to $125; 
hogs, five to seven cents per pound ; sheep, 
$4 to $5; corn, 75 to 80 cents a bushel; 
wheat, $1 ; oats, 60 to 70 cents ; cornfod- 
der, $0 to $8 per stack; hay, $18 to $20 a 
ton; potatoes, 00 cents to .$ 1 . I never 
saw any manure sold at auction. There is 
very little market here for milk, but what 
is sold is five to six cents per quart, and 
30 cents for butter. w. n. m. 
Berlin, Md. 
Hay is worth $14 to $20 per ton deliv¬ 
ered. Oat straw from $7 to $9 per ton. 
Cattle from $25 to $40. Pork from seven 
to eight cents, dressed. Silage is not sold. 
Potatoes $1.25 per bushel. Beans from 
$2.50 to $3 per bushel; butter, 32 to 35 
cents. All kinds of vegetables scarce. Milk 
$1 .65 per 100. Manure, $1 per two-horse 
load. Poultry 10 cents per pound, live 
weight. Best kind of wood from $4 to $5 
per cord delivered. H. p. m. 
Castleton, Vt. 
We have no auction sales in our neigh¬ 
borhood. Potatoes are bringing $1 per 
bushel; turnips 50 cents; beans $2.75; 
eggs, 22 cents a dozen; butter, 30 cents. 
Cows $35 to $70, according to quality and 
age; horses, $150; heavy, $400 to $600 
per pair for sound horses. Ilay $12 to 
$15. There is no manure sold, all used on 
the farms and some fertilizer bought on all 
farms in this neighborhood. Milk is not 
being sold. It is all made into butter. 
Lincolnville, Me. c. a. m. 
Hay is generally selling at $20 per ton 
at the farmer’s barn. Good average cows 
are bringing from $45 to $65 per head. 
Horses of good age and weighing from 
1200 to 1400 pounds bring from $200 to 
$250 each. Milk nets the farmer at ship¬ 
ping station 3 Mi cents to .04125. The lat¬ 
ter price is rarely realized, and when it is 
NEW -YOlxlviAti. 
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“RURAL NEW-YORKER” READER 
TO HAVE VAN PELT’S COW BOOK 
I T is the most authoritative book extant today on the dairy 
cow. It is the first and only printed form of the author’s 
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—a lecture that has been greatly demanded at National 
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THE RURAL 
the conditions of the contract are very 
strict regarding the exact quantity to be 
furnished each and every day. Nearly all 
sales are made on the basis of the first 
quotation. f. M. w. 
Lakeside, N. Y. 
A late Spring is predicted by the 
weatherwise. Farmers are getting short of 
fodder for their stock. Cows are selling 
at a moderate figure, from $35 to $50. 
Feed, $1.45 to $1.60 per 100; oats, 60 
cents; potatoes, $1.40 to $1.50 per bushel; 
butter, 30 to 36 cents; milk, seven cents 
per quart; hay, $18 to $20 per ton; eggs, 
25 cents per dozen ; State beef, five and six 
cents wholesale; pork, eight cents whole¬ 
sale. Not many auction sales; quite a 
number of people in this section have left 
their farms and moved to the city. Some 
logs arc being hauled for the Spring saw¬ 
ing. a. c. D. 
Binghamton, N. Y. 
Cows range from $25 to $50 and some 
higher; no sheep in this town. Potatoes 
are bringing $1 per bushel; oats 65 cents; 
corn $1.50. Mill feed, cotton seed, $34 per 
ton ; gluten $33; molasses $31; cornmeal 
$31; bran $30. From April 1 to October 
1, 1912, Borden’s price for the six months 
average price $1.14% at Granville, 6 % 
miles awav; the prices from October 1, 
1911, to April 1, 1912, are as follows: 
October $1.75; November $1.90; December 
$1.90; Januarv $1.85; February $1.80; 
March $1.95; less 12 cents per 100 pounds 
for hauling. Veal calves seven cents; hogs 
five, alive; butter 36; eggs 22; hay from 
$12 to $20 per ton ; no silage sold here. 
Men by the month $35 and board. No ma¬ 
nure sold. T - c> 
Pawlet, Vt. 
Yearlings from $8 to $10, two years 
from $15 to $20. Cows, beef, from $18 
to $25; milch cows from $25 to $50. 
Horses from $100 to $200, and up os high 
as $350. Butter 25 cents now; eggs 16 
cents; hens eight cents a pound ; chickens 
12 cents. Carrots sell here for 50 cents 
a bushel; turnips 40 cents; beets 60 cents; 
parsnips 80 cents; potatoes 50 cents at dig¬ 
ging time, and in the Spring they are from 
75 cents to $1. Hay is selling for $12 
a ton. Milk is five cents a quart. We 
do not have much sale for milk here; for 
that matter we do not have much sale fox- 
produce. We have to ship all of it to 
Boston. Veal calves from $5 to $10; pigs 
$1 to $5; lambs $3 to $5 ; sheep $2.50 to 
$ 6 . Hogs from $15 to $20. o. L. D. 
Columbia Falls, Me. 
We are just beginning to come in as a 
farming county with the passing of the 
lumber and pulp wood, and think we have a 
bright prospect ahead; naturally fertile 
land and a cheap source of fertilizer in the 
shape of fish waste from the canning fac¬ 
tories. Cows sell at $35 to $50; horses 
$200 to $300; swine 5% to six cents a 
pound at the station; veal calves $6 to 
$10 each. We ship no milk, sell direct to 
consumer at six cents a quart; butter, 30 
to 35 cents a pound; eggs, 20 cents a 
dozen ; potatoes, $1 a bushel at station; 
hay loose, $12 to $14 per ton; straw, $ 8 ; 
oats, 65 cents per bushel; barley, $1.25. 
We have no silage; farm manure brings 
$1 per two-horse load; fish waste $5 per 
ton dry, $1 to $2 per load green at the 
factory ; lime, $8 per ton at station. 
Harrington, Maine. c. w. n. 
Cows here are not selling well unless 
they are new milch or springers. Most 
farmers are very short of hay. Cows at 
auction due to calve in Summer sell at $18 
to $30; new milch at from $45 to $60; 
young stock has been sold this Winter for 
almost notiiing. Good young horses weigh¬ 
ing from 1200 to 1400 sell for from $225 
to $300. l’igs are worth from $3.50 to $4 
each. Ilay in barn is selling at $25 to $30, 
and is hard to find at that. Silage is- never 
sold here. About half the farmers ship 
milk to Boston and Providence, and are 
getting now 4% cents a quart at depot. The 
rest sell cream, and have averaged 38 cents 
for butter fat this Winter at the door. Eggs 
here are wortli 20 and 22 cents at the 
grocers, and bring 25 cents at private cus¬ 
tomers. Potatoes are worth $1.35 per 
bushel; apples bring 75 cents a bushel. 
Columbia, Conn. B. c. 0 . 
Potatoes verv scarce, wholesale. $1.20 to 
$1.35; retail, $1.40 to $1.50. Milk we do 
not sell but sell the butter fat at cream¬ 
ery; received in February 39% to 40% cents 
a pound butter fat. Ilay brings here from 
$15 to $21 per ton for good hay; not much 
call for straw, $6 to $8 per ton. Oats 
bring to farmer 50 to 55 cents; retail at 
mills, 60 to 64 cents. Cattle are moving 
slowly on account of scarcity of hay and 
the very long, cold Winter. One auction 
about 11 miles north in Shorebam and 
Whiting vicinity large good cows only 
started at $25 to $26 and the owners 
stopped the sale. As a rule cows are bring¬ 
ing from $25 to $40 as to cow and the 
needs of parties buying same. Silos quite 
plenty here, but no silage sold. Manure 
is all used on farms where produced. No 
large village near here where it can be 
bought. c. T. G. 
Benson, Vt. 
Auction sales of farm produce of any 
kind are unheard of in this vicinity. You 
cannot call this part of Washington County 
n farming community. Every one has a 
small farm but in 50 years of experience 
I have never seen but one man (a Scotch¬ 
man) whose solo livelihood was farming. 
All depend upon labor in timber lands and 
the resultant manufacturing. Some few 
i-aise potatoes in the Summer, which is 
about the only “money” ci-op. Practically 
no animals are raised for beef, and sheep 
are rarely met with; about four years 
ago agents of Swift’s went through here 
and bought up everything with wool on it 
and gave good prices (this is hearsay). I 
know though that few sheep are left. I 
might add that judging by the large Docks 
of sheep driven by here at the time of 
which I speak I must have underestimated 
the number of such in this section, but 
the New Brunswick border is near and 
temptation to smuggle is strong. All the 
milk sold hereabouts is direct from pro¬ 
ducer to consumer, or nearly so. The 
farmer gets six cents for milk and 30 
cents for butter. There are no creameries 
near nor cheese factories. Hay, $12; straw, 
$ 6 ; potatoes, $2.50. a. t. l. 
Dennysville, Me. 
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