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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 18, 
N. Y. Exchange price $l.Gl per 40-quart 
can, netting 3 1 /4 cents to shippers in 2G- 
cent zone. 
MILK INSPECTION. 
How long is the farmer going to be a 
victim of sharks of every description ? 
In this vicinity, boards of health are 
sending out inspectors to inspect cows and 
sanitary conditions of stables and premises, 
■which custom is proper and right in every 
jespect; provided the parties forcing the 
inspection will pay the bill. But when 
an inspector drives up and orders the farmer 
out to hold his horse, while he very super- 
licially inspects and returns to the servant 
holding his horse and demands a dollar 
which he pockets and hurriedly visits 15 
or 20 others in the forenoon, after dinner 
lie makes a similar trip, in a very shoi t 
time he is able to buy a brick block with 
the farmers’ cash. subsckibeb. 
Fulton, N. Y. 
We rarely take any notice of anonymous 
letters. Now and then one comes which, 
like the above, demand proof or denial. 
•Surely no man could expect us to stand 
for such charges against milk inspectors, 
unless he was willing to back them up with 
proof. We print this in order to ask '•Sub¬ 
scriber” to make good on these charges. 
If they are true we promise to drive tnern 
home. Bet us give inspectors as well as 
inspected a square deal. 
THE WHEELER MILK BILL. 
As far as I can learn, farmers have 
known very little about the Wheeler bill 
that was passed by the last Legislature 
and vetoed by the Governor. There is a 
law that recognizes any milk of whatever 
standard of solids so long as it is the milk 
produced by cows without having been 
adulterated. This law lets out any dairy¬ 
man who has cows producing milk under 
thg standard of 11% per cent of solids. I 
once supposed that tnere were no herds 
producing milk under that standard or even 
a standard of 12 per cent. I am informed 
now that there are some such herds. These 
under the law are exempt from prosecution 
by means of the herd sample which must 
he taken before a case is made up. The 
inspector goes to the stable and sees the 
milking done, taking a sample there in the 
presence of the dairyman, and if the sam¬ 
ple is practically the same in solids as the 
one previously taken there is no prosecution, 
in the case of the dealer there is no such 
chance for him to escape. No herd sample 
can be taken for him because he has mixed 
the milk from various herds usually. In 
this way it may be possible for a dealer 
to be lined for violation of the law when 
he has neither skimmed nor watered the 
milk. 1 have always thought that such a 
danger must be very remote, and 1 am 
still inclined to the same opinion. 1 am 
told that such a result lias happened and 
may happen again. It seems just possible 
that the law may catch an innocent person. 
The danger is very slight unless 1 am mis¬ 
taken. The proposed law simply exempted 
a person from criminal prosecution, 1 think, 
and had seemingly something to justify it. 
it'may be that the proposition was only 
an excuse to make it easier for the un¬ 
scrupulous dealer to sell milk that had 
been tampered with. The law may be a 
trifle at fault as it stands now, but 
whether it would be better for the public 
if the proposed law were passed seems 
somewhat doubtful. Dealers might like it 
better but tne producer and consumer might 
be wronged by it. If a remedy is needed, 
which is possible, a better one is wanted 1 
believe. The veto of the Governor seems 
fair, but 1 have not found any farmers 
who feel like saying anything about it for 
want of information. i-i. H. lyon. 
OLEO AND TEXAS FARMERS. 
I do not know why Southern Congress¬ 
men are in favor of oleomargarine legisla¬ 
tion unless it be that they represent a cot¬ 
ton producing country which far outweighs 
tiie dairying interests. However, 1 do not 
believe that many voters at the South 
concern themselves much about how their 
Congressmen stand on this subject, as 
they enjoy neither butter nor oleo at their 
tables, and the representatives learn else¬ 
where as to what stand to take upon 
such questions. Here in Texas 1 know 
of cases of consumptives going out on 
West Texas cow ranches where the cattle 
number among the tens of thousands hav¬ 
ing to import their own butter and milk, 
as there was not a cow on the 125 sections 
that could be milked; besides a cowman 
thinks it undignifled to produce anything 
but beef. Of late years, since the advent 
of the cotton boll-weevil, many sections 
have been forced to abandon the raising 
of cotton and diversify their crops, which, 
in many cases, has proven a blessing, al¬ 
though last year, strange to say, the South 
produced a record cotton crop in spite of 
diversification and the boll weevil; it is 
true the weevil is now moving eastward 
and the section of its entrance from Mexico 
is again raising some cotton. 
The Union Oil Co., the Southern Cotton 
Oil Co. and the Swift Mills, each a trust 
itself, as well as other oil mills, of which 
there are over 160 in Texas alone, have 
their own brands of cotton products—cook¬ 
ing oil, lard compounds, oleomargarine, 
etc. Vast quantifies of cotton seed are 
consumed in the manufactories and the 
industry has grown to great proportions. 
The oil mills make both coming and going, 
inasmuch as the farmer sells the raw prod- 
rct at a low figure, $5 to $15 per ton. and 
buys back the manufactured product at the 
consumer’s price, since the farmer and feed¬ 
er is a user of cake, meal and fertilizer, 
etc. Besides the trade is very speculative 
and somebody pays the piper. 
The establishment of creameries has been 
successful in some favored localities, and 
although it may be an attractive propo¬ 
sition, it will be many years before we see 
a creamery trade established anything like 
that of the North or East. The South 
does need dairying with its open Winters 
and green pastures, and dairying should 
follow in the wake of the boll weevil, but 
the diversification mentioned above does not 
quite fit the papers in the case. Everyone 
is aware of the fact that unless dairy 
products are protected from ugly oleo com¬ 
petition the dairying interests will suffer, 
especially when they take to raising cotton 
again and make further records in the 
production. 
I frequently eat at a cafe, sometimes a 
cheap one, and would like to see the col¬ 
ored oleo served, as I know that the “but¬ 
ter” that is served in the average restau¬ 
rant is oleo, and the better class of patrons 
could then insist on getting real butter. 
I went into a cheap lunch-stand near the 
railroad station late one night to buy some 
butter for a wrecking outfit working at 
a train accident and was told that while 
they would gladly accommodate me they 
could not sell “butter” as they had no 
license to sell “butter” (although they 
served it over the counter as “butter”), but 
they offered to sell me a nice china bowl 
for 30 cents with all the “butter” it would 
contain thrown into the bargain. I took 
the "butter” because I needed it that night, 
and knew that the men who were to par¬ 
take of it had likely never known any 
other butter. While they kept within the 
law, they did not mention oleo and I paid 
for butter. We all know that while oleo 
is a healthy food, in a spirit of fairness it 
should not be allowed to compete on an 
equal basis with dairy butter because the 
enormous profit would help only the packer, 
for as a product concentrated in the hands 
of a few, its proportions are alarming and 
it is a controlling factor in legislation, but 
considered individually it is not so much of 
a hardship for the cotton farmer to decide 
how much he would be affected by a ban 
placed upon oleo which is only one of the 
by-products of cotton seed, and conditions 
would soon adjust themselves as the mills 
could not afford to pay less for cotton seed 
than they do now. Perhaps our Congress¬ 
men have other reasons for favoring oleo 
and could themselves better tell us about 
it if they will unwind. But I am afraid 
as long as cotton is king our representa¬ 
tives dare not discolor the creamy white 
garments of Prince Oleo. v. l. 
Dallas, Tex. 
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