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THE RURAL) NEW-YORKER 
June 1, 
UVE I X-* JgL 
N. Y. Exchange price .$1.61 per 40-quart 
can, netting 3% cents to shippers in 26- 
cent zone. 
WHAT ABOUT THE WHEELER MILK BILL? 
I had seen a. notice of it in our local 
paper, and it was said there that Gov. Dix 
thought “its enactment would be a long 
step backward in the fight for pure milk.’ 
Is he more interested in this fight than the 
whole Legislature? And can milk that has 
‘‘actually, been produced by a cow, and 
from which nothing has been taken and to 
which nothing has been added,” be called 
impure or adulterated? I’ll admit that 
such a bill might cause producers to think 
that it was all right to produce a low grade 
of milk, but it would seem to me that it is 
not to their interest to do so. And even 
supposing they did, if people bought it and 
were satisfied, whose business more is it? 
A great many people would like to buy 
milk that was nearly all cream at milk 
prices. Is that any better than for the 
man to sell mi]k that is nearly all water, 
provided the old cow puts in the water 
instead of himself? And in your paper it 
is said that “Dix vetoed the bill on the 
ground that under such a law dealers could 
and would water milk, and it would be im¬ 
possible to convict them.” Well, perhaps, 
<J . 0V ". Dix speaks from an Alhanv standpoint 
of view : judging from what I read, there 
are a good many laws broken there, and it 
seems to be impossible for the law-breakers 
to be convicted. But I can tell you in our 
vicinity it is no trouble for men to be 
taken up and fined for putting water in 
mlIk - m. e. s. 
This Wheeler milk bill provided “that a 
person selling milk actually produced by a 
cow or dairy, which is a fair sample of 
the milk produced daily by such cow or 
dairy an<j to which nothing has been added 
and from which nothing has been taken 
away, shall not be guilty of any crime on 
account thereof.” Under such a law, as 
we understand it, if a man had cows which 
gave milk containing only 11 or 10 per 
cent of solids, such milk could be legally 
sold since it was “natural.” Such milk 
could even be sent to New York and sold, 
provided the dealer could prove that it was 
the same milk given by the cows 100 miles 
or more away. It is claimed that the deal¬ 
ers here could water or skim good milk and 
sell what was left as “natural.” When he 
vetoed the bill Gov. Dix said : 
“So far as I am advised there never have 
been any criminal prosecutions in the cases 
now sought to be excepted by this amend¬ 
ment, but there are numerous cases where 
penalties have been recovered. There is a 
widespread feeling on the part of milk con¬ 
sumers and others interested in maintain¬ 
ing the standard of our milk products that 
this amendment will in some way lower 
the standard of our milk and make it easier 
for those who desire to sell an inferior 
product below the legal standard and ren¬ 
der it more difficult for the State to en¬ 
force the provisions of the agricultural 
law relating to dairy products. Whatever 
construction might be placed upon this 
amendment by the courts as to whether it 
would affect an action for the recovery of 
the penalty now provided by the agricul¬ 
tural law, it is quite evident that it would 
tend to create the impression in the minds 
of the people that there was a lowering of 
the standard of our milk products, and 
render violations of the law less liable to 
prosecution and penalties than now exist.” 
Milk ought to be sold under a guarantee 
of butter fat and total solids. Then any 
kind of '“natural” milk could be put on the 
market and sold for what it was worth. 
As a matter of fact different lots or varie¬ 
ties of potatoes often vary in starch or 
“solids” almost as much as milk does. 
Here are prices which have been obtained 
at auction sales and local markets : Hay, 
$20 to $25 per ton; corn, 40 pounds, 35 
to 40 cents; oats, 60 to 75 cents; potatoes, 
$1 to $1.50 ; pigs, weight 100 pounds, $6.50 
to $7; cows, $30 to $60. I know of but 
one lot of silage sold, and that at $2.50 per 
ton. Very little milk sold here, but what 
is sold brings five cents per quart. 
Flint, N. Y. w. h. r. 
Cattle scarce, selling at or near five cents. 
Cows ready at $40 to $60. Horses very 
high, $175 to $250; hogs, seven cents. 
Sheep doing better. Hay being shipped in 
and selling at $27 to $30 per ton ; scarcely 
any country hay for sale. No silage sold 
hereabouts. No manure sold except fer¬ 
tilizers. Milk is bringing six cents per 
quart when sold in small way; very little 
shipped from here. Wheat bringing $1 
per bushel; corn, 90 cents retail and scarce. 
Potatoes not on the market except what 
is shipped in, $1.75 to $2 per bushel. Bran 
and' middlings $1.70. 'Farmers are having 
to buy all kinds of feed, such a dry season 
last year and feed scarcest ever known here. 
The Spring is backward, following the cold¬ 
est Winter for many years. Quite a num¬ 
ber of silos will be put up this coming 
season. r. q. h. 
Belmont, O. 
No auction sales of farm produce ever 
made here. We are located nearly on the 
Rhode Island and Massachusetts State line 
from one to five miles from the cotton mills 
of Rhode Island and 1% to eight miles 
from the jewelry center of the Attleboros 
In Massachusetts. The small farmers in 
this vicinity find an easy outlet at or near 
retail prices for all farm products; in fact 
grocers and butchers give in some instances 
full retail prices. Providence, R. I., eight 
miles distant, largely controls the prices 
of Pawtucket, R. I., and Central Falls, R. 
I., and the other cotton mill villages of the 
Blackstone River. Cattle, milch cows, are 
bought mostly in the Brighton market and 
about $5 added for transportation expenses. 
Horse hay always in demand in the near¬ 
by cities, mostly No. 2, which brings same 
price as No. 1 baled hay. Some of the 
prices to-day are: Eggs, 30 cents per 
dozen; hens, live, 16 cents per pound; po¬ 
tatoes all bringing $1.60 per bushel. Milk 
producing most extensively carried on in this 
vicinity : between six and a dozen teams pass 
daily picking up next day’s supply. Very little 
car milk used outside of Providence, R. I., 
Pawtucket, R. I., and Central Falls, R. I., 
supply obtained by individual teams which 
come from near the city lines to 10 miles 
distant. No big milk contractors here. 
Prices, milch cows, $60 to $85; 20-quart 
cows, $100 to $125. No hay to be had at 
any price, about everybody buying baled 
hay. Has been bog hay $10 to $12 ; swale 
hay, $14 to $18; Upland English, $18 to 
$20- fine stock, $20 to $22; horse hay, $25 
to $30; baled stock, $23 to $24; horse, 
coarse, $30 to $35. Corn fodder, eight to 
12 cents. Silage never sold; those that 
have it never have too much. Many too 
small to afford silos. Manure never sold, 
always used to produce more cow fodder, 
and amount of fodder determines number 
of head of stock carried through the Win¬ 
ter. For the last few years milk has been 
at a fixed price almost, Summer price, 4% 
cents per quart at the door; five cents 
Winter price. Local retail seven cents Sum¬ 
mer, eight cents Winter; city prices, eight 
to nine cents Winter, seven to eight cents 
Summer. Very little butter and cream, ex¬ 
cept remote from city or off peddlers’ road. 
A general movement to try to hold Winter 
price through the Summer has not been 
successful as yet. The inconveniences of 
this section seems to me to be small farms, 
not worked on satisfactory systems, unsatis¬ 
factory labor on account of nearness to 
cities; too strong a “call to be wild;” as 
in other New England rural communities, 
more dependence on men than horses and 
machinery, without doubt caused by in¬ 
ability to secure ready capital. a. i. n. 
Massachusetts. 
Cattle from $50 to $75; horses, $200 to 
$250; hogs, $6 to $8; pigs, $5 to $6; 
sheep, $8 to $10; hay, $20 to $22; hens, 
50 to 75 cents; eggs, 22 to 24 cents; silage, 
$2 to $3 per ton; manure', 50 cents to 
$1.50 per cord; milk at our farm, six cents 
r quart; butter, 30 cents a pound. All 
seeds are high this year; potatoes $1.50; 
beans and peas scarce. Large amount of 
land being prepared for crops here. Weather 
conditions fine. Spring rather backward. 
Hinckley, Me. h. w. s. 
The prices of stock and prQduce for 
Wood County are about as follows: Cows, 
$25 to $50; stockers, $5 per 100 pounds; 
fat cattle, $6; calves, $6.75 to $7; hogs, 
$6.50 to $6.75 on foot; lambs for Easter 
trade brought $9; horses from $100 to 
$200, not very many good horses raised in 
this county. Chickens, 12 cents; eggs, 18 
cents; butter, 20 cents. No silage sold; 
hay very scarce, selling at barns from $25 
to $30; corn, 85 cents; wheat, $1; bran, 
$33 per ton; middlings, $34 ; seed potatoes 
very scarce and selling from $1.75 to $2 
per bushel. Good seed corn very scarce. 
Our best corn is only testing about 85 per 
cent. Have had a very severe Winter and 
Spring is late; have had a few good days, 
and only a few potatoes in the ground. A 
good many are spraying this year, the first 
spray having already been applied. 
Belleville, W. Va. e. s. h. 
Hay sells from $12 to $18 a ton deliv¬ 
ered as to quality. I have just sold two 
yearling heifers at $20 each. Cows bring 
$40 to $50. I do not know of any sales 
of silage. Manure sells for $1 a two-horse 
load. Milk sells at the car for 27 cents 
a can this month. I make butter and sell 
to the consumer for 30 cents a pound. 
Eggs are 20 cents a dozen at the store 
here now. Pork, eight cents, dressed; 
potatoes, $1.50 per bushel here this Winter. 
Only a few sheep kept hereabouts; they 
bring $4 to $6 each. My lambs sold last 
Summer for seven cents a pound alive. 
Live fowls were 12 cents last year. My 
apples I ship to Boston. I got $3.75 per 
barrel for McIntosh Red there last Fall; 
other kinds not so much. We had an 
extra good hay crop here last year, as we 
did not feel the drought. Quite a lot of 
lumbering here Winters. Maple syrup 
brings from $1 to $1.25 per gallon, rather 
a poor year for sugaring. p. g. g. 
Canaan, N. II. 
At private sale cows bring from $30 to 
$100; yearlings when fat bring from 3% 
to 414 cents per pound. Horses from $40 
to $300. Hay baled $26 to $28 per ton. 
No silos in this section. No manure sold, 
only from livery stables, at from nothing 
to $1 per load. Milk in Clarksburg from 
six cents in Summer to eight cents a quart 
in Winter and Spring. Eggs from 18 
cents in stores to 25 cents in Clarksburg. 
Fowls, 14 cents per pound. Apples, $1 per 
bushel. Potatoes, $2 per bushel. Onions, 
45 cents per pound. Corn, 80 cents per 
bushel; oats, 65 to 70 cents. In this part 
of Harrison County people do not produce 
more than one-fourth what they consume, 
being in oil section and coal mining is 
carried on extensively, and quite a little 
manufacturing, especially glass and tin¬ 
plate and several smaller industries. Farm¬ 
ing is badly overlooked, yet people are 
generally prosperous. The outlook for fruit 
Is fairly good. w. B. D. 
Bristol, W. Va. 
Practically no auction sales of cattle or 
any farm products. Cattle and other live I 
stock are bought by local buyers, who make 
weekly shipments to Brighton. Buyers | 
drive around the surrounding country pick¬ 
ing up the stock, sometimes taking their 
own heavy teams along, to haul the calves 
and hogs. Good cows are bringing $40 to 
$60. They get a few better and some 
cheaper than these prices. The majority 
are Jerseys. Calves are bringing seven 
to 7% cents; hogs, 6% cents; hay, $9 to 
$18, probably $14 would be an average 
price, and several hundred cars nave been 
sent from here. Silage I think is never 
sold; most of the silage is sweet corn fod¬ 
der. Most of the farmers plant for the 
factories, pick the good ears, for which they 
get 2% and 2% cents per pound of cut 
corn, and the small ears and fodder goes 
into the silo. Manure about $3 per cord, 
but not much sold. Quantities of commer¬ 
cial fertilizer is bought, however, and 
grain also. Cord wood, $4; long brings 
$4.50 to $6. Maple syrup, $1.25 to $1.50 
per gallon. Milk is peddled around town 
for six cents. There may be some shipped, 
but I don’t know about it. The principal 
dairy business is selling cream to the fac¬ 
tory. This cream is mostly collected at the 
door by some farmer in each locality who 
carries a two-horse load, some of the hauls 
being 15 miles. The farmers are getting 
36 cents per pound for butter fat. Pota¬ 
toes started at 60 cents from the field, and 
have kept climbing until now they are re¬ 
tailing at local stores for $1.40 per bushel, 
highest price for years. Last year at this 
time and earlier people were feeding them 
to stock to get rid of them. l. w. r. 
Farmington, Me. 
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Every sensible person wants the best of everything, but in 
many things the best is beyond their means and they must 
necessarily be content with something less. 
In the case of the Cream Separator, however, the best is 
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Moreover, the best is of more import¬ 
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than in anything else, since it means a 
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