1913. 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Tn effect January 1, 1913, the N. Y. 
Milk Exchange price was reduced 20 cents 
per 40-quart can, now being: B (selected 
raw and pasteurized), $1.91 per 40-quart 
can: C (for cooking and manufacturing), 
$1.81, netting four and 3% cents to ship¬ 
pers in the 26-cent zone. 
The zones are fixed by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission as follows: 23 cents 
for the first 40 miles from New York; 26 
cents for the next 60 miles; 29 cents for 
the next 90 miles; beyond this, 32 cents. 
The railroads allow a discount for car lots 
of 10,000 quarts of 10 and 12% per cent. 
MILK LAWS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
The New England Homestead and also 
the B. C. M. P. Co. do not see any good 
in the Saunders law, which was enacted 
a few years ago, and which changed the 
milk situation to quite au extent. They 
claim that only a few have been benefited 
by this l#w, while it has taken two cents 
per can out of the majority of the pro¬ 
ducers’ pockets. The truth is many have 
received from two to five cents per can 
more for their milk since this law was 
passed than before, by being able to sell 
to small independent buyers. This they 
could not do before because the big con¬ 
tractor leased the cars and would allow 
no outside party to send a can of milk 
on that car and the railroads would not 
take any milk on the baggage cars except 
in cases of a favored few who had the 
pull. Now they are obliged to take what¬ 
ever is offered under the present or Saun¬ 
ders law. I did not claim this law is per¬ 
fect, but I still believe, and good authori¬ 
ties have said the same, that the present 
law does not prohibit a contractor from 
hiring a car if he so wishes. Even if we 
are mistaken in this stand, as I have often 
stated, it would be a small matter to 
change this so the milk could be hauled 
by carload or leased cars in sections where 
this would give best results, and in others 
where the can rate, or present plan would 
work best, producers should have the right 
and privilege to ship that wav. To re¬ 
peal the present law and go back to the old 
leased car policy, and leave no way for the 
small buyer to get his milk to market 
would be foolish or worse. 
It is true auto trucks are used and will 
in the future be used, and we have a 
newly instituted service in the trolley ex¬ 
press from Springfield to Boston which 
will help farmers greatly in getting their 
produce to market. Yet just the same we 
need the services of the railroads at our 
disposal also, as in many cases they are 
the proper and best routes for all the year 
round shipments of milk, and should be 
held open for the use of the small shipper 
as well as the large one. We also believe 
that the two cents per can claimed to have 
been taken out of the majority’s pockets 
by this law has been taken out bv the 
large buyer instead of the law. In all 
cases as far as I can learn the small 
dealers have paid two cents or more a 
can over the contractor’s price and also 
paid this same two cents extra freight 
charge without a murmur, while the big 
contractors in nearly every case have taken 
it out of their producers’ pockets and laid 
the blame to the law. The most important 
point in favor of the railroad is the fact 
that they can carry plenty of ice in Sum¬ 
mer season to keep the milk at the proper 
temperature ’whenever the quantity shipped 
warrants this. The trolley and auto can¬ 
not do this as well, and also would not 
be as reliable in Winter in snow time and 
icy weather. 
One of the chief drawbacks in the milk 
business is failure of the producers to hang 
together or cooperate in selling their pro¬ 
duct ; each section should as far as possi¬ 
ble sell to the same buyer. This in too 
many casis is not done. A buyer has a dairy 
or perhaps several in one section and an¬ 
other bunch or single one two or three 
miles away, and still some more two or 
three miles further away and so on. That 
is, a carload or truck load or whatever it 
may be will be scattered over 10 to 20 
miles or more of territory, with one or 
more other buyers getting milk in differ¬ 
ent sections and sometimes in the same 
sections of this same territory, and each 
buyer having his own men gathering the 
milk in the same section where the other 
buyers also have to have their man col¬ 
lect. Now if one buyer got all the milk 
he could have it gathered more cheaply 
and the producer would get more probably. 
In many cases one man cannot gather the 
milk for all the buyers of the section, be¬ 
cause each buyer has a different way of 
shipping; one the railroad, another a truck, 
and another some other way, and also the 
shipping stations are often fn different 
towns. This makes bad business, and 
^ systematized in a business wav 
with a great saving to all parties. If 
each milk section would only organize and 
work together on these questions they 
would accomplish much and benefit them¬ 
selves and others also. This is the only 
way to do a successful business, each sec¬ 
tion work for that section, and also be 
ready to help other sections on all ques¬ 
tions which cover the whole. a. e. p. 
New „ “ 1,ch cows * 40 to $50; farrow 
cows $20 to $30; milk, retail, five to six 
ceiB* per quart; at the railroad station 
per 100 pounds; cheese, retail, 18 
cents per pound; butter, retail, 35 cent* 
per pound. Apples, $1.50 per barrel at 
railroad station. Onions $1 per bushel; po¬ 
tatoes 50 cents per bushel; turnips 50 
cents per bushel; cabbage one cent per 
pound; squash 2% cents per pound. 
Dorset, Vt. c. D. m. 
This part of Fairfield County is adapted 
to selling milk mostly; we have two mar- 
kets for milk, Bridgeport and Borden’s. 
Ihe farmers deliver their milk for Bridge¬ 
port on the State road along the line of 
road where convenient, and put it aboard 
or a motor truck. It is taken to Bridge¬ 
port, the retailer paying for the same, and 
to Bordens, have to deliver to the factorv. 
ifresh cows are worth - from $50 to $75 
each ; milk for Bridgeport market worth at 
present 4% cents per quart. Borden’s, the 
last 1 knew, was 3% cents. Butter is 32* 
apples, hand picked, 90. b. m. ’ 
h airfield Co., Conn. 
Butter, 25 to 28 cents; eggs, 30 to 32; 
potatoes, 55; corn, 65; oats, 40; hay, $14 
to $15 a ton; apples, 60 cents a bushel; 
dressed pork, nine to 9% cents a pound. 
Clearville, Pa, r. g. 
The prices being received this year for 
farm products, etc., are as follows: Oat* 
40; hay $18 to $20; potatoes 50; turnips 
50 cents per bushel. Horses, 1500 to 1800 
pounds, $300 to $350. Good cows $50 to 
?100. a. J. 
Hancock, Mich. 
Milch cows range from $45 to $65; 
milk five to seven cents a quart; butter 20 
cents. Hogs are scarce, many having died, 
hence no sale or market. Eggs 25 ; hens 
nine cents; apples from $l to $3.50 per 
barrel, according to kind and quality. Po¬ 
tatoes 75 cents; turnips 40 cents per 
bushel; corn 45 cents; honey 12% cents 
per section. j. u. a. 
Hamburg, Ill. 
New milch cows, from $60 to $80; dry, 
from $20 to $30. Hay, $12 a ton; pota¬ 
toes, 50 cents a bushel; onions, $1 a 
bushel; oats, 50 cents; butter, 35 cents for 
good dairy. Fresh eggs, 50 cents a dozen 
at present. Meal at the mill, $1.50 a hun¬ 
dred ; _ mixed f_eed, $1.60. Apples, No. 1 
Baldwins, $1.75 a barrel; common fruit, 
12 cents a bushel at the cars for cider. 
Canaan, N. Y. e. j. a. 
Butter, 30 cents per pound; fresh eggs, 
3< cents per dozen; milk, 32 cents for an 
8%-quart can at the car; dressed pork, 
10% cents per pound; selected apples, $2 a 
barrel; selected potatoes, 75 cents per 
bushel; turnips, 60; carrots, 60; beets, 60; 
onions, $1 ; must be choice. Dressed ducks 
18 cents per pound ; live chickens, 14 cents. 
Alstead, N. II. g. e. h. 
The following prices are obtained by 
farmers of this locality: Cattle, $7 to 
fa'nr ’ c ® ws > ?£.50; hogs, $7; sows, fat, 
$6.*,o; sheep, $3 to $4 ; wheat, per bushel, 
8o; corn, 40; hay, clover and Timothv, 
$10 to $14; Potatoes, 50; milk, whole, 14 
cents per gallon ; milk, retail, six cents 
per quart; butter, 25; eggs, 30; chickens, 
nine cents per pound; Turkeys, 16. Fruit 
complete failure except pears, which sold 
for 50 cents per bushel. o. M. k. 
Yorktown, Ind. 
This is mostly a grain and hav producing 
section, not much dairying. What milk is 
produced goes to cooperative creamery, 
where it is made into butter, sold mostly 
in New York City. Only a few potatoes 
are raised here. No beef to speak of raised 
here; calves are all vealed. Just about 
corn enough raised for feeding. Wheat 97 
cents ; barley 55 ; buckwheat 65 ; oats 40 ; 
hay $15 for first grade; potatoes 75 cents. 
Stores pay 45 to 50 cents for eggs. Pork 
$9.50 to $10 dressed. E . D. 
Aurora, N. Y. 
Butter 35 cents per pound; eggs 35 cents 
per dozen ; lard 14 cents per pound; pork 10 
cents per pound, whole hog. Potatoes 75 
cents per bushel; turnips 50 cents per 
bushel; apples, $1; cabbage five to eight 
cents per head; beef 10 cents per pound. 
Live stock, cows, good, $40 to $60 per 
head; beef cattle $30 to $60; sheep 3% 
cents per pound, live, dull sale; lambs six 
cents, dull sale; horses $100 to $300 per 
head. This is about average price. Tyrone 
i» our market. j, h* t 
Bald Eagle, Pa. 
Fresh cows have been selling for $50, and 
some large young cows as high as $75 early 
in the Fall; strippers from $30 to $40. 
Milk for November and December at Bor¬ 
den’s, $1.90 per 100, provided the dairy¬ 
man's barn scores a certain per cent, other¬ 
wise $1.80. Potatoes have been selling as 
high as 55 cents per bushel, but at pres¬ 
ent are only worth 45. Cabbage has been 
selling for $4.50 and $5 per ton. Onions 
80 cents to $1 per bushel. Eggs, strictly 
fresh white, about 50 cents. Butter 38. 
Hay about $12 in barn. *. r 
Afton, N. Y. 
Prices to private families are the follow¬ 
ing : Eggs, 50 cents per dozen; butter, 35 
to 45 cents per pound; chickens, dressed, 
20 to 23 cents per pound; live, 16 to 17 
cents; apples, 2a cents per peck; onions, 
25 cents per peck; cabbage, five cents per 
head; potatoes, 20 to 25 cents per peck; 
hay, $18 to $20 per ton ; oats, 40 cents per 
bushel; wheat, $1 per bushel; rye, 80 cents 
per bushel; fresh cows, $45 to $65 per 
head; hogs, live, eight cents per pound; 
horses, $100 to $250 per head. No milk 
sold in this neighborhood ; I sell to private 
families. I get 100 cents on the dollar. 
Allison Park, Pa. p. r. 
Fresh milch cow* at $65 to $75; milk 
six cents per quart, wholesale, and 10 cent* 
per quart retail. Butter 33 cents wholesale, 
40 cents retail. There is verv little fruit 
here except apples and strawberries; the 
latter grow in abundance. Apples sell at $2.75 
to $3.50 per barrel, according to quality. 
Strawberries sold the past season at from 
$1 to $2 per 16-quart crate. The following 
garden products grow in abundance and 
bring exceptionally good prices: Beans, 
peas, lettuce, onions, radishes, beets, pars¬ 
nips, carrots and green tomatoes; the lat¬ 
ter as a usual thing do not ripen before the 
frost comes. Potatoes are selling wholesale 
at 50 cents per bushel; turnips 30 cents. 
Eggs 40 cents per dozen; dressed chickens 
17; ducks 19, at present time; poultry 
prices wholesale. c L. H 
Hancock, Mich. 
43 
Me have a creamery in this countv, and 
most people sell their cream. They get 
Elgin prices for the butter fat. Country- 
made butter is 24 cents. Nearly all the 
apples are sold. Growers received 40 to 50 
cents per bushel on cars just in bulk, not 
in barrels or anything. A great deal of 
the fruit in this county is peddled in the 
mining towns. They get all Rinds of 
prices there, from about 60 cents up. No 
gardening done here. Peaches sold around 
o0 cents per basket to shippers, and about 
<o cents to miners. The largest crop of 
Plums ever known in this couutv sold 
around 60 cents per 25-pound basket. Lots 
of peach and apple trees are being set out. 
Not much hay and straw selling now ; hav, 
$12, and straw. $6 to $7. Cattle are worth 
four to six cents, according to kind. Milch 
cows are high, mostly grade Holsteins and 
Jerseys. j. w. k. 
Amesville, O. 
SWIWE 
□ 
(1 I n \ of Superior Quality-17 choice young 
Ui li U. W Gilts and 11 I’opy young Boars; pairs; 
no akin. FKEIJ NICHEI., Monroe, Miclu 
HOGS and P 0 ULTRY-“i/£ 
uer Duck Eggs, White and Brown Leghorn Eggs 
strains, Bred Berkshire Sows and Pigs. 
CHERRY HILL FRUIT FARM, Toboso, Licking County, Ohio. 
I ARGE YORKSHIRES— Sows bred for June and August 
L farrow. Boars ready for service. May pigs, 
order now. Glenmark Farm, Roberts ville, Conn. 
CHELDON FARM registered Durocs. Pigs of both sex 
° Bred Sows. Service Boars. Best of breeding 
_ C. K . BARNES. Oxford, N. V. 
Springbank Berkshire Herd 
Has bred more high-class bogs than any in Connec¬ 
ticut. Have sows bred for Spring litters and some 
Summer farrowed sow pigs that are right to be bred 
for next Summer farrow. Write me. Address. 
J. E. WATSON. PROP., MARBLEDALE, CONN! 
Reg. P, Chinas, Berkshires, C. Whites. 
Fine, large strains; all ages, mated 
not akin. Bred sows sei-viee Boars, 
Jersey and Holstein Calves. Collie 
PupSjBe.-igles and Poultry. Write for 
— ——■, i u^s.uc.igiDsiiuuruunry.vvriieior 
prices & circulars. Hamilton & Co.. Ercildoun, Pa. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES at HIGHWOOD 
We have for sale sendee boars, brood sows and 
Pjgs. all ages. These are sired by Berryton Duke’s 
Model, the boar that beaded the first prize herd at 
the Royal in 1909; Bighwood Duke 75th, a half- 
brother to the Grand Champion boar, at the last In¬ 
ternational, and other boars of eqnal merit. 
11. C. & H. B. HARPENDING, Dundee, N. Y. 
DAIRY CATTLE 
COR SALE-fi REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE EWE LAMBS, Sire 
I imported. JK. K. Stevens & Son, Wilson, N.Y. 
Holstein-Friesian Bull Calves f°„% Sa ' e- ^pu 
offer. THE GATES HOMESTEAD FARM, Chitfenango. N. Y. 
If You Want Guernseys llVoV^Ewml 
GUERNSEY BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION, Box 96, Peekskill, N° y! 
'Tompkins co. breeders* associa- 
TION, Box B, Trumansburg, N. Y.—Breeders 
ot Holstein, Jersey & Guernsey cattle and the lead¬ 
ing breeds of sheep and swine. Write for sale list. 
Ontario SegisBurke-Sy^f.^^® 
markings; rich breeding; fine individual. Price, $75. 
Send for pedigree, etc. Cloverdaie Farm, Charlotte, N. Y. 
Gy E , RNS E Y BULL-*,™?; 
A. ham. Fine individual. Bargain at $75 
TABER & J1IGNIN CASTIi.E, N. Y, 
Breed Up—Not DownT„T 7 .“LSS v S 
buy. Superior dairy dams. No better sires. R. F. 
SHANNON, 997 Liberty Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Milk Producers £ or ? ew V . ork City market 
f ' , . u , , desiring information how to 
foim branches of tiie Dairymen s League, write to 
the Secretary. Albert Manning Otisville. N. Y. 
Chester WHltPS Thoroughbred Sows, bred to 
i ' . , registered boar for April far- 
earn: ^ e, e h over 150 lbs. Sow pigs, 3 months 
old, fb each; Boar pigs. 3 months old, $5 each: Trios 
3 months old. $15. VICTOR FARMS, Bellvale, N Y' 
GRADE HOLSTEINS 
60 Extra Fine, Large, Heavy Milking Cows 
All yenng, nicely marked and due 
to freshen within sixty days. 
IF YOU WANT GOOD ONES COME AND SEE THESE COWS 
F. P. SAUNDERS & SON. Cortland, N. Y. 
TRANQUILITY FARMS 
OFFER YOUNG 
HOLSTEIN COWS and HEIFERS 
both open and bred, at very 
reasonable prices. Address 
TRANQUILITY FARMS, AIIamuchy.N.J. 
Arthur Danks, Manager 
For Sale 
Registered Holstein Male Galt 
Choicely bred, fine individual, attractively marked. 
$95—with ail paper*. 
Also choice young cows at reasonable prices. 
HILLHURST FARM. F. H. RIVENBURGH, Munnsville, N. Y. 
—QUALITY— 
FOR SALE—JERSEY BULL CALF 
Dropped Feb.22,1912. Sire.Tonona Pogis No. 78657, 
whose first daughter to freshen enters the Register 
of Merit with a record of over 600 lbs. butter as a 
two year old. Dam of calf is Alcamo’s Molly No. 
176488, a Register of Merit cow, having two years 
authenticated tests producing 18,385.5 lbs. milk, 
924.3 lbs. fat, equivalent to 1,087 lbs. 11 oz. butter, 85* 
fat. He s good enough to head any herd. For des¬ 
cription and price, address E. W. MOSHER, Aurora, N. Y. 
EAST RIVER HOLSTEINS 
...FOR SALE... 
70 Cows, grade Holstein, due to calve soon. The kind 
that till the pail. 1 O Registered 2 and 3 year old Heifers 
bred to good sires. 10 Registered Bulls ready for ser¬ 
vice, with extra good breeding. 10 Registered Bull 
Calves. Most of these bulls have good A. R, O. Pams, 
and large record sires. 
bell PHONE JOHN B. WEBSTER 
311-F-5 Dept, li, Cortland, N. Y. 
FROM ALL OF THE BREEDS 
At the National 
Dairy Show, 1912 
A GUERNSEY COW 
Was selected by 
JUDGES THE BEST 
Write us about her. 
The American Guernsey Cattle Club 
Box Y PETERBORO, N. H. 
uses 
BERCHERON STALLIONS, with quality guaranteed, at 
r farmer’s prices. BONNY BROOK FARM. Gardiner, N. Y. 
P ercheron and Belgian Stallions and Mares for sale 
at farmers’ prices. A W. GREEN, Route 1, 
iMiddlefield, O. Railroad station. East Orwell, O., 
on Penna. R.R., 30 miles north of Youngstown, O. 
For Sale—Shetland and Welsh Ponies 
spotted and solid colors. All ages. Suitable for 
Christmas presents. Nothing so much appreciated. 
SHERMAN SANFORD - Seymour, Conn. 
Adirondack Farms, 
Glens Falls, N. Y. 
The greatest Breeding 
Establishment in the East. 
Champion Stud of Perch¬ 
eron and Belgian Stallions 
and Mares. 
Catalogue C if interested 
_ 3 orcliGron 
Belgian and Hackney Stallions and Mares 
Your pick of my sale Stal Hons for $1,000.00. New ship, 
ment arrives the first of the year. Big ton boys, 
lots of bone, quality and action; the kind that will 
look good to you. Come and see them ; yon can’t 
beat it in America. Book what mv horses did at 
Wheeling, our (State fair. Everything in Hackneys. 
Six prizes on Belgians; four of the six were first 
prizes. Percheron won almost everything In three- 
year-old stallions and over; first prize under three, 
first and second prizes, second on mare, first and 
second on young mares. Stallion and four of hi* 
gets, first prize. Mare and two of her get, first and 
second prizes. Stud group, consisting of stallion 
and four mares, first prize. Five best stallion, first 
prize. Champion Stallion, Reserved Champion Stal- 
lion. Reserved Champion Mare. Doesn’t this look 
like I have the goods In both Imported and Ameri¬ 
can-bred stock from weanlings up. My new ship¬ 
ment is the best I have ever had. Be sure and come 
and see them or write DR. OTIS M. TREVEY LOCUST 
GROVE FARM, MOUNOSVILLE. W. VA Moundsvllle is 
only 11 miles south of Wheeling, has trains, each 
way, 8 times a day on the B. & O., and O. R. street 
cars every 30 minutes to Wheeling, where you can 
the W. & Lake Erie and Pennsylvania lines. 
Don t forget where you find your money’s worth. 
Come early and get your choice. 
Great.New Year’s 
Combination Sale 
100 head of imported Belgian, Percheron and 
German Coach Stallions and Mares will be sold at 
. . 1S Combination Sale Tuesday, January 
14, 1913, at the Sharon Valley Stock Farm, New¬ 
ark, Ohio. This great sale of horses are from one 
year old to five years old. Weight from 1600 to 2100' 
lbs. Such a lot of horses and mares have never 
been offered 
at an auction. 
15 head of re¬ 
gistered one- 
year-old stal- 
li on s and 
mares will be 
sold; 100 head 
of grade geld- 
i n g s and 
mares, bred 
from my best 
imported stal¬ 
lions will be 
in this sale. 
They are from 
two to six 
years old, 
truckmen, farmers or the Eastern Markets? Any 
WIShln * S ®H one or more.let it be a stallion, 
gelding or mare, from two or more years old, and 
to I bn^thAm en, 4 t f°. t ^ SSa | e,Iexpectto have buyers 
J hls sale a commission of 10 per 
andV> ^ a L 10 ^ s ’ 5 < ? nt - on eeldions and mares 
K h ' d on al J , horses listed and not sold- 
Come and bring your friends and buy one or more. 
Auction sale at the new barn. Lunch served Free 
automobile or carriage to the sale. 
Col. Geo. W. Crawford, Proprietor 
SHAltON VALLEY STOCK FARM, 
Col. Fred W. Andrew*, Auctioneer. Newark, Ohio 
-L)oga fmd Ferrets 
FERRETS FOR SALE -Eit n 0 r ss Ipr - largeor 
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PUREBRED REGISTERED 
HOLSTEIN CATTLE 
As long as farmers were content to sell whole milk 
for the price of the tat it contained, there was room for 
discussion as to comparative value of the breeds But 
the separator overcomes the necessity of eelline milk 
in this unprofitable way. 
For the wholesale milk trade, for delivering milk to eon- 
depsanes or cheese factories, for the production of butter- 
iAt f the skim milk being retained to feed pigs and calves 
thus preventing the depletion of the soil which never fail* 
to occur where whole milk is shipped, the Holstein-Friesian 
cow is most profitable. 
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HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASS’N, F. L. HOUGHTON, Sec y, Box 105 . Brattleboro, Vt. 
