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M I L K. 
lu 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 
«an; C (for cooking and manufacturing), 
$1.81, netting four and 3% cents to ship¬ 
pers in the 2G-cent zone. 
The zones are lixed 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. 
Fixing Milk Prices by Law. 
In the hope that it will increase the 
milk supply and at the same time reduce 
gradually the price to consumers, Assembly- 
man Marc W. Cole, or Orleans County, 
chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, 
is introducing a bill authorizing the health 
boards of first and second class cities to 
fix the profit which milk dealers may ob¬ 
tain on sales of milk. The profit will be 
fixed as a percentage of the price paid to 
the farmer who produces the milk. The 
basic idea of Mr. Cole’s bill, therefore, is 
to encourage the dairy farmer by making 
it impossible for the middleman to monopo¬ 
lize all the profits in the transaction. The 
result, he figures, would be to raise gradu¬ 
ally the price paid to the farmer, and so 
increase the production of milk. At the 
same time, he thinks it will tend to raise 
the standard of the milk supply in cities, 
as the local health boards will have it in 
their power to allow a little better profit 
on the sale of high grade milk than of the 
low grades. The reduction of the profit 
possible to middlemen, he feels sure, will 
result in a lower price for milk to the con¬ 
sumer, and yet better the milk sold to 
them. This fixing, of a percentage of 
profits, Mr. Cole tliinks, should not be a 
duty of the State, but of the local authori¬ 
ties to whom the supervision of the city’s 
milk supply is intrusted. Those authorities 
will know the sources of supply, the local 
distribution conditions, the grades of milk 
and other details which enter into the 
problem. New York would not be the first 
State to take up the general matter of 
State encouragement of the milk producer, 
if Mr. Cole’s bill becomes a law. Vermont 
recently enacted a law under which the 
milk dealers must give bonds for prompt 
payment to the dairy farmers who supply 
them, and the plan is said to be working 
to the great satisfaction of the farmers. 
Massachusetts Milk Notes. 
Some facts worth studying were brought 
out by the various speakers at the B. C. 
M. P. meeting in Boston last month. 
Among those which are important were 
the following: 
The cost of keeping a cow one year at 
the Connecticut Experiment Station was 
stated to be $95 for cost of feed and $65 
for care. Average amount of milk per 
cow, 9,000 pounds. Average farmer’s cost 
for both was about $125. In New Hamp¬ 
shire average farm cost was stated to be 
$130 per year, and average production per 
cow 6,000 pounds. Seven cows per dairy 
was stated to be the average on farms 
sumilying milk to Boston. 
Secretary Hunter stated the average price 
paid producers per quart for milk from 
October 1, 1911 to October 1, 1912, was 
.0390. It cost the contractor to buy and 
deliver milk to consumer .0864 per quart. 
This looks like too much expense for handl¬ 
ing, if true, and it seems it. could be more 
economically handled if a different system 
were used; that is a more direct system 
from farm to consumer. You will notice 
under these figures it costs more to handle 
and deliver the milk than to produce it; 
.0474 to handle against .0390 for produc¬ 
ing. 
It is reported that the total number of 
cows in New Hampshire has decreased 
about 1,000 in the last year. This looks 
as if she were taking pattern from Massa¬ 
chusetts in reducing production. 
In spite of these facts Boston market 
has at present more milk than, can be sold, 
and those contractors who can are either 
reducing the price or reducing the quantity 
they will take from each dairy supplying 
them. The Hoods are reported to have cut 
the production in two, and take only half 
from dairies which did not sign the register. 
When the registers were placed at the dif¬ 
ferent milk stations a limited time only 
was given to sign, and anybody could sign 
who wished, no favor being given an old 
producer over a new, and first comers 
could sign for any amount they wished 
until the amount required was signed ; then 
the register was closed. The Whitings gave 
out no contract of any kind for the six 
months, and when milk became a little 
plentiful they promptly reduced prices, 
although they had stated they would pay 
as much as the rest for the six months. 
Milk sold to them will net the producer 
from 30 to 33 cents per can for February, 
I understand, according to location, when 
these producers should have received 34 
to 37. 
In regard to the Sherman Anti-trust law 
and indictment of Clerk Hunter of the B. 
C. M. P. Co. for alleged violation of the 
same, the New England Homestead of 
February 1 hits the nail on the head in the 
following statement. “It’s a great stunt 
for Uncle Sam to spend millions teaching 
farmers to produce more and then spend 
more millions prosecuting them for trying 
to sell that produce for a living price.” 
The Ellis bill in its third trial to pass 
the Legislature, is having much opposition 
and the State Board of Agriculture and 
several other prominent dairy associations 
are urging another bill, which makes the 
bacterial count the main issue in determin¬ 
ing when milk is iu proper condition to be 
sold. The standard count in this bill would 
be the same as at present, 500,000 per 
cubic centimeter, and prosecution would 
fodow the finding of three samples above 
that figure taken in not less than three 
days’ time. 
Some dairies which do not score as high 
as others for reason of having old barns, 
etc., have a lower count of bacteria than 
the high scorers. Vermont has just taken 
a needed step forward in passing a bill 
which requires all foreign creamery as¬ 
sociations to file a bond of $5,000 with 
the Secretary of State and all bills not 
settled before the 25tli of the following 
month for which they were contracted may 
be sued for and recovered from this bond 
fund. a. k. i>. 
.(THE RURAk NEW-YORKER February 22,' 
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NEW YORK NOTES. 
Farm affairs are coming to a more active 
condition as the Spring approaches. Not 
that there is any activity in real farm¬ 
ing yet, but people are thinking of it more 
than for some time. Milk production is 
the object of though mostly, and the cows 
that are to give milk this Winter at all 
are now doing so. There seems to be lit¬ 
tle reason for much increase iu milk flow 
until the Spring cows commence to freshen. 
Feeds are not cheap by any means, but 
they are holding fairly steady, and are 
not costing as much as last year. Corn is 
lower than for nearly two years, but it 
seems as though it is selling higher than 
is necessary if the crop is so large as is 
represented. We are having to pay $22 a 
ton for corn and $23 for meal. I do not 
know how much the farmer gets who pro¬ 
duced the crop, nor how much the railroad 
gets for hauling, but these would be inter¬ 
esting questions. Not that $23 is too much 
to pay for corumeal if the producer gets 
a fair share of the money. There is one 
thing that the Western farmer does that 
we of the East are denied. He gets a 
larger share of the consumer’s dollar than 
we can hope to do. 
Hay is iu good supply and farmers are 
fortunate if they get $12 for it at the 
barn. Meanwhile dealers who buy from 
the general dealers are paying $18 for hay 
that really is not so good. They buy it 
baled and delivered. Of the $6 difference 
there is $2.50 for pressing, and the delivery 
is worth one or two dollars. It would 
seem as though a dealer ought to show a 
preference for the men who are buying of 
him feeds at a good margin of profit. That 
is not the way the world goes, however. 
It would be next to impossible for a farmer 
to sell hay to one of these dealers. They 
are looking for the price to drop soon, 
they say. 
The Summer schedule of milk prices is 
being discussed a little. It will be some 
weeks yet before the price will be an¬ 
nounced, and any statement before the day 
of contract will be mere supposition. The 
plan is wrong, but it is not the only thing 
that is wrong in the farming world in the 
way of sales. February prices are a drop 
from the previous month, and milk brings 
$1.75 for “C” grade and 10 cents a hun¬ 
dred more for “B.” There are independent 
dealers who are paying more, and I under¬ 
stand that the butter factories are doing 
better than this. As a rule the Exchange 
prices have been better than the so-called 
trust price. The fact is that the price of 
milk is so low, according to the cost of 
production, that the supply is as a whole 
on the decline. This seems to be due to 
the studied action of the milk monopoly. 
Thus far we have had an exceptional 
Winter, since there has been very little 
snow and not much cold wealther. There 
has been a good deal of rain and the 
ground has been in such a condition that 
much of it has entered the soil. There 
has been no trouble from freezing out of 
any farm plants thus far, whether it be 
grain or grass. The meadows had such 
a fine start in the Fall that there is a 
feeling that we are to have a good grass 
crop another season. It is really impos¬ 
sible to say much about the next grass 
crop, but we can mark present conditions. 
As a general thing I would say that farm¬ 
ing prospects are good with the single ex¬ 
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promises to be so much of a failure that 
farmers are planning to shorten their needs 
for men as far as they can. The ice crop 
too, is an entire failure up to the present 
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