1913. 
THE) RURAI> INI £U W-YORKER 
40 r 
M I L K. 
In effect March 1, 1013, the N. Y. Milk 
Milk Exchange price was reduced 10 cents 
per 40-quart can, now being: B (selected 
raw and pasteurized), $1.81 per 40-quart 
can; C (for cooking and manufacturing), 
$1.71, netting 3%, and 3%. cents to ship¬ 
pers in the 2G-cent zone. 
The zones are fixed by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission as follows: 23 cents 
for the first 40 miles from Now York; 2G 
cents for the next GO 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. 
It is not very frequently that a farmer 
gets an invitation to counsel in making a 
price for milk, but such an instance has 
now been recorded. Not that the farmer’s 
advice is to go far in making up the sched¬ 
ule of prices, but lie has been allowed to 
express his views before the price is an¬ 
nounced. tVliat should the farmer say 
under such circumstances? He is tempted 
to name a price that will make good money 
for him, and allow him to get even, to a 
small degree, with the men that have 
squeezed out of him the last cent that 
could be got for several years. That course 
will not be diplomatic nor wise. He should 
state a fair thing according to the cir¬ 
cumstances of the case. One way is to 
name a uniform price for the entire period 
of the contract, which in this instance is 
six months. Evidently this plan would not 
be the one to follow, for the dealer can 
reasonably insist on a uniform production 
if he pays a uniform price, and that is 
what the farmer cannot comply with. It 
will be necessary for the present to change 
the prices as the season changes. In this 
section it will be necessary to be governed 
by the prices that the Bordens pay, be¬ 
cause that concern governs the prices in 
this territory and we cannot at present 
entirely evade their influence. Farmers are 
getting to see that the Borden company is 
much of a monopoly, and are getting rest¬ 
less of its tyranny. Something may be 
done about it one of these days, but at 
present their hold cannot be broken to 
any marked degree. Farmers are being 
heard from now and then in relation to 
the Borden prices and conditions and the 
time may come when they will be heeded. 
At the time to which I referred at the 
beginning, the Borden prices had not been 
made, and the farmer in question stated 
that he would not be willing to state a 
lower price for any month for the six 
months than that company might pay for 
April-Septembcr. In addition to that he 
would name $1.G0 for April and $1.30 for 
May. The other months he would take 
Borden prices for this season and see what 
the coutcome might be. The reason for 
stating the prices for the two months is 
that those months have been losers for 
several years, and he thinks that at the 
prices named he can get out without loss. 
April is a month when it costs as much 
to' produce milk as at any time in the 
vear, except that the weather is not quite 
so severe. For May some reduction may be 
made because from a third to a half or 
the month the cows may be out to pasture 
when the cost of production is less. 1 he 
farmer thinks that the remainder of the 
season may be left to the Borden company 
for this once, as that company seems to 
be more ready to do the fair thing towards 
paying the cost of production for the rest 
of the season, after the first of June. This 
may mean a dollar or a little more foi 
June, a little under a dollar and a quarter 
for July, and August and September will 
go considerably higher. In a general way 
this would be the schedule: April, $1.60 , 
May, $1.30; June, $1.10; July, $1—0, 
August, $1.40; September, $1.65. This is 
in the outer zone of freights and the price 
should be higher nearer the city. If you 
watch out you will see a marked discrep¬ 
ancy between this price and the one offered 
when the price is announced by the Bor¬ 
dens the middle of the month of March. 
I do not mean that a slight compromise 
may not reasonably be made on some of 
the months on these prices, but there can 
be little reduction made from these and 
keep the farmer interested in the produc¬ 
tion of milk, and friendly toward the 
dealer. n * H - 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
THE BELLOWS MILK CASE ENDED. 
The interesting and strenuously fought 
Bellows-Raynor test case to determine the 
extent of the authority of the New York 
City Health Department to regulate and 
prescribe the rules for the equipment and 
operation of a dairy from which milk is 
shipped to the city markets, has been de¬ 
cided by the Court of Appeals after being 
contested in the courts for nearly three 
years. The decision of the late Henry 
Coman who presided at the trial term in 
Delhi, in May, 1910, and who granted Mr. 
Raynor a non-suit, has beeu sustained and 
affirmed, the decision of the Appellate Di¬ 
vision being in affirmation of that of the 
trial term. This means that the farmers 
of New York State who produce milk and 
ship the same to New York City for sale 
and consumption as food must comply 
with the rules and regulations of the City 
Health Department or have the sale of 
their milk in the metropolis forbidden. The 
Bellows case is therefore a lost cause for 
the farmers who send their milk or cream 
to the remunerative city markets, either 
shipping directly or through the medium 
of their various creameries. 
Readers will doubtless recall the points in 
this much discussed and vitally important 
legal contest. Sniffin K. Bellows of Rox- 
bury, Delaware County, an influential 
farmer and milk producer and a patron 
and stockholder in the Cold Spring Co- 
Operative Creamery began suit for damages 
against Mr. Raynor of the New York City 
Board of Health in January, 1910, because 
through an order of Mr. Raynor, who was 
chief of the Bureau of Sanitary Inspection 
the milk from Mr. Bellow's’ dairy was re¬ 
jected at the Cold Spring Creamery, it 
being alleged that Mr. Bellows’ dairy barn 
did not meet the requirements of the city 
health authorities according to the reports 
of the barn inspectors who had visited Mr. 
Bellows’ premises. After a few weeks milk 
from this dairy was again delivered at the 
Cold Spring Creamery, permission having 
been given by the city health authorities. 
It was thought by legal counsel that Mr. 
Bellows had a case against the city suitable 
for a test as to whether the New York City 
Board of Health had the authority they as¬ 
serted and assumed in rejecting milk from 
farmers’ dairies where no direct specific 
test was made to determine whether it was 
wholesome or not. The farmers were anx¬ 
ious to know the extent of their property 
rights in the matter, and urged Mr. Bel¬ 
lows to begin legal action, they and several 
granges promising and giving much of the 
necessary financial support. This action, 
therefore, was not a selfish one on the part 
of the plaintiff, who was merely the leader 
of dairymen and milk producers who 
wanted to know their rights, if they had 
any, in regard to the production and mar¬ 
keting of their dairy produce. Ralph S. 
Ives of Roxbury, N. Y., was the attorney 
of record for Mr. Bellows, and Charles L. 
Andrus of Stamford, N. Y., was the trial 
lawyer. Messrs. Ives and Andrus fought 
with great care the cause of the farmers. 
Mr. Andrus argued for the plaintiff-appel¬ 
lant before the Court of Appeals. As a 
result of this case it is legally recognized 
that the New Y'ork City Health Depart¬ 
ment has vested in it tremendous power 
and authority. The abuse of such au¬ 
thority could easily be followed by ex¬ 
treme financial hardship to the milk pro¬ 
ducers who depend upon the city markets 
for the disposal of their dairy products at 
a fair margin of profit. 
Garget. 
I have a cow with three teats, and every 
once in a while she gives stringy milk, or 
pieces that look more like curd from first 
one and then another teat about once, then 
I see no more for nearly a week. I am 
feeding clover hay, cornstalks, bran, middl¬ 
ings, oat and corn. Can you tell me what 
is the matter and what to do? j. a. 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
Such a cow will never be likely to prove 
profitable or satisfactory for dairying pur¬ 
poses, as she has a chronic inflamed condi¬ 
tion of the mammary glands. She will be 
likely to have a recurrence of the trouble 
any time her udder becomes chilled or 
slightly bruised or you happen to give a 
sudden change in feed, which temporarily 
causes slight indigestion. As soon as her 
milk flow does not pay for her maintenance, 
we would advise selling her to the butcher. 
A. S. A. 
DON’T OVER-SALT 
State Experimental Stations claim that a larpo percentage of 
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When animals are fed salt only at certain intervals, it produces 
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