1913 . 
THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
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MILK 
In effect March 1, 1913, 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 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 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. 
The Seeley Milk Bill. 
Seldom has the provincialism of New 
York City been more glaringly displayed 
than in a recent attempt to secure legisla¬ 
tion practically placing the production and 
gale of the milk products of the State under 
the control of that city. The Seeley milk 
bill, said to have been drawn by an East 
Side physician who was one of the dele¬ 
gates to the recent milk conference held 
in New York, would create a new depart¬ 
ment of the State government, to be known 
as the Sanitary Milk Department. This 
department would be composed of a com¬ 
mission of three; one to be appointed by 
the Governor, and the others, by virtue of 
their office, to be the Commisioner of 
Agriculture of the State, and the Commis¬ 
sioner of Health of New York City. This 
commission, or the Sanitary Milk Board, 
would take over all supervision over the 
dairy interests of the State now held by 
the Department of Agriculture (with the 
exception of veterinary inspection of cat¬ 
tle), and would exercise autocratic control 
in all matters pertaining to the production 
and sale of dairy products within the 
State. It would have the power to enact 
such ordinances as it desired, and these, 
when enacted, would have the full force of 
law. automatically repealing any statutes 
conflicting with them. This board would 
also be empowered to appoint as many 
inspectors and subordinates as it needed to 
do its bidding, and to fixe their compensa¬ 
tion. 
While it would seem that any such plan 
for placing the regulation of one of the 
greatest industries of the Empire State 
absolutely under the control of three men, 
one of whom always would be, and two 
of whom might be residents of New York 
City wholly unacquainted with the practi¬ 
cal problems and needs of the thousands of 
dairymen of the State, would fall through 
the sheer weight of its own folly, the fact 
that the bill had been introduced, and was 
now in committee in the Legislature was 
deemed of sufficient import to warrant the 
calling of a conference representing the 
farmers and dairymen of the State to dis¬ 
cuss the proposed measure and take such 
action as seemed desirable. 
This conference composed of representa¬ 
tives of milk producers and shippers, offi¬ 
cers of the State Dairymens’ and Cheese- 
makers’ Associations, the State Grange, the 
Dairymen’s League, the State Agricultural 
schools, and the editors of several promi¬ 
nent agricultural Journals, met in Albany 
on March 3, and after full discussion of the 
proposed measure. adopted resolutions 
roundly denouncing it as unnecessary, 
vicious, unconstitutional, and wholly inimi¬ 
cal to the interests of producers and con¬ 
sumers alike. A legislative committee was 
also appointed at this conference to draft 
such laws, or amendments to the present 
laws, as are needed to place the regulation 
of the production and sale of dairy products 
upon a satisfactory basis, and to present 
their suggestions to the Legislature in 
proper form for enactment into law. 
M. B. D. 
Feeding for Milk Quality. 
I have an exceptionally fine young cow, 
almost purebred Jersey. She was fresh 
last Fall and is giving, at this time, con¬ 
siderably over three gallons of strained 
milk per day. She was four years of age 
in November and this is her second time 
to calve. When she first came fresh and 
we began using the milk and in fact for 
quite a while she gave the richest milk I 
ever saw, but in the last month it seems 
her milk does not raise as much cream 
as it. did at first. Can this be remedied 
by diet of any kind? I feed her three 
times daily when stabled, at least 1% 
gallons of bran and meal mixed and scalded 
or. mixed with very warm water. She is 
apparently in splendid health and has a 
tine appetitie. I feed her all she will eat 
of nice bright cut-up corn fodder. How 
can I improve her diet? IIow would it do 
to take a large barrel and put it full or 
nearly so of- cut fodder and pour over it 
boiling water and then feed that in con¬ 
nection with bran and meal? Now that I 
have stated her good milking qualities I 
desire to state a bad one she has. She 
invariably makes her droppings up in the 
stall where she has to lie down and smears 
herself with the dung so that I am com¬ 
pelled to give her a thorough washing, 
frequently oefore milking. I always do 
wash my cow’s udder with clear ‘warm 
water, but to have her get so miserably 
dirty as she does and so often is aunoving. 
How can I prevent this? k. s.'b. 
Virginia. 
The kind or amount of feed will 1 
very little influence on the butter 
content of milk. I presume the Bab< 
test would have shown little change in 
richness of the milk during the. pe 
since the cow became fresh. When 
was fresh the cream rose more rapidly 
was thicker; you had better cream, 
poorer skim-milk. The centrifugal si 
rator would get out all the cream, 
thick or thin as you wish, but I do 
know of any other way to regulate it. 
It will not do any good to cook 
roughage. In fact, it renders the pro 
less digest!Me, neither is it worth the t 
ble to cook the grain. It will give as 
good results dry and uncooked and be 
much less work. A mixture of two parts 
by weight of bran, one part cornmeal, and 
one part oil meal would be better for 
milk production than bran and cornmeal, 
but it should be fed dry, as oil meal i3 
very sticky when wet. If the cow does 
not have plenty of salt it might help in 
the churning to give her about an ounce 
daily, or better yet, place it where she can 
help herself at will. It is natural that 
the time of churning should be longer 
now than when she was fresh. 
The stall should be no longer than is 
necessary for the cow to stand in com¬ 
fortably, probably four feet two inches, if 
she is not very large. There should be a 
drop of four to six inches at the rear or 
the stall, and a slight slant downward and 
backward, say one inch to four feet. The 
manger should be quite low on the side 
next to the cow, and not so large but that 
she can comfortably reach all parts of it. 
It would probably be better if the stall 
were a foot narrower. A stanchion would 
not help matters much, and would be less 
comfortable for the cow. c. l. m. 
Bitter Cream. 
I keep my cream a week, then churn. 
This week the cream is very bitter and it 
will not come to butter. Will it make any 
difference if the cows are fed turnips? We 
have been feeding them. o. s. 
Massachusetts. 
The feeding of turnips should not cause 
cream to be bitter, nor to be difficult to 
churn. I think the trouble is probably 
due to keeping the cream too long before 
churning. It is rather difficult fo keep 
cream a week and not develop a bitter 
taste. If turnips are fed before milking 
they will impart a flavor of turnips to the 
milk, but not the bitter taste you mention. 
c. L. M. 
Dairy Ration. 
I have no roots or fodder of any kind, 
merely lots of good hay. I am able to buy 
any kind of feed that you recommend. 
I feed the herd, consisting of two registered 
Jerseys and two registered heifers due to 
freshen in one month as follows: All the 
hay they want after milking in the morn¬ 
ing and* again about 3 p. m.; to the cow 
which is now giving me about 15 quarts 
of milk a day (having freshened last Oc¬ 
tober) four quarts crushed oats, three 
quarts bran and one quart cornmeal twice* 
a day when milked. I know this is heavy 
feed, but will it hurt her? Possibly she 
should have more meal and less oats. She 
puts it right back in the pail and not in 
flesh. If anything she could stand more 
flesh. To the other cow and the two 
heifers just dried up and due to calve 
shortly, two quarts crushed oats and two 
quarts bran twice a day. They are look¬ 
ing well. Should I keep on as now feeding 
or should I change and how? I picked 
the following up for a balanced ration in 
a book the other day: 300 pounds corn¬ 
meal; 100 pounds ground oats; 100 pounds 
bran, and eight pounds cattle salt. Mix 
thoroughly and feed six quarts twice a day, 
adding one pound cotton-seed meal and lVa 
pounds linseed meal, old process. How is 
that for a balanced ration, where there is 
no silage or succulent food, merely hay, 
such as is my case? I have always been 
warned against feeding too much cornmeal. 
Is there too much cornmeal in above 
ration ? Would you approve it for my case ? 
T. 
Under the circumstances I do not know 
that I should advise a change in feed. The 
grain ration you are feeding the milch 
cow is rather wide, but if she is inclined 
to be thin perhaps the greater quantity of 
carbohydrates (starch, fat, etc.) is ad¬ 
visable. Still, I am inclined to believe that 
the balanced ration you mention would be 
better. The ration you are feeding now 
will not hurt the cow. If she is strong 
and hearty, hair smooth and eyes bright, 
her thinness is nothing to worry about, 
and is probably more apparent than real. 
I have known many cows of rather angular 
build which have the appearance of thin¬ 
ness when they are really in good condi¬ 
tion. This is especially true of oldish 
cows, say past eight years. The cow that 
puts the fat in the pail, instead of on her 
back is the one which is most valuable. 
The ration you mention is a good one. 
It would be difficult to mix up a combina¬ 
tion of feeds that would be better than 
any other combination. I do not recom¬ 
mend feeding much corn to cows soon to 
freshen, otherwise it is not injurious when 
mixed with something light and bulkv, like 
bran or ground oats. However, it is low 
in protein, and hdnee not a good feed for 
milk production, except in comparatively 
small quantities. Oil meal and bran, being 
laxative, are especially good where, there 
is no succulent food, and cotton-seed meal 
should be fed sparingly. c. L. m. 
All of the farmers have been taking ad¬ 
vantage of the line sleighing we have been 
having for the past month bv filling their 
icehouses and gathering their wood from 
the swamps for next Summer's use. Pike 
fishing on Oneida Lake has been better than 
usual this Winter, a great number of 
farmers having reported some nice catches. 
There is still a great deal of hay through 
this section to be disposed of, and farmers 
are getting anxious to sell. Some of 
them are drawing it to the city where they 
are getting from $12 to $14 a ton for 
Timothy, although the local buyers are only 
offering $10 at present. Following are 
some of the prices the farmers are getting 
at the city market in Syracuse. Eggs, 
25 to 30: butter, 28 to 33 ; apples, 50 to 
<0; bushel; Timothy, $12 to $14: Alfalfa 
hay, $14 to $15: straw. $10 to $12; pota¬ 
toes. 55 to 60; turnips, 25 ; cabbage, $1.50; 
\\ inter squash, three to four cents per 
pound: onions, 40 to 50: carrots, 50: 
chickens, dressed, 25: live. 18; pork, 10% 
to 11; veal, 13; beef, eight to nine; lamb, 
nine to 11. B. n. c 
Cicero, N, Y. 
March. 7.—These are prices that farmer 
receive : Butter, 35 ; potatoes, 60 ; apples 
<o: eggs, 25. Cows are selling at auction 
$40 to $60. Horses sell from $150 t 
$2o(). Hogs, $10 per 100 dressed: beef. $7 
veal, live, $9. w 
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