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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 3, 
Milk 
In effect April 11, 1913, the N. Y. Milk 
Exchange price was reduced 10 cents per 
40-quart can, now being: B (selected raw 
and pasteurized), $1.71 per 40-quart can; 
C (for cooking and manufacturing), $1.61, 
netting 3% and 3% cents to shippers 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. 
NEW MILK LAWS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
One of the features of the milk situation 
in Massachusetts the past Winter has been 
the strenuous efforts put forward by the 
advocates of the so-called Ellis milk bill 
to get a favorable report on the bill by the 
present Legislature. The recent action, 
however, by the joint session of the com¬ 
mittees on public health and agriculture 
has knocked their hopes in the head by 
granting leave to withdraw to the peti¬ 
tioners of the bill. The committee, however, 
reported on the two other important milk 
bills favorably, namely, the Meany bill, 
the substance of which is to have all milk 
coming from outside the State labeled as 
such; also age and treatment it has re¬ 
ceived in regard to pasteurization, etc. An¬ 
other bill was combined with this, the 
object of which is to have clean receptacles 
for milk and authority to enforce the use 
of same in all cases. The original intention 
of the Meany bill was to label all milk sold 
in Boston, but this was amended so as not 
to oblige Massachusetts milk to be so 
labeled, but only out-of-State milk. 
The other bill reported favorably was 
the so-called Bacteria Count bill. It has 
been a city regulation for some time, but 
not a State law, that no milk should con¬ 
tain over 500,000 bacteria per cubic centi¬ 
meter and be salable. This bill will make 
this a State law, and also give authority 
to enter any premises where milk is pro¬ 
duced or kept for sale for the purpose of 
inspection or taking of samples of milk. 
After a sample taken has been found to 
contain over this number of bacteria the 
party from whom it was taken is notified 
of same, and if after three samples have 
been taken at intervals of not less than 
three days, and found to contain an excess 
of the lawful number, the party is liable 
to a fine of $50. There is now a good 
chance that these two bills will be put 
through, as little opposition will be found 
except from the contractors who buy nearly 
all their milk from outside the State, these, 
of course, will use every effort to kill 
the two bills. 
It is believed by many that this legis¬ 
lation will help the Massachusetts pro¬ 
ducers very much, by increasing the con¬ 
sumption of milk, because the consumer 
will know a little more about the milk 
he uses and where it comes from than 
he does in most cases at the present time. 
If this legislation passes and works out 
all right we shall probably not hear very 
much more from the Ellis bill in the future. 
If it doesn't then nothing can stop the 
Ellis bill passage a year or two hence. 
A. E. p. 
Cows and Milk. 
The report of Chief Inspector McNabb, 
of the New Jersey State Commission on 
Tuberculosis in Animals, shows that during 
last month 14 imported cows reacted to 
the tuberculin test ar.d were slaughtered. 
There were also 18 native cattle slaugh¬ 
tered, their appraised value aggregating 
$711. The charts of incoming cattle show 
36 reactors before shipment, which were 
slaughtered in their respective States, and 
these added to the 14 slaughtered after ar¬ 
rival gives a total of 50 head of tuber¬ 
culous cows from which New Jersey has 
been effectually protected. During' the 
month 1,008 imported cows were tested 
before entering the State and 897 after 
entering, the shippers paying $291 for the 
tuberculin tests. 
Of 415 dairies inspected by the division 
of creameries and dairies of the State Board 
of Health in the last month, milk produc¬ 
tion was stopped in eight. Those found be¬ 
low 60 per cent, of the perfect mark num¬ 
bered 155, and those above 246. 
Speaking of the milk situation in the 
New York and Newark markets, “The Milk 
Reporter,” a publication of Sussex Bor¬ 
ough, says: “There is little surplus in 
evidence, but the amount is insignificant. 
As a matter of fact, at no time this Winter 
has there been sufficient surplus milk in 
sight to justify reduced prices announced 
as effective on January 1 and March 1. 
Market receipts for February amounted to 
1,323,068 cans of milk and 47.250 of cream 
and unsweetened condensed milk. The re¬ 
spective daily average is 47,252 and 1,752 
cans. Compared with receipts for the 
corresponding month last year, it is a 
gain of 2,668 and 110 cans, respectively, 
daily, the whole equal to 3,215 cans of plain 
milk daily.” 
After July 15 Grade C milk on sale in 
New York City must have been heated ac¬ 
cording to the rules and regulations of the 
Board of Health. This practically means 
the pasteurization of the lowest grade of 
milk sold in the city. The new regulation 
for the pasteurization of all cream not from 
high grade milk will go into effect in July. 
In October, 1912, to bring about a more 
general use of Grade B milk, the Health 
Commissioner placarded all stores selling 
Grade C milk, advising the public that the 
milk sold therein was fit for cooking pur¬ 
poses only. 
The dairy business was never in such 
flourishing condition here as at present. 
Cows never were so numerous, never were 
so well stabled and cared for, never were 
so high-priced and never so profitable as 
at present, and never so much thought and 
study on the part of the farmer to meet 
the cow's demands and requirements in 
breeding, developing, care, surroundings, 
feed and handling the product, in order to 
make the largest profit. As a result, farm¬ 
ers carry their heads higher, drive more 
automobiles, better horses and rigs; lands 
are increasing in fertility and also in price, 
and as a result the whole people are in 
much better condition. Farmers in this 
immediate locality have been in the cream¬ 
ery business about 15 years, and our local 
creamery paid to farmers last year some 
$5,000 (about 160-175 patrons), and at 
the same time we all raised more corn, po¬ 
tatoes, oats, rye, hay, hogs and poultry 
than ever before. Hurrah for the dairy 
COW. F. E. CONSTANCE. 
Waupaca, Co., Wis. 
Choice dairy butter brings from 45 to 
50 cents in Reading at retail. The milk 
shipper gives $1.65 per hundred in April. 
The butchers give us $10.50 for hogs; he 
hauled them and dressed them. I have not 
tried to sell our cattle, but heard of an 
offer of $8.75 live weight being refused 
Potatoes about 70 cents. I bought some 
fine York State apples for $1 per bushel. 
Calcium, Pa. w. p. 
The milk question is in bad shape here, 
and if there isn't something done before 
long the farms are going to change hands 
or go into other branches. Week before 
last there were five auctions within a few 
miles of Clinton, Mass., on an average of 
20 to 30 cows each. This last week there 
were several more and up this way others. 
In the vicinity of Hudson they are getting 
about 29 to 31 cents for 8%-quart cans. 
The farmers say there is nothing in it 
at that. w. g. b. 
Massachusetts. 
The New York plan of milk production 
and distribution through municipal agen¬ 
cies is recommended as a pattern for Massa¬ 
chusetts by Governor Foss in a message to 
the Legislature April 11. The Governor 
says that the average farmer is receiving 
a price which does not return him any 
direct profit, and that milch cattle have 
been diminishing 3,300 yearly for the last 
five years. The contractors who mix Massa¬ 
chusetts milk with the product of other 
States are in a position to demand the 
highest grade of milk from the farmers at 
a low price and the public derives no bene¬ 
fit. After describing how the 55 public 
owned retail milk depots of New York obtain 
and market the product, affording, as he 
says, higher prices for the farmer and a 
better quality of milk for the consumer, the 
Governor recommends that the plan be 
followed in Massachusetts. 
Our early Spring, which commenced in 
March, has not yet hurried vegetation to 
the danger point. There has been con¬ 
siderable cool weather since the Warm 
days early. I do not know of any sowing 
or planting up to the middle of April, but 
there has been a little working of the 
ground. There has been considerable rain¬ 
fall, and at one time we had some heavy 
showers. No particular damage was done, 
especially as our soil does not wash badly. 
Meadows wintered fairly well. Some are 
looking fine, but there are others that have 
been thrown out by the frost. We have 
had no very severe freezing this Winter, 
but some way there are places where the 
grass roots are more damaged than is 
usual. As a whole I think that the present 
outlook points to a good grass crop, but 
nothing can now determine positively what 
that crop will be. 
Cows continue tt> sell at high prices. 
There have been ifia unusual number of 
auction sales, and in all cases cows have 
sold higher than has been the case in 
former years. The number of cows con¬ 
tinues to decline a little. It is a ques¬ 
tion where the present tendency is going 
to land us. A few farmers are looking 
at tariff matters and the admission of milk 
duty free as a bad thing for the dairy 
farmer. It looks to be so, but not many 
dairymen are feeling alarmed as yet. When 
the notion gets abroad that dairying is to 
be hit by the tariff it is possible that the 
price of cows may drop somewhat. A 
few are so predicting. Milk is as much 
in demand at present as in the past. The 
production is not greatly lessened so far 
as I can find out. I was in the Unadilla 
Valley to-day and for about 30 miles they 
are taking out six cars of milk a day to 
go to the city. In addition to this there 
are some condenseries that are taking a 
good deal of milk. Condensed milk is 
well out of the market at present and the 
outlook is for a brisk demand. Dealers 
where there is a chance for competition 
are bidding well for milk this Spring. The 
trouble is that there is too little chance 
for bidding on milk. In most cases there 
is only one concern, or at most two, and 
if there are two they arrange the price 
question long before contract day. Where 
there are cooperatives it sometimes means 
more bidding. h. h. l. 
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