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TH JS RURAI> NKW-YORKER 
May 17, 
Milk 
In effect May 1, 1913, the N, Y. Milk 
Exchange price was reduced 10 cents per 
40-quart can, now being: 15 (selected raw 
and pasteurized), $1.61 per 40-quart can; 
C (for cooking and manufacturing), $1.51 
netting 3)4 and 3 cents to shippers in 
the 20-eeut zone. 
The zones are fixed by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission as follows: 23 cents 
for the first 40 miles from New York; 2(5 
cents for the next 00 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 Borden Condensed Milk Co. has 
purchased the McDermott shipping station 
here and opened it up for use. Price for 
May for 15 milk is $1.25, with 10 cents 
per 100 for all milk scoring 3.8 butter fat 
or better, and an additional 10 cents added 
to this for all barns scoring above 68 
points. Good dairy cows are in great 
demand, and bringing from $75 to $100 
for grades, the highest price paid in many 
years. Horses are also finding a ready 
market here this Spring and bring from 
$150 to $250. The acreage of potatoes will 
be large, and many farmers have already 
planted. The old crop is still selling at 
the car for 50 cents per bushel. Many 
are sowing oats, this crop and buckwheat 
being the principal crops raised, Cortland 
beius; a dairy county. Hay is bringing from 
$8 to $10 per ton delivered, more being 
held than was thought for last Winter. 
All of our creameries have been opened 
for the season, many of them making a 
hard skimmed cheese in order to get the 
butter. But few full cream factories are 
making cheese alone, and we know of none 
making just butter. Eggs are bringing 18 
cents per dozen. Spring pigs are very 
scarce and are bringing $5. This means 
that pork will be high next Fall. The 
acreage for cabbage will not be as large 
as formerly, owing to the fact that the 
price last Fall and Winter was the lowest 
received in years. Many fed out their 
crop, cabbage being considered a great milk 
producer. F. E. W. 
MeGrawville, N. Y. 
Dairying hooked up with hogs and pota¬ 
toes makes a combination that is putting 
money in our farmers’ pockets year in and 
year ' out. Good Holstein grades sell at 
about $100 per head for mature cows. De¬ 
mand for purebred bulls is strong. This 
is a great grass and grain country; corn 
and clover are found on every farm. As 
yet land is comparatively cheap, but is 
steadily advancing in price. Any young 
man with plenty of brawn and grit could 
get started here with little or no capital. 
White Bear, Minn. R. F. 
Alfalfa hay, $20 per ton; oats, 33, de¬ 
livered; corn, 55; butter, 32; milk, $1.50 
per 100 for Summer. Holstein cows, pure¬ 
bred, heifers, $200 with first calf. Radishes, 
25 cents dozen bunches; lettuce, 40 cents 
case, 12 to 15 head; asparagus, $1.75 per 
two dozen bunches; new cabbage, $2.50 
crate of 80. h. f. c. 
Barrington, Ill. 
Dairying in this section is in a fairly 
prosperous condition. The drought of the 
past two years has slightly reduced the 
number of cows, and there is an active 
demand at good prices. Prices a little 
higher than last vear. Prices for milk are 
a little better than last year, while feed 
both hay and grain arc lower. Pastures 
are more forward than last year at this 
time, but the drought of the past two Sum¬ 
mers has so killed out the grass that they 
do not promise an abundance of feed. 
Orange liawkweed and creeping thyme are 
coming in for several years, and it has be¬ 
come almost a necessity to feed grain, at 
least, the entire Summer. One of the seri¬ 
ous needs of the farmers is an improve¬ 
ment of pastures. Where conditions arc 
such that plowing can be done something 
can be done; but many of our pastures 
are so rocky and stony that plowing is out 
of the question, and that makes improve¬ 
ment difficult. All the farmers of my ac¬ 
quaintance who have earned a competence 
have been dairymen, giving their attention 
to the dairy to the exclusion of almost 
everything else, and I see no reason why 
a young man cannot begin to-day with 
as bright prospects of success, true econ¬ 
omy being one of the things to keep in mind 
in "dairying as in any other business. 
Gilboa, N. Y. * d. w. s. 
Butter, 30; eggs, 15; bacon, side, 14; 
apples, 50 to 60; potatoes, no demand, slow 
at 40. Cows almost any price one may 
ask from $40 to $75 ; yearling calves. $20 
to $25. Horses from $125 to $200. Sheep, 
$5 to $9; pigs, eight weeks, $5 a pair. 
Prospects for small grain good, fine apple 
bloom on high land; reports say all killed 
on lowland. Ice and ground frozen April 
20. J. m. o. 
Augusta, W. Va. 
Dairy cows sell between farmers all the 
way from $40 to $75; this is mostly a 
dairy section and but little corn or oats 
sold on market, mostly fed to hogs and 
cattle. Milk four per cent test, brought 
$1.36 last pay day, April 16. Barley and 
rye about all the grain raised for market; 
but little wheat raised here. Farmers sell 
their hogs and cattle and buy their pork 
and beef, and a large portion comes from 
packing houses in Chicago. w. t. w. 
Beloit, Wis. 
We receive prices for farm produce as 
follows at our town of Bethany: Milch 
cows, $40 to $75 ; fat hogs, $8 to $8.25 
per 100 pounds; corn, 50: oats, 40; but¬ 
ter fat, 27 cents per pound; country but¬ 
ter, 20. Eggs at stores in trade for 
groceries and dry goods, 18 cents per 
dozen. Eggs cash, 15 cents per dozen. 
Hay, $8 to $10 per ton; old hens, 12 cents 
per pound; potatoes, 60 to 75 ; honey per 
section, 20 cents a pound; yearling steers, 
$30 per head; two-year-old steers, $40; 
good calves sold last Fall at weaning time 
for $20 to $25. Some three-year-old steers, 
thin in flesh, $60 per head. A great many 
cattle are being fed that were bought by 
farmers at St. Joseph and Kansas City. 
Bothany, Mo. l. t. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
,Cow Losing Teeth. 
Should a cow in good health, about 12 
years old, lose its front teeth ? Is it a sign 
of disease, or only that of age? She is due 
to freshen June 27. a. s. m. 
Maine. ^ 
The incisor teeth of all adult cattle are 
loose and they tend to break off or drop out 
after the cow is 12 years old or over. 
There is no exact age that can be set for 
the losing of these teeth. It varies with 
different cows. A. s. a. 
Bitter Milk. 
Will you tell me if you can the cause 
and remedy for a cow that gives bitter milk? 
She is drying up at present and for some 
time has not had any turnips that might 
cause it and at present is only having light 
grain. The milk has been getting increas¬ 
ingly bitter for some time. w. n. u. 
Masachusetts. 
It would be best to dry her off at once- 
and she may give a normal flow of good 
milk when she freshens. You do not say 
how long she has been giving milk, so we 
cannot form a confident opinion regarding 
the case. a. s. a. 
Congested Udder; Colt With Cough. 
1. I have a two-year old heifer that has 
just freshened, and her udder is swollen as 
hard as can be. I would like to know 
what will take the swelling out. 2. I have 
an eight-months-old colt that coughs quite 
a little for the last few days and has be¬ 
gun running at the nose a little. I would 
like to know what I could give to stop the 
cough as I think it is just a cold. 
New York. e. l. b. 
1. Foment the udder with hot water three 
times a day and each time give it a thor¬ 
ough massaging with the hands. Also rub 
the milk veins, in front of the udder, so 
as to encourage flow of blood away from the 
udder toward the heart. At night rub with 
warm melted lard. 2. Wet all feed and 
see that the stable is kept clean, well ven¬ 
tilated and free from irritating gases. Give 
two teaspoonfuls of glyco-heroin three times 
a day and increase the dose if found neces¬ 
sary after a few days of treatment. 
a. s. A. 
Warbles. 
I have a heifer one year old; on her 
back and hips are long lumps. I would 
call them grubs. Are they dangerous, and 
what is the cure for them? F. j. H. 
The lumps are “warbles" and contain 
grubs (larvae) of the ox warble fly (Hypo- 
derma liueata) and come from eggs de¬ 
posited by the flies in Summer. The flies 
should be kept away by free use of fly 
repollers at times of fly attack. Squeeze 
out and destroy each grub, else they will 
emerge after a time, burrow into the ground 
and afterward come forth as full fledged 
flies to carry on the pestiferous work of 
their kind. They cause much misery to 
the animal and greatly damage hides for 
purposes of the tanner. a. s. a. 
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