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'THE) RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 1R, 
Milk 
Prices paid producers by New York 
wholesalers range from 3^ to four cents, 
net, for Class B pasteurized milk. Res¬ 
taurants using two to five cans per day 
are now paying jobbers 5% to six cents 
per quart. 
Arrangements have been made for li¬ 
censing all dealers in milk, cream or but¬ 
ter who buy these products within the 
State of New Hampshire for shipment 
without the State. Application blanks 
have been printed, and, after a reason¬ 
able period, dealers who have failed to 
secure a license will render themselves 
amenable to the penalty of the law. The 
law was enacted for the protection of 
milk producers from financially irrespon¬ 
sible dealers, shipping milk or its pro¬ 
ducts outside the State. It provides that 
any dealer, resident or non-resident who 
does mot own sufficient real estate within 
the State to afford ample security for the 
protection of the producers, must furnish 
bond. Such bond is executed in favor of 
the Governor who holds it as trustee 
for the benefit of all residents of the 
State who may sell to the principal for 
out-of-State shipment. Producers and 
dealers may make whatever contract they 
desire as to terms of payment, but in the 
absence of a written contract signed by 
both parties payments fall due on the 
Tuesday next after the 15th of each 
month for all sales of the preceding 
month. If any payment becomes fifteen 
days overdue, the bond given by the 
dealer is then forfeitable. Any creditor 
may then ask leave of the Governor to 
sue such bond, in the name of the State 
of New Hampshire, and other creditors 
may enter names as party to the suit. If 
a bond is sued on, the Department of 
Agriculture is required to suspend the 
defendant’s license. An applicant for a 
license shall file with the Commissioner 
of Agriculture full details as to real es¬ 
tate owned within the State. If the ap¬ 
plicant is copartnership, association or 
corporation, further facts are called for 
concerning the names of the officers, the 
nature of the by-laws or regulations, the 
owners of stock, and similar matters. A 
further statement is required showing, the 
amount of business that the applicant has 
transacted each month for the year pre¬ 
ceding the date of application. Bond is 
required only in the event that the equity 
in real estate is not deemed sufficient to 
protect the producers. 
* New Jersey Milk News. 
The milk prices as announced to New 
Jersey producers for the ensuing six 
months remain the same as for the cor¬ 
responding period last year. These prices 
per hundred are as follows: October, 
$1.80; November, $1.90; December, 
$1.90; January, $1.85; February, $1.75; 
March, $1.70. Dairymen say that some¬ 
thing should be done to compel the pow¬ 
ers that be to raise these prices, or they, 
the said dairymen, will lose much money. 
It is going to cost more to produce milk 
this Winter than for several years, for 
reasons which are very apparent. The 
extremely dry weather which has pre¬ 
vailed all Summer has seriously curtailed 
the pasturage, and likewise rendered the 
fodder corn almost a failure in some sec¬ 
tions. The results of this have been 
either a falling off in the supply of milk, 
or, if the supply was maintained, a much 
greater cost of production, because of 
the necessity of purchasing grains. Then 
again, the crop of field corn will not 
measure up to its usual standards, with 
the usual shortage of silage under such 
circumstances. Reports from the Far 
West, from which most of the grain fod¬ 
der conies, show that corn is short in 
Missouri, Kansas and Iowa. The aver¬ 
age price of all cow feeds has advanced 
fully 25 per cent, over the same period 
last year. Hence in order to meet ex¬ 
penses, say the dairymen, the price of 
their product must be advanced in pro¬ 
portion. Cows have also undergone a 
substantial advance yi price. 
Already there is heard on all sides the 
report that the public must expect an 
increase in the price they will pay for 
milk. But when the prices go up to the 
ultimate consumer, it will not be alto¬ 
gether because of the milk dealers’ state¬ 
ment that “the drought has reduced the 
forage crops all over the country” and 
“boards of health are enforcing such 
strict regulations on the dairymen and 
milk distributors.” But neither of these 
reasons will hold when the test of actual 
facts is applied. The producer will get 
his three or four cents a quart as cus¬ 
tomary, the railroads will receive their 
usual freight rates, and the dear con¬ 
sumer will pay from nine to 12 cents a 
quart. And the last-named individual 
will hear the old, old story that the 
greedy farmer and the rapacious railroad 
are all to blame. Now, where will this 
greater profit go? Why, into the pockets 
of the middleman and retailer. 
It was not so many years ago, when 
the trust idea was just becoming popular, 
that attempts were made to consolidate 
the milk, interests in several large cities. 
These attempts did not succeed, yet they 
possessed more merit than most of the 
consolidation plans that were put over. 
This one thing is sure, that consumers 
are paying heavily for (he time that the 
milkman takes up in driving about the 
city. Why would it not be practical for 
some public spirited citizen to organize 
these dealers, assign each to a certain 
district, thereby enabling each to make 
as much money as he is now getting, giv¬ 
ing the consumer lower prices, and also 
a fair and profitable price to the pro¬ 
ducer? For that matter, could not such 
a plan be perfected under the auspices 
of the municipal authorities? 
The initiative in this matter may be 
taken soon. A recently enacted federal 
statute exempts farmers and labor unions 
from certain provisions of previous legis¬ 
lation directed against trusts and combin¬ 
ations in restraint of trade. It is re¬ 
ported that an effort is now being made 
to organize the dairymen of this State 
under this statute, with the view of reg¬ 
ulating the price of milk to the whole¬ 
saler, as formerly the price to the re¬ 
tailer was regulated by the Consolidated 
Milk Exchange. 
The State officials are maintaining a 
strict quarantine against cattle shipped 
from other States. Recently. 36 cattle 
shipped from Florida to a New Jersey 
man were killed. These cattle were 
destroyed simply because they had been 
exposed to splenetic, or Texas fever. Not 
one of the animals had become affected, 
it is said, but for the protection of cat¬ 
tle in New Jersey every one of them was 
killed. By the ravages of this malady 
incalculable loss has been caused in the 
South. Infected cattle lose in flesh and 
milk producing value and, in the majority 
of cases, quickly die. So far our cattle 
have been protected by this close inspec¬ 
tion of cattle from the infected districts. 
May we hope that the tests for tubercu¬ 
losis may prove as efficacious! Dairy¬ 
men all over the State are taking pains 
to improve the quality of their herds. 
Along this line none have been more suc¬ 
cessful than Straus brothers of Middle- 
town. A test of milk from their cows 
was recently made in the Lederle labor¬ 
atories at New York, and it showed some 
remarkable results. To each quart of 
milk tested there were but 200 bacteria. 
This establishes a new dairy record for 
this State, so far as I know. These Mat- 
tle are given excellent care. Each cow, 
before milking, is washed with disin¬ 
fectants, after which it is washed with 
cold water. These operations are per¬ 
formed twice a day, and two towels are 
used at each operation. Every towel so 
used is washed and sterilized before being 
used again. The cattle and dairy houses 
are constructed of concrete and are 
washed and scrubbed every day. Cur¬ 
tains over the windows keep the place 
dark and cool, and screens keep out the 
flies and other insects. d. t. h. 
\ Real Dairy Problem. 
I am much interested in what A. T. 
Thomas, on page 910, says about the cost 
of milk. I once heard a farmer say that 
it is possible to pay too much for manure 
and I believe it is so. Especially now 
when it seems impossible to get a hired 
man who will treat the cows decently. 
I have a man who gets over $25 per 
month and board, which will total over 
$40 per month. If a cow offers to raise 
her foot or swat a fly this man thinks he 
is a conquering hero to fasten the cow’s 
head in the stanchion and go after her 
with whatever is in reach, and never stop 
until he ns tired out. Would you shoot 
him on the spot or what is best to do? 
You say pay him off. Yes, but it is very 
hard to get any old kind of help and I 
am ready to sell to the first man that 
comes along. I am also much interested 
in what W. A. B. says in last issue on 
the care of horses on a Jersey farm. 1 
would like to work for him. In my 60 
years’ experience on farm I will say I 
can take a pair of horses and by good, 
kind treatment—and no grain—do more 
work and the team will look better than 
a team used by a brute that swears at 
and clubs his horses and feeds grain. 
What do you say? Do you believe it? 
New York. reader. 
Study of New Hampshire Cows. 
Prof. Rasmussen of the New Hamp¬ 
shire College gives figures showing the 
work of 326 cows in 26 farms near South 
Lyndeboro, N. II. A contest association 
dug out the figures: 
“1. The average production of 326 
cows in the Lyndeboro Cow Test Asso¬ 
ciation was found to be 6,463.2 pounds 
of milk with an average test of 3.76% 
fat. containing 243.6 pounds of fat. 
“2. The average cost of feed per cow 
for all cows in the Association was 
$73.03. The feed cost to produce a can 
of milk (18 lbs.) was 20.3 cts., to pro¬ 
duce a quart of milk 2.39 cts., and to pro¬ 
duce 100 pounds of milk, $1.13. The re¬ 
turn for $1.00 food consumed varied 
from $ .93 to $2.21. The cost of pro¬ 
ducing 100 pounds of milk varied 
from $ .81 to $1.86; the cost of pro¬ 
ducing a pound of butter-fat, from $ .23 
to $ .48. 
“3. Ten cows producing less than 
4,000 pounds of milk did not pay market 
price for food consumed. 
“4. The total expense of keeping a 
cow per year was $147.73. 
“5. The eight highest producing cows, 
averaging 10,875 pounds of milk, re¬ 
turned $58.12 per cow above the $147.73 
expense. The ten lowest producing cows, 
averaging 3,061 pounds of milk, were 
kept at an average loss of $42.95. . In 
other words, a good cow is worth $101.07 
more a year to a farmer than a poor one. 
“6. The production necessary for 
profit ranges from 6,000 pounds to 8,000 
pounds of milk per cow.” 
Engines and Dairy Profits 
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kind that’s steady, strong and .always working. He must be able to use his 
power plant in all his work from husking corn to separating cream. 
The Olds and Falk Engines 
are built to give just this service—to do a hundred jobs and do them well. 
The Olds burns gasoline—the Falk burns kerosene. Both are reliable, pow¬ 
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for data-books on any mach¬ 
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interested in. 
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