1913. 
1293 ‘ 
Milk 
Health Commissioner Lederle of New 
York City announced Nov. 8 that the 
Hoard of Health had adopted two regula¬ 
tions limiting the sale of raw milk. The 
first amends the Sanitary Code and re¬ 
moves from Grade B the class of milk 
that could formerly be sold under that 
designation. The second provision for¬ 
bids the sale of any raw milk for con¬ 
sumption on the premises where it is 
sold. This affects especially restaurants, 
hotels and lunch rooms. Hereafter the 
milk sold there will have to be of the 
pasteurized Grade B. With these ordin¬ 
ances the Health Department brings to a 
successful conclusion a four year fight to 
have the milk supply of the city pasteur¬ 
ized. The only exception will be the high¬ 
est qualities of milk. 
NEW YORK DAIRY BOARDS. 
Following is a summary of cheese busi¬ 
ness on the Utica Dairy Board for the 
season just closed: 
Prices ranged from 12y 2 c at the open¬ 
ing to 16c, when the September make 
came on the market. The average curb 
price for the season was 14.25c, as 
against 14.95c in 1912, 11.96c in 1911 
and 14.21c in 1910. 
Total number of boxes. 84,000 
Pounds per box . 50 
Number of pounds . 4,200,000 
Average curb price per pound 14.25 
Value of season’s cheese. $598,500 
Comparing this with preceding years 
we have: 
Boxes sold : 1910. 133,000; 1911, 122,- 
000; 1912, 100,000; 1913, 84,000. 
Value of cheese: 1910, $850.469; 1911, 
$641,604; 1912, $672,750; 1913, $598,- 
500. 
The transactions in butter on the Utica 
Board for the season were about 2,S00 
tubs, as against 5.400 last year and 5,700 
in 1911. The falling off this year was 
due chiefly to the fact that half a dozen 
factories stopped making. The lowest 
price was 27c on July 28 and the highest 
33c, which was the quotation on Septem¬ 
ber 22 and 28 and November 3. The 
opening price, on May 5, was 30c. Last 
year the highest price was 34c in April 
and 2614c in June. In 1911 the highest 
price was 32c and the lowest 21c. Dur¬ 
ing the present season as a whole butter 
was again comparatively lower than 
cheese. 
The average price of cheese on the 
Little Falls Board for the season was 
14.11c. as against 14.73c in 1912, 11.10c 
in 1911 and 14.09c in 1910. The follow¬ 
ing shows the business on that Board: 
Total number of boxes. 97,000 
Pounds per box . 45 
Number of pounds . 4,365.000 
Average price per pound. 14.11 
Value of season’s cheese. $615,901 
Comparing this with preceding years 
we have: 
Boxes sold : 1910. 121,034 ; 1911, 110,- 
438; 1912, 9S,933; 1913, 97,000. 
Value of cheese: 1910, $767.416; 1911, 
$551,638; 1912, $655,766; 1913, $615,- 
901. 
DAIRY SEASON IN NORTHERN N. Y. 
In spite of the inroads made by the 
shipment of milk to the New York City 
market, the cheese industry of Jefferson 
County shows an annual output for the 
season just ended of only 17,000 less 
boxes than in 1912. The total sales of 
cheese on the Watertown Produce Ex¬ 
change for the season of 1913 were 202,- 
426 boxes, valued at $1,702,160, as 
against 219,654 boxes valued at $1,929,- 
408 last year. The average price per 
pound this season was 14 cents, as 
against 15 cents in 1912. The season’s 
quotations ranged from 12^/4 cents on the 
opening day, May 3, to 16 cents on Sept. 
27. 
The close of the season was celebrated 
with a banquet at which State Highway 
Commissioner J. N. Carlisle and George 
L. Flanders, Assistant Commissioner of 
Agriculture, were the leading speakers. 
The Exchange was organized in 1890 and 
is the largest interior cheese market in 
the world. The cheese section of North¬ 
ern and Central New York comprises St. 
Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, 
Oneida and Herkimer counties, and with 
the exception of Allegany and Cattar¬ 
augus counties in the western part of the 
State very little cheese is manufactured 
in the State outside these counties. 
The annual value of the cream and milk 
shipped from the northern tier of coun¬ 
ties is but little less than that of the 
cheese output and St. Lawrence is also 
among the leading butter counties of the 
State. Lowville in Lewis county boasts 
of the largest cheese storage warehouse 
in the State outside of New York city. 
The good prices which have prevailed 
for dairy products for several years has 
given stability to the dairy industry. In¬ 
creased attention is being given to the 
improvement of the dairy herd. Cow¬ 
testing associations are being organized. 
More modern barns are being erected, 
and the number of new silos is greater 
than in any previous year. The Jefferson 
County Farm Bureau, under Manager F. 
E. Robertson, has been a very import¬ 
ant factor in aiding the movement for a 
better dairy industry. 
Thus far the disastrous results which 
were expected to follow the increased re¬ 
ceipts of Canadian butter and cheese un¬ 
THB RURAL NEW-YORKER 
der the new tariff have not materialized. 
The fact that cheese prices are about a 
cent lower than one year ago is not 
to be attributed so much to the compe¬ 
tition of our Canadian neighbors as it 
is to an enormous increase in the sea¬ 
son’s output of Wisconsin cheese. In 
that State ideal weather conditions and 
a very large increase in the number of 
new factories have combined to bring the 
largest make of cheese in the history of 
the Wisconsin cheese industry. And so 
it happens that the New York State 
dairyman has more to fear from the de¬ 
velopment of Wisconsin competition than 
from Canada’s shipments to the States. 
Watertown, N. Y. l. l. a. 
THE DAIRYMEN’S LEAGUE. 
The secretary of the Dairymen’s 
League now reports branches in 33 coun¬ 
ties of New York State, Sussex and War¬ 
ren counties in New Jersey, Wayne, Wy¬ 
oming, Bradford and Susquehanna coun¬ 
ties in Pennsylvania, Litchfield and Fair- 
field counties in Connecticut and Berk¬ 
shire county, Massachusetts. New 
branches are continually being add¬ 
ed as organization goes forward. 
The League now has S,700 stockholders 
controlling 143,000 cows; 15.000 cows 
were added in September. The Dairy¬ 
men’s League is an incorporated body or¬ 
ganized for the purpose of taking over 
control of the milk produced by its stock¬ 
holders and disposing of it to better ad¬ 
vantage than can be done by the in¬ 
dividual producers. None but producers 
may become stockholders in the corpor¬ 
ation and shares are issued to these 
stockholders in proportion to the number 
of cows which they own. Ten cows en¬ 
title the owner to one share of stock at 
the par value of $2.50, and each addi¬ 
tional cow to one tenth share. The ex¬ 
penses of organizing and of conducting 
the business of the League are met by the 
income derived from the sale of shares, 
and stockholders are liable for an assess¬ 
ment of 25 cents per cow in any one 
year if the needs of the League demand 
it. So far, however, the payment for 
the stock issued has met the expenses of 
the League. The business of the League 
is transacted by a board of directors, 
twenty-two in number, elected annually 
by the stockholders, each of whom has 
one vote for each share of stock held 
by him. 
It was hoped that the League would 
be in position at the beginning of the 
present contract period to act for all its 
members in helping fix the price of milk 
for the ensuing six months. This was 
found impracticable, however, at that 
time, and a strong effort is now being 
made to get ready for the Spring con¬ 
tract period by having the assignment of 
milk from the members to the League 
sufficiently completed to enable the lat¬ 
ter to control a large part of the milk 
going into New York. In order that the 
board of directors may legally act for the 
stockholders of the League, it is neces¬ 
sary that the latter shall consign their 
milk to the League for a given period 
and empower it to act for them. To 
meet the expenses thus incurred in dispos¬ 
ing of the milk the League will retain 
one cent per hundred pounds of milk sold, 
as commission. The contract under which 
the stockholders consign their milk to 
the _ League does not become operative 
until at least 75 per cent of the cows for 
which stock has been issued are pledged 
by their owners. m. b. d. 
Calf Eats Rubbish. 
I have a heifer, calved three weeks 
ago, apparently all right except I have 
taken two pieces of fence wire about four 
inches long and a small stone she was 
chewing from her. Ifl it habit, or does 
her system crave something? w. J. D. 
New York. 
Calves tend to pick up and chew for¬ 
eign bodies. We saw a calf eat two big 
sheets of newspaper the other day. It 
seems unlikely that this is a sign of in¬ 
digestion in all cases; but when persist¬ 
ed in there certainly is a derangement of 
the digestive organs. Give a full dose 
of physic and mix limewater with the 
calf’s milk at the rate of one ounce per 
Pint. a. 8. A. 
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blind beggar?” Beggar: ‘'That’s my lay, 
guv’nor. Gentleman : “Well you are not 
blind now.” Beggar (indignantly) : 
“Well, sir, can’t a poor fellow take a day 
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