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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 8, 
SHIPPING MILK DIRECT. 
Is there any practical way in which 
a farmer, living 300 miles from New York, 
could ship a thousand pounds of milk a day 
to the city and dispose of it hy contracts 
with hotels or restaurants? What diffi¬ 
culties would there he to overcome, and what 
price would he have to get in order to 
make it preferable to cheese factories and 
milk stations? c. K. 
Adams, N. Y. 
The plan of selling milk direct to the 
consumer involves so many intricate 
problems to be solved by a person living 
so far from New York that its chances 
for success are very remote, not to say 
impossible. To begin with, a dairyman 
intending to sell milk in the city must 
find his customers. All hotels And res¬ 
taurants buy a certain quantity of milk 
each day, the quantity often varying ac¬ 
cording to the demand, and they usually 
buy of the man who will sell them good 
milk at the lowest price delivered every 
morning. Of course there are excep¬ 
tions to this rule, such as fashionable 
hotels like the Waldorf-Astoria, which 
uses certified milk produced at Briarcliff 
Farms. But we are not talking about 
certified milk, nor milk for which any 
superiority is claimed over good average 
quality, such as would be accepted by 
dealers. The first obstacle to be over¬ 
come would be to get the customers 
away from the dealers who are furnish¬ 
ing them a supply of milk at the present 
time. There are two ways of doing 
this; one is to give them as good milk 
as they are now getting at a lower price. 
The other is to tip whoever does the 
buying for these places a little more 
than the other fellow does. 
The next obstacle will be to supply 
just the quantity of milk each day that 
your customers require. Otherwise there 
would be dissatisfaction if the quantity 
was less than required and waste if there 
was a surplus. People want the milk de¬ 
livered to their places of business, as 
very few are willing to meet the milk 
trains as they arrive during the night 
and take their milk directly out of the 
car. This would necessitate keeping a 
man and horse in the city for delivering, 
■ which would not pay unless he had work 
.enough to keep busy. 1 he next obstacle 
is the freight rates which a small dealer 
must pay. Large shippers get a differ¬ 
ential or rebate of 12 l /> per cent on car 
lots, loading and unloading the cars 
themselves, and this milk is brought to 
New York and sold on the same market 
in competition with yours. A large quan¬ 
tity of this milk is sold to large con¬ 
sumers by the can at five cents and six 
cents a quart, so you see it is very diffi¬ 
cult to figure a profit for a dairyman 
living 300 miles from New York by de¬ 
livering his own milk to customers in 
the city instead of selling it at home. I 
believe' the only feasible plan would be 
for several farmers to combine and es¬ 
tablish a distributing station in the city, 
with a responsible man at the head of it. 
This, however, would require consider¬ 
able capital, but the dealers’ profits would 
go to the men who produce the milk. 
C. S. GREENE. 
FROTHY CREAM. 
Can you tell me the cause of cream 
frothing’ as if there was soda in it when 
it is churned? I can net no butter out 
of it. I milk one cow, getting a gallon of 
milk. 1 feed fodder and soft corn, and 
salt her well. E - s - N - 
Complaints of cream frothing in the 
churn and failing to produce butter are 
very common at this season of the year, 
because the cows have usually been 
milked several months and are fed most¬ 
ly on dry feed. If some succulent feeds, 
like roots or silage, could always be 
provided for late Fall and Winter use 
this trouble would be greatly improved. 
Cream will froth more m a dash churn 
than it will in a barrel churn and it will 
froth mere when churned at a low tem¬ 
perature than it will if churned at a 
medium temperature. Sometimes the 
frothing is caused by improper ripening 
of the cream. Cream should never be 
more than two or three days old when 
churned, and should be kept at 50 de¬ 
grees or below until 12 to 18 hours be¬ 
fore churning, when it should be heated 
up to about 70 degrees. I would advise 
churning the cream at a little higher 
temperature than you now do, and after 
you have churned until the cream be¬ 
comes frothv add a little water heated to 
85 or 90 degrees, and if this does not 
remedv the difficulty throw in a few 
handfuls of dry salt, and the butter 
should come in about 40 minutes, g. 
FARMERS’ INSTITUTES IN NEW YORK. 
District No. 1, Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., 
Conductor, 
Lawyersville, N. 
Y. 
County 
Place 
Date 
Fulton 
Broadalbin 
Jan. 3, 
1010 
Ephratah 
“ 4, 
it 
Crum Crock 
“ 5, 
It 
Herkimer 
Warren 
“ 6, 
it 
Columbia Ctr. 
“ 6-7, 
il 
Cedarville 
“ 8, 
il 
Fairfield 
“ 10, 
ll 
Russia 
“ 11, 
ll 
Oneida 
Knoxboro 
“ 12-13, 
ll 
Utica 
“ 14, 
ll 
Clinton 
“ 14-15, 
ll 
Camden 
“ 17-1S, 
ll 
Rome 
“ 19-20. 
ll 
Remsen 
“ 0 1-22 
ll 
Lewis 
Lowville 
“ 24-25, 
a 
Turin 
“ 25-26,’ 
ti 
Beaver Falls 
“ 27, 
n 
Copen liagen 
“ 28-20, 
11 
Barnes Corners 
“ ~ 28! 
il 
Franklin 
Chateaugay 
“ 31, 
il 
Malone Jan. 31-Feb.l, 
it 
District 
No. 2, Edward 
Van Alst.vne, 
Conductor, 
Kinderhook, N. Y 
Saratoga 
Wayville 
Jan. 3, 
it 
Burnt Hills 
“ 4, 
it 
Greenfield Ctr. 
“ 5, 
ti 
Wilton 
“ 6. 
<c 
Warren 
Glens Fails 
“ 7-8, 
11 
Rensselaer 
Stephentown 
“ 10-11, 
ti 
Ctr. Brunswick 
“ 12-13. 
11 
Hoosick Falls 
“ 14-15, 
it 
E. Groenbush 
“ 17, 
tt 
Columbia 
Kinderhook 
“ 18, 
a 
E. Chatham 
“ 10, 
it 
Claverack 
“ 20, 
11 
Germantown 
“ 21-22 
il 
Hillsdale 
“ ~ 24,' 
11 
Dutchess 
Amenia 
“ 25’, 
tt 
Moores Mills 
“ 26, 
it 
Wiccopee 
“ 27, 
1 1 
Pine Plains 
“ 28-20, 
11 
Clinton Corners 
“ 31, 
ti 
District No. 3, D. P. Witter, Conductor, 
Berkshire, N. Y. 
Chautauqua 
Ashville 
il 
3-4. 
It 
Sherman 
it 
4-5, 
It 
1 )cwitl villo 
tt 
5, 
il 
Cassadaga 
11 
6-7, 
ll 
Kennedy 
11 
7-8. 
11 
Cattaraugus 
Cattaraugus 
<t 
10-11, 
It 
Perrysburg 
tt 
11, 
44 
Nn poli 
a 
12-13, 
ll 
Macliias 
n 
13-14, 
ll 
Alleghany 
ti 
14-15, 
ll 
Alleghany 
Belfast 
u 
17-18, 
ll 
Friendship 
it 
18-10. 
ll 
Scio 
11 
10 , 
ll 
Whitesville 
it 
20-21, 
ll 
Steuben 
Troupsburg 
11 
21-22 
ll 
Jasper 
n 
24-25,’ 
il 
Stephen’s Mills 
ti 
25-26, 
ll 
Ilornell 
it 
27-28, 
il 
Allegany 
Canton 
Alfred. 
it 
28-29, 
ii 
Institute School .Tan. 31, 
Feb. 1-2-3, 
’10 
District No. 4, Fred E. Gott, 
Spencerport, N. Y. 
Conductor, 
Livingston 
Goneseo 
Jan. 3. 
ii 
I.ivonia 
ll 
4-5, 
tt 
Lima 
ll 
5-6, 
il 
Ontario 
E. Bloomfield 
il 
7, 
ll 
Farmington 
11 
7-8, 
ll 
Manchester 
ll 
10 . 
ll 
Phelps 
ii 
11. 
ll 
Seneca Castle 
12. 
ll 
Ilalls Corners 
11 
13. 
It 
Bristol Springs 
11 
14-15, 
li 
Seneca 
Seneca Falls 
17-18. 
It 
Interlaken 
19-20. 
ll 
Cayuga 
Five Corners 
21. 
ll 
Sherwood 
21-22. 
tl 
Moravia 
24. 
E. Venice 
11 
25. 
tt 
Sennott 
ll 
26-27. 
il 
Ira 
ll 
28-20. 
ll 
Port Byron 
“ 
31. 
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