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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
March 26, 
“INSPECTION” OF MILK DAIRIES. 
On page 337 a correspondent figured 
the cost of carrying out the demands of 
the New York Board of Health. In this 
case the stable was already in good con¬ 
dition. The Utica (N. Y.) Herald-Dis¬ 
patch recently printecl an article by W. 
M. Van Auken. He quotes a letter al¬ 
most identical with the one printed last 
week which was sent to a dairyman at 
Holland Patent. It is figured that the 
cost of carrying out the “recommenda¬ 
tions” contained in this letter would be 
$1,605! Mr. Van Auken gives the fol¬ 
lowing comments: 
It should be explained that there is a 
eondensery and a milk station at Holland 
Patent, the former manufacturing condensed 
milk and the latter being a station erected 
and carried on by an association of farmers 
who sell their milk in New York City. The 
farmer to whom this letter of assessment 
is addressed is a member of the association 
which owns the milk station. Now for some 
figures which are obtained from the official 
records of the milk station and from one 
of the most methodical, practical, scientific, 
successful and prosperous farmers in the 
United States who is also a member of this 
same association which owns the milk sta¬ 
tion. Last year the members of this milk 
station association received at the milk sta¬ 
tion on the tracks of the U. & 13. R. RR. 
Co. an average price for the entire season of 
$.0313 per quart for their milk, three and 
thirteen hundredths cents per quart. 
The farmer who keeps books to whom 
I have alluded informs me that the milk 
which he produced cost him .$.0306 per 
quart—that is, three cents and six one 
hundredths of a cent per quart. 
To summarize it: 
He received, per quart .0313 
It cost him, per quart.0306 
Ilis profit, per quart, was.0007 
In other words, his profit was exactly 
seven one-hundredths of one cent per quart! 
It would take more than a million quarts 
of milk, at that profit, to equal the salary 
of the head-push of the Department of 
Health of the City of New York. As it is, 
lie has a dairy of about 50 fine cows, works 
hard himself, makes a business of farming, 
keeps a double entry set of books, and once 
in a great while gets down to the Claren¬ 
don Hotel, about a mile away, to spend 
what remains of an evening after 9 o’clock 
when his day’s work is finished, his chores 
done and his books for the day are written 
up. It should be added that he is the only 
farmer, so his neighbors say, who produces 
milk at the low cost he does. So that oven 
the seven-hundredths of a cent lie makes is 
not made by the. others. 
Now, as to the farmer to whom this 
letter is addressed. He has a dairy of,35 
cows—average cows—which produce about 
80,000 quarts of milk per year. Assuming 
that he produces his milk as cheaply as 
the bookkeeping farmer and that his profit 
is the same, his dairy of 35 cows will figure 
out as follows: About 80,000 quarts of 
milk sold at a profit of seven onc-hundredtlis 
of one cent per quart, $560. The esti¬ 
mated cost of construction of concrete 
floors, new buildings, etc., required by this 
letter is $1,605. With a profit of seven 
one-hundredths of a cent per quart it will 
take 229,286 quarts of milk to meet this 
requirement. With his 35-cow dairy at 
this profit it will take this farmer about 
three years to pay the cost of the new 
construction required by this letter. 
But this is not all that is required. 
“Sweeping the ceilings,” chasing “cob 
webs,” polishing the “window panes,” the 
“installation” and the maintenance of “mus¬ 
lin curtain” (so that the cows’ modesty 
may receive no shocks), the ‘whitewash¬ 
ing,” the continual “sweeping of walls and 
ledges,” the maintenance of a cow hos¬ 
pital for the “sick,” the harvesting of ice, 
putting the “fore-milk” in the discard, etc., 
place a burden of labor upon the farmer 
which cannot be less than $150 per year. 
There goes about 2,300 quarts of milk per 
year more. Yes, the farmer is getting round 
shouldered, but not from prosperity. The 
greater part comes from carrying the mail 
he is getting from “dairy inspectors,” “hog 
inspectors,” “dog catchers,” etc., etc. These 
facts show too plainly that the farmer is 
not getting an adequate or a living profit 
from his milk. 
It may be true that he is getting more 
than he once got or more than he ever 
before got, but still he is not getting enough. 
If time permitted, it could be easily ex¬ 
plained why he is not getting as much 
profit with higher prices than he did when 
he received lower prices. Briefly stated, 
it is mainly due to an increase in the cost 
of his hired help of from 30 to 50 per cent; 
of an increase in the cost of feed of, in 
some instances, over 100 per cent, etc., etc. 
What is the dairyman’s remedy? If he 
does not comply with these demands of the 
City of New York his milk will not be 
permitted to be sold in New l T ork. If he 
does comply then his cost of production is 
increased and his dairy will show an actual 
loss. To my mind, his only remedy is to 
form an association of farmers, gathering 
into it all farmers within a radius of 250 
miles of New York City, select and employ 
a central head with full authority to act 
for all. Then let that central head, speak¬ 
ing for all the members of the association, 
say to the people of New York : “We will 
comply with your sanitary regulations and 
you comply with our price regulations; our 
pi-ice is six cents per quart f. o. b. Hol¬ 
land Tatent or wherever the station may 
be; our regulations will stand as long as 
yours do; if you increase your demands we 
will increase ours.” 
If such an association were formed and 
gave out this message, New York City 
would have to pay the price demanded 
within 48 hours or be wltnout a gallon of 
milk. Secondly, every time a farmer re¬ 
ceives a notice from’ any of these various 
inspectors, he should see that it is pub¬ 
lished and that the widest publicity is 
given to it, so that those who buy his milk 
may have some knowledge which will en¬ 
able them to form some kind of an opinion 
as to the reasonableness of the prices 
charged by the farmers. 
Those who want good, rich, clean, pure 
milk are, for the most part, willing to pay 
the farmer for his cost in producing it, 
and a reasonable living profit without com¬ 
plaint. To meet the situation for both the 
farmer and the consumer it may be found 
necessary to eliminate some middlemen, but 
the middleman is generally an ingenious 
fellow and he will survive his elimination. 
Crimson Clover in Nebraska. 
A. D. F., Benson, Neb .—About a year ago 
1 wrote to you for information in regard 
to Crimson clover for this locality. You 
replied by saying you did not believe it 
would winter over; that you were giving 
long-range advice that might not hold good. 
On the advice of a seedsman, I planted a 
bushel, as he said it would winter over. 
The last Winter, to my way of thinking, 
was an ideal one for clover, as we had the 
ground covered with snow from December 
1 almost to March 1, and the clover in 
January was in good condition, but on 
March 1 was as dead as it will ever be. 
If there was a live plant I failed to find 
one. However, this was only an experi¬ 
ment. and the Fall growth more than pays 
for the seed and trouble. Y'our long-range 
advice was good, though I believe the 
seedsman was honest in his advice. This 
may be of some use to you in dealing with 
this problem in this section. 
Ans. —For sections north of Philadel¬ 
phia we advise Crimson clover only as an 
experiment. We frequently lose most of 
the crop on our own farm. We know 
that most farmers who try this clover 
are disappointed if they do not get a 
large growth in May, to cut or turn un¬ 
der, while in most places where it is 
tried for the first time the chances are 
against it. 
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