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TL'I-TEC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 211, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
A CITY MILK BUSINESS. 
1 have been farming for the last 15 years, 
and have now sold my farm and live in 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; would like to go into the 
dairy business outside of the city limits. 
A milkman who sells about 50 eaus a day, 
would like to go In as partner; he gets 
from live to six cents a quart, or more 
sometimes. We could bring the milk direct 
from the dairy to the stores. I intend to 
go to Buffalo and buy my fresh cows, and 
if they do not give enough milk to pay for 
their feed I intend to sell them to tile 
butcher, and buy fresh ones in place. We 
generally get more for fat cows than we 
can get fresh cows for. H. i«. 
The plan of producing milk and delivering 
It yourself or through a partner in the 
City, thereby eliminating both freight 
charges and the middleman's profits, is 
a great Improvement over the usual method 
of producing milk and selling it to middle¬ 
men who generally manage to get the lion's 
share of the profits. As you have sold 
your farm I think the chief difficulty in 
carrying out the plan you have outlined will 
be to find a farm within driving distance 
of the stores in Brooklyn that can be pur¬ 
chased at a price you can afford to pay for 
a dairy farm. The farm land upon which 
most of the milk Is produced for the New 
York market could be purchased much 
cheaper than land near Brooklyn, so your 
success will depend to a great extent upon 
the amount of capital it is necessary to in 
vest in a suitable farm and buildings for 
the purpose. No doubt it would be a good 
plan to bring your milk into the city with 
an automobile, as you could easily deliver 
it at a distance of 25 miles as quickly as 
you could eight or 10 miles with a team, 
if you can sell milk at five cents to six 
cents per quart wholesale it ought to prove 
a profitable Investment to buy a farm 
20 to 30 miles out of the city and equip it 
l. with a good-sized dairy and appliances. Yon 
should produce 20 to 25 cans of milk a 
day to make it a paying proposition. Your 
idea of buying western cows is all right, 
but you will find quite a large proportion 
of poor milkers among them, and the cattle 
business in Buffalo is largely in the hands 
of speculators, who are very careful not to 
sell a cow for less than she Is worth. Yon 
will find the cost of producing good milk 
on Long island will be about :ti/$ cents per 
quart for the feed, labor and cost of stock, 
not counting interest on the investment, in¬ 
surance or expense of delivering tin? milk. 
If tin* business is properly managed one 
cent per quart should cover this, making 
the milk cost at least cents per quart 
delivered. Of course these figures are only 
estimates based upon my own experience of 
producing milk In New York City, and must 
be varied to correspond with different con¬ 
ditions. C. s. o. 
REPORTS OF DAIRY CONDITIONS. 
Cows are about the same in price as last 
year. Feed is about the same in price as 
last year. There is no hay left over. Pas¬ 
tures are in fair condition yet, but need 
rain. Dairy farmers in our section are 
fairly well satisfied at present. J. J. m. 
Painted Post, N. Y. 
Cows are higher'than last year 1 think, 
about $10 to $15 per head higher; that is 
for fresh cows; dry cattle about the same. 
Feed is a little lower than at lids time 
last year except for distillers’ grains, which 
are held about tin* same as last year. Hay 
mostly all fed out; a lew farmers have 
front 10 to 50 tons of hay left over, but 
they are the exception. Pastures are all 
right; we have had lots of rain during June, 
Which has caused a heavy growth of feed, 
it is seldom that we have to feed any green 
fodder before August 15 to our dairies, and 
it looks now as if this year would I"' no 
exception. I think dairy farmers in this 
section are well satisfied, and many ol' them 
are making some money. There are always 
some faultfinders, but I for one have no 
complaint; so long as my family of eight are 
spared and prices for what we produce stay 
where they are I shall continue to whistle, 
and read Thu It. N.-Y. b. k. s. 
• Chenango Co., N. Y. 
Cows will range about $5 a bead higher 
than last year. Principle cause is improve¬ 
ment in stock. Feed is anywhere from five 
to 20 cents lower per hundred pounds than 
a year ago. Practically no hay left over. 
Pastures are good yet. Dairy farmers are 
pretty well satisfied witli conditions and 
outlook at present, so far as dairy part of 
farm is concerned. Those of 11 s who arc 
feeding molasses have a little kick on short 
measure. We are regularly charged with 58 
gallons per barrel marked 50 gallons, and 
it is doubtful if it contains 50. Molasses 
is bought through local merchants, and the 
same trick is played on higher grade mo¬ 
lasses also. .T. C. T. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. 
Cows average from $10 to $20 higher. 
Feed is about the same; there is not very 
much hay left over. Pastures are in fair 
Deserve To Be 
Laughed At 
Makers and agents of common cream separa¬ 
tors tempt you to laugh at them. They foolishly 
assume that you are ignorant of modern separa¬ 
tor construction when they ask you to believe 
that their out-of-date cream separators, contain¬ 
ing 40 to CO disks or other parts as bad, are 
modern. They deserve to be laughed at for 
trying to hide the facts and for failing to realize 
that you know, as well as they do, that 
Sharpies Dairy Tubular 
Cream Separators 
contain neither disks nor other contraptions, yet 
produce twice the skimming force, skim faster, 
skim twice as clean, wear longer and wash 
several times easier than their common ma¬ 
chines. And you know that iron-clad patents 
alone prevent them from imitating Tubulars. 
Tho full pun contulnu 
dink* from ono common 
nopurutor. Tho other pun 
contains tho only ploco 
usod I n s I d o Shurplot* 
Dairy Tubular Bowls. 
Tubulars are made in tiie world’s biggest sep¬ 
arator works. Branch factories in Canada and 
Germany. The World’s Best. Sales easily ex¬ 
ceed most, if not all, others combined. Prob¬ 
ably replace more common separators than any 
one maker of such machines sells. 
tVrife for 
Catalogue 
No. 153 
THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR CO. 
WK8T CIIKNTKK, PA. 
ChlcugU, III., Sun Friinclaco, <’ul., Portlund, Ore. 
Toronto, t on., Winnipeg, Cun. 
condition yet. The dairy farmers are fair¬ 
ly well satisfied, and we have an extra good 
crop of hay. AH crops are looking well 
so far. H. 11 . Z. 
A nnviHe, Pa. 
The farmers here are selling their milk 
to the Bordens. They have a barn in¬ 
spector who inspects our barns once a 
month ; then their veterinary inspects our 
cows once a year, generally in the Winter. 
The board of health inspector comes twice 
a year, Spring and Fall. Borden's inspec¬ 
tor gave us a good score, but the board of 
health inspector cut the scores nearly one- 
lialf. The farmers all have good barns 
and keep them clean, and the feeling among 
farmers here is that they are not going to 
stand this inspector business much longer. 
I am drawing the milk for nine farmers, 
45 cans a day, and if tilings do not change 
they are going to stop and make butter, 
and the majority of farmers here feel the 
same way. They are not going to sell their 
cows, so far as I know. Most of the 
farmers areand here chipped in for the 
Bellows case. .r. w. n. 
Delancey, N. Y. 
i'ows are about the same In price as last 
year. There is no hay left, as $18 hay 
brings it all out. Feed is about the same, 
but may go lower. The majority of us sell 
milk to tiie United Dairy Co., Bella Ire. 
Since tin* first of the year we have been 
on a butter-fat basis of 48 cents per pound. 
There lias been much dissatisfaction over 
the test; some herds got all that they de¬ 
served, others did not. My own raised 
from 4.2 to 4.7 after I got a tester in Al¬ 
bany. I took some milk down and the 
tester took a sample out of the cans ; both 
tested 4.8. J. E. D. 
Ohio. 
There are no dairies being sold in tills 
section 011 account of demands made by 
the New York Board of Health. There have 
been several different 'men claiming they 
were sent by the Board of Health through 
this section at times, making threats and 
showing considerable authority (also ex¬ 
posing their ignorance), but their sugges¬ 
tions were not enforced, so the farmers 
escaped. o. k. n. 
Oxford, N. Y. 
It is a fact that several farmers in tills 
vicinity have sold ail their cows rather than 
try to comply witli the hoard of health. 
Personally, I have had no experience with 
them, as I am a patron of tin* Borden 
creamery, and they do not bother me. I 
have a neighbor who was stopped selling 
milk In the Spring, because one can did not 
come up to their standard. There have been 
half a dozen stopped in West Kortrlglit in 
the last year. o. G. M. 
Davenport, N. Y. 
All 1 personally know about this Board 
of Health is that some few years ago there 
came to our place a man who claimed to 
lie a representative of the New York Board 
of Health, and he posted in our stables a 
list of rules and recommendations in regard 
to the care of the cows and barn, lie did 
not say whether he was pleased witli our 
conditions or not, and I did not ask him. 
We live in the midst: of a dairy section. 
Tiie milk mostly goes to the Bordens, either 
to the condensery at Norwich or to the 
shipping plant at Oxford. Ours goes to 
the condensery, and we all have to be gov¬ 
erned by the rules and inspection of the 
Bordens, which arc no more strict than any 
good farmer should enforce for Ills own 
good, if there ever comes a time when 
we have to comply with all of tin* whims 
of this Board of Health we shall have to 
get more for our milk, as it: would require 
at least one extra man for every 25 cows 
milked. I have never heard of any dairy¬ 
man near here being treated unfairly, be¬ 
cause these rules have never been enforced. 
If they should lie it must cause at least 50 
per cent, of the farmers to look for some 
other outlet for their milk. it. b. s. 
Preston, N. Y. 
100 Lbs. 
TRADE 
MARK 
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•A contains about 31% protein, 
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AJAX FLAKES 
holds hundreds of official records and 
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recommended by Cornell Agricultural 
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and prominent breeders. You should 
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Send tor Feed ers' Hand Book "with 
tables and feeding instructions. 
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS 
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DEATH TO HEAVES 
The first or second $1.00 can cures. The third can 
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only 
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W ANTED AGENTS TO SELL FARMERS' ACCOUNT BOOK. 
Quick Seller, Big Inducements, Exclusive Terri¬ 
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The BLOOMING DALE HERD OF 
HOLSTKIN-FKIKSIANS 
are bred for large production. Good size, Strong 
Constitution, Best Individuality. 
If these are tho kind you want write or come to 
see them. 125 to select from. Animals of both sexes 
and all ages to offer at prices that will please you. 
A special ofl'er on some nicely bred Bull Calves. 
A. A. COKTKLYOU. Somerville. N. ,J. 
A Treatise on the 
Horse, 
FREE 
MpM US 
Thurmont, Md., Jan. 27,1909. 
Dr. Tt. J. Kendall Co., Knosburg Falla, Vt. 
Dear Sirs:—I had a horse with Hone Spavin. It 
wuh so serious that X could hardly get her out of 
the stable. two bottles ofyoorSpnvln Cure mid 
she In hh sound ns a dollar. Chan. J. l’owell. 
Kendall’s Spavin Cure 
Boats thorn all lor Spavin, Ringbone, Curb, 
Splint, Swollen Joints and all Lamoness. 
SI a bottle, 6 for SS. Buy at your drug store 
and ask for free book, “A Treatise on tho 
Horse," or write to— 
Dr, B. J. Kondoll Co., Cnooburg Falls, Vt. 
! I 
it 
New Modern' 
Steel Stalls 
j 
ji Wood ox’Steel Stanchions (chain or 
jj swivel lmtig). Bitter ami Feed 
d Carriers, Watering Basins, etc. 
Glor Bros. & Willis IHfg. Co. 
53 JVlain Street, Attica, N. Y. 
'*EVERYTHING FOB THE BA BN” 
]|Srfl Excelsior Swing Stanchion. 
1909-1910 MODEL 
“The Best Ever." 
THE WASSON STANCHION COMPANY 
Box 60, Cuba, N. Y. 
REG. HOLSTEIN HEIFERS 
Grand opportunity to purchase a young herd 
of choice youngsters, one year to twenty 
months old, at reasonable prices. 
Choicely bred Young Bulls, $30.00 and up. 
Write today or come, and see us. 
RIVENBURGH BROS., R. D. No. 1. Munnsvilie, N. Y. 
R IG■ JKItsEY CATTLK. Chester White, Poland 
China and Berkshire Figs. Lincoln. Shropshire and 
Hampshire Down Sheep. Scotch Collie Doge and a 
variety of Poultry. Send 2-ecnt stamp for circular. Conic 
wr my stock mid make your own selections. Address 
iCD WA It I > W AI/J' Eli, WestCliester,ChesterGo.,l’n. 
Reg. P. Chinas, Berkshires, C. Whites. 
Fine, large strains; all ages, mated 
not akin. Bred sows, service Boars, 
Jersey and Holstein Calves. Collin 
— - Pups, Beagles and Poultry. Write for 
prices ic circulars. Hamilton & Co., Middletown, Pa 
Kalorama Farm Berkshires. 
Service Boars all sold. 
Bred Sows all sold. 
Fall Pi#s all sold. 
Am now taking orders for Spring Pigs, April and 
May dolivory. 
CALVIN J. HUSON, Penn Yan, N.Y. 
SPRINGBANK BERKSHIRES.-?;',, j-; 
in Connecticut. Sows bred for April titters all sold 
JIave 4 sows bred to furrow In July; late, to ser 
vice of Watson's Masterpiece. Will book orders 
for March and April pigs now. Send for new 
Booklet. J. E. WATSON, Proprietor, Marliledale, Conn. 
LARGE BERKSHIRES AT HIGHWOOR 
Maturu an I main weigh 600 to 960 pounds. Sevoral litter. thi- 
spring of 12, la and 14, ono of 16 and ono of 17 no far. LUtcm 
last year uvm ugotl 11. 
H. O’. & II. It. HAICPKNDING, Dundee, N.Y. 
CHESHIRES 
FOR SALE—Ontario Cornucopia Lad 
Born March 10, 1910. Sire, America De Kol 
Burke; dam, Cornucopia Beauty, butter 18.09, 
three years. Attractive prices on this choice 
youngster. Correspondence solicited. 
CLOVERDALE FARM, Charlotte, N. Y. 
C. S. HUNT, Owner. J. ,T. EDEN, Manager. 
F OR SALE— Iteglstored Jefsey Cows, Heifers & Bulls. 
Herd averages 1 lb. butter from 13 qts. milk. 
Write for prices, or, better, come and see them. 
Riniisonliill Farm, Riimson, N. J. David Wallace, Supt. 
Vnn PonH AffnrH A (Trade, when I can sell 
IUU UClII I M11 III U you a reg. Jersey bull, best 
dairy stock, ready for service at farmer's prico. 
R. F. .SHANNON, 907 Liberty St., Pittsburg, Pa. 
—The New York Farmers 
Hog. Hardy, prolific; 
strong, clean bone; early 
maturing. Young stock for sale. DEPARTMENT OF 
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
niipnPQ TI,K BIG, DEEP FELLOWS 
UUnUUO that grow and mature quickly 
Pigs and Hilts for sain at all times. 
SliICNANGO ltlVKit FARMS, Transfer, Pa. 
Large Improved English Yorkshires 
A. A. BRADLEY Krewslmrg, N. Y. 
JVIAGARA STOCK FARM 
FToh Shropshire or Southdown ^ 
the money? Wo aro offoring some very choice ones 
J. C. DUNCAN, Mgr., Lewistnn, New York 
QlIRnPCUIREQ- 101 ’ y° a, ']' n g ewes; 411 
OnnUrOninLO yearling rams. Price and 
breeding right. FRED VAN VLKKT, LODI, N.Y. 
TIIUIC SHEEP-° ot n star *' ,low witli this very 
i univ hardy and money-making breed' 
1 ““" Prices reasonable,forhotnsexos. 
J. N. MAC PHERS0N, Pine View Farm. Scottsville, N. Y. 
Pfll I IF PIIPQ -Fromimported 8 toc.lt. Females 
UULLIL rUrO cheap. Nelson Bros., Grove City, Pa. 
COLLIE and SETTER PUPS 
Well Bred. Prices Reasonable, 
RIDGEWAY FARM, - JYIedwiiy, IVIiihh. 
