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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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COST OF MILK AT STATE INSTITUTIONS 
We have been asked to state what it 
costs to produce milk at the various State 
institutions where cows are kept to supply 
the inmates. In writing all of mem we 
find that only a small proportion attempt 
to produce milk. Most of these institutions 
buy milk the same as floor or meat. A 
few reports are given below. Of course, 
the figures here given cannot be compared 
fairly with the cost of milk in a dairy 
farm, where the farmer must provide his 
own capital and labor and pay many ex¬ 
penses which the State institutions do not 
have: 
For the year ending September 30, 1809, 
the cost was $.0233 per quart. 
GEORGE R. FINTON, 
Hudson River State Hospital. Steward. 
We find the cost of production of milk 
to be $.0252 per quart. These figures do 
not include the labor of four patients em¬ 
ployed in the dairy, d. h. author, Supt. 
Gowanda State Homeopathic Hospital. 
For the year ending September 30, 1909, 
we produced 406,886 quarts of miik, at a 
total net cost of $12,337.51, or an aver¬ 
age COSt Of $.0303. R. H. HITCHINGS. 
Superintendent. 
St. Lawrence State Hospital. 
I give you herewith as accurately as I 
can figure it, the cost of producing a quart 
of milk at this hospital for the past year, 
which is $.0317. Of course, in arriving 
at a figure of this kind, you will readily 
understand that it is doubtful if any two 
people could or would reach the same re¬ 
sult. There are so very many items which 
should or should not be considered, but I 
have gone carefully over the matter and be¬ 
lieve that these figures represent as nearly 
as it is possible to get our actual cost. 
C. A. MOSHER. 
Utica State Hospital. Steward. 
We cannot make a very accurate state¬ 
ment in regard to the cost of producing 
milk, as we only keep records showing the 
cost of operating the entire dairy—that is, 
the cost of the feed, etc., used in operating 
the dairy with and without the home prod¬ 
uct feed used. As near as we can figure 
the cost is about $.056 per gallo i without 
the home product feed used, and about $.11 
per gallon, with the home product feed used. 
We are sorry that we cannot give you a 
more accurate statement of the cost of pro¬ 
ducing milk. CHARLES BERNSXEIN, 
Superintendent. 
Rome State Custodial Hospital. 
We never have kept an accounc showing 
exactly the cost of milk, but I am pleased 
to furnish yon the following from our ac¬ 
count for the year ending October 1, 1909: 
Dairy Receipts. 
Milk produced, 381,514 lbs. $7,630.28 
Dairy cows killed for beef, 5,229 
lbs. 339.89 
Reef and veal hides sold. 110.05 
Total . $8,080.22 
Cost of Production. 
Grain bought, 41 tons. $1,402.50 
Home product hay, silage, rough 
fodder . 1.382.50 
Salary of dairyman. 540.00 
Wages of assistant. 380.00 
Total . $3,705.00 
Leaving net proceeds of dairy... 4.375.22 
$S,080.22 
You will note from this account that 
there is a credit for beef killed. This beef 
which was killed was entirely cows that 
had been rejected from the herd, and bulls 
that we desired to dispose of, as we make 
no effort to raise or keep any other stock 
than dairy cows. I might also add that 
the average butter fat test for the months 
of May, June, July, August and Septem¬ 
ber, 1909, was 4.81 per cent. 
TRUMAN L. STONE, 
Craig Colony for Epileptics. Steward. 
In making the following compulation I 
have not taken into account the labor of 
milking and caring for the cattle, as our 
labor costs nothing. The boys for whom 
the school cares do all of the milking 'and 
caring for the stock, and no person is em¬ 
ployed especially for the purpose of caring 
for the stock. The tract of 1.432 acres set 
apart by the State for the use of the school 
is divided into 19 farms, each of which has 
its live stock equipment, inclining dairy 
cows. A group of boys, not exe .'Piling 25 
in number, known as a colony, lives on and 
cares for each one of these farms. A man 
and wife known as supervisor ami matron 
have charge of the boys of each colony. 
The cost of producing milk approximates 
very closely .0155 per quart. This takes into 
account the actual amount and cost of 
grain fed and the interest at six per cent 
on the cost of the lands used for pasturage 
and the production of forage for the dairy 
cows and interest on the value of me cows. 
It does not include the item of taxes and 
the value and depreciation of utensils. The 
average cost per acre of the lands pur¬ 
chased for the use of the school was $75. 
F. H. BRIGGS, Supt. 
State Agl. and Industrial School. 
It is not possible for us to give you an 
absolutely accurate answer. We have a 
large farm with nearly 200 head of horned 
cattle, and this farm is operated to a large 
extent with the labor of inmates of the 
hospital. We keep an accurate account of 
all items that enter into the maintenance 
of the farm and a similar accouat of all 
farm products, but we do not undertake to 
determine the exact cost of producing a 
quart of milk, as this would involve an 
amount of detailed attention out of pro¬ 
portion to the value of the infoimation to 
us. I may say, however, that caicful ob¬ 
servation enables us to say with icasonable 
accuracy, that the milk we produce costs 
the State less than two cents per quart. 
CHARLES G. WAGNER, Supt. 
Ringliamto" State Hospital. 
SHREDDED FODDER NOTES. 
Although this county (Adams) in times 
past was known as the cow county of 
Southwestern Iowa, but a small per cent 
of the corn is cut for fodder. While a few 
shred what they cut up. shredding is not 
general. The shredded fodder is usually 
run from the machine into a pen or crib 
built for the purpose, so that by knocking 
off a board a manger is formed all around 
the pen. In our ordinary dry Falls, those 
who. have room for it- in the bain have 
no trouble in keeping it by delaying the 
shredding until cold weather begins. On 
my own farm, as the cattle get some of 
tlii‘ corn anyway, we shred the corn and 
stalks together and feed in manger in the 
barn, but we have to shred every three or 
four days as wanted, for with the corn 
left in, it will heat in a few days, unless 
very dry: 150 or more hills are put in a 
shock, and left in the field until wanted. 
Even in our climate the fodder loses con¬ 
siderable of its value by standing, but the 
labor question enters largely into all our 
systems of management. For four years 
I ground corn and oats for cattle and hogs, 
but found the net profit was larger when 
the grain was fed without grinding, as the 
hogs would utilize all waste from tin cattle. 
We grow a few acres of oats witli clover 
seeding each year, but have not thrashed 
any for 30 years. We have tried running 
them through the fodder cutter, but the 
stock like them just as well without. As 
a rule the oniy satisfactory farm labor ob¬ 
tainable is what the farmer grows himself 
and “race suicide” is growing there as well 
as in towns. jerome smith. 
Adams Co., Iowa. 
There is no demand here at all for baled 
shredded corn fodder. A few years ago 
there were a number of cars shipped in 
here, but as cattle dealers did not take 
kindly to it, there has been very little 
shipped since. a. g. Morgan & co. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
FEED PRICES. 
We do not believe that feed will be any 
higher. Corn is going to be a betti r crop 
than expected, oats good crop, ila.v is 
only a fair crop with us and prices high 
for Timothy grades, wh : cn are scarce. 
Michigan. hartel & martin. 
I think wheat will advance to $1 by the 
first of the new year, and may sooner, when 
farmers get busy in their corn and wheat 
hauling stops. There is quite a percentage 
of wheat in farmers’ hands at present in 
Jndiana. Oats in about the same condition, 
as hay is scarce and high. Hay is selling 
from .$10 to .$15.50 in the mow at this time, 
which will cause grain feed to advance in 
price. Farmers are saving their straw and 
corn fodder more this yea'- than I ever knew 
in our State. The straw was good and the 
corn fodder is the same, hogs are high, in 
fact all stock is high; if this continues 
farmers will buy more stock, and that will 
take more feed, so grain and feed will 
advance. C. b. o. 
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