1910. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKE® 
1017 
The New York Exchange price of milk is 
$1.91 per 40-quart can, netting four cents 
per quart to snippers in the 26-cent freight 
zone who have no local station charges. 
There are four freight zones for milk hauled 
to New York, viz.: 23, 26, 29 and 32 cents 
per 40-quart can. These figures are fixed 
by the inter-state commerce authorities for 
certain distances on the various lines of 
railroads. Very little milk is now received 
from the 23-cent zone, which covers the 
territory within about 40 miles of New 
York. The 32-cent zone extends north into 
the Black River country of New York 
State, and as far west as Salamanca. 
Whether or not Nathan Straus stands by 
his decision to discontinue the distribution 
of pasteurized milk in New York City the 
municipality will take up the work next 
year. At the hearing October 18 by the 
bqdget committee on the estimates of the 
Department of Health Commissioner Led- 
erle explained that his department contem¬ 
plated establishing pasteurization stations. 
After the meeting Borough President Me- 
Aneny said: “The comptroller, Mr. Pren- 
dergast, President Mitchell and myself, 
forming the committee, heartily approve of 
the plan, and whether Mr. Straus decides 
to continue his philanthropic work or not 
the city will be in the milk pasteuriza¬ 
tion business next Summer.” 
Milk is now bringing the farmers about 
four cents a quart for 4 per cent., but it 
still must be looked upon as a by-product 
in order to show a profit at four cents; 
for accurate accounts kept by reliable 
farmers in this locality, show that to be 
the cost of production at the present time. 
During the Winter months 4*4 cents is 
about cost of production. The situation 
this year is better than last, and more milk 
is being shipped from (Greenwich. I should 
say 50 per cent, more than a year ago. As 
yet no material reduction has taken place 
in the cost of cow feed; but a lowering of 
that item of cost is looked for before long. 
The price of cows is up from that of a 
year ago; but only to the extent of the 
price of beef; in other words, cows for 
beefing purposes will realize more now than 
ever before which has set prices of milkers 
up also. Our locality has only recently 
gone into the milk business to any extent; 
but the farmers have already shown the 
effect of carrying more stock. More Hoi- 
steins are being brought into this territory 
than ever before, although personally I 
have had better luck from an economical 
standpoint with Guernseys. It is my opin¬ 
ion that some form of municipal milk 
depots would go far towards helping both 
producer and consumer. I do not think 
the middleman is all to blame for the high 
milk prices to consumer or low price to 
producer. I might add one thing more in 
regard to our locality which I understand 
is also true in general where milk is being 
bought by city dealers. No cows are being 
raised to any extent And it looks as if 
before long there would be a decided 
scarcity. I. c. b. 
Greenwich, N. Y. 
An Iowa cow, Rouge 2d, of Brookfield, 
owned by the Iowa State College, gave dur¬ 
ing the month of July 1,037 pounds of 
milk, testing 6.45 per cent fat. In the six 
and one-half months from then until August 
1 she produced $116.92 worth of butter fat. 
After deducting the cost of feed this left 
a net profit of $68.20. The total amount 
of milk produced in this time was 6,778.8 
pounds, and of butter fat 362.59 pounds. 
This cow is an imported Guernsey of good 
pedigree. Prof. Gregory of the Iowa Col¬ 
lege says: “While this cow has a typical 
dairy form, she shows no special indications 
of being an extraordinary producer. It 
took the scales and the test to disclose that 
fact. There are a good many cows on 
every farm in the State that are doing 
a great deal better than the owner has 
any idea of. There are others that are 
poorer that he would like to believe. It 
takes the scales and tester to distinguish 
with certainty between these two classes 
of cows.” 
The milk business in Maine is all handled 
through a small group of contractors. They 
have special arrangements with the rail¬ 
road that practically eliminate competition, 
and make it about impossible for a new¬ 
comer to get a foothold. Still our con¬ 
tractors pay enough more for butter fat 
to go as sweet cream to Boston, that the 
farmers found it a business proposition to 
sell their cream and buy western butter. 
A reliable authority estimates that 200 tons 
of western butter were sold and consumed 
in Maine last year. Prices have risen 
sharply, yet the gross business of the com¬ 
panies 5 operations in the State have fallen 
off. To my mind that indicates an unsat¬ 
isfactory profit in dairying for the aver¬ 
age farmer. Returns to the State assess¬ 
ors show that the live stock in the State 
is decreasing at an alarming rate. M. 
Figures given by the American Ware¬ 
houseman show the following amounts of 
butter stored at 32 large storage houses: 
October 1, 1910....a......... 
October 1, 1909. 
October 1, 1908. 
October 1, 1907. 
October 1, 1906. 
The gain for September was 
pounds. 
Pounds. 
62,865,000 
50,481,000 
66,552,394 
49,507,777 
50,418,963 
3,324,789 
The following figures show the produc¬ 
tion of oleo at Chicago in 9 months of this 
year: 
Uncolored. 
lbs. 
Sept. .8,564,352 
Aug.6,293,868 
July .4,276,780 
June .4,992,828 
May .6,359,108 
April .7,816,588 
March .8,973,100 
Feb.8,285,920 
Jan. ..9,959,160 
Colored. Totals. 
lbs. lbs. 
189,022 8,753,374 
159,213 6,453,081 
139,977 4,416,757 
141,141 5,133,969 
168,872 6,527,980 
196,604 8,013,192 
229,015 9,202,115 
229,938 8,515,858 
230,089 10,189,249 
Totals ..65,521,624 1,683,871 67,205,575 
The total estimated production for the 
entire country was 107,528,000 pounds. 
A circular from the New York Agricul¬ 
tural Department gives the following num¬ 
ber of pure-bred dairy cattle'in New York: 
llolsteins, 32,080; Jerseys, 6,448; Guern¬ 
seys, 2,907; Ayrshire, 2,065. Madison 
County leads with greatest number of pure¬ 
bred dairy cattle (3,866) and Onondaga 
second with 2,507. In 1909 there were 
1,789,000 milch cows in New York. Thus 
only about one in 40 was a pure-blood. If 
the theory of pedigreed breeding is correct 
at least half these animals should be 
blooded stock as a matter of economy. Why 
is it that the proportion is so small? 
A milking contest is being held at the 
National Dairy Show with the following 
conditions: “Contestants will be required 
to milk a group of two cows in the morn¬ 
ing, and a different group of two cows in 
the evening, of the competition. Pails and 
stools will be provided by the management 
but milkers may furnish their own if they 
wish. In making entry applicant must 
state whether or not he intends to furnish 
his own pail and stool. The judge will be 
appointed by the manager of the dairy 
show. Judging will be according to the 
following scale of points : Cleanliness, 50 ; 
speed, 20; manner of milking, 20; strip¬ 
ping, 10; total, 100.” 
Your article on page 624 in relation to 
importations of cream is correct only in 
part. There is a duty on butter and there 
is a duty on cream of five cents a gallon, 
and the 30,510 gallons mentioned paid a 
duty of $1,525.50. The tariff is bad enough 
when you give it correctly. w. a. g. 
Island Pond, Yt. 
R. N.-Y r .—This is con-ect. Under the old 
bill cream was free. There is a tariff now 
of two cents per gallon on milk. 
The Bordens will permit farmers to feed 
silage from what their inspectors call satis¬ 
factory siloes. This means inspection. We 
would like to have reports from farmers 
who succeed in passing such inspection so 
as to know what tests are applied. 
COW NOTES. 
Farmers as a rule in this vicinity are in 
pretty good shape for the Winter. A good 
crop of hay was harvested, and corn is an 
average crop. I think potatoes suffered the 
most during the July drought, but late 
potatoes were benefited by rains which 
came later. We are in the midst of a se¬ 
vere drought now, and farmers who depend 
on pasture are suffering. As a consequence 
the milk supply has shrunk and is scarce 
at present. Prices range from seven to 10 
cents. h. p. b. 
New Britain, Conn. 
Good fresh milch cows readily bring $90 
to $100; farrow cows $35 to $40, and 
cows due to freshen in the Spring $40 to 
$60. These are considered very high prices 
in this section. Dealers and buyers all re¬ 
port a great scarcity of cows. These prices 
are about 50 per cent, higher than one 
year ago. The hay, grain and silage 
corn crops were all good this year, so 
would say that there is a much larger quan¬ 
tity of these feeds on hand than one year 
ago. Most of the milk produced here goes 
to New l T ork, and we have to buy large 
quantities of grain, as no farm would pro¬ 
duce enough grain to feed cows for milk 
in the Winter. At the price of milk, cows 
and grain, it looks like a losing proposi¬ 
tion to the producer; at least this seems 
to be the consensus of opinion among farm¬ 
ers here. a. s. 
Maunnsville, N. Y. 
1120 lbs. Milk Daily 
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My cow, Lunde Korndyke, H. F. 
now under official and year test made 
118 lbs. milk daily. As she did not 
seem to relish the feed I changed to 
Unicorn Dairy Ration and she made 
120 lbs, on 28 lbs. of Unicorn Dairy 
Ration. I consider it the best feed I 
ever used. 
J. J. LARABEE (H. F. Ass’n.) 
Demster, N. Y. 
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