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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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MILK. 
The New York Exchange price of milk 
is $1.91 per 40-quart can, netting lour 
cents per quart to skippers in 26-cent 
freight zones who have no local station 
charges. There are four freight zones for 
milk hauled to New York, viz. : 23, 2(5, 29 
and 32 cents per 40-quart can. Very little 
milk is now received from the 23-cent zone, 
which covers the territory within 40 miles 
of New York. The 26-cent zone covers 
the next 00 miles and the 29-cent the next 
90 miles. Points beyond this are in the 
32-cent zone. 
The amount of milk produced in this sec¬ 
tion is growing less each year. The cost 
of production is four cents. The price 
now is $1.34 per 40-quart can. The price 
of cows has advanced 30 oer cent, during 
the last year. The price of grain is about 
the same as last year, except cotton seed 
and oil meal. They are up about $0 or $8 
per ton. s. S. C. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
In this town we have but very little 
trouble about the milk. It is a dairy 
town, but all uiilk goes to the local mar¬ 
kets, the greater part to the city of Holy¬ 
oke, five miles away, the remainder to the 
city of Chicopee, six miles away. No milk 
is shipped. The peddlers bring clean cans, 
or the cans are supposed to be clean, take 
the milk from the ice box, giving 45 cents 
for 10 1-2 quarts. The city milk inspector 
inspects the premises twice a year; barns 
to be whitewashed and in good order. I 
wish the city inspectors would be more 
particular and inspect the peddlers’ cans. 
The washing of the cans is usually left to 
young boys to do, and is not half done. 
The odor from the cans when filling with 
warm milk is sickening. The cost of cows 
now is very high, a 16-quart cow being 
valued at $80, but very few calves are 
raised. As a usual thing the calves are 
sold when about 48 hours old to the Jews. 
The farmers are obliged to look for then- 
cows back on the hill towns. It seems as 
if the raising of young stock could help 
out these farmers that are quite a dis¬ 
tance from markets. We have a herd 
of 30. »• W. 
Massachusetts. 
The milk supply is failing now on ac¬ 
count of the drought, but expect a good run 
all Winter. We are making about oOO 
pounds more butter this year than at this 
time last year. Our make at present is 
2,300 pounds per week. The milk and 
cream from which the butter was made, 
which I sent to the Minnesota dairy show, 
was in good condition, and I got about 
one-lialf hand-separated cream, but it is 
not as good as should be, as it is not prop¬ 
erly taken care of on the farm. Ouite a 
few don't want to bring the cream often 
enough, and then they do not keep tneir 
separators in good condition. In regard 
to the kind of cows kept in this section, I 
ing more and more, and of late is cross¬ 
breeding the common cows with Guernsey 
think most are mixed Holstein and Short¬ 
horn, but this country is going into dairy- 
and Jersey. We have just a few good 
dairymen in this section who are keeping 
daily records of theirfherd. Dairying is 
the coming thing for the farmer here. 
The farmers have not got many silos, and 
they seem to come slowly, but there are a 
few having silos built, and I think in the 
near future there will be quite a few in 
use. The grain that is generally fed is 
corn and bran mixed and a little oats. 
Cokato, Minn. *’• T - J - 
On December 2 and 3 there will be held 
in this city at the Unit J Charities build¬ 
ing a conference on mil' . This conference 
is organized by the N .v York Milk Com¬ 
mittee, and an effort will be made to have 
a thorough discusssion of the subject by all 
sides. A number of Government officials 
and scientific men will be present, and it 
is also hoped that a good number of prac¬ 
tical milk producers will be on hand pre¬ 
pared to give their side of the matter, par¬ 
ticularly with regard to the cost of mak¬ 
ing a quart of milk. The following sub- 
jects will be taken up in some detail. Milk 
economics, milk standard, milk supply and 
milk commissions. Among other things 
there will be a discussion as to whether 
the milk sent to the city markets should 
be pasteurized before using. Another thing 
that will come up and make- a warm dis¬ 
cusssion is the question of whether coun¬ 
try milk inspection should be carried on by 
the city or by the country. It is said 
that at present milk which is refused in 
New Y'ork State is being sold in other 
towns in various States. This makes trou¬ 
ble because farmers feel that the State of 
New York prohibited milk which is consid¬ 
ered perfectly good in other places. The 
question is whether the present system of 
city inspection is right or not, and whether 
it works an injustice to the farmer or to 
other towns. We hope this meeting will be 
largely attended, and that milk producers 
will come forward nrepared to take up 
their end in the discussion. 
MILK BUSINESS IN MAINE. 
Dairying is one of Maine’s big indus¬ 
tries, but the conditions of the business 
are pretty accurately reflected in the cen¬ 
sus returns on cows. In the past six 
years the reports of the State assessors 
show that the number has fallen off 24,- 
000, or a little more than 12 1-2 per cent. 
The situation of the local creamery is 
typical, and here the gross business has 
fallen off in the same proportion during 
a period when retail prices have been ad¬ 
vancing steadily. The State’s largest 
dealer in dairy products is now import¬ 
ing a carload of Canadian cream daily, 
as five cents per gallon on 65 per cent- 
cream is not a protective duty. The Bos- 
ton market takes all the sweet cream 
available, so importations are necessary to 
meet the demand for butter. When we 
look for the reason back of all this we 
find it summed up in one word—monop¬ 
oly. The territory is divided up among 
a small number of contractors, and any¬ 
thing like competition effectively throttled. 
These contractors are pretty thoroughly 
intrenched behind a special commodity rate 
granted by the railroad. For $30 the 
company starts a special car about 225 
miles from Boston, picks up the cans at the 
way stations, shifts cars to allow for pas¬ 
teurizing in transit, hauls the car to Bos¬ 
ton, brings it back and distributes the 
empty cans at the way stations again. 
This makes the freight but a fraction of 
what an individual shipper would have 
to pay, so the average producer must sell 
to the contractors or not at all. It is no 
doubt a good arrangement for both the 
railroad and the contractors, but the busi¬ 
ness back of it all seems to be suffering. 
Some few years ago the health authori¬ 
ties of Portland decreed that no milk or 
cream should be sold in that city except 
from tuberculin tested cows. To induce 
the farmers to comply with these require¬ 
ments, the contractors supplying that mar¬ 
ket offered their patrons an extra cent 
a pound on butter fat from tested herds. 
The favorable response was practically 
unanimous, and. of course, it had to come 
out of the consumer. Now a cent a pound 
on butter fat was equivalent to a little 
over three cents per gallon on cream. But 
this cream, while purchased in bulk, was 
sold in half pint jars. To make up the 
advance given the producer, the whole¬ 
sale price was raised one cent per jar, and 
the retail price two. Thus the consumer 
was “jacked up” 32 cents to give the farm¬ 
er three. H. G. 
MILK NOTES. 
Milk is handled around Buffalo so dif¬ 
ferently that I must explain to you our 
method. Milk is contracted for by the 
year, May 1 to May 1 next: milk brought 
14 cents to the gallon for the year. Milk at, 
present is bringing about 16 cents at the 
stand f. o. b., one and one-half cents 
freight, making 17 1-2 cents to dealers, but 
very scarce. The inspectors are following 
up the milk producers: they think if a 
man gets hold of a gallon of milk that is 
above 60 degrees he is a dead man. Cows 
are very high and scarce: about $15 higher 
than last year for fresh cows bringing 
from $60 to $75 ; cattle coming fresh in 
the Spring $28 to $30 : farrow cows. $20 to 
$28; bay full crop, $12 per ton: corn full 
crop of fodder, but not much grain: pota¬ 
toes one-half crop; grapes one-half crop. 
Angola, N. Y. B. J. E. 
The milk from which my butter was 
made was all whole milk separated at the 
creamery. The farmers around here have 
mostly Holstein and Jersey cows. The 
Ilolsteins are considered the best around 
here. I think the dairy business will in¬ 
crease more every year here. There are 
not very many silos around here, but I 
think there will be more after a while. 
The farmers are feeding mostly cornstalks 
at this time of the year, and some corn 
and oats ground at the mill. The pas¬ 
tures have been good here this Fall. 
St. Peter, Minn. o. O. 
The cost of shipping milk to Boston has 
at last been settled, and I expect con¬ 
tracts which have not been sent out by con¬ 
tractors will now be forthcoming. Some 
small dealers of Boston are now trying to 
buy direct from the farmers instead of the 
contractors. It is still a question whether 
the new milk law helps the farmers or 
not. Any milk returned costs the farmers 
two freights, one for sending and another 
for returning. Anything sent by contrac¬ 
tor to farmer, like butter, strainer cotton, 
books, tags, etc., has to pay freight. The 
situation will perhaps be fixed satisfactory 
to both consumer and producer, but it will 
take some time and work yet to bring this 
about. A large supply of rain is badly 
needed to bring the wells and springs to 
their proper level. This is the third and 
driest season in this vicinity. a. e. i\ 
Hopkinton, Mass. 
The outlook for dairying is good at pres¬ 
ent prices of cheese and butter. Farmers 
are not satisfied on account of high price 
of grain : they do not raise enough for 
their own use. About one-fourth of the 
cattle are high grade, the rest are commot* 
stock, but they are all trying to better 
their grade now. Quality of milk is not 
the best, as they do not take care of it in 
warm weatherthey deliver it only once 
a day to the factory. To increase the 
profit in dairying in this section I would 
say to get the pastures in better shape; 
that is, get rid of weeds and grow clover 
instead and grow more corn and clover hay 
for silage. h. f. ji. 
Allegany, N. Y. 
Sorghum Molasses for Stock. 
What is the value of sorghum molasses 
for feed ? How much should be given at a 
feed? Will it pay me to grind my feed? 
I feed about 400 bushels of grain a year. 
Saltillo, Mass. e. t. b. 
We found this value about SO per cent 
that of corn, but the molasses has extra 
value as a tonic, especially for old animals. 
We began with a pint and worked up to 
three pints. Yes, we find grinding whole 
grain profitable work. 
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Bank Account 
T AKE any two dairy farmers—one feeding a ration includ¬ 
ing Dried Beet Pulp—the other feeding only heavy heating 
dry stuffs. You’ll find the former carrying the biggest bank 
account, for he’s getting at least 10% more milk than the other 
fellow. Over and above this his cattle are in a finer and healthier 
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