1910. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
1086 
MILK. 
The New York Exchange price of milk 
is $1.91 per 40-quart can, netting four 
cents per quart to shippers in 2G-ceut 
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. 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 60 miles and the 29-cent the next 
90 miles. Points beyond this are in the 
32-eent zone. 
This creamery is run on a whole milk 
plan, and we make from 200,000 to 275,* 
000 pounds of butter annually. The cows 
are mixed, but there are quite a number 
of Holstein, Guernseys and Shorthorns. 
The dairy business is increasing every year, 
and quite a number of silos are going up. 
The farmers feed mostly ground wheat and 
oats mixed, and bran, oil cake meal, fod¬ 
der corn and so on. H. H. J. 
Clark’s Grove, Minn. 
There is no. milk peddled by farmers in 
this locality. The farmers sell practically 
ail of their cream to the creamery at Sa- 
lina. The price at present is 25 cents per 
pound for butter fat. Milk delivered in 
Salina by the dairymen at present time 
costs the consumer seven cents per quart. 
There is a limited demand for sweet cream 
in season, for which is paid at present 34 
cents per pound for the butter fat. This 
is tested the same as that sold to the 
creamery company. F. N. 
Salina, Ivans. 
The wholesale price now, or for the 
Winter season, is 15 cents per gallon ; that 
is to milk depots and creameries. To 
stores, bottled, 25 cents per gallon. There 
are but eight producers who peddle from 
house to house, and they get eight and one- 
third cents per quart. The stores retail 
at eight and one-half to 10 cents per quart. 
The wholesale price for Summer is about 
two and a half cents less and retail price 
about four cents less. The ice cream fac¬ 
tories pay 60 cents per gallon for cream 
the whole year. j. h. q. 
Topeka, Ivans. 
The Beatrice Creamery Co. is paying 
$1.75 per hundred for milk testing 3.8 per 
cent, of cream, and 29 cents per pound for 
butter fat. A good many farmers haul 
their milk and cream there. Roberts San¬ 
itary Dairy gets a great deal of the farm¬ 
ers’ trade. Their prices are about the 
same, though they would rather have the 
milk for redistribution, while the creamery 
prefers the cream to make into butter. The 
Nebraska Experiment Station, located at 
the State Agricultural Farm, peddles its 
surplus milk at 10 cents per quart, as does 
one other producer I know who keeps only 
Jersey cows. Some other farmers peddle 
milk at eight to nine cents per quart. Our 
cows are Jerseys. We have not many, but 
make butter which retails from 30 to 35 
cents, while the grocery will pay us from 
27 to 30. Lincoln is within easy reach of 
a large community of .farmers, and is a 
good market all the year round for all 
dairy and other farm products. 
Lincoln, Neb. A. H. s. 
The wholesalers a year ago were paying 
$2.25 a case for the small sized cans of 
condensed milk, says the Indianapolis News. 
Now they are paying $2.85. This is an 
increase of almost 27 per cent. The pack¬ 
ers say the increase is caused by the in¬ 
creased price charged by the farmer for 
milk. But does the farmer know he is 
getting an increase of nearly 27 per cent, 
for his milk? 
It.N.-.Y.—He would have to be told about 
it. The milk sold at this increased price 
was no doubt put up six months ago when 
prices were at the lowest for the year. 
The difference between milk dairying and 
butter making is often an exhausted form. 
A ton of milk contains 10 pounds of ni¬ 
trogen, four of phosphoric acid and three 
of potash. If a man keep 20 cows which 
average 5,000 pounds each he will in the 
course of the year send away from his 
farm 500 pounds of nitrogen, 200 of phos¬ 
phoric acid and 150 of potash. Keep this 
up for 10 years and it means a serious 
loss. A ton of butter takes away only 
two and a half pounds of nitrogen and 
less than one pound each of potash and 
phosphoric acid, the rest of the plant 
food in the milk being left on the farm. 
The retailing of milk in the city of 
Portland, Ore., which is our market, is 
now almost entirely in the hands of milk 
concerns with headquarters in the city. 
While there is still some peddling being 
done by the dairymen themselves, it is 
quite insignificant, the distribution being 
mostly doue by about half a dozen milk 
companies. These companies evidently have 
some agreement among themselves, as they 
simultaneously raised the price of milk 
October 1 from nine cents per quart to 10 
cents retail. The wholesale price paid 
farmers, however, has remained the same, 
about five cents per quart and often less. 
The city council about a year ago passed 
a rigid dairy inspection ordinance, which 
among other things, required all herds to 
be tested for tuberculosis. This testing 
revealed a very bad situation in this 
neighborhood, where a great deal of milk 
is produced, some herds being practically 
wiped out, and few running less than 50 
per cent, infected. This has resulted in 
great loss to the dairymen, as the State 
does not pay for cattle killed. This has, 
of course, curtailed the supply of milk, but 
it would seem that the producers should 
be entitled to at least a part of the in¬ 
creased cost of milk to the consumer. Since 
he gets 50 cents of the consumer’s dollar, 
however, I suppose he should consider him¬ 
self fortunate. e. b. 
Oregon. 
THE BORDEN TEST FOR SILAGE. 
As we have stated, the Borden Com¬ 
pany accept some milk from farms where 
silage is fed. The silage is to be inspected, 
as well as the feeding. In order to learn 
fuller particulars we wrote Dr. C. D. Mor¬ 
ris, veterinarian for the Borden Company. 
He says: 
“In reply to your inquiry of recent date, 
regarding the Borden Company’s position 
as to the use of silage, we would state that 
the company still believes that better use 
can be made of corn than to store it in the 
silo. However, the feeding of this ration 
is allowed when it is made from mature 
corn, properly stored and cared for, and 
fed at an hour as remote as possible from 
the milking time.” c. d. morris. 
THE BELLOWS MILK CASE. 
Will you let me know how the Bellows 
vs. The New York Board of Health case 
stands at the present time. About the 
time the case was given in The R. N.-Y. it 
was brought before our Grange, and after 
a discussion it was laid on the table for 
future discussion. At the last meeting 
it was voted to send five dollars to help 
the expense of carrying the case up to 
higher court. Please let me know who 
to send this money to, and I will report 
to our Grange. J. J. wilson. 
Lecturer, Lowville Grange, No. 71. 
We wrote Mr. Bellows about his case and 
received the following reply : 
“Replying to your letter of recent date, 
I will say that the necessary legal printing 
for the appeal of my test case against 
Russel Raynor, Chief of the Bureau of 
Sanitary Inspection of the New York City 
Board of Health, is being done, and my 
attorneys will appeal the case at the Jan¬ 
uary session of the Appellate Division of 
the Supreme Court. This test case to 
determine the extent of the authority of 
the New York City Board of Health, out¬ 
side of the city limits relative to govern¬ 
ing the conditions for the production of 
milk shipped to that city for sale and con¬ 
sumption as food, will be fought to a fin¬ 
ish. I feel that the property rights of 
dairymen as regards the sale of their milk 
produce in New York City has been un¬ 
necessarily interfered with, and the time 
has now arrived for the farmers to wage 
a contest, unitedly and systematically, for 
their industrial freedom and the recogni¬ 
tion of their inalienable rights. Their in¬ 
terest has not abated and, while we can¬ 
not now say how much money will be 
needed, we trust that with the co-opera¬ 
tion of the farmers and other interested 
parties, we will not lack for funds. I 
ask the aid of all interested in the pro¬ 
motion of the welfare of dairymen in the 
fight I am waging in their behalf. I 
heartily thank The R. N.-Y. for what it. 
has done and is doing for the farmers. I 
would like to have The R. N.-Y. keep in 
trust all moneys contributed by its readers 
to my case until the same is needed, to be 
returned, if not needed.” 
SNIFFIN K. BELLOWS. 
Roxbury, N. Y.’ r 
We now have on hand $16.60 in cash 
contributions and about $20 more promised 
whenever needed. We are ready to re¬ 
ceive further contributions or pledges. It 
will be remembered that Mr. Bellows 
brought suit to recover damages because 
his milk was refused for shipment to New 
York. The point at issue was whether the 
city inspectors have arbitrary right to re¬ 
ject milk or determine such cases without 
any recourse at law. The judge threw the 
case out of court on the ground that the 
New York City charter relieved officials of 
legal responsibility in such cases. The 
appeal is taken in an effort to establish by 
legal opinion just how far the inspector 
may go in interfering with a dairyman’s 
business or property. 
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E ACH one of your cows repre¬ 
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