1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1120 
MILK. 
The New York Exchange price of milk 
is .$1.91 per 40-quart can, netting four 
cents per quart to shippers in 20-con t 
freight EG Be 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 front the 23-cent zone, 
which covers the territory within 40 miles 
of Now York. The 26-cent zone covers 
the next 60 miles and the 29-ecnt zone the 
next 90 miles. Points beyond this are in 
the 32-cent zone. 
The New York Milk Committee was in¬ 
corporated November 17 to improve the 
milk supply of the city and educate the 
public in the proper use of milk for va¬ 
rious purposes. Among the incorporators 
are John (». Saxe, Mrs. Florence Ilarri- 
man. F. 1>. Roosevelt and Wilbur C 
Phillips. 
Where there is only a small amount of 
cream each day keep each separation by 
itself till it cools to about 50 degrees 
before mixing it with the col<f cream. If 
warm cream be mixed with cold cream bad 
flavors are sure to develop. They will de¬ 
velop anyway if tlie cream is kept too 
long, so it is best to churn as often as 
every three days. 
The New York State dairymen will meet 
this year at Ogdensburg, N. Y., Dccem- 
l*er 13 to 16. Ogdensburg is situated in 
one of the greatest dairy sections of the 
State, if not in the world, and therefore 
there is sure to be a large local attend¬ 
ance. it seems to be a very desirable 
place for holding a convention of this kind. 
It would seem as if it is the better plan 
for the association to go straight to the 
dairy sections rather than go to places 
where dairying is not a prominent feature. 
There can be no question about St. Law¬ 
rence County being in the dairy belt. It 
is the banner dairy county of the United 
States, producing immense quantities of 
l>oth cheese and butter. There will with¬ 
out question he a large local attendance, 
and dairymen from all over the country 
would di) well to attend this meeting. 
Next year will be a critical one in dairy 
history. There will no doubt be another 
fight with oleo, and many other matters 
are sure to arise, therefore, dairymen 
should be thoroughly organized and 
trained to work together. 
Milk is mostly retailed from the farms 
in our section by two or three men to a 
town. They produce some; they may keep 
10 or 12 cows and then buy from the 
neighboring farmers. We have had both 
ways. The other method is to sell to a 
man in town in a wholesale way, and lie 
retails. The first is the prevailing way 
at present. Prices as follows will cover 
the last two or three years and present: 
Wholesale, Winter, 20 cents a gallon, de¬ 
livered ; Summer 16 cents a gallon; re¬ 
tail) Winter, nine cents a quart; Summer, 
eight cents a quart. You will see that 
the man in town wants it all here, same 
as other places. Those dairymen who 
keep some cows close to town and retail 
to consumer pay to neighbors the same 
prices as other dealers, delivered to their 
place of business. T. F. s. 
Apollo, l’a. 
Milk wholesales here at 20 to 22 cents 
per gallon. Dairymen peddle it to private 
families for $2.50 per month for 
single quart a day, or $5 for two 
quarts. Price for Summer is $2 for a quart 
a dav per month. Creameries buy from 
the producers. Butter retails for 40 cents 
per pound now. Ranch butter is 35 cents; 
.not enough butter or eggs or poultry Ls 
produced in Idaho to supply the demand. 
The Middle West ships carloads of the com¬ 
modities to us. Eggs now retail at 45 
cents per dozen, strictly fresh ; storage 
eggs from Nebraska and Iowa retail at 40 
cents. The poultry and dairy business is 
increasing with us, but no faster than the 
population. w. w. D. 
Poise, Idaho. 
Here there are very few farmers who 
peddle their milk; most of it goes to con¬ 
densers or is separated and cream sent to 
creamery. The oondensery pays now $1.85 
per 100 for four per cent test milk; later 
will be higher. Milk in bulk for peddling 
is sold for 20 cents per gallon average. 
Sealed bottled milk from wagon now ls 
eight cents per quart. B. B. 
Snohomish, Wash. 
MILK INSPECTION: “THE TABLES 
TURNED.” 
Some of the local papers have made 
announcements that the “tables are 
turned,” when referring to the fact that 
our State Department of Agriculture has 
sent representatives to New York City, 
and has found many instances of unsani¬ 
tary conditions respecting the handling of 
milk at that end of the line. In a sense 
that is all true, hut 1 do not understand 
that there is any retaliatory action in 
the effort of the State Departn^ent to 
hunt out and improve the poor condition 
of some of the milk depots of New' York 
City. It is simply a fact that conditions 
are' bad and that they need improving. In 
my judgment there is harmony between 
the two departments. Indeed 1 have heard 
an Albany representative speak very fa¬ 
vorably of two members of the Health 
Department, who are prominent iu their 
efforts towards securing a pure milk sup¬ 
ply, with whom he had come in contact, 
lie thought these men understand the 
conditions that should prevail, and also 
understand the conditions under which 
the farmer is obliged to labor. For all 
this it may 4 not be out of place for our 
local papers to say, “the tables are 
turned.” Farmers have contended from 
the very first of the inspection agitation 
that there is ample opportunity for the 
city Health Department to work off any 
surplus energy by attending to affairs 
right under their own eyes, and very near 
at home. The inspection department does 
not deny that bad sanitary conditions pre¬ 
vail to a considerable extent in the city. 
No doubt, where political influences are so 
active as they are supposed to be in New 
York City, it may not he so very easy for 
even a conscientious administration assist¬ 
ant to accomplish all that lie might wish. 
Without making too much demonstration 
about it, he may lie very glad that the 
State Department of Agriculture has seen 
fit to go in and do something towards 
cleaning up some of those milk depots. 
I do not understand that in the case of 
the better class of stations, where the 
horse stables are over the creameries there 
is any attempt to force changes, unless 
other conditions are bad, but in cases 
where milk is bottled in the horse stable, 
I think some orders have been issued. 1: 
was suggested that while the heads of 
some departments of the city Hoard of 
Health, and perhaps their assistants, may 
he qualified and may wish to he reasonable. 
It by no means follows that the men who 
are sent out to do personal work with 
the dairymen are either qualified or rea 
sonable. Were they qualified and reason¬ 
able it would seem that somebody who has 
to do with them would find it out and 
•would speak a good word for them. Since 
that is apparently unheard of there would 
seem to be something wrong with the 
men sent or with the regulations under 
which they work or with both. Last 
Spring it was thought that the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture was to be put iu 
charge of the work of inspection, and the 
city relieved of that trouble. Such is not 
the condition, and in just that way, it 
may never be so. To make complete in¬ 
spection at frequent intervals for the 
whole State would require almost an army 
of men and a mint of money. Such an 
expenditure is needless anyway. There 
is no use in inspection where conditions 
are right and reasonable, and the dealer 
knows or can very soon find out where 
such conditions do not exist. Then if the 
dealer is informed at the city end of the 
route that milk must he of certain rea¬ 
sonably desirable standards, he can go to 
such men as need interviewing and argue 
with them, or he can do just as he docs 
now when he finds somebody is skimming. 
He can turn the case over to the State 
Department. That department has ample 
authority to act, and they can send men 
who know right conditions and how Lo 
get them. H. H. lyox. 
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