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Foster Made $19,484.83 
Last Year From His 
Million Egg' Farm 
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Five years ago Joel M. Foster, a young city man, 
decided to go into the poultry business. He was 
looking for a suitable occupation, he was vigorous 
and energetic, and believed that there was a fortune 
to be made raising chickens. He had no experi- 
He bought and stocked a little farm near a 
ence. 
big city, but for a time he had only failures. His 
poultry house burned with all its contents, and he 
had to begin anew. The next year rats destroyed 
half his flock, but he surmounted these and other 
difficulties, always thinking, planning and experi¬ 
menting. Today he is at the head of the largest 
EGG-PRODUCING plant in the world, with 
20,000 laying hens and will market this 
between two and three million eggs. 
year 
MILKL. 
In effect December 1, the New York Ex¬ 
change price was advanced to $2.01 per 40- 
quart can, netting 4% cents per quart to 
shippers in the 26-cent freight zone who 
have no additional station charges. 
As far as I can learn milk is only sold 
by retail dairymen direct to consumer, no 
dealers that buy and sell milk. Much of it 
is sold by small farmers that live near 
town and have from three to eight cows. 
Retail price is now seven to eight cents 
per quart. C. p. 
Jefferson City, Mo. 
The farmer sells his milk to the milk 
peddler for $1.30 per 100 pounds in the 
Summer and $1.70 through the Winter, 
and he retails it for seven cents per quart 
for dipped milk and eight cents for bottled. 
Following are the retail prices of grain: 
Oats, 45 cents; corn, shelled, 65 cents; 
wheat, 02 cents; corn in the ear, 70 pounds 
for 36 cents. w. h. l. 
Summit Co., O. 
The wholesale price of milk is three 
cents in the Summer and from four to 
live cents in Winter. The milk is sold 
through dealers. Several people in this 
part of the country sell their cream to 
creameries. It is shipped from here and a 
man gathers it once a week in Winter and 
twice in Summer. We sometimes sell cream 
to a dealer for ice cream in Ada. We get 
20 cents per quart in Winter and 15 cents 
in Summer. G. a. 
Hardin Co., O. 
The greater part of the people in this 
locality make cheese in the Summer and 
butter in the Winter. Some ship their 
cream, and those closer to cities sell their 
milk. The past Summer has been a poor 
season for cows. Milk at dairies brings 28 
cents per gallon; butter, from 25 to 30 
cents per pound; cheese, 14 to 16 cents. 
Most of the dairymen are wholesaling their 
milk to dealers. Mill feed brings from $25 
to $28 per ton; corn. 55 cents per bushel; 
hay, Timothy. $15 to $18; clover, $12 to 
$14 ; straw. $7 to $8. o. B. F. 
Monroe Co., O. 
This is not or has not been a dairy 
country. A few years ago a man started a 
•creamery in our city. Farmers did not 
think it paid to sell their milk that way, 
so he commenced to manufacture ice cream, 
which is having success. City retailers are 
delivering for seven cents per quart. There 
is a condensery at Bryan, Ohio, 20 miles 
east of our city. About three months ago 
they built a shipping station in our city 
and have milk routes through the country. 
They are paying $1.80 per 100 pounds 
and will soon pay $2. The farmer pays the 
carrier 15 cents per 100 pounds. The 
farmers think it is going to pay them and 
are buying cows at $75 to $150 for them. 
Butler, Ind. T. C. K. 
Milk retails here in a small way at live 
cents a quart delivered to private families 
in the village (400 inhabitants). The. 
cheese factories paid $1 per 100 pounds for 
milk delivered for the entire season, from 
April 1 to about November 20, the price 
being rather higher this season than pa¬ 
trons received for previous years, which 
was usually 60 to 70 cents per 100 pounds 
for the Spring and Summer months, and 
00 cents to $1.10 for the Fall months. 
These same factories are now offering for 
Winter milk $1.50 to $1.60, which is steril¬ 
ized and shipped in five and 10-gallon cans 
to the Cleveland market. Quite a good 
many farmers have provided themselves 
with a centrifugal cream separator and 
ship their own cream. We ship to a Cleve¬ 
land company; they furnish cans to ship 
cream to them and pay transportation. 
Either a five or 10-gallon can is furnished, 
to suit the need of the patron. We fill the 
can with separated cream and ship on elec¬ 
tric car once or twice a week. The company 
tests each can of cream shipped to them 
and marks on the shipping card the per 
cent of butter fat contained therein, also 
weight of can, etc., so that when the can is 
returned to us we know the weight and 
test of each can shipped. We receive the 
Elgin market price per pound for the but¬ 
ter fat contained in the cream, and receive 
check from the company on the 10th and 
25th of each month. F. F. c. 
Erie Co., O. 
NEW YORK MILK CONFERENCE. 
The New York Milk Committee, com¬ 
posed of physicians and others interested 
in improving the city milk supply, held a 
conference in the United Charities Building, 
New York, December 2-3. Doctors, bac¬ 
teriologists, health officers of various cities, 
milk dealers and a few producers were 
present. 
John Purroy Mitehel, president of the 
New York Board of Aldermen, said that 
in this city the annual death rate of chil¬ 
dren under one year of ago is 16,000, of 
whom 4,000 die from impure milk. The 
citv authorities are anxious to do any¬ 
thing possible to improve this state of 
affairs, but do not want to act in ignor¬ 
ance, or impose conditions that would put 
the price of milk beyond the reach of the 
poor. lie hoped the conference would give 
them some light, especially on the ques¬ 
tions of compulsory pasteurization and bot¬ 
tling. G. E. Zippel. milk agent of the 
Lackawanna Railroad, gave a detailed ac¬ 
count of the construction of milk cars, and 
the methods used for cooling and caring 
for the milk on the way. Julius Molden- 
hawer, of the State Agricultural Depart¬ 
ment, favored the handling of milk by large 
companies rather than small dealers, as 
the latter are more likely to neglect sani¬ 
tary measures. 
F. II. Stadtmueller, health officer of 
Elmwood, Conn., said that the kind of en¬ 
couragement a farmer needed was a living 
price for the milk; that unless this was 
given increasingly large numbers would go 
out of the business. Dr. W. A. Evans, of 
tlie Chicago Health Department, thought 
that one solution of the problem was to 
keep cows in the city, the milk to be sold 
while new for infant feeding. Where this 
was not feasible, pasteurizing was the only 
remedy. 
Dr. L. L. Van Slyke, chemist of the 
Geneva Station, spoke on milk standards. 
He regretted that the last Legislature low¬ 
ered the standard from 12 to 11% per cent 
solids, and from 3% to three per cent fat. 
as it gives much greater opportunity for 
skimming and the addition of water to 
normal milk. 
Dr. John Amvot, Health Officer of To¬ 
ronto, Canada, said that cow’s milk was 
never intended by nature as a food for the l 
human infant. Even under the best condi¬ 
tions its use was risky, but that when con¬ 
taminated with the germs of putrefaction, 
its use. especially in Summer, was at¬ 
tended with serious if not fatal results. 
H. O. Averill, live stock commissioner 
of Connecticut, gave an encouraging re¬ 
port. showing a steady improvement in 
dairy conditions in that State. Lyman C. 
Root, former milk inspector of Stamford. 
Conn., spoke about milk cans, pails, strain¬ 
ers and other utensils. He said that all 
seams should be filled with solder and made 
smooth, so that there are no crevices to 
catch and hold milk. As an inspector he 
had taken care to learn when a milkman 
was about to buy cans and seen to it that 
the new cans weer properly soldered, the 
can company charging 15 cents extra for 
the work. 
Prof. Harding, of the Geneva. N. Y., 
Station, showed by charts the great im¬ 
provement made in the milk supply of 
Geneva in three years, by paying for the 
milk on a quality basis. Arrangements 
were made to test the milk of the various 
producers for food and sanitary qualities, 
the information being accessible to the re¬ 
putable dealers. The farmers, seeing that 
they were to be paid more for good milk 
than poor, rose to the situation at once. 
Of course conditions in Geneva, with only 
20.000 inhabitants, can scarcely be com¬ 
pared with the New York City general 
supply, where good and poor milk is mixed, 
but lie believed that farmers will furnish 
just as good milk as they can be sure of 
being paid for. 
George M. Whitaker, of the Dairy Di¬ 
vision. Washington, I). (’., spoke on milk 
standards. lie thought low standards for 
fat and solids a great mistake, as it led 
to practical adulteration of dairy herds. 
If the standard for solids were lowered to 
10 per cent some would at once start 
breeding down their herds to that basis, 
aiming not at a high, but the lowest pos¬ 
sible standard. John B. Coleman, the deputy 
attorney general who conducted the milk- 
investigation in this city last year, said 
that, without doubt there is a working 
agreement among tin' larger dealers to con¬ 
trol the price at both ends of the business. 
He considered a State commission to con¬ 
trol prices the only remedy. There was a 
strong effort to have the conference go on 
record with a sweeping endorsement of 
pasteurization, but this failed. Some doc¬ 
tors greatly prefer raw milk, if pure, for 
infant feeding, and would pasteurize only 
when the milk was of doubtful quality. 
At the Saturday afternoon session there 
was a moving picture show representing 
milk production as it is, and as it is hoped 
to be made. The applause that it caused 
showed that few of those present have a 
correct idea of the actual conditions of 
production at the present time. It is pos¬ 
sible to find farms where there are as 
filthy cattle, stables, yards, milkers and 
handlers of utensils as were shown in the 
pictures, but these no more represent the 
business of dairying than a moving picture 
show of a cow quack stuffing a dirty dish- 
rag down a cow’s throat with a stick, to 
bring back her cud, represents the veter¬ 
inary profession. This series of moving 
pictures might consistently be supplemented 
with a few scenes of actual conditions of 
distribution in New York City. On Wil¬ 
liam St., Pearl St., Ann St. and other 
down-town and East Side streets, a set of 
interesting films might be collected, show¬ 
ing milk poured from one can to another 
in a gale of street dust, the milk wagon 
driver having a dirty hand or glove on tin 1 
can rim, partly inside ; then the same driver 
coming out of the shop with supposedly 
empty cans Into which he had thrown 
garbage and restaurant leavings. Of course 
strong men can use such milk, ns it is no 
more filthy than ordinary restaurant food, 
but practically all of these shops sell milk 
which is given to children and invalids. 
As to inspection of farms very few farm¬ 
ers will object to inspection that is honest 
and open, by men who know their business. 
But no amount of inspection at the pro¬ 
ducing end can secure sanitary milk for the 
children of the city so long as the gross 
abuses in distribution now current are 
tolerated. 
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Last year Mr, Foster made 
$19,484.83 from his Million 
Egg Farm. Most of it was 
from commercial eggs; $6000 
was income from sales of 
“Day-Old Chix;” the rest 
from miscellaneous products 
of the great Rancocas Farm. 
Read the Whole Amazing Story In 
“ The Million Egg Farm ” 
We have induced Mr. Foster to tell his ex¬ 
perience for the benefit of poultrymen every, 
where. The oeauty of his system is that the 
principles can be applied just as well to the 
farmer’s flock or the suburban lot as to the 
still larger plant of the man who wants to go 
into egg raising as a profession. The book 
tells yon how to start and be successful with a 
few or many hens. It explains the Rancocas 
Unit, into which liis gigantic flock is divided. 
It gives estimates and advice for the beginner 
with a little flock. It tells how Foster began 
with a $300 investment and 100 hens, and how 
you can begin. It gives all the Rancocas for¬ 
mulas for mating, hatching and feeding—the 
result of his experience. It gives the egg pro¬ 
duction day by day—proof that his formulas 
are successful. 
All Figures Are Certified 
To satisfy ourselves that the figures were 
correct we employed the well known firm of 
Lybrand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery, 
certified public accountants, to make an ex- 
Gathering the Eggs in the Early Afternoon 
haustive two weeks’ examination of the books 
and records of the Rancocas Farm. The 
result of their findings is given in the hook. 
Nothing lias been held back. The failures as 
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