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THJt£ RURAL, NBW-VORKER 
“COST OF A QUART OF MILK.” cents has been the standard price in all 
A Massachusetts Man’s Estimate, «“? ln ,' aster " 
cents as the ruling price in Boston and 
The following statement showing the t j ,, 
cost of a quart of milk was made by E. D. ' - 
Howe & Son, of Massachusetts, before a 
meeting of the Massachusetts Milk In- 1TVI7NTQ OK TH17 WFRK 
spec-tors’ Association. We print this state- UtVH/i>AO Ur inn. VVL,LIY. 
ment since we wish to give all possible DOMESTIC.—A mass of ice which fell 
reliable figures to show what it costs a down the shaft Q f t he Sicily mine at 01(1 
dairyman to produce good milk. If any Forge p a December 7, killed Jacob Rook 
one think the figures are too high wc shall and Adam Beisbocker, miners, besides badly 
be glad to have their criticism. It is some- damaging the shaft. The ice broke away 
thing new to have a farmer come forward from the side of the shaft and, falling 200 
and say “commencing Wednesday, November feet struck the descending cage, smashed 
10 , tee shall charge nine cents a quart. through the heavy iron of the protecting 
\\ hy should he not do the same as other bonnet and dashed the men from the cage, 
manufacturers’ _ which it wrecked. The men fell 250 feet 
We wish to submit the following fig- to the bottom of the shaft, 
ures showing what it costs to produce The police descended on a Sicilian kid- 
„ mnrt r.f thp mnef nrrlimrv millc The nappers’ prison in New York, December 8 , 
a quart ot the most ordinary milk, me ma *£ ; 10 ai . rest s and recovered the kid- 
figures given are based upon a 40-cow na p pe d child Giuseppe Longo, eight years 
dairy and will hold proportionally good old, who was stolen from in front of his. 
W q rlnirv nf onv S 17 P home, at 186 Twenty-flist street, Brooklyn, 
mu , V i 77 on November 19. The father of the boy, 
I lie standard feed ration for a cow in Frank Longo, told the police that he had 
full milk is 25 pounds of hay or its received another letter warning him that 
equivalent in silage, roots, etc., plus eight this date was the last day on which no 
noiinrlc nf errnin This will make the food could save the life of his boy by handing 
pounds ot grain, inis will m ahe t c ooci over ^ le $ 1 , 5 ,000 demanded in earlier letters, 
cost per day (with hay at $20 per ton a nd that if he did not comply with this 
and grain at $30 per ton) 37 cents per demand his son's head would be sent to 
rriw him by express. The kidnappers’ prison was 
' . , . . Jt 330 East Sixty-third street. Eight men 
I'or 40 cows, food cost per day.$14.80 and ^ wo WO men were arrested there and 
A building for housing stock and hay elsewhere charged with kidnapping the boy. 
will average to cost $100 per cow— The maximum penalty is 25 years. Two 
interest on $4,000 at 5 per cent per other stolen children were recovered after¬ 
day ..00 wards5 
Rentier ye^r’ US' 'a!,7 ** 1 2 * * 5 . P " .60 Warrants charging William P. Harrison, 
DeprcdMIo/of'cJws and loss in re- president ot the World Mauutacturms 
nlacinc .75 Company, of Cincinnati, O., which contiols 
r r*ixo*s on buildimr and cows (not three subsidiary companies, and liiuce 
on land) 1,1111(11118 ana V 1 .30 Chorpening, secretary, with using the mails 
Milkimr 40 cows'” ner 'dav. 1.60 to further a scheme to defraud, were sworn 
Groomfngcows per day 40 out December 8. by Post Oliice Inspector 
(Mpininir stable* and feeding ner dav. .GO Griswold. Harrison is reputed to be <1 
Wear and tear of small too’ls, indu'd- millionaire. The affidavit filed by Griswold 
ing service of bull, curry combs, names the R. Armstrong Company, one 01 
brooms etc..15 the subsidiaries, w»hieh manufactures a 
-- vacuum carpet cleaner Complaints have 
Against this we have ' a credit of been received from housewives, according 
$*> 50 per day for manure and 30 to Post Office Inspector Itathbone, declaring 
cents per day for calves born dur- the cleaner is not as good an article as it 
ing the year . 2.80 is represented. Complaints received from 
-- Governor Ilarmon, Senator Curtis of Ivan- 
Net cost for 40 cows, per day... .$17.00 sas, several Congressmen, Mayor Schwab, 
, , , __ • County Prosecutor Hunt and Chief of Police 
Average daily production per cow is j ac i{ S on are in possession of Inspector 
seven quarts. (This is based on actual Rathbone. The letters from Harmon, Seu- 
figures for a year in our own dairy.) ator Curtis and the Congressmen were sent 
mige nrndnce 980 (marts of milk to them by constituents. “We say the 
Poity cows produce 280 quarts oi n cleaner is what it is advertised to be, said 
costing $17, or over six cents per quart. Harrison. “That is all I care to say at 
This, remember, is the price of any this time.” The vacuum cleaner costs $8.50, 
nrrlinorv milk at the farm before anv the Federal Inspectors say, and they assert 
ordinary milk at tne iarm Deiore any have information that shows the corn- 
labor in bottling or otherwise preparing pany has sold 37,000 of the devices this 
it for market. The expenses of retailing year. Harrison and Chorpening were ar- 
milk on a 40 can route will average very rested and later released on bonds of $2,500 
close to the following figures: by United States Commissioner Adler 
T , , nn A terrific explosion occurred December 9 
For man, per day . . .in the mine of the Western Canada Col- 
l’°r horse, per daj. ••••.••••••• aJ-UU lierics at Bellevue in Crow’s Nest Pass, 
For labor in milk room, bottle wash- Alberta. Fire at once broke out and escape 
ing etc., per day. .. was cut off. About 50 miners were trapped 
For collecting bills, per day. i nn when t f 1L> fl ames -were subdued and the mine 
l.“;i, p S.p. a, cipi; Vti:,■ ::::::: 
Breakage and loss of bottles, per d.ij . • dition. Many were badly burned. The fate 
Loss_ oj^bad^billg, per day. of the res j. is at present unknown. It is 
1 tear P of wagons ‘ harnesses’ * feared the total number of dead will not be 
Wear and tear of wagons, Harnesses, ^ m uch less than 40. All the miners were tor- 
1 nterest^on investment and’ dep’recia- ’ ^k^aHans and Slavs. The cause is 
ti0D ’ Per day .Associate Justice Edward Douglass White. 
$8.50 of Louisiana, will be advanced to the Chief 
.... . , , ., „ „ . _ r rn . -i’ „ 090 Justiceship of the Supreme Court, to take 
Which makes the cost of retailing place made vacant by the death of 
quarts under favorable conditions, no Melville W. Fuller. Joseph R. Lamar, of 
breaking of wagons or death of horses, Augusta, Ga , former Justice of the Supreme 
o Vin rent* ner rmart which added to Court of that State, will bo appointed an 
2 7-10 cents per quart, wnicn aaciea Associate Justice, to succeed to the place 
the original cost of the milk makes the lcft 0 p 0n |,y the advancement of Justice 
total cost when delivered to the consumer white. Judge Willis Van Erevan ter, of 
8 7-10 cents. Do you wonder why it is the 
that milk routes are not considered de- caused by the resignation of Justice Moody, 
sirable property? Justice White and Mr. Lamar are Democrats 
“But ” vou say, “ if these figures are and Judge Van Devanter is a Republican. 
|L f that some men are The Supreme Court, when all the vacancies 
correct, now is it tnat some men are flre fll led, will therefore stand six Repub- 
selling nulk as low as seven centsr We Beans and three Democrats. President Taft 
reply that those who buy the milk they has made the following selections for the 
retail compel the farmer to stand the newly 'g*™, Commerce 
loss by paying him only four cents to Kna “ ’ of New York, the present chairman 
4 1/2 cents. Those who retail their own 0 f t he Interstate Commerce Commission, 
product at seven cents are losing money Judges of the Court:. Robert W. ArclibolJ, 
on every quart they sell, and they soon ™ a 3gted K 
go out of the business. there is not a H UI1 t, 0 f Montana, now Associate Justice 
dealer in this city, if he is selling an of the Customs Court, to serve for three 
honest product, hut should in all fairness tw5 
receive eight cents per quart, and mas- yeai . s and Julian W. Clark, a lawyer of 
much as our own product is handled un- Chicago, to serve for one yt;ar. The Presi- 
der such superior conditions, we consider dent will appoint Prof. B. H. Meyer, of 
Ibni we are inst as fairlv entitled to Wisconsin, now a member of the Wisconsin 
that we are just as iairiy emiucu io Kai]road Commission and tlie new Federal 
receive nine cents. In addition, to the B a ii roa d Securities Investigating Commis- 
expenses enumerated above which are S i 0 u, to the Interstate Commerce Commis- 
comrnon to all dairymen, we are subject 0 t f c c ffinnan f k Knap^ ' C. V. 
to the following extra expenses. McChord, a lawyer of Louisville, Ky., will 
For washing flanks and udders of he named to succeed il-CockrUl °° tho 
cows just before milking, it costs commission on the cxpnation of the lat- 
us, per year.$200.00 ter’s term on January 1 
For white milking suits, it costs us, Through a decision of the United States 
per year . 10.00 Supreme Court, handed down December 12, 
For laundering milking suits, it cost the prosecution of John E. Parsons and 
us, per year. 75.00 flve other directors of the sugar trust under 
For absorbent cotton, it costs us, per the criminal section of the Sherman anti- 
year . 5.00 trust law is made possible. The prosecu- 
For washing stable, it costs us, per t { on w m be under indictments already re- 
year . 15.00 t U med against the directors, charging them 
For abating fly nuisance, it costs us, with violating the Sherman law in the 
per year . 10.00 acquisition and suppression of the Pennsyi- 
—- ^ vania Sugar Refining Company, of Phila- 
5315.06 doiphia, the controlling interest in which 
. , . ._, i„ was held hy Adolph Segal. The decision of 
A total of $315 per year spent solely g U p renie Court to-day was a reversal 
for the purpose of producing a cleaner 0 f that of Judge Holt of the Circuit Court 
article of milk. By making some for- for the Southern District of New York in 
tunate purchases of food products and by «; e H ' t "S e V t^Sentf K°S1 
working from 4 a. m. to 6 p. m. every and named were indicted with Mr. Par- 
week day with a nine hour day on Sun- sons and the other directors on July 1, 
dav we have nulled throuch one year at 1909. They interposed a plea in bar to 
day, we nave puuea inrou^n one ye the in dictment, reciting that a conspiracy 
eight cents and broke even. We are un- gucll aH C h arg e(j i n the indictment was not 
willing to continue. Do you think we are continuous and that the statute of liraita- 
unreasonable? Commencing Wednesday, tions had Int^vened to prevent prosecution. 
November 16, we shall charge nine cents J^ge Hott. sust.^ ^d^th ^ 
per quart. Four quarts or more 8J4 acy wa s continuous and the statute of limi- 
cents. For more than two years nine tations could not be pleaded in bar The 
directors indicted made no plea then, but 
the prosecution of their cases has been 
held up pending the outcome of the appeal 
to the Supreme Court by Kissel and Harned. 
James N. Huston, former Treasurer of 
the United States; Harvey M. Lewis, of 
Buffalo, and Everett Dufour, a Washington 
lawyer, were convicted by a jury at Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., December 13, of conspiracy 
to use the mails to defraud. The three 
men have been on trial for about three 
weeks. The Government produced evidence 
showing that they were conuected with the 
National Trust Company, a concern incor¬ 
porated in Delaware, the alleged object of 
which was to guarantee the stock and boud 
issues of corporations. The indictments 
followed a raid by post office inspectors 
upon the trust company. The Government 
showed at the trial that the company op¬ 
erated through another company, the latter 
alleging that it was in a position to sell 
stock and bond issues if they were guar¬ 
anteed by the National Trust Company at 
Washington. Huston took the stand in liis 
own defense and said that as soon as ho 
learned that the company had a question¬ 
able reputation he withdrew from it, but 
that its scheme of guaranteeing stocks and 
bonds was feasible Huston was prominent 
in the campaign which led to the nomina¬ 
tion and election of President Harrison. 
After Harrison’s inauguration he was ap¬ 
pointed Treasurer of the United States and 
served a couple of years, resigning to en¬ 
gage in business in New York. Before 
entering politics he was a banker of Con- 
nersville, Ind. Each of the convicted men 
may be sentenced to a term of not more 
than five years in the penitentiary. All 
were released on bond pending the hearing 
for a new trial. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The St. Law¬ 
rence Poultry Association will hold its 
fifth annual show at Ogdensburg, N. Y\, 
January 31 and February 1, 2, 3, 1911. 
C. F. Smithers, president, Ileuvolton, N. Y.; 
May 1. Moreland, secretary and treasurer, 
Ogdensburg, N Y. 
The regular annual meeting of the New 
York State Berkshire Breeders’ Association 
will be held at the City Hall, Syracuse, 
N. Y., January 11, at 2 o’clock P. M. 
This meeting is held as usual in connec¬ 
tion with the regular annual meeting of 
the New York State Breeders’ Association. 
C. J. Iluson, president; II. B. Ilarpend- 
ing, secretary. 
The fourth annual Farmers’ Week at the 
New York State College of Agriculture at 
Cornell University will be held February 
20-25. The programme will consist of lec¬ 
tures, discussions and actual judging and 
handling of different farm products and 
animals. On Monday and each succeeding 
day of Farmers’ Week there will be a spe¬ 
cial poultry programme with lectures and 
exhibits. Tuesday, a drainage programme 
with special attention to the problems of 
drainage in New York State. On Wednes¬ 
day the improvement of farm crops througa 
seed selection and breeding. Assistant Sec¬ 
retary Hays, of the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, will speak in the 
evening. Thursday, special animal hus¬ 
bandry features, exhibit of dairy cows, 
farm horses and other live stock, with spe¬ 
cial facilities for judging. An evening pro¬ 
gramme with special speakers. On Friday 
there will be the annual public speaking 
contest for the $100 Eastman prize for 
students in the College of Agriculture, and 
an address by Director Bailey. 
The thirty-second biennial session of the 
American Bornological Society will be held 
at Tampa, Fla., February 10-11, not on 
January 31, February 1-2, as previously 
announced. The society Is accepting the 
invitation of the Florida Horticultural So¬ 
ciety and the Tampa Board of Trade, who 
are to be hosts on this occasion The date 
has been changed to take advantage of very 
much reduced rates from all points north 
and west of Ohio and Mississippi River 
gateways. These reduced rates are on sale 
on Tuesday, February 7, and through tickets 
may be purchased to the South based on 
rates from these river gateways, covering 
a 12-day period. In New England and the 
Northeast, the Winter tourist rates are the 
only rates available. Prominent among 
the subjects to be discussed are fruit stor¬ 
age and transportation problems, by ex¬ 
perts of the United States Department of 
Agriculture; apple growing on hill land in 
the South; co-operation in the marketing 
of fruits; the latest on fungicides and in¬ 
secticides ; nut culture. Of the sub-tropical 
fruits, the orange, tjie pomelo, the fig and 
pineapple will receive special attention. 
These subjects will be treated by recognized 
authorities. The fruit interests of the 
South and Southwest will have full consid¬ 
eration. The Tampa Board of Trade is 
making elaborate preparations for the en¬ 
tertainment of the visiting pomologists. 
Excursions by automobile, by boat, train 
and trolley, designed to show Northerners 
interesting features of Florida and her 
products are being scheduled. An exhi¬ 
bition of Florida fruit and vegetables will 
be held in Tampa at the same time. 
Farmers’ Week will be held at the New 
Jersey Agricultural College Farm December 
26-30. A series of lectures, with other in¬ 
teresting features, for the coming Winter 
has been planned. As last year, these lec¬ 
tures will be delivered in the Short Course 
Building and in the Stock Judging Pavilion 
at the Agricultural College Farm. All pro¬ 
ducers are requested to bring specimens of 
fruit, vegetables, or samples of corn, and 
add to the exhibits, not omitting diseased 
specimens. Inspection of the exhibits of 
fruits and other farm crops during the en¬ 
tire week at any convenient time for vis¬ 
itors. For programme and particulars as 
to board and lodging, write Prof. K. C 
Davis, New Brunswick, and arrange to 
stay through the entire week, if possible, 
in order to get the benefit of the entire 
course. 
The annual meeting of the New York 
State Jersey Cattle Club has been called 
by the president, George E. Peer, to con¬ 
vene at Syracuse, 3 P. M, January 10. 
This is just prior to the meeting of the 
New York State Breeders’ Association at 
the same place. A very interesting meet¬ 
ing may be expected, as the president is 
arranging for addresses by some famous 
authorities, to be aunouuced later. All 
those interested in Jersey cattle are in¬ 
vited to attend this meeting. Harry S 
Gail, secretary-treasurer. 
Farmers throughout Canada have or¬ 
ganized to demand in an imposing manner 
free trade between the Dominion and the 
United States, at least in agricultural im¬ 
plements and certain lines of common 
hardware. The advance guard of 1,000 
farmers of far western Canada assembled 
at Winnipeg, December 11, on the way to 
Ottawa, spent the day there framing a 
memorial to the Government, and resumed 
their journey, traveling in two special 
trains. It will cost the farmers of the 
West $75,000 to send this living petition to 
Premier Laurier. At Ottawa the party will 
meet similar delegations from all parts of 
the eastern provinces. 
The next meeting of the American 
Breeders’ Association will be held at Co¬ 
lumbus, Ohio, February 1, 2 and 3, 1911. 
The officers of the National Corn Exposi¬ 
tion have turned over to the use ol' liie 
association a hall in which to hold its 
general meetings; also a lecture room in 
which it is planned to daily hold a series 
of illustrated lectures on various phases 
of the breeding of plants and animals. 
SECRETARY WILSON’S REPORT.—In 
his annual report made public December i, 
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says that 
the farmers of the country are not respon¬ 
sible for prevailing high prices for farm 
products and gives figures to sustain ins 
statement. The Secretary by inference 
puts tlie blame for a large part of the liign 
prices on the middlemen and suggests that 
it is time for the consumers and the farm¬ 
ers to get together. He advocates a sys¬ 
tem of farmers’ co-operative organization 
working with consumers’ co-operative so¬ 
cieties, thus eliminating the poor middle¬ 
man and his extensive profits altogether. 
Secretary Wilson says that “nothing short 
of omniscience can grasp the value of the 
farm products of this year.” lie fixes tire 
value of the agricultural products of this 
country in 1910 at $8,926,000,000, and 
adds that at no time “in the world’s his¬ 
tory” has a country equalled tiiis record. 
This amount is larger than that of 1909 
by $305,000,000. Considerable space in 
the report is devoted to the subject of 
high prices of farm products. The depart¬ 
ment made a careful investigation of retail 
prices of milk in 78 large cities with a 
view to ascertaining what fraction of the 
price paid by the consumer really went into 
the pockets of the farmer. Secretary Wil¬ 
son discovered that throughout the United 
States the farmer is receiving a scant 50 
per cent, or one-half, of the price paid by 
the consumer “The other half,” says the 
Secretary, “goes to the railway companies 
for carriage, to the wholesale milk dealer 
if there is one in the chain of distribution, 
and to the retailer who delivers at the cus¬ 
tomer’s door.” The average price paid for 
freight amounted to about 7 per cent of 
the consumer’s price. Tills, according to 
the Secretary’s figures, leaves 43 per cent 
of the price paid by the consumer that 
goes largely into the pockets of the re¬ 
tailer. After presenting these figures Sec¬ 
retary Wilson says the conclusion is in¬ 
evitable that the consumer has no well- 
grounded complaint against the farmer on 
account of prices. He adds : “Why do not 
consumers buy directly from the farmers? 
A distribution of farm products in this 
simple way is already begun iu England, 
where co-operative organizations of farm¬ 
ers are selling by direct consignment to 
co-operative organizations of consumers in 
cities. Farmers’ co-operative selling or¬ 
ganizations are numerous in this country, 
hut co-operative buying associations among 
the people of cities and towns are few. 
Aside from buying associations maintained 
by farmers hardly any exist in this coun¬ 
try. It is apparent, therefore, that the 
consumer has much to do to work out nis 
own salvation with regard to the prices 
that he pays. Potatoes were selling last 
Spring in some places where there had 
been overproduction for two cents and in 
some places for even nine cents per busiitl 
at the farm, while at the same time city 
consumers in the East were paying 50 to 
75 cents per bushel, although there was 
nothing to prevent them from combining to 
buy a carload or more of potatoes directly 
from the grower and for delivery directly 
to themselves.” According to the report Ihe 
corn crop of this year amounts to 3,121,- 
381,000 bushels, which exceeds that of the 
record year, 1906, and is greater than the 
average crop of the preceding five years by 
14 per cent, and worth about $1,500,- 
000,000, an amount, the Secretary says, 
“sufficient to cancel the interest-beariug 
debt of the United States, buy all the gold 
and silver mined in all the countries of the 
earth in 1909 and still leave the farmers 
a little pocket money.” The cotton crop 
this year amounts to a round $900,000,000; 
hay about $720,000,000; Spring and Win¬ 
ter wheat, 691,767,000 bushels, valued at 
$625,000,000; oats, 1.096,396,000 bushels, 
valued at $380,000,000; potatoes, 328,787,- 
000 bushels; tobacco, 967.150,000 pounds, 
valued at about $97,000,000 Figures rep¬ 
resenting other crops are given. 
WEST VIRGINIA STATE AGRICUL¬ 
TURAL MEETINGS.—Charleston, W. Va.: 
State Dairy Association, January 23 ; State 
Live Stock Association, January 24; Sheep 
Breeders’ and Wool Growers’ Association, 
January 24; General Agricultural Rally, 
January 24, evening; State Horticultural 
Sociotv, January 25-26; State Grange, 
January 26-27. West Virginia Institutes: 
December 14-15, Aurora. Preston County; 
January 3-4, Cairo, Ritchie County. West 
Virginia Corn Show: Morgantown, Janu¬ 
ary 5, 6, 7. 
ANOTHER FOR PARCELS POST. 
I wish to tell you my experience with 
the American Express Company. November 
30 my son and I went to Lyons, N. Y., 
(which is seven miles from Cly<h?), on the 
trolley, made some purchases, including a 
small steamer trunk, putting all of the 
articles in the trunk. As the trolley docs 
not carry trunks, we concluded to send the 
trunk by express to Clyde, which we did, 
and went back on the trolley. The express 
on the trunk was 45 cents. The fare on 
the steam cars is 14 cents. If we had gone 
on the steam cars and had the trunk 
checked we would have been 17 cents ahead, 
besides saving the trolley fare; in short 
it cost 17 cents more to express the trunk 
than to carry two persons and have the 
trunk checked, and we had to wait until 
the next day in the afternoon before it 
came. I am in favor of regulating the ex¬ 
press companies, also in favor of a parcels 
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