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THE RURAL NKW-YOWWEW 
NEW ENGLAND MILK CONDITIONS. 
S the time draws near for making the 
milk prices for the coming season 
much speculation is apparent, and also 
much anxiety as to what the price will 
he. Conditions are bad any way you 
look at it. Massachusetts milk is in 
light supply, and probably will remain 
so a while longer, as other lines of farm¬ 
ing look better to. the majority of farm¬ 
ers and milk producers. Boston milk 
authorities have not been fair in the 
general policy of sampling milk this Sum¬ 
mer, laying on the producers what should 
have been blamed to the handlers and 
contractors in some cases, which has 
caused hard feelings that will last for 
some time. The contractors have also 
been unfair in many ways, especially in 
regard to prices, which have been low, 
and no offers of raise have we heard, 
while the cost of production has been 
steadily increasing the last few months. 
The producers are making an effort to 
keep the supply normal, but are letting 
the cows give what they will and letting 
it go at that, and you cannot blame them, 
as no encouragement to keep the supply 
up or increase it is in sight. I doubt if 
the contractors will be willing to give a 
raise in price that will help or improve 
matters very much, or will make any 
offer at all for over two or three months. 
The price should be made for a year, is 
the general belief among producers, but I 
see no hopes of this being brought about 
at present. These conditions exist in 
Massachusetts and probably to quite an 
extent in our neighboring States also, 
and milk producers are turning to fruit 
growing or beef raising or poultry farm¬ 
ing or combinations of these, and making 
much better returns than formerly while 
depending on market milk as the chief 
source of income. 
I will state one example in regard to 
this change, a certain father and son liv¬ 
ing in central New Hampshire, the latter 
a graduate from agricultural college, 
while the father is a man of common 
sense and good judgment, and also a be¬ 
liever in up-to-date practices of conduct¬ 
ing farm business. These people formerly 
kept about 40 dairy cows and sold milk to 
a Boston contractor, getting an income 
from the same of about $5,000 per year 
without deducting expenses. Not being 
satisfied they desired to try beef pro¬ 
duction and hogs. They decided to begin 
right and got a few purebred Herefords, 
and have built up a business that now re¬ 
turns them more than double their former 
income, or about an average of $12,000 
yearly, from sales of beef and purebred 
stock. Any animal not about perfect is 
sold as beef, only the best are sold as 
breeders. These cattle are pasture-fed in 
Summer and barn-fed in Winter with 
good hay and a small grain ration, main¬ 
ly to keep up a steady growth. Clover 
hay is considered much the best feed for 
good results. The calves are allowed to 
suck the cows as long as they give milk, 
and in some cases if the mother does not 
give enough another common cow is 
bought to supply the deficiency and yearl¬ 
ings weighing 1200 and 1500 pounds are 
the result. Under this system, as no 
milking is required, one man can do the 
stable work easily and not be tied down 
to certain hours, as is the case in dairy 
farming. These people believe that New 
England is an ideal breeding ground for 
purebred stock and that this cannot be 
overdone in beef cattle for some time to 
come, as they cannot supply anywhere 
near the demand they have for their stock, 
and the demand is growing owing partly 
to opening up of the South to cattle 
growing and dairying. While everyone 
who tries could not have perhaps the suc¬ 
cess of the above case, yet good returns 
can be made in this line of farming in the 
right localities where pasture is good, 
and the farmers are waking up to the 
fact. 
One would naturally think if this 
change is going on the dairy business 
must improve, and it should and may, 
but as long as the contractors can draw 
on Canada freely as at present, and on 
other faraway sections when necessary to 
obtain milk to keep up the supply, and 
the milk authorities are paying more at¬ 
tention to harassing Massachuse'ts pro¬ 
ducers than looking out for the distant 
supply, it is doubtful whether conditions 
will improve enough to make it a pay¬ 
ing proposition to produce good milk for 
Boston market. a. e. p. 
LIVE STOCK BULLETINS. 
AIRY BARNS.—Bulletin No. 179 of 
the Kentucky Experiment Station at 
Lexington, discusses “The Construc¬ 
tion and Equipment of Dairy Barns,” 
and does it well. While naturally the 
discussion of the subject is mostly to Ken¬ 
tucky conditions, there is a general dis¬ 
cussion of the subject, and pictures are 
given of some of the best dairy barns in 
the country. They are both exterior and 
interior views, thoroughly covering the 
subject of sheltering and fastening the 
cattle. There are also figures and speci¬ 
fications showing the course of different 
plans of barn building. A very practical 
bulletin, sure to be useful for dairymen. 
Color of Horses. —Bulletin No. 180 
from the Kentucky Station is an inter¬ 
esting discussion of “The Inheritance of 
Coat Colors in Horses.” This bulletin 
takes up the scientific discussion of the 
horse colors, which are likely to result 
from certain experiments in breeding. It 
takes up the classes of colors which are 
found in the horse, and shows which 
colors are most fixed or permanent and 
how far these colors are likely to follow 
the sire or the dam in breeding. It is a 
very useful discussion, for as all know 
certain colors in horses are more desirable 
than others. It is also believed by a 
good many people that color in the horse 
indicates speed, intelligence, or other 
good traits. Most people for instance 
have heard it said that sorrels are always 
tough, whereas black horses are apt to be 
soft. Professor Anderson, who writes 
this bulletin, says that the color has prac¬ 
tically nothing to do with intelligence, 
vigor, or speed. In other words, color 
is no indication of the real value of the 
horse but it is profitable for a breeder 
to know just what colors he is likely to 
produce by certain lines of breeding. This 
bulletin gives a detail of such matters 
so far as they have been worked out. 
“Stock Conditions.” —The Kentucky 
Experiment Station has issued Bulletin 
No. 181, a part of which discusses the 
disease known as “Hog Cholera.” The 
scientific men all agree now that the only 
real remedy or preventive of this disease 
is through inoculation, and such sanitary 
measures as will keep the disease away 
from the herd. It is not possible by 
means of a tonic or so-called stock foods 
to keep the disease entirely away from 
the hogs, but there are certain drugs or 
substances which may keep the animal in 
good condition and better able to resist 
infection. This bulletin gives one of 
these combinations which it calls a con¬ 
ditioner. This mixture is made up as 
follows: 
Common salt . 15 pounds 
Wood ashes . 5 pounds 
Wood charcoal . 5 pounds 
Powdered copperas (ferrous 
sulphate) . 1 pound 
Sodium sulphate . 1 pound 
Antimony sulphide . 1 pound 
Sulphur . 1 pound 
Sodium hyposulphite . 1 pound 
Air-slaked lime . 1 pound 
One ounce of this mixture is fed with 
about 10 pounds of feed, or what is bet¬ 
ter, the mixture is left in some safe place 
where the hogs can eat it as they desire. 
Milk Business at Providence, K. I. 
T HERE is a great deal of uneasiness 
in Providence and vicinity in regard 
to the dairy business. September 1 
the Board of Agriculture had a special 
session for dairy farmers, trying to find 
out from the dairymen themselves, what 
it costs to produce a quart of milk. No 
one could give a definite answer to that 
question, and in fact, It depends a great 
deal on the conditions under which every 
dairyman is working. But the outcome 
of the meeting left the impression that 
under present conditions, the dairyman 
was just about making both ends meet 
even selling milk at five cents a quart 
wholesale. Very few farmers raised 
calves, mostly for lack of room, every 
available space being taken for cows in 
milk. The custom in general is to keep 
a cow as long as she pays for her keep, 
or in other words, selling her to the 
butcher when her milk flow falls below 
six or seven quarts a day. 
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Ask your dealer, or write ue for Kodak catalogue, 
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387 State Street, Rochester, N. Y, 
October 3, 
Fair Play in Telephone Rates 
I T is human nature to resent 
paying more than anyone else 
and to demand cheap telephone 
service regardless of the cost of 
providing it. 
But service at a uniform rate 
wouldn’t be cheap. 
It would simply mean that 
those making a few calls a day 
were paying for the service of 
the merchant or corporation 
handling hundreds of calls. 
That wouldn’t be fair, would 
it? No more so than that you 
should pay the same charge for 
a quart of milk as another pays 
for a gallon. 
To be of the greatest useful¬ 
ness, the telephone should reach 
every home, office and business 
place. To put it there, rates must 
be so graded that every person 
may have the kind of service he 
requires, at a rate he can easily 
afford. 
Abroad, uniform rates have 
been tried by the government- 
owned systems and have so 
restricted the use of the tele¬ 
phone that it is of small value. 
The great majority of Bell 
subscribers actually pay less 
than the average rate. There are 
a few who use the telephone 
in their business for their profit 
who pay according to their use, 
establishing an average rate 
higher than that paid by the 
majority of the subscribers. 
To make a uniform rate 
would be increasing the price 
to the many for the benefit of 
the few. 
All may have the service they 
require, at a price which is fair 
and reasonable for the use each 
makes of the telephone. 
These are reasons why the 
United States has the cheapest 
and most efficient service and 
the largest number of telephones 
in the world. 
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