1914. 
the; rural new«yorker 
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Certified Dairying in South Carolina. 
Cattaraugus County, N. Y. 
ik'T'IIE South Carolina dairyman has 
X advantages in the economical pro¬ 
duction of milk, which are denied the 
northern farmer,” declares George W. 
Invin, of Orangeburg County. “We are 
now establishing a certified plant to sup¬ 
ply our little city of 10,000 with -pure 
milk. Regular milk is being sold in the 
city for 10 cents, and we intend meeting 
this price with a certified product. We 
have already been producing certified 
milk for two years. Since going into 
the certified production our city dairy¬ 
men are doing better business, because 
they supply a better quality of milk. 
They have imitated our methods. The 
old fruit jar has had to go, and now 
bottles are used, and the farmer has 
cleaned up around his property. We 
graze our herd out much of the time, 
except on bad days. Conditions, how- 
ever, are ideal with us. The stock can 
be out grazing as often as six days in 
a week. It is now October, and we are 
grazing on Bermuda grass. This pas¬ 
ture is about finished now. We started 
on it in April. The Bermuda grass will 
now be followed with Bur clover. We 
sow this about the first of October, to 
get the start, and we harvest a crop of 
hay about the last week in March. 
After the frosts have injured the Ber¬ 
muda grass we turn on the young clover. 
We have a part of the field in rye, and 
the cows have access to this as well as 
the clover, and the cows go from one 
field to the other at their will. We 
broadcast rye and then plant Bur clover 
in drills about eight inches apart on the 
ground. We consider this a perpetual 
pasture of Bermuda grass, Bur clover 
and rye. The stock can pasture on the 
Bermuda grass from Spring until frost, 
and on the rye and clover the rest of the 
Winter season. When we use the Bur 
clover and rye for hay, we do not pas¬ 
ture it. The Bur clover will reseed, but 
under pasturage and cutting it is ne¬ 
cessary to reseed annually. We have 15 
acres of pasture for 30 cows, and these 
cows of course have other grazing, but 
this gives the cows about half their pas¬ 
turage. 
“We have a 70-ton silo on the farm, 
and feed silage supplementing the pas¬ 
tures in the Winter. This year we got 
10 tons to the acre. We raise most of 
our feeds. We feed cottonseed, which 
we raise, we raise our corn for our corn 
chop, but we buy wheat bran. We raise 
our oats. We find corn and oats give 
milk a good flavor. We do not feed them 
at the same time, but we do feed them 
in about the same proportions. We feed 
corn mainly in Winter and oat chops in 
Summer.” 
W ILL you tell us what farmers are 
receiving for milk and its products 
in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., at this 
time? Is that county reasonably level, or 
is it rough and stony? 
Milk brings $1.60 at the door and 
$1.65 delivered to the Merrill Soule Co., 
while cheese sells at 14 cents. In re¬ 
gard to the land, it is stony and of con¬ 
siderable variety in quality. The hill 
farms are less stony but also less fertile, 
but strong grass land. The valleys have 
some fine level land, good for corn, wheat 
and potatoes. Clover abounds and Al¬ 
falfa is being introduced in our section 
of Cattaraugus Co. All of the hill land 
is tillable hereabout. People are coming 
in from nearby States, attracted by the 
cheaper prices of these farms. K. s. J. 
Delevan, N. Y. 
I send contract for a period of one 
year, beginning April 1, 1914. Our con¬ 
tracts are drawn for six months. In re¬ 
gard to the lay of the land, would say 
that Cattaraugus County is considered 
hilly although it is nearly all tillable and 
generally not very stony, yet there are 
some small stones on all of the upland. 
My farm lies in a valley that is level, 
free from stone, and nearly four miles 
wide. 
Oct. 
Nov. 
Dec. 
Jan. 
Feb. 
Mar. 
1914.$1.65 per 100 lbs. 
1914. 1.80 per 100 lbs. 
1914 . 1.85 per 100 lbs. 
1915 . 1.80 per 100 lbs. 
1915. 1.60 per 100 lbs. 
1915.1.50 per 100 lbs. 
Conewango Valley, N. Y. c. E. d. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
National Grange, annual meeting, Wil¬ 
mington. Del.. November 11-14. 
Maryland Week Exhibition. State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Maryland Crop Im¬ 
provement, Dairymen’s and Beekeepers’ 
Association. Baltimore, November 16-21. 
Institute and convention. Lycoming, 
County Farm Bureau, Williamsport, Pa.. 
November 17-20. 
Annual Show of the Paterson, N. .T.. 
Poultry. Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion, November 18-21. 
Indiana Apple Show, Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis, Ind., November 18-24. 
Dover Poultry, rigeon and Pet Stock 
Association, tenth annual show, Dover, 
N. J.. Nov. 23-28. 
Mansfield Poultry Association. Mans¬ 
field, Mass., third annual exhibition, 
Nov. 25-28; L. Faye Howe, secretary. 
Western Connecticut Poultry Associa¬ 
tion of Danbury, Conn.. Inc., nineteenth 
annual exhibition. Hull's Armory Hall, 
Danbury. Nov. 26. 27. 28; secretary, 
Thomas Deans, 39 Hoyt St., Danbury, 
Conn. 
Second annual seed exposition, Mon¬ 
tana Seed Growers’ Association, Boze¬ 
man, Mont.. December S-10. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting. State Experiment 
Station, New Brunswick, Dec. 8-10. 
Farmers’ Week, Pennsylvania State 
College, December 28, 1914 to January 
8. 1915, State College, P. O., Penn. 
January 9th to 15th. inclusive, 1915, 
Mid-Winter Exposition, State Fail- 
Grounds, Columbus. Ohio, Corn. Apple, 
Dairy and Poultry Shows combined. 
Ohio-Michigan Land and Live Stock 
Exposition, Toledo, O., Nov. 22-A>ec. 5. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY PRICES. 
Nov. 2. Working oxen $250; cows 
$50; butter, per pound 30; milk, per 
quart five cents; apples, per barrel $1.50; 
potatoes, per bushel 65; turnips 40: cab¬ 
bage, per dozen 35; eggs. 44; chickens 
(roasters! per pound 26; hay, Timothy, 
per ton $21. S. M. A. 
Bolton, Conn. 
Oct. 30. Dairy cows that are near to 
freshening and nearby springers are 
moderately changing owners at a price 
ranging from $80 to $95 per head. The 
price that is most commonly paid for 
milk during the six so-called Winter 
months here in Rochester by dealers is 
4% cents per quart f.o.b. Rochester. Hay 
is not in over abundance, medium grades 
selling on the city market loose, bulk 
loads, at $19 per ton. Corn fodder is a 
heavy growth, and nearly every dairy¬ 
man who has a silo has it well filled. 
Owing to the above conditions I am in¬ 
clined to believe that the number of de¬ 
sirable dairy cows that will be offered 
for sale this Fall and early Winter will 
be comparatively small. J. D. s. 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Oct. 29. Tomatoes, firsts % basket 
75; peppers 35; cabbage 15 to 30. $3 
per 100; carrots 30: cauliflower 90 to 
$1 per crate to $1.90 per bbl. Squash 
Golden Hubbard. 10 per basket, three for 
25; green $1 per bbl. turnips, ruta bagas 
30 to 35 per basket; purple top 20; 
white potatoes 35 to 45; sweets 50: 
sugar corn 50 to 75; beans, string. 60 
per basket: Limas 90 to $1.15: egg 
plants 25, $2 per crate, fancy ; parsnips 
40; onions 75 to 90 per 100 pounds; 
beets $2 per 100 bunches; spinach 40 
per basket ; lettuce 85 to $1.25 per ham¬ 
per; Kieffer pears 25 a basket; quinces 
$3 to $4 per barrel. Practically no ap¬ 
ples are raised here. Western fruit 
brings from $1 to $1.75 per box. York 
State apples are from $1.75 to $4 per 
barrel as to kind and quality. Milk re¬ 
tails here at eight cents per quart. 
Barrington, N. J. h. l. b. 
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