664 
FHE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 1, 1915. 
STATEMENT OF MILK PRICES 
low unless we offset a part of her value 
I am selling milk to a local dealer who 
wishes to pay Borden’s prices for the 
coming year. He has given the prices 
per 100 pounds, and they are as follows: 
by allowing for herd improvement from 
her progeny to be of high value. From 
these and other deductions I am encour¬ 
aged to continue my efforts along the 
April ... 
May .... 
June .... 
July- 
August .. 
September 
$1.55 
1.30 
1.30 
1.40 
1.55 
1.65 
This milk must test not below .”>.7. 3.8, 
3.0. For all milk testing above 3.0 an 
additional three cents per 100 pounds 
will be paid. For milk testing less than 
3.7, 10 cents per 100 less will be paid. 
I would like to have Borden prices per 
100 and also the price that would figure 
out sold by the can of 40 quarts so I 
could see if he is giving the correct 
amount, what the milk must test to ob¬ 
tain his price and what premium he pays 
on milk testing above his stated prices. 
Pennsylvania. 9- 
The prices given are in accordance 
with the Borden Summer schedule, which 
is on a sliding scale, based on the fat con¬ 
tent of the milk. The price in the 26* 
cent zone for three per cent, milk is 
$1.31 per 100 pounds. For every tenth 
of one per cent above this three cents is 
added to the 100-pound price, hence $1.55 
i.s the price of 3.S per cent. milk. Be¬ 
low is the schedule for six months on even 
pel’CO 
ntages and 1 
lalves, 
from 
three to five. 
3% 
3.5% 
4% 
4.5% 
5% 
April 
_$1.31 
$1.46 
$1.61 
$1.76 
$1.91 
May 
. 1.06 
1.21 
1.36 
1.51 
1.66 
J line 
_ 1.00 
1.15 
1.30 
1.45 
1.60 
July 
_ 1.16 
1.31 
1.46 
1.61 
1.76 
Aug. 
_ 1.32 
1.47 
1.62 
1.77 
1.92 
Sept. 
_ 1.41 
1.56 
1.71 
1.86 
2.01 
In 
reducing milk to 
quai 
•ts, one 40- 
quart can is considered to hold an average 
of SO pounds, so multiplying any of those 
prices per 1(H) pounds by .86 will give 
the proportionate price per can. Thus 
the April price of $1.31 per hundred for 
three per cent, milk is the same as $1,126 
lines of improvement that have given us 
the 8,000 and 10.000 pound cows that 
now lead in many farm dairies. 
J. C. FRENCH. 
Belgian Hares in Brooder House. 
Wo have a double brooder house 65 
feet long, capacity 2,400 chicks, which is 
not in use over four months each year. 
Would you suggest some way of using it 
the other nine months? I have been 
thinking of raising Belgian hares as a 
way of solving the problem, there being a 
convenient place on the farm to hold over 
a small number of them while the chicks 
are brooded. What are the possibilities 
of this plan as applied to our conditions, 
and will you advise on the proper way of 
raising hares? M. E. D. 
You will find a discussion of Belgian 
hares in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 496, to be 
had upon application to the U. S. De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. 
C. The conclusions reached by the au¬ 
thor are that “W* 4 le not affording large 
profits, the business of raising rabbits, in 
a small way may be made an interesting 
as well as reasonably remunerative ad¬ 
junct to other pursuits. Duder favorable 
circumstances, it is capable of expansion 
into a serious vocation.” As an industry, 
the Belgian hare business seems to have 
fallen into decay. While there are many 
yet kept, tin' boom of earlier years has 
subsided and I doubt whether you would 
find any considerable investment of capi¬ 
tal or labor in these animals profitable. 
Raising them on a small scale may be 
worth your while, and is certainly the 
best way of demonstrating their utility or 
lack of it. The publication ‘‘Jack Rab¬ 
bits of the United States” may be ob¬ 
tained by remitting 10 cents in silver to 
the Superintendent of Documents, Agri¬ 
cultural Department. Washington, I>. (’. 
As a further discussion of the subject this 
may interest you. it. B. n. 
Fistula of Milk Duct. 
per 40-quart can. 
Guernsey Cattle Meeting. 
The Annual Meeting of the Guernsey 
Cattle Club will be held at Hotel Imper¬ 
ial, Broadway & 32ud Sts., New York 
City, Wednesday, May 12, 1915, at 10:30 
A. M. The business of the meeting will 
consist of: Report of the year’s work of 
the Club’s office. Recommendations of 
the executive committee. Election of offi¬ 
cers. Opportunity will be given for con¬ 
sideration of matters relating to the wel¬ 
fare of the Club and its work. 
The Farmer’s Improved Cow. 
Some of our farmers, having read of 
the splendid achievement of Murne Cow¬ 
an, a Guernsey cow in Ohio that was 
raised on a Pennsylvania farm and re¬ 
cently finished a test of 24,000 pounds 
of milk and 1098 pounds of butterfat in 
one year, are trying to figure a fair com¬ 
parison between her net result and our 
own best paying cows. 
From the leaders in 10 of our best 
herds we find an average production of 
about 8.000 pounds of milk and 384 
pounds of butterfat, worth $118.40 on 
the farm at cost of $56 for feed, $24 
for labor and $15 for interest and depre¬ 
ciation. or total of $95, leaving $23.40 
per cow for a year. We figure her cost 
and equipment at $200, as her share of 
the farm investment, which shows $11.70 
on each $100 invested, 11.7 per cent, net 
profit. 
Murne Cowan shows a profit on pro¬ 
duct as follows: Total value on same 
basis is worth $349.78 and her feed at j 
our rates cost $179.25, labor $96, and 
$65 for interest and depreciation, mak¬ 
ing total charges $340.75. This would 
leave only $9.03 for the farm and 4.5 
per cent, gain on $200 for her share of 
ilie farm investment for her use. 
The greater value of her calves would 
change this result in her favor; but half 
the increased returns from this source 
should be credited to the herd bull and 
some of it to pay for higher cost of la¬ 
bor. The item for labor in charges 
against her may look high to some, but 
I believe it is about right for the neces¬ 
sary careful handling that she has re¬ 
ceived and should have. 
Being a valuable cow the item for in¬ 
terest and depreciation, though large, is 
safely within reasonable bounds, and too 
I have a heifer, just dropped her first 
calf, and one teat has two streams; one 
goes into the pail and the other in the 
milker’s face. This hole is half way 
down. Is there any help for it before 
she goes dry again? o. t. w. 
Maine. 
Paint the false opening with flexible 
collodion once daily and if that does not 
suffice put patch of surgeons’ tape or 
plaster upon the part. The fistulous tract 
may be obliterated by burning with caus¬ 
tic or a red hot knitting needle when the 
cow is dry. A. s. A. 
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