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Jjhe RURAL N E W-Y O R K E R 
Janu.iry 12, 1918 
Keeping Your 
On 8 Business Basis 
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the approval of ex¬ 
perts in two of the 
leading agricultural 
colleges. It is there- 
suit of long, success¬ 
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Fed aloneor with homegrown products, 
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and respond to immediately. 
It’s a waste of time and labor to mix 
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CHAS. A. KRAUSE MILLING CO. 
3702 BURNHAM ST. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 
HIGHEST PRICES 
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ITS cream 
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BELLOWS FALLS, VT. 
Portland, Ore. Salt Lake City, Utah 
Oakland, Cal. 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you ll get a 
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Will a Village Dairy Pay ? 
I .TUI quite interested in the .urtiele 
“Town Dairy in a Livery Stable," pub¬ 
lished on pagt? 14.")2. It is the same old 
story ; one will nt'ed to (|ualif.v everything 
they say on this (question, as conditions 
may differ so materially. 
I have a dairy in the village ef (loslien. 
N. Y., .3,500 inhabitants, county seat of 
Orange County ; in fact. I style it il- 
lage Dairy,” which I started four years 
ago for several purposes. First, to give 
to my village a clean, healthy, wholesome 
milk snpidy for infants atid invalids. T’er- 
haps I should place second in this list, to 
gratify my own fancy in stock-breeding, 
and hiiving a little purebred herd that 
might be it source of recreation and 
pleasure to me. right at iny door, \\here 
I could .see it frequently and watcli it 
develop. Third, to show niy neighboring 
dairymen how it is ptissihle to make really 
safe, clean milk and have cattle and the 
stables kept so clean tluit even the human 
faddists of the neighborhood coulii not. 
Winter or Summer, day or niglit. find an 
objectidiiahh' odoi'. Fourth, to show tlu“ 
village pt'ople tlie enormous detail iind ex¬ 
pense invtdved in producing milk tliat is 
free from contiimintition. either liy niiin 
or beast. Fiftli. to make five jier cent 
interest on my investment with my 
i knowledgi- and intermittent supervision 
' thrown in. 
I feel T have acf-omplished every jiiir- 
, pose T had in mind witli tin* «“X<-<-pti<in of 
I the last, and up to the jiresent time I 
have had to take* some of that five pi'r 
cent out in what we oill satisfaction, hiit 
' I must confess that if I did not have sucli 
‘ an extremely expensive building, land and 
cattle, etc., to count as capital invested. T 
.could oasil.v make my live per emit, not¬ 
withstanding that I buy everything with 
the exeeiition of niiingels or sugar hi'ets, 
which T raise on an a<‘r<‘ of ground in the 
rear of iny daily. This, you will agree, is 
no econoni.v, when I tell you fluit this 
little strip of ground cost me .$2,000, iind 
I purchased it and grow beets on it large¬ 
ly for !i selfish cause, in that T would 
r.'ither grow imingels on it than havi' oh- 
ectionahle neighbors there. As to my 
expc'nsive building, there ai'e only two 
rooms in it. the bottling room and the 
refrigerating I'oom. that are unnecessarily 
expensive, both of tliese being tile-liiu'd 
3'>4 feet high: the rest of the interior 
of the building being finished with cement 
and kept painted regularly a cream above 
and dark green below. The stanchions 
are white enamel. All of this is to my 
liking, since it displays at once the least, 
bit of dirt: hiddim dirt is just as vicious 
as that which we can see. 
Again. I cotild not and would not want 
a careless or unsiinitary building where 
mine is located, as it is between tlie rear 
of my own hom<“ and four of iny cottages, 
and not over 15 feet from the rear of the 
cottages. I also built it to eliminate any 
justifiable criticism either by health au¬ 
thorities or my neighbors, a thing which 
you vei’y wisely speak of in your reidy 
to r. W. However, lie may have ad¬ 
vantages that T have not. His livery 
stable can surely be kept as clean and un- 
ohj<*etionable with liis cows as it was with 
his horses if “he is the clean kind of .a 
man.” He states that the community can 
furnish iilenty of clover hay and Alfalfa : 
he very likely has a large hay loft over a 
basement stahh* tliat woiihl hold .>0 ani¬ 
mals, conseiinently he could bu}' his 
roughiigt' at times when the jirice is most 
desirable and store it. I can buy neither 
of these valuable products in my commun¬ 
ity ; must buy it all haled, and my storing 
space is very liiaited. 
He may not need to use any $2.000-aii- 
acre land, and may he so situated that he 
can supervise his operations personally; 
my profes.sional work denies me tliis plea¬ 
sure. Briefly, it would seem that these 
are the advantages he has over me. I 
also feel that perhaps I have certain ad¬ 
vantages over the situation he describes. 
First—I have purebred cattle of throe 
breeds, Holsteins, .Terseys and Guernseys; 
all of noted strains and families. I have 
just reached the position where I can sell 
one occasionally; in other words, I now 
feel I can spare some of my young stock. 
I have anticipated all along that my finan¬ 
cial salvation rested in the sale of purebred 
stock. I have parted with two heifers 
this year for the first, one a Holstein foT 
$1,100 and one a .Tersey for $.300. Sec¬ 
ond—I bought my foundation stock only 
from herds I had veterinary supervision 
over and knew they were free from tuber¬ 
culosis. Third—I have no veterinary bill 
to pay. and my veterinary knowledge also 
serves me well, particularly in calf feed¬ 
ing and raising. We have never yet lost 
a calf of any breed that was a normal 
calf, such as we would wish to raise. 
There has been another eondition in my 
herd where my veterinary knowledge has 
been an advantage to me. and which I 
fear some would hesitate to admit, and 
that is that T did not with all my eare in 
purchasing foundation stock escape abor¬ 
tion. Two of my purelireds and one a 
grade (the latter was bought to fill in the 
milk snpiilyL were all good enough to 
abort the first year I owned them, but 
understanding the value of sanitation, iso¬ 
lation and the proper treatment of the 
maternal organs I stopjied right there 
wliat might liave been disastroin and rnin- 
oiis to a lay breeiler. 
Again, in our village I can and do get 
14 cents a (|uart for my milk, which is 
altogether too low wlien you consider the 
healthfiilness of my cattle and tlie scrii- 
imloiis (deanliness which we practice, 
while your correspondent speaks of retail¬ 
ing it at 12 cents. I take it, however, 
that he contemplates making ordinary 
market milk, surely not Grade A, if he 
intmids, as lie states, to milk his cattle fat. 
whereby he will need to reidace them fre- 
(piently : unless conditions in the State of 
Oliio are greatly dilTerent from those in 
the State of Xew York. Tuberculosis and 
contagious aliortion ar<‘ too prevalent in 
onr State at the present time for anyone 
to think he cmild replenish a herd with 
healtliy grade cattle from the open mar¬ 
ket at such times as lie would need them 
and escape the two scourges I have men¬ 
tioned. If. however, yonr Ohio reader 
luircha.ses only advanced springers the 
question of contagious abortion would be 
a matter of hut little concern to him. 
since the worst he would expect would be 
that some of tlie cows would hold their 
chainings, tlnmeliy interfering more or 
le.ss with their production. I’o sum up, 
it would he my judgment that any good 
business dairyman could make a profit 
from a village dairy if his equipment was 
not too exi»ensive and he would give per¬ 
sonal supervision to the plant, the price 
of milk being governed by tlie price of 
roughage and concentrates. 
,1. K. Ill-: VINE. 
A Cuban Town Dairy 
. notice o:i ii.-.ge 11.52 an inquiry aliout 
a town dairy. As you may probably 
know, it has been laistoiiiary in Havana, 
(’iiba. to dri\e a lierd of cows through the 
streets, stopping in front of houses, milk¬ 
ing. and delivering the quantity desired 
to tlie customer fresh from the cow. I 
had heard of tliis. and was anxious to see 
tlie perforiiiiinci'. A few years ago, while 
staying in Havana, after several inef¬ 
fectual efforts to locate a delivery of this 
kind, by being too late in the morning, I 
had the night wafcli call me at daybreak. 
I soon found a man with sevmi cows fas¬ 
tened together witli ropes, on the Prado 
(the aristociatic street of Havana), milk¬ 
ing and delivering to his patrons. I 
watched until tlie herd hud been milked 
and followed them to their stable, which 
was not more than 50 yards off tliis beau¬ 
tiful street, in the central i>art of the 
city. 3'he stable liad been cleaned, and 
floors (cement), thoroughly scrubbed. 
There was no offensive odor about the 
place, though there were 10 cows and 
seven calves housed there, ’riiis was since 
the T'nited States had renovated the city 
and turned it over to the ('iiban govern¬ 
ment. and in the two inters that I spent 
there I never found a street as dirty as 
I freipiently see here in Philadelphia. 
Peiinsvlvania. C. E. MEXiiEXiiAiX. 
“So that’s tlie oldest inhabitant—one 
hundred and four years old !” said a tour¬ 
ist in a village. “No wonder you’re proud 
of him.” “I dnnno about being proud of 
him.” responded a native; “he ain’t done 
nothin’ in this yer place ’cept grow old, 
and it’s took him a long time to do that.” 
—Credit Lost. 
