w* RURAL NEW.YORKER 
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Milk Dealers Fight Producers in 
Syracuse 
Syracuse lias one of the biggest and 
most successful milk producers’ co-opera¬ 
tive organizations that has built plants 
under the new plan of the Dairymen's 
League for handling the milk of dairy¬ 
men. It has been in operation something 
like three or four months, though not 
fully finished until within the past week 
or two. About 435 dairymen united in 
erecting this $400,000 plant, with the 
idea of giving the producers of that ter¬ 
ritory a stable outlet for their milk and 
of correcting some of the evils of distri¬ 
bution existing in the city that result in 
too high a retail price of milk, and a con¬ 
sequent limited demand. 
Recently the co-operative association 
cut the retail price of milk to 13 cents 
a quart, Small dealers of the city who 
purchased of the co-operative said they j 
were satisfied, as they secured better milk j 
of the co-operative and could make a 
satisfactory profit in meeting the retail 
price of 13 cents. 
The co-operative plant took a hand in 
bringing about a correction of overlap¬ 
ping milk routes in the city as causing 
waste of effort and being an unnecessary 
expense. This, with the new .retail price 
of 13 cents, was a sore trial to the bigger 
milk dealers of tlx* city, who were forced 
to drop from 16 cents a quart to the new 
price in order to hold their trade. Nat¬ 
urally they did not like this, and they 
have instituted a campaign said by the 
co-operatives to be along lines similar to 
those adopted by Xestle's Food Company 
and other big firms who have been trying 
to disrupt the Dairymen's League. 
Propaganda put out by farmers who 
w r ere not members of the co-operative as¬ 
sociation. and who had been selling to the 
big dealers, is said to he sponsored by the 
dealers, who have helped these fanners to 
organize a tight against their brother 
farmers of the co-operative association. 
In a published advertisement of the 
new dairy association the attempt of the 
co-operatives to eliminate overlapping of 
milk routes is called establishing a 
monopoly. The expense of the new co¬ 
operative plant is charged as being over 
a million dollars, which the propaganda 
says will be junked if the present ten¬ 
dency towards monopolization of the 
Syracuse market is continued. 
Consumers, who have been saved $‘2,000 
a day in the city of Syracuse by the just 
cut. in retail milk prices forced by the 
farmers’ co-operative, and all clear¬ 
headed milk producers, ought to be able 
to understand why these big milk dealers 
are helping shortsighted farmers to fight 
the Syracuse group of co-operative fann¬ 
ers. and thus to fight the entire principle 
of co-operation. 
The co-operative association stands 
ready to receive the milk of the neigh¬ 
boring producers, at current prices, at 
any time. The latter do not want to 
accept current prices, however, and have 
been led to think they need not if they 
can put the co-operative out of business. 
Supposing they could do this highly im¬ 
probable thing, would they not then he 
at the mercy of the big dealers in Syra¬ 
cuse, and forced to accept any terms they 
might later see fit to impose on them? 
The fight in Onondaga County is typi¬ 
cal of that going on all over the country, 
with farmers determined to gain a more 
complete control over their product in 
order to insure a fairer price to the con¬ 
sumers. and to insure the same thing for 
themselves, and with the dealers opposing 
them in every way possible. This deter¬ 
mination is based on the principle that 
one centralized milk shipping and dis¬ 
tributing station can be run more econom¬ 
ically than can 12 or 14 that heretofore 
have handled the milk of Onondaga County, 
and that overlapping milk routes should 
he abolished. We believe that the prin¬ 
ciple is right and must win out, and that 
the outstanding farmers of Onondaga 
misunderstand the entire principle, and 
the consequences that must ensue to them 
in the end should they succeed in the 
opposition they are setting up. F. 
Lima Beans for Stock 
Will you tell me the value of dried 
Lima beans as a dairy feed? How much 
protein do they contain, etc.? I can buy 
them at New York for $40 per ton; 
would have to pay freight to Sussex Co., 
N. ,T., and grind them myself. I figure 
they would cost me nearly $46 per ton. 
Are thev worth it? A. F. M. 
Middleville. N. ,T. 
"The machine made it possible for me to do my work alone this year and more 
than paid for itself in the savings of wages this summer.” ■—WILL HanEFELD. 
How Perfection 
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The average digestible nutrients in 100 
lb«. of beans are 18 lbs. crude protein, 
51 lbs. carbohydrates, 0.8 lhs. fat. or 74.4 
total digestible nutrients. If you can buy 
them for $40 per ton you would be get¬ 
ting a good bargain. The bean runs 
slightly under the feeding value of gluten 
feed. I would not use over 20 per cent 
of bean meal in a dairy ration. J. w. B. 
Feeding a Heifer. 
Will you tell me what kind of feed and 
hay, also how much, I must feed a heifer 
one year old? MRS. p. L. 
Bridgeton, N. J. 
A heifer one year old should receive a 
grain ration consisting of 200 lbs. corn- 
meal. 200 Jbs. ground oats, 200 lbs. bran. 
100 lbs. oilmeal. Give her from 3 to 5 
lbs. daily, depending upon her size and 
condition. A yearling heifer should gain 
at least 1 lb. a day. Feed her all the 
good Alfalfa or clover hay she will clean 
up in an hour’s time, twice daily. 
J. \V. B. 
Perfection 
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464 S. Clinton St. 
Syracuse, New York 
Manufacturing Company 
2115 E. Hennepin Ave. 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 
