Tht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 2, 1921 
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A De Laval will bring 
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Sooner or later you will use ji 
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Live Stock and Dairy 
Trying to Break the League 
H. W. Rowe of tho Nestle’s Food Com¬ 
pany was in Gouverneur on February 21 
and said they were ready to pay $1.98 per 
100 lbs. for three per cent milk, and keep 
the plants open all the time. It is said 
here that the League recommended farmers 
to sell their milk in the Gouverneur zone 
at this price. I am told, however, that 
Nestlo’s would not recognize the League 
in the Gouverneur zone, and the farmers 
would not accept his offer for the milk. 
As I understand, liquid milk in the 
city has sold all Winter at 18c per quart, 
which is $8.48 per 100 lhs. At that, rate 
it would seem that $4 per 100 lbs. for 
three per cent milk would not be too much 
in the 200-mile zone. It would seem rea¬ 
sonable for the manufacturing companies, 
the distributing companies and the farmer 
uary price was announced, farmers 
thought that a great injustice was given 
them, as the price of milk had never been 
inflated as goods in other lines had. They 
were dissatisfied, hut. realizing that prices 
had to come lower, the dairymen shoul¬ 
dered it. 
Now the price announced for April is 
to he $2.10 per 100 lbs. of three per cent 
milk. In less than four months milk 
has taken a drop of 100 per 
cent, and why? Has feed made any such 
drop? Has labor? Has the income of 
the officials of the milk distributors, the 
milk wagon drivers or any labor handling 
milk made such a drop? I think not. 
They are all still getting the same pay. 
Has anything dropped with the exception 
of sugar (and that commodity was in¬ 
flated by speculators)? Why has milk 
The “Noble Ox” in Cuba 
The picture of Cuban oxen given here¬ 
with shows how the head band is substi¬ 
tuted for the yoke on the island. A. H. 
Nugent, who sends the picture, says: 
The picture was taken three days after 
my fifty-sixth birthday. After spending 
most of my Winters in New York and 
Illinois, is it any wonder I feel bully? 
On this plantation, now growing 55,000 
acres of cane, the agricultural man told 
me there were 5.000 working oxen, 3,000 
belonging to the company and 2.000 
owned individually by the cutting and 
loading contractors, so of course I do not 
drive them all. When I first saw oxen 
working in Cuba, 12 years ago. I thought 
they were a mighty noble animal, and 
when making tins remark he told me 
that they knew more than many of their 
drivers. I have been a subscriber of THE 
R. N.-Y. for six years, partly residing in 
New York, and my grandfathers on both 
sides of the house were subscribers to 
your paper during my earliest recollec¬ 
tion. 
to sell the milk on the pooling system. 
The distributors could pay liquid milk 
prices for the quantities they sell at retail 
in the city. Creameries and condenseries 
could pay on the basis of the milk prod¬ 
ucts they produce, and the milk and cheese 
makers could pay on the basis of the value 
of these products. Some people think 
that the price has been too high all Win¬ 
ter, but it seems true that the farm price 
of liquid milk sold in :he city has been 
too low when it sells in the city at ISc 
a quart, but too high for manufacturing 
purposes, but if pooled it would pay a far 
better average all Winter than the League 
price. 
It is plain enough that the milk com¬ 
panies want to break the league and make 
their own milk price, the same as they did 
before the League operated. For two years 
previous to March. 1917. my dairy of 19 
cows brought $150 more at Rodman 
cheese factory than it would if sold to the 
Rosemary Creamery Company. That is 
the way the milk companies would like to 
buy milk now. Some of our milk com¬ 
panies have been buying milk around her< 
at $2 per 100 lbs., and send part of it to 
the city. It seems to me that when farm¬ 
ers remember former prices and the con¬ 
duct of the milk dealers during the pres¬ 
ent Winter, they ought not to hesitate to 
sign the pooling contract and put the 
new plan in operation. If a farmer went 
to bankers and business men and advised 
them what to do in their own business 
they would hardly follow his advice. 
Farmers can and should use their own 
brains to decide their own problems for 
themselves. The League is the means of 
protection for farmers, and it is their priv¬ 
ilege to work out its policies themselves. 
New York. l. j. burnham. 
The Drop in Price 
When the price of milk for February 
was made and the big slash from the Jan- 
been reduced in such a wholesale fashion 
when it was sold far below cost of pro¬ 
duction in tho first place? 
Recently a city paper stated that it had 
been said that milk was selling below the 
cost of production, and remarked if that 
were so. farmers are poor business men. 
An article in one of your late numbers 
praised the League for lowering the price 
for milk so as to show tho public the spirit 
of dairymen. And then the public comes 
out and holds us in contempt for being 
such poor business men. That’s grati¬ 
tude! Does it pay? When the public 
is abused to an extent that they feel it 
they will organize and protect themselves, 
and our business is to protect ourselves 
and get cost of production. 
If we have to fight for fair prices, let 
us fight. If there i« no fight in us, we 
may as well stop wasting time and money 
and energy trifling with our problems. 
For myself I would rather go down to 
defeat with my face to the dealers fighting 
than become a voluntary slave in their 
hands. s. Andrews. 
Orange County, N. Y. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
April 7—Holsteins. Central Wisconsin 
Holstein Breeders’ Association, thirteenth 
semi-annual consignment sale, at Marsh¬ 
field Sales Pavilion, Marshfield, Wis. R. 
A. Peterson, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., sale 
manager. 
April 15—Guernseys. Anna Dean 
Farm. Barberton, O. Charles L. Hill, 
manager. 
April 15 — Holsteins. Virginia Hol- 
steiu-Friesian Breeders’ Club sale, Rich¬ 
mond, Va. W. L. Kirby, manager. 
April 19-20—Holsteins. Ohio Holstein 
Breeders’ Association, second annual sale, 
at Columbus, O. H. C. Barker, secretary. 
April 21—Holsteins. Eaton County 
Holstein Breeders’ second consignment 
sale, at Charlotte, Mich. 
April 21—-Brown Swiss. Illinois Brown 
Swiss Breeders' Association. annual 
Spring sale. Morton, Ill. Chester G. 
Starr, Pekin. 
