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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
October 25, 1924 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Milk Prices; Who Is 
Responsible? 
Referring to following clipping from 
your issue of September 20, page 1223, 
and especially to the last paragraph : 
“It might be a good scheme if all the 
farmers would can enough milk to last 
three years, then kill all the cows. May¬ 
be by the time we raised new dairies city 
dwellers would be willing to pay enough 
for milk so a dairyman could keep his 
head above water.” c. 
I don’t believe the good brother who 
wrote this article knows the facts in the 
case, or he would not write in the tone 
that he does. 
I live in a town of 8,OCX) population in 
Northeastern Illinois. Surrounding our 
town are the large dairy farms of DuPage 
County, comprising some of the finest 
farming country under the sun. Surely 
there is no great expense involved in 
bringing milk into our town. We pay 
14 cents the quart for our milk, or at 
the rate of 50 cents the gallon. If this 
is not a fair price, not to say a high 
price, pray what does “C” feel that the 
city dwellers should pay for milk? If 
the writer had contended that the farmer 
is not getting a fair price for his milk, 
I would be head and shoulders with him 
in that statement, but to rail against the 
city people in the tone he does is out of 
order. 
I believe the big trouble is the lack of 
knowledge both on the part of the city 
dweller and the farmer as to the condi¬ 
tions that each has to put. up with. The 
farmer gets a price for his product so 
that he can scarcely exist, and yet the 
city people pay exorbitant prices for what 
the farmer raises. The country people 
seem to think that with a job in the city 
it is all roses and nothing to worry 
about, yet the problems we common herd 
of the city have to face are quite as 
serious and perplexing as our country 
brothers have to contend with. I am not 
speaking now of the men who draw large 
salaries and hold easy jobs, and there are 
a large number of them, but I refer to 
the rank and file of those who make up 
the population of towns and cities. 
What we need is more of a spirit of 
co-operation and good will on the part of 
each toward the other, and not a spirit 
of antagonism and trying to get even 
w r ith the other fellow. I was born and 
bred on a farm, and may go back again 
in a few short years, so that I know at 
least something of what I am w r riting 
about. 
I am aware that the farmer is not get¬ 
ting a square deal, and my sympathy 
goes out to him. There is gross injus¬ 
tice somewhere, but that is another story. 
Somebody is reaping where he sows with 
hard labor, but it is not the humble, or¬ 
dinary folk of the town or city. I. L. G. 
Farm Reports 
In regard to the dairy condition around 
here, most of the dairymen have applied 
for a Federal and State tuberculosis test. 
The work has been started in the north¬ 
ern part of the county; hoping to have 
this section completed shortly. Accord¬ 
ing to the latest report from headquar¬ 
ters, they will not test this section until 
in the Spring. Speaking for myself, 
also some of my neighbors, will not put 
any more cows in until the test has been 
completed. The supply of hay will be 
plenty, but the silage will be short. The 
price of good cows is from $60 to $100 
for good-sized fresh Ilolsteins. For 
smaller cows, such as Guernseys and Jer¬ 
seys, the price is somewhat less, accord¬ 
ing to condition, but do not think there 
will be much dealing in stocks this Fall 
and Winter, as most people, do away 
with the care of stock, owing to shortage 
of good help. G. F. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
Plenty of hay and silage, but farmers 
are hard hit for money, and are selling 
off cows and young stock, also hay, to 
meet their debts. One of our neighbors 
sold 22 head of purebred cattle recently, 
also selling hay. We shall keep our lit¬ 
tle dairy this Winter; have plenty of 
fodder and also about 200 bu. of oats, 
plenty for Winter use. Cows, goods ones, 
about $50 to $75. fresh ; the milk condi¬ 
tions look very discouraging. o. B. 
Madison Co., N. Y. 
September was very cool and dry the 
forepart, corn seemed to stand still for 
a while but the last of the month gave 
us some good corn weather, which, has 
made a decided change. I think it will 
be all right now as some of it is glazed, 
and will do for seed, especially Cornell 
No. 11. We never sowed wheat so late 
as this Fall; some are just sowing, not a 
very large acreage going in. Apples 
about 50 per cent of a crop, price not as 
high as last year. Cabbage is a heavy 
crop, and down to $4.50 per ton. Buyers 
are only offering $12 per ton for good 
Timothy hay. Plums are rotting on the 
tree. Potatoes have made a good growth 
and will be a heavy crop; prospects are 
for a dull market. e. t. b. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
Pastoral Parson and His 
Country Folks 
(Continued from page 1356) 
below here. Seven young people, mostly 
girls, left that town, mostly right along 
from the main street. A woman stood on 
her front porch and watched the autos as 
they left, some going north, some going 
south, with the trunks tied to the run¬ 
ning boards. Some of 'the girls left from 
houses right near hers; girls, the same 
age as her girl, in the class in high school 
as her girl was, in the same Suuday 
school as her girl was. This woman’s 
car was standing in the barn, a trunk 
was waiting, in the attic, but her girl 
was taken away to the Father’s special 
keeping some years ago, and would never 
need the trunk or ride in the auto. And 
yet, so far from making this woman bit¬ 
ter, what had she done? If she didn’t go 
and be the prime mover in having a beau¬ 
tiful farewell supper for all those young 
people, these girls like her girl, as a sort 
of send-off before they went away. How 
she gave and furnished and worked and 
cooked, and up and down those tables 
served, but the lump in her thoat must 
have been far too big to let her eat of 
that food in comfort, and the Parson 
doubts if once she saw the merry faces 
of those merry girls, but rather saw the 
face of her own girl there—there with the 
girls with whom she used to sit, and saw 
upon her such a dress as she would have 
made her, fresh, sweet and becoming, like 
the dresses she used to make her, and she 
heard the sound, not of their laughter, 
but of her own girl’s laughter as she used 
to hear it before she went to the great 
school beyond the river and took no trunk 
nor baggage, because she wasn’t coming 
back. As the Parson goes through that 
village he can’t help seeming to see that 
mother standing there, watching those 
trunks go away, and such seeming sights 
make of us better people, and make of 
the Parson a more thoughtful and a bet¬ 
ter man. 
Tearing Apart. —“I am all kinder up¬ 
set today,” a woman just this minute 
said to the Parson. “My oldest boy is 
going to join the navy next Monday.” 
And the Parson felt a sympathy for that 
woman he would not have felt a few 
weeks ago. How can we really sympa¬ 
thize with experiences until we have been 
through with them? For George is away. 
He may not be away so very long, and 
when the trade school in our town is 
done he may come back and go to that, 
but for all that he is away and has been 
away a month, going to school. How we 
do miss him! How Mrs. Parson misses 
him! How all the children miss him! 
If one had a hundred children and one 
went away, would we miss it just as 
much? The Parson takes it that we 
would—doesn’t know but that we would 
miss it all the more. It’s queer about 
that, isn’t it? Somehow, the larger the 
family the more closely they are knit to¬ 
gether. Wlien one goes with a grip it 
doesn’t mean so very much, but when 
one goes to the attic and gets down a 
trunk and pack» it to th:> brim and goes — 
that’s different. Everything about the 
barn and henhouse speaks of George. 
Frost at Last. —First hard killing 
frost last night—October 13.—-All the 
corn had time to ripen, and then some. 
Clossie has a half holiday on account of 
yesterday being Columbus Day, so he and 
Shelley are up digging potatoes. Fair 
crops, but nothing extra. Potatoes have 
looked up a little lately, now bringing 
$1.25 a bushel to put in cellar. Eggs re¬ 
tail at 70 cents. The boys get more hick- 
orynuts from the trees over by the wail 
that we ever got before—twice over. 
The Parson hopes to go to Columbus, O.. 
November 7-11, to the Country Life As¬ 
sociation meeting, and could speak a few 
times on the way out and back if any¬ 
body wanted. Address The Rural New- 
Yorker office. The collection is all he 
ever asks for his pay to help buy railroad 
tickets. But the Parson must go now 
and heln the boys on the potatoes, and to¬ 
night we have a wedding rehearsal in a 
church, and after that we must husk a 
coup'e of hours, for there is a big pile of 
corn on the barn floor—picked-off ears— 
and it w T ill begin to heat if it stays there 
much longer. 
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