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Buy NOW 
for Winter 
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Supply 
Fully 90% of all dairy rations are lacking in bulk and succu¬ 
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THE LARROWE MILLING CO., Detroit, Mich. 
CATTLE 
Guernsey Bull Calves 
Snerial Offer we are offering choice of two bull 
■ ■. , , calves about eight months old for 
Price $100.00 
Both bulls sired by May Rose bulls and out of cows either 
on tesi or with official records. Send for pedigrees and 
description, they are bargains. 
Herd officially tested for tuberculosis. 
OAKS FARM Cohasset, Mass. 
REDVALE FARM 
Guernseys of Quality 
ACCREDITED HERD 
Two bull calves five and six months old, by Herdlea 
Enterprise No. 63632 out of dams with records or on 
test for quick sale, $75 each. Send for pedigrees or call. 
JOHN W. GERMAN, REDDING, CONN. 
HOLSTEINS & GUERNSEYS 
250 head of fresh cows and close springers to select 
from. If you are in the market for fancy young cows 
that are large in size and heavy producers it will pay 
you to see this stock. Tuberculin test. 
A. F. SAUNDERS, Cortland, N. Y. 
Telephone 1476 
FOR SALE 
JERSEY HERD 
Consisting of 19 head of ^Registered Stock. Herd Sire, 
Dogwood Oxford Raleigh No. 196391. All young good 
Blooded Stock. Tested. To be sold at a sacrifice. 
MIDDLE BROOK FARM, FAR HILLS, N. J. 
I OTTTTTn? Reg. Jersey bull 6 months old whose 
H H lbIV Dams produced 18,050 lb. milk, 938 lb. 
fat. t?,COO lb. milk, 600 lb. fat each per year. Buy now 
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S. B. Hunt Hunt, N. Y. 
SWINE BREEDERS 
200—Pigs For Sale—200 
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A. M. LUX, 206 Washington St., Woburn, Mass. 
SAFEGUARD 
Your Cows ‘"Daring the 
Dty^Feeding ' “Period, 
TN WINTER the milk-making organs 
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DAIRY 
ASSOCIATION 
CO., Inc. 
Lyndonville, Vermont 
American Agriculturist, November 22, 1924 
Montgomery Milkers Meet 
Discuss Surplus and Distribution — Kow Letters 
T^OLLO WING an adjournment through 
A the several summer months, the first 
monthly fall meeting of the County Milk 
Conference Committee, held at the Old 
Court House, Fonda, on October 29, 
afforded an interesting and profitable 
program for about 125 dairymen who 
assembled from all parts of Montgomery 
County. The meeting was called to order 
by John Ingersoll, chairman, who briefly 
outlined the original purpose of why the 
committee was chosen. Mr. Ingersoll 
pointed out the apparent need of all 
dairymen gaining a clearer conception of 
the marketing problem, which would 
. better prepare for greater harmony among 
producers and ultimately stimulate a 
greater directing force for constructive 
action in marketing fluid milk. 
Reviews Work of Committee of 15 
Frank Bauder of Fort Plain, member of 
the Committee of Fifteen and who has 
attended regularly the meetings of this 
body, gave a comprehensive report of the 
work of the Committee. He stated that 
the Committee of Fifteen was striving 
for closer harmony between the several 
groups and to unify dairy interests in New 
Y ork State. Considerable stress was 
placed upon the business side of approach¬ 
ing the problem with closer unison be¬ 
tween the groups and that time must 
necessarily be allowed for results. 
He also pointed out that a solution of the 
problem was not up to a few of the dairy¬ 
men in every section, but rather to every 
dairyman throughout the State. Con¬ 
certed action is constantly needed, not of 
the sensational type but along sound 
far-seeing lines. 
C. E. Sniffen, statistician and market 
reporter for the Dairymen’s League Co¬ 
operative, was next introduced by the 
Chairman. By the use of charts, Mr. 
Sniffen presented very graphically some 
of the many intricate phases of the milk 
marketing problem in New York City. 
He stated that so far as New York City 
affords a market all milk of classes num¬ 
ber one and number two, also cream, 
rightly belong to the producers in this 
territory and that outside milk should 
never be received only in case of an actual 
shortage. But outside of these two 
classes, classes three and four would 
naturally claim competition. Because 
milk is perishable and not readily trans¬ 
ported over long distances only under 
very ideal conditions, the present range 
of shipping distances is very apt to 
prevail. 
Where Competition Comes 
The speaker next pointed out the two 
typical groups of venders of milk who 
largely control the milk after it leaves the 
producers. One group is the retailer who 
engages his milk very largely direct from 
the producers. Here little competition 
exists. The retail consumption is a very 
uniform factor throughout the year and 
the price to the consumer is very stable, 
without great fluctuation. 
The peddler who comprises the second 
group is by far the greater in number. 
He does not operate country plants, but 
purchases milk largely through the 
wholesale dealers. This milk goes to the 
various trades, like stores, restaurants, 
etc. And it is here where the competition 
exists and where price-cutting is carried 
out. The peddler is unconcerned with 
the price he is obliged to pay for his milk 
so long as he can hold his class of trade 
and make the desired margin, which 
ranges from a cent and upwards per 
quart. It is the dealings between the 
peddler and the stores where continuous 
competition exists. 
Surplus Determines Price 
On the whole, competition is based on 
the original price of milk and the factor 
of surplus is responsible in determining 
this price. But the producer is able to 
control this situation if he will only un¬ 
derstand and realize his position as a col¬ 
lective body toward the whole. 
As a suggestion of correcting some of 
these abuses which so generally affect the 
producer, producers should not sell a 
greater amount of milk than their ability 
to furnish in the short season. A per¬ 
sistent and careful study must be made 
of the milk territory contributing to the 
large market centers. This will reveal a 
basis of getting at the factor of surplus. 
As far as determining what the surplus 
factor is in depressing the New York City 
market, figures taken of the State are not 
adequate, without, a careful survey of the 
amount of in ilk used in upstate centers, 
the milk used for cheese and butter, also 
all condensed and similar milk products. 
The speaker presented a very interest¬ 
ing report of the many phases of the mar¬ 
keting of milk. Following this a very full 
discussion was entered into by the many 
who attended. Everybody felt that a 
clearer and sounder grasp of the market¬ 
ing problem had been gained. 
We Are Killing Kows 
TTERE are a few messages from our 
J- readers who are taking active part 
in The American Agriculturist Kill 
a Kow campaign. Read what they say: 
“I am sending in a ‘Kill a Kow’ agreement. 
I Have already sold one cow for beef and am going 
to sell another soon.”—W. J. T., New York. 
* * * 
“I killed a cow October 23rd, and sold for 
meat on October 24th. It brought $39.52.”— 
C. J. M., New York. 
* * * 
‘‘Being very much interested in your plan of 
reducing surplus milk and increasing profits 
of dairymen suggested in your valuable paper, 
I am enclosing slip properly filled out, -and hope 
the campaign will not stop with ten thousand 
but twenty.”—F. M. A., New York. 
* * * 
“I endorse your proposition to slaughter one 
cow for meat purposes before March 1. This 
is to certify that I intend to kill one cow for 
meat.”—M. C. J., Penna. 
* * * 
“Go to it! I sold one fine two-year-old heifer 
to a butcher for beef and will sell two cows or 
kill them myself. I see no other way to raise 
the price of milk.”—A. R. M. t New York. 
* * * 
‘‘I think if every farmer will cut his dairy in 
half.it would be better still.”— A. A. F., New York. 
* * * 
“It’s not one cow that ought to be killed by 
each farmer, but nine times out of ten the herd 
should be cut in half. Few cows get enough feed 
for good production.”—E. N. H., New York. 
* $ * 
■ “I am a reader of your paper and think it 
a very fine farm paper. In your last paper of 
October 18th I saw a coupon for the ‘Kill a 
Kow’ campaign. 1 will agree to get rid of two. 
Here is hoping you can get 5,009 boarders and 
near-boarders besides mine.”—O. W. M., , 
Penna. 
Kill a Kow 
I will be glad to cooperate, providing at least one thousand 
other dairymen will do the same, in selling or killing FOR 
BEEF PURPOSES at least one of the poorest producers in 
my herd between now and March 1, 1925. 
Name. 
Address. 
Cut this out, sign it and send it to American Agriculturist, 
461 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. 
