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New  England  Dairyman 


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A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairv  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


rolume  10.  Number  1. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  APRIL,  1926 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


First  Round  of  Battle  Won  by  Dairymen 

Committee  Secures  Suspension  of  Rate  Increase  for  Four  Months  —  Saves  $240,000 

for  Dairy  Farmers  of  New  England 


The  Inter  State  Commerce  Commis- 
ion  has  suspended  the  increase  in  rail- 
oad  transportation  rates  on  milk,  pro- 
•osed  by  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad 
ind  other  railroads  operating  in  New 
England,  for  120  days  beginning  April 
L  This  saves  the  dairy  farmers  of 
f\Tew  England  $240,000  in  milk  trans- 
udation bills  which  would  have  had  to 
)e  paid  during  the  period  of  this 
uspension. 

The  commission  did  not  order  the 
iuspension  as  a  matter  of  course  but 
ifter  a  careful  study  of  the  facts 
presented  by  the  representatives  of  the 
Iairy  industry  in  New  England.  If  the 
iairy  industry  had  not  been  organized 
ind  in  a  position  to  forcefully  and  ably 
>tate  its  position  and  support  its  conten- 
tion with  facts,  the  increased  rates 
would  probably  be  in  effect  by  the  time 
his  Dairyman  reaches  you. 

As  it  is  a  saving  of  $240,000  has 
ilready  been  made  for  the  dairy  farm- 
;rs  of  New  England  through  the  action 
}f  their  committee  in  leading  the  pro- 
:est  against  the  proposed  increase  in 
rates.  If  the  increased  rates  had  been 
illowed  to  go  into  effect  without  pro- 
:est  April  1  the  dairy  farmers  of  New 
England  who  ship  milk  to  Boston  and 
)ther  markets  would  have  had  to  pay 
it  least  $60,000  more  for  getting  their 
^pril  milk  into  the  markets.  They 
would  have  had  to  pay  as  much  addi- 
:ional  in  May,  in  June  and  in  July.  Due 
:o  the  effective  work  of  their  committee 
:he  $60,000  per  month  additional  will 
lot  be  forced  on  them  until  after 
August  at  any  rate. 

We  confidently  hope  that  the  com- 
nittee  will  win  out  and  prevent  any  in- 
:rease  after  that  as  they  are  to  go  into 
his  fight  well  prepared  and  in  fine 
Dosition  to  vindicate  their  claims  that 
he  dairy  industry  should  not  be  called 
jpon  to  bear  any  additional  burdens. 
Without  regard  to  the  ultimate  outcome 
)f  the  rate  increase  case  a  substantial 
victory  has  been  won  by  the  dairy  farm- 
ers in  the  first  round.  The  railroads 
lied  schedules  carrying  a  20  per  cent, 
ncrease  to  become  effective  April  1. 
ifou  wont  have  to  pay  any  of  that  in- 
:rease  until  August  anyway  and  we  hope 
ind  believe  you  will  not  have  to  pay 
my  increase  at  all  even  then.  But 
jetting  a  suspension  of  the  rates  for 
[our  months  means  a  saving  to  you  of 
£240,000.  Thank  the  committee  and  the 
/arious  organizations  and  agencies  that 
jacked  them  up  in  securing  the  suspen- 
sion. 

Perhaps  you  can  appreciate  the  first 
•ound  victory  more  definitely  if  it  is 
wrought  home  to  you  more  closely.  The 
iverage  milk  transportation  cost  is  now 
ibout  one  cent  a  quart,  or  46.5  cents  a 
hundredweight.  The  increase  of  20  per 
;ent.  would  be  one-fifth  of  that  or  a 
little  more  than  nine  cents  a  hundred 
Dn  all  milk  you  shipped. 


Put  it  on  the  per  cow  basis.  Any 
good  cow  should  produce  at  least  500 
pounds  of  milk  a  month.  The  increase 
would  have  cost  you  45  cents  in  April 
for  every  such  cow  you  were  milking. 
If  you  have  10  cows  you  would  have 
had  to  pay  $4.50;  if  you  are  milking  20 
it  would  be  $9  and  so  on.  The  increase 
would  have  been  the  same  in  May,  in 
June  and  again  in  July  at  least.  It 
would  have  cost  you  a  clean  $18  in 
additional  transportation  charges  for 
every  10  cows  you  were  milking  this 
spring.  There  will  be  no  addition  for 
four  months  at  least,  thanks  to  the  com- 


mittee and  its  co-operating  agencies  and 
organizations. 

Saving  this  $240,000  for  you  and  your 
fellow  dairymen  has  cost  some  money 
and  the  main  battle,  to  prevent  any  in- 
crease in  rates,  will  cost  considerably 
more.  But  it  is  worth  it.  The  com- 
mittee has  estimated  that  if  each  dairy 
farmer  shipping  milk  contributes  two 
cents  a  hundred  for  about  two  months 
it  will  pay  the  fight.  Even  if  the  two 
cents  should  be  required  for  several 
months  you  would  be  getting  out  of  it 
pretty  cheap.  If  a  payment  of  two 
cents  a  hundred  had  put  off  the  increase 


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you  would  have  been  the  gainer  by  seven 
cents  a  hundred.  It  was  actually  put 
off  four  months,  so  you  are  now  34 
cents  a  hundred  ahead  of  the  game 
after  making  your  March  contribution 
to  the  fight  fund.    It  is  good  business. 

If  any  of  you  feel  that  this  is  not 
going  to  be  a  big  fight  just  look  over 
the  array  of  railroads  against  whom  we 
are  pitted.  The  railroads  who  have 
filed  schedules  on  the  increased  rate 
basis  are:  Boston  &  Maine,  Canadian 
Pacific,  Central  Vermont,  Delaware  & 
Hudson,  Grand  Trunk  representing  also 
the  Canadian  National,  the  Champlain  & 
St.  Lawrence,  the  United  States  and 
Canada,  Detroit,  Grand  Haven  and  Mil- 
waukee, Grand  Trunk  Western,  Michigan 
Air  Line,  Toledo,  Saginaw  and  Mus- 
kegon, Grand  Trunk  Milwaukee  Carr 
Ferry  Co.,  Greenwich  and  Johnsville 
Railway,  Maine  Central,  Rutland  and 
St.  Johnsbury  and  Lake  Champlain. 

Every  railroad  has  its  trained  execu- 
tives and  experts  who  have  been  on  the 
job  right  along.  Putting  over  this 
increase  means  many  thousands  of  dol- 
lars of  added  revenue  to  them,  just  as 
it  means  many  thousands  of  dollars  of 
additional  expense  to  you.  They  will 
fight  for  the  increase  for  the  almighty 
dollar  ■which  is  in  it  for  them.  Your 
committee  is  fighting  to  save  the  dairy 
industry  from  a  tremendous  additional 
burden.  Principles  as  well  as  dollars  are 
involved. 

The  New  England  committee  rep- 
resenting the  producers  of  all  the  states 
is  laying  plans  for  a  strong  defense 
against  increase  in  rates.  The  committee 
recently  retained  John  F.  Finerty,  an 
expert  in  rates  cases,  as  Edgar  J.  Rich, 
who  was  retained  at  the  start,  is  to  be 
abroad  this  summer  and  a  man  svtaa/*- 
trained  and  experienced  in  rate  cases  ; 
necessary.  The  committee  lnas  mac 
arrangements  for  traffic  experts  and  co  : 
experts  to  assist  them  in  making  out  a 
strong  case  agiinst  any  increase  in 
rates. 

The  fight  is  right  on  us.  The  first 
hearing  set  by  the  commission  will  be 
held  at  the  State  House  in  Boston 
beginning  April  20.  At  JtVat  time  the 
railrot  1S  will  put  in  their  case  and 
present  ^heir  claims  ii.  support  of  an 
increase  n  rates.  The  »  0  day  suspen- 
sion of  the  .aprt'  rate  c<chedules  may  be 
none  to  long  to  get  the  case  fullv 
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PRICE  CONTINUES 

The  April  price  for  Boston  milk  will 
be  the  same  as  for  March,  8^4  cents  for 
3.7  per  cent,  milk  delivered  in  Boston. 
This  will  be  the  eighth  month  of  the 
%yi  cent  price. 


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N  E  W    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1926 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 
NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 
SI  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 
Devoted    to    the    Interests    of  Dairy 
Forming  and  Marketing  in 
New  England 
Subscription  Price,  Fifty  Cents  Per  Year 
W.  P.  DAVIS,  Treasurer 


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Entered  as  second  class  matter,  July  30, 
1917,  at  the  Postoffdce  In  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts,  under  the  act  of  May  3,  1879. 

Acceptance  for  mailing  at  special  rates  of 
postage  prorlded  for.  Section  1103,  Act 
of  Oct.  3,  1917,  authorized  July  13.  1918. 

HARRY  L.  PIPER,  Editor 


N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  L ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt.;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  George  G. 
Young,  Livermore,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H.;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt.;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Dartmouth,  Mass.;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  L;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I. ;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y.;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

»  <-hort  time  ago  a  local  paper  up  in 
ipshire  contained  a  statement, 
>y    the    women    of    a  certain 
rhood,    defending    some  other 
woman  who  lived  there,  against  some 
gossip    or    scandal    that    was  "going 
about,"  declaring  certain  charges  alleged 
to  have  been  made  were  not  true,  could 
not  have  been  true  because  if  they  had 
been    true,    "we    would    have  known 
about  it." 

You  bet  they  would  have  known 
about  it.  If  there's  any  place  in  the 
ivorld  where  they  know  all  about  the 
neighbors,  it  is  just  such  a  small  New 
England  community  as  that. 

I  remember  the  wrath  I  once  aroused 
among  the  women  at  a  meeting  when 
[    stated    that    at    too    many  "sewing 
circles"  the  women  put  their  knees  un- 
der   a    quilt    and    stitched    red  yarn 
hrough  the  coverlet  before  them  and 
the   character-    of    the    men  and 
of   the  whole 
that  church 
country 
'itical, 

*%rr*ev  than  thou"  attitude  of  church 
tnenil/er^  who  sometimes  were  more 
guilty  than  those  whom  they  looked 
upon  •  transgressors.  Of  course  1  got 
!fl  wrong  with  the  sanctimonious  sisters 
but  I  noticed  a  tew  grins  c.nong  the 
■others,  especially  the  men  of  the  black- 
smith shop  crow..',  so  I  sh<  a  bolt  at 
them  which  the 
■date. 

Yes,  indeed,  these  s;-. 
«re  sure  to  know  if  anyfhi  ng 
xn  their  midst,  and  the  pity  is       t  in 
6ome  of  them  they  know  of  so  much 
wrong  that  does  not  exist. 

It  sure  is  refreshing  to  know  that 
one  group  of  women,  who  "would  have 
known  about  it,"  comes  to  the  defense 
of  a  sister  wrongly  accused.  How  much 
better  that  is  than  to  pass  along  a 
whisper  or  to  lift  an  eyebrow  with  a 
wise  look  that  speaks  louder  than  words. 

I  happen  to  know  most  of  the  women 
concerned  in  this  incident  and  I'm  going 
to  send  them  copies  of  the  Dairyman 


with  this  article  marked.  Do  I  know 
what  they'll  say  ?  Sure  I  do.  They'll 
say,  I'd  better  be  minding  my  own 
business.  Yes,  that's  what  they'll  say 
but  they'll  talk  about  it  among  them- 
selves and  like  what  I've  said  about 
them. 

Next  summer  I'm  going  to  call  on 
some  of  them  when  I'm  up  that  way 
and  see  if  I  don't  get  my  reward  in 
bids  to  dinner,  or  flowers  from  the  gar- 
den or  something. 

PATTEE. 


FAILED  IN  OPERATION 

The  country  was  led  to  believe  that 
a  long  step  had  been  taken  towards  re- 
moving the  tariff  from  politics  when  a 
flexible  provision  was  added  to  the  last 
tariff  law.  A  commission  was  set  up 
to  study  the  differences  in  manufactur- 
ing costs  in  this  and  other  countries 
and  to  recommend  to  the  President  such 
changes  in  the  tariff  schedules  as  would 
more  nearly  equalize  those  costs.  Under 
the  law  the  schedules  might  be  increased 
or  decreased  to  the  extent  of  50  per 
cent,  by  the  President  upon  the  recom- 
mendation of  the  Tariff  Commission. 

Something  of  how  this  plan  actually 
works  with  respect  to  dairy  products  is 
shown  elsewhere  in  the  Dairyman. 
Plans,  however  well  conceived,  some- 
times fail  in  operation. 

One  of  the  earliest  cases  for  a  change 
in  the  tariff  schedules  was  brought  by 
the  manufacturers  of  certain  kinds  of 
paper  who  asked  that  the  tariff  on 
casein  be  substantially  reduced.  The 
National  Co-operative  Milk  Producers' 
Federation  under  the  leadership  of  its 
president,  John  D.  Miller,  appeared  be- 
fore the  commission  in  opposition  to  a 
reduction  in  the  casein  rates.  During 
the  case  questions  concerning  procedure 
before  the  commission  arose  and  vital 
differences  of  opinion  developed.  The 
Milk  Producers'  Federation  held  from 
the  start  that  the  case  should  be  con- 
ducted openly,  with  opportunity  for  each 
side  to  hear  the  evidence  of  the  other 
and  cross  examine  witnesses.  It  claimed 
that  the  commission  should  be  guided 
6olely  by  evidence  which  the  parties 
affected  had  opportunity  to  meet  and 
that  private  information,  ex  parte  testi- 
mony or  any  other  knowledge  which 
the  commission  might  get  without  op- 
portunity for  both  parties  to  examine 
and  question  its  validity,  should  not  be 
considered. 

The  Tariff  Commission  has  not  en- 
tirely held  to  the  practices  which  the 
National  Co-operative  Milk  Producers' 
Federation  believed  were  just  and 
proper  in  these  matters.  Its  tardiness 
in  reaching  a  decision  with  respect  to 
the  casein  schedules  and  later  with  re- 
spect to  the  tariff  on  butter,  has  been 
vexatious  and  annoying  and  has  seriously 
affected  the  dairy  industry  of  the 
country. 

Under  these  conditions  Judge  Miller 
more  than  a  year  ago,  in  public  state- 
ments, seriously  questioned  the  wisdom 
of    the    flexible    tariff    provisions  and 
their  administration  by  the  Tariff  Board. 
A  little  later  the  National  Co-operative 
Milk  Producers'  Federation  under  Judge 
Miller's  leadership,  openly  advocated  the 
abolition  of   the   flexible  tariff  system. 
In  this  matter   it  took   a   bold  stand, 
much  in  advance  of  the  thought  of  the 
ountry.    Undoubtedly,  up  to  that  time 
o-called   flexible   tariff   had  been 
•  well  thought  of  and  popular. 
T.tion   with    respect   to  dairy 
:ame  so  acute  by  reason  of 
)f    the    Tariff  Commission, 
iole  scheme   was  militantly 
the   National  Co-operative 
Milk  Prodtigers'  Federation  at  its  last 
meeting   at   Philadelphia.     Later  when 
information  was  received  that  the  com- 
mission had  been  receiving  evidence  pri- 
vately  from  interested  sources  in  for- 
eign   lands,    the    National  Co-operative 
Milk    Producers'    Federation    laid  this 
matter  before   the   National   Board  of 
Farm  Organizations  which  includes  many 
of  the  large  farm  groups,  with  the  re- 
sult  that   strong,  outspoken  resolutions 
were  passed  demanding  the  abolition  of 
the  flexible  provision  of  the  tariff  law 
as    administered    by    the    Tariff  Com- 
mission. 


This  matter  was  called  to  the  atten- 
tion of  Congress  through  a  demand  that 
appropriations  for  the  support  of  the 
Tariff  Commission  be  restricted  until 
its  methods  had  been  thoroughly  in- 
vestigated. The  result  was  the  passage 
of  a  Senate  resolution  to  investigate 
the  Tariff  Commission  and  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  strong  committee  for  that 
purpose.  This  whole  matter  has  be- 
come of  such  importance  that  it  is  com- 
manding national  attention  and  promises 
to  become  a  considerable  issue  before 
the  people  of  the  whole  country. 

In  this  matter  we  have  an  illustration 
of  the  tremendous  importance  and  value 
of  organization.  Leaders  in  the  dairy 
industry  feel  that  they  have  not  been 
well  treated  before  the  Tariff  Commis- 
sion. Only  through  organization  could 
the  industry  defend  itself  at  all  before 
this  commission  and  only  through  or- 
ganization could  it  bring  to  the  atten- 
tion of  the  country  the  methods  em- 
ployed by  the  commission  in  handling 
matters  before  them. 

The  present  agitation  concerning  the 
Tariff  Commission  and  the  likelihood 
that  a  change  will  be  made,  is  largely 
due  to  the  fact  that  the  dairy  industry 
of  the  country  is  well  organized  and 
under  the  leadership  of  able  and  cour- 
ageous men.  In  this  matter  the  country 
owes  a  large  debt  to  Judge  John  D. 
Miller,  president  of  the  National  Co- 
operative Milk  Producers'  Federation, 
and  to  Charles  W.  Holman,  its  secre- 
tary. 


BACK  UP  COMMITTEE 

The  first  round  of  the  milk  rate 
fight  has  been  won  by  the  dairy  in- 
dustry. Thanks  to  the  good  work  of 
the  committee  representing  the  produc- 
ers of  New  England  and  backed  up  by 
the  various  governors,  state  departments 
of  agriculture  and  other  farm  organ- 
izations, the  proposed  increase  in  trans- 
portation rates  on  milk  are  not  in  af- 
fect and  will  not  be  until  August  1  any- 
way. 

Other  rounds  of  the  fight  are  coming 
on  fast.  The  next  will  begin  April  20 
when  the  first  hearing  will  be  held  in 
Boston.  Then  the  railroads  will  present 
their  case  and  we  will  know  the  full 
strength  of  the  interests  to  which  we 
are  opposed.  Let  no  one  think  because 
We  have  won  the  first  round  and  saved 
$240,000,  that  the  second  or  the  third 
or  subsequent  rounds  will  come  easily. 

To  you  who  are  not  in  the  thick  of 
the  fight  it  may  seem  as  though  the 
first  victory  came  without  much  effort. 
That  is  not  so.  There  were  no  fire- 
works, no  shouting,  no  great  enthusiasm 
—just  wise  planning,  skillful  prepara- 
tion and  able  presentation  of  facts  that 
could  not  be  refuted  and  were  so  con- 
vincing to  the  Inter-State  Commerce 
Commission  that  they  ordered  a  suspen- 
sion of  the  rates  in  order  that  more 
complete  information  could  be  presented 
on  both  sides.  It  was  a  good  piece  of 
work  that  was  done  for  you  by  your 
representatives. 

In  the  next  few  months  the  same 
wise  planning,  skillful  preparation  and 
able  presentation  will  be  called  for  if 
we  are  to  win  the  final  round  and  get 
the  proposed  increased  rates  set  aside 
altogether.  The  men  who  are  repre- 
senting you  are  able  to  give  this.  They 
have  retained  specially  trained  men  to 
work  up  and  present  the  case  with  the 
utmost  strength  and  vigor,  a  strength 
and  vigor  worthy  of  a  great  and  united 
dairy  industry. 

Your  part  will  be  on  the  side  lines 
to  a  large  extent.  But  you  can  do 
much  to  strengthen  the  work  of  your 
committee  and  the  experts  they  have 
retained  if  you  have  confidence  that  we 
will  win,  do  what  is  asked  of  you 
promptly  and  willingly  and  when  a 
good  play  is  made  don't  forget  to  cheer 
a  little  and  show  some  enthusiasm. 

That  kind  of  a  spirit  on  the  side  lines 
and  on  the  bleachers  puts  the  confidence 
right  into  the  team  on  an  athletic  field. 
It  is  no  different  with  us  in  the  dairy 
industry.  We  have  a  great  team  on 
the  field.  Its  members  have  the  ability, 
the  training  and  the  will  to  win.  Back 
them  up  with  your  confidence  and  prac- 
tical assistance  when  necessary. 


TARIFF  ON  CREAM 


Higher   Rates    Urged    by  Dairy- 
Interests  of  Nation 

We  have  another  fight  on  our  hands 
over  the  adjustment  of  duties  on  milk 
and  cream  to  more  nearly  correspond 
with  the  duties  on  butter  on  the  new 
basis  of  12  cents  per  pound.  After  six 
months  of  delay  the  United  States 
Tariff  Commission  took  action  to  in- 
crease the  duty  on  butter  from  8  to 
12  cents  a  pound ;  we  are  now  co- 
operating with  the  National  Milk 
Producers'  Federation  and  other  inter- 
ested groups  to  get  quicker  action  on 
the  duty  on  milk  and  cream. 

The  first  agitation  for  an  increased 
rate  on  cream  and  milk,  more  compar- 
able with  the  new  duty  on  butter,  came 
through  the  interest  of  State  Senator 
Vilas  of  Burlington,  Vt.  It  was  through 
his  interest  in  getting  additional  pro- 
tection for  the  dairy  farmers  of  his 
state  that  Senator  Lenroot  was  led  to 
introduce  the  resolution  in  the  Senate 
at  Washington  calling  for  an  investi- 
gation of  costs  of  producing  milk  and 
cream  by  the  tariff  commission.  This 
gave  the  opening  which  was  needed  by 
the  dairy  interests  of  the  country  to 
push  their  case  hard. 

There  is  a  better  prospect  for  quicker 
action  in  this  case  as  the  question  of 
duties  on  cream  came  to  the  front 
through  a  senate  resolution  instructing 
the  tariff  commission  to  make  an  in- 
vestigation of  costs  of  producing  cream 
in  the  United  States  and  in  competing 
countries  as  a  basis  for  changing  the 
duty  on  cream.  The  present  duty  on 
cream  is  20  cents  a  gallon  which  is 
about  the  same  as  five  cents  per  pound 
on  butter.  Ever  since  the  present  tariff 
rates  went  into  effect  there  has  been  an 
advantage  of  three  cents  on  cream  as 
compared  with  butter.  Under  the  new 
rate  of  12  cents  per  pound  on  butter 
which  has  just  gone  into  effect  through 
the  proclamation  of  the  president  as  the 
result  of  findings  of  the  tariff  commis- 
sion, the  advantage  which  cream  has  as 
compared  to  butter  is  increased  from 
three  cents  to  seven  cents. 

The  need  of  an  increased  duty  to 
partially  equalize  the  abnormal  difference 
in  duties  of  butter  and  cream  is  shown 
in  the  chart  on  page  one  and  in  the 
following  table  of  imports  of  cream  and 
butter  in  the  past  seven  years.  The  im- 
ports of  cream  are  expressed  in  terms 
of  pounds  of  butter  such  cream  would 
make. 


Imports  of  cream 
(in  lbs.  of  butter)    Impts.  butter 


1919 

2,825,664 

9,438,000 

1920 

6,388,640 

9,255,000 

1921 

8,135,196 

2,846,000 

1922 

8,415,836 

2,151,000 

1923 

12,097,992 

5,931,000 

1924 

16,790,112 

2,807,000 

1925 

20,676,794 

3,626,000 

The  lesson  of  this  table  is  obvious. 
First  that  the  tariff  has  not  acted  as  a 
bar  to  the  imports  of  cream  and  butter 
as  the  imports  have  about  doubled  in 
the  seven  year  period,  considering  cream 
in  the  light  of  the  amount  of  butter  it 
would  make.  It  is  further  obvious  that 
the  lack  of  a  proper  basis  between  but- 
ter and  cream  has  led  to  the  importa- 
tion of  large  quantities  of  cream  to  be 
made  into  butter  or  sold  as  cream  within 
the  states.  With  the  comparable  duties 
still  wider  apart  under  the  revised  but- 
ter tariff,  there  would  be  a  still  further 
trend  toward  the  importation  of  cream 
and  a  proportional  defeat  of  the  butter 
tariff. 

At  a  preliminary  hearing  before  the 
tariff  commission  in  Washington  last 
week  the  dairy  industry  of  the  country 
was  represented  by  the  National  Co- 
operative Milk  Producers'  Association. 
New  England  and  New  York  are  the 
most  interested  in  the  question  of  an 
equalization  between  the  tariffs  on  but- 
ter and  cream  as  it  is  from  nearby 
Conadian  points  thta  the  chief  competi- 
tion comes.  Our  association  was  rep- 
resented by  Wesley  H.  Bronson,  head 
of  our  research  department. 

In  the  argument  to  the  tariff  commis- 
sion, it  was  urged  first  that  the  rates 
on  cream  should  be  brought  un  to  cor- 
respond with  the  rates  on  butter.  The 
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April,  1926 


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Vi  10  -i ' 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


Members  Want  One  Hundred  Per  Cent  Strength 


We  are  feeling  fine,  here  at  the 
Central  Office,  over  the  way  the  mem- 
bers are  responding  to  the  first  gen- 
eral letter  sent  out  to  get  everybody 
on  the  new  basis  of  payment  of  dues. 
The  new  power  of  attorney  slips  began 
coming  back  by  the  first  mail  and  have 
kept  up  ever  since.  Keep  it  up;  every 
slip  that  comes  back  as  the  result  of 
two  cent  postage  stamps  saves  the  ex- 
pense of  sending  a  man  around  to  see 
you  later.  It  means  that  the  field 
service  which  you  want  will  be  estab- 
lished just  that  much  quicker  and  will 
be  just  that  much  better  at  the  start. 

The  change  in  the  basis  of  paying 
fjdues  is  a  small  one  but  its  effects  will 
be  big.    By  vote  of  the  association  at 
the  last  annual  meeting  the  dues  to  the 
-association  will  be  figured  on  the  hundred 
^weight  basis  instead  of  the  percentage 
basis  beginning  next  December.  Instead 
^of  having  the  dues  one-half  of  one  per 
7-icent.  as   they   have   been   in   the  past 
I  the  dues  will  be  two  cents  per  hundred 
|sj  weight  of  milk. 

The  change  makes  it  necessary  to  ask 
every  present  member  to  sign  a  new 
dues  order  to  cover  the  changed  basis 
of  payment.  The  dues  orders  are  in  the 
form  of  a  power  of  attorney  which  has 
proved  to  be  the  simplest  and  most 
efficient  way  for  members  and  for  the 
association.  These  powers  of  attorney 
have  been  sent  to  about  4000  members, 
principally  in  Maine,  as  a  starter  for 
the  general  recanvass  of  the  entire 
NEMPA  territory. 

Non-members  as  well  as  members 
have  been  getting  these  letters  with  the 
power  of  attorney  slips  enclosed.  They 
should  get  them.  For  many  years  they 
have  been  reaping  the  benefits  of  the 
association's  work  and  it  is  right  that 
they  should  begin  to  share  in  the  sup- 
port of  that  work.  One  of  the  first 
power  Of  attorney  slips  to  come  back 
was  from  a  non-member.  He  was  glad 
to  join.  Apparently  no  one  ever  had 
asked  him  to.  Another  power  of  attor- 
ney slip  came  back  from  a  man  who  was 
formerly  a  member  and  for  some  reason 
had  been  taken  off  the  books  and  was 
not  at  present  paying  dues.  He,  too, 
was  glad  to  get  back  on  the  regular 
paying  basis  and  share  in  the  necessary 
expense  of  running  the  organization. 

These  two,  and  others  which  have 
come  back  promptly,  indicate  that  the 
response  from  the  country  is  going  to 
be  good  and  that  much  money  may  be 
saved  by  starting  in  with  a  general 
letter.  Of  course  there  will  be  some  men 
who  neglect  to  answer.  That  simply 
means  that  their  neglect  will  cost  the 
association,  their  own  association,  more 
money  than  it  would  if  they  had 
responded  promptly.  It  is  good  business 
to  send  these  slips  to  the  central  office 
instead  of  making  it  necessary  to  send  a 
man  around  after  them. 

Fred  C.  Warner  who  has  been  meet- 
ing some  groups  of  producers  in  Maine 
reports  that  there  is  not  the  slightest 
opposition  to  the  small  increase  in  dues 
on  the  new  basis  of  payment.  Under 
the  old  plan  of  dues  at  one-half  of  one 
per  cent,  the  dues  would  be  1.9  cents 
per  hundredweight  on  market  milk  at 
8J/2  cents,  where  it  has  been  for  eight 
months.  The  new  basis  of  two  cents 
per  hundredweight  is  so  small  an  in- 
crease on  the  dues  on  market  milk  that 
it  can  hardly  be  figured. 

Taking  surplus  milk  into  consideration 
the  increase  is  more  but  is  really  very 
small.  On  a  basis  of  $3  milk  the 
present  dues  basis  would  call  for  \l/2 
cents  per  hundredweight.  On  the  basis 
of  $2.50  milk,  which  was  about  the 
average  for  1925  the  dues  amounts  to 
1%  cents  per  hundred.  The  new  plan 
calls  for  an  increase  to  two  cents  a 
hundred.  This  is  only  a  small  amount 
for  any  one  producer  but  it  will  make 
it  possible  to  give  a  whole  lot  more 
for  field  service. 

The  outstanding  feature  of  the  re- 
canvass  to  date  is  the  unanimous  desire 
of  the  present  members  to  have  a 
system  established  under  which  every- 
one shall  bear  their  proportion  of  the 
cost  of  maintaining  the  association.  The 
present  members  have  no  objection  to 


the  payment  of  a  slight  increase  in  dues 
providing  it  will  establish  a  system 
under  which  present  non-members  will 
bear  their  share  in  the  expense  and  get 
no  more  for  their  milk  than  the 
members. 

There  are  two  principal  ways  in 
which  the  new  plan  of  payment  of  dues 
will  affect  present  non-members.  First 
it  is  the  first  step  toward  the  establish- 
ment of  the  so  called  "Philadelphia 
plan"  under  which  every  producer  who 
ships  milk  into  the  market,  whether  he 
is  a  member  of  the  association  or  not, 
pays  three  cents  a  hundred  for  all  the 
milk  sold.  If  he  is  a  member  of  the 
association  two  of  the  three  cents  per 
hundred  goes  to  the  association  and 
one  cent  goes  to  the  educational  milk 
advertising   work,   such   as   is   done  in 


Turner  Centre  System 
serves  producers  in  five 
states.  Each  dot  repre- 
sents a  country  station  or 
city  delivery  plant. 


in  getting  back  when  cut  off  by  the 
inspectors,  check  testing  of  butter  fat 
and  assistance  in  any  special  difficulty 
in  which  a  producer  may  be  involved. 

More  important  than  these  special 
services  is  the  general  service  of  keep- 
ing in  touch  with  the  members  and 
getting  their  point  of  view  as  well  as 
giving  them  the  point  of  view  of  the 
central  office  and  a  broader  outlook  on 
the  marketing  problems  of  New  Eng- 
land as  a  whole.  In  Maine  especially 
we  have  had  little  field  work  for  some 
years  past.  There  are  hundreds  of  new 
fanners  who  never  have  seen  a  rep- 
resentative of  the  association  and  thous- 
ands of  them  who  have  not  had  a 
farm  visit  for  years.  It  will  mean  much 
to  them  to  have  a  man  come  around 
and  talk  things  over  and  especially  to 


About  4,000  dairy  farm- 
ers urged  by  T.  C.  di- 
rector to  join  N.  E.  M. 
P.  A.  Are  responding 
promptly. 


New  England  by  the  Dairy  and  Food 
Council.  If  the  producer  is  not  a 
member  of  the  association  the  whole 
three  cents  goes  toward  the  milk  ad- 
vertising fund.  In  every  case  each 
producer  pays  the  three  cents  a  hundred 
and  all  receive  the  same  price  for  their 
milk. 

It  is  impractical  under  our  present 
plan  of  dues  payment  to  establish  the 
"Philadelphia"  system.  Until  we  get 
shifted  over  to  the  new  basis  of  pay- 
ment we  cannot  attempt  to  establish  the 
Philadelphia  plan  and  equalize  the  cost 
to  all  producers.  It  will  probably  take 
a  little  time  before  the  Philadelphia  plan 
can  be  established  even  after  everybody 
is  on  the  new  baiss  of  payment  but  the 
first  step  is  to  get  things  on  a  basis 
where  such  a  plan  is  possible. 

The  second  way  in  which  the  new 
basis  of  payment  will  affect  the  non- 
members  is  that  the  service  which  is 
planned,  and  which  will  be  made  pos- 
sible by  the  slight  increase  in  dues,  will 
be  given  to  members  only.  The  associa- 
tion cannot  start  right  away  to  give 
this  service  in  full  measure  but  it  is 
laying  the  foundations  for  it  by  going 
on  to  the  new  basis  of  payment  and  in 
hiring  four  new  field  men  to  do  the 
work.  Among  the  forms  of  service 
which  have  been  suggested  are  assistance 


answer  the  questions  which  come  up. 

In  the  eyes  of  the  Maine  men  who 
have  been  visited  and  met  in  meetings 
the  most  important  and  first  job  is  to 
get  everybody  into  the  association  and 
all  on  the  new  dues  basis.  In  every 
meeting  this  has  been  the  first  ques- 
tion "Are  you  going  to  get  these  fel- 
lows in  who  have  been  riding  free  ?" 
Really  that  is  not  a  fair  way  to  put  it 
in  all  cases.  There  are,  to  be  sure,  a 
number  of  old  timers  who  have  steadily 
refused  to  join  the  association  for  one 
reason  or  another.  But  there  are  many 
others,  young  men  who  have  bought 
farms  or  have  shifted  over  to  dairy 
farming,  who  are  not  members  simply 
because    they   never    have   been  asked. 

The  beginning  of  the  recanvass  was 
made  in  Turner  Centre  territory  for 
two  principal  reasons.  First  because 
there  has  been  less  organization  work 
done  in  Maine  in  the  past  few  years 
than  in  any  other  section  of  New  Eng- 
land and  second  because  the  Turner 
Centre  directors  have  recommended  that 
every  Turner  Centre  patron  should  be- 
come a  member  of  the  NEMPA.  A 
vote  to  that  affect  was  passed  at  the 
recent  annual  meeting  of  the  Turner 
Centre  System  and  has  been  sent  in  a 
circular  letter  to  every  patron. 

Our  association  sent  to  every  Turner 


Centre  patron  a  letter,  dividing  them 
into  three  classes.  First  the  Turner 
Centre  patrons  who  are  members  in 
good  standing  of  the  NEMPA.  They 
number  considerably  about  00  per  cent, 
of  the  present  Turner  Centre  patrons. 
The  letter  gave  them  the  information 
as  to  the  reasons  for  the  change  in  the 
system  of  dues  payment  and  urged  them 
to  sign  and  return  the  power  of 
attorney  slips  promptly.  'llie  second 
group  included  those  Turner  Centre 
producers  who  have  been  members  of 
the  NEMPA  but  for  one  reason  or 
another  are  not  now  paying  dues.  A 
considerable  number  ot  them  are  men 
who  joined  the  NEMPA  when  they 
were  shipping  to  some  other  dealer 
and  have  smce  begun  shipping  to 
i  turner  Centre.  The  reason  they  have 
not  been  paying  dues  is  that  they  have 
not  been  asked  to  sign  a  new  dues 
order  on  Turner  Centre  to  take  the 
piace  of  the  old  dues  order  on  their 
lormer  dealer.  These  men  should  be 
among  the  first  to  sign  on  the  new  basis. 

The  third  group  of  Turner  Centre 
patrons  are  tne  men  who  have  never 
been  members  of  the  NEMPA.  They 
include  the  men  who  have  persistently 
stayed  out  and  refused  to  join  the 
association,  also  the  new  men  who  have 
come  in  and  never  have  been  asked  to 
join.  The  latter  group  are  among  our 
best  prospects  for  they  include  a  large 
number  of  young,  ambitious  farmers, 
many  of  them  recent  agricultural  college 
graduates,  who  believe  in  organization 
and  will  be  prompt  to  respond  to  the 
call  to  join.  There  will  be  a  certain 
number  of  "stay  outers"  (they  would 
be  called  "bitter  enders"  if  they  were  in 
Congress)  who  will  ignore  letters  and 
turn  a  deaf  ear  to  personal  calls  to 
join.  It  is  for  just  such  rhen  as  these 
that  the  present  loyal  members  want 
to  see  the  Philadelphia  plan  put  into 
effect.  They  want  such  men  to  "pay 
the  freight"  one  way  or  another. 

In  all  the  letters  to  Turner  Centre 
patrons  the  most  recent  service  of  the 
NEMPA  was  set  forth  in  definite 
figures.  By  preventing  a  drop  of  a 
cent  a  quart  in  the  Boston  price  Feb- 
ruary 1  the  NEMPA  put  more  than 
$15,000  into  the  pockets  of  Turner 
Centre  patrons.  On  this  month  alone 
the  association  saved  Turner  Centre 
patrons  more  than  their  entire  dues  for 
a  year  would  amount  to.  The  NEMPA 
held  the  price  again  in  March,  giving 
the  Turner  Centre  patrons  another 
$15,000.  Turner  Centre  alone  could  not 
possibly  have  prevented  the  price  from 
going  down  either  month. 

A  number  of  questions  naturally 
arise  in  connection  with  the  change  in 
the  basis  of  dues  payment.  Mr.  Warner 
has  been  trying  the  prosposition  out  on 
some  association  leaders  and  local  groups 
in  Maine.  He  found  that  there  was  no 
question  in  the  mind  of  anyone  that  the 
increase  in  dues  was  worth  while  and 
necessary  if  the  desired  service  was  to 
be  given  and  if  the  association  was  to 
be  brought  up  to  the  100  per  cent, 
efficiency  and  membership. 

One  of  the  first  questions  was  why 
the  change  in  basis;  why  not  simply 
increase  the  percentage?  The  answer 
is  easy.  One-half  of  one  per  cent, 
can  be  figured  easily.  One  per  cent, 
could  be  figured  more  easily  but  3/4  of 
one  per  cent,  would  be  a  very  hard  one 
to  compute  and  would  entail  much  un- 
necessary labor.  An  advance  to  one 
per  cent,  would  be  a  much  larger  in- 
crease than  the  one  proposed.  On  S3 
milk  it  would  amount  to  three  cents  a 
hundred;  on  $2.50  milk  it  would  amount 
to  2]/2  cents  a  hundred. 

The  association  leaders  feel  that  the 
slight  increase  now  determined  upon, 
amounting  to  about  3/4  of  a  cent  a 
hundredweight  on  the  average  will  give 
sufficient  additional  funds  to  provide  for 
the  increased  service  and  enlarged  pro- 
gram of  work  in  the  country.  It  is 
sure  to  do  so  if  the  "stay  outers"  can 
be  induced  to  come  in.  The  Philadelphia 
plan  is  an  important  factor  in  getting 
these  men  in.  It  cannot  be  put  into 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1920 
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"Landing  the  First 
Cows  in  the 
Colonies" 

With  History  by 

MISS  MARY  M.  HIGG1NS 

This  new  leaflet  for  color- 
ing is  ready  for  distribution. 

Other  health  teaching  ma- 
terial is  also  free  to  teachers 
of  Greater  Boston. 

NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRY 
AND  FOOD  COUNCIL 

51  CORNHILL 
BOSTON,  MASSACHUSETS 


The  council  has  recently  been  asked 
by  the  Woman's  Municipal  League  of 
Boston,  an  organization  which  is  doing 
much  in  the  line  of  good  citizenship,  to 
co-operate  with  them  in  the  production 
of  a  motion  picture  film  devoted  to  the 
milk   industry.     It   will  deal   with  the 


Boston  milk  supply  from  start  to  finish. 
A  fur  it  is  done,  without  any  further, 
work  from  the  council,  it  will  be  shown 
by  the  woman's  organization  in  prac- 
tically every  school  in  Boston.  This 
should  add  materially  to  the  strength 
of  the  council's  work. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  8lA  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  April  1,  1926,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 


At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


Zone  Miles 


Sample  of  Advertising  Placed  in  Magazine  Going   t«»   Teachers.     It  All    Helps   to  Sell 

More  Milk 

Advertising  to  Reduce  Surplus 


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1-20 
21-40 
41-60 
61-80 
81-100 
101-120 
121-140 
141-160 
161-180 
181-200 
201-220 
221-240 
241-260 
261-280 
281-300 


8qt. 

8}4qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21}<qt. 

40qt. 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

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.579 

.618 

.732 

1.489 

1.583 

2.993 

.569 

.608 

.722 

1.464 

1.558 

2.958 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.444 

1.538 

2.928 

.549 

.588 

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1.434 

1.528 

2.898 

.544 

.583 

.692 

1.414 

1.508 

2.873 

.539 

.578 

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.563 

.667 

1.379 

1.473 

2.803 

.519 

.558 

.662 

1.369 

1.463 

2.783 

.514 

.553 

.652 

1.364 

1.448 

2.768 

.509 

.548 

.647 

1.349 

1.438 

2.748 

.504 

.543 

.642 

1.339 

1.423 

2.728 

.494 

.533 

.637 

1.334 

1.418 

2.718 

.489 

.528 

.637 

1.319 

1.408 

2.698 

.489 

.528 

.632 

1.314 

1.403 

2.683 

Cwt.in 
20qt. 
Cans 

3.462 
3.404 
3.357 
3.334 
3.287 
3.264 
3.241 
3.206 
3.183 
3.171 
3.136 
3.113 
3.101 
3.066 
3.055 


Cwt.in 
21J4qt. 
Cans 
3.464 
3.409 
3.366 
3.344 
3.300 
3.278 
3.245 
3.224 
3.202 
3.169 
3.147 
3.114 
3.103 
3.081 
3.070 


Cwt.in 
40qt. 
Cans 
3.479 
3.438 
3.404 
3.369 
3.340 
3.311 
3.287 
3258 
3.235 
3.218 
3.194 
3.171 
3.159 
3.136 
3.119 


At  R.  R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 


The  best  way  to  reduce  surplus  is  to 
sell  more  milk.  Every  year  when  the 
flush  season  comes  on  the  surplus  shoots 
up  and  the  net  price  to  the  dairyman 
goes  down.  Every  additional  quart  of 
milk  which  consumers  of  Boston  and 
other  cities  can  be  induced  to  buy  as 
whole  milk  will  be  just  that  much  taken 
off  the  surplus  and  by  just  that  much 
will  the  price  for  all  milk  be  strength- 
ened. 

That  is  one  of  the  big  reasons  why 
your  advertising  organization,  the  New 
England  Dairy  and  Food  Council,  is 
making  a  drive  for  increased  use  of 
milk  by  newspaper  advertising  during 
the  next  few  months.  Through  this 
newspaper  advertising  the  value  of  milk 
as  a  food,  the  economy  from  its  greater 
use  will  be  brought  to  the  attention  of 
millions  of  people,  not  only  once  but 
many  times.  The  advertising  will  not 
be  used  to  sell  the  milk  of  one  dealer 
or  group  of  producers.  It  will  be  to 
tell  of  the  value  of  good  milk,  no  mat- 
ter where  it  comes  from. 

The  advertising  campaign  in  Boston 
newspapers  began  the  last  of  March 
and  will  continue  through  June.  It  was 
the  belief  of  the  council  that  a  strong 
newspaper  advertising  campaign  during 
this  surplus  season  would  increase  the 
use  of  milk  materially  and  thus  reduce 
the  surplus.  It  was  thought  that  the 
summer   advertising   would  be   of  less 


value  as  so  many  of  the  consumers  are 
out  of  town  during  the  vacation  period. 

Rough  estimates  of  the  number  of 
people  who  will  see  these  advertisements 
run  into  high  figures.  Manager  W.  P. 
B.  Lockwood  of  the  council  estimates 
that  the  total  circulation  of  the  papers 
in  which  advertising  will  appear  will 
reach  about  35,000,000.  As  each  paper 
is  often  seen  by  several  persons  the 
actual  number  who  will  see  the  adver- 
tisements is  larger  than  this.  The  esti- 
mates are  based  on  the  circulation  of 
the  following  papers : 

Boston  Globe,  278,810;  Boston  Her- 
ald, 236,531;  Boston  Post,  375,597;  Bos- 
ton American,  223,810;  Boston  Adver- 
tiser, 130,647 ;  Boston  Telegram,  137,- 
272;  Boston  Transcript,  49,625.  This 
makes  a  total  daily  circulation  of  1,435,- 
312.  In  each  paper  17  different  adver- 
tisements will  appear,  making  the  total 
distribution  of  the  advertisements  more 
than  25  million. 

Plans  have  also  been  developed  for 
advertising  in  several  papers  printed  in 
foreign  languages  beginning  a  little 
later  and  carrying  clear  through  the 
summer.  It  is  believed  that  the  summer 
advertising  in  these  papers  will  be  well 
worth  while  as  comparatively  few  of 
the  readers  are  away  during  the  sum- 
mer. The  circulation  of  these  foreign 
language  papers  will  add  materially  to 
mense  total  of  the  advertising. 


1 

1-20 

.599 

.638 

.752 

2 

21-40 

.584 

.623 

.737 

3 

41-60 

.579 

.618 

.732 

4 

01 -SO 

.574 

.013 

.727 

5 

61-100 

.569 

.608 

.712 

0 

101-120 

.564 

.003 

.707 

7 

121-140 

.564 

.003 

.707 

8 

141-100 

.554 

.593 

.702 

y 

loi-iao 

.549 

.588 

.097 

10 

181-200 

.549 

.588 

.092 

1.499 
1.474 
1.404 
1.444 
1.434 
1.424 
1.409 
1.404 
1.394 
1.379 


1.593 
1.508 
1.553 
1.538 
1.528 
1.508 
1.4V8 
1.493 
1.478 
1.408 


2.993 
2.958 
2.928 
2.8y8 
2.873 
2.848 
2.828 
2.8U3 
2.783 
2.708 


3.485 
3.427 
3.4U4 
3.357 
3.334 
3.311 
•5.270 
3.Z04 
J.Z41 
3.206 


3.480 
J.431 
3.3W 
3.300 
3..H4 
3.3UU 
3.278 
3.^07 
3.234 
3.213 


3.479 
J.438 
3.41M 
3.30V 
3..HU 
J.311 

3.235 
3.216 


Where  milk  is  bought  by  weight  and  test,  the  dealer  will  pay  the  average  of  the 
daily  quotations  issued  by  the  U.  S.  D.  A.  Bureau  of  Agriculture  Economics  for 
92  score  fresh  butter  at  Boston  for  the  month,  fhe  price  of  1/10  pound  butter  as 
above  stated,  shall  be  added  for  each  0.1  per  cent,  above  3.7  per  cent,  and  deducted 
for  each  0 1  per  cent,  below  3.7  per  cent,  for  each  cwt.  of  milk  so  purchased. 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station, 
a  premium  of  0.75c  cwt.  is  paid.  . 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
or  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  February,  1926 


Feeding 
Test  Skim 
of  Price 
Cream  Cwt. 


Hood,  lst-15th   12#% 

Hood,   lst-15th   ....  20 
Hood,    16th-28th....  12^4 
Hood,  16th-28th  ....  20 

Whiting    20 

Turner   Centre   ....  \2l/2 


.40 
.40 
.40 
.40 
.50 
.30 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt 

Butter-fat 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deductipr 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

,  Patron 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt. 

2.221 

.48 

.658 

.1793 

3.304 

.48 

.645 

.1793 

2.177 

.47 

.644 

.1688 

3.235 

.47 

.632 

.1688 

2.031 

.51 

.612 

.1565 

.98 

.50 

.578 

.2726 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  February,  1926 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  February  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  <*^f^ffi^J^h^&^  37^  cent.,  sub 
Tf  vour  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer,  $.0454  tor  ea-n  .1  per  ceni.    ±i  u 
tract  $0454  for  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075  adiustments 
traCtT$ofind  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  February  _ *  your  dea der s  af  -  mak  ng  the  above  adjustoent,  ^  ^ 

To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer    or  the  ^^^[^J  [   made from  the  Zone  prices  as  figured  to  equaliz 

Hood  Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deduction  as  given  in  cream  price  taDie  is  maqe  iroiu  urc  i 

prices  between  milk  and  cream  patrons  Zo^e  10  Zone  11   Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  1 

81-100  101-120  12M40  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281-3. 


Zone  1 

Miles  from  Boston    1-20 

Class    1    Milk    Price   3.479 

Class  2  Milk  Price    1-736 

Class  1  Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk)    (Mfg.  MUk) 
Dealers  A 
Hood,    lst-lSth....77.3%  22.7% 
Hood,  16th-28th....73.8  26.2 
Whiting  in  40's....74.6  25.4 
Whiting  in  21J4's..74.6  25.4 
Turner  Centre  ....61.2  38.8 

Alden  Bros  56.9  43.1 

F.   S.  Cummings..65.6  34.4 

F.  E.  Boyd   72.9  27.1 

Childs  Bros  92.0  8.0 

Weighted  Avg  72.5  27.5 


Zone  2 
21-40 

3.438 
1.736 


Zone  3 
41-60 

3.404 
1.736 


Zone  4 
61-80 

3.369 
1.736 


B 

40.5% 

42.8 

43.2 

43.2 

56.5 


41.8 


2.908 
2.849 
2.859 
2.848 
2.503 
2.726 
2.878 
3.005 
3.336 
2.848 


2.876 
2.818 
2.828 
2.807 
2.477 
2.703 
2.851 
2.975 
3.300 
2.818 


2.849 
2.793 
2.803 
2.774 
2.457 
2.683 
2.829 
2.950 
3.267 
2.793 


2.823 
2.767 
2.777 
2.758 
2.435 
2.663 
2.806 
2.924 
3.235 
2.768 


3.340 
1.736 


2.800 
2.746 
2.755 
2.725 
2.417 
2.647 
2.787 
2.903 
3.208 
2.747 


3.311 

1.736 


2.778 
7.725 
2.733 
2.709 
2.400 
2.630 
2.768 
2.882 
3.182 
2.726 


3.287 
1.736 


2.759 
2.707 
2.716 
2.684 
2.385 
2.617 
2.752 
2.865 
3.160 
2.708 


3.258 
1.736 


2.737 
2.686 
2.694 
2.669 
2.367 
2.i00 
2.733 
2.843 
3.133 
2.687 


3.235 
1.736 


2.719 

2.669 
2.677 
2.652 
2.353 
2.587 
2.718 
2.827 
3.112 
2.671 


3.218 
1.736 


2.706 
2.656 
2.664 
2.627 
2.343 
2.577 
2.706 
2.814 
3.096 
2.658 


3.194 
1.736 


2.687 
2.638 
2.646 
2.611 
2.328 
2.564 
2.691 
2.797 
3.074 
2.641 


3.171 

1.736 


2.669 
2.621 
2.629 
2.586 
2.314 
2.551 
2.676 
2.780 
3.053 
2.624 


3.159 
1.736 


2.660 
2.612 
2.620 
2.578 
2.307 
2.544 
2.668 
2.771 
3.042 
2.616 


3.136 
1.736 


2.642 
2.595 
2.603 
2.562 
2.293 
2.531 
2.653 
2.755 
3.021 
2.599 


3.11 

1.73 


2.62 

2.58 

2.59, 

2.5 

2.2 

2.5/ 

2.6-1 

2.7- 

3.01 

2.Si 


i^tTLSTJ^s  lower  ThTn  B=  tVeTollowing  decreases  have  been  made  in  the  Class  1  prices  here  given  for  the  following  dealers:  Whiting,  $.01 
per  cwt. ;  Turner  Centre,  $.0447. 


April,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Conditions  in  the  Market 


Production  of  milk  in  February,  as 
shown  by  the  records  of  the  dealers  pur- 
chasing under  the  surplus  plan,  was 
about  the  same  as  in  February,  1925. 
There  are  general  indications  that  the 
number  of  cows  in  New  England  has 
decreased  during  the  past  year.  The 
fact  that  the  production  appears  to  be 
about  normal  for  the  season  indicates 
that  there  has  been  somewhat  of  an  in- 
crease in  the  production  per  cow.  This 
wolild  naturally  be  expected  with  the 
lower  grain  prices  tending  to  increase 
heavy  feeding  of  grain.  Higher  milk 
prices  are  also  a  contributing  factor  in 
heavier  feeding  of  grain. 

Sales  of  milk  in  February  showed  a 
gain  over  January  and  a  decided  gain 
over  the  previous  February.  The  result 
of  increased  sales  and  ho  material  in- 
crease in  production  led  to  a  decreased 
surplus  as  compared  with  January,  also 
as  compared  with  February,  1925.  The 
purchases,  sales  and  surplus  for  the 
Boston  market  were  as  follows : 

192G  192G  1925 

Jan.  Feb.  Feb. 

Purchases  (million  lbs.)  39.4  41.3  41.4 

Sales   (million   lbs.)    ..  25.9  26.1  24.6 

Surplus    42.1%  41.8%  42.8% 

The  net  price  for  all  milk  delivered  in 
February  was  10  cents  a  hundred  higher 
than  in  February,  1925.  The  increase 
was  on  surplus  milk,  the  market  price 
being  the  same,  8^4  cents  per  quart. 
The  butter  market  was  five  cents  a 
pound  higher  than  last  year  in  the  same 
month,  making  the  surplus  value  20 
cents  a  hundred  higher  than  it  was  a 


year  previous.  The  10th  zone  milk 
prices,  surplus  price,  butter  price  and 
composite  price  are  shown  in  the  fol- 
lowing table  as  compared  with  January 
and  with  February,  1925. 

1926  1926  1925 
Jan.     Feb.  Feb. 

Fluid   $3.22   $3.22  $3.22 

Surplus    1.73     1.74  1.54 

Net  price  all  milk          2.67     2.66  2.56 

Average  butter  per  lb.  .452  .454  .407 
Butter  prices  have  in  general  tended 
downward  during  the  past  month. 
Production  of  butter  is  running  higher 
than  last  year  and  probably  will  con- 
tinue to  run  high  through  the  spring 
because  of  the  excellent  feeding  condi- 
tions in  the  middle  Western  butter 
producing  region.  With  continued  de- 
clines in  corn  and  other  feed  prices, 
grain  will  probably  be  fed  in  fair 
amounts  through  the  spring.  This  will 
increase  the  butter  production  above 
what  would  be  expected  with  high  grain 
prices. 

At  this  time  of  ,  year  the  storage 
figures  are  of  little  significance.  The 
amount  of  butter  in  storage  now  is 
nearly  as  high  as  it  was  last  year  and 
considerably  above  the  three  previous 
years.  The  storage  holdings  for  March 
1   were : 

Year  Pounds  Butter 

1922   22,000,000 

1923   9,000,000 

1924   10,000,000 

1925   29,000,000 

1926   27,000,000 


NORTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 


477  Essex  Street,  Lawrence,  Mass. 


MARCH  PRICES 

Manchester,  N.  H  68c   per  8^  qt.  can 

Nashua,    N.   H  68c  per8j^qt.can 

Lowell,  Mass  72.3c  per  &l/2  qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  85c   per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  72c   per  8^4  qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  58.8c  per  8^  qt .  can 

Portland,  Me   7.3c  per  qt. 

Salem,  Beverly,  Pest- 
body  and  Danvers, 
Mass   8.5c  per  qt. 

PRODUCTION  AND  PRICES 

Retail  and  wholesale  prices  have  re- 
mained practically  uniform  throughout 
the  district  during  the  month  of  March. 
Due  to  keen  competition  among  dealers 
in  the  Manchester  and  Nashua  markets, 
there  has  been  some  cutting  of  prices 
by  dealers  on  wholesale  and  retail  trade 
in  order  to  increase  their  volume  of 
business.  Farmers'  prices,  however, 
have  remained  uniform  and  in  both. 
Nashua  and  Manchester  markets  we 
have  been  able  to  attract  milk  from 
some  dealers  who  were  attempting  to 
buy  at  less  than  NEMPA  prices  to 
other  dealers  who  were  willing  to  do' 
business  with  the  NEMPA  and  pay  the 
announced  market  price.  The  situation 
has  been  somewhat  serious  in  both  of 
these  markets  but  it  looks  now  as  if 
conditions  would  improve. 

The  N.  J.  Nassikas  Co.,  Inc.,  of 
Manchester,  has  been  one  of  the  hard- 
est concerns  to  deal  with  in  this  re- 
spect. Buying  from  farmers  not  mem- 
bers of  the  NEMPA,  this  concern  at- 
tempted to  return  to  these  producers- 
a  price  much  below  the  announced  mar- 
ket price  in  Manchester.  Other  dealers 
paying  association  price  complained  to> 
the  NEMPA  about  this  situation  be- 
cause this  particular  dealer  was  selling 
milk  to  customers,  stores  and  restaur- 
ants at  ridiculously  low  prices.  The' 
district  manager  has  spent  a  great  deal 
of  time  working  with  these  producers 
who  were  not  members  of  the  NEMPA 
to  get  them  to  join  the  NEMPA  in- 


which  has  been  a  very  good  one  for  the 
sale  of  milk,  and  will  still  be  a  fair 
market,  danger  of  flooding  will  be 
great.  Milk  producers  along  the  lines 
of  railroad  and  in  the  nearby  territory 
surrounding  Lawrence,  which  is  Law- 
rence's source  of  supply,  are  producing 
much  more  milk  than  the  city  can  con- 
sume. It  will  require  skilful  engineer- 
ing and  co-operation  among  the  pro- 
ducers supplying  this  market  to  keep  it 
running  smoothly  and  without  being 
flooded.  Recent  census  statistics  show 
a  decline  in  population  in  the  city  of 
Lawrence  for  the  last  five  years  and 
careful  students  of  the  situation  declare 
they  cannot  see  wherein  the  city  will 
ever  enjoy  the  growth  that  it  had  up 
to  1920. 

The  Haverhill,  Mass.,  market,  due  to 
increased  activity  in  the  shoe  business, 
shows  improvement.  There  has  not, 
however,  been  the  surplus  of  milk  in 
this  market  which  has  been  noted  in 
the  Lawrence  and  Lowell  markets.  Man- 
chester and  Nashua  seem  to  be  running 
about  as  usual,  with  some  indications  in 
Nashua  of  improvement. 


sist  upon  market  prices  and  back  up 
the  sales  committee  and  district  man- 
ager in  their  efforts  to  stabilize  the 
Manchester  market.  This  concern  stead- 
fastly refuses  to  pay  the  prices  it  should 
lor  milk  in  Manchester  and  therefore 
it  has  been  necessary  to  take  the  milk 
away  from  this  concern  and  sell  it  to 
•other  Manchester  dealers  who  are  will- 
ing and  fair  enough  to  pay  prices  an- 
nounced for  the  Manchester  market  by 
the  NEMPA. 

Surpluses  carried  by  the  various 
dealers  operating  under  the  surplus  plan 
in  the  Northern  Market  District  have 
been  somewhat  less  during  the  months 
•of  February  and  March.  This  is  due 
to  two  reasons — the  district  manager 
.has  been  able  to  place  some  of  the  ex- 
cess surplus  of  milk  carried  by  a  few 
of  the  dealers  with  some  of  the  other 
•dealers  who  were  not  having  much  sur- 
plus so  that  the  whole  production  would 
.be  more  evenly  distributed.  There  has 
also  been  a  slight  increased  demand  for 
milk  which  has  increased  sales,  which 
meant  more  of  the  milk  could  be  sold 
— thereby  leaving  less  to  be  put  into 
surplus  products.  Producers  can  help 
tremendously  in  maintaining  markets  if 
they  will  make  a  reasonable  attempt  to 
produce  an  even  supply  from  month  to 
month.  A  little  study  and  effort  on  the 
part  of  every  dairyman  along  this  line 
if  practiced  in  a  wholesale  way  through- 
out New  England  would  put  thousands 
of  dollars  into  dairymen's  pockets.  A 
little  thinking  along,  this  line  will  be 
time  well  spent  by  each  dairyman. 

LABOR  SITUATION 

Labor  conditions  in  Lowell  remain 
about  the  same.  In  Lawrence  they  are 
not  as  good  as  they  were  two  or  three 
months  ago.  Some  of  the  dealers  are 
of  the  opinion  that  Lawrence  has  seen 
its  best  days  as  a  manufacturing  town 
and  that  there  is  a  slow  but  gradually 
•declining  revenue  being  available  to  the 
laborers  and  residents  in  the  city  of 
Lawrence.    This  means  in  this  market, 


MARKET  WORK 

Most  of  the  district  manager's  time 
this  month  has  been  spent  in  doing 
market  work  in  an  attempt  to  stabilize 
and  hold  prices  in  the  markets  of 
Nashua  and  Manchester.  As  indicated 
in  the  first  paragraph  of  my  report, 
these  two  markets  have  been  in  a  pre- 
carious position  due  to  the  fact  that 
certain  dealers  were  attempting  to  bus- 
milk  at  prices  below  those  announced 
by  the  association.  It  has  required  a 
great  deal  of  time  on  the  part  of  the 
district  manager  and  much  expense  and 
travel  in  the  country  to  straighten  ou! 
this  situation.  I  have  been  helped  in 
my  work  in  the  Nashua  market  by  the 
splendid  counsel,  advice  and  co-opera- 
tion extended  to  me  by  President  C.  E. 
Hardy  of  the  Hollis,  N.  H.,  local, 
which  is  a  local  selling  its  milk  entirely 
in  the  city  of  Nashua.  Also  Howard 
Barnard  has  given  his  time  freely  to 
going  around  with  me  to  visit  local 
producers  in  Hollis  to  go  over  the 
Nashua  market  situation  with  them  and 
(Continued  on  page  nineteen) 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  February,  1926 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butter-fat  above  or  below  3.7  per 
cent,  test  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butter-fat  the  following  for  each  sized  container :  Per 
&'/2  quart  can,  $0,008;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,010;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,020;  per  2\% 
quart  can,  $0.021 ;  per  40  quart  can,  $0.039 ;  per  cwt.,  $0,045. 

Boston  District 
Class  1    Class  2   


 Size  of  Can  

(Mkt.    (Mfg.     8^        20        21^4  40 
Milk)    Milk)  Quart     Quart     Quart     Quart  Cwt. 


Dealers 
ELM  SPRING  FARM 

7th  zone  (121-140)    65.2%     34.8%  .465 

T.  B.  PRESCOTT 

"Delivered    93.4        6.6       Delivered  price  per  cwt 


1.127       1.199  2.280 


Northern.  Market  District 


Dealers 
Wason-MacDonald 
Haverhill 

Delivered    91.6% 

3rd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms 

Lawrence 

Delivered    63.5 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 

Manchester 


Class  1  Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk)    (Mfg.  Milk) 


8.4% 


Cwt.  in 
8K2 


3.729 
3.165 


Cwt.  in 
40 


3.729 
3.218 


36.5 


2.651 
3.770 

Cwt. 


3.729 
3.260 


3.092 
2.815 
2.790 
2.649 


Delivered   

92.5 

7.5 

3.526 

3.268 

3.160 

3.133 

E.  C.  Blake 
Manchester 

66.0 

34.0 

3.017 

2.810 

2.791 

2.772 

2.737 

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Sons 
Nashua 

91.5 

8.5 

Cwt.  in 

8^'s 
3.513 

Cwt.  in 
20's 
3.513 

Cwt.  in 
40's 
3.513 

1st  zone   

3.025 

3.098 

3.114 

2.975 

3.045 

3.077 

2.950 

3.002 

3.045 

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Nashua 

  80.7 

19.3 

3.303 

2.873 

Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Dealers 
Per  Hundredweight 

Burton,  H.  T   91.7% 

Chambers,  G.  T  74.6 

Fiske,  E.  A  100. 

Greenville   Dairy    ....  98.8 

Monroe,  A.  B.   100. 

Providence  Dairy  ....  96.8 

Turner   Centre    80.6 

Viall,  W.  C   82.4 

Warnock,  C.  A  100. 

Wescott,  E.  P  100. 

PER  10  QT.  CAN 

Brown,  C.  W   89.1 

Grant,   C.   W   87.3 


Class  2 


8.3% 
25.4 


1.2 

3.2 
19.4 
L7.6 


10.9 
12.7 


Deliv- 
ered 

3.674 
3.305 
3.854 
3.821 
3.854 
3.785 
3.488 
3.477 
3.848 
3.848 

.790 


Zone  1 
1-20 

Miles 

3.395 
3.078 
3.550 
3.521 
3.550 
3.552 
3.200 
3.227 
3.544 
3.544 


Zone  2 
21-40 

Miles 

3.370 
3.057 
3.522 
3.493 
3.522 
3.518 
3.177 
3.204 
3.516 
3.516 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  3  Zone  Willi- 
41-60  net  mantic 
Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.290   

2.993  2.915   

3.436   

3.408   

3.436   

3.450 
3.852 
3.132 
3.430 
3.430 


3.259  3.418 


.732  .722  .710  .692 
.722      .713  .700   


Page  Sir 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1926 


Belated  Justice  Done  to  American  Dairy  Industry 


Tariff  Commission   at  Last   Increases  Duty  on   Butter   to    12    Cents    Per  Pound.     Victory    Comes  After 

Months  of  Hard  Fighting 


The  tariff  on  butter  will  be  increased 
from  eight  cents  per  pound  to  12  cents 
per  pound  beginning  April  5,  as  the  result 
of  a  decision  of  the  tariff  commission 
and  a  proclamation  by  the  President 
under  the  provisions  of  the  "flexible 
tariff"  law.  This  decision  should  have 
been  made  many  months  ago.  The  dairy 
industry  of  New  England  and  of  the 
whole  country  has  been  the  loser  by  the 
unwarranted  delay.  But  we  are  glad 
that  the  increase  has  come  even  at  this 
late  day.  It  would  not  have  come  but 
for  the  good  work  of  our  national  or- 
ganization, the  National  Co-operative 
Milk  Producers'  Association,  which  led 
the  fight  for  the  increase  in  butter  tariff. 

The  increase  in  the  tariff  on  butter 
will  not  probably  exert  an  immediate 
effect  on  butter  prices  and  consequently 
on  the  price  for  surplus  milk  in  New 
England.  It  is  not  expected  that  the 
higher  rate  will  increase  the  butter 
quotations  immediately.  It  does  seem 
probable,  however,  that  the  increased 
rate  will  bring  about  conditions  which 
will  lead  to  better  butter  prices  through 
the  fall  and  winter.  The  increased 
tariff  will  tend  to  give  the  trade  con- 
fidence in  the  stability  of  butter  prices 
next  fall  and  this  will  strengthen  the 
butter  prices  all  along  the  line. 

The  story  of  the  long  and  hard  fight 
to  get  this  belated  recognition  of  the 
need  of  the  dairy  industry  of  the  United 
States  is  well  told  by  Charles  W  Hol- 
man,  secretary  of  the  National  Co- 
operative Milk  Producers  Federation,  as 
follows : 

The  Tariff  Story 

"This  proclamation  marks  the  culmina- 
tion of  a  long  fight,  conducted  by  the 
National  Co-operative  Producers  fed- 
eration in  behalf  of  the  dairy  farmers 
of  the  United  States. 

"The  case  began  early  in  1924,  when 
the  Minnesota  Cooperative  Creameries 
Association  (now  Land  O'Lakes  Cream- 
eries, Inc.)  made  application  to  the 
Commission  for  an  upward  revision  of 
the  rate  of  8  cents  a  pound  on  butter. 
No  action  was  taken  by  the  commission 
on  this  application  until  toward  the  end 
of  the  Congress  then  in  session,  when 
the  senate  passed  a  resolution  requesting 
the  President  to  order  the  investigation. 

"On  or  about  July  9,  1924,  the  Presi- 
dent issued  the  order,  and  on  July  14 
the  commission  started  its  investigation. 
The  Commission  decided  that  Denmark 
was  the  principal  country  of  competi- 
tion. It  sent  a  body  of  investigators  to 
Denmark  to  ascertain  both  agricultural 
costs  and  costs  of  converting  butter  fat 
into  butter.  It  sent  another  body  of 
investigators  on  to  selected  farms  in  the 
principal  butter-producing  states.  The 
investigators  making  the  American  in- 
vestigation worked  out  their  cost  sheets 
from  either  the  records  or  interviews, 
with  individual  farmers.  They  also 
went  into  the  costs  of  many  creameries. 

"The  investigators  sent  to  Denmark 
used  the  Danish  government's  costs  of 
production,  which  in  turn  were  furnished 
by  a  selected  list  of  farmers  in  rep- 
resentative sections  of  that  country.  The 
only  comparable  data  ascertained  by  the 
Commission  was  for  the  year  May  1, 
1923,  and  ending  April  30,  1924. 

"The  commission  found,  and  pub- 
lished in  its  preliminary  report  dated 
March  11,  1925,  that  the  average  farm 
cost  of  producing  butter  fat  in  Denmark 
was  43.71  cents  per  pound  at  the  farm, 
while  the  price  returned  to  Danish  farm- 
ers for  butter  fat  was  40.38  cents  per 
pound.  Estimating  an  average  over- 
run of  20.48  per  cent.,  the  farm  cost 
of  the  quantity  of  butter  fat  used  in 
one  pound  of  butter,  including  the 
interest  on  investment,  was  36.28  cents ; 
while  the  amount  received  by  Danish 
farmers  for  this  amount  of  butter  fat 
was  33.52  cents.     Creamery  conversion 


costs  amounted  to  3.23  cents  per  pound, 
which  included  manufacture,  administra- 
tive and  selling  expenses,  and  invested 
capital.  This  would  give  a  total  Danish 
cost  for  a  pound  of  butter  at  the 
Danish  creamery  of  39.51  cents  per 
pound. 

"In  the  United  States,  the  average 
farm  cost  of  producing  butter  fat  per 
pound,  including  interest,  was  investi- 
gated. In  co-operative  territory  it  was 
59.57  cents  per  pound.  The  price  paid 
to  farmers  for  butter  fat  was  49.74 
cents  per  pound.  The  average  over- 
run was  23.14  per  cent.,  giving  a  farm 
cost  for  the  quantity  of  butter  fat  used 
in  one  pound  of  butter,  including  in- 
terest, of  48.38  cents  per  pound.  The 
amount   returned    by   co-operatives  for 


butter,  plus  3.25  cents ;  giving  them  a 
total  cost  of  38.74  cents,  to  which  may 
be  added  5.37  cents,  or  a  total  cost  to 
the  centralizer  of  44.11  cents. 

"At  the  public  hearing,  representatives 
of  this  Federation  pointed  out  to  the 
Commission  that  the  competition  was 
between  the  dairy  farmers  of  the  United 
States  and  the  dairy  farmers  of  Den- 
mark, and  that  the  true  basis  of  com- 
parison of  costs  would  have  to  be  as 
between  the  co-operative  territory  and 
the  co-operative  creameries  of  the  two 
countries. 

"When  these  costs  were  obtained,  the 
exchange  rate  of  the  Danish  krone  was 
somewhat  lower  than  it  is  at  the  present 
time.  The  rise  in  the  exchange  rate  of 
the  krone  brought  about  some  effort  on 


We  Appreciate  Our  Leaders 


MR.  HOLMAN 

Every  member  of  our  association  should  feel  per- 
sonally grateful  to  Charles  W.  Holman,  secretary  of  the 
National  Co-operative  Milk  Producers'  Federation,  and 
to  Judge  John  D.  Miller  for  the  great  fight  they  put  up 
on  the  question  of  an  increase  in  the  butter  tariff.  Mr. 
Holman  has  been  holding  the  fort  at  Washington,  watch- 
ing every  move  and  taking  such  immediate  action  as 
was  necessary.  Judge  Miller  has  fearlessly  defied  public 
opinion  and  demanded  action  from  the  Commission. 
Backed  by  the  united  dairy  industry  they  led  the  fight 
and  won. 


the  quantity  of  butter  fat  used  in  one 
pound  of  butter  was  40.39  cents  per 
pound.  The  conversion  and  selling  costs 
totaled  3.36  cents  per  pound,  giving  a 
total  cost  at  the  creamery  for  one  pound 
of  butter  of  51.74  cents.  From  this  you 
will  see  that  the  American  costs  in  co- 
operative territory  were  12.23  cents  per 
pound  greater  than  Danish  costs.  This 
difference  was  even  greater  in  cen- 
tralizer territory. 

"The  farm  cost  of  producing  butter 
fat,  including  interest,  in  independent 
and  centralizer  territory,  was  66.80  cents 
per  pound.  The  price  paid  to  farmers 
for  butter  fat  averaged  44.03  cents  per 
pound.  With  an  average  overrun  of 
24.05  per  cent.,  the  farm  cost  of  the 
quantity  of  butter  fat  used  in  one  pound 
of  butter,  including  interest,  was  53.85 
cents.  The  cost  to  centralizers  of  buying 
butter  fat  in  a  pound  of  butter  averaged 
3.25  cents.  The  conversion  and  selling 
costs  per  pound  of  butter  averaged  5.37 
cents.  This  makes  a  total  cost  of  62.47 
cents  per  pound.  However,  the  cen- 
tralizers paid  only  35.49  cents  for  the 
amount   of   butter   fat   in   a   pound  of 


the  part  of  the  Danish  government  to 
have  the  facts  as  to  costs  changed,  in- 
asmuch as  the  Commission  had  delayed 
so  long  in  making  a  report.  We  opposed 
this  effort  and  insisted  that  the  Commis- 
sion should  make  its  report  on  the 
basis  of  the  facts  which  were  before  it 
at  the  time  of  the  public  hearing  April 
21-22,  1925. 

"The  task  of  securing  a  leport  from 
the  Commission  to  the  President  in  this 
case  was  no  easy  one.  We  believed  that 
the  Commission  should  have  and  could 
have  reported  to  the  President  at  least 
eight  months  sooner  than  it  did.  Dur- 
ing that  time  we  persistently  urged  a 
report. 

"In  December  and  January  we  began 
aggressive  tactics  to  get  a  report  out 
of  the  dilatory  Commission.  In  January 
it  was  found  that  the  Commission  had 
held  a  private  conference  with  a  rep- 
resentative of  the  Danish  government, 
and  had  received  from  this  representa- 
tive information  showing  changes  in 
economic  conditions  in  Denmark,  occur- 
ring subsequent  to  the  public  hearing 
which  presumably  closed  the  case. 


"We  made  vigorous  protests  to  the 
Commission  against  the  reception  of  this 
and  any  other  evidence  showing  changes 
in  conditions  subsequent  to  the  public 
hearings.  Getting  no  satisfaction  from  the 
Commission,  we  laid  the  matter  before 
the  National  Board  of  Farm  Organiza- 
tions, and  that  body  unanimously  passed 
a  resolution  demanding  the  abolition  of 
the  Commission  and  a  drastic  congres- 
sional probe  of  its  acts.  We  then  took 
the  matter  into  Congress,  and  urged  a 
congressional  inquiry  prior  to  the 
authorization  of  any  additional  funds  for 
the  Commission  to  expend. 

"Recently  the  United  States  Senate, 
by  a  vote  of  38-30,  passed  a  resolution 
creating  a  special  committee  to  in- 
vestigate the  Commission.  The  members 
of  this  committee  are  Senators  Wads- 
worth  of  New  York  and  Reed  of 
Pennsylvania,  Republicans,  Robinson  of 
Arkansas  and  Bruce  of  Maryland, 
Democrats,  and  La  Follette  of  Wis- 
consin, Progressive  Republican.  This 
committee  is  authorized  to  make  an 
exhaustive  inquiry  into  the  record  of  the 
Commission,  with  particular  reference  to 
its  activities  under  the  flexible  tariff 
provision. 

"Since  the  Senate  ordered  the  in- 
vestigation, the  Commission  has  decided 
to  report  to  the  President  in  the  case, 
case,  which  had  been  sleeping  in  the 
files  of  the  Commission  since  September, 
1923,  when  final  briefs  were  filed.  It 
is  understood  that  this  report  advises 
the  president  that  the  Commission  has 
been  unable  to  ascertain  Argentine 
production  costs  and  recommends  that 
the  case  be  wiped  off  the  docket. 

"Following  a  resolution  of  the  United 
States  Senate,  the  Commission  on  March 
4  ordered  an  investigation  of  the  rates 
of  fluid  milk  and  cream.  Owing  to  a 
discrepancy  between  the  old  tariff  on 
butter  and  the  present  tariff  on  cream, 
which  is  20  cents  a  gallon  up  to  25  per 
cent,  butter  fat  content,  and  which,  at 
40  per  cent,  butter  fat  content,  is 
equivalent  to  about  6  cents  per  pound 
in  terms  of  butter,  Canadian  cream  ship- 
ments into  this  country  have  increased 
very  rapidly  during  the  past  two  or  three 
years.  Last  year,  for  example,  Canada 
shipped  about  5y?  million  pounds  of 
butter  into  the  United  States,  and  nearly 
19  million  pounds  of  butter  in  the  form 
of  cream.  The  order  of  the  President 
advancing  the  duty  on  butter  will  in- 
crease this  discrepancy,  and  will  prob- 
ably heavily  increase  Canadian  cream 
shipments  until  such  time  as  a  tariff 
adjustment  is  made. 

"A  special  meeting  of  the  executive 
committee  and  representatives  of  mem- 
ber associations  of  the  federation  has 
been  called  in  Washington  to  determine 
upon  a  course  of  action  to  be  pursued 
in  connection  with  this  new  investiga- 
tion. 

"Word  now  comes  that  the  Commis- 
sion is  about  ready  to  make  a  prelimi- 
nary report  of  its  investigation  of  vege- 
table oils,  and  that  a  final  hearing  may 
be  expected  before  many  weeks." 


GOOD  MAINE  MEETING 

West  Minot,  Me.,  local  has  the  dis- 
tinction of  being  the  first  local  in  New 
England  to  take  up  the  question  of  the 
new  plan  of  dues  payment.  Snow  was 
still  three  feet  deep  on  the  level  and 
traveling  all  but  impossible  when  Mr. 
Warner  visited  them  but  16  dairymen 
turned  out,  most  of  them  being  already 
members  of  the  association.  They 
elected  Claude  W.  Sawyer  as  president 
and  Charles  Sawyer  as  secretary.  There 
was  a  big  call  for  the  NEMPA  to  get 
in  all  non-members.  The  two  who 
were  non-members  had  already  received 
their  letters  from  the  central  office  and 
both  had  signed  up. 


April,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


Forced  Drop  in  Springfield  Price 

Chain  Store  Milk  from  Brattleboro  Co-operative  Chief 
Cause  of  Reduction  March  15 


The  Springfield  marketing  committee 
of  the  NEMPA  reduced  the  price  of 
milk  in  that  city  one  cent  March  J.S, 
and  a  similar  decrease  was  made  in  the 
Holyoke  market.  The  reduction  was 
the  result  of  the  chain  store  situation 
with  some  other  contrihuting  causes. 
There  was  no  call  for  a  reduction  on 
the  part  of  consumers  nor  did  the  condi- 
tions of  supply  and  demand  warrant  any 
reduction.  But  the  change  in  price  was 
a  market  necessity  to  meet  conditions 
forced  the  NEMPA  to  make  the 
coming  into  the  market  at  less  than 
the  NEMPA  price. 

The  814  cent  price  had  continued  in 
the  Springfield  market  since  last  July 


charged  by  us  for  milk  in  40  quart  cans 
delivered  to  the  dealer  raw.  This  one- 
half  cent  margin  secured  by  the  Brattle- 
boro Co-operative  is  supposed  to  pay 
the  cost  of  pasteurizing,  bottling  and  the 
additional  expense  of  delivery  to  Spring- 
field in  bottles.  We  are  positive  this 
amount  is  insufficient." 

The  best  information  we  can  get 
indicates  that  such  costs  would  total 
about  \l/2  cents.  Unless  the  Brattleboro 
creamery  were  getting  V/2  cents  above 
the  NEMPA  price  for  this  milk  del- 
ivered in  Springfield  to  the  Phillips 
chain  stores  were  getting  it  decidedly 
lower  than  the  standard  price  for  milk. 
This  explains  why  they   were   able  tc 


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Nine  years  ago,  when  this  na- 
tion was  preparing  for  war,  it 
found  the  Bell  Telephone  Sys- 
tem ready  for  service  at  home 
and  abroad.  The  war  found  the 
Bell  System  prepared.  From  its 
technical  forces  so  needful  to 
meet  our  war-time  activities  in 
this  country,  fourteen  battalions 
were  organized  to  carry  to  the 
front  the  highest  developments 
of  the  telephone  art.  No  other 
nation  had  so  complete  a  sys- 
tem of  communication  to  aid 
in  mobilizing  its  resources.  No 
other  nation  was  able  to  put 
into  the  field  a  military  com- 
munication system  or  equal 
effectiveness. 

Fifty  years  ago  Alexander 
Graham  Bell,  the  inventor  of 
the  telephone,  gave  to  the 
world  a  new  art.   He  had  the 


visionofanation-widetelephone 
system  by  which  people  near  at 
hand  and  far  apart  could  talk 
to  one  another  as  if  face  to  face. 
He  foresaw  a  usefulness  for 
the  telephone  which  could  not 
be  achieved  without  innumer- 
able developments,  inventions 
and  improvements,  to  him  un- 
known. But  not  even  he  foresaw 
the  marvelous  application  of 
telephony  which  gave  to  the 
American  armies  that  fighting 
efficiency  which  is  possible  only 
when  there  is  instant  exchange 
of  complete  information. 

Since  the  completion  of  its 
service  in  time  of  war,  the  Bell 
System  has  devoted  itself  to 
the  extension  of  the  telephone 
art  as  one  of  the  great  agencies 
for  the  development  of  the 
pursuits  of  peace. 


and  was  in  line  with  the  policy  of  that 
city  to  follow  the  Boston  price.  The 
new  price  of  cents  is  a  full  cent 
below  Boston  and  if  further  reductions 
are  necessary  in  order  to  stabilize  the 
markets  of  the  Connecticut  Valley  the 
difference  between  Springfield  and  Bos- 
ton will  be  still  greater.  Experience 
has  shown  that  the  best  conditions  come 
when  Springfield  is  on  the  same  level 
with  Boston.  But  the  unfortunate 
situation  which  arose  in  that  market 
forced  the  NEMPA  to  make  the 
reduction. 

The  uneasiness  in  the  Springfjeld 
market  started  at  Christmas  time  when 
the  Phillips  chain  stores  reduced  their 
price  to  11  cents.  For  some  months 
they  had  been  selling  at  12  cents,  three 
cents  below  the  prevailing  house  delivery 
price.  When  this  chain  of  stores  reduced 
their  price  other  chain  stores  had  to  do 
the  same.  Some  of  these  other  stores 
were  buying  from  the  Springfield  Dairy 
System  and  some  were  buying  from 
dealers  who  got  their  supply  from  the 
System.  Those  who  were  buying  direct 
asked  for  a  lower  price  from  the 
System  in  order  that  they  might  con- 
tinue to  get  their  reasonable  profit  on 
the  milk.  Dealers  who  were  supplying 
other  chain  stores  asked  for  a  lower 
price  from  the  System  in  order  that 
they  might  handle  the  milk  which  was 
sold  to  stores  at  a  reasonable  profit. 

The  Phillips  chain  stores  buv  '  their 
milk  from  the  co-operative  plant  at 
Brattleboro.  The  milk  is  pasteurized 
and  bottled  at  the  Brattleboro  plant  and 
shipped  to  Springfield  in  cases.  The 
important  factor  in  the  situation  is  the 
basis  on  which  the  Brattleboro  co- 
operative sells  milk  to  the  Phillips  chain 
stores.  The  NEMPA  has  no  direct 
knowledge  of  the  trade  but  assumes  that 
a  statement  made  by  Manager  Luke  H 
RiVkert  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Springfield  Dairy  System  is  correct  as 
it  never  was  contradicted.  The  state- 
ment was  as  follows : 

"The  price  received  by  the  Co- 
operative at  Brattleboro  for  their  milk 
is  only  one-half  cent  above  the  price 


make  the  cent  reduction  in  their  resale 
price  without  unduly  cutting  down  theii 
margin.  They  were  actually  buying 
milk  a  cent  cheaper  than  other  dealers 
supplying  other  chain  stores  in  Spring- 
field. 

Dealers  who  were  forced  to  meet 
this  competitive  advantage  of  the  Phil- 
lips chain  store  milk  pay  the  Springfield 
dairy  system  the  NEMPA  price  and 
assume  the  costs  of  pasteurization  and 
bottling.  The  Dairy  System  on  such 
milk  as  is  sold  to  chain  stores,  pays  the 
NEMPA  price  to  its  farmers,  less  the 
station  charge,  and  assume  the  cost  of 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1926 


Guarding 

the  Supply 

While  it  is  true  that  milk 
as  it  leaves  the  healthy 
cow  is  nature's  purest, 
richest  food ;  it  is  also 
true  that  milk  and  milk 
foods  are  most  easily 
contaminated  and  ren- 
dered inferior  through 
impurities  which  enter 
the  milk  during  han- 
dling and  holding  pro- 
cesses. 

It  is  because  experience 
has  proved  the  profitable 
use  of 

in  preventing  —  through 
the  sweet,  safe,  depend- 
able, sanitary  cleanliness 
it  creates — these  quality 
losses  that  thousands  of 
dairymen,  cheesemakers 
and  creamerymen  have 
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all  dairy  cleaning. 

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metal,  but  the  relentless 
enemy  of  dirt. 

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house  carries  with  it  an 
unconditional  guarantee 
of  efficiency  and  econ- 
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NEW  HAMPSHIRE  ASSISTS 


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test Against  Railroad  Rate 
Increase 

The  Granite  State  Dairyman's  Associa- 
tion took  vigorous  action  in  support  of 
the  New  England  wide  effort  to  prevent 
an  increase  of  20  per  cent,  in  the  railroad 
transportation  rates  on  milk  by  present- 
ing to  the  New  Hampshire  Public  Serv- 
ice Commission  a  formal  request  for  a 
suspension  of  the  proposed  rates  within 
the  state  and  for  hearings  in  which  the 
dairy  industry  could  present  its  case. 
The  reasons  given  by  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Association  tell  the  story  of  what 
the  dairy  industry  is  now  facing  in  that 
state  and  what  an  additional  burden 
would  mean  to  it.  The  statement  of  the 
association  was  in  part  as  follows : 

Dairymen  in  the  milk  shipping  dis- 
tricts have  received  approximately  $2.50 
per  hundred  weight  for  their  milk  de- 
livered f.  o.  b.  during  the  past  year. 

Under  present  conditions  at  least  25 
per  cent,  of  the  dairy  cows  of  our  state 
fail  to  pay  any  profit,  25  per  cent, 
barely  "get  by,"  and  50  per  cent,  only 
return  fair  profits.  (Information  de- 
ducted by  our  State  University  from 
records  obtained  from  Cow  Test  As- 
sociation operated  in  several  districts 
of  the  State.  We  would  further  add 
that  herds  which  are  in  the  Cow  Test 
Association  are  without  question  better 
than  the  average  dairy  herds  of  the 
State.  See  Extension  Circular  No.  22, 
obtained  from  the  Extension  Service, 
University  of  New  Hampshire,  Durham, 
New  Hampshire.) 

COW  TEST  RECORDS 

A  summary  of  the  Cow  Test  Asso- 
ciation reports  for  the  year  1922-1923 
shows  that  the  value  of  the  product  for 
the  average  animal  was  $157.28,  that 
the  average  feed  cost  was  $103.18,  mak- 
ing a  return  above  feed  cost  of  $54.10. 
Our  statisticians  inform  us  that  the 
feed  cost  represents  but  50  per  cent,  of 
the  total  cost  of  milk  production.  You 
will  note  from  the  above  statistics  that 
present  returns  in  the  dairy  industry 
will  not  allow  an  increase  in  tariff 
rates. 

During  the  past  five  years  many  of 
our  dairymen  have  contracted  debts, 
have  placed  mortgages  on  their  prop- 
erty, have  failed  to  keep  in  proper  re- 
pair their  buildings  and  equipment,  and 
are  finding  it  more  difficult  than  it  was 
fifteen  to  twenty-five  years  ago  to  ob- 
tain sufficient  financial  returns  from 
their  business  to  afford  them  fair  and 
reasonable  comforts  and  conveniences  in 
their  homes  above  the  bare  necessities 
of  life. 

The  increase  called  for  in  the  new 
tariff  schedule  will  cost  New  Hamp- 
shire dairymen  approximately  $130,000 
annually. 

We  believe  that  the  railroads  are  bet- 
ter able  to  carry  on  their  business  under 
the  rates  now  operative  than  are  the 
dairymen  on  the  returns  they  are  re- 
ceiving. 

The  Granite  State  Dairymen's  As- 
sociation further  opposes  any  compro- 
mise or  plan  whereby  tariff  may  be  in- 
creased in  consideration  of  better  trans- 
portation service.  Dairying  in  New 
Hampshire  will  not  continue  to  sustain 
itself  if  costs  continue  to  increase,  re- 
gardless of  the  quality  of  service  ren- 
dered. Furthermore,  present  revenues 
are  great  enough  to  permit  of  efficient 
service.  Should  dairying  decrease,  rev- 
enues received  by  railroad  companies 
from  products  going  to  market  and 
from_  fertilizer,  feeds  and  grain,  farm 
machinery,  etc.,  going  to  the  farms  will 
be  decreased,  therefore  we  believe  the 
railroad  should  give  efficient  service  in 
the  handling  of  dairy  products  for  its 
own  welfare. 


"What's  the  shape  of  the  earth?"  asked 
the  teacher,  calling  suddenly  upon  Willie. 
"Round." 

"How  do  you  know  it's  round  ?" 

"All  right,"  said  Willie;  "it's  square 
then.  I  don't  want  to  start  any  argument 
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The  man  who  thought  a  buggy  was  good  enough 

In  the  old  days,  a  solid,  conservative  citizen  might  sniff  and  tell  you  he 
didn't  read  advertising. 

He  didn't  think  so  much  of  the  horseless  carriage,  either.  The  tele- 
phone was  newfangled,  and  an  insult  to  the  United  States  mails. 

As  for  radio,  aeroplanes,  wireless  photography — if  they  had  been  born 
then,  he  probably  would  have  thought  them  a  bit  immoral. 

But  he's  changed.  He's  been  educated:  His  point  of  view  has  been 
made  broader  and  more  modern.  He  has  been  civilized — by  the  automo- 
bile, the  telephone,  radio,  advertising. 

Every  single  one  has  opened  up  new  paths  for  him,  taught  him  new 
things.  Advertising,  especially.  Advertising  tells  him  the  newest  things 
to  wear,  the  best  things  to  eat.  Advertising  tells  his  wife  how  to  make 
a  home  up  to  date  and  attractive.  Advertising  tells  him  the  prices  to  pay 
for  the  things  he  buys,  saves  him  from  the  old-fashioned  ways  of  doing 
business — helps  him  live  well,  keeps  him  modern. 

Advertising  can  help  you.  The  advertisements  in  the  New  England 
Dairyman  are  here  to  tell  you  of  things  that  make  life  more  comfortable, 
more  interesting,  happier.  Read  them  faithfully.  They'll  keep  you  abreast 
of  the  times. 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


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Question  Answered 

Here  is  a  good  letter.  The  writer 
wants  to  know  why  he  should  be  made 
to  pay  higher  dues  to  the  association  if 
he  ships  cream  than  he  would  if  he 
shipped  milk.  A  perfectly  fair  and 
reasonable  question.  The  answer  is 
equally  direct :    He  won't. 

But  the  question  which  Mr.  Piper 
raises  is  a  natural  one.  Probably  other 
producers  place  the  same  interpretation 
on  the  provisions  of  the  new  power  of 
attorney  as  he  did.  We  give  in  the 
Dairyman  the  explanation  which  was 
immediately  given  to  him.  His  letter 
was  in  part  as  follows : 

"In  January,  1926,  I  sold  to  the  Tur- 
ner Centre  System  2,598  pounds  of  12^ 
per  cent,  cream.  For  the  l/t  of  1  per 
cent,  dues  now  charged,  94  cents  was 
deducted  from  my  check. 

"Under  the  new  rate  of  dues  at  10 
cents  per  hundredweight  for  cream  I 
would  have  paid  $2.60.  But  had  my 
product,  2,598  pounds  of  \2y2  per  cent, 
cream,  been  sold  as  milk  of  market  test 
(3.7  per  cent.),  I  would  have  delivered 
8,776  pounds  of  milk  and  my  dues 
would  have  been  $1.75. 

"Why  the  greater  dues  from  cream 
patrons  ?" 

SEAVEY  A.  PIPER. 

The  power  of  attorney  authorizes  the 
deduction  of  dues  up  to  two  cents  per 
hundred  weight  or  10  cents  per  hundred 
weight  on  cream.  When  the  new  plan 
is  in  full  operation  the  two  cents  per 
hundredweight  will  be  deducted  from 
all  milk  patrons.  But  the  cream  patrons 
will  not  be  required  to  pay  at  the  rate 
of  10  cents  per  hundred  unless  the 
cream  they  ship  is  of  such  a  high  per- 
centage of  fat  that  the  10  cents  per 
hundred  would  be  the  same  as  the  two 
cents  per  hundred  on  milk. 

The  power  of  attorney  authorized 
dues  up  to  10  cents  per  hundred  weight 
as  the  maximum.  In  practice  a  sliding 
scale  of  dues  in  exact  proportion  to 
the  test  of  the  cream  will  be  adopted 
for  cream  patrons.  The  10  cents  per 
hundred  was  simply  put  in  as  a  maxi- 
mum. It  is  about  what  20  per  cent, 
cream  should  pay  to  put  it  on  a  par 
with  3.7  per  cent.  milk.  Very  little  20 
per  cent,  cream  is  shipped  and  it  was 
thought  that  a  10  cent  maximum  would 
allow  sufficient  latitude  to  cover  ordi- 
nary variations  in  test  of  cream. 

If  cream  shippers  sent  in  their  prod- 
uct at  12^  per  cent,  their  payment  of 
dues  would  be  figured  on  the  basis  of 
6.7  cents  per  hundred  which  is  exactly 
the  same  as  two  cents  per  hundred  on 
3.7  per  cent.  milk.  If  the  cream  was 
shipped  at  less  than  12^  per  cent,  the 
dues  would  be  figured  at  a  proportion- 
ately lower  figure  per  hundred.  If  it 
was  shipped  at  more  than  12TA  per 
cent,  the  per  hundred  weight  would  be 
increased.  But  in  no  case  can  it  go 
over  the  10  cents  p$r  hundred  weight 
authorized  in  the  power  of  attorney. 

When  this  sliding  scale  plan  of  pay- 
ment to  enualize  the  dues  of  cream 
shippers  and  milk  shippers  is  taken  into 
consideration  the  answer  to  Mr.  Piper's 
question  is  apparent. 

Tf  his  dues  would  have  been  $1.75  on 
8.776  pounds  of  milk  they  would  In- 
exactly the  same  on  his  cream  shipment 
no  matter  at  what  test  it  was  shinned 
up  to  about  20  per  cent.  No  provision 
is  made  for  cream  testing  higher  than 
that  as  so  little  of  it  is  shipped. 


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In  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Spring- 
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Clinton  Hotel,  March  26,  the  following 
officers  and  members  of  the  sales  com- 
mittee were  elected :  President,  S.  O. 
Russell  of  Brimfield,  Mass. ;  secretary, 
John  Luddy  of  Hazardville,  Conn.  Sales 
committee,  Henry  Frost  of  Brattleboro, 
Vt. ;  O.  A.  Tuttle  of  Hardwick,  Mass.; 
R.  A.  Sikes  of  Ellington,  Conn. ;  Mr. 
Howes  of  Cummington,  Mass.  H.  P. 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1926 


How  Many 

of  THese 

Do  Yov 

Get? 


OPPORTUNITY  AT  HOME 


GRADE  A 


THIS  IS  THE  AMOUNT  OF  VISIBLE  DIRT  FOUND  IN  ONE  P 
I  OF  YOUR  MILK  EXAMINED  JUL  J  3  BBS  


WANT  TO  COMPLIMENT  YOU  ON  THE  HIGH  GRADE  OF  THIS 
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prTTSBl'ROU  DISTRICT  DAIRY  UWM1L 


Is  it  any  won- 
der John  Burke 
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Putnam  Calls  New  England  Land 
of  Promise  in  Radio  Talks 

Many  years  of  wrestling  with  the 
knotty  problems  of  agriculture  in  New 
England  and  especially  in  New  Hamp- 
.shire  has  not  dimmed  the  faith  of 
George  M.  Putnam  that  his  home  state 
and  his  home  section  of  the  Nation  is 
a  land  of  opportunity.  Contact  with  the 
agricultural  leaders  from  other  parts  of 
the  country  and  activities  in  national 
agricultural  organizations,  leaves  Mr. 
Putnam  more  sure  than  ever  that  farm- 
ers right  here  at  home  have  great  ad- 
vantages, if  they  will  make  the  most  of 
them.  His  faith  in  New  Hampshire, 
expressed  in  a  recent  radio  talk,  may 
be  taken  to  mean  all  New  England.  In 
his  radio  talk  Mr.  Putnam  spoke  in 
part  as  follows : 

"The  situation  with  respect  to  New 
Hampshire  agriculture  is  not  unlike  that 
in  other  New  England  states.  It  would 
be  untrue  to  say  that  farmers  are  en- 
tirely satisfied  with  the  present  agri- 
cultural conditions,  or  the  relationship 
of  their  industry  to  other  groups. 

"What  is  the  cause  of  this  generally 
admitted  dissatisfaction  among  farmers? 
Why  is  our  farm  population  decreas- 
ing? Why  have  our  young:  men  and 
women  been  continually  leaving  the 
farms  for  the  past  two  decades  ?  In 
my  opinion  it  is  not  because  they  dis- 
like farm  life.  A  study  of  the  agri- 
cultural situation  in  the  United  States 
made  by  the  Industrial  Conference 
Board  seems  to  indicate  that  the  rea- 
sons are  not  social  but  economic.  The 
economic  status  of  the  farmer  has  de- 
clined steadily  since  1900.  While  60 
per  cent,  of  the  farmer's  income  de- 
pends on  world  conditions  of  supply 
and  demand  and  costs,  which  are  beyond 
his  control,  most  of  the  elements  enter- 
ing into  the  expense  of  operating  the 
farm  are  determined  by  domestic  condi- 
tions which  place  his  costs  on  a  higher 
•  level  of  values  than  the  world  level 
which  determines  the  bulk  of  his  in- 
come. Wholesale  prices  of  farm  prod- 
ucts increased  only  120  per  cent,  in  20 
years  while  •  the  cost  of  products  used 
by  farmers  increased  more  than  300  per 
cent,  in  the  same  period.  The  overhead 
costs  of  farmers,  including  taxes,  in- 
creased nearly  600  per  cent,  in  the  same 
period. 

"What  is  the.  solution  ?  What  will 
restore  agriculture  to  a  parity  with 
other  groups?  What  will  make  the  dol- 
lar received  for  the  products  of  the 
farm  worth  100  cents  in  exchange  for 
farm  supplies,  labor,  taxes  and  interest, 
as  compared  with  the  dollar  earned  by 
labor  or  industry?  In  the  proper  solu- 
tion of  this  problem  rests  the  hope  of 
a  future  prosperous  agriculture  for  New 
England.  I  believe  we  will  find  that 
solution. 

"The  farm  people  of  New  Hampshire 
are  in  as  favorable  a  position  to  exist 
under  the  present  situation,  or  to  bene- 
fit from  any  improved  conditions,  as 
those  in  any  state.  More  than  75  per 
cent,  of  our  farms  are  free  from  mort- 
i  gage  and  they  are  largely  occupied  by 
intelligent,  progressive,  thinking  people, 
many  of  them  descendents  from  the 
original  settlers  who  landed  at  Ply- 
mouth Rock. 

"We  have  numerous  organizations, 
all  of  which  are  working  unselfishly 
toward  the  building  up  in  our  state  of 
a  more  profitable  agriculture  and  a 
more  satisfying  home  life.  We  have 
the  Granite  State  Dairymen's  Associa- 
tion, the  New  Hampshire  Horticultural 
Society,  the  New  Hampshire  Sheep 
Breeders'  Association,  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Poultry  Growers'  Association,  the 
Grange,  the  Farm  Bureau.  During  the 
past  few  years  much  constructive  agri- 
cultural legislation  has  been  enacted 
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or  received  the  support  of  these  several 
farm  organizations.  The  accomplish- 
ments of  these  organizations  have  a 
direct  bearing  on  the  agricultural  op- 
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"New  Hampshire  is  not  in  number 
or  size  of  its  farms  or  in  farm  acre- 
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NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


and  climate  especially  adapted  to  cer- 
tain lines  of  agricultural  production.  No 
section  of  our  country  produces  better 
apples.  This  has  been  proven  repeatedly 
at  our  fruit  shows  in  New  England  and 
elsewhere.  The  little  town  of  Epsom 
with  its  40,000  laying  hens  and  the  town 
of  Weare  with  nearly  as  many  are  con- 
crete illustrations  of  the  possibilities 
along  this  line.  For  years  dairying  has 
been  our  leading  agricultural  industry. 
While  the  dairymen  have  been  some- 
what harder  hit  than  the  orchardist  and 
the  poultrymen  in  recent  years,  present 
indications  point  to  a  brighter  future 
for  the  dairy  industry. 

"New  Hampshire  soil  and  climate 
present  a  great  variety  of  opportunities 
for  specialized  or  diversified  farming. 
Our  nearness  to  market  gives  us  dis- 
tinct advantage  in  many  ways  over  pro- 
ducers in  other  areas.  Another  advan- 
tage which  the  New  Hampshire  farmer 
has  over  his  mid-west  farmer  competitor 
is  the  price  at  which  farm  land  can  be 
purchased,  as  compared  with  lands  in 
the  west.  The  average  price  of  good 
plow  land  in  New  Hampshire  is  $60 
per  acre  while  in  Iowa  and  Illinois  it  is 
more  than  $150  per  acre.  Thus  New 
Hampshire  has  an  advantage  of  about 
$100  per  acre  in  the  capital  investment. 
With  the  added  advantage  of  nearby 
markets  and  lower  transportation  costs 
our  situation  should  compare  favorably 
with  farmers  of  the  West. 

"There  are  other  great  advantages. 
Greater  comforts  are  enjoyed  by  our 
New  England  farmers  than  by  farmers 
in  newer  settled  sections  of  the  country. 
We  have  commodious  farm  homes,  the 
like  of  which  are  found  nowhere  else. 
We  have  telephones,  electric  lights  and 
radio  more  generally  here  in  New  Eng- 
land than  in  the  West. 

"From  a  knowledge  of  conditions  in 
other  parts  of  the  country,  gained 
through  personal  contact  with  farm 
leaders;  I  am  sure  that  New  Hampshire 
farmers  are  situated  more  favorably  in 
these  respects  than  in  most  places  in 
this  country.  Think  of  the  many  ad- 
vantages which  have  come  through  or- 
ganization and  co-operation  which  we 
could  not  have  attained  in  any  other 
way.  Let  us  look  over  the  past  and 
see  what  contribution  we  personally 
have  made  in  support  of  organizations 
seeking  to  improve  agricultural  condi- 
tions in  our  country  and  state.  If  in 
the  past  we  have  failed  to  appreciate 
the  relationship  of  organization  to  ag- 
ricultural progress,  in  the  words  of  the 
danger  sign  at  the  crossing,  'stop,  look 
and  listen,'  lest  we,  as  individual  farm- 
ers, get  crushed  beneath  the  well  or- 
ganized trains  of  industry  and  labor. 
May  we  realize  our  obligation  to  our 
neighbor  and  our  industry  and  through 
affiliation  with  the  Farm  Bureau,  the 
Grange  and  other  organizations  seeking 
the  betterment  of  farm  conditions  and 
the  perpetuation  of  the  rural  home  ful- 
fill such  obligations  in  a  way  to-  be  the 
greatest  benefit  to  all  our.  people." 


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(Continued    from    page  three) 

effect  on  the  present  percentage  basis 
of  dues  payment  but  the  adoption  of  a 
hundredweight  basis  of  payment  paves 
the  way  for  its  adoption. 

Another  question  which  comes  up 
often  is  regarding  the  provision  of  the 
power  of  attorney  slips  authorizing  dues 
collections  of  "not  exceeding  two  cents 
a  hundred  on  milk  or  10  cents  a  hundred 
on  cream."  The  power  of  attorney  was 
written  in  that  way  to  provide  a  plan 
under  which  dues  can  be  collected  on 
the  present  basis  up  to  next  December 
and  after  that  on  the  new  basis.  This 
is  especially  important  in  cases  of  new 
men  joining  or  former  members  being 
reinstated,  as  it  provides  for  pavment  of 
dues,  on  the  old  basis,  up  to  the  time 
when  the  new  basis  goes  into  effect. 

The  "10  cents  on  cream"  "provision  is 
also_  the  subject  of  considerable  ques- 
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has  brought  this  question  forward  so 
definitely  and  concretely  in  a  letter  that 
it  is  discussed  separately  in  another 
story  m  this  issue.  It  will  be  found  on 
page  nine. 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1926 


Eastern  States  Farn>ers'  ExcnanSe 


MANCHESTER  WINS  SUIT 


Relieve  the  Pressure 

Because  you  have  so  much  on 
your  mind  you  find  it  difficult  to 
do  your  work  effectively  and  each 
year  this  rush  and  hustle  costs  you 
many  dollars  in  misused  energy 
and  neglected  opportunities.  Most 
problems  of  farm  operation  and 
management  you  have  to  see  to 
yourself.  They  cannot  be  delegated 
to  individuals  or  to  organizations. 
It  is  therefore  important  that  you 
do  degelate  to  competent  adminis- 
trators the  problems  which  with 
profit  to  yourself  can  be  delegated. 

The  Eastern  States  Farmers' 
Exchange  is  relieving  thousands  of 
farmers  of  feed  buying  worries. 
This  farmers'  co-operative  operates 
solely  for  the  interest  of  its  mem- 
bers. It  selects  ingredients  with  the 
utmost  care,  testing  them  to  prove 
their  quality  in  its  well  equipped 
chemical  laboratory.  It  blends 
these  quality  ingredients  into  ra- 
tions for  dairy  cattle,  poultry, 
hogs  and  horses  in  accordance 
with  the  recommendations  of  stock 
and  poultry  nutrition  experts. 

Thousands  of  farmers  who  in  the 
past  have  been  dependent  for  their 
feed  requirements  upon  sources 
over  which  they  had  no  control, 
having  had  to  take  ingredients  and 
manufactured  feeds  from  local 
stocks  regardless  of  quality  or  go 
without,  are  today  availing  them- 
selves of  the  Eastern  States  Farm- 
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buying  service. 

Before  you  get  head  over  heels 
in  spring's  work,  figure  up  your 
summer  feed  and  your  winter  feed 
requirements  and  make  out  your 
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not  only  for  the  manufactured 
feeds  which  you  will  need  but  also 
for  the  bran,  Eastern  States  oats, 
Eastern  States  provender,  etc. 
Farmers  who  are  members  of  the 
Exchange  and  buy  their  feed  re- 
quirements through  it  find  it  ad- 
vantageous to  order  on  contract. 
These  contracts  make  it  possible 
for  their  Exchange  to  run  their 
mill  and  to  purchase  their  ingredi- 
ents more  effectively.  Through 
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Exchange  finance  their  purchases 
and  this  credit  loan  which  costs 
them  nothing  brings  them  in  50c  a 
ton  cash. 

Make  yourself  independent  of 
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Injunction  Forbids  Farmer  to  Sell 
His  Milk  Elsewhere  During 
Term  of  Contract 

Victory  for  the  Manchester  Dairy 
System  and  vindication  of  the  soundness 
and  strength  of  the  contract  between 
the  system  and  its  patrons  has  come 
through  the  action  of  the  Supreme 
Court  in  granting  an  injunction  restrain- 
ing Henry  M.  Hayward  of  Amherst 
from  selling  the  dairy  products  from 
his  farm  to  anyone  but  the  Manchester 
Dairy  System.  Previously  Mr.  Hay- 
ward  had  been  ordered  to  pay  damages 
totaling  $580.  He  is  now  prevented 
from  selling  his  milk  elsewhere.  Im- 
mediately after  the  injunction  papers 
wore  served  Mr.  Hayward  began  send- 
ing his  milk  to  the  system  plant. 

It  has  been  a  long  drawn  out  case 
and  has  been  watched  with  interest.  It 
is  not  only  a  source  of  satisfaction  to 
the  leaders  who  started  the  dairy  sys- 
tem that  their  contract  has  been  judged 
valid  and  binding  but  it  establishes  a 
precedent  of  considerable  value  to  the 
co-operative  movement.  The  injunction 
requires  Mr.  Hayward  to  deliver  his 
milk  to  the  system  until  his  contract 
expires  in  March,  1927.  The  only  way 
he  can  avoid  it  is  to  sell  out  or  use 
the  milk  on  the  farm.  The  decision  of 
the  courts  gives  substantial  additional 
strength  to  the  dairy  svstem  movement. 
Reuben  Hall  of  the  NEMPA  staff  was 
counsel  for  the  Dairy  System  and  con- 
ducted the  case  in  association  with  Man- 
chester attorneys. 


NEW  FIELD  MAN 

F.L.  Foley  of  Maine  is  the  first  of 
our  new  field  force  to  begin  work.  We 
welcome  him  to  our  official  family.  He 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Maine  Agricultural 
College  at  Orono  and  for  some  time 
managed  a  large  farm  in  Plymouth,  Me.. 
owned  by  Mr.  Langeley,  proprietor  of 
a  chain,  of  restaurants  in  New  Haven, 
Conn.  When  Mr.  Langley  sold  out  his 
dairy  herd  a  few  years  ago  Mr.  Foley 
became  the  manager  of  the  Sagadahoc 
dairy  farm  in  South  Portland,  Me.  This 
farm  put  out  a  special  brand  of  milk 
which  brought  a  special  price.  The 
farm  is  one  of  the  models  of  modern 
sanitation  and  convenience  in  that  sec- 
tion of  New  England  and  the  whole 
business  was  conducted  on  a  high  plane. 
Mr.  Foley  had  charge  of  the  dairy  and 
of  the  sales  end  of  the  business. 

Later  Mr.  Foley  went  to  work  in  Mr. 
Lang-ley's  chain  of  restaurants  in  New 
Haven.  He  now  re-enters  the  agricul- 
tural field  as  a  member  of  the  NEMPA 
staff.  He  is  to  be  one  of  us  in  every 
sense  as  he  owns  a  farm  near  Portland 
and  is  building  it  up  as  a  dairy  farm. 
Few  men  have  come  to  the  association 
with  such  high  recommendations  as  are 
given  Mr.  Foley  by  Dean  Merrill  and 
others  at  the  college  and  the  business 
men  with  whom  he  has  been  associated. 

Under  the  plan  of  organiaztion  and 
field  work  which  as  adopted  as  the  result 
of  the  vote  in  our  last  annual  meeting 
four  new  men  will  be  put  into  the 
field.  These,  with  the  three  men  now  in 
charge  of  the  market  districts,  will 
cover  all  our  territorv.  Each  will  have 
his  own  district  with  district  head- 
nuarters.  One  will  have  the  Maine  ter- 
ritorv. one  will  be  stationed  at  St. 
Tohnshurv.  Vt.  taking  the  place  of 
Harold  P.  Adams  who  was  recently 
moved  to  the  Western  Market  district 
with  headnuarters  at  Northhampton. 
Another  will  have  the  northwestern  Ver- 
mont area  with  headquarters  at  Essf-x 
Tunction  and  the  fourth  will  have  thr 
Southern  Vermont  and  New  York 
Writorv  with  headquarters  at  Rutland. 
Vt.  It  is  hoped  to  p-et  most  of  tbose 
men  in  the  field  bv  Mav  1.  Mr.  Foley 
is  the  first  to  he  started. 


Client :  "I  want  to  find  out  if  I  have 
grounds  for  divorce?" 

Attorney  :  "Are  you  married  ?" 

Client :  "Of  course  I  am." 

Attorney :  "You  have."  —  Missouri 
Pacific. 


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Teat  Cup 


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cleaning — there  are  only  two  parts. 


These  days  everyone  admits  that  a  good  mechanical 
milker  does  the  work  in  one  third  the  time  of  hand  milk- 
ing.  But  the  cleaning  has  in  the  past  been  a  bit  of  a  chore. 

The  new  simplified  Perfection  teat  cup  solves  this  prob- 
lem. Only  2  parts — one  pull — and  it  is  all  apart  for  quick 
and  easy  cleaning.  Furthermore  users  find  that  the  new 
teat  cup  milks  faster,  cleaner  and  with  less  vacuum. 

If  you  have  one  of  the  thousands  of  Perfection  Milkers 
which  have  given  such  enthusiastic  satisfaction  since  they 
were  put  on  the  market  13  years  ago  or  if  you  have  any 

other  inflation  type  milker  you 
can  better  it  at  a  small  expense 
with  these  new  teat  cups. 

If  you  are  still  milking  by  hand 
consider  the  cost  in  hours  wasted 
and  in  drudgery.  Send  for  our 
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monthly  payments. 

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O URL A  P  has  declined  300 
*^  since  January  1st.  W 
therefore,  forced  to  adjust 
as  follows : 

No.  1  Eastern  Slates  Dairy  Feed  Bags  . 
No.  1  Eastern  States  Poultry  Feed  Bags 
No.  1  Other  reed  Bags  -  .  .  . 
No.  2  Bags  

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SPREADER 

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pril,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Par/c  Thirteen 


More  Milk 

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f     result  of 

Healthy 
Udder 

and 

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INSTITUTE  PLANS 


No  need  to  tell  an  experienced  cow  owner  that 
any  condition  of  udder  or  teats  that  gives  the  cow 
discomfort  causes  a  holding  back  of  the  milk. 

Why,  then,  neglect  even  (he  smallest  ol  these 
hurts?  Why  make  the  milking  hard  and  the  yield 
smaller? 

For  sore  teats,  teats  cracked  or  chapped ,  stepped 
on,  or  injured  in  any  way,  just  a  dab  of.  Bag  Balm 
starts  an  immediate  healing.  For  caked  bag, 
bunches,  inflammation  of  any  kind  this  wonderiul 
penetrating,  healing  ointment  insures  a  quick  re- 
building of  healthy,  normal  tissues.  Shortens  the 
work  of  milking  by  keeping  the  teats  soft,  silky, 
pliable. 

Bag  Balm,  in  fact,  has  a  hundred-and-one  uses 
on  the  farm.  Quickly  heals  any  kind  oi  animal  sore 
or  skin  trouble. 

Bag  Balm  is  sanitary,  clean  and  pleasant  to  use. 
Cannot  taint  the  milk.  Keep  a  can  on  hand  con- 
stantly. Big  10-ounce  can  only  60c.  If  your  feed 
dealer,  general  store  or  druggist  is  without  Bag  Balm, 
we  will  send  it  by  mail,  postpaid. 

Booklet,  "Dairy  Wrinkles,"  sent  on  request. 

DAIRY  ASSOCIATION  CO.,  Inc. 

Dept.  N         ...      Lyndonville,  Vt. 


"  MADE.   BY  THE 

KOW-KARE  PEOPLE" 


Leaders  in  Co-operative  Movement 
Discuss  Program  for  1926 
Sessions 

General  plans  for  the  1926  session  of 
the  American  Institute  of  Co-operation 
were  discussed  at  a  meeting  of  the  ex- 
ecutive committee  of  the  institute  held 
recently  in  Washington.  The  success 
of  the  institute  at  its  first  session  last 
summer  and  the  recognition  of  its  value 
which  has  been  general  in  co-operative 
and  educational  circles,  gives  the  lead- 
ers confidence  to  plan  for  an  even 
larger  and  more  valuable  session  for 
the  coming  summer. 

The  institute  will  be  held  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Minnesota  beginning  June 
21  and  closing  July  17.  This  brings 
the  four  weeks  session  earlier  in  the 
summer  than  was  the  case  last  year. 
It  is  believed  that  the  change  will  be 
appreciated  by  educators  and  co-opera- 
tive leaders  as  it  appears  to  be  much 
easier  for  them  to  get  away  from  their 
regular  duties  at  that  time.  It  also 
gives  the  college  men  an  opportunity 
to  attend  the  institute  before  the  sum- 
mer school  sessions  in  many  cases. 

The  program  which  has  been  mapped 
out  in  a  general  way  will  be  on  a 
broader  basis  than  last  year's.  Instead 
of  confining  their  attention  so  strictly 
to  the  management  and  theory  of  co- 
operatives, the  sessions  will  also  include 
consideration  of  the  sociological  signi- 
ficance of  the  co-operative  movement. 
It  will  not  be  simply  a  question  of  the 
dollars  and  cents  side  of  the  co-opera- 
tive movement  or  the  legal  aspects ; 
the  effects  of  co-operative  enterprises 
on  community  and  civic  life  and  institu- 
tions will  form  a  considerable  part  of 
the  program. 

With  the  sessions  set  for  the  west 
the  program  naturally  will  give  some- 
what more  attention  to  the  co-opera- 
tive movement  in  the  principal  products 
of  the  west.  Grains  and  grain  co- 
operatives will  have  a  prominent  place 
on  the  program,  also  the  dairy  co- 
operatives dealing  more  largely  with 
manufactured  dairy  products.  There 
will  be  much  to  attract  New  England 
students  of  co-operatives  and  it  is  ex- 
pected that  a  considerable  number  will 
go.  About  SO  from  New  England  at- 
tended the  sessions  la^t  year.  Mr.  Pat- 
tee  _  is  chairman  of  the  trustees,  also 
chairman  of  the  executive  committee. 


Get  Bigger  Yields 

With  Good  Seed  Beds 


Co-operative  Experiment 

We  take  unusual  satisfaction  in  re- 
viewing the  annual  meetings  of  the 
three  dairy  systems  which  were  organ- 
ized around  three  markets,  Springfield, 
Worcester  and  Manchester.  They  were 
in  a  way  a  co-operative  experiment 
and  there  were  a  good  many  doubters 
as  to  how  they  would  come  out.  So  it 
is  with  especial  satisfaction  that  we 
find  them  coming  strong.  They  have 
passed  through  some  of  the  trials  which 
all  co-operatives  seem  to  have  in  their 
first  few  years  but  they  seem  to  have 
emerged  from  this  period  much  more 
quickly  than  some  groups  and  to  have 
set    their    faces    more   steadily  toward 

Give  your  seeds  the  right  start — a  fine,  well  cut,  ,.u„  f nrnt-p 
deep  seed  bed.  Then  they  can  root  well  and  grow  iuiure. 

into  stronger,  hardier  plants.  Seed  beds  will  be         The  significant  thing  about  all  three 

made  this  year  on  thousands  ot  farms  from  coast       _r  ii,„„  .-„  tu„*  it,  j  *i  •  i 

to  coast  with  ot  them  is  that  the  producers  are  think- 

SINGLE  ACTION  HARROWS  mS  so  strongly  of  the  service  rendered 

fitted  with  the  famous  CLARK  "CUTAWAY"  disks    '  them  bv  their  co-operative  organization. 

of  cutlery  steel  with  edges  forged  sharp.  They  cut  Price  is  imnortanr  nf  rnnr=p  hnf  thoro 
deeper,  pulverize  finer  and  wear  much  longer.  Send        ^  rice   IS   important  01    Course,    Out  there 

the  coupon  below  for  the  FREE  catalog  showing  the  are  hundreds  of  dairy  farmer  members 
complete  CLARK  "CUTAWAY"  line  of  disk  im-      of  these  three  systems  who  are  exneri- 

plements:  Double  Action  Tractor  and  Horse  Drawn        „.;,,„  „  „r  „  ...      .  r  . 

Harrows;OrchardHarrowsandPlows;BushandBog        er}CU\g  a   Sense  of  Security  at  the  beglll- 

Plows  for  tough  plowing;  Right  Lap  Plows  for  fallow      ning  of  this  surplus  season,  a  security 

land;  Grove  Harrows;  One  Horse  Disk  Harrows,  etc.        thev    never    have    Wnnwm     hf.fr.rf.  TiV,r 

You  will  receive  also  a  FREE  copy  of  our  valuable  <ney  never  nave  Known  Deiore.  for 
book,  "Tht  Soil  and  Its  Tillage."  Mail  the  coupon  tnev  know  that  no  matter  what  comes 
NOW.  their  milk  will  be  taken  care  of.  There 

will  be  no  shutbacks,  no  hurrying  around 
and  trying  to  dispose  of  some  or  the 
whole  of  their  milk.    This,  as  we  see 
mxnnngp  it,  is  something  of  very  real  value  to 

all  0f  them.    They  can  go  about  their 
T'Z'r.^JZZVii r^T   business  unworried,  for  they  know  their 

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3  Main  St.,  Higganum,  Conn.  own  organization  will  take  care  of  all 

Please  send  me  FREE  your  catalog  and  a  copy 

the  milk  they  produce,  all  the  time. 

of  your  book  "The  Soil  and  lis  Tillage."  •  . 

Name    "I'd  like  to  be  cremated,  but  I'm  sure 

my  wife  wouldn't  like  it. 

Address    "Why  SO?" 

Site  of  Farm  "She's  always  complaining  about  my 

-  —  _  ijuiuiii.i  i. ... i  —  i         m      leaving  my  ashes  around." 


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Use 
Bowker's 

You  take  no  chances,  you  make 
no  costly  experiments  when  you 
use  Bowker's  Fertilizers.  On 
New  England  soils  they  have  an 
unequaled  record  for  successful 
crop  production  that  has  stood  for 
half  a  century. 

Back  of  this  wonderful  record 
is  fifty  years  devoted  to  the  care- 
ful study  of  New  England  soils 
and  their  special  needs.  Back  of 
it  is  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
plant  foods.  Back  of  it  is  our 
constant  aim  to  make  fertiliz- 
ers that  will  answer  exactly  the 
requirements  of  New  England 
farmers. 

They  contain  the  right  plant 
foods  in  forms  most  readily  avail- 
able for  growing  crops  and  are  in 
perfect  mechanical  condition. 

Ask  your  dealer  for  prices 
or  write  direct  to  us 

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Lymphangitis,  Poll  Evil,  Fistula, 
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Does  not  blister  or  remove  the 
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NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1926 


You  pay  once  only  for  any 
Concrete  Farm  Improvement 


Concrete 
Milkhouse 
Increases  Profits 


Cool,  clean,  permanent, 
easy  to  build,  economi- 
cal. All  these  desirable 
qualities  in  a  milkhouse 
can  be  assured  by  build- 
ing it  of  Concrete. 

Concrete  milkhouses 
are  making  money  for 
thousands  of  farmers. 
Creameries  pay  premi- 
ums for  milk  kept  cool 
and  sweet  in  sanitary 
concrete  buildings. 

Concrete  milkhouses 
andother  improvements 
on  the  farm  can  be  easily 
built  by  following  a  few 
simple  directions.Write 
today  for  our  free  illus- 
trated booklet,  "Plans 
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BOSTON 

A  National  Organization 
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OFFICES  IN  31  CITIES 


2H-ui.  CORRUGATED  STEEL 

2^-INCH  CORRUGATED  SHEETS. 
Furnished  in  sheets  which  actually 
measure  26  inches  wide.  Have  a  cov- 
ering width  of  only  24  inches  on  ac- 
count of  the  side  lap.  When  ordering 
allow  from  4  to  6  inches  for  end  laps, 
depending  upon  the  pitch  of  roof.  For 
siding,  a  2-inch  end  lap  is  sufficient. 
When  ordering  allow  for  side  laps  to 
cover  100  square  feet  of  surface;  this 
does  not  include  the  end  laps. 
Prices  of  2V4-In.  Corrugrated  Steel 
per  6  ft.  per  7  ft.  per  8  ft.  ,  per  9  ft. 
sheet  sheet  sheet  sheet 
$  .72  $  .84         $  .96  $1.08 

per  10  ft.  per  12  ft.  wt.  per 
sheet  sheet  square 
$1.20  $1'44  84  lbs. 

FEDERAL  STORES 

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METAL  SIJLO 

For  fifteen  years  the  METAL  Silo 
has  stood  the  test  of  wind,  ensilage 
acid  and  fire  hazards  and  has  pro- 
duced the  best  of  silage.  Choose  the 
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Orders  received  now — for  Immedi- 
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pricei  than  later  in  season.  The 
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Exposition  and   Danbury  Fair. 
Stock  carried  atManchester,  Conn., 
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SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 

Slade  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 

Telephone,  Union  6469 


MARCH  PRICES 

Providence,  R.  1   8^c  per  quart 

Fall .  River,  Mass   8</2c  per  quart 

Brockton,  Mass   8^c  per  quart 

New  Bedford,  Mass          9c  per  quart 

Newport,  R.  1   9c  per  quart 

MARKET  CONDITIONS 

Prices  for  all  markets  in  this  district 
remained  the  same  in  March  as  they 
were  in  February.  There  has  been  a 
slight  decrease  in  the  surplus  in  Prov- 
idence, several  dealers  reporting  less 
than  in  January  and  only  a  few  report- 
ing any  increase.  One  dealer  reported 
a  surplus  who  did  not  have  a  surplus 
in  January.  The  average  surplus  of 
seven  large  dealers,  including  Turner 
Centre  System  and  the  H.  P.  Hood  & 
Sons  Co.,  was  14.1  per  cent,  in  January 
and  was  only  11.3  per  cent,  in  February. 
Five  of  the  seven  had  an  average  of 
3.5  per  cent,  less  than  in  January  and 
the  other  two  increased  seven  and  10 
per  cent,  respectively.  It  is  evident 
that  production  has  dropped  decidedly 
with  some  groups  of  producers  and  that 
there  has  been  only  a  normal  increase 
with  others. 

Producers  selling  to  dealers  having 
a  large  surplus  are  considerably  dis- 
turbed over  the  low  prices  received. 
More,  complaints  have  come  in  during 
the  past  month  on  this  account  than  for 
any  recent  month.  The  lower  price, 
due  to  heavy  surplus,  coming  at  a 
time  of  year  when  production  costs  are 
high  and  with  weather  conditions  as 
they  have  been,  is  hard  for  the  average 
producer  to  understand.  It  has  taken 
i  lot  of  explaining  of  the  condition 
of  the  market  as  a  whole  to  make  them 
see  the  reason  for  the  low  prices. 

It  would  help  their  feelings  greatly  if 
all  producers  could  be  paid  on  the  basis 
of  the  average  surplus  in  the  market,  so 
that  all  would  share  and  share  alike  in 
the  returns.  As  it  is  some  of  producers 
are  getting  paid  on  the  basis  of  20  per 
cent,  surplus  and  other  groups  all  the 
way  down  to  no  surplus  at  all.  If 
such  a  system  could  be  put  in  practice 
all  groups  would  get  paid  on  the  basis 
of  five  per  cent,  for  February  and  all 
would  get  an  equal  price.  The  five  per 
cent,  surplus  would  be  a  reduction  in 
price  to  only  a  few  producers  but  it 
would  give  producers  suoplying  dealers 
<vho  carry  a  heavy  surolus  the  same 
price.  It  would  lead  to  better  satisfac- 
tion with  market  conditions,  taking  the 
market  as  a  whole. 

In  Fall  River  the  surplus  for  Feb- 
ruarv  has  run  from  five  to  IS  per  cent, 
in  February  with  the  larsrer  dealers. 
Some  of  these  larger  dealers  have 
decided  to  purchase  their  milk  on  the 
weight  and  test  basis  in  the  near 
future  and  are  arranging  to  install  the 
necessary  equipment.  It  is  hor>ed  that 
thev  can  start  on  the  new  basis  May  1. 
This  will  be  a  new  thing  to  manv  pro- 
ducers supplying  this  market  as  only 
Turner  Centre  and  the  Hood  Cnrmanv 
have  been  buving  on  the  weight  and  test 
basis.  In  checking  over  the  tests  at  the 
Turner  Centre  plant  I  find  that  the 
average  is  about  3.7  per  cent,  with  a 
fair  number  of  men  getting  39  and  4 
per  cent.  test.  This  means  that  there 
are  a  considerable  number  of  low  test 
men.  If  these  nroducers  can  he  taken 
as  a  fair  sample  of  the  conditions  in 
this  area,  the  new  dealers  goin^  on  to 
the  weight  and  test  svstem  will  fo<~'i;s 
attention  on  the  nuestion  of  butter  fat 
content  strongly.  The  men  who  are  pro- 
ducing milk  testing  above  3.7  per  cent, 
will  tret  an  increase  in  price,  due  to  the 
raided  points  for  butter  fat  above  the 
3.7  per  cent.,  and  the  mr-n  who  are 
proudcing  milk  testing  below  3.7  per 
cent,  will  have  to  take  a  reduced  price. 

This  will  call  for  some  readjustments 
and  probably  for  the  sale  of  some  cows. 
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Page  Fifteen 


i.made.  For  a  little  time  there  will  be 
Isome  complaints  but  after  the  producers 
'once  get  the  weight  and  test  system 
♦well  established,  and  have  made  their 
jfarm  practices  conform  to  it,  they  will 
I  be  better  off. 

I  believe  that,  under  these  conditions, 
/more  care  should  be  given  to  the  selec- 
tion of  cows.  Low  testing  cows  should 
inot  be  purchased  at  any  price.  It  will 
'not  be  necessary  to  secure  cows  of  the 
[highest  butter  fat  producing  breeds  but 
ito  get  eows  of  any  good  dairy  breeds 

that  will  come  up  to  the  standard  or 
(better.  The  selection  of  the  individual 
,'cow  and  a  full  knowledge  of  what  her 
imilk    will    be    bought    on    the  weight 

is  only  a  matter  of  a  short  time  in  my 

opinion  before  the  great  bulk  of  the 
imilk  will  all  be  bought  on  the  weight 
[and  test  basis.    It  will  be  up  to  the 

producers  to  conform  to  this  modern, 

fair  and  reasonable  method  of  payment 

for  milk.     With  proper  provision  for 

the  verification  of  the  tests,  the  interests 

of  the  producers  will  be  fully  protected 
The  Fall  River  marketing  association 

has  elected  its  marketing  committee  as 
.follows:  Chairman,  Grover  Douglas  of 
[Tiverton,  R.  I. ;  secretary,  Frank  G. 
^ Arnold  of  Touisset,  Mass. ;  Charles 
.  Riley    of    Somerset,    Mass.;  Herman 

Holman  of  Portsmouth,  R.  I. ;  Everett 
[P.  Littlefield  of  Little  Compton,  R.  L; 

Christopher  Borden  of  Westport,  Mass. 

The    district    manager    represents  the 

NEMPA    central    association    on  all 

such  sales  committees. 

The  situation  in  which  the  cotton 
jimills  of  this  area  are  now  placed  and 
(the  new  attitude  toward  the  solution 
'of  their  problems  is  somewhat  similar 
pto  what   the   milk   industry   is  facing. 

Readjustments  are  necessary  in  the  dairy 
[industry  as  well  as  in  the  cotton  mills. 
|The    trend   of    thought   in   the  cotton 

industry  is  toward  a  square  facing  of 
l  the  facts  and  taking  such  steps  as  are 
(necessary  to  meet  the  sharply  competi- 
tive era.    There  is  a  distinct  centering 

of  attention  on  the  possibilities  of 
greater  use  of  labor  saving  machinery 
and  more  modern  selling  methods  as  a 
'means    of    saving   the    cotton  industry 

from  a  migration  into  the  South.  The 
Removal  of  the  industry  is  to  be  consid- 
ered only  as  a  last  resort. 

In    many    respects    our    industry  is 

bound  to  face  the  same  conditions  and 

to  ?dopt  the  same  point  of  view.  Im- 
t  portant  changes  are  taking  place.  These 
[changes  will  have  a  direct  effect  on  our 
\  industry.  Unless  we  face  the  situation 
i  squarely  and  adapt  our  business  methods 

to  the  new  conditions  we  cannot  hope 
Ito  meet  the  new  situations  which  will 

arise.  Only  by  facing  the  facts  squarely 
land  by  united  effort  and  willingness  to 
ladopt  new  and  more  businesslike  methods 

can  we  hope  to  keep  abreast  of  the 

times. 

I  In  the  first  annual  meeting  of  the 
Southern    New    England    milk  dealers 

i  association,  held  at  the  Mellen  House  in 
Fall  River,  March  17,  the  following 
officers  were  elected :  President,  Charles 

iL.  Booth  of  New  Bedford;  vice-presi- 
dent, Harry  T.  Burton  of  Providence; 
secretary  and  treasurer,  Weston  Manley 
of  Brockton;  executive  committee,  Levi 
King  of  New  Bedford,  Charles  P.  Davis 
of  Fall  River,  John  P.  Fritz  of  New- 
port, William  C.  Viall  of  East  Prov- 
idence, M.  J.  McNamara  of  Brockton. 
The  present  membership  is  45,  includ- 
ing nearly  all  the  large  dealers  in  the 
Southern  Market  District.  The  principal 
topic  discussed  was  buying  milk  on 
weight  and  test. 

New  Bedford  market  is  in  good 
shape.    While  a  few  dealers  have  some 

;  surplus  the  market  is  not  oversupplied 
as  some  who  have  an  excess  are  sup- 
plying others  who  are  short.  Quite  a 
number  of  producers  have  changed  from 
one  dealer  to  another. 

Brockton  market  conditions  are  about 
the  same  as  last  month  except  that  a 

(few  dealers  are  having  a  little  more 
surplus.  The  health  department  report 
gives  the  average  consumption  of  milk 

,the  past  year  as  25,000  quarts  per  day. 

-Four  years  ago  a  similar  report  showed 
a  daily  consumption   of   42,000  quarts 

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seems     incredible,     even     taking  the 

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Compulsory  Pasteurization  Bill  is 
Widely  Discussed 

Massachusetts  dairy  farmers  are 
greatly  stirred  up  over  a  proposition  to 
enforce  pasteurization  or  the  tuberculin 
test  for  all  milk  sold  in  the  State, 
there  is  a  wide  difference  of  opinion. 
Even  the  farm  organizations  have  dif- 
ficulty in  making  up  their  minds 
whetner  to  support  the  proposed  legisla- 
tion or  not.  it  now  seems  proDable 
tliat  the  bill  will  be  referred  to  the 
next  session  of  the  legislature,  rather 
than  to  try  to  force  it  through,  or  kill 
it  at  tliis  time. 

1  he  bill  was  introduced  by  the  State 
Department  of  Health  and  was  later 
modified  to  meet  the  viewpoint  of  the 
li>epartment  of  Agriculture.  In  its 
amended  form  it  has  the  support  of 
the  Department  of  Agriculture  and 
Commissioner  of  Agriculture  A.  W. 
Gilbert  who  said  in  the  public  hearing 
that  he  considered  the  bill  as  a  pro- 
gressive step  which  would  be  for  the 
welfare  of  the  dairy  industry  of  the 
State. 

Un  the  other  hand  the  Farm  Bureau 
secretary,  Howard  S.  Russell,  opposed 
the  bill  on  the  grounds  that  it  would 
tend  to  put  some  small  farmer-dealers 
out  of  business  and  would  tend  to  force 
the  milk  business  into  the  hands  of  large 
distributors.  William  N.  Howard,  mas- 
ter of  the  State  Grange,  did  not  be- 
lieve in  the  wisdom  of  the  present  bill 
but  suggested  that  pasteurization  plants 
should  be  established  as  State,  county 
or  city  enterprises. 

The  health  departments  of  the  various 
cities  are  for  the  bill  as  it  will  add 
strength  to  the  present  movement  to  get 
a  pasteurized  supply  for  all  the  larger 
places.  Already  a  dozen  or  more  cities 
and  large  towns  have  passed  local  health 
regulations  along  the  same  line.  The 
principal  question  seems  to  be  whether 
each  community  should  establish  its  own 
regulations  or  whether  it  should  be 
made  a  matter  of  state  law. 

There  is  a  surprising  lack  of  real  in- 
formation as  to  just  what  the  situation 
is  in  Massachusetts  and  just  how  many 
farmers  and  small  dealers  would  be 
hard  hit  by  the  bill  as  proposed.  Under 
the  amendments  advocated  by  the  De- 
partment of  Agriculture  and  assented 
to  by  the  Health  Department  and  the 
Department  of  Conservation,  the  provi- 
sions of  the  law  will  not  be  effective 
in  towns  with  less  than  5,000  population 
unless  such  provisions  are  accepted  by 
such  a  town  at  a  regular  town  meeting. 

The  bill  provides  that  all  milk  sold  in 
places  of  more  than  20,000  population 
shall  be  pasteurized  or  come  from 
tuberculin  tested  cows  after  Jan.  1,  1927. 
Places  between  5,000  and  20,000  are 
given  another  year  in  which  to  meet 
these  requirements.  The  amended  bill 
would  put  all  places  of  more  than 
5,000  population  under  the  state  regula- 
tions by  Jan.  1,  1928.  The  population 
of  these  places  is  more  than  90  per 
cent,  of  the  population  of  the  entire 
state. 

The  chief  difficulty  in  the  bill  arises 
over  the  tuberculin  test  provisions.  The 
bill  provides  that  any  man  who  makes 
an  application  for  the  tuberculin  test 
can  continue  to  sell  milk  pending  the 
time  such  test  is  made.  This  gives  a 
perfectly  feasable  way  for  any  farmer 
milk  man  to  continue  in  business  without 
pasteurization,  simply  by  applying  for  a 
test.  The  chief  antagonism  to  the  bill 
arises  from  the  lack  of  confidence  in 
the  test  and  from  the  fact  that  there  is 
insufficient  state  and  federal  money  with 
which  to  have  any  immediate  cleanup 
campaign. 

Much  has  been  gained  by  the  introduc- 
tion of  the  bill  whether  it  passes  or  not, 
in  the  opinion  of  state  agricultural 
leaders.  It  has  focussed  public  atten- 
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and  will  pave  the  way  for  some  con- 
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careful  survey  of  the  state  and  see  just 
what  ought  to  be  done  to  put  every 
community  above  5,000  in  a  position  to 
meet  the  requirements  of  this  bill  or  a 
similar  one,  without  jeopardizing  the 
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out  imposing  undue  hardship  on  any 
farmers. 

It  is  inevitable  that  in  the  progress 
toward  an  ever  better  milk  supply  some 
things  must  be  left  behind.  The  Com- 
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Massachusetts  farmers  who  objected  to 
the  bill  that  something  of  this  kind  was 
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MARKET  CONDITIONS 

Grain  prices  have  shown  a  small 
decline  since  last  month  and  are  now 
$4  a  ton  below  last  year.  Hay  continues 
cheap  and  is  now  $1  a  ton  below  last 
year.    Far  labor  continues  high. 

Comparative  prices  are : 

1926    1926  1925 
Feb.  March  March 
Grain  (per  ton)  ....$47.81  $47.42  $51.63 
Hay   (per  tone)   ..  15.27    14.86  15.86 
Labor  (per  hour)  302     .302  .302 

Retail  grain  prices  have  shown  fur- 
ther declines  from  last  month  and  are 
lower  than  a  year  ago.  The  average 
of  the  quotations  received  from  Ver- 
mont grain  dealers  about  the  middle  of 
the  month  are  given  below,  they  may 
not  represent  prices  in  all  territory  due 
to  differentials  for  hauling,  freight  rates, 
etc.,  but  they  do  reflect  the  changes  in 
prices  month  by  month  for  all  New 
England  territory. 

1925  1920  1925 

Dec.  Jan.  Feb.  Mar.  Mar. 

Corn   meal                2.13  2.02  2.03     1.95  2.79 

Cotton  seed  meal  2  52  2.44  2.37     2.34  2.59 

Gluten    feed    ...  2.48  2.53  2.48     2.39  2.40 


Ground  oats 
Wheat  bran 


2.10  2.08  2.08  2.02  2.47 
1.97     1.97     1.97     1.88  1.94 


NEW  YORK  AND  BOSTON  PRICES 
The  NEMPA  fluid  price  for  the  past 
winter  was  12c  a  hundred  above  New 
York.  Our  net  price  in  February  10th 
zone  is  $2.66  compared  with  the  League 
net  price  of  $2.61  same  zone,  same  test. 

March  prices  continued  the  same  as 
February  with  exception  of  the  Spring- 
field market  which  dropped  lc  per 
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NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1926 


Forced  Drop  in  Springfield  Price 


(Continued   from   page  seven) 


pasteurization  and  bottling.  Both  the 
dealers  and  the  System  charge  the  stores 
on  the  basis  of  the  NEMPA  price  plus 
a  reasonable  charge  for  pasteurization 
and  bottling.  These  costs  of  pasteuriza- 
tion and  bottling  are  there  no  matter 
who  pays  them.  The  fact  that  the 
Brattleboro  creamery  charged  the  Phil- 
lips chain  stores  only  a  half  cent  for 
this  service  can  be  taken  in  one  or  two 
ways.  Either  the  creamery  was  losing 
money  on  handling  the  milk  or  they  were 
not  basing  their  price  on  the  NfiMPA 
price  in  the  Springfield  market.  In 
fairness  to  the  Brattleboro  co-operative, 
however,  it  should  be  said  that  the 
price  they  paid  to  their  farmers  com- 
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received  for  cream  in  excess  of  the 
NEMPA  surplus  price,  it  is  more  or 
less  offset  by  the  patronage  dividend 
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on  surplus.  It  is  not  a  case  of  the 
Brattleboro  co-operative  paying  less  to 
its  farmers  but  of  having  the  payment 
reduced  from  what  it  should  be  if 
figured  strictly  on  the  NEMPA  surplus 
plan  and  if  actual  costs  of  pasteuriza- 
tion, bottling  and  transportation  were 
added  to  the  price  asked  of  the  Phillips 
chain  stores. 

This  price  situation  has  been  gone  into 
in  detail,  not  in  criticism  of  the  Brattle- 
boro co-operative  but  in  order  to  make 
clear  the  complex  situation  which  ex- 
isted in  the  Springfield  market  and 
resulted  in  the  decrease  of  a  cent  a 
quart  earlier  than  the  conditions  of  sup- 
ply and  demand  warranted.  It  is 
significant  that  this  price  change,  which 
will  cost  the  farmers  supplying  the 
Springfield  market  many  thousands  of 
dollars,  was  brought  about  by  a  co- 
operative establishing  direct  relations 
with  chain  stores,  just  as  in  the  Boston 
market  a  similar  system  of  direct  deal- 
ing between  the  co-operative  and  chain 
stores  has  in  the  past  broken  down  the 
price  and  cost  the  dairy  farmers  of  all 
New  England  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
dollars.  No  price  reduction  has  been 
in  any  case  brought  about  by  chain 
stores  securing  their  supplies  through 
dealers  or  when  bought  with  the 
NEMPA  surplus  plan  governing  the 
base  price.  The  direct  dealing  between 
the  Bellows  Falls  co-operative  and  the 
Connor  chain  stores,  and  the  similar 
arrangement  between  the  Brattleboro 
co-operative  and  the  Phillips  chain  stores 
in  Springfield,  have  been  the  only  causes 
of  breaks  in  price  due  to  chain  store 
milk. 

Since  the  chain  method  of  selling 
milk  has  come  into  prominence  several 
price  reductions  otherwise  unnecessary 
have  resulted  from  these  direct  deal- 
ings between  these  two  co-operatives 
and  chain  stores.  There  have  been  other 
price  reductions,  of  course,  which  were 
in  no  way  due  to  chain  store  prices.  In 
the  present  instance  in  Springfield  there 
were  other  causes  of  uneasiness  in  the 
market,  none  of  them,  however,  suffi- 
cient to  break  the  price  in  themselves. 

For  at  least  two  months  past  some 
milk  has  been  offered  in  the  Springfield 
market  at  less  than  the  NEMPA  mar- 
ket committee,  price,  &l/2  cents  delivered. 
Some  dealers  were  reported  to  be  buying 
at  less  than  the  NEMPA  price  and  the 
Federation  of  Vermont  creameries  was 
offering  milk  at  less  than  %l/2  cents. 
The  service  and  quality  of  milk  offered 
by  the  Springfield  Dairy  System  was 
appreciated  enough  by  the  dealers  buying 
of  the  System  so  that  no  great  uneasi- 
ness developed. 

Toward  the  end  of  February,  how- 
ever, producers  in  Cummington  selling 
to  C.  A.  Nash  appealed  to  the  NEMPA 
on  the  ground  that  their  price  was  to 
be  reduced  to  seven  cents  a  quart.  Prac- 
tically all  of  the  producers  in  that  town 
joined  the  NEMPA  and  formed  a 
strong  local.  They  will  now  be  in  a 
position  to  deal  with  Mr.  Nash  on  a 
negotiated  price  basis  when  the  right 
time  comes.  They  also  expressed  a 
desire  to  join  the  Springfield  Dairy 
System. 

This  reduction  by  Mr.  Nash  was  a 
contributing  cause  to  the  general  uneasi- 
ness in  the  market.  Dealers  who  were 
buying  from  the  system  and  paying 
cents  a  quart  for  their  milk  asked  for 
relief  from  a  situation  under  which 
one  of  their  large  competitors  was 
getting  his  supply  at  seven  cents.  This, 
together  with  the  chain  store  situation, 
led  the  marketing  committee  to  reduce 
the  price  a  cent  March  15.  The  Phil- 
lips stores  promptly  went  down  another 
cent,  still  leaving  the  spread  between 
the  chain  store  and  the  house  delivery 
price  four  cents.  This  is  too  great  a 
difference  from  the  standpoint  of  market 
stability.  The  Springfield  marketing 
committee  will  meet  again  to  consider 
what  course  shall  be  taken  to  meet  the 
situation  in  April. 


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April,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND    DAIRY  M  A  N 


Page  Nineteen 


TARIFF  ON  CREAM 

(Continued  from  page  two) 

present  rate  on  cream  is  20  cents  a 
gallon.  A  duty  of  49  cents  a  gallon 
would  be  required  to  make  it  compar- 
able with  the  new  rate  on  butter.  The 
tariff  commission  can  only  increase  the 
rates  50  per  cent,  so  that  it  is  im- 
probable that  the  full  equalization  will 
even  be  considered.  It  was  further 
argued,  if  the  full  equalization  could  not 
be  given  under  the  law,  that  the  com- 
mission should  go  the  limit  allowed  by 
law  and  come  as  nearly  as  possible  to 
equalization  by  increasing  50  per  cent, 
without  any  investigation. 

The  dairy  interests  did  not  favor  any 
investigation  but  they  argued  that  if 
any  investigation  was  made  it  should  be 
made  in  areas  which  have  to  compete 
with  the  cream  which  is  now  being  im- 
ported and  that  the  investigations  which 
are  made  in  other  countries  should  be 
made  in  countries  from  which  cream  is 
imported.  If  any  investigation  is  to  be 
made  it  should  be  in  Canadian  territory 
which  now  ships  cream  into  the  United 
States. 

Regarding  the  areas  in  which  costs 
of  production  are  studied  within  this 
country  it  was  argued  that  such  studies 
should  be  made  in  cream  producing  sec- 
tions, not  in  the  butter  sections  of  the 
west.  It  was  recommended  to  the 
commission  that  if  any  studies  of  costs 
of  cream  production  were  made  they 
should  be  made  in  Orange  County,  Vt., 
in  Grafton  County  in  New  Hampshire, 
in  Androscoggin  County  in  Maine  and 
in  Delaware  and  Greene  Counties  in 
New  York.  Costs  of  milk  production 
should  be  made  in  these  areas,  also  in 
Worcester  County,  Mass.  All  of  these 
are  typical  milk  and  cream  producing 
areas  and  will  show  the  conditions  which 
enter  into  the  competitive  situation. 


CUTTING  DOWN  COSTS 

Some  of  the  Middlesex  County,  Mass., 
farmers  are  solving  their  high  milk 
production  cost  problem  in  a  way  which 
will  enable  them  to  stay  in  the  game  of 
milk  production  in  spite  of  any  outside 
competition.  Through  the  good  work 
of  the  Nashoba  cow  testing  associa- 
tion in  the  first  eight  months  of  its 
existence  much  attention  has  been  called 
to  the  very  wide  difference  in  cost  of 
production,  due  to  the  farm  management. 

One  farmer  who  leads  the  list  in 
profit  per  cow  is  cutting  down  his  costs 
by  growing  and  feeding  a  relatively 
higher  proportion  of  high  grade  rough- 
age. He  topped  the  list  so  far  as 
profits  were  concerned  by  producing 
from  four  to  four  and  one-half  pounds 
of  milk  for  one  pound  of  purchased 
i  grain. 

His  herd  of  15  cows  produced  in  one 
month  1700  pounds  of  milk  with  a  pur- 
I  chased  feed  cost  of  $90.85  giving  him 
an  income  above  feed  costs  of  $319. 
Another  man,  by  no  means  the  lowest 
in  the  association,  had  15  cows  and 
produced  12000  pounds  of  milk  with 
a  purchased  feed  cost  of  $144.31.  His 
profit  above  feed  costs  was  $143.  The 
lesson  of  these  two  herds  of  about  the 
same  size  and  under  the  same  general 
conditions  as  to  the  value  of  the  milk 
is  striking. 


NORTHERN  MARKET  DIST. 

(Continued  from  page  five) 

secure  their  co-operation  toward  ironing 
out  the  situation  in  Nashua.  I  have 
received  splendid  co-operation  from  the 
milk  dealers  in  Nashua  who  are  doing 
business  with  the  NEMPA  because 
they  realize  that  uniform  prices  in  the 
country  mean  uniform  prices  in  the  city 
and  better  stabilized  market  conditions 
for  everybody  concerned.  The  situa- 
tion   in    Manchester    has    been  acute. 

Good  co-operation  has  been  extended 
by  the  dealers  in  this  market  who  are 
doing  business  with  the  NEMPA  so 
that  in  taking  the  milk  away  from  a 
dealer  who  refused  to  honor  NEMPA 
prices,  I  have  had  a  place  to  put  this 
milk  with  other  dealers  in  Manchester 
who,  through  their  co-operation,  have 
given  a  market  at  association  price  to 
those  dairymen  withdrawing  their  milk 
from  their  cut-price  buyer. 


Which  Question 

ifluAsk? 


WW 

does  it 

Cost 


-Willi 
Get 

? 


ARE  you  content  with  buying  feed 
l  simply  on  the  basis  of  "How  much 
does  it  cost?"  Or  are  you  farsighted 
enough  to  look  further  into  the  feed 
question  and  ask"  How  much  milk  will  I 
get  in  return  for  the  cost  of  this  feed?" 

If  all  feeds  produced  the  same  amount  of 
milk — or  kept  cows  in  the  same  condition 
— you'd  be  justified  in  buying  on  price 
alone.    But  they  don't. 

It  costs  more  money  to  use  only  choice 
ingredients  in  Larro  and  to  blend  each  one 


to  a  fixed  standard,  to  insure  unvarying 
perfection  in  the  finished  feed.  It  costs 
something  to  insure  absolute  cleanliness 
and  freedom  from  tramp  iron  and  steel. 
But  those  things  make  Larro  produce 
more  milk.  And  a  feed  that  produces 
more  is  naturally  worth  more. 

Next  time  you  buy  feed  remember  that 
you  are  buying  results — not  price,  nor 
protein,  nor  individual  feeding  theories. 
Ask  yourself,  not — "What  does  it  cost?," 
but,  "What  will  I  get?" — and  you'll  never 
feed  anything  else  but  Larro. 


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Spencer,  Mass. 


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Hard  Days 
Work, 


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See  Your 

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and  up 

far 

De  Laval 
MilKer 
Outfits 


1 


ONE  of  the  reasons  why  the  De  Laval 
Milker  is  so  well  liked  is  the  fact 
that  its  owners  are  not  tired  out  by  hand 
milking  before  they  start  their  day's  work  ; 
and  when  they  come  in  at  night  after  a 
hard  day  they  can  rest  while  the  De  Laval 
does  the  milking. 

You  can  figure  that  a  De  Laval  will  do 
your  milking  in  at  least  half  the  time  it 
now  takes.  But  saving  in  time  is  only  one 
of  several  distinct  advantages.  It  pleases 
the  cows  with  its  uniformly  gentle  and 
stimulating  action,  which  causes 
them  almost  invariably  to  pro- 
duce more  milk.  It  keeps 
udders  and  teats  in  better 
condition.  It  is  easy  to 
wash  and  keep  clean, 
therefore  it  aids  in 
producing  clean- 
er milk. 


De  Laval  Milker 

The  Better  Way  qfMilkin. 


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De  Laval  Cream  Separator 

The  world's  best  cream  separator.  Has 
the  wonderful  "floating  bowl."  Guaran- 
teed to  skim  cleaner.  Furnished  in  seven 
sizes,  with  hand,  electric  or  belt  drive. 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairv  Interests 


issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  10.   Number  2. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  MAY,  1926 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


Membership  Drive         May  Price  IS  8  1-2  CdltS       Three  ^Question* 


Association   Field   Men   to  Visit 
Maine  Farmers  in  May 

"Join  the  NEMPA.  Come  in  with 
other  sturdy  dairy  farmers  of  New  Eng- 
land and  help  support  the  fine  work  which 
is  being  done.  You  are  getting  the  bene- 
fit of  it;  why  not  become  a  part  of  it, 
support  it  financially,  and  add  to  its 
strength?" 

Something  like  this  will  be  said  to 
several  thousand  dairy  farmers  in  New 
England  who  are  not  now  members  of 
the  association.  Our  new  field  staff  will 
start  out  within  a  few  weeks  visiting 
farmers  in  Maine  who  are  not  now  mem- 
bers and  giving  them  a  cordial  invitation 
to  join.  They  will  be  prepared  to  ex- 
plain more  fully  some  of  the  things  which 
are  listed  among  the  accomplishments 
and  plans  for  the  future  in  the  center  of 
this  page. 

Thev  are  real  accomplishments,  worthy 
the  support  of  every  farmer  in  New  Eng- 
land who  believes  that  times  are  chang- 
ing and  that  the  old  way  of  going  it  alone 
no  longer  serves.  Nothing  but  a  powerful 
organization  such  as  we  already  have 
could  have  put  through  some  of  the  things 
listed.  We  need  a  still  stronger  organi- 
zation, one  with  more  members  and  fewer 
outsiders,  in  order  to  take  some  of  the 
progressive  steps  for  which  the  way  has 
been  prepared. 

Will  See  Everybody 

Getting  a  higher  price  for  surplus  milk 
is  one  of  the  outstanding  problems  which 
remain  to  be  solved.  Everybody,  even  the 
dealers,  is  ready  to  admit  that  butterfat 
value  is  not  enough  for  surplus  milk  when 
such  milk  is  resold  at  a  high  price  as  table 
cream.  But  the  various  plans  of  classi- 
fication have  thus  far  failed  to  get  into 
active  operation,  largely  because  the  de- 
mand for  them,  or  for  some  other  plan 
which  would  bring  a  better  return  on  sur- 
plus milk,  has  not  been  strong  enough  in 
the  country. 

Events  are  shaping  themselves  rapidly 
in  a  way  that  will  make  it  more  easy  to 
get  this  increased  price  on  surplus.  The 
NEMPA  is  leading  the  way  in  bringing 
to  pass  certain  things  through  which  our 
opportunity  will  come.  The  tariff  on  but- 
ter was  increased.  A  proposition  to  in- 
crease the  tariff  on  cream  and  milk  is 
being  investigated.  A  bill  has  been  in- 
troduced in  Congress  to  compel  inspec- 
,  tion  of  foreign  milk.  All  tend  to  increase 
the  demand  for  New  England  milk  for 
cream  purposes.  As  this  demand  in- 
creases great  strength  will  be  given  our 
demand  for  an  increase  in  price  on  surplus 
milk.  But  the  attempt  to  get  a  better 
price  on  surplus  will  be  successful  only 
if  an  overwhelming  majority  of  the  dairy 
farmers  of  New  England  get  behind  and 
push. 

Then  there  is  this  so-called  "Philadel- 
phia Plan,"  under  which  the  demand  for 
fluid  milk  can  be  materially  increased 
through  the  use  of  larger  amounts  for  ad- 
vertising. That  is  another  way  of  in- 
creasing prices  on  surplus — to  transfer 
some  of  that  surplus  to  the  fluid  milk  class 
by  increasing  the  demand  for  milk.  The 
Dairy  and  Food  Council  is  doing  fine 
work  in  this  direction.  Under  the  Phila- 
delphia plan  it  would  receive  substantially 
(Continued  on  page  twelve) 


The  May  milk  price  for  Boston  re- 
mains the  same  as  in  April,  Syi  cents. 
The  sales  committee  came  in  toward  the 
close  of  April  and  went  over  the  situa- 
tion in  the  market  and  in  the  country. 
Because  of  the  exceedingly  backward 
spring  conditions  in  the  country  are  a 
month  behind  the  normal.  There  has 
been  less  than  the  usual  increase  in  milk 
production  at  this  season  and  there  were 
rio  serious  disturbing  factors  in  the  mar- 


ket. Under  these  conditions  the  sales 
committee  offered  the  milk  of  its  mem- 
bers for  May  at  the  April  price,  with  the 
understanding  that  if  unexpected  con- 
ditions develop  in  the  market  which  would 
materially  change  the  situation  the  price 
question  can  be  reopened  at  any  time 
during  the  month.  The  dealers  accepted 
the  offer  on  this  basis  and  the  V/2  cent 
price  will  continue  until  further  notice. 


CORRECTION — The  deduction  from  cream  patrons  for  rate  case 
costs  is  \  cent  per  pound  of  butterfat,  not  2  cents  per  pound  as  stated  on 
page  2.  Turner  Centre  butterfat  price  should  be  47-|  cents  in  the 
cream  plan  table. 

Some  Recent  Activities  of  the  New  England 
Milk  Producers'  Association 

The  8£  cent  Boston  milk  price  has  been  maintained  from  August  1 
into  May.  The  sales  committee  of  the  association  has  put  $750,000  into 
the  pockets  of  New  England  dairy  farmers  by  steadily  refusing  to  be 
moved  from  their  position  that  the  milk  price  should  be  based  on  the 
supply  and  demand  of  all  New  England,  not  the  supply  or  the  demand 
of  one  dealer  or  one  group  of  producers.  The  conditions  in  the  Boston 
market  warranted  this  continuous  8|  cent  price  but  could  not  have  been 
secured  without  a  strong  organization  with  a  courageous  group  of  men 
as  its  sales  committee. 

Under  the  leadership  of  the  NEMPA  a  sturdy  opposition  to  the  pro- 
posed increase  in  milk  transportation  rates  by  the  various  New  England 
railroads  has  been  developed.  By  securing  a  suspension  of  the  proposed 
increase  in  rates  from  April  1  to  August  1  dairy  farmers  of  New  Eng- 
land have  been  saved  $250,000  already.  If  the  increased  rate  move  is 
blocked  it  will  mean  an  annual  saving  of  $750,000  at  least. 

The  association  led  the  successful  fight  before  the  United  States 
Tariff  Commission  to  increase  the  duties  on  butter  from  eight  to  twelve 
cents  per  pound.  This  difference  of  four  cents  per  pound  on  butter  is 
equivalent  to  nearly  15  cents  per  hundredweight  on  3.7  per  cent,  milk 
going  into  surplus.  Now  we  are  trying  to  secure  an  increase  in  the 
duties  on  milk  and  cream  as  an  added  protection  to  New  England  dairy 
farmers. 

The  association  was  instrumental  in  getting  the  National  Co-operative 
Milk  Producers'  Association  to  sponsor  a  bill,  recently  introduced  in 
Congress,  to  shut  out  Canadian  or  other  foreign  milk  and  cream  unless 
it  came  from  barns  which  had  been  inspected  and  approved  by  a  federal 
inspector.  Under  the  present  law  much  cream  and  some  milk  comes  in 
without  proper  inspection  of  the  premises  where  it  is  produced,  while 
there  is  a  rigid  inspection  on  farms  within  New  England.  The  bill  would 
force  adequate  inspection  of  these  outside  sources  of  milk  and  cream. 

The  NEMPA  was  the  founder  of  the  New  England  Dairy  and  Food 
Council  which  is  advertising  milk  so  effectively  that  there  has  been  an 
increase  in  the  consumption  of  milk  in  Boston  of  15  per  cent,  in  the  past 
five  years.  The  association  backs  up  the  Council  steadily  and  enables  it 
to  advertise  milk  more  efficiently. 

The  Philadelphia  plan  under  which  all  producers  get  the  same  amount 
for  their  milk,  whether  members  of  the  association  or  not,  and  all  share 
alike  in  the  support  of  the  advertising  work  of  the  association,  is  under 
consideration.  Its  adoption  will  depend  on  the  number  of  new  men  who 
join  the  association  this  year. 

The  association  is  now  developing  a  field  force  which  will  give  per- 
sonal service,  to  members  only,  in  the  way  of  checking  butterfat  tests, 
securing  the  reinstatement  of  farmers  dropped  by  boards  of  health,  and 
in  other  ways  that  the  members  request. 


All  Touch  Pocketbook  of  All  Dairy 

Farmers  in  New  England 

Three  questions  chiefly  concern  the 
dairy  farmers  of  New  England  in  con- 
nection with  the  proposed  increase  in 
milk  transportation  rates  made  by  the 
Boston  &  Maine  and  other  New  England 
railroads.  Each  individual  farmer  should 
take  a  pencil  and  figure  out  for  himself 
the  answer  to  each  of  the  following 
questions : 

First — How  much  more  would  it  cost 
me  to  get  my  milk  into  the  market  if  the 
increased  rate  should  be  allowed? 

Second — How  much  money  has  already 
been  saved  me  by  the  success  of  the  New 
England  milk  rate  committee  in  securing 
a  suspension  of  the  proposed  rales  from 
April  1  to  August  1  ? 

Third — How  much  is  it  going  to  cost 
me  to  oppose  the  increase  in  rates  before 
the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  ? 

After  you  have  figured  these  for  your 
own  individual  case,  then  see  what  you 
have  gained  by  being  organized  and  in  a 
position  to  defend  yourself.  It  is  a  very 
different  thing  from  trying  to  protect 
yourself  alone. 

Let  us  take  up  the  biggest  question 
first — the  question  of  how  much  the  in- 
crease would  be  if  allowed  by  the  Inter- 
state Commerce  Commission.  I^et  us  put 
it  in  the  easily  understandable  terms  of 
40-quart  cans  of  milk  and  of  the  number 
of  cows  you  are  milking. 

Practical  Examples 

In  order  to  bring  it  home  as  nearly  as 
possible  to  you  we  will  do  this  example 
in  practical  arithmetic,  not  in  terms  of 
averages  but  in  terms  of  actual  payments 
by  shipping  stations.  Franklin  county, 
Vermont,  has  the  most  at  stake  in  this 
matter  as  it  is  one  of  the  heaviest  milk 
shipping  counties  and  it  is  about  as  far 
off  as  any  milk  comes  into  Boston.  Most 
of  it  is  in  the  14th  zone  or  261  to  280 
miles  from  Boston.  Rich  ford  and  East 
Berkshire  are  in  the  15th  zone,  281  to 
3D0  miles  from  Boston. 

The  present  rate  from  East  Berkshire 
or  Richford  is  48j^  cents  on  a  40-quart 
can  of  milk  sent  to  Boston.  The  new- 
rate  in  the  schedule  filed  by  the  Boston 
&  Maine  and  other  New  England  rail- 
roads would  be  58  cents  per  40-quart  can. 
That  is,  for  every  40-quart  can  of  milk 
shipped  from  East  Berkshire,  Berkshire 
or  Richford  to  Boston,  there  would  be 
an  increase  of  9l/2  cents  in  transporta- 
tion costs  if  the  boost  in  rates  were  al- 
lowed. 

If  cream  is  shipped  the  increase  is  still 
more  on  the  can  basis,  as  cream  trans- 
portation is  25  per  cent,  higher  than  milk 
rates.  The  present  can  rate  on  cream 
shipments  from  the  15th  zone  is  60.6 
cents  per  40-quart  can.  Under  the  in- 
creased rate  it  would  be  72.2  cents,  an 
increase  of  11.6  cents  per  can.  Every 
shipper  sending  milk  from  these  stations 
to  Boston,  either  directly  or  through  a 
creamery  or  dealer,  would  be  taxed  9lA 
cents  additional  on  every  can  of  milk 
shipped  and  11.6  cents  on  every  can  of 
cream  shipped  to  Boston. 

Let's  see  how  this  would  figure  out  on 
a  cow  basis.  A  5,000  pound  cow,  and 
(Continued  on  page  four) 


Page  Two 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1926 


Conditions  in  the  Boston  Market        Schedule  of  Prices  in  Boston 


Slight  Increase  in  Purchases  Due  to  Enlargement  of  Buy- 
ing Area — Sales  Show  Good  Increase 

March  records  of  the  dealers  who  buy        Retail   feed  prices  held  about  steady 

under  the  surplus  plan  show  that  there  from  March  to  April  but  all  are  below 

was  a  slight  increase  as  compared  with  last  year  except  wheat  bran.    Corn  meal 

March,  1925.    This  is  due  more  to  the  is  down  68  cents  a  hundred,  cottonseed 

increase  in  the  number  of  producers  from  mean  21  cents  a  hundred,  glutten  feed  1 

whom  these  dealers  are  buying  than  to  cent,  ground  oats  26  cents,  while  wheat 

any  increase   in   actual   production.     It  bran  is  8  cents  a  hundred  higher.  The 

seems  probable  that  the  actual  produc-  prices  listed  below  are  the  average  for 

tion  of  milk  from  the  same  number  of  Vermont  about  the  middle  of  the  month 

farmers  is  less  than  last  year.  and  may  not  represent  prices  in  all  ter- 

Sales  also  increased  five  per  cent,  with  ritories    due    to    differences    in  freight 

the  larger  dealers,   leaving  the  surplus  rates,  hauling  costs,  ets. 
about  the  same  as  last  year  in  the  same 

month.     The  expansion  of  the  buying  1926  192B 

territory   has   just   about   kept   pace    with  ^eed'   Per   Cwt.     Jan.  Feb.     Mar.  Apr.  Apr. 

«       .  •        j  ,  Corn    meal    2.02     2. 03     1.95     1.90  2.68 

the  increasing  demand.    The  comparison  cotton  seed  meal  2.44    2.37    2.34    2.33    2  54 

of  purchases,  sales  and  surplus  for  March  Gluten  feed   ...  2.53   2.48    2.39   2.35  2.36 

anH    Fphrnprv     i1«n    with    Marr-Vi     19?^  Ground    oats   2.08     2.US     2.02     2.02  2.28 

and  February,  also  witn   Marcn,   ivzd,  Wneat   bran        1.97    1.97    1.88    1.87  1.79 

are : 

1926      1926      1925         The  following  quotation  from  "Farm 

Feb.     Mar.     Mar.  Economics,"  published  by  the  Agricul- 

Purchases      (mil-  tural  College  at  Cornell  will  be  of  in- 

hon  pounds)   ....41.3       46.4       44.5  terest  to   feed  buyers  and  sellers:  "A 

Sales    ^'^of     ^    or  or  g°0(3  corn  crop  and  a  large  cotton  crop 

Surplus    41.8%    47.3%    46.8%  with  a  shortage  of  hogs  have  resulted  in 

cheap  feeds.   There  is,  at  present,  no  rea- 

Butter  prices  declined  through  March  son  t0  expect  a  material  rise  in  feed  prices 
and  are  still  declining.  Production  of  but-  but  conditions  next  fall  may  be  different, 
ter,  due  to  low  feed  costs  in  the  middle  The  most  probable  crop  is  an  average 
west,  is  running  heavy.  June  butter  will  crop.  The  chances  are  that  the  cotton 
probably  be  35  to  36  cents  per  pound  as  crop  w;n  be  less  than  last  year  because 
compared  with  43  cents  last  June.  Un-  last  year  was  an  unUsually  favorable  sea- 
less  there  are  very  unfavorable  weather  son_  The  weather  thus  far  has  not  been 
and  feed  conditions  this  relatively  low  favorable  for  planting.  It  is  also  prob- 
level  will  probably  be  reached.  able  that  the  number  of  hogs  will  be 

The   falling  off  in  butter  prices   in  larger  than  iast  year.    These  probabili- 

March  brought  the  surplus  price  down  t;es  together  with  prices  of  milk  some- 

to  $1.64  cents  a  hundred  as  compared  what  higher  than  last  year  suggest  that 

with  $1.74  in   February.     The   surplus  {eed  prices  are  not  likely  t0  be  at  the 

price  in  March  was  16  cents  a  hundred  present  level  next   fall.     Farmers  who 

lower   than   in   March,    1925.     On  the  have  money  or  necessary  credit  may  find 

other  hand  the  market  milk  price  was  47  jt  desirable  to  lay  in  a  supply  of  feed  for 

cents  a  hundred  higher  than  in  March,  {an  use_    Wheat  feeds,  cottonseed  meal 

1925,  leaving  the  composite  price  16  cents  and  hominy  are  particularly  cheap." 

a  hundred  higher  than  a  year  ago.  The   

comparison  of  prices  for  March,  Febru- 
ary and  March,  1925,  were:  PAYING  THE  COST 

Feb6     Ma?     mS.  Prices  given  in  these  tables  are 

Fluid   $322    $3.22    $2.75  two  cents  a  hundredweight  more 

NTtPprSiceTl."milk  2M      lit      2M  ^  ^  ?™  ^  ^ 

Average  butter  per  ceive.  The  railroad  rate  committee 

P°und   454     •446     -470  asked  all  dairymen  to  contribute 

Grain  prices  remained  about  the  same  two  Cents  a  hundredweight  On  all 

as  in  February,  about  $2  a  ton  below  last  March  milk  to  pay  COStS  of  OppOS- 

year     Hay  is  a  little  higher  but  is  still  •        railroads>    pr0p0serl    rate  in- 
relatively  cheap.  The  comparative  prices        &  * 

on  grain,  hay  and  labor  were:  crease.      The    NEMPA  executive 

1926       1926       1925  committee  authorized  the  dealers 

Mar.      Apr.      Apr.  to  deduct  this  two  cents  a  hundred 

Grain,  per  ton  ..$47.42     $47.52     $49.40  on  all  milk  ^  March.     It  will  be 

Hay,  per  ton  ....  14.86       15.22  15.68 

Labor,  per  hour..    .302       .302       .302  deducted  again  on  May  milk. 


Based  on  8|  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  May  1,  1926,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 
At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


8qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

1 

1-20 

.o/y 

.joy 

41-fifl 

.out 

4 

5 

81-100 

.JTt 

5 

101-120 

5"?0 

7 

121-140 

•JJl 

8 

141-160 

9 

161-180 

519 

10 

181-200 

.514 

11 

201-220 

.509 

12 

221-240 

.504 

13 

241-260 

.494 

14 

261-280 

.489 

15 

281-300 

.489 

1 

1-20 

.599 

2 

21-40 

.584 

3 

41-60 

.579 

4 

61-80 

.574 

5 

81-100 

.569 

6 

101-120 

.564 

7 

121-140 

.564 

8 

141-160 

.554 

9 

161-180 

.549 

10 

181-200 

.549 

8j4qt. 

lOqt. 

Cwt. in 

Cwt.in  Cwt. in 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21tfqt. 

40qt. 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

.618 

.732 

1.489 

1.583 

2.993 

3.462 

3.464 

3.479 

.608 

.722 

1.464 

1.558 

2.958 

3.404 

3.409 

3.438 

.603 

.707 

1.444 

1.538 

2.928 

3.357 

3.366 

3.404 

.588 

.702 

1.434 

1.528 

2.898 

3.334 

3.344 

3.369 

.583 

.692 

1.414 

1.508 

2.873 

3.287 

3.300 

3.340 

.578 

.682 

1.404 

1.498 

2.848 

3.264 

3.278 

3.311 

.573 

.677 

1.394 

1.483 

2.828 

3.241 

3.245 

3.287 

.S63 

.667 

1.379 

1.473 

2.803 

3.206 

3.224 

3.258 

.558 

.662 

1.369 

1.463 

2.783 

3.183 

3.202 

3.235 

.553 

.652 

1.364 

1.448 

2.768 

3.171 

3.169 

3.218 

.548 

.647 

1.349 

1.438 

2.748 

3.136 

3.147 

3.194 

.543 

.642 

1.339 

1.423 

2.728 

3.113 

3.114 

3.171 

.533 

.637 

1.334 

1.418 

2.718 

3.101 

3.103 

3.159 

.528 

.637 

1.319 

1.408 

2.698 

3.066 

3.081 

3.136 

.528 

.632 

1.314 

1.403 

2.683 

3.055 

3.070 

3.119 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 


.638 
.623 
.618 
.613 
.608 
.603 
.603 
.593 
.588 
.588 


.752 

1.499 

1.593 

2.993 

3.485 

3.486 

3.479 

.737 

1.474 

1.568 

2.958 

3.427 

3.431 

3.438 

.732 

1.464 

1.553 

2.928 

3.404 

3.399 

3.404 

.727 

1.444 

1.538 

2.898 

3.357 

3.366 

3.369 

.712 

1.434 

1.528 

2.873 

3.334 

3.344 

3.340 

.707 

1.424 

1.508 

2.848 

3.311 

3.300 

3.311 

.707 

1.409 

1.498 

2.828 

3.276 

3.278 

3287 

.702 

1.404 

1.493 

2.803 

3.264 

3.267 

3.258 

.697 

1.394 

1.478 

2.783 

3.241 

3.234 

3235 

.692 

1.379 

1.468 

2.768 

3.206 

3.213 

3.218 

Where  milk  is  bought  by  weight  and  test,  the  dealer  will  pay  the  average  of  the 
daily  quotations  issued  by  the  U.  S.  D.  A.  Bureau  of  Agriculture  Economics  for 
92  score  fresh  butter  at  Boston  for  the  month.  The  price  of  1/10  pound  butter,  as 
above  stated,  shall  be  added  for  each  0.1  per  cent,  above  3.7  per  cent,  and  deducted 
for  each  0.1  per  cent,  below  3.7  per  cent,  for  each  cwt.  of  milk  so  purchased. 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station, 
a  premium  of  0.75c  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
or  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

Cream  Plan  Prices  for  March,  1926 

Two  cents  per  pound  of  Butterfat  is  to  be  deducted  for  rate  case  costs 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt 

Butter-fat 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

Test 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patron 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt. 

Hood,  lst-15th 

12^% 

.40 

1.910 

.47 

.623 

.1619 

Hood,  lst-15th 

20 

.40 

2.758 

.47 

.608 

.1619 

Hood,  16th-31st 

...  12^ 

.40 

1.879 

.45 

.600 

.1652 

Hood,  16th-31st 

...  20 

.40 

2.764 

.45 

.588 

.1652 

Whiting   

20 

.30 

2.623 

.49 

.621 

.2044 

Turner  Centre  .. 

...  12^ 

.30 

.98 

.47 

.548 

.2823 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  March,  1926 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  March  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer,  $.0433  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract 
$.0433  for  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  March  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 
To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the  Hood, 
Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deduction  as  given  in  cream  price  table  is  made  from  the  zone  prices  as  figured  to  equalize  prices  be- 
tween milk  and  cream  patrons. 

Zone  5  Z  one  6 
81-100  101-120 


Zone  1  Zone  2  Zone  3  Zone  4 

Miles  from  Boston                                   1-20  21^0  41-60  61-80 

Class   1   Milk   Price                           3.479  3.438  3.404  3.369  3.340 

Class  2  Milk  Price  1.644  1.644  1.644  1.644  1.644 


3.311 

1.644 


Zone  7 
121-140 
3.287 

1.644 


Zone  8 
141-160 
3.258 
1.644 


Zone  9 
161-180 
3.235 
1.644 


Zorle  10  Zone  11 
181-200  201-220 


3.218 
1.644 


3.194 

1.644 


Zone  12 
221-240 
3.171 

1.644 


Zone  13  Zone  14 
241-260  261-280 


3.159 

1.644 


3.136 

1.644 


Zone  15 
281-300 
3.119 

1.644 


Class  1 
(Mkt.  Milk) 

Dealers 
Hood,  lst-15th  ....67.7% 
Hood,  16th-31st  ....65.8 
Whiting  in  40's  ....71. 
Whiting  in  21K's..71. 

Turner  Centre  58. 

Alden  Bros  47.8 

F.-S.  Cummings  ....61.2 

F.  E.  Boyd   70.6 

I'hilds  Bros  83.3 

Weighted  Avg  66.7 


Class  2 
(Mfg.  Milk) 


A 

32.3% 

34.2 

29. 

29. 

42. 

52.2 

38.8 

29.4 

16.7 

33.3 


B 

49.6% 

48.3 

46. 

46. 

63.5 


2.744 

2.716 

2.693 

2.669 

2.650 

2.630 

2.614 

2.594 

2.579 

2.567 

2.551 

2.535 

2.527 

2.512 

2.500 

2.667 

2.640 

2.618 

2.595 

2.576 

2.557 

2.541 

2.522 

2.507 

2.495 

2.478 

2.464 

2.457 

2.441 

2.430 

2.673 

2.644 

2.620 

2.595 

2.574 

2.554 

2.537 

2.516 

2.500 

2.488 

2.471 

2.454 

2.446 

2.430 

2.418 

2.662 

2.623 

2.593 

2.577 

2.546 

2.530 

2.507 

2.492 

2.476 

2.453 

2.437 

2.414 

2.406 

2.391 

2.383 

2.396 

2.372 

2.352 

2.332 

2.315 

2.298 

2.284 

2.268 

2.254 

2.244 

2.230 

2.217 

2.210 

2.197 

2.187 

2.524 

2.504 

2.488 

2.471 

2.458 

2.444 

2.432 

2.418 

2.407 

2.399 

2.388 

2.377 

2.371 

2.360 

2.352 

2.766 

2.741 

2.720 

2.699 

2.681 

2.663 

2.649 

2.631 

2.617 

2.606 

2.592 

2.578 

2.570 

2.556 

2.546 

2.938 

2.909 

2.885 

2.860 

2.840 

2.819 

2.802 

2.782 

2.766 

2.754 

2.737 

2.721 

2.712 

2.696 

2.684 

3.170 

3.136 

3.107 

3.078 

3.054 

3.030 

3.010 

2.986 

2.967 

2.952 

2.932 

2.913 

2.903 

2.884 

2.870 

2.713 

2.686 

2.663 

2.640 

2.621 

2.601 

2.685 

2.566 

2.551 

2.539 

2.523 

2.508 

2.500 

2.485 

2.473 

A — Excluding  Cream  Plan.      B — Including  Cream  Plan, 
lie-cause  of  sales  in  markets  lower  than  Boston  the  following  decreases  have  been  made  in  the  Class  1  prices  here  given  for  the  following  dealers :  Whiting,  $.0143 ; 

Turner  Centre,  $.0524. 

The  percentage  of  surplus  for  Turner  Centre  under  B  in  February  should'  have  been  61  per  cent,  instead  of  56.5  per  cent,  as  printed. 


May,  1926 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


Explanation  of  Committee's  Position 

(  !  /-1  :  ~_ 

Reasons   Why  Offer  of  New   England  Council  Could 
Not  Be  Accepted  by  Railroad  Rate  Committee 


Explanations  are  due  to  the  members 
of  our  association  as  to  why  it  was  not 
I,  practical  for  the  committee  representing 
j  the  dairy  farmers  of  New  England  in  the 
I  railroad  rate  case  to  accept  the  offer  of 
'the  New  England  Council  to  help  bring 
about  a  settlement  of  the  rate  matter 
without  going  before  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission. 

Under  ordinary  conditions  any  offer  of 
a  possible  settlement  out  of  court  would 
be  worth  considering  and  accepting  if 
possible.  Under  the  conditions  which 
■exist  the  dairymen's  committee  felt  that 
it  was  not  possible  to  accept  this  well 
meant  offer  of  help.  By  so  doing  they 
were  placed  more  or  less  in  the  position 
of  refusing  to  arbitrate.  The  real  situa- 
tion is  that  they  refused  to  present  their 
case  before  an  informal  body  without  au- 
thority to  enforce  its  rulings,  in  order 
that  they  might  freely  and  fully  present 
their  case  before  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission,  a  legally  constituted 
body  with  power  to  enforce  its  rulings. 

The  New  England  Council  is  the  out- 
growth of  the  big  New  England  confer- 
ence in  Worcester  last  year.  The  Council 
seeks  to  work  for  the  good  of  all  New 
England.     It  has  an  agricultural  com- 
i  mittee  and  this  committee  suggested  to 
the  Council  that  it  should  offer  its  serv- 
I  ices  to  the  dairy  farmers,  the  railroads 
1and  the  consumers  in  an  effort  to  bring 
about  a  better  understanding  and  to  avoid 
if  possible  the  expense  and  work  of  a 
hearing  before  the  Interstate  Commerce 
y  Commission.    As  the  result  of  this  sug- 
gestion the  Council  arranged  a  confer- 
ence at  which  the  Council  president,  John 
S.  Lawrence,  made  the  following  state- 
ment : 

Lawrence's  Statement 

■ 

"The  parties  to  this  case  are  the  milk 
producers,  the  railroads,  the  milk  dis- 
tributors, and  the  public,  who,  through 
governors  of  certain  states,  and  the 
mayor  of  Boston,  joined  in  asking  that 
the  proposed  rate  increase  be  suspended. 
All  four  parties  are  represented  here  to- 
day. 

"The  New  England  Council  represents 
the  desire  of  all  New  England,  as  ex- 
pressed at  the  New  England  Conference 
at  Worcester,  that  there  shall  be  main- 
tained a  comprehensive  view  of  New 
England  problems,  and  the  principles  on 
which  the  Council  is  founded,  namely, 
co-ordination  of  effort  in  dealing  with 
New  England  problems.  The  situation 
that  has  been  created  by  the  proposed  in- 
crease in  rates  on  rail  transportation  of 
milk,  is,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Council, 
a  New  England  problem. 

"The  Council  neither  assumes  nor  ac- 
j  cepts  responsibility  as  to' the  matters  at 
j  issue,  nor  as  to  their  adjustment.  It 
I merely  desires  to  call  attention  to  certain 
!  fundamentals,  to  provide  opportunity  for 
'  the  parties  at  interest  to  meet  face  to 
i  face  and  effect  a  direct  adjustment,  if 
!  such  be  possible,  and  to  offer  to  all  those 
'  interested  its  good  offices  and  every  fa- 
|  cility  in  its  power  to  provide. 
j  "The  following  considerations  seem  to 
j  the  Council  to  have  an  important  bearing 
:  upon  this  case.  Since  this  is  a  New 
v  England  problem,  it  should  as  far  as  hu- 
manly and  legally  possible,  be  worked 
out  in  New  England  by  joint  endeavors 
of  the  interests  concerned.  Recourse  to 
Washington  should  not  be  had  except  as 
P. last  resort  and  after  all  other  methods 
have  been  exhausted.  The  matter  at 
i  issue  should  be  examined  not  only  with 
'  regard  to  the  immediate  effect  of  any 
j  change  in  the  situation  upon  producer, 
j  railroad,  distributor  and  consumer,  but 
|  also  with  respect  to  its  ultimate  effect 
yupon  the  interests  of  New  England  as  a 
F  whole. 

"In  other  words,  will  a  change  in  the 
rate  make  it  easier  or  more  difficult  for 
New  England  farmers  to  hold  the  New 

|  England  market  for  milk ;  will  a  change 
make  it  easier  or  more  difficult  for  pro- 

I  ducers  outside  New  England  to  capture 

•|in  part  the  home  market  of  our  farmers? 

;  The  fundamental  interests  of  all  New 


England  are  involved  in  this  broader 
question.  The  parties  to  this  case  are 
morally  obligated  to  New  England  to  in- 
clude it  in  their  consideration. 

"li  the  present  rate  is  profitable  to  the 
railroads,  certainly  no  increase  is  due.  If 
the  present  rate  covers  the  cost  of  service 
it  is  a  debatable  question  whether  any  in- 
crease is  due.  If  the  present  rate  is 
clearly  an  unprofitable  one,  not  on  a  par- 
ticular line,  but  on  all  lines  of  all  rail- 
roads, the  question  of  an  increase  is  en- 
titled to  fair  and  open-minded  considera- 
tion. 

"In  this  connection,  certain  facts  should 
be  borne  in  mind.  Are  either  New  Eng- 
land milk  producers  or  railroads  in- 
cluded among  the  most  prosperous  en- 
tities in  our  economic  life  ?  It  is  well 
known  that  the  condition  of  both  is  un- 
satisfactory. It  is  equally  true  of  both 
that  they  are  rendering  essential  services 
to  New  England  that  cannot  be  spared, 
and  both  are  equally  entitled  to  a  reason- 
able compensation  for  services  rendered. 

"Our  railroads  must  take  into  consider- 
ation the  condition  of  agriculture ;  agri- 
culture must  take  account  of  the  condi- 
tion of  the  railroads.  The  public  must 
consider  the  condition  of  both  agricul- 
ture and  the  railroads,  and  must  be  will- 
ing for  both  to  receive  adequate  com- 
pensation. If  satisfied  that  both  the  rail- 
roads and  the  milk  producers  are  not  un- 
mindful of  the  public  interest  in  dealing 
with  this  case,  the  public  will  welcome  a 
reasonable  adjustment. 

This  case  threatens  to  cause  the  ex- 
penditure of  considerable  money  and 
energy  in  conflict.  Both  the  money  and 
the  energy  ought  to  be  going  into  the 
development  of  the  businesses  of  all  con- 
cerned. It  is  therefore  urged  that  those 
present  here  today  make  every  endeavor 
to  find  some  means  of  adjusting  this 
matter.  You  may  be  sure  the  public  will 
applaud  such  endeavors  and  that  the  New 
England  Council  will  assist  you  to  the 
limit  of  its  ability." 

The  railroads  promptly  agreed  to  the 
principles  of  this  statement,  also  repre- 
sentatives of  the  consumers.  The  dairy- 
men's committee,  however,  represented  by 
Wesley  H.  Bronson,  made  the  following 
statement: 

Bronson's  Statement 

"The  New  England  Rate  Committee 
was  set  up  by  the  department  of  agricul- 
ture of  the  several  New  England  states 
and  the  New  England  Milk  Producers' 
Association  to  represent  the  dairy  indus- 
try with  respect  to  railroad  rates.  It  is 
obviously  the  duty  of  the  dairy  industry, 
to  itself  and  to  the  public,  to  oppose  any 
additional  cost  to  producer  or  consumer 
which  has  not  been  clearly  justified.  The 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission  is  a 
tribunal  established  by  the  government 
for  the  purpose  of  determining  the  justi- 
fication of  any  proposed  transportation 
rate  when  it  is  objected  to  by  those  af- 
fected and  the  case  is  now  before  the 
Commission  for  decision.  This  com- 
mittee, therefore,  cannot  consistently 
abandon  its  intention  to  oppose  the  pro- 
posed transportation  rates  before  the  In- 
terstate Commerce  Commission,  where 
the  matter  will  be  adjudicated  in  a  regu- 
lar, orderly  and  authoriative  manner." 

As  the  result  the  conference  took  no 
action.  The  matter  was  left  in  such  a 
situation  that  there  may  be  some  misun- 
derstanding of  the  reasons  why  the  pro- 
ducers' committee,  your  representatives, 
would  not  fall  in  with  the  plan  of  the 
Council.  Dairy  farmers  might  feel  that 
there  was  a  possibility  of  a  settlement  of 
the  rate  question  without  going  through 
with  the  hearings  before  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission.  Such  a  course 
was  impossible.  The  committee  could 
not  agree  to  any  other  course  than  a  full 
and  complete  hearing  before  the  Com- 
mission for  the  following  reasons : 

1.  The  dairy  farmers  have  asked 
nothing  but  to  be  let  alone  in  the  rate 
matter.  It  is  the  railroads  who  are  ask- 
ing for  a  change  from  the  rates  set  up 
previously  by  the  commission  and  it  is 


distinctly  up  to  the  railroads  to  prove 
that  they  are  entitled  to  such  an  increase. 
Any  agreement  to  present  their  case  be- 
fore any  body  but  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission  would  be  a  tentative 
admission  that  the  railroads  might  be 
justified  in  some  increase  in  rates.  We 
admit  nothing  of  the  kind.  It  is  some- 
thing which  the  railroads,  as  the  parties 
asking  for  a  change,  must  prove  publicly. 

2.  Even  if  the  committee  were  willing 
to  present  its  side  of  the  case  before  the 
Council  or  some  informal  tribunal  which 
it  might  set  Up,  nothing  conclusive  would 
come  of  it.  If  such  a  tribunal  should  de- 
cide that  the  railroads  were  entitled  to 
no  increase,  the  new  schedules  of  rates 
calling  for  an  increase  of  $750,000  a 
year,  would  still  be  on  file  with  the  In- 
terstate Commerce  Commission  and 
would  go  into  effect  August  1  unless 
withdrawn  by  the  railroads.  We  cannot 
imagine  the  railroads  withdrawing  these 
schedules  after  once  having  filed  them 
with  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commis- 
sion. 

If  the  Council  or  such  other  informal 
tribunal  as  it  might  set  up  should  decide 


that  the  railroads  were  entitled  to  a  10 
per  cent,  increase  no  final  settlement 
would  be  gained,  as  the  20  per  cent,  in- 
crease schedule  has  already  l>een  filed. 
Even  if  such  a  tribunal  should  decide 
that  the  full  20  per  cent,  was  warranted, 
the  granting  of  the  20  per  cent,  increase 
would  still  rest  with  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission. 

3.  It  was  the  idea  of  the  Council  that 
expense  would  be  saved.  This  is  not  the 
fact.  It  would  cost  your  committee  just 
as  much  to  prepare  a  case  to  present  in 
opposition  to  the  railroads  before  an  in- 
formal body  as  it  would  before  the  regu- 
larly constituted  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission.  In  the  end  it  would  prob- 
ably have  to  appear  before  both  bodies 
which  would  actually  add  to  the  expense. 

4.  The  question  at  issue  is  one  of  a 
public  hearing  before  a  legally  consti- 
tuted body,  quite  as  much  as  it  is  a  ques- 
tion of  the  rates  themselves.  Whatever 
conclusions  the  committee  might  come  to 
in  regard  to  the  increase  in  milk  trans- 
portation rates,  after  a  full  study  of  the 
situation,  it  would  fail  in  its  duty  to  the 

(Continued  on  page  fifteen) 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  March,  1926 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  your  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butter-fat  above  or  below  3.7  per 
cent,  test  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butter-fat  the  following  for  each  sized  container:  Per 
8l/2  quart  can,  $0,008;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,009;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,018;  per  2\% 
quart  can,  $0,020;  per  40  quart  can,  $0,037;  per  cwt.,  $0,043. 


Boston  District 
Class  1    Class  2   


Size  of  Can 


(Mkt. 

(Mfg. 

ty2       20  21J4 

40 

Dealers 

Milk) 

Milk) 

Quart     Quart  Quart 

Quart 

Cwt. 

ELM  SPRING  FARM 

7th  zone  (121-140) 

64.7% 

35.3% 

.476      1.150  1.223 

2.326 

2.704 

J.  B.  PRESCOTT 

Delivered   

86.9 

13.1 

Delivered  price  per  cwt. 

3.616 

Northern  Market  District 


Dealers 
Wason-MacDonald 
Haverhill 

Delivered   

3rd  zone   


Class  1  Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk)    (Mfg.  Milk) 


87.5% 


12.5% 


Cwt.  in 

8/2's 


3.629 
3.090 


Cwt.  in 
20's 


3.629 
3.140 


Findeisen  Farms 
Lawrence 

Delivered   

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

10th  zone   


66. 


34. 


Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Manchester 

Delivered   

3rd  zone   

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

E.  C.  Blake 
Manchester 

Delivered   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

8th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Sons 
Nashua 

Delivered  

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Nashua 

Delivered   

1st  zone   


91.7 


63.3 


8.3 


36.7 


89.1 


10.9 


Cwt. 


3.629 
3.181 


3.140 

2.853 
2.826 
2.680 


3.502 
3.247 
3.140 
3.113 


86.3 


13.7 


2.932 

2.717 

2.689 

2.676 

2.641 

Cwt.  in 

Cwt.  in 

Cwt.  in 

8^'s 

20's 

40's 

3.426 

3.426 

3.426 

2.951 

3.022 

3.037 

2.902 

2.970 

3.001 

2.877 

2.928 

2.970 

3.400 
2.940 


Providence  Market 


Truck- 


Class  1 

Dealers 
Per  Hundredweight 

Burton,   H.  T   92.6% 

Chambers,  G.  T   82.4 

Fiske,  E.  A.   100. 

Greenville  Dairy    89.2 

Monroe,  A.  B  100. 

Providence  Dairy  ....  93.6 

Turner  Centre    79. 

Viall.  W.  C   82. 

Warnock,  C.  A  100. 

Wescott,  E.  P  100. 

PER  10  QT.  CAN 

Brown,  W.  B   96.5 

Grant,  C.  W  100. 


Class  2 


7.4% 
17.6 


10.8 


6.4 
21. 
18. 


3.5 


Deliv- 
ered 

3.687 
3.455 
3.854 
3.609 
3.854 
3.711 
3.428 
3.452 
3.848 
3.849 

.824 


Zone  1 
1-20 
Miles 

3.406 
3.204 
3.550 
3.338 
3.550 
3.486 
3.151 
3.203 
3.544 
3.545 

.761 
.775 


ing 

Zone  2  Zone  3  Zone  Willi- 

21-40  41-60  net  mantic 

Miles  Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.380  3.300   

3.181  3.110  3.039   

3.522  3.436   

3.313  3.236   

3.522  3.436   

3.453  3.388  3.194  3.357 

3.129  3.061   

3.180  3.109   

3.516  3.430   

3.517  3.431   


.751 
.765 


.738 
.751 


.721 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1926 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 
NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 
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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I. ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt.;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  George  G. 
Young,  Livermore,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H.;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt.;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Dartmouth,  Mass.;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansert,  R.  I. ;  Frank 
T  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
M.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y.;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


selves  freely  and  forcefully.  But  in  the 
end  the  vote  is  almost  always  unanimous. 
When  some  one  hits  the  right  solution 
the  rest  see  it  instantly  and  all  differences 
are  brushed  aside,  a  motion  follows, 
quickly  seconded  and  carried  and  the 
next  problem  is  in  order.  Good  men — all 
of  them,  and  a  day  with  them  is  an  oc- 
casion worth  while  remembering. 

But,  best  of  all,  yesterday,  the  Sales 
Committee  closed  with  the  big  dealers  the 
trade  continuing  the  winter  price  for  May 
milk,  subject  to  revision  only  if  market 
conditions  become  so  disturbed  as  to  re- 
quire it.  Without  discussing  the  reasons 
for  holding  the  price,  or  the  conditions 
which  would  overturn  it,  I  just  want  to 
say  how  glad  I  am  that  we  have  an  or- 
ganization that  can  and  dares  do  things. 
It  does  seem  to  me  as  if  the  non-member 
must  be  convinced  that  the  NEMPA  is 
worth  while  and  that  all  dairymen  will 
now  rally  to  the  support  of  the  most  worth 
while  (no  apologies)  marketing  organiza- 
tion in  New  England,  in  its  efforts  to 
broaden  and  expand  its  work  and  render 
still  greater  service  to  its  members. 

I  said  something  like  this  to  a  fellow 
who  was  in  the  other  day  and  his  reply 
was  that  the  farmers  would  take  all  that 
came  to  them  without  thanks  and  then 
kick  because  they  didn't  get  more.  I've 
heard  that  sort  of  thing  before.  It  always 
makes  me  mad. 

Anyhow,  I'm  going  to  watch  the  returns 
that  come  in  from  the  circular  letters  now 
being  sent  out  asking  for  new  dues  orders. 
I  can  judge  a  little  by  that  whether  the 
producers  are,  as  I  believe,  one  mighty 
fine  and  appreciative  set  of  men. 

PATTEE. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

Yesterday  was  a  big  day  for  me.  In 
the  first  place,  it  was  my  birthday.  I 
was  born  April  27th,  1872,  on  a  farm  in 
Alexandria,  N  .H.  My  father,  who  had 
been  a  machinist  in  the  cotton  mills  of 
Manchester  and  other  cities,  had  ob- 
tained patents  which  he  expected  to 
yield  a  considerable  income.  He  lost 
his  health  while  still  a  young  man,  and 
bought  a  tract  of  land  near  his  old  farm 
home  where  he  built  a  new  house  in 
which  he  died  at  the  age  of  42,  a  year  and 
a  half  after  I  was  born. 

When  I  was  a  boy  I  was  undersized ; 
I  didn't  weigh  125  pounds  until  I  was 
nearly  thirty  years  old.  People  used  to 
take  me  for  a  kid  long  after  I  was  a 
young  man.  It  led  to  some  amusing  and 
some  annoying  incidents.  I  used  to  wish  I 
was  six  feet  tall,  weighed  200  and  had 
gray  hair,  so  folks  would  pay  some  at- 
tention to  me.  Now  that  my  hair  is  al- 
most white,  my  weight  a  bit  too  much  and 
my  gait  a  little  hobbly,  I  look  back  with 
envy  to  my  younger  years.  I'm  good,  I 
hope,  for  a  dozen  more  years  of  hard 
work,  by  which  time  I  expect  to  see  solved 
many  of  the  problems  which  now  puzzle 
and  perplex  us. 

Then  too,  the  Directors  met  here  yester- 
day and  a  Directors'  meeting  is  always  an 
event.  Some  time  I'd  like  to  describe  a 
Directors'  meeting.  It's  interesting  to 
watch  the  reactions  of  the  different  men 
when  some  real  problems  are  under  dis- 
cussion. There  are  almost  always  some 
things  to  decide  which  require  real  judg- 
ment, things  which  might  be  done  sev- 
eral different  ways,  but  which  must  be 
done  in  the  one  best  way.  They  are  a 
jolly,  big-hearted,  sound-headed  bunch 
and  in  the  friendliest  way  they  often 
disagree  very  frankly,  and  express  them- 


POWER  OF  ORGANIZATION 

With  great  satisfaction  we  send  the 
news  to  every  member  of  our  association 
that  the  May  price  will  be  SlA  cents  de- 
livered in  Boston.  This  continuance  of 
the  winter  price  through  the  early  spring 
months  does  a  much  greater  service  than 
just  putting  quite  a  lot  of  money  into 
your  pockets.  It  is  a  demonstration  of 
the  strength  of  organization,  so  long  as 
that  organization  uses  its  strength  wisely. 

We  would  not  have  any  member  feel 
that  this  continuation  of  the  price  into 
May  was  a  triumph  of  sheer  strength  of 
numbers,  or  any  arbitrary  decision  of  your 
representatives.  Strength  of  numbers  we 
must  have  ;  without  it  we  would  be  shorn 
of  power  to  deal  with  situations  wisely. 
But  our  strength  is  not  so  much  in  sheer 
force  of  numbers  as  it  is  in  the  setting- 
up  of  a  piece  of  machinery  to  weigh  the 
conditions  and  to  decide  what  course  is 
best  for  the  dairy  industry  of  all  New 
England,  not  necessarily  what  is  best  for 
any  one  group  of  producers. 

It  was  through  just  such  an  exercise  of 
careful  analysis  of  conditions,  of  wise  de- 
termination of  cause  and  effect,  that  your 
sales  committee  arrived  at  the  conclusion 
that  the  conditions  warranted  carrying  the 
8J/2  cent  price  into  May.  Having  made 
their  decision  they  presented  their  reasons 
in  such  convincing  ways  to  the  dealers  that 
the  trade  was  made  promptly.  The 
strength  of  the  association  was  there  in 
the  background  to  back  up  the  wise, 
statesmanlike  decision  and  the  convincing 
arguments  to  dealers  if  need  be. 

Contrast  this  situation  with  what  pre- 
vailed only  a  few  years  ago,  when  the 
dairy  industry  of  New  England  was  un- 
organized or  when  the  organization  was  in 
its  infancy  with  all  its  battles  to  win  in 
the  future.  How  far  could  any  producer 
or  any  group  of  producers  have  gone  in 
weighing  the  conditions  wisely  and  in  con- 
vincing the  dealers  that  the  conditions  do 
actually  warrant  a  steady  holding  fast 
to  the  price  ?  Where  would  the  milk 
price  have  gone  to  if  there  were  no  or- 
ganization among  the  dairymen  of  New 
England  ?  Yes,  let  us  say  it  frankly, 
what  would  the  situation  have  been  with- 
out the  NEMPA?  What  would  have 
happened  if  the  NEMPA  had  decided 
January  1  to  shut  up  shop  and  take  no 


further  part   in  the  dairy   industry  of 
New  England  ? 

It  is  an  idle  question.  It  is  incredible 
that  the  association  should  be  given  up 
now  that  it  has  become  so  firmly  estab- 
lished, now  that  the  dealers  have  recog- 
nized its  value  in  keeping  the  markets  on 
an  even  keel,  now  that  even  the  most  bit- 
ter critics  acknowledge  that  our  associa- 
tion is  the  leading  factor  working  for  the 
welfare  of  the  dairy  industry  as  a  whole. 
The  association  will  not  be  given  up,  but 
just  suppose  that  it  had  stepped  aside  for 
a  time.  Where  would  the  milk  price  have 
gone  to  ? 

It  would  not  have  been  8l/2  cents,  nor 
eight  cents,  nor  seven  cents.  A  few  pro- 
ducers might  be  getting  six  cents ;  many 
would  be  getting  less.  We  do  not  know, 
but  it  is  a  safe  guess  that  the  price  would 
have  gone  down  to  at  least  six  cents  by 
this  time,  probably  lower  on  the  average. 
Right  there  is  the  point.  There  would  not 
have  been  any  standard  price  in  any  mar- 
ket without  the  NEMPA  to  serve  as  a 
stabilizer.  Every  dealer  would  be  paying 
his  own  price.  What  would  your  dealer 
be  paying  you  ? 

These  are  worth  while  things  for  you 
to  be  thinking  about.  Each  one  of  you 
can  decide  for  yourself  what  you  think  the 
NEMPA  has  been  worth  to  you  in  the 
past  four  months.  In  round  figures  we 
believe  that  the  association  has  saved  its 
members  at  least  $750,000  by  its  wise  de- 
cisions as  to  market  conditions  and  its 
convincing  arguments  to  dealers  as  to 
why  the  continuance  of  the  price  was  war- 
ranted by  conditions. 

Naturally  we  are  gratified  to  have  put 
that  great  amount  of  money  into  the 
pockets  of  the  dairy  farmers  of  New  Eng- 
land. We  are  doubly  gratified  to  have 
done  it  by  weighing  conditions  and  pre- 
senting facts,  rather  than  to  have  done  so 
by  brute  strength  of  numbers.  The  con- 
tinuance of  the  8J/2  cent  price  was  ab- 
solutely warranted  by  the  conditions  in 
the  market  and  in  the  country.  The  es- 
sential thing  to  remember  is  that  the  law 
of  supply  and  demand  works  but  in  a 
complex  business  like  the  milk  industry  it 
needs  an  interpreter  if  it  is  to  work  prop- 
erly. 

i'he  NEMPA  is  such  an  interpreter  of 
conditions.  It  judges  of  the  supply  and 
the  demand  of  all  sections  and  all  markets 
in  New  England,  not  just  the  supply  fur- 
nished by  one  group  of  producers  or  the 
producers  from  one  section,  nor  of  the 
condition  of  the  business  of  one  dealer. 
It  bases  its  conclusions  on  the  conditions 
in  all  sections  and  on  the  business  of  all 
dealers.  Without  the  NEMPA  to  inter- 
pret and  present  the  facts,  to  serve  as  an 
interpreter  of  the  supply  and  the  demand, 
the  price  would  inevitably  have  gone 
down.  It  would  have  gone  down  without 
any  re.al  reason,  simply  because  it  lacked 
an  interpreter. 

In  stating  these  fundamental  facts,  this 
background  which  enabled  your  sales  com- 
mittee to  get  the  price  continued  for  you, 
we  must  not  forget  the  positions  taken  by 
the  Boston  dealers.  There  was  no  ques- 
tion that  they  had  expected  a  decrease  in 
the  price  of  milk  May  1.  But  when  they 
were  shown  the  facts,  when  your  sales 
committee  presented  the  reasons  why  the 
price  should  be  maintained,  they  accepted 
these  facts  and  conclusions  like  good  busi- 
ness men  and  were  willing  to  stand  fairly 
with  the  association  in  continuing  the 
prices  so  long  as  the  conditions  warranted 
such  a  continuance.  We  are  glad  to 
recognize  the  businesslike  way  in  which 
they  met  us.  It  is  very  different  from 
the  haggling  attitude  which  would  have 
come  in  only  a  few  years  ago. 

One  of  the  important  lessons  from  the 
experiences  of  the  past  few  months  is  that 
the  tail  cannot  for  long  wag  the  dog,  that 
a  very  small  amount  of  milk  coming  into 
the  market  at  a  lower  than  the  standard 
price  need  not  disrupt  the  whole  market. 
Over  and  over  again  in  the  past  we  have 
had  that  experience  of  the  small  amount 
of  cut  price  milk  resulting  in  a  general 
upsetting  of  market  conditions.  We  have 
learned  better,  so  have  the  dealers.  We 
can  now  go  steadily  forward,  selling  milk  ; 
they  can  continue  to  buy  your  milk  at 
prices  which  conditions  of  the  industry  as 
a  whole  warrant,  not  going  down  to  meet 
the  views  of  some  irresponsible  party, 
with  only  a  few  drops  of  milk  to  sell  out 
of  the  big  bucket  full  which  is  needed  for 
Boston's  supply. 

However  friendly  we  may  feel  toward 
the  dealers  for  their  recognition  of  our 


point  of  view  at  this  time  it  would  be 
shortsighted  policy  which  would  lean 
permanently  on  such  a  goodwill.  The 
dealers  are  willing  to  go  a  good  ways  to 
meet  our  views  as  long  as  we  have  a  great 
membership  of  farmers  back  of  our  as- 
sociation. The  more  dairy  farmers  who 
join  the  association,  the  greater  will  be 
the  number  of  dealers  who  will  meet  our 
views.  This  is  natural.  It  works  in  two 
ways.  The  more  members  we  have  the 
more  strength  we  have  if  we  ever  should 
have  to  enforce  our  views  as  to  prices. 
On  the  other  hand  the  more  members  we 
have  the  fewer  men  there  are  outside.  It 
is  these  outside  men  who  are  more  often 
the  disturbing  element  and  the  dealers 
know  it. 

For  these  reasons  the  essential  thing  is 
to  keep  our  association  up  to  full  fighting 
strength.  It  is  a  fine  machine  of  great 
horse  power.  But  the  newer  and  bigger 
problems  which  keep  coming  up  demand 
an  ever  increasing  power  behind  them. 
Most  everyone  is  driving  a  more  power- 
ful car  than  they  were  a  few  years  ago. 
It  is  no  different  with  the  NEMPA.  We 
must  increase  our  strength,  our  standing 
in  New  England.  The  only  way  is  to 
keep  on  getting  more  members. 

We  are  starting  out  on  a  canvass  of  all 
New  England,  first  to  get  our  present 
members  to  sign  up  on  the  new  dues  basis, 
second  to  get  non  members  to  join.  The 
response  of  our  members  has  been  highly 
gratifying.  When  we  go  into  the  field 
next  month  on  a  definite  drive  for  new 
members  we  hope  the  response  will  be 
equally  encouraging.  We  have  done  big 
things  in  the  past,  are  still  doing  them. 
We  can  do  bigger  things  in  the  future  it 
the  dairy  farmers  of  all  New  England 
will  join  and  stand  by  the  outstanding 
dairy  organization  in  this  area,  the  New 
England  Milk  Producers'  Association. 


ADEQUATE  SUPERVISION 

Again  we  wish  to  express  our  satis- 
faction at  the  progress  which  is  being 
made  by  the  Dairy  Systems  in  Springfield, 
Worcester  and  Manchester,  and  with  the 
co-operatives  in  Concord  and  Nashua,  N. 
H.,  with  whom  they  have  allied  them- 
selves through  joint  use  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Dairy  Marketing  Service. 

The  Worcester  System  was  under  some 
of  the  most  severe  handicaps  which  a  co- 
operative could  face  with  a  market  which 
had  f  or  some  years  been  in  a  partial  state 
of  disruption  and  with  a  considerable 
variation  in  the  prices  paid  by  different 
dealers,  also  unusual  variations  in  the  re- 
sale price.  The  System  is  overcoming 
these  handicaps  and  is  establishing  itself 
firmly  in  the  market.  It  entered  the 
bottled  milk  business  a  few  months  ago 
and  has  developed  a  substantial  amount  by 
the  quality  of  its  products  and  the  service 
it  renders. 

Springfield  system  progressed  along  a 
slightly  different  line  but  is  making 
equally  good  progress.  The  most  signifi- 
cant thing  in  their  progress  is  the  pur- 
chase of  one  of  the  large  distributors  in 
that  city  and  thus  establishing  themselves 
firmly  and  permanently  in  that  market  on 
a  bottled  milk  basis.  The  three  co- 
operatives in  New  Hampshire  are,  in  a 
smaller  way,  making  progress. 

This  progress  in  all  is  due  in  very  large 
measure  to  the  fact  that  they  have  been 
wise  enough  to  recognize  that  they  need 
expert  supervision,  not  only  in  their  plant 
operations  but  in  the  vital  questions  of 
handling  their  accounts  and  in  credits. 
They  have  provided  for  just  this  expert 
supervision  through  the  New  England 
Dairy  Marketing  Service.  It  is  the  key 
to  their  success.  The  day  of  amateur 
supervision  of  co-operative  marketing  en- 
terprises is  past,  or  passing. 

THREE  BIG  QUESTIONS 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

there  are  a  good  many  in  that  country 
which  give  more  than  this,  would  give  58 
40-quart  cans  of  milk  in  a  year.  The  in- 
crease would  mean  an  additional  cost  of 
$5.51  cents  per  cow  each  year,  $55.10  on 
a  10-cow  herd,  $110.20  on  a  20-cow  herd. 
If  a  man  had  50  cows  the  increase  would 
cost  him  $275.50  in  a  year.  These 
figures  are   on  a  milk   shipment  basis. 

While  we  are  talking  about  the  15th 
zone  let  us  answer  question  No.  two — 
How  much  has  been  saved  already  ?  By 
getting  a  suspension  of  the  proposed  in- 
crease in  rates  from  April  1  to  August 


May,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


1,  the  New  England  railroad  rate  com- 
mittee has  already  saved  the  dairy  farm- 
ers of  Richford  and  East  Berkshire  and 
other  places  in  the  15th  zone  $1.83  per 
cow,  $18.30  for  every  10  cows,  $36.60  for 
a  20-cow  man,  or  more  than  $90  on. a  50- 
cow  herd.  This  is  on  the  basis  of  all 
the  product  being  shipped  as  milk.  You 
can  figure  it  out  yourself  what  the  sav- 
ing has  been  if  cream  were  shipped. 
Shipments  from  Norton  Mills  in  Essex 
county  can  be  figured  on  the  same  basis. 
It  is  in  the  15th  zone. 

The  rest  of  Franklin  county  and  all  of 
Grand  Isle  County  is  in  the  14th  zone. 
The  present  rate  on  milk  from  the  14th 
zone  to  Boston  is  47  cents  per  40-quart 
can.  The  proposed  rate  is  56J/2  cents  per 
can,  an  increase  of  8l/2  cents  a  can.  This 
is  an  increase  of  $4.90  per  cow  per  year, 
or  $49  on  a  10-cow  herd,  or  $246.50  on  a 
50-cow  herd.  Savings  already  made  by 
the  committee  amount  to  $1.61  per  cow, 
$16.10  per  10-cow  herd,  $32.20  on  a  20- 
cow  herd  and  so  forth,  figured  on  the 
basis  of  milk  shipments.  Cream  ship- 
ments would  be  more  per  can  and  less 
per  cow  but  an  important  saving  has  al- 
ready been  made  for  the  men  whose 
product  moves  as  cream. 

In  the  14th  Zone 

The  important  stations  in  the  14th  zone 
are  Alburgh,  Isla  La  Motte,  North  Hero 
and  Grand  Islae  in  Grand  Isle  county; 
Swanton,  Highgate,  East  Highgate, 
Sheldon  Junction,  Sheldon,  Fairfield, 
East  Fairfield,  Fletcher,  Enosburg  Falls 
and  St.  Albans  in  Franklin  county ;  Sum- 
mit in  Essex  county,  and  North  Troy  in 
Orleans  county.  In  New  Hampshire  all 
milk  shipped  from  West  Stewartstown 
and  Beecher's  Falls  comes  in  the  same 
class  as  they  are  in  the  14th  zone.  For 
every  cow  whose  product  is  shipped  as 
milk  from  these  stations  the  increase 
would  amount  to  $4-90;  the  saving  al- 
ready made  amounts  to  $1.61. 

For  some  reason  which  we  cannot  ex- 
plain these  14th  zone  men  have  an  ad- 
vantage over  the  men  in  the  12th  and 
13th  zones.  Great  as  the  increased  bur- 
den would  be  on  the  8z/>  cent  per  can 
basis,  the  schedules  filed  by  the  railroads 
show  a  greater  tax  levied  on  the  men  in 
the  12th  and  13th  zones.  Their  increase, 
according  to  the  schedules  published  by 
the  railroads  would  be  a  flat  nine  cents 
per  can.  We  do  not  know  why  this  dif- 
ference was  made  but  it  is  there. 

Dairy  farmers  in  the  13th  zone  stand 
to  lose  enormous  amounts  of  money  each 
year  if  the  railroads  should  succeed  in 
getting  the  increase.  The  most  impor- 
tant shipping  stations  in  the  13th  zone 
are  Milton,  Cloverdale,  Underhill  and 
Jericho  in  Chittenden  county ;  Newport 
and  Newport  Center  in  Orleans  county ; 
Coldbrook  and  North  Stratford  in  Coos 
county ;  Cambridge  Junction,  Johnson, 
Hyde  Park,  Morrisville,  Wolcott,  Cam- 
bridge and  Jeffersonville  in  Lamoile 
county. 

The  present  rate  on  milk  shipments  to 
Boston  from  all  of  these  stations  is  45 
cents  per  40-quart  can;  the  proposed  new 
rate  is  54  cents  a  can.  This  increase  of 
nine  cents  a  can  means  $5.22  cents  ad- 
ditional burden  they  must  bear  on  every 
cow  they  own,  if  their  product  goes  as 
milk.  It  means  $52.20  for  every  10-cow 
herd,  $104.40  for  a  20-cow  herd  and  $266 
for  a  50-cow  herd. 

By  the  same  figuring  it  means  that  the 
New  England  committee  has  already 
saved  $17.40  cents  for  every  man  owning 
10  cows  whose  milk  moves  from  these 
stations  to  Boston.  Savings  for  other 
producers  are  in  proportion  to  the  num- 
ber of  cows  they  keep  and  whether  it  is 
shipped  as  milk  or  cream. 

Coming  to  zone  12  a  considerable  list 
of  important  shipping  stations  can  be  in- 
cluded and  used  as  a  basis  for  this  lesson 
m  arithmetic.  The  old  rate  for  ship- 
ments from  the  12th  zone  was  44  cents 
per  40-quart  can.  The  proposed  rate  is 
53  cents.    This  increase  of  nine  cents  is 

JuU^r  the  Same  as  in  the  13th  zone  and  a 
half  cent  above  the  14th  zone  increase. 
We  do  not  know  why;  it  is  just  an 
arbitrary  decision  of  the  railroads 
favor  one  zone  and  not  to  make  the 
crease  proportional  as  between  zones. 

So  long  as  the  increase  proposed  is  ex- 
actly the  same  as  in  the  13th  zone,  nine 
cents  per  40-quart  can,  the  same  figures 
i»s  are  given  for  the  13th  zone  can  be  ap- 


to 
in- 


plied.  Important  stations  in  the  12th 
zone  are  Colchester,  Essex  Junction, 
North  Williston,  Richmond,  Bolton, 
Shelburne  in  Chittenden  county ;  North 
Ferrisburg  and  Ferrisburg  in  Addison 
county ;  Orleans  in  Orleans  county ; 
Hardwick  in  Caledonia  county ;  Solon, 
Harmony,  Hartland  and  Detroit  in 
Somerset  county,  Maine. 

In  the  11th  zone  the  old  rate  was  42 
cents  per  40-quart  can  and  the  proposed 
rate  is  50^4  cents.  This  increase  of  8l/t 
cents  amounts  to  the  same  as  was  figured 
1 4th  zone.  Important  shipping 
stations  in  this  zone  are  Barton  in  Or- 
leans county  ;  Concord  in  Essex  county  ; 
Danby  and  Clarendon  in  Rutland  county ; 
Lancaster,  Mountorne,  Scott  and  Jeffer- 
son in  Coos  county  ;  Lyndonville  and  St. 
Johnsbury  in  Caledonia  county ;  North 
Anson,  Anson,  Madison,  Norridgewock, 
Skowhegan  and  Pittsfield  in  Somerset 
county,  Maine. 

Eight  Cent  Increase 

The  10th  zone  is  inside  the  average 
distance  from  which  Boston's  milk  sup- 
ply now  comes  but  the  proposed  rate 
would  bring  the  cost  there  well  above 
the  cent  a  quart  point.  The  old  rate  was 
40  cents  a  can,  exactly  a  cent  a  quart. 
The  proposed  rate  is  48  cents.  This  in- 
crease of  eight  cents  a  can  means  $4.64 
for  every  cow,  every  year ;  $46.40  for 
every  10-cow  herd  ;  $92.80  for  every  20- 
cow  herd,  and  $234  each  year  for  a  man 
who  has  50  cows.  We  are  now  getting 
down  into  the  area  where  most  of  the 
milk  is  shipped  to  the  market  so  that  the 
full  amount  falls  on  the  dairyman. 

In  this  zone  the  saving  already  made  by 
the  New  England  committee  amounts  -to 
$1.53  a  cow  or  $15.30  for  a  10-cow  herd, 
other  herds  in  proportion. 

Important  shipping  stations  in  the  10th 
zone  are  Farmington,  Wilton,  North  Jay 
and  Livermore  Falls  in  Franklin  county, 
Me. ;  Fairfield  in  Somerset  county,  Me. ; 
Vassalboro  and  Waterville  in  Knox 
county ;  Assumpsic,  Inwood,  Barnet  and 
Ryegate  in  Caledonia  county;  White- 
field  in  Coos  county,  and  Littleton  in 
Grafton  county;  Middlebury  and  Leices- 
ter Junction  in  Addison  county ;  Bran- 
don, Rutland  and  Wallingford  in  Rut- 
land county ;  Randolph  in  Orange  county, 
and  Shushan,  N.  Y. 

The  9th  zone  has  a  lot  of  important 
shipping  stations,  including  in  Maine, 
Winslows  Mills,  Waldoboro,  Wiscasset, 
Warren,  Gardiner,  Augusta,  Winthrop ; 
in  New  Hampshire,  Sugar  Hill,  Lis- 
bon, Bath,  Woodsville,  Blackmount;  in 
Vermont,  Newbury,  Bradford,  Piermont, 
Fairlee,  Ely,  Bethel,  Royalton,  Groton, 
Boltonville;  in  New  York,  Greenwick, 
Archdale,  South  Cambridge,  Johnson- 
ville,  Eagle  Bridge  and  Hoosick. 

The  old  rate  in  the  9th  zone  was  38J/2 
cents.  The  proposed  new  rate  is  46  cents 
per  40-quart  can.  The  difference  of  7}4 
cents  a  can  means  an  additional  expense 
of  $4.30  cents  a  cow,  $43  for  a  10-cow 
herd,  $86  for  a  20-cow  herd  or  $267.50 
for  a  man  with  50  cows. 

The  actual  savings  for  the  9th  zone 
producers  already  made  by  the  New  Eng- 
land committee  amounts  to  $1.44  cents 
per  cow.    Figure  it  out  for  yourself. 

In  the  8th  zone  the  old  rate  was  36y2 
cents;  the  proposed  new  rate  is  46  cents 
for  every  40-quart  can  shipped  to  Bos- 
ton. This  makes  a  difference  of  seven 
cents,  leaving  the  8th  zone  producers  in 
exactly  the  same  position  as  the  9th  zone 
men.  You  can  do  your  own  figuring, 
using  the  9th  zone  amounts. 

Important  shipping  stations  in  this  zone 
are  Haverhill  and  Olivererian.  in  Grafton 
county,  N.  H. ;  Bethel,  South  Royalton, 
West  Hartford  and  Pomponoosic,  North- 
boro  and  Mt.  Holly,  Vt. 

Seventh  zone  dairymen  would  be  taxed 
an  even  seven  cents  per  40-quart  can  if  the 
railroads  were  allowed  their  proposed  in- 
crease. That  is  $4.06  cents  a  cow,  $40.60 
cents  for  10  cows,  $81.20  for  a  20-cow 
herd  and  $203  for  a  50-cow  herd  for 
the  year. 

Savings  already  made  7th  zone  men 
are  $1.35  a  cow,  $13.50  for  a  10-cow  herd 
and  so  forth.  The  7th  zone  stations  are 
getting  pretty  near  home  as  compared 
with  the  15th.  They  include  Windsor, 
Cavendish,  Ludlow  and  Bellows  Falls, 
Vt. ;  Lebanon  and  Pattee,  N.  H. 

The  proposed  rates  on  6th  zone  milk 
(Continued  on  page  nine) 


LUBRICATION  CHART 


TRACTOR'S 
NAME 


Allts  Chalmers  (6-12)  

Allls  Chalmers  (all  others)  ... 

Allwork  :  

Aultman  Taylor. .'  

Avery  (Cultivator  &  Model  C) 
Avery  (All  others)  


Bailor  

Bates  Steel  Mule. 

Bear  

Best  


Case. . . 
Cletrac. 


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Depue  


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Evans. 


Fageol  

Farm  Horse  

Fordson  

Frlck  (12-20)  

Frlck  (All  others). 

Gray  

Great  Western  


Hart  Part  

Helder  (Cultivator). 
Helder  (All  others). . 
Holt  (Caterpillar). . . 
Huber  


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TRACTORS 
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Lauson  

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Linn  

Little  Giant. 
Lombard . 


Minneapolis  

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Monarch  


Ohio  

Oil  Full 


Peoria. . 
Pioneer 


Reed  

Reliable  

Russell  (Giant)  

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Shawnee  

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Wants  

Waterloo  Boy. 

Wetmore  

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Key  to  Chart:  LM — Socony  Light  Medium:  M — Socony  Medium;  II — Socony  Heavy;  EH — 
Socony  Extra  Heavy. 


HEIP  that  worrit  quit 


SOCONY  Motor  Oil  is  extra  "help"— help 
for  you  and  help  for  the  tractor,  no  matter 
how  tough  or  how  long  the  job. 

Socony  Motor  Oil  literally  adds  and  conserves 
power  to  your  tractor.  It  gives  added  compres- 
sion by  maintaining  as  completely  as  possible  an 
unbroken  leak  proof  seal  between  piston  rings 
and  cylinder  walls. 

It  everlastingly  fights  friction  between  moving 
metal  parts  by  maintaining  an  impenetrable 
Lubricoat*  of  oil  at  all  times. 

Furthermore,  it  resists  remarkably  high  engine 
temperatures.  In  fact,  Socony  Motor  Oil  is  built 
for  the  tough,  rough  work  of  tractor  usage. 

There's  a  proper  grade  for  each  type  of  tractor. 
Consult  the  Socony  Lubrication  Chart  above  for 
further  details. 

Remember  your  nearest  Socony  dealer  will  be 
glad  to  quote  you  prices  on  metal  thirty  or  fifty 
gallon  drums  with  faucet.  Costs  no  more— mighty 
convenient  on  the  farm. 

STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 
26  Broadway 

SOCONY 

nco.us.ftKr.orK, 

MOTOR  OIL 

(for  Tractor  Lubricoaiing 


*Lubricoat:  To  cover  with  an  impenetrable  coat  of  oil  all  moving  and 
frictional  parts :  best  done  with  the  proper  grade  of  Socony  Motor  Oil. 

When  Writing  to  Advertisers  Please  Mention  the 
New  England  Dairyman 


Page,  SicV 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1926 


LUCKY? 


"BORN  with  a  silver 
spoon  in  his  mouth"  is 
what  is  often  said  about 
a  successful  man.  But 
the  difference  between 
success  and  failure  is 
often  so  small. 

His  butter  always  scored 
a  few  points  higher — be- 
cause he  always  used  a 
little  more  care  —  be- 
cause he  always  graded 
his  cream  —  because  he 
always  protected  its 
quality  with 

sanitary  cleanliness. 

These  are  reasons  why 
quality  bceomes  nation- 
ally known  and  asked 
for ;  why  bigger  plants 
are  built  —  the  little 
things  which  make  the 
difference  between  suc- 
cess and  failure. 

Greater  ability  to  dis- 
solve casein,  to  emulsify 
butrer  fat,  to  provide 
uniform,  dependable 
cleaning  service  at  low 
cost,  has  made  "Wyan- 
dotte" the  successful 
dairy  cleaner. 

Ask  your  supply  man. 
It  cleans  clean. 


Indian  in  circle 


in  every  package 


THE  J.  B.   FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte      -     -  Michigan 


RAILROAD  RATE  HEARINGS 
MAY  5  . 

New  England  Committee  Prepared 
to  Develop  Sturdy  Opposition 

Hearings  on  the  proposed  increase  in 
milk  transportation  rates  before  the  In- 
terstate Commerce  Commission  will  begin 
May  5  in  Boston.  We  are  all  ready  for 
them.  The  railroads  will  tben  put  in 
their  case,  showing  their  grounds  for  ask- 
ing for  an  increase  of  20  per  cent.,  total- 
ing for  all  New  England  about  $750,000 
a  year.  We  will  then  show  reasons  why 
no  such  increase  should  be  allowed. 

Under  the  leadership  of  the  committee 
representing  the  dairy  farmers  of  all 
New  England,  backed  up  by  the  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Boston  dealers,  adequate 
preparation  has  been  made  to  protect  the 
interests  of  the  dairy  industry.  Com- 
petent attorneys,  rate  experts  and  cost 
accountants  have  been  retained.  So  far 
as  possible  the  representatives  of  the 
industry  have  in  a  few  months  fortified 
themselves  to  resist  the  powerful  rail- 
road interests,  with  immense  capital, 
trained  experts  and  long  experience  back 
of  them. 

It  was  a  big  job,  but  we  are  ready  to 
meet  the  railroads  on  their  own  ground 
so  far  as  is  possible  in  the  short  time 
since  we  have  known  that  they  really 
were  going  through  with  their  _  proposi- 
tion to  increase  the  transportation  rates 
on  milk.  Every  dairy  farmer  in  New 
England  should  feel  highly  gratified  that 
his  business,  dairying,  with  so  many  dif- 
ferent points  of  view  on  many  matters, 
could  come  together  and  present  such  a. 
united  front  against  the  railroads.  It  is 
going  to  be  a  big  contest  with  great  sums 
of  money  to  be  lost  or  won  for  one  side 
or  the  other. 

Will  Listen  First 

The  committee  has  done  all  that  was 
possible  ahead  of  time  to  prepare  itself 
for  a  vigorous  contest.  The  opening  gun 
will  be  fired  by  the  railroads  when  they 
make  their  statement  of  the  reasons  why 
they  seek  the  increase.  Until  their  case 
is  put  in  our  representatives  will  not 
know  fully  the  arguments  which  they 
will  have  to  meet.  It  is  fair  to  assume 
that  after  the  railroads  have  put  in  their 
case  a  reasonable  time  will  be  given  our 
representatives  to  prepare  to  meet  it. 
They  have  already  made  preparations  to 
meet  it  generally  but  some  time  will  be 
necessary  in  which  to  answer  it  in  detail. 

We  expect  that  the  dairy  industry  will 
win,  but  win  or  lose  a  good  fight  is  going 
to  be  made.  The  railroads  of  New  Eng- 
land, led  by  the  Boston  &  Maine,  will  try 
to  prove  beyond  all  reasonable  question 
that  they  are  entitled  to  an  increase  and 
your  committee  and  the  trained  men 
they  have  retained  expect  to  fight  every 
inch  of  the  way  to  show  that  they  are 
not.  That  is  the  only  way  in  which  the 
dairy  industry  can  protect  itself  against 
an  additional  burden  of  $750,000  a  year. 
Your  individual  part  in  this,  the  addi- 
tional milk  transportation  which  you 
would  be  forced  to  pay  if  the  railroads 
were  allowed  this  increase,  may  seem 
small  but  in  the  aggregate  it  makes  a 
fortune  every  year. 

Let  us  remind  you  again  of  the  good 
men  who  are  fighting  your  battles,  the 
New  England-wide  committee  appointed 
by  the  commissioners  of  Agriculture  of 
the  various  states.  Carl  C.  Fletcher  of 
Shelburne,  Vt,  is  chairman.  The  Maine 
member  is  Weston  B.  Haskell  of  the 
Turner  Centre  System.  The  New  Hamp- 
shire member  is  Carl  A.  Smith,  manager 
of  the  Manchester  Dairy  System.  Be- 
sides Mr.  Fletcher  Vermont  is  repre- 
sented by  F.  H.  Bickford  of  Bradford 
and  W.  C.  Fuller  of  Richmond.  Massa- 
chusetts is  represented  by  A.  C.  Bray  of 
Shelburne  Falls.  Rhode  Island  is  repre- 
sented by  Francis  S.  Thayer  of  Woon- 
socket  and  Connecticut  by  R.  A.  Sikes 
of  Ellington.  W.  H.  Bronson  represents 
the  NEMPA. 

Since  the  first  these  men  have  had  the 
advice  and  heartiest  co-operation  of  rep- 
resentatives of  the  milk  dealers.  The  H. 
P.  Hood  Co.  is  represented  by  R.  H. 
Boutwell,  the  Whiting  Co.  by  C.  E. 
Henry,  the  Boston  Suburban  Milk  Deal- 
ers' Association  is  represented  by  A.  L. 
\yhittemorp  and  the  Cream  Dealers'  As- 


A  Richly  Deserved 
Success  for 

McCormick  -  Deering 
Primrose 

the  Ball-Bearing  Cream  Separator 

GREAT  changes  are  coming  about  in  this 
"  world  we  live  in.  Everything  is  moving 
on  or  passing  out  Things  that  have  not 
kept  pace  with  the  times  are  being  eclipsed  by 
the  new  and  better. 

The  success  of  the  McCormick-Deering  Primrose  Cream 
Separator  is  a  good  example.  Here  is  a  wonderfully 
designed,  ultra-modern  machine  with  outstanding  im- 
provements, which  has  been  rewarded  by  a  tremendous 
demand  wherever  cows  are  milked. 

The  success  of  the  McCormick-Deering  Primrose — both 
in  sales  and  popularity — has  been  the  most  important 
"news"  of  the  cream  separator  world  of  late  years. 

Ball  Bearings  have  been  a  chief  feature  in  this  success. 
But  that  is  only  one  factor.  There  are  many  other  ad- 
vantages in  Primrose  ownership — features  that  make  up 
simplicity,  durability,  clean  skimming,  easy  cleaning,  etc. 
This  cream  separator  brings  with  it  the  McCormick- 
Deering  reputation  and  service. 

Don't  fail  to  have  the  McCormick-Deering  Primrose  Bail- 
Bearing  machine  demonstrated  and  compared  with  others. 
Sold  by  the  McCormick-Deering  dealer  in  your  town. 


International  Harvester  Company 

Chicago,  Illinois 


.„  0  ...  ,  .  .  of  America 
606  So.  Michigan  Ave.  „  . 

to  {Incorporated) 


Ball  Bearings 

have  been  a  chief  feature 
in  this  success.  Ball 
Bearings  have  put  the 
Primrose  far  in  advance 
of  any  other  type  of  sep- 
arator. They  have  re- 
duced friction  almost  to 
the  vanishing  point. 
They  have  made  Prim- 
rose turn  easier,  run 
steadier,  and  last  longer. 
Ball  Bearings  belong  in 
the  modern  machine  and 
the  Primrose  has  them. 

12  Full 
Months  to  Pay 


12  Distinctive 
Features 

1.  Ball  Bearings 

2.  Easy  Turning 

3.  Slow  Crank  Speed 

4.  Greater  Capacity  with 

Less  Labor 

5.  Long  Life 

6.  Steady  Running 

7.  Visible  Oiling  System 

8.  Improved  Oiling 

9.  Easy  Bowl  Adjust- 

ment 

10.  Supply  Can  Locked  in 

Position 

11.  Spun    Metal  Anti- 

Splash  Supply  Can 

12.  Improved  Tinware 


These  Two  Men 

Fed  their  first  bag  of  Unicorn 
eleven  years  ago. 

They  found,  by  test,  that 
it  made  milk  for  less  feed- 
money.  ^ 

Since  then,  they  have  tried 
out  a  dozen  or  more  grain 
rations,  ready-mixed  and 
home-made.  ^ 

They  have  made  certain 
that  Unicorn  continues  to 
deliver  the  milk  at  lowest 
feed  cost.  ^ 

Right  now  is  a  good  time 
to  find  out  that  Unicorn  will 
do  the  same  in  your  herd. 

CHAPIN  &  COMPANY,  Chicago,  Illinois 


L.  J.  Stark  (at  left)  and  his  father, 
Theodore  Stark,  comprise  the  firm  of 
Theodore  Stark  &  Son.,  Salem,  Ohio., 
owners  of  the  Stark  Herd  of  purebred 
Holsteins. 


May,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


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sociation  is  represented  by  T.  P.  Grant. 
All  these  men  are  working  with  us  in 
opposing  the  raise  in  the  interest  of  the 
dairy  industry  of  New  England  as  a 
whole. 

The  committee  is  made  up  of  able  men 
but  more  than  that  will  be  needed  to 
make  a  good  showing  against  the  rail- 
roads. These  railroads  have  on  their 
regular  staff  highly  trained  and  experi- 
enced attorneys,  familiar  with  every  de- 
tail of  the  railroads'  program  and  able 
to  take  advantage  of  every  possible  con- 
dition which  would  bolster  up  the  claim 
of  the  railroad  that  an  increase  is  neces- 
sary. The  railroads  have  expert  ac- 
countants familiar  with  every  detail  of 
expenditure  and  income  and  having  access 
to  accounts  covering  many  years.  They 
have  skilled  rate  experts  in  their  regular 
employ. 

The  first  decision  of  our  committee  was 
that  they  must  meet  these  highly  trained 
experts  with  men  just  as  capable,  just 
as  able  to  tear  down  a  case  as  the  railroad 
men  are  to  build  it  up.  So  they  retained 
the  best  men  they  could  find.  For  the 
leading  counsel  they  retained  John  F. 
Finerty.  His  experience  has  been  such 
that  he  will  prove  of  great  value  to  the 
dairy  interests.  For  some  years  previous 
to  the  war  he  was  attorney  in  rate 
matters  for  railroads  in  the  middle  west. 
When  the  government  took  over  the 
railroads  as  a  war  measure  Mr.  Finerty 
was  assistant  to  the  controller  general 
and  had  in  his  charge  the  settlement  of 
claims  against  the  government  during  this 
war  period.  Since  then  he  has  been  prac- 
ticing along  the  same  line  and  has  had  a 
varied  experience  and  built  up  a  big 
practice  in  railroad  rate  cases.  He  has 
appeared  before  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission  in  many  different  cases. 

Hire  Traffic  Expert 

The  committee  has  also  retained  T.  D. 
Goeghcgan,  formerly  vice-president  of  a 
southern  railroad  where  the  adjustment 
of  traffic  matters  came  under  his  direct 
charge.  He  is  a  traffic  expert  of  the 
first  rank.  None  of  the  railroads  can 
present  a  man  any  better  qualified  to  dig 
out  the  facts  and  to  force  the  railroad 
experts  into  a  defensive  position. 

For  a  cost  accountant  the  committee 
has  secured  John  H.  Libby,  who  was  for 
some  years  in  the  cost  accounting  de- 
partment of  the  New  York,  New  Haven 
and  Hartford  Railroad.  He  has  had  a 
wide  experience  of  more  than  ten  years 
and  has  appeared  many  times  before  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission  to  give 
testimony  as  to  costs  of  railroad  opera- 
tions. 

All  these  men  are  well  fitted  by  train- 
ing and  experience  to  appear  before  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission  and 
make  a  fine  showing.  But  in  the  nature 
of  the  case  they  have  had  less  to  do  with 
the  milk  traffic  than  with  some  other 
forms.  Not  since  1916  has  there  been 
any  general  investigation  of  milk  trans- 
portation rates  on  a  national  scale.  The 
committee  and  the  above  mentioned  ex- 
perts will  be  greatly  strengthened  by  the 
services  of  Reuben  Hall,  attorney  for 
the  NEMPA,  and  Wesley  H.  Bronson, 
head  of  our  research  department.  Both 
these  men  have  an  intimate  knowledge  of 
the  milk  industry,  especially  in  New  Eng- 
land, and  are  in  a  position  to  supplement 
with  their  special  knowledge  and  experi- 
ence, the  recognized  ability  of  the  other 
experts. 

Altogether  it  is  a  strong  team  which 
the  dairy  industry  is  putting  into  the 
field.  A  team  which  we  believe  will  make 
a  showing  creditable  to  a  great  industry 
like  ours.  It  will  cost  some  money  to 
put  up  this  fight  but  it  is  good  business  to 
do  so.  Elsewhere  in  this  issue  the  finances 
of  the  campaign,  the  gains  which  have  al- 
ready been  made  and  the  greater  gains 
which  will  come  if  we  can  prevent  the 
increase,  are  discussed  in  terms  of  every- 
day experience  and  individual  losses  and 
gains. 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1926 


Bill  for  Canadian  Inspection 

National    Federation    introduces    Measure   to  Inspect 
Cream  Supply  from  Outside  of  Country. 
Has  Strong  Support. 


Justice  to  the  dairy  farmers  of  New 
England  and  an  additional  health  pro- 
tection to  the  consumers  of  milk  and 
more  especially  of  cream  is  the  aim  of  a 
bill  recently  introduced  in  Congress 
through  the  efforts  of  the  National  Co- 
operative Milk  Producers'  Federation. 
The  bill  provides  that  milk  and  cream 
coming  in  from  outside  the  United  States 
shall  be  subjected  to  a  sanitary  inspec- 
tion similar  to  that  which  boards  of 
health  of  cities  use  on  milk  from  within 
the  United  States. 

Under  the  present  system  the  boards 
of  health  in  practically  all  cities  where 
milk  is  to  be  sold  have  a  plan  of  inspec- 
tion. Some  make  more  drastic  require- 
ments than  others.  The  inspection  done 
by  some  cities  is  more  thorough  than  by 
some  others.  Most  of  the  New  England 
cities  will  ■  accept  the  inspection  certifi- 
cates of  other  cities.  As  an  example,  if 
the  Boston  health  department  has  in- 
spected the  barns,  milk  houses,  etc.,  of  a 
man  in  New  Hampshire  who  has  been 
selling  in  Boston,  and  if  that  man  wants 
to  ship  to  Worcester,  the  Worcester  board 
of  health  will  accept  the  Boston  inspec- 
tion as  satisfactory  until  such  time  as 
they  get  around  to  make  an  inspection 
for  themselves. 

The  system  of  inspection  worked  out 
by  the  departments  of  health  of  New 
England  cities  is  excellent  in  principle 
but  in  the  distant  Canadian  territory 
it  is  often  weak  on  practice  due  to 
the  small  number  oi  inspectors  which 
can  be  provided  with  the  limited  funds 
at  the  disposal  of  the  health  departments. 
The  result  is  that  the  inspections  are  in- 
frequent and  that  the  far  distant  sec- 
tions get  very  little  attention.  It  might 
be  that  three  or  four  years  would  elapse 
between  inspection  visits  in  the  more  dis- 
tant areas.  This  is  not  due  to  any  failure 
of  the  health  departments'  general  plan 
but  to  the  fact  that  there  are  not  enough 
inspectors  to  cover  the  great  territory, 
which  is  now  required  to  supply  Boston 
and  other  Southern  New  England  cities 
with  an  adequate  supply  of  milk. 

Unable  to  Keep  Pace 

Under  these  conditions  the  boards  of 
health  have  been  unable  to  keep  pace  with 
the  rapidly  developing  and  extending 
area  from  which  cream  is  now  coming 
into  the  Southern  New  England  markets. 
However  much  they  may  desire  and  in- 
tend to  inspect  barns,  dairy  houses  and 
equipment  of  men  who  are  shipping 
cream,  it  has  not  been  possible  to  do 
the  inspection  work  as  fast  as  the  cream 
area  was  extending.  The  extension  of 
the  cream  territory  into  Canada  within 
the  past  few  years  is  the  most  important 
aspect  of  the  situation.  Most  of  the 
larger  dealers  and  the  men  who  deal  es- 
pecially in  cream  have  developed  large 
cream  areas  in  Canada  and  are  drawing 
large  supplies  from  them.  Very  little 
inspection  work  is  done  by  the  New  Eng- 
land city  health  departments  in  this 
Canadian  territory.  It  has  been  impos- 
sible for  them  to  cover  it  as  it  developed. 
The  same  is  true  of  the  comparatively 
small  amount  of  milk  which  comes  in 
from  Canada.  New  York  and  other 
states  are  in  much  the  same  situation  as 
regards  inspection  as  are  the  New  Eng- 
land states. 

Obviously  this  is  a  very  unfair  thing  to 
the  dairy  farmers  of  New  England,  New 
York  and  other  states.  They  have  to  un- 
dergo a  rigid  inspection  and  have  to  spend 
considerable  money  in  equipping  their 
barns,  providing  milk  houses,  getting 
proper  cooling  facilities  and  so  forth, 
while  dairy  farmers  just  across  the  line 
in  Canada  are  under  no  such  obligation. 
The  fact  that  these  Canadian  cream 
shippers  do  not  have  to  comply  with  the 
sanitary  requirements  of  New  England 
city  boards  of  health  to  some  degree 
nullifies  the  effect  of  the  tariff  on  cream. 
Part  of  their  lower  production  costs  are 
due  to  the  fact  that  they  are  not  com- 
pelled to  _  meet  such  stiff  requirements 
on  inspection. 


The  bill  introduced  into  Congress  at 
the  instance  of  the  National  Federation 
aims  to  correct  this  situation  by  providing 
for  a  federal  inspection  on  all  Canadian 
or  other  milk  and  cream  coming  in  from 
outside  the  country.  The  requirements 
of  this  inspection  are  similar  to  those  set 
up  for  sanitary  inspection  by  the  New 
York  City  board  of  health.  If  the  bill  is 
passed  no  milk  or  cream  would  be  al- 
lowed to  come  across  the  border  if  it  was 
not  accompanied  by  a  certificate  of 
United  States  federal  inspection. 

Obviously  the  establishment  of  such  an 
inspection  system  for  the  protection  of 
the  quality  of  our  cream  supply  and  to 
do  justice  to  dairy  farmers  in  the  United 
States,  must  be  a  federal  law.  Its  en- 
forcement is  only  possible  through  the 
customs  department  and  there  are  re- 
lationships between  the  United  States  and 
the  Canadian  or  other  foreign  govern- 
ments which  might  become  involved.  It 
would  not  be  possible  for  New  England 
or  any  of  its  states  to  set  up  a  system 
which  would  work  well,  nor  is  it  prac- 
tical for  any  of  our  city  health  depart- 
ments to  provide  the  supervision  which 
would  be  necessary  to  insure  the  quality 
of  this  cream  supply. 

As  there  are  already  considerable 
quantities  of  cream  coming  in  from 
Canada  to  big  Boston  milk  dealers  and  to 
those  who  specialize  in  the  cream  trade, 
vigorous  opposition  to  the  bill  may  be 
expected.  It  has,  however,  the  approval 
of  the  United  States  Department  of 
Agriculture  and  it  is  the  belief  of  leaders 
in  our  National  Federation  that  it  will  be 
passed  promptly.  It  will  have  the  sup- 
port of  the  dairy  interests  of  the  middle 
west  because  they  are  looking  to  the  fine 
markets  of  the  east  as  a  good  place  to 
sell  cream. 

Western  Cream 

This  raises  another  aspect  of  the  case 
with  the  question  as  to  whether  there  is 
any  provision  for  the  inspection  of  con- 
ditions on  the  farms  from  which  this  mid- 
western  cream,  already  coming  into  our 
markets,  is  produced.  There  is  at  present 
no  such  inspection  practiced  but  the  Bos- 
ton health  department  representatives 
have  stated  that  when  any  considerable 
quantity  of  cream  or  milk  was  reported 
to  come  into  Boston  from  anywhere  in 
the  country  they  would  send  inspectors. 
Inspection  of  western  cream  supplies 
would  be  a  step  which  might  be  taken 
any  time.     New  York's  health  depart- 


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merit  is  already  considering  sending  men 
into  the  wid-West  to  inspect  farms  from 
which  cream  comes.  The  point  to  be  re- 
membered is  that  the  western  supplies 
are  within  our  own  country  and  can  be 
regulated  by  our  own  dairy  industry  and 
health  departments,  perhaps  on  the  basis 
of  interstate  commerce.  On  the  other 
hand  the  shipments  from  Canada  or 
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THREE  BIG  QUESTIONS 

(Continued  from  page  five) 

are  38l/2  cents  per  40-quart  can  as  against 
32  cents  at  present.  This  brings  the  pro- 
posed new  rate  down  to  within  a  cent  a 
quart ;  where  the  average  for  the  entire 
territory  was  under  the  old  rate.  The 
Shelburne  Falls,  Mass.,  milk  comes  in 
this  group,  also  some  Southern  New 
Hampshire  milk. 

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what  you  stand  to  lose  if  the  railroads 
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contributing  all  that  it  has  in  the  way  of 
information,  experience  and  man  power 
to  help  the  committee. 

The  committee  has  saved  you  many 
thousands  of  dollars  in  getting  a  sus- 
pension of  the  proposed  increase  for  four 
months.  It  expects  to  win  the  fight  and 
prevent  any  increase;  to  protect  you  from 
a  great  additional  burden  forced  upon 
you  by  the  railroads. 

Come  now  to  our  last  question — What 
is  this  fight  against  the  increase  to  cost 
you  individually  ?  You  will  have  to  do 
your  own  figuring.  But  here  is  the  prin- 
ciple. You  paid  two  cents  a  hundred  on 
milk  and  a  half  cent  a  pound  on  butterfat 
if  you  were  a  cream  shipper,  for  the 
month  of  March.  You  will  pay  in  the 
same  proportion  for  the  month  of  May. 
Your  cost  will  be  two  cents  per  hundred 
for  all  milk  shipped  in  March  and  in  May. 
If  you  are  a  cream  shipper  your  cost  will 
be  a  half  cent  a  pound  on  all  butterfat 
sold  in  March  and  in  May. 

If  you  live  in  the  15th  zone  the  increase 
proposed  by  the  railroads  would  amount 
to  about  11  cents  a  hundred  pounds.  You 
have  given  two  cents  per  hundred  in 
March.  Your  contribution  in  March  per- 
haps reduced  the  net  saving  the  com- 
mittee made  for  you  in  April  to  nine 
cents  a  hundred.  Your  contribution  for 
May  will  leave  you  a  net  gain  of  nine 
cents  a  hundred  for  that  month.  For 
June  and  July  your  gain  will  be  the  full 
11  cents  a  hundred.  Nine  cents  for  two 
months,  and  11  cents  for  two  months; 
that  makes  an  even  40  cents  you  15th 
zone  men  are  the  gainers  in  the  four 
months,  figured  on  the  milk  shipment 
basis.  It  amounts  to  an  even  10  cents 
per  hundred  for  all  milk  shipped. 

Coming  to  the  other  end  of  the  line, 
the  7th  zone.  Of  course  the  net  saving 
made  for  you  by  the  committee  is  less. 
It  is  still  a  lrage  amount.  The  seven  cents 
a  40-quart  can,  proposed  as  the  7th  zone 
rate  by  the  railroads,  is  about  eight  cents 
per  hundred  pounds  of  milk.  For  April 
the  7th  zone  men  are  six  cents  ahead  of 
the  game ;  in  May  they  will  be  another 
six  cents  ahead  and  in  June  and  July 
they  will  be  the  gainers  by  the  full  eight 
cents  for  every  hundredweight.  That 
makes  the  total  gain  in  the  lowest  zone 
figured  28  cents  a  hundred  for  the  four 
months,  or  seven  cents  per  hundred  on 
all  milk  shipped. 

Ten  cents  per  hundred  already  saved 
for  15th  zone  shippers,  for  all  the  milk 
shipped  in  the  four  months  during  which 
the  rates  have  been  suspended.  Seven 
cents  per  hundred  on  all  milk  shipped  by 
7th  zone  producers  for  the  four  months 
of  suspension.  Proportionate  savings  in 
between.  That  is  something  already  ac- 
complished. We  expect  that  the  com- 
mittee and  their  experts  will  do  much 
more  for  you  than  this.  But  it  is  a  fine 
beginning. 

Not  even  the  beginning  could  be  made 
without  organization. 


Knowledge  of 
a  dozen  colleges 
back  these  feeds 


Millions  of  dollars  are  invested  an- 
nually for  the  support  of  Agricultural 
Experiment  Stations. 

The  results  of  the  study  of  these  institu- 
tions are  embodied  in  the  "Open  Form- 
ulas" of  the  College  Feed  Conference 
Board  (a  group  of  feeding  experts  in  the 
Eastern  Colleges  of  Agriculture).  The 

American  Milling  Co. 

through  its  AMCO  FEED  MIXING 
SERVICE,  puts  its  great  resources  into 
these  College  Feed  Conference  Board 
Open  Formula  Feeds  and  thereby  en- 
ables the  smallest  feeder  in  the  smallest 
community  to  get  the  best  that  is  known 
about  the  feeding  of  live  stock. 

Enormous  purchasing  power,  volume 
operation  and  low  order-getting  costs 
permit  us  to  deliver,  through  our 
AMCO  FEED  MIXING  SERVICE, 
the  College  Feed  Conference  Board 
Open  Formula  Feeds  at  surprisingly 
low  figures.  Contracts  are  made  direct 
with  community  groups  of  farmers  for 
this  service. 

Write  today  for  prices  and  facts  on  how 
to  save  feed  money  through  AMCO 
FEED  MIXING  SERVICE. 

American  Milling  Co. 

(MILLS  AT  PEORIA,  ILL.) 

Eastern  Office  -  -  23  Pearl  Street,  Springfield,  Mass. 

(feed  mixing  service 


Page  Ten 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1926 


BOWKER'S 

P  E  RT I  LIZ  B  R-S 


Your  Bull  Problem  Solved 


DR.  SPENCER'S 
BULL  TAMER 


Light,  durable,  humane,  effective.  No 
interference  ivitll  feed  or  service; 
ugliest  now  running  in  barn,  yard  or 
pasture  quiet  as  the  cows.  Kits  any 
bull.  Hundreds  of  practical  dairy- 
men endorse;  but  you  needn't  take 
their  word  or  our's  as  we  ship  on 
30  days'  approval,  leaving-  you  to  act 
as  both  judge  and  jury  in  your  own 
barn  and  dairy.  We  want  every 
breeder  in  New  England  to  try  at 
our  risk. 

Patented  June  23,  1925 

Write 

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SAVON  A,  NEW  YORK 


MEMBERS    RESPOND  WELL 
TO  LETTERS 


The  Ferguson  PJow  operates  with 
only  one  levef.  No  ropes,  sprockets 
or  complicated  mechanisms.  It  al- 
ways does  a  good  plowing  job. 

The  Ferguson  is  light  in  weight, 
light  draft,  flexible.  Even  plowing 
depth  controlled  from  furrow  bot- 
tom making  it  always  uniform. 

Distributed  by  your  local  Ford 
dealer.  Complete  information  will 
be  sent  to  you  upon  request. 

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22  Garden  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

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prices  than  later  in  season.  The 
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Exposition   and    Danbury  Fair. 
Stock  carried  atManchester.Conn., 
and  Somersworth,  N.  H.  Write  for 
complete  literature. 
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CRUMB'S  Hanging 

STANCHIONS 


are  guaranteed  to  please 
the  purchaser.  They  are 
shipped  subject  to  trial 
in  the  buyer's  stable. 
They  are  right.  Send 
for  booklet. 

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3ox  10.   Forreetville  Conn. 


When  writing  advertisers  please 
mention  the  New  England  Dairy- 
man. 


Experimental  Canvas  Brings  More 
Than  50  Per  Cent.  Return 

Results  of  our  first  effort  to  get  the 
NEMPA  mcmlxTship  signed  up  on  the 
new  dues  basis,  two  cents  per  hundred- 
weight of  milk  in  place  of  the  one-half 
of  one  per  cent,  of  the  monthly  check, 
are  highly  encouraging.  It  is  evident 
that  the  membership  as  a  whole  is  favor- 
ably disposed  toward  this  change  and  to 
the  added  strength  it  will  give  to  the  as- 
sociation, also  to  the  possibilities  of 
special  service  to  members  which  it  will 
make  possible.  It  is  equally  evident  from 
the  early  returns  that  the  non-members 
will  have  to  be  visited  before  they  have 
any  good  understanding  of  what  the  as- 
sociation is  doing  for  them  already  and 
the  bigger  things  it  could  do  for  them 
if  they  would  come  in. 

In  order  to  try  out  the  sentiment  in 
the  country  toward  the  change  in  the  basis 
of  payment  of  dues  selected  areas  were 
taken  and  a  letter  sent  to  each  present 
member  in  those  areas.  It  was  the  in- 
tention to  get  as  many  as  possible  of 
the  present  members  to  sign  up  on  the 
new  basis  in  response  to  a  letter  as  it 
would  be  so  much  more  economical  than 
sending  a  field  man  around  to  see  them. 
The  first  batch  of  letters  went  to  242 
present  members.  More  than  60  per 
cent,  of  them,  129  in  all,  signed  and  re- 
turned the  blanks  promptly.  This  is  a 
remarkably  good  showing  and  indicates 
the  appreciation  of  the  members  of  what 
is  being  done  for  them  by  the  association. 
A  second  batch  of  letters  went  out  re- 
cently to  230  members  in  another  sec- 
tion. Ninety-five  came  back  promptly 
and  others  are  now  sending  in.  Some 
days  as  many  as  10  signed  orders  come 
into  the  central  office  in  response  to 
these  letters. 

All  Urged  to  Join 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Turner 
Centre  System  it  was  voted  to  recom- 
mend that  all  patrons  of  the  System 
should  become  members  of  the  NEMPA. 
The  directors  of  Turner  Centre  urged 
all  to  become  association  members.  Fol- 
lowing up  this  lead  we  sent  out  a  cir- 
cular letter  to  a  group  of  Turner  Centre 
patrons  who  are  not  now  members  of 
the  NEMPA.  They  did  not  respond 
nearly  so  promptly  nor  so  well  as  did 
the  present  members  when  asked  to  come 
over  onto  the  new  basis.  There  are  two 
chief  reasons  for  this.  One  is  that  they 
know  little  about  the  association  and  its 
work.  They  have  not  been  getting  the 
Dairyman  and  it  is  some  time  since  we 
have  had  any  field  man  in  Maine  telling 
the  NEMPA  story  to  the  dairy  farmers. 
The  other  reason  for  a  less  general  re- 
sponse is  that  a  new  member  has  to  pay 
$2  entrance  fee  whereas  the  old  mem- 
bers, signing  over  on  the  new  basis,  had 
only  to  sign  the  new  power  of  attorney. 
They  did  not  have  to  put  in  any  money. 
It  is  perfectly  natural  that  these  non- 
members  should  respond  to  letters  less 
freely  than  members  and  not  at  all  dis- 
couraging. We  believe  that  when  our 
field  men  get  around  to  see  them  there 
will  be  little  difficulty  in  signing  them  up. 

The  success  of  the  trial  in  certain  re- 
stricted sections  led  naturally  to  the  next 
step,  a  general  letter  to  all  present  mem- 
bers asking  them  to  save  money  for  their 
association  by  signing  the  new  powers  of 
attorney  promptly  and  returning  them 
to  the  central  office.  Managing  Director 
Pattee  has  sent  a  general  letter  to  all 
members  urging  that  they  sign  up  and 
save  the  expense  of  sending  a  field  man 
around  to  see  all  of  them.  It  is  the 
efficient  way  of  getting  ourselves  ready 
to  put  into  practice  the  new  basis  of  dues 
payment  next  year.  It  will  be  practically 
impossible  to  get  enough  good  field  men 
to  see  every  dairy  farmer  in  our  territory 
before  the  end  of  this  year.  But  if  SO 
per  cent,  or  more  of  the  present  mem- 
bers sign  up  in  response"  to  letters  we 
can  do  it  surely.  Eighty  or  ninety  per 
cent,  would  be  much  better. 


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They  are  in  perfect  mechanical 
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this  record,  but  prouder  still  of 
the  continued  patronage  and 
good-will  of  the  thousands  of 
farmers  who  will  use  no  other 
fertilizers. 

Use  "Bowker's"  this  year  and 
play  safe. 

Ask  your  dealer  for  prices 
or  write  direct  to  us 

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CHEMICAL  COMPANY 


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"Why  did  you  cancel  your  order  for 
those  fountain  pens?" 

"Because  the  salesman  wrote  down  my 
order  with  a  lead  pencil." 


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May,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


Eastern  States  Farmers'  Excnan8e 


JUST  PLAIN  SENSE 

When  all  is  sai<l  and  done,  this 
question  of  graining  cows  in  the 
summertime  is  just  plain  common 
sense.  The  modern  cow  is  one  ol* 
man's  greatest  creations.  She  is 
as  different  from  the  scrubby  I  it  lie 
thing  from  which  she  has  evolved 
through  centuries  of  breeding  as 
the  transatlantic  liner  is  different 
from  the  old  schooner.  If  you  had 
invested  in  a  transatlantic  liner, 
could  you  afford  to  put  up  a  sail 
and  wait  for  the  wind  to  take  it 
across?  You  could  not.  You  would 
find,  if  you  tried  it,  that  the  crew 
and  the  general  depreciation  on 
your  investment  would  eat  into  all 
of  the  profits  from  transporting 
the  cargo.  The  way  to  get  a  profit 
out  of  the  enormous  investment  is 
to  crowd  the  boat  with  steam  so  as 
to  make  the  trip  quickly  and  then 
start  back  again. 

You  have  invested  in  a  herd  of 
modern  cattle.  What  are  you  go- 
ing to  do  with  them  this  summer? 
Are  you  going  to  ask  them  to  get 
their  living  off  the  grass,  or  are 
you  going  to  supply  them  with  the 
feed  which  will  keep  them  at  a  high 
state  of  efficiency  so  that  they  will 
will  not  make  a  lot  of  summer  milk 
but  will  be  in  shape  to  go  right  on 
making  a  lot  of  milk  in  August  and 
into  the  winter  when  the  milk  is 
bringing  the  returns  which  carry 
the  profits  of  your  dairy  enter- 
prise? 

Just  as  you  know  it  to  be  foolish 
to  make  your  horses  do  spring's 
work  on  pasture,  so  it  is  as  foolish 
to  ask  your  spring  freshening  cows 
to  do  their  big  spring's  work  on 
pasture.  The  work  of  making  milk 
is  as  great  a  strain  on  their  system 
as  is  the  draft  work  your  teams  are 
doing.  If  you  think  it  pays  to  feed 
your  team  so  they  can  get  some 
rest,  you  must  see  that  it  pays  to 
feed  your  cows  so  they  can  rest  too. 

j  The  Eastern  States  pasture  ra- 
tion is  designed  to  take  care  of 
the  grain  needs  of  cows  on  pasture. 
B(e  sure  to  order  a  supply  for  May 
and  June  feeding.  Then  send  for 
tlje  Eastern  States  feed  book  and 
sefe  what  you  should  do  to  get  the 
most  out  of  your  cows  profitably 
not  o-iily  while  the  pastures  are 
prime  but  afterward — when  milk 
is  worth  more. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

Jt   non-stock,    non-profit  organization 
owned  and  controlled  by  the 
farmers  it  serves 

SPRINGFIELD  MASSACHUSETTS 


iSsasHsasiEasasasasasasssESESEsas?/ 
SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
Slade  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 
Telephone,  Union  6469 

APRIL  PRICES 

Providence,  R.  1   %lAc  per  quart 

Fall  River,  Mass   8j/$c  per  quart 

Brockton,  Mass   Sj-^c  per  quart 

New  Bedford,  Mass   9c  per  quart 

Newport,  R.  1   9c  per  quart 

MARKET  CONDITIONS 

Production  in  the  Providence  rn'arki  t 
remains  nearly  the  same  as  last  month. 
Of  eleven  larger  dealers,  not  including 
Turner  Centre  System  and  the  H.  P. 
Hood  Co.,  six  had  .  surplus  which  ran 
from  3.5  per  cent,  as  high  as  18  per  cent., 
the  average  being  10.4  per  cent.,  nearly 
2  per  cent,  less  than  a  month  ago.  Two 
dealers  had  no  surplus  who  had  some 
last  month. 

The  textile  mills  are  curtailing  and 
one  of  the  largest  in  Rhode  Island,  the 
R.  &  B.  H.  Knight,  closed  doors  April 
16  for  an  indefinite  period.  This  means 
that  probably  some  2,000  or  3,000  will 
be  without  employment  which  is  most  un- 
fortunate as  it  will  affect  all  lines,  in- 
cluding ours. 

In  Providence  business  in  general 
seems  to  remain  about  the  same.  All  are 
looking  forward  to  some  more  spring- 
like weather  and  all  are  tired  of  the  ex- 
tended winter  weather.  The  snow  and 
ice  is  gone  and  most  of  the  frost  is  out 
of  the  ground.  The  season  is  at  least  a 
month  later  in  most  of  our  district  than 
last  year,  although  quite  a  few  have 
plowed  and  are  ready  to  plant.  We  had 
•a  most  unusual  freeze  April  20.  One 
dealer  reported  to  me  that  it  froze  hard 
enough  to  raise  the  caps  on  his  milk- 
bottles.  The  roads  are  nearly  all  settled 
now  excepting  some  outlying  districts. 

FALL  RIVER,  MASS. 

Fall  River  market  reports  the  supply 
slightly  increased  with  some  dealers  and 
much  competition  owing  to  many  small 
peddlers.  Business  in  general  remains 
the  same.  The  A.  T.  Townly  Dairy  is 
arranging  to  purchase  on  the  weight  and 
butter-fat  test  basis  to  start  about  May 
1.  The  necessary  equipment  has  been  in- 
stalled and  a  small  laboratory  for  test- 
ing, etc.,  has  been  provided  on  the  second 
floor,  about  the  receiving  room.  This 
dairy  is  located  within  a  few  minutes 
drive  of  the  center  of  the  city  and  is  so 
situated  that  all  sections  of  the  city  can 
be  supplied  easily,  starting  delivery  from 
the  dairy. 

NEW  BEDFORD 

The  supply  of  milk  the  past  month  has 
been  about  right  and  only  a  few  dealers 
have  much,  if  any,  surplus.  Sales  are  re- 
ported to  have  improved  somewhat.  Local 
papers  report  the  outlook  for  the  mills 
sounder  than  for  several  years.  The 
New  Bedford  plant  is  operating  steadily 
at  only  slightly  under  its  full  capacity. 
Night  work  is  done  in  somje  cases.  Banks 
report  savings  accounts  mounting  fast. 
Although  textile  mill  shares  are  at  the 
lowest  price  levels  seen  in  nearly  a  gen- 
eration and  in  disfavor  with  investors, 
the  cotton  and  silk  mills  are  finding  it 
possible  to  maintain  steady  operation  at 
nearly  full  normal  capacity,  and  in  some 
plants  there  is  more  machinery  operating 
now  than  in  any  similar  period  for  sev- 
eral years.  A  detailed  survey  of  operat- 
ing conditions  prevailing  at  each  indi- 
vidual plant  shows  that  seventy-five  to 
eighty-five  per  cent,  of  all  looms  in  tin- 
city  are  running  full  time  in  a  number  of 
cases.  Spindles  are  not  quite  as  active. 
Of  the  entire  group  of  mills  the  average 
is  between  60  and  70  per  cent,  of  full 
normal  capacity. 


A  Scotchman  was  found  dead  in  front 
of  a  one-cent  punching  machine.  The 
coroner  found  that  death  had  been 
caused   by  over-exertion. 

Investigation  disclosed  a  sign  reading : 
"Your  penny  returned  if  you  hit  hard 
enough." 


Only  Two  Parts  to  the 
New  Perfection  Teat  Cup 


It's  easy 

to  clean 


This  year  the  old  Reliable  Perfection  Milker 
comes  out  with  another  great  improvement — the 
simple  2  piece  teat  cup.  One  pull  and  its  all  apart 
and  is  put  together  again  just  as  quickly.  The  Per- 
fection has  always  been  easier  on  cows  because 
it  uses  less  vacuum  than  any  other  milker.  Low 
vacuum  means  contented  cows.  Contented  cows 
means  more  milk.  With  these  new  teat  cups  the 
vacuum  is  again  reduced.  Furthermore  the  new 
teat  cup  milks  faster  and  cleaner. 

A  set  of  these  new  teat  cups  will  make  any  in- 
flation  type  milker  better.  Why  milk  by  hand 
any  longer?    Perfection  has  proven  its  economy 

in  hours  and  drudgery  saved 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1926 


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(Continued  from  page  one) 

larger  amounts  for  advertising  milk  and 
could  do  correspondingly  more. 

The  Philadelphia  plan  can  be  put  over 
if  we  get  a  substantial  increase  in  mem- 
bership during  the  coming  drive.  Other- 
wise it  will  have  hard  sledding.  Under 
this  plan  all  members  would  share  alike 
in  the  expense  of  running  the  marketing 
association,  the  NEMPA,  and  the  adver- 
tising work,  the  New  England  Dairy  and 
Food  Council.  Under  the  plan  used  in 
Philadelphia  each  producer  pays  three 
cents  a  hundred  each  month.  If  a  pro- 
ducer is  a  member  of  the  association  two 
of  the  three  cents  goes  toward  the  support 
of  the  association  and  one  cent  a  hundred 
goes  to  the  advertising  work.  In  case  he 
is  not  a  member  the  entire  three  cents 
goes  to  the  advertising  work.  Under  this 
clan  no  man  can  ride  free.  He  must  pay 
his  part  in  the  support  of  the  general  ex- 
pense of  the  two  kinds  of  work,  one  get- 
ting better  prices  for  him  and  the  other 
increasing  the  demand  for  his  product. 

As  told  elsewhere  in  this  issue  there  has 
been  a  very  gratifying  response  to  our 
request  that  members  sign  up  on  the  new 
dues  order  basis,  voted  at  our  last  annual 
meeting  and  to  go  into  effect  next  De- 
cember. More  than  50  percent  responded 
to  letters.  More  are  coming  in  every  day. 
We  feel  sure  that  when  our  field  men  go 
on  their  round  of  visits  they  will  get 
nearly  100  percent  of  the  present  mem- 
bers to  sign  up  on  the  new  basis.  What 
we  need  more  than  that  is  new  members 
to  come  in  and  help  make  the  association 
strong  and  able  to  do  bigger  things. 

The  three  new  field  men  with  our 
veteran  campaigner  Fred  C.  Warner  will 
begin  visiting  dairy  farmers  in  Maine  soon 
after  the  middle  of  May.  They  will  have 
a  very  busy  summer  before  them  in  visit- 
ing the  thousands  of  farmers  who  must 
be  invited  to  join,  the  thousands  of  farm- 
ers who  must  join  if  we  are  to  strengthen 
the  association  to  such  a  point  that  it 
would  be  sure  of  getting  a  better  price  on 
surplus  milk. 

With  so  much  work  on  their  hands  it 
is  improbable  that  they  can  do  much  on 
their  permanent  program  of  service,  to 
members  only.  But  the  plan  calls  for  field 
men  who  are  capable  of  check  testing,  of 
straightening  out  tangles  due  to  producers 
being  shut  off  by  health  inspectors,  who 
can  assist  in  finding  new  markets  for  milk 
and  in  many  other  ways  assist  the  mem- 
bers. We  have  secured  such  men  and 
if  they  have  any  time  left  over  after  they 
have  done  the  organization  work,  the 
work  of  building  up  the  association  to 
greater  strength,  they  will  give  personal 
service  to  members.  But  you  should  not 
expect  too  much  for  the  organization 
work  must  come  first  if  we  are  to  change 
ov^r  on  to  the  new  plan  Dec.  1. 

The  association  urges  every  ;  dairv 
farmer  to  stand  firm  for  the  principle  of 
organization.  In  our  Strenuous  times 
Kttlp  ran  be  accomplished  without  it.  The 
NEMPA  is  the  onlv  organization  in  New 
Eneland  that  is  working  for  the  dairv  in- 
dustrv  as  a  whole.  If  you  are  a  member 
stand  bv  and  boost  the  organization  in  all 
f'mes  and  places.  If  you  are  not  a  mem- 
ber come  in  and  give  us  additional 
strength  to  solve  our  common  problems. 


"Here's  something  queer,"  said  the 
dentist.  "You  say  this  tooth  has  never 
been  worked  on  before,  but  I  find  small 
flakes  of  gold  on  my  instrument." 

"I  think  you  have  struck  my  back 
collar  button,"  moaned  the  victim. — Siren. 


City  Bred  (pointing  to  haystack)  : 
"What  kind  of  a  house  is  that?" 

Country  Bred :  "That  ain't  a  house, 
that's  hay." 

City  Bred :  "Say....  You  can't  fool  me. 
Hay  doesn't  grow  in  a  lump  like  that." 


Customer:  "But  if  you  are  selling 
these  watches  below  cost,  where  does 
your  profit  come  in  ?" 

Dealer :  "We  make  our  profit  out  of 
repairing  them." 

Dolan:  "Rafferty,  your  boy  threw  a 
lump  of  coal  at  my  boy." 

Rafferty:  "That's  a  Rafferty  for  you! 
When  he   feels  that  a  principle  is  at 

stake,  he  doesn't  think  of  expense." 


Can  get  from 
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One  man  writes:  "With  Sharpies  Moto-Milking,  my 
cows  actually  gave  from  4  to  10  pounds  more  milk  in 
the  first  week — and  held  to  it." 

Hundreds  of  thousands  of  cows  milked  daily  with 
Sharpies  Milkers  show  the  same  gain  in  production 
over  hand  milking.  The  reason  is  that  the  Sharpies 
Milker  milks  cows  naturally — just  like  the  calf.  And 
the  Sharpies  can  milk  your  herd  three  times  as  fast 
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With  a  Sharpies  Moto-Milker  you  can  cut  your  milking 
time  two-thirds;  cut  your  labor  costs;  and  you  can 
produce  Grade  A  milk  at  every  milking. 

The  Sharpies  Moto-Milker  carries  its  own  pump  and 
motor  on  wheels.  No  installation  is  required.  It  runs 
on  the  lighting  current. 

If  you  have  a  large  herd,  or  no  electricity,  the  Sharpies 
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Such  solution  will  last  a  week  for  milking 
machines.  Sterilac  is  the  most  economical 
germ  killer  on  the  market. 

At  your  feed  or  supply  dealer's  store  or 
direct  parcel  post  charges  prepaid  when  order 
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May,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


To'Ibwn 

r— — *\ 

Ask  your  dealer  to  show  you  a  Dr. 
Clark's  Purity  Milk  Strainer.  Ask 
him  to  tell  you  how  and  why  it 
removes  ALL  the  dirt  from  milk 
at  one  straining;  how  easy  it  is 
to  clean,  and  what  it  means  to 
you  in  getting  better  grades  in 
your  milk  tests.  Take  one  home 
and  try  it  yourself.  Strain  the 
milk  with  your  present  strainer 
rirst,  then  put  the  same  milk 
through  the  Purity  Strainer  and 
you'll  quickly  see  what  we  mean 
when  we  say  the  Purity  Strainer 
removes  ALL.  the  dirt.  If  it 
doesn't  remove  every  bit  of  sedi- 
ment from  the  milk,  your  money 
will  be  refunded!  —  that's  our 
Guarantee. 


TARIFF  ON  CREAM 


— <uses  sterilized  cotton  pads,  the 
only  method  endorsed  by  the  U.  S. 
Government  as  the  most  thorough 
way  of  getting  all  the  dirt  from 
milk.  Don't  be  satisfied  with  imi- 
tations of  the  Purity  Strainer. 
Remember  it's  the  patented 
method  of  attaching  the  cotton 
pads  to  the  Purity  Strainer  that 
makes  it  successful.  AW  the  milk 
must  pass  through  these  pads,  not 
around  the  edges! 

See  your  dealer  first.  If  he 
hasn't  it,  send  direct  to  our  dis- 
tributor, H.  C.  .Soule  of  Canton, 
Me.,  for  particulars,  prices,  etc., 
giving  him  your  dealer's  name. 

H.  C.  SOULE  -  Canton,  Me. 

Distributor  for  New  England  States 

The  Purity  Stamping  Co. 

Dept.  C      Battle  Creek,  Mich. 


Make 
this 
SimpleTest 

^7  ASH  twomilkcans.just  emptied, 
with  warm  water  and  washing 
powder:  Rinse  one  with  hot  water— 
the  other  with  cold  water  and  B-K 
Solution.  Put  on  the  covers  and  let 
both  cans  stand  in  the  sun  all  day. 
Then  remove  the  covers  and  use 
your  nose.  The  can  rinsed  with  hot 
water  will  smell  sour  and  stinking. 
The  can  rioted  with  cold  water  and  B-K 
Solution  will  smell  sweet  and  fresh. 
B-K  kills  the  bacteria  and  penetrates  the 
film  of  milk  solid9  that  cause  sour  and 
smelly  cans  and  pails,  makes  easy  work  of 
cleaning  the  separator 
and  milking  machine. 
Saves  sour  milk.  It's 
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UBe  it.  Costs  only  a 
couple  of  cents  a  day  to 
keep  milk  utensils,  and  _ 
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your  nearest  dealer  today. 
WHITE  for  free  bulletin  telling  all  about 
B-K  Way  for  quick,  easy  sterilizing  of  milk 
cans,  cream  separators,  milking  machines. 

GENERAL  LABORATORIES 
DepL137EMadison,Wia. 


Commission  Sends  Men  Into  New 

England  to  Plan  for 

Investigation 

Our  efforts  to  get  an  increase  in  the 
tariff  on  cream  to  make  it  more  compar- 
able with  the  tariff  on  butter  have  borne 
some  fruit.  Following  the  appearance  of 
the  dairy  committee  before  the  United 
States  Tariff  commission  and  its  recom- 
mendation of  certain  areas  in  New  Eng- 
land in  which  prices  and  costs  of  produc- 
tion of  cream  should  be  studied  the  com- 
mission has  sent  its  representatives  into 
New  England  to  look  over  the  field  and 
determine  where  to  make  the  investiga- 
tions. They  have  consulted  the  dairy  de- 
partments in  the  colleges,  departments  of 
agriculture,  dealers  and  others  who  have 
a  knowledge  of  the  dairy  situation  in 
New  England.  It  is  not  known  where 
they  will  make  their  cost  studies  but  the 
fact  that  they  have  already  taken  action 
toward  making  the  investigation  is  en- 
couraging. 

Ci5ZSZ5rl5rL5Z5rlS^S^SrL5rlSZSrL5rl5HSrlSrL^ 

WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 
Northampton,  Mas*. 

Substantial  progress  is  being  made  in 
the  dairy  systems  at  Springfield  and  at 
Worcester.  The  Springfield  Dairy  Sys- 
tem has  just  purchased  the  entire  busi- 
ness of  Mason's  dairy,  one  of  the  large 
distributors  of  the  city.  The  business  will 
be  continued  under  the  name  of  Mason's 
dairy  but  it  is  owned  and  controlled  al- 
together by  the  dairy  system.  Counting 
both  wholesale  and  retail  the  business 
amounts  to  about  10,000  quarts  daily.  It 
will  be  a  considerable  addition  to  the  sales 
of  the  System  especially  of  bottled  cream. 

In  Worcester  a  similar  process  of  en- 
largement has  been  going  on.  The 
Worcester  Dairy  System  recently  made 
its  fifth  purchase  of  a  retail  business  in 
the  city.  This  materially  increases  their 
output  and  their  sale  of  bottled  milk. 

The  Massachusetts  Department  of  Ag- 
riculture is  doing  some  good  work  for  the 
farmers  of  the  Connecticut  valley  through 
its  testing  of  milk  for  keeping  quality.  It 
uses  the  reductase  test  method,  going  to 
the  plant  of  each  dealer  and  testing  the 
milk  of  all  patrons.  The  milk  is  classified 
into  extra  good,  good,  just  fair  and  not 
good.  The  returns  show  that  most  of  the 
milk  will  come  in  Class  2,  and  a  smaller 
amount  in  Class  1.  There  are  very  few 
cases  of  milk  falling  in  Class  4  but  quite 
a  number  in  Class  3.  The  department 
sends  its  inspectors  to  the  farm  of  every 
man  falling  in  Class  3  or  4  to  find  out 
what  the  trouble  is.  In  most  cases  it  is 
some  simple  matter  of  handling  the  milk 
which  can  be  corrected  readily. 

A  month  later  the  inspectors  make  a 
second  test  and  straighten  out  a  few  more 
troubles.  They  make  a  third  test  a  month 
later  and  are  finding  that  practically  all 
the  milk  has  been  brought  into  Class  1  or 
2.  A  start  was  made  on  this  plan  with 
a  group  of  producers  near  Springfield 
last  year.  On  a  retest  this  year  the  de- 
partment investigators  find  that  there  has 
not  been  a  single  backslider.  Every  man 
is  in  Class  1  or  2. 

Dealers  and  producers  in  the  Springfield 
area  are  uniting  in  putting  on  a  milk  week 
the  first  week  in  May  with  the  aim  of  in- 
creasing sales  at  the  time  when  surplus 
begins  to  come  in  more  heavily.  They 
have  had  fine  co-operation  from  the 
Hampden  County  Improvement  League, 
the  school  department  and  various  social 
service  agencies  and  clubs  of  the  city. 


He  (ardently)  :  Have  you  ever  met  a 
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American — -"Yes.  How  in  heck  could 
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SHIP  US  THEIR  EMPTY  BAGS 

There  must  be  a  reason.    Find  it 
out  by  a  trial  shipment. 

No.  1  Eastern  Statu  Dairy  Feed  Bags  .  6  cents 

Ne.  1  Eastern  States  Poultry  Feed  Bags  4  cents 

Ns.  1  Other  Feed  Bags     -    ...  4  cents 

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Page  Fourteen 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1926 


NORTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 


477  Essex  Street,  Lawrence,  Mass. 


APRIL  PRICES  feel  (hat  your  co-operation  is  very  much 

,                TT      ,0           n,/.  „„_  appreciated  by  us  here  at  the  Northern 

Manchester  N  H  68c    per  8 /2  qt.  can  Y 

Nashua,    N.    H.._  68c    per  6y2  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  72.3c  per  8^  qt.  can  FIELD  WORK 

Lawrence,  Mass  85c    per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,   Mass  72c    per8/2qt.can  'wo  days  were  spent  canvassing  the 

Concord,   N.  H  58.8c  per  8/,  qt .  can  producers   selling   to   Fired   Loyenng,  a 

Portland,  Me               7.3c  per  qt.  dealer  m  Manchester    N.  H.    Ten  new 

Salem   Beverly    Pea-  orders  were  secured  from  men  selling  to 

body  and  Danvers,  Mr-  Lovering,  which  makes  practically 

Mass   '  8.5c  per  qt.  a'l  01  tn's  dealer's  supply  which  he  pur- 
chases, now  paying  dues  to  the  associa- 

PRODUCTION  AND  PRICES  tion-         .  , 

Some  time  has  been  spent  around 
Due  to  the  late  season,  production  has  North  Beverly  where  a  dealer's  business 
not  increased  this  spring  as  much  as  it  has  been  taken  over  by  the  district  man- 
usually  does.  For  this  reason,  in  most  of  ager  as  assignee  and  is  now  being  run  by 
the  markets  dealers  have  been  able  to  tne  latter  in  order  to  safeguard  pro- 
take  care  of  their  surplus  without  any  ducers'  interests  and  avoid  loss  to  them, 
great  trouble  and  while  surplus  will  The  district  manager  will  operate  the 
run  a  little  higher  for  April  than  for  business  for  a  short  time,  liquidate  the 
March,  they  are  not  as  high  as  we  property  and  from  the  way  it  lodks  now, 
usually  find  at  this  time  of  the  year.  will  be  able  to  get  enough  money  together 
Prices  in  all  the  markets  of  the  district  out  0f  the  business  so  that  the  producers 
have  remained  uniform,  with  no  reduc-  wh0  have  been  supplying  milk  to  this 
tions  in  any  market.  Due  to  the  work  concern  and  who  are  now  owed  quite  a 
done  around  Manchester  during  March  sum  0f  money,  will  receive  pay  for  their 
and  the  first  part  of  April,  this  market  milk  out  0f  the  liquidation  of  the  busi- 
has  been  whipped  into  line  and  we  hope  ness.  This  is  a  service  somewhat  dif- 
that  after  a  little  more  work  is  done  this  ferent  from  what  the  producers  used  to 
market  will  be  in  as  good  shape  as  any  have  when  they  simply  gave  up,  suf- 
market  in  this  district.  fered  their  loss  and  started  selling  to  an- 
other dealer — sometimes  to  get  stuck 
DUES   ORDERS   RECEIVED  again.    In  this  case  the  district  manager 

is  not  only  attempting  to  get  enough 
At  the  last  annual  meeting  of  the  as-  money  together  to  pay  their  back  bills, 
sociation  held  in  October  at  Boston,  the  but  is  also  going  to  place  the  milk  with  a 
delegates  voted  to  increase  the  dues  from  reliable  concern,  so  that  in  the  future 
one-half  of  one  per  cent,  of  the  milk  there  is  no  reason  why  this  group  of  pro- 
check  to  two  cents  per  hundredweight,  ducers  should  lose  money  because  of  sell- 
This  is  a  very  small  increase  but  over  ing  to  unreliable  dealers, 
the  entire  territory  would  give  us  ad- 

ditional  revenue  enough  to  put  new  field  DEALERS  RELEASING  PRO- 
men  to  work  which  will  help  very  ma- 

terially  to  strengthen  the  organization  DUCERS 
and  give  service  to  the  membership.  In  Because  of  a  temporary  surplus  in  the 
order  to  change  over  our  dues  orders,  it  Lawrence,  Mass.,  market  this  office  has 
was  necessary  to  get  new  orders  signed  been  notified  by  two  of  the  dealers  that 
by  the  members.  We  wrote  letters  ask-  they  are  releasing  a  few  of  their  pro- 
ing  the  members  in  our  district  to  sign  ducers.  The  district  manager  is  getting 
the  new  orders,  or  power  of  attorney  ;n  toucn  with  these  producers  and  by  an 
slips,  and  return  them  to  us.  The  re-  exchange  of  markets  hopes  to  have  them 
sponse  by  the  membership  to  this  re-  an  piaced  with  new  dealers  so  that  they 
quest  was  much  better  than  we  dared  wji]  not  be  without  a  place  to  ship  their 
hope.  A  few  kind  of  called  us  down  m[\^  just  at  this  particular  time  of 
for  asking  for  more  money  but  we  re-  vear  ;t  js  not  alWays  easy  to  place  pro- 
ceived  a  lot  of  letters  congratulating  us  ducers  with  different  dealers  but  we  feel 
upon  the  work  of  the  association  and  this  is  the  type  of  service  that  must  be 
telling  us  how  glad  they  were  to  make  a  rendered  and  every  possible  effort  is  be- 
very  small  extra  contribution  toward  the  jng  made  by  the  district  manager  to  give 
work  in  order  that  the  new  field  men  service  to  these  men  who  have  been  left 
might  be  started  and  a  more  efficient  or-  without  a  market.  We  know  from  letters 
ganization  maintained  and  better  service  We  have  received  in  the  past,  when  we 
given.  With  the  excellent  co-operation  have  been  able  to  take  care  of  producers 
we  have  already  received  we  know  there  left  without  a  market,  that  this  type  of 
is  no  doubt  but  that  by  January  1,  1927,  Work  is  certainly  very  much  appreciated, 
when  we  go  onto  the  new  basis  the  The  real  job  of  the  association  of  course 
Northern  Market  District  will  be  ready.  js  to  name  a  fair  price,  but  a  price  does 
We  want  to  take  this  opportunity  to  not  mean  much  if  the  producers  find 
thank  those  who  have  so  kindly  co-  themselves  without  a  place  to  ship  their 
operated  with  us  in  this  important  matter.  milk,  so  we  must  go  further  and  not  only 
Most  of  you  I  will  see  at  some  time  dur-  name  a  fair  price  but  see  that  the  pro- 
ing  the  year  and  have  a  chance  to  thank  ducers  all  have  a  place  to  ship  their  milk 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fifteen 


i 


FULL  EXPLANATION 


'  (Continued  from  page  three) 
Lien  it  represented  if  it  failed  to  force 
he  railroads  into  the  open  with  their 
Claims  for  an  increase  in  rates.  Nothing 
(hort  of  a  full  and  complete  showing  of 
|he  facts  before  the  Interstate  Commerce 
"ommission  will  meet  the  situation  as  it 
xists  today.  A  year  or  more  ago  the 
Yoo&  offices  of  the  New  England  Council 
night  possibly  have  borne  fruit.  At  this 
ime,  with  the  hearings  all  set  and  both 
ides  with  their  cases  prepared,  it  is  al- 
ogether  too  late. 

As  the  matter  stands  the  dairy  farm- 
rs  of  the  New  England  states  should 
hank  the  New  England  Council  for  their 
;ood  intentions  even  though  they  were 
nistaken  as  to  the  possibilities  of  bring- 
ng  about  an  understanding  between  the 
•arious  parties  at  interest. 


The  Wahsington  Post  in  its  "Post- 
cripts"    would    bring    John  Greenleaf 
vVhittier  up  to  date  with  these  lines : 
\laud  Muller,  on  a  summer's  day, 
^aked  the  meadows  sweet  with  hay. 
few  and  then  Maudie  would  stop, 
\nd  wonder  how  she'd  sell  her  crop, 
ardine  rode  by  on  his  cayuse, 
Thinking  up  a  new  excuse, 
'rle   caught   Maud's   eye,    but  couldn't 
meet  it, 

io  quickly  turned  away  and  beat  it. 


A  colored  agent  was  summoned  before 
he  insurance  commissioner. 

"Don't  you  know,"  said  the  commis- 
uoner,  "that  you  can't  sell  life  in- 
;urance  without  a  state  license?" 

"Boss,"  said  the  darky,  "You  suah  said 
1  moufful.  I  knowed  I  couldn't  sell  it, 
iiut  Ah  didn't  know  the  reason." 


STATEMENT    OF   THE  OWNERSHIP, 
MANAGEMENT,  CIRCULATION 
Etc.,  Required  by  the  Act  of  Congress  of 
August  24,  1012 

Of  the  New   England  Dairyman,  published 

monthly   at    Boston,    Mass.,    tor   April  1st, 

Hate  of  Massachusetts, 
bounty  of  Suffolk,  ss. 

Before  me,  a  Notary  Public,  in  and  for 
he  State  and  County  aforesaid,  personally 
Appeared  F.  L.  Weare.  who,  having  been 
luly  sworn,  according  to  law,  deposes  and 
lays  that  he  is  the  Business  Manager  of 
.he  New  England  Dairyman,  and  that  the 
ollowing  is,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge 
md  belief,  a  true  statement  of  the  owner- 
inip,  management  (and  if  a  daily  paper, 
.he  circulation),  etc..  of  the  aforesaid  pub- 
ication  for  the  date  shown  in  the  above 
saption,  required  by  the  Act  of  August  2i, 
1912,  embodied  in  section  443,  Postal  Laws 
ind  Regulations  printed  on  the  reverse  of 
ihis  form,  to  wit: 

1.  That  the  names  and  addresses  of  the 
publisher,  editor,  and  business  managers 
ire:  Publishers,  New  England  Milk  Pro- 
ducers Assn.,  61  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.; 
Harry  L.  Piper,  editor,  61  Cornhill.  Bos- 
ton, Mass.;  W.  P.  Davis,  Treasurer,  61 
-ornhill,  Boston,  Mass.;  Business  Manager 
raj  L  Weare,  61  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 
'   2.    That  the  owners  are: 

New  England  Milk  Producers  Assn.,  61 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 

^Qeo.    R.    Little,    President,  Schaghticoke, 

'  JR.  A.  Sikes,  Vice-President,  Ellington. 
Jonn. 

H.  L.  Webster,  Treasurer,  West  Canaan, 
N.  xi. 

Richard  Pattee,  Managing  Director.  61 
Cornhill,   Boston,   Mass.  ' 

3.    That    the    known    bondholders,  mort- 
gagees and   other   security  holders  owning 
>r  holding    1   per   cent,    or   more   of  total 
1  amount  of  bonds,   mortgages,   or  other  se- 
.  ;unties  are:  None. 

That    the    two    paragraphs    next  above, 
]  pvlng    the    names    of    the    owners,  stock- 
,  solders,  and  security  holders,   if  any,  con- 
\  «o?,nn,0t  un}I  the  Uat  of  stockholders  and 
snnvi  y  ,h?iders  as   they  aPPear   upon  the 
1  books  of  the   company,   but  also,   in  cases 
.  wnere   the    stockholder   or    security  holder 
ippears  upon  the  books  of  the  company  as 
trustee  or  in  any  other  fiduciary  relation, 
-lie  name  of  the  person  or  corporation  for 
hi, m  such,  trustee  ^  acting,  is  given;  also 
r?fn»        Sa.ld  two  Paragraphs  contain  state- 
,„J ? \  embracing    affiant's    full  knowledge 
,^<,eIlef    as    to    the    circumstances  and 
ifl?,drf,Tl  ,",nder    which    stockholders  and 
1  Si  k  y,  holdei;s  who   do  not   appear  upon 
;i^.i?00  ^  of  the  comPany  as  trustees,  hold 
5°  „  ^cunties    in    a   capacity  other 

l  imant  hi.°f  *  b°na  flde  0Wner:  and  this 
iffiant  has  no  reason  to  believe  that  any 
1  >ther  person,  association  or  corporation  has 
Ki,tot£eS>  direct  or  indirect,  in  the  .a?d 
llo'stVdTyVm".  °ther  SeCUrUles  than  as 
I  That  the  average  number  of  copies  of 
I  plS.»tiSfU<U0f  'I'8  Pul>lication  sold  or  dis- 
o  ^"".l*    the   ma"s   or  otherwise, 

preceding      the     date     shown      above  is 

iub.LtS^ry'"    ia    reqU'red    fFOm  dally 

F.  L.  WlELAlRE, 

Business  Manager. 

othWrt?„  t0f  »„n<1  ?ubscribed  be/ore  me  this 
»th  day  of  March,  1926. 

REUBEN  HALL. 
(My  commission  expires  Jan.  27,  1932.) 


Ait  EXTRA  Month 

in  the  Barn  *~ 

Puts  EXTRA  Mill 

~'      in  the  Pad  '/ 


Some  morning  before  long  your  pastures 
are  going  to  spring  into  life;  and  as  the 
grass  shoots  up — fresh,  green  and  invit- 
ing— your  natural  thought  is  going  to  be, 
"Time  to  turn  the  cows  out." 
But  wait!  You  will  pay  later  for  haste 
now — pay  in  lower  milk  production  next 
fall  and  winter;  pay  heavily  in  poorer 
condition  of  your  cows;  pay  in  damage 
to  your  pasture. 

Succulent,  new  grass  is  deceptive.  True, 
it  has  a  tonic  effect  on  <§ows — stimulates 
both  them  and  their  milk  flow  for  a  while. 
But  the  increase  won't  keep  up  because 
tender  spring  grass  is  mostly  water  and 
cows  can't  eat  enough  grass  to  get  the 
nourishment  needed  for  milk  production 
and  body  maintenance.  Milk  produced 
on  a  ration  of  grass  alone  is  literally  taken 
off  the  cow's  back,  and  sooner  or  later  you 
will  pay  the  bill  when  the  milk  yield  drops. 


Further,  the  constant  trampling  of  soft 
new  pasture  injures  it  immeasurably; 
close  cropping  tears  and  kills  the  tender 
grass  roots.  There  is  no  surer  way  to 
ruin  good  pasture  than  to  graze  cows  on 
it  too  early  in  the  year. 
Feed  your  cows  their  full  ration  of  Larro 
for  another  month,  and  you  protect  your 
pasture  and  keep  up  steady  milk  produc- 
tion. Feed  enough  Larro  throughout  the 
summer  to  supply  the  food  values  that 
pasture  lacks,  and  you  not  only  maintain 
milk  production  now,  but  bring  your  cows 
into  the  fall  season  of  highest  milk  prices 
in  condition  to  earn  the  biggest  possible 
profits. 

Obey  this  warning  of  experience — keep 
off  the  grass — stay  on  Larro  at  least  30 
days  longer  than  your  eyes  tell  you  is 
necessary.  This  policy  will  pay  you  back 
two-fold. 


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Nowadays,  we  do  not  transact  business  blindly.  Com- 
modities are  identified  for  us  by  trade-marks.  Manu- 
facturers go  to  the  advertising  columns  to  tell  us  about 
their  products.  Merchants  describe  their  merchandise — 
price,  quality  and  service. 

By  reading  advertisements,  we  get  a  knowledge  of 
goods  and  stores  that  we  can  depend  on.  Advertising 
reduces  chance,  in  buying,  to  a  minimum. 

Do  you  read  the  advertisements  ? 


CLEAN  MILK  is  just  one 

of  a  number  of  advantages  you  get  with  the 


De  Laval  Milker 


It  also  gives  you  - 


Better  Milking 
More  Milk 
With  Less  Labor 
Without  Injury 
to  Your  Cows 


These  are  the 
only  parts 
that  require 
washing  on 
a  DE  LAVAL 
Milker. 

Milk  and  wash  up  in 
less  time  than  with 
any  other  milker 

With  a  De  Laval  Milker  you  can  do  the  entire 
milking  operation,  from  start  to  washing  up,  in  less 
time  than  with  any  other  machine.  It  milks  faster 
and  is  simple  and  easy  to  wash  and  keep  clean. 
It  can  produce  as  clean  or  cleaner  milk 
than  is  possible  by  any  other  method. 
Thousands  of  users  are  doing  so  in  a 
way  which  is  easy,  simple  and  eco- 
nomical. Here  is  what  a  few  Certified  and 
Grade  A  producers  say: 

"Some  machines  may  be  hard  to  wash  but  not  the 
De  Laval.  I  had  seven  inspectors  here  this  week.  I 
got  a  perfect  score  in  regard  to  milking  machines. 
They  scratched  and  smelled  but  could  find  nothing  to 
complain  about." 

— B.  H.  MILLER,  Hampstead,  Md. 

"I  have  been  using  my  De  Laval  Milker  on  my  herd  of 
50  Jerseys  for  the  past  five  years  and  can  truthfully  say 
I  could  not  have  produced  the  high-scoring  tests 
I  have  received  from  our  Board  of  Health  if  I  had  been 
milking  by  hand.  I  am  now  producing  a  pure  grade  of 
nursery  milk  for  one  of  our  leading  bottled  milk  companies." 
— F.  H.  JOHNSON,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

"We  have  been  producing  certified  milk  of  (as  the 
Secretary  of  the  Pure  Milk  Commission  stated)  the 
highest  quality  being  produced  in  this  section,  and  I 
sincerely  believe  that  without  the  De  Laval  Milker 
this  quality  oE  milk  could  not  have  been  produced." 

— BEN  BUSH  DAIRY  FARM,  Creve  Coeur,  Mo. 

"The  De  Laval  Milker  gets  more  milk,  pleases  the 
hired  man  and  the  cows.    We  can  keep  the  bacteria 
count  below  the  requirements  for  Grade  A  milk." 
—SAMUEL  MATTHEWS,  Staatsburg,  N.  Y. 

"We  are  producing  a  special  nursery  milk  for  the 
Washington,  D.  C,  trade,  bottled  and  sealed  at  the  farm. 
From  the  beginning  we  have  used  a  De  Laval  Milker 
and  find  it  the  only  way  we  could  possibly  produce 
this  milk,  situated  as  we  are  for  labor.  Our  average 
bacteria  count  will  be  considerably  less  than  2000." 

—PLEASANT  HILL  DAIRY  FARM,  Germantown,  Md. 

"I  can  say  that  the  De  Laval  Milker  is  the  easiest  of 
aU  machines  to  wash." 

— THOS.  WESOLOSKI,  Braidwood,  111. 

"The  De  Laval  Milker  has  met  the  most  rigid  tests 
and  has  unqualifiedly  established  itself  as  a  necessary 
part  of  the  equipment  of  a  dairy  desiring  to  obtain  the 
lowest  bacteria  count." 

— ARDEN  DAIRY,  El  Monte,  Cal. 

(Largest  certified  milk  producers  in  California.) 


There  are  three  distinct  considerations  in  the 
selection  of  a  milking  machine  —  your  cows, 
yourself  and  your  milk;  or,  a  machine 
that  will  milk  your  cows  without  injury  so  that 
they  will  produce  as  much  or  more  milk  than  they 
did  by  hand  milking;  a  machine  that  will  save 
the  most  in  time  and  labor;  and  a  machine 
that  will  produce  clean  milk. 

In  all  of  these  considerations  the  De  Laval  is 
superior  to  any  other  method  of  milk- 
ing, either  hand  or  machine. 


q&%  of  the  De  Laval 
Users  say  they  get  as 
much  or  more  milk 
than  they  did  with 
hand  milking 

The  most  important  consideration  in  the  selection 
of  a  milker  is  the  effect  it  will  have  on  the  cows. 
Will  it  milk  them  properly?  Will  it  milk  them 
as  well  as  or  better  than  they  can  be  milked  by 
good  hand  milkers? 

In  this  respect  as  well  as  many  others  the 
De  Laval  is  far  superior  to  all  other  milkers. 

It  is  designed  to  work  in  harmony  with  the  cow 
and  in  observance  of  the  principles  of  milk  secretion. 
Cows  almost  invariably  produce  more  milk  over  a 
longer  period  of  time  when  milked  the  De  Laval  Way. 

This  is  proven  by  the  experience  of  thousands 
of  De  Laval  Milker  users.  In  a  recent  question- 
naire received  from  1160  users  in  47  states,  more 
than  98%  said  their  cows  produced  as  much 
or  more  milk  with  a  De  Laval  than  they  did 
by  hand.  $8%  said  their  cows  produced 
more  milk  when  milked  the  De  Laval  Way. 

Half  a  million  cows 
milked  the  De  Laval 
Way— We  have  never 
known  of  a  case  of  injury 

More  cows  are  now  being  milked  with  De  Laval 
Milkers  than  with  any  other  machines — and  during 
the  ten  years  they  have  been  on  the  market  we 
have  never  known  of  a  single  case  of  injury 
as  a  result  oS  De  Laval  milking. 

The  De  Laval  Separator  Company  never  made  a 
product  which  is  meeting  with  greater  satisfaction 
or  serving  a  more  useful  purpose  than  the  De  Laval 
Milker. 


THE  DE  LAVAL  SEPARATOR  CO.,  DEPT.  5467 
New  York,  165  Broadway  —  Chicago,  600  Jackson  Blvd. 
San  Francisco,  61  Beale  Street 

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or  send  coupon 
to  your  nearest 
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for  full 
information 


Save  enough  time 

to  pay  for  a 

Oe  Laval  in  a  year 

The  figures  above  are  actual  results 
obtained  by  1160  De  Laval  users  in  47 
states. 

Even  on  small  herds  a  De  Laval  Milker 
saves  two  hours  a  day — that  is  enough 
to  pay  for  it  in  a  year.  But  it  may  do 
better — save  the  full  time  of  a  man  or  more. 

The  De  Laval  milks  faster  than  any  other 
machine,  and  at  the  same  time  does  better 
milking — don't  overlook  that  important  fact. 

You  will  find  the  De  Laval  easy  to  operate. 
Pulsator  has  only  one  simple  mov- 
ing part.  It  never  requires  oiling 
or  adjustment.  On  the  entire 
milker  there  are  no  troublesome 
adjustments  to  make.  It  is  prac- 
tically fool-proo£. 

The  44  Better  Way 
of  Milking" 

Every  way  you  look  at  it,  and  in  every 
respect,  the  De  Laval  is  "The  Better  Way 
of  Milking."  It  is  designed  better,  made 
of  superior  materials,  constructed  by  skilled 
mechanics.  It  will  give  longer  and  more 
satisfactory  service.  It  is  made  and 
backed  by  the  largest  manufac- 
turers of  dairy  equipment  in  the 
world. 

That  is  why  the  De  Laval  is  more  widely 
used  than  any  other,  and  why  more  than 
half  a  million  cows  are  already  milked  the 
De  Laval  Way — with  the  number  increasing 
by  leaps  and  bounds. 

Your  only  regret  will  be  *iiat  you  didn't 
get  one  sooner.  Outfits  for  herds  of 
five  to  500  or  more  cows— from 

$175.00  up.  /  Prices  slightly  higher  on  the  Padfit  \ 

\  Coast  and  in  Western   Canada*  / 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


rolume  10.   Number  3. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  JUNE,  1920 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


Boston  Market  Milk  Price  Down  Cent  for  Month  of  June 

<TEMPA  Price  Now  Down  to  Creameries' — Dealers'  Demand  Two-Cent  Reduction,  Sales  Committee  Refuses  to  Allow 
More  Than  Cent — Chain  Stores  Threaten  to  Upset  Market  for  Advertising  Purposes 


The  June  price  is  7l/2  cents  per  quart 
elivered  in  Boston,  a  drop  of  one  cent 
•om  the  price  which  has  been  maintained 
f  the  NEMPA  since  last  August.  The 
-op  in  price  was  the  natural  consequence 
t  increased  supply  coming  into  the  mar- 
3ts  of  New  England.  Under  normal 
mditions  it  would  have  come  a  month 
irlier  but  circumstances  in  the  market 
iade  it  possible  to  hold  the  cent 
rice  later  than  usual  and  thus  give  the 
iiry  farmers  a  fair  return  even  under 
te  unusually  unfavorable  conditions  for 
ilk  production,  which  have  prevailed 
lis  spring. 

The  special  circumstances  under  which 
was  possible  for  the  sales  committee 
t  the  association  to  maintain  the  8J/2 
:nt  price  through  May  was  due  to  the 
titude  of  the  chain  stores.  It  was  well 
lown  in  the  market  that  the  chain  stores 
ere  committed  to  a  policy  of  maintain- 
ig  their  12  cent  price  at  the  stores  and 
iat  if  they  made  any  change  they  w«uld 
-op  two  cents.  If  the  chain  stores  be- 
in  selling  10  cent  milk  it  would  tend  to 
srupt  the  market  all  along  the  line. 
At  the  time  of  going  to  press  no  cer- 
.in  information  has  come  as  to  whether 
-  not  the  chain  stores  will  drop  two 
:nts.  If  they  do  it  will  be  in  total  dis- 
card to  the  conditions  of  supply  and 
;mand  and  will  be  solely  an  effort  to 
ipitalize  a  chance  to  get  some  advertis- 
ig  and  attract  trade.  The  conditions  of 
lpply  and  demand  warrant  a  reduction 
the  price  one  cent.  Any  further  drop 
lan  that  can  be  looked  upon  simply  as 
Ivertising. 

Until  the  conditions  of  supply  and  de- 
and  in  the  market  actually  warranted  a 
;crease  of  a  cent  this  attitude  on  the 
irt  of  the  chain  store  management  had 
material  effect  in  stabilizing  market 
mditions.  Since  February  1  the  Ver- 
ont  creameries,  Federated  and  other  in- 
cidents have  been  selling  milk  at  be- 
w  the  NEMPA  price.  They  anticipated 
falling  market  and  dropped  their  price 
■  some  or  all  of  their  trade.  Strong 
essure  has  been  brought  for  months  past 
1  the  sales  committee  to  drop  the  price 
1  meet  this  co-operative  milk  but  the 
•ar  of  a  cut  of  two  cents  by  the  chain 
ores,  and  the  chaos  which  this  might 
-ing  to  the  market,  w*as  sufficiently 
rong  to  offset  the  objections  of  the  deal- 
l  s  on  account  of  the  lower  price  charged 
/  the  co-operatives. 

Even  with  this  two  cent  drop  by  the 
lain  stores  looming  up  as  a  menace  to 
ie  stability  of  the  market,  the  sales  com- 
ittee  had  to  take  a  very  firm  stand  in 
-der  to  maintain  the  price  at  8J/2  cents 
irough  the  spring  months.  There  was 
mstant  pressure  to  reduce  it.  Such  a  re- 
action would  have  been  a  real  disaster 
ider  the  unusually  hard  conditions  for 

;ilk  production  which  have  prevailed,  due 
1  the  late  spring.  Holding  the  price  at 
/1  cents  was  really  saving  the  dairy 
irmers  from  the  burden  of  a  heavy  loss 
ither  than  making  any  great  gain  for 
lem.  A  study  of  the  records  shows  that 
hile  the  price  for  market  milk  has  been 
cent  higher  than  last  year,  the  net  return 

1>r  all  milk  was  only  a  little  higher  than 


last  year,  owing  to  the  lower  value  of  by- 
products and  its  effect  on  the  price  for 
surplus. 

Even  with  a  full  cent  higher  price  for 
market  milk  the  prices  paid  by  the  large 
dealers  have  shown  only  slight  advances 
over  last  year's  prices,  taking  all  milk  into 
consideration.  The  Hood  Co.  paid  one 
cent  a  hundred  more  for  milk  in  January, 
six  cents  a  hundred  in  February,  19 
cents  a  hundred  more  in  March,  and  12 
cents  a  hundred  more  in  April,  as  com- 
pared with  the  same  months  in  1925. 

On  a  similar  basis  the  Whiting  Co. 
price  was  only  16  cents  a  hundred  higher 
than  in  a  corresponding  month  in  1925, 
even  at  the  highest  point.     In  January 


their  composite  price  was  13  cents  higher, 
in  February  16  cents  higher,  in  March  14 
cents  higher,  and  in  April  only  11  cents 
higher  than  in  the  same  months  in  1925. 

Prices  paid  by  the  Turner  Centre  Sys- 
tem show  even  less  of  an  increase :  Six 
cents  for  January,  seven  cents  for  Febru- 
ary, one  cent  for  March  and  exactly  the 
same  price  for  April.  In  other  words, 
the  lower  value  of  bittterfat  on  the 
amount  of  surplus  which  they  carried 
in  April  was  sufficient  to  completely  wipe 
out  the  advantage  of  a  full  cent  a  quart 
in  market  milk  as  compared  with  1925. 

The  F.  S.  Cummings  Co.  paid  seven 
cents  a  hundred  more  in  January  and 
again   in    February,   than   in   the  same 


BELIEVES  IN  ORGANIZATION 

I  believe  in  organization.  I  hope  there  will  be  more  and  more 
of  it  among  farmers.  We  can  solve  problems  together  that  we 
could  not  handle  each  by  himself.  More  understanding,  better  co- 
operation in  agricultural  plans,  and  greater  readiness  to  see  each 
other's  problems,  are  needs  of  the  south,  as  they  are  of  every  farm 
region.  Support  your  organizations.  If  they  don't  always  func- 
tion in  the  way  you  think  they  should,  try  to  get  your  plans  adopted. 
But  work  with  the  crowd,  anyway. — Secretary  Jardine. 


Write  to  Your  Senators  and  Representatives 


Now  and  then  a  situation  arises  in  the 
dairy  industry  in  New  England  where 
every  member  of  the  association  can  take 
an  active  part.  The  present  movement  to 
protect  the  dairy  interests  of  New  Eng- 
land from  the  unfair  competition  of  un- 
inspected Canadian  cream,  through  a  fed- 
eral bill,  gives  such  a  situation.  Your 
leaders  have  done  everything  in  their 
power  to  get  this  bill  properly  introduced 
and  backed  in  Congress.  It  is  now  up  to 
the  members  to  back  up  their  efforts  by 
writing  to  their  Senators  and  Congress- 
men urging  the  passage  of  this  bill. 

It  is  called  the  Lenroot-Tabor  bill. 
Write  to  your  Congressmen  and  Sena- 
tors right  away  urging  their  support  for 
this  bill.  Reports  given  elsewhere  in  this 
paper  show  the  conditions  which  investi- 
gators found  on  the  Canadian  side  of  the 
line.  It  is  for  your  interest  to  get  such 
a  bill  as  this  passed  so  that  you  will  be 
freed  from  the  competition  of  such  a 
product.  At  present  it  is  coming  into 
Boston  and  other  markets  in  increasing 
amounts.  It  is  a  menace  to  the  price  and 
to  the  stability  of  the  dairy  industry  in 
New  England.  Every  can  of  such  cream 
which  comes  across  the  borders  displaces 
just  that  much  American  cream. 

In  promoting  this  bill  we  are  not  ask- 
ing for  advantage  over  dairy  farmers 
from  outsides  the  states.  We  are  asking 
that  an  unfair  advantage  which  they  now 
possess  shall  be  done  away  with.  We 


are  subjected  to  a  rigid  system  of  inspec- 
tion at  the  hands  of  boards  of  health  of 
various  cities.  Within  New  England  no 
milk  or  cream  can  be  shipped  unless  the 
premises  from  which  it  comes  have  been 
inspected  and  passed.  No  such  inspec- 
tion is  required  on  Canadian  product 
which  comes  largely  from  within  a  short 
distance  from  our  borders. 

Recently  the  city  of  Montreal  put  into 
effect  some  very  strict  inspection  and 
sanitary  regulations  on  its  milk  supply. 
The  result  is  that  a  large  amount  of  milk 
and  cream  has  been  shut  out  of  that  mar- 
ket and  is  now  seeking  a  market  else- 
where. Within  a  short  time  we  may  ex- 
pect to  see  this  milk  and  cream  offered 
in  our  own  markets.  It  will  come  in 
spite  of  tariff  restrictions.  It  will  come 
without  adequate  inspection  if  the  pres- 
ent situation  is  not  changed. 

The  way  to  change  the  present  situation 
is  to  pass  the  Lenroot-Tabor  bill  pro- 
hibiting the  importation  of  milk  and 
cream  unless  the  premises  where  it  has 
been  produced  have  been  officially  in- 
spected and  have  been  found  to  comply 
with  certain  standards.  The  standards 
are  comparable  to  the  standards  required 
for' milk  and  cream  produced  within  the 
United  States. 

The  way  to  get  this  bill  passed  as  a 
means  of  protecting  your  busines  is  to 
write  your  senator  and  representatives. 
Do  it  at  once  as  the  bill  may  come  up 
for  action  almost  any  time. 


months  in  1925,  in  March  they  paid  25 
cents  a  hundred  more  and  in  April  18 
cents  a  hundred. 

Taking  these  facts  into  consideration  it 
is  apparent  that  the  good  work  of  the 
sales  committee  for  several  months  past 
has  been  saving  the  dairy  farmers  from 
sustaining  a  heavy  loss  as  compared  with 
what  they  got  last  year,  and  it  was  amply 
justified  by  market  conditions.  Had  there 
been  a  decided  loss  the  effect  on  produc- 
tion would  have  been  disastrous. 

The  question  naturally  arises  as  to  what 
the  Vermont  creameries,  who  did  not  sus- 
tain the  NEMPA  price,  are  paying  or 
able  to  pay  their  patrons.  They  have  been 
selling  a  considerable  portion  of  their 
milk,  it  is  reported,  at  fully  a  cent  under 
the  NEMPA  prices.  That  is  they  are 
getting  for  their  fluid  sales  about  the  same 
as  NEMPA  members  got  last  year  in  the 
same  months.  They  may  be  able  to  get  a 
little  more  out  of  surplus  than  the 
NEMPA  secures  but  their  net  return  for 
all  milk  must  be  materially  lower  than 
last  year. 

The  association,  by  holding  the  price 
until  June,  has  saved  the  dairy  farmers 
of  New  England  from  loss  of  many 
thousands  of  dollars  as  compared  to  last 
year.  It  has  done  so  at  a  time  when 
there  was  a  special  need  for  such  a  sav- 
ing because  of  the  unusually  high  cost  of 
milk  production  due  to  a  late  spring.  It 
has  so  far  held  the  reduction  at  one  cent, 
dealers  asked  for  two  cents.  If  the 
chain  stores  should  make  a  reduction  of 
two  cents  in  their  price  to  the  consumers 
there  would  be  a  very  vigorous  pressure 
brought  to  bear  on  the  association  for 
further  reductions. 


NEARLY  4,000  SIGNED 

Members  Respond  Well  to  Requests 
for  New  Powers  of 
Attorney 

Reports  from  the  country  continue  to 
give  us  great  gratification  at  the  way  old 
members  are  rallying  to  the  call  for  a  re- 
signing of  due  orders  on  the  new  basis 
and  at  the  number  of  new  men  who  are 
joining  the  association.  Our  veteran 
campaigner,  F.  C.  Warner,  and  our  three 
new  field  men  have  been  canvassing  in 
Maine  about  10  days.  They  have  signed 
up  more  than  85  per  cent,  of  all  the  pro- 
ducers shipping  milk  in  the  towns  they 
had  visited  at  last  reports  and  were  still 
going  strong. 

In  addition  to  the  personal  canvass 
which  is  now  going  on  there  has  been  a 
fine  response  to  the  letters  which  were 
sent  out  from  the  central  office  and  from 
the  branch  offices.  About  500  powers  of 
attorney  came  in  from  each  of  the  branch 
offices  in  response  to  letters  sent  to  pres- 
ent members  and  the  general  letter  from 
the  central  office  brought  in  more  than 
2,000  more.  With  the  work  of  the  can- 
vassers and  some  which  have  come  in 
since  the  letters  were  sent  out  nearly  4,000 

(Continued  on  page  eight) 


f 


Page  Two 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1926 


Figures  and  pictures  tell  the  story  in 
the  annual  report  of  the  New  England 
Dairy  and  Food  Council  published  re- 
cently. Prof.  W.  P.  B.  Lockwood,  man- 
ager of  the  Council,  boiled  down  the 
many  sided  active  work  of  a  year  into 
two  pages  of  pictures  and  facts  about  the 
number  of  people  reached  with  the  mes- 
sage of  the  value  of  milk.  All  of  the 
facts  given  in  the  annual  report  and  some 
of  the  pictures  which  bring  the  work 
more  vividly  before  us  are  here  repro- 
duced. It  is  a  fine  record  of  a  worth 
while  piece  of  work  well  done.  It  is 
good  work  to  have  told  this  story  of  the 
value  of  milk  in  so  many  ways  to  so 


tract  attention.  The  proprietors  usually 
ask  for  more.  We  have  many  instances 
of  the  increase  in  direct  sales  of  milk 
and  dairy  products  from  the  use  of  these 
displays. 


Annual  Report  of  New  England  Dairy  and  Food  Council 

Talks  and  Stories  in  Schools,  Clubs,  Etc.     hibits  were  displayed  in  store  windows, 
Council  workers  gave  milk  health  talks     factories,  schools,  etc.,  for  a  total  of  328 
(illustrated  with  pictures)  as  follows:  weeks. 

Talks  and  T'le  store  windows  in  which  the  rae- 

Stories     Attendance    chanical  exhibits  are  shown  always  at- 

Boston   1,239  135,077 

Providence    377  62,123 

Worcester    180  20,114 

 1,796  217,314 

Milk  HealtJi  Plays 
'Flu'  milk  health  plays  supervised  by  a  Hp^V  v\ap 

Council   worker   were  given  61   times.  *'0&£%L 
There  were  239  rehearsals.    The  attend- 
ance at  the  plays  was  22,470. 

ML*- 


many  people.  It  is  a  work  well  worth 
every  dollar  which  is  put  into  it.  Dealers 
know  this ;  we  wish  that  you  producers 
could  realize  it  as  fully  as  we  who  see 
it  going  on  day  by  day.  Here  is  the 
report : 

Newspaper  Advertising 
Advertisements   of   milk  were  placed 
in  each  of  six  Boston  daily  papers  once 
each   week,   and   in  one   Sunday  paper 
every  other  week.    This  advertising  was 


Many  children  have  become  milk  drink- 
ers through  the  influence  of  these  plays. 
The  parents  who  see  the  plays  usually 
become  enthusiastic  milk  for  health  sup- 
porters. 

Moving  Pictures 
The  Council  films  were  shown  in  clubs, 
theatres  and  schools,  198  times  to  67,000 
people. 

This  method  of  telling  our  story  is 
popular.    Our  films  are  made  with  par- 


done  for  24  weeks.    It  started  the  last  ticular  care  to  tell  the  story  of  milk  for 

week  in  March.    2,114  inches  of  space  health  for  both  children  and  adults, 

was  used,  the  total  of  combined  circula-  Exhibits 

tion  of  the  papers  was  42,903,360.  The  mechanical  exhibits  and  other  ex- 


Our  Workers 


Left  to  right  seated,  Prof.  Lockwood, 
Miss  Foster,  Miss  Hunt,  Miss  Cleare. 

Left  to  right  standing,  Mr.  Richard- 
son, Miss  McWilliams,  Miss  Sewell. 


Miss  Goldthorpe  of  Providence,  and 
Miss  Robertson  of  Worcester  are  not 
shown  above.  In  addition  there  is  a 
clerical  force  of  three  workers. 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  April,  1926 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  wha' 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  foi 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  or  below  3.7  pei 
cent,  test  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  sized  container 
Per  8y2  quart  can,  $0,007;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,009;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,017;  pei 
21  %  quart  can,  $0,018;  per  40  quart  can,  $0,034;  per  cwt.,  $.040. 


Boston  District 


Class  1 
(Mkt 

Dealers 

ELM  SPRING  FARM 

7th  zone   (121-140)    66.2% 

J.  B.  PRESCOTT 

Delivered    77.8 


Class  2   

(Mfg.  20 
Milk)    Milk)  Quart  Quart 


Size  of  Can  ■ 


2iy4 

Quart 


33.8%    .472      1.140  1.212 


22.2      Delivered  price  per  cwt. 


40 
Quart 

2.306 


Northern  Market  District 


Class  1 
(Mkt. 

Dealers  Milk) 
Wason-MacDonald 

Haverhill 

Delivered    87.2% 

3rd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms 

Lawrence 

Delivered    69.8 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 

Manchester 

Delivered    91.3 

3rd  zone   

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

E.  C.  Blake 

Manchester 

Delivered    59.7 

4th  zone   

5th  zone   :  

6th  zone   

8th  zone   

Boyd,  W.  T.  &  Sons 

Nashua 

Delivered    94.1 

3rd  zone  

4th  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Nashua 

Delivered    86.8- 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 


12.8% 


Cwt. 

in 
8^'s 


3.604 
3.067 


Cwt. 
in 

20's 


3.604 
3.117 


cwt. 

in 
40-s 


3.604 
3.158 


Cwll 

2.68 
3.37 

Cwt.  i 


30.2 


8.7 


40.3 


5.9 


13.2 


3.550 
3.190 
3.113 


3.550 
3.244 
3.222 


3.550 
3.288 
3.255 


3.21 
2.9! 
2.8s 
2.7..: 


3.4,= 
3.2/ 
3.12 
3.1C 


2.8C 

2.5s 

2.5 

2.5.c 

2.5- 


3.3' 


Providence  Market 


Truck- 


Class  1 

Dealers 
Per  Hundredweight 

Burton,   H.   T  89.1% 

Chambers,  G.  T   93.8 

Fiske,  E.  A.    89. 

Greenville   Dairy   ....  88.3 

Monroe,  A.  B.   100. 

Providence  Dairy  ....  88.1 

Turner   Centre    78.8 

Viall,  W.  C.  *   87.8 

Warnock,  C.  A  100. 

Wescott,  E.  P  100. 

PER  10  QT.  CAN 

Brown,  W.  B   93.6 

Grant,  C.  W   87.5 


Class  2 


10.9% 
6.2 
11. 
11.7 


11.9 
21.2 
12.2 


6.4 
12.5 


Deliv- 
ered 

3.594 
3.697 
3.591 
3.572 
3.854 
3.573 
3.379 
3.563 
3.850 
3.849 

.814 


Zone  1 
1-20 

Miles 

3.323 
3.412 
3.320 
3.304 
3.550 
3.361 
3.061 
3.296 
3.545 
3.544 

.755 
.717 


Zone  2 
21-40 

Miles 

3.298 
3.385 
3.296 
3.279 
3.522 
3.330 
3.039 
3.225 
3.517 
3.516 

.743 
.708 


3.243 


mg 

Zone  3  Zone  Wil 
41-60  net  man! 
Miles  at  Farm  Zoi 

3.221   1 

3.304 
3.218 
3.202 
3.435 
3.269 
2.971 
3.195 
3.430 
3.429 


3.071  3.1 


.730 
.695 


.713 


une,  1926 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


I 


Calls  at  Office  for  Material 
Teachers   and   others    calling   at  the 
ffice  for  material  numbered  1,050.  In 
i  ddition,   3,695   inquiries   were  received 
i  bout  material  and  work. 
The  appreciation  of  the  value  of  our 


books  and  samples  of  material  that  they 
can  buy  in  other  places.  This  all  builds 
friendship  for  the  milk  industry  with 
teachers  and  health  workers. 

There  was  contributed  for  this  work 
in  1925: 


naterial  is  shown  by  the  increasing  num- 
*r  of  teachers  who  come  to  the  office 
ach  year.  They  get  free  material,  buy 
naterial  that  we  have  for  sale,  and  see 


Boston    $51,028.00 

Providence    3,033.00 

Worcester    694.74 

Mass.  Agr.  College    1,400.00 


Conditions  in  the  Market 


Records  of  the  larger  dealers  purchas- 
ing on  the  surplus  plan  for  the  Boston 
market  for  April  showed  an  increase  of 
13  per  cent,  in  purchases  as  compared 
with  March.  This  is  about  the  usual 
seasonal  increase  and  slightly  larger  thai] 
the  increase  in  these  same  months  in  the 
previous  year.  Reports  from  the  country 
indicate  that  the  May  production  will 
show  less  than  the  normal  increase. 
Sales  of  fluid  milk  increased  five  per 
cent,  from  the  previous  year.  The  sur- 
plus for  April  was  practically  the  same 
as  in  April,  1925. 

The  purchases  and  sales  in  millions  of 
pounds  and  the  percentage  of  surplus  for 
March  and  April,  1926,  and  for  April, 
1925,  were  as  follows : 

1926      1926  1925 

Mar.  Apr.  Apr. 

Purchases   46.4  52.4  49.3 

Sales   26.5  26.5  25.2 

Surplus   47.3%  50.6%  49.6% 

The  April  net  price  for  all  milk  bought 
by  all  dealers  operating  under  the  sur- 
plus plan  was  11  cents  a  hundred  above 
the  April,  1925,  price.  The  fluid  milk 
price  was  46.5  cents  higher  but  the  sur- 
plus price  was  23  cents  a  hundred  lower, 
due  to  the  butter  market  being  5.3  cents 
a  pound  lower  than  in  April,  1925.  The 
lower  surplus  price  partially  offset  the 
higher  fluid  milk  price. 

The  10th  zone  milk  price  and  the  but- 
ter price  for  March  and  April,  1926,  and 
for  April,  1925,  also  the  butter  prices, 
were  as  follows : 


Literature  and  Posters 
During  the  year  the  Council  has  de- 
veloped 16  new  pieces  of  literature.  We 
distributed : 

Pieces 

Boston    986,489 

Providence    47,250 

Worcester    21,473 


Total   1,055,212 

Sold   1,865,414 


Total  handled   2,920,626 


1926 
Apr. 
$3.22 
1.50 
2.41 

.400 


1925 
Apr. 
$2.75 
1.73 
2.30 

.453 


1926 
Mar. 

Fluid   $3.32 

Surplus    1.64 

Net  price    2.54 

Average  butter  per 
pound   446 

The  NKMPA  fluid  price  in  May  was 
17  cents  a  hundred  above  the  New  York 
price.  Our  net  price  for  April  was  one 
cent  below  the  New  York  League  price 
for  the  same  test  of  milk  at  the  same  dis- 
tance from  the  market. 

LOCAL  MILK  PRICES 
The  only  change  from  April  to  May 
was  a  Yz.  cent  drop  in  the  Worcester 
market.  Worcester  is  now  2  cents  per 
quart  lower  than  Boston.  All  other 
markets  held  the  same  as  April. 

Below  are  comparisons  with  last  year: 

PRODUCERS 
LOCAL  MARKET  PRICES  (per  qt) 

1925  1926 

May  May 

Boston   $.070  $.085 

Lawrence   070  .085 

Lowell   070  .085 

Haverhill   070  .085 

Manchester   060  .080 

Nashua   060  .080 

Concord,  N.  H  065  .065 

Worcester   070  .065 

HolyoMe   075  .075 

Springfield   075  .075 

Providence   070  .085 

Fall  River   075  .085 

Newport,  R.  1  080  .090 

Brockton   082  .085 

New  Bedford   082  .090 

COST  OF  PRODUCTION 
Grain  prices  are  about  steady  with  a 
little  tendency  to  rise.  Future  prices  de- 
pend on  weather  conditions  but  if  we 
have  normal  conditions,  grain  has  about 
seen  its  low  price  for  the  year.  Grain 
is  about  $2.25  a  ton  below  last  year.  Hay 
continues  cheap.  Comparative  prices  are : 

1926  1926  1925 

Apr.  May  May 

GFain,  per  ton....$47.52  $47.98  $50.29 

Hay,  per  ton....  15.22  15.25  15.68 
Labor,  per  hour  .302 


.302 


.302 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  April,  1926 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt. 

Butter-fat 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

Test 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patron 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt. 

Hood,  lst-15th  ... 

....12^% 

.40 

1.902 

.43 

.582 

.1747 

Hood,  lst-15th  ... 

 20 

.40 

2.799 

.43 

.570 

.1747 

Hood,  16th-30th 

....12K 

.40 

1.870 

.42 

.570 

.2034 

Hood,  16th-30th 

....20 

.40 

2.750 

.42 

.557 

.2034 

20 

.30 

2.615 

.45 

.581 

.2193 

Turner  Centre  ... 

 12H 

.40 

.750 

.46 

.520 

.2544 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  April,  1926 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  April  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer,  $.040  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract 
£.040  for  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  April  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the  Hood, 
Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deduction  as  given  in  cream  price  table  is  made  from  the  zone  prices  as  figured  to  equalize  prices  between 
milk  and  cream  patrons. 

Zone  1 

Miles  from  Boston    1-20 

Class   1   Milk   Price   3.479 

Class  2  Milk  Price    1.502 

Class  1  Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk)    (Mfg.  Milk) 
Dealers  A  B 

Hood,  lst-15th  ....63.6%  36.4%  51.4%  2.593 
Hood,  16th-30th  ....63.6  36.4  53.5  2.547 
Whiting  in  40's  ....66.7  33.3  49.8  2.571 
Whiting  in  21^'s..66.7      33.3      49.8  2.561 

Turner  Centre  57.5      42.5      64.  2.345 

Alden  Bros  44.1      55.9    2.373 

F  S.  Cummings  ....56.3      43.7    2.614 

f  E.  Boyd   63.9      36.1    2.764 

Childs  Bros  83.1       16.9    3.184 

Weighted  Avg  63.5      36.5      50.6  2.581 

A— Excluding  Cream  Plan.  B— Including  Cream  Plan. 

Because  of  sales  in  markets  lower  than  Boston  the  following  decreases  have  been  made  in  the  Class  I  prices  here  given  for  the  following  dealers:  Whiting,  $.0456; 
Turner  Centre,  $.0685. 


Zone  2 

Zone  3 

Zone  4 

Zone  5 

Zone  6 

Zone  7 

Zone  8 

Zone  9 

Zone  10 

Zone  11 

Zone  12 

Zone  13 

Zone  14 

Zone  15 

21^0 

41-60 

61-30 

81-100 

101-120 

121-140 

141-160 

161-180 

181-200 

201-220 

221-240 

241-260 

261-280 

281-300 

3.438 

3.404 

3.369 

3.340 

3.311 

3287 

1258 

3.235 

3.218 

3.194 

3.171 

3.159 

3.136 

3.119 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

1.502 

2.567 

2.545 

2.523 

2.505 

2.486 

2.471 

2.452 

2.438 

2.427 

2.412 

2.397 

2.390 

2.375 

2.364 

2.521 

2.499 

2.477 

2.458 

2.440 

2.425 

2.406 

2.392 

2.380 

2.365 

2.351 

2.343 

2.329 

2.318 

2.544 

2.521 

2.498 

2.478 

2.459 

2.443 

2.423 

2.408 

2.396 

2.381 

2.365 

2.357 

2.342 

2.331 

2.524 

2.496 

2.481 

2.452 

2.437 

2.415 

2.401 

2.386 

2.364 

2.349 

2.327 

2.320 

2.305 

2.298 

2.321 

2.302 

2.282 

2.265 

2.248 

2.234 

2.218 

2.205 

2.194 

2.181 

2.168 

2.161 

2.148 

2.138 

2.354 

2.339 

2.324 

2.311 

2.298 

2.288 

2.275 

2.265 

2.257 

2.247 

2.237 

2.231 

2.221 

2.214 

2.591 

2.572 

2.552 

2.536 

2.519 

2.506 

2.490 

2.477 

2.467 

2.454 

2.441 

2.434 

2.421 

2.411 

2.737 

2.716 

2.693 

2.675 

2.656 

2.641 

2.622 

2.608 

2.597 

2.582 

2.567 

2.559 

2.544 

2.534 

3.150 

3.122 

3.092 

3.068 

3.044 

3.025 

3.000 

2.981 

2.967 

2.947 

2.928 

2.918 

2.899 

2.885 

2.555 

2.533 

2.511 

2.492 

2.474 

2.459 

2.440 

2.426 

2.414 

2.396 

2.385 

2.377 

2.363 

2.352 

Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1926 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 
NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 
51  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 
Devoted    to    the    Interests    of  Dairy 
Farming  and  Marketing  m 
New  England 
Subscription  Price,  Fifty  Cents  Per  Year 
W.  P.  DAVIS.  Treasurer 


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icntared  as  second  class   matter,   July  30. 

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chusetts,  under  the  act   of  May   I.  187». 

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postage  provided  for.  Section  1101,  Act 
of  Oct.  ».  Ml,  authorised  July  IS.  111*. 


HAKRY  L.  PirEK.  Editor 


N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 
President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  L, 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt.;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  George  G. 
Young,  Livermore,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H.;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  t.  a. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt.;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt;  U.  A. 
ruTTLE,  Hardwick,  Mass.  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Dartmouth,  Mass.;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I. ;  Frank 
r  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  L;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich  Shushan, 
N  Y.;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y.';  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


of  which  might  have  been  avoided  had  not 
ambition  and  jealousy  and  finally  hate 
entered  in  to  destroy  harmony  and  peace 
and  happiness.  This  is  Memorial  Day, 
the  day  set  apart  to  the  memory  of  those 
whose  lives  were  sacrificed  in  the  hope 
of  better  things,  as  they  or  someone  saw 
them.  Not  always  right  and  not  always 
successful,  sometimes  in  a  noble  cause 
and  again  in  a  cruel  ambition,  the  peoplt 
of  the  world  have  often  sacrificed  pleas- 
ure, comfort,  material  wealth,  progress 
and  finally  life  itself.  Somehow,  we 
have  a  feeling  of  lofty  respect  for  those 
who  have  made  these  sacrifices  even 
though  their  motives  may  not  always 
have  been  blameless  or  their  efforts  suc- 
cessful. We  admire  the  struggle,  even 
tho'  it  may  have  been  in  vain,  and 
quite  aside  from  the  object  of  it.  It's 
the  age  old  spirit  of  contest.  Through  it 
progress  has  been  made.  It's  that  which 
makes  us  respect  the  pioneer  who  cleared 
the  forest  and  subdued  the  land,  forcing 
it  to  serve  his  purpose  and  to  sustain  his 
life.  That  same  spirit  is  in  us  today,  the 
urge  for  better  things  and  for  the  mas- 
tery over  that  which  will  lead  to  better 
things. 

No,  I  don't  want  to  live  a  foreordered 
life,  a  life  of  fixed  and -certain  routine 
without  hope  of  progress.  The  hazard 
of  struggle  for  me.  I  want  to  live  among, 
and  be  of  those  who  not  content,  are 
willing  to  fight  for  better  things.  And 
somehow,  the  uncertainties  of  the  farmer's 
life,  the  chances  he  must  take,  the  risks 
he  must  run,  make  of  him  the  sort  of 
man  who  has  the  courage  to  fight  against 
every  element  that  would  check  or  hinder 
or  destroy  his  progress. 

So  here's  to  the  uncertain  climate,  that 
challenges  our  courage  and  skill ;  here's 
to  the  opportunity  of  every  sort  for  him 
who  can  and  will  take  it,  and  here's  to 
our  splendid  people  who  have  the  spirit 
and  courage  to  adventure  and  sacrifice. 

PATTEE. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

What  a  cold,  backward  spring!  I 
wonder  sometimes  whether  the  uncer- 
tainty of  our  climate  an  is  advantage  or 
a  handicap.  How  would  it  be  if,  hke 
they  can  in  some  other  regions,  we  could 
always  tell  with  reasonable  certainty  just 
what  sort  of  weather  we  were  going  to 
have?  How  would  we  like  to  know  that 
day  after  day  the  sun  would  shine  without 
a  cloud  in  the  sky,  that  at  another  sea- 
son it  would  rain  every  day  at  about  such 
an  hour?  Would  it  help  us  to  plan  our 
work  and  realize  more  from  it  if  we 
knew  in  advance  just  what  was  going  to 
happen? 

At  first  glance  one  might  say  so;  but 
I  wonder  if  life  would  be  any  pleasanter 
or  more  enjoyable  if  reduced  to  the  dead 
level  of  certainty,  of  routine  and  fixity. 
I  wonder  if  the  potato  growers  of  Aroos- 
took with  their  years  of  fat  and  lean, 
would  be  the  same  sturdy,  verile,  hopeful 
people  if  the  gamble  were  taken  out  of 
their  operations.  I  wonder  sometimes 
whether  the  glorious  chances  of  Ameri- 
can life,  its  opportunities  for  successs  and 
failure,  to  be  rich  if  you  have  the  genius 
for  wealth  and  Dame  Fortune  smiles 
upon  you,  to  be  wise  if  endowed  with  su- 
perior intelligence  and  you  have  culti- 
vated the  talent,  to  be  leaders  if  you 
have  in  you  the  faculty  of  leadership 
and  the  idealism  of  a  cause,  to  be  out- 
standing in  one  field  or  another  as  your 
abilities  and  your  choices  and  the  ele- 
ments of  chance  may  dictate ;  I  wonder 
whether  these  are  better  than  a  series  of 
certainties,  with  fixed  duties  and  penal- 
ties and  rewards. 

Somehow,  as  I  grow  older  and  perhaps 
lose  a  little  of  the  spirit  of  adventure, 
lose  something  of  the  ardor  and  en- 
thusiasm of  youth,  I  wonder  what  the 
struggle  amounts  to,  whether  after  all 
the  fight  is  worthwhile,  whether  the  game 
is  worth  the  candle,  the  victory  worth 
the  battle,  to  say  nothing  of  the  chance 
of  defeat. 

A  great  man  once  wrote  a  book — not 
a  great  hook — that  he  called  "Through 
Struggle  to  Victory."  In  the  struggle 
many  perished  but  the  hero  came  through 
with  scars,  permanent,  marring  scars  all 


ORDERLY  MARKETING 

The  new  outlook  on  orderly  market- 
ing of  farm  products  through  large 
co-operative  organizations  and  the  vital 
part  such  an  orderly  marketing  system 
will  play  in  the  general  welfare  of 
business,  was  presented  by  Secretary  of 
Agriculture  Jardine  recently  to  a  group 
of  New  York  business  men.  Much  of 
what  he  said  is  worthy  of  our  careful 
consideration  as  it  represents  the  gov- 
ernment viewpoint  toward  agriculture 
and  agricultural  legislation.  Secretary 
Jardine  said  in  part: 

"During  the  war  period  agriculture 
came  under  great  pressure  for  increased 
production.  Rising  prices,  patriotism, 
governmental  activities  all  combined  to 
stimulate  it  and  the  development  of  the 
gasoline  motor  and  improved  machinery 
helped  to  make  it  possible.  Thus,  be- 
tween 1910  and  1920  crop  production 
per  agricultural  worker  was  further  in- 
creased by  18  per  cent,  or  nearly  a 
fifth. 

"We  came  down  to  the  post-war 
period  with  an  agricultural  plant  of 
enormous  productive  capacity,  with  its 
output  produced  on  a  basis  of  efficiency 
per  worker  that  fairly  rivals  the  in- 
dustrial community.  Meanwhile,  comes 
the  disastrous  slump  in  prices  of  farm 
products,  recovery  of  competing  foreign 
agriculture,  high  city  wages  and  result- 
ing high  costs  of  the  things  farmers 
must  buy. 

"All  circumstances  have  conspired  to 
intensify  the  difficulties  of  a  transition 
period.  The  farmer  has  emerged  from 
the  old  self-sufficient  economy  wherein 
surplus  production  was  a  blessing,  into 
a  modern  specialized  economy  wherein 
the  exchange  value  of  his  products  is 
the  vital  thing  and  an  undue  surplus  of 
products  is  anything  but  a  blessing.  He 
has  emerged  thus  just  in  time  to  get 
the  full  brunt  of  a  severe  deflation 
period.  His  central  problem  has  shifted 
from  production  to  the  distributive  field 
He  finds  that  under  modern  conditions 
the  gluts  and  fluctuations  in  the  mar- 
ket affect  his  income  quite  as  vitally 
as  does  his  effort  on  the  production 
end.  So  we  have  come  to  hear  the 
farmer  talking  a  great  deal  about  or- 
derly marketing.  We  have  come  to  see 
a  great  development  of  co-operative 
marketing  of  farm  products. 


"The  machinery  of  distribution  is 
just  as  essential  as  that  of  production. 
I  want  to  impress  upon  intelligent  busi- 
ness men  that  no  small  part  of  the 
agricultural  problem  of  today  unques- 
tionably centers  on  the  marketing  rather 
than  on  the  production  end.  We  shall 
all  be  better  off  if  we  recognize  and 
accept  that  fact.  Agriculture  now  has 
before  it  a  problem  of  efficiency  in 
merchandising  much  as  it  has  hitherto 
faced  and  solved  the  problem  of  effi- 
ciency in  production. 

"What  I  am  saying  is  not  theory.  I 
am  simply  sketching  the  trend  of  things 
that  are  actually  happening.  The  tre- 
mendous development  of  co-operative 
marketing  in  the  last  ten  years  is  not 
an  accident.  It  is  an  inevitable  out- 
growth of  the  times. 

"The  time  has  come  when  we  must 
have  a  general  redirection  of  policy  on 
the  part  of  the  Government  toward 
agricultural  development.  The  national 
concern  can  no  longer  be  merely  that 
we  shall  have  an  adequate  supply  of 
food  and  raw  materials.  It  is  of  na- 
tional concern  now  that  the  distributive 
machinery  of  the  country  shall  help  to 
put  the  farmer  on  an  equality  with 
other  groups  of  producers. 

"There  is  a  rather  widespread  im- 
pression in  the  cities  that  agriculture 
has  recovered  from  its  post-war  difficul- 
ties and  that  it  needs  no  legislative  con- 
sideration at  this  time.  It  is  true  that 
there  has  been  a  remarkable  improve- 
ment in  farm  conditions  since  the  dark 
days  of  1921.  Taken  as  a  whole,  last 
year  was  the  best  year  farmers  have 
had  since  1919. 

"But  all  this  is  the  surface  situation. 
.Underneath  the  surface  the  farmers  of 
the  United  States  are  struggling  with 
a  disparity  between  their  receipts  and 
their  costs,  debts  and  fixed  charges  that 
is  peculiarly  a  heritage  of  the  war. 
They  are  struggling  with  a  problem  of 
recurrent,  unavoidable  surpluses,  which 
is  peculiarly  the  outgrowth  of  the 
modern  division  of  labor  or  complex 
exchange  economy.  These  basic  diffi- 
culties are  a  serious  drag  on  our  agri- 
culture and  a  menace  to  the  stability 
and  prosperity  of  business  generally. 

"It  is  idle  to  turn  our  backs  upon 
this  problem.  Where  the  forward- 
looking,  substantial  citizen  ignores  his 
responsibility  the  gap  will  be  speedily 
filled  by  the  radical  and  the  doctrin- 
naire.  Agriculture  is  entitled  to  legis- 
lative consideration  of  its  basic  difficul- 
ties and  in  the  long  run  is  bound  to 
get  it. 

"Let  me  commend  to  your  thoughtful 
attention:  (1)  The  unquestionable  fact 
that  agriculture  has  not  been  getting  its 
fair  share  of  the  national  income;  (2)  that 
this  is  not  due  to  any  lack  of  efficiency  in 
production;  (3)  that  such  sound  legisla- 
tion as  will  help  agriculture  to  an 
equitable  place  in  the  existing  economic 
order  is  a  national  concern  and  respon- 
sibility. The  business  men  of  this  coun- 
try are  interested  in  keeping  agriculture 
in  the  market.  The  consumers  of  this 
country  are  interested  in  the  mainte- 
nance of  an  even  flow  of  food  products 
at  prices  they  can  afford  to  pay.  A 
narrow  viewpoint  of  agricultural  prob- 
lems will  no  longer  suffice,  a  fact  that 
the  best  minds  in  city  as  well  as  coun- 
try recognize.  We  have  reached  that 
point  in  our  national  life  when  we  must 
recognize  by  acts  as  well  as  thoughts 
that  some  redirection  of  agricultural 
policy  toward  the  field  of  distribution 
is  inevitable.  Let  us  have  sound,  con- 
structive support  of  such  policy  in  order 
that  the  great  national  groups  whose 
interests  are  so  closely  interwoven  may 
all  go  forward  together.  There  is  no 
other  way." 


Chauncey  Gleason  was  elected  presi- 
dent and  Edward  Nason  was  elected 
secretary. 

Antrim,  N.  H.,  local  had  an  interest- 
ing meeting  and  re-elected  E.  W.  Mer- 
rill president  and  I.  P.  Hutchinson, 
secretary. 


MILK  RATING  PLAN  NOT 
WANTED 

I  read  the  article  written  by  A.  L. 
Osgood  of  Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  May  15  j 
in  regard  to  the  rating  plan  with  much 
interest.  It  was  my  pleasure  to  serve 
his  district  as  delegate  to  the  annual 
meeting  in  Boston  for  -the  last  two 
years.  I  had  an  opportunity  to  talk 
with  dairymen  from  all  parts  of  Nev. 
England  in  regard  to  the  milk  situation. 
I  found  that  it  was  impossible  to  get 
a  rating  plan  that  was  satisfactory  to 
all  sections. 

In  northern  New  England  they  seem 
to  think  it  is  more  profitable  for  them 
to  make  the  most  milk  in  the  summer 
season.  They  have  splendid  pastures 
and  feed  practically  no  grain.  In  that 
section  it  is  almost  impossible  for  them 
to  raise  silage.  But  in  our  section  it 
is  undoubtedly  more  profitable  to  pro-J 
duce  the  most  milk  in  the  fall  and  win- 
ter, but  all  parts  of  New  England 
should  be  considered  if  we  wish  to  up- 
hold our  association. 

I  think  that  the  only  solution  to  the 
milk  situation  is  in  the  co-operatives, 
like  those  in  Manchester,  Concord, 
Springfield  and  Worcester,  for  those] 
who  live  nearby,  but  in  distant  parta 
of  New  England  I  believe  in  the  Nevsi 
England  wide  system.  At  one  of  out] 
local  meetings  Mr.  Osgood  spoke  as  if] 
the  officers  of  the  NEMPA  wanted  tc 
discontinue  the  rating  plan.  I  wish  tc 
say  that  the  matter  was  left  entirely 
with  the  convention  and  the  vote  79  Id 
13  proved  the  strength  of  the  sentimentl 
in  regard  to  its  being  abolished.  Mr 
Osgood  would  like  to  hear  from  real 
producers.  Let  us  hope  we  may  heat 
from  some  in  the  near  future. — F.  M 
Morrill  in  New  England  Homestead. 


NORTHERN  MARKET  DIST. 

Now  that  traveling  conditions  are  bet- 
ter we  are  going  ahead  with  our  annual 
meetings.  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  local  was 
the  first  one  held.  We  had  a  good 
number  out  and  a  very  enthusiastic 
meeting.  The  members  voted  to  en- 
dorse placing  more  field  men  in  the 
territory  and  the  slight  increase  in  dues 
to  cover  the  increased  cost.  Arthur 
Dutton  was  elected  president  and  Paul 
Swanson  secretary. 

Haverhill  local  held  the  largest  an- 
nual   meeting    it    has    had    in  years. 


VERMONT  DAIRYING 

Vermont  has  the  greatest  concentra  I 
tion  of  dairy  cattle  of  any  state  in  thtl 
United  States;  more  than  290,000  dairj 
cows  over  two  years  of  age,  or  82J 
cows  for  every  1,000  population.  ThJ 
average  production,  according  to  censul 
figures,  is  less  than  4,000  pounds  o| 
milk  per  cow ;  although  the  local  fig  I 
ures  show  a  production  nearer  5,00i 
pounds  when  producing  dairies  and  cowl 
are  considered.  Vermont  stands  fiftl 
in  percentage  of  purbred  sires  usecf 
Vermont  is  one  of  the  leading  statel 
in  number  of  cows  tested  for  tuberi 
culosis  on  the  accredited  herd  plail 
There  were  23  cow  testing  association! 
in  existence  on  January  1,  1926,  placinil 
Vermont  fourth  in  percentage  of  tota 
number  of  cows  being  tested. 


AGRICULTURE  IMPORTANT 

The  National  Industrial  Conference 
Board,  in  its  report  on  "The  AgricuB 
tural  Problem  in  the  United  States, I 
published  within  the  month,  starts  oiJJ 
with  these  significant  statements : 

"The   agricultural    industry  exercis 
normally  a  purchasing  power  of  near 
ten  billion  dollars   annually   for  good) 
and  services  produced  by  others. 

"It   purchases  about   six   billion  dc 
lars'   worth* of   manufactured  produci 
annually  or  about  a  tenth  of  the  val 
of  the  manufactured  goods  produced. 

"It  supplies  materials  upon  which  de 
pend  industries  giving  employment  1 
over  half  of  our  industrial  workers. 

"It  pays  indirectly  at  least  two  ail 
a  half  billion  dollars  of  the  wages  c 
urban  employees. 

"It  supplies  about  an  eighth  of  tH 
total  tonnage  of  freight  carried  by  ot] 
railroad  system. 

"Its  products  constitute  nearly  ha 
of  the  value  of  our  exports. 

"It  pays  in  taxes  about  one-fifth 
the  total  cost  of  Government. 

"Our  farms  and  farm  property  re 
resent  nearly  one-fifth  of  our  tangil 
national  wealth,  and  agriculture  has  cc 
tributed  in  recent  years  about  one-six 
of  the  national  income." 


fune,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Schedule  of  Prices  for  Boston 

Based  on  7|  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  June  1,  1926,  and  Until  Further  Notice 

Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


4 
1 

Cwt.in 

Cwt.in 

Cwt.in 

8qt. 

8^qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21!4qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

2lj4qt- 

4()qt. 

,.one 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

1 

,2 

1-20 

.499 

.533 

.632 

1.289 

1.370 

2.593 

2.997 

2.999 

3.014 

21-40 

.489 

.523 

.622 

1.264 

1  1/1  c 

Z.j  Jo 

L.  Jo  J 

?  044 

2.973 

3 

41-60 

.484 

.518 

.607 

1.244 

1.324 

2.528 

2.892 

2.901 

2.939 

4 

61-80 

.469 

.503 

.602 

1.234 

1.315 

2.498 

2.869 

2.879 

2.904 

!5 

81-100 

.464 

.498 

.592 

1.214 

1.295 

2.473 

2.822 

2.835 

2.875 

5 

101-120 

.459 

.493 

.582 

1.204 

1.285 

2.448 

2.799 

2.813 

2.846 

7 

121-140 

.454 

.488 

.577 

1.194 

1.270 

2.428 

2.776 

2.780 

2.822 

141-160 

.444 

.478 

.567 

1.179 

1.260 

2.403 

2.741 

2.759 

2.793 

J 

161-180 

.439 

.473 

.562 

1.169 

1.250 

2.383 

2.718 

2.737 

2.770 

V 

181-200 

.434 

.468 

.552 

1.164 

1.235 

2.368 

2.706 

2.704 

2.753 

1 

201-220 

.429 

.463 

.547 

1.149 

1.225 

2.348 

2.671 

2.682 

2.729 

I 

221-240 

.424 

.458 

.542 

1.139 

1.210 

2.328 

2.648 

2.649 

2.706 

si 

241-260 

.414 

.448 

.537 

1.134 

1.205 

2.318 

2.636 

2.638 

2.694 

261-280 

.409 

.443 

.537 

1.119 

1.195 

2.298 

z.oUl 

Z.O/  1 

% 

281-300 

.409 

.443 

.532 

1.114 

1.190 

2.283 

2.590 

2.605 

2.654 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  In 

side  Massachusetts 

1-20 

.519 

.553 

.652 

1.299 

1.380 

2.593 

3.020 

3.021 

3.014 

) 

21-40 

.504 

.538 

.637 

1.274 

1.355 

2.558 

2.962 

2.966 

2.973 

41-60 

.499 

.533 

.632 

1.264 

1.340 

2.528 

2.939 

2.934 

2.939 

61-80 

.494 

.528 

.627 

1.244 

1.325 

2.498 

2.892 

2.901 

2.904 

81-100 

.489 

.523 

.612 

1.234 

1.315 

2.473 

2.869 

2.879 

2.875 

101-120 

.484 

.518 

.607 

1.224 

1.295 

2.448 

2.846 

2.835 

2.846 

121-140 

.484 

.518 

.607 

1.209 

1.285 

2.428 

2.811 

2.813 

2.822 

1 

141-160 

.474 

.508 

.602 

1.204 

1.280 

2.403 

2.799 

2.802 

2.793 

161-180 

.469 

.503 

.597 

1.194 

1.265 

2.383 

2.776 

2.769 

2.770 

D 

181-200 

.469 

.503 

.592 

1.179 

1.255 

2.368 

2.741 

2.748 

2.753 

The  Telephone  at  the  Qentennial 


l  Where  milk  is  bought  by  weight  and  test,  the  dealer  will  pay  the  average  price 
■ijr  92  score  fresh  butter  as  quoted  by  the  U.  S.  D.  A.  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
i'.conomics  at  Boston  for  the  month.  The  price  of  1/10  pound  butter,  as  above 
bated,  shall  be  added  for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  above  3.7  per  cent,  and  deducted 
tar  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  below  3.7  per  cent,  for  each  cwt.  of  milk  so  purchased, 
jj     Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station, 

premium  of  0.75c  cwt.  is  paid, 
j      Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
It  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 


One  hundred  years  after 
the  signing  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence,  the 
infant  telephone  was  first 
exhibited  at  the  Philadel- 
phia Exposition. 

Since  the  dawn  of  civili- 
zation, mankind  had  sought 
some  means  of  communi- 
cating over  distances  which 
unaided  human  speech 
could  not  bridge.  Drums, 
signal  fires,  swift  runners, 
the  pony  express,  and 
finally  the  electric  telegraph 
were  means  to  get  the  mes- 
sage through.  It  remained 
for  the  telephone  to  convey 
a  speaker's  words  and  tones 


over  thousands  of  miles. 

"My  God,  it  talks!"  ex- 
claimed the  Emperor  of 
Brazil  before  a  group  of 
scientists  at  the  Philadel- 
phia Exposition,  as  he 
heard  and  understood  the 
voice  of  Alexander  Graham 
Bell,  demonstrating  the  new 
invention. 

Today,  after  a  brief  half- 
century,  the  telephone  lines 
of  the  Bell  System  have  be- 
come the  nerves  of  the  na- 
tion. The  telephone  con- 
nects citizen  with  citizen, 
city  with  city,  state  with 
state  for  the  peace  and 
prosperity  of  all. 


SYSTEM  MAKES  PROGRESS 

The  Springfield  Dairy  System  enters 
<n  a  new  period  in  its  progress  by  the 
'urchase  of  Mason's  dairy,  one  of  the 
arger  distributing  businesses  in  the  city. 
The  entire   business,   plant   and  equip- 
nent  was  purchased  in  May  and  is  now 
ieing  operated  from  the  system  plant. 
The   daily    output    of    Mason's  dairy, 
vholesale  and  retail,  was  about  14,000 
uarts.    This  addition  to  the  local  sales 
if  milk  for  the  dairy  system  will  re- 
Muce  their   surplus   for   May   to  about 
8  per  cent. 
The  system  is  now  running  about  20 
outes,   wholesale   and    retail,   and  has 
ilants  in   Northampton   and  Greenfield 
s  well  as  in   Springfield.     It  is  now 
Hitting    out    about    20,000    quarts  of 
•ottled  milk  daily.    It  is  handling  about 
30,000  pounds  daily, 
i  The  purchase  of   this   large  business 
ij'rings  the  system  into  the  retail  han- 
i  lmg  of  milk  on  a  large  scale.  The 
!  ystem  started  its  operations,  by  selling 
[p  bulk  to  dealers  in  Springfield,  Hol- 
oke,  Northampton  and  Chicopee.  Then 
1 1  began  bottling  milk  for  sale  to  stores 
I  nd  to  dealers.     Now  it  has  acquired 
well  developed  retail  business.  The 
opringfield   System   has   been  installing 
iew  pasteurization  equipment  and  made 
{ xtensive  alterations  to  take  care  of  its 
icreased  business. 

The  Worcester  County  Dairy  Sys- 
em  is  also  forging  ahead  in  the  retail 
rvilk  business.  It  has  bought  out  sev- 
ral  dealers  and  is  now  the  second 
argest  distributor  in  the  city.  While 
t  has  some  difficult  problems  to  face 
t  is  going  ahead  and  getting  more 
rade  every  day. 

The  Concord  (N.  H.)  Dairy  Co., 
nother  in  the  string  of  co-operatives 
oming  under  the  supervision  of  the 
,sIew  England  Dairy  Marketing  Service, 
ias  recently  spent  $15,000  in  installing 
icw  machinery  and  remodeling  the 
ilant.  It  is  now  capable  of  handling 
rom  8000  to  10,000  quarts  of  milk 
laily  and  meeting  the  exacting  new 
equipments  of  the  Concord  health  <Je» 
lartment, 


WINS  LIBEL  SUIT 

A  telegram  has  been  received  from 
Harry  Hartke  to  the  effect  that  the 
Co-operative  Pure  Milk  Association  of. 
Cincinnati  has  been  awarded  a  verdict 
of  $15,000  in  a  suit  against  the  Milk 
Exchange  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce of  Cincinnati.  This  was  a  libel 
suit  started  by  the  Co-operative  Pure 
Milk  Association  against  the  Milk  Ex- 
change as  a  result  of  a  series  of  adver- 
tisements in  the  press  of  Cincinnati  and 
in  a  publication  called  "Facts."  The 
unanimous  verdict  of  the  jury  awarded 
the  Co-operative  Association  $15,000 
damages. 


American  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company 
and  Associated  Companies 


BELL 


SYSTEM 


IN  ITS  SEMI-CENTENNIAL  YEAR  THE  BELL  SYSTEM  LOOKS  FOR- 
WARD TO  CONTINUED  PROGRESS  IN  TELEPHONE  COMMUNICATION 


Co-operative  Purchasing 

Increases  Farm  Profits 


Co-operation  in  the  purchase  of  fertilizer,  seeds, 
machinery,  grain  and  other  supplies  has  been  found 
profitable  by  many  operators  of  farms.  Not  only 
better  prices  but  many  other  advantages  can  be 
secured  as  a  result  of  combined  purchasing.  The 
Agricultural  Department  of  this  company  will  be 
glad  to  talk  with  any  farmers  interested  in  such 
co-operation. 


Rhode  Island 
Hospital  Trust  Companu 


15  Westminster  Street.  Providence.  R. 
The  Oldest  Trust  Company  in  New  England 


Page  Sice 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1926 


Strong  Opposition  to  Inspection  Bill 

Cream  and  Milk  Dealers  Object  to  Provisions  of  Federal 
Legislation  for  Protection  of  New  England 
Dairy  Industry 


THE  NEW  TEAT  CUP 


Vigorous  opposition  to  the  proposed 
federal  bill  compelling  proper  safeguard- 
ing of  the  milk  and  cream  supplies  from 
Canada  and  other  foreign  countries  has 
developed  among  various  Boston  milk 
and  cream  dealers.  Our  association  is 
back  of  the  bill  with  all  the  power  and 
strength  at  its  command.  Two  hearings 
have  been  held  and  another  is  in  progress 
as  this  issue  of  the  Dairyman  goes  to 
press.  It  is  going  to  be  a  first  rate  con- 
test with  the  dairy  farmers  of  New 
England  and  New  York  state  lined  up 
with  the  health  departments  of  the  vari- 
ous cities  in  an  effort  to  compel  shippers 
of  milk  and  cream  from  Canada  to  meet 
the  same  conditions  that  are  imposed  on 
milk  and  cream  produced  for  these  mar- 
kets within  New  England  or  New  York 

The  bill  was  introduced  in  the  United 
States  Senate  by  Senator  Irving  Len- 
root of  Wisconsin.  It  is  of  material  im- 
portance to  the  dairy  industry  of  the  en- 
tire country  but  is  especially  of  impor- 
tance to  New  England  and  New  York 
state  by  reason  of  the  Canadian  ship- 
ments of  milk  and  cream  which  are 
Smins  across  the  border  in  increasing 
quantifies.  The  shipments  of  cream  into 
New  England  have  increased  greatly  un- 
der the  present  tariff,  which  is  now  con- 
siderably higher,  proportionately,  on  but- 
ter than  it  is  on  cream.  The  Lenroot 
bill  is  aimed  to  bring  these  Canadian 
shipments  under  the  same  conditions  as 
are  imposed  by  the  boards  of  health  of 
the  various  markets  on  ™lk  Produced 
within  New  England  or  in  New  York 
state  A  federal  law  is  required  as  the 
condition  which  has  arisen  has  to  do  with 
foreign  shipments  and  cannot  be  made  a 
matter  of  interstate  commerce. 

In  House  Also 

A  similar  bill  was  introduced  in  the 
House  of  Representatives  by  Representa- 
tive John  Tabor  of  New  York.  The 
bill  is  spoken  of  commonly  as  the  Um- 
root-Tabor  bill.  It  is  named  as  a  bill  to 
"regulate  the  importation  of  milk  and 
cream  into  the  United  States  for  the 
purpose  of  promoting  the  dairy  industry 
in  the  United  States  and  protecting  the 
public  health."  . 

The  important  provision  of  the  bill  is 
that  on  90  days  from  its  passage  all  im- 
portations of  milk  and  cream  are  pro- 
hibited unless  the  person  by  whom  such 
milk  or  cream  is  shipped  holds  a  valid 
permit  from  the  United  States  secretary 
of  agriculture.  Provision  is  made  for 
the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  at  his  dis- 
cretion to  accept  duly  certified  statements 
from  an  official  of  such  foreign  govern- 
ment instead  of  an  official  inspection  by 
men  from  the  United  States  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture.  It  is  further  pro- 
vided that  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any 
person  within  the  United  States  to  re- 
ceive milk  or  cream  imported  unless  the 
shipper  of  such  milk  or  cream  holds  a 
valid  permit.  Penalties  for  violation  of 
the  law  are  fines  from  $100  to  $1,000,  or 
imprisonment  for  not  more  than  one  year 
or  both  fine  and  imprisonment. 

Unfit  for  Importation 

Under  the  definition  of  milk  or  cream 
which  shall  be  considered  as  unfit  for  im- 
portation, five  provisions  are  made.  Milk 
or  cream  will  be  considered  unfit  for  im- 
portation : 

1.  When  all  cows  producing  such  milk 
or  cream  are  not  healthy  and  a  physical 
examination  of  all  such  cows  has  not 
been  made  within  one  year  previous  to 
such  milk  being  offered  for  importation 

2.  When  such  milk,  if  raw,  is  not 
produced  from  cows  which  have  passed 
a  tuberculin  test  applied  by  a  duly  au- 
thorized official  veterinarian  of  the  United 
States,  or  of  the  country  in  which  such 
milk  or  cream  is  produced,  within  one 
year  of  the  time  of  the  importation, 
showing  that  such  cows  are  free  from 
tuberculosis. 

3.  When  the  sanitary  conditions  of 
the  dairy  farm  or  plant  in  which  such 

milk  or  cream  is  produced  or  handled 


do  not  score  at  least  70  points  out  of  100 
points  according  to  the  methods  for  scor- 
ing as  provided  by  the  score  cards  used 
by  the  bureau  of  animal  industry  of  the 
United  States  Department  of  Agriculture 
at  the  time  such  dairy,  farms  or  plants 
are  scored. 

4.  In  the  case  of  raw  milk  if  the  num- 
ber of  bacteria  per  cubic  centimeter  ex- 
ceed 200,000  and  in  the  case  of  raw 
cream  750,000,  in  the  case  of  pacteurized 
milk  if  the  number  of  bacteria  per  cubic 
centimeter  exceed  100,000  and  in  the  case 
of  pasteurized  cream  500,000. 

5.  When  the  temperature  of  milk  or 
cream  at  the  time  of  importation  ex- 
ceeds 50  degrees  fahrenheit. 

The  bill  provides  that  the  secretary  of 
agriculture  shall  cause  inspections  to  be 
made  before  permits  are  issued.  The 
sum  of  $50,000  annually  is  appropriated 
for  the  work. 

Investigations  Made 

In  preparation  for  a  hard  fight  over 
this  bill  the  National  Federation,  in  co- 
operation with  state  departments  of  agri- 
culture, had  men  sent  into  Canadian  ter- 
ritory to  report  on  conditions.  These 
men  furnished  the  background  for  the 
discussion  at  the  first  hearing,  May  11 
and  12,  before  the  senate  committee  on 
agriculture.  This  hearing  was  reported 
hv  C.  W.  Holman,  secretary  of  the  Na- 
tional Federation  in  part  as  follows : 

Startling  testimony  as  to  unsanitary 
conditions  on  Canadian  dairy  farms  and 
creameries  which  supply  large  quantities 
of  milk,  cream  and  butter  to  the  New 
York,  New  England  and  Canadian  border 
city  markets,  was  given  May  11  and  12 
before  the  Senate  Committee  on  Agri- 
culture by  state  dairy  inspectors  of 
Maine,  New  Hampshire  and  New  York. 

The  hearing  was  in  connection  with  the 
Lenroot-Taber  bill,  which  seeks  to  pre- 
vent importation  of  milk  and  cream,  ex- 
cept when  authorized  by  a  "valid  permit" 
issued  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture, 
after  the  dairy  has  qualified  itself  ac- 
cording to  American  standards,  for  sani- 
tary mehods  and  bacterial  tests,  under 
penalty  for  non-performance. 

Officials  Testify 

A  number  of  officials  of  the  National 
Co-operative  Milk  Producers'  Federation, 
and  its  member  organizations,  were  pres- 
ent to  testify  as  to  the  stringent  rules  and 
standards  under  which  American  dairy- 
men are  now  obliged  to  produce  their 
milk  and  cream.  They  showed  that  the 
rigid  inspection  of  American  producers 
raised  their  capital  costs  from  $500  to 
$2,000  per  farm,  while  the  Canadian  pro- 
ducer, with  poor  equipment,  uninspected 
premises  and  slipshod  methods  of  hand- 
ling, could  produce  for  much  lower  cost, 
and  so  under-cut  on  prices  and  crowd 
American  farmers  out  of  their  own  mar- 
ket. 

Senator  Royal  A.  Copeland  of  New 
York  made  a  lengthv  statement,  in  which 
he  said  that  strict  standards  of  milk  pro- 
duction had,  in  the  last  few  years,  cut 
the  infant  mortality  rate  in  New  York 
City  from  250  per  1,000  to  60  per  1,000. 
He  advocated  the  bill  and  urged  that  the 
federal  government  guard  its  milk  supply 
strictly  "against  bootleg  dairy  products." 

Senator  Irvine  Lenroot  of  Wisconsin 
explained  the  loss  of  business,  and  penal- 
ties which  strict  health  rulings  often  in- 
flict on  the  American  dairy  farmer,  add- 
ing to  the  cost  of  production.  "Last 
year  enough  cream  came  into  the  United 
States  to  make  23.000,000  pounds  of  but- 
ter," he  said,  "while  our  leading  dairies 
are  only  making  wages  and  a  small  capi- 
tal return." 

Charles  W.  Holman  of  Washington,  D. 
C,  secretary  of  the  National- Co-operative 
Milk  Producers'  Federation,  explained  to 
the  Committee  that  a  few  weeks  ago  the 
National  Federation  had  asked  the  U.  S. 
Tariff  Commission  to  exercise  its  powers 
under  Section  316  of  the  Tariff  Act  and 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


THere's  No 
Excuse  for  | 
DIRTY  MILI1* 

[    Who  wants  dirty  milk?  Not  the  dairy, 
I  not  the  condensary,  not  the  general  pub- 
tlic!     They  all  insist   upon  clean  milk 
j  because  they  know  there's  no  excuse  for 
dirty  milk.    Absolutely  clean  milk,  guar- 
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dust  and  dirt,  can  be  yours  too  if  you  use 


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with  it.    It  removes  all  the  dirt  at  one 
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grounds  that  from  information  which  had 
come  to  them,  the  unsanitary  conditions 
surrounding  the  production  and  handling 
of  some  Canadian  milk  and  cream  com- 
ing into  the  United  States,  in  competition 
with  strictly  regulated  sanitary  produc- 
tion on  American  farms  supplying  the 
great  centers  like  Boston  and  New  York, 
established  unfair  competition. 

In  reply  to  this,  Honorable  John  S. 
Martin,  Minister  of  Agriculture  of  the 
Province  of  Ontario,  wired  the  Commis- 
sion a  denial.  Mr.  Holman  then  stated 
that  the  Federation  he  represented, 
through  its  member  associations,  had  ar- 
ranged for  the  state  authorities  of  Maine, 
New  Hampshire  and  New  York  to  send 
qualified  milk  inspectors  into  the  Prov- 
inces of  Ontario  and  Quebec,  from  which 
98.8  per  cent,  of  the  milk  and  over  94 
per  cent,  of  the  cream  originate  that  is 
imported  from  Canada.  He  asserted  that 
the  testimony  of  those  inspectors  before 
the  Senate  Committee  would  substantiate 
the  Federation's  allegations  before  the 
U.  S.  Tariff  Commission.  He  said  that 
in  view  of  the  possibility  of  the  tariff  in- 
vestigations on  milk  and  cream  being  pro- 
longed, and  in  view  of  the  prospect  of 
Canadian  milk  and  cream  imports  dou- 
bling this  year  over  last  year,  the  dairy 
farmers  of  the  United  States  were  seek- 
ing the  passage  of  the  Lenroot-Taber  bill 
in  order  to  establish  comparable  produc- 
tion and  plant-handling  conditions  for 
milk  and  cream. 

Bad  Conditions 

The  following  testimony  given  by  state 
inspectors  from  Maine,  New  Hampshire 
and  New  York  State,  was  given  after 
personal  investigation  by  them  on  automo- 
bile trips  through  the  dairy  districts  of 
Ontario  and  Quebec  Provinces,  which 
now  ship  heavily  into  American  border 
cities,  and  to  the  New  York  City  and 
New  England  markets. 

William  F.  McDonough,  assistant  di- 
rector of  New  York  State's  Dairy  and 
Food  Bureau,  investigated  many  dairy 
farms  back  of  the  customs  offices  which 
show  the  heaviest  American  shipments.  He 
said :  "We  found  a'  winter's  accumulation 
of  manure  close  to  the  milking  stalls  in 
90  per  cent,  of  the  dairies.  Only  35  per 
cent,  had  milk  houses  for  the  separating 
and  handling  of  the  product.  Only  rarely 
did  we  find  ice  for  cooling  warm  milk. 

"Everywhere  we  went  pigs  and  chickens 
had  the  run  of  the  place,  and  in  many 
barns  there  was  no  light  or  ventilation. 
Everything  appeared  very  unclean  in  con- 
trast with  American  standards.  There 
was  no  indication  of  any  Canadian  gov- 
ernment inspections. 

"We-  saw  no  fresh  whitewashing. 
Floors  generally  were  planking  and  in 
poor  condition ;  unclean,  and  with  mag- 
gots underneath.  There  was  an  absolute 
lack  of  carefulness  in  most  of  the  dairy 
farms  we  visited. 

Few  Would  Pass 

"Not  more  than  5  per  cent,  of  the 
farms  inspected  would  have  passed  as 
'satisfactory'  under  the  New  York  State 
regulations.  These  plants  were  marketing 
in  Montreal,  where  new  health  rulings 
have  just  gone  into  effect,  and  the  'un- 
satisfactory' surplus  appeared  to  be 
mostly  diverted  to  the  American  market." 

Roy  E.  Batchelder,  state  dairy  inspec- 
tor for  New  Hampshire,  paid  special  at- 
tention to  the  creameries  shipping  heavily 
into  the  United  States.  He  said :  "Every- 
where we  found  receiving  platforms  un- 
protected from  the  sun,  dust  and  flies ; 
all  piping  of  the  oldfashioned,  unsanitary 
type  and  therefore  almost  never  cleaned 
or  sterilized ;  the  pasteurizers  usually  in 
bad  shape — showing  dry  casein  on  the 
sides  and  the  coils  covered  with  cream 
that  was  yellowed  and  hardened  with  age. 
Only  one  recording  thermometer  was 
found  on  our  trip. 

"Our  pasteurizing  law  requires  that 
high  temperature  be  held  thirty  minutes 
to  kill  germs.  But  the  Canadian  method 
seems  to  be  to  allow  milk  to  cool  at  once, 
resulting  in  imperfect  pasteurization.  Most 
creameries  were  mixing  about  two-thirds 
sweet  and  one-third  sour  cream  indis- 
criminately— and  the  managers  explained 
that  if  the  mixture  got  too  acid,  it  was 
easy  to  neutralize  it  with  chemical  al- 
kalies. 

"At  Clarenceville,  we  found  a  grist 
mill  connected  with  the  creamery,  operat- 

( Continued  on  page  fifteen) 


Here  is  REAL  Service 


Tuesday  evening,  April  13,  1926,  the 
Mundale  Farmers'  Exchange,  West- 
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Tuesday  evening,  April  20, 1926,  these 
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Thursday  evening,  April  22,  1926, 
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by  the  scores  of  satisfied  dairymen  and 
poultrymen  making  up  the  Mundale 
Farmers'  Exchange. 

These  men  believe  in  this  unsurpassed 
service.  They  unload,  each  month, 
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Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1926 


A  CLIMBING 
THERMOMETER 

always  calls  for  more 
watchfulness  by  the 
manufacturer  of  milk 
foods. 

There  is  always  an  at- 
mosphere of  cool,  whole- 
some, sanitary  cleanli- 
ness in  the  milk  product 
plant  when 


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(Continued  from  page  one) 
dairy  farmers  of  New  England  are  al- 
ready signed  up  on  the  new  basis. 

The  field  men  are  canvassing  in  the 
Oxford  county,  Me.,  region,  north  and 
west  of  Auburn.  Some  meetings  are 
being  held  but  it  is  evident  that  the  dairy 
farmers  want  to  see  the  men  personally 
on  their  farms.  Much  better  results  are 
coming  from  the  farm  visits.  At  East 
Hebron  the  biggest  record  was  made. 
There  are  39  shippers  sending  from  that 
station.  At  the  meeting  and  in  subse- 
quent farm  visits  every  one  of  the  39 
joined  the  association  and  signed  up  a 
new  power  of  attorney.  Turner  shippers 
also  made  a  good  showing  with  only 
eight  men  out  of  47  who  have  not  joined 
and  some  of  these  were  not  seen.  At 
Buckfield  there  are  55  shippers  but  only 
10  of  them  are  not  members.  With  the 
powers  of  attorney  which  have  come  in 
by  mail  are  many  good  letters.  Here  are 
a  few  extracts  from  them: 

"Enclosed  please  find  my  slip.  I  am 
not  doing  much  in  the  dairy  line  but 
am  willing  to  do  my  bit  as  far  as  I 

go." 

"I  hope  every  member  of  the  asso- 
ciation signs  up  on  this  matter.  If  we 
can  get  good  prices  it  is  what  the 
farmers  want.  They  are  the  hardest 
working-class  there  is  and  get  the  least 
for  what  they  have  to  sell." 

"I  would  be  pleased  to  go  with  your 
man  any  time  this  spring  if  you  so 
desire  for  I  feel  it  is  all  dairymen's 
duty  to  help  the  cause  for  one  com- 
mon end.  Personally  I  feel  that  the 
present  freight  rates  are  too  high  now 
and  am  against  any  increase." 

"I  have  just  received  your  blue  slip 
and  am  returning  it  signed.  Wishing 
you  good  luck  in  the  railroad  fight  I 
am  yours  truly." 

"I  wrote  you  a  letter  April  3  criti- 
cising the  new  method  of  assessing 
dues  but  I  have  since  received  my 
Dairyman  and  on  Page  9  is  an  explana- 
tion that  is  satisfactory  to  me  and  I 
am  enclosing  my  slip  for  power  of 
attorney." 

"I  do  not  expect  to  be  a  producer 
very  long.  We  small  fellows  are  get- 
ting driven  out  fast.  But  I  am  willing 
to  pay  your  association  the  dues  you 
specify  as  long  as  I  stay  in  the  game. 
If  this  will  do  you  any  good  and  is 
satisfactory  please  let  me  know  as  it  is 
the  best  I  can  do  under  the  present 
circumstances. 

"The  new  rate  is  going  to  cost  me 
a  little  more  but  I  want  to  support  the 
NEMPA.  I  wish  and  hope  that  there 
will  be  a  way  and  soon  that  will  make 
every  producer  pay  his  part  for  this 
good  cause.  I  am  about  through  paying 
while  those  other  fellows  put  out  their 
hand  and  smile  and  receive  just  as  much 
as   I   am   getting.     I    will   stand   it  a 


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June,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


Eastern  States  Fanners'  Exchange 


Are  You  Near-Sighted? 

Some  people  are  near-sighted  men- 
tally. We  often  call  this  trait 
"thrift"  when  we  find  it  in  ourselves, 
but  usually  call  it  "penny-wise, 
pound-foolish,"  when  we  see  it  in 
others. 

Big  producing  spring  cows  on 
good  pasture  need  grain — not  to 
make  milk  but  to  keep  in  flesh.  The 
succulent  feed  stimulates  milk  pro- 
duction without  supplying  in  suf- 
ficient quantity  all  the  ingredients 
with  which  to  make  the  milk.  The 
cow  makes  the  milk  from  her  own 
body  tissues,  and  gets  thin  doing  it. 

By  graining  big  producing  spring 
cows  on  good  pasture — just  enough 
to  keep  them  in  flesh, — the  big  flow 
of  milk  is  secured  and  the  cow  re- 
mains in  good  condition.  As  the 
summer  heat  affects  the  grass  fed 
cows  by  cutting  down  on  their 
pasture,  the  supply  of  milk  is  great- 
ly lessened  and  the  price  of  milk 
rises ;  the  grain  conditioned  cow 
maintains  her  flow  of  milk  and  the 
feeder  secures  a  greater  share  of  the 
higher  price  than  does  the  non- 
feeder. 

By  fall  and  early  winter,  when 
the  grass  fed  spring  cow  is  a  stripper 
and  the  price  of  milk  is  at  the  top, 
the  spring  cow  which  has  been  kept 
in  flesh  throughout  the  summer  with 
a  carefully  selected  grain  ration 
makes  a  good  quantity  of  milk  on 
which  her  owner  secures  the  top 
price.  In  other  words,  it  is  the  last 
six  months  of  the  spring  cow's  ten 
month  lactation  period  that  the 
spring  cow  makes  profits  for  her 
owner,  and  the  spring  cow  which  is 
nearly  dry  after  the  first  few  months 
is  a  losing  proposition. 

On  good  pasture  comparatively 
little  grain  is  needed  but  that  little 
is  badly  needed,  and  should  be  care- 
fully selected.  The  Eastern  States 
Farmers'  Exchange  is  selecting  the 
best  of  ingredients  for  summer  feed- 
ing, and  is  blending  them  in  accord- 
ance with  the  latest  recommendations 
of  the  dairy  experts  who  formulate 
all  its  stock  feed  rations. 

Some  farmers  who  grain  their 
cows  during  the  summer  attempt  to 
carry  them  along  on  cheap  feeds. 
This  is  an  expensive  proposition 
because  it  takes  so  much  more  cheap 
feed — feed  containing  oat  mill  by- 
products, screenings  and  the  like — 
to  supply  the  cow's  needs  than  it 
does  good  feed  that  these  farmers 
have  to  do  a  lot  of  unnecessary 
trucking  during  their  busiest  season. 
Furthermore,  per  unit  of  feeding 
value,  high  quality  feeds  cost  less 
money.  Be  sure  to  supply  your 
spring  cows  all  summer  with  Eastern 
States  grain.  It  will  pay  you  to 
follow  this  policy  as  it  is  paying 
others.  Don't  be  "pennywise,  pound- 
foolish"  on  this  important  question. 

For  information  on  Eastern  States 
feeds — for  poultry  as  well  as  dairy 
cows — write  the  office. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

■*  noiwtoc*.   nmn-prmflt  organization 
own*d  and  controlled  by  the 
farmmrt  it  tmrvmi 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


while  longer  but  I  think  they  ought  to 
pay." 

"As  I  have  been  producing  very  little 
milk  for  the  past  few  years  and  have 
been  receiving  your  paper  regularly  and 
as  I  don't  think  you  have  received  any 
dues  on  my  account  since  I  changed 
to  another  creamery  I  am  sending  with 
this  $2  to  pay  up  arrearages  and  if 
you  will  send  me  your  slip  I  will  give 
you  an  order  on  the  firm  I  am  now 
selling  to." 

"I  am  glad  you  are  on  the  right 
track.  This  is  wishing  you  success  with 
the  railroad  and  the  tariff." 

"I  have  not  sent  power  of  attorney 
before  because  very  busy  and  had  for 
got  it,  but  I  hurry  up  and  do  so  now. 
Please  take  my  good  wishes  for  suc- 
cess in  your  undertaking.  Go  after  the 
oleo  next.  It  is  the  farmer's  worst 
enemy." 

"I  am  almost  out  of  cow  keeping. 
I  believe  you  are  doing  the  farmer 
good  and  surely  would  be  with  you  if 
doing  anything." 

"I  am  willing  to  pay  my  part  of  the 
expense  but  I  don't  like  to  pay  for 
my  neighbors  and  have  them  fare  as 
well  as  I  do.  You  should  make  all 
who  sell  milk  or  cream  pay  alike  or 
drop  them  from  the  market." 

"Wish  you  would  send  me  a  few 
membership  blanks.  I  think  I  can  get 
a  few  new  members." 

"Have  always  thought  that  you  were 
earning  your  money  and  delivering  the 
goods." 

"I  think  it  high  time  the  non-members 
did  their  part  in  paying  for  the  bene- 
fits they  receive  through  the  NEMPA. 
They  have  been  riding  free  long 
enough." 

"I  am  only  too  glad  to  fill  out  your 
blank  and  hope   everybody  will." 

"You  can  count  on  me  as  always  sol- 
idly backing  you  in  your  good  work 
and  you  will  get  my  dues  regularly." 

"About  a  year  ago  I  got  it  in  my 
mind  not  to  belong  to  the  NEMPA  but 
I  have  changed  j  my  mind.  I  have  not 
notified  the  Hood  company  not  to  pay 
my  dues  order  since  I  joined  the  order 
last  fall  but  I  did  about  a  year  ago. 
I  have  had  a  lot  of  hard  luck  this 
winter  on  account  of  sickness  and  need 
my  creamery  check.  I  am  enclosing 
slip  to  give  the  Hoods  so  you  can  col- 
lect my  dues  from  April,  1926." 

"I  have  filled  it  all  out  but  one  line, 

as  you  will  see  and  you  can  fill  that 

out   for   me   as    I   don't  see    how  to 
write  it." 

"I  sell  neither  milk  nor  cream.  Make 
butter  and  send  my  dues  to  you  every 
three  months." 

"I  was  stopped  from  patronizing  the 
creamery  last  fall  but  when  I  com- 
mence again  I  will  see  that  you  get 
my  dues." 

"I  am  not  a  shipper  now  but  I  am 
for  the  NEMPA  with  both  feet  and 
I  wish  you  could  get  the  slackers  and 
small  caliber  men  to  support  this  big 
thing.  You  must  know  by  this  time 
that  there  are  a  lot  of  big  farmers  who 
do  not  pay  and  insist  on  a  big  share 
of  the  profit." 

"It  is  with  much  gratitude  that  I 
enclose  the  slip  signed.  Am  sure  all 
farmers  owe  the  NEMPA  more  than 
they  can  repay." 


"William,"  snapped  the  dear  lady 
viciously,  "didn't  I  hear  the  clock  strike 
two  as  you  came  in?" 

"You  did,  my  dear.  It  started  to 
strike  ten,  but  I  stopped  it  to  keep  it 
from  waking  you  up." 


"And  you  say  that  little  twin  baby  am 
a  gal?"  inquired  the  colored  preacher  of 
one  of  his  flock." 

"Yas,  suh." 

"And  the  other  one,  am  that  of  the 
contrary  sex?" 

''Yes,  §uh,  she  am  a  gal,  too." 


EVERY  farmer  knows  that  a  tractor  is  worth  its  salt 
only  when  it  can  deliver  its  full-rated  horsepower. 

And  Socony  Motor  Oil  is  literally  power  in  itself  for 
any  tractor. 

Used  in  the  proper  grade,  Socony  Motor  Oil  seals  the 
combustion  chamber  of  your  tractor  so  effectively  that  the 
maximum  draw-bar  power  is  developed.  Failure  to  main- 
tain  this  leak  proof  seal  between  piston  rings  and  the 
cylinder  walls  means  loss  of  power,  excessive  carbon 
deposits. 

Furthermore,  Socony  Motor  Oil  resists  high  engine  tem- 
peratures— stays  "put" — always  maintains  an  unbroken 
*  Lubricoat  between  moving  parts — fights  friction. 

No  matter  how  stiff  the  job,  a  tractor  that's  Lubricoated 
with  Socony  Motor  Oil  will  not  lie  down.  It's  "help" 
that's  always  on  the  job;  it  never  asks  for  a  day  off. 

Consult  the  Socony  Lubrication  Chart  below  for  the 
proper  grade  for  your  tractor. 

Remember  your  nearest  Socony  dealer  will  be  glad  to 
quote  you  prices  on  metal  thirty  or  fifty  gallon  drums  with 
faucet.  Costs  no  more— mighty  convenient  on  the  farm. 

STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 
26  Broadway 

SOCONY 

■<to.v4.MT,orr. 

MOTOR  OIL 

<fw  Tractor  tubricoating 


*L/UbtlCOat:  To  cover  with  an  impenetrable  coat  of  oil  all  moving  and 
frictional  parts:  best  done  with  the  proper  grade  of  Socony  Motor  Oil. 


LUBRICATION  CHART 


TRACTOR'S 
NAME 


AUls  Chalmers  (6-12)  

Aids  Chalmers  (all  others)  

Allwork  

AuUman  Taylor  

Avery  (Cultivator  A  Model  C) 
Avery  (All  others)  


Bailor  

Bates  Steel  Mule. 

Bear  

Best....  


Case. . . 
Cletrac. 


Dart  Blue  J. 
Depue  


E.  B.. . 
Evans. 


Fageol  

Farm  Horse  

Fordson  

Frlck  (12-20)  

Frlck  (All  others) . 

Gray  -. 

Great  Western  


Hart  Parr  

Helder  (Cultivator). 
Helder  (All  others) . . 
Holt  (Caterpillar) . . . 
Huber  


Indiana 


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TRACTORS 
NAME 


Lauson  

Leader  

Linn  

Little  Giant. 
Lombard 


Minneapolis  

Mollne  Universal. 
Monarch  


Nllson. 


Ohio  

Oil  Pull. 


Peoria. . 
Pioneer. 


Reed  

Reliable,  

Russell  (Giant)  

Russell  (All  others) . 


Shawnee. 
Stlnson. . 


Topp  Stewart. 

Toro  

Traylor  

Twin  City  


Uncle  Sam 


Wallls  

Waterloo  Boy 

Wetmore  

Wisconsin  


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Key  to  Chart:  LM — Socony  Light  Medium;  M — Socony  Medium:  H — Socony  Heavy:  EH — 
Socony  Extra  Heavy. 


When  Writing  to  Advertisers  Please  Mention  the 
New  England  Dairyman 


Page  Ten 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1926 


BOWKER'S 

F  E  RTI  LIZ  E  RS 


Hard  at  Work  on  Rate  Case 


Proposed  Increase  in  Milk  Transportation  Rates  Is  De- 
ferred Until  Further  Hearings  Are  Held 


The  united  New  England-wide  protest 
from  the  dairy  industry  of  New  England 
against  the  proposed  increase  in  rates  by 
the  Boston  &  Maine  and  other  New  Eng- 
land railroads  is  gathering  strength  every 
week.  The  first  round  of  the  battle,  the 
hearings  held  in  Boston  early  in  May  be- 
fore the  Interstate  Commerce  Commis- 
sion, when  the  railroads  put  in  their 
case,  showed  the  dairy  farmers  and  the 
dealers  who  allied  themselves  with  the 
farmers  for  the  protection  of  the  indus- 
try as  a  whole,  that  the  fight  is  to  be  a 
hard  one.  The  result  is  a  strengthening 
of  the  support  all  along  the  line. 

When  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission held  the  hearing  in  Boston  it  was 
obvious  that  the  matter  would  move 
more  slowly  than  was  at  first  thought  by 
the  New  England  committee  represent- 
ing the  dairy  industry.  When  the  orig- 
inal suspension  of  the  rates  was  secured 
for  90  days,  from  April  1  to  August  1, 
it  was  the  expectation  of  the  committee 
that  they  would  have  to  go  into  a  sharp, 
quick  fight  with  victory,  defeat  or  some- 
thing in  between,  to  be  decided  by  that 
time.  It  is  now  evident  that  the  contest 
will  last  considerably  longer. 

At  the  first  hearing  the  railroads  put 
in  their  case,  taking  three  days  to  do  it. 
The  commission  then  granted  the  com- 
mittee representing  the  dairy  industry  60 
days  in  which  to  prepare  an  answer  to 
the  specific  claims  of  the  railroads  con- 
cerning the  justice  of  increased  rates  on 
transporting  milk.  This  would  make  the 
second  hearing,  when  our  side  of  the 
question  will  be  presented,  well  into  July. 
It  was  obvious  that  the  final  decision 
could  not  be  reached  by  the  time  the  sus- 
pension period  ran  out  August  1. 

The  commission  has  no  right  under 
the  law  to  suspend  the  rates  for  more 
than  90  days  from  the  time  the  rates 
would  have  gone  into  effect.  If  no 
further  action  was  taken  the  new  rates 
would  go  into  effect  automatically  at 
that  time,  whether  the  commission  had 
made  any  decision  or  not.  However,  if 
at  some  later  date  the  commission  should 
make  a  decision  disallowing  the  increase 
in  rates  or  granting  them  only  in  part, 
the  railroads  would  have  to  pay  back  to 
each  shipper  any  overcharges  made  after 
August  1  under  the  proposed  increased 
rate  schedule.  This  would  obviously  re- 
quire a  complex  and  expensive  system 
of  bookkeeping.  The  railroads  therefore 
voluntarily  offered  to  suspend  the  in- 
creased rates  beyond  August  1  until  such 
time  as  the  commission  had  made  its 
ruling. 

The  case  put  in  by  the  railroads  was 
based  on  studies  of  cost  of  transporting 
milk  made  by  them  last  year,  with  sup- 
plimentary  data  of  various  kinds.  It  was 
presented  largely  through  the  filing  of 
"exhibits"  consisting  of  hundreds  of  pages 
of  statistics  and  many  blueprints  and 
charts.  No  expense  has  been  spared  by 
the  railroads  to  make  their  case  complete 
and  convincing.  They  have  a  corps  of 
highly  trained  experts,  lawyers,  satis- 
ticians,  traffic  men,  etc.  They  are  work- 
ning  for  the  railroads  to  get  an  increase 
of  $750,000  a  year  for  these  railroads  on 
the  revenue  from  transporting  milk. 
They  are  backed  by  immense  capital 
and  years  of  experience. 

The  great  mass  of  documentary  evi- 
dence submitted  by  the  railroads  is  now 
in  the  hands  of  our  own  trained  men,  the 
experts  retained  by  the  New  England 
committee  to  fight  the  increase.  They 
do  not  have  the  immense  capital  back 
of  them  nor  have  they  been  in  close 
touch  for  years  with  the  details  of  man- 
agement of  these  railroads  but  they  are 
men  of  experience  in  rate  cases  and 
they  are  working  for  the  dairy  indus- 
try of_  New  England  with  just  as  much 
zeal,  just  as  much  confidence,  just  as 
much  determination  to  save  $750,000  for 
the  farmers  of  New  England  as  their 
opponents  are  working  to  gain  it  for 
the  railroads. 

Our  trained  men  are  now  in  the  midst 
of  digesting  that  mass  of  material  and 
finding  its  weak  spots,    Their  job  for 


the  60  days  after  the  first  hearing  is  to 
punch  the  railroads'  evidence  full  of  holes, 
to  discredit  what  testimony  they  can,  to 
offset  claims  with  counter  claims  and  in 
every  way  put  up  a  sturdy  fight  for  the 
welfare  of  the  dairy  industry  as  a  whole. 
They  are  capable  of  doing  this. 

The  outstanding  impression  received 
by  those  who  attended  the  hearing  was 
that  however  strongly  entrenched  the 
railroads  might  be,  we  can  match  their 
experts,  man  for  man,  in  ability,  de- 
termination and  resourcefulness. 

Our  men  sought  personal  knowledge 
of  the  conditions  under  which  milk  is 
handled  by  taking  a  three-day  trip  on  a 
mjilk  train.  They  came  back  ready  to 
take  a  good  sleep  and  otherwise  refresh 
themselves  but  they  report  that  it  was  a 
well  worth  while  trip,  even  if  they  did 
keep  some  unseemly  hours. 

The  party  was  made  up  of  T.  D. 
Goeghegan,  traffic  expert;  John  H. 
Libby,  export  cost  accountant ;  Attorneys 
John  J.  Finerty  and  Reuben  Hall,  with 
Thomas  Underwood  and  Raymond  O'Hane 
representing  New  York  interests.  They 
were  accompanied  by  Traveling  Milk 
Agent  Fitzgibbon  and  Solicitor  W.  A. 
Cole  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  railroad, 
who  gave  our  men  the  general  introduc- 
tion to  the  ways  in  which  milk  is  being 
handled  and  let  them  see  what  they 
could  and  ask  such  questions  as  they 
wanted. 

Strenuous  Trip 

According  to  the  survivors  it  was  a 
strenuous  trip.  Leaving  Boston  at  4.20 
o'clock  on  a  Wednesday  afternoon,  they 
were  on  the  go  practically  all  the  time 
until  thev  reached  Boston  again  at  4.20 
o'clock  Saturday  morning.  Ogdensburg, 
N.  Y.,  was  the  farthest  point  visited.  The 
trip  throughout  was  made  in  a  day  coach 
taking  on  milk  in  cans  or  bv  the  carload 
most  of  the  way.  They  "escorted"  16 
cars  of  milk  down  into  Massachusetts. 
From  Boston  to  Bellows  Falls  on  the 
way  up  they  made  numerous  stops  to 
leave  cars  or  cans :  Waltham,  Ayer, 
Winchendon.  Keene  all  receiving  some 
attention  and  contributing  their  mite  to 
the  information  which  our  men  were 
seeking. 

The  first  rest  came  at  Bellows  Falls, 
where  the  train  lay  over  three  hours. 
The  experts  went  to  movies,  wandered 
around  the  streets  and  otherwise  amused 
themselves  until  toward  midnight  when 
their  train  pulled  out  for  Rutland,  mak- 
ing' numerous  stops  along  the  wav.  Ar- 
riving at  Rutland  at  1  o'clock  they  had 
another  layover.  Some  went  over  and 
took  a  nap  at  the  hotel  but  thev  had  to 
get  out  again  at  4.15.  From  then  until 
7.15  in  the  evening,  when  thev  hit  Ogdens- 
burg, it  was  a  constant  succession  of 
stops,  getting  off  to  ask  a  few  questions 
and  observe  the  wav  in  which  the  milk 
business  was  being  handled  and  getting 
sandwiches  and  bananas  as  the  only  avail- 
able food  supply. 

The  first  square  -meal  after  leaving 
Boston  was  Thursday  night  at  Ogdens- 
burg. They  filled  up  in  good  shape  and 
took  an  account  of  stock  to  see  who  was 
surviving  the  ordeal  best.  Revived  by 
the  meal  they  spent  the  evening  as  best 
suited  them  and  got  what  sleep  they  could 
before  being  called  out  at  4.15  Fridav 
morning  to  board  the  milk  train  back. 
From  there  to  Alburg  milk  was  picked 
un  bv  carload  or  by  can  at  almost  every 
station  and  there  was  little  chance  to  eat 
or  rest.  From  Alburg  the  milk  train  ran 
express  to  Rutland  as  another  train  picked 
un  the  milk  cars  along  the  route. 

Another  good  meal  at  Rutland  in  the 
evening  and  then  the  battle  began  again. 
All  through  the  night,  with  the  excention 
of  a  few  hours  lavoff  at  Bellows  Falls, 
thev  were  nicking  un  or  laving  off  milk. 

The  partv  arrived  in  Boston  before 
davlieht.  None  of  them  could  be  found 
on  duty  that  morning1.  But  they  say  it 
was  a  worth  while  trip  and  gave  them 
more  of  an  insight  into  the  way  milk  is 
handled  than  a  hundred  blueprints  and 
pages  of  figures  could  do. 


If  you  want 
big  yields 


Use  Bowker's  Fertilizers  because 
they  are  made  to  produce  maxi- 
mum yields  on  New  England 

soils. 

Fifty  years  of  constant  study 
of  the  needs  of  New  England 
soils  is  back  of  them,  fifty  years 
of  unequaled  crop  production 
records,  fifty  years  of  manufac- 
turing experience. 

They  are  especially  well  adapted 
to  New  England  money-crops. 
The  plant  foods  they  contain  are 
selected  with  particular  reference 
to  quality  yields. 

They  have  a  sustained  crop- 
growing  record  that  has  never 
been  excelled  in  the  history  of  the 
fertilizer  industry. 

Remember,  no  other  fertilizers 
are  like  Bowker's.  Their  record 
is  unexcelled. 

Ask  your  dealer  for  prices 
or  write  direct  to  us 

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Page  Eleven 


The  Water  System 
you  will  insist  on 


THE  BIG  CO-OPERATIVE 


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Direct  from  the  well 

The  dairyman  must  be  partio 
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tem he  buys.  For  the  kind  of 
water  it  delivers  will  determine 
the  milk  yield  of  his  cows. 

On  dairy  farms  everywhere  the 
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Actual  tests  have  proved  thae 
milk  yield  increases  3  to  10  lbs. 
per  cow  daily  on  a  seventh  less 
feed  with  this  water  service. 


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Only  Possibility  of  Real  Prosperity 
Lies  in  Organization  on 
Large  Scale 

Into  a  business  field  where  real  bar- 
paining  is  all  but  unknown,  the  Rip  Co- 
Op  brings  the  only  possibility  of  real 
prosperity  for  farmers.  Its  method  is 
to  control  enough  of  a  given  farm  prod- 
uct to  make  speculation  in  that  commodity 
unprofitable  to  the  speculator;  its  aim  is 
to  have  an  equal  voice  in  fixing  the  sell- 
ing price. 

Such  a  selling  price  need  not  neces- 
sarily cause  any  increase  in  prices  to  the 
consumer,  though  it  would  do  so  some- 
times. Neither  would  such  a  price  neces- 
sarily mean  a  profitable  price  to  the 
farmer.  All  it  would  mean  would  be  the 
highest  possible  price  which,  under  cur- 
rent conditions  of  demand,  would  move 
the  supply  into  consumption,  without  un- 
necessary distribution  wastes  or  specula- 
tive profits. 

Could  the  Big  Co-Op  control  the  actual 
supply  of  a  given  farm  product,  so  as  to 
fortify  its  position  in  the  bargaining 
process?  We  do  not  know.  We  think 
not,  considering  the  wide  spread  of  agri- 
culture, and  the  enterprising  and  re- 
bellious nature  of  mankind. 

Is  such  an  organization  of  the  sale  of 
farm  products  possible?  We  do  not 
know.  We  think  it  is,  basing  that  opin- 
ion on  what  we  know  of  human  nature, 
of  the  power  of  patient  education,  on 
what  we  have  seen  in  other  countries, 
and  more  than  anything  else,  on  the  re- 
sistless force  of  economic  necessities. 

We  are,  in  short,  firm  believers  in  co- 
operation as  the  only  real  and  permanent 
solution  of  the  so-called  "farm  problem." 
Or,  to  put  it  differently,  if  the  Big  Co- 
Op  can  not  raise  agriculture  to  the  level 
where  it  belongs,  we  see  nothing  ahead 
of  the  farming  business  but  an  endless 
vista  of  hard  work  for  the  enrichment  of 
the  cities,  struggle  and  dissatisfaction. 

The  big,  well  organized,  stronglv 
financed  co-operative  can  do  many  things. 
It  can — 

1.  Fix,  and  force  buyers  to  accept 
fair  and  uniform  grades ;  establish  its 
own  brands  and  maintain  an  exclusive 
market  for  them  through  advertising. 

2.  Develop  new  uses  for  a  product; 
find  new  markets  where  none  existed 
previously,  and  usually  find  sale  for  low- 
grade  products  without  damaging  the 
market   for  higher  qualities. 

3.  Make  sure  of  the  credit  of  buyers, 
and  fight  fraud;  establish  retail  outlets 
for  its  product  when  necessary. 

4.  Rlend  and  process  the  product, 
and  collect  the  profits  thereof. 

5.  Demand  and  secure  better  rail- 
road service,  and  the  cheapest  storage 
and  insurance  rates. 

6.  Sometimes  sell  the  product  direct 
to  manufacturer,  exporter  or  retailer,  re- 
ducing speculative  danger  and  collecting 
the  intermediate  profit. 

7.  Afford  to  hire  a  trained  sales 
force  familiar  with  markets  and  "the 
tricks  of  the  trade." 

8.  Borrow  large  sums  of  money  at 
low  rates,  thus  preventing  "distress 
sales,"  or  dumping  of  the  product. 

9.  Secure  and  furnish  _  to  members 
reliable  figures  on  production  and  con- 
sumption or  probable  demand. 

10.  Block  laws  restricting  co-operative 
sales  methods,  and  keep  legislative  "hands 
off";  secure  and  maintain  any  necessary 
tariff  protection  on  its  products. 

A  single  farmer  or  a  small  co-op  can 
not  do  any  of  these  things. — Farm 
Journal. 

"You  seem  to  have  had  a  serious 
accident." 

"Yes,"  said  the  bandaged  person.  I 
tried  to  climb  a  tree  in  my  motor  car." 

"What  did  you  do  that  for?" 

"Just  to  oblige  a  ladv  who  was  driving 
another  car.  She  wanted  to  use  the 
road." 


Wife:  "Are  you  sure  you  caught  this 
fish  ?" 

Gayfellow :    "Of  course." 
Wife :   "It  smells  very  strong." 
Gayfellow:    "Strong?    I  should  say 
it  was!  It  nearly  pulled  me  overboard" 


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Hoi? 


Neither  of  You  Can  Do  This 


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Suppose  you  were  expected  to  eat  —  every 
day  —  four  times  as  much  food  as  your  stomach 
will  hold  —  what  would  you  do  about  it?  You'd 
say  "  It  can't  be  done." 

The  stomach  of  a  1400-pound  cow  will  hold 
about  60  quarts.  This  much  grass  will  fill  a  large 
gunny  sack  — packed  tight  — and  it  will  weigh 
about  3  5  pounds. 

Such  a  cow  would  have  to  graze  and  hold  four  such 
sacks  of  grass  every  day  to  get  feed  enough  to  do  a  good 
job  of  making  milk  for  you  and  keeping  herself  in  good 
condition. 

Grass  is  good  as  far  as  it  goes,  but  no  cow  can  graze  or 
hold  as  much  as  she  needs.  Every  dairy  cow  needs  a 
Corn  Gluten  Feed  mixture  —  three  pounds  or  more  per 
day  —  with  her  grass.    Here  is  a  good  one: 

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200  pounds  Wheat  Bran 
Cows  will  continue  to  give  milk  on  grass  alone,  but 
they  will  take  the  most  of  it  out  of  their  own  bones,  blood 
and  tissues.    It  is  then  that  they  go  dry  weeks  or  months 
before  they  should. 

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The  DURO  with  its  protecting  hood,  when  held 
in  the  proper.tilted  position  between  the  knees 
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recommend  it  to  sanitary  dairies  who  wish  to 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1926 


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Guaranteed  Dr.  Clark  purity  milk  strain- 
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strainers.  If  not  at  your  dealers,  parcel 
post  by  return  mail  by  H.  C.  Soule,  N.E. 
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A  fine  record  has  been  made  by  the 
dairy  interests  of  New  England  in 
financing  the  opposition  to  the  proposed 
increase  in  milk  transportation  rates. 
Not  in  the  history  of  the  industry  have 
so  many  of  the  dairy  organizations  and 
so  many  dealers  rallied  for  a  common 
cause  so  promptly  or  so  willingly.  It 
is  with  great  gratification  that  we  record 
the  names  of  the  contributors  to  the 
"defense"  fund ;  producers  at  the  rate 
of  two  cents  per  hundred  weight  on  all 
milk  and  a  half  cent  a  pound  on  butter- 
fat  sold  in  March ;  dealers  one  cent  a 
hundred  on  March  milk.  Dealers,  co- 
operatives and  the  members  of  our  as- 
sociation have  come  forward  with  their 
contributions  and  thus  made  it  possible 
to  put  up  a  good  fight. 

The  opposition  to  this  boost  in  trans- 
portation rates  is  going  to  take  longer 
than  we  thought  at  first.  It  is  going 
to  be  a  stern  fight  with  our  resources 
and  strength  pitted  against  the  rail- 
roads with  $750,000  a  year  at  stake  on 
either  side.  The  New  England  rate 
committee  took  the  necessary  steps  and 
secured  the  services  of  as  well  trained 
experts  as  they  could  secure.  The 
continuance  of  the  fight  over  several 
months  will  increase  the  expense  but 
the  $750,000  to  win  or  lose  justifies  the 
cost  many  times  over.  Arrangements 
have  been  made  to  have  everybody  con- 
tribute another  two  cents  a  hundred  on 
milk  and  a  half  cent  a  pound  on  but- 
terfat  on  May  milk.  Our  association 
has  authorized  dealers  buying  under  the 
surplus  plan  to  deduct  this  amount. 
The  creameries  and  other  groups  have 
agreed  to  make  similar  contributions.  It 
is  believed  that  this  will  be  amply  suffi- 
cient to  carry  the  fight  through  to  the 
finish. 

Looking  over  the  list  given  below  of 
the  dealers'  and  producers'  organizations 
who  have  contributed  it  is  evident  that 
there  are  few  gaps  in  the  ranks  of 
supporters.  The  list  is  taken  from  the 
records  of  what  has  been  turned  in  to 
the  treasurer  of  the  committee,  Weston 
B.  Haskell,  plus  a  few  that  have  been 
reported  as  having  paid  by  H.  B.  Ellen- 
berger,  secretary  of  the  Vermont  com- 
mittee. Everyone  was  asked  to  con- 
tribute. It  was  the  expectation  of  the 
committee  that  all  groups  which  sold 
milk   or   cream   and    which   would  be 


affected  by  the  proposed  increase  in 
rates  would  pay  their  share.  Only  four 
creameries  in  Vermont  who  ship  milk 
or  cream  in  considerable  quantities  re- 
main to  be  heard  from  for  the  March 
contribution. 

Those  who  have  contributed  to  the 
fund  to  date  are  as  follows,  the  names 
of  the  dealers  being  those  who  have 
taken  the  two  cents  per  hundred  from 
patrons  for  March  and  turned  it  in  and 
have  made  contributions  at  the  rate  of 
one  cent  a  hundredweight : 

Alden  Bros.  Co. 

Andrews  Milk  Co. 

Bellows  Falls  Co-op.  Creamery. 

Bethel  Co-op.  Creamery. 

E.  E.  Blake. 

Boston  Suburban  Milk  Dealers  Assn. 
Frank  E.  Boyd  Co. 
W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son. 
Bryant  &  Chapman  Co. 
Childs  Bros. 

Clyde  Valley  Co-op.  Creamery,  Inc. 

Francis  S.  Cummings  Co. 

Elm  City  Creamery,  Inc. 

Elm  Spring  Farm  Co. 

Findeisen's  Farms,  Inc. 

Charles  D.  Glennie. 

Grand  Isle  County  Co-op  Creamery,  Inc. 

Granite  City  Co-op  Assn.,  Inc. 

Granite  State  Dairymen's  Assn. 

T.  P.  Grant. 

H.  P.  Hood  &  Sons,  Inc. 

William  T.  Jones  Co. 

Manchester  Dairy  System,  Inc. 

Maple  Hills  Creamery. 

Mark  H.  Moody. 

Milton  Co-op.  Dairy  Corp. 

Mt.  Mansfield  Creamery  Assn.,  Inc. 

New  England  Creamery  Co. 

W.  F.  Noble  &  Sons  Co. 

Northfield  Co-op.  Creamery. 

Adelbert  H.  Perkins. 

Richmond  Co-op.  Assn. 

W.  A.  Ross. 

Robert  H.  Sawyer. 

Skowhegan  Jersey  Creamery. 

The  Shelburne  Co-op.  Creamery. 

Clinton  W.  Spear. 

St.  Albans  Co-op.  Creamery. 

Sterling  Farms  Milk  Co. 

W.  E.  Stewart. 

Trout  Brook  Creamery. 

Turner  Centre  System. 

United  Farmers   Co-op.  Creamery. 

Wason-MacDonald  Co. 

White  Bros. 

Whiting  Milk  Co. 

Wiseman  Farms. 


SOME  COMPARISONS 

Prof.  J.  M.  Fuller  of  the  University 
of  New  Hampshire  has  a  convincing 
way  of  stating  the  value  of  a  good 
dairy  cow.  In  a  recent  article  he  gave 
some  figures  concerning  the  food  value 
of  the  milk  produced  by  one  of  the 
cows  in  the  college  dairy  herd,  Paw- 
huska  Alcartra  Korndyke,  as  compared 
with  other  foods.  She  gave  22,886 
pounds  or  10,645  quarts  of  milk  in  a 
year.  This  of  course  is  a  much  greater 
production  than  can  be  secured  by  a 
general  farm  herd.  It  is  four  or  five 
times  the  average  production  but  the 
average  production  of  herds  of  dairy 
farms  should  be  much  higher  than  it  is. 

This  10,645  quarts  of  milk  Prof.  Ful- 
ler figures  is  sufficient  to  furnish  three 
quarts  a  day  to  10  families  every  day 
in  the  year.  If  converted  into  butter 
(925  pounds)  it  would  be  sufficient  to 
provide  for  the  butter  needs  of  11 
families  of  father,  mother  and  three 
children.  And  there  would  be  10  tons 
of  skim  milk  besides. 

If  the  milk  were  made  into  ice  cream 
it  would  make  1,350  gallons,  as  much 
as  100  families  eat  in  a  year.  Prof. 
Fuller  calls  attention  to  the  fact  that 
a  quart  of  ice  cream  has  as  much  food 
value  as  a  pound  of  beef  steak. 

Comparing  the  record  of  this  cow 
with  the  records  of  high  producing  hens 
Prof.  Fuller  figures  that  she  has  pro- 
vided as  much  food  value  as  is  con- 
tained in' 85,160  eggs.  It  would  require 
425  hens  to  produce  as  much  food 
value  as  this  cow  did. 

Again  comparing  with  beef  he  figures 


that  the  milk  produced  by  this  one  cow 
in  one  year  has  a  food  value  equiva- 
lent to  6,380  pounds  of  beef.  Ten  beef 
animals  would  have  to  work  two  years 
to  produce  meat  enough  to  equal  the 
food  value  of  the  milk  produced  by 
this  cow  in  one  year. 

It  is  an  interesting  comparison.  The 
lesson  is  to  have  more  cows  high  pro- 
ducing on  the  dairy  farms  of  New 
England. 


EVEN  PRODUCTION 

In  experiments  conducted  by  the 
U.  S.  D.  A.,  cows  that  freshened  in 
the  fall  months  ranked  highest  in  aver- 
age yearly  production  of  milk  and  but- 
terfat,  in  cost  of  feed,  and  in  income 
over  cost  of  feed.  Those  that  fresh- 
ened in  winter  ranked  second  in  these 
respects.  On  the  average  those  that 
calved  in  the  spring  and  summer  pro- 
duced the  least  milk  and  butterfat  and 
returned  the  smallest  income  over  cost 
of  feed.  Several  advantages  in  having 
cows  freshen  in  the  fall  are  as  fol- 
lows :  Butterfat  usually  brings  a  higher 
price  during  the  fall  and  winter  months; 
labor  is  easier  to  obtain ;  and  there  is 
more  time  to  care  for  the  calves  and 
for  a  large  supply  of  milk. — U.  S.  D.  A. 
bulletin. 


"Tomorrow  afternoon,"  said  a  minister 
to  his  congregation,  "the  funeral  of  Mr. 
So-and-so  will  be  held  in  this  church. 
I  shall  make  the  funeral  address  on  this 
occasion  and  the  man  himself  will  be 
here,  the  first  time  in  twenty  years." 


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In  the  time  it  takes  you  to  milk  four 
cows  by  hand,  a  Moto-Milker  will 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


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Manchester,  N.  H  68c   per  &y2  qt.  can 

Nashua,    N.   H  68c   per  &l/2  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  72.3c  per  8^  qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  85c   per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  72c   per  8j4  qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  58.8c  per  8j4  qt .  can 

Portland,  Me   7.3c  per  qt. 

Salem,  Beverly,  Pea- 
body  and  Danvers, 
Mass   8.5c  per  qt. 

BUSINESS  CONDITIONS 

The  continued  depression  of  the  tex- 
tile industries  is  having  a  series  effect 
on  the  buying  power  of  the  public  in 
the  cities  of  Lawrence  and  Lowell. 
With  the  mills  operating  only  two  or 
three  days  a  week  the  pay  envelopes 
of  the  operatives  have  been  small  for 
a  long  time.  Under  these  conditions 
they  buy  less  *milk  and  are  slower  in 
paying  their  milk  bills.  All  this  is  bad 
for  the  milk  business.  Everyone  is  hop- 
ing that  conditions  in  the  textile  indus- 
try will  improve  but  at  present  they 
are  very  dull  in  both  these  cities.  The 
result  is  a  considerable  surplus  in  these 
markets.  I  have  been  able  to  relieve 
the  situation  somewhat  by  transferring 
some  of  the  supply  corru'ng  into  Law- 
rence to  the  Haverhill  market  which 
has  not  had  much  surplus. 

The  mills  in  Nashua  seem  to  be  do- 
ing very  well  and  milk  dealers  in  that 
city  are  well  pleased  at  the  way  milk 
is  moving.  Manchester  still  reports  dull 
business  conditions.  In  Portsmouth  the 
reduction  of  help  at  the  Navy  Yard 
has  slowed  up  the  business  considerably. 

PRICES 

All  markets  in  the  district  have  held 
prices  for  the  past  month  although 
many  dealers  have  complained  of  cheap 
milk  coming  into  the  markets  and  be- 
ing offered  at  prices  less  than  the 
NEMPA  schedule.  However,  these 
dealers  have  continued  to  do  business 
on  the  NEMPA  basis  and  have  paid 
NEMPA  prices.  This  not  only  demon- 
strates that  dealers  are  looking  upon 
the  association  as  a  good  organization 
to  do  business  with  but  that  they  are 
so  well  pleased  with  the  quality  of  the 
supply  that  they  are  willing  to  pay  the 
going  price  in  spite  of  inducements 
which  may  be  offered  them  by  the 
cheap  milk  men. 

During  April  F.  C.  Warner  of  the 
organization  department  of  the  associa- 
tion has  been  assisting  in  a  canvass  for 
membership  of  dairymen  in  this  district 
mostly  with  the  producers  selling  to 
Hood  and  shipping  to  the  Lawrence 
market.  As  the  result  of  his  canvass 
48  powers  of  attorney  were  signed. 
From  now  on  these  men  will  be  back- 
ing up  the  policies  of  the  association 
and  contributing  their  share  toward  its 
'support.  We  all  appreciate  the  help 
from  Mr.  Warner  and  trust  that  he 
will  and  his  associates  will  be  equally 
successful  in  the  general  canvass  in 
other  parts  of  New  England.  The  new 
field  staff  should  be  able  to  greatly 
strengthen  the  association  by  increasing 
membership  and  to  give  some  service 
which  will  be  highly  appreciated  by 
these  new  members  as  well  as  the  old 
ones. 

All  rail  shippers  should  insist  that 
the  station  agents  give  them  a  receipt 
or  way  bill  for  their  daily  shipments  of 
milk.  Several  farmers  have  written  me 
that  they  have  shipped  more  milk  than 
they  were  paid  for  by  their  dealer.  It 
is  impossible  for  me  to  prove  this  to 
the  dealer  unless  I  can  have  the  origi- 
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by  the  station  agents  and  showing  the 
shipment.  Armed  with  such  documents 
I  can  trace  the  milk  through  and  can 
determine  where  the  blame  for  the 
shortage  lies.  This  is  a  very  important 
matter  to  all  rail  shippers  and  should 
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NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1926 


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MAY  PRICES 

Providence,  R.  I   SlAc  per  quart 

Fall  River,  Mass   8lAc  per  quart 

Brockton,  Mass   8lAc  per  quart 

New  Bedford,  Mass          9c  per  quart 

Newport,  R.  1   9c  per  quart 

MARKET  CONDITIONS 

Providence  supply  has  not  shown  any 
material  changes  the  past  month  and 
only  two  dealers  have  surplus  who  did 
not  have  a  surplus  last  month.  The 
average  of  the  eight  who  purchase  un- 
der the  surplus  plan  for  the  past  month 
was  10.8  per  cent.,  an  increase  of  only 

I.  2  per  cent.  The  average  for  these  same 
dealers  a  year  ago  was  9.6  per  cent., 
which  shows  a  slight  gain  for  this  year. 
The  highest  surplus  of  any  dealer  was 

II.  9  per  cent  and  the  lowest  6.2  per  cent. 
We  have  had  more  inquiries  for  supplies 
of  milk  from  dairies  than  is  usual  at  this 
time  of  the  year.  Dealers  report  sales  to 
be  normal  and  continue  about  the  same. 
What  we  need  most  is  some  good  warm 
seasonable  weather,  which  if  it  continued 
for  any  length  of  time  would  be  a  great 
factor  in  increased  sales.  Business  in 
general  does  not  improve  enough  to  be 
noticeable. 

The  Fall  River  market  has  a  surplus 
varying  from  5  per  cent,  to  12  per  cent, 
with  the  larger  dealers;  which  is  much 
less  than  last  year,  although  if  the  amount 
of  milk  produced  in  this  territory  and 
also  quite  a  considerable  supply  near 
Newport  markets  that  formerly  was  sold 
in  Fall  River  and  the  Newport  markets 
which  now  is  sold  in  Providence  was  re- 
verted and  used  in  these  two  markets, 
the  surplus  would  be  greater  than  the 
producers  ever  received  I  believe. 

Newport  surplus  for  last  month  was 
from  30  per  cent,  to  33.8  per  cent.  Last 
year  it  was  28  per  cent,  and  30  per  cent, 
for  April  and  May  was  54  per  cent. 

New  Bedford  dealers  report  some  sur- 
plus, a  few  none,  and  others  vary  up  to 
12  per  cent.  Sales  have  improved  some- 
what over  last  month.  Most  dealers  in 
this  market  take  what  milk  they  need 
and  leave  the  surplus  on  the  farm.  Other 
dealers  take  all  the  milk  produced  and 
separate  the  surplus  and  return  the  skim 
to  the  producers.  It  often  happens  that 
a  dealer  having  a  greater  supply  than 
his  trade  requires  for  fluid  milk  will 
drop  off  one  or  more  dairies.  This  often 
works  out  as  a  troublesome  procedure, 
not  only  to  the  producers  but  also  to 
some  other  dealers.  A  much  better  sys- 
tem would  be  to  arrange  that  all  milk 
might  be  taken  care  of  for  the  benefit  of 
both  producers  and  dealers.  Such  ar- 
rangement can  be  made  in  the  near  future. 

Our  markets  all  maintained  the  same 
price  for  May  and  I  find  that  our  mem- 
bership appreciate  what  the  NEMPA  has 
done.  It  has  made  some  of  the  doubt- 
ful ones  take  notice. 

On  April  30th  the  sales  committee  of 
the  Newport  market  reviewed  the  con- 
ditions of  the  market  and  decided  to  con- 
tinue with  the  same  price  for  May,  9 
cents  per  quart  delivered  since  January 
1,  and  the  dealers  agreed  to  it. 

I  spend  three  days  canvassing  and  col- 
lecting dues  from  personal  payment  pro- 
ducers of  the  Foster  Center  local  with 
much  success,  also  signed  up  all  members 
seen  on  the  new  powers  of  attorney,  36 
in  number,  and  added  three  new  members, 
H.  Everett  Swan,  Sterling,  Conn. ;  Elmer 
W.  Ayers  and  William,  Lampher,  Foster 
Center,  and  reinstated  E.  M.  Kivisto,  Al- 
cott  Phillips  and  E.  M.  Wright  of  Fos- 
ter Center.  I  had  the  assistance  of  Ellis 
Bennis  and  Carl  Bruhn,  who  are  good 
scouts  and  I  appreciate  their  co-opera- 
tion. Of  all  producers  we  saw  only  one 
refused  to  pay  dues  or  sign  a  power  of 
attorney. 

From  May  1st  to  the  25th  we  have 
added  12  new  members,  made  64  rein- 
statements, secured  140  powers  of  at- 


torney by  personal  canvass  and  137  by 
mail,  making  a  total  of  277  powers  of 
attorney  for  the  month  to  this  date. 
Much  credit  is  due  F.  C.  Warner,  man- 
ager of  the  organization  department,  for 
work  done  in  the  Pomfret,  East  Wood- 
stock, Hampton  and  Brooklyn  locals.  His 
report  of  one  week  shows  48  powers  of 
attorney  on  old  members  and  58  new 
orders,  making  a  total  of  106  powers  of 
attorney  by  canvass  in  six  days.  That 
is  a  record  breaker  and  a  good  pace  set 
for  any  one  to  follow.  I  am  sure  it  will 
not  be  duplicated  often. 

I  wish  at  this  time  to  thank  all  who 
have  signed  and  mailed  in  their  orders 
as  it  saves  us  much  time  and  expense 
which  is  needed  for  other  duties.  If  it 
were  possible  I  would  like  to  meet  each 
and  all  of  our  members  that  we  might 
get  better  acquainted,  but  that  is  most 
impossible  and  we  surely  appreciate  any 
co-operation  extended  as  it  gives  us  more 
time  to  be  of  further  service  to  our 
members. 


WESTERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 

Springfield's  "Milk  Week"  in  which 
the  producers,  the  dealers  and  the  social 
welfare  organizations  united  in  calling 
public  attention  to  the  value  of  milk  as  a 
food  for  adults  as  well  as  for  children, 
was  a  decided  success.  It  was  run  by  a 
local  committee  including  representatives 
of  civic  organizations.  The  producers 
and  dealers  financed  the  plan  but  did  not 
take  an  active  part  in  planning  the  cam- 
paign as  it  seemed  better  for  the  social 
welfare  agencies  to  make  plans  which 
would  fit  in  with  their  own  regular  pro- 
grams rather  than  to  attempt  to  start 
something  new. 

Probably  the  most  notable  piece  of 
work  done  in  connection  with  the  milk 
week  was  the  series  of  "milk  parties" 
run  by  the  Springfield  nursing  and  pub- 
lic health  association.  This  organization 
conducts  weekly  clinics  at  eight  centers 
in  the  city.  At  each  clinic  from  40  to 
200  women  bring  their  babies  to  be 
weighed  and  to  receive  expert  advice  as 
to  feeding.  The  association  gave  a  "milk 
party"  at  each  of  these  centers,  inviting 
about  400  women  and  children  at  each 
center  and  serving  a  luncheon  of  dishes 
made  largely  from  milk  and  especially 
suitable  for  summer  use.  Recipe  leaflets 
telling  how  to  make  these  milk  dishes 
and  many  others  were  distributed.  The 
nurses  who  visit  homes  report  that  there 
was  a  considerable  new  interest  in  the 
use  of  milk  in  hundreds  of  homes.  It 
will  materially  increase  the  demand  for 
milk. 

Another  good  feature  of  the  week  was 
the  visits  made  by  various  organizations 
to  the  plants  of  the  larger  dealers.  The 
Girl  Scouts  were  foremost  in  these  visits, 
more  than  500  Scouts  visiting  plants  in 
trips  planned  daily  for  almost  two  weeks. 
The  dealers  co-operated  finely  in  this 
plan,  sending  trucks  to  all  points  of  the 
city  for  the  girls  and  showing  them 
through  the  plants  and  answering  all 
questions. 

Another  feature  of  the  observation  of 
milk  week  was  the  banner  offered  by  the 
committee  to  the  troop  of  Girl  Scouts 
whose  average  weight  was  the  nearest  to 
correct  and  in  which  the  largest  propor- 
tion of  the  girls  drank  milk  regularly. 
This  banner  will  be  contested  for  twice 
each  year.  The  result  of  this  move  is 
that  several  thousand  Girl  Scouts  will 
have  their  attention  called  regularly  to 
the  need  of  drinking  milk  as  a  means  of 
keeping  in  good  health  and  physical  fit- 
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The  school  department  co-operated 
well  in  the  observance  of  the  week  by 
using  about  50,000  pieces  of  printed  mat- 
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from  the  New  England  Dairy  and  Food 
Council.  It  went  into  thousands  of 
homes  with  a  worth  while  message  of. 
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VIGOROUS  OPPOSITION 

(Continued  from  page  seven) 

ing  full  blast,  the  chaff  and  dust  blowing 
freely  all  about." 

C.  P.  Osgood,  Maine  State  dairy  in- 
spector, after  inspecting  SO  Canadian 
dairy  farms,  said:  "Those  dairy  farmers 
seemed  to  have  no  idea  of  sanitary  pre- 
cautions and  their  equipment  contained 
only  primitive  necessities.  The  cows  were 
crowded  in  filthy,  dark,  unhealthy  stables ; 
no  concrete  floors  were  seen ;  milk  houses 
were  neither  fly-proof  nor  dust-proof,  and 
half  of  them  were  not  in  use. 

"Floors  were  rich  in  filth  and  maggots. 
Dust  and  chaff  filtered  from  overhead, 
and  the  well  water  was  always  so  close 
by  the  barns  that  contamination  is  in- 
evitable. Hot  and  cold  water  were  very 
seldom  available.  Sterilization  was  in- 
complete, as  a  rule,  and  we  found  no 
evidence  of  T-B  testing  in  the  districts  I 
visited,  and  definitely  ascertained  that 
there  was  little  or  no  government  inspec- 
tion whatever. 

"Conditions  in  those  dlistricts,  shipping 
mostly  to  this  country,  were  as  bad  as  can 
be  found  anywhere  that  commercial  dairy- 
ing is  done." 

Bradley  Fuller,  counsel  for  the  Dairy- 
men's League  of  New  York  State,  said : 
"If  Canadian  dairymen  want  to  supply 
New  York  City  and  New  England  mar- 
kets they  should  be  held  to  the  same  high 
standards  that  our  own  dairymen  obey. 
If  they  are  alowed  to  export  to  us  freely 
this  low-grade,  and  uninspected  and  unac- 
ceptable product,  it  means  putting  a 
premium  on  dirt  and  disease — and  the 
American  consumer  will  suffer  ac- 
cordingly." 

Premium  on  Dirt 

At  the  second  hearing  during  the  week 
of  May  16  opponents  of  the  bill,  includ- 
ing large  dealers  in  cream  and  milk  in 
the  Boston  market,  put  in  their  objections. 
Weston  B.  Haskell  of  the  Turner  Centre 
System,  which  buys  considerable  Cana- 
dian cream  and  owns  assembling  sta- 
tions in  Canada,  objected  to  the  provision 
of  a  70  point  score  on  the  ground  that 
Boston  only  requires  a  SO  point  score. 
It  was  brought  out  that  there  is  a  con- 
siderable variation  in  the  requirements 
of  the  different  boards  of  health  in  this 
respect.  Some  of  them  require  as  high 
as  80  per  cent,  but  the  requirement  of  70 
per  cent,  would  cover  most  of  them.  The 
proponents  of  the  bill  argued  that  the 
federal  law  should  be  made  to  cover  all 
markets,  not  simply  part  of  them.  Mr. 
Haskell  also  felt  that  the  bill  would 
arbitrarily  shut  out  a  considerable  amount 
of  cream  which  was  in  good  condition 
as  the  federal  appropriation  of  $50,000 
annually  he  thought  was  insufficient  to 
perform  the  work.  Under  the  provisions 
of  the  bill  all  uninspected  milk  would  be 
shut  out  at  the  end  of  90  days  from  the 
date  of  enactment.  Mr.  Haskell  be- 
lieved that  it  is  impossible  to  inspect  the 
supplies  in  that  time  and  that  some  wholly 
deserving  cream  would  be  wrongfully 
shut  out.  Mr.  Haskell  said  that  he 
would  welcome  any  inspection  system 
that  would  require  no  more  than  was  re- 
quired within  New  England  but  he  felt 
that  the  proposed  law  went  considerably 
beyond  this. 

Dealers  Object 

T.  P.  Grant,  Boston  cream  dealer,  made 
similar  objections  on  the  ground  that  the 
proposed  law  was  too  drastic  and  would 
shut  out  much  good  cream  from  New 
England  markets.  He  said  that  there  is 
not  enough  good  cream  within  New  Eng- 
land to  supply  the  need  in  summer  and 
that  the  Canadian  cream  must  be  pur- 
chased. Representatives  of  the  Hood  Co. 
and  other  large  dealers  voiced  similar 
objections. 

Wesley  H.  Bronson  of  our  association 
appeared  in  favor  of  the  bill.  He  argued 
that  40  per  cent,  of  New  England's  milk 
and  cream  supply  is  now  protected  by 
pasteurization  or  T.  B.  test,  and  under  a 
rigid  system  of  inspection  by  the  health 
department  of  the  various  markets  in 
which  the  milk  and  cream  is  sold.  This 
inspection  system  does  not  operate  well 
in  Canada  as  the  cream  comes  largely 
from  assembling  plants  and  there  is  no 
information  as  to  what  farms  the  cream 
comes  from.  All  this  would  be  recti- 
fied under  the  permit  system  which  the 
bill  seeks  to  establish.    He  urged  that 


Canadian  milk  and  cream  should  be  made 
to  bear  the  same  inspection  and  pass  the 
same  requirements  as  milk  produced 
within  New  England. 

Another  reason  he  advanced  for  the 
compulsory  pasteurization  or  tuberculin 
test  was  that  New  England  is  now  trying 
to  free  its  herds  from  tuberculosis  and 
that  the  Canadian  shipments  of  raw 
milk  coming  in  from  herds  which  had  not 
been  tested  for  bovine  tuberculosis  was  a 
menace  to  the  clean  areas  in  the  New 
England  states. 


NEW  SURVEY  SHOWS  A 
DECREASE 

Co-operative  tuberculin  testing  by  fed- 
eral, state  and  county  forces  has  reduced 
the  percentage  of  tuberculous  cattle  in 


the  United  States  from  4  per  cent,  in 
1922  to  2.8  per  cent,  in  1926,  according 
to  a  survey  completed  May  1  by  the 
United  States  Department  of  Agriculture. 
Information  was  also  gathered  which  in- 
dicates that  by  1936  approximately  31 
per  cent,  of  the  entire  country  will  have 
reduced  the  percentage  of  infection  to 
less  than  one-half  of  one  per  cent,  and 
will  thus  be  classed  as  "modified  ac- 
credited" area. 

But  of  more  interest  perhaps  are  the 
figures  showing  that  most  of  the  infec- 
tion is  confined  to  a  comparatively  small 
area.  While  the  percentage  of  diseased 
cattle  varies  from  less  than  one-half  of 
one  percent  in  some  counties  to  more 
than  23  per  cent,  in  others,  practically 
73  per  cent,  of  the  estimated  reactors  yet 


to  be  condemned  are  contained  in  411 
counties.  The  other  27  per  cent,  of  the 
estimated  diseased  cattle  are  scattered 
throughout  the  remaining  2,658  counties 
where  the  average  infection  is  less  than 
3  per  cent. 

This  gives  a  clear  insight  into  the  prob- 
lem of  total  eradication,  of  tlie  disease. 
It  is  comparatively  easy,  with  sufficient 
funds  available,  to  free  any  county  with 
less  than  3  per  cent,  infection.  The  prob- 
lem, therefore,  in  this  less  infected  sec- 
tion is  one  of  proper  initial  testing  and 
sufficient  quarantine  measures  to  protect 
against  reinfection  from  bad  herds. 


Visitor:  "Jimmie,  do  you  get  good 
marks   at  school?" 

Jimmie:     "Yes,  but  I  can't  show  "em." 


On  May  16  th  is  Caw 


went  on 
pasture 


DAYS    10    20    30     40    SO     60    70     80     90    100  110  120  130   140  150  160  170  180  190  200  210  220  230  246  250  260  270  280  290  300  310  320 

These  lines  represent  the  daily  average  production  in  each  10  day 
period.  To  obtain  this  figure  the  total  production  in  each  period  was 
divided  by  ten  to  avoid  all  the  little  fluctuations  in  day-to-day  records. - 


IN  THESE  two  simple  lines  is  written  the 
story  of  two  lactations  in  the  life  of  a  cow. 
The  chart  shown  above  is  a  graphic  record 
of  the  milk  production,  during  1924  and  1925,  of 
Cow  76,  an  ordinary  grade  Holstein  at  the  Larro 
Research  Farm. 

The  solid  line  shows  milk  production  in  1924 — a 
good,  even  milk  flow,  averaging  over  31  lbs.  a 
day  throughout  the  lactation,  during  which  the 
cow  was  fed  Larro  and  hay,  with  no  pasture. 
On  this  diet,  she  not  only  produced  profitably, 
but  built  condition,  entering  her  1925  lactation 
with  a  production  up  to  47  lbs.  a  day. 

Then,  on  May  16th,  1925,  she  went  on  pasture, 
the  grain  ration,  however,  being  fed  with  the 
grass.  Production  increased  temporarily  as  is 
indicated  by  the  sharp  peak  in  the  broken  line 
representing  1925  milk  production.  This  in- 
crease, however,  lasted  but  ten  days.  As  the 
grain  ration  was  reduced,  production  fell  off 
sharply. 

Two  months  after  she  went  on  pasture  she  was 
giving  only  22^  lbs.  of  milk  a  day.  On  the 
280th  day  of  this  lactation,  the  milk  yield  was 
only   10  lbs.,  as  compared  with  25  lbs.  on  the 


280th  day  of  her  previous  lactation,  when  she 
was  getting  Larro,  with  no  pasture. 

Though  the  1925  pasture  was  plentiful,  she 
simply  was  not  getting  enough  nourishment. 
The  grass  had  served  admirably  as  a  "spring 
tonic,"  but  ten  days  saw  the  end  of  this  effect. 
It  could  not  take  the  place  of  sufficient  food. 

"No  cow  can  produce  a  really  liberal  amount  of 
milk  for  any  time  on  grass  alone.  Sometimes 
they  will  do  it  for  a  while  by  drawing  on  their 
reserves,  which  means  losing  weight  and  condi- 
tion, followed  with  a  rapid  drop  in  milk  produc- 
tion. Heavily  milking  cows  so  treated  always 
disappoint  their  owners  by  their  poor  production 
the  following  winter." 

So  speaks  Dr.  C.  H.  Eckles,  Chief  of  the  Division 
of  Dairy  Husbandry  at  the  University  of  Minne- 
sota, and  one  of  the  world's  leading  dairy 
authorities. 

Feed  your  cows  1  lb.  of  Larro  for  each  5  lbs.  of 
milk  they  produce,  even  with  the  best  pasture. 
Increase  your  Larro  ration  when  pasture  becomes 
inferior.  Your  summer  profits  will  be  larger. 
Your  cows  will  maintain  the  condition  necessary 
for  capacity  production  next  fall  and  winter, 
when  milk  prices  are  highest. 


THE  LARROWE  MILLING  COMPANY 

Detroit  -  -  -  -  Michigan 


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DAIRY  FEED  —  POULTRY  FEEDS  -  HOG  FEED 


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For  three  years  before  Larro  Poultry  Feeds  were  offered  for  sale  they  were  made  to  prove  their  right  to  the 
name  Larro  in  a  series  of  carefully  checked  feeding  tests.  In  every  test  the  Larro-fed  birds  produced  more 
eggs  and  developed  quicker,  with  less  mortality  than  those  fed  on  any  of  the  better  known  rations  now 
available.    The  regular  use  of  Larro  Poultry  Feeds  will  add  greatly  to  your  profits,  too.    Ask  your  dealer.  (627) 


De  Laval  Milker  Users 
from  47  States  Say— 

RECENTLY  a  questionnaire  was  submitted  to  De  Laval 
Milker  Users  selected  at  random  and  located  in  all 
parts  of  the  country.  Replies  were  received  from  1160, 
from  every  state  except  one.  Following  is  a  partial  list  of  the 
questions  and  answers: 

Q.   Have  you  increased  your  milk  production  compared  with 
hand  milking? 

A.  58*3%  say  the  De  Laval  does  increase  their  production 
over  hand  milking. 
29*6%  say  it  does  about  the  same. 
10.6%  say  they  do  not  know. 

More  than  98%  say  they  produce  as  much  as  or  more 
milk  with  the  De  Laval  than  they  do  with  hand  milking. 

Q.  How  does  it  agree  with  your  cows? 
A.  98.5%  answer  favorably. 

Q.   What  saving  of  time  and  labor  have  you  accomplished  with 
the  De  Laval  Milker? 

A*  34*6%  save  2.1  hours  per  day. 

25*7%  save  entire  time  of  one  man. 
143%  save  §o%  in  time  and  labor  of  milking. 
9.1%  save  entire  time  of  two  men. 
1.2%  save  entire  time  of  three  men. 

The  results  of  this  questionnaire  show  that  the  De  Laval 
Milker  has  made  good  in  a  remarkable  way.  Already  more 
than  half  a  million  cows  are  milked  with  De  Laval  Milkers 
and  the  number  is  increasing  rapidly.  Write  your  nearest 
De  Laval  office  for  complete  information. 

The  De  Laval  Separator  Company 

NEW  YORK  CHICAGO  SAN  FRANCISCO 

165  Broadway  600  Jackson  Blvd.  61  Beale  Street 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  10.   Number  4. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  JULY,  1926 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


Boston  Milk  Price  Will  Increase  One  Cent  on  July  First 


CONCENTRATION  COMING 


Large  Dealers  Buying  New  Busi- 
ness Steadily — New  Group 
is  Orgonized 

Important  changes  are  taking  place  in 
the  milk  business  in  Boston  as  well  as  in 
other  cities  throughout  the  nation.  The 
trend  toward  consolidation  for  the  sake 
of  greater  efficiency  and  economy  in 
handling  the  milk  business  is  working 
just  as  strongly  and  surely  in  Boston  as 
elsewhere.  Already  the  movement  has 
assumed  considerable  proportions. 

The  two  most  important  features  of 
this  steady  increasing  concentration  of 
the  milk  business  in  the  hands  of  larger 
dealers  are  taking  place  in  the  Hood  Co. 
and  in  a  group  of  middle  sized  com- 
panies including  the  Aldens,  Childs  Bros, 
and  Noble  and  probably  a  few  more  of 
somewhere  near  the  same  size  and  im- 
portance in  the  milk  business. 

For  some  time  past  the  consolidation 
of  these  last  three  companies  has  been 
worked  out  quietly  but  carefully.  They 
are  coming  together  under  one  manage- 
ment and  will  probably  include  at  least 
one  other  dealer  of  considerable  size. 
The  combination  of  these  dealers  will 
make  them  close  up  to  the  big  three, 
Hood,  Whiting  and  Turner  Centre,  in 
volume  of  business. 

The  other  important  trend  toward  con- 
centration is  seen  best  in  the  Hood  Co. 
This  company  adopted  the  expansion  of 
business  policy  some  time  ago  and  has 
been  steadily  acquiring  by  purchase  the 
business  of  smaller  dealers.  Their  pur- 
chases have  run  all  the  way  from  men 
who  run  a  single  wagon  to  businesses  of 
considerable  size.  It  appears  to  be  their 
policy  to  buy  up  everything  that  comes 
on  the  market.  By  a  vote  to  greatly  in- 
crease their  capitalization  they  are  in  a 
position  to  take  up  almost  anything  that 
comes  on  the  market.  Other  large  deal- 
ers are  doing  the  same  thing  in  a  lesser 
way.  The  result  is  that  a  large  number 
of  the  small  dealers  have  disappeared  from 
the  market.  The  proposed  merger  of  the 
three  dairy  Systems  is  another  sign  of 
the  times  in  the  same  direction.  It  is 
a  recognition  of  the  need  of  doing  busi- 
ness in  a  bigger  and  more  economical 
way. 

On  the  whole  the  movement  toward 
concentration  is  working  to  the  advantage 
of  the  dairy  farmers.  It  might  not  be  so 
if  there  were  no  organization  looking  out 
for  their  interests.  As  it  is  the  NEMPA 
can  meet  these  big  dealers  and  in  a  busi- 
ness-like way  sell  the  milk  of  its  mem- 
bers at  a  stipulated  price  and  can  hold 
the  dealers  to  the  payment  of  that  price. 

The  effect  which  the  Springfield  Dairy 
System  has  had  already  in  stabilizing 
nrices  in  the  Connecticut  Valley  is  an 
indication  of  the  value  of  a  large  number 
of  farmers  coming  together  to  market 
their  product.  The  trend  there  has  been 
toward  the  elimination  of  the  smaller 
dealers.  The  difficulties  which  have  been 
encountered  in  the  Worcester  market  are 
due  in  large  measure  to  the  very  large 
number  of  small  dealers  who  are  operat- 
ing there.  Where  some  75  per  cent,  of 
the  milk  needed  by  any  city  is  sold  by 


Most  of  Lesser  Markets  Will  Follow — Dealers  Recognize 
Error  of  Forcing  Price  Down  in  June-  -Show  Little 
Opposition  to  Increase— Sales  Committee  Stands  Firm 
Against  Mid-Month  Reduction 


SECOND  HEARING  CALLED 


The  Boston  milk  price  will  go  up  one 
cent  again  July  1.  Boston  dealers  of- 
fered little  opposition  to  the  return  to  the 
8^  cent  level.  Some  of  them  frankly 
admitted  that  they  had  made  a  mistake 
in  demanding  the  decrease  June  1  under 
the  unusual  conditions  which  prevailed 
in  the  market. 

The  sales  committee  tried  to  convince 
the  dealers  June  1  that  there  was  no 
good  reason  for  decreasing  the  price  at 
that  time  and  that  such  a  course  would 
cause  a  considerable  disturbance  of  the 
market  conditions.  When  the  First  Na- 
tional Stores  dropped  the  price  two  cents, 
as  they  had  stated  they  would  do  if  the 
NEMPA  price  went  down  one  cent,  the 
disturbance  came  and  the  dealers  realized 
their  mistake. 

After  a  week  of  competing  with  10 
cent  chain  store  milk  with  a  7l/i  cent 
price  to  the  farmers,  dealers  asked  the 
sales  committee  for  a  reconsideration  of 
the  price  with  the  idea  of  going  down 
still  further.  The  sales  committee  re- 
fused to  the  proposal  of  a  decrease  of  a 
cent  or  even  a  half  cent  more  on  "the 
ground  that  the  dealers  had  forced  the 
reduction  June  1  and  that  their  troubles 
were  of  their  own  making. 

Under  these  conditions  and  in  the  ex- 
pectation that  an  advance  of  a  cent  July 
1  would  restore  the  market  to  a  more 
stable  condition,  the  larger  dealers  did 
not  make  serious  objections  to  a  restora- 
tion of  the  8JA  cent  price.  They  did, 
however,  reopen  the  question  of  outside 
purchases  as  a  side  issue  to  the  trade  as 
to  the  price  of  market  milk.  It  was  over 
this  question  of  outside  purchases  that 
most  of  the  negotiations  centered. 


Early  in  the  year  the  sales  committee 
announced  to  the  dealers  its  decision  that 
no  outside  purchases  should  be  allowed 
to  be  taken  out  of  sales  under  the  sur- 
plus plan  after  May  1.  During  May  and 
June  no  such  outside  purchases  were  al- 
lowed to  be  deducted  from  sales  in  figur- 
ing the  surplus  plan  ptice  and  the  per- 
centage of  surplus  was  correspondingly 
lower  than  it  would  have  been  if  the 
outside  purchases  had  been  counted  in. 

The  dealers  recognized  that  during 
these  months  of  plentiful  supply  of  milk 
they  had  no  valid  excuse  for  purchasing 
outside  milk.  But  recently  they  raised 
the  question  of  whether  the  regular 
patrons  would  be  able  to  supply  a  suffi- 
cient quantity  of  milk  for  them  during 
the  coming  short  season.  There  are 
some  indications  that  milk  may  be  quite 
short  this  fall.  The  dealers  asked  that 
they  should  be  again  allowed  to  purchase 
the  outside  milk  needed  and  to  charge  it 
out  of  sales  under  the  surplus  plan. 

With  so  much  uncertainty  as  to  the 
conditions  which  will  prevail  this  fall 
and  so  much  depending  on  the  weather 
conditions  during  the  remainder  of  the 
summer,  the  sales  committee  decided  that 
it  was  the  best  policy  to  allow  these  out- 
side purchases  to  be  counted  in  for  a  few 
months  until  it  is  more  sure  what  the 
supply  of  milk  will  be  from  regular 
patrons.  Certain  other  conditions  due 
to  the  consolidation  of  dealers  which  is 
taking  place,  entered  into  their  decision. 
The  final  decision  as  to  outside  pur- 
chases policy  can  be  made  wisely  a  little 
later  than  it  can  be  during  this  period  of 
readjustments  and  consolidations. 


a  few  large  dealers  the  sales  committee 
representing  our  association  can  deal 
with  them  in  a  business-like  way.  When 
the  great  majority  of  a  city's  milk  sup- 
ply comes  from  150  small  dealers  a  very 
difficult  problem  presents  itself. 

The  NEMPA  welcomes  the  concen- 
tration of  business  in  Boston  and  believes 
that  it  will  work  to  the  advantage  of  the 
association.  It  is  nothing  to  fear  any- 
way. Even  if  the  time  should  come  when 
the  dairy  farmers  of  New  England  want 
to  handle  the  milk  business  clear  through 
to  the  consumer  it  will  be  much  better 
to  buy  out  a  few  well  established  busi- 
nesses than  to  take  over  hundreds  of 
small  ones. 


tained  at  the  Boston  level  as  it  was  be- 
fore the  disturbance  which  took  place  in 
that  market  earlier  in  the  year  because 
of  the  chain,  store  situation.  The  con- 
ditions in  Worcester  have  been  quite  un- 
satisfactory and  the  price  there  was 
forced  down  to  6z/2  cents  for  June.  The 
sales  committee  advanced  this  price  one 
cent  for  July.  This  still  leaves  Wor- 
cester a  cent  under  Boston  but  through 
the  better  organization  of  that  market 
which  is  now  in  progress  it  is  hoped  to 
bring  the  price  up  to  the  Boston  level 
within  a  few  months. 


OTHER  MARKETS  RISE 


The  sales  committee  in  the  Worcester 
and  Springfield  markets  met  immediately 
on  the  conclusion  of  the  negotiations  on 
the  Boston  price  and  took  steps  to  bring 
their  price  up.  The  Springfield  sales 
committee  put  the  price  back  to  &z/2 
cents.  It  is  the  expectation  that  in  the 
future  the  Springfield  price  will  be  main- 


The  essential  factors  in  keeping  milk 
sweet  are  keeping  it  clean  and  keeping 
it  cold.  The  greater  the  degree  of  clean- 
liness in  handling  it,  the  smaller  num- 
ber of  bacteria  there  will  be  to  produce 
the  acid :  the  more  quickly  it  is  cooled 
after  being  drawn  from  the  cow,  the 
more  quickly  will  the  action  of  these 
bacteria  be  checked.  At  45  to  50  de- 
grees growth  and  activity  practical^ 
stop.  There  is  no  possibility  of  check- 
ing their  multiplication  or  activity  at  any 
higher  temperature. 


Railroad  Rate  Increase  Comes  Up 
for  Discussion  Last  Week 
in  July 

Satisfactory  progress  is  being  made  in 
the  railroad  rate  case.  The  next  hear- 
ing before  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission will  be  held  July  26,  when  the 
committee  representing  the  dairy  farm- 
ers of  all  New  England  will  answer  the 
claims  of  the  railroads  for  an  increase, 
presented  at  the  previous  hearing.  In 
setting  the  hearing  for  late  in  July  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission  gave 
our  representatives  more  time  than  they 
asked  for. 

Meanwhile  it  is  a  good  thing  to  re- 
member that  the  $750,000  boost  in  rail- 
ed Continued  on  page  eleven) 


CANADIAN  INSPECTION 


Bill  is  Having  Stormy  Time  in 
Both  House  and 
Senate 

The  bill  for  the  exclusion  of  Canadian 
milk  and  cream  unless  it  conforms  to 
standards  set  up  by  federal  law  has  been 
having  a  stormy  time  in  both  the  House 
and  the  Senate.  Modifications  to  make 
the  requirements  less  strong  removed 
some  of  the  objections  raised  in  the  hear- 
ings before  the  House  Committee  on 
agriculture  and  the  committee  unani- 
mously reported  in  favor  of  the  passage 
of  the  bill.  There  is  still  a  vigorous  op- 
position to  the  bill  in  the  House  and 
pressure  is  needed  from  home  to  secure 
a  favorable  vote.  Various  organizations 
and  many  individuals  have  written  and 
telegraphed  their  Representatives  and 
Senators  asking  for  favorable  action. 

The  most  important  change  which  was 
made  in  the  bill  by  the  committee  was  to 
reduce  the  required  barn  score  from  70 
to  50.  The  bill  carried  a  50  point  re- 
quirement as  that  is  the  standard  set  by 
•the  boards  of  health  of  some  markets 
into  which  Canadian  cream  or  milk  might 
come.  The  Boston  requirement  is  50 
points.  The  revised  bill  brings  the  re- 
quirements down  to  those  of  the  lowest 
cities  instead  of  keeping  them  at  the 
high  point.  This  is  somewhat  of  a  dis- 
appointment to  those  who  looked  on  the 
bill  as  a  general  safeguard  against  un- 
satisfactory milk  and  cream  from  Canada. 

The  bill  still  has  the  opposition  of  the 
large  milk  dealers  and  cream  dealers  iD 
Boston  and  elsewhere.  The  reduction  of 
the  requirements  to  the  same  point  as  the 
requirements  of  Boston's  health  depart- 
ment has  taken  away  one  of  their  chief 
arguments.  It  is  now  a  clean  cut  ques- 
tion of  whether  Canadian  milk  and 
cream  shall  be  subjected  to  the  same  gen- 
eral inspection  and  requirements  as  is 
the  milk  or  cream  coming  into  Boston 
from  New  England  points.  This  is  a 
reasonable  demand  from  the  point  of 
view  of  protecting  the  public  health  and 
safeguarding  the  interests  of  New  Eng- 
land dairy  farmers. 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  192* 


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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I. ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt.;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  George  G. 
Young,  Livermore,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H.;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt.;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A. 
TuTTLE,  Hardwick,  Mass.  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Dartmouth,  Mass.;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y.;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y.;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

I'm  out  in  the  great  state  of  Minnesota, 
bigger  than  all  New  England  with  New 
Jersey  and  half  of  New  York  thrown  in. 
This  is  the  great  "Bread  and  Butter" 
state,  so  named  for  its  production  of 
those  commodities.  This  is  the  country 
where  they  do  big  things  in  a  big  way 
and  are  not  too  patient.  They  want  re- 
sults, big,  quick  results  and  are  not  afraid 
to  kick  if  they  don't  get  them.  They  are 
boosters  for  their  own  localities,  for  their 
own  enterprises  and  they  are  not  too 
modest  about  themselves.  They  are 
friendly,  jovial,  hospitable,  good-natured 
folks.  But  I  think  I  can  sense  behind 
the  pride  of  possessing  the  finest  land 
in  the  world,  behind  the  pride  of  having 
accomplished  great  and  splendid  under- 
takings, in  spite  of  having  deservedly 
assumed  and  maintained  great  leadership 
in  many  and  varied  activities,  a  feeling 
akin  to  envy,  not  jealously  exactly,  but 
something  like  it,  of  the  homes  and  living 
conditions  of  farmers  in  the  East.  "If 
we  only  had  your  markets,"  they  say  and 
then  they  speak  of  our  big,  pleasant  farm 
houses,  of  our  dairy  barns,  running 
water,  numerous  towns  and  cities,  great 
educational  institutions  and  the  like.  But 
then,  of  course,  nothing  would  induce 
them  to  leave  Minnesota  or  to  live  in  the 
East.  That's  what  they  say  but  I  sus- 
pect that  they  only  about  half  mean  it. 

I  was  struck  by  the  remark  of  a  cousin 
of  mine  who  lives  here  in  St.  Paul,  that 
it  seemed  strange  her  children  when  they 
left  home  should  be  going  East.  Her 
father  was  my  father's  younger  brother. 
He  came  West  when  Minnesota  was  the 
real  West,  and  became  quite  a  figure 
among  the  railroad  men  who  developed 
this  section  of  the  country.    Two  other 


brothers  followed  him  and  when  our 
generation  grew  up  we  naturally  looked 
westward  for  our  opportunity.  So  West 
we  came,  wc  three  brothers,  each  as  soon 
as  he  reached  the  middle  teens. 

I  was  the  first  to  go  back  to  New  Eng- 
land, then  came  my  oldest  brother.  One 
cousin,  the  only  child  of  an  uncle  who 
went  from  New  Hampshire  to  Mil- 
waukee, moved  to  New  York  City.  The 
only  child  of  another  cousin  was  taken 
to  New  York  when  her  mother  died  and 
has  grown  up  there.  And  now  my  other 
cousin,  daughter  of  the  railroad  man  who 
came  from  New  Hampshire,  thinks  it 
strange  that  her  son,  just  graduated  from 
the  University  of  Minnesota,  should  be 
going  to  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  to  start  his 
career  in  life,  and  that  the  daughter, 
who  also  graduated  from  college  this 
year,  should  be  going  to  Massachusetts. 

And  my  brother's  hoy,  born  and  raised 
in  Arizona,  is  coming  East  to  Washing- 
ton this  fall  to  complete  his  education. 
Really,  it  does  seem  a  bit  odd  that  our 
family,  which  all  headed  West,  should 
turn  back  eastward.  I  wonder  if  others 
are  that  way.  Well,  much  as  they've 
got  out  here  and  well  as  they  like  it,  I 
cannot  envy  them  and  I  must  say  I  be- 
lieve most  of  our  New  England  farmers 
are  better  off  where  they  are.  Note 
please,  that  I'm  not  saying  better  off 
than  these  people  out  here.  That  wouldn't 
do  for  I  am  their  guest.  But  when  I  get 
back  home — . 

P.  S. — Well,  the  American  Institute 
of  Co-operation  started  this  week  very 
auspiciously  and  about  300  of  us  from  all 
sections  of  the  country  are  looking  for- 
ward to  a  pleasant  and  profitable  month 
together.  It's  mighty  hard  work  for  me 
to  go  to  school  again,  after  all  these 
years,  but  I  like  it.  When  I  get  into  a 
group  like  this,  I  realize  how  much  there 
is  to  learn. 

PATTEE. 


ORDERLY  MARKETING 

Speaking  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Dairymen's  League,  June  17,  President 
George  W.  Slocum  outlined  the  results 
which  could  be  attained  by  bringing  to- 
gether the  various  dairy  interests  of  that 
area  on  a  marketing  plan  which  is  funda- 
mentally sound  and  workable.  These 
results  are  what  we  hoped  to  accomplish 
through  the  proposed  New  England  Dairy 
System.  They  cannot  be  brought  about 
without  such  a  unified  system  of  handling 
the  milk  business  of  New  England. 
President  Slocum  said  in  part : 

"We  will  not  discuss  the  plans  for  one 
united  organization  that  have  been  sub- 
mitted for  consideration,  but  I  do  wish 
to  emphasize  the  fact  that  the  League 
has  gone  on  record  to  lend  itself  to  anv 
plan  that  the  farmers  want,  provided  that 
plan  completely  covers  in  detail  and  in  a 
way  that  is  equitable  to  every  producer, 
every  marketing  need.  We  cannot,  how- 
ever, lend  our  support  to  any  plan  that 
is  lacking  in  any  of  the  well  known 
fundamental  principles  of  marketing." 

Taking  the  dairy  industrv  as  a  whole, 
President  Slocum  said,  there  are  tremen- 
dous possibilities  which  a  united  indus- 
trv alone  can  accomplish.  His  principal 
ennmerations  were : 

''Elimination  of  brokerage  comm;ssion. 
By  that  I  mean  our  milk  snnnlv  should 
be  sold  direct  to  the  actual  distributor 
without  additional  in-between  sales  ex- 
nonse.  In  the  Lesfrue's  plan  of  onera- 
tion  brokerage  commissions  are  practically 
eliminated. 

"Zoning  of  the  milk  supply  so  that  all 
milk  used  in  fluid  form  in  our  great  con- 
sum'ng  centers  will  first  come  from  the 
farms  adjacent  to  those  centers,  thus 
eliminat:n<T  unneressarv  transportation 
costs.  Tonether  w'th  this  the  consolida- 
tion of  shipments  into  carjoads  to  take 
advantage  of  modern  methods  of  tank 
car  shipments  will  decrease  transoorta- 
tion  costs.    J  am  convinced  that  above 


$2,000,000  each  year  is  being  wasted  in 
unnecessary  transportation  charges. 

"The  industry  could  eliminate  at  least 
.10  per  cent,  of  the  milk  plant  operations. 
Unquestionably  here  is  located  the  farm- 
ers' greaters  economic  loss.  Hauling 
costs  could  be  materially  decreased,  at 
least  on  the  average  of  five  cents  per 
100  pounds  of  milk. 

"Herein  lies  the  possibility  for  in- 
creased returns  on  dairy  farmers'  pro- 
duction without  added  expense  to  the  con- 
sumer. A  united  dairy  industry  could 
accomplish  this,  but  to  do  it  completely 
it  must  own  many  country  plants  and 
handle  near  the  source  of  production  a 
large  part  of  the  supply,  and  through  its 
own  organization  make  all  sales  and  col- 
lect and  distribute  equitably  the  proceeds 
of  all  sales." 

Forty  per  cent,  of  the  29.6  cents  in- 
crease brought  to  its  members  by  the 
League  during  the  year  was  due  to 
greater  efficiency  throughout  the  organi- 
zation; in  the  handling  of  affairs,  in  the 
operations  of  plants  and  in  general  and 
administrative  changes,  Mr.  Slocum 
said.  These  economies  amounted  to  11.7 
cents  per  100  pounds  of  milk  and  resulted 
in  an  increased  return  to  producers  of 
$2,583,000. 

"The  thing  that  has  helped  greatly  to 
bring  about  these  improvements  has  been 
the  concentration  of  our  efforts  on  the 
sale  of  fluid  milk  and  the  elimination  of 
manufacturing  operations,"  said  Mr. 
Slocum.  "With  the  co-operation  of  our 
manufacturing  buyers  and  the  .putting  of 
their  operations  under  the  New  York 
City  Board  of  Health  we  have  developed 
a  flexibility  never  before  equalled  in  the 
milk  business.  This  arrangement  has  al- 
ready demonstrated  that  we  are  prepared 
to  meet  every  emergency  requirement  of 
our  fluid  customers. 

"There  was  never  a  more  opportune 
time,  when  the  whole  trend  of  civiliza- 
tion is  toward  getting  together,  for  the 
farmer  to  elevate  himself  to  an  equal 
position  with  town  folks  in  every  com- 
munity affair.  This  great  movement  has 
an  important  social  significance  for  we 
well  know  what  an  organized  community 
can  do  to  improve  economic  conditions. 
Putting  argiculture  on  a  higher  level 
adds  dignity  to  country  life,  and  will 
give  to  our  country  folks  the  same  op- 
portunity with  the  same  standard  of  liv- 
ing as  those  in  the  cities.  We  should  be 
unceasing  in  our  efforts  toward  bringing 
this  about  in  the  communities  in  which 
we  live." 


CARING  FOR  MILK 

Number  I 

From  N.  E.  Dairy  and  Food  Council 

What  makes  milk  "sour"? 

We  are  all  familiar  with  the  fact  that 
it  does  "sour"  but  most  of  us  accept  that 
fact  in  the  same  way  we  accept  the  rising 
of  the  sun  in  the  morning.  The  sun  rises. 
Milk  sours.  That's  about  all  there  is  to 
it  so  far  as  reasons  go. 

There  isn't  much  sense  in  arguing  about 
the  rising  of  the  sun  nor  of  trying  to  ex- 
plain why  it  rises.  It  will  rise  anyway, 
whether  we  like  it  or  not.  But  there  is 
much  common  sense  in  trying  to  under- 
stand the  reasons  why  milk  "sours,"  for 
the  causes  are  more  or  less  within  our 
own  control.  If  we  understand  these 
causes  we  can  hasten  the  process  of 
souring,  in  case  we  want  sour  milk,  or 
retard  these  processes  in  case  we  want 
sweet  milk,  as  most  every  one  does. 

We  know  that  milk  "sours"  more 
quickly  in  warm  weather  than  in  cold 
weather,  but  we  may  not  know  exactly 
why.  We  are  less  familiar  with  the 
equally  important  fact  that  cleanliness  is 
just  as  important  as  coolnees  in  keeping 
milk  from  souring.  If  we  clearly  un- 
derstand what  takes  place  when  milk 
"sours"  we  may  be  able  to  take  measures 
to  retard  the  process.  We  can  protect 
ourselves  against  loss  from  this  source. 
By  controlling  conditions  we  can  also 
increase  our  return  for  our  products  and 
can  send  out  the  quality  dairy  products 
which  the  consuming  public  wants  and 
is  willing  to  pay  for.  There  is  always  a 
premium  on  quality  in  the  dairy  market. 

The  changes  which  take  place  in  milk, 
commonly  spoken  of  as  "souring,"  are 
well  understood  by  scientists  and  experi- 
mentors.    Let  us  try  to  get  the  general 


facts  regarding  these  changes  in  a  fori 
which  can  be  readily  understood  b 
everybody. 

All  milk  will  undergo  certain  chang< 
which  will  make  it  partially  or  wholl 
unfit  for  human  food  if  left  to  itsel 
These  changes  are  of  two  general  type 
Wc  seldom  distinguish  between  them  an 
commonly  call  them  both  "souring."  Th 
is  natural,  as  one  type  of  change,  th; 
which  really  causes  acidity  in  the  mill 
takes  place  more  rapidly  under  ordinal 
conditions,  and  is  the  first  to  be  notice< 
The  other  type  of  change  which  tak< 
place  is  accompanied  by  more  or  less  o 
fensive  odors  and  the  formation  c 
gases.  This  is  more  nearly  a  breakin 
down  or  putrifying  of  the  milk.  Bot 
types  commonly  proceed  at  the  san 
time  and  the  conditions  under  which  tl 
milk  is  handled  will  determine  whir 
type  of  change  will  be  dominant. 

The  first  type  of  change,  that  whi 
turns  milk  acid,  does  not  necessarily  mal 
it  unfit  for  human  consumption.  Thei 
is  nothing  unwholesome  about  sour  mi 
as  a  human  food.    But  as  a  practic 
matter  this  acidity  makes  milk  unsalah 
for  use  as  milk,  for  the  consumers 
not  like  it  and  will  not  buy  it.  This 
quite  as  definite  and  final  a  ban  on  r 
use  as  any  rule  of  the  board  of  healt 
The  second  mentioned  type  of  chang 
however,    unfits    milk    for    human  col 
sumption. 

Both  types  of  change  come  abo; 
through  the  action  of  tiny  organisu 
cilled  bacteria.  The  bacteria  are  alwaj 
"resent  in  milk  and  in  most  other  thinq 
in  most  water,  in  the  air  and  in  the  s<] 
as  well  as  in  all  animal  products.  The 
are  millions  of  them  everywhere ;  the 
is  no  escaping  them,  no  place  on  tl 
earth  so  hot  or  so  cold,  so  wet  or  | 
dry  that  they  cannot  live.  On  yo| 
clothes,  vour  hands,  in  the  water  yi 
drink,  the  food  you  eat.  the  air  yi 
breathe,  the  ground  vou  walk  on,  the 
bacteria  are  present  in  numbers  past  i 
comprehension. 

But  with  a  few  exceptions  these  b;J 
teria  will  not  harm  you  in  the  least.  1 
far  the  greater  number  of  them  a 
either  neutral  or  beneficial.  If  it  we 
not  for  their  action  in  breaking  do\ 
organic  matter  and  reducing  it  to  simpl 
forms,  we  could  not  long  live  on  tl 
earth. 

Get  clearly  in  mind  that  the  bactei 
themselves  are  not  "sour"  but  that  t 
sourness    is    a    condition    which  an- 
through  their  presence  and  activity, 
they   were   not    there    milk    would  r 
sour.    The  fewer  there  are  in  the  m 
the  less  rapidlv  will  souring  take  plal 
The  cleaner  the  milk  is  to  start  with  tf 
smaller  number  of  bacteria  it  will  c( 
tain.     The  temperature  at  which  it 
kept  afterwards  will  determine  how  f 
thev  will  multiplv. 

At  ordinary  temperatures  the  hacte 
are  very  active  and  will  increase  ve 
rapidly  in  numbers.  In  the  process 
living,  growing  and  reproducing  th 
selves  thev  use,  we  may  almost  say  th 
eat.  the  sugar  in  the  milk,  transformif 
it  into  lactic  acid  which  they  give  off  If 
a  waste  product  of  their  life  and  activil 
This  lactic  acid  is  the  "sournness"  whip 
comes  in  milk. 

It  naturally  follows  that  the  amoil 
of  this  waste  product  lactic  acid,  in  tp 
milk,  or  its  degree  of  sourness  will  c| 
pend  altogether  on  the  number  and  act 
ity  of  the  bacteria  which  are  eating  t 
sugar   and   transforming   it    into  lac 
acid.     If  there  are  very  few  to  sti 
with,  the  souring  will  proceed  slow 
If  there  are  many  it  will  proceed  mc 
rapidly.    If  the  milk  is  kept  at  a  I< 
temperature  the  bacteria  are  less  actj 
and  will  multiply  less  rapidly  than  at] 
higher  temperature.    Cleanliness  to  sti 
with  and   low   temperatures  afterwarp 
are  the  two  factors  which  keep  down  « 
number  of  bacteria  and  delay  souriJ 

First  of  all  we  should  get  clearly  » 
mind  the  fact  that  practically  all  chanss 
which  take  place  in  milk  result  from  tp 
action  of  these  bacteria.  Also  that  th* 
bacteria  are  present  in  countless  numbos 
everywhere.  Then  we  will  be  ready  p 
take  un  the  question  of  what  we  can  § 
to  destroy  them  or  to  retard  their  act! 
and  save  great  losses  from  "sour"  ml 

In  the  next  article  in  this  series  we  \w 
take  up  the  processes  through  which  thil! 
bacteria  produce  these  changes  in  ml 


July,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND    DAIRY  M A  X 


Page  Three 


ind  in  succeeding  articles  we  will  take 
jp  the  methods  by  which  these  processes 
l;an  be  retarded  or  stopped  altogether, 
ft  is  really  all  very  simple.  There  is  no 
leed  of  saying  that  a  thunder  shower  or 


some  other  outside  cause  made  the  milk 
sour  when  the  fact  is  that  lack  of  cleanli- 
ness in  handling  or  lack  of  cooling  was 
the  cause.  There  is  no  magic  about  this 
matter ;  simply  common  sense. 


Production  Retarded  by  Late  Spring 

Result  of  Unfavorable  Weather  Conditions  Still  Showing 
in  Records  of  Boston  Dealers— Sales 
Make  Good  Increase 


The  effect  of  the  backward  spring 
s  still  showing  in  the  records  of  pur- 
:hases  by  the  Boston  dealers  buying  un- 
ier  the  surplus  plan.  The  actual  pur- 
:hases  by  these  dealers  in  May  were 
slightly  higher  than  May,  1925,  but  this 
was  due  in  large  measure  to  the  new  areas 
which  have  been  taken  on  by  these  deal- 
;rs.  It  does  not  represent  an  increase  in 
>roduction  from  the  same  patrons  who 
vere  shipping  a  year  previous.  The  in- 
'.rease  comes  from  an  increase  in  the 
lumber  of  producers. 

A  more  accurate  indication  of  the  pro- 
luction  is  a  comparison  of  the  increase  in 
nirchases  from  April  to  May  as  corn- 
Dared  with  last  year.  There  is  always  an 
increase  from  April  to  May  but  this  year 
he  increase  was  nine  per  cent,  instead  of 
ileven  per  cent.  The  late  spring  and  un- 
favorable weather  for  milk  production 
show  in  this  relatively  smaller  increase, 
n  spite  of  the  cool  weather,  unfavor- 
ible  to  large  milk  consumption,  sales  were 
.ix  per  cent,  higher  than  they  were  in 
May,  1925.  This  left  the  surplus  about 
the  same  as  last  year.  The  purchases, 
sales  and  surplus  in  millions  of  pounds 
>n  April  and  May  and  in  May,  1925, 
jvere  as  follows: 

1926  1926  1925 
Apr.      May  May 

3urchases   52.4      57.0  54.9 

sales   26.5      27.0  25.5 

surplus   50.6%    55.0%  55.9% 

The  price  for  May  was  the  highest 
)rice  for  the  month  which  has  been  paid 
;ince  1920.  Holding  the  8>^  cent  price 
:hrough  May  brought  the  fluid  milk 
jrice  70  cents  a  hundred  higher  than  it 
was  in  May,  1925.  Butter  prices  were 
Yi  cents  lower  than  last  year  which  made 
he  surplus  price  eight  cents  a  hundred 
ess  than  in  the  previous  year.  The  re- 
ult  was  a  price  for  all  milk  delivered  of 
!9  cents  a  hundred  higher  than  in  May, 
ii925.  The  comparison  of  prices  for 
April  and  May  and  for  May,  1925,  is  as 
follows : 


1926  1926  1925 

Apr.  May  Apr. 

Fluid   $3.22  $3.22  $2.52 

Surplus                    1.50  1.56  1.64 

Net  price                  2.41  2.37  2.08 

Average  butter  per 

pound   400  .411  .427 

COST  OF  PRODUCTION 

Grain  averages  about  $5  per  ton  less 
than  last  year  while  hay  is  a  little  higher. 
Comparative  prices  are : 

1926  1926  1925 

May  June  June 

Grain,  per  ton....$47.98  $45.86  $50.73 

Hay,  per  ton  ....  15.25  14.75  14.16 

Labor,  per  hour     .302  .302  .302 

NEW  YORK  AND  BOSTON  PRICES 

The  League  New  York  pool  price  in 
May,  10th  zone,  3.7  per  cent,  test,  was 
$2.24,  compared  with  the  Boston  weighted 
price  of  $2.37.  Boston  was  13  cents  per 
cwt.  higher.  The  Boston  fluid  price  is 
17  cents  a  hundred  above  New  York. 

FLUID  MILK  PRICES 

Practically  all  markets  dropped  their 
milk  prices  with  Boston  in  June  except 
markets  which  were  already  down.  Wor- 
cester is  the  only  market  which  was  lower 
than  last  year.  Most  markets  were  higher 
than  last  year. 

PRODUCERS 
LOCAL  MARKET  PRICES  (per  qt.) 

1925  1926 

June  June 

Boston   $.070  $.075 

Lawrence   070  .075 

Lowell                                .070  .075 

Haverhill   070  .075 

Manchester   060  .070 

Nashua   :  060  .080 

Concord,  N.  H  065  .065 

Worcester   070  .065 

Holyo^e   075  .075 

Springfield   075  .075 

Providence   070  .075 

Fall  River   075  .075 

Newport,  R.  1  080  .090 

Brockton   082  .085 

New  Bedford   082  .0825 


Schedule  of  Prices  for  Boston 

Based  on  8£  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  July  1,  1926,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 


At  R.  R.  Stations  Outs'ule  Massachusetts 

Cwt. in 


Cwt. in  Cwt. in 


8qt. 

8/,qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

2VMt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21J*qt. 

40qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

1 

1-20 

.579 

.618 

.732 

1.489 

1.583 

2.993 

3.462 

3.464 

3.479 

2 

21-40 

.569 

.608 

.722 

1.464 

1.558 

2.958 

3.404 

3.409 

3.438 

3 

41-60 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.444 

1.538 

2.928 

3.357 

3.366 

3.404 

4 

61-80 

.549 

.588 

.702 

1.434 

1.528 

2.898 

3.334 

3.344 

3.369 

5 

81-100 

.544 

.583 

.692 

1.414 

1.508 

2.873 

3.287 

3.300 

3.340 

6 

101-120 

.539 

.578 

.682 

1.404 

1.498 

2.848 

3.264 

3.278 

3.311 

7 

121-140 

.534 

.573 

.677 

1.394 

1.483 

2.828 

3.241 

3.245 

3.287 

8 

141-160 

.524 

.563 

.667 

1.379 

1.473 

2.803 

3.206 

3.224 

3.258 

9 

161-180 

.519 

.558 

.662 

1.369 

1.463 

2.783 

3.183 

3.202 

3.235 

10 

181-200 

.514 

.553 

.652 

1.364 

1.448 

2.768 

3.171 

3.169 

3.218 

11 

201-220 

.509 

.548 

.647 

1.349 

1.438 

2.748 

3.136 

3.147 

3.194 

12 

221-240 

.504 

.543 

.642 

1.339 

1.423 

2.728 

3.113 

3.114 

3.171 

13 

241-260 

.494 

.533 

.637 

1.334 

1.418 

2.718 

3.101 

3.103 

3.159 

14 

261-280 

.489 

.528 

.637 

1.319 

1.408 

2.698 

3.066 

3.081 

3.136 

15 

281-300 

.489 

.528 

.632 

1.314 

1.403 

2.683 

3.055 

3.070 

3.119 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

1 

1-20 

.599 

.638 

.752 

1.499 

1.593 

2.993 

3.485 

3.486 

3.479 

2 

21-40 

.584 

.623 

.737 

1.474 

1.568 

2.958 

3.427 

3.431 

3.438 

3 

41-60 

.579 

.618 

.732 

1.464 

1.553 

2.928 

3.404 

3.399 

3.404 

4 

61-80 

.574 

.613 

.727 

1.444 

1.538 

2.898 

3.357 

3.366 

3.369 

5 

81-100 

.569 

.608 

.712 

1.434 

1.528 

2.873 

3.334 

3.344 

3.340 

6 

101-120 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.424 

1.508 

2.848 

3.311 

3.300 

3.311 

7 

121-140 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.409 

1.498 

2.828 

3.276 

3.278 

3.287 

8 

141-160 

.554 

.593 

.702 

1.404 

1.493 

2.803 

3.264 

3.267 

3.258 

9 

161-180 

.549 

.588 

.697 

1.394 

1.478 

2.783 

3.241 

3.234 

3.235 

10 

181-200 

.549 

.588 

.692 

1.379 

1.468 

2.768 

3.206 

3.213 

3.218 

Where  milk  is  bought  by  weight  and  test,  the  dealer  will  pay  the  average  price 
for  92  score  fresh  butter  as  quoted  by  the  U.  S.  D.  A.  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
Economics  at  Boston  for  the  month.  The  price  of  1/10  pound  butter,  as  above 
stated,  shall  be  added  for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  above  3.7  per  cent,  and  deducted 
for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  below  3.7  per  cent,  for  each  cwt.  of  milk  so  purchased. 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  0.75c  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  May,  1926 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt. 

Butter-fat 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

Test 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patron 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt. 

Hood,  lst-15th  ... 

uy2% 

.40 

1.780 

.430 

.572 

.1860 

Hood,  lst-15th  .. 

20 

.40 

2.609 

.430 

.560 

.1860 

Hood,  16th-31st 

....uy2 

.40 

1.585 

.420 

.547 

.1380 

Hood,  16th-31st 

....20 

.40 

2.296 

.420 

.535 

.1380 

Whiting   

20 

.30 

2.034 

.470 

.572 

.1820 

Turner  Centre  .. 

 12H 

.40 

.750 

.455 

.515 

.2768 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  May,  1926 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  May  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 

If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.041  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract  $.041 

for  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.  If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  May  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments.  _ 

To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the  Hood, 

Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deduction  as  given  in  cream  price  table  is  made  from  the  zone  prices  as  figured  to  equalize  prices  between 

milk  and  cream  patrons. 

7one  1     Zone  2    Zone  3    Zone  4    Zone  5    Zone  6    Zone  7    Zone  8    Zone  9    Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12   Zone  13    Zone  14  Zone  15 
Miles  from  Boston  1-20      21-40      4L60      61-80    81-100  101-120    121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  ■  221-240  241-260  261-280  281"300 

aas  i  Miik  See  zzzzzzzzzlm  3.43s  3.404  3.369  3.340  3.311  3.28?  3.258  3.235  3.2m  um  sm  3.159  3.135  3.119 

Class  2  Milk  Price    1.561       1.561       1.561       1.561       1.561      1.561       1.561       1.561       1.561       1.561       1.561       1.561       1.561       1.561  1.561 


Class  1 
(Mkt.  Milk) 

Dealers 
Hood,  lst-15th  ....61.9% 
'Hood,  16th-31st  ....52.4 
Whiting  in  40's  ....61.3 
Whiting  in  21^'s  ..61.3 
Turner   Centre  ....56.8 

Alden  Bros  47.3 

F.  S.  Cummings  ....52.7 

F.  E.  Boyd   61.6 

Childs   Bros  80.4 

IWeighted  Avg  58.9 

A — Excluding  Cream 


Class  2 
(Mfg.  Milk) 


A 

B 

2.449 

38.1% 

54.7v/< 

,  2.553 

2.528 

2.506 

2.484 

2.467 

47.6 

61.8 

2.432 

2.412 

2.394 

2.375 

2.360 

2.345 

38.7 

53.9 

2.512 

2.487 

2.466 

2.445 

2.427 

2.409 

38.7 

53.9 

2.503 

2.469 

2.443 

2.429 

2.402 

2.389 

43.2 

65.6 

2.318 

2.295 

2.276 

2.256 

2.240 

2.223 

52.7 

2.463 

2.444 

2.428 

2.411 

2.398 

2.384 

47.3 

2.567 

2.546 

2.528 

2.509 

2.494 

2.479 

38.4 

2.738 

2.713 

2.692 

2.670 

2.653 

2.635 

19.6 

3.099 

3.066 

3.038 

3.010 

2.987 

2.964 

41.1 

55."' 

2.524 

2.500 

2.480 

2.460 

2.443 

2.425 

Plan. 

B — Including  Cream  Plan. 

2.434 
2.332 
2.394 
2.369 
2.209 
2.372 
2.466 
2.620 
2.944 
2.411 


2.416 
2.317 
2.377 
2.356 
2.193 
2.359 
2.451 
2.602 
2.898 
2.394 


2.402 
2.305 
2.363 
2.342 
2.180 
2.348 
2.439 
2.588 
2.884 
2.381 


2.391 
2.296 
2.352 
2.322 
2.170 
2.340 
2.430 
2.577 
2.873 
2.370 


2.376 
2.284 
2.337 
2.309 
2.157 
2.328 
2.417 
2.563 
2.859 
2.357 


2.362 
2.272 
2.323 
2.288 
2.144 
2.318 
2.405 
2.548 
2.845 
2.343 


2.355 
2.265 
2.316 
2.282 
2.137 
2.312 
2.399 
2.541 
2.837 
2.336 


2.341 

2.253 
2.302 
2.268 
2.124 
2.301 
2.387 
2.527 
2.823 
2.322 


2.330 
2.244 
2.291 
2.261 
2.114 
2.293 
2.378 
2.516 
2.809 
2.312 


4 


Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1926 


GOOD  PROGRESS  MADE 

Canvass  in  Maine  Adds  Many  New 
Members  to  Association — Old 
Members  Sign  New  Orders 

Reports  from  our  field  men  in  Maine 
indicate  that  the  canvass  to  put  all  mem- 
bers on  the  new  basis  of  payment  of  dues 
and  the  roundup  of  non-members  is  go- 
ing along  satisfactorily.  Now  that  the 
field  men  have  entered  territory  where 
there  are  larger  producers  than  in  the 
region  where  they  started  progress  is 
decidedly  better. 

One  of  the  outstanding  features  of  the 
work  in  the  past  month  is  the  difference 
in  point  of  view  between  the  dairymen 
who  have  been  reading  about  the 
MEM  PA  in  the  New  England  Home- 
stead and  those  who  have  not.  Men  who 
get  the  Dairyman  are  well  posted  on 
wliat  tlie  association  is  doing  and  men 
who  have  the  ±lomestead  do  not  need 
any  explanation  ot  the  work  ot  tne  as- 
sociation, iney  have  a  lot  ot  questions 
to  ask  but  in  general  they  appreciate  the 
good  work  tne  association  has  done, 
i^very  one  of  the  held  men  reports  that 
Homestead  subscribers  will  sign  up  more 
readily  than  those  who  do  not  see  the 
paper.  We  appreciate  the  steady  sup- 
port which  this  generally  read  farm  paper 
iwb  given  us. 

the  discouraging  times  for  the  new 
field  men  come  in  towns  where  the  pro- 
ducers are  small,  few  in  number  and  not 
at  all  posted  on  what  the  association  has 
done  and  can  do  for  the  dairy  farmers  of 
Mew  h-ngland.  Then  it  is  a  case  of  go- 
ing through  the  slow  process  of  explain- 
ing everything  from  the  beginning,  fell- 
ing the  past  history  of  the  association 
and  explaining  in  detail  how  it  goes  about 
the  big  business  of  negotiating  prices 
month  by  month.  Even  after  this  ex- 
planation there  are  a  number  of  producers 
who  want  to  "think  it  over"  a  little 
longer  before  joining  the  association.  In 
marked  contrast  to  such  men  are  the 
larger  producers  at  the  more  important 
shipping  stations.  In  such  places  the  re- 
turns have  been  excellent. 

Ask  Many  Questions 

Keen  interest  is  shown  by  the  Maine 
farmers  in  the  question  of  the  effect  the 
increase  in  the  tariff  on  butter,  from 
8  to  12  cents  a  pound,  had  on  their  milk 
prices.  They  know  that  the  butter  quota- 
tions are  lower  than  they  were  a  year 
previous  and  it  is  difficult  for  them  to 
believe  that  the  increase  in  tariff  had 
any  real  affect  on  the  prices.  The  field 
men  have  pointed  out  that  while  the 
quotations  are  actually  lower  than  ia 
year  ago  they  are  not  so  low  as  they 
would  have  been  if  the  increased  tariff 
had  not  been  in  effect.  The  quotation  in 
April  this  year,  when  the  increased  tariff 
went  into  effect,  was  five  cents  below 
what  it  was  last  year  in  the  same  month. 
If  it  had  followed  along  down  from  that 
level,  as  it  did  in  1925,  it  would  have 
been  considerably  lower  than  it  is.  The 
effect  of  the  increased  tariff  has  been  to 
save  prices  from  going  lower  rather 
than  to  increase  them.  While  the  pres- 
ent comparatively  low  level  of  butter 
prices  is  the  result  of  world  conditions 
of  production  and  demand  the  increased 
tariff  has  had  an  effect  in  strengthening 
the  situation.  Twelve  cents  a  pound  on 
butter  is  practically  prohibitive  unless 
our  domestic  supply  falls  short  of  our 
needs. 

Looking  over  the  records  of  the  field 
men  it  is  apparent  that  our  old  members 
are  responding  well  to  the  call  to  renew 
their  membership  on  the  new  basis  of 
dues  payment.  Only  a  very  few  of  them 
raise  any  question  as  to  the  need  of  in- 
creasing the  service  given  by  the  as- 
sociation to  its  members  or  of  the  neces- 
sity for  some  slight  increase  in  dues  to 
meet  the  increased  cost  of  such  service. 
More  than  all  else  the  staunch  members 
who  have  stood  by  the  association  for 
years  are  asking  our  men  to  get  in  the 
non-members.  Free  riding,  getting  the 
benefits  of  the  work  of  the  association, 
without  sharing  in  the  expense  is  ex- 
ceedingly unpopular  in  the  Maine  dis- 
tricts now  being  canvassed. 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  May,  1926 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  or  below  3.7  per 
cent,  test  for  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  sized  container:  Per 
&y2  quart  can,  $0,007;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,009;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,018;  per  21^4 
quart  can,  $0,019;  per  40  quart  can,  $0,036;  per  cwt.,  $0,041. 

Boston  District 

Class  1    Class  2   Size  of  Can  


(Mkt. 

(Mfg. 

8y2  20 

21% 

40 

Dealers 

Milk) 

Milk) 

Quart  Quart 

Quart 

Quart 

Cwt. 

Elm  Spring  Farms 

7th  zone  (121-140) 

64.1% 

35.9% 

.469  1.132 

1.204 

2.290 

2.663 

J.  B.  Prescott 

76.8 

23.2 

Delivered  price 

per  cwt. 

3.366 

Northern  Market  District 


Dealers 

Class  1 

Class  2 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

Wason-MacDonald 

(Mkt. 

(Mfg. 

in 

in 

in 

Haverhill 

Milk) 

Milk) 

8y2's 

20's 

40's 

88.4% 

11.6% 

3.639 

3.639 

3.639 

3.095 

3.145 

3.186 

Cwt. 


Findeisen  Farms 

Lawrence 

Delivered  66.9 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 

Manchester 

Delivered  76.1 

3rd  zone   

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

Blake,  E.  C. 

Manchester 

Delivered  62.9 

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

8th  zone   

Boyd,  W.  T.  &  Sons 

Nashua 

Delivered  89.7 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Nashua 


33.1 


23.9 


37.1 


Delivered 


.89. 


10.3 


11. 


3.460 
3.116 
3.043 


3.460 
3.168 
3.147 


3.460 
3.210 
3.178 


3.131 
2.840 
2.813 
2.665 


3.167 
2.954 
2.866 
2.844 


2.890 
2.677 
2.649 
2.635 
2.623 


3.446 


Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Dealers  (Mkt. 
Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 

Burton,  H.  T  88.9% 

Chambers,  G.  T   74.2 

Fiske,  E.  A.    85.4 

Greenville   Dairy   ....  97.8 

Monroe,  A.  B.   100. 

Providence  Dairy  ....  77.6 

Turner   Centre    78.4 

Viall,  W.  C   85.9 

Warnock,  C.  A  100. 

Wescott,  E.  P  100. 

PER  10  QT.  CAN 

W.  B.  Brown    82. 

Grant,  C.  W   85. 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 
11.1% 
25.8 
14.6 
2.2 


22.4 
21.6 
14.1 


18. 
15. 


Deliv- 
ered 
3.596 
3.252 
3.509 
3.796 
3.854 
3.338 
3.364 
3.526 
3.850 
3.850 

.741 


Zone  1 
1-20 
Miles 
3.325 
3.026 
3.250 
3.499 
3.550 
3.151 
3.120 
3.264 
3.546 
3.546 


.707 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  2  Zone  3    Zone  Willi- 

21-40  41-60     net  mantic 

Miles  Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.300  3.225   

3.005     2.941  2.863   

3.226  3.152   

3.472  3.387   

3.522  3.436   

3.124  3.070     2.865  3.044 

3.098  3.031   

3.166  3.166   

3.518  3.432   

3.518  3.432   


.679 
.698 


.668 
.686 


.649 


EASTERN  STATES 
EXPOSITION 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


SEPT.  19-25,  1926 


JN  presenting  its  Tenth 
Anniversary  Exposition 
the  Eastern  States  manage- 
ment is  offering  #98,000 
in  premiums,  the  largest 
amount  in  its  history.  The 
quality  and  strength  of  its 
dairy  cattle  classes  are  un- 
surpassed. The  awards  of 
its  judging  rings  are  the 
goal  of  every  breeder. 

And  it  is  a  friendly  show 
— friendly  to  breeder,  ex- 
hibitor and  visitor.  The 
Exposition  management  ex- 
tends a  cordial  invitation  to 
show  your  herds  and  to 
attend  its  greatest  fall  show. 

Premium  lists  and  entry 
blanks  are  now  available. 

Entries  close  Wednesday, 
August  25. 

For  information,  entry 
blanks,  etc.,  write  to 

CHARLES  A.  NASH 

General  Manager 

292  Worthington  Street 
Springfield,  Mass. 


When  you  buy  accept  only  the  genuine 
Guaranteed  Dr.  Clark  purity  milk  strain- 
ing cotton,  sterilized  6 -inch  pads  for  all 
strainers.  If  not  at  your  dealers,  parcel 
post  by  return  mail  by  H.  C.  Soul*,  N.E. 
distributor,  Canton,  Maine.  ThinJIimsy 
substitutes  will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


Well  Planned  Farming 
Brings  Greater  Profits 


m  jp  Rhode  Island  ■ 
Hospital  Trust  Compamj 


The  production  of  high-quality  milk,  veg- 
etables, fruit,  eggs,  and  poultry,  by  efficient 
and  businesslike  methods,  affords  an  oppor- 
tunity for  greater  profits  to  Rhode  Island  farm- 
ers. Many  of  our  customers  have  found  the 
advice  of  our  Agricultural  Department  of 
practical  value  in  attaining  such  results.  A 
cordial  invitation  is  extended  to  anyone  inter- 
ested in  agriculture  to  call  and  talk  over  their 
plans  for  the  coming  year  with  the  manager 
of  our  Agricultural  Department.  15  Westminster  St..  providence 


uly,  1920 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


k  STRONG 
ARGUMENT 

rhe  fact  that  one  piece 
)f  equipment  in  the 
reamery  or  dairy  can 
asily  become  a  source 
>f  contamination  is  the 
trongest  argument  for 
:he  utmost  care  in  sani- 
tary cleanliness. 

The  fact  also  that  thou- 
sands of  creamery  men, 
dairymen  and  cheese- 
makers  insure  this  ut- 
most care  in  sanitation 
by  the  use  of 

is  the  strongest  proof 
that  you  will  also  bene- 
fit by  its  greater  sanitary 
protection  to  your  pro- 
duct. 

The  hot  temperatures  of 
summer  are  so  near  at 
hand  that  good  business 
judgment  will  urge  you 
to  place  your  order  with 
your  supply  house  now. 

IT  CLFANS  CLEAN 


CREAM  PLAN  CHANGES 


Indian  in  circle 


in  every  package 


THE  J.  B.  FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


The  Wyandotte  Booth  at  the  Ses- 
qui-Centennial  Exposition,  Phila- 
delphia, June,  1  to  December  1,  will 
be  found  in  the  Manufacturers' 
Building,  Group  D,  Sec,  1,  Block  2. 


Plan  to  attend  the  Dairy  Industries 
Exposition,  Detroit,  Oct.  6  to  14. 
The  Wyandotte  Representatives 
will  welcome  you  at  Booths  430, 
431  and  432. 


Farmers  who  wish  to  continue  to  ship 
vnder  the  cream  plan  will  have  to  hear 
their  share  of  the  burden  during  the  jea- 
son  of  short  production  now  coming  on. 
Through  a  decision  of  the  association 
sales  committee  early  in  the  year  modi- 
fications of  the  present  cream  plan  were 
worked  out  in  order  to  preserve  its  good 
features  and  at  the  same  time  prevent 
it  from  forcing  dealers  to  purchase  out- 
side milk  in  order  to  meet  their  needs 
during  the  short  season.  The  principal 
feature  of  the  modifications  is  that  the 
price  which  cream  plan  patrons  will  be 
charged  for  skim  milk  kept  at  home  for 
feeding  purposes  will  be  materially  in- 
creased during  the  short  season.  This 
will  tend  to  bring  more  of  it  back  into 
the  fluid  milk  class  and  thus  lessen  the 
need  for  purchase  of  outside  milk.  If 
milk  becomes  quite  short  in  the  fall  the 
price  for  skim  fed  on  the  farm  may  be 
advanced  to  as  high  as  $1  a  hundred. 

Under  the  new  plan  the  price  which 
farmers  will  be  charged  for  skim  milk 
kept  at  home  under  the  cream  plan  will 
be  made  a  matter  of  negotiation  between 
the  dealers  and  the  sales  committee  each 
month.  So  far  as  possible  such  prices 
will  be  decided  upon  well  in  advance  so 
that  farmers  will  have  a  full  opportunity 
to  adjust  themselves  to  the  changes. 
While  many  of  them  might  be  quite  will- 
ing to  feed  skim  to  pigs  and  young  stock 
at  20  or  30  cents  a  hundred  if  the  price 
is  increased  to  80  cents  or  $1  a  hundred 
it  would  be  a  high  cost  feed  and  most 
of  them  would  probably  want  to  return 
to  shipping  milk. 

The  justice  of  this  arrangement  is 
obvious.  Under  the  cream  plan  all  milk 
shippers  were  required  to  "equalize" 
their  price  with  that  of  the  cream  ship- 
pers through  a  deduction  from  their 
regular  composite  milk  price  as  figured 
under  the  surplus  plan.  In  times  when 
skim  milk  was  not  needed  in  the  markets 
it  was  good  policy  to  make  this  equaliza- 
tion, as  the  resultant  price  to  all  was 
better  and  the  cream  shipper  had  the 
advantage  of  cheap  skim  to  feed  on  the 
farm.  In  times  when  the  skim  milk  is 
needed  in  the  market,  however,  it  is  un- 
fair to  ask  the  milk  shipper  to  pay  this 
equalization  cost  as  it  in  no  way  in- 
creases the  composite  price.  The  dealers 
must  have  a  full  supply  of  milk  and  they 
will  buy  outside  milk  during  the  short 
season  if  their  regular  patrons  do  not 
furnish  sufficient  to  supply  them.  Un- 
der these  conditions  it  is  of  no  advantage 
to  the  milk  shipper  to  have  skim  milk 
kept  at  home  by  some  other  regular 
patrons  of  his  dealer. 

Under  the  modifications  to  the  cream 
plan  the  value  of  the  skim  milk  will  be 
fixed  by  its  value  in  the  market  rather 
than  its  value  on  the  farm.  When  the 
cream  plan  was  started  by  Turner  Cen- 
tre System  and  afterwards  adopted  by 
the  Hood  and  Whiting  companies  by- 
products made  from  skim  milk  were  of 
little  value.  The  cost  of  manufacturing 
them  brought  the  return  to  the  farmer 
so  low  that  it  was  a  good  business  to  keep 
a  considerable  quantity  of  this  skim  milk 
on  the  farm  and  save  transportation  costs 
at  the  same  time  giving  the  farmers  a 
cheap  food  for  young  stock  and  pigs. 
The  cream  plan  met  the  need  well  and 
kept  back  a  large  amount  of  skim  milk 
on  the  farm  where  it  had  a  value  and  off 
the  market  where  it  not  only  had  no 
value  but  where  it  threatened  to  disrupt 
the  market  during  flush  seasons. 

Changing  conditions  have  done  away 
with  the  chief  reason  for  using  the' 
cream  plan  in  connection  with  the  sur- 
plus plan.  The  value  of  by-products 
made  from  skim  milk  has  now  increased 
to  a  point  where  it  is  doubtful  if  any 
skim  milk  can  be  fed  economically  in 
any  section  which  is  readily  accessible 
to  the  markets.  If  the  value  of  skim 
milk  for  by-products  should  again  fall 
so  low  that  it  would  not  pay  to  manu- 
facture them  the  cream  plan  might  again 
have  great  value  in  stabilizing  the  mar- 
kets by  keeping  a  large  amount  of  skim 
milk  on  the  farms.  But  at  present  it  is 
worth  more  in  the  markets  and  will  be 
during  the  next  six  months.  Therefore 
the  sales  committee  will  negotiate  with 
the  dealers  the  prices  which  will  be  paid 
to  the  farmers  for  skim  which  is  kept  at 
home    under    the    cream    plan.  These 


Dont  be  a  Kettle  Slave 

Pump  your  hot  water 

PLENTY  of  hot  water  for  every  home,  at  any  hour,  in  any 
season  of  the  year— from  the  kitchen  pump. 

And  you  can  now  have  this  city  convenience  without  water 
pressure,  and  without  coal  or  gas. 

Simple  New  Method 

Use  a  New  Perfection  Kerosene  Water  Heater  (write  for 
booklet)  with  your  kitchen  pump  and  a  three-way  valve.* 
If  you  want  hot  water  turn  the  valve,  then  pump  as  usual. 
If  you  want  cold  water,  turn  the  valve  back. 

For  Every  Household  Use 

Now,  you  may  heat  enough  hot  water  for  a  shave  or  baby's 
bottle  in  a  jiffy — enough  to  scald  the  milk  cans  or  the  dishes 

in  twenty  minutes — a  quantity  suffi- 
cient for  a  bath  requires  only  thirty 
minutes. 

Economical  Too 

Order  a  New  Perfection  Kerosene 
Water  Heater  from  your  plumber 
today.  There  are  four  reasonably- 
priced  models.  The  one  pictured  is 
No.  41 1  with  the  fast  "Cobalt"  Blue 
Chimney  Burner  and  double  copper 
heating  coils.  It  burns  Socony  Kero- 
sene— the  clean,  economical  fuel. 


*Your  nearest  plumber 
can  install  it. 


MFECTION 

Kerosene  Water  Heaters 

STANDARD  OIL  GO.  OF  NEW  YORK 

26  Broadway 


Page  Sir 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1926 


If 

farmers 
only  f 
knew  • 


Would  farmers  own  any  separator  but  a 
Sharpies  if  they  knew  the  complete 
truth  about  suction  feed? 
The  Sharpies  suction  feed  is  the  only 
separator  that  gets  all  the  cream 
whether  the  separator  turns  fast,  slow, 
or  medium. 

That's  because  the  milk  is  sucked  up 
into  the  bowl  from  below  only  as  fast  as 
it  can  skim  absolutely  clean. 
The  Sharpies  is  the  only  suction-feed 
separator  on  the  market.  Ask  for  litera- 
ture PROVING  suction-feed  superiority 
over  all  other  methods,  and  pointing  out 
the  dangers  of  cream  losses  in  any  grav- 
ity feed  machine. 

The  Sharpies  Co.,  Inc. 

Dept.  S-77 
Finance  Bldg.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


-also  the  Sharpies 
Milker-  the  only  SAFE 
milker  for  your  cows 
ASK  WHY 


SAVE  BY  MAIL- 


You  can  bank,  by  mail,  in  the  comfort  of 
your  own  home,  in  this  safe  Massachusetts 
Savings  Bank,  where  for  72  years  we  have 
never  paid  less  than  4%. 


Our  last  dividend 

was  at  the  rate  ot 


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INTEREST  BEGINS  15TH  OF  EACH  MONTH 

ASSETS  $14,000,000 

Send  us  your  check  or  money  order  and 
pass  book  will  be  sent  you  promptly.  Send 
for  the  last  statement. 

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CRUMB'S  Hanging 

STANCHIONS 

are  guaranteed  to  please 
the  purchaser.  They  are 
shipped  subject  to  trial 
in  the  buyer's  stable. 
They  are  right.  Send 
for  booklet. 

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Box  10.  Forreitrille  Conn, 

FRYE'S 
Cattle  Cards 

have  STRONG  HANDLES 
and  FIRM  TEETH  which 
will  $ive  you  lasting  service. 

Our  name  on  every  card. 
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prices  will  be  steadily  increased  as  the 
need  for  more  fluid  milk  increases.  At 
the  same  time  the  equilization  charge 
against  the  milk  shippers  will  grow  less. 
If  the  need  is  great  enough  and  the  price 
charged  for  skim  goes  high  enough  the 
equalization  charge  will  be  done  away 
with  altogether. 

SSrlSrlSZSZ5rlSrl5rlSZ5rl5HSZ5rlFrl5rl5^i 

SOUTHERN  MARKET  5j 
DISTRICT 

CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
Slide  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 
Telephone,  Union  6469 

JUNE  PRICES 

Providence,  R.  1   7^c  per  quart 

Fall  River,  Mass   7l/2c  per  quart 

Brockton,   Mass   8V2C  per  quart 

New  Bedford,  Mass   9c  per  quart 

(To  June  13) 

New  Bedford,   Mass   8^c  per  quart 

(June  13) 

Newport,  R.  1   9c  per  quart 

MARKET  CONDITIONS 
Providence  supply  has  increased  the 
past  month  with  nearly  all  dealers.  With 
some  the  percentage  of  surplus  has 
doubled  over  last  month  while  sales  have 
remained  about  the  same.  The  drop  of 
one  cent  in  price  the  first  of  the  month 
did  not  change  the  amount  sold  as  near 
as  I  am  able  to  check  it.  The  weather 
has  been  very  favorable  for  production 
and  very  unfavorable  to  increase  the 
sales.  The  cold,  wet  and  cloudy  weather 
is  a  decided  disadvantage  to  increase  the 
consumption,  and  with  three  stormy  Sun- 
days in  succession  the  trade  at  soda 
fountains  was  low.  A  good  warm  Sun- 
day will  increase  the  consumption  many 
thousands  of  quarts  in  every  city  and 
help  materially  to  dispose  of  much  that 
has  to  go  into  surplus. 

Business  is  dull  and  all  lines  fail  to 
show  any  activity  to  speak  of  and  the 
prospects  for  the  future  do  not  appear 
very  bright. 

The  Rhode  Island  State  Board  of  Agri- 
culture is  giving  out  applications  for 
licenses  to  producers  to  comply  with  the 
Rose  Milk  Law-,  which  takes  effect  July 
20,  and  request  that  they  be  returned 
promptly  so  that  regulations  governing 
the  sale  of  such  milk  may  be  complied 
with.  The  application  is  for  the  sale  of 
Grade  A  raw  or  pasteurized  milk.  A 
license  is  not  required  for  other  milk. 
Blue  printed  caps  will  mark  Grade  A 
raw  milk  and  red  tops  will  be  used  for 
the  pasteurized  product.  The  applicant 
is  required  to  give  his  address,  location 
of  his  dairy  and  state  whether  he  is  a 
producer  of  milk,  how  many  cows  he 
keeps,  whether  his  herd  is  under  state 
and  federal  supervision,  where  he  pro- 
poses to  sell  his  milk  and  how  far  his 
dairy  is  from  his  market.  All  Grade  A 
raw  milk  must  be  bottled  at  the  dairy 
where  it  is  produced  and  every  dairy 
producing  or  handling  this  milk  must  be 


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which  have  given  such  enthusiastic  satisfaction  since  they 
were  put  on  the  market  13  years  ago,  or  if  you  have  any 
other  inflation  type  milker,  you  can  better  it  at  a  small  ex- 
pense with  these  new  teat  cups. 

It  is  not  only  very  easy  to  clean,  but  it  milks  faster, 
cleaner  and  with  less  vacuum.  One  pull  and  it's  all  apart. 
Another  pull  and  it's  all  together  again. 

You  are  losing  money  every  night  and  morning  that 
you  still  continue  the  old  obsolete  hand  process.  Perfection 

milks  in  one-third  the  time  with 
a  gentle  suction  followed  by  a 
downward  squeeze — nature's  way. 
The  only  milker  in  which  suction 
and  squeeze  are  individually  con- 
trolled. 

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July,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


How  Many 

of  These 

Do  Yoi 

Get? 


GRADE  A 

|  PATPDN  Jo>™  Bum. 

THIS  IS  THE  jmOUWTTJF  VLMBLE  DIRT  FOUND  M  ONE  PINT  | 

>F  YOUR  MILK  EXAMINED  JUL  7  3  ISPS 

WANT  TO  COMPLIMENT  YOU  ON  THE  HIGH  GRADE  OF  THIS  I 
MILK  AND  CAN  ASSURE  YOU  THAT  YOUR  EFFORTS  ARE  | 
|  APPRECIATED. 

PrTTBOl-noH  DISTRICT  OA 


Is  it  any  won- 
der John  Burke 
felt  proud 
when  he  re- 
ceived his  "Grade  A"  card  shown  above?  And 
the  only  reason  he  got  it  was  CLEAN  MILK  — 
thanks  to  the  Purity  Strainer. 

You,  too,  can  get  the  "Grade  A"  test  in  the  same 
way — by  using  the  Dr.  Clark  Purity  Strainer. 
It  removes  ALL  the  dirt  at  the  first  straining. 
Not  a  particle  of  dirt,  dust  or  sediment  can  pass 
through  the  cotton  discs  because  they  are  tight- 
ly clamped  to  bottom 
of  strainer. 


Absolutely  guaranteed 
to  remove  ALL  the  dirt 
from  the  milk  or  money  refunded.  Thousands 
now  in  use.  Used  and  recommended  by  World's 
largest  dairies,  creameries  and  condensaries, 
and  also  endorsed  by  the  U.  S.  Government. 

Ask  your  dealer  to  show  you  a  Purity  Strainer. 
If  he  hasn't  it,  write  our  distributor,  name  be- 
low, for  full  information  and  prices. 

H.  C.  SOULE  -  Canton,  Maine 

Distributor  for  New  England  States 


The  Purity  Stamping  Company 


Dept.  C 


Battle  Creek,  Mich. 


Member  Federal 
Reserve  System 

Resources 
$14,000,000 

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(Corner  Court  St.) 


equipped  with  proper  facilities  for  sterili- 
zation of  cans,  bottles  and  other  ap- 
paratus. Franklin  N.  Strickland,  chemist 
and  executive  secretary  of  the  Food  and 
Drug  Commission,  will  analyze  the 
samples  as  to  bacteria,  etc.  According 
to  John  Dunn,  secretary  of  the  State 
Board  of  Agriculture,  probably  no  at- 
tempt would  be  made  to  have  all  the  rules 
and  regulations  enforced  at  once  as  no 
prosecutions  can  be  made  until  Janu- 
ary 1st.  The  State  Board  has  appointed 
as  inspector  William  Mathewson  of  John- 
son, a  cattle  commissioner.  He  is  not  a 
dairyman  and  has  continually  fought  the 
passage  of  the  Rose  Bill  the  past  two 
years.  This  appointment  is  not  taken 
kindly  by  many  producers.  At  this  time 
there  is  much  speculation  as  to  what  price 
the  milk  should  be  sold  for  and  how 
much  the  producer  should  receive.  Many 
are  of  the  opinion  it  should  be  from  two 
to  three  cents  per  quart  more  than  mar- 
ket milk  at  the  farm  or  dealer's  plant. 

Fall  River  has  had  surplus  varying  up 
to  20  per  cent,  the  past  month,  while 
Newport  market  had  more  than  40  per 
cent,  and  production  increasing  with  some 
increase  in  sales.  The  summer  trade  is 
just  coming  and  with  a  new  up  to  date 
hotel  opened,  prospects  look  much 
brighter  for  this  city  this  season  as 
reservations  have  been  made  for  nearly 
all  rooms  to  be  occupied  during  the  next 
month.  The  navy  has  had  a  fleet  of 
boats  in  and  reports  that  many  more  are 
to  continue  to  come  in  during  July  and 
August,  which  will  increase  milk  sales 
materially. 

The  Brockton  market  has  had  the 
competition  of  10  cent  milk  shipped  in 
from  Boston  to  certain  of  the  chain 
stores  since  June  1,  which  is  an  unfor- 
tunate competition  to  meet.  The  sales 
committee  met  and  took  the  matter  up 
with  the  dealers  and  decided  to  continue 
with  the  price  rather  than  drop  for  a 
month  or  so.  One  of  the  larger  dealers 
through  some  misunderstanding  had 
dropped  his  price  one  cent  to  his  trade. 
After  going  over  the  matter  with  him 
he  agreed  to  put  his  price  back  and  from 
reports  of  a  few  days  ago  this  market 
is  in  as  good  shape  as  could  be  expected 
under  the  circumstances  of  lost  trade  to 
chain  stores  and  an  increasing  supply. 
The  shoe  industry,  the  principal  business, 
appears  to  be  in  a  more  favorable  con- 
dition for  some  time  past. 

New  Bedford  continued  with  a  nine 
cent  price  until  June  13th.  The  dealers 
and  sales  committee  met  and  the  dealers 
requested  a  reduction  of  one  cent.  A 
very  careful  survey  of  the  market  was 
made  and  after  going  over  the  situation 
most  thoroughly  agreed  to  reduce  the 
price  three-quarters  of  a  cent,  making 
the  delivered  price  8%  cents.  We  have 
been  unable  to  sell  milk  for  all  our  pro- 
ducers for  some  time.  With  more  sur- 
plus in  the  market  than  ever  before  many 
producers  have  sold  to  small,  undesirable 
dealers  who  owe  them  much  money  and 
in  many  cases  will  never  be  able  to  pay. 
I  wish  that  producers  would  take  more 


In  goes 

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out  come 
 ^ 

Keep  your  dairy  fresh  ^r^! 
and  odorless  with 
GERM-X — a  sanitary 
deodorizer  and  disin- 
fectant. It  effectively 
kills  germs — sweetens 
and  purifies  where 
stale  odors  and  fla- 
vors have  crept  in. 
GERM-X  is  a  valuable 
aid  in  all  dairy  wash- 
ing and  cleansing. 


Loosens  slime. 
Kills  bacteria. 
Leaves  pails, 
separator, 
cans,  sweet 
and  clean. 


The  American  Lanolin  Corporation 

Lawrence,  Massachusetts 

ODORLESS  COLORLESS 
TASTELESS 


Your  Aims  and  Ours 
Are  the  Same 

You  want  College  Feed  Conference 
Board  Open  "Formula  Feeds  at  the  low- 
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these  feeds  as  low  as  possible  so  that 
more  of  them  will  be  used  by  you  and 
your  neighbors.    Ours  is  the 

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mixing  live  stock  and  poultry  feeds  ex- 
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you  and  ourselves  will  keep  up  to  full 
capacity  the  tremendous  tonnage  of 
this  mammoth  plant;  will  keep  down 
to  the  minimum  our  order  getting 
costs;  will  keep  up  to  notch  our 
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means  that  we  can  continue  to  give 
you  high-grade  feeds  at  the  lowest  pos- 
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Contracts  are  made  direct  with  com- 
munity groups  of  farmers  for  Amco 
Feed  Mixing  Service.  Talk  this  plan 
over  with  your  neighbors  and  then 
write  for  facts  and  prices  on  College 
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Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1926 


A  Milkei 
on  Whj 


trouble  and  get  in  touch  with  our  office 
and  get  information  regarding  certain 
dealers.  I  would  be  glad  to  advise  them 
at  any  time  of  the  undesirable  ones  and 
help  them  in  any  way  possible  rather 
than  have  them  continue  to  give  their 
milk  away  to  a  dealer  who  sells  at  a 
cut  price  to  the  disadvantage  of  other 
producers  and  dealers  who  are  paying  for 
their  milk.  Business  in  this  city  is  very 
poor,  nearly  all  mills  on  short  time  and 
many  people  unemployed.  From  the  as- 
sessor's office  it  is  reported  that  there 
are  1,669  vacant  tenements  in  the  city, 
according  to  the  reports  just  turned  in 
by  the  assistant  assessors  recently. 


SHARPLES 
MILKER 
saves  farmer 

$294  a  year 

Are  you  still  milking  by  hand? 

Nobody  could  ever  again  get  Mr.  R —  to 
milk  by  hand.  One  year's  trial  of  a  Sharpies 
Moto-Milker  with  his  24  cows  has  convinced 
him  for  life. 

"$294  saved  on  labor  costs  alone— a  bigger 
milk  yield — and  a  lower  bacteria  count 
than  I  could  ever  get  with  hand  milking," 
he  reports. 

You  too  can  find  hidden  dairy  profits  in 
either  the  Sharpies  Moto-AIilKer  or  the 
Sharpies  Pipe  Line  Milker.  Hand  milking 
is  becoming  as  old-fashioned  as  gravity 
separating  pans. 

Send  for  literature — it  will  give  you  impor- 
tant facts  about  YOUR  milKing  problem. 

The  Sharpies  Co.,  Inc. 

Dept.  M-77,  FinanceBldg.,Philadelphia,Pa. 


-and  you  can  skim 
clean  at  any  speed 
with  a  Sharpies  SEPARATOR 

ASK  WHY 


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AT  RATE  OF 


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INTEREST 
BEGINS 

10th  of  each 
month 


Only  a 
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That's  all  we  do  —  take 
care  of  and  invest  peo- 
ple's savings.  May  we 
care  for  yours,  too  ? 

Write  for 
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Incorporated  1869 
75  TREMONT  ST. 
BOSTON.  MASS. 


CONSIDER  MERGER 

Plans  are  under  consideration  for 
bringing  the  three  dairy  systems,  or- 
ganized around  local  markets,  Spring- 
field, Worcester  and  Manchester,  into 
closer  business  relationships.  These 
groups  were  organized  with  the  definite 
goal  of  some  day  becoming  a  part  of  the 
proposed  New  England  Dairy  System. 
The  form  of  organization  and  finance  is 
the  same  and  when  the  time  comes  for 
the  New  England  Dairy  System  to  de- 
velop, these  three  groups  will  become  a 
strong  part  of  the  new  organization. 

Meanwhile  there  are  substantial  busi- 
ness reasons  for  the  three  groups  to  enter 
into  closer  relationships  or  perhaps 
actually  merge,  so  far  as  their  operations 
go.  The  matter  has  been  presented  to 
the  directors  in  each  group  and  in  each 
case  the  feeling  has  been  one  of  general 
approval.  Each  board  of  directors  voted 
to  submit  the  question  to  the  stockhold- 
ers. Meetings  are  being  held  in  many 
localities  to  explain  the  advantages  which 
will  come  through  joining  the  three  sys- 
tems together  more  or  less  closely  and 
putting  them  under  one  general  business 
management.  In  general  the  plan  has 
been  well  received  by  the  patrons  and  it 
seems  probable  that  when  the  general 
meetings  are  held  and  the  official  vote 
taken  the  sentiment  will  be  largely  in 
favor  of  a  merger. 

All  three  systems  have  had  some  seri- 
ous problems  to  solve  but  they  are  meet- 
ing them  in  a  business-like  way.  Spring- 
field is  the  largest  and  has  made  the 
most  progress  into  the  bottled  milk  busi- 
ness. Its  expansion  to  even  greater  im- 
portance as  a  milk  marketing  organiza- 
tion will  follow  naturally.  Worcester 
and  Manchester  have  not  nearly  so  many 
patrons  as  Springfield  but  they  have  made 
good  progress.  It  is  the  belief  of  the 
leaders  that  the  time  has  come  to  bring 
them  together  and  give  them  all  addi- 
tional strength  by  putting  them  under  a 
common  business  management  and  sales 
policy. 


YOU  ARE  TRYING  TO 

Keep  Down  Your  Bacteria  Count 

STERILAG  would  help  you.    It  is  a  powerful,  stable, 
non-poisonous  and  non-caustic 

Deodorizer  and  Disinfectant 

It  is  odorless  and  leaves  no  taste  nor  smell. 
It  is  a  concentrated  powder  which  keeps  in- 
definitely. It  is  economical.  One  ounce 
makes  thirty  gallons  of  an  efficient  solution 
which  destroys  and  prevents  bacteria  in 
dairy  utensils,  including  milking  machine 
parts  and  tubes,  pails,  cans  and  strainers. 

At  your  feed  or  supply  dealer's  store  or 
direct  parcel  post  charges  prepaid  when 
order  is  accompanied  with  check  or  money 
order.  2oz.,  $1.00;  8  oz.,  $2.75;  16  oz., 
$5.00;  5  lbs.,  $23.00. 

Send  for  Complete  Descriptive  Circular 

GRANT  P.  VEALE  CORP. 

Winthrop,  Mass. 


"SILVER"  QUALITY  CUTTERS 

Reasonably  Priced 


Built  by  Manufacturers  with  Over  Fifty  Years  of 
Cutter  Building  Experience 

All  sizes  have  ALL-STEEL  FLYWHEELS 

All  Sizes  have  OVERHEAD  FEED  DRUMS 

Perfectly  Balanced      Do  Not  Vibrate      Absolutely  Safe 
Guaranteed  Not  to  Break       Save  Man  at  Feed  Table 
Real  Self-Feeders  Indestructible 

Send  for  Special  Catalog  B-23  and  ask  us  to  explain 
our  Deferred  Payment  Plan 

Brackett  &  Shaw  Co. 


Somersworth,  N.  H. 


Montpelier,  Vt. 


Wisconsin  Approves  Dr.  Spencer's  Bull  tamer 


Saves 

Lives 
Labor 
Fence* 
Potency 


Absolute  Approval  After 
Rigorous  Test 

Probably  as  rigorous  a  test  as  has  ever  been 
made  of  any  patent  in  the  history  of  the  dairy 
industry  is  reported  from  the  great  dairy  state  of 
Wisconsin  after  use  extending  over  nearly  a  year 
on  six  state  farms.  Mr.  Householder,  Manager 
State  Board  of  Control,  writes  : 

Copy  of  Letter  from  Wisconsin 

I  feel  that  I  should  let  you  know  what  success  we  have  had  with  the  Spencer  Bull  Tamer.  We  have 
made  the  practice  of  purchasing  for  our  State  Institutional  herds  outlaw  bulls  which  have  become  unman- 
ageable in  the  hands  of  their  owners  and  which  were  headed  for  the  butcher  on  chat  account.  We  are 
using  an  open  st  ckade  whereby  our  bulls  can  go  and  come  from  their  shelter  at  liberty  and  have  the  privi- 
lege of  large  exercise  lots.  We  found  that  these  vicious  bulls  menaced  all  the  fences  we  could  put  up  and 
frightened  visitors  and  were  a  general  nuisance  when  in  their  exercise  lot  until  equipped  with  the  Sp<ncer 
Bull  Tamer  and  this  has  without  fail  made  them  almost  as  easy  to  handle  as  the  average  cow. 

(Signed)    GLEN  M.  HOUSEHOLDER,  Farm  Mgr.  State  Board  of  Control  of  Wisconsin, 
Dozens  of  testimonials  from  practical  breeders  in  every  state 
Satisfaction  guaranteed  or  money  back 


Write  THE  SPENCER  BROTHERS  CO. 


Savona,  N.  Y. 


& JpSanifaryM/LKSTOOL 


Substantial  and  indestructible.  Made  en- 
tirely of  wrought  iron  heavily  galvanized. 
Seat  and  legs  securely  riveted  together 
so  can't  come  apart.  Good  spread  of  legs 
at  base  so  not  easily  tipped.  A  strong, 
neat  and  sanitary  milk  stool  that  will  last 
a  lifetime.    Price  $2.00  each. 

Write  for  320-page  catalogue  of 
Dairy  Goods,  FREE 

The  Creamery  Package  Mfg.  Company 


141  Washington  Si.  N. 


Boston,  Mass. 


Sterilize  u/i/fySferi/ac 


(July,  1926 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 


I  Two  Annual  Reports 

The  tables  which  summarize  the 
( findings  of  the  cow  testers  for  the 
year  in  Lamoille  County,  Vermont, 
,  recently  issued  by  the  Vermont 
Extension  Department,  show  that 
again  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Ex- 
change members'  herds  are  at  the 
top.  Both  the  Central  Lamoille 
and  the  Cambridge  Associations 
are  led  by  herds  fed  Eastern  States 
grains — whether  milk  production, 
butterfat  production  or  returns 
over  feed  cost  are  used  as  the 
measuring  stick. 

Take  the  Cambridge  Association, 
for  instance.  From  the  standpoint 
of  milk  production,  in  the  first  10, 
Eastern  States  fed  herds  rank  1, 
2,  3,  6,  7  and  8;  in  butterfat  they 
rank  1,  3,  4,  5,  6,  8  and  10;  and  in 
returns  over  feed  cost,  1,  2,  4,  5,  7, 

8  and  10.  The  returns  over  feed 
cost  were  estimated  by  figuring 
that  each  herd  received  the  same 
for  its  milk — butterfat  50  cents  per 
pound,  and  skim  milk  50  cents  per 
85  pounds. 

In  the  Central  Lamoille  Associa- 
tion, of  the  first  10  herds  in  milk 
production,  six  are  Eastern  States 
fed,  and  they  rank  1,  3,  4,  7,  9  and 
10;  while  in  fat  production  East- 
ern States  herds  rank  1,  4,  5,  7,  8, 

9  and  10 ;  and  in  returns  over  feed 
|bst,  1,  3,  5,  6,  8,  9  and  10.  The 
returns  over  feed  cost  were  figured 
the  same  way  for  each  Association. 

The  pure  blood  Holstein  herd  of 
D.  N.  Safford,  of  Jeffersonville, 
Vt.,  led  both  the  Lamoille  Associa- 
tions, the  12  cows  averaging  10,390 
pounds  milk,  359  pounds  butterfat. 
The  Safford  herd  has  been  fed 
Eastern  States  grains  consistently 
for  many  years,  and  Mr.  Safford 
has  contracted  for  his  year's  sup- 
ply as  have  most  of  the  feeders  of 
both  the  Associations. 

Where  records  are  kept  Eastern 
States  Open  Formula  Feeds  prove 
,  their  worth. 

Leading  dairymen,  like  the  Cow 
Testing  Association  members  of 
Lamoille  County,  have  found  from 

•  their  records  the  value  of  Eastern 
States  feeds  and  they  are  relying 

1  more  and  more  fully  each  year 
;  upon  the  Eastern  States  Farmers' 
Exchange  as  their  buying  organiza- 
tion. The  confidence  which  these 
farmers  have  in  their  Exchange, 
based  as  it  is  on  the  records  of  their 
Cow  Testing  Associations,  is  typi- 
cal of  the  attitude  which  leading 
dairymen  and  poultrymen  in  the 

•  regions  served  by  the  Eastern 
States  are  taking  toward  their  own 
organization. 

For  further  information  on  the 
co-operative  feed  buying  service 
offered  by  the  Eastern  States 
Farmers'  Exchange,  a  service 
which  should  not  be  confused  with 
the  car  door  service  offered  by 
private  manufacturers,  write  the 
office. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

Jt  non-mtock ,    non-profit  organization 
ownmd  and  controlled  by  the 
farmer*  It  tmroom 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


NORTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 
477  Essex  Street  -  -  Lawreaee,  Mess. 

JUNE  PRICES 

Manchester,  N.  H  59.5c  per  8z/2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  68c    per  Sy2  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  63.8c  per  8y2  qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  75c   per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  64c   per  Syi  qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  58.8c  per  %y2  qt.  can 

Portland,  Me   6.3c  per  qt. 

PRICES 

With  the  reduction  of  one  cent  in  the 
Boston  price  June  1  it  was  impossible 
to  hold  prices  in  the  various  markets  in 
this  district  with  the  exception  of  Nashua 
and  Concord.  In  Nashua  a  city  ordi- 
nance requiring  that  all  milk  shall  be 
from  tuberculin  tested  cows  or  shall  be 
pastuerized  goes  into  effect  July  1.  A 
considerable  amount  of  testing  has  been 
done  already  and  many  cows  have  been 
condemned  and  slaughtered.  This  made 
a  short  supply  around  Nashua  and  as  a 
result  the  price  was  maintained  in  spite 
of  the  general  decrease  in  Boston  and 
other  markets.  The  Concord  market  is 
so  far  north  that  it  is  little  affected  by 
the  Boston  price  and  no  trouble  was  ex- 
perienced in  holding  the  price  there. 

BUSINESS  CONDITIONS 
Not  much  encouragement  can  be  found 
in  an  analysis  of  business  conditions  in 
the  cities  in  this  district,  except  in 
Haverhill.  Busines  is  dull  in  Manches- 
ter, Nashua,  Lowell  and  Lawrence.  In 
Haverhill  there  is  a  considerable  re- 
vival in  the  shoe  business  which  is  very 
gratifying.  One  new  factory  has  made 
plans  to  start  within  a  few  days  and  it  is 
reported  that  two  others  are  to  open  in 
the  fall.  Haverhill  had  a  serious  set- 
back in  the  shoe  business  two  years  ago 
when  busines  there  was  very  poor.  Now 
Haverhill  is  more  prosperous  and  some 
of  the  other  markets  appear  to  be  taking 
their  turn  at  the  hard  times. 

ANNUAL  MEETINGS 
We  have  continued  with  the  annual 
meetings.  Locals  in  Epping,  Newmarket, 
Portsmouth  and  Greenland  have  already 
held  theirs  and  others  have  been  scheduled. 
Although  some  of  the  meetings  had  to 
be  held  in  the  day  time  the  attendance 
was  good.  Organization  work  has  been 
done  to  build  up  the  strength  of  these 
locals  along  with  the  meetings.  A  few 
of  the  producers  who  had  not  signed  the 
new  power  of  attorney  slips,  did  so 
either  at  the  meetings  or  when  visited  by 
the  district  manager  the  next  day.  All 
seemed  well  pleased  at  the  way  the  as- 
sociation has  maintained  prices  during 
the  year.  A  survey  showed  that  pro- 
duction was  still  fairly  high  although  it 
is  now  dropping  off  considerably.  The 
following  officers  were  elected  by  the 
locals  whose  meetings  have  already  been 
held: 

Newmarket — President,  Mark  Mills  ; 
secretary,  Carl  Mathes. 

Portsmouth — President,  Charles  Cole- 
man ;  secretary,  L.  B.  Paquin. 

Greenland — President,  William  A. 
Weeks ;  secretary,  Gordon  M.  Haydon. 

Epping — President,  Matthew  Harvey ; 
secretary,  L.  L.  Edgerly. 

I  have  had  more  complaints  about  com- 
panies being  slow  in  payment  this  month 
than  in  a  long  time  before.  Not  since  I 
have  been  with  the  association  have  so 
many  such  complaints  been  made.  Part 
of  this  is  an  indication  of  the  dull  times. 
Many  of  the  producers  have  written  in 
telling  of  the  hard  times  they  are  having 
in  getting  their  money  from  dealers  and 
some  others  have  reported  that  after 
they  did  get  their  checks  there  was  no 
money  in  the  bank  to  meet  them.  I  have 
spent  a  good  deal  of  time  calling  on  these 
dealers  and  going  over  matters  with  them. 
In  some  cases  I  have  been  able  to  shift 
producers  from  unreliable  dealers  to  those 
who  pay  their  bills  more  promptly.  I 
plan  to  spend  considerably  more  time  in 
assisting  members  to  get  their  money  for 
the  milk  they  have  sent  in.    All  slow 


Draw-bar  FACTS  jor  Tractors 


SOCONY  Motor  Oil  makes  a  good  tractor  better, 
more  efficient;  more  power  and  pull  when  the 
pinch  comes. 

Socony  Motor  Oil  both  adds  and  conserves  power. 
It  gives  greater  compression  because  it  maintains  as 
completely  as  possible  a  leak  proof  seal  between  piston 
rings  and  cylinder  walls. 

Furthermore  it  does  not  break  down  at  high  engine 
temperatures.  Socony  Motor  Oil  is  everlastingly  on 
the  job,  preventing  metal  to  metal  contact,  preserving 
an  impenetrable  Lubricoar*  of  oil  on  all  moving  parts. 

There  is  a  grade  of  Socony  Motor  Oil  built  for 
every  type  of  tractor.  Consult  the  chart  below  for 
complete  specifications. 

Remember  your  nearest  Socony  dealer  will  be  glad 
to  quote  you  prices  on  metal  thirty  or  fifty  gallon 
drums  with  faucet.  Costs  no  more — mighty  conven- 
ient on  the  farm. 

STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 
26  Broadway 

SOCONY 

RCO.O.S.PAT.OFF. 

MOTOR  OIL 

<fw  Tractor  Lubricoating 


*Lubricoat:  To  cover  with  an  impenetrable  coat  of  oil  all  moving  and 
frictional  parts:  best  done  with  the  proper  grade  of  Socony  Motor  Oil. 


LUBRICATION  CHART 


TRACTOR'S 
NAME 


Allls  Chalmers  (6-12).....  

Allls  Chalmers  (all  others)  

Allwork. .   ,  

Aultman  Taylor  

Avery  (Cultivator  &  Model  C) 
Avery  (All  others)  


Bailor  

Bates  Steel  Mule. 

Bear.  

Beso  


Case:  ... 
Cletrac. 


Dart  Blue  J. 
Depue  


E.  B ... 
Evans. 


Fageol  

Farm  Horse  

Fordson  

Frlck  (12-20)..... 
Frlck  (All  others) . 


Gray  

Great  Western. 


Hart  Parr  

Helder  (Cultivator) . 
Helder  (All  others) . . 
Holt  (Caterpillar) . . . 
Huber  '. 


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TRACTOR'S 
NAME 


Lauson  

Leader  

Linn  

Little  Giant. 
Lombard. . . . 


Minneapolis  

Mollne  Universal. 
Monarch  


Ohio  

OH  Pull. 


Peoria  . 
Pioneer. 


Reed  

Reliable  

Russell  (Giant)  

Russell  (All  others) . 

Shawnee  

Stlnson  


Topp  Stewart. 

Toro  

Traylor  

Twin  City  .  .  ■ 


Uncle  Sam. 


Wallls  

Waterloo  Boy. 

Wetmore  

Wisconsin  


Yuba 


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Key  to  Chart:  LM — Socony  Light  Medium 
Socony  Extra  Heavy. 


M— Socony  Medium;  H — Socony  Heavy.  EH— 


When  Writing  to  Advertisers  Please  Mention  the 
New  England  Dairyman 


Page  Ten 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAittYMAtt 


Juiy,  1926 


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Keeps  flies  away-  •  • 
Makes  cows  PAY/ 

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Ease  twice  a  day  and  you  will 
get  more  milk,  better  milk.  Tests 
prove  this.  Cow-Ease,  applied  with 
a  sprayer,  won't  injure  a  cow's 
8kln--but  it  does  keep  flies  off. 
Equally  effective  on  horses  or  in 
hen  houses. 


V 


One  gallon  sprays 
200  cows.  Get  the 
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($1.75  west  of  Miss- 
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paying  dealers  are  being  made  to  under- 
stand that  the  farmers  are  no  longer  go- 
ing to  be  the  easy  mark  when  times  are 
a  little  dull  and  business  somewhat  poor. 
They  will  have  to  pay  their  bills  if  they 
are  to  continue  to  get  milk  from  associa- 
tion members.  By  letting  the  dealers 
know  that  we  mean  business  and  will 
keep  everlastingly  on  the  job,  we  will 
either  force  these  unreliable  dealers  out 
of  business  or  bring  them  to  time  on  pay- 
ments. What  we  have  been  able  to  do 
already  is  an  indication  of  the  possibili- 
ties of  some  systematic  work  along  this 
line.  The  producers  seem  very  apprecia- 
tive. 

MEMBERSHIP  GROWING 

New  men  are  constantly  starting  in  to 
sell  milk.  As  fast  as  possible  they  are 
canvassed  for  membership  in  the 
NEMPA.  In  West  Andover,  Paul  Ward, 
a  big  producer  and  a  loyal  member,  went 
with  me  to  see  four  producers  who  were 
not  members.  All  four  joined  the  as- 
sociation and  signed  the  new  power  of 
attorney  slips.  They  were  shipping  to 
the  Hood  Co.  I  visited  eight  men  who 
are  selling  to  W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son  of 
Nashua  and  all  of  them  signed  the 
power  of  attorney  slips  and  joined  the 
association.  Bert  Paquin  of  Newington 
went  with  me  and  two  new  members  were 
obtained  and  three  powers  of  attorney 
slips  were  signed  in  that  section.  These 
results  are  encouraging  and  show  that 
we  are  progressing  along  the  right  line. 


WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 
Springfield,  Mass. 

Most  of  the  time  of  the  district  man- 
ager in  the  past  month  has  been  spent  in 
preparatory  work  to  strengthen  the  Wor- 
cester market.  Numerous  meetings  have 
been  held  by  locals  and  in  nearly  every 
case  representatives  have  been  elected  to 
the  reorganized  marketing  association 
which  functions  through  its  sales  com- 
mittee. Good  interest  has  been  shown 
and  a  strong  desire  that  vigorous  action 
should  be  taken  to  bring  about  a  more 
stabilized  condition  in  the  Worcester 
market. 

One  of  the  meetings  was  held  at 
Spencer  with  about  15  producers  present. 
It  was  a  combination  of  an  annual  meet- 
ing and  a  meeting  to  take  action  to  secure 
representation  on  the  Worcester  market- 
ing committee.  Archie  Hunt  was  elected 
president  and  Roger  Bemis  secretary. 
Mr.  Hunt  and  C.  C.  Barre  were  elected 
as  representatives  on  the  marketing  as- 
sociation. 

Warren  producers  who  are  shipping  to 
Worcester  met  at  the  home  of  H.  W. 
McCrellis  and  discussed  their  situation. 
B.  W.  Healy  was  elected  representative 
on  the  marketing  association. 

One  of  the  largest  meetings  was  held 
in  the  Charlton  town  hall  with  about  25 
present.  P.  J.  Kingston  was  elected 
president  and  representative  on  the  mar- 
keting association  and  William  Corey 
was  elected  secretary. 

At  Sutton  about  a  dozen  producers, 
most  of  them  already  members  of  the 
NEMPA,  met  and  discussed  the  situa- 
tion in  that  town.  It  was  the  general 
sentiment  that  there  are  a  considerable 
number  of  men  who  have  recently  started 
to  sell  milk  and  who  were  not  at  the 
meeting.  They  decided  to  call  another 
meeting  and  make  efforts  to  get  these 
newer  men  to  attend  before  taking  any 
official  action. 

North  Brookfield  producers  met  and 
elected  Martin  Crawford  and  A.  O.  Grise 
to  represent  them  on  the  marketing  as- 
sociation. John  Conley  was  elected  presi- 
dent and  Leon  Adams  secretary. 

Barre  Plains  local  elected  John  Moran 
and  Mr.  O'Donnell  to  meet  with  the  mar- 
keting association.  Oakham  local  elected 
Walter  Woodis  president  and  John  Day 
secretary. 


BothWent  dut  To  Pasture 


One  Went  Dry  Too  Soon 

These  two  cows  freshened  about  the  same  time 
and  both  of  them  were  turned  into  a  rich,  juicy- 
pasture  in  May.  One  went  dry  in  November  and 
the  other  went  through  the  winter  in  full  pro- 
duction. 

One  cow  had  a  mixture  of  Corn  Gluten  Feed, 
ground  corn,  wheat  bran,  and  ground  oats — seven 
pounds  per  day  in  addition  to  her  grass.  She 
maintained  her  wonderful  condition  and  full  yield 
throughout  the  summer  and  winter. 

The  other  cow  had  nothing  but  grass,  so  she 
had  to  rob  her  own  body  to  make  milk.  By  November 
she  had  starved  herself  dry.  She  was  then  fed  without 
profit  to  her  owner  until  she  freshened  again. 

Prevent  The  Loss  Now 

This  proves  that  the  dairy  cow  must  have 
something  more  than  grass.  Last  year  thousands  of 
cows  went  dry  weeks  or  months  too  soon.  Thousands 
will  do  it  this  year  unless  they  are  fed  a  balanced  grain 
mixture  with  their  pasture. 

Your  cows  need  a  ration  balanced  with  Corn 
Gluten  Feed  at  this  time — three  to  eight  pounds  per  cow 
daily — according  to  their  production.  "The  Gospel  of 
Good  Feeding"  will  tell  you  why  they  need  it — and  how 
to  feed  it. 

Write  for  a  free  copy  of  this  book,  read  it,  and  insure 
the  condition  and  production  of  your  cows  next  winter  by 
feeding  Corn  Gluten  Feed  Now. 


Ask  M  Bulletin  5-GG 
Associated  Corn  Products  Manufacturers 

Feed  Research  Department 
Hugh  G.  Van  Pell,  Director 
208  South  La  Salle  St.,  Chicago,  III. 


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SECOND  HEARING  CALLED 

(Continued  from  page  one) 
road  rates  on  milk  would  already  be  in 
Effect  if  the  committee  had  not  been  on 
:he  job.  Without  such  an  objection  to 
'the  proposal  of  the  railroads  to  increase 
jrates  on  milk  transportation,  the  in- 
crease would  have  gone  into  effect  April 
h.  The  dairy  farmers  of  New  England 
would  have  had  to  pay  more  than  $60,000 
additional  freight  bills  for  April,  an- 
other $60,000  or  more  for  May  and  still 
another  $60,000  or  more  would  be  added 
to  their  expenses  for  the  month  of  June. 

Up  to  date  then  the  committee  has 
saved  the  dairy  industry  $180,000  in 
freight  bills.  It  will  continue  to  save 
this  $60,000  a  month  until  the  contro- 
versy is  settled  one  way  or  the  other. 
Under  the  original  suspension  of  the  rates 
granted  by  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission  at  the  request  of  the  com- 
mittee representing  the  producers  the 
saving  of  $60,000  would  have  been  saved 
ion  July  milk.  Under  the  agreement 
reached  at  the  first  hearing  the  increase 
in  rates  will  be  still  further  postponed 
until  a  decision  has  been  reached  and 
findings  made  by  the  Commission.  Mean- 
while the  dairy  farmers  are  having  $60,- 
000  a  month  saved  for  them  without  re- 
gard to  what  the  ultimate  decision  will  be. 

In  preparation  for  a  vigorous  presenta- 
tion of  a  strong  case  in  opposition  to  the 
railroads,  the  traffic  and  accounting  ex- 
perts and  attorneys  who  were  retained 
by  the  committee  have  been  digging  into 
the  conditions  under  which  milk  is  being 
transported  and  handled  by  the  railroads. 
They  have  ridden  over  most  of  the  area 
from  which  milk  is  shipped  to  the  larger 
markets  of  New  England  and  have  se- 
cured a  personal  insight  into  the  prac- 
tices which  are  common  with  the  rail- 
roads. Most  of  this  survey  has  been 
made  by  traveling  on  the  milk  trains  and 
actually  seeing  what  is  done.  Much  of 
this  travel  has  been  at  night  and  under 
.  uncomfortable  conditions. 

The  committee  has  held  several  meet- 
ings to  hear  reports  from  the  attorneys 
and  experts  as  to  the  progress  they  are 
making.  The  outstanding  fact  in  the 
railroad  rate  case  is  the  way  in  which 
the  dairy  industry  as  a  whole  has  rallied 
to  give  strength  to  the  fight.  All 
NEMPA  members,  most  co-operative 
creameries,  milk  dealers,  cream  dealers, 
etc.,  have  helped  to  finance  the  opposi- 
tion to  the  increase  in  rates.  In  the  June 
Dairyman  the  producer  groups  who  had 
contributed  two  cents  a  hundred  on  milk 
and  a  half  cent  a  pound  on  butterfat  for 
March,  also  the  contributing  dealers, 
were  listed.  Practically  the  same  groups 
are  contributing  at  the  same  rate  on 
their  May  shipments.  It  is  hoped  that 
these  two  contributions  will  be  sufficient 
to  carry  the  case  through  to  a  success- 
ful finish.  The  total  amount  is  very 
small  as  compared  with  the  great  saving 
which  has  already  been  made  through 
the  efforts  of  the  committee. 


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Everybody  knows  that  grass  is  good  for 
cows — Nature's  own  feed — just  about  all 
cows  got  to  eat — or  needed  —  when  their 
only  job  was  to  supply  enough  milk  to 
nourish  their  calves.  Now  we  demand  a 
lot  more  milk  from  a  cow. 

If  we  are  to  get  more  milk  than  Nature 
intended  we  must  feed  our  cows  more  than 
Nature  provided. 

So  remember  that  even  the  best  of  pasture 
is  not  enough.  Cows  may  temporarily  be 
stimulated  by  the  change  to  freslj  grass,  but 
don't  let  that  deceive  you. 

The  simple  truth  is  that  cows  cannot  keep 
on  producing  to  the  limit  of  their  capacity 
on  pasture  alone.  The  milk  yield  soon  falls 
off,  and  cannot  be  brought  to  normal  until 
the  cow  freshens  again. 


Unless  she  is  to  fall  off  in  condition  and 
slump  in  milk  yield,  a  dairy  cow  producing 
35  lbs.  of  milk  would  have  to  eat  175  lbs.  of 
good  pasture  every  day.  That's  an  impos- 
sibility, for  few  cows  can  eat  more  than 
90  lbs.  of  grass  in  one  day,  even  from  the 
most  luxuriant  growth.  Heavy  milk  pro- 
duction has  to  come  right  off  their  own  backs. 

To  maintain  condition,  production  and  profits, 
feed  your  cows  1  lb.  of  Larro  for  each  5  lbs. 
of  milk  they  produce  when  pasture  is  plen- 
tiful and  good,  with  a  gradual  increase  in 
the  amount  of  Larro  as  the  grass  dries  up. 

Feed  Larro  with  pasture  and  avoid  the  loss 
in  milk  and  money  you  are  sure  to  suffer 
if  you  depend  entirely  on  grass  this  summer. 
Do  this  and  your  cows  will  go  into  the  fall 
in  condition  to  make  the  most  milk  when 
more  milk  means  more  profit. 


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Lie  if  you  have 
Laval  Milker 


THE  De  Laval  Milker  enables  one  person 
to  milk  two  to  three  times  as  many  cows 
as  can  be  milked  by  hand.  On  many 
farms  where  the  whole  family  was  required 
to  do  the  milking  the  old  way,  now  with  a 
De  Laval  Milker  one  person  can  easily  do  the 
milking  while  the  rest  of  the  family  can  get 
away  occasionally,  thus  overcoming  one  of 
the  big  drawbacks  of  dairying. 

But  this  is  only  one  of  many  advantages 
in  having  a  De  Laval  Milker.  Besides  sav- 
ing time  it  does  better  work,  produces  more 
and  cleaner  milk,  and  keeps  the  cows'  udders 
and  teats  in  better  condition.  This  is  proven 
by  ten  years'  use  and  the  half  million  cows 
now  milked  the  De  Laval  Way. 


and  up 

for 

De  Laval 
MilKer 
Outfits 


De  Laval  Milker 

The  Better  Wm 


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Way  of  Milking 


Oe  Laval  Cream  Separator 


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Has  the  wonderful  *' floating"  bowl." 
Guaranteed  to  skim  cleaner.  Fur- 
nished in  seven  sizes,  with  hand, 
electric  or  belt  drive. 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  10.   Number  5. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  AUGUST,  1926 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


Second  Round  of  Fight  Against  Freight  Increase  Underway 

Representatives  of  Dairy  Industry  Making  Good  Showing  at  Plymouth  Before  Interstate  Commerce  Commission — 
Believe  They  Have  Broken  Down  Claims  Made  by  Railroads  Through  Cost  Study — Another  Adjournment 


The  fight  to  save  the  dairy  farmers  of 
Mew  England  from  the  "million  dollar" 
ooost  in  milk  transportation  rates  is  in 
full  swing  at  Plymouth,  Mass.,  as  this 
ssue  of  the  Dairyman  goes  to  press.  It 
s  a  real  battle  which  your  representa- 
:ives  are  waging  and  there  is  a  strong 
feeling  of  confidence  on  the  part  of  the 
:xperts  and  attorneys  who  are  represent- 
ng  you  that  we  will  win  out.  Some  of 
hem  who  are  in  a  good  position  to  judge 
)f  the  strategy  in  such  matters  are  wili- 
ng to  wager  that  the  railroads  will  with- 
draw their  proposed  increased  rate 
schedules  and  not  risk  an  adverse  de- 
cision on  the  part  of  the  Interstate  Com- 
inerce  Commission  before  whom  the  case 
s  being  heard. 

The  decision  of  the  Commission  to 
lold  the  hearings  in  Plymouth  makes  it 
lecessary  to  get  our  information  in  bulle- 
tin form  from  the  front.  The  latest  re- 
port, coming  from  Reuben  Hall,  attorney 
for  the  NEMPA  and  the  rate  committee, 
is  that  the  traffic  manager  of  the  Maine 
Central  Railroad  has  just  admitted  on 
:ross  examination  that  his  road  does  not 
'pay  much  attention  to  cost  studies"  in 
making  up  its  rates.  In  view  of  the  fact 
that  the  Boston  &  Maine  and  other  roads 
laid  their  foundations  for  an  increased 
rate  on  milk  through  a  volumninous  cost 
study,  this  admission  sounds  goods.  If 
the  cost  study  breaks  down  as  a  reason 
for  advancing  rates  there  is  not  much 
left. 

Concentrate  Efforts 

The  principal  efforts  of  your  repre- 
sentatives in  the  past  week  and  this, 
while  the  second  session  of  the  hearings 
has  been  in  progress,  has  been  to  break 
down  the  cost  study  offered  in  evidence  at 
the  opening  session  June  when  the  rail- 
roads put  in  their  case.  In  a  good  many 
particulars  they  have  apparently  done  so 
quite  effectively,  as  when  they  showed 
that  the  railroads  in  figuring  the  "car- 
foot-miles,"  the  unit  of  fixing  costs,  had 
not  taken  into  account  the  weight  carried 
or  the  speed  at  which  the  trains  traveled. 

All  the  last  week  of  July  and  the  first 
three  days  of  the  following  week  our 
representatives  were  cross  examining  the 
experts  o  fthe  railroads  in  the  effort  to 
show  that  the  cost  studies  and  other  tesi- 
mony  offered  at  the  first  hearing  were 
not  sound.  They  have  shown  their 
ability  to  meet  the  railroads  on  their  own 
terms,  to  match  expert  testimony  with 
equally  expert  testimony,  and  to  match 
data  with  equally  good  data  to  disprove 
the  claims  made  by  the  railroads.  The 
whole  cross  examination  is  so  highly 
technical  that  it  can  hardly  be  done  jus- 
tice to  in  print.  But  the  important  thing 
for  every  dairy  man  in  New  England  to 
remember  is  that  his  protest  against  the 
increased  rates  is  in  good  hands  and  that 
there  is  a  good  prospect  that  the  farmers 
will  win  out. 

The  third  stage  of  the  battle  is  about 
to  begin  as  this  Dairyman  goes  to  press. 


It  will  be  the  most  important.  The  dairy 
farmers,  through  their  representatives 
will  begin  to  put  in  their  case  and  show 
their  reasons  why  no  increase  should  be 
granted  at  this  time.  Members  of  our 
staff  will  be  on  the  stand  to  show  the 
present  status  of  the  milk  business  and 
the  way  it  is  being  handled.  Your  rep- 
resentatives have  worked  out  a  fine  case 
against  the  increase  and  every  one  of  you 
can  be  assured  that  no  point  has  been 
overlooked  which  may  be  turned  to  our 
advantage. 

Final  decision  in  the  rate  case  will  be 
delayed  further  than  we  expected  through 
the'  fact  that  the  Massachusetts  Public 


Utilities  Commission,  which  is  sitting 
with  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commis- 
sion, takes  a  vacation  in  August.  Its 
members  were  willing  to  sit  one  week  in 
August  but  they  balked  on  further  at- 
tendance. It  has  been  arranged  there- 
fore that  after  this  week  there  will  be 
an  adjournment  until  September  at  least. 
When  the  hearings  are  then  resumed  our 
side  of  the  case  will  be  completed  and 
there  will  probably  be  an  interval  to  give 
an  opportunity  for  the  railroads  to  pre- 
pare their  answer. 

It  now  appears  as  though  no  final  de- 
cision would  come  until  late  fall. 

Last  spring  through  the  prompt  action 


Two  cents  per  hundredweight  on  milk  and  one-half  cent  a  pound  on 
butterfat  in  cream  was  deducted  on  May  milk  for  railroad  rate  case  fund. 

Milk  Price  Remains  at  8  1-2  Cents 

NEMPA  Sales  Committee  Holds  Price  at  the  Same  Level 
Eleven  Out  of  Twelve  Months— Conditions 
in  the  Market  Satisfactory 


The  August  milk  price  for  Boston  re- 
mains the  same  as  in  July,  8J/2  cents  per 
quart  for  3.7  per  cent,  milk  delivered  in 
Boston.  There  was  no  disposition  on  the 
part  of  dealers  to  ask  for  any  reduction 
in  price  although  there  were  a  few  com- 
plaints that  milk  was  being  sold  in  Bos- 
ton at  below  the  NEMPA  price.  Some 
negotiations  regarding  conditions  under 
which  the  milk  is  bought  took  place  but 
no  changes  were  made. 

The  advance  of  a  cent  July  1  brought 
the  market  back  to  a  stable  basis  again, 
after  a  month  of  too  wide  a  margin  be- 
tween store  milk  and  home  delivered 
milk.  The  chain  stores  came  back  to  the 
12  cent  level,  increasing  their  price  two 
cents  when  our  association  price  went  up 
one  cent.  This  restored  the  balance  which 
had  worked  out  satisfactorily  for  nearly 
a  year  previous  to  the  June  drop,  when 
the  association  price  went  down  one  cent 
and  the  store  price  went  down  two  cents. 

The  restoration  of  the  8^2  cent  price 
for  July  and  its  continuance  through 
August  leaves  the  association  with  the 
good  record  of  having  secured  a  stable 
price  for  its  members  for  a  full  year 
with  the  exception  of  one  month,  June. 
With  the  present  good  demand  for  milk 
and  the  moderate  supplies  which  are  com- 
ing in  there  is  no  reason  to  expect  any 
demand  for  any  lowering  of  price  through 
the  fall  and  there  is  a  fair  prospect  that 
conditions  of  supply  and  demand  will 
warrant  an  increase. 

In  general  the  market  is  in  good  con- 
dition. The'  dealers  are  having  good 
sales  and  there  are  less  than  the  usual 
minor  disturbances  to  cause  unrest  among 


the  various  agencies  who  are  selling  milk 
in  the  Boston  market.  While  there  are 
a  few  matters  of  conditions  of  sale  which 
the  committee  will  have  to  thrash  out 
with  the  dealers  who  buy  under  the  sur- 
plus plan,  there  is  every  indication  that 
the  present  generally  satisfactory  con- 
dition will  continue. 

The  movement  toward  the  consolida- 
tion of  dealers  and  the  lessening  of  the 
number  of  small  independent  dealers  is 
one  of  the  factors  which  help  the  situa- 
tion. The  consolidation  of  the  Alden, 
Noble  and  Childs  interests  and  their 
purchase  of  Mr.  Berry's  interest  in  the 
Berry  &  Barrows  business  gives  the  as- 
sociation the  opportunity  to  negotiate 
with  one  large  concern  instead  of  sev- 
eral fairly  large  ones.  This  is  in  the 
line  of  progress  and  will  in  general  be  a 
good  thing  for  the  association.  Mean- 
while the  purchase  of  quite  small  dealers 
goes  on  steadily  by  the  large  distributors. 
The  Hood  Co.  is  almost  every  week  buy- 
ing out  some  small  dealers  and  adding 
their  trade  to  their  own  big  business. 

In  the  outside  markets  the  rise  in  the 
Boston  price  July  1  was  generally  fol- 
lowed by  an  advance.  A  few  markets 
are  now  higher  than  Boston  but  most 
are  on  the  same  level.  Worcester,  which 
has  been  below  Boston  for  some  time, 
will  probably  come  back  September  1. 
At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  sales  com- 
mittee for  that  market  it  was  decided  not 
to  attempt  any  advance  in  August  but  to 
go  to  8z/2  cents  September  1.  This  mar- 
ket is  suffering  from  having  such  a  large 
number  of  small  dealers  but  it  is  making 
progress  toward  a  real  stabilization. 


of  the  committee  representing  the  dairy- 
farmers  of  all  New  England  the  Inter- 
state Commerce  Commission  originally 
ordered  a  suspension  of  the  new  rates 
until  August  1,  the  longest  possible  sus- 
pension they  could  grant.  1  he  progress 
of  the  case  was  necessarily  so  moderate 
that  it  was  admitted  on  all  sides  that  it 
could  not  be  finished  by  August  1  so  the 
railroads  agreed  to  voluntarily  suspend 
the  new  schedules  until  the  case  should 
be  decided  by  the  commission.  This 
action  was  taken  to  obviate  the  necessity 
for  their  keeping  a  complete  record  of 
all  increases  actually  paid  by  shippers. 
They  would  have  had  to  have  such  an 
account  in  case  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission  ruled  against  them  finally. 
They  would  then  have  to  refund  all  in- 
creases as  overcharges. 

We  wish  that  you  cold  see  these  men 
who  represent  you  in  action.  Then  you 
would  understand  better  how  wise  was 
your  committee  in  retaining  the  best  men 
they  could  get  hold  of.  You  should  see 
John  F.  Finerty,  the  leading  counsel,  in 
operation,  also  our  friend  and  co-worker, 
Reuben  Hall.  They  make  a  fine  pair 
and  have  the  staunch  backing  of  sea- 
soned lawyers  representing  the  dealers. 
For  a  traffic  expert  the  committee  se- 
cured T.  D.  Goeghegan,  who  has  qualified 
in  many  a  round  of  the  battle.  John  H. 
Libby,  cost  accountant,  stands  out  strongly 
in  the  way  he  is  presenting  testimony  or 
tearing  down  the  testimony  of  the  rail- 
road experts.  He  is  especially  valuable 
to  the  committee  from  his  previous  ex- 
perience before  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission,  also  as  he  was  in  the  cost 
accounting  department  of  the  New  York, 
New  Haven  and  Hartford  Railroad.  For 
research  work  in  getting  material  to- 
gether our  own  contribution  to  the  cause, 
Wesley  H.  Bronson,  is  doing  a  job  of 
which  we  should  be  proud. 

New  England  Committee 

Back  of  these  experts  in  traffic,  re- 
search, cost  accounting  and  the  law 
stands  the  New  England  committee,  rep- 
resenting the  dairymen.  Their  principal 
job  right  now  is  to  stand  on  the  side  lines 
and  cheer  on  the  fighting  forces  but  the 
dairy  industry  of  all  New  England  will 
soon  owe  them  a  debt  for  the  wisdom 
of  their  choice  of  fighting  men  and  the 
way  in  which  they  brought  the  dairy  in- 
dustry of  New  England  together  in  a 
common  cause.  Carl  C.  Fletcher  of  Shel- 
burne,  Vt.,  is  chairman.  The  Maine  mem- 
ber is  Weston  B.  Haskell  of  the  Turner 
Centre  System.  The  New  Hampshire 
member  is  Carl  A.  Smith,  manager  of 
the  Manchester  Dairy  System.  Besides 
Mr.  Fletcher  Vermont  is  represented  bv 
F.  H.  Bickford  of  Bradford  and  W.  C. 
Fuller  of  Richmond.  Massachusetts  is 
represented  by  A.  C.  Bray  of  Shelburne 
Falls.  Rhode  Island  is  represented  by 
Francis  S.  Thayer  of  Woonsocket  and 
Connecticut  by  R.  A.  Sikes  of  Ellington. 
W.  H.  Bronson  represents  the  NEMPA. 


Page  Two 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


August,  19261 


Progressive  Step  Is  Taken   By  Three  Dairy  Systems 

Springfield,  Worcester  and  Manchester  Organizations  Come  Together  to  Form  United  Dairy  Systems — 
Important  Savings  To  Be  Made  by  Operating  in  Larger  Units — Will  Be  In  Operation  in  September 


A  forward  step  was  taken  by  the  dairy 
systems  in  Sprinfield,  Worcester  and 
Manchester  when  they  decided  to  come  to- 
gether under  one  management.  Such  a 
move  has  been  under  consideration  for 
some  time.  Important  economies  can  be 
made  by  uniting  the  three  organizations, 
all  formed  for  the  same  purpose  and  un- 
der the  same  plan,  in  one  organization 
that  Avill  be  stronger  than  all  three  work- 
ing separately.  The  coming  together  is 
in  line  with  the  trend  of  the  times  to- 
ward doing  business  in  larger  units. 

The  combined  systems  will  be  known  as 
the  United  Dairy  System  but  for  the 
present  at  least  each  group  will  maintain 
its  present  name  in  its  own  field  for  trade 
purposes.  That  is,  the  milk  from  the 
Springfield  plant  will  be  sold  as  Spring- 
field Dairy  System  milk  as  it  is  at  pres- 
ent. The  difference  will  be  in  the  man- 
agement. There  will  be  one  general  man- 
ager with  plant  managers  who  serve  un- 
der him. 

The  plan  to  unite  the  three  systems 
came  out  naturally  through  conditions 
under  which  they  were  working.  At 
times  each  one  had  some  milk  to  sell  out- 
side its  own  needs,  at  other  times  both 
Springfield  and  Worcester  needed  addi- 
tional milk  to  satisfy  their  increasing 
trade.  Naturally  they  bought  and  sold 
from  one  another.  The  movement  to 
merge  into  one  organization  came  as  the 
natural  result. 

The  first  step  to  bring  the  three  sys- 
tems together  was  a  vote  on  the  part  of 
the  board  of  directors  in  each  organiza- 
tion to  lay  the  question  of  merging  be- 
fore their  stockholders.  Each  of  the  sys- 
tems had  a  stockholders'  meeting  and  in 
each  case  they  voted  to  take  steps  toward 
merging  the  three  organizations.  In 
Springfield  the  vote  to  merge  stood  521 
for  merging  and  only  four  against  it. 

First  Step  Taken 

The  first  step  in  the  actual  process  of 
getting  the  three  organizations  under  one 
name  and  management  was  to  take  two 
directors  from  each  group  as  incorpora- 
tors of  the  United  Dairy  System,  a  new 
co-operative  corporation  organized  under 
the  laws  of  New  Hampshire.  These  six 
men  formed  a  skeleton  organization  and 
after  the  stockholders  of  each  system  had 
had  their  meetings  and  voted  to  unite,  the 
original  incorporators  and  directors  added 
new  men  from  each  of  the  three  or- 
ganizations to  form  a  large  board  of  di- 
rectors. The  Springfield  Dairy  System, 
being  much  the  largest  of  the  three,  has 
all  nine  of  its  directors  on  the  board  of 
the   United  Dairy   System.    They  are: 

C.  P.  Bolles,  R.  E.  Hyde,  F.  Wilcox, 
E.  H.  Alderman,  Peter  Hanifin,  Clinton 
Loomis,  O.  A.  Tuttle,  S.  O.  Russell  and 
W.  J.  Rudd.  The  Worcester  System 
men  who  are  directors  in  the  United 
Dairy  System  are:  C.  E.  Wallace,  Ru- 
dolph Viegneault,  Fred  L.  Snow  and  E. 
P.  Goddard.  The  Manchester  System 
men  selected  are  Fred  T.  Connor,  C.  W. 
Meekin  and  H.  O.  Dahmen.  Mr.  Tuttle 
was  elected  president,  Percy  M.  Odell 
clerk  and  S.  O.  Russell  treasurer. 

Authority  Given 

The  vote  in  each  meeting  was  to  au- 
thorize the  directors  to  sell  the  real  es- 
tate, plants,  equipment  and  business  of 
each  to  the  United  Dairy  System  and  to 
take  in  return  a  certain  amount  of  stock 
based  on  the  present  value  of  each  busi- 
ness. In  each  case  the  assets  of  each 
system  were  figured  on  the  same  basis 
and  their  relative  values  were  established 
in  proportion  to  the  estimate  of  the  actual 
values  in  each.  Stock  in  the  Worcester 
County  Dairy  System  is  worth  its  par 
value,  $10  per  share.  Farmers  who  hold 
this  stock  will  be  given  the  opportunity 
to  exchange  it  for  stock  in  the  United 
Dairy  System  on  an  even  exchange  basis. 

In  Manchester  a  considerable  part  of 
the  profits  of  the  business  have  been  put 
back  into  it  and  the  stock  is  worth  $120, 
figured  on  the  same  basis  as  Worcester, 


or  $120  for  shares  whose  par  value  was 
$100.  farmers  who  hold  stock  in  the 
Manchester  System  will  have  an  oppor- 
tunity to  exchange  it  for  United  Dairy 
System  stock  at  the  rate  of  6  shares  of 
United  Dairy  System  for  every  5  shares 
they  hold  of  Manchester  Dairy  System, 
in  Springfield  an  even  larger  proportion- 
ate share  of  the  profits  of  the  business 
have  gone  back  into  the  business.  Large 
additions  have  been  made  and  a  large 
retail  business  has  been  bought.  This 
brings  the  proportionate  value  to  $125 
or  $125  for  each  $100  par  value.  Farm- 
ers who  hold  stock  in  this  system  will  be 
given  an  opportunity  to  exchange  on  the 
basis  of  five  shares  for  each  tour  shares 
of  their  present  holdings.  This  method 
of  apportioning  the  investment  on  tne 
basis  of  a  par  value  of  $10  in  stock  in 
the  new  system. 

Here  is  where  the  great  value  of  the 
rotating  stock  plan  is  apparent.  Under 
this  plan  stock  issued  in  any  one  year  is 
rotated  out  and  paid  for  at  par  value 
some  years  later.  Springfield  is  on  a 
three-year  rotation,  so  stock  issued  at  the 
close  of  any  year  will  be  redeemed  three 
years  later  at  par.  Under  the  plan  the 
merger  is  simple.  A  farmer  will  ex- 
change the  stock  he  now  holds  for  stock 
in  the  United  Dairy  System.  If  the 
merger  had  not  taken  place  all  his  present 
stock  would  have  been  called  in  and 
paid  for  at  par  within  four  years. 
All  new  stock  issued  will  be  United 
Dairy  System  stock.  Thus  it  will 
make  no  difference  at  the  end  of  four 
years;  the  farmer  will  have  his  invest- 
ment in  the  United  Dairy  System,  not  in 
the  Springfield  Dairy  bystem.  In  this 
case  it  will  be  to  the  advantage  of  the 
Springfield  Dairy  System  patrons  to  ex- 
change stock  as  they  will  receive  five 
shares  of  United  stock  for  four  shares  of 
old  stock.  Either  stock  will  be  redeemed 
at  par  when  its  rotation  period  expires. 
He  will  get  $50  from  stock  so  retired  in- 
stead of  $40.  Stock  in  the  United  Dairy 
System  not  taken  up  by  farmers  will  be 
held  for  future  issues. 

The  merger  of  the  three  organizations 
will  not  affect  the  present  contracts  in 
any  way.  The  contracts  are  part  of  the 
assets  of  each  system.  When  each  system 
sells  out  to  the  United  Dairy  System  the 
contracts  are  sold  along  with  other  as- 
sets. The  contracts  will  be  legal  and 
binding  just  as  they  are  at  present.  They 
will  be  subject  to  the  privilege  of  with- 
drawal on  due  notice  within  the  with- 
drawal period  provided  for  at  the  ex- 
piration of  three  years,  just  as  they  are 
at  present.  If  any  farmer  would  legally 
withdraw  from  the  Springfield  Dairy 
System  next  fall  he  can  also  withdraw 
from  the  United  Dairy  System  at  the 
same  time.  If  he  fails  to  give  formal 
notice  of  withdrawal  at  that  time  the  con- 
tract will  be  binding  for  another  year. 

Some  questions  have  arisen  as  to  why 
the  new  organization  was  started  under 
the  laws  of  New  Hampshire  instead  of 
Massachusetts  when  the  principal  busi- 
ness and  main  office  will  be  in  either  Wor- 
cester or  Springfield.  The  principal  rea- 
son is  that  the  New  Hampshire  co- 
operative law  is  much  better  suited  to  the 
system  organization  as  it  makes  repre- 
sentative voting  possible.  Under  the 
Massachusetts  law  proxy  voting  would 
have  to  be  the  rule.  Under  the  New 
Hampshire  law  sectional  meetings  can  be 
held  and  representatives  can  be  chosen  to 
cast  the  vote  for  the  stockholders  in  that 
section. 

Under  the  proxy  system  two  great  dis- 
advantages are  inevitable  in  an  organiza- 
tion which  covers  a  wide  area.  Both  were 
serious  in  each  of  the  three  systems ; 
both  would  be  far  more  serious  in  the 
United  System  because  of  the  larger 
number  of  producers  and  the  wide  area 
covered.  The  first  difficulty  lies  in  the 
assembling  of  the  proxies  in  the  hands 
of  one  man.  Under  the  present  plan  in 
the  Massachusetts  organizations  at  an- 
nual meeting  time  notices  are  sent  to 
each  stockholder.    With  the  notice  goes 


a  proxy  blank  for  him  to  sign  and  re- 
turn in  case  he  cannot  go  to  the  meet- 
ing. The  proxy  is  made  out  to  the  presi- 
dent of  the  system  but  each  stockholder 
can  fill  in  any  other  name  he  chooses.  It 
is  wise  to  have  one  name  on  the  proxies 
because  stockholders  back  in  the  country 
might  put  on  names  of  other  men  who 
would  not  be  there.  Practically  none 
have  put  any  other  name  on  their  proxies 
and  the  result  is  that  the  president  finds 
himself  saddled  with  the  responsibility 
of  voting  several  hundred  proxies.  Per- 
haps they  are  an  actual  majority  of  the 
votes  in  the  meeting,  leaving  him  in  the 
position  of  actually  deciding  all  ques- 
tions. However  good  a  man  he  may  be 
and  however  much  confidence  his  fellow 
members  may  have  in  him,  it  is  not  a 
good  plan  to  have  the  votes  concentrated 
to  such  an  extent.  Another  aspect  of 
this  system  is  that  the  president,  holding 
a  large  number  of  proxies  made  out  to 
him  personally,  might  be  ill  or  have  an 
accident  on  the  way  to  the  meeting  which 
would  make  it  impossible  for  the  meet- 
ing to  have  enough  represented  by  proxy 
or  in  person  to  do  business. 

Big  Difficulty 

The  second  difficulty  under  the  proxy 
system  is  to  get  enough  of  a  representa- 
tion to  the  meeting  to  do  business.  More 
than  one-half  of  the  stockholders  must 
be  present  in  person  or  by  proxy  to  make 
a  meeting  legal.  If  the  meeting  comes  at 
a  time  when  the  farmers  are  extra  busy, 
in  haying  time  for  instance,  it  is  prac- 
tically impossible  to  get  a  large  number 
to  travel  long  distances  to  a  meeting. 
It  takes  a  full  day  from  them  and  they 
won't  take  the  time.  The  result  is  that 
such  meetings  can  only  be  held  by  leaders 
going  out  and  getting  a  large  number  of 
the  stockholders  to  give  proxies.  It  is 
highly  desirable  that  some  more  personal 
representation  should  be  secured. 

The  New  Hampshire  co-operative  law 
makes  it  possible  to  avoid  both  these 
difficulties.  Representative  voting  is  al- 
lowed. Under  this  law  and  under  the 
form  of  the  organization  adopted  by  the 
United  Dairy  System  sectional  meetings 
are  provided  for.  The  stockholders  in 
one  town,  or  a  small  group  of  towns 
close  together,  can  hold  a  meeting.  It 
can  come  in  the  evening  so  as  not  to  in- 
terfere with  work.  It  is  near  enough  so 
that  every  stockholder  can  be  present. 
A  representative  of  the  organization  who 
is  familiar  with  the  details  of  the  busi- 
ness, one  of  the  executive  committee  of 
the  directors,  for  instance,  can  "be  present 
to  talk  over  the  questions  which  will 
come  up  at  the  central  meeting.  All 
stockholders  can  ask  question  and  express 
their  views. 

Then  the  meeting  elects  one  of  its  own 
number  to  go  to  the  annual  or  other 
central  meeting  and  cast  votes  for  all 
of  them.  The  proxies,  instead  of  going 
to  the  far-away  president,  go  to  one  of 
their  own  neighbors.  If  there  are  20 
stockholders  in  the  town  the  representa- 


Maine  Canvas 

Reports  from  our  field  men  now  can- 
vassing the  Maine  territory  indicate  that 
the  dairy  farmers  are  strong  for  the  as- 
sociation but  want  to  know  more  about  it. 
In  every  locality  visited  there  were  a 
number  of  men  who  knew  very  little 
about  the  work  of  the  association  but 
who  were  prompt  to  join  it  when  visited 
by  the  field  men.  In  a  few  towns  no 
NEMPA  men  had  made  the  rounds  for 
some  years  and  there  were  a  whole  lot 
of  Questions  to  be  asked  and  answered. 
On  the  whole  the  canvass  has  been  going 
on  well.  It  is  expected  that  Maine  will 
be  completed  by  August  1  and  that  the 
crew  will  then  move  over  into  Vermont. 

Our  men  have  been  at  it  early  and 
late  and  have  had  the  hearty  support  of 


tive  would  normally  have  20  votes  in  th 
central  meeting.  However,  provision  i 
made  for  the  man,  or  men,  who  disagrees 
with  the  majority  of  the  stockholders  in 
that  town  as  to  who  should  be  sent  or 
how  he  should  be  instructed  to  vote.  A 
minority  of  the  stockholders  can  alsc 
select  some  men  to  represent  them  anil 
vote  for  them  all  in  the  central  meeting 
That  is,  if  the  town  has  20  stockholder- 
and  five  do  not  want  the  representative 
that  the  other  15  vote  for,  they  can  send 
one  of  their  own  number.  He  will  havc 
five  votes  in  the  central  meeting  and  th>. 
other  representative  will  have  15.  In 
case  a  stockholder  does  not  come  to  the 
local  meeting  his  vote  at  the  centra: 
meeting  will  be  cast  by  the  regular  dele- 
gate elected  by  the  majority  of  the  stock- 
holders, unless  he  specificially  gives  ; 
proxy  to  a  minority  representative.  Still 
another  safeguard  is  given  stockholder-! 
in  the  provision  that  they  can  go  to  thJ 
central  meeting  in  person  and  cast  theit 
vcfte  direct.  That  is  if  any  one  of  the  20 
stockholders  in  the  town  want  to  atteni 
the  central  meeting  they  can  do  so  anJ 
vote  direct  and  the  degelate  selected  b> 
the  local  meeting  will  be  given  one  les- 
vote  in  the  central  meeting.  In  practice 
it  is  probable  that  there  will  be  few 
minority  representatives ;  the  regulai 
delegate  will  generally  cast  votes  for  al 
members  in  his  town  who  do  not  come 
to  the  central  meeting  themselves. 

This  form  of  organization  for  repre 
sentative  voting  has  great  advantage' 
over  each  district  sending  a  man  as  theii 
representative  and  having  one  vote  ii 
the  central  association.  Under  that  forn 
of  organization  the  representative  has  on< 
vote  whether  he  represents  10  or  50  mer 
back  in  the  country.  Under  the  forn 
of  organization  adopted  by  the  Unitec 
Dairy  System  each  representative  wil 
cast  as  many  votes  as  there  are  stock- 
holders in  his  district ;  if  there  were  1( 
stockholders  he  would  have  10  votes;  i( 
there  were  50  he  would  have  50  votes 
(provided  there  were  no  minority  repre- 
sentatives and  that  none  of  these  stock- 
holders attended  the  central  meeting). 

With  this  representative  voting  pro- 
vided for  the  control  of  the  central  meet 
ing  will  rest  in  the  hands  of  the  stock 
holders  at  large,  not  in  the  hands  of  a  few 
Naturally  the  members  nearest  to  the 
central  meeting  will  attend  more  gen 
eially.  Under  an  ordinary  form  of  or 
ganization,  with  each  man  casting  one 
vote,  they  could  out-vote  the  more  dis 
tant  men  if  a  difference  of  opinioi 
as  to  policy  came  up.  Under  the1 
new  plan  this  is  impossible  for  the 
distant  man,  armed  with  power  to  cas 
votes  for  all  his  neighbors,  cannot  be  out 
voted  by  the  nearby  men  who  come  tc 
the  meeting  and  vote  singly.^  It  is  a  dis 
tinct  advance.  Combined  with  the  rotat 
ing  stock  plan  it  assures  that  the  contro 
of  the  organization  will  always  be  in  the 
hands  of  the  farmers  who  are  producing 
the  milk  and  that  the  control  will  be  dis- 
tributed fairly  over  the  entire  area. 


Is  Completed 

officers  of  locals  in  most  places.  While 
it  has  taken  a  lot  of  time  to  answer  ques- 
tions in  the  areas  in  which  we  have  not; 
been  represented  for  some  time  when  the 
field  men  got  into  territory  already  fa- 
miliar with  the  work  of  the  association, 
big  records  were  made.  F.  L.  Foley  hold> 
the  record  up  to  the  present  time  with 
79  signed  in  one  week.  This  was  in  the 
Brooks,  Monroe,  Jackson,  Plymouth  sec- 
tion. Earl  P.  Osgood  did  almost  as  well| 
in  Hartland,  St.  Albans,  Palmyra  and  De- 
troit, signing  76  in  one  week. 

STRONG  LOCAL 
With  the  assistance  of  NEMPA  Di^ 
rector  Ralph  L.  Worthley  and  Secretary 
Continued  on  page  ten) 


August,  1926 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


Schedule  of  Prices  for  Boston 

Based  on  8£  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  August  1,  1926,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Otttside  Massachusetts 


{ 

Cwt.in 

Cwt.in  Cwt.in 

8qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

i  one 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

1 

1-20 

.579 

.618 

.732 

1.489 

1.583 

2.993 

3.462 

1  AAA 

O.404 

3.4/9 

2 

21-40 

.569 

.608 

.722 

1.464 

1.558 

2.958 

3.404 

3.409 

3.438 

1 

41-60 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.444 

1.538 

2.928 

3.357 

3.366 

3.404 

4 

61-80 

.549 

.588 

.702 

1.434 

1.528 

2.898 

3.334 

3.344 

3.369 

h5  . 

81-100 

.544 

.583 

.692 

1.414 

1.508 

2.873 

3.287 

3.300 

3.340 

5 

101-120 

.539 

.578 

.682 

1.404 

1.498 

2.848 

3.264 

3.278 

3.311 

7 

121-140 

.534 

.573 

.677 

1.394 

1.483 

2.828 

3.241 

3.245 

3.287 

}8 

141-160 

.524 

.563 

.667 

1.379 

1.473 

2.803 

3.206 

3.224 

3.258 

i? 

161-180 

.519 

.558 

.662 

1.369 

1.463 

2.783 

3.183 

3.202 

3.235 

181-200 

.514 

.553 

.652 

1.364 

1.448 

2.768 

3.171 

3.169 

3.218 

\ 

201-220 

.509 

.548 

.647 

1.349 

1.438 

2.748 

3.136 

3.147 

3.194 

3 

221-240 

.504 

.543 

.642 

1.339 

1.423 

2.728 

3.113 

3.114 

3.171 

Z4 1-^60 

.494 

CI") 

.533 

.637 

1.334 

1.418 

2.718 

3.101 

3.103 

3.159 

261-280 

.489 

.528 

.637 

1.319 

1.408 

2.698 

3.066 

3.081 

3.136 

1 

281-300 

.489 

.528 

.632 

1.314 

1.403 

2.683 

3.055 

3.070 

3.119 

/. 
;. 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

1 

1-20 

.599 

.638 

.752 

1.499 

1.593 

2.993 

3.485 

3.486 

3.479 

»2 

21-40 

.584 

.623 

.737 

1.474 

1.568 

2.958 

3.427 

3.431 

3.438 

3 

41-60 

.579 

.618 

.732 

1.464 

1.553 

2.928 

3.404 

3.399 

3.404 

4 

61-80 

.574 

.613 

.727 

1.444 

1.538 

2.898 

3.357 

3.366 

3.369 

,5 

81-100 

.569 

.608 

.712 

1.434 

1.528 

2.873 

3.334 

3.344 

3.340 

6 

101-120 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.424 

1.508 

2.848 

3.311 

3.300 

3.311 

7 

121-140 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.409 

1.498 

2.828 

3.276 

3.278 

3.287 

141-160 

.554 

.593 

.702 

1.404 

1.493 

2.803 

3.264 

3.267 

3.258 

,9 

161-180 

.549 

.588 

.697 

1.394 

1.478 

2.783 

3.241 

3.234 

3.235 

0 

181-200 

.549 

.588 

.692 

1.379 

1.468 

2.768 

3.206 

3.213 

3.218 

Where  milk  is  bought  by  weight  and  test,  the  dealer  will  pay  the  average  price 
or  92  score  fresh  butter  as  quoted  by  the  U.  S.  D.  A.  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
xonomics  at  Boston  for  the  month.  The  price  of  1/10  pound  butter,  as  above 
tated,  shall  be  added  for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  above  3.7  per  cent,  and  deducted 
or  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  below  3.7  per  cent,  for  each  cwt.  of  milk  so  purchased. 


Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the 
remium  of  0.75c  cwt.  is  paid. 


farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 


Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
eceipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

Cream  Plan  Prices  for  June,  1926 


lood,  lst-15th  .. 

iood,  lst-15th  .. 

lood,  16th-30th 

iood,  16th-30th 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt. 

Butter-fat 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

Test 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patron 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt. 

.40 

.822 

.42 

.486 

.0600 

20 

.40 

1.074 

.42 

.474 

.0600 

...12^  • 

.40 

.792 

.42 

.483 

.0634 

...20 

.40 

1.026 

.42 

.471 

.0634 

20 

.30 

.604 

.47 

.500 

.0831 

...2i  y2 

.32 

.600 

.43 

.478 

.1595 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  June,  1926 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  or  below  3.7  per  cent, 
test  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  sized  container:  Per  8l/2 
quart  can,  $0,007;  per  10  (mart  can,  $0,009;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,018;  per  21^4  quart 
can,  $0,019;  per  40  quart  can,  $0,035;  per  cwt,  $0,041. 

Boston  District 

Class  1    Class  2   Size  of  Can  . 


(Mkt. 

Dealers  Milk) 
Elm  Spring  Farms 

7th  Zone  (121-140)   62.8% 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   78.0 


(Mfg.  8/2 
Milk)  Quart 

37.2%  .413 


22.0 


20 
Quart 

1.000 


2\% 

40 

Quart 

Quart 

Cwt. 

1.063 

2.024 

2.353 

per  cwt. 

3.035 

Northern  Market  District 


Class  1 
(Mkt. 

Dealers  Milk) 
Wason- McDonald 

Haverhill 

Delivered  98.9% 

3rd  zone   

Fihdeisen  Farms 

Lawrence 

Delivered   62.3 

1st  zone  

2nd  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 

Manchester 

Delivered   74.6 

3rd  zone   

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

Blake,  E.  C. 

Manchester 

Delivered   63.7 

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

8th  zone   

Boyd,  W.  T,  &  Sons 

Nashua 

Delivered   .'.  98.1 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Nashua 

Delivered   89.2 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 


10.2'; 


37.7 


25.4 


36.3 


Cwt. 

in 
8/2's 


3.256 
2.703 


1.9 


10.1 


3.182 
2.807 
2.726 


Providence  Market 


Dealers 
Per  Hundredweight 


Class  1 
(Mkt. 
Milk) 


Burton,  H.  T   82.0% 

Chambers,  G.  T  

Fiske,   E.  A  

Greenville  Dairy  ... 

Monroe,  A.  B  

Providence  Dairy  . 

Viall,  W.  C  

Warnock,  C.  A  

Westcott,  E.  P  

PER  10  QT.  CAN 

Brown,  W.  B  

Grant,  C.  W  


70.3 
.100.0 
.  96.8 
.100.0 
.  67.5 
.  90.4 
.100.0 
.100.0 

.  80.2 
.  84.7 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 

18.0% 
29.7 

3"2 

32"5 
9.6 


19.8 
15.3 


Deliv- 
ered 

3.059 
2.840 
3.389 
3.324 
3.389 
2.786 
3.210 
3.385 
2.385 

.653 


Zone  1 
1-20 
Miles 

2.809 
2.626 
3.085 
3.039 
3.085 
2.624 
2.935 
3.081 
3.081 

.600 
.622 


Cwt. 
in 

2(ys 


3.256 
2.755 


Cwt. 

in 
40's 


3.256 
2.796 


3.182 
2.863 
2.840 


3.182 
2.909 
2.875 


Zone  2 
21-40 
Miles 

2.786 
2.606 
3.057 
3.002 
3.057 
2.600 
2.832 
3.053 
3.053 

.592 
.613 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  3  Zone 
41-60  net 
Miles  at  Farm 
2.715   


Cwt. 


2.740 
2.468 
2.443 
2.305 


2.791 
2.583 
2.496 
2.475 


2.644 
2.401 
2.373 
2.359 
2.347 


3.451 


Willi- 
mantic 
Zone 


2.545 
2.970 
2.918 
2.970 
2.553 
2.832 
2.966 
2.966 

.581 
.601 


2.464 


2.341  2.470 


.574 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  June,  1926 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  June  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 

If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.042  for  each  .1  per  cent.  If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent,  subtract  $.042 
or  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  June  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the  Hood, 
Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deduction  as  given  in  cream  price  table  is  made  from  the  zone  prices  as  figured  to  equalize  prices  between 
nilk  and  cream  patrons. 


Zone  1 

Zone  2 

Zone  3 

Zone  4 

Zone  5 

Zone  6 

Zone  7 

Zone  8 

Zone  9 

Zone  10 

Zone  11 

Zone  12 

Zone  13 

Zone  14 

Zone  15 

vliles  from  Boston   

1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

61-80 

81-100 

101-120 

121-140 

141-160 

161-180 

181-200 

201-220 

221-240 

241-260 

261-280 

281-300 

"lass  1  Milk  Price   

3.014 

2.973 

2.939 

2.904 

2.875 

2.845 

2.822 

2.793 

2.770 

2.753 

2.729 

2.606 

2.694 

2.671 

2.654 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

1.578 

Class  1 

Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk) 

(Mfg.  Milk) 

Dealers 

A 

B 

lood,  lst-15th  ....47.2% 

52.8% 

65.6% 

2.194 

2.174 

2.158 

2.142 

2.128 

2.115 

2.103 

2.089 

2.079 

2.071 

2.059 

2.048 

2.043 

2.032 

2.024 

iood,  16th-31st  ....47.1 

52.9 

66.1 

2.185 

2.166 

2.150 

2.133 

2.119 

2.106 

2.094 

2.081 

2.070 

2.062 

2.051 

2.040 

2.034 

2.023 

2.015 

Whiting  in  40's  ....52.2 

47.8 

60.2 

2.224 

2.203 

2.185 

2.166 

2.152 

2.136 

2.124 

2.109 

2.097 

2.088 

2.075 

2.063 

2.057 

2.045 

2.036 

Whiting  in  21%' s  ..52.2 

47.8 

60.2 

2.216 

2.188 

2.165 

2.154 

2.131 

2.119 

2.102 

2.091 

2.080 

2.062 

2.051 

2.034 

2.028 

2.016 

2.011 

rurner  Centre  51.4 

48.6 

67.0 

2.149 

2.128 

2.111 

2.093 

2.078 

2.063 

2.051 

2.036 

2.024 

2.015 

2.003 

1.991 

1.985 

1.973 

1.964 

Uden  Bros  36.0 

64.0 

2.094 

2.079 

2.067 

2.054 

2.044 

2.034 

2.024 

2.014 

2.006 

2.000 

1.991 

1.983 

1.979 

1.971 

1.964 

' .  S.  Cummings  ....45.6 

54.4 

2.228 

2.209 

2.194 

2.178 

2.165 

2.151 

2.140 

2.127 

2.117 

2.109 

2.098 

2.088 

2.082 

2.072 

2.064 

\  E.  Boyd  52.1 

47.9 

2.321 

2.300 

2.282 

2.264 

2.249 

2.234 

2.221 

2.206 

2.194 

2.185 

2.173 

2.161 

2.155 

2.143 

2.134 

Weighted  Avg  50.2 

49.8 

62.0 

2.224 

2.204 

2.187 

2.169 

2.154 

2.140 

2.128 

2.113 

2.102 

2.093 

2.081 

2.070 

2.064 

2.052 

2.044 

A — Excluding  Cream  Plan.  B — Including  Cream  Plan. 

Because  of  sales  in  markets  lower  than  Boston  the  following  decreases  have  been  made  in  the  Class  1  prices  here  given  for  the  following  dealers:  Whiting,  $.0322;  Tur 
ler  Centre,  $.0682. 


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August,  1926 


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of  Oct.  3.  1917.  authorized  July  13.  1»1». 

HARRY  L.  PIPER,  Editor 


N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I. ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  George  G. 
Young,  Livermore,  Me.:  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H.;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt.;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Dartmouth,  Mass.;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  L;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  L;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y.;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

I  wonder  if  it  happens  with  others  the 
way  it  seems  to  with  me  that  when  I 
make  careful  plans  to  do  some  particular 
thing  some  other  thing  often  bobs  up  to 
prevent. 

I've  attended  many  committee  meetings, 
conventions  and  other  gatherings  in  the 
interest  of  co-operatively  organized  mar- 
keting and  have  met  most  of  the  out- 
standing leaders  in  the  movement  but  I've 
never  seen  or  heard  Aaron  Sapiro.  Un- 
doubtedly he  has  made  a  great  contribu- 
tion to  the  cause  of  co-operative  market- 
ing in  America.  He  has  been  the  spokes- 
man for  a  school  of  thought  which  has 
been  bitterly  opposed  and  as  ardently 
supported.  Undoubtedly  he  popularized 
the  idea  of  commodity  organization 
and  many  of  the  larger  co-opera- 
tive operations  ever  undertaken  in 
this  country  were  under  his  guidance 
and  according  to  his  ideas.  He  is  said 
to  have  wonderful  ability  as  a  speaker,  a 
striking  personality  and  a  genius  for 
making  friends.  Twice  I  have  been  on 
programs  where  he  was  to  speak,  several 
times  I've  planned  to  attend  meetings  he 
was  to  address,  once  right  here  in  Bos- 
ton, but  something  has  happened  every 
time  to  prevent.  I  was  sure  at  last  that 
I  was  to  meet  and  to  hear  Sapiro  at  the 
American  Institute  of  Co-operation  at  St. 
Paul.     But  I  didn't. 

Sapiro  and  Secretary  Jardine  were  to 
speak  during  the  third  week,  the  two  men 
I  most  wanted  to  bear.  But  I  got  a  tele- 
gram that  I  was  needed  in  Boston  and 
of  course  that  settled  it.  I've  met  and 
heard  the  Secretary  elsewhere  and  some- 
time I'll  see  Sapiro.  But  it  is  rather 
odd  that  after  planning  so  many  times 


something  has  always  come  up  to  pre- 
vent meeting  him. 

Of  course  he  hasn't  missed  much  and 
there  are  a  lot  who  will  say  I  haven't. 
I've  read  and  heard  much  about  Sapiro, 
many  of  his  speeches  and  other  litera- 
ture. In  many  of  his  ideas  I  do  not  con- 
cur. Neither  do  I  agree  wholly  with 
those  who  condemn  him.  I  believe  there 
is  good  in  both  extremes  and  that  some- 
where in  between  is  the  safe  common 
ground.  I  know  I've  been  helped  in  my 
work  for  the  NEMPA  by  meeting  the 
leaders  from  other  sections  of  the  coun- 
try who  were  concerned  with  marketing 
other  commodities  and  I've  tried  to  bene- 
fit by  their  ideas  without  necessarily 
agreeing  with  them. 

You  know  I  am  more  and  more  con- 
vinced that  the  greatest  need  among  us 
is  a  more  tolerant  attitude  toward  those 
who  don't  think  exactly  as  we  do.  If 
the  other  fellow  is  honestly  trying  to  do 
constructive  work  in  a  somewhat  different 
way,  why  not  give  him  a  chance  if  pos- 
sible, help  him.    He  may  be  right. 

PATTEE. 


SYSTEM  NEEDED 

The  difficulties  which  dealers  in  Bos- 
ton, and  more  particularly  in  the  lesser 
markets,  had  to  overcome  to  meet  their 
market  demands  for  milk  during  the  re- 
cent hot  spell,  call  attention  anew  to  the 
need  for  a  more  systematic  method  of 
collection  and  distribution  of  the  milk 
supplies  of  New  England.  When  the 
New  England  Dairy  System  plan  was  de- 
veloped it  was  with  just 'such  emergencies 
in  mind,  as  well  as  to  meet  the  everyday 
requirements  of  the  markets.  The 
threatened  temporary  shortage  in  Bos- 
ton and  the  actual  shortage  in  some  of 
the  lesser  markets  could  have  been  met 
much'  more  easily  under  some  carefully 
planned  and  well  developed  orderly  sys- 
tem of  marketing. 

The  larger  Boston  dealers  can  take 
care  of  themselves  well.  They  own 
plants  in  the  country  where  there  is 
normally  a  considerable  reserve  of  milk. 
It  takes  only  a  short  time  for  them  to 
get  in  a  few  carloads  and  their  chief  prob- 
lem is  to  so  gauge  their  calls  for  extra 
milk  so  that  they  will  not  bring  in  an  un- 
necessarily large  amount.  Sometimes  a 
sweltering  hot  spell  ends  suddenly,  the 
demand  for  milk  falls  off  with  equal  sud- 
denness or  there  may  be  an  actual  re- 
action and  the  demand  falls  below  the 
normal  for  a  few  days  after  such  a  hot 
spell.  Then  the  dealers  have  carloads  of 
milk  on  the  road  which  will  not  be  needed 
in  the  market  for  fluid  milk.  It  will  be 
transported  unnecssarily. 

With  the  smaller  dealers  the  situation 
is  quite  different.  They  have  not  a  large 
reserve  supply  nor  do  they  buy  in  car- 
load lots  from  points  of  large  produc- 
tion in  the  country.  When  the  sudden 
extra  call  for  milk  comes  they  are  faced 
with  the  necessity  of  buying  from  larger 
dealers,  their  competitors,  or  not  fully 
meeting  the  demands  of  their  regular 
trade.  When  they  buy  of  their  competi- 
tors they  generally  pay  a  long  price.  That 
is  natural,  the  way  business  is  done. 
Sometimes  they  are  unable  to  get  a  sup- 
ply at  any  reasonable  price  but  they  have 
to  buy  it  at  any  price  or  lose  their  trade. 
In  the  brisk  competitive  business  which 
now  prevails  in  the  milk  industry  it  is 
of  first  importance  for  a  dealer,  whether 
great  or  small,  to  meet  any  extra  demands 
for  his  milk  which  may  come  from  regu- 
lar customers.    If  possible  he  should  be 


in  a  position  to  take  on  new  trade  when 
some  other  dealers  operating  in  the  same 
area  are  unable  to  meet  the  needs  of  their 
regular  customers.  That  is  the  way  busi- 
ness is  built  up. 

The  same  general  condition  applies  in 
the  lesser  markets  only  there  are  fewer 
large  dealers  with  a  large  reserve  in  the 
country  and  less  of  an  opportunity  to  in- 
crease the  supply  suddenly  to  meet  un- 
usual demands.  The  recent  hot  spell 
caused  much  greater  inconvenience  in  the 
smaller  markets  than  it  did  in  Boston  be- 
cause of  this  difference  in  the  supply, 
and  the  size  of  the  dealers.  Any  crisis 
in  the  milk  market  due  to  too  much  or 
too  little  milk  will  be  felt  more  acutely 
in  the  smaller  markets  as  there  is  less 
opportunity  to  make  quick  adjustments 
between  the  supplies  of  large  and  small 
dealers. 

There  is  no  shortage  of  milk  in  New 
England  at  any  time.  As  we  have  re- 
peatedly pointed  out  certain  dealers  are 
short  at  times  and  certain  markets  are 
short  at  times.  But  at  the  same  time 
other  dealers  operating  in  the  same  mar- 
ket may  have  plenty  of  milk  and  one 
city's  supply  may  be  abundant  while  an- 
other's is  short.  Under  such  a  condi- 
tion it  is  natural  for  the  dealer  who  has 
an  abundance  to  take  more  or  less  of  an 
advantage  of  the  dealer  who  is  short. 
He  can  do  this  in  either  one  of  two  ways, 
■irst,  by  selling  milk  to  the  dealer  who 
is  short  and  charging  him  a  stiff  price  or, 
second,  he  can  make  a  raid  on  the  busi- 
ness of  the  dealer  who  is  short.  Either 
>vay  of  meeting  the  situation  imposes 
a  hardship  on  the  dealer  who  is  short 
and,  in  the  long  run,  is  not  good  for  the 
milk  industry. 

The  proposed  New  England  Dairy 
System,  or  some  similar  organization 
built  up  for  the  orderly  collection,  or- 
derly transportation  and  orderly  dis- 
tribution of  New  England's  milk  supply 
would  in  very  large  measure  do  away 
with  these  unfortunate  situations  which 
arise  under  the  present  plan  of  each 
dealer  developing  his  own  supply  without 
reference  to  other  dealers.  Under  such 
an  orderly  system  the  entire  milk  supply 
of  New  England  would  be  in  reserve. 
Under  ordinary  conditions  the  System 
would  bring  into  the  markets  only  such 
milk  as  those  markets  required  and  would 
supply  all  dealers  with  their  exact  daily 
needs. 

The  great  difference  would  be  that  the 
System  would  have  all  the  reserve  milk 
in  its  jurisdiction  and  could  hold  it  for 
the  benefit  of  all  dealers  on  an  equal 
basis.  If  any  dealer,  small  or  large,  was 
in  need  of  more  milk  he  would  notify 
the  System  and  it  would  be  the  System's 
job  to  get  him  a  sufficient  supply.  An 
important  difference  between,  the  condi- 
tion which  would  then  prevail  and  what 
prevails  now  is  that  each  dealer  would 
be  buying  his  milk  from  his  regular 
source  at  the  regular  price.  He  would 
not  be  charged  any  extra  prices  nor 
would  he  be  under  the  danger  of  losing 
business.  He  could  devote  his  entire 
energy  to  the  task  of  selling  milk  with 
the  full  assurance  that  he  could  get  all 
that  he  wanted. 

The  great  economy  which  could  be 
made  through  this  centralization  of  the 
country  end  of  the  milk  industry  lies  in 
the  fact  that  the  System  could  make  the 
necessary  adjustments  much  more  easily. 
It  would  always  have  some  reserve  on 
hand.  It  could  transfer  supplies  from  one 
city  to  another  without  having  to  go  back 
to  country  sources.  Having  in  mind  the 
needs  of  all  dealers  in  all  markets  it 
"iti'd  judge  more  wisely  of  the  probable 
needs  of  additional  milk  to  meet  a  crisis 
and  could  make  its  plans  accordingly. 

The  great  need  in  the  recent  hot  spell 
was  not  for  more  milk  but  for  a  better 
way  of  apportioning  what  milk  there  was 
between  different  dealers.  Such  a  hot 
snell  as  that  makes  different  demands  on 
different  dealers  according  to  the  char- 


acter of  their  business.    It  would  be  the-! 
business  of  the  orderly  marketing  sys-I 
tern,  whatever  its  name  might  be,  to  make 
this  apportionment  in  a  way  fair  to  all 
dealers  and  for  the  general  welfare  of' 
the   markets.     Any   disturbance    in  the] 
market  which  throws  supply  and  demand 
out  of  balance  is  sure  to  reflect  on  the  , 
producers,    giving    some    an  advantage 
over   others   which   might   throw  prices 
nut  of  line  and  ultimately  create  a  situa- 
tion that   would  seriously  affect  the  in- j 
dustrv. 


A  NEW  FACTOR 

The  report  that  the  Vermont  Federa- 
tion of  Creameries  has  bought  an  interest 
in,  or  bought  outright,  a  retail  milk  dis- 
tributing business  in  Boston,  raises  some 
important  questions  in  regard  to  future 
policies.  Heretofore  the  Federation  has 
sold  milk  through  a  sales  agent,  selling  to 
smaller  dealers,  to  stores,  restaurants  and 
at  certain  times  to  large  dealers.  All 
their  milk  has  been  in  bulk  and  was  bot- 
tled at  this  end. 

With  a  retail  business  fully  equipped 
to  bottle  and  distribute  milk,  they  can 
become  a  quite  different  kind  of  a  factor 
in  the  Boston  market  from  what  they 
have  been  in  the  past.  They  can  cater  to 
a  new  kind  of  trade  and  can  enter  new 
fields  through  the  enlargement  and  exten- 
sion of  this  retail  business  which  they  are 
reported  to  have  bought. 

The  most  important  consideration  is 
from  a  price  standpoint.  The  great  bulk 
of  the  milk  sold  in  Boston  comes  under 
the  NEMPA  plan  of  purchase.  The  deal- 
ers who  sell  it  pay  the  NEMPA  price  in 
the  country  and  must  make  their  ex- 
penses and  profits  on  the  distribution  of 
the  milk.  The  Federation  of  Creameries 
on  the  other  hand  has  gone  on  the  policy 
of  selling  their  milk  for  what  they  could 
get  and  paying  their  farmer  patrons  what 
was  left  after  deducting  the  expenses. 

The  plan  of  paying  farmers  what  is 
left  is  quite  a  different  matter  from  pay- 
ing them  a  fair  going  price  for  their 
milk  to  start  with  and  then  meeting  com- 
petitive conditions  on  the  distributing  end 
and  winning  or  losing  according  to  the 
efficiency  of  method  and  good  business 
judgment  which  is  developed.  It  not 
only  tends  to  lack  of  efficiency  within  the 
business  through  the  lack  of  necessity  for 
efficiency,  but  it  tends  to  upset  conditions 
in  the  market. 

The  NEMPA  stands  firm  for  the 
proposition  that  milk,  or  any  other  farm 
commodity,  has  a  definite  value  on  the 
farm,  that  one  quart  of  milk  is  just  as 
valuable  as  another  quart  of  milk  except 
as  the  distance  from  market  varies.  The 
association  holds  that  it  is  fundamentally 
unsound  for  anyone  taking  the  milk  from 
the  farm  for  resale  not  to  agree  to  pay 
a  definite  price  for  that  milk  before  he 
takes  it  from  the  farm.  This  obligation 
to  pay  some  definite  price  for  a  definite  | 
product  rests  on  co-operatives  as  well  as 
proprietary  dealers.  They  are  under  the 
equal  obligation  to  pay  a  definite  price ) 
for  their  milk  and  let  their  success  or  j 
failure  to  make  a  profit  rest  on  their 
own  business  ability.  The  farmer  should 
not  be  obliged  to  pay  the  cost  of  in- 
efficient business  methods  ;  no  more  is  he 
entitled  to  an  increased  price  for  his  i 
product  by  reason  of  great  efficiency  on 
the  part  of  the  one  who  resells  such 
product.  In  co-operatives  as  well  as  in 
proprietary  businesses  the  profits  and  I 
losses  must  fall  on  the  business  and  not 
on  the  farmer.  The  only  difference  in  the 
case  of  the  co-operative  is  that  the 
farmer,  by  reason  of  his  being  a  stock- 
holder in  the  co-operative,  suffers  the 
losses  through  depreciation  of  the  value 
of  his  stock,  or  he  has  the  advantage  of 
profits  through  increased  dividends.  Ini 
neither  case  should  the  profits  or  losses  I 
on  the  business  be  made  a  basis  for  the 
pavment  for  the  milk  itself. 

On  the  other  hand  it  is  common  ex- 
perience that  when  any  dealer  in  milk,  co- 
operative or  proprietary,  has  to  face  con- 
ditions similar  to  his  competitors,  he  soon 
gets  the  point  of  view  of  other  dealers 
and  falls  in  line  with  their  practices. 
If  it  works  out  that  the  Federation,  by 
reason  of  its  coming  in  active  competition 
with  retail  dealers  in  Boston,  sees  the 
wisdom  of  falling  in  line  with  the  others 
as  regards  payment  to  the  farmers,  a 
considerable  end  will  have  been  gained. 


Vugust,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


■Hot  Spell  Greatly  Increases  Sales     Keeping  Milk  in  Good  Condition 


dealers  Have  to  Buy  Much  Additional  Milk  to  Meet  the 
Demands —Boston  Has  Enough  but  Lesser  Markets 
Run  Short— Dairy  System  Meets  Sixty  a  Per 
Cent.  Increase  in  Springfield 


( From  N.  E.  Dairy  and  Food  Council) 


The  hot  weather  spell  the  third  week 
July  caused  the  largest  sudden  in- 
eased  demand  for  milk  which  has  been 
cperienced  in  years.  For  four  days 
oston  and  other  markets  were  under 
veltering  heat.  As  usual  under  such 
mditions  everybody  drank  milk  instead 
:  hot  drinks  and  a  very  large  proportion 
ibstituted  milk  for  the  whole  or  part  of 
:ieir  regular  meals. 

Boston  dealers  report  demands  which 
xed  their  supply  to  the  limit  but  there 
as  no  real  shortage.    Extra  milk  was 
dered  into  Boston  by  the  carload  by 
rge  dealers  and  surplus  supplies  back 
the  country  were  drawn  on  in  a  way 
1  iat  they  have  not  been  used  for  a  long 
Me.    Small  dealers,  who  did  not  have 
'  is  reserve  supply,  were  hard  put  to  it  to 
it  enough  milk  but  they  were  able  to 
cure  extra  supplies  from  the  large  deal- 
's and  supplied  the  increased  demand 
om  their  customers. 

« 

Weather  Too  Hot 

Dealers  report  that  this  excessive  hot 
l  eather  continuing  for  a  few  days  is  not 
I  desirable  a  condition  for  milk  sales  as 
,eady  hot  weather  throughout  the  month, 
ahe  unusual  amount  of  milk  which  is 
;ed  during  such  a  hot  spell  sometimes 
lAuses  a  reaction  afterwards  and  sales 
Ml  off  materially.    That  does  not  ap- 
:ar  to  have  been  the  case  this  time  but 
i.  general  they  like  good  hot  weather 
.eadily,  not  a  few  days  of  record-break- 
jg  temperatures.    In  spite  of  the  greatly 
^creased  demand  for  milk  during  those 
w  days  the  records  for  the  month  will 
iiow  about  the  normal  July  consump- 
j,on.    Three  days  of  big  sales  are  not 
lough  to  very  greatly  swell  the  normal 
mounts  sold  over  a  thirty-day  period, 
i  The  railroads  are  among  the  first  to 
:el  the  effects  of  the  sudden  increase  in 
ie  demand  for  milk  as  they  get  the  re- 
vests for  extra  milk  cars  from  all  deal- 
}s.   Their  records  showed  a  sudden  jump 
i  the  number  of  milk  cars  which  were 
;quired  all  along  the  line.    It  seems  ap- 
irent  from  informal  reports  from  the 
lilroads  and  dealers  that  the  increased 
demand  for  those  few  days  was  as  high 
|  40  per  cent. 
While  Boston  dealers  were  easily  able 
)  meet  their  own  needs  by  drawing  on 
irplus  from  country  stations,  also  to  get 
though  to  sell  to  the  smaller  dealers,  the 
tsser  markets  experienced  an  acute  short- 
\t.    While  no  reports  have  come  in  of 
'ealers  not  being  able  to  supply  their 
;gular  home  customers,  there  were  a 
.3od  many  stores  which  ran  out  of  milk 
<ich  day.    There  was  also  considerable 
lifficulty  in  meeting  the  wholesale  de- 
ll land. 

Springfield  Hard  Hit 

Springfield  was  about  as  hard  hit  by 
ie  sudden  demand  for  milk  as  any  of 
>ie  lesser  markets.    It  was  the  best  esti- 
mate of  the  leaders  at  the  Springfield 
Wairy  System  that  their  sales  shot  up  60 
er  cent,  during  the  hot  spell.  They  could 
s-ave  sold  much  more  than  this  if  they 
'ad  had  the  extra  milk  as  some  of  the 
'  ealers  who  do  not  ordinarily  get  their 
,,-ipply  from  the  System  came  to  them  for 
elief.     The   ordinary    supply   of  these 
ealers  could  not  expand  itself  quickly 
mough  to  meet  the  demand  and  they 
V/ere  practically  without  milk  to  meet 
leir  regular  needs. 

'■  The  Springfield  Dairy  System  took 
; are  of  its  regular  customers  and  sold 
;  /hat  it  could  spare  to  other  dealers.  Re- 
!  uests  for  milk  came  in  from  several 
/ther  cities  but  could  not  be  met  in  view 
1  f  the  enormous  pressure  which  was 
rought  on  the  plant  and  management  to 
:  andle  the  extra  demand  at  hora°.  The 
'  icreased  demand  began  on  Wednesday 
ynd  grew  steadily  until  Saturday,  when 
j  11  records  for  sales  were  exceeded. 


Under  ordinary  conditions  the  Spring- 
field Dairy  System  collects  the  night 
and  morning  milkings  and  brings  them 
into  the  plant  by  noon  each  day.  The 
milk  is  pasteurized  and  bottled  during 
the  afternoon  and  goes  out  on  the  next 
mornings  delivery.  On  Wednesday  there 
was  plenty  of  reserve  milk  at  the  plant 
to  meet  the  need.  On  Thursday  the  in- 
creased demand  exhausted  this  reserve 
and  on  Friday  a  considerable  part  of  the 
milk  collected  that  morning  had  to  be 
sent  out  on  late  afternoon  deliveries.  The 
demand  at  the  stores  was  great  and  the 
store  men  were  clamoring  for  more  milk 
every  little  while.  The  city  delivery 
trucks  were  on  the  go  all  through  the 
afternoon  and  early  evening. 

Night  Collections 

When  the  ordinary  closing  time  came 
Friday  night  there  was  not  enough  milk 
left  for  the  regular  deliveries  the  next 
morning.  It  had  been  drawn  upon  to 
meet  the  afternoon  demands.  Knowing 
that  the  Saturday  demand  would  be  even 
greater  the  management  of  the  System 
sent  out  its  trucks  to  collect  the  evening's 
milk  on  most  of  the  principal  routes.' 
These  trucks  rolled  in  about  midnight 
and  between  then  and  morning  the  plant 
pasteurized  and  bottled  15,000  quarts. 
Practically  all  of  this,  in  addition  to  the 
remainder  of  the  regular  supply  of  the 
day  before  was  sent  out  on  the  morning 
deliveries.  Some  of  the  Saturday  morn- 
ing collections  were  pasteurized  and  bot- 
tled for  special  deliveries  in  the  after- 
noon. 

As  a  considerable  part  of  the  trade  of 
the  Springfield  System  goes  to  stores  the 
Saturday  demand  is  always  far  ahead  of 
other  days  as  families  who  buy  at  stores 
lay  in  a  supply  for  over  Sunday.  With 
the  extra  demand  for  three  days  previous 
the  System  had  to  adopt  these  overtime 
methods  to  meet  its  Saturday  trade  de- 
mands. It  did  so  successfully  and  has  es- 
tablished a  reputation  in  the  market  for 
meeting  an  emergency  in  a  businesslike 
way.  It  was  able  to  do  so  largely  through 
its  new  modern  pasteurization  and  bottling 
equipment,  capable  of  running  through 
8,000  pounds  an  hour  continuously. 

Extra  Work 

Similar  stories  of  extra  work  to  meet 
the  hot  weather  emergency  come  from 
other  markets.  It  is  evident  that  in  such 
a  time  as  that  the  small  dealer  is  in  a 
much  tighter  position  than  the  larger 
ones  who  have  certain  reserves  of  milk 
that  can  be  called  upon  for  ordinary  in- 
creases. The  excessive  demands  made 
during  that  hot  spell  overtaxed  the  sup- 
plies of  many  of  the  small  and  middle 
sized  dealers  and  forced  them  to  turn  to 
big  distributors  for  help.  In  Worcester, 
where  there  are  more  smal  dealers  than 
in  any  other  lesser  market,  the  shortage 
was  acute.  The  Worcester  County  Dairy 
System  met  the  needs  of  its  regular  trade 
and  so  far  as  was  practical,  without  en- 
dangering their  ability  to  meet  the  needs 
of  their  regular  customers,  supplied  other 
dealers. 

One  of  the  natural  results  of  such  a 
shortage  as  that  is  a  tendency  toward  an 
extension  of  the  area  from  which  cream 
is  purchased.  The  extra  supplies  of  milk 
which  were  called  in  by  the  carload 
would  have  furnished  the  normal  supply 
of  cream.  They  were  available  to  the 
big  dealers  and  thev  used  them  as  milk. 
This  put  them  under  the  necessity  of 
augmenting  their  cream  supplies  from 
outside  sources.  Really  there  is  no  sur- 
plus of  mi'l-  in  New  England;  all  that 
is  not  needed  as  market  milk  is  needed 
for  cream.  But  it  is  easier  to  get  addi- 
tional cream  from  outside  sources  than 
it  is  to  get  in  several  carloads  of  milk 
on  short  notice.  In  such  a  crisis  as  this 
the  milk  supply  has  to  borrow  from  the 
cream  supply. 


Last  month  we  took  up  two  fundamen- 
tal facts  regarding  the  souring  of  milk. 
First  that  the  changes  we  commonly  call 
"souring"  result  wholly  from  the  action 
of  bacteria,  minute  organisms  which  are 
present  everywhere.  Second,  that  while 
we  cannot  escape  these  bacteria  wc  can 
take  measures  to  control  their  activity 
and  thus  greatly  reduce  the  losses  which 
come  from  sour  milk. 

The  only  way  we  can  intelligently  guard 
against  such  losess  is  by  understanding 
the  processes  by  which  bacteria  bring 
about  changes  in  milk  which  we  call 
"souring"  and  then  doing  what  we  can  to 
check  such  processes.  We  will  now  con- 
sider what  actually  happens  when  milk 
really  "sours"  or  becomes  acid. 

This  change  is  brought  about  by  one 
type  of  bacteria.  There  is  another  prin- 
cipal type  which  spoils  milk,  those  which 
bring  about  changes  which  give  rise  to 
offensive  odors  through  a  putraf action, 
or  breaking  down  process.  These  two 
types  commonly  work  at  the  same  time 
but  the  acid  forming  bacteria  work  more 
rapidly  and  produce  noticeable  changes 
more  quickly  under  ordinary  circum- 
stances. For  this  reason  we  commonly 
speak  of  both  types  of  spoiling  as  "sour- 
ing," as  we  fail  to  distinguish  between  the 
two  different  processes  which  are  taking 
place,  commonly  at  the  same  time. 

Real  souring  of  milk  begins  imme- 
diately after  the  first  type  of  bacteria 
enter  it  but  the  amount  of  lactic  acid 
produced  at  the  start  is  so  slight  that 
we  cannot  detect  it.  Commonly  the  bac- 
teria enter  when  the  milk  is  drawn  from 
the  cow.  Experiments  have  shown  that 
there  are  practically  none  of  these  acid 
forming  bacteria  in  the  udder  of  the 
healthy  cow.  They  come  in  from  outside. 
They  are  present  in  large  numbers  on 
the  exterior  of  the  cow,  on  the  milker 
and  in  the  air.  The  stable  is  alive  with 
them  at  all  times.  Unless  the  milking 
utensils  are  scrupulously  clean,  the  bac- 
teria will  be  on  them  also. 

While  this  souring  or  acid  condition 
begins  at  once  it  is  not  apparent  to  the 
taste  until  it  has  reached  about  .3  of  one 
per  cent,  of  acidity.  Commonly  we  think 
of  milk  as  going  sour  suddenly.  In  real- 
ity the  process  is  quite  gradual  :  it  is 
merely  we  that  notice  it  suddenly.  I  f 
allowed  to  remain  at  ordinary  tempera- 
tures this  acidity  will  increase  steadily 
until  it  reaches  about  one  per  cent,  when 
it  will  stop.  The  milk  will  then  have 
become  so  acid  that  the  bacteria  of  this 
type  cannot  remain  active  in  it.  There 
is  plenty  of  milk  sugar  left  for  them  to 
live  on  but  the  milk  has  become  so  acid 
that  their  activity  has  been  checked. 

Long  before  this  time,  however,  the 
m'lk  has  been  spoiled  for  market  pur- 
poses. When  the  acidity  reaches  .4  of 
one  per  cent,  the  milk  curdles  through 
the  separation  of  the  casein  from  the 
whev.  There  is  nothing  in  this  ordinary 
=onring  of  milk  which  makes  it  unwhole- 
some but  people  do  not  like  the  taste  of 
the  sour  milk  and  will  not  buv  it.  It  is 
spoiled  so  far  as  its  salahility  as  milk 
goes. 

Let  us  take  un  that  other  eeneral  tyne 
of  bacteria  which  causes  milk  to  sooil 
through  the  formation  of  passes  and  of- 
fensive odors  due  to  putrifif-ation. 

We  commonly  speak  of  this  nutrifica- 
tion  as  "souring"  because  it  eoes  along 
at  the  same  time  as  true  sourint?  under 
ordinary  conditions  but  proceeds  more 
slow'v  and  it  is  not  noticp->b'e  so  nuicklv 
as  true  souring.  Ordinarily  it  is  not  a 
'arge  factor  in  the  mind  of  the  dairy 
farmer  who  sells  milk  as  he  ?»ets  the 
milk  out  of  his  hand  fenerallv  long  be- 
fore such  changes  have  become  notice- 
able. 

But  the  bacteria  which  produce  these 
offensive  easses  and  odors  are  still  ther^ 
and  if  esiveh  a  change  to  develop  will 
ranse  losses  somewhere  aloti"  ttm  liri"  as 
<♦  iotallv  unfits  milk  frir  l->"m->n  rnnsiimn- 
ti~n  Thev  not  onl"  m-slro  •+•«»  mMv  nn- 
r,it-tahle  but  actual1'-  Hfi-wKnU^oni*  In 
cnmo  cases  thev  are  sources  of  oositive 
danger. 

^'hi'e  these  changes,  due  to  this  tvne 
of  hactpria  mav  take  nlace  after  the  milk 
has  left  the  control  of  the  producer,  they 


come  about  almost  wholly  from  candi- 
tions  on  the  farm.  The  seed  for  this 
crop  of  spoiled  milk  was  sown  on  the 
farm.  It  is  the  responsibility  of  the 
farmer  to  eliminate  the  putrificativc  bac- 
teria so  far  as  possible,  no  matter  where 
the  effect  of  these  bacteria  first  show. 

This  type  of  bacteria,  while  they  arc 
somewhat  slower  in  their  action  than  the 
acid  forming  bacteria,  are  much  harder 
to  kill.  Under  conditions  which  are  ad- 
verse to  their  growth,  multiplication  and 
activity,  they  enter  into  a  sort  of  dor- 
mant state,  wholly  inactive  but  still  re- 
taining life  and  ability  to  start  into  active 
multiplication  when  favorable  conditions 
return.  It  is  important  to  get  this  dif- 
ference between  the  two  types  of  bacteria 
well  in  mind  for  it  explains  why,  under 
certain  conditions,  milk  will  become 
.  "gassy"  or  give  off  bad  odors  without 
becoming  actually  sour. 

The  reason  for  this  greater  resistance 
to  ordinary  methods  of  sterilization  is 
that  this  type  of  bacteria,  in  common  with 
some  others,  have  the  power  to  form 
themselves  into  a  "spore"  or  resting  con- 
( Continued  on  page  eight) 


NO  INSPECTION 


Investigator     Finds  Canadian 
Cream  Shippers  and  Plants 
Were  Not  Visited 

Informal  reports  from  one  of  the  men 
who  went  into  Canada  to  look  into  the 
conditions  of  inspection  or  lack  of  in- 
spection on  Canadian  farms  which  ship 
cream  into  New  England,  are  highly  in- 
teresting. His  investigations  coincided 
with  what  we  have  suspected.  They  will 
make  an  interesting  chapter  in  this  ef- 
fort of  the  dairymen  of  New  England 
and  other  parts  of  the  country  to  force 
an  inspection  system  on  foreign  cream 
comparable  to  that  to  which  they  are  sub- 
jected within  the  States. 

This  observer  reports  that  he  found 
one  station  owned  by  a  Boston  milk 
dealer  with  about  70  patrons.  They  ship 
cream  regularly  to  Boston  and  certain 
other  markets.  But  so  far  as  this  in- 
vestigator could  learn  none  of  the  farm- 
ers ever  had  been  inspected  by  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  health  department  of  any 
city  in  Massachusetts.  Nor  could  he  find 
evidence  that  the  plant  had  ever  been 
inspected. 

Without  regard  to  whether  the  dairies 
which  supplied  this  plant  were  clean  in 
their  methods  or  whether  they  would 
score  up  well,  it  is  evident  that  here  is 
a  lot  of  uninspected  cream.  It  may  be 
just  as  good  cream  as  comes  into  the 
market  but  the  fact  that  it  is  uninspected 
proves  just  the  point  which  has  been 
raised  by  the  proponents  of  the  inspec- 
tion bill. 

In  marked  contrast  to  this  complete 
lack  of  inspection  in  localities  which  ship 
into  New  England  he  found  a  most  rigid 
inspection  system  in  force  on  milk  and 
cream  which  goes  into  Montreal.  That 
city  recently  put  on  a  compulsory  pasteuri- 
zation plus  tuberculin  test  require- 
ment and  is  making  every  effort  to  live 
up  to  it.  It  was  the  observation  of  this 
investigator  that  a  considerable  number 
of  men  who  could  not  meet  the  require- 
ments of  the  Montreal  market  are  shut 
off  from  their  former  outlet  for  milk 
and  cream.  They  are  now  making  but- 
ter but  they  are  constantly  wanting  to  get 
back  into  milk  and  cream  shipping.  They 
will  be  easy  to  line  up  by  any  New  Eng- 
land dealer  who  desires  additional  cream, 
provided  no  adequate  inspection  system  is 
put  in  force  meanwhile.  With  the  grad- 
ual reaching  out  of  cream  dealers  for  new 
supplies  which  can  be  secured  at  a  low 
figure  these  producers  who  have  been 
shut  off  from  Montreal  shipments  will 
find  an  outlet  into  New  England  markets. 
Thus  New  England  will  be  receiving 
cream  from  sources  which  are  pronounced 
unfit  by  the  Montreal  health  department. 
That  is  a  condition  which  can  be  remedied 
by  the  enactment  of  a  federal  inspection 
law  providing  that  milk  and  cream  shall 
not  come  into  the  United  States  unless 
it  comes  from  farms  and  herds  which 
have  been  officially  inspected  and  passed. 


Page  Six 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


August,  1926 


NORTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


Annual  Meeting  in  October 

New  Grouping  of  Locals  to  Be  Made  by  Directors  —  Representatives 

to  Be  Elected 


F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 


477  Essex  Street,  Lawrence,  Mass. 


JULY  PRICKS 

Manchester,  N.  H  68c    per  8^4  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  68c    per  8^  qt.  can 

Lowell,   Mass  72.3c  per  8J4  qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  85c    per  10  Qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  72c    per  8^  qt.  can 

Concord,   N.  H  58.8c  per  8</2  qt.  can 

Portland,  Me   7.3c  per  qt. 

All  markets  advanced  in  price  with 
the  advance  on  the  Boston  market  July 
1st  with  the  exception  of  the  Concord 
market  which  did  not  change  its  price 
during  June. 

Supplies  of  milk  were  short  enough  so 
that  dealers  did  not  fight  this  advance  in 
price.  As  the  month  of  July  progressed, 
however,  with  the  extremely  hot  weather 
of  the  week  of  July  19th,  milk  became 
extremely  short.  In  fact  we  had  more 
calls  at  "the  office  by  dealers  seeking 
sources  where  they  could  obtain  milk 
during  that  week,  than  we  have  ever  ex- 
perienced at  any  time  since  the  district 
office  was  established.  The  Haverhill 
market  was  in  a  very  critical  condition 
as  well  as  the  Nashua  market.  Dealers 
in  both  of  these  markets  had  been  carry- 
ing a  very  small  surplus  and  when  the 
hot  weather  came  with  the  tremendous 
demand  for  milk,  coupled  with  the  de- 
creased production  in  the  country,  it 
soon  wiped  out  their  small  surplus  and 
these  dealers  found  themselves  short  of 
milk. 

Every  possible  effort  was  made  by  the 
district  manager  to  help  them  out  but  it 
is  surely  true  if  the  hot  weather  had  held 
out  much  longer,  there  would  have  been 
a  very  serious  shortage  in  the  milk  sup- 
ply. This  is  a  fortunate  condition,  how- 
ever, for  the  market,  because  we  feel  it 
is  well  to  have  supplies  cleaned  up.  There 
has  been  such  a  hue  and  cry  for  dealers 
all  spring  about  being  flooded  with  milk 
that  it  is  a  tremendous  relief  to  have  the 
shoe  on  the  other  foot  and  have  them 
asking  for  milk  and  not  asking  to  be  re- 
lieved of  some  of  their  producers.  Clean- 
ing up  of  supplies  at  this  time,  provided 
we  have  seasonable  weather  from  now 
on,  should  do  away  with  any  great  amount 
of  surplus  during  the  remainder  of  the 

CHECK  TESTING 

I  visited  the  Portsmouth  Creamery  for 
two  days  this  month,  going  over  samples 
and  checking  up  tests  for  the  producers. 
We  have  a  large  membership  selling  to 
this  creamery  and  about  two  days  are  re- 
quired to  go  over  the  tests  thoroughly 
and  make  the  check.  N.  H.  Wells,  for- 
merly employed  by  the  Portsmouth 
Creamery  and  who  used  to  supervise  the 
testing,  is  now  in  the  employ  of  the 
NEMPA  as  one  of  the  new  field  men. 
Since  Mr.  Wells  left  the  creamery  new 
men  have  had  to  take  up  the  testing  work 
which  has  caused  some  confusion  and 
lack  of  confidence  on  the  part  of  some  of 
the  producers.  This  situation  will  be 
straightened  out  very  soon  and  we  hope 
that  conditions  will  improve  as  soon  as 
the  new  man  has  had  an  opportunity  to 
become  familiar  with  the  work. 

FIELD  TRIPS 

I  spent  a  great  deal  of  time  in  the 
country  during  this  month.  I  have  been 
to  Lyndonville  to  meet  the  producers  who 
are  selling  in  the  Lawrence  market  and 
discussed  with  them  conditions  in  this 
particular  market.  We  had  a  splendid 
meeting  there  at  Lyndonville  with  prac- 
tically all  of  the  producers  shipping  out 
of  that  territory  into  Lawrence  at  pres- 
ent. A.  L.  Tripp,  one  of  the  Lyndonville 
producers  selling  to  Findeisen  Farms  at 
Lawrence,  has  been  elected  as  a  member 
of  the  Lawrence  sales  committee  to  rep- 
resent the  Lyndonville  producers.  Mr. 
Tripp  is  an  especially  good  man  for  the 
position.  He  owns  one  of  the  best  farms 
in  Lyndonville,  carrying  about  30  milking 
cows ;  is  a  man  who  has  been  affiliated 
with  town  affairs  for  several  years;  is 


well  liked  and  respected  by  the  entire 
community.  A  special  meeting  of  the 
Lawrence  sales  committee  was  called  in 
order  that  Mr.  Tripp  might  meet  the  rest 
of  the  committee  and  becom?  acquainted 
with  conditions  in  the  Lawrence  market. 

Considerable  time  has  also  been  spent 
canvassing  for  dues  among  the  member- 
ship. At  this  time  of  the  year  most  of 
the  men  who  are  hiring  help  during  hay- 
ing, are  somewhat  short  of  funds  and  a 
few  have  requested  that  I  come  around 
in  the  fall  for  dues  payments.  The  ma- 
jority, however,  paid  me  and  all  have 
expressed  their  appreciation  for  the  way 
the  association  has  been  able  to  maintain 
prices  during  the  past  year.  I  have  can- 
vassed practically  all  of  the  Lowell  deal- 
ers who  have  paid  the  dues  which  they 
have  been  deducting  for  the  members  in 
that  market. 

Much  time  has  also  been  spent  visiting 
producers  and  then  going  to  see  dealers 
who  owe  these  producers  money.  It 
seems  as  though  we  have  had  more  trouble 
trying  to  collect  pay  for  milk  this  year 
than  we  have  ever  experienced.  We  have 
been  successful  in  getting  some  of  the 
accounts  straightened  out  but  there  are  a 
lot  of  others  which  require  more  work 
before  matters  will  be  straightened  out. 
Our  advice  again  to  producers  is  to  seek 
to  place  their  milk  with  dealers  who  are 
prompt  in  their  payments.  In  this  way 
they  will  avoid  much  of  the  trouble  that 
always  comes  with  dealers  who  are  slow 
pay.  Our  organization  stands  ready  to 
assist  in  this  matter  and  with  milk  as 
short  as  it  is  at  the  present  time,  this 
will  be  a  good  time  to  make  the  changes. 

QUALITY  IMPROVING 
There  has  been  a  distinct  tendency  on 
the  part  of  nearby  producers  to  improve 
the  quality  of  their  milk.  This  we  ap- 
preciate very  much  because  it  means  that 
these  producers  will  be  able  to  hold  their 
markets  that  much  better  and  by  produc- 
ing a  quality  product  will  eventually  in- 
crease the  demand  because  consumers  cer- 
tainly like  goods  that  will  stand  up  when 
placed  on  the  market.  By  far  the  greater 
majority  of  the  producers  are  now  using 
some  improved  type  of  strainer.  With 
these  strainers  a  cotton  pad  is  used 
through  which  to  strain  the  milk.  After 
each  milking  this  pad  is  thrown  awav  and 
a  new  pad  is  used  at  the  next  milking. 
This  does  away  with  the  second  use  of 
strainer  cloths  and  also  does  a  much  better 
job  so  far  as  straininsr  the  milk  is  con- 
cerned. We  strongly  advise  all  producers 
who  are  not  using  one  of  these  strainers 
to  obtain  one  and  use  it  in  the  future. 

An  outstanding  example  of  what  can 
be  accomplished  along  this  line  has  been 
worked  out  by  the  Burbeck  Company  of 
Lowell,  who  have  insisted  that  their  pro- 
ducers have  one  of  the  most  approved 
type  of  strainers  on  the  market.  The 
sales  committee  men,  Messrs.  Hall  and 
Putnam,  representing  the  producers  who 
are  selling  to  the  Burbeck  Company  in 
Dunstable  and  Carlisle,  have  both  of 
them  worked  a  great  deal  personally 
among  the  producers  to  urge  them  to  in- 
stall suitable  milk  strainers.  Mr.  Kenyon 
of  the  Burbeck  Company  took  samples  of 
milk  from  various  producers  and  strained 
them  through  absorbent  cotton  pads  and 
then  as  a  matter  of  education  the  pads 
were  given  to  the  sales  committee  who  in 
turn  showed  them  to  each  producer.  These 
pads  were  marked  "clean,"  "fairly  clean" 
and  "dirty,"  so  that  each  man  knew  how 
his  milk  was  coming  into  the  plant. 

The  producers  have  co-operated  very 
fairly  in  this  matter  and  made  an  hnnest 
endeavor  to  improve  the  quality  of  their 
milk  and  have  it  strained  properlv.  This 
has  been  appreciated  by  the  Burbeck 
Company  and  will  Ho  much  towards  as- 
sisting in  the  sale  of  their  product.  There 
is  nothing  that  will  obtain  a  market  for 
a  producer  and  hold  it  for  him  as  much 
as  to  produce  clean,  wholesome  quality 
milk. 


Annual  meeting  time  is  coming  around 
again  soon.  The  date  of  our  big  family 
gathering  in  Boston  is  October  26  and  27. 
We  are  iooking  forward  to  a  big  time, 
with  reports  of  a  good  year  back  of  us 
and  prospects  of  a  better  year  ahead. 

Some  things  are  to  be  done  before  then 
back  in  the  country.  The  most  impor- 
tant one  is  to  get  delegates  appointed 
from  the  groups  of  locals  as  was  done 
last  year  and  the  previous  year.  Under 
our  amended  by-laws  every  local  with  a 
membership  of  50  is  entitled  to  a  voting 
delegate  in  the  annual  meeting.  This 
delegate  will  be  the  president  elected  at 
the  last  annual  local  meeting.  No  im- 
mediate action  need  be  taken  by  such  a 
local  provided  that  it  held  an  annual  meet- 
ing last  fall,  after  our  central  meeting. 
In  case  no  annual  meeting  was  held  last 
year  a  meeting  should  be  called  between 
now  and  October  1  so  that  there  will  be 
a  duly  elected  president  to  serve  as  the 
official  delegate  from  that  local. 

Locals  with  memberships  of  less  than 
50  will  be  given  their  representative  un- 
der the  grouping  plan  developed  three 
years  ago.  Sometime  during  August  the 
directors  of  the  association  will  look  over 
the  membership  records  in  -these  locals 
and  announce  the  groups  into  which  they 
will  be  divided  for  the  purpose  of  elect- 
ing a  voting  representative  to  the  central 
association  meeting.  Locals  with  mem- 
bership of  less  than  50  will  be  brought 
together  in  groups  having  an  aggregate 
membership  of  50  or  more.  These  groups 
must  have  a  meeting  before  October  1 
in  order  to  select  their  representative. 

These  groups  have  to  rearrange  each 
year  as  memberships  change.  No  study 
of  the  present  situation  as  regards  mem- 
berships in  these  locals  of  less  than  50 
has  yet  been  made  but  within  a  short 
time  the  groups  will  be  arranged.  It 
seems  probable  that  there  will  be  few 
changes  in  the  groups  in  Vermont  as  the 


membership  there  has  been  quite  stable 
for  some  years.  No  special  organiza- 
tion work  has  been  done  in  Vermont 
territory  and  the  field  work  which  is  to 
be  done  there  in  August  will  not  count 
as  the  groupings  will  be  made  on  the  basis 
of  the  membership  August  1.  In  New 
Hampshire  there  will  .be. some  changes  in 
the  groups  due  to  the  fine  work  of  Dis- 
trict Manager  Brown  in  building  up  mem 
bership  in  certain  localities.  The  increases 
which  he  has  made  will  make  it  possible 
to  regroup  those  locals  and  give  the  state 
more  voting  delegates  than  it  had  last 
year  probably. 

The  largest  changes  in  groups  will 
probably  come  in  Maine,  due  to  the  work 
of  our  field  men  in  the  past  three  months. 
They  have  been  into  some  territory  which 
has  not  been  visited  for  some  time  be- 
fore and  have  added  many  members. 
Many  locals  have  been  strengthened  and 
enough  members  have  been  secured  in 
some  towns  to  form  new  locals.  With- 
out doubt  Maine  will  have  an  increased 
representation  this  year.  In  Massachusetts 
there  will  be  comparatively  few  changes 
in  the  grouping  except  in  the  southern 
market  district  where  some  important  ad- 
ditions have  been  made.  Many  new 
producers  around  the  Mew  Bedford  mar- 
ket have  joined  the  association.  Groups 
in  that  area,  also  in  the  Connecticut  ter- 
ritory, will  show  some  changes  due  to 
increased  membership. 

When  these  groups  come  together  to 
choose  their  delegate  it  will  be  a  good 
time  to  have  a  real  meeting  and  discuss 
some  of  the  important  things  which  are 
coming  up  for  action  in  our  central 
meeting.  Even  with  those  locals  which 
have  more  than  50  members  it  will  be  a 
good  plan  to  have  a  meeting  and  talk 
things  over  so  that  the  president  can  know 
what  his  associates  want  done  about  cer- 
tain questions  which  are  bound  to  come 
up  in  the  central  meeting. 


WESTERN  VIEWPOINT 

Prof.  Frandsen  Talks  on  Competi- 
tion from  Distant  Dairy 
Section 

Prof.  J.  H.  Frandsen  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Agricultural  College,  speaking 
before  a  large  gathering  of  dairy  farm- 
ers at  the  recent  Farm  and  Home  week, 
gave  a  rather  optimistic  view  of  the  dairy 
situation  in  New  England.  He  was 
speaking  on  the  possible  danger  of  west- 
ern milk  competition  in  New  England 
markets  and  while  he  showed  that  the 
western  dairymen  were  seeking  an  out- 
let for  a  lot  of  milk  cheaply  produced  he 
felt  that  our  nearness  to  markets  was  an 
advantage  that  would  continue  to  make 
dairying  in  New  England  profitable  in 
spite  of  any  competition  from  outside. 
Better  cows,  better  methods  of  feeding 
and  better  farm  management  will  keep 
New  England  dairymen  in  possession  of 
New  England  milk  markets.  He  was 
speaking  in  terms  of  Massachusetts,  but 
what  he  said  applies  to  all  New  Eng- 
land.   He  said  in  part : 

The  typical  corn-belt  farmer  of  the 
west  is  not  by  nature  a  dairyman,  nor  is 
he  likely  soon  to  become  one.  He  is  in- 
clined to  think  of  dairying  as  a  side 
issue ;  good  work  for  women  and  chil- 
dren. A  successful  farmer,  according  to 
his  own  notion,  is  one  who  raises  thou- 
sands of  bushels  of  corn  or  of  wheat  or 
one  who  feeds  steers  and  hogs  in  car- 
load lots. 

But  bankruptcy  is  now  facing  many 
western  farmers.  They  are  far  removed 
from  the  consuming  centers  of  the  east 
and  are  facing  ever-mounting  freight 
rates — rates  that  have  already  had  the 
effect  of  virtually  pushing  these  farms 
1.000  miles  farther  away  from  the  mar- 
kets. Their  returns  from  corn  and  wheat 
farming  do  not  even  cover  production 
costs.  These  facts,  at  least  partly,  are 
responsible  for  the  distressing  conditions 
now  existing  in  the  corn-belt  region." 

The  western  farmer    is  agitating  and 


organizing,  and  he  is  going  to  try  very 
hard  to  get  legislation  that  will  make  the 
tariff  effective  as  regards  the  crops  he 
produces.  Failing  in  this,  his  next  moveij 
probably  will  be  to  get  relief  by  such 
lowering  of  tariff  schedules  as  will  make 
it  possible  for  him  to  purchase  his  farnrj 
machinery,  supplies  and  household  neces 
sities  at  prices  somewhat  in  proportion  to,] 
those  which  he  receives  for  his  corn, 
wheat  and  livestock  products. 

Since  there  is  always  a  certain  amount] 
of  interdependence  between  all  agricul- 
tural sections  of  our  country,  all  prob-| 
lems  are  our  problems.  After  all,  ma>) 
we  not  well  be  interested  in  heloing  them 
work  out  a  constructive  agricultural  pro-l 
gram,  one  that  will  put  their  agriculture 
on  a  more  permanent  and  profitabkl 
basis?  The  grains  and  feeds  of  that  sec- 
tion are  basic  for  industry  and  agricul- 
ture as  a  whole.  If  they  fail  to  make 
their  agriculture  profitable  severe  anci 
radical  economies  may  follow.  Again! 
such  radical  readjustment  would  mean 
less  grain  production  and  likely  draw 
thousands  of  them  into  dairying  causing! 
such  scarcity  of  grain  and  overproduction! 
of  milk  and  dairy  products  as  would 
seriously  affect  New  England  dairying 

Many  sections  of  the  midwest  posses;! 
conditions  adapted  to  dairying.    In  thesdj 
sections  there  are  plenty  of  good  cheara 
feeds  rich  in  protein  and  energy,  plenty) 
of  water  and  a  climate  much  like  ourf 
own.    Last,  but  not  least,  the  new  glass  J 
lined  thermo-tank  cars  and  trucks  mak<<! 
it  possible  for  western  dairymen  to  read 
hitherto  unthought  of  markets.   Just  how 
far  they  can  afford  to  ship  milk  and} 
just  how  long  distance  shipping  will  af 
feet  quality  has  not  been  determined.  But: 
these  cars  present  tremendous  possibili  I 
ties.- 

I  have  spoken  of  corn-belt  farmers  a| 
a  class.  There  are,  however,  notable  ex 
ceptions  to  this  type  of  farmer  in  Wis 
consin,  Minnesota,  Michigan,  Indiana  and 
Iowa.  Here  one  finds  many  large  settle  ! 
ments  of  dairy-minded  people  who  mak'l 
(Continued  on  page  thirteen) 


\ugust,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


1  Four  Weeks  of  Intensive  Study 

astitute  of  Co-operation  Completes  Its  Second  Season — 
Attendance  Is  Nearly  Doubled-  Nine  Foreign  Nations 
Represented —Chief  of  Marketing  Bureau  Outlines  the 
Plans  of  New  Federal  Division 


j  The  American  Institute  of  Co-opera- 
ion,  which  recently  completed  its  four 
veeks  of  intensive  study  and  discussion 
f  the  co-operative  movement  at  the  Uni- 
ersity  of  Minnesota,  far  outclassed  the 
[  irst  year  sessions  in  the  number  who  at- 
'  ended  and  the  scope  of  the  program.  It 
|  iroved  to  be  the  greatest  get-together  of 
'tie  leaders  and  students  of  co-operative 
narketing  ever  held  in  this  country.  It 
vas  four  weeks  of  intensive  and  orderly 
1  tudy  of  co-operation  as  practiced  by  the 
eading  organizations  dealing  in  all  sorts 
if  agricultural  commodities  from  live- 
stock to  peanuts.  Its  influence  will  be 
-Celt  in  the  operations  of  hundreds  of  co- 
operative organizations.  It  gave  ample 
•vidence  of  the  strength  and  vitality  of 
'the  co-operative  movement.  • 

Compared  with  last  year,  when  the  In- 
stitute was  held  at  the  University  of 
■Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia,  the  registra- 
tions were  nearly  doubled.  During  the 
":'our  weeks  at  University  Farm,  575  co- 
bperators  from  32  states  and  nine  foreign 
:ountries  participated  in  the  sessions. 
Foreign  countries  represented  included 
Denmark,  England,  South  Africa,  Ger- 
many, Australia,  Russia,  China,  Czecho- 
slovakia and  Canada.  Last  year  at  Phil- 
idelphia  there  were  364  registered  from 
1 53  states  and  four  foreign  countries. 

"The  registration  this  year,"  declares 
Charles  W.  Holman,  secretary  of  the  In- 
stitute of  Co-operation,  "is  indicative  of 
ihe  increasing  prestige  of  the  American 
Institute  of  Co-operation  as  a  clearing 
iiouse  for  co-operative  ideas,  accomplish- 
ments and  plans  for  the  future  develop- 
ment of  co-operation.  In  the  second  year 
of  its  existence  the  Institute  has  prac- 
tically doubled  its  attendance.  This  fact 
klone  gives  great  promise  for  its  future 
.sessions. 

Many  Invitations 

:  "There  is  already  strong  competition 
between  universities  and  agricultural  col- 
leges in  various  parts  of  the  country  to 
obtain  the  Institute  for  next  year.  In- 
vitations have  been  received  from  the 
Michigan  Agricultural  College,  Lansing, 
Northwestern  University,  Chicago,  Stan- 
ford University,  Palo  Alto,  California 
and  the  University  of  California  at  Berk- 
ley to  entertain  the  1927  sessions.  The 
California  invitation  has  the  backing  of 
virtually  every  important  co-operative  or- 
ganization in  the  state." 

Chris  L.  Christensen,  appointed  chief 
of  the  new  Division  of  Co-operative  Mar- 
keting in  the  Bureau  of  Agricultural  Eco- 
nomics, outlined  in  an  address  the  re- 
search program  of  the  Division  under 
the  new  provisions.  President  Coolidge 
signed  the  bill  creating  the  division  on 
the  new  plan. 

"In  planning  the  research  in  the  di- 
vision of  co-operative  marketing,"  Mr. 
Christensen  asserted,  "we  are  attempting 
to  deal  with  problems  of  marketing 
within  co-operative  business  groups. 
Many  of  these  problems  need  to  be  con- 
sidered from  local,  regional  and  national 
viewpoints.  There  are  many  phases  of 
co-operative  organizations  which  can  be 
studiedfeffectively  by  the  state  college  or 
experimental  station.  There  are  others 
which  are  regional  and  which  involve  re- 
search in  a  number  of  terminal  markets, 
and  can  be  handled  advantageously  by  a 
federal  agency,  either  co-operating  with 
the  states  or  working  independently." 

The  program  includes,  Mr.  Christensen 
said,  research  among  farmers'  elevators, 
the  pooling  method  of  marketing  grain, 
country  storage  of  grain,  a  study  of  co- 
operative ginning  methods  in  the  south, 
co-operative  marketing  of  livestock  and 
an  analysis  of  fluid  milk  problems.  Fed- 
erating local  farmers'  elevators  into  ter- 
minal selling  agencies  will  be  studied 
carefully  by  the  new  division  because 
there  are  no  precedents  for  the  step,  he 
declared. 

Another  service  that  Mr.  Christensen 


believes  will  be  valuable  to  the  develop- 
ment of  co-operation  will  be  the  individual 
business  analysis  for  co-operatives.  He 
said  that  instead  of  studying  the  prob- 
lems that  are  common  to  a  region,  his 
division  would  take  up  the  single  associa- 
tion, study  the  economic  condition  under 
which  it  operates,  its  organization,  busi- 
ness set-up,  financial  policies,  its  man- 
agement, operating  costs,  price  and  sales 
policies,  and  its  relation  to  members.  The 
object  of  this  work,  he  declared,  is  not 
primarily  to  be  of  service  to  the  individual 
associations,  but  rather  to  accumulate  a 
sufficient  number  of  cases  to  set  up  what 
he  terms  "ratios  and  standards"  for  co- 
operatives in  various  lines  of  business  and 
to  study  by  a  case  system,  the  economics 
of  co-operative  marketing. 

Financing  co-operatives  and  relations  of 
banks  to  such  organizations  were  dis- 
cussed at  considerable  length  by  promi- 
nent bankers  and  financiers. 

Sound  financing  of  co-operative  mar- 
keting associations  promises  to  be  the 
outstanding  achievement  of  the  Inter- 
mediate Credit  Banks,  A.  Kopperud,  vice- 
president  of  the  Federal  Intermediate 
Bank  at  Omaha,  Neb.,  believes. 

Standard  Agreement 

"The  co-operative  association,"  he  de- 
clared, "must  have  a  standard  marketing 
agreement  with  its  members,  whereby  in- 
disputable title  to  the  commodities  passes 
to  the  association,  giving  it  power  to 
pledge  these  commodities  as  securities  for 
advances  of  capital,  and  then  sell  them 
to  repay  the  association.  It  must  furnish 
tiie  intermediate  credit  bank  a  collateral 
agreement  which  provides  that  the  bank 
can  either  sell  the  commodity  or  require 
additional  security  to  provide  the  proper 
margin  on  loans  at  all  times. 

"It  must  be  our  firm  resolve,"  he  said 
in  summarizing  his  address,  "that  our 
intermediate  credit  institutions  shall  ful- 
fill their  mission  in  promoting  better  mar- 
keting, and  even  assisting  in  a  more  sci- 
entific adjustment  of  production  to  con- 
sumption, and  thus  make  agriculture 
more  profitable  and  desirable  for  our 
young  men  and  women.  In  America  we 
have  conquered  the  various  ills  that  have 
beset  us  in  the  past,  and  the  intermediate 
credit  banks  are  going  to  serve  a  mighty 
part  in  solving  the  agricultural  ills  of  the 
present  day." 

John  Burgess,  vice-president  of  the 
Metropolitan  National  Bank,  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  addressed  the  group  on  the  ex- 
tension of  credit  in  financing  newly 
formed  co-operatives. 

"We  all  know  that  co-operative  mar- 
keting has  had  a  long,  har«l  struggle  up- 
ward toward  the  light,"  he  said.  "In  the 
United  States  the  history  of  co-operative 
marketing  has  been  a  history  of  struggle, 
failures  and  mismanagement,  coupled 
with,  in  later  years,  some  brilliant  success 
and  a  few  tragic  failures  on  a  large 
scale. 

"Many  bankers  have  been  opposed  to 
co-operative  marketing  on  principle  be- 
cause they  did  not  understand  that  the 
process  was  fundamentally  and  eco- 
nomally  sound.  Their  judgment,  in  my 
opinion,  was  clouded  by  the  opposition  of 
influential  middlemen,  in  many  cases  good 
customers  of  the  bank,  who  deliberately 
or  unwittingly  made  false  statements  re- 
garding the  purpose,  methods  and  man- 
agement of  co-operative  marketing  con- 
cerns." 

A.  B.  Lathrop,  vice-president  of  the 
Merchants  National  Bank,  St.  Paul,  out- 
lined the  experiences  of  his  bank  in 
financing  northwest  co-operatives.  He 
cited  the  experiences  of  his  institution  in 
furnishing  capital  for  local  co-operative 
creameries,  farmers'  co-operative  stores, 
co-operative  packing  plants,  fluid  milk 
distributing  agencies,  livestock  marketing 

(Continued  on  page  fifteen) 


Joining  the  wires  in  a  great  trunk  nerve  between  New  York  and  Chicago 


The  Nerves  of  a  Nation 


The  magnitude  of  our  pres- 
ent system  of  telephone 
communication  was  beyond 
the  thoughts  of  men  fifty 
years  ago.  While  at  that 
time  Bell,  the  inventor, 
had  a  prophetic  vision  of 
places  and  houses  and  fac- 
tories connected  by  tele- 
phone, even  he  could  not 
have  foreseen  the  Amer- 
ican city  of  skyscrapers 
with  more  telephones  in  one 
building  than  are  to  be 
found  in  many  a  foreign 
country. 

The  massed  multitudes 
of  the  modern  city  can  no 
longer  be  served  by  wires 
strung  in  the  air.  We  now 
have  telephone  cables  no 


bigger  than  a  man's  wrist, 
each  containing  2400 
thread-like  wires,  carrying 
beneath  the  city  streets 
their  millions  of  spoken 
messages.  Long  distance 
cables  overhead  and  under- 
ground connect  cities  with 
one  another  by  storm-proof 
conductors,  now  being  ex- 
tended into  a  country-wide 
network. 

At  the  present  time  nine- 
tenths  of  the  45,000,000 
miles  of  telephone  wire  in 
the  Bell  System  are  in 
cable.  The  service  of  each 
telephone  user  has  become 
more  and  more  reliable 
with  the.  extension  of  this 
cable  construction. 


American  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company 
and  Associated  Companies 


bell 


SYSTEM 


IN  ITS  SEMI-CENTENNIAL  YEAR  THE  BELL  SYSTEM  LOOKS  FOR- 
WARD TO  CONTINUED  PROGRESS  IN  TELEPHONE  COMMUNICATION 


AuckstellAxle 

Ask  your  local  Ford  dealer  for  a  demonstration  of  a  Ruckstell 
equipped  car.  Gives  the  Ford  W<  greater  power,  four  speeds  and  remark- 
able flexibi  ity. 

Ruckstell  special  over-drive  gears  are  recommended  for  all  the  models 
of  passenger  Ford  cars.  TLis  special  ring  gear  and  pinion  set  gives  a  ratio 
of  three  to  one  on  high — reduction  of  )6%  in  motor  revolutions  for  the 
same  speed.  Recommended  for  districts  where  highways  are  paved  as 
well  as  level  country. 

Ruckstell  Axles  and  gears  are  installed  and  serviced  by  all  Ford  dealers. 
Distributed  by 

New  England  Implement  Co.,  Inc.,  22  Garden  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 


Farmers  of  New  England,  New  York  and  New  Jersey 

Apply  for  Loans  Now 

TF  you  are  intending  to  take  out  a  mortgage  loan  duringthe  next 
1  si  x  months,  send  in  your  application  before  October — the  sooner 
the  better.  This  will  permit  the  bank  to  examine  the  property 
this  Fall,  as  no  appraisals  will  be  made  with  snow  on  the  ground. 

Federal  Land  Bank  Loans  are  made  at  5,'  i  o  interest.  Funds 
are  available  for  Srst  mortgage  loans  on  improved  farms  operated 
by  owners  whose  major  income  is  from  that  business.  Over 
$46.0(10.0011  already  loaned  in  this  district. 

Inquire  of  the  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  National  Farm  Loan 
Association  in  your  County  or  write  to 

THE  FEDERAL  LAND  BANK  of  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


Long-term,  low -rate 
easy-payment  Loans 


Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


August,  1926 


Standard 
in  the 

Dairy  Industry 

There  is  more  than  a 
skilled  process  in  the 
manufacture  of 

Quality,  character  and 
service  is  so  built  in- 
to every  particle  of 
this  distinctive  pro- 
duct that  its  efficiency 
and  economy  has  made 
it  standard  in  the 
dairy  industry. 

Ask  your  supply  man. 


Indian  in  circle 


In  ever^  package 


The  Wyandotte  Booth  at  the  Ses- 
qui-Centennial  Exposition,  Phila- 
delphia, June  1  to  December  i,  will 
be  found  in  the  Manufacturers' 
Building,  Group  D,  Sec,  1,  Block  2. 


Plan  to  attend  the  Dairy  Industries 
Exposition,  Detroit,  Oct.  6  to  14. 
The  Wyandotte  Representatives 
will  welcome  you  at  Booths  430, 
431  and  432. 


THE  J    B.   FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


KEEPING  MILK 

(Continued  from  page  live) 

ditinn  in  which  they  develop  an  outer 
case  or  wall  quite  impervious  to  tem- 
peratures which  wou.d  kill  any  bacteria 
m  its  ordinary  condition.  These  spores 
are  somewhat  comparable  to  the  seeds 
of  a  plant ;  a  device  tor  continuing  life 
under  adverse  conditions. 

•  1  hese  spores  wid  resist  extreme  heat 
and  cold,  just  like  a  seed,  and  when  con- 
ditions become  favorable  again,  will  come 
back  into  active  life,  i-or  this  reason 
this  type  of  change  will  sometimes  ap- 
pear in  milk  whicli  has  been  kept  under 
conditions  which  made  it  practically  im- 
possible for  the  acid  forming  bacteria  to 
live  or  give  off  lactic  acid.  The  milk 
putrifies  before  it  becomes  sour,  simply 
because  the  bacteria  have  resisted  efforts 
to  kill  them,  simply  by  going  into  the 
spore  condition. 

Growth  and  activity  of  bacteria  prac- 
tically stop  at  a  temperature  not  much 
above  body  heat,  but  they  will  remain 
alive  up  to  a  temperature  of  145  degrees 
continued  for  30  minutes.  They  will 
live  through  a  much  higher  temperature 
for  a  very  short  period.  This  temperature 
of  145  degrees,  continued  for  30  minutes, 
will  not,  however,  kill  the  putrifactive 
bacteria  which  are  in  the  resting  or  spore 
stage.  To  kill  them  a  much  higher  tem- 
perature is  required.  This  is  ordinarily 
impractical  for  it  would  practically  cook 
the  milk. 

The  farmer's  part  in  eliminating  or 
reducing  the  number  of  these  putrifac- 
tive bacteria  lies  in  cleanliness,  not  in  the 
application  of  heat.  These  bacteria  do 
not  come  so  much  from  the  cow  herself 
or  from  the  air,  but  from  plain  filth. 
Probably  90  per  cent,  of  them  come  in 
from  manure  which  actually  gets  into 
the  milk.  They  swarm  in  manure  and  are 
highly  beneficial  there,  as  they  break 
down  the  organic  compounds  and  reduce 
them  to  simpler  forms  which  can  be 
more   readily   utilized   by  plants. 

They  do  exactly  the  same  thing  in  milk, 
— they  break  it  down  and  reduce  it  to 
simpler  forms.  But  in  doing  this  they 
change  "the  best  food  on  earth"  to  some- 
thing, not  only  unpalatable  but  unwhole- 
some, unfit  for  human  consumption.  In 
breaking  down  the  milk  these  bacteria 
attack  the  nitrogen  compounds,  just  as 
in  all  other  breaking  down  of  a  similar 
nature.  It  is  a  well  nigh  universal  pro- 
cess, beneficial  as  a  whole  but  disastrous 
when  applied  to  milk. 

In  this  breaking  down  process  offensive 
odors  are  given  off,  gases  are  developed, 
the  actual  physical  condition  of  the  milk 
ii  sometimes  changed  from  the  smooth 
pleasant  character  of  the  fresh  milk  into 
a  ropy,  slimy  consistency  which  cuts  it 
out  of  all  possibility  for  human  use, 
wholly  apart  from  any  effect  it  might 
have  on  health. 

There  is  very  little  opportunity  for  this 
type  of  bacteria  to  gain  entrance  into  the 
milk  after  it  leaves  the  farm.  Practi- 
cally always  they  gain  entrance  at  the 
barn.  Later  care  in  handling  the  milk 
.and  keeping  it  cool  may  retard  their  de- 
velopment and  activity  until  the  milk 
reaches  some  home.  There  it  may  stand 
for  a  time  under  just  the  right  condi- 
tions for  these  bacteria  to  become  active. 
Within  a  few  hours  the  milk  may  be- 
come offensive,  disgusting.  The  customer 
gets  mad  and  stops  taking  milk  from 
that  dealer,  or  goes  over  to  the  use  of 
condensed  milk  or  milk  powder.  The 
sales  of  your  dealer  are  cut  down,  your 
surplus  is  increased,  your  price  is  re- 
duced. There  is  a  loss  all  along  the 
line. 

We  have  intentionally  put  this  matter 
pretty  plainly,  not  because  such  changes 
as  these  occur  often  but  to  show  you 
producers  the  possible  results  of  care- 
lessness on  your  part,  in  handling  milk 
on  the  farm.  This  is  to  impress  you 
with  the  evil  results  of  letting  this  type 
of  bacteria  get  into  your  milk. 

And  this  is  not  the  whole  story.  Far 
greater,  and  far  more  important  than 
the  actual  loss  in  time,  labor  and  moneys 
is  the  loss  of  the  confidence  of  the  con- 
sumer, the  loss  of  his  belief  that  milk 
is  a  good,  wholesome  natural  food, — the 
best  of  all  foods.  You  can  make  up  for 
money  lost;  but  for  the  loss  of  con- 
fidence there  is  no  recovery.  The  re- 
sponsibility is  yours. 


These  Cows  are  Fed 

Diamond  Corn  Gluten  Meal 

all  year  round,  including  August.  The  scene  is  from 
Yates  Farm,  Orchard  Park,  New  York,  where  there  are 
some  record-breaking  Holsteins,  and  where  each  cow  is 
a  profit  maker.  When  the  late  summer  comes  with  its 
dried  and  shortened  pastures,  swarms  of  flies  and  hot 
weather,  they  do  not  go  into  a  slump  as  so  many  cows 
do  at  this  time  of  the  year. 

AUGUST  is  the  dangerous  month  for  the  dairy  herd. 
l  Don't  take  a chance  onalate  summer  slump  through 
too  much  reliance  on  dried-up  grass.  A  good  and  simple 
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2  parts  DIAMOND        3  parts  Ground  Oats 
4  parts  Bran  1  part  Oilmeal 

Fed  in  moderate  quantities,  night  and  morning,  this 
mixture  will  bring  your  herd  in  full  production  to  the 
fall  season  of  better  milk  prices. 
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to  suit  your  own  particular  condi- 
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Page  Nine 


HOT  WEATHER  WORK 


A  Milkei 

on  Wh<if 


SHARPLES 
MILKER 
saves  farmer 

$294  a  year 

Are  you  still  milking  by  hand? 
Nobody  could  ever  again  get  Mr.  R —  to 
milk  by  hand.  One  year's  trial  of  a  Sharpies 
Moto-Milker  with  his  24  cows  has  convinced 
him  for  life. 

"$294  saved  on  labor  costs  alone— a  bigger 
milk  yield — -and  a  lower  bacteria  count 
than  I  could  ever  get  with  hand  milking," 
he  reports. 

You  too  can  find  hidden  dairy  profits  in 
either  the  Sharpies  Moto-Milker  or  the 
Sharpies  Pipe  Line  Milker.  Hand  milking 
is  becoming  as  old-fashioned  as  gravity 
separating  pans. 

Send  for  literature— it  will  give  you  impor- 
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L     ASK  WHY  , 


Cow-Ease 


Cow-Ease,  sprayed  on  your  cows 
twice  a  day,  drives  flies  away.  By 
actual  test,  cows  protected  by  it,  yield 
more  milk.  Applied  with  a  sprayer,  it 
won't  blister  or  gum. 

One  gallon  sprays  200  cows.  Our  Cow- 
Ease  sprayer  does  the  job.  Cow-Ease  is 
repellent  to  cattle  ticks,  grubs,  hen  lice 
and  mites.  Equally  effective  on  horses  or 
In  hen  houses. 

Get  the  can  with  the  blue  Cow-Ease 
label.  If  your  dealer  hasn't  it,  send  his 
name  and  address  and  $1.50  ($1.75  west 
of  Missouri  River)  to  Carpenter-Morton 
Co.,  Boston,  Mass.,  and  we  will  deliver 
one  gallon  prepaid.  Sprayer  60c.  extra. 
Satisfaction 


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Council  Staff  Finds  Plenty  of  Op- 
portunity to  Talk  Milk  Dur- 
ing Vacation  Period — Chil- 
dren Eager  for  Material 

There  is  no  hot  weather  letting  up  of 
the  activities  of  the  New  England  Dairy 
and  Food  council.  When  regular  sessions 
of  schools  close  children  of  Greater  Bos- 
ton gather  in  other  places  just  the  same 
and  offer  the  same  opportunity  to  the 
Council  workers  to  present  the  story  of 
the  value  of  milk  in  its  own  interesting 
way.  Through  the  month  of  July  the 
Council  workers  have  been  on  the  job 
morning,  afternoon  and,  in  many  cases, 
in  the  evening.  They  have  had  an  im- 
portant part  in  the  increase  in  the  use 
of  milk  this  year. 

The  totals  of  work  accomplished  in 
July  tell  part  of  the  story  of  the  summer 
activities.  They  show  that  the  milk  edu- 
cational films  were  shown  24  times  to  a 
total  audience  of  7074  persons.  The 
Mechanical  exhibits  were  shown  42  weeks 
and  two  days.  There  were  12  separate 
exhibits  going  most  of  the  time.  The 
Council  workers  gave  49  talks  with  au- 
diences totaling  9062  children  and  592 
adults.  Forty  four  visitors  came  to  the 
office  seeking  information  and  357  letters 
were  received  relative  to  the  activities  of 
the  organization. 

Four  Lines  of  Work 

There  have  been  four  main  avenues  of 
work  for  the  summer.  The  most  im- 
portant were  the  vacation  schools  con- 
ducted oy  the  city  of  Boston  from  9  to 
12  each  weekday  morning.  The  children 
come  in,  hot  to  study  books  but  for 
various  kinds  of  handwork.  They  find 
the  days  too  long  for  all  play  and  are 
glad  to  come  to  the  school  houses  for  a 
few  hours.  By  arrangement  the  workers 
of  the  Council  have  gone  to  the  school 
buildings  and  given  the  health  talks  which 
have  proved  so  popular  during  the  re- 
mainder of  the  year.  The  material  de- 
veloped by  the  Council  fits  in  especially 
well  with  this  vacation  school  program. 
The  color  cards,  posters  and  other  ma- 
terial which  calls  for  skill  and  good  taste 
with  the  paint  brush  or  crayon,  have 
been  especially  acceptable  in  these  gath- 
erings. 

Council  workers  report  that  the  child- 
ren have  shown  lively  interest  in  the 
talks,  stories  and  stereopticon  views.  In 
many  cases  they  have  been  asked  to  re- 
peat the  talks  as  the  children  vary  in 
their  attendance  and  an  entirely  different 
crowd  might  be  present  on  a  second  visit. 
As  many  as  500  children  have  been  pres- 
ent to  hear  some  of  these  talks. 

Review  Schools 

Another  important  piece  of  summer 
work,  also  made  possible  through  the 
hearty  co-operation  of  the  Boston  school 
department,  is  at  the  summer  review 
schools.  There  are  11  of  these  schools 
in  Boston'  where  pupils  from  the  fourth 
to  eighth  grade  come  each  morning  to 
make  up  some  of  the  studies  in  which 
they  have  failed  to  pass.  .  It  is  an  op- 
portunity given  them  by  the  school  de- 
partment to  regain  their  lost  standing  in 
any  grade  by  a  little  work  during  the 
summer.  There  are  many  such  children 
and  they  come  fairly  regularly  to  the  11 
centers  each  morning.  While  they  have 
some  definite  studying  to  do  their  pro- 
gram is  not  very  rigid  and  there  is  ample 
opportunity  for  the  Council  workers  to 
give  talks.  They  find  that  the  children 
are  highly  receptive  to  the  story  of  the 
value  of  milk,  coming  as  a  part  of  their 
summer  school  work. 

Still  another  important  type  of  gath- 
erings for  children  which  give  the  Coun- 
cil workers  a  fine  opportunity  to  talk 
about  milk  is  the  vacation  Bible  schools 
which  meet  in  various  churches,  or  other 
gathering  places  each  morning.  Under 
the  guidance  of  skilled  leaders  large 
numbers  of  children  learn  to  do  pretty 
ind  useful  pieces  of  handicraft.  It  is 
much  better  than  having  them  just  play- 
ing on  the  street.    These  Bible  school 

orkers  have  been  very  glad  to  have  the 
Coi-ncil  workers  come  in  for  a  half  hour 
a  talk,  with  or  without  the  stereopticon 
slides.  In  August  the  work  with  the 
schools  will  stop  and  somewhat  similar 
work  will  begin  on  playgrounds. 


Now  Feed  Amco 
20%  Dairy 


Cornell  Bulletin  441  tells  that  on  twen- 
ty-six farms,  where  no  grain  was  fed  on 
pasture,  the  average  production  per 
cow  for  the  year  was  5510  pounds  of 
milk.  On  thirty-nine  other  farms, 
where  cows  were  given  grain  with  pas- 
ture, the  cows  produced  6932  pounds 
per  year  —  a  gain  of  1422  pounds  of 
milk  over  the  no-grain  method. 

The  American  Dairy  Federation  shows 
that  for  every  increase  of  1400  pounds 
of  milk  a  cow  returns  $16.00  in  profit 
over  feed  costs. 

That  proves  it  pays  to  feed  grain  with 
pasture.  The  College  Feed  Confer- 
ence Board  recommends  20%  protein 
on  pasture.  Amco  Feed  Mixing  Ser- 
vice makes  available  to  you  its  Amco 
20%  Dairy  Feed. 

Feed  enough  Amco  20%  Dairy  to  main- 
tain all  summer  the  amount  of  milk 
the  cows  give  when  they  respond  to 
the  first  flush  of  pasture.  This  is  the 
way  to  keep  up  high  all-year-round 
production. 

Purchasing  raw  materials  in  immense 
tonnage,  volume  mill  production  and 
low  order  getting  costs  make  our  prices 
surprisingly  low  considering  the  high 
quality  of  ingredients  and  their  variety. 

Talk  Amco  Feed  Mixing  Service  over 
with  your  neighbors ;  then  write  to  us 
for  facts  and  prices  on  Amco  20%  Dairy 
and  our  other  College  Feed  Confer- 
ence Board  Open  Formula  Feeds. 

American  Milling  Co. 

(MILLS  AT  PEORIA,  ILL.) 

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(feed  mixing  service 


Page  Ten 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


August,  1926 


EASTERN  STATES 
EXPOSITION 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


SEPT.  19-25,  1926 


JN  presenting  its  Tenth 
Anniversary  Exposition 
the  Eastern  States  manage- 
ment is  offering  #98,000 
in  premiums,  the  largest 
amount  in  its  history.  The 
quality  and  strength  of  its 
dairy  cattle  classes  are  un- 
surpassed. The  awards  of 
its  judging  rings  are  the 
goal  of  every  breeder. 

And  it  is  a  friendly  show 
— friendly  to  breeder,  ex- 
hibitor and  visitor.  The 
Exposition  management  ex- 
tends a  cordial  invitation  to 
show  your  herds  and  to 
attend  its  greatest  fall  show. 

Premium  lists  and  entry 
blanks  are  now  available. 

Entries  close  Wednesday, 
August  25. 

For  information,  entry 
blanks,  etc.,  write  to 

CHARLES  A.  NASH 

General  Manager 

292  Worthington  Street 
Springfield,  Mass. 


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month 


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All  profits  paid  to  de- 
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or  carried  to  surplus 
for  their  protection. 

Write  for 
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the  purchaser.  They  axe 
shipped  subject  to  trial 
in  the  buyer's  stable. 
They  are  right.  Send 
for  booklet. 

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Box  10.  Forrentville  Cood. 


When  you  buy  accept  only  the  genuine 
Guaranteed  Dr.  Clark  purity  milk  strain- 
ing cotton,  sterilized  6 -inch  pads  for  all 
strainers.  If  not  at  your  dealers,  parcel 
post  by  return  mail  by  H.  C.  Soule,  N.E. 
distributor,  Canton,  Maine.  Thin, flimsy 
substitutes  will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


CANVASS  COMPLETED 

(Continued  from  page  two) 

Karl  M.  Brackley,  Mr.  Wells  signed  14 
new  members  for  the  local  at  Strong, 
bringing  tbe  total  membership  up  to  101. 
Thirty  eight  members  who  had  not  mailed 
in  their  new  power  of  attorney  slips  did 
so  when  called  upon  by  the  field  man.  At 
a  meeting  of  the  local  held  during  the 
canvass  in  addition  to  the  brisk  discussion 
of  the  methods  by  which  the  price  of  milk 
is  determined,  the  question  of  Canadian 
inspection  of  cream  came  in  for  consider- 
able attention.  Practically  all  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Strong  local  sell  cream  to 
the  New  England  Creamery  Co.  These 
producers  are  unanimously  in  favor  of 
the  Canadian  inspection  hill  which  re- 
quires that  Canadian  producers  shall  be 
subject  to  regulations  comparable  with 
the  regulations  imposed  on  New  England 
cream  shippers.  Mr.  McEdwards,  man- 
ager of  the  New  England  Creamery, 
pointed  out  that  his  company  does  not 
buy  any  cream  in  Canada  hut  it  has 
compete  in  the  markets  with  Canadian 
cream  coming  from  sections  where  testi- 
mony of  investigators  has  already  shown 
that  the  sanitary  requirements  are  far  be- 
low what  is  required  within  New  Eng- 
land. 

FARMINGTON 
The  Farmington  local  is  one  of  the 
largest,  having  159  members.  The  Turner 
Centre  System  maintains  a  plant  at  West 
Farmington  where  practically  all  the  milk 
from  this  local  goes.  Director  H.  J. 
Mosher  of  the  Turner  Centre  System  is 
a  member  of  the  Farmington  local.  When 
canvassed  by  Mr.  Foley  24  new  members 
were  added  to  this  local.  William  M. 
Metcalf  is  president  and  Percy  C.  Taylor 
is  secretary  of  the  local. 
CHESTERVILLE  AND  EAST  WIL- 
TON 

The  majority  of  the  members  of  the 
NEMPA  locals  in  Chesterville  and  East 
Wilton  sell  their  milk  to  Turner  Centre 
System  at  West  Farmington  but  some 
ship  by  baggage  to  the  Turner  Centre 
plant  at  Auburn  and  some  others  sell  to 
the  New  England  creamery  at  Liver- 
more  Falls.  This  creamery  also  main- 
tains a  station  at  Weld  but  the  producers 
there  never  had  been  canvassed  for  mem- 
bership in  the  NEMPA  until  Mr.  Osgood 
visited  them.  Fifteen  signed  as  mem- 
bers and  there  are  a  number  more  who 
without  doubt  will  sign  when  a  local  is 
organized  at  Weld  a  little  later.  Presi- 
dent C.  W.  Noyes  and  Secretary  C.  A. 
Adams  of  the  East  Wilton  local  assisted 
Mr.  Osgood  in  the  canvass.  Sixteen  new 
members  were  added.  Secretary  Adams 
represented  his  district  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  association  in  Boston  last 
fall.  At  Chesterville  President  C.  A. 
Hamilton  and  Secretary  S.  B.  Hammond 
also  assisted  Mr.  Osgood  in  increasing 
the  membership  to  27. 

The  Jay  local  was  canvassed  by  Mr. 
Foley.  Seven  new  members  were  added 
and  10  powers  of  attorney  were  secured 
from  old  members.  All  Turner  Centre 
patrons  in  this  town  are  now  members  of 
the  NEMPA  and  only  four  more  mem- 
bers are  needed  to  entitle  the  local  to  a 
representative  at  the  central  association 
meeting.  M.  L.  Thompson  is  president 
and  E.  V.  Thompson  is  secretary  of  this 
local. 

EAST  LIVERMORE 
Twenty-five  new  members  were  added 
to  the  East  Livermore  local  through  the 
canvass  made  by  Mr.  Foley  and  Mr. 
Warner,  with  valuable  assistance  from 
A.  G.  Morrison,  president  of  the  local. 
Secretary  F.  A.  Pike  was  away  at  the 
time.  The  headquarters  of  the  New  Eng- 
land creamery  is  in  the  town  of  East 
Livermore. 

LEEDS 

Between  East  Livermore  and  Leeds 
live  about  30  producers  who  never  had 
been  asked  to  join  the  NEMPA.  Most 
of  them  ship  to  the  New  England  Cream- 
ery. Mr.  Osgood,  with  the  assistance  of 
E.  A.  Russell  and  A.  E.  Campbell  signed 
up  every  one  of  the  26  who  were  seen. 
These  men  are  planning  to  formally  or- 
ganize a  local  a  little  later.  They  are 
staunch  readers  of  the  New  England 
Homestead  and  have  been  following  the 
work  of  the  NEMPA  through  that  pub- 
lication for  years.  They  were  especially 
interested  in  the  fight  to  prevent  an  in- 


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just  across  the  river. 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


Eastern  S^tes  Farmers'  Exchange 


<  COLD  CONVINCING  FACTS 

|     Figures  Like  These  Impress 
Thoughtful  Feeders 

I  The  Vermont.  Extension  Service 
Dairy  Herd  Improvement  Report 
No.  12  has  a  table  showing  the 
'  herds  which  in  May  led  each  of  the 
14  reporting  cow  test  associations 
in  the  State  in  butterfat  produc- 
tion, and  9  of  these  were  Eastern 
States  Farmers'  Exchange  fed 
herds.  Ranking  these  leading 
herds  in  average  butterfat  produc- 
tion per  cow,  the  Eastern  States 
herds  took  the  first  six  places. 

All  5  of  these  leading  associa- 
tion herds  averaging  better  than 
40  lbs.  butterfat  per  cow  were 
Eastern  States  fed. 

Prom  the  standpoint  of  returns 
over  feed  cost,  all  the  herds  being 
credited  with  the  same  value  for 
their  milk — butterfat  content  con- 
sidered— the  six  leaders  were  East- 
ern States  fed  herds. 

In  considering  these  figures  bear 
in  mind  that  they  deal  not  with  the 
leading  herds  in  one  association 
but  with  the  top  herds  of  14  asso- 
ciations of  the  great  dairy  state  of 
Vermont. 

Figures  of  this  sort  are  con- 
vincing. The  Eastern  States 
Farmers'  Exchange  has  shown  the 
leading  farmers  of  New  England, 
the  section  where  this  great  Ex- 
change originated,  the  soundness 
of  its  principles  of  operation  and 
the  superior  quality  of  the  feeds 
and  feed  ingredients  which  it  pro- 
cures and  distributes  to  its  mem- 
bers. Delaware  farmers  tried  this 
co-operative  service  and  became  as 
loyal  as  the  New  Englanders.  Many 
farmers  in  Pennsylvania  have  be- 
come so  impressed  with  the  reports 
they  have  been  receiving  from  New 
England  and  Delaware  that  they 
have  seen  to  it  that  Eastern  States 
feed  be  made  available  for  them, 
and  12  stations  in  Pennsylvania 
have  received  shipments  since  the 
first  car  arrived  at  Newtown  in 
March.  At  most  of  these  stations 
regular  shipping  service  is  estab- 
lished. Poultrymen  as  well  as 
dairymen  have  been  immensely 
pleased  with  the  quality  of  the  in- 
gredients as  well  as  the  make-up  of 
the  formulas.  Experience  is  prov- 
ing to  Pennsylvania  farmers  as  it 
has  to  New  England  farmers  what 
the  Exchange  means  when  it  de- 
scribes its  rations  as  "feeds  blended 
to  produce  maximum  returns  to  the 
feeders  rather  than  mixed  to  meet 
keen  price  competition." 

Where  records  are  kept  Eastern 
States  Open  Formula  Feeds  prove 
their  worth. 

For  further  information  on  the 
Eastern  States  co-operative  feed 
service  for  poultry  and  horses  as 
well  as  dairy  cattle,  a  co-operative 
service  which  should  not  be  con- 
fused with  the  car  door  service 
offered  by  private  manufacturers 
through  dealers  or  groups  of  farm- 
ers, write  the  office. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

■*  noti'Mtock,    non-profit  organization 
owned  and  controlled  by  the 
farmer*  It  teroet 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


of  Director  George  G.  Young.  Post- 
master D.  A.  Bisbee  is  president  of  Can- 
ton local  and  C.  E.  Mendel  1  is  secretary. 
Seven  new  members  were  added  and  18 
others  signed  power  of  attorney  slips. 
The  majority  of  these  men  sell  cream  to 
the  Whiting  Co.,  which  has  a  station  ;il 
Canton.  The  plant  manager,  Mr.  Pat- 
erson,  has  been  in  service  ever  since  the 
plant  was  started  as  a  small  locally  owned 
co-operative  creamery  many  years  ago. 
Later  it  came  into  the  hands  of  pro- 
prietary interests  and  still  later  was  pur- 
chased by  the  Whiting  Co. 

PERU  AND  RUMFORD 
The  Peru  and  Rumford  Center  locals 
were  canvassed  by  Mr.  Osgood,  President 
C.  H.  Robinson  and  Postmaster  T.  C. 
Kidder  of  Peru  assisted  in  the  canvass 
which  resulted  in  six  new  members.  This 
brings  the  membership  of  the  local  up  to 
36,  and  leaves  only  two  Turner  Centre 
natrons  not  now  supporting  the  NEMPA 
in  that  town.  Rumford  Centre  local  has 
a  membership  of  33,  five  new  members 
being  added  in  the  canvass.  President  H. 
C.  French  and  Secretary  W.  A.  Wyman 
assisted  in  the  canvass. 

MT.  VERNON 
Between  Chesterville  and  Readfield  the 
NEMPA  formerly  had  a  local  at  Mount 
Vernon.  No  organizer  from  the  associa- 
tion had  been  in  there  for  some  years  and 
the  local,  for  various  reasons,  had  gone 
to  pieces.  The  Hood  Co.  used  to  operate 
a  plant  there  but  it  burned  two  years  ago. 
The  New  England  Creamerv  is  now 
operating  a  receiving  station  there  to  ac- 
commodate 38  patrons.  Mr.  Wells  can- 
vassed the  district  and  22  of  the  pro- 
ducers signed  as  members  of  the  associa- 
tion. He  was  greatly  assisted  in  the  can- 
vass by  Joseph  H.  Blanchard. 

MONMOUTH 
Monmouth  local  was  canvassed  bv  Mr. 
Osgood  and  Mr.  Warner,  following  a 
meeting  held  in  competition  with  eradua- 
tion  exercises  at  the  academv.  Thirteen 
new  members  were  added,  bringing  the 
total  membership  to  40.  M.  E.  Donnoll 
is  president  and  Max  F.  Willard  is  sec- 
retary. 

At  Litchfield  Mr.  Foley  found  little  to 
do  when  he  went  in  to  canvass  the  local. 
President  H.  F.  Woodward  and  Secretary 
A.  H.  Cobb  have  been  consistent  boosters 
for  the  NEMPA.  Every  Turner  Centre 
patron  shipping  from  the  Batcheldor 
Crossing  station  was  already  a  member 
of  the  NEMPA  and  had  sent  in  his 
power  of  attorney. 

Eleven  new  members  were  added  to 
the  Wales  local  when  it  was  canvassed 
by  Mr.  Osgood,  assisted  bv  President  W. 
S.  Dixon  and  Secretary  W.  E.  Webster. 
President  Martin  E.  Ricker  of  the  Lis- 
bon-Webster local  assisted  Mr.  Wells  in 
securing  all  but  two  of  the  Turner  Cen- 
tre patrons  as  members  of  the  NEMPA. 
RICHMOND  AND  BOWDOINHAM 

Meetings  were  held  in  Richmond  and 
in  Bowdoinham  for  the  purpose  of  ex- 
plaining to  the  members  and  other  pro- 
ducers the  wav  the  price  is  figured  under 
the  surplus  plan.  Few  of  the  members 
realized  that  the  announced  price  for  Bos- 
ton applies  only  to  such  part  as  is  sold 
as  fluid  milk  and  that  the  remainder  is 
paid  for  at  surplus  price.  It  was  hard 
for  them  to  see  whv  the  price  they  re- 
ceived in  April  and  May  was  lower  when 
the  price  in  Boston  remained  the  same. 
The  meetings  served  to  clear  up  this  mis- 
understanding and  to  show  producers  why 
the  increasing  surplus  was  responsible  for 
the  lower  net  price,  together  with  a  de- 
crease in  the  butter  prices. 

After  the  meetings  Mr.  Foley  can- 
vassed both  locals  securing  10  new  mem- 
bers in  Richmond  and  5  in  Bowdoinham. 
George  W.  Thompson  is  president  and 
William  A.  Dingley  is  secretary  of  the 
Richmond  local  and  Paul  Ames  is  presi- 
dent and  H.  K.  Adams  is  secretary  of  the 
Bowdoinham  local. 

At  New  Gloucester  President  G.  W. 
Waterman  and  Secretary  C.  K.  McCann 
assisted  Mr.  Warner  in  securing  seven 
new  members.  Nineteen  members  also 
signed  new  power  of  attorney  slips. 

Secretary  H.  G.  Chesley  of  the  East 
Sumner  local  put  Mr.  Warner  in  touch 
with  the  producers  in  that  town.  As  the 
result  of  the  canvass  all  but  nine  pro- 
ducers are  now  members  of  the  associa- 
tion. 


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time  of  the  day  or  night.  Even  without  water  pressure 
you  can  still  have  all  the  hot  water  you  need — from  your 
kitchen  pump! 

Plenty  of  Home  Needs 

Think  of  having  baby's  bottle  ready  in  a  jiffy!  Picture  having 
enough  steaming  hot  water  for  your  bath,  or  dish  washing  or 
sterilizing  the  milk  cans  and  pails  in  only  thirty  minutes! 

Simple  New  Method 

All  that  is  necessary  for  you  to  do  is  to  install  a  New  Per- 
fection Kerosene  Water  Heater.  The  one  pictured  is  No.  411, 
a  new,  efficient  water  heater  with  Double  Copper  Heating 
Coils  and  Double  Wall  Fast  "Cobalt"  Blue  Chimney  Burner. 
This  burner  is  so  constructed  that  it  has  the  advantage  of  a 
double  draft  and  an  added  ring  of  intense  heat  beneath  the 
water  coils. 

A  three-way  valve,  attached*  to  the  water  pipes  from  the 
boiler  to  the  kitchen  pump,  enables  you  to  pump  either  cold 
or  hot  water  as  you  wish.  This  is  for  homes  without  water 
pressure.  If  you  have  water  pressure  install  your  New 
Perfection  Kerosene  Water  Heater  (write  for  booklet)  in  the 
usual  way. 

Low  Cost  Comfort 

In  either  case  the  cost  of  installation*  is  remarkably  low. 
And  all  of  the  four  reasonably-priced  New  Perfection  Kerosene 
Water  Heater  models  burn  Socony  Kerosene — the  clean, 
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26  Broadway 

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ECTIGN 


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Page  Twelve 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


August,  1926 


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The  Sharpies  suction  feed  is  the  only 
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whether  the  separator  turns  fast,  slow, 
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That's  because  the  milk  is  sucked  up 
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AT  UNITY 

At  Unity  President  J.  O.  Pillsbury  and 
Secretary  C.  A.  Hatch,  both  loyal  and 
energetic  supporters  of  the  NEMPA  for 
year*,  assisted  Mr.  Wells  in  the  canvass 
which  brought  the  local  to  almost  100 
per  cent,  strength.  Only  one  farmer  ship- 
ping to  Turner  Center  docs  not  belong 
to  the  association. 

President  S.  A.  Piper  and  Secretary 
II.  B.  Gowiri  of  the  Troy  local  assisted 
Mr.  Wells  in  canvassing  that  section. 
Right  new  members  were  added  which 
leaves  only  four  outside  and  about  70 
inside  the  association. 

AT  JACKSON 

At  Jackson  Mr.  Foley  established  a 
record  for  one  day.  President  Neal  B. 
Rowell  put  in  a  whole  day  canvassing 
with  our  representative.  They  signed  up 
23  in  the  day,  12  being  new  members 
and  the  remainder  old  members  signing 
powers  of  attorney  on  the  new  basis. 

Thorndike  producers  supported  the 
association  in  their  usual  hearty  way. 
Mr.  Warner  canvassed  the  town  with 
the  assistance  of  President  Arthur  Leon- 
ard and  Secretary  Henry  Small.  A 
considerable  number  of  producers  from 
that  town  had  already  mailed  in  their 
new  powers  of  attorney.  Of  the  125 
remaining,  all  were  seen  and  110  of  them 
signed. 

AT  PITTSFIELD 

At  Pittsfield  Mr.  Osgood  added  28 
new  members  and  re-signed  50  old  ones. 
He  was  assisted  by  President  Arthur  T. 
Oliver  and  Secretary  B.  T.  Ames.  At 
Hartland  he  had  the  assistance  of  R.  J. 
Goodrich,  formerly  a  district  president, 
also  the  help  of  the  local  president,  El- 
mer L.  Baird.  These  shippers  formerly 
belonged  to  the  Hartland  Co-operative 
creamerv  which  has  now  been  taken  over 
bv  the  Elm  City  creamery.  Mr.  Osgood 
signed  27  new  members  and  re-signed 
39  old  members  on  the  new  basis. 

Hampden  local  was  canvassed  bv  Mr. 
Warner  assisted  by  President  George 
Goodell  and  Secretary  C.  H.  Rogers.  All 
but  three  shippers  in  this  region  now  be- 
long to  the  NEMPA.  At  Dixmont  Mr. 
Wrells  made  a  similar  good  cleanup,  leav- 
ing only  three  men  unsigned.  He  was 
assisted  by  Secretary  Earle  Smith. 

AT  DOVER 

At  Dover  another  of  our  staunch  old 
supporters  and  district  presidents,  F.  E. 
Chandler,  assisted  Mr.  Foley  in  making 
the  canvass.  Eleven  new  members  were 
added. 

Charles  B.  Friend,  president  of  the 
Etna  local,  assisted  Mr.  Wells  in  the 
canvass  which  brought  the  total  member- 
ship of  the  local  up  to  68.  Only  five 
shippers  are  now  left  in  that  territory 
who  are  not  members  of  the  association. 
The  association  has  had  a  local  at  Stet- 
son but  there  are  so  few  shippers  in  that 
town  that  the  local  was  consolidated  with 
the  Etna  local. 

The  canvass  in  Maine  will  give  a  num- 
ber of  locals  direct  representation  in  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  central  association 
by  increasing  their  membership  beyond 
the  50  required  for  a  direct  representa- 
tive. In  a  number  of  cases  locals  with 
from  30  to  40  members  were  grouped 
with  smaller  locals  last  vear  in  order 
to  bring  them  above  the  50  requirement. 
The  canvass  had  added  enough  members 
to  a  number  of  these  locals  so  that  th^v 
will  not  have  to  be  grouped  but  will 
have  their  own  president  as  a  voting 
representative  in  the  annual  meeting. 

Exeter  and  Corinna  are  good  examn'es. 
At  Exeter  Mr.  Osgood  found  a  consid- 
erable number  of  producers  who  were 
not  familiar  with  the  NEMPA  .->«  thev 
formerlv  shipped  to  the  Maine  Cream- 
ery. The  plant  has  been  taken  over  hv 
the  Hood  comnanv  last  spring.  With  tW 
assistance  of  G.  G.  Grinnell  he  siened 
23  new  members  bring  the  local  ahov" 
the  50  mark.  At  Corinna  Mr.  Folev  adde^ 
13  new  members  with  the  assistance?  of 
T.  A.  Emerson.  This  brings  the  local 
13  members  above  50. 

Altogether  it  appears  that  the  canvas-, 
has  gone  quite  well  in  Maine,  thanks  to 
the  staunch  support  of  our  present  mem- 
bers and  officers  plus  the  tactful  and 
energetic  way  in  which  our  field  men 
have  presented  the  two  chief  reasons  for 
the  canvass. 


"STEADY"  HELP 


1* 


jbryourfarm 

SOCONY  Motor  Oil  makes  your  tractor  do  its  very  best. 
Used  in  the  proper  grade  it  both  adds  and  conserves  power. 
First  of  all,  it  maintains  an  unbroken  Lubricoat*  of  oil 
between  moving  parts — no  metal  to  metal  contact. 

Second,  it  keeps  a  leak  proof  seal  between  piston  rings  and 
the  cylinder  walls,  and  that's  added  power  always. 

Third,  Socony  Motor  Oil  is  built  to  resist  high  engine  tem- 
peratures, and  that  means  no  thinning  out  and  always  the 
proper  viscosity. 

Socony  Motor  Oil  is  therefore  "Steady  Help."  No  vari- 
ations in  its  quality,  no  deviations  in  its  performance  record. 

No  matter  what  the  design  or  type  of  your  tractor,  there's 
a  particular  grade  of  Socony  Motor  Oil  designed  to  fit  its 
specifications.  Consult  the  Socony  Lubrication  Chart  below. 

Remember  your  nearest  Socony  dealer  will  be  glad  to  quote 
you  prices  on  metal  thirty  or  fifty  gallon  drums  with  faucet. 
Costs  no  more — mighty  convenient  on  the  farm. 

STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 

26  Broadway 


LUBRICATION  CHART 


TRACTOR'S 
NAME 


Allis  Chalmers  (6-12)  

Allls  Chalmers  (all  others). 

Allwork  

Aultman  Taylor    

Avery  (Cultivator  &  Model  C) 
Avery  (All  others)  


Bailor  

Bates  Steel  Mule. 

Bear  

Best  


Case. . . 
Cletrac. 


Dart  Blue  J. 
Depue  


E.  B.  . 
Evans. 


Fageol  , . 

Farm  Horse  

Fordson  

Frlck  (12-20)  

Frlck  (All  others) . 

Gray  

Great  Western  


Hart  Parr  

Helder  (Cultivator). 
Helder  (All  others) . . 
Holt  (Caterpillar) . . . 
Huber  


Indiana 


TRACTOR'S 
NAME 


Lauson  

Leader  

Linn.  

Little  Giant... 
Lombard  


Minneapolis  

Mollne  Universal. 
Monarch  , . 


Ohio  

Oil  Pull. 


Peoria. . 
Pioneer. 


Reed  

Reliable  

Russell  (Giant)  

Russell  (All  others) . 


Shawnee. 
Stlnson. . 


Topp  Stewart. 

Toro  

Tray  lor  

Twin  City. . .  .■ 

Uncle  Sam  


Wallls  

Waterloo  Boy. 

Wetmore  

Wisconsin  


Yuba. 


Key  to  Chart:  LM — Socony  ilght  Medium;  M — Socony  Medium;  H — Socony  Heavy;  EH— 
Socony  Extra  Heavy. 


SCI  CONY 


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August,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


BIG  BUSINESS 


Figures  Show  Increase  in  Dairy 

Industry  in  1925 

Dairying:  is  big  business.  You  are 
dealing  with  it  in  terms  of  pails  full  at 
one  end ;  the  consumer  is  dealing  with 
it  in  terms  of  quart  bottles  at  the  other 
end.  Neither  can  realize  what  an  enor- 
mous business  it  is  or  what  a  complex 
system  is  involved  in  getting  it  from  the 
farm  milk  pail  onto  the  city  table.  The 
size  of  the  milk  business  in  this  country 
and  some  of  its  important  aspects  can 
be  seen  in  the  following  statement  from 
the  United  States  Department  of  Agri- 
culture : 

The  quantity  of  whole  milk  produced 
in  the  United  States  last  year  increased 
nearly  two  billion  pounds  over  1924. 
Most  of  the  increase  was  consumed  as 
fluid  milk  in  households,  and  used  in  the 
manufacture  of  cheese,  condensed  and 
evaporated  milk,  and  ice  cream. 

The  department  places  the  quantity  of 
whole  milk  used  in  1925  at  116,505,395,- 
000  pounds  compared  with  114,666,201,- 
000  pounds  in  1924.  The  quantity  of  this 
production  used  in  manufacturing  cheese 
of  all  kinds  was  4,475,140,000  pounds  of 
milk  compared  with  41,179,400,000  pounds 
the  preceding  year ;  condensed  and 
evaporated  milk,  4,394,645,000  pounds 
compared  with  4,251,370,000  pounds,  and 
ice  cream  4,437,524,000  pounds  compared 
with  3,926,313,000  pounds. 

The  quantity  of  milk  used  for  house- 
hold purposes  is  estimated  at  54,325,776,- 
000  pounds  compared  with  52,722,000,000 
pounds  in  1924.  The  increase,  however, 
has  been  due  entirely  to  the  increase  in 
the  population,  the  per  capita  consump- 
tion being  54.75  gallons,  the  same  as  in 
1924. 

Of  the  quantity  of  dairy  products  man- 
ufactured, the  production  of  creamery 
butter  was  1,361,526,000  pounds  compared 
with  1,356,080,000  pounds  the  preceding- 
year.  Production  of  farm  butter,  on  the 
other  hand,  shows  a  slight  decrease,  be- 
ing 590,000,000  pounds  compared  with 
600,000,000  pounds  in  1924. 

Cheese  production  is  placed  at  447,- 
514,000  pounds  compared  with  417,940,- 
000  pounds  the  preceding  year  ;  condensed 
and  evaporated  milk  1,757,858,000  pounds 
compared  with  1,700,548,000  pounds; 
powdered  milk  8,931,000  pounds  compared 
with  7,887,000  pounds ;  powdered  cream 
339,000  pounds  compared  with  1,018,000 
pounds ;  malted  milk  18,050,000  pounds 
compared  with  15,889,000  pounds;  canned 
sterilized  milk  1,576,000  pounds  compared 
with  488,000  pounds,  and  ice  cream  322,- 
729,000  gallons  compared  with  285,550,- 
000  gallons. 

It  is  estimated  that  4,047,105,000  pounds 
of  whole  milk  was  fed  to  calves  last 
year,  compared  with  4,642,800,000  pounds 
in  1924,  and  there  was  wasted  some  3,- 
495,162,000  pounds  compared  with  3,439,- 
986,000  pounds  in  1924. 


WESTERN  VIEWPOINT 

(Continued  from  page  six) 

dairying  their  special  business  and  where 
milk,  butter  and  cheese  are  being  pro- 
duced in  ever-increasing  quantities.  These 
dairymen  are  wide-awake  and  progres- 
sive. They  take  advantage  of  every 
scientific  fact  that  will  help  them  to  in- 
crease production,  improve  quality  and 
lower  cost  of  production.  They  feed  lib- 
erally, use  succulent  feeds,  grow  a  lot 
of  alfalfa,  supplement  their  permanent 
pastures  by  providing  some  sweet  clover 
and  sudan  grass  pasture  for  part  of  sea- 
son. They  are  members  of  cow  testing 
associations.  They  believe  heartily  in  co- 
operation and  are  developing  carefully 
worked  out  co-operative  organizations  that 
in  many  instances  care  for  every  detail 
of  marketing  from  producer  to  consumer. 

Many  Wisconsin  and  Illinois  farmers 
say  that  }i  of  an  acre  of  sweet  clover 
pasture  will  furnish  enough  pasture  to 
keep  a  cow  well  fed  for  six  months.  It 
is,  therefore,  economical  of  land,  requir- 
ing but  half  the  usual  pasture  acreage, 
dispenses  with  the  necessity  for  soiling 
crops  and  thus  effects  much  saving  of 
labor.  Furthermore,  the  cow  gets  her 
fill  without  losing  much  energy  by  con- 
tinuous travel  over  poor  pastures. 


About  90%  of  our  food  products  are 
consumed  in  the  big  cities  on  or  near  the 
eastern  seaboard.  Existing  freight  rates 
(in  mid-western  dairy  products  give  New 
England  dairymen  a  marked  advantage. 
With  cheap  pastures,  rather  plentiful  sup- 
ply of  hay,  good  dairy  climate ;  with 
good  cows,  and  careful  attention  to  effi- 
cient marketing,  Massachusetts  dairymen 
should  have  no  particular  trouble  in  meet- 
ing western  milk  competition. 

The  average  cow  is  not  good  enough. 
In  fact,  the  greatest  need  in  Massachu- 
setts dairying  today  is  not  increase  in 
number  of  dairy  cows,  but  greater  pro- 
duction per  dairy  cow  for  on  this  largely 
hinges  economical  production  of  milk.  We 
do  not  think  of  Henry  Ford  as  a  farmer, 
bat  as  a  manufacturer,  we  rank  him 
among  the  leaders.  There  is  nothing  very 
mysterious  about  his  method.  The  key- 
note of  his  success  is  economical  produc- 
tion per  unit  of  manufacture  and  man 
power.  Massachusetts  dairymen  can  profit 
by  his  example.  According  to  statistics, 
the  average  Massachusetts  cow  produced 
only  4,352  lbs.,  in  Holland  the  average 
production  is  7,585  lbs.,  and  in  Denmark, 
5,666  lbs.  Since  some  cows  in  this  state 
produce  over  20,000  lbs.,  it  should  be 
quite  possible  for  us  to  raise  the  average 
production  at  least  100%,  or  to  an  aver- 
age of  about  8,000  lbs.  of  milk. 

Plenty  of  demonstrations  have  been 
made  to  prove  that  it  is  possible  in  many 
herds  to  do  even  better  than  this  by  pay- 
ing more  attention  to  the  selection  of  the 
sire  that  heads  the  dairy  herd  and  to 
the  feeding  of  a  better  ration. 

According  to  the  Bureau  of  Agricul- 
tural Economics,  U.  S.  D.  A.,  the  trend 
is  toward  a  greater  consumption  of  dairy 
products  everywhere  and  a  most  signi- 
ficant example  of  this  is  the  fact  that 
New  England  doubled  her  consumption 
of  ice  cream  last  year,  an  increase  that 
required  milk  products  equivalent  to  that 
used  in  the  manufacture  of  ten  million 
pounds  of  butter.  In  fluid  milk  the  fig- 
ures show  that  annual  per  capita  milk 
consumption  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States  increased  from  53  gallons  to  54^4 
gallons  last  year.  The  increase  in  con- 
sumption of  milk  last  year,  therefore, 
was  almost  1)4  billion  pounds. 


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Page  Fourteen 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


August,  1926 


How  Many 

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Slide  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 
Telephone,  Dexter  6469 

JULY  DELIVERED  PRICES 

Providence,  R.   1  8^c  per  qt. 

Fall  River,  Mass  8j4c  per  qt. 

Brockton,  Mass  8J/2C  per  qt. 

New  Bedford,  Mass. 

July  lst-llth   8^4cperqt. 

July  12th-31st   8^cperqt. 

MARKET  CONDITIONS 
Providence  surplus  for  the  month  of 
May  as  reported  by  nine  dealers  ranged 
from  2.2  per  cent,  to  as  high  as  25  per 
cent,  three  of  these  were  more  than  20 
per  cent.,  the  average  of  the  total  num- 
ber was  16.1  per  cent.  For  June  eight 
dealers  having  from  3.2  to  32.5,  the  aver- 
age of  the  total  being  16  per  cent.  Con- 
ditions have  been  favorable  for  produc- 
tion in  practically  all  of  the  territory 
supplying  this  market  and  many  cows  are 
being  purchased  to  produce  more.  I 
have  met  many  who  are  very  anxious  to 
increase  the  herds  to  produce  more  and 
some  others  who  have  sold  to  dealers 
having  much  surplus  are  having  a  diffi- 
cult time  to  get  along.  As  a  matter  of 
fact  many  wish  to  change  that  they 
could  better  the  price  for  what  they  did 
sell. 

I  have  had  numerous  complaints  re- 
garding slow  payments  and  spent  much 
time  to  correct  the  same.  As  business  is 
bad  in  all  lines  collections  are  most  diffi- 
cult, more  so  than  I  have  ever  experi- 
enced. With  the  most  of  dealers  they 
are  willing  to  pay  and  not  hold  up  the 
payments  if  it  was  possible  to  collect 
their  accounts.  Many  of  the  mills  here 
have  closed  down  for  two  or  three  weeks, 
some  until  September  1,  and  as  they  have 
been  running  on  short  time  its  effect  is 
somewhat  serious. 

NEW  BEDFORD,  MASS. 

The  price  of  milk  in  this  market  was 
advanced  by  the  sales  committee  ^  cent 
per  quart  July  11th.  This  makes  the 
delivered  price  8^4  cents,  which  is  Y\ 
cent  more  than  other  markets.  The  deal- 
ers advanced  the  same  amount,  making 
the  price  to  retail  trade  of  14J/2  cents 
per  quart.  Prices  are  not  changed  as 
often  in  this  city  as  most  others  and  the 
effect  of  a  raise  is  not  at  all  times  met 
favorably  and  reduced  sales  are  usually 
the  result  for  a  matter  of  two  weeks  or 
more  after  the  advance.  There  are  some 
60  dealers  who  handle  the  milk.  Many 
are  very  small,  in  fact  do  not  resell 
enough  to  carry  their  costs  as  should  be 
as  many  handle  from  three  hundred 
quarts  up  to  one  thousand.  About  twenty 
dealers  distribute  from  1,000  to  8,000 
quarts  apeice.  The  consumption  is 
around  55,000  quarts  per  day. 

We  have  our  share  of  undesirable 
dealers  in  this  market,  two  of  whom 
have  disposed  of  their  business  the  past 
month  and  there  are  some  more  that  can- 
not continue  much  longer  and  should  not 
at  the  expense  of  the  producers.  We 
will  place  our  members  with  reliable  deal- 
ers just  as  fast  as  it  is  possible. 

Joseph  T.  Fernandes,  proprietor  of  the 
Gulf  Hill  Dairy,  has  spent  much  time  the 
past  six  months  in  getting  the  dealers 
together  and  an  association  has  been  or- 
ganized, held  many  meetings  and  dis- 
cussed the  many  problems  pertaining  to 
their  end  of  the  business.  It  is  proper 
they  should  organize.  Many  of  those 
dealers  do  not  know  and  appreciate  that 
the  NEMPA  is  a  benefit  to  all,  for  with- 
out it  and  no  set  price  of  purchase,  it 
would  result  in  a  free  for  all  price  war. 
Many  would  be  forced  out  of  business  en- 
triley.  I  believe  that  it  is  nearly  as  much 
benefit  to  the  producers  to  have  the  deal- 
ers organized  as  it  is  for  the  producers ; 
it  will  result  in  better  co-operation  by 
both  parties.  We  will  not  always  agree; 
that  is  not  possible,  but  far  more  can  be 
accomplished  if  you  can  understand  and 
explain  both  sides  of  a  question.  Another 
advantage  is  that  the  dues  will  be  de- 
ducted and  much  time  will  be  saved  that 
has  in  the  past  been  used  to  collect  per- 


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and  I  believe  it  will  make  them  stretch.  M  ft      J  TilElL 

"We  mix  our  own  dairy  ration  which  we  give  C-1'  rT~~7x[-  fBftfflr1 

below.     We  are  also  feeding  the   same   ration   to  If* 

W             dry  cows  and  calves."  .</L'—' 

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Corn  and  Cob  500  lbs.     Salt    16  lbs. 

Ground  Oats  400  lbs.     Steamed  Bone  Meal  16  lbs. 

Linseed  Meal  100  lbs.     Charcoal  Flour          4  lbs. 

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Page  Fifteen 


x 

psonal  payments  which  is  very  costly  and 
[  most  unsatisfactory.  Many  times  it 
«]  comes  when  other  duties  are  pressing  and 
i  should  be  attended  to. 

FALL  RIVER,  MASS. 
Production  has  been  heavy  the  past 
I  month  with  considerable  surplus  varying 
from  8  per  cent,  to  18  per  cent  and  20 
per  cent.    Weather  has  been  more  favor- 
*  able  to  increase  production  than  to  in- 
crease sales  and  apparently  no  increased 
activity  has  come  to  the  cloth  mills  and 
'  other  lines.    I  inquired  a  few  days  ago 
of  one  dealer  how  business  was  and  the 
1  answer  he  gave  was  "rotten,"  and  spoken 
in  a  decided  way  which  showed  his  opinion 
plainly  and  nearly  everyone  will  agree  he 
was  right. 

NEWPORT,  R.  I. 
Newport  had  a  surplus  the  past  month 
of  40  per  cent.  Sales  here  are  much  bet- 
ter and  will  continue  until  September  1st, 
then  drop  off  most  decidedly  when  the 
summer  visitors  leave.  The  hay  crop  was 
very  good,  corn  is  much  better  than  in 
most  other  sections  and  pastures  have 
been  fine.  Prospects  are  favorable  for 
production  to  continue  good  as  this  is  one 
of  the  best  dairy  sections  of  all  New  Eng- 
land and  there  is  no  limit  to  the  amount 
of  milk  that  could  be  produced.  It  would 
have  to  be  transported  to  some  other 
market  as  the  requirements  are  for  only 
a  limited  amount  except  the  summer  va- 
cation season.  Only  about  12,000  quarts 
per  day  are  needed  for  consumption  nine 
mouths  in  the  year.  A  considerable  part 
of  what  is  now  produced  is  sold  in  Fall 
River  and  Providence.  Three  distribu- 
tors handle  the  greater  part  of  this  mar- 
ket— Aquidneck  Dairy,  Island  Creamery 
and  Newport  Dairy. 
Organization  work  the  past  month  has 
'  resulted  very  satisfactorily  for  the  time 
spent  on  it.  A  canvass  of  the  Summit, 
R.  I.,  local  with  the  assistance  of  Presi- 
dent Byron  Hazard  gave  good  results. 
I  know  of  only  two  producers  in  this 
section  who  are  not  signed  on  the  new 
power  of  attorney  and  these  we  were  un- 
able to  see.  Four  new  members  were 
added,  having  a  total  of  90  cows.  We 
also  secured  nine  power  of  attorney  slips. 
This  makes  the  local  practically  100  per 
cent. 

I  spent  one  day  canvassing  in  North 
Darthmouth  local  and  got  seven  new 
orders,  representing  about  1,500  quarts  a 
day,  also  nine  orders  in  the  South  Darth- 
mouth local.  The  greater  part  of  my 
time  the  past  month  has  been  spent  in 
adjusting  various  market  problems.  It 
has  been  a  very  busy  month  with  days 
ending  at  from  10  o'clock  to  midnight 
and  for  five  in  succession  running  from 
.1  o'clock  to  2.30  in  the  morning. 


1 


INTENSIVE  STUDY 

(Continued  from  page  seven) 

associations,  wool,  wheat  and  potato  or- 
ganizations and  co-operative  canning 
plants. 

"When  co-operatives  first  came  to  us 
as  customers,"  he  declared,  "the  question 
naturally  arose  as  to  whether  the  same 
business  and  financial  policy  from  the 
banks'  standpoint  governed  with  them  as 
it  did  with  corporations,  partnerships  and 
individual  businesses.  After  some  experi- 
ence we  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that 
the  same  fundamental  policies  very 
largely  apply.  It  should  be  remembered 
that  sound  banks  must  be  preferred 
creditors  and  not  partners  of  their  bor- 
rowers. 

"Co-operative  associations  should  have 
some  capital  investment  from  the  start, 
depending  upon  their  requirements.  It  is 
a  fundamental  banking  policy  not  to  loan 
money  to  an  individual  or  partnership 
until  they  have  some  of  their  own ;  to  a 
corporation  until  it  has  paid  in  capital  in 
proper  proportion  to  the  amount  it  wants 
to  borrow ;  to  a  co-operative  association 
for  the  same  reasons,  and  further,  it 
would  appear  from  the  association's  point 
of  view  it  is  necessary  to  maintain  loyal 
membership  and  active  support.  Co- 
operatives to  be  successful  must  have 
honest  and  competent  management,  they 
must  not  be  overloaded  with  promotion 
or  overhead  expenses,  and  above  all,  they 
should- handle  ^-c^nwnodity  -that-lends  it- 
self to  co-operative  marketing." 


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THE.  QUALITY  OF  IARRO  WILL 
NEVER  BE  LOWERED  SO  LONG  AS 
LARRO  IS  MADE.  REGARDLESS  OF 
WHAT  CHANGES  TAKE  PLACE  IN  THE 
PRICE  OF  INGREDIENTS,  LARRO 
WILL  ALWAYS  REMAIN  THE  SAME. 


J  ~  a  promise  KEPT 


Many  years  ago  we  made  this  promise 
of  unchanging  quality  —  stating  in 
simple  terms  a  policy  that  has  always 
been  in  operation  in  the  manufacture 
of  Larro. 

This  pledge  has  been  faithfully  kept; 
it  holds  as  good  for  the  future  as  it 
has  for  the  past.  We  repeat  it  now 
to  emphasize  the  importance  of  uni- 
formity to  buyers  of  dairy  food. 

Your  cows  can  not  eat  a  printed 
formula.  They  are  not  concerned 
with  market  conditions.  They  do 
need  a  proven  feed  to  build  their  own 
condition,  to  keep  healthy  and  maintain 
high  milk  yield — and  that  feed  must 
always  remain  the  same  in  both 
quality  and  composition  if  it  is  to  pro- 
duce the  same  satisfactory  results. 


Larro  is  held  rigidly  to  standards 
which  do  not  permit  the  substitution 
of  cheap,  inferior  ingredients.  It  is 
manufactured  under  a  process  that 
insures  satisfactory  results  in  milk 
and  money  to  the  feeder.  And  after 
all,  healthy  cows,  dependable  produc- 
tion and  sure  profit  are  more  impor- 
tant to  you  than  any  temporary 
advantage  in  price. 

When  you  have  fed  Larro  and  found 
out  for  yourself  how  your  cows  thrive 
and  produce  on  it,  you  will  have 
settled  your  feeding  problem  for  all 
time.  For  the  Larro  pledge  of 
unchanging  quality  is  a  guarantee  of 
unchanging  results.  The  same  name 
on  the  bag  means  always  the  same 
feed  in  the  bag,  no  matter  when  or 
where  you  buy  it. 


Ask  the  Nearest  Dealer 


THE  LARROWE  MILLING  COMPANY 

Detroit  -  Michigan 


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FEEDS  THAT  NEVER  VARY 
FOR  COWS,  CHICKENS  AND  HOGS 


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Want  more  eggs?  You'll  get  them  if  you  feed  Larro  Egg  Mash  to  your  layers. 
Like  Larro  Dairy  Feed  it  is  always  the  same — always  good.    Try  it. 


BURSAL  ENLARGEMENTS 


Absorbine  reduces  thickened, 
swollen  tissues,  curbs,  filled  ten- 
dons, soreness  from  bruises  or 
strains.  Stops  spavin  lameness. 
Does  not  blister,  remove  hair  or 
lay  up  horse.  $2.50  at  druggists, 
or  postpaid.  Valuable  horse  book 
1-S  free.  Write  for  it  today. 
Read  this:  "Horse  had  large  swelling 
just  below  knee.  Now  gone;  has  not  re- 
appeared. Horse  good  as  ever.  Have  used 
A  bsorbineforyears  with  great  success. " 


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hand  milking  will  soon  be  as  old-fashioned  as 
harvesting  grain  with  a  cradle. 

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New  England  Dairyman 


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A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  SEPTEM  HKK,  1926 


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RAILROAD  RATE  CASE 


decent    Hearing    Satisfying  to 
Dairymen's  Committee 

Decision  of  the  railroad  rate  case  by 
•ic  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  is 
ill  Mime  ways  off  but  substantial  prog- 
ess  was  made  at  the  hearings  early  in 
uigust  in  Plymouth.  The  rcpresenta- 
ives  of  the  dairy  industry  gave  the  rail- 
oad  "cost  study"  some  hard  knocks  and 
howed  it  to  be  in  error  in  many  par- 
culars.  This  cost  study  was  the  basis 
n  which  the  Boston  &  Maine  and  other 
ailroads  in  New  England  sought  an  in- 
rease  of  20  per  cent,  in  the  charges  for 
transporting  milk,  amounting  in  all  to 
750,000  a  year. 

:  The  cost  study  was  presented  by  the 
ailroads  at  the  first  hearing  and  at  the 
econd  session,  held  in  Plymouth,  the  at- 
orneys  for  the  dairy  interests  spent 
rbout  a  week  in  cross  examination  of 
he  railroad  witnesses  to  break  down 
jheir  case.  While  no  decision  has  been 
iadc  by  the  commission,  our  representa- 
tives feel  that  many  of  the  claims  of  the 
ailroads  were  refuted  satisfactorily 
ither  in  the  cross  examination  or  in  the 
estimony  introduced  by  the  representa- 
ives  of  the  dairy  interests  later  in  the 
learing.  Up  to  date  more  points  have 
leen  won  by  our  representatives  than  by 
he  railroads.  There  is  another  round  or 
wo  to  go  but  your  committee  is  lull  of 
onfidence  that  they  will  win  out. 

The   outstanding  evidence    that  the 
:ost  study   has   been   seriously  crippled 
s  that  George  H.  Eaton,  general  traffic 
inanager  for  the  Maine  Central  railroad 
idmitted  under  cross   examination  that 
I  le  considered  cost  studies  of  little  value 
|  n  making   rates.     He    was    the  traffic 
I  witness  for  all  the  railroads.    His  admis- 
sion indicates  that  the  railroads  had  prac- 
!  :ically   abandoned  their  reliance  on  the 
I  :ost  studv. 

IT  •  • 

Another  important  point  regarding  the 

i  cost  study  was  won  when  it  was  estab- 
lished through  the  testimony  of  Richard 
Pattee  that  the  Boston  &    Maine  rail- 
road had  a  20  per  cent,  raise  in  mind 
Ibefore  the  cost  study  was  made.    He  tes- 
tified  that   in   December,    1925,  Garret 
'Fort,  of  the   Boston  &  Maine  railroad 
had  told  him  of  the  proposed  increase 
and  named  20  per  cent,  as  the  probable 
amount.    This  was  some  time  before  the 
.cost  study  was  made.    It  seemed  to  in- 
delicate that  the  decision  to  advance  20 
per  cent,  was  made  and  that  the  cost 
study  was  made  afterwards  to  fit  that 
1  decision. 

Still  another  important  admission 
•  forced  on  the  railroads  under  cross  ex- 
amination was  in  regard  to  the  question 
of  the  relative  service  performed  at  New 
1  York  and  at  Boston  1>\  the  railroads.  A 
railroad  witness  testified  in  the  original 
hearing  that  the  service  performed  by 
the  railroads  was  less  complicated  at 
New  York  than  it  was  at  Boston  The 
rate  in  New  York  is  higher  and  the 
railroads  introduced  that  testimony  in 
support  of  their  contention  that  the  New 
England  rates  should  be  still  higher.  In 
cross  examination  this  witness  was 
forced  to  reverse  his  testimony  and  ad- 
mit that  the  service  performed  at  New 
York  was  more  complicated  and  there 
fore -more  costly. 


Big  Problem  Under  Consideration 


SURVEY  ASKED  FOR 


Consolidation    of   Four   Dealers  Raises  Question 
Outside  Milk.     JNew  Company  Asks  for  Delay. 
Big  Dealers  Ask  for  Immediate  Decision. 


of 


(Continued  on  page  two> 


A  serious  problem  in  connection  with 
the  administration  of  the  surplus  plan 
has  arisen  through  the  consolidation  of 
several  of  the  milk  dealers  in  Boston  un- 
der one  management.  The  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products  Company,  as  the 
new  company  will  be  called,  includes 
some  dealers  who  have  been  operating 
under  the  surplus  plan  and  some  who 
have  not.  The  question  at  issue  is 
whether  the  one  company  included  in  the 
merger,  the  Alden  Brothers,  will  draw 
the  others  in.  or  whether  the  others  will 
pull  the  Aldens  out.  At  the  time  of  go- 
ing to  press  our  sales  committee  is  still 
negotiating  with  Charles  P.  Alden,  presi- 
dent of  the  new  company.  He  asks  for 
a  delay  in  the  decision.  Other  dealers 
are  pressing  for  a  decision  now. 

The  complications  between  the 
NEMPA  and  the  Alden  Company  arose 
through  the  consolidation  of  the  Alden 
Company,  Childs  Brothers,  W.  F.  Noble 
&  Son  and  H.  L.  Stone  into  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Company. 
This  consolidation  has  been  in  the  works 
for  some  months  and  will  be  in  complete 
effect  Nov.  1.  The  new  company  will 
have  a  distributing  plant  in  Somerville 
and  will  use  their  present  plants  as 
auxiliary  stations.  Until  they  get  into 
the  new  plant  the  various  concerns  will 
operate  as  branches  of  the  consolidated 
company.  In  effect  they  have  been  con- 
solidated since  June  1. 

The  Alden  Company  has  bought  milk 
under  the  surplus  plan  since  the  plan  was 
started.  In  recent  years,  because  of  un- 
usual variations  in  the  regular  supply, 
the  company  has  bought  milk  from 
creameries  or  from  other  outside  sources 
during  the  short  season.  If  the  com- 
pany had  not  adopted  this  practice  it 
would  have  had  an  abnormally  high  sur- 
plus during  the  flush  season,  as  its  regu- 
lar source  of  supply  at  Brandon,  Sheldon 
and  East  Fairfield  is  in  a  region  of  High 
summer  production  with  a  corresponding 
shortening  in  the  fall  and  winter. 

Childs  Brothers  bought  their  entire 
supply  under  the  surplus  plan  until  they 
went  into  the  consolidation  June  1.  They 
got  their  supply  from  a  station  which 
they  owned  and  operated  at  Brownsville', 
Vt.,  and  turned  in  their  regular  report  to 
the  milk  administrator  undei  the  surplus 
plan.  This  practice  was  discontinued  in 
June  when  they  stopped  taking  the  milk 
from  the  Brownsville  station  The] 
bought  their  milk  since  June  1  from  the 
Barre,  Vt.  co-operative  and  from  Irona, 
N.  Y.  The  Brownsville  plant  was  taken 
over  by  the  Whiting  Company  June  I 
and  the  milk  from  that  section  continued 
to  come  in  under  the  surplus  plan.  In 
July  the  Childs  Brothers  supply  was  re- 
ported to  the  milk  commissioner  as  com 
ing  through  the  Alden  Company  under 
the  surplus  plan.  Noble  has  a  station  at 
Newport,  Vt.,  and  has  bought  the  balance 
of  his  supply  from  the  Barre  co-opera- 
tive. 


The  drivers  and  creamery  workers  em-* 
ployed  by  the  Alden  Company  were 
unionized.  The  drivers  of  the  other  com- 
panies coming  into  the  consolidation  were 
not.  When  the  merger  took  place  the 
drivers  and  creamery  workers  of  all  of 
the  companies  affected  were  unionized 
and  a  strike  resulted.  The  result  has 
been  practically  a  lockout  and  the  con- 
solidated company  will  be  run  on  the 
open  shop  basis.  During  the  strike  these 
companies  lost  a  large  amount  of  retail 
trade.  This  leaves  them  with  a  con- 
siderable excess  of  milk  at  present  from 
their  regular  sources  of  supply.  The 
strike  has  no  connection  with  our  com- 
plications with  the  Alden  Company  but 
is  mentioned  so  that  the  conditions  can 
be  realized  more  fully. 

Another  factor  which  enters  into  tin- 
situation  is  the  purchase  of  a  controlling 
interest  in  the  Newbury,  Vt.,  and  Woods- 
ville,  N.  H.,  plants  of  the  Lyndonville 
Creamery  by  E.  H.  Bickford.  Mr. 
Bickford  has  been  made  a  director  of  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Com- 
pany. The  consolidated  company  there- 
fore has  an  available  supply  of  milk 
from  these  two  sources.  Neither  of  them 
are  large  supplies  but  they  have  not  been 
selling  under  the  surplus  plan  and  must 
be  looked  upon  as  outside  milk  which  is 
available  to  the  consolidated  company. 

When  the  consolidation  of  these  four  • 
companies  became  known  the  question 
was  raised  by  other  dealers  as  to  whether 
the  consolidated  company  was  to  operate 
under  the  surplus  plan.  The  matter  was 
taken  up  with  Charles  P.  Alden,  presi- 
dent of  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company,  but  no  decision  has 
been  reached.  Mr.  Alden,  representing 
the  consolidation,  asked  that  all  further 
consideration  of  the  question  should  be 
deferred  until  Nov.  1  when  the  various 
companies  would  be  operated  entirely  as 
one  unit.  He  made  no  promise  that  they 
would  come  under  the  surplus  plan  at 
that  time  nor  did  he  give  any  indication 
of  what  his  own  position  would  be. 

Other  dealers  pressed  for  a  decision 
at  the  present  time,  claiming  that  the 
consolidation  was  actually  in  effect  and 
had  been  since  June  1,  and  that  they,  the 
other  dealers,  were  under  a  trade  dis 
advantage  by  reason  of  the  fact  that  a 
competitor  of  considerable  size,  the  con- 
solidated company,  was  getting  a  part  ot 
its  supply  at  an  unknown  price  As  a 
matter  of  fact  the  only  change  in  the 
situation  from  what  has  existed  for 
vears  was  the  Child  Brothers  payment  in 
June.  The  Childs  Brothers  milk  was  un- 
der the  surplus  plan  up  to  June  first,  was 
then  out  one  month  and  was  then  put 
back  in.  This  is  the  only  actual  change 
in  the  situation  but  the  principal  under 
which  the  other  dealers  asked  for  a  de 
cision  was  there  just  the  same. 

The  alternative  to  getting  all  of  the 
consolidated  milk  under  the  surplus  plan, 
instead  of  just  a  portion  of  it  as  at  prcs- 


New  Federal  Bureau  Urged  to  Be- 
gin Work  in  New  England 

An  important  forward  step  was  taken 
by  the  directors  of  the  NEMPA  at  their 
recent  meeting  when  they  voted  to  re- 
quest the  recently  organized  bureau  of 
co-operative  marketing  of  the  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture  to 
make  a  survey  of  New  England  and 
recommend  a  plan  of  co-operative  mar- 
keting which  would  serve  the  whole  area. 
The  new  bureau  was  organized  under 
the  one  "farm  relief"  law  which  was 
passed  at  the  recent  session  of  Congress. 
The  request  for  the  survey  made  by  the 
NEMPA  is  the  first  of  its  kind  to  be 
made  to  the  new  bureau. 

There  is  good  reason  to  expect  that 
the  request  will  be  met  as  the  head  of 
the  new  bureau  is  known  to  be  favorably 
inclined  toward  a  survey  made  in  this 
area  as  a  starting  point  for  the  new 
bureau.  New  England  has  some  natural 
advantages  for  such  a  survey.  It  is  so 
nearly  surrounded  by  the  ocean  and  by 
the  Canadian  border  that  the  problem  is 
much  simpler  than  it  would  be  in  some 
unrestricted  area.  Secretary  of  Agricul- 
ture William  M.  Jardine  on  his  recent 
trip  into  New  England  expressed  his  de- 
sire to  be  of  service  to  the  farmers  of 
this  section  in  developing  their  co-opera- 
tive marketing  systems.  He  expressed 
his  confidence  in  the  new  bureau  as  one 
of  the  important  progressive  steps  which 
has  been  taken  to  improve  the  agricul- 
tural situation  in  the  United  States.  It 
will  not  turn  things  over  in  a  day  or  a 
year  but  over  a  period  of  years  it  will 
build  up  a  strong  and  permanent  co- 
operative marketing  system. 

The  NEMPA  has  stood  for  a  general, 
all-inclusive,  co-operative  milk  market- 
ing plan  for  New  England  for  many 
years.  It  was  solidly  back  of  the  New 
Fngland  Dairy  System  movement  three 
years  ago.  It  has  enough  confidence  in 
the  new  bureau  of  co-operative  market- 
ing to  back  up  any  plan  which  it  may 
recommend  so  long  as  it  will  serve  all 
New  England  on  a  basis  fair  to  all.  It 
is  the  hope  and  belief  of  the  directors  of 

(Continued  on  page  two) 


ent,  was  to  allow-  other  companies  to  buy 
outside  milk  at  an  unknown  price  and 
charge  it  out  of  sales.  This  is  the  very 
thing  which  the  NEMPA  sales  com- 
mittee has  been  fighting  against  for  some 
time.  The  other  dealers  also  urged  a 
claim  for  a  readjustment  on  June  and 
July  milk  to  equalize  their  price  with 
that  paid  by  the  dealers  in  the  con- 
solidated company.  As  this  price  is  not 
known  and  cannot  be  determined  either 
by  the  NEMPA  or  the  large  dealers  this 
claim  was  not  taken  seriously.  It  is  just 
another  point  raised  in  support  of  a 
principle  of  buying  milk  which  the 
NEMPA  has  already  recognized,  that  is, 
that  all  dealers  shall  enjoy  the  same  op- 
portunities to  buy  milk  with  no  trade 
disadvantage  to  any  of  them. 

The  knotty  question  was  laid  before 
the  NEMPA  directors  at  their  recent 
meeting  and  they  gave  the  sales  com- 
mittee their  full  endorsement  in  efforts 
to  bring  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company  under  the  surplus 
plan. 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


September,  1926 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 

NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 

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HARRY  L.  PIPER.  Editor 

N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee.  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  George  G. 
Young,  Livermore,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. :  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H. ;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt. ;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass. ;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass.;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I. ;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abf.ix, 
Lebanon,  Conn. ;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

I  am  sitting  on  the  piazza  of  my  little 
place  up  in  New  Hampshire  looking  out 
on  one  of  the  finest  views  in  the  world. 
Away  off  to  the  north  I  can  see  the 
White  Mountains  from  Chocorua  round 
to  Moosilauke,  to  the  west  are  Cardigan 
and  Kearsarge  and  the  Ascutneys,  in  the 
for  south  Monadnock  just  peeps  over 
the  nearer  hills  while  easterly  and  nearer 
are  the  Ossipees  and  the  Belknaps.  Be- 
tween here  and  the  distant  mountains  lie 
the  lake  region,  the  valleys  of  the  Win- 
uepesauktee,  Squam  and  Winnesquam 
with  farms  and  woodlands  in  between 
and  just  at  the  foot  of  our  hill  the  busy, 
homelike  little  city  of  Laconia  on  the 
shore  of  the  latter  lake.  Over  on  the 
western  horizon  beyond  Lake  Winne- 
squam I  can  see  the  farm  where  I  lived 
when  a  boy,  the  first  home  I  ever  knew. 

As  I  write  a  neighbor's  cows  are  be- 
ing driven  by  from  the  pasture  down  the 
hill  to  the  barn  to  be  milked.  Sam  and 
a  couple  of  schoolmates  are  inside  play- 
ing and  singing  and  "Buster,"  Mary's 
dog,  is  scratching  at  the  door  to  get  in 
with  the  boys.  It  is  a  warm,  hazy, 
peaceful  late-August  afternoon.  It  is 
delightful  just  to  be  alive. 

I've  been  watching  the  men  on  the 
farm  just  below,  working  like  Trojans 
getting  in  hay,  and  to  tell  the  truth  I've 
been  envying  them  just  a  little.  I've 
been  wishing  I  could  go  down  there  and 
work  with  them,  wishing  I  could  turn 
off  a  man's  sized  day's  work  in  the  hay- 
field.  But  I  can't,  probably  never  can 
again. 

As  I  look  over  at  the  old  farm  where 
1   was   raised   I   remember   the  heavy 


double  swaths  I  had  to  spread  before 
breakfast  on  hay -day  mornings,  the  big 
bull  rake — big  as  I  was — that  I  had  to 
drag  along  raking  alter,  through  stubble 
that  stung  my  bare  feet  as  I  shuffled 
them  along,  the  suffocating  smother  of 
heat  and  dust  away  up  under  the  barn 
roof  stowing  away  and  how  tired  I  got 
toward  night,  so  tired  that  I  could  barely 
put  one  foot  ahead  of  the  other  when  my 
mother  made  me  swish  my  feet  through 
the  dew-wet  grass  to  wash  them  before 
going  to  bed. 

It  was  gruelling  hard  work  for  man 
or  boy  and  if  any  one  had  told  me  I'd 
ever  want  to  do  it — well  I  can't  express 
what  I'd  have  thought.  The  principal 
of  the  academy  I  attended  used  to  spend 
his  summer  vacation  haying  on  his  old 
home  farm  and  when  he  came  back  in  the 
fall,  boast  that  he  could  mow  a  wider 
swath,  load  a  bigger  load  and  pitch  it  off 
quicker  than  any  man  in  the  gang. 

I  know  perfectly  well  that  I  would  ac- 
complish very  much  less  for  myself  or 
others  if  I  were  haying,  but  somehow 
as  I  have  sat  here  this  afternoon  reading 
aln nit  what  is  being  done  in  other  places, 
studying  reports  about  things  here  in 
New  England,  thinking  about  our  prob- 
lems and  trying  to  work  out  a  plan  for 
meeting  a  very  perplexing  and  important 
situation  which  involves  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  dollars  in  the  return  for 
New  England  dairy  products  this  fall, 
I've  wanted  to  be  out  there  with  the  gang 
and  it's  only  because  I've  had  to  do  this 
other  work  that  I've  sat  here  all  the 
afternoon,  studving,  thinking,  writing. 

PATTEE. 


The  sincere  sympathy  of  our  associa- 
tion goes  to  Mr.  Gifford,  manager  of  the 
southern  market  district,  in  the  death  of 
his  wife  which  occurred  last  week  fol- 
lowing an  operation.  Especially  we 
members  of  the  staff  who  have  been  as- 
sociated more  closely  with  him  for  some 
years  and  who  knew  something  of  the 
strong  and  winning  personality,  and  the 
alert  mind  of  Mrs.  Gifford,  appreciate 
the  sorrow  which  has  come  to  him  and 
his  family.  For  some  years  before  Mr. 
Gifford  became  our  southern  district 
manager,  he  was  making  a  strong  place 
for  himself  on  the  sales  committee  of 
the  New  Bedford  market.  From  all  the 
men  in  that  section  who  worked  with  him 
and  with  the  members  of  our  staff  goes 
a  very  personal  sympathy  and  good  will, 
and  a  genuine  desire  to  stand  by  Charlie 
Gifford  in  this  hard  time  through  which 
be  must  pass. 


RAILROAD  RATE  CASE 

(Continued  from  page  one} 

The  opening  guns  for  the  dairy  indus- 
try in  opposition  to  the  increase  in  rates 
were  fired  by  representatives  of  the  New 
York  dairy  industry.  Raymond  J.  O'Hare, 
assistant  traffic  manager  of  the  Sheffield 
Farms  was  their  star  witness  and  made  a 
fine  impression  through  his  presentation 
of  the  facts  he  had  ascertained  relative 
to  the  movement  of  milk  on  the  Rutland 
railroad.  One  of  the  important  points 
established  by  him  was  that  the  milk 
cars  are  in  practically  continuous  ser- 
vice. The  railroads  claimed  that  they 
were  under  a  heavy  cost  to  maintain  ex- 
tra equipment  for  unexpected  needs.  Mr. 
O'Hare  showed  that  practically  all  the 
variation  in  need  for  equipment  could 
be  foreseen  in  advance  and  that  the  equin- 
ment  was  in  more  constant  use  than  in 
most  any  other  class  of  service. 

He  showed  that  milk  cars  had  been  in 
continuous  service  for  four  months  at  a 
time  without  goinsf  into  the  shops  for  re- 
pair at  anv  time  during  that  period.  The 
daily  earning  capneitv  of  one  such  car 
was'  $32  or  nearly  $4000  for  the  four 
months.  The  value  of  the  car  was  about 
$5000.  He  shower]  that  the  earnings  of 
milk  cars  on  the  Rutland  railroad  ranged 
from  $28.56  to  $57  68  on  local  runs  and 
from  $35.14  to  $50  74  on  long  linn's 

Another  line  of  testimony  deyeloned 
bv  Mr.  O'Hare  was  in  regard  to  the 
return  of  empty  cans.  The  railroads 
claim  that  they  transport  the  emptv  cans 
back  free  and  that  this  cost  is  one  of 
the  reasons  for  askincr  an  increase.  Tt 
was  brought  out  that  when  the  rates  on 
transporting  milk  were  set  up  it  was  on 


a  round  trip  basis.  The  rates  were  figured 
on  the  costs  of  transporting  a  can  full 
of  milk  from  the  country  to  the  city 
and  the  cost  of  transporting  the  empty 
can  back  to  its  point  of  origin.  The  rate 
fixed  was  to  cover  the  trip  both  ways 
but  as  a  matter  of  practice  the  railroads 
have  made  the  entire  charge  on  the  in- 
coming full  can.  So  far  as  the  trans- 
portation bill  goes  no  charge  is  shown 
on  the  returning  empty  cans.  But  the 
charge  is  there  just  the  same.  Without 
getting  any  permission  to  do  so  the 
railroads  have  disclaimed  liability  for 
loss  or  damage  on  these  returning  empty 
cans  as  they  claim  they  are  transporting 
them  "free."  Mr.  O'Hare  claimed  that 
the  cost  of  taking  back  the  cans  is  very 
small  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the  empty 
cars  have  to  go  hack  anyway  and  that 
coupled  with  the  disclaimer  of  liability 
for  loss  or  damage  which  the  railroads 
have  wrongfully  adopted,  reduces  the  re- 
turn cost  to  practically  nothing.  The  rail- 
roads are  entitled  to  some  remuneration 
for  the  return  of  empties  he  said  but  it 
is  very  slight. 

When  it  came  to  putting  in  the  case 
for  the  united  dairy  industry  of  New 
England  Mr.  Pattee  was  the  star  witness 
and  gave  the  interested  audience  some- 
thing to  talk  about  for  some  time.  The 
facts  and  figures  assembled  by  the  ex- 
perts make  up  much  of  the  case  and  are 
probably  the  things  which  will  count 
most  in  the  eyes  of  the  commission.  But 
Mr.  Pattee's  little  "speech"  concerning 
the  prosperity  or  lack  of  nrosncritv  of 
the  dairy  industry  in  New  England  was 
one  of  the  bright  spots. 

One  of  the  points  on  which  Mr.  Pattee 
was  questioned  was  as  to  whether  the 
producer  or  the  consumer  would  pay  the 
increase  if  one  were  granted. 

The  commission,  also  the  members  of 
the  Massachusetts  public  utilities  com- 
mission who  were  present,  showed  a  keen 
interest  in  this  phase  of  the  question.  Re- 
peatedly in  the  heatiiH!,  thev  introduced 
questions  tending  to  throw  fight  on  this 
disputed  point.  The  railroads  in  sub- 
mitting their  case  left  the  question  in  a 
way  that  would  lead  consumers  to  be- 
lieve that  in  the  end  they  would  have  to 
pay  the  increase.  In  one  of  the  pre- 
liminary rounds  of  statements  before  the 
case  went  to  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission,  the  impression  was  created 
that  if  the  railroads  increased  their 
freight  rates  one-fifth  of  a  cent  a  quart 
the  public  would  have  to  pay  a  half  cent 
more. 

In  answer  to  the  direct  question  of 
whether  the  producer  or  the  consumer 
would  nay  the  increase,  Mr.  Pattee  said 
emphatically  that  the  producer  would 
pay  for  some  years  to  come.  The  in- 
crease could  not  be  passed  on  to  the  con- 
sumer directly  or  indirectly.  The  only 
way  the  consumer  would  nay  the  increase 
would  be  when  the  additional  burden  on 
the  dairv  industry  so  lessened  the  milk 
supply  that  the  price  to  the  consumer 
would  increase  through  the  law  of  supply 
and  demand. 

In  explanation  of  his  point  Mr.  Pattee 
showed  the  commission  the  difference 
due  to  the  time  in  which  an  increase  went 
into  effect.  If  such  an  increase  went  into 
effect  in  the  fall,  he  said,  it  might  come 
at  the  same  time  as  an  increase  in  the 
price  of  milk  to  the  farmer  and  a  con- 
sequent increase  of  the  same  amount  to 
the  consumer.  It  might  be  wronglv  as- 
sumed that  the  increase  in  the  trans- 
portation rates  was  the  cause  of  the  in- 
crease in  price.  The  NEMPA  he  sa.'d 
has  sold  milk  on  the  basis  of  the  law  of 
supply  and  demand  and  the  reason  the 
prices  <r0  up  in  the  fall  is  that  the  supply 
is  shorter. 

The  increase  would  come  anyway, 
whether  there  was  an  increase  in  the 
transportation  rates  or  not.  If  an  in- 
crease in  transportation  rates  should 
come  at  the  time  as  an  increase  in  the 
milk  price  it  would  simply  mean  that  a 
portion  of  the  increase  to  which  the 
farmers  were  entitled  bv  reason  of  the 
shortening  of  the  supply,  was  offset  bv 
inM-d  rosts  of  getting  the  milk  into  the 
market  Tn  case  of  a  cent  raise  and  an 
inrrensp  in  transportation  rates  of  one- 
fifth  of  a  cent,  the  actual  increase  to  the 
farmer  would  be  only  four-fifths  of  a 
cent.  He  actually  has  to  stand  the  added 
transportation  cost  even  though  the  ad- 


vance to  him  is  greater  than  the  addi- 
tional cost  of  transportation. 

On  the  other  hand,  Mr.  Pattee  showed 
that  if  the  increase  in  transportation 
rates  should  come  in  the  spring  when 
there  is  an  ample  supply  and  when  prices 
to  the  farmers  and  to  the  consumers 
would  naturally  be  declining,  the  actual 
net  return  to  the  farmers  would  he  de- 
creased by  the  additional  transportation 
cost.  If  the  decrease  in  the  price  to  the 
farmer  was  a  cent  and  the  additional 
transportation  cost  one-fifth  of  a  cent, 
the  actual  decrease  to  the  farmer  in  net 
return  would  be  one  and  one-fifth  cents. 
In  other  words  an  increase  in  trans- 
portation costs  coming  with  an  increase 
in  price  decreased  the  increase  and  an  in- 
crease in  transportation  costs  coming 
along  with  the  decrease  in  price  made 
the  decrease  still  greater.  In  either  case 
the  farmer  pays  the  increased  cost  of 
transportation. 

The  attorney  for  the  Boston  &  Maim 
railroad  endeavored  to  get  Mr.  Pattee  in 
a  tight  position  by  asking  if  the  dairy 
farmers  in  New  England  were  not  better 
off  now  than  they  were  when  the  present 
NEMPA  started  in  1917.  He  did  fig 
succeed.  "The  NEMPA,"  said  Mr. 
Pattee,  "has  improved  the  position  of  the 
dairy  farmers  of  New  England  very 
greatly  from  what  it  would  have  been  if 
no  organization  had  been  in  the  field. 
The  dairy  industry  is  in  a  position  of 
watchful  waiting,  not  in  the  slough  of 
despond  where  it  was  in  1916.  Through 
the  efforts  to  organize  the  dairy  industn 
of  New  England  a  disaster  to  the  in- 
dustry was  avoided.  It  is  worth  while 
to  have  averted  a  disaster  even  if  com- 
plete success  has  not  been  possible.  The 
dairy  farmers  of  New  England  are  much 
better  off  than  they  would  have  been, 
but  they  are  not  in  a  condition  to  stand 
any  additional  burden." 

Asked  if  there  were  not  many  highly 
prosperous  dairy  farmers,  Mr.  Pattee  re- 
sponded with  the  opinion  that  there  was 
more  of  an  appearance  of  prosperity  than 
actual  prosperity  coming  from  the  dairy 
business.  "Many  of  the  men  who  ap- 
pear to  have  been  prosperous  have  other 
sources  of  income  than  their  dairy  herds. 
Certainly  no  branch  of  the  dairy  in- 
dustry was  making  a  10  per  cent,  profit 
as  did  the  Boston  &  Maine. 

"The  dairy  farmers  are  not  looking 
into  the  future  of  the  industry  with  much 
confidence.  The  outlook  is  not  such  as 
to  attract  an  ambitious  young  farmer  to 
the  dairy  industry,  nor  to  induce  one  al- 
ready in  to  increase  his  herd.  The  fact 
noted  by  Secretary  Jardine  that  there  are 
less  and  less  graduates  from  the  agricul- 
tural colleges  actually  going  into  agricul- 
ture, speaks  for  itself." 


SURVEY  ASKED  FOR 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

the  association  that  if  such  a  survey  is 
made  and  such  a  plan  recommended  it 
will  have  the  support  of  other  agricul- 
tural organizations  and  agencies  in  New 
England.  Coming  from  an  unbiased 
source  and  made  as  the  result  of  careful 
studies  by  trained  men  who  have  a  knowl- 
edge of  world-wide  conditions  in  the 
dairy  industn',  such  a  plan  should  be 
broad  enough  to  command  general  back- 
ing from  all  the  various  agencies  which 
are  trying,  each  in  its  own  way,  to  work 
out  the  dairy  marketing  problem  in  New 
England. 

The  chief  trouble  with  the  dairy  mar- 
keting work  in  New  England  is  that  there 
are  so  many  different  plans  of  organiza- 
tion, price  systems  and  methods  of  mar- 
keting. The  NEMPA  is  the  largest  and  j 
most  influential  but  it  has  never  looked 
upon  itself  as  a  final  solution  of  the 
dairy  marketing  problem  in  New  Eng- 
land. It  has  done  a  good  job  in  stabiliz- 
ing markets  and  negotiating  prices  but  it 
has  always  looked  forward  to  a  time 
when  a  comprehensive  system  could  b<: 
developed  to  actually  market  the  dairy  | 
products  of  New  England  under  a  system 
which  would  eliminate  much  of  the  waste 
and  inefficiency  which  has  grown  up  un- 
der past  conditions.  If  the  survey  and  | 
plan  recommended  by  the  new  bureau  of 
co-operative  marketing  can  start  such  a 
movement  the  NEMPA  will  give  it. full-  | 
est  and  heartiest  support, 


iSeptember,  1926  NEW    ENGLAND    DAIRYMAN  Page  Three 

Organization  Work  Increases  Number  of  Voting  Delegates 

An  Increase  of  Eighteen  Representatives  for  the  Annual  Meeting — Largest  Gain  in  Maine  Where  Field 
Men  Have  Been  Canvassing  —  Gain  Also  in  Southern  New  England 


More  official  voting  delegates  will  be 
I  ntitled  to  attend  our  coming  annual 
fleeting  than  in  any  previous  year,  due 

j  the  vigorous  organization  work  done 
jfiy  the  field  men.  Decided  increases  in 
J  lembership  have  resulted  from  this  field 
'/ork  and  in  the  grouping  of  locals  for 
!  epresentation  in  the  annual  meeting  a 
lain  of  17  delegates  is  shown.    This  gain 

•>  principally  in  Maine  where  the  field 

epartment  has    been    canvassing  three 

lonths. 

p  The  grouping  of  locals  is  based  on  the 
<  lembership  in  good  standing  August  1. 
fnder  our  by-laws  any  local  having  50 
lembers  is  entitled  to  be  represented  by 
res  president.  The  by-laws  provide  for  an 
dditional  delegate  for  each  100  members 
r  major   fraction   thereof.     Any  local 
mat  has  151  members  would  be  entitled 
jp  a  second  delegate.  The  by-laws  further 
rovidc  that  locals  with  memberships  of 
iss  than  50  shall  be  grouped  so  that 
leir  combined  memberships  will  be  50 
r  more  and  that  the  group  shall  be  en- 
tied  to  a  voting  delegate  in  the  central 
leeting. 

This  grouping   does  not  in  any  way 
ffect  the  independent  standing  of  these 
icals  with  memberships  of  less  than  50. 
iach  has  its  own  officers  and  transacts 
•"s  business  in  the  usual  way.  The  group- 
jig  is  simply  for  the  purpose  of  getting 
[  joint  delegate.     These  groups  should 


MAINE 

I.  Dover,  Guilford,  Parkman. 

3  2.  Sangerville,  Sebec,  Silver  Mills. 

3.  Dexter. 

4.  Garland,  Ripley. 

5.  Charleston,  E.  Corinth,  Exeter. 

6.  Corinna. 

■  7.  Hampden,  Holden,  Levant,  Winter- 
ort. 

8.  Hermon. 

9.  Carmel. 
!•  10.  Etna. 

II.  Dixmont,  Newburg,  Swanville. 

12.  Belfast. 

13.  Brooks. 

14.  Jackson. 

15.  Thorndike. 

16.  Unity. 

17.  Troy. 

18.  Newport,  Plymouth. 
1  19.  Pittsfield. 

20.  Hartland. 

■  21.  Cambridge,  Harmony. 

i  22.  Athens,    Madison,  Norridgewock, 

kowhegan. 
j|  23.  Benton,  Burnham. 
[  24.  Clinton, 
f  25.  Albion,  Palermo, 
i,  26.  So.  China,  Windsor. 
I  27.  No.   Whitefield,  Whitefield. 
[  28.  Alna,  Edgecomb,  West  Alna,  Wis- 
'i  asset. 

.  29.  Damariscotta,  Newcastle,  Noble- 
oro. 

30.  Winslows  Mills. 
'  31.  Thomaston,  Warren. 

32.  Union. 
,  33.  Bowdoinham,  Richmond. 
'  34.  Litchfield,  Wales. 

35.  Augusta,  Belgrade,  Monmouth, 
Vinthrop. 

36.  Mt.  Vernon,  East  Livermore. 

37.  Chesterville,  Mercer,  New  Sharon. 

38.  Farmington   (2  delegates). 
1  39.  Strong. 

J  40.  East  Wilton. 

1  41.  Livermore,  Jay. 

j  42.  Canton,  East  Sumner,  West  Sum- 

i  er. 

43.  Peru,  Rumford  Centre. 
•  44.  Bethel,   Bryant    Pond,    So.  Paris, 
i  Vest  Paris. 

|  45.  Bolsters  Mills,  Bridgeton,  Norwav, 
i  )xford  and  Otisfield,  Waterford. 
1  46.  Buckfield. 


meet  between  now  and  the  middle  of 
October  to  elect  such  delegates. 

It  is  impossible  to  make  the  groupings 
so  that  each  shall  have  about  50  total 
members.  In  forming  the  groups  full 
consideration  has  been  given  to  the  ease 
with  which  they  can  get  together  for  the 
group  meeting.  The  grouping  for  this 
year  as  worked  out  by  the  field  depart- 
ment and  approved  by  the  directors  is 
given  in  this  issue.  If  officers  in  these 
grouped  locals  believe  that  there  are 
serious  objections  to  the  groups  in  which 
they  fall  they  should  communicate  with 
the  central  office.  Some  changes  and 
adjustments  may  seem  wise. 

Maine  was  entitled  to  39  delegates  at 
the  central  meeting  last  year.  Under  the 
new  grouping  the  state  is  credited  with 
51  voting  delegates.  New  Hampshire 
had  29  voting  delegates  in  1925  and  has 
28  this  year.  This  is  not  due  to  a  falling 
off  in  membership  but  to  the  regrouping 
of  the  locals  which  are  on  both  sides  of 
the  Connecticut  river  in  northern  New 
Hamoshire  and  Vermont.  It  is  more 
practical  to  form  groups  including  locals 
from  both  states.  In  the  regrouping  New 
Hampshire  apparently  loses  one  delegate. 
In  effect  the  state  will  have  the  same 
representation. 

Vermont  will  have    45    delegates  as 
against  43  last  year.    One  of  these  addi- ' 
tional  delegates  comes  through  the  good 
work  done  by  Harold  P.  Adams,  field 
man  for  Northern  Vermont,  in  the  vicin- 


47.  East  Hebron,  West  Minot. 

48.  Turner. 

49.  Auburn,  Lewiston,  Lisbon,  Web- 
ster, Poland. 

50.  Cornish,  Freeport,  Gorham,  Gray, 
Hiram,  Hollis  Centre,  New  Gloucester, 
Scarboro,  Walnut  Hill,  White  Rock. 

51.  Eliot,  North  Berwick. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

52.  Alton,  Lee,  Sanbornville,  Straf- 
ford. 

53.  Greenland,  Newmarket,  Ports- 
mouth and  Newington. 

54.  Epping,  Exeter,  Stratham. 

55.  East  Kingston,  Hampstead,  Hamp- 
ton Falls,  North  Hampton. 

56.  Londonderry. 

57.  Auburn,  Bedford,  Candia,  Chester, 
Derry,  Goffstown,  Hooksett,  Manchester, 
New  Boston,  No.  Londonderry  (2  dele- 
gates). 

58.  Concord,  Dunbarton. 

59.  Centre  Barnstead,  Pittsfield,  Sun- 
cook  Valley. 

60.  Hollis,  Nashua. 

61.  Greenfield,  Hancock,  Lyndeboro, 
Mil  ford,  Peterboro. 

62.  Antrim,  Bradford,  Henniker,  Hills- 
boro,  Weare. 

63.  Canaan,  East  Andover,  Danbury, 
Enfield,  Grafton,  Mascoma,  West  And- 
over, West  Canaan. 

64.  Lebanon,  N.  H.,  Hartland,  Vt., 
Norwich,  Vt. 

65.  Lyme,  N.  H.,  North  Thetford,  Vt. 

66.  East  Haverhill,  Haverhill,  Warren, 
VVentworth,  West  Rumney. 

67.  Bradford,  Vt,  Fairlee,  Vt,  West 
Newbury,  Vt,  Piermont,  Orford,  N.  H. 

68.  North  Haverhill,  Swift  water,  N. 
H,  Newbury,  Vt. 

69.  Groton,  Ryegate,  Vt. 

70.  Bath,  Lisbon,  N.  H. 

71.  Littleton,  N.  H,  Waterford,  Vt. 

72.  Concord,  Vt. 

73.  Dalton,  N.  H,  E.  Concord,  Vt, 
Lunenburg,  Vt. 

74.  Jefferson,  Whitefield,  N.  H. 

75.  Lancaster,  N.  H. 

76.  Northumberland,  Stratofrd,  N.  H, 
Island  Pond,  Vt. 

77.  Colebrook,  N.  H. 

78.  Pittsburg,  West  Stewartstown. 


ity  of  Waterbury.  Last  year  Duxbury, 
Warren  was  grouped  together  with  one 
delegate.  This  year  the  first  three  have 
the  required  50  members  and  the  last 
two  have  a  total  of  more  than  50  mem- 
bers. There  are  two  groups  this  year  in 
the  locals  which  had  only  one  group  last 
year.  The  other  additional  delegate 
comes  in  the  Franklin  and  Grand  Isle 
county  section.  They  were  placed  in  one 
large  group  last  year  with  two  delegates. 
This  year  Alburg  and  St.  Albans  each 
have  a  delegate  and  the  remaining  locals, 
Isle  LaMotte,  North  Hero  and  S  wanton 
are  a  group  with  a  delegate. 

The  New  York  delegation  remains  the 
same,  nine  voting  representatives.  Five 
additional  delegates  will  come  to  Massa 
chusetts,  Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut 
as  the  result  of  good  organization  wurk. 
An  additional,  delegate  will  come  from 
the  Franklin  county,  Mass,  district 
through  the  work  of  Mr.  Adams.  Buck- 
land  and  Charlemont  now  are  grouped 
for  one  delegate  and  Colrain  and  Shel- 
burne  Falls  for  another.  Last  year  they 
were  all  grouped  together  with  one  dele- 
gate. Another  additional  delegate  comes 
in  the  Eastern  Worcester  and  Middlesex 
county  sections.  North  Dartmouth  and 
South  Dartmouth  locals  each  has  passed 
the  50  membership  mark  and  their  presi- 
dents will  represent  them.  Last  year 
they  formed  a  group.  Newport,  R.  I. 
local  now  has  passed  the  50  mark  which 
gives  an  additional  delegate  in  that  sec- 


VERMONT 

79.  Barnet-Monroe,  East  Barnet,  Pas- 
sumpsic,  Peacham. 

80.  Danville,  St.  Johnsbury. 

81.  No.  Walden. 

82.  Wolcott. 

83.  Morrisville. 

84.  Johnson,  Stowe. 

85.  Lyndonville. 

86.  West  Burke. 

87.  Wheelock. 

88.  Barton. 

89.  Orleans. 

90.  Albany,  Irasburg. 

91.  Brownington  Centre. 

92.  Coventry. 

93.  Newport. 

94.  Newport  Centre. 

95.  Lowell,  North  Troy,  Westfield. 

96.  Enosburg  Falls,  Franklin,  Mont- 
gomery, Rich  ford.   West  Enosburg. 

97.  Sheldon. 

98.  Highgate. 

99.  St.  Albans. 


100. 

Isle  La  Motte,  North  Hero,  Swan- 

ton. 

101. 

Alburg. 

102. 

Georgia. 

103. 

Bakersfield,   East   Fairfield,  Fair- 

field. 

104. 

Fletcher,  -  Jeffersonville,  Water- 

ville. 

105. 

Fairfax,   West  ford. 

106. 

Milton. 

107. 

Richmond,  Williston. 

108. 

Waterbury  Centre. 

109. 

Duxbury,   Middlesex,  Moretown. 

110. 

Waitsfield,  Warren. 

111. 

Montpelier. 

112. 

Northfield. 

113. 

Barre.  Williamstown. 

114. 

Brookfield,     Randolph     (2  dele- 

gates) 

115.  Bethel,  East  Bethel,  So.  Royalton, 
Tunbridge,  West  Hartford. 

116.  Brownsville.  Vt,  Springfield,  Vt, 
Alstead,  Charleston,  Claremont,  Cornish, 
Walpole,  N.  H. 

117.  Brattleboro,  Putnev,  Westminster, 
Vt,  West  Chesterfield,  N.  H. 

118.  Bristol,  North  Ferrisburg. 

119.  Orwell,  Shoreham. 

120.  Leceister  Junction,  Whiting. 

121.  Brandon. 

122.  East  Clarendon,    East  Walling- 


Middlesex,  Mooretown,  Waitsfield  and 
tion.  An  additional  delegate  comes  to 
Connecticut  through  a  regrouping  and  in- 
crease in  the  membership. 

At  our  last  annual  meeting  a  vote  was 
passed  to  amend  the  bylaws  so  as  to  re- 
duce the  number  of  members  required 
for  direct  representation  by  their  presi- 
dents. Beginning  with  our  1927  annual 
meeting  only  35  members  in  good  stand- 
ing will  be  required  for  representation 
by  a  local  president.  This  will  materially 
increase  the  number  of  official  voting 
delegates  at  the  central  association  meet- 
ing and  still  further  meet  our  intention 
to  get  a  more  direct  voting  power  in  the 
hands  of  the  members  at  large.  We 
eliminated  one  step  when  we  discarded 
the  old  "district"  organization.  We  are 
now  working  toward  a  larger  number 
coming  in  to  represent  their  locals  or 
groups  of  locals.  It  was  thought  best 
however,  to  increase  the  number  gradu- 
ally rather  than  to  double  or  treble  the 
representation  from  one  year  to  another. 

Farmington,  Me,  is  the  only  local  with 
members  enough  to  entitle  them  to  two 
delegates,  their  president  and  one  other. 
There  are  three  groups  with  a  total  mem- 
bership sufficient  to  entitle  them  to  two 
delegates  each.  There  are  66  locals  with 
memberships  of  50  or  more  members. 
The  remaining  locals  have  been  arranged 
in  114  groups.  This  will  give  a  total 
voting  strength  of  184  delegates.  The 
groupings  are  as  follows : 


ford,  Mount  Holly,  Rutland,  South  Wal- 
lingford,  Tinmouth,  Wallingford. 

123.  Wells,  Vt,  Granville,  N.  Y. 

124.  Danby,  Dorset,  Pawlet,  West  Ru- 
pert. 

NEW  YORK 

125.  West  Hebron. 

126.  Salem. 

127.  Cossayuna,  Shushan,  N.  Y,  Ar- 
lington, Vt. 

128.  Easton,  Greenwich. 

129.  Archdale,   South  Cambridge. 

130.  Schagticoke,  Hudson  Valley  and 
Fort  Miller,  Wayville. 

131.  Johnsonville. 

132.  Buskirk  and  Eagle  Bridge. 

133.  Pittstow:n,  West  Hoosick. 

134.  Hoosick. 

MASSACHUSETTS 

135.  Charlemont. 

136.  Colerain. 

137.  Buckland. 

138.  Shelburne  Falls. 

139.  Greenfield. 

140.  Amherst. 

141.  Granby,  Southampton,  South  Had- 
ley,  Whately. 

142.  Belchertown. 

143.  Swift  River  Valley. 

144.  Cummington,  Huntington,  Middle- 
field. 

145.  Feeding  Hills,  Westfield,  Mass, 
Suffield,  Conn. 

146.  Ellington,  Enfield,  Somers,  Conn. 

147.  East  Longmeadow,  Hampden, 
Wilbraham. 

148.  Brimfield,  Ludlow  Centre,  Mon- 
son,  Palmer. 

149.  Hardwick,  Three  Rivers. 

150.  Barre  Plains,  New  Braintree, 
Oakham. 

151.  Auburn,  Bolton,  Charlton,  Graf- 
ton, Hubbardston,  Lancaster,  Leicester, 
Leominster,  North  Brookfield,  Oxford, 
Princeton,  Rochdale,  Rutland,  Shrews- 
bury, Spencer,  Sterling,  Sutton,  Warren 
(2  delegates). 

152.  Northboro,  Westboro. 

153.  Framingham,  Marlboro,  South- 
boro,  Sudbury,  Waltham. 

154.  Concord. 

155.  Harvard,  Littleton,  West  Acton. 
(Continued  on  page  eight) 


Groups  of  Locals  to  Hold  Meetings 


Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


September,  192tl 


Schedule  of  Prices  for  Boston 

Based  on  8£  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  September  1,  1926,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


Cwt.in 

Cwt.in 

Cwt.in 

8qt. 

8j^qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

1 

1-20 

.579 

.618 

.732 

1.489 

1.583 

2.993 

3.462 

3.464 

3.479 

2 

21-40 

.569 

.608 

.722 

1.464 

1.558 

2.958 

3.404 

3.409 

3.438 

•? 

0 

41  — Art 

.004- 

.OUO 

.707 

1.444 

1.538 

2.928 

O.OO/ 

0.000 

1  4fl4 

A 

A1_8rt 
01— oU 

.Ooo 

.702 

1.434 

1.528 

2.898 

O.OOt- 

0.04^ 

o.ooy 

C 

0 

SI  Irtrt 

.ooo 

.692 

1.414 

1.508 

2.873 

?87 

o.owu 

1  IdC) 
0.04U 

0 

1U1— 

.JJ7 

•578 
.o/o 

.682 

1.404 

1.498 

2.848 

0.£0"t 

■?  978 
0.£/  o 

■}  11 1 
0.01 1 

7 

1?1  14fi 

.0/  o 

.677 

1.394 

1.483 

2.828 

T.  ?41 

o.^to 

■?  ?87 
O.^o/ 

0 
o 

141    1  AO 
lnl— 10U 

.000 

.667 

1.379 

1.473 

2.803 

3  ?rtA 

1  ??4 

"?  9^8 
0.£Oo 

O 
y 

1^,1  18rt 
iui — 100 

mo 

558 

.662 

1.369 

1.463 

2.783 

■?  183 

o.  lOO 

J. 

V  '  .  —  J  J 

m 

l\J 

181  ?f)0 
101 — 

•  JJJ 

.652 

1.364 

1.448 

2.768 

■?  171 

0. 1  /  1 

0. 10V 

'  1918 
O —  1  o 

1 1 

1 1 

?ni  ??n 

,D\jy 

.647 

1.349 

1.438 

2.748 

O.lOO 

147 
o.n/ 

1  1  Q4 

o.  lyt 

12 

221-240 

.504 

.543 

.642 

1.339 

1.423 

2.728 

3.113 

3.114 

3.171 

13 

241-260 

.494 

'.533 

.637 

1.334 

1.418 

2.718 

3.101 

3^103 

3!  159 

14 

261-280 

.489 

.528 

.637 

1.319 

1.408 

2.698 

3.066 

3.081 

3.136 

15 

281-300 

.489 

.528 

.632 

1.314 

1.403 

2.683 

3.055 

3.070 

3.119 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

1 

1-20 

.599 

.638 

.752 

1.499 

1.593 

2.993 

3.485 

3.486 

3.479 

2 

21-40 

.584 

.623 

.737 

1.474 

1.568 

2.958 

3.427 

3.431 

3.438 

3 

41-60 

.579 

.618 

.732 

1.464 

1.553 

2.928 

3.404 

3.399 

3.404 

4 

61-80 

.574 

.613 

.727 

1.444 

1.538 

-  2.898 

3.357 

3.366 

3.369 

5 

81-100 

.569 

.608 

.712 

1.434 

1.528 

2.873 

3.334 

3.344 

3.340 

6 

101-120 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.424 

1.508 

2.848 

3.311 

3.300 

3.311 

7 

121-140 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.409 

1.498 

2.828 

3.276 

3.278 

3.287 

8 

141-160 

.554 

.593 

.702 

1.404 

1.493 

2.803 

3.264 

3.267 

3.258 

9 

161-180 

.549 

.588 

.697 

1.394 

1.478 

2.783 

3.241 

3.234 

3.235 

10 

181-200 

.549 

.588 

.692 

1.379 

1.468 

2.768 

3.206 

3.213 

3.218 

Where  milk  is  bought  by  weight  and  test,  the  dealer  will  pay  the  average  price 
for  92  score  fresh  butter  as  quoted  by  the  U.  S.  D.  A.  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
Economics  at  Boston  for  the  month.  The  price  of  1/10  pound  butter,  as  above 
stated,  shall  be  added  for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  above  3.7  per  cent,  and  deducted 
for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  below  3.7  per  cent,  for  each  cwt.  of  milk  so  purchased. 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  0.75c  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  July,  1926 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt. 

Butter-fat 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

Test 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patrons 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt. 

Hood,  lst-15th  ... 

12^4% 

.40 

1.289 

.43 

.533 

.1336 

Hood,  lst-15th  .. 

20 

.40 

1.822 

.43 

.521 

.1336 

Hood,  16th-31st 

....12/2 

.40 

1.448 

.45 

.566 

.1766 

Hood,  16th-31st 

....20 

.40 

2.078 

.45 

.554 

.1766 

20 

.40 

2.131 

.46 

.566 

.1527 

Turner  Centre  ... 

uy2 

.40 

.750 

.48 

.540 

.1665 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  July,  1926 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  or  below  3.7  per  cent, 
test  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  sized  container:  Per  &y, 
quart  can,  $0,007;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,009;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,018;  per  21^  quart 
can,  $0,019;  per  40  quart  can,  $0,035;  per  cwt.,  0.041. 

Boston  District 


Class  1    Class  2 


Size  of  Can  ■ 


Dealers 
Elm  Spring  Farm 
7th  zone  (121-140) 
J.  B.  Prescott 


(Mkt. 

(Mfg. 

sy2  20 

2V/4 

40 

Milk) 

Milk) 

Quart  Quart 

Quart 

Quart 

Cwt. 

72.2% 

27.8% 

.492  1.189 

1.265 

2.407 

2.800 

79.1 

20.9 

Delivered  price 

per  cwt. 

3.418 

Northern  Market  District 


Class  1 
(Mkt. 

Dealers  Milk) 
Wason-McDonald 
Haverhill 

Delivered  92.1% 

3rd  zone  

Findeisen  Farms 
Lawrence 

Delivered   64.4 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Manchester 

Delivered   64.0 

3rd  zone   .... 

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

Blake,  E.  C. 
Manchester 

Delivered   76.6 

4th  zone   

zone   

zone   

zone   

Boyd,  W.  T.,  &  Sons 
Nashua 

Delivered   97.1 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Nashua 

Delivered   91.9 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 


7.9% 


35.6 


36.0 


23.4 


Cwt. 
in 

8^'s 


3.725 
3.159 


Cwt. 
in 

20's 


3.725 
3.211 


Cwt. 
in 

40's 


3.725 
3.254 


Cwt. 


5th 
6th 
8th 


3.068 
2.788 
2.761 
2.619 


2.903 
2.724 
2.650 
2.631 


3.178 
2.919 
2.885 
2.868 
2.853 


2.9 


8.1 


3.617 
3.245 
3.165 


3.617  3.617 
3.301  3.346 
3.278  3.312 


3.506 


Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Class  2 

Zone  1 

Zone  2 

Zone  3 

Dealers 

(Mkt. 

(Mfg. 

Deliv- 

1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

Per  Hundredweight 

Milk) 

Milk) 

ered 

Miles 

Miles 

Miles 

Burton,  H.  T. 

89.9% 

10.1% 

3.617 

3.344 

3.319 

3.241 

84.2 

15.8 

3.478 

3.222 

3.199 

3.126 

Fiskle,  E.  A. 

100.0 

3.854 

3.550 

3.522 

3.435 

Greenville  Dairy  .... 

95.8 

42 

3.749 

3.458 

3.431 

3.348 

Monroe,  A.  B. 

100.0 

3.854 

3.550 

3.522 

3.435 

Providence  Dairy  .... 

82.3 

177 

3.431 

3.232 

3.204 

3.146 

Warnock,  C.  A  

100.0 

3.850 

3.550 

3.522 

3.435 

Westcott,  E.  P. 

100.0 

3.850 

3.550 

3.522 

3.435 

PER  10  QT.  CAN 

Brown,  W.  B. 

100.0 

.842 

.776 

.766 

.752 

Grant,  C.  W  

85.0 

is"d 

.706 

.698 

.686 

Truck- 
ing 

Zone  Wi 
net  mantic 


3.057 


2.887  3.045 


.736 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  July,  1926 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  July  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 

If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.041  for  each  .1  per  cent.  If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract  $.04 
for  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.   If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  July  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the  Hood 
Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deduction  as  given  in  cream  price  table  is  made  from  the  zone  prices  as  figured  to  equalize  prices  between 
milk  and  cream  patrons. 


Zone  1 

Zone  2 

Zone  3 

Zone  4 

Zone  5 

Zone  6 

Zone  7 

Zone  8 

Zone  9 

Zone  10 

Zone  11 

Zone  12 

Zone  13 

Zone  14 

Zone  13 

1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

61-80 

81-100 

101-120 

121-140 

141-160 

161-180 

181-200 

201-220 

221-240 

241-260 

261-280 

281-301 

3.479 

3.438 

3.404 

3.369 

3.340 

3.311 

3.287 

3.258 

3.235 

3.218 

3.194 

3.171 

3.159 

3.136 

3<ii 

Class  2  Milk  Price 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.542 

1.54 

Class  1 

Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk) 

(Mfg.  Milk) 

Dealers 

A 

B 

Hood,  Ist-I5th  ....50.0% 

50.0% 

63.1% 

2.376 

2.356 

2.339 

2.321 

2.307 

2.292 

2.280 

2.266 

2.254 

2.246 

2.234 

2.222 

2.216 

2.205 

2.19' 

Hood,  16th-31st  ....59.7 

40.3 

55.5 

2.517 

2.492 

2.472 

2.451 

2.434 

2.417 

2.402 

2.385 

2.371 

2.361 

2.346 

2.333 

2.326 

2.318 

2.301 

Whiting  in  40's  ....62.5 

37.5 

51.7 

2.578 

2.552 

2.531 

2.509 

2.491 

2.473 

2.458, 

2.440 

2.425 

2.414 

2.400 

2.385 

2.378 

2.363 

2.35 

Whiting  in  21J4's  ..62.5 

37.5 

51.7 

2.568 

2.534 

2.507 

2.493 

2.466 

2.452 

2.432 

2.418 

2.405 

2.384 

2.370 

2.350 

2.343 

2.329 

2.32! 

Turner  Centre   65.6 

34.4 

56.7 

2.540 

2.513 

2.491 

2.468 

2.449 

2.430 

2.414 

2.395 

2.380 

2.368 

2.353 

2.338 

2.330 

2.315 

2.301 

Alden  Bros  36.3 

63.7 

2.252 

2.237 

2.225 

2.212 

2.202 

2.191 

2.182 

2.172 

2.164 

2.157 

2.148 

2.139 

2.135 

2.127 

2.11 

F.  S.  Cummings  ....50.1 

49.9 

2.512 

2.491 

2.474 

2.457 

2.442 

2.428 

2.416 

2.401 

2.390 

2.381 

2.369 

2.358 

2.352 

2.340 

2.331 

F.  E.  Boyd  56.0 

44.0 

2.626 

2.603 

2.584 

2.564 

2.548 

2.532 

2.518 

2.502 

2.489 

2.479 

2.466 

2.453 

2.446 

2.434 

2.42 

Weighted  Avg  58.5 

41.5 

54.5 

2.533 

2.509 

2.489 

2.469 

2.452 

2.435 

2.421 

2.404 

2.390 

2.380 

2.366 

2.353 

2.346 

2.333 

2.32. 

A — Excluding  Cream 

Plan. 

B- 

-Including  Cream 

Plan. 

September,  1920 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Shortage  of  Milk  Is  Predicted 


A  decided  trend  toward  summer  pro- 
duction of  milk  in  New  England  is  in- 
dicated by  the  reports  of  the  Boston 
dealers  operating  under  the  surplus  plan. 
A  corresponding  decrease  in  the  supply 
for  the  coming  fall  and  winter  is  to  be 
expected.  The  prospect  of  a  decidedly 
short  supply  this  fall  and  larger  sur- 
plusses  of  milk  during  next  spring  and 
summer  raises  some  important  questions 
of  policy  to  be  discussed  at  our  coming 
annual  meeting. 

Records  of  Boston  dealers  for  the 
months  of  normal  high  production  show 
a  decided  increase  as  compared  with 
other  years.  The  high  peak  was  reached 
in  June  when  the  production,  as  meas- 
ured by  the  purchases  of  Boston  dealers, 
shot  up  to'  67,200,000  pounds  or  12  per 
cent  higher  than  in  the  previous  June. 
The  decrease  from  June  to. July  was 
about  normal  but  the  production  in  July 
was  still  materially  higher  than  the  year 
previous. 

This  large  increase  is  due  in  part  to 
outside  buying  by  the  large  dealers  but 
more  particularly  to  increased  produc- 
tion from  the  same  territory.  Feeding 
conditions  in  June  were  unusually  good. 
In  July  the  conditions  were  also  more 
favorable  than  usual  but  the  fact  that 
the  production  decreased  the  normal  15 
per  cent,  from  June  is  an  indication  of 
the  short  period  which  is  coming.  The 
purchases,  sales  and  surplus  for  June  and 
July  this  year  and  last  year  were  as  fol- 
lows : 


Purchases    (Million  pounds) 

Sales    (Million  pounds)   

Surplus   (Million  pounds)  .. 


BUTTER  PRICES. 

Butter  production  appears  now  to  be 
running  below  last  year.  The  volume 
of  butter  in  storage  is  large.  Business 
conditions  arc  likely  not  to  be  as  good 
this  fall  as  last  year  thus  consumption 
may  be  cut.  Altogether  it  is  doubtful 
if  we  get  as  good  butter  prices  this  win- 
ter as  last  year.  The  storage  butter  hold- 
ings August  1st  fur  the  past  five  years 
were : 

Pounds 

1022    103,000,000 

1923    102,000,000 

1024    134,000,000 

1025    109,000,000 

1026    131,000,000 

In  1924  with  holdings  of  134,000,000 
and  latter  increased  holdings  of  22,000,000 
more  by  September  1st,  butter  prices  con- 
tinued low  until  about  March  of  the 
next  year.  Indications  are,  however, 
that  August  storage  of  butter  this  year 
will  be  less  than  normal. 

Last  year  milk  supplies  became  fairly 
short  in  November.  This  year  it  seems 
probable  that  they  will  be  still  shorter. 
The  high  production  which  was  indicated 
in  the  June  and  July  records  now  appears 
to  be  waning  and  the  swing  is  likely  to 
go  in  the  opposite  direction  in  the  next 
few  months.  Reports  from  the  country 
indicate   that   during  August    there  has 


1926 

1926 

1925 

May 

June 

June 

57.0 

67.2 

60.1 

27.0 

27.6 

28.0 

62.0r'» 

55.3  % 

1926 
July 
57.2 
28.9 
54.5  r 


1925 
July 
51.2 
27.2 
52.6*> 


Prices  for  June  and  July  were  about 
the  same  as  in  1925.  Fluid  milk  prices 
wer^e  higher  but  the  surplus  price  was 
enough  lower  to  offset  ithis  increase. 
Butter  averaged  two  cents  a  pound  lower 
than  in  the  previous  year.  The  fluid, 
surplus,  composite  and  butter  prices  were 
as  follows : 

1926 
May- 
Fluid   $3.22 

Surplus    1.56 

Net  price  all  milk    2.37 

Average  butter  per  pound   41 


been  a  sharp  decline  in  the  production 
of  milk  throughout  northern  New  Eng- 
land. Southern  New  England  has  had 
abundant  rains  and  pastures  are  still  good 
but  in  most  of  the  dairy  sections  of  the 
three  northern  states  the  usual  late  sum- 
mer drying  out  has   taken  place.  The 


1926 
June 
$2.75 
1.57 
2.08 
.415 


1925 
June 
$2.52 
1.64 
2.08 
.433 


1926 
July 
$3.22 
1.54 
2.38 
.409 


1925 
July 
$2.98 
1.66 
2.35 
.435 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


September,  1926 


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opinions  of  dealers  coincides  with  these 
reports  from  the  country. 

Along  with  this  shrinkage  in  the  fall 
supply  of  milk,  indicating  a  swing  back 
to  summer  production,  has  come  a  reach- 
ing out  of  the  dealers  to  protect  them- 
selves by  taking  on  new  supplies.  The 
important  consolidations  and  purchase  of 
small  businesses  by  large  dealers  has 
made  it  necessary  for  these  dealers  to 
materially  increase  their  supplies.  There 
are  few  places  in  New  England  where 
any  considerable  amount  of  milk  could 
be  secured  except  at  the  co-operative 
creameries.  Large  dealers  have  adopted 
the  policy  of  protecting  themselves  for 
the  short  season  by  contracting  for  sup- 
plies from  such  creameries  during  the 
spring.  It  is  apparent  that  a  considerable 
part  of  the  milk  formerly  sold  outside 
the  surplus  plan  now  comes  under  the 
plan,  as  it  is  sold  through  the  large  deal- 
ers and  is  included  in  their  figures.  Con- 
tracting for  these  available  supplies  of 
milk  places  the  large  dealers  in  a  posi- 
tion of  security  but  it  may  result  in  con- 
siderable difficulty  in  smaller  dealers  get- 
ting a  sufficient  supply  should  milk  be- 
come quite  short  in  November. 

Several  factors  enter  into  this  probable 
fall  shortage.  First  is  the  trend  toward 
summer  production  due  to  favorable  con- 
ditions and  favorable  prices  during  the 
spring  and  early  summer  for  the  past 
two  years.  It  is  difficult  to  measure  the 
extent  of  this  shifting  over  from  winter 
to  'summer  production  but  it  is  believed 
that  there  is  a  real  trend  in  that  direction. 
One  of  the  evidences  is  the  increased 
spring  production.  Government  reports 
also  show  a  less  percentage  of  dry  cows 
in  June  than  in  the  previous  June. 

Another  important  reason  for  expect- 
ing a  lessened  production  this  fall  is  the 
decrease  in  cows  which  is  general 
throughout  New  England.  For  some 
years  back  there  has  been  a  tendency  to 
raise  less  dairy  heifers.  This  is  hav- 
ing its  effect  in  a  reduction  of  the  milking 
cows.  A  definite  evidence  of  the  decrease 
in  the  number  of  cows  is  the  steadily  in- 
creasing price  for  dairy  cows.  The  fol- 
lowing table  shows  the  increase  in  prices 
in  five  years,  according  to  U.  S.  D.  A. 
figures : 

1922    1923    1924    1925  1926 

Maine   $55     $62     $65     $69  $76 

N.  Hamp        71       72      78      85  94 

Vermont   ....  59      63      66      65  77 

Mass   83      75      75      76  94 

Conn   82      85      85      90  100 

Another  important  fact  in  connection 
with  the  present  and  future  supply  of 
dairy  cows  is  that  there  is  a  distinct 
shortage  of  young  stock.  The  average 
productive  period  of  a  cow  is  about  five 
years  as  a  business  proposition.  It  would 
therefore  require  one  dairy  heifer  fresh- 
ening to  every  five  cows  in  any  area  in 
order  to  keep  up  the  supply.  In  1920  the 
number  of  cows  per  heifer  in  New  Eng- 
land was  4.8,  slightly  on  the  safe  side  to 
keep  up  a  supply.  The  1926  figures  show 
6.8  cows  for  every  heifer.  This  is  in- 
sufficient to  keep  up  the  stock  without 
large  outside  purchases.  Additional  proof 
of  the  same  situation  is  given  in  the 
fact  that  the  United  States  Census  re- 
ports a  reduction  of  25  per  cent,  in  dairy 
heifers  between  1920  and  1925  while  dairy 
cows  have  decreased  only  five  per  cent, 
in  the  same  period. 

Feeding  conditions  will  probably  be 
fairly  favorable  this  fall  but  not  enough 
to  offset  the  shortage  of  cows  and  the 
change  in  season  of  freshening.  Al- 
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northern  New  England,  corn  silage  is  not 
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and  may  improve.  Grain  prices  are  likely 
to  be  about  the  same  this  fall  as  they 
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Page  Seven 


y.he  situation.    Hay  has  increased  in  price 
find  is  now  $2.00  a  ton  above  last  year. 
Comparative  prices  are : 

July       Aug.  Aug. 
1926      1926  1925 
3rain,  per  ton  $46.86     $45.15  $51.90 
Hay,  per  ton      14.88       16.17  14.10 
^Labor,  per  hour     .308        .300  .308 

MEW  YORK  AND  BOSTON  PRICES 

The  following  shows  the  New  York 
^eague  net  price  per  cwt.  for  3.7%  milk 
'[81-200  mile  zone  and  the  weighted  Bos- 
on price  for  the  same  test,  same  zone 
,:or  June  and  July. 

New  York  Boston 
League  NEMPA 

Hfune   $2.11  $2.08 

fuly    2.25  2.38 


NORTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 


F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 
477  Ei»ex  Street  -  -  Lawrence,  Mast. 


AUGUST  PRICES 

Manchester,  N.  H  68c   per  2>l/2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  68c   per  8y2  qt.  can 

x)well,  Mass  72.3c  per  8*/2  qt.  can 

,awrence,  Mass  85c    per  10  qt.  can 

laverhill,  Mass  72c   per  8^4  qt.  can 

xmcord,  N.  H  58.8c  per  %l/2  qt.  can 

'ortland,  Me   7.3c  per  qt. 

PRICES  AND  SUPPLY 
i  The  hot  weather  of  July  which  in- 
reased  the  demand  for  milk,  coupled 
/ith  decreased  production  cleaned  up  all 
le  markets  so  that  the  supply  was  just 
bout  right  during  August.  Surplus  of 
lost  dealers  ran  lighter  than  during  June 
nd  July  and  prices  were  somewhat  bet- 
ir.  Most  farmers  I  talk  with  say  that 
leir  herds  are  still  falling  off  in  pro- 
uction  and  they  do  not  expect  them  to 
ome  back  very  strong  this  year.  Pas- 
ires  have  been  very  dry  and  hay  crops 
le  shortest  in  years  all  through  the 
orthern  market  district.  Some  of  the 
roducers  report  only  a  half  crop  while 
thers  say  they  have  fared  better  than 
lat  but  expect  to  have  to  buy  hay  be- 
3re  spring.  Most  of  the  dairymen  have 
een  feeding  grain  and  green  feed  in  an 
ttempt  to  keep  their  production  up  to 
ormal. 

Producers'  prices  in  all  the  markets 
ave  been  maintained  much  better  this 
ear  than  at  any  time  since  I  became  dis- 
ict  manager.  The  supply  of  all  the 
larkets  is  rapidly  being  purchased  by  the 
.rger  dealers  and  many  of  the  smaller 
jalers  are  selling  out  to  the  larger  deal- 
!-s.  This  brings  more  and  more  of  the 
lilk  into  sales   channels  of   which  we 

.m  keep  track  and  simplifies  the  work 
f  market  supervision.  As  practically 
1  producers  supplying  large  dealers  be- 

.pme  members  of  the  NEMPA  we  are 
etting  steadily  nearer  to  the  100  per 
:nt.  organization  goal. 

BUSINESS  CONDITIONS 
The     textile    cities    of  Manchester, 
ashua,  Lowell  and  Lawrence  are  still 
:ry  hard  hit  by  dull  times.    Most  all 
vie  mills  in  these  cities  have  had  vaca- 
>n  periods  ranging  from  two  to  six 
,  eeks,  beginning  in  August  and  running 
to  September.    Whether  the  situation 
ill  improve  as  we  go  into  the  fall  re- 
ins to  be  seen.    Some  are  prophecy- 
better  demand  for  textile  products 
d  a  resulting  better  business  while  oth- 
s  say  they  see  little  signs  of  improve- 
ent.    One  guess  is  as  good  as  another 
it  everyone  doing  business  in  any  of 
lese  markets  knows  that  conditions  are 
iid  at  present. 

FIELD  WORK 

J I  have  been  up  in  Lyndonville,  Vt. 
vice  during  August.  Once  I  attended  a 
eeting  of  producers  and  the  second  time 

!;as  to  meet  a  good  many  of  them  in- 

I  vidually.  Milk  from  Lyndonville  comes 

I I  Findeisen  Farms  in  Lawrence.  A.  L. 
!  rip,  representing  the  Lyndonville  pro- 

icers  on  the  Lawrence  market  commit- 
;|e,  went  with  me.  He  owns  and  oper- 
j  es  a  large  farm  in  Lyndonville  having 


International 

Harvester 

Trucks 


Conquer  Time 
and  Distance 

with  a  good 
Motor  Truck 


HORSE- AND-BUGGY?  That's  like  going  back  to  the  tallow 
candle;  it  can't  be  done  in  this  day  of  the  automobile.  Horse 
and  wagon?  That's  as  bad  and  worse,  because  the  time 
spent  on  the  road  with  horses  and  loaded  or  empty  wagon  is 
supposed  to  be  part  of  your  working  and  producing  time.  To  waste 
that  valuable  time  is  as  bad  as  burning  money. 

Haul  your  loads  five  times  as  fast — do  each  half  day's  hauling 
in  an  hour — with  an  International  Motor  Truck — and  get  back  to 
the  fields  or  your  livestock  where  your  profit  is  waiting  to  be  made. 

Write  for  Catalog 


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OF  AMERICA 

( Incorporated) 


606  S.  Michigan  Ave. 


Chicago,  111. 


International  Trucks 

Above  is  shown  the  International  "SL," 
a  long,  low,  fast  truck  for  general  haul- 
ing of  lVfc-ton  loads.  The  wheelbase  is 
150-inch,  ample  room  for  all  loads.  Top 
of  frame  is  only  24  inches  from  ground, 
for  easy  loading  and  unloading.  There 
are  also  the  new  %-ton  "Special  Deliv- 
ery," the  regular  1-ton  Speed  Truck, 
and  the  sturdy  "SD"  for  lVfe-ton  dump 
and  trailer  work,  and  the  Heavy-Duty 
Internationals  running  up  to  5-ton  sizes. 


How's  This  for  Stock  Hauling? 

Peter  S.  Peterson,  of  Underwood,  la.,  recently 
took  47,500  lbs.  of  fat  cattle  to  the  South  Omaha 
markets  25  miles  away  in  two  hours'  time.  He 
did  it  with  his  small  fleet  of  3-ton  International 
Motor  Trucks. 

In  the  old  days  they  used  to  start  at  2  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon,  drive  the  cattle  over  the  hills  for  5 
hours,  load  them  into  cars,  and  get  them  to  Omaha 
at  8  the  next  morning.  Now  the  time  this  stock  is 
on  the  road  is  reduced  16  hours  and  good  feeders 
claim  the  shrinkage  saved  will  more  than  pay 
the  trucking  charges. 


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Federal  Land  Bank  Loans  are  made  at  5!  i  %  interest.  Funds 
are  available  for  first  mortgage  loans  on  improved  farms  operated 
by  owners  whose  major  income  is  from  that  business.  Over 
$46,000,000  already  loaned  in  this  district. 

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Association  in  your  County  or  write  to 

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Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


September,  1926 


Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 


INCREASES  HIS  PROFITS 

Wallace  A.  Main,  Kittery,  Me., 
retails  the  milk  from  his  21  cow 
dairy.  He  had  been  feeding  a  19% 
protein  ration  costing  $39.60  a  ton 
consisting  of  three  parts  of  a 
16%  molasses-oat-mill-by-products- 
screening  base  mixture  supple- 
mented with  two  parts  of  a  high 
protein  concentrate  ingredient. 

He  bought  some  Eastern  States 
Pasture  Ration,  16%  protein,  cost- 
ing $43.80  a  ton.  He  took  a  week 
to  work  his  cows  over  to  this  feed 
from  the  one  he  had  been  using  and 
fed  the  same  number  of  pounds  of 
Eastern  States  Pasture  straight 
that  he  had  used  of  the  other  feed. 
Since  it  takes  three  tons  of  gram  a 
month  to  keep  this  dairy  going,  it 
cost  $12.60  a  month  more  to  feed 
Eastern  States  Pasture  Ration 
than  the  other  feed. 

Eastern  States  Pasture  Ration 
increased  the  milk  yield  $45.00  a 
month.  Subtracting  the  extra  cost 
of  Eastern  States  grain,  $12.60, 
from  the  increased  cash  returns, 
$45.00,  Main  found  he  was  getting 
$32.60  a  month — more  than  $1.00 
a  day— more  out  of  the  Exchange's 
ration  after  paying  the  higher 
price.  That  meant  that  it  was  worth 
$10.40  a  ton  more  than  his  cheap 
feed,  worth  $10.40  more  in  actual 
cash  to  him. 

This  is  another  illustration  of 
the  money  wasted  in  buying  rations 
composed  of  cheap,  low  grade  in- 
gredients. The  freight  rate  from 
the  West  on  the  low  grade  ingredi- 
ents of  which  this  feed  is  largely 
composed  is  just  as  high  as  the 
freight  rate  on  ingredients  of  high 
feed  value.  The  feed  is  sold  for  a 
low  price  because  the  ingredients 
are  practically  worthless  as  concen- 
trates. These  ingredients  have 
about  the  same  feed  value  as  tim- 
othy hay.  To  produce  results,  they 
must  be  fed  as  hay  and  to  be  so  fed 
profitably,  they  must  be  owned  at 
timothy  hay  prices  and  supple- 
mented heavily  with  a  real  bal- 
anced grain  ration. 

There  is  absolutely  no  mystery 
about  the  Eastern  States  16%  Pas- 
ture Ration  at  the  higher  price 
producing  more  milk  more  profit- 
ably than  the  19%  feed  described. 
Eastern  States  12%  Fitting  Ra- 
tion would  have  done  it  also.  Total 
digestible  nutrients  are  more  im- 
portant than  crude  protein.  Like 
all  Eastern  States  feeds,  the  Pas- 
ture Ration  contains  only  ingredi- 
ents which  are  profitable  ingredi- 
ents for  feeders  to  feed  as  con- 
centrates. 

Where  records  are  kept  Eastern  States 
Open  Formula  Feeds  prove  their  worth. 

For  further  information  on  the 
Eastern  States  co-operative  feed 
service  for  poultry  and  horses  as 
well  as  dairy  cattle,  a  co-operative 
service  which  should  not  be  con- 
fused with  the  car  door  service 
offered  by  private  manufacturers 
through  dealers  or  groups  of 
farmers,  write  the  office. 

Eastern  States  Fanners'  Exchange 

Jt   non  it »eV,    nmn. p  refit  organization 
owned  and  controlled  by  the 
farmers  It  serve* 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


about  30  milking  cows.  Together  we 
visited  some  15  producers  in  Lyndonville, 
West  Burke,  Sutton  and  Wheelock. 
Eleven  of  them  signed  the  new  power 
of  attorney  slips.  This  makes  the  new 
dues  order  basis  practically  100  per  cent, 
signed  in  the  Lyndonville  district  on  all 
milk  coming  to  Findeisen  Farms.  I  en- 
joyed meeting  these  good  dairy  farmers 
on  their  own  farms  and  having  the  op- 
portunity to  talk  over  marketing  condi- 
tions with  them. 

From  Lyndonville  I  came  back  to  Con- 
cord and  spent  some  time  working  with 
Roy  Batchelder,  manager  of  the  Con- 
cord Dairy  Co.  This  concern  is  owned 
by  the  producers,  all  of  whom  are  mem- 
bers of  the  NEMPA.  The  Concord  dairy- 
company  was  short  of  milk  and  we  visited 
dairy  farmers  in  Franklin,  Contoocook 
and  Warner  to  see  if  they  were  inter- 
ested in  selling  to  the  Concord  Dairy  Co. 
Some  wanted  to  change  and  will  start 
shipping  to  the  Concord  Dairy  Co.  in 
September. 

I  spent  three  days  in  Portsmouth  and 
Elior,  Kittery  and  York.  Milk  from  these 
towns  is  sold  largely  to  the  Portsmouth 
Creamery.  Twenty  three  producers  who 
were  visited  signed  the  new  power  of 
attorney  slips.  This  includes  15  old  mem- 
bers and  eight  new  members.  Nearly  the 
entire  supply  of  the  Portsmouth  Cream- 
ery is  now  signed  up  on  the  two  cents 
a  hundredweight  basis.  This  is  an  in- 
dication of  the  willingness  of  the  pro- 
ducers to  bear  their  share  of  the  expense 
of  maintaining  the  new  field  department 
of  the  NEMPA. 


GROUPS  OF  LOCALS  TO  HOLD 
MEETINGS 

(Continued  from  page  three) 

156.  Dunstable. 

157.  Chelmsford,  Groton,  Pepperell. 

158.  Lowell. 

159.  Lawrence. 

160.  Haverhill. 

161.  Danvers,  Rowley,  Tdpsfield. 

162.  Bridgewater,  Eas'ton,  Halifax, 
West  Bridgewater. 

163.  Acushnet,  Fairhaven. 

164.  North  Dartmouth. 

165.  South  Dartmouth. 

166.  Westport. 

167.  North  Westport,  Swansea. 

168.  Little  Compton,  R.  I. 

169.  Tiverton,  Portsmouth,  R.  I. 

170.  Newport,  R.  I. 

171.  Attleboro,  Mass.,  Bristol  County, 
R.  I.,  Lime  Rock,  R.  I.,  Rehobeth  aiid 
Seekonk,  Mass. 

172.  Foster  Centre,  Summit,  R.  I. 

173.  East  Greenwich,  South  County, 
R.  I. 

174.  Bozrah,  Jewitt  City,  Lisbon,  North 
Stonington,  Preston,  Ledyard,  Conn. 

175.  Columbia,  Lebanon,  Conn. 

176.  Scotland,  South  Windham. 
Sprague,  Franklin,  Conn. 

177.  Plainfield,  Conn. 

178.  Brooklyn,  Danielson,  Hampton. 
Conn. 

179.  Pomfret,  Conn. 

180.  Ashford,  East  Woodstock.  Conn. 


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COMPANY 

199  Washington  St. 
Boston,  Mass. 

(Corner  Court  St.) 


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YHDyour 
Tractor? 


A TRACTOR  is  a  good  deal  like  a  horse  when  it  comes  to 
food.  Unless  it  has  the  proper  rations,  the  proper  balance 
to  its  diet,  it  balks,  it  kicks,  it  has  no  pull  whenjthe  pull  must 
come. 

Socony  Motor  Oil  is  literally  both  food  and  drink  for  your 
tractor.  It  adds  power  and  it  conserves  power.  It  fights  friction 
by  maintaining  an  unbreakable  Lubricoat*  of  oil  between 
moving  parts.  Added  power  here.  It  maintains  as  completely 
as  possible  a  leak-proof  seal  between  piston  rings  and  cylinder 
walls.  This  means  no  loss  of  power  here.  Full  compression 
every  time. 

And  always  Socony  Motor  Oil  is  built  to  resist  high  engine 
temperatures.  That  means  no  thinning  out.  Always  perfect 
lubrication. 

There  is  a  grade  of  Socony  Motor  Oil  to  Lubricoat*  every 
type  of  tractor.  Look  for  yourself  in  the  chart  below. 

Remember  your  nearest  Socony  dealer  will  be  glad  to  quote 
you  prices  on  metal  thirty  or  fifty  gallon  drums  with  faucet. 
Costs  no  more — mighty  convenient  on  the  farm. 

STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 

26  Broadway 


LUBRICATION  CHART 


TRACTOR'S 
NAME 


Allls  Chalmers  (8-12)  

Allls  Chalmers  (all  others) .... 

All  work     

Aultman  Taylnr  

Avery  (Cultivator  &  Model  C) 
Avery  (All  others)  


Bailor  

Bates  Steel  Mule . 

Bear  

Best.  


Case  

Cletrac. 


Dart  Blue  J. 
Depue  


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Evans. 


Fageol  

Farm  Horse  

Fordson  

Frlck  (12-20)  

Frlck  (All  others) . 


Gray  

Great  Western 


Hart  Parr  

Belder  (Cultivator) . 
Helder  (All  others) . . 
Holt  (Caterpillar) . . . 
Huber  


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TRACTOR'S 
NAME 


Lauson  

Leader  

Linn  

Little  Giant. 
Lombard. . . . 


Minneapolis  

Mollne  Universal. 
Monarch  


Ohio  

OH  Pull. 


Peoria. . 
Pioneer. 


Reed  

Reliable  

Russell  (Giant)  

Russell  (All  others) . 


Shawnee. 
Stlnson. . 


Topp  Stewart. 

Toro  

Traylor  

Twin  City  


Uncle  Sam. 


Wallls  

Waterloo  Boy. 

Wetmore  

Wisconsin  


1  Key  to  Chart:  LM — Socony  Light  Medium:  M — Socony  Medium:  H — Socony  Heavy;  EH — 
Socony  Extra  Heavy. 


SDCDNY 

BlO.U.t.l'AT.OPF. 

MOTOR  OIL 

dor  Tractor  Lubricoating 

*Lubricoat:  To  cover  with  an  impenetrable  coat  of  oil  all  moving  and 
frictional  parts :  best  done  with  the  proper  grade  of  Socony  Motor  Oil. 


!l  September,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


NATIONAL  MEETING 
Federation  to  Hold  Next  Session 
in  Cleveland  in  November 

More  than  600  leaders  of  dairy  co- 
operative marketing  associations  will  meet 
November  10  and  11  in  Cleveland,  Ohio, 

'at  the  annual  convention  of  the  National 
Co-operative  Milk  Producers'  Federation. 

In  addition  to  reports  from  the  30 
regional   member   organizations   of  the 

i  Federation,  addresses  will  be  given  by 

I,  outstanding   authorities   in   both  official 

j  and  private  life. 

[    "Co-operative    dairy    marketing  has 

I  made  great  progress  during  the  past 
year,"   declared    Secretary    Charles  W. 

•  Holman  of  Washington,  D.  C,  in  an- 
nouncing the  action  of  the  Federation  di- 

l  rectors.  "Reports  of  this  progress  will 
be  summarized  and  given  to  the  conven- 

I  tion.  It  may  be  of  some  interest  to  the 
general  public  to  know  that  at  the  pres- 

'  ent  time  the  dairy  farmers  of  this  country 

\  produce  over  two  and  a  half  billion  dol- 
lars' worth  of  dairy  products,  and  about 
one-fourth  of  this  is  handled  by  dairy 
co-operatives.    Over  one-fifth  is  handled 


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THE  QUALITY  OF  LARRO  WILL 
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Many  years  ago  we  made  this  promise 
of  unchanging  quality  —  stating  in 
simple  terms  a  policy  that  has  always 
been  in  operation  in  the  manufacture 
of  Larro. 

This  pledge  has  been  faithfully  kept; 
it  holds  as  good  for  the  future  as  it 
has  for  the  past.  We  repeat  it  now 
to  emphasize  the  importance  of  uni- 
formity to  buyers  of  dairy  food. 

Your  cows  can  not  eat  a  printed 
formula.  They  are  not  concerned 
with  market  conditions.  They  do 
need  a  proven  feed  to  build  their  own 
condition,  to  keep  healthy  and  maintain 
high  milk  yield — and  that  feed  must 
always  remain  the  same  in  both 
quality  and  composition  if  it  is  to  pro- 
duce the  same  satisfactory  results. 


Larro  is  held  rigidly  to  standards 
which  do  not  permit  the  substitution 
of  cheap,  inferior  ingredients.  It  is 
manufactured  under  a  process  that 
insures  satisfactory  results  in  milk 
and  money  to  the  feeder.  And  after 
all,  healthy  cows,  dependable  produc- 
tion and  sure  profit  are  more  impor- 
tant to  you  than  any  temporary 
advantage  in  price. 

When  you  have  fed  Larro  and  found 
out  for  yourself  how  your  cows  thrive 
and  produce  on  it,  you  will  have 
settled  your  feeding  problem  for  all 
time.  For  the  Larro  pledge  of 
unchanging  quality  is  a  guarantee  of 
unchanging  results.  The  same  name 
on  the  bag  means  always  the  same 
feed  in  the  bag,  no  matter  when  or 
where  you  buy  it. 


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When  you  buy  accept  only  the  genuine 
Guaranteed  Dr.  Clark  purity  milk  strain- 
ing cotton,  sterilized  6- inch  pads  for  all 
strainers.  If  not  at  your  dealers,  parcel 
post  by  return  mail  by  H.  C.  Soule,  N.E. 
distributor,  Canton,  Maine.  Thin,  flimsy 
substitutes  will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


by  1 1  if  member  organizations  •  >  I  the  Na- 
tional Federation. 

"During  the  pas)  year  membership  in 
the  Federation  lias  grown  and  il  today 
speaks  for  over  300,000  organized  dairy- 
men. For  a  number  of  years  it  lias  been 
the  leading  exponent  of  the  wishes  of  the 
dairy  producers  of  this  country." 

The  officers  of  the  Federation  are : 
John  D.  Miller,  president;  Richard 
Pattee,  first  vice-president ;  Harry 
Hartke,  second  vice-president;  Frank  P. 
W'illits,  treasurer,  and  Chas.  W.  Holman, 
secretary. 

The  member  organizations  of  the  Fed- 
eration are:  Berrien  County  (Mich.) 
Milk  Producers'  Association,  California 
Milk  Producers'  Association,  Chicago 
Equity  Union  Exchange,  Connecticut 
Milk  Producers'  Association,  Co-opera- 
tive Pure  Milk  Association  of  Cincin- 
nati, Dairymen's  Co-operative  Sales  Co., 
Dairymen's  League  Co-operative  As- 
sociation, Inc.,  Des  Moines  Co-operative 
Dairy  Marketing  Association,  Farmers' 
Milk  Producers'  Association  of  Rich- 
mond, Va.,  Inter-State  Milk  Producers' 
Association,  Iowa  Co-operative  Creamery 
Secretaries'  and  Managers'  Association, 
Kentucky  &  Indiana  Dairies  Co.,  Land 
O'  Lakes  Creameries,  Inc.,  Maryland 
State  Dairymen's  Association,  Maryland 
&  Virginia  Milk  Producers'  Associa- 
tion, Miami  Valley  Co-operative  Milk 
Producers'  Association,  Michigan  Milk 
Producers'  Association,  Milk  Pro- 
ducers'  Association,  Chicago  District, 
Milk  Producers'  Association  of  San 
Diego  County  (Calif.),  Milk  Producers' 
Association  of  Summit  County  &  Vicin- 
ity, Milk  Producers'  Association  of  Cen- 
tral California,  Milwaukee  Co-operative 
Milk  Producers,  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association,  Northwestern 
(Ohio)  Co-operative  Sales  Company, 
Ohio  Farmers'  Co-operative  Milk  As- 
sociation, Twin  City  Milk  Producers' 
Association,  Twin  Ports  Dairy  Associa- 
tion, United  Dairy  Association  of  Wash- 
ington, Valley  of  Virginia  Co-operative 
Milk  Producers'  Association,  Inc.,  and 
Wisconsin  Cheese  Producers'  Federation. 


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summer  becomes  effective  screen  door 
simply  by  changing  panels.  Prices  in- 
cludes door,  screen  panel  and  glazed 
storm  panel.  Not  painted  or  varnished. 
Price  f.  o.  b.  Fitchburg. 
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2'  10"  x  6'  10"  #7.37,  i'xf  87.62, 
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Materials  for  your  buildings  from  roof  to  cellar.  Prices  that  save 
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FLOORING 

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invalids  or  old  people. 
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Scale  will  give  you  the  answer.  Gives  you  the  net 
weight  of  the  milk  in  the  pail.  An  adjustable  indica- 
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"•when  you  feed 


%Ua/vim  molasses 


Figures  Like  These  Mean  Something  This  Year 

on  your  feeding  costs,  for  it  costs  you  no  more  than  cheap  grain 

Read  what  Bulletin  125,  U.  S.  Dept.  of  Agriculture  says.  Note  the  result  of  feeding  pure  cane  molas- 
ses (Xtravim  is  pure  cane  molasses)  which  gives  TWICE  THE  ENERGY  OF  CORN  MEAL,  although  the 
comparison  of  digestible  matter  is  98  lbs.  of  corn  meal  to  1 00  lbs.  of  molasses.    It  is  results  you  are  after. 


Corn 
Oats 

Ground  Oats 
Rye 

Corn  Meal 
Cane  Molasses 


Digestible  Matter 
to  the  100  pounds 

69.83 
58.24 
57.21 
72.52 
74.15 
72.50 


Energy  to  the  100  pounds 
Digestible  Matter — CaUories 

136,333 
122,062 
118,727 
139,747 
144,454 
298,398 


Do  you  wonder  successful  dairymen  include  Xtravim  in  the  regular  ration  ? 
Try  a  barrel  or  a  carload — it  pays  Xtravim  is  25%  cheaper  than  last  year 

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New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  10.   Number  7. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  OCTOBER,  1926 


.50  Cents  Per  Year 


NEW  HEARING  CALLED 


Railroad  Rate  Case  Committee  Will 
Have  Another  Inning  on 
Oct.  21  in  Boston 

Another  round  of  the  long'  drawn  out 
and  hard  fought  battle  to  keep  $750,- 
000  a  year  in  the  pockets  of  the  farmers 
fof  New  England  instead  of  giving  it 
to  the  railroads  as  an  increased  charge 
:on  transporting  milk  will  open  Oct.  21 
in  Boston.  Hearings  before  the  Inter- 
state Commerce  Commission  will  then 
be  resumed  with  every  prospect  of  a 
■hotly  contested  finish  to  the  testimony. 
I^Unlike  most  battles  we  wont'  know 
(whether  we  won  or  not  until  some  time 
afterwards.  But  from  all  that  we  can 
gather  from  the  attorneys  and  experts 
who  are  fighting  the  case  for  us  we  are 
on  the  road  to  a  victory. 

The  hearings  will  be  in  progress  at 
the  time  of  our  annual  meeting  and 
will  furnish  one  of  the  major  interests. 
While  we  are  listening  to  reports  and 
discussing  problems  within  our  associa- 
tion at  the  American  House  our  repre- 
sentatives will  be  presenting  their  case 
before  the  interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission somewhere  else  in  Boston.  Dur- 
I  ing  our  sessions  we  will  not  have  any 
time  to  look  in  on  the  hearings  but 
there  may  be  a  chance  for  those  of 
you  who  come  in  a  little  early  to  see 
our  men  in  action.  It  would  be  a  good 
experience. 

The  hearings  will  open  on  Thursday, 
October  21.    Wesley  H.  Bronson  of  our 
office  may  go  on  the  stand  for  a  time 
I  although  he  practically  finished  his  testi- 
mony at  the  previous  hearing  in  Ply- 
mouth.   Then  T.  D.  Goeghegan,  traffic 
\  expert,  will  go  on  for  a  day  or  two  of 
testimony    probably    and    by  Monday, 
Oct.  25,  they  will  be  ready  to  put  on 
John  H.  Libby,  cost  accountant.  That 
will  be  about  the  time  that  the  hearing 
L  will  get  quite  lively  as  Attorneys  Fin- 
erty  and  Hall,  appearing  for  the  pro- 
,  ducers,    will    lock    horns    with    the  at- 
f  torneys  for  the  railroads,.     We  suggest 
ij  that  any  member  of  the  association  who 
t>  conies    from   so   great,  a    distance  that 
he  would  have  to  come  to  Boston  the 
day  before,  should  start  a  little  earlier 
and  plan  to  sit  in  at  the  hearing  Mon- 
(,  day  afternoon.    We  would  like  you  to 
jj  see  the  quality  of  men   who  are  pre- 
i  senting  the  case  for  you. 
'}     Arrangements  have  been  made  to  give 
j  you   a  chance  to  .see    Mr.    Finerty  at 
first  hand  as  we  have   invited  him  to 
be  our  chief  speaker  a't  the  annual  din- 
ner.   If  he  is  even  half  as  good  as  an 
after   dinner   speaker    as   he   is   in  the 
hearings  he  will  stir   you   up   in  good 
shape. 

It  seems  probable  that  the  coming 
«  round  of  hearings  will  continue  10  days 
'  or  two  weeks.  After  that  there  will 
probably  be  a.  recess  of  30  days  allowed 
\  for  counsel  to  file  briefs.  It  will  be 
f  close  to  the  end  of  the  year,  at  the 
earliest,  before  any  decision  can  be 
I  given  out.  The  case  has  drawn  out 
I  much  longer  than  was  expected.  One 
of  the  reasons  is  the  delay  on  the  part 
of  the  railroads  (m  furnishing  the  data 
which  our  representatives  asked  for  and 
(Continued  on  page  eleven) 


The  Turner  Centre  Situation 


WILL  PAY  THE  PRICE 


Directors  of  the  Turner  Centre  have 
notified  the  NEMPA  that  they  will  no 
longer  operate  under  the  surplus  plan 
and  that  they  will  not  turn  in  records 
of  purchases  and  sales  to  the  milk  ad- 
ministrator for  the  purpose  of  having  a 
price  determined  under  that  plan. 

They  give  as  a  reason  for  this  change 
in  policy  that  the  Turner  Centre  Sys- 
tem is  now  a  co-operative  organization 
and  that  all  money  received  from  the 
sale  of  milk  and  other  products  will 
go  back  to  the  farmer  patrons,  after  the 
necessary  expenses  of  operation  have 
been  met,  either  in  the  form  of  payment 
for  milk  or  as  dividends  or  bonuses. 
Under  these  conditions  they  feel  that  it 
is  unnecessary  for  them  to  obligate 
themselves  to  pay  a  definite  price  as 
determined  by  the  milk  administrator 
after  inspection  and  verification  of  their 
records  of  sales  and  purchases.  They 
expect  to  pay,  over  a  period  of  some 
length,  as  much  as.  or  more  than  other 
dealers.     The  payment  might   come  in 


the  form  of  the  monthly  price  for  milk 
or  as  additional  payments,  based  on 
earnings,  coming  at  the  end  of  the  year 
or  at  any  other  time  that  a  distribution 
of  earnings  might  be  deemed  wise. 

This  decision  of  the  Turner  Centre 
System  to  figure  their  own  price  and 
pay  each  month  whatever  price  they  felt 
warranted  in  paying,  took  effect  on 
August  milk.  Under  the  surplus  plan 
records  of  purchases  and  sales  for  each 
month  are  turned  into  the  milk  admin- 
istrator about  the  15th  of  the  following 
month.  The  price  is  then .  figured  and 
the  records  verified  by  the  milk  admin- 
istrator and  the  dealers  then  pay  their 
patrons  on  that  basis.  The  Turner 
Centre  System  did  not  turn  in  any  rec- 
ords of  August  purchases  and  sales  and 
their  figures  are  not  given  in  the  zone 
table  of  prices  along  with  other  dealers 
in  this  issue  of  the  Dairyman.  They 
paid  for  August  milk  a  price  deter- 
mined by  themselves  and  not  announced 
(Continued  on  page  two) 


Come  to  Annual  Meeting 

American  House,  Boston,  October  26-27 


Help  Make  Wise  Decision  en  Turner  Center  Problem  -■  Discuss 
Reports  of  Good  Year  Within  Our  Association -- Hear  of 
Progress  Made  in  Fight  Against  Railroad  Rate 
Increase    Renew  Acquaintances  at  Annual 
Dinner  ■-  Bring  Your  Wife 


Our  coming  annual  meeting  will  be  one 
of  the  most  important  ones  we  have  had 
for  some  years  from  the  present  outlook. 
The  difficult  situation  created  by  the 
action  of  the  Turner  Centre  System,  re- 
ported elsewhere  in  this  issue,  will  with- 
out doubt  be  the  chief  interest  in  the 
meeting  but  the  good  progress  which  the 
railroad  rate  case  is  making,  the  highly 
satisfactory  results  of  the  recanvass  of 
our  members  and  the  reports  of  a  year 
which  has  been  in  general  a  good  one 
from  a  marketing  standpoint,  all  will 
furnish  their  part  in  making  the  meet- 
ing a  notable  one. 

We  expect  a  big  crowd.  The  number 
of  presidents  who  will  come  as  voting 
delegates  from  locals  with  more  than  50 
members,  plus  the  delegates  which  will 
come  from  grouped  locals  will  be  some- 
what larger  than  last  year,  due  to  the 
canvass.  These  are  the  men  who  will 
actually  do  the  voting  according  to  out- 
by-laws  but  the  meeting  is  open  to  every 
member  and  every  member  who  comes 
will  have  the  privilege  of  introducing 
resolutions  and  in  taking  part  in  the  dis- 
cussions. It  is  just  as  much  a  family 
matter  as  we  can  make  it  and  still  have 
some  orderly  way  of  casting  an  official 
vote. 

As  in  several  years  past  the  American 
House  will  be  our  headquarters.  The 
oldtimers  know  where  to  find  it  and  the 
newcomers  will  have  no  dihxulty  in  lo- 


cating it  as  it  is  one  of  the  old  estab- 
lished places  in  Boston  where  meetings 
have  been  held  for  many  years.  Reserva- 
tions should  be  made  in  advance,  prefer- 
ably through  Assistant  Manager  W.  P. 
Davis.  We  will  practically  fill  the 
American  House  probably  but  if  the 
reservations  are  more  than  the  house 
can  take  care  of  Mr.  Davis  will  find 
other  satisfactory  quarters  for  you  near 
at  hand. 

We  hope  that  a  considerable  number 
of  the  members  will  bring  their  wives. 
Each  year  sees  more  and  more  women 
coming  to  the  meeting.  They  do  not  sit 
in  at  all  sessions  of  the  meetings  but 
spend  some  time  in  seeing  Boston,  shop- 
ping, movies  or  whatever  else  pleases 
them.  But  they  all  come  in  for  the  big 
social  gathering,  the  dinner  held  on  the 
evening  of  the  first  day  meeting.  It  is 
always  a  fine  get-together  time  with  good 
speaking,  music  and  entertainment.  This 
year  it  will  be  exceptionally  good  for  we 
have  secured  some  evcellcnt  speakers,  in- 
cluding Attorney  John  Finerty,  who  is 
chief  counsel  in  the  rate  case. 

The  business  meeting  will  be  conducted 
along  the  same  lines  as  last  year-  The 
first  day  will  be  given  largely  to  reports 
with  opportunity  to  introduce  resolutions 
without  debate  at  that  time.  According 
to  our  custom  all  resolutions  will  be  re- 
ferred to  committees  which  will  have 
(Continued  on  page  ten  J 


Consolidated    Dealers    Agree  to 
Buy  Their  Milk  Under 
Surplus  Plan 

With  satisfaction  we  report  that  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Co., 
formed  through  the  consolidation  of 
Alden  Brothers,  Quids  Brothers  and 
W.  F.  Noble  and  Son,  will  buy  its  en- 
tire milk  supply  under  the  surplus  plan 
and  will  negotiate  prices  monthly  with 
the  NEMPA  as  the  other  principal 
dealers  in  Boston  have  done  for  some 
vears  past.  This  decision  will  go  into 
effect  Oct.  1. 

In  the  September  issue  of  the  Dairy- 
man we  discussed  the  complications 
which  arose  through  this  consolidation, 
due  to  the  fact  that  only  one  of  the 
three  companies  in  the  merger,  the  Al- 
den company,  was  then  negotiating 
prices  with  its  producers  through  the 
NEMPA  sales  committee.  Since  then 
further  conferences  have  been  held  with 
Charles  L.  Alden,  Jr.,  president  of  the 
new  company,  with  the  result  that  an 
agreement  has  been  reached.  This  is 
a  highly  satisfactory  outcome  of  a 
complicated  problem. 

The  decision  of  the  new  company  to 
buy  its  milk  on  the  same  basis  as  the 
other  principal  dealers  in  Boston  have 
done  for  years  past,  is  a  decided  gain 
to  the  marketing  situation  in  Boston. 
The  NEMPA  can  negotiate  prices  more 
satisfactorily  with  large  dealers  than 
with  smaller  ones.  It  is  much  easier 
to  come  to  an  understanding  regarding 
prices  and  conditions  of  sale  when  deal- 
ing with  one  company  than  with  several 
smaller  companies  handling  the  same 
volume  of  milk.  We  welcome  these 
consolidations  as  we  believe  that  they 
are  in  the  line  of  progress  and  in  gen- 
eral work  toward  a  greater  stability  in 
the  market.  We  believe  that  the  com- 
pany has  taken  the  wise  course  in  de- 
ciding to  conform  to  the  general  prac- 
tices in  the  Boston  market.  In  a  more 
personal  way  we  are  gratified  at  the 
continuance  of  negotiations  as'  our  busi- 
ness relations  with  the  Alden  Co.,  also 
with  the  Childs  Co.,  during  the  time 
they  bought  under  the  surplus  plan, 
have  been  exceptionally  pleasant. 

The  new  company  will  have  a  modern, 
well  equipped  distributing  plant  in  Som- 
erville  and  will  use  the  present  plants 
of  the  three  companies  as  auxiliary 
stations.  It  is  expected  that  they  will 
be  actually  doing  business  as  one  unit 
about  Jan.  1  but  until  that  time  the 
three  will  operate  as  branches  of  the 
new  company.  The  decision  to  negoti- 
ate prices  with  the  NEMPA,  made  by 
the  directors  of  the  consolidated  com- 
pany will,  however,  become  effective 
Oct.  1.  They  will  report  their  pur- 
chases and  sales  as  one  unit  for  October. 

The  complications  arose  through  the 
fact  that  the  Childs  Brothers  had  bought 
their  supply  under  the  surplus  plan  up 
to  June  1  when  they  discontinued  the 
practice.  The  Noble  company  was  not 
buying  under  the  surplus  plan.  The 
question  at  issue  was  whether  the  con- 
solidated company  would  buy  its  whole 
supply  in  the  same  way  as  the  Alden 
Co.  or  whether  the  Alden  Co.  would 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


October,  1926 


New  England  Dairyman 

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of  Oct.  8,  1917,  authorized  July  13,  1918. 

HARRY  L.  PIPER,  Editor 


N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  George  G. 
Young,  Livermore,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt. ;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I. ;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn. ;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y.;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

There  are  many  pleasant  things  about 
my  job,  some  that  are  not  so  pleasant 
and  once  in  a  while  something  really 
funny. 

Once,  years  ago,  I  was  ill  in  a  New 
Orleans  boarding  house  run  by  an  elderly 
Frenchman  who  had  lived  a  very  won- 
derful life  and  was  something  of  a 
philosopher.  One  day  he  came  into  my 
room  and  in  his  delightfully  broken  Eng- 
lish, which  cannot  be  written  as  he  spoke 
it,  said:  "Well,  Pattee,  a  funny  thing 
happened  today."  And  then  with  that 
inimitable  little  hand  toss  and  shrug  of 
the  shoulders  the  French  can  make  so 
expressive  he  added,  "Nobody  there  to 
laugh."  I  have  seen  people  laugh  on  the 
street,  evidently  at  some  thought,  and 
once  I  saw  a  big,  fat  fellow  stop  and 
yaw-haw-haw  right  out  loud.  Every- 
body looked  around  to  see  what  he  was 
laughing  at.  We  couldn't  see  anything 
but  we  all  grinned  just  to  see  that  fellow 
laugh.  And  he  looked  a  bit  sheepish 
when  he  saw  so  many  looking  at  him. 

What  a  difference  there  is  in  people's 
laughter.  I  hate  the  silly,  giggling,  sim- 
pering laugh  some  people  affect  all  the 
time.  When  one  of  those  fellows  comes 
near  me  it  makes  me  feel  like  Mary's 
bull  dog,  the  hair  on  whose  back  stands 
up  on  end  when  he  meets  a  dog  he 
doesn't  like. 

Then  once  in  a  while  I  meet  a  loud 
laugher,  with  a  big,  robust  sort  of  laugh 
that  don't  offend  though  for  the  life  of 
me  I  can't  see  what  he  is  laughing  at. 
It's  just  a  habit  I  guess,  a  way  of  ex- 
pressing himself  and  if  such  a  one  can 
get  any  amusement  out  of  just  laughing 
—well,  let  him  laugh.  It's  much  better 
to  laugh  than  grouch. 


And  once  in  a  while  I  meet  someone 
with  a  really  mirthful,  jolly,  infectious 
laugh,  a  laugh  with  a  spirit  of  com- 
panionable good  fellowship  in  it  that 
somehow  loosens  up  an  answering  sense 
of  good  will  and  comraderie.  I  had  an 
uncle  who  was  that  way.  Everybody 
liked  him;  he  joked  and  laughed  and 
though  one  couldn't  tell  much  afterward 
what  it  was  all  about,  you  felt  that  you'd 
had  a  mighty  good  time  when  you  were 
with  him.  He  never  overdid  it  but  some- 
how could  make  everybody  see  the  funny, 
laughable  side  of  life. 

There  used  to  be  a  fellow  in  our 
neighborhood  who  had  another  real  ac- 
complishment. He  could  whistle.  He 
worked  out  on  the  farms  during  the 
summertime  and  chopped  wood  winters. 
He  could  blacksmith  a  little,  was  a  sort 
of  a  carpenter,  would  clean  out  wells 
and  do  a  lot  of  things  that  it  was  hard 
to  find  men  to  do.  He  would  come  up 
the  hill  mornings  by  our  house  whistling 
on  his  way  to  work.  Somehow  there  was 
a  lilt  and  rhythm  to  it  that  I've  never 
heard  in  whistling  since.  Mother  used 
to  go  to  the  door  and  listen  when  she 
heard  him  coming  and  when  he  went  by 
without  whistling,  she's  notice  it  and  be 
sorry.  During  her  latft  sickness  she 
used  to  say  once  in  a  while  that  she'd 
like  to  hear  John  whistle  once  more. 

Well — I've  been  chuckling  to  myself 
as  I've  been  writing  this,  having  a  good 
time  just  thinking  about  these  thnigs. 
It's  mighty  good,  I  believe,  to  think  back 
over  the  fun  we've  had,  live  over  the 
pleasant  things  and  laugh  right  out  loud 
even  if  we  laugh  alone. 

PATTEE. 


VERMONT  BUTTER 

In  the  Burlington,  Vt.,  Free  Press  of 
August  5th,  Editor  John  L.  Southwick 
quotes  Commissioner  of  Agriculture  Jones 
as  follows :  "This  brand  of  butter,  Land 
O'  Lakes  by  name,  is  crowding  our  Ver- 
mont butter  off  the  counters  of  Massa- 
chusetts grocerymen  to  an  alarming  ex- 
tent. And  how  can  we  prevent  it  when 
the  product  of  our  best  Vermont  dairies 
and  creameries  is  being  shipped  to  mar- 
ket in  the  form  of  fluid  milk  and  cream, 
leaving  only  the  small  dairies  on  the  back 
farms  where  the  cream  can  is  kept  behind 
the  kitchen  stove  while  cabbage  is  being 
cooked,  to  furnish  the  milk  for  Vermont 
butter  ?" 

The  Commissioner's  statement  lacks 
something  of  truth.  There  may  be  some 
of  the  sort  he  describes  but  it  isn't  the 
"Only"  butter  Vermont  makes.  There 
are  some  creameries  in  Vermont  that  still 
make  excellent  butter  despite  the  charac- 
terization of  their  product  by  the  Com- 
m'ssioner  of  Agriculture. 

That  is  nt  the  way  to  create  a  demand 
for  Vermont  butter.  If  an  outsider  had 
made  such  a  statement,  it  would  have  been 
promptly  and  properly  resented. 


A  PRICE  PROBLEM 

The  NEMPA  maintained  a  price  of 
8V2C  per  quart  for  fluid  milk  sold  in  the 
Boston  market  from  the  first  of  August, 
1925,  until  the  first  of  June,  1926.  Dur- 
ing that  time  there  were  considerable  fluc- 
tuations in  costs  of  production  and  in 
supply  and  demand.  The  theory  upon 
which  the  Sales  Committee  operated  was 
that  the  average  ought  to  be  maintained 
at  that  figure  and  they  refrained  from 
raising  the  price  during  the  short  season 
to  the  peak  which  might  have  been  justi- 
fied, evening  it  up  by  maintaining  the 
price  well  into  the  period  of  flush  pro- 
duction. 

It  is  a  question  whether  that  policy  is 
sound  from  a  marketing  standpoint.  Un- 
questionably the  average  price  was  none 
too  high,  but  it  may  be  seriously  ques- 
tioned whether  it  should  be  made  uniform 
for  such  a  long  period.  The  tendency 
would  inevitably  be  to  encourage  produc- 
tion when  milk  could  be  made  cheapest 
and  discourage  production  in  high  cost 


months.  This  would  lead  to  the  importa- 
tion of  milk  in  the  fall  which  would  re- 
main during  the  other  months.  The  price 
committee  of  the  NEMPA  has  a  serious 
problem  in  the  arrangement  of  such 
prices  as  will  support  New  England  pro- 
duction without  making  such  fluctuations 
as  will  disturb  market  conditions. 

CREAMERY  DISTRIBUTION 

As  suggested  in  an  earlier  issue  of  the 
Dairyman,  an  interesting  situation  arises 
through  the  purchase  by  the  Milton  Co- 
operative Creamery  of  a  half  interest  in 
a  Boston  milk  distributing  concern.  This 
is  a  radical  departure  from  the  Vermont 
Creamery  policy  as  announced  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Vermont  some  time  ago  when 
the  management  of  the  Federation,  of 
which  Milton  is  a  part,  publicly  stated 
that  the  local  creameries  should  not  invest 
in  distributing  facilities,  but  should  limit 
their  financial  interest  to  investments  in 
their  home  localities,  which  they  could 
personally  oversee. 

Is  it  to  become  the  policy  of  Vermont 
farmers  through  their  creameries  to  help 
finance  the  distributors  who  handle  their 
product  ?  I  f  so,  would  it  not  be  well  to 
completely  finance  and  operate  the  dis- 
tributing end? 

The  result  of  this  move  on  the  part  of 
one  of  Vermont's  largest  creameries  will 
be  watched  with  interest.  If  other 
creameries  buy  into  the  business  of  other 
distributors,  southern  New  England  mar- 
kets may  be  the  scene  of  intense  rivalry 
and  competition  between  creameries  which 
will  hardly  contribute  to  the  stabilization 
of  prices  and  harmony  in  the  industry. 

TURNER  CENTRE  SITUATION 

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to  the  NEMPA  or  to  the  trade  in  gen- 
eral, as  it  would  have  been  through  the 
Dairyman. 

Payments  0f  an  unknown  price  by 
any  dealer  of  the  size  of  Turner  Centre 
brings  to  our  association  some  grave 
problems.  We  have  stood  firmly  for 
the  "known"  price  and  the  same  basis 
of  figuring  the  price  for  all  dealers. 
The  principle  for  which  we  ha/p  stood 
is  broken  by  the  action  of  the  'f  umer 
Centre  System  without  regard  to  what 
price  they  pay.  They  may  pay  more, 
they  may  pay  less  or  their  price  may, 
over  a  period  of  months,  be  about  the 
same  average  price  as  other  dealers ;  but 
their  price  is  not  known  to  other  dealers 
through  the  milk  administrator. 

In  adopting  this  policy  the  Turner 
Centre  System  places  itself  in  much  the 
same  position  as  some  of  the  Vermont 
co-operatives  who  have  claimed  that 
they,  as  co-operatives,  can  act  inde- 
pendently of  the  general  price  system 
which  has  been  developed  to  meet  condi- 
tions in  the  markets  where  the  great 
majority  of  the  milk  is  still  sold  by 
proprietary  interests.  These  lesser  co- 
operatives follow  the  principle  of  selling 
their  milk  for  what  they  can  get,  pay- 
ing their  expenses,  whatever  they  are, 
and  paying  what  is  left  over  to  their 
producers.  Many  complications  have 
arisen  in  the  past  in  our  relations  to 
Boston  dealers  through  the  price  policies 
of  their  lesser  co-operatives.  Dealers 
have  claimed  that  by  reason  of  this 
"unknown"  price  paid  by  such  co-opera- 
tives, they  were  under  a  trade  disadvan- 
tage in  the  markets.  They  asked  that 
the  NEMPA  induce  such  co-operatives 
to  pay  the  going  price  to  their  farmers 
and  then  compete  in  the  markets  on  the 
score  of  efficiency  in  business.  It  has 
been  a  constantly  recurring  cause  of 
controversy  between  our  sales  committee 
and  Boston  dealers  for  some  years. 

An  essential  difference  between  the 
situation  with  regard  to  the  smaller  co- 
operatives and  to  the  Turner  Centre 
System,  is  that  the  Turner  Centre  Sys- 
tem is  directly  comparable  to  the  pro- 
prietary dealers  in  Boston  because  it 
owns  a  distributing  system  whereas  the 
lesser  co-operatives  have  to  depend  on 
established  distributors  for  the  sale  of 
their  product.  The  only  reason  that 
the  Boston  dealers  have  been  in  any 
way  tolerant  of  the  "pay  what  is  left" 
policy  of  the  creameries  is  because  the 
advantages  which  the  surplus  plan  offers 
these  dealers  offsets,  in  some  measure, 


any  slight  difference  in  price  between 
what  they  pay  their  producers  and  what 
the  creameries  are  able  to  sell  their 
milk  for  under  their  policy.  If  the  dif- 
ference is  a  half  cent  or  less  little  dis- 
turbance arises.  If  it  gets  more  than 
that  the  dealers  make  vigorous  protest 
and  the  stability  of  the  markets  is 
jeopardized.  In  the  case  of  the  smaller 
co-operatives  the  lesser  volume  of  milk 
which  any  one  of  them  sells  and  the 
advantages  of  the  surplus  plan  have 
prevented  large  disturbances  in  the  mar- 
ket excepting  in  a  few  notable  instances. 
Their  failure  to  conform  to  the  general 
marketing  plan  has  been  more  a  source 
of  constant  irritation  than  of  positive 
disruption  of  the  markets.  But  even 
this  irritation  has  cost  the  dairy  farmers 
of  New  England  as  a  whole  many 
thousands  of  dollars.  They  will  con- 
tinue to  cause  such  losses  until  we  have 
some  uniform  system  of  selling  milk  for 
all  New  England. 

Turner  Centre  is  now  taking  essen- 
tially the  same  stand  as  the  lesser  cream- 
eries. The  effect  is  more  serious.  They 
are  not  only  much  larger  than  any  one 
of  the  Vermont  creameries  but  they 
have  a  direct  access  into  the  markets 
through  their  city  plants  and  city  dis- 
tribution systems.  They  will  be  in  direct 
competition  with  the  proprietary  dealers 
operating  under  the  surplus  plan.  The 
volume  of  their  business  and  the  fact 
that  they  are  exactly  comparable  to 
Hood,  Whiting,  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Co.,  Cummings, 
Boyd  and  other  large  dealers,  in  the 
city  end  of  their  business,  makes  the 
problem  presented  by  their  decision  to 
break  away  from  the  estpblished  plan 
of  selling  milk  in  Boston  a  much  graver 
one.  The  fact  that  certain  independent 
local  creameries  never  conformed  to  the 
general  marketing  plan  has  been  a  cause 
of  irritation  and  loss  of  much  money. 
The  withdrawal  of  one  of  the  largest 
dealers  from  a  plan  which  it  has  fol- 
lowed for  years  in  common  with  other 
dealers,  selling  together  75  per  cent,  of 
Boston's  milk  supply,  is  a  matter  for 
the  most  careful  consideration  and  con- 
structive action. 

In  fairness  to  all  and  in  following 
out  its  policy  of  square  dealing  as  be- 
tween different  distributors,  the  sales 
committee  has  notified  the  dealers  in 
Boston  who  operate  under  the  surplus 
TDlan  of  the  action  taken  by  the  Turner 
Centre  System.  It  will  do  what  it  can 
to  prevent  any  catastrophe  in  the  mar- 
ket which  might  arise  from  the  stand 
taker,  by  the  Turner  Centre  System. 

Fully  75  per  cent,  of  the  actual  pro- 
ducers who  are  patrons  and  stockholders 
in  the  Turner  Centre  System  are  mem- 
bers of  the  NEMPA.  In  our  recent 
canvass  0f  the  Maine  territorv  they 
showed  their  belief  in  what  the  NEMPA 
is  doing,  by  coming  in  freely  on  the 
new  dues  order  basis.  We  believe  that 
these  farners  are  strong  for  the 
NEMPA  and  have  no  desire  to  see  its 
good  work  fo-  the  stabilization  of  the 
market  crippleO  by  any  act  of  their 
directors. 

The  directors  the  NEMPA  were 
called  in  Oct.  1.  Acting  as  representa- 
tives of  those  75  per  cent,  of  Turner 
Centre  patrons  aivj  0f  the  much  larger 
number  of  membtrs  0f  the  association 
selling  to  propriety  distributors,  the 
directors  voted  tc  appoint  a  committee 
to  find  out  what  was  back  of  this  deci- 
sion on  the  part  0f  the  Turner  Centre 
directors  and  to  take  such  steps  as  they 
can  to  bring  Tu.-ner  Centre  back  under 
the  plan  of  determination  of  prices  es- 
tablished by  the  Federal  Regional  Milk 
Commission  in  1917  and  followed  by 
dealers  selling  75  per  cent,  of  the 
Greater  Boston  n;ik  supply  ever  since. 

The  results  of  the  efforts  of  this 
committee  will  be  sported  to  our  an- 
nual meeting  Oct.  25.  If  is  not  simply 
a  question  which  affects  Turner  Centre 
patrons;  it  affects  every  dairy  farmer 
in  New  England,  ft  is  the  duty  of  the 
NEMPA  to  take  tVery  possible  action 
to  hold  the  gains  the  dairy  industry  has 
already  made  in  ccj]ective  bargaining 
until  such  time  as  N,w  England  shall 
go  on  to  a  co-operative  marketing  basis.  I 
At  our  annual  meeting  we  can  back  up  . 
our  beliefs  by  action. 


October,  1926 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


SURVEY  IS  ORDERED 


■Co-operative  Bureau  to  Look  Into 
New  England  Dairy 
Situation 

A  survey  of  the  dairy  situation  in 
.New  England  with  possible  recommen- 
dations of  a  general  co-operative  plan 
of  marketing  dairy  products,  will  be 
made  by  the  recently  created  bureau  of 
co-operative  marketing  of  the  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture. 
Chris  L.  Christenson,  head  of  the  new 
bureau,  has  been  in  New  England  in- 
terviewing the  various  co-operative  mar- 
keting groups,  the  departments  of  agri- 
culture, state  colleges,  dairymen's  asso- 
ciations and  other  organizations  inter- 
ested in  the  dairy  situation.  He  found 
unanimous  approval  of  the  plan  of  mak- 
ing such  a  survey  and  it  has  been  or- 
dered. It  will  be  the  first  piece  of 
survey  work  undertaken  by  the  new  bu- 
reau of  co-operative  marketing.  The 
first  invitation  to  make  the  survey  in 
New  England  came  from  the  NEMPA 
but  the  other  organizations  and  agencies 
promptly  gave  their  approval  and  joined 
fin  the  invitation.  Mr.  Christenson  plans 
for  a  quite  complete  study  of  all  the 
factors  involved  in  the  question  of  a 
co-operative  marketing.  The  survey 
will  be  made  by  W.  A.  Schoenfeld. 
He  will  establish  headquarters  in  Boston 
for  himself  and  his  staff  of  investi- 
gators. It  will  take  several  months 
probably  to  make  the  survey. 

Among  the  organizations  which  joined 
in  inviting  the  new  bureau  to  make  the 
dairy  survey  in  New  England  were : 
Addison  County  Dairy  Co.,  Middlebury, 
Vt. ;  Grand  Isle  County  Co-operative 
Creamery  Association,  Grand  Isle,  Vt. ; 
St.  Albans  Co-operative  Creamery  Co., 
St.  Albans ;  Burlington  Co-operative 
Milk  Products  Co.,  Burlington,  Vt. ; 
Richmond  Co-operative  Creamery  Asso- 
ciation, Richmond,  Vt. ;  Milton  Co-op- 
erative Creamery  Association,  Richmond, 
Vt. ;  Milton  Co-operative  Creamery  As- 
sociation, Richmond,  Vt. ;  Milton  Co- 
operative Dairy  Corporation,  Milton, 
Vt. ;  Shelburne  Co-operative  Creamery 
Co.,  Shelburne,  Vt. ;  United  Farmers 
Co-operative  Creamery,  Morrisville,  Vt. ; 
'  Mt.  Mansfield  Co-operative  Creamery, 
Stowe,  Vt. ;  Bethel  Co-operative  Cream- 
ery, Inc.,  Bethel,  Vt. ;  Clyde  Valley 
'  Co-operative  Creamery,  Derby,  Vt. ; 
Northfield  Co-operative  Creamery,  North- 
field,  Vt. ;  Windham  County  Co-opera- 
L  tive  Creamery,  Brattleboro,  Vt. ;  the 
1  NEMPA  Turner  Centre  System  and 
the  United  Dairy  System. 

In  the  announcement  of  the  official 
(  order  for  the  survey  coming  from  the 
t  department  at  Washington,  it  is  stated 
r  that  the  object  of  the  survey  is  to  de- 
1  termine  facts  and  conditions  and  give 
f  such  help  to  existing  groups  as  is  pos- 
sible  but  that  the  bureau  would  not 
I  assist  in  any  promotion  work. 


Increased  Work  in  Schools 


DAIRY  SYSTEMS  MERGE 

The  United  Dairy  Systems,  organized 
through  the  consolidation  of  the  dairy 
systems  at  Springfield  and  Worcester, 
Mass.,  and  Manchester,  N.  H.,  will  be- 
gin operating  as  one  unit  October  1. 
The  stockholders  in  each  of  the  three 
systems  voted  to  merge  about  two 
months  ago  ■  but  the  detail  of  getting 
on  to  the  single  unit  basis  took  some 
time  to  work  out.  The  merger  was 
made  to  bring  the  three  organizations 
under  a  uniform  business  management 
and  to  bring  about  important  economies 
in  handling  milk  through  the  larger 
volume  of  business.  The  main  business 
office  will  be  at  Springfield. 


The  congratulations  and  good  wishes 
r  of  our  association  staff  are  given  to 
|  our  friend  and  co-worker,  Reuben  Hall. 
1  He  has  forsaken  the  easy  path  of  the 
i  batchelors  and  on  Oct.  3  was  married 
to  Miss  Lillian  Klein  of  Bridgeport, 
Conn.  On  their  return  from  a  honey- 
i  moon  cruise  in  the  West  Indies,  Mrs. 
i  Hall  will  preside  over  their  new  home 
i  in  Cambridge  and  Reuben  will  return 
!  to  his  legal  duties  for  the  association, 
.  the  rate  case  committee  and  others.  If 
:  you  want  to  meet  the  bride  come  to 
j,  the  annual  meeting. 


Dairy  and  Food  Council  Has  Many  Requests  for  Service 
Talks,  Plays  and  Printed  Material — All  Help 
to  Increase  the  Use  of  Milk 


Here  is  a  reproduction  of  a  poster 
which  many  thousands  of  children  will 
be  coloring  with  paints  or  crayon  this 
fall.  While  they  are  doing  the  coloring 
they  will  be  getting  it  into  their  heads 
that  milk  is  a  mighty  good  thing  to 
use.  This  is  just  one  of  the  many  ef- 
fective ways  in  which  your  organiza- 
tion, the  New  England  Dairy  and  Food 
Council,  is  helping  to  sell  more  and 
more  of  your  milk.  In  schools,  play- 
grounds, settlement  houses,  factories  and 
stores  the  work  goes  on  steadily. 

It  is  not  possible  to  give  you  a  real 
idea  of  what  a  fine  piece  of  work  it  is, 
both  from  the  standpoint  of  social 
service  and  of  selling  milk.    In  a  par- 


their  material  or  had  their  talks  in 
previous  years,  asking  wh»t  they  would 
like  to  have  done  this  year.  About  700 
of  these  letters  were  sent  out.  Within 
a  week  there  was  a  pile  of  requests 
in  the  council  office  which  it  will  take 
weeks  to  fill.  And  they  are  still  coming. 
With  the  letters  the  council  sent  a  set 
of  samples  of  the  new  pieces  of  printed 
matter,  and  suggestions  of  the  lines  of 
work  which  might  be  undertaken.  A 
very  large  number  of  the  requests  which 
came  in  not  only  indicated  a  desire  for 
continued  work  this  year  but  a  very 
strong  "thank  you"  for  services  of  the 
past. 

Among  the  answers  were  some  strik- 


ISO 


J' 


se  four  glasses  of  milk  every  day- 
•at  fruit  every  day- 
Eat  some  vegetable  besides  potato  every  day- 
©rink  at  least  four  glasses  of  water  every  day- 
Brush  teeth  every  day- 
Hake  a  bath  of  tener  than  once  a  week- 
Flay  part  of  every  day  out  of  doors- 
™leep  many  hours  with  the  windows  open- 


©New England  Dairy W Food  Council.  J 926 

ticularly  effective  way  Prof.  W.  P.  B. 
Lockwood,  head  of  the  council,  and  his 
assistants  have  combined  the  service  idea 
with  the  one  which  interests  you  in  a 
practical  way,  selling  more  milk.  The 
effectiveness  with  which  they  have  de- 
veloped the  program  is  indicated  in  the 
fact  that  more  and  more  of  the  schools 
in  Boston  and  other  cities  and  towns 
are  asking  to  have  representatives  of 
the  council  visit  them  and  to  have 
thousands  of  these  color  cards  and  other 
effective  material  placed  in  the  hands  of 
the  children.  If  you  doubt  the  interest 
which  this  color  card  has  for  a  child 
try  it  on  your  own  or  on  one  of  your 
neighbors. 

Council  workers  are  looking  forward 
to  the  busiest  fall  they  ever  have  had 
since  the  council  was  organized  in  its 
present  form  six  years  ago.  They  fol- 
lowed their  custom  of  sending  out  a 
letter  to  the  schools  which  had  used 


ing  indications  of  the  strong  hold  which 
the  council  has  gained.  One  superin- 
tendent was  so  impressed  with  the  work 
last  year  that  he  has  offered  to  give 
the  council  workers  a  card  of  introduc- 
tion and  recommendation  to  every  school 
principal  in  the  city.  In  another  city 
where  no  opportunity  has  yet  been 
found  to  give  talks  there  are  many  re- 
quests for  material.  In  the  town  of 
Lexington  and  city  of  Everett  the  su- 
perintendents of  schools  have  asked 
council  workers  to  speak  at  special 
meetings  of  the  principals  in  all  their 
schools.  The  Waltham  superintendent 
has  invited  the  council  workers  to  "go 
anywhere"  in  the  city. 

The  work  of  the  council  has  increased 
so  fast  that  the  five  women  workers, 
also  Prof.  Lockwood  and  one  man  who 
serves  as  assistant,  can  hardly  keep  up 
with  it.  "We  could  do  more  if  we  had 
mere  money,"  says  Prof.  Lockwood. 


MARKET  CONDITIONS 

Unusual  Weather  Conditions  Keep 
Production  Up  and  Increase 
Surplus — Sales  Higher 

Production  of  milk  in  August,  as  in- 
dicated by  the  reports  of  sales  and 
purchases  by  the  Boston  dealers  operat- 
ing under  the  surplus  plan,  was  still 
above  the  production  of  August,  1925. 
The  late  summer  was  unusually  favor- 
able for  milk  production  due  to  abun- 
dant feed  in  most  of  the  milk  produc- 
ing territory  and  the  early  fall  has 
been  exceptional  in  that  respect.  The 
production  per  cow,  as  reported  by  the 
crop  reporting  service  of  the  U.  S. 
D.  A.,  was  about  the  same  as  in  1925. 
The  increase  therefore  is  probably  due 
to  expansion  of  territory  on  the  part 
of  the  large  dealers. 

Sales  were  about  a  million  pounds 
higher  than  a  year  previous.  The  in- 
crease in  purchases,  however,  more  than 
offset  the  increased  sales  and  left  the 
surplus  higher  than  last  year.  The  pur- 
chases, sales  and  surplus  for  August 
were  as  follows : 

1926     1926  1925 
Million  Lbs.        July     Aug.  Aug. 

Purchases    57.2      49.0  43.3 

Sale    28.9      27.4  26.3 

Surplus    54.5%    49.5%  45.0% 

The  net  milk  price  for  August  was 
12  cents  a  hundred  below  that  of  Au- 
gust, 1925.  This  was  due  in  part  to 
the  increase  in  the  percentage  of  surplus 
but  more  to  the  decrease  in  the  value  of 
surplus  products.  The  butter  market 
averaged  2J/2  cents  lower  than  in  Au- 
gust, 1925,  making  the  surplus  price  10 
cents  a  hundredweight  lower.  The 
prices  on  market  milk,  Class  2  milk 
and  the  net  price,  also  the  average  but- 
ter prices,  were : 

1926  1926  1925 
Julv      Aug.  Aug. 

Fluid   $3.22     $3.22  $3.22 

Surplus    1.54       1.58  1.68 

Net  price,  all  milk  2.38       2.48  2.60 
Average  butter, 
per  lb  409      .419  .440 

BUTTER  PRICES 

The  September  1st  storage  figures 
were  not  as  heavy  as  were  expected 
and  butter  advanced  in  price  to  about 
45}^c  per  pound.  This  price  is  4c  a 
pound  lower  than  last  year.  Reports 
from  the  butter  sections  during  Septem- 
ber are  that  there  have  been  very 
frequent  rains  which  have  been  favor- 
able to  grass  and  unfavorable  to  other 
crops.  .  Prices  for  the  balance  of  the 
year  will  probably  not  go  as  high  as 
last  year. 

September  1st  storage  figures  for  the 
past  five  years  were : 

COMPARATIVE  PRICES 

Pounds 

1922    112,000,000 

1923    103,000,000 

1924    156,000,000 

1925    128,000,000 

1926    131,000,000 

COST  OF  PRODUCTION 
Grain  prices  were  about  steady  from 
August  to  September.  Feed  prices  are 
now  about  $3.50  per  ton  below  last  year. 
The  recent  freezing  weather  in  the 
middle  west  appears  not  to  have  effected 
grain  prices.  The  hay  crop  in  New 
England  is  reported  below  normal  and 
hay  prices  are  now  above  last  year. 

1926  1926  1925 

Sept.  Sept.  Sept. 

Grain,  per  ton..$47.00  $46.47  $50.27 

Hay,  per  ton....  16.17  16.17  15.54 

Labor,  per  hour     .300  .300  .308 

NEW  YORK  AND  BOSTON 
PRICES 

The  weighted  price  paid  by  Boston 
dealers  in  August  was  $2.48  for  3.7 
per  cent,  milk  in  the  181-200  mile  zone, 
compared  with  $2.46  paid  by  the  New 
York  League  same  test,  same  zone. 


A  junk  shop  near  a  railroad  crossing 
bears  this  admonition  to  motorists :  "Go 
Ahead,  Take  a  Chance.  We'll  Buy 
Your  Car." 


Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


October,  1926 


Market  Conditions  On   Page  3         Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  August,  1926 


INCREASES  PRICE 
The  Alden  Co.  voluntarily  paid  its 
patrons  13.1  cents  per  hundred  on  Au- 
gust milk  more  than  they  were  re- 
quired  to  under  the  surplus  plan.  The 
strike  of  the  drivers  under  which  they 


have  been  laboring  cut  down  their  sales 
and  thus  increased  their  surplus.  By 
making  this  voluntary  increase  they 
brought  their  price  up  to  about  the 
same  level  as  other  dealers  were  paying 
in  the  same  territory  in  which  they  buy. 


Schedule  of  Prices  for  Boston 

Based  on  8|  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  October  1,  1926,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 


At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 

Cwt.in 


Cwt.in  Cwt.in 


8qt. 

8tfqt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21}*qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

2ij<qt. 

40qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

1 

1-20 

.579 

.618 

.732 

1.489 

1.583 

2.993 

3.462 

3.464 

3.479 

2 

21-40 

.569 

.608 

.722 

1.464 

1.558 

2.958 

3.404 

3.409 

3.438 

3 

41-60 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.444 

1.538 

2.928 

3.357 

3.366 

3.404 

4 

61-80 

.549 

.588 

.702 

1.434 

1.528 

2.898 

3.334 

3.344 

3.369 

5 

81-100 

.544 

.583 

.692 

1.414 

1.508 

2.873 

3.287 

3.300 

3.340 

6 

101-120 

.539 

.578 

.682 

1.404 

1.498 

2.848 

3.264 

3.278 

3.311 

7 

121-140 

.534 

.573 

.677 

1.394 

1.483 

2.828 

3.241 

3.245 

3.287 

8 

141-160 

.524 

.563 

.667 

1.379 

1.473 

2.803 

3.206 

3.224 

3.258 

9 

161-180 

.519 

.558 

.662 

1.369 

1.463 

2.783 

3.183 

3.202 

3.235 

10 

181-200 

.514 

.553 

.652 

1.364 

1.448 

2.768 

3.171 

3.169 

3.218 

11 

201-220 

.509 

.548 

.647 

1.349 

1.438 

2.748 

3.136 

3.147 

3.194 

12 

221-240 

.504 

.543 

.642 

1.339 

1.423 

2.728 

3.113 

3.114 

3.171 

13 

241-260 

.494 

.533 

.637 

1.334 

1.418 

2.718 

3.101 

3.103 

3.159 

14 

261-280 

.489 

.528 

.637 

1.319 

1.408 

2.698 

3.066 

3.081 

3.136 

15 

281-300 

.489 

.528 

.632 

1.314 

1.403 

2.683 

3.055 

3.070 

3.119 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

1 

1-20 

.599 

.638 

.752 

1.499 

1.593 

2.993 

3.485 

3.486 

3.479 

2 

21-40 

.584 

.623 

.737 

1.474 

1.568 

2.958 

3.427 

3.431 

3.438 

3 

41-60 

.579 

.618 

.732 

1.464 

1.553 

2.928 

3.404 

3.399 

3.404 

4 

61-80 

.574 

.613 

.727 

1.444 

1.538 

2.898 

3.357 

3.366 

3.369 

5 

81-100 

.569 

.608 

.712 

1.434 

1.528 

2.873 

3.334 

3.344 

3.340 

6 

101-120 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.424 

1.508 

2.848 

3.311 

3.300 

3.311 

7 

121-140 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.409 

1.498 

2.828 

3.276 

3.278 

3.287 

8 

141-160 

.554 

.593 

.702 

1.404 

1.493 

2.803 

3.264 

3267 

3.258 

9 

161-180 

.549 

.588 

.697 

1.394 

1.478 

2.783 

3.241 

3.234 

3.235 

10 

181-200 

.549 

.588 

.692 

1.379 

1.468 

2.768 

3.206 

3.213 

3.218 

Where  milk  is  bought  by  weight  and  test,  the  dealer  will  pay  the  average  price 
for  92  score  fresh  butter  as  quoted  by  the  U.  S.  D,  A.  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
Economics  at  Boston  for  the  month.  The  price  of  1/10  pound  butter,  as  above 
stated,  shall  be  added  for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  above  3.7  per  cent,  and  deducted 
for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  below  3.7  per  cent,  for  each  cwt.  of  milk  so  purchased. 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  0.75c  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  August,  1926 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt. 

Butter-fat 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

Test 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patrons 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt. 

Hood,  Ist-lSth  ... 

uy2% 

.50 

1.210 

.45 

.547 

.1236 

Hood,  lst-15th  .. 

20 

.50 

1.636 

.45 

.532 

.1236 

Hood  16th-31st  . 

 12X 

.40 

1.315 

.46 

.565 

.1367 

Hood,  16th-31st 

20 

.40 

1.863 

.46 

.553 

.1367 

20 

.40 

2.848 

.47 

.612 

.1881 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  or  below  3.7  per  cent, 
test  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  sized  container:  Per  9>y3 
quart  can,  $0,007;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,009;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,018;  per  2\yA  quart 
can,  $0,019;  per  40  quart  can,  $0,035;  per  cwt.,  $0,042. 


Boston  District 

Class  1  Class  2   

(Mkt.  (Mfg.  &y2 

Dealers  Milk)  Milk)  Quart 

Elm  Spring  Farm 

7th  zone  (121-140)   78.3%  21.7%  .511 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   81.7  18.3  Deliv 


20 
Quart 

1.237 


Size  of  Can  ■ 


2iy4 

40 

Quart 

Quart 

Cwt. 

1.316 

2.505 

2.913 

per  cwt. 

3.487 

Northern  Market  District 


Class  1 
(Mkt. 

Dealers  Milk) 
Wason-McDonald 
Haverhill 

Delivered   91.0% 

3rd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms 
Lawrence 

Delivered   69.8 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Manchester 

Delivered   90.3 

3rd  zone   

7th  zone    .... 

8th  zone   

Blake,  E.  C. 
Manchester 

Delivered   76.4 

4th  zone   

zone   

zone   

zone   

Boyd,  W.  T.,  &  Sons 
Nashua 

Delivered   92.8 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Nashua 

Delivered   95.2 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 


9.0% 


30.2 


Cwt. 
in 

8/2's 


3.703 
3.143 


Cwt. 
in 

20's 


3.703 
3.195 


Cwt. 

in 
40's 


3.703 
3.238 


9.7 


23.6 


5th 
6th 
8th 


7.2 


4.8 


3.527 
3.172 
3.096 


3.527 
3.225 
3.203 


3.527 
3.268 
3.236 


Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Class  2 

Zone  1 

Zone  2 

Zone  3 

Dealers 

(Mkt. 

(Mfg. 

Deliv- 

1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

Per  Hundredweight 

Milk) 

Milk) 

ered 

Miles 

Miles 

Miles 

Burton,  H.  T  

93.8% 

6.2% 

3.695 

3.409 

3.364 

3.302 

Chambers,  H.  T  

86.2 

13.8 

3.516 

3.254 

3.213 

3.155 

Fiske,  E.  A  

92.1 

7.9 

3.650 

3.370 

3.325 

3.264 

Grant,  C.  W  

89.5 

10.5 

3.320 

3.269 

3.210 

Greenville  Farm  Dairy  97.7 

2.3 

3.777 

3.480 

3.433 

3.368 

Monroe,  A.  B  

100.0 

3.838 

3.534 

3.486 

3.419 

Providence  Dairy.... 

84.8 

15.2 

3.489 

3.285 

3.255 

3.200 

Viall,  W.  C. 

100.0 

3.838 

3.534 

3.486 

3.419 

Warnock,  C.  A  

100.0 

3.834 

3.530 

3.482 

3.415 

Wescott,  E.  P. 

100.0 

3.834 

3.530 

3.482 

3.415 

PER  10  QT.  CAN 

Brown,  W.  B. 

100.0 

.842 

.776 

.766 

.752 

Truck- 
ing 
Zone 
net 


3.071 


Cwt. 


3.208 
2.904 
2.875 
2.827 


3.468 
3.216 
3.111 

3.085 


3.183 
2.924 
2.890 
2.874 
2.859 


3.578i 


Willi-, 
inantq 
Zontj 


2.996  3.091 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  August,  1926 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  August  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.042  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent,  subtrac; 
$.042  for  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farms  to  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  Cwt.  sold  in  August  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 
To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  tbf 


Hood,  Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies,  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deduction  as  given  in  cream  price 
prices  between  milk  and  cream  patrons. 


table  is  made  from  the  zone  prices  as  figured  to  equaliz' 


Zone  1 

Zone  2 

Zone  3 

Zone  4 

Zone  5 

Zone  6 

Zone  7 

Zone  8 

Zone  9 

Zone  10 

Zone  11 

Zone  12 

Zone  13 

Zone  14 

Zone 

1 

1-20 

21-tt) 

41-60 

61-80 

81-100 

101-120 

121-140 

141-160 

161-180 

181-200 

201-220 

221-240 

241-260 

261-280 

281-JC 

Class  1  Milk  Price   

3.479 

3.438 

3.404 

3.369 

3.340 

3.311 

3.287 

3.258 

3.235 

3.218 

3.194 

3.171 

3.159 

3.136 

3.1 

I! 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.584 

1.58  ' 

Class  1 

Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk) 

(Mfg.  Milk) 

Dealers 

A 

B 

Hood,  lst-15th  ....56.6% 

43.4% 

57.3% 

2.514 

2.491 

2.472 

2.452 

2.436 

2.419 

2.406 

2.389 

2.376 

2.366 

2.353 

2.340 

2.333 

2.320 

2.3 

1 

Hood,  16th-31st  ....55.3 

44.7 

58.8 

2.506 

2.484 

2.465 

2.445 

2.429 

2.413 

2.400 

2.384 

2.371 

2.362 

2.349 

2.336 

2.329 

2.317 

2.30, 

Whiting  in  40's  ....74.5 

25.5 

42.2 

2.779 

2.748 

2.723 

2.697 

2.675 

2.654 

2.636 

2.614 

2.597 

2.584 

2.566 

2,549 

2.540 

2.523 

2.5 

1 

Whiting  in21^'s....74.5 

25.5 

42.2 

2.768 

2.727 

2.695 

2.678 

2.645 

2.629 

2.604 

2.589 

2.572 

2.548 

2.531 

2.507 

2.499 

2.482 

2.4 

t  1 

Alden  Bros  39.9 

60.1 

2.339 

2.323 

2.309 

2.295 

2.284 

2.272 

2.263 

2.251 

2.242 

2.234 

2.225 

2.216 

2.214 

2.202 

2.19! 

F.  S.  Cummings....57.4 

42.6 

2.671 

2.647 

2.627 

2.607 

2.591 

2,574 

2.560 

2.544 

2.530 

2.521 

2.507 

2.494 

2.487 

2.474 

2.4 

F.  E.  Boyd  68.2 

31.8 

2.875 

2.847 

2.824 

2.800 

2.780 

2.760 

2.744 

2.724 

2.708 

2.697 

2.680 

2.665 

2.656 

2.641 

2.6 

Weighted  Avg  62.8 

37.2 

49.5 

2.649 

2.623 

2.602 

2.580 

2.562 

2.544 

2.529 

2.510 

2.496 

2.485 

2.470 

2.456 

2.448 

2.434 

2.4 

A — Excluding  Cream 

Plan. 

B- 

-Including  Cream  Plan. 

October,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Call  For  Annual  Meeting 


Notice  of  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  New  England  Milk  Producers' 
Association : 

You  are  hereby  notified  that  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Milk  Producers'  Association 
will  be  held  at  the  American  House 
in  the  City  of  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  Tuesday,  Oct.  26,  1926, 
at  10.30  o'clock  in  the  forenoon, 
for  the  purpose  of  transacting  the 
following  business: 

1.  To  receive  and  act  on  reports 
of  officers. 

2.  To  elect  directors,  treasurer, 
clerk  and  a  board  of  three  audi- 
tors. 

3.  To  see  what  action  will  be 


Dairy  farmers  of  Vermont  are  sturdy 
supporters  of  the  NEMPA  and  staunch 
believers  in  the  principles  on  which  it  is 
working,  judging  by  the  results  of  the 
canvass  which  our  field  men  have  been 
making  in  September  in  the  area  from 
Newport,  Vt.,  south.  This  is  a  territory 
in  which  there  are  many  large  producers 
and  where  a  great  volume  of  milk  is 
shipped.  In  general  these  dairy  farmers 
have  been  glad  to  see  the  field  men,  have 
asked  many  questions  about  the  work 
of  the  association  and  have  shown  a 
friendly  spirit  toward  it.  Concrete  evi- 
dence of  their  support  is  given  in  the 
record  which  show  that  fully  85  per  cent, 
of  all  the  milk  shippers  in  the  area  al- 
ready canvassed  have  become  members  of 
the  association  and  are  signed  up  on  the 
new  dues  order  basis. 

This  85  per  cent,  of  the  shippers  rep- 
resents more  than  that  percentage  of  the 
milk  as  the  larger  producers  are  well 
signed  up.  Of  the  remaining  15  per  cent, 
a  number  are  small  producers  and  the 
rest,  for  one  reason  or  another,  were  not 
seen  at  all  by  the  field  men.  Altogether 
it  is  a  decidedly  satisfactory  showing 
which  was  made  in  the  first  month  of  the 
canvass  in  Vermont.  Our  association  has 
been  materially  strengthened  in  that  ter- 
ritory. Delegates  from  those  locals  and 
groups  of  locals  will  come  to  the  annual 
meeting  in  Boston  with  a  stronger,  more 
united  backing  from  the  dairymen  of 
their  towns  than  they  ever  have  had  be- 
fore. 

One  of  the  finest  things  the  canvass  has 
brought  out  is  the  goodwill  and  staunch 
support  of  the  association  which  has  been 
shown  by  some  of  the  veterans  in  the 
dairy  field,  the  men  who  were  active  work- 
ers for  the  association  in  its  formative 
years  and  who  are  still  loyal  and  inter- 
ested although  they  are  not  now  so  active 
in  official  capacities.  F.  J.  Orne  of 
Coventry  is  a  good  example.  For  some 
years  he  was  president  of  the  local  and 
did  some  fine  work  for  it.  By  his  own 
wish  he  retired  from  his  official  position. 
Mr.  Orne  was  one  of  the  first  to  send  in 
his  new  dues  order  in  response  to  the 
letter  sent  out  from  the  central  office,  so 
our  field  man,  Mr.  Wells,  who  canvassed 
Coventry,  had  no  reason  for  calling  on 
him.  But  everybody  told  him  that  he 
must  be  sure  to  see  the  former  president. 
Wells  made  a  call  and  has  been  glad  of  it 
ever  since  for  he  got  the  viewpoint  of  a 
man  who  has  been  with  the  organization 
since  it  started  and  who  has  a  good  way 
of  looking  at  things.  Besides  that  Mr. 
Orne  gave  a  sample  of  good  old  fashioned 
New  England  hospitality  at  its  best. 

Speaking  of  the  men  who  would  not 
join  the  association,  few  in  number  but 
discouraging  to  the  field  men  who  are 
newer  at  the  game,  Mr.  Orne  said:  "Re- 
member what  kind  of  men  those  are  who 


taken  on  the  following  amendment 
to  the  Regulations: 

"To  amend  the  second  para- 
graph of  Section  2  of  the  regula- 
tions by  striking  out  therefrom  the 
sentence  reading  'The  fee  for  mem- 
bership in  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association  shall  be  $1 
up  to  May  1,  1924.  On  and  after 
May  1,  1924,  the  membership  fee 
thall  be  $2.'  " 

4.  To  transact  such  other  and 
further  business  as  shall  properly 
come  before  the  meeting. 

Yours  truly, 
George  R.  Little,  President. 
Richard  Pattee,  Clerk. 


refuse  to  come  in  with  the  others  and 
work  together.  Think  how  little  in- 
fluence they  really  have.  Why,  we  all 
know  them.  Just  remember  when  one  of 
them  turns  you  down  that  it  would  take 
50  like  him  to  have  as  much  influence  as 
one  good  man  who  believes  in  organiza- 
tion and  will  back  it  up.  Don't  worry 
about  the  little  fellow  who  stays  out."  Mr. 
Wells  signed  eight  new  members  in 
Coventry,  leaving  only  five  shippers  in 
the  town  who  are  not  members  of  the 
association.  He  was  assisted  by  the  presi- 
dent, William  Lawson,  who  will  represent 
the  local  at  the  coming  annual  meeting. 

Another  case  of  fine  support  from 
one  of  our  older  members  was  at  Brown- 
ington  Center,  where  Henry  H.  Leland 
has  been  the  secretary  for  many  yeafs. 
He  is  a  blacksmith  by  day  but  spends  most 
of  his  evenings  (and  some  part  of  the 
daylight  also)  in  working  for  the  welfare 
of  the  town.  He  took  a  day  off  and 
went  around  with  Mr.  Wells.  They 
signed  17  members,  which  is  the  highest 
single  day  record  for  Vermont  thus  far. 
The  Brownington  Center  president,  F.  V. 
Swanson,  also  assisted  Mr.  Wells  in  the 
canvass  which  brought  the  local  well 
over  the  50  mark.  Mr.  Swanson  will 
some  to  the  meeting  and  will  represent 
every  milk  shipper  in  town  but  six. 

At  Orleans  E.  J.  Freehart  assisted  Mr. 
Wells  in  the  canvass,  especially  among 
the  French  speaking  farmers.  They 
added  five  new  members  and  left  only 
four  shippers  in  the  town  who  are  not 
now  members  of  the  association  in  good 
standing.  E.  S.  Kelley  is  president  of  the 
local  and  H.  Vezino  is  secretary.  The 
local  has  a  membership  of  more  than  50 
and  will  have  a  direct  representative  to 
the  annual  meeting. 

Another  good  record  was  made  by  Mr. 
Wells  at  Barton  where  Mr.  Freehart 
again  assisted  him  with  the  French  speak- 
ing farmers.  Fred  C.  Kinsey,  secretary  of 
the  Barton  local,  worked  with  Mr.  Wells 
Five  new  members  were  added,  making 
the  total  membership  112.  F.  S.  Fifield 
the  president  and  will  represent  the  local 
at  the  annual  meeting. 

F.  C.  Warner  started  off  the  canvass 
at  Newport  by  taking  16  members  off  the 
books.  No  work  had  been  done  there 
for  about  two  years  and  there  were  a 
number  who  had  moved  away,  sold  their 
farms  or  gone  out  of  the  dairy  business. 
Having  taken  off  these  names  Mr.  War- 
ner proceeded  to  add  53  new  members 
with  the  assistance  of  Secretary  C.  W. 
Richmond  and  L.  G.  Monet,  with  the 
French  speaking  farmers.  The  result  of 
the  canvass  leaves  the  local  with  132 
members  in  good  standing  and  a  number 
of  men  who  were  not  seen  but  who  may 
join  in  time  to  be  counted  as  members  to 
be  represented  by  our  staunch  supporter, 


President  F.  J.  Libby  of  the  Newport 
local. 

Earl  P.  Osgood,  another  of  our  field 
men,  secured  36  new  members  at  West 
Burke  with  the  assistance  of  Secretary 
S.  I.  Howland,  making  a  tlal  of  98  mem- 
bers in  good  standing  to  be  represented 
at  the  annual  meeting  by  the  president, 
Frank  W.  Ford.  These  producers  sell  to 
Turner  Centre,  Lyndonville  Creamery, 
l-'indisen  and  Maple  Farm.  At  Lyndon- 
ville, with  the  assistance  of  President  C. 
H.  Fletcher  and  Secretary  Roy  W.  Bur- 
ring! on,  he  added  18  new  members,  bring- 
ing the  total  t  117. 

At  Wheelock  Mr.  Osgood  added  nine 
new  members  raising  the  membership  well 
above  the  50  mark.  President  R.  C.  Bick- 
ford  and  Secretary  H.  J.  Mathewson  as- 
sisted in  the  canvass.  At  Concord  Mr. 
Osgood  added  five  new  members  and  se- 
cured 43  new  dues  orders  with  the  as- 
sistance of  Secretary  Carl  R.  Warren 
and  President  George  H.  Hastings  who 
will  represent  the  local  at  the  annual 
meeting  as  it  now  has  more  than  50 
members. 

With  the  assistance  of  President  George 
Stoddard  of  the  Waterford  local  Mr.  Os- 
good got  three  new  members  and  24  dues 
orders,  making  all  but  eight  shippers  in 
the  town  now  members  of  the  association 
in  good  standing.  They  are  Turner 
Centre  and  Trout  Brook  creamery 
patrons. 

The    Barnet-Monroe    local    was  can- 


vassed by  F.  L.  Foley  with  good  results. 
Ten  new  members  were  secured  and  45 
dues  orders  on  Hood,  Turner  Centre  and 
Cummings.  He  was  assisted  by  Secre- 
tary H.  A.  Somers  and  by  President  H. 
H.  Page  who  will  be  a  delegate  to  the 
annual  meeting  as  the  local  now  has  more 
than  50  members. 

At  Ryegate  Mr.  Foley  was  assisted  in 
the  canvass  by  Secretary  W.  D.  White,  the 
president,  Will  Thompson,  being  away. 
Eight  new  members  were  secured  and  30 
dues  orders.  The  local  is  grouped  with 
Groton  and  a  meeting  will  be  held  to 
select  a  delegate.  At  Groton  Mr.  Foley 
secured  three  new  members  and  10  dues 
orders  with  the  assistance  of  President 
George  Steel  and  Secretary  Earl  E. 
Welch. 

President  James  Miller  and  Secretary 
J.  B.  C.  Tyler  assisted  Mr.  Foley  in  the 
canvass  among  the  Turner  Centre  patrons 
at  West  Newbury.  Eight 'new  members 
joined.  Fifteen  of  the  20  shippers  from 
that  station  are  now  members  of  the  as- 
sociation. The  local  is  grouped  with 
Bradford  and  Fairlee. 

At  last  reports  from  the  field  men  they 
were  still  steaming  ahead,  working  long 
hours  and  traveling  many  miles.  But  they 
were  finding  that  most  of  the  dairy  farm- 
ers have  confidence  in  the  NEMPA  or, 
if  they  were  new  men,  openminded  and 
ready  to  listen  to  the  story  of  what  the 
association  is  doing  and  hopes  to  do  for 
them. 


Telephoning  over  a  ray  of  light 


Building  on  the  Telephone  Principle 


Fifty  years  •  ago  Alexander 
Graham  Bell  discovered  the 
principle  of  the  telephone.  His 
first  telephone  employed  wire 
as  the  connecting  path  over 
which  words  passed.  Four 
years  later  he  used  a  beam  of 
light  instead  of  wire  to  carry 
speech  between  telephone 
instruments. 

Today,  both  wire  and  wire- 
less telephony  are  employed 
on  every  hand  in  the  service 
of  the  nation.  Wire  telephony, 
with  its  thousands  of  central 
offices,  its  complex  switch- 
boards and  millions  of  miles  of 
wire,  envelops  the  country, 
carrying  for  the  American 
people  70,000,000  conversa- 
tions every  day.  Wireless 


telephony  is  broadcasting  en- 
tertainment and  carrying  im- 
portant information  to  the 
remotest  regions. 

But  new  applications  of  the 
telephone  principle  are  still 
being  found.  In  the  loud 
speaker,  in  the  deaf  set,  the 
electrical  stethoscope,  the  im- 
proved phonograph,  the  tele- 
phone principle  has  been 
adapted  by  the  Bell  Tele- 
phone Laboratories  to  the  uses 
of  the  physician,  the  public 
speaker  and  the  musician.  The 
scientific  research  and  engi- 
neering skill,  which  enable 
America  to  lead  the  world  in  ' 
telephone  service,  are  also 
bringing  forth  from  the  tele- 
phone principle  other  devices 
of  great  usefulness. 


American  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company 
and  Associated  Companies 


bell 


SYSTEM 


IN  ITS  SEMI-CENTENNIAL  YEAR  THE  BELL  SYSTEM  LOOKS  FOR- 
WARD   TO     CONTINUED     PROGRESS     IN    TELEPHONE  COMMUNICATION 


Good  Results  in  Vermont  Canvass 

Field  Men  Sign  Up  Fully  85  Per  Cent  of  Dairy  Farmers 
on  New  Dues  Order  Basis  —  Many  New 
Men  Join  Association 


Page  Sips 


N  E  W    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


October,  192ft 


"The  operator  who 
takes  such  precautions 
in  the  factory  as  will  in- 
sure his  product  reach- 
ing the  market  in  an  at- 
tractive condition,  is 
performing  a  distinct 
service  .  .  .  for  the  en- 
tire dairy  industry." — 
Butter,  Cheese  and  Egg 
Journal. 


Such  precautions  be- 
gin at  the  production 
process  by  insuring  to 
your  plant  and  equip- 
ment the  sweet,  whole- 
some, sanitary  cleanli- 
ness so  easily  and 
quickly  obtained  by 


No  greater  satisfac- 
tion can  accrue  to  the 
buttermaker  or  cheese- 
maker  than  to  pack  a 
pure,  clean,  high  grade 
product  in  containers 
worthy  of  their  distinc- 
tive quality. 


Iniltnn   in  eirclr 


Ask  Your 
Supply  Man 
for 

WYANDOTTE 


In  every  inwkagi- 


The  Wyandotte  Booth  at  the  Ses- 
qui-Centennial  Exposition,  Phila- 
delphia, June  1  to  December  1,  will 
be  found  in  the  Manufacturers' 
Building,  Group  D,  Sec.  1,  Block  2. 


THE  J     B    FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte      -     -  Michigan 


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NORTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 
477  E»»ex  Street  -  -  Lawrence,  Mass. 

AUGUST  PRICKS 

Manchester,  N.  H  68c    per  8^4  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  68c    per  8;4  qt.  can 

Lowell,   Mass  72.3c  per  8^2  qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  85c    per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  72c    per  8>4  qt.  can 

Concord,   N.  H  58.8c  per  8;4  qt.  can 

Portland,  Me   7.3c  per  qt. 

PRICES  AND  PAYMENTS 

No  change  in  prices  occurred  in  any 
market  in  the  district  in  September  and 
as  I  visit  around  at  the  different  farms 
selling  in  the  various  cities  I  find  as- 
sociation prices  well  sustained.  There 
are  still  many  producers  who  are  selling 
to  slow  paying  dealers.  It  does  not  make 
much  difference  what  market  I  am  work- 
ing around  I  always  run  across  some  pro- 
ducers who  ask  this  question :  "What  is 

the  financial  standing  of   ?"  And 

when  I  ask  why  the  answer  is  always  the 
same :  ''Well,  he's  getting  slow  in  his 
payments.  When  sifted  down  to  the  final 
analysis  there  is  always  one  of  three 
reasons  why  a  dealer  gets  slow  in  his  pay- 
ments to  producers ;  first,  poor  manage- 
ment ;  second,  small  earnings ;  third,  lack 
of  working  capital.  Experience  teaches 
us  that  dealers  who  once  get  behind  in 
their  payments  seldom  catch  up  again 
and  generally  they  go  to  the  wall.  My 
advice  to  all  dairy  farmers  is  to  steer 
clear  of  the  slow  paying  fellow.  Sell  to 
the  dealer  who  has  a  pay  day  and  is 
prompt  in  his  payments. 

A  slight  improvement  is  taking  place 
in  business  conditions,  but  its  effect  has 
not  yet  been  reflected  in  increased  buying 
power  by  the  public.  A  recent  news- 
paper article  says :  "Improvement  in  the 
outlook  is  noted  in  the  textile  industry 
by  more  than  one  observer  of  condi- 
tions. The  improvement  is  conspicuous 
in  cotton  goods,  less  spectacular  but  still 
quite  distinct  is  wool  and  to  a  lesser  de- 
gree in  silk."  Newspaper  reports  are  not 
always  to  be  relied  upon,  but  I  do  believe 
that  conditions  are  showing  a  very  slight 
indication  of  improvement.  This  is  en- 
couraging. 

Group  meetings  for  the  election  of  dele- 
gates to  the  annual  meeting  have  been 
held  and  the  following  delegates  have 
been  elected :  Group  52,  Alton,  Lee,  San- 
bornville  and  Strafford,  Charles  H.  John- 
son of  Lee  local ;  Group  54,  Epping,  Ex- 
eter and  Stratham,  J.  V.  Carrosi  of  Ex- 
eter local ;  Group  53,  Greenland,  New- 
market, Portsmouth  and  Newington, 
Charles  Coleman  of  Newington  local ; 
Group  57,  Auburn,  Bedford,  Candia, 
Chester,  Derry,  Goffstown,  Hooket, 
Manchester,  New  Boston  and  North  Lon- 
donderry (two  delegates),  Walter  P. 
Tenney  of  Chester  local  and  Charles  H. 
Clark  of  Manchester  local. 

Most  of  these  meetings  have  been  well 
attended  in  spite  of  their  coming  at  busy 
silo  filling  time.  Keen  interest  has  been 
shown  in  marketing  problems.  I  have 
been  present  at  all  meetings  and  plan  to 
attend  those  which  will  be  held  between 
now  and  the  middle  of  October. 

Considerable  time  has  been  spent  on 
fall  dues  collection  work  in  Manchester, 
Hollis  and  Hudson,  N.  H.,  and  Haverhill, 
Lowell  and  Lawrence,  Mass.  The  atti- 
tude of  the  producers  has  been  fine.  In 
not'  one  case  has  a  man  refused  to  pay 
dues.  I  certainly  appreciate  this  co-opera- 
tion. Cecil  Denault  has  joined  the  as- 
sociation as  a  member  of  the  Hollis  local 
and  Bottomly  Brothers  have  joined  the 
Lawrence  local. 

The  Chester,  N.  H.,  local  has  made  a 
fine  record.  Every  dairy  farmer  selling 
milk  in  that  town  is  now  a  member  of 
the  association  and  every  one  has  signed 
a  dues  order  on  the  new  basis.  L  visited 
this  local  Sept.  25  and  was  pleased  to 
note  the  splendid  feeling  existing  among 
the  members.  All  the  milk  from  these 
men  goes  to  the  Hood  plant  at  Lawrence. 


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DISTRICT 

CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
Slade  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 
Telephone,  Dixl-r  6469 

SEPTEMBER  DELIVERED  PRICES 

Providence,  R.  1  8^2C  per  qt. 

Fall  River,  Mass  8>lc    "  " 

Brockton,  Mass  8^c    "  " 

New  Bedford,  Mass  8)4c    "  " 

Newport,  R.  1  9c 

MARKET  CONDITIONS 

Providence  market  has  received  a 
steady  full  supply  of  milk  the  past 
month.  Conditions  have  been  most  fav- 
orable to  production  and  as  a  consider- 
able additional  supply,  which  has  not 
been  coming  into  the  markets  but  has 
been  sold  at  summer  resorts,  camps,  etc., 
will  now  be  coming  in  it  seems  probable 
that  the  additional  requirements  due  to 
returning  vacationists,  school  uses,  etc., 
will  be  well  taken  care  of.  Usually  the 
supply  from  Sept.  1  to  Oct.  1  is  some- 
what more  than  the  regular  require- 
ments. I  checked  the  records  of  five 
dealers  who  had  some  surplus  the  past 
two  months  and  find  that  tne  average 
for  the  past  month  was  9.6  per  cent. 
The  same  dealers  report  a  decrease  this 
month.  They  report  increased  sales  and 
from  information  I  receive  in  the  vari- 
ous markets  I  find  that  the  supply  is 
much  less  than  usual  at  this  time  and 
will  continue  to  drop  from  now  on.  In- 
dications are  that  when  we  get  a  severe 
frost  the  supply  will  decrease  much  be- 
low the  required  amounts  to  meet  sales. 

The  past  summer  has  been  a  favorable 
one  to  producers  in  this  section  and  at 
most  times  rains  have  kept  the  pastures 
in  better  condition  than  usual.  There 
has  been  an  abundance  of  green  feed 
most  of  the  time.  Good  feeding  condi- 
tions coupled  with  favorable  milk  prices 
for  a  considerable  period  have  been  a 
decided  encouragement  to  the  producers. 
With  a  late  spring  it  looked  like  a  short 
crop  of  hay  and  ensilage  corn. 

In  most  every  section,  however,  the 
farmers  cut  more  hay  than  usual  and 
the  corn  has  come  along  finely.  In 
most  cases  the  crop  will  be  above  the 
average.  Millet  and  barley  for  fall  feed 
is  plentiful.  I  feel  sure  that  the  pro- 
ducers appreciate  the  double  blessing  of 
abundant  feed  and  good  prices,  secured 
by  their  association,  coming  at  the  same 
time.  It  seems  to  me  that  any  man 
who  grumbles  and  says  he  could  not 
make  a  living  producing  milk  in  this 
section  this  summer  ought  to  take  up 
some  other  line  of  work. 

Business  conditions  in  the  various 
cities  have  not  improved  much.  While 
textiles  are  somewhat  more  active  other 
lines  are  not.  Building  trades  are  not 
brisk  and  in  general  we  would  call  busi- 
ness rather  dull.  It  seems  doubtful  if 
there  is  much  improvement  soon...  This 
naturally  reacts  on  milk  sales. 

Most  of  my  time  the  past  month  has 
been  spent  in  the  markets  and  I  have 
had  a  busy  time  jumping  from  one 
thing  to  another.  It  has  seemed  some- 
thing like  being  a  fireman,  answering 
one  call  for  service  only  to  have  another 
call  somewhere  else  as  soon  as  I  get 
back  again.  So  many  unexpected  mat- 
ters came  up  for  action  that  it  has  kept 
my  mind  as  well  as  my  body  quite  busy. 
The  program  has  had  to  be  changed 
continually. 

Newport  has  plenty  of  milk  and  as 
the  weather  was  cool  there  most  of 
the  summer  sales  of  milk  and  more 
especially  of  ice  cream  were  lower  than 
normal,  as  would  have  been  expected. 
However  more  of  the  Government  boats 
were  in  than  in  most  years.  Next  year 
looks  like  an  exceptional  one  in  that 
respect  as  both  the  Atlantic  and  the 
Pacific  fleets  will  be  in.  This  will  re- 
quire enormous  quantities  of  milk,  cream 
and  ice  cream.  At  present  Newport  has 
quite  a  surplus. 


Mr.  .George  L.  Mollis,  Superintendent  oj  Dutchland  Farm 
t8ridgewater,  Mass.,  holding  Dutchland  Pietertje  Beet  .  She 
made  an  official  record  of 18,288.4  pounds 
of  milk ; 
Em  pi 


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Dut  hi  nd  Farm  at  Bridgewater,  Msss.,  famous  Holstein 
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calves.  In  the  first  place,  she  digests  it  well.  Second,  it 
has  all  the  proteins  she  needs.  Third,  it  is  tasty — she 
likes  it.  Fourth,  it  has  the  lime  and  phosphorous  required 
for  high  milk  production. 

The  price  of  Amco  20%  Empire  is  very  low,  quality  con- 
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Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


October,  1926 


Eastern  $tzles  Farmers'  Exchange 


Bridging  the  Gap 

The  Extension  Departments  and 
Colleges  have  brought  home  to  in- 
telligent dairymen  the  realization 
of  the  fact  that  to  maintain  its 
physical  condition  and  to  produce 
profitably,  live  stock  must  be  care- 
fully fed.  These  institutions  have 
given  farmers  feeding  programs 
capable  of  returning  maximum 
profits  under  various  conditions. 
Experimental  chemistry  and  feed- 
ing tests  have  demonstrated  clearly 
differences  between  various  feed  in- 
gredients and  differences  between 
various  grades  of  the  same  feed  in- 
gredients. The  Extension  Depart- 
ments and  the  Colleges  have  made 
it  simple  for  farmers  to  know  what 
to  feed  through  bulletins,  lectures 
and  demonstrations. 

Individually,  however,  farmers 
find  it  difficult  to  put  into  practice 
on  their  scattered  farms  the  knowl- 
edge which  has  come  into  their  pos- 
session. The  individual  farmer 
finds  that  his  source  of  grain  sup- 
ply is  limited.  If  the  local  dealer 
has  not  got  the  kind  and  quality  of 
grain  best  suited  to  the  need  of  the 
farmer,  that  farmer  is  unable  to 
take  advantage  of  the  experimental 
work  being  done  for  him. 

Co-operatively,  today,  through 
the  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Ex- 
change, more  than  17,000  farmers 
are  buying  in  the  large  grain  mar- 
kets ingredients  of  their  own  selec- 
tion and  mixing  them  in  their  own 
plant.  These  ingredients  they 
select  in  accordance  with  the  ad- 
vice of  the  Extension  Departments. 
They  blend  these  ingredients  in  ac- 
cordance with  their  advice.  From 
the  start  the  Exchange  has  been 
managed  on  sound  business  prin- 
ciples along  strictly  co-operative 
lines,  so  that  the  members  have  se- 
cured this  important  service  at  low 
cost. 

This,  in  a  nut  shell,  is  the  reason 
why  the  Eastern  States  Farmers' 
Exchange  is  meeting  with  such  re- 
markable success  in  its  develop- 
ment. It  fills  an  important  gap  in 
the  farm  field.  It  enables  farmers 
to  put  into  practice  a  sound,  tested, 
scientific  feeding  program.  The 
business  of  the  Exchange  has  in- 
creased thousands  of  tons  per  year 
— to  a  12  months'  volume  in  eight 
years  exceeding  119,000  tons — be- 
cause the  farmers  availing  them- 
selves of  the  service  have  convinced 
themselves  through  their  own  ex- 
perience that  the  Exchange  is  actu- 
ally performing  the  vital  work 
which  it  was  organized  to  perform. 

For  further  information  on  the 
Eastern  States  co-operative  feed 
service  for  dairy  stock,  horses,  hogs 
and  poultry,  a  cb-operative  service 
which  should  not  be  confused  with 
the  car  door  service  offered  by 
private  manufacturers  through 
dealers  or  groups  of  farmers,  write 
the  office. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

Jt    non-stock,    non-profit  organization 
owned  and  controlled  by  the 
farmurm  It  sorverm 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


Fall  River  remains  about  the  same. 
There  has  been  plenty  of  milk  and 
much  cutting  of  prices  has  resulted.  The 
only  apparent  active  business  is  politics. 
Other  business  is  dull. 

New  Bedford  market  has  taken  most 
of  my  time  the  past  month  as  the  state 
board  of  health  has  been  very  active 
in  taking  samples  of  milk  and  a  con- 
siderable number  of  farmers  were 
brought  into  court  for  having  milk  be- 
low the  12  per  cent,  total  solids  required 
by  law.  This  market  has  always  sold 
milk  to  dealers  by  the  quart  and  have 
purchased  cows  that  were  large  pro- 
ducers without  much  regard  to  the  but- 
ter fat  content  of  their  milk.  To  many 
of  them  the  fat  test  was  unknown.  Many 
of  them  had  been  selling  milk  for  a 
long  time  and  not  until  Sept.  22  did  they 
get  a  report  from  either  the  state  or 
local  boards  of  health  concerning  the 
fat  or  total  solids  in  their  milk. 

Where  there  was  so  much  low  test 
milk  dealers  were  forced  to  adopt  the 
practice  of  buying  on  the  weight  and 
test  basis.  This  was  an  entirely  new 
thing  to  a  large  number  of  the  pro- 
ducers and  many  opposed  it  without 
knowing  exactly  what  it  was.  Others 
oppose  the  system  in  full  knowledge  of 
what  it  is.  Still  others  approve  of  it 
highly.  It  will  be  impossible  to  satisfy 
them  all  but  the  sales  committee  be- 
lieves that  it  will  be  a  good  thing  for 
the  market  to  have  milk  bought  on  the 
weight  and  test  basis  and  have  bar- 
gained with  the  dealers  on  that  basis. 
So  far  as  possible  the  sales  committee 
will  attempt  to  adjust  differences  of 
viewpoint  between  producers  and  their 
dealers  which  arise  over  the  adoption 
of  the  new  basis  of  payment.  Many 
of  the  producers  are  buying  higher  test- 
ing cows  to  put  into  their  herds  but  it 
will  take  some  time  to  bring  the  gen- 
eral milk  up  to  the  standards  which 
should  exist  under  a  weight  and  test 
system.  But  if  it  has  to  be  done  the 
quicker  we  can  get  at  it  the  better. 
I  propose  to  give  all  the  assistance  I 
can  to  bring  this  about.  Everyone 
should  be  interested  as  it  is  something 
for  the  benefit  of  all  the  market.  It 
will  be  much  better  if  each  one  gets 
right  in  at  the  start  instead  of  hanging 
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Primrose  skims  wonderfully  close  and 
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Page  Nine 


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strained,  swollen  tendons,  ligaments  or 
muscles.  Stops  the  lameness  and  pain 
from  a  splint,  side  bone  or  bone  spavin- 
No  blister,  no  hair  gone,  and  horse  can 
be  used.  $2.50  at  druggists,  or  postpaid. 
Describe  your  case  for  special  instruc- 
tions. Interesting  horse  book  2-S  free. 
From  a  race  horse  ewner:  "Used 
Absorbine  on  a  yearling  pacer  with 
strained  tendon.  Colt  all  over  lameness, 

-though  for  a  time,  couldn't  take  a  step. 

5  Great  stuff." 


ABSORBINE 

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COW  STANCHIONS 

Now  is  the  time  to  install  swing 
cow  stanchions  for  this  winter.  "We 
make  several  patterns  of  wood 
stanchions.    Ask  for  circulars. 

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Inc. 

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WILL  PAY  THE  PRICE 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

follow  the  practice  of  the  other  compa- 
nies and  stop  buying  under  the  surplus 
plan. 

During  the  period  of  consolidation  the 
question  has  been  up  for  discussion  fre- 
quently but  Mr.  Alden  asked  for  delay 
in  the  decision  until  the  three  companies 
were  actually  doing  business  as  a  single 
unit.  Other  dealers  pressed  the  associa- 
tion to  get  a  decision  on  this  question 
at  an  earlier  date  as  they  claimed  that 
the  consolidation  was  already  in  effect 
and  that  they  were  under  an  unfair 
competition  from  the  consolidated  com- 
pany when  a  portion  of  its  milk  was 
bought  at  an  unknown  price.  The  deci- 
sion of  the  new  company  to  negotiate 
prices  with  the  NEMPA  places  them 
in  the  same  position  as  the  Hood  and 
Whiting  companies  and  removes  any 
question  of  an  "unknown  price"  so  far 
as  the  New  England  Creamery  Prod- 
ucts company  is  concerned. 

In  our  general  statement  of  the  situa- 
tion last  month  several  errors  were 
made  due  to  our  lack  of  accurate  in- 
formation as  to  what  had  been  done. 
■  The  H.  L.  Stone  Co.  is  not  in  the 
merger  as  we  stated.  We  also  stated 
that  in  July  the  Childs  Brothers  milk 
was  reported  to  the  milk  commissioner 
as  coming  through  the  Alden  Co.  Mr. 
Alden  informs  us  that  this  was  not  the 
fact. 

Still  another  error  into  which  we  fell 
through  not  being  fully  informed  as  to 
the  facts  was  in  regard  to  the  relations 
between  E.  H.  Bickford  and  the  new 
company.  He  was  made  a  director  of 
the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Co.  At  about  the  same  time  he  pur- 
chased a  controlling  interest  in  the 
plant  of  the  Lyndonville  Creamery  Co., 
situated  at  Newbury,  Vt.  We  assumed 
that  these  two  facts  had  some  relation 
but  are  informed  that  there  is  no  con- 
nection between  them.  Mr.  Bickford 
purchased  this  creamery  with  the  ex- 
pectation of  selling  the  product  in  any 
way  that  opportunity  offered.    He  might 


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thority on  feeding  writes:  "It  acts  both  as  tonic  and  laxative,  thereby  enabling 
the  animal  to  eat  more,  produce  more  and  feel  better  all  the  while." 


Xtravim  Molasses  contains  1042  pounds  of 
sugar  to  the  ton.  Sugar  is  the  most  valuable  of 
the  carbohydrates. 

Xtravim  is  guaranteed  to  be  Cane  Molasses. 
It  is  NOT  refinery  syrup  or  beet  molasses. 


Xtravim  Molasses  makes  inferior  hay  and 
fodder  taste  good  and  adds  food  value,  so  that 
cows  eat  them  with  appetite  and  benefit. 

Xtravim  Molasses  produces  the  glossy  coat 
that  indicates  splendid  health. 


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Page  Ten 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


October, 


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ON 

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Roofing  and 
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with  our  material — at  a  fine  saving  to 
owners.  Get  our  prices  before  you 
start  building  or  repairing. 

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Every  home  owner,  carpenter,  or 
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your  door.  Order  as  little — or  as 
much  as  you  need — at  the  same  low 
prices.  Our  Catalog  is  New  Eng- 
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material  economies.  It  gives  our  low 
prices  on  lumber,  millwork,  doors, 
windows,  storm  sash  and  doors,  roof- 
ing, shingles,  asphalt  shingles,  wall 
board,  paint,  hardware,  clapboards, 
etc.  This  book  is  yours  for  the  ask- 
ing. Just  write  for  catalog  96-D 
today. 

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'how  to  treat 

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/diseases  that  cost  American  farmers  three 
'  hundred  million  dollar  losses  each  year. 
Contagious  Abortjon 

nearly  always  appears  unexpectedly.  Wal- 
ter Rasmussen  found  40%  of  his  pure  bred 
Holstein  cows  affected.   Immediately  used 
'  B-K,  following  our  directions.  No  more  losses. 
The  book  tells  his  and  other  experiences. 

Calf  Scours 

I  yield  quickly  to  B-K  treatment.  The  cleans- 
ing, healing  action  of  B-K  on  membranes 
and  its  absolutely  non-poisonous  nature 
make  it  ideal  for  the  farmer  to  use.  The  book 
explains  this,  also  how  to  remove 

Retained  Afterbirth 

with  a  warm  water  solution  of  B-K,  using 
,  only  a  small  rubber  hose,  funnel  and  a  pail 
or  pitcher.  Releases  adhesions  and  reduces 
inflammation,  so  the  afterbirth  comes, 
without  force,  naturally  and  completely. 
B-K  is  safe,  dependable  and  cheap.  Buy 
a  jug  at  your  dealer's  and  follow  simple 
directions.  Money  back  if  not  satisfied. 


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sell  some  or  all  of  the  product  to  the 
new  company,  just  as  any  other  pro- 
prietary or  co-operative  creamery  might 
sell  its  product.  But  any  product  bought 
from  him  by  the  new  company  would 
be  treated  as  an  outside  purchase  and 
accounted  for  on  just  the  same  basis 
as  any  other  outside  purchase  made  by 
any  other  dealer. 


ANNUAL  MEETING 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

meetings  late  that  day  and  will  report 
with  recommendations  on  the  various 
matters  the  following  morning.  This 
speeds  up  the  business  greatly  and  serves 
to  clear  the  boards  for  constructive  action, 
it  generally  happens  that  locals  in  various 
parts  of  our  territory  are  thinking  along 
the  same  line  and  offer  somewhat  similar 
resolutions.  By  referring  all  these  to 
the  same  committee  they  can  select  one 
to  recommend  for  passage  and  report  the 
others  simply  as  indicating  the  wishes  of 
other  groups  along  the  same  lines. 

The  only  change  in  the  by-laws  to  be 
acted  upon  is  in  regard  to  a  membership 
fee.  It  is  proposed  to  do  away  with  the 
fee  altogether  and  leave  the  financial  sup- 
port wholly  as  a  monthly  dues  proposi- 
tion. For  some  years  the  association  had 
an  entrance  fee  of  one  dollar.  It  was 
the  theory  that  this  entrance  fee  would 
about  pay  the  cost  of  getting  a  member 
enrolled  and  would  leave  the  monthly 
dues  entirely  for  constructive  work  by 
the  association.  This  did  not  prove  to 
be  the  case  as  the  $1  entrance  fee  did  not 
begin  to  pay  the  cost  of  enrolling  mem- 
bers right  along.  It  might  do  it  in  new 
territory  where  a  good  many  members 
could  be  secured  on  one  trip  but  in  the 
follow-up  work  it  proved  inadequate. 
Rising  costs  of  canvassing  a  few  years 
ago  led  the  association  to  change  the  $1 
to  $2.  This  did  not  better  the  situation 
materially  and  it  introduced  a  new  factor, 
an  actual  doubling  of  the  initial  expense 
to  the  farmer  before  he  was  actually  a 
member. 

Reports  from  our  field  men  indicate 
that  it  will  be  a  progressive  step  to  re- 
move the  entrance  fee  altogether.  It  is 
inconvenient  to  collect  it  in  many  cases. 
Men  are  seen  off  in  the  fields  when  they 
have  only  some  change  in  their  pockets. 
They  have  to  go  down  to  the  house  to 
get  the  money.  The  payment  of  the  en- 
trance fee  has  been  one  of  the  big  causes 
for  men  delaying  their  actual  joining. 
They  say  they  will  "send  it  in,"  but  they 
forget  about  it  and  have*  to  be  called 
upon  again.  Continued  experiences  of 
this  kind  led  our  field  men  to  sign  up  the 
men  anyway  and  get  them  onto  the  dues 
order  basis  whether  they  paid  the  $2  or 
not,  trusting  that  they  might  send  in  the 
money  later.  It  became  more  of  a  bother 
than  it  was  worth  to  insist  on  the  pay- 
ment of  the  entrance  fee,  however  small. 

The  amendment  which  will  be  voted 
for  in  the  annual  meeting  and  which  is 
included  in  the  official  call  for  the  meet- 
ing, will  do  away  with  the  entrance  fee 
altogether  if  it  is  passed.  It  is  a  pretty 
safe  gues  sthat  it  will  be  passed,  if  it  is 
recommended  by  the  central  office  and 
the  field  men. 

The  railroad  rate  case  will  be  one  of 
the  features  of  the  meeting.  You  will 
get  first  hand  information  of  how  the 
fight  against  the  $750,000  annual  increase 
in  transportation  charges  is  being  waged. 
Hearings  before  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission  will  be  in  progress  in  Boston 
at  the  same  time  as  our  meeting  and 
there  may  be  some  opportunity  for  some 
of  you  to  sit  in  at  some  session  of  the 
hearings. 

From  the  present  outlook  the  report  of 
the  special  committee  which  is  dealing 
with  the  Turner  Centre  situation  will  be 
the  most  vital  matter  to  come  before  the 
association.  In  the  three  weeks  between 
the  time  this  committee  was  appointed 
and  the  annual  meeting  much  more  in- 
formation as  to  the  reasons  for  the  at- 
titude taken  by  Turner  Centre  will  be 
secured  by  the  committee.  It  is  pos- 
sible that  the  committee  can  of  itself 
clear  up  the  situation  but  if  not  they  will 
lay  the  question  before  our  meeting  for 
action.  It  is  a  time  when  wise  states- 
manlike leadership,  and  actions  for  the 
welfare  of  the  dairy  industry  as  a  whole, 
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I   NEW  HEARING  CALLED 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

'  fohich  they  were  directed  to  furnish  by 
«ihe  commission. 

r  Meanwhile  you  are  -still  paying  the 
>ld  rate,  thanks  to  the  general  commit- 
tee representing  the  dairy  interests  of 
1  Mew  England.  Without  them  the  new 
rates  at  an  advance  of  20  per  cent,  on 
\  he  present  rates  would  have  been  in 

Iiffect  six  months  already.  They  were 
scheduled  to  start  April  1.  The  commit- 
ee  secured  the  suspension  of  the  new 
•ates  until  August  1,  the  maximum  sus- 
pension allowed  under  the  law.  Since 
then  the  further  suspensions  of  the 
[•ates  have  been  by  agreement.  Our 
j-epresentatives  asked  for  information 
jibout  certain  aspects  of  handling  milk 
bid  the  railroads  have  been  slow  in 
h'urnishing  such  information.  Our  at- 
torneys represented  to  the  commission 
jit  the  last  hearing  that  they  could  not 
jnake  much  progress  and  complete  the 
presentation  of  their  side  of  the  case 
until  they  had  this  information  in  their 
'lands. 

|  Our  representatives  were  not  respon- 
sible for  these  delays.  They  were 
mxious  to  push  the  case  through.  But 
While  these  delays  go  on  you  are  still 
paying  the  old  rate.  Even  though  the 
lecision  eventually  should  be  against  us 
you  have  been  the  gainers  already  many 
limes  what  the  effort  has  cost  you.  The 
railroads  have  furnished  us  with  some 
lew  figures  as  to  actual  revenue  from 
:he  transportation  of  milk.  They  are 
lot  quite  so  high  as  we  estimated  but 
|:hey  mean  an  actual  payment  of  $3,- 
242,000  for  transportation  of  milk  in 
1925.  An  increase  of  20  per  cent,  would 
k  $648,400  a  year  or  more  than  $54,- 
)00  a  month.  Assuming  that  no  deci- 
sion will  be  reached  before  Jan.  1  which 
will  mean  in  any  case  that  the  present 
•ates  will  continue  until  then,  the  dairy 
farmers  of  New  England  will  have 
Deen  saved  from  a  payment  of  more 
:han  $486,000  in  additional  transportation 
rates  on  their  milk.  Thank  your  com- 
mittee for  it. 

The  division  of  the  revenue  on  the 
transportation  of  milk  is  interesting 
md  explains  the  place  of  leadership 
which  the  Boston  and  Maine  is  taking 
in  the  movement  for  an  increase.  Ac- 
:ording  to  the  figures  submitted  by  the 
railroads  themselves  the  actual  milk 
transportation  receipts  for  1925  were 
is  follows  on  the  various  railroads. 

Boston  &  Maine   $2,200,500 

Central   Vermont    325,000 

Rutland    206,000 

Maine   Central    200,000 

N.  Y.  N.  H.  &  H   150,000 

St.  Johnsbury  &  Lake  Cham- 
plain    .  93,500 

'Delaware  and  Hudson   45,000 

Boston  &  Albany    22,000 

$3,242,000 

Milk  originating  on  the  Boston  & 
Maine  has  increased  between  June,  1920, 
;.o  June,  1925,  1,258,596  quarts,  which  is 
in  increase  for  the  period  of  27  per  cent. 
Decreases  in  volume  have  been  shown  by 
the  Montpelier  and  Wells  River  R.  R. 
t>f  65  per  cent. ;  on  the  Maine  Central  of 
55  per  cent.  All  other  lines  show  an  in- 
:rease.  The  percentage  of  increase  in 
milk  for  the  Central  Vermont  is  36  per 
cent,  and  the  Rutland  56  per  cent. ;  St. 
Johnsbury  &  Lake  Champlain  183  per 
bent,  and  the  Delaware  &  Hudson  827 
ber  cent.  The  volume  of  cream  handled 
bn  the  Boston  &  Maine  has  increased 
146,000  odd  quarts,  an  increase  of  22  per 
■:ent.  for  the  five-year  period. 

Montpelier  &  Wells  River  has  also 
.shown  a  large  increase.  Maine  Central, 
:he  same  as  in  milk,  has  shown  a  con- 
siderable decrease  in  volume  of  cream 
'landled  to  Boston,  amounting  to  211,000 
odd  quarts,  a  decrease  of  32  per  cent. 
The  Central  Vermont  has  increased  its 
volume  of  shipments  of  cream  to  these 
..points  184,000  odd  quarts,  equal  to  64 
per  cent.  Rutland  also  has  shown  an 
increase  of  124,000  odd  quarts,  equal  to 
31  per  cent.  St.  Johnsbury  &  Lake 
Champlain  has  shown  a  decrease  in  vol- 
ume of  cream  shipped  to  Boston.  While 
■the  Delaware  &  Hudson  and  the  Cana- 
dian Pacific  shipments  are  small,  they 


both  show  less  shipped  in  June,  1925, 
than  in  June,  1920. 

The  total  "Quarts  of  cream  has  in- 
creased during  this  period  from  2,306,000 
odd  quarts  to  £,538,000  odd  quarts,  an  in- 
crease of  about  10  per  cent. 

Total  quarts  of  milk  and  cream  handled 
by  all  roads  to  Boston  milk  station  and 
North  Station  has  increased  from  12,- 
170,000  odd  quarts  to  14,997,000  odd 
Quarts,  an  increase  of  2,826,941  quarts,  or 
23  per  cent. 

The  volume  moved  to  Boston  milk 
station  and  North  Station  has  increased 
from  6,098,000  odd  quarts  in  June,  1920, 
to  8,364,000  odd  quarts  of  milk  and 
cream  in  June,  1925,  an  increase  of  36% 
per  cent. 

For  all  other  lines  shipping  to  Boston 


milk  station  and  North  Station,  both  milk 
and  cream,  the  total  in  June,  1920,  was 
0,071,000  odd  quarts.  The  total  in  June, 
1925,  was  6,632,000  odd  quarts,  an  in- 
crease of  560,000  odd  quarts  or  about 
9.2  per  cent. 

As  the  small  cities  and  towns  have 
grown  the  need  for  more  milk  has  caused 
a  diversion  of  part  of  Boston's  supply 
from  nearby  points  to  these  cities.  In 
addition  these  cities  have  drawn  on  north- 
ern states  for  additional  supplies  to  fill 
their  needs.  According  to  the  United 
States  Census  for  Agriculture  for  1925, 
the  production  of  milk  in  Massachusetts 
in  the  year  1924  was  40,000,000  quarts 
greater  than  the  production  of  milk  in 
1919.  In  other  words,  the  nearby  pro- 
ducers supplying  the  lesser  markets  and 


Boston  have  increased  their  production 
forty  million  quarts,  an  increase  of 
about  13  per  cent,  for  the  year  1924  over 
the  year  1919.  During  the  same  period 
the  population  in  Massachusetts  has  in- 
creased about  7  per  cent.  The  popula- 
tion of  milk  in  Massachusetts  has  there- 
fore increased  at  the  rate  of  nearly  two 
times  the  rate  of  increase  in  population. 


"I  see  you  have  a  sign  in  your  store, 
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"Certainly,"  replied  the  proprietor, 
"that  is  our  motto." 

"Well,"  retorted  the  I.  C,  "you  ought 
to  take  a  little  time  off  for  target  prac- 
tice." 


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It  is  not  what  an  animal  EATS,  but  what  it  DIGESTS  that  makes 
meat  or  milk,  you  can  make  your  rations  more  digestible  by  feeding  Corn 
Gluten  Feed. 

In  each  100-pound  bag  of  Corn  Gluten  Feed  you  get  five  to  twenty-five 
pounds  more  digestible  material  than  you  get  in  the  other  protein  concen- 
trates commonly  used. 

So  when  you  feed  a  ration  containing  Corn  Gluten  Feed  you  make 
more  money  because  the  cow  digests  more,  therefore  she  does  not  need  as 
much  feed  to  make  a  gallon  of  milk. 

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does  not  sell  it,  any  manufacturer  will  supply  you.  Feed  it  with  your  home 
grown  materials. 


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No.  58 


The 
Better  Way 
of  Milking 


The 


Thumb 
Test 

Stick  your  thumbs  in  the  teat-cups 
of  a  De  Laval  Milker,  and  then  have 
the  full  vacuum  turned  on. 

This  is  the  easiest  and  best  way  to 
get  an  idea  of  the  uniform,  gentle  and 
pleasing  action  of  the  De  Laval 
Milker  on  a  cow's  teats. 

Try  it  with  any  milker.   (See  that 
full  vacuum  is  turned  on.)    If  such 
action  hurts  your  thumbs,  then  you 
will  know  that  it  must  hurt  the  cow's  teats,  and  a  cow  in  discomfort  will  not  produce 
to  her  fullest  extent. 

The  uniform  and  gentle  action  of  the  De  Laval  is  an  exclusive  feature  and  one 
of  the  reasons  the  De  Laval  Milker  is  gaining  so  rapidly  in  popularity. 

The  De  Laval  Separator  Company 


New  York 
165  Broadway 


Chicago 
600  Jackson  Blvd. 


San  Francisco 
61  Beale  St. 


Sooner  or  later  you  will  use  a 

De  Laval 

Milker  and  Cream  Separator 


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AGRICULTURAL 
LIBRARY 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairv  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  10.  Number  8. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  NOVEMBER,  1926 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


Association  Endorses  Action        Referred  To  Stockholders 


'asses  Unanimous  Vote  to 
Against  Turner 

'  Our  annual  meeting  was  a  ripper.  We 
lissed  the  Chief  greatly  but  were  cheered 
p  by  the  mighty  fine  message  we  got 
rom  him,  written  at  the  hospital.  Every- 
body inquired  after  him  and  with  a  little 
ncouragement  scores  of  them  would 
lave  gone  out  to  see  him. 
The  Turner  Centre  situation  held  the 
orefront  of  attention  throughout  the  two 
ays.     Everybody  realized  how  serious 

•<  matter  it  would  be  if  the  NEMPA  and 
le  Turner  Centre  system  should  meet 
j  a  head  on  collision.  Everybody  would 
Bffer.  But  there  was  no  question  in  the 
finds  of  our  delegates  as  to  which  should 
2  supported,  the  NEMPA  working  for 
ke  welfare  of  the  dairy  industry  of  all 
Jew  England  or  the  idea  of  E.  L.  Brad- 
ord  that  Turner  Centre  is  able  to  go  it 
one.  When  it  came  to  a  roll  call  vote 
l  support  of  the  association  sales  com- 
littee  on  a  recommendation  to  collect 
lick  pay  for  August  and  September  milk 
om  the  Turner  Centre  and  to  pull  off 
leir  milk  unless  they  agreed  to  come  in 
ain  under  the  surplus  plan,  every  dele- 
ate  stood  by  the  association.  The  way 
ley  said  Yes — Yes — Yes  told  a  mighty 
ne  story.  It  was  especially  fine  consid- 
ing  that  among  them  were  a  consider- 
ble  number  of  Turner  Centre  men  who 
ad  money  invested  in  the  System  and 
ere  thus  casting  in  their  lot  with  the 
IEMPA  as  against  their  own  directors. 
So  great  was  the  interest  in  the  Turner 
entre  situation  that  practically  no  other 
asiness  was  done.  Everybody  laid  aside 
leir  small  local  interests  in  the  consid- 
•ation  of  the  big  issue.  For  two  days 
le  tension  lasted.  When  the  meeting 
"oke  up  the  sales  committee  was  left 
ith  full  authority  to  draw  off  Turner 
entre  milk  Nov.  1,  to  bring  suit  for 
ugust  and  September  milk  and  to  make 
1  adjustment,  if  necessary,  to  the  other 
balers  on  October  milk.  The  meeting, 
'owever,  left  the  sales  committee  full 
ithority  to  re-open  negotiations  if  they 
:emed  it  wise. 

Elsewhere  in  this  issue  are  the  full 
:ports  of  President  Little,  Managing 
'irector  Pattee  and  other  officers  and 
aff  men  are  given  in  full.  They  were 
:ports  of  a  good  progressive  year.  If 
had  not  been  for  missing  the  Chief 
id  for  the  shadow  of  the  Turner  Cen- 
e  situation,  it  would  pass  as  the  best 
eeting  we  ever  have  had.  Unfortunately, 
[r.  Little  had  a  patient  who  was  criti- 
dly  ill  and  could  not  come  to  our  meet- 
ig.  Vice-President  Sikes  did  valiant 
•rvice  as  a  presiding  officer. 
Our  social  gathering  in  the  evening 
as  the  usual  good  time,  a  family  gath- 
'ing  in  which  our  leaders  and  our  friends 
•om  the  agricultural  organizations  and 
?encies  could  join  us.  Prof.  J.  H. 
randsen  of  the  Massachusetts  Agricul- 
;iral  College  was  our  toastmaster.  With 
3hn  Finerty  to  give  a  vigorous  state- 
ment concerning  the  freight  rate  case 
id  Stanley  Abbott  to  tell  of  the  old 
mes  long  before  the  present  NEMPA 
as  started,  the  past  and  present  mingled 
easantly. 

.  The    Turner    Centre    situation  was 


Back  Up  Sales  Committee 
Centre  Directors 

thrown  into  the  meeting  early  in  order 
to  give  the  members  full  opportunity  to 
discuss  it.  Assistant  Manager  W.  P. 
Davis  outlined  the  situation  on  the  after- 
noon of  the  first  day.  It  is  well  to  go 
over  the  steps  as  he  did. 


Directors  of  the  Turner  Centre  Sys- 
tem have  called  a  general  meeting  of 
their  stockholders  Nov.  12,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  laying  before  them  the  situa- 
tion which  has  arisen  as  a  result  of  the 
refusal  of  the  Turner  Centre  directors 
to  continue  to  buy  milk  on  the  surplus 
olan.  Pending  that  meeting  the  sales 
committee  of  the  NEMPA  has  withheld 
any  further  action  to  induce  or  force 
Turner  Centre  back  under  the  plan  which 


OFR   TTEW    FIELD  DEPARTMENT 
Left  to  right — F.  L.  Foley,  E.  P.  Osgood,  F.  C.  Winner,  N'.  H.  Molls 


The  Turner  Centre  System  has  operated 
under  the  surplus  plan  since  1918,  when 
the  plan  was  set  up  by  the  Federal 
Regional  Milk  Commission.  It  has  paid 
the  prices  determined  under  the  surplus 
plan  and  has  in  addition  paid  bonuses  and 
stock  dividends  which  brought  their  pay- 
ments to  patrons  substantially  higher  than 
what  was  received  by  producers  supply- 
ing other  dealers.  For  two  years  back 
they  have  made  no  extra  payments,  due  to 
changes  in  the  milk  business  which 
lessened  their  earnings. 

In  June  the  Turner  Centre  System 
notified  the  sales  committee  that  they  were 
not  going  to  pay  under  the  surplus  plan, 
but  the  issue  was  avoided  at  that  time  by 
Turner  Centre  paying  the  full  price. 

In  July  they  paid  under  the  surplus  plan 
and  they  negotiated  with  the  sales  com- 
mittee for  August  and  September  milk  on 
the  surplus  plan  basis.  They  did  not, 
however,  pay  for  August  milk  on  the 
basis  of  the  surplus  plan,  nor  did  they 
notify  the  sales  committee  that  they  were 
not  paying  under  the  surplus  plan  until 
September  IS,  when  the  payments  were 
made.  Their  payment  for  August 
was    about    $15,000    below     what  it 

(Continued  on  page  four) 


is  in  operation  for  more  than  75  per  cent 
of  the  milk  sold  in  Boston. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  association 
left  the  sales  committee  a  free  hand  to 
go  ahead  on  three  different  phases  of  the 
situation.  First  they  authorized  the  sales 
committee  to  withhold  the  milk  of 
NEMPA  members  who  are  patrons  of 
the  Turner  Centre  System  on  Nov.  1 
unless  the  directors  of  the  system  agreed 
to  come  back  under  the  surplus  plan. 
So  long  as  the  question  is  to  be  presented 
to  the  farmer  patrons  of  Turner  Centre 
Nov.  12  it  was  decided  to  withhold  this 
action  until  Nov.  15.  This  was  done  in 
the  expectation  that  the  majority  of  the 
stock  holders  would  vote  to  stand  by  the 
surplus  plan  and  thus  prevent  a  chaotic 
condition  in  the  market  which  would  bring 
heavy  losses  to  Turner  Centre  patrons 
as  well  as  to  the  patrons  of  other  deal- 
ers. 

Second  the  association  authorized  the 
sales  committee  to  use  its  discretion  in 
meeting  the  demands  of  dealers  for  an 
adjustment  on  October  milk.  The  Turner 
Centre  System  had  notified  the  NEMPA 
about  Sept.  15  that  it  would  not  operate 
further  under  the  surplus  plan.  It  was 
the  opinion  of  the  sales  committee  that 


they  had  no  legal  binding  obligation  on 
the  part  of  Turner  Centre  regarding  Oc- 
tober milk.  Other  dealers  have  filed 
claims  for  a  rebate  on  October  milk  but 
the  sales  committee  has  declined  to  con- 
sider them  until  after  the  stockholders 
meeting.  On  this  point  also  they  feel  that 
the  stockholders  of  the  Turner  Centre 
System  will  reverse  the  decision  of  their 
directors  and  that  the  System  will  pay  a 
known  price  for  October  milk,  figuring 
that  price  under  the  surplus  plan. 

Thirdly,  our  association  authorized  the 
sales  committee  to  proceed  to  collect  the 
amounts  due  from  Turner  Centre  on 
August  and  September  milk.  The  asso- 
ciation feels  that  it  has  a  perfectly  valid 
legal  claim  for  the  payment  on  the  sur- 
plus plan  for  both  August  and  September 
as  the  Turner  Centre  system  had  agreed 
to  the  price  for  August  and  for  Septem- 
ber and  had  given  no  notice  of  any  change 
in  attitude  until  after  the  second  month 
was  half  over  and  three  quarters  of  the 
milk  in  question  had  been  delivered. 
Dealers  have  also  put  in  claims  for  ad- 
justments for  August  and  September  but 
the  sales  committee  has  informed  them 
that  they  expect  to  collect  the  full  price 
under  the  provisions  of  the  surplus  plan 
for  both  these  months.  They  will  bring 
suit  in  the  name  of  the  NEMPA  mem- 
bers who  are  patrons  of  the  Turner  Cen- 
tre system  if  necessary. 

Greater  than  the  legal  obligation  to 
pay  the  agreed  upon  price  for  August 
and  September  is  the  moral  obligation  to 
do  so.  The  sales  committee  are  counting 
on  this  as  a  powerful  factor  in  securing 
this  back  pay  for  its  members  without 
compulsion.  Under  the  conditions  by 
which  negotiations  are  conducted  the  ac- 
ceptances of  the  dealers  of  the  price  of- 
fered by  the  sales  committee  are  given 
verbally  and  have  been  kept  with  scrup- 
ulous honesty  in  all  previous  cases.  If 
any  dealer  has  wanted  any  change  in 
prices  or  conditions  he  has  presented  his 
views  to  the  sales  committee.  In  no  pre- 
vious instance  has  one  of  them  accepted 
milk  for  six  weeks  and  then  given  notice 
that  they  would  not  pay  for  it  at  the 
agreed  upon  price.  This  is  what  Turner 
Centre  did. 


NEW  ENGLAND  SURVEY 

William  A.  Schoenfeld  of  the  U.  S.  D. 
A.  division  of  co-operative  marketing,  out- 
lined briefly  the  way  in  which  he  is  going 
at  the  problem  of  making  a  dairy  survey 
of  all  New  England.  He  has  been  in  the 
work  so  short  a  time  that  he  cannot  even 
guess  as  to  the  number  of  months  it  will 
take  before  he  can  get  sufficient  data  on 
which  to  draw  any  conclusions.  He  said 
that  he  is  having  fine  co-operation  from 
everyone  concerned  and  is  sure  that  great 
good  will  come  from  having  such  an  im- 
partial survey  made.  As  to  any  conclu- 
sions, he  remarked  pertinently  that  if  he 
or  anyone  else  really  knew  what  ought 
to  be  done  in  the  way  of  co-operative 
marketing  of  dairy  products  in  New  Eng- 
land there  would  be  no  need  of  making 
the  survey.  The  aim  of  the  survey  is  to 
find  out  the  facts  and  then  turn  these 
facts  over  to  men  who  are  competent  to 
analyze  them  and  draw  conclusions.  Per- 
sonal opinions  and  pride  in  personal  plans 
will  not  be  a  factor  in  this  survey. 


Page  Txvo 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


November,  1926 


Annual  Report  of  Managing  Director  Richard  Pattee 


Progressive  Year  of  Work  Reviewed — Several  Important 
Gains  are  Made  and  Problems  Solved — Farmers  Get 
Two  Million  Dollars  More  than  in  Previous  Year 


Generally  speaking,  the  story  of  the 
past  year  has  been  told  from  month  to 
month  in  the  New  England  Dairyman. 
There  is,  however,  much  in  the  work  of 
the  organization  that  can  never  become 
a  matter  of  record  and  report.  Long 
years  of  close,  intimate  contact  with  the 
many  markets  in  which  we  operate,  have 
given  us  an  intimate  knowledge  of  men 
and  conditions  which  is  invaluable  in 
carrying  on  the  work  of  the  Associa- 
tion. The  historical  setting  of  this  or- 
ganization, its  long  experience  and  knowl- 
edge of  the  things  that  have  gone  before, 
with  reasons  and  results,  is  its  greatest 
asset.  It  is  just  the  every  day  contact 
with  people  and  things,  the  discussions, 
conferences,  proposals,  suggestions,  ne- 
gotiations, bargaining,  studies,  and  other 
things  which  build  up  and  make  men 
and  organizations  what  they  are.  These 
things  have  a  definite  bearing  and  in- 
fluence upon  the  work  of  the  Associa- 
tion which  cannot,  however,  be  printed 
m  the  Dairyman  or  recited  in  a  report. 

On  the  whole,  it  has  been  a  most  satis- 
factory year.  There  have  developed  sev- 
eral unusual  experiences  and  important 
problems.  It  is  to  the  consideration  of 
these  major  matters  that  this  report  will 
be  addressed. 

1.  MEMBERSHIP 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  last  year  it 
was  voted  with  practical  unanimity,  to 
expand  the  work  of  the  organization  and 
to  provide  increased  funds  for  that  pur- 
pose. The  NEMPA  has  since  its  or- 
ganization in  its  present  form,  been  oper- 
ated upon  probably  the  smallest  income 
of  any  organization  of  its  size  and  kind 
in  the  country.  Other  organizations  are 
supported  by  sales  commissions  or  dues 
payments  running  as  high  as  2  cents  per 
gallon  or  an  unlimited  deduction  of  what- 
ever is  required  to  finance  their  opera- 
tions. We  have  never  levied  an  assess- 
ment save  a  voluntary  offering  for  the 
particular  purpose  of  reimbursing  those 
who  lost  heavily  during  a  recent  con- 
troversy. The  organization  has  been 
operated  upon  the  pay-as-you-go  plan 
and  has  limited  its  activities  to  those 
things  which  it  could  do  well  and  pay 
for  This  limitation  has  interfered  with 
its  usefulness  and  it  was  gratifying  in- 
deed that  steps  were  taken  to  provide 
greater  funds  for  increased  usefulness. 
Naturally  it  was  expected  that  a  number 
might  withdraw.  There  has  never  been 
a  lack  of  those  who  are  willing  to  ac- 
cept whatever  benefits  might  arise  with- 
out themselves  contributing  to  the  cost 

But  our  membership  is  not  made  of 
that  stuff.  The  withdrawal  on  account 
of  increased  dues  has  been  negligible. 
The  members  remain  loyal  to  the 
NEMPA.  The  general  attitude  has  been 
that  this  change  might  well  have  been 
made  sooner,  a  willingness  to  give  ad- 
ditional support  in  return  for  additional 
service.  Requests  were  mailed  to  our 
membership  for  powers-of-attorney  un- 
der which  dues  upon  the  basis  of  2  cents 
per  cwt.  might  be  collected.  The  re- 
sponse was  beyond  our  expectations.  Con- 
sidering also  that  only  about  two-thirds 
of  our  total  pay  their  dues  through  this 
form  of  collection,  it  is  very  gratifying. 

We  hope  and  expect  that  following 
this  meeting  many  more  dues  orders  on 
the  new  basis  will  be  returned  by  mail. 
Every  member  here  should  see  to  it  that 
if  there  are  in  his  vicinity  those  whose 
orders  have  not  been  received,  they  are 
forwarded  at  once  and  thus  save  the  ex- 
pense of  a  personal  canvass.  The  few 
cancellations  have  been  more  than  re- 
placed by  .new  members  who  have  come 
in  during  the  year. 

About  the  middle  of  May  our  field  de- 
partment was  set  up  under  the  direction 
of  Mr.  Warner  with  three  assistants, 
Messrs.  Wells,  Osgood  and  Foley.  Their 
first  work  was  to  complete  by  personal 
canvass  the  enrollment  of  the  old  mem- 
bership on  the  new  dues  basis  and  the  en- 
rollment of  new  members  throughout 
the  territory.  This  work  was  started  in 
Maine,  where  little  had  been  done  for 
several  years.  A  field  canvass  is  neces- 
sarily slow  work.  We  have  been  highly 
gratified,  however,  at  the  wonderful  re- 
sponse our  field  men  have  received.  So 


far  more  than  85  per  cent,  of  the  eligible 
membership  in  the  territory  canvassed 
has  been  enrolled,  under  the  new  dues 
basis.  Many  of  those  not  enrolled  will, 
we  are  sure,  become  members  when  per- 
sonally seen  the  second  time.  It  seems 
highly  probable  that  with  the  aid  of  local 
officers  and  with  the  further  aid  of  you 
who  are  here,  in  your  several  localities 


upon  your  return  the  number  of  effective 
dues  orders  upon  the  new  basis  Janu- 
ary 1st  will  approximate  if  not  exceed 
the  effective  orders  on  the  old  basis  which 
were  operative  last  year. 

The  field  campaign  has  already  dem- 
onstrated the  imperative  need  of  con- 
tinuous and  consistent  field  services.  Gen- 
erally speaking,  there  has  been  less  com- 
plaint in  the  past  year  about  dealers 
weights  and  tests.  We  are  lead  by  this 
to  believe  that  there  is  greater  care  and 
accuracy  in  these  matters  upon  the  part 
of  dealers  than  has  ever  been  practiced 
before.  The  very  fact  that  the  farmers 
are  largely  organized  and  contemplate 
the  establishment  of  a  system  for  check- 
ing weights  and  tests,  has  perhaps  tended 
to  the  correction  of  conditions  in  this  re- 
spect. Nevertheless  a  check  weighing 
and  testing  system  in  the  hands  of  pro- 
ducers must  be  developed  at  the  earliest 
possible  time  and  will  we  believe,  many 
times  repay  its  cost  in  the  improved  ac- 
curacy of  farmers'  returns.  We  want 
nothing  but  what  is  right  but  what  is 
right,  we  want.    To  get  it  we  must  place 


ourselves  in  a  position  to  know  what  is 
right. 

Another  outstanding  respect  in  which 
actual  and  positive  service  can  and  should 
be  rendered  is  in  the  relations  between 
producers  and  the  city  Boards  of  Health. 
Health  inspections  have  been  a  constant 
source  of  complaint.  Undoubtedly  much 
injustice  has  been  done  and  very  pos- 


sibly advantage  has  been  taken  by  pro- 
ducers of  the  absence  of  inspection  to 
offer  in  the  market  products  of  an  in- 
ferior quality,  a  serious  dis-service  to  the 
dairy  industry.  Uniform,  honestly  ad- 
ministered, reasonable  regulations  are  en- 
tirely acceptable.  That  they  be  uniform, 
honestly  administered  and  reasonable,  the 
farmers  must  themselves  be  able  to  meet 
any  abuse,  or  discriminations  which  arise 
and  be  able  to  demand  fair  and  uniform 
treatment.  Already  our  field  service  de- 
partment is  in  touch  with  the  city  Boards 
of  Health  in  these  matters,  discussing  the 
regulations  and  their  enforcement  with 
a  view  to  greater  uniformity  and  fairness 
and  in  several  instances  we  have  been 
able  to  correct  conditions  which  would 
have  otherwise  inflicted  serious  loss  upon 
individual  dairymen.  This  work  must  be 
systematically  and  uniformly  developed. 
It  should  not  be  understood  that  the  farm- 
ers object  to  fair  and  honest  health  regu- 
lations. Purity,  healthfulness,  and  good 
quality  are  essential  to  the  successful 
marketing  of  any  product,  more  par- 
ticularly milk.   Fair  and  reasonable  regu- 


lations should  be  enforced  upon  all  or 
none. 

There  is  an  especial  need  of  a  better 
contact  between  the  officials  and  em- 
ployees of  the  organization  and  the  gen- 
eral membership.  There  is  too  little  of 
personal  acquaintance  and  contact  be- 
tween our  office  and  our  people;  especially 
ought  our  executives  have  opportunity  to 
meet  and  discuss  with  our  members  the 
problems  of  the  city  markets.  There 
should  be  many  more  meetings,  confer- 
ences and  consultations  in  the  country  at1 
which  members  themselves  may  discuss 
with  the  officers  of  the  organization  the! 
general  and  local  problems  in  which  they; 
are  concerned.  Every  trip  which  onei 
of  our  executives  is  able  to  make  through) 
the  producing  territory,  gives  a  knowl-j 
edge  of  local  conditions  which  enablesi 
him  to  better  meet  market  problems.  Pro-j 
ducers  in  the  country  should  have  greater] 
opportunity  to  discuss  market  conditionsj 
with  those  who  are  trained  to  study  and| 
report  them,  which  would  create  a  bet-j 
ter  appreciation  of  our  problems.  Thenl 
is  a  tremendous  educational  opportunity 
in  our  organization  which  has  not  beer| 
developed.  We  believe  that  the  machinerj 
of  the  organization  ought  to  be  so  util- 
ized by  systematic,  well  organized  anc 
inexpensive  procedure  along  these  lines! 
It  has  been  our  ambition  for  years  to 
make  the  NEMPA  a  great  educationa 
institution  in  the  matter  of  dairy  market 
ing,  to  promote  more  thorough  under 
standing  of  conditions,  the  proper  solu: 
tion  of  which  are  essential  to  the  main 
tenance  of  the  industry. 

As  our  field  canvass  has  proceeded  w> 
have  exercised  the  most  drastic  revisioi 
of  our  membership  rolls.  People  wht 
have  moved  away,  abandoned  dairying 
quit  the  sale  of  milk  or  no  longer  wisl 
to  support  the  organization,  have  bee| 
removed  from  our  rolls.  The  result  ha 
been  the  elimination  of  considerable  dea* 
wood  by  the  replacement  of  live,  activ 
membership.  The  net  result  has  been 
slight  loss  of  our  total  enrollment  whic 
on  September  30th,  1926,  numbered  19, 
718,  which  is  939  less  than  the  total  en 
rollment  reported  last  year. 

The  new  dues  system  when  it  become 
pffective,  will  support  the  activities  whic 
we  have  indicated  above.  Those  activitie 
should  be  entered  upon  in  a  systemati 
and  orderly  way  at  the  earliest  possib; 
opportunity.  There  has  been  a  prelim, 
nary  cost  to  the  field  service  campaig 
for  which  funds  have  had  to  be  provide 
during  the  present  year.  The  mone 
necessarily  borrowed  for  this  purpo:* 
should  be  immediately  repaid  out  of  th 
increased  income.  That  being  done,  di.< 
trict  headquarters  should  be  prompt  I 
opened  in  the  field,  men  placed  in  pe 
manent  charge  thereof,  and  systemat 
work  laid  out  and  conducted  along  tf 
lines  indicated.  This  can  we  believe  \ 
done  within  the  next  twelve  months  ar 
another  year  ought  to  find  the  NEMP1 
better  organized,  more  effective,  and  moi 
aggressive,  more  worth  while  that 
has  ever  been  before. 

The  discussion  of  these  matters  shou 
not  leave  the  impression  that  things  ha' 
been  laxly  or  inefficiently  done  befor 
The  work  we  have  been  able  to  do  h; 
been  well  done,  remarkably  so,  conside 
ing  what  we  have  had  to  do  with.  Evei 
other  organization  in  the  country  w 
say  so.  Now  that  we  have  prospects  i 
a  larger  income,  we  will  be  in  a  positii 
to  extend  and  improve  our  service.  Tl 
morale  of  the  organization  was  nev 
better,  'it  never  had  a  greater  promij 
of  increased  usefulness. 

II.  FINANCES 
As  indicated  by  the  treasurer's  repoj 
the  financial  status  of  the  organization 
generally  satisfactory.     Expenses  ha 
been  kept  within  receipts  except  for  ti 
special  fund  raised  to  conduct  the  fiej 
campaign.    The  Association  is  abundar 
ly  solvent.    Its  pay-as-you-go  policy  hi 
been  maintained.    Were  it  to  cease  o 
erations  today  its  property  and  accoun 
receivable  would  pay  all  its   bills  a» 
leave  something  besides.     Its  need  f! 
increased  income  is  in  the  need  to  i 
crease  its  services. 
We  believe  there  is  no  insurance  bf 


GREETINGS 

Greetings  from  five  miles  out  where  I  am  laid  up  temporarily 
for  repairs.  They  tell  me  when  I  get  a  few  points  nled  orf,  some 
carbon  removed  and  new  oil,  I'll  be  good  for  fitteen  or  twenty 
years.  So  I'm  not  kicking  only  that  it  should  come  at  just  this 
time.  The  harness  always  breaks  when  you  want  to  plow  and  the 
mower  goes  wrong  in  the  middle  of  the  best  piece  of  grass  with 
the  weatner  man  saying  rain  day  after  tomorrow. 

But  then  I'm  having  a  new  experience  and  new  experiences  are 
always  interesting.  Tnere  are  some  good  things  in  this  repair 
business,  ior  instance,  I've  not  been  out  of  bed,  day  or  night, 
since  a  week  ago  inday.  Think  of  that  you  hard  working  tour 
o'clock  in  the  morning  dairymen  who'd  give  the  price  of  a  pretty 
_good  cow  just  to  stay  abed  a  good  deal  less  time  than  that. 

There  are  other  compensations  too.  Think  of  being  waited  on 
like  a  baby  all  this  time  by  a  brown-eyed,  bronze-haired,  snappy 
young  woman  who  even  feeds  you  water  through  a  glass  tube  tnat 
makes  you  think  of  sucking  cider  through  a  straw.  Though  all 
things  considered  I'd  prefer  the  cider,  1  think.  Anyhow  my  re- 
pairs are  coming  along  fine.  They  say  I'll  be  sitting  up  in  a  few 
days  and  home  again  before  very  long. 

I'd  like  to  be  with  you  tonight.  I'd  like  to  meet  you  all  as  I 
have  every  year  before.  I'd  like  to  hear  the  music  and  the  stories 
and  the  fun.  I'd  like  to  hear  Finerty  on  the  Rate  Case.  Judging 
from  what  I've  seen  of  him  I  guess  he's  rather  a  bright  fellow  and 
able  to  maintain  the  traditions  of  my  mother's  race  (you  remember 
she  was  a  Kelley).  He's  a  big  man  in  his  line  of  work  and  it's 
always  worth  while  to  meet  and  hear  such.  He's  done  a  whale  of 
a  job  for  us  so  far.  I  reckon  the  railroad  didn't  anticipate  any 
such  fight  as  Finerty  and  his  associates  have  put  up  for  us. 

I  particularly  wish  I  might  hear  Stanley  Abbott's  reminiscences. 
He  is  the  one  man  who  as  president  of  the  old  association,  com- 
manded the  entire  confidence  of  both  farmers  and  contractors  no 
matter  how  much  they  might  quarrel  or  even  fight.  How  glad 
the  old  timers  will  be  to  hear  him.  Slow  spoken,  sound  thinking, 
absolutely  honest,  he  has  always  held  the  faith  and  good  will  of 
all  of  us.  I  once  heard  a  big  milk  dealer  say  he'd  like  to  leave 
behind  a  life  work  like  that  of  Stanley  Abbott,  honest,  cultured, 
intelligent,  a  man  among  men,  father  of  a  splendid  family,  a  lover 
of  music  and  beauty,  the  sort  we  need  to  keep  on  our  New  England 
farms  to  maintain  their  traditions  and  stabilize  our  institutions. 

So  I'm  thinking  of  you  all,  wishing  you  every  joy  and  happi- 
ness and  a  splendid  meeting.  PATTEE. 


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ihthan  a  substantial  bank  account.  To 
|  end  it  was  proposed  that  unexpected 
J  nces  due  to  locals  under  our  form 
I  organization,  should  be  placed  in  a 
i^nanent  fund  which  it  was  hoped  might 
j  w  to  substantial  proportions.  The 
!|1  of  field  work  in  the  past  lias  how- 
■  been  so  imperative  that  this  fund 
been  largely  drawn  upon  by  vote  of 

♦  Directors  to  keep  one  man  pcr- 
lently  and  others  occasionally  in  the 
I  rather  than  to  have  it  accumulate  in 

|l  bank.  An  Association  of  about  3501) 
ymen  supplying  the  Baltimore,  Md., 

f  ket  has  for  years  taxed  itself  2c  or 
e  per  gallon  on  all  the  milk  produced 
that  market.    It  has  spent  each  year 

'rs  work  more  than  the  annual  income 
the  NEMPA  besides  accumulating  a 

,rve  fund  approximating  a  half  mil- 
of  dollars,  building  a  surplus  plant 
ch  it  does  not  utilize  and  in  other 
s  putting  itself  in  a  position  to  meet 
emergency  which  may  arise.  The 
'  fact  that  these  dairymen  have  so  lib- 
ly  supported  an  organization  has  in 
judgment  of  all  who  are  familiar 
1  their  situation,  enabled  them  to 
blish  and  maintain  prices  which  have 
e  the  payment  of   such  a  tax  far 

pa  burdensome. 

l\  is  not  altogether  what  a  thing  costs 
F  what  it  is  worth,  that  determines 
Ither  or  not  we  can  afford  it.  We  be- 
i  ;  that  under  the  new  dues  system, 
r  the  preliminary  expense  of  setting 
he  field  service  department  is  paid,  a 
i:  ilus  fund  should  be  built  up  which 
l|  ild  aggregate  in  time  not  less  than 
\  1,000  as  an  insurance  against  emer- 
ges.   The  percentage  remainders  not 
irbed  by  Locals  should  as  largely  as 
lible,  be  devoted  to  that  fund.  The 
dues  arrangement  will  enable  it  to 
(argely  and  eventually  wholly  so  used. 

•  igether  our  financial  prospects  are 
>t  encouraging.  We  should  not  only 
ible  to  do  more  and  better  work  but 
lay  by  something  for  a  rainy  day. 

I  III.  MARKET  SITUATION 
he  general  market  situation  has  been 
":  believe  during  the  past  year  more 
•Tally  satisfactory  than  at  any  time 
le  history  of  the  organization.  There 
i  been   flurries  and   temporary  dis- 
tances, threats  and  several  crisis,  but 
ne  way  or  another  these  things  have 
met  and  a  gratifying  situation  main- 
;d.    It  is  especially  noticeable  that 
geographical  area  and  the  volume  of 
}  production  in  the  New  England  ter- 
,-y  which  operates  on  the  NEMPA 
3,  is  increasing.    More  and  more  new 
itory  and  other  agencies  line  up  on 
NEMPA  sales  plan.    A  considerable 
msion  of  milk  and  cream  shipping 
tory  especially  in  northern  Vermont 
occurred  within  the  past  year  by  the 
dishment  of   new  shipping  stations 
ic  taking  over  of  old  ones  by  Boston 
;rs.    The  volume  of  product  moving 
r  the  NEMPA  plan  is  considerably 
'xcess  of  that  of  a  year  ago. 
.he  practice  of   some   of   the  large 
'ers  of   limiting  their  all   the  year 
ind  purchases   to  such  territory  as 
Id  supply    them    during    the  flush 
□Hths  and  buying  outside  for  their  needs 
I  ng  the  short  period,  giving  such  out- 
i't  milk  the  preference  in  their  sales, 
I  been  largely  discontinued  under  the 
n  tance  of  our  Sales  Committee,  which 
i:  demanded,  as  the  records  of  the  Di- 
llrs  have  shown,  that  the  regular  pro- 
Mrs  of  any  dealer  shall  receive  pay 
*j  their  proportion  of  what  milk  the 
Sl;r  sells  during  the  whole  year ;  that 
p-  milk  shall  not  be  set  aside  to  be 
IV  only  after  milk  bought  somewhere 
I]  has  been  disposed  of.    This  policy 
lii  )urages  the  former  practice  of  large 
Uirs  of  buying  cheap  outside  milk,  and 
ijiurages  such  dealers  to  expand  their 
1  lar  territory  sufficiently  to  provide 
1  their  needs  during  the  short  produc- 
i|  period. 

'e  believe  this  policy  to  be  absolutely 
Id  d.  Under  it  larger  purchases  have 
Ml  made  under  the  surplus  plan  and 
'hj  temporary  surplus  somewhat  en- 
ki|  ed.  We  submit  however,  that  it  is 
)'  'r  for  the  industry  that  the  product 
R  11  producing  territory  move  regularly 
tC|  :he  markets  on  an  equitable  basis 
fJjer  than  some  part  of  it  shall  be  re- 
|t  :d  from  the  markets  during  part  of 
:1!  year  and  consequently  seek  outlets 
tl<ugh  less  efficient  sales  methods  and 


often  at  emergency  prices.  The  great 
aim  of  the  industry  should  be  to  provide 
marketing  facilities,  under  its  own  con- 
trol, which  would  provide  an  outlet  for 
all  the  product  all  the  time,  equitably 
distributing  back  to  the  producers  the 
proceeds  of  their  sale.  This  cannot  be 
accomplished  under  the  system  of  limited 
purchases  from  definite  territory  and 
temporary  outside  buying  to  fill  in  mar- 
ket needs. 

The  additional  surplus  arising  under 
the  expansion  of  purchasing  territory  by 
dealers  operating  on  the  NEMPA  plan, 
is  less  burdensome  than  would  be  the 
situation  if  that  surplus  sought  access 
to  the  markets  separately  in  competition 
with  the  rest  of  New  England.  It  does 
however,  emphasize  the  NEMPA  surplus 
problem.  The  word  "surplus"  is  abhor- 
rent to  dairymen.  It  is,  however,  a  fact 
which  cannot  be  escaped  and  as  long  as 
it  exists  it  must  be  provided  for  in  the 
most  businesslike  manner,  that  which  will 
in  the  long  run  return  the  highest  amount 
to  the  dairy  farmer. 

One  feature  of  the  surplus  problem 
should  receive  study  and  attention  and 
we  should  be  ready  to  act  when  the  proper 
time  comes.  Surplus,  the  excess  milk 
over  sales  requirements,  arises  principally 
but  not  altogether  from  the  wide  fluctua- 
tions of  seasonal  production.  There  is  a 
considerable  fluctuation  in  daily  and  sea- 
sonal consumption.     Any   distributor  to 


WirXIS  E.  KNIGHT 
Two  Sturdy  Constructive  Thinkers 

adequately  supply  his  monthly  needs,  must 
buy  to  carry  his  peak  day  during  the 
month.  Every  other  day  during  that 
month  would  show  a  surplus  if  he  bought 
enough  to  meet  the  needs  of  his  heaviest 
day's  sales. 

The  average  surplus  for  the  month  due 
to  the  fluctuations  of  daily  sales  would, 
according  to  our  best  information,  ap- 
proximate 15  percent  to  20  percent.  So 
therefore  any  dealers  must  carry  that 
amount  of  monthly  surplus  in  order  to  be 
safe.  This  surplus  requirement  which 
varies  somewhat  from  month  to  month, 
is  due  to  a  market  condition.  It  is  neces- 
sary to  meet  the  needs  or  the  fancies  of 
the  buying  public.  The  loss  in  handling 
it  is  a  proper  charge  against  the  consumer 
rather  than  the  producer  and  should  be 
covered  in  the  dealer's  spread.  To  the 
extent  that  surplus  arises  through  fluctu- 
ations in  purchases,  the  surplus  loss 
should  be  borne  by  those  who  are  re- 
sponsible for  such  fluctuations.  If  the 
consuming  public  expects  us  to  produce 
constantly  sufficient  for  its  peak  require- 
ments, they  should  not  expect  us  to  suf- 
fer loss  when  they  refuse  to  accept  those 
requirements.  A  definite  proportion,  to 
be  determined  after  careful  investigation 
and  study,  of  the  so-called  surplus  loss, 
should  be  borne  by  the  distributor  whose 
recoupment  lies  in  the  price  which  he 
charges  the  public  for  milk.  Steps  should 
be  taken  to  secure  the  cooperation  of 
other  agencies  in  the  solution  of  it. 

The  administration  of  the  cream  plan, 
so-called,  lends  itself  to  abuse  which 
should  be  corrected.  Under  that  plan 
territory  not  permanently  needed  for  the 
production  of  milk  is  admitted  to  par- 


ticipate in  the  milk  price  with  only  such 
charge  for  skim  retained  on  the  farms 
as  vaguely  represents  the  farm  value  of 
such  skim.  If  a  dairy  expects  to  per- 
manently participate  in  the  milk  price 
its  milk  should  be  available  when  needed 
as  milk.  The  refusal  of  cream  plan  ter- 
ritory to  ship  milk  during  the  short  period 
has  necessitated  the  purchase  of  milk 
from  other  sources  and  thereby  increased 
the  surplus.  If  the  cream  plan  territory 
creates  a  loss  it  should  be  charged  to 
those  who  create  it.  This  loss  may  Ik; 
assessed  against  the  skim  which  the  cream 
plan  territory  refuses  to  ship  during  the 
short  production  period.  Prices  for  skim 
retained  at  the  home  farm  under  the 
cream  plan,  should  correspond  not  to  the 
farm  value  but  to  the  market  value  of 
such  skim.  When  needed  in  the  market, 
those  who  retain  it  should  if  they  expect 
to  draw  the  milk  price  for  it,  pay  the 
milk  price  for  it. 

The  rating  plan,  voted  last  year  to  be  • 
discontinued  as  of  January  1st  next,  still 
presents  a  vexatious  problem.  In  prin- 
ciple it  is  not  right  that  a  market  should 
be  guaranteed  to  any  special  group  or 
section  for  a  definite  quantity  of  product. 
Discrimination  or  preference  is  contrary 
to  business  judgment.  The  rating  plan 
however,  has  distinct  commercial  advant- 
ages in  the  territory  near  any  market  and 
in  constant  contact  with  the  buyers  and 
more  inclined  to  produce  evenly.  They 


object  to  being  penalized  by  the  varying 
production  in  distant  territory  for  which 
they  are  not  responsible.  Being  them- 
selves willing  to  produce  somewhat  ac- 
cording to  the  needs  of  the  market,  they 
believe  the  loss  occasioned  by  failure  to 
so  produce  should  be  borne  by  those  who 
fail.  There  is  undoubted  equity  in  their 
contention.  The  operation  of  the  rating 
system  in  nearby  territory  tends  to  stab- 
ilize market  prices  and  while  in  prin- 
ciple it  may  be  wrong,  in  practice  it  has 
advantages.  Presumably  this  matter  will 
be  further  discussed  at  this  meeting  and 
given  careful  consideration  on  all  sides. 

IV.  RATE  CASE 
You  are  familiar  with  the  litigation  be- 
fore the  Inter-State  Commerce  Commis- 
sion with  respect  to  an  increase  in  trans- 
portation rates  on  milk  and  cream  pro- 
posed by  the  New  England  railroads. 
That  subject  will  be  thoroughly  dealt 
with  by  others  in  detail  at  this  meet- 
ing. The  part  played  by  the  NEMPA 
in  this  matter  is  well  known.  While  it 
was  to  this  organization  that  the  original 
notice  of  the  proposed  increase  was  given, 
and  through  this  Association  that  steps 
were  taken  to  meet  the  situation,  it  is 
due  to  the  hearty  cooperation  of  all  dairy 
interests  of  New  England,  their  united 
action  and  support,  that  the  present  fav- 
orable situation  obtains.  We  seek  no 
credit  except  that  given  to  all  who  have 
participated  in  a  resistance  to  the  proposed 
rates,  a  resistance  which  has  already  saved 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  to  the 
milk  and  cream  shippers  of  New  Eng- 
land. The  service  rendered  the  dairy 
industry  in  this  instance  is  an  example 


of  what  could  be  accomplished  in  other 
matters  of  common  welfare.  It  should 
serve  as  an  example  and  an  incentive. 

V.  NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRY 
SYSTEM 
Public  authorities  of  the  State  of  Ver- 
mont still  maintain  toward  the  New  Eng- 
land Dairy  System  the  attitude  that  ex- 
isted at  our  last  annual  meeting.  Under 
these  circumstances,  nothing  further  has 
been  done  toward  the  establishment  of 
the  Dairy  System,  which  the  NEMPA 
endorsed. 

Under  the  Cooperative  Marketing  Act 
passed  by  the  present  Congress,  the  Di- 
vision of  Cooperative  Marketing  has  been 
established  in  the  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
Economics  of  the  United  States  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture.  Representatives  of 
this  organization  participated  in  the  draft- 
ing of  that  Bill.  Under  it  the  Division 
is  authorized  upon  request,  to  make 
studies  and  recommendations  with  respect 
to  the  establishment  of  cooperative  mar- 
keting organizations.  The  Directors  of 
this  Association  initiated  such  a  request 
with  respect  to  the  marketing  of  dairy 
products  in  New  England.  In  that  re- 
quest practically  every  other  cooperative 
dairy  marketing  organization  in  this  re- 
gion joined.  The  study  has  been  or- 
dered and  is  now  under  way.  It  is  to 
be  expected  that  an  exhaustive  investiga- 
tion by  trained  authorities  under  direc- 
tion of  the  Federal  government  will  dis- 
close more  thoroughly  than  has  ever  been 
known  before,  the  exact  conditions  in 
New  England  with  respect  to  the  mar- 
keting of  dairy  products  and  with  that 
disclosure  make  possible  a  recommenda- 
tion for  improvement  that  will  carry  the 
sanction  and  prestige  of  Federal  author- 
ity. It  may  form  the  basis  of  a  get- 
together  movement  in  New  England  dairy 
marketing.  Every  dairy  organization 
should  assist  to  the  extent  of  its  abilin 
in  the  work  of  this  survey.  Through  it 
and  the  subsequent  report  a  marketing 
plan  may  be  developed  in  which  New 
England  dairymen  may  work  effectively 
together  as  they  have  in  the  rate  case. 
Let  organizations  and  individuals  lay- 
aside  prejudices  or  preconceived  ideas  and 
await  the  results  of  this  survey  which  has 
in  it  greater  possibilities  for  New  Eng- 
land dairy  marketing  than  any  movement 
which  has  occurred  in  many  years. 

VI.  COOPERATIVE  SITUATION 
It  is  gratifying  to  note  that  the  local 
cooperative  marketing  organizations  in 
New  England  are  showing  a  tendency  to 
consolidate  or  cooperate  with  each  other, 
and  with  the  NEMPA.  Several  of  the 
northern  Vermont  cooperation  creameries 
are  selling  milk  to  Boston  distributors 
at  NEMPA  prices  and  on  the  NEMPA 
plan.  Others  whose  prices  vary  slightly 
from  ours  are  following  closely  the 
changes  we  may  make,  relying  apparently 
upon  the  judgment  of  this  Association 
as  to  the  true  market  value  of  milk. 
There  are  two  outstanding  exceptions, 
the  United  Farmers'  Cooperative  Cream- 
ery Company  of  Morrisville,  Vt.,  and 
Turner  Centre  System.  The  situation 
with  respect  to  these  two  organizations 
will  be"  discussed  in  detail  by  others  at 
this  meeting.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that 
such  a  large  and  important  group  of 
dairymen  as  the  United  Farmers'  find 
themselves  in  a  position  where  they  deem 
it  inadvisable  to  follow  NEMPA  prices 
and  sales  procedure.  The  action  of  that 
group  has  caused  incalculable  confusion 
and  difficulty  in  the  market. 

No  problem  in  the  history  of  this  or- 
ganization has  been  more  important  or 
perplexing  than  that  raised  by  the  re- 
fusal of  the  Directors  of  the  Turner 
Center  System  to  continue  the  purchase 
of  milk  upon  the  plan  operative  among 
the  larger  distributors.  This  matter  is 
of  such  importance  that  upon  being  laid 
before  the  Directors  by  the  Sales  Com-, 
mittee  a  special  committee  has  been  ap- 
pointed to  investigate  and  report  at  this 
meeting.  We  trust  some  way  will  be 
devised  whereby  the  market  can  be  saved 
from  the  ruinous  calamity  which  will 
inevitably  follow  the  refusal  of  the  third 
largest  distributing  concern  in  New  Eng- 
land to  pay  prices  known  in  advance  to 
be  equal  to  those  paid  by  its  principal 
competitors.  The  NEMPA  should  we  be- 
lieve, take  such  steps  as  will  carry  into 
(Continued  on  page  twelve) 


HORACE  W.  TINKHAM 
— Long-Time    Friends    of   the  Chief 


Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


November,  1926 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 
NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 

51  Cornhill.  Boston,  Mass. 

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Farming  and  Marketing  in 
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chusetts,  under  the  act   of   May   S,  1871. 

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postage  provided  for.  Section  1101,  Act 
of  Oct.  8,  U17,  authorized  July  13.  1»18. 

HARRY  L.  PIPER,  Editor 


N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H. ;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  L;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 

PERSONAL  WORD 

Here's  an  opportunity  for  a  new  kind 
of  a  personal  word,  one  from  the  mem- 
bers of  the  staff.  We  do  not  want  any 
more  opportunities  of  this  kind  for  we 
had  much  rather  have  Mr.  Pattee  with 
us  than  out  in  a  hospital.  We  miss  him, 
every  one  of  us.  But  so  long  as  he  is  not 
here  and  the  DAIRYMAN  must  go  to 
press  just  the  same,  we  wish  to  speak  a 
word  of  the  most  personal  kind. 

Most  of  us  have  been  with  him  for  a 
number  of  yars.  We  have  for  him  a  very 
great  respect  and  a  warm  personal  affec- 
tion. We  disagree  with  him  often  but  we 
are  free  to  say  so.  There  is  no  bar  of 
authority  set  up  between  us.  If  we  dis- 
agree with  him  we  go  in  and  argue  it  out. 
Most  always  he  succeeds  in  convincing  us 
we  did  not  know  so  much  as  we  ought 
to  before  we  formed  those  opinions.  But 
now  and  then,  when  we  have  been  doing 
some  real  hard  thinking  before  hand,  we 
make  him  agree  with  us.  And  there  never 
was  a  man  who  comes  over  to  your  side 
quicker  if  you  can  really  show  him  you 
are  right. 

We  know,  better  than  any  outsider  can 
possibly  know,  the  discomfort  and  pain 
he  has  been  under  the  past  two  years. 
We  know  of  the  many  times  he  has  kept 
at  work  when  he  ought  to  have  been  at 
home,  of  times  when  he  has  answered 
calls  for  speaking  when  he  should  have 
been  resting.  We  know  how  he  has  laid 
aside  his  person  convenience  and  wishes, 
for  the  good  of  a  cause.  We  know  how 
he  has  kept  on  going,  keeping  his  per- 
sonal burdens  in  the  background,  while  he 
shouldered  the  burdens,  of  New  England, 
yes,  to  some  degree  the  burdens  of  a 
nation-wide  industry. 

We  are  proud  to  have  shared  in  some 
small  degree  these  burdens,  to  have  helped 
in  a  cause  which  he  deems  so  great.  We 
wish  that  we  could  have  taken  more  of 
them  from  his  shoulders  in  these  two 
years  off  when  his  strength  was  so  sorely 
need.ed  to  resist  disease.  Right  happy  we 
are  that  all  this  is  in  the  past  and  that  he 
will  soon  be  back  with  us,  a  well  man. 

So  in  this  time  when  the  association  has 
been  going  through  a  crisis  we  rejoice 
that  we  have  been  able  to  carry  on,  to  do 


the  job  in  the  way  we  think  he  would  like 
to  have  it  done  and  to  assure  him  that  the 
things  will  be  all  right  until  his  return. 
Throughout  this  great  meeting  of  our 
association  we  have  realized  more  than 
ever  before  how  big  a  man  our  Chief  is, 
how  much  the  dairymen  from  all  over 
New  England  lean  on  his  judgment  and 
are  willing  to  follow  wherever  he  leads. 
Never  in  any  meeting  which  he  attended 
has 'the  note  of  prsonal  appreciation  for 
him  been  so  strong. 

Now  that  the  busy  time  is  past,  we 
wish  to  pledge  him  anew  our  allegiance, 
our  wish  to  follow  him  in  a  modern  day 
crusade  wherever  his  broad  vision  sees 
the  way  to  better  conditions  for  the  dairy 
industry. 

It  is  not  necessary  to  say  that  this  has 
not  been  shown  to  the  Chief.  He  would 
say  "throw  it  in  the  waste  basket."  We 
are  taking  this  advantage  of  him,  be- 
cause he  is  in  the  hospital.  And  just 
think  about  that  "brown-eyed  nurse"  who 
is  taking  care  of  him.  There  are  some 
compensations. 


RESPONSIBILITY 

Every  Turner  Centre  patron  who  is  a 
member  of  the  NEMPA  has  a  serious 
responsibility  resting  on  him.  There  are 
about  3000  of  them  who  belong  to  the 
NEMPA ;  about  75  per  cent,  of  the  en- 
tire patronage  of  the  Turner  Centre  Sys- 
tem. 

Each  of  these  men  is  a  stockholder  in 
the  Turner  Centre  System  and  has  one 
vote  in  its  management.  Each  will  have 
an  opportunity  to  cast  that  vote  at  a 
special  meeting  Nov.  12  when  the  direct- 
ors of  the  Turner  Centre  system  will  lay 
before  the  stockholders  the  decision  made 
by  the  directors  to  break  away  from  the 
plan  of  payment  for  milk  which  is  fol- 
lowed by  the  great  majority  of  the  milk 
business  in  the  Boston. 

Following  out  this  decision  will  bring 
chaos  to  the  Boston  market  and  the  dis- 
order will  spread  to  other  markets.  In- 
stead of  the  orderly  following  of  the  sur- 
plus plan,  with  its  known  price  and  de- 
finite agreement  to  pay  that  price,  a  sys- 
tem of  rebates  will  inevitably  arise  which 
will  reduce  the  returns  of  dairy  farmers 
in  New  England  millions  of  dollars  an- 
nually. 

Turner  Centre  patrons  have  it  within 
their  power  to  prevent  this  disaster.  They 
can  do  it  at  no  expense  to  themselves. 
Moreover  if  they  do  not  take  action  to 
avert  the  chaotic  condition  which  will 
come  to  the  markets,  they  will  themselves 
suffer  the  heavy  loss  from  the  decreasing 
prices  which  will  follow.  Good  business 
as  well  as  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the 
dairy  industry  should  prompt  them  to 
vote  for  a  return  to  the  present  plan  of 
determining  the  milk  price  in  the  princi- 
pal markets  of  New  England. 

The  directors  of  the  Turner  Centre 
System  gave  as  a  reason  for  declining  to 
pay  under  the  surplus  plan  beginning 
August  1  that  the  organization  was  a 
co-operative  and  that  all  profits  there 
were  in  the  business  would  come  to  the 
patrons  in  any  event.  Payment  of  a 
greater  or  a  less  price  did  not  make  any 
difference  in  the  long  run  as  claimed  as 
the  patrons  would  either  get  all  there  was 
either  as  monthly  price  for  their  milk 
or  as  a  distribution  of  profits  at  the  end 
of  the  year. 

This  being  the  case  the  question  of 
monthly  prices  is  merely  the  transfer  of 
money  from  one  pocket  to  another.  Un- 
der the  surplus  plan  of  figuring  prices  a 
certain  known  amount  would  go  into 
one  pocket  each  month.  If  the  organiza- 
tion paid  a  less  amount  than  that  the 
difference  would  go  into  the  other  poc- 
ket at  the  end  of  the  year.  It  would  be 
merely  a  question  of  a  deferred  payment 
of  a  portion  of  the  monthly  milk  price. 
On  a  similar  basis  and  payment  in  ex- 
cess of  the  surplus  plan  price  would  be 
placed  in  the  first  pocket  monthly  and 
could  not  be  placed  in  the  other  pocket 
at  the  end  of  the  year. 

Taking  this  view  of  the  situation  it 
makes  no  practical  difference  to  the 
Turner  Centre  patron  which  pocket  is 
filled  first,  so  long  as  he  gets  enough  to 
get  along  on  month  by  month.  But  to 
the  rest  of  the  dairy  industry  it  makes  a 
mighty  difference.  If  Turner  Centre 
does  not  pay  the  known  price  under  the 
surplus  plan  other  dealers  will  not  pay 


it.  A  system  of  rebates  will  have  to  be 
set  up.  For  every  dollar  that  Turner 
Centre  transfers  from  the  first  pocket 
to  the  second  pocket,  other  dairymen  in 
New  England  will  lose  $10.  They  sell 
to  proprietary  interests  and  there  are  no 
bonusses  or  13th  payments  for  milk.  If 
in  any  month  Turner  Centre  pays  $20,000 
less  than  should  be  paid  under  the  sur- 
plus plan,  it  will  take  $200,000  out  of 
the  rest  of  the  dairy  industry. 

The  directors  of  the  Turner  Centre  ■ 
System  are  wrong,  however,  when  they 
say  that  it  will  make  no  difference,  the 
farmers  will  get  all  there  is  anyway  be- 
cause the  organization  is  a  co-operative. 
We  grant  that  they  will  get  all  there  is 
left  after  deducting  the  expenses  of  op- 
eration. But  there  will  not  be  so  much 
left,  nor  will  the  monthly  price  to  Turner 
Centre  patrons  be  as  much.  Prices  will 
go  down  inevitably.  No  organization 
can  save  Turner  Centre  patrons  from 
suffering  the  losses  due  to  declining 
prices,  along  with  the  rest  of  New  Eng- 
land. 

It  is  the  duty  of  the  Turner  Centre 
patrons  to  consider  this  situation  serious- 
ly and  cast  their  votes  in  the  light  of 
their  convictions  at  the  .coming  special 
meeting.  Voting  to  follow  the  lead  of 
their  directors  and  break  away  from  the 
surplus  plan  does  this  great  injustice  to 
the  rest  of  the  dairy  industry  in  New 
England.  Voting  to  continue  on  the  sur- 
plus plan,  as  recommended  and  urged  by 
the  NEMPA,  averts  this  great  catastro- 
phe. 

If  Turner  Centre  patrons  meet  the  is- 
sue squarely  and  vote  to  continue  as  be- 
fore they  will  not  be  taking  anything  out 
of  themselves.  But  if  they  vote  the  other 
way,  if  the  calamity  comes  in  spite  of  all 
that  the  NEMPA  can  do,  there  will  be 
inevitably,  declining  milk  prices  through- 
out New  England.  Turner  Centre  pat- 
rons will  suffer  heavy  losses  along  with 
the  others. 


ANNUAL  MEETING 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

should  have  been  under  the  surplus 
plan. 

Again  in  September  they  paid  an  un- 
known price,  contrary  to  their  trade  with 
the  NEMPA.  The  difference  for  Sep- 
tember was  about  $25,000.  The  NEMPA 
took  the  position  that  they  had  a  valid 
claim  on  which  to  compel  payment  of  the 
difference  for  August  and  September  milk 
as  they  had  not  been  notified  of  any 
change  in  the  plan  until  too  late  to  take 
any  action. 

October  presented  a  different  problem 
as  the  Turner  Centre  had  notified  the 
association  that  they  were  not  going  to  pay 
under  the  surplus  plan  before  they  re- 
ceived any  of  the  October  milk.  In 
effect,  the  NEMPA  and  the  Turner 
Centre  had  failed  to  trade  for  October 
milk  and  the  Turner  Centre  System  was 
free  to  pay  what  price  it  wished. 

The  third  problem  which  was  pre- 
sented by  the  situation  was  in  regard  to 
future  del  iveries.  W^ould  the  Turner 
Centre  come  back  under  the  surplus  plan 
November  1,  or  would  it  continue  to  pay 
on  the  "unknown"  price  basis? 

Another  problem  faced  the  meeting 
through  the  fact  that  the  other  large 
dealers  in  the  Boston  market  had  notified 
the  sales  committee  that  unless  Turner 
Centre  made  up  for  its  lower  payments  in 
August,  September  and  October  they  would 
expect  rebates  covering  the  difference.  In 
viw  of  th  coming  annual  meeting  these 
dealers  had  been  willing  to  let  the  de- 
cision as  to  rebates  remain  on  the  table 
for  a  few  weeks.  They  insisted,  however, 
on  a  decision  by  November  1. 

The  sales  committee  of  the  association 
had  met  the  Turner  Centre  directors  in 
various  conferences  and  had  exhausted 
their  resources  in  trying  to  bring  about  a 
settlement  on  a  satisfactory  basis.  Turner 
Centre  insisted  on  maintaining  their  posi- 
from  following  the  surplus  plan  of  figur- 
distributed  all  earnings  to  the  patrons  any- 
way. This,  they  claimed,  freed  them 
from  following  the  eurplus  plan  of  figur- 
ing prices.  They  reiterated  the  statement 
that  if  they  paid  less  on  some  months 
when  earnings  were  lighter,  they  ex- 
pected to  pay  more  in  other  months  when 
earnings  were  higher. 

Failing  to  reach  any  agreement  with 
the  Turner  Centre  System  the  sales  com- 
mittee made  a  decision  as  to  what  should 


be  done  but  their  decision  v/as  of  such  a 
serious  -nature  that  they  called  in  the 
board  of  directors  for  backing.  The 
recommendations  of  the  sales  committee 
were:  1.  That  the  Turner  Centre  Sys- 
tem should  be  sued  for  payment  of  the( 
difference  in  price  between  what  they  did 
pay  and  what  they  should  have  paid  under 
the  surplus  plan  in  August  and  Septem- 
ber as  they  had  accepted  the  offer  of  the 
NEMPA  on  milk  for  both  months. 
2.  That  every  effort  should  be  made  to 
get  Turner  Centre  to  pay  on  the  surplus 
plan  for  October  and,  failing  in  that,  that 
other  dealers  should  be  offered  the  oppor- 
tunity to  make  payments  on  the  same 
proportionate  basis  as  Turner  Centre  foj 
the  month.  3.  That  if  Turner  Centre  did! 
not  agree  to  return  to  the  surplus  plnrJ 
November  1,  to  withhold  their  milk. 

These  recommendations  were  endorsed 
unanimously  by  the  board  of  directors  the 
night  before  the  annual  meeting.  The 
directors  went  further  and  recommended 
that  a  fund  should  be  raised  to  reimburse 
the  Turner  Centre  producers  if  they 
should  be  called  upon  to  withhold  their 
milk. 

These  actions  of  the  sales  committee 
and  the  directors  were  reported  in  full  or 
the  first  of  the  annual  meeting.  The  re- 
sponse was  a  new  evidence  of  the  fight-, 
ing  spirit  and  strength  of  the  association 
They  wanted  to  take  action  at  once.  Il 
was  with  difficulty  that  the  more  thought- 
ful leaders  urged  that  a  little  more  con- 
sideration might  be  given  before  war  was 
declared.  There  was  still  a  chance  thai 
negotiations  might  be  resumed  and  a  real 
disaster  might  be  averted.  It  was  decidec 
to  wait  until  the  next  day  for  action. 

The  question  was  taken  up  promptly  or 
the  second  day.  Overnight  the  delegates 
(Continued  from  page  five) 


STATEMENT   OF  THE  OWNERSHIP, 
MANAGEMENT,  CIRCULATION 
Etc.,  Required  by  the  Act  of  Congress  o 
August  24,  1913 

Of  the  New  England  Dairyman,  publishec 

monthly  at  Boston,  Mass.,  for  Oct.  1st 
1926. 

State  of  Massachusetts. 
County  of  Suffolk,  ss. 

Before  me,  a  Notary  Public,  in  and  fo: 
the  State  and  County  aforesaid,  p'ersonall' 
appeared  P.  L.  Weare,  who,  having  bee! 
duly  sworn,  according  to  law,  deposes  anc 
says  that  he  is  the  Business  Manager  o 
the  New  England  Dairyman,  and  that  th. 
following  is,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledgi 
and  belief,  a  true  statement  of  the  owner 
ship,  management  (and  if  a  daily  paper 
the  circulation),  etc.,  of  the  aforesaid  pub 
lication  for  the  date  shown  in  the  abov. 
caption,  required  by  the  Act  of  August  24 
1912,  embodied  in  section  443,  Postal  Law 
and  Regulations  printed  on  the  reverse  o 
this  form,  to  wit: 

1.  That  the  names  and  addresses  of  thi 
publisher,  editor,  and  business  managerl 
are:  Publishers,  New  England  Milk  Pro! 
ducers  Assn.,  61  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 
Harry  L.  Piper,  editor,  61  Cornhill,  Bos( 
ton,  Mass. ;  W.  P.  Davis,  Treasurer,  61 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.;  Business  Managert 
F.  L,.  Weare,  61  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 

2.  That  the  owners  are: 

New  England  Milk  Producers  Assn.,  6' 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 

Geo.  R.  Little,  President,  Schaghticoke 
N.  Y. 

R.  A.  Sikes,  Vice-President,  Ellington 
Conn. 

H.  L.  Webster,  Treasurer,  West  Canaam 
N.  H. 

(Richard  Pattee,  Managing  Director,  6; 
Cornhill,   Boston,  Mass. 

3.  That  the  known  bondholders,  mortj 
gagees  and  other  security  holders  ownin; 
or  holding  1  per  cent,  or  more  of  tots 
amount  of  bonds,  mortgages,  or  other  se 
curities  are:  None. 

That  the  two  paragraphs  next  above 
giving  the  names  of  the  owners,  stock, 
holders,  and  security  holders,  if  any,  coni 
tain  not  only  the  list  of  stockholders  an.i 
security  holders  as  they  appear  upon  th 
books  of  the  company,  but  also,  in  case 
where  the  stockholder  or  security  holde 
appears  upon  the  books  of  the  company  a. 
trustee  or  in  any  other  fiduciary  relation! 
the  name  of  the  person  or  corporation  fo. 
whom  such  trustee  is  acting,  is  given;  als'i 
that  the  said  two  paragraphs  contain  state 
ments  embracing  affiant's  full  knowledg. 
and  belief  as  to  the  circumstances  am 
conditions  under  which  stockholders  an. 
security  holders  who  do  not  appear  upoi 
the  books  of  the  company  as  trustees,  hol.l 
stock  and  securities  in  a  capacity  otlie 
than  that  of  a  bona  fide  owner;  and  thi 
affiant  has  no  reason  to  believe  that  an 
other  person,  association  or  corporation  ha. 
any  interest,  direct  or  indirect,  in  the  sal.' 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Annual  Report  of  President  George  R.  Little 

National    Significance    of    the  Organization  of  Dairy 
Farmers.    Changed  Times  Demand  New  Methons.  Co- 
operation is  Sound  Business. 


I  am  sorry  that  because  of  an  illness 
'luiring   imperative   surgical  treatment 
r.  Pattee  cannot  be  with  us  in  person 
,-ring  the  deliberations  of  this  Annual 
seting.     However,   sorry   as   we  are, 
at  he  is  obliged  to  be  presently  confined 
a  sick-bed,  we  are  all  rejoiced  that  his 
jess  is  a  temporary  one,  of  such  a  na- 
e  that  we  can  expect  a  speedy  recovery 
ii  restoration  to  health  and  vigor. 
3ecause  of  the  respect  repeatedly  shown 
,  by  my  fellow  directors  I  have  the 
ior  and  the  privilege  of  delivering  mes- 
;e  of  cordial  welcome  and  greeting  to 
i  attending  this  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
lW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUC- 
ES' ASSOCIATION. 
Your  presence  here  today  is  inspiring 
•  i  is  greatly  appreciated  by  all  whom 
:vious  Annual  Meetings  have  elected 
1  selected  to  direct  and  execute  the 
Itral  affairs  of  our  association  until  a 
-xeeding  Annual   Meeting   shall  elect 
1  select  our  successors.    I  trust  that 
'i  will  fully  appreciate  that  this  is  your 
,eting,  and  that,  with  this  assurance  in 
lid,  your  will  proceed  to  make  your- 
:ves  each  an  active  working  participant 
<  it.    This  meeting  needs  the  construc- 
a  development  of  your  ideas  and  it  will 
ire  fully  understand  your  local  prob- 
is  if  you  tell  them  to  it.    Each  year 
it  the  business  of  our  Annual  Meeting 
|  been  developed  and  conducted  in  a 
i"it  of  sincerity,  friendliness,  cordiality, 
1  openness.    In  this  same  spirit  we  will 
ceed  to  develop  and  conduct  the  busi- 
s  of  today  and  tomorrow.    We  cannot 
>ect  to  hope  that  our  deliberations  and 
|il  actions  will  result  in  complete  local 
isfaction  for  too  many  of  us,  but,  by 


deliberation  and  acting  fairly,  openly  and 
cordially,  I  am  confident  that  our  deci- 
sions reached  here  will  develop  means 
and  methods  of  continuing  the  needed  im- 
provements in  the  general  status,  and 
rank  and  file,  of  New  England  Milk  Mar- 
keters, and  that  we  will  have  arrived  lie- 
cause  of  action  taken  at  this  meeting, 
nearer  to  a  state  of  general  and  mutual 
satisfaction  than  we  have  been  before 
regarding"  the  producing  and  marketing  of 
New  England's  milk  supply. 

It  is  my  desire  to  be  much  briefer  in 
my  remarks  to  you  today  than  I  have 
been  on  previous  annual  occasions  for  I 
believe  that  others  of  yotr  can  put  the 
time  thus  saved  to  much  more  construc- 
tive use  and  with  this  motive  in  mind, 
I  desire  to  accord  you  delegates  and  mem- 
bers as  much  time  as  possible  for  indi- 
vidual discussion. 

We  stand  today  upon  an  eminence 
which  overlooks  nine  years  of  our  bar- 
gaining association  life  in  New  England, 
nine  years  crowded  with  perplexing  and 
vexing  questions,  situations  and  difficul- 
ties, and  I  may  well  add,  perils.  But 
these  nine  years  are  crowned  with  the 
educational  instillation  into  the  minds 
of  the  general  run  of  us  at  least,  of  a  due 
regard  and  respect  for  the  importance  of 
united  and  cohesive  action  in  the  pro- 
cesses of  marketing  our  dairy  products, 
and  with  the  economic  necessity  for  the 
continued  development  of  the  successive 
steps  and  means  and  methods  so  neces- 
sary if  all  are  to  be  served  as  efficiently 
and  orderly  as  one,  in  order  to  make  the 
most  intelligent  use  of  our  marketing  op- 
portunities. 

Before  continuing  our  onward  march 
it  is  well  that  we  pause  at  this  point  for 
a  moment,  to  strengthen  our  faith  and 
renew  our  hope,  by  a  glance  backward 
along  the  path  which  the  milk  producers 
of  New  England's  markets  have  traveled. 
We  find  that  at  the  distant  end  of  this 
path  a  considerable  number  of  milk  pro- 
ducers adopted  articles  of  agreement 
which  united  them  into  the  New  England 
bargaining  association  which  has  been 
augmented  and  perpetuated  from  that 
time  to  the  present.  Milk  producing  was 
then  being  harassed  by  the  dangers  and 
discouragements  of  hasty  and  unsettled 
market  expansion.  It  had  not  secured  a 
membership  in  the  family  of  important 
industries.  Producers  were  struggling 
against  the  revolution  which  then  was 


taking  place  in  transportation  facilities 
and  they  had  come  to  realize  that  they 
were  not  sufficiently  informed  on  the  sub- 
ject, and  otherwise  equipped,  to  enable 
them  to  cope  single  handedly  with  the 
buying  methods,  not  infrequently,  re- 
sorted to  by  crafty  and  acutely  informed 
dealers  in  milk.  But,  worse  than  that, 
due  to  the  tenacity  with  which  they  clung 
to  their,  long  established  and  settled  in- 
dividual opinions,  they  could  not  bring 
themselves  to  believe  that  the  custody  and 
direction  of  marketing  the  farmers  milk 
could  be  intrusted  to  the  guardianship  of 
the  farmer  himself.  With  these  recol- 
lections in  mind  we  cannot  over-estimate 
the  intelligent  courage  and  saving  com- 
mon sense  which  prompted  a  sufficient 
number  of  farmers  then  supplying  milk 
into  the  markets  of  New  England  to 
make  this  great  New  England  experi- 
ment in  collective  bargaining.  They 
founded  this  association  directly  upon  the 
will  of  those  who  were  to  produce  the 
commodity  which  it  was  to  sell  collec- 
tively for  them,  and  they  endowed  it  with 
powers  which  have  preserved  it  to  the 
present  time,  and  as  time  past  has  proven, 
with  ample  provision  for  the  accomplish- 
ment of  its  bargaining  objects. 

By  the  employment  of  this  representa- 
tive agency  our  producers  have  been  able 
to  adopt  the  advantage  of  concerted  action 
in  preparing  means  and  measures  designed 
to  make  them  safer  against  danger  of 
flooding  from  without,  and  it  has  secured 
an  equality  in  markets  for  all  its  mem- 
bers and  the  blessing  of  collective  self 
determination  for  our  industry. 

Supreme  trials  have  come  and  in  the 
main  they  have  been  met  intelligently 
and  mastered  accordingly.  Many  of  us 
are  witnesses  that  our  association  emerged 
from  conflict  purified  and  made  stronger 
in  its  determination  and  ability  to  secure 
more  of  the  accomplishments  and  advan- 
tages possible  to  be  secured  by  better  de- 
veloped cooperative  bargaining.  And  now 
at  the  close  of  this  period  of  growth  and 
activitv.  with  the  inspiration  of  oast  ac- 
complishments in  our  minds  we  find  that 
through  our  recent  membership  dues 
campaign,  producers  have  asserted  that 
they  have  reviewed  the  worth  of  the  New 
England  Milk  Producers'  Association, 
and  having  passed  judgment  upon  its  con- 
duct of  their  marketing  interests,  they 
have,  by  placing  their  signatures  upon  a 
new  form  and  rate  of  dues  order,  regis- 


VICK-I'KKSIDKNT    It.    A.  SIKKS 

tered  their  approval  and  a  desire  and  a 
will  to  continue  the  operations  of  this 
organization. 

To  interpret  and  provide  means  for  the 
execution  of  this  manifest  expression  of 
confidence,  in  accordance  with  the  best 
interests  of  the  present  and  the  future  of 
New  England  milk  producing  and  mar- 
keting, is  the  paramount  duty  of  you 
representatives  here  assembled. 

Erom  even  this  brief  review,  it  is  mani- 
fest that  the  New  England  Milk  Pro- 
ducers' Association  is  resolutely  facing 
to  the  front,  resolved  to  employ  its  best 
energies  and  talent  in  developing  the  fu- 
ture possibilities  of  the  great  branch  of 
N.  E.  industry  which  it  represents.  What- 
ever has  been  already  achieved  in  be- 
half of  efficient  production  and  orderly 
marketing  we  shall  consistently  preserve, 
and  we  shall  resolutely  refrain  from 
recognizing  producing  and  marketing 
methods  and  means  which  have  been 
proven  destructful  and  needlessly  expen- 
sive. 

The  supremacy  of  efficiency  in  methods 
of  production,  and  of  cooperative  order- 
liness in  marketing  processes  respecting 
our  milk  should  no  longer  need  to  be  a 
subject  for  debate.  The  more  respon- 
sible New  England  farm  leaders  and  op- 
erating farmers  talk  about  milk  farming 
more  than  they  do  about  any  other  one 
New  England  farm  subject.  The  serious 
fundamental  aspects  of  this  branch  of 
farming  engages  the  attention  of  the  most 
thoughtful  persons,  and  they  ask  whether 
anything  can  be  done  to  correct  the  ad- 
mitted grievences  of  farmers  engaged  in 
milk  farming. 


1 


ANNUAL  MEETING 

(Continued  from  page  four) 

discused   the   situation   more  fully 
>ng  themselves.    They  were  just  as 
nded  as  they  were  the  night  before  that 
good  of  the  entire  industry  should  not 
sacrificed  to  meet  the  ideas  of  Turner 
tre.    It  was  pointed  out  to  them  that 
up  to  the  present  time,  following  out 
program  of  the  Turner  Centre  action 
its  conclusion  would  mean  that  the 
y  farmers  of  all  New  England  would 
:er  a  loss  of  about  $360,000  in  order 
■save  the  Turner  Centre  System  from 
ing  its  patrons  about  $40,000  which 
||  due  them  under  the  agreement  with 
ti  NEMPA  for  August  and  September 
Ij  k. 

liter  this  had  been  explained  fully  the 
I  agates  called  for  a  vote.  It  was  a  roll- 
H  vote,  and  there  was  only  one  thing  we 
ill  ret  about  it.  That  is,  that  Mr.  Pattee 
mi  not  there  to  hear  those  good  men  and 
Wt  vote,  Yes — Yes — Yes,  right  down  the 
B  from  Maine  to  New  York.  Not  a 
I  enting  voice  in  the  crowd  although 
p  ly  were  there  who  were  stockholders 
'j  ;he  Turner  Centre  System  and  might 
-S  er  individually  if  a  test  of  strength 
;t|  :<  place  between  the  Turner  Centre 
•  tern  and  the  NEMPA. 

1'he  vote  was  to  push  through  the 
t:  )mmendations  of  the  sales  committee 


but  it  was  so  framed  that  the  committee 
had  the  right  to  enter  into  further  nego- 
tiations if  it  seemed  advisable.  It  was 
known  that  a  meeting  of  the  Turner 
Centre  directors  had  been  called  for  two 
days  later  and  it  was  thought  well  to  give 
the  sales  committee  proper  latitude_  in 
meeting  any  new  situation  which  might 
arise.  But  the  meeting  was  ready  to  take 
any  consequences  that  might  come  from 
forcing  the  issue.  With  equal  vigor  and 
unaninimity  they  voted  to  raise  a  reim- 
bursement fund. 


ONE  NEW  DIRECTOR 

Only  one  change  in  the  board  of  di- 
rectors or  officers  of  the  asosciation  took 
place  at  our  annual  meeting.  F.  E.  Chand- 
ler of  Dover,  Me.,  was  elected  a  director 
in  place  of  George  Young  of  Livermorc, 
who  has  done  good  service  on  the  board 
for  the  past  six  years.  Mr.  Chandler  is 
another  old  timer,  a  charter  member  of 
the  association.  He  served  as  secretary 
of  his  local  seven  or  eight  years  and  was 
the  district  president  until  two  years  ago 
when  that  plan  of  organization  was  sup- 
planted by  the  more  direct  representation 
of  locals  plan.  He  is  Turner  Centre  pro- 
ducer, having  shipped  to  them  six  years 
and  having  a  considerable  investment  in 
the  system. 


OUR  ENTERTAINMENT 

Following  our  custom  of  last  year  of 
making  our  program  lighter  we  had  an- 
other humdinger  of  an  entertainment  in 
connection  with  our  dinner.  Our  Scotch 
friend  of  last  year  made  a  big  hit  but  the 
entertainers  who  were  with  us  this  year 
will  run  him  a  close  race  in  popularity. 
Especially  will  our  members  from  all  over 
New  England  tell  of  the  astonishing  way 
in  which  one  of  our  entertainers  got 
music  out  of  saws,  fire  extinguishers,  tin 
pans  and  other  crude  instruments.  This, 
with  his  leadership  in  singing  of  familiar 
songs,  will  keep  our  members  strong  for 
him  for  another  year.  Then  we  will  have 
somebody  else  just  as  good. 


at  the  evening  meeting  sat  in  at  most  of 
the  sessions.  This  was  good  for  us  and 
it  may  have  given  him  a  pretty  good  idea 
of  the  business-like  way  we  are  doing 
things  here  in  New  England. 


THE  COUNCIL  DISPLAY 

The  New  England  Dairy  and  Food 
Council  had  an  especially  fine  display  at 
the  annual  meeting  and  nearly  all  who 
attended  went  away  with  a  better  idea  of 
what  this  organization  is  doing  to  promote 
the  use  of  milk  in  Boston  and  other  mar- 
kets. Prof.  W.  P.  B.  Lockwood,  head  of 
the  council  work,  was  on  hand  most  of 
the  time  to  explain  and  answer  questions 
and  some  of  his  assistants  were  also 
present.  The  association  was  also  pleased 
to  have  as  its  guest  M.  D.  Munn,  head 
of  the  National  Dairy  Council.   He  spoke 


FEW  RESOLUTIONS 

The  fact  that  the  Turner  Centre  situa- 
tion held  the  center  of  interest  in  our 
annual  meeting  naturally  resulted  in  an 
unusually  small  number  of  resolutions  and 
requests  for  action  from  the  floor.  Fol- 
lowing our  custom,  committees  of  ex- 
perienced men  were  selected  to  consider 
any  business  which  might  be  brought  up 
in  the  form  of  resolutions  from  locals  or 
from  individuals.  These  committees  had 
practically  no  work  to  do. 

The  resolutions  committee  and  the  com- 
mittee on  amendments  to  the  by-laws  were 
the  only  ones  that  made  any  report.  The 
by-laws  committee  reported  favorably  on 
the  recommendation  that  the  $2  member- 
ship fee  should  be  discontinued.  It  was 
so  voted  by  the  meeting.  L.  A.  Webster 
of  Whiting,  Vt.,  reported  for  the  resolu- 
tions committee. 


Little  Boy  (sightseeing  in  Washing- 
ton)— "Hey,  poppa,  when  are  we  goin' 
to  see  the  red  tape,  huh,  poppa?" 


Page  Six 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


November,  1921 


Report  of  Sales  Committee 


The  report  of  the  sales  committee  for 
the  year  ending  with  the  annual  meeting 
was  given  by  Assistant  Manager  W.  P. 
Davis.  He  reported  that  in  general  it 
had  been  a  year  of  consolidation  among 
dealers  with  a  resulting  stablization  of 
market  conditions  which  was  highly  sat- 
isfactory to  the  committee.  A  number  of 
difficult  problems  had  been  presented  but 
all  of  them,  with  the  exception  of  the 
Turner  Centre  situation,  have  been  met 
in  a  satisfactory  way.  Leaving  out  the 
one  big  problem  still  left  for  the  annual 
meeting  to  handle  the  sales  committee 
feels  that  the  year  was  one  of  substantial 
progress. 

Mr.  Davis  noted  that  the  long  term 
price  policy  had  been  developed  more 
fully  than  in  any  previous  year  in  the 
history  of  the  association.  This  was  a 
substantial  gain  in  the  market  as  there 
is  less  temptation  to  cut  prices,  either 
wholesale  or  retail,  when  no  changes  in 
the  price  to  farmers  is  expected  than  has 
been  the  case  when  changes  were  occur- 
ing  at  frequent  intervals.  The  8>4  cent 
price  for  market  milk  was  maintained 
11  out  of  12  months  for  which  he  was 
reporting.  June  was  the  only  month  in 
which  it  fell  off  one  cent.  This  continu- 
ance of  the  price  has  led  to  a  stability 
in  the  market,  so  far  as  the  consumers 
are  concerned,  beyond  any  previous  year. 
No  changes  are  expected  by  consumers; 
they  have  accepted  the  retail  price  _  of 
about  IS  cents  as  a  proper  standard  price. 
The  result  of  the  continuance  of  this 
price  of  8l/2  cents  even  through  the  sea- 
son of  flush  production,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  one  month,  has  added  greatly 
to  the  returns  of  farmers  from  what 
they  would  have  received  if  the  old 
month  to  month  policy  had  been  followed. 

There  has  been  much  less  disturbance 
of  the  market  than  usual  from  lower 
prices  charged  by  cooperative  creameries, 
both  in  the  federation  and  independent. 
From  February  to  June  the  prices  charged 
by  the  creameries  was  below  the  NEMPA 
price  in  many  instances.  The  dealers 
were  aware  of  this  and  made  some  pro- 
tests against  it.  Most  of  the  time,  how- 
ever, the  difference  was  not  more  than 
a  half  cent.  Creameries  have  claimed 
that  if  they  sold  at  a  half  cent  below 
the  NEMPA  price  they  were  no  more 
than  making  up  the  advantage  which 
dealers  have  by  reason  of  owning  surplus 
milk  at  butter  fat  prices  -when  surplus 
products  would  actually  bring  more  than 
that.  This  position  is  not  altogether  jus- 
tified but  there  is  enough  truth  in  it  so 
that  dealers  have  recognized  that  it  was 
an  offsetting  factor.  Whether  the  half 
cent  differential  can  be  justified  is  doubt- 
ful, but  the  fact  that  some  offset  was 
recognized  to  the  lower  price  charged 
by  the  creameries  was  a  factor  in  pre- 
venting the  dealers  from  pressing  their 
claims  for  a  reduction  because  of  the 
creamery  price.  They  knew  also,  that 
the  reduction  would  not  change  the  status 
at  all,  as  the  creameries  would  go  down 
also  and  still  be  the  same  amount  below. 
Under  these  conditions  the  dealers  were 
more  open  to  a  continuance  of  the  8^2 
cent  price  than  they  have  been  in  pre- 
vious years. 

A  more  important  factor  in  maintain- 
ing the  &x/2  cent  level  was  the  attitude 
of  the  chain  stores.  Here  was  where  an 
important  effect  of  consolidation  showed. 
Through  the  merger  of  the  Con- 
nor Stores,  the  Ginter  stores,  and  O'Keefe 
stores  into  the  First  National  Stores,  the 
greater  part  of  the  chain  store  milk  was 
brought  under  one  management,  with 
C.  F.  Adams  as  the  dominant  factor  in 
the  chain  store  milk  situation.  Mr.  Adams 
believed  in  the  long  time  price  at  one 
level  and  announced  to  the  trade  openly 
that  if  the  dealers  went  down  one  cent 
he  would  go  down  two  cents,  selling 
chain  store  milk  for  10  cents  instead  of 
12.  This  would 'force  a  general  price 
war  in  the  market. 

In  June,  when  the  sales  committee  re- 
duced the  price  to  7y2  cents  because  of 
the  large  amount  of  milk  on  the  market, 
Mr.  Adams  did  exactly  what  he  had 
stated.  The  First  National  Stores,  sell- 
ing   several    carloads    daily,    went  to 


10  cents.  Other  store  milk,  both  in  chain 
stores  and  in  independent  stores,  had  to 
go  down  also  to  meet  competition.  This 
in  turn  reacted  on  the  dealers  as  there 
was  plenty  of  milk  and  a  brisk  competi- 
tion for  trade.  They  had  to  sell  this 
store  milk  at  a  price  so  low  that  the 
stores  could  resell  it  at  10  cents.  The  an- 
nounced family  trade  price  did  not  de- 
crease but  because  of  the  competition  of 
this  10  cent  chain  store  milk  it  is  re- 
ported that  a  general  system  of  discounts 
for  two  or  three  quarts  daily  sprung  up. 
This  unrest  in  the  market  naturally  re- 
sulted in  complaints  by  dealers  to  the 
sales  committee.  Practically  all  this  un- 
easiness disappeared  July  1  when  the 
NEMPA  price  went  back  to  &y2  cents 
and  the  chain  store  price  to  12  cents. 
Since  then  the  conditions  in  the  market 
have  been  quite  stable.  The  situation 
which  prevailed  in  June  was  the  natural 
result  of  a  chain  store  price  out  of  line 
with  the  home  delivered  price. 

Important  consolidations  which  have 
taken  place  in  the  milk  industry  have 
favorably  affected  the  work  of  the  sales 
committee.  The  expansion  policy  of  the 
Hood  company  was  one  of  the  important 
developments.  The  Hood  company  bought 
the  Hancock  business,  the  Peckham  and 
Davis  company  in  Fall  River,  the  Maine 
Creamery,  also  a  number  of  minor  dis- 
tributors. They  are  still  buying  up  these 
lesser  dealers.  The  result  is  that  their 
needs  for  market  milk  are  increasing 
steadily.  This  means  an  increasing  amount 
of  milk  coming  in  under  the  surplus  plan. 
It  had  been  coming  into  the  market 
through  these  smaller  dealers  who  do 
not  operate  under  the  surplus  plan.  Some 
of  it  was  bought  at  the  NEMPA  price, 
some  was  not.  Now  all  this  milk  comes 
in  under  the  surplus  plan  and  is  paid 
for  at  the  NEMPA  price.  It  is  a  sub- 
stantial gain. 

While  this  purchase  of  the  Hancock 
business  and  other  new  business  by  the 
Hood  company  has  been  an  advantage  to 
the  market  and  a  great  help  in  stabilizing 
conditions  it  resulted  in  temporary  dis- 
turbances due  to  the  shifting  in  the 
sources  of  supply.  Hancock  had  been 
buying  a  carload  of  milk  from  the  fed- 
eration of  creameries  and  the  federation 
lost  the  sale  of  this  carload  as  Hood  se- 
cured the  additional  milk  needed  from 
regular  sources  of  supply  during  the  sea- 
son of  large  production.  This,  together 
with  the  changes  brought  about  by  the 
consolidation  of  the  three  chain  stores 
started  a  series  of  shifts  in  outlet  which 
caused  some  disturbance  and  have  only 
recently  settled  down  to  a  more  per- 
manent basis. 

The  loss  of  this  carload  of  sales  to  the 
federation  resulted  in  a  curtailment  of  the 
sales  of  Milton  creamery  which  met  the 
situation  by  purchasing  a  part  interest 
in  the  Hurlihy  distributing  business  in 
Boston.  Shelburne  had  been  supplying 
a  carload  of  milk  to  Hurlihy  and  thus 
lost  a  carload  of  trade.  This  Shelburne 
milk  was  immediately  purchased  by  the 
Hood  company  to  meet  the  extra  de- 
mands of  the  Flancock  and  other  in- 
creases in  business. 

Meanwhile  the  consolidation  of  the 
chain  stores  had  upset  conditions  more 
or  less  in  another  direction.  The  O'Keefe 
stores  were  securing  their  supply  through 
Hagar  who  was  getting  a  carload  or 
more  of  milk  from  Irona,  N.  Y.  and 
from  the  Trout  Brook  creamery.  Whei 
the  O'Keefe  stores  went  into  the  merger 
Hagar  lost  the  sale  as  the  milk  was  com- 
ing largely  from  Bellows  Falls,  which 
had  been  the  source  of  supply  of  the 
Connor  stores  since  they  started  to  sell 
milk.  Hagar  attempted  to  recoup  the 
loss  by  entering  into  a  brisk  selling  cam- 
paign at  cut  prices.  He  created  quite  a 
disturbance  in  the  market  by  these  tac- 
tics but  became  unable  to  stand  the  strain 
of  such  competition  financially  and  sold 
his  wholesale  business  to  the  Cummings 
company.  He  has  ceased  to  be  an  im- 
portant factor  in  the  market. 

The  consolidation  of  the  chain  stores 
also  made  a  shift  in  outlet  for  milk  by 
cutting  off  milk  bought  from  the  Fed- 
eration of  creameries.  St.  Albans  is  a 
member  of  the  federation.    St.  Albans 


also  lost  an  outlet  for  considerable  milk 
in  the  Springfield  market  due  to  con- 
solidations. For  a  time  this  creamery 
had  considerable  milk  without  a  steady 
market,  but  a  deal  was  made,  with  the 
assistance  of  the  sales  committee,  where- 
by the  entire  output  of  St.  Albans  was 
taken  by  the  Whiting  company.  If  either 
Shelburne  or  St.  Albans  had  this  large 
amount  of  milk  left  on  their  hands  for 
any  considerable  period  it  would  have  be- 
come a  menace  to  the  stability  of  market 
conditions  in  both  the  Boston  market 
and  in  lesser  markets  accessible  to  the 
creameries.  Under  the  present  highly 
competitive  conditions  all  creameries  have 
to  sell  a  certain  proportion  of  their  milk 
at  fluid  prices,  at  or  near  the  NEMPA 
level,  or  they  cannot  pay  a  price  to  their 
farmers  which  compares  at  all  well  with 
the  prices  paid  by  dealers  in  the  same 
fields. 

Another  consolidation  which  has  helped 
to  steady  the  market  is  the  merger  of 
the  Alden,  Childs,  Noble  companies  into 
the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Company.  The  Aldens  had  bought  their 
supply  under*  the  surplus  plan.  The  Childs 
Brothers  had  bought  under  the  surplus 
plan  up  to  June  1  and  had  then  discon- 
tinued. Noble  had  bought  independently. 
For  some  time  the  consolidation  pre- 
sented a  difficult  problem  to  the  sales 
committee  as  it  was  a  question  of  whether 
the  Aldens  would  bring  the  others  in 
under  the  surplus  plan  or  whether  the 
others  would  drag  Alden  out.  One. of 
the  important  factors  in  the  case  was  the 
considerable  supply  of  milk  at  Irona, 
N.  Y.  Alden  had  been  buying  a  portion 
of  his  supply  from  there  but  at  the  time 
of  the  consolidation  labor  troubles  de- 
veloped and  sales  fell  off  so  that  Alden 
bought  none  there.  Irona  also  lost  part 
of  its  outlet  into  the  market  through  the 
Hagar  situation.  The  milk  was  with- 
out a  market  for  about  two  months.  Un- 
der these  conditions  it  could  have  been 
easily  drawn  upon  by  the  consolidated 
companies  in  case  the  NEMPA  had  to 
resort  to  extreme  measures  to  bring 
them  in  under  the  surplus  plan. 

Through  the  efforts  of  the  Boston  of- 
fice of  the  NEMPA  the  greater  part  of 
this  Irona  milk  was  sold  to  the  Whiting 
company.    After  that  arrangement  had 


I  can  see  Mr.  Loring  with  a  13  million 
dollar  preferred  stock  issue  coming  due, 
telling  his  executives  he  would  like  about 
a  million  more  dollars  to  'meet  it.  In 
casting  about  for  a  means  of  raising  it 
he  sent  for  Mr.  Fort  and  asked  him 
about  rates,  and  where  it  would  be  pos- 
sible to  get  this  million  dollars.'  He  prob- 
ably asked  if  he  couldn't  get  it  •  out  of 
the  packing  house  products,  or  out  of 
boots  and  shoes,  to  which  there  would 
be  objection  on  account  of  the  bankers. 
And  having  gone  down  the  list  Mr.  Lor- 
ing probably  said:  "There  is  a  place, 
milk  traffic."  Mr.  Fort  said,  "Have  we 
got  milk  traffic?  I  never  heard  of  it. 
We  certainly  never  spend  any  money  on 
it.  How  can  we  get  any  money  out  of 
it  ?"  Mr.  Loring  would  say,  "We  will 
first  get  up  a  formula."  They  got  up  a 
"formula"  on  this  case  and  got  their  rate 
experts  working  on  it,  and  then  pro- 
posed a  modest  20  per  cent,  increase  in 
rates,  which  only  meant  about  ^  of  a 
cent  per  quart. 

However,  there  was  among  the  milk 
dealers  and  milk  producers  an  efficient 
organization  which  they  did  not  count  on 
to  meet  the  situation.  I  think  the  rail- 
roads very  seriously  counted  on  disor- 
ganization in  the  milk  industry  and  tha* 
they  could  play  one  interest  against  an- 
other, put  in  their  case  with  their  rate 
experts  and  cost  experts  and  that  the  milk 
people  would  come  across  as  they  did  in 
1916,  when  railroads  offered  one  of  these 
so-called  "cost  studies"  showing  where 
they  are  not  getting  enough  money  and 
got  three-quarters  of  a  million  more. 

They  reckoned  without  their  host  be- 
cause you  had  a  dairy  committee,  also  a 
joint  committee  in  which  both  dealers 
and  producers  participated,  co-operated 
with  the  committee.  They  decided  they 
were  going  to  give  the  railroads  a  real 
fight.    They  asked  me  to  handle  some 


been  made  it  was  comparatively  easy  t 
get  the  consolidated  company  to  all  com 
in  under  the  surplus  plan.  Meanwhii 
other  dealers  buying  under  the  surpli 
plan  were  restive  and  unwilling  to  pa 
the  NEMPA  price  if  a  large  competitc 
like  the  new  consolidation,  was  bujin 
its  milk  at  an  unknown  price.  By  plat  in 
this  Irona  milk  with  the  Whiting  con 
pany  and  bringing  it  in  under  the  sur]ilt 
plan,  a  threat  to  the  stability  of  the  Bo: 
ton  market  was  done  away  with. 

One  other  important  development  : 
the  cooperative  creamery  field  is  so  r< 
cent  that  its  full  effect  cannot  be  mea 
ured.  It  is  the  purchase  of  a  part  intere 
in  the  Hurlihy  business,  a  medium  size 
distributor  in  Boston,  by  the  Milton,  V 
Creamery.  This  offers  a  steady  ret; 
and  wholesale  outlet  for  milk  for  tl 
Milton  creamery.  It  does  not,  like  tl 
other  changes,  bring  any  new  milk  in  u 
der  the  surplus  plan.  It  will  serve,  pro 
ably,  to  keep  the  Milton  creamery  surjil 
comparable  with  that  carried  by  oth 
dealers.  In  so  far  as  it  establishes 
steady  market  for  milk  which  mig 
otherwise  be  seeking  a  market,  it  ten- 
toward  a  further  stablization  of  the  ma 
ket.  It  will  depend  on  the  price  poli 
of  the  Milton  creamery  whether  this  n« 
factor  is  beneficial  to  the  market  cone 
tions  or  otherwise. 

At  the  present  time  Mr.  Davis  report 
that  the  only  material  disturbing  fact 
in  the  stability  of  the  market,  aside  frc 
the  Turner  Centre  situation,  is  the  pri 
cutting  of  the  United  Farmers  co-oper 
tive  at  Morrisville,  Vt.  Changes  due 
part  to  the  consolidation  of  the  cha 
stores  left  them  where  they  went  out 
an  aggressive  policy  to  get  new  busiiw 
about  July  1.  The  only  way  to  get  nt 
business  in  a  market  of  unusual  stabif 
was  through  a  cut  price  policy.  Prac 
cally  the  only  complaints  about  price  ci 
ting  which  are  now  coming  in  from  de; 
ers  can  be  traced  back  to  the  Morrisvi 
creamery.  If  this  milk  could  be  gi\ 
a  steady  outlet  at  going  prices  the  Bo^t 
market  would  be  in  a  practically  stal 
condition  so  far  as  price  cutting  is  cc 
cerned. 


phases  of  that  fight  but  there  are  o« 
a  few  phases  that  a  lawyer  can  hand 
He  can  do  some  of  the  directing,  but  I 
can't  produce  a  case  and  I  told  the  coj 
mittee  they  had  to  fight  the  railroads 
their  own  ground.  We  had  to  have  I 
counting  and  traffic  experts  and  howei 
this  case  goes,  I  will  have  no  alibi.  "1 
committee  told  me  to  get  the  best 
could  and  I  am  thoroughly  convinced 
have  done  the  best  we  could.  Whate 
way  the  case  goes,  it  will  not  be  the  fal 
of  the  committee  or  New  England. 

When  we  got  into  action  on  this  ci 
our  first  object  was  to  prevent  thi 
rates  from  coming  into  effect.  If  ti 
were  in  effect  now  it  would  be  cost 
you  about  55  thousand  dollars  a  mq 
for  increased  rates  and  you  might 
might  not  get  that  55  thousand  doll 
back  if  ultimately  the  Interstate  Cd 
merce  Commission  decides  the  rates 
too  high.  The  situation  is  now  t 
whichever  way  the  Commission  decii 
ultimately,  you  are  saving  55  thousa 
dollars  a  month  until  they  do  decide  j 
case  and  as  I  see  it,  there  will  be 
cision  until  next  spring.  By  then  ; 
will  have  saved  approximately  $600,C 

We  have  had  three  hearings  and  I 
are  faced  with  a  fourth.  The  first  V 
held  in  May.  At  that  hearing  the  rj 
roads  produced  a  cost  study  and  I 
Slater  was  prepared  to  show  that 
railroads  were  losing  $77,000  a  monthj 
$800,000  a  year  on  milk  traffic.  _  T! 
asked  to  have  the  rates  raised  sufficien 
to  cover  this.  In  1916  when  you  ha(| 
milk  case  the  railroads  forced  the  nj 
industry  into  the  position  of  cxaminj 
their  cost  studies  immediately  and  o 
gave  them  one  day  in  which  to  do 
That  cost  study  was  full  of  holes  ! 
the  Commission  took  it  and  based 
rates  on  it.  The  railroads  wanted 
(Continued  on  page  eight) 


John  Finerty  on  the  Rate  Case 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


Production  Still  Running  High         Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  September,  1926 

'  *  Tn    flctfrmin*'    iVin    rnrn.rtnncc     r\  (    ironr    mills-    nY^r.fYr     ( r\r    tY^'ic     mr\ntU      f%rtA  <-»n 


peptember  Reports  of  Boston  Dealers  Show  Purchases 
Higher  than  Last  Year.    Sales  Continue  to 
Gain.    Fall  Feeding  Conditions  Good. 


Milk  production  in  September,  as 
neasured  by  the  purchases  of  the  dealers 
n  Boston  operating  under  the  surplus 
)lan,  decreased  about  the  normal  amount 
rom  August  records  but  was  still  sub- 
itantially  higher  than  last  year.  This 
ncrease  is  more  apparent  than  real,  as 
he  consolidations  which  have  taken 
'ilace  in  the  dealers  within  the  past  year 
lave  brought  considerably  more  milk 
mder  the  operation  of  the  surplus  plan. 
The  milk  had  been  coming  into  Boston 
i  year  ago  but  was  not  handled  by  deal- 
■rs  operating  under  the  surplus  plan. 
There  has  also  been  some  additional  ex- 
pansion of  the  territory  from  which 
lealers  are  buying  milk.  It  seems  prob- 
ible  that  the  actual  production  per  herd 
IS  not  far  different  from  what  it  was  a 
/ear  ago.  Continued  good  feeding  con- 
litions  during  September  were  respon- 
sible '  in  a  considerable  measure  f  or  the 
vay  in  which  production  was  maintained. 

Sales  were  reported  V/2  million  pounds 
ligher  than  in  September,  1925.  This 
naterial  increase  is  gratifying  as  an  in- 
lication  of  the  healthy  conditions  in  the 
narket  and  the  lack  of  dissatisfaction 
vith  the  price  on  the  part  of  consumers. 
But  it  was  not  sufficient  to  offset  the 
'arger  purchases,  as  compared  with  the 
■previous  year.  The  result  was  an  in- 
crease in  surplus  for  September.  The 
urchases,  sales  and 'surplus  in  millions 
f  pounds  were  as  follows : 


1926 
Aug. 

Purchases    48.6 

Sales    27.4 

Surplus    49.5% 


1926 
Sept. 
44.8 
27.2 


1925 
Sept. 
39.6 
25.7 


47.5%  42.2% 


The  net  price  for  all  milk  sold  in 
"September  was  11  cents  a  hundred 
ligher  than  in  August,  due  in  part  to 
he  decrease  in  the  percentage  of  sur- 
plus and  in  part  to  the  increase  in  the 
mtter  price  as  compared  with  August. 
The  butter  price  for  September  was, 
lowever,  3.2  a  pound  below  the  pre- 
'ious  vear.    This  with  the  increase  in 


surplus  as  compared  with  last  year  made 
the  net  September  price  13  cents  a  hun- 
dred below  last  year.  The  fluid,  surplus 
and  net  prices  for  all  milk  and  the  but- 
ter price  comparisons  were  as  follows : 


1926 
Aug. 

Fluid   $3.22 

Surplus    1.58 

Net  price  all  milk  2.48 
Avg.  butter  per  lb.  .419 


1926 
Sept. 
$3.22 
1.71 
2.59 
.447 


1925 
Sept. 
$3.22 
1.84 
2.72 
.479 


NEW  YORK  AND  BOSTON  PRICES 
The  New  York  pooled  price  for  3.7 
per  cent,  milk  in  the  181-200  mile  zone 
for  September  is  $2.66  compared  with 
our  weighted  price  for  Boston  dealers  of 
$2.59. 

BUTTER  PRICES 
A  year  ago  butter  was  quoted  at  51^ 
cents.  Our  present  quotation  is  A6l/2 
cents,  5  cents  a  pound  lower  than  last 
year.  Feeding  conditions  have  been 
favorable  for  production,  storage  hold- 
ings continue  above  normal  and  domestic 
consumption  is  probably  off  some.  For- 
eign prices  are  so  much  lower  than  our 
market  (Montreal  31 y2  cents)  that  im- 
ports may  increase  even  with  the  butter 
tariff  12  cents  instead  of  8  cents.  Yet 
46l/2  cents  is  not  a  bad  price  for  butter — 
50  per  cent,  above  the  pre-war  price. 
Prices  will  probably  strengthen  during 
the  winter  but  will  probably  continue 
below  last  year. 

COST  OF  PRODUCTION 
Grain  prices  maintained  about  the  same 
level  in  October  as  last  month  and  are 
still  below  last  year.  Hay  prices  con- 
tinue above  last  year  in  price  with  a  little 
lower  price  than  September,  due  to  a  re- 
ported decrease  in  price  in  Vermont. 
Farm  labor  changes  very  little  in  cost. 

1926      1926  1925 

Sept.      Oct.  Oct. 

Grain,  per  ton....$46.47  $46.11  $49.94 
Hay,  per  ton  ....  16.17  15.60  14.87 
Labor,  per  hour     .300        .300  .308 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  September,  1926 

Cwt.  and 

Cwt.  Butter-fat 

Feeding        Price  Butter-fat  Price  Equal  Deduction 

Test       Skim            to  Price  to  to  Butter-  from  Milk 

of        Price         Cream  Cream  Fat  Price  Patrons 

Cream      Cwt.         Patrons  Patrons  Per  Pound  Per  Cwt. 

,-Iood,  lst-15th   12^%       .50            1.269  .47  .572  .1244 

iood,  lst-15th   20            .50            1.729  .47  .556  .1244 

iood,  16th-30th   12^         .50            1.533  .48  .603  .1331 

lood,  16th-30th   20            .50            2.150  .48  .588  .1331 

Whiting   20            .50            1.992  .50  .600  .1369 

|furner  Centre   \2l/2 


To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butter  fat  above  and  below  3.  7  per 
cent,  test  per  J /T 0th  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container:  per 
%Vi  quart  can,  $0,008;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,010;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,019;  per  21  # 
quart  can,  $0.021 ;  per  40  quart  can,  $.039 ;  per  hundredweight,  $0,045. 


Boston  District 

Class  1    Class  2   


Dealers 
Elm  Spring  Farm 
7th  zone  (121-140) 
J.  B.  Prescott 
Delivered   


(Mkt.    (Mfg.     8</2  20 

Milk)    Milk)  Quart    Quart     Quart     Quart  Cwt. 


Size  of  Can  

21  'A  40 


.77.4%  22:6'/2  .512 
..82.5  17.5 


1.320 


.341 


Northern  Market  District 


Class  1      Class  2 
(Mkt.  (Mfg. 
Dealers  Milk)  Milk) 

Wason-MacDonald 
Haverhill 

Delivered   89.6%  10.4% 

3rd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms 
Lawrence 

Delivered   72.9  27.1 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 

Manchester 

Delivered   86.8  13.2 

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

Blake,  E.  C. 

Manchester 

Delivered   76.5  23.5 

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

8th  zone   

Boyd,  W.  T.  &  Son 

Nashua  . 

Delivered   91.3  8.7 

3rd  zone   '.  

4th  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Nashua 

Delivered   97.1  2.9 

4th  zone   


Cwt. 
in 

8/2's 


3.683 
3.132 


Cwt. 
in 

20's 


3.683 
3.183 


2.514 


Cwt. 

in 
40's 


3.683 
3.224 


3.503 
3.154 
3.079 


3.503 
3.206 
3.185 


3.503 
3.248 
3.217 


Providence  Market 


Dealers 
Per  Hundredweight 
Burton,  H.  T  


2.925 
3.527 


Cwt. 


3.314 

2.996 
2.966 
2.915 
2.805 


3.409 
3.176 
3.111 

3.066 
3.040 


3.214 
2.955 
2.921 
2.904 
2.889 


3.622 
3.283 


Fiske,   E.  A  

Grant,  C.  W  

Greenville  Farm  ... 
Monroe,  A.  B.  ... 
Providence  Dairv 
Viall,  W.  C. 
Warnock,  C.  A.  ... 
Westcott,  E.  P.  ... 
Per  10  qt.  can 
Brown,   W.   B.  ... 


Truck- 

Class 1 

Class  2 

Zone  1 

Zone  2 

Zone  3 

ing 

Zone  Willi- 

(Mkt. 

(Mfg. 

Deliv- 

1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

net  mantic 

Milk) 

Milk) 

ered 

Miles 

Miles 

Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

94.4% 

5.6% 

3.715 

3.428 

3.382 

3.320 

64.4 

35.6 

3.070 

2.874 

2.844 

2.801 

2.702 

100.0 

3.838 

3.534 

3.486 

3.419 

89.5 

ids 

3.597 

3.325 

3.282 

3.222 

94.3 

5.7 

3.707 

3.420 

3.375 

3.312 

100.0 

3.838 

3.534 

3.486 

3.419 

.75.1 

24"9 

3.306 

3.125 

3.099 

3.047 

2.840  2.955 

100.0 

3.838 

3.534 

3.486 

3.419 

100.0 

3.834 

3.530 

3.482 

3.415 

100.0 

3.834 

3.530 

3.482 

3.415 

100.0 

.842 

.776 

.766 

.752 

.746   

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  September,  1926 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  hy  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  September  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  your  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
I  '  If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.045  for  each  .1  per  cent.  If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract  $.045 
or  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  September  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 
]     To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the  Hood, 
Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deduction  as  given  in  Cream  Price  Table  is  made  from  the  zone  price  as  figured  to  equalize  prices  between 
nilk  and  cream  patrons. 

Zone  1     Zone  2    Zone  3    Zone  4    Zone  5    Zone  6 
Miles  from  Boston    1-20      21-40      41-60      61-80    81-100  101-120 


Class  1  Milk  Price    3.479 

Class  2  Milk  Price    1.707 

Class  1  Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 


Zone  2 
21-40 
3.438 
1.707 


Zone  3 
41-60 
3.404 
1.707 


Zone  4 
61-80 
3.369 
1.707 


Zone  7  Zone  8  Zone  9  Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 

121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281~300 

3.340      3.311       3.287  3.258  3.235  3.218      3.194      3.171  3.159  3.136  3.119 

1.707      1.707      1.707  1.707  1.707  1.707      1.707      1.707  1.707  1.707  1.707 


Dealers  A 

i  Hood,  lst-15th  ....59.0%  41.0? 

|  Hood,  16th-30th  ....65.2  34.8 

•Whiting  in  40's  ....71.0  29.0 

I  Whiting  in  21  ^'s  ..71.0  29.0 

jAJden  Bros  53.5  46.5 

F.  S.  Cummings  58.5  41.5 

f.  E.  Boyd   66.1  33.9 

^Weighted  Avg  65.4  34.6 


B 

56.2% 
51.5 
44.9 
44.9 


47.5 


2.612 
2.742 
2.815 
2.804 
2.654 
2.743 
2.877 
2.763 


2.587 
2.715 
2.786 
2.765 
2.632 
2.719 
2.849 
2.736 


A— Excluding  Cream  Plan.      B — Including  Cream  Plan 


2.567 

2.547 

2.530 

2.512 

2.498 

2.481 

2.468 

2.458 

2.442 

2.430 

2.423 

2.409 

2.399 

2.693 

2.670 

2.652 

2.633 

2.617 

2.598 

2.583 

2.572 

2.556 

2.541 

2.534 

2.519 

2.507 

2.762 

2.738 

2.716 

2.696 

2.679 

2.658 

2.642 

2.629 

2.613 

2.596 

2.588 

2.571 

2.559 

2.735 

2.719 

2.688 

2.672 

2.649 

2.633 

2.618 

2.595 

2.579 

2.556 

2.548 

2.532 

2.525 

2.613 

2.595 

2.579 

2.564 

2.551 

2.535 

2.523 

2.514 

2.501 

2.489 

2.482 

2.470- 

2.461 

2.699 

2.678 

2.661 

2.644 

2.630 

2.613 

2.600 

2.590 

2.576 

2.562 

2.556 

2.542 

2.532 

2.827 

2.804 

2.785 

2.765 

2.750 

2.730 

2.715 

2.704 

2.688 

2.673 

2.665 

2.650 

2.639 

2.714 

2.691 

2.672 

2.653 

2.637 

2.618 

2.603 

2.592 

2.576 

2.561 

2.553 

2.538 

2.527 

Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


November,  1926 


John  Finerty  Speaks  on  Railroad  Rate  Case 

(Continued  from  page  one) 


do  that  same  thing  here,  but  wc  said  no, 
we  want  60  days  for  analysis.  If  -ve  get 
the  figures  from  you  and  analyze  them 
in  60  days,  we  will  come  back  and  put 
in  our  own  cost  study.  The  railroads 
said  it  couldn't  be  done,  and  moreover, 
w  hen  we  said  we  could  only  make  an 
analysis  of  this  cost  study  by  riding  their 
milk  trains  they  said  they  would  not 
permit  it.  We  said,  if  you  don't  permit  it, 
we  will  let  the  Commission  decide 
whether  your  cost  study,  which  you  are 
unwilling  to  let  us  analyze,  sustains  the 
burden  of  the  proof,  and  we  will  finally 
go  to  court. 

After  having  said  it  was  impossible, 
they  gave  us  60  days'  extension  and  when 
we  said  it  was  necessary  to  go  up  and 
down  the  length  and  breadth  of  New 
Eigland  they  finally  said,  "All  right,  we 
will  assent  to  any  reasonable  extension 
you  want.  We  will  let  you  go  up  and 
down  New  England  on  the  milk  trains." 
It  was  very  necessary  to  do  this.  I  was 
about  as  green  about  milk  as  the  Green 


lieve  in  the  first  hearing  all  the  railroads 
were  losing  money  and  it  developed  only 
the  Boston  &  Maine  were.  We  found 
out  that  out  of  some  7,000  miles  of 
New  England  railroad,  they  were  charg- 
ing operating  expenses  to  the  milk  in- 
dustry over  3,000  miles  on  which  not  a 
quart  of  milk  moved. 

We  then  found  that  t  he  Boston  & 
Maine  were  even  charging  you  up  with 
the  operation  of  lines  which  were 
abandoned.  We  found  they  were  charg- 
ing you  for  the  maintenance  of  gorgeous 
passenger  stations  and  among  them  we 
found  they  were  charging  you  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  Grand  Central  station 
in  New  York,  and  for  the  whole  of  the 
New  York,  and  for  the  whole  of  the 
Boston  &  Albany,  when  only  two  miles 
of  the  Boston  &  Albany  handle  a  pound 
of  milk.  We  then  developed  a  few  other 
things.  They  said  that  at  these  stations 
their  agents  were  giving  an  incredible 
amount  of  time  to  milk  service,  in  making 
out  way  bills  and  seeing  that  the  milk 


MISREPRESENTATIONS 

In  the  "study"  of  the  cost  of  transporting  milk  made  by  the 
railroads,  one  of  the  important  claims  was  the  time  spent  by  agents 
in  handling  the  milk.  Time  spent  at  many  stations  was  given  for 
the  month  in  which  the  cost  study  was  made. 

At  a  number  of  stations  we  checked  up  on  the  time  actually 
spent  by  the  station  agents.  In  many  cases  a  stop  watch  was  used 
for  accuracy.   The  results  are  given  below. 

These  are  samples  of  the  inaccuracies  and  misrepresentations 
of  facts  on  which  the  claims  for  increased  transportation  rates  have 
been  based.  Thanks  to  your  railroad  rate  committee  the  mis- 
representation has  been  shown  up. 

Here  are  the  figures,  after  reducing  the  month  figures  of  the 
railroad  to  a  daily  average. 

Time  they  said  Time  they  really 

they  spent  spent 
Hours      Min.       Sec.  Hours      Min.  Sec. 

Lisbon,  N.  H   1  3  40                     14  4 

Oliverian,  N.  H   1  6  3  46 

Newport,  Vt   11  34  48            7       15  59 

Littleton,  Mass   2  45  30 

West  Acton,  Mass.    12  19  30 

Lancaster,  N.  H.  39  8 

Littleton,  N.  H.    58  15 

Eagle  Bridge,  N.  Y.    3  9  54 

Clinton,  Mass.    3  33  49  30 


Mountains.  Mr.  Libby  and  Mr.  Geoghe- 
gan  might  have  known  something  about 
it,  but  I  did  not.  We  spent  May,  June 
and  a  portion  of  July  riding  every  im- 
portant route  in  New  England.  We 
would  leave  here  some  time  in  the  after- 
noon on  a  milk  train  in  the  caboose  and 
we  would  ride  all  night  and  the  next  day 
and  see  them  dump  off  milk  cans  and  see 
exactly  what  service  they  gave  and  what 
they  did  not  give.  We  then  rode  the 
same  train  back  to  Boston  with  loaded 
milk  cans  and  checked  every  movement 
they  made.  We  found  out  where  they 
had  station  platforms  and  made  a 
thorough  analysis  of  the  milk  service 
they  were  giving  in  comparison  with  the 
service  they  said  they  were  giving.  We 
found  they  were  giving  milk  service  not 
much  better  than  freight  service  and 
certainly  not  as  good  as  they  were  giving 
to  the  packers. 

When  it  came  to  the  second  hearing 
we  went  in,  knowing  something  about  the 
milk  industry  and  particularly  the  way 
in  which  it  was  being  served.  The  sec- 
ond hearing  was  held  at  Plymouth  where 
we  cross-examined  the  railroad  witnesses 
and  put  in  our  own  testimony.  In  that 
cross-examination  we  discovered  a  few 
things  they  had  neglected  to  tell  the  Com- 
mission. For  instance,  they  neglected  to 
tell  the  Commission  when  they  said  the 
railroads  were  losing  $77,000  a  month, 
that  $58,000  was  lost  by  the  Boston  & 
Maine,  $11,000  by  the  Central  Vermont 
and  the  rest  of  the  railroads  were  not 
losing  anything  or  were  actually  making 
money.  Even  then  their  figures  were  dis- 
torted.   They  made  the  Commission  be- 


was  properly  taken  care  of.  We  decided 
to  send  Mr.  Bronson,  Mr.  Libby  and  Mr. 
Geoghegan  and  find  out  exactly  how 
much  time  they  were  taking  in  the  milk 
service.  We  found  that  where  they  were 
charging  for  hours  a  day  for  milk  serv- 
ice, they  were  devoting  minutes.  Mr. 
Bronson,  Mr.  Libby  and  Mr.  Geoghegan 
would  go  to  a  station  with  a  stop  watch 
and  by  the  time  they  came  back  to  the 
last  hearing  they  showed  that  railroads 
had  padded  the  station  time  of  their 
agents  by  many  hundreds  of  hours.  They 
gave  nobody  the  benefit  of  the  doubt. 

This  was  all  brought  out  by  cross- 
examination  and  by  exhibits  and  finally 
it'  was  brought  out  they  had  raised  their 
operating  expenses  on  New  England  rail- 
roads $10,000,000  a  month,  part  of  which 
they  were  asking  you  to  pay  for.  More 
than  that,  when  we  took  out  the  invest- 
ment in  these  lines  of  road  and  what 
they  had  spent  in  constructing  these  lines 
of  road  from  which  no  milk  moved  and 
have  stations,  we  found  they  were  asking 
a  return  on  an  investment  of  $526,000,000, 
not  one  cent  being  used  for  milk  service 
or  milk  service  getting  the  benefit. 

When  we  had  finished  with  them  on 
Saturday,  we  then  suggested  to  them 
how  they  could  make  a  decent,  honest 
and  profitable  cost  study.  We  suggested 
to  them  various  common  sense  and  prac- 
tical ways  in  which  they  would  get  some 
real  idea  of  what  this  whole  service  was 
costing  and  we  said  to  them  and  the  Com- 
mission, that  if,  after  an  honest  and  a 
serious  cost  study  devoted  to  milk,  it  was 
found  the  milk  business  did  not  pay  its 
way,  we  wanted  it  to  pay  its  way.  You 


Schedule  of  Prices  for  Boston 

Based  on  8£  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 

Effective  November  1,  1926,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 


At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 

Cwt.in 


Cwt.in  Cwt.in 


oqt. 

oj^qt. 

lUqt. 

ZUqt. 

91  1/  nt 

4Uqt. 

ZUqt. 

91  i/n* 

^l%qt. 

4Uqt. 

^onc 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

1 

1-20 

.579 

.618 

.732 

1.489 

1.583 

2.993 

3.462 

3.464 

3.479 

2 

21^0 

.569 

.608 

.722 

1.464 

1.558 

2.958 

3.404 

3.409 

3.438 

3 

41-60 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.444 

1.538 

2.928 

3.357 

3.366 

3.404 

4 

61-80 

.549 

.588 

.702 

1.434 

1.528 

2.898 

3.334 

3.344 

3.36A 

5 

81-100 

.544 

.583 

.692 

1.414 

1.508 

2.873 

3.287 

3.300 

3.340 

6 

101-120 

.539 

.578 

.682 

1.404 

1.498 

2.848 

3.264 

3.278 

3.31i 

7 

121-140 

.534 

.573 

.677 

1.394 

1.483 

2.828 

3.241 

3.245 

3.287 

8 

141-160 

.524 

.563 

.667 

1.379 

1.473 

2.803 

3.206 

3.224 

3.258 

9 

161-180 

.519 

.558 

.662 

1.369 

1.463 

2.783 

3.183 

3.202 

3.23S 

10 

181-200 

.514 

.553 

.652 

1.364 

1.448 

2.768 

3.171 

3.169 

3.218 

11 

201-220 

.509 

.548 

.647 

1.349 

1.438 

2.748 

3.136 

3.147 

3.194 

12 

221-240 

.504 

.543 

.642 

1.339 

1.423 

2.728 

3.113 

3.114 

3.171 

13 

241-260 

.494 

.533 

.637 

1.334 

1.418 

2.718 

3.101 

3.103 

3.159 

14 

261-280 

.489 

528 

.637 

1.319 

1.408 

2.698 

3.066 

3.081 

3.136 

15 

281-300 

.489 

.528 

.632 

1.314 

1.403 

2.683 

3.055 

3.070 

3.119 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

1 

1-20 

.599 

.638 

.752 

1.499 

1.593 

2.993 

3.485 

3.486 

3.479 

2 

21-40 

.584 

.623 

.737 

1.474 

1.568 

2.958 

3.427 

3.431 

3.438 

3 

41-60 

.579 

.618 

.732 

1.464 

1.553 

2.928 

3.404 

3.399 

3.404 

4 

61-80 

.574 

.613 

.727 

1.444 

1.538 

2.898 

3.357 

3.366 

3.369 

5 

81-100 

.569 

.608 

.712 

1.434 

1.528 

2.873 

3.334 

3.344 

3.340 

6 

101-120 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.424 

1.508 

2.848 

3.311 

3.300 

3.311 

7 

121-140 

.564 

.603 

.707 

1.409 

1.498 

2.828 

3.276 

3.278 

3.287 

8 

141-160 

.554 

.593 

.702 

1.404 

1.493 

2.803 

3.264 

3.267 

3.258 

9 

161-180 

.549 

.588 

.697 

1.394 

1.478 

2.783 

3.241 

3.234 

3.235 

10 

181-200 

.549 

.588 

.692 

1.379 

1.468 

2.768 

3.206 

3.213 

3.218 

Where  milk  is  bought  by  weight  and  test,  the  dealer  will  pay  the  average  price 
for  92  score  fresh  butter  as  quoted  by  the  U.  S.  D.  A.  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
Economics  at  Boston  for  the  month.  The  price  of  1/10  pound  butter,  as  above 
stated,  shall  be  added  for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  above  3.7  per  cent,  and  deducted 
for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  below  3.7  per  cent,  for  each  cwt.  'of  milk  so  purchased. 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  0.75c  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 


want  good  service.  But  you  can  rest 
assured  when  they  get  through  an  honest 
cost  study  you  will  find  that  the  milk 
business  is  paying  its  way.  They  are 
trying  to  pay  out  of  the  milk  business  for 
passenger  service,  which  is  still  falling  off. 

That  is  the  problem  which  the  Inter- 
state Commerce  Commission  has  to  pass 
on  and  the  burden  is  on  the  railroads  to 
justify  increased  rates.  They  said  the 
milk  traffic  was  not  paying  its  way.  I 
am  willing  to  say  the  railroads  have  not 
made  the  slightest  showing.  We  have 
shown  the  figures  they  have  produced 
are  totally  unreliable  and  we  have  sug- 
gested to  the  railroads  and  to  the  Inter- 
state Commerce  Commission  how  they 
can  get  figures.  When  they  get  those 
figures,  and  it  will  take  a  year  or  more, 
then  they  can  come  back  and  say,  if  they 
can  prove  it,  the  milk  traffic  is  not  pay- 
ing its  way.  In  the  meantime  I  hope 
that  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commmis- 
sion  will  say  to  the  railroads,  "You  have 
not  made  any  showing  here  that  we  can 
believe  that  the  milk  traffic  is  not  paying 
its  way."  I  hope  that  the  rates  will  be 
so  announced  and  that  the  railroads  will 
have  their  opportunity  later  if  they  can 
produce  their  figures. 

In  this  connection  I  want  to  say  we 
have  had  the  greatest  co-operation  from 
the  milk  rate  committee  and  the  joint 
committee,  but  your  own  committees 
have  been  handicapped  by  not  having 
reliable  data  of  your  own  industry.  I 
know  something  of  the  New  York  case 
and  the  New  York  industry  has  had 
more  detailed  figures  of  milk  costs  and 
of  production  and  distribution.  In  this 
case  I  have  never  seen  better  co-opera- 
tion than  we  have  received  on  all  sides. 

If  you  are  going  to  maintain  the  pres- 
ent rates,  even  if  you  win  this  case,  you 
must  be  prepared  to  protect  yourselves 
for  the  future.  You  should  continue 
something  in  the  nature  of  this  joint 
committee  of  dealers  and  producers  so 
that  if  we  should  again  go  before  the 
Commission  or  court,  you  will  be  able  to 
produce  better  figures  than  you  have  been 
able  to  produce  in  this  case.  You  have 
not  got  the  records  that  you  ought  to 
have.  We  hope  you  will  seriously  con- 
sider a  permanent  committee  for  that 
purpose. 

Out  of  this  milk  case  and  in  the  milk 


case  we  have  discovered  not  only  the] 
railroads  are  attempting  to  get  more  than 
they  should  charge  but  they  have  in  thej 
past  and  I  hope  there  will  be  an  oppor- 
tunity to  get  some  of  it  back.  I  believe 
the  railroads  are  feeling  nervous  about 
some  of  their  practices  in  the  past  and 
it  might  be  you  can  pay  some  portion 
of  this  case  by  what  you  can  get  back 
from  the  railroads.  It  does  look  as 
though  some  of  you  have  valid  claims 
against  the  railroads. 


The  Outlook 

W.  H.  BRONSON 

In  duscussing  the  effect  of  other  condi- 
tions, one  must  assume  that  the  weather 
will  be  normal.  The  next  important  con- 
dition which  affects  good  or  bad  year  if 
dairying  is  the  general  business  situation. 
As  I  see  it,  general  business  probabiy 
will  slow  down  somewhat,  although  the 
condition  of  quite  low  money  rates  willj 
have  an  effect  to  keep  business  fairly  bu>y 
for  sometime  to  come.  There  is  likely  tni 
be  a  considerable  slump  in  the  building 
..'lid  the  lower  price  of  cotton  in  lii| 
southern  states  will  have  a  very  decide!] 
effect  upon  that  section's  demand  f<>r 
goods.  It  is  estimated,  for  example,  that! 
the  income  of  the  South  this  year  due  tg 
lower  cotton  prices  will  be  $800,000,0(13 
les-s  than  last  year.  To  offset  this  con- 
dition in  the  South,  we  will  have  an  im- 
provement in  general  business  conditions 
in  New  England.  The  lower  price  for; 
cotton  should  lead  to  increased  activit 
in  the  textile  business,  and  whereas  the 
business  in  the  country  as  a  whole  may 
siow  down,  New  England  is  likely  to 
show  an  improvement  in  business  ac 
tivity,  particularly  in  the  textile  sections 
of  New  England.  So  as  far  as  general 
business  conditions  are  concerned  as  af 
ucting  consumpliou  of  milk  in  New 
England,  I  think  that  conditions  are  more 
likely  to  improve  than  to  grow  worse  a:id 
iho.1  if  there  is  a  general  let-down  i.i 
business  as  a  whole,  there  will  be  less  ot 
a  let-down  in  New  England  than  in  othj." 
sections  of  the  country. 

We  have  a  present  supply  of  dairy 
products  in  storage  somewhat  above  nor- 
mal. The  cold  storage  holdings  of  butter 
in  October  was  125,000,000  pounds  com- 


November,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


pared  with  a  normal  supply  at  that  time 
of   around    100,000,000.     Production  of 
butter  is  likely  to  continue  at  a  higher 
ij  level  than  last  year,  due  to  low  feed  prices 
in  the  Middle  West  and  consumption  may 
be  off  somwhat  this  winter.    I  do  not, 
therefore,  look  for  as  good  prices  for 
butter  this  year  as  last  year  during  the 
,  balance  of  1926,  but  I  think  that  after  the 
Y  first  of  the  year  butter  prices  are  likely 
to  be  as  good  if  not  better  than  they  were 
during  1926.   At  the  present  time  foreign 
markets  are  low  in  price.    Canadian  mar- 
ket for  butter  this  last  week  was  33  cents 
'  per  pound,  compared  with  around  47  cents 
;  for  New  England.   The  Danish  market  is 
about  38  cents  at  this  time.    We  may 
have  some  small  imports  in  spite  of  the 
12-cent  tariff  on  butter,  but  this  will  be 
probably  relatively  unimportant. 

The  factors  that  make  for  production 
of  milk  are  the  number  of  cows  there  are 
to  produce,  and  the  amount  of  produc- 
tion you  can  get  per  cow.  There  has 
i  been  a  tendency  for  the  last  five  years  to 
decrease  the  number  of  cows  in  New 
England.  From  1920  to  1926  the  reduc- 
tion was  57,000,  which  is  about  seven  per 
cent,  of  the  number  of  cows  we  had  in 
1920.  This  decrease  in  number  of  cows 
is  likely  to  be  more  marked  for  the  next 
couple  of  years,  due  to  the  fact  that  the 
normal  number  of  dairy  heifers  have  not 
ibeen  raised  in  recent  years  for  replacement. 
In  the  three  census  years  of  1900,  1910,  and 
]<>20  the  number  of  dairy  cows  per  dairy 
<  heifer  averaged  4.3.  The  1925  census 
showed  6.2  cows  per  heifer  and  the  1926 
figure  is  nearly  seven  cows  per  heifer. 
As  compared  with  the  number  of  cows  it 
is  very  doubtful  whether  the  New  Eng- 
land dairy  herds  can  be  maintained  on  a 
basis  of  one  heifer  to  seven  cows.  That 
being  the  case,  it  is  likely  in  the  next 
year  or  so  that  the  number  of  cows  to 
produce  in  New  England  will  be  less. 

The  question  of  the  amount  produced 
per  cow,  which  has  its  influence  on  supply- 
depends  considerably  upon  the  quantity  of 
hay  available  for  feeding,  and  the  rela- 
tionship between  the  price  of  milk  and  the 
price  of  feed.  The  New  England  hay 
crop  is  somewhat  below  average  produc- 
tion.   The  United  States  hay  crop  for 

Bthe  second  year  continues  short.  It  would 
appear,  however,  in  general  that  there  is 
sufficient  hay  to  take  care  of  the  reduced 
number  of  dairy  cattle.  Grain  prices  at 
present  are  all  lower  than  last  year.  Corn- 
r  meal  for  example,  in  October  at  retail 
was  16  cents  per  hundredweight  lower. 
Cotton  seed  meal  29  cents  lower.  Gluten 
feed  19  cents  lower.  Wheat  brand  3  cents 
lower,  while  ground  oats  is  about  the 
same  as  a  year  ago.  In  general  these 
prices  are  lower  than  we  had  last,  year, 
but  the  net  price  of  milk  also  is  now 
lower  and  is  likely  to  continue  somewhat 
below  last  year,  so  that  under  present  con- 
ditions, the  present  relationship  of  feed 
to  milk  prices,  there  will  not  be  much 
:  incentive  to  feed  heavier. 

As  to  the  probable  feed  prices  in  ihe 
'  future,  the  corn  crop  in  the  United  States 
i  was  somewhat  lower  than  last  year,  but 
!  this  was  offset  to  some  extent  by  the 
large  carry-over  of  old  corn  for  the  pre- 
vious year.    The  relationship,  however, 
between  corn  prices  and  the  prices  of 
hogs  has  been  very  favorable  to  raising 
J  more  hogs  and  selling  less  corn,  so  that 
the  number  of  hogs  to  be  fed  this  coming 
.year  will  probably  be  considerably  more 
than  last  year.     This  means  less  cash 
corn  to  sell  and  it  is  my  guess  that  corn 
4  probably  will  be  higher  in  price  as  the 
season  progresses.    The  other  important 
feed  crop  is  cotton  seed  meal. 

The  very  large  crop  of  cotton  this  year 
means  an  abundant  supply  of  cotton  seed 
meal  and  it  has  already  had  its  effect  in 
bringing  the  lowest  cotton  seed  meal  prices 
we  have  had  in  some  time.    The  tendency 
on  prices  is  likely  to  be  lower  if  any- 
thing.   In  general,  therefore,  taking  ail 
feeds,  it  would  seem  that   feed  prices 
may  be  favorable  to  somewhat  larger  pro- 
duction than  last  year.    Production,  how- 
ever, last  year  was  not  excessive  during 
|  the  fall  and  winter  months. 
j    Reviewing  all  these  conditions,  it  seems 
to  me  that   1927  will  probably  not  be 
quite  so  favorable  as  1926,  due  primarily 
to  somewhat  letting-down  in  general  busi- 
\  ness,  and  a  less  favorable  ratio  between 
i  feed  and  milk  prices.    These  two  factors, 
may  be  offset  to  a  certain  extent  by  re- 
!  duced  number  of  dairy  cows  which  may 
L  reduce  production  sufficiently  to  give  a 
!'  fairly  favorable  1927. 


SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
Slide  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 

jyj  Telephone,  Dexter  6469 

The  Southern  Market  District  territory 
includes  Southern  Massachusetts,  Rhode 
Island,  Windham  and  New  London 
Counties,  and  a  part  of  Tolland  Co., 
Connecticut.  The  principal  markets  are 
Providence,  Pawtucket  and  Newport,  R. 
I.;  Boston,  New  Bedford  and  Fall  River, 
Mass.  The  district  is  handled  with  a 
manager  in  charge,  with  an  office  at 
Providence,  R.  I.,  maintained  with  Miss 
R.  A.  Freeborn  in  charge. 

NEW   BEDFORD,  MASS. 
Average  Base  Price,  .0876 

The  outstanding  accomplishment  in  the 
Southern  District  the  past  year  was  the 
reorganization  of  the  New  Bedford 
market  early  in  the  year  and  the  negotia- 
tion of  prices  since  Dec.  1,  1925.  This 
market  was  in  a  somewhat  demoralized 
condition  with  a  price  of  8*4  cents  per 
quart  delivered.  Other  markets  at  that 
time  were  8'/2  cents.  Meetings  of  the 
Acushnet,  Fairhaven,  North  Dartmouth, 
South  Dartmouth  and  Westport  were 
called  and  well  attended,  officers  elected 
and  as  all  producers  were  anxious  for 
an  increase  in  price  the  territory  was 
canvassed  and  members  signed  up  on  the 
new  2  cent  powers  of  attorney,  a  sales 
committee  elected  and  the  price  advanced 
from  8%  cents  to  9  cents  per  quart  de- 
livered. This  price  continued  until  June 
13,  and  then  dropped  to  8j4  cents  until 
July  11  and  advanced  }4  cent  to  8^4 
cents  and  has  continued  to  date.  The  ad- 
vance of  34  cents  from  December  to  June 
in  all  probability  returned  to  the  pro- 
ducers $300  or  more  a  day  or  $55,000  for 
the  period  and  has  returned  to  them  since 
July  11  K  cent  per  quart  more  than 
other  markets.  About  90  per  cent,  of 
the  supply  of  the  market  is  signed  up 
with  the  NEMPA  and  at  this  time  the 
greater  part  of  the  dues  deducted  by  the 
dealers,  which  is  a  forward  step,  as 
never  before  have  we  been  able  to  do  so 
only  in  a  small  way  and  the  collection  of 
personal  payment  is  not  only  expensive 
but  unsatisfactory  and  much  time  is  spent 
when  it  should  be  used  to  a  better  ad- 
vantage. One  disappointing  feature  of 
this  advance  was  that  many  cows  were 
purchased  and  increased  the  production 
to  the  point  of  the  greatest  surplus  this 
market  ever  had  and  as  there  are  many 
small  dealers  who  dropped  dairies  we 
were  unable  to  place  all  the  milk  at  all 
times.  One  of  the  larger  dealers  has 
had  an  average  surplus  of  16  per  cent, 
since  Jan.  1,  which  was  more  than  is 
usual  for  May  and  June  of  other  years. 
The  sales  committee  met  a  committee  of 
the  dealers  and  agreed  to  sell  milk  of  our 
members  on  the  weight  and  test  basis, 
commencing  Oct.  1,  the  weights  and  tests 
to  be  checked  by  a  representative  of  the 
NEMPA,  dealers  agreeing  to  deduct  Yi 
of  1  per  cent,  of  their  total  purchase  to 
help  to  pay  the  additional  expense.  This 
method  of  purchase  is  entirely  new  to 
the  producers  as  all  milk  in  the  past  has 
been  purchased  on  the  quart  basis  re- 
gardless of  its  butterfat  content  and  for 
this  reason  cows  were  purchased  that 
produced  the  largest  number  of  quarts. 
The  change  is  not  favorable  to  many  of 
the  producers,  especially  those  who  have 
a  low  test.  The  co-operation  of  the 
dealers  at  this  time  is  good.  The  sales 
committee  is  made  up  as  follows :  Chair- 
man, Chas.  P.  Gifford,  South  Dart- 
mouth ;  secretary,  E.  M.  Poole.  North 
Dartmouth  :  Wrri.  A.  Potter,  North  Dart- 
mouth ;  John  A.  Cornell.  South  Dart- 
mouth ;  John  A.  Smith.  Westport ;  Wm. 
A.  Coggeshall,  New  Bedford;  Dr.  Joel 
P.  Bradford,  Acushnet.  and  Henry  T. 
Howard,  Fairhaven.  Most  of  these  men 
have  served  for  many  years,  three  have 
been  on  this  committee  for  ten  years  and 
their  judgment  is  worthy  of  attention. 
They  are  about  as  representative  a  group 
as  could  be  selected  from  any  community. 
Their  work  has  returned  to  the  pro- 
ducers more  money  than  has  been  received 
anywhere  else  in  the  country  for  the  same 


quality  product.  They  ha'.c  done  a  good 
job  and  should  be  given  the  credit  they 
deserve. 

BROCKTON 
Average  Base  Price,  .0850 
The  price  in  this  market  has  not  been 
changed.  We  maintained  an  8'/2  cent 
price  since  July  1,  1925.  Although  this 
price  was  not  carried  without  some  diffi- 
culty, especially  in  the  month  of  June 
last,  when  the  Boston  price  dropped  a 
full  cent  and  many  of  the  chain  stores 
receiving  their  supply  from  Boston  at  a 
reduced  price.  Through  some  misunder- 
standing one  of  the  larger  dealers  re- 
duced his  price  one  cent  and  the  demand 
came  from  stores  for  a  reduced  price,  but 
by  good  teamwork  of  the  sales  committee 
they  induced  the  dealer  who  had  dropped 
his  price  to  go  back  to  the  former  price 
and  with  the  co-operation  of  the  Pro- 
ducers' Dairy  to  maintain  the  price  we 
came  through  fine  and  saved  the  pro- 
ducers some  $5,000  to  $6,000.  The  sales 
committee  for  this  market  consist  of  the 
following :  George  B.  Flint,  E.  Mans- 
field;  Lewis  R.  Brown,  Halifax;  Ralph 
Burrell,  Bridgewater ;  W.  D.  Fenderson, 
Easton.  I  regret  to  announce  the  death 
of  Walter  D.  Fenderson,  who  in  the  past 
had  been  an  active,  honest  and  conscienti- 
ous worker  for  the  NEMPA.  He  was 
president  of  the  Easton  Local  and  also 
treasurer  of  the  Brockton  Producers' 
Dairy  Co. 

FALL  RIVER,  MASS. 
Average  Base  Price,  .084 

The  prices  for  this  market  the  past 
year  have  been  the  same  as  Boston  which 
has  returned  to  the  producers  about  J4 
cent  per  quart  more  than  last  year  on  the 
average  amount  of  fluid  milk.  This 
would  return  to  the  producers  something 
like  $35,000  more  for  their  milk  than 
last  year.  The  Portsmouth  Local  has 
been  reorganized  and  valuable  assistance 
given  by  the  president,  Wm.  B.  Anthony, 
also  Little  Compton  Local,  canvassed  with 
assistance  from  the  president,  Edw.  W. 
Mersey.  The  sales  committee  for  this 
market  are :'  Grover  Douglas,  Tiverton; 
Everett  P.  Littlefield,  Little  Compton ; 
Herman  Holman,  Portsmouth ;  Frank  G. 
Arnold,  Touissett,  and  Chas.  Riley, 
Somerset. 

NEWPORT,  R.  I. 
Average  Base  Price,  .0875 

The  price  was  advanced  January  1  from 
8  to  9  cents  per  quart  and  has  been  main- 
tained since.  With  surplus  varying  from 
13  to  45  per  cent,  it  has  made  a  low 
price  to  producers,  not  because  the  ad- 
vance to  the  trade  curtailed  consumption 
but  for  the  fact  of  the  increased  amount 
produced.  Some  two  or  three  thousand 
quarts  is  taken  out  of  this  market  and 
shipped  to  Fall  River  and  Providence. 

PROVIDENCE,  R.  I. 
Average  Base  Price,  .084 

This  market  has  run  as  smoothly  the 
past  year  as  any.  Increasing  amounts  of 
milk  have  been  shipped  in  and  the  sur- 
plus has  been  higher  than  last  year  from 
all  the  territory  supplying  this  market. 
The  bulk  of  the  milk  comes  from  Rhode 
Island  farms,  a  large  part  from  Connecti- 
cut, some  from  Massachusetts,  Vermont 
and  Maine.  The  larger  dealers  have 
continued  to  purchase  more  nearby  or 
teamed  and  trucked  milk  the  past  18 
months  than  ever  before.  Large  amounts 
of  milk  are  now  shipped  by  auto  truck 
which  formerly  came  by  rail.  Many  of 
the  railroad  stations  which  formerly  re- 
ceived much  milk  are  now  handling  only 
a  few  cans:  The  milk  is  picked  up  at 
the  farm  by  truck  and  delivered  at  the 
dealer's  plant.  That  saves  the  producer 
the  trouble  of  going  to  the  station  and 
also  much  time  through  the  summer,  as 
trains  going  so  early  in  the  morning  re- 
quired them  to  have  milk  at  the  station 
at  least  two  hours  sooner  than  they 
would  have  to  by  truck.  The  costs  are 
about  the  same,  but  the  question  is,  "Will 
the  railroad  discontinue?"  If  so  many 
in  the  outlying  territory  will  be  at  a  dis- 
advantage. The  most  disturbing  factor 
in  this  market  the  past  year  was  the 
A  &  P  stores  selling  for  1  cent  less  than 
other  chain  stores.  I  have  received  as- 
sistance from  the  Boston  office  from  time 
to  time  and  in  the  solution  of  local  prob- 
lems, W.  P.  Davis,  assistant  manager, 


has  given  me  valued  service  which  I  ap- 
preciate. 

A  summary  of  the  records  shows  41 
locals  on  the  books  in  the  Southern  Dis- 
trict, having  a  membership  of  1,792,  a 
gain  of  12  over  last  year;  46  have  been 
dropped  and  58  new  members  added.  At 
the  beginning  of  last  year  we  had  914 
on  orders  and  at  the  present  time  wc 
have  1,117,  making  a  gain  of  203. 

CS^SZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSZSiJSZSZSZF-' 

WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 
Springfield,  Mass. 

I  was  transferred  to  the  Western  Mar- 
ket District  in  February.  It  was  quite 
a  change  from  the  Northern  Vermont 
conditions  under  which  I  had  been  work- 
ing for  some  time  previous.  But  I  found 
the  same  staunch  support  of  the 
NEMPA,  also  a  need  for  more  informa- 
tion about  what  the  association  is  doing. 
There,  as  well  as  everywhere  else  in 
New  England,  the  producers  want  to  have 
us  come  around  and  see  them. 

It  was  my  first  experience  in  handling 
market  problems.  Much  of  my  time  for 
the  first  few  months  was  spent  in  getting 
acquainted  with  producers  and  dealers. 
My  territory  starts  on  the  north  at  Brat- 
tleboro  and  runs  south  until  it  meets  the 
Connecticut  producers  association  a  little 
south  of  the  Connecticut  line.  It  in- 
cludes all  western  Massachusetts  and  the 
eastern  New  York  territory  and  Wor- 
cester county.    It  is  quite  a  big  field. 

The  Springfield  dairy  system,  the  Hol- 
yoke  and  the  Brattleboro  co-operatives 
so  nearly  cover  the  Connecticut  valley 
markets  that  I  spent  less  time  in  that 
field  than  in  the  Worcester  market  sec- 
tion. The  Worcester  market  is  one  of 
the  most  difficult  in  New  England  to 
handle  because  of  the  large  number  of 
small  dealers.  For  a  number  of  years 
these  dealers  have  been  difficult  to  handle 
satisfactorily  as  there  have  been  various 
prices  paid  there.  The  NEMPA  price 
sets  a  standard.  Some  follow  it  and  some 
do  not.  The  problem  is  to  gradually  get 
more  and  more  of  them  on  to  the  stand- 
ard price. 

Part  of  the  problem  in  the  Worcester 
market  district  is  due  to  the  difficulties 
under  which  the  health  department  is 
working  in  enforcing  regulations.  They 
have  not  sufficient  help  to  enforce  the 
rigid  inspection  the  leaders  would  like 
but  hope  to  have  soon.  A  new  code  of 
regulations  is  being  worked  out  and  it  is 
expected  that  when  this  is  in  force  it 
will  materially  help  the  market  situation. 
In  the  work  in  Worcester  I  have  had  the 
heartiest  kind  of  help  from  the  sales 
committee,  P.  J.  Kingston  of  Charlton. 
A.  C.  Grise  of  North  Brookfield,  John 
Moran  of  Barre  Plains,  H.  J.  Harlow  of 
Shrewsbury  and  Rudolph  Viegneault  of 
New  Braintree. 

One  of  the  most  important  pieces  of 
work  to  be  done  in  this  district  is  to  con- 
vince the  producers  that  the  weight  and 
test  system  will,  in  the  long  run,  be  a 
benefit  to  them.  There  has  been  a  con- 
siderable advance  in  the  amount  of  milk 
being  bought  under  the  weight  and  test 
plan.  Many  farmers,  who  have  been 
selling  by  the  can  for  many  years  and 
are  thoroughly  used  to  that  plan,  have 
not  yet  seen  the  advantages  which  the 
weight  and  test  offers.  It  will  take  some 
little  time  to  convince  them  that  the  new 
plan  is  the  only  way  in  which  they  can 
be  paid  for  just  what  they  produce, 
neither  more  nor  less. 

The  increase  in  the  weight  and  test 
system  will  call  for  check  testing  to 
satisfy  the  producers.  I  have  done  a 
little  of  this  and  if  time  permits  I  hope 
to  do  more.  This  is  one  of  the  matters 
which  I  hope  to  explain  at  the  local  meet- 
ings which  I  shall  attend  so  far  as  is 
possible. 


He — "Do  you  play  golf?" 
She— "Oh,  dear,  no ;  I  don't  even  know 
how  to  hold  the  caddie!" 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


November,  1926 


There  is  a 
Difference  in 
Milk  Products 

and  customers  are  quick 
to  notice  the  difference 
—they  look  for  the  fine 
rich  flavor  and  whole- 
someness  which  can  only 
result  in  products  pro- 
duced under  conditions 
of  absolute  cleanliness 
and  sanitation. 

To  establish  these  con- 
ditions, thousands  of 
dairymen,  creamerymen 
and  cheesemakers  have 
standardized  the  use  of 

f4/y^7F(/d7Te. 

This  cleaner  is  so  exactly 
fitted  for  dairy  use  that 
over  a  period  of  more 
than  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury it  has  established 
the  standard  of  dairy 
sanitation. 

Moreover,  the  use  of 
Wyandotte  Dairyman's 
Cleaner  and  Cleanser 
has  reduced  cleaning 
cost  wherever  it  is  used 
and  it  will  prove  a  prof- 
itable investment  for 
you. 


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Ask  Your 
Supply  Man 
for 

WYANDOTTE 


In  every  package 


The  Wyandotte  Booth  at  the  Ses- 
qui-Centennial  Exposition,  Phila- 
delphia, June  1  to  December  1,  will 
be  found  in  the  Manufacturers' 
Building,  Group  D,  Sec.  1,  Block  2. 


THE  J.  D.   FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte      -     -  Michigan 


Report  of  Treasurer,  H.  L.  Webster 

INCOME 

Receipts  from  Dues   j   $680.00 

Receipts  from  Fees   72,981.39 

Cash  Discounts  on  Purchasess    5.87 

Miscellaneous  Income    15.50 

Interest  on  Bank  Deposits,  Note  Receivable   69.07 

Providence  Market  Surplus  Plan    1,180.00       ..  . 

Gross  Income      $74,931.83 

Less  15%  of  Receipts  from  Dues  set  aside  for  Locals,  Organiza- 
tion, Salaries  and  Expensess,  Annual  Meeting  Expense  and  to 

meet  any  emergency  of  the  Central  Association    $10,947.21 

Less  15%  of  Dues  Received  from  Locals  not  Electing  Officers....  874.54 

 :   10,072.67 

Net  Income    $64,859.16 

EXPENSES 

Officers  and  Directors  Salaries    $16,238.33 

Officers  and  Directors  Expensess    3,088.03 

 $19,326.36 

Boston  Office — 

Salaries    5,349.33 

Rent    1,663.74 

Stationery  and  Printing    941.28 

Postage    1,770.97 

Telephone  and  Telegraph    742.21 

-  Supplies    202.63 

Heat  and  Light    115.10 

Janitor   Service   246.75 

Miscellaneous  Expense    1,018.65 

  11,820.46 

Providence  Branch  Expensess    6,675.15 

Lawrence  Branch  Expensess   6,731.31 

Association  Fees  and  Dues    1,560.00 

Legal  Expenses    1,417.93 

Annual  Meeting,  1925    3,200.63 

New  England  Dairyman    5,060.92 

Insurance    31.13 

Tax  Paid   89.62 

Sales  Committee    2,285.55 

General  Office — 

Salaries    4,850.00 

Expenses    67.22 

Depreciation  on  Furniture  and  Fixtures    728.29 

Interest   Paid   167.69 

Collection  Expense,  Dealers'  5%  Deduction    1,968.34 

Bad  Debts  Charged  Off    30.55 

Organizers'  Salaries  and  Expenses    575.36 

Donations    19.00 

N.  E.  Dairv  Marketing  Service    3,973.21 

 $70,749.72 

Excess  of  Expenses  over  Income    $5,890.56 

ASSETS 

Cash  on  Hand  v.  $3,055.14 

Furniture  and  Fixtures   '.   4,023.89 

Miscellaneous  Assets   6,443.35 

$13,522.38 

LIABILITIES 

Accounts    Payable   $5,828.52 

Notes  Payable   3,000.00 

Excess  of  Gross  Assets  over  Liabilities   4,693.86 

$13,522.38 


Annual  Report  of  President  Little 


(Continued  from  page  5) 


The  question  has  been  answered  but 
the  answer  is  not  a  new  one.  The  best 
of  extensive  thought,  endeavor  and  ex- 
perience has  not  been  able  to  uncork  a 
new  answer.  So  far  as  an  answer  has 
emerged  it  simmers  down  to  a  necessity 
for  the  stimulation  of  COOPERATIVE 
MARKETING.  What  else  remains  to- 
day of  all  the  commotion  of  the  Haugen 
and  other  farm  relief  bills,  and  of  all 
the  experiments  made  and  principles  pro- 
posed since  the  Wilson  Adminstration  ? 
The  Administration  at  Washington  has 
listened  patiently  and  hopefully  to  the 
many  other  proposals,  but  apparently,  has 
always  come  back  with  increasing  en- 
ergy and  determination  that  COOPERA- 
TIVE MARKETING  is  the  form  of 
farm  relief  which  offers  the  greatest  hope 
and  possibilities.  This  is  just  as  true 
concerning  New  England's  milk  crop  as 
it  is  of  western  corn,  wheat,  hog  and  beef 
crops,  or  the  cane  and  cotton  crops  of  the 
south. 

Nearly  all  responsible  leaders  and 
workers  have  courageously  pointed  out 
that  to  expect  cooperative  marketing  to 
prove  itself  a  panacea  is  unjustifiable, 


but  they  do  resolutely  commit  themselves 
to  it  as  the  only  safe  and  sane  answer 
to  the  farm  question. 

They  point  out  and  admit  that  it  is 
their  opinion  that  there  are  elements  in 
the  farm  relief  question  so  deep  that  co- 
operative marketing  will  not  completely 
meet  them,  and  which,  in  their  judgment, 
cannot  be  met. 

A  good  source  of  thought  in  the  New 
York  banking  world,  through  the  medium 
of  "The  Wall  Street  Journal,"  goes  on  to 
say  in  effect :  "The  farmer  is  not,  or  be- 
lieves he  is  not  getting  what  should  be 
coming  to  him  in  the  present  reign  of 
prosperity,  and  this  seems  superficially 
true.  But  the  real  reason  for  it  is  ap- 
parent to  thoughtful  persons.  The  very 
same  reason  that  forced  the  manufac- 
turers to  consolidate  small  units  into 
large  units  applies  to  the  farmers.  Be- 
fore steam  came  into  use,  manufacturing 
was  done  by  hand,  and  largely  in  the 
homes  of  the  workers.  These  home  work- 
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tories and  the  concentration  of  effort. 
The  end  of  this  struggle  was  a  complete 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


Grade  A  f 


the  home  workers  of  older  days  were 
happier  than  are  the  factory  workers  of 
todny,   even   though   they   worked  from 
dawn  to  dusk.     But  can  we  return  to 
former  conditions? 

Now  the  truth  of  it  is  that  the  average 
farmer  today  is  working  under  the  small 
unit  system  much  as  his  forbears  did 
200  years  ago,  and  this  is  the  real  condi- 
tion t hat  faces  him.  In  the  last  century 
manufacturing  and  transportation  have 
been  revolutionized  and  now  agriculture 
stands  on  the  threshhold  of  its  own 
revolution.  The  little  farm,  with  its  hand 
and  animal  labor,  must  follow  the  cross- 
roads forge  and  spinning,  and,  due  to 
electrical  and  other  mechanical  inven- 
tions, the  day  is  near  at  hand.  Like  all 
revolutions  this  one  will  be  resisted  by 
roots  firmly  attached  to  the  soil.  It  is 
but  the  manifestation  of  an  evolution 
that  no  power  can  forestall,  and  which 
will  in  time  win  its  way,  as  it  has  ever 
done  and  ever  will  do  as  long  as  man- 
kind exists. 

This  then   is  the  problem  that  faces 
the  farmer.    It  cannot  be  pushed  aside, 
it  cannot  be  passed  by.    It  is 'the  "hand-1 
writing  on  the  wall." 

There  is  much  that  is  sound  in  this 
banker's  line  of  explanation,  but  there 
are  those  who  fear  that  during  this 
process  of  revolution  the  big  units  may 
take  the  individual  farmers  and  sweep 
them  up  and  gather  them  into  the  Amer- 
ican tendency  toward  merger,  combina- 
tion and  big  units.  They  ask  what  will 
be  the  status  of  the  individual  man  who 
handles  the  hoe,  if  the  American  farmer 
is  to  join  the  procession  toward  organized 
marketing  mergers— just  how  will  we 
envisage  the  farmer  of  the  future? 
Will  he  continue  to  own  his  160  acres 
with  all  the  sense  of  security  and  inde- 
pendence that  he  now  has?  Will  the  in- 
dividual man  who  milks  the  individual 
cow  or  drives  the  individual  tractor — 
will  he  be  merely  a  renter  or  a  hired  man 
or  some  other  variety  of  independent? 
Does  the  American  farmer  want  to  be- 
come less  individual  than  he  now  is — ■ 
does  he  want  to  become  a  mere  atom  in 
a  large  unit  ? 

To  answer  these  fears  and  criticisms, 
let  me  ask  what  advantages  can  the 
farmer  expect  to  enjoy  if  he  remains  in- 
dividual in  the  sense  that  he  has  remained 
individual  ?  Throughout  the  farm  his- 
tory of  the  northeastern  states  and 
through  centuries  elsewhere  the  typical 
farm  has  measured  from  50  to  300  acres 
owned  by  a  man  who  lives  on  the  land 
with  a  wife  and  a  growing  family.  This 
family  has  been  the  unit  of  agricultural 
labor.  This  farm,  with  its  workers  all 
confined  to  one  family,  has  been  to  agri- 
culture what  the  small  independent  fac- 
tory has  been  to  industry.  This  unit  of 
farm  labor,  a  man  and  his  wife  and  three 
or  four  growing  children,  has  been  used 
to  retard  tendencies  of  agriculture  to 
move  into  channels  of  mass '  business. 

These  family  units  found  that  they 
could  produce  a  crop  cheaper  than  could 
labor  hired  on  a  factory  basis,  but  they 
also  found  that  when  they  offered  their 
cheaply  raised  crop  for  sale  they  held  no 
advantage  because  it  was  obliged  to  com- 
pete with  the  cheaply  raised  crop  of  many 
other  family  units. 

Most  recognized  authorities  on  the  sub- 
ject of  co-operative  marketing  hold  the 
view  that  because  of  the  nature  of  his 
industry,  the  farmer  can  never  be  brought 
to  a  state  of  organization  so  compact  as 
to  offer  the  least  interference  with  ability 
to  succeed.  At  best,  a  union  of  farmers 
of  any  class  must  be  a  loose  organiza- 
tion which  cannot  be  so  arbitrarily  con- 
trolled as  can  a  great  corporation.  It 
will  be  a  lumbering  democracy  and  not 
succeed  in  fixing  prices  to  any  great  ex- 
tent or  for  any  appreciable  length  of 
time.  Such  organized  power  will  avail 
him  little  if  he  abuses  it,  and  he  will  be 
constantly  obliged  to  pay  respectful  heed 
to  the  great  law  of  supply  and  demand. 
Abuse  of  power  always  brings  its  own 
train  of  regrets.  The  farm  organization 
will  be  framed  by  the  farmer  for  the 
sole  purpose  of  marketing  his  products 
for  sale  in  an  orderly  and  business-like 
manner,  and  the  farmer  will  direct  it  in 
its  processes  of  operation,  much  as  he 
will  provide  for  and  supervise  its  con- 
struction. 

New  England  has  achieved  its  out* 


standing  industrial  importance  because  of 
two  chief  reasons:  hirst,  its  wonderful 
natural  resources,  of  location,  numerous 
and  rapid  streams,  and  wooded  slopes, 
and,  secondly,  because  her  industrial 
leaders  have,  in  the  main,  learned  the 
value  of  employing  progressive  business 
methods  to  develop  trade  and  commerce. 
Her  dairy  farmers  sorely  need  the  same 
privilege  to  avail  themselves  of  the  bene- 
fits possible  to  be  derived  from  the  adop- 
tion of  modern  mass  business  co-opera- 
tive marketing  machinery,  and  the  modern 
aristocracy  of  capital  controlled  political 
officialdom  must  not  continue  to  put 
flimsy  technical  obstruction  and  pretext 
in  the  path  of  this  so  necessary  and  so 
sorely  needed  co-operative  marketing 
structure.  I  feel  that  I  underestimate 
when  I  say  that  this  technical  and  purely 
selfish  and  pretending  refusal  to  grant 
official  privilege  to  the  producers  of  Ver- 
mont to  construct  comprehensive  milk 
marketing  equipment  in  conjunction  with 
fellow  producers  in  the  general  territory 
supplying  milk  to  New  England  markets 
has  been,  and  now  is,  costing  the  farmers 
of  the  Boston  market  one  cent  for  every 
quart  of  milk  they  market.  This  im- 
mense loss  of  income  we  have  sacrificed 
at  the  feet  of  pretext  and  selfishness,  be- 
cause narrow  minded  capital  and  smirk- 
ing political  demagogues  have  said  that 
we  must  do  so.  The  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association  has  proven,  and 
is  proving  itself  a  very  valuable  agent 
in  behalf  of  the  farmers  of  the  New 
England  markets.  It  is  our  first  great 
step  in  progressive  milk  marketing.  It 
must  be  maintained  and  supported  until 
we  have  accomplished  its  second  step. 
In  our  efforts  to  meet  the  requirements  of 
the  times  by  taking  this  second  step  our 
foot  has  come  against  a  stumbling  block 
which  penalizes  us  by  impeding  our 
progress  temporarily.  As  all  things 
political  melt  before  the  will  of  public 
opinion,  so  will  this  interference  with 
the  rights  of  farmers  vanish  from  our 
path  before  the  will  of  the  farmers  of 
Vermont,  who  realize  that  this  unwar- 
ranted obstruction  has  subjected  them- 
selves and  their  neighbors  to  enormous 
losses  of  income. 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


November,  1926 


Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 


Potato  Profits 

Everett  Wiswell,  of  Colebrook, 
N.  EL,  is  one  of  the  best  known 
successful  potato  men  in  his  state. 
Last  spring  he  studied  the  Eastern 
States  High  Analysis  Fertilizers. 
He  saw  that  the  theory  on  which 
they  are  built  is  sound,  and  de- 
cided to  try  Eastern  States  10-16- 
14.  He  planted  three  plots  in  ex- 
actly the  same  way,  and  cared  for 
them  in  identical  fashion.  He  used 
on  one  a  well  knowyn  brand  of  4- 
6-10,  1500  lbs.  per  acre;  on  an- 
other a  5-8-6  home  mixture,  1500 
lbs.  per  acre ;  and  on  the  third  plot 
Eastern  States  High  Analysis  10- 
16-14,  1000  lbs.  per  acre.  The  4- 
6-10  has  actually  produced  237^ 
bushels  of  good  table  stock.  The 
5-8-6  has  produced  282f  bushels. 
The  Eastern  States  10-16-14  has 
produced  302  bushels.  Figuring 
potatoes  at  $1  a  bushel  in  the  field, 
Wiswell  produced  with  ready- 
mixed  4-6-10  $237.25;  with  home- 
mixed  5-8-6,  $282.75;  and  with 
Eastern  States  10-16-14,  $302. 

The  ready-mixed  4-6-10  cost 
Wiswell  $44  an  acre,  the  home- 
mixed  5-8-6  $39  per  acre,  and  the 
Eastern  States  10-16-14  $39.30  per 
acre.  The  return  over  fertilizer 
costs,  therefore,  on  the  4-6-10  plot 
was  $193.25,  on  5-8-6  $243.75,  and 
on  Eastern  States  10-16-14  $262.70. 

The  Eastern  States  High  Analy- 
sis 10-16-14  showed  the  greatest 
net  cash  return.  It  beat  the  4-6-10 
by  $69.45  and  the  home-mixed  5- 
8-6  by  $18.95.  Furthermore,  Wis- 
well had  to  mix  and  resack  the 
home  mixture.  He  had  to  haul 
from  the  Colebrook  station  half 
again  as  many  sacks  of  the  home- 
mixed  and  twice  as  many  sacks  of 
the  4-6-10  ready-mixed  as  he  did 
of  the  Eastern  States  10-16-14. 
These  are  important  items  for  busi- 
ness farmers  to  consider.  The 
Eastern  States  High  Analysis  was 
the  most  attractive  of  the  three 
mixtures  from  all  these  stand- 
points. 

The  Eastern  States  Farmers' 
Exchange  fertilizer  buying  service 
offers  farmers  a  splendid  oppor- 
tunity to  secure  fertilizers  for 
1927.  To  get  the  full  advantage 
of  this  plan  farmers  should  com- 
municate immediately  either  with 
their  local  agent  or  with  the  East- 
ern States  office  at  Springfield. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

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omnod  and  controlled  by  the 
farmer*  It  serve* 

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ANNUAL  REPORT  OF  MANAGING  DIRECTOR 

(Continued  from  page  three) 

effect  the  report  of  its  special  committee  mittee  deemed   it  wise  to  not  advance 

on  the  Turner  Centre  System.  prices  sharply  in  the  Fall  but  rather  to 

hold  them  into  the  period  of  increased 

VJ.1.  FKILh-b  production  long    enough    to    reach  the 

The  all  important  matter  in  the  mind  necessary  average.    This  system  of  price 

of  the  average  dairyman  is  the  price  he  making  returns  to  the  producer  less  in 

shall  receive  for  milk.    Too  little  atten-  proportion  to  his  costs  at  the  time  when 

tion  is  given  to  the  causes  which  fix  that  milk  is  most  scarce  and  most  valuable, 

price,  to  the  conditions  on  which  that  It  returns  to  the  producer  most  for  his 

price  is  based.    Special  study  should  be  milk  when  milk  is  least  expensive  and 

given  to  the  prices  paid  farmers  during  most  abundant.    This  arrangement  can- 

the  past  year  for  milk  resold  as  such  not  we  believe,  indefinitely  continue.  A 

by  Southern  New  England  distributors,  system  of    prices    averaging    a  certain 

The  price  of  8^c  per  quart  for  resold  amount  during  the  year  but  to  vary  per- 

milk  has  held  throughout  the  past  twelve  iodically  according  to  supply  and  demand, 

months  with  the  exception  of  June,  at  should  be  developed. 

7l/2c.    With  that  exception  8l/2c  held  as  Under  the  Cooperative  Marketing  Act 

the  market  milk  price  for  the  past  fif-  of  1926  cooperative  organizations  are  per- 

teen  months.     Consumption  has  heavily  mitted  to  join  in  conferences  with  respect 

increased  under  a  constant  milk  price,  to  market  conditions  and  problems.  The 

The  distributing  trade  abhore  price  flue-  Directors  of  our  Association  have  auth- 

tuations.     Studies    of   production  (costs  orized  our  participation  in  such  a  move- 

for  the  past  few  years  show  that  even  ment.    We  sincerely  hope  it  may  appear, 

whole  milk  prices  did  not  return  to  the  Meantime  it  is  gratifying  to  know  as 

producers  enough  to  sustain  the  indus-  disclosed  by  the  following  table  that  the 

try.     Only  part  of  the  time  have  the  return  to  producers  for  milk  during  the 

prices  paid  for  resold  milk  returned  the  past  year  has  exceeded  what  would  have 

actual  costs  of  production  and  none  of  been  received  at  the  price  paid  during  the 

the  time  has  surplus  returned  its  costs,  previous  year  by  $2,000,000. 

COMPARISON  OF  AMOUNTS  PAID  BY  THE  LARGER  DEALERS 

Increase  Decrease 
1924-25  1924-25 

1924-25  1925-26               over  under 

Amount  Amount            1925-26  1925-26 

October                                  $956,800  $1,057,760  $80,960 

November                                 942,300  987,670  45,370 

December                                   999,000  1,021,200  22,200 

January                                  1,028,340  1,051,980  23,640 

Februarv                                1,057,280  1,098,580  41,300 

March                                    1,095,040  1,178,560  83,520 

April                                      1,205,200  1,262,840  57,640 

May                                       1,185,600  1,350,900  165,300 

June                                       1,397,760  1,397,760 

July                                      1,344,200  1,361,360  17,160 

August                                   1,263,600  1,205,280  $58,320 

September                               1,218,560  1,160,320  58,240 

$13,693,680  $14,114,210         $537,090  $116,560 

Decrease  1926  under  1925    116,560 

Net  increase  1925-26  over  1924-25   $420,530 

It  was  only  during  the  past  year  that  This  increase  applied  to  milk  that  moves 

the  composite  price,  the  amount  actually  in  New  England  under  NEMPA  prices 

received  for  milk  by  the  producer  for  all  would  amount  to  not  less  than  $2,000,000. 

his  milk,  touched  the  cost  of  production  It  has  we  believe,  been  one  of  the  best 

as  reports  by  our  statistical  department  years  for  New  England  dairying  since 

and  that  in  the  month  of  May  when  pro-  this  organization  came  into  existence  and 

duction   costs   were   lowest   and   winter  this  organization  has  been  the  dominating 

prices  held.    It  is  perfectly  apparent  that  influence  in  making  it  so. 

the  industry  cannot  exist  unless   it  re-  Aside  from  this  price  consideration  Mr. 

turns  a  new  dollar  for  an  old  one.  Davis  outlined  the  progress  which  had 

The  number  of  dairy  cows  per  dairy  been  made  in  getting  Grade  A  purchases 

therefore  has  been  constantly  increasing  on  a  more  standardized  basis.  Ratings 

in  the  last  two  or  three  years  until  it  have  been  discarded  altogether  in  B  grade 

has  finally  gotten  to  the  point  where  the  territory. 

present  number  of  heifers  are  not  suffi-  PERSONAL  WORD 

cient  to  keep  up  the  present  herds.  , 

Of  course  1  am  sorry  to  miss  the  an- 

NUMBER  OF  COWS  PER  HEIFER  nual  meeting  of  the  NEMPA.    I  have 

1900     1910     1920     1925     1926  not  missed  a  meeting  since  I  was  elected 

Maine   3.8       3.5       4.2       5.0       5.1  Secretary    of    the    old    organization  in 

N.  Hamp...3.9       3.6       4.1       5.4       5.9  August   1913.    I think  I  hold  the  record 

Vermont  ..3.9       3.4       5.2      6.1       6.9  «J  P°lnt  °f  sfvlce  a"10"*  organizations 

, ,              r  a       a-,       c  c       n  c       7  o  of  this  character  in  the  country.    I  know 

Mass  5.4      4.2       5.6       /.6       /.9  ,               ,     ,             ,  .     r  .. 

tij          ^       48       62       99     110  no  one      0        served  in  the  capacity 

Conn 4  8       37       s".0       5.9      SA  I  have  occupied  continuously  in  any  or- 

NE         43       37       49       62      68  ganization  ot  this  kind  as  long  as  1  have. 

I  had  hoped  to  keep  a  perfect  score  but 

Whereas  in  1900  there  was  one  heifer  everything  will  go  on  as  well  as  if  I  were 

to  every  4  3-10's  cows,  in  1926  there  was  there.    That  is  my  pride  in  management, 

one  heifer  to  every  6  8-10's  cows.    This  As  I  have  often  said,  it  is  not  the  things 

decrease  in  the  number  of  heifers  for  re-  that  I  did  but  in  being  able  to  surround 

placement  indicates  that  the  farmer  is  not  myself  with  a  competent  staff  of  young 

planning  to  maintain  his  dairy  herds  at  men  to  whom  credit  for  doing  what  the 

the  present  number.    The  only  answer  is  NEMPA  has  accomplished  largely  be- 

a  higher  price  level  for  dairy  products  longs.    We  have  a  strong,  capable  or- 

if  a  serious  shortage  is  not  to  appear  ganization.    I  am  proud  of  everyone  in 

which   will   require   the   replacement   in  it.    Each  has  contributed  his  or  her  part 

dairy  herds  from  outside  sources  or  the  unfailingly  and  ungrudgingly.    I  wish  to 

importation  of  milk  to  meet  consumers  make  personal  acknowledgement  of  the 

needs,  fine  spirit  of  these  people.     Every  one 

Last  year  in  an  effort  to  bring  a  higher  has  done  what  was  assigned  to  them  to 

annual  average  return  a  long  term  price  do  and  done  it  well.    The  exigencies  of 

was  established  and  maintained  by  strenu-  the  year  have  given  special  prominence 

ous  and  fearless  action  on  the  part  of  to  the  work  of  three  men,  which  should 

the  Sales  Committee  and  the  Directors.  I  believe,  be  publicly  acknowledged.  I 

The  8J/2c  average  price  for  the  past  year  refer  to  Mr.  Warner,  who  for  several 

is  none  too  high  but  its  constant  continu-  years  of  trying  and  discouraging  experi- 

ance  regardless  of  fluctuating  costs  or  ences  has  kept  steadily  and  uncomplain- 

market  conditions,  is  questionable.  There  ingly  pegging  away  and  this  year  has 

was  last  year  a  Fall  shortage  which  abun-  with  the  assistance  of  three  new  men, 

dantly  justified  a  higher  price.   The  com-  done  an  especially  valuable  work  in  build- 


Better  Prices 

for  Your  Butter 


"Dandelion   Butter   Color"   gives  that 
Golden  June  Shade  which 
Brings  Top  Prices 


Before    churning  adej 
J~~  one-halt'    teaspoonful  to 
j^Jr        each  gallon  of  cream  and 
•  out  of  your  churn  comes 

'  butter    of    Golden  June 

shade.  "Dandelion  But- 
ter Color"  is  purely 
vegetable,  harmless,  and 
meets  all  State  and  Na- 
tional food  laws.  Used 
for  years  by  all  large 
creameries.  Doesn't  color 
buttermilk.  Absolutely 
tasteless.  Large  bottles 
cost  only  35  cents  at 
drug  or  grocery  stores.  Write  for  FREE 
SAMPLE.  BOTTLE.  Wells  &  Richard- 
son Co.,  Inc.,  Burlington,  Vermont. 

Dandelion 

_  BRAND  <^&f/m 

Butter  Color 


Wise  Beet  Save  Honey 


Wise  Folks  Save  Money 


LAST  DIVIDEND 
AT  RATE  OF 


4> 


2  7c 

INTEREST 
BEGINS 

10th  of  each 
month 


Money  is 

—■-safe 

— earning  interest 
— ready  at  need 
if  deposited  in  this 
mutual  savings  bank. 

Write  for 
"How  to  Sure  'By  Mail" 

HOME  SAVINGS  BANK 

Incorporated  1869 
75  TREMONT  ST. 
BOSTON.  MASS 


IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


5000  NEW  ENGLAND  FARMERS 

SHIP  US  THEIR  EMPTY  BAGS 

There  must  be  a  reason.    Find  it 
out  by  a  trial  shipment. 

No.  1  Eastern  States  Dairy  Feed  Bags  .  6  cents 

No.  1  Eastern  States  Poultry  Feed  Bags  4  cents 

No.  1  Other  Feed  Bags     -    ...  4  cents 

No.  2  Bags   2  cents 

F.  O.  B.  your  freight  station  in 
lots  of  100  or  more 

CARL  BURWICK  &  CO. 

1  Fay  St.,  Worcester,  Mats. 


The  advertisers  in  the  New  Eng- 
land Dairyman  are  co-operating 
with  your  Association  and  with 
you  when  they  buy  space  in  this 
paper.  You  caai  show  your  ap- 
preciation of  this  co-operation  by 
buying  from  them  and  it  will  be 
to  your  interest  and  ours  if  you 
mention  the  New  England  Dairy- 
man when  writing  them. 


<  November,  1926 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


For  it 

To-r 


Free 
ot\  - 


LOW  PRICES 

ON 

LUMBER 

Roofing  and 
Building  Material 

Save  money  on  building  material. 
Thousands  do  it.  So  can  you!  New 
England  dotted  with  buildings  built 
with  our  material — at  a  fine  saving  to 
owners.  Get  our  prices  before  you 
start  building  or  repairing. 

Free  Fall  Building 
Supply  Catalog  96-D 

Every  home  owner,  carpenter,  or 
builder  should  have  it.  Brings  all 
the  enormous  stocks  of  fine  standard- 
ized materials  at  our  plant  right  to 
your  door.  Order  as  little — or  as 
much  as  you  need — at  the  same  low 
prices.  Our  Catalog  is  New  Eng- 
land's standard  book  of  building 
material  economies.  It  gives  our  low 
prices  on  lumber,  millwork,  doors, 
windows,  storm  sash  and  doors,  roof- 
ing, shingles,  asphalt  shingles,  wall 
board,  paint,  hardware,  clapboards, 
etc.  This  book  is  yours  for  the  ask- 
ing. Just  write  •  for  catalog  96-D 
today. 

Webber  Lumber  &  Supply  Co. 

FITCHBURG,  MASS. 


Keep  Down  Bacteria 
with  Sterilac 


KILLS 
GERMS 

ECONOMICAL 

ONE  POUND 
MAKES 
480 
GALLONS 
GERM 
KILLING 
SOLUTION 


KILLS 
GERMS 

USED  BY 
LEADERS 
OF  THE 
MILK 
INDUSTRY 

HOLDS  ITS 
STRENGTH 
LONGER 


Send  for  Complete  Descriptive  Circular. 

GRANT  P.  VEALE  CORP. 

WINTHROP,  MASS. 


SAVE  BY  MAIL 

in   this   Mutual    Savings   Bank.     It's   a  ' 
convenient  way  to  save.     Just  send  us 
your  check   or   money  order   and  bank 
book  will  be  sent  you  promptly.  Then 
idd  to  it  weekly.  Send  for  last  statement. 


RECENT  DIVIDEND 

Interest    Begins  15th 
of  Each  Menth 


5% 

Per  Annum 


ASSETS  S14.O0O.9O* 

EAST  CAMBRIDGE  SAYINGS  BANK 

290  Cambridge  St.,  East  Cambridge,  Mass. 


FARMEQUIP 

CREAM  SEPARATORS 

375  lbs.  capacity,  only  $'J9  75.  Freight 
Prepaid,  Satisfaction  Guaranteed,  30 
days  Free  Trial,  5  Sizes,  none  better  at 
any  price.    Write  for  catalog. 

FARMERS    EQUIPMENT  CO. 

506   South    Wabash   Ave.,    Chicago,  111. 


ing  up  the  personnel  of  the  organization 
and  laying  the  foundations  of  the  field 
service  department. 

It  has  so  happened  that  in  the  field  of 
national  affairs  like  the  tariff,  interna- 
tional sanitary  regulations,  the  rate  case 
and  otherwise,  the  peculiar  experience, 
training  and  abilities  of  Mr.  Bronson  have 
been  invaluable  and  adequate  credit  and 
acknowledgement  of  his  services  should 
be  made. 

I  am  especially  pleased  at  the  way  in 
which  my  assistant,  Mr.  Davis,  has 
handled  most  trying  and  difficult  prob- 
lems and  is  still  handling  them.  During 
the  summer  when  I  have  been  partially 
incapacitated  much  extra  work  has  fallen 
on  him.  He  met  every  requirement  with 
skill,  good  judgment  and  success.  Noth- 
ing bothers  me  so  much  as  my  inability 
to  take  what  would  ordinarily  be  my  part 
in  the  troublesome  affairs  which  at  the 
present  moment  surround  us.  I  hope 
soon  to  be  able  to  do  so. 

A  friend  from  Vermont  has  just  writ- 
ten to  me,  "You  have  been  the  old  war- 
horse  in  this  game  and  you  have  seen 
some  of  your  dreams  come  true."  I  ob- 
ject to  the  "old"  but  I  like  the  "war- 
horse"  part  of  it.  Yes,  I  have  seen  a 
good  many  of  my  dreams  come  true  and 
I  expect  to  see  a  good  many  more  and 
I  want  to  get  back  into  condition  so  that 
1  can  be  as  much  of  a  "war-horse"  in  the 
fight  for  improved  conditions  as  I  ever 
was,  and  perhaps  more  so.  That  is  my 
purpose  and  intention.  Another  year, 
God  willing,  I  will  hope  to  be  here  to- 
gether, celebrating  some  important  ac- 
complishments in  the  work  of  this  splen- 
did organization. 

C"5ZSHSH52Sr2SrlSr!Srl5rlSrl5rlSrl5rl5rlSrl5rL^ 

NORTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 
477  Essex  Street  -  -  Lawreace,  Mats. 

rtjH5H5rlEaSrl5H5B5HSr2SHSrl5E5S5H5rlSrli5 

A  careful  survey  has  been  made  of  con- 
ditions in  the  Northern  Market  District. 
Results  of  this  study  show  conclusively 
that  the  spirit  of  loyalty  to  the  associa- 
tion and  general  appreciation  of  its  worth 
was  never  greater. 

All  through  the  past  year  we  have  had 
but  few  requests  for  withdrawals  from 
our  organization.  While  during  that 
time  189  new  members  have  joined  the 
fold.  The  mere  addition  of  new  mem- 
bers, however,  means  very  little  if  these 
new  men  do  not  have  a  real  appreciation 
of  what  the  association  means  and  if  they 
are  now  willing  to  really  support  it.  In 
all  my  work  of  canvassing  in  the  dis- 
trict, and  at  all  meetings  and  personal 
conferences  careful  attention  has  always 
been  given  to  a  thorough  discussion  of 
the  underlying  principles  upon  which  our 
organization  is  founded  and  the  current 
problems  to  be  solved.  By  following  this 
policy  the  entire  membership  of  the  dis- 


The  boy  arrived  late  at  school,  and  on 
being  asked  for  an  explanation  he  in- 
formed the  teacher  that  a  gentleman  had 
dropped  a  quarter  in  the  street,  which 
caused  a  crowd  to  collect,  and  until  it 
dispersed  he  could  not  leave.  "But  why  ?" 
inquired  the  teacher.  "Because,"  an- 
swered the  boy,  "I  was  standing  on  the 
quarter." 


A  nervous  passenger  on  the  first  day 
of  the  voyage  asked  the  captain  what 
would  be  the  result  if  the  steamer  should 
strike  an  iceberg  while  it  was  plunging 
through  the  fog.  "The  iceberg  would 
move  right  along,  madam,"  the  captain 
replied  courteously,  "just  as  if  nothing 
had  happened."  And  the  old  lady  was 
greatly  relieved. 


Itinerant  Gardener  (with  large  shears) 
— "Morning,  mum — trim  your  grass, 
mum  ?" 

"No,  thank  you." 

"Clip  your  bushes,  mum?" 

"No." 

"Bob  your  hair,  mum?" 


Better  Than  Any  Single  Farm  Mortgage 

BECAUSE  back  of  these  Bonds  are  the  massed 
first  farm  mortgages  on  more  than  400,000  farms, 
worth  double  the  amount  of  the  loans.  Because 
the  prompt  payment  of  principal  and  interest  is  guaranteed 
by  all  the  twelve  Federal  Land  Banks  with  combined  capital 
and  reserves  of  more  than  $65,000,000. 

Federal  Land  Bank  Bonds 

Interest  AlA%— Completely  Tax-Exempt 
Denominations:  #40,  #100,  #500,  #1,000,  #5,000,  #10,000 

these  Bonds  are  always  available  at  any  Federal  Land  Bank 
When  you  need  a  loan,  see  the  Secretary -Treasurer  of  your  local  National 
Farm  Loan  Association  or  write  the  nearest  Federal  Land  Bank. 
Send  for  FREE  copy  o f Federal  Farm  Loan  Cir.  No.  16,  "  Financing  the  Farmer" 
to  any  Federal  Land  Bank  or  to 
Charles  E.  Lobdell,  Fiscal  Agent 

Federal  Land  Banks  ,  Washington,  D.C. 


Federal  Land  Banks 
are  located  at: 

Baltimore,  Md. 
Berkeley,  Calif. 
Columbia,  S.  C. 
Houston,  Texas 
Louisville,  Ky. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
Omaha,  Nebr. 
Spokane,  Wash. 
Springfield,  Mass. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Wichita,  Kan. 


rf'jpSanifiryM/lKSTOOL 


Be  Independent 

and 

Saw  Your  Own  Wood 

and  that  of  your  neighbors 

Complete  Portable  Wood- Sawing  Outfit 


ONT.Y 


$125 


for  a  ffood  outfit 


More  expensive  ones  in  stock  if  you  need  them. 

Don't  Delay  In  Writing  Us  About  Our  Wood-Sawing:  Offer  B-14 

BRACK. ETT  (EL  SHAW  CO. 


Somersworth,  N.  H. 


Montpelier,  Vt. 


BULL  BRAND  FEEDS 

J^^^     DAIRY  STOCK  POULTRY 


No.  1    B.  B.  (BULL  BRAND) 

Dairy  Ration  eliminates  feeding  troubles 

and  makes  dairying  profitable  and  pleasant 

Write  for  samples  and  descriptive  booklets. 

MARITIME  MILLING  COMPANY,  INC. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 


S    PRODUCE  MORE 


Page  Fourteen 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


November,  1926 


r 


Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 

The  furnace  especially  designed 
for  New  England  conditions. 
Door  15"xl7",  36"  firebox. 
Send  for  circular. 


F.  F.  FULLER 


GENERAL  AGENT 
WATERBURY,  VT. 


The  Money  Maker 

DR.  DANIELS' 

COW 
INVIGORATOR 

UDERKREAM  i 

REAL  COW  MEDICINES 

Less  WeaKness         Better  Cows 
More  and  Better  MilK 
More  Prolit 

FALL  AND  WINTER  MrHSS  VZ°* 

HEALTH  FOR  YOUR  LOW  is  the  Secret  of  Profit 

Prevent  the  Run  Down  Condition 
Give  INVIGORATOR  in  the  Feed 

Use  UDERKREAM  for  the  Udder 

Send  for  COW  BOOK  — Its  Free 

Dr.  A.  C.  DANIELS,  Inc. 

172  Milk  Street  Boston  9,  Mass. 


AMERICAN  HOUSE 

Hanover  Street  Boston 
the  House  of  Good  Cheer 
Rooms  $2.00  per  day  and  up 

Two    new    fireproof   Garages   one  Block 
in  the  Rear  of  the  House 

RATHSKELLER 

Business  Lunch  for  ladies  and  gentlemen 

from  noon  to  3  p.  m.,  75c. 
Dinner  from  0  to  8  p.  m.    Special  Blue 
Plate,  $2.  Supper  from  8  p.  m.  to  1  a.  m. 

DANCING  from  6:30  p.   m.   to  1   a.  m. 
MUSIC  by  Henry  Frank  Orchestra  and 
The    IMPERIAL    MARIMBA    BAND  . 
Banquet    Rooms    from    4    People    to  500 
EMIL  CAMUS,  Prop. 


When  writing  to  advertisers 
Please  mention  the 

New  England  Dairyman 


trict  is  kept  as  much  as  possible  en- 
lightened as  to  the  problems  of  the  or- 
ganization and  have  generously  co- 
operated with  me  by  extending  their  sug- 
gestions and  support. 

The  canvass  for  the  new  two-cent 
power  of  attorney  orders  has  been  very 
encouraging.  Two  letters  were  sent  out 
to  the  membership  to  start  the  cam- 
paign. Three  hundred  and  seven  pro- 
ducers signed  the  orders  as  a  result  of 
these  letters.  Since  that  time  individual 
canvassing  has  been  done  whenever  I 
have  had  time.  Two  hundred  and  forty- 
eight  additional  producers  have  signed 
the  orders,  leaving  around  one  hundred 
more  to  be  obtained.  During  our  entire 
canvass  among  members  only  ten  have 
refused  to  sign  the  new  order.  To  show 
the  growth  of  the  total  membership  of 
our  district  we  wish  to  point  out  that  in 
1923  we  had  1,457  members,  whereas  now 
we  have  1,882,  or  an  increase  of  425 
members.  Receipts  from  membership 
dues  have  run  higher  this  year  than  at 
any  time  during  the  last  three  year  period. 
This  is  due  to  the  fact  that  milk  prices 
have  been  higher,  that  we  have  more 
producers  on  due  orders,  and  that  we  have 
an  increased  general  membership.  As  a 
result  of  larger  and  stronger  membership 
and  better  organization  in  the  country, 
prices  announced  by  the  association  have 
been  well  sustained.  The  Nashua,  Man- 
chester, Concord  and  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
markets  have  carried  higher  prices 
through  this  year  than  at  any  time  since 
I  became  district  manager  back  in  1923. 
The  other  cities  have  followed  Boston 
prices  up  and  down. 

Business  conditions  have  been  very 
poor,  with  the  textile  industries  ex- 
tremely dull.  This  has  resulted  in  giv- 
ing the  public  a  very  poor  buying  power. 
Fortunately,  the  past  month  shows  a  dis- 
tinct revival  of  mill  operations  in  the 
woolen  mills,  with  some  slight  improve- 
ment in  the  cotton  mills.  The  shoe  busi- 
ness has  been  very  good,  and  in  the  cities 
of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  Nashua,  N.  H., 
has  saved  the  day  for  the  laboring  man. 

Poor  business  conditions,  however, 
with  resultant  hard  collections,  have  made 
it  tough  going  for  milk  dealers  who  were 
poorly  financed.  Several  have  fallen  by 
the  wayside.  I  have  continually  and 
consistantly  followed  the  policy  of  warn- 
ing producers  to  cease  selling  their  milk 
to  dealers  who  were  slow  to  pay.  Thou- 
sands of  dollars  are  lost  each  year  right 
in  our  district  because  producers  sell  to 
unreliable  dealers,  who  finally  go  into 
bankruptcy  and  the  producer  loses.  I 
consider  that  it  is  one  of  my  duties  to 
inform  producers  on  the  financial  stand- 
ing of  concerns,  in  order  that  they  may 
avoid  these  losses. 

The  matter  of  weighing  and  testing  of 
milk  and  the  safeguarding  of  the  pro- 
ducers' interest  along  this  line,  is  in  my 
opinion  of  vital  importance.  This  method 
of  purchasing  milk  is  rapidly  becoming 
universal  and  our  organization  should 
have  a  definite,  well  defined  policy  which 
will  offer  real  protection  to  the  producer. 
Already  in  our  district  we  have  twenty 
dealers  buying  by  weight  and  test  and 
the  chances  are  that  more  will  start  in  the 
near  future.  Most  dealers  intend  to  be 
absolutely  fair  about  the  weighing  and 
testing  of  the  milk,  but  there  is  a  great 
opportunity  for  cheating  and  I  feel  that 
it  is  high  time  that  a  sound  business-like 
policy  be  taken  by  our  association  to  pro- 
tect the  membership  in  this  very  im- 
portant matter.  So  much  of  my  time 
has  been  taken  up  trying  to  collect  money 
for  producers  selling  to  unreliable  deal- 
ers, and  canvassing  for  the  signing  of  the 
new  dues  orders,  etc.,  that  I  have  not  had 
the  time  to  follow  up  the  check  testing 
work  as  closely  as  I  had  hoped  this  year. 
With  the  new  orders  now  nearly  all 
signed,  I  will  have  more  time  to  spend 
on  this  very  important  check  testing 
work.  However,  I  have  been  able  to 
check  test  for  495  producers  and  state- 
ments have  been  sent  the  producers  tell- 
ing them  of  my  findings. 

In  closing  let  me  say  that  there  is  a 
general  era  of  good  feeling  in  our  dis- 
trict. The  producers  have  a  splendid 
spirit  of  co-operation  and  our  dealers 
whom  we  are  doing  business  with  are 
feeling  kindly  toward  us.  More  than 
once  I  have  had  dealers  tell  me  that  they 
admired  the  NEMPA  because  of  its  busi- 
ness-like way  of  dealing  and  its  splendid 
spirit  of  fair  play. 


MORE  MILK 

"-less  trouble 


ARE  you  fair  to  your  cows?  You  drive  them  to 
.  the  barn  in  the  Fall,  feed  them  heavy,  hard- 
to-digest  concentrated  rations.  No  natural,  ten- 
der, green  pasturage,  little  exercise— no  wonder 
the  milk  pail  disappoints  you,  right  when  milk 
prices  are  highest. 

Right  now— of  all  times— your  cows  need  help. 
They  need  something  to  help  them  digest  their 
feed  better— turn  more  of  it  into  milk.  Without 
such  an  aid,  the  more  you  feed  the  greater  the 
strain  on  their  overworked  vitality. 

Kow-Kare  gives  the  needed  help,  in  a  simple, 
natural,  definite  way.  It  gives  needed  support  to 
the  digestion  and  assimilation— helps  carry  the 
burden  of  heavy  winter  feeding.  By  toning  up 
these  vital  organs  your  feed  dollars  become  milk 
dollars.  The  cow  has  summer  pep  and  vitality.  No 
more  "off  feed";  no  more  profit  threat  from  dis- 
ease and  disorders.  Kow-Kare  builds  health  while 
it  is  bringing  back  to  you  via  the  milk  pail  several 
times  what  it  costs  you.  It  is  a  real  money-maker 
in  any  dairy.  A  single  can  will  ration  a  cow  for  one 
to  two  months.  Just  follow  the  simple  directions 
on  the  can. 

No  More  Disease-Loss 

Use  Kow-Kare  to  prevent  disease— but  if  you  have 
actual  trouble  with  Barrenness,  Retained  After- 
birth, Abortion,  Bunches,  Scours,  Lost  Appetite, 
etc.,  use  Kow-Kare  as  directed  on  the  can  and  you 
will  be  amazed  how  quickly  your  cows  are  able  to 
throw  off  their  trouble  and  again  become  produc- 
tive. Write  for  our  FREE  BOOK  on  cow  diseases, 
"The  Home  Cow  Doctor."  Every  cow  owner 
ought  to  have  it. 

Feed  dealers,  general  stores,  druggists  have 
Kow-Kare  — $1.25  and  65c  sizes  (six  large  cans, 
$6.25).  Full  directions  on  the  can.  Mail  orders 
sent  postpaid  if  your  dealer  is  not  supplied. 

Dairy  Association  Co.,  Inc.,  Lyndonville,  Vt. 

Makers  of  Kow-Kare,  Bag  Balm.  Grange 
Garget  Remedy,  American  Horse  Tonic,  etc. 

KOW-KARE 

FAMOUS  CONDITIONER 
OF  MILCH  COWS 


What 
Dairymen 
say : 

From  A.  G.  Katzur,  De 
Lamere,  N.  D.— "/  find 
that  Kow-Kare  is  a  wonder- 
ful aid  to  increasing  milk 
yield.  Had  a  cow  quit  milk- 
ing after  coming  fresh  and 
would  not  get  with  calf. 
After  feeding  Kow-Kare  for 
awhile,  she  came  back  to 
milk  again  and  has  raised  a 
calf  since  and  is  now  the 
best  cow  in  the  barn." 

From  C.  R.  Stoddard, 
East  Rodman,  N.  Y.— "/ 
have  owned  a  large  dairy  of 
cows  for  twenty-five  years, 
and  I  find  nothing  that  will 
equal  Kow-Kare  for  giving 
cows  an  appetite  and  there- 
fore increasing  the  milk 
flow." 

From  Harlow  M.  Kast- 
ner,  Hammond,  N.  Y.— 
"Have  used  a  great  many 
cans  of  Kow-Kare  in  my 
herd  for  improving  the  milk 
yield  and  toning  up  the  di- 
gestive organs.  It  is  a  won- 
derful medicine  in  the  treat- 
ment of  retained  afterbirth, 
as  Kow-Kare  has  not  failed 
me  in  a  single  instance.  " 


COW  STANCHIONS 

Now  is  the  time  to  install  swing 
cow  stanchions  for  this  winter.  We 
make  several  patterns  of  wood 
stanchions.    Ask  for  circulars. 

Samson  Power  &  Thresher  Co., 

Inc. 

East  Berkshire,  Vt. 


ook  about 

revention  and  control  of  livestock 
_iseases  by  reliable  home  methods. 
How  to  prevent  or  treat  Contagious 

Abortion,  Calf  Scours 
-Retained  Afterbirth 

GENERAL  LABORATORIES, 
Dept.  135L  Madison,  Wis. 


Get  this  book. 
It  will  help  you 
prevent  heavy 
losses. 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairv  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  10.   Number  9. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  DECEMBER,  1926 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


Turner  Centre  Problem  Settled  Satisfactorily 


Stockholders  Vote  to  Continue  on  Surplus  Plan  and  Negotiate  Prices  with  N.  E.  M.  P.  A. 

—  Action  Assures  "Known  Price"  Policy. 


Turner  Centre  stockholders  showed 
their  understanding  of  the  dangers  of  the 
"unknown"  price  system  by  voting  to 
continue  on  the  known  price  system, 
through  the  medium  of  the  NEMPA 
price  negotiations,  at  a  special  meeting 
of  the  stockholders  November  12.  This 
settled  a  question  which  has  been  dis- 
turbing the  stability  of  the  Boston  mar- 
ket, and  other  markets  as  well,  for  some 
months.  Now  that  it  is  settled,  thanks 
to  the  common  sense  and  good  judgment 
of  the  Turner  Centre  patrons,  all  hands 
can  join  in  regaining  what  little  ground 
has  been  lost  and  in  making  a  substantial 
advance  for  the  orderly  marketing  of 
milk  in  New  England. 

The  fact  that  the  stockholders  at  this 
special  meeting  expressed  themselves  in 
opposition  to  the  decision  of  their  direc- 
tors was  the  natural  result  of  their  dif- 
ferent viewpoint.  The  directors  of  the 
Turner  Centre,  faced  with  a  tempo- 
rary financial  problem,  had  decided  to 
stop  paying  on  the  basis  of  the  surplus 
plan,  or  the  known  price  system.  They 
felt  that  it  was  a  way  out  of  their 
difficulty  and  that  in  the  long  run,  it 
would  be  for  the  advantage  of  their 
patrons,  the  real  owners  of  the  busi- 
ness. The  stockholders,  farmers  who 
produce  the  milk,  did  not  think  that 
the  abandonment  of  the  known  price  plan 
was  the  right  way  of  solving  the  tem- 
porary financial  problem  and  voted  by  a 
large  majority  to  continue  to  negotiate 
prices  with  the  NEMPA  and  submit  their 
records  to  the  milk  administrator.  They 
were  for  the  "known  nrice"  as  opposed 
to  the  "unknown  price"  which  was  advo- 
cated by  their  directors. 

The  problem  which  presented  itself 
through  the  decision  of  the  Turner 
Centre  directors  to  stop  paying  under  the 
surplus  plan  was  discussed  in  full  in  the 
last  issue  of  the  Dairyman  but  a  brief 
review  of  the  events  previous  to  that 
time  may  help  to  a  clear  understanding  of 
the  present  situation. 

In  common  with  other  dealers  in  milk 
the  Turner  Centre  System  had  been  pay- 
ing under  the  surplus  plan  ever  since  the 
system  was  set  up  by  the  federal  regional 
milk  commission  in  1917.  They  had  at  all 
times  paid  as  much  as  the  surplus  plan 
■  called  for  and  at  times  when  their  earn- 
ings were  large  they  paid  substantially 
more.  The  farmer  patrons  had  already 
received  this  additional  payment  for 
milk,  also  substantial  bonuses,  it  was  a 
fine  record  which  the  organization  had 
made. 

For  the  last  two  years  the  earnings  of 
the  company  have  been  lessened  by 
changes  in  the  markets,  notably  the  en- 
trance of  the  chain  store  milk.  They 
had,  however,  paid  on  the  surplus  plan 
regularly,  until  they  announced  to  the 
sales  committee  of  the  NEMPA  that 
they  were  not  going  to  pay  the  associa- 
tion price  for  June  milk,  but  were  going 
to  pay  the  price  which  they  felt  they 
could  afford  to  pay.  The  NEMPA 
|  would  have  had  to  offer  an  adjustment 
to  other  dealers  as  an  equalization  of 


buying  conditions,  if  Turner  Centre  had 
taken  that  course.  After  considerable 
negotiation,  however,  Turner  Centre  paid 
the  full  price  for  June  milk  and  a  crisis 
was  avoided. 

Turner  Centre  accepted  the  price  for 
July  and  paid  under  the  surplus  plan. 
They  also  accepted  the  price  for  August 


legally  to  pay  the  price  as  their  noti- 
fication had  come  in  time  to  enter  into 
other  arrangements.  No  action  was 
taken  to  force  the  payment  on  October 
milk  as  our  annual  meeting  was  at  hand 
and  it  was  thought  best  to  place  it  before 
the  members  in  general,  as  to  what  course 
should  be  taken  with  regard  to  Turner 


What  NEMPA  Did  in  1926 


Market 
Milk  Price 
1925 

January    8|-  cents 

February    8|  cents 

March    7|  cents 

April    7£  cents 

May    7  cents 

June    7  cents 

July    8  cents 

August    81  cents 

September    8-2  cents 

October    8J  cents 

November    8£  cents 

December    8£  cents 

Total  increase   


Market 
Milk  Price 
1926 


8^  cents 
8 \  cents 
82  cents 
7-|  cents 


Increased 
Return  to 
Producers 


$200,000 
200,000 
300,000 
100,000 
100,000 


8  cents 


9  cents 


(minus)  100,000 
50,000 
100,000 


$950,000 


and  again  for  September  when  negotia- 
tions were  in  progress.  On  Sept.  15, 
however,  their  directors  announced  that 
they  were  not  going  to  pay  for  August 
milk  in  the  NEMPA  price  and  that  it 
was  their  intention  from  then  on  to  pay- 
whatever  price  they  felt  able  to  pay, 
based  on  their  earnings. 

From  that  time  until  now  negotiations 
and  conferences  have  been  held  at  fre- 
quent intervals  in  an  effort  to  iron  out 
this  problem.  The  NEMPA  claimed 
that  the  Turner  Centre  was  legally  and 
morally  bound  to  pay  the  association 
price  for  August  and  for  September,  as 
the  notification  of  their  change  in  pro- 
gram did  not  come  until  Sept.  IS  when 
most  of  the  milk  had  been  delivered.  1 t 
the  Turner  Centre  did  not  pay  a  price 
comparable  with  the  other  dealers  who 
operate  under  the  surplus  plan,  the 
NEMPA  would  have  had  to  make  an 
adjustment  to  other  dealers  on  the 
ground  that  all  should  have  the  oppor- 
tunity to  buy  their  milk  on  the  same 
basis  as  any  one  of  them.  For  every 
dollar  which  Turner  Centre  did  not  pay 
under  the  surplus  plan  the  adjustment 
would  cost  patrons  of  other  dealers  $10. 
The  loss  would  run  into  the  hundred  of 
thousands  of  dollars  for  the  two  months. 

For  October  milk  the  association  did 
not  claim  that  Turner  Centre  was  hound 


Centre.  Our  members  voted  to  support 
the  sales  committee  in  forcing  the  issue 
with  Turner  Centre  even  to  the  extent  of 
withholding  their  milk  Nov.  1.  They  also 
voted  to  support  the  sales  committee  in 
securing  from  Turner  Centre  back  pay- 
ments for  August  and  September,  even 
to  the  extent  of  bringing  suit  for  collec- 
tion. 

This  vigorous  stand  on  the  part  of 
the  NEMPA,  including  a  large  represen- 
tation of  stockholders  in  the  Turner 
Centre  System,  led  the  Turner  Centre 
directors  to  call  a  special  meeting  of  their 
stockholders  Nov.  12  to  get  their  ap- 
proval, or  disapproval  of  the  decision  to 
withdraw  from  negotiations  with  the 
NEMPA  and  payment  for  milk  under  the 
surplus  plan. 

It  was  the  largest  and  most  represen- 
tative meeting  oi  Turner  Centre  stock- 
holders ever  held.  About  400  stockhold- 
ers were  present  in  person  and  nearly  as 
many  more  sent  in  their  proxies.  The 
situation  was  gone  into  frankly  and 
freely.  The  officers  of  the  Turner 
Centre  system  reiterated  their  statements 
that  the  business  was  in  a  sound  financial 
condition  and  that  the  problem  of  finance 
was  of  a  temporary  nature,  due  in  con- 
siderable part  to  the  losses  sustained  by 
reason  of  the  poor  season  for  ice  cream. 
The  officers  pointed  out  that  they  had  in 


the  past  overpaid  and  that  it  was  their 
opinion  that  the  stockholders  should  take 
the  burden  of  a  temporary  depression, 
just  as  they  had  shared  in  the  period  of 
unusual  prosperity  for  several  years. 

This  sounded  all  right  but  did  not  take 
into  account  the  fact  that  failure  to  pay 
the  NEMPA  price  meant  an  adjustment 
in  the  market  and  continued  adjustments 
so  long  as  this  unknown  price  system 
followed.  These  adjustments  would  re- 
sult in  a  chaotic  condition  and  general 
declines  in  prices.  Turner  Centre  patrons 
would  suffer  by  reason  of  these  declines 
just  as  every  other  producer,  selling  to 
other  dealers  would  suffer.  The  dairy 
industry  as  a  whole  would  lose  millions  of 
dollars.  The  farmer  patrons  who  were 
present  at  the  meeting  were  unwilling  to 
run  the  risk  of  this  loss  to  themselves  or 
to  force  heavy  losses  on  other  dairy 
farmers.  They  took  the  position  that  if 
Turner  Centre  was  as  sound  financially 
as  Manager  Haskell  and  Treasurer  Brad- 
ford reported  it  to  be,  some  means  should 
be  found  to  pay  the  price  and  avert  the 
catastrophe  to  the  dairy  industry,  them- 
selves included. 

A .  motion  was  introduced  by  \V.  E. 
Knight  providing  that  the  directors 
should  be  instructed  to  continue  to  pay 
on  the  surplus  plan  and  that  negotiations 
with  the  NEMPA  should  be  continued. 
Provision  was  also  made  in  the  resolu- 
tion for  back  payments  for  August  and 
September.  The  essential  parts  of  the 
resolution  were  as  follows : 

"WHEREAS,  for  eight  years  the 
Tu  rner  Centre  System  and  other  large 
distributors  have  purchased  dairy  prod- 
ucts of  its  stockholders  or  producers  at  a 
price  agreed  to  and  announced  in  ad- 
vance, first  through  the  Federal  Milk- 
Commission,  later  by  negotiation  with  the 
New  England  Milk  Producers'  Associa- 
tion, and 

"Whereas,  such  practice  has  done  much 
to  stabilize  prices  and  sustain  the  dairy 
industry,  and 

"WHEREAS,  it  is  the  judgment  of 
Turner  Centre  System  patrons  and  stock- 
holders that  an  unknown,  unannounced 
price  by  the  Turner  Centre  System  or 
any  dealer  of  importance  will  result  in 
chaotic,  destructive  price  cutting  compe- 
tition, bringing  about  a  general  decline 
in  the  present  price  level  for  fluid  milk 
and  that  the  Turner  Centre  System  pat- 
rons believe  that  such  conditions  will  re- 
sult in  large  losses  to  its  patrons  and  to 
all  other  producers  making  up  the  in- 
dustry. 

"THEREFORE,  be  it  resolved,  that 
the  Directors  and  management  of  the 
Turner  Centre  System,  be  requested  and 
are  hereby  instructed  to  continue  the  pur- 
chase of  milk  from  its  stockholder  pat- 
rons upon  the  plan  heretofore  employed : 
Namely,  by  negotiation  with  the  New 
England  Milk  Producers'  Association." 

When  the  vote  was  called  for  there 
were  393  in  favor  and  323  against  the 
(Continued  on  page  six) 


Page  Two 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


December,  1926 


Annual  Meeting  of  the  National  Federation 

 :        .  I 

Constructive  Resolutions  Passed  in  Largely  Attended  Gathering  —  Investigations  of  Chain  Stores  and  of  Gigantic 
Milk  Company  Mergers  Are  Ordered  —  Pattee  Re-elected  First  Vice-President 


The  Tenth  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Na- 
tional Co-operative  Milk  Producers' 
Federation,  held  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  No- 
vember 10-11,  was  the  largest  and  most 
inspiring  in  the  history  of  the  organiza- 
tion. More  than  750  persons  were  in 
attendance  and  accredited  representatives 
came  from  both  sides  of  the  continent. 

At  the  business  session  of  the  dele- 
gates, the  following  directors  were  re- 
elected: John  D.  Miller,  Susquehanna, 
Pa. ;  F.  P.  Willits,  Ward,  Pa. ;  R.  Smith 
Snader,  New  Windsor,  Md. ;  C.  E. 
Hough,  Hartford,  Conn.;  P.  S.  Brenne 
man,  Jefferson,  O. ;  C.  F.  Dineen,  Mil- 
waukee, Wis. ;  N.  P.  Hull,  Lansing, 
Mich. ;  B.  Ashcraft,  Cleveland,  O. ;  John 
Brandt,  Litchfield,  Minn.;  Clyde  Bechtel- 
heimer,  Waterloo,  la. ;  F.  G.  Swoboda, 
Plymouth,  Wis. ;  W.  F.  Schilling,  North- 
field,  Minn. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Newton 
Highlands,  Mass. ;  G.  W.  Slocum,  New 
York  City ;  Harry  Hartke,  Covington, 
Ky.  New  directors  elected  to  the  board 
were  H.  D.  Allebach,  Philadelphia,  Pa.; 
H.  L.  Whiteman,  Liberty  Center,  O. ; 
Jerry  Mason,  Des  Moines,  la.;  W.  F. 
Moscrip,  Lake  Elmo,  Minn.;  A.  G.  Zie- 
bell,  Marysville,  Wash.;  P.  L.  Betts, 
Chicago,  111.;  G.  F.  Benkendorf,  Mo- 
dest, Calif.;  and  Mr.  Bryce,  general 
manager,  California  Milk  Producers' 
Association  of  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

The  directors  enlarged  their  Executive 
Committee  to  seven,  with  three  alternates, 
and  selected  the  following  for  the  ensu- 
ing year :  John  D.  Miller,  Richard  Pat- 
tee, Harry  Hartke,  Frank  P.  Willits,  N. 
P.  Hull,  C.  E.  Hough  and  John  Brandt, 
members  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
and  Frank  G.  Swoboda,  Clyde  Bechtel- 
heimer  and  R.  Smith  Snader,  alternates. 

The  directors  re-elected  as  officers : 
John  D.  Miller,  president ;  Richard  Pat- 
tee, first  vice-president ;  Richard  Pat- 
second  vice-president ;  Frank  P.  Willits, 
treasurer ;  and  Charles  W.  Holman  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  secretary. 

Important  Actions 
The  delegates   adopted  the  following 
resolutions : 

Tubercular  Eradication 
We  would  urge  upon  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agriculture,  the  Bureau 
of  the  Budget  and  Congress  the  import- 
ance of  adequate  appropriations  for  tu- 
berculosis eradication.  It  is  particularly 
important  at  this  time  that  the  United 
States  Government  co-operate  fully  with 
the  states  in  the  great  dairy  areas  which 
themselves  are  making  appropriations  for 
this  purpose  far  beyond  those  thought 
necessary  a  few  years  ago.  The  United 
States  Government,  we  feel,  should 
match,  on  a  prearranged  basis,  the  appro- 
priations of  these  states.  We  would 
recommend  to  the  Board  of  Directors  the 
appointment  of  a  committee  to  have 
special  care  of  this  matter. 

Dairy  Substitutes 
This  Federation  views  with  favor  the 
efforts  of  dairy  interests  throughout  the 
country  to  protect  the  industry  from 
frauds  and  promote  the  public  health 
through  adequate  legislation  for  regula- 
tion of  various  dairy  products  substitutes. 
It  would  urge  member  associations  to  be 
vigilant  in  safeguarding  satisfactory 
measures  now  in  force  from  the  assaults 
of  those  who  would  seek  to  nullify  them 
through  amendment  or  repeal.  We 
would  pledge  the  support  of  this  federa- 
tion, as  far  as  possible,  to  assist  member 
associations  who  now  are  or  in  the  future 
may  be  engaged  in  state-wide  contests  in 
respect  to  this  question. 

Minimum  Standards 

The  Lenroot-Taber  Bill,  designed  to 
fix  minimum  sanitary  standards  for  the 
importation  of  milk  and  cream,  having 
passed  the  United  States  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives  by    an   overwhelming  ma- 


jority, and  being  now  before  the  Senate 
for  final  vote,  we  would  urge  that  the 
matter  be  acted  upon  promptly  by  that 
body.  We  would  also  urge  our  member 
associations  to  communicate  at  once  with 
their  senators,  signifying  their  approval 
of  this  measure  and  that  local  representa- 
tives of  member  associations  be  urged  to 
take  like  action. 

Quality  Basis 

We  favor  the  buying  and  selling  of  all 
dairy  products  on  the  basis  of  quality 
both  to  provide  the  producer  with  an  in- 
centive to  produce  better  quality  products, 
and  also  for  the  protection  and  guidance 
of  the  consumer.  We  appreciate  the  ac- 
tivities of  member  associations  along 
these  lines  as  shown  by  reports  made 
at  this  meeting.  In  this  connection  we 
would  commend  the  work  of  the  Bureau 
of  Agriculture  in  providing  inspection 
with  certifications  for  dairy  products.  We 
would  deplore  the  efforts  of  those  who 
seek  to  interfere  with  or  break  down 
this  service. 

Therefore,  this  Federation  endorses  the 
use  of  this  service  including  the  use  of 
certificates  of  quality  in  retail  packages 
by  its  members,  and  recommends  that  the 
association  give  its  support  to  this  work 
of  the  United  States  Department  of  Ag- 
riculture to  the  end  that  the  standards, 
grades  and  inspection  service  of  the  De- 
partment on  butter  and  cheese  may  be 
universally  adopted  as  the  official  in- 
spection service  of  the  dairy  industry. 

Tariff  Adjustments 
We  would  urge  a  prompt  report  from 
the  Tariff  Commission  with  reference  to 
adjustments  in  the  tariff  rates  on  milk 
and  cream. 

Dairy  Councils 
It  is  apparent  from  our  reports  that 
many/ of  our  organizations  are  stimu- 
lating the  use  of  proper  amounts  of  dairy 
products  through  co-operation  in  Dairy 
Council  work.  We  would  encourage  the 
National  Dairy  Council  and  regional 
dairy  councils  in  the  work  which  they  are 
doing. 

Agricultural  Relief 
This  Federation  sympathizes  with  those 
branches  of  agriculture  which  have  felt 
and  are  now  feeling  most  keenly  the 
results  of  the  great  agricultural  depres- 
sion, realizing  that  the  dairy  industry  has 
had  relatively  favorable  position  through- 
out this  period.  We  would  hope  that  all 
branches  of  the  Government  will  be  sym- 
pathetic toward  the  problem  of  immedi- 
ate agricultural  relief. 

Increased  Tariff 
We  would  urge  increased  tariffs  on  cer- 
tain of  the  dairy  products,  notably 
cheese,  casein,  milk,  cream  and  butter- 
milk powders  and  semi-solid  buttermilk. 
We  would  deplore  the  continued  importa- 
tion of  foreign  fats  both  from  foreign 
countries  and  also  from  the  Philippines. 
This  practice  is  a  growing  menace  to  the 
welfare,  not  only  of  our  dairy  farmers, 
but  also  of  the  growers  of  all  other 
fat  producing  commodities,  such  as  cot- 
ton-seed, flax-seed,  peanuts,  corn  and 
hogs.  We  ask  for  increased  schedules 
and  transferring  from  the  free  to  pro- 
tected list  of  all  fat  commodities  in- 
volved in  competition  by  reason  of  their 
interchangeability. 

Inferior  Cheese 

In  view  of  the  extreme  importance  of 
maintaining  the  present  high  standards 
of  quality  for  our  American  dairy  prod- 
ucts and  of  the  necessity  for  preventing 
their  adulteration,  we  deplore  .the  present 
tendency  on  the  part  of  some  manufac- 
turers of  so-called  "Process  cheese"  to 
use  cheese  of  such  inferior  quality  and 
to  incorporate  so  much  matter  foreign  to 
cheese  in  the  manufacture  of  their  prod- 
uct : 


WTe  appeal  to  the  Federal  and  State 
Departments  which  are  charged  with  the 
enforcement  of  our  Pure  Food  Laws  to 
take  cognizance  of  this  situation  and  to 
enforce  present  laws  and  to  make  and 
enforce  proper  regulations  within  their 
power  with  respect  thereto. 

Institute  of  Co-operation 
This  Federation  views  with  great  satis- 
faction the  development  and  wide-spread 
influence  of  the  Institute  of  Co-opera- 
tion. We  feel  that  our  member  organiza- 
tions and  other  co-operations  have  al- 
ready received  untold  advantages  from 
its  sessions.  The  educational  institutions 
of  the  country  now  have  an  authoritative 
body  of  material  for  the  teaching  of  co- 
operation. To  this  institution,  which  has 
grown  out  of  the  visions  of  one  of  our 
honored  leaders,  we  pledge  our  continued 
support. 

Judge  Miller 
This  Federation  would  express  our 
heartfelt  appreciation  of  the  leadership 
of  our  honored  president,  J.  D.  Miller, 
and  the  generosity  of  the  Dairymen's 
League  Co-operative  Association  in  freely 
assuming  responsibility  for  his  remunera- 
tion and  expense. 

Other  Important  Actions 

In  addition  to  adopting  the  report  of 
the  Resolutions  Committee,  the  meeting 
ordered  a  national  investigation  of  the 
extent  to  which  chain  stores  are  tending 
to  dominate  the  urban  marketing  of  milk. 
It  also  ordered  a  further  investigation 
to  be  made  of  the  concentration  of  large 
retail  distributing  organizations  into  na- 
tional mergers  and  an  inquiry  to  be  made 
into  press  reports  that  the  Federal  Trade 
i  Commission  had  recently  rescinded  its 
approval  of  certain  creamery  trade  prac- 
tices which  had  been  approved  by  the 
Commission  since  November  3,  1919. 

The  Directors  further  instructed  the 
national  officers  to  keep  close  tab  on  the 
transportation  situation  with  a  view  to 
protecting  the  member  organizations 
from  unwarranted  increases  in  freight 
rates  on  dairy  products. 

The  annual  meeting  admitted  several 
new  organizations  to  membership,  bring- 
ing the  total  roster  up  to  thirty-seven.  A 
full  list  of  these  organizations  follows: 

Berrien  County  Milk  Producers'  Asso., 
Benton  Harbor,  Mich.;  California  Milk 
Producers'  Asso.,  Los  Angeles,  Calif. ; 
Chicago  Equity-Union  Fxchange,  Chi- 
cago, 111. ;  Connecticut  Milk  Producers' 
Asso.,  Hartford,  Conn. ;  Co-operative 
Pure  Milk  Asso.  of  Cincinnati,  Cincin- 
nati, O. ;  Dairymen's  Co-operative  Sales 
Co.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. ;  Dairymen's  League 
Co-operative  Asso.,  Inc.,  New  York,  N. 
Y. ;  Des  Moines  Co-operative  Dairy  Mar- 
keting Asso.,  Des  Moines,  la. ;  Farmers 
Milk  Producers'  Asso.,  Richmond,  Va. ; 
Indiana  Dairy  Marketing  Asso.,  Muncie, 
Ind. ;  Inter-State  Milk  Producers'  Asso., 
Philadelphia,  Pa. ;  Iowa  Creamery  Secre- 
taries' &  Managers'  Asso.,  Waterloo,  la. ; 
Kentucky  &  Indiana  Dairies  Co.,  Louis- 
ville, Ky. ;  Land  o'  Lakes  Creameries, 
Inc.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. ;  Lewis-Pacific 
Dairymen's  Asso.,  Chehalis,  Wash. ; 
Maryland  State  Dairymen's  Asso.,  Bal- 
timore, Md. ;  Maryland  &  Virginia  Milk 
Producers'  Asso.,  Washington,  D.  C. ; 
Miami  Valley  Co-operative  Milk  Pro- 
ducers' Asso.;  Dayton,  O. ;  Michigan  Milk 
Producers'  Asso.,  Detroit,  Mich. ;  Milk 
Producers'  Asso.,  Chicago,  111. ;  Milk 
Producers'  Asso.  of  San  Diego  Co.,  San 
Diego,  Calif. ;  Milk  Producers'  Asso.  of 
Summit  Co.  and  Vicinity,  Akron,  O. ; 
Milk  Producers'  Asso.  of  Central  Cali- 
fornia, Modesto,  Calif. ;  Milwaukee  Co- 
operative Milk  Producers,  Milwaukee, 
Wis. ;  New  England  Milk  Producers' 
Asso.,  Boston,  Mass. ;  Northwestern  Co- 
operative Sales  Company,  Wauseon, 
Ohio ;  Ohio  Farmers'  Co-operative  Milk 
Asso.,  Cleveland,  O. ;  Seattle  Milk  Ship- 
pers' Asso.,   Seattle,   Wash. ;   St.  Louis 


Pure  Milk  Producers'  Asso.,  East  St. 
Louis,  111. ;  Snohomish  County  Dairy- 
men's Asso.,  Inc.,  Everett,  Wash.;  Stark 
County  Milk  Producers'  Asso.,  Canton, 
O.;  Twin  City  Milk  Producers'  Asso., 
St.  Paul,  Minn. ;  Twin  Ports  Co-opera- 
tive Dairy  Asso.,  Superior,  Wis.;  Valley 
of  Virginia  Co-operative  Milk  Produc- 
ers' Asso.,  Harrisonburg,  Va. ;  Whatcom 
County  Dairymen's  Association,  Belling- 
ham,  Wash. ;  Wisconsin  Cheese  Produc- 
ers' Federation,  Plymouth,  Wis. ;  Yakima 
Dairymen's  Asso.,  Yakima,  Wash. 

The  annual  meeting  admitted  to  affilia- 
tion The  Stark  County  Milk  Producers' 
Association  of  Canton,  Ohio  and  the  In- 
diana Dairy  Marketing  Association  of 
Muncie,  Indiana. 


BUTTER  TARIFF  HIGHLY 
EFFECTIVE 
C.  W.  Holman 

When  the  National  Co-operative  Milk 
Producers'  Federation  succeeded  in  get- 
ting the  tariff  on  butter  raised  from  8  to 
12  cents  a  pound,  this  office  made  the 
statement  that  the  full  effect  of  this  in- 
crease would  be  felt  in  the  Fall  of  1926. 
That  time  has  now  come  and  the  tariff  is 
now  preventing  wholesale  dumping  of 
foreign  butter  upon  American  shores. 

For  seven  months  Great  Britain  has 
been  greatly  disturbed  by  a  coal  miners' 
strike  which  followed  closely  upon  diffi- 
culties with  the  Seamen's  Labor  Union. 
This  has  brought  about  a  severe  indus- 
trial depression  in  Great  Britain,  and  the 
prices  of  butter  have  fallen  to  where  in 
recent  weeks  the  best  grades  of  Danish 
butter  have  sold  in  Copenhagen  at  more 
than  12  cents  a  pound  under  the  price  of 
New  York  92  score  butter  in  New  York 
City.  New  Zealand's  offers  on  the  Lon- 
don market  of  unsalted  butter  have  been 
IS  cents  under  the  price  of  92  score  but- 
ter in  New  York  City.  At  this  writing 
92  score  butter  is  selling  in  New  York 
City  for  51.5  cents  per  pound,  while  the 
Copenhagen  print  of  Best  Danish  is 
quoted  at  34.31  cents  per  pound.  In  con- 
sequence there  has  been  a  slight  increase 
in  offerings  of  foreign  butter  in  our  mar- 
kets. Official  reports  indicate  that  ship- 
ments now  enroute  to  our  shores  include 
3,000  boxes  of  New  Zealand,  2,500  casks 
of  Danish  and  1,100  casks  of  Siberian 
butters,  while  smaller  quantities  are  com- 
ing from  other  countries. 

Canada  Nozv  Dumping  Cheese 
This   situation   has   also   affected  the 
London  cheese  market,   which  has  ab- 
sorbed at  much  lower  prices  cheese  offer- 
ings. 

In  consequence  countries  exporting 
cheese  have  been  seeking  other  markets 
and  the  present  tariff  on  cheese  of  five 
cents  a  pound  and  not  to  exceed  25  per 
cent,  advalorem  has  not  been  effective  in 
preventing  the  dumping  of  considerable 
quantities  of  Canadian  cheese  at  low 
prices  into  the  hands  of  American  grind- 
ers. In  the  month  of  October  American 
imports  of  cheese  amounted  to  nearly  one 
million  pounds  as  compared  with  approxi- 
mately 100,000  pounds  for  the  month  of 
October,  1925.  About  one-half  of  this 
million  pounds  came  from  Canada.  Re- 
ports from  Wisconsin  indicate  that 
Canadian  cheese,  after  paying  duty,  has 
been  offered  to  American  buyers  at  2l/i 
to  3  cents  under  going  American  prices. 

Canadian  cheese  stocks  on  October  1 
of  this  year  amounted  to  38,251,790 
pounds,  an  increase  of  25.16  per  cent., 
over  the  stocks  on  hand  a  year  ago.  But- 
ter stocks  on  the  same  date  amounted  to 
32,026,179  pounds,  an  increase  of  50.49) 
per  cent,  over  the  same  date  a  year  ago. 

Immediate  settlement  of  the  British 
coal  strike  would  tend  to  relieve  the1 
Canadian  situation  and  also  tend  to 
strengthen  London  daily  prices;  but  the 
lowered  buying  power  of  the  British  pub-| 
lie  would  still  be  impaired  for  several 
months  to  come. 


(December,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


1         NINE  CENT  PRICE 

'    The  sales  committee  of  the  association 
advanced  the  price  on  Boston  milk  a  half 
|  cent  Nov.  15.    This  nine  cent  price  will 


continue  through  December  and  until 
further  notice.  Chain  store  prices  ad- 
vanced Nov.  15  from  12  to  13  cents  in 
Boston.  Most  of  the  lesser  markets  are 
making  an  advance. 


Market  Conditions  on  Page  7 


Schedule  of  Prices  for  Boston 

Based  on  9  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  December  1,  1926,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 


At.  R. 

R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 

Cwt. in 

Cwt. in 

Cwt.in  Cwt.in 

8qt. 

sy2qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Ccins 

i 

X 

1  ?fi 

.UUl 

•TOO 

1.589 

1.689 

3.193 

0.0v4 

3.696 

3.712 

-31  /in 

£  1 — tU 

.OO 1 

7-7') 
111 

1.564 

1.664 

3.158 

1  f  1C 
J.OJO 

J.O/  1 

0 

41  _AO 
tl — ou 

.ou^ 

f>if> 

.O-tU 

7^7 

1.544 

1.644 

3.128 

3.598 

3.636 

4 

61-80 

.589 

.631 

.752 

1.534 

1.634 

3.098 

3.566 

3.576 

3.601 

5 

81-100 

.584 

.626 

.742 

1.514 

1.614 

3.073 

3.520 

3.532 

3.572 

6 

101-120 

.579 

.621 

.732 

1.504 

1.604 

•  3.048 

3.497 

3.510 

3.543 

7 

121-140 

.574 

.616 

.727 

1.494 

1.589 

3.028 

3.473 

3.477 

3.520 

8 

141-160 

.564 

.606 

.717 

1.479 

1.579 

3.003 

3.438 

3.456 

3.491 

9 

161-180 

.559 

.601 

.712 

1.469 

1.569 

2.983 

3.415 

3.434 

3.467 

10 

181-200 

.554 

.596 

.702 

1.464 

1.554 

2.968 

3.404 

3.401 

3.450 

11 

201-220 

.549 

.591 

.697 

1.449 

1.544 

2.948 

3.369 

3.379 

3.427 

12 

221-240 

.544 

.586 

.692 

1.439 

1.529 

2.928 

3.345 

3.346 

3.404 

13 

241-260 

.534 

.576 

.687 

1.434 

1.524 

2.918 

3.334 

3.335 

3.392 

14 

261-280 

.529 

.571 

.687 

1.419 

1.514 

2.898 

3.299 

3.313 

3.369 

15 

281-300 

.529 

.571 

.682 

1.414 

1.509 

2.883 

3.237 

3.302 

3.351 

At  R. 

R.  Sta 

tions  Inside  Massachusetts 

4 

1-20 

.639 

.681 

.802 

1.599 

1.699 

3.193 

3.717 

3.718 

3.712 

2 

21-40 

.624 

.666 

.787 

1.574 

1.674 

3.158 

3.659 

3.663 

3.671 

3 

41-60 

.619 

.661 

.782 

1.564 

1.659 

3.128 

3.636 

3.631 

3.636 

4 

61-80 

.614 

.656 

.777 

1.544 

1.644 

3.098 

3.590 

3.598 

3.601 

5 

81-100 

.609 

.651 

.762 

1.534 

1.634 

3.073 

3.566 

3.576 

3.572 

6 

101-120 

.604 

.646 

.757 

1.524 

1.614 

3.048 

3.543 

3.532 

3.543 

7 

121-140 

.604 

.646 

.757 

1.509 

1.604 

3.028 

3.508 

3.510 

3.520 

8 

141-160 

.594 

.636 

.752 

1.504 

1.599 

3.003 

3.497 

3.499 

3.491 

9 

161-180 

.589 

.631 

.747 

1.494 

1.584 

2.983 

3.473 

3.466 

3.467 

10 

181-200 

.589 

.631 

.742 

1.479 

1.574 

2.968 

3.438 

3.445 

3.450 

Where  milk  is  bought  by  weight  and  test,  the  dealer  will  pay  the  average  price 
for  92  score  fresh  butter  as  quoted  by  the  U.  S.  D.  A.  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
Economics  at  Boston  for  the  month.  This  price  of  1/10  pound  butter,  as  above 
stated,  shall  be  added  for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  above  3.7  per  cent,  and  deducted 
for  each  0.1  of  1  per  cent,  below  3.7  per  cent,  for  each  cwt.  of  milk  so  purchased. 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  0.75c  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  October,  1926 


Hood,  1st- 15th 
•  Hood,  Ist-lSth 
Hood,  16th-31st 
Hood,  16th-31st 


Turner 


Cwt.  and 

Feeding 

Cwt. 

Butter-fat 

Test 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patrons 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt 

,  uy2% 

.50 

1.429 

.49 

.600 

.1294 

20 

.50 

1.982 

.49 

.589 

.1294 

...\2y2 

.50 

1.549 

.50 

.624 

.1459 

20 

.50 

2.173 

.50 

.609 

.1459 

20 

.50 

1.227 

.52 

.581 

.1057 

...12^ 

.54 

1.210 

.48 

.577 

.1319 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  October,  1926 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butter  fat  above  and  below  3.7  per 
cent,  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container:  Per 
quart  can,  $0,008;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,010;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,020;  per  2\%  quart 
can,  $0.021 ;  per  40  quart  can,  $.040 ;  per  cwt.,  $0,046. 


Boston  District 

Class  1    Class  2   

(Mkt.    (Mfg.  S'A 
Milk)    Milk)  Quart  Quart 


Size  of  Can 


20 


Dealers 

Elm  Spring  Farm 

7th  zone  (121-140)   75.3%    24.7%  .485 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   ..93.8  6.2 


1.176 


Northern  Market  District 


Class  1 
(Mkt. 

Dealers  Milk) 
Wason-MacDonald 
Haverhill 

Delivered   92.2% 

3rd  zone   * 

Findeisen  Farms 
Lawrence 

Delivered   64.4 

1  st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

10  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Manchester 

Delivered  86.0 

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

Blake,  E.  C. 
Manchester 

Delivered  75.8 

4th  zone   

zone   

zone   

zone   

Boyd,  W.  T.  &  Son 
Nashua 

Delivered   99.3 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Nashua 

Delivered   90.7 

4th  zone   


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 


7.8'v 


Cwt. 
in 

8$4's 


3.746 
3.179 


Cwt 
in 

20's 


3.746 
3.232 


21J4 

40 

Quart 

Quart 

Cwt. 

1.253 

2.382 

2.769 

3.564 

Cwt. 

in 

40's 

Cwt. 

3.746 
3.275 


35.6 


14.0 


24.2 


5th 
6th 
8th 


3.662 
3.282 
3.201 


3.662 
3.339 
3.316 


3.662 
3.385 
3.351 


3.005 
3.724 
2.698 
2.653 
2.556 


3.404 
3.164 
3.109 
3.064 
3.039 


3.21? 
2.962 
2.929 
2.912 
2.898 


9.3 


3.503 
3.187 


Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Dealers  (Mkt. 
Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 

Burton,  H.  T  100.0% 

Chambers,  G.  T   67.0 

Fiske,  E.  A  100.0 

Grant,  C.  W   87.6 

Greenville  Farm    94.6 

Monroe,  A.  B  100.0 

Providence  Dairy  ....  80.1 

Viall,  W.  C  100.0 

Warnock,  C.  A.   100.0 

Westcott,  E.  P  100.0 

Per  10  qt.  can 

Brown,  W.  B  100.0 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 

% 

33.0 

12.4 
5.4 

19'9 


Deliv- 
ered 
3.580 
2.995 
3.583 
3.440 
3.476 
3.583 
3.242 
3.583 
3.578 
3.578 


Zone  1 
1-20 
Miles 

3.276 
2.792 
3.278 
3.074 
3.188 
3.278 
3.049 
3.278 
3.273 
3.273 


Zone  2 
21-40 
Miles 

3.228 
2.760 
3.230 
3.032 
3.143 
3.230 
3.021 
3.230 
3225 
3.225 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  3  Zone  .Willi- 
41-60  net  mantic 
Miles  at  F"arm  Zone 

3.162   

2.715  2.618-   

3.164    

2.973   

3.080   

3.164     

2.966 
3.164 
3.159 
3.159 


2.762  2.867 


.792      .726  .716 


.702 


.686 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  October,  1926 


By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  October  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 

it*iLF?n„rJ?Vim0rV    ?   I  Pfr  TC!nt-  ardd  t0Jhe  ZOI]e  price  gjven  for  your  dealer  $-046  for  each  A  Per  cellt-    If  il  test*  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract  $.046 

tor  each  1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

lo  hnd  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  October  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustment*. 
WhiW  w  TinC      r   f  °r  n0t    ■  Z°ne  pn,Ces ,-are  co™ect  for  your  dealer  for  the  Percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the  I 

-  ancl  iurner  Lentre  companies  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deduction  as  given  in  Cream  Price  Table  is  made  from  the  zone  price  as  figured  to  equalize 'prices  between 

Zonel  Zone  2  Zone  3  Zone  4  Zone  5    Zone  6  Zone  7  Zone  8  Zone  9  Zone'lO 

..  1-20  21-40  41-60  61-80  81-100  101-120  121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200 

..  3.247  3.206  3.171  3.136  3.107      3.078  3.055  3.026  3.003  2.985 

..  1.786  1.786  1.786  1.786  1.786      1.786  1.786  1.786  1.786  1.786 


milk  and  cream  patrons. 


'.  Miles 
Class 
Class 


from  Boston   

1  Milk  Price   

2  Milk  Price   

Class  1 
(Mkt.  Milk) 

Dealers 
Hood,  lst-15th  ....64.6% 
Hood,  16th-31st  ....70.4 
Whiting  in  40's  ....72.6 
Whiting  in  21  J4's  72.6 

Turner  Centre   77.8 

N.  E.  Cry.  Prod.  54.8 
F.  S.  Cummings  ....67.2 

F.  E.  Boyd   70.4 

Weighted  Avg  70.5 


Class  2 
(Mfg.  Milk) 


Zone  11 
201-220 
2.962 
1.786 


Zone  12 
221-240 
2.939 
1.786 


Zone  13 
241-260 
2.927 
1.786 


Zone  14 
261-280 
2.904 
1.786 


Zone  15 
281-300 
2.887 
1.786 


A 

35.4% 
29.6 
27.4 
27.4 
22.2 
45.2 
32.8 
29.6 
29.5 


B 

53.0% 

47.7 

46.0 

46.0 

45.8 


44.7 


2.747 
2.835 
2.741 
2.729 
2.705 
2.712 
2.771 
2.813 
2.712 


2.720 
2.806 
2.711 
2.689 
2.673 
2.690 
2.743 
2.784 
2.684 


A— Excluding  Cream  Plan.       B— Including  Cream  Plan. 


2.698 

2.676 

2.657 

2.638 

2.623 

2.604 

2.589 

2.578 

2.563 

2.548 

2.540 

2.525 

2.514 

2.782 

2.757 

2.737 

2.716 

2.699 

2.679 

2.663 

2.651 

2.634 

2.618 

2.609 

2.593 

2.581 

2.686 

2.660 

2.639 

2.618 

2.601 

2.580 

2.564 

2.551 

2.534 

2.517 

2.509 

2.492 

2.479 

2.658 

2.642 

2.610 

2.594 

2.570 

2.555 

2.539 

2.515 

2.499 

2.475 

2.467 

2.451 

2.443 

2.646 

2.619 

2.596 

2.574 

2.556 

2.533 

2.515 

2.501 

2.484 

2.466 

2.456 

2.43S 

2.425 

2.671 

2.652 

2.636 

2.620 

2.607 

2.591 

2.579 

2.569 

2.556 

2.544 

2.537 

2.524 

2.515 

2.720 

2.696 

2.677 

2.657 

2.642 

2.622 

2.606 

2.595 

2.579 

2.564 

2.556 

2.540 

2.528 

2.759 

2.735 

2.714 

2.694 

2.678 

2.657 

2.641 

2.628 

2.612 

2.596 

2.58S 

2.571 

2.559 

2.659 

2.635 

2.615 

2.595 

2.579 

2.559 

2.543 

2.529 

2.514 

2.498 

2.490 

2.474 

2.462 

Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


December,  1926 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 
NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 

51  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 

Devoted   to    the    Interests    of  Dairy 
Farming  and  Marketing  in 
New  England 

Subscription  Price,  Fifty  Cents  Per  Year 
W.  P.  DAVIS,  Treasurer 

to*,  per  arate  11m,  fist.  14  llnee  to  tho  Inch 
Ob*  pm*e.  Inside,  100  lln«e,  1140.00.  Ui< 
paxe,  ISO  Ubm,  (144.00 

V.   L.   WB&RB,   Bualaeaa  Manas;*? 

JBntore*  a*  Mcai4  olaaa  matter,  July  SO, 
1117,  at  the  PoateOtoe  In  Boston,  Muu- 
ohueetta,  under  the  act  of  May  .  t,  H7t. 

A.oo«»tane*  (or  maillnc  at  special  rate*  of 
poetage  proylded  (or.  Seetlon  1101.  Act 
of  Oct.  t,  1»1T.  authorised  July  us,  lilt. 


N.  K.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  192o 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt. ;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass. ;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I. ;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


Again  we  are  without  a  Personal  Word 
from  Mr.  Pattee.  The  Chief's  recovery 
from  his  operation  was  a  much  longer 
process  than  we  expected  and  he  is  still 
out  of  office.  And  we  do  not  want  to 
bother  him  with  little  things  like  this. 

Meanwhile  we  are  carrying  on  as  best 
we  can  without  him,  asking  him  about 
certain  things  which  no  one  else  can  de- 
cide, but  for  the  most  part  making  the 
decisions  for  ourselves  in  our  own  de- 
partments. Always  these  decisions  are 
made  with  a  view  to  what  we  think  the 
Chief  would  have  liked  us  to  do  if  he 
were  here  where  we  could  run  in  and  ask 
him  in  the  friendly  personal  way  which 
has  been  the  dominant  note  in  the  office. 
There  has  been  mighty  little  of  the  su- 
perior and  subordinate  attitude  here. 
That  is  one  reason  why  we  miss  him  so 
much. 

It  is  not  far  different  out  in  the  coun- 
try. Wherever  any  of  us  go  and  who- 
ever we  see,  one  of  the  first  questions  is, 
"How's  Pattee?"  Some  of  them  are  men 
who  have  not  seen  him  for  years.  Some 
are  agricultural  leaders  who  have  sat  in 
at  many  a  conference  with  him  and  have 
listened  to  his  optimistic  message  and 
caught  the  enthusiasm  and  confidence 
which  he  possessed.  One  and  all  have  a 
warm  personal  feeling  for  him.  Not 
until  this  illness  came  did  we  realize  how 
great  an  influence  his  warm,  friendly 
personality  has  exercised  here  in  New 
England. 

It  is  not  confined  to  New  England 
either.  At  the  meeting  of  the  National 
Co-operative  Milk  Producers'  Federa- 
tion he  was  re-elected  a  director  and  first 
vice-president.  But  Charlie  Holman  re- 
ports that  this  official  action  was  a  formal 


and  cold  affair  compared  to  the  ex- 
pressions of  good  will  to  him  and  regret 
at  his  illness  expressed  by  the  dairy 
leaders  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific. 
He  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  outstand- 
ing leaders  in  co-operative  thought  in  the 
country.  But  more  than  that  the  big 
men  who  have  been  associated  with  him 
value  him  as  a  man,  a  friend. 

This  is  taking  an  advantage  of  him, 
this  talking  about  him  in  his  absence.  If 
he  were  here  he  would  say,  "Cut  it  out." 
But  in  this  particular  place  in  the  Dairy- 
man for  years  he  has  talked  personally 
about  his  experiences,  his  family,  his 
friends,  his  associates.  So  our  con- 
science does  not  trouble  us  any.  More- 
over, it's  all  gospel  truth  what  we  have 
said  about  the  way  people  feel  toward 
him. 


APPRECIATION  DUE 

With  the  greatest  of  satisfaction  we 
record  the  settlement  of  the  Turner  Cen- 
tre problem.  For  some  four  months  it 
has  hung  like  a  dark  cloud  over  the  dairy 
industry  of  New  England  and  threatened 
disaster.  At  any  time  during  the  many 
negotiations  and  conferences  which  have 
been  held  hasty  words  or  ill-advised 
actions  would  have  precipitated  a  situa- 
tion which  would  have  resulted  in  the 
loss  of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  hard 
earned  dollars  to  the  dairy  farmers  of 
New  England.  More  important  still,  it 
would  have  resulted  in  the  partial  break- 
ing down  of  something  which  it  has 
taken  years  of  hard  work  and  wise  lead- 
ership to  build  up — Confidence.  This  ap- 
plies equally  well  to  Turner  Centre  and 
to  the  NEMPA.  If  a  great  disaster  had 
come,  if  the  inevitable  losses  of  money 
had  followed,  the  shaking  of  confidence 
would  have  been  felt  by  both  organiza- 
tions. It  would  have  taken  years  to  build 
it  up  again. 

Now  that  it  is  all  over  and  Turner 
Centre  is  back  on  a  normal  basis  of  re- 
lationship with  the  NEMPA,  we  wish  to 
express  our  appreciation  of  the  whole- 
hearted way  in  which  leaders  in  the 
Turner  Centre  System  have  accepted  the 
situation.  It  was  not  an  easy  thing  for 
E.  L.  Bradford,  a  man  who  has  spent  his 
life  in  building  up  a  great  business,  to 
accept  the  decision  of  the  stockholders 
in  opposition  to  his  own  judgment.  It 
was  not  easy  for  those  directors  who 
had  made  a  decision  in  the  light  of  their 
own  convictions  to  have  that  decision  re- 
versed by  vote  of  the  stockholders  and 
to  accept  that  reversal  in  good  spirit. 
But  they  did  this  and  we  honor  them 
for  it.  It  is  one  of  the  best  assurances 
that  Turner  Centre  is  going  ahead  and 
that  it  will  establish  itself  as  one  of  the 
greatest  -  co-operative  enterprises  in  the 
country. 

The  attitude  of  the  directors  and  man- 
agement of  Turner  Centre  previous  to 
the  stockholders'  meeting  was  not  un- 
natural and  no  criticism  is  laid  on  them 
for  seeing  the  problem  in  a  different  light 
from  the  stockholders.  The  directors 
have  to  face  the  problem  of  paying  the 
bills  month  by  month,  of  making  the 
organization  a  going  concern.  After  a 
period  of  unusually  poor  business  in  ice 
cream  coming  at  a  time  when  the  ex- 
penses were  unusually  heavy,  it  was  na- 
tural that  they  should  seek  ways  in  which 
they  could  cut  corners  and  make  a  better 
showing  at  the  end  of  the  year  when 
they  have  to  give  an  account  of  their 
stewardship  to  the  farmers  who  own  the 
System. 

Paying  on  a  different  price  basis  was 


the  course  they  decided  upon  as  the  way 
to  meet  a  difficult  temporary  financial 
situation.  They  said  repeatedly  that  they 
expected  to  pay  as  much  or  more  than 
other  dealers  over  a  year's  business  but 
wanted  to  save  some  money  for  a  few 
months.  This  was  the  natural  viewpoint 
for  men  whose  attention  must  be  focussed 
on  the  immediate  figures  of  profit  and 
losses. 

But  the  stockholders  took  a  broader 
view  of  the  situation.  They  were  less 
interested  in  the  showing  which  the  or- 
ganization would  make  on  its  books  at 
the  end  of  the  year  than  they  were  in 
the  practical  matter  of  getting  for  them- 
selves, and  for  the  rest  of  the  dairy  farm- 
ers of  New  England,  all  that  it  was  pos- 
sible to  get,  not  only  now  but  in  the 
future.  They  realized  the  dangers  of 
the  "unknown"  price  policy  which  had 
been  adopted  by  their  directors.  Es- 
pecially those  sturdy  dairymen  who  came 
to  our  annual  meeting  and  took  part  in 
the  discussions.  To  them  more  than  to 
any  actions  taken  by  the  NEMPA  the 
satisfactory  settlement  of  the  problem 
is  due.  They  realized,  and  they  made 
their  associates  realize,  that  failure  of 
the  Turner  Centre  to  pay  a  known  price, 
just  as  the  other  principal  dealers  are  do- 
ing, would  result  in  lower  prices  for  all 
New  England.  In  this  decline  they  would 
suffer  along  with  the  rest. 

Through  the  earlier  negotiations  be- 
tween the  NEMPA  and  the  Turner  Cen- 
tre directors  much  forbearance  had  to 
be  exercised  on  both  sides.  It  was  no 
time  to  take  hasty  actions  or  to  refuse 
to  negotiate  further.  When  it  became  ap- 
parent that  there  was  no  possibility  of  the 
directors  of  Turner  Centre  and  the  sales 
committee  of  the  NEMPA  getting  to- 
gether on  any  proposition,  the  directors 
showed  sound  common  sense  as  well  as 
business  judgment  in  calling  a  special 
meeting  of  the  stockholders  so  that  the 
final  responsibility  of  a  break  with  the 
NEMPA  would  rest  on  them. 

The  result  of  the  stockholders'  meet- 
ing was  a  surprise  to  the  directors.  The 
overwhelming  majority  of  votes  cast  in- 
dividually in  support  of  the  NEMPA 
and  the  "known"  price  policy  showed 
them  clearly  what  the  will  of  the  stock- 
holders was  in  regard  to  the  NEMPA. 
Naturally  the  directors  voted  the  proxies 
they  held  in  support  of  their  own  views. 
But  when  they  found  that  the  stock- 
holders who  were  present  felt  otherwise, 
the  directors  recognized  that  the  men 
whose  proxies  they  held,  if  they  had  been 
there  in  person  and  had  listened  to  the 
discussion,  would  have  voted  with  the 
rest. 

Right  then  and  there  the  directors 
played  the  game  in  a  way  which  all  New 
England  should  appreciate.  It  was  within 
their  power  to  have  made  it  quite  diffi- 
cult to  proceed  along  the  lines  recom- 
mended by  the  stockholders.  Instead, 
they  did  everything  possible  to  further 
the  settlement  on  a  basis  acceptable  to 
the  NEMPA.  President  Chase  appointed 
the  special  committee  to  study  finances. 
Every  opportunity  was  given  to  get  a 
true  viewpoint.  Once  the  will  of  the 
stockholders  was  know  the  directors  ac- 
cepted it  and  played  the  game  through 
fairly.  Again,  we  wish  to  express  our 
appreciation. 

With  this  big  problem  settled  the 
NEMPA  can  look  forward  to  more 
stable  conditions  in  the  market  than  have 
been  experienced  for  some  time  past. 
The  discussion  of  the  value  of  the  known 
price  system  has  focussed  attention  of 
dealers  and  co-operative  organizations  on 


market  stability  as  it  never  before  has 
been  focussed.  There  are  abundant 
signs  in  the  market  that  a  lesson  has  been 
learned.  There  has  been  a  very  large  in- 
crease in  the  amount  of  milk  that  is 
moving  on  a  known  price  basis.  It  is 
not  all  under  the  surplus  plan  but  through 
that  plan  or  by  some  other  means  a  point 
of  comparison  has  been  established  on  all 
but  two  important  sources  of  milk  in 
the  Boston  market.  In  cases  of  dealers 
who  buy  under  the  surplus  plan  the 
point  of  contact  and  comparison  is  in  the 
prices  paid  to  the  farmers,  figured  by 
the  milk  administrator  and  published 
monthly  in  the  Dairyman.  In  the  case  of 
co-operatives  who  do  not  work  under 
the  surplus  plan,  the  resale  price  at  the 
market  is  generally  known  and  con- 
stitutes a  fair  basis  for  comparison  with 
the  surplus  plan  prices. 

The  two  exceptions  of  importance  in 
the  known  price  policy  developed  largely 
through  the  NEMPA  are  the  United 
Farmers'  Co-operative  at  Morrisville, 
which  owns  a  distributing  plant  at 
Somerville,  and  the  Milton  Co-operative 
which  has  bought  an  interest  in  the 
Hurlihy  milk  business  in  Boston.  The 
NEMPA  has  no  way  of  knowing  the 
prices  charged  by  the  United  Farmers  to 
the  small  dealers,  chain  stores  and  whole- 
sale trade  which  it  serves  nor  has  it  any 
knowledge  of  the  price  which  Milton 
charges  the  Hurlihy  business  for  the  milk 
it  sells  there.  But  it  is  significant  that) 
since  the  publicity  given  the  "known  j 
price"  policy  through  the  Turner  Centre! 
situation,  there  have  been  almost  no  com-| 
plaints  made  about  price  cutting  from! 
either  of  these  sources  of  supply.  They, 
too,  appear  to  be  doing  their  part  inl 
stabilizing  the  market. 


YEARS'  ACCOMPLISHMENT 

Figures  given  on  page  one  speak  for 
themselves.  They  need  little  interpreta- 
tion. When  payments  for  December 
milk  are  made  the  dairy  farmers  of  New 
England  will  have  received  nearly  ; 
million  dollars  more  for  their  markel 
milk  than  they  received  in  1925.  This  i:| 
all  due  to  the  negotiating  power  of  the 
NEMPA,  to  the  ability  of  the  organiza  | 
tion  to  interpret  supply  and  demand  ami 
to  negotiate  prices  based  on  such  inl 
terpretation. 

This  does  not  mean  that  the  farmers  o 
New  England  have  received  $950,001 
more  for  their  milk  than  they  receivei 
in  1925,  it  means  that  they  have  receiver 
at  least  $950,000  more  for  their  mill 
than  they  would  have  received  withou 
the  good  work  of  their  sales  committee| 
It  is  the  correct  measure  of  the  value  oj 
the  association   in   negotiating   prices.  ! 

The  gain  on  market  milk  is  largel 
offset  by  the  lower  prices  on  surplus  mil 
due  to  declines  in  the  butter  market.  Th 
lower  price  on  surplus  milk  is  due  t 
world  conditions,  not  to  conditions  o 
supply  and  demand  within  New  Englanc 
It  is  thus  largely  out  of  the  power  of 
bargaining  organization  to  secure  fo 
surplus  milk  anything  above  its  butter 
fat  value,  based  on  world-wide  cond 
tions.  Not  until  we  have  a  New  Eng 
land-wide  system,  capable  of  handlin, 
surplus  milk  to  the  best  advantage,  cai 
we  hope  to  get  the  most  possible  out  c, 
surplus  milk. 

The  effect  of  the  work  of  the  NEMP.i 
is  to  have  averted  a  great  decrease  : 
the  total  returns  for  milk,  not  to  ha\ 
made  a  large  increase.  Surplus  pricr 
went  down  in  1926  as  compared  wit 
1925.    Through  the  good  work  of  tl 


December,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


\  sales  committee  of  the  association  the 
(returns  for  market  milk  were  increased 
V$9SO,000  as  compared  with  the  previous 
year.    It  is  not  possible  to  determine  un- 
]til  after  the  end  of  the  year  whether  the 
net  return  for  all  milk  will  be  greater 
<or  less  than  in  1925.    The  fact  remains, 
however,  that  $950,000  will  be  paid  to  the 
farmers  on  market  milk  in  excess  of 
what  they  received  in  1925. 
i    In  every  month  but  one,  October,  the 
fluid  milk  price  was  as  great  or  greater 
than  in  the  same  month  in  1925.  This 
October  price  of  eight  cents  was  due  to 
the  necessity   for  adjustment,  discussed 
elsewhere.    It  is  more  than  offset  by  the 
increased  returns  during  the  first  half  of 
the  year  when  the  sales  committee  main- 
tained the  8y2  cent  level  through  until 
June.    The  November  price  of  8-}4  cents 
Is  the  result  of  an  Sy2  cent  price  for  the 
first  half  and  a  9  cent  price  for  the  last 
half  of  the  month. 

These  figures  are  based  on  our  best 
estimates  of  the  effect  of  the  NEMPA 
price  on  general  sales  in  New  England. 
We  know  the  amount  on  which  an  in- 
crease of  a  half  cent  makes  in  a  month 
to  our  members.  We  know  that  there  is 
a  lot  of  milk  not  sold  strictly  on  the 
NEMPA  price  which  but  following  it 
up  or  down.    Our  best  estimates  are  that 

^a  half  cent  a  quart  advance  in  the  price 
means  $100,000  a  month  to  the  dairy 

!  farmers  of  New  England  on  their  mar- 
ket milk  alone.    We  are  willing  to  stand 

Von  this  record.    Nine  hundred  and  fifty 

,  thousand  dollars  advance  in  one  year  is 

,  not  a  small  accomplishment. 


WISE  DECISION 

At  the  time  of  the  annual  meeting, 
when  the  sales  committee  appeared  at  a 
deadlock  with  the  Turner  Centre  direc- 
tors, a  proposition  was  made  to  the 
Turner  Centre,  with  the  approval  of  the 
directors  of  the  NEMPA,  to  reduce  the 
price  of  October  milk  to  eight  cents. 
The  understanding  was  that  it  would  be 
reduced  to  other  dealers  also.  It  was 
the  judgment  of  the  directors  that  it  was 
better  to  offer  this  reduction  than  to  at- 
tempt to  force  the  issue  at  that  time 
through  a  withdrawal  of  the  Turner  Cen- 
tre milk.  That  would  have  been  an  ex- 
pensive process  and  through  the  reim- 
bursement fund  which  would  be  neces- 
sary would  probably  cost  as  much  as 
the  reduction  of  a  half  cent. 

The  Turner  Centre  was  under  no 
obligation  to  pay  the  NEMPA  price  for 
October  milk,  as  explained  elsewhere  in 
this  issue,  but  when  the  final  negotia- 
tions took  place  regarding  the  settlement 
of  the  whole  matter  and  making  up  the 
full  amounts  for  August,  September  and 
October,  the  sales  committee  reaffirmed 
their  offer  of  eight  cents  for  October  as 
a  means  of  helping  forward  the  settle- 
ment for  the  good  of  all  New  England. 
The  same  reduction  was  made  to  other 
dealers.  Some  of  them  had  already  paid 
for  October  milk  but  will  make  the  ad- 
justment on  November  milk.  It  is  the 
belief  of  the  sales  committee  that  this 
adjustment  is  a  very  small  price  to  pay 
for  the  stabilization  of  the  market  due 
to  the  return  of  Turner  Centre  to  the 
surplus  plan.  It  is  the  only  concession 
made  to  them. 


GOOD  REPORTS 


Field   Men   Find   Farmers  Ap- 
preciate Association 

Reports  from  our  field  men  continue 
.  to  show  a  gratifying  interest  of  farmers 
I  in  our  association  and  its  work.  They 
;  have  been  campaigning  the  past  month 
f  in  northwestern  Vermont  and  northern 

•  New  Hampshire  and  are  now  working  in 
;  the  vicinity  of  Randolph,  Vt.  Wherever 

they  have  been  they  have  found  the  same 

desire  on  the  part  of  the  farmers  to  talk 
:  things  over  and  get  some  first  hand  in- 
;  formation  concerning  the  work  of  the 
i:  association.  The  picture  of  the  field  staff, 
!  used  in  last  month's  Dairyman,  has  served 

as  an  introduction  in  many  cases.  "Oh 
1  yes,  we  saw  your  picture  in  the  paper"  is 
■  now  quite  a  common  response  when  one 

of  our  new  men  drives  into  a  yard  and 

starts  to  introduce  himself. 
It  is  apparent  from  the  general  reports 
[  which  the  field  men  have  sent  in  that 
'  they  are  signing  up  about  80  per  cent, 
f  of  all  the  producers  in  the  localities 
t  visited.  In  some  places  they  have  done 
[  considerably  better  but  there  are  always 
'  a  few  farmers  who  are  away  from  home 
J  and  cannot  be  seen  for  one  reason  or 
:  another.  F.  C.  Warner,  veteran  cam- 
;  paigner  for  the  association,  reports .  that 

he  never  was  in  a  territory  where  there 

were  so  few  actual  refusals  to  join  as 

•  there  have  been  in  most  of  the  towns  re- 
cently visited.  The  field  men  have  re- 
newed the  powers  of  attorney  of  most  of 
the  present  members  and  have  added  the 
names  of  new  farmers  who  have  started 
in  shipping  since  the  last  visit  was  made 
lo  the  towns. 

In  Franklin  and  Grand  Isle  counties, 
the  stronghold  of  the  co-operative  move- 
ment in  Vermont,  the  field  men  met  with 

'  the  same  eager  desire  to  know  the  facts 
about  the  market  situation  as  in  the  old 
line  NEMPA  territory.  They  did  well 
in  both  these  counties  and  then  went  over 
into  Coos  county  to  clean  up  the  big 
shipping  territory  there.  At  last  reports 
they  were  getting  themselves  established 
in  the  Randolph  section  and  were  plan- 

I  ning  to  work  down  through  Addison  and 
Rutland  counties. 


ANOTHER  HEARING 

The  next  round  of  the  battle  to  prevent 
the  railroads  of  New  England  from  in- 
creasing their  transportation  rates  on  milk 
will  be  fought  in  New  York.  The  In- 
terstate Commerce  Commission  has  set 
the  next  hearing  for  Nov.  8  in  New 
York.  It  is  probable  that  the  hearings 
will  last  through  that  week  and  if  an 
adjournment  is  necessary  they  will  be  re- 
sumed probably  in  Boston  on  the  follow- 
ing week. 

This  is  about  the  speed  with  which  the 
case  was  expected  to  move.  These  will 
be  the  last  of  the  general  hearings.  After 
that  a  certain  time  will  be  allowed  for 
preparation  of  briefs  by  the  attorneys  on 
both  sides.  Then  the  commission  will 
take  the  matter  under  advisement  and 
will  make  its  decision.  It  would  appear 
as  though  the  final  verdict  would  not 
come  for  several  months  yet.  Meanwhile 
we  are  still  paying  the  lod  rates,  which 
our  experts  say  are  plenty  high  enough 
for  the  service  which  is  being  rendered. 

The  coming  hearings  will  be  for  the 
cross  examination  of  the  witnesses  put 
on  by  the  New  England  dairy  committee 
to  prove  that  the  railroads  were  not  jus- 
tified in  their  claims  for  an  increase  of 
20  per  cent,  in  the  existing  rates.  At  the 
previous  hearing  held  in  Boston  John 
Libhy  and  T.  G.  Goehegan  shot  the  rail- 
road case  all  full  of  holes  and  the  rail- 
roads are  naturally  anxious  to  break  down 
their  testimony  if  possible.  From  what 
we  have  seen  of  these  two  experts  the 
attorneys  for  the  railroads  will  have  a 
stiff  proposition  on  their  hands.  They 
are  not  the  kind  of  fellows  who  can  be 
scared  or  confused.  They  are  stating 
facts  with  which  they  are  familiar  and 
can  back  up.    We  are  banking  on  them. 

The  railroads  will  also  have  an  oppor- 
tunity at  the  coming  hearing  to  put  in 
testimony  in  rebuttal  of  the  testimony 
introduced  by  our  side.  This  may  take 
some  little  time  and  might  lead  to  still 
further  testimony  being  given.  What- 
ever they  introduce  our  men  under  the 
leadership  of  Attorneys  Finerty  and  Hall 
will  be  ready  for  them.  The  railroads 
got  a  big  surprise  at  the  opposition  put 
up  to  their  claims  and  there  are  more 
surprises  in  store  for  them. 


"Rain  and  Telephone  Qalls 


The  annual  rain  fall  in  the 
United  States  would  weigh 
over  three  and  one-half 
trillions  of  tons. 

This  vast  weight  is 
drawn  up  to  the  clouds  by 
the  unseen  but  effective 
power  of  the  sun;  repre- 
senting energy  equiva- 
lent to  three  hundred 
billion  horse-power. 

The  annual  telephone 
conversations  total  over 
twenty-five  billion  a  year. 
As  silently  as  sunlight, 
electricity,  mastered  by 
the  human  mind,  carries 
the  voices  of  the  nation. 


There  must  be  the  man- 
power of  300,000  individ- 
uals to  build,  maintain  and 
operate  the  telephone 
system. 

There  must  be  the 
money-power  of  over 
seven  hundred  million 
dollars  a  year  to  pay  for 
operating  the  plant,  in  ad- 
dition to  three  billion  dol- 
lars invested  in  the  plant. 

The  rain  sustains  life; 
the  telephone  furnishes 
swift  communication  for 
the  nation,  and  they  are 
alike  in  requiring  a  vast 
amount  of  unseen  energy. 


American  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company 
and  Associated  Companies 


bell 


SYSTEM 


IN  ITS  SEMI-CENTENNIAL  YEAR  THE  BELL  SYSTEM  LOOKS  FOR- 
WARD TO  CONTINUED  PROGRESS  IN  TELEPHONE  COMMUNICATION 


Butter  Must 
Look  Good — 
Be  Appetizing 

"Dandelion  Butter  Color"  give*  Winter 
Butter  that  Golden 
June  Shade 


j —  Just  add  one-half  tea- 
fa.  f~  spoonful  to  each  gallon  of 
KJfi  cream  before  churning 
and  out  of  your  churn 
comes  butter  of  Golden 
June  shade.  "Dandelion 
Butter  Color"  is  purely 
vegetable,  harmless,  and 
meets  all  State  and  Na- 
tional food  laws.  Used 
for  years  by  all  large 
creameries.  Doesn't  color 
buttermilk.  Absolutely 
tasteless.  Large  bottles 
cost  only  35  cents  at  drug  or  grocery 
stores.  Write  for  FREE  SAMPLE  BOT- 
TLE. Wells  &  Richardson  Co.,  Inc., 
Burlington,  Vermont. 


SAVE  BY  MAIL 

In  this  Mutual  Saving  Bank.  It's  a 
convenient  way  to  save.  Just  send  as 
your  check  or  money  order  and  bank 
book  will  be  sent  yoa  promptly.  Then 
add  to  It  weekly.  Send  for  Last  state- 
ment. 

RECENT  DIVIDEND 

Interest    Begins  15th 
of  Each  Month 

ASSETS  S14.000.000 

For  72  Years  a  Mutual  Savings  Bank 

EAST  CAMBRIDGE  SAVINGS  BANK 

Inc.  1854 

210  Cambridge  St.,  Eut  Cambrldgi,  Mass. 


5% 


Dandelion 

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Butte  ir€o  lor 


IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


Page  Sice 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


December,  192(5 


HRISTMAS  is 
C  |  not  only  the 
season  of  "good 
will",  but  is  also  the 
time  when  we  allow 
ourselves  the  privilege 
of  enjoying  our  friend- 
ships to  the  full  est 
extent. 

Business  friendships 
are  the  real  life  of 
business  prosperity, 
and  service  is  the  basis 
upon  which  we  have 
enjoyed  many  friend- 
ships in  the  Dairy 
trade. 

We  sincerely  extend 
to  the  Dairy  industry 
the  heartiest  Christmas 
Greetings  and  Good 
Wishes  for  success  in 
the  coming  year. 


THE  J.  B.  FORD  CO. 

WYANDOTTE,  MICH. 


PROBLEM  SETTLED 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

resolution.  The  vote  for  the  resolution 
and  in  favor  of  the  known  price  policy 
was  much  greater  than  these  figures  indi- 
cate. The  proxies  were  held  largely  by 
the  directors  of  the  Turner  Centre.  Quite 
naturally  these  directors  voted  the  proxies 
in  support  of  the  policy  which  they  had 
decided  upon.  A  very  large  majority  of 
the  323  votes  against  the  resolution  were 
cast  on  proxies  held  by  directors.  The 
farmer  patrons  present  in  person  voted 
almost  unanimously  for  the  resolution. 

After  this  resolution  had  been  passed 
the  directors  of  Turner  Centre  raised  the 
question  of  finance.  They  had  been  in- 
structed to  pay  up  for  August  and  Sep- 
tember milk  and  to  pay  the  surplus  plan 
price  for  November,  December  and  for 
the  months  to  come.  They  asked  the 
stockholders  to  tell  them  how  they  were 
going  to  do  this  under  the  present  finan- 
cial depression.  They  felt  that  they 
would  be  able  to  do  so  in  a  few  months 
but  the  immediate  problem  was  a  hard 
one.  They  suggested  therefore  that  an 
adjourned  meeting  should  be  held  two 
weeks  later  to  consider  the  finances.  This 
met  with  general  approval. 

Subsequent  to  the  first  stockholders' 
meeting  President  Chase  of  Turner 
Centre  System  appointed  a  committee  of 
stockholders,  all  men  who  had  voted  in 
favor  of  the  resolution,  ti  look  into  the 
possibilities  and  make  a  report  at  the  ad- 
journed meeting  on  the  best  way  of  meet- 
ing the  situation.  This  committee  con- 
sisted of  W.  E.  Knight  of  Clinton,  H.  G. 
Chesley  of  East  Sumner,  F.  E.  Chandler 
of  Dover,  L.  H.  Lamoreau  of  Richmond 
and  Weston  B.  Haskell,  manager  of  the 
System. 

This  committee  met  and  went  over  the 
financial  situation  in  a  general  way,  but 
decided  that  they  would  not  be  in  a 
position  to  make  any  recommendations  as 
to  special  methods  of  finance  at  the  ad- 
journed meeting.  They  decided  to 
recommend  no  action  until  the  annual 
meeting  in  February.  By  that  time  no 
action  may  be  necessary  as  the  financial 
situation  may  straighten  itself  out  natu- 
rally. The  committee  drew  up  the  fol- 
lowing statement  which  was  sent  out  to 
stockholders  previous  to  the  meeting: 
"Your  committee  in  its  investigation  of 
the  finances  has  found  that  the  Turner 
Centre  is  secure  and  that  the  trouble  ap- 
pears to  be  only  temporary  and  is  of  such 
a  nature  that  it  can  be  settled  more  satis- 
factorily after  more  and  careful  con- 
sideration. The  future  of  the  Turner 
Centre  looks  very  bright,  sales  have  been 
materially  increased  and  expenses  are 
being  reduced  to  a  minimum.  The  com- 
mittee therefore  recommends  that  action 
be  deferred  until  the  annual  meeting. 

This  leaves  the  question  in  a  way  quite 
satisfactory  to  the  NEMPA  sales  com- 
mittee. Turner  Centre  will  make  full 
payment  of  the  difference  between  Au- 
gust and  September  prices  they  paid  and 
what  they  should  have  paid  under  the 
surplus  plan.  The  payment  for  October 
milk,  when  there  was  no  trade  between 
the  NEMPA  and  the  Turner  Centre,  is 
discussed  elsewhere  in  this  issue.  Begin- 
ning with  November  milk  the  Turner 
Centre  will  report  to  the  milk  administra- 
tor and  pay  on  the  prices  figured  under 
the  surplus  plan  as  in  the  past. 


RECOMMEND  DELAY 

Committee  Finds  Financial  Situa- 
tion Temporary 

The  common  sense  viewpoint  of  the 
Turner  Centre  stockholders  carried  over 
into  the  adjourned  meeting  when  it  was 
voted  to  delay  all  action  as  to  temporary 
finance  of  the  System  until  the  annual 
meeting  in  February.  It  was  hoped  that 
all  need  for  special  financing  would  have 
passed  by  that  time. 

This  highly  desirable  and  gratifying 
conclusion  was  reached  as  the  result  of 
the  work  of  the  special  committee  ap- 
pointed by  President  Chase  after  the 
first  stockholders'  meeting.  The  stock- 
holders having  voted  to  continue  on  the 
surplus  plan  and  to  make  back  payments 
for  August  and  September,  were  asked 
by  the  directors  how  it  was  to  be  done  in 
the  present  financial  depression  due  to 
the  unfavorable  ice  cream  season.  In- 


sis 


was 


The  Ideal  Way  to  Feed 

is  to  mix  homegrown  grains  with  a  good  protein  concentrate. 
Your  corn  and  oats,  etc.,  haven't  the  protein  necessary  for 
maximum  milk  production.  Too  many  dairymen,  trying  to 
effect  economy  in  their  feeding,  rely  too  much  on  homegrown 
stuff  and  thereby  sacrifice  milk  production.  That  is  why 

Diamond  Corn  Gluten  Meal 

fits  so  well  into  the  feeding  program  of  hundreds  of  good 
dairy  farmers.  Diamond  is  a  corn  feed  containing  40%  protein 
and  84%  total  digestible  nutrients.  A  little  Diamond  mixed 
with  your  homegrown  grains — like  this,  for  instance :  1 0  parts 
homegrown  grains,  5  parts  Diamond,  3  parts  Bran,  2  parts 
Oilmeal — gives  you  a  ration  analysing  21%  protein,  4%  fat. 
It  can  be  made  up  easily  and  cheaply  and  will  carry  your 
cows  through  the  winter  in  good  production  and  good 
health  ....  Can  you  think  of  a  more  sensible  feeding  pro- 

gram  to  follow  until  next  pasture 

syj#w»«  vv-~.--.y--  1  time'* 


If  you  want  to  know  more  about 
Diamond  or  about  how  to  feed  it, 
we'll  be  glad  to  tell  you.  Write: 

Ration  Service  Department 

Corn  Products  Refining  Co. 

17  Battery  Place,  New  York  City 

Makers  of  the  feeds  that  are 
IN  EVERY  LIVE  DEALER'S  STOCK 
AND  EVERY  GOOD  DAIRY  RATION 


Member  Federal 
Reserve  System 

Resources 
$14,000,000 


r 


Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 

The  furnace  especially  designed 
for  New  England  conditions. 
Door  I5"x17m,  36"  firebox. 
Send  for  circular. 

GENERAL  AGENT 


Fr  Till  I  TD  GENERAL  AGI 
.  r.  rULLLK  WATERBURY, 


VT. 


Friendly  Terms 

Thrift  and  opportunity  are  always 
on  friendly 
terms.  When 
your  opportun-  /^Cc" 
ity  comes  —  be 
ready  —  have 
the  cash  in  the 
bank. 

LIBERTY 
TRUST 
COMPANY 

199  Washington  St. 
Boston,  Mass. 

(Corner  Court  St.) 


.December,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Pa(/e  Seven 


Jitead  of  leaving  the  question  lying  open 
pntil  the  adjourned  meeting  President 
l.^hase  appointed  the  special  committee  to 
:  ook  into  the  situation  and  make  recom- 
mendations to  the  stockholders  when  they 
':ame  together  again. 

This  committee  was  selected  from 
imong  the  Turner  Centre  stockholders 
vho  had  voted  to  continue  on  the  surplus 
I  )lan  and  to  continue  to  negotiate  prices 
^vith  the  NEMPA.  Manager  Haskell 
•i  jvas  made  a  member  of  the  committee 
^ind  W.  P.  Davis  and  Reuben  Hall  of  the 
[VEMPA  were  invited  to  sit  with  the 
I  :ommittee  and  take  part  in  its  work. 
Bp  The  committee  was  given  free  access 
I  o  all  books  and  records  of  the  Turner 
frifCentre  System  and  the  officers  gave  them 
fJhvery  possible  opportunity  to  find  out  the 
ijhxact  situation  in  the  organization.  They 
■[•spent  the  greater  part  of  a  day  in  going 
Hjver  the  situation  and  were  convinced 
ilhat  the  need  for  finance  was  strictly 
|;  >  emporary  and  would  be  passed  within  a 
Hjfew  weeks.  Already  the  financial  situa- 
Kion  is  clearing  up  and  it  appeared  to  the 
i  !|:ommittee  that  the  organization  could 
t.(lneet  its  obligations  with  reasonable 
n  promptness  and  make  up  all  back  pay- 
i  orients.  Special  financing  appeared  un- 
IJiecessary  at  this  time. 
HI.  In  order  to  get  this  conclusion  before 
Hrurner  Centre  stockholders  the  committee 
Kent  out  a  circular  letter  to  all  who  were 
Ijhresent  at  the  meeting  stating  the  recom- 
Ijrnendation  that  they  intended  to  make  at 
llhe  adjourned  meeting.  The  stockhold- 
ers all  over  the  territory  were  reassured 
I'lpy  this  letter  and  many  of  them  did  not 
Ilro  to  the  adjourned  meeting.  However, 
lanore  than  150  stockholders  were  present 
lio  hear  the  committee  report  and  to 
jiiormally  vote  to  accept  it. 
I|  All  action  on  finances  is  thus  delayed 
I  iintil  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Turner 
Bfcentre  System  in  February.  In  the  mean- 
l|;ime  the  organization  will. continue  on  the 
jliurplus  plan  and  pay  the  prices  as  ne- 
Iteotiated  with  the  NEMPA.  It  is  be- 
Ilieved  by  the  committee  the  improved 
|*:onditions  in  the  business  within  the  next 
■two  months  will  make  it  possible  to  re- 
liiort  at  the  annual  meeting  in  February 
fcfjihat  the  Turner  Centre  System  has 
■passed  through  its  trying  period  and  is 
Kible  to  go  ahead  without  question  on  the 
■jsame  basis  as  other  dealers.  If  the  re- 
Ijports  are  as  favorable  as  can  now  be 
I  |inticipated  there  will  be  no  need  for  the 
■  huestion  of  special  finance  to  be  brought 

■UP- 


MARKET CONDITIONS 

High  Surplus  in  October — Supply 

Falling  Off  in  November 

Unusually  favorable  weather  conditions 
n  October  resulted  in  a  production  con- 
siderably higher  than  in  1925.    The  high 
production  continued  into  the  first  of  No- 
vember but  since  then  there  has  been  a 
;harp  reduction.    Informal  reports  from 
he  various  dealers  in  Boston  and  other 
narkets  indicate  that  milk  is  becoming 
jjuite  short. 
The  reports  of  Boston  dealers  operat- 
!  ;ng  under  the  surplus  plan  show  an  in- 
crease of  Sl/>  million  pounds  as  compared 
Wh  October,  1925.    This  is  not  all  due 
/  o  increased  production  as  there  has  been 
ome  expansion  of  territory  from  which 
hese  dealers  are  buying.    The  consolida- 
tions of  the  Alden,   Noble,   Childs  in- 
terests also  makes  a  substantial  increase 
(to  the  reported  purchases  as  some  milk 
row  comes  into  the  reports  which  was  not 
formerly  included. 

'  Sales  show  an  increase  of  nearly  2]/2 
nillion  pounds,  as  compared  to  October, 
1925.  This  also  is  due  in  part  to  the  fact 
hat  considerable  milk  business  is  now  re- 
ported which  was  formerly  outside  the 


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surplus  plan.  The  result  of  the  increased 
purchases  was  an  increase  in  surplus  of 
more  than  per  cent.  The  records  of 
purchases,  sales  and  surplus,  in  million 
of  pounds,  for  the  month  were : 

1926     1926  1925 

Sept.      Oct.  Oct. 

Purchases   44.8      42.3  36.8 

Sales   27.2      28.4  25.8 

Surplus                       1.71     1.78  1.96 

The  October  milk  price  was  29  cents 
a  hundred  less  than  in  October,  1925. 
This  was  due  to  the  market  milk  price 
being  a  half  cent  below  last  year  and  to 
the  lower  surplus  price,  due  to  the  butter 
quotation  of  four  cents  a  pound  below 
October,  1925.  The  larger  amount  of 
surplus  also  served  to  reduce  the  net  price 
for  all  milk.  The  comparative  prices 
were : 

Sept.    Oct.  Oct. 

1926    1926  1925 

Fluid   $3.22   $2.98  $3.22 

Surplus    1.71     1.78  2.96 

Net  price  all  milk....  2.59  2.53  2.82 
Avg.  butter  per  lb  447     .465  .506 

Butter  prices  have  strengthened  some- 
what during  the  month  and  are  now  only 
one  cent  below  last  year  at  the  same  time. 
Storage  stocks  of  butter  are  above  last 
year  but  are  not  excessive.  The  fact  that 
foreign  butter  is  coming  in,  due  to  ma- 
terial decreases  in  prices  in  other  coun- 
tries, may  cause  the  butter  prices  here  to 
decrease  somewhat  after  the  first  of  the 
year. 

Grain  prices  continued  to  decline  and 
are  now  $4  a  ton  below  last  year.  Hay 
prices  are  somewhat  higher.  The  com- 
parative prices  are : 

1926  1926  1925 
Oct.     Nov.  Nov. 

Grain  per  ton   $46.11    $45.39  $49.49 

Hay  per  ton            15.60     16.40  15.63 

Labor  per  hour  300       .300  .308 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


December,  1926 


Eastern  Slates  Farmers'  Exchange 


Way  Out  In  Front 

As  more  and  more  cow  testing 
association  herds  are  put  on  East- 
ern States  rations  it  becomes  in- 
creasingly difficult  to  make  com- 
parisons of  various  feeds  from  as- 
sociation records.  Obviously,  if  all 
but  two  or  three  herds  in  an  as- 
sociation are  receiving  Eastern 
States  feeds,  it  is  little  wonder 
that  Eastern  States  herds  are 
among  the  leaders. 

Of  course,  the  value  of  the  feeds 
is  easily  demonstrated  even  in 
these  associations.  Association 
members  keep  a  record  of  the  cost 
of  making  milk,  as  well  as  of  the 
amount  of  milk  made.  It  is  be- 
cause Eastern  States  feeds  have 
stood  out  from  other  feeds  in  their 
ability  to  make  dairying  more 
profitable  that  Eastern  States  feeds 
have  become  the  standard  in  so 
many  cow  test  associations. 

The  Franklin  County,  Mass.,  As- 
sociation figures  for  September, 
however,  do  give  a  chance  for  com- 
parison. Of  the  24  herds  in  the 
association  only  16,  or  two-thirds, 
were  Eastern  States  fed.  Of  the 
first  10  herds  from  the  standpoint 
of  milk  production,  7  were  Eastern 
States  fed,  and  they  rank  1,  2,  3, 
4,  5,  6,  10,  and  from  the  standpoint 
of  fat  production  9  Eastern  States 
herds  ranked  in  the  first  10 — 1,  3, 
4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10. 

For  August  the  record  was  just 
as  convincing.  From  the  stand- 
point of  milk  production  all  of  the 
first  10  herds  were  Eastern  States 
fed  except  the  herd  ranking  7th, 
and  from  the  standpoint  of  fat 
production  8  herds  were  Eastern 
States  fed,  ranking  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  8, 
9  and  10. 

Where  records  are  kept,  Eastern 
States  Open  Formula  Feeds  prove 
their  worth.  In  the  cow  testing 
associations  they  are  way  out  in 
front. 

For  further  information  on  the 
Eastern  States  co-operative  feed 
service  for  dairy  cattle,  horses, 
hogs  and  poultry,  a  service  which 
should  not  be  confused  with  the 
car  door  service  offered  by  private 
manufacturers  through  dealers  or 
groups  of  farmers,  write  the  office. 

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owned  and  controlled  by  the 
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SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


PASTEURIZATION  BILL 


Massachusetts  May  Require  Tuber- 
culin Test  as  an  Alternative 

A  bill  of  considerable  significance  for 
dairy  farmers  all  over  New  England  will 
be  introduced  into  the  next  session  of  the 
Massachusetts  legislature  with  every 
prospect  of  passage.  It  will  require  that 
all  milk  sold  in  the  state  shall  be  from 
tuberculin  tested  cows  or  that  it  shall  be 
pasteurized.  It  is  in  line  with  what  the 
boards  of  health  in  many  of  the  cities  and 
larger  towns  are  establishing  as  local 
ordinances. 

A  bill  similar  to  the  coming  one  was 
introduced  by  Dr.  George  H.  Bigelow, 
Massachusetts  commissioner  of  public 
health,  last  year  but  it  raised  a  storm  of 
opposition  and  was  not  passed.  In  its 
amended  form,  as  Dr.  Bigelow  will  put 
it  in  this  year,  it  will  not  be  seriously  op- 
posed by  the  organized  dairy  farmers  in 
the  state.  It  is  freely  predicted  that  the 
amended  bill  will  go  through. 

The  bill  provides  that  in  all  cities  of 
20,000  population  or  more  the  proposed 
law  shall  go  into  effect  January  1,  1928. 
That  is,  all  cities  of  20,000  or  more  will 
have  about  a  year  in  which  to  conform 
to  the  new  regulations.  As  a  consider- 
able number  of  cities  of  this  size  have 
already  put  in  such  local  regulations  there 
will  not  be  much  trouble  in  meeting  these 
requirements.  In  the  coming  bill  all 
places  of  from  10,000  to  20,000  popula- 
tion will  have  until  January  1,  1929,  to 
conform  to  the  law.  There  are  com- 
paratively few  of  these  which  are  not 
now  supplied  with  pasteurized  milk  or 
where  tuberculin  tested  milk  is  not  avail- 
able. 

The  opposition  which  developed  to  the 
bill  last  year  centered  around  the  smaller 
places.  The  farmers  who  were  selling 
direct  in  these  places  objected  vigorously 
as  they  did  not  want  to  have  their  milk 
pasteurized  nor  did  they  want  to  risk  the 
loss  of  having  their  herds  tested.  They 
said  that  they  could  not  conform  at  once 
but  after  a  few  years  they  would  be  able 
to  do  so.  It  was  brought  out  that  some 
places  could  conform  much  more  quickly 
than  others. 

This  brought  about  the  revision  of  the 
bill  to  meet  this  objection.  In  the  new 
bill  the  time  when  the  law  would  go  into 
effect  in  places  of  less  than  10,000  is  to 
be  left  to  a  special  commission  for  each 
town.  On  this  commission  the  state  de- 
partment of  hea'lth  will  have  one  repre- 
sentative, the  state  department  of  agricul- 
ture will  have  another  and  the  town  in 
question  will  select  a  man  as  a  third  mem- 
ber of  the  commission.  This  will  make 
it  possible  for  any  town  to  have  a  man 
familiar  with  the  local  conditions  confer 
with  the  state  representatives  and  decide 
on  a  time  when  the  law  could  go  into 
effect  without  serious  inconvenience  or 
loss  to  the  farmers  and  at  the  same  time 
insure  a  continuance  of  a  good  milk  sup- 
ply for  these  places.  The  bill  also  pro- 
vides that  the  law  can  go  into  effect  im- 
mediately on  being  accepted  by  any  town 
at  a  town  meeting. 

The  new  interest  which  is  being  taken 
in  tuberculin  testing  in  Massachusetts 
will  receive  a  great  stimulus  from  this 
law.  There  are  a  good  many  farmers 
close  to  small  markets  who  are  in  a  posi- 
tion to  market  their  milk  without  pas- 
teurization. The  fact  that  the  law  will 
compel  them,  within  a  reasonable  time,  to 
have  their  herds  tested,  will  tend  to  bring 
about  a  better  price  level  in  these  smaller 
places.  This  in  turn  will  servo  to  keep 
the  farmers  around  these  nearbv  places 
from  seeking  new  markets  for  their  milk 
and  will  have  a  slirrht  effect  in  steadying 
mnrket  conditions  in  the  nearbv  citiVs. 

The  onlv  dairv  farmers  who  will  be 
hit  bv  the  pronosed  law  are  those  who  are 
not  in  n  position  to  have  their  milk  pas- 
teurised or  who  will  n<->t  have  their  herd"* 
tested.  These  men  will  be  forced  out  of 
business  within  a  few  yenrs  because  of 
their  refusal  to  keep  up  with  the  demands 
of  thf  consuming  nublic.  expressed 
through  the  health  departments.  It  is 
felt  that  the  state  law  will  be  a  great  im- 
provement on  the  present  plan  of  having 
each  local  board  of  health  draw  un  and 
enforce  its  own  regulations.  Alreadv 
more  than  a  score  of  places  have  adopted 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


(  MARKETING  CONFERENCE 

H   The  agricultural  committee  of  the  New 
England  council  has  called  a  marketing 
1  conference  for  next  week  in  Boston  at 
I  which  time  each  of  the  various  groups 
I  are  supposed  to  formulate  programs  of 
"*work  extending  over  several  years.  There 
;  will  be  some  general  speeches  but  for  the 
I  most  part  the  time  will  be  taken  up  with 
I  commodity  conferences,  the  dairy  group 
'  having  their  own  meeting. 
'    Assistant  Manager  W.  P.  Davis  will 
•  speak  at  this  dairy  conference  and  will 
\  voice  the  viewpoint  of  the  NEMPA  that 
,<no  general  program  should  be  even  con- 
)  sidered  at  this  time  because  of  the  sur- 
;  vey  which  is  now  being  made  by  the  divi- 
sion of  co-operative  marketing  of  the 
United  States  Department  of  Agricul- 
i  ture.    W.  A.  Schoenfeld  is  now  working 
on  this  survey  of  dairy  conditions  and 
outlook  in  New  England.    It  will  be  sev- 
eral months  before  he  makes  his  report 
and  what  he  reports  for  a  program  of 
co-operative  marketing  may  be  widely  dif- 
ferent from  what  existing  organizations 
have  advocated  but  it  will  have  the  weight 
of  the  department  of  agriculture  back  of 
it.   It  should  have  the  unqualified  support 
of  the  existing  organizations  and  of  the 
New  England  council  as  it  will  represent 
i  an  unbiased  investigation  made  by  a  man 
'  of  outstanding  ability  in  such  work, 
■j    So  far  as  making  any  definite  sugges- 
tions for  a  dairy  program  for  the  New 
England  council  to  get  back  of  Mr.  Davis 
will  suggest  the  wide  variations  in  the 
dairy  laws  and  regulations  of  the  various 
states  as  a  fit  cause  for  study.    It  may  be 
possible  that  the  council  could  bring  about 
a  greater  uniformity  in  these  laws  which 
would  be  to  the  advantage  of  the  dairy 
industry  as  a  whole.    Beyond  this,  our 
association  will  favor  waiting  for  the  re- 
port of  Mr.  Schoenfeld  before  agreeing 
to  support  any  general  program  for  the 
future.    It  will  continue  to  do  its  work 
on  the  present  basis  until  something  bet- 
ter is  shown,  either  in  Mr.  Schoenfeld's 
report  or  from  other  quarters. 

SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
Slade  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 
Telephone,  Dexter  6469 


Manager  Gifford  was  out  of  the  office 
with  an  attack  of  grip  at  the  time  when 
the  editor  was  calling  for  a  report  from 
the  southern  market  district.  This  brief 
report  was  gained  from  various  sources 
and  will  have  to  do  for  this  month. 
"Charlie"  can  speak  for  himself  again 
next  month. 

Fall  River  and  Providence  markets 
moved  up  with  Boston  Nov.  IS  and  New 
Bedford  'advanced  Nov.  22.  The  other 
markets  in  the  district  may  go  up 
Dec.  1. 

Milk  is  quite  short  in  all  the  southern 
market  district  cities  and  has  been  for 
several  weeks.  Not  only  is  the  produc- 
tion falling  off  sharply  due  to  the  coming 
of  colder  weather  but  the  sales  are  some- 
what better.  The  textile  mills  are  show- 
ing a  decided  improvement  in  business 
conditions  and  more  employment  is  now 
becoming  the  rule. 

This  greater  earning  power  of  these 
consumers  immediately  reacts  on  the  sale 
of  milk.  Dealers  report  that  the  demand 
is  increasing.  It  will  be  some  time  be- 
fore sales  can  be  called  back  to  the 
normal,  such  as  they  are  when  all  mills 
are  running  full  time.  But  the  slight  im- 
provement is  highly  acceptable. 

George  Chambers  voluntarily  paid  15 
cents  a  hundred  more  for  milk  in  Septem- 
ber than  his  reports  under  the  surplus 
plan  called  for.  The  figures  were  given 
in  the  Dairyman  reports  for  that  month 
at  the  price  he  would  have  paid  under  the 
surplus  plan.  This  was  done  in  order  to 
make  the  tables  correspond  with  the  sur- 
plus. We  are  glad  to  call  special  atten- 
tion to  the  fact  that  Mr.  Chambers  over- 
paid. He  is  taking  the  same  course  on 
October  milk.  All  his  producers  will  get 
or  have  already  received  15  cents  a  hun- 
dred more  than  the  price  given  in  the 
table  in  this  issue. 


The  Official  Record 


1925 
Apr.  1— Oct.  1 
without  Corn 
Gluten  Feed 

1926 
Apr.  1— Oct.  1 

with  Corn 
Gluten  Feed 

Increase 

Milk 

86,185  lbs. 

91,387  lbs. 

5,202  lbs. 

Butter  Fat 

2,841.4  lbs. 

3,254  lbs. 

412.6  lbs. 

Feed  Cost 

$766.04 

$805.55 

$39.51 

Profit 

$995.63 

$1,211.93 

$216.30 

(Figures  from  Thiensville-I. 


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2/7%  more  profit 

at  Nutricia  Farms 


If  Gustav  A.  Kletzsch,  owner  of  Nutricia  Farms, 
Thiensville,  Wis.,  had  been  satisfied  with  an  average 
production  his  herd  of  pure'bredHolsteins  might  never 
have  proved  the  productive  capacity  they  revealed 
in  these  figures  of  a  six  months'  test  that  ended  on 
October  i : 

An  increase  of  371  pounds  of  milk  and  29  pounds 
of  butter  fat  for  every  cow  in  the  herd  over  the  same 
period  last  year!  An  increase  in  profit  of  21.7%!  High 
cow  in  the  Thiensville-Lakefield  Cow  Testing  Asso- 
ciation for  six  months!  High  herd,  among  the  twenty- 
six  members,  in  September! 

But  Dr.  Kletzsch,  a  retired  physician,  had  been 
doing  some  thinking  about  feeds.  He  believed  Science 
could  help  him  on  his  problem— if  applied  by  the  com- 
mon sense  method  of  "test  under  your  own  con- 
ditions." And  his  problem  was  the  problem  of  dairy- 
men everywhere — how  to  produce 
milk  at  the  lowest  cost  and  maintain 
his  herd  in  good  condition. 

Home  grown  feeds  plus  small 
amounts  of  mill  feeds  and  concen- 
trates weren't  giving  the  results  he 
believed  possible.  He  had  the  record 
of  fourteen  mature  cows  from  his 
herd  of  85  head  which  ate  that  ration 
from  April  1  to  October  1,  1925. 


And  "C-15",  of  Nutricia,  was  high  cow  of 
the  association,  producing  10,264  pounds  of 
mil\and  3  66.8  pounds  of  butter  fat  in  1 7odays 


Taking  the  same  cows,  April  1,  last,  he  fed  a  new 
grain  mixture  during  the  same  six  months  of  1926. 
Here  is  the  ration: 

Two  hundred  pounds  of  Corn  Gluten  Feed,  300 
pounds  of  ground  oats,  200  pounds  of  bran,  200  pounds 
of  corn  and  cob  meal  and  100  pounds  of  oil  meal.  The 
cows  received  the  same  care,  the  same  roughage,  and 
were  fed  in  the  barn  both  years. 

"Corn  Gluten  Feed  deserves  a  large  share  of  the  credit 
for  this  success,"  says  Dr.  Kletzsch.  "Aside  from  the 
increased  returns,  which  have  paid  the  cost  of  the  added 
feed  several  times  over,  I  am  confident  Corn  Gluten  Feed 
has  improved  the  quality  of  our  milk.  That  is  important, 
for  we  are  producing  a  high  grade  raw  milk, 
Nutricia  Holstein  Milk,  that  must  sell  at  a  pre- 
mium in  a  very  competitive  market." 

Are  you  giving  your  herd  the  chance  to  produce 
at  its  full  capacity?  In  the  great 
dairy  sections  of  the  United  States, 
where  results  are  a  feed's  real  test, 
Corn  Gluten  Feed  has  become  estab- 
lished as  the  high  protein  feed  on 
thousands  of  farms.  All  26  members 
of  Thiensville  -  La\efield  association 
now  use  Corn  Gluten  Feed.  Test  it, 
for  results, in  your  herd.  Your  dealer 
can  supply  you. 


<>>>  ■  """" 


Corn  Gluten  Feed 

ASSOCIATED    CORN    PRODUCTS  MANUFACTURERS 

208   S.   La  Salle    St.,   Chicago,  111. 


Page  Ten 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


December,  1926 


Give 

Your  MilK 

a  Chance! 


It's  up  to  you  whether  or  not  you  get 
top  price  for  your  milk.  Old-fash- 
ioned methods  of  straining  are  to 
blame  for  dirty  milk,  and  dirty  milk 
never  brings  top  prices.  Dr.  Clark's 
Purity  Strainer  gels  ALL  the  dirt  at 
one  straining.  It  absolutely  removes 
all  sediment  from  milk — something 
no  other  strainer  does.  It's  guaran- 
teed to  do- that  or  money  will  be  re- 
funded. Give  your  milk  a  chance  to 
earn  better  prices  by  getting  a 

I>ii.  CLAfl^ 
*i  (  5~"r* 


Nothing  but  milk  can  pass  thru  it. 
Thousands  of  farmers,  dairies  and 
condensaries  use  and  endorse  it. 
Whole  cities  have  their  milk  supply 
strained  thru  Purity  Strainers. 
There's  a  big  reason.  The  Purity  is 
not  only  the  most  sanitary,  but  the 
easiest  to  clean  and  the  simplest  to 
use.  Saves  time  and  labor ;  lasts  a 
lifetime. 

Ask  your  dealer  for  the  Purity 
Strainer  If  he  hasn't  it,  send 
his  name  to  uur  distributor 
named  below  and  he'll  gladly 
send  you  full  particulars,  in- 
cluding sizes  and  prices. 

H.  C.  Soule,  Canton,  Maine 

Distributor  for  New  England  States 


Purity  Stamping  Co. 

Dept.  C  Battle  Creek,  Mich. 


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WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

Shortening  of  the  supplies  of  milk  and 
an  increased  willingness  and  desire  on 
the  part  of  the  dealers  in  the  Worcester 
market  to  stabilize  conditions  have 
cleared  up  the  situation  there  and  there 
are  good  hopes  ttiat  the  market  will 
soon  be  riding  on  an  even  keel  with  none 
01  the  price  disturbances  which  have  been 
the  rule  for  some  months  past,  f  he  as- 
sociation lias  named  an  hy2  cent  price 
lor  some  months  past  but  adjustments 
have  been  made  to  equalize  prices  to 
dealers  on  account  of  milk  being  sold  at 
lower  prices,  inis  is  now  largely  past 
and  there  is  every  expectation  that  No- 
vember mnk  will  be  paid  lor  at  the  full 
JNlKMPA  price. 

Une  of  the  important  reasons  of  the 
better  outlook  in  Worcester  is  the  fact 
that  the  dealers  have  begun  to  see  the 
disasters  which  come  from  a  partially 
disorganized  market  and  are  now  in- 
clined to  do  their  part  to  stabilize  con- 
ditions. Ihey  have  held  several  meetings 
and  have  sent  delegations  to  Connecticut 
to  see  how  the  Connecticut  Milk  Pro- 
ducers' Association  handles  the  situation. 
1  he  idea  of  stricter  regulations  from  the 
health  department,  which  is  one  of  the 
strongholds  of  the  Connecticut  associa- 
tion, has  taken  strong  root  with  the  Wor- 
cester dealers.  Sentiment  is  growing  for 
more  thorough  inspection  than  the  Wor- 
cester health  department  has  as  yet  been 
able  to  give,  J.  his  may  bear  fruit  in  a 
stiffening  up  of  the  whole  inspection  sys- 
tem there.  In  a  market  where  there  are 
so  many  small  dealers  as  there  are  in 
Worcester  there  is  a  good  piece  of  work 
to  be  done  by  an  informal  meeting  of 
the  dealers  to  confer  on  general  matters 
pertaining  to  the  milk  business. 

The  Springfield  market,  at  the  time  this 
issue  of  the  Dairyman  goes  to  press,  is 
anxiously  waiting  for  the  Phillips  chain 
stores  to  advance  their  price  to  12  cents. 
For  some  time  past  all  the  chain  stores 
have  been  selling  for  11  cents.  When 
the  Boston  price  advanced  Nov.  15  the 
Springfield  price  went  up  a  full  cent.  All 
the  chain  stores  except  Phillips,  which 
gets  its  supply  from  the  Brattleboro  Co- 
operative, went  to  12  cents.  Up  to  this 
time  Phillips  was  still  selling  for  11 
cents  and  the  other  stores  were  naturally- 
getting  uneasy  under  this  situation.  The 
Springfield  sales  committee  will  prob- 
ably be  called  in  to  take  action  on  this 
situation. 

NORTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 
477  E»»ex  Street  -  -  Lawrence,  Mas*. 

NOVEMBER  PRICES 

Manchester,  N.  H  68c   per  8*4  qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  58.8c  per  8yi  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H. 

First  half   68c   per  &y2  qt.  can 

Last   half   74.4c  per  8^2  qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass. 

First  half   85c   per  10  qt.  can 

Last  half   90c   per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass. 

First  half   72c    per  8^2  qt.  can 

Last  half   76.5c  per  8y2  qt.  can 

Salem,   Beverly,  Pea- 
body,  Danvers 

First  half    8.5c  per  qt. 

Last   half    9c    per  qt. 

Lowell,   Mass  72.3c  per  %l/2  qt.  can 

Portland,  Me. 

First  half    7.3c  per  qt. 

Last   half    7.8c  per  qt. 

PRODUCTION  AND  PRICES 
In  most  of  our  markets  milk  seems  to 
be  shortening  up  very  rapidly.  The  ex- 
ceptions being  the  markets  of  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  and  Lowell,  Mass.  In  these  mar- 
kets a  considerable  amount  of  milk  has 
been  coming  in  from  outside  sources, 
particularly  Vermont,  which  has  kept 
these  markets  well  supplied ;  and  it  has 
been  due  to  this  fact  that  prices  have  not 
advanced  in  these  markets.  However, 
negotiations   are   now   practically  com- 


Make  Cows  Pick  Up 
give  more  milk 


FOR  all-winter  Milk  profits, 
without  interruption,  most 
cows  need  more  than  simply 
good  food.  The  sudden  change 
from  tender  pasturage  to  dry, 
hard-to-digest  feeds  is  too  much 
for  them  to  overcome— without 
aid.  Part  of  the  expensive  diet 
simply  GOES  TO  WASTE. 

And  this  wasteful  milk  loss 
NOW!  Take  several  of  your 
poor  milkers  and  give  a  table- 
spoonful  of  Kow-Kare  with  the 
feed— note  the  almost  immedi- 
ate improvement  in  the  milk 
pail.  It's  those  ADDED  quarts 
that  boost  your  milk  profits. 
You'll  be  amazed  at  the  con- 
vincing proof  of  the  Kow-Kare 
aid  to  increased  milk  flow. 

Kow-Kare  has  a  direct,  positive,  ac- 
tion on  the  digestive  and  assimilating 
organs.   It  enables  them  to  carry  a 


heavy  load  without  a  break-down.  It 
builds  greater  vigor  into  the  cow  while 
it  is  putting  more  milk  into  the  pail. 
A  single  can  of  Kow-Kare  will  ration 
one  cow  one  to  two  months,  depending 
on  the  dosage  you  deem  necessary. 
It's  a  small  investment  to  pay  for 
profit  and  health  insurance. 

Treating  Cow  Diseases 
For  Barrenness,  Retained  Afterbirth, 
Abortion,  Bunches,  Scours,  Lost  Ap- 
petite, etc.,  Kow-Kare  is  your  one  sure 
remedy.  It  attacks  these  diseases  by 
quickly  building  up  to  robust  health 
the  organs  where  these  troubles  origi- 
nate. If  you  have  never  tried  Kow- 
Kare,  ask  your  neighbor.  Kow-Kare 
has  a  well  earned  reputation  as  a 
profit-maker  and  a  money-saver  in 
the  cow  barn. 

For  cows  about  to  freshen,  Kow- 
Kare  provides  just  the  strengthening 
aid  needed  to  bring  cow  and  calf 
through  without  costly  disorders  and 
loss  of  production.  Feed  it  two  to 
three  weeks  before  and  after  calving; 
it  costs  little,  brings  sure  results. 


DAIRY  ASSOCIATION  CO.,  Inc.,  Lyndonville,  Vermont 

Makers  of  Kow-Kare,  Bag  Balm,  Grange  Garget  Remedy,  American  Horse  Tonic,  etc. 


Feed  dealers,  general  stores,  druggists  have 
Kov-Kare— $1.25  and  65c  sizes,  (Six  large  cans, 
$6.25).  Full  directions  on  can.  Mail  orders  sent 
postpaid  if  your  dealer  is  not  supplied.  Our  valu- 
ablefreebook  on  cow  diseasessentfree,  onrequest. 


KOW-KARE 

FAMOUS  CONDITIONER 
OF  MILCH  COWS 


THICK,  SWOLLEN  GLANDS 


Which  make  a  horse  wheeze, 
roar,  have  thick  wind  or 
choke-down  can  be  reduced 
with  Absorbine.  Also  other 
bunches  or  swellings.  No 
blister,  no  hair  gone,  and  horse 
kept  at  work.  It  is  economical. 
At  druggists,  or$2.60  postpaid. 
Horse  book  3-S  free. 

A  thankful  user  says:  "Completely  removed 
flesh  growth  on  gland  about  7  inches  diameter. 
Sincerely  thank  you  for  good  advice  and 
Absorbine." 


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"PELOUZE"  DAIRY  SCALES 

Three  Sizes:  40,  60  and  120  lbs. 
By  Tenths  of  a  Pound 

Guaranteed  o4ccarate 
Made  to  comply  with  De- 
partment  of  Weights  and 
Measures.    Large  7-in.  Cir- 
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black  figures  and  gradua- 
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Order  through  any  leading 
Supply  house  or  direct. 

Specify  "Pelouze" 
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No.  D-40 
$4.50 


December,  1926 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


You  pay  once  only  for  any 
Concrete  Farm  Improvement 


Concrete 
Milkhouse 
Increases  Profits 


Cool,  clean,  permanent, 
easy  to  build,  economi- 
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qualities  in  a  milkhouse 
can  be  assured  by  build- 
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Concrete  milkhouses 
are  making  money  for 
thousands  of  farmers. 
Creameries  pay  premi- 
ums for  milk  kept  cool 
and  sweet  in  sanitary 
concrete  buildings. 

Concrete  milkhouses 
and  other  improvements 
on  the  farm  can  be  easily 
built  by  following  a  few 
simple  directions. Write 
today  for  our  free  illus- 
trated booklet,  "Plans 
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More  and  Better  MilK 

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Prevent  the  Run  Down  Condition 
Dive  INVIGORATOR  in  the  Feed 

Use  UDERKREAM  for  the  Udder 

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,172  Milk  Street  Boston  9,  Mass. 


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Rooms  $2.00  per  day  and  up 

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from  noon  to  3  p.  m.,  75c. 
Dinner  from  6  to  8  p.  m.     Special  Blue 
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pleted  for  advancing  both  the  Lowell  and 
Manchester  markets  one-half  cent  per 
quart,  effective  December  1st.  The 
Nashua,  N.  II.,  market  made  the  highest 
advance  of  any  by  raising  the  price  three- 
quarters  of  a  cent  per  quart.  This  sizable 
advance  is  possible  because  there  is  so 
much  tuberculin  testing  of  cattle  going 
on,  and  so  many  animals  reacting,  that 
the  supply  has  rapidly  diminished. 

Because  of  the  almost  universal  de- 
mand for  milk  we  learn  that  the  cream- 
eries have  advanced  their  prices,  and  this 
will  help  us  in  maintaining  good  prices 
in  our  market,  because  considerable 
northern  milk  is  sold  in  the  markets  of 
the  northern  district. 

Every  possible  effort  is  being  made  to 
advance  the  Manchester,  N.  H.,  market. 
At  the  time  of  writing  this  article  we 
feel  that  an  advance  will  take  place  on 
December  1,  but  there  are  many  factors 
entering  into  the  situation  in  Manchester 
which  have  so  far  made  it  impossible 
to  complete  negotiations  for  this  advance. 

CHECK  TESTING 
Since  the  annual  meeting  I  have  check 
tested  at  the  Findeisen  Farms  and  H.  P. 
Hood  &  Son's  plant  at  Lawrence,  the 
Wason-MacDonald  Co.  of  Haverhill,  and 
the  Portsmouth  Creamery  at  Portsmouth. 
Individual  reports  were  not  sent  to  all  the 
producers  who  are  members  and  selling 
to  the  above  concerns,  relative  to  my  find- 
ings on  their  tests  because  at  all  plants 
I  found  conditions  generally  satisfactory. 
I  did,  however,  report  individually  to 
those  producers  who  had  requested  that 
I  check  up  on  their  test  and  report  to 
them.  In  case  any  particular  producer  is 
not  satisfied  with  his  test,  if  he  will  so 
notify  the  district  manager  a  check  test 
will  be  made  and  a  report  sent  him  as 
soon  as  possible. 

FORBES  DAIRY  CO.  FAILS 
The  expected  has  happened.  For  the 
past  six  months  the  district  manager  has 
repeatedly  warned  producers  against  sell- 
ing to  the  Forbes  Dairy  Co.  because  he 
felt  that  this  concern  was  not  financially 
sound.  These  conclusions  were  drawn 
because  the  district  manager  observed 
that  they  were  unusually  slow  in  their 
payments  to  producers  for  milk ;  they 
sent  out  checks  which  would  go  to  pro- 
test ;  they  sent  checks  to  the  wrong  pro- 
ducers, and  misfigured  the  accounts,  and 
did  numerous  other  things  all  of  which 
indicated  an  unreliable  concern.  Only 
a  few  heeded  the  advice  of  the  district 
manager  and  changed  dealers.  These 
few  are  now  happy  because  they  are  not 
suffering  a  loss.  The  rest,  however,  who 
continued  with  Forbes  Dairy  until  they 
went  into  bankruptcy  will  not  only  have 
to  go  without  any  pay  for  the  last  two 
months  they  shipped  until  the  bank- 
ruptcy settlement  is  made,  which  will  be 
six  or  eight  months,  but  at  that  time  will 
doubtless  receive  only  a  part  payment 
for  each  dollar  due  them.  The  profits 
are  small  in  the  milk  business  and  loss 
of  pay  for  the  milk  for  even  two  months 
may  wipe  out  the  profits  of  several 
months.  To  those  of  you  who  read  this 
article  and  may  be  selling  to  dealers  who 
are  slow  in  pay  or  otherwise  financially 
unsound,  please  get  in  touch  with  your 
district  manager  so  that  he  can  place  you 
with  a  good  reliable  buyer. 


Herdsman — "Did  you  water  the  cow?" 

Hired  Man — "Water  the  cow?  No. 
Haven't  watered  her  for  two  days." 

Herdsman — "What,  not  watered  her 
for  two  days?    Why  not?" 

Hired  Man — "Didn't  you  say  she 
wouldn't  be  dry  for  three  months?" 


Healthy  cows  milk 
well  consistently 


Rag  Apple  Pauline  Jane  Colantha,  holds  around  90  lbs.  a  day  on  Amco  feed 

VALLEY  FALLS  CO.  FARM.,  ALBION,  R.  I. 
writes:  Our  herd  of  Holsteins  is  making  some  wonderful  records  on 
your  dairy  ration.  At  present  our  herd  consists  of  eighteen  milkers, 
that  are  averaging  well  over  50  lbs.  of  milk  daily.  Rag  Apple  Pauline 
Jane  Colantha  has  recently  milked  over  91  lbs.  in  one  day  and  is 
holding  close  to  90  lbs.  day  after  day.  She  is  being  fed  your  open 
formula  20%  Empire  Dairy  exclusively  at  a  ratio  of  1  lb.  of  Empire 
to  3|  lbs.  of  milk.  Other  cows  in  the  herd  are  milking  from  seventy 
to  eighty  lbs.  daily.  They  are  all  being  fed  Empire  as  we  use  no  other 
grain  ration. 

We  have  not  had  a  single  case  of  udder  trouble,  or  indigestion  in 
the  herd  since  we  began  feeding  Empire.  We  consider  it  the  most 
perfectly  balanced,  and  highly  digestible  ration  obtainable. 

W.  H.  SEAVEY, 
HARRISON,  ME., 

writes:  I  have  fed  my  herd 
of  Guernseys  on  Amco 
feeds  since  November, 
1925  and  although  having 
fed  some  of  the  open 
formula  feeds  bought  from 

 ,  I  have  never 

found  any  as  satisfactory. 
I  have  fed  all  of  the  pre- 
pared feeds  and  mixed  my 
own  and  find  the  Amco 
feeds  keep  my  cows  up  in 
milk  and  flesh  and  nearer 
free  from  digestive  and 
udder  trouble  than  any 
other,  and  a  number  of 
feeders  here  tell  the  same 
story.  For  a  year-around 
feed  for  Guernseys  I  plan 
to  use  Empire  20%  feed. 


A.  A.  ANDREWS,  EAST  LEE,  MASS. 

a  cardoor  distributor  for  Amco  feeds;  his  patrons  like 
the  quality,  the  price,  and  distribution  method  on 
Amco  feeds. 


B.  G.  DIBBLE,  EAST  CANAAN,  CONN., 
says:  I  have  fed  Amco  20%  Empire  Open  Formula  Dairy  Ration  to 
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I  have  tried  these  rations  in  my  herd  in 
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care  for,  and  because  milking  doesn't  require  the  help  of 
the  whole  family. 

Brother  likes  it  because  it  is  so  much  fun  to  milk 
with  it,  and  because  it  enables  him  to  take  the  place 
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The  hired  man  likes  it,  too,  because  milking  is  so  i 
much  easier,  and  he  and  the  boss  "trade  off"  milking 
every  other  Sunday,  so  that  one  has  a  full  day  off. 

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New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


rolume  10.   Number  10. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  JANUARY,  1927 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


(EARINGS  ENDED  IN  RATE 
CASE 


•ood  Showing  Made  by  Repre- 
sentatives of  Dairy  Interests 

"Well  Done."  That  is  what  we  feel 
,ce  saying  after  reviewing  the  records 
the  railroad  rate  case  before  the  In- 
rstate  Commerce  Commission.  The 
rarings  in  the  case  have  ended ;  now  the 
iefs  and  the  arguments  by  the  attor- 
j  \ys  are  the  next  steps.  Then,  in  the 
iurse  of  a  reasonable  time,  the  Commis- 
i  on  will  give  a  decision  as  to  whether  or 
f  it  the  railroads  of  New  England  shall  be 
I  lowed  an  increase  of  20  per  cent,  in  the 
Ktes  on  milk;  whether  a  fat  $750,000  a 
|  ar  shall  be  added  to  their  revenue  at 
|ie  expense  of  the  farmers. 
|  But  no  matter  what  the  Interstate 
I  )mmerce  Commission  finally  says  in  the 
rite  case,  it  was  a  great  fight  the  dairy 
interest  put  up;  without  doubt  the  best 
I  at  any  farm  group  in  New  England  ever 
I  s  made.  Win  or  lose,  it  was  a  fine 
I  owing  made  by  the  railroad  rate  com- 
[j  ittee  with  the  good  men  they  hired  to  do 
:j  e  actual  fighting.  Win  or  lose  the  dairy 
i  lustry  in  New  England  has  advanced  a 
tng  way  through  the  united  effort.  The 
i  rious  groups  have  learned  to  work  bet- 
|  •  together.  They  have  a  new  confidence, 
!  rn  of  ability  to  stand  up  man  fashion 
||  ainst  the  great  corporate  interests  of 
j'e  railroads  and  to  meet  them  on  their 
I  m  ground.  When  another  occasion 
I  ises  for  a  united  front  against  big 
I  isiness  they  will  roll  up  their  sleeves 
|  d  go  in  with  the  same  zest  they,  in- 
i  vidually,  "wrastled"  as  boys. 

General  Review 

:  A  general  review  of  the  case  is  in  order, 
J  w  that  the  hearings  are  over  and  the 
I  rious  aspects  of  the  fight  against  in- 
j  eased  rates  can  be  seen  as  a  whole.  It 
i  nearly  a  year  since  the  Boston  &  Maine, 
Allowed  by  the  other  railroads  of  the 
;  2w  England  States  filed  their  petition 
|r  an  increase  in  rates.  Even  before 
[at  time  Manager  Pattee  had  been  in- 
rmed  by  the  railroads  that  they  were 
ing  to  put  up  the  rates  20  per  cent. 
Mat  information,  it  was  later  brought 
i  t,  was  given  some  months  before  the 
rpst  study"  was  made  on  which  the  rail- 
|  ids  pinned  their  faith  when  asking  for 
; :  increase  in  transportation  rates  on 
i  lk.  This  savored  strongly  of  deciding 
i  it  $750,000  more  revenue  was'  needed, 
ren  deciding  that  milk  would  be  a  good 
•  ice  to  get  it,  and  then,  some  months 

ler,  going  out  and  making  a  cost  study 

i  i  justify  the  demand. 
Be  that  as  it  may  the  cost  study  got 
jme  awful  wallops  from  the  lawyers  and 
perts  secured  by  the  New  England  milk 
,  te  committee.     The  railroads  put  in 
iborate  study  with  all  the  confidence  of 
i  wed  victory.    When  the  experts  rep- 
I  ;enting  the  dairy  industry  began  picking 

|!  ws  in  this  study  the  railroads  were  an- 
yed ;  they  had  not  expected  that  anyone 
|  )uld  put  his  finger  on  the  weak  spots  in 

I  :  cost  study  so  quickly.    The  progress 
j  the  hearing  showed  the  railroads  go- 

i  i  X  through  the  whole  scale  from  slight 
noyance,   vexation,   chagrin   and  real 

f  |  irm  before  the  hearings  were  ended, 
hereas  they  started  in  with  easy  assur- 
i  ce  they  ended  fighting  for  all  they  were 
irth  to  save  any  considerable  part  of 


(Continued  on  page  eight) 


Unknown"  Price  Breaks 
Market 


Chain  stores  and  the  "unknown"  price  system  under  which  they  buy 
their  milk  are  again  in  the  limelight.  On  Dec.  27  the  First  National 
Stores  reduced  their  price  from  13  to  12  cents  in  Boston.  This  started  a 
price  decline  which  will  cost  the  dairy  farmers  from  $150,000  to  $250,000 
this  month,  depending  on  the  way  the  outside  markets  hold  their  price. 

The  Boston  market  went  down  one]  cent.  At  the  time  of  going  to 
press  the  price  in  other  markets  is  mostly  hanging  in  the  air.  Only 
the  good  sense  and  hard  work  of  our  marketing  committees  and  district 
men  can  save  them  from  suffering  the  heavy  blow  which  has  fallen  on 
the  Boston  market. 

There  was  no  reason  for  this  drop  of  a  cent  in  price  at  this  time 
except  the  arbitrary  decision  of  C.  F.  Adams,  of  the  First  National 
Stores,  to  go  down.  It  is  an  old  story;  some  years  ago  he  made  a  name 
for  himself  by  "breaking  the  price  of  milk;"  then  he  "broke  the  price 
of  turkeys."   Now  he  has  done  it  again. 

The  Bellows  Falls  Co-operative  and  to  a  lesser  degree  the  United 
Farmers'  Co-operative  at  Morrisville  share  the  responsibility  for  this 
unwarranted  decrease,  by  their  refusal  to  go  on  to  known  price  basis 
and  furnish  some  point  at  which  price  comparisons  can  be  made,  other 
than  in  the  ultimate  price  to  the  consumer. 

Rumors  of  this  decrease  in  price  at  the  First  National  Stores  were 
current  in  Boston  the  previous  week.  Dealers  asked  the  NEMPA  about 
it  but  in  the  face  of  the  shortage  of  milk  and  the  general  wholesome 
condition  of  the  market  it  seemed  incredible  that  any  change  would  be 
made  by  the  chain  store  before  the  first  of  the  month  if  at  all. 

The  blow  to  the  dairy  industry  was  struck  Dec.  27  when  the  First 
National  Stores  came  out  with  advertising  on  a  12-cent  basis,  a  reduc- 
tion of  a  cent  from  the  price  which  they  had  been  selling  since  the  middle 
of  November.  Dealers  in  Boston,  when  they  learned  of  this  drop,  at 
once  asked  the  NEMPA  to  reduce  the  price  to  them,  the  decrease  to 
become  operative  that  day. 

The  sales  committee  was  called  in  hurriedly.  Dealers,  large  and 
small,  demanded  the  decrease,  basing  their  demand  wholly  on  the  chain 
store  situation  and  stating  frankly  that  they  did  not  think  milk  should 
go  down  at  this  time  for  any  other  cause  except  this  chain  store  com- 
petition in  the  market.  At  no  session  of  the  sales  committee  in  years  have 
the  dealers  been  so  unanimous  or  so  firm  in  their  demands  for  a  decrease. 

The  sales  committee  after  considering  the  situation  from  all  angles 
decided  to  meet  the  competition  by  reducing  the  price  one  cent. 

While  the  condition  of  which  they  complained  and  on  which  they 
based  their  demand  for  a  decrease  was  wholly  a  resale  proposition,  the 
sales  committee  was  without  power  to  successfully  withstand  their  de- 
mand due  to  the  fact  that  the  milk  which  is  sold  at  the  First  National 
Stores  is  bought  at  an  unknown  price.  If  the  sales  committee  had  been 
armed  with  knowledge  of  what  the  milk  was  costing  the  First  National 
Stores  or  if  it  had  any  basis  for  comparison  of  the  prices  paid  farmers 
in  the  Bellows  Falls  Co-operative  with  the  prices  paid  farmers  by  dealers 
buying  through  the  NEMPA,  the  committee  could  have  told  the  dealers 
that  the  resale  price  of  chain  store  milk  was  not  their  concern,  that  it  was 
a  matter  which  dealers  and  chain  stores  must  fight  out  among  themselves. 

(Continued  on  page  five) 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  TAKES 
ACTION 


Four  Organizations  Decide  to  Aid 
in  Spreading  Information 

Practical  support  for  the  NEMPA 
"known  price"  system  developed  spon- 
taneously in  New  Hampshire  following 
the  announcement  of  the  cut  in  price  due 
to  the  unknown  price  system  under  which 
the  First  National  Stores  buy  their  milk. 
Leaders  in  New  Hampshire  agricultural 
organizations  were  in  conference  in  Con- 
cord when  the  announcement  of  the  re- 
duction in  price  came  and  they  immedi- 
ately laid  aside  some  the  business  which 
they  came  together  to  transact  and 
focussed  their  attention  on  the  chain 
store  situation  and  what  they  could  do  to 
assist  solve  the  problem. 

The  decision  of  the  leaders  was  that 
the  seriousness  of  the  situation  which  had 
been  forced  on  New  England  demanded 
action  by  all  organizations  represented. 
They  were  the  State  Department  of 
Agriculture  through  Commissioner  of 
Agriculture  Andrew  L.  Felker;  the  New 
Hampshire  Farm  Bureau  Federation 
through  its  president,  George  H.  Put- 
nam; the  University  of  New  Hampshire 
through  Director  of  Extension  Service 
Kendall;  the  New  Hampshire  State 
Grange  through  its  master,  James  C. 
Farmer,  and  the  New  Hampshire  State 
Dairymen's  Association  through  Law- 
rence A.  Carlisle. 

It  was  decided  to  hold  another  meeting 
and  to  invite  in  representative  farmers. 
This  subsequent  meeting  was  held  at 
Manchester  and  after  a  full  discussion 
of  the  situation  a  special  committee  was 
appointed  to  take  such  action  as  they 
found  wise  to  help  solve  the  problem.  It 
was  the  general  feeling  that  the  root  of 
the  trouble  lay  back  in  the  country  where 
the  unknown  price  system  was  allowed 
to  continue.  The  leaders  and  farmers 
thought  that  if  the  dangers  of  the  un- 
known price  system  were  fairly  presented 
to  the  producers  selling  to  the  Bellows 
Falls  Co-operative  that  general  support 
of  a  known  price  plan  in  place  of  the 
unknown  price  plan  would  be  secured. 

The  general  plan  of  the  meeting  and 
the  committee  was  along  the  line  of  pre- 
senting the  case  and  awakening  the  farm- 
ers to  the  dangers  of  the  situation  rather 
than  any  active  participation  in  bringing 
the  parties  together.  It  was  decided  that 
the  Farm  Bureau,  the  Grange  and  other 
general  organizations  of  farmers  should 
hold  meetings  in  that  section  of  the  state 
which  ships  to  Bellows  Falls,  principally 
Sullivan  and  Cheshire  counties,  with  the 
idea  of  discussing  the  situation  and  pre- 
senting the  facts  as  they  saw  them.  The 
NEMPA,  being  to  some  extent  already 
committed  one  one  side  of  the  question, 
was  not  to  be  a  party  to  these  meetings. 
Every  effort  was  to  be  made  to  have  the 
discussion  free  of  partisanship  but  at 
the  same  time  to  go  to  the  bottom  of  the 
situation  and  suggest  a  solution  if  pos- 
sible. It  was  also  suggested  that  these 
organizations  do  what  they  could  to  in- 
terest similar  organizations  in  the  Ver- 
mont territory  shipping  to  Bellows  Falls 
and  Morrisville,  in  getting  before  the 
farmers  a  full  statement  of  the  known 
and  the  unknown  price  systems. 


NEW    ENGLAND    DAIRYMAN  January,  192' 


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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
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Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  F.  E. 
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Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
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Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  L;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  L;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn. ;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

Let  me  resume  writing  my  own  "Per- 
sonal Word"  before  the  boys  at  the  office 
run  out  of  crowns  and  halos  with  which 
to  decorate  my  drooping  brew.  Of 
course  I  like  to  have  people  say  all  the 
nice  things  about  me  the  editor  tells 
about.  But  I'm  not  fooled  much  about 
my  standing  with  the  dairy  and  co-opera- 
tive interests  of  the  country.  I  have 
friends,  and  thanks  be,  warm  ones,  and 
there  are  others  who  have  little  use  for 
me  or  my  notions.  I'm  glad  the  friends 
are  those  who  know  me  best.  They 
know  that  at  least  I've  tried  to  be  useful, 
though  sometimes  I  may  have  been 
wrong. 

But  what  struck  me  most  in  all  this 
over-praise  is  not  perhaps  what  would  be 
noticed  by  most  people.  It  was  the 
statement  that  there  had  been  "little  of 
the  superior  and  subordinate"  between 
me  and  the  men  who  worked  under  my 
direction.  That's  true  and  I  believe  right. 
My  idea  of  building  up  an  efficient  staff 
has  been  to  select  good  men,  then  by 
study  and  consultation  with  respect  to 
our  purposes  and  problems,  work  out  a 
general  plan  of  procedure  and  turn  the 
man  loose  to  get  the  results.  I've  never 
checked  or  held  back  any  man  who  had 
progressive  ideas  unless  and  until  I  had 
gone  over  things  with  him  and  shown 
him  where  some  proposed  action  crossed 
our  general  policy.  My  idea  is  to  hire 
brains,  better  ones  than  my  own,  and  out 
of  a  group  of  such,  with  their  differing 
views  and  experiences,  to  gather  ideas 
and  formulate  plans  that  would  forward 
the  big  general  scheme  for  which  the 
NEMPA  stands.  No,  there  hasn't  been 
much  bossing  but  there's  been  a  lot  of 


consulting,  planning  and  agreeing  on 
what  should  be  done. 

Well,  anyhow  the  big  thing  to  me,  the 
best  news  that  comes  to  my  bedside,  is 
that  the  men  are  carrying  on  so  well. 
I'm  missed,  I  hope,  but  not  so  seriously 
as  some  thought.  The  boys  are  doing 
lots  better  than  anybody  supposed  they 
would,  except  me.    I  know. 

And  that's  the  very  crux  of  this  whole 
matter.  It  isn't  a  one-man  affair ;  it  is  a 
movement,  a  something  among  the  peo- 
ple that  will  last  and  serve  when  I  and 
those  associated  with  me  are  gone.  The 
real  reward  to  us  who  have  had  some 
part  in  it  is  that  we  have  worked  in  a 
cause  that  has  rooted  itself  and  will  last. 
It's  not  a  matter  of  men  but  of  principle. 

PATTEE. 


RESPONSIBILITY 

When  an .  accident  or  a  disaster  en- 
dangers or  destroys  property  or  life,  pub- 
lic opinion  demands  that  the  responsibil- 
ity be  fixed  if  possible.  The  drop  in  the 
price  of  milk  is  a  disaster  falling  on  the 
dairy  industry  of  all  New  England. 
The  responsibility  rests  jointly  on  C.  F. 
Adams,  dictator  of  the  policies  of  the 
First  National  Stores,  and  the  Bellows 
Falls  Co-operative,  from  which  he  gets 
his  principal  supply  of  milk.  The  "un- 
known price"  system  at  the  Bellows  Falls 
plant  is  the  root  of  the  matter. 

All  accidents  or  disasters  can  be  placed 
in  one  or  the  other  of  two  groups  accord- 
ing to  their  origin.  In  one  group  is  the 
damage  to  property  and  life  coming  from 
natural  causes,  wholly  outside  the  con- 
trol of  man :  Earthquakes,  hurricanes, 
tidal  waves  or  floods.  For  these  we  can 
fix  no  responsibility ;  we  simply  bow  down 
before  them  and  term  them  "acts  of  God." 

In  the  other  group  fall  all  accidents 
and  disasters  for  which  some  man  or 
group  of  men  were  responsible.  They  are 
the  things  which  come  from  the  careless- 
ness, the  indifference,  the  ignorance  or 
the  evil  intent  of  man.  In  all  such  cases 
public  opinion  demands  that  the  respon- 
sibility shall  be  fixed  definitely  on  those 
who  cause  the  accident  or  disaster. 
Fixing  the  responsibility  does  not  restore 
property  destroyed  or  bring  back  lives 
lost.  But  it  focusses  attention  on  the 
reasons  back  of  the  loss  and  on  the  ways 
in  which  such  losses  can  be  avoided  in 
the  future. 

There  are  at  times  similar  decreases  in 
the  price  of  milk,  bringing  about  an 
equal  loss  to  the  dairy  farmers  of  New 
England,  which  arise  from  natural  causes 
and  cannot  be  averted  by  any  man  or 
group  of  men  however  skillful  and  re- 
sourceful they  may  be.  When  weather 
conditions  are  such  as  to  induce  a  great 
over-production  of  milk  the  price  goes 
down  through  that  inevitable  law  of  sup- 
ply and  demand,  no  matter  what  the  men 
who  make  milk  or  who  sell  milk  may 
do.  The  position  of  'our  association  has 
always  been  that  the  law  of  supply  and 
demand  would  govern  prices  but  that  the 
association  can  do  good  work  as  an  in- 
terpreter of  this  supply  and  demand.  Its 
record  in  the  past  has  been  one  of  success 
as  an  interpreter  of  these  natural  con- 
ditions. 

The  present  case,  with  its  loss  of 
$200,000  or  more  to  the  dairy  industry 
of  New  England,  does  not  fall  into  that 
class  of  reduction  in  any  way.  Milk 
was  not  plentiful,  the  supply  was  just 
beginning  to  emerge  from  an  acute  short- 
age. Demand  was  excellent  for  the  sea- 
son,  allowing  for  the  normal  falling  off 
for  a  short  time  right  after  Christmas. 


The  natural  law  of  supply  and  demand 
did  not  require  any  change  in  price  at 
this  time.  The  drop  of  a  cent  was  a 
disaster  which  clearly  falls  in  the  second 
group.  It  was  man-made.  Some  man 
or  group  of  men  were  responsible  for  it 
and  it  is  within  the  power  of  men  in- 
terested in  the  welfare  of  the  dairy  in- 
dustry to  prevent  it  from  occurring 
again.  We  wish  to  fix  the  responsibility 
as  we  see  it. 

As  recorded  elsewhere,  Mr.  Adams  re- 
duced the  price  of  milk  in  the  First  Na- 
tional Stores  Dec.  27  from  13  cents  a 
quart  to  12  cents  a  quart.  Whether  this 
was  preceded  or  followed  by  a  drop  in 
the  Bellows  Falls  quart  price  we  haxe  no 
knowledge.  It  is  the  universal  testimony 
of  dealers  operating  in  the  Boston  mar- 
ket that  there  had  been  no  reluctance  on 
the  part  of  consumers  to  pay  the  price, 
no  falling  off  in  sales  due  fo  price. 
The  home  delivered  price  of  15  and  lSyi 
cents  and  the  store  price  of  13  cents  had 
been  accepted  as  normal  and  right  for 
the  season.  It  is  not  apparent  that  these 
prices  were  out  of  line  with  one  another 
or  that  there  was  any  unusual  shifting 
over  from  one  source  of  family  supply 
to  the  other.  If  there  was  some  slight 
falling  off  in  the  demand  for  milk  in  the 
First  National  Stores  it  was  to  be  ac- 
counted for  as  the  natural  after  Christ- 
mas slackening  in  trade,  something  which 
a  week  or  two  would  mend. 

There  was  not  a  single  dealer  in  the 
Boston  market  who  had  even  suggested 
to  the  NEMPA  sales  committee  that 
any  reduction  in  price  was  even  consid- 
ered for  January.  Milk  had  been  very 
short  and  while  it  was  getting  slightly 
more  plentiful  there  was  no  indication 
that  there  would  be  any  great  flush  com- 
ing soon.  Moreover,  the  general  taking 
up  of  the  available  supplies  of  milk  in 
New  England  has  brought  about  a  con- 
dition where  there  is  no  danger  of  small 
amounts  of  milk  seeking  the  Boston  mar- 
ket at  prices  unwarranted  at  this  season. 
From  the  point  of  view  of  the  NEMPA 
and  of  all  the  dealers  the  nine  cent  price 
could  have  been  continued.  It  is  our 
belief  that  it  would  have  been  the  proper 
price  until  March  or  perhaps  to  April  1. 

But  when  Mr.  Adams  arbitrarily  and 
without  consideration  of  the  conditions 
throughout  New  England  reduced  his 
price  a  cent,  every  dealer  in  the  Boston 
market  reduced  their  price  a  cent  and 
came  back  on  the  NEMPA  with  a  de- 
mand for  a  reduction  of  a  full  cent. 
We  were  forced  to  accept  that  reduction 
by  a  condition  which  Mr.  Adams  and 
the  Bellows  Falls  Co-operative  can  rectify 
easily  at  no  loss  to  the  chain  stores  and 
we  believe  to  the  great  advantage  of  the 
producers  who  supply  the  milk.  This 
condition  is  that  the  only  place  where  we 
can  compare  the  chain  store  price  with 
the  price  of  old  established  dealers  is  in 
the  price  to  the  consumer.  We  do  not 
know  what  price  the  dairy  farmers  who 
furnish  chain  store  milk  are  getting;  we 
do  not  know  what  price  the  First  Na- 
tional Stores  are  paying  the  Bellows  Falls 
and  Morrisville  Co-operative  from  which 
their  chief  supply  is  drawn.  We  have  no 
point  of  comparison  on  which  we  can 
successfully  resist  demands  for  a  reduc- 
tion made  by  dealers  on  account  of  chain 
store  milk.  Without  this  ability  to  make 
a  comparison  we  are  shorn  of  our  chief 
bargaining  power  in  a  situation  like  this. 

We  are  a  bargaining  organization,  serv- 
ing as  the  sales  agent  of  the  farmers. 
We  have  nothing  to  do  with  resale  prices 
and  would  not  take  them  into  considera- 


tion at  all  if  we  were  not  forced  to  by  th 
lack  of  information  as  to  prices  neare 
the  farm.  If  we  knew  that  the  Bellow 
Falls  or  Morrisville  farmers  were  ge| 
ting  a  price  figured  on  some  basis  a 
that  we  could  compare  them  with  tl 
prices  paid  by  old  established  dealers  : 
Boston,  or  if  we  knew  that  the  mi 
sold  to  the  First  National  Stores  1 
these  co-operatives  was  paid  for  on  son 
known  price  basis,  we  could  then  t« 
dealers  that  the  resale  prices  were  n 
our  business.  That,  so  long  as  the  farr 
ers  whose  milk  was  sold  through  tl 
First  National  Stores  got  a  known  pric 
comparable  with  what  the  NEMPA 
charging  its  dealers,  the  resale  pric 
were  matters  which  must  be  taken  ca 
of  by  the  chain  stores  and  the  dealc 
themselves  on  the  basis  of  efficiency  a 
good  management.  We  could  then  i 
fuse  absolutely  to  make  changes  in  pri 
due  to  resale  conditions  and  month 
and  month  out  base  our  price  on  o 
knowledge  of  supply,  demand  and  oth 
fundamental  factors. 

Mr.  Adams  has  said  that  he  wants 
get  the  best  possible  price  for  the  far 
ers  who  supply  his  stores  with  milk.  T 
way  to  get  that  best  price  is  simple  a 
easy.  It  is  to  adopt  a  known  price  si 
tern  of  some  kind  in  the  country  so  tl 
the  NEMPA,  which  negotiates  the  pri 
for  a  volume  of  milk  many  times  larj 
than  is  now  sold  by  chain  stores  or  pni 
ably  ever  will  be  sold  at  chain  stoi 
can  prevent  such  disasters  as  the  one  j 
forced  on  it.  This  is  the  way  in  wh 
Mr.  Adams  can  immediately  clear  hi 
self  from  the  responsibility  for  an  en 
mous  loss  to  the  dairy  industry  of  N 
England  and  place  the  responsibility 
such  shifts  on  the  NEMPA  where, 
der  normal  conditions,  it  belongs. 

This  is  not  asking  Mr.  Adams  or 
farmers  who  supply  him  to  accept  : 
burden.    Reports  which  come  from  E 
lows   Falls   territory    indicate  that 
prices  actually  paid  there  are  higher  t 
the  prices  paid  by  dealers  who  buy 
that  territory.    Under  the  surplus  p 
the  prices  paid  to  farmers  vary,  as 
tween  dealers,  with  the  amount  of  A 
plus  carried  by  these  dealers.    The  fa| 
ers  whose  dealers  are  able  to  keep  t 
surplus  low  get  a  better  price  than 
farmers  whose   dealers   carry   a  he 
surplus.    This  is  an  exceptional  opp 
tunity  for  Mr.  Adams  to  make  good 
expression  of  desire  to  pay  his  produj 
all  possible  for  their  milk.    The  ell 
store   system   lends   itself   naturally  <1 
keeping   surplus   low.     The   wants  f<l 
known  with  reasonable  certainty  in  ill 
vance  as  there  is  a  fairly  fixed  relaH 
between  the  sales  of  milk  and  the  skh 
of  cream.    Moreover,  the  chain  stlEM 
want  surplus  milk  for  cream  only,  M 
are  not  condensing,   or  making  bu  r,( 
casein  or  other  manufactured  dairy  piN 
ucts  as  are  the  big  dealers. 

By  adopting  a  known  price  policM' 
Bellows  Falls  and  paying  on  the  lM 
of  a  surplus  which   can  be  mattrjm 
lower  than  that  of  large  dealers,  r. 
Adams  can  get  his  farmers  the  top  ip*' 
in  their  territory  and  can  clear  hinfltj 
completely  from  charges  of  respoii'l'- \ 
ity  for  a  disaster  like  the  present,  fit 
contest  for  a  place  in  the  market,  wpl' 
has  been  going  on  between  chain  slip* 
and   old   established   dealers    for  ;ne 
years,  will  then  resolve  itself  into  ,pc  ■ 
of  efficiency  in  management.    This  a 
field  in  which  Mr.  Adams  has  special W- 1 
He  should  be  able  to  get  and  holdM 
(Continued  on  page  five) 


January,  1927 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


\ 


Market  Conditions  on  Page  6 


Canadian  Inspection  Bill  Reported  Favorably 


I  The  Lenroot-Tabor  bill  to  provide  for 
the  proper  inspection  of  Canadian  milk 
and  cream  coming  into  this  country  for 
teale  has  been  favorably  reported  by  the 
Senate  Committee  on  Agriculture  and 
will  soon  be  voted  upon.  It  was  passed 
'by  the  House  last  year  and  is  now  re- 
ported favorably  in  practically  the  same 
form  by  the  Senate  committee.  At  a 
recent  hearing  cream  buying  interests  in 
Boston  opposed  the  bill,  naturally.  They 
buy  quite  a  lot  of  cream  from  Canada 
which  does  not  undergo  the  inspection  it 
would  have  if  bought  within  the  States. 
The  requirement  that  this  cream  should 
be  properly  inspected  will  naturally  in- 
crease the  cost  to  these  dealers  and  re- 
duce their  profits  when  the  product  is 
resold  on  the  Boston  market. 

The  bill  provides  that  no  milk  or 
cream  shall  be  shipped  into  the  United 
States  unless  the  person  shipping  such 
milk  or  cream  holds  a  permit  from  the 
Secretary  of  Agriculture.  It  was  neces- 
sary to  make  this  a  federal  law  as  no 
state  could  properly  enforce  it  and  be- 
cause it  is  highly  desirable  that  there 
should  be  uniformity  all  along  the  border. 
The  conditions  under  which  the  permits 
are  to  be  given,  under  the  provisions  of 
the  bill,  are:  1.  That  the  cows  must  be 
healthy  and  to  have  had  a  physical  ex- 
amination within  one  year.  2.  If  the  milk 
is  shipped  unpasteurized  it  must  come 
ifrom  tuberculin  tested  cows  tested  by 
an  official  veterinarian  of  the  United 
f  States  or  of  the  country  where  produced 
within  one  year.  3.  Barns  and  premises 
^must  score  at  least  SO  points  on  the 
official  score  card  of  the  bureau  of  dairy 
industry  of  the  United  States.  4.  Un- 
pasteurized milk  must  not  have  more 
jlthan  a  300,000  bacteria  count  and  un- 
tpasteurized  cream  must  not  have  more 
|  than  a  750,000  bacteria  count.  5.  The 
temperature  must  not  exceed  50  degrees 
at  the  time  of  importation. 


The  bill  provides  for  the  inspection  un- 
der the  direction  of  the  secretary  of 
agriculture  and  permits  will  be  issued 
only  to  such  persons  as  can  conform  to 
these  requirements  on  milk  shipped.  In 
the  case  of  condensaries  the  secretary  of 
ogriculture  may  waive  the  bacteria  count 
requirements  if  the  product  is  to  be 
sterilized,  if  the  product  comes  from 
within  15  miles  of  the  condensary.  The 
secretary  of  agriculture  may  also  waive 
the  tuberculin  test  requirement  and  the 
bacteria  count  requirement  on  milk 
within  20  miles  of  a  creamery  or  a  con- 
densary within  the  United  States  if  the 
milk  is  to  be  pasteurized  or  condensed 
there.  Sale  of  such  milk  without  pas- 
teurization or  condensing  subjects  the 
seller  to  fine,  imprisonment  and  revoca- 
tion of  license.  The  act  provides  for 
fines  of  from  $50  to  $2,000,  imprisonment 
for  not  more  than  one  year  or  both. 

These  provisions  for  waiver  of  tuber- 
culin test  and  bacteria  count  can  apply 
only  to  milk  produced  within  20  miles  of 
the  United  States.  On  all  milk  and 
cream  produced  farther  from  the  border 
the  full  provisions  will  apply. 

The  NEMPA,  through  the  National 
Co-operative  Milk  Producers'  Federation, 
has  been  working  hard  for  legislation  of 
this  character  for  two  years  back.  It 
became  vigorously  interested  in  the  un- 
fairness of  the  situation  which  permits 
the  importation  of  milk  and  cream  from 
dairies  and  from  creameries  in  Canada 
which  do  not  have  to  submit  themselves 
to  the  rigid  inspection  systems  in  force 
within  the  States.  It  was  obviously  un- 
fair to  allow  this  more  cheaply  produced 
and  less  sanitary  milk  to  come  into  the 
markets  in  competition  with  our  own 
New  England  supply. 

Now  that  the  bill  has  been  favorably 
reported  in  the  Senate  the  main  fight  is 
over.  We  confidently  expect  its  passage 
as  now  written  at  an  early  date. 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  November,  1926 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7  per 
cent,  test  per  1  /  10th  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container:  Per 
8l/2  quart  can,  $0,009;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,010;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,021;  per  21 J4 
quart  can,  $0,022;  per  40  quart  can,  $.041 ;  per  cwt.,  $0,048. 

%  Boston  District 

Class  1    Class  2   Size  of  Can  

(Mfg.  20        21J4  40 

Milk)  Quart  Quart  Quart  Quart  Cwt. 
7.9%    .574       1.391       1.480      2.819  3.278 


(Mkt. 
Milk) 


Dealers 

Elm  Spring  Farm 

7th  zone  (121-140)   92.1% 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   99.3 


.7 


Class  2 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

(Mfg. 

in 

in 

in 

Milk) 

8^'s 

20's 

40's 

11.3% 

3.743 

3.743 

3.743 

3.197 

3.248 

3.289 

35.2 


Northern  Market  District 

Dealers  Class  1 

Wason-MacDonald  (Mkt. 
Haverhill  Milk) 

Delivered   88.7% 

3rd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms,  Lawrence 

Delivered   64.8 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Manchester 

Delivered   82.0 

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

Blake,  E. 


4.015 


Cwt. 


18.0 


C,  Manchester 

Delivered   82.7 

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

8th  zone   

Boyd,  W.  T.  &  Son,  Nashua 

Delivered   94.3 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy,  Nashua 

Delivered   87.9 

4th  zone   


17.3 


5.7 


12.1 


3.737 
3.322 
3.244 


3.737 
3.376 
3.354 


3.737 
3.419 
3.386 


3.266 
2.984 
2.957 
2.912 
2.814 


3.344 
3.115 
3.063 
3.020 
2.996 

3.460 
3.180 
3.143 
3.125 

3.080 


3.612 
3.254 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  November,  1926 

Cwt.  and 
Butter-fat 
Butter-fat  Price  Equal  Deduction 
Price  to      to  Butter-     from  Milk 
Fat  Price  Patrons 
Per  Pound 


Feeding 

Test  Skim 

of  Price 

Cream  Cwt. 

]Hood,  lst-15th   12^%  .50 

.  Hood,  lst-15th   20  .50 

^Hood,  16th-30th   12^  .50 

Hood,  16th-30th   20  .50 

Whiting,  lst-15th  ....20  .50 

!  Whiting,  16th-30th  ..20  .50 

-Turner  Centre   12J4  .64 


Cwt. 

Price 

to 
Cream 
Patrons 

1.454 
2.020 
1.572 
2.210 
2.165 
2.386 
.850 


Cream 
Patrons 


.50 
.50 
.52 
.52 
.53 
.55 
.54 


.616 
.601 
.646 
.630 
.638 
.669 
.608 


Per  Cwt 

.1337 
.1337 
.1288 
.1288 
.1594 
.1653 
.1900 


Truck- 

Providence Market 

ing 

Class  1 

Class  2 

Zone  1 

Zone  2 

Zone  3 

Zone  Willi- 

Dealers 

(Mkt. 

(Mfg. 

Deliv- 

1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

net  mantic 

Per  Hundredweight 

Milk) 

Milk) 

ered 

Miles 

Miles 

Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

Burton,  H.  T. 

100.0% 

% 

3.930 

3.626 

3.578 

3.511 

Chambers,  G.  T. 

89.5 

10.5 

3.696 

3.424 

3.381 

3.322 

3.239 

Fiske,  E.  A  

100.0 

3.931 

3.627 

3.579 

3.513 

Grant,  C.  W. 

93.5 

65 

3.776 

3.491 

3.446 

3.384 

Greenville  Farm 

100.0 

3.926 

3.622 

3.574 

3.507 

Monroe,  A.  B. 

100.0 

3.931 

3.627 

3.579 

3.513 

Providence  Dairy  .. 

.  93.3 

67 

3.809 

3.585 

3.552 

3.487 

3.293  3.372 

Turner  Centre   

100.0 

3.931 

3.627 

3.579 

3.513 

Viall,  W.  C  

100.0 

3.931 

3.627 

3.579 

3.513 

Warnock,  C.  A. 

100.0 

3.930 

3.626 

3.578 

3.512 

Westcott,  E.  P. 

100.0 

3.937 

3.633 

3.585 

3.519 

Per  10  qt.  can 

Brown,  W.  B. 

100.0 

.867 

.802 

.791 

.777 

.758   

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  November,  1926 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  November  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  your  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3  7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.048  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3  7  rJr  cen     subtr-,rf  *  04s 

for  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.   If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $0075                                              ^  '  iUbtract  *-M* 
To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  November  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments 

To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk  remember  that  a  norhnn  nf  thl  ™ ; nV  c       ^  ■ 

V-  from  Boston  ^    *S$    fttf   fCflJ  SSi  ,S  lg°SS  fsi-liS  %T&  2f£  SftS  gf 

Chss  1  Milk  Price                                  3.595      5.554      3.S20      3.485      3.456      3.427      3.403      1*4  ™ffl      3»      S      i3  »  2 

^!WkP"ti L86S      '■865      ««      •*»      «*«      »*      "»»      "«      1.865     tool      IMS     g|     ig  S§ 
(Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 

Hood,  Ist-lSth  ....79.8%*  20.2%    40.9%    2.831      2.798      2.771      2.743      2.720      2  697      2  678      2  655      2  636      2  621      ?  ?«w 

Initio?""7"                40      2924      2894      2869      2843      2'822      2-8°°      2™      2761      2745      2™      *™      2'.698      lo89  !o72  lo£ 

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mtfinZWs"75-5      24'S      42-4      3-106      3-°75      3-°50      3023      3-°01      2-979      Z961      2939      2-922      2909      2-891                  3.865  2.847  2.834 

^21^                38-9      2-974      2-93°      2895      2878      2843      2825      Z7"      2782      2764      2738      2720      2-694      3.685  2.668  2.659 

T16th"30th   7SS      24.5      42.4      3.096      3.055      3.022      3.006      2.973      2.956      2.931      2  915      2  879      2  874      2  857      2  810      ?x>?  ?srv;  ?7o- 

Turner  Centre   78.4      2 .6      44.8      2.895      2.863      2.837      2.809      2.787      2.764      2.745      2.722      2  704      2691       267?      2654  ' 

N  E  Creamery  ....62.2      37.8        ....      2.796      2.771      2.750      2.728      2.710      2.692      2.677      2.659      2  645      2634      2  619      2605      2 597  \S%  ¥$A 

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Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1927 


New  England  Council  to  Make  a  Study  of  Chain  Store 

Accepts  Responsibility  for  Calling  Meeting  to  Set  Up  Dairy  Conference 
Board  —  Only  Producer  Organizations  Are  to  Have  a  Representation 


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Our  big  problem  of  chain  store  milk 
and  the  unknown  price  system  at  which  it 
is  being  bought,  has  been  officially  taken 
up  for  study  and  recommendations  by  the 
New  England  Council.  This  body  rep- 
resenting all  New  England  interests, 
business,  trade,  commerce  and  agricul- 
ture, was  organized  as  the  result  of  a 
big  conference  in  1925,  called  by  the  gov- 
ernors of  the  several  states  and  with  the 
avowed  purpose  of  helping  New  Eng- 
land in  every  possible  way.  State  lines 
and  sectional  interests  were  to  be  laid 
aside  in  an  effort  to  better  conditions 
throughout  the  six  New  England  states. 

At  the  recent  agricultural  marketing 
conference  called  by  the  agricultural 
committee  of  the  council,  the  dairy  in- 
terests took  a  prominent  part.  All  groups 
were  well  represented,  including  the  Ver- 
mont Federation  of  *  Creameries  and  the 
independents  of  that  state.  VV.  A.  Scho- 
enfeld,  of  the  United  States  Department 
of  Agriculture,  who' is  making  the  sur- 
vey of  New  England  dairy  conditions, 
was  one  of  the  principal  speakers.  He 
spoke  of  milk  as  one  of  the  necessities  of 
life  which  almost  came  into  the  class  of 
public  utilities,  -and  thus  should  come  un- 
der close  inspection  and  supervision. 

Assistant  Manager  W.  P.  Davis  pre- 
sented the  difficulties  of  the  chain  store 
situation,  then  in  the  limelight  in  Spring- 
field but  at  that  time  only  a  danger  in 
the  background  in  the  Boston  market. 
As  the  result  of  his  presentation  of  the 
chain  store  situation  the  conference  made 
a  specific  recommendation  that  the  council 
should  use  its  influence  in  preventing 
disasters  to  the  dairy  industry  _  such  as 
are  threatened  by  chain  store  price  wars. 
The  conference  left  the  drafting  of  this 
and  other  resolutions  to  a  special  com- 
mittee. Commissioner  of  Agriculture 
Jones  of  Vermont  was  invited  to  be  a 
member  of  this  resolutions  committee 
but  he  turned  the  place  over  to  Dr.  Ban- 
croft of  the  Granite  City  Co-operative 
at  Barre.    The  committee  adopted  the 


following  resolutions  which  were  pre- 
sented to  the  marketing  conference  the 
next  day  and  formally  adopted. 

"Resolved  that  the  dairy  commodity 
conference  request  the  agricultural  com- 
mittee of  the  New  England  Council  to 
call  a  conference  of  dairy  interests  for 
the  purpose  of  setting  up  a  permanent 
dairy  conference  board  representing  the 
various  producer  agencies  which  are  sell- 
ing milk  in  New  England.  The  func- 
tions of  this  conference  board  to  be  the 
exchange  of  market  information,  study 
market  problems,  consider  quality  and 
standards  and  promote  the  better  mar- 
keting of  dairy  products. 

"Resolved  that  the  conference  endorses 
the  work  of  the  New  England  Dairy 
and  Food  Council  and  similar  organiza- 
tions and  urges  that  their  work  be  en- 
larged and  extended.  The  conference 
would  especially  request  that  the  depart- 
ments of  agriculture,  college  extension 
services  and  press  emphasize  the  food 
value  of  dairy  products. 

"Resolved  that  we  deplore  the  milk 
price  wars  engaged  in  by  chain  stores 
and  other  milk  distributors  and  urge  the 
New  England  Council  to  use  its  influ- 
ence to  do  away  with  such  unfortunate 
conditions  which  in  the  end  will  be  to 
the  detriment  of  the  dairy  industry  and 
to  customers.  Sale  of  milk  below  cost 
of  production  will  force  dairymen  out 
of  the  business,  bring  about  a  shortage 
of  carefully  inspected  New  England  milk 
which  will  result  in  a  much  higher  price 
to  consumers  and  the  importation  of  un- 
inspected western  milk  to  New  England 
markets. 

"In  view  of  the  important  surveys  and 
research  work  being  done  by  the  U.  S. 
D.  A.  and  other  co-operating  New  Eng- 
land agencies  of  the  dairy  industry  in 
New  England  we  urge  that  any  long  time 
marketing  program  should  be  based  on 
the  results  of  these  studies. 

"We  believe  that  for  the  protection  of 
New  England  dairy  markets  early  steps 


should  be  taken  to  eliminate  bovine  tuber- 
culosis from  all  our  herds.  We  reaffirm 
our  confidence  in  the  tuberculin  test  and 
urge  the  New  England  legislatures  to 
provide  adequate  funds  for  the  further- 
ance of  the  work." 

The  two  specific  requests  which  were 
contained  in  the  resolutions  have  since 
been  acted  upon  by  the  agricultural  com- 
mittee and  council.  At  the  suggestion  of 
Harry  R.  Lewis  of  Davisville,  R.  I., 
chairman  of  the  argicultural  committee 
of  the  council,  a  special  conference  was 
called  so  that  the  dairy  leaders  could 
explain  the  needs  to  the  agricultural 
committee  members.  Dr.  A.  W.  Gilbert, 
Milk  Administrator  and  Commissioner  of 
Agriculture  for  Massachusetts,  was 
present  and  took  an  active  part  in  the 
discussions. 

As  the  result  of  this  conference  the 
agricultural  committee  of  the  council  de- 
cided that  a  considerable  study  of  the 
chain  store  situation  should  be  made  be^ 
for  the  council  should  take  any  stand  or 
make  any  recommendations.  It  was  sug- 
gested that  the  several  commissioners  of 
agriculture  should  be  asked  to  get  the 
information  in  their  several  states,  as 
they  have  the  men  and  the  machinery  for 
getting  these  facts.  In  the  three  north- 
ern states  these  facts  would  have  to  do 
more  with  the  question  of  supply  of  chain 
store  milk  but  in  the  three  southern  states 
it  would  .be  a  study  of  the  conditions 
under  which  chain  store  milk  is  being 
sold. 

In  Massachusetts  this  study  of  chain 
store  milk  is  already  under  way  by  Fred- 
erick V.  Waugh,  head  of  the  division  of 
markets,  and  J.  C.  Cort,  head  of  the 
dairy  division  of  the  state  department  of 
agriculture.  Connecticut  is  preparing  to 
make  similar  studies  and  it  is  expected 
that  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont  will 
secure  the  necessary  information  as  soon 
as  it  is  definitely  decided  as  to  what  in- 
formation is  needed.  The  commissioners 
were  given  until  Feb.  1  to  secure  the  in- 


formation. After  that  a  meeting  of  the; 
agricultural  committee  will  be  held  and 
a  course  of  action  decided  upon. 

In  the  discussions  which  took  place  at 
the  dairy  conference,  also  at  the  com 
mittee  meeting,  much  stress  was  laid  or 
the  damage  which  was  done  to  all  Nev\ 
England  when  an  unwarranted  drop  i 
price  is  forced  on  the  dairy  industry,  Tht 
loss  of  revenue  results  in  decreased  buy 
ing  on  the  part  of  farmers,  it  reacts  or 
general  business,  on  the  banks  in  th< 
country  and  in  turn  on  the  city  banks 
Looked  at  in  this  light  the  chain  stoic 
situation  is  just  the  kind  of  a  probleir 
which  the  New  England  Council  was  or 
ganized  to  solve.  The  executive  commit 
tee  of  the  council  adopted  the  report  o 
the  agricultural  committee,  presented  b) 
Mr.  Lewis,  and  is  thus  committed  to  thi 
plan  of  a  thorough  investigation  ancj 
recommendation  for  action  on  the  chai 
store  situation. 

The  other  request  embodied  in  the  re 
port  of  the  dairy  conference  was  tha 
the  agricultural  committee  of  the  counc 
should  call  a  conference  of  the  product 
groups  of  dairymen  in  New  Englanc 
with  the  view  to  the  formation  of 
dairy  conference  board  to  discuss  con 
ditions  in  the  market,  exchange  informa 
tion  and  in  other  ways  work  together  fo 
the  welfare  of  the  industry.  This  con 
ference  board  is  expressly  provided  fo 
in  the  recent  co-operative  marketing  lav 
which  permits  farmers  and  farm  or 
ganizations  to  come  together  for  thi 
purpose.  John  McGrath,  president  o 
the  Vermont  Federation  of  Creameries 
was  present  at  the  conference  and  ex 
pressed  his  belief  that  the  proposed  con 
ference  board  would  be  a  decided  help  t 
the  dairy  industry. 

The  agricultural  committee  of  th 
council  accepted  this  responsibility  an 
has  set  Jan.  21  as  the  date  when  the  gen 
eral  meeting  of  the  dairy  organization 
will  take  place.  The  place  of  the  meet 
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Canvass  Progressing  Well 


New  Dues  Basis 


Our  field  men  are  having  great  times 
up  in  Vermont  since  winter  came  on. 
Between  annual  meetings,  oyster  suppers 
and  hospitable  farm  visits  they  have  been 
keeping  pretty  busy.  F.  C.  Warner,  head 
of  the  field  department,  speaks  with  es- 
pecial favor  of  the  oyster  suppers  up 
there.  "Five  per  cent,  milk  supporting 
a  thick  coating  of  butter  and  plenty  of 
oysters  down  under.  It's  great  stuff  on 
cold  evenings,"  he  reports. 

All  this  hospitality  and  good  fellow- 
ship is  reflected  in  the  sign  up  of  mem- 
bers. They  have  about  finished  Northern 
Vermont  with  the  exception  of  Milton, 
where  F.  L.  Foley  was  still  working  at 
last  reports.  Mr.  Osgood  has  worked 
his  way  out  of  Vermont  and  is  now  in 
New  Hampshire,  somewhere  in  the  vi- 
cinity of  our  veteran  treasurer,  H.  L. 
Webster,  of  Canaan. 

Mr.  Wells  has  gone  down  through  Ad- 
dison county,  leaving  a  trail  of  oyster 
suppers  and  good  will  in  his  wake,  and 
is  now  in  Rutland.  Exact  figures  are 
not  available  but  it  appears  that  they 
have  been  signing  better  than  90  per 
cent,  of  all  the  milk  producers  in  the 
sections  covered. 

The  men  speak  with  especial  apprecia- 
tion of  the  annual  meetings  they  have 
attended.  In  looking  over  the  reports 
Montpelier  local  holds  a  new  record ; 
after  the  oyster  supper  they  danced  to 
music  by  an  NEMPA  orchestra.  We 
did  not  know  we  had  such  a  thing  in 
New  England.  Speaking  by  officers  and 
Mr.  Foley,  transaction  of  business,  sup- 
per and  dancing  kept  the  crowd  there 
until  1.30  in  the  morning.  Harry  E. 
Hale  was  re-elected  president  and  R.  P. 
Martin  was  elected  secretary.  Former 
Secretary   Charles  E.  Gidney  made  ar- 


rangements for  the  highly  enjoyable 
meeting. 

At  Lancaster,  N.  H.,  they  had  another 
highly  enjoyable  old  fashioned  gathering 
with  an  oyster  supper.  They  passed  on 
some  of  their  good  will  and  high  esteem 
in  a  friendly  resolution  sent  to  Mr. 
Pattee.  He  has  a  lot  of  friends  among 
those  old  timers,  there  and  elsewhere. 

The  St.  Albans  annual  meeting  heard 
first  hand  information  about  conditions 
in  Boston  and  actions  taken  by  the  re- 
cent annual  meeting  of  the  association 
through  a  report  of  Director  George 
Dunsmore  who  was  the  principal  speaker. 
This  is  one  of  the  locals  which  believes 
there  is  strength  in  being  prepared  to  do 
business  all  the  time.  It  has  followed  the 
practice  of  electing  an  executive  com- 
mittee for  some  years.  They  are :  Albert 
Twombly,  Fred  Touchett  and  Leroy 
Griswold.  F.  O.  Collins  was  re-elected 
president,  Mr.  Dunsmore  vice-president, 
and  F.  B.  Wilder  secretary. 

Milton,  Vt.,  also  had  a  rousing  old 
fashioned  get-together  with  the  thermom- 
eter going  down  10  degrees  an  hour  out- 
side, but  hot  oysters  and  good  fellowship 
ruling  within  the  Methodist  church  where 
the  ladies'  aid  society  did  the  honors. 
The  "known  price"  situation  was  dis- 
cussed to  some  extent  after  being  brought 
up  by  George  Phelps  of  our  sales  com- 
mittee. John  McGrath,  president  of  the 
Federation  of  Creameries,  President 
Roberts  of  the  Milton  Co-operative,  and 
Senator-Elect  Latham  were  among  the 
speakers.  Fred  Walston  was  elected 
president  and  E.  S.  Sibley  secretary. 

Another  especially  good  meeting,  judg- 
ing by  the  reports,  was  held  at  Williston, 
Vt.,  with  the  state  dairy  specialist,  E.  H. 
Loveland,  and  County  Agent  Harold  E. 
Bolan  as  speakers.    L.  P.  Chapman  was 


The  two  cents  per  hundredweight  on 
all  milk  sold  as  a  basis  for  payment  of 
dues  to  the  NEMPA,  as  voted  by  the 
1925  annual  meeting,  went  into  effect 
Jan.  1.  This  new  basis  of  dues  payment 
will  enable  the  association  to  maintain 
its  field  force  to  give  such  personal  serv- 
ice to  members  as  they  can  in  the  way 
of  check  testing,  reinstatement  of  mem- 
bers shut  off  by  health  inspectors  and  in  at- 
tending meetings  and  generally  keeping 
the  membership  in  touch  with  the  work 
of  the  organization.  Up  to  this  time  the 
field  men  have  been  busy  visiting  the 
farmers  explaining  the  new  plan  and 
getting  them  signed  over  on  the  new  dues 
orders.  There  has  been  a  fine  response; 
a  large  percentage  of  our  membership 
has  already  signed  over. 

Along  with  this  change  in  basis  of 
dues  payment  the  sales  committee  is 
recommending  the  Philadelphia  plan  as 
endorsed  in  our  1925  meeting.  This 
plan  insures  that  all  producers,  whether 
members  of  the  association  or  not,  get 
the  same  price  for  their  milk  in  the 
country.  Under  the  Philadelphia  plan 
dealers  would  pay  over  to  the  associa- 
tion the  two  cents  per  hundred  and  an 
additional  one  cent  a  hundred  would  be 
paid  in  toward  the  support  of  the  milk 

elected  president  and  Lewis  Miles  sec- 
retary. The  field  men  report  that  in  all 
the  meetings  they  attended  the  farmers 
were  especially  interested  in  the  rate  case. 
The  suggestion  made  at  a  recent  hearing 
that  the  way  for  farmers  to  get  more  out 
of  dairying  was  to  work  longer  hours 
and  "postpone  dying"  tickled  them  hugely. 
Altogether  the  feeling  for  the  NEMPA 
out  in  the  country  seemed  excellent.  This 
impression  is  backed  up  by  the  actual 
sign  up  on  the  new  basis  of  dues. 


advertising  and  educational   work  don 
by  the  New  England  Dairy  and  Fool 
Council.     This   total  of   three  cents 
hundred  would  be  paid  on  all  milk  bougl 
from  members  of  the  NEMPA. 

In  the  case  of  producers  who  wen 
not  members  of  the  association  the  dea 
ers  would  pay  over  the  whole  thre 
cents  per  hundred  to  the  Dairy  and  Foe 
Council  and  would  make  no  payment  (j 
the  NEMPA  on  milk  from  such  pro 
ducers.  By  following  this  plan  of  duq 
payment  and  support  for  the  education; 
work  the  dealers  actually  pay  three  cen 
per  hundred  less  to  all  producers  tha( 
their  price  would  figure  on  the  basis  c: 
the  Boston  delivered  price  but  the  thn 
cents  would  be  paid  over  to  the  NEMP. 
or  to  the  New  England  Dairy  and  Foci 
Council  on  the  basis  of  two  cents  to  tb 
NEMPA  and  one  to  the  Council  for  at 
milk  sold  by  members  of  the  associatio 
or  the  whole  three  cents  to  the  counc 
and  none  to  the  association  in  the  cas 
of  other  producers.  There  would  be  l| 
further  deductions  from  any  produce 
for  the  support  of  either  organization. 

This  plan  would  not  increase  tH 
revenue  of  the  NEMPA  as  the  twj 
cents  per  hundred  would  be  just  wh 
the  organization  would  receive  from  i: 
members  on  the  new  basis  of  paymet 
whether  the  Philadelphia  plan  was 
effect  or  not.  It  would  materially  ii| 
crease  the  revenue  for  the  Council  afl 
would  enable  it  to  carry  on  its  educ 
tional  and  advertising  program  on 
much  larger  scale.  It  would  increa 
the  demand  for  milk  in  Boston  as  it  h; 
done  in  the  past  and  would  carry  t« 
work  into  other  markets.  This  woul 
have  a  decided  effect  in  reducing  surpl' 
and  thus  raising  the  net  return  to  tl 
producers  in  the  country. 


I  January,  1927 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


f? Unknown"  Price  Breaks  Market 

(Continued  from  page  one) 


This  "unknown  price"  condition  is  not 
i  new  thing.  It  has  been  a  vexing  fac- 
;or  in  the  market  situation  in  Boston  ever 
since  the  Bellows  Falls  plant  started  sell- 
ing to  chain  stores  in  Boston.  A  con- 
siderable part  of  the  time,  as  during  most 
il  last  year,  the  chain  store  milk  bought 
it  an  unknown  price  was  sold  in  such  a 
aray  as  not  to  disturb  market  conditions. 
But  it  is  always  there  in  the  background, 
likely  to  come  to  the  front  as  a  vital 
,ssue  to  be  raised  by  dealers  and  to  be 
forced  on  the  sales  committee  in  its  ne- 
gotiations. 

When  the  Bellows  Falls  Co-operative 
Opened  its  plant  and  began  selling  chain 
store  milk  it  was  urged  by  the  NEMPA 
:o  adopt  some   system  of   payment  to 
farmers  which  would  form  a  basis  of 
:omparison    with    what    other  •  farmers 
'jvere  getting.    The  surplus  plan  then,  as 
I  iow,  the  basis  of  payment  for  the  great- 
est volume  of  milk   and  the  generally 
|  iccepted  plan,  was  urged  as  being  already 
•  set  up  and  in  operation  and  as  having  the 
■.tamp  of  approval  of  the  federal  regional 
'•■nilk  commission.     It   was   foreseen  by 
■  he  NEMPA  that  any  considerable  quan- 
tity of  milk  coming  in   from  Bellows 
"alls  at  an  unknown  price  might  at  times 
je  a  very  disturbing  element  in  the  mar- 
ket and  at  all  times  be  in  the  background 
is  a  danger  to  market  stability. 

While  the  NEMPA  favored  the  sur- 
plus plan  as  a  basis  for  comparison  with 
)ther  dealers,  it  would  have  welcomed 
,'my  other  plan  which  the  Bellows  Falls 
[Co-operative  could  put  forward  provided 
't  would  furnish  some  real  basis  for  com- 
parison before  the  milk  got  into  the  mar- 
cet.    With  a  number  of  other  Vermont 
,:o-operatives  there  is  a  partial  basis  of 
Comparison  through  the  price  charged  in 
'he  market  to  dealers.    It  is  not  a  very 
.;atisfactory  basis  of  comparison  but  is 
:ar  better  than  being  forced  to  compare 
'M  the  price  to  the  ultimate  consumer,  as 
Ve  have  to  do  in  the  present  instance, 
frequently  disturbances  have  arisen  in  the 
'narket  due  to  the  fact  that  Vermont  co- 
Speratives  were  selling  in  the  market  at 
"oelow  the  NEMPA  price.     A  slightly 
ower  price  from  these  co-operatives  has 
lot,  however,  been  a  great  factor  in  the 
!"narket  for  some  time,  due  to  the  fact 
hat  the  dealers  have  generally  accepted 
he  lower  price  as  being  partially  offset 
;  >y  their  own  advantage  in  buying  surplus 
|  -nilk  at  butterfat  prices.    If  the  differ- 
ence had  become  too  great  at  any  time, 
(,t  would  have  been  made  the  basis  of  a 
:laim  for  adjustment. 

The  Bellows  Falls  plant  did  not  see  fit 
o  go  on  to  the  surplus  plan  nor  did  it 
ioffer  any  other  plan  to  meet  this  vital 
ooint  of  establishing  a  basis  of  com- 
parison with  other  prices.    It  has  steadily 
••efused  to  furnish  such  a  basis  of  com- 
arison  in  its  price  to  farmers.    It  has 
,;old  to  the  First  National  Stores,  and  be- 
ore  that  to  the  Connor  Stores,  at  an  un- 

Soiown  price,  leaving  the  market,  both  as 
:o  dealers  and  NEMPA  sales  committee, 
without  the  slightest  basis  of  comparison 
except  the  final  price  to  the  consumers. 
P  This  places  the  NEMPA  sales  com- 
i'nittee  at  a  tremendous  disadvantage  in 
'  legoliating.  It  makes  it  possible  for  the 
|  lealers  to  throw  into  the  negotiations  the 
:.vhole  question  of  spreads  in  the  markets, 
lifferences  in  price  between  chain  store 
:':ash  and  carry  delivery  and  the  house  de- 
t  ivery  practiced  by  the  dealers.  It  also 
wrings  in  the  vexatious  question  of  sales 
pf  milk  by  dealers  to  chain  stores  and 
3ther  stores.  It  has  been  a  common  prac- 
|  iice  in  the  market  for  dealers  to  make 
contracts  with  stores  to  furnish  them 
1  with  pasteurized  and  bottled  milk  at  a 


definite  spread  above  the  NEMPA  price, 
the  spread  representing  the  dealers'  cost 
of  pasteurization,  bottling,  delivery  and 
reasonable  profits  on  the  business.  The 
competition  for  this  trade  is  sufficient  to 
insure  that  the  profits  are  not  large  and 
that  the  dealers  must  practice  good  busi- 
ness methods  in  order  to  stay  in  this  class 
of  business. 

But  under  the  present  situation,  with 
the  largest  chain  of  stores  operating  in 
Boston,  with  branch  stores  in  many  other 
cities,  buying  their  supply  direct  from  a 
co-operative  at  an  unknown  price,  the 
dealers  who  sell  to  stores  at  a  price  based 
on  the  NEMPA  fluid  milk  price  are  at 
a  decided  disadvantage.  Their  close 
figuring  on  margins  of  profit  and  their 
economies  in  handling  the  store  business 
come  to  nothing  when  opposed  to  a  sys- 
tem of  selling  which  starts  at  the  final 
price  to  the  consumer  and  works  back- 
ward until  the  farmer  gets  what  is  left. 
So  long  as  the  unknown  price  system  is 
in  effect  it  will  be  possible  to  charge 
back  to  the  farmers  all  losses  due  to  de- 
creased prices  charged  to  consumers,  also 
any  undue  profits  or  inefficiencies  in  man- 
agement. 

It  is  another  form  of  the  old  question 
of  selling  the  milk,  taking  out  expenses 
and  paying  what  is  left  over  to  the  farm- 
ers. But  it  is  worse,  for  in  this  case 
profits  can  be  taken  out  also.  In  the  case 
of  co-operatives  selling  their  own  product 
and  paying  on  the  basis  of  whatever  is 
left  over,  any  final  profits  will  go  back 
to  the  farmers  who  own  the  business.  In 
the  case  of  unknown  prices  on  co-opera- 
tive milk  sold  to  chain  stores,  the  profit 
to  the  chain  stores,  whether  large  or 
small,  also  comes  out  of  the  farmers. 

These  questions  of  resale  are  not  a- 
job  for  the  NEMPA  sales  committee  to 
take  any  part  in.  Under  ordinary  con- 
ditions they  would  not  even  be  recog- 
nized. If  the  sales  committee  knew  what 
the  price  to  the  farmers  was  to  be,  or 
even  what  price  the  chain  stores  wer_e 
paying  the  co-operatives,  they  could  stand 
firmly  on  the  ground  that  resale  condi- 
tions were  not  of  their  making  and  were 
none  of  their  business.  But  in  the  ab- 
sence of  such  information,  the  sales  com- 
mittee must  listen  to  the  claims  of  the 
dealers  and,  in  emergencies  like  the  pres- 
ent, meet  them  with  a  reduction  in  price 
falling  on  the  whole  of  New  England. 

It  is  a  condition  which  we  have  long 
known  and  which  we  are  without  power 
to  prevent.  It  is  a  condition  which  a 
"known  price"  would  do  away  with.  We 
know  of  no  other  way  than  for  Bellows 
Falls,  and  any  other  co-operative  selling 
direct  to  chain  stores,  to  adopt  some 
system  of  a  known  price  and  thus  give 
the  NEMPA  sales  committee  the  power 
to  negotiate  which  it  has  on  other  classes 
of  business.  The  chain  store  business  is 
not  sofhething  apart  from  the  rest  of  the 
milk  business.  In  its  effect  on  general 
prices  it  is  a  part  of  the  general  whole 
and  must  be  subjected  to  comparisons 
with  the  whole.  It  is  less  important 
what  the  basis  of  comparison  is  so  long 
as  it  is  a  fair  one  and  reasonably  near 
to  the  producers'  end  of  the  business. 
Nor  can  the  co-operatives  which  sell 
their  product  through  chain  stores  escape 
the  losses  which  fall  on  the  dairy  in- 
dustry as  a  whole  through  their  failure 
to  go  on  to  the  known  price  basis.  The 
remedy  is  in  their  hands.  If  they  con- 
tinue to  refuse  to  apply  this  remedy  and 
to  adopt  some  known  price  system,  they 
will  not  only  suffer  their  proportionate 
share  of  the  losses  falling  on  all  New 
England  but  they  must  also  share  with 
the  chain  stores  the  burden  of  bringing 
down  the  prices  for  all  New  England. 


RESPONSIBILITY 

(Continued  from  page  two) 


i  share  of  the  milk  trade  in  Boston  on  the 
,  ?round  of  economies  and  efficiencies.  We 
believe  that  it  is  through  such  economies 
|and  efficiencies  that  the  chain  store  milk 
,  business  will  establish  itself  firmly  as  a 
( big  factor  in  city  milk  trade.  We  do  not 
[believe  that  it  can  or  should  be  done  at 
Ithe  expense  of  the  farmers. 


The  responsibility  for  this  $200,000  a 
month  disaster  in  this  instance  falls  on 
Mr.  Adams  and  the  Bellows  Falls  Co- 
operative. The  adoption  of  a  known 
price  system  in  the  country  will  remove 
this  responsibility  from  him  in  the 
future.  That  is  the  situation  in  a  nut- 
shell. 


urpee's 


Grow 


Large,  handsome  vegetables  and 
flowers  fit  for  prize  exhibits  will  fill 
your  garden  when  you  plant  Burpee's 
Seeds  and  care  for  the  growing  things 

as  directed  in  Burpee's  Annual. 

Study  Burpee's  Annual  and  you  can't  go 
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are  interested  together  with  four  striking  1927 
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instructions  for  their  planting  and  later  care. 


—  TEAR  HERE 


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Seed  Growers  Philadelphia 


75 


Name 


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P.  O. . .   State  . 


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Are  Good  for  Your  Dairy  Cows 

Indirectly,  of  course,  through  improved  ROUGHAGE 
(Grass,  Hay  and  Silage). 

By  raising  Roughage— by  increasing  its  production  on  your 
idle  farm  land  you  will  cut  your  Grain  bill  one-hall. 

There's  food  for  11  Dairy 
Cows  on  a  well  fertilized 
pasture  where  an  unfertil- 
ized one  of  similar  acreage 
will  support  only  6. 

Such  is  the  result  of  tests. 

With  the  use  of  Lime  and  Complete  Fertilizers  (such  as 
LOWELL  Animal  FERTILIZERS)  the  net  return  per  acre 
over  cost  of  treatment  was  $30.75. 

Another  test  result. 

Produce  Your  milk  at  less  cost. 

Use  LOWELL  Animal  FERTILIZERS  and  prove  that 
it  costs  less  to  raise  "feed"  than  it  does  to  buy  grain,  by  app  oxi- 
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asking. 


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Branch  Consolidated  Rendering  Co. 
40  No.  Market  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 


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Page  Six 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1927 


CONDITIONS  IN  THE 
MARKET 


PROSPERITY 

It  is  almost  impossible 
to  estimate  the  vast  im- 
provements which  the 
last  ten  years  have 
brought  about  in  the 
production  of  milk  and 
milk  foods. 

As  a  result  quality  milk 
foods  are  being  pro- 
duced, greater  con- 
sumption is  being  en- 
couraged and  bigger 
profits  accumulated  to 
the  producer. 

So  significant  is  the  dis- 
tribution of  sanitary 
cleanliness  to  these  re- 
sults that  increasing 
numbers  of  Dairymen, 
Cheesemakers  and 
Creamerymen  are  speci- 
fying 


as  the  standard  material 
for  all  their  dairy  clean- 
ing. 

This  pure,  inorganic 
greaseless  cleaner  has 
stood  the  test  of  twenty 
years  unfailing  sanitary 
service  to  the  dairy  in- 
dustry. 

These  years  have  been 
marked  by  the  greatest 
prosperity,  a  prosperity 
in  which  Wyandotte 
Dairymen's  Cleaner  and 
Cleanser  has  contributed 
a  valued  part. 


Indian  In  circle 


Ask  Your 
Supply  Man 
for 

WYANDOTTE 


In  every  package 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
( cream  acidity  standardizer) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
your  cream  ? 

THE.  J.  D.  FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


Production  Shows  Slight  Increase 
— Sales  Higher  Than 
Last  Year 

Records  of  sales  and  purchases  by  the 
Boston  dealers  operating  under  the  sur- 
plus plan  show  the  normal  decrease  in 
production  from  October  to  November, 
although  the  November  purchases  re- 
ported were  about  five  million  pounds 
higher  than  in  November,  1925.  This  in- 
crease in  purchases,  as  compared  with 
last  year,  is  to  be  accounted  for  by  the 
additional  territory  from  which  the 
larger  dealers  are  buying  also,  to  some 
degree,  in  increased  production  per  cow. 
Sales  were  two  million  pounds  above 
November,  1925.  This  is  due  in  part 
to  the  fact  that  dealers  have  bought  new 
business  and  thus  brought  an  increasing 
amount  of  milk  under  the  surplus  plan. 
It  may  not  represent  an  actual  increase 
in  sales  so  much  as  the  transfer  of  milk 
formerly  sold  outside  the  surplus  plan 
to  the  dealers  who  buy  under  the  surplus 
plan.  The  same  special  conditions,  pur- 
chase of  new  business  and  additional  ter- 
ritory from  which  milk  is  bought,  ac- 
counts for  the  slight  increase  in  surplus 
as  compared  with  1925.  The  records  of 
purchases,  sales  and  surplus  in  millions 
of  pounds  were  as  follows : 

1926  1926  1925 
Oct.     Nov.  Nov. 

Purchases   42.3       40.1  34.9 

Sales   28.4      28.4  26.1 

Surplus   44.5%    38.9%  36.1% 

Reports  from  the  country  indicate  that 
the  production  is  now  increasing  some- 
what. This  is  due  in  part  to  the  increase 
in  price  in  November  which  encouraged 
farmers  to  -feed  grain  more  liberally. 
The  drop  of  a  cent  in  price  Dec.  27  would 
tend  to  have  the  opposite  effect ;  less 
grain  will  be  fed  and  the  increase  in  pro- 
duction from  that  cause  will  be  checked. 

December  milk  prices  were  one-half 
cent  a  quart  higher  than  in  December, 
1925,  in  nearly  all  markets.  The  de- 
crease of  a  cent,  in  effect  for  the  last 
five  days  of  the  month  in  Boston,  will 
bring  this  down  slightly,  for  that  market 
but  other  markets  continued  their  price 
through  the  month.  As  this  issue  goes  to 
press  the  market  comrrtittees  for  the 
various  lesser  markets  are  negotiating 
the  prices  for  January.  A  strenuous 
effort  is  being  made  to  hold  these  prices 
from  going  down  with  Boston. 

The  net  price  for  all  milk  sold  was  two 
cents  a  hundred  higher  than  in  Novem- 
ber, 1925.  The  fluid  price  averaged  11 
cents  a  hundred  higher  but  the  surplus 
price  was  9  cents  lower,  due  to  the  lower 
butter  quotations.  The  prices  for  market 
milk,  surplus  price,  net  price  and  average 
butter  price  comparisons  were : 

Oct.  Nov.  Nov. 
1926      1926  1925 

Fluid   $2,98     $3.33  $3.22 

Surplus    1.78       1.86  1.95 

Net  price    2.53      2.85  2.83 

Avg.  butter   465      .484  .501 

Butter  has  shown  a  remarkable  ad- 
vance in  price  since  October  from  two 
principal  causes.  The  most  important  is 
the  reduced  production  of  milk  in  the 
middle  west.  Shortage  of  cream  in  east- 
ern markets  resulted  in  the  shipment  of 
large  quantities  of  cream  from  western 
points  which  would  ordinarily  have  gone 
into  butter.  As  a  result  of  these  two 
causes  the  withdrawals  of  butter  from 
storage  during  November  were  unusually 
heavy,  36,000,000  pounds  as  compared 
with  20,000,000  pounds  in  the  same  month 
last  year. 

Demand  for  92  score  butter  has  now 
eased  off  somewhat  since  Christmas  and 
prices  will  probably  be  lower  after  the 
first  of  the  year  than  they  are  at  present. 
They  will  still  be  higher  than  last  year 
probably.  The  production  of  butter  re- 
ported for  the  week  of  Dec.  18  was 
per  cent,  below  last  year. 

Cost  of  Production 

Grain  prices  are  about  $5  a  ton  below 
what  they  were  last  year  at  this  time. 
This  was  a  contributing  factor  in  the  in- 
creased use  of  grain  succeeding  the  in- 
crease in  price  in  November.  Hay  prices 
(Continued  on  page  fourteen) 


GRIND! 


Don't  Let 
Whole  Grain 
Cheat  You 


WHOLE  GRAIN  is  bulky  and  it  fills  the  animal's 
stomach,  but  it  cheats  you  by  satisfying  the  hunger 
through  this  bulk  rather  than  through  complete  nour- 
ishment. 

Tests  have  been  conducted  by  Government  stations  in 
past  years,with  healthy,  full-toothed  animals,  to  determine 
the  seriousness  of  these  feeding  losses.  The  tests  show 
an  average  loss  of  from  12  to  26  per  cent.  In  other  words, 
out  of  every  100  bushels  of  whole  corn  fed,  26  bushels 
yield  practically  no  nourishment  while  passing  through 
the  digestive  tract.  The  unground  oat  diet  showed  a 
similar  loss  of  12  bushels  out  of  every  100. 

Such  feeding  losses  can  easily  spell  the  difference  be- 
tween possible  loss  and  a  handsome  profit.  Many  farmers 
are  putting  various  combinations  of  grains  through  the 
McCormick-Deering  Feed  Grinder,  assuring  their  animals 
a  nourishing  ration  that  is  quickly  and  completely  assimi- 
lated. In  the  interests  of  greater  stock-raising  profits,  in- 
vestigate the  McCormick-Deering  at  the  local  dealer's  store. 

McCormick-Deering  Feed  Grinders— built  in  three  sizes  from 
6"  to  10",  requiring  from  3  to  16  h.  p.  according  to  size  and  type. 
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cows  do  not  produce  when  given  good  feed  should  examine  them  carefully  and 
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anuary,  1927 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


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Wheel  it  in 

Start  Milking 

No  installation — no  pipe  lines — no  vacuum  tanks — no  pulsators 
no  complex  teat  cups — no  valves — no  separate  pails 


as  Engine 

•lectric  of 
'and  Power 


tVtLast! 


'es,  at  last,  the  milking  machine 
problem  is  solved.  It  is  SOLVED! 
|nd  we'll  prove  it  to  you. 

f  ir.  Dairyman!  You  can't  imagii;o 
•i'hat  this  Page  milker  will  mean  to 
[jou  until  you  use  it  on  your  own 
i|ows.    Just  wheel  it  in  (not  a 
ling  to  install)  and  you'll  see! 

And  It 's  So  Simple 

!o  pipe  lines  to  freeze  up  or  bother 
ith.  Visible  milk  flow.  Easy  to  take 
jipart.  (Our  free  booklet  explains  all 
Jiese  improvements  and  many  others.) 
[-The  Page  is  always  ready— so  simple 
rj  operate  and  no  complicated  ma- 
:  hinery  to  get  out  of  order,"  says 
'hos.  E.  McCary,  Manlius.N.  Y.  "My 
year  old  boy  operates  the  Page  as  well 
■  sa  man,"  writes  A.  Powers,  Tully.N.Y. 

The  Cows  Like  It 

i'he  Page  positive  break  in  vacuum  is 
ke  the  natural  sucking  of  a  calf.  It 
s  better  for  teats  and  udder. 

■ 

I  Cows  like  thePage  better  thanhand  milking," 
I  'rites  Charles  Collins,  Rake,  Iowa.  "Cows 
eemed  to  take  to  milker  right  from  start," 
;  ays  E.  J.  Kircher,  Benton,  111.  "Cows  that 
1  ave  to  be  hobbled  when  milked  by  hand  do 
1  ct  fuss  when  milked  by  Page,"  —  Geo.  H. 
wuiderson,  R.  4,  Lake  Lillian,  Minn. 

Solves  Labor  Problem 

Have  been  keeping  a  man  the  year  round  for 
y  years.  Now  the  Page  Milker  takes  his  place," 

/rites  F.  Bodine,  Ferndale,  Wis.  "The  Page 
'  Hows  us  to  dispense  with  an  extra  man," 

ays  Harry  F.  Schenk,  Leominster.  Mass. 

Price  Low- 
Upkeep  Very  Small! 

All  the  expense  I  have  is  about  $1.35  per 
i  car  for  teat  cup  rubbers,"  says  Irving  Clover, 
i  ;apeer,  Mich.  "Have  had  a  Page  8  years. 
;  rirst  cost  is  small  and  upkeep  very  small." — 
i  V.  L.  Quaas,  Dunbar,  Wis. 

Have  used  the  Page  nearly  3  ysars  without 
'>ne  cent  of  expense."— Benj.  A.  Weiss,  R.F.D. 

■lo.  1,  Lykens,  Pa. 

K  T  if  you  want  to  find  out  after  read- 

liOU)  'nK  wllat  other  dairymen  say, 
i  .  how  would  / OU  like  to  use  Page 

i  nilker  on  yourowncows?Write  for  free  book  on 
i  nilker  at  once.  Get  your  name  on  the  list.  No 
J  'bligations  but  you  must  act  at  once  because 
his  offer  is  void  after  we  have  introduced  the 
nilker  in  your  neighborhood.  First  come  first 
]  erved.  Send  coupon  at  once.  No  obligations. 


Clean  in  1  Minute 

Just  Pump  Water  Through ! 

It  almost  cleans  itself.  No  rubber  lined 
teat  caps  to  wash.  No  pipe  lines  or  vac- 
uum tanks  to  clean.  No  pulsator.  No 
extra  parts  to  bother  with.  No  pails  to 
wash— you  milk  right  intoYOUR  OWN 
shipping  cans.  Boon  to  housewives. 
Absolutely  sanitary. 

So  Easy  to  Clean! 

"The  Page  is  of  simple  construction 
and  cleans  easily  and  quickly,"  says 
J.  E.  Stowell,  Crown  Point,  Indiana. 
"The  Page  is  easily  kept  clean  —  and 
milk  is  cleaner  than  by  hand  milking." 
— B.  L.  Drisko,  Cresbard,  S.  D. 


Send  Coupon 

And  get  Letter  Explain- 
ing that  Offer 

And  that  offer  is  made  on 

THE  milker  which  we  tell  you 
solves  the  milker  problem.  Here 
is  the  latest,  the  best  and  sim- 
plest in  milking  machines: — 
don't  fail  to  look  into  this 
at  once! 

8  Months 
to  Pay 

And  remember: 


Mr.  Dairyman,  here  is  your  Chance 

to  find  out  about  this  remarkable  EXTRA  SPECIAL 
OFFER  by  sending  the  coupon  below  AT  ONCE.  Our  factory 
makes  this  offer  only  by  personal  letter  to  dairymen  who  own  8  to  40 
cows.  Even  though  you  know  you  won't  buy  a  milker  until  next  season, 
if  at  all,  write  us  today,  and  your  rights  (in  case  you 

should  want  it  later)  to  this  extraordinary  special  offer  and  direct 
rock-bottom  price  will  be  reserved  for  you  as  long  as  this  offer  lasts 
in  your  territory,  PROVIDED  you  write  NO W.  No  obligation  what- 
ever. Invest  a  2c  stamp — it  may  mean  $100  or  more  to  you! — Also: — 

FREE  Book! 

When  you  send  the  coupon,  we  send  you  with  our  special  offer  a 
booklet  that  tells  you  what  the  U.  S.  Government  Department  of 
Agriculture  says  on  the  milker  question.  This  book  quotes  the  agricultural 
departments  of  State  governments.  Also  gives  Prof.  Layson's  opinion  on  the  all- 
important  question  of  teat  cups — be  sure  to  read  Prof.  Layson's  opinion !  When 
you  send  the  coupon  you  get  that  free  booklet. 

And  Remember:  If  you  want  that  offer  (even  if  you  don't  know  when,  if  ever, 
you  may  want  to  buy  a  milker)  be  sure  to  get  your  name  in  now.  No  obligation. 
Now  we  warn  you  — so  send  the  coupon  at  once. 


Th  is  offer  is 
w  POSITIVELY 
for  introductory  purposes! 
VOID  the  day  we  withdraw 
the  offer.  That  personal 
letter  direct  from  our  fac- 
tory explains.  Only  one 
dairyman  in  any  neighbor- 
hood will  now  get  this  offer. 
So  if  you  don't  want  to  use 
a  milker  now,  reseive  the 
opportunity  for  later  even 
if  you  are  not  sure  you'll 
ever  use  the  opportunity. 
NO  OBLIGATION. 
Mail  crupon  at 
onceforcatalog  and 
special  letferoryou 
may  be  too  late. 


Dept.  S791 
Michigan  Ave.,  CHICAGO 


BURTON -PAGE  CO. 

Please  send  me  (without  obligation)  your  letter 
explaining  your  extra  special  offer. 

Also  send  your  free  illustrated  catalog  on  latest  model 
milkers  and  your  terms  of  8  months  to  pay. 

Also  copy  of  your  10-year  guarantee,  and  your  mammoth 
circular  of  letters  from  farmers  telling  how  they  use  your 
milker  on  their  own  cows. 


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Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1927 


Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 


Hearings  Ended  in  Rate  Case 


(Continued  from  page  one) 


FARMERS  TEST 
FERTILIZERS 


C.  J.  &  C.  C.  Wood  Decide  to 
Use  E.  S.  High  Analysis 
for  1927 


C.  J.  &  C.  C.  Wood,  Skowhegan, 
Maine,  ran  for  their  own  informa- 
tion a  test  on  three  fertilizers  dur- 
ing the  season  of  1926.  They  used 
a  well-known  4-6-10,  Eastern 
States  4-8-10,  and  Eastern  States 
8-16-20.  The  land  was  accurately 
measured,  the  fertilizer  actually 
used  was  weighed,  and  the  various 
plots  were  cultivated  in  identical 
fashion.  The  crop  was  dug, 
graded  and  weighed. 

For  every  dollar  spent  on  fer- 
tilizer, the  4-6-10  yielded  11.2  bu. 
of  marketable  potatoes,  the  East- 
ern States  4-8-10  13.3  bu.,  and  the 
Eastern  States  8-16-20  19  bu.  Per 
unit  of  plant  food,  both  Eastern 
States  mixtures  produced  prac- 
tically the  same  quantity  of  mar- 
ketable potatoes,  but  since  it  takes 
less  cash  to  buy  plant  food  in  the 
high  analysis  goods,  the  8-16-20  re- 
turned more  per  cash  dollar  spent 
for  fertilizer.  There  was  much  less 
of  the  8-16-20  to  handle,  truck  and 
store  because  the  Woods  used  less 
than  half  as  much  8-16-20  as  they 
did  4-8-10. 

Commenting  on  their  experi- 
ment in  a  letter  to  their  Exchange, 
C.  J.  &  C.  C.  Wood  stated,  "Shall 
use  all  Eastern  States  8-16-20  next 
year."  \-\ 

The  complete  story  of  this  record 
is  printed  in  the  December  East- 
ern States  Cooperator.  If  you  are 
interested,  fill  out  the  coupon  at- 
tached and  mail  it  at  once. 


Eastern  States 

Farmers'  Exchange, 
Box  1482,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Please  send  me  December  Eastern 
States  Cooperator. 

Name  

A  ddress  

Shipping  Station  


that  cost  study  as  a  factor  in  the  situation. 
It  was  the  greatest  surprise  they  ever  got 
and  no  matter  what  the  commission  even- 
tually decides  in  the  case,  the  fact  that 
the  dairy  interests,  by  hiring  the  right 
kind  of  men  to  represent  them,  threw  a 
real  scare  into  the  railroads  is  an  indi- 
cation of  the  new  day  in  agriculture. 

The  new  schedule  of  milk  transporta- 
tion rates  was  filed  with  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission  by  the  railroads  in 
the  latter  part  of  February.  The  first 
definite  move  against  it  was  made  in 
March  when  a  petition  to  have  the  new 
rates  suspended  was  made  by  the  New 
England  rate  comitittee  with  similar  pe- 
titions for  suspensions  from  the  H.  P. 
Hood  Company,  Whiting  Companies,  Bos- 
ton &  Suburban  Milk  Dealers'  Associa- 
tion and  the  Dairymen's  League  and  other 
New  York  interests  acting  jointly.  As 
the  result  of  these  petitions,  ably  pre- 
sented by  the  attorneys  for  the  dairy 
interests,  the  proposed  increase  in  rates  ■ 
was  suspended  until  Augustl,  the  limit 
of  time  to  which  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission  could  suspend  them  under  the 
law.  Subsequent  suspensions  of  the  rates 
have  been  made  by  agreement  of  the 
parties  in  order  to  give  time  to  go  through 
the  various  hearings,  briefs  and  argu- 
ments. 

The  first  hearing  was  held  before  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission  in  Bos- 
ton in  May.  At  that  time  the  famous 
"consolidated  cost  study,"  made  to  bolster 
up  the  claim  for  the  20  per  cent,  increase, 
was  presented.  It  was  a  voluminous  docu- 
ment with  figures  and  charts  enough  to 
choke  an  engine.  It  was  then  that  the 
"car  foot  miles"  came  into  the  limelight. 
(It  is  useless  to  try  to  define  what  that 
means.  Once  we  thought  we  knew  but 
since  we  have  decided  otherwise.  It  is 
altogether  too  complicated  for  the  un- 
trained mind.  But  the  experts  knew  all 
about  it.  They  swallowed  those  car  foot 
miles  and  throve  on  them.) 

In  this  cost  study  and  traffic  expert  tes- 
timony the  railroads  put  in  three  lines 
of  argument  which  were  later  laid  wide 
open.  The  first  was  that  they  gave  the 
same  weight  in  their  cost  study  to  cans 
of  milk  going  into  the  market  and  to  the 
empties  coming  back  to  the  country.  Sec- 
ond they  put  in  testimony  to  show  the 
great  amount  of  work  necessary  in  hand- 
ling milk  as  compared  with  other  lines. 
And  third  that  the  cost  of  handling  milk 
at  the  Boston  terminals  was  greater  th?" 
at  the  New  York  terminals  because  of 
more  complex  conditions. 

After  this  hearing  an  adiournment  was 
taken  for  60  days  to  give  the  dairy  inter- 
ests an  opportunity  to  study  the  cost  study 
of  the  railroads  and  make  answer  to  it. 
During  this  interval  the  experts  retained 
by  the  milk  rate  committee  tr-'"'>1»H  pf1 
over  the  principal  milk  shipping  railroads 
of  New  England,  riding  the  milk  trains  at 
all  sorts  of  hours  and  putting  up  with  all 
kinds  of  hardships.  But  they  got  the 
facts.  John  Libby  and  his  stop  watch 
must  have  made  the  station  employees 
wonder  considerably  but  it  did  the  trick. 
Our  men  saw  how  milk  was  handled  at 
stations  big  and  little  and  brought  back 
their  evidence  in  a  form  which  could  not 
be  refuted. 

At  the  next  hearing,  held  at  Plymouth, 
the  railroad  witnesses  were  cross  ex- 
amined. Here  was  where  the  real  fire- 
works began.  George  Eaton,  star  traffic 
witness  on  whom  the  railroads  pinned 
much  of  their  case,  was  forced  to  admit 
that  on  his  railroad,  the  Maine  Central, 
he  paid  little  attention  to  cost  studies  in 
determining  charges.  What  the  traffic 
would  bear  seemed  to  be  the  rule.  It  was 
also  brought  out  in  cross  examination  that 
the  railroads  had  included  in  their  cost 
study,  as  legitimate  charges  against  milk 
transportation,  the  cost  of  passenger  sta- 
tions which  were  not  used  by  milk  at  all, 
the  cost  of  road  maintenance  on  lines  over 
which  no  milk  was  moved  and  the  con- 
struction of  heavier  bridges,  laying  of 
heavier  rails  and  other  changes  due  al- 
together to  the  needs  of  long,  heavy 
freight  trains  in  which  milk  is  rarely 
moved.  The  cross  examination  showed 
that  the  cost  study  included  costs  on  lines 
of  roads  which  had  since  been  abandoned. 
The  allegation  of  the  railroads  that  serv- 
ice was  more  complex  in  Boston  than  in 
New  York  and  therefore  entitled  to  as 


much  or  greater  charges,  was  shown  to 
be  altogether  wrong.  The  service  at  the 
Boston  terminals  is  decidedly  simpler  and 
less  expensive.  It  was  during  this  cross 
examination  that  the  railroads  woke  up 
to  the  fact  that  they  were  up  against 
something  which  they  had  not  realized. 

Then  our  witnesses  were  put  on.  Mr. 
Pattee  testified  to  the  condition  of  the 
dairy  industry.  It  was  not  as  good  as  it 
should  be  but,  thanks  to  organization 
work,  had  not  suffered  so  badly  in  the 
past  few  years  as  some  other  lines  of 
agriculture.  Prof.  Ross  of  Cornell  was 
put  on  to  refute  the  claim  of  the  rail- 
roads that  milk  transportation  rates  into 
Chicago  were  higher  than  here.  He 
showed  that  there  was  no  proper  compari  • 
son  as  a  considerable  part  of  the  Chicago 
supply  goes  in  tank  cars  or  in  tank  trucks. 
Harry  P.  Young,  farm  management 
demonstrator  of  the  University  of  Ver- 
mont, testified  that  the  returns  from  the 
sale  of  milk  in  that  state  are  growing  less 
and  that  the  cow  population  is  decreas- 
ing correspondingly.  There  is  a  tendency 
to  give  up  dairying  there,  he  said.  Wes- 
ley H.  Bronson  testified  as  to  the  large 
extension  of  milk  shipping  area  for  Bos- 
ton, also  to  the  fact  that  dairying  appears 
to  be  more  prosperous  in  the  three  south- 
ern New  England  states,  where  truck 
transportation  is  the  rule,  than  in  the 
three  northern  states  where  railroad 
transportation  costs  are  an  important  fac- 
tor in  bringing  down  the  returns. 

Another  hearing  was  held  in  Boston 
in  October.  Then  the  cost  study  got 
punched  full  of  holes  again,  so  much 
so  that  it  looked  pretty  weak  and  flabby. 
John  Libby  and  T.  G.  Goehegan,  experts 
for  the  milk  rate  committee,  introduced 
their  first  hand,  stop  watch  information 
on  time  expended  at  country  stations, 
showing  that  it  was  very  much  less  than 
what  was  given  in  the  cost  study.  It  was 
also  brought  out  that  Boston  consumers 
could  get  their  milk  considerably  fresher 
and  that  large  savings  could  be  made  in 
transportation  costs  if  the  milk  cars  for 
Forest  Hills  were  taken  across  the  city 
by  Union  freight  instead  of  the  round- 
about haul  through  Framingham. 

Two  more  sets  of  hearings,  one  in  New 
York  and  another  in  Boston,  completed 
this  phase  of  the  case.  John  T.  Finerty, 
chief  counsel  for'  the  rate  committee,  ex- 
pressed it  well  at  our  annual  meeting 
when  he  said.  "Win  or  lose,  it  was  a 
good  fight.  Your  dairy  committee  gave 
us  a  free  hand.  I  and  my  associates  gave 
all  there  was  in  us  to  this  fight. 

Back  of  these  trained  attorneys  and 
specialists  in  rate  cases,  was  a  committee 
representing  the  dairy  interests  of  all 
New  England.  Without  such  a  commit- 
tee it  woud  not  have  been  possible  to 
have  staged  such  a  fight.  Back  of  this 
committee  were  thousands  of  farmers 
who  gave  their  small  shares  in  the  ex- 
pense, believing  that  it  was  in  a  good 
cauase.  The  appreciation  of  every  dairy 
farmer  in  New  England  is  due  this  com- 
mittee, who  by  their  standing  shoulder 
to  shoulder  and  wisely  deciding  to  hire 
men  who  knew  how  to  handle  such  cases, 
gave  the  dairy  industry  the  best  chance  it 
ever  has  had  to  show  its  strength.  The 
members  of  the  committee  are  Carl  C. 
Fletcher,  Shelburne,  Vt.,  chairman,  Wes- 
ton B.  Haskell  for  Maine,  Carl  A.  Smith 
for  New  Hampshire,  E.  H.  Bickford  for 
Vermont,  C.  A.  Bray  for  Massachusetts, 
Francis  S.  Thayer  for  Rhode  Island,  R. 
A.  Sikes  for  Connecticut  and  Wesley  H. 
Bronson  for  the  NEMPA.  There's  one 
other  fellow  that  has  not  yet  been  men- 
tioned, our  own  attorney,  Reuben  Hall. 
He  fought  the  battle  through  with  the 
rest  except  for  one  hearing  which  was 
inconveniently  set  at  the  same  date  as 
Reuben's  marriage.  He  chose  the  wed- 
ding. 


Murphy  had  just  been  presented  with 
triplets  and  was  so  elated  over  the  event 
that  he  called  in  everybody  to  see  them. 
Among  the  visitors  was  Hogan. 

"An'  what  do  ye  think  of  that?"  de- 
manded the  proud  father,  pointing  to 
his  row  of  offspring. 

"Well,"  replied  Hogan,  judiciously, 
looking  the  babies  over  carefully  and 
pointing  to  an  especially  healthy  speci- 
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THIS  HERD  WON  A  $1,000  AWARD  FOR  GOOD  FEEDING 


Farm  and  winning  herd  of  W.  ]. 
Schimmelpfenig,  Marshfield, Wis. 


We  fed  the  right  feed  liberally 

And  Mr.Schimmelpfenigs  profit 
went  up  43% 


WHEN  W.  J.  Schimmelpfenig  got  a  new 
manager  for  his  dairy  farm  at  Marsh' 
field,  Wis.,  last  March,  his  herd  of  19 
Holsteins  got  a  new  ration. 

Peter  Bushman,  the  new  manager,  talked  en- 
thusiastically about  Corn  Gluten  Feed.  He  had 
fed  it  for  16  years.  So,  the  next  day  after  he 
came,  a  load  of  it  arrived  at  the  Schimmelpfenig 
barn. 

The  records  of  the  Marshfield  Cow  Testing 
Association  take  up  the  story  here.  From  April 
1  to  October  1,  1926,  six  high  cows  produced 
53,732  pounds  of  milk.  They  ate  a  grain  ration 
of  which  39%  was  Corn  Gluten  Feed  (see  ration). 


Compare  the 
two  years 

Now  look  at  1925.  Five 
of  the  same  cows  were 
in  the  herd.  A  sixth,  the 
high  cow  of  that  year,  is 
added  to  make  a  fair  com' 
parison.  These  six  cows 
produced  38,638  pounds 
of  milk.  They  ate  home 
grown  grains  largely, 


THE  RATION 

Average  ration  for  6  months  of  1926 

Corn  Gluten  Feed  (39%). .  300  lbs. 

Oats  170  lbs. 

Oil  meal  100  lbs. 

Corn  100  lbs. 

Barley  and  oats  ico  lbs. 

THE  RESULT 

(the  six  cows) 
1925  1926 

Apr. — Oct.    Apr. — Oct.  Increase 
Milk  38,638  lbs.      53,732  lbs.  15,C9-tlbs. 

fee°d™f     *524-23  $75L36  43% 


with  small  amounts  of  concentrates.  "Stump" 
pasture  both  years. 

Thirty-nine  per  cent  more  milk  in  1926;  43% 
more  profit!  For  this  record,  certified  by  the 
official  tester  of  the  association,  Mr.  Schimmel- 
pfenig was  awarded  first  prize  of  $1,000  in  the 
contest  conducted  by  the  Associated  Corn  Prod- 
ucts Manufacturers  to  encourage  better  feeding. 

Good  feed,  good  feeding 

"We  fed  the  right  feed  liberally,"  says  Mr. 
Bushman. 

There  is  much  meaning  in  those  words.  This 
herd  was  not  superior  in  productive  capacity  to 
thousands  of  others.  It 
was  fed  Corn  Gluten 
Feed  liberally  —  before 
pasture  came  and  with 
pasture. 

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F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 
477  E»»ex  Street  -  -  Lawrence,  Mass. 

DECEMBER  PRICES 

Manchester,  N.  H  68c    per  8]/2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  74.4c  per  8l/2  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  90c    per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass   72c    per  8    qt.  can 

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Portland,   Me   7.8c  per  qt. 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers 
and  Beverly,  Mass. ..72c  per  8  qt.  can 
The  above  named  prices  are  those  that 
are  in  effect  and  recognized  in  these  mar- 
kets of  our  district.  On  December  1st 
a  price  card  announcing  an  advance  of 
one-half  cent  per  quart  was  sent-  out  to 
producers  and  dealers  in  the  Manchester, 
N.  H.  market.  A  few  days  after  the 
card  announcing  the  advance  of  one-half 
cent  per  quart  went  out  dealers  in  the 
Manchester  market  complained  that  many 
of  the  small  dealers  and  one  of  the  large 
dealers  did  not  intend  to  recognize  this 
price  advance  of  one-half  cent  per  quart. 
The  district  manager  made  trips  into  the 
country  to  talk  with  producers  selling  to 
these  dealers  who  had  refused  to  recog- 
nize the  advance  in  price.  These  pro- 
ducers were  not  members  of  the 
NEMPA  and  would  not  agree  to  back 
up  the  district  manager  and  request  their 
dealers  to  advance  one-half  cent  per 
quart. 

The  Manchester  market  consumes 
something  like  28,000  quarts  of  milk  a 
day,  and  my  survey  showed  that  slightly 
over  one-fourth  of  this  milk,  or  7,500 
quarts  to  be  exact,  would  come  into  the 
market  with  no  advance  in  price  for  De- 
cember. Recognizing  this  fact  and  fail- 
ing to  get  any  support  from  the  farmers 
selling  to  the  small  Manchester  dealers 
and  to  one  large  Manchester  dealer,  we 
were  forced  to  abandon  the  idea  of  hold- 
ing the  market  firm  for  the  advance  of 
one-half  cent  per  quart,  therefore  the 
price  was  returned  to  8  cents  per  quart 
which  has  been  the  price  basis  since  July 
1st,  1926. 

It  is  unfortunate  that  the  farmers 
around  Manchester  cannot  get  together 
for  their  own  good.  There  is  no  ques- 
tion but  what  they  are  losing  money  try- 
ing to  produce  milk  for  a  less  return 
than  are  those  producing  milk  for  other 
markets  in  our  district. 

There  has  been  reported  a  great  deal 
of  cutting  of  retail  prices  among  the 
small  dealers.  This  is  largely  due  to  the 
fact  that  the  milk  is  bought  below  cost 
of  production  in  the  country,  and  of 
course  they  resell  it  cheap.  This  hurts 
the  business  of  the  dealer  who  is  paying 
a  fair  price  for  his  milk,  and  of  course 
he  kicks  on  paying  any  advance  in  price 
unless  the  fellow  who  has  been  buying 
the  cheaper  supply  in  the  country  is  going 
to  be  forced  to  pay  more.  The  NEMPA 
officers,  members  of  the  sales  committee 
and  district  manager  all  realize  the  prob- 
lem around  Manchester. 

Meetings  have  been  held  of  those  locals 
which  surround  the  city  and  a  combined 
constructive  effort  will  be  made  to  at- 
tempt to  show  the  local  nearby  Man- 
chester producers  the  advisibility  of  com- 
ing into  the  NEMPA  and  supporting  fair 
prices  for  their  milk. 

All  of  the  other  markets  seem  to  be 
going  along  nicely.  The  Lowell  market 
which  did  not  advance  in  the  middle  of 
November,  but  did  advance  on  Decem- 
ber 1st,  seems  to  be  running  smoothly. 
Prices  paid  in  the  country  seem  to  be 
uniform  and  no  serious  complaints  charg- 
ing that  others  have  not  recognized  price 
advances  have  been  received  from  any 
of  the  Lowell  dealers. 

Production 

There  seems  to  be  a  slight  increase  in 
production,  doubtless  due  to  the  fact  that 
farmers  are  feeding  better  and  that  more 
cows  are  freshening  at  this  season  of  the 
year.  Supplies  in  most  of  our  markets 
have  not  become  burdensome,  in  fact 
Dealers  report  that  the  higher  prices 
caused  some  curtailment  of  consumption 


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N     W    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


x 

|)f  milk  in  the  cities.  This  will  disappear 
U  little  bit  as  the  consumers  get  used  to 
jhe  new  price,  but  sales  ought  to  pick 

lp  during  cold  weather  when  there  is  a 
^reat  demand  for  milk  for  use  in  soups 

ind  stews. 

Annual  Meetings 
Fourteen  of  the  annual  meetings  of  the 
t  listrict  have  already  been  held.  These 
iccurred,   many   of    them,    in  territory 
Afhere  the  milk  was  going  to  the  Man- 
:hester  Dairy  System,  and  the  members 
jf  the  NEMPA  in  these  sections  are  also 
-nembers  of  the  Manchester  Dairy  Sys- 
tem.   Carl  Smith,  manager  of  the  Man- 
hester   Dairy   System,   was   present  at 
hese  meetings  to  discuss  matters  per- 
aining  to  the  System's  affairs  with  the 
'  producers.    The  district  manager  at  all 
meetings  discussed  conditions  in  all  mar- 
cets  of  the  district.    Some  of  the  mar- 
kets at  all  times  are  running  smoothly, 
[while  at  the  same  time  there  seems  to 
1 1  one  or  more  that  is  having  trouble. 
There  are  generally  reasons  for  a  good 
condition   in  a  market,   and  of  course 
..here  are  always  reasons  for  poor  con- 
iitions. 

Most  of  these  troubles  which  make  for 
ow  prices  to  producers  are  caused  by  the 

'.ack  of  co-operation  among  the  farmers. 

\\t  every  meeting  these  causes  and  their 
;ffect  on  market  prices  were  discussed 

I  n  full  by  the  district  manager.  In  this 
way  it  is  hoped  to  make  the  general  mem- 
)ership  more  familiar  with  market  prob- 
lems, and  if  these  causes  of  trouble  are 
inderstood,  we  hope,  that  all  will  attempt 
ay  united  action  to  assist  in  straightening 
3ut  the  difficulties. 

Officers  were  elected  for  the  locals  as 
follows : 

Pittsfield,  N.  H.,  president,  H.  O. 
Dahman;  secretary,  F.  M.  Morrill. 

Suncook  Valley,  N.  H.,  president, 
Blanchard  H.  Fowler ;  secretary,  Russell 
i5.  Yeaton. 

Contoocook  and  Warner,  N.  H.,  presi- 
dent, Arthur  Clark ;  secretary,  Chas.  M. 
Harriman. 

Bradford,  N.  H„  president,  E.  H. 
Dodge ;  secretary,  Oscar  A.  Colburn. 

Henniker,  N.  H.,  president,  Frank  A. 
Sargent;  secretary,  Fred  T.  Connor. 

Bedford,  N.  H.,  president,  George 
Pookin;  secretary,  Wm.  S.  Manning. 

Dunbarton,  N.  H.,  president,  Ira  M. 
Waite ;  secretary,  David  Story. 
I   Londonderry,  N.  H.,  president,  Stacy 
Sheldon;  secretary,  A.  M.  Parks. 

Dunstable,   Mass.,  president,  John  F. 
jKelley;  vice-president,  Bert  G.  Spauld- 
iing ;   secretary  and  treasurer,  John  H. 
Hemlow;  market  committee,  Herbert  M. 
Kendall. 

Chelmsford,  Mass.,   president,  Arthur 
E.  Dutton ;  secretary,  Paul  F.  Swanson ; 
market  committee,  E.  E.  Paignon ;  rating 
bommittee,  G.  Leslie  Putnam. 
I    Candia,    N.    H.,   president,    Chas.  P. 
Robie;  secretary,  Paul  E.  Sargent. 
I   Auburn,  N.  H.,  president,  Wm.  J.  Moy ; 
Secretary,  Edgar  L.  Preston, 
jl   Lawrence,  Mass.,  president,  Belmont  H. 
JFox ;    vice-president,    H.    A.    Whittier ; 
ecretary,  Herbert  Lewis. 
Derry,  N.  H.,  president,  Chas.  Pflug ; 
^secretary,  Van  Ness  Smith. 

The    producers    of    Contoocook  and 
^Warner,  N.  H.,  are  to  be  congratulated 
i  because  they  have  organized  a  new  local 
unit  of  the  NEMPA  with  Arthur  Clark 
as  president  and  Chas.  M.  Harriman  as 
secretary.    Both  of  these  members  are 
iyoung  men,  but  they  have  the  spirit  of 
:o-operation  and  loyalty  and  are  willing 
to  do  what  they  can  toward  bettering 
'.conditions. 

:   There  can  be  no  doubt  but  what  the 

H Warner-  Contoocook  local  will  do  its 
share  as  a  duly  organized  local  unit  of 
the  NEMPA. 

i    The  Derry,   N.   H.,   local   has  reor- 
ganized.   At  their  annual  meeting  they 
elected  Chas.  Pflug  as  president  and  Van 
■;Ness  Smith  as  secretary.    One  of  the 
best  meetings  the  district  manager  has 
attended  was  held  in  the  club  house  at 
I  Hubbards,  which  is  on  the  boundary  line 
;of  Derry  and  North   Salem.     This  is 
where  the  members  of  the  Derry  local 
meet.    They  had  been  saving  their  ques- 
tions for  a  long  time  and  it  took  from  8 
|  until  10.30  to  carry  on  the  business  of 
j  this  local  and  every  minute  was  filed  with 
i  constructive  work.   Members  of  this  local 
are  selling  their  milk  in  Haverhill  and 
^Lawrence,  Mass.,  markets. 


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Page  Twelve 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  COUNCIL 

(Continued  from  page  four) 

ing  will  be  announced  soon.  The 
NEMPA  will  go  into  this  meeting  with 
a  full  belief  that  the  conference  board 
will  solve  many  vexatious  problems.  It 
will  be  prepared  to  assist  in  setting  up 
such  a  conference  board  in  every  pos- 
sible way.  ,    i  xt 

The  friendly  assistance  of  the  New 
England  Council  may  have  great  weight 
in  settling  the  vexed  question  of  chain 
store  milk  so  that  it  will  stay  settled  and 
not  keep  bobbing  up  again.  While  it  is 
not  yet  clear  just  what  action  the  council 
could  take,  beyond  the  investigation  of 
conditions,  it  is  felt  that  their  influence 
will  be  great.  The  council  membership 
includes  some  of  the  biggest  business  en- 
terprises in  New  England.  The  whole- 
hearted way  in  which  these  business  men 
have  expressed  their  concern  over  the 
situation  which  has  arisen  and  their  de- 
sire to  be  of  help  cannot  help  but  have 
an  effect.  .    ,  , 

It  was  suggested  at  the  agricultural 
committee  conference  that  an  effort 
should  be  made  to  get  all  parties  inter- 
ested together  in  a  joint  meeting  to  dis- 
cuss the  problem.  It  was  pointed  out, 
however,  that  it  would  be  best  for  the 
council  to  hear  both  sides,  or  all  sides, 
of  the  question  privately  first  and  then 
to  attempt  to  bring  the  various  interests 
together  on  the  basis  of  some  program 
which  seemed  to  promise  results.  The 
first  step  is  for  the  council,  through  its 
argicultural  committee,  to  find  out  for 
itself  what  the  facts  are.  Our  NEMPA 
records  and  all  information  in  our  pos- 
session are  at  the  disposal  of  the  agri- 
cultural committee  of  the  council  and  we 
hope  that  the  other  agencies  concerned 
will  be  equally  open  to  this  friendly  ef- 
fort to  help. 


INCREASED  WORK 


Dairy  Council  Sees  Opportunity 
if  Revenue  Increases 

The  Philadelphia  plan,  as  outlined 
briefly  elsewhere  in  this  issue,  would  give 
the  New  England  Dairy  and  Food  Coun- 
cil the  opportunity  it  has  long  wished 
for.  Prof.  W.  P.  Lockwood,  manager 
of  the  council,  sees  the  possibilities  more 
clearly  than  anyone  else  as  he  is  nearest 
to  the  problem.  Chief  among  the  things 
which  he  hopes  may  be  made  possible 
through  increased  support  is  that  the 
good  work  now  being  done  in  Boston 
could  be  made  to  cover  some  of  the  other 
cities.  With  the  somewhat  limited  ap- 
propriations it  has  not  been  possible  to 
demonstrate  the  value  of  the  work  in 
lesser  markets  except  in  a  few  places 
where  local  dealers  and  producers  are 
ready  to  contribute  the  support.  He  be- 
lieves that  if  some  of  the  increased  funds 
could  be  spent  in  a  sort  of  missionary 
work  in  the  smaller  cities  the  dealers  and 
nearby  producers  would  soon  see  its  value 
and  would  be  willing  to  pay  their  share 
in  the  expense.  But  an  actual  demon- 
stration is  needed  before  they  will  do  so. 

Another  line  which  can  be  very  profit- 
ably increased  if  there  is  sufficient  money 
to  warrant  it  is  the  newspaper  advertis- 
ing. The  past  year  saw  a  substantial  be- 
ginning made  on  this  way  of  promoting 
the  use  of  milk  and  thus  decreasing  the 
surplus  and  .  increasing  the  actual  return 
to  the  farmers.  During  the  flush  period 
good  sized  advertisements  were  carried 
in  the  leading  Boston  papers.  This  ap- 
pealed especially  to  the  dealers  although 
the  advertising  was  on  the  general  use  of 
milk  and  did  not  name  any  one  or  more 
dealers.  It  was  their  universal  belief 
that  this  steady  advertising  of  the  health 
value  and  food  value  of  milk  was  a  sub- 
stantial factor  in  increasing  sales.  They 
could  supplement  it  with  personal  ad- 
vertising if  they  wished.  The  class  of 
advertising  which  was  put  out  under 
Prof.  Lockwood's  leadership  was  of  a 
particularly  high  order  and  did  much  to 
place  milk  as  one  of  the  products  which 
is  being  advertised  absolutely  on  its 
merits.  With  an  increased  revenue  it 
would  be  possible  to  extend  the  season 
of  newspaper  advertising,  perhaps  to 
carry  moderate  sized  advertisements 
throughout  the  year  and  to  use  consid- 
erably more  space  during  the  flush  sea- 


son when  it  is  particularly  desirable  to 
stimulate  sales. 

Then  there  is  the  work  in  schools  which 
has  been  developed  about  as  far  as  is 
possible  with  the  present  staff.  In  the 
years  which  the  council  has  been  work- 
ing it  has  built  up  a  strong  demand  for 
its  services  from  school  teachers,  prin- 
cipals and  superintendents.  With  the 
present  limited  budget  it  is  possible  to 
get  around  to  the  schools  in  Boston  only 
once  in  two  years.  There  are  ample  op- 
portunities to  make  much  more  frequent 
visits  and  to  keep  the  interest  from  flag- 
ging. Prof.  Lockwood  believes  that  it 
would  be  a  substantial  gain  in  the  effi- 
ciency of  the  work  if  more  frequent 
visits  could  be  made  to  each  school.  He 
feels  that  with  sufficient  money  avail- 
able it  would  be  possible  to  visit  them  at 
least  once  a  year  and  perhaps  in  many 
instances  to  make  more  frequent  visits. 
The  whole  question  is  one  of  getting  a 
big  enough  staff  to  make  the  work  ef- 
fective. It  is  the  general  feeling  among 
the  teachers  that  it  is  far  better  for  the 
council  workers  to  come  into  the  schools 
and  present  the  value  of  milk  through 
talks,  stereopticon  views,  etc.,  than  to 
simply  furnish  the  printed  material  and 
leave  it  to  the  teachers  to  do  the  present- 
ing. Aside  from  this  more  frequent  visit- 
ing of  the  schools  in  Greater  Boston 
there  is  a  big  field  which  the  council 
workers  have  hardly  touched  in  the  good 
sized  places  within  30  miles  of  Boston. 
It  has  not  been  possible  to  attempt  to 
systematically  cover  these  places  and  all 
that  the  council  has  been  able  to  do  is 
to  respond  to  invitations  when  it  could. 
Even  at  that,  it  has  not  always  been  pos- 
sible to  meet  all  the  requests  in  this  en- 
larged area. 

The  plays  which  have  been  developed 
for  use  in  schools,  clubs  and  playgrounds, 
all  stimulating  the  use  of  milk,  have 
proved  popular.  One  council  worker  is 
kept  busy  all  the  time  in  putting  on  these 
little  plays.  There  is  plenty  of  oppor- 
tunity to  increase  this  fine  type  of  work 
especially  interesting  to  the  little  folks 
and  attracting  the  attention  of  their  par- 
ents as  well.  Another  play  worker 
would  be  kept  busy  all  the  time  in  Bos- 
ton and  there  is  practically  no  limit  to 
that  kind  of  work  in  the  large  field 
around  Boston.  The  lesser  markets  also 
afford  a  golden  opportunity  for  the  de- 
velopment of  this  kind  of  work. 

Still  another  field  which  Prof.  Lock- 
wood  feels  should  be  developed  more 
strongly  is  ih  the  factories.  The  present 
staff  has  done  what  it  could  in  presenting 
the  value  of  milk  at  noon  talks  and  other 
gatherings  but  in  the  press  of  work  for 
schools,  playgrounds,  etc.,  it  has  not  been 
possible  to  get  into  anywhere  nearly  as 
many  factories  as  could  be  reached.  This 
presentation  of  the  value  of  milk  for 
adults  supplements  and  enlarges  the  ef- 
fectiveness of  the  work  done  with  chil- 
dren. The  same  thing  applies  to  stores 
with  their  great  body  of  workers. 


CHAIN  STORE  WAR 


SIX  MONTHS'  PRICE 

Conditions  in  the  Worcester  market 
have  been  looking  a  little  better  of  late 
but  there  has  been  considerable  variation 
in  prices  paid  by  dealers.  Sharp  com- 
petitive conditions  exist  and  the  milk  is 
being  resold  at  small  margins.  The  chain 
store  situation  there,  while  it  has  not  as- 
sumed any  such  acute  condition  as  in 
Springfield,  has  been  more  or  less  trouble- 
some. At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Wor- 
cester marketing  committee  it  was  de- 
cided to  try  to  straighten  out  the  situa- 
tion by  making  the  price  7y2  cents  per 
quart  for  the  next  six  months.  It  was 
felt  by  dealers  and  by  members  of  the 
marketing  committee  that  the  fore- 
knowledge of  this  continuance  of  the 
price  might  forestall  price  cutting  and  in 
a  few  months  bring  the  market  to  a  more 
stable  condition  than  it  has  had  for  some 
time. 


"Have  you  a  Charles  Dickens  in  your 
home?"  asked  the  polite  book  agent. 
"No  I"  she  snapped. 
"Or  a  Robert  Louis  Stevenson?" 

"No!" 

"Or  a  Gene  Field?" 

"No,  we  ain't,  and,  what's  more,  we 
don't  run  no  boardin'  house.  If  you're 
lookin'  for  them  fellows,  you  might  try 
the  house  across  the  street." 


Springfield  Situation  is  Still  Un- 
settled 

Springfield  has  its  own  chain  store 
milk  problem.  It  has  been  rocking  the 
market  for  some  time  and  is  still  the 
chief  topic  of  interest  among  the  dairy- 
men. Five  cents  a  quart  has  been  the 
low  limit  but  that  was  only  for  a  special 
sale  on  one  day.  At  present  milk  at  all 
chain  stores  is  selling  at  10  cents  and 
most  of  the  stores  are  paying  10  cents 
for  their  supply.  A  bread  war  is  going 
on  along  with  the  milk  war  and  some- 
times one,  sometimes  the  other  are  in  the 


limelight.  The  sales  committee  for  that 
market  will  meet  sometime  before  Janu- 
ary 15  to  consider  the  situation  and  to 
take  such  action  as  seems  wise  in  at- 
tempting to  straighten  out  the  situation. 

A  year  ago  the  NEMPA  price  in  the 
Springfield  market  was  8^2  cents  per 
quart  with  the  surplus  plan  in  effect  on 
all  milk  sold  under  the  NEMPA  price 
negotiations.  Nash,  Mallory  and  Tait, 
three  good-sized  dealers  in  the  Spring- 
field market,  were  paying  7y2  cents  a 
quart  delivered,  but  they  carried  little  if 
any  surplus  and  their  price  in  the  country 
was  not  much  different  from  the  price 
of  the  surplus  plan  dealers,  including  the 
Springfield  Dairy  System,  who  were  pay- 
ing the  8^2  cent  price. 


Advertising  pays  you ! 

Advertising  brings  to  millions,  at  reasonable 
prices,  comforts  and  conveniences  which  without 
advertising  would  be  luxuries  that  only  a  few 
could  enjoy. 

America  is  an  advertising  nation.  That  is  one 
reason  why  the  man  with  moderate  means  here 
enjoys  more  comforts  than  most  wealthy  men 
abroad. 

Because  thousands  on  thousands  of  people  ask 
for  a  certain  article  by  the  same  name,  which  they 
have  read  in  the  same  advertisements,  it  is  possible 
for  the  advertiser  to  sell  this  item  at  a  minimum 
of  effort. 

It  is  therefore  possible  to  manufacture  and  to 
distribute  this  product  at  a  saving  which  you  share 
with  the  advertiser. 

When  you  figure  the  number  of  these  items  in 
your  daily  life  built  by  advertising,  you  can  appre- 
ciate that  advertising  does  pay  you! 

Advertisements  enable  you  to  buy 
better  things  at  less  cost 


Fills  and  C  aps 


A  MINUTE 


January,  1927 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


The  relation  of  prices  in  December, 
1925,  was  %Vz  cents  to  the  farmers,  de- 
livered in  the  market,  12  cents  at  chain 
stores  and  15  cents  for  home  delivery. 
During  that  month  the  Phillips  stores 
went  to  11  cents  and  then  to  10  cents. 
Other  stores  selling  milk  followed  suit. 
Eleven  cents  was  the  general  price. 

On  March  15  the  NEMPA  price  was 
reduced  to  7^  cents.  The  price  which 
Nash,  Mallory  and  Tait  paid  for  local 
milk  was  also  reduced.  Chain  stores 
then  went  to  10  cents  and  family  de- 
livered milk  to  14  cents.  The  drop  of 
2  cents  in  the  chain  store  price  with  a 
drop  of  only  1  cent  in  the  family  de- 
livered price  left  the  margin  between 
these  two  classes  of  trade  unduly  wide. 
In  July  the  NEMPA  price  went  back 
to  VA  cents,  the  chain  stores  to  11 
cents  and  the  home  delivery  price  to 
1'5  cents.  The  margin  between  chain 
stores  and  home  delivery  remained  too 
great  for  the  stability  of  the  market. 

This  condition  continued  until  the 
Boston  market  went  up  a  half-cent  No- 
vember 15,  from  %y2  to  9  cents  per 
quart  delivered.  Most  of  the  lesser 
markets  made  an  advance  then  or  De- 
cember 1.  The  question  of  an  advance 
in    Springfield    was    taken    up   by  the 


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sales  committee  for  that  market  and 
they  decided  that  an  advance  of  a  full 
cent  might  help  to  straighten  out  the 
chain  store  situation  by  increasing  the 
resale  price  of  dealers  for  bottled  and 
pasteurized  milk  to  chain  stores.  The 
announcement  of  a  9l/2  cent  price  No- 
vember 21  was  immediately  followed 
by  an  increase  in  the  price  of  the  First 
National  and  A.  &  P.  stores  to  12  cents. 
Both  of  these  chain  stores  purchase 
their  supply  from  the  United  Dairy 
System,  successor  to  the  Springfield 
Dairy  System.  The  fact  that  these 
chain  stores  did  advance  their  price  is 
the  best  evidence  that  the  United 
Dairy  System  did  advance  their  price. 

The  Phillips  chain  stores,  purchas- 
ing their  supply  from  the  Brattleboro 
Co-operative,  did  not  go  up  with  the 
others  but  remained  at  11  cents.  It  is 
claimed  that  the  Brattleboro  Co- 
operative sells  to  the  Phillips  chain 
stores  on  the  announced  NEMPA  price 
plus  a  charge  of  pasteurization  and 
handling,  if  Brattleboro  actually  went 
up  in  its  price  to  the  Phillips  stores  at 
the  time  the  NEMPA  advance  was 
made  the  Phillips  stores  absorbed  the 
increase,  reselling  the  milk  practically 
at  cost.  During  Thanksgiving  week, 
when  sales  of  milk  are  good,  the  Phil- 
lips stores  were  selling  milk  a  cent  be- 
low the  other  chain  stores  and  they 
capitalized  this  in  advertising  the  fol- 
lowing Monday.  It  is  reported  that  this 
did  not  greatly  increase  their  sales,  but 
it  disturbed  the  feelings  of  their  com- 
petitors. 

The  result  of  this  uneasiness  came 
November  30  when  the  First  National 
Stores  and  the  A.  &  P.  went  back  to  11 
cents.  The  following  day  the  Phillips 
stores  went  to  10  cents.  Two  days 
later  the  A.  &  P.  went  to  9  cents.  The 
next  day,  Saturday,  the  Phillips  stores 
had  a  milk  sale  at  5  cents  a  quart.  They 
explained  this  by  saying  that  their  Fri- 
day milk  was  delayed  by  a  hot  box  and 
they  had  a  double  supply  Saturday  which 
they  wished  to  get  rid  of.  They  went 
back  to  10  cents  the  following  Monday, 
but  the  A.  &  P.  stores  continued  at  9 
cents.  After  a  few  days  of  this  partial 
harmony  was  restored  by  the  A.  &  P. 
going  to  10  cents.  All  store  milk  in  that 
market  is  now  10  cents  but  it  is  reported 
that  the  A.  &  P.  have  given  orders  that 
if  Phillips  has  another  sale  to  go  a  cent 
lower,  no  matter  where  it  is. 

Meanwhile  the  home  delivery  price  re- 
mained the  same.  No  advance  was  made 
November  15  when  the  NEMPA  price 
went  up  to  9l/2  cents  and  no  decrease  was 
made  when  the  chain  stores  began  their 
price-cutting  tactics.  The  5  cent  sales  by 
the  Phillips  stores  on  Saturday  did  not 
create  much  disturbance  in  the  market, 
as  it  was  for  only  one  day,  and  resulted 
in  a  considerable  number  of  people  buy- 
ing extra  milk  for  Sunday.  Few  regular 
customers  of  the  dealers  decreased  their 
order,  except  possibly  for  the  Sunday 
morning  delivery. 

The  situation  is  confused  by  the  fact 
that  the  three  co-operative  organizations 
selling  milk  in  the  Connecticut  Valley 
(United  Dairy  System  and  the  Holyoke 
and  the  Brattleboro  Co-operatives)  do 
not  appear  to  be  working  harmoniously 
together.  This  difficulty  is  increased  by 
the  fact  that  three  considerable  dealers 
in  Springfield,  Tait,  Mallory  and  Nash, 
are  .not  buying  on  the  NEMPA  plan, 
though,  as  a  matter  of  practice,  they 
follow  the  NEMPA  price,  up  or  down. 

The  third  and  most  difficult  problem 
arises  through  the  rivalry  of  the  chain 
stores.  They  have  a  price  war  on  bread, 
cocoa  and  some  other  commodities  which 
they  are  apparently  using  as  a  means  of 
getting  people  to  their  stores,  selling  at 
cost  or  less  in  the  expectation  of  attract- 
ing customers  and  making  up  the  money 
on  other  goods. 


Judge :  "Have  you  anything  to  offer 
the  court  before  sentence  is  passed  upon 
you?" 

Prisoner :  "No,  yer  honor ;  me  lawyer 
took  me  last  dollar." 


Bath,  Maine 
Nov.  30,  1926 

Amco  Feed  Mixing  Service 
Peoria,  111. 

Gentlemen: 

I  have  been  feeding  Amco  Feeds  for  the  past  six  months 
and  have  never,  in  my  experience  as  dairyman  for  the  past  20 
years,  been  able  to  mix  or  buy  a  ready-mixed  ration  that 
could  touch  Amco  20%  Dairy.  My  herd,  as  a  whole,  is  in  far 
better  condition  and  is  milking  better  than  any  previous  fall 
season. 

It  is  certainly  a  big  advantage  to  the  farmer  to  be  able  to 
buy  direct  from  "producer  to  consumer"  but  it  is  a  bigger  ad- 
vantage to  secure  such  highly  digestible  mixtures  of  grains. 

It  is  an  asset  to  us  farmers  to  be  able  to  buy  rations  ap- 
proved by  the  College  Feed  Conference  Board.  Their  recom- 
mendations show  their  value  in  the  live  stock. 

I  like  the  way  the  bags  are  sewed  up;  no  wires  for  the  cows 
to  swallow. 

Sincerely  yours, 

E.  MASON  WRIGHT 


THIS  MARK  ON 
MEANS  CONFERENCE 
BOARD  FORMULAS. 
"AMCO  MIXED" 


"I  think  there  is  something  so  romantic 
about  a  night  watchman." 

Watchman:  "Yer  right,  ma'am;  it  set- 
tles in  me  por  ol'  legs  sometimes  till  I 
can't  'ardly  walk." 


Amco  Feed  Mixing  Service 
gives  you  what  you  want. 
The  tag  on  every  bag  shows 
you  that  you  have  it. 

The  wide  experience  of 
College  advisers  is  back  of  the 
formula  of  Amco  20'^  Dairy. 
The  satisfaction  of  feeders  of 
Amco  20%  Dairy  justifies 
their  advice. 

If  you  do  not  know  the 
Amco  Feed  Mixing  Service 
agent  in  your  town,  write  to 
the  Springfield  office. 


AMCO 

f  FEED  MIXING  SERVICE 

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New  England  Division: 
23  Pearl  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 


Page  Fourteen 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1927 
— ^— — — — — — 


How  Much  of 
the  Milk  Check 
is  Yours? 

IF  you  are  spending  most  of 
your  milk  receipts  to  import 
feed,  you  are  giving  away  profits 
that  should  be  yours. 

By  increasing  and  improving 
your  own  clover  or  alfalfa,  you 
can  make  a  big  cut  in  your  feed 
bill.  Every  dollar  saved  this  way 
goes  into  your  own  pocket. 

To  make  a  good  succulent  hay 
crop  requires  only  a  small  in- 
vestment in  the  right  kind  of  fer- 
tilizer and  lime,  where  needed. 
Just  like  your  horses,  cows  or 
chickens,  clover  or  alfalfa  have 
to  be  properly  fed  to  do  their 
r>est  work. 

If  you  use  manure,  you  will  need 
to  add  phosphoric  acid  and  potash  — 
two  plant  foods  that  alfalfa  and  clover 
especially  need.  Add  enough  of  these 
to  your  manure  and  you  will  get  much 
better  results. 

When  the  need  for  potash  becomes 
acute,  you  will  notice  small  white  spots 
on  your  alfalfa  and  yellowish  brown 
ones  on  your  clover.  But  do  not  wait 
for  these  spots  to  appear.  Give  your 
hay  a  good  supply  of  plant  food  this 
year,  making  sure  that  you  include 
plenty  of  potash. 

You'll  get  more  and  better  hay,  and 
the  profit  that  you've  been  paying  ou 
in  feed  bills  will  be  yours. 

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When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


CONDITIONS  IN  THE 
MARKET 

(Continued  from  page  six) 
are  about  the  same  as  last  year.  The 
comparative  prices  are: 

1926      1926  1925 
Grain,  per  ton  ....$45.39    $45.04  $49.89 

Hay,  per  ton    16.40     15.50  15.60 

Labor,  per  hour  300       .300  .308 

Retail  prices  are  all  down  from  last 
year  with  a  remarkable  situation  where 
cotton  seed  meal  and  gluten  feed  can  be 
bought  at  very  nearly  the  same  price  as 
corn  meal. 

New  York  and  Boston  Prices 

The  New  York  pooled  price  for  3.7 
per  cent,  milk  in  the  181-200  mile  zone 
for  November  is  $2.82  compared  with 
our  weighted  average  price  for  Boston 
dealers  of  $2.85. 

WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 
Springfield,  Mass. 

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The  first  half  of  the  month  was  spent 
in  market  work  in  Springfield,  Holyoke 
and  Worcester.  The  Springfield  market 
situation  has  been  quite  confused,  due 
to  the  chain  store  situation.  It  is  taken 
up  elsewhere  in  this  issue. 

At  Worcester  the  market  situation  has 
been  improved  decidedly  by  the  forma- 
tion of  an  informal  association  among 
the  dealers.  This  association  has  elected 
a  committee  of  five  to  discuss  prices  and 
other  matters  pertaining  to  the  market 
with  the  producers.  This  committee  is 
Fred  Kingdon,  Henry  Wentzel,  C.  H. 
Porter,  George  Haire  and  C.  Salmonson. 
In  the  future  the  NEMPA  market  com- 
mittee will  meet  this  committee  of  deal- 
ers in  price  negotiations,  instead  of  meet- 
ing all  the  dealers  at  once.  It  will  be 
much  easier  and  more  satisfactory  to  ne- 
gotiate under  these  conditions.  There 
seems  to  be  a  wholesome  desire  on  the 
part  of  Worcester  dealers  to  work  with 
our  committee  in  studying  market  con- 
ditions and  negotiating  prices  on  the  basis 
of  the  viewpoint  of  the  good  of  the  in- 
dustry. I  believe  that  by  meeting  in  this 
way  and  discussing  problems  fairly  we 
will  be  able  to  establish  a  mutual  con- 
fidence which  will  be  for  the  welfare  of 
the  dairymen  throughout  the  Worcester 
milkshed.  . 

The  latter  part  of  the  month  was  spent 
in  organization  work  in  the  Eastern  New 
York  territory.  The  producers  there 
are  strong  for  the  NEMPA  and  appreci- 
ate its  work.  At  Johnsonville,  South 
Cambridge  and  Archdale  they  signed 
fully  90  per  cent,  on  the  new  dues  order 
basis  and  there  are  a  considerable  num- 
ber who  were  not  seen  for  one  reason 
or  another.  Greenwich  is  not  yet  fin- 
ished. 

The  Johnsonville  local  held  its  annual 
meeting  with  an  oyster  supper  Dec.  17, 
the  wives  and  families  being  present.  A 
talk  on  the  old  days  in  the  association 
and  before  it  was  formed  was  given  by 
Frank  Velie,  one  of  the  old  timers  who 
helped  organize  this  section.  He  is  still 
a  loyal  booster  for  the  association  and 
has  done  much  through  these  years  to 
strengthen  it  locally.  The  live  wire  of 
the  whole  meeting  was  ex-President  A. 
G.  Atwood,  70  years  old  and  still  going 
strong.  President  George  R.  Little  gave 
a  good  talk  on  the  work  of  the  associa- 
tion and  I  explained  the  new  service  work 
in  the  field.  The  officers  elected  were: 
President,  George  Barnet ;  secretary, 
Peter  Keegan. 

After  the  meeting  a  good  old-fashioned 
dance  was  held,  practically  every  one  of 
the  75  men,  women  and  children  present 
being  on  the  floor. 


Autoist  (lying  beside  wrecked  car)  : 
"Get  a  doctor  quick!" 

Scotchman : :  "Has  the  insurance  agent 
been  here  ?" 

Autoist :  "No,  not  yet." 

Scotchman :  "Move  over  a  wee  bit  so 
I  can  lay  down  beside  ye." 


Put  PEP 

in  her  milk  -  making  organs 

WHY  are  so  many  cows  logy,  lazy  milkers  during  the  winter 
months?  Why  do  so  much  of  your  milk  profits  fade  away 
through  the  expensive  disorders  that  so  seldom  occur  when 
your  cows  are  in  pasture? 

The  answer  is  simple— you  expect  too  much  of  their  digestive 
and  assimilating  organs.  You  suddenly  shift  them  from  tender 
green  pasturage  to  heavy,  dry  feeds.  They  are  deprived  of  ex- 
ercise. Their  physical  vigor  is  at  lowest  ebb  just  when  the  feed- 
ing demands  made  upon  them  are  at  the  peak. 

But  you  can  make  the  milk  pail  fill  in  spite  of  dry  feeds  and 
winter  weather.  Kow-Kare  builds  up  the  digestion  and  assimi- 
lation so  it  can  carry  this  extra  load.  Heavy  feeds  can  be  safely 
fed  and  fully  converted  into  milk  if  the  cow  is  given  this  active 
aid  to  her  milk-making  process. 

Kow-Kare  results  are  not  guess  work.  You  don't  have  to  use 
it  on  faith.  Just  keep  close  records  of  milk  yield  without  Kow- 
Kare,  then  compare  with  the  yield  two  or  three  weeks  after 
Kow-Kare  has  gotten  in  its  work.  The  cost  is  slight— a  single 
can  of  Kow-Kare  will  ration  one  cow  for  one  to  two  months. 

For  Cow  Diseases  —  and  at  Calving 

When  your  cows  freshen,  Kow-Kare  should  be  used  two  or 
three  weeks  before  and  after — to  assure  freedom  from  disorders, 
and  robust  health  to  cow  and  calf.  Troubles  at  calving  are  al- 
most unknown  where  Kow-Kare  is  used. 

For  the  treatment  cf  such  disorders  as  Barrenness,  Retained  Afterbirth, 
Abortion,  Bunches,  Scours,  Lost  Appetite,  etc.,  Kow-Kare  has  a  30-year 
reputation  as  the  one  reliable  aid  to  quick  recovery  and  full  production.  It 
costs  little  to  use— but  brings  big  returns  in  cow  health. 

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Feed  dealers,  general  stores,  drug- 
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Full  directions  on  can.  Mail  orders 
sent  postpaid  if  your  dealer  is  not 
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January,  1927 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fifteen 


SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
Slide  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 
Telephone,  Dexter  6469 

DECEMBER  DELIVERED  PRICES 

Providence,  R.  1  9c  per  qt. 

Fall  River,  Mass  9c  per  qt. 

Brockton,  Mass  9c  per  qt. 

Newport,  R.  1  9c  per  qt. 

New  Bedford,  Mass  9c  per  qt. 

Market  Conditions 
The  supply  of  milk  for  Providence 
has  been  short  most  of  the  time  up  to  last 
week.  Less  milk  has  been  coming  in  by 
rail  than  at  any  recent  time.  In  a  few 
instances  dealers  were  unable,  temporar- 
ily, to  get  a  sufficient  supply  to  meet 
their  regular  trade.  There  were  a  num- 
ber of  instances  where  dealers  had  to 
draw  on  the  next  day's  supply  in  order 
to  meet  the  demand.  This  condition  ap- 
pears to  be  past  as  all  dealers  now  have 
sufficient  supply.  Sales  normally  fall  oil 
somewhat  after  Christmas  and  this  has 
helped  the  situation  somewhat.  Dealers 
report  sales  good  for  the  season  and 
there  is  reason  to  believe  they  will  con- 
tinue so. 

Since  Nov.  16,  when  the  advance  in 
price  was  made,  the  retail  price  has  been 
15  cents  a  quart  and  the  wholesale  price 
has  been  12J/2  cents.  There  has  been  some 
disturbance  over  the  fact  that  one  group 
of  chain  stores  did  not  advance  their 
price  when  the  market  in  general  went 
up  and  continued  to  sell  for  12  cents.  It 
does  not  look  like  good  business  to  sell 
milk  for  12  cents  which  costs  \2l/2  cents 
but  the  advertising  value  of  the  milk, 
its  use  as  "bait"  to  get  people  into  the 
store  may  be  worth  while  from  the  chain 
store  viewpoint.  It  certainly  is  a  bad 
thing  for  the  milk  industry  as  a  whole 
as  it  creates  a  disturbing  element  in  the 
trade  and  tends  to  unsettle  conditions  all 
along  the  line.  Without  doubt  the  chain 
stores  can  easily  make  up  this  half  cent 
loss  in  their  profits  on  other  goods, "but 
the  much  more  businesslike  way  would 
be  to  sell  milk,  like  everything  else,  at 
a  fair  busines  profit  and  get  trade  by 
real  salesmanship  instead  of  selling  one 
article  below  cost  in  order  to  get  the 
opportunity  to  sell  other  articles  and 
make  a  larger  profit  on  them. 

The  Fall  River  market  has  also  been 
short  of  milk,  more  so  than  in  any  recent 
year.  One  of  the  reasons  is  the  high 
price  of  good  cows.  Conditions  are  such 
in  this  area  that  the  dairymen  buy  from 
outside  to  keep  up  their  herds  and  do 
not  raise  much  young  stock.  The  high 
price  of  cows  has  deterred  them  from 
keeping  their  herds  up  to  normal  by 
proper  replacements.  This  shortage  and 
high  price  of  good  cows  is  more  of  a 
factor  in  the  situation  than  it  would  have 
been  a  few  years  ago.  More  and  more  of 
the  farmers  have  decided  that  it  is  not 
good  business  to  keep  poor  cows.  Un- 
less they  can  find  good  ones  they  will 
not  buy  at  all.  A  few  years  ago  they 
would  buy  a  poor  producer  if  they  could 
not  get  a  good  one.  This  interest  in 
better  cows  is  a  wholesome  sign  of  the 
times.  Another  practice  in  this  region  is 
to  buy  cows  and  force  them  the  limit  for 
a  few  months  and  then  dispose  of  them  as 
best  they  could  and  then  replace  them 
with  others  which  would  in  turn  be 
forced  a  few  months  and  then  disposed 
of.  This  practice  might  have  been  all 
right  when  beef  was  up  in  price  and 
milk  was  low,  but  it  is  not  good  business 
now.  I  have  also  found  many  dairymen 
complaining  of  contagious  abortion  in 
their  herds.  Five  farms  I  visited  last 
week  were  sustaining  a  considerable  loss 
from  this  cause. 

Newport  has  been  short  like  the  rest 
of  the  southern  district  markets.  The 
shortage  has  resulted  in  a  most  unusual 
situation.  One  of  the  dealers  had  to 
purchase  a  part  of  his  necessary  supplies 
from  a  considerable  distance  outside 
while  there  was  a  large  amount  of  milk 
a  few  miles  from  the  city  taken  by 
other_  dealers  for  sale  in  Fall  River  and 
Providence.  With  the  exception  of  a 
short  time  in  the  summer,  when  sales 


are  very  large,  due  to  summer  business, 
Newport  dealers  have  had  plenty  of 
nearby  milk  at  all  times  previously. 

Brockton  market  has  been  running 
along  in  good  shape  through  the  month. 
The  supply  has  been  short  at  times  with 
the  exception  of  one  dealer  who  always 
carries  considerable  surplus.  The  sales 
committee  met  the  latter  part  of  Novem- 
ber and  went  over  the  situation  with  the 
principal  dealers.  The  price  was  ad- 
vanced from  8'/2  to  9  cents  but  the  dis- 
tributors did  not  advance  their  retail 
price  nor  did  the  chain  store  price  ad- 
vance. 

New  Bedford  has  had  the  most  even 
supply  of  any  of  the  markets  in  this  dis- 
trict. Sales  are  good  and  production  is 
apparently  increasing  somewhat.  I  have 
done  considerable  checking  on  the  17 
dealers  who  are  buying  on  the  weight 
and  test  basis  and  am  satisfied  that  the 
producers  who  ship  to  these  dealers  are 
getting  all  that  is  due  them  under  the 
weight  and  test  system.  I  appreciate 
the  co-operation  the  dealers  gave  me  in 
this  check  up  work.  Previous  to  this 
check  up  work  I  had  a  number  of  com- 
plaints from  producers  that  they  felt 
they  were  not  getting  fair  weights  and 
tests.  It  has  taken  considerable  time  to 
do  this  as  one  plant  a  day  is  about  all 
I  can  do. 

Two  days  were  spent  in  canvassing  the 
Little  Compton  local  with  the  assistance 
of  the  president  and  secretary.  Every 
man  but  one  whom  we  saw  signed  up  on 
the  new  two  cent  dues  order  basis.  As 
the  result  of  this  organization  .work  36 
producers  in  this  local  have  signed  the 
new  dues  orders.  The  active  interest 
taken  in  the  association  and  its  work  was 
shown  by  the  attendance  of  35  at  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  Little  Compton 
local.  Edward  Musey  was  re-elected 
president  and  Homer  A.  Davis  was  re- 
elected secretary.  Everett  Littlefield 
was  elected  member  of  the  sales  com- 
mittee. This  is  one  of  the  strong  locals 
in  the  district.  At  the  beginning  of  the 
year  there  were  62  members,  four  have 
sold  out  and  three  have  withdrawn, 
leaving  a  total  of  55  members,  nearly  all 
of  whom  are  paying  dues  regularly 
through  their  dealers. 


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New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairv  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  10.  Number  11. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  FEBRUARY,  1927 


50  C  ents  Per  Year 


LENROOT-TABER  BILL 
PASSES  SENATE 

The  Lenroot-Taber  bill  to  set  up  sani- 
tary standards  on  imported  milk  and 
rream  was  passed  Feb.  4  by  the  Senate 
)y  the  decisive  vote  of  51  to  27. 

This  was  the  dramatic  culmination  of 
one  of  the  most  bitterly  contested  legis- 
,ative  fights  in  the  history  of  the  milk 
i  ndustry.  During  the  course  of  the  Sen- 
tte  consideration,  enemies  of  the  bill  in- 
roduced  nearly  a  score  of  amendments 
vhose  objects  were  to  either  nullify  or 
veaken  its  provisions  so  as  to  make  it 
mpossible  to  administer  the  act. 

The  bill  now  goes  back  to  the  House 
or  concurrence  in  three  amendments 
^vhieh  were  made  in  the  Senate  and  ac- 
cepted by  the  advocates  of  the  measure. 
Dne  of  these  amendments  makes  an  ex- 
eption  to  the  tuberculin  test  and  the 
emperature  test  of  milk  when  such  milk 
5  produced  on  Canadian  farms  within 
0  miles  of  a  milk  plant  in  the  United 
itates  and  is  to  be  subsequently  pasteur- 
zed  before  consumption. 


FEBRUARY  PRICE  8  CENTS 

The  February  milk  price  remains  the 
lame  as  for  January,  8  cents  per  quart 
or  3.7  per  cent,  milk  delivered  in  Bos- 
on- The  sales  committee  took  up  the 
uestion  of  an  increase  in  the  price  for 
urplus  milk  with  the  various  dealers 
rid  met  with  the  expected  opposition. 
H  the  time  of  going  to  press  negotia- 
ions  are  still  in  progress. 

The  sales  committee  also  urged  the 
doption  of  the  "Philadelphia  Plan"  for 
qualizing  the  payment  to  producers  and 
roviding  for  payment  of  dues  to  the 
JEMPA  and  support  of  the  New  Eng- 
md  Dairy  and  Food  Council  in  an  or- 
erly  and  systematic  way.  The  sales 
ommittee  met  all  the  principal  dealers 
l  a  conference  on  this  matter  and  after 
oing  over  the  matter  decided  to  delay 
he  operation  of  the  plan  a  month  in 
rder  to  get  a  better  detailed  working 
asis  with  the  dealers. 


FIXING  RESPONSIBILITY 

Iq  this  issue  of  the  Dairyman  we  print 
communication  from  C.  F.  Adams  of 
16  First  National  Stores  to  the  New 
England  Homestead.   We  give  below  the 
aswer  made  on  behalf  of  the  NEMPA 
y  Richard   Pattee,  managing  director, 
i^e  commend  these  two  statements  to 
ie  careful  reading  of  all  dairy  farmers 
id  their   friends.    We   feel  sure  that 
iir  minded  men  will  be  able  to  decide 
op  themselves  which  organization  and 
hjch  man  is  working  for  the  welfare  of 
ie  dairy  interests  of  New  England  and 
hich  is  working  for  selfish  ends. 
Mr.  Pattee's  statement  follows: 
Responsibility  for  price  cutting  must 
all  on  those  who  cut  the  price.  That 
ifs  First  National  Store — the  Connor- 
■inter-O'Keeffe-Dorr    combination — did. 
hey  now  charge  the  NEMPA  with  an 
unwarranted  reduction"  when  it  met 
ieir  cut.    Apparently  the  same  act  is 
'arrauted  or  unwarranted,  according  to 
/ho  does  it. 

,  We  agree  that  cutting  the  milk  price 
!  \  December  was  unwarranted  on  the 
i  art  of  those  who  cut  it.  No  one  else, 
I  Id  line  distributor,  chain  store  or 
(Continued  on  page  six) 


Why  Does  the  Tail  Wag  the  Dog  ? 


A  dairyman  in  the  New  England 
Homestead  raises  the  pertinent  question 
of  why  the  milk  from  890  dairymen 
should  affect  the  price  received  by  40 
times  that  number  selling  40  times  as 
much  milk. 

It  is  a  good  question  and  we  will  do 
our  best  to  answer  it.  The  First  National 
Stores  secures  milk  from  some  892  farm- 
ers, chiefly  supplying  the  Bellows  Falls 
Cooperative,  plus  those  of  the  United 
Farmers'  Cooperative,  plus  others  from 
whom  temporary  or  occasional  purchases 
are  made. 

Let  us  get  clearly  in  mind  the  chain 
store  milk  situation  in  Boston  and  in 
other  markets  of  New  England  with  par- 
ticular attention  to  the  consolidated  Con- 
nor, O'Keeffe,  Ginter,  Dorr  stores  and 
perhaps  others.    That  can  best  be  done 


by  reference  to  the  advertisement  run 
December  27th  in  the  Boston  papers. 
There  are  certain  things  in  it  which 
farmers  should  have  brought  home  to 
them. 

Note  that  the  First  National  Stores 
number  1700  in  New  England.  A  large 
number  of  these  stores  are  in  Boston  and 
other  cities.  Many  of  them  are  in  the 
country  towns.  It  is  understood  that  the 
big  combine  wishes  to  extend  its  system 
throughout  New  England,  wherever  it 
may  prove  profitable  to  them.  Note  at 
the  bottom  of  the  advertisement  "Where 
New  England  Buys  its  Groceries."  Note 
further  the  milk  bottle  and  the  accom- 
panying statements.  "New  Low  Price, 
Quality  Equal  to  and  Better  than  Grade 
A',  for  which  you  pay  18  cents  a  quart." 
(Continued  on  page  five) 


The  New 
Year 


May  it  be  even  bigger  and  better  and  brighter  than  the 
one  just  past  In  furtherance  of  that  wish  we  pledge  the 
sincere  service,  the  efficient  cooperation  and  the  money-saving 
economy  of  this  New  England  owned  and  operated  organiza- 
tipn — with  its  5500  New  England  employees  and  1700  New 
0Jifi»//« -ZqhWH  GUfTER  England  stores. 

FIRST  NATIONAL  STORES,  INC 


New  Low  Price 

Quality  equal  to  and 
better  than  Grade  A, 
for  which  you  pay  18c 
a  quart. 


The  price  applies  la  all 
Greater  Boston  Stores 


P&GSoap 


,10  Bars 

39c 

Keep,  White  Clothe.  White — Colon  S.fe 


Bar 


Hill  T  For  Washing,  Bleaching   Lge.*!  QC 
and  Sterilizing         Pkg.  JL  *7 


Rice 


wing 

FANCY  BLUE 
ROSE 


2^13' 


PcaS"^TT»gFswgETC„2ic 


Prunes 


FI-NA-ST.  Large, 
Full  Flavored 
Santa  Claras  Pkg 


Chivers 


Genuine 
Old  English  T,r 
MARMALADE 


29 


Standard  Milk 

Conden-     Lge.  <m    me  q 
sed  Can 

Loaf  Cheese  7  ;  3 

Colored 

tj^C  Pimento  ^^^C 

\\€tiflffr&   HVeVclOCK  Lb.  ^L*^c 

m  %^%9t  Specially  Blooded  ^T*s# 

RICHMOND , .   *■>  mmc 

Plo..ln«            J  V 

Bi.nd  0 

Flour     «£*1.09  ££95c 

KING  MIDAS  Vs*  Bag  $1.27 


First  National  Stores  m 

WHERE  NEW  ENGLAND  BUYS  ITS  GROCERIES 


ALL  NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRY 
CONFERENCE 

All  organizations  of  producers  of 
dairy  products  in  New  England  will  be 
invited  to  the  meeting  which  has  been 
called  by  the  agricultural  committee  of 
the  New  England  Council  for  February 
16.  The  chief  purpose  of  this  meeting  is 
to  set  up  a  permanent  dairy  conference 
board  through  which  the  various  organiza- 
tions can  exchange  their  views  about  the 
marketing  of  their  product.  It  is  a  pro- 
gressive step  and  may  do  much  to 
straighten  out  some  of  the  difficulties 
which  beset  the  markets  at  times.  The 
NKMPA  will  have,  representatives  at 
this  meeting.  Every  effort  will  l)e  made 
to  get  the  widest  possible  representation 
of  the  various  producer  organizations. 

The  movement  to  have  such  a  con- 
ference board  developed  at  the  recent 
agricultural  marketing  conference  called 
by  the  New  England  Council  The  rep- 
resentatives of  the  dairy  interests  at  their 
group  conference  recognized  the  need  of 
joint  consideration  of  marketing  prob- 
lems by  passing  the  following  resolution  : 

"Resolved  that  the  dairy  commodity 
conference  request  the  agricultural  com- 
mittee of  the  New  England  Council  to 
call  a  conference  of  dairy  interests  for 
the  purpose  of  setting  up  a  permanent 
dairy  conference  board  representing  the 
various  producer  agencies  which  are  sell- 
ing milk  in  New  England. 

"The  function  of  this  board  will  be  to 
exchange  market  information,  study  mar- 
ket problems,  consider  quality  and  stand- 
ards and  promote  the  better  marketing  of 
dairy  products." 

Acting  under  this  resolution  Harry 
R.  Lewis,  chairman  of  the  agricultural 
committee  of  the  council,  has  made  ar- 
rangements for  the  meeting.  Chris  L. 
Christensen,  head  of  the  new  division  of 
co-operative  marketing  of  the  U.  S.  D. 
A.,  will  be  the  principal  speaker.  It  is 
under  the  provisions  of  the  act  setting  up 
this  new  division  that  authority  is  given 
for  farm  organizations  to  come  together 
and  consider  their  common  problems. 


CHAIN  STORE  STATEMENT 

Our  statement  in  the'  January  issue 
concerning  the  "unknown  price"  basis 
on  which  the  First  National  Stores 
secure  their  milk  brought  forth  a  state- 
ment from  C.  F.  Adams  in  the  Xew  Eng- 
land Homestead.  The  statement  from 
Mr.  Adams  is  reprinted  below. 

The  NEMPA,  through  their  official 
paper.  New  England  Dairyman,  issue  of 
January,  1927,  attack  the  First  National 
Stores  and  their  associates,  the  Bellows 
Falls  co-operative  creamery  association, 
in  several  articles,  in  an  attempt  to  place 
the  responsibility  of  their  recent  tin- 
warranted  reduction  in  the  price  of  milk- 
supplied  the  large  distributors  in  this 
city  at  a  serious  loss  to  their  producers. 
They  fail,  however,  to  mention  that  for 
three  months,  at  least,  the  First  National 
Stores  have  used  every  effort  and  offer 
of  co-operation  in  a  justifiable  advance. 

There  is  not  a  single  line  in  these 
articles,  which  are  altogether  too  ex- 
tensive to  attempt  to  quote,  that  has  any 
basis  of  truth,  and  by  this  single  state- 
ment we  are  answering  their  entire  attack 
with  but  one  possible  exception. 
(Continued  on  page  eight) 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  192? 


Recommend  Suspension  of  the  Cream  Plan  July  1 


Sales  Committee  Finds  tbat  Modification  of  Plan  Did  Not  Correct  Abuses.    Ample  Notice  to  be  Given,  Respon, 

sible  for  Large  Inercase  of  Surplus  Through  Outside  Purchases 


The  sales  committee  of  the  association 
has  recommended  that  the  cream  plan  be 
suspended  as  of  July  1.  This  proposi- 
tion was  put  up  to  the  dealers  in  con- 
nection with  the  negotiations  for  Febru- 
ary milk  with  the  understanding  that  ac- 
tion would  be  taken  March  1  and  then 
announced  to  the  producers.  The  pro- 
ducers who  are  now  operating  on  the 
cream  plan  would  have  from  March  1 
to  July  1  to  adjust  their  farm  operations 
and"  to  change  over  from  cream  ship- 
ments to  milk  shipments. 

The  reasons  why  the  sales  committee 
makes  this  strong  recommendation  is  that 
abuses  have  grown  up  under  the  cream 
plan  which  cannot  be  corrected  without 
suspending  the  operation  of  the  plan  as 
soon  as  possible.  It  was  felt  that  July 
1  was  about  as  soon  as  the  adjustment 
could  be  made  and  fair  notice  be  given 
to  the  producers  under  the  cream  plan. 
What  further  action  would  be  taken  as 
regards  the  cream  plan  can  be  discussed 
in  our  annual  meeting  next  fall. 

The  cream  plan  was  developed  as  a 
means  of  keeping  skim  milk  back  on  the 
farm  at  times  when  it  was  not  needed 
in  the  market  and  when  transportation 
of  the  skim  away  from  the  farm  meant 
an  actual  loss.  The  plan  had  merit  in 
that  it  would  tend  to  reduce  the  surplus 
which  actually  had  to  be  handled  during 
the  flush  season.  It  never  was  intended 
to  keep  skim  milk  back  on  the  farm  at 
times  when  it  was  needed  in  the  market 
or  when  it  had  a  market  value  in  by- 
products in  excess  of  its  feeding  value  on 
the  farm.  . 

In  theory  the  cream  plan  would  be  used 
as  a  means  of  keeping  skim  off  the  mar- 
ket during  the  flush  season  but  would 
not  be  used  at  all  during  the  short  sea- 
son There  are  a  number  of  producers 
who  ship  cream  and  have  been  shipping 
cream  for  years  because  they  are  so 
located  that  it  is  difficult  and  expensive 
for  them  to  ship  whole  milk.  They 
would  continue  to  ship  cream  during  the 
short  season  because  they  could  not  ship 
milk.  But  under  the  theory  on  which 
the  cream  plan  was  started,  all  men  who 
were  located  so  that  they  could  ship 
milk,  would  ship  milk  at  the  short  sea- 
son when  it  was  needed  in  the  market, 
even  though  they  might  ship  cream  dur- 
ing the  flush  season. 

The  theory  of  the  cream  plan  was  ex- 
cellent. But  in  practice  it  gave  the  deal- 
ers an  opportunity  to  buy  a  lot  of  cream 
at  butterfat  prices.  The  cream  plan  made 
it  possible  for  them  to  do  this  and  let 
the  extra  cost  fall  on  all  the  farmers. 
They  have  extended  the  cream  plan  to 
cover  considerable  territory  which  could 
not  under  any  condition  ship  milk  and 
have  used  it  as  an  excuse  for  outside 
purchases,  to  be  counted  out  of  sales, 
thus  increasing  the  surplus. 

The  extent-  to  which  this  has  been  done 
is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  nearly  _  as 
great  a  percentage  butterfat  is  now  being 
purchased  under  the  cream  plan  in  De- 
cember as  there  is  in  June.  If  the  cream 
plan  were  properly  used  in  the  way  it 
was  first  intended  there  would  be  consid- 
erable butterfat  purchased  under  the 
cream  plan  in  June,  during  the  flush  sea- 
son, but  practically  none  in  December 
when  milk  was  needed  in  the  market. 
The  records  of  the  past  five  years  speak 
f  or^  themselves. 

Butterfat  purchased  under  cream  plan: 
June  Dec. 

1922    15% 

1923   27%  22% 

1924    31%  26% 

1925    29%  25% 

1926    27%  26% 

The  abuse  of  the  cream  plan  and  the 

outside  purchases  which  have  been  made 
with  the  cream  plan  as  an  excuse  is 
shown  in  the  steadily  increasing  average 
surplus  carried.  In  1920  the  average  was 
32  per  cent.  This  has  crept  along  up 
until  for  1926  it  was  48  per  cent. 

The  chart  shows  the  situation.  The 
lower  line,  sales,  shows  ocmparatively 
little  change  from  month  to  month.  Con- 


sumers want  about  so  much  milk  at  all 
times.  The  middle  broken  line  shows  the 
purchases  of  milk.  The  space  between 
the  lower  and  middle  line  represents  the 
surplus  moved  as  milk.  The  upper  line 
represents  total  purchases,  including 
cream  coming  in  under  the  cream  plan. 
The  space  between  the  middle  and  the 
upper  line  represents  the  product  which 
is  sent  in  as  cream  under  the  cream  plan. 

If  the  cream  plan  had  worked  as  was 
originally  intended  the  upper  line  and  the 
middle  line  would  be  very  close  together 
during  the  short  season  and  somewhat 
wider  apart  during  the  flush  season.  Un- 
der the  abuses  of  the  cream  plan  which 
have  grown  up  nearly  as  much  product 
is  being  purchased  as  cream  in  the  short 
season  as  in  the  flush  season.  This 
serves  to  unfairly  penalize  the  milk  ship- 
per by  increasing  his  equalization  cost 

WUIflK  POUNDS 
70 


committee  has  taken  a  firm  stand  that 
the  cream  plan  must  be  suspended.  By 
delaying  the  suspension  until  July  1  ample 
notice  is  given  to  producers  who  are  now 
shipping  cream. 

Some  of  the  reasons  why  the  cream 
plan  failed  to  operate  as  was  first  in- 
tended were  presented  by  Assistant  Man- 
ager W.  P.  Davis  in  his  report  for  the 
sales  committee  at  the  annual  meeting  in 
1925.  They  are  bigger  factors  in  the 
situation  today  than  they  were  then.  The 
explanation  was  in  part  as  follows: 

The  cream  plan  was  adopted  in  1922 
as  a  means  of  taking  care  of  a  consider- 
able quantity  of  surplus  skim  milk.  At 
that  time  the  by-products  were  low  and 
the  dealers  could  not  get  out  of  surplus 
milk  enough  to  pay  for  handling  it.  Un- 
der the  old  plan  of  a  dealer's  handling 
surplus  on  the  "no  profit,  no  loss  basis" 


m  FEB  w  m  m  me  my  m  sept  oct  wov  pec 

Purchases  and  Sales  — 1926 


during  the  short  season;  it  brings  down 
the  price  to  all  producers  as  it  increases 
the  surplus  through  outside  purchases 
made  by  dealers. 

At  our  annual  meeting  in  1925  it  was 
recommended  by  the  sales  committee 
that  the  cream  plan  should  be  abandoned 
for  three  main  reasons :  First,  because 
farmers  will  not  ship  milk  during  the 
short  season  when  they  have  been  ship- 
ping cream  the  rest  of  the  year.  Second, 
because  the  unrestricted  opportunity  to 
buy  surplus  milk  at  butterfat  prices,  un- 
der the  cream  plan,  has  led  dealers  to 
greatly  enlarge  their  territory  and  pur- 
chases. Third,  bcause  the  cream  plan  has 
been  extended  to  cover  territory  which 
is  so  remote  and  inaccessible  that  it 
could  not  ship  milk  readily. 

The  sentiment  at  the  annual  meeting 
was  more  toward  modifications  of  the 
cream  plan  to  correct  the  abuses  than 
toward  doing  away  with  it  alto'gether. 
The  sales  committee  therefore  made  some 
modifications  in  hope  that  the  conditions 
would  be  better.  The  modifications  had 
no  effect.  The  situation  has  been  stead- 
ily growing  worse.    Therefore  the  sales 


set  up  by  the  Federal  Regional  Milk 
Commission,  the  loss  from  low  priced  by- 
products fell  on  the  farmers.  We  went 
through  a  hard  contest  with  the  Whiting 
Co.  to  establish  a  new  basis — that  at  no 
time  should  surplus  milk  be  paid  for  at 
less  than  butterfat  value.  In  doing  so  we 
transferred  the  burden  of  losses  from 
low  priced  by-products  from  the  farmer 
to  the  dealer. 

In  1922  by-products  were  so  low  that 
there  was  a  loss  whenever  surplus  skim 
was  moved  off  the  farm.  The  cream 
plan  was  developed  and  under  it  farmers 
kept  this  skim  milk  at  home  and  fed  it 
to  young  stock  or  pigs.  Under  the  cream 
plan  the  farmer  who  kept  his  skim  milk 
at  home  was  charged  a  fair  sum  for  its 
feeding  value  and  was  paid  butterfat 
value  for  the  cream  he  shipped,  plus 
enough  of  a  price  on  skim  to  bring  his 
net  return  up  to  that  of  the  man  who 
shipped  whole  milk.  The  plan  seemed 
an  ideal  way  of  meeting  a  market  con- 
dition. 

The  difficulty  which  arose  in  the  actual 
operation  of  the  cream  plan  was  not 
foreseen.    The  cream  shipper  was  placed 


on  an  equal  footing  with  the  milk  shipper)] 
He  got  the  same  price  except  for  th 
amount  he  was  charged  for  skim  kept  a 
home.    Enough  men  who  were  shipnnjl 
milk  changed  over  to  shipping  cream  h\\ 
materially  reduce  the  actual  amount  of] 
surplus   milk   which   the   dealers  wtr 
handling  and  everyone  was  the  gaineii 
The  cream  plan,  adopted  at  first  by  th[j 
Turner  Centre  System,  was  later  adoptej 
by  the  Hood  and  the  Whiting  companitb 
as  an  important  part  of  their  milk  purl] 
chases. 

The  cream  plan  was  set  up  to  appljj 
only  to  producers  who  had  been  shipping 
milk  and  were  in  a  position  to  do  sci 
It  was  taken  as  a  means  of  putting  thera 
on  an  equal  footing  with  other  mill 
shippers.  It  was  not  intended,  from  oulj 
association  standpoint,  to  apply  to  mejj 
who  had  been  shipping  cream  or  whl 
lived  in  sections  where  railroad  servicl 
was  such  that  milk  could  not  be  shippeei 
There  are  many  such  sections,  either  M 
such  a  distance  from  a  railroad  th;fl 
their  cream  is  sent  in  only  three  tim<|] 
a  week  or  on  small  branch  lines  wheil 
there  is  no  train  service  on  SundalJ 
Neither  of  these  classes  of  communiti<H 
should  have  been  given  equal  privilege 
with  the  men  who  were  on  railroacl 
which  gave  them  adequate  service  f(l 
shipping  whole  milk  into  the  markets.  1 

Will  Not  Change 

Three  different  factors  have  come  in1 
the  cream  plan  which  tend  to  destroy  il 
original  purpose.    First,  that  the  farme:i] 
who  formerly  shipped  milk  and  have  beel 
shipping  cream  under  the  cream  plan  w:B 
not  come  back  to  shipping  milk  durirll 
the  short  season  or  when  their  milk  II 
needed    in    the    market.      They  ha'l 
equipped  themselves  with  separators  ail 
have  so  organized  their  business  that  tlij 
shipment  of  cream  and  the  feeding  c  11 
skim  on  the  farm  as  to  fit  their  far! 
practices.     It   was   assumed   when  tl 
cream  plan  was  started  that  these  mi 
shippers  would  ship  cream  during  tl 
flush  season  and  return  to  milk  shi 
ments,  if  the  milk  was  needed,  durii 
the  periods  of  short  production.  Expei 
ence  has  shown  that  few  of  them  w 
change  back  to  milk  shipments. 

The  second  factor  which  has  been  u 
dermining  the  real  value  of  the  crea 
plan  is  that  a  good  many  farmers  wl 
were  shipping  cream  in  1922  and  wl 
were  not  in  a  position  to  ship  milk,  we 
included  under  the  cream  plan.  Throu; 
the  price  equalization  feature  of  the  crea 
plan  this  gave  them  an  equal  footii 
with  the  men  who  were  so  located  th 
they  could  ship  milk.  They  were 
entitled  to  such  equal  advantage.  It  w 
something  which  they  never  had  had  ai 
giving  it  to  them  was  actually  a  tax 
all  the  milk  shipping  patrons  of  the  thr 
companies  using  the  cream  plan. 

The  third  important  factor  which 
become  important  in  relation  to  the  crea 
plan  is  that  dealers  have  used  it  as 
means  of  considerably  enlarging  thf 
territory.  They  claim,  with  more  or  le 
justice,  that  if  the  milk  shippers  who  ; 
on  the  cream  plan  refuse  to  return 
milk  shipments  during  the  short  seasc 
the  dealers  are  entitled  or  even  fore 
to  go  elsewhere  to  get  a  sufficient  supp 
of  milk.  Whether  they  are  forced 
enlarge  their  territory  or  only  justifi 
in  such  action  through  the  refusal  to  sbj 
milk  from  the  cream  plan  farmers,  t| 
fact  remains  that  the  territory  has  be  j 
materially  enlarged  and  the  surplus  ml 
terially  increased  thereby. 

One  of  the  most  important  consider! 
tions  in  the  situation  is  the  fact  that  bi 
products  have  made  a  good  recovery  a: 
are  now  bringing  fair  prices.  Where 
in  1922  it  was  a  burden  on  a  dealer  ! 
have  a  large  amount  of  surplus,  it  nc! 
is  an  asset.  He  can  make  money  on 
at  the  low  prices  which  he  is  ber 
charged  for  it  under  the  NEMPA  se 
ing  plan.  This  makes  the  dealers  anxio 
to  get  more  surplus  milk,  bought  at  bi 
terfat  prices. 


I  February,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  December,  1926       Production  Increases  In  December 


{  To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
vzone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
<your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7  per 
'cent,  test  per  l/10th  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container:  per 
!  Sy2  quart  can,  $0,010;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,012;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,024;  per  21 J4 
'  quart  can,  $0,025;  per  40  quart  can,  $0,046;  per  cwt.  $0,054. 


Dealers 

Elm  Spring  Farm 
7th  zone  (121-140) 
J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   


Boston  District 
Class  1    Class  2   

(Mkt.  (Mfg.  sy2 

Milk)    Milk)  Quart 
..84.9%    15.1%  .544 


 Size  of  Can  

20        21  %  40 
Quart     Quart  Quart 
1.329      1.414  2.669 


.93.6 


6.4 


Northern.  Market  District 


Dealers  Class  1 

Wason-MacDonald  (Mkt. 
Haverhill  Milk) 

Delivered   88.0% 

3rd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms,  Lawrence 

Delivered   65.8 

,  1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

10th  zone  

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Manchester 

Delivered   84.6 

!  3rd  zone   

;  5  th  zone   

:^7th  zone   

!3th  zone   

"Blake,  E.  C,  Manchester 

,  Delivered   82.4 

Ath  zone   

1 5th  zone   

f 5th  zone   

'^th  zone   

feoyd,  W.  T.  &  Son,  Nashua 

Delivered   86.8 

,  3rd  zone   

[1th  zone   

!  iobv  Farm  Dairy,  Nashua 

Deli'vered   90.5 

♦th  zone   


Class  2 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

(Mfg. 

in 

in 

in 

Milk) 

8/2*s 

20's 

40's 

12.0% 

3.898 

3.898 

3.898 

3.357 

3.407 

3.448 

34.2 


15.4 


17.6 


13.2 


9.5 


3.772 
3.339 
3.267 


3.772 
3.388 
3.368 


3.772 
3.429 
3.398 


Providence  Market 


Truck- 
ing 


Class  1 
Dealers  (Mkt. 
!Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 
'Burton,  H.  T.,  Inc.  96.9% 

Chambers,  G  T   77.3 

Fiske,  E.  A   90.9 

Grant,  C.  W   90.6 

jreenville  Farm   100.0 

Monroe,  A.  B.   100.0 

Providence  Dairy  ....  85.1 

Turner  Centre   100.0 

vTiall,  W.  C  100.0 

Warnock,  C.  A  100.0 

Westcott,  E.  P  100.0 

Per  10  qt.  can 

3rown,  W.  B  100.0 


Cwt. 

3.103 

3.947 


Cwt. 


3.443 
3.156 
3.130 
3.084 
2.984 


3.429 
3.193 
3.139 
3.095 
3.070 


3.492 
3.213 
3.177 
3.159 
3.167 


3.844 
3.423 


Class  2 

Zone  1 

Zone  2 

Zone  3 

Zone 

Willi- 

(Mfg. 

Deliv- 

1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

net 

mantic 

Milk) 

ered 

Miles 

Miles 

Miles  at  Farm 

Zone 

3.1% 

3.983 

3.688 

3.642 

3.577 

22.7 

3.593 

3.358 

3.321 

3.269 

3.150 

9.1 

3.861 

3.584 

3.541 

3.480 

9.4 

3.846 

3.571 

3.527 

3.467 

4.042 

3.738 

3.690 

3.623 

4.048 

3.743 

3.695 

3.629 

14.9 

3.775 

3.570 

3.540 

3.481 

3.281 

3.376 

4.048 

3.743 

3.695 

3.629 

4.048 

3.743 

3.695 

3.629 

4.043 

3.738 

3.690 

3.624 

4.043 

3.738 

3.690 

3.624 

.892 

.826 

.816 

.802 

.779 

Records  Show  Large  Purchases  by  Surplus  Plan  Dealers 

In  Boston  Market 


Milk  production  in  December  in- 
creased materially  as  indicated  by  the 
reports  of  Boston  dealers  operating  un- 
der the  surplus  plan.  The  increase  in 
purchases  amounted  to  three  million 
pounds  or  7l/2  per  cent,  higher  than  in 
November.  The  increase  from  Novem- 
ber to  December,  1925,  was  five  per  cent. 
Purchases  were  six  million  pounds  above 
December,  1925.  Sales  fell  off  from 
November  to  December  rather  more  than 
usual.  This  left  the  weighted  average 
surplus  50.7  per  cent. 

The  December  milk  price  averaged 
nine  cents  a  hundred  higher  for  all  milk 
delivered,  than  in  December,  1925.  The 
fluid  price  averaged  12  cents  higher  and 
the  surplus  price  19  cents  higher.  Com- 
parative prices  are: 

1926  1926  1925 
Nov.     Dec.  Dec. 

Fluid   $3.33     $3.34  $3.22 

Surplus    1.86      2.09  1.90 

Net  price,  all  milk  2.85      2.85  2.76 
Average  butter,  per 
lb  484      .537  .492 

COST  OF  PRODUCTION 

Grain  prices  continue  about  $4.00  a  ton 
below  last  year  with  a  50c  a  ton  advance 
from  last  month.  Hay  prices  continue 
about  the  same  as  last  month  and  last 
year.     Comparative   prices   are : 


1926 
Nov. 

.  per  ton. ...$45.04 
j.iay,  per  ton  ....  15.50 
Labor,  per  hour  .300 


Grain 
H 


1927  1926 
Dec.  Dec. 

$45.54  $49.28 
15.47  15.18 
.300  .300 


Retail  grain  prices  are  all  lower  than 
last  year  with  exception  of  ground  oats. 
Wheat  bran  and  ground  oats  have  ad- 
vanced since  last  month  while  the  corn 
meal,  cottonseed  meal  and  gluten  feed 
have  shown  slight  declines. 


NEW  YORK  AND  BOSTON 
PRICES 

The  New  York  pooled  price  for  3.7% 
milk  in  the  181-200  mile  zone  for  De- 
cember is  $2.90  compared  with  our 
weighted  price  for  Boston  dealers  of 
$2.85. 

LOCAL  MARKET  PRICES 

Per  Qt. 

1925  1926 

Jan.  Jan. 

Boston   085  .080 

Lawrence   085  .090 

Lowell   085  .090 

Haverhill   085  .090 

Manchester   080  .080 

Nashua   076  .087 

Concord,  N.  H  065  .065 

Worcester   080  .075 

Holyoke   085  .080 

Springfield   085  .075 

Providence   085  .080 

Fall  River   .,  085  .080 

Newport,  R.  1  080  .090 

Brockton   085  .085 

New  Bedford   090  .090 

These  arc  prices  for  local  teamed  and 
trucked  milk  delivered  at  the  market. 
Rail  milk  for  most  of  these  markets  is 
bought  zoned  from  Boston. 

1925  1926 
Jan.  Jan. 
Per  Qt. 

Boston— Retail  Del   14^4  14 

Boston — Cash  and  Carry....  12  12 

New  York    15  15 

Springfield    15  14 

Worcester    14  14 

Providence    14^  14 

Fall  River    14  14 

New  Bedford    15  15 

Brockton    15  15 

Lawrence    14^2 

Lowell    14  15 

Haverhill    15  lSy2 

Manchester    14  14 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  December,  1926 


Cwt. 

Feeding  Price  Butter-fat 

Test      Skim  to  Price  to 

of        Price  Cream  Cream 

Cream      Cwt.  Patrons  Patrons 

Hood,  lst-15th   I2y2%       .50  1.782  .55 

Hood,  lst-15th   20            .50  2.545  .55 

Hood,  16th-31st   12^         -50  1.251  .55 

Hood,  16th-31st   20            .50  1.697  .55 

Whiting   20            .50  1.487  .59 

Turner  Centre   12^         .64  .850  .52 


Cwt.  and 
Butter-fat 
Price  Equal 
to  Butter- 
Fat  Price 
Per  Pound 

.692 
.677 
.650 
.635 
.664 
.588 


Deduction 
from  Milk 
Patrons 
Per  Cwt 

.1178 
.1178 
.0781 
.0781 
.0846 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  December,  1926 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  December  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  your  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.054  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract  $.054 
or  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.   If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  December  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 
To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the  Hood, 
.Vhiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deductions  as  given  in  Cream  Price  Table  is  made  from  the  zone  price  as  figured  to  equalize  prices  between 
ilk  and  cream  patrons. 

Zone  5  Zone  6 
81-100  101-120 


Zone  1 

allies  from  Boston    1-20 

□ass  1  Milk  Price    3.712 

,  Class  2  Milk  Price    2.095 

Class  1  Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk)  " 
Dealers  A  B 

i^ood,  lst-15th  ....68.5%    31.5%  48.2% 
;3ood  16th-31st  ....60.6      39.4  54.6 


Whiting  in  40's  ....67.6 
>Whiting  in  21^'s  67.6 
1  Turner  Centre  ....46.1 
|N.  E.  Cr.  Pr.  Co.  55.7 
F.  S.  Cummings  59.6 

F.  E.  Boyd   49.2 

(Weighted  Ave  63.8 


32.4  49.0 

32.4  49.0 

53.9  72.5 
44.3 
40.4 
50.8 

36.2  50.7 

A— Excluding  Cream  Plan.  B- 


3.084 
2.906 
3.031 
3.021 
2.737 
2.961 
3.012 
2.851 
3.011 


Zone  2 
21-40 

3.671 
2.095 


3.055 
2.882 
3.003 
2.984 
2.718 
2.938 
2.988 
2.831 
2.985 


Zone  3 
41-60 

3.636 
2.095 


3.032 
2.861 
2.980 
2.955 
2.702 
2.919 
2.967 
2.814 
2.963 


Zone  4 
61-80 
3.601 
2.095 


3.008 
2.840 
2.927 
2.940 
2.686 
2.899 
2.946 
2.797 
2.941 


3.572 
2.095 


2.988 
2.822 
2.937 
2.910 
2.673 
2.883 
2.929 
2.782 
2.922 


3.543 
2.095 


Zone  7 
121-140 

3.520 
2.095 


2.968 
2.805 
2.917 
2.895 
2.659 
2.867 
2.912 
2.768 
2.904 


2.952 
2.790 
2.901 
2.873 
2.648 
2.854 
2.897 
2.756 
2.888 


Zone  8 
141-160 

3.491 
2.095 


2.932 
2.772 
2.882 
2.859 
2.635 
2.838 
2.880 
2.742 
2.870 


Including  Cream  Plan. 


Zone  9 
161-180 

3.467 
2.095 


2.916 
2.759 
2.866 
2.844 
2.624 
2.825 
2.867 
2.731 
2.855 


Zone  10 
181-200 
3.450 
2.095 


2.905 
2.748 
2.854 
2.821 
2.616 
2.815 
2.856 
2.722 
2.844 


Zone  1 1 
201-220 
3.427 
2.095 


2.888 
2.734 
2.838 
2.807 
2.605 
2.801 
2.842 
2.711 
2.829 


Zone  12 
221-240 
3.404 
2.095 


Zone  13  Zone  14 
241-260  261-280 


2.873 
2.720 
2.823 
2.784 
2.595 
2.788 
2.828 
2.699 
2.814 


3.392 
2.095 


2.864 
2.712 
2.815 
2.777 
2.589 
2.781 
2.822 
2.693 
2.807 


3.369 
2.095 


2.849 
2.699 
2.799 
2.762 
2.579 
2.768 
2.807 
2.682 
2.792 


Zone  15 
281-300 

3.351 
2.095 


2.837 
2.688 
2.788 
2.754 
2.570 
2.760 
2.797 
2.674 
2.781 


Decreases  from  fluid  milk  price  of  9  cents  per  quart  due  to  drop  in  price  December  27th  and  sales  in  lower  markets:  Hood  Dec.  lst-15th  $.0004;  Dec.  16th-31st  $.1471; 
•(Whiting  $.1038;  Turner  Centre  $.3160;  New  England  Creamery  Products  $.0583;  F.  S.  Cummings  $.0759;  F.  E.  Boyd  $.0757. 


Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  102 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 

NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 

51  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 
Devoted    to    the    Interests    of  Dairy 
Farming  and  Marketing  in 
New  England 

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W.  P.  DAVIS,  Treasurer 

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Entered  us  second  class  matter,  July  30, 
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postage  provided  for.  Section  1103,  Act 
of  Oct.  I,  1917,  authorized  July  13,  1918 

HARRY  L.  PIPER,  Editor 


N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me. ;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt. ;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I. ;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn. ;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

Isn't  it  a  shame  that  the  dairy  industry 
of  New  England  does  not — I  won't  sayM 
cannot — get  together  and  work  out  some* 
sort  of  marketing  system  that  all  can 
follow,  without  one  group  fighting  an- 
other group  and  all  suffering  in  con- 
sequence. It  makes  me  think  of  Harriet 
Beecher  Stowe's  remark  that  campmeet- 
ings  were  places  where  the  Methodists 
and  the  Baptists  "whaled  sin  and  each 
other.-'  Of  course  I  enjoy  a  scrap. 
Feeling  that  I'm  right,  I  like  to  lock 
horns  with  a  worth-while  opponent  in 
argument  or  contest.  But  I  don't  like  to 
get  into  a  price  cutting  fight  that  takes 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  away 
from  hard  working  people  who  are 
entitled  to  the  money  and  need  it.  I  can't 
help  thinking  it  could  be  avoided  and 
the  wonder  is  that  we  don't  get  together 
and  avoid  it. 

In  this  matter  of  milk  marketing,  the 
sure  result  of  producers  fighting  each 
other  is  that  both  get  licked.  I  believe 
the  men  back  on  the  farms  feel  about 
as  I  do  and  are  heartily  sick  of  bickering 
and  faultfinding  between  organizations. 
They  know  that  somebody  is  wrong  and 
they  are  entitled  to  know  whom.  There 
is  a  limit  to  what  they  will  stand.  By 
and  bye  they  will  call  for  a  show-down. 
I  believe  it  would  be  wise  for  us  upon 
whom  they  rely  to  get  them  full  value 
for  their  products,  to  remember  that 
fact. 

Meantime,  I  want  to  say  for  our  Sales 
Committee  and  myself,  that  we  have  no 
pride  in  any  of  our  methods  and  practices 
that  would  prevent  our  changing  to 
better  ones.  That  there  could  be  better, 
I    verily    believe.     We    welcome  con- 


structive criticism.  Often  the  very  best 
suggestions  come  from  the  least  expected 
places.  That  always  encourages  me 
because  it  shows  that  others  are  thinking 
and  studying.  I'll  bet  these  matters  are 
being  threshed  out  to  a  finish  around 
many  a  grocery  store  stove  this  winter, 
and  some  good  ideas  are  being  advanced 
too. 

What  I'd  like  to  see  would  be  a  real, 
sincere  and  honest  get-together  move- 
ment ;  in  which  every  phase  of  the 
problem  would  be  presented,  weighed  and 
given  its  proper  emphasis.  Then  I'd  like 
to  see  the  plan  that  the  majority  approve 
put  into  practice  by  all  with  an  honest 
intention  to  make  it  work,  to  correct  any 
faults  as  they  appeared  and  so  to  perfect 
it. 

Perhaps  I've  too  much  confidence  in 
human  nature  but  somehow  I  can't  help 
feeling  these  are  simply  growing  pains 
and  that  sometime,  and  the  sooner  the 
better,  we  will  see  an  united  and  uni- 
form system  of  marketing  in  which  all 
will  share  the  benefits  and  burdens  with- 
out fighting  to  see  who  can  get  ad- 
vantage over  the  other.  We  can't  raise 
ourselves  by  pushing  some  other  fellow 
down.  His  being  down  doesn't  help  us 
up.  PATTEE. 


SMOKE  SCREENS 

The  situation  in  dairy  marketing  in 
New  England  is  interesting,  and  may  at 
any  moment  become  critical.  As  usual 
in  such  times,  those  in  a  position  of 
special  advantage  which  is  or  may  be 
endangered  by  the  action  of  the  organ- 
ized farmers,  are  beginning  to  raise  a 
smoke  screen  for  their  own  protection  by 
attacking  the  NEMPA.  It  is  not  the 
first  time  and  the  means  used  are  not 
new.  The  favorite  form  of  attack  is  to 
allege  that  the  NEMPA  is  the  friend 
and  ally  of  the  dealers.  They  forget  that 
the  officers  and  management  are  practi- 
cally the  same  as  when  some  years  ago 
the  Association  collected  $50,000.00  from 
the  Hood  Company  for  its  failure  to  meet 
the  conditions  of  its  trade.  So  also  it 
was  the  same  men  who  later  fought  out 
with  the  Whitings  the  issue  of  butter- 
fat  as  a  minimum  price  for  surplus  milk ; 
the  same  men  who  locked  horns  with 
the  Cummings  Company  over  a  buying 
contract  and  only  last  Fall  stood  firmly 
and  won  the  contest  with  the  Directorate 
of  the  Turner  Centre  System,  the  big- 
gest co-operative  in  New  England. 

All  these  were  fnatters  in  which  the 
interests  of  the  dp.iry  industry  were  in- 
volved and  the  benefits  obtained  .  were 
shared  by  members  and  non-members 
alike. 

The  NEMPA  has  long  since  passed 
the  point  where  it  needs  defend  itself 
against  such  attacks.  Its  honesty  of 
purpose  and  the  sincerity  of  its  chosen 
leaders  are  too  well  known  to  be  ma- 
terially injured  by  those  who  through 
paid  newspaper  advertising  and  otherwise, 
now  seek  to  disparage  and  weaken  it.  It 
has  and  will,  as  pending  events  may  soon 
show,  sought  first,  last  and  all  the  time 
for  the  highest  price  for  milk  consist- 
ent with  market  conditions.  It  has  a 
proud  record  as  a  price  getter  against 
great  odds,  and  has  often  been  criticised 
even  by  farmers  for  holding  milk  prices 
too  high.  Always  it  has  led  the  price 
up  and  has  followed  down  only  under 
pressure  of  necessity  to  protect  the  mar- 
ket of  its  members. 

It  has  always  been  the  case  and  will 
be  in  this  instance,  that  those  who  are 


spending  much  money  to  disparage  the 
NEMPA  will  be  the  heaviest  sufferers  in 
the  end. 

If  the  present  advertising  campaign 
were  the  genuine  effort  of  the  Bellows 
Falls  Cooperative  Creamery  it  wtould 
present  the  sorry  spectacle  of  one  group 
of  farmers  attacking  another.  But  it  is 
inconceivable  that  a  single  creamery  with 
a  Boston  outlet,  claimed  to  be  eminently 
satisfactory  and  more  advantageous  than 
the  NEMPA  enjoys,  should  spend  thous- 
ands of  dollars  in  newspaper  advertising 
in  sections  of  New  England  where  its 
milk  is  not  sold.  If  the  situation  is  so 
satisfactory  to  the  Bellows  Falls  dairy- 
men, why  should  they  impoverish  them- 
selves by  spending  all  this  money?  Is 
the  tremendous  expense  of  this  campaign 
borne  by  the  cooperative  farmers  who 
are  so  much  better  off  than  the  rest  of  us 
as  is  claimed  by  some?  Are  they  spend- 
ing all  this  money  to  fight  the  NEMPA 
because  it  would  help  them  for  it  to 
suffer  ? 

The  answer  is  that  the  Connor,  Ginter, 
O'Keeffe,  Dorr  Combination  is  financing 
this  campaign  in  fear  of  a  loss  of  pres- 
tige and  patronage  among  farmers  and 
their  friends  in  the  cities  and  towns 
where  they  have  or  expect  to  have  stores. 
These  people  are  buyers  of  milk.  Their 
interest  is  to  buy  cheap.  Such  is  the 
well  known  policy  of  chain  stores.  It 
enables  them  to  sell  cheap,  to  undersell 
local  dealers,  the  neighborhood  stores.  It 
is  very  concievable  why  these  people 
would  like  to  break  down  and  disrupt  the 
NEMPA  or  any  other  organization  of 
farmers.  If  they  break  down  the  only 
organization  that  sustains  prices  in  New 
England,  they  can  buy  their  own  milk 
cheaper,  not  only  what  they  get  at  Bel- 
lows Falls  but  all  over  New  England. 
It  is  no  part  of  chain  store  policy  to 
pay  high  prices.  The  very  fact  that  they 
are  chain  stores  is  to  enable  them  to  buy 
cheaper.  If  they  could  buy  cheaper  un- 
der the  NEMPA  price  system  they  would 
be  the  first  to  adopt  it.  They  had  that 
chance  but  rejected  it  for  a  scheme  which 
undoubtedly  enables  them  to  own  their 
Boston  milk  cheaper  than  the  NEMPA 
dealers  with  whom  they  compete.  If 
they  can  knock  milk  down  in  markets 
where  they  have  to  buy  through  NEMPA 
sources,  they  surely  will,  hence  their  at- 
tempt to  disparage  the  NEMPA  and 
weaken  it  by  paid  publicity  in  those 
markets.  If  they  could  smash  the  whole 
NEMPA  movement  the  whole  price  fab- 
ric would  go  and  they  could  shop  where 
they  pleased  for  a  cheap  supply. 

It  is  quite  in  keeping  with  the  general 
policy  of  these  combinations  to  oppose 
whatever  may  prevent  their  buying 
cheaper.  They,  not  the  Bellows  Falls 
farmers,  would  benefit  by  the  disappear- 
ance of  organizations  like  the  NEMPA. 
Nor  can  false  and  misleading  statements, 
concealed  under  the  signature  of  another, 
long  deceive  the  farmers  or  the  public. 
They  cannot  escape  the  facts.  They  do 
not  disclose  what  they  pay  for  the  milk 
they  sell.  They  lump  it  with  other  milk 
which  went  into  by-products  and  pick 
out  for  comparison  the  dealers  who  car- 
ried larger  quantities  of  surplus.  The 
consolidation  of  this  group  of  chain 
stores  last  Spring  enabled  them  to  shift 
trade  enough  to  Bellows  Falls  to  absorb 
as  fluid  milk  much  of  what  would  nor- 
mally have  been  surplus.  Consequently 
the  farmers  gained  by  having  a  less  part 
of  their  milk  go  into  by-products.  Such 
an  advantage  is  both  temporary  and  mis- 
leading.   It  enables  these  chain  stores  to 


show  favorably  what  they  paid  for  , 
the  milk  bought  as  compared  with  wh 
others  paid  for  all  milk  bought.  If  ; 
a  man's  potatoes  can  be  sold  for  fam: 
use  he  gets  more  than  the  fellow  w 
sells  part  of  his  for  starch.  It  isn't  tl 
these  stores  paid  more  but  that  they  \v< 
so  situated  that  they  could  use  a  laig; 
part  as  re-sale  milk. 

No  general  statements  or  claims  i 
supported  by  figures  can  be  relied  up 
to  disclose  the  whole  truth.  We  ha 
asked  and  still  ask  what  the  Bellows  Fa 
producers  get  for  milk  resold  by  1 
Connor-Ginter-O'Keeffe-Dorr  combii 
tion  as  milk  and  what  they  get  for  ! 
product  milk.  No  one  answers.  1 
only  statement  is  a  bald  assertion  or 
generalization  that  proves  nothing. 

And  so,  much  as  we  regret  the  pres< 
situation,  we  do  not  fear  it.  We  do  i 
charge  it  up  against  the  Bellows  Ft 
farmers.  We  hope  instead  that  it  rr 
lead  ultimately  to  a  better  understand 
and  more  uniform  market  practices.  1 
are  not  concerned  about  the  chain  sto 
but  we  do  hope  that  sooner  or  later  da 
farmers  will  see  that  their  best  good 
in  acting  with  each  other.  The  buy 
are  able  to  look  out  for  themselves, 
producers'  organization  should,  and  lc 
of  all  the  NEMPA,  act  as  a  catsr 
for  any  of  them. 


MISLEADING 

The  4.2  per  cent  basis  on  which 
Bellows  Falls  co-operative  announces 
prices  to  producers  publicly  is  misle 
ing.    It  is  not  what  the  farmers  actu; 
get  unless  they  are  producing  4.2  n 
and  sending  4.2  milk  into  the  plant.  M 
of   them  produce,   we   believe,  not 
from  the  standard  3.7   per   cent  ml 
That  is  what  other  dealers  are  reportl 
in  that  same  section. 

The  misleading  feature  is  that  the  ll 
lows  Falls  plant  pays  on  a  butterfat  bJ 
and  includes  the  price  of  skim  in  vl 
the  price  for  fat.    At  the  standard  I 
per  cent  the  comparison  would  be  j 
but  at  every  point  above  that  the  I 
lows  Falls  patron  would  receive  an 
crease  of  about  79  cents  while  the 
crease  under  the  NEMPA  plan  is  at 
48  cents  per  pound  of  butter  fat.  T 
figuring  the  payment  on  anything  ab 
3.7  per  cent  test  gives  an  advantage, 
parently,   to   the    Bellows   Falls  pat 
when  in  reality  he  has  no  advantage- 
less  his  milk  tests  above  3.7  per  cent, 
the  other  hand  if  his  milk  tests  be 
3.7  per  cent  he  would  be  under  a  dist 
disadvantage  as  the  deduction  per  p« 
of  butter  fat  quotation  would  be  grea 

For  milk  which  tested  3.7  per  cent 
Bellows  Falls  patron  received  in  Nov 
ber  $2.92.    In  that  same  zone  the  H 
company,  having  a  43  per  cent  surf 
paid  for  that  month  $2.75  cents  for  ji 
milk.     The  Bellows  Falls  plant,  wlfl 
claims  to  have  only  a  small  surplus  ;l 
only  17  cents  a  hundred  more  than  I 
Hood  company  with  43  per  cent  of  ■ 
plus.    A  more  fair  comparison  is  vl 
the  Elm  Spring  Farm  which  buys  tl 
in  that  region  and,  like  Bellows  FB 
carries  only  a  small  surplus.    In  NovB 
ber  the  Elm  Spring  Farm  carried  a  ■ 
plus  of  .only  7.9  per  cent.    They  ;M 
in  the  seventh  zone,  one  zone  farther  tm 
Bellows  Falls,  $3.28  cents  a  hundred  M 
3.7  per  cent  milk  or  53  cents  a  huncM 
more  than  Bellows  Falls  for  the  slfl 
standard  of  milk.    Even  figuring  on  M 
4.2  per  cent  basis  the  Elm  Spring  Fpi 
outpaid  Bellows  Falls  in  November.  M 
any  milk  which  tested  4.2  the  Elm  Sp  fl 
farm  paid  $3.54  in  November  while 
any  milk  which  tested  4.2  per  cent  ic  i 
Bellows  Falls  paid  $3.32. 

For  the  milk  which  they  actually 
to  the  plant  Bellows  Falls  patrons  pj 
ceived  less  than  that  except  in  those  m 
instances  where  milk  tested  4.2  per  cjtl 
Reduced  to  the  right  basis,  the  stancM 
in  actual  use  in  the  market,  the  Bell/Si 
Falls  plant  with  a  small  surplus  paid  <H|I 
slightly  more  than  the  Hood  comnJH 
with  a  large  surplus. 


ebruary,  1927 


i\  E  W    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


^hy  Does  the  Tail  Wag  the  Dog  ? 


(Continued  from  page  one) 


y.  its  paid  advertisement  the  First  Na- 
lnal  Stores  compares  its  12  cent  milk 
18  cent  Grade  "A"  milk.  It  claims  a 
iter  quality  than  milk  against  which  it 
s  up  a  6  cent  price  spread  and  then 
er  in  the  Homestead  demands  a  3  cent 
-ead  against  ordinary  milk  delivered 
the  family  trade. 

One  of  the  most  significant  things  in 
;  advertisement  appears  just  under  the 
lk  bottle,  "The  price  applies  to  all 
eater  Boston  stores."  It  did  not  apply 
Lawrence,  Lowell,  Manchester, 
ishua,  Concord  or  Haverhill.  First  Na- 
nal  Stores  are  located  in  all  of  these 
ies  but  their  milk  supply  comes  from 
alers  who  buy  on  a  "known  price" 
sis.  That  is,  in  all  markets  where  milk- 
is  purchased  at  a  "known  price"  the 
sale  price  was  maintained ;  in  the  mar- 
t  which  was  furnished  by  a  supply 
ught  at  an  "unknown  price"  it  was 
ssible  to  advertise  a  "New  Low  Price" 
12  cents  on  milk  claimed  to  be  bet- 
•  than  other  distributors  sell  for  18 
its  per  quart. 

Store  milk  has  secured  a  firm  foothold 
the  market.  In  1924  a  study  of  con- 
ions  in  Boston  made  by  the  United 
ates  Department  of  Agriculture  showed 
it  about  30  per  cent  of  Boston's  milk 

4es  were  at  stores.  This  included  the 
Ies  made  through  stores  supplied  by 
aldrs  who  bought  through  the 
EMPA.  There  has  been  a  consider- 
le  development  of  the  chain  store  milk 
siness  since  then.  In  so  far  as  these 
ain  stores  have  developed  their  own 
pply,  as  in  the  First  National  Stores, 

J;y  have  displaced  some  of  the  sales  of 
EMPA  dealers.  The  consolidation  of 
-  O'Keeffe,  Connor,  Ginter,  Dorr  stores 
suited  in  a  further  shifting  of  the 
pply  from  dealers  buying  through  the 


NFMPA  to  sources  outside  the  NEMPA. 

At  the  present  time  probably  between 
30  and  40  percent  of  all  Boston's  milk 
is  sold  through  stores.  Authentic  rec- 
ords show  that  the  First  National  group 
handle  about  11  percent  of  the  store  milk 
in  Boston.  This  11  percent,  coming 
mostly  from  the  Bellows  Falls  Coopera- 
tive and  the  United  Farmers'  Coopera- 
tive at  Morrisville,  is  the  milk  that  broke 
the  price. 

The  milk  sold  by  the  Connor,  Ginter, 
O'Keeffe,  Dorr  combination  is  scattered 
throughout  Greater  Boston  in  hundreds 
of  stores.  They  are  on  every  square,  in 
every  principal  street,  in  most  good  sized 
business  blocks  throughout  the  sections 
where  people  live.  The  whole  success  of 
"cash  and  carry"  depends  on  being  close 
to  the  consumers. 

Right  alongside  these  First  National 
Stores  are  other  stores  selling  milk.  Some 
arc  chain  stores,  some  are  independent. 
In  general  they  buy  their  milk  from  deal- 
ers as  they  have  no  facilities  for  pasteur- 
ization or  bottling,  nor  have  they  estab- 
lished connections  with  country  plants. 

Milk  is  regarded  by  these  stores  as  in 
the  class  with  bread,  something  which  a 
large  number  of  people  want  fresh  every 
day,  something  which  cannot  well  be 
bought  in  quantities  sufficient  to  last  over 
several  days.  It  is  one  of  the  things 
which  will  bring  people  into  their  stores 
regularly  and  if  they  corne  in  for  milk 
or  for  bread,  they  will  buy  the  rest  of 
the  needs  there  naturally. 

It  is  necessary  then  for  these  stores  to 
sell  milk  as  low  as  their  competitors.  It 
is  not  simply  a  question  of  the  sale  of 
the  milk  itself,  but  of  the  sale  of  large 
quantities  of  other  goods.  This  is  no 
theory  but  an  actual  condition  in  the 
(Continued  on  page  twelve) 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  February  1,  1927,  and  Until  Further  Notice 


me  Miles 
•el.  Trucked 
1-20 
21-40 
41-60 
61-80 
81-100 
101-120 
121-140 
•  141-160 
'  161-180 
'i  181-200 
201-220 
I  221-240 
J  241-260 

■  261-280 
281-300 

lei.  Trucked 

1-20 
!  21-40 
:  41-60 
61-80 
|  81-100 

■  101-120 
121-140 

h  141-160 
\  161-180 
'  I  181-200 


8qt. 

Cans 
.616 
.533 
.523 
.518 
.503 
.498 
.493 
.488 
.478 
.473 
.468 
.463 
.458 
.448 
.443 
.443 

.616 
.553 
.538 
.533 
.528 
.523 
.518 
.518 
.508 
.503 
.503 


At  R. 

8^qt. 
Cans 
.655 
.570 
.560 
.555 
.540 
.535 
.530 
.525 
.515 
.510 
.505 
.500 
.495 
.485 
.480 
.480 
At  R 
.655 
.590 
.575 
.570 
.565 
.560 
.555 
.555 
.545 
.540 
.540 


Subject  to  Surplus 

R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 

Cwt.in 

lOqt.  20qt.  21}4qt.  40qt.  20qt. 

Cans  Cans      Cans  Cans  Cans 

.771  1.541      1.637  3.082  3.583 

.676  1.376      1.463  2.767  3.199 

.666  1.351      1.438  2.732  3.141 

.651  1.331      1.418  2.702  3.095 

.646  1.321      1.408  2.672  3.071 

.636  1.301      1.388  2.647  3.025 

.626  1.291      1.378  2.622  3.002 

.621  1.281      1.363  2.602  2.978 

.611  1.266      1.353  2.577  2.943 

.606  1.256      1.343  2.557  2.920 

.596  1.251      1.328  2.542  2.909 

.591  1.236      1.318  2.522  2.874 

.586  1.226      1.303  2.502  2.850 

.581  1.221      1.298  2.492  2.839 

.581  1.206      1.288  2.472  2.804 

.576  1.201  1.283  2.457  2.792 
.  R 


.771 
.696 
.681 
.676 
.671 
.656 
.651 
.651 
.646 
.641 
.636 


Stat  inns  Inside  Massachusetts 


1.541 
1.386 
1.361 
1.351 
1.331 
1.321 
1.311 
1.296 
1.291 
1.281 
1.266 


1.637 
1.473 
1.448 
1.433 
1.418 
1.408 
1.388 
1.378 
1.373 
1.358 
1.348 


3.082 
2.767 
2.732 
2.702 
2.672 
2.647 
2.622 
2.602 
2.577 
2.557 
2.542 


3.583 
3.222 
3.164 
3.141 
3.095 
3.071 
3.048 
3.013 
3.002 
2.978 
2.943 


Cwt.in 
21^qt. 
Cans 
3.583 
3.201 
3.146 
3.103 
3.081 
3.037 
3.015 
2.982 
2.961 
2.939 
2.906 
2.884 
2.851 
2.840 
2.818 
2.807 

3.583 
3.223 
3.168 
3.136 
3.103 
3.081 
3.037 
3.015 
3.004 
2.971 
2.950 


Cwt.in 
40qt. 
Cans 
3.583 
3.217 
3.176 
3.141 
3.106 
3.077 
3.048 
3.025 
2.996 
2.972 
2.955 
2.932 
2.909 
2.897 
2.874 
2.856 

3.583 
3.217 
3.176 
3.141 
3.106 
3.077 
3.048 
3.025 
2.996 
2.972 
2.955 


Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
•emium  of  0.75c  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

1  Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
'ceipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
y  expense,  can  service  and  a  reduction  of  2c  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for  NEMPA 
embers'  dues  and  lc  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


;  A  Philadelphia  man  called  up  a  bird 
1  ore  the  other  day  and  said : 

"Send  me  30,000  cockroaches  at  once." 
'  "What  in  heaven's  name  do  you  want 
i  ith  30,000  cockroaches  ?" 
j  "Well,"  replied  the  householder.  "I  am 
J  oving  today,  and  my  lease  says  I  must 
,  ave  the  premises  here  in  exactly  the 
•jiltie  condition  in  which  I  found  them." 


Ole  Olson,  hanging  on  a  strap  in  a 
crowded  street  car,  lost  his  balance  as  the 
car  rounded  a  curve,  and  sank  plump 
into  the  lap  of  a  lady  passenger. 

"Who  and  what  do  you  think  you 
are?"  demanded  the  woman  hotly. 

"Har,  har,"  chuckled  Ole;  "Ay  taught 
Ay  bane  a  Svede,  but  Ay  am  a  Lap- 
lander, Ay  guess/' 


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It  is  impossible  for  a 
railroad  train  or  a 
ship  to  call  at  the 
doorsteps  of  its  passengers 
when  they  wish  to  take  a 
journey.  To  take  even  a 
trolley  or  bus  ride,  one  must 
go  to  some  definite  point 
where  the  conveyance  stops. 
On  the  other  hand,  the  tele- 
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meet  the  public's  conve- 
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Each  telephone  call  may 
be  compared  to  a  taxicab, 
whose  destination  is  con- 
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The  telephone  company  ex- 
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He  speaks  to  the  per- 
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At  the  disposal  of  each 
telephone  subscriber  are  the 
talking  channels  of  the  en- 
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sands of  miles,  and  he  may 
extend  his  voice  to  any 
point,  to  any  person  who 
has  a  telephone. 

This  is  the  essence  of 
communication.  Because  of 
it,  the  number  of  telephones 
has  increased  in  the  last  five 
years  three  times  as  fast  as 
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Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  192' 


THE  DAIRY 
EVOLUTION 

Education,  through  re- 
search work  and  experi- 
mentation by  men  of 
practical  and  technical 
knowledge  during  the 
last  few  years,  has  been 
primarily  responsible  for 
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dairy  products— not  only 
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but  for  grown-ups  of 
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from  injuring  the  food 
value  and  quality  of 
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FIXING  RESPONSIBILITY 

(Continued  from  page  one) 
NEMPA,  wanted  to  cut  the  price  except 
the  Connor-Ginter-O'Keeffe-Dorr  com- 
bination. It  ill  becomes  a  great  business 
concern  to  blame  others  for  following 
its  example.  It  could  hardly  expect 
others  to  stand  still  and  let  it  take  away 
their  trade. 

We  have  appreciated  the  confidence  of 
the  First  National  Stores  in  giving  us 
advance  information  of  its  prices  to  con- 
sumers. No  such  information  has  been 
disclosed  to  others  except  with  the  con- 
sent of  the  person  who  gave  it  and  no 
use  has  been  made  of  it  in  dealing  with 
competing  distributors  except  with  the 
permission  of  our  informant.  In  fact, 
we  only  received  such  information  as  we 
believe  was  intended  we  should  use  in 
bargaining  with  our  dealers. 

Advance  Information 

We  note  the  claim  that  information 
was  furnished  us  "in  advance"  of  our 
"monthly  negotiations  with  producers." 
We  do  not  negotiate  with  producers. 
We  are  the  producers.  We  have  never 
been  informed  in  advance  of  Connor- 
Ginter-O'Keeffe-Dorr  prices  to  their  pro- 
ducers. Prices  to  be  paid  producers  were 
what  we  were  negotiating  and  it  would 
have  helped  us  tremendously  to  have 
known  in  advance  what  the  chain  store 
combination  was  to  pay  its  producers  for 
the  milk  it  sells  as  milk  in  Boston.  We 
were  negotiating  the  prices  others  should 
pay  for  that  class  of  milk.  Our  chief 
difficulty  is  that  neither  we  nor  our  buyers 
know  what  these  chain  stores  will  pay 
for  the  milk  with  which  our  dealers  have 
to  compete.  What  it  sells  for  is  one 
thing ;  what  it  costs  them  another,  and 
our  dealers  take  a  chain  store  drop  in 
selling  price  as  evidence  of  a  drop  in 
cost,  demanding  a  similar  cost  reduction 
to  themselves.  When  they  have  to  go 
into  the  market  and  compete  with  chain 
stores  in  selling,  they  claim  with  some 
justice  that  they  should  have  equal 
advantage  in  buying. 

Our  price  is  known  in  advance.  It  is 
now  8  cents  per  quart  for  3.7  per  cent, 
milk  delivered  at  Boston.  The  Connor- 
Ginter-O'Keeffe-Dorr  combination  does 
not  disclose  even  to  its  own  producers, 
much  less  to  us,  what  it  will  pay  for  the 
milk  which  it  sells  in  competition  with 
ours.  We  properly  assume  that  they  cut 
prices  to  producers  when  they  cut  prices 
to  the  public.  If  they  can  afford  to  pay 
a  certain  price  for  12  cent  milk  they  can 
afford  to  pay  more  for  13  cent  milk. 
If  they  paid  what  they  could  afford  for 
13  cent  milk  they  can  be  assumed  to  pay 
less  for  12  cent  milk.  Surely  the  price 
they  can  pay  now  is  less  than  it  was 
before  the  resale  cut.  Otherwise  their 
former  price  was  too  little. 

January  Price? 

The  pay  prices  published  by  the  Connor- 
Ginter-O'Keeffe-Dorr  combine  are  those 
paid  producers  down  to  last  October.  I 
Of  what  use  are  they  in  negotiating 
prices  for  January  and"  succeeding 
months?  Why  not  tell  us  what  the  pro- 
ducer is  to  get  for  the  milk  sold  by  the 
combine  in  January?  We  get  $3.08  per 
hundred  for  3.7  per  cent,  milk  at 
Bellows  Falls  for  all  milk  sold  in  com- 
petition with  the  Connor  combine.  What 
does  it  cost  the  combine  for  milk  they 
sell  in  competition  with  ours  ?  Give  us 
a  straight  answer  and  let  us  go  up  to 
their  level  if  above  ours  or  if  they  are 
below  ours,  let  them  come  up. 

According  to  the  figures  given  out  by 
the  Connor-Ginter-O'Keeffe-Dorr  com- 
bination it  at  no  time  paid  producers  our 
price  for  milk  sold  as  milk. 

Here  is  the  difference  on  4.2  per  cent, 
milk : 

NEMPA        Connor-  Combine 
Price  at         Ginter      price  less 
Bellows  Falls  O'Keeffe-  than 
for  milk  Dorr  NEMPA 

sold  as       price  paid     price  per 
milk  farmers  Cwt 

1926 

January   $3.  54         $3.36         $.  18 

February   ....  3.  54  3.23  .  31 

March    3.  53  3.23  .  30 

April    3.  51  3.23  .  28 

May    3.  51    .       3.15  .  36 

June    3.  05  3.02  .  03 

July    3.  51  3.02  .  49 

August    3.  52  3.02  .  50 

September  ....  3.  53  3.11  .  42 

October           3.  31  3.23  .  08 

Average  ....$3,455         $3.16  $.295 


304  Eggs 


in 


365  Days 

is  another  record 
thathas  justbeen 
credited  to  a  ra- 
tion containing 


Diamond  Corn  Gluten  Meal 

Hen  No.  8-5,  a  single  comb-white  leghorr.  pullet,  bred  and  owned  by 
Mr.  Otto  Ruehle  of  Ruehle's  Sunnyside  Farm,  Pleasant  Valley,  N.  Y., 
and  tested  at  the  State  Institute  of  Applied  Agriculture,  Farmingdale, 
L.  I.,N.  Y.,  during  a  laying  contest  which  closed  November  1st,  1926, 
actually  laid  304  eggs  in  365  days.  This  is  the  first  t  fficial  300-egg  hen 
in  New  York  State. 

Egg  production  of  this  sort  cannot  be  achieved  withoutthecombination 
of  a  great  bird  and  a  great  feed.  In  this  test  the  Farmingdale  Ration  was 
used  exclusively.  This  is  the  ration  which  has  been  recommended  by  the 
N.  Y.  State  Institute  of  Applied  Agriculture  for  the  past  two  years.  More 
than  15%  of  it  consists  of  DIAMOND  CORN  GLUTEN  MEAL.  The 
complete  formula  follows: 


100  lbs.  Diamond  Corn  Gluten  Meal 

100  lbs.  Wheat  Bran 

100  lbs.  Yellow  Corn  Meal 

100  lbs.  Red  Dog  Flour 

100  lbs.  Hulled  Ground  Oats 


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10  lbs.  Fine  Charcoa  1 
10  lbs.  Steamed  Bone  Meal 
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2%  lbs.  Powdered  Sulphur 


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for  Your  Butter 


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If  our  producers  received  less  than  the 
"milk  sold  as  milk"  price  it  was  be- 
cause some  part  of  their  milk  went  into 
the  by-product  or  surplus  class.  Every 
month  we  have  told  what  part  of  each 
dealers  purchases  was  surplus  and  what 
he  paid  for  it. 

Was  the  underpayment  by  the  Connor- 
Ginter-O-Kecffe-Dorr  combination  due 
to  surplus  or  by-product  milk?  If  so, 
what  part  of  it  was  surplus  and  what  did 
they  pay  for  that  part? 

In  short,  let's  be  perfectly  frank  about 
the  whole  transaction  and  give  figures 
that  mean  the  same  thing  when  we  set 
up  a  comparison.  If  the  chain  store 
combine  doesn't  want  to  transpose  its 
figures  into  NEMPA  terms  let  it  tell 
us  how  it  reckons  its  producers'  price  and 
we  will  put  our  figures  into  its  terms. 
Then  we  can  compare.  It  surely  isn't 
fair  to  compare  the  price  of  potatoes, 
all  of  which  are  sold  as  table  stock,  with 
that  of  those  half  of  which  had  to  go  to 
the  starch  factory  even  if  they  were  all 
the  same  quality. 

Suggestions  Welcomed 

The  Connor  -  Ginter  -  O'Keeffe  -  Dorr 
combine  suggests  that  the  NEMPA 
change  to  its  price  plan.  We  welcome 
the  suggestion.  What  is  its  price  plan  ? 
How  are  producers'  prices  reckoned  under 
it  ?  How  would  it  apply  to  the  rest 
of  New  England?  What  voice  have 
producers  in  establishing  it  or  checking 
it  up?  Let  us  have  it  in  every  detail  and 
if  it  be  better,  sounder,  more  favorable 
to  producers,  we  will  shift  to  it  with 
rousing  cheers. 

Frankly,  we  suspect  the  Connor-Ginter- 
O'Keeffe-Dorr  combine  has  no  plan 
except  to  sell  the  milk  at  any  price  they 
see  fit,  figure  out  what  they  can  pay  for 
it  after  taking  out  costs  and  profits,  and 
then  handing  back  to  producers  what  is 
left.  Plow  would  the  rest  of  New  Eng- 
land like  to  turn  over  its  milk  to  the 
big  distributors  to  sell  at  any  price  they 
saw  fit,  take  out  costs  and  profits  and 
return  what  was  left?  What  would 
those  distributors  do  to  the  Connor- 
Ginter-O'Keeffe-Dorr  chain  stores  with 
milk  for  which  they  could  pay  anything 
they  saw  fit?  Isn't  that  exactly  the  situa- 
tion of  ten  years  ago  which  the  dairy- 
men organized  to  escape?  The  very  fact 
that  they've  stayed  organized  for  ten 
years,  have  maintained  the  NEMPA, as  a 
bargaining  agency,  shows  their  horror 
of  going  back  to  those  conditions. 
Remove  the  NEMPA,  leave  nothing  for 
the  Connor-Ginter-O'Keeffe-Dorr  com- 
bine to  compete  with  in  buying  milk 
except  what  unrestrained  dealers  saw  fit 
to  pay  and  what  would  Bellows  Falls 
producers  get  for  milk? 

Want  Cheap  Milk 

We  suspect  that  the  reason  the  Connor- 
Ginter-O'Keeffe-Dorr  combine  buy  milk 
as  they  do  is  because  they  own  it  cheaper 
that  way.  Do  they  not  say  to  the  public, 
we  buy  cheaper  therefore  we  sell 
cheaper  ?  Economy  in  buying  is  the 
cardinal  principle  in  mercantile  business 
especially  emphasized  by  chain  stores 
which  is  one  of  the  reasons  for  their 
existence.  If  they  could  own  their  milk 
cheaper  under  the  NEMPA  plan  they 
would  be  the  first  to  adopt  it.  Milk  at 
our  prices  was  always  available  to  them 
but  they  turned  to  another  plan  of  buy- 
ing. Was  it  because  their  milk  cost  them 
more  that  way  than  it  would  if  bought 
our  way  ? 

We  have  no  pride  in  the  surplus  plan 
set  up  by  the  Federal  Milk  Commission 
and  continued  by  the  NEMPA.  It  has 
advantages,  one  of  which  is  in  giving 
producers  a  market  for  all  their  milk 
all  the  time.  It  avoids  the  old  restricted 
purchase  or  "shut-back"  system.  In 
dealing  with  distributors  whose  sales 
vary  widely,  this  is  a  great  advantage. 
It  does  not  leave  some  group. or  region 
without  an  outlet  save  at  periods  of 
shortage,  whose  only  chance  to  get  a 
flush  time  market  is  to  offer  their  product 
at  cut  prices.  If  there  be  a  better,  more 
economic  plan  than  it  now  employs,  the 
NEMPA  wants  it. 

That's  the  nub  of  this  whole  situation. 
Let's  get  together ;  not  each  man  or  each 
locality  trying  to  get  some  preference  or 
advantage  over  others  but  all  in  the  same 
industry  selling  the  same  goods  in  the 
same  market,  getting  together  for  the 
common  good. 


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YOUR  farm 
YOUR  herd 

Dairy  farms,  and  dairy  herds,  differ  greatly.  What's  good  for 
one  herd  may  not  be  best  for  another.  That's  why  Quaker 
offers  a  complete  line  of  feeds,  and  helps  you  to  determine 
exactly  the  combination  that  will  give  you  the  best  results. 


Use  prepared  feeds.  They  save  time  and 
labor  and  insure  a  proper  supply  of  min- 
erals, vitamins  and  proteins.  But  use  the 
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One  of  these  good  rations,  selected  with 
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Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1027 


Eastern  S^tes  Farmers'  Exchange 


CHAIN  STORE  MAKES  STATE- 
MENT 


CONFIDENCE  JUSTIFIED 

Frank  D.  Steele's  Records  Show  Value  of  E.  S. 
Feed  Service  for  Poultry  and  Dairy  Cows. 

Frank  D.  Steele.  Cummington, 
Mass.,  has  accurate  records  of  the 
e»p;  production  of  Ids  Rhode  Island 
Red  flocks  for  the  past  3  years. 
These  records  convince  him  that,  the 
Eastern  States  Open  Formula  feed 
service  offers  farmers  a  reliable, 
economical  and  profitable  source  of 
grain  supply. 

Frank  D.  Steele  does  not  home 
mix.  He  feeds  Eastern  States 
Mashes  and  Scratch  Grains  just  as 
the  Exchange  mixes  them.  He  takes 
advantage  of  each  change  sug- 
gested by  the  poultry  authorities  to 
this  great  cooperative  organiza- 
tion. His  records,  as  summarized 
below,  show  clearly  that  the  policy 
his  Exchange  follows  of  mixing  for 
its  members  ingredients  of  the  best 
quality  obtainable  in  the  propor- 
tions suggested  by  the  authorities 
in  the  states  served  is  profitable 
for  the  members  who  use  the  rations 
as  directed  and  feed  them  to  good 
birds. 

The  readers  should  bear  in  mind 
that  the  birds  making  the>e  tecords 
were  fed  Eastern  States  rations 
from  the  time  the  first  generation 
left  the  shell  in  April,  1923, 
through  the  last  day,  October  31, 
1926.  Mr.  Steele  has  not  bought 
so  much  as  a  single  male  bird  for 
more  than  10  years. 

'23-24  '24-25  '25-21; 

November    n.43  11.44  9.28 

December    ....  16.75  1  4.04  15.42 

January    13.53  14.3  1(>. 

Tenruarv    12.0  1  14.03  10.7* 

March    21.04  22.49  21.9 

April    22.18  25. S  25. 

May    21.24  22.95  21.91 

June    20.35  20.2  21.8 

July    10.55  17.4  20.79 

August    14.24  17.6  17.00 

September    14.31  15.3  14.94 

October    9.78  10.1  9. 

Aver,  per  bird ....  193.45    205.25  £10.34 

Dairymen  will  be  interested  to 
know  that  the  Steeles — for  Mrs. 
Steele  is  chiefly  responsible  for  the 
small  dairy  herd — are  having  as 
remarkable  results  feeding  Eastern 
States  rations  to  the  dairy  herd  as 
to  the  poultry.  A  senior  yearling 
which  freshened  in  November  at 
the  age  of  one  year  9  months  pro- 
duced in  December,  according  to 
the  records  of  the  Hampshire 
County  Cow  Test  Association, 
1,906.8  lbs.  milk,  59  lbs.  fat.  This 
heifer  was  raised  on  Eastern 
States  Fitting  Ration  and  is  re- 
ceiving a  mixture  of  Fitting  Ra- 
tion and  Fulpail  mixed  half  and 
half,  1  lb.  to  3^  of  milk.  A  mature 
Holstein  fed  Fulpail  at  about  the 
same  rate  produced  in  the  Cow 
Testing  Association  3,129  lbs.  milk, 
97  lbs.  fat  in  November,  and  2,945 
His.  milk,  88.35  lbs.  fat  in  Decem- 
ber. She  freshened  in  October  and 
Mas  fitted  on  Fitting  Ration. 

The  February  Eastern  States  Co- 
operator  will  tell  more  about  the 
Steeles  and  their  farm  in  the  Berk- 
shire Hills — write  for  a  copy.  It 
will  be  mailed  the  first  week  in 
February. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

Jt   nanuiaclc,    non'Proflt  organization 
owned  and  controlled  by  the 
farmer*  It  serve* 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


(Continued  from  page  one) 

UNKNOWN  PRICE  BREAKS 
MARKET — appears  as  the  heading  of 
an  article  on  the  first  page  of  the  New 
England  Dairyman.  We  will  answer  this 
in  a  few  words.  It  had  heen  our  custom 
to  keep  the  NEMPA  informed  of  our 
proposed  prices  in  advance  of  their 
monthly  negotiations  with  the  producers, 
so  that  they  might  use  our  price  policy, 
if  possible,  to  the  advantage  of  the 
producers  they  represented  when  negotiat- 
ing for  the  prices  for  the  following 
month.  Instead  of  using  this  information 
for  the  benefit  of  their  producers,  as  they 
should  have  done,  they  imparted  this 
information  to  their  distributors,  who  are 
in  competition  with  us,  and  between  them 
adjusted  the  NEMPA  price  to  a  basis 
of  cost  that  the  large  distributors  could, 
if  they  so  desired,  easily  and  profitably 
undersell  the  First  National  Stores. 

If  the  "unknown"  price  is  such  a 
source  of  worry  to  the  NEMPA  officials, 
we  are  herewith  making  public  what  that 
"unknown"  price  was,  and  it  is  our  belief 
that  in  so  doing,  the  NEMPA,  instead 
of  gaining  an  advantage  by  this  publicity, 
will  be  placed  in  a  most  embarrassing 
situation  by  comparison.  They  have 
forced  this  information  to  be  broadcast 
by  us,  by  their  attacks  on  us  in  their 
own  official  organ,  which  must  Jiave  been 
written  and  approved  by  the  NEMPA 
officials. 

Bellows  Falls  is  located  in  what  is 
known  as  zone  6.  Below,  we  are  giving 
the  prices  paid  to  their  members  by  the 
Bellows  Ealls  co-operative  creamery 
association  for  the  past  10  months,  as 
well  as  the  prices  paid  by  the  large  milk 
distributors  in  Boston,  in  the  same  zone, 
who  are  under  the  protection  of  the 
NEMPA  and  pav  the  prices  supposedly 
demanded  by  the  NEMPA.  The  follow- 
ing figures  are  given  on  the  100  pounds 
basis  of  milk  testing  4.2%  butter  fat : 

Comparative  Prices 


Jan. 
Feb. 
Mar. 
Apr. 
May 
June 
July 
Aug. 
.Sept. 
Oct. 


an 
n 

$3.36 
3.23 
3.23 
3.23 
3.15 
3.02 
3.02 
3.02 
3.11 
3.23 


a 

$2.99 

2.98 
2.81 
2.66 
2.60 
2.32 
2.56 
2.63 
2.80 
2.91 


$2.93 
2.96 
2.77 
2.66 
2.61 
2.35 
2.68 
2.86 
2.92 
2.85 


$2.90 
2.94 
2.75 
2.64 
2.59 
2.33 
2.66 
2.84 
2.90 
2.82 


52.66 
2.63 
2.51 
2.45 
2.43 
2.27 
2.64 


2.80 


$3.12 
2.86 
2.66 
2.50 
2.59 
2.24 
2.40 
2.48 
2.79 
2.85 


Ave.      3.16      2.73      2.76      2.74      2.55  2.65 

The  above  prices  paid  by  the  Bellows 
Falls  Creamery  are  the  net  returns  to 
the  producers.  In  the  case  of  the  other 
dealers,  from  the  prices  named,  there  are 
various  deductions  for  dues,  advertising, 
etc.,  and  there  have  been  rebates  allowed 
the  large  distributors,  so  we  have  been 
informed,  as  high  as  y2  cent  per  quart 
for  certain  months.  We,  not  knowing 
the  exact  amount  of  these  rebates  or 
expenses,  cannot  determine  accurately 
how  much  less  the  other  dealers  paid  than 
the  figures  we  have  given  above.  If  the 
Bellows  Falls  producers  had  received  the 
same  average  price  as  paid  the  NEMPA 
producers,  it  would  have  reduced  their 
annual  income  in  the  foregoing  10  months 
something  over  $100,000. 

The  NEMPA  criticism  of  our  plan 
of  payment,  from  above  figures,  cer- 
tainly should  not  meet  with  any  favor  in 
the  producer  ranks.  Instead  of  our 
changing  to  the  NEMPA  plan,  after  con- 
sidering the  above  figures,  would  it  not  be 
far  better  for  the  producers  if  the 
NEMPA  changed  to  our  plan  instead? 

Just  at  the  present  time,  it  is  possible 
that  two  large  organizations  are  going 
to  change  from  the  NEMPA  plan  and 
adopt  a  similar  plan  to  ours.  They  will 
advertise  it  within  a  month  if  they  can 
have  the  First  National  Stores'  assurance 
that  wc  will  work  in  harmony  with  them 
in  making  it  effective  and  combating 
NEMPA  present  policies.  This  assur- 
ance, up  to  date,  we  have  refused,  but  we 
could  hardly  be  blamed  after  the  recent 
statement  of  the  NEMPA  in  their  official 
organ,  the  New  England  Dairyman,  if 
we  joined  ranks  with  others  in  battling 
for  a  plan  which  we  think  is  far  more 
sensible  and  profitable  for  the  producers 
than  the  one  the  NEMPA  is  at  present 
using. 


Oct  all 
with 

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Healthy  Teats  and  Udder 


The  easy  milker  is  usually  the 
profitable  milker.  Much  of  the 
holding  back  of  milk  is  due  to 
lack  of  care  of  the  udder  and 
teats.  It  pays  to  go  after  the 
extra  quarts  by  giving  constant 
care  to  even  the  "little"  hurts 
that  make  the  cow  nervous  and 
restless. 

Bag  Balm  has  a  permanent 
place  in  thousands  of  cow  barns, 
because  it  keeps  the  delicate 
adder  and  teat  tissues  free  from 
Caked  Bag,  Bunches,  Inflamma- 
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teats,,  etc.  All 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
Slide  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence  n] 
Telephone,  Drxter  6469  rO 

JANUARY  DELIVERED  PRICES 

Providence   '.  8c    per  qt. 

Fall  River    8c    per  qt. 

Brockton   8^c  per  qt. 

New  Bedford    9c    per  qt. 

Newport   9c    per  qt. 

Following  the  drop  in  price  of  a  cent 
at  Boston  December  27,  dealers  in  Provi- 
dence agreed  to  make  no  change  in  their 
price  for  the  remainder  of  the  month 
but  the  sales  committee  was  called  in 
December  31  to  consider  January  prices. 
The  situation  was  somewhat  similar  to 
Boston  as  the  A.  &  P.  stores  did  not  ad- 
vance on  November  15  when  the  half 
cent  advance  went  into  effect  to  pro- 
ducers. This  gave  a  situation  where  the 
largest  chain  of  stores  was  retailing  milk 
one  cent  below  what  the  others  were 
selling  <for.  This  competition,  taken  in 
connection  with  the  reduction  in  the 
price  at  Boston,  caused  the  dealers  to 
seek  a  reduction  of  a  full  cent,  the  same 
as  Boston.  Providence  has  followed  Bos- 
ton for  some  time. 

The  sales  committee  pointed  out  that 
the  supply  of  milk  did  not  warrant  any 
reduction  and  argued  that  a  reduction 
would  not  change  the  situation,  because 
if  all  stores  dropped  one  cent  a  quart  the 
relative  positions  would  be  unchanged. 
The  same  discrepancy  would  exist  be- 
tween A.  &  P.  prices  and  other  store 
prices  and  with  the  general  market  price. 
The  Providence  market  takes  about  113,- 

000  quarts  per  day.  Finally  the  sales 
committee  met  the  demands  of  the  deal- 
ers and  reduced  the  price  to  8  cents  for 
January.  Conditions  have  been  quite  dis- 
turbed in  the  market  with  chain  store 
prices  ranging  from  10  to  12  cents  with 
home  delivered  milk  at  14  cents.  The 
supply  has  increased  considerably  the 
past  month.  There  is  plenty  of  milk  in 
all  markets  in  the  district. 

In  Fall  River  the  price  followed  Bos- 
ton and  Providence  down  to  8  cents  a 
quart  January  1.  There  is  a  plentiful 
supply  and  the  lower  price  has  not  in- 
creased sales,  indicating  the  poor  condi- 
tion of  the  textile  business.  The  Flint 
Manufacturing  Co.  has  opened  one  mill 
the  past  month  which  has  been  closed 
for  four  or  five  years.  The  Pocasset 
Mills  are  to  close  permanently,  the  stock- 
holders voting  to  liquidate  after  sustain- 
ing a  loss  of  $324,000  the  past  year. 

In  New  Bedford  the  textile  business 
is  far  ahead  of  Fall  River.  The  average 
family  income  is  materially  larger  and 
the  producers  supplying  the  New  Bed- 
ford market  have  received  a  more  fav- 
orable price  the  past  year.  The  average 
base  price  for  milk  delivered  in  Fall 
River  last  year  was  .0844  while  in  New 
Bedford  it  was  .0885,  or  nearly  a  half 
cent  a  quart  more. 

The  Brockton  market  dropped  January 

1  from  9  to  &J/2  cents  a  quart.  The 
situation  there  is  much  the  same  as  re- 
gards store  milk  as  it  is  in  Boston  and 
in  Providence,  as  the  First  National 
Stores  get  their  supply  from  Boston. 
Their  decrease  upset  the  trade  materially. 
There  are  265  factories  in  the  city,  111 
being  boot  and  shoe  shops  or  allied  trades. 
Their  condition  of  the  business  is  re- 
ported to  be  excellent. 

I  have  spent  the  past  week  in  dues  col- 
lection and  have  had  a  fine  response.  Not 
a  single  farmer  has  refused. 


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remedy  de  Status  Quo,"  said  a  negro 
preacher  to  his  congregation. 

"Brudder  Jones,  what  am  de  Status 
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"Dat,  my  brudder,"  said  the  preacher, 
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Form  of  Service 

Check  testing,  for  members  only,  is 
under  way.  The  plan  of  having  a  number 
of  field  men  who  could  check  test  and  do 
other  pieces  of  special  service  for  our 
members  was  adopted  at  the  annual  meet- 
ing in  1925.  The  field  department  started 
work  last  summer  and  has  devoted  most 
of  its  time  since  to  a  recanvass  of  the 
membership  on  the  new  clues  basis. 
Having  practically  finished  that  work 
they  have  now  entered  upon  the  perma- 
nent program  of  service  for  members. 

The  first  check  testing  was  done  at 
Pattee,  N.  H.,  a  Hood  station.  Earl  P. 
Osgood  of  our  field  staff  tested  samples 
of  milk  for  every  member  shipping  at 
that  station.  He  also  tested  the  com- 
posite samples  of  milk,  made  up  of  daily 
samples  taken  by  the  plant  management 
for  15  consecutive  days.  The  results 
showed  some  decidedly  significant  condi- 
tions. 

The  check  test  which  Mr.  Osgood  made 
on  the  first  20  of  the  patrons  showed  an 
average  test  of  3.727  per  cent  for  the 
composite  sample  for  January  1  to 
January  15.  The  test  made  for  the 
previous  two  weeks,  December  15  to 
January  1,  by  the  plant  manager  averaged 
3.710  per  cent.  The  slight  difference  in 
average  test  indicates  that  the  methods 
used  at  this  plant  are  good  and  that  the 
farmers  are  getting  paid  for  their  milk 
as  it  actually  goes  into  the  weigh  tank. 

The  most  important  result  of  the  test- 
ing done  at  the  Pattee  station  was  that 
it  called  attention  to  the  loss  which  comes 
from  letting  milk  freeze  in  the  cans. 
Mr.  Osgood  took  samples  of  milk  frozen 
to  the  can  cover  and  found  that  they 
tested  as  high  as  8.2  per  cent.  Frozen 
milk  from  the  sides  of  the  can  tested  as 
high  as  6.9  per  cent.  From  a  half  pint 
to  a  quart  of  milk  was  found  frozen  to 
some  covers.  The  test  of  these  frozen 
samples  indicates  that  the  top  milk,  rich 
in  butterfat  content,  was  the  most  likely 
to  slosh  up  on  to  the  cover  and  the  upper 
sides  and  to  freeze  there.  The  frozen 
milk  was  not  only  a  definite  loss  to  the 
producer  but  it  contained  a  considerably 
higher  proportion  of  the  butter  fat  and 
consequently  the  remaining  milk,  that 
which  actually  went  to  the  plan  and 
which  was  paid  for,  tested  lower  than  it 
would  have  at  the  farm. 

This  information  secured  on  the  first 
check  test  is  of  great  value  to  all  New 
England.  If  that  condition  prevailed  with 
20  producers  at  Pattee,  it  doubtless 
prevails  with  20,000  producers  scattered 
all  over  Northern  New  England.  We 
believe  that  this  freezing  of  milk  is 
largely  a  matter  under  the  control  of  the 
farmers  themselves.  Every  farmer 
should  take  special  precaution  to  see  that 
his  milk  does  not  freeze  at  the  farm  and 
that  the  carrier  covers  it  well  on  the 
road  during  severe  weather.  Preventing 
the  milk  from  freezing  will  not  only  in- 
crease the  volume  which  actually  gets  to 
the  dealer  but  it  will  raise  the  test.  In 
case  any  considerable  amount  of  the  milk 
in  a  can  is  frozen  the  dealer  thaws  it 
out.  But  the  sample  is  ordinarily  taken 
from  the  unfrozen  milk  as  it  is  poured 
from  the  can  into  the  weigh  tank.  The 
best  protection  for  the  farmer  is  to  see 
that  the  milk  does  not  freeze  at  all. 

After  the  field  department  is  fully 
developed  there  will  be  a  resident  man  in 
each  district.  It  will  be  his  job  to  check 
test  for  all  members  of  the  association, 
giving  prompt  and  special  attention  to 
those  men  who  feel  that  their  test  is  not 
correct.  At  present,  however,  it  seems 
wise  to  make  a  general  check  test  on  all 
the  important  shipping  stations  in  New 
England.  This  will  serve  to  call  attention 
to  any  important  lack  of  accuracy  or 
unfairness  in  the  testing.  The  testing 
of  the  composite  samples  would  give  a 
check  on  the  accuracy  of  the  testing  as 
done  at.  the  various  plants.  The  testing 
of  a  daily  sample  would  give  an  indica- 
tion if  there  were  faulty  methods  in 
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would  be  the  duty  of  the  district  man, 
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Page  Eleven 


WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 
585  White  St.,         Springfield,  Matt. 

Telephone  Walnut  1714 

MARKET  PRICES 

Springfield   8  cts 

Holyoke   7l/2  cts 

Worcester   7y2  cts  for  six  mths 

The  Salem,  N.  Y.  section  is  strong 
for  the  NEMPA.  The  district  manager 
spent  10  days  in  organization  work  in 
that  section  early  in  January  and  found 
the  men  very  much  interested  in  the 
grave  problems  which  confront  organized 
dairy  marketing,  and  full  of  loyalty  to 
the  NEMPA.  More  than  90  per  cent 
of  all  the  men  seen  signed  up  on  the  new 
dues  order  basis.  Several  of  them 
were  new  members.  J.  D.  Greaves,  an 
enthusiastic  supporter  of  the  association, 
established  a  new  record.  He  has  a  100 
per  cent,  membership  on  the  route  over 
which  he  collects  milk  for  delivery  at 
the  Hood  plant  at  Salem.  He  kept  right 
after  the  non  members  and  the  new  men 
until  he  got  the  last  one  of  them  signed. 
The  district  manager  also  received  sub- 
stantial assistance  in  the  canvass  from 
William  Dunn,  president  of  the  Salem 
local,  and  from  John  Poore. 

An  equally  good  feeling  toward  the 
association  was  found  at  Amherst  where 
two  days  were  spent  in  recanvassing  the 
membership  on  the  new  dues  order  basis. 
With  the  assistance  of  President  James 
Tufts  21  new  dues  orders  were  secured. 
These  dairymen  feel  that  the  NEMPA 
or  some  other  New  England  wide 
organization  is  absolutely  necessary  to 
them.  Many  of  them  are  shippers  to  the 
Producers  Dairy  at  Holyoke,  a  co- 
operative which  operates  on  the  "known 
price"  basis,  and  co-operates  with  the 
NEMPA  in  other  ways. 

Conditions  in  the  Springfield  market 
are  still  unsettled.  Chain  store  milk  is 
still  being  sold  at  10  cents.  Home 
delivered  prices  range  from  13  to-  15 
cents.  Independent  dealers  are  buying 
their  supplies  on  a  flat  price  ranging  from 
f>lA  to  7J4  cents  per  quart  delivered  in 
the  city.  The  Springfield  market  com- 
mittee met  recently  and  after  reviewing 
the  situation  carefully  announced  an  eight 
cent  price  for  the  last  half  of  January. 

Much  of  the  present  disturbed  condi- 
tion in  the  Springfield  market  results 
from  the  fact  that  the  United  Dairy 
System  and  the  Brattleboro  co-operative 
are  working  on  altogether  different  price 
systems.  It  is  hoped  that  conferences 
with  them  by  the  NEMPA  may  result 
in  their  getting  together  on  some  common 
ground  and  thus  stabilizing  the  market. 

The  United  Dairy  System,  formerly 
the  Springfield  Dairy  System,  is  paying 
under  a  surplus  plan  and  has  been  under 
the  disadvantage  of  carrying  the  surplus 
for  the  whole  market.  Even  under  these 
conditions  the  prices  paid  by  the  System 
compare  fairly  well  with  those  paid  by 
the  independent  buyers,  especially  for  the 
last  four  months  of  the  year.  They 
have  paid  on  the  surplus  plan:  September 
3.12,  October,  3.15,  November  3.17  and 
December  3.13.  This  makes  an  average 
of  $3.14  for  the  four  months. 

In  the  Worcester  market  conditions 
seem  to  be  improving.  The  six  months' 
trade  at  7l/2  cents  was  quite  a  stabilizer. 
A  better  feeling  seems  to  prevail  than  at 
any  recent  time.  This  was  apparent  at 
meetings  at  Oxford  and  the  Sutton  called 
by  the  Extension  service.  Prof.  C.  J. 
Fawcett  of  the  Massachusetts  Agri- 
cultural College  gave  interesting  and 
helpful  talks  at  both  meetings.  He 
pointed  out  that  the  high  price  for  cattle 
now- made  it  good  business  for  the  dairy 
farmers  to  raise  more  young  stock. 
Prof.  John  Helyar  of  the  College  spoke 
on  farm  management  with  particular 
reference  to  growing  better  roughage. 
The  district  manager  presented  some  of 
the  NEMPA  problems  and  difficulties, 
also  the  hopeful  outlook  in  the  Worcester 
market. 

Isaac — -"Oi,  oi,  der  vedding  invitation 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1927 


WHY  DOES  THE  TAIL  WAG 
THE  DOG? 

(Continued  from  page  five) 

small  "neighborhood"  stores.  Under  this 
condition  it  is  inevitable  that  when  one 
-tore  price  goes  down  the  others  will 
follow.    Nothing  can  stop  them. 

In  the  present  instance  the  First  Na- 
tional Stores  went  down  a  cent.  They 
inserted  large  advertisements  calling  at- 
tention to  the  "new  low  price"  on  milk. 
The  attention  of  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  consumers  was  brought  to  the  "low 
priced"  milk  at  the  First  National  Stores. 
The  competing  stores  had  no  choice  but 
to  put  down  their  price  to  the  same  level. 
Within  a  day  the  whole  of  the  30  to  40 
per  cent,  of  the  Boston's  family  milk 
supply  went  down  to  the  common  level. 

The  30  to  40  per  cent  of  the  Boston 
family  milk  trade  which  went  down  one 
cent  is  a  large  enough  percentage,  a 
sufficient  volume  of  milk  to  convince  any 
thoughtful  man,  that  much  more  milk 
than  that  produced  by  the  892  Bellows 
Falls  farmers  is  involved  in  the  first  ef- 
fects of  the  cut. 

But  that  is  not  all.  When  milk  at  the 
stores  goes  down  the  delivered  milk  feels 
it.  Some  people  turn  to  the  stores  for 
their  supply  unless  the  milk  man  will 
give  them  a  corresponding  reduction.  De- 
livery teams  must  to  some  extent  meet 
the  store  price  or  lose  trade  and  disar- 
range their  loads  and  routes. 

The  secondary  effect  of  the  cut  comes 
through  the  fact  that  practically  all  but 
11  per  cent,  of  this  milk  is  bought  from 
dealers  who  in  turn  buy  through  the 
NEMPA.  When  stores  are  forced  by 
competitive  conditions  to  drop  their  re- 
sale price  of  milk  they  immediately  go 
to  their  dealer  and  demand  a  reduction  in 
the  price  he  sells  to  them.  They  do  not 
expect  a  large  profit  on  handling  milk, 
but  they  object  to  handling  it  at  cost  or 
less.  Therefore  they  demand  a  reduction. 
If  a  dealer  refuses  to  reduce  his  price 
to  a  store  he  is  in  danger  of  losing  the 
sale  of  a  considerable  quantity  of  milk. 

The  next  step  is  that  the  dealer  comes 
back  on  the  NEMPA  with  a  demand  for 
a  reduction.  They  have  been  forced  to 
reduce  the  re-sale  price  on  a  considerable 
volume  of  their  sales,  to  hold  the  trade. 
If  they  lose  the  sale  of  any  considerable 
quantity  of  milk  by  refusing-  to  meet 
competitive  conditions  their  surplus  will 
be  increased  by  just  that  much  and  the 
net  price  to  the  farmer  will  undergo  pro- 
portionate decrease. 

Dealers  handling  NEMPA  milk  de- 
mand the  privilege  of  buying  as  cheaply 
as  their  competitors.  We  cannot  tell 
them  what  their  competitors  who  buy  of 
the  Bellows  Falls  and  United  Farmers 
Co-operative  Creameries  pay  for  the  milk 
with  which  our  dealers  have  to  compete. 
It  is  an  unknown  price.  The  dealers  are 
willing  to  pay  for  the  milk  they  sell  as 
much  as  the  First  National  Stores  pay 
for  the  milk  it  sells.    When  the  First 


National  Stores  reduces  its  selling  price 
they  argue,  it  must  reduce  its  paying 
prices.  Its  paying  price  is  understood  to 
be  what  is  left  after  profits  and  expenses 
are  retained  from  the  price  at  which  it 
sells.  There  cannot  be  as  much  left  when 
the  sale  price  goes  down.  Hence,  if 
others  own  their  milk  cheaper  our  dealers 
who  have  to  meet  that  competition,  de- 
mand to  own  their  milk  cheaper.  A  re- 
fusal to  meet  this  demand  would  simply 
be  an  invitation  to  our  dealers  to  go  else- 
where in  search  of  cheap  milk.  A  condi- 
tion practically  similar  to  this  arose  in 
the  spring  of  1924.  The  sales  committee 
then  put  the  matter  up  to  the  directors 
whd  passed  the  following  resolution: 

"That  is  to  be  the  policy  of  the  New 
England  Milk  Producers'  Association  and 
the  sales  committee  is  instructed  to  meet 
competition  of  other  producer-owned 
agencies  in  the  sale  of  dairy  products." 

This  action  was  afterwards  confirmed 
by  the  annual  meeting  of  the  NEMPA. 

The  combination  of  the  increased 
spread  between  store  price  and  home  de- 
livered price,  and  then  enforced  reduction 
at  stores,  forces  the  NEMPA  to  make 
a  reduction  to  meet  the  competitive  con- 
dition in  the  market  or  lose  a  certain  vol- 
ume of  trade. 

The  last  stage  is  the  effect  the  de- 
crease in  Boston  has  on  the  rest  of  New 
England's  markets.  While  there  are 
some  notable  exceptions,  as  a  general 
thing  other  markets  follow  Boston.  Many 
did  so  in  the  case  of  the  reduction  for 
January.  It  was  a  natural  and  inevitable 
result. 

This  is  a  condition  for  which  there  is  a 
remedy  in  a  price  named  in  advance  and 
figured  on  some  basis  which  can  be  com- 
pared to  the  prices  paid  by  other  dear- 


BUTTER  PRICES 

Butter  prices  at  A%Y2c  a  pound  are 
now  lower  than  in  December  but  2j^c  a 
pound  above  last  year.  For  the  balance 
of  the  winter  butter  will  probably  con- 
tinue around  48c  to  50c  per  pound.  Stor- 
age stocks  are  in  low  and  withdrawals 
from  storage  continues  high.  Current 
production  is  about  3%  to  4%  below 
last  year.  Cold  storage  stocks  are  about 
the  same  as  in  1923  and  1924  and  in  both 
those  years  butter  prices  averaged  around 
51c  for  January,  February  and  March. 


Rastus :  "We  done  sold  all  our  black 
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Sambo:  "Sold  'em.    What  fob?" 

Rastus :  'We  jes  figgered  black  mules 
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Sambo:  "How  you  al  figger  dat?" 

Rastus:  "Dunno.  We  figgered  and  fig- 
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out  was  maybe  because  we  had  more  of 
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Dip  your  measure  into  a  sack  of 
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other  100-lb.  sack  of  feed. 


Unicorn  is  light  and  bulky.  Can 
be  fed  straight  without  harm  to 
the  cow.  Prevents  impaction. 


One  qt.  (dry  measure)  of  Uni- 
corn, weighs  13.5  ozs.;  1  bushel 
weighs  27  lbs.  Each  100-lb. 
sack  contains  2>%  bu. 


Unicorn  is  made  of  cottonseed 
meal,  corn  gluten  meal,  linseed 
meal,  corn  gluten  feed,  dried 
brewers  grains,  corn  oil  meal, 
wheat  bran,  hominy  meal,  bone 
charcoal ,  calcium  carbonate ,  salt . 


The  analysis  of  Unicorn  is:  24% 
Protein,  5%  Fat,  50%  Carbo- 
hydrates and  10%  Fiber. 


Unicorn  can  be  fed  with  your 
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Unicorn  contains  the  right 
amount  of  lime  to  insure  against 
shortage  of  lime  in  poor 
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Unicorn  is  the  "old-reliable"  of 
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Keeps  cows  in  good  condition. 
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No  glass,  nails  or  other  refuse  in 
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Unicorn  is  always  the  same. 
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sis or  ingredients.  This  means 
that  fed  straight,  or  mixed  with 
your  own  grain,  you  always  get 
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NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


LENROOT-TABER  BILL 

Readers  of  the  New  England  Dairy- 
man will  be  interested  in  knowing  just 
what  has  been  going  on  at  Washington  to 
prevent  the  Lenroot-Taber  Bill  (H.  1\. 
11768)  from  becoming  a  law. 

This  bill  has  for  its  purpose  the  set- 
ting up  of  reasonable  sanitary  regula- 
tions governing  the  production  and  im- 
portation of  milk  and  cream  into  the 
United  States.  Under  its  terms  the  Sec- 
retary of  Agriculture  is  authorized  to 
require  permits  for  milk  and  cream  to  be 
imported.  In  order  to  secure  a  permit, 
the  holder  must  be  able  to  show  that  the 
cows  which  produced  the  milk  have  been 
annually  subjected  to  a  veterinarian  ex- 
amination. The  farm  score  of  the  dairy 
plant  must  be  equivalent  to  50.  If  the 
milk  or  cream  comes  in  raw,  it  must 
come  from  cattle  that  have  been  tested 
within  a  year  for  tuberculosis.  If  it 
comes  in  pasteurized,  the  tuberculosis  re- 
quirement is  not  operative.  At  the  time 
the  milk  or  cream  passed  the  border,  the 
temperature  must  not  exceed  50  degrees 
Fahrenheit;  likewise,  the  bacteria  count 
for  raw  milk  must  not  exceed  300,000 
per  cubic  centimeter,  and  for  pasteurized 
milk,  100,000  per  cubic  centimeter ;  nor 
must  the  bacteria  count  on  cream,  if  raw, 
exceed  750,000  or,  if  pasteurized,  500,000 
per  cubic  centimeter. 

With  respect  to  the  tuberculin  test  re- 
quirement and  to  the  temperature  test,  an 
exception  is  made  in  the  case  of  milk 
when  it  is  produced  upon  the  farms  of 
a  foreign  country  within  20  miles  of  a 
milk  plant  in  the  United  States,  pro- 
vided such  milk  is  to  be  subsequently 
pasteurized  before  it  is  consumed. 

This  exception  was  made  as  the  result 
of  a  conference  participated  in  by  a  rep- 
resentative of  the  new  York  City  Board 
of  Health  and  by  representatives  of  the 
Hood  Co.  of  Boston,  and  by  representa- 
tives of  the  Sheffield  Farms  Co.  of  New 
York  City.  Upon  those  representatives 
agreeing  to  the  bill,  the  representatives  of 
the  National  Co-operative  Milk  Produc- 
ers' Federation  agreed  to  accept  this  par- 
ticular amendment.  The  representatives 
of  Hoods  and  Sheffields  then  agreed  not 
to  oppose  the  bill. 

Another  gentleman  has  been  very  ac- 
tive. He  is  Cornelius  Parker,  attorney 
for  T._P.  Grant  &  Co.,  and  a  few  other 
cream  dealers.  Mr.  Parker  has  been  an 
assiduous  witness  before  the  various  com- 
mittees and  has  done  everything  within 
his  power  to  prevent  the  bill  from  be- 
coming a  law.  At  his  instance,  and  at 
the  instance  of  the  Sheffield  Farms  Co., 
we  think,  Senator  David  I.  Walsh  of 
Massachusetts  introduced  a  long  list  of 
amendments  designed  to  block  the  pass- 
age of  the  bill. 

Senator  Royal  S.  Copeland  of  New 
York  has  appeared  before  the  committee 
several  times  and^  has  made  several 
speeches  in  the  Senate  in  favor  of  the 
bill.  Health  Commissioner  Harris  of 
New  York,  after  endorsing  the  bill  in 
the  form  that  the  Senate  Committee  re- 
ported it,  has  turned  against  it.  'In  con- 
sequence, Senator  Copeland  sought  an 
amendment  which  would  make  it  manda- 
tory on  the  part  of  the  Secretary  of  Ag- 
riculture to  issue  temporary  permits  un- 
til such  time  as  the  secretary  is  in  a  posi- 
tion to  enforce  the  act. 

The  bill  passed  the  Lower  House  by 
an  overwhelming  majority.  It  was  fav- 
orably reported  by  the  Senate  Commit- 
tee on  Agriculture  with  the  one  amend- 
ment referred  to.  It  has  been  considered 
by  the  Senate  acting  as  a  committee  of 
the  whole  house  on  the  State  of  the 
Union.  .' 

Readers  of  the  New  England  Dairy- 
men have  a  real  interest  in  this  legisla- 
tion. Our  American  farmers  are  required 
to  produce  their  milk  and  cream  under 
the  strict  supervision  of  state  and  city 
health  authorities.  The  regulations  pro- 
posed in  the  Lenroot-Taber  Bill  are  rea- 
sonable ones.  In  part,  they  conform  to 
the  Boston  requirements  and  in  part  to 
those  in  New  York  City.  That  is  all 
we  are  asking  of  the  foreigner.  It  is  not 
fair  for  the  dealers  of  our  great  cities 
to  be  permitted  to  bring  in  uninspected 
foreign  milk  which  may  be  impure  and 
which  the  records  in  the  Senate  and 
House  hearings  showed,  in  many  cases, 
was  produced  under  most  unsanitary  and 
even  filthy  conditions,  while  our  own 
farmers  have  to  conform  to  rigid  require- 
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LIME         LIME  AND        LIME  LIME 
ACID       MANURE  AN0  AND 

PHOSPHATE         ACID  COMPLETE 

PHOSPHATE  FERTILIZER 

Net  Returns  Per  Acre  Over  Cost  of  Treatment 


FERTILIZERS  INCREASE  PASTURE  EFFICIENCY 


Unfertilized 


The  chart  sliown  to  the  left  was  taken  from  Bulletin 
195,  published  by  the  Pennsylvania  State  College. 
It  shows  graphically  just  how  fertilizers  increase 
pasture  efficiency  and  dairy  profits. 


Norwood,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  2,  1926. 
"Our  hay  field,  consisting  of  eight  acres,  pro- 
duced forty-three  large  loads  averaging  I'i  tons 
to  the  load.  It  might  interest  you  to  know  that 
we  only  used  400  lbs.  of  'AA  Quality'  Fertilizer  to 
the  acre,  and  we  heartily  recommend  it.  We  have 
had  some  experience  with  fertilizers  of  other  manu- 
facture, but  have  always  obtained  the  best  results 
with  your  goods.  After  using  'AA  Quality'  Fer- 
tilizers for  the  past  few  years,  we  have  been  able 
to  raise  each  year  crops  amounting  in  value  to 
the  purchase  price  of  the  farm,  and  are  now 
convinced  that  it  is  not  the  original  cost  but  the 
final  result  in  dollars  and  cents  that  counts." 

— W.  T.  Leonard  flC  Co. 

Fall  River,  Mass.,  Sept.  22,  1926. 
"We  have  been  raising  silage  corn  for  four 
years,  and  using  other  fertilizers  each  year,  some- 
times paying  more  for  them,  but  this  year  we 
used  Bowker's  'AA  Quality'  Fertilizer  and  have  the 
best  corn  crop  by  far  that  we  have  ever  grown." 

— Lemay  Brothers. 
(Per  Ovidi  Lemay.) 

Cabot,  Vt.,  Dec.  20,  1926. 
"I  have  used  'AA  Quality'  Fertilizers  the  past 
year  and  have  been  much  pleased  with  the  results. 
My  crops  of  both  silage  corn  and  potatoes  were  the 
best  that  I  have  ever  raised. 

— H.  H.  Carpenter. 


Would  you  like  to  double 
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In  RAISING  and  maintaining  dairy 
cattle,  the  big  cost  is  feeding.  Profits 
are  limited  by  available  pasturage 
and  the  amount  of  feed  grown  on 
the  farm.  It  is  no  longer  possible 
to  buy  feed  cheaper  than  it  can  be 
grown. 

Turn  to  your  neglected  pastures, 
those  that  have  been  producing  only 
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diagram  shows,  a  com- 
plete fertilizer  increases 
pasture  efficiency  over 
80%.  On  fertilized  pas- 
turage, eleven  cows  graze 
where  there  was  food  for 
only  six  before. 

Statistics  show  that 
the  cost  of  feed  is  steadily 


increasing.  Dairy  farmers  who  do 
not  use  every  available  means  to 
grow  maximum  yields  of  corn,  oats 
and  hay  will  soon  be  face  to  face 
with  serious  losses. 

"AA  Quality"  Fertilizers  are  so 
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Page  Fourteen 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1927 


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NORTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 
477  Essex  Street  -  -  Lawreace,  Mass. 

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JANUARY  PRICES 

Manchester,  N.  H.  68c    per  8l/2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  74.4c  per  8j4  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass   72c    per  8     qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  90c    per  19    qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  72c    per  8     qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  58.8c  per  8l/2  qt.  can 

Portland,  Me    7.8c  per  quart 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers, 

and  Beverly,  Mass.  64c    per  8     qt.  can 

Prices 

The  above  named  prices  are  those  that 
are  in  effect  and  recognized  in  the  markets 
of  our  district  in  the  month  of  January. 
The  Northern  Market  District  was  par- 
ticularly fortunate  in  that  it  did  not  have 
to  change  its  price  at  all  in  January  even 
though  the  deplorable  chain  store  situa- 
tion in  Boston  caused  a  drop  of  1  cent. 
We  were  able  to  hold  our  price  because 
the  chain  store  situation  was  not  bad  in 
our  markets.  The  chain  stores  have  been 
selling  at  no  time  at  more  than  2  cents 
per  quart  under  the  retail  delivery  price, 
and  in  most  stores  there  is  only  a  1  cent 
per  quart  difference,  while  some  small 
grocery  stores  have  been  charging  15 
cents  per  quart,  which  is  the  generally 
accepted  retail  price. 

As  an  aid  in  calling  the  attention  of 
the  public  to  the  fact  that  prices  in  the 
markets  of  our  northern  district  were  not 
dropping  with  Boston,  and  to  help  the 
dealers  who  were  having  requests  from 
the  people  for  a  reduced  price,  the  follow- 
ing article  was  written  by  the  district 
manager  and  sent  to  the  newspapers  in 
Manchester  and  Nashua,  N.  H.,  and 
Lowell,  Lawrence,  and  Haverhill,  Mass. 
"Northern  N.  E.  Milk  Prices  Unchanged" 
Manager  Brown  Speaks  for  Producers 
of  This  Field. 

"F.  Leon  Brown,  district  manager  of 
the  Northern  Market  District  of  the 
New  England  Milk  Producers'  Associa- 
tion, says  that  there  will  be  no  change 
in  Milk  prices. 

"The  organization  of  which  Mr.  Brown 
is  district  manager,  sells  milk  to  distri- 
butors in  the  cities  of  Concord,  Man- 
chester, Nashua  and  Portsmouth  in  New 
Hampshire,  and  Haverhill,  Lowell  and 
Lawrence  in  Massachusetts. 

"In  discussing  the  milk  war  which  is 
taking  place  in  Boston,  Mr.  Brown  says 
that  this  price  war  is  caused  by  a  chain 
store  syndicate  and  reductions  of  prices 
of  milk  are  not  warranted  by  economic 
conditions,  such  as  cost  of  production, 
supply  and  demand. 

"Any  student  of  agriculture,  says  Mr. 
Brown,  can  easily  be  convinced  that  dairy 
farmers  are  not  prospering  when  he  con- 
siders the  fact  that  in  New  Hampshire 
alone,  dairy  cows  have  been  disappear- 
ing at  the  rate  of  3,750  annually.  Records 
show  that  the  dairy  cow  population  was 
estimated  at  99,989  on  January  1,  1922, 
and  at  84,000  on  January  1,  1926.  Should 
low  prices  continue  for  dairy  products 
and  oth§r  discouraging  features  of  milk 
production  continue,  it  is  inevitable  that 
the  dairy  animals  will  be  reduced  to  such 
an  extent  that  the  milk  supply  of  our 
cities  will  be  seriously  menaced. 

"District  Manager  Brown  says  that 
the  sales  committees  of  the  New  England 
Milk  Producers'  Association  ask  only  a 
fair  price  for  their  product  and  in  return 
pledge  themselves  to  use  every  possible 
effort  toward  the  production  of  clean, 
wholesome,  safe  milk." 

Cooperation  Appreciated 

"In  the  cities  of  our  district  there  are 
certain  dealers  who  recognize  the 
NEMPA  and  do  all  their  price  negotiat- 
ing with  us.  These  dealers  represent  a 
majority  of  the  milk  handled.  There  is  a 
minority  group  of  dealers  in  all  our 
markets,  who  do  not  negotiate  any  prices 
with  the  NEMPA.  While  we  have  been 
holding  our  price  the  dealers  doing  busi- 
ness with  us  have  shown  a  splendid  spirit 
of  cooperation.  Every  product  ought 
to  recognize  this  fact.  Many  times  dur- 
ing the  month,  our  dealers  have  been 


EXTRA  MILK 

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T  is  a  fact!  Seven  cows  in 
ten  are  capable  of  giving 
far  more  milk  than  they  do— 
in  the  winter  months.  Mal- 
nutrition—the bane  of  human 
health  and  well-being — is  far 
more  common  in  cows  than  in 
people.  It  is  the  biggest  leak 
in  winter  dairy  profits.  Under 
the  urgent  strain  of  consuming 
and  converting  quantities  of 
dry,  coarse  feeds  into  milk,  the 
digestion  and  assimilation 
break  down.  The  cow  may 
appear  healthy,  but  the  milk 
fails  to  come  in  paying  volume. 
Quantities  of  high-priced  feed 
go  to  waste. 

The  remedy  is  simple— and  amaz- 
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making  organs  meet  the  added  bur- 
dens thrust  upon  them.  Build  new 
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result. 

Kow-Kare  is  doing  just  this  job 
for  added  thousands  of  cow  owners 
every  year.  Instead  of  just  cram- 
ming feed  into  their  cows  these  dairy- 
men are  helping  their  cows  keep  the 
milk-making  process  going  full- 
speed.  Kow-Kare  has  a  marvelous 


tonic,  strengthening  effect  on  the 
productive  organs  —  makes  them 
function  actively,  produce  maximum 
milk  flow  and  resist  disease.  Kow- 
Kare,  fed  sparingly,  but  regularly 
with  the  feed  will  put  your  "poor 
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Try  it;  a  single  can  of  Kow-Kare 
will  ration  one  cow  from  one  to  two 
months,  the  treatment  being  regu- 
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It's  a  little  investment,  with  big— 
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In  treating  Barrenness,  Retained 
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the  source  of  the  trouble— makes  the 
affected  organs  regain  vigorous 
health— resist  disease. 

For  cows  at  calving  Kow-Kare, 
fed  before  and  after,  prevents  ex- 
pensive troubles,  makes  cow  and 
calf  healthy  and  vigorous. 

Feed  dealers,  general  stores,  drug- 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fifteen 


B-K  saved  me*3000 

'B-K  is  used  exclusively  in  our  poultry 
house.  Last  year,  as  a  result  of  having 
shown  our  Buffs  at  the  leading  shows  of 
this  country,  they  contracted  chicken  pox, 
and  later  on  roup,  and  it  looked  as  if  we 
would  loseevery  bird. ...We  dipped  them  in 
a  solution  of  B-K.  We  also  sprayed  each 
bird's  mouth  and  cleaned  up  theentire  flock 
and  saved  the  day.  B-K  in  this  one  in- 
stance saved  me  $3,000." — W.  D.  James 
of  the  well  known  James  Farms. 

Give  B-K  in  Drinking  Water 
Use  as  directed  to  spray  and  disinfect.  Will 
prevent  and  stop  roup,  canker,  "poultry 
flu"  and  other  dread  poultry  diseases. 
B-K  is  a  safe,  non-poisonous  germ  killer 
for  roup  and  other  respiratory  diseases  of 
poultry  —  also  for  white  diar 
rhea,  dysentery  and  similar 
diseases  of  baby  chicks. 
B-K  is  clear  and  clean.  Leaves 
no  odor.  B-K  is 
concen 
— costs 
\yi  cents 
gallon  of 
tion  rea 
use.  Buy 
at  your  dealer's. 
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solicited  by  creameries  and  by  individual 
farmers  who  have  offered  their  milk  for 
sale  at  prices  much  below  the  NEMPA 
price.  Our  dealers  have  refused  to  buy 
this  cheap  milk  and  leave  our  members 
without  a  market,  even  though  the 
dealers  in  the  minority  group  have  been 
buying  cheaper  milk  and  cutting  prices 
to  the  trade  on  the  street.  This  is  real 
co-operation  and  when  you  meet  your 
dealer,  let  him  know  you  appreciate  his 
square  dealing  and  good  fellowship. 

Production 

The  supply  of  milk  available  for  oui 
markets  seems  to  be  jumping  by  leaps 
and  bounds.  Where  all  the  milk  comes 
from  is  a  mystery.  Many  of  our  pro- 
ducers have  complained  that  there  is  no 
money  in  the  milk  business  and  yet  the 
price  of  cows  has  been  very  high  and 
the  bulk  of  our  producers  have  made  big 
increases  in  their  daily  production  of 
milk.  Our  most  serious  trouble  in  hold- 
ing our  markets  at  fair  prices  is  the  fact 
that  as  soon  as  we  get  prices  up  to  a 
level  where  there  is  a  fair  and  reasonable 
profit  in  the  milk  business,  the  flood 
starts,  an(J  we  have  a  great  deal  more 
milk  than  we  can  take  care  of.  I  am 
receiving  requests  every  day  from  pro- 
ducers urging  me  to  find  them  a  market 
and  when  I  canvass  our  dealers  asking 
them  to  take  on  a  little  additional  supply 
they  say,  "nothing  doing,  we  are  carrying 
all  the  surplus  ahead  that  we  care  to." 
To  date  I  have  not  been  able  to  place 
some  of  the  milk  of  members  with  re- 
liable dealers.  I  am  still  working  on 
this  proposition  and  hope  to  get  them 
placed  somewhere  before  long. 

When  the  Forbes  Dairy  Company  went 
bankrupt  this  business  was  taken  over  by 
the  F.  S.  Cummings  Company  of  Somer- 
ville,  Mass.  and  this  company  took  the 
milk  of  the  former  Forbes  Dairy  Com- 
pany producers.  All  of  these  producers 
are  members  of  the  NEMPA.  The 
Cummings  Company  has  just  served  them 
with  notice  that  after  February  15th 
they  will  no  longer  accept  shipments  of 
milk  from  them.  It  is  for  this  milk  that 
I  am  now  trying  to  find  a  suitable 
market. 

Business  Conditions 

I  must  again  report  very  unfavorable 
business  conditions.  Haverhill,  Mass.  is 
suffering  greatly  by  the  dull  spells  in  the 
shoe  manufacturing  business ;  while 
Lawrence,  Lowell  and  Nashua,  the  tex- 
tile cities,  show  no  worthwhile  improve- 
ment in  these  industries.  Taking  into 
consideration  the  above  facts  it  is  really 
remarkable  that  milk  sales  have  held  as 
good  as  they  have  for  the  past  few 
months. 


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it  is  most  economical.  Just  the  Boiler  for  sterilizing,  heat- 
ing water,  cooking  feeds,  heating  molasses  for  mixing 
sweet  feeds,  etc. 

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DEPARTMENT 


Cndfr  this  heading  the  .Journal 
will  f-.om  day  in  day  publish 
Items  o\  Interest  to  farmers,  rela- 
tive to  crops,  weather  rondltloD.8, 
etc.  KufBCstlons,  news  Items  and 
Information  farmers  wish  to  pass 
alone  to  their  fellow  agricultur- 
ists will  be  printed  under  this 
heading  anil  should  he  addressed 
to  Farm  News  Department,  Care 
of  the  Providence  Journal. 


Pure  Milk  for  State  Wards. 
In  connection,  with  the  agitation  by 
the  Holsteln-Frleslan  and  Ayrshire 
Breeders'  Associations  for  better  meth- 
ods of  tuberculosis  eradication  among 
the  cattle  of  the  State,  It  is  Interest- 
ing to  know  that  the  milk  supply  for 
the  children  at  the  State  Home  and 
School  is  more  carefully  guarded 
against  contamination  than  that  of 
many  more  fortunate  youngsters  whose 
parents  have  not  taken  the  trouble  to 
find  out  what  is  what  In  milk  produc- 
tion. 

The  cattle  at  t—e  State  Home  and 
School  are  all  pure  bred  Holstelns 
which  have  been  tested,  re-tested  and 
tested  again  and  found  free  from  all 
tubercular  taint.  When  the  herd  was 
started  by  the  purchase  of  about  20 
head  of  stock  from  several  different 
places  in  New  England,  each  animal 
was  from  an  accredited  herd,  which 
gave  the  institution  an  accredited  herd 
from  the  start,  and  it  is  still  one  of 
the  40-odd  accredited  herds  of  the 
State. 

The  first  cattle  were  bought  in  No- 
vember. 1923.  and  while  most  of  the 
cows  proved  themselves  good  produc- 
ers, the  tests  showed  that  a  few  were 
■'boarders"'  and  they  were  soon  dis- 
posed of.  At  present  the  herd  consists 
of  18  cows,  three  heifers,  seven  calves 
and  the  herd  sire,  Major  Poritiac  Mata- 
dor, bought  shortly  after  the  herd  was 
established. 

Nine  of  his  datighters  and  one  son 
are  now  in  the  herd.  None  of  the 
daughters  have  yet  reached  the  milk- 
ing age,  but  it  Is  expected  that  when 
they  begin  to  produce,  they  will  raise 
the  present  average  of  milk  produc- 
tion. 

Although  no  individual  cow  in  the 
herd  has  made  a  sensational  produc- 
tion record,  the  average  production  has 
not  fallen  below  10.530  pounds  in  any 
one  of  the  three  years  since  the  herd 
was  established  and  for  the  three  years 
Just  completed  the  average  yearly  pro- 
duction per  cow  has  been  10,980  3 
pounds. 

Eight  of  the  cows  have  records  of 
better  than  12.000  pounds  In  one  year. 
They  are:  Aaggle  Pel  Pletjle,  12,128 
pounds;  Inka  Hepsy  May.  12.247  2 
oounds:  Segls  Colantha  DeK.  Henger- 
veld.  12,410.4  pounds;  Ilda  Romanle 
May.  12,544  pounds:  Isa  Sweet  Brook 
Pontlac.  12,730.1  pounds.  Pet  Alcartra 
Pietje.  13.563  4  pounds;  Hons  Rag  Ap- 
ple Korndyke.  14,911  1  pounds,  and  Vlc- 
torine  Rose  Lyons.  17,600.8  pounds. 

There  are  also  two  heifers  from  cows 
that  were  bought  during  gestation  that 
are  making  fine  records  as  2-year-olds. 
S.  H.  S.  Alcartra  Belle  has  an  11 
months  record  of  9529  pounds  and  is 
now  being  dried  off  preparatory  to 
freshening  again,  and  S.  H.  S.  Pontiac 
Fairfax  has  produced  9276  pounds  In 
nine  months  and   is  still  producing 

}e  average  per  cow  has  been  »j  to 
lows:    1923    and    1924.    10.850  pounds 
U924  and  1925.  10.630  pounds,  and  1925 

the    cattle    being    contaminated  by 
communicable  disease  they  are  com 
pletely  Isolated  from  surrounding  herds 
•  *  . 


A  clipping 

from  the 

Providence 
Journal 

December  19 
1926 


r  /  r 

The  herd  described, 
owned  by  the  Rhode  Is- 
land State  Home  and 
School,  was  fed  in  1926  on 
Amco  Open-Formula  feeds. 
Note  that  during  this 
period  the  average  pro- 
duction per  cow  increased 
1032  lbs.  while  no  increase 
was  made  in  the  year  pre- 
vious on  another  feed. 

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Give  a  cow  what  she 
needs  to  make  milk  and  if 
she  has  any  production 
capacity  at  all  she  will 
respond.  Amco  feeds  give 
her  every  chance.  They 
are  highly  digestible,  taste 
good,  contain  a  wide 
variety  of  protein,  and 
carry  the  minerals  neces- 
sary for  year-after-year 
production.  They  are  eco- 
nomical, too,  for  the  sav- 
ings made  through  large 
volume  mixing  are  passed 
on  to  the  feeder. 

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Proof  of  the  overwhelming  superiority  of  De  Laval  Milkers  is  shown  in  the  rapidly  in- 
creasing numbers  which  are  being  put  to  use  by  progressive  dairymen  everywhere.  With 
more  than  650,000  cows  (including  some  of  the  highest  producers  in  the  world,  and  many 
owned  by  agricultural  colleges,  experiment  stations,  public  institutions,  producers  of  Certified, 
Special  and  Grade  A  milk)  now  milked  with  De  Laval  Milkers,  the  economy  and  efficiency 
of  De  Laval  milking  is  firmly  established. 

Thousands  of  De  Laval  users  say  that  it  has  made  dairying  more  pleasant  and  profitable  for  them,  that 
it  milks  their  cows  better  and  quicker  than  ever  before,  and  produces  more  and  cleaner  milk. 

If  you  are  milking  five  or  more  cows  by  hand,  a  De  Laval  Milker  will  soon  pay  for  itself.  Your  only  re- 
gret will  be  that  you  didn't  get  one  sooner.    See  your  De  Laval  agent  or  send  coupon  for  full  information. 


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size  Herd.  Sold  ; 
on  easy  terms.  ! 


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New  tngbni  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairv  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  10.   Number  12. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  MARCH,  1927 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


TEN  CENT  INCREASE 


Sales  Committee  Secures  More  for 
Surplus  Beginning 
February  1 

The  price  for  market  milk  for  March 
remains  the  same  as  for  February,  8 
cents  per  quart  for  3.7  per  cent,  milk 
delivered  in  Boston.  There  was  no  dis- 
position in  the  market  to  ask  for  any 
change  and  there  is  very  little  com- 
plaint of  any  price  cutting.  There 
seems  to  be  no  reason  why  the  present 
price  should  not  be  maintained  provided 
there  is  no  decrease  in  the  store  price. 

After  a  rather  prolonged  discussion 
of  surplus  prices  the  sales  committee 
secured  an  advance  of  10  cents  a  hun- 
dred. It  was  nearly  the  middle  of  Feb- 
ruary before  the  trade  was  finally  closed 
but  it  was  made  retroactive  to  February 
I  This  will  add  enough  to  the  net 
price,  together  with  the  good  butter 
prices,  to  bring  it  up  nearly  where  it 
was  a  year  ago  in  spite  of  the  decrease 
in  market  milk. 


LENROOT-TABER  BILL 

As  recorded  in  last  month's  Dairyman, 
the  Lenroot-Taber  bill  passed  the  House 
and  Senate  at  Washington  and  has  since 
fbeen  signed  by  the  President  and  is  a 
law  of  the  land.  '  It  will  become  effec- 
tive 90  days   from   its   passage  which 
will  make  its  operation  felt  before  our 
next  short  season  arrives. 
.  The  clamor  which  was  raised  by  some 
of  the  dealers  in  Boston  who  purchase 
Canadian  cream  to  the  effect  that  the 
ilaw  would  shut  off  a  large  supply  and 
^create   a   shortage   in   the   market  has 
largely  subsided.    Whatever  newspapers 
paid  any  attention   to  this   claim  were 
careful  to  pin  the  statement  onto  some 
person  and  they  did  not  in  general  take 
the  claim  seriously. 

Dairy   trade   papers   have   spoken  of 
I  the  bill  as  shutting  off  Canadian  cream. 
.Maybe  it  will  but  only  through  the  fact 
I  that  Canadian  producers  cannot  or  will 
'  not  conform  to  the  standards  of  cleanli- 
jness   and   quality    which   we   have  set. 
It  is  up  to  them  whether  they  will  pro- 
'jduce  the  kind  of   cream  we   want  or 
keep  it  at  home. 
1    The  claim  that   it   would  produce  a 
shortage  is  wide  of  the  mark.  There 
is  an  abundance  of  cream  for  use  in 
,;  New  England  except  in  times  of  short 
,'.  production  in  the  fall.    There  is,  -even 
"at   the    short    season,    cream  available 
from  somewhere  at  a  price  which  is  rea- 
i  sonable  in  view  of  the  resale  prices. 
I    The  NEMPA  has  worked  hard  with 
!  the    National    Co-operative    Milk  Pro- 
1  ducers'  Federation  to  get  the  bill  passed, 
i  It  has  had  the  opposition,  open  and  un- 
der cover,  of  some  of  the  large  milk 
1  dealers  and  more  especially  the  cream 
dealers  in  Boston.    Senator  Walsh  tried 
'  to  make  political  capital  out  of  it  but 
it  did  not  prove  good  material  as  it  was 
sound  in  principle  and  had  the  support 
I  of  public  health  leaders.    It  was  com- 
,  mon   justice   that    any   cream  or  milk 
1  which  came  in  from  Canada  should  be 
l  subjected  to  the  same  sanitary  require- 
ments   as    milk    produced    within  the 
1  states. 


A  New  England  Conference  Board 

Will  the  dairy  industry  of  New  England  take  the  new  opportunity 
offered  to  get  together  on  a  common  program? 

The  New  England  Council  has  opened  the  door  of  this  opportunity 
by  calling  a  general  conference  of  the  organized  groups  of  dairy 
farmers  to  consider  setting  up  a  New  England  Conference  Board. 
The  Council  is  willing  to  serve  as  a  clearing  house  for  these  various 
groups  until  they  develop  such  a  conference  board  or  until  they  give 
up  such  an  effort. 

The  discussions  and  the  actions  taken  at  this  conference  are  re- 
ported elsewhere  in  this  issue.  It  is  too  early  to  say  what  will  come 
out  of  it  as  this  was  merely  a  preliminary  meeting.  But  whatever 
has  been  said  and  done  thus  far  leaves  strong  grounds  for  hope  that 
such  a  conference  board  will  be  set  up. 

It  will  not  be  an  easy  task  to  get  this  conference  board  into  being 
or  to  keep  it  in  practical  operation  after  it  is  organized.  With  so 
many  different  opinions  as  to  what  ought  to  be  done  in  New  England 
it  would  be  easy  to  sidetrack  the  big  idea  of  a  conference  board  by 
focussing  attention  at  the  start  on  these  differences  and  letting  them 
become  a  major  part  of  the  discussions.  It  will  require  some  for- 
bearance and  tolerance  on  the  part  of  all  to  keep  off  these  dangerous 
grounds  and  steer  the  movement  toward  its  real  goal,  a  conference 
board  representing  the  various  organizations  of  dairymen  which  can 
take  up  the  problems  which  are  common  to  all  and  yet  leave  each 
individual  group  free  action  in  the  problems  which  concern  itself  only. 

The  conference  was  called  by  the  New  England  Council  and  is  thus 
strictly  non-partizan.  No  one  organization  of  dairymen  is  promoting 
it.  All  have  been  given  equal  invitation  to  take  part  in  forming  it. 
It  does  not  represent  one  line  of  thought  on  what  ought  to  be  done  in 
the  way  of  co-operative  marketing  of  dairy  products  in  New  England 
any  more  than  any  other  line  of  thought. 

It  was  the  most  representative  gathering  of  the  organized  dairy 
farmers  of  New  England  ever  brought  together.  All  the  larger  groups 
sent  one  or  more  men  to  the  conference  on  the  invitation  of  the 
Council.  It  is  estimated  that  they  represented  groups  handling  85 
per  cent,  of  all  the  commercial  milk  supply  of  New  England. 

While  these  men  were  not  there  with  any  power  to  commit  their 
respective  organizations  to  any  definite  program  there  was  not  one 
dissenting  voice  to  the  general  proposition  that  New  England  dairy 
interests  need  such  a  conference  board  to  discuss  common  problems. 

The  way  ;s  open  for  all  these  organizations  to  come  into  this 
proposition  with  open  minds,  with  a  genuine  desire  to  work  out 
something  which  will  be  for  the  common  benefit  of  all.  Whether  or 
not  the  movement  develops  into  a  strong,  practical  force  in  the  dairy 
industry  rests  largely  with  the  attitude  of  the  organizations  toward 
the  project.  If  they  can  keep  their  minds  fixed  on  the  larger  aspects 
of  the  proposal  and  recognize  the  real  value  of  working  together  on 
common  problems  the  conference  board  can  be  developed.  On  the 
other  hand  if  the  various  organizations  which  are  interested  begin  at 
the  start  to  think  in  terms  of  the  differences  of  opinion  on  minor  mat- 
ters which  now  exist,  it  will  probably  come  to  nothing. 

The  NEMPA,  the  largest  group  represented,  pledges  itself  to  enter 
into  the  proposal  with  an  open  mind,  to  be  ready  to  discuss  questions 
frankly,  to  give  credit  to  every  other  group  for  every  idea  it  ad- 
vances, to  believe  that  all  other  groups  are  honestly  trying  to  do 
their  best  for  their  members  and,  above  all,  to  lay  aside  any  feeling 
of  antagonism  which  may  have  grown  up  as  the  result  of  differences 
of  opinion  in  the  past. 

The  Council  should  receive  the  appreciation  of  all  groups  for  its 
efforts  to  bring  the  various  interests  together  but  each  group  should 
remember  that  the  ultimate  success  of  this  proposition  depends  on 
the  dairy  groups  themselves.  Open  mindedness  and  sincerity  on  the 
part  of  these  groups  can  make  this  conference  board  a  strong  vital 
factor  in  the  dairy  industry.  Anything  less  than  that  will  leave  it  a 
weak  and  futile  effort. 


RAILROAD  RATE  CASE 

Decision  Now  Rests  with  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission — Com- 
mittee Work  Finished 

The  railroad  rate  case  is  now  up  to 
the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  for 
final  judgment.  The  dairy  interests  of 
New  England  have  done  their  best  to 
prevent  the  unwarranted  increase  of 
$750,000  in  milk  transportation  rates  and 
the  men  who  know  most  about  it  are 
confident  that  the  decision  will  be  favor- 
able. It  will  come  through  sometime 
before  very  long  probably. 

But  producers  all  over  New  England 
should  remember  that  it  is  almost  a  year 
ago  that  the  increase  would  have  gone 
into  effect  if  there  had  not  been  a 
strong  protest.  The  schedule  of  in- 
creased rates  was  filed  by  the  railroads 
and  they  would  automatically  have  gone 
into  effect  April  1,  1926,  if  no  action 
had  been  taken  to  protect  the  dairy- 
farmers.  As  it  is  the  rates  have  been 
suspended  a  full  year,  or  will  have  been 
before  the  decision  comes  through.  This 
means  that,  whether  the  final  decision 
of  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission 
is  that  the  full  increase  is  granted,  that 
some  increase  is  granted  or  that  no  in- 
crease is  granted,  there  is  $750,000  in 
additional  freight  bills  which  the  farmers 
have  not  had  to  pay. 

'i  he  last  public  act  in  the  rate  case 
was  the  presentation  of  briefs  by  the 
attorneys  on  both  sides  and  the  argu- 
ments in  the  case  before  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission  in  Washington. 
Our  attorneys,  John  Finerty  and  Reuben 
Hall,  passed  the  railroads  some  stiff 
comments  in  the  brief.  It  was  a  fit 
climax  to  a  case  fought  through  in  a 
way  that  gave  the  railroads  the  greatest 
surprise  they  ever  have  had.  They  had 
not  expected  any  such  opposition  as  was 
presented.  They  thought  that  they 
were  dealing  with  "a  bunch  of  farmers." 
They  found  out  that  they  were  dealing 
with  a  united  dairy  industry  and  that 
these  same  farmers  were  wise  enough 
to  hire  the  best  brains  that  could  be  ob- 
tained to  fight  for  their  interests. 

The  railroads  pinned  their  faith  on  a 
"cost  study"  which  proved  to  be  a 
boomerang.  Almost  at  the  first  session 
our  men  punched  it  full  of  holes  and 
they  kept  on  taking  a  whack  at  it  all 
through  the  subsequent  proceedings  un- 
til it  was  badly  riddled.  In  the  con- 
clusions of  the  brief  our  men  said: 
"The  whole  procedure  which  the  carriers 
adopted  in  this  case  warrants  the  con- 
clusion that  while  they  had  no  hope  of 
justifying  the  proposed  increase  of  20 
per  cent.,  they  have  gambled  upon  the 
chance  that  by  exaggerating  their  claims 
they  might  obtain  some  smaller  in- 
crease." 

Some  summary  of  the  fight  waged  by 
the  New  England  milk  rate  committee 
against  the  $750,000  increase  in  milk 
transportation  rates  in  New  England  is 
due  at  this  time,  now  that  the  com- 
mittee and  its  experts  have  finished 
their  work  and  left  the  case  with  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission. 

Looking  back  over  the  progress  of 
the  case  it  seems  apparent  that  the  rail- 
roads thought  that  it  was  a  good  time 
(Continued  on  page  twelve) 


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Page  Two  NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN  March,  1927 

Cream  Plan  to  Be  Explained         Turner  Centre  System  Meeting 


Confidence  in  Officers  and  Directors  Shown  by  Stock- 
holders—  Operating  Costs  Reduced 


Field  Men  Will  Show  Producers  the  Abuses  Which  Have 

■ 

Developed — Higher  Prices  Will  Come  Through 
Suspending  the  Present  Plan 


One  of  the  best  things  about  this  plan 
of  having  a  crew  of  field  men  seeing  the 
members  is  the  opportunity  it  will  give  to 
answer  questions  and  explain  conditions. 
Right  now  there  is  special  need  for  this 
personal  explanation  and  the  opportunity 
to  ask  and  answer  questions  concerning 
the  price  situation,  especially  the  chain 
store  milk  prices.  Since  the  First  Na- 
tional stores  have  begun  to  use  paid  ad- 
vertising and  fliers  in  the  country  in  an 
attempt  to  discredit  the  NEMPA  there  is 
all  the  more  need  of  this  opportunity  to 
talk  things  over.  We  do  not  believe  that 
any  considerable  number  of  NEMPA 
members  are  misled  by  the  claims  pre- 
sented in  this  paid  advertising  but  there 
are  a  number  of  natural  questions  which 
might  be  asked  and  which  ought  to  be 
answered  fairly  and  in  the  light  of  full 
knowledge  of  New  England  wide  con- 
ditions, such  as  we  have  and  such  as  our 
field  men  are  getting  as  they  grow  more 
and  more  familiar  with  the  organization 
and  its  work. 

While  the  chain  store  milk  situation  is 
one  of  the  outstanding  questions  likely  to 
be  asked  there  is  also  considerable  need 
of  frank  talk  about  the  cream  plan  and 
the  penalty  it  is  placing  on  the  dairy  in- 
dustry of  all  New  England  through  the 
way  it  has  been  misused.  Probably  a  con- 
siderable number  of  shippers  who  are 
now  selling  their  product  as  cream  and 
receiving  the  "equalization"  under  the 
cream  plan  think  that  it  is  an  advantage 
to  them.  In  a  great  number  of  cases  it 
is  now  working  the  other  way  around  and 
is  actually  penalizing  them  about  10  cents 
a  hundred  pounds  on  their  milk.  Our 
field  men  are  well  informed  on  this  ques- 
tion and  will  be  able  to  take  pencil  and 
paper  and  show  just  how  it  works. 

This  abuse  of  the  cream  plan  has  led 
the  sales  committee  of  the  association  to 
announce  its  intention  of  suspending  the 
cream  plan  during  the  period  of  short 
production  beginning  July  1.  The  an- 
nouncement of  the  change  is  made  at  this 
time  so  that  producers  who  have  been 
operating  under  the  cream  plan  can 
change  their  farm  practices  to  conform  to 
the  new  conditions,  or  rather  the  return 
to  the  old  conditions  which  prevailed  be- 
fore the  cream  plan  was  put  in  operation. 
So  far  as  possible  our  field  men  will  get 
into  the  important  cream  plan  sections 
before  the  change  takes  place  and  in 
meetings  and  in  farm  visits  explain  what 
a  real  disadvantage  the  cream  plan  is 
under  the  abuses  which  have  grown  up. 

The  root  of  the  trouble  with  the  cream 
plan  is  that  farmers  who  ship  cream  dur- 
ing the  season  of  flush  production,  when 
the  milk  is  not  needed,  will  not  return  to 
milk  shipments  during  the  season  of  short 
production  when  it  is  needed  as  market 
milk.  This  has  brought  about  a  condi- 
tion which  dealers  have  been  buying  con- 
siderable quantities  of  outside  milk  and 
charging  it  out  of  sales  before  figuring 
the  surplus  price.  This  outside  milk, 
charged  out  of  sales,  increases  the  sur- 
plus and  lowers  the  price  to  all. 

To  fully  understand  the  situation  with 
regard  to  the  cream  plan  shippers  must  be 
divided  into  three  classes,  the  men  who 
have  shipped  milk  right  along,  the  men 
who  are  now  shipping  cream  and  who  will 
change  over  to  shipping  milk  July  1,  and 
the  men  who  are  now  shipping  cream  and 
will  continue  to  ship  cream.  Under  the 
cream  plan  the  man  who  was  shipping 
milk  was  subjected  to  an  equalization  fee 
which  was  paid  over  to  the  men  who  were 
shipping  cream  so  that  their  price  would 
be  the  same,  except  for  the  feeding  value 
of  the  skim  kept  at  home.  Suspending  the 
cream  plan  will  have  a  direct  effect  on 
the  price  to  the  men  who  are  shipping 
milk  by  doing  away  with  this  equalization 
charge.  It  will  also  have  indirect  effect 
through  the  reduction  of  the  surplus  in  so 
far  as  it  is  affected  by  outside  purchases. 

The  ideal  situation  would  be  where  just 
enough  of  the  men  now  shipping  cream 
under  the  cream  plan  would  return  to 


milk  shipments  to  do  away  with  the  need 
of  any  outside  purchases  by  the  dealers. 
This  would  reduce  the  surplus  and  still 
leave  the  skim  milk  back  on  the  farms 
when  it  was  not  needed  in  the  market.  It 
is  our  belief  that  this  condition  would  in- 
crease the  milk  price  at  least  10  cents  a 
hundred,  without  regard  to  any  gain  to 
the  milk  shippers  through  doing  away 
with  the  equalization  fee.  This  gain  in 
the  milk  price  would  be  shared  by  the 
second  group,  the  men  who  are  now  ship- 
ping cream  but  who  returned  to  shipping 
milk.  The  advance  in  price,  due  to  the 
decrease  in  surplus,  would  benefit  both 
groups  equally. 

The  only  men  who  would  not  share  in 
this  10  cent  advance  would  be  the  third 
group,  the  cream  shippers  who  would  not 
return  to  milk  shipments.  They  would  be 
in  the  same  position  as  they  were  before 
the  cream  plan  was  started;  their  product 
would  be  bought  and  paid  for  under  com- 
petitive conditions  and  their  return  from 
the  dealers  would  be  governed  by  the  law 
of  supply  and  demand  in  the  markets. 

Under  the  present  plan  the  cream  plan 
has  been  made  optional ;  any  man  can  ship 
cream  or  milk  as  he  saw  fit.  When  the 
cream  plan  is  suspended  July  1,  it  will 
still  be  optional  with  any  of  the  present 
producers  whether  they  will  ship  milk  or 
cream.  The  difference  will  be  that  if  a 
man  decides  to  continue  to  ship  cream, 
when  his  product  is  needed  in  the  market 
as  whole  milk,  he  will  not  share  in  an 
"equalized"  price  nor  will  his  brother  pro- 
ducer, who  is  shipping  milk  in  accordance 
with  the  needs  of  the  market,  be  penal- 
ized by  an  equalization  fee. 

Each  man  must  decide  for  himself  what 
he  will  ship  after  July  1.  If  enough  re- 
turn to  milk  shipments  so  that  no  outside 
purchases  will  be  necessary  by  dealers, 
the  surplus  will  be  reduced  to  the  lowest 
point  and  the  price  will  be  the  highest. 
If  less  than  that  number  come  back  to 
milk  shipments,  the  surplus  will  still  be 
swelled  somewhat  by  outside  purchases. 
If  more  than  that  number  come  back  to 
milk  shipments  the  surplus  will  increase 
and  the  price  will  not  be  10  cents  higher, 
as  we  believe  it  will  be  if  just  the  right 
number  come  back.  If  all  the  men  now 
shipping  cream  under  the  cream  plan 
should  change  over  the  surplus  would  be 
almost  as  great  as  it  is  at  present.  The 
increase  in  price  would  not  be  more  than 
three  cents  a  hundred  in  our  best  judg- 
ment. 

Many  of  them  will  not  change  over  to 
milk  shipments.  They  cannot  well  do  so 
as  they  are  located  so  far  from  the  rail- 
roads or  onlines  where  service  is  inade- 
quate that  they  cannot  ship  milk.  There 
is  where  the  great  abuse  of  the  cream 
plan  has  come  in.  Dealers  have  taken 
advantage  of  it  to  get  a  supply  of  cream 
in  sections  which  are  inaccessible  for  milk 
shipments.  They  have  been  able  to  do 
this  by  paying  the  farmers  in  these  sec- 
tions a  higher  price  but  the  higher  price 
has  been  due  to  the  equalization  fee.  The 
dealers  did  not  pay  it.  Milk  shipping 
farmers  paid  it. 

Men  in  such  inaccessible  locations  may 
or  may  not  benefit  by  the  suspension  of 
the  cream  plan.  Their  cream  can  still 
move  to  market  under  competitive  condi- 
tions but  the  dealers  will  have  to  pay  the 
premium,  not  other  farmers.  In  times  of 
high  butter  prices  and  shortage  or  cream 
in  the  market  their  prices  may  be  greater 
than  those  received  under  the  cream  plan. 

We  think  that  these  men  will  see  this 
condition  and  admit  that  they  have  been 
sharing  in  the  milk  price  without  reason 
and  that  their  brother  producers  have  had 
to  pay  for  it.  On  the  other  hand  the 
dealers  have  had  a  decided  advantage  in 
having  power  to  buy  this  cream  at  surplus 
milk  prices  instead  of  paying  for  it  under 
a  competitive  market.  That  advantage  is 
somewhat  less,  now  that  we  have  secured 
10  cents  a  hundred  premium  on  surplus 
milk,  but  it  is  still  there  and  will  be  until 
the  cream  plan  is  suspended. 


Substantial  reduction  in  operating  costs 
in  1926  and  increased  earnings  for  the 
year  were  outstanding  features  of  the  re- 
ports given  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Turner  Centre  System  held  in  Auburn, 
Me.,  Feb.  11.  It  was  the  largest  meeting 
of  the  stockholders  yet  held  and  the  con- 
fidence which  the  producers  have  in  their 
officers  and  directors  was  indicated  in 
the  practically  unanimous  way  in  which 
they  voted,  not  only  in  the  election  of  di- 
rectors and  officers,  but  in  support  of  the 
policies  of  the  present  management. 

High  quality  of  product  was  also  an 
outstanding  feature  of  the  meetings.  At 
the  dinner  the  night  before  the  business 
meeting,  with  more  than  200  in  attend- 
ance, addresses  were  given  by  Dr.  C.  E. 
North  of  New  York  on  quality  products 
and  by  Prof.  W.  P.  E.  Lockwood  of  the 
New  England  Dairy  and  Food  Council  on 
the  way  in  which  quality  products  could 
be  backed  up  by  a  general  program  of 
educational  and  advertising  work,  such  as 
is  done  by  the  council.  It  was  later  voted 
to  endorse  the  work  of  the  Council  and 
that  support  of  the  work  from  the  Turner 
Centre  System  should  be  left  in  the  hands 
of  the  directors. 

An  important  vote  was  a  change  in  the 
bylaws  relative  to  who  are  eligible  to 
serve  on  the  board  of  directors ;  the 
change  was  made  that  none  can  serve  who 
are  in  the  pay  of  the  company,  except  E. 
L.  Bradford  and  J.  E.Moody,  who  have 
served  long  and  faithfully  according  to 
the  statement  made,  and  these  can  serve 
by  vote  of  the  stockholders ;  it  was  a  real 
vote  of  confidence  in  these  two  men. 

In  order  to  give  a  part  of  Massachu- 
setts more  representation  the  board  of 
directors  was  increased  from  eight  to  nine 
and  the  members  are:  E.  L.  Bradford, 
Auburn ;  James  E.  Moody,  Lowell, 
Mass. ;  E.  Donald  Chase,  Unity ;  H.  L. 
Grinnell,  Union;  H.  J.  Mosher,  Farming- 
ton  ;  James  E.  Irish,  Buckfield ;  L.  G. 
Roundy,  West  Burke,  Vt. ;  George  W. 
Lane,  Jr.,  Lewiston ;  G.  S.  Magan,  Tiver- 
ton, R.  I.,  for  the  Fall  River,  Mass.,  dis- 
trict. 

W.  B.  Haskell  is  clerk  and  E.  H.  Gris- 
wold  of  Boston  takes  the  place  of  A.  W. 
P.  Cobb  of  Auburn  as  auditor.  Mr. 


DON'T  SLIDE  BACK! 

A.  W.  Carpenter  in  Larro  Dairyman 

In  the  October,  1926,  issue  of  "Farm 
Economics,"  published  by  the  New  York 
State  College  of  Agriculture,  there  ap- 
pears, in  an  article  headed  "Farm  Prices 
in  New  York,"  this  interesting  paragraph. 

"The  improvement  in  the  price  of  milk 
has  come  about  as  a  result  of  a  reduction 
of  more  than  one-fourth  in  the  number 
of  heifers  raised  when  milk  was  cheap. 
This  reduction  promises  to  give  a  fair 
milk  market  for  at  least  a  year  and  prob- 
ably longer.  The  shortage  of  cows  has 
resulted  in  a  material  increase  in  the  price 
of  dairy  cows." 

We  quote  it  here  because  of  the  strik- 
ing way  in  which  it  verifies  the  things 
Mr.  Charles  Staff  told  you  about  calves 
and  their  effect  on  dairy  profits  in  the 
last  issue  in  an  article  entitled  "The 
Heifer  Calf— to  Raise  or  Not  to  Raise." 

The  only  thing  we  can  say  now  that 
has  not  already  been  said  by  Mr.  Staff 
and  proved  by  the  dairymen  of  New  York 
is  this : 

Dont  slide  back! 

Don't  make  the  mistake  of  thinking 
that  because  milk  prices  are  up  and  cows 
are  more  valuable  you  can  increase  your 
profits,  both  from  milk  and  stock,  by  rais- 
ing more  calves. 

Just  as  sure  as  you  do  that  you'll  bring 
the  value  of  milk  and  cows  down.  Keep 
the  advantage  you've  gained.  Market 
your  calves  as  calves  before  they  repre- 
sent an  investment  in  feed. 

A  newborn  calf  costs  you  nothing,  but 
a  2-year-old  heifer  she'll  cost  you  any- 
where from  $150  to  $200.  Besides,  she'll 
throw  the  scales  of  supply  and  demand 
off  balance  by  increasing  the  supply — 
both  of  milk  and' cows— and  BANG!  go 
your  favorable  prices. 


Griswold  is  a  certified  public  accountant. 

It  was  voted  that  the  treasurer  here- 
after be  elected  by  the  board  of  directors. 

The  matter  of  changing  the  amount  of 
capital  stock  from  $2,000,000  to  $3,000,000 
was  discussed  freeiy.  George  W.  Lane, 
Jr.,  of  the  directors,  told  of  the  necessity 
of  the  increased  capitalization  and  H.  C. 
Chesley  of  West  Sumner  endorsed  what 
he  said  and  made  further  explanation  in 
which  he  endorsed  heartily  the  work  of 
the  management  during  the  past  year. 

It  was  voted  by  a  stock  vote  to  change 
the  capital  stock  as  recommended. 

The  manager  showed  the  stockholders 
by  means  of  charts  the  division  of  the 
Turner  Centre  dollar  that  over  51  cents 
goes  to  the  producers  for  their  milk  and 
cream.  He  also  showed  that  of  the  sales 
of  the  whole  product  of  the  System  com- 
pared in  parts  of  the  dollar,  butter  brings 
in  10  cents,  milk  and  cream  60  cents,  ice 
cream  23^2  cents,  condensed  milk  l)/> 
cents,  ice  cream  mixture  1  cent,  eggs  \l/z 
cents,  miscellaneous  2Y%  cents.  He  said 
a  very  hot  day  in  the  summer  will  in- 
crease the  profits  of  this  company  several 
thousand  dollars.  He  asked  all  to  "pray 
for  hot  weather  next  summer." 

Mr.  Haskell's  report  as  general  man- 
ager also  showed  in  detail  the  financial 
condition  of  the  Turner  Centre  System. 
It  showed  that  the  System  had  paid  for 
milk  and  cream  $3,767,912.83  in  1926. 
This  is  an  increase  of  $511,852.28  over 
the  previous  year.  The  earnings  for  the 
year  were  $56,890.60,  an  increase  of  $38,- 
842.16.  Because  of  the  general  economies 
which  have  been  instituted  all  along  the 
line  the  operating  expenses  were  cut  down 
more  than  $10,000. 

At  a  meeting  o  fthe  directors  held  late 
in  the  afternoon  these  officers  were 
elected : 

President,  E.  Donald  Chase,  Unty. 
Treasurer,  E.  L.  Bradford,  Auburn. 
Assistant,  Miss  Sdith  M.  Stockbridge, 
Auburn. 

General  manager,  Weston  B.  Haskell, 
Auburn. 

General  sales  manager,  F.  E.  Mason, 
Boston. 

General  superintendent  of  Creameries, 
G.  P.  Norton,  Auburn. 


I  WESTERN  MARKET  1 
|  DISTRICT 

K      HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr.  [} 

jj]  58S  White  Si.,  Springfield,  Mais.  jf 
C]  Telephone  Walnut  1714 

fcfE5HSH5HSHSH5HSE5H5H5HSlSH5E5HSHSi 

PRICES  FOR  FEBRUARY 

Worcester    7yZ  cents 

Springfield    8  cents 

Holyoke    7j4  cent: 

Conditions  in  the  Worcester  market  are 
looking  better  than  for  some  time  past; 
due  in  part  to  the  new  feeling  of  work- 
ing together  on  the  part  of  the  dealers 
County  Agent  G.  F.  E.  Story  has  beer 
working  with  them  in  an  effort  to  focus 
attention  on  quality  of  product  and 
stabilization  of  market  conditions  so  that 
both  consumers  and  farmers  in  the  nearb> 
territory  would  benefit.  They  have 
formed  an  organization  to  discuss  con-i 
ditions.    This  is  a  substantial  gain. 

This  new  point  of  view  of  the  dealer; 
helps  a  lot.  Taken  in  connection  with 
the  present  condition  where  the  supph 
of  milk  about  matches  the  demand,  there 
is  every  reason  to  hope  for  continued 
stable  conditions.  At  a  recent  meeting 
of  the  dealers,  about  80  being  in  attend- 
ance, this  idea  of  nearby  quality  products 
was  stressed  and  consideration  was  given 
to  a  uniform  of  milk  educational  work 
and  advertising  under  the  direction  of  the 
New  England  Dairy  and  Food  Council 
Assistant  Manager  W.  P.  Davis  of  the 
NEMPA  was  present  and  discussed  the 
possibilities  of  establishing  some  kind  of 
(Continued  on  page  eight) 


March,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAlHYMAN 


Page  Three 


Discussion  of  market  conditions  will  be  found  on  page  ten. 
Increase  of  10  cents  a  hundred  on  surplus  for  February. 
Butter  Prices  high. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  March  1,  1927,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 

Cwt.in  Cwt.in 

20qt.  21J4qt. 

Cans  Cans 

3.583  3.583 

3.199  3.201 

3.141  3.146 

3.095  3.103 

3.071  3.081 

3.025  3.037 

3.002  3.015 

2.978  2.982 

2.943  2.961 

2.920  2.939 

2.909  2.906 

2.874  2.884 

2.850  2.851 

2.839  2.840 

2.804  2.818 

2.792  2.807 


8qt. 

8l/2qt 

10qt. 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

Zone  Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

1 

1-20 

.533 

.570 

.676 

1.376 

1.463 

2.767 

2 

21-40 

.523 

.560 

.666 

1.351 

1.438 

2.732 

3 

41-60 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.331 

1.418 

2.702 

4 

61-80 

.503 

.540 

.646 

1.321 

1.408 

2.672 

5 

81-100 

.498 

.535 

.636 

1.301 

1.388 

2.647 

6 

101-120 

.493 

.530 

.626 

1.291 

1.378 

2.622 

121-140 

.488 

.525 

.621 

1.281 

1.363 

2.602 

I 

141-160 

.478 

.515 

.611 

1.266 

1.353 

2.577 

'  9 

161-180 

.473 

.510 

.606 

1.256 

1.343 

2.557 

10 

181-200 

.468 

.'505 

.596 

1.251 

1.328 

2.542 

11 

201-220 

.463 

.500 

.591 

1.236 

1.318 

2.522 

12 

221-240 

.458 

.495 

.586 

1.226 

1.303 

2.502 

13 

241-260 

.448 

.485 

.581 

1.221 

1.298 

2.492 

14 

261-280 

.443 

.480 

.581 

1.206 

1.288 

2.472 

15 

281-300 

.443 

.480 

.576 

1.201 

1.283 

2.457 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

i  Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

1 

1-20 

.553 

.590 

.696 

1.386 

1.473 

2.767 

2 

21-40 

.538 

.575 

.681 

1.361 

1.448 

2.732 

3 

41-60 

.533 

.570 

.676 

1.351 

1.433 

2.702 

4 

61-80 

.528 

.565 

.671 

1.331 

1.418 

2.672 

5 

81-100 

.523 

.560 

.656 

1.321 

1.408 

2.647 

6 

101-120 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.311 

1.388 

2.622  . 

7 

121-140 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.296 

1.378 

2.602 

8 

141-160 

.508 

.545 

.646 

1.291 

1.373 

2.577 

9 

161-180 

.503 

.540 

.641 

1.281 

1.358 

2.557 

0 

181-200 

.503 

.540 

.636 

1.266 

1.348 

2.542 

3.583 
3.222 
3.164 
3.141 
3.095 
3.071 
3.048 
3.013 
3.002 
2.978 
2.943 


3.583- 
3.223 
3.168 
3.136 
3.103 
3.081 
3.037 
3.015 
3.004 
2.971 
2.950 


Cwt.in 
40qt. 
Cans 
3.583 
3.217 
3.176 
3.141 
3.106 
3.077 
3.048 
3.025 
2.996 
2.972 
2.955 
2.932 
2.909 
2.897 
2.874 
2.856 

3.583 
3.217 
3.176 
3.141 
3.106 
3.077 
3.048 
3.025 
2.996 
2.972 
2.955 


Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
>remium  of  0.75c  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
eceipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
■ry  expense,  can  service  and  a  reduction  of  2c  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for  NEMPA 
nembers'  dues  and  lc  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


i 

Cream  Plan  Prices  for  January,  1927 

: 

Cwt.  and 

E 

Cwt. 

Butter-fat 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

Test 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patrons 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt 

lood, 

lst-15th 

■uy2% 

.50 

1.202 

.50 

.596 

.0775 

lood, 

Ist-lSth 

20 

.50 

1.619 

.50 

.581 

.0775 

lood, 

16th-31st 

.50 

1.319 

.50 

.605 

.0894 

lood, 

16th-31st 

20 

.50 

1.806 

.50 

.590 

.0894 

1  Whiting,   

20 

.50 

.581 

.545 

.574 

.0561 

k\irner 

Centre  ., 

 I2yi 

.54 

.75 

.465 

.525 

.0724 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  January,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7  per 
cent,  test  per  1  /10th  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container:  per 
Sy2  quart  can,  $0,009;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,011;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,022;  per  21% 
quart  can,  $0.023 ;  per  40  quart  can,  $0.043 ;  per  cwt.,  $0,050. 


Dealers  (Mkt. 
Elm  Spring  Farm  Milk) 

7th  zone  (121-140)   76.5% 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   81.9 


Boston  District 

Class  1    Class  2  

(Mfg. 


Milk)  Quart 

23.5%  .492 

18.1 


20 
Quart 
1.192 


Size  of  Can 


2\y4 

Quart 

1.268 


40 

Quart 

2.414 


Northern  Market  District 


Dealers  Class  1      Class  2 

Wason-MacDonald  (Mkt.  (Mfg. 

Haverhill  Milk)  Milk) 

Delivered   89.0%  11.0% 

3d  zone   

Robert  H.  Sawyer,  Haverhill 

Delivered   80.0  20.0 

3d  zone   

4th  zone   

Findeisen  Farms,  Lawrence 

Delivered   61.1  38.9 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 

Manchester 

Delivered   74.7  25.3 

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

Blake,  E.  C,  Manchester 

Delivered   74.6  25.4 

4th  

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

8th  zone   

Boyd,  W.  T.  &  Son,  Nashua 

Delivered   84.8  15.2 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Robv  Farm  Dairy,  Nashua 

Delivered   85.5  14.5 

4th  zone   


Cwt. 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

in 

in 

in 

8/2's 

20's 

40's 

3.879 

3.879 

3.879 

3.331 

3.382 

3.424 

Cwt 

2.807 

3.361 


Cwt. 


3.746 
3.283 
3.213 


Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Dealers  (Mkt. 
Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 
Burton,  H.  T.,  Inc.  96.2% 

Chambers,  G.  T   66.1 

Fiske,  E.  A   85.9 

Grant,  C.  W   83.1 

Greenville  Farm    93.2 

Monroe,  A.  B  100.0 

Providence  Dry    78.6 

Turner    Centre   100.0 

Viall,  W.  C   87.3 

Warnock,  C.  A  100.0 

Westcott,  E.  P  100.0 

Per  10  qt.  can 

Brown,  W.  B  100.0 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 

3.8% 
33.9 
14.1 
16.9 

6.8 

2l"4 
12.7 


Deliv- 
ered 

3.485 
2.981 
3,309 
3.256 
3.430 
3.552 
3.217 
3.552 
3.336 
3.548 
3.547 


Zone  1 
1-20 
Miles 
3.193 
2.780 
3.047 
3.003 
3.147 
3.248 
3.028 
3.248 
3.071 
3.244 
3.243 


3.746 
3.331 
3.311 


3.746 
3.371 
3.341 


3.681 
3.256 
3.218 

3.284 
3.017 
2.992 
2.950 
2.858 


3.227 
2.845 
2.797 
2.758 
2.736 

3.231 
2.804 
2.771 
2.755 
2.741 


3.721 
3.324 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  2  Zone  3    Zone  Willi- 

21-40  41-60     net  mantic 

Miles  Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.147  3.083   

2.749     2.704  2.636   

3.006  2.949   

2.964  2.908   

3.102  3.040   

3.200  3.134   

3.001  2.946     2.742  2.849 

3.200  3.134   

3.029  2.971   

3.196  3.130   

3.195  3.129   


.786  .720 


.710 


.696  .710 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  January,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 


To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  January  is  correct.    Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.050  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract 
^.050  per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  January  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 


To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage 
le  Hood,  Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  Companies,  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deductions  as  given 
qualize  prices  between  milk  and  cream  patrons. 

Zone  2 
21-40 


of 


Class  2  milk, 
Cream  Price 


files 

'lass 
"lass 


Zone  1 

from  Boston    1-20 


Milk  Price   

Milk  Price   , 

Class  1 
(Mkt.  Milk) 

Dealers 

lood,  lst-15th  ....71.0% 
llood,  16th-31st  ....71.7 
'  Vhiting  in  40's....64.8 
;Vhiting  in  21%'s  64.8 

1  'urner  Centre   50.4 

!  I.  E.  Cry.  Prod.  48.5 

.  S.  Cummings....66.1 

■'.  E.  Boyd   56.9 

(Veighted  Ave  66.1 

A — Excluding  Cream  Plan 


3.217 
1.885 


3.176 
1.885 


Zone  3 
41-60 
3.141 
1.885 


Zone  4 
61-80 
3.106 
1.885 


Zone  5  Zone  6 
81-100  101-120 


3.077 
1.885 


3.048 
1.885 


Zone  7 
121-140 

3.025 
1.885 


Zone  8 
141-160 

2.996 
1.885 


Zone  9 
161-180 

2.972 
1.885 


remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of 
table  is  made  from  the  zone  price  as  figured  to 

Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14 

181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280 
2.955  2.932  2.909  2.897  2.874 
1.885      1.885      1.885      1.885  1.885 


Zone  15 
281-300 

2.856 
1.885 


Class  2 
(Mfg.  Milk) 


A 

29.0% 

B 

46.2% 

2.791 

2.762 

2.737 

2.713 

2.692 

2.671 

2.655 

2.634 

2.618 

2.605 

2.589 

2.573 

2.564 

2.547 

2.536 

28.3 

45.8 

2.770 

2.741 

2.716 

2.690 

2.670 

2.649 

2.632 

2.612 

2.595 

2.582 

2.566 

2.549 

2.541 

2.525 

2.512 

35.2 

46.0 

2.680 

2.654 

2.631 

2.608 

2.589 

2.571 

2.556 

2.537 

2.522 

2.510 

2.495 

2.481 

2.473 

2.458 

2.447 

35.2 

46.0 

2.670 

2.635 

2.607 

2.593 

2.564 

2.550 

2.529 

2.515 

2.501 

2.479 

2.465 

2.444 

2.437 

2.422 

2.415 

49.6 

68.0 

2.451 

2.430 

2.413 

2.395 

2.381 

2.366 

2.354 

2.340 

2.328 

2.319 

2.307 

2.296 

2.290 

2.278 

2.270 

51.5 

2.556 

2.536 

2.519 

2.502 

2.488 

2.474 

2.463 

2.449 

2.438 

2.429 

2.418 

2.407 

2.401 

2.390 

2.381 

33.9 

2.759 

2.732 

2.709 

2.686 

2.667 

2.647 

2.632 

2.613 

2.598 

2.586 

2.571 

2.555 

2.548 

2.531 

2.520 

43.1 

2.640 

2.617 

2.597 

2.577 

2.561 

2.544 

2.531 

2.515 

2.502 

2.491 

2.479 

2.465 

2.458 

2.445 

2.436 

33.9 

46.9 

2.723 

2.697 

2.674 

2.650 

2.631 

2.612 

2.597 

2.578 

2.563 

2.550 

2.536 

2.520 

2.512 

2.497 

2.486 

B — Including  Cream  Plan. 


'  Increases  or  decreases  in  the  fluid  milk  price  due  to  sales  in  higher  markets  or  lower  markets  for  month— Higher :  Hood,  1  - 1 5th,  S.0.i84 ;  Hood,  16-31  st,  §.0369. 
lower:  Whiting,  $.0155;  Turner  Centre,  $.0996. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  1927 


New  England  Dairyman 

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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me. ;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt. ;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn. ;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y.;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

Not  long  ago  I  read  of  the  passing 
of  George  Jacobs,  at  one  time  the 
"hired  man"  on  the  farm  where  I  was 
raised.  George  was  a  character  in  his 
way,  a  big  framed,  rugged  chap,  one 
leg  shorter  than  the  other,  with  the  foot 
turned  outward  so  that  he  was  quite 
lame,  but  he  could  get  over  the  ground 
as  well  and  turn  off  as  big  a  day's  work 
as  any  man  we  ever  had.  Where  he 
came  from,  profanity  was  the  prevail- 
ing speech.  With  him  it  was  just  or- 
dinary language.  He  was  the  only  man 
I  ever  knew  to  call  his  parents  by 
their  given  names.  His  father  he  called 
Charles,  his  mother,  Jane.  George  was 
as  tender  hearted  as  a  woman,  kind  and 
sympathetic  despite  his  rough  ways,  loyal 
and  trustworthy,  but  would  once  in  a 
while,  a  little  over-indulge  in  beverage 
stimulants.  He  lived  to  be  "well  along" 
in  years  but  never  married.  He  was  a 
whole  lot  better  man  than  some  who 
would  consider  themselves  greatly  his 
superiors,  for  he  had  a  kind  heart,  a 
generous  disposition  and  a  spirit  of  good 
fellowship,  which  is  a  whole  lot  more 
than  can  be  truthfully  said  of  many 
people. 

Thinking  of  George  reminds  me  of 
other  hired  men.  The  system  then  was 
to  employ  one  man  by  the  year.  The 
standard  wage,  was  $100  per  year  with 
room,  board  and  washing  and  some- 
times a  suit  of  clothes  besides.  During 
the  rush  seasons,  especially  haying,  two 
or  three  extra  hands  were  hired.  There 
were  some  men,  of  the  ne'er-do-well 
type  who  "worked  out"  by  the  day  or 
month,  pretty  sure  to  show  up  when  the 
pinch  came.    These  were  the  sort  against 


whom  the  cider  cellar  door  must  be 
lucked,  men  who  just  couldn't  work 
alone  or  for  themselves,  or  had  some 
other  off-balance  trait  that  kept  them 
in  the  hired  help  class. 

I  remember  several  of  our  year 
'round  young  men,  like  Fred  Davis,  the 
inveterate  talker  and  fabricator.  What 
stories  he  would  tell!  He  was  a  good 
worker  and  we  hated  to  see  him  go. 
Then  there  was  John  Thurston  with 
the  villainous  temper,  but  good  hearted 
and  a  fast  worker.  He  was  rough 
with  the  cattle  which  was  a  cardinal  sin 
on  our  place.  Fred  Hackett  was  the 
son  of  a  farmer  from  the  west  part  of 
town,  a  good  man  until  he  fell  in  love 
with  a  neighbor's  daughter.  Too  much 
"courting"  interferred  with  his  work. 

Of  the  itinerant  help,  I  remember  old 
Alvah  Harris,  who  drank  like  a  fish 
but  liked  children  and  whittled  out 
whistles  and  puzzles  that  put  together 
like  a  jack  straw  cross.  There  was 
Billie  Ferguson,  the  light-wit,  and  Frank 
Crockett  who  could  catch  big  pickerel 
where  others  couldn't  get  a  bite.  There 
are  certain  names  that  to  this  day  bring 
to  mind  this  class  of  men,  the  Gaults, 
the  Tobines,  Hancocks,  Pickerings  and 
Dockhams.  All  good  names  and  I've 
since  met  fine  people  who  bore  them, 
but  somehow  I  can't  forget  their  old 
association  with  the  irresponsible,  cider 
drinking,  thriftless  week  or  day  men 
who  filled  in  the  gaps  in  our  labor  prob- 
lem. There  are  black  sheep  in  nearly 
all  our  families. 

Somewhere  I  read  of  the  "passing  of 
the  hired  man."  Some  of  them  could 
be  well  spared.  But  others  were  good 
farmers  in  the  making. 

PATTEE. 


AN  INVITATION 

In  a  recent  public  statement,  the  Con- 
nor-Ginter-O'Keefe-Dorr  chain  stores 
said,  "Instead  of  our  changing  to  the 
NEMPA  plan,  after  considering  the 
above  figures,  would  it  not  be  far  better 
for  the  producers  if  the  NEMPA 
changed  to  our  plan  instead?" 

In  reply  Mr.  Pattee  for  the  NEMPA 
said,  "We  welcome  the  suggestion.  What 
is  its  price  plan?  How  are  producers' 
prices  reckoned  under  it?  How  would  it 
apply  to  the  rest  of  New  England?  What 
voice  have  producers  in  establishing  it  or 
checking  it  up?  Let  us  have  it  in  every 
detail  and  if  it  be  better,  sounder,  more 
favorable  to  producers,  we  will  shift  to 
it  with  rousing  cheers." 

No  answer  has  been  made  to  that  re- 
quest for  information.  None  was  ex- 
pected. 

A  producer  up  in  New  Hampshire  pub- 
lishes a  bitter  complaint  against  the  un- 
certainty of  his  return  for  milk  under  the 
surpuls  plan.  He  offers  no  remedy  for 
its  faults,  however.  If  a  man  sold  his 
apples  for  so  much  for  No.  l's  and  so 
much  for  No.  2's,  he  could  not  know  how 
much  he  would  get  until  the  crop  was 
picked  and  sorted,  but  the  price  would  be 
fixed. 

It  is  mighty  easy  to  find  fault  and  criti- 
cize, to  say  things  are  all  wrong,  that 
prices  are  too  low,  that  something  else 
ought  to  be  done  and  so  forth,  but  it 
isn't  so  easy  to  tell  just  what  to  do  to 
remedy  things  and  how  to  do  it.  The 
NEMPA  is  ready  to  scrap  any  plan  or 
practice  when  it  can  find  a  better  one.  It 
over  and  over  again  has  asked  producers, 
public  officials,  college  authorities  and 
business  men  to  suggest  a  selling  system 
for  milk  which  would  yield  greater  re- 
turns to  the  producers.   That  call  remains 


unanswered.  If  there  be  a  better  plan, 
let's  have  it.  The  world  does  not  stand 
still.  Neither  does  business.  The 
NEMPA  is  a  business  organization.  It 
must  progress.  Its  responsible  leaders 
must  devise  ways  and  means  of  keeping 
up  with  the  procession.  If  that  means 
changing  its  methods  or  plans,  let  them 
be  changed.  The  way  to  bring  those 
changes  about  is  for  those  who  know  a 
better  way  to  bring  it  forward,  let  us 
have  it,  study  it,  test  it  and  see  how  it 
works.  If  any  one  has  suggestions  for 
improvement  let  us  have  them.  This  ap- 
plies to  everybody.  Come  on  with  sound 
plans  for  improvement.  No  one  has  a 
monopoly  of  the  good  ideas.  Let's  have 
the  best  possible  plan  for  handling  our 
sales  problem.  Let's  not  kick  too  much 
against  what  we  have  until  we  know  of 
something  better.  But  when  a  better- 
ment is  possible,  let's  make  it  without 
hesitancy.  Come  on  with  your  plans, 
chain  stores,  economists,  business  men  and 
just  plain  everyday  farmers. 

We  confidently  expect  the  best  sugges- 
tions from  the  latter  group  and  our 
cheers  will  be  a  little  more  "rousing"  if 
that  be  the  case. 


TELL  THE  TRUTH 

It  must  be  confusing  to  the  thinking 
farmers  who  want  to  know  the  truth 
when  in  published  statements,  tabula- 
tions of  figures  and  other  sources  of  in- 
formation, they  find  conflicting  evi- 
dence tending  to  prove  contrary  claims. 
Much  of  the  fault  is  due  to  misleading 
information,  true  in  itself,  but  so  pre- 
sented as  to  confuse  rather  than  clarify 
the  situation. 

The  chief  difficulty  lies  in  the  differ- 
ent methods  used  by  various  buyers  in 
paying  for  milk.  The  only  way  a  true 
comparison  of  figures  can  be  had  is  to 
reduce  them  to  common  terms. 

Mr.  Pattee  said  in  his  reply  to  the 
chain  stores,  printed  in  last  month's 
Dairyman,  "In  short,  let's  be  perfectly 
frank  about  the  whole  transaction  and 
give  figures  that  mean  the  same  thing 
when  we  set  up  a  comparison.  If  the 
chain  store  combine  doesn't  want  to 
transpose  its  figures  into  NEMPA  terms 
let  it  tell  how  it  reckons  its  producers' 
prices  and  we  will  put  our  figures  into 
its  terms.    Then  we  can  compare." 

The  NEMPA  figures  the  price  of 
milk  at  so  much  for  the  part  sold  for 
consumption  in  fluid  form  and  so  much 
for  the  part  used  for  making  by-prod- 
ucts. The  return  for  the  whole  amount 
produced  is  the  weighted  average  of 
these  two  classes.  This  is  for  3.7  per 
cent.  milk.  Variations  are  made  at 
butter  value  to  cover  variations  in  test. 

Dealers  who  pay  NEMPA  prices 
sometimes  figure  them  in  different  ways. 
Some  pay  so  much  for  fat  and  so  much 
for  skim,  the  so-called  "split  price." 
Some  creameries  put  all  the  price  on 
the  fat.  Whatever  they  pay  for  skim 
is  simply  added  to  the  fat  price.  This 
makes  a  good  showing  for  fat  and 
fictitiously  encourages  high  test  milk 
production.  To  pay  for  fat  what  is 
received  for  skim,  is  diverting  income 
from  its  real  source,  to  inflate  the  re- 
turn for  something  else. 

This  we  understand  to  be  the  method 
used  by  Bellows  Falls  Co-operative, 
which  sells  to  the  Connor-Ginter- 
O'Keeffe-Dorr  chain  store  combination. 
The  effect  of  this  system  may  be  il- 
lustrated as  follows :  Assume  butter  to 
be  worth  50  cents  per  pound  and  that 
it  costs  5  cents  per  pound  to  manufac- 
ture it  and  that  a  pound  of   fat  will 


make  1  1/5  pounds  of  butter.  Then 
butterfat  is  worth  54  cents  per  pound 
and  the  fat  in  100  pounds  of  3.7  per 
cent,  milk  is  worth  3.7  x  54  cents,  or 
$2.  Now  assume  that  3.7  per  cent, 
milk  sells  at  8  cents  per  quart  in  Bos- 
ton, or  $3,048  per  100  pounds  at  Bel- 
lows Falls,  as  quoted  in  the  Dairyman. 
The  value  of  100  pounds  of  milk  being 
$3,048  and  the  value  of  the  fat  in  it 
$2,  the  difference  or  $1,048  per  100 
pounds  is  what  the  skim  being  with  the 
fat,  adds  to  the  value  of  the  combina- 
tion. Now  to  pay  for  the  fat  when  in 
combination  with  skim,  what  is  received 
for  both,  the  $3,048  received  for  whole 
milk  should  be  divided  by  3.7,  the  num- 
ber of  pounds  of  fat  in  that  milk  which 
would  give  82.4  cents  per  pound,  a  fat 
price  so  out  of  line  with  its  real  value 
as  to  be  absurd. 

Back  of  every  action  there  lies  a  rea- 
son. We  may  properly  ask  why  this 
exaggeration  of  fat  values?  What  pur- 
pose does  it  serve  ?  It  may  lead  to  high- 
est production,  and  it  surely  makes 
difficult  if  not  impossible  a  comparison 
of  milk  returns  with  those  of  other 
buyers.  It  puts  tremendous  importance 
on  the  accuracy  and  honesty  of  the  test 
and  tests  are  made  by  buyers.  Other 
reasons  may  be  cited,  but  these  are 
enough. 

We  hold  that  in  an  industry  whose 
product  goes  to  the  same  market,  to  be 
sold  there  on  the  same  basis,  as  milk  is 
sold  by  the  quart  in  Boston,  the  return 
to  the  farmer  should  be  based  upon  and 
comparable  to  what  the  consumer  pays. 
He  doesn't  buy  fat  at  so  much  per 
pound  with  some  skim  milk  thrown  in. 
As  well  buy  floor  boards  by  the  cord 
because  firewood  sells  that  way,  or  ap- 
ples by  the  bottle  the  way  cider  is  sold. 

We  need  a  New  England  sales  system 
that  uses  common  terms,  so  that  one 
may  be  understanding^  compared  with 
another  when  producers'  prices  are  dis- 
cussed. The  buyer  who  puts  his  prices 
in  vague  or  peculiar  form  not  easily 
compared   with  others,  needs  watching. 

We  need  honest  buyers  who  are  will- 
ing to  play  openly  and  fairly  with  the 
producers,  not  camouflage  prices  or  con- 
ditions, but  state  them  in  plain  English 
so  they  may  be  compared  with  others, 
pay  as  much  as  others  do  under  like 
conditions  and  work  to  build  up  a  de- 
mand for  milk  at  prices  which  will  sup- 
port production.  Some  heads  would  fall 
under  that  test.  No  honest  business  need 
fear  the  truth. 


SALES  PLANS 

The  NEMPA  is  and  must  continue 
to  be  a  progressive  organization.  Its 
leaders  must  ever  seek  for  improvements 
in  its  operations,  particularly  its  sales 
system.  To  that  end  they  must  study 
conditions  here  in  New  England  and 
elsewhere  in  the  country  and  be  ready 
to  lay  before  the  membership  better- 
ments in  business  practice  of  all  sorts. 

In  order  that  our  members  may  know 
the  methods  employed  in  other  markets 
by  other  producers'  organizations,  a 
series  of  articles  is  being  prepared,  the 
first  of  which  will  appear  in  an  early 
Dairyman. 

We  hope  to  bring  about  substantial 
changes  advantageous  to  the  producers 
of  New  England,  hence  these  studies  of1 
other  markets  with  a  view  to  the. adop- 
tion of  any  good  new  idea  and  the  de- 
velopment of  better  ways  among  our- 
selves. 


March,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Endorse  Conference  Board  Plan 


■Representatives  of  Co-operative  Groups  See  Values  In 
Working  Together  On  New  England  Wide 
Dairy  Problem 


First  steps  toward  the  organization  of 
i  conference  board  to  discuss  New  Eng- 
and-vvide    dairy    problems    and  recom- 
f.-nend  policies  to  the  various  organiza- 
tions of  dairymen  in  New  England  were 
[:aken  at  a  conference  called  by  the  New 
England  Council  at  the  American  House 
!  Feb.  16.    While  it  was  not  possible  at 
vhis  first  meeting  to  actually  adopt  any 
j  definite  plan  of  procedure  it   was  the 
manimous  decision  of  the  men  attend- 
ng  the  meeting  that  such  a  conference 
hoard  should  be  set  up.    This  is  a  sub- 

tantial  gain, 
f    Harry  R.  Lewis,  genial  and  efficient 
;hairman  of  the  agricultural  committee 
of  the   New   England   Council,  opened 
die  meeting  and  stated  the  reasons  why 
I  was  called.    It  had  its  origin  in  the 
narketing  conference  held  in  Boston  in 
fanuary  by  the  agricultural  committer 
)f  the  Council.    At  that  time  the  dairy- 
men met  as  a  group  and  requested  the 
:ouncil  to  call  a  general  conference  for 
he  specific  purpose  of  setting  up  such 
t'  conference   board.     The  agricultural 
:ommittee  accepted  the  responsibility  of 
:alling  such  a  general  meeting  but  did 
!,iot  wish  to  dominate  or  steer  the  pro- 
j  :eedings    afterwards,    Mr.    Lewis  ex- 
!  >lained. 

p  The  meeting  organized  with  Mr. 
[Lewis  as  temporary  chairman  and  Prof. 
Ufl  C.  Frandsen  of  the  Massachusetts 
j  Agricultural  College  as  temporary  sec- 
p-etary.  Among  the  larger  organizations 
ra'f  dairy  farmers  which  were  represented 
Mere  the  Turner  Centre  System,  United 
[Dairy  System,  Vermont  Federation  of 
|  dreameries,  Brattleboro,  Bellows  Falls, 
[United  Farmers  of  Morrisville,  Shel- 
hurne  and  Barre  Co-operatives. 
L  As  a  preliminary  to  the  general  dis- 
cussion of  possibilities  and  needs  of  such 
fi  conference  board,  Chris  L.  Christen-' 
Hen,  head  of  the  new  division  of  co- 
I operative  marketing  of  the  U.  S.  D. 
'A.,  outlined  the  way  in  which  the  di- 
jL/ision  was  established  and  the  purpose 
[tor  which  it  was  formed.  It  was  under 
j  he  law  authorizing  this  division  that 
IS  survey  of  New  England  dairy  con- 
llitions  is  now  being  made  under  the 
Indirection  of  the  division  and  it  is  un- 

i  ler  this  same  law  that  the  conference 
f'joard   is   made   possible    from   a  legal 

;tandpoint.  The  law  specificially  states 
l|':hat  groups  of  co-operatives  may  come 
\  ogethcr  to  discuss  market  problems  and 
[o  exchange  market  information. 
|if  Mr.  Christensen  said  that  the  basis 
ll'or  any  decision  as  to  what  should  be 
pone  in  co-operative  marketing  lies  in 
jiaving  accurate  facts  and  figures  for 
Rhe  entire  industry.    It  is  not  wise  to 

ii  nake  any  decision  in  the  light  of  partial 
Si  cno wl  edge.  He  said  that  this  is  the 
jirst  time  that  Congress  has  appropriated 
i  iny  money  for  a  systematic  study  of 

he  co-operative  movement  and  thus 
'1  nay  be  taken  as  the  beginning  of  a  new 
i  ;ra  in  co-operative  work.  There  is, 
jj  le  said,  little  accurate  and  dependable 
!  nformation  as  to  the  co-operatives,  both 
Successful   and  unsuccessful. 

One  of  the  proper  functions  of  the 
division  of  co-operative  marketing  is  to 
i  itudy  the  co-operative  efforts  by  groups. 
"5ach  one  has  by  experience  learned 
''omething  which  would  be  invaluable  to 
j  ither  co-operatives  but  some  unbiased 
igency,  such  as  the  division  of  co- 
iperation,  must  interpret  the  facts  cor- 
!  'ectly.    It  is  for  this  purpose  that  Mr. 

■  Schoenfelt  is  conducting  the  dairy  study 
'  n  New  England  at  the  present  time. 
;  This  is  the  first  of  the  studies  to  be 
j  nade  in  the  country. 

1    Another  line  of  study  is  the  business 
f  echnique  in  co-operatives.    Here  again 
certain  co-operatives  have  gained  much 
>  )y  experience  and  the  division  can  as- 

■  ;emble  and  interpret  causes  and  results 
i  loth  in  successful  and  unsuccessful  co- 
|  operatives.  After  these  studies  have 
I  ieen  made  it  will  be  possible  to  apply 
.hem  to  the  business  management  of 
Inany  co-operatives  all  over  the  country. 
I   There  are  three  things,  Mr.  Christen^ 


sen  said,  which  every  co-operative  must 
have  in  order  to  make  good.  The  first 
is  quality  products,  without  which  they 
cannot  hope  to  keep  any  sound  position 
in  the  markets.  The  second  is  good 
management  and  the  third  is  good  mem- 
bers. 

After  a  discussion  of  the  points  made 
by  Mr.  Christensen,  the  general  proposi- 
tion of  how  to  proceed  was  taken  up 
and  in  order  to  make  progress  possible 
a  special  committee  was  appointed  to 
meet  at  the  noon  recess  and  bring  in 
some  recommendations.  This  committee 
consisted  of  Frank  A.  Carroll  of  the 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  Co-operative  milk 
plant,  Weston  B.  Haskell  of  the  Turner 
Centre  System,  James  M.  McLennon 
of  the  Bellows  Falls  Co-operative,  Carl 
C.  Fletcher  of  the  Shelburne,  Vt,  Co- 
operative, and  W.  P.  Davis  of  the 
NEMPA. 

In  the  early  afternoon  Mr.  Fletcher 
told  of  the  work  of  the  New  England 
railroad  rate  committee  as  an  example 
of  the  kind  of  project  which  the  con- 
ference board  could  take  up.  Dr.  Geo. 
H.  Bancroft  of  the  Barre,  Vt.,  Co- 
operative, spoke  on  quality  products  with 
special  reference  to  tuberculin  tested 
milk. 

The  committee  reported  in  favor  of 
setting  up  a  dairy  conference  board 
which  was  accepted  as  the  general  sense 
of  the  meeting.  The  committee  recom- 
mended that  the  membership  in  the 
conference  board  should  be  confined  to 
organizations  of  producers,  that  com- 
mittee should  draw  up  a  general  plan 
of  procedure  and  that  this  plan  should 
be  submitted  to  each  co-operative  in 
New  England  for  discussion  and  ap- 
proval. The  final  recommendation  of 
the  committee  was  that  each  co-opera- 
tive should  be  invited  to  consider  these 
coming  plans  and  send  to  a  later  meet- 
ing a  representative  with  power  to  act 
in  finally  adopting  such  plans.  All 
these  recommendations  were  accepted. 
The  committee  has  not  yet  met  but  it 
will  do  so  soon  and  the  second  general 
meeting  will  be  called  for  final  action. 

The  council  idea  has  taken  consider- 
able root  among  the  co-operatives.  At 
the  first  meeting  during  the  marketing 
conference,  there  seemed  to  be  a  gen- 
eral feeling  that  there  are  a  consider- 
able number  of  dairy  matters  which 
could  and  should  be  talked  over  around 
the  table  instead  of  each  group  going 
its  own  way. 

The  way  in  which  the  dairy  industry 
of  New  England  rallied  to  the  defense 
in  the  railroad  rate  case  is  a  fair  sample 
of  the  things  which  can  be  taken  up  by 
the  conference  board  if  it  is  formed. 
When  the  railroads  threatened  to  put 
over  an  unwarranted  increase  in  milk 
transportation  rates  the  dairy  interests 
came  together  and  formed  a  special  com- 
mittee. If  there  had  been  a  conference 
board  in  existence  at  that  time  the  ma- 
chinery of  setting  up  a  railroad  rate 
committee  would  have  been  greatly  sim- 
plified. As  it  was  the  groups  had  to  be 
called  together  by  the  various  commis- 
sioners of  agriculture.  The  more  direct 
method  would  have  been  preferable. 


Seasoned  Boarder  (to  newcomer)  :  "I 
say,  old  man,  I  don't  think  I'd  touch  the 
rice  pudding  if  I  were  you.  There  was 
a  wedding  in  this  street  yesterday." 


Absent-Minded  Professor :  "Waiter, 
half  an  hour  ago  I  ordered  some  lamb 
chops.  Have  you  forgotten  them — or 
have  I  had  them?" 


Medium :  "The  spirit  of  your  wife  is 
here  now.  Do  you  wish  to  speak  to  her 
through  me?" 

Interviewer :  "Yes.  Ask  her  where  she 
put  my  winter  underwear." 


5%  Interest 

on 

Federal  Land  Bank 
First  Mortgage  Farm  Loans 

Recent  sales  of  Federal  Land  Bank  Bonds  at  favorable 
prices  make  possible  a  lowering  of  the  rate  of  interest  on 
new  loans  to  5%. 

These  loans  are  made  only  on  farms  and  up  to  about  one- 
half  the  appraised  value  of  the  land  and  buildings.  Farm- 
ers may  borrow  for  any  agricultural  purpose  'to  pay  up 
present  mortgages  or  debts. 

All  loans  are  made  on  a  long  term  basis  with  small  pay- 
ments on  principal  each  year. 

The  Springfield  Bank  is  also  offering  for  the  first  time  a 
PLAN  OF  PAYMENT  which  is  especially  well  suited 
to  farms  in  this  district. 

Over  $51,000,000  has  been  loaned  in  the  last  ten  years  to 
the  farmers  in  the  Northeastern  States. 

For  Information 

ASK  THE  SECRETARY-TREASURER  of  the 
NATIONAL  FARM  LOAN  ASSOCIATION  in  your 
County,  or  WRITE  DIRECT  to  the 

FEDERAL  LAND  BANK 

at 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 

Serving  Neu)  England,  New  York  and  New  Jersey 


MORE     and  SILAGE 

LESS  GRAIN 


Cut  the  Dairy  Cattle  Feed  Bill! 

Supply  the  Hay  and  Silage  from  your  own  farm. 

Turn  idle  land  at  your  very  door  to  profit.  Make  it  some- 
thing other  than  a  Tax  on  your  resources.  Put  it  to  work  ! 
FERTILIZE  IT! 

Spread  it  with 


ANIMAL  FERTILIZERS 


"Well,  I'll  be  dammed,"  said  the  brook 
when  the  fat  wPfnan  broke  through  the 
bridge. 


The  more  Roughage  your  Dairy  Cows  eat  on  your  place, 
the  less  grain  you  will  have  to  buy. 

Then,  too,  Grass,  Hay  and  Ensilage  Corn  are  the  three  mini- 
mum effort  "crops." 

Remember  LOWELL  ANIMAL  FERTILIZERS.  No 
Garbage.  On  the  other  hand  they  are  P  ERFECTLY 
BALANCED. 

Write  for  our  little  book  on  this  interesting  subject.  It 
is  FREE! 

LOWELL  FERTILIZER  CO. 

Branch  Consolidated  Rendering  Co. 


40  No.  Market  St. 


Boston,  Mass, 


Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  1927 


MEETING  A 
STANDARD 

Sanitary  standards  in  the 
creamery,  dairy  and 
cheese  factory  — the  se- 
verest test  of  quality  and 
worth  that  can  be  ap- 
plied to  a  cleaner  — are 
being  successfully  met 
in  thousands  of  milk 
food  production  plants 
on  a  basis  of  minimum 
cost  of  time,  money  and 
effort,  by  the  use  of 

This  cleaning  service  ex- 
tends to  every  part  of 
the  creamery  and  dairy 
equipment  and  process, 
and  is  made  possible  by 
the  high  standard  of 
quality  required  in  every 
pound  of  Wyandotte 
Dairymen's  Cleaner  and 
Cleanser  before  it  leaves 
the  factory. 

This  cleaner  never  fails 
in  its  work.  It  is  harm- 
less and  easy  to  use.  It 
is  pure  and  purifying 
and  every  grain  is  an 
active  working  particle 
to  the  last  ounce  in  the 
barrel. 

Ask  your  Supply  Man 
for  "WYANDOTTE." 

Indian  In  Circle 


in  every  package 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
C cream  acidity  standardizer) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
your  cream  ? 

THE,  J.  B.  FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
'Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


HI 


FIELD    MEN    CAN  ATTEND 
SOME  ANNUAL  MEETINGS 

Have  a  Number  of  Things  to  Dis- 
cuss With  Members  and  Can 
Answer  Questions 

How  about  your  annual  meeting :  have 
you  held  it  yet?  And  if  you  have,  did 
you  send  in  the  report  of  officers  elected? 
In  looking  over  the  records  we  find  a  lot 
of  gaps — no  record  of  officers  of  locals 
elected  since  the  last  general  meeting  of 
the,  association.  Some  of  these  we  know 
have  held  their  meetings  but  have  not 
sent  in  their  list  of  officers.  It  is  im- 
portant that  we  have  an  up-to-date  record 
of  officers.  Send  them  in.  The  officers 
elected  by  locals  which  have  reported  are 
given  below. 

Now  that  our  field  men  have  nearly 
completed  the  general  recanvass  of  the 
territory  they  will  have  some  time  to 
attend  meetings  and  get  better  acquainted 
than  they  could  on  the  first  visit.  There 
are  a  good  many  things  to  be  talked  over,, 
chain  store  prices,  cream  plan,  surplus,, 
conditions  in  the  market.  It  will  be  a  good 
thing  to  have  one  of  them  at  your  annual 
meeting.  If  you  have  not  already  held 
such!  a  meeting  write  to  the  central  office 
and  see  if  a  date  can  be  arranged  when 
any  one  of  our  field  staff  can  be  present. 

No  local  can  be  considered  in  good! 
standing  at  our  next  annual  meeting  unless 
they  have  held  a  local  meeting  and  elected 
officers  and  transacted  their  business  in  a 
regular  way.  There  is  another  reason 
why  a  considerable  number  of  locals 
should  make  sure  to  call  the  annual  meet- 
ing. Our  by-laws  were  changed  at  the 
1925  general  meeting  so  that  any  local 
which  has  35  or  more  members  is  repre- 
sented by  its  president.  The  former  limit 
was  50.  There  are  a  considerable  number 
of  locals  with  between  35  and  50  members 
who  will  come  in  this  class  for  the  first 
time  at  our  coming  meeting.  Heretofore 
they  have  been  grouped  with  other  neigh- 
boring locals  and  have  had  a  joint  repre- 
sentative. No  representative  from  such 
a  local  can  be  recognized  unless  he  has 
been  duly  elected  president  at  a  regularly 
called  meeting. 

The  need  for  holding  these  meetings  to 
elect  a  president  and  the  possibility  of 
having  one  of  the  field  men  present  to 
talk  things  over  should  result  in  the  best 
record  of  annual  meetings  we  ever  have 
had.  If  you  are  not  in  the  list  below,  yoiv 
either  have  not  held  the  meeting  or  have 
not  reported.  It  would  not  be  a  bad  plan 
to  hold  a  meeting  anyway  as  there  is  so 
much  to  talk  about  right  now. 

Officers  elected  and  reported  are  as. 
follows : 

MAINE 

Buckfield:  President,  Howard  M.. 
Irish ;  vice-president,  Fred  W.  Conant ;. 
secretary,  Earl  M.  Holmes. 

Carmel :  President,  A.  R.  Stevens ; 
secretary,  R.  H.  Day. 

Clinton :  President,  L.  W.  Estey ; 
secretary,  L.  A.  Monk. 

Dover :  President,  Walter  H.  Burgess, 
Sangerville ;  secretary,  Frank  M.  Bridges, 
Sangerville. 

East  Wilton  :  President,  C.  W.  Noyes  ; 
vice-president,  Robert  Weeks,  Farming- 
ton,  R.  F.  D. ;  secretary,  C  A.  Adams, 
Dryden,  R.  F.  D. 

Harmon :  President,  W.  A.  Mowatt, 
Carmel,  R.  F.  D.  No.  2 ;  secretary,  R.  E. 
Littlefield,  Bangor,  R.  F.  D.  No.  8. 

Livermore:  President,  Geo.  G.  Young, 
Turner,  R.  F.  D.  No.  2;  vice-president, 
Walter  M.  Richmond,  Strickland ;  secre- 
tary, F.  E.  Adkins. 

North  Whitefield:  President,  Fred 
Naray ;  secretary,  A.  F.  McCurdy. 

Plymouth :  President,  Harvey  N. 
Smith,  Detroit,  R.  F.  D.  No.  1 ;  secretary, 
Harry  A.  Sawyer. 

Richmond :  President,  Geo.  W.  Thom- 
son, R.  F.  D.  No.  2;  vice-president,  L.  H. 
Lamoreau;  secretary,  W.  M.  Dingley, 
Gardiner,  R.  F.  D.  No.  13. 

Thorndike :  President,  Arthur  W. 
Leonard ;  secretary,  Henry  H.  Small. 

Troy:  President,  S.  A.  Piper;  secre- 
tary, H.  B.  Gowin. 

Whitefield:  President,  L.  H.  Ford; 
secretary,  F,  L.  Law, 


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THIS  is  the  wonderful  machine  that  set  the  pace  in 
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eased  the  daily  work  and  added  to  the  daily  cream 
saving.  The  demand  for  the  ball-bearing  machine  — 
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plicity, durability,  and  service.  Go  by  what  they  say  about 
the  ball-bearing  machine. 

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March,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE 
Hampton    Falls :      President,    D.  F. 
i  Batchelder ;     secretary,     Frank  James, 
'Drakeside  Road,  Hampton. 
L    Lyme :    President,  H.  J.  Mativia ;  sec- 
retary, C.  A.  Davis,  Lyme  Center. 
J    North  Haverhill:     President,   M.  A. 
.  Meader ;  secretary,  T.  C.  Chamberlin. 

VERMONT 
I,    Brownington  Center:    President,  F.  V. 
j  Swanson,  Orleans,  R.  F.  D.  No.  2;  vice- 
!  president,  E.  A.  Robinson,  Orleans,  R.  F. 
iD.  No.  2;  secretary,  Henry  H.  Leland, 
j  Orleans,  R.  F.  D.  No.  2. 
r    Concord :  President,  Geo.  H.  Hastings ; 
1  secretary,  W.  P.  Streeter. 
L  Enosburg  Falls:    President,  Harrison 
W.  Towle;  secretary,  B.  E.  Wilder. 

Georgia:    President,  M.  O.  Brage,  St. 
Albans,  R.  F.  D.  No.  2;  secretary,  H.  H. 
j  Nye,  East  Georgia. 

Jeffersonville :  President,  M.  L.  Porter ; 
secretary,  E.  L.  Hubbard. 
H   Johnson:    President,  Earl  Butler;  sec- 
retary, Floyd  Ellsworth. 
[|   Milton:    President,  Fred  A.  Walston; 
'secretary,  E.  S.  Sibley, 
j   Montpelier:  President,  Harry  E.  Hale, 
!R.  F.  D.  No.  2;  secretary,  R.  B.  Martin, 
j'R.  F.  D.  No.  1. 

North  Thetford:  President,  F.  T. 
Howard;  secretary,  C.  A.  Wilcox. 

North  Walden:  President,  W.  E. 
Stevens,  East  Hardwick;  secretary,  W. 
E.  Hatch,  East  Hardwick. 

Orleans:  President,  E.  J.  Freehart; 
secretary,  H.  J.  Vezina,  Barton,  R.  F.  D. 
No.  2. 

i(  St.  Albans:  President,  F.  O.  Collins, 
Swanton,  R.  F.  D.  No.  1 ;  vice-president, 
j&eo.  H.  Dunsmore;  secretary,  F.  B. 
Wilder,  R.  F.  D.  No.  1. 

Sheldon :    President,  Harold  P.  Marsh, 
•  Sheldon,  Junction;  secretary,  S.  B.  Mc- 
Feeters. 

Waterbury  Center :  President,  H.  R. 
Pike,  Waterbury ;  secretary,  W.  C.  Nor- 
cross. 

West  Newbury :  President,  James 
Miller ;  secretary,  J.  B.  C.  Tyler. 

Whiting:  President,  C.  O.  Church; 
<  secretary,  L.  A.  Webster. 

Williamstown  :  President,  Fred  McAl- 
lister ;  secretary,  Earl  A.  Boyce. 

Williston :  President,  L.  P.  Chapman, 
North  Williston;  secretary,  L.  E.  Miles, 
(North  Williston. 

MASSACHUSETTS 
Concord :    President,  Thomas  L.  Eld- 
ridge  ;  secretary,  Edgar  F.  Clark. 

Littleton :  President,  Marshall  S.  On- 
(thuse ;  secretary,  Howard  A.  Kimball, 
|R.  F.  D. 

CONNECTICUT 
,l    Plainfield  :    President,  John  E.  Tanner, 
!  Moosup,   R.   F.   D. ;   secretary,  Nathan 
Exley. 

Scotland :  President,  Samuel  H.  Spen- 
cer, Willimantic,  R.  F.  D.  No.  2;  secre- 
tary, C.  E.  Simpson,  Willimantic,  R.  F. 
D.  No.  2. 

South  Windham:    President,  Wm.  F. 
'  Spokesfield,      Willimantic ;  secretary, 
Thomas  Mara,  Windham. 

NEW  YORK 

Johnsonville :  President,  Geo.  Barnett ; 
secretary,  P.  J.  Keegan. 

West  Hebron:  President,  John  T. 
McConnell,  Granville,  R.  F.  D. ;  secretary, 
Paul  Crosier,  Salem,  R.  F.  D.  No.  3. 


Florian:  "Chief,  ah  needs  protection! 
Ah  done  got  a  unanimous  letter  this 
mornin'  which  done  says :  'Nigger,  let 
mah  chickens  alone.'  " 

Chief  of  Police:  "Why  protection? 
Just  leave  the  chickens  alone." 

Florian :  "Dat's  all  right,  boss,  but 
how  does  I  know  whose  chickens  I's  to 
leave  alone?" 


A  man  fell  out  of  a  boat  and  began 
to  yell  loudly  for  help. 
"Lower    your     legs!"     shouted  the 

[captain. 
And  the  man  did,  and  found  himself 
standing  in  four  feet  of  water. 
That  is  often  the  way.    Our  troubles 
are  seldom  as  bad  as  we  think  they  are. 


This  Alfalfa  field  was  seeded  in  August.  It  produced  big  crops  thefollowing  year 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Match,  1927 


Eastern  States  Fanners'  Exchange 


START  BABY 
CHICKS  RIGHT 

The  Eastern  States  Growing 
Mash  has  proved  on  thousands  of 
farms  that  it  is  a  splendid  chick 
starter.  It  is  because  the  authori- 
ties who  suggest  the  formulas  for 
Eastern  States  poultry  feeds  have 
stated  that  Eastern  States  Growing 
Mash  is  a  thoroughly  satisfactory 
starter  that  no  special  starter  is 
offered  by  the  Exchange. 

Eastern  States  Chick  Grains  and 
Eastern  States  Growing  Mash 
make  for  rapid,  thrifty  growth 
from  the  first  feeding.  The  East- 
ern States  Farmers'  Exchange,  by 
putting  out  these  two  feeds,  has  as- 
sisted the  Extension  specialists  to 
take  the  bunk  and  mystery  out  of 
baby  chick  feeding.  The  farmer 
who  has  proper  brooding  and  hous- 
ing facilities  and  who  gives  healthy 
chicks  good  care  will  find  Eastern 
Sfates  Growing  Mash  and  Chick 
Grains    thoroughly  satisfactory. 

The  farmer  whose  brooder  and 
housing  facilities  are  defective  and 
who  is  careless  either  with  the 
selection  or  care  of  his  chicks  will 
get  unsatisfactory  results  from 
any  rations. 

With  mill  ownership  and  com- 
plete co-operative  control  of  in- 
gredients and  formulas,  the  East- 
ern State  Farmers'  Exchange 
poultry  feeds  have  reached  the 
highest  standards  in  their  history. 
Not  only  are  the  formulas  open, 
the  ingredients  are  tested  and 
proved  in  the  members'  own  lab- 
oratory at  the  Buffalo  mill. 

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Mash  (the  feed  so  many  farmers 
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SOUTHERN  MARKET  DISTR1T 

CHARLES  E.  G1FFORD,  Manager 
Slade  Bldg.,  44  Washington  St.,  Providence  Tel.  Dexter  6469 


February  Delivered  Prices 

Providence   8c    per  qt. 

Fall  River    8c    per  qt. 

Brockton   8j^c  per  qt. 

New  Bedford    9c    per  qt. 

Newport   9c    per  qt. 

The  supply  the  past  month  has  been 
sufficient  to  meet  the  trade  requirements 
with  some  surplus  with  nearly  all  deal- 
ers in  all  markets.  In  the  Providence 
market  the  surplus  was  considerably 
greater  than  in  other  markets  in  the 
district  and  sales  were  reported  as 
slack,  due  to  the  general  dullness  in  all 
lines  of  business.  The  chain  store  com- 
petition is  having  a  very  undesirable 
effect  in  loss  of  sales  reported  by  some 
dealers.  This  loss  of  sales  increases 
their  surplus  to  the  producers.  Many 
of  our  members  have  been  hit  so  hard 
that  they  have  made  inquiries  if  the 
prices  were  right  or  if  some  mistake 
had  not  been  made.  In  practically  every 
case  the  lowered  price  can  be  traced 
back  to  loss  of  business  through  the 
chain  store  competition. 

The  increased  production  of  Grade  A 
milk  from  tuberculin  tested  cows  in 
Providence  is  very  pronounced.  The 
amount  now  being  produced  is  consider- 
ably in  excess  of  the  amount  sold  as 
Grade  A  milk.  It  seems  probable  that 
this  class  of  milk  will  continue  to  be 
produced  in  an  amount  far  in  excess  of 
the  demand.  The  Grade  A  producers 
have  had  several  meetings  to  discuss  the 
situation  and  devise  some  means  of 
meeting  the  situation.  They  want  to 
dispose  of  the  Grade  A  milk  in  greater 
quantities.  In  all  probability  a  plan 
will  be  made  to  develop  an  extensive 
advertising  campaign  to  acquaint  the 
public  with  the  value  of  Grade  A  milk 
as  compared  with  ordinary  milk.  They 
will  work  it  out  on  the  basis  that  all 


WESTERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 

•  (Continued  from  page  two) 
a  rating  plan  for  the  nearby  producers. 
This  would  still  further  tend  to  stabilize 
market  conditions  and  improve  prices  to 
the  nearby  producers. 

Conditions  in  Springfield  are  about  the 
same.  Chain  store  milk  is  selling  gen- 
erally at  10  cents  a  quart  with  a  home 
delivered  price  of  14  cents,  except  a  few 
dealers  who  are  getting  15. 

The  Worcester  County  Extension 
Service  has  also  assisted  in  meeting  the 
situation  in  Worcester  by  a  series  of 
meetings  devoted  to  problems  of  effi- 
ciency, quality  and  marketing.  Meet- 
ings were  held  in  Warren,  Charlton 
and  North  Brookfield.  Prof.  J.  C. 
Fawcett  of  the  Massachusetts  Agricul- 
tural College  spoke  on  the  raising  of 
replacement  stock  and  Assistant  County 
Agent  Herbert  Reiner  spoke  on  grow- 
ing better  roughage  and  soil  require- 
ments. I  presented  the  market  condi- 
tions. At  all  these  meetings  the  pro- 
ducers took  a  keen  interest  in  the  new 
outlook  in  the  Worcester  market. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Worcester  sales 
committee  Feb.  15  the  Philadelphia 
Plan  was  discussed  and  was  given  gen- 
eral approval.  The  question  of  meet- 
ing the  excess  seasonal  production  prob- 
lem with  a  rating  plan  or  in  some  other 
way  was  discussed. 

The  last  week  in  January  and  the 
first  week  in  February  I  spent  in  the 
Salem,  N.  Y.,  section,  visiting  farmers, 
securing  dues  orders  on  the  new  basis 
and  discussing  market  conditions.  This 
is  the  largest  of  the  Hood  Company's 
receiving  stations  and  is  probably  the 
largest  receiving  station  in  New  Eng- 
land. There  are  about  350  farmers 
shipping  from  that  one  station.  About 
90  per  cent,  of  these  producers  are  now 
members  of  the  NEMPA.  They  are  a 
fine  loyal  crowd  and  take  a  keen  in- 
terest in  all  that  is  going  on. 


milk  is  a  good  food  and  drink  but  that 
Grade  A  milk  is  even  better.  It  is 
hoped  that  by  this  means  a  considerable 
increase  in  the  demand  for  high  quality 
milk  will  be  stimulated. 

I  came  across  an  instance  of  how  the 
surplus,  under  certain  short-sighted  pol- 
icies of  farmers,  can  be  increased  un- 
reasonably. A  producer  selling  in  the 
Fall  River  market  to  a  dealer  who  car- 
ried a  surplus.  The  surplus  deduction 
from  his  milk  check  was  $10  where- 
upon he  immediately  went  to  Brighton 
and  bought  another  cow  for  $175.  He 
did  this,  he  explained,  so  that  he  would 
make  more  milk  and  get  back  that  $10 
next  month.  He  honestly  believed  that 
the  important  thing  was  to  get  his  total 
check  back  up  to  where  it  had  been.  He 
wholly  lost  sight  of  the  fact  that  the 
surplus  carried  by  his  dealer  would  still 
be  there  and  that  the  extra  cow  he  pur- 
chased would  increase  the  surplus  by 
just  that  much.  When  an  attempt  was 
made  to  show  him  that  the  surplus  de- 
duction would  still  be  there  another 
month,  probably,  he  said,  "Well,  I  can 
go  buy  another  cow,  I  suppose."  If  he 
followed  this  policy  he  would  keep  on 
buying  an  additional  cow  each  month  to 
bring  his  check  up  to  where  it  would 
have  been  without  any  surplus  deduc- 
tion but  he  would  be  continually  in- 
creasing the  surplus  and  increasing  the 
surplus  loss.  Of  course  his  reasoning  is. 
all  wrong.  I  am  not  sure  but  the  better 
policy  at  this  time  would  be  to  reduce 
the  size  of  the  herds.  If  a  small  re- 
duction were  made  by  all  the  producers 
the  surplus  would  be  reduced  and  there 
would  be  a  decrease  in  the  surplus  de- 
duction. 

The  board  of  health  of  Newport  re- 
voked the  permit  of  the  Newport 
Creamery  until  it  complied  with  certain 
rules  and  regulations  which,  it  is  claim- 
ed, have  been  disregarded  for  some  time. 
This  left  a  considerable  number  of  pro- 
ducers shut  off  from  the  market  through 
no  fault  of  their  own  but  the  Newport 
chamber  of  commerce  stepped  in  and 
made  arrangements  with  the  Aquidneck 
Dairy  to  pasteurize  and  bottle  this  sup- 
ply until  such  time  as  the  Newport 
Creamery  was  reinstated  by  meeting  the 
requirements  of  the  board  of  health. 
It  is  possible  that  the  business  may  be 
sold  out.  It  is  the  smallest  of  the  dis- 
tributors in  the  market.  The  Island 
Creamery  and  the  Aquidneck  distribute 
the  greater  part  of  the  milk  for  the 
city.  Conditions  of  supply  and  demand 
in  this  market  remain  about  the  same. 

The  North  Westport  local  held  a 
pleasant  and  worthwhile  meeting  Feb. 
19  in  the  home  of  its  secretary,  Mrs. 
Alice  Sampson.  In  spite  of  the  hard 
storm  that  night  members  came  from 
near  and  far  and  spent  the  evening  in 
discussing  the  market  problems,  ming- 
ling in  plenty  of  good  fellowship.  Mrs. 
Sampson  expressed  her  earnest  wish  to 
retire  from  active  work  as  an  officer  in 
the  local,  but  assured  all  the  members 
of  her  belief  in  the  association  and  her 
willingness  to  do  her  part  as  a  mem- 
ber. She  has  served  for  five  years  as 
secretary  and  has  done  much  to  keep 


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milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
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i,:he  local  in  good  condition.  Her  wishes 
•were  met  and  the  members  expressed 
'  heir  appreciation  of  her  work  as  sec- 
retary as  well  as  for  her  hospitality  on 

laving  the  local  meeting  at  her  home 
|ind    providing    a    delicious  luncheon. 

Christopher   Borden  was  elected  presi- 

lent  and   Milton   Wood   secretary  and 

reasurer. 

The  meeting  came  on  the  night  of  our 
jvorst  blizzard  for  some  30  years.  I 
lad  been  on  the  road  all  day  and  left 
it  midnight  for  home,  some  12  miles 
iway.  In  some  places  the  drifts  were 
'our  feet  high  and  in  other  places  the 
oad  was  bare.  I  bucked  the  drifts  two 
lours  and  the  car  stayed  in  the  road 
'nost  of  the  time.  Arrived  home  about 
k  o'clock   Sunday  morning. 

The  past  week  has  been  spent  largely 
n  field  work  around  the  Providence 
narket  where  I  have  signed  up  44  men 
>n  the  new  dues  order  basis.  Ten 
■thers  this  week  make  a  total  of  54 
igned  out  of  57  men  seen.  I  feel  sure 
ihat  two  of  the  remaining  three  will 
ign  later. 

New  Bedford  is  having  a  bottle  round 
ip.  It  is  well  described  in  a  local  paper 
s  follows : 
In  the  first  four  days  of  an  extensive 
ampaign  to  reclaim  wayward  milk 
'ottles  and  return  the  lost  containers  to 

«he  fold,  being  conducted  under  the  di- 
ection  of  the  New  Bedford  Retail  Milk 
dealers'   Association,  more  than  10,000 

:Ottles  have  been  found  and  brought  in. 

Announcement  to  that  effect  was  made 

«ecently  by  Timothy  G.  Toomey  of  the 
'oomey  Detective  Agency,  Inc.,  together 
/ith  a  prediction  that  at  least  100,000 

[ottles  will  be  collected  in  the  course  of 

Jie  next  ten  days. 

Work  with  Committee 

;  Mr.  Toomey's  agency  is  working  in 
pn  junction  with  a  special  committee 
rom  the  Dealers'  Association  in  a  cam- 
aign  of  education  for  the  purpose  of 
figthening  the  period  of  usefulness  of 
he  average  milk  bottle,  as  such,  and  re- 
jucing  the  expense  resulting  from  wide- 
bread  loss  of  bottles. 
"I  have  had  four  men  out  combing  . 
le  city,"  Mr.  Toomey  said  last  night. 
(They  have  been  holding  up  anybody 
Eid  everybody  connected  with  the  milk 
ndustry  and  the  net  result  since  the 
rive  started  Tuesday  is  more  than  10,- 
)0  reclaimed  bottles.  We  have  col- 
cted  them  from  homes  in  the  main, 
p  expect  to  canvass  the  stores,  mills, 
irages,  and  every  place  where  milk 
,>ttles  may  have  been  diverted  into 
fame  use  other  than  the  rightful  pur- 
Ose  for  which  they  were  intended." 
;Mr.  Toomey  told  of  finding  one  home 
ihere  the  housewife  had  60  milk  bottles 
ill  of  preserves.  Moonshine  containers 
;id  home  brew  receptacles  are  other  uses 
which  milk  bottles  have  been  exten- 
'vely  put.  "People  seem  to  think  if 
ley  pay  a  five  cent  deposit  on  a  bottle 
the  store,  it  belongs  to  them,"  Mr. 
toomey  said.  "That  isn't  true ;  the  bot- 
belongs  to  the  dealer  and  to  no  one 
[tse." 

Ready  to  Co-operate 

Everyone  seems  willing  to  co-operate 
'ith    canvassers,    Mr.    Toomey  says, 
xtres  of  housewives  have  called  up  on 
e  telephone  to  tell  of  unclaimed  milk 
itfles    in    their    homes,    he  declared. 
Neglect  and  carelessness  on  the  part  of 
j  mseholders  is  responsible  for  a  large 
W  cent,  of  the  unreturned  bottles,  in 
r.  Toomey's  opinion.     "They  fail  to 
ht  them  out  so  the   dealer  can  take 
f  ern  back  until  so  many  have,  accumu- 
j  ted  that  he  finds  it  impossible  to  re- 
Love   them   without   making   an  extra 

m." 

I  Dealers  are  legally  required  to  have 
i  eir  own  name  on  bottles  in  their  use 
i  id  a  part  of  the  present  campaign  is 
i  check  up  on  the  dealers  and  to  what 
[ctent  if  any  this  requirement  is  being 
!  olated.  Loss  of  the  bottles  is  at  pres- 
l  it  said  to  be  the  biggest  single  ex- 
I  'nse  in  the  milk  selling  business, 
j  One  of  the  by-products  of  the  bottle 
i  'Undup  in  New  Bedford  was  a  federal 
harge  of  transporting  liquor  brought 
jfainst  Manuel  Joaquin,  milk  peddler 
j  /ing  in  Fall  River.  .  He  was  stopped 
[Jr  a  Fall  River  policeman  to  see  if  he 
lid   bottles    belonging    to    any  other 


dealer.  It  is  alleged  that  besides  the 
400  quarts  of  milk  on  the  truck  he  had 
one  quart  bottle  and  an  eight  quart  jug 
filled  with  moonshine.  The  milk  truck 
Was  confiscated. 


MARKET  CONDITIONS 

The  increase  in  milk  production,  as 
measured  by  the  records  of  the  sales 
and  purchases  of  the  dealers  operating 
under  the  surplus  plan  in  the  Boston 
market  was  less  than  normal  in  Janu- 
ary. The  increase  of  two  per  cent, 
from  December  to  January  was  the 
smallest  since  our  records  began.  Last 
year  the  increase  was  6^2  per  cent. 
Even  with  the  small  increase,  as  com- 
pared with  December,  the  January  pur- 
chases were  6.1  million  pounds  higher 
than  in  January,  1926,  while  the  sales 
showed  an  increase  of  only  1.3  million 
pounds.  This  left  the  surplus  46.9  per 
cent,  as  compared  with  42.1  per  cent, 
last  year. 

The  purchases,  sales  and  surplus  for 
the  month,  for  December,  and  for  a 
year  ago  were  as  follows  in  millions 
of  pounds : 

Dec.      Jan.  Jan. 

1926  1927  1926 

Purchases   43.1      45.5  39.4 

Sales   26.6      27.2  25.9 

With  a  butter  market  four  cents 
higher  than  a  year  ago  the  surplus  price 
figured  18  cents  a  hundred  more  in 
January  which  offset  tq  a  large  degree 
the  lower  market  milk  price.  The  net 
price  was  only  nine  cents  below  the 
January,  1926,  price.  The  prices  on  a 
comparative  basis  were  as  follows : 

Dec.  Jan.  Jan. 

1926  1927  1926 

Fluid   $3.31  $2.96  $3.19 

Surplus                    2.06  1.88  1.70 

Net  price                2.82  2.55  2.64 

Avg.  butter,  lb  537  .495  .452 

The  New  York  pooled  price  for  3.7 
milk  in  the  181-200  mile  zone  for  Janu- 
ary was  $2.69,  compared  with  out- 
weighted  average  price  to  Boston  deal- 
ers in  that  zone  of  $2.55. 

Lawrence,  Lowell  and  Haverhill 
dropped  their  price  February  1  to  the 
Boston  level.  Most  of  the  other  markets 
went  down  the  previous  month.  Wor- 
cester and  Holyoke  are  a  half  cent  be- 
low Boston.  Newport,  R.  I.,  and  New 
Bedford  are  still  at  nine  cents. 

Cost  of  Production 
Grain  prices  have  advanced  some- 
what since  last  month  and  are  now  at 
about  the  same  level  as  a  year  ago. 
Retail  prices  have  shown  a  sharp  ad- 
vance. 

Jan.     Feb.  Feb. 

1927  1927  1926 

Grain,  per  ton   $45.54    $47.51  $47.06 

Hay,  per  ton    15.47     15.89  15.27 


GENERAL  MOVEMENT 

Massachusetts  farmers  are  just  waking 
up  to  the  fact  that  the  state  is  lagging 
away  behind  in  the  matter  of  bovine 
tuberculosis  eradication  and  that  they 
are  in  danger  that  all  the  rest  of  New 
England  will  leave  them  far  behind.  It 
is  estimated  that  Maine  will  be  a  clean 
state  in  1931,  Vermont  in  1932,  New 
Hampshire  and  Connecticut  in  1933. 
Rhode  Island  is  set  down  for  a  clean 
up  in  1937  and  Massachusetts  may  come 
through  in  1941,  according  to  the  es- 
timates. 

As  the  result  of  this  agitation  sev- 
eral bills  have  been  introduced  into  the 
legislature  with  the  intention  of  speed- 
ing up  the  cleaning  up  process.  The 
area  test  bill,  similar  to  what  other 
states  have,  is  the  principal  one.  It 
stands  a  fair  chance  of  passing.  A  com- 
pulsory testing  or  pasteurization  bill  on 
sales  milk  is  having  hard  sledding  but 
may  be  changed  so  that  it  can  pass. 


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March,  1927 


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Conditions  In  The  Market 


If  you  can  take  old  pasture 
land  or  hay  fields  that  have  run 
to  weeds  and  poor  grasses — 

If,  with  very  little  trouble  or  expense, 
you  can  bring  them  back  to  fine  tim- 
othy and  clover — 

Think  how  much  money  that  will 
mean  in  your  own  pocket! 

Why  not  try  it  this  year?  Here  is  the 
way  one  Massachusetts  farmer  went 
it  it:— 

He  had  an  old  timothy  sod  which 
nad  been  seeded  for  some  years.  The 
clover  had  entirely  run  out  and  he  was 
getting  only  a  thin  stand  of  undesirable 
grasses. 

Through  the  use  of  500  lbs  per  acre 
of  a  3-8-0  (no  potash)  fertilizer,  he  suc- 
ceeded in  increasing  the  timothy  and 
red  top.  Sweet  vernal  was  reduced  and 
oat  grass  was  about  the  same.  , 

On  another  section  where  he  used  500 
lbs.  of  a  3-8-10  fertilizer  a  big  change 
had  occurred.  Sweet  vernal  was  almost 
gone  and  in  place  of  the  poor  grasses, 
he  had  a  fine  large  stand  of  timothy  and 
clover.  Just  a  little  good  fertilizer  had 
changed  the  value  of  his  pasture  radically. 

There's  a  profit  for  you,  too,  in  build- 
ing up  your  pasture  land  or  hay  fields. 
Sometimes  lime  is  necessary  if  your  soil 
is  acid.  Stable  manure  is  a  good  thing 
but  remember — manure  alone  is  not 
enough.  Phosphoric  acid  and  potash 
have  to  be  added  to  it  to  make  it  a 
well-balanced  fertilizer  for  hay,  clover 
or  alfalfa. 

A  poor  stand  of  clover  or  alfalfa  is  often  due 
to  a  lack  of  potash.  Be  sure  that  plenty  of 
potash  goes  on  your  pasture  or  hay  field 
either  as  a  supplement  to  manure  or  in  a  high 
analysis  mixed  fertilizer.  The  improved 
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High  Butter  Value  and  10  Cents  Extra  on  Surplus  Milk 

Makes  Price  Almost  as  High  as  Last  Year 

Higher   prices   on   surplus   milk  will  February.    In  March  the  unusually  good 

nearly  offset  the  lower  market  milk  price  conditions  for  winter  butter  production, 

for  the  first  few  months  of  this  year  combined  with  the  general  falling  off  in 

judging    by    present    indications.     The  consumption  due  to  a  decline  in  general 

January  surplus  milk  price  was  18  cents  busine.ss  conditions,  led  to  a  sharp  de- 

,  •  ,      ,,   „  •    t             1Ct0/-  .     .  '  cline  in  price.    No  such  decline  is  looked 

higher  than  in  January,  1926  leaving  the  for            A    ;,  ^ 

composite  price  in  the  10th  zone  only  Sti„  another  important  factor  is  the 
9  cents  below  last  year  s  composite  price.  tariff  of  12  cents  a  pound  on  butter.  This 
In  February  the  condition  is  even  better  was  secured  largely  through  the  efforts 
due  to  the  fact  that  the  sales  committee  of  the  National  Co-operative  Milk  Pro- 
secured  10  cents  addition  on  surplus  m!lk.  ducers'  Association  and  we  played  an  im- 
Thus  the  good  work  of  the  association  in  portant  part  in  the  effort.  Foreign  but- 
getting  more  for  surplus,  added  to  the  ter  is  not  coming  in  any  unusual  quanti- 
advantage  in  price  due  to  the  higher  but-  ties  and  .1S  much  of  a  factor  ,n  the 
ter  market,  will  probably  offset  the  de-  Present  situation. 

•  „  i  .  •„  •  •  .  1  he  fact  that  the  hay  crop  throughout 
crease  m  market  milk  prices  within  six .to  the  CQUnt  has  been  somewhat  below 
eight  cents.  It  is  our  best  judgment  that  norma,  for  twQ  years  in  succession  has 
the  February  price  will  be  about  $2.58.  )ed  t0  a  reduction  in  the  number  of  dairy 
The  firm  stand  which  the  sales  commit-  cows  carried  over  each  year.  There  is  a 
tee  took  on  the  proposition  to  increase  the  general  decrease  in  the  number  of  dairy 
price  of  surplus  adds  materially  to  the  cows  taking  the  country  as  a  whole, 
favorable  outlook  on  surplus  prices  for  Another  factor  in  keeping  the  butter 
the  next  few  months.  Combined  with  the  production  down  is  the  unusually  good 
higher  butter  level  it  made  the  February  demand  for  cream  in  Eastern  markets,  re- 
surplus  price  54  cents  higher  than  it  was  fleeting  the  increased  buying  power  of 
last  year.  The  average  butter  quotation  the  consumers.  Records  show  that  the 
for  February  was  52  cents  as  compared  volume  of  western  cream  coming  into 
with  42  cents  last  February.  This  in-  Boston  has  increased  two  and  one-half 
crease  in  butter  price  means  in  itself  an  times  within  the  past  two  years, 
increase  of  44  cents  a  hundred,  almost  a  Along  with  this  greater  volume  of 
cent  a  quart,  to  surplus.  With  the  10  cream  from  the  west  has  gone  a  reduction 
cents  premium  on  surplus  put  through  by  in  milk  and  cream  shipments  from  New 
the  sales  committee  the  total  increase,  as  York  state.  The  territory  which  has  been 
compared  with  last  year,  is  54  cents.  shipping  to  Boston  from  New  York  state 
There  are  several  factors  which  have  has  apparently  been  going  through  a  pe- 
had  an  effect  on  the  butter  prices.  Only  riod  of  readjustment.  It  is  not  quite  clear 
a  moderate  amount  of  butter  was  made  whether  there  is  an  actual  reduction  in 
during  the  last  flush  season  and  the  lip;ht  the  number  of  dairy  cows  in  that  section 
hay  crop  resulted  in  fewer  cattle  being  of  New  York  or  whether  the  milk  has 
kept  through  the  winter.  The  combina-  been  diverted.  Troy.  Albany  and 
tion  shows  in  the  storage  fierures.  The  Schenectady  are  cities  which  are  growing 
generally  good  business  conditions  in  the  fast  and  steadily  increasing  their  demand 
country  and  the  relatively  high  buying  for  milk.  It  is  probable  that  a  consider- 
power  of  the  consumers  has  resulted  in  able  portion  of  the  New  York  milk  for- 
an  increase  in  consumption,  showing  in  merly  shipped  into  Boston  as  cream  is 
relatively  hieh  withdrawals  from  storage.  now  diverted  to  these  markets  for  fluid 
Storage  holdings  for  the  past  five  years  milk  sales.  In  addition  to  the  increased 
February  1  were  as  follows:  .  demand  in  these  cities  due  to  incerased 
nnn  nr\r\  tu  population,  some  of  the  milk  which  for- 

J923                       ieXXX'JKn  tu  merly  supplied  them  has  been  diverted 

llll                      15  ™™™  u  to  New  York  to  meet  a  considerable 

925                      lo-ffiSS  £S-  shortage  of  milk  there. 

]™                       lonnnnnn  k"  Elsewhere  in  this  issue  is  a  prediction 

1927                      18,0UU,UUU  lbs.  from  the  New  Eng]and  Research  Council 

The  holdings  are  less  than  half  what  to  the  effect  that  the  outlook  is  better  in 

they  were  a  year  ap;o  and  considerably  1927  for  the  milk  producers  of  New  Eng- 

less  than  half  the  holdings  in  the  previous  land  than  it  is  for  the  men  producing  on 

year.    They  are  but  little  higher  than  in  the  butter  fat  basis.    This  would  appear 

the  period  of  low  ebb  in  the  dairy  in-  to  be  contrary  to  the  above  summary  of 

dustry  in  1922  and  1923.  reflected  in  the  the  butter  price  situation,  but  it  should  be 

holdings  in  February  1923  and  1924.  The  understood  that  the  above  is  a  discussion 

withdrawals  from  storage,  indicating  the  of  conditions  at  present  and  for  the  next 

demand,  are  also  important  factors.  ■  For  two  months,  whereas  the  Council's  state- 

the  same  years  the  January  withdrawals  ment  is  for  the  year  1927  as  a  whole, 

were  as  follows :  Combining  the  two  gives  ground  for  be- 
lief that  butter  prices  will  continue  good 

1923                       10.000,000  lbs.  through   April  ■  and   then   may  decline 

1924                      15,000,000  lbs.  sharply.   On  the  other  hand  the  available 

1925                      20.000.000  lbs.  supplies   of   market  milk  are   so  well 

1926                      13,000,000  lbs.  cleaned  up  in  New  England  that  a  period 

1927                       16,000,000  lbs.  of  stability  in  market  milk  prices  is  prob- 

rj.,         .  .  ,       ,    ,            «.  x       ii  able.    The  advanced  price  on  surplus  will 

These  withdrawals  show  a  substantially  ;n  jtsdf  tend  tQ       duce  stabilit    ;n  mar. 

h'^er  6'™n6.  ^.an;n  ™yji*r  tZ^mg  ket  milk  prices  as  it  has  considerably  re- 

1925     They  indicate  that  by  this  time  duced  the          d  between  market  milk 

practically  all  the  storage  butter  will  have  prices  and         Jus      ;ces     Th|s  CQmes 

been  withdrawn    For  the  last  two  years  about  more  through  an  advance  in  the 

the  storage  hold mp  have  been  ample  to  lus     ;ce  than  throu  h  the  reduction 

carry  through  until  the  new  butter  begins  ;n  the  market  milk     ;ce     The  ,ess  the 

to  be  put  m  storage  in  considerable  quart-  difference  between  market  milk  and  sur- 

tities.     This  generally  comes  in   April  plus  prices  the  less  will  be  the  temptation 

Thus  the  present  condition  will  be  that  to  crowd  m;lk  ;nt0  the  market  at  cuf 

practically  no  butter  will  remain  in  stor-  prices 

age  through  March  and  that  the  demand  The  surpbs  ;C€  for  February  will  be 
will  have  to  be  supplied  wholly  from  the  about  $2  10  a  hundred>  the  highest  it  has 
production  of  the  month  This  will  tend  been  for  The  market  mi]k  .  ^ 
to  keep  tin  the  high  price  level  until  April  ;s  $2  95  ;„  the  10th  zone  This  ,eaves  the 
and  the  April  quotations  will  probably  be  lfJth  ZQne  d;fferentia]  only  85  cents  be_ 
better  than  last  year,  even  though  there  tween  market  milk  and  ,us  In  fhe 
is  a  substantial  falling  off  from  the  pres-  15th  zone  it  ;s  onlv  75  cents  A  year  a£r0 
ent  high  prices.  the  10th  zong  market  mi]k  price  was  $53.19 
This  general  prediction  is  borne  out  by  and  the  surplus  price  was  $1.56,  a  differ- 
previous  experience.  In  1923  when  the  ence  of  $1.63.  The  temptation  to  crowd  in 
storage  holdings  were  low,  the  average  milk  at  an  85  cent  differential  is  much  less 
price  for  January,  February  and  March  than  at  a  $1.63  differential.  While  this 
was  51  cents.  In  April  it  went  down  to  differential  will  widen  greatly  as  butter 
47.5  cents.  Again  in  1924  the  price  started  prices  go  down  later  in  the  season,  it  is 
off  well,  with  an  even  higher  price.  53  now  a  highly  important  factor  in  stabiliz- 
cents  for  January,  and  a  drop  to  51.5  for  ing  the  market. 


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FEBRUARY  PRICES  After  you  have  considered  the  matter 

Manchester,  N.  H.  68c    per  8]/2  qt.  can  "f  suPP'y.  tarn  your  attention  to  quality. 

I  Nashua,  N.  H  74.4c  per  %l/2  qt.  can  ^ome  farmers  are  producing  poor  quality 

Lowell  'Mass          64c    per  8     qt  can  milk,  and  asking  their  sales  committees 

hawrence,  Mass'. "".'.'.80c    per  10    qt!  can  of  the  NEMPA  to  find  them  a  market 

laverhill,  Mass  64c    per  8     qt.  can  for  it  at  high  prices.    What  is  it  worth? 

Toncord,  N.  H  58.8c  per  8yi  qt.  can  How  can  wc  sell  the  stuff?    The  first 

Portland,  Me              7.8c  per  quart  question  a  dealer  asks  when  we  go  to  sell 

jalem,  Lynn,  Danvers,  m\\k  is,  "What's  the  farmer's  place  look 

ind  Beverly,'  Mass.  64c    per  8     qt.  can  like,  is  it  neat  and  clean ;  has  he  a  milk 

room;  how  does  he  cool  his  milk;  does 

PKICfc-S  ]le  use  ;ce .  (joes  ne  use  an  approved  type 

No  change  in  price  in  the  Nashua  mar-  of  strainer;  and  what  is  the  butter  fat 

ret  occurred  during  January  or  Febru-  content  of  his  supply  ?"    These  are  the 

:  ry.    This  is  due  to  the  fact  that  because  questions  we  are  asked  when  we  go  to 

\A  the  tuberculin  testing  ordinance  which  sell  milk  everyday,  and  don't  forget  it. 

j  :ept  some  milk  out  of  the  market,  we  did  Let  me  tell  you  here,  that  the  day  is  not 

pot  have  the  burdensome  surplus  which  coming,  it  is  here,  when  quality  counts, 

iccurred    in    Lowell,    Lawrence,    and  If  the  NEMPA,  and  that's  you  men,  are 

Kaverhill.    Many  farmers  in  and  around  to  get  highest  prices,  you  must  deliver  the 

I  hese  markets  were  having  difficulty  get-  goods   and  deliver   them  when  needed, 

j  ing  their  dealers  to  take  their  entire  Start  right  off,  pay  attention  to  your 

product  and  were  offering  concessions  in  supply,  even  up  your  production,  don't  try 

;  >rice  to  move  their  milk.    Coupled  with  to  make  it  all  from  January  1st  to  July 

i;  his  situation,  supplies  from  the  North  1st  but  use  every  means  in  your  power  to 

:  vere  freely  offered  at  prices  which  were  make  an  even  supply,  the  year  round,  and 

rom  1  to  V/2  cents  per  quart  below  the  then  give  the  quality.    Use  ice  for  cool- 

>JEMPA  quotation.    Some  of  this  sup-  ing,  use  a  proper  strainer,  use  bedding, 

[My    was    bought    and    our    producers  and  produce  your  milk  clean  and  whole- 

^ere    dropped.     Our    sales    committee  some. 

Mere    in    conference    on    the    situation  This  is  plain  talk  from  a  little  fellow 

I  md  their  action  with  respect  to  Febru-  like  Brown,  your  district  manager,  but 

j<iry  prices  was  in  their  judgment  the  I'm  just  a  bit  "haired  up,"  as  the  fellow 

soundest  policy  to  follow  for  the  greatest  says,  over  some  of  the  things  that  dealers 

[$ood  to  the  greatest  number  of  NEMPA  have  said  to  me  about  the  flooded  markets 

producers.  and  the  quality  of  stuff  the  NEMPA  has 

L   The  election  of  the  members  of  the  to  sell. 

Bales  committee  is  entirely  in  the  hands  I've  maintained  that  NEMPA  members 

%f  the  members.    It  is  only  fair  to  these  have  intelligence,  co-operative  spirit  and 

'men  who  give  their  time  and  energy  for  pride  enough  to  control  supply  to  the  ex- 

:he  benefit  of  all,  for  the  rest  of  the  mem-  tent  of  equalizing  their  production  dur- 

Dership  to  have  confidence  in  their  judg-  ing  the  year  and  to  produce  quality  milk. 

fnent  and  accept  their  recommendations.   

'They  have  facts,  figures,  and  informa-'  MORE  CITIES  REQUIRE 

ition  at  their  command  which  are  not  ______    __TT  ~ 

available  to  the  general  membership.  They  TESTED  MILK 

l  use  this  information  as  a  guide  to  their  Extensive  interest  of  cities  in  the  na- 

iactions.    If  the  membership  as  a  whole  tion-wide  campaign  against  tuberculosis 

[had  similar  information  and  similar  de-  of  livestock  is  seen  in  results  of  a  sur- 
cisions  to  make,  they  probably  would  not  vey  recently  conducted  by  the  United 
follow  a  very  much  different  course  than  States  Department  of  Agriculture.  A 
fthat  taken  by  the  sales  committees.  Let's  total  of  874  cities  and  towns  have  or- 
not  be  quite  so  disturbed  by  what  out-  dinances  requiring  the  tuberculin  testing 
siders  say  about  our  business.  Remember  of  cattle  furnishing  milk  for  consumption, 
that  after  all  it  is  our  organization  and  Official  reports  indicate  that  with  the  ex- 
its guidance  and  future  are  in  our  hands.  ception  of  about  1  per  cent,  the  ordinances 

And  now  since  we  are  talking  about  are  fairly  well  enforced, 
prices  let's  consider  some  of  the  funda-  The  action  of  such  cities  as  Chicago, 
mental  elements  which  tend  toward  price  Cleveland,  Detroit,  and  Louisville  in 
building.  The  first  of  these  is,  of  course,  promulgating  tuberculin-test  requirements 
the  old  law  of  Supply  and  Demand.  has  stimulated  recent  interest  in  this  sub- 
There  isn't  much  new  that  can  be  said  ject.  The  survey  showed,  however,  that 
about  this  matter,  whether  we  like  it  or  the  smaller  communities  also  are  fully 
not  this  law  will  prevail.  Now  then,  if  as  active  in  safeguarding  their  milk  sup- 
we  pay  no  attention  to  the  supply,  we  plies. 

must  take  the  consequences.    Right  here  In  addition  to  the  874  cities  having 

is  where  we  will  offer  some  real  advice  tuberculin-test  ordinances,  375  provide  an 

,if  the  membership  will  only  heed  it.  option   between    tuberculin    testing  and 

Arthur  P.  Chew  of  the  New  England  pasteurization.     Thus  a   total  of  1,249 

'crop  reporting  service  says,  "Although  municipalities  have  taken  positive  steps  to 

surpluses  of   farm  crops  are  the  joint  safeguard  their  milk  supplies  from  possi- 

work  of  man  and  nature,  farmers  are  in  bility  of  disease  transmission, 

.the  habit  of  putting  the  entire  blame  on  Fourteen  states  also  have  enacted  laws 

s  nature."    "That  is  why,"  says  Mr.  Chew,  or  have  issued  regulations  authorized  by 

"that  they  insist  that  the  solution  of  the  law  requiring  the  tuberculin  testing  of 

[agricultural  surplus  problem  is  up  to  the  cattle.    Though  varying  in  details,  the 

l  government."    Mr.  Chew  goes  on  in  his  laws  have  the  same  general  purpose — to 

I  article  on  "Production  Regulation  by  the  safeguard    the    wholesomeness   of  milk 

Farmer"  to  show  that  the  farmer  has  supplies.     In   all  cases  tuberculin  tests 

almost  an  equal  say  with  nature  as  to  must  be  applied  by  approved  graduate 

\  what  the  volume  of  his  production  may  veterinarians. — U.S.D.A. 

be.    Milk  Is  a  farm  crop.  There  are  more   

ways  of  using  milk  than  to  force  it  into  "Good  mornin',  Mrs.  Murphy,  and  how 

the    fluid   milk    markets,    regardless    of  is  ivrything?" 

whether  those  markets  are  over  supplied  "Shure,   an'    Oi'm    havin'   one  grand 

or  not.    Think  this  over  folks.    We  don't  time  av  it  betwane  me  husband  an'  th' 

have  to  dwell  upon  the  subject,  do  we,  furnace.    If  Oi  keep  my  oye  on  th'  wan, 

that  your  markets  due  to  the  seasonal  sur-  the  other  is  shure  to  go  out." 

plus  are  over  supplied.    Why  not  let  the   

calves  suck  a  little  longer,  feed  some  of  Professor  (after  hour's  dissertation  on 

your  milk  to  the  hens,  make  a  little  good  Egyptian     archeology)— "Does  anyone 

old  farm  butter,  and  feed  the  butter-milk  care  to  ask  any  questions?" 

to  pigs  or  hens.    A  ten  quart  can  used  on  Voice  in  back  of  room— "Just  one  ques- 

the  farm  and  kept  back  for  farm  feed-  tion,  professor.    In  your  opinion,  what 

mg   purposes   by   every    New    England  is  clam  digging— fishing  or  argiculture  ?" 

farmer  at  this  time  of  the  year  and  up   

I  to  July  1st  would  do  a  world  of  good.  Mother— "Is  daddy  asleep?" 

(    If  you  don't  believe  it,  try  it  out  and  see.    Betty— "Yes,  mother,  all  but  his  nose." 


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The  formula  of  this  feed  is  protected  be- 
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Committee  of  the  College  Feed  Conference 
Board.  This  feed  is  always  economical  be- 
cause the  formula  is  adjusted  to  the  market 
and  any  favorable  change  is  always  reflected 
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thousands  of  other  farmers.  By  this  means 
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He's  been  a  farmer  all  his  life, 
And  he's  got  a  shrewd  and  industrious  wife. 
He  worked  long  hours  and  got  small  pas  , 
And  raked  and  scraped  in  every  way 
To  get  enough  for  his  family  needs, 
Until  he  commenced  feeding  AMCO  Feeds. 

Now  his  expenses  are  cut  in  two. 
He  don't  have  half  as  much  to  do, 
His  cows  are  giving  the  best  of  milk 
His  horses  are  looking  as  fine  as  silk. 
His  hogs  are  so  fat  they  cannot  walk. 
And  Ez  does  nothing  now  but  talk. 


And  if  you  should  chance  to  come  by  his  waj 

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And  this  little  verse  you  can  repeat, 

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to  slip  something  by,  that  the  producers 
and  dealers  were  fighting  among  them- 
selves and  that  they  would  pay  little 
real  attention  to  an  attempt  to  increase 
rates.  They  were  greatly  mistaken. 
They  found  themselves  confronted  with 
a  united  dairy  industry,  producers  and 
dealers  standing  side  by  side  to  resist 
a  threatened  danger. 

The  railroads  based  their  claims  for 
an  increase  on  a  cost  study  purporting 
to  show  that  they  were  transporting 
milk  at  a  loss  and  that  the  costs  in  New 
England  were  lower  than  what  was 
charged  for  similar  service  in  other  sec- 
tions. The  answer  of  our  attorneys  and 
our  traffic  and  cost  experts  was  that  the 
cost  study  was  not  made  on  the  proper 
basis  and  meant  nothing  at  all.  They 
proceeded  to  show  the  railroads  and  the 
commission  what  they  considered  a 
proper  basis  and  expressed  their  willing- 
ness to  co-operate  in  making  a  new  cost 
study   which   would  mean  something. 

They  showed  that  the  rates  on  milk 
transportation  were  favorable  to  the 
railroads  as  compared  with  the  rates  in 
other  commodities  and  that  the  cost 
study  was  fallacious  and  misleading. 
They  showed  further  that  the  dairy  in- 
dustry was  not  in  any  position  to  stand 
any  such  increase  and  that  the  commis- 
sion was  not  warranted  in  granting  any 
such  increase  in  view  of  the  Hoch-Smith 
resolution  passed  at  the  last  session  of 
Congress  to  the  effect  that  the  policy  of 
the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission 
should  be  one  which  provides  the  freest 
possible  movement  of  agricultural  prod- 
ucts at  the  lowest  possible  rates  which 
could  go  with  good  service. 

The  dairy  committee  experts  showed 
that  a  very  large  portion  of  the  ex- 
pense which  had  been  charged  to  the 
milk  traffic  was  in  reality  for  passenger 
traffic,  also  that  the  making  of  the  cost 
study  in  June  did  not  give  a  true,  pic- 
ture of  the  situation  but  resulted  in  an 
overcharge  of  $598,000  to  milk  traffic 
on  a  yearly  basis.  They  showed  that 
the  overcharge  from  making  the  study  in 
June  plus  what  was  wrongfully  charged 
to  milk  transportation  would  not  only 
wipe  out  the  deficit  on  operating  costs 
on  milk  claimed  by  the  railroads  but 
would  result  in  a  net  profit  of  $18,000 
above  the  losses  claimed. 

It  was  further  brought  out  that  the 
Central  Vermont  had  made  a  private 
cost  study  for  the  purpose  of'  determin- 
ing whether  to  buy  additional  milk 
equipment  and  that  this  cost  study  had 
shown  a  net  profit  on  handling  milk  of 
$71,000,  whereas  in  the  effort  to  get  an 
increase  in  milk  rates  they  tried  to  show 
an  operating  loss.  It  was  shown  that 
the  revenues  from  transporting  milk  had 
increased  greatly  which  should  lead  to 
reduction  in  costs,  not  increases. 

In  speaking  of  the  increased  revenue 
from  milk  transportation  the  brief  sub- 
mitted by  our  attorneys  showed  that 
the  Boston  and  Maine  milk  revenues 
from  milk  in  1916  were  $770,000,  while 
in  1925  they  had  increased  to  $2,190,000. 
This  represents  an  increase  of  184  per 
cent.,  almost  three  times  as  much 
revenue.  On  the  Central  Vermont  lines 
the  increase  was  still  greater  in  propor- 
tion. The  revenue  from  milk  trans- 
portation in  1916  was  $56,000,  while  in 
1925  it  was  $324,000  or  nearly  six  times 
as  much.  On  the  Rutland  railroad  the 
revenue  from  milk  transportation  in- 
creased from  $219,000  in  1916  to  $876,- 
000  in  1925  or  about  four  times  as 
much.  It  was  argued  that  these  enor- 
mous increases  in  the  revenue  should 
have  brought  about  economies  which 
would  decrease  the  expense  per  unit  in- 
stead of  calling  for  an  increase. 

In  developing  the  case  our  attorneys 
had  the  valued  assistance  of  Attorneys 
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I 

i 

Advertising  and  Educational  Work  Done  by  New  Eng- 
la    nd  Dairy  Council  Helped  Increase  Sales  of  Milk 
in  Boston.     Extension  of  Work  Would  be 
Good  Business  Proposition 


The  way  to  reduce  surplus  and  in- 
;rease  the  net  price  is  to  sell  more 
/nilk.  The  way  to  sell  more  milk  is  to 
advertise,  just  as  is  being  done  in  all 
Kher  lines  of  food  products.  It  is  the 
IVay  of  modern  business.  No  modern 
rnerchant  would  think  of  trying  to  run 
mis  business  without  some  form  of  ad- 
vertising. 

In  tne  case  of  the  milk  producer  the 
sale  is  indirect,  through  some  dealer  or 
|i:o-operative  organization.  Generally  the 
pvertising  of  the  product  falls  on  the 
fdealer  who  does  it  after  his  own  fashion 
Kind  confines  his  attention  to  advertising 
Riis  particular  milk.  In  other  words  he 
Jfcries  to  increase  his  business  by  taking 
»';ome  business  away  from  some  other 
(Sealer  by  good  advertising.  That,  too, 
j's  part  of  modern  business  as  it  is 
blayed. 

But   of    late   years   there    has  come 
bout  a  new  form  of  advertising  which 
s  much  more  efficient  and  far  reaching 
n  its  effects — advertising   of   the  com- 
modity itself  in  an  attempt  to  get  peo- 
ple to  use  more  of  it.     It  is  quite  a 
pifferent  thing  from  one  merchant  ad- 
vertising to  take  trade  away  from  an- 
other merchant ;  it  is  advertising  which 
•ncreases  sales  for  everyone. 

That  is  the  kind  of  advertising  which 
especially  fits  the  milk  business,  for 
Jnilk  is  a  generally  used  commodity  with 
comparatively  little  difference  in  its  food 
lvalue  no  matter  where  it  comes  from. 
Ipome  may  have  a  little  more  cream  in 
fit  than  the  rest,  some  may  be  a  little 
[deaner  but  in  general  milk  is  milk  in 
|he  eyes  of  the  public  and  any  adver- 
tising plan  which  stimulates  the  sale  of 
milk  without  regard  to  where  the  milk" 
bomes  from  is  distinctly  worth  while, 
[j  There  are  a  good  many  ways  of  ad- 
vertising besides  putting  large  print  in 
newspapers.  That  is  the  standard  and 
iccepted  form  of  advertising,  but  there 
[tire  sign  boards,  electric  signs,  window 
[lisplays  and  hundreds  of  other  forms 
L)f  catching  and  holding  attention  of 
r.onsumers  and  getting  them  to  want  to 
|)uy.  All  have  their  uses.  The  most 
hkillful  advertisers  employ  a  number  of 
hem  generally. 

We  have  built  up  an  organization  to 
idvertise  milk  in  many  ways :  the  New 
ingland  Dairy  and  Food   Council.  It 
vas  developed  largely  through   the  in- 
lluence  of  the  NEMPA  and  is  working 
n  close  co-operation  with  the  associa- 
ion.    As  it  was  engaged  in  the  specific 
job  of   promoting  the   greater    use  of 
I  nilk  and  was  working   for  dealers  as 
Lvell  as   for  producers  it  was  thought 
Pjest  to  keep  it  wholly  separate  from  the 
I  ssociation.     But  it   is   in  reality  your 
[organization   just   as    the    NEMPA  is 
four  organization  and  you  not  only  re- 
I  eive  the  benefits  of  its  work  but  have 
i    hand  in  saying  what  it  shall  do.  Also 
lou  have  a  definite  responsibility  in  sup- 
iorting  it. 

!  The  Dairy  and  Food  Council  works 
[a  many  ways.  It  uses  paid  advertising 
Ifo  the  newspapers,  it  has  a  corps  of 
Workers  who  give  talks  in  schools, 
['tores,  factories  and  at  various  clubs 
nd  gatherings  of  women  and  men.  It 
Irets  out  a  lot  of  fine  printed  matter 
1  alculated  to  make  people  want  to  use 
rnore  milk.  It  has  found  that  milk  is 
!  n-easy  thing  to  advertise  because  every- 
i  'Ody  use's  it  and  knows  something  abi  fat 
1 1.  The  problem  is  to  get  them  to  want 
[  o  use  more  of  it. 

[  The  work  has  been  going  on  six 
'tears  and  has  established  itself  firmly  as 
j  factor  in  the  health  work  of  the  city 
>f  Boston  and  all  the  surrounding  cities 
nd  towns.  The  calls  for  talks  is  in- 
i  reasing  steadily,  the  amount  of  printed 
|  latter  which  is  being  sent  out  to  schools, 
I  .omes,  factories,  stores  and  shops  is 
'  normous.  The  Council  is  going  as  fast 
/nd  as  far  as  it  can  with  what  money 
It  has  to  spend.    It  could  go  faster  and 


meet  more  fully  the  demands  of  greater 
Boston  for  this  type  of  educational 
work  if  it  had  more  money.  That  is 
the  limiting  factor. 

The  work  of  the  Council  has  shown 
results  in  a  steadily  increasing  use  of 
milk  in  the  sections  where  it  has  worked. 
There  is  almost  universal  testimony  from 
teachers  and  social  service  workers  that 
the  work  in  the  schools  has  convinced 
many  parents  of  the  value  of  milk  for 
their  children  and  that  many  more  of 
them  are  taking  it  regularly.  Any 
amount  of  testimony  along  this  line  has 
come  into  the  Council  office  and  more 
is  coming  in  daily. 

There  is  sure  proof  of  the  value  of 
the  work  also  in  the  general  figures  of 
milk  sales  in  the  city  and  of  shipments 
of  milk  into  the  city.  One  set  of  figures 
bears  out  the  other.  Reports  of  the 
dealers  show  that  in  the  six  years  their 
sales  of  milk  have  increased  about  30 
per  cent.  Some  small  part  of  this  is 
due  to  the  fact  that  a  consolidation  has 
taken  place,  large  dealers  have  bought 
out  small  ones  and  thus  brought  more 
of  the  milk  into  the  records.  This  will 
account  for  only  a  small  part  of  the  in- 
crease however. 

Another  factor  which  should  be  taken 
into  consideration  in  all  fairness  is  that 
the  population  has  increased.  The  last 
census  figures  showed  that  Boston  proper 
had  increased  in  population  about  11  per 
cent,  in  ten  years.  The  surrounding 
cities  and  towns  have  shown  a  some- 
what larger  increase  but  taking  the 
group  as  a  whole  the  increase  in  popu- 
lation was  not  more  than  15  per  cent, 
for  ten  years,  or  \l/2  per  cent,  a  year. 
The  Council  has  been  working  six  years 
and  the  increase  in  population  in  that 
time  was  not  over  9  per  cent.  Yet  the 
increase  in  the  sales  of  milk  has  been 
more  than  20  per  cent 

The  same  actual  increase  in  the  use 
of  milk  in  greater  Boston  is  indicated 
in  the  figures  of  the  railroads  on  milk 
shipments  into  Boston.  This  has  noth- 
ing to  do  with  the  increased  production 
of  milk  as  practically  no  surplus  is  in- 
cluded. Practically  no  milk  is  actually 
brought  into  Boston  unless  it  is  to  be 
actually  consumed  as  milk  in  Boston. 
The  railroad  figures  show  an  increase 
in  shipments  of  22  to  24  per  cent,  in 
the  past  six  years.  The  two  sets  of 
figures  indicate  the  same  thing,  a  sub- 
stantial increase  in  the  use  of  milk. 

It  is  impossible  to  say  just  how  much 
of  this  increase  is  due  to  the  work  of 
the  council  but  dealers  feel  that  it  has 
had  an  important  effect.  They  attribute 
a  'considerable  portion  of  the  increase  is 
a  direct  result  of  the  Council  work  and 
they  also  feel  that  it  has  had  an  im- 
portant effect  in  presenting  the  milk  in- 
dustry in  a  good  light  to  consumers.  It 
is  advertising  of  milk  in  a  way,  but  it 
is  also  accepted  generally  as  a  part  of 
the  welfare  work  of  the  city. 

The  Council  is  so  organized  that  it 
can  work  anywhere  in  New  England. 
Thus  far  it  has  been  able  to  do  very 
little  outside  of  greater  Boston  but  if 
some  of  the  present  plans  for  increasing 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  1927 


Service  for  Members  Only 

Field  Men  Will  Check,  Test  and  Take  Up  Reinstatement 
Problems  —  Have  Full  Information  About 
Health  Board  Requirements 


Busy  times  are  ahead  for  our  field  men, 
even  busier  than  what  they  have  had  in 
the  past  few  months.  For  they  have 
about  completed  the  recanvass  of  the  en- 
tire territory  on  the  new  membership  dues 
basis  and  are  now  ready  to  give  most  of 
their  time  to  the  service  to  members  for 
which  the  department  was  organized. 

There  are  a  number  of  special  lines  of 
service  which  have  been  requested,  others 
will  doubtless  develop  as  the  men  get 
better  acquainted  with  the  membership 
and  have  more  opportunity  to  dig  into  the 
individual  problems.  Many  of  these  prob- 
lems were  put  to  them  when  they  made 
the  first  round  of  visits  but  the  time  was 
so  short  that  they  could  not  give  many 
of  them  much  attention.  Moreover,  when 
they  started  in  on  the  work  they  were  not 
so  familiar  with  what  the  association  can 
do,  and  cannot  do,  as  they  are  now.  The 
Questions  which  they  have  put  up  to  F.  C. 
Warner,  veteran  campaigner,  indicate  that 
they  are  right  on  their  toes  and  getting 
just  the  information  they  must  have  in 
order  to  give  real  service. 

Two  outstanding  pieces  of  service 
which  they  are  prepared  to  give  are  in 
check  testing  and  in  getting  men  rein- 
stated after  they  have  been  shut  off  by 
health  departments.  The  NEMPA  stands 
for  quality  and  conformity  to  the  regula- 
tions which  have  been  made  by  the  repre- 
sentatives of  consumers,  the  boards  of 
health.  But  there  are  a  good  many  of 
these  requirements  which  are  matters  of 
interpretation  and  sometimes  the  inspec- 
tors make  decisions  which  farmers  con- 
sider unfair.  It  is  the  aim  of  the  field 
service  department  to  serve  as  a  go  be- 
tween, showing  the  health  department 
men  that  they  are  wrong,  if  they  are,  or 
the  farmer  that  he  is  wrong,  if  he  is.  In 
every  case  an  effort  will  be  made  to  clear 
up  misunderstandings  and  get  producers 
back  if  they  meet,  in  a  reasonable  way, 
the  requirements. 

In  order  to  give  the  field  men  the  cor- 
rect information  on  these  requirements 
the  whole  gang  went  over  to  the  Boston 
board  of  health  and  got  first  hand  infor- 
mation. They  now  know  just  what  the 
requirements  are  and  how  they  are  inter- 
preted by  the  head  of  the  department.  If 
any  of  the  inspectors  in  the  field  make  de- 
cisions which  do  not  coincide  with  what 
the  field  men  know  the  intentions  of  the 
health  department  to  be,  they  will  be 
doubly  armed  to  make  a  strong  protest 
against  any  unfair  shutting  off.  They 
will  also  be  in  a  position  to  show  farmers 
how  they  can  meet  some  of  these  require- 
ments in  the  simplest  way  and  at  the 
least  expense.  All  this  will  be  a  gain  and 
will  result  in  a  better  understanding.  This 
plan  of  action  will  not  reach  its  fullest 
development  until  our  men  are  established 
in  their  field  headquarters,  each  having  a 
definite  district  in  his  charge.  When  this 
has  been  done  each  man  will  soon  get  an 
intimate  personal  knowledge  of  the  condi- 
tions in  his  district  and  will  be  able  to 
solve  problems  more  quickly  and  satisfac- 
torily. But  a  beginning  can  be  made  right 
away.  Any  cases  of  shutting  off  by  health 
departments  should  be  reported  to  the  sec- 
retary of  the  local  who  will  get  in  touch 
with  the  main  office.  TJne  main  office,  in 
turn,  will  put  a  field  man  on  the  case  as 
quickly  as  practical.  After  the  district 
headquarters  are  established  the  com- 
plaints will  naturally  go  direct  to  them. 

Check  testing  is  the  other  main  service 
which  the  members  desire.  As  outlined  in 
the  last  issue  of  the  Dairyman,  a  general 
check  test  of  the  entire  territory  is  al- 
ready in  progress  and  will  be  pushed 
through  as  rapidly  as  practical  without  in- 
terfering with  other  features  of  the  field 
service.  The  results  of  this  first  check 
test  will  determine  how  frequently  subse- 
quent tests  will  be  made  in  any  district. 
In  case  a  station  or  a  district  showed  up 
very  badly  on  the  check  test  a  re-check 
would  probably  be  made  the  following 
month  and  as  often  as  necessary  after 
that  until  conditions  were  corrected.  On 
the  other  hand  if  the  check  test  showed 


that  the  plant  was  doing  the  work  ac- 
curately it  might  not  be  necessary  to  re- 
check  so  frequently.  The  general  de- 
mand for  a  check  test  all  over  the  terri- 
tory covered  by  the  NEMPA  will  be  met 
as  soon  as  practical  but  members  in  any 
one  locality  should  remember  that  a  very 
large  area  is  to  be  covered  and  the  force 
is  limited.  It  will  take  quite  a  time  to 
make  the  first  round  but  after  the  system 
is  once  firmly  established  it  will  be  pos- 
sible to  put  in  the  time  where  it  is  most 
needed  and  to  get  adjustments  made 
promptly  and  fairly. 


DAIRY  IMPORTS  ESTABLISH 
NEW  PEAK 

Imports  of  butter,  cheese,  and  con- 
densed milk  into  the  United  States  last 
year  exceeded  exports  by  the  equivalent 
of  more  than  500,000,000  pounds  of  milk, 
and  established  a  new  post-war  peak  in 
volume  of  net  imports,  according  to  esti- 
mates by  the  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
Economics,  United  States  Department  of 
Agriculture.  Net  imports  in  1925  were 
equivalent  to  214,000,000  pounds  of  milk. 

Butter  imports  and  exports  were  nearly 
balanced  last  year,  until  December,  when 
the  price  of  butter  at  New  York  ex- 
ceeded that  at  London  enough  to  permit 
more  than  2,000,000  pounds  to  enter  this 
country,  even  over  the  tariff. 

Total  imports  of  cheese  aggregated  78,- 
416,823  pounds  for  that  year,  and  total 
exports  only  3,902,597  pounds,  leaving  a 
net  import  of  74,514,226  pounds  which  is 
equivalent  to  745,142,260  pounds  of  milk. 
Net  exports  of  condensed  and  evaporated 
milk  totaled  only  113,000,000  pounds  for 
the  year,  as  against  more  than  836,000,- 
000  uounds  in  1919. 

Exports  of  condensed  and  evaporated 
milk  have  decreased  markedly  since  the 
war,  and  cheeses  imports  have  increased. 
A  large  quantity  of  the  cheese  imported 
is  made  up  of  foreign  types  or  special 
varieties,  but  a  large  quantity  of  Cheddar 
cheese  is  included. 

Production  of  cheese  in  the  United 
States  last  year  is  estimated  at  only 
slightly  below  that  in  1925,  but  net  im- 
ports increased  more  than  21,000,000 
pounds.  Canada  contributed  11,835,152 
pounds  in  1926  against  209,695  pounds  in 
1925,  most  of  it  coming  in  during  the 
latter  half  of  the  year  on  account  of 
low  prices  of  cheese  abroad,  especially 
in  England. 

Most  of  the  Canadian  cheese  was  used 
by  the  manufacturers  of  processed  cheese. 
The  imports  from  Canada  displaced  do- 
mestic cheese  and  depressed  prices  during 
the  period  of  importation. — U.S.D.A. 


A  GOOD  RECORD 

The  Michigan  Milk  Producers'  Asso- 
ciation, Detroit,  has,  a  net  worth  of  $138,- 
737.  A  considerable  portion  of  this 
amount  was  represented  by  bonds,  stocks, 
mortgages,  and  certificates  of  deposit. 

The  revenues  of  the  association  for  the 
1925-26  business  year  ending  September 
30,  were  $103,767.  The  expenses  of 
operation  were  $83,385,  leaving  $20,381 
as  a  net  gain. 

This  association  of  10,000  producers  of 
fluid  milk  is  a  bargaining  organization, 
representing  its  members  in  price  nego- 
tiations with  milk  distributors.  The  asso- 
ciation was  formed  at  a  mass  meeting  of 
about  500  milk  producers,  held  at  East 
Lansing,  Mich.,  in  the  late  spring  of  1916. 
It  now  operates  in  Detroit,  Grand  Rapids, 
Flint,  Saginaw,  and  Ann  Arbor. 


A  zealous  but  untrained  reformer  had 
secured  permission  to  speak  at  the  county 
jail. 

"Brothers,"  ■  he  pleaded,  "lose  no  time 
in  turning  to  the  pathway  of  righteous- 
ness. Remember,  we  are  here  today  and 
gone  tomorrow." 

"Don't  kid  yourself,"  came  a  gloomy 
voice  from  the  rear,  "I've  got  eighteen 
years  here  yet." 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fifteen 


FAVORABLE  OUTLOOK 


[ilk  Producers  Will  Do  Better  in 
1927  Than  Butterfat 
Producers 

The  New  England  Research  Council, 
Composed  of  representatives  of  the  state 
:olleges  of  agriculture,  departments  of 
igriculture  and  farmers'  organizations,  in 
'its  forecast  of  agricultural  conditions  for 
1927  states  that  the  producers  of  market 
'milk  will  remain  in  a  favorable  position 
while  the  men  who  get  their  return  on 
the  basis  of  butterfat  will  be  in  a  less 
favorable  position  relatively.  The  state- 
ment of  the  council  as  regards  dairying  is 
I  as  follows : 

A  survey  of  the  probable  trend  of  busi- 
ness conditions  for  1927  as  compared  with 
1926  indicated  a  somewhat  lower  level  for 
the  United  States  as  a  whole.  This  may 
be  reflected  in  New  England's  demand  for 
iairy  products.  However,  increased  con- 
sumption due  to  population  gain  and  the 
annually  increasing  per  capita  consump- 
tion which  has  been  in  evidence  during 
the  past  years  should  take  care  of  this 
slack.  Hence  it  seems  fair  to  assume 
'that  the  1927  fluid  milk  demand  in  New 
England  will  be  the  least  equal  to  and  may 
Exceed  that  of  1926  and  that  the  demand 
(in  1927  for  other  dairy  products  will  be 
at  least  equal  to  that  of  1926. 

Conditions  where  fluid  milk  is  made 
seem  likely  in  1927  to  be  somewhat  more 
favorable  than  where  butter  is  made ;  this 
in  part  for  the  reason  that  competition  is 
less  in  evidence  in  respect  to  fluid  milk 
whereas  New  England  butter  competes  in 
*New  England  markets  with  butter  made 
the  wide-world  over  and  likewise  com- 
petes with  substitutes. 

It  seems  probable  that  within  a  few 
years  the  entire  dairy  output  of  New 
England  and  of  the  New  York  territory 
tributary  to  New  England,  occurring  in 
the  months  of  short  production,  will  be 
:onsumed  entirely  as  fluid  milk. 

The  countrywide  hay  crop  forecast  is 
favorable.  It  seems  reasonably  so  for 
New  England,  so  be  it  weather  conditions 
are  favorable. 

The  outlook  for  continuously  low  feed 
prices  seems  not  unfavorable,  provided 
weather  conditions  in  the  Middle  West 
are  satisfactory. 

The  immediate  heifer  crop  seems  in- 
adequate for  replacement.  Since,  how- 
ever, low  feed  prices  are  usually  reflected 
in  increased  calf  raising  and  since  the 
Middle  West  has  been  raising  a  relatively- 
larger  proportion  of  its  heifers  of  late 
:han  has  New  England,  there  seems  rea- 
son to  warn  New  England  dairymen 
against  over-production  of  heifers  for  re- 
placement purposes  in  the  immediate 
future.  This  warning  is  in  line  with  the 
point  of  view  expressed  by  the  Federal 
bureau  of  Agricultural  Economics  for 
(:he  country  as  a  whole,  to  the  effect  that 
'if  the  number  of  heifer  calves  is  not 
naterially  increased  favorable  conditions 
are  likely  to  continue."  Dairymen  should 
discriminate  carefully  in  their  choice  of 
:he  heifers  which  should  live  and  of  the 
aeifers  which  should  die. 

Beef  prices  promise  to  range  high 
which  should  encourage  the  culling  of  low 
)roducing  cows. 

The  advice  of  the  research  council  not 
o  overdo  the  raising  of  heifers  is  based 
pn  the  fact  that  the  ratio  of  heifers  to 
dairy  cows  has  come  back  nearly  to  nor- 
nal.  The  normal  ratio  is  about  one 
aeifer  to  five  cows.  As  a  result  of  the 
lepression  in  the  dairy  industry  the  ratio 
Jell  to  one  heifer  to  seven  cows  last  year. 
It  now  appears  that  more  favorable  con- 
litions  in  the  dairy  industry  have  turned 
he  tide  back  again  and  that  the  ratio  is 
ibout  one  heifer  to  six  cows.  As  these 
records,  include  only  heifers  one  year  old 
br  over  they  do  not  include  last  year's 
:rop  of  heifer  calves.  If  the  increase  in 
he  number  kept  in  1925  can  be  taken  as  an 
ndication  of  what  happened  in  1926,  the 
■atio  is  now  probably  about  one  to  five. 
;Mow  that  a  normal  condition  has  been 
•estored  there  is  an  unusual  opportunity 
o  keep  the  heifers'  from  the  good  cows 
ind  quit  raising  a  new  crop  of  "boarders." 


Scientist  has  invented  an  earthquake 
mnouncer  that  goes  off  like  ah  alarm 
lock.    There  is  a  much  more  general 
ed  for  an  alarm  clock  that  goes  off  like 
m  earthquake. 


How  to 

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DATA  FROM  BULLETIN  igS 
PENNSYLVANIA  STATE  COLLEGE 


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The  chart  shown  to  the  left  was  taken  from  Bulletin 
195,  published  by  the  Pennsylvania  State  College. 
It  shows  graphically  just  how  fertilizers  increase 
pasture  efficiency  and  dairy  profits. 


Norwood,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  2,  1926. 
"Our  hay  field,  consisting  of  eight  acres,  pro- 
duced forty-three  large  loads  averaging  l'/4  tons 
to  the  load.  It  might  interest  you  to  know  that 
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to  raise  each  year  crops  amounting  in  value  to 
the  purchase  price  of  the  farm,  and  are  now 
convinced  that  it  is  not  the  original  cost  but  the 
final  result  in  dollars  and  cents  that  counts." 

— W.  T.  Leonard  &.  Co. 

Fall  River,  Mass.,  Sept.  22,  1926. 
"We  have  been  raising  silage  corn  for  four 
years,  and  using  other  fertilizers  each  year,  some- 
times paying  more  for  them,  but  this  year  we 
used  Bowker's  'AA  Quality'  Fertilizer  and  have  the 
best  corn  crop  by  far  that  we  have  ever  grown." 

— Lemay  Brothers. 
(Per  Ovidi  Lemay.) 

Cabot,  Vt.,  Dec.  20,  1926. 
"I  have  used  'AA  Quality'  Fertilizers  the  past 
year  and  have  been  much  pleased  with  the  results. 
My  crops  of  both  silage  corn  and  potatoes  were  the 
best  that  I  have  ever  raised. 

— H.  H.  Carpenter. 


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The  Chevy  Chase  Dairy 
employs  signs  like  this 
one  to  tell  the  people  of 
Washington  that  their 
milk  is  "Safe  Milk  for 
Babies."  As  stated  on 
the  sign,  this  milk  is 
produced   for  them  by 


roduced  ia  Co-operation witk  DrJJhosKelly: 


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CHEVY  CHASE  DAIRY 


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Safe  Mil Kfor  Babies 


Dr.  J.  Thomas  Kelly,  on 
whose  Pleasant  Hills 
Farms  at  Germantown, 
Md.,  the  De  Laval 
Milker  is  considered  a 
tremendous  aid  in  the 
production  of  Grade  A 
Milk. 


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75%  of  Washington's  Grade  A  Milk  is 
Produced  with  De  Laval  Milkers 


DE  LAVAL  Milkers  produce  approximately 
seventy-five  per  cent  of  the  Grade  A,  Cer- 
tified and  Special  Nursery  Milk  consumed  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  at  the  present  time.  In  the 
Washington  milk  shed,  as  in  other  sections,  dairy- 
men have  found  the  De  Laval  Milker  a  material 
aid  in  making  clean  milk  of  low  bacteria  count. 

However,  the  sanitary  feature  of  the  De  Laval  Milker  is  only 
one  of  the  many  advantages  that  combine  to  make  the  De 
Laval  Milker  a  necessity  to  every  milk  producer.  The  fact 
that  the  oldest  users  of  the  De  Laval  Milker  are  its  strongest 
boosters  is  perhaps  its  finest  recommendation.  At  the  left  are 
ten  facts  based  on  a  report  on  the  De  Laval  Milker  made  by 
1844  users  in  the  United  States  and  Canada.    Read  them. 

The  De  Laval  Separator  Company 


New  YorK 
16>5  Broadway 


CHicag'o 
600  JacKson  Blvd. 


San  Francisco 
61  Beale  Street 


Below  —On  Ashley  Farms,  owned  by  W.  W. 
Mobley  of  Derwood,  Md.,  the  De  Laval 
Milker  is  considered  a  necessary  piece  of 
equipment  for  the  farmer  making  Grade  A  or 
Certified  Milk.  Six  of  the  De  Laval  units 
which  milk  the  purebred  Guernseys  kept  on 
this  farm  are  shown  in  the  foreground. 


Part  of  the  Guernsey  herd  at  Green 
Hill  Farm,  owned  by  Mr.  E.  F. 
Riggs  of  Hyattsville,  Md.  The  De 
Laval  Milker  installed  at  this  farm 
is  likewise  proving  its  value  in  the 
production  of  Grade  A  Milk. 


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Facts  about  the 
De  Laval  MilRer 


1.  -650,000  cows  now  milked  the  De 

Laval  Way. 

2.  — De  Laval    Milkers    now  in  their 

eleventh  year  of  use. 

3.  -83.27%  of  the  users  report  average 

saving  of  2  1-5  hours  per  day — saves 
half  the  time  in  milking.* 

4.  97.13%  of  the  users  say  it  agrees 
with  their  cows.* 

5.  -  99.4%  of  the  users  say  they  get  as 

much  or  more  milk  with  the  De  La- 
val as  they  did  by  hand  milking.* 

6.  -9.49%  average  increase  in  produc- 

tion per  cow  is  reported  by  those 
who  claim  the  De  Laval  Milker  in- 
creases production.* 

7.  — 94.80%  of  De  Laval  users  say  their 

milker  is  easy  to  keep  in  a  clean 
and  sanitary  condition.* 

8.  — Average  bacteria  count  of  all  re- 

porting, 14,542  —  62%  report  counts 
of  10,000  and  less.* 

9.  — 96.45%  of  De  Laval  users  say  their 

milker  is  "the  best,"  "one  of  the 
best,"  or  a  "good"  investment  as 
compared  with  other  farm  equip- 
ment they  own.* 


Based  on  reports  from  1844  De  Laval  Milk- 
er users  in  all  parts  of  the  United  States 
and  Canada. 


The  interior  of  the  splendid  barn  at 
Pleasant  Hills  Farms  owned  by 
Dr.  J.  Thomas  Kelly.  A  sign  which 
is  used  by  the  Chevy  Chase  Dairy 
to  advertise  milk  from  this  farm  is 
shown  at  the  top  of  the  page. 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  11.    Number  12 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  APRIL,  1928 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


APRIL    PRICE    8  CENTS 


-Lower    Level    Will    Last  Three 
Months — Gain  Over  Last 
Year 

The  April  milk  price  in  Boston  is 
"eight  cents  per  quart.  This  decrease 
of  a  cent  in  the  price  was  made  by  the 
sales  committee  of  the  association 
bfter  a  careful  consideration  of  all  the 
conditions  in  city  and  country.  Con- 
siderable increases  in  the  supply  of 
milk  and  some  uneasiness  in  the  market 
due  to  reported  cutting  of  prices  were 
the  main  reasons  for  making  the  re- 
duction. The  eight  cent  price  will  con- 
tinue until  July  1  when  a  return  to  the 
line  cent  level  is  expected. 

The  sales  committee  at  first  was  in- 
fclined  to  recommend  a  continuance  of 
the  nine  cent  price  until  April  15  with 
the  understanding  that  the  July  ad- 
vance would  be  delayed  until  July  15. 
jThis  met  with  approval  from  a  few 
flealers  but  others  objected  vigorously 
pwing  to  the  market  conditions.  They 
•felt  that  the  uneasiness  in  the  market 
might  become  quite  pronounced  if  the 
brice  was  continued  for  another  15  days 
and  that  the  gains  which  had  been 
jnade  in  stabilization  of  the  market, 
ihrough  the  Commissioners  of  Agricul- 
ture conferences,  might  be  endangered. 

The  market  is  not  quite  normal  dur- 
ing the  first  half  of  April,  due  to  the 
Jewish  holidays,  which  materially  re- 
luce  the  sales  of  milk.  Decreased 
sales  would  tend  to  increase  the  un- 
easiness in  the  market. 

Taking  all  things  into  consideration 
t  seemed  best  to  the  sales  committee 
:o  start  the  three  months  on  the  eight 
tent  level  April  1  and  make  the  ad- 
vance July  1  rather  than  start  two 
weeks  later. 

The  producers  will  actually  get  more 
money  for  their  milk,  taking  the  year 
its  a  whole,  under  the  plan  adopted  than 
ihey  would  by  holding  the  nine  cent 
,.)rice  until  April  15.  While  production 
In  April  may  be  more  than  it  is  in  July 
he  portion  of  the  milk  to  which  the 
•luid  price  applies  is  governed  by  sales. 

The  sales  during  the  first  half  of 
fuly  are  commonly  materially  higher 
han  they  are  during  the  first  two 
veeks  in  April.  Hot  weather  in  July 
Stimulates  the  sales.  The  prospect  of 
noderately  cold  weather  in  April  plus 
(he  Jewish  holidays  will  probably  make 
he  sales  materially  less  than  they  will 
\M  in  July. 

.  Reviewing  the  past  12  months  and 
:omparing  them  with  the  same  months 
a  previous  years  shows  that  we  have 
nade  an  important  gain,  not  only  in 
tabilization  of  the  markets,  but  in 
ictual  prices.  Starting  in  with  July, 
[926,  and  comparing  the  prices  for  a 
'ear  with  the  prices  for  the  year  end- 
pg  July,  1928,  we  find  that  there  has 
>een  only  one  month  in  which  the  fluid 
,irice  was  below,  three  months  when  it 
vas  the  same  and  eight  months  when 
here  was  a  gain. 

In  the  first  period  of  12  months  we 
eceived  nine  cents  or  better  only  one 
toonth.  In  the  second  period  we  got 
»ne  cents  or  better  eight  months.  The 
verage  price   in   the   first  period  was 

(Continued  on  page  fourteen) 


Placing  Milk  on  Permanent  Basis 

Former  Patrons  of  the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Company  to  Be  Transferred  to  Other  Dealers.  New 
Receiving  Station  May  Be  Provided  at  East  Fairfield 


LYNDON VILLE  COMES  IN 


Permanent  markets  are  being  sought 
for  the  milk  of  our  members  who  for- 
merly sold  to  the  New  England  Cream- 
ery Products  Company  and  who,  on 
February  1,  refused  to  sell  to  the  com- 
pany any  longer  unless  they  paid  the 
.NEMPA  price  and  accepted  the 
NEMPA  terms. 

For  two  months  these  producers  at 
Sheldon  and  East  Fairfield,  Vt.,  have 
been  standing  firm  against  all  induce- 
ments which  have  been  offered  to  re- 
turn to  the  company  and  have  been 
selling  their  milk  under  conditions 
which  meant  much  hardship  and  in- 
convenience to  them.  Thanks  to  the 
support  given  the  dairymen's  benefit 
fund  they  will  not  be  required  to  stand 
financial  loss. 

At  Brandon,  where  the  third  group 
of  producers  refused  to  continue  to  sell 
to  the  company,  the  permanent  mar- 
ket has  already  been  found.  The  Bran- 
don plant  was  sold  to  the  Whiting  com- 
pany toward  the  last  of  February  and 
was  actually  opened  as  a  Whiting  plant 
March  15.  This  group  of  producers 
are  permanent  and  regular  patrons  of 
the  Whiting  company   from  now  on. 

The  NEMPA  had  an  important  part 
in  bringing  this  transfer  of  the  prop- 
erty to  a  head.  It  was  the  simplest 
and  easiest  way  in  which  to  get  that 
group  of  producers  back  on  the  same 
basis  as  other  members  and  to  lift  the 
burden  of  continuing  the  controversy  in 
that  area.  The  Brandon  producers 
withdrew  their  milk  100  per  cent,  and 
were  loyal  during  the  period  while 
their  milk  was  being  taken  to  Middle- 
bury  and  separated  for  sale  as  cream 
and  skim.  The  sale  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products  Company  plant 
at  Sheldon  and  East  Fairfield  would  be 
a  highly  satisfactory  outcome  of  the 
controversy  at  those  points.  Offers 
have  been  made  to  buy  or  to  lease  these 
plants  but  up  to  the  present  time  these 
have  been  refused.  It  may  be  that  as 
more  and  more  of  the  milk  is  with- 
drawn in  those  towns  the  company 
will  see  fit  to  sell  or  to  lease  the  plants 
to  some  other  dealer  who  will  operate 
on  the  NEMPA  basis  and  pay  the 
NEMPA  price. 

At  the  present  time,  however,  the 
sale  or  lease  of  these  plants  is  so  doubt- 
ful a  matter  that  other  steps  are  be- 
ing taken  to  bring  the  controversy  to 
a  close  in  those  sections  and  to  take 
care  of  our  members  there  by  placing 
them  with  other  dealer's  on  a  per- 
manent basis.  It  is  not  going  to  be  a 
difficult  matter,  judging  by  the  prog- 
ress which  has  been  made.  Most  of 
the  dealers  are  looking  forward  to  a 
considerable  shortage  of  milk  in  the 
fall  and  even  if  they  did  not  really 
want  this  extra  milk  during  the  flush 
season  they  would  be  willing  to  take 
it  now,  provided  they  could  be  assured 
that  it  would  still  come  to  them  during 


the  latter  half  of  the  year  when  milk 
will  be  less  plentiful. 

Naturally  such  dealers  want  some 
reasonable  assurance  that  the  Sheldon 
and  East  Fairfield  supplies  will  con- 
tinue to  come  to  them  after  July  1. 
In  order  to  get  this  question  in  a 
definite  shape  we  have  sent  to  each  of 
these  producers  a  blank  form  under 
which  they  can  agree  to  sell  their  milk 
for  the  next  12  months  to  any  dealer 
the  NEMPA  may  designate,  provided 
such  dealer  pays  the  regular  NEMPA 
price  and  agrees  to  the  regular 
NEMPA  terms. 

It  is  too  early  yet  to  form  any  ac- 
curate conclusions  as  to  the  way  this 
will  be  received  in  the  country.  If  a 
considerable  majority  of  the  producers, 
who  are  now  selling  their  milk  under 
emergency  measures,  will  express  their 
willingness  to  sell  their  milk  to  any 
dealer  the  association  may  designate 
on  a  year's  contract,  then  the  way  will 
be  opened  for  concerted  action  and  ne- 
gotiations with  dealers  who  might  take 
the  milk.  Transportation  figures  largely 
in  the  situation.  While  most  any  of 
the  larger  dealers  would  be  willing  to 
take  on  the  milk  as  a  permanent  propo- 
sition, long  hauls  or  excessive  rail 
transportatiion  charges  would  greatly 
reduce  the  return  to  the  producers. 
While  it  is  proper  to  pay  excess  trans- 
portation charges  in  a  crisis  or  to  meet 
an  emergency  they  should  not  be  un- 
dertaken  as   a   year-long  proposition. 

At  Sheldon  Junction  there  is  a  plant 
operated  by  the  H.  P.  Hood  &  Sons 
Co.  This  is  about  a  mile  from  the 
plant  of  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Co.  It  would  be  the  nearest 
place  to  which  the  Sheldon  milk  could 
be  transferred  provided  that  company 
wanted  to  take  on  the  milk. 

East  Fairfield  presents  a  more  diffi- 
cult problem  as  the  nearest  plant  is 
the  Hood  plant  at  Fairfield,  seven  miles 
away.  Hauling  milk  to  Fairfield  would 
be  an  expensive  proposition  at  best. 
Moreover,  the  Fairfield  plant  of  the 
Hood  Co.  is  handling  milk  at  about  its 
full  capacity  and  could  not  readily 
handle  a  considerable  additional  quan- 
tity. 

These  Hood  plants  are  mentioned 
simply  as  the  most  available,  provided 
the  Hood  Co.  wanted  the  milk.  Not 
until  the  producers  themselves  have  ex- 
pressed their  willingness  to  sell  their 
product  for  at  least  a  year  could  any 
negotiations  be  opened  with  this  com- 
pany or  with  any  other  company. 

The  East  Fairfield  situation  seems 
to  call  for  a  new  receiving  station  pro- 
viding that  the  New  England  Cream- 
ery Products  Company  continues  to 
refuse  to  sell  or  lease  its  plant.  If_  a 
considerable  number  of  the  East  Fair- 
field producers  sign  the  agreement  to 
sell  on  a  year  basis  it  would  open  the 
way  for  some  move  toward  a  new 
(Continued  on  page  five) 


Agreement  Reached  Provides  for 
Reporting  Under  Surplus 
Plan 

The  Lyndonville  Creamery  Associa- 
tion is  now  operating  under  the  sur- 
plus plan  and  submitting  its  report  of 
purchases  and  sales  to  the  milk  ad- 
ministrator just  like  the  other  large 
dealers  in  the  Boston  market.  This  is 
one  of  the  most  welcome  announce- 
ments which  the  Dairyman  has  carried 
for  some  time. 

The  acceptance  of  the  surplus  plan 
by  Lyndonville  came  about  as  the  re- 
sult of  earnest  conferences  between  the 
general  manager  of  the  NEMPA  and 
Manager  Connor  of  the  creamery,  with 
a  strong  committee  of  producers  and 
the  directors  of  the  Lyndonville  As- 
sociation standing  by  to  support  their 
respective  leaders.  It  was  a  real 
triumph  of  reason  as  against  misunder- 
standing. We  can  be  justly  proud  of 
it  and  take  genuine  satisfaction   in  it. 

Grave  problems  were  in  the  way  on 
both  sides.  Ever  since  Lyndonville 
Creamery  has  been  selling  fluid  milk  in 
the  Boston  market  they  have  paid  their 
farmers  on  their  own  system  with  no 
definite  relation  to  the  NEMPA  price. 
From  our  standpoint  this  was  endan- 
gering the  stability  of  the  market.  We 
have  listened  to  a  good  many  stories 
of  alleged  "price  cutting"  coming  in 
from  dealers. 

Their  practices  did  endanger  the  mar- 
ket but  Manager  Connor  pointed  out 
that  the  surplus  plan  did  not  fit  their 
situation  in  his  opinion.  He  was  right 
from  his  point  of  view  just  the  same 
as  Manager  Davis  was  right  from  the 
NEMPA  point  of  view.  But  after 
numerous  conferences  in  which  a 
mutual  understanding  of  the  problems 
an   understanding   was  reached. 

As  the  result  of  this  understanding 
an  agreement  was  signed  by  the  parties 
interested  that  the  Lyndonville  Cream- 
ery Association  should  for  one  year 
file  its  reports  of  purchases  and  sales 
with  the  milk  administrator  and  pay 
the  NEMPA  price  to  its  patrons.  This 
begins  with  March.  While  the  terms 
of  the  agreement  are  for  one  year  we 
have  every  reason  to  believe  that  it 
will  prove  so  satisfactory  from  all 
standpoints  that  it  will  be  continued 
indefinitely. 

Lyndonville  came  into  the  general 
dairy  situation  prominently  early  in 
February.  When  the  NEMPA  mem- 
bers at  Brandon,  Sheldon  and  East 
Fairfield  discontinued  shipments  to  the 
New  England  Creamery  Prodcuts  Co., 
Lyndonville  began  shipping  milk  to  the 
company,  the  supply  coming  from  both 
the  Lyndonville  plant  and  the  plant  at 
Bradford,  Vt.  As  explained  elsewhere 
the  price  paid  for  this  milk  became  a 
point  for  discussion  and  negotiation  be- 
tween the  NEMPA  and  the  Lyndonville 
Association.  Lyndonville  also  came  into 
the  picture  strongly  a  little  later  by 
making  a  strong  bid  for  the  business  of 
one  of  the  big  restaurant  chains  in  Bos- 
ton. Both  their  sales  to  the  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products  Co.  and  their 
•ittempt  to  get  this  restaurant  business 

(Continued  on  page  sixteen) 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1928 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
General  Manager,  W.  P.  Davis,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I. ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me. ;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B.  Catlin, 
Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H.  Dunsmore, 
St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A.  Tuttle,  Hard- 
wick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M.  Poole,  North 
Dartmouth,  Mass.;  Frank  L.  Nichols, 
Narragansett,  R.  L;  Frank  T.  Peck- 
ham,  Newport,  R.  I. ;  R.  Allen  Sikes, 
Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell,  Lebanon, 
Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan,  N.  Y.; 
George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke,  N.  Y. 


A  WELCOME 

We  wish  to  speak  a  welcome,  on  be- 
half of  our  association,  to  the  Lyndon- 
ville  Creamery  Association.  To  their 
directors,  officers,  paid  employees  and 
patrons  we  wish  to  express  our  pleas- 
ure that  we  have  come  to  a  common 
basis  of  understanding  and  are  on  the 
same  side  of  the  fence. 

Through  the  decision  of  the  man- 
agement of  the  Lyndonville  Creamery 
Association  to  make  reports  of  pur- 
chases and  sales  to  the  milk  adminis- 
trator each  month,  just  as  other  dealers 
in  Boston  are  doing,  a  cause  of  consid- 
erable uneasiness  in  the  market  has  been 
removed.  Lyndonville  is  now  in  line 
with  the  rest  of  the  market,  paying  the 
NEMPA  price  figured  on  the  same 
basis  as  other  dealers. 

After  the  years  in  which  the  cream- 
ery has  been '  selling  its  product  on 
some  other  plan  and  thus  leaving  the 
door  open  for  all  kinds  of  misunder- 
standings it  will  be  a  welcome  change 
to  us  to  know  that  they  are  to  be 
considered  and  met  in  the  same  way 
that  other  dealers  in  the  market  are 
being  met.  With  the  others  we  are 
having  an  increasingly  satisfactory  re- 
lationship and  we  trust  that  it  will  be 
not   otherwise   with  Lyndonville. 

Certainly  through  the  various  con- 
ferences which  were  held  between  the 
leaders  a  better  understanding  has  been 
reached  and  it  would  be  much  harder 
for  either  of  us  to  misunderstand  the 
other's  actions  or  motives  than  it  ever 
was  before.  Last  month  in  writing  the 
story  of  the  Lyndonville  situation  we 
intimated  that  a  proposition  to  canvass 
the  Lyndonville  patrons  was  a  sort  of 
"stall"  on  the  part  of  the  management. 

That  was  written  before  the  ne- 
gotiations were  brought  to  a  satisfac- 


tory close  and  when  the  situation  was 
tense.  Now  we  feel  quite  differently 
about  it  and  so  far  as  we  may,  wish 
to  make  amends.  The  way  in  which 
the  management  of  the  Lyndonville 
Creamery  met  our  views  in  the  final 
analysis  of  the  situation  was  highly 
satisfactory  and  gives  a  sound  basis 
for  continued  goodwill  between  the  two 
groups. 

Lyndonville,  using  the  expression  of 
the  editor  of  the  New  England  Home- 
stead, has  gotten  into  step  with  the 
rest  of  the  market.  For  years  it  has 
been  outside  the  regular  columns  of 
the  dairy  industry,  marching  along  in 
unison.  They  are  now  in  the  line  of- 
march.    We  greet  them  like  comrades. 


FOR  PRINCIPLE 

Dairy  history  of  large  significance  is 
being  written  these  days.  It  is  being 
written  in  letters  so  large  and  clear 
that  all  may  read  the  message.  It  is 
in  brief,  that  the  dairy  farmers  of 
New  England  are  organized  on  a  basis 
and  have  reached  a  place  where  their 
concerted  action  brings  results  un- 
dreamed of  when  our  association  was 
started.  It  would  have  taken  a  man 
of  great  vision,  all  that  our  late  leader 
had  and  perhaps  considerably  more,  to 
have  foretold  such  a  month  as  we  have 
just  been  through. 

We  are  in  the  midst  of  a  struggle 
for  recognition  of  the  known  price 
principle  on  which  our  association  is 
firmly  grounded.  Success,  in  maintain- 
ing this  principle  now,  means  a  per- 
manent place  for  our  association  in  the 
dairy  industry  of  New  England  and  of 
the  country  as  a  whole.  Failure  to 
maintain  it  might  well  mean  a  back- 
ward step,  perhaps  chaos  in  the  mar- 
ket. 

The  importance  of  the  principle  is 
something  far  greater  than  the  size  of 
the  present  controversy  with  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Company. 
Just  as  when,  generations  ago,  the 
courageous  patriots  of  Boston  threw 
the  tea  overboard  rather  than  submit 
to  an  unjust  tax,  so  the  milk  producers 
of  today  are  taking  extreme  measures, 
rather  than  allow  a  principle  to  be 
violated.  But  they  are  doing  it  in  a 
businesslike  way. 

One  of  the  highly  significant  aspects 
of  the  present  struggle  for  principle  is 
the  orderly  way  in  which  it  has  been 
carried  out.  The  Boston  Tea  Party 
was  a  thing  of  violence.  "Milk  strikes," 
which  we  have  had  in  the  past  have 
been  accompanied  by  more  or  less 
strong  arm  methods.  The  present  one 
is  more  like  a  business  transaction. 

Our  members  at  Brandon,  East  Fair- 
field and  Sheldon  had  milk  to  sell  at 
the  NEMPA  price.  The  company  to 
which  they  had  been  selling  would  not 
pay  that  price.  Whereupon  the  pro- 
ducers, through  their  organization,  pro- 
ceeded to  sell  the  milk  elsewhere,  get- 
ting the  best  price  they  could  for  it. 
Trucks  were  hired,  headquarters  for 
receiving  the  milk  were  established,  all 
details  arranged  with  the  least  possible 
disturbance,  even  to  the  setting  up  of  an 
emergency  system  of  record  keeping  to 
see  that  every  producer  got  paid  the 
right  amount  for  his  milk. 

Elsewhere  in  this  issue  we  give  an 
account  of  the  hard  days  our  field  men 
put  in,  and  are  still  putting  in,  to  keep 
this  milk  moving.  There  has  been  a 
lot  of  hard  work,  a  lot  of  clear  think- 
ing, a  lot  of  vigorous  talking  by 
leaders  and  the  rank  and  file  of  our 


membership  in  these  locals.  We  wish 
to  give  them  all  possible  credit  for  their 
support. 

But  right  here  and  now  we  want  to 
ask  every  member  of  the  association 
if  such  an  orderly  and  effective  stand 
for  our  principles  could  have  been  made 
without  the  services  of  such  organizers 
as  these  field  men  regularly  employed  by 
the  association  and  duty  bound  to  give 
all  that  was  in  them  of  brain,  of  time 
and  muscle  to  make  the  effort  success- 
ful. 

If  this  crisis  had  come  to  us  at  some 
other  time  we  would  have  gone  through 
it  somehow.  We  always  have  and  we 
always  have  maintained  our  point.  But 
never  before  has  an  effort  of  this  kind 
been  carried  through  in  such  a  busi- 
nesslike and  effective  way  or  with  so 
little  disturbance  of  conditions.  Just  as 
an  instance,  consider  the  fact  that  not 
one  quart  of  milk  has  been  wasted 
and  that  all  of  it  has  been  disposed  of 
at  the  best  possible  price  considering 
the  emergency  basis  on  which  it  was 
sold.  Furthermore,  so  far  as  we  know 
not  any  of  these  producers  has  been 
hard  put  to  it  to  find  something  to  hold 
the  milk.  He  might  have  had  to  wait 
a  few  hours  or  make  a  second  trip  to 
get  empty  cans  but  there  was  none  of 
the  old  time  filling  up  of  all  available 
pails  and  tubs  and  the  subsequent  loss 
by  spoilage. 

Highly  as  we  value  the  work  done 
by  volunteers  in  this  and  in  previous 
controversies,  we  feel  that  the  paid 
staff  men,  familiar  with  the  situation 
and  able  to  handle  emergencies  24  hours 
a  day,  if  necessary,  are  the  key  to 
successful  efforts  of  this  kind.  It 
would  not  have  been  possible  for  our 
association  to  have  been  so  well  equipped 
for  this  emergency  a  few  years  ago. 
If  you  members  had  not  voted  to  in- 
crease the  dues  a  little  it  would  not 
be  possible  now.  Winning  this  fight, 
and  we  surely  are  going  to  win  it,  is 
another  result  of  your  increased  financial 
support  of  the  organization.  We  think 
it  is  a  mighty  satisfactory  thing  to  be 
so  fortified  for  emergencies.  Compare 
the  present  with  the  past  and  you  will 
agree  with  us. 


PERMANENT  FUND 

We  commend  to  the  thought  and  at- 
tention of  every  member  of  the  as- 
sociation, the  recommendation  of  the 
directors  that  a  permanent  benefit  fund 
be  set  up.  The  way  in  which  we  are 
being  able  to  meet  the  present  emer- 
gency is  the  best  possible  proof  that 
the  permanent  benefit  fund  would  be 
good  business. 

In  our  previous  controversy  with  the 
Whiting  Co.  we  reimbursed  those  who 
lost  but  the  payment  came  somewhat 
late  and  it  took  a  lot  of  time  and  ex- 
pense to  carry  out  the  reimbursement 
idea.  This  time  we  are  in  a  much 
better  position.  The  producers  who 
sold  their  milk  for  less  than  the  going 
price  have  been  paid  for  their  losses, 
getting  their  pay  even  before  their 
neighbors  who  did  not  withdraw  their 
milk. 

With  a  permanent  benefit  fund  of 
substantial  proportions  we  could  do 
even  better.  We  would  have  cash  in 
hand  to  meet  emergencies  and  would 
not  have  to  call  on  the  regular  budget 
of  the  NEMPA  to  bear  the  burden 
even  temporarily.  The  members  have 
responded  well  to  the  call.  We  felt 
sure  that  they  would  and  that  there 
would  be  money  enough  raised  to  com- 


April,  1928 


pensate  for  actual  losses  sustained.  If 
the  contest  draws  out  over  several 
months,  more  will  be  needed  than  has 
now  been  subscribed  in  all  probability. 

One  great  advantage  of  the  perma-  u 
nent  fund,  raised  by  small,  regular 
contributions  from  all  members,  is  that 
it  would  distribute  the  burden  evenly 
over  the  membership.  Under  the  pres- 
ent plan  part  of  the  membership  is 
paying  the  expense  of  protecting  the 
entire  membership  from  chaos  in  the  L 
market.  w 

In  all  the  discussions  which  have  in 
taken  place  it  has  been  an  outstanding  * 
thought  that  the  men  who  are  con-  J 
tributing  now  will  not  be  called  upon  , 
to  make  a  further  contribution.  This 
would  cover  a  period  of  time,  even  up 
the  expense  and  make  it  bear  equally  l 
on  all  members.  It  has  even  been  sug-  % 
gested  that  the  permanent  fund  might  it 
be  started  on  a  basis  that  would  re-  f 
quire  all  members  to  pay  small  amounts  1 
to  it  regularly,  without  regard  to  L 
whether  or  not  they  had  contributed  to  i 
the  present  emergency  fund,  and  that  ill 
from  the  money  so  raised  the  present  ■ 
subscribers  should  be  paid  back  in  full.  I 

That  suggestion  has  some  merit.  So  a 
have  many  others  which  have  come  in.  U 
Think  the  matter  over  before  our  next  1 
annual  meeting  and  tell  your  delegate  ■ 
what  you  think  about  it.  For  it  surely 
will  be  one  of  our  chief  topics  for  dis- 
cussion and  action. 

  k 

WORKING  TOGETHER 

As  this  issue  of  the  Dairyman  goes  itl 
to  press  a  significant  meeting  is  being  I 
held    in    Montpelier.     The  representa- 
tives of  the  various  co-operative  groups  e 
are  meeting  With  the  representatives  of 
the  NEMPA  to  discuss  the  possibilities 
of  the  co-operatives  making  some  kind 11 
of  a  report  of  their  sales  and  surplus  | 
so    that    they   could    be    compared    on  a 
some   basis   with   the   conditions   under  y 
which  dealers  buying  under  the  surplus !1 
plan  are  selling  milk. 

This  meeting  came  as  the  result  of  jj 
recent  conferences  called  by  the  Com- 
missioners of  Agriculture  of  New  Eng- 
land, looking  toward  a  stabilization  of 
the  markets.  It  was  a  general  opinion 
that  much  more  stability  would  be  pos- 
sible if  the  statements  of  the  co-opera- 
tives regarding  their  purchases  and 
sales  were  filed  with  some  man  or 
group  of  men  who  could  reassure  the 
rest  of  the  market  and  allay  many 
false  rumors.  Under  the  present  plan 
such  rumors  go  the  rounds  and  grow 
in  their  travels.  The  more  groups  wha 
file  some  sort  of  a  report  with  some- 
body the  less  likely  these  false  rumors 
are  to  go  the  rounds  or  to  grow.  They 
can  be  spiked  quickly. 

The  NEMPA  would  naturally  like1 
to  have  as  many  as  possible  of  the 
groups  selling  milk  in  the  Boston  mar- 
ket report  to  the  milk  administrator, 
just  as  Lyndonville  has  decided  to  do. 

But  there  are  other  ways  of  report- 
ing that  would  be  quite  satisfactory 
and  serve  the  stabilization  purpose  wellJ 
They  might  report  to  the  commissioners 
as  a  whole.  They  might  report  to  a 
special  board  appointed  by  the  com- 
missioners. They  might  report  to 
Commissioner  Jones  of  Vermont.  His 
assurance  as  to  conditions  would  be  ac- 
cepted without  question  in  the  market. 
So  long  as  they  report  to  someone 
official  the  end  will  be  gained.  These 
are  the  matters  which  the  representa- 
tives of  the  various  groups  are  con- 
sidering at  this  conference  called  by 
Commissioner  Jones. 


ipril,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


f 

|  Reimbursement  Fund  Growing  Steadily 

I  ; 

^lost  of  Orders  Received  Will  Apply  to  February  and  Marcn  Milk — Late  Orders  to  Cover  Shipments  in  Subsequent 
Months — Movement  for  Permanent  Fund  Gains  Strength — Approved  by  Directors, 
Will  Come  Up  for  Action  at  Annual  Meeting  in  October. 


The  Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund  still 
^rows.  Even  though  it  is  five  weeks 
fter  the  call  went  out  for  contribu- 
ons  the  letters  and  signed  slips  keep 
jming  in  steadily.  Every  one  that 
rnies  is  just  another  sign  of  the  gen- 
•al  desire  of  members  to  stand  by 
leir  fellow  members  who  have  refused 
i  sell  on  any  terms  but  those  made 
I  the  NEMPA. 

lit  is  not  possible  at  the  present  time 
i  say  in  any  way  definitely  about  the 
nount  of  money  which  will  come  in 
ftm  these  signed  slips.  They  are 
•ders  on  the  different  dealers  calling 
>r  the  turning  over  of  five  per  cent, 
j  the  amount  due  for  milk  for  two 
msecutive  months.  Some  of  the  or- 
;rs  came  in  so  that  they  could  be  ap- 
ied  to  milk  coming  in  during  the  last 
ill f  of  February.    Most  of  them  will 

on  March  and  April  milk.    So  we 
ill  not  know  definitely  what  the  sub- 
ription  will  amount  to  until  the  latter 
'irt  of  April,  after  settlement  has  been 
nade  for  March  milk. 
•;The  fact  that  the  Lyndonville  Cream- 
fy    Association    has    agreed    to  come 
"ito  the  surplus  plan  and  to  make  re- 
>rts    to    the    milk    administrator  re- 
moves one  place  where  the  reimburse- 
lent    fund   would    have    been  needed, 
hat    controversy    was    settled  quickly 
id  in  such  a  way  which  will  require 
i  reimbursements.  But  the  controversy 
;ith  the  New  England  Creamery  Prod- 
ts  Co.  is  still  on  and  may  last  for 
bnths.    Thus  we  cannot  tell  anywhere 
ar    what    it   will   cost    to  reimburse 
flese  loyal  members  in  full. 
The    most    pleasing    feature    of  the 
;:uation   is   that   there   was   money  in 
.nd  to  pay   all   these  men   for  their 
sses  just  as  promptly  as  they  would 
.ve    received    the    money    from  any 
aler.     At   East   Fairfield    the  actual 
yment,    reported    elsewhere    in  this 
jiue,  was  four  days  ahead  of  the  time 
e  New  England   Creamery  Products 
).  paid  their  producers. 
^Another  element  of  uncertainty  as  to 
i  costs  of  the  present  effort  to  main- 
_in   prices    is   that   there    are   a  few 
~ner  places  where  we  might  be  forced 

take  vigorous  action  along  the  same 
e  as  in  the  two  controversies  already 
'dertaken.    They  might  not  be  settled 

quickly  nor  so  satisfactorily  as  in 
;  case  of  Lyndonville  and  might  run 

0  quite  a  bit  of  reimbursement  money, 
we   understand   the   desires   of  the 

Ambers  who  have  contributed  there  is 
general  determination  that  this  mat- 
j  should  be  pushed  through  and  set- 
d,  not  only  with  the  New  England 
eamery  Products  Co.,  but  with  any 
ser    groups    that    persistently  refuse 
come  on  to  some  basis  of  payment 
lere  their  prices  might  be  compared 
_th    what    other    dealers    are  paying 
oducers    or    what    other    groups  of 
rmers  are  selling  to  dealers. 
Haking  all  these  facts  into  considera- 
n    we    wish    to    urge    the  members 
10  have  not  already  sent  in  their  slips 

1  do  so  and  to  swell  the  benefit  fund 
►  such  proportions  that  everyone  will 
pw  how  much  in  earnest  we  are. 
le  five  per  cent,   for  two  months  is 

1.  small  contribution  as  compared  with 
tses  that  might  come  through  a  dis- 
ption  of  the  market  and  a  lowering 
the  price  below  what  is  warranted 
the   conditions   of    supply   and  de- 
'  ind.    It  is  a  fine  thing  to  have  this 
>ney   in  hand   so  that  the  producers 
10  are  fighting  the  good  fight  may  be 
mbursed   promptly   and   in  full. 
3ne  of  the  outstanding   facts  about 
s  controversy  is  that  all  the  milk  is 
ng  handled  efficiently  and   with  the 
st    possible    loss.     Much    of    it  is 
iving  at  the  regular  milk  price  and 
;    only    costs    are    additional  trans- 
lation.   More  is  going  at  somewhat 
ver  price,  the  difference  between  what 
paid  for  it  and  the  average  price  of 
•  dealers  for  that  zone  being  made 

out  of  the  benefit  fund. 
? 


Looking  ahead,  the  directors  of  the 
association  have  recommended  that 
plans  be  made  for  building  up  a 
permanent  fund  to  meet  such  emergen- 
cies in  the  future.  This  matter  will  be 
brought  up  at  our  next  annual  meeting 
for  discussion  and  action.  Judging  by 
the  favor  with  which  such  a  plan  has 
been  received  something  will  be  started 
as  the  result  of  the  meeting.  By  that 
time  the  directors  will  have  a  definite 
plan  to  recommend. 

One  of  the  features  of  the  plan  which 
is  universally  recognized  as  just  is  that 
all  men  who  have  contributed  to  this 
present  emergency  fund  shall  be  re- 
lieved from  contributing  to  the  perma- 
nent fund  until  such  time  as  the  con- 
tributions of  the  others  shall  be  pro- 
portionate to  what  has  been  turned  in 
in  this  emergency.  It  is  probable  that 
a  plan  will  be  worked  out  under  which 
the  payments  to  a  permanent  fund  can 
be  spread  over  a  number  of  years  with 
a  monthly  payment  so  small  that  it  will 
work  no  hardship  on  any  producer. 
That  is  the  proper  way  of  building  up 
such  a  fund.  But  in  so  building  it  we 
must  be  sure  that  we  give  due  recogni- 
tion to  the  men  who  are  so  freely 
sending  in  their  contributions  right 
now,  when  such  contributions  mean  so 
much  to  the  welfare  of  the  dairy  in- 
dustry in  New  England.  These  men 
are  bearing  the  brunt  of  the  effort  to 
maintain  the  principles  on  which  the 
NEMPA  is  founded.  There  are  others 
who  are  not  contributing  but  they  are 
getting  the  same  benefit  from  an  un- 
shaken market.  But  we  are  happy  to 
report  that  the  number  who  share  in 
the  benefits  without  contributing  is 
steadily  diminishing.  Every  morning 
mail  brings  in  new  signed  slips,  new 
direct  contributions.  Every  one  of  these 
means  just  one  more  man  who  is  bear- 
ing the  burden  of  his  brother  dairy- 
men and  adding  strength  to  the  good 
fight  for  the  "known  price"  which  the 
association  is  waging. 

It  is  apparent  from  some  of  the  let- 
ters which  are  coming  in  regarding  the 
Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund  that  some  of 
our  members  do  not  quite  understand 
how  to  make  out  the  slip  which  was 
sent  to  each.  Like  any  other  formal 
legal  document  it  has  to  be  couched  in 
legal  terms  which  are  somewhat  dif- 
ferent from  the  way  folks  commonly 
talk. 

So  we  are  reproducing  the  slip  in 
exactly  the  same  size  and  the  same 
form  as  it  was  sent  to  you  with  full 
explanation  of  what  is  necessary  for 
you  to  do  to  fill  it  out  in  full  legal 
form.  The  numbers  in  parentheses  are 
simply  to  guide  us  in  the  explanation. 

There  is  really  only  one  absolutely 
necessary  thing  for  you  to  do  in  order 
to  make  this  document  effective.  It  is 
to  sign  your  name  toward  the  bottom 
of  the  slip  at  the  place  marked  (1). 


We  hope  that  you  will  fill  in  all  the 
rest  of  the  blanks  as  it  will  save  us 
some  trouble  at  the  office  but  we  can 
get  along  with  it  if  you  will  just  put 
down  your  name  as  you  regularly 
sign  it. 

The  second  most  important  thing  for 
you  to  do  is  to  put  down  the  name  of 
your  town  in  the  blank  marked  (2). 
In  many  instances  post  office  addresses 
are  different  from  the  town  in  which 
members  live,  being  either  on  an  R.  F. 
D.  route  from  some  other  town  or  for 
a  village  within  the  town.  It  is  es- 
sential for  the  legality  of  the  order 
that  the  town  in  which  you  live  shall 
be  filled  in.  In  most  cases  we  can  find 
this  out  and  fill  it  in  but  it  will  cause 
us  some  trouble  and  lose  us  some  time. 

Number  (3)  on  the  slip  is  the  dealer 
to  whom  you  sell.  Our  records  in  the 
office  show  to  what  dealer  you  were 
selling  when  you  joined  the  association 
and  on  whom  your  dues  order  is  run- 
ning. But  in  cases  where  any  change 
in  dealers  has  been  made  recently  it  will 
save  us  quite  a  bit  of  time  and  insure 
that  your  order  will  be  effective  if  you 
put  down  the  dealer  in  the  place 
marked  (3). 

The  remaining  blanks  we  can  fill 
out  here  at  the  office  without  great 
trouble  but  of  course  it  will  be  better 
if  you  fill  them  out  in  full  for  yourself 
before  sending  them  in.  Number  (4) 
is  your  name,  the  same  as  is  signed 
below  for  number  (1).  (5)  is  the 
state,  (6)  is  the  date,  (7)  your  post 
office  address  or  R.  F.  D.  route,  and 
(8)  the  station  from  which  your  milk 
is  shipped. 

Some  little  further  explanation  of 
the  document  may  serve  to  clear  up 
some  misunderstandings.  Beginning  at 
the  top  the  "Know  All  Men  by  These 
Presents,"  is  a  legal  form  with  which 
you  need  not  concern  yourself  in  any 
way.  The  document  is  a  power  of 
attorney  giving,  in  this  case  to  Mr. 
Bronson,  the  power  to  collect  money 
from  the  dealer  to  whom  you  are  sell- 
ing, the  amount  to  be  deducted  from 
your  milk  check  by  that  dealer. 

The  chief  reason  why  this  form  of 
an  order  from  you  is  used  instead  of  a 
direct  one  to  your  dealer  is  that  the 
exact  amount  of  your  contribution  to 
the  fund  cannot  be  determined  m  time 
to  get  the  order  in  before  the  payment 
is  made  to  you.  If  you  were  to  sign 
an  order  directing  that  your  dealer 
should  pay  over  to  the  trustees  of  the 
benefit  fund  you  would  want  to  put 
down  a  definite  amount,  say  $10,  which 
might  be  more  or  might  be  less  than 
the  five  per  cent,  for  the  two  months 
which  is  asked  for  by  the  trustees  of 
the  fund.  In  order  to  make  your  con- 
tribution on  just  the  same  basis  as 
other  producers  the  percentage  basis 
was  necessary.  But  you  will  not  know 
what  five  per  cent,  of  your  milk  check 


for  February  will  be  until  you  get  the 
check  and  then  it  is  obviously  too  late 
to  take  anything  out  of  the  check. 

It  would  be'poTsible  for  you  to  make 
out  a  direct  order  to  your  dealer  to 
pay  over  to  the  trustees  for  the  benefit 
fund  the  five  per  cent,  of  your  milk 
checks  for  two  months.  This  would  be 
an  individual  transaction  for  each  pro- 
ducer and  would  make  very  much  more 
work  than  the  form  which  we  are 
using.  By  authorizing  Mr.  Bronson,  as 
the  representative  of  the  trustees,  to 
collect  this  money  you  make  it  possible 
to  put  in  the  orders  from  hundreds  of 
producers  at  the  same  time.  After  the 
necessary  checking  to  determine  the 
proper  amounts  to  be  paid,  the  actual 
payment  from  the  dealer  to  the  trustees 
can  be  made  in  one  operation. 

The  language  of  the  document  is 
what  lawyers  use  in  drawing  up  papers. 
Some  of  it  may  seem  unnecessary  but 
the  experience  of  many  years  and  the 
customs  of  many  years  make  it  wise 
to  have  it  drawn  up  in  this  form. 
Stripped  of  the  legal  wording  the  docu- 
ment simply  gives  to  Mr.  Bronson  the 
right  to  collect  five  per  cent,  of  your 
milk  checks  from  your  dealers  for  two 
months  and  to  turn  the  money  over  to 
the  trustees  of  the  benefit  fund.  In 
making  this  collection  Mr.  Bronson  is 
acting  as  your  authorized  agent.  In 
certain  other  capacities  in  which  he  is 
serving  in  connection  with  the  fund  he 
is  acting  as  the  representative  of  the 
trustees,  as  when  he  pays  off  the  farm- 
ers who  are  to  receive  this  money.  He 
is  the  connecting  link  between  you,  the 
trustees  and  the  farmers  who  are  with- 
holding their  milk  from  the  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products  Co. 

Some  question  has  arisen  as  to  the 
"seal."  The  document  says  that  you 
hereunto  set  your  hand  and  seal.  Some 
of  our  members  have  stuck  on  legal 
seals  and  have  gone  to  a  notary  public 
to  have  the  document  drawn  up  by  one 
familiar  with  such  things.  This  is  not 
necessary.  You  can  make  out  every- 
thing shipshape  by  filling  in  all  the 
blanks.  No  sticker  seal  is  necessary. 
The  (L.  S.)  on  the  document  is  in  it- 
self a  legal  seal  and  nothing  more  is 
needed  to  make  the  document  legal  and 
binding. 

A  number  of  our  members  have 
asked  questions  concerning  the  making 
out  of  this  order.  We  presume  that 
there  are  a  good  many  others  who  do 
not  quite  understand  what  they  should 
do  and  are  delaying  filling  out  and  send- 
ing in  the  slip.  This  explanation  is 
given  in  the  hope  that  it  will  clear  up 
the  matter  for  some  of  you  and  that 
it  will  lead  you  to  fill  out  the  slip  and 
mail  it  in  at  once.  You  can  use  the 
original  slip  which  was  mailed  to  you, 
the  coupon  in  last  month's  Dairyman, 
or  you  can  cut  out  the  form  above  and 
use  that. 


t 


KNOW  ALL  MEN  BY  THESE  PRESENTS 

That  I,   (4)  

of   (2)  in  the  State  of   (5)  

(TOWN) 

do  hereby  constitute  and  appoint  W.  H.  Bronson  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  my  true  and  lawful  at- 
torney for  me  and  in  my  name  and  stead,  to  make,  execute,  sign  and  deliver  assignments  of  a  sum 
equal  to  5%  of  the  amounts  due  or  to  become  due  to  me  for  milk  and/ or  cream  sold  or  to  be  sold 
by  me  for  a  period  of  not  exceeding  two  months.  Said  assignments  shall  be  effective  for  the  month 
in  which  this  instrument  is  signed  and  the  next  succeeding  month.  Said  assignments  shall  be  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund  and  the  moneys  so  received  by  said 
Trustees  shall  be  received  by  them  subject  to  the  terms  of  the  Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund  trust  dec- 
laration. Hereby  granting  unto  said  W.  H.  Bronson,  said  attorney,  full  power  and  authority  to 
act  as  fully  and  effectuallv  as  I  might  do  if  personallv  present. 

IN  WITNESS  WHEREOF.  I  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  this  (6).....  day  of 

 in  the  year  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and  twentv-eight. 

SIGN  HERE   (1)   '(L.  S.) 

Address  (7)  

Dealer  (3)  Shipping  Station   (8)  


Page  Four 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  192& 


Price  Tables  for  Milk  Bought  Under  Surplus  Plan 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  February,  1928 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out 
what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
for  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butter  fat  above  and  below 
3.7  per  cent,  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container: 
Per  Sy2  quart  can,  $0,008;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,010;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,020;  per 
21 YA  quart  can,  $0,022;  per  40  quart  can,  $0,040;  per  hundredweight,  $.047. 


Boston  District 


Class  1  Class  2   

Dealers  (Mkt.  (Mfg.  %y2 

Elm  Spring  Farm  Milk)  Milk)  Quart 

7th  Zone   74.4%  25.6%  .533 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   86.8  13.2 


20 
Quart 

1.300 


Size  of  Can  

21 K  40 
Quart  Quart 

1.380  2.633 


Cwt. 

3.062 

3.870 


Dealers 


Northern  Market  District 

Class  1    Class  2   


(Mkt. 
Milk) 

Robert  H.  Sawyer 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

Delivered   83.2% 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Wason  MacDonald 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

Delivered   80.3 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Findeisen 

Zoned  from  Lawrence 

Delivered   72.4 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   .- 

4th  zone   

9th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   92.5 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone  

E.  C.  Blake 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   68.5 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 
Zoned  from  Nashua 


(Mfg. 
Milk) 


16.8% 


Cwt. 
in 

8^'s 


-  Size  of  Can  — 
Cwt.  Cwt. 
in  in 
20's  40's 


19.7 


27.6 


3.517 
3.101 
3.035 


3.517 
3.172 
3.116 


3.517 
3.190 
3.153 


Cwt. 


3.702 
3.364 
3.325 


7.5 


31.5 


3.681 
3.428 
3.385 
3.342 
3.304 
3.272 
3.255 


3.243 
3.043 
2.998 
2.960 
2.849 


Delivered   

 73.8 

26.2 

3.426 

3.426 

3.426 

1st  zone   

3.141 

3.206 

3.223 

3.081 

3.155 

3.189 

3rd  zone   

3.061 

3.112 

3.155 

4th  zone   

3.000 

3.095 

3.125 

Producers'  Dairy 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   78.4 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   


21.6 


3.517 

3.229 
3.183 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Effective  April  1,  1928,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Subject  to  Surplus 


Zone  Miles 
Del.  Trucked 


1 

2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 


1-20 
21-40 
41-60 
61-80 
81-100 
101-120 
121-140 
141-160 
161-180 
181-200 
201-220 
221-240 
241-260 
261-280 
281-300 


Del. 

  1 

  2 

3 
4 
5 

3.400  fi 
3.105  ° 
3.072  ' 
3.008  8 
2.920 


9 
10 


Trucked 
1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

61-80 

81-100 
101-120 
121-140 
141-160 
161-180 
181-200 


8qt. 
Cans 
.616 
.523 
.508 
.503 
.488 
.478 
.478 
.468 
.463 
.458 
.453 
.448 
.443 
.438 
.433 
.428 


.616 
.548 
.528 
.523 
.518 
.513 
.513 
.513 
.498 
.493 
.493 


At  R. 

Cans 
.655 
.560 
.545 
.540 
.525 
.515 
.515 
.505 
.500 
.495 
.490 
.485 
.480 
.475 
.470 
.465 

At  R. 
.655 
.585 
.565 
.560 
.555 
.550 
.550 
.550 
.535 
.530 
.530 


R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 

Cwt. in 

lOqt.  20qt.  21^qt.  40qt.  20qt. 

Cans  Cans  Cans  Cans  Cans 

.771  1.541  1.637  3.082  3.583 

.666  1.356  1.443  2.732  3.153 

.651  1.326  1.413  2.692  3.094 

.636  1.301  1.388  2.652  3.025 

.626  1.291  1.378  2.617  3.001 

.616  1.271  1.353  2.587  2.955 

.611  1.266  1.343  2.572  2.943 

.601  1.251  1.328  2.547  2.908 

.596  1.241  1.318  2.527  2.885 

.591  1.231  1.308  2.512  2.862 

.581  1.221  1.298  2.492  2.839 

.576  1.206  1.288  2.472  2.804 

.571  1.201  1.278  2.462  2.792 

.566  1.191  1.268  2.442  2.769 

.561  1.186  1.263  2.432  2.757 

.556  1.176  1.248  2.412  2.734 


R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 


.861 
.776 
.761 
.756 
.746 
.731 
.731 
.731 
.726 
.721 
.716 


1.541 
1.371 
1.341 
1.336 
1.301 
1.296 
1.296 
1.276 
1.271 
1.261 
1.246 


1.637 
1.453 
1.423 
1.408 
1.388 
1.378 
1.368 
1.358 
1.353 
1.338 
1.328 


3.082 
2.732 
2.692 
2.652 
2.617 
2.592 
2.592 
2.557 
2.542 
2.517 
2.502 


3.583 
3.188 
3.118 
3.107 
3.026 
3.014 
3.014 
2.967 
2.956 
2.933 
2.898 


Cwt. in 
21J4qt. 
Cans 
3.583 
3.157 
3.092 
3.037 
3.015 
2.960 
2.939 
2.917 
2.884 
2.862 
2.840 
2.818 
2.796 
2.774 
2.764 
2.731 


3.583 
3.155 
3.089 
3.057 
3.013 
2.992 
2.970 
2.948 
2.937 
2.905 
2.883 


Cwt.in 
40qt. 
Cans 
3.58S 
3.176 
3.129 
3.083 
3.042 
3.007 
2.99C 
2.961 
2.937 
2.920 
2.897 
2.874 
2.862 
2.83 
2.827 
2.80 


3.58.? 

3.177 

3.129 

3.084 

3.0431 

3.014 

1014 

2.973 

2.956 

2.927 

2.909 


Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  stations, 
a  premium  of  .0075  cents  per  hundredweight  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspectioi 
or  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices,  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  deduction  of  2  cents  per  hundredweight  has  been 
made  for  NEMPA  members'  dues  and  1  cent  per  hundredweight  for  advertisin 


Providence  Market 


3.085 


Class  1  Class  2  Zone  1  Zone  2  Zone  3 

Dealers            (Mkt.  (Mfg.  Deliv-    1-20  21—40  41-60 

Milk)  Milk)  ered  Miles  Miles  Miles 

W.  B.  Brown   100.0%  4.058  3.723  3.675  3.609 

H.  T.  Burton                89.6  10.4%  3.835  3.535  3.492  3.433 

G.  T.  Chambers             64.8  35.2  3.500  3.283  3.252  3.209 

E.  A.   Fiske   100.0  4.058  3.723  3.675  3.609 

L.   E.   Goff   100.0  4.058  3.723  3.675  3.609 

C.  W.  Grant                 91.3  8.7  3.852  3.547  3.504  3.443 

A.  B.  Monroe   100.0  4.053  3.718  3.670  3.604 

Providence  Dairy            89.8  10.2  3.834  3.591  3.560  3.497 

Turner   Centre               98.3  1.7  4.039  3.741  3.694  3.628 

W.  C.  Viall                  79.1  20.9  3.620  3.356  3.318  3.265 

C.  A.  Warnock   100.0  4.053  3.719  3.671  3.595 

E.  P.  Westcott   100.0  4.047  3.713  3.665  3.599  .... 

G.  T.  Chambers  prices  includes  an  extra  payment  of  $.788  per  cwt. 


Truck- 
ing Willi- 
net  at  mantic 
Farm  Zone 


3.389  3.439 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  February,  1928 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  hy  the  Hundredweight 


To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  February  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.047  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent,  sub 
tract  $.047  per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 


5 


To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  February  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 


Zone  1  Zone  2    Zone  3    Zone  4   Zone  5    Zone  6     Zone  7  Zone  8  Zone  9 

Miles   from  Boston                                  1-20  21-40      41-60      61-80    81-100  101-120    121-140  141-160  161-180 

Class  1  Milk  Price   3.641  3.594      3.548      3.507      3.542      3.455       3.426  3.402  3.385 

Class  2  Milk  Price   1.978  1.978      1.978      1.978      1.978      1.978       1.978  1.978  1.978 

Class  1         Class  2 
(Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 

Hood,  1-15 
Hood,  16-29 


Zone  10 
181-200 
3.362 
1.978 


Zone  11 
201-220 
3.399 
1.978 


Zone  12 
221-240 
3.327 
1.978 


Zone  13 
241-260 
3.304 
1.978 


Zone  14 
261-280 
3.292 
1.978 


Zone  15 
281-300 
3.269 
1.978 


F.  S.  Cumming 
Weighted  Avg.. 


60.1% 

39.9% 

2.984 

2.956 

2.928 

2.904 

2.883 

2.873 

2.855 

2.841 

2.831 

2.817 

2.803 

2.796 

2.782 

2.775 

59.4 

40.6 

2.960 

2.932 

2.905 

2.881 

2.860 

2.850 

2.833 

2.818 

2.808 

2.795 

2.781 

2.774 

2.760 

2.753 

59.6 

40.4 

2.928 

2.900 

2.872 

2.848 

2.827 

2.817 

2.799 

2.785 

2.775 

2.761 

2.748 

2.740 

2.727 

2.720 

..33.0 

67.0 

2.604 

2.588 

2.573 

2.560 

2.548 

2.543 

2.533 

2.525 

2.520 

2.512 

2.504 

2.500 

2.493 

2.489 

..59.5 

40.5 

2.966 

2.938 

2.911 

2.886 

2.865 

2.855 

2.838 

2.824 

2.814 

2.800 

2.786 

2.779 

2.765 

2.758 

58.7 

41.3 

2.949 

2.921 

2.894 

2.870 

2.850 

2.840 

2.823 

2.809 

2.799 

2.785 

2.772 

2.765 

2.751 

2.744 

Centre 

System  price 

includes 

an  extra 

payment 

of  $.104 

per  cwt. 

> 


2.761 
2.739 
2.706 
2.481 
2.744 
2.731 


i 


[April,  1928 
f  


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


j       Placing  Milk  on  a  Permanent  Basis 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

receiving    station    at    that    point.     It  convenience  and  extra  work  there  is  in 

knight  be  that  some  dealer,  paying  the  plenty  but  there  is  no  loss  of  product. 

NEMPA   price  and   seeking   additional  Every    quart    of    the    milk    has  been 

supplies  of  milk  for  next   fall,  would  moved    and    every    quart    of    it  has 

♦erect  a  receiving  station  at  East  Fair-  brought  a    fairly   good   price  consider- 

field  and  take  on  all  these  producers.  ing   the   emergency   basis   on   which  it 

Still  another  possibility  which  is  be-  was   being    handled.     The    loss,  which 

ing  discussed   to  meet   the    East   Fair-  has   to   be  made   up   from  the  benefit 

field    situation    is    that    the    producers  fund,  has  been  reduced  to  the  lowest 

^should  form  a  small  local  co-operative  possible  point   through   this  method  of 

Sand   erect   their   own   receiving   station  handling  the  milk. 

from  which  milk  could  be  shipped   to  When  the  milk  at  Sheldon  and  East 

lany  dealer  to   whom  they   might   sell.  Fairfield  is  sold  to  some  other  dealer 

If  such  a  plant  sold  on  the  NEMPA  on  a  permanent  basis,  our  controversy 

Brice,  plus  a  reasonable  service  charge  with     the     New     England  Creamery 

yfor  handling   the  milk,   it  would  meet  Products    Company    will    have  ended, 

the   situation   well.     If   such   a   co-op-  There  will  be  nothing  left  to  disagree 

jrative  organization   should   be   formed  over.    All  our  members  who  formerly 

its  first  move  would  without  doubt  be  shipped  to  them  will  have  been  taken 

fo  try  to  buy  or  lease  the  present  plant  care  of  elsewhere.    Such  milk  as  they 

it   East  Fairfield.    If  this  was  impos-  buy  from  other  sources  will  be  bought 

?ible    they   could    take    other   measures  at  the  NEMPA  price  or  the  farmers 

i>    equip   themselves    for    shipping    the  who  supply  the  milk  will  be  paid  on 


the  NEMPA  price  basis. 

That  is  what  happened  at  Lyndon- 
ville.  The  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company  was  buying  milk 
from  the   Lyndonville   Creamery  Asso- 


feilk. 

i  The  cost  of  such  a  receiving  station 
vould  not  be  a  large  burden  as  com- 
oared  with  the  prospect  of  continuing 
:o    transport    the    product    long  dis- 

.ances.     It  would  not  be   large  either  ciation   at   an    unknown    price.  After 

when   considered   as    an   alternative   to  negotiations,  recorded  elsewhere  in  this 

telling   on   an   "unknown"   price    basis.  issue,  the  association  agreed  to  pay  its 

Dn    the    other    hand    it    would    be    a  patrons   on    the    NEMPA    price  basis 

'nighty  source  of  satisfaction  for  these  and  to  file  its  reports  of  purchases  and 

.farmers  to  know  that  they  had  a  place  sales  with  the  milk  commissioner,  just 

o  handle   their  milk,  and  to   be   thus  like  other  dealers. 

f:reed  from  the  bad  results  of  varying  The   company   also   gets    milk  from 

policies  on  the  part  of  dealers.  the  Granite  City  Co-operative  under  a 

J  It  is  along  lines   leading  to   a  per-  contract.    It  is  bought  at  the  NEMPA 

*Vinent     market     for    their    milk    at  priCe  and  thus  comes  outside  any  con- 

\EMPA  prices   that   efforts   and  dis-  troversy.      The    company    also  buys 

Hussions  are  now  tending.    There  seems  from    Picrmont    and    West  Newbury, 

o  be  small  hope  that  the  New  Eng-  Negotiations    are    in    progress  looking 

and  Creamery  Products  Company  will  toward   an   agreement   that   these  pro- 

Tiye  in  and  agree  to  pay  the  NEMPA  ducers  shall  be  paid  on  the  NEMPA 

>rice,  not  before  another  short  season  price.    At   any  rate,  the  purchases  of 

it    any    rate.     Our    members    do    not  the   New   England   Creamery  Products 

nam   to   wait  as   long   as  that  before  Company    from    any    co-operative  or 

Settling    back    to    a    normal    situation,  country  plant  are  "second  hand"  trans- 

(fhey  are  assured  that  all  their  finan-  actions  and  do  not  concern  us  in  the 

lal  losses  will  be  made  good  through  same   way   that   Brandon   did,   or  that 

he  benefit  fund  but   on   top  of   these  Sheldon    and    East    Fairfield    still  do. 

psses  there  is  much  inconvenience  and  Our   dealing   will   be   with   those  who 

ixtra  work.    At  Brandon,  for  instance,  sen  the  milk  to  them, 

nost  everybody  had  to  make  two  trips  After  our  members   at   Sheldon  and 

ro  town  every  day,  once  in  the  morn-  East    Fairfield   have    been   taken  care 

':ig  to  deliver  the  milk  and  again  in  0{  on  a  permanent  basis  our  attention 

he  afternoon  to  get  empty  cans    for  can  be   focused  more  directly   on  the 

.he  next  morning's  milk.  problem  of  other  milk  sold  to  the  New 

The  movement  to  secure  a  permanent  England   Creamery   Products  Company, 

narket  for  the  milk  from  Sheldon  and  if   the  company  has  no  stations  at 

Last  Fairfield,  gathered  much  headway  which  it  buys  milk  directly   from  the 

uring  the  past  two  weeks.     It  is  in-  producers  our  negotiations  will  be  with 

reasingly  evident  that  these  producers  the   co-operatives    or    others    who  sell 

o   not   want   to   return   to   the    New  the  milk  to  the  New  England  Cream- 

Ingland    Creamery    Products    Company  ery    Products    Company.     We  expect 

nder  any  condition.    A  number   who  ancj    have   reason   to   expect   that  the 

ave   received   the   year-agreement    slip  desired  results  will  be  reached  through 

ave  asked  whether  such  a  slip,  signed  the  willingness  of  the  creamery  groups 

,y  them,  would  force  them  to  sell  to  to  do  their  part  in  stabilizing  market 

le   New   England   Creamery    Products  conditions     by     reporting     their  sales 

lompany   in   case   they    gave    in    and  prices  and  purchases  in  such  form  as 

greed  to  pay  the  NEMPA  price.    If  wni  make  it  possible  to  compare  them 


p,  they  would  not  sign.  They  were 
11  through  with  selling  to  this  com- 
'any. 

This  feeling  was  increased  materially 
y  the  fact  that  the  Nestles  Food  Com- 


with  other  dealers  in  milk. 

The  principle  which  we  are  striving 
to  maintain  is  that  all  milk  shall  be 
bought  at  a  price  which  can  be  com- 
pared with  the  going  price  in  the  mar- 


any   plant   at   Enosburg   Falls,   where  kets.     Whether   this  comparison   is  on 

le  milk  from  East  Fairfield  had  been  the  basis  of  prices  paid  to  the  farmers 

mt  at  first  on  March  19  refused  to  0r   prices   charged    to   dealers    is  not 

ike  the  milk  any  longer,  giving  only  very  material  so  long  as  there  is  some 

*  48-hour  notice  of  such  a  change  in  basis  of  comparison.    That  is  what  we 

jhcy.    No  reason  was  given  and  none  are  insisting  on  in  the  present  instance 

ould  be  obtained.    It  is  the  belief  of  and  what  we  shall  work  for  in  any 

ie    producers    that    this    step   on    the  future    negotiations    with    groups  who 

art  of  the  Nestles  Food  Company  was  sen    to    the    New    England  Creamery 

.istigated   by   the   management   of   the  Products  Company, 
few     England     Creamery     Products       It  is  the  principle  which  our  mem- 

ompany.    Whether  right  or  wrong  in  bers  want  maintained,  whatever  imme- 

teir  belief  that  is  the  way  they  look  diate  cost  is  necessary.    The  way  they 

:  ll\         .  are  standing  back  of  it  gives  us  great 

This    action    on    the    part    of    the  satisfaction.     Looking    backward  over 

festles  Food  Company  did  not  change  the  progress  which  has  been  made  it 

le  situation  any.    No  producers  went  seems  reasonable  to  look  forward  to  a 

ack   to   the   New  England   Creamery  time  when  all  milk  sold  by  the  New 

roducts  Company.    But  it  caused  in-  England   Creamery   Products  Company 

invenience     and     unnecessary     work.  wiH   be   on   a   basis   which   will  make 

teps    were   taken    immediately  to   sell  such     a     comparison     possible,  even 

le  milk  to  the  St.  Albans  Co-operative  though    the    company    itself    may  not 

reamery    and    even    at    the    48-hour  be  reporting  to  the  milk  administrator. 

Dtice   the   milk   was   handled   without  The  basis  of  comparison  will  be  fur- 

Jy  Joss._  nished    farther    back,    either    in  the 

That   is  one  of  the  very  significant  prices  paid  to  producers  by  creameries 

ungs  about  this  effort  to  maintain  a  or  in  prices  charged  by  these  cream- 

Unown  price"  basis  in  the  market.    It  eries.    In  either  case  the  result  will  be 

:   an  orderly  and  systematic  battle.  In-  satisfactory. 


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Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  19  28 


HERD 
HELTH 


Pay  Day  at  East  Fairfield 

Producers  Who  Refuse  to  Sell  to  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company  Get  Reimbursement  Checks  Four 
Days  Ahead  of  Time  —  Everyone  Paid  in  Full  for  All 
Their  Losses. 


Tuesday,  March  20,  was  "pay  day"  up 
in  East  Fairfield,  Vt.  It  was  the  most 
remarkable  pay  day  on  record  in  the 
milk  industry  in  New  England;  a  pay 
day  which  bids  fair  to  usher  in  a  new 
day  in  organized  milk  marketing.  It 
was  the  day  when  the  loyal  members 
of  the  NEMPA,  who  have  refused  to 
sell  their  milk  to  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company  on  any 
other  price  or  any  other  terms  than 
those  made  by  the  sales  committee  of 
the  association,  got  their  first  checks 
from  the  reimbursement  fund. 

Wesley  H.  Bronson,  who  has  been 
delegated  by  the  trustees  of  the  fund  to 
handle  the  accounts,  was  paymaster. 
With  the  assistance  of  F.  C.  Warner, 
manager  of  the  field  service  department 
headquarters  were  established  at  the 
general  store  of  E.  F.  Soule  at  East 
Fairfield,  not  far  from  the  plant  where 
up  to  early  in  February,  these  producers 
had  been  delivering  their  milk  to  the 
New  England   Creamery  Company. 

We  wish  that  the  other  loyal  mem- 
bers of  the  association,  especially  those 
who  have  contributed  to  the  reimburse- 
ment fund,  could  have  looked  in  on  that 
gathering.  Word  had  been  sent  to 
these  producers  to  come  around  and 
get  their  checks  to  make  up  the  dif- 
ference between  what  they  received  for 
their  February  milk  and  what  other 
dairymen  received  under  the  regular 
NEMPA  price.  When  they  delivered 
their  milk  for  loading  on  to  the  car  at 
St.  Albans  they  were  told  to  go  over 
to  the  store  and  get  their  money. 

One  end  of  a  dry  goods  counter  had 
been  cleared  off  and  Mr.  Bronson  with 
his  adding  machine  and  plenty  of  blank 
checks,  also  a  regular  check  protector 
machine  kindly  furnished  by  W.  C. 
Marsh  of  Sheldon,  was  all  installed 
when  the  producers  began  to  come  in. 
Fairly  early  in  the  forenoon  they  began 
coming  in  small  numbers  and  toward 
noon  they  began  coming  in  crowds. 
Many  whose  milk  was  being  brought  in 
by  a  route  collector  or  by  a  neighbor 
drove  in  to  take  part  in  this  novel  pay 
day.  Some  were  on  hand  even  before 
the  "paymaster"  arrived. 

No  Time  to  Eat 

The  producers  came  in  so  fast  around 
noon  that  there  was  no  time  for  Bron- 
son or  Warner  to  stop  to  eat.  They 
kept  steadily  at  the  task  of  figuring  up 
what  was  due  each  producer  and  making 
out  the  checks.  Not  until  three  o'clock 
was  there  enough  of  a  letup  to  allow 
them  to  stop  for  a  luncheon  of  crackers 
and  cheese,  furnished  by  the  store. 
Incidentally  it  might  be  mentioned  that 
some  of  the  farmers  sampled  the  cheese 
furnished  the  "paymasters"  and  found 
it  so  good  that  they  bought  some  to 
take  home. 

Never  in  the  history  of  the  NEMPA 
has  there  been  quite  such  a  gathering. 
The  men  had  been  assured  when  they 
refused  to  sell  to  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company  that  they 
would  be  reimbursed  out  of  the  benefit 
fund,  raised  by  their  brother  dairy- 
men all  over  New  England.  But  they 
did  not  expect  it  so  soon.  They  thought 
it  might  come  along  in  a  month  or 
two,  maybe  longer.  They  were  com- 
pletely satisfied  with  the  assurance  that 
their  fellow  members  were  standing  by 
them  in  this  crisis  in  the  dairy  industry. 

So  when  the  word  was  broadcast  to 
"come  and  get  your  money,"  four  days 
before  they  would  have  received  it  if 
they  were  still  selling  to  the  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products  Company,  they 
were  surprised,  some  of  them  incred- 
ulous. But  they  all  came  in  and  the 
doubters  had  to  acknowledge  frankly 
that  they  were  getting  about  the  best 
treatment  that  they  ever  had  received  as 
to  payments  for  milk.  Not  only  were 
the  differences  between  the  price  paid 
by  Nestles  Food  Co.  at  Enosburg  Falls 


and  the  NEMPA  price  made  up  in  full 
but  all  excess  cartage  and  transporta- 
tion charges  were  taken  into  account  in 
ii^uring  what  was  due  each  man. 

The  checks  ranged  all  the  way  from 
$65  down  to  69  cents.  The  man  who 
was  due  to  receive  69  cents  did  not 
want  to  take  it.  Said  he  was  a  small 
producer  anyway,  but  wanted  to  do  his 
share  and  was  perfectly  willing  to  do 
a  little  fighting  and  stand  some  burden 
for  the  sake  of  maintaining  the  price 
system  of  the  association.  He  waived 
aside  the  check  until  it  was  explained 
to  him  that  it  was  all  made  out  and  a 
part  of  the  records  and  that  he  would 
make  more  work  by  not  accepting  the 
69  cent  check. 

Those  who  did  not  get  around  to  the 
store  received  their  checks  the  next  eve- 
ning at  a  general  meeting.  So  far  as 
can  be  determined  every  producer  who 
suffered  any  loss  through  the  withdrawal 
of  the  East  Fairfield  milk  from  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Com- 
pany has  received  full  payment  and 
is  on  the  same  basis  as  to  February  milk 
as  are  other  producers.  They  were 
four  days  ahead  of  the  fellow  towns- 
men who  continued  to  ship  to  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Company  in 
the  time  when  they  received  their 
money. 

Doubtless  Satisfied 

There  were  many  incidents  in  con- 
nection with  this  pay  day  that  might  be 
recorded,  all  showing  the  strength  of 
the  association  and  the  loyalty  of  the 
members.  Some  few  men  came  in  with 
a  little  doubt  in  their  minds.  They  had 
been  told  that  there  was  nothing  to  this 
reimbursement  proposition  and  that  they 
would  not  get  their  money.  They  knew 
that  by  withdrawing  their  milk  they 
had  been  getting  less  than  their  neigh- 
bors who  were  shipping  to  their  regular 
dealers.  "That's  just  what  you  are 
here  for,"  explained  Warner,  "to  get 
the  rest  of  it.  Come  on  over.  We  will 
figure  out  the  difference  and  make  out 
your  check  right  away."  If  there  ever 
was  a  time  when  full  confidence  was 
restored  more  quickly  we  have  not 
heard  of  it. 

At  Sheldon  where  another  large  group 
of  loyal  members  have  refused  to  sell 
their  milk  to  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company,  it  was  not  practical 
to  have  just  this  kind  of  a  pay  day. 
Sam  Stearns,  who  has  been  in  charge 
of  the  situation  in  that  locality,  had 
the  amounts  due  each  of  the  producers 
all  figured  out.  The  checks  were  written 
in  advance  and  were  passed  out  when 
*he  producers  came  in  with  their  milk 
to  be  loaded  on  to  the  car. 

At  Brandon,  where  the  producers 
withheld  their  milk  100  per  cent,  the 
pay  day  was  delayed  a  little  but  by 
the  time  this  Dairyman  is  out  it  is  prob- 
able that  every  last  one  of  them  has 
received  his  pay  in  full.  The  Bran- 
don plant  was  sold  to  the  Whiting  com- 
pany and  the  milk  of  these  producers 
was  handled  at  the  Middlebury  co- 
operative for  only  three  weeks.  Mr. 
Parmalee,  who  was  in  charge  at  Bran- 
don, has  been  making  the  rounds  of  the 
producers,  figured  up  the  amounts  due 
each  in  preparation  for  making  out  the 
checks  to  be  forwarded  to  each. 

The  "pay  day"  at  East  Fairfield  was 
especially  effective  as  the  producers 
were  able  to  see  their  milk  loaded  on 
to  the  car  for  St.  Albans  under  the 
management  of  NEMPA  officials,  and  to 
receive  the  assurance  from  these  leaders 
that  every  penny  of  the  loss  would  be 
made  up  out  of  the  reimbursement  fund. 
They  went  home  well  satisfied. 


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Profitable  Dairying 

'JpHE  feeder's  object  should  be  to  keep  his 
cattle  in  the  physical  condition  necessary 
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RATIONS  l^jfr  FEEDS 

131  STATE  ST.  BOSTON,MASS. 


For  days  and  days  he  drove  the  Ark, 
Before  he  found  a  place  to  park. 

When  Noah  sailed  the  ocean  blue, 
He  had  his  trouble  same  as  you. 


THE  PARK  &  POLLARD  CO., 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


HOLDING  THE  LINE 

1    A   word   of    special   recognition  and 
I  appreciation  should  be  given  the  mem- 
bers of  our  field  staff  who  are  hold- 
ing the  front  line  trenches  in  the  bat- 
lltle  to  maintain  NEMPA  prices  for  our 
nembers  who  were  selling  to  the  New 
\  England  Creamery   Products  Company. 
45tearns,  Foley  and  Parmalee  have  done 
and   are   still   doing,   a   fine   piece  of 
work  for  the  association,  working  long 
tours,   seven    days    in    the    week  and 
sticking   right   to   the   job    with  good 
:ourage  and  determination.    They  have 
lad  fine  support  and   assistance  from 
members  but  the  responsibility  has  been 
argely  on  our  field  men. 

Here's  a  sample  day  which  Stearns 
-ecently  put  in.  Before  5  o'clock  in 
:he  morning  he  was  on  the  road  to  see 
some  producers  who  had  been  shipping 
:o  the  Cummings  Co.  at  North  Sheldon 
jut  were  cut  off  by  the  ice  going  out 
jf  the  river.  The  four  farmers  were 
m  the  opposite  side  of  the  river  from 
he  North  Sheldon  plant  and  the  flood 
:arried  the  bridge  away  last  fall. 
Through  the  winter,  however,  they  had 
oeen  hauling  the  milk  across  on  the 
ce  but  when  the  ice  went  out  this 
•-nethod  of  getting  their  milk  to  the 
Cummings  plant  was  no  longer  possible. 
,  In  order  to  get  to  the  plant  they 
would  have  to  drive  down  the  river  to 
Sheldon,  cross  the  bridge  there  and 
chen  up  on  the  other  side  to  North 
Sheldon,  a  distance  of  some  ten  miles. 


On  the  way  they  would  drive  right 
past  the  New  England  Creamery  Prod- 
ucts plant  and  efforts  were  being  made 
to  get  them  to  sell  their  milk  there. 
Stearns  got  there  while  they  were  milk- 
ing and  found  that  they  were  actually 
going  to  change  dealers  that  morning.  He 
made  arrangements  whereby  the  excess 
cost  of  the  longer  haul  would  be  taken 
care  of  and  the  milk  continued  to  go 
to  the  Cummings  Co. 

This  early  morning  jaunt,  about  ten 
miles  with  a  horse,  not  an  automobile, 
and  a  hurried  breakfast,  occupied  him 
until  about  9  o'clock  when  he  went 
over  to  the  railroad  to  make  ready  for 
loading  the  car  for  Swanton,  where  the 
milk  from  those  members  was  being 
sold.  While  the  producers  actually  put 
the  160  jugs  of  milk  on  to  the  car, 
Stearns  handled  them  all  in  the  car,  at 
the  same  time  keeping  account  of  the 
numbers  of  cans  for  each  producer  and 
seeing  that  each  can  was  properly 
tagged  with  the  shipper's  name.  Around 
10.30  o'clock  the  train  from  Swanton 
left  the  empty  cans  and  he  had  to  sort 
these  out  and  see  that  each  man  had 
enough  for  the  next  morning's  ship- 
ment. All  this  had  to  be  done  before 
12.30  when  the  carload  of  milk  was 
scheduled  to  be  taken  on  by  the  train 
for  Swanton. 

After  a  hurried  luncheon  Stearns  set 
out  for  Swanton  to  check  on  the 
weights  for  each  producer  and  make 
sure  about  the  milk  being  tested  and 
(Continued  on  page  eighteen) 


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Page  Eight 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1928 


Spring  is  Just 
Around  the 
Corner 

and  the  wise  dairyman 
is  making  plans  for  the 
flush  season. 

Extra  sanitary  precau- 
tions will  be  needed  in 
caring  for  the  increased 
supply  of  raw  milk  and 
cream. 

This  is  why  so  many 
milk  dealers  prefer 


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Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
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for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
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Production    Increasing  Slightly 
and  Sales  a  Little  Retarded 
by    Business  Conditions 

A  rather  general  lack  of  activity  in 
business  coupled  with  considerable  un- 
employment is  having  some  effect  on 
the  milk  business  and  is  probably  re- 
tarding sales  somewhat.  The  report  of 
the  larger  dealers,  however,  indicate 
that  milk  sales  are  holding  their  own 
quite  as  well  as  some  other  lines  of 
business.  While  there  has  been  a  slight 
improvement  in  some  lines  of  business 
in  the  past  month  the  increases  has  not 
been  enough  to  bring  general  business 
conditions  up  to  last  year  at  the  same 
time. 

Purchases  of  milk  in  February,  as  in- 
dicated by  the  reports  of  dealers  buy- 
ing under  the  surplus  plan,  increased 
about  6^2  per  cent,  from  January.  The 
normal  increase  in  purchases  is  about 
Al/2  per  cent.  The  New  England  crop 
reporting  service  reports  an  increase  of 
2Y2  per  cent,  in  the  production  of  milk 
per  cow  but  even  with  this  increase  the 
production  per  cow  is  6  per  cent,  below 
last  year  at  the  same  time. 

Sales  of  milk  in  February  increased 
3  per  cent,  from  January  sales  while 
the  normal  increase  is  about  one  per 
cent.  This  increase  can  be  explained 
partly  through  the  fact  that  the  dealers 
who  are  buying  under  the  surplus  plan 
have  purchased  considerable  new  city 
business  and  thus  brought  into  their 
sales  report  considerable  milk  which  was 
formerly  unreported. 

The  weighted  percentage  of  surplus  in 
February  was  41.3  per  cent,  as  com- 
pared with  47.4  per  cent,  in  February, 
1927,  including  the  cream  plan  territory, 
and   with   35.1   per   cent,   in  February, 

1927,  on  the  milk  basis. 

The  February  net  price  in  the  10th 
zone  was  $2.79,  or  18  cents  a  hundred 
higher  than  last  year.  Our  class  1  price 
is  40  cents  _  a  hundred  higher  and  the 
Class  2  price  12  cents  lower,  due  to 
the  fact  that  the  butter  market  last  year 
averaged  five  cents  a  pound  higher  in 
February,  1927,  than  it  did  in  February, 

1928.  Comparative   prices   were : 

1928  1928  1927 

Jan.  Feb.  Feb. 

Fluid   $3.48  $3.36  $2.96 

Surplus                       2.02  1.98  2.10 

Net  price  all  milk....  2.91  2.79  2.61 

Avge.  butter  per  lb.  .486  .469  .519 

On  a  comparative  basis  100  pounds 
of  milk  in  the  10th  zone  at  the  NEMPA 
price  would  buy  105  pounds  of  grain 
in  February  as  compared  with  111 
pounds  last  year  and  104  pounds  for  the 
five-year  average. 

NEW  YORK  AND  BOSTON 
PRICES 

The  New  York  League  price  for  Feb- 
ruary was  $2.90  per  hundred  for  3.7 
per  cent,  milk  181-200  mile  zone  as 
compared  with  the  weighted  price  for 
Boston  dealers  of  $2.79,  same  test,  same 
zone. 

FLUID   MILK  PRICES 

The  only  price  change  in  March  was 
in  Holyoke  where  a  cut  of  one  cent  per 
quart  took  place,  due  to  low  independent 
and  chain  store  prices.  Below  are  com- 
parative prices : 

Butter  prices  came  back  in  March 
and  are  now  close  to  50  cents.  This  is 
about  the  same  level  as  last  year  and 
may  be  expected  for  a  week  or  two 
into  April.  Stocks  of  butter  in  storage 
are  about  normal  and  the  production 
is  not  expanding  more  than  usual. 

COST  OF  PRODUCTION 

Grain  prices  advanced  about  $1.50  per 
ton  in  March  over  February  and  now 
are  $5.50  a  ton  above  last  year.  Hay 
is  $2.00  per  ton  below  last  year.  Be- 
low are  comparative  costs: 

1928  1928  1927 
Feb.     Mar.  Mar. 

Grain  per  ton   $51.68  $53.02  $47.38 

Hay  per  ton    13.13    13.29  15.40 

Labor  per  month 
with    board    48.70   48.70  46.60 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


}  Vew  England  Stabilization  Problems 


jJeed  of  Basis  for  Price  Comparison  Stated  at  Maine 
Farmers'  Week  by  Assistant  Manager  F.  Leon 
Brown — Dairy  Conference  Board  Provides 
General  Confidence  and  Good  Will 


The  need  of  stabilization  of  the  milk 
larkets  and  the  progress  which  is  be- 
ig  made  toward  such  stabilization  was 
utlined  by  Assistant  Manager  F.  Leon 
.rown  in  an  address  at  the  annual 
armers'  Week  at  the  Maine  State  Col- 
ge  of  Agriculture  at  Orono.  Mr. 
rown  discussed  in  considerable  detail 
le  elements  which  tend  to  support 
abilization  and  those  which  tend  to 
i-eak  it  down.    He  said  in  part: 

"Failure  to  correctly  interpret  the 
editions  of  supply  and  demand  for 
lilk  in  New  England  is  the  chief  cause 
f  sudden  changes  in  the  price,  with 
leir  bad  effects  on  the  dairy  industry, 
'he  law  of  supply  and  demand  will 
'ork  out  over  a  period  of  years  but 
tost  of  the  sudden  changes  downward 
I  the  price  of  milk  of  late  years  have 
)rae  through  some  group  of  dairymen 
i  some  dealer  making  a  mistake  as  to 
le  real  conditions  in  city  and  country. 

'"Stabilization  of  the  milk  prices  in 
le  principal  milk  markets  of  New 
ngland  is  essential  to  the  permanent 
elfare  of  the  dairy  industry  in  New 
rngland.  Such  a  stabilization  can  come 
my  through  the  general  understanding 
f  conditions  throughout  New  England, 
.ny  attempt  to  determine  prices  on  the 
asis  of  what  the  conditions  are  in  one 
action  of  New  England  or  in  one  mar- 
et  are  in  danger  of  falling  wide  of 
le  mark.  It  might  be  that  the  supply 
round  some  lesser  market  was  abun- 
ant  when  the  supply  in  New  England 
5  a  whole  might  be  short.  A  drop  in 
le  price  in  that  market  might  result 
1  other  markets  going  down  without 
fly  real  reason. 

"Boston  is  the  principal  market  of 
lew  England  and  the  prices  in  that 
larket  have  a  dominating  influence  on 
rices  in  other  markets.  The  lesser  mar- 
ets  do  not  always  coincide  strictly  with 
Jgston  in  prices  but  they  generally 
jllow  Boston  up  or  down.  The  im- 
artance  of  a  correct  interpretation  of 
editions  of  supply  and  demand  as  re- 
ited  to  Boston  cannot  be  overestimated. 

"The  organization  which  I  represent, 
le  New  England  Milk  Producers' 
association,  is  the  largest  and  most 
ipresentative  of  the  organizations  which 
re  selling  milk  in  Boston.  We  have  a 
ell  equipped  research  department  whose 
lain  job  is  to  determine  these  condi- 
'ons  of  supply  and  demand  and  other 
mditions  which  would  be  of  value  in 
etermining  the  fair  and  reasonable 
rice  for  milk. 

"In   the    past   we   have   had  several 
samples   of   the   disastrous   effects  of 
)me  of  the  lesser  groups  interpreting 
le    supply    and   demand    in    terms  of 
leir  own  information  without  full  con- 
deration    of    the    conditions    in  New 
ngland   as   a   whole.     I   am   glad  to 
ly  that  this  condition  is  largely  pass- 
^ig,  through   the   new  spirit  of  confi- 
ence  which  is  growing  up  among  the 
irious  organizations  and  agencies  sell- 
ig  milk  in  New  England  markets. 
"The    outstanding    example    of  this 
m>  spirit  of  working  together  is  the 
ew  England  Dairy  Conference  Board, 
ractically  all  of  the  organizations  of 
roducers    in    New    England    who  are 
tarketing   dairy   products   are  affiliated 
ith   this   conference   board.  Through 
'/e  conference  board  all  will  be  in  a 
'isition   to   interpret   conditions   in  the 
ght  of  the  information  of  all  groups, 
/hile  the  NEMPA  is  the  largest  and 
(ost  widely  represented  group,  it  will 


which  have  been  held  there  has  been  a 
free  discussion  of  situations,  an  ex- 
change of  information  and  an  expression 
of  opinion  which  will  do  much  to  in- 
sure a  stabilization  of  milk  prices  in  the 
future. 

"The  basis  for  this  stabilization  is 
that  whatever  method  of  selling  milk 
any  organization  may  use  there  shall 
be  some  point  at  which  the  price  may 
be  compared  with  the  prices  which  other 
groups  are  getting.  Members  of  the 
NEMPA  who  sell  their  milk  to  dealers 
under  the  surplus  plan  all  get  the  same 
price,  distance  from  the  market  and  the 
amount  of  surplus  carried  by  their  re- 
spective dealers  being  taken  into  con- 
sideration. If  the  other  organizations, 
who  do  not  wish  to  sell  their  product 
under  this  plan,  will  adopt  some  sys- 
tem under  which  their  prices  paid  to  the 
farmer,  or  their  prices  charged  to  the 
dealer,  can  be  compared  with  our  prices 
an  important  end  will  be  gained.  Much 
progress  has  been  made  of  late  in  this 
respect. 

"Taking  all  these  things  into  con- 
sideration, I  feel  that  the  dairy  farmers 
of  New  England  can  look  forward  with 
confidence  to  the  coming  years.  The 
old  law  of  supply  and  demand  will 
work,  as  always,  but  with  the  new 
spirit  of  confidence,  the  new  exchange 
of  information,  the  various  organiza- 
tions marketing  milk  in  New  England 
will  be  in  a  much  better  position  to 
interpret  the  conditions  wisely  and  thus 
avoid  the  mistakes  of  illadvised  and  un- 
warranted changes  in  the  price." 


HERE'S  WHAT  GOOD  COWS 
AND  GOOD  FEED  WILL  DO 

A.  C.  Plue  of  Orwell,  Vt.,  has  highest  producing 
herd  and  also  highest  producing  individual 
cow  in  whole  State  of  Vermont. 

RECORDS  ALL  MADE  ON 
ELMORE  MILK  GRAINS 

In  the  month  of  January,  there  were  447  Herd  Improve- 
ment Associations  in  the  State  of  Vermont.  The  honors 
for  the  highest  milk  producing  herd  went  to  A.  C.  Plue  of 
Orwell.  His  herd  average  for  the  month  was  1261  lbs.  of 
milk  and  45.5  lbs.  of  fat.  They  are  all  Holsteins.  Good 
cows,  good  care  and  Elmore  Milk  Grains  did  the  trick. 

Mr.  Plue  also  had  the  highest  individual  milk  producer  for 
January  in  the  state.  His  cow  "Helen"  produced  2302  lbs. 
milk  and  led  the  other  7135  cows  whose  production  was 
reported  by  quite  a  wide  margin.  A  good  cow,  good  care 
and  Elmore  Milk  Grains  did  the  trick. 


ManyoF  the  Finest  Herds  in  the  Country  are  fed  on 

ELMORE  MILK  GRAINS 

THE  STANDARD  RATION  FOR  DAIRY  COWS 


fill 

A  MILK. 
PRODUCER.! 


OINTMENT  FOR 

UDDER 
AND  TEATS 


ask  for  O-H  COW  TONE  compounded  for  cows  to  assist  digestion,  elimination, 

secretion.  Offset  bard  winter  conditions  by  giving  your  cows  the  help  they  need.  Mix  a  small 
quantity  of  COW  TONE  in  the  grain  twice  a  day  and  see  for  yourself  if  your  cows  do  not  look  better 
and  get  that  smooth,  comfortable,  rugged  condition  that  makes  bigger  milk  production.  The  use 
of  COWTONE  regularly  will  mean  pounds  of  extra  milk  at  a  trifling  expense.  GET  THE  BEST! 

The  history  of  the  O-H  line  shows  29  years  of  dependable,  prac- 
tical help  for  the  cow  keeper,  still  doing  the  same  good  work. 

COW  TONE  FOR  MILK  PRODUCTION 

COWS'  RELIEF  ointment  for  udder  and  tests 
CALVES'  CORDIAL  for  scours 

/iFl-t***  iiw-tt-»N  We  guarantee  the  O-H  Line  to  give  satisfaction  or  we 
Will    HaUUll   will  refund  the  purchase  price.    O.  H.  Mfg.  Co..  Inc. 


OUR  HUSBANDS  MFG.  CO.,  Inc. 


LYNDON,  VT. 


Page  Ten 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1928 


Eastern  States  Fanners'  Exchange 


Fertilizer-Last  Call 

It  is  time  to  send  in  your  order 
for  Eastern  States  fertilizer  to 
cover  this  spring's  needs.  If  you 
require  less  than  15  tons,  use  the 
accompanying  order  blank  and 
send  check  with  order.  If  you 
need  15  tons  or  more,  write  for 
carload  prices. 

No  shipments  of  less  than  10 
sacks ;  all  goods  shipped  in  100- 
pound  sacks.  Prices  include  de- 
livery by  freight  to  all  New  Eng- 
land stations  located  on  the  N.  Y., 
N.  H.  &  H.,  Boston  &  Albany,  B. 
&  M.,  C.  V.,  Rutland,  and  Me. 
Central  west  of  Brunswick,  Me., 
not  requiring  an  arbitrary.  Rates 
to  other  stations  on  request. 

MIXED  FERTILIZERS 

0-16-8  $1.80 

For  seeding  and  top-dressing  legumes. 

4-16-4  $2.30 
A  manure  supplement  for  corn,  grain, 
etc.    Equal  in  cost  of  plant  food  to 
2-8-2  at  $23.00  a  ton  or  3-12-3  at 
$34.50  a  ton. 

8-6-6  $2.40 

A  top-dressing  for  non-legume  grass. 

8-16-8  $3.00 

For  garden  truck.    Equal  in  cost  of 
plant  food  to  4-8-4  at  $30.00  a  ton. 

8-16-20  $3.60 

High  potash  fertilizer  for  potatoes. 
Equal  in  cost  of  plant  food  to  4-8-10 
at  $36.00  a  ton. 

10-16-14  $3.50 
Standard  potato  mixture.    Equal  in 
cost  of  plant  food  to  5-8-7  at  $35.00 
a  ton. 

FERTILIZER  MATERIALS 

Nitrate  of  Soda,  18%  ammonia,  re- 

ground         .....  $3.30 

Sulphate  of  Ammonia,  25%  ammo- 

nia      ......  >p3.20 

Ground  Animal  Tankage,  9%  am- 
monia and  20%  bone  phosphate 
of  lime      .  $3.20 

Muriate  of  Potash,  50%  KzO       .  $2.65 

Acid  Phosphate,  16%  available. 
Made  from  high  grade  Florida 
rock  and  clear  acid,  milled, 
screened  and  cured    .        .        .  $1.10 

1928  Less  Carload 

FERTILIZER  ORDER 
Eastern  States  Farmers  Exchange 

Springfield,  Mass.,  Box  1482  D-4 

Date  1928 

Name  

P.  O.  Address   

R.  R.  Station   

This  is  my  order  for  fertilizer  and  I  am 
enclosing  a  remittance  as  stated  below  to 
cover  it. 


NO.   100  LB.  BAGS 

KIND 

AMOUNT 

My  remittance  herewith. 
Signed  


(Write  very  plainly) 


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NORTHERN  MARKET  | 
DISTRICT  g 

F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager  H 
477  Essex  Street  -  -  Lawrence,  Mast.  nJ 

Sffi5Z555a5a5H5H5H5H5ESH5H5E5H5E5H5a3 

MARCH  PRICES 

Manchester,  N.  H.  ..70c    per  8y2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  72.4c  per  8l/2  qt.  can 

Lowell,   Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can 

Lawrence,   Mass  90c    per  10    qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  61.2c  per  8^  qt.  can 

Portland,   Me   7.6c  per  qt. 

Salem,  Lynn,  Dan- 

vers  and   Beverly. .72c    per  8    qt.  can 

Prices 

There  has  been  no  change  in  prices 
in  any  of  the  markets  in  the  northern 
market  district  during  the  month  of 
March. 

Field  Work 

I  have  been  out  of  the  district  during 
the  first  two  weeks  of  March  working 
at  Lyndonville,  Vt,  and  Piermont,  N. 
H.  The  work  at  Lyndonville  was  com- 
pleted when  the  Lyndonville  Creamery 
Association  agreed  to  come  under  the 
NEMPA  price  plan,  have  their  figures 
administered  and  pay  NEMPA  prices 
in  the  future.  Negotiations  are  still  in 
progress  in  a  hope  that  the  Piermont 
Creamery  will  adopt  the  NEMPA  price 
plan  and  that  their  management  will 
submit  their  figures  to  the  milk  ad- 
ministrator and  have  them  administered 
just  the  same  as  is  the  Lyndonville 
Creamery  Association  and  other  dealers 
doing  business   with  the  NEMPA. 

After  returning  from  Lyndonville  and 
Piermont  I  have  worked  in  the  district 
largely  answering  correspondence  which 
h.d  been  delayed  on  account  of  my 
ue.ug  away  from  the  Lawrence  office, 
and  checking  up  on  some  market  prob- 
lems which  needed  attention. 

The  six  months'  contract  for  the  sale 
of  milk,  beginning  April  1,  to  the 
portsmouth  Creamery  at  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.,  must  be  negotiated  and  arrange- 
ments have  already  been  made  for  the 
Portsmouth  Creamery  committee  to 
meet  at  Portsmouth  Thursday  evening, 
March  29th,  to  negotiate  these  _  prices. 
I  have  spent  some  time  working  on 
quality  with  officials  of  the  Ports- 
mouth Creamery.  This  company  is 
offering  a  premium  for  the  better 
grade  of  milk  and  our  organization  is 
co-operating  with  the  company  because 
we  knew  it  means  better  prices  to  our 
members. 

The  following  are  the  sales  com- 
mittee of  that  Portsmouth  market: 
Charles  E.  Ireland,  Ernest  C.  Ferrin, 
Gordon  M.  Hayden  and  Roland  D. 
Webber. 

'Production 
A  check-up  around  the  markets  in- 
dicates that  there  is  the  usual  upward 
trend  in  production,  although  some  mar- 
kets seem  to  have  more  available  sup- 
ply than  others.  Due  to  the  tuberculin 
test  ordinance  in  Nashua  and  the  com- 
ing test  ordinance  in  Manchester,  there 
seems  to  be  less  production  coming  into 
these  two  markets  this  year  than  last. 
Many  dairymen  who  use  the  Manches- 
ter market  as  their  outlet  have  started 
testing  their  herds  and  have  lost  some 
animals.  As  these  men  have  not  re- 
stocked the  total  quantity  of  milk  com- 
ing into  the  market  is  reduced. 

Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund 
We  have  received  many  contributions 
from  NEMPA  members  in  our  district 
to  the  Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund.  I  wish 
to  take  this  occasion  to  thank  all  who 
have  co-operated  in  this  matter. 
Maine  Milk  to  Nashua 
For  some  time  we  have  been  looking 
for  a  market  for  a  group  of  Maine 
members  of  the  NEMPA  who  were  lo- 
cated at  Hollis  Center,  Me.,  and  ship- 
ping from  the  railroad  station  at  Brad- 
bury, Me.  These  producers  had  tuber- 
culin tested  milk  of  good  quality.  W. 
T.  Boyd  &  Son,  at  Nashua,  due  to  a 
general  expansion  in  their  business,  have 
been  in  need  of  more  producers  to  in- 
crease their  supply.  The  district  man- 
ager,   therefore,     went     with  Charles 


Concrete  Roads 

Are  An 
Investment— 
Not  a  Speculation 

Concrete  Roads  do  not 
wear  out  at  the  end  of  eight, 
ten  or  twenty  years. 

Concrete  Roads  can  be 
built  to  carry  any  kind  of 
traffic,  indefinitely  —  practi- 
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save  the  high  cost  of  mainte- 
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durable  types  of  construc- 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


L7his  pleasant 
OINTMENT 

Can't  taint 
the  miik^ 


A  clean,  pleasant  ointment  that 
heals  and  restores  without  leaving 
its  mark  in  the  milk — that's  Bag 
Balm,  he  great  healing  ointment. 
Treating  injuries  of  the  udder  or 
teats  need  not  affect  purity  and 
cleanliness.  Bag  Balm  leaves  no 
flavors  or  odors  for  consumers  to 
detect.  The  milking  goes  on  with- 
out a  halt  while  the  healing  pro- 
gresses. 

For  most  cuts,  chaps  and  injuries 
to  udder  or  teats  Bag  Balm  effects 
a  healing  between  milkings.  It  has 
wonderful  power  of  penetration 
and  healing,  being  compounded 
especially  for  use  in  the  delicate 
tissues  of  udder  and  teats.  For  all 
inflammation,  caked  bag,  bunches, 
cow  pox,  cracked  teats,  teats 
stepped  on,  etc.,  the  relief  is  quick 
and  complete.  Bag  Balm  makes 
full-time  milkers  of  every  cow — 
keeps  milk-flow  steady  by  insuring 
comfort  to  the  cow  and  ease  to  the 
milker. 

Big  10-ounce  package  60c,  at 
feed  dealers,  general  stores,  drug- 
gists. Mailed  postpaid  if  hard  to 
obtain  locally.  Booklet,  "Dairy 
Wrinkles"  mailed  free. 

Dairy  Association  Co.,  Inc. 
Lyndorcville,  Vermont 


.   MADE    BV  THE  'V^V^Jv. 

KOW  --  K.  A  R  E    PEQP  LE  " 


"The  Stan<ard>f  Quality" 


Dried  skim  milk 

Pure  and  Safe  to  Feed 

Rigid  regulation  of  our  dairies 
and  factories  by  the  New  York 
City  Health  Board  guarantees 
you  a  product  as  clean,  pure 
and  wholesome  as  the  best 
fluid  milk. 

This  is  one  reason  why  users 
find  BU  ELL- BOSTON  the 
most'satisfactory  milk  to  feed 
their  high-grade  young  [stock 
and  poultry. 

Write  for  feeding  directions  and 
facts  about  Dried  Skim  Milk. 

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Board  of  Trade  Building 
BOSTON     -      -      -  MASS. 


50,000  Weekly,  Prepaid,  100  Per  Cent  Live  Delivery 
Guaranteed.  All  flocks  culled.    SO      loo  400 


White.  nu:r  I  Brow 
White*  Barred  Rocks,  re  I  •;, 
5uJ  Orpinctons  r.rri  [iu<V  Roetj 
thode  Ialar..;  Recis  £  White  Wya 


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Hack  Gia:ita  and  Light  Brahma's  . 

]  tnconas   

1EAVY  MIXED  "512  per  10O.  OODS  &  END~^$9.0i3  per^lOO 
■EKIN  DUCKS  $30  cer  100.      Cata'oK  in  -olors  free 


G.50  12.00  46  00 

7. SO  14. 0O  54.  OO 

8.00  15.00  58.00 

8.00  15.00  58.00 

8.50  16  00  62.00 

12.50  24.00  94.00 

7.00  13.00  50.00 


Boyd  of  this  company  to  visit  the 
farmers  in  Hollis  Center,  Me.  Ar- 
rangements were  made  tor  the  milk 
of  the  following  producers  in  this  sec- 
tion to  go  to  Mr.  Boyd,  beginning  on 
March  15:  F.  S.  Goff  &  Son,  Algie  T. 
Hanson,  John  Willis  Ross  and  John 
G.  Woodman. 

Change   in  Manager 

This  is  probably  the  last  report  I  will 
make  as  district  manager  for  the  north- 
ern District.  I  want  to  take  this  op- 
portunity to  thank  all  those  who  have 
so  very  kindly  co-operated  with  me 
while  1  have  been  in  charge  of  the 
northern  market  district  of  the 
NEMPA.  I  have  tried  to  serve  the 
interests  of  the  fanners  by  whom  I 
have  been  employed,  and  whatever  suc- 
cess has  been  met  with  has  been  due 
to  the  splendid  co-operation  I  have  re- 
ceived. For  this  assistance  I  am  very 
grateful. 

Mr.  Foley,  who  is  coming  here  to 
assume  charge  as  district  manager  of 
the  northern  market  district,  I  am  sure 
will  be  well  liked.  His  training  and 
personality  are  such  that  he  has  made 
many  friends  wherever  he  has  been  at 
work.  With  the  same  kind  of  co- 
operation given  to  Mr.  Foley  that  has 
been  extended  to  me  I  am  sure  the 
work  in  the  northern  market  district 
will  go  on  successfully. 

A  part  of  my  work  in  the  future  will 
be  to  assist  the  district  managers  with 
their  problems  so  I  hope  to  meet  mem- 
bers of  the  northern  market  district 
from  time  to  time  as  I  continue  in  the 
employ  of  the  NEMPA. 

1  wish  to  say  a  word  about  thr 
S3[BS  jno  diqsuo;jB[3J  sssuisnq  ;uesb3[cI 
committees  have  had  with  the  milk 
dealers  who  are  buying  milk  from  the 
NEMPA  for  distribution  in  the  cities 
of  our  district.  We  have  all  learned 
that  it  is  to  our  mutual  advantage  to 
co-operate  in  the  production,  handling 
and  distributing  of  milk.  Ever  since 
I  have  been  here  the  dealers  have  been 
willing  to  consider  a  fair  basis  for  the 
negotiation  of  the  sale  of  the  member- 
ship milk  to  them.  This  splendid  busi- 
ness relationship  has  been  very  much 
appreciated  by  our  sales  committees 
and  myself. 


FOUR  HUNDRED  BETTER  COUW 
TO  BE  RAISED 

At  least  four  hundred  calves  will  be 
given  a  good  start  toward  becoming 
high  producing  cows  if  their  owners 
who  attended  the  series  of  calf  meet- 
ings in  February  carry  out  the  sugges- 
tions made  by  George  L.  Waugh,  Dairy 
Specialist  for  New  Hampshire. 

For  the  first  six  months  most  calves 
are  fairly  well  fed,  finds  Mr.  Waugh  in 
reporting  on  a  study  of  calf-feeding 
practices  in  New  Hampshire.  After  that 
period,  however,  a  lack  of  grain  feed- 
ing if  often  noticeable,  and  this  is 
largely  responsible  for  a  check  in 
growth.  In  too  many  cases,  moreover, 
the  young  stock  is  given  the  poorer  hay. 

"It  is  true  that  high  quality  heifers 
average  to  cost  $20  more  per  head  than 
those  of  average  quality,"  says  Mr. 
Waugh,  "but  they  have  an  increased 
sale  value. 

"If  clover  rowen  or  alfalfa  hay  is 
available,  1,200  pounds  of  grain  will 
produce  satisfactory  growth  by  the 
time  the  heifer  is  30  months  old.  In 
the  northern  counties  especially  grain 
feeding  on  pasture  the  first  season  is 
needed  for  producing  growthy,  saleable 
stock. 

"Heifers  kept  near  the  barn  the  first 
year  and  fed  two  pounds  of  grain  daily 
were  sufficiently  better  grown  to  justify 
the  practice. 

"Powdered  skim  milk  may  prove  a 
valuable  help  to  retailers  who  raise 
calves  or  to  those  men  who  receive  a 
premium  for  their  fluid  milk.  Most 
dairymen  stated  that,  quality  considered, 
it  paid  to  raise  heifers  for  replacement. 
Three  calves  started  yearly  for  each  two 
cows  in  milk  will  maintain  the  herd." 


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April,  1928 


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MARCH  PRICES 

Springfield    8}4  cts. 

Worcester    8J/2  cts. 

Northampton    8j4  cts. 

Holyoke    7y2  cts. 

Westfield    8  cts. 

Worcester 

Since  January  first  there  has  been 
more  or  less  price  cutting  among  some 
of  the  smaller  dealers.  However,  this 
did  not  appear  to  be  serious  until  re- 
cently, when  two  or  three  of  the  large 
dealers  became  involved,  creating  a  very 
bad  resale  condition  in  the  market. 

Some  dealers  felt  there  should  be  an 
immediate  reduction  in  the  producers' 
price,   effective   March  15th. 

A  meeting  of  the  Dealers'  Associa- 
tion held  March  13th  resulted  in  a  de- 
mand from  their  executive  committee 
to  our  sales  committee  for  a  one  cent 
reduction   effective   April  1st. 

Because  of  the  high  price  of  feeds 
and  of  cows,  the  sales  committee  feels 
that  there  should  not  be  any  great  con- 
cession granted  at  this  time.  There  is, 
however,  some  milk  that  has  been  going 
to  Springfield  which  is  becoming  avail- 
able for  the  Worcester  market.  Also 
Woodlawn,  a  Boston  dealer,  is  discon- 
tinuing buying  April  1  from  several 
dairies  in  Hardwick  and  Gilbertsville. 
Some  of  these  will  probably  find  a 
market  with  other  Boston  dealers, 
while  others  will  sell  to  Springfield  and 
Worcester  dealers.  However,  we  do 
not  feel  that  the  Worcester  situation 
will  become  a  serious  one,  and  a  fairly 
reasonable  level  of  prices  for  the  re- 
mainder of  the  year  can  be  expected 
by  producers  for  this  market. 

Holyoke 

The  locals  that  supply  Holyoke's 
nearby  milk  are :  Southampton,  Am- 
herst, South  Hadley,  Granby  and  Bel- 
chertown.  During  the  past  month  I 
have  spent  considerable  time  visiting  the 
producers  included  in  these  locals,  talk- 
ing with  them  in  regard  to  strengthen- 
ing our  bargaining  power  around  the 
Holyoke  market. 

On  Monday  evening,  March  6,  a 
meeting  was  held  at  Southampton  and 
25  producers  were  present.  All  seemed 
to  be  interested  in  the  attempt  to  make 
more  stable  market  conditions.  A.  S. 
Leland,  county  agent,  was  present,  and 
following  the  remarks  of  the  district 
manager  there  was  a  general  discus- 
sion of  the  Holyoke  situation. 

The  following  officers  were  elected : 
President,  Jos.  Szczypta,  Southampton ; 
secretary,   W.   M.   Peterson,  Holyoke. 

About  20  producers  gathered  at  Me- 
morial Hall,  Belchertown,  on  Thurs- 
day evening,  March  8.  Following  an 
interesting  discussion  of  the  Holyoke 
conditions  the  following  officers  were 
elected:  President,  Robert  Hanifin, 
Belchertown ;  secretary,  Richard  Bren- 
nan,  Belchertown ;  delegate  to  Market- 
ing Association  meeting,  D.  F.  Bission- 
ette.  D.  M.  Rosebrook,  of  Amherst, 
was  present  and  talked  on  the  benefit 
to  _  producers  of  having  a  strong  bar- 
gaining association.  Mr.  Rosebrook, 
formerly  of  Lancaster,  N.  H.,  was  one 
of  the  early  supporters  of  the  NEMPA 
and  of  the  old  BCMPA.  At  the  re- 
ciuest  of  some  of  the  men  attending 
this  meeting  some  check  tests  were  run 
at  the  La  Rose  Dairy.  In  every  case 
the  tests  checked  very  closely  with 
those  given  by  the  company. 

At  the  Congregational  Church  Vestry 
in  South  Hadley  Center  on  Friday  eve- 
ning, March  16,  about  12  producers 
gathered  and  although  the  number 
might  have  been  larger  this  was  made 
up  in  spirit  and  interest  shown  by 
those  who  were  present.  The  following 
officers  were  elected:  President.  Jos. 
Long,  South  Hadley ;  secretary.  Ed. 
Malnowski,  South  Hadley ;  delegates  to 
Marketing  Association  meeting,  E.  E. 
Freeman  and  Leo  Altman. 


Pasture  is  the 
cheapest  feed 
you  have— 

Pasture  is  admittedly  an  al- 
most perfect  feed,  but  it  is 
seldom  a  complete  ration,  par- 
ticularly in  the  early  spring 
months.  Every  dairyman 
knows  that  pasture  is  his 
cheapest  feed  because  the 
cows  help  themselves  and  no 
labor  is  required. 

A  cow  in  full  flow  of  milk, 
on  good  pasture,  should  re- 
ceive 20%  of  her  total  nu- 
trients in  the  form  of  a  suit- 
able grain  ration.  This  helps 
keep  up  the  normal  milk  yield 
for  the  season,  and  will  keep 
her  in  fair  flesh  so  that  she 
will  not  have  to  be  built  up 
again  for  freshening.  Cows 
fed  a  supplementary  grain 
ration  while  on  pasture  will 
produce  25  %  more  milk  year 
after  year,  than  when  the 
grain  is  cut  off  during  the 
summer. 

For  more  than  twenty-five 
years  Union  Grains  has 
proved  the  finest  possible  sup- 
plement to  pasture  feeding. 
It  is  palatable  and  cows  eat 


it  with  relish.  Its  protein, 
derived  from  many  sources, 
makes  Union  Grains  one  of 
the  safest  rations  that  can  be 
fed  during  the  pasture  season, 
or  any  other  season.  It  is  per- 
fectly balanced  to  feed  while 
the  cows  are  on  pasture,  and 
this  is  highly  important  in 
maintaining  a  high  milk  yield, 
good  health  and  regularity  of 
breeding. 

If  you  have  not  tried  feed- 
ing Union  Grains  with  pas- 
ture, order  a  supply  today  be- 
fore you  put  your  cows  out. 
Feed  them  four  to  six  pounds 
of  Union  Grains  daily  and 
note  the  improvement  in  con- 
dition, as  well  as  the  con- 
tinued normal  milk  yield. 
Once  tried,  you  will  be  a  regu- 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


1  On  Tuesday  evening,  March  20,  a 
^meeting  was  held  at  the  He-Men's  Club 
(•room,  in  the  Library  Building,  Granby, 
Uvith  an  attendance  of  about  25.  Keen 
rinterest  was  shown  and  every  one 
^present  was  much  in  favor  of  strength- 
ening the  bargaining  power  among  pro- 
I  ducers  shipping  to  Holyoke.  The  fol- 
lowing officers  were  chosen :  President, 
fe.  Newell  Galusha,  Granby ;  secretary, 
P.  M  Graves,  Granby ;  delegates  to 
^Marketing  Association  meeting,  Harold 
Taylor  and  A.  E.  Moody. 

A  meeting  was  held  of  the  Holyoke 
Marketing  Association  Friday  evening, 
March  23.  Several  producers,  besides 
he  official  delegates,  attended  this 
neeting.  W.  P.  Davis,  general  man- 
}ger  of  the  NEMPA,  spoke  on  the 
hlcnown  price  plan  of  payment  to  pro- 
ducers as  being  fundamental  in  secur- 
ing stability  in  a  market.  Mr.  Davis 
Uso  advocated  the  creating  of  a  Dairy- 
trten's  Benefit  Fund  to  be  used  in  pur- 
:hasing  or  reimbursing  producers  who 
ire  forced  to  hold  their  milk  from  a 
narket  because  their  dealer  will  not 
>ay  the  price  as  fixed  by  the  producers' 
:ommittee.  Such  a  fund  is  already  be- 
ing raised  to  reimburse  the  New  Eng- 
and  Creamery  Products  Co.'s  producers 
jvho  are  withholding  their  product  be- 
;ause  of  the  company's  refusal  to  pay 
Tie  price.  It  is  suggested  that  this  fund 
added  to  from  year  to  year  until 
-  considerable  sum  is  thus  raised  to  be 
ivailable  to  producers  in  any  of  our 
:^EMPA  markets. 

i  At  this  meeting  the  following  sales 
ommittee  was  elected  to  represent  pro- 
Jucers  shipping  to  the  Holyoke  mar- 
ret  :  Joseph  P.  Brown,  Southampton ; 
O.  F.  Bissonette,  Belchertown,  Robert 
P.  Adams,  North  Amherst,  Ed.  Mal- 
wvski,  South  Hadley.  On  the  whole, 
he  interest  among  the  Holyoke  snip- 
ers is  very  encouraging  towards  the 
ffort  of  creating  a  strong  bargaining 
ssociation. 

If  producers  supplying  the  rest  of 
hie  valley  area — Springfield,  Chicopee 
nd  Willimansett — show  an  equal 
mount  of  interest  in  working  together 
n  this  market  problem  it  is  my  belief 
;hat  late  summer  or  early  fall  will  see 
he  producers  exercising  their  bargain- 
rig  power  in  obtaining  recognition  by 
He  majority  of  dealers  of  the  price 
greed  upon.  It  can  very  easily  be  ac- 
omplished  but  success  is  absolutely  de- 
endent  on  the  majority  of  producers 
f  the  various  dealers  working  together 
s  one  with  the  same  objective  as  the 
oal  of  all. 


STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 


I  KNEW  A  FARMER 

/.  F.  Walker, 
Secretary,    Ohio    Wool    Growers'  Co- 
operative Association 
"I  once  knew  a   farmer,"   said  the 
Pence   corner   philosopher,    "who  didn't 
elieve  in  co-operation  or  organization, 
lie  took  his  stuff  to  market,  though, 
ver  a  road  that  was  built  through  the 
lombined  efforts  of  his  neighbors,  his 
bunty,  state  and  nation.    He  sent  his 
rhildren    to    a    school    made  possible 
firough  co-operation.     He  occasionally 
rent  to  a  church  built  and  supported 
J  y    an    organization.      He  purchased 
tiion  made  overalls,  had  his  whiskers 
immed  in  a  union  barber  shop,  and 
is  machinery  was  made  by  union  labor. 
"When  he  sold  his  crops,  the  men 
ho  purchased  them  took  out  a  per- 
:ntage  to  pay  their  dues  in  their  various 
•ade  associations.    His  wife  took  her 
[itter  and  eggs  to  a  town  where  the 
rocers'  association  all  paid  the  same 
■ice    and    the    chewing    tobacco  she 
ought  back  home  to  him  all  carried 
le  union  label  and  was  grown  by  co- 
)eratives. 

"When  he  died  they  laid  him  out  in 
suit  of  clothes  made  by  the  garment 
akers'    association   and   sold    by  the 
irment   manufacturers'    association  to 
e  retail  clothiers'  association. 
!■  "The  minister  who  preached  the  fun- 
gal sermon  belonged  to  the  ministerial 
sociation. 

His  casket  was  made  by  union  labor 
id  he  was  buried  through  the  co-opera- 
pn  of  his  neighbors.  But  he  never 
lieved  in  co-operation  for  the  farmer." 

f 


IS 

YOUR  CRANKCASE 
READY  FOR  SPRING! 


Socony  dealers  will  save  the  motorists  of  New  York  and 
New  England  many  thousand  dollars  this  week  by  ask- 
ing courteously,  ft Is  your  crankcase  ready  for  spring?" 


W 


E  have  instructed  Socony 
dealers  to  ask  this  question. 


Cars  are  ruined  every  spring  be- 
cause owners  merely  add  a  little  clean 
oil  to  the  dirty,  diluted  oil  that  has 
been  in  the  crankcase  all  winter. 

Now,  at  the  beginning  of  warm 
weather,  is  a  good  time  to  get  this 
straightened  out.  Winter  driving  is 
hard  on  motor  oil.  Cold  weather  start- 
ing demands  repeated  use  of  the 
choke,  shooting  raw  gasoline  into  the 
cylinders.  Some  of  this  seeps  down 
into  the  crankcase,  cutting  the  oil, 
diluting  it.  This  thin,  diluted  oil  is 
almost  as  bad  as  no  oil  at  all. 

Every  automobile  engine  accumu- 
lates dirt.  Some  of  this  comes  in 
through  the  air  intake  as  dust.  It  is 
collected  by  the  oil,  and  eventually  it 
gathers  in  the  bottom  of  the  crank- 
case as  a  sediment.  It  contains  grit. 


Oil  that  has  grit  mixed  in  it  ceases  to 
be  a  good  lubricant  and  tends  to  be- 
come a  grinding  compound.  And 
grinding  compounds  are  worse  than 
no  oil  at  all. 

Drive  in  to  the  most  convenient 
Socony  Station  and  tell  the  Socony 
man  to  get  your  crankcase  ready  for 
spring.  He  will  drain  the  old  oil.  He 
will  flush  your  crankcase  with  Socony 
Flushing  Oil.  This  cuts  out  all  the  sedi- 
ment and  leaves  in  place  everywhere  a 
thin  protecting  film  of  lubricant .  Then 
he  will  fill  up  with  Socony  Motor  Oil. 

You  pay  only  for  the  small  cost 
of  the  oil.  There  is  no  charge  for 
the  service. 

Set  aside  the  few  minutes  today 
that  are  needed  for  this  service.  In- 
sure the  joy  of  your  spring  driving. 
Protect  yourself  against  expensive  re- 
pairs later  on. 


Socony  Gasoline  and  Motor  Oil 
must  pass  IS  rigid  tests 
before  they  reach  your  car. 


STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 


Your  Horse  Stands  to  Win 

You  can't  lose  if  you  take  up  our  propo- 
sition. 

MORRISON'S 
OLD  ENGLISH  LINIMENT 

for  external  troubles — such  as  hard,  dry, 
pinched,  sore  or  contracted  hoofs,  corns, 
quarter-cracks,  thrush  and  mud  fever, 
for  all  cuts,  open  sores,  shoe  boils,  lame 
muscles,  contracted  cords,  sprains.  In- 
flammation and  rheumatism,  will  find  it 
the  most  effective  and  satisfactory  of 
anthing  he  has  used,  tf  not.  we  will  re- 
turn every  cent  of  the  money  paid. 

It  is  just  as  good  for  man  as  for  beast 
and  should  always  be  in  your  medicine 
chest.  Sold  by  all  dealers.  Price  half 
pints  60c — full  pints  $1.00 

THE  JAMES  W.  FOSTER  CO. 
Manufacturers,  Rnth.  N.  H. 


IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


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Rooms  with  running  water: 

Single,  $2.00  and  $2.50  per  day 
Double,  $3.50  and  $4.00  per  day 
Rooms  with  private  bath: 

Single,  $3.50  and  $4.00  per  day 
Double,  $5.00  and  $6.00  per  day 
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Page  Fourteen 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  192h 


TO  KNOW  how  to  buy 
requires  practice  and 
study.  Among  the  best 
textbooks  in  buying  are 
the  advertisements  in  your 
paper.  They  provide  informa- 
tion that  will  help  you  in 
deciding  what  you  want  to 
buy,  of  whom  to  buy  it,  the 
price.  This  knowledge  helps 
in  wise  spending. 

Advertisements  keep  you 
posted  on  the  newest  prod- 
ucts and  improvements  of  the 
manufacturers  and  merchants. 

They  are  competing  for  your 
business.  Each  knows  that 
his  product  must  be  good  and 
the  price  right  to  get  the  busi- 
ness of  the  wise  buyer. 

Advertisements  are  the  daily 
gauge  of  business  progress. 
They  are  filled  with  interest 
and  instruction.  Read  them 
regularly — for  they  will  help 
in  wise  buying. 


COD  LIVER  OIL 


TO  BOTH 
POULTRY  AND  LIVE  STOCK 

It  Promotes  a 

Healthy,  Sturdy  Growth 

Cape  Ann  is  the  pioneer  Cod  Liver  Oil  for 
stock  feeding.  1 1  is  a  domestic  product  made  at 
Gloucester,  Mass. ,  and  is  Biologically  Tested  for 
Vitamins  A  and  D  - 

THERE  IS  NONE  BETTER 

Order  from  your  grain  dealer  and  ask  him  for  a 
copy  of  "Feeding  Instructions"  or  writo  to 

CHAS  M  COX  CO 

Wholesale  Distributors 
BOSTON  MASS. 


THE  BLUE  RIBBON 
ELECTRIC  MILKER 


A  Portable  Milker 


No  installation  required.  Has  seven 
years  of  satisfactory  service  behind 
it.  Furnished  complete  to  run  from 
light  line  or  32  volt  plant.  Sanitary 
and  very  easy  to  handle 
Prices  and  further  Information  fur- 
nished on  request. 

ELECTRIC  PRODUCTS  CORP. 
1    WW  Belmont  A  vs.  Chicago,  HI. 


APRIL  PRICE  8  CENTS 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

8.18  cents  per  quart  delivered  in  Bos- 
ton. The  average  for  the  second  12 
months  was  8.78  cents  a  hundred.  On 
the  average  the  price  for  the  12  months 
closing  July  1,  1928,  will  be  .6  of  a 
cent  higher  than  it  was  in  the  pre- 
ceding 12  months. 

The  records  show  the  following  com- 
parative prices  on  market  milk  for  the 
two  years  ending  in  July,  1928 : 

1926  1927 

July   8lA  &V4 

August    8y2  9 

September    &y2  9% 

October    8  9K 

November    °K 

December    9  9y2 

1927  1928 

January    8  9% 

February    8  9 

March    8  9 

April    8  8 

May    8  8 

June    8  8 

In  July,  1927,  we  were  Y\  cent  below 
the  July,  1926,  price.  Since  then  we 
have  been  above  the  prices  of  the  pre- 
ceding year.  For  the  next  three  months 
we  will  have  the  same  price  as  in  the 
preceding  year.  The  record  speaks  for 
itself. 

The  November  and  December  prices 
are  given  with  an  allowance  made  for 
the  extra  cost  of  transportation  due  to 
flood  conditions.  The  price  during  the 
last  half  of  November  and  all  of  De- 
cember was  9%  cents  but  the  extra 
costs  reduced  it  to  about  9%  in  No- 
vember and  to  9z/2  for  December. 

That  is  not  all  the  financial  gain. 
Since  October  we  have  had  a  sub- 
stantial additional  price  on  surplus  milk 
due  to  the  establishment  of  a  cream 
class.  In  October,  November  and  De- 
cember all  the  surplus  was  included  in 
this  cream  class  and  the  increased  re- 
turn was  28  cents  a  hundred  over  what 
it  would  have  been  if  the  old  butterfat 
basis  of  computation  of  price  had  pre- 
vailed. 

In  January,  60  per  cent,  of  the  sur- 
plus came  in  under  the  cream  class, 
making  the  increase  on  surplus  17  cents 
a  hundred.  In  February  the  sale  of 
surplus  was  negotiated  on  a  75  per 
cent,  basis  and  the  resulting  increase 
was  21  cents  a  hundred  on  surplus. 
In  March  we  returned  to  the  60-40  per 
cent  basis,  making  the  increase  17  cents 
a  hundred.  For  April  we  have  ne- 
gotiated a  trade  on  a  50-50  basis  which 
will  make  the  increase  14  cents  a  hun- 
dred on  surplus. 

All  these  things  add  materially  to 
the  price.  Altogether  the  increases 
would  amount  to  many  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  dollars.  Along  with  this 
increase  in  return  has  come  a  very 
material  gain  in  the  stabilization  of 
prices  which  will,  we  believe,  enable 
us  to  continue  the  present  levels,  with 
nine  months  at  the  higher  level  and 
only  three  months,  during  the  surplus 
season,  of  lower  levels. 

The  time  has  probably  passed  when 
negotiations  will  be  conducted  on  the 
basis  of  half  cent  increases  or  de- 
creases. The  place  which  store  milk 
has  come  to  occupy  in  the  market 
makes  it  wise  to  change  a  full  cent  if 
at  all.  The  stores  cannot  change  their 
prices  except  a  full  cent  and  if  a  half 
cent  change  is  made  to  dealers  it  would 
tend  to  disrupt  conditions. 


"Alcohol  has  injured  many  a  good  con- 
stitution." 

"It  doesn't  appear  to  draw  the  line 
anywhere,"  said  Senator  Sorghum.  "Just 
now  it  is  attacking  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States." 


A  Family  Problem — A  boy  and  his  sis- 
ter were  on  their  way  to  Sunday  school. 
They  were  met  by  their  teacher,  who  in- 
quired about  the  size  of  their  family. 

The  boy  said :  "I  have  as  many  brothers 
as  I  have  sisters." 

The  girl  said :  "I  have  twice  as  many 
brothers  as  I  have  sisters." 

From  these  facts  the  teacher  could  tell 
how  many  boys  and  girls  there  were  in 
the  family.    Can  you? 


Will 
%EETENfil 


Henry  Nichols'  Herd  Averaged 
#173.27  Net  Profit  Per  Cow 

After  All  Feed  Costs,  Including 
Charges  for  Pasture,  Were  Deducted 


HENRY  NICHOLS,  Curriers, 
New  York,  knows  whether  or 
not  it  pays  to  feed  Bull  Brand  Dairy 
Ration.  He  will  tell  you  what  his  herd 
of  1 8  cows  produced  when  he  fed  them 
on  Bull  Brand  Dairy  Ration. 
The  records  above  for  12  months — 
July  1st  to  July  1st — show  a  net  profit 
of  $3,292. 1 1  or  $173.27  per  cow  after 
deducting  the  cost  of  all  feed,  grains, 
roughages,  and  pasture.  The  four  high 
cows  produced  1 1,241,  10,776,  10,256, 
10,165  pounds  of  milk  of  553.9, 
541.8,  560.2.  and  516.9  Butterfat  con- 
tent— and  showed   a   net  profit  of 


$2 16. 09, $208. 96, $220. 36  and  $203. 49 
over  all  feed  costs.  The  herd  average 
was  8,353  pounds  of  milk  of  459.3 
Butterfat  content. 

You,  too,  can  get  the  results  that  Mr. 
Nichols  and  thousands  of  other  dairy- 
men in  the  Eastern  States  have  secured 
with  Bull  Brand  Dairy  Ration.  It  will 
produce  more  milk,  for  a  longer  period 
for  you.  It  will  keep  your  cows  in  good 
flesh  and  condition.  It  will  prevent  ud- 
der trouble  and  indigestion  and  when 
freshening  times  come — your  cows' 
calves  will  be  strong  and  full  of  energy. 


Make  This  Test  Under  Our  Money-Back  Guarantee 

Try  Bull  Brand  Sweetened  or  Dry  Dairy  Ration  under  this  "more-milk-or-your-money-baclc"  guarantee.  Get 
300  pounds  of  Bull  Brand  Dairy  Ration  from  your  local  dealer.  Feed  it  to  your  cows  according  to  the  directions 
that  are  in  each  sack.  Check  the  production.  Compare  the  results.  Then  if  Bull  Brand  Dairy  Ration  does  not 
produce  more  milk  per  dollar  of  feed  cost  .  .  .  bring  the  empty  sacks  and  the  unused  feed  back  to  your  dealer 
and  he  will  refund  every  cent  of  your  money. 

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Makers  of  Properly  Balanced  and  "Always-Uniform"  Dairy,  Poultry  and  Stock  Feeds 

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Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 

Farmers,  you  would  not  think  of  bay- 
ing a  pair  of  driving  horses  to  do  your 
draft  w*trk! 

Use  the  same  judgment  in  buying  a 
furnace.  The  Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 
has  the  capacity  with  its  extra  large 
door  and  nreb»x. 

Manufactured  by  the 

DANIELS  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

HARD  WICK,  VERMONT 
F.  F.  Fuller.  Gen.  Agt.,  Waterbnry,  Vt. 


DR.  DANIELS' 

COW 
INVIGORATOR 

UDERKREAM 

REAL  COW  MEDICINES 

Less  WeaKness         Better  Cov!  1 
More  and  Better  MilK 
More  Profit 

FALL  AND  WINTER  ST 

HEALTH  FOR  YOUR  t.OW  is  the  Secret  of  Prof| 

Prevent  the  Run  Down  Condition  i 

Give  INVIGORATOR  in  the  Feed 

Use  UDERKREAM  for  the  Udder 

Send  for  COW  BOOK  — Its  Free 

Dr.  A.  C.  DANIELS,  Inc. 
172  Milk  Street  Boston  9,  Mas* 


April,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fifteen 


ADDITION  TO  STAFF 

A  good  piece  of   news  comes  from 
„  .he  office  of  the  New  England  Dairy 
find   Food   Council.     Frank    L.  Davis, 
i  well    known    as    a    County    Agent  in 
1  Windham  County,  Conn.,  is  to  join  the 
j  staff  of  the  Council  May  1.    Mr.  Davis 
j  ias  been  one  of  the  outstanding  county 
Agents      in      the      -understanding  of 
NEMPA  plans  and  problems  and  one 
)f  our  best  supporters  among  them.  He 
j*  s    one   of    the    most    popular    of  the 
:ounty  agents  also  and  will  prove  a  de- 
eded addition  to  the  staff. 
Substantial    increases    in    the  amount 
»)f  work  the  Council  can  do  in  Provi- 
j'ience  will  come  through  the  increased 
imounts    of    money    available    in  that 
narket.    For  some  time  work  has  been 
Jone  there   but  the  support   from  the 
lealers   and    producers    was    not  suffi- 
cient to  do  as  much  as  the  leaders  felt 
would   be   wise.     Through   a  new  ar- 
'angement    whereby    producers  supply- 
ng  that   market  will  pay  a  cent  and 
he  dealers  a  half  cent  the  amount  of 
noney  available  will  be  materially  in- 
Teased. 

One  of  the  interesting  reports  from 
lie  Council  work  is  concerning  a  group 
if  children  in  a  Salem  school.  They 
lave  milk  served  them  in  that  school 
9Ut  there  are  a  good  many  children 
who  have  not  the  pennies  with  which 
H  pay  for  their  daily  bottle.  So  this 
'roup  put  on  a  little  entertainment  or 
rwo  to  raise  money  to  provide  milk  for 
hose  who  did  not  have  it.  They  have 
'aised  enough  money  through  these  en- 
ertainments  to  furnish  3,996  bottles  of 
nilk  to  their  school  mates. 


FARM    CO-OPS    ENGAGE  IN 
MANY  ACTIVITIES  BE- 
SIDES SELLING 

So  much  attention  has  been  directed 
JO  the  selling  end  of  the  farmers'  co- 
iperative  movement  that  some  of  its 
ither  aspects  are  in  danger  of  being 
iverlooked.  Co-operative  buying,  for 
xample,  takes  care  of  several  hundred 
nillion  dollars'  worth  of  the  farmers' 
Purchases  annually.  Many  associations 
landling  cream,  cheese  and  fruit  buy 
upplies  used  in  preparing  their  pred- 
icts for  market.  Such  purchases  are 
tot  at  present  recorded  in  the  statistics 
if  co-operative  buying.  The  United 
>tates  Department  of  Agriculture  ex- 
acts to  have  fairly  accurate  statistics 
his  year  on  co-operative  purchases. 
Meantime,  it  points  out  that  at  least 
|0  per  cent,  of  the  farmers'  business 
rganizations  in  the  United  States  are 
ngaged  in  some  form  of  co-operative 
■uying. 

Out  of  10,803  associations  listed  in 
he  department  records,  5,386  reported 
o-operative  purchases  last  year.  Among 
he  commodities  purchased  were  feeds, 
Hiel,  containers,  seeds,  fertilizers,  build- 
jig  materials,  fencing,  implements  and 
lachinery,  hardware,  spraying  material 
nd  general  merchandise.  Some  as- 
Dciations  specialize  in  purchasing  things 
|equired  for  production  on  the  farm, 
lusiness  of  this  kind  is  increasing. 

Many  important  activities  carried  on 
y  farmers'  associations  can  not  be 
easured  in  purchases  and  sales.  All 
ild,  there  are  more  than  69,000  agri- 

tiltural  associations  in  the  United 
tates.  Among  them  are  educational 
"  >sociations,  production  associations, 
.'edit  societies,  rural  telephone  com- 
iinies  and  mutual  fire  insurance 
?encies.  Fire  insurance  particularly 
an_  important  business  carried  co- 
oeratively    by    farmers'  organizations. 

is   estimated    that    farmers'  mutual 
isociations   carry   fire  risks  amounting 
N>  more  than   $10,000,000,000  annually. 


"The  great  characteristic  of  rural  life 
the  ten-year  period,  1917-1927,"  says 

,  J.  Galpin  of  the  United  States  De- 
irtment   of   Agriculture,   "is   the  evi- 

mt  revolution  in  the  rural  human 
ind,  whereby  science  has  entered  as  an 
tbitual  guide,  displacing  the  blind  guides 
am  asking  you  to  see  that  science  can 
)t  be  shut  up  in  a  chamber  of  the 
ind  labeled  agriculture,  but  will  per- 
ide  all  compartments,  and  sooner  or 
ter  be  in  full  operation  among  all  the 

iliman   relationships  of   rural  society." 


Be  Sure  to  See  the  Latest  Spreader 

The  NEW 

McCORMICK- 
DEERING 


The  Ught'draft,  easy-running 
McCormick'Deering  spreader 
is  equipped  with  roller  bear- 
ing in  the  rear  axle,  upper 
and  lower  beatert  and  wide* 
spread  spiral  shaft. 


A  Practical,  Serviceable  Spreading  Machine 


ON  every  farm  where  labor  economy 
and  soil  fertility  are  accepted  as  es- 
sential to  low  production  costs,  there  is  a 
place  for  the  new  McCormick-Deering. 

Every  test,  every  comparison,  every 
user  demonstrates  that  the  new  McCor- 
mick-Deering manure  spreader,  just  put 
on  the  market  by  the  Harvester  Com- 
pany, is  a  remarkably  efficient  machine. 
It  is  built  to  do  a  perfect  job  of  spread- 
ing under  the  most  adverse  conditions 
—and  it  does. 

The  box  is  easy  to  load — it  is  low  down.  The 
sideboards  are  strongly  braced  by  two  steel 
braces  on  each  side,  and  the  all-steel  frame  forms 
a  substantial  base  upon  which  most  of  the  work- 
ing parts  are  built.  Shields  at  both  sides,  at  the 
rear,  amply  protect  the  operating  mechanism. 

Two  horses  handle  capacity  loads  without 
tiring.  Eight  roller  bearings  and  seventeen 
Alemite  (Zerk-type)  lubrication  fittings  make 
this  light  draft  possible. 


Both  levers  are  within  convenient  reach  of 
the  operator.  The  left-hand  lever  controls  the 
spreading  mechanism  and  the  right-hand  lever 
controls  the  operation  of  the  conveyor  at  six 


The  low  box  makes  loading  an  easy  job 


different  speeds.  The  driver  can  easily  regu- 
late the  quantity  of  manure  to  be  spread  while 
the  machine  is  in  operation. 

The  narrow  width  of  the  new  McCormick- 
Deering  allows  ready  passage  through  barn 
doors  and  field  gates. 

Two  revolving  all-steel  beaters  with  sharp, 
close-set  teeth  completely  shred  the  manure 
and  throw  it  back  to  the  wide-spread  spiral  at 
a  uniform  rate  of  speed.  The  curved  spiral  is 
a  special  feature — it  not  only  spreads  the 
manure  over  a  wide  surface  but  it  gives  the 
manure  an  extra  beating  as  it  comes  from 
the  upper  and  lower  beaters. 

The  seat  swings  forward  when  loading,  and 
the  auto-steer  front  truck  will  easily  turn  the 
spreader  so  short  as  to  pivot  on  the  rear 
wheels. 

It  is  this  type  of  good  farm-operating  equip- 
ment that  makes  a  good  farmer  better.  We 
invite  you  to  visit  the  store  of  the  McCormick- 
Deering  dealer  where  you  will  have  an  oppor- 
tunity to  ask  questions  and  to  have  the  many 
new  McCormick-Deering  features  explained 
fully. 


International  Harvester  Company 


606  So.  Michigan  Ave. 


OF  AMERICA 

[ Incorporated] 


Chicago,  Illinois 


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No  blister,  no  hair  gone,  and  horse  can 
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ALFALFA  HAY 

Select  Dairy  Alfalfa  for  sale.  Prompt 
shipment.    Write  for  delivered  price*. 

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198  No.  Clark  St.  Chicago,  Illinois 


Page  Sixteen 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1928 


Pedigreed 


Like  pedigreed  cattle  or 
pedigreed  seeds,  advertised 
goods  come  to  you  with  a 
reputation.  They  are  spon- 
sored by  reputable  firms.  You 
have  seen  their  names  and 
claims  for  years.  You  feel 
that  you  have  known  them 
all  your  life.  You  do  not 
hesitate  to  deal  with  such 
firms. 

All  this  is  as  it  should  be. 
The  farmer  and  the  farm- 
woman  know  that  only  repu- 
table firms  can  afford  to 
advertise  regularly.  Catch- 
penny schemes  are  not  ad- 
mitted to  the  advertising 
columns  of  reputable  farm 
papers.  It  is  to  the  pub- 
lisher's interests  to  protect 
his  readers  from  disappoint- 
ment in  goods  purchased  as 
well  as  from  downright  loss. 

Every  advertisement  in  this 
paper  is  a  buying  guide  to 
better  value.  Read  all  the 
advertisements — big  and  little. 
Make  it  a  habit.  If  there  is 
not  sufficient  information  in 
the  advertisement  itself  upon 
which  to  base  judgment,  write 
to  the  advertiser  for  his  print- 
ed matter. 

If  you  have  a  definite  prob- 
lem that  the  advertiser  should 
be  able  to  help  you  solve,  as- 
suming of  course  that  your 
problem  touches  the  goods  he 
manufactures,  write  to  him 
for  specific  information.  Tell 
him  that  you  saw  his  adver- 
tisement in  this  publication 
and  you  will  receive  prompt 
and  courteous  attention. 

The  advertisements  are 
friends  of  yours 


LYNDONVILLE  COMES  IN 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

were  sources  of  such  strong  irritation 
m  the  market  that  we  were  bound  to 
take   them   up   promptly   and  officially. 

The  first  conference  between  Mr. 
Davis  and  Mr.  Connor  bore  no  fruit, 
each  maintaining  the  impossibility  of 
meeting  the  views  of  the  other.  Pro- 
ducers in  the  various  locals  affected 
were  then  called  together  and  their 
officers  served  as  a  committee  to  pre- 
sent to  Mr.  Connor  the  viewpoint  of 
the  producers.  This  took  the  form  of 
a  unanimous  request  that  the  future 
payments  should  be  made  on  the 
NEMPA  basis.  Manager  Connor  could 
not  see  how  it  was  going  to  be  done 
but  took  the  matter  up  with  his  direc- 
tors. They  voted  to  canvass  the  patrons 
and  see  what  their  wishes  were  as  re- 
gards to  paying  on  the  old  basis  or 
accepting    the    surplus    plan  provisions. 

Before  such  a  canvass  had  been  made 
the  NEMPA  had  gone  ahead  with  its 
program  of  planning  ways  of  handling 
the  milk  if  a  final  breaking  off  of  ne- 
gotiations should  come.  Such  a  break- 
ing away  was  quite  near  when  word 
was  sent  to  Mr.  Davis  that  a  further 
conference  with  Mr.  Connor  might  be 
fruitful.  It  proved  very  fruitful. 
After  an  hour  or  two  together  they 
found  a  way  of  meeting  on  a  common 
ground  and  the  document  was  drawn 
up   for   signature  by  them. 

There  was  a  general  rejoicing  among 
the  patrons  at  this  satisfactory  out- 
come. None  were  more  relieved  than 
the  staff  of  the  NEMPA,  for  going  to 
extremes  not  only  meant  lots  of  work 
and  additional  expense  but  it  meant 
hard  feelings  between  those  who  stayed 
with  one  side  or  the  other  in  the  con- 
troversy. Altogether,  considering  the 
time  which  Lyndonville  has  been  out- 
side the  general  market  practice,  the 
outcome   was   highly  satisfactory 


RECORDS    OF  PRODUCTION 
NECESSARY  FOR  IM- 
PROVING HERDS 

Almost  every  herd  has  unprofitable 
producers,  and  the  sooner  these  animals 
are  weeded  out  the  easier  it  is  for 
other  improvement  factors,  such  as 
feeding  and  breeding,  to  show  their 
effect,  says  J.  B.  Parker,  associate 
dairy  husbandman,  United  States  De- 
partment of  Agriculture,  who  has  pre- 
pared a  brief  publication  on  "Improv- 
ing Dairy  Herds." 

Marked  improvement  in  the  herd  is 
difficult  to  obtain,  he  says,  unless 
records  are  kept  for  accurately  deter- 
mining the  production  of  individual 
cows,  their  feed  consumption  and 
economy  of  production.  These  may 
consist  of  private  records,  records  ob- 
tained by  cow-testing  circles  or  clubs, 
or  records  kept  by  dairy  herd  improve- 
ment associations.  At  the  present  time 
where  dairy  herd  improvement  associa- 
tions are  practical,  they  furnish  by 
far  the  best  method  of  keeping  records. 

Using  such  records  as  a  guide,  the 
farmer  with  the  help  of  the  tester  is 
able  to  figure  out  better  methods  of 
feeding,  care  and  management.  All 
cows  that  do  not  respond  profitably  to 
intelligent  feeding  are  eliminated  and 
careful  attention  given  to  problems  of 
breeding. 

A  copy  of  Leaflet  No.  19-L,  Improv- 
ing Dairy  Herds,  may  be  obtained  by 
writing  to  the  United  States  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture,  Washington,  D.  C 


Two  tourists  from  London,  both 
wearing  rather  conspicuous  clothes, 
were  talking  in  rather  condescending 
tones  to  an  old  Highlander,  who  was 
digging  his  garden. 

They  praised  his  flowers,  and  he 
grunted ;  they  praised  his  vegetables 
and  he   grunted  again. 

Then  one  of  them  asked  a  question. 

"I  suppose  you  sometimes  go  up  to 
London  to  see  the  sights?" 

The  old  Scot  looked  up  from  his 
digging  and  regarded  the  tourists 
quizzically. 

"Na,  na,"  he  murmured.  "We  jist 
wait  a  bit  an'  a'  the  sights  o'  London 
come  tae  the  Hielan's!" 


Save  on  first  cost  .  • 


Save  on  upkeep  .  .  . 


reroof  with 

more  0 than  waterproof 

Shingles 
Roll  Roofing 

MADE  IN  NEW  ENGLAND 


PATCHING  old  roofs  never 
saves  money.  If  you  go 
about  it  in  the  right  way, 
a  reroofing  job  will  repay 
you.  Consult  the  dealer 
in  your  vicinity.  Take  his 
advice  on  what  to  buy  and 
how  to  apply  it. 

He  will  tell  you  that 
Safekote  Slate-surfaced  As- 
phalt Shingles  are  durable, 
handsome,  inexpensive  and 
easy  to  apply.  That  they 
are  an  honest  New  England 
product,  especially  made 
for  your  purposes. 


If  you  are  looking  for 
roofing  at  minimum  cost 
that  is  durable  and  easy 
to  apply,  your  dealer  will 
show  you  Safekote  Roll 
Roofing.  It  is  made  of  the 
same  fire  and  weather  re- 
sisting material  as  the 
shingles,  in  smooth  and 
slate  surfaces. 

To  be  sure  of  a  good- 
looking  roof  that  will  ban- 
ish your  worries  for  years, 
see  your  dealer  today  about 
Safekote  Roofing.  Safepack 
Mills,  Millis,  Mass. 


Which  tenuis? 

The  same  acreage  of 

FERTILIZED  Pasture 

Provides  feed  for 

HCow» 

Unfertilized 

<>  Cow* 

LOWELL 

ANIMAL  < 

FERTILIZERS 

make  a  difference  1 


A»k  for  Price*  and  free  memo  booklet 
LOWELL  FERTILIZER  COMPANY,  40  No.  Market  St.,  Boiton,  Maw. 

Branch  Consolidated   Rendering:  Co. 


928 


*  April,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seventeen 


SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

H.  W.  FIENEMANN,  Mgr. 
Slide  Building,  44  Washington  Street.  Providence 

Telephone.  D*xt»r  646* 


MARCH  PRICES 

i  Providence   $4,052 

i  Fall  River    4.052 

New   Bedford    4.145 

Brockton    ^.952 

'Newport    3-467 

The   above   prices   are   per  hundred- 
weight for  3.7  per  cent,  milk  delivered 
at  dealers'  plants. 

We    have    had    just    about    a  com- 
fortable  supply  of  milk  in  the  different 
markets    of    this   district   and,    with  a 
few  exceptions,   dealers   have   not  had 
to  carry  much  surplus.     The  explana- 
tion for  this  condition  seems  to  be  that 
production   held    up   better    than  usual 
p  earlier  in  the  season  and  has  shortened 
^up  somewhat  recently.    Cows  and  grain 
.are  high.     Supplies  of  hay  and  silage 
iare    getting    low    and   apparently  pro- 
ducers do  not  care  to  push  production 
very  hard.    There  has  been  a  slight  in- 
crease in  sales. 

Cooling  Milk 
All   danger   of    frozen  milk   is  gone 
and  one  trouble  has  been  removed.  But 
jour    old    standby,    sour    milk,    has  al- 
ready   shown    up.      One    well  known 
Providence  dealer   reported  the  receipt 
f of  60  cans   of   sour  milk   within  two 
jdays.    The  acidity  of  the  remainder  of 
ithe  milk  on  these  loads  was  also  high. 
It  would  soon  have  been  sour.    This,  he 
believes,   could   have   been    avoided  by 
•  proper  cooling  at  the  farm. 
1    Who    loses    money    when    the  milk 
breaches  the  dealer  sour?     Nobody  but 
ithe  producer,  and  in  nine  cases  out  of 
10  he  can  prevent  the  loss.    Cool  milk 
down  to  50  or  60  degrees  as  soon  as 
possible  after  milking  and  the  trouble 
will  disappear.    There   is.  a  saying  in 
the   Providence   market    that    the  pro- 
ducer  who   continually   has   sour  milk 
in  summer  is  very  apt  to  have  badly 
frozen  milk  in  winter.     Both  troubles 
can  generally  be  avoided  by  proper  care. 

Now  that  warm  weather  is  coming 
production  will  increase.  It  is  coming 
us  as  producers  to  ship  milk  of  good 
quality,    thereby    encouraging  increased 

Collecting  Accounts 
Your  district  manager  has  had  a 
-liberal  introduction  as  to  how  the  law 
works  when  a  man  apparently  tries  to 
ievade  payment  of  his  debts.  The  11 
accounts  for  which  we  had  served  as 
many  writs  of  attachment  on  one 
Providence  milk  dealer  have  been  as- 
igned  on  the  court  calendar  and  some 


lof  them  have  been  reached.  In  the 
jfirst  one  reached  the  verdict  went  to 
ithe  plaintiff,  Clarence  Daggett  of  Cen- 
Jtral  Village,  Conn.,  by  default.  The 
llsecond  one,  brought  on  behalf  of  Her- 
man Frink  of  Ekonk  Hill,  Conn.,  was 
settled  out  of  court. 

Another  dealer  in  Fall  River  paid 
tup  after  attachments  had  been  served 
on  him.  Before  the  attachments  were 
lactually  served  he  informed  our  at- 
torney, Reuben  Hall,  and  myself,  that 
all  his  property  was  mortgaged  and 
payment  could  not  be  forced  by  at- 
tachment. However,  we  collected  the 
money  and  the  dealer  agreed  to  pay 
'the  costs  of  the  attachment. 
'  However,  don't  any  of  you  sell  to 
dealers  whom  you  think  may  be  un- 
reliable just  because  we  have  been  able 
to  collect  these  back  accounts  for  some 
of  our  members.  If  you  are  doing 
business  with  any  dealer  who  is  slow 
jin  payment  come  in  and  talk  it  over 
with  the  district  manager  before  his 
jdebt  to  you  gets  very  large.  There 
are  plenty  of  responsible  dealers  in  the 
'market  and  it  may  be  wise  for  you  to 
change  to  one.  We  would  be  glad  to 
talk  the  thing  over  with  you  and  assist 
you  in  getting  on  as  a  patron  of  a  re- 
liable dealer  if  the  change  seems  wise. 

Local  Meeting 

Foster  Center  local  held  its  annual 
^meeting  at  the  Town  House  on  March 


15.  The  Home  Mission  Circle  served 
a  dinner,  and  l)elieve  me,  it  was  a 
good  one.  Foster  Center  people  cer- 
tainly know  how  to  cook  and  I'm  still 
thinking  about  Mrs.  Brown's  pies.  At 
least  40  producers  attended  the  busi- 
ness meeting  in  which  Carl  Bruhn  was 
elected  president  and  Herman  Harring- 
ton secretary-treasurer.  The  trucking 
problem  was  discussed  and  a  special 
committee  was  elected  to  take  it  up, 
consisting  of  Ghent  Hold  worth,  Everett 
M.  Howard,  Walter  D.  Collins,  Ellis 
B.  Bennis  and  Olvey  A.  Knight. 


This  meeting  was  about  as  lively  as 
any  held  this  winter.  Dairymen  sure 
have  a  lot  to  talk  about  when  they  get 
together.  Everyone  was  much  inter- 
ested in  the  Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund 
and  all  are  strong  for  it. 


swered  Ethel.  "I  think  he  does,  but 
he  hollers  in  different  places." 


Billy  Sunday  was  at  a  minister 
friend's  home,  and  was  thinking  of 
something  to  ask  his  host's   little  girl. 

"Ethel,"  said  Billy  with  a  twinkle  in 
his  eye,  "does  your  papa  ever  preach 
the  same  sermon  twice?" 

"Yes,    Mr.    Sunday,"    seriously  an- 


North — "Don't  you  agree  that  speed 
is  the  curse  of  America?" 

West — "No,  I  can't  say  I  do.  I'm 
an    installment  collector." 


A  Missouri  newspaper  remarks : 
"Lot's  wife  had  nothing  much  on  Mrs. 
Dave  Kirk.  The  former  looked  back 
and  turned  into  a  pillar  of  salt;  Mrs. 
Dave  looked  back  and  turned  into  a 
telephone  pole." 


n  n  n  n 


The  Gate  Closed  Now 
Means  Plenty  of  Pasture  in  June 

npELL  the  cows  it's  for  their  own  good  you're  keeping  the 
**■  gate  closed  when  they  get  to  bawling  and  sniffing  the 
freshness  of  new  spring  grass  after  an  April  shower. 

If  they're  turned  in  now  to  trample  sod  left  soggy  from  the 
spring  thaw  and  April  showers,  they'll  injure  the  roots,  they'll 
crush  the  tender  blades  and  that  pasture  will  dry  right  up  when 
summer  drought  comes  on.  When  July  brings  its  flies  and 
heat,  they'll  need  the  grass  to  keep  up  the  milk  flow.  It  will 
take  more  feed  to  keep  up  the  milk  flow  then  than  it  will  take 
to  keep  them  off  the  grass  now.  Feed  Purina  now  just  as  in 
winter  and  get  more  milk  and  more  money  off  the  pasture  later. 
Order  it  from  the  store  with  the  checkerboard  sign. 

PURINA  MILLS,  850  Gratiot  Street,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Eight  Busy  Mills  Located  for  Service 

Write  us  for  a  Purina  Cow  Booklet- 


PURINA  CHOWS 


24%  PROTEIN 
20%  PROTEIN 
CALF  CHOW  BULKY-LAS 


COW  CHOW 
COW  CHOW 

PIG  CHOW     HOG  CHOW 


GTT 


u  u  u 


Page  Eighteen 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1928 


HOLDING  THE  LINE 

(Continued  from  page  seven) 

properly  credited  to  each  producer. 
What  remained  of  the  afternoon  he  put 
in  visiting  producers  who  seemed  to 
need  a  little  assistance  in  getting  their 
milk  moving  regularly  and  in  attending 
to  many  minor  details  of  taking  care 
of  the  needs  of  these  producers.  Stearns 
has  the  reputation  of  working  well  into 
the  night  sometimes  and  we  have  no 
information  as  to  what  time  he  quit  on 
that  particular  day.  If  it  had  come  on 
some  other  day  he  might  have  had  a 
long  evening  meeting  on  top  of  the 
strenuous  day. 

Foley  has  been  getting  just  about 
the  same  kind  of  a  program  at  East 
Fairfield.  It  seemed  best  for  him  to 
sleep  nights  at  Sheldon  even  though 
he  had  to  drive  ten  miles  over  the 
road  each  morning  to  be  on  hand  when 
the  producers  began  coming  in  with 
their  milk  about  9  o'clock.  He  has  to 
work  faster  than  Stearns  for  his  car- 
load has  to  be  ready  to  go  out  at  noon 
foT  the  St.  Albans  Co-operative.  He 
handles  135  or  more  jugs  of  milk  in 
the  car  every  day  and  keeps  track  of 
the  shipments  so  that  each  producer 
will  get  credit  for  what  he  ships.  It 
would  be  a  very  easy  matter  to  get 
these  accounts  mixed  up  and  cause  a 
lot  of  trouble.  Both  men  are  prac- 
tically keeping  the  books  as  well  as 
serving  as  train  hands. 

Three  days  a  week  Foley  spends  his 
afternoons  at  St.  Albans  checking  up 
on  accounts  and  seeing  that  everything 
is  going  well  from  that  end.  He  has 
also  been  having  his  hands  full  with 
transportation  questions.  In  one  in- 
stance he  found  that  he  had  sent  out 
three  full  cars  of  milk  to  St.  Albans 
and  had  not  received  any  cars  or  any 
cans  back  again.  Then  one  day  he 
found  that  in  order  to  have  his  full 
allotment  of  cans  he  had  to  do  some 
lugging  himself.  He  personally  carried 
100  of  the  40  quart  jugs  from  the 
plant  down  to  the  track  where  the 
empty  car  was  located.  Foley  started 
off  on  the  six  day  a  week  program 
but  due  to  the  change  in  the  place  of 
shipment  gets  no  more  Sundays  off 
On  top  of  these  various  duties  he  finds 
time  to  visit  a  good  many  farmers  and 
talk  things   over  with  them. 

Parmalee  at  Brandon  has  had  dif- 
ferent problems  to  face  but  did  not 
have  to  carry  on  quite  so  long  as  the 
Brandon  plant  of  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Co.  was  sold  to  the 
Whiting  Co.  However,  from  Febru- 
ary 2  to  March  15  he  was  bookkeeper 
shipper,  jug  handler  and  teamster. 
Whatever  job  needed  doing  he  did  it. 
He  had  some  good  help  for  Brandon 
is  his  home  town  and  he  has  lots  of 
friends.  His  record  will  speak  for 
itself.  On  February  1  he  got  the  or- 
ders to  assist  the  Brandon  producers  in 
placing  their  milk  elsewhere.  On  Feb- 
ruary 2  all  but  one  of  them  had  re- 
fused to  sell  to  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Co.  On  February 
3  the  "last  one  withdrew  his  milk 
Parmalee  can  justly  be  called  the  100 
per  cent.  man. 

He  made  one  mistake,  however.  On 
the  evening  of  February  2  he  tele- 
phoned the  Boston  office  that  only  72 
pounds  of  milk  was  delivered  that 
morning  at  the  plant  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products  Co.  He  was 
in  error.  We  find  on  careful  checking 
that  only  52  pounds  was  delivered  by 
the  one  producer  who  did  not  transfer 
the  first  day. 

When  the  Brandon  producers  decided 
to  sell  their  milk  elsewhere  arrange- 
ments were  made  to  have  it  handled 
at  the  Middlebury  Co-operative.  The 
first  day  Parmalee  took  it  all  up  by 
truck,  making  two  round  trips.  The 
second  day  he  had  a  bigger  truck  hired 
so  that  he  did  not  have  to  actually 
handle  the  milk  himself.  But  every  day 
from  then  until  March  19  Parmalee 
went  to  Middlebury  and  looked  after 
the  deliveries  and  handling  of  the  milk 
at  that  end.  It  was  a  considerable 
task  for  the  co-operative  to  handle 
all  this  additional  milk  but  Parmalee 
and  others  helped  them  out  and  they 
got  along  pretty  well. 

The  first  day  at  Brandon  was  an 
eye  opener.  O.  E.  Backus  &  Sons, 
grain    dealers,    showed    their  friendly 


feeling  for  the  farmers  and  their  ap- 
preciation of  the  effort  which  was  be- 
ing made  by  offering  the  rear  of  their 
grain  store  as  a  receiving  and  shipping 
station.  Parmalee  gladly  accepted  the 
offer  and  started  in  doing  business 
there.  The  grain  store  is  just  across 
the  way  from  the  shipping  station  of 
the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Co.  and  all  the  operations  were  in  full 
sight  of  the  plant. 

Cans  were  Parmalee's  chief  trial. 
The  farmers  had  been  bringing  milk 
into  the  plant  in  their  own  cans  and 
getting  the  same  cans  back  again.  They 
did  not  have  a  second  set  and  it  was 
necessary  for  them  to  come  back  again 
in  the  afternoon  when  the  empties  re- 
turned by  truck  from  Middlebury. 
Many  of  them  had  to  drive  an  extra 
ten  miles  seven  days  in  the  week 
through  hard  traveling.  They  did  it 
with  good  will,  however,  and  expressed 
their  willingness  to  do  more  if  needed. 
The  cans  were  not  marked  and  Parma- 
lee had  a  tough  time  in  getting  the 
right  cans  back  to  the  right  farmer. 
Tags  were  not  conspicuous  enough  and 
got  lost.  Finally  when  he  painted  the 
names  on  the  outside  of  the  can  big 
enough  so  that  one  could  read  them 
three  rods  off  the  problem  was  solved. 
He  reports  that  only  one  can  was  lost 
in  all  that  time.    It  is  a  fine  record. 

When  the  milk  was  shifted  over  to 
the  Whiting  Co.  plant  at  Leicester 
Junction,  February  19,  it  helped  just  a 
little  as  the  trucks  did  not  have  to 
make  quite  so  long  a  trip  and  less  su- 
pervision was  necessary  at  the  receiv- 
ing end.  Our  field  man,  with  his  chief 
assistants,  President  Scott  Hammond 
and  Secretary  Robert  P.  Dean  of  the 
Brandon  local  were  right  glad  when  the 
Whiting  Co.  actually  reopened  the 
Brandon  plant  March  15.  All  these 
producers  have  been  regular  Whiting 
patrons  since  that  time. 


STATEMENT   OF  THE  OWNERSHIP, 
MANAGEMENT,  CIRCULATION 
Etc.,  Required  by  the*  Act  of  Congress  of 
August  24,  1913 

Of  the  New  England  Dairyman,  published 
monthly  at  Boston,  Mass.,  for  April  1st, 
1928. 

state  of  Massachusetts. 

<  ounty  of  Suffolk,  ss. 

Before  me,  a  Notary  Public,  in  and  for 
the  State  and  County  aforesaid,  personally 
appeared  P.  L.  Weare,  who,  having  been 
duly  sworn,  according  to  law,  deposes  and 
says  that  he  is  the  Business  Manager  of 
the  New  England  Dairyman,  and  that  the 
lollowing  is,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge 
and  belief,  a  true  statement  of  the  owner- 
ship, management  (and  if  a  daily  paper, 
the  circulation),  etc.,  of  the  aforesaid  pub- 
lication for   the  date  shown   in   the  above 

<  aption,  required  by  the  Act  of  August  21, 
1912,  embodied  in  section  443,  Postal  Laws 
and  Regulations  printed  on  the  reverse  of 
this  form,  to  wit: 

1.  That  the  names  and  addresses  of  the 
publisher,  editor,  and  business  managers 
are:  Publishers.  New  England  Milk  Pro- 
ducers  Assn.,  51  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.; 
Harry  L.  Piper,  editor,  51  Cornhill,  Bos- 
ton, Mass;  Business  Manager,  F.  L.  Weare, 
jl  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 

2.  That  the  owners  are: 

New  England  Milk  Producers  Assn.,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 

^Geo.    R.    Little,    President,  Schaghticoke, 

R.  A.  Sikes,  Vice-President,  Ellington, 
Conn. 

L-  Webster,  Treasurer,  West  Canaan. 

H.  P.  Davis.  General  Manager,  51  Corn- 
hill, Boston,  Mass. 

3.  That  the  known  bondholders,  mort- 
gagees and  other  security  holders  owning 
or  holding  1  per  cent,  or  more  of  total 
amount  of  bonds,  mortgages  or  other  se- 
curities are:  None. 

That  the  two  paragraphs  next  above, 
living  the  names  of  the  owners,  stock- 
holders, and  security  holders,  if  any,  con- 
tain not  only  the  list  of  stockholders  and 
security  holders  as  they  appear  upon  the 
books  of  the  company,  but  also  in  cases 
where  the  stockholder  or  security  holder 
appears  upon  the  books  of  the  company,  as 
trustee  or  in  any  other  fiduciary  relation,, 
the  name  of  the  person  or  corporation  for' 
whom  snrh  trustee  is  acting,  is  given;  also 
that  tli"  said  two  paragraphs  contain  statp- 
ments  embracing  affiant's  full  knowledge 
and  belier  as  to  the  circumstances  and 
conditions  under  which  stockholders  and 
security  holders  who  do  not  appear  upon 
the  books  of  the  company  as  trustees,  hold 
stock  and  securities  in  a  capacity  othpr 
than  that  of  a  bona  fide  owner;  and  this 
affiant  has  no  reason  to  believe  that  anv 
other  person,  association  or  corporation  has 
any  interest,  direct  or  indirect,  in  the  said 
stock,  bonds,  or  other  securities  than  as 
so  stated  by  him. 

That  the  average  number  of  copies  of 
r>anh  issue  of  this  publication  sold  or  dis- 
tributed, through  the  mails  or  otherwise, 
to  paid  subscribers  during  the  six  months 
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A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  11.    Number  1 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  APRIL,  1927 


50  Cents  Per  Fear 


EMBARGO  ON  CANADIAN 
MILK 


New  England  Railroad  Rate  Committee 


Federal  Authorities  Ban  Entrance 

Into  United  States— Typhoid 

Epidemic  in  Montreal 

Substantial  proof  that  the  Lenroot- 
?aber  bill  calling  for  the  inspection  of 
Canadian  milk  and  cream  which  was  to 
e  imported  into  this  country  came  unex- 
ectedly  March  28,  when  an  absolute  em- 
argo  against  milk  or  cream  from  within 

00  miles  of  Montreal  was  ordered  by 
Jnited  States  authorities.  This  summary 
ction  was  caused  by  the  typhoid  fever 
pidemic  which  is  raging  in  Montreal  and 
,hich  has  been  traced  to  the  milk  supply, 
lilk  and  cream  for  New  England  and 
Jew  York  use  were  coming  from  the 
ame  general  region.  The  embargo  bans 
11  milk  and  cream  in  that  area  from  com- 
lg  into  the  United  States  until  the  danger 

1  past. 

The  embargo  has  no  direct  connection 
nth  the  Lenrobt-Taber  bill  which  will 
p  into  effect  the  middle  of  May,  but 
alls  attention  to  a  condition  which  the 
.enroot-Taber  bill  seeks  to  correct.  We 
ave  been  strong  advocates  of  the  Lenroot- 
aber  bill  on  the  ground  that  New  Eng- 
ihd  dairymen  were  under  an  unfair  dis- 
dvantage  because  their  product,  pro- 
uced  and  marketed  under  a  strict  system 
f  health  inspection,  came  into  competi- 
on  with  milk  and  cream  from  Canada 
'hich  was  not  under  any  such  system  of 
ispection.  The  value  of  our  inspection 
/stem  in  preventing  any  spread  of  disease 
irough  a  milk  supply  is  indicated  in  our 
■eedom  from  any  serious  outbreak  of 
nfectuous  disease  traceable  to  milk. 
Canadian  conditions  are  quite  different, 
he  outbreak  of  typhoid  came  early  in 
larch.  Since  then  more  than  1,200  cases 
ave  been  reported  with  41  deaths.  Late 
:ports  show  more  than  50  new  cases  a 
ay.  They  were  traceable  to  the  supply 
jf  milk  coming  from  one  dealer  who  sells 
tout  one-sixth  of  the  entire  supply  of 
|ie  city.  The  disease  was  still  spreading 
l'om  the  same  source  nearly  a  month 
:ter  the  first  outbreak. 
Under  an  adequate  system  of  inspection 
I  hich  would  give  the  authorities  an  op- 
Ipfturfity  to  take  quick  action  it  is  in- 
edible that  the  disease  could  have  gained 
ich  headway  or  that  the  source  of  in- 
ction  should  not  have  been  detected  and 
opped  promptly.  We  cannot  imagine 
tr  Boston  health  department,  or  the 
:alth  departments  of  any  New  England 
ty,  allowing  a  situation  like  this  to  con- 
lue  and  grow  worse  for  nearly  a  month. 
I  hat  is  apparently  what  the  Montreal 
!  ithorities  did  and  their  failure  to  take 
'.'ompt  and  effective  action  led  to  the 
|tibargo  from  Washington. 
I  The  embargo  was  ordered  by  the 
i  ureau  of  Chemistry,  U.  S.  D.  A.,  under 
lie  Federal  food  and  drug  act  which 
<  ithorizes  the  exclusion  of  articles  dan- 
i  :rous  to  health.  In  placing  the  embargo 
I  e  bureau  had  the  co-operation  and  ad- 
jce  of  the  United  States  public  health 
rvice,  the  state  department,  and  the 
jiistoms  bureau  of  the  treasury  depart- 
( ent.  Effective  machinery  was  set  in 
,  otion  to  prevent  any  milk  from  the  area 
;  hich  was  under  suspicion  from  coming 
I  to  the  United  States.  The  embargo 
(as  placed  on  a  200  mile  radius  of  Mont- 
al  which  includes  all  the  territory  which 
ips  cream  or  milk  into  the  United 
j|       (Continued  on  page  nine) 


Center — above,  Carl  C.  Fletcher,  Shelburne,  Vt,  chairman ;  below,  Weston  B. 
Haskell,  Turner  Centre  System  treasurer.  Top — left,  Francis  S.  Thayer,  Woon- 
socket,  R.  I.;  right,  C.  A. 'Bray,  Buckland,  Mass.  Middle— left,  W.  H.  Bronson, 
NEMPA  secretary;  right,  Carl  A.  Smith,  Manchester,  N.  H.  Below— left,  R. 
A.  Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  right,  F.  H.  Bickford,  Bradford,  Vt.  W.  C.  Fuller, 
Richmond,  Vt.,  was  also  a  member  of  the  committee. 


Here  they  are ;  the  men  who  saved  you 
$875,000.  We  hope  and  believe  that  they 
have  saved  you  many  times  that  amount 
by  preventing  the  railroads  of  New  Eng- 
land from  increasing  the  transportation 
rates  on  milk.  But  this  $875,000  is  a 
known  savi.ig  which  can  be  set  down  i.i 
blfids  and  white  print  to  the  credit  of 
!ho  New  England  Railroad  Rate  Com- 
mittfc  shown  above. 

The  increased  rates  were  asked  for 
more  than  a  year  ago  and  would  have 
gone  into  effect  April  1,  1926,  if  the  con. 


mittee  had  not  raised  vigorous  objections 
and  asked  for  a  suspension  of  the  in- 
creased rates. 

Various  suspensions  of  the  rates  have 
been  made  while  the  case  was  being  heard 
before  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission. The  latest  is  a  suspension  to 
June  1,  next.  This  makes  14  months  dur- 
ing which  you  have  not  had  to  pay  the 
increase  of  20  per  cent,  to  get  your  milk 
to  market.  The  increase  asked  for 
(Continued  on  page  thirteen) 


NEW  ENGLAND  COUNCIL 
AUTHORIZES  STUDY 

Asks   Commissioners   of  Agricul- 
ture to  Look  Into  Systems 
of  Marketing 

Efforts  to  bring  about  a  co-ordination 
of  the  various  price  systems  under  which 
milk  is  being  marketed  in  New  England 
are  being  made  by  the  New  England 
Council.  Acting  as  the  result  of  the  re- 
quest of  the  representative  meeting  of  the 
dairy  interests  at  the  recent  marketing 
conference,  the  council  voted  last  week  to 
make  a  general  study  of  these  various 
plans  with  the  idea  of  suggesting  some 
way  in  which  the  existing  differences  may 
be  harmonized  and  greater  market 
stability  assured. 

The  council  requested  the  commissioners 
of  agriculture  of  the  New  England  states 
to  make  this  study  as  representatives  of 
the  council.  This  was  in  order  to  avoid 
the  necessity  of  setting  up  special  ma- 
chinery for  the  study  and  because  the 
commissioners  of  agriculture  would  have 
great  influence  in  bringing  about  any 
changes  which  might  be  suggested  as  the 
result  of  the  study. 

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  commis- 
sioners a  general  outline  of  policies  was 
adopted  as  a  preliminary  to  the  study.  It 
was  planned  to  have  a  series  of  informal 
hearings  before  the  commissioners  in 
which  the  various  groups  would  be  asked 
to  state  their  general  plans  of  operation, 
systems  of  price  making  and  marketing 
policies.  There  would  be  an  opportunity 
to  ask  questions  and  for  the  commis- 
sioners to  get  a  good  idea  of  the  good 
points,  also  the  defects,  in  each  of  the 
plans  of  selling  dairy  products.  It  is 
probable  that  the  various  groups  will  be 
heard  separately  as  they  might  be  more 
free  to  answer  questions  and  a  certain 
amount  of  argument  could  be  avoided  at 
this  preliminary  session  or  sessions. 

Having  secured  the  general  background 
for  their  consideration  the  commissioners 
will  turn  their  own  men  loose  to  get 
such  additional  information  as  they  want 
before  making  any  general  recommenda- 
tions to  the  council  as  to  any  course  of 
action.  The  detailed  study  of  the  dairy 
industry  in  New  England  now  being  made 
by  W.  A.  Schoenfeld  of  the  U.  S.  D.  A., 
will  be  of  considerable  assistance,  so  far 
as  it  has  gone,  but  the  purpose  of  the 
study  which  the  commissioners  are  mak- 
ing at  the  request  of  the  council  is  more 
in  the  line  of  harmonizing  differences  in 
existing  sales  plans  which  tend  to  disrupt 
the  markets  than  to  make  recommenda- 
itons  as  to  a  long  term  policy  of  co-opera- 
tive marketing,  such  as  might  grow  out 
of  Mr.  Schoenfeld's  survey.  It  is  hoped 
to  bring  about  some  rather  quick  results 
in  this  study  through  which  the  council 
and  the  commissioners  hope  to  be  of  dis- 
tinct service  to  the  dairy  industry  of  all 
New  England. 

The  plan  of  having  a  conference  board 
to  discuss  milk  marketing  problems  is  an 
altogether  different  project  from  the 
study  undertaken  by  the  commissioners  as 
pointed  out  by  Dr.  A.  W.  Gilbert,  Com- 
missioner of  Agriculture  for  Massachu- 
setts. The  good  offices  of  the  council  and 
the  commissioners  are  being  offered  in 
the  hope  that  a  better  basis  of  under- 
standing will  be  reached  among  the 
various  dairy  marketing  organizations. 
(Continued  on  page  thirteen) 


Page  Two 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1927 


Plan  of  Connecticut  Milk  Producers  Association 


The  little  "Nutmeg  State"  of  Con- 
necticut is  showing  the  world  what  can 
be  done  by  a  bargaining  organization  in 
marketing  dairy  products.  To  be  sure 
she  is  small,  she  is  overwhelmingly  a 
factory  state,  but  she  does  make  milk 
enough  to  supply  her  people  and  quite 
a  bit  more  for  cream. 

The  Connecticut  Milk  Producers'  As- 
sociation was  born  late  in  1916.  New 
York  producers  had  just  gone  through 
a  successful  milk  strike.  Boston  had 
won  her  hard  fought  battle.  Organiza- 
tion and  reorganization  was  in  the  air, 
and  that  little  block  of  territory  fell  in 
line  with  an  association  of  her  own 
which  despite  all  difficulties  has  main- 
tained a  sturdy  independence  and  in 
many  respects  has  set  a  leading  pace. 

In  some '  ways  the  CMPA  has  been 
especially  favored.  From  the  first  she 
has  had  exceptional  leadership.  The 
Connecticut  Yankee  has  had  the  good 
sense  to  select  able  generals  and  subject 
himself  to  thorough  dicipline.  It  hasn't 
always  been  a  mamby-pamby,  Alphonse- 
Gaston  sort  of  organization  either. 
Good  old-fashioned  storms  have  simply 
cleared  the  air  and  broken  up  the  clouds 
that  hovered  threateningly  at  times.  These 
Yankees  have  independence  tempered  by 
common  sense.  They  have  excellent 
near-by  markets  and  they  know  that  if 
they  get  to  fighting  too  much  among 
themselves  some  outsider  will  come  in 
and  steal  their  trade  away. 

Connecticut  has  developed  a  state 
policy  which  may  or  may  not  be  sound 
with  respect  to  her  dairy  business.  She 
says,  in  effect,  that  as  long  as  enough 
milk  is  produced  within  her  borders  to 
supply  her  people  and  the  price  is  kept 
at  a  reasonable  figure  she  will  protect 
her  dairymen  against  the  dumping  of 
cheap  out  of  state  products  in  her  mar- 
kets. This  she  does  through  her  sani- 
tary inspection  laws  and  regulations. 
The  first  secretary-manager  of  the  pro- 
ducers' organization  became  the  official 
whose  duty  it  is  to  safeguard  the  milk 
supply.  His  policy  of  excluding  by 
failure  to  inspect  dairies  outside  the 
state  creates  a  protective  wall  around 
her  markets  that  gives  her  own  dairy- 
men an  exceptional  opportunity  which 
they  have  had  the  good  judgment  to 
utilize  without  abuse. 

The  Connecticut  Milk  Producers'  As- 
sociation operates  in  all  except  a  portion 
of  New  London  county  and  the  extreme 
eastern  part  of  the  state  which  ships 
milk  to  Providence  and  Boston.  The 
membership  of  3,352  represents  approxi- 
mately 50  per  cent,  of  all  the  com- 
mercial dairy  farmers  of  the  state  and 
pretty  nearly  100  per  cent,  of  those 
supplying  milk  to  the  markets  in  which 
the  association  operates.  The  members, 
who  are  under  yearly  contracts,  deliver 
to  the  buyers  about  302,000  quarts  of 
milk  per  day  or  about  19,000,000  pounds 
per  month.  This  milk  is  sold  by  the 
association  in  35  markets,  the  more  im- 
portant being  Hartford,  New  Haven, 
Bridgeport,  Waterbury,  New  Britain, 
Stamford  and  Meriden. 

One  hundred  and  three  buyers  do 
business  with  the  association.  Ninety- 
two  percent,  of  the  association  milk  is 
sold  on  the  pooling  or  surplus  plan. 
The  members  appoint  the  association 
their  sole  and  exclusive  sales  agent  for 
all  milk  produced,  agreeing  to  abide  by 
its  methods  of  sale  and  to  deliver  to 
whomever  it  directs  a  specified  amount 
which  each  agrees  to  produce  subject  to 
certain  penalties  for  over  or  under  pro- 
duction. The  dealers  have  an  associa- 
tion, representatives  of  which  meet  the 
producers'  association  each  month  to 
negotiate  prices. 

The  plan  used  by  the  Connecticut 
Milk  Producers'  Association : 

L  Provides  a  market  for  all  milk 
produced  by  members. 

2.  Stabilizes  production  and  rewards 
the  even  producer. 

3.  Cuts  wastes  from  farm  to  market. 
Provides  a  Market  for  All  Milk  Pro- 


General  Discussion  of  Policies  which  have  Proved  Suc- 
cessful in  Stabilizing  Supply  of  Milk  by  System  of  Fines 
for  Over  Production  or  Under  Production.    Would  it 
Work  for  All  New  England? 


duced.  Milk  is  sold  on  a  classified  price 
plan  basis  under  four  classes.  Thus 
when  production  is  greater  than  the 
needs  of  the  fluid  milk  market  that 
product  can  still  be  received  and  util- 
ized as  cream.  If  production  is  greater 
than  the  fluid  milk  and  cream  needs  the 
excess  milk  can  then  go  into  cheese 
or  butter.  For  each  one  of  these  uses 
the  dealer  pays  a  price  based  on  the 
value  of  the  product  into  which  it  goes. 
Under  this  plan  all  the  farm  produc- 
tion can  be  accepted  and  highest  pos- 
sible returns  obtained,  since  the  surplus 
production  is  taken  care  of  in  such  a 
way  that  the  fluid  milk  price  is  not  de- 
stroyed or  affected. 

The  following  table  gives  the  prices 
paid  by  one  dealer  in  November  for 
milk  delivered  at  the  market  and  shows 
how  the  weighted  price  is  obtained. 
These  prices  are  for  4  per  cent,  milk 
which  is  the  basis  of  test  upon  which 
Connecticut  prices  are  made.  The  re- 
turns made  by  the  dealer  are  verified  by 
an  accountant  employed  by  the  as- 
sociation. 

NOVEMBER,  1926 


Prices  Paid  4  Per  Cent. 

Milk 

Percentage 

Del.  price      sales  in 

Weighted 

Class              per  cwt.    each  class 

price 

1.  Fluid              4.42  79% 

J3.49 

2.  Cream    .  . .  2.84  20% 

.57 

3.  Mfgd. 

4.  Butter    . . .  1.93  1% 

.02 

Weighted  price,  all  milk 

$4.08 

Deduction  for  transportation  and 

can  service 

.36 

Final  price  4%  milk 

3.72 

Final  price  per  quart 

$  .08 

The  above  prices  for  4  per  cent,  milk 
were  at  9J4  cents  per  quart  for  fluid  or 
Class  1  milk.  The  Class  2  milk  used 
for  cream  is  paid  for  at  22^2  cents  per 
pounds  of  butter  fat  above  the  average 
daily  Boston  92  score  fresh  butter 
quotation.  That  quotation  in  Novem- 
ber was  48.38  cents  per  pound.  This 
figure  plus  22J/2  cents  gives  the  price 
per  pound  for  butter  fat  of  70.88  cents 
which  when  multiplied  by  4  gives  a 
price  for  100  pounds  of  4  per  cent,  milk 
used  in  cream  of  $2.84.  No  milk  was 
sold  in  Class  3,  this  being  for  all  milk 
made  into  manufactured  products  ex- 
cept butter.  The  price  for  this  class  of 
milk  per  pound  of  butterfat  is  the  aver- 
age butter  quotation  plus  10  cents  per 
pound.  In  November  this  price  was 
58.38  cents  per  pound  of  butterfat  or 
$2.34  per  hundred  pounds  of  4  per 
cent  milk.  Class  4  is  the  milk  used  in 
making  butter  which  is  paid  for  per 
pound  of  butterfat  at  the  average  butter 
quotation  or  for  November,  48.38  cents 
per  pound  or  $1.93  per  hundredweight. 

The  weighted  price  is  arrived  at  by 
multiplying  the  percentage  of  the  deal- 
er's sales  in  each  class  by  the  price  for 
that  class.  In  November  for  this 
dealer  the  weighted  price  figured  $4.08 
per  hundred  for  4  per  cent.  milk.  The 
transportation  charge  and  can  service  of 


36  cents  per  hundred  was  then  deducted 
to  give  the  final  farm  or  state  road  de- 
livered price  of  $3.72  per  hundred  or 
8  cents  per  quart  for  4  per  cent.  milk. 
Prices  vary  between  dealers  based  on 
their  percentage  of  sales  in  the  various 
classes  and  between  producers  based  on 
the  transportation  charges  and  butterfat 
tests.  In  principle  this  plan  is  identical 
with  the  Boston  surplus  plan. 

Stabilizes  Production  and  Rewards 
the  Efficient,  Even  Producer.  The  second 
accomplishment  of  the  CMPA  plan  is 
the  stabilization  of  production  and  the 
rewarding  of  the  efficient,  even  pro- 
ducer. Each  producer  agrees  on 
April  1st  to  produce  a  speci- 
fied amount  of  milk  monthly  through 
the  year.  He  names  his  own  amount. 
If  he  makes  more  or  less  than  the 
agreed  amount  he  is  penalized  2  cents 
per  quart  on  his  excess  or  shortage  of 
production.  The  total  of  these  penalties 
is  paid  back  to  the  producers  as  a  re- 
fund on  a  basis  of  the  net  amount  due 
after  penalties  have  been  deducted.  The 
producer  who  comes  near  his  specified 
production  gets  more  back  in  refunds 
than  he  loses  in  penalties  and  thus  is 
rewarded  for  his  even  production. 

The  uneven  producer  gets  less  back 
in  refunds  than  he  had  deducted  for 
penalties  and  thus  suffers  because  of  un- 
even production.  The  matter  of  pro- 
ducing the  way  the  fluid  market  re- 
quires its  supply — on  an  even  basis — ■ 
comes  back  to  the  individual  farmer. 
The  responsibility  is  his.  If  he  pro- 
duces more  or  less  than  what  he  agreed 
to  he  sees  the  penalty  deducted  from  his 
milk  check.  If  he  produces  just  what 
he  agreed  to  furnish  he  sees  the  reward 
for  even  production  added  to  his  milk 
check.  There  is  no  agency  that  will 
bring  even  production  quicker  than  that 
which  effects  the  pocketbook  of  the  in- 
dividual producer. 

In  order  not  to  bear  down  too  hard 
on  the  man  who  has  just  started  selling 
under  the  plan,  first  year  deliveries  are 
allowed  to  change  their  specified  amount 
once  during  the  year.  Producers  also 
who  have  a  fire,  disease,  "T.  B."  test 
or  any  similar  disaster  which  makes  it 
impossible  to  continue  normal  produc- 
tion are  relieved  of  their  obligation  to 
deliver  a  specified  amount  and  may 
have  their  amount  reduced.  Producers 
who  try  to  swap  milk  so  as  to  prevent 
penalties  or  who  try  to  sell  their  pro- 
duction above  the  specified  amount  to 
other  buyers,  have  their  contracts  can- 
celled and  lose  their  major  outlet.  All 
milk  produced  must  be  delivered  to  the 
buyer. 

To  illustrate  how  these  penalties  and 
refunds  work  out  an  example  is  given 
below.  Each  producer  is  assumed  to 
have  agreed  to  deliver  the  same  speci- 
fied amount  but  to  have  varying  actual 
deliveries,  one  exactly  even,  others  over 
or  short  varying  amounts. 

Taking  each  of  the  producers,  we  find 
that  producer  A  had  an  agreed  amount 
of  3,000  quarts  for  the  month.  He 
delivered  3,000  quarts,  had  no  penalties, 
got  a  refund  of  $14.41  and  a  net  gain 


of  that  much  over  the  base  price. 
Producers  B,  C,  D  and  E  were  short 
or  over  10  per  cent.,  20  per  cent,,  33 
per  cent,  and  50  per  cent,  of  their  speci- 
fied amounts  with  the  average  shortage 
or  overage  of  around  22  per  cent.  Those 
producers  that  delivered  less  than  22 
per  cent,  away  from  their  specified 
amounts  gained,  and  the  nearer  they 
were  to  the  specified  the  more  they 
gained.  Those  producers  who  were 
greater  than  22  per  cent,  away  from 
their  specified  had  a  net  loss  and  the 
more  they  were  short  or  over  the  more 
they  lost.  In  other  words,  the  nearer 
the  producer  came  to  making  an  even 
production,  the  greater  was  his  reward 
for  so  doing.  The  more  stable  his  pro- 
duction the  greater  the  final  net  price  he 
received  for  his  milk.  The  more  effi- 
cient the  producer  is  in  furnishing  the 
market  with  milk  the  way  the  market 
needs  it,  the  greater  the  return  received 
by  him  for  his  milk.  The  responsibility 
for  even  production  is  on  the  individual 
producer  and  his  reward  varies  directly 
with  the  evenness  with  which  he  pro- 
duces. 

Under  this  plan  in  Connecticut  June 
production   is  now   only   18  to  20  per 
cent  greater   than  the   November  pro- 
duction.   Formerly  June  production  was  40 
per  cent,  greater  than  November  produc 
tion.  In  the  NEMPA  territory  now  sup 
plying  the  larger  dealers,  June  produc- 
tion is  70  per  cent,  greater  than  Novem 
ber  production.  There  appears  to  be  little 
question  but  what  the  Connecticut  plan 
has  stabilized  production  on  a  more  even 
basis   than   was    formerly   the   case  ii 
that  state.   This  stabilization  is  peculiar 
to  Connecticut.     No  other  organization 
in  the  country  has  one  like  it. 

The  plan  cuts   waste   from   farm  to 
market.    The  association  -  under  its  con 
trol  of  supply  has  been  able  to  work 
out    large    savings    in    handling  cost 
from  the   farm  to  the  market  througl 
the  allocation  of  dairies  to  dealers.  Only 
one  dealer  buys  in  each  section.  On 
one  truck  covers  each  road  in  pickin 
up  milk.    Overlapping  of  markets  ha 
been  prevented  to  a  considerable  extent 
by  shifting  producers  from  one  markc 
to  another.    One  dealer  when  he  started 
buying  under  the  plan  bought  in  three 
different    sections    and    operated  three 
trucks  with  heavy  cartage  charges.  Tc 
day  this  dealer  buys  all  his  milk  in  one 
section  and  uses  one  truck  to  get  in  h 
product   at   a   considerable   decrease  i 
cartage  charges  to  the  farmer.  Unde 
the  centralized  control  of  the  supply  b> 
the  association,  product  may  be  shifte 
from  one  dealer  who  has  more  than  he 
needs  to  another  who  is  short.  Produc 
also  is  shifted  between  dealers  when  ow 
dealer  has  more  surplus  than  another 
All  this  has  led  to  lower  trucking  costs 
Mi  k  is  being  trucked  a  distance  of  3( 
miles   for   30  cents  per  hundredweigl 
and  40  miles  for  36  cents.    These  low 
costs  of  getting  the  milk  to  market  ha: 
come  through  the  elimination  of  dupl 
cation  of  buyers  in  any  one  section  aiu 
through  stabilizating  the  production  o 
milk  on  an  even  basis,  plus  good  roads 

The  Connecticut  plan  varies  from  th< 
NEMPA  in  two  outstanding  particulars! 
the  equalization  of  production  and  th< 
allocation  of  dairies.  The  sales  com 
mittee  of  the  NEMPA  is  studying  thi 
application  of  these  practices  to  its  ter 
ritory.  It  would  appreciate  comment  0' 
suggestions  from  anyone.  Would  thi 
Connecticut  plan  work  in  all  New  Eng 
land  ? 


1/ 


Monthly 


EXAMPLE  OF  THE  WORKINGS  OF  THE  CONNECTICUT  PLAN 
Penalties  and  Refunds 

Gross  Am  t. 


Delivery 

Actual 

Penalties  at 

for  Milk  at 

Gross  Amt. 

Refund 

Tot.  Amt. 

Prod. 

Cont.  for 

Del. 

Short 

Over 

2c  per  qt. 

8c  per  qt. 

less  penalties 

at  6.007% 

Due 

A 

3,000 

3,000 

$240.00 

$240.00 

$14.41 

$254.41 

B 

3,000 

3,300 

300 

$6.00 

240.00 

234.00 

14.06 

248.06 

C 

3,000 

2,400 

600 

12.00 

240.00 

228.00 

13.70 

241.70 

D 

3,000 

4,000 

1,000 

20.00 

240.00 

220.00 

13.22 

233.22 

E 

3,000 

1,500 

1,500 

30.00 

240.00 

210.00 

12.61 

222.61 

15,000 

$68.00 

$1,200.00 

$1,132.00 

$68.00 

$1,200.00 

Gain 

$14.41 

8.06 
1.70 


Lo  ?s 


$24.17 


$6.7! 
17.3? 

$24.i: 


The  rate  of  refund  of  6.007  per  cent,  is  arrived  at  by  dividing  the  ppnalties  by  the  gross  amount  less  penalties,  i.  e.,  $61 
divided  by  $1,132. 


I  April,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


i;       MARKET  CONDITIONS  WILL  BE  FOUND  ON  PAGE  11 
Less  than  normal  increase  in  production.    Surplus  prices  higher 


than  last  year  for  February  and  March. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  April  1,  1927,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  February,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
for  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below 
3.7  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container:  Per 
quart  can,  $0,010;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,011;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,022;  per  21^ 
quart  can,  $0,024;  per  40  quart  can,  $0,045;  per  hundredweight,  $.052. 

Boston  District 
Class  1    Class  2 


Dealers  (Mkt.  (Mfg.  8J4 

Rim  Spring  Farm  Milk)  Milk)  Quart 

7th   zone    (121-140)   72.8%  27.2%  .487 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   80.1  19.9 


20 
Quart 
1.179 


Size  of  Can 

Quart 

1.254 


40 

Quart  Cwt. 

2.388  2.777 

  3.393 


Northern  Market  District 


Cwt. in 

Cwt. in 

Cwt. in 

Otjl. 

o/2qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

90ni 

?1  Vint 
£i/4qi. 

Zone  Miles 

Ccins 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cs.ns 

Cans 

(  till s 

Del.  Trucked 

^1£ 

.UJJ 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

o.ooo 

"?  581 

1 

1-20 

.OOO 

K7C\ 
.0/  u 

.676 

1.376 

1.463 

2.767 

o.i  vy 

^  ?17 

2 

21-40 

.0^0 

.ouu 

.666 

1.351 

1.438 

2.732 

^  141 

O.  I*T  1 

3.146 

3.176 

3 

41-60 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.331 

1.418 

2.702 

3  095 

3  103 

3  141 

4 

61-80 

'.503 

'.540 

.646 

1.321 

1.408 

2.672 

3.071 

3.081 

3.106 

5 

81-100 

.498 

.535 

.636 

1.301 

1.388 

2.647 

3.025 

3.037 

3.077 

6 

101-120 

.493 

.530 

.626 

1.291 

1.378 

2.622 

3.002 

3.015 

3.048 

7 

121-140 

.488 

.525 

.621 

1.281 

1.363 

2.602 

2.978 

2.982 

3.025 

8 

141-160 

.478 

.515 

.611 

1.266 

1.353 

2.577 

2.943 

2.961 

2.996 

9 

161-180 

.473 

.510 

.606 

1.256 

1.343 

2.557 

2.920 

2.939 

2.972 

0 

181-200 

.468 

.505 

.596 

1.251 

1.328 

2.542 

2.909 

2.906 

2.955 

1 

201-220 

.463 

.500 

.591 

1.236 

1.318 

2.522 

2.874 

2.884 

2.932 

2 

221-240 

.458 

.495 

.586 

1.226 

1.303 

2.502 

2.850 

2.851 

2.909 

3 

241-260 

.448 

.485 

.581 

1.221 

1.298 

2.492 

2.839 

2.840 

2.897 

4 

261-280 

.443 

.480 

.581 

1.206 

1.288 

2.472 

2.804 

2.818 

2.874 

5 

281-300 

.443 

.480 

.576 

1.201 

1.283 

2.457 

2.792 

2.807 

2.856 

T 
& 

At  R. 

7?.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1-20 

.553 

.590 

.696 

1.386 

1.473 

2.767 

3.222 

3.223 

3.217 

\ 

21-40 

.538 

.575 

.681 

1.361 

1.448 

2.732 

3.164 

3.168 

3.176 

3 

41-60 

.533 

.570 

.676 

1.351 

1.433 

2.702 

3.141 

3.136 

3.141 

4 

61-80 

.528 

.565 

.671 

1.331 

1.418 

2.672 

3.095 

3.103 

3.106 

81-100 

.523 

.560 

.656 

1.321 

1.408 

2.647 

3.071 

3.081 

3.077 

■I 

101-120 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.311 

1.388 

2.622 

3.048 

3.037 

3.048 

121-140 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.296 

1.378 

2.602 

3.013 

3.015 

3.025 

i 

? 

141-160 

.508 

.545 

.646 

1.291 

1.373 

2.577 

3.002 

3.004 

2.996 

161-180 

.503 

.540 

.641 

1.281 

1.358 

2.557 

2.978 

2.971 

2.972 

3 

181-200 

.503 

.540 

.636 

1.266 

1.348 

2.542 

2.943 

2.950 

2.955 

1  Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
remium  of  0.75c  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  01 
5ceipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ry  expense,  can  service  and  a  reduction  of  2c  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for  NEMPA 
(embers'  dues  and  lc  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


Dealers  Class  1 

Wason-MacDonald  (Mkt. 

Haverhill  Milk) 

Delivered   87.4% 

3rd  zone   

Robt.  II.  Sawyer,  Haverhill 

Delivered   81.0 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Findeisen  Farms,  Lawrence 

Delivered   57.1 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 

Manchester 

Delivered   80.2 

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

Blake,  E.  C,  Manchester 

Delivered   68.8 

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

8th  zone   

Boyd,  W.  T.  &  Son,  Nashua 

Delivered   86.1 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy,  Nashua 

Delivered   79.2 

4th  zone   


Class  2 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

(Mfg. 

in 

in 

in 

Milk) 

VA's 

20's 

40"s 

12.6% 

3.401 

3.401 

3.401 

2.924 

2.974 

3.015 

Cwt. 


19.0 


42.9 


19.8 


31.2 


13.9 


20.8 


3.767 
3.311 
3.240 


3.767 
3.360 
3.340 


3.767 
3.400 
3.370 


3.301 
2.943 
2.915 

2.970 
2.762 
2.738 
2.698 
2.612 


3.387 
2.953 
2.901 
2.859 
2.836 

3.211 
2.797 
2.767 
2.752 
2.739 


3.656 
3.265 


Providence  Market 


Truck- 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  February,  1927 

Cwt.  and 


mg 

Zone  2  Zone  3    Zone  Willi- 
21-40    41-60     net  mantic 
Miles  at  Farm  Zone 


Miles 


2.715 


Class  1  Class  2  Zone  1 

  Dealers             (Mkt.  (Mfg.  Deliv-  1-20 

Per  Hundredweight     Milk)  Milk)  ered  Miles 

Burton,  H.  T.,  Inc.  97.3%  2.7%  3.543  3.218  3.171  3.106 

Chambers,  G.  T         67.1  32.9  3.085  2.860  2.828  2.784 

Fiske,  E.  A              84.1  15.9  3.345  3.064  3.024  2.968   

Cwt.                       Butter-fat                     Goff,  L.  E                 92.1  7.9  3.468  3.160  3.116  3.054   

Feeding        Price       Butter-fat   Price  Equal    Deduction     Grant,  C.  W               84.0  16.0  3.339  3.059  3.018  2.962   

Test       Skim            to           Price  to      to  Butter-     from  Milk     Greenville  Farm            88.8  11.2  3.410  3.113  3.071  3.012   

,                           of        Price         Cream.        Cream      Fat  Price       Patrons      Munroe,  A.  B  100.0  ....  3.589  3.253  3.205  3.139   

Cream      Cwt.         Patrons       Patrons     Per  Pound     Per  Cwt       Providence  Dairy  ....75.4  24.6  3.218  3.014  2.987  2.935  2.728  2.899 

ood  1-15   \2y2%       .50            1.222            .52            .598            .0776       Turner  Centre   100.0  ....  3.594  3.258  3.210  3.144   

ood  1-15   20            .50i           1.651            .52            .582            .0776       Viall,  W.  C              85.9  14.1  3.377  3.090  3.048  2.991   

ood   16-28   12*/2         -50            1.209            .52            .597            .0634       Warnock,  C.  A  100.0  ....  3.588  3.254  3.206  3.140   

ood   16-28   20            .50            1.627            .52            .581            .0634       Westcott,  E.  P  100.0  ....  3.583  3.249  3.201  3.135   

'hiring   20:  .50  .465  .57  .593  .0515       Per  10  quart  can 

•  urner  Centre   21^         .44             .65             .55            .602  Credit  .0176       Brown,  W.  B  100.0   787  .721       .711  .697  .710   

fc,  

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  February,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  February  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  nr  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
I    If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.052  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent,  sub- 
let $.052  per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  February  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the 
ood,  Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deductions  as  given  in  Cream  Price  Table  is  made  from  the  zone  price  as  figured  to  equalize 
ices  between  milk  and  cream  patrons.  ./ 

Zone  1  Zone  2  Zone  3  Zone  4  Zone  5  Zone  6  Zone  7  Zone  8  Zone  9  Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 

iles  from  Boston                                  1-20  21-40  41~60  61-80  81-100  101-120  121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281-300 

ass  1  Milk  Price                                 3.217  3.176  3.141  3.106  3.077  3.048  3.025  2.996  2.972  2.955  2.932  2.909  2.897  2  874 

ass  2  Milk  Price                                 2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  2.093  3.093 

,  ■  Class  1  Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 
Dealers  A  B 

ood,  1-15   71.3%   28.7%   45.5%   2.815  2.786  2.761  2.736  2.715  2.695  2.678  2.657  2.641  2.629  2.612  2.595  2.587  2.570  2.558 

lood,  16-28   67.7      32.3      47.6      2.802  2.775  2.751  2.727  2.708  2.688  2.672  2.653  2.637  2.625  2.608  2.593  2.585  2.569  2.558 

!  hiring  in  40s  ....65.1      34.9      48.8      2.766  2.740  2.717  2.694  2.675  2.656  2.641  2.622  2.607  2.595  2.579  2.564  2.557  2.542  2.531 

Whiting  in  21}4s  65.1      34.9      48.8      2.755  2.719  2.691  2.677  2.648  2.634  2.613  2.599  2.585  2.563  2.549  2.527  2.520  2.506  2.499 

irner  Centre  ....52.3      47.7      62.6      2.644  2.623  2.605  2.586  2.571  2.556  2.544  2.529  2.517  2.507  2.495  2.483  2.477  2.465  2.456 

I   E.  Cry  Prod...42.2      57.8        ....      2.561  2.544  2.529  2.514  2.502  2.490  2.480  2.468  2458  2.450  2.441  2.431  2.426  2.416  2.409 

S.   Cummings..61.5      38.5         ....      2.781  2.755  2.734  2.712  2.694  2.676  2.662  2.644  2.630  2.619  2.605  2.591  2.583  2.569  2.558 

I  E.  Boyd   57.4      42.6        ....      2.732  2.709  2.689  2.669  2.652  2.635  2.622  2.605  2.592  2.582  2.569  2.555  2.549  2.535  2.526 

1'eighted  Avg.   ..64.9      35.1      47.4      2.776  2.749      2.727  2.704  2.685  2.666  2.651  2.632  2.618  2.606  2.591  2.576  2.568  2.553 

A — Excluding  Cream  Plan.       B — Including  Cream  Plan. 

'  Increases  or  decreases  in  the  fluid  milk  price  due  to  sales  in  higher  markets  or  lower  markets  for  the  month :  Higher,  Hood  1st,  $.0065 ;  Hood  2nd,  $.0065 ;  Lower, 
Ihiting,  $.0154;  Turner  Centre,  $.1152. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1927 


New  England  Dairyman 

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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 
President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H. ;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt. ;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I. ;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

Buster,  Mary's  English  bull  dog, 
barely  escaped  arrest  the  other  day, 
and  we  are  still  laughing  over  it.  He 
is  a  sort  of  neighborhood  dog,  everyone 
knows  and  likes  him,  especially  the 
children. .  He  is  peaceable  and  minds 
his  own  business,  which  consists  chiefly 
in  making  daily  calls  at  several  houses 
where  they  sometimes  let  him  in,  visit- 
ing the  markets  in  the  square  where  he 
gets  an  occasional  bone  and  in  sleeping 
before  the  fireplace  or  in  the  sun.  We 
often  refer  to  his  peaceful,  carefree  ex- 
istence, as  a  "dog's  life." 

Last  fall  Mary  began  training  him  to 
bring  packages  home  from  the  store. 
It  was  amazing  how  quickly  he  learned 
to  take  bundles  of  any  sort  very  care- 
fully in  his  mouth,  march  home,  lay 
them  on  the  doorstep  and  bark.  He 
soon  got  so  he  would  make  quite  a  fuss 
if  he  wasn't  permitted  to  bring  back  a 
package  when  anyone  went  shopping. 
He  usually  trudges  along  ahead,  look- 
ing back  occasionally  to  see  if  the 
other  fellow  is  coming  and  taking  the 
whole  matter  with  great  seriousness. 
Mary  can  send  him  home  alone  with 
any  sort  of  package.  She  has  sent  him 
home  with  eggs,  ice  cream  and  even 
meat  and  he  has  never  dropped  them 
until  he  got  to  the  door  and  laid  them 
down  to  bark  for  admission. 

Up  in  the  square  a  big  policeman 
stands  around  all  day  doing  nothing 
much  but  look  the  part.  Several  days 
ago  he  saw  Buster  come  around  the 
corner  with  a  package  in  his  mouth 
marching  toward  home  with  an  air  of 
importance  that  only  a  white  bull  dog 


could  quite  get  away  with.  The  cop 
thought  Buster  had  stolen  something 
from  some  doorstep,  so  he  tried  to  stop 
him  and  take  the  package  away  but 
Buster  paid  no  attention  and  kept  on 
his  way.  He  has  an  ugly  looking  mug 
that  timid  people  sometimes  fear  and 
that  day  he  didn't  care  to  be  bothered. 
The  officer  didn't  quite  dare  to  grab 
the  dog  or  the  package  so  he  followed 
him  home  talking  to  him  all  the  time 
trying  to  persuade  him  to  drop  the 
bundle.  But  Buster  wouldn't  drop  it. 
He  looked  back  once  in  awhile  with 
an  expression  that  discouraged  inter- 
ference, and  so  they  came  marching 
down  the  street. 

The  doctor  who  looks  after  me  came 
along  just  then  and  fell,  in  behind  and 
we  saw  the  procession  turn  into  our 
yard.  Mrs.  P.  ran  down  to  the  door, 
Buster  walked  in  as  proud  as  a  peacock 
and  gave  her  the  package.  The  officer 
told  his  story  and  she  opened  the  parcel 
which  proved  to  be  dog  meat  that  Mary 
had  bought  at  the  market  around  the 
corner.  The  cop  said  something  that 
commenced  with  D —  and  as  he  turned 
away  Buster  gave  him  a  parting  "woof" 
that  was  fairly  human.  The  doctor 
laughed.  I'll  bet  that  policeman  won't 
soon  hear  the  last  of  his  attempt  to 
arrest  Mary's  dog. 

The  incident  made  me  think  of  the 
days  when  District  Attorneys,  Food 
Administrations,  Necessaries  of  Life 
Commissions  and  others  were  trying  to 
scare  us  into  lowering  the  price  of  milk. 

PATTEE. 


CO-OPERATIVE  LAW 

A  statement  was  recently  made  pub- 
licly by  the  manager  of  a  Vermont  co- 
operative creamery  to  the  effect  that  the 
Vermont  cooperative  law  would  not  per- 
mit such  a  creamery  to  name  a  price  in 
advance  to  be  paid  its  farmers  for  their 
products.  Some  other  managers  were  in- 
clined to  take  the  same  view.  Others 
said  emphatically  that  the  law  did  not 
prevent  a  known  price  agreed  to  in  ad- 
vance. The  interpretation  of  the  law  may 
have  some  relation  to  the  plant  manager's 
willingness  to  go  on  to  a  known  price 
system. 

Without  going  into  technicalities  of  the 
matter,  we  wish  to  express  our  strong 
convictions  that  the  law  was  never  in- 
tended to  put  any  such  restriction  on  co- 
operative prices  as  above  stated.  The  law 
states  that  the  cooperative  must  distribute 
to  its  patrons  all  receipts  for  product  sold 
after  expenses  of  plant  operation,  de- 
preciation and  other  legitimate  funds 
have  been  provided  for.  Under  this  clause 
a  few  of  the  creamery  managers  feel  that 
they  must  continue  on  the  basis  of  tak- 
ing the  product  without  any  agreement 
as  to  the  price  to  be  paid  for  it,  sell  it, 
deduct  expenses,  etc.,  and  then  distribute 
the  remainder  to  the  farmers  who  sell 
their  milk  to  the  plant,  on  a  month  to 
month  basis. 

Our  view  of  cooperation  has  always 
been  different  f rom  '  this,  however  the 
Vermont  law  may  ultimately  be  con- 
strued in  this  respect.  We  hold  that  a 
cooperative  should  agree  to  pay  a  base 
price  for  the  product,  resell  that  product 
to  the  best  possible  advantages,  pay  the 
necessary  costs  of  operation,  lay  aside 
proper  amounts  for  depreciation,  interest 
on  investment  and  in  other  ways  conduct 
themselves  like  any  other  business  con- 
cern established  and  conducted  on  sound 
business  principles.  Then,  after  all  these 
requirements  have  been  met  they  should 


distribute  the  profits  to  the  members  on 
a  patronage  basis. 

Our  reason  for  holding  this  view  is 
that  cooperatives,  if  they  are  worth  any- 
thing at  all,  must  serve  the  members  with 
an  efficiency  which  will  make  it  possible 
for  them  to  pay  a  base  price  comparable 
with  that  which  proprietary  concerns  are 
paying.  If  they  cannot  do  this  it  is  a 
sign  that  the  cooperative  is  being  con- 
ducted less  efficiently  than  the  proprietary 
concerns.  If  they  cannot  pay  the  price  a 
proprietary  concern  would  pay  under  like 
conditions  they  are  not  doing  any  service 
to  the  farmers. 

We  hold  that  failure  to  agree  in  ad- 
vance to  pay  a  definite  known  price, 
comparable  to  what  proprietary  concerns 
will  pay,  is  a  groundwork  for  inefficiency 
in  management.  The  known-in-advance 
price  makes  it  absolutely  necessary  that 
the  cooperative  shall  practice  a  certain 
degree  of  efficiency.  If  it  cannot  it  has  no 
good  reason  for  existence.  More  than 
that,  we  hold  that  the  product  as  it  comes 
to  any  plant  has  a  definite  market  value, 
depending  on  its  quality  and  its  distance 
from  available  markets.  Every  co- 
operative should  be  able  to  pay  that  fair 
market  value. 

The  clause  in  the  Vermont  law  which 
provides  that  all  profits  shall  be  distrib- 
uted after  proper  reserves  are  made  was, 
we  believe,  in  accordance  with  the  co- 
operative principle  that  the  cooperative  is 
a  service  organization,  not  one  to  make 
money  for  itself.  Beyond  proper  reserves 
it  has  no  need  of  building  up  capital.  It 
is  not  for  the  benefit  of  a  few  men  who 
"own  it"  but  for  the  hundreds  of  men 
who  use  it  as  a  means  of  getting  their 
product  onto  the  market.  It  was  intended 
to  insure  that  the  profits  made  in  the 
business,  comparable  to  the  profits  made 
by  the  proprietary  concerns  (who  pay  a 
known  price  and  whose  very  existence  de- 
pends on  their  making  a  profit  above  that) 
should  be  distributed,  not  piled  up.  They 
should  go  back  to  the  farmers,  where 
they  belong  under  cooperative  principles. 

The  Vermont  law  was  not  intended,  we 
believe,  as  a  restriction  on  the  base  price, 
the  fair  market  value  under  competitive 
conditions.  It  was  intended  as  an  assur- 
ance that  profits  over  that  price  would  be 
distributed  fairly.  Any  cooperative 
rightly  organized  and  ably  managed 
should  be  able  to  pay  this  base  price  and 
make  a  profit.  We  can  see  no  reason 
why  the  law  should  be  so  interpreted  that 
this  base  price,  a  known-in-advance  price, 
should  not  be  paid.  After  the  product  is 
resold,  the  law  comes  in  as  a  safeguard 
against  piling  up  profits  or  getting  them 
into  the  hands  of  a  few  men. 

To  say  that  a  base  price  cannot  be  paid 
by  any  cooperative  is  to  admit  that  it  is  not 
as  efficiently  managed  as  proprietary  con- 
cerns who  can  and  do  pay  such  price.  Hav- 
ing paid  this  base  price  the  cooperative  can 
go  into  the  markets  on  the  basis  of  effi- 
ciency, quality  and  service  to  make  a 
profit.  It  may  be  that  this  profit  will  not 
be  as  large  as  the  profit  made  by  dealers 
who  have  been  many  years  in  the  busi- 
ness and  who  are  spurred  on  by  personal 
incentive  to  large  gains.  Whether  the  co- 
operative makes  as  much  profit  as  a  pro- 
prietary concern  is  not  the  issue  at  all. 
For  in  the  case  of  the  proprietary  con- 
cern the  profit  goes  into  the  pockets  of 
the  owners,  the  farmer  sees  none  of  it. 
In  the  case  of  the  cooperative,  the  profit, 
large  or  small,  goes  back  to  the  farmers. 
It  is  something  over  and  above  the  price 
which  they  receive  month  by  month  for 
their  milk.  It  is  the  gain  they  make  by 
having  a  cooperative.  The  value  of  a  co- 
operative Ts-ineasured  by -the  amount  of 


net  earnings  it  can  distribute  after  pay- 
ing all  expenses  including  interest  on  the 
investment,  and  having  returned  the  mar- 
ket value  of  products  handled,  that  is, 
having  paid  for  those  products  what  other 
buyers  paid  for  like  products.  Even  a 
small  profit  over  and  above  the  price  is 
a  gain.  Perhaps  no  actual  profit  dis- 
tributed above  the  milk  price  might  jus- 
tify the  existence  of  a  cooperative  for 
there  are  considerations  of  services  and 
assurance  of  markets  which  are  factors 
in  the  situation. 

If  this  base  price  cannot  be  paid  we  can 
see  no  reason  why  a  cooperative  should 
exist.  And  we  do  not  believe  that  the 
Vermont  law  was  ever  intended  to  pre- 
vent an  agreement  in  advance  to  pay 
such  a  price.  If  it  should  be  construed  as 
a  bar,  by  proper  legal  authorities,  it  had 
better  be  changed. 


INSTITUTE  PLANS 

More  than  130  authorities  on  variou- 
phases  of  co-operation  will  be  broughi 
from  various  parts  of  the  United  Stated 
and  Europe  to  lecture  at  the  third  sum 
mer  session  of  the  American  Institute  ot 
Cooperation,  which  will  be  held  in  Chi 
cago  June  20-July  16,  at  the  Northwest 
ern  University  School  of  Commerce,  cor- 
ner Lake  Shore  drive  and  Chicag* 
avenue. 

This  huge  array  of  talent  will  be  draw: 
from  among  successful  cooperative  busi 
ness  enterprises,  colleges  and  universities 
research  organizations  and  federal  ancj 
state   agencies   which  contact   with  thJ 
cooperative  movement.  While  cooperative! 
buying  and  cooperative  credit  will  receiv<| 
treatment,  the  major  emphasis  of  thij 
year's  Institute  will  be  placed  upon  thi 
problems  of  cooperatives  engaged  in  mar 
keting  livestock  and  wool,  dairy  and  poul 
try  products,  perishable  fruits  and  vege 
tables,  grain  and  cotton. 

Attendance  at  the  Institute  is  expecte; 
to  pass  the  one'  thousand  mark,  with  perl 
sons  enrolled  from  over  forty  state-J 
various  provinces  of  Canada,  and  a  numl 
ber  of  foreign  countries. 

Connected  with  the  sessions  of  the  Inl 
stitute  will  be  a  number  of  special  meetl 
ings  called  by  various  agricultural  orl 
ganizations.  One  feature  will  be  a  join! 
meeting  of  the  national  association  o| 
attorneys  of  cooperative  association! 
with  the  association  of  cooperative  acl 
countants. 

In  addition  to  the  trade  conferences  an  I 
intensive  discussions  of   practical  protl 
lems,  the  Institute  is  offering  five  course! 
open  to  advanced  college  students.  Thosl 
completing    these    courses    will  receiv 
credit  from  the  faculty  of  Northwester 
University.    The  credit  courses  begin  i 
8  o'clock  in  the  morning  and  end  at  1( 
In  addition,  there  is  a  special  conferenc 
course  so  that  a  student  may  take  tw 
courses  and  a  conference  course'  and  re 
ceive  the  equivalent  of   four  hours  c 
credit  for  work  done  while  the  Institut 
is  in  session.    All  of  the  special  confej 
ences  and  lectures  will  be  open  to  the.' 
credit  students. 

The  following  organizations  have  coil 
trol  of  the  Institute:  California  Frul 
Growers  Exchange,  Los  Angeles,  Calif 
Cooperative  Wool  Growers  of  South  D; 
kota,  S.  D. ;  Michigan  Potato  Grower 
Exchange  Cadillac  Mich. ;  National  Ass( 
ciation  of  Marketing  Officials  Harrisbur 
Penna. ;  National  Council  of  Farmer 
Cooperative  Marketing  Associatio 
Louisville,  Ky. ;  National  Live  Stock  Pr< 
ducers'  Association,  Chicago,  111.  jf  Tl 
American  Committee  of  the  Internartioni 
Institute  of  Agriculture  at  Rome,  Bosto 
Mass. ;  The  American  Farm  Bureau  Fet 
eration,  Chicago,  111. ;  The  America 
Farm  Economics  Association,  Washingto 
D.  C. ;  The  Farmers  Educational  ;  i 
Cooperative  Union  of  America, '  Unk 
City,  Ga. ;  The  Farmers'  Equity  Unioi 
Greenville,  111.;  The  Farmers'  Nationi 
Grain  Dealers'  Association,  Omaha^  Nl 
braska;  The  Federated  Fruit  and  Veg 
table  Growers,  New  York,  N.-Y. ;  Tli; 
Illinois  Agricultural  Association,  Chicagi 
111.1"  The  Illinois  Agricultural  Cooper 
tives'  Association,  -Chicago,  -IH: ;  Tl 
National-  Association  of  Commissioner 
(Continued  on  page  thirteen) 


1  April, 


1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Opens  Milk  Plant  in  Somerville 

New  England  Creamery  Products  Company  in  New  Con- 
venient Location  for  Carrying  on  the  Business 


With  pleasure  we  report  that  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Company, 
formed  by  the  merger  of  the  Alden  Bros. 
Company,  W.  F.  Noble  and  Sons  and  the 
Childs  Brothers,  is  now  doing  business  in 
its  new  plant  in  Somerville.  The  picture 
of  the  plant  given  herewith  hardly  does 
justice  to  the  modern,  well  equipped  and 
convenient  plant  through  which  the  prod- 
uct of  many  farmers  reaches  the  ultimate 
consumer.  But  it  will  serve  as  a  text 
through  which  to  draw  your  attention  to 
the  fact  that  we  are  in  a  new  era  in  milk 
marketing  and  that  business  done  in  larger 
and  more  efficient  units  is  best  for  all 
concerned,  for  producer,  for  dealer,  for 
consumer. 

We  welcome  such  consolidations  as  this 
coming  together  of  three  companies  with 
a  half  century  of  sound  business  back  of 
them  and  a  progressive  outlook  into  the 
future.  The  day  of  the  old  small  milk 
business  is  largely  past.  Public  health 
authorities,  consumers  and  general  busi- 
ness conditions  demand  that  milk  shall  be 


had  satisfactory  and  pleasant  business  re- 
lations with  the  three  companies  which 
unite  in  the  New  England  Dairy  Products 
company,  we  are  glad  to  send  back  into 
the  country  the  story  of  the  new  plant 
and  the  makeup  of  the  consolidated  com- 
pany. The  largest  of  the  companies  was 
the  Alden  Bros.,  handling  the  milk  from 
about  250  dairies.  It  is  an  old  company, 
starting  as  a  small  milk  business  by  C.  A. 
Alden  in  the  town  of  Westwood  about 
45  years  ago.  Mr.  Alden,  father  of  the 
present  Alden  brothers,  produced  all  his 
own  milk  at  the  start  on  his  farm.  From 
a  quite  small  beginning  the  business  grew 
until  he  was  keeping  more  than  400  cows. 
He  could  not  expand  his  production  be- 
yond that  point  and  so  for  the  first  time 
began  buying  milk  from  other  farmers. 
He  secured  a  supply  in  Sterling,  Mass., 
and  in  the  course  of  time  built  up  the 
business  until  the  company  was  securing 
a  full  carload  of  milk  from  that  section. 
Tin's  continued  for  some  years,  but  finally 
the  nearby  cities  of  Fitchburg,  Leominster 


handled  in  a  way  to  safeguard  the  public 
health,  insure  a  high  quality  of  product 
and  keep  the  costs  within  reason,  con- 
sidering the  increasing  demands  which 
are  being  made  by  an  exacting  public.  All 
these  things  mean  doing  business  on  a 
scale  large  enough  to  insure  efficiency 
in  handling  and  to  permit  the  use  of 
modern  apparatus  such  as  no  small  dealer 
could  have.  All  these  things  are  a  part 
of  the  policy  of  the  management  of  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Com- 
panv  as  they  enter  the  milk  marketing 
field  under  their  new  name  and  in  their 
new  plant. 

We  believe  that  it  is  for  the  welfare  of 
the  dairy  industry  that  the  selling  end 
shall  be  organized  on  such  a  scale  that 
modern  requirements  can  be  met.  Our 
belief  that  the  milk  business  should  ulti- 
mately be  conducted  by  the  farmers  them- 
selves in  a  co-operative  way  does  not 
blind  us  to  the  fact  that  at  present  the 
dealers  are  the  principal  connecting  link 
between  the  producer  who  has  milk  to 
sell  and  the  consumer  who  wishes  to  buy. 
The  bigger  and  the  more  efficient  these 
proprietary  concerns  are  the  more  able 
they  will  be  to  return  a  fair  price  to  the 
farmer.  Moreover,  the  larger  they  are 
the  more  easy  it  is  to  deal  with  them 
fairly  on  the  present  bargaining  basis. 
While  a  quite  small  dealer  might  suc- 
cessfully secure  his  supply  of  milk  alto- 
gether outside  the  NEMPA  membership, 
large  dealers  come  to  the  association  for 
their  supply  and  are  business  men  enough 
to  see  that  stability  in  the  market,  secured 
through  the  association,  is  to  their  ad- 
vantage. Generally  speaking  it  is  the 
small  dealer  who  is  in  a  position  to  profit 
by  an  unstable  market.  He  handles  a 
comparatively  small  amount  of  mjlk  but 
be  is  always  a  source  of  danger  to  the 
whole  market. 

For  these  reasons,  and  because  we  have 


and  Worcester  began  to  draw  on  this 
same  territory  for  a  supply  and  it  was 
not  possible  to  get  a  full  carload  there. 
The  company  which  was  originally  called 
Oak  Grove  Farm,  and  in  1910  was  changed 
to  the  Alden  Bros.  Co.,  decided  that  it 
was  no  longer  practical  to  secure  milk  at 
Sterling  in  the  face  of  this  nearby  com- 
petition, and  began  to  get  its  entire  supply 
from  Vermont.  It  had  plants  at  Brandon, 
Sheldon  and  East  Fairfield. 

The  Noble  company  is  even  older. 
Fully  50  years  ago  W.  F.  Noble  started 
a  milk  business  in  Somerville.  Later  he 
associated  with  him  his  three  sons  under 
the  name  of  W.  F.  Noble  and  Sons.  He 
is  still  an  active  force  in  the  business  and 
was  made  a  director  of  the  consolidated 
company.  About  eight  years  ago  they  de- 
veloped a  supply  from  Vermont,  securing 
a  plant  at  Newport  and  buying  an  aux- 
iliary supply  of  T.  B.  tested  milk  from 
the  Granite  City  Co-operative  at  Barre 
for  their  entire  retail  trade.  They  also 
bought  some  Guernsey  milk  from  selected 
dairies  in  Massachusetts  for  a  special 
trade  which  was  built  up. 

The  Childs  Brothers  Company  is  the 
oldest  of  all,  having  been  started  60  years 
ago  in  Waltham  and  since  spreading  out 
into  other  Boston  residential  sections  and 
in  Brookline  and  Cambridge.  For  many 
years  they  have  been  securing  their  entire 
supply  from  a  plant  at  Brownville,  Vt, 
but  they  discontinued  this  supply  at  the 
time  the  merger  took  place. 

All  three  of  the  companies  found  them- 
selves confronted  with  the  necessity  of 
remodeling  their  plants  and  buying  con- 
siderable new  equipment  to  meet  their 
growing  business  and  the  increased  re- 
quirements. Consolidation  and  bigger 
business  units  for  the  sake  of  efficiency 
were  in  the  air  and  the  combination  of 
these  two  factors  led  to  negotiations  whjch 
(Continued  on  page  thirteen) 


WHEN  a  GREAT  COW  and  a  GREAT 
FEED  GET  TOGETHER  .  .  . 

only  one  result  is  possible,  a  great  record  in  milk  production.  For  the 
past  7  years,  Sophie's  Emily,  a  Jersey  cow  owned  by  Randleigh  Farm, 
Lockport,  N.  Y.,  has  been  getting 

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as  the  big  protein  ingredient  of  her  ration.  In  these  7  years  Sophie's 
Emily  has  yielded  to  her  owners  110,193  lbs.  of  milk  and  5424  lbs.  of 
butter  fat.  Her  latest  and  best  test  ended  with  the  great  mark  of  17,393 
lbs.  milk,  838.93  lbs.  fat  for  one  year. 

Production  of  this  kind,  year  in  and  year  out,  shows  beyond  any  question 
the  worth  of  the  feed  as  well  as  the  greatness  of  the  cow.  Mr.  T.  E.  Grow, 
Supt.  at  Randleigh  Farm  writes:  "We  have  always  used  Buffalo  Coin 
Gluten  Feed  in  our  test  ration,  and  it  is  our  opinion  that  when  used  in 
connection  with  other  good  feeds  it  has  no  equal  as  a  source  of  protein. 

Whether  your  cows  are  purebreds  or  grades  they  will  produce  more  milk 
and  remain  in  better  condition,  over  long  periods  of  time,  if  their  ration 
is  built  around  Buffalo  Corn  Gluten  Feed  as  its  protein  basis. 


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Recent  sales  of  Federal  Land  Bank  Bonds  at  favor- 
able prices  make  possible  a  lowering  of  the  rate  of 
interest  on  new  loans  to  5%. 

First  Mortgage  Farm  Loans 

FOR  INFORMATION 

Ask  the  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
National  Farm  Loan  Association  in  your  County 
or  write  direct  to  the 

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Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1927 


AN  EASY  JOB 

"A  big  man  can  make 
the   running  of  a  big 

business  an  easy  job.  A 
small  man  can  make  the 
running  of  a  small  busi- 
ness a  big  job."—  Butter, 
Cheese  and  Egg  Journal. 

It  is  the  same  with  sup- 
plies as  with  men.  The 
dependable,  uniform, 
quality  cleaner 


can  make  the  business 
of  cleaning  and  main- 
taining clean  the  cream- 
ery, dairy  or  cheese  fac- 
tory an  easy,  practical 
job. 

This  cleaner  protects 
valuable  equipment.  It 
cleans  easily  and  clean. 
It  rinses  so  freely  that 
no  dirt  or  residue  of 
cleaner  is  left  on  cleaned 
surfaces.  Every  grain 
in  every  barrel  is  uni- 
form, and  will  perform 
the  same  cleaning  ser- 
vice day  after  day. 

Ask  your  Supply  Man 
for  4 'WYANDOTTE." 

Indian  In  Circle 


In  every  package 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
( cream  acidity  standardizer) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
your  cream  ? 


THE.  J.  B.   FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


NORTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 
477  Essex  Street  •  -  Lawrence,  Mass. 

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MARCH  PRICES 
Manchester,  N.  H... 62.2c  per  8]/2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  74.4c  per  8l/2  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  64c    per  8     qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  80c    per  10   qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  64c    per  8     qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  58.8c  per  8s/2  qt.  can 

Portland,  Me   7.8c  per  quart 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers, 

and  Beverly,  Mass.  64c    per  8     qt.  can 

PRICES  AND  MARKETS 
With    the    exception    of  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  all  prices  in  the  markets  of  our 
district   continued   through  March  with 
no  change. 

A  heavy  market  surplus  exists  in  Man- 
chester and  after  considering  all  factors 
the  sales  committee  placed  the  base  price 
at  7y2  cents  per  quart  delivered.  This 
figure  represents  very  closely  the  prices 
at  which  milk  has  been  freely  offered  to 
Manchester  dealers  from  sources  out- 
side the  NEMPA. 

During  the  month  of  March  a  peculiar 
condition  has  existed  in  the  Nashua,  N. 
H.,  market.  A  group  of  NEMPA  mem- 
bers signed  a  contract  with  a  Nashua 
dealer  to  accept  the  Boston  train  price. 
There  is  some  question  as  to  just  what 
this  Boston  train  price  figure  is,  but  the 
dealer  claims  it  to  be  a  price  below  the 
Nashua  announced  price.  Nashua  has 
been  on  a  basis  of  8}i  cents  per  quart, 
while  Boston  is  on  an  8  cents  per  quart 
basis.  Whenever  a  group  of  producers 
sign  contracts  which  are  different  from 
announced  NEMPA  prices  for  the  mar- 
ket in  which  they  sell  their  milk,  it  is 
bound  to  cause  trouble.  '  Of  course,  we 
are  having  trouble  in  Nashua  now,  and 
our  sales  committee  has  been  called  for 
a  meeting  on  March  30th  to  consider 
this  problem.  The  sales  committees  of 
all  markets  wish  all  producers  to  know 
that  it  is  poor  business  for  NEMPA 
members  to  dicker  with  dealers,  either 
as  an  individual  or  as  a  group,  without 
first  consulting  the  members  of  the  sales 
committees.  Generally  there  is  a  sales 
committee  man  in  each  community  ad- 
jacent to  a  market.  It  ought  to  be  an 
easy  matter  to  either  phone  or  visit 
some  member  of  the  committee.  By 
doing  this  oftentimes  heavy  losses  to  all 
producers  selling  in  a  market  can  be 
avoided. 

SURPLUS 
There  is  still  sufficient  milk  in  all 
markets  and  then  a  little  left  over. 
Keep  in  mind  what  I  said  last  month 
about  equalizing  your  production  as 
much  as  possible.  If  your  particular 
dealer  is  being  flooded  with  milk,  do  all 
you  can  as  an  individual  to  help  out. 
Feed  a  little  lighter  on  grain,  and  in 
this  way  you  not  only  save  on  the  grain 
bill,  but  you  will  help  keep  the  market 
from  tumbling  again  because  of  uneven 
production. 

BUSINESS 
Conditions  of  employment  in  all  cities 
of  our  district  continue  very  poor. 
Doubtless  this  may  be  one  cause  of  the 
surplus  in  our  markets.  If  business 
were  active  and  people  generally  em- 
ployed, much  more  milk  would  be  con- 
sumed and  also  customers  would  be 
able  to  pay  for  their  milk. 

LOWELL  CONSIDERS  ADVERTIS- 
ING 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Lowell, 
Mass.,  local,  a  joint  meeting  of  mem- 
bers of  the  Dunstable,  Chelmsford  and 
Lowell,  Mass.,  producers  and  Lowell 
dealers  was  held.  The  purpose  of  the 
joint  meeting  was  to  consider  the  mat- 
ter of  advertising  milk.  Prof.  Lock- 
wood,  manager  of  the  New  England 
Dairy  and  Food  Council,  was  present 
and  told  abo«t  the  -work.  Moving  pic- 
tures and  slides  illustrating  how  the  ad- 
vertising of  milk  is  being  promoted 
were  shown.  This  is  a  preliminary  step 
towards  the  consideration  of  an  adver- 


One  of  these 

ntsyourherd 

Use  the  feed  that  fits  your  farm,  your  herd.  That's 
the  way  to  maximum  milk  production  at  lowest 
possible  cost.  To  give  you  exactly  the  feed  you 
should  have,  Quaker  makes  a  complete  line,  and 
helps  you  determine  which  you  should  use. 


J^Quaker^  1$   thlS   it  1 


For  example:  If  your  cows  are  getting  timo- 
thy hay,  grass  hays,  straws,  corn  stover,  or 
poorer  grades  of  clover  here's  exactly  the  feed 
that  fits  your  needs — Quaker  Boss  Dairy 
Ration ! 


or 


this? 


If  they  are  receivinglow  grade  alfalfa  hay,  fair 
clover  hay,  or  real  choice  mixed  clover-and- 
grass  hay,  the  feed  for  them  is — Quaker  Big 
"Q"  Dairy  Ration! 


or 


this? 


J  Quaker  la. 

^  big  tar 

^  v  prolan y  k 
J  DAIRY  RATION  ^ 


If  your  cows  are  getting  choice  clover  hay, 
good  alfalfa  hay,  or  an  excellent  grade  of  fine 
mixed  grass-and-clover  hay,  use  this  great 
feed — Quaker  Dairy  Ration!  (Good  for  dry 
stock  and  young  growing  stock,  too.) 


In  any  case— 

Whatever  protein  feed  you  use,  you  can  profit  by  adopting 
Quaker  Sugared  Shumacher  Feed  as  your  carbohydrate 
supply.  It  combines  ideally  with  any  of  the  Quaker  Dairy 
Rations.  It  may  be  used  alone  if  the  cows  are  getting  lib- 
eral quantities  of  choice  alfalfa.  It's  excellent  for  all  stock 
— dry  stock,  horses,  swine,  sheep,  steers. 

IT  All  of  these  feeds  contain  molasses  in  dried  form  and  are 71 
jj^  rich  in  the  minerals  which  cows  must  have  to  makemilk  JJ 

See  the  Quaker  Dealer  near  you.  He  has  a  stock  of  these 
famous  Quaker  Feeds — "the  feeds  in  striped  sacks" — wait- 
ing for  you. 


The  Quaker  Qals  (pmpany 

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CLIPPING  improves  the-rKalt'i 
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April,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


Is  Your 
Manure  Pile 
Leaking 
Dollars? 

Manure  6tored  in  an  open 
barnyard  loses  more  than  half 
its  fertilizing  value  by  seep- 
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by  the  New  Jersey  Agricul- 
tural Experiment  Station. 
"At  present  prices  of  crops, 
manure  has  produced  crop 
increases  equal  to  about  $4.00 
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reports  the  Purdue  Univer- 
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"More  feed  per  acre  than  I  ever 
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crop."     "Surpasses  all." 

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DR.  NAYLOR'S  TEAT  DILATORS 

For  the  treatment  of  spider  ob- 
struction, cut  and  bruised  teats  in 
milk  cows.    Price  $1.00  prepaid 

300  Milk  Strainer  Pads  $2  00 
Regular  Milk  Strainer  .  3.25 
Large  Milk  Strainer  .  .  4.25 
Water  Bowls,  complete?  .  4. 25 
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180  Salem  St.,  Lawrence,  Mais. 


tising  campaign,  and  we  hope  that  both 
Lawrence  and  Haverhill  will  consider 
this  matter.  Prof.  Lockwood  says  "a 
person's  stomach  holds  only  about  so 
much.  If  we  fill  it  with  milk  we're  the 
gainer,  but  if  the  other  fellow  fills  it 
first  with  the  stuff  he  advertises  and 
sells  them,  we're  the  looser  and  we 
will  have  our  old  enemy  surplus  with 
us."  Let  us  take  a  leaf  from  the  other 
fellow's  book  and  advertise  the  best 
food  on  earth.  I  hope  that  producers 
and  dealers  alike  will  consider  this  im- 
portant matter.  If  any  of  our  pro- 
ducers reading  this  article  think  this 
idea  of  advertising  worthwhile  please 
write  the  officers  of  your  local  or  phone 
or  see  them,  or  get  word  to  your  sales 
committees  or  me.  We  would  like  to 
know  your  opinion  on  the  subject. 

SALES  COMMITTEE  ADDITIONS 
Paul  E.  Sargent,  of  Candia,  N.  H., 
has  been  elected  to  the  Manchester,  N. 
H.,  sales  committee.  All  milk  produced 
in  Candia  is  sold  in  Manchester  and 
producers  in  that  section  will  now  be 
represented  on  the  sales  committee. 

Considerable  milk  is  coming  from 
East  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  to  the  Man- 
chester market.  This  milk  is  bought 
by  E.  C.  Blake,  one  of  the  largest 
dealers  in  Manchester.  These  producers 
of  East  Haverhill,  fifty-eight  in  num- 
ber, are  all  NEMPA  members  and  con- 
tributing their  dues.  It  is  only  fair 
that  they  should  have  representation  on 
the  Manchester  sales  committee.  We 
therefore  are  pleased  to  learn  that  the 
members  of  this  local  have  elected 
Everet  H.  Smith,  of  East  Haverhill, 
N.  H.,  as  their  sales  committee  mem- 
ber. I  know  that  I  can  speak  for  the 
rest  of  the  Manchester  sales  committee 
and  say  that  we  are  all  glad  to  welcome 
Mr.  Smith  into  the  committee.  The 
latter  can  give  first  hand  information  to 
the  members  of  the  East  Haverhill 
local  with  reference  to  conditions  in 
Manchester  and  the  factors  which  the 
sales  committee  has  to  consider  in  ne- 
gotiating prices. 

SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

CHARLFS  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
Slide  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 

Telephone,  D  xtcr  6469 

MARCH    DELIVERED  PRICES 

Providence   8c    per  qt. 

Fall  River    8c    per  qt 

Brockton   8^c  per  qt. 

New  Bedford    9c  perqt. 

Newport   9c    per  qt. 

MARKET  CONDITIONS 
Surplus  in  the  Providence  market 
for  the  month  of  February  showed  an 
increase  of  about  2  per  cent,  over  Janu- 
ary, which,  according  to  distributors  in 
the  market,  was  caused  by  the  falling 
off  of  their  sales. 

OFFICERS   ELECTED   FOR  1927 

Plainfield,   Conn.— President,  John  E. ' 
Tanner,   R.  F.   D.,  Moosup ;  secretary, 
Nathan  Exley,  Plainfield. 

South  Windham,  Conn. — President,  W. 
F.  Spokesfield,  Willimantic,  Conn. ;  sec- 
retary, Thomas  Mara,  Windham. 

Scotland,  Conn. — President,  Samuel 
H.  Spencer,  Willimantic,  Conn.;  secre- 
tary, C.  E.  Simpson,  Willimantic,  Conn. 

Charles  E.  Gifford,  manager  of  the 
southern  market  district,  had  a  severe 
attack  of  grippe  a  month  ago  which 
kept  him  from  the  office  and  prevented 
his  doing  any  field  or  market  work  for 
two  weeks.  He  is  now  out  again  for  a 
short  time  recuperating  from  the  effects 
of  his  illness.  It  is  hoped  that  he  will 
be  back  in  the  harness  again  in  a  few 
days,  probably  before  this  Dairyman 
reaches  you.  This  explanation  is  suffi- 
cient to  account  for  the  short  report 
from  the  southern  district. 

Reports  from  the  various  markets  in 
the  district  indicate  that  production  of 
milk  is  about  keeping  pace  with  the 
demands  and  that  the  surplus  is  not 
large  enough  to  cause  any  material  stir 
in  the  market.  On  the  whole,  condi- 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1927 


Eastern  SW«S  Fanners'  Exchange 


Another  Chain  Store  Discussion 


•                         np       ,t  The  milk  selling  and  milk  buying  poli- 

Virit     I  OUr     1  66111  cies   and  prices  of   the  First  National 

Stores  came  into  the  limelight  again  re- 
Dairy   Cows  —  Like  Runners  —  cently  at  Montpelier  when  the  manager  of 
Win  or  Lose  Races  on  the  the  stores.  C.  F.  Adams,  made  a  speech 
Home  Stretch  before  the  Farmers'  Club  of  the  Vermont 

legislature  in  an  attempt  to  justify  the 

This  is  the  time  of  vear  when  feed-  P™*  cut  which  was  made  by  these  stores 

j  .               u     ^                i   •  i  March   15.     Mr.  Adams  was  there  on 

insr  dairv  cows  becomes  a  real  job.  .....     f             ,  . 

_P         J                 ....             .i.  special  invitation  from  the  club  as  certain 

the  dairyman  has  his  own  inchna-  members  are  actively  interested  in  the 

tions  to  overcome  and  he  also  has  the  mnk  marketing  question.    W.  P.  Davis, 

cow's  inclinations  to  overcome.  It  is  so  assistant    manager    of    the  NEMPA, 

easy  when  the  warm  davs  begin  for  dropped  in  to  hear  the  discussion  and  was 

feeders,  whose  hay  mows  are  getting  a!so  invj,ted  t0  Jake  Part  in  the  discus- 

,        .        .   j       "       . ,    .           i  sion.     1  he  result  was  one  of  the  best 

low,  to  cut  down  on  their  roughage  dearing  houses  of  opjnion  we  haye  yct 

deceiving  themselves  with  the  thought  had.    The  two  opposing  viewpoints  were 

that  the  cows  will  be  out  on  pasture  both  presented  ably  and  all  who  were 

very  soon  and  that  on   this  early  present   had   an   ample   opportunity  to 

na  ture  thev  will  auicklv  make  up  ma^e  their  own  decisions  and  to  weigh 

1             .    *    .     ,           \_  justly  the  various  factors  which  entered 

any  deficiency  m  the  roughage  allow-  ,nto  the  sjtuation. 

ance  at  the  barn.  When  dairymen  Mr  Adams  spoke  principally  along  the 
yield  to  this  penny-wise  policy  they  lines  which  he  recently  wrote  to  the  New 
lose  in  milk  shrinkage  and  physical  England  Homestead  in  an  attempt  to  jus- 
condition  far  more  than  they  save  in  his  dropping  the  price  a  half  cent  to 
,  0  i  •/•  ..  i  . j  ,  i  the  farmers  who  supply  him  with  milk 
hay.    Surely  if  it  has  paid  to  keep  through  the  BtUows  Fa]ls  co_operative 

cows  in  good  condition  with  adequate  piant  when  he  did  not  reduce  his  resale 

rations  of  grain  and  roughage  for  5  price  in  the  market  and  when  there  were 

long  months,  it  will  pay  to  continue  no.  disturbances  in  the  market  likely  to 

j  •            t      ti         ™              e  t-v.  .  bring  about  any  readjustment  of  prices, 

doing;  so  for  the  remainder  ot  the  T,  &,    ....           c  ,\.    r>    »     j  i 

"     o  The  fact  that  none  of  the  Boston  dealers 

barn  reeding  season.  even  suggested  any  decrease  in  price  in 

The  cows  are  not  driven  by  zero  March  and  that  they  asked  for  none  in 

weather  at  this  time  of  the  vear  to  April  is  sufficient  indication  that  there 

eat    heartily    anything    put  'before  was  no  market  necessity  which  led  the 

.           mi        i         l                  .  ,  hirst  National  stores  to  drop  from  v1/* 

them.     They  have  been  on  winter  cents  tQ  njne  cents  a  quart  March  1S 

rations  5  long  months  and  become  The  presentation  of  the  reduction  in 

restless  with  the  change  that  the  first  price  by  the  First  National  stores  given 

taste  of  spring  foreshadows.     High  in  the  Homestead  and  the  discussion  at 

producing  cows,  especially,  at  this  Montpelier  centered  around  this  nine  cent 

time  nf  vear  have  a  tendenev  to  eel  pnce  as  comPared  with  the  NEMPA  price 

time  ot  year  nave  a  tendency  to  get  of  dght  cents     In  his  published  state. 

off  their  feed  and  as  a  consequence  to  ment  Mr.  Adams  said  that  the  nine  cent 

shrink  in  milk  productions.  price  was  a  cent  more  than  the  NEMPA 

Eastern  States  dairv  rations  are  was  paying  and  that  previous  to  the  de- 

admirablv  adapted  to  hold  good  cows  crease  ^  Fj"*  National  stores  had  been 

J    .,  r.                  °        ,  .  paving  the  Bellows  balls  plant  9/2  cents, 

up  to  capacity  because  they  combine  one  and  one  half  cents  more  than  the 

bulk,  digestible  nutrients,  and  palata-  NEMPA  price.  He  did  not  call  attention 
bilitv  in  proper  balance.  Eastern  to  the  difference  in  the  state  of  the  prod- 
States  dairy  rations  contain  quality  uct  at  the  time  the  sale  was  made, 
ingredients  only.  This  applies  to  Comparing  the  nine  or  the  9%  cent 
r  .i  r  v. •  i  price  with  the  eight  cent  price  of  the 
every  one  of  them  from  high  protein  NEMPA  is  not  a  fair  statement  of  the 
Milkmore  to  low  protein  bitting  situation,  as  was  brought  out  clearly  by 
Ration.  The  dairy  rations  contain  Mr.  Davis  before  the  Farmers'  club.  He 
onlv  ingredients  of  the  choicest  qual-  showed  that  the  two  prices  were  for  dif- 
ity,'  blended  in  accordance  with  the  ferent  grades  of  product  and  for  product 
j  .  .  „  „  „  ,  in  a  different  stage  in  its  progress  from 
recommendations  of  the  College  heed  the  cow  to  the  consumer.    The  NEMPA 

Conference  Board  which  represents  eight  cent  price  is  for  3.7  per  cent,  raw 

the  districts  in  which  the  Eastern  milk  delivered  in  jugs  at  Boston.  The 

States  Farmers'  Exchange  members  First  National  price  of  nine  cents  is  for 

i    ,  4  per  cent,  milk  pasteurized  and  bottled  at 

do  business.                            .  Bellows  Falls  and  shipped  to  Boston  in 

The  1927  feed  booklet  is  just  oft  cases  at  a  cost  which  is  materially  greater 

the  press.    It  describes  in  detail  all  than  milk  shipped  in  jugs, 

of  the  Eastern  States  feeds  for  dairy  In  his  statement  in  the  Homestead  Mr. 

cows  and  poultry.     It  explains  the  Adams  says :  "We  are  reducing  our  price 

principles  upon  which  Eastern  States  \°  B^11.°,ws  F*Us  one  ha!f  ce$  t0.9* nts; 

'n    i        .     ,        ,        ,    .i.     T  lor  "u'd  ml'k  commencing  the  middle  of 

feed  service  have  been  built.    It  con-  this  month.    This  has  been  forced*  upon 

tains  also  some  of  the  representative  us  because  we  are  being  undersold  in  this 

production  records  made  on  Eastern  market  quite  generally,  which  was  bound 

States  feeds  in  cow  testing  associa-  to  haPfen  with  the  NEMPA.  price  \% 

..         j    j          j       ■  .           i      ah  cents   lower   to   local   distributors  than 

tion  and  advanced  registry  work.  All  the  price  we  are  paving  Be„ows  Fa]ls 

farmers  feeding  cows  or  poultry  will  We  will   still  be  one  cent  above  the 

find  this  book  of  great  interest  and  NEMPA  price." 

we  shall  be  glad  to  mail  a  copy  to  Let  us  look  into  that  statement  a  bit 

those  who  send  in  the  accompanying  and  see  how  distorted  it  is.   As  the  prices 

coupon.  given  are  for  milk  delivered  in  Boston 

let  us  start  at  the  market  end  and  work 

Eq          p            »  17    L  backward.    The  first  discrepancy  in  the 

aSterD  jtateS  runners   fcXChange  comparison  is  the  greater  cost  of  trans- 
porting the  milk  in  bottles  and  cases  from 

■*   «•»••«••*.    non-profit  organization  what    ;t   WQU,d   be    m    ■             Qur   d  h{ 

omnod  and  controltod  by  tmo  cents  a  quart  ;g  fof  deKverv  jn  jugs.  The 

farmmrm  it  tmromm  First  National  Stores'  price  is  nine  cents 

SPRINGFIELD.  MASSACHUSETTS  in  bottles.    The  increased  cost  of  trans- 

_______________________________  porting  milk  in  bottles,  as  compared  to 

4.27  jug  transportation  is  about  one  half  cent 

Kastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange,  a  quart.    Right  there  one  half  of  the  one 

Box  1482,  Springfield,  Mass.  cent  difference  in  price  is  wiped  off. 

riease  send  me  the  1927  Eastern  stntes  The  next  discrepancy  is  at  the  plant 

feed  booklet.  where  pasteurization  and  bottling  takes 

Name     place.    The  NEMPA  price  is  for  raw 

Address    '.   milk  in  jugs.    The  cost  of  pasteurization 

shipping  Station    and  bottling  is  borne  by  the  dealer  after 


it  reaches  his  hands.  The  pasteurization 
and  bottling  by  dealers  is  almost  univer- 
sally performed  at  the  city  end  for  rea- 
sons of  economy  in  transportation.  The 
half  cent  station  charge  allowed  dealers 
does  not  in  any  way  cover  costs  of 
pasteurization  or  bottling.  It  is  simply 
an  overhead  expense  which  is  charged  to 
the  farmer  because  the  dealer  provides 
certain  facilities  for  receiving  the  milk 
at  the  country  end. 

In  the  case  of  the  Bellows  Falls  plant 
milk  moving  to  the  First  National  stores, 
the  cost  of  pasteurization  and  bottling 
falls  on  the  plant,  not  on  the  stores. 
Whatever  this  cost  is  should  be  deducted 
from  the  sales  price  before  it  is  com- 
pared with  the  NEMPA  price.  Our  best 
information  is  that  the  cost  of  pasteuri- 
zation and  bottling  is  fully  a  cent  a  quart. 
At  the  time  the  Federal  Regional  Milk 
commission  had  jurisdiction  over  the  milk 
supply  as  a  war  measure  dealers  sub- 
mitted figures  showing  that  the  cost  of 
pasteurization  and  handling  (the  same 
service  as  is  performed  at  the  Bellows 
Falls  plant)  was  more  than  a  cent  a 
quart.  This  evidence  was  accepted  by  the 
Commission  and  is,  we  believe,  a  fair 
figure  under  conditions  today.  This  cent 
a  quart  should  be  deducted  from  the  sales 
price  to  the  First  National  Stores  in  mak- 
ing the  comparison.  Another  cent  lopped 
off  of  the  "higher  price"  claimed  by  Mr. 
Adams. 

The  third  discrepancy  is  in  the  differ- 
ence in  the  test  of  the  milk  as  delivered 
to  the  First  National  Stores.  It  centers 
around  4  per  cent,  milk  instead  of  the  3.7 
standard  of  the  NEMPA  price  system. 
Four  per  cent,  milk  sold  under  the 
NEMPA  price  brings  about  15  cents  a 
hundred,  or  a  third  of  a  cent  a  quart, 
more  than  3.7  milk.  To  make  the  com- 
parison fair  another  third  of  a  cent  should 
be  taken  from  the  First  National  price, 
because  of  the  difference  in  test  of  the 
milk  actually  delivered. 

Summing  up  the  discrepancies  we  find 
that  the  First  National  price  of  nine  cents 
a  quart  for  4  per  cent  milk  delivered  in 
Boston  pasteurized  and  bottled  should  be 
cut  down  one-half  cent  for  extra  cost  of 
transportation,  a  full  cent  for  pasteuriza- 
tion and  bottling,  and  a  third  of  a  cent 
for  the  higher  test  of  the  milk  (making 
1  5/6  cents  in  all)  before  it  should  be 
compared  with  the  NEMPA  price  of 
eight  cents  for  3.7  raw  milk  delivered  in 
Boston  in  jugs. 

It  is  a  plain  case  in  addition  and  sub- 
traction that  the  First  National  price  is 
not  a  half  cent  above  the  NEMPA  price 
now  but  5/6  of  a  cent  below  it.  Before 
the  cut  of  a  half  cent  to  Bellows  Falls 
farmers  it  was  one-third  of  a  cent  below 
the  NEMPA  price.  So  far  as  we  know  it 
never  has  been  above  on  that  basis  of 
comparison.  It  is  not  the  basis  of  com- 
parison which  we  believe  in  but  it  is  the 
one  which  Mr.  Adams  elects  to  use  so  we 
will  take  the  proposition  on  his  own  terms. 

In  his  address  at  Montpelier  Mr. 
Adams  stated  that  his  price  last  August 
and  September  was  nine  cents  a  quart  de- 
livered. At  that  time  the  NEMPA  price 
was  8^  cents.  Again  taking  the  basis  of 
comparison  selected  by  Mr.  Adams  it 
appears  that  these  two  months  the  First 
National  Store  price  to  farmers  was 
1  1/3  cents  below  the  NEMPA  price. 

Taking  the  whole  thing  on  its  merits 
we  think  that  the  figures  speak  for  them- 
selves and  that  any  fair  minded  man  can 
decide  as  to  which  price  was  the  higher 
on  the  basis  selected  by  the  representative 
of  the  First  National  Stores. 

Let  us  forget  milk  for  a  minute  and 
make  the  same  comparison  in  terms  of 
a  suit  of  clothes.  We  are  selling  a  suf- 
ficient amount  of  cloth  to  make  100  suits 
of  clothes.  We  agree  to  pay  the  cost  of 
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The  First  National  Stores  are  buying  100 
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sewed,  lined,  stitched,  pressed  and  packed 
each  in  a  good  looking  individual  box  and 
shipped  by  express.  The  100  suits  of  fin- 
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CANADIAN  EMBARGO 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

y  States.  It  immediately  shut  off  a  small 
amount  of  milk  and  a  somewhat  larger 
amount  of  cream  which  has  been  coming 
into  Boston. 

This  action  by  federal  authorities 
would  have  come  anyway,  whether  the 
Lenroot- i  aber  bill  had  been  passed  or 
not,  as  it  was  a  public  health  measure, 
but  the  situation  has  called  public  atten- 
(tion  to  the  differences  in  systems  of  in- 
spection in  Canada  and  in  the  United 
Rates.  These  differences  are  the  reason 
why  the  Lenroot-Taber  bill  was  advocated 
and  passed.  In  a  way  which  the  con- 
suming public  will  remember  Canadian 
supplies  of  milk  and  cream  have  come 
under  suspicion  of  not  being  properly 
Safeguarded,  as  they  will  be  when  the 
Lenroot-Taber  bill  is  in  effect. 

Inevitably  the  hardship  of  the  embargo 
falls  on  many  producers  who  are  wholly 
innocent  and  in  no  way  responsible  for  the 
typhoid  epidemic.  The  authorities  who  are 
entrusted  with  the  care  of  public  health 
cannot  discriminate  quickly  and  must  use 
their  power  to  ban  importations  on  all 
within  the  area  under  suspicion.  Our 
producers'  friends  in  Canada  who  are  pro- 
ducing clean,  sanitary  milk  free  from 
any  possibility  of  spreading  contagious 
diseases,  have  our  sympathy.  They  are 
suffering  from  living  in  the  same  area 
with  men  whose  milk  supply  is  known  to 
fee  endangering  the  public  health.  The 
burden  falls  on  the  farmers  living  just 
'Over  the  line  and  sending  their  milk  to 
plants  close  to  the  border,  such  as  Alburg, 
East  Berkshire  and  North  Troy,  more 
heavily  than  on  those  living  farther  from 
fhe  line  for  their  only  outlet  into  the 
market  has  been  cut  off.  Producers  whose 
products  go  to  plants  in  Canada  can  still 
send  their  milk  to.  the  plant  and  have  it 
handled  in  some  way. 

Immediately  on  receipt  of  the  news  of 
the  embargo  Boston  newspapers  began 
besieging  .lis  with  questions  as  to  the 
effect,  oli  Boston's-  milk  supply.  They 
asked  if  it  would  mean  a  shortage  and  an 
increase  in  price.  The  answer  was  easy. 
Only  about  one  carload  of  milk  a  day 
comes  from  Canadian  sources  to  Boston. 
Cutting  off'  this  car  means  almost  nothing- 
in  proportion  to  the  total  supply  of  milk 
shipped  from  points  within  New  England 
and  New  York.  Considerably  more  cream 
comes  from  Canada  but  coming  at  this 
season  when  production  is  on  the  increase, 
the  cream  needs  can  be  met  more  easilv 
than  at  most  seasons.  We  were  able  to 
assure  the  newspapers  that  there  would 
be  no  shortage  that  would  be  felt  by  the 
consumers.  We  assured  them  of  our  be- 
lief that  New  England  would  be  able  to 
meet  the  demand  and  that  the  course 
taken  at  Washington  in  placing  the  em- 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1927 


WESTERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Manager 

585  White  Street,  Springfield,  Mas*.  Telephone  Walnut  1714 

PRICES  month  for  92  score  fresh  butter  at  Bos- 
Worcester   7Y2c  per  qt.  ton'  subtract  five  cents  per  pound  for 

Springfield   8c     per  qt.  manufacture,  add   16  2/3  per  cent,  for 

Holvoke                              7y2c  per  qt  churn  gam'  multIP'y  the  Pr,ce  P«r  pound 

of    fat  thus   obtained   by   3.7  and  add 

The  Huntington,  Swift  River  Valley  ten  cents  per  cwt.  for  skim, 
and  Greenfield  district  meetings  of  the  Each  producer  shall  receive  the  Class 
United  Dairy  System  were  held,  which  1  price  for  all  milk  not  in  excess  of  his 
I  attended.  rating.  For  milk  in  excess  of  his  rat- 
Producers  who  attended  these  meet-  ing  he  shall  receive  a  price  to  be  de- 
ings  showed  by  their  many  questions  a  termined  by  the  proportionate  amounts 
keen  interest  in  the  business,  which  was  0f  the  dealer's  total  purchases  falling 
well  explained  by  Field  Manager  under  Classes  1  and  Classes  2. 
Rickert.  For  example,  if  the  dealer's  sales  of 

At  the  above  meetings  a  short  time  Class    1    milk  exactly   cover   the  total 

was  given  for  the  election  of  NEMPA  amount    of    milk    covered    by  ratings 

local  officers.  excess   over   ratings   will   be   paid  for 

At    Huntington    the    following    were  at  Class  2  price  and  if  the  dealer  sells 

elected:  President,  John  Searles;  secre-  all  Df  his  milk  as  fluid  the  excess  over 

tary,  Walter  Lyman.  ratings   shall   be   paid   for   at   Class  1 

At  Greenfield:  President,  Arthur  W.  price.    In  the  same  way,  if  part  of  the 

Fairbanks;  secretary,  Leslie  Potter.  excess  over  rating  is  sold  as  Class  1 

At    Swift    River    Valley:    President,  milk  the  price  to  be  paid   for  excess 

Clinton     Powell;     secretary,     C.     W.  over  ratings  will  be  made  up  partly  at 

Urocius.  Class    1    price   and   partly   at    Class  2 

On  March  IS  I  had  the  pleasure  of  price, 

attending,  with  George  Storey,  a  meet-  5.    Administration.    The  prices  to  be 

ing    of    the    New    Braintree    Farmers'  paid  under  the  foregoing  plan  shall  be 

Club.    A  wonderful  dinner  was  served,  computed  by  the  Commissioner  of  Agri- 

which  to  Mr.  Storey  and  myself  was  culture,  Dr.  A.  W.  Gilbert,  with  whom 

extremely   satisfying,   due   to   the    fact  the  dealers  operating  under  the  rating 

that  we  spent  some  little  time  on  the  pian  shall  file  a  sworn  statement  setting 

way  to  the  meeting  getting  out  of  the  forth  total   purchases,   total  of  ratings 

mud.    After  dinner  there  were  talks  on  ancj  total  sales  each  month, 

various  subjects.  The  sworn  statement  shall  be  subject 

The  Worcester  sales  committee  met  t0  verification  by  the  milk  administrator, 
the  dealers'  committee  on  March  28  to  The  cost  of  determining  the  price 
discuss  some  method  of  handling  the  unrjer  this  plan  shall  be  borne  equally 
surplus  during  the  spring  months.  A  t>y  the  producers  and  dealer, 
proposal  was  drawn  up  which  was  to  be  The  Worcester  market  seems  to  be 
submitted  to  the  dealers'  association,  also  carrying  on  in  a  very  satisfactory  con- 
to  the  producers  affected.  dition  and  there  is  nothing  to  indicate 

Later   at   a   meeting   in   Warren,   at  triat    the    present   agreement   on  prices 

which  the  dealer,   Mr.   Medlinsky,   and  WJ\  not  be  fulfilled  and  carried  along 

myself  were  present,  it  was  agreed  by  to  jujy  ist_ 

the  producers  and  Mr.  Medlinsky.  to  Indications  point  to  a  small  surplus 
adopt  a  rating  plan,  based  on  the  daily  during  the  coming  two  or  three  months, 
average  obtained  on  the  amounts  shipped  Producers,  in  order  to  have  a  stable 
during  February,  May,  August  and  market,  must  recognize  the  excess  pro- 
November,  1926.  duction  during  the  spring  months  and  co- 
On  the  basis  of  this  agreement  the  operate  on  some  plan  of  taking  care 
following  rating  plan  has  been  drawn  0f  jt 

up  to  be  presented  to  the  dealers'  as-  j  w;sh  to  can  special  notice  to  the 

sociation  and  the  producers:  fact  that  the   plan   proposed   above  is 

RATING  PLAN   1927  t0  be  admisistered  by  Commissioner  of 

.      A(r  ',  ^  Agriculture,    Dr.    A.    W.    Gilbert,  and 

Worcester  Market  subject  to   verification  by   his  certified 

1.  Class    1    milk   shall   be   all   milk  account. 

purchased    under    rating    plan    sold    in  It  seems  tQ  me  that  a  p]an  that  is 

fluid   form,  plus  5  per  cent,  to  cover  suhjected  to  the  above  checking  ought 

plant  shrinkage  and  trade  surplus.  to  ^  received  with  confidence  by  those 

2.  Class  2  milk  shall  include  all  milk  producers  affected  by  it.  One  thing  is 
purchased  under  the  rating  plan  not  ac-  certain,  failure  or  unwillingness  on  the 
counted  for  in  Class  1.  part  of  the  producer  to  recognize  the 

3.  Ratings.  Each  producer  shall  re-  overproduction  during  the  spring  and 
ceive  a  daily  rating  for  the  remainder  early  summer  months  will  certainly 
of  the  year  1927  based  on  his  average  make  it  absolutely  impossible  to  hold  a 
daily  production  during  the  months  of  stable  and  uniform  price  in  the  Wor- 
February,  May,  August  and  November,  cester  market.  In  fact,  I  believe  it  is 
1926.  In  determining  these  ratings  it  the  only  thing  in  sight  that  might  cause 
is  understood  that  the  rating  shall  be  the  a  lower  price  in  this  market.  What 
total  production  of  these  four  months  we  need  more  than  any  one  thing  is 
divided  by  120  days  excepting  that  when  confidence  and  constructive  criticism, 
the  total  ratings  thus  obtained  amount  The  fellow  who  stays  at  home  and  con- 
to  more  than  the  present  sales  of  Class  stantly  pounds  the  old  anvil  of  discord 
1  milk  by  the  dealer  each  rating  will  with  his  pessimistic  hammer  is  a  curse 
be  adjusted  the  proportionate  amount  to  all  in  his  community  as  well  as  to 
necessary  to  bring  ratings  to  the  level  himself. 

of    Class    1   milk.     In   the   same   way  As  far  as  the  NEMPA,  or  possibly 

ratings    shall    proportionately    be    in-  the  Worcester  dealers  are  concerned,  no 

creased  in  case  Class  1  milk  exceeds  the  doubt  some  muddy  water  has  run  over 

total  sum  of  ratings.  the  dam.     The   fellow  who   is  always 

New    producers    taken    shall    receive  looking  backward  sees  this  and  hammers 

ratings   mutually   agreed   upon   between  away.     Too   many   such   will  certainly 

the  dealer,  the  patron  and  the  NEMPA.  retard  success.     Let  us  about  face  to 

4.  Method  of  Payment.  The  dealer  the  problems  ahead  and  travel  on  with 
agrees  to  pay  'for  Class  1  milk  the  base  confidence  and  hope. 

price  agreed  upon   from  time  to  time   

between  the   NEMPA  sales  committee  Frank:  "How  did  you  cure  your  wife 

and  the  dealers'  buying  committee.  of  her  craze  for  antiques?" 

For  Class  2  milk  the  dealer  agrees  to  Shaft:  "Oh,  I  just  gave  her  a  1907 

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'.April,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


MARKET  CONDITIONS 

Production  of  milk  in  February,  as  in- 
dicated by  the  purchases  of  the  larger 

K  dealers  in  the  Boston  market,  was  less 
than  normal.    The  purchases  for  Feb- 

;|  ruary  increased  over  the  purchases  for 
January  but  not  so  much  as  last  year. 

xjThe  normal  increase  is  about  5  per 
cent.  This  year  the  increase  in  Febru- 
ary was  only  3  per  cent.    This  is  an- 

i  other  indication  that  milk  is  not  likely 
to  come  in  abnormally  large  quantities 
this  season.  Fluid  sales  of  milk  showed 
the  normal  increase  from  January  to 
February,  leaving  the  surplus  slightly 
inore  than  last  year. 

The  comparative  purchases,  sales  and 
surplus  for  January  and  February,  and 
for  February,  1926,  in  millions  of 
pounds,  were: 

1927  1927  1926 
Jan.       Feb.  Feb. 

Purchases   44.0      45.4  41.3 

Sales   27.2      27.8  26.1 

Surplus   46.9%    47.4%  41.8% 

I  The  good  price  for  butter,  plus  the 
10  cents  per  hundredweight  on  surplus 
secured  by  the  sales  committee  for  Feb- 
ruary, raised  the  surplus  price  to  $2.10 
tor  February,  or  39  cents  higher  than  it 
was  a  year  before.  This  increased 
surplus  price  nearly  offsets  the  half 
bent  lower  price  on  market  milk  and 
Jeft  the  net  return  two  cents  a  hundred 
Jower  than  it  was  a  year  previous. 
{The  butter  market  averaged  6l/2  cents 
higher  than  a  year  ago.  The  comparison 
of  prices  was  as  follows : 


1927 

1927 

1926 

Jan. 

Feb. 

Feb. 

>  Fluid   

$2.96 

$2.96 

$3.19 

1.88 

2.10 

1.71 

-  Net  price   

2.55 

2.61 

2.63 

j  Avg.  butter,  lb 

.  .495 

.5186 

.4538 

The  butter  market  continues  favor- 
able although  there  was  a  falling  off 
the  middle  of  March  due  to  offerings 
of  foreign  butter  on  the  New  York 
market.  This  foreign  butter  was  offered 
at  46  and  47  cents'  with  the  duty  of  12 
cents  a  pound  paid.  Aside  from  this 
temporary  drop  to  A7l/2  cents,  the  price 
has  remained  at  a  relatively  high  level. 
The  prices  promptly  came  back  to  52 
cents  after  this  foreign  butter  had 
been  absorbed,  as  the  production  of 
butter  is  still  below  normal  for  the 
season  and  storage  stocks  are  only  one- 
,  third  of  the  normal  amount.  March 
butter  will  average  more  than  50  cents 
a  pound,  seven  cents  a  pound  above 
last  year. 

The  New  York  pooled  price  for  3.7 
per  cent,  milk  in  the  181-200  mile  zone 
for  February  is  $2.77,  compared  with 
our  weighted  price  for  Boston  dealers 
of  $2.61.  Last  month's  letter  gave  in- 
correct prices  for  the  League — the  cor- 
rect  League  price  was  $2.77  instead  of 
$2.69,  which  price  was  22  cents  a  hun- 
dred above  our  price  for  January. 

COST  OF  PRODUCTION 

Grain  prices  are  now  about  the  same 
as  last  month  and  last  year.     Hay  is 
ji  about  the  same  as  last  month  and  higher 
than  last  year.    Below  are  comparative 
prices : 

1927      1927  1926 
Mar.  Mar. 
547.38  $47.42 
15.40  14.86 
.300  .300 


Feb. 

Grain,  per  ton  ....$47.51 
Hay,  per  ton  ....  15.89 
Labor,  per  hr  30 

In  his  monthly  letter  on  market  con- 
ditions, Wesley  -  H.  Bronson,  head  of 
our  research  department,  expressed  his 
belief  that  milk  will  not  be  plentiful 
next  fall  under  normal  weather  condi- 
tions. Of  course  there  might  be  a  sea- 
Son  unusually  favorable  to  fall  produc- 
tion of  milk  which  would  offset  the 
two  main  reasons  for  believing  that  the 
supply  will  be  somewhat  short.  The 
;  first  reason  is  the  decrease  in  the  num- 
ber of  cows,  which  will  continue  this 
year  at  least,  due  to  the  number  which 
are  killed  as  the  result  of  testing,  and 
the  relatively  small  number  of  heifers 
which  will  freshen.  The  second  rea- 
son is  the'  shifting  of  supplies  which 
have  been  coming  to  Boston  to  "the  New 
York  market. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1927 


Cream  Sales  To  Be  Included 


Plan  Suggested  to  Help  Farmers  Return  to  Milk  Ship- 
ments July  1  on  Suspension  of  Cream  Plan 


A  way  of  bringing  cream  sales  under 
the  negotiations  between  the  sales  com- 
mittee and  Boston  dealers  has  been  sug- 
gested to  take  effect  July  1,  when  the 
present  cream  plan  will  be  suspended. 
This  suspension  of  the  cream  plan  would 
leave  cream  altogether  outside  the  nego- 
tiations of  the  NEMP  and  would  put  it 
back  on  the  competitive  sales  basis  of 
several  years  ago.  Many  cream  shippers 
have  been  brought  under  the  negotiations 
of  the  association  and  have  reaped  sub- 
stantial benefits  under  the  cream  plan. 
The  sales  committee  felt  that  it  was  only 
fair  to  these  men  to  try  and  devise  some 
way  by  which  their  product  could  still  be 
made  a  matter  of  negotiation. 

The  most  important  need  in  the  New 
England  dairy  industry  today  is  to  reduce 
surplus.  The  best  way  to  bring  this  about 
is  to  bring  back  to  milk  shipments  a  con- 
siderable number  of  farmers  who  are 
located  near  to  shipping  stations.  They 
have  been  shipping  cream  under  the  cream 
plan  even  when  their  milk  was  greatly 
needed  in  the  market.  Until  these  men 
get  back  to  milk  shipments  the  excessive 
surplus  will  be  the  rule  because  of  the 
outside  purchases  and  extension  of  terri- 
tory by  dealers  through  the  effects  of 
the  cream  plan. 

The  new  way  of  handling  the  situation 
would  offer  substantial  inducements  to 
the  men  near  to  shipping  stations  to  re- 
turn to  milk  shipments.  For  the  more 
distant  producer  it  would  insure  a  share 
in  the  milk  price  to  the  extent  to  which 
he  could  meet  the  requirements  of  the 
market.  Every  producer,  whether  he 
shipped  milk  or  cream,  would  share  in  the 
return  for  milk  in  proportion  to  the  way 
in  which  he  met  the  needs  of  the  market. 
Every  producer  would  share  evenly  in  the 
benefits  of  a  negotiated  price  and  each 
producer  would  get  paid  milk  and  butter- 
fat  prices  for  every  pound  he  sent  to  the 
shipping  station. 

The  suggestion  is  that  all  cream  which 
is  sold  shall  be  put  into  the  regular  pur- 
chases just  as  though  it  were  milk  and 
will  share  in  the  net  price,  depending  on 
the  amount  of  surplus  carried  by  that 
dealer.  Every  100  pounds  of  cream  he 
ships,  without  regard  to  what  percentage 
of  butter  fat  it  contains,  would  be  ac- 
counted for  and  paid  for  just  as  though 
it  were  3.7  per  cent.  milk.  In  addition  to 
this  hundred  weight  price  each  producer 
will  receive  the  butter  price  for  all  the 
fat  in  the  milk  in  excess  of  3.7  per  cent. 
If  15  per  cent,  cream  were  shipped  he 
would  receive  butter  price  for  11.7  pounds 
(15  minus  3.7)  in  each  hundred  weight  in 
addition  to  the  composite  price  for  the 
100  pounds  of  product. 

The  way  in  which  this  would  work  out 
can  best  be  seen  by  concrete  example  of  a 
Whiting  producer  shipping  100  pounds  of 
15  per  cent,  cream,  in  the  10th  zone  with 
a  butter  quotation  of  52  cents.  Under 
the  cream  plan  the  price  in  that  zone  for 
February  was  $2,606.  Without  the  equal- 
ization feature  of  the  cream  plan  the  price 
to  milk  patrons  would  have  been  $2,646. 
The  cash  return  to  this  patron  would  be : 

For  100  pounds  of  product  he 
would  get  the  composite  price  $2,646 

For  11.3  pounds  of  butter  fat  (15 
minus  3.7)  at  52  cents  a  pound....  5.876 

Total  cash  return   $8,522 

This  is  an  average  of  56  cents  a  pound 
for  the  butterfat  produced  and  he  has  in 
addition  the  skim  milk  kept  at  home.  It 
would  take  405  pounds  of  3.7  milk  to  pro- 
duce 100  pounds  of  15  per  cent,  cream. 
Taking  out  the  100  pounds  shipped  he 
would  have  305  pounds  of  skim  milk  left 
at  home.  The  feeding  value  of  this  skim 
should  be  added  to  the  cash  price  for  the 
cream  in  making  up  the  final  value  of  the 
product.  The  cost  of  hauling  the  milk  to 
the  station  is  also  a  factor  which  will  be 
discussed  later. 

The  direct  advantage  of  returning  to 
milk  shipments  can  best  be  seen  by  com- 
paring the  price  which  woud  be  received 


if  the  product  was  shipped  as  15  per  cent, 
cream  with  what  it  would  have  brought 
if  it  had  been  shipped  as  3.7  milk. 

Milk  shipment,  405  pounds  at 
$2,646   $10.7163 

Received  when  shipped  as  15  per 
cent,  cream    8.5100 

Advantage  in  shipping  milk   $2.2063 

The  305  pounds  of  skim  milk  kept  at 
home  would  have  cost  the  producer 
$2.2063  or  about  72  cents  per  hundred 
pounds.  That  is  altogether  too  high  a 
price  to  pay  for  skim  for  feeding  pur- 
poses and  few  farmers  who  are  so 
situated  that  they  can  change  back  to 
milk  shipments  would  keep  skim  at  that 
price. 

The  determining  factor  is  cost  of  get- 
ting milk  to  the  receiving  station.  The  man 
who  shipped  15  per  cent,  cream  would 
have  to  pay  hauling  charges  on  only  100 
pounds  of  product,  while  he  would  have 
to  pay  for  hauling  405  pounds  of  product 
if  he  had  shipped  milk.  That  is  he  has 
to  pay  for  hauling  305  pounds  more 
product  under  a  milk  shipment  than  under 
a  cream  shipment.  If  the  cost  of  haul- 
ing to  the  shipping  plant  is  only  20  cents 
a  hundred  the  305  pounds  would  be  only 
about  60  cents,  leaving  him  still  $1.60 
more  by  shipping  milk.  If  the  cost  were 
40  cents  a  hundred  for  hauling  the  305 
pounds  would  be  about  $1.20,  leaving  him 
a  net  advantage  of  $1  on  the  side  of  milk. 
At  a  hauling  charge  of  75  cents  a  hun- 
dred the  advantage  of  milk  shipments 
would  dissappear  altogether. 

The  actual  feeding  value  on  the  farm 
comes  in  also.  While  it  is  obvious  that 
few  farmers  want  to'feed  skim  that  costs 
them  72  cents  a  hundred,  a  cost  of  only 
20  cents  a  hundred  might  tip  the  scale 
away  from  milk  shipments.  That  would 
be  the  actual  cost  of  the  skim  kept  at 
home  if  the  hauling  charge  was  about  50 
cents  a  hundred.  Somewhere  at  about 
this  point  is  where  cream  shipments  should 
begin  and  where  milk  shipments  should 
stop. 

A  very  considerable  proportion  of  the 
shipments  under  the  present  cream  plan 
are  easily  accessible  to  shipping  stations 
and  are  subjected  to  light  hauling  charges. 
Under  the  plan  suggested  these  men  will 
find  it  very  greatly  to  their  advantage  to 
change  back  to  milk  shipments.  At  a 
greater  distance  from  the  shipping 
stations  each  man  will  have  to  decide  for 
himself  which  is  the  best  policy.  It  is 
believed  by  the  sales  committee  and 
leaders  in  the  association  that  the  prin- 
ciples of  this  suggestion  are  sound  and 
that  it  will  not  be  open  to  such  abuses 
as  have  grown  up  under  the  cream  plan. 
It  will  serve  the  all  important  purpose 
of  bringing  back  to  milk  shipments  the 
men  who  are  near  shipping  stations.  The 
practical  way  to  reduce  surplus  and  get 
a  better  net  price  for  milk  is  for  as 
many  as  possible  of  the  cream  shippers 
to  return  to  milk  shipments. 

Another  highly  important  factor  but 
one  which  cannot  be  put  in  terms  of 
dollars  and  cents  is  the  degree  to  which 
the  surplus  will  be  reduced  by  the  restric- 
tion of  outside  purchases  and  bv  includ- 
ing in  the  figures  only  such  product  as  is 
actually  shipped.  It  is  known  that  the 
equalization  feature  of  the  cream  plan 
has  reduced  the  price  to  all  shippers 
about  four  cents  a  hundred.  Doing  awav 
with  this  and  increasing  the  price  through 
a  reduction  in  the  nercentage  of  surplus 
will  bring  substantial  gains  to  all,  cream 
and  milk  shippers  alike. 


The  candidate  had  completed  a  full 
course  of  study  in  veterinary  surgery,  but 
had  never  practiced.  He  branched  out 
into  politics.  During  a  meeting  his  politi- 
cal enemies  referred  to  him  as  "the  vet.." 
and  in  a  heated  debate  one  of  them  asked  : 
"Are  vou  really  a  veterinary  surgeon  ?" 

"Why  do  you  ask?"  queried  the  quick' 
witted  politician.  "Are  you  ill  ?" 


Milk  Increased 

iklbs.per  day 
for each cow 

EVERY  bag  of  BULL  BRAND  DAIRY  RATION  (either 
DRY  or  SWEETENED)  is  sold  on  results!  Your  herd  must 
produce  more  milk  per  pound  of  feed  and  stay  in  better  condi- 
tion— or  you  are  to  come  and  get  your  money  back.  In  a  new 
modern  mill,  the  latest  automatic  machinery  weighs,  mixes  and 
blends  the  quality  ingredients  in  B  B  (Bull  Brand)  Feeds  to  perfec- 
tion. Continuous  tests  are  made  to  insure  constant  uniformity. 
Depend  upon  it — B  B  (Bull  Brand)  Feeds  are  always  the  same 
high  quality,  the  same  smooth  palatable  blend 

c4sk  for  Bull  Brand  at  feed  and  grain  stores  everywhere 

BULL  BRAND  DAIRY  RATION 


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BUFFALO,  NEW  YORK 


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FERTILIZERS  INCREASE  PASTURE  EFFICIENCY 


Fertilized 


Unfertilized 


It  is  cheaper  to  grow  feed  in  a  fertilized 
pasture  and  send  the  cows  after  it  than  to 
grow  it  on  crop  land  and  send  the  hired  man 
and  a  team  after  it. 


ANIMAL  FERTILIZERS 


It  is  PERFECTLY  BALANCED  in  the  Animal  (no 
garbage)  an  J  Chemical  Elements  that  make  things  grow. 
Write  for  our  pamphlet.    It's  free. 


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Branoh  Consolidated  Rendering  Co. 
40  No.  Market  St.  Boston,  Matt. 


April,  192-7 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


INSTITUTE  PLANS 

(Continued  from  page  four) 

Secretaries  and  Departments  of  Agricul- 
ture, Boston,  Mass. ;  The  National  Board 
of  Farm  Organizations,  Washington,  D. 
C. ;  The  National  Cooperative  Milk  Pro- 
ducers' Federation,  Washington,  D.  C. ; 
The  National  Grange,  Patrons  of  Hus- 
bandry, Columbus,  Ohio;  The  National 
Pecan  Growers  Exchange,  Albany,  Ga. ; 
The  Ohio  Farm  Bureau  Federation, 
Columbus,  Ohio ;  The  Staple  Cotton  Co- 
dperative  Association  of  Mississippi,  Dun- 
lfith,  Miss. ;  The  Sun-Maid  Raisin  Grow- 
ers of  California,  Fresno,  Calif. 

For  further  information,  address 
Charles  W.  Holman,  Secretary,  American 
Institute  of  Cooperation,  1731  Eye  street, 
N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 


RATE  CASE  COMMITTEE 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

amounted  to  $750,000  a  year  of  $875,000 
for  the- 14  months  of  suspension. 

The  committee  did  not  make  this  saving 
by  stalling  or  delaying  the  progress  of 
the  hearings.  They  have  gone  forward 
just  as  fast  as  they  could.  More  delays 
have  been  caused  by  the  failure  of  the 
railroads  to  submit  figures  on  time  than 
from  any  other  cause.  The  committee 
made  the  saving  for  you  by  fighting  the 
railroads  with  facts  and  figures.  They 
worked  up  a  case  against  the  increased 
rates  the  like  of  which  had  never  before, 
we  believe,  been  presented  by  any  organi- 
zation of  farmers. 

Information  comes  from  the  attorneys 
who  were  in  charge  of  the  case  that  a 
decision  from  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission  may  be  expected  sometime  in 
April.  We  have  a  staunch  belief  that 
the  commission  will  refuse  to  authorize 
}he  advance  of  20  per  cent.  We  hope 
{hat  they  will  say  that  no  advance  at  all 
should  be  made.  But  whatever  their  de- 
cision as  to  the  future  the  $875,000  has 
been  saved.  The  appreciation  of  the  dairy 
■industry  of  all  New  England  should  be 
given  these  men  and  their  attorneys,  traffic 
and  accounting  experts  they  retained  to 
work  up  and  present  the  case. 

Not  in  any  previous  danger  to  the  dairy 
industry  have  so  many  of  the  organized 
groups  rallied  and  come  together  in  a 
common  cause.  Our  association  was 
represented  on  the  committee  of  course, 
but  every  other  group  of  any  importance 
was  also  represented.  It  was  a  coming 
together  of  the  dairy  industry  on  a  com- 
mon ground,  forgetting  their  minor  dif- 
ferences of  opinion  and  policies  and  fight- 
ing a  good  fight  against  an  injustice.  The 
railroads  were  not  expecting  any  such  re- 
sistance. They  {jot  the  greatest  surprise 
they  ever  had. 


NEW  ENGLAND  COUNCIL 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

Its  work  will  be  a  definite  job  to  be  com- 
pleted in  as  short  a  time  as  is  reason- 
able. It  hopes  to  bring  the  various 
groups  nearer  to  gether  but  having 
brought  them  to  a  better  understanding 
among  themselves,  it  is  their  own  job  to 
keep  the  plan  of  working  together  on  an 
even  keel.  That  is  where  the  conference 
board  will  come  in.  If  it  is  set  up  it  will 
be  a  means  of  making  more  permanent 
and  benefits  which  the  study  by  the  council 
and  the  commissioners  may  develop.  The 
two  projects  are  quite  close  together  but 
the  study  is  temporary,  a  single  job,  while 
the  conference  board,  it  is  hoped,  will  be 
a  permanent  factor  in  the  dairy  industry 
of  New  England.  The  conference  board 
idea  is  in  the  hands  of  a  committee  repre- 
senting the  principal  milk  marketing 
groups  in  New  England. 

The  attitude  of  the  NEMPA  in  both 
of  these  movements  is  open  minded.  It  is 
willing  to  co-operate  in  making  the 
study.  The  major  problem  of  marketing 
milk  in  New  England  is  being  met  by 
the  NEMPA.  It  negotiates  a  price  which 
is  in  general  accepted  as  a  standard  for 
New  England.  Great  gains  have  been 
made  in  stabilizing  and  standardizing 
milk  marketing  methods  have  been  made 
through  the  association,  the  largest  mar- 
keting group  in  New  England.  We 
realize  that  there  are  some  minor  difficul- 
ties in  the  markets  which  now  and  then 


disturb  conditions  and  cause  Hurries.  I'm 
in  the  main,  month  in  and  month  mil, 
Situations  are  being  met. 

If  the  study  made  by  the  council  ami 
the  commissioners  should  show  ways  m 
which  these  minor  difficulties  can  be  ad- 
justed satisfactorily  the  association  will 
receive  such  suggestions  with  an  open 
mind  and  give  them  careful  consideration 
before  either  accepting  or  rejecting  them. 
We  pledge  any  co-operation  which  the 
commissioners  may  desire  in  getting  at  the 
facts.  Our  own  operations,  policies  and 
information  concerning  dairy  conditions  in 
New  England  are  open  to  them  or  to  any 
other  responsible  body,  just  as  they  al- 
ways have  been. 


NEW  PLANT  OPENED 

(Continued  on  page  seventeen) 

brought  the  three  companies  together  into 
*.ne  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Company.  The  Somerville  location  was 
decided  upon  as  being  decidedly  conven- 
ient for  them  all  and  so  situated  that  it 
ottered  good  facilities  for  unloading  their 
milk  which  came  almost  entirely  from 
Vermo.it.  The  Childs  company  plant  at 
Waltham  has  been  retained  as  a  distri- 
bution center.  Three  small  dealers  in 
Lynn  were  bought  out  recently  and  the 
plant  of  one  will  be  used  as  another  dis- 
tribution center.  They  also  bought  the 
Cape  Cod  Creamery  Company  of  Hyannis 
and  are  now  completing  a  new  distribu- 
tion plant  there  to  cater  largely  to  the 
summer  trade.  Local  milk  is  taken  in  but 
there  is  not  nearly  enough  of  it  to  meet 
the  summer  requirements  and  the  aux- 
iliary supply  will  come  from  the  Somer- 
ville plant.  The  company  also  has  a  sum- 
mer branch  at  Oak  Bluffs  on  Martha's 
Vineyard  to  which  milk  will  be  shipped 
daily  by  boat  from  Woods  Hole. 

The  plant  of  the  consolidated  company 
is  a  three-story  and  basement  structure 
of  brick  and  cement.  It  has  been  equipped 
throughout  with  modern  apparatus  for 
handling  milk  in  an  efficient  manner.  The 
company  has  available  a  supply  of  T.  B. 
tested  milk  sufficiently  large  to  supply 
its  entire  retail  trade  and  is  building  up 
its  sales  of  this  class  of  milk  as  rapidly 
as  possible. 

'1  he  officers  of  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company  are :  C.  L. 
Alden,  Jr.,  president;  John  H.  Blodgett, 
treasurer ;  A.  F.  Noble,  secretary  and 
sales  manager ;  C.  L.  Alden,  W.  F.  Noble, 
W.  B.  Childs,  Arthur  Childs  and  P.  H. 
Bickford  of  Bradford,  Vt.,  directors. 


Housewife — "We  are  going  to  get  an 
electric  washer,  so  we  won't  need  you 
any  more." 

Laundress  — "All  right,  lady,  but  an 
electric  washer  don't  give  you  no  gossip." 


ECONOMY 

really  demands  the  use 
of  Safekote  Roofing 

Even  on  a  medium-sized  farm,  roofing  costs  mount 
dangerously  unless  a  roofing  is  used  that  is  low  in  cost 
and  long  in  service.  The  economy  of  Safekote  Roll 
Roofing  is  not  in  its  low  first  cost  alone.  It  is  in  the 
ease  with  which  it  is  laid,  the  greater  years  of  service  it 
gives,  the  elimination  of  repairs,  and  the  sure  protection 
and  peace  of  mind  it  brings.  Choose  Safekote  smooth  or 
slate-surfaced  roll  roofing  when  you  build  or  reroof.  It 
has  that  toughness  and  durability  which  only  the  finest 
materials  and  the  knowing  how  to  combine  them  can 
give.  There  is  a  Safekote  product  for  every  roofing  need 
—for  farm  houses,  barns,  silos  and  sheds.  Let  your 
nearby  dealer  show  you  how  Safekote  saves,  or  write 
us  for  details  and  samples.  Safepack  Mills,  Box  600, 
Millis,  Mass. 


more  Jxhin.  waterproof 

Roll  Roofing 

MADE  IN  NEW  ENGLAND 


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Three  Sizes:  40,  60  and  120  lbs. 
By  Tenths  of  a  Pound 

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Made  to  comply  with  De- 
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black  figures  and  gradua- 
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Order  through  any  leading 
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Specify  "Pelouze" 

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Postpaid 

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No.  D-40 
$4.50 


IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


Need  New  Machinery? 


It  is  apt  to  be  very  costly  and  unprofitable  to  be 
constantly  tinkering  with  worn-out  machinery. 
And  if  you  do  need  new  machinery,  the  spring  is 
usually  the  best  time  to  buy  it,  for  then  you  will 
have  the  benefit  of  it  for  the  full  season.  One  of 
our  Agricultural  Department's  regular  activities  is 
loaning  money  for  the  purchase  of  farm  machinery 
and  implements. 


1  ^] 


Rhode  Island 
Hospital  Trust  Company 


PROVIDENCE  -  PAWTUCKET  -  WOONSOCKET 


The  Oldest  Trust  Company  in  New  England 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


April,  1927 


Profitable 
Returns 


The  udder  and  teats  are  the 
"final  word"  on  your  dairy 
profits.  Keep  them  healthy, 
pliable,  easy  to  milk,  and 
you  avoid  -  endless  annoy- 
ance and  definite  loss.  No 
amount  of  care  and  feeding 
can  overcome  the  effects  of 
neglect  of  these  important 
organs. 

For  most  cuts,  chaps, 
cracks  or  bruises  Bag  Balm 
will  effect  a  healing  between 
milkings.  The  wonderful 
soothing,  penetrating  power 
of  this  ointment  restores  in- 
jured tissues  before  you  would 
think  it  possible.  For  all  inflamma- 
tion, Caked  Bag,  Bunches,  Cow 
Pox,  or  for  any  external  sore  Bag 
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Maine  Field  District  is  Set  Up 

Foley  to  Be  District   Manager  With  Headquarters  At 
State  Department  of  Agriculture  at  Augusta 


Maine  now  has  a  field  man  all  of  its 
own.  F.  L.  Foley,  who  has  won  the 
right  to  call  himself  a  veteran  in 
NEMPA  service  by  about  a  year  of 
work  in  recanvassing  New  England  on 
the  new  clues  order  basis,  has  been  as- 
signed to  -the  Maine  territory  and  from 
now  on  will  make  his  headquarters  at 
Augusta.  That  is,  he  will  be  there 
when  he  is  not  out  in  the  field  giving 
service  to  members.  With  such  a  big 
territory  to  cover  he  will  not  get  into 
Augusta  very  often.  But  it  will  be  the 
place  where  members  can  reach  him  if 
they  want  any  special  service,  such  as 
check  testing  or  reinstatement  after  be- 
ing shut  off  by  the  board  of  health. 
Mr.  Foley  cannot  settle  all  the  problems 
of  our  members  in  the  district  but  he 
will  go  as  far  as  he  can. 

We  are  especially  well  pleased  to  re- 
port that  the  new  head  of  the  Maine 
field  district  will  have  his  headquarters 
at  the  office  of  the  State  Department  of 
Agriculture  at  Augusta.  Some  time 
ago,  when  it  was  first  decided  that  one 
of  our  men  would  have  regular  head- 
quarters somewhere  in  Maine,  Commis- 
sioner of  Agriculture  Frank  Washburn, 
sent  down  an  invitation  to  occupy  desk 
room  and  a  "place  to  hang  your  hat" 
at  the  headquarters  of  the  Maine  State 
Department  of  Agriculture.  Recently, 
when  the  field  man  was  to  be  located, 
Mr.  Washburn  reiterated  his  invitation 
and  it  was  accepted  gratefully.  It  will 
be  a  fine  arrangement  all  around  and 
insures  the  continuance  of  the  cordial 
co-operation  which  has  existed  between 
the  department  and  the  NEMPA  for 
many  years. 

The  Maine  field  district  will  cover  all 
of  that  state  from  which  milk  is  being 
shipped  with  the  exception  of  the  Port- 
land market  supply.  This  market  was 
organized  some  years  ago  and  is  in- 
cluded in  the  northern  market  district  of 
which  F.  Leon  Brown  is  manaegr.  Mr. 
Foley  can  well  spare  this  small  section 
of  the  state  as  he  has  more  square  miles 
to  cover  than  any  other  district  man  will 
have.  Beginning  with  the  Portland  milk 
shed  and  the  coast  he  has  in  his  charge 
everything  from  the  New  Hampshire 
line  to  the  regions  where  potatoes  are 
king  or  where  the  moose  reigns.  Prac- 
tically speaking,  his  territory  is  bounded 
on  the  east  by  Bucksport,  Bangor  and 
Old  Town,  and  on  the  north  by  Milo, 
Dover-Foxcroft,  Solon,  Strong  and 
Rumford.  If  anyone  starts  shipping 
milk  from  beyond  these  limits  Foley 
will  promptly  extend  the  limit. 

In  this  district  there  are  now  105 
organized  NEMPA  locals.  Under  the 
plan  of  personal  service  for  members 
only,  Mr.  Foley  will  be  quite  busy.  For 
some  years  the  Maine  members  of  the 
association,  and  from  other  states  as 
well,  have  been  asking  for  some  plan 
under  which  they  will  have  someone 
come  to  help  them  straighten  out  in- 
dividual difficulties.  The  possible  forms 
of  personal  service  which  will  be  most 
called  for  are  check  testing  of  the 
butterfat,  checking  methods  of  sampling, 
testing  and  weighing  of  the  milk  at  the 
plants  and  assisting  members  in  getting 
reinstated  when  they  have  been  dropped 
by  the  board  of  health. 

Mr.  Foley  and  the  other  field  men 
have  visited  the  office  of  the  Boston 
Board  of  Health  to  familiarize  them- 
selves with  the  rules  and  regulations. 
While  the  association  has  no  desire  to 
get  a-  man  reinstated  who  was  shut  off 
for  good  and  adequate  reasons,  _  it  _  is 
realized  that  sometimes  an-  injustice 
may  have  been  done  and  a  simple  state- 
ment of  the  facts  may  lead  to  a  rein- 
statement. In  other  cases  quite  inex- 
pensive alterations  or  small  changes  in 
methods  of  handling  milk  at  the  farm 
will  make  it  possible  for  the  field  men 
to  secure  a  reinstatement. 

He  will  assist  the  officers  of  locals 
by   canvassing   for   new   members,  ar- 


ranging for  local  meetings  and  in  gen- 
erally strengthening  the  association 
work.  At  meetings  he  will  be  present 
to  explain  what  is  being  done  by  the 
association  and  will  answer  the  special 
questions  which  come  up  from  time  to 
time.  So  far  as  is  possible  he  will  co- 
operate with  the  Department  of  Agri- 
culture, Farm  Bureaus,  State  Extension 
Service,  the  Grange  and  the  College  of 
Agriculture.  At  Farmers'  Week  at 
Orono,  Mr.  Foley  met  many  NEMPA 
members,  county  agents  and  other  agri- 
cultural leaders  and  had  a  fine  oppor- 
tunity to  get  acquainted  with  many 
men. 

The  Maine  district  is  the  first  to  be 
set  up  under  the  general  plan  decided 
upon  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  as- 
sociation two  years  ago.  It  was  then 
voted  to  have  the  entire  field  covered 
by  resident  men  for  just  such  personal 
service  as  has  been  outlined.  Other 
districts  will  be  established  as  rapidly 
as  possible.  Three  new  field  men  have 
been  canvassing  all  over  the  territory 
for  nearly  a  year,  under  the  leadership 
of  our  veteran  campaigner,  F.  C. 
Warner.  Each  of  the  new  men  will 
soon  be  given  a  definite  district  to 
cover. 

FIELD  WORK 


Check  Testing  and  Meetings 
Keep  New  Men  Busy 

BUTTERFAT  CHECK  TESTING 

Butterfat  check  testing  is  well  under 
way.  All  three  of  the  field  men  have 
made  check  tests  during  the  past  month. 
All  of  them  are  now  licensed  to  make 
butterfat  tests  in  the  three  Northern 
New  England  states,  Maine,  New 
Hampshire  and  Vermont.  At  the  time 
of  writing,  the  office  had  received 
verification  of  checks  made  for  502 
members  delivering  their  product  at  nine 
country  plants.  The  results  of  these 
tests  show  that  members  are  generally 
receiving  a  fair  test  of  their  milk  and 
cream.  Each  member  is  notified  of  the 
results  of  his  test  and  where  variations 
occur  the  matter  is  called  to  the  atten- 
tion of  the  dealer  for  verification  and 
adjustment.  We  are  satisfied  that  the 
reliable  dealers  want  their  patrons-  satis- 
fied and  are  willing  to  co-operate  with 
the  NEMPA  to  see  that  each  member 
receives  his  just  due  in  regard  to 
weights  and  tests. 

ANNUAL  MEETINGS 

Since  the  last  issue  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Dairyman,  the  following  locals 
have  reported  as  having  elected  officers 
for  1927: 

COVENTRY,  VT. 

The  local  entertained  135  members 
and  their  families  at  their  annual  meet- 
ing and  oyster  supper.  Former  Secre- 
tary H.  E.  Miner  was  elected  president 
and  Henry  Mansfield  was  elected  sec- 
retary-treasurer. Earl  P.  Osgood  rep- 
resented the  central  office  and  discussed 
points  of  interest  in  the  milk  market. 
In  the  discussion  about  the  price  drop 
the  first  of  January,  which  was  brought 
about  by  the  First  National  Stores,  this 
question-  was  brought  out:  'Why  did 
not  the  NEMPA  place,  more  confidence 
in  their  members  and  use  them  to  fight 
for  a  price  for  their  milk?"  This  view- 
point is  very  seldom  brought  out.  It 
was  not  lack  of  confidence  in  the  mem- 
bership that  led  the  sales  committee  to 
meet  the  competition  of  the  chain  stores. 
It  was  better  business  to  drop  the  price 
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f 

I,  price  and  lose  the  sales.  It  was  not  a 
|,case  of  fighting  dealers  for  a  fair  and 
[/reasonable  price  but  of  allowing  an- 
il other  group  of  producers  to  take  away 
Pour  market  by  underselling  us.  Meet- 
Ling  the  competition  and  holding  the 
fi]  business  for  our  members  would  in  the 
i  long  run  bring  them  the  most  money, 
j  Six  years  ago  last  December  the 
^chain  stores  in  Boston  handled  no  milk. 
pNow  they  are  handling  20  to  30  car- 
-loads per  day.  The  First  National  Stores 
Ein  their  publicity  claim  that  a  much 
[[larger  quantity  of  milk  is  being  pro- 
Jduced  in  the  Bellows  Falls  territory 
i  than  formerly.  Such  increase  could  be 
lused  to  displace  business  formerly  sup- 
!  plied  by  NEMPA  milk.  The  sales 
|  committee  felt  that  the  time  had  come 
pto  put  a  stop  to  a  practice  which  was 

loading  surplus  onto  our  members  by 
i  allowing  other  producers  an  increased 
[sale  of  fluid  milk.  The  sales  committee 
i  expected  to  receive  the  backing  of  our 

members  in  this  matter  and  all  the  evi- 
;  dence  indicates  that  their  expectation 
:,was  justified. 

COLEBROOK,  N.  H. 
This  is  one  of  the  large  locals,  having 
I  about  130  members.    A.  B.  Frizzell  is 

president  and  Everett  Wiswell  secretary- 
!  treasurer.  E.  Fay  Flanders  was  elected 
I  vice-president.    The  executive  committee 

consists  of  the  officers  and  John  Hard- 
ling,  Walter  Gray  and  Arthur  Knight. 
|  F.  C.  Warner  and  F.  L.  Foley  repre- 
,  sented  the  central  office.  Much  interest 
[.was  shown  by  the  members  in  the  dis- 
cussion of  the  chain  store  situation  and 

ithe  Cream  Plan. 

JEFFERSON,  N.  H. 
i  At  the  Jefferson  meeting,  James  Sav- 
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|  Flaherty,  secretary-treasurer.  The  dis- 
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i  store  situation  and  the  Boston  office  was 
!  represented  by  F.  C.  Warner  and  F. 
H  Foley.  Due  to  the  foresight  of  Mr. 
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LANCASTER,  N.  H. 
I).  W.  I'inkliam  is  president  an  1 
Chester  Marshall  secretary-treasurer  of 
the  Lancaster  local,  which  also  has  well 
over  100  members.  An  interesting  dis- 
cussion of  the  market  situation  and  the 
railroad  rate  case  took  place  at  this 
meeting. 

BATH,  N.  H. 
Bath  local  held  a  morning  meeting  in 


the  railroad  station  after  the  members 
bad  delivered  their  milk  at  the  milk 
plant.  F.  L.  Foley  represented  the 
Boston  office  and  the  work  of  the  as- 
sociation was  discussed.  Addison  B. 
Wood  was  elected  president  and  Alfred 
E.  Houston  secretary-treasurer. 

Stratford,  N.  IL— M.  R.  Holbrook, 
president ;  O.  A.  Buzzell,  secretary- 
treasurer. 

Turner,    Me. — H.   F.   Dresser,  presi- 


dent ;  M.  D.  Kilbreth,  vice-president ; 
Fred   P.  Kicker,  secretary-treasurer. 

Baktrs/ield,  Vt.— H.  D.  Ovitt,  presi- 
dent;  Arthur  (t  \Vells,  secretary-treas- 
•ii <  r 

Lisbon,  N.  /I.-- A.  L.  SJvrman,  presi- 
dent; Stephen  TrcvcTia,  secretary- 
treasurer! 

Brookfield.  Vt. — G.  C.  Fullam,  presi- 
dent; C.  F.  Milner,  secretary-treas- 
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PHOSPHATE  FERTILIZER 

Net  Returns  Per  Acre  Over  Cost  of  Treatment 


The  chart  shown  to  the  left  was  taken  from  Bulletin 
195,  published  by  the  Pennsylvania  State  College. 
It  shows  graphically  just  how  fertilizers  increase 
pasture  efficiency  and  dairy  profits. 


Norwood,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  2,  1926. 
"Our  hay  field,  consisting  of  eight  acres,  pro- 
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to  the  load.  It  might  interest  you  to  know  that 
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tilizers for  the  past  few  years,  we  have  been  able 
to  raise  each  year  crops  amounting  in  value  to 
the  purchase  price  of  the  farm,  and  are  now 
convinced  that  it  is  not  the  original  cost  but  the 
final  result  in  dollars  and  cents  that  counts." 

— W.  T.  Leonard  8C  Co. 

Fall  River,  Mass.,  Sept.  22,  1926. 
"We  have  been  raising  silage  corn  for  four 
years,  and  using  other  fertilizers  each  year,  some- 
times paying  more  for  them,  but  this  year  we 
used  Bowker's  'AA  Quality'  Fertilizer  and  have  the 
best  corn  crop  by  far  that  we  have  ever  grown." 

— Lemay  Brothers. 
(Per  Ovidi  Lemay.) 

Cabot,  Vt.,  Dec.  20,  1926. 
"I  have  used  'AA  Quality'  Fertilizers  the  past 
year  and  have  been  much  pleased  with  the  results. 
My  crops  of  both  silage  corn  and  potatoes  were  the 
best  that  I  have  ever  raised. 

— H.  H.  Carpenter. 


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In  RAISING  and  maintaining  dairy 
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Statistics  show  that 
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Cow  Testing  Associations 


TN  the  United  States  there  are  approximately 
A  22,000  members  of  cow  testing  associations 
— the  most  progressive  group  of  dairymen  in 
the  country. 

Each  cow  testing  association  is  in  charge  of 
a  competent  tester  who  weighs,  tests  and  re- 
cords the  milk  from  each  cow,  and  frequently 
tests  the  skim-milk  from  the  cream  separators 
of  the  members.  The  testers  know  exactly  what 
each  separator  does  and  ar.e  in  an  ideal  posi- 
tion to  observe  the  work  of  milking  machines. 


Reports  recently  received  from  approxi- 
mately 35%  of  all  the  cow  testers  in  the  United 
States  show  that  of  all  the  members  using 
cream  separators  and  milkers 

60.8%  use  De  Laval  Separators 
28*7%  use  De  Laval  Milkers 

A  remarkable  showing,  not  only  on  separators  but  on 
milkers  as  well,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  most  of  these  De 
Laval  Milkers  have  been  put  in  use  within  the  past  six  years. 

The  reasons  for  the  greater  use  and  popularity  of  De 
Laval  Separators  and  Milkers  are  simple.  The  Babcock 
Test  proves  the  De  Laval  Separator  skims  cleaner.  Years 
of  use  prove  it  gives  longer  and  better  service.  The  milk 
scale  and  production  records  prove  the  De  Laval  Milker 
milks  better.    The  watch  proves  it  milks  in  less  time. 

In  the  long  run  De  Laval  Separators  and  Milkers  are  by 
far  the  most  economical.  They  pay  for  themselves.  See  your 
De  Laval  Agent  or  write  the  nearest  office  below  for  full 
information. 


The 


De  Laval  Separator  Company 


NEW  YORK 
165  Broadway 


CHICAGO 
600  Jackson  Blvd. 


SAN  FRANCISCO 
61  B*ale  Street 


What  a  Few  Cow  Testers  Say : 

I  will  state  that,  according  to  my 
knowledge,  De  Laval  Milkers  and  Sepa- 
rators are  the  best  and  the  cheapest  in 
the  long  run. 

During  the  past  two  years'  work  in 
this  association  I  have  made  numerous 
skim-milk  tests  and  find  tho  De  Laval  the 
only  one  which  can  be  relied  on  to  skim 
with  1-100  of  1%  under  good  conditions. 


:  I  find  that  on  the  average  De  Laval 
Separators  skim  closest,  last  longest  and 
run  the  easiest  of  any  make  I  have  come 
in  contact  with.  Ninety  per  cent  of  all 
tests  made  on  De  Laval  Separators  run 
.02  per  cent  or  less. 

In  my  experience  with  milk  separa- 
tors, I  have  found  the  "De  Laval"  to  be 
the  most  practical,  economical  and  effi- 
cient of  any  separator  in  existence. 


De  Lavals  are  very  efficient— skim- 
ming to  less  than  .01  per  cent  and  never 
over  .03  per  cent,  are  easy  to  clean,  op- 
erate and  maintain. 


In  all  my  experience  around  cows  and 
their  owners,  I  have  seen  numerous 
makes  of  milking  machines  used  and 
these  discarded  for  one  reason  or  anoth- 
er, but  I  have  never  seen  a  De  Laval 
Milker  discarded.  All  the  De  Laval 
users  are  well  satisfied. 


The  De  Laval  Milker  users  are  very 
well  satisfied  with  their  machines,  and 
can  talk  praises  for  them.  Only  yester- 
day a  dairyman  using  a  De  Laval  milk- 
ing machine  said  if  he  had  to  get  along 
without  his  milker,  he  would  sell  his  cows. 


The  common  remark  heard  among 
members  regarding  their  De  Laval  milk- 
ing machine  is  this:  "Take  my  machine 
away  and  you  can  also  take  my  cows." 
I  have  neyer  heard  any  complaint  of  dis- 
satisfaction among  De  Laval  patrons 
about  their  milkers  or  separators. 


The  experience  in  other  associations 
leads  me  to  believe  the  De  Laval  is  the 
most  satisfactory  milker  for  the  average 
farmer.  There  are  no  adjustments  to  be 
made.  There  are  very  few  farmers  who 
can  or  will  take  the  proper  care  in  ad- 
justing the  speed  of  a  milker.  The  con- 
sequence is  that  soon  they  "cuss"  the 
machine  and  quit  using  it.  I  have  yet  to 
see  a  De  Laval  system  lying  idle  on  a 
"going"  farm. 

I  test  the  separators  in  my  association 
every  month,  and  the  De  Laval  certainly 
doesn't  lose  in  a  comparison  with  other 
separators.  Have  a  few  rather  ancient 
De  Lavals  which  are  still  running  good 
and  skimming  as  low  as  1-100  of  1%. 


After  five  years  of  cow  testing,  I  will 
say  that  both  De  Laval  Separators  and 
Milkers  are  the  best  of  all  makes  that  I 
have  seen  in  operation  and  have  always 
boosted  for  both  machines. 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


I  Volume  11.    Number  2 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  MAY,  1927 


50  Cents  IVr  Year 


PROMPT  ACTION  TAKEN 


I  Committee    Votes    to    Seek  to 
Reopen  Railroad  Rate 
Case 

Immediately  on  the  announcement  of 
'  the  findings  of  the  Interstate  Commerce 
•Commission  the  New  England  milk  rate 
committee  was  called  in  for  a  conference 
I  with  the  co-operating  bodies,  including 
jtne  NEMPA  and  the  dealers'  association. 
i  Attorney  John  Finerty  met  with  the 
group  and  called  attention  to  inconsis- 
tencies and  inequities  in  the  findings 
which  he  considered  were  a  basis  for 
asking  that  the  case  be  reopened. 

The  representatives  of  all  the  co- 
operating organizations  agreed  that  an 
(effort  should  be  made  to  get  a  rehearing 
!of  the  case  with  the  aim  of  a  modifica- 
tion of  the  increase  in  rates.  The  neces- 
sary legal  steps  were  taken  to  ask  for 
|such  a  reopening.  A  petition  was  also 
filed  to  have  the  order  modified  so  that 
the  legal  notice  of  30  days  should  be  given 
before  the  increased  rate  schedules  should 
become  effective.  The  order  required 
jonly  a  five  day  notice. 

The  answer  to  the  petition  came 
'through  promptly.  Within  24  hours  after 
it  was  filed  the  commission  granted  it. 
IWe  assume  that  the  railroads  are  already 
at  work  on  their  new  schedules  and  that 
they  will  be  filed  early  in  May.  The 
first  order  of  the  commission  would  al- 
low them  to  go  into  effect  five  days  later. 
Due  to  the  prompt  work  of  the  committee 
they  will  not  go  into  effect  until  30  days 
after  they  are  filed,  or  toward  the  middle 
of  June.  At  the  time  of  going  to  press 
no  intimation  has  been  received  as  to  the 
success  of  the  effort  to  get  the  whole  case 
reopened. 

The  chief  claim  on  which  a  reopening 
of  the  case  is  sought  is  on  the  ground  of 
the  inconsistency  in  the  report  itself. 
'Many  pages  are  given  to  a  review  of  the 
jcost  study  made  by  the  railroads  and  the 
evidence  put  in  by  the  committee  to  show 
that  the  basis  of  the  cost  study  was  not 
sound.  The  commission  recognized  the 
unsoundness  of  the  car  foot  mile  as  a 
basis  for  determining  costs  of  transporta- 
tion of  milk,  but  nevertheless  found  that 
'the  railroads  were  entitled  to  more  rev- 
enue from  milk  transportation.  This  is 
obviously  inconsistent,  and  it  will  be  made 
lone  of  the  chief  claims  for  a  recon- 
sideration of  the  rates. 


PRICE  UNCHANGED  IN  THE 

BOSTON  MARKET 

,  The  Boston  market  milk  price  remains 
the  same  for  May,  8  cents  per  quart  for 
3.7  per  cent,  milk  delivered  in  the  market 
The  sales  committee  met  the  dealers  just 
before  the  close  of  the  month  and  while 
there  was  some  discussion  over  the  10 
cent  price  on  skim  milk,  secured  by  the 
sales  committee  February  1,  and  con- 
tinuing since,  there  was  no  disposition  on 
the  part  of  the  dealers  to  seek  any  change 
in  the  market  milk  price. 

Conditions  in  the  market  are  good. 
Whatever  slight  differences  in  price  may 
exist  are  of  minor  importance  and  are 
having  no  bad  effects.  Sales  are  increas- 
ing, as  usual  at  this  time  of  the  year,  and 
warmer  weather  coming  soon  will  still 
I further  improve  the  situation. 


Commission  Allows  Increase 

The  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  has  made  a  present  of 
$375,000  annually  to  the  railroads  of  New  England,  at  the  expense 
of  the  dairy  farmers.  The  unwelcome  and  discouraging  news  that 
the  commission  had  decided  against  the  dairy  industry  of  New 
England  and  had  given  the  railroads  half  of  what  they  asked  for  in 
the  way  of  increased  rates  on  transporting  milk,  came  April  25. 
It  was  a  hard  hlow  to  the  leaders  in  the  fight  against  the  proposed 
increase.  A  conference  was  called  immediately  to  see  if  any  further 
steps  could  be  taken  to  avoid  the  $375,000  calamity  to  the  dairy 
industry. 

The  decision  of  the  commission  is  voluminous.  The  findings  of 
outstanding  importance  are:  1.  That  the  railroads  are  entitled  to  some 
increase  in  rates;  2.  that  the  dairy  industry  in  New  England  is  in  a 
depressed  condition  and  should  be  given  consideration  under  the  Hoch- 
Smith  resolution  in  Congress;  3.  that  a  20  per  cent,  increase  is  au- 
thorized on  all  shipments  within  100  miles;  4.  that  on  all  shipments 
of  100  miles  or  more  the  rates  now  in  operation  to  New  York  and 
Philadelphia  are  allowed.  (These  rates  are  approximately  10  per 
cent,  higher  than  the  carload  rates  in  New  England.) 

The  decision  is  a  document  of  30  pages  giving  a  general  review 
of  the  case.  We  have  asked  the  attorneys  of  the  rate  case  committee 
to  analyze  it  and  see  what  led  the  commission  to  make  this  adverse 
report.  It  was  confidently  believed  by  all  closely  connected  with  the 
opposition,  as  made  by  the  united  dairy  interests  of  New  England, 
that  the  railroads'  claims  for  an  increase  of  20  per  cent,  had  not  been 
substantiated  and  that  no  increase  would  be  allowed.  Hence  the 
disappointment  was  great. 

A  general  reading  of  the  document  tends  toward  the  belief  that 
the  difference  in  rates  now  existing  between  New  England  rates  and 
the  rates  in  effect  for  milk  going  to  New  York  and  Philadelphia  was 
a  much  greater  factor  in  the  decision  than  the  cost  study  presented 
by  the  railroads  and  which  the  rate  case  committee  experts  shot  so 
full  of  holes  at  the  outset  that  it  was  practically  abandoned  by  the 
railroads  as  a  basis  for  their  claims.  The  rate  case  committee  put  in 
evidence  to  show  that  while  the  rates  were  higher  for  New  York  and 
Philadelphia,  the  service  rendered  there  was  more  expensive  for  the 
railroads.  This  claim  does  not  appear  to  have  been  recognized,  as 
an  adequate  reason  for  not  equalizing  the  rates. 

The  situation  in  the  dairy  industry  in  New  England  as  presented 
by  the  rate  case  committee  appears  to  have  been  recognized.  The 
report  of  the  commission  summarizes  the  situation  as  follows:  "The 
effect  upon  the  production  of  milk  and  cream  in  New  England  of  a 
further  increase  in  rates  is  difficult  to  predict.  The  increase  of  20 
per  cent,  sought  by  the  respondents  may  have  a  harmful  effect  and 
ultimately  result  in  a  decrease  in  production,  although  from  the  ex- 
perience during  the  past  10  years  in  New  England  the  conclusion 
may  seem  warranted  that  there  will  be  little  effect  upon  the  total 
shipments.  The  gradual  increase  in  other  items  of  expense  affecting 
milk  production  is  a  very  important  factor  to  the  dairy  industry  as 
shown,  by  evidence  in  this  record,  and  it  may  reasonably  be  con- 
cluded that  a  further  burden  of  20  per  cent,  increase  in  rail  rates, 
even  if  it  will  not  be  borne  entirely  by  the  producer,  will  have  a 
serious  effect  on  the  industry. 

"The  record  leads  to  the  conclusion  that  the  dairy  industry  of 
New  England  is  operating  under  depressed  conditions.  The  fact  that 
there  is  a  free  and  increased  movement  of  milk  and  cream  to  the 
territories  of  consumption,  chiefly  Boston  and  other  Massachusetts 
communities,  necessarily  results  from  their  continuous  growth  and 
prosperity.  Their  increasing  demands,  coupled  with  the  fact  that 
the  southern  part  of  New  England  has  largely  withdrawn  from  com- 
mercial dairying,  results  in  an  extension  of  the  area  of  production 
that  is  being  drawn  upon.  It  now  has  crossed  the  Canadian  line. 
Increased  costs  of  production  and  decreasing  number  of  heifers,  above 
noted  in  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont,  do  not  afford  a  basis  for 
(Continued  on  page  four) 


SURPLUS  WORTH  MORE 


Dealers  Pay  Less  for  Butterfat  to 
Association  Members  Than 
to  Canadians 

Boston  dealers  are  buying  surplus  milk 
at  too  low  a  figure  under  the  condition.-, 
which  exist  today.  The  basis  for  pay- 
ment for  surplus  milk  which  was  estab- 
lished several  years  ago,  the  value  of  this 
milk  if  made  into  butter,  may  have  been 
fair  and  equitable  at  that  time  but  con- 
ditions have  changed.  At  that  time  the 
value  of  by-products  into  which  dealers 
could  convert  surplus  milk  was  low  and 
there  were  in  New  England  considerable 
areas  which  were  available  for  shipping 
milk  which  had  not  been  fully  developed. 
Now  by-products  have  a  considerably, 
higher  value  and  the  accessible  supplies 
of  milk  have  very  largely  been  brought 
in  to  meet  market  needs.  Under  these 
changed  conditions  the  program  of  the  as- 
sociation from  now  on  is  to  secure  for  its 
members  a  return  for  their  surplus  milk 
which  fairly  reflects  the  value  of  this 
milk  in  the  cream  and  by-product  mar- 
ket. 

A  beginning  was  made  on  this  higher 
surplus  price  program  in  February  when 
the  sales  committee  negotiated  a  price  of 
10  cents  a  hundred  on  skim  milk.  This 
adds  to  the  total  revenue  of  farmers  sell- 
ing to  Boston  dealers  under  the  surplus 
plan  approximately  $20,000  a  month.  This 
is  a  help,  but  it  is  not  nearly  enough  to 
bring  the  surplus  price  up  to  where  it 
should  be  in  view  of  the  prices  at  which  it 
can  be  resold,  in  cream  and  by-products, 
by  the  dealers. 

In  considering  values  of  surplus  it 
should  be  separated  into  its  two  parts — 
butterfat  and  skim  milk.  Each  has  a 
definite  value  apart  from  the  other.  These 
values  change  not  only  in  themselves  but 
in  the  relation  of  one  to  the  other.  Right 
now  skim  milk  has  a  relatively  high  value 
in  the  by-products  market.  So  also  has 
butterfat.  But  it  is  possible  that  a  time 
might  come  when  butterfat  might  still 
be  high  and  skim  milk  of  little  or  no 
value  if  it  were  to  be  made  into  by- 
products. Hence  the  need  of  keeping  the 
two,  butterfat  and  skim,  separate  in  con- 
sideration of  the  question,  also  in  negotia- 
tions with  the  dealers. 

The  10  cents  a  hundred  secured  by  the 
sales  committee  on  skim  milk  was  a  move 
in  the  right  direction.  It  leaves  the  value 
of  skim  as  a  matter  to  be  taken  up  in  ne- 
gotiations with  dealers  from  time  to  time. 
Changes  in  skim  by-products  value  do  not 
as  a  genera]  thing  come  suddenly,  and  it 
seems  probable  that  changes  in  skim  price 
would  not  be  considered  monthly.  A  price 
once  established  might  continue  for  three 
months,  six  months,  or  a  year. 

At  this  time  we  wish  to  consider  only 
butterfat  value  as  a  basis  for  asking  a 
higher  price  on  surplus.  We  have  com.-. 
pared  the  present  butterfat  price  secured 
by  the  association  with  the  prices  paid  for 
butterfat  bought  in  other  ways.  In  every 
case  the  dealers  are  getting  butterfat 
from  the  association  lower  than  they  can 
buy  it  in  other  ways.  The  difference 
ranges  from  6  to  16>4  cents  per  pound  or 
22  to  61  cents  per  hundred  pounds  of 
surplus  milk. 

The  first  comparison  we  made  was  on 
the  basis  of  cream  bousht  in  New  Eng- 
land, outside  the  NEMPA,  also  on  cream 

(Continued  on  page  four) 


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May,  1927 


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PERSONAL  WORD 

It  is  a  school  holiday.  I  can  look  from 
my  room  across  the  street  to  the  school 
house  playground  where  three  youngsters 
have  for  some  time  been  practicing  base- 
ball. They  appear  to  be  a  battery  and 
an  umpire.  The  pitcher  is  going  through 
all  the  contortions  of  a  professional 
player,  winding  up  by  putting  his  hands 
back  of  his  head,  raising  his  right  foot, 
then  swinging  his  arms  wildly  and  finally 
straightening  out  to  throw  the  ball.  The 
umpire  calls  out  strikes  and  balls,  calling 
the  balls  "too  wide"  or  too  close"  or 
"too  high"  and  the  catcher  alternates  be- 
tween kicking  at  the  umpire  and  scolding 
the  pitcher  for  not  throwing  the  ball  ac- 
cording to  signal.  They  appear  to  take 
all  this  very  seriously  and  it  really  seems 
to  me  a  good  deal  more  like  work  than 
play.  Just  now  the  pitcher  threw  a  low 
one  that  the  catcher  couldn't  stop  and  as 
he  ran  back  after  it  he  shouted  over  his 
shoulder,  "Aw  keep  'em  up,  old  man, 
keep  'em  up." 

It  is  a  hot  April  day,  my  windows  are 
all  open  and  snatches  of  this  baseball 
talk  have  come  to  me  as  I  sit  here  watch- 
ing. And  now  the  practice  is  over,  1 
guess,  for  the  boys  have  picked  up  their 
coats  and  are  slowly  walking  off,  talking, 
gesticulating  and  apparently  very  much 
absorbed  in  what  they  are  saying. 

Some  people  rather  object  to  the  noise 
of  the  children  on  the  playground  during 
the  school  recess.  But  I  like  it.  In  the 
mid-forenoon  a  bevy  of  youngsters  pours 
out  of  the  building  and  the  school  yard  is 
fairly  alive  with  them.     The  teachers 


come  along  to  supervise  the  play  and  if 
anything  it  seems  to  me  a  bit  too  orderly, 
quiet  and  regular.  My  recollection  of  the 
boys'  recess  at  the  old  district  school,  for 
the  boys  and  girls  recessed  separately,  is 
that  it  was  a  grand  good  time  to  settle 
disputes  and  very  seldom  there  wasn't  one 
to  be  settled.  If  happily  we  went  out  in 
peace,  war  usually  arose  before  we  went 
in  that  called  for  some  boy  to  put 
another  on  his  back,  put  some  sand 
down  his  neck,  take  away  his  jacknife 
or  some  such  deviltry.  It  was  re- 
markable how  sportsmanlike  these  little 
combats  were.  No  fellow  could  rough- 
house  a  smaller  kid  without  the  whole 
gang  lighting  on  him  unless,  as  sometimes 
happened,  the  smaller  one  started  some- 
thing, perhaps  depending  on  his  under- 
size  to  get  off  without  punishment.  False 
hope !  In  such  cases  it  was  "hands  off" 
unless  things  got  too  rough,  and  we  had 
a  fine  discrimination  as  to  roughness. 
Anyhow,  a  recess  without  some  sort  of 
scrap  wasn't  an  entire  success. 

I  wonder  what  we,  in  those  days,  would 
have  thought  of  the  modern  grammar 
school  with  its  curriculum  of  music  and 
sloyd,  and  domestic  science  and  such. 
Our  music  was  to  murder  a  hymn  on  "ex- 
hibition days,"  our  sloyd  was  to  decorate 
the  desks  with  our  carved  initials  and 
domestic  science  was  limited  to  a  hearty 
appreciation  of  our  dinner  pails.  We 
didn't  know  much  about  posture,  though 
occasionally  the  teacher  might  collar  some 
fellow  who  had  slumped  down  out  of 
sight  behind  his  desk  and  our  health  rules 
didn't  keep  our  hands  clean  or  our  hair 
combed.  We  all  drank  out  of  the  same 
dipper  and  from  the  same  water  pail.  Yet 
somehow  we  pulled  through. 

Well — I'm  glad  things  have  changed. 
Those  "good  old  days"  are  better  to  look 
back  upon  than  forward  to.  My  cross 'is 
to  be  shut  in  these  fine  spring  days.  I 
wish  I  could  be  at  work,  or  even  over  on 
the  playground  with  the  boys. 

—PATTEE. 


THE  RATE  CASE 

The  adverse  decision  of  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission  in  the  railroad 
rate  case  is  a  double  disappointment  to 
members  of  the  NEMPA,  especially  to 
the  directors  and  others  who  have  been 
in  close  touch  with  the  developments  of 
the  case. 

First,  there  is  the  disappointment  in  the 
decision  itself,  awarding  the  railroads 
approximately  $375,000  a  year  additional 
pay  for  transporting  milk  in  New  Eng- 
land. It  may  be  only  a  small  amount 
per  quart,  but  in  the  aggregate  it  repre- 
sents a  tremendous  additional  burden 
which  the  dairy  industry  must  bear.  Even 
to  individual  farmers  the  additional  cost 
will  be  a  material  increase  in  costs.  The 
small  increase  per  quart  comes  on  every 
quart  of  milk  he  sells,  every  day  in  the 
year.    The  aggregate  is  a  material  sum. 

Second,  there  is  the  disappointment  over 
the  way  in  which  the  case  seems  to  have 
been  handled  by  the  Commission.  The 
dairy  industry  of  New  England  made  one 
of  the  finest,  most  sincere,  most  con- 
certed attempts  it  ever  has  made  to  pre- 
sent its  side  of  the  question  of  increased 
costs  on  transporting  their  milk  to  mar- 
ket. Their  representatives  were  given  the 
most  fair  and  courteous  treatment  by  the 
commission  through  the  many  sessions  of 
the  hearings.  They  were  given  full  op- 
portunity and  freedom  to  develop  their 
protest  to  the  fullest  extent.  The  facts 
they  presented  stood  the  fire  of  the  most 
gruelling  cross  examination  at  the  hands 
of  the  railroad  attorneys  but  remained  un- 


shaken. There  is  nothing  in  the  report 
of  the  commission  to  show  that  at  any 
material  point  was  the  testimony  of  the 
dairy  interests  broken  down  or  discredited. 

On  the  other  hand  the  elaborate  cost 
study,  with  its  "car  foot  mile"  formula, 
presented  by  the  railroads  as  the  chief, 
practically  the  only,  claim  for  an  in- 
crease was  so  nearly  discredited  that  it 
was  all  but  abandoned.  The  commission 
itself,  in  the  report,  seems  not  to  take  the 
cost  study  seriously.  Compared  with  the 
way  in  which  the  dairy  interests'  presen- 
tation stood  the  test,  the  "car  foot  mile" 
formula  of  the  railroads  made  a  very 
poor  showing  indeed. 

Yet  when  the  decision  comes  through, 
we  can  find  in  it  scant  relation  to  the 
comparative  merits  of  the  two  presenta- 
tions. The  decision  gives  the  railroads 
additional  money  in  spite  of  the  poor 
showing  they  made ;  it  gives  the  dairy  in- 
dustry an  additional  burden  in  spite  of  the 
way  in  which  its  testimony  was  accepted 
as  fact.  Even  while  admitting  that  the 
dairy  industry  is  in  a  "depressed  condi- 
tion" the  commission  assessed  additional 
costs  to  it.  It  appears  to  be  a  decision 
in  direct  opposition  to  the  spirit,  also  the 
letter,  of  the  Hoch-Smith  resolution. 

It  was  our  understanding  that  when  the 
railroads  began  this  movement  to  get  in- 
creased revenue  for  milk  transportation 
the  burden  of  proof  that  such  rates  were 
warranted  was  upon  them.  We  still  hold 
that  belief.  Yet  in  looking  through  the 
report  we  are  forced  to  the  conclusion 
that  the  commission  has  reversed  the 
situation  and  has  placed  the  burden  of 
proof  upon  the  dairy  industry.  The  de- 
cision appears  to  us  to  be,  not  that  the 
railroads  have  failed  to  show  that  they 
are  entitled  to  increased  rates  on  milk  but 
that  the  dairy  industry  has  not  shown 
that  such  an  increase  is  not  warranted. 
This  is  a  reversal  of  the  ordinary  and 
proper  point  of  view,  which  is  amazing 
to  us. 

Looking  at  the  decision  in  a  general 
way,  without  the  careful  analysis  which 
the  expert  would  give,  it  appears  to  be 
one  of  expediency  not  one  of  careful 
analysis  of  the  facts  presented.  The  in- 
consistencies and  contradictions  in  the  re- 
port itself  lead  to  this  conclusion.  The 
feeling  that  the  facts  we  presented  have 
not  been  given  the  weight  which  their 
soundness  deserved  is  a  heavy  disappoint- 
ment. 

In  spite  of  the  double  disappointment 
every  member  of  the  association  should 
remember  that  the  case  is  by  no  means 
ended.  The  petition  of  the  committee  for 
an  extension  of  time  before  the  rates 
should  go  into  effect  after  the  new  sched- 
ules were  filed  was  granted  promptly.  We 
have  hope  that  the  commission  will  give 
equal  consi3eration  to  the  other  request 
for  a  reopening  of  the  case  so  as  to  give 
us  an  opportunity  to  make  a  detailed  pro- 
test against  the  increase  which  was  au- 
thorized. 

Most  of  all  we  want  every  one  of  you 
to  remember  that  we  put  up  a  great 
fight — the  best  fight  ever  put  up  by  farm- 
ers in  New  England.  We  worked  to- 
gether as  we  never  have  worked  before. 
Personall  and  sectional  differences  of 
opinion  disappeared  like  magic  when  the 
rate  committee,  your  representatives,  got 
together  and  started  their  momentous  tack. 
We  have  good  hopes  that  by  the  time  our 
next  issue  goes  out  we  shall  be  able  to 
tell  you  something  more  encouraging  than 
this  story  of  losing  out  after  making  a 
good  fight.  But  win  or  lose,  it  is  a  great 
gain  to  have  made  a  good  fight  and  to 
have  done  it  as  a  dairy  industry  united 
in  a  common  cause. 


BETTER  UNDERSTANDING 

Good  cheer  often  comes  to  us  from 
some  of  our  staunch  members  in  the 
country.  A  letter  recently  received  by 
field  service  manager  F.  C.  Warner  from 
a  Vermont  farmer  pleased  us  greatly. 
There  are  probably  many  more  farmers 
who  feel  about  the  same  way  he  does. 

He  was  in  some  sort  of  a  difficulty  with 
his  dealer,  it  does  not  matter  what  it  was 
or  who  the  dealer  was.  He  was  dis- 
pleased about  something  and  wrote  Mr. 
Warner  a  complaining  letter.  Fred 
wrote  back  in  his  customary  optimistic 
and  friendly  way  and  the  letter  which 
came  back  was  quite  different  from  the 
first.  Mr.  Warner  straightened  out  the 
difficulty  and  cheered  up  the  man. 

"I'm  no  kicker,"  the  member  wrote, 
"but  I  don't  like  them  (the  dealer)  to  dig 
into  my  half.  They  probably  would  not 
be  getting  my  milk  now  if  it  had  not 
been  for  your  kind  letter  but  I'm  waiting 
to  see  how  things  turn  out. 

"I  suppose  I'm  a  little  dull  for  having 
belonged  to  the  association  more  than 
two  years  and  just  found  out  I  had  a 
right  hand  man  that  would  help  me  in 
such  cases.  You  know  it's  hard  for  us 
back  here  in  the  country  to  understand 
how  much  good  you  are  doing  down  at 
the  other  end  of  this  great  machine  for 
you  know  we  like  to  see  things  with  our 
own  eyes.  But  when  you  come  right  up 
among  us,  look  up  our  troubles  and 
straighten  out  our  tests  and  we  feel  and 
know  we  have  someone  we  have  a  right 
to  call  on  when  we  need  help,  we  don't 
feel  so  badly. 

"Sometimes  we  hear  farmers  who  don't 
understand  all  the  ins  and  outs  of  the 
association  work  and  they  say  'I  don't 
know,'  ]don't  make  much  difference,' 
'don't  do  us  much  good  up  here,  the  deal- 
ers take  our  milk  and  give  us  what  they 
mind  to  anyway.'  Well,  when  you  fel- 
lows get  around  more  to  see  us  we  won't 
hear  these  things  at  all.  We'll  all  feel 
that  we  are  part  of  the  shebang  when  we 
can  realize  what  the  association  is  doing. 
You'll  find  that  we  are  the  men  behind 
the  guns,  that  we  have  a  shoulder  to  the 
wheel  along  with  the  rest  of  you.  Then 
what  a  change  there'll  be  in  the  dairy 
business." 

That  member  said  something  real  and 
vital  in  our  association.  This  personal 
contact,  this  opportunity  to  ask  questions 
and  get  explanations  face  to  face  instead 
of  by  letter  or  through  the  Dairyman  is 
just  what  we  are  sending  out  these  field 
men  for.  As  they  get  more  and  more  in 
personal  touch  with  the  membership  all 
over  this  great  territory  we  agree  with 
him  that  these  discouraged  remarks  will 
be  heard  much  less  frequently  or  not  at 
all.  Sometimes  we  wonder  that  there  are 
not  more  serious  complaints  from  these 
men  who,  in  the  very  nature  of  things, 
cannot  see  the  association  as  it  works. 

For  some  years  we  have  recognized 
this  desire  on  the  part  of  our  members  to 
be  in  closer  touch  with  what  was  going 
on  at  the  marketing  end  of  the  associa- 
tion's work.  But  it  was  not  possible  to 
put  the  men  in  the  field  to  cover  so  wide 
a  territory  until  we  were  on  this  new 
dues  basis.  Two  of  the  new  districts  have 
been  set  up;  others  will  follow.  Within 
a  year  or  two  we  hope  to  have  every 
square  mile  of  the  territory  covered  by 
our  association  with  a  resident  man  in 
charge.  Then  the  members  who  never 
get  down  to  central  association  meetings 
will  have  their  opportunity  to  talk  things 
over  just  the  same.  They  will  have  a 
"hired  man"  right  in  their  own  district. 


1 


May,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


Discussion  of  market  conditions  will  be  found  of  page  five. 
Composite  price  higher  than  last  year.  Butter  prices  con- 
tinue high. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  May  1,  1927,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


8qt. 

SlAqt. 

Cwt  in 

Cwt.in  Cwt.in 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

2V/4qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21^qt. 

40qt. 

Zone  Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3^583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.533 

.570 

.676 

1.376 

1.463 

2.767 

3  199 

3  201 

3  217 

,  2 

21-40 

.523 

.560 

.666 

1.351 

1.438 

2.732 

3.141 

1146 

3!l76 

3 

41-60 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.331 

1.418 

2.702 

3.095 

3.103 

3.141 

4 

61-80 

.503 

.540 

.646 

1.321 

1.408 

2.672 

3.071 

3.081 

3.106 

i  5 

81-100 

.498 

.535 

.636 

1.301 

1.388 

2.647 

3.025 

3.037 

3.077 

l"  6 

101-120 

.493 

.530 

.626 

1.291 

1.378 

2.622 

3.002 

3.015 

3.048 

J  7 

121-140 

.488 

.525 

.621 

1.281 

1.363 

2.602 

2.978 

2.982 

3.025 

]  8 

141-160 

.478 

.515 

.611 

1.266 

1.353 

2.577 

2.943 

2.961 

2.996 

9 

161-180 

.473 

.510 

.606 

1.256 

1.343 

2.557 

2.920 

2.939 

2.972 

10 

181-200 

.468 

.505 

.596 

1.251 

1.328 

2.542 

2.909 

2.906 

2.955 

11 

201-220 

.463 

.500 

.591 

1.236 

1.318 

2.522 

2.874 

2.884 

2.932 

12 

221-240 

.458 

.495 

.586 

1.226 

1.303 

2.502 

2.850 

2.851 

2.909 

13 

241-260 

.448 

.485 

.581 

1.221 

1.298 

2.492 

2.839 

2.840 

2.897 

14 

261-280 

.443 

.480 

.581 

1.206 

1.288 

2.472 

2.804 

2.818 

2.874 

15 

281-300 

.443 

.480 

.576 

1.201 

1.283 

2.457 

2.792 

2.807 

2.856 

l 

At  R. 

R.  Stat 

ions  Inside  Massachusetts 

,  Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.553 

.590 

.696 

1.386 

1.473 

2.767 

3.222 

3.223 

3.217 

2 

21-40 

.538 

.575 

.681 

1.361 

1.448 

2.732 

3.164 

3.168 

3.176 

41-60 

.533 

.570 

.676 

1.351 

1.433 

2.702 

3.141 

3.136 

3.141 

r  4 

61-80 

.528 

.565 

.671 

1.331 

1.418 

2.672 

3.095 

3.103 

3.106 

81-100 

.523 

.560 

.656 

1.321 

1.408 

2.647 

3.071 

3.081 

3.077 

| 

101-120 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.311 

1.388 

2.622 

3.048 

3.037 

3.048 

7 

121-140 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.296 

1.378 

2.602 

3.013 

3.015 

3.025 

8 

141-160 

.508 

.545 

.646 

1.291 

1.373 

2.577 

3.002 

3.004 

2.996 

9 

161-180 

.503 

.540 

.641 

1.281 

1.358 

2.557 

2.978 

2.971 

2.972 

10 

181-200 

.503 

.540 

.636 

1.266 

1.348 

2.542 

2.943 

2.950 

2.955 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  0.75c  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  reduction  of  2c  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for  NEMPA 
members'  dues  and  lc  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  March,  1927 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt. 

Butter-fat 

Test 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

i  ■ 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patrons 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt. 

Hood  1-15 

i2y2% 

.50 

1.212 

.52 

.617 

.0680 

'Hood  1-15 

20 

.50 

1.635 

.52 

.602 

.0680 

Hood  16-30 

 12^ 

.50 

1.090 

.51 

.597 

.0523 

■Hood  16-30 

20 

.50 

1.442 

.51 

.582 

.0523 

20 

.50 

.292 

■  .56 

.575 

.0046 

Turner  Centre 

 12J4 

.54 

.75 

.53 

.590 

Credit  .0297 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  March,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
tor  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butter  fat  above  and  below  3.7 
per  cent,  test  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container: 
■  JSLS1,  Can  $a009;  10  Qt-  can  $0,011;  per  20  qt.  can  $0,022;  per  21  J*  qt. 
can  $0,023;  per  40  qt.  can  $.044;  per  cwt.  $0,051. 

Boston  District 
Clawl    Class  2   Size  of  Can  


Dealers  (Mkt. 
Elm  Spring  Farm  Milk) 

7th  zone  (121-140)   78.8% 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   81.2 


(Mfg.  8'/3 

Milk)  Quart 

21.2%  .494 

18.8 


20 
Quart 

1.199 


21^4 
Quart 

1.275 


40 

Quart 

2.428 


Northern  Market  District 


Dealers 
Wason-MacDonald 
Haverhill 


3rd  zone   

Robt.  H.  Sawyer,  Haverhill 

Delivered   

3rd  zone   81.9 

4th  zone   

Findeisen  Farms,  Lawrence 

Delivered   57.1 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Manchester 

Delivered   81.8 

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

7th  zone   

8th  zone   

Blake,  E.  C,  Manchester 

Delivered   64.8 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

Boyd,  W.  T.  &  Son,  Nashua 

Delivered   83.8 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy,  Nashua 

Delivered   78.5 

4th  zone   


Class  1 

Class  2 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

Cwt. 

(Mkt. 

(Mfg. 

in 

in 

in 

Milk) 

Milk) 

8^'s 

20's 

40*s 

91.1% 

8.9% 

3.453 

3.453 

3.453 

2.956 

3.008 

3.051 

Cwt 

2.823 

3.404 


Cwt. 


18.1 


42.9 


18.2 


35.2 


16.2 


21.5 


3.716 
3.273 
3.204 


3.716 
3.321 
3.301 


3.716 
3.360 
3.331 


3.308 
2.946 
2.918 

2.932 
2.723 
2.700 
2.660 
2.573 


3.114 
2.923 
2.862 
2.833 
2.809 

2.898 
2.702 
2.674 
2.659 
2.571 


3.612 
3.223 


Class  1 

Dealers  (Mkt. 
Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 
Burton,  H.  T,  Inc.  ..  98.7% 

Chambers,  G.  T   69.9 

Fiske,  E.  A   88.5 

Goff,  L.  E  100.0 

Grant,  C.  W   83.0 

Greenville  Farm   100.0 

Munroe,  A.  B  100.0 

Providence  Dairy  ....  77.7 

Turner  Centre   100.0 

Viall,  W.  C   92.0 

Warnock,  C.  A  100.0 

Westeott,  E.  P  100.0 

Per  10  quart  can 
Brown,  W.  B  100.0 


Providence  Market 

Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 
1.3% 
30.1 
11.5 


17.0 


22.3 
8.0 


Deliv- 
ered 
3.564 
3.115 
3.412 
3.594 
3.317 
3.578 
3.589 
3.244 
3.594 
3.465 
3.589 
3.584 


Zone  1 
1-20 
Miles 
3.234 
2.882 
3.116 
3.258 
3.039 
3.244 
3.253 
3.033 
3.258 
3.158 
3.255 
3.250 


.787  .721 


Zone  2 
21^0 
Miles 

3.186 
2.848 
3.074 
3.210 
3.000 
3.196 
3.205 
3.006 
3.210 
3.114 
3.207 
3.202 

.711 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  3  Zone  Willi- 
41-60  net  mantic 
Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.121   

2.801  2.735   

3.015   

3.144   

2.944   

3.130   

3.139   

2.952     2.747  2.195 

3.144   

3.052   

3.141   

3.136   

.697  .710   


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  March,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 


To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  March  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles,  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.051  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  sub- 
tract $0,051  per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  March  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 
To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the 
1  Hood,  Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  Companies,  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deductions  as  given  in  Cream  Price  Table  is  made  from  the  zone  price  as  figured  to  equalize 
prices  between  milk  and  cream  patrons. 

Zone  5  Zone  6 
81-100  101-120 


Zone  1 

Miles  from  Boston    1-20 

Class  1  Milk  Price    3.217 

Class  2  Milk  Price    2.046 


Zone  2 
21-40 
3.176 
2.046 


Zone  3 
41-60 
3.141 

2.046 


Zone  4 
61-80 
3.106 
2.046 


Zone  7  Zone  8  Zone  9  Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 
121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281-300 


Class  1  Class  2 

(Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 

Dealers                          A  B 

Hood,  1-15   70.5%  29.5%  45.9% 

iHood.  16-30   62.0  38.0  51.6 

Whiting  in  40s  ....58.8  41.2  53.6 

'Whiting  in  21Ks  58.8  41.2  53.6 

Turner  Centre  ....56.8  43.2  59.7 

N.  E.  Cry.  Prod...36.7  63.3 

;  F.  S.  Cummings  ..58.4  41.6 

F.  E.  Boyd   54.7  45.3 

•  Weighted  Avg.   ..62.0  38.0  49.6 

A — Excluding  Cream  Plan. 


2.810 
2.715 
2.679 
2.670 
2.683 
2.624 
2.728 
2.684 
2.734 


2.782 
2.690 
2.655 
2.638 
2.660 
2.609 
2.703 
2.662 
2.709 


2.757 
2.668 
2.635 
2.613 
2.640 
2.596 
2.683 
2.643 
2.687 


2.733 
2.646 
2.614 
2.600 
2.620 
2.584 
2.663 
2.624 
2.665 


3.077 
2.046 


2.712 
2.628 
2.597 
2.574 
2.603 
2.573 
2.646 
2.608 
2.647 


3.048 
2.046 


2.692 
2.610 
2.580 
2.561 
2.587 
2.562 
2.629 
2.592 
2.629 


3.025 
2.046 


2.676 
2.596 
2.566 
2.542 
2.574 
2.554 
2.616 
2.579 
2.615 


2.996 
2.046 


2.655 
2.578 
2.549 
2.529 
2.557 
2.543 
2.599 
2.564 
2.597 


2.972 
2.046 


2.639 
2.564 
2.536 
2.516 
2.544 
2.535 
2.583 
2.551 
2.583 


2.955 
2.046 


2.626 
2.553 
2.525 
2.497 
2.534 
2.528 
2.575 
2.541 
J  572 


2932 
2.046 


2.610 
2.538 
2.512 
2.484 
2.420 
2.520 
2.561 
2.529 
2.557 


2.909 
2.046 


2.594 
2.524 
2.498 
2.465 
2.407 
2.511 
2.547 
2.516 
2.543 


2.897 
2.046 


2.585 
2.517 
2.491 
2.458 
2.400 
2.507 
2.541 
2.509 
2.536 


2.874 
2.046 


2.569 
2.503 
2.478 
2.445 
2.387 
2.498 
2.527 
2.497 
2.521 


2856 
2.046 


2.556 
2.492 
2.468 
2.439 
2.377 
2.492 
2.517 
2.488 
2.511 


B — 'Including  Cream  Plan. 
Increases  or  decreases  in  fluid  milk  price  due  to  sales  in  higher  markets  or 
New  England  Creamery  Product?  Co,  includes  extra  payment  of  15  cents  per 


lower  markets  for  the  month:  Uiwer,  Whiting  $.0155;  Turner  Centre  $.1206. 
hundred  pounds. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1027 


Surplus  Worth  More  Money 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

bought  ironi  the  west.  This  comparison  creameries  were  paying  for  butterfat. 
showed  that  cur  price  for  butterfat  was  Dealers  bought  10,000,000  pounds  of  but- 
about  81.'  cents  a  pound  or  31  cents  a  terfat  in  surplus  in  1926.  If  we  take  the 
hundred  pounds  of  milk  below  what  deal-  conservative  estimate  of  the  difference 
ers  are  paying  for  cream  bought  outside  between  what  dealers  paid  for  butterfat 
the  association.  The  normal  price  for  bought  under  the  surplus  plan  and  what 
butterfat  in  cream  is  butter  quotation  plus  they  would  have  had  to  pay  for  the  same 
five  to  nine  cents  per  pound,  plus  a  20  per  volume  of  butterfat  if  bought  in  Canada, 
cent,  overrun.  On  a  50  cent  butter  mar-  or  elsewhere,  we  find  that  their  "profit" 
ket,  with  an  average  of  seven  cents  prem-  was  $742,000  for  1926.  This  "profit  is 
iuni.  the  price  would  be  68.4  cents  per  over  and  above  any  legitimate  profit 
pound  of  butterfat  as  compared  with  our  which  they  would  have  made  on  the  but- 
price  of  52.5  cents  a  pound.  This  is  a  terfat,  bought  at  the  price  they  were  pay- 
difference  of  15.9  cents  per  pound  to  cover  jhg  for  it  from  other  sources,  resold  at 
the  buyers'  country  operations  and  trans-  prices  which  made  it  a  good  business 
portation  charges.    We  estimate  that  the  proposition  to  them. 

operating  and  transportation  expense  is  The  fact  that  we  have  secured  10  cents 

7l/2  cents  a  pound,  leaving  the  dealer  an  a  hundred  on  surplus  milk  beginning  Feb- 

advantage  of  8.4  cents,  per  pound  of  but-  ruary  1  is  not  a  factor  in  the  above  esti- 

terfat  on  all  surplus  milk  bought  at  the  mates.    That  was  secured  on  skim,  as  it 

association  price  as  compared  with  the  has  a  definite  value  in  the  market.  In 

prices  he  would  have  had  to  pay  on  cream  taking  the  seven  cents  as  the  difference  in 

bought  outside,  from  within  New  Eng-  price  we  have  dropped  out  of  the  con- 

|alul  sideration    Connecticut   and    New  York 

The  profit,  when  figured  on  a  50  cent  prices  which  include  skim  values.  The 

butter  market,  would  be  about  the  same  estimates  given  above  apply  solely  to  the 

on  western  cream.    On  a  50  cent  market  butterfat  in  surplus  milk.    To  get  a  better 

western  cream  costs  $23  to  $24  per  jug,  price  for  this  butterfat  is  the  program  on 

or  about  70  cents  per  pound  of  butterfat.  which  we  invite  the  co-operation  of  all 

Compared  with  our  price  of  60  cents  per  members    and    of    other  organizations 

pound    of    butterfat.    including    country  handling  dairy  products  in  New  England. 

operations  and  transportation,  dealers  are   

paying  for  western  cream  10  cents  more 

per  pound  of  butterfat  than  they  have  to  COMMISSION  ALLOWS 

pay  under  our  surplus  price.    Dealers  are  INCREASE 
able  and  willing  to  pay  this  higher  price 

for  cream  because  of  its  resale  value.    If  (Continued  from  page  one) 

they  could  not  resell  this  higher  priced 

western  cream  at  a  profit  they  would  not  favorable  prediction  as  to  the  future  of 
have  bought  57  carloads  of  western  cream  the  industry  there  or  in  New  England, 
for  Boston  between  November  1  and  It  is  one  of  the  last  remnants  of  agncul- 
March  1  This  is  about  10  per  cent,  of  tural  pursuits  in  some  sections  of  New 
Boston's  total  cream  needs  for  that  England  and  the  showing  presented  in 
riocj  this  record  justifies  protestants  appeal  for 
Another  comparison  we  made  was  with  the  application  of  the  Hoch-Smith  resolu- 
the  prices  secured  by  co-operative  or-  tion  that  rates  for  the  movement  of  agn- 
o-anizations  in  other  territories  for  their  cultural  commodities  be  reduced  to  the 
surplus  Compared  with  the  prices  re-  lowest  lawful  level  consistent  with  the 
ceived  by  the  Connecticut  Milk  Produc-  maintenance  of  adequate  service  We 
ers'  Association  and  the  New  York  Dairy-  have  held  that  the  lowest  possible  .lawful 
men's  League,  our  price  during  1926  was  rates  must  allow  something  more  than 
from  6V2  to  12  cents  a  pound,  or  from  24  out-of-pocket  expenses." 
to  60  cents  per  hundredweight  of  milk,  too  Until  we  have  made  a  more  careful 
low  The  Connecticut  farm  price,  or  study  of  the  rates  in  operation  in  New 
price  delivered  at  the  state  road  netted  York  and  Philadelphia  it  will  be  impos- 
producers  24  cents  a  hundred  more  than  sible  to  state  exactly  what  the  increase  in 
our  surplus  price  delivered  at  country  rates  will  mean  to  the  dairy  industry  m 
stations.  The  New  York  League  price  at  New  England.  Roughly  we  estimate  that 
country  points  averaged  61  cents  a  hun-  the  increase  will  be  about  $300,000  annu- 
dred  higher  than  our  surplus  price  in  ally  on  milk  shipped  to  Boston  and  $75,- 
1 926  000  more  on  milk  shipped  to  other  mar- 
Still  another  comparison  which  showed  kets.  The  20  per  cent,  increase  on  milk 
our  butterfat  price  to  be  too  low  was  shipped  less  than  100  miles  applies  to  little 
with  the  prices  paid  by  creameries  in  New  Boston  milk,  but  it  applies  to  a  consider- 
England  which  are  operating  on  a  strictly  able  amount  of  milk  shipped  to  Lawrence, 
butter  basis.  Our  prices  for  surplus  in  Manchester  and  a  few  other  markets.  The 
1926  averaged  six  cents  a  pound  of  but-  100  mile  limit  from  Boston  includes  all 
terfat  less  than  was  paid  by  the  average  territory  east  of  Amherst  on  the  Massa- 
of  five  Vermont  creameries  operating  on  chusetts  Central  line  and  all  east  of 
a  strictly  butter  basis.  Greenfield  on  the  Fitchburg  line.  Other 
Comparison  with  prices  paid  for  butter-  limit  points  are  Keene,  Potter  Place  and 
fat  paid  by  Boston  dealers  buying  in  Can-  Henniker,  N.  H.,  and  Old  Orchard,  Saco 
ada  also  showed  our  price  is  too  low.  and  Alfred,  Me. 

After  taking  into  account  the  duty  of  20  Some  very  interesting  complications 
cents  per  gallon  on  cream  bought  in  Can-  come  in  through  the  application  of  the 
ada  we  find  that  dealers  have  been  paying  New  York  rates  to  milk  shipped  in 
seven  cents  per  pound  of  butterfat  more  bottles  and  cases.  The  Brattleboro  co- 
than  they  paid  us  for  butterfat  in  surplus,  operative  which  ships  milk  to  Springfield 
This  is  nearly  26  cents  a  hundred  pounds  some  60  miles  away,  would  get  a  20  per 
of  milk.  cent,  increase.  Bellows  Falls  co-opera- 
Summing  up  these  comparisons  we  find  tive,  shipping  in  cases  to  Boston,  is  more 
that  our  butterfat  price  is  too  low  by  an  than  100  miles  away  and  comes  under  the 
average  of  9  cents  a  pound  on  a  50  cent  New  York  rate  for  case  milk.  This  is 
butter  market.  substantially  lower  than  the  present  New 
Per  Lb  Per  Cwt  England  rate.  If  the  railroads  should  ac- 
Butterfat  Surplus  tuallv  follow  out  this  schedule  to  the  let- 
New  England  Cream  ....  8.5  31  ter  on  case  milk  Brattleboro  would  pay 
Western  cream             10  0            37  more  ior  transporting  milk  60  miles  than 

Connecticut                     6.5            24  would    Bellows    Falls    for  transporting 

1  Ne  w  York                    16  5            61  Cinilk  more  than  100  miles. 

Butter   creameries"~  6               22    .  The  situation  will  be  discussed  more 

(  anadg                          7              26  P  tne  next  Dairyman,  after  we 

have  had  a  full  opportunity  to  find  out 

Considering  the  fact  that  some  of  these  >"st  what  *his  rulingn  °y*^>terState 

ni  ices  are  o„  a  year's  basis  and  some  are  Commerce  Commission  will  mean. 

mi  1  lie  basis  of  a  month  it  is  fair  to  re-   

:  tn.«    this  average  somewhat  in  order  to  At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Spring- 

Jiget  a  true,  picture  of  the  situation.    The  field  market  association,  March  31,  O.  A 

.New  York,  and  Connecticut  prices  include  Tuttle  of  Hardwick  was  elected  president 

the  value  ofskim  as  well  as  the  butterfat  and  S.  O.  Russell  of  Brimfield.  secretary 

and  the  50  cent  butter  market  is  higher  and  treasurer.    Members  of  the  market- 

than  the  average  for  the  year.  ing  committee  are  S.  A.  Sfkes  of  EtEne- 

.   But  it  is  certainly  fair  to  make  a  com-  ton.  Conn.,  George  Spear  of  Greenfield, 

panson  on  the  basis  of  what  dealers  paid  Milton  S.  Howes  of  Cummington  and 

in  Canada  and  on  what  strictly  butter  Henry  Frost  of  Brattleboro. 


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this  year  was  8^2  per  cent,  as  compared 
with  12  per  cent,  a  year  previous  and 
with  a  normal  increase  of  about  10  per 
cent.  Fluid  milk  sales  showed  a  normal 
increase,  about  a  million  pounds  increase 
for  the  month  and  about  two  million 
pounds  as  compared  with  the  previous 
March.  The  purchases  and  sales  in  mil- 
lion pounds  were : 

1927  1927  1926 
Feb.     Mar.  Mar. 

Purchases    45.4      49.3  46.4 

Sales    27.8      28.6  26.S 

The  net  price  for  all  milk  delivered  at 
the  10th  zone  was  $2.57  per  hundred 
pounds.  This  is  six  cents  a  hundred 
higher  than  March,  1926,  net  price.  The 
surplus  price  was  45  cents  a  hundred 
higher  than  the  year  before,  due  to  the 
10  cents  a  hundred  on  skim  and  the  high 
butter  quotations.  This  more  than  offset 
the  23  cent  lower  market  milk  price.  The 
butter  market  averaged  7l/2  cents  a 
pound  higher  than  in  March  1926.  The 
comparative  figures  are: 

1927      1927  1926 
Feb.     Mar.  Mar. 

Fluid   $2.96     $2.96  $3.19 

Surplus    2.10      2.06  1.61 

Net  price  all  milk..  2.61  2.57  2.51 
Avg.  butter  per  lb.  .519  .51  .433 
The  butter  market  remains  high,  and 
will  probably  remain  so  until  production 
more  than  equals  the  demand.  Produc- 
tion of  butter  at  the  present  time  is 
about  normal  but  storage  stocks  are  prac- 
tically exhausted  and  the  new  butter  is 
being  used  for  current  consumption.  As 
soon  as  production  increases  beyond  the 
demands  for  immediate  consumption  there 
will  probably  be  a  sharp  drop  in  prices. 
The  third  week  in  April  the  butter  quota- 
tion was  54  cents,  15  cents  a  pound  higher 
than  a  year  previous.  This  high  butter 
price  will  show  in  the  return  for  April 
milk.  Last  year  the  net  April  price  in 
the  10th  zone  was  $2.38.  This  April  the 
price  will  probably  come  close  to  the 
$2.50  point. 

Cost  of  Production 
Grain  prices  are  off  $1.00  per  ton  from 
March  to  April  and  are  now  the  same 
amount  below  last  year.  Hay  is  about  the 
same  as  last  month  and  last  year.  Com- 
parative prices  are : 

1927  1927  1926 
Mar.      April  April 

Grain  per  ton   $47.38     $46.36  $47.52 

Hay  per  ton    15.40       15.12  15.22 

Labor  per  month 
boarded    48.70      48.70  46.59 

New  York  and  Boston  Prices 
The  New  York  League  pool  price  con- 
tinued in  March  above  the  weighted  price 
paid  by  Boston  dealers,  $2.70  per  hundred 
for  3.7  per  cent,  milk  in  the  181-200  mile 
zone  compared  with  the  Boston  dealers 
price  of  $2.58.  The  League  fluid  price 
is  now  $3.02  in  the  181-200  mile  zone  3.7 
per  cent,  test  compared  with  our  fluid 
price  of  $2.96. 

FIELD  WORK 


Butterfat  check  testing  continued  to  be 
the  major  project  of  the  Field  Service 
Department  the  past  month.  Check  tests 
have  now  been  made  on  the  product  of 
approximately  1000  members.  As  mem- 
bers become  better  acquainted  with  the 
fact  that  this  service  is  available,  re- 
quests to  have  check  tests  made  are  com- 
ing into  the  office  more  frequently. 

Inquiries  are  also  being  made  regard- 
ing the  method  used  to  make  these  checks. 
The  Field  Service  man  first  makes  a  test 
of  the  composite  sample  taken  by  the 
dealer.  These  composite  samples  contain 
the  daily  samples  taken  by  the  dealer  dur- 
ing the  previous  sampling  period.  The 
laws  of  New  Hampshire,  Vermont  and 


"My  herd  of  17  cows  makes 
1000  lbs.  per  cow,  per  month, 
on  AMCO  20%  DAIRY" 


/ 


Dutchland  Pietertje  Hillandale  at  the  end  of  her  year's  record 
ready  to  start  another.  She  made  in  365  days  on  Amco  20% 
National,  22,157  lbs.  of  milk  and  1,003  lbs.  of  butter  She  is 
owned  by  Dutchland  Farms,  Bridgewater,  Mass. 

/    /  / 

IN  HIS  herd  of  sixteen  or  seventeen  cows,  John  A.  Murphy 
of  New  Preston,  Conn.,  has  got  a  production  of  over  1000 
lbs.  of  milk  per  cow,  per  month,  since  he  has  fed  AMCO  20% 
DAIRY.  "Since  we  have  been  using  Amco  rations"  he  says, 
"we  have  had  the  best  results  we  ever  secured  from  our  cows. 
The  ration  we  have  been  using  is  AMCO  20%  DAIRY.  We 
find  this  feed  keeps  the  cows  in  good  flesh,  and  best  of  all, 
they  have  done  fine  at  the  pail. 

"Since  using  AMCO  20%  DAIRY,  our  herd  of  16-17 
cows  has  averaged  over  1000  lbs.  of  milk  per  cow, per  month. 
And  we  have  saved  money  in  buying  this  feed." 

New  England  agricultural  colleges  recommend,  and  New 
England  dairy  farmers  find,  that  20%  protein  in  the  grain 
mixture  is  the  best  combination  with  New  England  hay. 

AMCO  20%  DAIRY  (a  flexible  formula  feed)  and 
AMCO  20%,  NATIONAL  (a  fixed  formula  feed)  are  mixed 
on  open  formulas  approved  by  the  New  England  committee 
of  the  College  Feed  Conference  Board. 

No  dairy  feeds  have  more  behind  them  than  Amco  Feed 
Mixing  Service  feeds.  Their  formulas  are  studied  and  ap- 
proved by  the  men  who  know  most  about  feeds.  No  organiza- 
tion has  greater  buying  power  or  better  mixing  facilities  than 
Amco  Feed  Mixing  Service.  This  insures  quality  and  price. 
If  you  haven't  an  Amco  Agent  in  your  community,  write  to 
23  Pearl  Street,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Amco 

(feed  mixing  service 

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Plants  at:  PEORIA,  ILL.;  OMAHA,  NEB.;  OWENSBORO,  KY. 
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Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1927 


EVEN  POOR 
CREAM 

Even  poor  cream  can 
lose  quality  if  in  the 
manufacturing  processes 
it  is  in  contact  with  im- 
properly cleaned  equip- 
ment. 

Sweet,  high  grade  cream 
is  yet  more  susceptible 
to  quality  loss,  so  much 
so  that  increasing  num- 
bers of  creamerymen, 
cheesemakers  and  dairy- 
men are  standardizing 
the  use  of 


for  all  their  plant  and 
equipment  cleaning. 

This  is  only  logical,  for 
when  so  much  depends 
upon  care  and  thorough- 
ness the  cleaner  which 
has  been  the  ''standard" 
for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a 
century  is  the  choice  of 
the  foresighted  dairy 
food  producer. 

Ask  your  Supply  Man 
for  "WYANDOTTE." 


Indian  In  Circle 


In  every  package 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
( cream  acidity  standardizer) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
your  cream  ? 


THE  J.  D.  FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


New  York  require  that  this  sampling 
period  shall  not  exceed  16  days.  Maine 
allows  a  composite  sample  to  cover  a 
period  not  to  exceed  one  month.  The 
Field  man's  tests  are  then  compared  with 
the  plant  man's  tests.  In  cases  where 
variations  of  more  than  two  points  (.2  of 
1  per  cent.)  occur  between  the  NEMPA 
check  and  the  test  made  by  the  creamery 
tester,  a  recheck  is  made  to  determine 
whether  an  adjustment  should  be  made. 
After  the  checks  of  the  composite  samples 
have  been  made,  a  number  of  daily 
samples  are  then  taken  by  the  Field  man 
for  the  purpose  of  making  a  compari- 
son with  the  composite  samples.  These 
daily  samples  can  be  used  only  for  gen- 
eral comparison  purposes  because  daily 
samples  vary  in  butterfat  content  from 
day  to  day.  Each  member  whose  product 
has  been  tested  then  receives  a  notice 
giving  the  result  of  the  check  test. 

Complete  or  partial  check  tests  have 
been  made  at  the  following  plants: 
Maine — Auburn,  Pittsfield,  So.  Paris  and 
Winthrop ;  New  Hampshire — West  Stew- 
artstown,  Colebrook,  Lancaster,  White- 
field,  Lisbon,  North  Haverhill  and  Pat- 
tee  ;  and  in  Vermont,  North  Troy,  New- 
port Ctr.,  Newport  (four  plants,  Orleans 
and  Barton. 

Maine  Field  District 

NEMPA  members  in  Maine  are  al- 
ready showing  their  appreciation  of  the 
service  being  rendered  by  the  Field  Serv- 
ice Department  and  F.  L.  Foley,  the  dis- 
trict manager,  has  already  received  sev- 
eral requests  for  service  work.  He  made 
a  check  test  of  butterfat  for  each  mem- 
ber shipping  to  the  Whiting  Milk  Com- 
panies at  Pittsfield,  Me.,  made  a  check 
test  for  members  selling  milk  only  to  the 
Hood  Company  at  Winthrop,  Me.,  and 
ran  a  complete  check  test  for  members 
shipping  their  product  to  the  Turner 
Centre  System  at  Auburn.  This  includes, 
besides  the  local  members  around  Auburn, 
those  living  along  the  following  lines : 
Portland-Lewiston  interurban,  Auburn  to 
Walnut  Hill,  Auburn  to  Lisbon  and  Bath, 
Auburn  to  Augusta,  Auburn  to  Mon- 
mouth, Winthrop  to  No.  Belgrade,  Au- 
burn to  West  Farmington,  Auburn  to 
Turner,  Turner  Centre,  Livermore,  Au- 
burn to  West  Minot,  East  Hebron  to 
Hartford,  and  Canton  to  Dixfield. 

As  a  result  of  Mr.  Foley's  attending 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  East  Livermore 
Local,  he  has  an  invitation  to  address  the 
local  Grange  in  the  near  future.  A.  G. 
Morrison  was  re-elected  president,  W.  C. 
Stephens,  vice-president,  and  F.  A.  Pike, 
secretary-treasurer  of  the  East  Liver- 
more Local. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Salem  Local  Dr. 
Geo.  R.  Little  of  Schaghticoke,  presi- 
dent of  the  NEMPA,  gave  a  fine  talk 
showing  the  value  of  the  NEMPA  and 
similar  marketing  organizations.  Among 
other  items  he  discussed  the  question  in- 
volved in  recent  criticism  of  the  NEMPA 
"Why  follow?  Why  not  lead?"  He 
read  a  letter  put  out  by  a  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
concern  to  its  producers  in  which  it  of- 
fered to  pay  20  cents  per  cwt.  of  milk 
more  than  the  Dairymen's  League  adver- 
tised cash  price.  On  first  inspection  this 
would  give  the  impression  that  the  Dairy- 
men's League  was  not  as  successful  as  it 
might  be  but  Dr.  Little  went  on  to  point 
out  the  falacies,  that  the  League's  cash 
price  did  not  include  the  certificate  of 
ownership  which  varied  from  5  to  20 
cents  per  cwt.,  that  the  League's  adver- 
tised cash  price  was  for  milk  in  the  10th 
zone  or  200  miles  from  New  York  City 
while  the  Syracuse  concern  was  offering 
to  buy  in  the  3rd  zone  from  their  plant, 
and  that  the  League's  price  was  for  3.5 
per  cent,  milk  while  the  Syracuse  con- 
cern was  requiring  a  4  per  cent.  test.  This 
well  illustrates  the  means  to  which  some 
are  willing  to  go  in  their  effort  to  break 
down  organized  effort  on  the  part  of 
milk  producers  and  also  shows  who  is 
really  doing  the  leading. 

F.  C.  Warner  of  the  Boston  Office  dis- 
cussed conditions  in  the  Boston  market. 
Wm.  J.  Dunn  was  re-elected  president 
and  J.  Stanley  Burnett,  secretary-treas- 
urer of  the  Salem  Local. 

Through  the  efforts  of  President  Geo. 
Barnett,  the  Johnsonville  Local  held  a 
meeting  April  9,  at  which  time  Dr.  Little 
and  Mr.  Warner  discussed  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  members  practically  the  same 
points  of  interest  that  were  covered  in 
the  Salem  meeting. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


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85%  of  bacteria  in  milk  comes  from  contact 
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1 

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APRIL  PRICES 

Manchester,  N.  H  62.2c  per  8^2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  66c    per  8]/2  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  64c    per  8    qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  80c    per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  64c    per  8    qt.  can 

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PRICES 

Owing  to  the  unsettled  condition  in  the 
Nashua  Market  the  Sales  Committee  met 
the  latter  part  of  March  to  consider  fu- 
ture prices.  A  Committee  of  the  dealers 
also  attended  the  meeting  to  negotiate 
with  the  producers'  committee.  Every 
factor  entering  into  the  milk  situation  in 
Nashua  was  discussed.  This  included  a 
consideration  of  business  conditions  which 
affect  the  resale  of  milk;  of  the  supply 
and  demand  of  milk  and  of  the  attitude 
of  concerns  and  individuals  selling  milk 
in  the  market.  After  a  careful  considera- 
tion of  all  the  factors  involved  the  Sales 
Committee  finally  reached  an  agreement 
with'  the  dealers  to  accept  a  price  of  66 
cents  per  8^2  qt.  can  delivered  into  the 
market.  This  price  to  become  effective 
April  1st. 

The  shortage  which  took  place  when 
many  of  the  cows  were  being  slaughtered 
because  of  their  reaction  to  the  tuberculin 
test  has  been  very  largely  taken  care  of 
now  due  to  the  fact  that  other  cows  have 
been  brought  in  and  those  who  lost  their 
complete  herds  have  now  purchased  new 
herds  of  tuberculin  tested  cows. 

The  producers  and  their  committee  who 
are  selling  milk  to  the  Portsmouth 
Creamery  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  met  in 
March  at  the  Creamery  and  discussed 
with  D.  W.  Badger,  manager,  prices  for 
the  next  six  months,  namely,  April,  May, 
June,  July,  August  and  September.  In 
this  market  it  is  customary  to  negotiate  a 
six  months'  contract,  and  while  prices 
vary  somewhat  during  these  six  months, 
producers  have  a  very  general  idea  of 
what  the  prices  shall  be.  The  contract 
this  year  is  based  upon  the  Boston  3rd 
zone  price  for  milk  so  that  the  work  of 
the  Boston  Sales  Committee  in  announc- 
ing prices  for  the  Boston  Market  will,  of 
course,  influence  prices  in  Portsmouth. 
The  same  type  of  contract  was  enforced 
last  year  and  proved  to  work  out  very- 
well  both  for  the  producers  and  Mr. 
Badger,  manager  of  the  Creamery.  At 
the  conclusion  of  the  meeting  Mr.  Badger 
served  ice  cream,  giving  a  social  turn  to 
the  meeting  which  was  much  appreciated 
by  those  present. 

All  other  prices  in  the  district  remain 
the  same  as  last  month. 

Business  Conditions 

Not  much  can  be  said  of  business  con- 
ditions. Unfavorable  reports  continue 
throughout  all  our  markets.  The  mill 
situation  in  Lawrence  and  Manchester  is 
still  very  poor.  We  hear  a  little  opti- 
mistic report  coming  from  Lowell  in  that 
a  new  industry  has  located  there. 
Weather  Affects  Sales 

The  warm  weather  occurring  the  third 
week  in  April  was  a  considerable  help  in 
clearing  supplies  in  the  markets.  Most 
dealers  have  been  carrying  a  heavy  sur- 
plus and  during  these  few  days  milk 
moved  much  better.  If  we  could  only 
have  more  of  this  kind  of  weather  the 
surplus  in  our  markets  would  soon  be 
disposed  of  which,  of  course,  would  make 
our  markets  in  a  much  healthier  condition 
so  far  as  price  negotiations  are  con- 
cerned. 

Annual  Meetings 
We  are  continuing  with  the  program  of 
Annual  Meetings.  The  names  of  Locals 
which  have  held  their  Annual  Meetings 
recently  and  the  officers  elected  are  as 
follows : 

E.  Kingston— President,  L.  B.  Tilton, 
E.  Kingston,  N.  H. ;  secretary,  James 
Monahan,  E.  Kingston,  N.  H. ;  treasurer, 
D.  M.  Evans,  E.  Kingston,  N.  H. 


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tions found  in  each  bag.  Compare  results  three  ways:  1,  Her 
total  milk  production;  2,  Milk  per  pound  of  feed,  and  3,  Her  milk 
cost  per  pound  of  feed — then  if  Bull  Brand  Dairy  Ration  doesn't 
show  most  milk  per.  dollar  of  feed  cost,  bring  back  the  bags  and 
the  unused  feed  and  every  cent  of  the  money  paid  will  be  refunded 
by  our  dealer. 

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low  cost  convenient  roofing  could.  Only  the  finest 
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The  best  all-rag  felt  is  used  as  the  base.  This  is  com- 
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roofing.  Use  Safekote  on  new  buildings  or  old.  It  will 
save  many  dollars  in  cost  and  upkeep.  It  will  render 
the  most  satisfactory  service  for  years  and  years  to  come. 
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Roll  Roofing 

MADE  IN  NEW  ENGLAND 


Page  Eight 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1927 


j  Eastern  SW»  Fanners'  Exchange 

Legumes  Take  Nitrogen 
From  The  Air — 


Your  cows  can't  do  that  with  milk. 
What  a  rumpus  dairymen  would 
make  if  they  came  in  at  noon  after 
putting  in  a  hard  morning  in  the 
fields  to  find  a  heaping  dish  of 
greens  for  dinner —"Plenty  of 
greens,  so  why  bread,  meat  and 
potatoes?"  Oh  boy!  How  would 
you  like  that? 

Not  being  reasoning  animals  but 
patient  slaves  of  men,  cows  deprived 
of  the  concentrated  nourishment 
they  need  strive  to  eat  enough 
"greens"  in  their  spring  and  summer 
pastures  to  take  care  of  their  bodily 
needs,  strained  by  the  demands  of 
increased  milk  flow  and  by  the  extra 
exercise  which  grubbing  a  living 
from  a  pasture  entails. 

If  your  wife  cut  our  your  concen- 
trates you  would  have  them  put  back 
quickly.  Think  for  your  cows  as  you 
think  for  yourself.  Most  successful 
dairymen  grain  all  summer. 

To  maintain  herself  and  give  25 
lbs.  of  4%  milk,  a  cow  must  eat  from 
100  to  150  lbs.  of  pasture  grass  a 
day.  A  50  lbs.  cow  has  to  have  from 
150  to  225  lbs.  of  grass  to  hold  her 
weight,  the  actual  amount  depending 
upon  the  amount  of  water  in  the 
pasture  grass. 

Look  your  pasture  over,  allow 
your  cows  time  to  rest  and  worry 
with  flies,  and  estimate  their  ability 
to  get  the  amount  of  grass  necessary 
to  hold  their  flesh  so  that  they  may 
hold  out  on  their  milk  into  the  months 
of  July  and  August,  when  milk 
prices  are  rising. 

Eastern  States  Open  Formula 
Pasture  Ration  has  been  blended  to 
meet  summer  graining  demands.  It  is 
a  Pasture  Ration.  Those  farmers 
who  turn  their  cows  out  for  exercise 
will  find  it  profitable  to  feed  the 
winter  rations  all  summer,  but  the 
farmers  who  have  real  pastures  will 
find  the  Eastern  States  Pasture 
Ration  an  economical,  profitable 
feed. 

This  is  the  time  to  order  your 
supply  of  Eastern  States  Pasture 
Ration.  Best  results  are  obtained  by 
changing  from  your  full  winter  grain 
ration  to  your  pasture  grain  ration 
gradually. 

The  Eastern  States  Feed  Booklet 
gives  the  details  of  the  Exchange's 
summer  dairy  feed  program.  Send 
for  a  copy. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

Jt   non-ttock,    non-profit  organization 
omnmd  and  controlled  by  thm 
farmmra  It  soroot 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


Exeter,  N.  H.— President,  Mitchell  O'- 
Brien, Exeter,  N.  H. ;  secretary,  Arthur 
J.  Sewall,  Hampton  Falls,  N.  H. 

Greenland,  N.  H. — President,  Wm.  R. 
Weeks,  R.  No.  1,  Portsmouth,  N.  H. ; 
secretary,  Gordon  M.  Hay  den,  Greenland, 
N.  H. 

Lee,  N.  H. — President,  Wm.  T.  Phair, 
R.  F.  D.  No.  1,  Durham,  N.  H.;  secre- 
tary, Chas.  H.  Johnson,  R.  F.  D.  No.  1, 
Durham,  N.  H. 

Portsmouth,  N.  H. — President,  Chas. 
W.  Coleman,  Newington,  N.  H. ;  secre- 
tary, L.  B.  Paquin,  R.  D.  No.  1,  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H. 

Lowell,  Mass.— President,  Arthur  W. 
Colburn,  Box  15,  Dracut,  Mass. ;  vice- 
president,  Norman  L.  Peavey,  R.  No.  3, 
Lowell,  Mass. ;  secretary,  H.  M.  Fox, 
1909  Bridge  street,  Dracut,  Mass. 

Eliot,  Me.— President,  R.  D.  Webber, 
Kittery,  Me. ;  secretary,  Maurice  Drake, 
York  Village,  Me. 

Stratham,  N.  H— President,  M.  S. 
Chase,  Stratham,  N.  H. ;  secretary, 
Harry  Wiggin,  Stratham,  N.  H. 

Quality  Work 

The  district  manager  has  spent  con- 
siderable time  in  Henniker,  Hillsboro, 
Pittsfield,  Ctr.  Barnstead,  Short  Falls, 
Pelham,  Windham,  North  Salem,  Chelms- 
ford and  Methuen  visiting  farmers  for 
the  purpose  of  discussing  the  production 
of  quality  milk.  Competition  among 
groups  of  farmers  for  the  various  mar- 
kets in  which  we  are  selling  has  become 
very  keen  and  the  NEMPA  realizes  that 
in  order  to  hold  their  markets  and  in- 
crease their  sales  they  must  put  out  the 
very  best  quality  of  milk  possible.  Also 
in  many  instances  the  boards  of  health 
are  preparing  to  make  country  inspection 
and  the  district  manager  felt  it  a  good 
idea  to  see  the  farmers  ahead  of  the 
board  of  health  inspector  and  help  them 
in  getting  ready  for  this  inspection  so 
that  no  milk  would  be  "shut  off."  The 
buyers  who  have  been  handling  this  milk 
and  in  whose  supplies  we  have  been  doing 
this  quality  work  are  Warren  Wright  of 
Chelmsford,  whose  milk  is  sold  in  Lowell, 
Mass.,  Findeisen  Farms,  whose  milk  is 
sold  in  Lawrence,  Methuen  and  Andover, 
Mass.,  Manchester  Dairy  System,  whose 
milk  is  sold  in  Manchester  and  many 
other  markets  of  the  district.  Every 
farmer  that  I  talked  with  took  a  very 
pleasing  attitude  toward  this  improved 
quality  work.  All  seemed  to  realize  that 
it  is  good  business  to  produce  and  offer 
for  sale  a  quality  product.  Considerable 
time  was  spent  in  discussing  stables  with 
respect  to  light  and  air,  removal  of 
manure,  etc.  Also  to  the  building  of  milk 
rooms  and  methods  of  straining  and  cool- 
ing milk.  In  some  cases  the  district  man- 
ager did  some  work  on  the  calculations  of 
solids  in  the  milk  in  order  to  see  how  the 
supply  of  various  producers  was  arriving 
at  the  plants  with  respect  not  only  to 
butterfat,  but  also  to  solids  not  fat  and 
total  solids. 


GERM-X 

What  It  Does  for  Farmers 


Germ-X 

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1.  GERM-X  destroys  all  disease  germs  and  bacteria  that  contaminate 

utensils  and  spoil  milk  and  dairy  products. 

2.  Kills  tubercular  germ  on  contact.  Use  freely  in  present  national  cam- 

paign to  stamp  out  tuberculosis  by  cleansing  and  disinfecting  barns. 

3.  Stops  and  prevents  abortion,  quickly  removes  retained  afterbirth,  and 

stops  costly  call  scours. 

4.  Makes  poultry  raising  profitable  by  freeing  birds  and  premises  from 

Insect  pests  and  germs. 

5.  Has  many  household  and  personal  uses. 

6.  Powerful,  but  non-poisonous.     Odorless,  but  destroys  all  foul  odors. 

Very  highly  concentrated.  A  little  goes  a  long  way.  Just  add 
water  and  use. 

//  not  at  your  dealer's,  order  direct.  One-gallon 
package  $2.50  or  five-gallon  for  $10.50.  12y2-gallon 
carboy  for  $23.18. 

American  Lanolin  Corporation  -  -  Lawrence,  Mass. 


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Dr.  Spencer's  STAFF  HALTER  is  the  one  perfect  control  for 
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It  Means  More,  Better 
and  Cleaner  Milk 

Easier  to  keep  them  clean, 
make  them  feel  more  comfort- 
able and  keep  the  dirt  out  of 
the  milk  pail. 

CLIPPING  improves  the  health 
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GROOMING  ATTACHMENTS 
for  cleaning.  Operates  on  the 
light  circuit  furnished  by  any 
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on  any  make  of  Farm  Lighting 
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Three  Sizes:  40,  60  and  120  lbs. 
By  Tenths  of  a  Pound 

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black  figures  and  gradua- 
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Order  through  any  leading 
Supply  house  or  direct. 

Specify  "Pelouze" 

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Postpaid 

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232  East  Ohio  Street.  Chicago 


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Have  you  ever  stopped  to  figure  in  dollars 
and  cents  how  much  you  are  paying  for 
credit?  The  actual  figures  might  astonish 
you.  The  Agricultural  Department  of  this 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


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WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 
585  White  St.,         Springfield,  Mass. 

Telephone  Walnut  1714 

PRICES 

\  Worcester   7^c  per  quart 

|  Springfield   8c     per  quart 

\  Holyoke   7'/>c  per  quart 

WORCESTER 
'■      During  the  past  few  weeks  meetings  of 
several  locals  have  been  held  at  which 
'Geo.    F.    E.    Story    of    the  Worcester 
ij  County  Extension  Service,  dealers  who 
were  buying  in  the  town,  and  myself, 
were  the  speakers. 
The  proposed  rating  plan  for  the  Wor- 
■  cestcr  Market  was  discussed  and  in  most 
cases  producers  expressed  themselves  as 
favoring  the  same.'   Mr.  Story  talked  on 
the  value  of  the  advertising  work  done 
by    the    New    England    Dairy   &  Food 
Council,  and  pointed  out  the  financial  gain 
if  to  producers  in  backing  this  work,  espe- 
cially during  the  early  summer  months 
'  when    some    surplus   exists.     At  every 
1  meeting  producers  voted  to  support  the 
f  Council  for  work  to  be  done  in  Worces- 
ter.    The  dealers  spoke  on  their  prob- 
l  lems  in  the  market,  and  the  advantage  of 
I  having  dairies  which  produced  an  even 
supply  at  all  times.   At  all  of  these  meet- 
,  ings  there  seemed  to  l>e  a  better  spirit 
of  co-operation  between  dealer  and  pro- 
ducer, and  a  desire  to  work  together  in 
the  problems  of  each. 

At  the  Barre  meeting,  which  was  held 
at  the  Boston  &  Albany  station,  through 
I  the  courtesy  of  the  station  agent,  from 
;  40  to  50  were  present,  and  Anderson 
Bros,   jugs   were   used   as  extra  seats. 
!  About  20  were  present  at  Charlton,  IS  at 
Brookfield  and  15  at  Sutton. 
The  Worcester  Market  is  in  a  very 
I  good  condition.    As  yet  there  has  been  no 
!  surplus  of  consequence  reported  by  any 
i  dealer.     The  improved  outlook  for  this 
market  is  reflected  in  the  attitude  of  pro- 
:  ducers  in  the  country,  and  during  the  past 
month  several  dues  orders  have  been  se- 
cured in  Charlton,  Warren,  Barre,  and 
North  Brookfield. 

There  is  a  strong  sentiment  developing 
among  some  of  the  Snringfield  dealers  to 
adopt  a  uniform  buying  plan.  Meetings 
between  the  producers'  and  the  dealers' 
committees  have  been  arranged,  and  it  is 
to  be  hoped  that  some  plan  can  be  worked 
out  that  will  be  of  benefit  to  producers 
shipping  to  this  market.  The  history  of 
other  markets  brings  out  the  fact  that 
no  permanent  stability  can  be  had  or 
maintained  where  all  or  part  of  the  deal- 
ers are  buying  on  an  unknown  base  price. 

At  the  present  time  the  prospects  are 
that  another  60  days  will  witness  the  be- 
ginning of  better  times  for  producers  and 
dealers  in  this  market. 

The  above  should  be  of  interest  to  the 
producers  shipping  into  Holyoke,  because 
these  two  cities  are  so  cloely  connected, 
especially  as  to  chain  store  trade,  that 
they  are  practically  one  as  far  as  a  milk 
market  is  concerned. 

NEW  FIELD  DISTRICT 

Another  field  district  was  set  up  the 
past  month  and  work  was  started  with  a 
field  man  in  charge.  This  is  the  second 
of  the  field  districts  to  be  organized  with 
resident  managers  in  accordance  with  the 
vote  of  the  association  in  the  1925  annual 
meeting. 

The  new  district  will  include  all  of 
northern  New  Hampshire  and  north- 
eastern Vermont.  Headquarters  will  be 
at  St.  Johnsbury,  but,  like  the  new  Maine 
district  man,  the  resident  manager  will 
be  on  the  road  most  of  the  time  and  will 
simply  get  into  St.  Johnsbury  to  get 
mails,  keep  in  touch  with  the  central  of- 
fice and  get  the  calls  for  assistance  which 
will  come  in  from  the  members  of  the 
district. 

F.  L.  Osgood,  one  of  the  field  force 
who  has  been  getting  "initiated"  into  the 
association  by  nearly  a  year  of  active 
canvassing  work,  was  selected  as  the  man- 
ager for  this  distirct.  He  is  not  now  in 
a  position  to  give  much  service  to  the 
members,  owing  to  the  sudden  death  -  of 
his  father  in  Fryeburg  and  the  necessity 


ALFALFA 


'THE  IMPERIAL  FORAGE  CROP" 

BEATS-THEM-ALL 


This  Alfalfa  field  was  seeded  in  August.  It  produced  big  crops  the  following  year 
and  the  picture  shows  the  first  crop  of  the  next  year.    Lime  was  the  first  essential. 


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Are  Rapidly  Adding  to  their  Acreage 

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Page  Ten 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN' 


May,  1927 


UNADILLA 
SILOS 

the  best  buy 
for  your  farm 

Its  cost  spread  over  a  few  years  of 
its  use  means  the  maximum  profit 
on  your  home  grown  crops. 

Write  for  our  big  illustrated 
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More  Profit 

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Prevent  the  Run  Down  Condition 
Give  INVIGORATOR  in  the  Feed 

Use  UDERKREAM  for  the  Udder 

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IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


he  was  under  of  being  on  the  home  farm 
for  a  time.  He  is  the  eldest  of  the 
family. 

During  the  time  when  lie  cannot  re- 
spond to  calls  for  assistance  from  mem- 
bers in  that  district  the  work  will  be  car- 
ried on  by  the  other  field  men.  Before 
he  was  called  home  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant pieces  of  field  service  yet  given 
was  performed.  Soon  after  the  middle  of 
March  word  was  received  that  the  Bos- 
ton health  department  had  shut  off  19 
producers,  all  but  one  members  of  the 
NEMPA  locals  at  Brownington  Center, 
Coventry  or  Newport.  They  were  shut 
off  for  various  causes,  ranging  all  the 
way  from  a  slight  whitewashing  of  the 
stables  to  building  a  new  milk  house. 

Mr.  Osgood  took  up  their  cases 
promptly.  The  matter  of  reinstatement 
was  taken  up  with  the  Boston  health  de- 
partment and  it  was  agreed  that  if  these 
men  would  undertake  to  make  the  changes 
asked  for  to  meet  the  requirements  within 
two  weeks  they  could  continue  to  ship 
their  milk  during  that  time,  and  that  a 
recommendation  for  reinstatement  would 
be  accepted  then.  The  men  were  notified 
and  all  but  one  of  them  were  back  ship- 
ping milk  within  a  day  or  two.  Mr.  Os- 
good, on  visiting  this  man,  found  that  it 
would  be  impractical  for  him  to  comply 
with  the  regulations  and  recommended 
that  he  should  not  be  reinstated.  All  the 
others  got  busy  after  being  visited  by- 
Mr.  Osgood  and  made  the  required 
changes  promptly.  The  plant  manager 
took  an  active  interest  in  these  cases  and 
the  inspector  from  the  board  of  health 
made  a  return  trip.  This  is  a  sample  of 
just  the  kind  of  work  which  the  field 
men  can  do  for  members.  They  are  not 
there  to  show  men  how  to  evade  the  regu- 
lations but  how  to  meet  them.  A  con- 
siderable amount  of  check  testing  was 
also  done  in  the  district  before  Mr.  Os- 
good was  obliged  to  go  home. 

The  new  district  includes  Coos  county 
and  extends  down  through  New  Hamp- 
shire until  it  reaches  the  Northern  market 
district  limits.  They  overlap  in  one  sec- 
tion, as  E.  C.  Blake  of  Manchester  gets 
milk  from  East  Haverhill  and  thus  brings 
that  section  into  the  Northern  market 
district,  while  Warren,  Wentworth  and 
West  Rumnev.  all  farther  south  than 
East  Haverhill,  ship  to  Boston  and  are 
thus  included  in  the  new  St.  Johnsbury 
district.  The  new  district  extends  down 
the  Connecticut  to  White  River  Junction 
and  west  to  Morrisville. 

SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
Slade  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 
Telephone,  Dexter  6469 

With  regret  we  report  the  resignation 
of  Charles  E.  Gifford,  manager  of  our 
Southern  market  district,  because  of  ill 
health.  For  some  months  past  "Charlie" 
has  been  working  under  the  handicap  of 
poor  health,  and  while  at  times  he  has 
been  forced  to  stop  work,  for  the  most 
part  he  has  gone  where  duty  called  in  all 
weathers  and  all  times  of  the  day  and 
night.  He  finds  it  impossible  to  continue 
to  give  to  the  district  the  unceasing  work, 
time  and  energy  which  he  feels  the  mar- 
kets demand. 

The  decision  will  be  received  by  our 
members  in  the  Southern  district  with 
genuine  regret,  for  he  has  been  one  of 
them  for  many  years  and  has  established 
strong  bonds  of  friendship  as  well  as  an 
official  relationship  as  manager  of  the 
district.  Long  before  he  took  this  posi- 
tion of  official  leadership  he  was  an  active 
member  of  the  association  and  gave;  it 
strength  and  standing  as  a  member  of  the 
New  Bedford  sales  committee  and  a 
staunch  supporter  of  the  previous  district 
manager  in  carrying  out  a  progressive 
program.  His  interest  in  the  associa- 
tion, his  pleasing  personality  and  his 
ability  to  grasp  the  fundamental  problems 
of  dairy  marketing  brought  him  into 
prominence  in  association  circles  and  he 
was  one  of  the  men  to  be  selected  as  a 
canvasser  for  the  New  England  dairy 
system  and  the  Worcester,  Springfield 
and  Manchester  Dairy  Systems.  In  this 
canvass  he  made  many  friends  outside  the 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


i 

;  Southern  district.  In  the  closer  relation- 
ships in  the  staff  of  the  association  he  has 
ywon  and  holds  the  goodwill  and  esteem 
\m  all  of  us.  In  a  most  sincere  and  per- 
sonal way  we  join  with  all  the  Southern 
district  members  in  the  hope  that  good 
|fiealth  will  come  back  speedily  to  our 
j  friend. 

B  Mr.  Gifford's  place  will  be  taken  June 
fl  by  Henry  W.  Fienemann,  now  county 
i  igent  in  Essex  county.  We  welcome  our 
[lew  recruit.  He  was  raised  on  a  dairy 
;  farm  in  Farmington,  Connecticut,  and 
|  <nows  what  it  is  to  milk  a  string  6f  cows 
•jefore  daylight  on  a  winter  morning.  He 

s  a  graduate  of  the  Connecticut  agricul- 
i  ural  college  in  the  class  of  1921  and  soon 
;  ifter  became  county  agent  in  Belknap 
1  :ounty,  N.  H.  In  his  four  years  of  serv- 
i-ce  in  that  county  he  took  an  active  in- 
terest in  dairying,  especially  in  the  tu- 

)erculin  testing  of  cattle.  With  the  back- 
!  ng  of  the  more  progressive  farmers  of 
I  he  county  he  worked  up  an  eradication 

trogram  which  proved  effective.    At  the 

ime  he  left  the  county,  a  year  and  a  half 
I  igo,  more  than  65  per  cent,  of  all  the 


STATEMENT   OP  THE  OWNERSHIP, 
MANAGEMENT.  CIRCULATION 
Etc.,  Required  by  the  Act  of  Congress  „t 
August  24,  1912 

JC  the  New   England  Dairyman,  published 

monthly  at  Boston,  Mass.,  for  April  1st, 
^927. 

State  of  Massachusetts, 
bounty  of  Suffolk,  ss. 

Before  me,   a  Notary  Public,   in  and  tor 
he  State  and  County  aforesaid,  personally 
ippeared  F.   L.    Weare,   who,   having  been 
luly  sworn,  according  to  law,  deposes  and 
lays   that   he   is   the  Business   Manager  of 
he  New  England  Dairyman,  and  that  the 
ollowlng  is,   to  the  best  of  his  knowledge 
ind  belief,  a  true  statement  of  the  owner- 
ship,  management    (and   if  a  daily  paper, 
he  circulation),  etc.,  of  the  aforesaid  pub- 
i  ication   for   the  date  shown   in   the  above 
■aption,  required  by  the  Act  of  August  24, 
.  912,  embodied  in  section  443,  Postal  Laws 
I  nd  Regulations  printed  on  the  reverse  of 
!  his  form,  to  wit: 

>  1.    That  the  names  and  addresses  of  the 
publisher,    editor,    and    business  managers 
,  .re:    Publishers,    New    England   Milk  Pro- 
ducers  Assn.,    51    Cornhill,    Boston,  Mass.; 
iarry   L.    Piper,    editor,    61   Cornhill.  Bos- 
on,   Mass. ;     VV.    P.    Davis,    Treasurer,  51 
wornhill,   Boston,  Mass.;  Business  Manager, 
;  i\  L.  Weare,  61  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 

2.  That  the  owners  are: 

;  New  England  Milk  Producers  Assn.,  61 
!  .'ornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 

•,  Geo.    R.    Little,    President,  Schaghtlcoke, 

w.-  r: 

R.  A.  Slkes,  Vice-President,  Ellington, 
lonn. 

H.  L.  Webster,  Treasurer,  West  Canaan, 
J.  H. 

I  Richard  Pattee,  Managing  Director,  61 
.  Cornhill,   Boston,  Mass, 

3.  That  the  known  bondholders,  mort- 
agees   and   other   security  holders  owning 

:  r  holding    1   per   cent,    or    more   of  total 
mount  of  bonds,   mortgages,   or  other  se- 
urities  are:  None. 
That    the    two    paragraphs    next  above, 
lving    the    names    of    the    owners,  stock- 
holders, and  security  holders,   if  any,  con- 
ain  not  only  the  list  of  stockholders  and 
ecurity   holders  as   they   appear   upon  the 
ooks  of  the  company,   but  also,   in  cases 
'here    the    stockholder   or    security  holder 
.  ppears  upon  the  books  of  the  company  as 
rustee  or  in  any  other  fiduciary  relation, 
lie  name  of  the  person  or  corporation  for 
'horn  such  trustee  is  acting,  is  given;  also 
i  hat  the  said  two  paragraphs  contain  state- 
ments  embracing    affiant's    full  knowledge 
nd    belief    as    to    the    circumstances  and 
j  ondltlons    under    which    stockholders  and 
ecurity  holders  who   do   not  appear  upon 
•he  books  of  the  company  as  trustees,  hold 
tock   and   securities   in   a  capacity  other 
nan   that  of  a  bona  fide  owner;  and  this 
fflant  has   no  reason   to  believe  that  any 
■Ither  person,  association  or  corporation  has 
\  ny  interest,  direct  or  indirect,  in  the  said 
tock,    bonds,    or   other   securities   than  as 
'3  stated  by  him. 

That    the   average    number   of   copies  of 
J  ach  issue  of  this  publication  sold  or  dls- 
ributed,   through   the   mails  or  otherwise, 
)  paid  subscribers  during  the  six  months 
i  receding     the     date     shown     above  la 


.This  information  is  required  from  dally 
ublicatlons  only.) 

F.  L.  WEARE, 
Business  Manager 

Sworn  to  and  subscribed  before  me  this 

h  day  of  April,  1927. 

REUBEN  HALL. 
My  commission  expires  Jan.  15,  1933.) 


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cattle  in  the  county  were  under  test  and 
the  program  which  started,  under  his 
leadership  has  since  gone  on  steadily  until 
the  county  is  now  practically  ready  to  g» 
on  to  the  modified  clean  area  basis.  In 
Essex  county  he  has  taken  an  active  in- 
terest in  the  cow  test  association  work 
and  he  presented  the  need  so  forcibly  at 
the  start  that  there  was  a  waiting  list  the 
first  week  that  the  first  association  was 
formed.  It  is  now  the  largest  cow  test  as- 
sociation in  the  state.  Personality,  educa- 
tion and  experience  all  fit  him  to  do  good 


work  as  manager  of  our  Southern  district. 

N.  H.  Wells  of  the  NKMPA  Field 
Service  Department  recently  made  a 
check  test  of  buttcrfat  for  pur  members 
whose  product  is  delivered  at  the  Provi- 
dence plant  of  the  Providence  Dairy 
Company.  This  product  moves  by  truck 
from  local  farms  and  also  from  such  dis- 
tant points  as  South  County,  R.  I.,  North 
Stonington,  Ct.,  Plainfield,  Ct.(  Brook- 
lyn, Ct.,  and  Woodstock,  Ct.  A  few 
members  also  ship  by  train  from  points 
east  of  WiHimantic  on  the  Willimantic  to 

- — «<     '•  '  ~  "  Sr — - — — —  


Providence  line.  A  few  years  a^"  ni  e 
of  this  milk  moved  into  Providence  b>\ 
truck  but  the  daylight  saving  schedule  of 
the  railroad  practically  drove  the  produc- 
ers to  some  other  means  of  transporta- 
tion. (Jetting  milk  to  a  train  leaving  Wil- 
limantic at  6  A.  M.  standard  time  is  bad 
enough  but  making  it  one  hour  earlier  is 
next  to  impossible,  so  the  producers  quit 
and  put  on  trucks.  Reports  indicate  that 
the  members  appreciate  this  service  and 
it  is  expected  that  such  service  can  be 
set  up  as  a  regular  feature  soon. 


Itk  hard  to  keep  it  up 
with  noihim 


grass 


AHORSE  doing  hard  field  work  always  gets 
his  supper  of  grain.  You  wouldn't  think  of 
just  turning  him  out  to  pasture.  He  couldn't 
keep  up  on  grass  alone. 

Making  milk  is  actually  a  bigger  drain  on  a  cow 
than  spring  work  is  on  a  horse.  The  energy 
used  in  making  milk  and  repairing  body  tissues 
calls  for  even  more  grain  than  the  horse  gets. 

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You'll  need  less  feed  in  the  fall — and  you'll  be  get- 
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all  who  do  so  will  agree  that  they  are  the  best  cream 
separators  ever  made.  They  are  the  crowning  achieve- 
ment in  nearly  50  years  of  separator  manufacture  and 
leadership.    New  features  are: 

1.  Turnable  Supply  Can.  The  supply  can  may  be  turned 
so  that  tinware  and  bowl  may  be  put  in  place  or  removed  without 
lifting  the  supply  can  from  its  position  on  the  separator.  Every 
user  will  like  this  feature. 

2.  Easier  Turning.  For  three  years  the  De  Laval  experimen- 
tal and  engineering  departments  have  been  conducting  extensive 
tests,  to  develop  still  easier  turning  separators.  The  results  of  these 
tests  are  embodied  in  this  new  series,  which  both  start  and  turn 
easier  than  any  other  machines  of  even  lesser  capacities. 

3.  Oil  Window.  The  new  oil  window  enables  you  to  see  at  all 
times  the  level  and  condition  of  the  oil.  It  shows  at  a  glance 
whether  or  not  the  separator  is  being  properly  oiled. 

4.  Floating  Bowl.  All  new  De  Lavals  have  the  wonderful 
"floating  bowl,"  now  used  in  De  Laval  Separators  with  such  won- 
derful results.  It  is  self-balancing,  runs  smoothly  without  vibra- 
tion, with  the  least  power  and  wear,  skims  cleaner  and  delivers  a 
richer,  smoother  cream. 

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New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  11.    Number  3 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  JUNE,  1927 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


JUNE  PRICE  8  CENTS 


Sales   Committee   Meets  Opposi- 
tion on  10  Cent  Skim 
Price 

The  eight  cent  price  for  market  milk 
in  Boston  was  held  for  June.  When  the 
sales  committee  met  the  dealers  shortly 
before  the  end  of  May  one  dealer  made  a 
^proposition  for  a  decrease  in  the  market 
milk  price  coupled  with  an  advance  on 
surplus.  The  sales  committee  could  see 
no  justification  for  any  decrease  in  market 
milk  prices  in  the  face  of  the  short  sup- 
plies of  milk  which  are  in  prospect  and 
:the  somewhat  retarded  flush  season,  due 
to  weather  conditions.  None  of  the  other 
dealers  asked  for  any  lowering  of  the 
market  milk  price  and  the  committee 
stood  firm  for  the  eight  cents.  This  will 
be  the  sixth  month  of  an  eight  cent  price. 
There  is  expectation  that  the  price  can 
advance  July  1. 

The  sales  committee  met  with  a  de- 
termined demand  on  the  part  of  some  of 
the  dealers  for  a  straight  butterfat  price 
on  surplus  by  the  removal  of  the  10  cents 
on  skim  which  has  been  a  condition  of  the 
trade  since  February  1.  All  but  one  of 
the  dealers  asked  that  this  10  cents  should 
be  taken  off  on  June  skim  milk.  Several 
conferences  were  held  and  at  the  time  of 
going  to  press  no  decision  has  been 
reached.  The  same  situation  existed  May 
1  when  there  was  a  demand  that  the  10 
cents  should  be  taken  off.  The  determined 
stand  of  the  committee,  however,  was  suc- 
cessful in  retaining  the  10  cents  on  skim 
for  May. 

The  10  cents  per  hundred  may  not  seem 
like  a  large  matter,  but  it  means  a  con- 
siderable amount  of  money  to  the  dairy 
farmers  of  New  England.   Due  to  the  ef- 
forts of  the  sales  committee  the  principle 
[I  of  a  special   price  on  skim  milk  was 
I  established   in   February.     Each  month 
j1  since  then  the  farmers  who  sell  to  deal- 
ers under  the  surplus  plan  have  been 
1  getting  a  material  increase  as  the  result 
of  the  strong  stand  taken  by  the  commit- 
il  tee.     The   approximate   amounts  which 
|  have  been  paid  each  month  for  skim  milk 
at  10  cents  a  hundred  pounds  are: 

\  February    $16,000 

i  March    22,000 

!  April    25,000 

\  May    40,000 

i  $103,000 


NEW  HEADQUARTERS 

At  the  regular  quarterly  meeting  of  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  NEMPA  held 
in  Boston,  May  26,  various  matters  of 
routine  business  were  tranascted  and  de- 
cisions made.  One  of  the  more  important 
actions  taken  was  a  vote  to  establish  a 
regular  office  at  Springfield.  Since  H.  P. 
Adams  has  been  manager  of  the  Western 
Market  District  he'  has  been  carrying  on 
the  work  from  his  home.  The  steady  in- 
crease in  the  activities  in  that  district 
now  makes  it  wise  to  have  a  regular  office 
with  a  clerk  in  charge  so  that  members 
who  wish  to  get  in  touch  with  Mr.  Adams 
can  do  so  more  readily.  From  the 
Springfield  office  he  will  cover  market- 
ing and  field  work  in  Worcester,  Spring- 
field, Holyoke  and  Greenfield  markets  and 
will  have  also  a  portion  of  the  Eastern 
New  York  territory  in  his  charge. 


Petition  for  Reconsideration 

Railroad  Rate  Committee  Asks  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission  to  Undertake  Cost  Study  for  Itself 


CANADIAN  INSPECTION 


The  railroad  rate  case  fight  is  still  on. 
The  committee  representing  the  dairy  in- 
dustry of  New  England  is  still  making 
a  determined  stand  against  the  $750,000 
boost  in  milk  transportation  rates.  The 
latest  move  is  a  petition  to  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission  to  reconsider  the 
decision  granting  railroads  a  20  per  cent, 
increase  on  hauls  of  less  than  100  miles 
and  approximately  10  per  cent,  on  longer 
hauls.  This  petition  is  now  before  the 
commission  and  at  the  time  of  going  to 
press  no  word  has  been  received  as  to 
whether  or  not  the  case  would  be  re- 
opened. 

The  chief  request  in  the  petition  is  that 
the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission 
should  make  its  own  investigation  of 
costs  of  transporting  milk.  This  was 
based  on  the  fact  that  the  burden  of  proof 
that  the  advance  was  warranted  was  upon 
the  railroads  and  that  their  "cost  study" 
on  which  the  claim  was  based  was  broken 
down  and  discredited  during  the  hearings. 
The  petitioners  claim  that  as  this  cost 
study  was  of  no  value  in  arriving  at  a 
decision  as  to  what  the  rates  should  be 
the  commission  is  without  grounds  for 
granting  even  the  10  per  cent,  increase, 
but  should  make   its  own  investigation. 

The  language  of  the  petition  is  rather 
strong  in  places-  It  is  a  fit  sign  of  the 
spirit  which  dominated  the  committee  and 
their  attorneys  and  experts  in  fighting  the 
increase.  The  situation  is  neatly  summed 
up  in  the  closing  paragraph  of  the  peti- 
tion reading  as  follows : 

"The  protestants  are  not  unmindful  of 
the  pressure  under  which  this  Commission 
labors.  Nevertheless,  they  feel  called 
upon  to  say  that  in  their  opinion,  in  view 
of  the  character  of  this  record,  this  Com- 
mission would  be  derelict  in  its  duty  to 
the  shipping  public,  and  particularly  to 
the  agricultural  portion  thereof,  should  it 
now  refuse  to  enter  upon  its  own  investi- 
gation of  the  cost  of  this  service,  and 
attempt  at  least  to  find  a  method  of  de- 
termining the  cost  with  some  relation  to 
fact,  and  to  develop  the  data  essential  for 
the  application  of  any  such  basis.  The 
present  record  is  entirely  lacking  in  such 


data.  The  protestants  most  respectfully 
suggest  that,  pending  such  investigation 
by  the  Commission  itself,  this  Commission 
should  withdraw  permission  for  any  in- 
crease of  the  present  rates,  since  any  such 
increase  can,  under  the  Hoch-Smith 
resolution,  be  justified  only  by  an  af- 
firmative showing  of  the  cost  of  service." 

Some  of  the  high  spots  in  the  petition 
are : 

"The  Commission's  report  specifically 
construes  the  Hoch-Smith  Resolution  as 
entitling  the  carriers  to  rates  thereunder 
on  milk  which  will  merely  Allow  some- 
thing more  than  out-of-pocket  expense' 
and  presumably  to  provide  only  such 
rates,  proceeds  to  allow  the  carriers  in- 
creases above  the  present  rates  of  20  per 
cent,  up  to  100  miles,  and  of  approxi- 
mately 10  per  cent,  beyond  that  distance, 
without  any  evidence  whatever  in  this 
record  as  to  what  are  the  carriers'  out-of- 
pocket  expenses  in  the  transportation  of 
milk  and  cream." 

"That  the  carriers  never  hoped,  at  least 
after  their  alleged  cost  studies  were  dis- 
credited, to  obtain  the  20  per  cent,  in- 
crease proposed  by  them,  but  deliberately 
exaggerated  their  claim  to  that  basis  in 
the  hope  of  inducing  the  Commission  to 
'split  the  difference'  and  to  accord  them 
the  New  York  rates,  is  proved  by  the  fol- 
lowing circumstances 

"(a)  The  failure  of  counsel  for  the 
carriers  on  his  direct  argument  even  to 
refer  to  these  alleged  cost  studies,  and 
the  confining  of  his  argument  to  a  plea 
for  the  New  York  basis. 

(b)  The  alacrity  with  which  the  car- 
riers have  accepted  the  split-the-difference 
basis  of  10  per  cent,  with  the  Commis- 
sion's report  permits  them  as  necessary 
even  under  the  Hoch-Smith  Resolution 
merely  to  'allow  something  more  than 
out-of-pocket  expenses,'  though  they 
might  well  contend  under  the  construction 
formerly  placed  by  the  Commission  on 
the  Hoch-Smith  Resolution  (I.  &  S. 
Docket  2469,  Grain  Rates,  North  Dakota, 
etc.,  122  I.  C  -C.  235,  page  264).  for  the 

(Continued  on  page  three) 


Co-operative  Institute 


Progress,  policies  and  problems  of 
dairy  co-operatives  from  coast  to  coast 
will  be  the  theme  of  the  third  week's 
work  of  the  American  Institute  of  Co- 
operation which  opens  in  Chicago,  June 
20  and  closes  July  16. 

On  the  morning  after  the  fourth  of 
July  the  embattled  dairy  leaders  will  meet 
in  Wieboldt  Hall  of  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity to  begin  their  particular  celebra- 
tion of  achievements  covering  twelve 
years  of  struggle  to  gain  a  foothold  as 
big  units  in  the  dairy  world. 

Some  of  the  veterans  have  grown 
grizzled  and  gray  in  the  farmer's  service. 
Among  them  are  Richard  Pattee  of  New 
England,  chairman  of  the  Institute,  who 
tramped  on  foot  through  the  rural  dis- 
tricts of  New  England  to  organize  the 


New  England  Milk  Producers'  Associa- 
tion in  the  early  days  when  there  was  no 
money  in  the  treasury  of  that  organiza- 
tion; "Daddy"  (Frank  P.)  Willits,  the 
old  war  horse  of  the  Inter-State  Milk 
Producers'  Association  of  Philadelphia, 
who  has  just  completed  four  years  as 
Secretary  of  Agriculture  of  Pennsyl- 
vania ;  Judge  John  D.  Miller,  the  silver- 
haired  sage  who  has  guided  the  fortunes 
of  the  Dairymen's  League  Co-operative 
Association  since  its  inception,  and  heads 
the  National  Federation;  Bill  (W.  F.) 
Schilling,  the  Minnesota  tornado-on-tour, 
who,  with  his  associates,  went  on  trial 
when  the  directors  of  the  Twin  City  Milk 
Producers'  Association  were  charged  with 
violating  the  State  Anti-Trust  Act,  but 
(Continued  on  page  eight) 


Regulations  Drawn   Are  Protec- 
tion Against  Unfair 
Competition 

Milk  producers  of  New  England  will 
soon  have  assurance  that  milk  and  cream 
coming  in  from  Canada  will  have  to 
undergo  as  strict  regulations  and  super- 
vision as  their  own  product.  The  passage 
of  the  Lenroot-Taber  bill,  aimed  to  com- 
pel proper  supervision  of  foreign  milk 
supplies,  opened  the  way  for  this  ade- 
quate protection  of  New  England  dairy 
interests  from  unfair  competition  from 
Canada.  Under  the  provisions  of  the  law 
Federal  regulations  have  been  drawn  up 
and  all  that  now  remains  to  put  them  in 
force  is  some  hearings  to  be  held  within 
a  week.  These  hearings  will  probably 
serve  more  to  clarify  the  procedure  under 
the  law  than  to  make  any  material 
changes  in  the  regulations.  The  opponents 
to  the  bill  when  it  was  before  Congress 
have  had  their  opportunity  to  make  their 
objections  and  it  is  not  expected  that  they 
will  go  farther  at  the  hearings  than  to 
seek  to  lessen  the  effects  on  their  busi- 
ness by  getting  as  favorable  an  interpre- 
tation as  possible. 

The  law  provides  that  no  milk  or  cream 
shall  come  into  the  United  States  unless 
it  has  met  certain  requirements  as  to  the 
sanitary  conditions  under  which  it  has 
been  produced  and  the  way  it  has  been 
handled.  The  actual  machinery  for  en- 
forcing this  law  is  a  permit  to  be  issued 
to  producers  or  to  creameries  in  Canada, 
based  on  conformity  to  the  regulations 
which  have  been  drawn  up.  The  chief 
point  at  issue  now  and  the  one  which  will 
probably  come  out  strongly  at  the  hear- 
ings, as  the  question  of  whose  respon- 
sibility it  is  to  get  the  permit.  The  sup- 
porters of  the  Lenroot-Taber  bill  believe 
that  the  responsibility  should  rest  on  the 
Canadian  producer  or  the  creamery  to 
get  this  permit.  In  opposition  to  this  is 
the  point  of  view  that  it  is  a  United 
States  government  plan  and  that  it  is  the 
government's  responsibility  to  take  the 
initiative. 

It  is  quite  a  vital  question,  considered 
from  the  standpoint  of  proper  working 
out  of  the  measure.  The  regulations  pro- 
vide that  the  secretary  of  agriculture  can 
issue  temporary  permits  to  ship  milk  and 
spections  can  be  made.  Under  our  inter- 
pretation of  the  law  it  would  be  distinctly 
cream  pending  the  time  when  proper  in- 
the  business  of  the  producer  or  creamery 
to  take  steps  to  have  the  inspections  made 
by  some  of  the  designated  authorities  and 
that  if  they  did  not  do  so  within  a  reason- 
able time  the  temporary  permits  would  be 
revoked.  The  other  point  of  view  is  that 
the  Canadian  producer  or  creamery  need 
not  take  any  action  in  the  matter  but 
continue  to  ship  under  the  temporary  per- 
mit until  the  Government  inspectors  come 
around. 

This  last  view  would  to  a  considerable 
extent  break  down  the  purpose  of  the 
law.  The  Federal  government  has  not  a 
force  of  available  inspectors  who  can  be 
put  to  work  in  Canada,  and  it  would  take 
a  large  force  to  do  the  work.  The  regu- 
lations provide  that  the  inspection  made 
by  an  accredited  representative  of  the 
Canadian  government,  or  by  a  repre- 
sentative of  boards  of  health  in  cities 
(Continued  on  page  three) 


Page  Two 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1927 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 
NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 

51  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 

Devoted   to    the   Interests    of  Dairy 
Forming  and  Marketing  in 
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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt.';  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  L;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

I  have  been  asked  to  write  a  series  of 
articles  about  the  early  history  of  the 
Association  and  the  conditions  in  the  in- 
dustry which  gave  it  such  sudden  and 
unprecedented  growth.  It  was  suggested 
that  much  of  the  real  history  of  such 
movements  never  becomes  a  matter  of 
record,  and  as  the  years  go  by  fades  from 
memory  and  is  lost.  What  is  worth  sav- 
ing should  be  set  down  for  the  benefit  of 
those  who  come  after- 

The  idea  appeals  to  me.  I  may  attempt 
it.  They  say  there  is  a  10  per  cent, 
annual  turnover  in  the  dairy  farms  of 
New  England.  That  seems  large  to  me, 
but  I  know  new  men  are  appearing  each 
year  who  have  little  knowledge  of  past 
conditions.  They  do  not  know  the  situa- 
tion from  which  arose  the  present  with 
its  problems  and  difficulties  and  can  but 
be  impatient  for  change  and  improve- 
ment. Some  such  occasionally  write  to 
ask  about  these  things  and  I  have  often 
wished  I  had  a  well  written  story  of  the 
organization  from  its  inception  to  send 
them.  Such  a  story  I  cannot  write.  I 
lack  both  strength  and  ability  but  I  know 
that  history  probably  better  than  any 
other  and  I'd  like  to  write  down  some 
parts  of  it. 

I  wonder  how  many  dairymen  know  the 
inside  story  of  the  activities  of  the  Boston 
Chamber  of  Commerce  which  led  to  such 
a  complete  revolution  in  dairy  marketing  ? 
How  many  know  the  history  of  the  Octo- 
ber, 1916,  strike,  its  cause,  how  it  was 
conducted,  how  lost,  then  revived  and  won 
and  what  that  victory  led  up  to? 

How  well  known  is  the  story  of  the 
price  per  quart  delivered  at  the  market, 


how  it  came  about  and  why,  the  price 
system  which  has  since  spread  to  prac- 
tically all  the  markets  in  the  country? 
Do  dairymen  generally  know  the  true 
origin  of  the  great  and  successful  Eastern 
States  Farmers'  Exchange?  And  what 
of  the  great  1916  rate  hearing  before  the 
I.  C.  C.  resulting  in  the  discontinuance 
of  the  "leased  car  system"  and  an  ad- 
justment of  rates  vastly  affecting  the 
dairy  industry  ?  And  so  on  with  many 
other  things. 

I  find  even  in  the  "old  line  territory" 
memories  of  the  iniquities  of  the  "regis- 
ter" system  are  becoming  dim-  Old  terms 
are  being  discarded  and  forgotton.  Who 
ever  speaks  of  the  "contractors"  now  or 
refers  to  the  "graded"  price? 

What  is  it  Kipling  says? 

"The  shouting  and  the  tumult  dies 
The  captains  and  the  kings  depart." 

The  militant  leadership  of  C.  H.  Hood, 
who  fought  his  way  to  success  on  a  field 
not  too  scrupulous  in  its  observances  of 
the  rules  of  war,  is  passing  to  a  son  who 
ably  faces  bigger  and  more  difficult  if 
different  problems.  E.  L.  Bradford,  once 
the  "cream  king,"  is  handing  over  to 
younger  men  the  perplexities  of  one  of 
the  most  peculiar  marketing  problems  in 
New  England.  Graustein,  Acton  Farms, 
and  other  names  once  familiar,  are  not 
heard  today.  Alden,  Noble  and  Childs 
are  merging  their  identity  under  a  new 
name.  Verily  "the  captains  and  the  kings 
depart." 

After  fourteen  years  of  continu- 
ous service,  I  am  dean  of  the  dairy 
organization  executives  of  the  country, 
unless  some  one  I  do  not  know  on  the 
Pacific  Coast  outranks  me.  Brown  of 
Chicago  and  Manning  of  New  York,  who 
were  my  contemporaries,  are  gone.  Almost 
all  the  other  organizations  were  organized 
since  1913. 

What  a  change  of  names  and  faces  in 
our  own  association !  How  the  older 
ones  have  dropped  out !  For  the  next 
annual  banquet  I  suggest  an  "old  timers" 
table  at  which  those  who  belonged  to  the 
old  B.  C.  M.  P.  C.  should  sit.  What  an 
inspiration  the  present  organization  with 
its  thousands  of  members,  its  trained 
corps  of  workers,  its  New  England-wide 
influence  and  national  reputation  must  be 
to  those  who  struggled  through  the  long, 
lean  years  of  almost  hopelessness- 

And  so  while  I'm  here  I  may  be 
tempted  to  set  down,  for  future  reference, 
some  of  the  outstanding  not  recorded 
things  that  have  happened  in  my  day.  I 
wonder  if  present  day  producers  would 
be  interested.    Did  not  Kipling  conclude, 

"God  of  the  fathers  be  with  us  yet 
Lest  we  forget,  lest  we  forget." 

—PATTEE. 


SUPPLY  AND  DEMAND 

With  the  coming  of  a  period  when  milk 
is  apparently  going  to  be  quite  short  in 
New  England  the  old  law  of  supply  and 
demand,  as  the  all-important  factor  in 
prices,  comes  into  prominence  and  sig- 
nificance. We  expect  this  shortage  to 
manifest  itself  in  the  markets  by  July  1 
under  normal  weather  conditions,  or  be- 
fore July  is  over  in  any  event.  When  it 
comes,  the  law  of  supply  and  demand  will 
have  an  important  and  direct  effect  on 
prices.  When  this  shortening  of  the  sup- 
ply comes  we  expect  to  make  a  substan- 
tial increase  in  the  price  of  market  milk. 

There  are  four  principal  indications  of 
the  coming  shortage  of  milk  in  New 
England.  The  most  significant  is  the  fact 
that  most  of  the  large  dealers  seem 
anxious  to  take  on  supplies  of  milk  on  a 


permanent  basis.  It  is  something  quite 
different  from  what  we  call  "buying  out- 
side milk."  That  is  to  meet  a  temporary 
condition  in  the  market.  It  does  not  en- 
tail any  expenditures  for  stations  or 
equipment  on  the  part  of  the  dealer, 
whereas  the  desire  to  secure  a  perma- 
nent supply  now  is  leading  dealers  to  seek 
new  territories  which  can  be  developed  on 
a  permanent  basis  by  putting  up  stations 
and  providing  equipment.  Along  with  this 
evident  desire  to  acquire  new  territory 
within  reasonable  distance  from  the  mar- 
kets comes  an  equally  significant  move- 
ment on  the  part  of  the  dealers  to  con- 
tract for  a  continuance  of  supplies  which 
have  been  taken  on  a  temporary  basis 
during  the  past  year. 

A  second  factor  in  the  shortage  is 
brought  to  the  front  by  this  desire  of 
dealers  to  acquire  new  territory,  that 
there  is  practically  no  new  territory  to 
acquire  in  New  England.  In  looking  over 
the  three  northern  states  we  cannot  now 
find  a  section  of  any  considerable  dairy 
production  and  accessible  to  railroads 
giving  seven-day  service  which  have 
not  been  "tapped"  by  some  dealer.  We 
believe  that  if  such  an  area  existed  in 
New  England  one  or  more  of  the  large 
dealers  would  already  be  negotiating  for 
its  supply  by  this  time.  This  is  a  very 
different  situation  from  the  one  which 
prevailed  a  few  years  ago,  when  there 
were  important  dairy  areas,  which  had 
been  making  butter,  seeking  an  entrance 
into  the  milk  market.  They  made  butter 
during  the  flush  season  or  tried  to  get 
into  the  market  by  cutting  prices,  and  dur- 
ing the  short  season  they  could  be  drawn 
upon  by  the  dealers  without  the  necessity 
for  taking  them  on  under  a  long  time  con- 
tract. That  condition  has  changed.  Prac- 
tically all  these  areas  have  now  been 
taken  on  as  part  of  the  regular  market 
milk  or  cream  supply  of  New  England. 
They  can  no  longer  be  considered  as  an 
auxiliary  or  reserve  supply  to  be  drawn 
upon  when  needed. 

Another  highly  important  factor  is  the 
situation  in  New  York.  There  also,  a 
shortage  is  foreseen  and  new  territory  is 
being  sought.  Already  there  has  been  a 
noticeable  shifting  over  of  the  Eastern 
New  York  territory  which  has  for  many 
years  been  shipping  to  Boston.  A  con- 
siderable portion  of  this  milk  has  been 
diverted  to  Troy,  Albany  or  Schenectady, 
where  the  demand  is  growing  and  where 
the  nearby  supply  is  lessening  because  it 
is  being  diverted  to  New  York.  It  is 
well  known  that  New  York  dealers,  in- 
cluding the  Dairymen's  League,  are  look- 
ing with  considerable  interest  to  our  great- 
est dairy  section,  the  Champlain  Valley, 
as  a  possible  source  of  new  milk  supplies. 
They  have  already  announced  their  policy 
of  increasing  prices  to  the  farmers  for 
the  remainder  of  the  year.  Competitive 
prices  in  the  Champlain  Valley  might 
lead  to  a  lessening  of  what  supplies  we 
now  have  for  New  England  markets.  Un- 
less New  England  prices  equal  the  prices 
which  could  be  paid  by  New  York  in- 
terests in  that  region,  in  the  next  few 
years  there  may  be  a  considerable  shift- 
ing over,  as  the  territory  is  about  equally 
accessible  to  New  York  or  Boston. 

The  progress  of  the  campaign  to  rid 
New  England  of  bovine  tuberculosis  is 
another  important  factor  in  considering 
probable  supplies  of  milk  for  the  re- 
mainder of  the  year  and  for  the  next  few 
years.  It  has  been  going  on  for  some 
years  but  now  that  the  three  northern 
states  and  Connecticut  have  reached  a 
point  where  they  can  see  the  complete 
eradication  of  the  disease  within  a  few 
years,  the  program  is  being  carried  out 


faster.  Many  thousands  of  cows  arc* 
being  condemned  and  killed  as  the  result 
of  the  crusade.  Even  in  Massachusetts 
there  has  been  a  considerable  increase  in 
interest  and  a  corresponding  increase  in 
the  testing.  Naturally  the  testing  is  go- 
ing on  more  rapidly  in  the  commercial 
milk  areas  and  the  lessening  in  the  num- 
ber of  cows  is  already  showing  in  a  de- 
creased production  in  many  sections. 
Taken  by  itself  the  testing  crusade  will 
be  a  material  factor.  Taken  in  connection 
with  a  shortage  of  heifers  freshing  this 
year,  due  to  the  depression  in  the  dairy 
industry  a  few  years  ago,  the  eradication 
work  is  all  the  greater  factor. 

All  these  things  point  to  a  shortening 
of  the  supply  of  milk  in  July  and  for  the 
remainder  of  the  year,  perhaps  for  several 
years  to  come.  When  we  say  that  milk 
will  be  short  we  do  not  mean  that  surplus 
will  disappear  or  go  to  a  low  point.  Con- 
sidering the  needs  of  cream  as  well  as  of 
milk  in  the  markets  of  New  England  we 
should  have  a  surplus  of  about  40  per 
cent,  to  take  care  of  cream  trade.  Even 
at  that  a  considerable  quantity  of  cream 
will  have  to  be  bought  outside  at  times. 
The  dealers  want  to  get  a  full  supply  for 
their  trade,  including  all  their  milk  and  as 
much  of  their  cream  as  is  practical.  A 
surplus  dropping  to  40  per  cent,  or  less 
would  be  considered  as  a  short  market 
and  warrant  substantial  increases  in  price 
to  encourage  greater  production. 

Taking  all  these  factors  into  con- 
sideration we  feel  sure  that  the  law  of 
supply  and  demand,  as  it  affects  prices, 
will  be  of  a  much  more  direct  importance 
than  in  any  recent  year.  It  is  always  in 
the  background  as  an  influence ;  in  a  time 
like  this  it  comes  into  the  foreground 
But  whether  in  foreground  or  back- 
ground, it  needs  an  interpreter  of  condi- 
tions as  a  whole,  not  of  conditions  as 
one  locality  sees  them  or  as  one  dealer 
sees  them.  The  NEMPA  is  that  inter- 
preter, the  organization  through  whic'r 
this  old  law  of  supply  and  demand  has  its 
opportunity  to  work  fully  and  promptly 
Without  such  an  association  the  law 
would  work  slowly  and  naturally ;  it 
would  be  a  survival  of  the  fittest,  witr 
many  farmers  forced  out.  Low  price: 
would  drive  out  more  and  more  dairy- 
men until  the  supply  was  so  short  that  the 
law  of  supply  and  demand  worked  auto-' 
matically  in  increasing  prices. 

No  such  process  is  necessary  with  sucl 
an  association  as  ours.  We  can  assemble 
the  information  about  these  conditions 
we  can  foresee  what  is  happening  and  bj 
increasing  or  decreasing  prices  serve  as  a 
regulator  to  assist  the  law  of  supply  anc 
demand  in  working  more  promptly  thai 
it  could  work  otherwise.  We  can  wort 
with  it  and  assist  it;  but  we  can  nevei 
work  against  it  successfully.  The  way  tt 
work  with  it,  as  we  see  it  now,  is  to  mak< 
a  substantial  advance  July  1  or  as  soorH 
after  that  as  conditions  warrant. 

The  ability  of  the  association  to  judgi 
correctly  of  conditions  of  the  supply  anc 
demand  is  something  which  cannot  tx 
overestimated  as  a  safeguard  of  New 
England's  Dairy  interests.  It  is  true  tha ! 
there  are  a  good  many  other  organiza  J 
tions  and  agencies  in  the  field.  But  theyl 
do  not  cover  New  England  as  a  whold 
and  it  is  impossible  for  them  to  see  mucl| 
beyond  the  boundaries  of  their  own  or- 
ganization, or  county  or  state  lines-  More  I 
over  few  of  them  have  the  contacts  witll 
so  many  men  or  have  such  ready  means  oi 
getting  information  from  all  sections 
quickly  and  accurately.  It  is  this  grea  \ 
concensus  of  opinion  which  can  be  safel)| 
relied  upon  to  interpret  the  law  of  suppbi 
and  demand. 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


Petition  for  Reconsideration 

(Continued  from  page  one) 


i right  to  rates  'high  enough  to  cover  all 
!  the  cost  that  may  fairly  be  allocated  to 
t  the  servic,  plus  at  last  some  margin  of 
•♦profit.'  This  is  the  more  significant  in 
|  view  of  the  fact  that  their  alleged  cost 
studies  purport  on  such  a  basis  to  show 
them  entitled  to  a  45  per  cent,  increase." 

"The    protestants    feel    warranted  in 
'saying  frankly  to  this  Commission  that 
'  they  do  not  believe  that  in  the  issuance 
:  af  the  Commission's  report  the  foregoing 
j  matters  have  had  the  full  consideration  o'f 
the  Commission  as  a  whole.  Further, 
that  they  doubt  whether  the  Commission 
as  a  whole,  in  issuing  its  report,  fully  ap- 
preciated  that    a   precedent   was  being 
astablished  for  the  application  of  a  car 
foot  mile  formula  as  a  method  of  de- 
termining operating  costs,  not  only  as  the 
•eport  assumes,  for  passenger  service,  but 
for  freight  service  as  well.    It  should  be 
pointed  out  that  there  is  no  justification 
for  the  assumption  on  Sheet  12  that  'the 
;ar  foot  mile  formula  in  its  present  form 
is  not  adaptable  to  the  freight  service.'" 
"Words  cease  to  have  any  real  mean- 
ing if  a  formula  producing  such  results  is 
entitled  to  be  stamped  with  the  approval 
I'of  this  Commission  as  'reasonably  fair 
and  equitable." 

"The  apparently  superficial  considera- 
tion which  the  report  has  given  the  fore- 
going objections  to  the  car  foot  mile 
formula,  can  only  be  indicated  in  this  peti- 
tion. In  a  memorandum  appended  hereto, 
however,  certain  of  these  objections  and 
the  manner  in  which  the  report  attempts 
to  dispose  of  them,  are  discussed  in  more 
"detail.  It  will  here  suffice  to  say  that 
such  attempts  to  dispose  of  them  proceed 
without  exception,  upon  the  apparent 
theory  that  the  burden  of  proof  in  these 
procedings  is  on  the  protestants,  instead 
of  upon  the  carriers,  where  that  burden 
has  been  placed  by  Section  15  and  by  the 
fHoch-Smith  resolution." 

Finally,  it  is  incredible  that  this  Com- 
mission, without  at  least  some  attempt  on 
its  own  part  to  devise  a  better  method  of 
determining  operating  costs,  will  confess 
itself  impotent  to  do  so,  and  will  accept 
a  formula  which  the  carriers'  traffic 
,witnesses  themselves  have  repudiated 
(Brief,  pp.  135-142)  ;  which  by  cross- 
examination  and  direct  evidence  was  so 
discredited  that  counsel  for  carriers,  on 
his  direct  argument,  did  not  even  think 
it  wise  to  mention  it;  and  the  results  of 
which  this  Commission  itself  has  been 
compelled  to  discount  to  the  extent  of 
according  the  carriers  only  a  10  per  cent, 
increase  instead  of  the  45  per  cent,  in- 
crease, which  the  carriers'  cost  studies 
purport  to  show  would  be  necessary  to 
meet  operating  costs  and  a  return  on 
investment. 

The  car  foot  mile  formula  which  the 
,  Commission's  report  has  approved  as  the 
only  "practicable  and  at  the  same^time 
reasonably  fair  and  equitable  basis"  re- 
sults in :  An  overcharge  to  the  milk  serv- 
ice by  the  selection  of  June  as  a  test 
month  of,  as  nearly  as  can  be  estimated 
>0n  this  record,  $598,258.50,  or  62y2  per 
cent,  of  the  carriers'  entire  alleged  de- 
ficit for  the  year  1925,  shown  by  the  car- 
riers' own  inflated  cost  studies. 

The  Commission's  report  attempts  ar- 
bitrarily to  dispose  of  this  inflation  by 
"saying:  "The  extent  to  which  car  foot 
miles  in  milk  traffic  in  June,  1925,  were 
v  greater  than  the  average  is  not  known, 
but  it  may  not  be  reasonably  assumed  that 
they  varied  directly  with  revenue." 

This  comment  is  occasioned  by  the  fact 
that  the  protestants  were  compelled  to 
estimate  such  inflation  on  the  basis  of 
comparative    monthly    revenues,  rather 
'  than  monthly  car  foot  miles,  because  the 
carriers  had  failed  to  determine  the  car 
j  foot  miles  for  other  months.  Moreover, 
;  the  protestants  submit,  it  may  reason- 
,'  ably  be  assumed  that  car  foot  miles  vary 
directly  if  not  exactly  with  the  revenue. 
fiA    maintenance    of    equipment  charge 
under  that  formula  for  the  year  1925  of 
.  an  average  for  all  New  England  lines  of 
45.7  per  cent,  of  the  total  investment  in 
,  equipment  used  in  the  milk  service,  and 
|  on  the  Boston  &  Maine  of  56.5  per  cent, 
i  of  the  total  investment  on  that  line. 

The  Commission's  report,  without  fur- 
Ither  investigation,  accepts  this  extraor- 


dinary allocation  of  maintenance  of 
equipment  charges  under  the  car  foot 
mile  formula,  in  the  face  of  the  carriers' 
admission  that  they  could,  had  they  so 
desired,  have  made  direct  segregation  of 
maintenance  of  equipment  charges  to  the 
milk  service. 

An  admitted  charge  of  terminal  main- 
tenance to  the  milk  service  under  the  car 
foot  mile  formula  in  exactly  the  inverse 
ratio  to  the  use  of  the  terminals  by  that 
service,  with  the  result  that  al  car  which 
never  entered  the  terminals,  but  earned 
the  maximum  number  of  car  foot  miles, 
would  be  charged  the  maximum  propor- 
tion of  terminal  maintenance,  while  a 
car  which  never  left  the  terminals,  and 
therefore  earned  no  car  foot  miles,  would 
be  charged  with  no  terminal  maintenance. 

The  Commission's  report  attempts  to 
justify  its  acceptance  of  the  results  of  this 
absolute  perversion  of  fact  by  stating 
merely  that  "Each  service  is  treated  the 
same  in  this  respect,  and  whether  a 
greater  burden  is  put  upon  the  milk  than 
upon  passenger  service  proper,  or  ex- 
press, or  mail,  cannot  be  definitely  deter- 
mined upon  this  record." 

Aside  from  the  astounding  acceptance 
of  such  a  formula  for  any  purpose,  it  is 
to  be  noted  that  this  record  affirmatively 
shows  that  this  formula  places  a  greater 
burden  of  terminal  maintenance  upon 
milk  than  upon  any  other  passenger  serv- 
ice, because  the  milk  equipment  earns 
relatively  more  car  foot  miles  than  other 
passenger  equipment. 

A  charge  to  the  milk  service  for  main- 
tenance and  investment  in  tracks  and 
other  facilities  without  the  slightest  re- 
lation to  the  relative  use  of  such  tracks 
and  facilities  by  the  milk  service,  and  in 
the  complete  absence  of  any  such  use, 
being  governed  wholly  by  the  relation  of 
the  car  foot  miles  of  the  milk  service  to 
other  classes  of  passenger  service. 

The  Commission's  report  apparently 
attempts  to  dispose  of  this  objection  as 
being  based  wholly  on  the  contention  that 
the.  milk  is  an  accessorial  service,  which 
contention  the  report  rejects.  This  ob- 
jection fundamentally  has  nothing  to  do 
with  whether  or  not  the  milk  service  be 
considered  an  accessorial  service. 


cream  shipments  to  milk  shipments  as 
soon  as  possible  after  July  1.  Many  of 
them  arc  already  making  plans  to  do  so. 
Notice  was  given  in  February,  several 
months  in  advance,  that  the  cream  plan 
would  be  suspended  July  1,  for  the  benefit 
of  the  dairy  industry  as  a  whole.  This 
gives  them  an  opportunity  to  adjust  their 
farm  operations  to  meet  the  change.  We 
urge  others  to  follow  the  same  course 
as  milk  will  be  short  and  a  better  price 
for  it  can  be  secured  in  the  markets  where 
it  is  needed  than  by  feeding  tfie  skim  on 
the  farm. 


CHANGING  TO  MILK 

Reports  from  our  field  men  who  have 
been  working  in  areas  where  the  cream 
plan  has  been  in  operation  indicate  that 
the  farmers  who  have  been  shipping 
cream  see  the  wisdom  and  justice  of  the 
suspension  of  the  plan  July  1.  Under  the 
plan  the  dealers  have  been  able  to  buy 
surplus  milk  at  too  low  a  figure,  consider- 
ing market  conditions.  It  will  be  to  the 
advantage  of  the  dairy  industry  as  a 
whole  to  secure  from  the  dealers  the 
price  for  surplus  which  the  conditions 
warrant.  The  first  step  in  this  is  to 
suspend  the  cream  plan. 

Present  indications  are  that  milk  will 
be  short  this  fall.  Producers  who  have 
been  shipping  cream  under  the  cream 
plan  should  change  over  to  milk  ship- 
ments as  soon  as  possible  after  July  1, 
in  order  to  get  the  best  return  for  their 
product.  If  they  are  situated  within  any 
reasonable  distance  of  the  shipping 
stations  they  will  get  a  direct  increase  in 
price  by  changing  over  to  milk  shipments 
as  compared  with  continuing  to  ship 
cream  under  any  plan  which  may  be  pro- 
posed by  the  dealers  in  place  of  the  cream 
plan. 

An  indirect  but  permanent  advantage 
which  will  come  if  a  considerable  ma- 
jority of  the  cream  shippers  return  to 
milk  shipments.  By  returning  to  milk 
shipments  they  will  be  meeting  the  needs 
of  the  market  at  a  season  of  shortage  and 
will  thus  prevent  to  some  degree  any 
undue  extension  of  the  buying  area  of  the 
dealers.  If  only  a  comparatively  small 
amount  of  the  cream  begins  coming  in  as 
milk  the  markets  may  become  short 
enough  so  that  dealers  will  be  forced  to 
extend  their  territory.  That  might  not 
have  any  bad  effect  on  prices  during  the 
short  season  but  it  would  surely  result 
in  an  unnecessary  expansion  of  the  sur- 
plus at  the  next  flush  season. 

For  these  two  main  reasons  we  are 
urging  all  members  to  change  over  from 


CANADIAN  INSPECTION 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

within  the  United  States  shall  be  ac- 
cepted by  the  secretary  of  agriculture  as 
a  basis  for  issuing  a  regular  permit.  This 
provides  a  way  in  which  the  inspections 
can  be  made  but  it  is  clearly  the  job  of 
the  Canadians  to  ask  for  the  inspection 
from  whatever  recognized  authority  they 
choose. 

The  regulations  provide  practically  the 
same  standards  on  Canadian  products  as 
are  required  by  most  of  the  city  health 
departments.  Herds  must  have  a  physical 
examination  by  a  veterinarian  at  least 
once  a  year.  If  the  milk  is  to  be  sent 
in  unpasteurized  it  must  come  from  tuber- 
culin tested  cows.  The  barns,  milk  houses 
and  creameries  must  score  at  least  50 
points  under  the  Federal  score  card  which 
is  in  general  use  by  boards  of  health. 
Pasteurization  is  defined  as  adequate  only 
when  every  bit  of  milk  or  cream  has  been 
heated  to  145  degrees  and  held  there  for 
30  minutes.  The  bacteria  count  on  un- 
pasteurized milk  must  not  exceed  300,000 
or  on  pasteurized  milk  100,000.  The  bac- 
teria count  in  cream  must  not  exceed 
750,000  on  unpasteurized  and  500,000  on 
pasteurized. 

To  meet  the  situation  which  arises  from 
producers  living  on  the  Canadian  side  of 
the  line  but  sending  their  products  to 
creameries  or  shipping  stations  just  over 
the  line  in  the  United  States,  an  excep- 
tion has  been  made.  Milk  and  cream 
from  untested  cows  may  be  brought  in 
from  points  within  20  miles  of  such 
creameries  or  shipping  stations,  provided 
that  it  should  all  be  pasteurized  after- 
wards before  being  sold. 

As  a  practical  method  of  procedure 
samples  of  milk  and  cream  will  be  taken 
at  the  port  of  entry  and  held  for  exam- 
ination. The  particular  lot  of  milk  or 
cream  which  is  sampled  must  come  from 
a  dairy  or  creamery  which  has  a  permit 
from  the  secretary  of  agriculture  or  it 
will  not  be  allowed  to  enter  the  United 
States.  After  the  sample  is  taken  the 
milk  or  cream  will  be  allowed  to  go  on 
in  the  ordinary  trade  channels.  If  the 
analysis  and  inspection  of  the  samples 
show  that  the  milk  did  not  meet  the  re- 
quirements it  would  be  cause  for  revoca- 
tion of  the  permit.  This  plan  of  pro- 
cedure might  not  prevent  the  importation 
of  one  or  two  lots  of  milk  which  did  not 
meet  the  requirementse  but  in  a  general 
way  it  would  be  adequate  and  effective. 


100  PER  CENT.  LOCALS 

An  interesting  question  came  up  in  the 
directors'  meeting  through  the  request  of 
the  West  Rupert  local  in  Vermont  for 
authorization  to  send  a  regular  delegate  to 
the  annual  meeting.  There  are  25  mem- 
bers in  the  local,  while  the  by-laws  re- 
quire that  no  local  with  less  than  35  mem- 
bers can  have  a  regular  voting  delegate  in 
the  annual  meeting.  The  West  Rupert 
men  point  out  that  they  are  a  100  per  cent, 
local  and  that  if  a  26th  man  should  start 
shipping  milk  they  would  "get  him  to  join 
right  away."  In  view  of  the  100  per 
cent,  membership  they  suggested  that  they 
might  be  given  a  special  privilege.  This 
is  impossible,  as  the  by-laws  are  explicit 
But  the  suggestion  raises  a  question  if 
some  special  recognition  and  rights  might 
not  be  given  to  a  local  of  fair  size  pro- 
vided they  kept  their  membership  100 
per  cent-  There  are!  a  good  many  locals 
close  to  it.  A  little  special  inducement 
might  get  them  to  the  100  per  cent.  mark. 
It  is  worth  thinking  over. 


And  yet  we  can't  help  sighing  some  for 
the  good  old  days  when  men  were  men 
and  women  weren't. 


1  SOUTHERN  MARKET 
8  DISTRICT 

jfl     CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
ftj  Slide  Banding,  44  Washington  Street,  Prorideoce 
fij  Telephone,  Dexter  6469 

MAY  PRICES 

Providence   8    cents  per  qt 

Fall  River   8    cents  per  qt. 

Brockton   8^4  cents  per  qt. 

New  Bedford   9    cents  per  qt. 

Newport   9    cents  per  qt. 

Prices  in  all  the  markets  are  the  same 
for  the  seventh  month.  Production  is 
normal,  with  a  slight  decline  in  sales  in 
some  markets.  The  cold  wet  weather, 
while  beneficial  to  grass  and  to  the  future 
hay  crop,  has  kept  sales  less  than  thay 
would  have  been  in  bright  warm  weather. 

Business  is  generally  quiet  throughout 
the  district.  Th  prospects  for  the  milk 
producer  are,  however,  rather  favorable. 
Grain  prices  may  increase  somewhat  but 
milk  prices  should  also  be  good  the  last 
six  months  of  the  year. 

This  is  my  last  report  as  manager  of 
the  Southern  District.  In  severing  official 
connections  with  the  producers  in  this  dis- 
trict I  wish  to  impress  all  with  the  import- 
ance of  standing  by  the  NEMPA  and 
supporting  it  in  every  way.  It  is  a 
greater  institution  and  does  far  more  for 
you  than  most  of  you  realize.  I  hope 
that  the  day  will  come  when  every  pro- 
ducer of  milk  will  be  a  member  and  give 
the  association  loyal  support.  It  is  a 
thing  in  which  you  should  take  just  as 
vital  an  interest  as  in  your  town  govern- 
ment. Like  the  town  government  it  is 
working  all  the  time  in  your  interest. 

As  a  practical  farmer,  who  knows  con- 
ditions in  the  markets  where  you  sell  in 
an  intimate  way  I  urge  you  to  look  to  the 
costs  of  production  and  strive  to  better 
your  position  by  increased  efficiency  and 
good  judgment.  We  have  some  fine  mar- 
kets right  at  our  door  and  if  we  produce 
milk  in  a  businesslike  way  we  can  make 
a  good  living  at  it.  I  would  especially 
urge  you  not  to  depend  on  unreliable 
sources  for  cows.  Keep  nothing  but  pure 
bred  bulls  and  do  not  keep  more  cows 
than  can  be  fed  on  the  crops  raised  on 
your  farm  unless  such  crops  can  be  pur- 
chased at  a  less  cost  than  you  can  raise 
them.  Have  other  cash  crops  and  do  not 
depend  on  milk  checks  alone. 

Owing  to  the  condition  of  my  health 
I  have  not  made  any  plans  for  the  future 
beyond  going  back  to  the  farm  and  look- 
ing after  my  cows,  which  are  pure  breds 
and  good  ones.  I  shall  appreciate  getting 
back  and  enjoying  the  farm  and  the  com- 
fortable home,  after  five  years  of  being  on 
the  road  most  of  the  time,  interesting  as 
the  NEMPA  work  has  been.  I  have  seen 
quite  a  bit  of  New  England  and  have 
made  a  lot  of  friends  whom  I  shall  be 
glad  to  see  at  my  farm  anytime. 

I  wish  to  express  my  deep  apprecia- 
tion for  help  and  friendship  of  our  Man- 
aging Director,  Richard  Pattee.  Only 
those  of  us  who  are  closely  associated 
with  him  can  realize  the  year  in  and  year 
out  effort  he  is  making  to  solve  your 
problems  and  put  your  business  in  a  posi- 
tion of  permanent  prosperity.  I  wish 
also  to  express  special  appreciation  to  As- 
sistant Manager  Davis  and  other  mem- 
bers of  the  staff  for  the  spirit  of  co- 
operation and  the  friendship  they  have 
shown.  I  wish  also  to  thank  officers  of 
locals  and  the  marketing  committees  in 
this  district  for  the  way  in  which  they 
have  assisted  me  in  association  work- 
Last,  but  by  no  means  least,  I  wish  all 
members  in  the  district  to  join  with  me  in 
expressing  appreciation  of  the  earnest  and 
capable  woman  who  serves  as  clerk  and 
secretary  in  the  Southern  District  office. 
Miss  Freeborn. 

In  leaving  the  association  I  most 
earnestly  urge  all  of  you  to  give  to  all 
these  workers  your  support  and  that  you 
give  to  the  new  manager.  Mr.  Feinne- 
mann,  the  same  loyalty  and  friendship  you 
have  given  to  me. 

The  Boss— "Robert,  I  hope  you  try  to 
save  half  of  what  vou  earn." 

Office  Boy— "I  don't  get  that  much, 
sir." 


Page  Four 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1927 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  April,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check   for  April  is  correct,  find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 

If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.051  for  each  .1  per  cent.  If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract 
$.051  per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station,  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  April  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of 

the  Hood,  Whiting,  and  Turner  Centre  Companies,  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deductions  as  given  in  Cream  Price  Table  is  made  from  the  zone  price  as  figured  to 
equalize  prices  between  milk  and  cream  patrons. 

Zone  1     Zone  2    Zone  3    Zone  4    Zone  5    Zone  6      Zone  7    Zone  8    Zone  9    Zone  10  Zone  11   Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 

Miles  from  Boston                                   1-20      21-40      41-60     61-80    81-100  101-120    121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281-300 

Class  1  Milk  Price                                  3.217      3.176      3.141      3.106      3.077      3.048      3.025      2.996      2.972      2.955      2.932      2.909  2.897  2.874  2.856 

Class  2  Milk  Price                                  2.052      2.052      2.052      2.052      2.052      2.052      2.052      2.052      2-052      2.052      2.052      2.052  2.052  2.052  2.052 

Class  1  Class  2 

(Mkt.Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 
Dealers  A  B 

Hood   1-15   62.1%    37.9%    52.1%    2.741       2.715      2.694      2.672      2.654      2-636      2.622      2.603      2.589      2.578      2.564      2.549  2.542  2.528  2.517 

Hood   16-31  55.7      44.3      56.2      2.646      2.623      2.603      2.584      2.568      2.552      2.539      2.523      2.510      2.500      2.487      2.475  2.468  2.455  2.446 

Whiting  in  40's  53.0      47.0      58.2      2.635      2.614      2.595      2.576      2.561      2.546      2.534      2.518      2.506      2.497      2.484      2.472  2-466  2.453  2.444 

Whiting  in  2lV4's..53.0      47.0      58.2      2.627      2.598      2.575      2.564      2.540      2.529      2.511       2.500      2.488      2-471       2.459      2.442  2.436  2.424  2.419 

Turner   Centre  ....39.1      60.9      72-4      2.462      2.446      2.432      2.418      2.407      2-395      2.386      2.375      2.366      2.360      2.350      2.341  2.336  2.327  2.321 

N  E  Cry  Prod    28.9      71.1                 2.567      2.555      2.545      2.535      2.527      2.518      2.512      2.503      2.497      2.491       2.485      2.478  2.475  2.468  2.463 

F'  S   Cummings    52  5      47.5                 2.662      2-641      2.623      2.604      2.589      2.573      2.561      2.546      2.534      2.525      2.513      2.501  2-495  2.482  2.473 

F   E   Bovd          63  5      36.5                 2.821      2.795      2.773      2.751      2.732      2.714      2.699      2.681      2.666      2.655      2.641      2.626  2.618  2.604  2.593 

Weighted '  Avg  54.9      45.1      55-3      2.666      2.643      2.624      2.605      2.589      2.573      2.561       2.545      2.532      2.523      2.510      2.496  2.490  2.478  2.468 

A — Excluding  Cream  Plan        B — Including  Cream  Plan 

Increases  or  decreases  in  fluid  milk  prices  due  to  sales  in  higher  or  lower  markets  for  the  month:  Lower,  Whiting,  $.0148;  Turner  Centre,  $.01686. 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Company  price  includes  an  extra  payment  of  18  cents  per  hundred  pounds. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  June  1,  1927,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 


At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


Cwt.in 

Cwt.in  Cwt.in 

8qt. 

8^qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

2VAqt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21Kqt 

40qt. 

Zone  Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.533 

.570 

.676 

1.376 

1.463 

2.767 

3.199 

3.201 

3.217 

2 

21-40 

.523 

.560 

.666 

1.351 

1.438 

2.732 

3.141 

3.146 

3.176 

3 

41-60 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.331 

1.418 

2.702 

3.095 

3.103 

3.141 

4 

61-80 

.503 

.540 

.646 

1.321 

1.408 

2.672 

3.071 

3.081 

3.106 

5 

81-100 

.498 

.535 

.636 

1.301 

1.388 

2.647 

3.025 

3.037 

3.077 

6 

101-120 

.493 

.530 

.626 

1.291 

1.378 

2.622 

3.002 

3.015 

3.048 

7 

121-140 

.488 

.525 

.621 

1.281 

1.363 

2.602 

2.978 

2.982 

3.025 

8 

141-160 

.478 

.515 

.611 

1.266 

1.353 

2.577 

2.943 

2.961 

2.996 

9 

161-180 

.473 

.510 

.606 

1.256 

1.343 

2.557 

2.920 

2.939 

2.972 

10 

181-200 

.468 

.505 

.596 

1.251 

1.328 

2.542 

2.909 

2.906 

2.955 

11 

201-220 

.463 

.500 

.591 

1.236 

1.318 

2.522 

2.874 

2.884 

2.932 

12 

221-240 

.458 

.495 

.586 

1.226 

1.303 

2.502 

2.850 

2.851 

2.909 

13 

241-260 

.448 

.485 

.581 

1.221 

1.298 

2.492 

2.839 

2.840 

2.897 

14 

261-280 

.443 

.480 

.581 

1.206 

1.288 

2.472 

2.804 

2.818 

2.874 

15 

281-300 

.443 

.480 

.576 

1.201 

1.283 

2.457 

2.792 

2.807 

2.856 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.553 

.590 

.696 

1.386 

1.473 

2.767 

3.222 

3.223 

3.217 

2 

21-40 

.538 

.575 

.681 

1.361 

1.448 

2.732 

3.164 

3.168 

3.176 

3 

41-60 

.533 

.570 

.676 

1.351 

1.433 

2.702 

3.141 

3.136 

3.141 

4 

61-80 

.528 

.565 

.671 

1.331 

1.418 

2.672 

3.095 

3.103 

3.106 

5 

81-100 

.523 

.560 

.656 

1.321 

1.408 

2.647 

3.071 

3.081 

3.077 

6 

101-120 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.311 

1.388 

2.622 

3.048 

3.037 

3.048 

7 

121-140 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.296 

1.378 

2.602 

3.013 

3.015 

3.025 

8 

141-160 

.508 

.545 

.646 

1.291 

1.373 

2.577 

3.002 

3.004 

2.996 

9 

161-180 

.503 

.540 

.641 

1.281 

1.358 

2.557 

2.978 

2.971 

2.972 

10 

181-200 

.503 

.540 

.636 

1.266 

1.348 

2.542 

2.943 

2.950 

2.955 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  0.75c  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  reduction  of  2c  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for  NEMPA 
members'  dues  and  lc  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  April,  1927 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt. 

Butter-fat 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter- fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

Test 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patrons 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt 

Hood  1-15 

 12^4 

.50 

1.052 

.52 

.604 

.0479 

Hood  1-15   

20 

.50 

1.378 

.52 

.589 

.0479 

Hood  16-31 

 I2y2 

.50 

.912 

.51 

.582 

.0410 

Hood  16-31 

,  20 

.50 

1.156 

.51 

.568 

.0410 

Whiting   

20 

.50 

1.106 

.56 

.615 

.0306 

Turner  Centre  . 

 \2Yz 

.44 

.650 

.51 

.562  Credit  .0206 

IT  PAYS  TO  FEED  A  GOOD  SUMMER  RATION 
With  Pasturage 

WIRTHMORE 
16%  SUMMER  RATION 

Containing  Minerals 

is  a  good  one  —  no  filler.    We  know  it  is  good — made  from  the 
highest  grade  materials — none  better.    Look  at  its  analysis: 

Protein  16$    Carbohydrates  60      Fat  4%    Fiber  8.5% 

High  in  fat,  low  in  fibre  and  rich  in  carbohydrates.  Compare  this 
analysis  with  any  others.  Of  course  analysis  alone  does  not  tell  the 
whole  story.  But  if  you  will  feed  this  Summer  Ration,  your  cows 
will  tell  you  a  wonderful  story— big  summer  yields— and  they  will  go 
to  the  barn  in  the  fall  in  the  pink  of  condition,  physically  fitted  for 
heavy  winter  milk  production. 

This  means  maximum  production  the  year  through,  and 

Bigger  Profits  for  You 

If  you  have  no  pasturage,  or  when  pasturage  is  short,  feed 

WIRTHMORE  20%  DAIRY  FEED 

All  Wirthmore  Dairy  Feeds  are  quality  feeds,  guaranteed  by  cur  reputation  as 
manufacturers  of  Wirthmore  Pouliry-Dairy  and  Stock  Feeds  for  25  years. 
Wirthmore  Feeds  are  made  particularly  to  fit  New  Englard  farm  require  merits 
and  they  supplement  New  England  farm  crops  as  no  other  feeds  do.  Our  future 
business  depends  upon  our  maintaining  our  present  policy  of  making  good  feeds 
at  a  reasonable  price. 

During  the  past  few  years  there  has  been  a  tremendous  increase  in  the  corsiirp- 
tion  of  Wirthmore  Dairy  Feeds  and  this  consumption  is  constantly  ircressirg. 
With  competition  as  keen  in  the  dairy  feed  business  as  it  is  today,  this  is  evidence 
that  Wirthmore  Dairy  Feeds  must  be  producing  better  results  than  any  other 
feeds  yet  brought  to  the  attention  of  New  England  farmers.  We  stand  behind 
the  quality  of  every  sack  of  Wirthmore  Feeds. 

We  conduct  a  Dairy  Feed  Service  Department  and  will  gladly  confer 
with  you  on  any  of  your  dairy  problems.  May  we  tell  you  more  about 
our  Dairy  Feeds  and  service?  Address  Dairy  Feed  Department, 
St.  Albans  Grain  Co.,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 

THERE'S  A  DAIRY  FEED  FOR  EVERY  NEED 

Wirthmore  25%  Balanced  Ration  Wirthmore  20%  Dairy  Feed 

Wirthmore  16%  Summer  Ration 

CHAS.  M.  COX  CO.  ST.  ALBANS  GRAIN  COMPANY 

Wholesale  Dist.,  Roston,  Mass.  Mfrs.,  St.  Albans,  Vermont 

^     = 


Jvme,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Conditions  in  the  Market 


Production  of  milk  for  April,  as  indi- 
cated by  the  purchases  of  the  Boston 
dealers  buying  under  the  surplus  plan, 
was  about  normal.  The  increase  in  pur- 
chases from  March  to  April  was  11.5  per 
cent,  as  compared  with  13  per  cent,  a 
year  previous-  This  difference  would 
about  balance  the  decrease  in  Canadian 
shipments,  due  to  the  embargo.  This  em- 
bargo, by  decreasing  the  deliveries  to  line 
creameries,  was  a  factor  in  decreasing 
the  surplus  and  thus  increasing  the  price. 
This  good  effect  was  in  part  offset,  how- 
ever, by  lessening  of  sales  due  to  the 
Jewish  Passover.  The  purchases  and 
sales  in  millions  of  pounds  were : 

1927  1927  1926 
Mar.     Apr.  Apr. 

Purchases    49.3      55.0  52.4 

Sales    28.6      28.4  26.5 

The  net  price  for  all  milk  delivered  was 
the  highest  in  April  it  has  been  since 


1920.  In  the  181-200  mile,  zone,  the  aver- 
age distance  from  Boston,  the  price  was 
$2.52  per  hundred.  This  is  14  cents  above 
last  year's  price.  In  spite  of  the  fluid 
milk  price  being  a  half  cent  lower  than 
a  year  ago  the  net  price  is  higher.  The 
butter  price  of  11  cents  a  pound  higher 
than  in  the  previous  year  was  the  chief 
factor  in  the  increase  but  the  10  cents 
per  hundredweight  on  skim  milk,  secured 
by  the  sales  committee  for  February  and 
continuing  as  part  of  the  trade  since,  was 
also  a  material  factor  in  the  price-  The 
price  for  surplus  was  59  cents  a  hundred 
higher  than  last  year.  The  comparative 
prices  were : 

1927  1927 
Mar.  Apr. 

Fluid   $2.96  $2.96 

Surplus    2.06  2.06 

Net  price  all  milk....  2.57  2.52 
Average  butter  per  lb-   .51  .51 


1926 
Apr. 
$3.19 
1.47 
2.38 
.40 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  April,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
for  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7 
per  cent,  test  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container: 
Per  8%  qt.  can  $0,009;  per  10  qt.  can  $0,011;  per  20  qt.  can  $0,022;  per  21%  qt. 
can  $0,023;  per  40  qt.  can  $.044;  per  cwt.  $0,051. 


Dealers 
Elm  Spring  Farm 
7th  zone  (121-140) 
J.  B.  Prescott 
Delivered   


Boston  District 

Class  1  Class  2   

(Mkt.  (Mfg.  8% 

Milk)  Milk)  Quart 

..89.7  10.3  .511 


 Size  of  Can  

20        21%  40 
Quart     Quart     Quart  Cwt. 

1.242      1.322      2.521  2.931 


 79.4  20.6   

Northern  Market  District 


3.467 
2.965 


Dealers  Class  1      Class  2  Cwt. 

Robert  W.  Sawyer  (Mkt.       (Mfg.  in 

Haverhill  Milk)       Milk)  8%'s 

Delivered   84.2  15.8   

3rd  zone    ....   

j  4th  zone    ....  •   

Wason  Macdonald 
Haverhill 

Delivered   92.0  8.0 

3rd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms,  Lawrence 

Delivered   54.4  43.6 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

10th  zone   

Batcheler  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   71.7  28.3 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

1  6th  zone   

E.  C.  Blake 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   62.2  37.8 

1st  zone   

'  2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

f  5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   82.2  17.8 

1st  zone   

" 2nd  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered    82.5  17.5 

2nd  zone   

'3rd  zone   


Cwt. 
in 

20's 


3.467 
3.018 


Cwt. 

in 
40's 


3.467 
3.061 


3.375 


Cwt. 

3.343 
2.971 
2.942 


3.316 
3.045 
2.999 


3.316 
3.110 
3.062 


3.316 
3.124 
3.091 


2.923 
2.717 
2.694 
2.569 


2.984 
2.788 
2.763 
2.738 
2.717 
2.696 


2.867 
2.712 
2.678 
2.651 
2-552 


3.322 
3.067 
3-029 


Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Dealers  (Mkt. 

Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 

j  H.  T.  Burton,  Inc  100.0 

I  G.  T.  Chambers    62.4 

!  E.  A.  Fiske    94.7 

f  Chas.  W.  Grant    84.3 

Greenville  Farm  Dy.  100.0 
,  A.  B.  Monroe   100.0 

Providence  Dairy  ....  77.1 
J  Turner  Centre   100.0 

W.  C.  Viall    94.5 

I  C  A.  Warnock   100.0 

E.  P.  Westcott   100.0 

iPer  10  quart  can 

I  W.  B.  Brown   100.0 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 

37.6 
5.3 
15.7 


22.9 
5.5 


Deliv- 
ered 

3.585 
3.002 
3.507 
3.336 
3.583 
3.589 
3.236 
3.594 
3.504 
3.589 
3.583 

.787 


Zone  1 
1-20 
Miles 
3.251 
2.793 
3.190 
3.054 
3.248 
3.253 
3.027 
3.258 
3.188 
3.255 
3.250 

.721 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  2  Zone  3    Zone  Willi- 

21-40  41-60     net  mantic 

Miles  Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.203  3.137   

2.763     2.722  2.650   

3.145  3.082   

3.014  2.958   

3.201  3.134   

3.205  3.139   

3.000  2.946     2.741  2.910 

3.210  3.144   

3.143  3.080   

3.207  3.141   

3.202  3.136   


Getting  the  Good  out  of  Grass 

is  easy.  All  you  need  do  is  turn  your  cows  on 
it  when  it  gets  to  the  right  stage,  and  feed  a  good 
grain  ration  night  and  morning. 

There's  a  lot  of  good  in  fresh  June  pasture.  It 
makes  cows  feel  better  and  stimulates  their  milk 
flow.  It's  a  tonic.  But  it  positively  will  not 
produce  a  good  milk  yield  alone  because  it  has 
not  enough  of  the  necessary  proteins,  fats  and 
carbohydrates. 

This  year,  feed  grain  right  through  the  pasture 
season.  A  simple  ration  will  do  and  it  is  not  neces- 
sary to  feed  heavily.  The  following  inexpensive 
ration  will  bring  your  herd  through  the  Summer 
in  good  condition  and  produce  enough  extra  milk 
to  more  than  pay  for  itself: 

250  lbs.  Diamond  Corn  Gluten  Meal 
400  lbs.  Bran  Analysis: 
300  lbs.  Ground  Oats       20%  Protein    4%  Fat 
50  lbs.  Hominy  SV2%  Fibre 


Ration  Service  Dept. 

Corn  Products  Refining  Co. 

17  Battery  Place  New YorK  City 
208  E.  Illinois  St.     Chicago,  111. 


MAKERS  OF  THE  FEEDS  THAT  ARE 

IN  EVERY  LIVE  DEALER'S  STOCK 
AND  EVERY  GOOD  DAIRY  RATION 


em  pounds  no- 

CORN 

GLUTEN  MEAL 


HSfiN  PRODUCTS 


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5%  Interest 

on 

Federal  Land  Bank 

Recent  sales  of  Federal  Land  Bank  Bonds  at  favor- 
able prices  make  possible  a  lowering  of  the  rate  of 
interest  on  new  loans  to  5fo. 

First  Mortgage  Farm  Loans 

FOR  INFORMATION 

Ask  the  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
National  Farm  Loan  Association  in  your  County 
or  write  direct  to  the 

FEDERAL  LAND  BANK 

at 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 
Serving  New  England,  New  York  and  New  Jersey 


Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1927 


THE,  OTHER 
EXTREME 

In  the  effort  to  produce 
dependable  milk  prod- 
ucts it  is  equally  as  im- 
portant not  to  dissipate 
your  profits  in  "over 
efficiency"  as  it  is  to 
avoid  methods  that  are 
inefficient. 

Sanitary  cleanliness  is 
one  of  the  first  essentials 
in  the  production  of  de- 
pendable milk  products, 
and  when 


will  produce  this  clean- 
liness at  no  greater  cost 
with  less  time,  less  ef- 
fort and  less  cleaning 
material,  is  not  this  the 
cleaner  for  you  to  use  ? 

That  Wyandotte  Dairy- 
men's  Cleaner  and 
Cleanser  does  fulfill 
these  claims  often  far 
beyond  the  expectations 
of  the  user  is  the  testi- 
mony of  thousands  of 
creameries,  dairies  and 
cheese  factories  the 
country  over. 

Ask  your  Supply  Man 
for  "WYANDOTTE." 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
( cream  acidity  standardizer) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
your  cream  ? 


THE,  J.  B.   FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte      -    -  Michigan 


An  interesting  comparison  of  the  rela- 
tive prices  of  grain  and  of  milk  was  given 
in  the  monthly  letter  of  Wesley  H.  Bron- 
son,  head  of  the  research  department  of 
the  association.  The  comparison  was 
made  in  terms  of  the  pounds  of  grain 
which  could  be  purchased  with  the  aver- 
age receipts  from  100  pounds  of  milk  in 
April  for  the  past  seven  years.  The 
comparison  was  as  follows : 

Year  lbs.  of  grain 

1921    107 

1922    72 

1923    87 

1924    75 

1925    92 

1926    100 

1927    109 

New  York  and  Boston  Prices 

The  New  York  League  pool  price  con- 
tinues above  our  price,  $2.54  per  hun- 
dredweight for  3.7  per  cent,  milk  in  the 
181-200  milk  zone  compared  with  the 
Boston  dealers'  price  of  $2.52.  New  York 
health  authorities  have  decided  not  to 
open  New  York  City  to  western  milk  and 
cream.  It  seems  likely  that  with  the 
change  in  freight  rates  and  the  strong 
demand  of  the  New  York  market,  that 
some  supplies  of  milk  and  cream  now 
moving  to  Boston  will  move  to  New 
York. 

The  butter  prices  which  had  held  up 
remarkably  well  through  April  showed 
the  expected  decline  toward  the  end  of 
the  month  when  the  spring  increase  came 
in.  The  quotations  slid  off  6^4  cents  in 
five  days.  The  present  price  of  43  cents 
is  still  cents  higher  than  a  year  ago, 
and  it  now  seems  probable  that  the  May 
average  will  be  about  43^  cents,  as  com- 
pared with  41  cents  last  year. 

This,  with  the  10  cents  on  skim  milk, 
would  give  a  surplus  price  of  $1.74  per 
hundred  for  May.  With  an  estimated 
surplus  of  50  per  cent.  This  would  give  a 
net  10th  zone  price  of  $2.25  a  hundred- 
weight. 

Grain  prices  hold  about  steady,  the 
average  being  about  $1  a  ton  below  last 
year  at  the  same  period.  Hay  is  about 
the  same,  but  labor  is  $2  a  month  higher 
than  last  year  on  the  average.  The  com- 
parison are : 

1927       1927  1926 
Apr.       May  May 
Grain  per  ton  ....$46.36     $46.84  $47.98 

Hay  per  ton          15.12      15.30  15.25 

Labor  per  month 
with  board          48.70      48.70  46.60 

Considered  on  the  relative  price  basis 
milk  advanced  in  April  to  the  highest  April 
point  since  1920.  The  index  of  milk 
prices  was  164  as  compared  with  grain  at 
128,  hay  at  108,  farm  labor  at  194,  and 
general  prices  147. 


McCormick  -  Deerlng 
Manure  Spreader  and 


the 

FARMALL 


The  Ttpad  to  Farm  Profit 

The  old-fashioned  ways  that  made  money  in  farming 
before  the  war  have  gone  by  the  board.  Everything 
is  changed.  The  man  who  sticks  to  the  old  ideas  has 
a  hard  time  of  it  nowadays. 

Yields  must  be  increased,  operations  must  be  handled 
more  efficiently,  labor  must  be  saved.  Better  equipment 
must  produce  bigger  and  better  crops  at  lower  costs — or 
there  is  little  profit. 

First,  fertility  must  be  put  in  the  soil,  and  the  scientific 
method  is  by  McCormick-Deering  Manure  Spreader.  The 
speed  and  ease  with  which  fresh  manure  is  handled  and 
put  evenly  on  the  fields  with  this  spreader  encourages  the 
full  use  of  valuable  fertility. 

You  will  like  the  design  and  build  of  the  McCormick- 
Deering.  It  is  light  of  draft,  simple 
and  strong,  and  does  everything  a 
good  spreader  should  do.  Low  for 
easy  loading,  with  adjustments  for 
diSerent  manures  and  light  or 
heavy  spreading.  Built  in  two  sizes. 
Note  the  features  at  right.  Other 
machines  handle  crops;  this  ma- 
chine increases  them. 

See  this  spreader  at  the  McCor- 
mick-Deering dealer's  store. 


^ofe  these  features: 

1.  Auto  Steer 

2.  Front  Wheels  Track 

with  Rear 

3.  Two  All-Steel  Beaters 

4.  Wide-Spread  Spiral 

5.  Narrow  Tread 

6.  Self-Aligning  Bearings 

7.  Steel  Main  Frame 

8.  Six  Feed  Speeds 

9.  Positive  Apron  Drive 


International  Harvester  Company 

606S.  Michigan  Ave.     9?*^SA        Chicago,  111. 


McCormick  -  Deering 


U.  S.  ARMY  WAGONS 


COMPLETE 
AS  SHOWN 


EASY  TERMS  IF  DESIRED 


Weight  ready 
for  shipment 
1200  pounds 


Front  Wheels  3  ft.,  8  ins.  high. 

Rear  Wheels  4  ft.,  6  ins.  high. 

Tires  3  ins.  by  5g  ins.  steel. 

Body  size  10  feet  by  40  inches. 

All  wood  material  ingrain  Oak 
or  Hickory. 


Axle  2  ins.  square.  Solid  Col- 
lar, standard  gauge  5  ft,  4% 
ins.,  center  to  center  of  tire. 

Wheels  and  Axles  separate  if 
desired. 

Send  for  Circular 


Make  Money  Orders  Payable  to 

Federal  Stores 

Rochester,  N.  H. 


June,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


MEMBER 
FEDERAL 
RESERVE 
SYSTEM 


$1000  in  the  Bank 

makes  a  fine  nest  egg  and  it's 
not  so  bard  to  save  as  you  think. 
Get  started  — 
keep  at  it  and 
the  thousand  is 
yours.  Come 
in. 


LIBERTY 
TRUST 
COMPANY 

199  Washington  St. 
Boston,  Mass. 

(Corner  Court  St.) 


m 


se 


IDEAL 
Disinfectant 


Keep  your  barns  and  all  dairy  equip- 
ment clean  with  Sterilac.  Keep 
cows  clean  too.  Strong  and  power- 
ful— non-poisonous.  Comesin  pow- 
der form  —  will  keep  its  strength. 
Send  $1  [or  "Money  Back"  Trial 
Enough  Sterilac  to  make  60  gallons 
of  solution  of  ordinary  strength. 


North  Chicago.  Illinois 

GRANT  P.  VEALE  CORP. 

WINTHROP,  MASS. 

New  England  and  Middle  Atlantic  States 
Distributors 


Hhe  Money  Maker 

DR.  DANIELS' 

COW 
INVIGORATOR 

UDERKREAM 

REAL  COW  MEDICINES 

Less  Weakness         Better  Cows 
More  and  Better  MilK 
More  Profit 

FALL  AND  WINTER  VZ" 

HEALTH  FOR  YOUR  COW  is  the  Secret  of  Profit 

Prevent  the  Run  Down  Condition 
Give  INVIGORATOR  in  the  Feed 

Use  UDERKREAM  for  the  Udder 

Send  for  COW  BOOK— Its  Free 

Dr.  A.  C.  DANIELS,  Inc. 

172  Milk  Street  Boston  9,  Mass. 


HOT  WEATHER 

is  coming  Increase  vour 
milk  profits   by  cooling 
your  milk  quick  to  pre- 
vent spoiling.    Our  milk 
coolers  will  do  this,  and 
soon  pay  for  themselves 
in  milk  saved.  Several 
types.    Prices  from 
$9.00  up.     Send  for 
Free  Catalog. 

C   H.  DANA  CO. 

67  Main  St.  -  W.  Lebanon.  N.  H. 


WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 
58S  White  St.,         Springfield,  Mats. 

Telephone  Walnut  1714 

S"HSE5H5H5rl5Z515a5HSZ5rlS25rlSZ5HSZ5'[! 

PRICES  FOR  MAY 

Worcester   7l/2  cents 

Springfield   8  cents 

Holyoke   l]/2  cents 

Production  of  milk  in  the  territory 
supplying  the  markets  in  the  Western 
District  is  about  normal  for  the  season 
with  the  exception  of  the  Worcester  milk- 
shed,  which  is  still  somewhat  short.  In 
the  Connecticut  valley  there  has  been  a 
considerable  increase  in  supply  since  pas- 
ture conditions  became  good.  The  pros- 
pect in  the  Worcester  area  is  that  sup- 
plies will  continue  below  normal  through 
the  year  unless  the  summer  conditions 
are  much  more  favorable  than  usual.  The 
hard  drought  of  the  past  three  years  has 
left  the  pastures  in  poor  condition  and 
it  will  take  a  year  or  two  of  ordinary 
rainfall  to  restore  them.  Under  these 
conditions  it  is  believed  that  many  of  the 
Worcester  dealers  will  get  through  the 
year  with  very  little  surplus. 

Market  conditions  in  Worcester  are 
considerably  better  than  they  have  been 
for  some  years.  The  marketing  commit- 
tee has  had  several  conferences  with  the 
committee  representing  the  association  of 
dealers  and  a  better  understanding  of  the 
needs  of  the  market  is  resulting.  More 
and  more  of  the  dealers  are  recognizing 
the  value  of  a  recognized  price  and  an  in- 
creasing number  of  them  are  paying  on 
the  association  basis.  The  result  is  that 
the  Worcester  market  is  getting  into  a 
place  where  it  can  probably  follow  Bos- 
ton market  more  closely  than  it  has  in  the 
past. 

Another  factor  which  will  tend  toward 
a  greater  market  stability  through  work- 
ing together  is  the  interest  which  has 
been  shown  by  dealers  and  producers  in  a 
plan  of  introducing  the  work  of  the  New 
England  Dairy  and  Food  Council  on  a 
bigger  scale  than  has  yet  been  tried  in 
Worcester.  The  plans  are  maturing  for 
some  worth-while  work  to  focus  public 
attention  on  the  value  of  milk  as  a  food, 
not  the  milk  of  any  particular  dealer  or 
organization  but  the  value  of  the  whole 
commodity,  whoever  sells  it.  Various 
meetings  of  producers  have  been  held,  the 
association  co-operating  with  the  County 
Extension  service.  At  a  recent  meeting 
in  Spencer,  County  Agent  G.  F.  E.  Story 
explained  the  plan  of  educational  work, 
and  the  District  Manager  spoke  on  con- 
ditions in  the  market. 

Conditions  at  Springfield  are  also  look- 
ing better,  due  to  the  increase  in  the 
chain  store  price  from  10  to  11  cents  a 
quart,  which  took  place  April  25.  This 
rise  in  chain  store  prices  was  started  by 
the  Phillips  stores  and  was  promptly  fol- 
lowed by  the  other  stores  selling  milk. 
The  short  supply  of  milk  in  the  Brattle- 
boro  area,  from  which  the  Phillips  stores 
get  their  supply,  and  the  prospect  of  a 
more  acute  shortage  in  the  fall,  was  the 
chief  reason  for  increasing  the  price  and 
encouraging  the  farmers  to  a  greater  pro- 
duction. 

The  increase  in  the  chain  store  price 
reduced  the  margin  between  store  and 
home  delivered  prices  and  to  a  consider- 
able extent  assisted  in  improving  market 
conditions.  Since  last  November  the  mar- 
ket has  been  under  the  handicap  of  a  14 
and  15  cent  home  delivered  price,  with 
a  10  cent  store  price.  It  is  too  wide  a 
margin  for  the  good  of  the  market  and 
there  has  been  a  considerable  cutting  of 
prices  to  meet  competition.  With  the 
difference  between  the  store  price  and  the 
home  price  reduced  to  three  or  four  cents 
there  is  just  that  much  less  incentive  for 
cutting  prices.  All  of  which  tends  to 
restore  market  stability. 

Efforts  are  being  made  to  get  the 
Springfield  market  on  a  price  basis  on 
which  all  dealers  will  unite.  Several 
meetings  have  been  held  in  which  the  rat- 
ing plan  as  practiced  in  Connecticut  has 
been  discussed.  Manager  C.  E.  Hough 
of  the  Connecticut  association  has  at- 
tended some  of  these  meetings  and  has 
shown  how  the  system  of  penalties  for 


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COWS  like  Sweetened  BB  (BULL  BRAND)  Dairy  Ra- 
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high-quality  ingredients  makes  a  tasty  feed  that  is  per- 
manently palatable  even  to  the  delicate  feeders. 

Dairymen  find  that  the  molasses  also  adds  a  highly  desir- 
able laxative  and  conditioning  quality.  Feed  Sweetened 
BB  (BULL  BRAND)  Dairy  Ration  for  a  healthy  herd  and 
for  big  milk  production. 

Hawley  &  Murphy,  Dairymen,  says:  "We  have  tried  out 
BULL  BRAND  against  four  different  dairy  ration,  and  find 
that  BULL  BRAND  will  produce  more  milk,  dollar-for- 
dollar,  than  any  ration  we  have  ever  tried." 

You,  too,  will  like  BB  (BULL  BRAND)  Dairy  Ration, 
because  of  its  clean,  high-grade  ingredients,  its  perfected 
blending,  its  high  digestibility.  Try  three  bags  (300  lbs.) 
on  the  BULL  BRAND  GUARANTEE  of  More  Milk  or 
your  Money  Back. 

SWEETENED 


BULL  BRAND 

■TIL- 


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Makers  of  BB  (Bull  Brand)  Dairy  Feeds,  Horse  Feeds  and  Poultry  Feeds 
BUFFALO,  NEW  YORK 


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reroof  now 
with  Safekote 


Don't  wait  till  your  old  roofs  are  total  wrecks.  The  very 
next  storm  may  cost  you  a  lot  of  money.  Makeshift 
patching  is  out-of-date,  costly—  unnecessary,  now  that 
handsome  brand-new  roofs  are  so  easily  and  inexpen- 
sively obtained.  Put  on  Safekote  Roll  Roofing— smooth 
or  slate-surfaced  — right  now.  It  is  easily  and  quickly 
laid.  Remarkably  tough  and  lasting.  A  barrier  to  rain, 
snow,  wind  and  fire.  Safekote  is  built  from  specially 
selected  materials  as  only  experts  can  build  it.  Ask 
your  local  dealer  or  write  us  for  details  and  samples 
about  the  complete  Safekote  line— Roll  Roofing,  Seven 
Ply  Building  and  Sheathing  Paper,  and  if  your  house 
is  to  be  reroofed,  the  unusually  attractive  Safekote 
Shingles  which  come  in  a  great  variety  of  colors  and 
styles.  Safepack  Mills.  Box  600,  Millis,  Mass. 


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Roll  Roofing 

MADE  IN  NEW  ENGLAND 


Page  Eight 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1927 


I  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

Exchange  Has 
Big  April 

New  Records  Set  for  Horse 
Feed,  Poultry  and  Dairy 
Feeds 


April  1927  turned  out  to  be  the  biggest 
April  in  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Ex- 
change history,  having  beaten  the  record 
set  in  1926  by  3160  tons,  an  increase  of 
36.9  per  cent. 

Horse  Feed  Smashes  Record 

From  a  total  of  226  tons  in  April  1926 
and  392  tons  in  March  1927,  Eastern 
States  Horse  Feed  jumped  in  April  1927 
to  530  tons.  This  feed  has  made  good. 
Feeders  find  that  it  keeps  their  teams  up 
and  does  so  economically,  and  they  are 
recommending  the  feed  heartily  to  their 
neighbors. 

Poultrymen  Use  More 

From  a  total  of  1441  tons  of  Eastern 
States  poultry  feeds  distributed  in  April 
1926,  the  figure  jumped  in  1927  to  2134  tons. 
In  April  this  year  200  tons  more  of  the 
Egg  Mashes  were  distributed  and  286 
tons  more  of  the  Growing  Mash— 515 
tons  against  247  tons.  Poultrymen  have 
convinced  themselves  that  this  mash  fed 
from  the  first  feed  until  the  pullets  go  to 
the  laying  houses  matures  their  birds 
quickly  without  sacrificing  the  important 
factor  of  securing  size  and  vitality,  and 
it  does  this  at  a  low  cost.  Many  poultry- 
men  have  reported  switching  growing 
birds  from  other  rations  to  Eastern  States 
Growing  Mash  with  satisfactory  results— 
the  feed  has  cost  less  per  pound  of 
growth  and  has  increased  the  rate  of 
growth  per  week. 

Cows  Are  Getting  More 

The  dairymen  called  for  1384  tons  more 
of  Eastern  States  rations  in  April  1927 
than  they  did  last  year.  Pasture  Ration, 
Supplement  and  Fitting  scored  the  great- 
est gains  but  Fulpail  and  Milkmore  made 
substantial  gains. 

On  May  17th  the  office  had  received 
orders  for  85  more  carloads  than  for  the 
same  period  in  1926  so  that  May  will  un- 
questionably break  all  previous  records 
for  the  month  as  have  March  and  April 
1927. 

The  reason  for  this  steady  increase  in 
demand  for  Eastern  States  feeds  is  the 
satisfaction  which  they  are  giving  to 
users. 

Where  records  are  kept  Eastern 
States  Open  Formula  Feeds  prove 
their  worth. 

For  information  on  the  Eastern  States 
feed  service  for  poultry  and  livestock,  a 
service  which  should  not  be  confused 
with  car  door  service  offered  by  private 
manufacturers  through  dealers  or  groups 
of  farmers,  write  the  office. 


Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

■A   noti'ttoek,    non-profit  organization 
otonmd  and  controlled  by  the 
f armor*  It  toroet 

SPRINGFIELD.  MASSACHUSETTS 


over  production  or  under  production, 
based  on  fair  ratings,  has  resulted  in  a 
much  more  even  supply  of  milk  to  meet 
the  market  needs.  The  relative  merits  of 
such  a  plan,  as  compared  with  a  straight 
surplus  plan  of  establishing  a  price  for 
milk  for  this  market,  are  being  weighed 
carefully-  While  no  definite  agreement 
has  been  reached  one  or  two  of  the  large 
dealers  who  are  not  paying  for  their 
milk  under  the  association  plan  are  look- 
ing with  considerable  favor  on  any  plan 
on  which  all  can  unite.  There  seems  to 
be  a  rather  more  general  support  for  a 
known  price,  paid  by  all  dealers,  than 
there  has  been  in  the  past. 

The  natural  results  of  the  better  con- 
ditions in  Worcester  are  showing  in  a 
steadily  increasing  number  of  members. 
Every  trip  the  district  manager  has  made 
into  that  area  has  resulted  in  some  new 
members  and  there  are  a  fair  number 
which  come  in  unsolicited  as  the  result  of 
the  meetings.  In  Springfield  little  field 
work  is  being  done  until  some  basis  of 
understanding  is  reached  with  the  two  or 
three  dealers  who  are  not  now  buying 
under  the  NEMPA  plan. 

Conferences  with  dealers  and  producers 
in  these  two  markets  has  filled  the  time 
of  the  district  manager  so  completely 
that  no  check  testing  has  been  done.  The 
last  week  in  the  month  he  planned  to 
spend  in  check  testing  in  the  Eastern  New 
York  section. 


CO-OPERATIVE  INSTITUTE 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

was  declared  "Not  Guilty" ;  I.  W.  Heaps, 
the  invincible  manager  of  the  Maryland 
State  Dairymen's  Association  of  Balti- 
more, who  is  now  probably  the  highest 
salaried  official  connected  with  a  dairy 
co-operative ;  and  N.  P-  Hull,  president 
of  the  Michigan  Milk  Producers'  Asso- 
ciation, who  for  twenty  years  has  en- 
deared himself  to  dairy  farmers  by  his 
battles  to  regulate  the  margarine  indus- 
try. 

Among  the  younger  men  present  will  be 
Robert  W.  Balderston,  the  fighting 
Quaker  of  the  Inter-State  Milk  Produc- 
ers' Association ;  John  Brandt,  the  genial 
president  of  the  Land  O'  Lakes  Cream- 
eries, Inc.,  which  markets  more  butter 
than  any  other  group  of  co-operatives  in 
the  world ;  Frank  G.  Swoboda  of  the 
Wisconsin  Cheese  Producers'  Association, 
the  largest  cheese  co-operative  in  this 
country ;  C.  W.  Hibbert,  manager  of  the 
California  Challenge  Creamery  Associa- 
tion, the  second  largest  co-operative  but- 
ter group;  Harry  Hartke,  the  business 
strategist  of  the  Co-operative  Pure  Milk 
Association  of  Cincinnati,  who  led  a 
forty-day  milk  strike  and  won,  and  who 
"engineered"  a  plan  whereby  the  3,500 
farmers  around  Cincinnati  today  are  de- 
livering more  than  half  the  milk  and 
cream  and  more  than  70  per  cent,  of  the 
ice  cream  consumed  by  the  residents  of 
Cincinnati  and  the  nearby  towns ;  Clyde 
Bechtelheimer,  spokesman  for  the  Iowa 
Creamery  Secretaries'  &  Managers'  Asso- 
ciation ;  and  Jerry  Mason,  the  intrepid 
manager  of  the  Des  Moines  Co-operative 
Dairy  Marketing  Association. 

"Modern  methods  of  selling  dairy  prod- 
ucts have  made  unusual  progress  in  the 
past  12  years,"  said  Charles  W.  Holman, 
secretary  of  the  Institute  and  of  the  Na- 
tional Co-operative  Milk  Producers'  Fed- 
eration, in  announcing  the  dairy  program. 
"Dairy  farmers  have  gained  a  firmer 
foothold  with  their  co-operative  organi- 
zations than  any  other  agricultural  group 
producing  a  nationally  important  com- 
modity. Of  the  23  million  cows  engaged 
in  commercial  milk  production,  owners  of 


at  least  4  million  will  be  represented  at 
the  Institute  by  their  leaders  and  hired 
experts.  The  products  of  these  cows  are 
sold  through  a  variety  of  dairy  co-opera- 
tives including  cheese,  butter,  manufac- 
tured milk  products  and  organizations  en- 
gaged in  selling  primarily  fluid  milk  and 
cream.  Some  of  the  organizations  go  so 
far  as  to  distribute  their  products  direct 
to  the  consumer.  Member  associations  of 
the  National  Federation  alone  represent 
nearly  300,000  organized  milk  producers. 

"This  strong  position  may  be  because 
dairy  farmers  were  the  first  large  group 
to  begin  self-help  efforts  to  solve  their 
marketing  problems.  But  it  may  be  be- 
cause in  their  efforts  to  market  their 
products  they  have  met  with  and  over- 
come more  obstacles  than  most  other 
types  of  agricultural  co-operatives- 

"Efforts  to  form  milk  co-operatives 
have  often  been  opposed  both  by  dealers 
and  by  public  officials.  For  example,  when 
the  milk  producers  in  Cook  County,  Illi- 
nois, met  in  1917,  to  give  effect  to  recom- 
mendations of  the  Federal  Food  Admini- 
strator, their  leaders  were  charged  with 
violating  the  State  Anti-Trust  Act.  But 
after  the  war  they  were  tried  before  a 
jury  of  city  men  and  acquitted.  Leaders 
of  other  associations  in  various  parts  of 
the  country  were  made  subjects  of  similar 
attacks.  In  a  course  of  time  the  dairy 
co-operators  have  won  the  title  of  'The 
Rainbow  Division  of  Agriculture.' 

"Notwithstanding  these  obstacles  they 
have  forged  steadily  ahead,  and  through 
their  National  Federation,  they  carried 
through  a  long  program  of  legislation  in- 
tended to  give  them  a  measure  of  equality 
as  compared  with  their  competitors. 

"From  1915  to  1925  the  amount  of 
business  handled  by  dairy  co-operatives 
increased  500  per  cent.  In  dairy  co-opera- 
tion, Minnesota  is  the  leading  state  with 
New  York  second,  Wisconsin  third  and 
California  fourth.  Over  50  per  cent,  of 
the  co-operative  dairy  business  of  the 
country  is  credited  to  fluid  milk  associa- 
tions, over  40  per  cent,  to  creameries  sell- 
ing butter  and  about  5  per  cent,  to  co- 
operative cheese  factories. 

"With  their  continued  growth  has 
come  toleration,  acceptance,  recognition 
and  finally  a  friendlier  relationship  as 
between  the  co-operatives  and  city  dis- 
tributors. By  means  of  this  closer  con- 
tact, the  producer  co-operatives  have  been 
instrumental  in  developing  greater  effi- 
ciency on  the  part  of  many  commercial 
distributors  of  their  products ;  and  con- 
sumers have  materially  benefitted  with  re- 
spect to  prices  paid  by  them." 


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TWO  VERMONT  DISTRICTS 

The  new  manager  of  the  St.  Johnsbury 
field  district  is  Samuel  Stearns,  well 
known  among  many  association  members 
as  the  plant  manager  of  the  Manchester 
Dairy  System.  In  the  May  issue  of  the 
Dairyman  we  reported  that  E.  P.  Osgood, 
who  had  been  slated  to  become  manager 
of  this  new  field  district  when  it  was  set 
up,  had  been  called  home  by  the  death  of 
his  father.  After  giving  the  matter  care- 
ful consideration  Mr.  Osgood  decided 
that  his  obligation  lay  at  home  and  he 
resigned  his  position  with  the  association 
to  manage  the  home  farm  at  Frycburg. 
The  staff  members  regret  to  lose  Mr. 
Osgood  as  a  member  of  the  "family." 

Mr.  Stearns  and  F.  C.  Warner,  head 
of  the  field  service  department,  have  been 
in  the  St.  Johnsbury  district  for  a  week 
or  two  holding  some  meetings  and  calling 
on  farmers.  The  important  work  of 
check  testing  and  reinstatement  of  mem- 
bers, together  with  other  small  pieces  of 
service,  will  keep  the  new  manager  busy 
as  his  territory  is  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant milk  producing  sections  of  New 
England.  It  will  cover  all  Northern  New 
Hampshire,  all  of  Northern  Vermont,  as 
far  west  as  Morrisville  and  down  the 
Connecticut  valley  to  a  little  below  White 
River  Junction. 

The  new  manager  is  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  New  Hampshire  and  for  a 
year  after  graduation  did  advanced  regis- 
try work  and  cow  test  association  work. 
This  gave  him  an  intimate  knowledge  of 
farm  conditions  and  of  testing  which  will 
be  of  great  value  to  him  in  his  new  posi- 
tion. He  went  with  the  Manchester  dairy 
system  soon  after  it  was  organized  and 
for  two  years  has  served  as  plant  man- 
ager. By  experience  and  personality  he 
is  fitted  to  give  the  farmers  of  that 
region  some  fine  service. 

The  third  field  district  of  our  associa- 
tion, covering  Northwestern  Vermont,  has 
been  established.  N.  H.  Wells,  who  has 
been  working  for  the  association  a  year 
in  the  recanvass  on  the  new  dues  order 
basis,  and  more  recently  in  general  field 
service  work,  is  the  resident  manager  of 
the  new  district.  He,  also,  will  be  a  busy 
man  as  he  has  all  of  Franklin,  Grand  Isle, 
Chittenden  counties  and  part  of  Lamoille 
county  under  his  charge.  Check  testing 
and  straightening  out  the  minor  difficul- 
ties will  take  much  of  his  time.  While 
most  of  the  locals  in  that  big  producing 
milk  area  are  in  good  condition  there  are 
some  where  the  membership  could  be  ma- 
terially increased.  As  soon  as  he  gets  to 
making  the  rounds,  and  getting  acquainted 
with  the  officers  and  members  we  would 
expect  a  considerable  increase  in  strength 
in  that  district.  His  territory  will  include 
all  of  Northern  Vermont  not  covered  by 
the  St.  Johnsbury  district,  and  as  far 
south  as  Addison  county.  His  territory 
shares  with  the  St.  Johnsbury  district  the 
distinction  of  being  the  largest  milk  pro- 
ducing section  of  New  England. 


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Nashua,  N.  H  66c    per  &l/2  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  64c    per  8    qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  80c    per  10  qt.  can 

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Portland,  Me   7.8c  per  qt. 

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PRICES  AND  SUPPLIES 
There  was  no  change  in  price  effective 
in  any  market  for  the  month  of  May. 
The  amount  of  surplus  carried  by  some 
of  the  dealers  has  shown  a  slight  in- 
crease due  to  the  fact  that  cows  have  now 
been  turned  out  and  therefore  production 
is  somewhat  higher.  Coupled  with  this 
fact  of  small  increase  in  production  in 
the  country  we  have  had  poor  conditions 
for  the  sale  of  milk  in  cities.  The 
weather  has  been  dull,  rainy,  and  cold  so 
far  during  the  month  which  is  just  the 
kind  of  weather  to  hold  back  sales. 
Everybody  has  been  looking  for  a  change 
in  weather  conditions  and  when  this 
comes,  sales  will  increase,  which  will 
offset  the  increases  in  production. 

There  has  been  considerable  eagerness 
shown  by  several  dealers  in  the  various 
markets  to  buy  additional  supplies  because 
they  feel  that  when  the  weather  changes 
and  we  have  some  hot  days  milk  will  soon 
become  quite  short  and  they  will  need 
additional  supplies. 

We  have  had  several  requests  from 
producers  asking  our  office  to  locate  a 
market  for  their  milk  and  so  far  have 
been  able  to  place  nearly  all  of  the  pro- 
ducers who  have  applied.  Sometimes  we 
have  to  ask  a  producer  to  wait  for  a 
short  time  until  an  opening  occurs,  but 
eventually  we  have  been  able  to  place  all 
the  producers  who  have  asked  us  to  find 
them  a  market. 

BUSINESS  CONDITIONS 
Lawrence  and  Manchester  are  still  ex- 
periencing severe  business  depressions  and 
there  does  not  seem  to  be  any  relief  in 
sight.  Reports  from  Haverhill  indicate 
that  business  seems  to  be  a  little  better 
in  this  market.  Some  of  the  dealers  state 
they  have  never  seen  collections  for  milk 
sold  come  in  better  than  they  have  during 
the  past  two  months.  This,  of  course, 
means  that  the  people  are  getting  their 
money  and  is  an  indication  of  better  busi- 
ness conditions.  Those  in  close  touch 
with  the  situation  in  Lowell  state  that 
conditions  are  slowly  improving  in  this 
market.  Although  there  has  been  no 
great  change  for  the  better  as  yet,  there 
seems  to  be  a  general  feeling  that  busi- 
ness is  on  the  mend  and  is  now  headed  in 
the  right  direction.  Nashua  reports  busi- 
ness conditions  as  being  very  fair  and 
there  is  no  "serious  complaint  from  that 
section  with  respect  to  "the  way  collec- 
tions are  being  made  and  the  way  the 
consumers  are  buying  milk. 

ANNUAL  MEETING 
Annual  meetings  of  the  Newmarket, 
Epping  and  Concord,  N.  H.,  Locals  have 
been  held  during  the  month.  The  officers 
elected  are  as  follows :  Newmarket,  N. 
H.,  Local,  president,  Mark  L.  Mills; 
secretary,  Carl  H.  Mathes.  Epping,  N. 
H.,  Local,  president,  Matthew  Harvey; 
secretary,  Lewis  L.  Edgerly.  Concord, 
N.  H.,  Local,  president,  P.  R.  Dalbec ; 
secretary,  Ray  Barnard.  The  Newmarket 
Local  elected  H.  H.  Smith  as  their  repre- 
sentative on  the  Sales  Committee  for  the 
Haverhill  Market.  Milk  from  this  sec- 
tion is  going  to  the  Wason-MacDonald 
Company  of  Haverhill.  At  Epping,  N. 
H.,  Wm.  S.  Mason  was  elected  to  serve 
on  the  Sales  Committee  for  the  Man- 
chester Market.  Milk  from  Epping  is 
going  to  Batchelder  &  Cushman,  N.  J. 
Nassikas,  and  Manchester  Dairy  System, 
all  located  in  Manchester.  Mr.  Mason 
will  represent  these  producers  shipping 
their  supply  into  Manchester. 


La  Belle  of  Cress  Lawn 

Official  record  milked  three  times  a  day,  13643  lbs. 
of  milk,  649  lbs  fat  Farm  record  next  year  on  Amco 
24%  Universal,  milked  twice  a  day,  15990  lbs  milk. 


Farm  care  and 

AMCO  FEED 

bettered  her  official  record 


MEN  handling  cows  on  official  test  always  give  them  the  best  of  care. 
Handled  this  way  and  milked  three  times  a  day,  LaBelle  of  Cress 
Lawn  made  an  official  record  of  13,643  lbs.  of  milk,  649  lbs.  of  fat,  as  a 
three-year-old 

The  next  year  her  new  owner,  li.  tJaker  Pyle,  gave  her  only  ordinary  farm 
care  and  milked  her  twice  a  day,  but  he  fed  her  Amco  24%  Universal 
and  some  corn  and  oats.  She  made  15,990  lbs.  of  milk.  This  is  an  increase 
of  2347  lbs.  of  milk  in  her  record  as  a  four-year-old  under  ordinary 
farm  care  which,  as' Mr.  Pyle  says,"/s  something  to  the  credit  of  the 
feed."  Another  cow  in  the  herd  exceeded  her  official  record  by  442  lbs. 
No  cow  in  Mr.  Pyle's  herd  produced  less  than  her  official  record.  Mr. 
Pyle's  letter  follows: 

American  Milling  Company 
Peoria,  111. 

I  have  been  using  Amco  Open  Formula  feeds  for  three  years  previous  to  this  with 
excellent  results.  In  that  period  I  have  never  had  a  cow  off  feed  from  overfeeding. 

I  keep  accurate  account  of  what  each  cow  produces  and  find  that  our  herd  of  sixteen 
registered  Guernseys  averaged  8970  lbs.  of  milk  last  year  and  seven  were  two-year-old 
heifers. 

LaBelle  of  Cress  Lawn  (116993),  A.  R.  record,  13643  lbs.  of  milk,  649.28  lbs.  fat, 
Class  D,  an  outstanding  cow  in  our  herd,  produced  for  me  15,990  lbs.  of  milk,  exceeding 
her  official  record  by  2347  lbs.  of  milk.  This  cow  consumed  as  high  as  18  lbs.  of  Amco 
24%  Universal  and  6  lbs.  of  corn  and  oats  a  day  and  never  refused  to  eat. 

Imp.  Queen  Mary  of  Sunnyside  (47194),  another  wonderful  cow,  with  three  A.  R. 
records,  produced  for  me  10,880  lbs.  of  milk,  exceeding  her  official  record  by  442  lbs.  of 
milk.  All  my  other  A.  R.  cows  produced  equal  to  their  A.  R.  records  which  is  something 
to  the  credit  of  the  feed.  As  all  official  records  were  done  with  three  milkings  per  day 
and  ours  on  two  per  day,  I  would  recommend  the  Amco  Open  Formula  feeds  to  any 
dairyman  who  is  looking  for  the  best. 

E.  BAKER  PYLE 

Phoenixville,  Pa. 
R.  F.  D.  3 

Amco  20%  Dairy  is  suggested  for  feeding  on  pasture  this  summer.  Ask 
your  Amco  Agent  for  it.  Fed  liberally,  it  will  do  these  three  things: 

1 .  Make  you  more  milk  this  summer. 

2.  Make  you  more  milk  for  the  same  amount  of  feed  next  winter. 

3.  Keep  the  flesh  on  your  cows  this  summer. 

DIVISION  OFFICE:  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 

Amco 

{feed  mixing  service 

AMERICAN  MILLING  COMPANY 
Executive  Offices :  Peoria,  111. 

Plants  at :  PEORIA,  ILL.;  OMAHA,  NEB.;  OWENSBORO,  KY. 
Alfalfa  Plants  at:  POWELL,  GARLAND,  and  WORLAND,  WYO. 


Jwne,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


At  the  annual  meetings  a  general  dis- 
cussion was  held  with  respect  to  con- 
ditions relating  to  and  influencing  the  milk- 
marketing  situation  in  New  England. 
Problems  in  local  markets  into  which  the 
milk  from  each  section  was  being  shipped 
were  also  discussed. 

At  Newmarket  every  man  shipping 
milk  from  that  section  is  now  a  member 
of  the  NEMPA.  At  Epping,  S.  J.  Kid- 
son  joined  the  association,  which  leaves 
only  three  or  four  producers  from  this 
section  now  shipping  their  milk  into 
Manchester  who  are  not  members  of  the 
NEMPA. 

FIELD  WORK 

The  district  manager  spent  some  time 
canvassing  for  members  among  the  pro- 
ducers living  in  Newfields,  Halcyon,  Dan- 
bury,  Grafton  and  Westboro,  N.  H. 
Ransom  Cross,  of  Enfield,  a  member  of 
the  Manchester,  N.  H.,  Sales  Committee, 
went  with  me  one  day  when  producers  in 
Halcyon  and  Danbury  were  called  upon 
and  invited  to  join  the  association.  The 
results  of  this  canvass  were  very  gratify- 
ing. All  but  two  of  the  producers  visited 
joined  the  association  and  all  of  them, 
excepting  one,  are  selling  their  milk  to 
the  Batchelder  &  Cushman  Company  of 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  and  that  producer  is 
selling  to  E.  C.  Blake  of  Manchester. 

Those  joining  the  association  and  sign- 
ing the  dues  orders  are  as  follows : 

From  Danbury — D.  J.  Perkins  &  Son, 
W.  F.  Russell,  W.  H.  Huntoon,  John  H. 
DeBay,  L.  F.  Huntoon,  Ray  J.  Martin, 
Mrs.  J.  F.  Schirmer,  and  Edwin  B.  Ford. 
From  E.  Andover — W.  A.  Palmeter,  C. 
D.  Colby,  and  Byron  S.  French.  From 
Grafton — Earl  L.  Robinson  and  G.  L. 
Barney.    From  Newfields — O.  C.  Bean. 

J.  G.  Robertson  of  Derry  has  also 
joined  the  association  and  signed  an  order. 
His  milk  is  going  to  Findeisen  Farms  at 
Lawrence. 

LOCALS  TRANSFERRED 
The  New  Gloucester,  Me.,  Local,  which 
has  been  included  in  the  Northern  Market 
District,  has  now  been  changed  so  that 
it  will  come  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
field  district  in  Maine.  This  local  was 
so  far  removed  from  Lawrence  that  it 
was  felt  that  better  service  and  closer 
contact  could  be  had  with  the  member- 
in  the  Northern  Market  District  has  been 
ship  through  this  change.  In  its  place 
put  the  North  Berwick,  Me-,  Local.  North 
Berwick  is  very  near  the  New  Hamp- 
shire boundary  and  is  very  close  to  Eliot, 
Me.,  which  local  has  always  been  in  the 
Northern  Market  District.  A  consider- 
able portion  of  the  milk  from  both  these 
towns  is  going  to  Portsmouth,  N.  H.  I 
hope  to  be  able  to  give  these  members  of 
North  Berwick  who  have  been  added  to 
the  Northern  Market  District,  more 
assistance  than  they  have  had  in  the  past. 
We  surely  will  try  to  make  them  feel 
that  they  are  welcome  in  our  district  and 
hope  that  if  they  have  problems  they  will 
not  hesitate  to  get  in  touch  with  the  dis- 
trict manager  at  once. 


CHECK  TESTING 

Check  tests  were  made  in  May  at  the 
plants  of  W.  T.  Boyd  and  Son  in  Nashua, 
and  H.  P.  Hood  Company  at  their  Salem, 
Mass.,  plant.  Results  of  findings  of  tests 
have  been  forwarded  to  the  farmers  sell- 
ing to  these  concerns.  Some  personal 
tests  have  been  made  at  other  plants  when 
a  request  has  been  received  at  this  office 
for  a  little  additional  help  along  this  line. 

Testing  and  other  service  work  for 
members  only  has  been  carried  on  in  the 
newly  organized  Maine  Field  district  the 


No.  17 

DE  LAVAL  SEPARATOR 

Electric  Drive 
Used  to  Demonstrate  at  Fair 

Price  New  $185.00 
Sale  Price  $135.00 

MILK  DEALERS  SUPPLY  CO. 

180  SALEM  STREET 
LAWRENCE,  MASS. 


past  month  by  the  district  manager,  I".  L. 
Foley.  One  of  the  important  pieces  of 
field  service  which  was  rendered  was  in 
the  Wiscasset  district  where  about  IS 
producers  had  been  shut  off  by  the  Bos- 
ton health  department.  Mr.  Foley  im- 
mediately went  into  that  territory  and 
looked  into  the  reasons  for  this  shutting 
off.  In  most  cases  he  found  them  of  such 
a  minor  nature  that  a  comparatively  small 
amount  of  work  and  expense  would  do 
away   with  the  difficulty.     In  all  these 


cases  changes  were  made  and  the  rein- 
statement followed  quickly  on  Mr.  Foley's 
recommendation  and  assurance  that  the 
requirements  had  been  met  in  a  reasonable 
way. 

Check  testing  has  been  carried  on 
steadily.  At  a  number  of  important 
shipping  stations  samples  of  all  producers 
who  were  members  of  the  association 
were  taken  and  checked  by  the  field 
manager.  In  general  the  tests  checked 
out  Well  with  the  tests  given  by  the 


station  men  and  in  the  few  cases  where 
there  was  any  considerable  variation  the 
causes  have  not  been  sought  out.  Check 
testing  in  the  Maine  district  was  done  at 
the  Whiting  plant  at  Etna  and  at  the 
Hood  plant  at  Winslows  Mills. 

Check  testing  was  also  carried  on  at 
the  Hood  plant  at  Newport,  Vt. ;  the 
plants  of  Westwood  Farms  and  Seven 
Oaks  at  Newport,  and  the  Whiting  plants 
at  Houghs  Crossing,  Leicester  Junction 
and  Rutland. 


FREE  ROUGHAGE  SEASON 

is  here  / 

"LJOORAY!  Now  it  will  cost  only  half  as  much  to 
4  feed  the  cows,  because  you  won't  have  to  feed 
them  costly  roughage. 

Good  pasture  is  better  roughage  than  any  hay  or 
silage  you  ever  fed,  and  Cow  Chow  balances  with  it 
to  make  an  ideal  summer  ration. 

Of  course  you're  going  to  feed  Cow  Chow  on 
pasture  because  it  means — 

1  —More  milk  now 

2 — No  summer  slump 

3 — Better  milking  cows  next  fall 

Order  Cow  Chow  from  the  store  with  the  checker- 
board sign. 

PURINA  MILLS,  850  Gratiot  Street,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Seven  Busy  Mills  Located  for  Service 

Write  us  for  a  Purina  Cow  Booklet — free 


THE  DE,  LAVAL  MILKER 

IS   SIMPLE   AND   EASY  TO  OPERATE 

 V. 


Facts  about  the 

De  Laval  MilKer 

1.  650,000  cows  now  milked  the  De  Laval  Way. 

2.  De  Laval  Milkers  now  in  their  eleventh  year 

of  use. 

3.  83.27%  of  the  users  report  average  saving  of 
2  hrs.,  12  mins.  per  day — saves  half  the  time  in 

milking.* 

4.  97.13    of  the  users  say  it  agrees  with  their 

cows.* 

5.  99.4%  of  the  users  say  they  get  as  much  or 
more  milk  with  the  De  Laval  as  by  hand 

milking.* 

6.  9.49%  average  increase  in  producticn  per  cow 
is  reported  by  those  who  claim  the  De  Laval 
Milker  increases  production.* 

7.  94.80%  of  De  Laval  users  say  their  milker  is 
easy  to  keep  in  a  clean  and  sanitary  condition.* 

8.  Average  bacteria  count  of  all  reporting,  14,542 
—62%  report  counts  of  10,000  and  less.* 

9.  96.45%  of  De  Laval  users  say  their  milker  is 
"the  best,"  "one  of  the  best,"  or  a  "good"  in- 
vestment, as  compared  with  other  farm  equip- 
ment they  own.* 

*  Based  on  reports  from  1844  De  Laval  Milker  users  in  all  parts 
of  the  United  States  and  Canada. 


The  De  Laval 
Separator  Company 


New  YorK 
165  Broadway 


The  pulsator  is  an  example  of 
the  simplicity  of  the  De  Laval 
Milker — only  one  moving  part ! 


THE  simple  design  and  rugged  construction 
of  the  De  Laval  Milker  provide  ample 
assurance  of  absolute  dependability. 

You  do  not  have  to  be  a  mechanic  to  oper- 
ate a  De  Laval.  It  is  entirely  "fool-proof,"  for 
there  are  no  adjustments  to  be  made — no  one 
can  alter  its  action  or  change  the  speed  at  which 
your  cows  are  milked. 


Outfits 
for  any 
Size 
Herd 

Sold  on 

Easy 

Terms 


See  your 
De  Laval 
Agent  or 
write  to 
nearest 
office 
for  full 
information 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  11.    Number  4 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  JULY,  1927 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


MAKE  COMPLAINT 


Rate  Case  Committee  Acts  to  Save 
Producers  Another  $30,000  in 
Transportation  Changes 

The  latest  move  in  the  railroad  rate 
case  is  a  formal  complaint  to  the  Inter- 
state Commerce  Commission  against  the 
■New  England  railroads  on  the  ground 
:hat  the  rate  schedules  they  actually  filed 
md  which  went  into  effect  June  10,  were 
not  in  accordance  with  the  findings  of  the 
commission.  The  difference  between  what 
i:he  railroads  are  charging  and  what  the 
t  ;ommission  authorized  them  to  charge 
,imounts  to  some  $30,000  a  year.  This  is 
worth  fighting  against,  even  though  the 
jeneral  increased  rates  are  in  effect. 

This  complaint  comes  in  addition  to  a 
petition  for  a  reopening  of  the  case  on 
:he  ground  of  inconsistencies  in  the  find- 
ings of  the  commission.  This  petition 
was  discussed  in  the  June  Dairyman.  It 
s  still  before  the  commission  but  is  to  be 
aken  up  for  action  July  11.  The  com- 
plaint, coming  in  addition  to  the  petition, 
strengthens  the  protest  made  by  the  com- 
nittee  representing  the  dairy  interests  of 
New  England. 

Used  Wrong  Zone 
The  specific  ground  on  which  the  com- 
plaint is  made  is  that  the  railroads  have 
jsed  the  second  10  mile  zone  in  the  New 
¥ork  schedule  as  a  basis  for  a  charge  in 
i  20  mile  zone  in  New  England  instead  of 
using  the  first  10  mile  zone.  In  New 
¥ork  and  Philadelphia  the  transportation 
fates  are  fixed  on  a  10  mile  zone  basis, 
whereas  they  are  on  a  20  mile  zone  basis 
n  New  England. 

The  Interstate  Commerce  Commission 
jranted  the  railroads  a  20  per  cent,  in- 
:rease  within  100  miles  and  an  equaliza- 
ion  with  the  New  York  rates  on  longer 
lauls.  When  the  railroads  put  out  their 
schedules  to  be  effective  June  10,  they 
nade  the  rates  on  20  mile  zones  corre- 
spond, in  every  case,  to  the  second  of  the 
ncluded  10  mile  zones  in  New  York.  That 
is,  the  rate  on  milk  in  the  161  to  180  mile 
'.one  in  New  England  was  made  to  cor- 
respond with  the  rate  in  the  171  to  180 
mile  zone  in  New  York,  43  cents  per  40 
iUiart  can,  instead  of  to  the  161-170  mile 
;:one  rate,  42  cents,  as  it  should  have  been 
.inder  the  decision  of  the  commission. 

Higher  Rates 
The  complaint  sets  forth  that  the  de- 
cision of  the  commission  did  not  authorize 
iny  20  mile  zones  but  authorized  rates 
similar  to  the  New  York  rates  which  are 
m  10  mile  zones.   The  action  of  the  rail- 
roads, the  complaint  states,  actually  estab- 
I  lishes  higher  rates  than  are  in  effect  in 
New  York  and  are  thus  contrary  to  the 
landings  of  the  Commission.    The  differ- 
I  :nces  between  the  New  York  rates  and 

I  :he  ones  which  were  put  out  for  New 
i  England  are  from  a  half  cent  to  \Yi  cents 

I I  can,  but  the  difference  in  round  num- 
j  3ers  is  about  $30,000  a  year. 

The  situation  seems  to  be  that  the  rail- 
broads  have  taken  advantage  of  the  exist- 
ing differences  in  zone  basis  between  New 
I  Vork  and  New  England  to  put  $30,000  in 
i  ".heir  pockets  in  addition  to  the  increase 
\  granted  them  by  the  commission.  They 
j  nave  done  this,  the  complaint  avers,  with- 
I  sut  justification  and  they  will  "get  away 
i  »vith  it"  unless  the  commission  takes  action 
Ion  this  complaint. 


Conference  Board  Meeting  July  14 


PRICE  UP  JULY  15 


The  efforts  of  the  New  England  Coun- 
cil to  assist  the  dairy  industry  of  New 
England  solve  its  own  major  problems  in 
a  businesslike  way  is  bearing  definite 
fruit.  At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  special 
committee  selected  to  investigate  the  pos- 
sibilities of  a  New  England  Dairy  Con- 
ference Board,  a  tentative  form  of  or- 
ganization and  a  procedure  for  such  a 
board  was  adopted.  It  will  be  presented 
to  a  general  meeting  of  representatives  of 
all  the  dairy  co-operative  marketing  or- 
ganizations, owned  and  controlled  by 
farmers,  to  be  held  at  the  American 
House,  Boston,  July  14. 

Through  the  efforts  of  Harry  R.  Lewis, 
chairman  of  the  agricultural  committee  of 
the  New  England  Council,  all  the  co- 
operative dairy  organizations  will  come 
together  on  a  common  ground  to  discuss 
their  common  problems  and  if  possible  to 
affect  some  definite  form  of  organization 
which  will  carry  on  from  year  to  year  and 
be  in  a  position  to  speak  with  authority 
as  representing  a  united  dairy  industry. 
The  NEMPA  will  have  its  representative 
at  this  meeting,  coming  in  on  the  same 
basis  and  with  no  more  rights  and  privi- 
leges than  the  smallest  co-operative  or- 
ganization in  New  England. 

More  than  75  co-operative  organiza- 
tions will  be  invited  to  send  a  delegate  to 
this  meeting.  They  range  all  the  way 
from  the  Turner  Centre  System  and  the 
United  Dairy  System,  each  with  thousands 
of  producer  patrons  who  own  and  control 
the  business,  down  to  obscure  cheese  fac- 
tories composed  of  small  groups  of  farm- 
ers back  in  the  hills.  Each  will  have  an 
equal  voice  in  setting  up  the  conference 
board  if  the  tentative  program  is  adopted 
and  put  into  effect.  In  developing  this 
plan  of  procedure  Mr.  Lewis  and  the  men 
who  have  assisted  him  have  done  a  fine 
piece  of  work. 

The  members  of  the  committee  repre- 
sent a  wide  variety  of  conditions  in  the 
co-operative  field  and  many  points  of 
view  have  been  considered  in  drawing  up 
the  tentative  plans.  The  members  of  the 
committee  are  Frank  A.  Carroll,  manager 
of  the  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  co-operative, 
Weston  B.  Haskell,  manager  of  the  Tur- 
ner Centre  System,  J.  F.  McLennon, 
manager  of  the  Bellows  Falls,  Vt.,  co- 
operative, Carl  C.  Fletcher,  manager  of 
the  Shelburne,  Vt.,  co-operative,  W.  P. 
Davis,  assistant  manager  of  the  NEMPA 
and  Mr.  Lewis. 

While  a  rather  complete  plan  of  organi- 
zation and  method  of  procedure  was 
agreed  to  in  the  committee,  it  was  merely 
tentative  and  may  be  modified  or  changed 
altogether  when  the  general  meeting  is 
held.  A  full  statement  of  the  plan  will 
be  drawn  up  and  mailed  to  each  of  the 
co-operatives  so  that  they  can  have  op- 
portunity to  discuss  it  among  themselves 
and  to  send  to  the  general  meeting  a  man 
who  can  state  their  views  and  carry  back 
to  them  a  clear  statement  of  the  views 
expressed  in  the  coming  general  confer- 
ence. 

While  it  is  not  in  order  to  give  the  full 
plan  at  present  or  to  discuss  it  in  detail, 
there  are  certain  outstanding  recommenda- 
tions which  are  open  for  everybody's  con- 
sideration. First  there  will  be  no  financial 
obligation  falling  on  any  of  the  groups 
except  for  a  specific  purpose  having  the 
unanimous   approval   of   the  conference 


board.  There  will  be  no  dues,  fees  or  as- 
sessments. Every  delegate  from  every 
co-operative  organization  will  have  a  vote 
in  the  conference  board  and  no  action 
taken  by  the  board  will  be  binding  on  any 
organization  unless  the  vote  has  been 
unanimous.  That  is,  no  action  will  be 
binding  on  any  organization  unless  their 
own  representative  has  voted  for  it. 

It  is  the  recommendation  of  the  com- 
mittee that  the  conference  board  be  kept 
as  a  body  representing  each  unit,  which 
means  from  75  to  8t>  members  on  the 
board.  While  definite  action  would  be 
taken  by  the  board  as  a  whole,  it  is  prob- 
able that  definite  subjects  would  be  as- 
signed to  various  committees  for  study 
and  report.  It  would  be  possible  for  such 
a  committee  to  submit  its  findings  in 
writing  to  the  various  organizations  in  ad- 
vance of  a  general  meeting  so  that  they 
could  be  fully  informed  as  to  what  the 
recommendations  would  be  and  instruct 
their  delegate  accordingly. 

The  possibilities  of  such  a  group  are  in- 
calculable. As  an  instance  the  rate  case 
is  a  good  example.  When  the  railroads 
announced  their  intention  of  raising  the 
transportation  rates  on  milk  a  special  com- 
mittee was  brought  together.  They  hired 
experts  and  plunged  into  a  big  fight.  They 
made  a  fine  showing  even  if  the  railroads 
did  get  half  what  they  asked  for.  But  if 
there  were  a  permanent  conference  board 
it  might  have  a  committee  gathering  data 
all  the  time,  setting  up  a  line  of  defence 
against  another  attempt  to  raise  rates  a 
few  years  hence.  The  fight  would  be  a 
much  more  equal  one  in  such  a  case.  This 
is  an  example  of  a  common  cause  in  which 
all  organizations  might  unite.  There  is 
no  question  about  their  having  a  unani- 
mous opinion  when  the  time  came  for  ac- 
tion. 

Another  important  question  which  the 
dairy  conference  board  might  take  up  has 
to  do  with  the  eradication  of  bovine  tu- 
berculosis. The  campaign  to  rid  New 
England  of  the  disease  is  well  along. 
Rapid  progress  is  being  made  in  Maine, 
New  Hampshire,  Vermont  and  Connecti- 
cut. Massachusetts  and  Rhode  Island  are 
lagging  behind  somewhat  but  are  getting 
into  their  stride  now.  The  men  who  have 
to  do  with  the  administration  of  the 
eradication  work  have  been  formulating  a 
New  England  program.  The  dairy  con- 
ference board  might  well  take  a  hand  in 
formulating  this  program  as  representa- 
tives of  the  dairy  farmers  themselves. 
The  conference  board  would  add  great 
strength  to  such  a  program  and  it  would 
be  for  the  benefit  of  the  dairy  industry 
that  they  have  a  hand  in  it. 

Perhaps  the  most  important  function 
which  the  dairy  conference  board  might 
have  is  in  respect  to  the  varied  and  some- 
times conflicting  systems  under  which 
milk  is  bought  and  sold  in  New  England. 
These  conflicting  systems  have  been  the 
means  of  inflicting  enormous  and  unneces- 
sary losses  to  the  dairy  farmers  of  New 
England.  It  was  in  a  sincere  effort  to 
straighten  out  these  tangles,  and  to  avoid 
the  ruinous  price  cutting  which  has  at 
times  disrupted  the  markets,  that  the  New 
England  Council  took  hold  of  the  proposi- 
tion firmly  after  the  marketing  conference 
last  fall.  Chairman  Lewis  of  the  Coun- 
cil's agricultural  committee  has  suc- 
ceeded in  getting  all  these  interests  to  at 


Unfavorable     Weather  Reduces 
Sales  and  Delays  Seasonal  In- 
crease of  One  Cent  a  Quart 

The  July  price  starts  at  8  cents  per 
quart,  the  same  as  June,  but  with  the  ex- 
press provision  that  the  trade  can  be  re- 
opened at  any  time  before  July  15,  if  con- 
ditions warrant  an  advance,  and  that  there 
will  be  an  advance  of  a  full  cent  a  quart 
July  15. 

The  sales  committee  of  the  association, 
after  carefully  considering  the  situation 
in  the  market  and  in  the  country  decided 
not  to  attempt  an  advance  on  the  first  of 
the  month,  but  to  go  up  a  cent  July  15  or 
earlier.  They  made  an  offer  to  the  dealers 
on  this  basis.  All  of  the  dealers  recog- 
nized the  need  of  an  advance  and  some  of 
the  larger  ones  were  favorably  inclined 
toward  a  full  cent  July  15.  No  trade  has 
been  closed,  but  it  is  the  confident  ex- 
pectation of  the  sales  committee  that  the 
full  cent  advance  will  go  through  at  that 
time. 

If  the  weather  should  change  to  hot  and 
dry  within  the  next  few  days  there  would 
be  cause  for  reopening  the  trade  and  seek- 
ing an  advance  before  July  15.  The  rea- 
son why  the  committee  did  not  favor  an 
advance  July  1,  was  that  the  weather  had 
been  such  that  sales  are  not  up  to  normal 
for  the  season  and  that  there  is  conse- 
quently considerable  extra  milk  offered 
for  sale.  A  few  hot  days,  however,  would 
probably  exhaust  this  over  supply  and 
leave  the  market  very  short.  As  soon  as 
this  shortage  comes  the  price  will  go  up. 
Warmer  weather  would  also  tend  to  de- 
crease production  materially.  All  the 
dealers  agree  that  milk  is  going  to  be 
short  this  summer,  but  it  is  just  a  question 
of  when  the  shortage  will  become  so 
great  as  to  warrant  a  substantial  advance. 

The  10  cents  a  hundred  on  skim  milk, 
which  has  been  a  material  factor  in  in- 
creasing the  net  return  for  all  milk,  will 
not  be  in  affect  for  July.  During  the 
earlier  part  of  the  year  the  prices  for  by 
products  and  the  general  milk  situation 
warranted  this  special  price  on  skim  but 
during  the  summer  it  is  not  possible  to  get 
it. 


SECRETARY   JARDINE  ON 

CO-OPERATION 

The  aims  of  co-operative  marketing 
are  to  make  farming  a  more  profitable, 
respected  and  self-respecting  profession. 
To  accomplish  these  aims,  it  must  bring 
the  farmer  an  adequate  return  for  his 
labor  and  invested  capital.  However, 
the  effect  of  co-operation  can  not  be  meas- 
ured by  comparisons  between  co-operativ 
and  non-co-operative  methods  of  market- 
ing. The  effect  of  efficient  co-operation 
is  to  stabilize  marketing  and  non-co- 
operators  share  in  the  benefits  thereof,  in 
so  far  as  they  adapt  their  production  and 
marketing  practices  to  the  improvement 
initiated  by  the  co-operative  system. 

least  come  together  and  discuss  the  pos- 
sibilities. Under  his  wise  and  statesman- 
like leadership,  the  agricultural  commit- 
tee council,  as  an  impartial  body,  can  do 
for  the  dairy  industry  a  service  which  it 
would  have  great  difficulty  in  doing  for 
itself.  The  outcome  of  the  coming  meet- 
ing will  be  watched  with  great  interest. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1927 


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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Neveks,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt. ;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

Life,  at  least  for  me,  seems  an  unending 
series  of  new  experiences.  I've  always 
had  a  notion  I'd  like  to  ride  in  an  am- 
bulance. After  much  consideration  by 
doctors  and  others,  it  was  agreed  that  the 
proper  way  to  bring  me  to  New  Hamp- 
shire was  by  ambulance.  I  looked  for- 
ward with  some  pleasure  to  the  108  mile 
trip,  lying  on  a  soft  cot  in  an  easy-riding 
car.  They  handled  me  so  gently  and  the 
bed  was  so  comfortable  that  before  we 
started  I  was  quite  elated.  When  we 
began  to  move  across  rough  pavements 
and  street  car  tracks  every  little  jar  and 
some  big  ones  hurt,  hurt  so  that  I  grunted 
and  before  we'd  gone  a  mile  I  told  my 
wife  I  never  could  stand  it  to  go  clear 
through.  We  found  some  smooth  pave- 
ment where  the  jar  was  slight  and  my 
courage  revived,  but  believe  me,  it  was  a 
tough  journey.  The  state  highways, 
especially  cement,  weren't  so  bad,  but 
going  through  towns  was  fierce.  The 
doctor  who  was  along  doesn't  believe  in 
opiates,  so  I  had  to  grin  and  bear  it,  and 
if  ever  I  was  glad  to  get  anywhere,  it  was 
to  arrive  at  my  camp  near  Laconia. 

I  thought  of  the  poor  fellows  who 
were  carted  about  in  trucks  and  trains 
during  the  war,  suffering  much  worse 
than  I  and  was  ashamed  to  complain — but 

It  sure  seems  good  to  be  up  in  my 
homeland  among  old  friends.  My  doctor 
is  an  old  schoolmate,  friends  have  brought 
in  asparagus,  fresh  from  the  garden, 
folks  I've  known  since  childhood  are  call- 
ing up  and  coming  to  see  me.  I'll  say 
its  does  seem  good. 

My  next  door  neighbor,  a  good  French 


farmer,  said,  "any  dam'  thing  I  got  you 
want,  you  just  holler." 

That's  the  spirit  I've  worked  to  keep  on 
the  farms  of  New  England.  That's  the 
spirit  New  England  can't  afford  to  lose. 
God  bless  these  people. 

PATTEE. 


ADEQUATE  REMUNERATION 

The  NEMPA  is  in  hearty  accord  with 
the  movement  which  has  started  in  Massa- 
chusetts to  secure  just  compensation  for 
cattle  slaughtered  in  the  bovine  tubercu- 
losis eradication.  Elsewhere  in  this  issue 
the  situation  is  reported  in  some  detail. 
It  is  a  clear  case  of  the  parting  of  the 
ways  for  the  people  of  Massachusetts. 
They  want  a  tuberculin  tested  supply  of 
milk.  Within  a  few  years  such  a  supply 
will  be  available  from  the  three  northern 
New  England  states  in  sufficient  quantity 
to  supply  all  that  Massachusetts  needs.  It 
is  not  a  question  of  a  failure  of  the  supply 
for  the  future  but  a  question  of  whether 
or  not  Massachusetts  will  adopt  a  policy 
of  paying  its  farmers  for  their  losses  on  a 
basis  more  comparable  to  what  other 
neighboring  states  are  doing. 

We  believe  that  the  producers  in  the 
Shelburne  Falls  area  have  done  a  real 
service  to  the  dairy  industry  of  the  state, 
and  to  all  Ne"'  England,  by  boldly  stating 
their  position.  There  has  been  in  Massa- 
chusetts a  lot  of  talk  about  the  need  of 
cleaning  up  the  state  but  the  Shelburne 
Falls  men  are  the  first  to  hit  the  nail 
snuarely  on  the  head  and  say  that  they 
must  have  compensation  more  compar- 
able to  what  is  being  paid  in  other  states 
if  they  are  to  take  the  risk  of  having  their 
herds  tested.  If  they  can  have  this  as- 
surance they  will  have  their  herds  tested 
and  save  the  industry  to  that  section  of 
the  state.  If  they  are  not  accorded  this 
simple  act  of  justice  they  will  let  matters 
take  their  course  and  go  out  of  business 
rather  than  subject  themselves  to  losses 
which  producers  in  other  sections  of  New 
England  are  not  called  upon  to  bear. 
This  position  is  not  a  threat  but  a 
straightforward,  businesslike  announce- 
ment of  their  intentions. 

Connecticut  has  recognized  the  justice 
of  practically  full  compensation,  of  not 
requiring  the  farmers  to  share  any  con- 
siderable part  of  the  financial  burden  of 
eradication.  At  best  the  farmer  loses  a 
lot  through  testing ;  the  uncertainty,  the 
necessity  of  getting  replacements,  the  in- 
terval during  which  his  income  from  milk 
may  be  greatly  reduced  are  burdens  which 
he  is  willing  to  bear,  but  in  common  jus- 
tice he  should  not  be  expected,  in  addition, 
to  be  out  of  pocket  from  $30  to  $50. 

We  have  about  90  locals  in  Massachu- 
setts including  between  3,000  and  4,000 
members.  They  are  voters  in  Massachu- 
setts and  have  the  power  of  making  their 
wishes  felt.  Under  our  bylaws  we  have 
a  provision  whereby  the  members  of  the 
association  in  any  state  make  up  a  state 
council  to  consider  and  take  action  on 
matters  which  pertain  only  to  that  state. 

While  we  cannot,  as  a  New  England 
wide  association,  properly  take  formal  ac- 
tion in  a  purely  state  matter,  it  will  be 
entirely  within  our  field  to  call  together 
this  Massachusetts  council  of  our  mem- 
bers and  lay  the  situation  before  them. 
The  action  of  the  Shelburne  Falls  men 
shows  how  one  local  feels.  If  the  other 
89  locals  feel  the  same  way  they  will  be 
in  a  position  to  join  hands  with  other 
farm  organizations  in  the  state  in  an  ef- 
fort to  secure  sufficient  remuneration  for 
the  farmers  and  increased  appropriations 
so  that  the  work  can  go  forward  more 
rapidly. 


PERSONAL  CONTACTS 
With  great  satisfaction  we  record  the 
real  welcome  which  awaits  our  field  men 
at  practically  every  farm  they  visit.  Al- 
most every  letter  and  report  we  get  from 
our  field  service  department  men  gives  new 
evidence  that  we  were  on  the  right  track 
in  putting  such  men  in  the  field.  No  mat- 
ter how  good  a  job  is  being  done  at  the 
central  office,  the  great  bulk  of  our  mem- 
bers need  this  personal  contact  with  some 
one  who  knows  the  ins  and  outs  of  the 
situation  and  can  talk  things  over  in  a 
neighborly  fashion. 

Well  did  one  farmer  express  the  situa- 
tion when  he  said :  "You  seem  a  long 
ways  off  down  there  in  Boston.  We  like 
to  see  you  in  our  dooryards."  He  might 
have  gone  farther,  judging  by  the  letters 
from  the  men.  It  is  not  simply  in  the 
dooryards,  but  in  the  barns,  the  kitchens 
and  at  the  supper  table  that  the  contact  is 
being  made,  for  the  hospitality  of  our 
members  is  one  of  the  most  genuine  kind. 
In  the  press  of  the  work  they  have  to  re- 
fuse many  an  invitation  to  dinner  or  sup- 
per with  the  family  and  to  go  on  to  other 
farms,  other  plants  in  pursuance  of  their 
work.  They  are  not  spending  their  time 
in  mere  visiting,  but  some  of  the  best  op- 
portunities to  give  a  real  service  and  a 
better  understanding  of  the  association's 
work  to  the  members  come  at  times  when 
the  farmer  is  a  little  less  pressed  and  has 
a  little  time  to  talk,  to  ask  questions  and 
to  listen. 

Here  and  there  the  men  report  meeting 
some  farmer  who  is  not  yet  convinced  that 
the  association  is  doing  him  any  good. 
But  they  talk  things  over  with  them  and 
try  to  show  what  the  association  is  do- 
ing. Sometimes  they  get  a  chance  to  tell 
the  story  through,  sometimes  they  make 
no  headway  at  all.  But  we  believe  that 
even  the  calling  on  such  men  is  of  great 
value  to  the  association  and  to  the  dairy 
industry  of  New  England.  Even  if  one 
little  misunderstanding  is  corrected  it  is 
worth  while. 

It  is  just  these  misunderstandings  that 
do  most  of  the  damage.  It  is  mighty 
easy  to  be  critical  at  something  far  off, 
something  that  you  just  read  about.  But 
when  an  enthusiastic,  agreeable,  well-in- 
formed young  man  drives  into  a  dooryard 
and  starts  talking  things  over  the  mis- 
understandings seem  to  fade  away  as  if  by 
magic. 

This  is  the  impression  we  at  the  cen- 
tral office  get  from  reports  and  chance 
opportunities  to  hear  from  the  farmers 
who  have  been  seen  by  our  new  field  men. 
It  is  a  most  worth  while  piece  of  service, 
one  that  ought  to  have  been  given  long 
ago,  but  finances  would  not  permit  it.  Al- 
together, aside  from  the  .direct  assistance 
which  the  men  are  giving  in  check  testing 
and  in  reinstatements,  this  driving  into  the 
dooryard  and  having  a  talk  with  a  mem- 
ber is  of  incalculable  value  to  the  asso- 
ciation and  to  the  dairy  industry. 

In  the  letters  from  our  field  men  there 
are  many  things  which  we  read  between 
the  lines.  They  make  us  feel  doubly  sure 
that  we  have  the  right  type  of  men  in  the 
field.  When  one  of  them  reports  help- 
ing a  farmer  with  a  sick  horse  before 
talking  association,  when  another  reports 
offering  to  return  a  membership  agree- 
ment to  a  man  because  he  heard  that  the 
man  was  not  satisfied  with  the  association, 
when  we  here  of  their  standing  up  in  meet- 
ings and  talking  straight  from  the  shoul- 
der about  conditions  and  what  must  be 
done  to  mend  them,  we  feel  like  giving 
"three  rousing  cheers"  as  the  Chief  says. 
They  are  making  hundreds  for  themselves 
and  bring  about  a  better  understanding. 


SECRETARY  JARDINE  AT  CO- 
OPERATIVE INSTITUTE 

Prominent  in  the  development  of  co- 
operative marketing  at  the  present  time  is 
the  formation  of  large-scale  organizations, 
and  the  enlargement  of  organizations  al- 
ready in  existence.    This  development  is 
necessary   and   desirable.     Co-operatives  '  ; 
must  meet  the  competition  of  large  and 
well  organized  business  enterprises,  and  • 
must  have,  therefore,  whatever  efficiency  I  ' 
and  economy  may  be  obtained  through  the  ; 
formation    of    large    operating    units,  f 
Agencies  dealing  in  farm  products  must  ') 
have  volume  and  they  will  more  readily 
make   contacts   with   large   co-operative  li: 
units.    There  is  some  danger,  however,  -1 
that  when  emphasis  is  placed  on  the  dc-  f 
velopment  of   a   big  business  by  busi- 
ness specialists,  the  control  and  participa- 
tion of  the  farmers  may  become  remote  11 
and  uncertain.    You  are  familiar  with  the  I 
present  tendency  toward  closer  working  >  >■■ 
relationship  between  co-operative  enter-  81 
prises  and  other  business  groups.    When  1 
these  relationships  involve  contracts  with 
private  dealers,  or  the  participation  of  in-  : 
dustrial  leaders,  the  fundamental  principle  f 
of  producer  control  must  be  safeguarded.  3 

Co-operation  in  agriculture  is  a  farmer'  5 
movement.  We  do  not  deny  to  other  f 
groups  the  right  to  co-operate,  but  any  i 
movement  which  is  not  sponsored  an*  I 
controlled  by  farmers  is  not  agricultural 
co-operation.  Unless  an  association  is  f 
composed  of  and  controlled  by  producers  ' 
it  is  not  entitled  to  the  benefits  granted.  » 
associations  of  producers  under  the  Cap-  * 
per-Volstead  Act. 

We  may  define  co-operative  marketing, 
as  the  term  is  used  in  agriculture,  as  mar- 
keting  by  and  for  the  farmers.    There  fil 
are   two   essential   principles   which,    it  l< 
seems  to  me,  determine  whether  an  or-  1 
ganization  is  or  is  not  co-operative.  First,  81 
is  it  operated  solely  to  render  service  to  i 
the  producers  at  cost  ?.    Secondly,  is  it 
controlled  by  the  producers  ? 

Co-operative  marketing  associations  are  l» 
operated    to    render    efficient    marketing  kl 
service.    They  are  not  operated  to  eai  ill 
a  profit  for  capital  invested  in  marketing i  II 
facilities.    They  are  not  operated  to  per-i  R 
petuate  an  inefficient  system  of  marketing,!  « 
or  to  encourage  unprofitable  production  !  I 
They  are  not  operated  to  assemble  prod-!  1 
ucts  for  the  purpose  of  making  unneces-  ( 
sary  marketing  facilities  profitable.  As- 
suredly, they  are  not  operated  to  reward  I 
a  few  individuals  financially,  politically  or  i' 
socially.   They  should  be  operated  for  but 
one  purpose — better  service  to  the  farm-  i 
ers.    This  singleness  of  purpose  is  a  fun-i 
damental  test  of  genuine  co-operation. 

Co-operative  marketing  among  farmer;! 
implies  also  control  of  the  co-operativil  fa 
organizations  by  their  producer  members  i 
It  implies  democratic  control.  An  or-  u 
ganization  is  not  co-operative  if  controlled!  The 
by  a  few  men  representing  only  a  minor-  at 
ity  of  the  patrons,  whether  these  men  are  In 
producers  or  nonproducers.  It  would  not  v 
be  co-operative,  if  it  were  controlled  by  h 
an  agency  of  the  government.  It  would  is 
not  be  co-operative  if  it  were  set  up  anq  ti 
operated  by  a  semi-philanthropic  organi-  it 
zation. 

The  weakness  of  an  organization  set  uf| 
and  operated  for  the  farmers  by  others 
involves  more  than  a  mere  failure  to  plact 
control  in  the  hands  of  the  men  for  whoir 
the  business  is  conducted.  Whether  the 
business  is  carried  on  efficiently  or  ineffi- 
ciently, the  ultimate  effect  is  to  smothei; 
rural  initiative  and  self-help. 

On  the  other  hand,  what  the  farmersHtj 
accomplish  through  co-operation  is  a  per-H 
manent  contribution  to  better  farm  con-H* 
ditions.    In  developing  their  own  organi-! I 
zations  they  gain  experience  and  confi-  I 
dence.    In  acquiring  knowledge  of  mar-M 
keting   problems,    they    learn   to    mak«  I 
needed  improvements  and  adjustments  inl  ' 
production.    Dependence  on  the  Govern-)  # 
ment  or  on  other  agencies  for  direction!  I 
of  so-called  co-operative  organizations,  tc'  l 
my  mind,  can  have  but  one  consequence—  I 
deterioration  of  the  business  capacity  andj  I. 
morale  of  the  producers. 

Farmers  have  demonstrated  that  they  j 
can  conduct  large  business  enterprises  suc-j  1 
cessfully.  Over  150  co-operative  associa-  I- 
tions  each  handle  business  exceeding  a)  j 
million  dollars  annually.  In  practically;  j 
every  section  of  the  country,  co-operative,  i 
organizations  are  setting  new  standards  in  is 

(Continued  on  page  eleven) 


,1 


July,  1027 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


iAsk  for  Adequate  Reimbursement 


The  bovine  tuberculosis  eradication 
program  in  Massachusetts  has  come  to  the 
parting  of  the  ways  as  the  result  of  a 
meeting  of  Grade  A  producers  in  the 
^Shelburne  Falls  section  shipping  to  the 
Hood  company  and  are  members  of  the  N. 
E.  M.  P.  A..  The  state  has  lagged  way 
behind  other  states  in  the  interest  taken 
in  the  eradication  work  and  has  'not  ap- 
« propriated  money  enough  to  put  through 
a  vigorous  program  in  keeping  with  what 
other  nearby  states  have  had  for  some 
years  past.  Through  frauds  and  ineffi- 
ciency much  of  the  money  which  was 
spent  has  not  shown  in  permanent  results. 

Under  the  leadership  of  the  new  direc- 
tor of  the  divsion  of  animal  industry  the 
wastes  and  inefficiencies  have  largely  dis- 
appeared. The  frauds  have  been  exposed 
and  are  now  before  the  courts.  But  the 
state  is  still  lagging  behind  in  an  aggres- 
sive program  due  to  the  parsimonious 
policy  of  reimbursement  for  cattle  slaugh- 
tered and  the  relatively  small  amount 
which  has  been  appropriated  for  carrying 
ion  the  program.  It  has  now  come  down 
to  a  question  of  whether  the  state  will 
spend  money  enough  to  do  a  good  job 
of  eradication  within  a  reasonable  time  or 
whether  the  dairy  industry  of  the  state 
shall,  to  a  considerable  extent,  be  forced 
out  of  business. 

The  question  of  proper  reimbursement 
came  to  the  front  in  the  meeting  in  Shel- 
burne  Falls,  called  by  the  Hood  Co.  and 
NEMPA  for  the  purpose  of  acquainting 
its  grade  A  producers  in  that  section  with 
,a  trade  situation  which  would  affect  them 
materially  if  allowed  to  go  its  own  course. 
A  comparatively  small  part  of  this  Grade 
A  milk  from  this  section  comes  from 
tested  herds  but  it  is  a  good  supply  of 
milk  handled  in  a  satisfactory  way.  The 
Hood  company  makes  no  complaint  as  to 
the  quality  of  the  milk  but  its  represent- 
atives stated  to  the  farmers  in  plain  terms 
Ithat  competing  dealers  had  a  tuberculin 
tested  supply  of  Grade  A  milk  from  other 
^states  and  were  using  the  fact  that  it  was 
from  tested  herds  as  a  claim  of  superi- 
ority. The  Hood  company  was  therefore 
under  a  trade  disadvantage  which  would 
force  them  within  a  short  time  to  seek  a 
iSupply  of  Grade  A  milk  which  was  en- 
tirely from  tested  herds. 

There  is  an  ample  supply  of  such  milk 
in  Vermont  and  as  the  eradication  pro- 
gram goes  on  in  that  state,  also  in  New 
Hampshire  and  in  Maine,  an  increasing 
supply  will  be  available.  Within  five  years, 
according  to  the  present  estimates,  all 
Ithree  of  the  northern  New  England  states, 
also  Connecticut,  will  be  "clean."  All 
milk  coming  from  them,  whether  sold  as 
Grade  A  or  not,  will  be  from  tested  herds. 
The  Hood  company  felt  that  it  was  neces- 
sary to  give  the  Shelburne  Falls  pro- 
ducers fair  warning  of  the  situation  and 
give  them  an  opportunity  to  have  their 
herds  tested  if  they  wished  to  hold  on  to 
this  outlet  into  the  market  at  a  price  and 
under  conditions  which  were  advantageous 
as  compared  with  producers  of  Grade  B 
milk. 

i|    The  farmers  saw  the  force  of  the  state- 
'tnent  made  by  the  Hood  company  repre- 
i  sentatives  but  said  they  could  not  afford 
to  test  their  herds  under  the  present  plan 
I  of  reimbursement  from  the  state.  They 
would  be  subjected  to  such  heavy  losses 
•  that  they  would  rather  go  out  of  the  milk 
Dusiness,  or  at  least  stop  selling  on  the 
Grade  A  basis,  than  to  run  the  risk  of  a 
test.    On  the  other  hand  they  said  that  if 
the  state  would  pay  a  fair  remuneration 
(for  the  cattle  slaughtered  they  would  test 
their  herds  gladly. 

Out  of  this  meeting  with  its  free  dis- 
cussion of  the  low  reimbursement  policy 
of  Massachusetts  is  growing  a  concerted 
movement  from  all  the  farm  organiza- 
tions for  a  change  in  the  law  which  will 
give  the  producers  more  of  an  opportunity 
to  clean  up  their  herds  without  subjecting 
!  themselves  to  such  heavy  losses.  The 
j  Massachusetts   law   provides   that  when 
cattle   are    condemned    and  slaughtered 
after  being  tested  the  salvage  obtained 
'  from  the  carcass  shall  be  deducted  from 
1  the  appraised  value  of  the  animal  before 
|  slaughter  and  that  the  state  can  pay  one- 
|  third  of  the  remainder  un  to  $25  for  a 
grade  animal  and  up  to  $50  for  a  pure- 
bred.   This  law  was  passed  on  the  theory 
;  that  the  loss  due  to  the  slaughter  should 


be  divided  between  the  state  funds,  federal 
funds  and  the  farmer,  each  standing  one- 
third.  The  federal  reimbursement  is 
limited  to  $25  on  a  grade  animal. 

At  the  time  when  this  law  was  passed 
a  good  grade  cow  was  worth  about  $100. 
The  average  salvage  on  the  carcass  runs 
about  $35.  This  would  leave  the  loss  $65 
to  be  split  three  ways.  The  state  would 
pay  about  $22,  the  federal  funds  would 
provide  another  $22  and  the  owner  would 
get  the  salvage,  making  $79  in  all.  His 
own  loss  would  be  $21.  This  was  too 
much  of  a  loss  to  make  testing  at  all 
popular  and  it  was  small  wonder  that 
progress  on  the  volunteer  basis  was  slow. 
Since  then  values  have  risen  materially 
and  the  loss  falling  on  the  farmers  is 
much  heavier  in  proportion. 

It  will  cost  a  farmer  around  $150  to 
replace  a  good  sized  heavy  milking  cow  at 
the  present  time.  The  policy  of  the  divi- 
sion of  animal  industry  is  to  be  rather 
generous  in  the  matter  of  appraisal  and 
the  average  is  about  $135.  On  this  basis, 
with  a  salvage  of  $35,  there  is  a  $100  loss 
to  be  made  up.  One-third  of  it  would 
be  $33.33,  but  the  state  can  pay  only  $25. 
The  federal  funds  are  also  limited  to  $25, 
which  leaves  $50  as  the  loss  falling  on  the 
farmer.  Considered  in  the  light  of  a  re- 
placement value,  instead  of  an  appraised 
value,  his  loss  is  $65. 

In  the  opinion  of  leaders  in  the  clean 
up  campaign  no  great  progress  will  come 
until  this  loss  is  greatly  lessened.  The 
movement  which  is  crystallizing  will  call 
for  an  increase  in  the  possible  indemnity 
from  state  sources  to  $37.50,  a  50  per  cent, 
increase.  But  that  will  take  very  little  off 
the  loss  to  the  farmer  if  the  one-third 
provision  is  left  in  the  law.  One-third 
of  $100  would  still  leave  $33.33  as  the 
state  indemnity  for  a  grade  animal  on 
the  average  appraisal  and  the  average 
salvage.  The  loss  to  the  farmer  would 
be  reduced  only  $8.33.  That  is  altogether 
insufficient  to  promote  testing  on  volun- 
teer basis.  The  movement  to  have  the 
law  changed  will  probably  include  a  re- 
vision of  the  one-third  provision  as  well 
as  raising  the  state  limit. 

Connecticut  has  recognized  the  justice, 
also  the  necessity  of  adequate  reimburse- 
ment to  the  farmers  by  passing  a  law 
which  raises  the  limit  of  total  reimburse- 
ment to  $125.  Salvage,  plus  the  federal 
indemnity  of  $25,  will  be  deducted  from 
the  appraised  value  and  the  state  will  pay 
to  the  farmer  the  entire  remainder  up  to 
$125.  If  the  cow  is  not  worth  more  than 
$125  the  farmer  can  get  full  value  for 
her.  Above  that  he  will  stand  some  loss. 
New  York  state  is  another  example  of  the 
liberal  policy  in  reimbursement,  the  state 
limit  beinsr  $62.50.  This,  with  the  salvage 
value  and  the  federal  indemnity,  will  give 
a  fair  remuneration  to  the  farmers.  Rhode 
Island  pays  one-half  the  appraised  value, 
less  the  salvage  with  a  limit  of  $100.  New 
Hampshire  pays  the  same  as  Rhode 
Island.  Vermont  plan  of  payment  is 
similar  to  Massachusetts,  and  Maine  is 
like  Connecticut,  but  with  $100  limit. 

Along  with  this  demand  for  increased 
indemnity  for  slaughtered  animals  in 
Massachusetts,  there  must  go  a  materially 
increased  total  appropriation  or  the  prog- 
ress of  the  work  will  be  curtailed.  It  will 
not  be  of  any  material  advantage  to  in- 
crease the  indemnity  and  at  the  same  time 
to  cut  down  the  possibility  of  making  fair 
progress.  As  it  now  stands  Massachusetts 
will  be  one  of  the  last  states  in  the  United 
States  to  go  on  a  tuberculosis  free  basis 
under  the  accredited  herd  plan.  Estimates 
based  on  the  rate  of  progress  for  the  past 
few  years  indicate  that  1941  is  the  earliest 
that  the  state  could  hope  to  be  clean. 
Maine  expects  to  be  clean  in  1931 ;  Ver- 
mont in  1932;  Connecticut  and  New 
Hampshire  in  1933. 


Road  Foreman  (calling  at  house  oppo- 
site)— "Excuse  me,  madam,  but  have  you 
been  singing  this  morning?" 

Lady  of  the  House — "Yes,  I  have  been 
singin^  a  little,  but  why  do  you  wish  to 
know  ?" 

R.  F.  ("with  obvious  embarrassment)  — 
"Well,  vou  see,  my  men  have  knocked  off 
twice  already,  thinking  it  was  the  dinner 
whistle,  so  I  thought  I  had  better  ask  you 
not  to  hang  out  quite  so  long  on  that  top 
note." 


WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 
58S  While  St.,         Springfield,  Man. 

Telephone  Walnut  1714 

Unfavorable  weather  and  poor  busi- 
ness conditions  in  both  the  Springfield 
and  Worcester  markets  have  reduced  sales 
and  left  the  markets  in  poor  shape  for 
the  expected  advance  July  1.  In  Spring- 
field the  marketing  committee  met  and 
went  over  the  situation  but  decided  to 
adjourn  the  meeting  until  later  in  the 
month  before  making  any  change.  It  is 
expected  that  a  spell  of  hot  weather  will 
reduce  production  and  stimulate  sales  so 
that  the  market  will  be  cleaned  up.  There 
is  considerable  surplus  in  the  market  but 
it  should  disappear  before  the  month  is 
over  under  normal  weather  conditions. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Worcester  market- 
ing committee  it  was  decided  to  continue 
the  TYz  cent  price  until  better  general 
conditions  warranted  an  advance.  There 
is  at  present  a  surplus  hut  by  late  summer 
there  will  doubtless  be  a  distinct  shortage. 
Pastures  are  unusually  good  for  the  sea- 
son but  the  cold,  rainy  weather  has 
checked  sales  materially. 

The  work  which  is  being  done  by  the 
New  England  Dairy  and  Food  Council  in 
the  Worcester  market  is  progressing  well 
and  before  July  is  over  it  is  expected  that 
the  active  advertising  campaign  can  begin. 
Most  of  the  producers  who  understand 
the  type  of  work  which  the  Council  is 
doing  are  very  favorable  toward  support- 
ing it. 

Considerable  check  testing  has  been 
done  in  the  district,  mostly  at  West  Ru- 
pert and  West  Pawlet,  Vt.,  and  Middle 
Granville,  N.  Y.  In  general  the  check 
tests  coincided  well  with  the  tests  made  by 
the  plant  men. 


ANNUAL  MEETING  OF 

FEDERATION 

The  eleventh  annual  meeting  of  the  Na- 
tional Co-operative  Milk  Producers'  Fed- 
eration will  be  held  in  Milwaukee,  No- 
vcmlK-r  15  and  16.  This  announcement 
was  made  by  Charles  W.  Holman,  secre- 
tary of  the  federation,  following  a  can- 
vass of  invitations  made  by  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  federation.  "The  Fed- 
eration has  never  held  an  annual  meeting 
in  Wisconsin,  said  Mr.  Holman,  "although 
the  directors  have  met  in  Milwaukee  on 
several  occasions.  The  invitation  was 
sponsored  by  the  Milwaukee  Co-operative 
Milk  Producers,  the  Wisconsin  Cheese 
Producers'  Federation  and  other  member 
units  of  the  middle  west.  The  Pfister 
Hotel  has  been  chosen  as  convention  head- 
quarters and  all  meetings  will  be  held 
there. 

"Arrangements  are  being  made  to  put 
on  a  notable  program  which  will  reflect 
the  progress  made  during  the  year  by  the 
forty  regional  associations  who  today 
comprise  the  National  Federation.  This 
program  will  be  passed  upon  by  a  meet- 
ing of  the  directors  of  the  Federation 
which  has  been  called  for  the  afternoon  of 
July  7  in  Chicago,  while  the  American 
Institute  of  Co-operation  is  in  progress." 

The  officers  of  the  Federation  consist 
of  John  D.  Miller,  president,  Susque- 
hanna, Pa.;  Richard  Pattce,  1st  vice-presi- 
dent, Boston,  Mass. ;  Harry  Hartke,  2nd 
vice-president,  Covington,  Kentucky ; 
Frank  P.  Willits,  treasurer,  Ward,  Pa. ; 
Charles  W.  Holman,  secretary,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 


A  Chicago  man  died  and  passed  into 
the  great  beyond.  A  guide  showed  him 
about,  but  after  an  hour  of  wandering,  the 
Chicago  man  said  contemptuously : 

"Well,  I've  heard  heaven  cracked  up  a 
whole  lot,  but  I'm  telling  you  it  ain't  a 
darn  bit  different  from  Chicago." 

"Heaven...."  exclaimed  the  guide.  "This 
isn't  heaven." 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Subject  to  Surplus 

The  increased  transportation  rates  on  milk,  authorized  by  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission,  went  into  effect  June  10.  Elsewhere  in  this  issue  the  question  of 
this  decision  is  discussed  more  fully  but  the  fact  that  the  new  schedule  of  rates 
went  into  effect  during  the  month  changes  the  payments  to  farmers  for  June  milk 
as  reported  in  the  June  Dairyman.  The  additional  transportation  rate  authorized  by 
the  commission  amounts  to  a  20  per  cent,  increase  within  100  miles  and  about  a  10 
per  cent,  increase  beyond  that  distance,  but  no  changes  were  made  on  intra  state 
schedules  in  Massachusetts.  The  producers  have  to  pay  this  increase.  The  following 
table  shows  the  prices  to  be  paid  by  dealers,  taking  into  account  the  increased  rates- 
The  transportation  rate  for  June  is  a  combination  of  10  days  at  the  old  rate  and  the 
remainder  of  the  month  at  the  new  rate : 


At  R. 

R.  Stations  Ou 

tside  Massachusetts 

Cwt.in 

Cwt.in 

Cwt.in 

8qt. 

8^qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

2VAqt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21  ^qt. 

40qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.526 

.563 

.669 

1.363 

1.450 

2.744 

3-168 

3.172 

3.190 

2 

21-40 

.513 

.550 

.656 

1.338 

1.421 

2.705 

3.110 

3.110 

3.145 

3 

41-60 

.508 

.545 

.641 

1.311 

1.398 

2.669 

3.048 

3.059 

3.104 

4 

61-80 

.493 

.530 

.633 

1.301 

1.388 

2.635 

3.024 

3.037 

3.063 

5 

81-100 

.485 

.522 

.623 

1.281 

1.365 

2.607 

2.979 

2.986 

3.030 

6 

101-120 

.483 

.520 

.616 

1.274 

1.355 

2.589 

2.963 

2.964 

3.009 

7 

121-140 

.475 

.512 

.608 

1.261 

1.343 

2.565 

2.932 

2.938 

2.982 

8 

141-160 

.468 

.505 

.601 

1.249 

1.330 

2.544 

2.904 

2.909 

2.957 

9 

161-180 

.  .463 

.500 

.596 

1.239 

1.320 

2.527 

2.881 

2.888 

2.937 

10 

181-200 

.458 

.495 

.586 

1.231 

1.308 

2.509 

2.862 

2.862 

2.916 

11 

201-220 

.453 

.490 

.581 

1.216 

1.298 

2.489 

2.827 

2.840 

2.893 

12 

221-240 

.448 

.485 

.576 

1.209 

1.286 

2.475 

2.811 

2.814 

2.878 

13 

241-260 

.441 

.478 

.571 

1.201 

1.278 

2.459 

2.792 

2.796 

2.858 

14 

261-280 

.436 

.473 

.568 

1.193 

1.271 

2.445 

2.773 

2.782 

2.841 

15 

281-300 

.433 

.470 

.563 

1.184 

1.260 

2.427 

2753 

2.756 

2.821 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.553 

.590 

.696 

1.386 

1.473 

2.767 

3.222 

3.223 

3.217 

2 

21-40 

.538 

.575 

.681 

1.361 

1.448 

2.732 

3.164 

3.168 

3.176 

3 

41-60 

.533 

.570 

.676 

1.351 

1.433 

2.702 

3.141 

3.136 

3.141 

4 

61-80 

.528 

.565 

.671 

1.331 

1.418 

2.672 

3.095 

3.103 

3.106 

5 

81-100 

.523 

.560 

.656 

1.321 

1.408 

2.647 

3.071 

3.081 

3.077 

6 

101-120 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.311 

1.388 

2.622 

3.048 

3.037 

3.048 

7 

121-140 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.296 

1.378 

2.602 

3.013 

3.015 

3.025 

8 

141-160 

.508 

.545 

.646 

1.291 

1.373 

2.577 

3.002 

3.004 

2.996 

9 

161-180 

.503 

.540 

.641 

1.281 

1.358 

2.557 

2.978 

2.971 

2.972 

10 

181-200 

.503 

.540 

.636 

1.266 

1.348 

2.542 

2.943 

2.950 

2.955 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  .0075  cents  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
or  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  deduction  of  2  cents  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for 
NEMPA  members'  dues  and  1  cent  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


Page  Four 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1927  , 


Conditions  in  the  Market 

Production  High  in  May,  But  Is  Now  Falling  Off 
Weather  Reduces  Sales 


Cold 


Milk  production  took  a  big  jump  in  May 
as  was  to  be  expected  but  the  supply  of 
milk  is  not  abnormally  large  for  the  sea- 
son. Records  of  the  large  dealers  operat- 
ing under  the  surplus  plan  in  the  Boston 
market  show  an  increase  of  12  per  cent- 
in  the  purchases  as  compared  with  April 
purchases.  Last  year  the  increase  was  9 
per  cent,  in  the  same  months.  Cold, 
rainy  weather  in  April  reduced  sales  but 
the  sales  were  still  slightly  higher  than 
in  May,  1926.  The  purchases  and  sales 
in  millions  of  pounds  on  a  comparative 
basis  were : 


1927 

1927 

1926 

April 

May 

May 

55.0 

61.7 

57.0 

28.4 

27.9 

27.0 

Sales 


The  May  price  for  all  milk  delivered 
was  below  the  May  price  last  year  but 
above  the  average  for  the  past  five  years. 
Last  year  the  winter  price  of  8]/2  cents 
carried  through  May,  which  made  the 
net  price  for  the  month  unusually  high. 
This  year  the  market  milk  price  is  23 
cents  a  hundred  lower  but  the  surplus 
price  is  22  cents  higher  than  last  year. 
Butter  averaged  2l/2  cents  a  pound  higher 
for  the  month.  The  net  May  price  for  all 
milk  delivered  at  the  10th  zone  was  $2.26 
as  compared  with  $2.07  for  the  five  year 
average.  Comparative  prices  were  as  fol- 
lows : 

1927     1927  1926 
April     May  May 

Fluid   $2.96   $2,96  $3.19 

Surplus    2.06     1.74  1.52 

Net  price  all  milk  ..  2.52  2.26  2.34 
Avg.  butter  per  lb.  ..    .51      .438  .412 

The  outlook  for  feed  this  fall  indicates 
higher  prices.  Weather  conditions  have 
been  such  that  the  corn  crop  is  late  and 
will  be  unusually  small  unless  frost  holds 
off  much  later  than  usual.  This  will  tend 
to  materially  affect  all  grain  prices  and 
prices  higher  than  last  winter  and  this 
spring  may  be  expected-  Reports  indi- 
cate that  the  hay  crop  for  the.  United 
States  as  a  whole  will  be  good  and  that  the 
make  of  butter  will  be  above  last  year. 

Butter  prices  at  42  cents  are  on  a  l/2 
cent  higher  level  than  last  year.  Storage 
stocks  are  increasing  rapidly  and  June  1st 
holdings  were  heavier  than  normal.  June 
production  will  be  heavy.  Consumption 
this  fall  is  likely  not  to  be  as  heavy  as  last 
year  due  to  less  satisfactory  business  con- 
ditions. 

Crain  prices  have  advanced  sharply  at 
a  time  when  normally  they  decline.  The 
average  ration  is  $2.50  a  ton  higher  in 


June  than  in  May  and  nearly  $5.00  a  ton 
above  last  year.  Below  are  comparative 
prices : 

1927  1927  1926 
May      June  June 

Grain  per  ton   $46.84    $49.39  $45.86 

Hay  per  ton    15-30     15.53  14.75 

Labor    per  month 
and  board    48.70     48.70  46.60 

Retail  prices  have  also  advanced 
sharply,  particularly  corn  meal  which  is 
up  38  cents  a  cwt.  or  better  than  $7.00 
a  ton.  All  other  feeds  have  advanced 
with  corn  and  now  average  considerably 
above  last  year. 

1927  1926 

Feed  per  cwt.  Mar.  Apr.  May  June  June 

Corn  Meal  ....1.91  1.88  1.91  2.29  1.92 
Cotton  Seed 

Meal   2.26  2.23  2.25  2.38  2.35 

Gluten  Feed....2.16  2.22  2.18  2.30  2.31 

Ground  Oats..2.15  2-14  2.16  2.42  2.06 
Linseed  O. 

Meal   2.81  2.79  2.80  2.86  2.87 

Wheat  Bran....2.02  2.01  2.05  2.15  1-92 

The  prices  of  dairy  cows  and  young 
stock  have  been  rising  for  some  time. 
Many  farmers  are  interested  to  know  how 
long  they  are  likely  to  continue  to  rise. 
A  recent  publication  from  New  York 
State  College  of  Agriculture  indicates 
that  if  prices  follow  previous  experiences, 
the  peak  of  prices  may  be  expected  about 
1931  with  a  very  precipitous  decline 
thereafter. 

The  New  York  League  pool  price  con- 
tinues above  our  price  at  $2.32  compared 
with  the  Boston  price  in  the  181-200  mile 
zone  3.7  per  cent.,  test  of  $2.26. 


CANCELS  INDEBTEDNESS 

The  last  $2,500  of  indebtedness  for  its 
$50,000  plant  was  paid  by  the  Co-operative 
Milk  Producers'  Association,  Harrison- 
burg, Va.,  the  middle  of  May.  This  plant 
has  been  paid  for  in  less  than  five  years  by 
the  three  or  four  hundred  members  of  the 
association,  by  means  of  deductions  which 
were  placed  in  a  revolving  capital  fund. 
The  plant  is  owned  by  the  members  de- 
livering milk,  the  equity  of  each  being  in 
proportion  to  the  amount  deducted  on  the 
returns  for  milk  delivered,  less  the  amount 
already  refunded  to  them.  While  paying 
for  its  building  and  equipment  the  associa- 
tion has  stabilized  local  prices  of  milk 
and  cream  and  has  been  largely  respon- 
sible for  a  more  satisfactory  price  level 
for  producers. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  July  1,  1927 
Subject  to  Surplus 

The  following  table  shows  the  zone  prices  at  8  cents  per  quart,  with  the  new 
transportation  rates  figured  out  for  each  zone.  This  is  the  price  July  1,  but  the 
price  may  go  up  anytime  after  that.  On  July  15,  a  cent  is  to  be  added  to  the  de- 
livered price,  so  this  table  will  not  hold  for  the  whole  month.  It  differs  from  the 
other  zone  table  on  this  page  because  it  includes  the  full  increase  in  transportation 
rates,  whereas  the  June  table  is  part  old  rate  and  part  new  rate.  In  our  next  issue 
we  will  publish  a  new  table  for  all  July,  reflecting  the  1  cent  increase. 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


Cwt. in 

Cwt. in 

8qt. 

8l4at 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21^qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21I/4at 

40qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del.  Trucked 

.olo 

£55 
.00  j 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

7  583 
0.000 

7  58"? 
0.000 

7  5CJ 
O.Ooo 

1 

1-20 

597 

.OOU 

.666 

1.356 

1.443 

2.732 

7  1  5"? 
O.10O 

7  1  57 
0.10/ 

7  17  A 
0.1/0 

2 

21-40 

5AQ 
.DUO 

.040 

.651 

1.326 

1.413 

2.692 

7  004 

7  no-? 

7  1  9ft 

o.i^y 

3 

41-60 

.OUo 

54ft 
-04u 

.636 

1.301 

1.388 

2.652 

7  n?5 

7  f\77 

o.uo/ 

7  f\Q7 

o.uoo 

4 

61-80 

.488 

595 

.626 

1.291 

1.378 

2.617 

7  nm 

i  m  5 

O.U10 

7  ft49 

5 

81-100 

.4/5 

51  5 
.010 

.616 

1.271 

1.353 

2.587 

9  Q55 

^.yoo 

9  OAft 

7  nft7 
o.UU/ 

6 

101-120 

.4/0 

51  5 
.010 

.611 

1.266 

1.343 

2.572 

9  04 7 

9  O^O 

z.yoy 

9  Clftft 

7 

121-140 

.nOo 

.601 

1.251 

1.328 

2.547 

2.908 

2.917 

9  061 
£.yoi 

8 

141-160 

.463 

.500 

.596 

1.241 

1.318 

2.527 

2^885 

2^884 

2.937 

9 

161-180 

.458 

.495 

.591 

1.231 

1.308 

2.512 

2.862 

2.862 

2.920 

10 

181-200 

.453 

.490 

.581 

1.221 

1.298 

2.492 

2.839 

2.840 

2.897 

11 

201-220 

.448 

.485 

.576 

1.206 

1.288 

2.472 

2.804 

2.818 

2.874 

12 

221-240 

.443 

.480 

.571 

1.201 

1.278 

2.462 

2.792 

2.796 

2.862 

13 

241-260 

.438 

.475 

.566 

1.191 

L268 

2.442 

2.769 

2.774 

2.839 

14 

261-280 

.433 

.470 

.561 

1.186 

1.263 

2.432 

2.757 

2.764 

2.827 

15 

281-300 

.428 

.465 

.556 

1.176 

1  248 

2.412 

2.734 

2.731 

2.804 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.553 

.590 

.696 

1.386 

1.473 

2.767 

3.222 

3.223 

3.217 

2 

21-40 

.538 

.575 

.681 

1.361 

1.448 

2.732 

3.164 

3.168 

3.176 

3 

41-60 

.533 

.570 

.676 

1.351 

1.433 

2.702 

3.141 

3.136 

3.141 

4 

61-80 

.528 

.565 

.671 

1.331 

1.418 

2.672 

3.095 

3.103 

3.106 

5 

81-100 

.523 

.560 

.656 

1.321 

1.408 

2.647 

3.071 

3.081 

3.077 

6 

101-120 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.311 

1.388 

2.622 

3.048 

3.037 

3.048 

7 

121-140 

.518 

.555 

.651 

1.296 

1.378 

2.602 

3.013 

3.015 

3.025 

8 

141-160 

.508 

.545 

.646 

1.291 

1.373 

2.577 

3.002 

3.004 

2.996 

9 

161-180 

.503 

.540 

.641 

1.281 

1.358 

2.557 

2.978 

2.971 

2.972 

10 

181-200 

.503 

.540 

.636 

1.266 

1.348 

2.542 

2.943 

2.950 

2.955 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  .0075  cents  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
or  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices,  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  deduction  of  2  cents  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for 
NEMPA  members'  dues  and  1  cent  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


Cream  Plan  Prices  for  May,  1927 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt. 

Butter-fat 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deductioi 

Test 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patrons 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt 

Hood  1-15 

 12^ 

.50 

.878 

.46 

.530 

.0529 

Hood  1-15 

20 

.50 

1.102 

.46 

.515 

.0529 

Hood  16-31 

 12^ 

.50 

.747 

.44 

.500 

.0376 

Hood  16-31 

20 

.50 

.892 

.44 

.485 

-0376 

20 

.50 

.245 

.49 

.502 

.0451 

Turner  Centre 

 uy2 

.44 

.65 

.44^ 

.497  Credit  .0596 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  May,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  May  is  correct.    Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.044  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract 
$.044  per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  May  by  your  dealers  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the 
Hood,  Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies,  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deductions  as  given  in  Cream  Price  Table  is  made  from  the  zone  price  as  figured  to  equalize 
prices  between  milk  and  cream  patrons.  / 


Zone  1 

Zone  2 

Zone  3 

Zone  4 

Zone  5 

Zone  6 

Zone  7 

Zone  8 

Zone  9 

Zone  10 

Zone  11 

Zone  12 

Zone  13 

Zone  14 

Zone  15 

1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

61-80 

81-100 

101-120 

121-140 

141-160 

161-180 

181-200 

201-220 

221-240 

241-260 

261-280 

281-300 

Class  1  Milk  Price  

3.217 

3.176 

3.141 

3.106 

3.077 

3.048 

3.025 

2.996 

2.972 

2.955 

2.932 

2.909 

2.897 

2.874 

2.856 

Class  2  Milk  Price  

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

1.736 

Class  1 

Class  2 

(Mkt.Milk) 

(Mfg.  Milk) 

Dealers 

A 

B 

Hood,  1-15   49.9% 

50.1% 

60.2% 

2.436 

2.415 

2.398 

2.380 

2.366 

2.351 

2.340 

2.326 

2.314 

2.306 

2.294 

2.282 

2.276 

2.265 

2.256 

Hood,  16-31  41.5 

58.5 

66.9 

2.301 

2.284 

2.269 

2.255 

2.243 

2.231 

2.221 

2.209 

2.200 

2.193 

2.182 

2.173 

2.168 

2.159 

2.152 

Whiting  in  40s'....46.7 

53.3 

62.2 

2-380 

2.361 

2.345 

2.328 

2.315 

2.301 

2.291 

2.277 

2.266 

2.258 

2.247 

2.236 

2.231 

2.220 

2.212 

Whiting  in  2\%'s.A6.7 

53.3 

62.2 

2.373 

2.347 

2.327 

2.317 

2.296 

2.286 

2.271 

2.261 

2.251 

2.235 

2.225 

2.210 

2.204 

2.194 

2-189 

Turner  Centre   32.9 

67.1 

76.7 

2.224 

2.210 

2.199 

2.187 

2.178 

2.168 

2.161 

2.151 

2.144 

2.138 

2.132 

2.125 

2.120 

2.113 

2.107 

N.  E.  Cry.  Prods.  21.2 

78.8 

2.249 

2.240 

2.233 

2.225 

2.219 

2.213 

2.208 

2.202 

2.197 

2.194 

2.188 

2.183 

2.180 

2.176 

2.172 

F-  S.  Cummings  ....45.3 

54.7 

2.407 

2.388 

2.372 

2.357 

2.344 

2.331 

2.320 

2.307 

2.296 

2.289 

2.278 

2.267 

2.262 

2.251 

2.244 

F.  E.  Boyd   53.2 

46.8 

2.522 

2.500 

2.482 

2.463 

2.448 

2.432 

2.420 

2.405 

2.392 

2.383 

2.371 

2.358 

2.351 

2.340 

2.330 

Weighted  Avg.  45.2 

54.8 

62.6 

2.382 

2.363 

2.347 

2-332 

2.318 

2.305 

2.295 

2.281 

2.271 

2.264 

2.253 

2.243 

2.237 

2-227 

2.219 

A — Excluding  Cream  Plan.  B — Including  Cream  Plan. 


Increases  or  decreases  in  fluid  milk  price  due  to  sales  in  higher  or  lower  markets.  New  England  Creamery  Products  Company  includes  an  extra  payment  of  20  cents  per 
hundred  pounds  for  the  month:  Lower,  Whiting,  $0,144;  Turner  Centre,  $.1789. 


July,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


FIELD  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT 


Check  testing  and  a  series  of  meetings 
to  explain  the  changes  in  the  cream  plan, 
beginning  July  1,  were  the  outstanding 
features  of  the  work  of  the  field  service 
department  the  past  month.  Along  with 
the  check  testing  and  meetings  dooryard 
and  field  calls  on  many  farmers  resulted 
in  substantially  strengthening  the  associ- 
ation in  all  three  of  the  newly  organized 
field  districts.  It  is  apparent  that  the 
members  all  over  the  territory  covered 
are  glad  of  the  opportunity  to  ask  first 
hand  questions  and  get  direct  answers. 
The  field  service  plan  is  working  out  just 
as  the  leaders  said  it  would  two  years  ago 
when  they  voted  unanimously  for  such  a 
department. 

The  meetings  in  the  territory  which 
has  been  shipping  cream,  under  the  cream 
plan,  largely,  resulted  in  a  general  clear- 
ing up  of  misunderstandings  and  in  a 
clear  realization  on  the  part  of  the  farm- 
ers that  their  advantage  lay  in  returning 


to  milk  shipments  in  most  cases.  It  was 
brought  out  by  F.  C.  Warner  at  all  of  the 
meetings  that  the  actual  return  from  milk 
shipments  would  be  greater  than  the  ship- 
ments of  cream  would  bring. 

Some  of  the  cream  shippers  said  that 
they  could  not  well  change  over  to  milk 
shipments  right  away  on  account  of  their 
not  having  sufficient  ice.  The  decision  to 
suspend  the  cream  plan  was  made  and  an- 
nounced some  months  ago  in  order  to  give 
the  cream  shippers  an  opportunity  to 
change  their  farm  programs  to  meet  the 
new  situation.  It  was  not  early  enough, 
however,  to  allow  them  to  put  in  extra 
ice  and  they  are  caught  with  an  ice  supply 
which  is  ample  for  taking  care  of  cream 
but  insufficient  for  cooling  the  larger 
volume  of  milk.  Such  men  will  probably 
wait  until  fall  before  changing  over  to 
milk  shipments,  even  though  the  milk 
shipments  would  return  them  more  money 

Another    feature    of    these  meetings 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  May,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
for  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7 
per  cent,  test  per  l/10th  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  con- 
tainer:  Per  8y2  quart  can,  $.008;  per  10  quart  can,  $.009;  per  20  quart  can,  $.019; 
per  21  %.  quart  can,  $.020;  per  40  quart  can,  $.038;  per  cwt.,  $.044. 


Boston  District 


Class  1  Class  2 

Dealers  (Mkt.  (Mfg. 

Elm  Spring  Farm  Milk)  Milk) 

7th  zone  (121-140)   84.8%  15-2% 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   85.6  14.4 


8y2 

Quart 

.495 


20 
Quart 

1.202 


Size  of  Can  ■ 


21  Ya 
Quart 

1.279 


40 
Quart 

2.439 


Dealers 

Robert  H.  Sawyer  (Mkt. 

Haverhill  Milk) 

Delivered   84.3 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Wason  Macdonald 

Haverhill 

Delivered   85.1 

3rd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms,  Lawrence 

Delivered   51.4 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 

Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   68.2 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

E.  C.  Blake 

Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   61.4 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 

Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   81.2 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 

Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   .*.  74.9 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   


Northern  Market  District 

Class  1      Class  2      Cwt.  Cwt. 


(Mfg. 
Milk) 
15.7 


14.9 


48.6 


in 

8J4*9 


3.315 
2.851 


in 
20's 


3.315 
2.899 


Cwt. 
in 
40*s 


3.315 
2.939 


Cwt 

2.836 

3.431 


Cwt. 

3.295 
2.923 
2.894 


31.8 


38.6 


18.8 


25.1 


3.242 
2.973 
2.929 


3.242 
3.038 
2.991 


3.242 
3.052 
3.019 


2.693 
2.505 
2.484 
2.448 
2.370 


2.843 
2.656 
2.632 
2.608 
2-588 
2.569 


2.734 
2.582 
2.548 
2.521 
2.424 


3.127 
2.895 
2.860 


Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Dealers  (Mkt. 
Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 

H.  T.  Burton,  Inc   93.1 

G.  T.  Chambers    66.7 

E.  A.  Fiske    90.1 

Leon  E.  Goff    87.4 

<  C  W.  Grant    81.4 

Greenville  Farm   100.0 

A.  B.  Monroe   100.0 

Providence  Dairy    64.2 

Turner  Centre    89.7 

i  W.  C.  Viall    85.4 

C.  A.  Warnock   100.0 

E.  P.  Westcott    97.5 

1  Per  10  quart  can 

,  W.  B.  Brown   100.0 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 

6.9 
33.3 

9.9 
12.6 
18.6 


35.8 
10.3 
14.6 


2.5 


Deliv- 
ered 

3.456 
2.963 
3.405 
3.347 
3.233 
3.583 
3.589 
2.925 
3.410 
3.319 
3.589 
3.533 

.787 


Zone  1 
1-20 
Miles 
3.145 
2.740 
3.104 
3.055 
2.961 
3.248 
3.253 
2.751 
3.101 
3.033 
3.255 
3.206 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  2  Zone  3  Zone  Willi- 
21^0  41-60  net  mantic 
Miles    Miles  at  Farm  Zone 


3.100 
2.708 
3.061 
3.013 
2.922 
3.201 
3.205 
2.728 
3.058 
2.992 
3.207 
3.159 


.721  .711 


3.038 
2.664 
3.001 
2.955 
2.868 
3.134 
3.139 
2.684 
2.998 
2.936 
3.141 
3.094 

.697 


2.595 


2.470  2.628 


.710 


AN  ADVERTISEMENT  OF 
THE   AMERICAN  TELEPHONE  AND 
TELEGRAPH  COMPANY 

There  are  twenty- five  Bell  Companies, 
but  there  is  but  one  Bell  System — and  but 
one  Bell  aim  and  ideal: 

A  telephone  service  for  this  nation  so 
far  as  humanly  possible  free  from  imper- 
fections, errors  and  delays,  and  enabling 
anyone  anywhere  at  any  time  to  pick  up 
a  telephone  and  talk  to  anyone  else  any- 
where else  in  this  country,  clearly,  quickly 
and  at  a  reasonable  cost. 

Walter  S.  Gifford 

President 


5%  Interest 


Federal  Land  Bank 

Recent  sales  of  Federal  Land  Bank  Bonds  at  favor- 
able prices  make  possible  a  lowering  of  the  rate  of 
interest  on  new  loans  to  5%. 

First  Mortgage  Farm  Loans 

FOR  INFORMATION 

Ask  the  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
National  Farm  Loan  Association  in  your  County 
or  write  direct  to  the 

FEDERAL  LAND  BANK 

at 

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Serving  New  England,  New  York  and  New  Jersey 


Page  Sir 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1927 


No  Matter  How 
You  Figure 

cream  grading  is  equita- 
ble and  can  only  bring 
greater  prosperity  to  the 
producer  of  milk  foods. 

It  improves  the  quality 
to  the  consumer  and  in- 
sures a  better  price  to 
the  producer. 

Moreover,  the  sweet, 
wholesome,  safe,  sani- 
tary cleanliness  which 
always  follows  the  use  of 


provides  in  thousands  of 
creameries,  dairies,  and 
cheese  factories  that  dis- 
tinctive sanitation  which 
is  so  necessary  to  protect 
the  higher  quality  pro- 
ducts which  are  bound 
to  result  from  this  effort 
for  better  scoring  milk 
foods. 

Ask  your  Supply  Man 
for  "WYANDOTTE." 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
( cream  acidity  standardizer) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
your  cream  ? 


THE,  J.  D.  FORD  COMPANY 

Sol*  Manufacturers 

Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


which  cleared  away  considerable  mis- 
understanding was  the  announcement  of 
representatives  of  the  H.  P-  Hood  com- 
pany that  they  would  take  either  milk  or 
cream,  whichever  the  farmer  preferred  to 
ship.  A  good  many  men  have  believed 
that  they  would  have  to  ship  milk  if  they 
shipped  at  all.  This  is  not  true  and  a 
definite  statement  that  the  Hood  company 
will  accept  either  milk  or  cream  has  been 
posted  on  the  shipping  stations.  The  de- 
cision is  altogether  in  the  hands  of  the 
farmers  themselves. 

MAINE  DISTRICT 

In  the  Maine  Field  District,  Manager 
F.  L.  Foley  has  rendered  a  valuable  serv- 
ice to  a  considerable  number  of  members 
in  assisting  them  to  get  reinstated  after 
the  Board  of  Health  had  excluded  their 
product  from  the  market.  In  each  case 
where  Mr.  Foley  made  an  inspection  of  the 
stables  and  milk  houses  he  found  that  the 
improvements  and  changes  which  had 
been  recommended  by  the  Board  of 
Health  representative  had  been  made  or 
were  in  process  of  being  made.  Tempo- 
rary permits  were  secured  through  the 
assistance  of  Mr.  Foley  and  the  mem- 
bers began  shipping  again  promptly.  In 
this  way  a  considerable  loss  of  income 
was  avoided  which  would  have  been  un- 
avoidable if  the  members  had  had  to 
handle  their  milk  in  other  ways  until  they 
were  reinspected  and  reinstated  direct  by 
the  Board  of  Health.  As  it  was  they 
were  barred  from  the  market  only  a  few 
days.  This  service  was  performed  for 
some  Turner  Centre  patrons  at  Wiscas- 
set  and  Nobleboro,  for  some  shippers  to 
Elm  City  Creamery  at  Detroit  and  Whit- 
ing patrons  at  Corinna. 

Mr.  Foley  made  check  tests  for  butter- 
fat  at  the  following  shipping  points  and 
members  have  been  notified  of  the  results 
of  such  a  test ;  Whiting  company  plants 
at  Corinna,  Etna  and  Dexter,  Hood  com- 
pany plants  at  Winslows  Mills  and  Unity. 
At  several  other  plants  part  of  the  mem- 
bers were  check  tested  but  the  district 
manager  did  not  have  an  opportunity  to 
go  through  the  whole  list-  A  complete 
check  test  will  be  run  through  at  these 
plants  as  soon  as  practical.  In  all  486 
tests  were  made  during  the  month. 

A  canvass  of  the  Pittsfield  local  re- 
sulted in  four  new  members  and  the  rein- 
statement of  a  former  member,  bringing 
the  total  membership  of  the  local  to  66. 
Arthur  Oliver  is  president  and  Bonney 
Ames  is  secretary-treasurer  of  the  local. 
In  canvassing  the  Etna  local  Mr.  Foley 
added  18  new  members,  bringing  the 
membership  up  to  23.  The  five  former 
members  gave  dues  orders  on  the  new 
basis,  thus  putting  the  local  in  first  class 
standing.  Charles  B.  Friend  is  president 
and  L.  G.  Merrill  is  secretary-treasurer. 

A  partial  canvass  of  the  Corinna  local, 
of  which  F.  E.  Gardner  is  president  and 
J.  A.  Emerson  is  secretary-treasurer,  has 
resulted  in  17  new  members  and  four  new 
dues  orders  from  old  members. 

NORTHERN  DISTRICT 

As  reported  in  the  June  Dairyman, 
Sam  L.  Stearns  has  been  appointed  to  the 
position  of  manager  for  the  northern  field 
district,  left  vacant  by  the  resignation  of 
E.  P.  Osgood,  who  was  called  home  on 
account  of  the  death  of  his  father.  Mr. 
Stearns  has  been  quite  busy  and  has  made 
a  good  start  in  making  the  acquaintance 
of  the  farmers  in  his  district.  Most  of 
his  time  thus  far  has  been  spent  in  north- 
ern New  Hampshire  and  in  Vermont  close 
to  the  Connecticut  river.  He  will  get 
into  the  St.  Johnsbury  section  and  call  on 
the  membership  as  soon  as  he  can  get 
around. 

Starting  at  Lancaster,  N.  H.,  he  secured 
seven  new  members  and  several  dues 
orders  from  former  members,  with  the 
assistance  of  President  D.  W.  Pinkham. 
This  brings  the  membership  of  the  local 
up  to  110  in  good  standing.  In  Jefferson 
he  secured  15  new  members  and  dues 
orders  from  10  old  members  bringing  the 
membership  in  good  standing  to  64.  James 
Savage  is  president  and  M.  A.  Flaherty  is 
secretary-treasurer. 

Mr.  Stearns  also  added  six  new  mem- 
bers to  the  Lunenburg,  Vt  local  and  three 
new  members  to  the  Northumberland 
local.  He  next  visited  the  shippers  sell- 
ing to  Cummings  in  Maidstone,  Vt.,  and 
in  Masons  and  North  Thetford,  N.  H., 
all  being  members  of  the  Stratford  local. 


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Ask  your  dealer  for  a  demonstration. 

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"We  that  live  to  please 
must  please  to  live" 

.  .  .  so  spoke  Samuel  Johnson  when  he  opened  a 
London  theatre  some  century  and  a  half  ago.  Today  it 
is  even  truer  of  the  people  who  advertise  to  you. 

Whether  merchants  or  manufacturers — whether  they 
advertise  hats  or  harnesses,  powder-puffs  or  ploughs — the 
permanent  success  of  every  advertiser  who  uses  these 
pages  rests  squarely  upon  his  ability  to  please  you. 

The  goods  he  advertises  must  be  right. '  They  must 
meet  your  approval  in  open  comparison.  They  must 
please  you  in  utility,  design,  quality,  value  and  service. 
If  they  don't  you  won't  buy.  And  if  you  won't  buy, 
the  advertiser  can't  live. 

That's  why  advertised  merchandise  must  be  good 
merchandise — and  that's  why  there  is  protection,  true 
economy  and  real  satisfaction  in  reading  the  advertise- 
ments and  being  guided  by  them. 

Advertising  guides  you  to  products  that 
please.    Read  it  regularly. 


July,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND 


DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


EASTERN  STATES 

EXPOSITION 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 

SEPT.  18-24,  1927 

Real  live  stock  value  among  breed- 
ers and  exhibitors  is  represented 
by  judging  ring  awards.  Total 
premium  offerings  of  $101,829 
at  the  1927  Eastern  States 
Exposition  are  notable,  but 
more  than  this  is  the  ad- 
vertising worth  of  rib- 
bons won  at  this  most 
representative  show. 

There  is  advertising  and  publicity 
value  that  cannot  be  measured 
over  and  above  the  cash  win- 
nings, although  these  are  im- 
portant.   Eastern  States  Ex- 
position awards  mean  some- 
thing   to   exhibitor  and 
public.      They    are  a 
national     standa  rd  of 
excellence  and  quality. 


Livsjtock  classification*  for  this  year's 
Exposition  include  dairy  and  beef  cattle, 
draft  and  show  horses,  sheep,  swine,  etc. 

LIVESTOCK  ENTRIES  CLOSE 
WEDNESDAY,  AUG.  24 

For   information,    entry    blanks,  etc., 

write  to  — 
CHARLES.  A.  NASH,  General  Manager 


For  healthier,  happier  bulla! 
For  safer,  surer  breeding! 


Success  In  thousand  dairies.  No  harsh  feature; 
eat,  drink,  pasture  and  breed  just  the  same.  First 
all  purpose  control.  30  days'  approval.  Let  us  send 
you  all  facts. 

SPENCER  BROTHERS,  Inc.,       Savon.,  N.  T. 


His  efforts  resulted  in  increasing  the 
membership  of  the  local  about  25  per  cent. 
There  are  only  two  shippers  who  are  not 
now  members.  Maxie  Holbrook,  who 
came  to  the  central  annual  meeting  last 
year,  is  president  and  O.  A.  Buzzell  is 
secretary. 

At  coldbrook  he  did  nt  have  time  to 
visit  all  the  producers  on  this  trip  but  did 
add  39  new  members  and  get  dues  orders 
from  10  former  members.  This  brings 
the  membership  of  the  local  up  to  110. 
He  was  assisted  by  the  president,  Al- 
pheus  Frizzell.  While  at  Coldbrook  he 
check  tested  at  the  Cummings  and  the 
Hood  plants. 

One  of  the  meetings  for  the  discussion 
of  the  cream  plan  was  held  at  Lebanon, 
N.  H.,  with  Mr.  Warner  and  Mr.  Stearns 
both  in  attendance.  After  the  explanation 
of  the  benefits  which  would  come  through 
the  changes  and  after  the  members  fully 
understood  that  the  question  of  whether 
they  would  ship  milk  or  cream  was  in 
their  own  hands,  the  Hood  company  being 
willing  to  take  the  product  in  either  form, 
the  members  were  quite  well  satisfied. 
Harvey  N.  Camp  is  president  and  Arthur 
B.  Hough  is  secretary. 

NORTHWESTERN  DISTRICT 

N.  H.  Wells,  manager  of  the  North- 
western Field  District,  has  broken  all 
records  for  check  testing  by  running 
through  1045  tests  during  the  past  month. 
He  has  covered  most  of  the  Whiting 
plants  in  Vermont,  including  Wallingford, 
Rutland,  Leicester  Junction,  Hough's 
Crossing,  North  Ferrisburg,  Bristol  and 
Cambridge  Junction.  He  has  also  tested 
at  the  Hood  plants  in  Newport  and  New- 
port Center,  also  the  plants  of  Westwood 
Farms,  Seven  Oaks,  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company  at  Newport 
and  Turnbull's  plant  at  Orleans. 

At  Alburg,  where  about  50  cream  ship- 
pers are  members  of  the  association  in 
good  standing,  a  good  meeting  was  held 
through  the  efforts  of  President  A.  W. 
Darby  and  Secretary  Floyd  Young.  A 
representative  of  the  Hood  Company  was 
present  and  did  much  to  clear  up  the 
question  of  whether  the  farmers  would 
have  the  right  to  ship  milk  or  cream. 
His  emphatic  statement  was  that  they 
could  ship  whichever  they  wished  anytime 
from  now  on. 

Stanley  W.  Painter,  county  agent  for 
Grand  Isle,  also  added  much  to  the  value 
of  the  meeting  by  his  presentation  of  the 
changes  in  conditions  which  had  brought 
about  the  present  situation.  "In  this  sec- 
tion," he  said,  "farmers  once  raised  beef, 
wool  and  pork  as  their  cash  crops.  They 
kept  a  dairy  cow  or  two  for  their  family 
use  but  did  not  think  of  selling  milk  or 
butter.  Then  cheap  land  in  the  west 
made  it  unprofitable  to  longer  raise  beef, 
sheep  and  finally  pork.  They  began  keep- 
ing more  dairy  cows  and  making  butter 
to  sell.  Then  they  began  putting  their 
product  into  a  creamery  and  making  but- 
ter on  a  larger  scale.  Then  Denmark, 
New  Zealand  and  the  West  beean  making 
butter  and  took  the  butter  market  away. 
Then  the  farmers  took  to  making  milk 
and  cream  as  their  chief  source  of  income. 
Now  the  west  is  getting  into  the  Eastern 
cream  market  and  milk  is  all  that  is  left 
to  sell.  The  most  money,  from  now  on, 
will  come  through  the  sale  of  milk." 

At  Randolph  another  good  meeting  on 
the  cream  plan  was  held  and  many  mis- 
understandings were  cleared  away.  It 
was  the  annual  meeting  and  the  veteran 
president,  F.  B.  Catlin,  told  the  meeting 
that  as  he  was  a  director  in  the  associa- 
tion he  would  come  to  the  annual  meeting 
anyway  and  they  had  better  elect  some- 
one else.  They  saw  the  value  of  having 
two  of  their  number  come  to  the  big 
meeting  and  elected  E.  H.  Frink  in  his 
place-  There  was  some  question  as  to 
whether  or  not  the  local  would  be  en- 
titled to  a  second  delegate  on  account  of 
its  size  and  P.  J.  Connelly  was  elected  as 
a  second  delegate  if  one  were  allowed. 
An  executive  committee  consisting  of  Mr. 
Connelly,  G.  C.  Flint  and  George  D. 
Merchant  were  elected.  Glenn  C.  Web- 
ster was  re-elected  secretary. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Waterville 
local  V.  L.  Langdell  was  elected  president 
and  A.  M.  Brown  secretary-treasurer. 
Mr.  Wells  is  now  canvassing  in  the  Jef- 
fersonville  district  where  M.  L-  Porter  is 
president  of  the  local  and  E.  T.  Hub- 
bard secretary. 


292  Worthington  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 


"NorStar"  FLY-Chaser 

Will  keep  flies  from  your 
cows  and  horses,  making 
heavier  production.  It  will 
not  stain  or  gum  the  hair. 
It  has  a  pleasant,  cleanly 
odor,  is  harmless  and  non- 
poisonous.  We  will  be  pleased 
to  have  our  nearest  distribu- 
tor call  on  you.  Money  back 
if  not  satisfied. 

American  Lanolin  Corporation 

LAWRENCE,  MASS. 


"AMCO  20%  DAIRY 

is  a  feed  that  can  be 
used  the  year  around." 

PASTURE  grass  is  getting  mature.  Flies  and 
the  heat  are  increasing.  The  price  of  milk  is 
good  and  the  prospects  for  a  good  price  this  fall 
and  winter  are  fine.  The  way  to  fight  flies,  heat, 
and  the  gradual  decline  of  pasture  is  with  a  good 
dairy  feed.  Amco  20%  Dairy  meets  all  these  re- 
quirements, as  results  show. 

For  good,  productive,  and  well-conditioned  cows, 
feed  liberally  now.  A.  R.  Merrill  of  Connecticut 
has  said  that  he  thinks  many  cows  on  New  England 
farms  spend  much  of  their  time  getting  in  and  out 
of  condition. 

Amco  20%  Dairy  will  produce  a  good  flow  of 
milk  the  year  around  and  keep  the  cows  in  shape. 

DIVISION  OFFICE:  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 

Amco 

(feed  mixing  service 

AMERICAN  MILLING  COMPANY 

EXECUTIVE  OFFICES:  PEORIA,  ILL. 

Piano  at:  PEORIA,  ILL.;  OMAHA,  NEB.;  OWENSBORO,  KY. 
Alfalfa  Plants  at:  POWELL,  GARLAND,  »nd  WORLAND,  WYO. 


Page  Eight 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1927 


Eastern  S*aks  F»«ners'  Exchange 


And  the  Seed— 

Yes,  the  selection  of  the  right 
seed  is  one  of  the  fundamentals 
in  growing  alfalfa.  You  may  pre- 
pare your  seed  bed  perfectly,  and 
plant  at  the  right  time,  and  yet 
lose  nearly  all  you  spend  in  these 
important  tasks  by  sowing  seed 
which  is  not  adapted  to  the  rigor 
of  our  New  England  winters. 

The  Eastern  States  Farmers' 
Exchange  is  well  supplied  with 
Grimm,  Ontario  Variegated,  and 
Northwestern  Common  certified 
grown  in  Idaho  and  Canada, 
Ontario,  and  Utah,  respectively, 
all  clean  and  of  high  germination. 

Inoculated  and  sown  on  well- 
drained  soil  into  which  sufficient 
lime  has  been  thoroughly  worked 
and  into  which  plenty  of  manure 
or  at  least  500  lbs.  acid  phos- 
phate and  150  lbs.  potash  have 
been  worked  also,  any  of  these 
varieties  of  Eastern  States  Certi- 
Seed  Alfalfas  will  do  well.  The 
Grimm  will  probably  produce 
stands  for  more  years  than  will 
the  Variegated  and  the  Variegated 
than  will  the  Common,  but  all 
will  produce  heavy  stands  of 
alfalfa  for  several  years  with 
good  care. 

Inoculation  Necessary 

It  has  been  demonstrated  em- 
phatically that  alfalfa  seed  in- 
oculated before  planting  produces 
a  sturdier  stand  and  adds  more 
nitrogen  to  the  soil  than  alfalfa 
not  inoculated.  Because  the  al- 
falfa bacteria  are  even  more  sensi- 
tive to  acidity  in  the  soil  than 
the  bacteria  affecting  most  of  the 
other  legumes  and  therefore  apt 
to  die  out  as  plants  draw  lime 
from  the  soil,  it  is  good  insurance 
to  inoculate  alfalfa  seed  even 
when  it  is  to  be  sown  in  fields 
where  alfalfa  has  previously  been 
grown  successfully. 

Time  is  short.  You  should  be 
securing  now  the  alfalfa  seed 
which  you  will  use  this  summer. 
For  information  and  prices  on 
Eastern  States  Certi-Seeds  for 
summer  and  fall  sowing,  fill  out 
the  accompanying  coupon  and 
mail  it  at  once. 

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A   nonstock,    non-profit  organization 
owned  and  controlled  by  the 
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Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

Box  1482,  Springfield,  Mass. 

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NORTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 


477  Essex  Street,  Lawrence,  Mats. 


JUNE  PRICES  as  many  out  as  we  should  have,  consider- 

Manchester,  N.  H  62.2c  per  8y2  qt.  can  inS  the  number  of  members  in  this  local. 

Nashua,  N.  H  66c    per  8^  qt.can  Thls  meeting  was  held  in  the  Hillsboro 

Lowell,  Mass  64c    per  8    qt.  can  County  Farm  Bureau  Office,  the  use  of 

Lawrence,  Mass  80c    per  10  qt.  can  which  was  kindly  loaned  to  the  associa- 

Haverhill,  Mass  64c    per  8    qt.can  tion  for  the  evening  by  County  Agent 

Concord,  N.  H  58.8c  per  8y2  qt.  can  Pierce.    Much  milk  from  this  local  goes 

Portland,  Me                7.8c  per  qt.  to  Boston  to  the  Whiting  Milk  Com- 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers  panies-     Discussion,   therefore,  centered 

and'  Beverly   64c    per  8    qt.can  mainly  around  condition  of  sale  of  milk 

prlces  under   Grade   "A"   regulations   of  this 

_,                    i         •     1    .          •  company  and  general  conditions  in  the 

There  was  no  change  in  the  base  price  BostQn  Market.   The  next  day  the  distrkt 

in  any  of  the  markets  of  this  district  manager  spent  some  time  canvassing  for 

during  June.    Production  ran  high  and  new  raembers  in  Milford  and  three  addi- 

as   butter   price   has   dropped  off   very  tional  men  were  added  tQ  thg  member. 

rapidly  this  high  surplus  at  low  price  at-  shj    Hst     Th     are  £lmer  p  Wheeler 

fected  the  Class  1  price  of  many  dealers,  R  Q  MasQn  ^  j  s_  Trow 

so  that  the  net  price  was  lowered.    How-  president   Allard   was   re-elected  and 

ever,  a  comparison  of  the  figures  will  Laurence  Rossiter  was  elected  secretary, 

show  that  June  prices  for  1927  are  higher  Mr   A]]ard  was       ;n      t  on  the  Saks 

than  those  for  1926,  because  the  Class  1  Committee  to  serve  as  a  member  of  that 

price  was  on  an  8  cents  basis  for  June  committee  of  the  Nashua  Market, 

this  year,  whereas  last  year  the  price  At  Antrim  just  at  the  time  when  the 

dropped  to  a  7^  cents  basis.    Weather  members  would  be  starting  for  the  meet- 

conditions  for  sale  of  milk  have  been  ing>  we  had  a  terrific  thunder  shower. 

very  unfavorable.    Last  year  during  June  The  H  htni      did  a  lot  of  damage  and 

we  had  some  very  hot  weather  which  thefe  was  a  yefy  heayy  downpour  of  rain. 

materially  aided  in  cleaning  up  the  supply  Jhe  e,ectric  ,;ghts  wer£  Qut  in  Antrjm  and 

of  surplus  milk.    This  year,  while  we  SQme  of  the  surrounding  t0Wns.    This  se- 

have  had  one  or  two  fairly  warm  days,  yere  storm  k       some  of  the  members 

most  of  the  month  has  been  quite  cool.  from  the  meeting.    However,  a  few 

Cows  that  have  been  turned  out  seem  to  came   and  after   waiti       Qver  one.half 

have  produced  freely     Heavy  production  hour  for  the  ,ights  tQ  be     t  Qn  agam  we 

and  small  sales  has  left  a  lot  of  milk  to  went  ahead  wjth  the  meeting  which  was 

go  into  manufactured  products.  hdd   ;ft  the   Selectmen's   Room  of  the 

Annual  Meetings  Town  Hall.    Milk  from  this  section  is 

The  program  of  Annual  Meetings  has  going  to  the  W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son  Company 

been  continued  and  these  have  been  held  of  Nashua  and  the  Whiting  Milk  Com- 

for  the  locals  of  Hollis,  N.  H.,  Milford,  panies  at  Boston.    President  Elmer  W. 

N.  H.,  Antrim,  N.  H.,  and  Chester,  N.  H.  Merrill  and  Secretary  I.  P.  Hutchinson 

At  the  Hollis  meeting  I  learned  that  were  re-elected  for  another  year, 
former  president  C.  C.  Hardy  of  this  local  The  Chester  Local  had  a  record  break- 
died  recently.  While  I  had  known  of  his  ing  crowd  out  to  its  annual  Meeting, 
being  sick  with  heart  trouble,  it  was  a  There  is  a  matter  of  importance  with 
shock  to  me  to  learn  of  his  death.  Mr.  reference  to  the  transportation  of  the  milk 
Hardy  has  been  an  unselfish  worker  for  from  this  local  to  the  Lawrence,  Mass., 
the  New  England  Milk  Producers'  Asso-  Market  by  truck,  which  no  doubt  made 
ciation,  always  being  a  member  himself,  everyone  want  to  attend  to  see  what  was 
cheerfully  contributing  his  share  to  the  going  to  be  done  regarding  the  trucking, 
support  of  the  association,  and  a  man,  The  cost  of  getting  the  milk  from  Chester 
who,  whenever  called  upon  to  give  his  to  Lawrence  for  the  last  few  months  has 
time  and  energy  for  this  work,  always  been  very  high,  owing  to  the  increase  in 
seemed  eager  to  do  whatever  he  could  to  the  rates  charged  by  the  electric  railroad 
help  the  cause  along.  Th  community  re-  which  transported  the  milk  from  Chester 
grets  the  loss  of  this  well-liked  townsman,  to  Derry,  where  it  was  reloaded  to  a 
and  the  NEMPA  feels  the  loss  of  a  truck  and  carried  from  Derry  to 
valuable  officer  and  member.  Lawrence.     The   first   business   of  the 

The  members  of  the  Hollis  Local  pres-  meeting  was  to  act  upon  the  resignation 
ent  at  the  Annual  Meeting  elected  Harold  of  former  President  Lewis,  who,  although 
Hardy,  who  is  the  son  of  C.  C.  Hardy,  to  he  had  discontinued  making  milk,  had 
succeed  his  father  as  president  of  the  acted  as  president  for  three  years  past, 
local.  Lester  J.  Hayden,  who  has  served  Mr.  Lewis  felt  that  someone  actively  en- 
as  secretary  for  several  years  and  been  gaged  in  the  milk  business  should  be 
also  a  very  active  worker  was  re-elected,  elected  to  replace  him.  There  was  con- 
His  brother,  Walter  Hayden,  one  of  the  siderable  discussion  about  the  splendid 
largest  producers  in  town,  was  elected  to  work  Mr.  Lewis  had  done.  The  resig- 
represent  this  section  on  the  Nashua  nation  was  accepted  however,  and  a  sin- 
Sales  Committee.  cere  vote  of  thanks  was  given  to  Mr. 

The  meeting  at  Hollis  was  held  in  the  Lewis  as  an  expression  of  appreciation 
home  of  Howard  Barnard.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  for  his  services.  Many  of  the  meetings 
Barnard  have  always  invited  the  members  have  been  held  at  Mr.  Lewis'  home  in  the 
of  the  local  to  meet  there  and  the  front  past  and  he  extends  a  continued  invita- 
room  of  their  house  was  crowded  to  the  tion  to  be  with  him  for  any  future  meet- 
limit  with  members.  It  was  one  of  the  ings.  Walter  P.  Tenney,  one  of  the  larg- 
best  meetings  I  have  attended  because  est  dairymen  in  this  section,  was  elected 
those  present  took  such  an  interest  in  the  president  to  succeed  Mr.  Lewis.  The 
affairs  of  their  local  and  also  in  a  com-  matter  of  secretary  was  next  up  for  con- 
plete  study  and  review  of  the  Nashua  sideration.  Walter  L.  Martin  has  been 
Market  in  which  their  milk  is  sold.  It  secretary  for  several  years,  and  he  also 
was  suggested  by  one  of  the  members  has  recently  gone  out  of  the  milk  business, 
present  that  James  A.  Sargent  be  seen  and  had  expressed  a  feeling,  although  he 
relative  to  joining  the  association.  Mr.  would  carry  on  the  work,  he  would  much 
Sargent  is  a  new  dairyman  in  this  com-  rather  have  a  man  active  in  the  dairy 
munity  and  he  was  visited  by  the  district  business  take  over  this  secretaryship, 
manager  the  next  day  and  joined  the  as-  There  was  considerable  discussion,  and 
sociation.  The  producers  in  Hollis  who  Leroy  D.  Morse  was  finally  elected  sec- 
are  now  marketing  their  milk  in  Nashua  retary.  Messrs.  Tenney  and  Morse  were 
are  now  practically  100  per  cent.  NEMPA  then  appointed  on  the  committee  together 
members,  as  no  one  in  the  meeting  could  with  the  district  manager  to  investigate 
suggest  another  man  that  ought  to  be  can-  the  matter  of  the  transportation  of  the 
vassed  for  membership.  milk  from  Chester  to  Lawrence.  A  com- 
_At  Milford,  President  Jim  Allard  fur-  plete  day  was  spent  in  this  work  and  the 
nished  the  crowd  with  ice  cream  and  committee  has  some  final  recommenda- 
cigars.  Although  the  leading  dairymen  tions  to  submit  to  another  meeting  of  the 
of  the  town  were  present,  we  have  a  large  Chester  members  for  action.  While  the 
membership  in  Milford  and  did  not  have  committee  and  I  were  visiting  the  various 


So&ftiUc 


It's  EasyWth 


85% 


of  bacteria  in  milk 
comes  from  its 
contact  with  non- 
sterile  utensils  and  cans. 


95% 

of  these  bacteria  can  be  removed  by  a  quick 


Ri 


inse 


It  is  now  definitely  known  that  cans, 
buckets,  strainers,  coolers,  separators, .and 
other  utensils  or  equipment 
with  which  the  milk  comes 
in  direct  contact,  are  the 
greatest  source  of  bacterial 
contamination. 
Furthermore,  canssterilized 
at  the  factory  become 
seeded  again  through  ex- 
posure.  so  that  by  the  time 
the  farmer  is  ready  to  use 
them,  they  are  infected.  The 
only  safe  plan  is  to  sterilize 
all  cans  and  utensils  just  be- 
fore using,  at  the  farm,  with 
a  B-K  rinse.  Tests  prove  it 
kills  95%  of  the  bacteria. 
A  B-K  Rinse  of  your  utensils 
just  before  use,  will  elimi- 
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One  gallon  sprays 
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Alf,  the  Elf,  is  well  known 
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producers  shipping  milk  on  the  route 
truck,  I  took  occasion  to  canvass  some  of 
these  men  who  had  not  been  members. 
D.  W.  Ela,  one  of  the  big  producers  of 
Derry,  was  added  to  the  membership  list, 
as  well  as  Stacy  Roulstan,  whose  address 
is  Canobie  Lake.  G.  H.  Ames,  who  had 
been  a  member  signed  one  of  the  new 
powcr-of-attorney  blanks  so  that  his  dues 
could  be  contributed  regularly  through  the 
Hood  Company. 

Check  Testing 
Check  testing  was  done  this  month  at 
the  Portsmouth  Creamery  in  Portsmouth 
and  the  Manchester  Dairy  System  in 
Manchester.  Results  of  the  tests  obtained 
have  been  forwarded  to  the  dairymen  for 
their  information. 

Quality  W ork 
I  have  spent  some  time  working  with 
the  Burbeck  Company,  Portsmouth 
Creamery  and  Findeiscn  Farms  on  the 
improvement  of  quality.  This  is  the  sea- 
son of  the  year  when  the  all  important 
question  of  cooling  the  milk  is  in  the  fore- 
front. Some  sour  milk  has  been  received 
at  the  various  plants  and  I  have  made 
trips  into  the  country  to  discuss  this  mat- 
ter with  some  of  the  producers  who  had 
trouble  with  their  milk.  Sour  milk  is 
not  only  a  loss  to  the  producer,  but  in  hot 
weather  if  the  dealer  is  particularly  in 
need  of  this  milk  it  is  also  a  severe  loss 
to  him.  It  should  be  remembered  it  is 
the  hot  days  that  build  milk  sales,  and 
that  is  the  very  time  of  the  year,  if  any, 
that  the  dealer  can  use  all  of  the  milk 
that  he  can  get.  At  other  times  he  will 
run  a  surplus,  but  during  the  hot  days  he 
needs  every  can  of  milk.  At  this  time, 
when  he  is  demanding  of  each  producer  a 
clean,  wholesome  sunoly,  if  the  milk 
comes  in  sour  it  is  discouraging  to  him 
as  well  as  to  the  farmer.  We  wish  to 
urge  upon  all  the  necessity  of  prompt  and 
and  thorough  cooling  to  avoid  this  loss. 
Milking  it  clean  and  keeping  it  cool  will 
aid  more  to  build  sales  than  anything 
else  we  can  suggest.  A  good  quality 
product  is  always  in  demand. 


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t  "  -"I- 


IT  has  taken  5  years  of  intensive  study  and  experiment  for  our 
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HERE  IS  WHAT  IT  WILL  DO 
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6.  Stop  jerking  and  so-called 


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2.  Keep  transmission  bands 
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3.  Make  brakes  safe. 

4.  Prevent  motor  strain. 


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8.  Prevent  excessive  oil  dilu- 
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'  Before  they  were  married  he  whispered 
to  her : 

"Were  I  drowning  in  the  middle  of  the 
Atlantic  Ocean — going  down  for  the  third 
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It  made  her  feel  happy. 

After  they  had  been  married  several 
years  he  made  the  same  speech. 

It  didn't  seem  to  have  the  same  mean- 
ing then.  Besides,  she  didn't  like  the  way 
he  said  it. 

So  she  hit  him  with  a  plate. 


It  will  not  gum,  rot  transmission  and  brake  bands,  give  off 
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My  plumber's  name  . 


Town. 


My  name  

Street  or  R  R  

Town  Stat 


H.  W.   FIENEMANN,  Manager 
Slade  Bldg  ,  44  Washington  St.,  Providence 


Tel.  Dexter  6469 


JUNE  PRICES 

Providence   8    cents  per  qt. 

Fall  River   8    cents  per  qt. 

Brockton   %x/2  cents  per  qt. 

New  Bedford   9    cents  per  qt. 

Newport   9    cents  per  qt. 

Chain  Store  Situation  in  Providence 

Last  year  when  the  NEMPA  price  of 
milk  dropped  one  cent  per  quart  on  June 
1  in  both  Boston  and  Providence  markets, 
chain  stores  in  Providence  reduced  their 
selling  price  on  a  cash  and  carry  basis 
from  12  cents  to  10  cents  per  quart,  fol- 
lowing similar  action  by  chain  stores  in 
Boston.  On  July  1  when  the  NEMPA 
price  again  advanced  the  chain  stores  in 
Boston  returned  to  the  12-cent  level.  In 
Providence  some  of  the  chain  store  sys- 
tems also  returned  to  the  12-cent  level 
while  others  advanced  their  selling  price 
only  one  cent  per  quart.  This  situation 
brought  about  a  price  warfare  between 
the  different  systems  which  at  times  re- 
sulted in  cash  and  carry  prices  again 
dropping  as  low  as  10  cents  per  quart. 
This  condition  has  been  continued  with 
various  ups  and  downs.  At  the  present 
time  one  chain  store  system  is  retailing  at 
12  cents  while  three  other  large  systems 
are  on  the  11-cent  basis.  Unlike  the 
Boston  market  all  of  these  stores  secure 
their  supply  through  distributors  who  buy 
their  milk  on  the  NEMPA  basis  so  that, 
in  one  sense,  this  became  a  dealers'  mar- 
keting problem  and  not  a  producers'  price 
problem.  On  the  other  hand,  any  con- 
siderable disturbance  in  the  market  is 
bound,  in  the  long  run,  to  affect  the  price 
of  milk  to  producers.  With  this  in  view 
the  NEMPA  has  offered  several  sug- 
gestions in  the  past  in  an  effort  to  sta- 
bilize conditions  here  but  with  little  suc- 
cess. However,  as  a  result  of  a  confer- 
ence the  last  of  June  between  the  leading 
Providence  distributors  and  the  NEMPA 
Sales  Committee,  an  agreement  was 
reached  whereby  the  NEMPA  announced 
an  advance  in  their  price  to  distributors  of 
cent  per  quart  effective  July  1.  It 
is  understood  that  the  chain  store  sys- 
tems now  selling  for  11  cents  will  advance 
their  selling  price  to  12  cents,  making  a 
uniform  price  the  same  as  in  Boston. 
Since  the  NEMPA  price  in  Boston  did 
not  advance  July  1,  producers  supplying 
the  Providence  dealers  will  for  a  short 
time  receive  ¥>  cent  per  quart  more  than 
the  Boston  price,  but  this  difference  will 
probably  disappear  at  the  next  Boston 
price  advance.  We  hope  that  this  will 
result  in  the  removal  of  the  chain  store 
problem  in  pri«e  negotiations  in  this  mar- 
ket in  the  future. 

Providence  Notes 

Prior  to  my  arrival  as  District  Man- 
ager, a  member  of  the  Summit  Local  had 
received  notice  from  his  dealer  that  be- 
cause of  high  bacteria  counts  his  milk 
could  no  longer  be  used  by  them.  He 
appealed  to  the  Boston  office  of  the 
NEMPA  and  was  allowed  to  continue  by 
the  dealer  until  such  time  as  the  new 
District  Manager  could  get  into  the  field 
and  investigate.  A  visit  to  the  member's 
farm  revealed  the  fact  that  he  had  solved 
his  difficulty  and  been  reinstated  on  a 
permanent  basis.  This  action  of  the 
NEMPA  saved  the  possibility  of  a  con- 
siderable loss  and  again  demonstrates  the 
value  of  the  organization. 

Another  opportunity  for  service  to 
members  was  the  complaint  of  a  group  of 
Fall  River  producers  that  their  butter- 
fat  tests  were  running  too  low.  The 
product  of  this  group  had  previously  been 
received  at  a  plant  in  that  city,  but  owing 
to  changing  conditions  three  truck  loads 
were  recently  diverted  to  the  Providence 
plant  of  the  same  company.  Soon  after- 
wards members  noticed  that  butter- fat 
tests  seemed  to  run  below  those  made  in 
Fall  River.  An  investigation  of  this 
matter  is  now  being  made  and  members 
will  be  notified  of  the  results. 


Owing  to  the  increased  demand  on  the 
time  of  Mr.  Bronson  of  the  Boston  of- 
fice, the  supervision  of  the  surplus  plan 
figures  of  Providence  dealers  has  been 
transferred  to  the  office  of  the  milk  ad- 
ministrator for  Boston,  Dr.  A.  W.  Gilbert. 
Dr.  Gilbert  administered  the  surplus  prices 
for  the  NEMPA  and  the  greater  Boston 
dealers  during  the  period  of  the  Federal 
Milk  Commission  and  has  continued  to 
do  so  since  that  time  by  arrangement  be- 
tween distributors  and  the  NEMPA.  Dr. 
Gilbert  employs  an  accountant  to  verify 
the  reports  of  purchases  and  sales  on  a 
monthly  basis. 

Brockton's  Chain  Store  Problems 

Brockton  is  trying  to  solve  its  chain 
store  milk  problem  by  a  new  method.  In 
this  market  the  problem  did  not  become 
acute  until  recently. 

The  Producers  Dairy  Company  has 
been  supplying  a  large  chain  store  system 
with  a  considerable  amount  of  milk.  They 
received  notice  that  after  the  middle  of 
June  this  chain  store  system  would  buy 
its  milk  elsewhere.  Inquiry  developed  the 
fact  that  outside  milk  would  replace  the 
local  product. 

A  protest  was  immediately  filed  with 
the  local  Board  of  Health,  and  a  meeting 
was  held,  presided  over  by  William  N. 
Howard,  Master  of  the  Massachusetts 
State  Grange,  who  supplies  milk  to  the 
Brockton  market.  Over  125  people  at- 
tended this  meeting,  representing  the 
Mayor,  Chamber  of  Commerce,  producers, 
dealers,  civic  organizations,  a  life  insur- 
ance company  and  business  men,  all  of 
whom  entered  a  vigorous  protest  against 
the  proposed  change. 

Producers  pointed  out  that  they  are 
subject  to  close  supervision  by  the  Board 
of  Health,  including  not  only  barn  inspec- 
tion but  semi-annual  physical  inspection 
of  dairy  animals  by  a  local  veterinarian. 
Local  producers  felt  they  were  being  dis- 
criminated against  if  forced  to  compete 
with  milk  produced  under  less  stringent 
supervision. 

As  a  result  of  the  protest  the  Board  of 
Health  has  passed  the  following  regula- 
tion :  "no  dealer  shall  sell,  deliver  or  dis- 
tribute milk  in  Brockton,  milk  procured 
from  any  producer  who  does  not  hold  a 
producer's  permit  issued  by  the  Board  of 
Health  of  Brockton.  Licenses  are  not 
transferable."  This  regulation  will  go 
into  effect  July  15th.  This  will  insure 
that  any  distant  milk  sold  in  Brockton 
will  be  subjected  to  the  same  rigid  in- 
spection that  is  given  to  local  producers. 


Onlooker :  "Surely,  Mose,  you  don't  ex- 
pect to  catch  fish  in  that  stream  ?" 

Mose :  "No,  sah,  I  don't  expect  to.  I'se 
just  showing  my  old  woman  I  has  no  time 
to  turn  de  wringer." 


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SECRETARY  JARDINE  AT  CO- 
OPERATIVE INSTITUTE 

(Continued  from  page  two) 
efficient  marketing.  The  operations  of 
these  associations,  it  is  true,  are  in  the 
hands  of  skilled  men  who  are  not  farmers 
but  marketing  specialists.  The  policies  of 
the  organizations,  however,  are  shaped  by 
boards  of  directors  who  are  producers, 
and  the  organizations  are  successful  be- 
cause the  directors  have  the  capacity  to 
formulate  sound  policies  and  the  intelli- 
gence to  leave  their  managers  free  to 
carry  out  these  policies. 

In  carrying  out  their  aims,  the  co- 
operative associations  must  begin  with 
production.  In  fact,  one  of  the  strongest 
features  of  co-operative  marketing  is  that 
it  co-ordinates  production  and  marketing 
in  a  way  that  is  possible  under  no  other 
svstem.  We  must  have  economical  pro- 
duction which  means  the  proper  choice  of 
land,  of  crops,  and  of  varieties  suitable 
to  the  land  and  the  climate,  and  the  sys- 
tematizing of  all  production  processes. 
Also  we  must  produce  in  accordance  with 
market  demands,  which  means  improve- 
ment and  standardization  of  varieties  of 
crops  and  breeds  of  livestock,  correct  fer- 
tilization, spraying  and  cultivation  of 
crops ;  and  correct  feeding  of  livestock 
and  poultry.  The  elimination  of  waste  in 
production  will  make  marketing  a  much 
less  formidable  problem. 

Co-operative  associations  can  not  cre- 
ate a  fictitious  demand  for  farm  products. 
They  can  influence  only  to  a  relatively 
small  degree  the  basic  economic  condi- 
tions that  determine  demand  and  price. 
Their  aim  should  be  rather  to  adapt  pro- 
duction and  marketing  to  these  conditions. 
First  in  this  program,  as  I  have  pointed 
out,  comes  economic  production,  second, 
standardization,  and  finally  skillful  mer- 
chandising. In  carrying  out  a  merchan- 
dising program,  information  regarding  the 
supply  of  and  demand  for  a  particular 
product  handled  by  an  association  and 
regarding  competing  products,  a  knowl- 
edge of  conditions  influencing  demand, 
and  of  the  price  of  the  product  in  relation 
to  supply  and  demand  over  a  period  of 
years  are  the  necessary  equipment  of  up- 
to-date  sales  service.  It  is  this  type  of 
service  that  is  being  developed  in  the  most 
efficient  co-operative  organizations. 

Market  research  is  also  essential,  and 
several  of  the  larger  co-operative  asso- 
ciations are  setting  up  research  depart- 
ments to  study  their  peculiar  problems, 
supplementing  and  giving  more  practical 
application  to  the  work  of  the  State  and 
Federal  institutions  engaged  in  economic 
research. 

The  interest  of  the  co-operatives  in  mar- 
keting studies  extends  beyond  the  func- 
tions which  they  themselves  perform.  Be- 
cause they  represent  the  producers,  they 
are  interested  in  preventing  very  waste 
or  excessive  cost  which  deducts  something 
from  the  net  returns  to  the  farmer  or 


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send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
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serve  to  restrict  the  demand  for  his  prod- 
uct. 

Michigan  co-operative  associations  mar- 
keting potatoes,  for  example,  have  a 
vital  interest  in  the  fact  that  it  costs  more 
to  transport  a  sack  of  potatoes  from  the 
freight  yards  in  Jersey  City  to  the  store 
of  a  retailer  in  the  Bronx  than  to  move 
the  same  sack  from  the  shipping  point  in 
Michigan  to  the  Jersey  City  Terminal. 
Terminal  facilities  and  practices  which 
make  charges  of  this  kind  necessary  have 
as  much  effect  on  the  welfare  of  the 
Michigan  potato  growers  as  the  costs 
and  practices  of  their  local  associations. 


If  retailing  margins  are  large  and  retail- 
ing practices  are  inefficient,  the  producers 
of  farm  crops  handled  by  these  agencies 
suffer  ultimately,  and  cooperatives  that 
study  these  problems  are  strictly  within 
their  field. 

In  order  that  the  associations  may  carry 
out  these  aims  successfully,  it  is  necessary 
that  they  have  adequate  finances.  Asso- 
ciations not  only  need  money  for  their 
own  requirements,  but  oftentimes  have 
to  provide  marketing  and  to  some  extent 
production  credit  for  their  members. 
There  is,  therefore,  a  double  necessity  for 
strong  financial  organizations  which  can 


command  credit  on  equal  terms  with  any 
other  business  enterprise. 

Co-operativ'e  marketing  organizations 
are  expanding  and  assuming  new  func- 
tions. For  this  reason  also  financial 
strength  is  essential.  The  members  should 
be  brought  to  realize  that  in  providing  the 
necessary  capital  they  are  making  an  in- 
vestment in  marketing  facilities  which  will 
serve  them  more  and  more  effectively.  As 
they  gain  in  financial  strength,  in  volume 
of  business  and  in  business  experience, 
the  co-operative  organizations,  I  believe, 
will  come  ever  closer  to  a  realization  of 
the  objectives  which  they  have  set  up. 


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The   De  Laval  MilKer  is 
to  Wash  and  Clean 


npHE  simple  design  of  the  De  Laval 
*  Milker  makes  it  extremely  easy  to 
wash  and  to  keep  clean.  With  a  brush, 
some  hot  water  and  a  few  minutes'  time, 
the  entire  machine  can  be  thoroughly 
washed.  The  few  parts  requiring  any 
washing  at  all  are  illustrated  above. 
There  are  no  seams  in  which  dirt  can 
accumulate,  or  crevices  to  harbor  and 
provide  breeding  places  for  bacteria. 

Hundreds  of  producers  of  Grade  A  and 
Certified  Milk  in  every  section  of  the 
country  declare  the  De  Laval  Milker  an 
invaluable  aid  in  the  production  of  clean 
milk,  and  an  assurance  of  regular  pre- 
mium money. 

This  is  but  one  of  the  advantages  to  be 
had  with  a  De  Laval  for  it  soon  saves 
enough  time  to  pay  for  itself  and  will 
milk  your  cows  better. 


Facts  about  the 
De  Laval  Milker 


1.  650,000  cows  now  milked  the  De 
Laval  Way. 

2.  De  Laval  Milkers  now  in  their  elev- 
enth year  of  use. 

3.  83.27%  of  the  users  report  aver- 
age saving  of  2  hours,  12  minutes 
per  day.* 

4.  97.13%  of  the  users  say  it  agrees 
with  their  cows.* 

5.  99.4%  of  the  users  say  they  get 
as  much  or  more  milk  as  by  hand 
milking.* 

6.  9.49%  average  increase  in  produc- 
tion per  cow  reported  by  those  who 
have  records.* 

7.  94.80%  of  users  say  their  De  Laval 
is  easy  to  keep  in  a  clean  and  sani- 
tary condition.* 

8.  Average  bacteria  count  of  all  report- 
ing, 14,542  -  62%  report  counts  of 
10,000  and  less.* 

9.  96.45%  of  De  Laval  users  say  their 
milker  is.  "the  best,"  "one  of  the 
best,"  or  a  "good"  investment.* 


'Based  on  reports  from  1844  De  Laval  Milker  users  in 
all  parts  of  the  United  States  and  Canada. 


De  Laval  Milker 


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Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted  — 

to  Dairy  Interests  P^^j^ 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  11.    Number  5. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  AUGUST,  1927. 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


Nine-Cent  Price  Holds  in  Uneasy  Market 

Dealers  Ask  for  Adjustment  to  Meet  Price  Paid  by  Competitors  —  Chain  Stores  Did 

Not  Advance  with  Rest  of  Market 


We  are  in  the  midst  of  a  full-sized 
marketing  storm  here  in  Boston,  with 
waves  of  complaint,  claims  and  counter- 
claims breaking  all  around  us.  At  this 
writing,  July  29,  we  are  sailing  along 
pretty  well  and  will  come  through  this 
period  of  price  adjustment  all  right  if 
too  many  people  do  not  start  rocking 
the  boat  at  the  same  time.  But  there 
are  so  many  factors  in  the  disturbed  mar- 
ket that  situations  may  change  quite 
quickly. 

All  we  can  do  is  to  report  in  this 
Dairyman  the  situation  as  it  is  today. 
If  any  radical  changes  take  place  they 
will  be  sent  out  through  the  newspapers 
and  will  reach  you  quicker  than  this 
Dairyman. 

The  price  for  August  is,  at  this  writing, 
nine  cents  a  quart  for  3.7  per  cent,  milk 
delivered  in  Boston.  It  is  our  best  judg- 
ment that  this  price  will  hold  in  spite 
of  a  general  uneasiness  in  the  market  and 
a  rather  general  request  for  recon- 
sideration of  the  price  from  dealers  on 
account  of  competitive  conditions.  The 
sales  committee  decided  to  continue  the 
9  cent  price  in  August,  and  the  arguments 
of  the  dealers  have  failed  to  shake  their 
belief  that  the  market  should  remain  at 
9  cents. 

The  nine-cent  price  has  been  in  effect 
since  July  17,  when  an  increase  of  a 
cent  was  made  by  the  sales  committee 
and  accepted  by  the  dealers  with  some 
protest.  The  Hood  company  was  the  only 
one  that  accepted  this  cent  advance 
promptly  or  who  have  indicated  their 
intention  of  taking  a  firm  stand  to  sup- 
port a  general  increase  in  the  market. 
The  Whiting  Company  accepted  but  with 
less  promptness  and  the  other  large  deal- 
ers, buying  through  the  NEMPA,  fell 
in  line  after  voicing  their  objections. 

To  fully  understand  the  situation  which 
arose  we  must  go  back  a  few  months. 
In  May  the  commissioners  of  agriculture 
of  the  various  New  England  states  inter- 
ested themselves  definitely  in  the  question 
of  milk  prices  and  they  were  told  by 
practically  every  considerable  agency  sell- 
ing milk  in  Boston  that  an  advance  of  a 
cent  should  be  made  July  1,  on  account  of 
the  shortage  of  milk  which  would  by 
that  time  fall  on  the  market,  provided  the 
usual  summer  conditions  prevailed  in 
June. 

Cold  rainy  weather  throughout  the 
month  changed  the  aspect  of  things  and 
on  July  1  there  was  still  an  abundance  of 
milk  on  the  market.  The  sales  commit- 
tee of  the  association  realized  the  fact 
that  the  time  of  an  advance  had  not 
come  and  continued  the  June  price  for 
the  first  two  weeks  in  July,  giving  full 
notice  of  their  intention  to  seek  an  in- 
crease of  a  cent  the  middle  of  the  month. 
In  this  decision  other  agencies  concurred 
so  far  as  is  known. 

The  unfavorable  weather  continued  for 
the  first  week  in  July  and  the  advance 
seemed  doubtful.    But  on  the  10th  a 


sizzling  hot  spell  came  on  and  milk  sales 
climbed  so  fast  that  the  dealers  were 
hard  put  to  it  to  get  a  supply.  The 
normal  milk  shipment  in  summer  is  about 
50  carloads  a  day.  During  that  hot  spell 
the  peak  was  reached  at  80  carloads  a 


After  such  a  hot  spell  and  with  the 
market  still  going  strong  the  sales  com- 
mittee felt  warranted  in  advancing  the 
price  a  full  cent  and  the  advance  took  ef- 
fect July  17.  It  was  our  natural  expecta- 
tion, in  view  of  the  opinions  which  other 


ARE  WE  DOWNHEARTED?  NO 

There  are  lOO.OOOi  other  "real  fellers"  like  this  drink- 
ins  milk.  Yes.  many  times  that  number,  not  to  mention 
the  babies,  the  little  sisters  and  brothersl  and  everybody 
else— all  drinking  milk,  the  year  around.  The  milk  busi- 
ness is  a  good  business.  It  should  be  good  for  all  of  us. 
Let's  make  it  so  by  working  together. 


day  and  there  were  times  when  the  mar- 
ket was  almost  bare  of  milk.  Dealers 
were  seeking  aid  from  one  another  to 
get  enough  to  handle  the  increased  de- 
mand and  our  association  was  appealed 
to  by  several  dealers  to  get  more  milk 
for  them. 


agencies  had  expressed  to  the  commission- 
ers of  agriculture  that  they  would  follow. 
They  did  not.  The  Federation  of  Cream- 
eries continued  to  sell  its  milk  at  the 
old  level  until  July  24,  when  they  ad- 
vanced a  cent. 
Interest  centered  in  the  chain  store 


attitude.  The  First  National  stores,  which 
secure  their  supply  direct  from  the  co- 
operative at  Bellows  Falls,  Vt,  did  not 
change  their  price  of  12  cents  a  quart. 
Up  to  the  present  time  there  has  not  been 
the  slightest  intimation  that  they  intend 
to  do  so.  The  A.  &  P.  stores,  buying 
from  the  Hood  Company,  did  not  raise 
their  price  on  the  17th  but  went  up  to  13 
cents  on  the  25th.  They  went  back  to 
12  cents  the  following  day,  being  unable, 
apparently,  to  stand  the  competition  of 
the  First  National  stores  on  12  cent  milk. 
Dealers  who  sell  to  stores  and  to  the 
wholesale  trade  got  uneasy  and  all  but 
stampeded  in  cutting  prices  in  order  to 
hold  trade. 

Under  these  conditions  they  began  com- 
ing to  the  association  for  relief.  They 
said  that  they  could  not  stand  this  com- 
petition. We  reminded  them  that  the 
trouble  was  in  resale  conditions  and  we 
were  not  concerned,  except  as  the  sta- 
bility of  tho  market  might  be  threatened. 
The  consuming  public  accepted  the  ad- 
vance of  a  cent  without  question  on  the 
family  trade  and  there  was  no  criticism  in 
the  newspapers  over  the  advance.  It  was 
simply  a  chaotic  condition  in  the  trade 
fostered  by  the  fact  that  the  First  Na- 
tional stores  had  not  advanced  their  price, 
and  that  the  Federation  had  continued  to 
sell  at  their  old  price  a  week  after  the 
NEMPA  made  the  advance. 

The  uneasiness  of  the  dealers  crystal- 
ized  into  formal  action  on  the  19th,  when 
the  Hood  company  asked  for  a  readjust- 
ment of  their  price  for  one  week  on  the 
ground  that  the  Federation  price  had  not 
moved  up  with  theirs  and  that  they  were 
therefore  being  underbought  by  a  com- 
petitor. Other  large  dealers  joined  in 
this  demand  for  an  adjustment,  some  ask- 
ing for  the  full  cent  for  two  weeks,  some 
for  lesser  amounts.  All  these  claims  for 
adjustment  have  been  taken  under  con- 
sideration by  the  sales  committee  but  at 
the  present  writing  have  not  been  al- 
lowed. 

Along  with  these  claims  for  adjust- 
ments to  meet  prices  paid  by  competitors, 
some  dealers  have  expressed  their  unwill- 
ingness to  continue  with  the  nine-cent 
price  unless  the  chain  store  price  ad- 
vances also.  Most  of  them  have  taken 
the  attitude  of  waiting  until  the  first  of 
August  and  then  seeing  what  should  be 
done.  If  hot  weather  continues  and  milk 
becomes  quite  short  again  their  objections 
to  a  continuance  of  the  price  will  be 
less  vigorous.  If  the  chain  stores  should 
advance  their  price  August  1  the  objec- 
tions would  disappear  altogether. 

Meanwhile  the  sales  committee  is 
standing  firm  on  the  nine  cent  price  and 
hoping  that  the  dealers  will  stiffen  up 
their,  backbones  and  settle  their  resale 
problems  without  asking  the  farmers  of 
New  England  to  stand  any  part  of  the 
burden  of  the  disturbed  conditions  in 
the  market. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


August,  1927 


New  England  Dairyman 

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coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
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Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass.;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I. ;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn. ;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn. ;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 


PERSONAL  WORD 

Well,  here  I  am,  in  the  Laconia  Hos- 
pital this  time,  for  what  they  called  a 
"slight  operation"  which  would  relieve  me 
of  much  of  the  pain  I  was  suffering.  That 
was  over  two  weeks  ago.  It  seems  as 
though  I'd  been  through  a  threshing  ma- 
chine. The  treatment  reminds  me  of  old 
Perry  Davis'  Pain  Killer,  that  appeared 
to  kill  one  pain  by  creating  a  greater. 
But  they  say  I  may  leave  in  a  day  or 
two,  so  I'm  better. 

Gee,  how  these  doctors  minimize  pain. 
It  means  nothing  to  them  how  a  fellow 
aches.  I  reckon  they  think  if  a  fellow 
gets  over  it  he  will  be  so  glad  he'll  for- 
get it  and  if  he  don't  get  over  it  he 
can't  do  anything  about  it  anyhow.  I 
hate  to  have  them  tell  me  "It  won't  hurt 
much"  and  then  just  about  lift  my  scalp. 

Then  too  some  things  we  expect  to 
hurt  awfully  don't  hurt  at  all.  It  bal- 
ances maybe  and  we  have  a  certain  aver- 
age pain,  only  some  peoples  averages  are 
much  higher  than  others. 

When  Sam  was  a  little  chap,  perhaps 
three  years  old,  I  found  him  one  day  out 
in  the  garden  having  a  perfectly  splendid 
time  digging  up  my  vegetable  plots.  Of 
course  I  reproved  him.  I  showed  him 
where  he  might  dig  all  he  wanted  to  and 
then  I  told  him  that  if  he  dug  up  my 
garden  again  I'd  "throw  him  into  the 
middle  of  next  week."  A  while  later  his 
mother  called  me  into  the  house  and 
asked  me  what  I'd  done  to  Sam.  He  was 
clinging  to  her  desperately  and  crying  as 
though  his  heart  would  break.  He 
sobbed  out  brokenly  that  Papa  was  go- 
ing to  "throw  him  into  the  middle  of  next 
week"  and  went  into  a  tremendous  parox- 
ism of  weepings. 

I  got  a  very  effective  and  well-deserved 
lecture  on  the  careless  use  of  language  to 
children  and  it  was  a  long  time  before  I 


could  win  back  Sam's  confidence  so  that 
he  would  come  to  me  with  entire  trust. 

Generally  speaking,  I  think  it's  best  to 
be  careful  what  you  say,  .tell  the  truth 
when  you  tell  anything,  and  avoid  creat- 
ing a  wrong  impression  in  the  other  fel- 
low's mind  by  a  truth  misunderstood. 

All  of  which  sounds  sort  of  preaching, 
and  I'm  no  preacher.  The  nurse  re- 
marked to  me  the  other  day  that  I  was 
too  much  of  a  mind  reader.  The  doctor 
had  just  looked  at  my  wounds  and  an- 
swered "yes"  when  I  asked  if  they  were 
doing  well.  By  the  look  of  his  face  and 
the  way  he  spoke  I  doubted  him.  And  I 
had  reason  as  later  developed.  You  see 
the  business  of  selling  milk  makes  one 
watch  the  other  fellow's  expression, 
weigh  his  words  and  search  for  hidden 
meanings.  But  its  not  so  bad  as  it  used 
to  be.  We've  always  dealt  square  and 
generally  got  a  square  deal. 

PATTEE. 


THE  "WE"  SPIRIT 

All  the  world  acclaims  Lindbergh,  the 
man  with  the  daring,  the  endurance  of  a 
Viking,  and  the  heart  of  an  unspoiled  boy. 
May  we  add  our  bit  to  the  great  voice  of 
press  and  people,  knowing  full  well  that 
what  little  we  may  say  so  belatedly  can 
add  almost  nothing  to  the  universal  rec- 
ognition of  the  greatest  feat  of  modern 
times. 

It  would  be  easy  to  fall  in  line  with 
many  business  concerns,  other  lines  than 
ours,  and  attempt  to  turn  his  success  to 
our  own  advantage.  To  the  makers  of 
the  watch  he  wore,  the  pen  with  which  he 
wrote,  the  tires  on  his  plane,  to  the  very 
least  thing  which  made,  with  Lindbergh, 
this  great  flight  across  the  Atlantic,  his 
feat  meant  a  great  advertising  chance 
which  could  be  capitalized. 

So  to  us  and  the  great  dairy  industry 
which  we  represent,  comes  an  unequalled 
opportunity  to  enlarge  upon  and  use  to 
our  own  advantage  his  first  request  on 
landing,  "A  glass  of  milk  and  a  bath." 
We  prefer  to  let  that  stand  on  its  merits 
like  the  fine,  lovable  boy  who  made  it. 
But  it  is  a  good  thing  for  all  of  us  to 
remember  that  with  the  great  people  of 
France  eager  to  give  him  anything  which 
money  could  buy  or  influence  secure,  he 
asked  for  that  simple  everyday  necessity, 
a  glass  of  milk. 

We  do  not  wish  to  capitalize  this  re- 
quest of  his  but  we  cannot  let  the  oppor- 
tunity pass  to  take  home  to  ourselves  the 
words  of  Lindbergh  which  have  rung 
around  the  world.  "Well,  here  we  are." 
Of  all  things  he  has  said  or  done  since 
he  touched  earth  after  the  great  flight, 
that  "we"  came-  the  nearest  home  and 
most  closely  touched  the  hearts  of  men, 
women  and  children  in  all  lands  and  in  all 
conditions  and  circumstances. 

To  the  great,  tumultuous  throng  about 
him  he  was  not  presenting  himself  alone 
but  "we,"  the  man  and  the  trusty  plane 
which  had  carried  him  safely  over  the 
thousands  of  miles  of  trackless  waters. 
As  the  hunter  understands  and  loves  his 
dog,  the  rider  his  horse,  the  sailor,  his 
yacht,  the  engineer  his  locomotive,  so  did 
Lindbergh  understand  the  Spirit  of  St. 
Louis,  his  stout  plane,  and  give  it  person- 
ality. Hour  after  hour  his  own  valiant 
young  heart  beating  stoutly,  hour  after 
hour  the  great  engine  throbbing  on  no  less 
steadily,  together  they  ride  out  fogs,  sleet, 
winds,  waves,  disaster  and  death,  they 
accomplish  a  feat  as  yet  unparallelled  in 
all  the  world's  history,  and  at  the  end 
come  down  together — WE. 

He  said  far  more  than  he  dreamed  of 

in  that  simple  announcement  of  "Well, 


here  we  are."  He  gave  a  watchword  for 
all  of  us  who  believe  in  working  to- 
gether. He  expressed  the  "we  spirit"  the 
impulse  to  work  for  one  another  which 
has  made  civilization  possible  and  has 
through  long  ages  separated  men  from 
beasts.  Better  than  we  can  possibly  ex- 
press the  thought  a  writer  in  a  New  York 
paper  has  caught  the  message  when  he 
said : 

"  'Well,  here  we  are !'  said  Lindy. 

"A  simple  statement — unstudied — unre- 
hearsed, and  one  that  will  be  quoted  a 
thousand  years  from  now ! 

"In  due  time  the  'first  flight'  that 
turned  mankind  into  a  howling,  hat-toss- 
ing, adoring  mob  will  become  a  cold  his- 
toric fact  for  schoolboys  to  drowse  over. 

"As  aviation  progresses,  a  thousand 
other  men,  as  yet  unborn,  will  perform 
feats  even  more  remarkable — it  must  be 
so — and  Lindy's  wonderful  achievement 
will  become  a  mere  date  in  history. 

"But  not  so  with  the  Boy  himself. 

"For  that  careless  'we'  has  placed  upon 
his  brow  the  Crown  of  Immortality, 
honor  beyond  the  gift  of  kings  .  .  .  . 
eternal  life  in  the  hearts  of  men! 

"So  long  as  there  are  human  beings, 
so  long  as  the  brotherhood  of  man  is 
more  than  just  a  name  ...  so  long 
shall  Lindy  live  .  .  .  vibrant,  human, 
lovable    .    .    .    until  the  end  of  Time ! 

"Why  ? 

"Because  he  has  voiced  the  'we'  spirit 
that  is  the  soul  of  humanity  .  .  .  the 
vital  spark  that  animates  the  human  race. 
Without  it,  we  humans  would  still  be 
roaming  forest  and  plain,  hunters  and 
hunted  among  the  other  animals  of  the 
world ! 

"Look  about  you!  Wherever  you  find 
real  progress,  there  you  will  find  the  'we' 
spirit.  Wherever  men  are  banded  to- 
gether to  accomplish  real  things,  there 
you  will  invariably  find  the  individual 
merged  into  that  comprehensive  'we.' 

"True,  you  may  sit  in  the  cockpit  of 
your  business  plane  .  .  .  your  hand 
may  grasp  the  control  stick  .  .  .  but 
if  you  are  to  fly  straight  and  true,  if  you 
are  to  land  right  side  up,  if  your  hop  is 
to  be  a  record-breaking  success  .  .  . 
'we'  will  have  done  it." 


BETTER  UNDERSTANDING 

No  better  demonstration  of  the  need  of 
a  working  Dairy  Conference  Board  has 
been  given  in  years  than  the  present  dis- 
turbed condition  in  the  Boston  market. 
The  real  distress  of  some  of  the  dealers, 
due  to  competitive  conditions  in  the  trade, 
and  the  general  unrest  and  lack  of  con- 
fidence is  due  entirely  to  the  lack  of  a 
common  understanding  of  conditions  by 
the  various  agencies  marketing  milk  in 
Boston.  It  is  a  condition  which  the  dairy 
conference  board,  when  it  is  a  working 
reality,  can  successfully  avoid. 

When  the  NEMPA  sales  committee 
advanced  the  price  of  milk  a  cent  a  quart 
July  17  it  did  so  on  what  it  considered 
adequate,  knowledge  of  conditions 
throughout  New  England.  When  the  fed- 
eration of  creameries  did  not  advance 
their  price  until  a  week  later  they  were 
interpreting  market  and  country  condi- 
tions in  the  light  of  their  own  knowledge. 
When  the  co-operatives  furnishing  chain 
store  milk  did  not  insist  on  an  advance  in 
price  at  the  same  time,  they  were  prob- 
ably interpreting  conditions  of  supply  and 
demand  in  the  light  of  their  own  district. 

So  with  all  the  other  agencies  selling 
milk ;  each  interprets  conditions  inde- 
pendently and  for  itself.  Naturally  there 
is  some  difference  in  the  interpretation 
and  the  whole  dairy  industry  may  suffer 
great  losses  in  consequence.  The 
NEMPA,  being  the  largest  and  most 
widely  distributed  group  and  having  more 

contracts  in  city  markets  as  well  as  in 
country  milk  producing  areas,  naturally 
feels  that  it  has  a  greater  ability  to 
judge  of  conditions  correctly  than  any 

local  organization  can  have.    Just  as 


naturally  each  of  the  lesser  groups  feels 
that  its  own  information  is  accurate  and 
dependable.  Probably  it  is  so  far  as  it 
goes  but  it  docs  not  go  far  enough  to 
enable  such  a  group  to  interpret  New 
England  wide  conditions  correctly,  and  it 
is  the  condition  in  New  England  as  a 
whole  that  should  be  the  dominant  factor 
in  determining  milk  prices. 

The  New  England  Dairy  Conference 
Board  can  solve  the  situation  provided  it 
has  the  whole  hearted  backing  of  its  va- 
rious members.  While  we  feel  that  our 
own  information  as  to  conditions  is  much 
better  than  any  local  group  can  have,  we 
would  not  feel  the  same  toward  the  inter- 
pretation of  conditions  made  by  the  Con- 
ference Board  after  study  from  many 
different  viewpoints.  All  that  we  have 
in  the  way  of  information,  all  that  any  of 
the  other  groups  have,  can  be  turned  into 
one  general  fund  of  knowledge  of  con- 
ditions. Out  of  this  can  come  an  inter- 
pretation better  than  we  ever  have  had, 
simply  because  mpre  information  has 
gone  into  it.  Our  own  belief  as  to  con- 
ditions might  be  supported  or  not  sup- 
ported by  evidence  from  other  sources. 
We  hope  that  it  would  never  be  reversed 
but  believe  it  might  often  be  modified  by 
the  information  which  other  groups  could 
bring  in.  In  any  case,  it  would  be  of  tre- 
mendous advantage  to  all  of  us  to  have 
some  body  which  could  assemble  the  in- 
formation and  pass  it  out  to  all  of  us  im- 
partially and  on  a  New  England-wide 
basis. 

With  such  a  general  understanding  of 
conditions  the  danger  of  such  situations 
as  the  present  would  be  largely  done 
away  with.  Any  group  which  then  did 
not  follow  the  market  and  move  its  price 
up  or  down  promptly  with  the  general 
market  and  in  view  of  generally  known 
and  recognized  market  conditions,  would 
be  doing  so  from  willful  perversity  or  in 
an  attempt  to  gain  some  market  advan- 
tage, not  from  an  honest  difference  of 
opinion  as  to  what  conditions  are,  as  was 
the  case,  we  believe,  in  the  present  in- 
stance. 

We  hope  that  the  New  England  Dairy 
Conference  Board,  so  well  started  al- 
ready, may  become  a  strong  factor  in 
stabilizing  dairy  marketing  conditions  in 
New  England.  We  pledge  ourselves  to 
open-minded  co-operation  in  making  its 
work  successful.  Its  principle  is  right. 
Nothing  but  shortsighted  indifference  or 
failure  to  play  the  game  can  stand  in  its 
way.  But  it  must  not  be  a  half-hearted 
thing,  with  only  a  part  of  the  important 
dairy  organizations  taking  part  in  it. 


CONFERENCE  BOARD 

Satisfactory  progress  has  been  made  in 
setting  up  a  New  England  Dairy  Confer- 
ence Board  which  will  serve  as  a  com- 
mon meeting  ground  for  the  various 
groups  of  dairy  farmers  who  are  selling 
their  product  in  New  England.  After 
various  conferences  and  committee  meet- 
ings the  Board  has  been  organized 
definitely.  It  has  before  it  for  considera- 
tion several  of  the  major  problems  of 
dairy  marketing.  The  preliminary  steps 
have  all  been  taken.  The  plan  was 
formally  adopted  at  a  meeting  which 
represented  a  very  large  percentage  of 
the  dairy  farmers  of  New  England.  Com- 
petent officers  and  committees  have  been 
elected.    It  is  now  ready  to  go  to  work. 

The  meeting  where  actual  organiza- 
tion was  brought  about  was  held  in  the 
American  House,  Boston,  July  14,  with 
Harry  R.  Lewis,  Commissioner  of  Agri- 
culture for  Rhode  Island  and  chairman 
of  the  agricultural  committee  of  the  New 
England  Council,  as  chairman.  The 
Council  has  been  active  in  promoting  the 
conference  board  idea  and  without  its  im- 
partial leadership  it  would  have  been  diffl- 

(Continued  on  page  4) 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


Rights  of  Local  Health  Boards 


Questions  of  far-reaching  significance 
are  raised  by  the  action  of  the  board  of 
health  of  Marlboro,  Mass.,  in  refusing  a 
license  to  sell  milk  in  that  town  to  the 
Whiting  Milk  Company.  It  is  an  effort 
to  restrict  the  area  from  which  the  mill 
supply  of  the  community  can  come.  In 
a  very  similar  way  the  city  of  Brockton 
has  sought  to  restrict  its  milk  buying  area 
by  a  decision  to  accept  milk  only  from 
dairies  within  18  miles  of  the  city.  Both 
cases  have  gone  into  the  courts  and  in- 
teresting developments  are  expected. 

The  Marlboro  situation  began  to  de- 
velop when  the  Whiting  company  began 
selling  milk  to  the  A.  &  P.  stores  in 
Marlboro,  supplying  the  milk  from  their 
plant  in  Worcester  some  20  miles  away. 
i  lie  company  secured  from  the  Marlboro 
board  of  health  a  license  to  sell,  but  when 
the  license  expired  recently  they  would 
not  renew  it  on  the  ground  that  the  milk 
was  coming  from  dairies  which  the  Marl- 
boro board  of  health  had  not  inspected. 
The  milk  actually  came  from  farms  in 
Worcester  county  or  from  Randolph  or 
Bethel,  Vt.,  from  which  source  the  Whit- 
ing company  brings  in  its  Worcester 
supply. 

'fhe  next  move  was  when  the  Whiting 
company  furnished  the  Marlboro  board 
of  health  with  a  list  of  the  farms  from 
wmcn  the  milk  came,  both  Worcester 
county  farms  and  those  in  Vermont.  The 
Marlboro  board  of  health  said  they  had 
no  money  to  inspect  these  distant  farms 
and  continued  to  refuse  the  license  to  sell 
in  Marlboro.  All  these  farms  listed  by 
the  Whiting  company  had  been  inspected 
and  passed  by  representatives  of  Worces- 
ter, Boston  or  other  markets  in  which 
the  company  sells  milk. 

It  has  been  a  rather  general  practice 
for  any  city  board  of  health  to  accept 
the  inspection  of  another  city  board  of 
health  until  such  time  as  they  could  get 
around  to  make  the  inspection  themselves, 
i  tie  attitude  of  the  Marlboro  board  of 
health  was  that  they  would  not  accept 
such  an  inspection  from  another  board  of 
health  as  they  did  not  have  money  to 
ever  make  an  inspecttion  for  themselves 
and  it  would  be  the  same  thing  as  giving 
tne  dairies  a  perpetual  license  to  sell  in 
Marlboro.  Moreover,  they  said  there  was 
plenty  of  milk  within  a  short  distance 
trum  Marlboro  which  could  be  inspected 
with  the  money  which  had  been  appro- 
priated for  that  purpose. 

The  state  board  of  health  was  appealed 
to  under  the  laws  of  1924  which  provided 
that  any  dairyman  who  was  shut  off  by  a 
city  or  town  board  of  health  might  ap- 
peal to  the  state  board  of  health  in  an 
attempt  to  get  reinstated.  This  amend- 
ment was  passed  to  meet  cases  where 
farmers  were  supplying  a  good  quality 
milk  and  were,  or  thought  they  were, 
being  discriminated  against  by  the  local 
board  of  health.  The  state  board  of 
health  ruled  that  the  Whiting  company 
should  be  given  the  license,  but  the  Marl- 
boro board  of  health  construed  this  as 
a  piece  of  advice,  not  an  order  backed  up 
by  state  law,  and  again  refused  to  grant 
the  license.  1  hev  said  that  it  was  not 
such  a  case  as  the  amendment  of  1924 
was  aimed  at. 

The  next  step  was  an  appeal  to  the 
courts  by  the  Whiting  Milk  Company.  A 
preliminary  hearing  was  held  in  which 
the  facts  stated  above  were  brought  out. 
Phe  case  was  continued  three  weeks  to 
give  time  for  the  Marlboro  board  of 
health  to  make  the  inspections  if  it 
changed  its  mind  about  the  advisability 
of  doing  so.  The  three  weeks  is  not  yet 
up  and  the  next  move  is  awaited  with 
interest. 

There  are  two  radically  different  view- 
points involved  in  the  matter  and  our 
association,  having  members  in  both  near- 
by and  distant  territory,  cannot  express 
any  opinion  as  to  the  rights  of  the  mat- 
ter until  they  have  been  more  clearly 
demonstrated.  The  two  points  of  view 
can,  however,  be  stated  briefly.  The  first 
is  that  of  a  farmer  at  some  distance  from 
Marlboro,  or  any  other  city,  who  has 
been  inspected  and  passed  as  satisfactory 
by  a  representative  of  one  city  board  of 
health.  He  is  producing  satisfactory  milk 
and  can  see  no  reason  why  he  should  be 


denied  the  right  to  sell  his  milk  in  any 
market  near  or  far  at  any  time.  He  feels 
that  his  milk  should  have  free  access  into 
these  markets  until  such  time  as  it  has, 
by  subsequent  inspections  been  found  un- 
satisfactory. The  dealer,  in  this  case,  the 
Whiting  Milk  Company,  is  merely  a  part 
of  the  machinery,  a  step  in  between  which 
does  not  alter  the  principles  involved. 

The  other  viewpoint  is  that  of  the  city 
or  town  board  of  health,  which  is  shared 
by  the  nearby  farmers  who  sell  in  that 
market.  They  say  that  there  is  an  ample 
supply  of  milk  within  a  few  miles  to 
supply  all  the  needs.  That  this  milk  is 
eluse  to  the  market  and  can  be  brought  in 
at  minimum  expense  and  in  the  shortest 
possible  time.  That  it  is  desired  by  the 
consumers  in  preference  to  distant  milk. 
That  the  town  appropriates  sufficient 
money  with  which  to  inspect  this  local 
supply  and  that  the  town  should  not  be 
required  to  spend  a  larger  amount  of 
money  on  inspecting  dairies  at  a  consider- 
able distance  from  their  market.  In  the 
case  of  Marlboro  the  board  of  health 
was,  at  last  reports,  standing  firm  in  its 
conviction  that  no  law  would  compel  them 
to  spend  money  which  they  did  not  have. 

In  Brockton  the  situation  is  somewhat 
the  same  but  has  taken  a  slightly  different 
course.  The  Hood  company  sold  milk  to 
a  chain  store  in  Brockton  and  when  the 
18-mile  limit  was  put  on  the  company 
bought  some  milk  from  dairies  within 
the  18  miles  to  supply  this  trade.  This 
course  avoided  a  head-on  collision  with 
the  Brockton  board  of  health,  similar  to 
the  one  which  has  taken  place  in  Marl- 
boro, but  it  did  not  decide  the  question 
of  principle  which  was  involved.  The 
solution  appears  to  be  coming  through  the 
action  of  a  milk  dealer  in  Brockton  who 
buys  his  supply  from  a  distance.  He 
sought  and  secured  an  injunction  against 
the  Brockton  board  of  health  from  inter- 
fering with  his  business  of  selling  milk  in 
Brockton.  The  injunction  runs  until 
September  1,  when  the  whole  matter  will 
be  thrashed  out  in  court. 

There  are  other  communities  in  South- 
ern New  England  where  considerable 
pressure  is  being  brought  on  the  health 
authorities  to  make  a  similar  movement 
against  milk  coming  in  from  a  distance. 
It  seems  probable  that  the  court  actions, 
■"'hichever  way  they  turn  out,  plus  these 
movements  now  developing  in  other  small 
markets  will  lead  to  the  introduction  of 
legislation  within  a  year  or  two  to  clarify 
the  situation. 


DAIRY  COUNCIL  WORK 

The  work  of  the  New  England  Dairy 
and  Food  Council  for  the  past  year  has 
been  summarized  in  a  brief  report  which 
is  being  distributed  to  interested  parties. 
The  picture  on  our  front  page  is  taken 
from  the  Council  report  and  is  only  one 
of  a  number  of  illustrations  which  make 
the  report  attractive. 

Here  are  some  of  the  high  spots  in  the 
report.  Newspaper  advertising  appeared 
98  times  in  American  dailies  and  76  times 
in  foreign  language  papers.  The  total 
combined  circulation  in  which  the  ad- 
vertisements appeared  was  36,416,648. 
Milk  talks  and  stories  showing  the  value 
of  milk  were  given  1,355  times  in  Boston 
and  Providence,  with  a  total  attendance 
of  165,633.  During  the  year  15  new 
pieces  of  educational  milk  literature  were 
developed.  The  total  distribution  in  Bos- 
ton and  Providence  was  1,174,436.  In 
addition  to  this  2,034,232  pieces  were 
sold  elsewhere,  making  a  grand  total  dis- 
tribution of  3,206,668.  Every  piece  had 
something  in  it  about  milk.  The  Council 
purchased  five  motion  picture  films  on 
milk.  They  were  shown  339  times  to 
97,832  people.  The  12  mechanical  ex- 
hibits developed  by  the  Council  have  been 
shown  in  store  windows  and  elsewhere  a 
total  of  475  weeks.  The  Council  had  1,117 
visitors  at  the  office,  answered  3,943 
letters  and  the  workers  had  585  confer- 
ences with  people  interested  in  milk  and 
milk  educational  work. 

The  Council  has  a  managing  director, 
Prof.  W.  P.  B.  Lockwood,  and  a  super- 
vising nutrition  specialist,  with  two  nutri- 
tion assistants,  one  dramatic  worker,  one 
story  teller  and  a  motion  picture  and 
exhibit  man. 


WESTERN  MARKET  DIS- 
TRICT 

JULY  PRICES 

Springfield   8  cents 

Worcester   7'/j  cents 

Holyoke   7'/2  cents 

Because  of  the  rainy,  cold  weather  in 
June  and  the  first  half  of  July,  supplies 
of  milk  in  this  district  were  above  nor- 
mal and  it  was  thought  best  to  continue 
the  price  through  the  month.  Since  the 
middle  of  the  month,  however,  the 
weather  has  been  more  favorable  for 
sales  and  there  has  been  a  considerable 
decrease  in  production.  With  this  shorten- 
ing (jf  the  supply  the  sales  committees  in 
various  markets  in  this  district  were 
looking  forward  to  a  price  increase 
August  1.  Nearly  all  other  southern 
New  England  markets  followed  Boston's 
mid-month  advance  either  immediately  or 
a  few  days  later.  Grain  prices  have  in- 
creased and  there  is  every  indication  that 
milk  will  be  short  this  fall. 


In  Worcester,  during  the  recent  hot 
spell,  there  were  a  number  of  complaints 
over  the  quality  of  the  milk.  An  unusual 
amount  came  in  sour.  This  was  the  milk 
from  nearby  producers.  The  milk  coming 
from  northern  sources  arrived  in  good 
condition.  It  had  been  properly  cooled 
before  being  loaded  on  the  train.  If  the 
nearby  producer  is  to  hold  a  market  for 
his  milk  he  must  keep  the  quality  up. 
This  means  suitable  tanks  and  liberal  use 
of  ice  during  hot  weather.  Local  milk 
should  certainly  be  delivered  in  the  mar- 
ket in  as  good  condition,  if  not  better, 
than  milk  which  comes  hundreds  of  miles 
by  train. 

Nearly  all  the  producers  in  Sterling, 
who  are  selling  to  the  Whiting  Company, 
have  signed  power  of  attorney  slips  for 
their  dues.  There  are  several  fine  dairies 
in  this  section  selling  Grade  A  milk. 

The  Springfield  price  advanced  to 
cents  August  1.   The  Worcester  commit- 
tee is  asking  for  a  cent  advance  August 
15. 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  June,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
for  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7 

per  cent,  per  l/10th  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  con- 
tainer: Per  8  quart  can  $.008;  per  10  quart  can  $.009;  per  20  quart  can  $.018;  per 
21^  quart  can  $.020;  per  40  quart  can  $.037;  per  cwt.  $.043. 


Dealers 
Elm  Spring  Farm 

7th  zone  (121-140) 
J.  B.  Prescott 
Delivered   


Boston  District 

Class  1    Class  2 


(Mkt. 
Milk) 

.84.0% 

..89.8 


(Mfg. 
Milk) 

16.0% 

10.2 


8/a 
Quart 

.478 


20 
Quart 
1.171 


Size  of 
21tf 
Quart 

1.247 


Can 


40 
Quart 

2.379 


Northern  Market  District 


Dealers  Class  1 

Robert  H.  Sawyer  (Mkt. 

Haverhill  Milk) 

Delivered   85.9 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Wason  MacDonald 

Haverhill 

Delivered   83.1 

3rd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms,  Lawrence 

Delivered   50.7 

1  st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 

Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   72.4 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

E.  C.  Blake 

Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   59.3 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 

Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   :  81.9 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 

Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   81.0 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 
14.1 


16.9 


49.3 


Cwt. 

in 
8j/3's 


3.253 
2.754 


Cwt. 
in 

20's 


3.253 
2.808 


Cwt. 
in 
4Cr» 


3.253 
2.854 


27.6 


40.7 


18.1 


19.0 


3.227 
2.926 
2.867 


3.227 
2.997 
2.949 


3.227 
3.014 
2.977 


Cwt 


3.498 


Cwt. 

3.303 
2.891 
2.857 


2.625 
2.426 
2.403 
2.362 
2.287 


2.869 
2.682 
2.648 
2.617 
2.589 
2.556 
2.550 


2.640 
2.475 
2.438 
2.408 
2.312 


3.184 
2.909 
2.859 


Previdence  Market 


Class  1 

Dealers  (Mkt. 
Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 

H.  T.  Burton,  Inc   91.4% 

G.  T.  Chambers    68.0 

E.  A.  Fiske    95.2 

Leon  E.  Goff    88.4 

Greenville  Farms  ....  94.4 

C.  W.  Grant    82.6 

A.  B.  Monroe   100.0 

Providence  Dairy    64.5 

Turner  Centre    83.8 

W.  C.  Viall    96.7 

C.  A.  Warnock   100.0 

E.  P.  Westcott   100.0 

Per  10  quart  can 

W.  B.  Brown   100.0 


Class  2 

(Mfg. 
Milk) 

8.6% 
32.0 

4.8 
11.6 

5.6 
17.4 

35.5 
16.2 
3.3 


Deliv- 
ered 
3.412 
2.940 
3.492 
3.347 
3.466 
3.230 
3.589 
2.878 
3.227 
3.522 
3.589 
3.583 


Zone  1 

1-20 
Miles 
5.107 
2.712 
3.174 
3.051 
3.151 
2.954 
3.253 
2.703 
2.942 
3.199 
3.253 
3.247 


Zone  2 

21-40 
Miles 
3.063 
2.680 
3.128 
3.009 
3.106 
2.915 
3.205 
2.681 
2.902 
3.152 
3.205 
3.199 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  3    Zone  Willi- 

41-60  net  mantic 
Miles  at  Farm 

3.002   

2.634  2.567   

3.065   

2.950   

3.043   

2.860   

3.139   

2.636 
2.846 
3.088 
3.139 
3.133 


2.422  2.580 


.787      .721      .711      .697  .710 


Page  Four 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


'August,  1927 


OTHER  TABLES  ON  PAGE  THREE 

Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  9  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  August  1,  1927,  and  Until  Further  Notice 

Prices  quoted  for  points  inside  Massachusetts  are  subject  to  increase 
portation  rate  which  go  into  effect  in  August. 

Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


in  trans- 


Cwt.in 

Cwt.in  Cwt.in 

8qt. 

8#qt. 

10qt. 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

Zone  Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del.  Trucked 

.696 

.740 

.871 

1.741 

1.849 

3.482 

4.048 

4.048 

4.048 

1 

1-20 

.603 

.645 

.766 

1.556 

1.655 

3.132 

3.618 

3.622 

3.641 

2 

21-40 

.588 

.630 

.751 

1.526 

1.625 

3.092 

3.559 

3.557 

3.594 

3 

41-60 

.583 

.625 

.736 

1.501 

1.600 

3.052 

3.490 

3.502 

3.548 

4 

61-80 

.568 

.610 

.726 

1.491 

1.590 

3.017 

3.466 

3.480 

3.507 

5 

81-100 

.603 

.645 

.756 

1.521 

1.620 

3.047 

3.536 

3.546 

3.542 

6 

101-120 

.558 

.600 

.711 

1.466 

1.555 

2.972 

3.408 

3.404 

3.455 

7 

121-140 

.548 

.590 

.701 

1.451 

1.540 

2.947 

3.373 

3.382 

3.426 

8 

141-160 

.543 

.585 

.696 

1.441 

1.530 

2.927 

3.350 

3.349 

3.402 

9 

161-180 

.538 

.580 

.691 

1.431 

1.520 

2.912 

3.327 

3.327 

3.385 

10 

181-200 

.533 

.575 

.681 

1.421 

1.510 

2.892 

3.304 

3.305 

3.362 

11 

201-220 

.528 

.570 

.676 

1.406 

1.500 

2.872 

3.269 

3.283 

3.339 

12 

221-240 

.523 

.565 

.671 

1.401 

1.490 

2.862 

3.257 

3.261 

3.327 

13 

241-260 

.518 

.560 

.666 

1.391 

1.480 

2.842 

3.234 

3.239 

3.304 

14 

261-280 

.513 

.555 

.661 

1.386 

1.475 

2.832 

3.222 

3.229 

3.292 

15 

281-300 

.508 

.550 

.656 

1.376 

1.460 

2.812 

3.199 

3.196 

3.269 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 


Del.  Trucked 

.696 

.740 

.871 

1.741 

1.849 

3.482 

4.048 

4.048 

4.048 

1 

1-20 

.633 

.675 

.796 

1.586 

1.685 

3.167 

3.687 

3.688 

3.682 

2 

21-40 

.618 

.660 

.781 

1.561 

1.660 

3.132 

3.629 

3.633 

3.641 

3 

41-60 

.613 

.655 

.776 

1.551 

1.645 

3.102 

3.606 

3.601 

3.606 

4 

61-80 

.608 

.650 

.771 

1.531 

1.630 

3.072 

3.560 

3.568 

3.571 

5 

81-100 

.603 

.645 

.756 

1.521 

1.620 

3.057 

3.536 

3.546 

3.542 

6 

101-120 

.598 

.640 

.751 

1.511 

1.600 

3.022 

3.513 

3.502 

3.513 

7 

121-140 

.598 

.640 

.751 

1.496 

1.590 

3.002 

3.478 

3.480 

3.490 

8 

141-160 

.588 

.630 

.746 

1.491 

1.585 

2.977 

3.467 

3.469 

3.461 

9 

161-180 

.583 

.625 

.741 

1.481 

1.570 

2.957 

3.443 

3.436 

3.437 

10 

181-200 

.583 

.625 

.736 

1.466 

1.560 

2.942 

3.408 

3.415 

3.420 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  .0075  cents  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
or  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  deduction  of  2  cents  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for 
NEMPA  members'  dues  and  1  cent  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 

Cream  Plan  Prices  for  June,  1927 


Cwt.  and 

Cwt. 

Butter- fat 

Feeding 

Price 

Butter-fat 

Price  Equal 

Deduction 

Test 

Skim 

to 

Price  to 

to  Butter- 

from  Milk 

of 

Price 

Cream 

Cream 

Fat  Price 

Patrons 

Cream 

Cwt. 

Patrons 

Patrons 

Per  Pound 

Per  Cwt 

Hood  1-15 

 12/2 

.50 

.624 

.43 

.480 

.0293 

Hood  1-15 

20 

.50 

.696 

.43 

.465 

.0293 

Hood  16-30 

 12J4 

.50 

.420 

.44 

.474 

.0272 

Hood  16-30 

20 

.50 

.371 

.44 

.458 

.0272 

Whiting,  new  frt.  rate  20 

.50 

.167 

.46 

.468 

.0303 

Whiting,  old  frt.  rate  20 

.50 

.282 

.46 

.474 

.0348 

Turner  Centre 

 12*4 

.44 

.650 

.405 

.457 

.0055 

CONFERENCE  BOARD 

(Continued  from  page  2) 

cult  to  have  brought  all  the  groups  to- 
gether. 

The  plan  of  organization  was  pre- 
sented as  the  report  of  a  special  com- 
mittee of  which  Frank  A.  Carroll  of 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  was  chairman.  It  pro- 
vides that  membership  in  the  conference 
board  is  open  to  producer-controlled  milk 
marketing  organizations  in  New  England. 
Seventeen  such  organizations  were  repre- 
sented at  the  meeting,  including  the 
Turner  Centre  System,  the  Vermont 
Federation  of  Creameries,  most  of  the 
larger  independent  creameries  in  Ver- 
mont, The  New  England  Milk  Producers' 
Association,  the  Connecticut  Milk  Pro- 
ducers' Association,  and  the  United 
Dairy  System.  Together  they  represent 
probably  fully  75  per  cent,  of  all  the 
market  milk  sold  in  New  England.  Each 
organization  joining  will  be  entitled  to 
send  one  delegate  and  each  delegate  will 
be  entitled  to  one  vote. 

The  purpose  of  the  organization  as 
set  forth  in  the  by-laws  is  as  follows : 
A — To  effect  a  closer  union  and  mutual 
understanding  between  all  branches  of 
the  dairy  industry  in  New  England. 

B — To  develop  a  service  program  for 
the  dairy  industry  of  New  England,  in- 
cluding research  studies  in  production  and 
handling,  costs,  fluctuations  of  production 
and  consumption,  effect  of  various  selling 
methods  and  price  changes,  transportation 
and  rate  problems,  requirements  of  tu- 
bercular testing  upon  the  city  milk  sup- 
ply, etc. 

Officers  Elected 

After  a  formal  vote  to  organize  the 
following  officers  were  elected  :  President, 
Dr.  E.  H.  Bancroft  of  the  Granite  City 
Creamery,  Barre  Vt. ;  vice-chairman, 
Frank  A.  Carroll,  manager  of  the  Pitts- 
field,  Mass.,  Co-operative  Creamery ; 
secretary  and  treasurer,  W.  P.  Davis,  as- 
sistant manager,  NEMPA;  executive 
committee,  the  officers  and  one  member 
from  each  state  who  were  elected  as  fol- 
lows :  Maine,  Weston  B.  Haskell,  man- 
ager of  Turner  Centre  System ;  New 
Hampshire,  George  M.  Putnam,  presi- 
dent of  Concord  Dairy  Company  and  of 
New  Hampshire  Farm  Bureau  Federa- 
tion ;  Vermont,  James  H.  MacLennan, 
manager  of  Bellows  Falls  Co-operative 
Creamery ;  Massachusetts,  William  N. 
Howard,  president  of  Producers'  Dairy 
Company,  Brockton,  and  Master  of  the 
Massachusetts  State  Grange ;  Rhode 
Island,  Harry  R.  Lewis,  Commissioner  of 
Agriculture  and  chairman  of  Agricultural 
Committee  of  New  England  Council ; 
Connecticut,  C.  E.  Hough,  manager  of 
Connecticut  Milk  Producers'  Association. 

Others  present  at  the  meeting  were : 


F.  H.  Abbott  of  the  Northfield,  Vt., 
Creamery ;  R.  B.  Kimball  of  the  Body 
Farm  Dairy,  Nashua,  N.  H. ;  Harry  B. 
Spurr  and  N.  H.  Felton  of  the  Marlboro, 
Mass.,  Co-operative ;  H.  W.  Darling  of 
the  Holyoke,  Mass.,  Co-operative ;  Carl 
C.  Fletcher  of  the  Shelburne,  Vt.,  Co- 
operative ;  H.  W.  Gage  of  the  Mississquoi 
Valley  Co-operative,  Troy,  Vt. ;  F.  L. 
Parmalee  of  the  Brattleboro  Co-opera- 
tive; John  N.  Ellis  of  the  United  Dairy 
System;  George  A.  Phelps  of  the  Milton, 
Vt.,  Co-operative ;  George  Dunsmore  of 
the  St.  Albans,  Vt.,  Co-operative ;  John 
McGrath  of  the  Vermont  Federation  of 
Creameries ;  and  W.  C.  Fuller  of  the 
Richmond,  Vt.,  Co-operative. 

After  the  organization  was  effected 
Wesley  H.  Bronson  of  the  NEMPA  out- 
lined some  rating  plans  which  were  in 
effect  in  various  markets  in  the  country, 
Dr.  E.  A.  Crossman  spoke  on  the  tuber- 
culosis eradication  program  in  New  Eng- 
land, and  Mr.  Haskell  spoke  on  some 
different  price  systems  which  are  in  ef- 
fect in  New  England.  The  following 
projects  which  were  suggested  by  the 
committee  as  proper  for  the  conference 
board  to  take  up  were  not  acted  upon  but 
were  referred  to  the  executive  committee 
for  action : 

Projects  to  Consider 

Project  1 — Take  active  steps  to  create 
a  committee  of  the  New  England  Dairy 
Conference  Board  to  develop  such  rec- 
ords, information  and  material  as  will  be 
of  vital  necessity  when  conducting  fu- 
ture transportation  rate  cases. 

Project  2 — Seasonal  fluctuations  in 
production  is  becoming  more  and  more  of 
a  factor  in  supplying  the  southern  New 
England  markets  with  milk  and  cream  in 
the  short  season.  It  is  therefore  im- 
portant that  studies  be  made  of  the 
various  plans  for  developing  and  acquir- 
ing more  even  production. 

Project  3  —  Conflicting  selling  plans 
cause  price  disturbances  in  the  market. 
It  is  highly  desirable  that  a  study  of 
present  plans  in  use  be  made  with  the 
view  of  bringing  them  on  to  a  more  uni- 
form basis. 

Project  4 — A  study  of  the  changing 
conditions  in  the  southern  New  England 
markets  with  respect  to  the  requirements 
of  tuberculin  test  upon  the  city  milk 
supply.  Careful  analysis  of  this  situa- 
tion should  be  made  and  facts  presented 
to  the  New  England  dairymen. 

Project  5 — Efforts  are  being  made  in 
many  of  the  New  England  states  to  de- 
velop uegalized  standards  and  grades  for 
milk.  Many  of  these  are  conflicting  and 
there  is  a  general  lack  of  uniformity.  A 
study  should  be  made  which  will  have 
for  its  purpose  the  development  of  uni- 
form standards  for  grades  of  milk  and 
the  development  of  reciprocal  arrange- 
ments for  inspection  and  licensing. 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  June,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  June  is  correct.    Find  out  what  zone  your  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 

If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.043  for  each  .1  per  cent.  If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract 
$.043  per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  June  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

To  determine  whether  or  not  the  zone  prices  are  correct  for  your  dealer  for  the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk,  remember  that  a  portion  of  the  milk  territory  of  the 
Hood,  Whiting  and  Turner  Centre  companies,  is  on  the  Cream  Plan  and  deductions  as  given  in  Cream  Price  Table  is  made  from  the  zone  price  as  figured  to  equalize 
prices  between  milk  and  cream  patrons.  / 


Zone  1    Zone  2   Zone  3    Zone  4  Zone  5  Zone  6     Zone  7    Zone  8    Zone  9   Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 


1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

61-80 

81-100  101-120 

121-140 

141-160 

161-180 

181-200 

201-220 

221-240 

241-260 

261-280 

281-300 

3.184 

3.145 

3.102 

3.063 

3.030 

3.009 

2.942 

2.957 

2.937 

2.916 

2.893 

2.877 

2.858 

2.842 

2.821 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

1.586 

Class  1 

Class  2 

(Mkt  Milk) 

(Mfg.  Milk) 

Dealers 

A 

B 

Hood  1-15   41.4% 

58.6% 

66.7% 

2.232 

2.119 

2.196 

2.181 

2.168 

2.158 

2.148 

2.136 

2.128 

2.120 

2.110 

2.102 

2.095 

2.087 

2.079 

Hood  16-30   41.0 

59.0 

66.8 

2.211 

2.192 

2.172 

-2.156 

2.141 

2.134 

2.122 

2.113 

2.106 

2.097 

2.087 

2.082 

2.073 

2.068 

2.058 

Whiting  40s  (old)*  44.0 

56.0 

64.2 

2.269 

2.251 

2.235 

2.220 

2.207 

2.194 

2.184 

2.172 

2.161 

2.154 

2.143 

2.133 

2.128 

2.118 

2.110 

Whiting  2V/4s  (old)*..44.0 

56.0 

64.2 

2.262 

2.238 

2.219 

2.209 

2.190 

2.180 

2.166 

2.157 

2.147 

2.132 

2.123 

2.108 

2.103 

2.093 

2.089 

Whiting  40s  (new)**....44.0 

56.0 

64.2 

2.256 

2.235 

2.214 

2.196 

2.181 

2.173 

2.160 

2.150 

2.143 

2.133 

2.122 

2.118 

2.107 

2.102 

2.092 

Whiting 2V/4s  (new)**44.0 

56.0 

64.2 

2.247 

2.218 

2.194 

2.184 

2.160 

2.150 

2.135 

2.126 

2.117 

2.107 

2.097 

2.088 

2.078 

2.074 

2.060 

Turner  Centre   35.7 

64.3 

74.5 

2.086 

2.070 

2.055 

2.041 

2.029 

2.022 

2.012 

2.003 

1.996 

1.989 

1.981 

1.975 

1.968 

1.962 

1.955 

N.  E.  Cry.  Prod  24.4 

75.6 

2.156 

2.145 

2.135 

2.125 

2.117 

2.112 

2.106 

2.100 

2.095 

2.090 

2.084 

2.080 

2.076 

2.072 

2.067 

F.  S.  Cummings   42.8 

57.2 

2.272 

2.252 

2.234 

2.217 

2.203 

2.194 

2.183 

2.172 

2.164 

2.155 

2.145 

2.138 

2.130 

2.123 

2.114 

F.  E.  Boyd   46.8 

53.2 

2.336 

2.314 

2.294 

2.276 

2.261 

2.251 

2.238 

2.226 

2.218 

2.208 

2.197 

2.190 

2.181 

2.173 

2.163 

Weighted  Avg  43.1 

56.9 

64.2 

2.255 

2.236 

2.217 

2.200 

2.186 

2.177 

2.165 

2.154 

2.146 

2.137 

2.127 

2.120 

2.112 

2.105 

2.096 

A — Excluding  Cream  Plan  B- 

—Including  Cream  Plan. 

♦Old  Freight  Rate. 

•♦New  Freight  Rate. 

Increases  or  decreases  in  fluid  milk  price  due  to  sales  in  higher  or  lower  markets  for  the  month:  Turner  Centre  Lower  $.1663;  Whiting  Lower  $.0109.    New  England 

Creamery  Product  Company  includes  an  extra  payment  of  18  cents  per  hundred  pounds  for  this  month. 


August,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


'  POTATO 
\i  DIGGERS  A 


SAVE  TIME,  LABOR  AND  EXPENSE 


Get  the  potatoes  easily,  quickly  and 
with  least  possiMe  skinning  and  bruis- 
ing. The  "Success  Jumor"  is  designed 
for  the  small  grower.  Low  cost  and 
pays  for  itself  the  first  year.  Every 
farmer  should  have  a  "Success  Junior." 

Wc  also  build  the  Farrjuhar  Elevator 
Digger— the  original  Rigid  Tongue  Dig- 
ger. Designed  for  the  larger  grower. 
Gets  all  the  Potatoes  and  leaves  them  in 
an  even  row  easy  to  pick.  Strongly 
built  and  priced  within  reach  of  every 
grower. 

Wrffr  for  illustrated  Catalog. 


A.B.FAWPARCO.,Limited 


YORK. PA.  b„x  ga, 


Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 

Now  is  the  time  to  decide  what  fur- 
nace will  best  suit  your  needs.  Re- 
member the  Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 
has  the  largest  door  and  firebox,  and 
is  made  in  New  England.  Send  for 
circular. 

FT    CITI  I  CD  GENERAL  AGENT 
.  F.  rULLLK  WATERBURY,  VT. 


New  Bull  Tamer  a 
Wonder 


Now  Lighter, 
Stronger,  Cheaper 

100  practical  breeders  are  approving 
every  month  after  30  days'  trial.  Write 

SPENCER  BROS.,  Inc.,  Savooa,  N.Y. 


CLIP  YOUR  COWS 

It  Means  More,  Better 
and  Cleaner  Milk 
Easier    to    keep    them  clean, 
make  them  feel  more  comfort- 
able and  keep  the  dirt  out  of 
the  milk  pail. 

CLIPPING  improves  the  health 
of  CATTLE,  HORSES,  MULES, 
etc.  Use  a  GILLETTE  PORT- 
ABLE ELECTRIC  CLIPPING 
MACHINE.  Also  furnished  with 
GROOMING  ATTACHMENTS 
for  cleaning.  Operates  on  the 
light  circuit  furnished  by  any 
Electric  Light  or  Power  Co.  or 
on  any  make  of  Farm  Lighting 
Price  list  free  on  request. 

GILLETTE  CLIPPING  MACHINE  CO. 

New  Tork.  N.  Y. 


129  West  3ht  St..  Dept.  K 


PRODUCTION  DECREASING 

Reports    Show    Sharp  Decline 
Since  Middle  of  July — Hot 
Weather  Boosts  Sales 

Production  of  milk  in  June,  as  indi- 
cated by  the  reports  of  the  large  Boston 
dealers  operating  under  the  surplus  plan, 
was  large  but  the  increase  from  May  to 
June  was  less  than  last  year  or  the  year 
before.  In  view  of  the  very  favorable 
conditions  of  pasturage  during  the  month 
this  smaller  increase  may  be  taken  as  an 
indication  of  a  general  shortening  of 
the  available  milk  supply  later  in  the 
year.  June  was  a  poor  month  for  sales 
because  of  the  relatively  cold  weather. 
The  records  show  a  substantial  increase 
in  sales  for  the  month,  as  compared  with 
the  previous  year,  but  this  is  due  to  con- 
solidations and  to  the  purchase  of  busi- 
ness, rather  than  to  an  actual  increase  in 
the  demand  for  milk. 

High  production  and  poor  weather  for 
sales  left  the  surplus  for  June  higher  than 
a  year  previous.  The  comparative  figures 
for  purchases  and  sales  in  millions  of 
pounds  and  the  percentages  of  surplus 
were  as  follows : 

May  June  June 
1927    1927  1926 

Purchases   61.7    67.9  67.2 

Sales   27.9    29.  27.6 

Surplus   62.6    64.2  62.0 

Maintaining  the  fluid  milk  price  at  8 
cents  per  quart  through  June  made  the 
price  of  fluid  milk  compare  quite  favor- 
ably with  what  was  received  a  year  pre- 
vious. The  half-cent  higher  price  on  fluid 
milk  actually  netted  the  producers  only 
20  cents  a  hundred  more,  due  to  the  in- 
crease in  railroad  transportation  rales 
which  went  into  effect  June  10.  With  a 
butter  market  averaging  a  cent  a  pound 
higher  than  last  year  the  surplus  price 
was  five  cents  a  hundred  higher  than  in 
June,  1926.  Combined  with  the  20  cents 
a  hundred  increase  on  fluid  milk  left  the 
net  price  for  all  milk  delivered  at  the 
10th  zone  nine  cents  a  hundred  higher 
than  last  year  and  17  cents  above  the 
average  for  the  last  five  years.  The  com- 
parative prices  were  as  follows: 

1927  1927  1926 
May      June  June 

Fluid   $2.96     $2.92  $2.72 

Surplus    1.74      1.59  1.54 

Net  price  all  milk..  2.26       2.14  2.05 
Avge.  butter  per  lb.    .438      .426  .416 
BUTTER  PRICES 

Production  of  butter  in  the  middle  west 
is  above  last  year,  due  to  the  favorable 
pasture  conditions.  Storage  stocks  are 
heavy,  July  1  stocks  being  the  largest 
since  1919.  The  present  quotation  of 
41 cents  is  the  same  as  a  year  ago. 
Future  prices  depend  on  production  con- 
ditions and  consumption.  Production  is 
largely  a  question  of  pasture  condition  in 
the  butter  producing  sections  and  con- 
sumption depends  on  general  business 
conditions.  Production  probably  will  be 
heavier  than  last  year  and  consumption 
somewhat  less,  which  will  result  in  some- 
what lower  prices  than  last  year,  particu- 
larly after  the  first  of  the  year. 

Storage  stocks  are  as  follows  for  July 
1st: 

Year  Pounds  butter  in  storage 

1923   63,000,000 

1924   74,000,000 

1925   64,000,000 

1926   87,000,000 

1927   90,000,000 

COST  OF  PRODUCTION 

Grain  prices  held  about  steady  in  July 
as  compared  with  June  and  are  now  about 
$2.00  per  ton  above  last  year.  Grain 
prices  are  likely  to  show  further  ad- 
vances as  the  season  progresses.  Com- 
parative prices  are : 

1927  1927  1926 
June    July  Julv 

Grain  per  ton   $49.39  $48.76  $46.86 

Hay  per  ton    15.53    15.11  14.88 

Labor  per  month  with 

beard    48.70   48.70  46.60 

The  advance  of  a  cent  a  quart  in  the 
Boston  price  July  17,  was  generally  fol- 
lowed in  the  lesser  markets.  In  Provi- 
dence the  price  advanced  a  half  cent  the 
first  of  the  month  leaving  the  average 
price  for  the  month  the  same  as  Boston. 
Fall  River  did  not  advance  until  July  24. 
Nashua,  Worcester,  Springfield  and  Hol- 
yoke  did  not  advance  during  July. 


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all  summer 
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Shorter  cooking  hours,  cooler  kitchens 
and  more  delicious  meals  than  ever, 
when  Puritan  Oil  Stoves  are  used!  Ask 
your  dealer  for  a  demonstration. 

For  best  results,  use  SOCONY,  the  clean, 
safe  kerosene. 

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'TPHE  simplest,  quickest  and  most  effective  way[to.'re- 
move  all  foreign  matter.  It  thus  not  only  improves 
the  flavor  but  the  keeping  qualities  as  well.  Sterilized 
cotton  filter  pads  are  cheap  and  may  be  thrown  away 
after  use.  Price  including  supply  of  filter  pads.  $2.50 
postpaid.  Weight  8  lbs.  packed.  Write  for  320-Page 
Catalogue  of  Dairy  Goods  FREE. 

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GERM-X 

AN  UNSURPASSED  DISINFECTANT,  STERILIZES  AND  DEODH ANT 

For  sterilizing  milking  machines,  separators,  cans,  bottles,  barns  and 
all  dairy  equipment  nothing  is  as  effective  as  a  chlorine  solution  such 
as  GermX.  It  is  invaluable  in  the  treatment  of  sterility,  abortion, 
calf  scours,  etc. 

For  purifying  drinking  water  for  poultry,  for  disinfecting  pens.  • 
brooders,  incubators,  feeding  utensils,  etc.,  nothing  surpasses  GermX. 
A  scientifically  prepared  Sodium  Hypochloride  solution  life  GermX 
is  the  most  powerful  germicide,  the  most  postive  sterilizer  and  the 
most  perfect  disinfectant  known.  Likewise  it  is  economical  and  safe. 
GermX  is  indispensable  to  the  farmer,  the  dairyman,  the  poultryman 
and  the  householder.  Don't  risk  being  without  it  longer. 
If  not  at  vour  dealers,  order  direct.  On  gallon  package  SJ-IO  or 
5-gallon  for  $10.50.     ViV-  gallon  carboy  for  $23.13 

American  Lanolin  Corporation,  Lawrence,  Mass. 


Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


August,  1927 


"The  Bank  Cashier 
Carries  No  Heavier 
Responsibility 

than  the  creamery  oper- 
ator," says  the  Butter, 
Cheese  and  Egg  Journal, 
The  costly  cream  from 
which  he  must  make 
profitable  butter  is  en- 
tirely in  his  hands,  and 
the  quality  of  the  butter 
he  makes  determines  the 
margin  of  profit. 
This  is  why  so  many 
hundreds  of  creamery 
operators  prefer 


for  they  know  that  the 
distinctive,  sanitary 
cleanliness  it  insures 
will  greatly  assist  them 
to  prevent  profit  losses 
from  causes  of  quality 
failure. 

Ask  your  Supply  Man 
for  "WYANDOTTE." 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
( cream  acidity  standardizer) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 


your  cream  ? 


THE  J.  B.  FORD  COMFANY 

Sol©  Manufacturers 

Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


The  comparative  prices  for  3.7  milk 
delivered  in  the  various  markets  were  as 
follows : 

1927 

1926  July  July 

July  1-16  17-31 

Boston   085  .080  .090 

Lawrence   085  .080  .090 

Lowell   085  .080  .090 

Haverhill   085  .080  .090 

Manchester   080  .075  .085 

Nashua   080  .078  .078 

Concord,  N.  H  065  .065  .065 

Worcester   075  .075  .075 

Holyoke   075  .075  .075 

Springfield   085  .080  .080 

Providence   085  .085  .085 

Fall  River   085  .080  *.090 

Newport,  R.  1  090  .090  .090 

Brockton   085  .085  .085 

New  Bedford   085  .090  .090 

*July  24. 

Retail  milk  prices  generally  advanced 
with  the  price  to  the  farmers.  Retail 
prices  in  the  various  markets  were  as 
follows : 

1926  1927 
July    July  July 
1-16  17-31 

Boston— Retail  del          W/2    14  15 

Boston— Cash  &  carry  12       12  12 

New  York    15       15  15 

Springfield    14    14-15  14-15 

Worcester    13       14  14 

Providence    14^    \Al/2  14^ 

Rail  River    14       14  15* 

New  Bedford    15       15  15 

Brockton   :   15       15  15 

Lawrence    \4y2    14  15 

Lowell    14       14  15 

Haverhill    15       W/2  \Sy2 

Manchester    14       14  15 

♦July  24. 

PRODUCTION  ESTIMATES 

Greater  assistance  to  dairy  farmers  to 
help  solve  marketing  problems  in  meeting 
consumer  demand  is  being  developed  by  the 
Bureau  of  Agricultural  Economics,  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture.  Meth- 
ods are  being  worked  out  for  making 
monthly  estimates  of  milk  production,  the 
expansion  of  market  news  services,  and 
the  compilation  of  detailed  price  and  mar- 
ket cost  analyses. 

The  bureau  has  been  trying  for  many 
years  to  develop  a  method  of  estimating 
milk  production.  Most  of  the  material 
gathered  by  the  latest  method  tried  is  still 
in  the  raw  state,  although  for  a  few 
States  some  analyses  have  been  made 
which  indicate  this  method  will  give  a 
reasonably  accurate  indication  of  the 
quantity  of  milk  produced  per  cow.  It 
also  seems  to  furnish  a  basis  for  making 
monthly  estimates  of  milk  production. 

Lack  of  dependable  figures  showing 
changes  in  the  numbers  of  milk  cows  in 
the  United  States  during  this  century  has 
resulted  in  the  development  of  an  esti- 
mating system  which  will  give  figures  for 
"cows  and  he'fers  two  years  old  and 
over,  January  1,  kept  for  milk."  Esti- 
mates by  the  use  of  this  system  show  that 
there  were  about  15,900,000  head  of  such 
animals  in  1900;  18,600.000  head  in  1910; 
21,427,000  head  in  1920,  and  22,481,000 
head  in  1925. 

The  figures  give  increases  of  17  per 
cent,  in  the  period  1900  to  1910;  14  per 
cent,  between  1910  and  1920,  and  5  per 
cent,  between  1920  and  1925.  An  esti- 
mated decrease  of  1  per  cent,  a  year  in 
1925  and  1926  brings  the  estimated  num- 
ber January  1,  1927,  to  only  3  per  cent, 
above  the  number  January  1,  1920. 

Between  1900  and  1925,  it  is  estimated, 
milk  production  per  cow  increased  ma- 
terially due  to  the  increasing  proportion 
of  strictly  dairy  type  cows  milked  and  to 
improved  methods  of  care  and  feeding. 
With  present  (1927)  cow  numbers  only 
3  per  cent,  larger  than  in  1920  and  popula- 
tion nearly  10  per  cent,  greater,  it  is  pos- 
sible that  milk  production  per  capita  in 
1927  will  be  less  than  in  1920. 

Colored  Woman :  "Doctah,  Ah's  come 
to  see  ef  yo  am  gwine  order  Rastus  one 
o'  dem  mustard  plasters  ag'in  today?" 

Doctor :  "I  think  perhaps  he  better 
have  one  more." 

Colored  Woman :  "Well,  he  says  to  ax 
yo'  kin  he  have  a  slice  o'  ham  wid  it, 
'count  of  it's  a  mighty  pow'ful  perscrip- 
tion  to  take  alone." 


The  Dangerous  Season 

JULY  AND  AUGUST  are  the  dangerous  months  for 
the  dairy  herd.  Hot  weather,  swarms  of  flies,  dried 
and  shortened  pastures  all  combine  to  throw  cows 
into  a  slump.  And  a  slump  in  milk  production  now 
will  cut  your  profits  in  the  Fall. 

At  this  season  of  the  year  your  herd  must  have 
plenty  of  shade,  plenty  of  water  and  a  good  grain  ration 
to  provide  the  necessary  nutrients  not  furnished  by 
midsummer  pastures.  A  simple  mixture  containing 

Diamond  Corn  Gluten  Meal 

in  a  moderate  quantity,  say  25%  of  the  whole,  filled 
out  with  bran,  ground  oats  and  a  little  oilmeal  — 
and  fed  morning  and  night  —  will  bring  your  herd 
safely  through  the  dangerous  season. 


In 

EVERY  LIVE  DEALER'S  STOCK 
and 

EVERY  GOOD  DAIRY  RATION 


Corn  Products  Refining  Co. 

New  York  Chicago 


Also  M/rs.  Buffalo  Corn  Gluten  Feed 


40%  Protein  Guaranteed 


5%  Interest 


on 


Federal  Land  Bank 

Recent  sales  of  Federal  Land  Bank  Bonds  at  favor- 
able prices  make  possible  a  lowering  of  the  rate  of 
interest  on  new  loans  to  5%. 

First  Mortgage  Farm  Loans 

FOR  INFORMATION 

Ask  the  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the 
National  Farm  Loan  Association  in  your  County 
or  write  direct  to  the 

FEDERAL  LAND  BANK 

at 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 
Strving  New  England,  New  York  and  New  Jersey 


August,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


Hot  Water 
on  the  R.F.D. 

with  every  stroke 
of  the  Kitchen  Pump 


IF  you  live  beyond  the  gas  mains  or 
out  where  coal  is  hard  to  get,  you  can 
still  have  hot  water — and  plenty  of  it — 
from  your  pump  or  pressure  system. 

Modern  conveniences — hot  water  by  the 
gallon,  day  or  night!  Just  think  of  how 
you  can  speed  up  wash  day,  sterilize  the 
milk  cans,  wash  the  dishes,  take  good 
hot  baths. 

With  or  Without 
Water  Pressure 

Now,  the  Perfection  Kerosene-Burning 
Water  Heater  may  be  connected  to  your 
kitchen  pump  by  means  of  pipes  and  a 
three-way  valve  (the  booklet  explains). 
Want  hot  water?  Turn  the  valve,  then 
pump  as  usual.  Want  cold  water?  Turn 
the  valve  back. 

Low  Cost  Models 

Your  plumber  has  the  Perfection  Water 
Heater  pictured  here.  It  is  No.  412.  All 
four  models  are  fully  described  in  the 
Perfection  booklet,  and  all  Perfection 
Water  Heaters  burn  Socony  Kerosene 
— the  clean,  safe,  economical,  easy-to- 
get  fuel. 


PERFECTION 

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|  NORTHERN  MARKET  | 
|         DISTRICT  | 

ft  F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager  S 
Ln  477  Ettex  Street  -  -  Lawrence,  Man.  rG 

fezSZSZ5Z5r!5SSZSZSclSSSZ5Z5ZSZSZSZin 

Manchester,  N.  H  70c    per  8y2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  66c    per  8'/2  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  90c    per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  61.6c  per  8yi  qt.  can 

Portland,  Me  7.6c  per  qt. 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers, 
and  Beverly,  Mass.  72c    per  8    qt.  can 
PRICES 

All  of  the  markets  of  the  Northern 
District  excepting  Nashua  advanced  their 
price  one  cent  per  quart  effective  July 
17.  I  have  spent  considerable  time  in  the 
various  markets  meeting-  the  mem- 
bers of  the  committees  and  dealers  get- 
ting the  final  price  negotiations  put  into 
effect.  In  Nashua  there  seems  to  be  con- 
siderably more  milk  available  than  in  the 
other  markets.  During  the  hot  weather, 
the  week  commencing  July  10,  milk  was 
very  short  in  all  of  our  markets  except 
Nashua. 

There  seems  to  be  an  unusually  large 
number  of  people  away  from  Nashua  on 
vacations,  and  production  around  the  city 
has  increased  this  spring  and  summer. 
This  has  made  enough  milk  available  for 
Nashua,  which  is  in  contrast  to  the  other 
markets  which  had  to  draw  from  every 
available  source  to  get  enough  milk  to 
carry  them  through  the  hot  spell. 

Announcement  has  been  made  by  the 
mills  of  Nashua  that  they  will  close  down 
for  the  entire  month  of  August.  This 
will  effect  consumption  of  milk  in  this 
city  to  some  extent. 

Arrangements  have  been  made  for  a 
second  meeting  of  the  Nashua  Sales  Com- 
mittee at  which  time  the  situation  again 
will  be  thoroughly  discussed.  The  costs 
of  production  are  high  because  of  in- 
creased cost  of  grain  and  many  are 
supplementing  pastures  not  only  with 
grain,  but  with  green  feed  in  an  attempt 
to  keep  their  cows  from  shrinking. 

FIELD  WORK 

Some  time  was  spent  around  New  Bos- 
ton, N.  H.,  canvassing  for  members. 
Most  of  the  farmers  in  this  section  had 
been  members  of  the  association  at  one 
time  and  had  withdrawn,  due  to  some 
local  difficulties  which  were  very  hard  to 
straighten  out.  Talking  with  these  men 
made  them  recognize  that  the  organiza- 
tion was  functioning  well  and  that  it 
needed  their  support.  Eight  men  were 
added  to  the  list  of  producers  supporting 
the  organization.  All  signed  dues  orders 
to  allow  their  dues  to  be  collected  and 
used  by  the  association.  Some  of  these 
men  were  old  members  that  were  re-in- 
stated, while  others  were  new  members. 
Their  names  are  as  follows :  Howard 
Heath,  John  B.  Case,  F.  F.  Foote  &  Son, 
A.  J.  Miller,  C.  A.  Lord,  Clarence  C. 
Jones,  R.  G.  Mills,  and  E.  H.  Nutting. 

E.  H.  Nutting  went  with  me  to  show 
me  where  the  farmers  lived  and  intro- 
duced me  to  them.  We  appreciate  this 
help  of  Mr.  Nutting,  who  is  always 
interested  in  the  work  of  the  association. 

At  a  group  meeting  of  producers  in 
Hudson  who  are  selling  to  Omer  Des- 
cheneau  of  Lowell,  Rose  Chalifoux  & 
Sons  joined  the  association ;  thus  making 
all  but  one  of  Descheneau's  producers 
members  of  the  NEMPA. 

SOUR  MILK 
During  the  recent  hot  spell  many  dairy- 
men have  suffered  loss  because  their  milk 
reached  the  market  sour.  It  is  unfortu- 
nate that  this  occurs,  for  many  times  on 
the  days  when  the  milk  comes  in  sour  the 
dealer  is  usually  in  need  of  it.  It  is 
during  the  hot  weather  that  more  sour 
milk  is  received  and  it  is  also  this  hot 
weather  that  gives  best  sales  for  the  milk 
dealer.  In  my  work  out  in  the  country 
I  find  that  there  are  many  dairymen  who 
are  still  poorly  equipped  to  cool  their 
milk. 

Producers  who  ship  on  the  railroad,  as 
a  rule,  have  learned  by  experience  that 
they  must  cool  their  milk  thoroughly  be- 
fore shipping  it  on  the  train.    For  this 


dairy.  I  r 

A  Satisfied  Feeder 

and  the  feed  is 

AMCO  20%  DAIRY 


Pauline  DeKoI     4  years  old     Ow ned  by  Stephen  Trevena.  Lisbon.  N  H. 
66  lbs  of  milk  per  day  on  12  lbs   AMCO  20%  DAI R  Y 


The  records  of  these  two  cows  tell  their  own  story. 
Cherry  Vale  Thorpe  is  a  three  year  old  heifer.  She 
freshened  April  16,  1927.  In  a  letter  dated  May  12, 
1927,  her  owner,  Mr.  Stephen  Trevena  of  Lisbon, 
N.  H.,  states  his  satisfaction: 

"This  young  cow  has  given  an  average  of  71.6  lbs.  for 
the  past  10  days  on  12  lbs.  of  Amco  20  3£  Dairy  and  5  lbs. 
of  June  Pasture  daily. 

"She  would  have  made  a  good  record  had  I  fed  her  1  to 
4  lbs.  but  I  did  not  want  to  force  her  much  until  next  year." 

Pauline  DeKol,  also  owned  by  Mr.  Trevena,  freshened  March 
29,  1927.  She  averaged  in  April,  66  lbs.  of  milk  daily,  testing  3.5% 
butterfat.  She  was  fed  meadow  hay,  ensilage,  and  12  lbs.  daily 
of  AMCO  20%  DAIRY. 

Note  the  rate  of  feeding,  1  lb.  of  grain  to  5  \  lbs.  of  milk. 
The  roughage  was  meadow  hay  and  silage  supplemented  in  the 
case  of  Cherry  Vale  Thorpe  with  a  little  ' '  June  Pasture." 

AMCO  20%  DAIRY  is  bringing  results  like  these  all  over. 
Coupled  with  this  great  quality  and  productive  value  is  a  reason- 
able price,  as  you  will  find  if  you  will  call  on  the  Amco  Agent  in 
your  town,  or  if  you  will  write  Amco's  Springfield  office.  Order  a 
ton  today.  AMCO  20%  DAIRY  is  as  effective  with  pasture  as 
in  April.  It  is  needed  to  help  out  in  August  pasture  to  keep  cows 
in  condition  for  high  production  later  on  when  milk  is  high  in 
price. 

DIVISION  OFFICE:  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 

Amco 

| FEED  MIXING  SERVICE 

AMERICAN  MILLING  COMPANY 

EXECUTIVE  OFFICES:  PEORIA,  ILL. 

Plants  at:  PEORIA.  ILL.;  OMAHA,  NEB.;  OWENSBORO,  KY. 
Alfalfa  Plants  at  :  POWELL,  GARLAND,  and  WORLAND,  WYO. 


Page  Eight 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


August,  1927 


Eastern  S^ks  Fanners'  Exchange 


GREATER 
THAN  EVER 

Farmers  used  130,891  tons  of 
Eastern  States  feeds  during  the 
year  July  1,  1926,  through  June 
30,  1927;  15,478  more  tons  than 
in  the  same  period  in  1925-1926, 
and  31,320  more  tons  than  in  the 
same  period  in  1924-1925.  The 
carload  orders  for  feed  and  grain 
increased  for  the  same  12  months 
for  1926-1927—588  carloads  over 
1925-1926,  and  1,224  over  1924- 
1925. 

These  are  substantial  increases. 
They  show  forcefully  that  eastern 
farmers  find  the  Eastern  States 
Farmers'  Exchange  feed  service 
valuable.  In  no  other  way  can 
the  1927  increase— the  9th  suc- 
cessive  increase — be  explained. 

Eastern  States  feed  and  grain 
is  distributed  on  a  cash  basis. 
Farmers  know  that  the  feeder 
who  can  regularly  pay  cash  for 
his  feed  and  grain  requirements 
is  a  better-than-average  farmer. 
This  type  of  farmer  knows  how 
to  invest  his  cash  profitably  and 
that  is  the  chief  reason  why  he  is 
able  to  procure  his  current  feed 
and  grain  for  cash.  He  may 
take  a  trial  order  through  a  co- 
operative once  but  he  standard- 
izes on  co-operative  feed  only  if 
it  produces  profits  for  him.  The 
Eastern  States  Farmers'  Ex- 
change feed  service  must  be  pro- 
ducing results  for  eastern  farm- 
ers when  it  can  show  so  remark- 
able a  growth  in  tonnage  over  a 
period  of  9  years. 

Eastern  States  feeds  have  made 
their  greatest  gains  among  the 
feeders  who  keep  track  of  their 
costs  and  of  their  profits.  Where 
records  are  kept  Eastern  States 
Open  Formula  Feeds  prove  their 
worth. 

For  information  on  the  East- 
ern States  feed  service  for  poul- 
try and  livestock,  a  service  which 
should  not  be  confused  with  car 
door  service  offered  by  private 
manufacturers  through  dealers  or 
groups  of  farmers,  write  the  office. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

A   non-stock,    non-profit  organisation 
owned  and  controlled  by  the 
farmer*  It  serves 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


reason  I  find  that  many  of  the  farmers 
some  distance  from  our  markets,  who  are 
producers  shipping  by  rail,  have  an  ample 
supply  of  ice  and  are  also  well  equipped 
with  milk  houses  and  cooling  tanks.  Many 
of  the  producers  nearby  have  felt  that 
their  milk  was  taken  so  quickly  from  the 
farm  that  they  did  not  need  to  use  ice 
and  as  a  result  many  of  the  dealers  say 
that  their  poorest  milk  often  times  comes 
from  their  nearby  farmers  and  their  best 
milk  comes  from  out  on  the  railroad. 

I  wish  to  urge  upon  the  nearby  farmers 
the  necessity  of  building  suitable  milk 
houses  and  suitable  cooling  tanks  in  which 
to  properly  handle  their  milk.  Competi- 
tion for  the  market  is  very  keen.  Most 
milk  dealers  are  practicing  a  process  of 
weeding  out  and  selection  so  far  as  their 
dairies  are  concerned,  and  are  keeping 
for  steady  producers  only  such  dairies 
as  are  equipped  to  produce  and  handle  the 
milk  properly.  Only  last  week  one  dealer 
told  me  that  he  was  seriously  considering 


dropping  an  entire  route  of  his  nearby 
farms  because  of  the  way  they  were  pro- 
ducing their  milk  and  the  equipment  they 
had  for  cooling.  He  mentioned  the  fact 
that  many  of  his  farmers  had  been  using 
half  barrels  for  cooling  the  milk,  and  the 
water  in  them  was  simply  pumped  in 
from  a  well  and  did  not  even  come  up  on 
the  jugs  as  high  as  the  milk  in  the  jug 
came.  He  felt  that  this  way  of  cooling 
was  not  at  all  satisfactory  and  said  he 
preferred  to  get  his  milk  from  dairymen 
that  had  milk  houses  and  suitable  cooling 
tanks. 

I  mention  these  matters  to  let  those  of 
you  who  read  this  article  know  what  the 
dealer  has  in  mind  with  reference  to  the 
type  of  place  from  which  he  desires  to 
buy  his  milk.  I  know  that  our  nearby 
dairymen  are  very  anxious  to  hold  their 
markets,  but  I  feel  this  can  only  be  done 
by  producing  milk  as  good  and  as  care- 
fully handled  as  that  which  can  be  bought 
at  a  distance. 


FIELD  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT 

F.  C.  WARNER,  Manager  51  Cornhill,  Boston 

DISTRICT  MANAGERS 
Maine  Field  District — F.  I     FOLEY,  Department  of  Agriculture,  Augusta,  Me. 
Northern  Field  District — S.  L.  STEARNS,  St.  Jolmsbury,  Vt. 
Northwestern  Field  District — N.  H.  WELLS,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 


The  good  work  which  our  three  field 
men  are  doing  and  the  amount  of  real 
service  which  they  are  able  to  perform 
for  members  in  check  testing,  reinstate- 
ment, etc.,  has  proved  the  soundness  of 
the  system  of  resident  field  district  men 
and  brings  us  to  the  point  where  we  are 
ready  to  complete  the  system  by  estab- 
lishing a  man  in  Western  Vermont.  The 
executive  committee  of  the  association 
has  authorized  the  hiring  of  such  a  man 
and  within  a  few  weeks  it  is  hoped  that 
he  will  be  selected  and  ready  to  begin 
work. 

Placing  this  additional  man  in  the  field 
will  practically  cover  our  entire  terri- 
tory with  some  man  in  a  position  to  give 
personal  service,  to  members  only.  This 
service  "to  members  only"  was  the  intent 
of  the  vote  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
association  two  years  ago,  but  the  field 
men  are,  at  the  start,  interpretating  this 
rather  liberally  and  are  giving  service  to 
any  dairymen  who  seem  to  need  it.  This 
extra  service  is  coming  back  many  fold 
to  the  association  in  the  form  of  new 
members.  Just  as  soon  as  some  of  the 
non-members  have  some  direct  service 
done  for  them  they  see  the  value  of  the 
association  and  want  to  come  in.  The 
field  service  is  the  basis  on  which  we  are 
building  up  membership  steadily  all  over 
the  territory  covered. 

It  has  taken  a  little  time  to  get  this 
field  service  system  into  operation  and  it 
was  not  possible  to  put  all  the  men  into 
the  field  at  once  for  two  main  reasons. 
First  because  the  increase  in  money  avail- 
able for  such  work  only  began  early  this 
year  and  it  was  not  possible  for  the 
association  to  stand  the  cost.  Second 
because  it  takes  a  little  time  to  train  a 
man  so  that  he  can  answer  questions  con- 
cerning the  dairy  industry  and  market- 
ing situations  in  New  England  and  the 
field  service  manager,  F.  C.  Warner, 
wanted  to  give  considerable  personal  at- 
tention to  each  new  field  man  and  actually 
work  with  him  some  time  before  placing 
him  in  full  charge  of  a  district. 

When  the  new  man  is  in  charge  we  will 
be  well  covered.  Beginning  at  the  south, 
our  new  Southern  Market  District  Man- 
ager, Mr.  Fienemann,  will  take  care  of 
the  service  to  members  in  addition  to 
looking  after  the  marketing  problems.  In 
Central  and  Western  Massachusetts 
Adams  will  give  personal  service  in  addi- 
tion to  market  supervision.  In  Northern 
Massachusetts  and  Southern  New  Hamp- 
shire Brown  will  be  right  on  the  job,  day 
and  night,  helping  members  wherever 
needed  and  dealing  vigorously  "with  the 
market  situations  as  they  arise. 

In  addition  to  these  men  whose  time  is 
divided  between  field  service  and  market- 
ing we  will  have  F.  L.  Foley  covering 
M  aine,  S.  L.  Stearns  covering  northern 
New  Hampshire  and  Vermont,  N.  H. 
Wells  covering  northwestern"  Vermont, 
and  our  new  field  man,  whoever  he  may 


be,  covering  western  Vermont,  including 
Addision,  Rutland  and  Bennington  coun- 
ties and  eastern  New  York.  With  Mr. 
Warner  in  general  charge  of  these  field 
men  we  have  a  working  force  which  it 
will  be  hard  to  beat. 

The  men  already  in  the  field  have  had 
a  busy  month.  Beginning  with  Mr.  Foley, 
let's  record  some  of  their  activities. 
Remember,  though,  that  the  boys  are  still 
somewhat  modest  and  do  not  tell  of  all 
they  accomplish.  We  know  that  there  are 
many  worth-while  things  done  which  do 
not  get  into  formal  reports  and  records. 
But  our  members  know  about  them  and 
are  appreciative. 

Foley  check-tested  at  the  Whiting 
Corinna  plant  and  then  went  out  and 
called  on  the  producers,  just  to  get  ac- 
quainted and  tell  them  what  the  associa- 
tion is  doing.  The  net  result  was  24  new 
members,  bringing  the  total  membership 
up  to  75.  F.  E.  Gardner  is  president, 
and  J.  A.  Emerson  is  secretary.  The 
work  done  by  Mr.  Foley  brings  the 
Corinna  local  up  among  the  larger  locals 
of  the  state.  It  will  be  represented  by  its 
president  at  the  coming  annual  meeting. 

At  Dexter,  also  a  Whiting  station,  he 
secured  seven  new  members  and  signed 
over  24  old  members  on  the  new  dues 
basis.  George  H.  Knowles,  who  repre- 
sented the  local  at  the  Boston  meeting  last 
fall  is  president  of  this  local,  and  G  R. 
Brown  is  secretary. 

At  the  Solon  creamery  plant  in  Solon, 
he  made  a  check  test  with  the  manager 
on  about  150  patrons.  We  have  few 
members  in  that  locality  so  arrangements 
were  made  to  have  the  results  of  this 
check  test  sent  out  to  all  patrons.  They 
were  sent  out  by  the  manager  along  with 
the  checks  for  the  month. 

At  Unity,  where  there  is  a  Hood  station 
and  a  Turner  Centre  station,  12  new 
members  were  secured  and  six  old  mem- 
bers, who  were  not  seen  on  the  previous 
canvass,  signed  up  on  the  new  dues  order 
basis.  J.  O.  Pillsbury  is  president,  and 
C.  A.  Hatch  is  secretary  of  this  local. 

A  fine  piece  of  service  was  performed 
for  dairymen  in  Clinton  and  Albion,  who 
ship  to  the  Elm  City  Milk  Co.  From  12 
to  15  dairymen  were  shut  off  in  each  of 
these  places  by  an  inspector  who  recently 
made  the  rounds  for  the  Boston  Board  of 
Health.  Mr.  Foley  visited  these  pro- 
ducers, showed  them  how  to  conform  to 
the  requirements  with  a  moderate  amount 
of  expense  and  work  and  in  general 
cheered  them  up.  At  the  present  writing 
the  changes  are  in  process  of  being  made 
or  have  been  completed  and  the  producers 
have  been  reinstated.  This  service  was 
especially  appreciated  as  the  Elm  City 
company  does  not  maintain  a  field  service 
man,  like  some  of  the  larger  companies, 
whose  duty  it  would  be  to  help  get  them 
reinstated.  The  inspector  who  shut  them 
off  was  still  in  that  territory  and  at  Mr. 
Foley's  suggestion  he  came  around  again 


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WHAT  makes  milk  sour?  Authorities 
are  agreed  the  most  common  cause  is 
seeding  of  the  milk  with  bacteria  from 
contact  with  non-sterile  utensils,  etc. 

Furthermore,  cans  sterilized  at  the  factory 
become  seeded  again  through  exposure,  so 
that  by  the  time  the  farmer  is  ready  to  use 
them,  they  are  infected.  The  only  safe  plan 
is  to  sterilize  all  cans  and  utensils  just  before 
using,  at  the  farm,  with  a  B-K  rinse.  Tests 
prove  it  kills  95%  of  the  bacteria. 

Yon  will  find  It  pays  to  use  B-K.  It  costs  only  a 
couple  of  cents  a  day  to  keep  utensils  and  milk- 
bouse  sweet  and  clean.  You  11  prevent  sour,  off- 
flavored  milk  and  odors. 

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Cow-Ease 


Cow-Ease,  sprayed  on  your  cows 
twice  a  day,  drives  flies  away.  By 
actual  test,  cows  protected  by  it,  yield 
more  milk.  Applied  with  a  sprayer,  it 
won't  blister  or  gum. 

One  gallon  sprays  200  cows.  Our  Cow- 
Ease  sprayer  does  the  job.  Cow-Ease  is 
repellent  to  cattle  ticks,  grubs,  hen  lice 
and  mites.  Equally  effective  on  horses  or 
in  hen  houses. 

Get  the  can  with  the  blue  Cow-Ease 
label.  If  your  dealer  hasn't  it,  send  his 
name  and  address  and  $1.50  ($1.75  west 
of  Missouri  River)  to  Carpenter-Morton 
Co.,  Boston,  Mass.,  and  we  will  deliver 
one  gallon  prepaid.  Sprayer  60c.  extra. 
Satisfaction 
guaranteed- 


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August,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


EASTERN  STATES 

EXPOSITION 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 

SEPT.  18-24,  1927 


Real  live  stock  value  among  breed- 
ers and  exhibitors  is  represented 
by  judging  ring  awards.  Total 
premium  offerings  of  $1 01 ,829 
at  the  1927  Eastern  States 
Exposition  are  notable,  but 
more  than  this  is  the  ad- 
vertising worth  of  rib- 
bons won  at  this  most 
representative  show. 

There  is  advertising  and  publicity 
value  that  cannot  be  measured 
over  and  above  the  cash  win- 
nings, although  these  are  im- 
portant.   Eastern  States  Ex- 
position awards  mean  some- 
thing   to   exhibitor  and 
public.      They    are  a 
national     standard  of 
excellence  and  quality. 


Livestock  classification*  for  this  year's 
Exposition  include  dairy  and  beef  cattle, 
draft  and  show  horses,  sheep,  swine,  etc. 

LIVESTOCK  ENTRIES  CLOSE 
WEDNESDAY,  AUG.  24 

For  information,    entry    blanks,    etc. , 
write  to  — 

CHARLES  A.  NASH,  General  Manager 
292  Worthing  ton  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 

''Keep  Down  Bacteria  with 

STERILAC 

It  is  a  powerful,  stable,  non-poisonous 
iiand  non-caustic  Deodorizer  and  Disinfec- 
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nor  smell.  It  is  a  concentrated  powder 
which  keeps  indefinitely.  It  is  economi- 
cal. One  ounce  makes  thirty  gallons  of 
an  efficient  solution  which  destroys  and 
prevents  bacteria  in  dairy  utensils,  in- 
cluding milking  machine  parts  and  tubes, 
pails,  cans  and  strainers. 

iSend  $1  for  "Money  Back"  Trial 

Enough  Sterilac  to  make  60  gallons 
of  solution  of  ordinary  strength 

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WINTHROP,  MASS. 

New  England  and  Middle  Atlantic  States 
Dist  rihutors 


FOR  INFLAMED  JOINTS 


Absorbine  will  reduce  in- 
flamed.swollenjoints.sprains, 
bruises,  soft  bunches.  Quickly 
heals  boils,  poll  evil,  quittor, 
fistula  and  infectedsores.Will 
not  blister  or  remove  hair.  You 
can  work  horse  while  using. 
$2.60  at  druggists,  or  postpaid. 
Send  for  book  7-S  free. 

From  onrfile9:  "Fistula  ready  to 
burst.  Never  saw  anything  yield 
to  treatment  so  quickly.  Will  not 
be  without  Absorbine." 


ABSORBING 

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and  placed  his  O.K  on  their  reinstatement. 
Our  man  was  working-  with  the  inspector 
as  well  as  with  the  farmers. 

NORTHERN  FIELD  DISTRICT 

Sam  Stearns,  our  new  manager  in  the 
Northern  Field  District,  has  been  saying 
little  but  sawing  wood.  It  is  not  possible 
to  tell  of  all  the  service  he  has  rendered 
to  farmers  in  the  upper  Connecticut  val- 
ley, or  of  the  new  light  which  many  of 
them  have  had  on  organized  marketing 
of  dairy  products  through  the  dooryard 
visits  he  has  made.  Some  of  its  shows  in 
figures. 

Colebrook  for  instance.  It  is  a  big 
milk  producing  area  and  he  had  a  strong- 
local  there,  78  members  in  good  standing, 
with  A.  B.  Frizzell  as  president,  and 
Everett  Wiswell  as  secretary.  But  our 
association  men  for  some  years  past  have 
not  been  able  to  stop  long  enough  when 
in  that  region  to  really  see  anywhere 
nearly  as  many  men  as  they  should.  Con- 
sequently there  were  a  good  many  non- 
members.  Stearns  went  in  there  and 
stayed  so  long  as  there  were  any  men  to 
see.  He  added  82  names  ot  the  member- 
ship list,  more  than  doubling  the  member- 
ship and  bringing  the  Colebrook  local  up 
to  where  they  will  have  two  delegates  at 
the  coming  annual  meeting.  He  says  that 
they  are  a  fine  lot  of  farmers  to  meet. 
Judging  by  the  results  the  feeling  was 
mutual. 

At  West  Stewartstown,  among  the 
Hood  shippers,  he  completed  the  canvass 
which  was  made  some  months  ago  and 
added  16  new  members.  George  W. 
Weeks  is  president,  and  L.  T.  Judd  is 
secretary  of  the  local. 

An  unusual  opportunity  for  service 
came  to  him  at  Pittsburg  where  a  new 
co-operative,  owned  and  operated  by 
farmers,  has  started.  At  their  request 
he  helped  them  establish  a  testing  sys- 
tem and  will  from  time  to  time  get  back 
to  check  test  and  give  such  further  assist- 
ance as  he  can  along  that  line.  In  addi- 
tion to  this  service  he  assisted  them  in 
setting  up  an  accounting  system  which 
would  fit  their  needs.  This  is  a  sample 
of  the  great  advantage  of  having  first 
class,  capable  men  in  the  field.  Such 


IKTOMORe 


TRADE-MARK  RtGISTLRLO 


PRODUCE  RESULTS  — 
A  Wonderful  Record  on  a  Large  Flock 


St.  Albans  Grain  Co.,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 


St.  Albans,  Vermont,  May  8,  1926. 


Gentlemen : 

In  the  spring  of  1924,  I  bought  3.000  chickens.  I  fed  them  baby  chick  food 
and  growing  mash  made  by  one  of  your  competitors.  As  they  began  to  lay  I 
used  W'irthmore  Laying  Mash.  On  November  1.  1924,  I  had  1  304  pullets  In  the 
laying  houses  and  had  culled  out  a  tew.  The  following  Is  the  average  number 
of  eggs  per  month  per  hen: 


Nov.,  1924  10.6  eggs 

Dec,  1924  11.3  eggs 

Jan.,  1925  12.0  eggs 

Feb.,  1925  16.1  eggs 


March,   192E  18.1  eggs 

April,   1925  20.2  eggs 

May,   1925  20.3  eggs 

June,   1925  20.4  eggs 


July.  1925  20.6  eggs 

Aug.,   1925  18.0  eggs 

Sept.,  1925  12.9  eggs 

Oct.,  1925  6.0  eggs 


186.6  eggs 

I  finished  the  year  with  1.000  birds.  I  had  very  little  experience  In  culling 
and  carried  over  some  birds  I  would  now  cu.ll  out. 

Through  their  period  of  molt  I  bought  200  pounds  of  laying  mash  mixed 
by  one  of  your  competitors!  and  I  still  have  150  pounds  of  the  same  as  the 
hens  would  not  eat  it  after  having  W'irthmore  Mash.  This  1.000  began  laying 
In  January  after  their  molt  and  on  February  9,  1926  laid  615  eggs. 

In  the  spring  of  1925  I  purchased  1.500  chicks  and  started  1,000  of  them  on 
the  same  starting  feed  as  used  the  year  before,  and  500  on  W'irthmore  Starting 
Feed.  I  then  used  Wirthmore  Growing  Feed  for  all.  I  matured  741  pullets 
from  the  1,500  and  oniy  a  few  to  cull.  These  pullets  began  laying  at  four 
months  and  three  days. 

This  spring  I  purchased  2,000  chicks.  I  am  feeding  1.000  on  same  starting 
feed  as  before  and  1,000  on  Wirthmore.  I  am  now  convinced  and  shall  use 
Wirthmore  for  all  the  chicks  in  the  future. 

My  eggs  commanded  a  premium  for  the  past  year,  due  to  the  fact,  I  be- 
lieve, that  there  is  nothing  in  Wirthmore  Poultry  Feeds  to  produce  a  strong- 
flavored  egg. 

Wirthmore — For — Me — In — The — Future.  (Signed)   H,  J.  Wright. 

If  you  want  to  make  a  record  like  the  above,  and  make  more  profits,  ask 
your  dealer  for  Wirthmore  Poultry  Feeds.  If  he  cannot  supply  you,  write, 
advising  your  dealer's  name. 


ST.  ALBANS  GRAIN  CO.,  Mfrs.,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 

CHAS.  M.  COX,  Wholesale  Dist  ,  Boston,  Mast. 


Milk  is  higher  than  a  year  ago !  Grain  much  higher  and  still  going  up  ! 

The  past  season  feeders  have  learned  the  value  of  Xtravim,  because 
they  have  used  more  of  it  than  for  twenty  years. 

With  the  increased  prices  of  grain,  Xtravim  should  be  fed  in  larger 
quantities  than  usual. 

Agricultural  Stations  are  giving  molasses,  as  a  feed,  more  attention 
than  ever  before. 

Try  a  barrel  or  a  carload  of  Xtravim  —  Send  for  Booklet,  '•MOLASSES  FOR  STOCK  FEEDING" 

BOSTON    MOLASSES    CO.  173    MILK    ST.,  BOSTON 


Page  Ten 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


August,  1927" 


Reserve 
System 


Your  Youngster 

will  only  learn  how  to  take 
care  of  money  by  earning 
it.  Teach 
him  to  look 
ahead  by 
saving  it, 
too. 

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Prevent  the  Run  Down  Condition 

Give  INVIGORATOR  in  the  Feed 

Use  UDERKREAM  for  the  Udder 

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for  i 
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from  noon  to  3  p.  m.,  75c. 
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When  writing  to  advertiser* 
Please  mention  the 

New  England  Dairyman 


work  as  this  is  real  service  to  the  dairy 
farmers  and  will  materially  strengthen 

the  association. 

NORTHWESTERN  FIELD 
DISTRICT 

Mr.  Wells  has  also  had  a  busy  month 
in  Northwestern  Vermont  and  has  been 
able  to  accomplish  "uite  a  lot  in  spite  of 
some  unexpected  difficulties.  At  the  Mil- 
ton and  Essex  Center  plants  of  the 
Whiting  company  he  made  a  check  test 
on  the  milk  of  all  members  and  each 
was  notified  of  the  result.  F.  A.  Walston 
is  president,  and  E.  G.  Sibley  secretary 
of  the  Milton  local.  At  Jerico,  where  the 
Hood  company  established  a  new  receiv- 
ing' station  last  year,  he  made  a  round  of 
the  patrons  and  double  the  membership 
in  the  local.  He  comn'eted  the  canvass 
at  Jeffersonville,  where  M.  L.  Porter  is 
president,  and  E.  T.  Hubbard  secretary. 
This  is  one  of  the  large  locals  who  will 
have  a  direct  representative  at  the  coming 
annual  meeting.  He  also  completed  the 
canvass  at  Fairfax  where  members  ship  to 
the  Milton  creamery,  to  the  Hood  plant 
at  Jerico,  and  to  the  Whiting  plant  at 
Essex  Center.  Maurice  Irish  is  president, 
and  Edgar  Snow  is  secretary  of  the  local. 
We  have  not  received  the  exact  figures 
on  the  additions  he  made  in  these  towns, 
but  substantial  gains  in  membership  have 
resulted  from  his  work  and  a  better 
understanding  of  the  marketing  situation. 

Here  is  a  note  from  the  country  which 
we  are  more  than  glad  to  print  in  the 
Dairyman ;  let's  have  more  of  them : 
"The  Montpelier,  Berlin,  East  Mont- 
pelier  local  held  a  social  evening  at  K.  of 
P.  Hall  at  Montpelier.  There  were  about 
100  members  and  their  families  present. 
A  minstrel  show  was  given  by  the  young 
people  after  which  supper  was  served. 
The  remainder  of  the  evening  was  spent 
in  dancing."  That  is  the  kind  of  a  meet- 
ing of  a  local  we  would  like  to  attend. 


A  firm  advertising  for  a  salesman  re- 
ceived a  reply  from  a  man  who  said  he 
was  the  greatest  salesman  in  the  world. 
They  engaged  him  and  gave  him  three 
lines  to  sell  in  western  territory. 

After  he  had  been  away  a  week  and 
they  had  received  no  orders,  the  firm  got 
this  telegram : 

T  am  not  the  world's  greatest  sales- 
man. I  am  the  second  best.  The  great- 
est salesman  was  the  man  who  loaded 
you  up  with  these  goods." 


NORSTAR 
FLY  CHASER 

"p  VERY  cow  and 
»  horse  owner 
should  know  that  flies 
cost  real  money  in 
lower  milk  production 
and  loss  of  flesh. 
NorStar  ,Fly  Chaser  is  tested,  tried, 
and  effective  safeguard  from  flies. 
Its  use  allows  cows  to  feed  in  peace, 
and  thus  increases  milk  flow;  does  not 
stain  or  injure  hair;  pleasant  cleanly 
odor;  harmless  and  non-poisonous. 

The  benefits  from  the  use  of  Nor 
Star  Fly  Chaser  are  unquestioned. 
Buy  a  gallon;  if  not  satisfied,  we  will 
refund  your  money.  $1.75  per  gallon; 
five  gallons  for  $7.50. 

Write  for  name  of  nearest  distributor 

oni^y  AMERICAN  LANOLIN  CORP. 

LAWRENCE,  MASS. 


IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


Socony  990 

and  Hour  Jord 


YOUR  Ford  car  very  probably  plays  a  major  part  in  the  farm 
life.  It  gets  hard  usage  and  to  give  the  excellent  service  that 
you  require  of  it,  the  transmission  bands  should  be  pliable  and 
the  motor  well  lubricated. 

Socony  990  Motor  Oil  for  Fords  is  the  result  of  5  years'  testing  by 
our  chemists,  engineers  and  Ford  drivers. 

It  is  a  perfect  lubricant  for  the  motor  and  prevents  hard,  glazed 
transmission  bands. 

Socony  990  Motor  Oil  for  Fords 

Keeps  bands  pliable  Saves  your  motor 

Thoroughly  lubricates  the  motor    Increases  power 

Makes  brakes  safe  Prevents  so-called  chatter 

Your  dealer  has  it  in  5-gallon  cans,  in  tilting  crates  and  30  and  50- 
gallon  drums. 

STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 
26  Broadway 

SDCDNY 

MOTOR  OIL 

for  Tractors,  Trucks,  Pleasure  Cars,  Motor  Boats,  etc. 


"Pfi^e  that  live  to  please 
must  please  to  live" 

.  .  .  so  spoke  Samuel  Johnson  when  he  opened  a 
London  theatre  some  century  and  a  half  ago.  Today  it 
is  even  truer  of  the  people  who  advertise  to  you. 

Whether  merchants  or  manufacturers — whether  they 
advertise  hats  or  harnesses,  powder-puffs  or  ploughs — the 
permanent  success  of  every  advertiser  who  uses  these 
pages  rests  squarely  upon  his  ability  to  please  you. 

The  goods  he  advertises  must  be  right.  They  must 
meet  your  approval  in  open  comparison.  They  must 
please  you  in  utility,  design,  quality,  value  and  service. 
If  they  don't  you  won't  buy.  And  if  you  won't  buy, 
the  advertiser  can't  live. 

That's  why  advertised  merchandise  must  be  good 
merchandise — and  that's  why  there  is  protection,  true 
economy  and  real  satisfaction  in  reading  the  advertise- 
ments and  being  guided  by  them. 

Advertising  guides  you  to  products  that 
please.    Read  it  regularly. 


!( 

|  August,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


SOUTHERN    MARKET  DIS- 
TRICT 

JULY  PRICES 

Providence   cents  per  qt. 

i^all  River,  July  1-23   8    cents  per  qt. 

July  24-31   9    cents  per  qt. 

3rockton   8j4  cents  per  qt. 

Vew  Bedford   9    cents  per  qt. 

Newport   9    cents  per  qt. 

PROVIDENCE 

As  reported  in  the  last  issue  of  the 
Dairyman,  the  NEMPA  Sales  Committee 
idvanced  the  price  one-half  cent  per  quart 
>n  July  1,  making  the  delivered  price 
4^  cents  per  quart.  Those  chain  stores 
'vhich  had  been  retailing  for  11  cents  per 
[uart  advanced,  their  price  to  12  cents  on 
uly  11,  bringing  the  Providence  cash  and 
arry  price  up  even  with  the  Boston  price. 

The  Providence  Sales  Committee  of 
he  Association  is  announcing  another 
advance  of  one-half  cent  per  quart,  effec- 
ive  August  1,  bringing  the  Providence 
>rice  in  line  with  the  Boston  price  which 
dvanced  to  9  cents  the  middle  of  July. 

FALL  RIVER 

For  a  number  of  years  the  price  of 
nilk  in  Fall  River  was  changed  from 
ime  to  time  as  local  conditions  warranted. 
Due  to  changing  conditions  a  few  years 
.go  an  arrangement  was  made  between 
he  Sales  Committe  for  that  market  and 
he  distributors  whereby  the  price  of  milk 
o  producers  would  automatically  be  the 
ame  as  producers  received  in  Boston. 

Experience,  however,  has  shown  that 
onditions  in  the  two  markets  vary  widely, 
"all  River,  with  88  licensed  distributors, 
:nds  it  hard,  if  not  impossible,  to  revise 
rice  upward  on  short  notice  and  several 
imes  has  requested  the  NEMPA  Sales 
Committee  to  make  adjustments  on  this 
ccount.  The  reduction  in  the  price  last 
i/inter  was  caused  by  a  chain  store  situa- 
ion  in  Boston  which  did  not  exist  in  the 
all  River  market. 

In  view  of  these  facts  the  Sales  Com- 
mittee of  the  Association  has  decided  to 
Idopt  the  policv  of  determining  a  fair 
[rice  for  the  market  taking  into  consider- 
Stion  local  conditions  only.  This  action 
/as  taken  because  the  Fall  River  price 
id  not  advance  to  9  cents  until  July  24. 

NEW  BEDFORD 

Prior  to  1926  no  milk  moved  into  the 
.Jew  Bedford  market  on  the  weight  and 
-St  method  of  buying  milk.  While  pro- 
jucers  were  supposed  to  be  paid  an 
_igreed  price  per  quart,  in  actual  practice 
hey  received  a  price  per  can  regardless 
f  the  actual  contents  of  the  can.  Some 
ans  might  have  been  over-size  and  some 
night  not  have  contained  full  measure 
ecause  of  dents  in  the  cans  and  from 
jther  causes.  Under  conditions  where  a 
reducer  received  no  more  for  high-test 
hilk  than  he  did  for  low-test  milk  it  was 
atural  that  the  standard  of  milk  should 
:nd  downward  rather  than  upward. 
».  In  1926  the  Massachusetts  State  Board 
ijf  Health  made  an  inspection  in  this 
|iarket  and  found  some  80  samples  of 
lilk  below  the  state  standard.  As  a  re- 
ult  of  this  condition  several  New  Bed- 
Drd  dealers  adopted  the  weight  and  test 
method  of  buying  milk.  The  number  of 
salers  using  this  method  has  been  in- 
reased  from  time  to  time  until  now  some 
p  buyers  are  using  it.  A  co-operative 
antral  laboratory  has  been  established  by 
Bese  dealers  for  the  testing  of  samples 
Iken  at  the  dealers'  plants.  Recently  the 
tassachusetts  State  Board  of  Health 
jade  another  inspection  and  found  only 
Wo  samples  below  standard. 

The  establishment  of  the  weight  and 
et  method  of  buying  milk  was  approved 
/  the  NEMPA  Sales  Committee  in  New 
edford  who  realized  that  it  is  the  only 
lir  method  to  use.  Several  members  of 
le  Association,  however,  protested  the 
lange  and  when  they  found  themselves 

the  minority  they  withdrew  and  formed 

I new  association  which  they  called  the 
outhern  Massachusetts  Dairymen's 
nion. 
In  spite  of  the  fact  that  the  NEMPA 
■ice  in  New  Bedford  remained  at  9  cents 
I  quart  all  the  past  spring,  not  having 
-opped  last  winter  when  the  Boston 
;  rice  broke,  this  new  organization  on 
1%  1,  demanded  that  a  10  cent  price  be 
uid  by  the  dealers,  that  the  weight  and 
list  method  of  buying  milk  be  abolished 


and  that  no  dealer  be  allowed  more  than 
one-half  cent  per  quart  for  collecting 
milk  at  the  porducer's  farm  regardless 
of  the  distance  from  market. 

These  demands  were  refused  by  the 
dealers  and  some  disturbance  has  occurred 
in  the  market.  So  far  dealers  have  been 
able  to  replace  from  other  sources  short- 
ages incurred  when  some  of  the  members 
of  the  union  refused  to  make  delivery  of 
their  product. 

Some  months  ago  a  number  of  the 
dairymen  who  were  dissatisfied  with  con- 
ditions   in    the    New    Bedford  market 


bought  a  small  retail  milk  business.  When 
the  regular  distributors  declined  to  meet 
the  demand  of  the  union  milk  was  offered 
to  the  family  trade  by  this  farmer-owned 
route  at  10  cents  a  quart.  This  resulted 
in  some  demoralization  of  the  market. 

Regardless  of  the  outcome  of  this  con- 
troversy milk  sold  in  this  market  will 
have  to  meet  the  state  requirements. 

BROCKTON 

Since  the  last  report  Brockton's  new 
milk  regulation,  which  was  to  have  gone 
into  effect  on  July  15,  has  run  into  dif- 


ficulties. A  dealer  who  buys  considerable 
outside  milk  obtained  an  injunction  to 
prevent  the  board  of  health  from  carry- 
ing out  the  regulation.  It  is  reported 
that  the  results  of  this  action  will  not 
be  known  until  about  September  1. 

Meanwhile,  because  of  this  situation, 
the  price  of  milk  in  Brockton  did  not 
advance  with  the  Boston  price.  For  some 
time  the  Brockton  price  to  producers 
has  been  one-half  cent  per  quart  more 
than  the  Boston  price,  but  for  the  present 
the  ?>y2  cent  price  in  effect  in  July  will 
continue. 


Some  of  the  noted  purebred  Jerseys  kept  at  Biltmore  Farms,  estate  of  the  late  George  Vanderbilt  at  Riltmore,  N.  C.  The  management  writes  :  "We  con- 
sider the  De  Laval  essential  wherever  the  purest  and  best  milk  is  produced  and  we  take  Particular  pride  in  having  standardized  on  De  Laval  Milkers.  " 


Right  :  This  truck  delivers  the  milk  produced  by  the  De  La- 
val milked  purebred  Guernseys  at  Mara  Alva  Dairy  Farms, 
Smithville,  Ohio.  The  Mara  Alva  Guernsey  herd  is  one 
of  the  finest  in  the  Central  West. 


Left:  These  five  cows  arc  typical  of  the  high-producing 
Holsteins  at  the  famous  Serradella  Farm,  Oscoda,  Mich., 
where  the  De  Laval  Milker  has  proven  highly  successful. 
Each  has  produced  30  lbs.  or  more  of  butter  in  seven  days  ; 
their  records  running  from  30.23  lbs.  to  41  lbs.,  made  three 
times  by  Eco  Sylv  Belle  Pietje,  on  the  extreme  left. 


Why  So  Many  Owners  of  Purebred  Cows 
and  Producers  of  Clean  Milk  Use  the 


C\N  hundreds  of  farms  where  valuable  herds  of  purebred  cows  are  kept,  the  De  Laval  Milker  is 
used  exclusively  to  insure  better  milking.  Experience  has  proven  to  the  owners  and  man- 
agers of  these  herds  that  the  De  Laval  helps  keep  teats  and  udders  in  better  condition  and  milks 
with  far  greater  regularity  and  gentleness  than  the  average  hand  milker  is  capable  of.  A  few  of 
these  prominent  herds  are  illustrated. 

The  De  Laval  Milker  is  also  acclaimed  by  users  as  a  great  aid  in  the  production  of  more  and 
cleaner  milk.  Hundreds  of  dairymen  making  Grade  A  and  Certified  milk  regard  it  as  an  assur- 
ance of  regular  premium  money.  Its  combination  of  sanitary  features,  found  in  no  other  method 
of  milking,  makes  for  greatly  lowered  bacteria  counts  and  cleaner  milk  in  every  way. 

For  detailed  information  on  the  De  Laval  Milker  *  write  to  the  office  listed  below  which  is 
nearest  to  you.  A  post  card  will  bring  a  De  Laval  representative,  who  will  be  glad  to  go  over 
your  milking  problems  with  you.    No  obligation,  of  course. 


THE  DE  LAVAL  SEPARATOR  COMPANY 


De  Laval  Milker 


NEW  YORK 
165  Broadway 


CHICAGO 
600  JacKson  Blvd. 


SAN  FRANCISCO 
61  Beale  Street 


The  cow  on  the  extreme  left  is 
Baron's  Blue-Bell,  Grand  Cham- 
pion Ayrshire  at  a  recent  Pacific 


The  noted  purebred  Ayrshire  herd  of 
J.  N.  Gilman  is  widely  known  as  one 
of  the  very  finest  of  the  breed  in  the 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  11.    Number  6 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  SEPTEMBER,  1927 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


GENERAL  STATEMENT 


Commissioners    Outline  Reforms 
to  Be  Made  in  Milk 
Business 

One  of  the  most  important  documents 
in  recent  dairy  history  is  given  below. 
It  is  a  report  made  by  the  Commissioners 
of  Agriculture  of  the  New  England 
States  on  the  dairy  situation,  given  out 
for  publication  after  they  had  had  several 
conterences  with  the  groups  which  are 
interested.  It  represents  tneir  opinions 
after  a  rather  detailed  study  of  the 
various  factors  which  affect  the  Boston 
market.  They  have  a  sincere  desire  to 
be  of  what  assistance  they  can,  as  an 
impartial  body,  in  bringing  about  a  better 
understanding  of  the  conditions.  This 
better  understanding  they  believe,  must 
precede  any  real  progress  in  stabilization 
of  the  market.  Their  report  was  as 
follows. 

'"The  New  England  Council  has  been 
interested  in  the  development  of  agricul- 
ture in  New  England  as  one  of  the  .most 
important  factors  in  the  growth  of  New 
England  itself.  The  council  arranged  for 
an  important  farm  marketing  conference 
which  was  held  in  Boston  last  December. 
Among  the  recommendations  of  this  con- 
ference was  one  providing  for  an  organ- 
ization of  the  Commissioners  of  Agricul- 
ture of  the  New  England  States  to  study 
various  agricultural  problems  and  assist 
with  their  solution,  if  possible.  The 
commissioners  have  held  monthly  meet- 
ings and  have  studied  various  agricul- 
tural problems  of  the  different  states. 

"The  outstanding  agricultural  problem 
of  New  England  is  the  production  and 
sale  of  milk.  More  farmers  are  pro- 
ducing milk  than  any  other  agricultural 
commodity,  and  more  are  depending  for 
their  livelihood  upon  its  income.  We 
believe  that  the  public  will  pay  a  price 
based  upon  efficient  production  and  dis- 
tribution—  a  price  sufficiently  large  to 
keep  the  business  of  production  and  dis- 
tribution of  milk  in  a  healthy  condition. 
Even  at  slightly  higher  prices  milk  is 
still  the  cheapest  food  commodity  on  the 
market.  Demands  of  the  public  for  a 
greater  degree  of  sanitation  and  more 
service  add  somewhat  to  the  cost  of  its 
production  and  distribution. 

"The  Commissioners  of  Agriculture 
have  had,  in  the  last  two  weeks,  confer- 
ences with  the  representatives  of  pro- 
ducers' organizations,  with  large  and 
small  distributors,  representatives  of 
farmers'  co-operative  organizations  and 
the  chain  stores.  They  have  attempted 
to  make  a  thorough  study  of  milk  dis- 
tribution to  the  extent  of  the  brief  time 
at  their  command.  We  have  reached  cer- 
tain conclusions  and  suggestions  for  pos- 
sible improvement  of  the  distribution  of 
milk  in  the  Boston  market. 

"The  number  of  cows  in  New  England 
continues  to  decrease  steadily  and  the 
uneasiness  of  producers  gives  evidence  of 
the  decline  of  the  industry  in  the  coun- 
try. This  decrease  in  the  number  of 
cows  is  alarming  and  seriously  threatens 
New  England's  future  milk  supply.  We 
believe  this  serious  situation  can  be  im- 
proved by  a  larger  net  price  and  by 
eliminating  certain  elements  of  uncer- 
tainty which  will  re-establish  confidence 
to  the  farmers  and  enable  the  industry  to 
re-establish  itself  on  a  constant  and 
steady  basis.  The  price-making  periods 
should  be  lengthened  where  possible  as 
(Continued  on  page  ten) 


Commissioners  Take  Action 

Recommend  9 1-2  Cent  Price  to  Save  Dairy  Industry  in  New 
England  — -  Farmers  Attracted  to  New  York  Market  by 
Higher  Prices  -—  Shifting  Over  Already  Under  Way 
Sales  Committee  Follows  Recommendation 


ANNUAL  MEETING 

Our  annual  meeting,  October  25  and 
26,  will  be  a  good  time  for  everybody 
interested  in  the  association  to  come,  to 
Boston  and  get  first  hand  information 
about  the  stirring  events  which  are  taking 
place.  We  can  tell  only  a  part  of  them 
jn  the  Dairyman,  but  at  the  time  of  the 
annual  meeting  the  lid  will  be  off  and  we 
can  take  an  account  of  stock  and  see  who 
is  standing  with  us  in  trying  to  build  up 
the  dairy  industry  of  New  England  and 
who  is  not. 

•It  is  too  early  to  say  anything  about 
the  program  for  the  meeting  but  it  will 
be  full  of  things  which  interest  you  most, 
the  problems  of  getting  the  best  possible 
return  on  your  milk  at  a  time  when  re- 
adjustments of  business  conditions  have 
put  a  lot  of  farmers  in  a  bad  position. 
Judging  from  all  that  we  hear  the 
farmers  of  New  England  are  not  nearly 
so  badly  off  as  some  of  the  farmers  in 
other  sections  of  the  country,  and  the 
dairy  farmers  of  New  England  have 
fared  a  little  better  than  some  other 
groups,  thanks  to  their  organizations, 
whatever  form  they  have  taken. 

But  the  fact  that  you  are  a  little  better 
off  than  some  other  groups  of  farmers 
don't  change  the  need  for  getting  as  much 
as  possible  for  your  milk  in  order  to 
meet  the  bills.  The  way  of  getting  the 
most  for  your  product,  whether  it  is 
milk,  eggs,  apples,  is  through  an  effi- 
cient organization.  There  are  a  number 
of  such  organizations  operating  in  New 
England.  Yours  is  the  NEMPA.  It  is 
growing  in  numbers  and  in  strength.  Its 
influence  is  extending  steadily. 

The  way  to  keep  it  growing  is  to  sup- 
port it,  not  only  by  paying  dues  but  by 
taking  a  personal  interest  in  its  fight  to 
get  living  prices  for  you.  The  best  way 
to  show  this  interest  is  to  come  to  the 
annual  meeting  and  mix  with  your  fellow 
dairymen.  They  are  a  good  crowd  to 
know,  these  fellows  who  come  down  to 
the  annual  meeting  to  hear  the  reports 
and  transact  the  business  by  day  and  then 
talk  and  tell  stories  until  way  into  the 
night  over  there  at  the  American  House 

Lots  of  them  are  old  timers.  Many 
will  come  for  the  first  time.  Here  is  a 
cordial  invitation  to  every  member  of  the 
association  to  come  to  the  meeting 
whether  he  is  an  officer  or  a  delegate  or 
not.  It  is  open  to  every  member  of  the 
association  and  every  member  will  have 
an  opportunity  to  get  up  and  say  what 
he  thinks  about  the  way  the  association 
should  be  run. 

The  time  of  meeting  was  changed  into 
the  late  fall  so  that  members  could  drive 
in.  More  and  more  of  the  men  are  get- 
ting up  groups  from  their  locals  to  fill 
un  a  car  or  two  to  drive  to  Boston  for 
the  sessions. 


The  September  price  is  9| 
cents,  an  advance  of  a  half  cent 
from  August. 

Dealers  buying  through  the 
NEMPA  have  accepted  this  ad- 
vance. 

It  is  reported  that  the  Vermont 
creameries  have  advanced  their 
prices  a  half  cent. 

The  chain  store  price  advanced 
to  13  cents. 

After  five  weeks  of  turmoil  in  the  Bos- 
ton market,  due  to  the  fact  that  the  chain 
stores  did  not  advance  their  prices  when 
the  market  went  up  July  24,  we  come 
into  a  period  of  what  looks  like  more 
market  stability. 

The  fact  that  the  chain  stores  advance 
a  full  cent  while  the  market's  latest  ad- 
vance is  only  a  half  cent  results  in  a 
straightening  out  of  the  spread  situation 
which  has  been  at  the  root  of  the  trouble. 

The  Commissioners  of  Agriculture  of 
the  six  New  England  states  played  a  big 
part  in  bringing  about  a  more  stable  con- 
dition in  the  market.  Through  their 
conferences  with  the  various  groups  in- 
terested they  were  able  to  get  at  the  main 
facts  which  resulted  in  the  chaotic  mar- 
ket. Their  recommendations,  given  else- 
where in  this  issue,  will  result  in  a  much 
greater  market  stability  if  they  can  be 
carried  out  within  a  reasonable  time. 

The  commissioners  made  general 
recommendations  as  to  the  future.  They 
also  made  the  specific  recommendation 
that  the  price  should  be  advanced  a  half 
cent  for  September.  The  sales  com- 
mittee of  the  NEMPA  followed  this 
recommendation  promptly  by  offering  the 
milk  of  its  members  at  9]/2  cents,  the 
dealers  accepted,  and  the  general  straight- 
ening out  of  the  market  conditions  fol- 
lowed. 

The  first  recommendations  of  a  gen- 
eral nature  were  made  by  the  commis- 
sioners of  agriculture  after  a  meeting 
August  29.  The  specific  recommenda- 
tion for  an  increase  in  price  for  Sep- 
tember were  made  after  a  conference 
Sept.  2,  and  the  change  in  the  price  was 
made  effective,  Sunday  Sept.  4. 

In  their  new  recommendation  the  com- 
missioners reiterated  their  former  state- 
m°nts  and  added  the  following  as  spe- 
cific reasons  why  an  immediate  advance 
should  be  made : 

"The  commisjsioners  believe  that  to 
maintain  the  dairy  industry  in  New  Eng- 
land the  industry  must  return  a  better 
price  to  the  producer  or  the  supply  of 
milk  now  available  to  Boston  and  other 
New  England  markets  will  steadily  de- 
crease through  farmers  going  out  of  milk 
production  or  of  transferring  their  prod- 
ucts to  other  markets. 


"This  shifting  of  Boston's  milk  sup- 
ply to  other  markets  is  already  under 
way.  In  Eastern  New  York  and  in  va- 
rious places  in  Western  Vermont  farmers 
are  leaving  the  dealers  who  sell  milk  in 
Boston  and  are  sending  the  milk  to 
New  York  dealers.  The  recent  advance 
of  a  cent  a  quart  in  New  York,  bring- 
ing the  family  delivered  price  to  16  cents 
a  quart  nets  the  farmer  in  Western  Ver- 
mont fully  a  cent  more  than  he  can  get 
if  he  ships  the  milk  to  Boston  at  present 
prices.  The  transportation  cost  is  only 
a  small  fraction  of  a  cent  higher  to  New- 
York. 

"The  seriousness  of  this  situation  in 
Western  Vermont  was  emphasized  by  Wl 
A.  Schoenfeld  of  the  United  States  De- 
partment of  Agriculture  in  making  his 
report  on  the  survey  of  dairy  conditions 
in  New  England.  He  warned  that  a 
serious  shortage  of  milk  would  come  to 
New  England  if  better  prices  were  not 
paid  the  farmers.  He  expressed  his  be- 
lief that  more  and  more  of  this  milk 
which  is  available  to  either  market  would 
be  lost  to  New  England  if  the  prices 
were  not  brought  up  to  the  New  York 
level. 

"The  railroads  which  can  bring  milk 
equally  well  to  New  York  or  Boston  are 
now  bringing  in  21  carloads  of  milk  to 
Boston  daily.  About  half  that  amount 
is  going  to  New  York  from  the  same 
area,  according  to  Mr.|  Schoenfeld's  re- 
port. The  total  shipment  of  railroad 
milk  to  Boston  is  about  55  carloads  a 
day.  Thus  almost  40  per  cent,  of  Bos- 
ton's rail  milk  supply  is  now  tempted  to 
change  to  New  York  by  the  higher  prices 
which  may  be  obtained  in  that  market.  On 
a  considerable  part  of  this  milk  the 
transportation  rates  to  New  York  are 
more  favorable  than  to  Boston.  In  no 
case  is  the  cost  to  New  York  more  than 
seven  cents  a  hundred  pounds  higher  than 
to  Boston. 

"Another  important  reason  why  there 
should  be  an  increase  in  the  price  of  milk 
to  the  farmers  at  this  time  is  the  poor 
quality  of  the  hay  crop,  due  to  the  rainy 
summer.  The  persistent  rains  through 
the  dairy  sections  of  New  England  made 
it  impossible  to  get  the  hay  into  the  barns 
in  good  condition.  Its  feeding  value  is 
therefore  very  much  reduced  and  the 
farmers  will  have  to  feed  large  quantities 
of  expensive  grain  in  order  to  get  the 
normal  flow  of  milk.  Grain  prices  are 
now  increasing. 

"We  are  therefore  recommending  that 
the  price  of  milk  shall  be  advanced  from 
9  to  9J4  cents  delivered  in  Boston.  This 
will  not  bring  the  price  up  to  the  price 
being  paid  by  New  York  buyers  but  it 
may  serve  to  hold  the  pr.xlucers  to  their 
present  Boston  market  until  conditions 
are  better." 

(Continued  on  page  four) 


Page  Two 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


September,  1927 


Vermont  Makes  the  Largest  Gain  in  Accredited  Delegates 

Regrouping  of  Locals  for  More  Direct  Representation  at  Annual  Meeting  Increases  Voting 
Strength  of  State  Nearly  Twenty  Per  Cent.  —  Additional  Representatives  Due  to  Larger 
Membership  and  Reduction  of  Minimum  Requirement — Other  Stales  Show  Substantial  Gain 


W'v  will  have  16  per  cent,  more  regu- 
larly accredited  delegates  entitled  to  at- 
tend and  vote  in  our  coming  annual  meet- 
ing in  October  than  last  year.  This  large 
increase  is  due  in  part  to  the  material 
gains  in  membership  which  have  been 
made  through  the  establishment  of  the 
field  service  department  and  in  part  to 
the  regrouping  of  locals  for  purposes  of 
representation. 

More  presidents  of  locals  will  come  to 
the  annual  meeting  than  in  any  previous 
year,  due  to  the  operation  of  the  amended 
by-laws  which  provide  that  any  local 
having  a  paid-up  membership  of  35  or 
more  can  send  its  president  as  a  direct 
delegate  with  voting  rights. 

This  brings  in  a  considerable  number 
of  locals  which  did  not  have  the  50  mem- 
bers required  in  former  years  as  a  basis 
for  direct  representation.  Such  locals 
were  in  groups  with  a  representative 
from  the  group  last  year.  This  year 
their  president  is  entitled  to  come  to  the 
meeting  with  all  expenses  paid. 

The  number  of  accredited  delegates 
coming  to  the  meeting  will  also  be  in- 
creased through  the  good  work  by  our 
field  and  district  men  in  increasing  mem- 
bership. A  considerable  number  of  locals 
which  had  less  than  the  required  35  mem- 
bership have  been  brought  past  that 
figure  and  are  now  entitled  to  direct 
representation  whereas,  without  this  in- 
crease in  members  in  good  standing,  they 
would  have  to  be  put  into  groups. 

Vermont  is  the  largest  gainer  through 
the  regrouping,  her  representation  in- 
creasing from  47  to  56.  Maine  comes 
next  with  an  increase  of  eight;  Massa- 
chusetts, Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut 
gain  six  together ;  New  Hampshire  gains 
four,  and  New  York  three.  This  will 
make  a  total  representation  of  213  ac- 
credited delegates  as  compared  with  185 
last  year.  The  increase  of  30  regular 
voting  delegates  will  add  greatly  to  the 
interest  of  the  meeting. 

Under  our  amended  by-laws  any  local 
with  35  or  more  members  in  good  stand- 
ing August  1,  is  entitled  to  send  its  presi- 
dent as  a  voting  delegate.  Provision  is 
made  for  a  second  delegate  for  locals 
having  a  membership  of  more  than  150. 
This  provision  was  made  on  the  ground 
that  a  delegate  should  represent  100 
members  and  that  any  additional  hundred 
or  major  fraction  of  100  should  have  an 
additional  representation.  Under  this 
ruling  it  will  take  151  members  to  en- 
title a  local  to  a  second  delegate.  A  paid 
up  membership  of  251  would  entitle  a 
local  to  a  third  delegate. 

Under  this  provision  as  to  additional 
representation  only  two  locals  are  large 
enough  to  qualify.  Colebrook,  N.  H., 
was  raised  to  above  the  150  level  by  the 
work  of  Mr.  Stearns  and  an  equally  good 
piece  of  work  was  done  in  the  Salem, 
N.  Y.,  local  by  Mr.  Adams.  Both  these 
locals  will  send  their  president  and  an 
additional  voting  delegate  to  be  elected. 

The  regrouping  of  the  locals  to  meet 
the  35  minimum  requirement,  also  to 
adjust  grouping  resulting  from  changes 
in  membership  has  been  done  by  F.  C. 
Warner,  manager  of  the  field  service 
department  working  with  the  market  dis- 
trict managers  in  their  districts.  First 
every  local  having  a  representation  of 
35  or  more  was  picked  out  and  eliminated 
from  the  possible  grouping  as  they  are 
entitled  to  send  their  president  without 
any  further  vote. 

The  remaining  locals  have  been  put 
into  groups  which  will  be  entitled  to  send 
a  representative,  with  expenses  paid,  as  a 
group.  Such  groups  will  have  to  hold 
meetings  or  in  some  other  way  arrange 
to  have  a  duly  qualified  representative, 
between  now  and  the  time  of  the  annual 
meeting.  This  is  one  of  the  important 
pieces  of  work  to  be  done  right  away. 

In  grouping  these  locals  Mr.  Warner 
had  to  take  into  account  the  possibility 
of  their  getting  together  to  hold  a  joint 
meeting.  So  far  as  was  possible  locals 
close  together  were  put  in  one  group  to 


facilitate  the  joint  meeting.  This  was 
not  always  easy  but  his  familiarity  with 
the  country  from  having  canvassed  most 
of  it  made  it  possible  in  most  cases  to 
form  a  group  which  can  meet  readily  to 
elect  a  delegate. 

In  making  these  groups  it  has  been 
necessary  in  some  cases  to  go  consider- 
ably beyond  the  35  minimum.  That  is  if 
there  were  two  locals  with  a  joint  mem- 
mership  of  a  little  more  than  35  they 
could  have  been  made  a  group  by  them- 
selves. But  in  a  good  many  cases  there 
was  another  close  at  hand  small  local 
which  could  not  well  be  placed  in  any 
other  group.  Consequently  the  group 
might  have  up  toward  50  members  jointly. 

It  is  highly  important  to  get  these 
group  meetings  held  so  that  a  delegate 


can  be  elected  in  time  to  make  arrange- 
ments to  come  to  the  meeting.  Our  dis- 
trict field  men  will,  so  far  as  possible, 
assist  the  local  officers  in  getting  such 
meetings  called. 

Study  the  grouping  as  given  below  and 
see  to  it  that  a  meeting  of  your  group  is 
held.  If  everyone  takes  an  interest  in  it 
there  will  be  a  good  meeting  and  a  good 
discussion.  Then  your  delegate  can  come 
to  the  annual  meeting  fully  prepared  to 
say  what  you  people  want. 

The  grouping  by  states  is  as  follows : 

MAINE 

Looking  over  the  grouping  for  Maine 
we  find  that  the  representation  from  that 
state  will  be  increased  from  51  to  59,  a 
gain  of  eight.  This  gain  comes  largely 
in  the  reduction  of  the  requisite  number 
of  members  which  entitles  a  local  to  a 
direct  representation  by  its  president.  The 
increase  in  membership  resulting  from 
the  recanvass  of  the  territory  last  year 
had  been  practically  completed  in  Maine 
before  our  last  annual  meeting  and 
showed  an  increased  number  of  delegates. 
This  year,  with  the  reduction  in  the  re- 
quired number  from  50  to  35,  a  number 
of  locals  come  in  for  direct  representa- 
tion by  their  president  whereas  they  were 
in  groups  last  year. 

The  locals  which  were  under  50  last 
year  and  thus  were  in  groups  and  which 
have  more  than  35  this  year  and  thus 
have  a  direct  representative  are  Dover, 
Garland,  Exeter,  Plymouth,  South  China, 
Whitefield,  Richmond,  East  Livermore, 
Livermore,  South  Paris  and  Eliot.  The 
addition  of  these  11  locals  to  the  list 
which  have  direct  representation  does 
not  raise  the  number  of  delegates  from 


the  state  correspondingly  as  their  re- 
moval from  groups  made  necessary  a 
general  regrouping  and  the  number  of 
groups  to  send  delegates  was  naturally 
less.  Palermo  and  Farmington  are  with- 
out presidents  at  the  present  time  and 
will  have  to  hold  meetings  and  elections 
before  the  association  annual  meeting. 
The  grouping  in  Maine,  with  the  name 
of  the  president  in  each  case  where  there 
is  direct  representation  is  as  follows. 

1.  Dover — Walter  H.  Burgess. 

2.  Guilford,  Parkman,  Sangerville, 

Sebec. 

3.  Charleston,  Silvers  Mills. 

4.  Dexter — G.  H.  Knowles. 

5.  Garland — L.  G.  Lincoln. 

6.  Cambridge,  Ripley. 

7.  Corinna — F.  E.  Gardner. 


8.  Exeter— W.  J.  Peabody. 

9.  Hampden,  Holden,  Lavent,  East 

Corinth. 

10.  Hermon — W.  A.  Mowatt. 

11.  Carmel — A.  R.  Stevens. 

12.  Etna — Chas.  B.  Friend. 

13.  Dixmont,  Newburg,  Swanville. 

14.  Belfast — Gay  E.  Holmes. 

15.  Brooks — Hale  Rose. 

16.  Jackson — Neal  B.  Rowell. 

17.  Thorndike — Arthur  W.  Leonard. 

18.  Unity— J.  O.  Pillsbury. 

19.  Troy — S.  A.  Piper. 

20.  Plymouth — Harvey  N.  Smith. 

21.  Burnham,  Newport. 

22.  Pittsfield— Arthur  Oliver. 

23.  Hartland — Elmer  L.  Baird. 

24.  Athens,  Harmony. 

25.  Norridgewock,  Skowhegan. 

26.  Clinton— L.  W.  Estey. 

27.  Benton,  Albion. 

28.  Palermo — 

29.  South  China— H.  W.  Austin. 

30.  Windsor,  North  Whitefield. 

31.  Whitefield— L.  H.  Ford. 

32.  Alna,  Edgecomb,  West  Alna, 

Wiscasset. 

33.  Damariscotta,  Newcastle,  Nobleboro. 

34.  Winslow  Mills — J.  E.  Benner. 

35.  Thomaston,  Warren.  • 

36.  Union — W.  A.  Ayer. 

37.  Bowdoinham,  Litchfield. 

38.  Richmond — Geo.  W.  Thomson. 

39.  Augusta,  Monmouth,  Winthrop. 

40.  Belgrade,  Mt.  Vernon. 

41.  East  Livermore— A.  G.  Morrison. 

42.  Chesterville,  Mercer,  New  Sharon. 

43.  Farmington — ■ 

44.  Strong — Burton  D.  Moore. 

45.  East  Wilton— C.  W.  Noyes. 

46.  Livermore — Geo.  G.  Young. 

47.  Canton,  Jay. 


48.  East  Sumner,  West  Sumner. 

49.  Peru,  Rumford  Center. 

50.  Bethel,  Bryand  Pond,  West  Paris. 

51.  South  Paris— H.  E.  Judd. 

52.  Bolsters   Mills,    Bridgcton,  Norway, 

Oxford  &  Otisfield,  Waterford. 

53.  Buckfield — Howard  M.  Irish. 

54.  East  Hebron,  West  Minot. 

55.  Turner — H.  F.  Dresser. 

56.  Auburn-Lewiston,    New  Gloucester, 

Poland. 

57.  Lisbon-Webster,  Wales. 

58.  Cornish,  Gorham,  Gray,  Hiram,  Hollis 

Center,  North  Berwick,  Walnut 
Hill. 

59.  Eliot— R.  D.  Webber. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

In  New  Hampshire  we  find  an  increase 
in  the  number  of  accredited  delegates 
from  28  to  32.  With  the  exception  of 
the  gain  of  one  delegate  in  the  Man- 
chester section  through  the  breaking  up 
of  a  large  group,  the  increase  has  come 
largely  through  the  good  work  of  S.  L. 
Stearns,  our  new  field  man,  in  increasing 
membership  in  northern  Grafton  and  in 
Coos  counties. 

Since  he  went  on  to  the  job  in  that 
district  Mr.  Stearns  has  added  219  new 
members  and  is  still  going  strong  as  is 
recorded  elsewhere  in  this  issue. 

As  the  result  of  Mr.  Stearns'  good 
work,  plus  the  loyal  support  given  the 
association  by  many  of  its  old  members 
in  northern  New  Hampshire,  10  locals 
will  be  privileged  to  send  their  presidents 
as  delegates  to  the  annual  meeting  when 
last  year  they  were  in  groups.  These 
locals  are  North  Haverhill,  Bath,  Lisbon, 
Littleton,  Dalton,  Whitefield,  Jefferson, 
Northumberland,  Stratford  and  West 
Stewartstown.  Threee  other  locals  in 
Leon  Brown's  market  district  will  have 
the  same  privilege.  They  are  Bedford, 
Concord  and  Henniker. 

The  Bedford  and  Concord  direct  repre- 
sentation results  from  increased  member- 
ships and  from  the  breaking  up  of  two 
large  groups.  Last  year  the  locals 
around  Manchester,  shipping  largely  to 
the  Manchester  Dairy  System,  were  put 
into  one  large  group  with  two  delegates. 
There  was  another  good  sized  group,  in- 
cluding Concord,  with  one  delegate.  The 
two  groups  had  three  delegates.  By 
breaking  them  up  the  number  is  increased 
to  four  delegates  from  the  same  locals, 
two  from  locals  with  membership  of 
more  than  35,  and  two  from  the  remain- 
ing locals  in  two  groups. 

The  addition  of  13  locals  having  a 
direct  representation  with  a  net  increast- 
of  only  four  in  the  delegates  from  the 
state  may  seem  strange.  It  is  easily  ex- 
plainable if  we  take  into  consideration  the 
situation  in  northern  New  Hampshire 
where  Mr.  Stearns  has  been  working. 
Bath  and  Lisbon  are  a  good  example. 
Last  year  they  were  grouped  together 
and  had  one  delegate.  This  year  each 
one  sends  its  president*  as  a  delegate. 
The  record  will  show  them  as  two  new 
locals  having  direct  representation,  but 
th'e  net  increase  in  the  representation  will 
be  only  one  delegate  as  they  had  one 
jointly  last  year.  The  same  situation 
applies  to  several  other  locals  in  which 
Mr.  Stearns  has  been  working.  New 
Hampshire  has  also  lost  Waterford  and 
Lunenburg  locals  in  Vermont  which  were 
grouped  with  New  Hampshire  locals  last 
year  and  are  now  grouped  with  Vermont 
locals,  thus  reducing  the  membership  ac- 
credited to  New  Hampshire  last  year. 
The  increase  in  membership  in  Colebrook 
gives  it  two  delegates.  The  second  dele- 
gate will  have  to  be  elected  previous  to 
the  general  meeting.  The  grouping 
worked  out  for  New  Hampshire,  with  the 
presidents  who  will  come  as  direct  repre- 
sentatives is  as  follows : 

60.  Alton,    Lee,    Sanbornville,  Stafford. 

61.  Greenland,  Portsmouth  &  Newington, 

Hampton  Falls,  North  Hampton. 
52.  Newmarket.  Stratham. 
63.  East  Kingston,  Epping,  Exeter. 


INCREASE  IN  ACCREDITED  DELEGATES 

Two  hundred  and  thirteen  men  will  be  entitled  to  come  to 
our  annual  meeting  in  Boston  October  25  and  26  and  shape  the 
policies  of  the  association  for  another  year. 

Every  man  will  be  a  farmer,  directly  concerned  with  the  milk 
business  from  the  producer  standpoint.  No  interest  except  that 
of  the  producing  dairymen  will  have  any  vote  in  the  meeting. 

The  representation  is  well  scattered  over  the  entire  territory 
in  which  we  operate.  No  sectional  interest  can  dominate.  The 
decisions  will  be  truly  representative  of  the  will  of  the  dairymen 
in  every  section.  J        j         1  j  i 

State  lines  mean  nothing  in  the  decision  they  will  make  as 
they  will  be  thinking  in  terms  of  all  New  England.  But  for 
purposes  of  record  and  comparison  we  give  the  representation 
by  states. 

— Delegates — 
1926  1927 

Maine   *   51  59 

New  Hampshire    28  32 

Vermont    47  56 

New  York    10  13 

Mass.,  R.  I.  and  Conn.    47  53 

183  213 


*  September,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


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64.  Chester,   Derry,   Hampstead,  North 

Londonderry. 

65.  Londonderry — Stacy  Sheldon. 

66.  Auburn,  Candia. 

67.  Hoosett,   Manchester,  New  Boston, 

Dunbarton. 

68.  Bedford — George  Gookin. 

69.  Concord— P.  R.  Dalbec. 

70.  Center  Barnstead,  Pittsfield,  Suncook 

Valley. 

71.  Hollis,  Nashua. 

72.  Greenfield,  Hancock. 

Milford,  Peterboro. 

73.  Antrim,    Hillsboro,    Weare,  Lynde- 

boro. 

74.  Henniker — Frank  A.  Sargent. 
74a.  Bradford,  Contoocock-Warner. 

75.  Canaan,  Danbury,  Enfield,  Grafton, 

Lebanon,  Mascoma,  West  Andover, 
West  Canaan. 

76.  Hartland,  Vt.,  Norwich,  Vt. 

77.  Lyme,  N.  H.,  North  Thetford,  Vt. 

78.  Bradford,  Vt.,  Fairlee,  Vt.,  Newbury, 

Vt.,  Orford,  N.  H.,  Piermont,  N. 
H.,  West  Newbury,  Vt. 

79.  East   Haverhill,   N.   H.,  Haverhill, 

West  Rumney. 

80.  North  Haverhill— M.  A.  Meader. 

81.  Bath— Addison  B.  Wood. 

82.  Lisbon — A.  L.  Sherman. 

83.  Littleton— Albert  Moulton. 

84.  Dalton— E.  L.  Aldrich. 

85.  Whitefield — James  Hennesey. 

86.  Jefferson — James  Savage. 

87.  Lancaster— D.  W.  Pinkham. 

88.  Northumberland— Richard  Beattie. 

89.  Stratford— M.  R.  Holbrook. 

90.  Colebrook  (two  delegates)  —  A.  B. 

Frizzell,  president. 

91.  West  Stewartstown — George  M. 

Weeks. 

VERMONT 

Vermont  gains  nine  delegates  through 
the  regrouping  due  to  increase  in  mem- 
bership and  to  the  reduction  of  the  re- 
quired number  of  members  to  35  instead 
of  50.  If  they  all  come,  the  state  will 
have  56  votes  in  the  annual  meeting  in- 
stead of  47  as  last  year.  Here  again  the 
gain  is  largely  in  the  number  of  locals 
which  are  now  entitled  to  direct  repre- 
sentation, 15  in  all.  They  are  Lunenburg, 
Waterford,  Barnet  -  Monroe,  Johnson, 
North  Troy,  East  Fairfield,  Westford, 
Jeffersonville,  Williston,  Waitsfield, 
Brookfield,  Randolph,  Bethel,  Bristol, 
and  Whiting.  Lunenburg  will  have  to 
elect  a  new  president  as  its  former  presi- 
dent, John  Wilson,  has  moved  to  Maine. 
North  Troy  will  also  have  to  have  an 
election  as  its  president,  Alex  J.  Griggs, 
has  retired  from  the  dairy  industry. 

Randolph  and  Brookfield  were  grouped 
together  last  year  with  two  delegates. 
This  year  they  are  separated  with  one 
each.  This  adds  two  to  the  number  of 
locals  having  direct  representation,  but 
adds  nothing  to  the  state  total  as  they 
had,  when  grouped,  two  delegates  last 
year.  Vermont  has  also  lost  Granville, 
N.  Y.,  local,  which  it  had  last  year 
grouped  with  Wells. 

The  groups  and  locals  with  direct 
representation  by  their  presidents  in  Ver- 
mont are  as  follows : 

92.  Lunenburg,  Vt. — 

93.  Concord — George  H.  Hastings. 

94.  Waterford — George  Stoddard. 

95.  Groton,  Ryegate. 

96.  Barnet-Monroe — H.  H.  Page. 

97.  Danville,  East  Barnet,  Passumpsic, 

St.  Johnsbury. 

98.  North  Walden— W.  E.  Stevens. 

99.  Walcott,  Stowe. 

100.  Morrisville— A.  W.  Stancliff. 

101.  Johnson — Earl  Butler. 

102.  Lyndonville— E.  H.  Fletcher. 

103.  West  Burke— F.  W.  Ford. 

104.  Wheelock— R.  C.  Bickford. 

105.  Barton— F.  S.  Fifield. 

106.  Orleans — E.  J.  Freehart. 

107.  Albany,  Irasburg. 

108.  Brownington  Center — F.  V.  Swan- 

son. 

109.  Coventry — H.  E.  Miner. 

110.  Newport— F.  J.  Libby. 

111.  Newport  Center — Charles  Whipple. 

112.  North  Troy— 

113.  Lowell,  Westfield. 

114.  Enosburgh  Falls,  Fairfield,  Franklin, 

Richford,  West  Enosburgh. 

115.  East  Fairfield — B.  J.  Branon. 

116.  Bakersfield.  Wsterville. 

117.  Sheldon— Harold  P.  Marsh. 

118.  Highgate— S.  S.  Spear. 

119.  Alburg— A.  W.  Darby. 

120.  Isle  LaMotte,  North  Hero,  Swan- 

ton. 

121.  St.  Albans— F.  O.  Collins. 

122.  Georgia — M.  O.  Bragg. 


123.  Milton— Fred  A.  Walston. 

124.  Fairfax,  Jericho. 

125.  Westford — Maurice  Irish. 

126.  Jeffersonville — M.  L.  Porter. 

127.  Williston— L.  P.  Chapman. 

128.  Waterbury  Center— H.  R.  Pike. 

129.  Duxbury,  Middlesex,  Moretown. 

130.  Waitsfield— Walter  M.  Gaylord. 

131.  Montpelier— Harry  E.  Hale. 

132.  Northfield— Chas.  W.  Campbell. 

133.  Barre,  Williamstown. 

134.  Brookfield — G.  C.  Fullam. 

135.  Randolph— E.  H.  Frink  (P.  J.  Con- 

nelly, Alternate). 

136.  Bethel— Ruel  T.  Abbott. 

137.  East  Bethel,  South  Royalton,  Tun- 

bridge,  West  Hartford. 

138.  Brownsville,    Springfield,    Vt.,  Al- 

stead,  N.  H.,  Claremont,  N.  H., 
Cornish,  Walpole,  N.  H. 

139.  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  Putney,  Vt.,  West 

Chesterfield,  N.  H. 

140.  Bristol— F.  P.  Smith. 

141.  North  Ferrisburg,  Shoreham  Centre. 

142.  Orwell,  Leicester  Junction. 

143.  Whiting— C.  O.  Church. 

144.  Brandon — Scott  H.  Hammond. 

145.  East  Clarendon,  East  Wallingford, 

Mount  Holly,  Rutland,  South 
Wallingford,  Tinmouth,  Walling- 
ford. 

146.  Danby,  Wells. 

147.  Dorset,  Pawlet,  West  Rupert. 

NEW  YORK 

New  York  was  entitled  to  10  delegates 
last  year.  This  year  through  increase  in 
membership  and  reduction  in  required 
number  there  will  be  13.  The  increase 
comes  through  the  transfer  of  Granville, 
with  a  delegate  of  its  own,  from  a 
grouping  with  Wells,  Vt.,  from  giving 
baiem  two  delegates  by  the  increase  in 
membership  due  to  the  good  work  of 
Harold  P.  Adams  and  to  the  separation 
of  Cossayuna  and_  Shushan,  formerly 
grouped,  and  giving  each  a  delegate. 
Salem  has  a  second  delegate  to  elect. 

l  tie  grouping  and  the  locals  with  di- 
rect representation  are: 

148.  Granville,  N.  Y.— A.  O.  White. 

149.  West  Hebron— John  T.  McConnell. 

150.  Salem  (2  delegates)  Wm.  J.  Dunn. 

151.  Cossayuna — Robert  Christie. 

152.  Shushan — W.  J.  Campbell. 

153.  Easton,  Greenwich. 

154.  Archdale,  South  Cambridge. 

155.  Schaghticoke,    Hudson    Valley  & 

Fort  Miller. 

156.  Johnsville — George  Barnett. 

157.  Buskirk  &  Eagle  Bridge — Edward 

C.  Brownell. 

158.  Pittstown,  West  Hoosick. 

159.  Hoosick — Charles  A.  Breese. 
MASSACHUSETTS,  RHODE 

ISLAND  AND  CONNECTICUT  . 
The  representation  from  the  three 
southern  New  England  states  increases 
from  47  to  53  through  increases  in  mem- 
bership and  changes  in  grouping.  The 
principal  change  in  grouping  is  in  the 
large  group  which  was  formed  around 
the  Worcester  market  last  year  with  two 
delegates.  This  group  with  an  adjoining 
group  to  the  north  had  three  delegates 
last  year.  They  have  been  split  up  in 
several  different  ways  made  possible  by 
increases  in  membership  secured  by  Mr. 
Adams  and  the  same  locals  which  had 
three  representatives  last  year  will  have 
six  delegates  this  year.  Feeding  Hills 
and  Barre  Plains,  Mass.,  and  Columbia, 
Conn.,  now  have  direct  representation. 
Shelburne  Falls  and  Feeding  Hills, 
Mass.,  are  without  presidents  and  will 
have  to  elect  someone  if  they  are  to  be 
represented  -  at  the  coming  annual  meet- 
ing. 

The  grouping  and  the  locals  with  direct 
representation  are  as  follows  in  Massa- 
chusetts, Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut : 
(They  are  put  in  together  as  state  lines 
are  laid  aside  in  the  groupings.) 

160.  Charlemont — Herbert  E.  Stetson. 

161.  Colerian — Oscar  R.  Fairbanks. 

162.  Buck  land — M.  D.  Mitchell. 

163.  Shelburne  Falls   . 

164.  Greenfield — Arthur  W.  Fairbanks. 

165.  Amherst — James  W.  Tufts. 

166.  Granby,  South  Hadley,  Southamp- 

ton, Westfield. 

167.  Belchertown — Peter  Hanifin. 

168.  Swift  River  Valley— Clinton  Powell. 

169.  Cummington,  Whatley. 

170.  Huntington,  Middlefield. 

171.  Feeding  Hills   . 

172.  Ellington,  Enfield,  Somers,  Conn. 

173.  East  Longmeadow,  Hampden,  Wil- 

braham. 

174.  Brimfield,  Ludlow  Center,  Monson. 


175.  I  lard  wick,  Palmer. 

176.  Barre  Plains — John  Moran. 

177.  New  Braintree,  Oakham. 

178.  North  Brookfield,  Spencer,  Warren, 

West  Brookfield. 

179.  Auburn,  Charlton,  Rochdale. 
1X0.  Grafton,  Oxford,  Sutton. 

181.  Hubbardston,  Lancaster,  Leominster, 

Princeton,  Rutland,  Shrewsbury, 
Sterling. 

182.  Northboro,  Wcstboro. 

183.  Marlboro,     Waltham,  Southboro, 

Sudbury. 

184.  Concord — Thomas  L.  Eldridge. 

185.  Harvard,  Littleton,  West  Acton. 

186.  Chelmsford,  Danvers,  Groton,  Pep- 

perell,  Rowley,  Topsfield. 

187.  Dunstable— John  F.  Kelley. 

188.  Lowell— Arthur  W.  Colburn. 

189.  Lawrence— Belmont  H.  Fox. 

190.  Haverhill — Chauncey  Gleason. 

191 — Bridgewater,  Easton,  Halifax,  West 

Bridgewater. 
192.  Acushnct,  Fairhaven. 


193.  North  Dartmouth — Elmer  Poole. 

194.  South  Dartmouth— Walter  C.  Slo- 

cum. 

195.  Westport — Alexander  Smith. 

196.  North  Westport,  Swansea. 

197.  Little  Compton,  R.  I. — Edward  W. 

Mersey. 

198.  Tiverton,  Portsmouth. 

199.  Newport,  R.  I. — J.  L.  Simmons,  Jr. 

200.  Attleboro,  Mass.,  Bristol  County,  R. 

I.,  Lime  Rock,  R.  I.,  Rehobeth 
&  Seekonk,  Mass. 

201.  Foster  Center,  Summit,  R.  I. 

202.  East  Greenwich,  South  County,  R.  I. 

203.  Columbia,  Conn.— H.  B.  Hutchins. 

204.  Bozrah,  Ix-banon,  Conn. 

205.  Jewitt  City,  Lisbon,  Sprague-Frank- 

lin. 

206.  North  Stonington,  Preston-Ledyard. 

207.  Scotland,  South  Windham. 

208.  Plainfield— John  E.  Tanner. 

209.  Brooklyn,  Danielson,  Hampton. 

210.  Pomfret— William  Warren. 

211.  Ashford,  East  Woodstock. 


The  New  York  Situation 


Reports  which  come  over  from  New 
York  indicate  tliat  they  are  having  some 
lively  times,  just  as  we  are  here.  In- 
deed the  story  of  their  difficulties,  as 
presented  in  a  recent  issue  of  the  League 
News,  has  such  a  familiar  sound  to  us 
and  comes  so  nearly  to  covering  situa- 
tions in  New  England  which  have  oc- 
curred m  the  past  and  may  come  again  m 
the  future,  that  we  reprint  a  portion  of 
their  story.  We  are  happy  to  note  that 
they  have  come  out  on  top  and  that  their 
price  policy  has  been  maintained.  The 
League  News  says  in  part: 

"Events  have  been  tumbling  over  each 
other  in  New  York  City  milk  circles  dur- 
ing the  past  week. 

"Never  was  there  a  more  complete 
illustration  of  the  need  of  a  producers' 
association  having  men  on  the  job  who 
can  make  decisions  daily. 

"On  August  11th  the  League  announced 
a  raise  of  42  cents  for  Class  1  milk  be- 
ginning with  deliveries  of  Monday,  Au- 
gust 15. 

"While  there  was  still  a  substantial 
surplus  of  milk  League  buyers  accepted 
this  raise  in  price  recognizing  that  it  was 
required  by  the  costs  of  production  and 
because  of  the  need  of  increased  pro- 
duction in  the  coming  short  months. 

"New  York  City  papers  published  the 
League's  action  in  raising  prices  without 
any  adverse  comment,  seeming  to  take 
the  view  that  such  raise  was  justified  and 
necessary. 

"Beginning  the  day  after  the  League 
announced  such  raise  in  price  there  came 
persistent  rumors  that  the  Sheffield 
Farms  Milk  Company  was  opposed  to 
any  raise  until  the  first  day  of  September. 

"It  soon  became  certain  that  the  Shef- 
field Milk  Company  would  not  raise 
prices  on  August  15th,  the  date  fixed  by 
the  League  for  such  raise. 

"This  action  on  their  part  was  a  dis- 
tinct shock  to  the  entire  dairy  industry. 
In  announcing  their  conclusion  not  to 
raise  prices  Sheffield  Farms  Milk  Com- 
pany gave  no  intimation  as  to  the  date  on 
which  they  would  raise  the  price  and  it 
was  generally  assumed  that  they  would 
adhere  to  their  first  position  of  refusing 
to  raise  it  until  September  1. 

"Various  conjectures  were  made  as  to 
why  the  Sheffield  Farms  Milk  Company 
took  this  position.  Some  thought  that 
they  expected  League  buyers  to  raise 
their  selling  price  on  August  15,  which 
would  permit  the  Sheffield  Company  to 
undersell  League  buyers,  thus  expanding 
the  Sheffield's  city  business  and  reducing 
the  city  business  of  League  buyers.  With 
a  large  number  of  customers  thus  lost 
they  could  only  be  regained  by  like 
methods ;  that  is,  by  price  cutting. 

"Others  thought  that  their  object  was 
to  force  an  expansion  of  the  New  York 
Milk  Shed,  they  from  the  beginning 
having  urged  this.  Their  motive  is,  of 
course,  a  matter  of  conjecture  but  the 
fact  of  their  refusal  to  raise  the  price  is 
certain. 

"As  this  issue  of  the  News  is  going  to 
press  we  learn  that  they  have  now 
changed  their  position  and  have  an- 
nounced a  raise  of  42  cents  in  the  Class 
1  price  effective  on  August  22,  and  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  League  at 
once  informed  League  buyers  that  its 
raise  in  price  would  be  postponed  until 
that  date. 


"This  delay  of  one  week  in  raising  the 
price  means  a  loss  to  the  dairy  farmers 
of  the  New  York  Milk  Shed  of  about 
$250,000. 

"Among  the  rumors  that  reached  New 
York  was  one  that  in  some  sections  the 
farmers  delivering  milk  to  Sheffield 
Farms  Company  threatened  an  open  re- 
volt. If  this  is  true  it  may  account  for 
the  Sheffield  Farms  Milk  Company's 
change  of  position. 

Possible  Motives 

"The  motive  for  the  refusal  of  the 
Sheffield  Farms  Company  in  refusing  to 
raise  such  price  on  August  15  may  per- 
haps be  learned  by  a  brief  history  of 
some  transactions  during  the  past  eighteen 
months. 

"About  eighteen  months  ago  eighty - 
eight  per  cent,  of  the  common  capital 
stock  of"  the  Sheffield  Farms  Company 
was  sold  to  the  National  Dairy  Products 
Company,  Inc.,  such  last  named  com- 
pany thereby  obtaining  control  of  the 
Sheffield  Company. 

"This  National  Dairy  Products  Com- 
pany has  purchased  many  milk  distribut- 
ing and  ice  cream  companies  in  nearly 
thirty  markets,  including  the  markets  of 
New  York,  Newark,  N.  J.,.  Philadelphia, 
Pittsburgh  and  Chicago. 

"When  it  became  obvious  that  there 
was  some  danger  of  a  milk  shortage  in 
New  York  in  October,  November  and 
December,  proposals  were  made  to  have 
the  board  of  health  inspect  and  accept 
milk  from  plants  outside  of  the  New 
York  Milk  Shed,  particularly  in  the  ter- 
ritory in  Ohio  and  Pennsylvania  that  is 
tributary  to  Pittsburgh,  and  in  Illinois 
and  Wisconsin,  being  the  territory  tribu- 
tary to  Chicago.  As  soon  as  this  pro- 
posal was  made  President  Slocum  pre- 
pared and  presented  to  the  board  of 
health  of  New  York  City  a  presentment 
with  which  League  members  are  familiar. 
This  statement  in  a  clear  and  concise  way- 
stated  the  disastrous  results  that  must 
follow  such  an  expansion  of  the  area 
from  which  New  York  City  would  draw- 
its  milk. 

"All  along  the  line  the  Sheffield  Farms 
Milk  Company  has  insisted  that  such  an 
expansion  of  territory  was  necessary  and 
their  tactics  in  opposing  and  delaying  a 
raise  in  Class  1  milk  price  may,  of  course, 
be  for  the  purpose  of  forcing  such  ex- 
pansion. 

"If  the  territory  is  thus  widened  they, 
as  one  division  of  the  National  Dairy 
Products  Company,  can  of  course  obtain 
milk  from  other  divisions  of  the  Na- 
tional Dairy  Products  Company  at  Pitts- 
burgh, Chicago  or  elsewhere.  _ 

The  health  commissioner  of  New  lork 
City  recognized  the  difficulty  in  maintain- 
ing' supervision  over  the  farms,  the  herds 
and  the  milk  plants  at  a  distance  and 
fears  that  such  outside  milk  would  not 
come  up  to  the  high  standard  required 
by  the  health  regulations  of  the  City  of 
New  York. 

"He  is,  therefore,  opposed  to  such  ex- 
pansion of  the  territory,  knowing  that 
throughout  the  year  there  is  far  more 
milk  produced  in  the  present  New  York 
Milk  Shed  than  is  required  for  city  con- 
sumption and  that  with  farmers  given  a 
little  time,  thev  can  shift  the  production 
so  as  to  produce  a  little  less  milk  in 
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Page  Four 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


September,  1927 


Commissioners  of  Agriculture  Take  Action 

(Continued  from  page  one) 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 
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ll.VKKY  L.  PIPER,  Editor 

N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me. ;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H. ;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt. ;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I. ;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn. ;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 

PERSONAL  WORD 

I've  made  a  mistake  this  time  in  trying 
to  plan  a  "personal  word"  for  the  Dairy- 
man. I  have  lain  here  hours  between 
"spells"  thinking  what  I'd  say  this  month 
and  each  time  I've  rejected  what  I'd 
planned  before  and  started  over  again, 
but  believe  me,  I  had  lots  of  fun  think- 
ing what  I'd  like  to  say.  So  now  the 
time  is  so  short  I  must  dash  off  some- 
thing and  let  it  go  at  that. 

I  have  been  kept  in  close  touch  with 
the  sales  situation  and  have  by  'phone 
and  letter  given  the  others  my  view  of 
what  should  be  done.  It's  been  a  trying- 
time  for  Davis  and  the  others  who  have 
had  to  handle  matters  personally.  I  know 
for  I've  been  through  it  many  times  over, 
just  as  bothersome  issues.  The  only  way 
to  handle  them  is  to  work  out  a  fair  and 
reasonable  plan,  announce  it  boldly  and 
stick  to  it.  Never  mind  about  changing  a 
phrase  here  and  there  or  substituting  the 
other  fellow's  language  so  long  as  it  tells 
the  truth  and  works  out  right.  The  mem- 
bers have  confidence  in  and  will  back  the 
directors  and  officers  they  have  chosen. 
I'm  never  afraid  of  calling  on  them  for  a 
fight  when  we  are  justified  in  making 
one.  If  it  weren't  for  the  money  loss,  I 
almost  wish  we  might  have  one  of  the 
old  time  bare-fisted  bouts  that  would 
black  our  eyes  and  bloody  our  noses  some. 
I'm  almost  thinking  it  would  quicken  our 
pulses  and  give  us  more  courage  and 
faith  in  ourselves. 

I  know  such  talk  is  foolish.  Still  I'm 
not  a  "peace  at  any  price"  man  even  if 
I  am  the  victim  of  an  incurable  malady. 

But  what  rank  nonsense  for  me  to 
talk  so !  You  all  feel  that  way. 

I'm  going  to  use  what  space  is  left  to 
thank  the  little  group  of  my  friends  from 
different  sections  of  the  country  who 
have  thought  well  enough  of  these  little 
"Personal  Words"  to  get  them  out  in 


book  form.  I  could  not  afford  to  do  it, 
though  I  wanted  to,  because  I  really 
wanted  to  leave  behind  in  more  perma- 
nent form,  something  of  my  philosophy 
of  life  and  of  my  dreams  and  visions  of 
the  agricultural  future  of  the  country, 
more  particularly  New  England.  I'm 
sorry  the  book  will  have  to  be  sold.  I 
would  prefer  to  have  given  each  of  you  a 
copy.  But  I  couldn't,  so  I  hope  enough 
may  be  sold  to  repay  these  men  who  have 
been  so  kind  and  generous  to  me,  to  pay 
for  its  publication  on  the  chance  of 
being  repaid  from  sales. 

And  too,  I  hope  those  who  read  may 
find  something  of  sympathy  and  en- 
couragement that  will  help  them  do  the 
day's  work  with  greater  joy  and  satis- 
faction. When  I  finally  pass  on,  it  will 
be  with  the  satisfaction  of  having  tried 
to  do  a  constructive,  helpful  work  in 
■the  world.  PATTEE. 


ANOTHER  PERSONAL  WORD 

Here  is  another  personal  word — from 
the  editor. 

It  is  good  news  that  the  Chief's  mes- 
sages to  New  England  countrypeople  and 
to  the  whole  world,  if  they  chanced  to 
read  them,  is  to  be  published  in  book 
form.  There  are  a  lot  of  peopfe  who 
will  treasure  such  a  collection  of  the 
things  the  Chief  has  said  through  a  pe- 
riod extending  over  nearly  10  years.  In 
them  is  a  lot  of  everyday  philosophy  of 
everyday  living. 

As  editor  of  the  Dairyman  I  hold  the 
long  distance  record  for  reading  these 
personal  words.  It  is  more  than  seven 
years  now  that  I  have  had  the  pleasant 
task  every  month  to  read  each  one,  not 
only  once  but  three  times,  sometimes 
four. 

First,  when  they  come  to  my  desk  for 
the  first  time  toward  the  close  of  the 
month.  Then  I  read  them  over  first 
just  to  find  out  what  the  Chief  is  think- 
ing about  and  how  he  is  feeling.  This 
personal  word  is  a  sort  of  a  barometer  of 
his  feelings.  Sometimes  he  is  full  of 
humor  and  cracks  something  that  will 
keep  us  all  smiling  most  of  the  day/  Then 
sometimes  he  will  have  a  bit  of  a  warlike 
spirit,  wish  for  the  good  old  times  in  the 
milk  business  when  there  was  a  scrap 
awaiting  at  every  turn.  Then  he  will 
deal  with  some  family  problem  of  his 
own,  just  such  a  problem  as  has  come 
to  men  and  women  everywhere  through 
long  generations.  That,  perhaps,  is 
where  he  comes  the  nearest  home  to  the 
hearts  of  the  people. 

Well,  after  that  first  reading  I  have  to 
get  it  ready  for  the  printer.  There,  more 
than  almost  anywhere  else  the  fine  re- 
lationship which  exists  between  the  Chief 
and  those  who  are  working  with  him. 
Always,  I  have  been  free  to  make  sug- 
gestions as  to  little  changes,  knowing  full 
well  that  they  will  be  taken  in  the  kindly 
way  which  underlies  the  Chief's  ability 
to  lead  men.  Of  late  years  I  have  felt 
so  sure  of  his  approval  that  any  minor 
change  lias  been  made  without  even 
showing  it  to  him.  It  is  a  privilege  to 
work  under  such  conditions  as  these. 

Then  I  have  to  read  the  personal  word 
again  in  the  proof  to  see  what  errors 
the  printers  have  made.  Finally,  I  read 
it  in  the  first  copy  of  the  Dairyman  which 
comes  off  the  press.  Oh  yes,  after  all 
that,  sometimes  when  I  r;et  home  I  read 
them  aloud  to  my  wife.  Especially 
when  the  Chief  has  been  having  a  little 
fun  at  Mrs.  Pattee's  expense. 

It  is  a  book  we  will  all  want  to  have 
handy  to  read  whenever  the  mood  strikes 
us. 


Lively  times  here  in  Boston.  Every 
day  brings  some  new  development  in  the 
milk  situation.  It  is  hard  to  say  just 
now  whether  we  will  be  in  a  stronger 
position  or  not  when  the  smoke  of  the  dis- 
cussions clears  away.  But  our  courage  is 
good  and  there  are  some  things  which 
give  us  great  satisfaction.  The  evidence 
that  the  various  organizations  of  farmers 
which  market  milk  in  New  England  are 
coming  closer  together  and  getting  a  bet- 
ter understanding  of  one  another's  prob- 
lems, for  instance. 

On  Monday  of  this  week  the  commis- 
sioners of  agriculture  came  together  in 
Boston  for  a  conference  on  the  milk 
situation.  They  made  certain  recom- 
mendations of  a  general  nature  which  are 
printed  herewith.  They  are  coming  to- 
gether again  within  a  month  to  fur- 
ther consider  what  can  be  done  and  to 
make,  perhaps,  some  very  definite  recom- 
mendations. 

These  recommendations  may  be  to  us, 
to  the  dealers,  to  the  First  National 
Stores,  to  the  Federation  of  Creameries, 
to  Independent  creameries  or  to  other 
groups  interested  in  the  dairy  industry  or 
in  the  sale  of  milk.  The  fact  that  the 
commissioners  of  agriculture  are  in  a 
position  to  take  up  questions  of  the  re- 
sale of  milk,  also  relations  between  dif- 
ferent groups,  gives  great  importance  to 
their  recommendations. 

The  dairy  situation  in  New  England 
may  be  affected  very  greatly  by  what  the 
commissioners  finally  report.  Your  milk 
checks  for  some  months  to  come  may  de- 
pend considerably  on  what  they  suggest 
as  a  remedy  for  the  present  situation,  also 
on  the  extent  to  which  the  various  fac- 
tors in  New  England  milk  marketing  fol- 
low the  recommendations  of  the  commis- 
sioners. 

You  will  recall  that  at  the  time  the 
August  Dairyman  went  out  there  was 
much  speculation  as  to  what  the  chain 
stores  would  do  on  price  August  1.  They 
did  nothing  and  have  been  doing  nothing 
in  the  way  of  a  price  change  since.  They 
are  still  selling  at  12  cents,  with  an 
NEMPA  price  of  nine  cents  and  a  fam- 
ily delivered  price  of  15  and  15^4  cents. 

Resale  spreads  in  the  Boston  market 
are  not  our  business,  in  the  sense  that 
we  have  anything  to  say  about  them.  But 
they  have  a  very  important  effect  on  our 
business,  as  dairymen,  and  if  they  are  not 
adjusted  in  some  way  that  will  restore 
stability  to  the  market  we  may  be  in  for 
a  disaster. 

Let  us  review  a  little  milk  history  in 
the  Boston  market.  Up  to  the  time  of 
the  price  changes  last  winter  the  chain 
stores  had  been  selling  three  cents  below 
the  family  delivered  price  (2y2  cents  in 
the  case  of  the  Hood  company  which  for 
some  time  has  sold  a  half  cent  under 
other  large  distributors).  At  the  time 
of  these  changes  this  margin  was  reduced 
to  2l/2  cents  on  most  dealers  and  to  two 
cents  on  the  Hood  company. 

During  the  first  part  of  this  year  the 
NEMPA  price  was  eight  cents.  There 
was  expectation  that  the  price  would  in- 
crease July  1,  but  weather  conditions 
were  against  such  an  increase  and  it  was 
delayed  until  the  17th.  The  Vermont 
creameries  did  not  make  any  advance  in 
their  price  until  a  week  later  when  they 
came  up  approximately  a  cent.  Dealers 
put  in  a  claim  for  an  adjustment  to  meet 
this  week's  competition  and  it  was 
granted  them  by  the  sales  committee  of 
the  association.  This,  in  effect,  made  the 
advance  effective  July  24. 

It  is  from  that  date  that  the  chain  store 
price  has  been  the  center  of  attention  in 
milk  marketing  circles.  Three  dealers 
put  in  claims  for  an  adjustment  on  ac- 
count of  the  chain  store  price,  but  the 
sales  committee  refused  to  adjust  on  the 
ground  that  it  was  a  resale  proposition 
and  not  their  business.  There  is  a  distinct 
difference  between  the  claim  for  an  ad- 
justment on  account  of  the  lower  price  of 
the  Vermont  creameries  and  a  claim  for 
an  adjustment  on  account  of  price  on 
store  milk.  The  price  at  which  the 
creameries  sell  is  the  point  of  comparison 
with  the  NEMPA  price.  The  price 
charged  for  pasteurized  and  bottled  milk 
at  stores  is  not  properly  to  be  compared 
with  the  NEMPA  price. 

The  increase  in  price  effective  July  24, 


not  being  followed  by  any  advance  in  the 
chain  store  price,  made  a  spread  of  3}^ 
cents  between  the  chain  store  price  and 
the  family  delivered  price,  three  cents  in 
the  case  of  the  Hood  company.  That  is, 
the  chain  stores  not  only  get  back  their 
old  margin  but  they  get  a  half  cent  to 
boot. 

While  the  dealers  say  that  this  three 
and  Zl/2  cents  is  altogether  unwarranted, 
the  greater  difficulty  lies  in  the  spread  be- 
tween the  NEMPA  price  of  nine  cents 
and  the  store  price  of  12  cents.  Outside 
the  First  National  Stores  milk,  which 
comes  from  the  co-operative  plant  at 
Bellows  Falls,  most  of  the  store  milk 
comes  through  dealers.  The  pinch  comes 
through  the  fact  that  dealers  who  buy 
from  the  NEMPA  pay  nine  cents  per 
quart  for  milk  which  they  have  to  pas- 
teurize, bottle  and  deliver  to  stores  so 
that  it  can  be  sold  at  12  cents  over  the 
counter.  They  say  it  cannot  be  done  at 
that  price.  The  stores  to  which  they  sell 
cannot  advance  their  price  beyond  the  12 
cents  because  the  First  National  has  not 
advanced.  The  question  is,  who  is  to 
stand  the  burden  of  the  extra  cent,  the 
store,  the  dealer  or  the  NEMPA  mem- 
bers through  a  reduction  in  the  price  ? 

For  five  weeks  the  dealers  who  sell 
to  stores  on  the  new  schedule  have  gone 
on  from  day  to  day  in  hopes  that  the 
First  National  would  advance  and  that 
the  situation  would  clear  up.  They  have 
been  getting  more  and  more  clamorous 
for  a  change  in  price  or  an  adjustment 
of  some  kind  which  would  leave  them 
their  costs  and  a  fair  margin  of  profit. 
With  one  exception  they  have  said  that 
unless  the  situation  changed  Sept.  1  they 
would  not  continue  to  pay  the  nine  cent 
price. 

A  very  important  factor  in  the  situa- 
tion is  the  attitude  of  the  Vermont 
creameries.  They  advanced  their  price  a 
cent  and  held  it  there.  It  is  reported  that 
they  have  advanced  their  price  with  the 
new  advance  of  the  NEMPA  price.  As 
their  business  is  selling  to  dealers,  to 
stores  or  to  the  wholesale  trade  generally 
they  are  affected  vitally  by  unrest  and 
general  price  disturbances  in  the  market. 
During  the  six  weeks  that  the  chain 
stores  have  been  selling  for  12  cents, 
while  the  rest  of  the  market  was  up  a 
cent,  the  creameries  have  taken  their 
share  of  the  burden  but  they  have  said 
frankly  that  unless  the  chain  store  price 
advanced  they  would  have  to  recede  in 
their  own  price. 

If  the  creamery  price  should  break  it 
would  be  followed  probably  by  a  general 
break  in  the  market,  either  through  a 
direct  reduction  by  the  NEMPA  sales 
committee  or  as  an  adjustment  later  to 
the  dealers.  Whether  it  would  be  a  half 
cent  or  a  cent  cannot  be  certain  at  this 
time.  Nor  can  it  be  certain  that  further 
reductions  might  not  take  place,  due  to  a 
possible  drop  in  price  by  the  First  Na- 
tional Stores.  We  are  reporting  these 
things  to  you  to  show  how  difficult  the 
situation  is  and  what  may  possibly  come 
in  case  no  constructive  action  comes 
through  the  meeting  of  the  commission- 
ers tomorrow. 

About  the  middle  of  August,  when  it 
was  found  that  the  First  National  Stores 
were  not  going  to  make  any  advance,  the 
commissioners  of  agriculture  began  tak-  - 
ing  an  active  hand  in  the  situation  in  an 
effort  to  save  the  dairy  industry  from  a 
disaster.  The  NEMPA  could  not  take 
any  action  as  the  question  was  altogether 
a  resale  proposition,  although  it  affected 
the  association  members  vitally. 

With  the  Commissioners  the  situation 
was  quite  different.  Because  of  their  of- 
ficial position  they  were  at  liberty  to  talk 
over  the  situation  with  any  of  the  va- 
rious groups  in  the  conference.  Their 
first  step  was  to  call  in  each  of  the  va- 
rious groups  separately  and  hear  their 
story.  The  recommendations  given  here- 
with followed  these  conferences. 

The  outstanding  recommendations  in 
the  report  are  that  the  NEMPA  should 
get  more  for  surplus,  that  the  family  de- 
livered price  should  be  leveled  up  as  be- 
tween companies,  that  the  Vermont 
creameries  should  bring  their  fluid  milk- 
price  to  the  same  level  as  the  NEMPA 
when  the  association  secured  more  for 
(Continued  on  page  nine) 


I  September,  It) £7 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Get  Ready  for  Annual  Meeting 

Grouped  Locals  Must  Elect  Delegates— -  Presidents  Have 
Right  to  Name  Alternates 


Looks  like  we  are  going  to  have  a  very 
I  lively  annual  meeting  October  25  and  26. 

The  kind  of  a  meeting  that  you  fellows 

will  all  want  to  attend  whether  you  ac- 
I  tually  get  here  or  not.    Anyway,  the  kind 

of  a  meeting  you  will  want  to  hear  all 
i  about  from  your  representative  who  does 

come. 

Lots  of  things  will  be  up  for  discussion 
(  and  action.    The  mess  which  the  Boston 
milk  market  has  been  in  ever  since  the 
/First  National  Stores  refused  to  follow 
1  the  market  on  the  cent  advance  July  17 
may  get  all  cleaned  up  by  that  time,  but 
the  causes  back  of  it  will  still  be  there. 

It  is  our  job  as  the  leading  milk  mar- 
keting organization  in  New  England  to 
S  tackle  these  causes  and  see  what  can  be 
j'.done  to  remove  them.  The  main  cause  is 
c  too  many  different  ways  of  marketing 
.milk.  Right  now,  with  the  exception  of 
*the  First  National  Stores  and  the  Bel- 
lows Falls  plant  from  which  they  get 
.  their  milk,  other  agencies  which  are  mar- 
keting milk  in  New  England  seem  to  be 
.much  more  willing  to  co-operate  than 
I  they  have  been  at  times  in  the  past.  It 
*is  up  to  us,  at  our  coming  annual  meet- 
ing, to  see  what  plans  we  can  make  to 
f  co-operate  with  them  for  the  welfare  of 
» the  dairy  industry  of  New  England  as  a 
•  whole. 

In  order  to  do  this  right  we  need  the 
fi  largest  and  most  general  representation 
:^of  our  members  that  we  ever  have  had. 
(■Provision  for  this  has  been  made  in  the 


regrouping  of  locals  to  give  a  greater 
degree  of  direct  representation.  Else- 
where in  this  issue  the  groups  are  listed. 
The  substantial  gain  in  number  of  voting 
delegates  gives  a  foundation  for  just  the 
kind  of  a  meeting  we  need  next  month. 

If  the  213  delegates  are  all  here  it  will 
be  one  of  the  most  generally  representa- 
tive gatherings  of  New  England  dairy- 
men ever  held.  Our  field  is  better  cov- 
ered by  locals,  and  the  locals  are  stronger, 
than  ever  before,  due  to  the  year  of  in- 
tensive work  done  by  our  field  service 
department.  The  strength  and  good  will 
of  the  membership  is  there  but  the  im- 
mediate job  is  to  see  that  it  is  brought 
into  the  annual  meeting. 

Our  experience  of  two  years  under  the 
direct  representation  of  locals  plan  has 
shown  that  misunderstanding  of  rights, 
also  of  responsibilities,  has  led  to  a  num- 
ber of  small  sections  of  our  territory  not 
being  represented.  There  are  large  locals 
whose  president  was  not  at  the  annual 
meeting  last  year  although  he  was  en- 
titled to  be  there  and  vote.  There  are 
also  a  number  of  groups  which  did  not 
send  their  representatives  when  they  were 
entitled  to. 

Correspondence  and  the  reports  of  our 
field  men  indicate  that  this  situation  is 
due  largely  to  a  misunderstanding  of  the 
rights  of  officers.  We  believe  that  a 
better  understanding  of  these  rights,  also 
of  the  responsibilities  toward  the  organ- 
( Continued  on  page  twelve) 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  9  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  September  1,  1927,  and  Until  Further  Notice 

Prices  quoted  for  points  inside  Massachusetts  are  subject  to  increase  in  trans- 
portation rate  which  go  into  effect  in  August. 

Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


Cwt.in 

Cwt.in 

Cwt.in 

8qt. 

8^qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

2\%qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

2\%qt. 

40qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del 

Trucked 

.736 

.783 

.921 

1.841 

1.955 

3.682 

4.281 

4.281 

4.281 

1 

1-20 

.643 

.688 

.816 

L656 

1761 

3.332 

3.851 

3!855 

3^874 

? 

?  1  if) 

.0/ .) 

.801 

1.626 

1.731 

3.292 

1  707 

1  8.97 

3 

41-60 

.623 

.668 

.785 

1.601 

1.706 

3.252 

3.723 

3.735 

3.781 

4 

61-80 

.608 

.653 

.776 

1.591 

1.696 

3.217 

3.699 

3.713 

3.740 

5 

81-100 

.598 

.643 

.766 

1.571 

1.671 

3.187 

3.653 

3.658 

3.705 

6 

101-120 

.598 

.643 

.761 

1.566 

1.661 

3.172 

3.641 

3.637 

3.688 

7 

121-140 

.588 

.633 

.751 

1.551 

1.646 

3.147 

3.606 

3.615 

3.659 

8 

141-160 

.583 

.628 

.746 

1.541 

1.636 

3.127 

3.583 

3.582 

3.635 

9 

161-180 

.578 

.623 

.741 

1.531 

1.626 

3.112 

3.560 

3.560 

3.618 

10 

181-200 

.573 

.618 

.731 

1.521 

1.61$ 

3.092 

3.537 

3.538 

3.595 

11 

201-220 

.568 

.613 

.726 

1.506 

1.606 

3.072 

3.502 

3.516 

3.572 

12 

221-240 

.563 

.608 

.721 

1.501 

1.596 

3.062 

3  490 

3  494 

3  560 

13 

241-260 

.558 

.603 

.716 

1.491 

1.586 

3.042 

3.467 

3.472 

3.537 

14 

261-280 

.553 

.598 

.711 

1.486 

1.581 

3.032 

3.455 

3.462 

3.525 

15 

281-300 

.548 

.593 

.706 

1.476 

1.566 

3.012 

3.432 

3.429 

3.502 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  In 

ride  Massachusetts 

De 

. Trucked 

.736 

.783 

.921 

1.841 

1.955 

3.682 

4.281 

4.281 

4.281 

1 

1-20 

.668 

.713 

.836 

1.671 

1.771 

3.332 

3.886 

3.853 

3.875 

2 

21-40 

.648 

.693 

.821 

1.641 

1.741 

3.292 

3.816 

3.787 

3.827 

3 

41-60 

.643 

.688 

.816 

1.636 

1.726 

3.252 

3.805 

3.755 

3.782 

4 

61-80 

.638 

.683 

.806 

1.601 

1.706 

3.217 

3.724 

3.711 

3.741 

5 

81-100 

.633 

.678 

.791 

1.596 

1.696 

3.192 

3.712 

3.690 

3.712 

6 

101-120 

.633 

.678 

.791 

1.596 

1.686 

3.192 

3.712 

3.668 

3.712 

7 

121-140 

.633 

.678 

.791 

1.576 

1.676 

3.157 

3.665 

3.646 

3.671 

8 

141-160 

.618 

.663 

.786 

1.571 

1.671 

3.142 

3.654 

3.635 

3.654 

9 

161-180 

.613 

.658 

.781 

1.561 

1.656 

3.117 

3.631 

3.603 

3.625 

10 

181-200 

.613 

.658 

.776 

1.546 

1.646 

3.102 

3.596 

3.581 

3.607 

ADVERTISING 

This  picture  of  the  athlete  who  drinks 
^milk  tells  its  own  story.  It  is  one  of  a 
jseries  of  advertisements  which  your  or- 
ganization, the  New  England  Dairy  and 
Food  Council,  is  using  in  Boston  papers 
to  increase  the  use  of  milk.  This  particu- 
lar advertisement  received  special  notice 
and  honorable  mention  in  a  recent  adver- 
tising contest.  It  is  a  good  thing  for  you 
>fto  know  that  the  Council  which  you 
support  is  in  a  class  with  other  big  busi- 
nesses when  it  comes  to  good  advertising. 

There  is  another  reason  why  this  par- 
ticular advertisement  might  be  of  inter- 
est. This  DeMar,  who  makes  this  state- 
ment about  milk,  and  who  is  one  of  the 
spectacular  athletes  of  the  present  day, 
s  a  printer  when  not  running  races. 
Moreover,  he  worked  for  some  time  in 
the  shop  where  the  Dairyman  is  printed 
md  has  had  a  hand  in  making  up  many 
bf  our  papers.  He  runs  25  miles  before 
breakfast  sometimes  for  exercise  and  in 
he  early  evening  takes  a  little  jog  of  10 
or  15  miles  just  to  keep  himself  in  trim. 

We  have  been  looking  over  some  inter- 
ring records  of  the  amount  of  money 
spent  for  advertising  by  some  of  the 
>ther  big  businesses.  They  spend  enor- 
nous  amounts  every  year.  It  has  got 
o  that  one  food  product  is  being  adver- 
ised  as  against  another.  As  one  of  our 
riends  said :  "The  orange  advertising  has 
nade  me  feel  that  I  must  have  an  orange 
:very  day,  even  if  I  have  10  barrels  of 
ipples  in  the  cellar." 

Through  the  Council,  putting  out  such 
attractive  advertisements  as  this,  you  are 
ceeping  your  business  on  a  par  with 
)thers.  Advertising  is  good  business, 
specially  when  we  have  so  fine  a  product 
.s  milk. 


(Milkfor  Endurance 


"I  can  heartily  recom- 
mend the  1  iberal  use  of 
milk  in  training  for 
athletic  events.  I  find 
that  milk  as  a  beverage 
—and  with  cooked 
foods  help  me  in  my 
training." 

Clarence  H.  DeMar 

(Marathon  Runner) 


The  tense  situation  which  has  prevailed 
•n  the  Boston  market  for  some  weeks 
vill  be  greatly  relieved  by  the  new  price 
hange.    There  was  a  time  when  it  was 
I  question  whether  or  not  we  were  on 
■he  verge  of  a  ruinous  decline  in  the 
irice  of  milk,  a  decline  brought  on  by 
ompetition  in  the  market  and  not  at  all 
varranted  by  the  conditions  of  supply 
nd  demand  or  by  prices  in  competing 
erritory.  The  statesmanlike  way  in  which 
>he  commissioners  of   agriculture  have 
landled  this  situation  is  highly  appreci- 
ted. 


1 

t 


"Is  your  husband  trying  anything  to 
t  ure  his  deafness  ?" 
"No ;   he  has  postponed   it   until  the 
hildren  have  finished  their  piano  lessons." 


PHYSICAL  condition  is  a  matter  of 
good  habits,  proper  training,  lots  of 
rest,  plain  foods  and  plenty  of  milk. 

Many  athletes  use  four  glasses  of  milk  a 
day — others  more*  «?•> 

NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRY  AND  FOOD  COUNCIL 


Page  SLv 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


September,  1927 


Conditions  in  the  Market 

Production  Decreasing  and  Sales  Below  Normal  Because 
of  Unfavorable  Weather  —  Much  Butter  in 
Storage  —  Grain  Prices  Higher 

Reports  of  the  Boston  dealers  operat-  The  July  net  price  is  $2.29  for  all  milk 

ing  under  the  surplus  plan  indicate  that  delivered,  figuring  on  a  3.7  milk  as  of  the 

the  milk  production   in  July  decreased  10th  zone.    Tihs  is  15  cents  a  hundred 

from  the  June  production  a  little  more  higher  than  June,  due  to  the  increase  in 

than  the  average.    Indications  are  that  the  price  of  Class  I  milk  effective  July 

the  production  in  the  first  half  of  August  24.    The  July  price  is  six  cents  below  the 

was  also  a  little  less  than  last  year  as  July,  1926,  price.    The  butter  price  for 

compared  with  the  production  of  the  pre-  July  averaged  a  cent  higher  than  in  July, 

vious  months.    While  there  are  no  defi-  1926,  but  the  Class  I  price  was  17  cents 

nite  figures  available  for  the  last  half  of  a    hundred    lower.      The  comparative 

August,   informal   reports  indicate  that  figures  are : 

this  declining  condition  continues.  1927     1927  1926 

The  rainy  weather  in  July  decreased  June    July  July 

sales  materially,  which  still  further  in-  Fluid   $2.92    $3.02  $3.19 

creased  the  unsettled  conditions  in  the  Surplus    1.59     1.55  1.51 

market  which  have  prevailed  for  some  Net  price  all  milk  ....  2.14     2.29  2.35 

weeks.   The  reports  of  the  larger  dealers  Average  butter  per  lb.  .426     .418  .409 

showed  a  decrease  of  2,000,000  from  the  BUTTER  PRICES 

June  sales,  as  compared  with  an  increase  -,,«,'"  . 

of   1,300,000  pounds   for  the  month  in  The   cold   storage   reports  on  butter 

1926.    Thus  the  sales  on  a  comparative  August  1    showed  the  highest  point  on 

basis  were  3,300,000  less  than  last  year.  record  145,000,000  pounds.    The  increase 

The  influence  of  weather  on  sales  is  in-  »n  holdings   m  July  was  55,000,000  m 

dicated  by  this  comparison,  also  by  the  comparison  with  a  normal  increase  of 

comparison  with  1925  when  the  sales  de-  45,000,000   pounds.     The   production  of 

creased  800,000  pounds.  butter,  ?s,  reported  running  about  12  per 

It  is  not  possible  to  continue  the  prac-  cent,  higher  than  last  year.    The  butter 

tice  of  recording  purchases  of  the  dealers  market  is  showing  a  little  more  strength 

owing  to  the  suspension  of  the  cream  toward  the  end  of  the  month  and  it  seems 

plan.    Under  the  new  way  of  reporting  probable  that  the  low  point  has  been 

to  the  milk  administrator  cream  is  put  passed. _  We  may  expect  a  gradual  m- 

into  the  purchases  at  its  actual  hundred-  creas(:  in  butter  prices  but  it  is  not  likely 

weight  just  the  same  as  milk.    There  is  that  the  price  will  average  up  to  last  year, 

nothing  to  show  how  much  of  it  was  COST  OF  PRODUCTION 

shipped  as  cream  and  how  much  as  milk  Gra|n     ke  hdd  about  stead    &  Au_ 

so  that  it  is  impossible  to  translate  the  as          ared  with  Jul     while  h 

cream  back  into  its  equivalent  of  3.7  milk  advanced   Bdow  are  comparative  prices : 

for  the  purpose  of  arriving  at  a  total  Jr  * 

purchases  figure.  \92/    \927  ]926 

This  makes  no  difference  in  the  pay-  .  Aug.  Aug 

ment  for  the  product  but  it  leaves  us  Grain  per  ton   $48.76  $48.49  $45.  5 

without  the  information  as  to  purchases     Hay  P^  ton   15-n    15-87  1617 

as  a  basis  for  figuring  production.    It  L.*    per  month 

also  leaves  us  no  surplus  figure  which  can  Wlth  board    48.70    48.70  46.60 

be  compared  fairly  with  previous  years.  Retail  prices  showed  the  largest  in- 

The    weighted    average    surplus    figure  crease  in  corn  meal  of  12  cents  per  hun- 

given  in  the  table  below  is  on  milk  and  dred.     Corn  meal  is  now  $9.50  a  ton 

cream  together.    It  should  not  be  com-  above  last  year. 

pared  with  the  surplus  figure  of  a  year  The  following  table  of  retail  prices  for 

previous  as  an  indication  of  the  relation  Vermont  is  a  fair  statement  of  the  con- 

of  purchases  and  sales.  dition  throughout  New  England : 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  July,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
for  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7 
per  cent,  per  1/  10th  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  con- 
tainer :  Per  %y2  quart  can,  $.007 ;  per  10  quart  can,  $.009 ;  per  20  quart  can,  $.018 ; 
per  21J4  quart  can,  $.019;  per  40  quart  can,  $.035;  per  cwt.,  $.042. 


Boston  District 

Clasi  1  Gass  2   

Dealers  (Mkt.  (Mfg.  Stf 

Elm  Spring  Farm  Milk)  Milk)  Quart 

7th  Zone  (121-140-   88.5%  11.5%  .500 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   90.5  9.8 


20 
Quart 

1.230 


Size  of  Can  ■ 


21  Vk 
Quart 

1.306 


40 

Quart 

2.500 


Northern  Market  District 


1927 

1926 

Feed  per  Cwt. 

May 

June 

July 

Aug. 

Aug. 

  1.91 

2.29 

2.35 

2.47 

2.00 

Cotton  seed  meal   :  

  2.25 

2.38 

2.39 

2.41 

2.33 

  2.18 

2.30 

2.31 

2.28 

2.31 

  2.16 

2.42 

2.28 

2.27 

2.05 

  2.80 

2.86 

2.78 

2.83 

2.82 

Wheat  bran   

 2.05 

2.15 

2.08 

2.03 

1.80 

Dealers                      Class  1  Class  2  Cwt. 

Robert  H.  Sawyer            (Mkt.  (Mfg.  in 

Zoned  from  Haverhill    Milk)  Milk)  8j4's 

Delivered   93.4  6.6 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Wason  MacDonald 
Haverhill 

Delivered   89.6  10.4  3.515 

1st  zone    ....  3.050 

2nd  zone    ....  2.977 

Findeisen  Farms,  Lawrence 
Zoned  from  Lawrence 

Delivered   58.4  41.6 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone    ....  .... 

4th  zone   

9th  zone   

10th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   80.5  19.5 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone  

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

E.  C.  Blake 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   „  78.1  21.9 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   87.5       12.5  3.335 

1st  zone    3.013 

2nd  zone    2.949 

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   91.2  8.8 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   


Cwt. 
in 
20's 


3.515 
3.130 
3.077 


3.515 
3.150 
3.109 


Cwt. 

in 
40*1 

3.661 
3.282 
3.145 


Cwt 

2.907 

3.592 


Cwt. 


3.335 
3.088 
3.037 


3.335 
3.107 
3.068 


2.872 
2.634 
2.607 
2.556 
2.485 
2.471 


3.132 
2.692 
2.924 
2.887 
2.854 
2.826 
2.812 


3.135 
2.906 
2.855 
2.812 
2.685 


3.410 
3.100 
3.044 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  July,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  July  is  correct.    Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.042  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent., 
$.042  per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  July  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

Zone  1    Zone  2   Zone  3    Zone  4  Zone  5  Zone  6     Zone  7    Zone  8    Zone  9   Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14 

Miles  from  Boston                                    1-20      21-40     41-60     61-80   81-100  101-120    121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280 

Class  1  8  cent  Milk  Price   3.176      3.129      3.083      3.042      3.007     2  990      2  961      2.937      2.920      2.897      2.873  2.862  2.839  2.827 

Class  1  9  cent  Milk  Price   3.641      3.594      3.548      3.507      3.472     3  455      3  426      3.402      3.385      3.362      3.338  3.327  3.304  3.292 

Class  2  Milk  Price   1.551      1.551      1.551      1.551      1.551     1.551      1.551      1.551      1.551      1.551      1.551  1.551  1.551  1.551 

Class  1         Class  2     

Dealers  (Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 

Hood  1-15   37.0%             63.0%  2.180      2.162     2.145      2.130     2.117     2.111       2.100      2.091       2.085      2.076      2.068  2.063  2.055  2.050 

Hood  16-31   50.6               49.4      2.503      2.493      2.446      2.425      2.408     2.399      2.384      2.372      2.364      2.352      2.340  2.334  2.322  2.315 

Whiting  in  40's   .,50.1                49.9      2.361      2.338      2.314      2.294     2.276     2.268      2.253      2.241       2.233      2.221      2.210  2.204  2.192  2.186 

July  1-23 

Whiting  in  21I/4's   50.1               49.9      2.352      2.319      2.292      2.280      2.252     2.242      2.231      2.215      2,204      2.192      2.182  2.171  2.160  2.155 

July  1-23 

Whiting  in  40's   58.5               41.5      2.744      2.717      2.690      2.666      2.646     2.636      2.619      2.605      2.595      2.581      2.568  2.561  2.547  2.540 

July  24-31 

Whiting  in  2\y4's   58.5               41.5      2.733      2.695      2.663      2.650      2.618     2.606      2.593      2.574      2.561      2  548      2.535  2.522  2.509  2.503 

July  24-31 

Turner  Centre   43.6               56.4      2.304     2.284      2.264      2.246      2.231     2.223      2.213      2.202      2.195      2  184      2.175  2.170  2.160  2.154 

N.  E.  Cry.  Prod  41.4                58.6      2.329      2.309      2.290      2.274      2.259     2.252       2.240       2.230       2.222      2  213       2.209  2.200  2.197  2.193 

F.  S.  Cummings   47.2               52.8      2.373      2.351      2.330      2.310      2.294     2.286      2.272      2.261      2.253      2  242      2231  2.225  2.214  2.209 

F.  E.  Boyd   50.8               49.2      2.435      2.411      2.387      2.367      2.349     2.340      2-326      2.313      2.305      2  293      2  281  2.275  2.264  2.257 

Weighted  Avg  48.7              51.3     2.422     2.399     2.377     2.357     2.340    2.332      2-318      2.306      2.297      2286      2,275  2-269  2.258  2.252 

Turner  Centre  System  price  includes  an  extra  payment  of  11.6,  cents  per  bundredspunod    N,  E,  Cry,  Prod,  price  includes  an  e*tra  payment  of  6  cents  cwt. 


subtrac 


Zone  t 
281-30 

2.8C  k 
3.26  b 
1.55  I 


( 

2.041  I 
2.3C  Si 


2.17 
2.13 
2.52|i 


2.48 

ill 

2.U  k 
2.U  L 
2.11 
2.2* 
2,2"  i 


I  September,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


FIELD  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT 

F.  C.  WARNER,  Manager  51  CornhUI,  Boston 

DISTRICT  MANAGERS 
Maine  Field  District — F.  It,  FOLEY,  Department  of  Agriculture,  Augusta,  Me. 
Northern  Field  District — S.  I>.  STEARNS,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 
Northwestern  Field  District — N.  H.  WELLS,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 


Field  men  of  the  association  are  look- 
ing forward  to  a  busy  fall  with  plenty 
of  new  opportunities  to  meet  the  mem- 
bership both  individually  in  the  ordinary 
course  of  the  service  and  in  groups  in 
connection  with  the  annual  meeting.  Each 
one  of  the  new  men  looks  upon  this  as  an 
opportunity  for  making  new  friends  and 
finding  out  how  the  association  can  be  of 
benefit  to  them  in  direct  or  indirect  ways. 

The  most  important  immediate  task  is 
getting  the  grouped  locals  meetings  under 
■way.  In  the  past  there  has  been  con- 
siderable difficulty  in  getting  these  meet- 
ings held  owing  to  the  Aact  that  it  was 
the  business  of  no  man  in  particular  to 
call  such  a  meeting.  The  locals  knew 
that  they  were  grouped  with  other  locals 
through  the  Dairyman  and  by  official 
notice.  But,  in  a  considerable  number  of 
cases,  the  officers  of  one  local  waited  for 
some  other  officers  to  take  the  lead  and 
no  one  went  ahead  with  the  detail  of  call- 
ing the  meeting. 

This  year,  with  our  new  men  in  the 
field,  the  situation  will  be  quite  different. 
Just  as  the  market  district  men  attend 
personally  to  the  calling  of  the  groups 
together  in  their  districts,  so  the  new  field 
"men  will  have  a  definite  responsibility  to 
the  grouped  locals  within  their  territory 
'and  will  do  what  they  can  to  assist  local 
officers  in  making  arrangements. 

This  does  not  mean  than  any  local 
officer  should  not  take  responsibility  for 
his  meeting  but  that  he  now  has  some  one 
with  whom  to  confer  as  to  time  and  place. 
It  will  be  well  for  each  secretary  in  the 
groups  of  locals,  reported  elsewhere  in 
'ithis  issue,  to  get  in  touch  with  their  field 
man  right  away  and  make  arrangements. 
So  far  as  possible  the  field  men  will  at- 
tend all  such  meetings  in  their  respective 
districts,  just  as  do  the  market  district 
men. 

After  the  annual  meeting  there  will  be 
another  opportunity  for  the  field  men  to 
.meet  the  producers  in  groups  as  the  an- 
nual meetings  of  the  locals  are  supposed 
to  be  held  immediately  after  the  big  cen- 
tral meeting.    This  is  so  that  the  dele- 
gates can  report  on  the  big  meeting  and 
■carry  home  some  of  its  inspiration  while 
lit  is  still  fresh  in  their  minds. 
[    Here  again,  the  field  men  will  attend 
as  many  of  these  meetings  as  possible, 
jit  will  be  another  opportunity -to  do  just 
what  the  members  have  been  clamoring 
"for  some  years — keeping  the  members  in 
'Closer  touch  with  the  organization  and 
keeping  the  organization  heads  better  in- 
formed as  to  the  desires  of  the  members. 
1rhe    association    will    be  considerably 
strengthened   if   more   of   these  annual 
neetings   are   held  soon  after   the  big 
neeting. 

Maine  District 
F.  L.  Foley,  manager  of  the  Maine 
ield  district,  proved  himself  a  good  pinch 
litter  recently  when  he  represented  not 
inly  the  NEMPA  but  the  Maine  Depart- 
nent  of  Agriculture  at  an  all  day  Grange 
.'■ession  at  Garland.  He  has  his  office 
vith  the  Department  of  Agriculture,  and 
vhen  this  Grange  wanted  a  speaker  at 
heir  session  he  was  induced  to  take  the 
^lace  of  Mr.  White  of  the  department, 
vho  was  unable  to  go.  While  there  he 
lid  not  neglect  to  tell  of  the  work  of  the 
-.ssociation. 

Changes  in  conditions  led  the  Whiting 
:ompany  to  close  its  plant  at  Garland, 
eaving  some  20  producers  who  had  been 
hipping  cream  to  this  company  at  this 
joint  without  a  market.  The  producers 
aced  considerable  loss  but  arrangements 
vere  finally  made  to  transfer  their  pred- 
ict to  the  New  England  Creamery  plant 
it  Livermore  Falls.  This  is  a  somewhat 
i<onger  haul  and  the  transportation  charges 
vill  be  somewhat  greater.  But  it  is  much 
letter  for  these  producers  to  keep  on 
narkcting  their  milk  than  to  have  it  left 
>n  their  hands. 

It  is  a  situation  which  is  likely  to 
levelop  in  anv  territory  where  the  pro- 
luction  of  milk  is  relatively  small.  When 

I  dealer  finds  that  it  is  unprofitable  for 


him  to  continue  to  operate  a  station,  be- 
cause of  the  small  volume  of  produce 
received,  he  will  soon  discontinue  it.  In 
such  cases  the  producers  must  decide  for 
themselves  what  had  best  be  done.  Our 
association  cannot  always  help  them  find 
a  satisfactory  outlet  for  their  milk  but 
it  is  worth  talking  over  with  the  field 
men  when  such  a  problem  arises. 

Northern  Field  District 
Sam  Stearns  has  been  breaking  records 
for  getting  new  members  in  the  upper 
regions  of  the  Connecticut  valley.  It  is 
a  region  which  in  previous  canvasses  has 
been  only  partially  covered.  Stearns  is 
doing  a  thorough  job  of  getting  ac- 
quainted and  signing  up  members. 

He  has  now  covered  practically  the 
whole  territory  north  of  Woodsville,  one 
of  the  most  important  dairy  areas  in  New 
England.  Wherever  he  has  gone  he  has 
had  the  active  assistance  of  local  officers 
and  there  is  evidence  of  a  wholesome  in- 
terest in  and  support  of  the  association. 

The  result  of  his  work  will  show  in 
many  locals  having  direct  representation 
at  the  coming  annual  meeting.  At  White- 
field  he  secured  10  new  members  and 
secured  new  dues  orders  on  two  more  old 
members.  This  local  was  grouped  with 
Whitefield  last  year,  but  this  year,  its 
president,  James  Hennessey,  will  repre- 
sent it. 

At  Dalton  he  secured  21  new  members, 
bringing  the  local  past  the  35  minimum 
requirement  and  assuring  that  its  presi- 
dent, E.  L.  Aldrich,  will  come  to  the 
meeting. 

He  added  28  new  members  at  Little- 
ton, also  seven  new  dues  orders.  These 
men  shipped  to  Hood  or  Turner  Centre. 
Albert  Moulton  is  president,  and  H. 
Hubert  Merrill  is  secretary.  With  a 
membership  of  70  in  good  standing,  many 
of  them  large  milk  producers,  the  local 
is  now  among  our  strongest.  It  did  not 
have  a  direct  representative  last  year,  as 
it  had  less  than  50  members.  The  reduc- 
tion in  the  minimum  requirement  would 
have  brought  it  in  with  the  direct  repre- 
sentative anyway,  but  Mr.  Stearns'  work 
greatly  increases  its  strength. 

At  Lisbon  the  membership  in  good 
standing  was  brought  up  to  more  than  50 
b  the  addition  of  14  new  members  and 
securing  dues  orders  on  nine  old  ones. 
At  Bath  he  brought  the  membership  up  to 
almost  100  per  cent,  and  into  the  direct 
representation  class. 


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All  wood  material  ingrain  Oak 
or  Hickory. 


Axle  2  ins.  square.  Solid  Col- 
lar, standard  gauge  5  ft,  4% 
ins.,  center  to  center  of  tire. 

Wheels  and  Axles  separate  if 
desired. 

Send  for  Circular 


Make  Money  Orders  Payable  to 

Federal  Stores 

Rochester,  N.  H. 


Page  Eight 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


September,  1927 


"COMPLEXION 
MUD" 

Some  women  put  their 
faces  in  a  mud  cast  to 
improve  their  complex- 
ion— others  take  the  bet- 
ter method  of  drinking 
plenty  of  milk  and  other 
dairy  products. — Butter ; 
Cheese  and  Egg  Journal. 

The  better  way  of  keep- 
ing the  creamery,  dairy, 
or  cheese  factory  sweet, 
wholesome,  and  sani- 
tarily clean  during  these 
hot  days  is  to  follow  the 
example  of  thousands 
who  use 


This  cleaner  is  pure  and 
purifying.  It  cleans 
clean  with  the  least 
effort  and  labor.  It 
rinses  so  thoroughly  and 
quickly  that  all  dirt  and 
foreign  matter  is  easily 
removed  from  dairy 
equipment,  and  the 
cleaner  itself  rinses  away 
with  it,  leaving  a  natural 
surface,  safe  for  all  dairy 
products. 

Ask  your  Supply  Man 
for  "WYANDOTTE." 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
( cream  acidity  standardize) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
your  cream  ? 


THE  J.  D.  FORD  COMPANY 

Sol*  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


At  Newport,  Vt,  he  secured  13  new 
members  bringing  the  total  up  to  115. 
F.  J .  Libby  is  president  of  this  strong 
local. 

Check  testing  was  done  at  the  Barton 
plant  of  the  H.  P.  Hood  company  and 
the  members  were  notified  as  to  the  result 
of  their  test. 

N  ortlnvestem  Field  District 

Check  testing  has  been  the  principal 
work  of  Mr.  Wells  in  this  district  for 
the  past  month.  About  200  producers 
have  been  check  tested  and  have  been 
notified  of  the  results  of  the  test.  They 
include  producers  shipping  to  the  Whiting 
plant  at  Exeter  Center,  the  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products'  Company  at 
East  Fairfield,  and  the  Hood  plants  at 
Fairfield  and  Sheldon  Junction. 

Mr.  Wells  has  also  secured  a  consider- 
able number  of  members  since  the  last 
report,  but  the  exact  figures  of  increase 
have  not  yet  come  in.  Due  to  his  work 
the  Jeffersonville  local  now  has  about 
50  members,  East  Fairfield  about  45,  and 
West  ford  about  40.  Each  will  have  a 
direct  representative.  His  work  at  Jerico 
added  15  members. 

Taken  altogether  the  work  of  the  new 
field  men,  even  in  this  brief  time,  has 
added  greatly  to  the  strength  of  the 
association.  This  strength  is  not  only  in 
added  numbers  but  in  the  number  of  men 
who  are  better  informed  about  the  asso- 
ciation and  its  work  from  having  been 
visited  by  one  of  the  field  men.  It  is  just 
what  the  members  of  the  association 
asked  for  two  years  ago,  and  it  is  ex- 
pected that  at  the  coming  annual  meet- 
ing the  general  appreciation  for  service 
rendered  "to  members  only"  will  show. 
It  is  already  evident  in  letters  which 
come  into  the  office  almost  daily. 


TO  OPERATE  UNIVERSITY 
FARM 

As  a  result  of  a  bill  recently  passed 
by  the  Vermont  Legislature  the  Ver- 
mont Experiment  Station  is  to  receive  an 
appropriation  from  the  State  for  the  pur- 
pose of  operating  the  dairy  farm.  This 
is  the  first  opportunity  that  the  Experi- 
ment Station  has  had  to  operate  the 
University  Farm. 

M.  H.  Campbell  has  just  been  added  to 
the  staff  of  the  Department  of  Animal 
and  Dairy  Husbandry  as  Professor  of 
Dairy  Production.  He  will  have  direct 
charge  of  the  dairy  herd  and  farm  as 
well  as  doing  instructional  work. 

Professor  Campbell  was  raised  on  a 
dairy  farm  in  Illinois.  He  attended  the 
University  of  Illinois,  specializing  in 
dairy  production  work.  After  gradua- 
tion he  spent  one  year  in  graduate  study 
at  the  University  of  Wisconsin.  He  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Department  of 
Husbandry  at  the  University  of  Illinois 
in  1918  where  he  remained  until  coming 
to  Vermont.  While  at  Illinois  he  had 
direct  supervision  of  the  college  herd  and 
was  superintendent  of  official  testing. 
Vermont  is  fortunate  in  securing  Profes- 
sor Campbell. 


THE  NEW  YORK  SITUATION 

(Continued  from  page  three) 
April,  May  and  June  and  a  little  more 
milk  in  October,  November  and  Decem- 
ber, and  thus  supply  the  needs  of  all  the 
cities  throughout  the  year. 

Issue  Clearly  Drawn 

"The  issue  seems  to  be  now  clearly 
drawn.  On  one  side  is  found  the  board 
of  health  of  New  York  City,  all  League 
buyers  and  all  dairy  farmers  of  the  New 
York  Milk  Shed  insisting  that  New  York 
City  should  be  supplied  with  milk  tr 
nearby  territory,  thus  insuring  th<=  hip1, 
possible  quality.  On  the  other  side  stands 
the  Sheffield  Farms  Company  and  the 
National  Dairv  Products  Company,  Inc. 

This  =trug-fi!e  will  not  down  and  must 
be  fought  to  a  finish. 


No  man's  world  is  any  bigger  than  the 
his  ear  can  hear,  his  heart  can  feel,  make 
up  for  him  the  universe.  For  no  man 
has  anything  he  can't  use.  What  good 
is  money  to  a  Hottentot,  or  a  magnificant 
picture  to  an  idot  ?  The  whole  world  for 
you  lies  under  your  own  hat,  and  it  is  just 
as  large  and  ;ust  as  varied  as  your  own 
mind  will  let  it  become. 


If  You  Have  No  Pasture  Or 
When  Pastures  Are 
Short  --  FEED 

TRADE-MARK  REGISTERED, 

A  good  feed — no  filler.    We  know  it  is  good — made  from  the  high- 
est grade  materials — none  better.    Look  at  the  analysis.  j 

Protein  20%  Fat  5% 

Carbohydrates  59%  Fibre  9% 

High  in  fat,  low  in  fibre  and  rich  in  carbohydrates.  Compare 
this  analysis  with  any  others.  Of  course  analysis  alone  does  not 
tell  the  whole  story.  But  if  you  will  feed  this  Wirthmore  Dairy 
Feed  Ration,  your  cows  will  tell  you  a  wonderful  story — big  fall 
yields — and  they  will  go  to  the  barn  in  the  pink  of  condition,  pysi- 
cally  fitted  for  heavy  winter  milk  produeton. 

This  means  maximum  production  the  year  through  and — Bigger 
Profits  for  You.  ! 

DAIRY  FEEDS 
ARE  ALWAYS 
GOOD  FEEDS 


They  are  guaranteed  by  our  reputation  as  manufacturers  for  25 
years  of  Wirthmore  Poultry — Dairy— and  Stock  Feeds.  Wirthmore 
Feeds  are  made  particularly  to  fit  New  England  farm  requirements 
and  they  supplement  New  England  farm  crops  as  no  other  feeds 
do.  Our  future  business  depends  upon  our  maintaining  our  present 
policy  of  making  good  feeds  at  a  reasonable  price. 

During  the  past  few  years  there  has  been  a  tremendous  increase 
in  the  consumption  of  Wirthmore  Dairy  Feeds  and  this  consump- 
tion is  constantly  increasing.  With  competition  as  keen  in  the 
dairy  feed  business  as  it  is  today,  this  is  evidence  that  Wirthmore 
Dairy  Feeds  must  be  producing  better  results  than  are  any  other 
feeds  yet  brought  to  the  attention  of  New  England  farmers.  We 
stand  behind  the  quality  of  every  sack  of  Wirthmore  Feeds. 

We  conduct  a  Dairy  Feed  Service  Department  and  will  gladly 
confer  with  you  on  any  of  your  dairy  problems.  May  we  tell  you 
more  about  our  Dairy  Feeds  and  service?  Address 

Dairy  Feed  Dept.,  ST.  ALBANS  GRAIN  CO.,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 

There's  a  Wirthmore  Dairy  Feed  for  Every  Need 
Wirthmore  25%  Balanced  Ration  —  Wirthmore  20%  Dairy  Feed 
Wirthmore  16%  Snmmer  Ration 

Chas.   M.  Cox  Co.  St.  Albans  Grain  Company 

Wholesale  Dist.,  Boston,  Mass.     Manufacturer,  St.  Albans,  Vermont 


Mr.  Partees  Personal  Word 

The  intimate  messages  from  Mr.  Pattee  that  have  appeared  in 
the  "New  England  Dairyman"  from  month  to  month  over  a 
period  of  nearly  ten  years  are  being  republished 

IN   BOOK  FORM 

and  can  be  had  by  his  thousands  of  friends  the  country  over. 

The  book  will  be  ready  for  distribution  about  October  1  st.  It  will  be 
well  printed,  with  Mr.  Pattee's  picture  on  the  flyleaf.  "  One  hundred  and 
forty-two  pages,  bound  in  dark  green  cloth  with  gold  lettering. 

Price,  Postpaid,  $1.50 

This  book  may  be  secured  through  the  "New  England  Dairyman. 
Please  send  check  or  money  order,  using  coupon  below. 


For  enclosed  $1  SO  please  send 
Mr.  'Pattee's  'Personal  Word  to  : 

Name  

P.  o  

State  


IRTHMOfie 

TRADE-MARK  REGISTERED, 


September,  192rt 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


POTATO 
DIGGERS 


SAVE  TIME,  LABOR  AND  EXPENSE 


Get  the  potatoes  easily,  quickly  and 
with  least  possible  skinning  and  bruis- 
ing. The  "Success  Junior"  is  designed 
for  the  small  grower.  Low  cost  and 
pays  for  itself  the  first  year.  Every 
farmer  should  have  a  "Success  Junior." 

We  also  build  the  Farquhar  Elevator 
Digger— the  original  Rigid  Tongue  Dig- 
ger. Designed  for  the  larger  grower. 
Gets  all  the  Potatoes  and  Ica\es  ihem  in 
an  even  row  easy  to  pick.  Strongly 
built  and  priced  within  reach  of  every 
grower. 

Write  for  illustrated  Catalog. 


AB.FARQPHAR  CO.Limited 

YORK. PA.  BoX  329 


r 


Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 

Now  is  the  time  to  decide  what  fur- 
nace will  best  suit  your  needs.  Re- 
member the  Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 
has  the  largest  door  and  firebox,  and 
is  made  in  New  England.  Send  for 
circular. 

FE    CITI I  ED  GENERAL  AGENT 
.  T.  FULLCiK  WATERBURY,  VT. 


New  Bull  Tamer  a 
Wonder 


Now  Lighter, 
Stronger,  Cheaper 


100  practical  breeders  are  approving 
every  month  after  30  days'  trial.  Write 

SPENCER  BROS.,  Inc.,  Savona,  N.Y. 


IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


ACTION  BY  COMMISSIONERS 

(Continued  from  page  four) 

surplus  and  that  2J/i  cents  should  be 
the  spread  between  chain  store  price  and 
family  delivered  price.  The  commis- 
sioners plan  to  make  further  studies  of 
the  situation  and  determine  by  definite 
figures  what  the  spread  is  that  will  not 
react  to  the  disadvantage  of  either  chain 
store  or  dealer.  Costs  and  sales  records 
from  dealers  and  chain  stores  have  been 
offered  for  their  use  in  making  the  StudyL 

Two  of  the  main  recommendations  are 
tied  up  closely  together,  NKMPA  sur- 
plus price  and  creamery  fluid  milk  price. 
It  is  generally  admitted  that  the  cream- 
eries get  more  for  their  surplus  than  the 
NEMPA  is  able  to  get  from  the  dealers 
for  surplus.  The  fact  that  the  creameries 
have  generally  been  a  half  cent  under  the 
NKMPA  price  has  been- considered  as  an 
offset  to  the  surplus  difference  and  there 
have  been  no  claims  for  any  adjustment 
unless  the  creamery  price  was  more  than 
the  half  cent  below.  When  the  associa- 
tion is  able  to  get  a  substantially  higher 
price  for  surplus  the  creameries  will  put 
their  price  on  a  level  with  the  NEM  PA 
price  probably. 

The  other  recommendations  of  the 
commissioners  regarding  the  proper 
spread  between  the  store  price  and  the 
family  delivered  price  and  the  leveling  up 
of  family  trade  price  are  also  intimately 
connected.  The  situation  would  be  much 
less  difficult  if  this  difference  in  family 
delivered  price  were  not  there.  The 
price  is  the  same  at  all  stores  necessarily, 
as  any  difference  in  price  would  lead 
customers  to  go  to  the  store  which  had 
the  lower  price  for  their  milk.  If  they 
went  for  milk  they  would  buy  their  other 
groceries  there  also.  It  would  not  be 
simply  a  loss  of  sale  of  milk  but  of  a 
whole  grocery  order.  With  the  store 
price  on  a  definite  level,  fixed  by  the  one 
which  is  willing  to  sell  the  lowest,  there 
will  be  a  variation  in  the  spread  if  dealers 
do  not  charge  the  same  price  for  home 
delivered  milk. 

When  the  NEMPA  advanced  the  price 
in  July  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  chain 
stores,  which  buys  its  supply  of  milk 
from  one  of  the  large  distributors,  ad- 
vanced to  13  cents,  but  promptly  went 
back  to  12  when  the  First  National 
Stores  did  not  move. 


This  is  evidently  the  season  for  Scotch 
stories.  Did  you  hear  this  one :  "A 
Scotchman,  off  on  a  business  trin.  called 
back  to  his  wife  and  child  waving  from 
the  window:  'Gond-bv.  all.  and  dinna  for- 
get to  tak'  little  Donald's  srlasses  off  when 
he  i  sna  looging  at  anything.' " 


Amco-  mixed  feeds 


WESTERN  MARKET 

Just  as  this  issue  of  the  Dairvman  goes 
to  press  word  comes  from  Worcester 
that  the  marketing  committee  has  been 
successful  in  raising  the  price  of  milk  to 
Sy2  cents  in  that  market  beginning  Sept. 
15.  The  previous  arrangement  was  for 
an  increase  of  a  half  cent  beginning  the 
first  of  the  month.  The  present  trade 
is  7l/2  cents  for  the  first  half  of  Sep- 
tember and  8^2  cents  for  the  last  half 
of  the  month.  While  this  still  leaves 
the  Worcester  market  below  Boston,  it  is 
a  substantial  advance. 

Previous  to  going  into  these  confer- 
ences with  the  dealers'  committee  a  num- 
ber of  local  meetings  had  been  held  to 
in  form -the  producers  as  to  the  situation. 
The  district  manager  was  present  at  all 
these  meetings  and  it  was  obvious  that 
the  producers  were  in  a  mood  to  demand 
an  advance. 

At  Barre  Plains,  where  the  veteran 
Cliff  Wolcott  was  elected  as  a  chairman 
of  the  meeting,  it  was  voted  to  make  a 
definite  demand  that  the  Worcester  mar- 
ket should  be  brought  up  to  the  level 
of  other  markets.  Meetings  were  held  at 
North  Brookfield,  at  Spencer,  at  Charl- 
ton and  at  Sutton.  In  all  places  there 
was  the  same  demand  for  a  price  more 
comnarable  with  other  markets. 

The  market  situation  in  Springfield 
was  imnroved  materially  by  the  advance 
of  the  price  to  8 cents  August  1.  While 
some  of  the  dealers  are  buying  their  sup- 
plies from  outside  sources  and  paying 
on  the  "unknown"  price  basis,  it  is  ap- 
parent that  the  prices  in  the  market  have 
evened  up  considerably  and  that  much 
uneasiness  has  passed  away.  The  Holv- 
oke  price  also  advanced  to  8^2  cents 
August  1. 


wear  well 


THE  true  test  of  a  feed  service  is  its 
ability  to  supply  feed  which  will 
continue  to  give  results  over  long 
periods.  Only  highly  digestible  feeds,  cor- 
rectly balanced  between  protein,  fat,  and 
fiber,  and  made  of  sound,  sweet  ingredients 
can  do  it.  We  reproduce  here  with  pride 
three  letters  which  are  their  own  proof  of 
the  wearing  qualities  of  Amco-mixed  dairy 
feeds. 


On  an  Amco-mixed,  24  percen  t  dairy  feed.  Bean  and  Allen  of  Presque  Isle, 
Maine,  have  got  as  high  as  600  lbs.  of  milk  and  20  lbs.  of  butterfat  in  seven 
days  from  some  of  the  cows  pictured  above.  "We  have  used  UNIVERSAL 
DAIRY  and  FITTING  RATION  for  some  three  or  four  years.  We  are  per- 
fectly satisfied  with  it,  and  as  far  as  we  can  see,  it  is  the  best  we  have  ever 
used.  Our  herd  stays  in  good  flesh  and  gives  a  good  flow  of  milk,  and  we  have 
made  some  very  good  records  on  this  feed  in  testing  cows." 


4- 


American  Milling  Company 
Peoria,  111. 

I  have  been  feeding  AMCO  24% 
DAIRY  RATION  to  25  cows  and  find 
that  they  increased  18  quarts  per  day 
on  their  milk  within  a  few  days  and 
when  I  ran  out  of  it,  they  dropped  off 
again. 

I  had  been  feeding  a  well-known 
closed  formula  ration  for  which  I  paid 
$5  per  ton  more  than  I  did  for  the 
Amco  and  so  am  very  well  satisfied 
and  hope  to  continue  with  Amco 
through  the  winter. 


WILSON  WILLIAMS 


Hancock,  Mass. 
Dec.  14,  1926' 


On  Dried-up  Pastures 

To  supplement  dried-up  pas- 
tures, we  recommend  feeding  a 
pound  of  AMCO  JUNE  PAS- 
TURE (60%  Wyoming,  sun- 
cured  alfalfa  and  40%  molas- 
ses) to  each  cow  in  the  herd  at 
each  grain  feeding.  Use  it  with 
AMCO  20%  DAIRY.  Get  both 
from  your  nearest  Authorized 
Amco  Agent. 


American  Milling  Company 
Peoria,  111. 

I  have  fed  your  AMCO  DAIRY 
RATION  to  a  herd  of  about  40  cows 
since  October,  1925.  I  have  fed  all 
kinds  of  home-mixed  grains  and  I  have 
not  found  any  that  the  cows  seem  to 
like  and  produce  and  keep  their  flesh 
so  well  as  they  do  on  AMCO  DAIRY 
RATIONS. 

I  have  also  fed  my  dry  cows  and 
heifers  on  your  AMCO  FITTING 
RATION,  12%  protein,  and  I  think 
there  is  nothing  better. 

B.  H.  FARRINGTON  &  SONS 
Farmington,  Maine 
Dec.  20,  1926 


DIVISION  OFFICE:  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 

Amco 

f  FEED  MIXING  SERVICE 

AMERICAN  MILLING  COMPANY 

EXECUTIVE  OFFICES:  PEORIA.  ILL. 
Plums  at:  Peoria,  111.;  Omaha,  Neb.;  Owcnsboro,  Kv. 
Alfalfa  Plants  at:  Powell,  Garland,  and  W'orland,  Wyo. 


Page  Ten 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


September,  1927 


J  Eastern  S^tes  Farmers'  Exchange 

Why  Dairymen  Grain 
Cows  When  Grain 
Is  High 

Happily  the  time  has  gone  by 
when  diarymen  need  to  be  told 
that  dairy  cows  require  grain  to 
make  milk  in  profitable  quantities 
month  after  month.  Today  it  is 
generally  understood  that  grain  is 
an  important  part  of  the  cow  ra- 
tion, and  the  question  with  most 
farmers  is  the  selection  of  the 
grain.  The  most  successful  dairy- 
men feed  grain  the  year  'round, 
whether  it  is  high  or  low,  because 
they  know  that  profits  depend  on 
maintaining  full  milk  production, 
and  that  full  milk  production  de- 
mands grain.  They  figure  it  some- 
thing like  this: 

With  good  roughage  they  can 
produce  milk  economically  and  in 
quantity,  feeding  from  one  pound 
of  grain  to  three  pounds  of  milk 
produced  to  one  pound  of  grain  to 
five  pounds  of  milk  produced. 
When  grain  rises  $10  a  ton,  |c  a 
pound,  the  added  grain  cost  in . 
making  milk  amounts  to  a  little 
more  than  one  and  one-half  mills 
per  pound,  three  mills  per .  quart 
when  grain  is  fed  on  the  one  to- 
three  basis,  and  only  one  mill  per 
pound,  two  mills  per  quart,  when 
grain  is  fed  on  the  one-to-five 
basis.  Why  should  dairymen  stop 
making  as  much  milk  as  possible 
for  which  they  are  sure  to  get  not 
less  than  3c,  and  in  some  cases  10c 
and  12c  a  quart,  just  because  the 
cost  of  grain  needed  to  give  that 
maximum  production  goes  up  two 
or  even  three  mills  per  quart?  As 
a  matter  of  fact  most  dairy  rations 
have  been  $2  a  ton  higher  this 
August  than  they  were  last,  and 
are  actually  $2  a  ton  under  Au- 
gust, 1925. 

The  selection  of  the  grain  is  the 
important  thing  because  the  few 
mills  invested  in  the  right  grain 
ration  increase  the  return  in  milk 
several  cents.  The  question  is 
"Which  combination  of  grain  will 
make  me  the  most  quarts  of  milk 
for  the  small  sum  I  pay  for  grain 
per  quart  of  milk?"  The  steady 
increase  in  the  demand  for  East- 
ern States  Rations  in  the  face  of 
rising  grain  markets  and  the  keen 
competition  shows  that  more  and 
more  dairymen  believe  the  Eastern 
States  Rations  do  this  very  thing. 

Where  records  are  kept  Eastern 
States  Open  Formula  Feeds  prove 
their  worth. 

For  information  on  the  Eastern 
States  feed  service  for  horses  and 
poultry  as  well  as  dairy  cattle,  the 
service  which  should  not  be  con- 
fused with  car  door  service  offered 
by  manufacturers  through  dealers 
or  groups  of  farmers,  write  the 
office. 

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STATEMENT  OF  COMMIS- 
SIONERS 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

sudden  changes  of  short  duration  cause 
uncertainty  and  dissatisfaction. 

Most  producers  sell  their  milk  on  a 
classified  price  plan  originally  recom- 
mended and  adopted  during  the  war  by 
the  Federal  Milk  Commission.  This  con- 
sists of  a  price  for  so-called  Class  I  milk 
that  which  is  sold  as  fluid  milk  and  for 
Class  II  or  manufactured  milk.  We  be- 
lieve that  the  price  of  Class  II  milk  is 
at  present  too  low,  and  out  of  line  with 
its  actual  value.  This  is  evidenced  by  the 
fact  that  the  creameries  of  northern  New 
England  are  able  to  get  from  this  milk 
a  considerably  higher  price  when  made 
into  manufactured  dairy  products,  than 
is  being  paid  for  it  at  the  present  time  by 
most  Boston  dealers.  We  strongly  recom- 
mend the  raising  of  this  price  at  the 
earliest  practical  moment. 

Retail  Prices 

"We  believe  that  it  would  be  to  the 
advantage  of  milk  producers  and  dis- 
tributors, and  ultimately  to  the  advan- 
tage of  the  consumers  to  have  a  uniform 
retail  selling  price  for  milk.  We  sug- 
gest that  if  some  distributors,  through 
economies  or  otherwise,  are  able  to  re- 
duce their  spreads  slightly  that  this 
should  be  reflected  in  better  service  or 
other  factors  other  than  price. 

Wholesale  Prices 

"There  should  also  be  a  common  set' 
of  wholesale  prices  based  on  volume  and 
service.  Price  cutting  in  wholesale  and 
retail  trade  should  be  eliminated,  as 
this  causes  an  uncertain  and  unhealthy 
condition  of  the  business  which  reacts  to 
the  discouragement  of  producers  and 
ultimately  brings  about  a  higher  price  to 
consumers.  All  distributors  of  milk 
should  join  the  activities  of  the  'code  of 
ethics'  committee  which  is  attempting  to 
remedy  this  situation. 

Farmers'  Co-operatives 

"The  farmers'  co-operatives  of  the 
northern  New  England  States  should 
assist  in  every  possible  way  to  stabilize 
market  conditions  here,  paying  and  re- 
ceiving for  their  product  the  going 
market  prices.  The  members  of  these 
co-operatives  should  constantly  keep  in 
touch  with  the  market  to  the  end  that 
they  may  fully  co-operate  with  other 
groups  of  producers  as  well  as  among 
themselves  to  keep  their  fluid  sales  prices 
in  line  with  the  market. 

Chain  Stores 

"Milk  is  now  being  sold  in  large  quan- 
tities from  chain  stores  on  a  cash  and 
carry  basis.  This  enables  those  who  find 
it  possible  and  convenient  to  purchase  it 
in  this  way  to  obtain  it  at  a  less  price 
than  those  who  require  it  delivered  to 
their  doorsteps  in  the  early  morning.  The 
chain  stores  should  fully  co-operate  in 
this  market  for  the  establishment  of 
sound  principles  in  marketing  and  fair 
prices.  They  should  charge  such  prices 
as  will  encourage  the  maximum  sale  of 
milk  at  a  price  commensurate  with  its 
value,  and  based  on  proper  profits  and 
spreads  which  other  staple  commodations 
possess,  and  at  the  same  time  take  into 
account  the  conditions  of  the  market  with 
respect  to  sale  of  their  milk,  wholesale 
and  retail,  to  bring  about  a  healthy  con- 
dition of  the  production  of  milk  in  all 
parts  of  this  territory.  The  production  of 
milk  at  prices  received  by  relatively  small 
groups  of  producers,  possibly  enjoying 
advantages  over  other  groups,  should  not 
however,  tend  to  degrade  and  lower  the 
prices  and  methods  of  sale  which  other 
large  groups  of  producers  must  work 
under. 

"During  all  of  the  months  of  1926  ex- 
cept June,  and  from  January  1  to  July 
17,  1927,  the  difference  between  cash  and 
carry  milk  and  the  dealers'  family  price 
in  Boston  has  been  2y2  cents  or  less,  and 
at  the  present  time  in  most  markets  out- 
side of  Boston  proper  it  is  less  than  3 
cents. 

^'It  is  our  opinion  that  a  2%  cent 
spread  will  contiune  the.  sale  of  milk 
from  chain  stores  and  delivered  to  family 
trade  without  serious  curtailment  of  sales 
by  either  group.  We  should  like  to  sec 
it  continued  unless  it  is  demonstrated 
without  question  that  a  greater  or  less 
spread  is  necessary. 

"We  urgently  recommend  the  above 
suggestions  and  sincerely  believe  that 
their  adoption  will  be  to  the  interest  of 
producers,  dealers  and  the  public." 


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'   September,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


NORTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 

F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager      -       477  Essex  Street,  Lawrence,  Mas.. 


PRICES 
July  1-17 

Manchester,  N.  H  62.2c  per  8l/2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H.,   66c    per  8]/>  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  66c   per  8    qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  80c    per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  64c    per  8    qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  58.8c  per  8'/2  qt.  can 

Portland,  Me   7.6c  per  qt. 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers, 
and  Beverly,  Mass.  64c    per  8    qt.  can 

July  17-31 

Manchester,  N.  H  70c    per  8l/2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H:   66c    per  8^  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  90c    per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  61.2c  per  8l/2  qt.  can 

Portland,  Me   7.6c  per  qt. 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers 
and  Beverly,  Mass.  72c    per  8    qt.  can 

The  change  in  price  in  the  Boston  Mar- 
ket, whereby  an  advance  of  one  cent  per 
quart  was  obtained,  enabled  us  to  ad- 
vance the  price  in  the  local  markets  of 
the  Northern  Market  District  with  the 
exception  of  Nashua.  It  will  be  recalled 
that  last  winter  and  spring,  up  to  the  first 
of  April,  the  Nashua  Market  was  not 
only  above  the  Boston  Market  but  above 
other  local  markets  of  this  district.  When 
the  price  changed  the  middle  of  July,  the 
Nashua  sales  committee  for  producers 
met  the  dealers'  committee  and  talked 
for  a  long  time  with  respect  to  an  ad- 
vance in  price  in  Nashua.  The  dealers 
argued  that  it  would  be  next  to  impos- 
sible for  them  to  advance  prices  to  their 
trade  as  the  mills  were  closing  down  for 
one  month  beginning  August  1  and  end- 
ing August  31.  This  in  itself,  they  ar- 
gued, would  take  a  great  many  of  the 
people  out  of  town  during  August,  as 
well  as  making  those  remaining  feel  poor 
because  they  were  out  of  work.  Some  of 
the  dealers  further  stated  that  they  had 
difficulty  with  collections,  and  felt  that  an 
advance  in  price  would  aggravate  this 
difficulty. 

A  checkup  among  the  committee 
showed  that  there  was  considerable  milk 
available  to  Nashua  dealers.  Production 
seemed  to  have  been  well  sustained 
around  this  particular  market  so  that 
there  was  no  great  shortage  of  milk. 

Considerable  time  was  spent  in  Nashua 
at  the  first  meeting  of  the  sales  commit- 
tee and  dealers  committee,  but  no  definite 
decision  was  reached.  A  second  meeting 
was  called  to  further  consider  the  mat- 
ter of  price  advance  in  Nashua,  and  after 
again  going  over  the  situation  thoroughly, 
it  was  decided  that  the  price  advance 
should  be  delayed  until  September  1. 

When  the  Nashua  Market  advances, 
it  will  mean  that  all  of  the  markets  of 
the  Northern  District  have  followed  the 
general  Boston  advance,  so  that  our  pro- 
ducers will  be  sharing  in  the  new  price 
which  is  nearer  to  cost  of  production, 
plus  a  reasonable  profit.  Considerable 
time  was  spent  by  the  District  Manager 
in  meeting  with  committees  and  individ- 
ual producers,  working  on  the  matter  of 
price  advances,  in  order  that  each  market 
might  go  along  and  have  the  price  paid 
to  farmers  in  the  country  well  stabilized. 
This  was  particularly  true  of  the  markets 
in  Manchester,  Lowell  and  Nashua.  Sev- 
eral Lowell  dealers  refused  at  first  to  ad- 
vance their  price  to  their  farmers,  stat- 
ing that  their  competitive  dealers  might 
not  advance.  This  meant  that  work  had 
to  be  done  with  these  dealers  and  also 
with  their  producers,  in  order  to  get  an 
understanding  as  to  what  was  just  and 
fair  with  reference  to  prices.  Meetings 
were  held  where  both  the  producers  and 
the  deaVr1;  to  whom  they  sold  were  pres- 
ent. Conditions  of  sale  and  production 
were  thoroughly  discussed  and  producers 
finally  agreed  that  they  must  have  the 
advance  in  price.  Plans  were  made  to 
handle  surpluses  which  might  arise  from 
time  to  time.  Finally  these  dealers  agreed 
to  recognize  the  new  price. 


Sales  Committee  Meetings 
A  very  interesting  meeting  of  the 
Haverhill  sales  committee  was  held  at 
the  Hotel  Nicholas  in  Haverhill.  Every 
member  of  the  committee  was  present 
and  we  had  a  very  fine  discussion  of 
milk  marketing  and  conditions  in  general 
in  connection  with  the  Haverhill  mar- 
ket. Another  splendid  meeting  was  held 
in  Manchester.  When  the  Manchester 
committee  met  with  the  dealers'  commit- 
mittee  they  discussed  the  general  situation 
with  reference  to  the  production  and  dis- 
tribution of  milk  in  that  city. 

The  Nashua  sales  committee  also 
turned  out  very  well  for  the  last  meeting 
and  gave  very  careful  study  to  the 
Nashua  milk  supply.  In  Lowell  one  of 
the  committee  members  spent  consider- 
able time  advising  with  and  helping  me 
work  on  the  price  stabilization  for  that 
market. 

I  wish  to  thank  all  these  men  for  their 
services.  If  every  member  of  the  asso- 
ciation could  hear  and  understand  the 
problems  -of  our  markets  which  the  sales 
committees  are  called  upon  to  solve,  there 
would  be  more  commendations  for  the 
work  done  and  less  of  the  criticism  which 
comes  from  lack  of  understanding. 

Producers  shipping  to  the  Hood  com- 
pany nlant  at  Salem  requested  a  check 
test.  I  made  such  a  test  for  all  of  them 
and  sent  them  the  results. 


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moving  when  the  officer  came  up." 

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ANNUAL  MEETING 

(Continued  from  page  five) 
izations,  will  tend  toward  a  nearly  100 
per  cent,  representation  at  the  coming 
meeting. 

Let's  look  at  the  situation  first  from 
the  standpoint  of  the  bylaws  of  the  as- 
sociation and  then  from  the  standpoint  of 
the  locals.  The  bylaws  provide  that  when 
any  local  has  a  membership  of  35  or  more 
it  can  send  its  president  to  the  central 
association  meeting.  He  will  have  a  vote 
in  the  meeting  and  will  have  his  ex- 
penses paid  from  the  time  he  leaves  his 
home  until  he  gets  back  there.  If  any 
local  has  a  membership  of  151  it  can  send 
its  president  and  a  second  representative 
with  all  expenses  paid.  A  membership 
of  251  would  give  a  third  delegate  but 
there  is  no  immediate  prospect  of  any 
local  reaching  that  size. 

The  bylaws  further  provide  direct  rep- 
resentation for  the  locals  with  a  member- 
ship of  less  than  35  by  assigning  them 
to  groups,  each  group  having  a  combined 
membership  of  35  or  more  and  thus  being 
entitled  to  send  a  delegate  with  the  same 
rights,  and  with  all  expenses  paid,  as  the 
larger  locals  have. 

One  of  the  misunderstandings  is  over 
the  rights  of  the  presidents  who  could 
come  as  direct  representatives  of  their 
locals  without  any  action  on  the  part  of 
those  locals.  Some  of  these  men  ap- 
parently believe  that  the  local  must  have 
a  meeting  and  vote  to  send  them.  This  is 
not  so.  All  they  have  to  do  is  to  pack 
their  bag  and  come  ahead,  register  at 
the  American  House  where  the  meetings 
will  be  held,  attend  the  meetings  and  take 

•  ;n  the  discussion  if  they  see  fit,  vote 
on  all  matters  which  come  up  and  then 
turn  in  an  expense  account  as  they  start 
for  home. 

Another  misunderstanding  among  these 
same  presidents  of  locals  having  a  mem- 
bership of  more  than  35  and  thus  entitled 
to  a  direct  representation,  is  in  the  right 
of  a  president  to  name  an  alternate  in 
case  he  cannot  come.  We  know  that  in 
a  number  of  cases  the  president  of  a  local 
is  so  situated  that  he  cannot  be  away 
from  home  three  or  four  days.  He  makes 
a  fine  president  and  is  a  loyal  member 
of  the  association  but  he  cannot  come  to 
Boston  because  of  responsibilities  on  the 
farm. 

Some  of  the  presidents  who  find  them- 
selves in  this  situation  seem  to  feel  also 
that  they  have  to  have  a  meeting  of  their 
local  in  order  to  get  an  alternate  named. 
This  is  not  so.  The  president  has  full 
power  to  name  an  alternate  who  will  as- 
sume all  his  rights  and  privileges  at  the 
annual  meeting. 

All  he  has  to  do  is  telephone  to  some 
other  good  dairyman,  a  member  of  the 
association,  in  his  local,  and  make  ar- 
rangements with  him  to  attend  the  Bos- 
ton meeting.  If  the  first  one  telephoned 
to  cannot  go  the  president  can  keep  on 
telephoning  until  he  does  find  a  good  man 
who  can  be  away  for  that  length  of  time. 
All  that  the  president  then  has  to  do  is  to 
inform  the  central  office  that  he  has 
named  an  alternate,  or  he  can  give  the 
alternate  the  credential  which  has  been 
sent  to  him.  It  will  be  recognized  by  the 
credential  committee  at  the  annual  meet- 
ing and  the  alternate  will  have  the  same 
voting  rights  as  the  president  would  have 
had.  He  will  also  have  his  entire  ex- 
penses paid  by  the  association. 

There  is,  of  course,  no  objection  to 
any  such  local  having  a  meeting  and 
electing  an  alternate  but  it  is  not  neces- 
sary.   It  is  easy  to  say  that  a  president 


Plan  now  your 
MILK  PROFITS 
for  Winter 

Look  over  your  prospects  for  improving  milk  profits 
this  winter.  You  know,  by  now,  what  roughage  you  will 
have — see,  below,  how  there  is  a  Quaker  Dairy  Ration 
to  meet  any  situation,  each  of  these  feeds  being  exactly 
the  protein  concentrate  that  fits  its  indicated  purpose. 
See  the  Quaker  Dealer — arrange  now  for  your  winter  sup- 
ply so  that  you  can  avoid  losses  due  to  changing  feeds. 

Select  the  feed  that  fits  your  farm,  your  herd 
Quaker  BOSS  Dairy  Ration  is  the  ideal  grain 
*4  %  ration  for  cows  receiving  timothy  hay, 

grass  hays,  straws,  corn  stover  or  other 

poor  grades  of  hay. 

Quaker  Big  Q  Dairy  Ration  exactly  meets  the 
*0%  need  of  those  herds  receiving  poor  alfalfa 
hay,  fair  clover  hay,  or  real  choice  mixed 
clover  and  grass  hay. 

Quaker  Dairy  Ration  has  no  superior  when  cows 
are  receiving  choice  clover  hay,  good  alfalfa 
hay,  or  an  excellent  grade  of  fine  mixed 
grass-and-clover  hay;  it  is  a  good  ration 
for  dry  stock  and  for  young  growing  stock. 

Quaker  Sugared  Schumacher  Feed  has  a 
real  place  when  the  herd  is  receiving  liberal 
quantities  of  choice  alfalfa  hay.  It  com- 
bines beautifully  with  any  Quaker  high 
protein  feed.  It  is  an  ideal  ration  for  all 
stock — dry  stock,  young  growing  animals, 
horses,  sheep,  swine,  steers. 

All  Quaker  Dairy  Feeds  contain  molasses 
in  dried  form  and  are  rich  in  the  minerals 
cows  must  have  to  make  milk. 

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September,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


who  -  interprets  the  bylaws  in  this  way 
should  call  a  special  meeting  of  his  local. 
But  the  time  is  quite  short  between  now 
and  the  annual  meeting,  also  it  is  a  time 
when  farmers  are  quite  busy  and  not  at 
'all  a  good  time  to  call  meetings.  It  is 
quite  natural  that  officers  should  hesitate 
to  ask  their  fellow  members  to  meet  at 
such  a  busy  time. 

There  are  a  few  locals  with  a  mem- 
bership of  35  or  more  which  will  have  to 
hold  meetings  soon  if  they  are  to  be  di- 
rectly represented.  These  are  the  locals 
which,  for  one  reason  or  another,  are 
without  presidents.  In  some  cases  the 
presidents  of  last  year  have  stopped  sell- 
ing milk  and  have  given  up  their  office. 
In  one  or  two  cases  the  president  has 
moved  away.  These  cases  are  noted  in 
the  list  of  groups  and  it  is  clearly  their 
responsibility  to  have  meetings  as  soon 
as  practical. 

Just  to  indicate  the  extent  of  this  lack 
of  representation  through  misunderstand- 
ing of  what  is  required  look  at  the  record. 
In  Maine  last  year  there  were  nine  locals 
which  were  entitled  to  send  their  presi- 
dent which  were  not  represented.  In 
New  Hampshire  there  was  one ;  in  Ver- 
mont five;  in  New  York  one  and  in  Mas- 
sachusetts, Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut 
six.    Let's  do  better  this  year. 

The  other  factor  in  the  lack  of  repre- 
sentation is  a  more  difficult  one  to  handle 
but  our  field  staff  will  be  able  to  bring 
about  a  considerable  improvement.  The 
grouping  of  locals  is  being  made  known 
to  the  officers  through  this  Dairyman  and 
through  correspondence.  There  is  no 
stipulation  in  the  bylaws  as  to  who  shall 
call  these  group  meetings  and  a  good 
many  of  them  have  not  been  held  in  the 
past  two  years,  simply  because  no  one  of- 
ficer or  group  of  officers  took  the  lead 
in  calling  such  a  meeting. 

Here  is  where  some  good  work  can 
be  done.  Its  need  is  apparent  through 
the  following  record  of  last  year.  The 
number  of  groups  entitled  to  send  a 
group  delegate  and  failing  to  do  so  was 
as  follows:  Maine  11;  New  Hampshire 
six;  Vermont  14;  New  York  two;  Mas- 
sachusetts, Rhode  Island  and  Connecti- 
cut six.    Again  let's  do  better  this  year. 


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More  Profit 

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Prevent  the  Run  Down  Condition 

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The  field  men  and  market  district  men 
will  help  so  far  as  they  are  able  to  get 
these  meetings  arranged.  The  responsi- 
bility for  calling  such  meetings  rests 
jointly  with  the  officers  of  the  grouped 
locals  and  with  the  field  or  market  man 
for  each  district.  A  little  getting  to- 
gether and  mapping  out  a  schedule  of 
meetings  so  that  the  field  man  can  at- 
tend as  many  as  possible  will  help  greatly. 

Our  field  and  district  men  will  he  in- 
formed of  the  grouping  immediately.  You 
will  probably  hear  from  them  as  to  pos- 


sible times  when  group  meetings  can  be 
held.  But  don't  wait  for  them  to  write. 
Start  ri^ht  in  on  making  your  arrange- 
ments, and  notify  them  of  the  date  or  al- 
ternative dates  which  would  suit  you  best. 
That  will  give  them  something  to  work 
on  in  drawing  up  a  general  schedule  for 
their  districts  and  will  give  you  a  much 
better  hope  of  having  some  member  of 
the  staff  present  at  the  group  meeting  to 
present  the  problems  which  now  con- 
front the  association. 

The  plan  of  having  presidents  of  larj<e 


locals  and  delegates  from  groups  of 
smaller  locals  come  to  the  annual  meet- 
ing as  voting  delegates  was  developed  to 
get  a  closer  touch  between  the  member- 
ship in  general  and  the  central  associa- 
tion. Under  the  old  plan  of  district 
meetings  to  elect  a  district  representative 
the  number  of  voting  delegates  was  much 
smaller,  and  there  was  not  the  oppor- 
tunity for  each  group  to  express  its 
opinions. 

Let's  have  a  100  per  cent,  representa- 
tion this  year. 


John  Nedeau  of  Lancaster,  N.  H.,  gets 
just  $45.  more  each  month  by  feeding 
Cow  Chow  to  his  herd  of  Holsteins. 


Here  is  a  sample  of  Mr.  Nedeau's 
herd.  They  have  been  on  Cow 
Chow  for  the  past  six  months. 


Page  Fourteen 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


September,  1927 


SOUTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 

H.  W.   FIENEMANN,  Manager 

Slade  Bldg.,  44  Washington  St.,  Providence  Tel.  Dexter  6469 

AUGUST  PRICES  NEW  BEDFORD 

Providence   9    cents  per  qt.  Conditions  are  about  as  they  were  a 

Fall  River   9    cents  per  qt.  "'!"/th  ■■»            that  the  group  which 

Hrockton   8/,  cents  per  qt.  withdrew  .s  losing  some  of  its  support- 
New  Bedford   9     cents  per  qt.  «*•     How  can  a  producer  continue  to 

Newport   9    cents  per  qt.  take  very  little  for  h.s  m.lk  when  h  s 

'  neighbor  is  receiving  the  full  price?  Ihis 

Well,   folks,    I'm   back   on   the   job!  becomes  even  more  difficult  when  there  is 

Didn't  know  I'd  been  off?    Well,  that's  ™  *ljund  rcason  whatever  for  taking  this 

not  surprising,  since  this  district  was  left  low  pnee.  nDr,riirTnM 

in  very  capable  hands.   Fred  Warner  was  rsKULK.1 UJN 

right  on  the  job  and,  with  Miss  Free-  e  eyes  of  the  country  will  be  focused 

born  in  the  office,  everything  went  very  on  the  legal  proceedings  which  will  cen- 

smoothly.  Ccr  around  the  enforcement  of  the  new 

When  a  big  car  hits  a  little  car,  there  milk  regulation  passed  by  Brockton.  As 

is  apt  to  be  trouble,  especially  when  the  was  stated  last  month,  an  injunction  had 

little  car  rolls  over  a  few  times.    How-  been  secured  by  the  dealer  concerned  to 

ever,  a  good  surgeon  and  a  good  hospital  prevent  it  going  into  effect.  However, 

can  do  much  at  repairing  an  injured  dis-  this  injunction  expires  on  October  1  and 

trict  man  a  test  case  is  being  prepared. 

PRICES  CHECK  TESTING 

Brockton  is  the  only  market  in  this  .  Two  days  were  given  to  this  new  serv- 

district  which  is  not  at  nine  cents.    They  ice  immed.a  ely  on  my  return,  and  close 

apparently  have  a  good  reason  for  re-  0  200  samples  were  checked.  Contracts 

mainin°-  j^.  gy  have  been  made  with  other  dealers  in 

Readers  of  this  column  will  recall  that  thfis  ,d.istrict  and  considerable  more  work 

producers,   dealers  and  townspeople  of  of         nature  will  be  done  during  Sep- 

Brockton  met  and  protested  against  milk  tember. 

coming  in  when  the  local  supply  was  No  adjustment  was  asked  for  by 
more  than  ample.  It  did  not  seem  like  Providence  dealers  to  equalize  prices  dur- 
eood  business  to  producers  and  dealers  to  '"S  Julv-  Tj>e  price  m  Providence  was 
raise  the  price,  thus  inviting  criticism  and  the  same  a/  B?st°n  UP ft0  July  \  bu*  an 
loss  of  o-ood  will  increase  of  a  half  cent  was  made  then, 
There°  has  been  milk  enough  to  go  withu  the  expectation  of  an  increase  of 
around  on  all  markets,  even  in  New  Bed-  anothcr  half  cellt  AuSust  L  This  would 
ford  where  some  producers  had  with-  equalize  the  price  for  the  month  vyith  the 
drawn  their  supply.  Production  coadi-  Boston  Prlce-  lf  the.  .Bost°n  Pnce .  j\ad 
tions  became  more  favorable  again  after  e°™  UP-  as  was  anticipated  the  middle 
the  slump  in  July,  although  where  pas-  of  the  month.  The  fact  that  the  ad- 
ture  did  not  dry  up  the  grass  is  becoming  vance  [n  Boston  was  delayed  one  week 
woody  and  losing  its  milk.  A  little  con-  uPset  th,.s  method  of  ^vmg  •  The  AProvl: 
cern  is  felt  over  silage  prospects.  Corn  dence  Pr,ice  wfnt  UP  t^  half  cent  August 
is  late  and  an  early  frost  would  certainlv  ]-  as  planned  and  the  dealers  did  not 
make  it  necessary  to  feed  a  lot  of  ex-  make  c  arms  for  adjustment  on  account 
pensive  grain  with  poor  silage  this  of  the  differences.  This  satisfactory  cut- 
water come  was  due  to  a  real  desire  on  the  part 
p.pn  „  of  all  to  keep  the  market  on  an  even  keel 
i'KUVlJJJiJNLri.  an(j  nQt  tQ  introrJuce  any  more  factors  in 
Thirteen  dealers  are  now  buying  on  the  price  situation  than  was  absolutely 
the   NEMPA   surplus   plan.     Five  are  necessary. 

supervised  by  Milk  Administrator  A.  W.  Grade  A  milk  production  and  the  tu- 
Gilbert  of  Boston  and  the  rest  from  this  berculin  test  were  the  chief  topics  for 
office.  discussion  at  a  recent  meeting  of  the 
The  second  half-cent  raise,  making  the  farmers  of  Windham  County,  Conn.,  ar- 
price  on  this  market  nine  cents,  became  ranged  by  County  Agent  Frank  L.  Davis, 
effective  August  1.  Unlike  the  July  1  C.  E.  Hough,  of  the  Connecticut  Milk 
raise,  it  did  not  advance  the  chain  store  Producers'  Association  and  Cattle  Corn- 
price,  so  that  now  all  chain  store  sys-  missioner  Whittlesey  were  among  the 
hut  one  sell  at  12  cents  and  the  speakers  and  the  NEMPA  marketing 
dealers'  retail  price  is  15.  problem  was  also  presented. 

Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  July,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
for  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7 
per  cent,  per  l/10th  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  con- 
tainer: Per  8'/2  quart  can,  $.007;  per  10  quart  can,  $.009;  per  20  quart  can,  $.018; 
per  21 K  quart  can,  $.019;  per  40  quart  can,  $.035;  per  cwt.,  $.042. 

_      ■  ,,   ,  Truck- 
Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Dealers  (Mkt. 
Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 

W.  B.  Brown   100.0% 

H.  T.  Burton,  Inc  ....  94.2 

G.  T.  Chambers    92.4 

E.  A.  Fiske   100.0 

L.  E.  Goff    89.1 

C.  W.  Grant    90.3 

Greenville  Farm    89.8 

A.  B.  Monroe   100.0 

Providence  Dairy  ....  78.2 

Turner  Centre   100.0 

W.  C.  Viall    95.6 

C.  A.  Wamock   100.0 

E.  P.  Westcott   100.0 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 

5.8% 
7.6 

10.9 
9.7 
10.2 

21.8 

4.4 


3.140 


mg 

Zone  1  Zone  2  Zone  3    Zone  Willi- 

Deliv-  1-20  21-40  41-60     net  mantic 

ered  Miles  Miles  Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.825  3.491  3.443  3.386   

3.685  3.370  3.325  3.262   

3.636  3.327  3.282  3.221 

3.825  3.491  3.443  3.386 

3.563  3.265  3.223  3.163 

3.588  3.286  3.232  3.182 

3.579  3.278  3.236  3.176 

3.820  3.486  3.438  3.371 

3.311  3.099  3.072  3.017 

3.811  3.481  3.433  3.365 

3.662  3.342  3.296  3.233 

3.822  3.492  3.444  3.377 

3.816  3.486  3.438  3.371 


2.823  2.949 


I  was  engaging  a  girl  to  come  in  and  do 
some  extra  work.  She  was,  I  imagine, 
rather  English. 

"What  do  you  charge  a  day?"  I  asked 
her. 

"Well,  mum,"  was  the  reply,  "I  charge 
five  dollars  if  I  eats  myself,  and  four- 
fifty  if  you  eats  me." 


"To  think,"  exclaimed  the  enthusiastic 
husband,  "that  by  the  time  we  get  all  this 
furniture  paid  for  we  shall  have  genuine 
antiques." 


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"I  see  my  finish,"  squeaked  the  flivver 
as  the  painter  approached,  with  a  can  of 
varnish. 


September,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fifteen 


WESTERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Manager 
585  White  Street,  Springfield,  Mass.  Telephone  Walnut  1714 


PRICES  FOR  AUGUST 

Springfield   &'/•  cents 

Worcester   71/-  cents 

Holyoke   &l/>  cents 

Northampton   cents 

The  market  committee  for  Worcester 
made  a  move  to  advance  the  price  one 
cent  in  that  market  for  Sept.  1.  As  this 
issue  of  the  Dairyman  goes  to  press  the 
negotiations  are  still  on  but  there  is  con- 
siderable ground  for  hope  that  the  ad- 
vance will  be  made.  If  it  comes  it  will 
be  the  culmination  of  a  long  drawn  out 
effort  to  bring  about  a  more  stable  con- 
dition in  the  Worcester  market  than  has 
been  in  effect  for  some  time  past.  Rais- 
ing the  price  there  may  leave  some  few 
ragged  places  in  the  price  situation  but  in 
the  main  the  general  run  of  prices  will  be 
more  uniform  than  for  some  time  past. 

The  stability  of  the  market  will  prob- 
ably be  still  further  assured  through 
the  contemplated  action  of  the  Worcester 
Health  Department  in  putting  in  regula- 
tions providing  that  all  milk  sold  in  the 
city  must  be  pasteurized  if  it  comes  from 
untested  herds.  This  will  have  a  tend- 
ency to  consolidate  the  milk  business  into 
fewer  hands,  as  a  considerable  number  of 
the  quite  small  dealers  may  find  it  im- 
practical to  pasteurize  their  supply  and 
it  will  be  some  time  before  their  supply 
can  be  from  tested  herds. 

This  will  still  further  speed  up  the 
process  of  consolidation  which  has  been 
going  on  in  that  market  for  several 
years.  There  are  about  130  dealers  in 
the  Worcester  market.  A  few  years  ago 
there  were  about  150. 

A  large  majority  of  these  are  small 
dealers  who  handle  a  relatively  small 
amount  of  milk.  It  is  probable  that 
fully  80  per  cent,  of  the  milk  is  handled 
by  a  few  good-sized  dealers. 

For  some  reason  or  other  Worcester 
has  always  been  a  market  where  the 
small  dealer  continued  in  business  but  it 
would  appear  that  this  situation  is  pass- 
ing. There  will  always  be  small  dealers 
selling  a  special  grade  of  milk  at  a  price 
higher  than  the  market,  but  the  present 
trend  is  toward  the  passing  out  of  a  con- 
siderable number  of  the  dealers  who  deal 
in  unpasteurized  ordinary  milk. 

The  ruling  of  the  Board  of  Health  will 
hasten  the  consolidation  process.  This 
will  be  to  the  advantage  of  the  milk  busi- 
ness in  the  city,  as  it  will  lead  to  im- 
portant economies  and  to  a  general  im- 
provement of  the  milk  supply  and  the 
ways  in  which  it  is  handled.  It  will  also 
contribute  toward  stability  of  the  mar- 
ket. 

Worcester  county  at  the  present  time, 
like  most  of  the  rest  of  Massachusetts,  is 
way  behind  Northern  New  England  in 
the  matter  of  bovine  tuberculosis  eradi- 
cation. Figures  recently  published  by  the 
state  division  of  animal  industry  show 
that  there  are  more  than  40,000  cattle  in 
the  country  in  5,442  herds.  Of  these 
about  6,000  cattle,  or  14  per  cent.,  are  now 
under  test. 

With  the  present  appropriation  for  in- 
demnity in  Massachusetts  the  work  of 
eradication  will  go  rather  slowly.  It 
will  be  practically  impossible  for  the  di- 
vision of  animal  industry  to  make  any 
general  cleanup  in  Worcester  county  for 
two  or  three  years.  Most  of  the  milk 
sold  in  the  county,  except  such  as  is  sold 
locally,  goes  into  Worcester.  The  regu- 
lations of  the  Health  Department  will 
tend  to  shift  over  this  supply  to  the  deal- 
ers who  are  large  enough  to  pasteurize. 

The  proposal  to  advance  in  Worcester 
came  from  a  determination  on  the  part  of 
the  marketing  committee  to  better  the 
situation  in  that  market  if  possible.  They 
felt  that  remaining  at  7y2  cents,  when 
all  other  principal  markets  were  at"  Sl/> 
or  nine  cents,  could  not  be  justified.  The 
price  had  remained  at  7l/2  or  nine  cents 
since  January  1  notwithstanding  efforts 
to  move  it  earlier  at  the  time  of  the  Bos- 
ton advance  and  shortly  afterwards.  The 
7y2  cents  in  May  and  June  was  a  cent 


better  than  the  previous  year,  when  it 
was  at  6%  for  the  flush  months,  but  ad- 
vanced to  8  cents  Sept.  1.  An  attempt 
was  made  last  fall  to  get  &'/2,  but  it 
failed  owing  to  the  condition  of  the  mar- 
ket, although  it  was  warranted  by  the 
conditions  of  supply  and  demand. 

Late  in  the  year  the  marketing  commit- 
tee saw  hopes  of  better  times  through 
the  organization  of  the  dealers  and  the 
appointment  of  a  committee  from  their 
association  to  meet  the  marketing  com- 
mittee of  the  NEMPA.  About  80  of 
the  dealers  in  Worcester  belong  to  the  as- 
sociation and  it  was  felt  that  much  might 
be  gained  through  the  opportunity  to  deal 
in  a  businesslike  way  with  the  entire 
group  through  a  committee  of  their  own 


choosing.  County  Agent  G.  F.  E.  Story 
was  a  prime  mover  in  bringing  the  two 
groups  together. 

Acting  largely  on  the  representations  of 
the  dealers'  committee  that  a  reduction 
was  necessary  in  order  to  bring  about  a 
more  uniform  price  system  in  the  Wor- 
cester market  the  marketing  committee 
reduced  their  price  to  7'/i  cents  January 
1. 

During  the  spring  they  met  the  deal- 
ers' committee  from  time  to  time  and 
there  was  a  general  expectation  that  the 
price  would  rise  July  1,  as  it  did  last 
year,  and  that  practically  the  whole  mar- 
ket would  rise  at  once  instead  of  some 
dealers  increasing  and  some  not. 

Weather  conditions  delayed  the  move- 
ment to  advance,  just  as  they  did  in 
Boston  and  quite  generally  through  the 
New  England  territory.  When  it  was 
known  that  the  Boston  price  was  going 
to  advance  July  15  or  immediately  after- 
wards the  Worcester  marketing  commit- 
tee met  the  dealers  a  few  days  before 
the  actual  advance  was  to  have  taken 
place.  The  dealers'  marketing  committee 
refused  absolutely  to  make  any  advance 
and  their  decision  could  not  be  shaken. 


The  NEMPA  marketing  committee 
for  Worcester  then  called  a  meeting  the 
latter  part  of  July  with  the  intention  of 
raising  the  market  price  August  1,  but 
they  found  that  the  dealers'  association 
had  already  had  a  meeting  and  had  in- 
structed its  committee  not  to  make  any 
advance.  They  had  tied  the  hands  of 
their  committee  and  made  it  impossible 
for  them  to  review  the  situation  in  con- 
ference with  the  marketing  committee  of 
the  association. 

This  .was  not  in  harmony  with  the 
general  understanding  of  our  association 
as  to  what  the  procedure  would  be,  and 
the  marketing  committee  expressed  their 
disapproval  in  no  uncertain  terms.  When 
they  met  the  dealers  to  consider  the  Sep- 
tember price  they  found  them  a  little 
more  free  to  act,  but  there  was  strong 
resistance  to  the  advance  of  a  cent.  At 
one  meeting  the  representatives  of  the 
dealers'  association  were  ready  to  com- 
promise at  a  half  cent  raise.  This  was 
opposed  by  the  Whiting  company  which 
said  the  price  should  go  up  a  cent  if  it 
moved  at  all. 

The  outcome  of  these  negotiations  will 
be  awaited  with  interest. 


Three  Qo^Qetting 
INTERNATIONALS 

owned  by  Range  &  Frank,  of  Atlantic,  Iowa. 
The  trucks  are  loaded  with  stock  and  ready 
to  set  out.  These  boys  have  been  very  success- 
ful, hauling  livestock  65  miles  to  South  Omaha. 
The  trucks  haul  a  good  many  loads  per  week, 
reducing  the  road  time  10  to  18  hours  and 
effecting  big  savings  in  shrinkage.  [Drawing 
made  from  a  photograph.]   


Left  to  Right:  3-Ton  Heavy-Duty,  2-Ton  Heavy-Duty,  IVi-Ton  Speed  Truck 

International  Trucks 

for  Year-Round  Work  on  the  Farm 

AN  INTERNATIONAL  is  the  natural  choice- 
International  Harvester  has  been  building  better 
and  better  motor  trucks  for  industrial  and  farm  use 
for  over  23  years,  and  its  history  of  heavy-duty  machine 
development  goes  back  nearly  a  century.  International 
Trucks  today  are  an  unbeatable  product, declared  so  by  a 
great  army  of  owners.  The  conservative  farmer  places  his 
faith  in  this  good  reputation,  based  on  such  experience. 

International  oSers  the  farmer  a  truck  to  be  proud  of, 
in  the  size  to  fit  his  hauling.  Sizes  run  from  the  %-ton 
"Special  Delivery" and  the 4  and 6-cylinder  SpeedTrucks 
for  lVi,  V/2  and  2-ton  loads,  up  to  the  5-ton  Heavy-Duty 
unit.  They  are  on  display  and  sold  through  the  136 
International  Branches,  the  widespread  Company- 
owned  service  organization  which  International  Harves- 
ter maintains  over  this  country.  It  is  good  to  know  that 
good  service  will  always  be  available  during  the  years 
your  truck  will  be  on  the  job. 

Fall,  winter,  spring  r.nd  summer,  do  your  hauling 
four  times  as  f  jst— let  a  pood-looking  International 
save  your  time  for  profitable  work.  We  will  mail 
you  an  International  Truck  folder  on  request. 

International  Harvester  Company 


Model  63  3  ton  International  Truck  in  the  dairy 
business,  owned  tji  Harry  Marsh  of  Carlisle,  la. 


Plenty  cf  Work  for  an 
International  Truck 

A  load  is  just  so  many  pounds,  or 
tons,  to  an  International,  whether 
it  be  milk  or  cream,  livestock, 
sacked  or  bulk  grain,  baled  or 
loose  hay,  shelled  or  ear  corn, 
fruit,  vegetables,  butter  and  eggs, 
chickens,  coal,  lumber  and  general 
building  materials,  feed,  or  any 
other  of  the  many  products  that 
need  hauling  to  and  from  and 
on  the  average  farm.  And  it  will 
haul  trailers,  pull  scrapers,  do 
road  work,  and  even  substitute 
for  the  auto  in  emergency.  Body 
styles  to  suit  every  need. 


606  So.  Michigan  Ave. 


OF  AMERICA 

(  Incor  poratcd) 


Chicago,  Illinois 


Mr.  Dave  Fit  spat  rick  of  Til- 
lamook County,  Oregon,  and  his 
grade  Jersey,  "Daisy."  Mr. 
Fitzpatrick' s  splendid  Jersey  herd 
was  high  herd  ^20  cows  or  over) 
in  the  Tillamook  County  Cow 
Testing  Association. 


Aside  from  this  fine  achieve- 
ment, a  number  of  Mr.  Fitzpat- 
rick's individual  cows  made  ex- 
ceptional records  in  their  vari- 
ous classes.  This  herd  is  milked 
entirely  with  the  De  Laval 
Milker. 


Famous  Tillamook  Record  -  Making 
Cows  Milked  with  De  Laval  Milker 

Summary  of  1927  Annual  Report  of  Tillamook  County  (Oregon)  Cow  Testing  Association 


High  Herds  Over  Twenty  Cows 


No.  of  Av.  lbs.  Av.  lbs. 

Name                        Address          cows  Breed  milk  fat 

♦Dave  Fitzpatrick           Tillamook           25  GJ  9,250  488 

*Geo.  W.  Durrer              Tillamook           24  GG  9,937  452 

♦Paul  Edmunds               Cloverdalo          26  GJ&H  9,689  409 


Of  the  3  high  herds  of  over  12  and  under  20  cows,  Ernest  Leonnig's  *17 
Guernseys  and  Jerseys  (milked  with  De  Laval  Milker)  made  an  average  of 
9,603  lbs.  of  milk  and  442  lbs.  of  fat. 


Mature  Cows  Producing  Over  575  Lbs. 

Owner 

Cow 

Lbs.  milk 

Lbs.fat 

Breed 

♦Dave  Fitzpatrick 

Rose 

15,085 

803 

GJ 

♦Dave  Fitzpatrick 

Daisy 

19,235 

712 

GJ 

♦E.  Leonnig 

Blackie 

13,954 

669 

GJ 

♦Joe  Kagi 

No.  70 

13,846 

634 

GJ 

♦Stasek  &  Aufdermauer 

Minnie 

9,215 

558 

GJ 

Paul  Edgar 

Allie 

10,229 

576 

GJ 

Foui--Year-01d  Cows  Producing 

Over  500  Lbs. 

Paul  Edgar 

Anita 

11,715 

694 

GJ 

♦E.  Leonnig 

Flower  ' 

11,461 

597 

GG 

Learned  Bros. 

Trouble 

13,455 

585 

GH 

♦Geo.  Durrer 

Rose 

10,911 

563 

GJ 

♦Crenshaw  Bros. 

Nellie 

9,036 

554 

GJ 

♦E.  Leonnig 

Blanche 

9,355 

522 

GJ 

♦D.  Fitzpatrick 

Daffadil 

9,721 

521 

GJ 

♦Paul  Edmunds 

Molly 

10,465 

518 

GJ 

Ten  High  Three- 

■Year-Olds 

Producing  Over 

400  Lb 

S. 

♦G.  W.  Durrer 

Holly 

16,250 

569 

GH 

♦G.  W.  Durrer 

Pearl 

9,950 

543 

GJ 

♦G.  W.  Durrer 

Goldie 

10,017 

494 

GG 

♦Joe  Kagi 

No.  39 

9,879 

494 

GJ 

*T.  B.  Hyder 

Snoop 

8,567  • 

493 

GJ 

Stephen  Steiner 

No.  12 

10,255 

483 

GJ 

Bohren  &  Kiger 

Lillie 

131,305 

464 

RH 

W.  B.  Vaughan 

Bess 

12,792 

462 

GH 

L.  S.  Hushbeck 

Crisket 

8,442 

452 

GJ 

Ben  Jacobs 

Dot 

7,739 

438 

GJ 

Ten  High  Two- Year-Olds 

Producing  Over 

350  Lbs. 

A.  Leuthold 

Linda 

9,461 

537 

GG 

♦D.  Fitzpatrick 

Pansy 

9,206 

526 

RJ 

♦D.  Fitzpatrick 

Pearl 

8,829 

477 

GJ 

♦E.  J.  Gienger 

Pet 

10,430 

468 

GG 

Leo  Sanders 

Red 

10,031 

448 

GG 

♦Tom  Hyder 

Burbank 

9,314 

445 

GG 

L.  S.  Hushbeck 

Brownie 

7,990 

442 

GG 

Frank  Blaser 

St.  Mawes  Pansy 

9,037 

440 

RJ 

♦E.  J.  Gienger 

Katie 

8,411 

423 

GG 

L.  S.  Hushbeck 

Star 

7,711 

414 

GJ 

*AII  cows  marked  with  star  were  milked   by  the 

De  Laval 

M  ilker. 

Report  Shows  that  High  Record  Makers  Use  the 
De  Laval  Milker 

fPP"*  AH  of  the  high  herds  of  20  cows  or  over  were  milked 
with  the  De  Laval  Milker. 

IW"*  Five  out  of  six  of  the  mature  cows  producing  over  575 
lbs.  of  fat  were  milked  with  the  De  Laval  Milker. 

Six  out  of  eight  of  the  4-year-olds  producing  over  5C0 
lbs.  of  fat  were  milked  with  the  De  Laval  Milker. 

UW"  Five  out  of  ten  of  the  3-year-olds  producing  over  400 
lbs.  of  fat  were  milked  with  the  De  Laval  Milker. 

IJSjf""  Five  out  of  ten  of  the  2-year-olds  producing  over  350 
lbs.  of  fat  were  milked  with  the  De  Laval  Milker. 

TiiSf  The  average  production  of  the  1306  cows  tested  dur- 
ing the  year  was  8,388  lbs.  of  milk  and  359.39  lbs. 
of  butter-fat. 


Could  stronger,  more  convincing  evidence 
than  this  be  offered  of  the  superiority  of  the 
De  Laval  Milker  ? 

Tillamook  County,  Ore.,  has  the  well-mer- 
ited reputation  of  being  one  of  the  finest  and 
most  progressive  dairy  sections  in  the  world. 
The  fact  that  De  Laval  Milkers  are  aiding  its 
best  cows  to  establish  greater  records  is  an  argu- 
ment that  should  not  be  overlooked  by  a  single 
dairyman. 

Write  to  the  office  listed  below  that  is  near- 
est to  you,  or  ask  your  local  agent  for  complete 
information  concerning  the  De  Laval  Milker — 
truly  the  "Better  Way  of  Milking." 


The  De  Laval  Separator  Company 

New  YorK  Chicago  San  Francisco 

165  Broadway  600  JacKson  Blvd.  61  Beale  St. 


LIBRARY 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Produ  ^rs'  Association 


Volume  11.    Number  7 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  OCTOBER,  1927 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


Come  to  the  Annual  Meeting  Oct.  25-26 

At  the  American  House,  Boston 

Hear  Reports  of  a  Progressive  Year  and  How  Some  Complex  Marketing  Promblems  Were 
Met  — -  Take  Part  in  the  Discussions  and  Help  Solve  the  Weighty  Problems  That 
Still  Confront  the  Association  — -  Meet  Old  Friends  and  Make  Some  New 
Ones .—  Fill  Up  Your  Car  with  Neighboring  Dairymen  and  Come 


The  program  for  our  annual  meeting 
is  not  wholly  complete.  We  have  been  so 
busy  attending  conferences  and  getting 
information  for  the  commissioners  of  ag- 
riculture regarding  the  situation  in  the 
Boston  market  and  in  the  country  that 
we  have  had  little  time  left  to  make  ar- 
rangements for  our  meeting. 

However,  when  you  -  come  down  here 
Oct.  25,  you  will  find  us  all  ready  with 
a  program  equal  to  any  we  have  had  in 
the  past,  with  the  single  exception  that 
Mr.  Pattee  cannot  be  with  us.  We  shall 
miss  his  strong  message ;  more  strongly 
shall  we  miss  him  personally. 

We  are  looking  forward  to  a  vigorous 
business  meeting  as  there  are  many  prob- 
lems to  be  presented  on  which  there  may 
be  a  considerable  honest  difference  of 
opinion.  In  spite  -of  all  the  assistance 
which  the  Commissioners  of  Agriculture 
are  giving  and  in  spite  of  the  co-operation 
of  the  other  organized  groups  of  dairy- 
men, the  NEMPA  is  still  the  organiza- 
tion which  must  make  negotiations  with 
the  big  dealers.  We  are  still  the  leaders 
in  getting  a  good  price  for  the  farmers, 
and  prices  and  conditions  for  some  years 
to  come  will  depend  on  actions  we  take. 

The  discussions  and  actions  may  cen- 
ter quite  largely  around  the  report  on  the 
survey  of  dairy  conditions  in  New  Eng- 
land made  recently  by  the  division  of  co- 
operative marketing  of  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agriculture.  A  partial 
summary  of  the  findings  of  this  survey 
were  made  recently  to  representatives  of 
the  organized  producers  of  New  Eng- 
land. The  full  report  and  findings  have 
not  yet  been  made  public,  but  it  is  ex- 
pected that  they  will  be  before  our  an- 
nual meeting. 

According  to  the  present  plan  we  will 
have  enough  printed  copies  of  this  report 
to  give  one  to  every  one  who  attends  our 
annual  meeting.  This  printed  copy  will 
be  for  you  to  take  home  and  read  it  at 
your  leisure  and  to  think  over.  We  have 
asked  Chris  L.  Christensen,  head  of  the 
co-operative  marketing  division,  to  dis- 
cuss the  report.  He  will  not  be  able  to 
be  present  but  it  is  expected  that  he  will 
send  someone  from  his  department  to 
deal  with  the  survey  from  the  official 
standpoint.  It  will  then  be  discussed 
from  the  viewpoint  of  New  England 
dairymen.  It  is  improbable  that  any  con- 
crete action  from  our  association  will 
result  as  the  recommendations  made  by 
the  division  have  to  do  more  with  long 
time  trends  in  the  market  and  the  possi- 
bilities of  improving  conditions  by  co- 
ordination of  the  present  forces,  rather 
than  through  any  sudden  or  radical  action 
on  the  part  of  dairy  farmers. 


CALL  FOR  ANNUAL  MEETING 
Notice  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the  New  England  Milk  Pro- 
ducers' Association: 

You  are  hereby  notified  that  the  annual  meeting  of  the  New 
England  Milk  Producers'  Association  will  be  held  at  the  Amer- 
.  ican  House  in  the  City  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  on  Tuesday, 
October  25th,  1927,  at  10.30  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  transacting  the  following  business: 

1.  To  receive  and  act  on  reports  of  officers. 

2.  To  elect  directors,  treasurer,  clerk  and  a  board  of  three 
auditors. 

3.  To  transact  such  other  and  further  business  as  shall 
properly  come  before  the  meeting. 

Yours  truly, 

GEORGE  R.  LITTLE,  President 
RICHARD  PATTEE,  Clerk. 


head  of  the  research  department,  will  dis- 
cuss the  outlook  for  the  dairy  industry 
in  New  England,  taking  up  probable 
prices  and  conditions  of  supply  and  de- 
mand. 

The  election  of  officers  will  take  place 
on  the  afternoon  of  the  second  day.  Fol- 
lowing the  custom  of  other  years  the 
delegates  from  each  of  the  states  will  be 
asked  to  hold  caucusses  for  the  nomina- 
tion of  directors  on  the  evening  of  the 
first  day.  The  directors  whose  terms  ex- 
pire are :  Maine,  Ralph  L.  Wortnley  of 
Strong;  New  Hampshire,  George  M. 
Putnam  of  Contoocook ;  Vermont,  F.  B. 
Catlin  of  Randolph ;  Massachusetts,  El- 
mer M.  Poole  of  North  Dartmouth ; 
Rhode  Island,  Frank  T.  Peckham ;  Con- 
necticut, R.  A.  Sikes ;  New  York,  Dr. 
George  B.  Little.  Director  at  large, 
Horace  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I. 


We  are  looking  forward  to  a  hum- 
dinger of  a  dinner  meeting  on  the  evening 
of  the  first  day.  Harry  R.  Lewis,  the 
new  commissioner  of  agriculture  for 
Rhode  Island,  will  be  the  toastmaster. 
Mr.  Lewis  was  primarily  a  poultryman 
but  in  the  past  few  months  he  has  been 
getting  into  the  milk  game  in  a  states- 
manlike way.  As  chairman  of  the  agri- 
cultural committee  of  the  New  England 
Council  he  was  a  prime  mover  in  the 
preliminary  steps  which  led  up  to  the 
organization  of  the  New  England  Dairy 
Conference  Board,  and  in  the  same  ca- 
pacity and  as  a  commissioner  of  agri- 
culture he  has  been  a  source  of  strength 
and  confidence  in  the  more  recent  de- 
velopments in  the  Boston  milk  market. 
Moreover,  he  is  the  right  kind  of  a  man 
for  a  toastmaster  and  we  think  there  will 
be  few  dull  moments  while  he  is  in 
charge. 

Following  our  custom  of  the  last  year 
or  two  we  will  have  a  first  class  enter- 
tainment with  plenty  of  music  and  Fun  in 
it,  and  will  go  a  little  lightly  on  the 
speaking  program.  One  good  speaker, 
well  acquainted  with  national  and  world 
conditions  in  agriculture  will.be  secured 
to  give  a  serious  message.  It  has  been 
suggested  that  someone  be  secured  com- 
petent to  speak  on  farm  relief  and  its 
significance  to  New  England.  There  will 
be  a  number  of  others  listed  for  short 
messages  but  no  extended  speeches  will  be 
arranged  for  beyond  the  main  speaker. 


At  some  point  in  the  sessions  Prof.  W. 
P.  B.  Lockwood  of  the  Dairy  and  Food 
Council  will  give  a  report  on  the  decided 
advances  which  have  been  made  within 
the  past  year  and  of  the  enlarged  pro- 
gram which  is  in  prospect.  This  is  one 
of  the  very  important  branches  of  the 
organized  work  of  the  dairymen  of  New 
England.  We  know  all  about  it  here  at 
the  central  office  but  there  are  many  of 
the  dairymen  of  New  England,  even 
among  our  own  members,  who  fail  to 
realize  the  importance  of  promoting  the 
use  of  milk  in  the  same  terms  and  with 
the  same  efficiency  that  the  producers  and 
sellers  of  other  foods  are  using. 

The  general  plan  of  the  meeting  will 
be  somewhat  as  follows :  Tuesday  morn- 
ing, Oct.  25,  opening  of  the  meeting  with 
reading  of  the  recirds,  preliminary  report 
of  the  credentials  committee  and  other 
routine  business.  This  will  be  followed 
by  the  annual  address  of  the  president, 
.Dr.  George  R.  Little,  the  report  of  the 
treasurer,  H.  L.  Webster,  and  the  intro- 
duction of  resolutions  to  be  referred  to 
committees  without  debate.  This  will 
probably  occupy  most  of  the  morning. 

After  luncheon  it  is  probable  that  Prof. 
Lockwood  will  give  his  Council  report, 
to  be  followed  by  a  general  report  on  the 
work  of  the  association,  given  by  As- 
sistant Manager  W.  P.  Davis.  Reports 
on  the  market  and  field  district  and  or- 
ganization work  will  naturally  follow  and 
in  the  late  afternoon  W.  H.  Bronson, 


CONSIDER  SURPLUS 
PROBLEM 

Surplus  prices  arc  still  in  the  forefront 
of  the  discussion  and  in  the  adjustment 
of  differences  in  marketing  plans  for  Bos- 
ton's milk  supply.  Following  the  recom- 
mendation of  the  Commissioners  of  Agri- 
cutlure  that  a  9'A  cent  price  should  Ik- 
made  for  September.  Several  conferences 
have  been  held  by  the  Commissioners 
with  the  various  groups  to  determine 
if  possible  a  basis  for  the  surplus  price 
adjustment,  which  it  was  generally  agreed 
should  take  place  this  fall  in  order  to 
put  the  markets  on  a  sound  basis  for  the 
future.  It  was  the  general  understand- 
ing reached  at  the  conferences  early  in 
September  that  the  surplus  price  charged 
dealers  by  the  NEMPA  should  advance 
within  60  days  as  a  part  of  the  general 
market  readjustment  of  prices. 

While  th  re  is  general  agreement  among 
the  intert  d  parties  that  the  surplus 
price  she.  St  be  increased  there  is  con- 
siderable difference  of  opinion  as  to  the 
way  in  which  the  increase  should  be 
figured,  also  as  to  the  amount.  There 
are  three  principal  suggestions  as  to  ways 
in  which  the  advance  could  be  figured. 

One  of  these  is  that  the  surplus  price 
should  be  advanced  by  establishing  a 
price  on  butter  fat  resold  as  cream  by  the 
dealers.  Under  this  plan  dealers  would 
be  required  to  report  cream  sales  to  the 
milk  administrator  in  the  same  way  as 
they  now  report  fluid  milk  sales.  The 
NEMPA  could  negotiate  with  the 
dealers  a  price  on  such  cream.  This 
would  leave  the  final  price  made  up  of 
three  factors :  1.  Fluid  milk  price;  2. 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


October,  1027 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 

NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 

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chusetts, under  the  Act  of  May  3,  1879. 

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postage  provided  for.  Section  1103,  Aot 
of  Oct.  3.  1917,  authorized  July  13.  1918. 

MAKKT  L.  PIPER,  Editor 

N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
Managing  Director,  Richard  Pattee,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me. ;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H.;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H. ;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass.;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I. ;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn. ;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn. ;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. ;  Richard  Pattee,  Boston,  Mass. 

PERSONAL  WORD 

For  years,  as  I  remember  it,  we  used  to 
have  an  "equinoctial"  storm  and  then  two 
or  three  weeks  of  what  was  called  "In- 
dian Summer."  Warm  bright  days  and 
cool  evenings.  There  has  been  some  dis- 
turbance in  the  regularity  of  this  thing  in 
late  years.  When  the  season  for  hunting 
was  longer,  this  was  the  cream  of  it.  The 
moon  seemed  to  rise  a  little  earlier  and 
to  shine  a  little  clearer  than  at  any  other 
time  of  the  year.  Then  a  deserted  apple 
orchard  on  a  hil!-top  was  a  dandy  deer 
trap.  Partridges  were  in  abundance,  not 
only  in  the  fields  but  on  the  farmer's 
table.  Life  had  a  sort  of  tang  which  I 
rather  think  it  lacks  these  days.  We 
raised  hunting  dogs — coon  dogs  and  bird 
dogs  and  spent  many  a  boisterous  night 
chasing  the  hounds.  I'm  glad  to  have 
lived  those  days.  In  Indian  Summer 
Nature  renews  her  productiveness  for  a 
short  time. 

Similarly  it  is  a  short  renewal  of  sum- 
mer in  the  milk  business,  feed  comes  back, 
the  cows  give  considerably  more  milk — 
what  we  usually  call  the  October  rise,  but 
we  know  this  will  be  gone  in  a  few  days 
and  generally  absorbs  itself  without  dis- 
turbing the  price.  This  year  it  seems 
likely  that  we  will  get  good  fall  prices, 
thanks  to  the  activities  of  the  Commis- 
sioners of  Agriculture,  acting  in  support 
of  the  other  farm  agencies  in  Boston. 

This  makes  me  wonder  whether  milk 
prices  cannot  be  better  maintained  by  a 
review  by  some  semi-official  organization, 
acting  for  the  public.  I  had  rather  strong 
ideas  the  other  way,  but  I  gladly  yield  to 
any  proposition  that  will  increase  the 
price  to  the  farmers.  It  will  be  interest- 
ing indeed  to  know  what  will  be  the  out- 
come of  the  effort  of  the  co-operative 
societies  to  organize  themselves  into  a 
movement  for  consultation,  discussion  and 
the  consideration  of  mutual  action  in  cases 


of  disagreements  among  them.  Incase  of 
such  disagreement,  the  intervention  of 
Commissioners  of  Agriculture  might  be 
exceedingly  valuable  in  straightening  it 
out.  Anyway,  this  seems  to  be,  with 
slight!  exceptions,  an  era  of  good  feeling. 
Let's  keep  it  up. 

PATTEE. 


AN  INVITATION 

Here  is  an  invitation  to  every  member 
of  the  association  to  attend  the  annual 
meeting  at  the  American  House  in  Bos- 
ton, Oct.  25  and  26.  The  official  call  for 
the  meeting,  given  elsewhere  is  one 
thing;  a  necessary  legal  procedure  in 
order  to  make  actions  taken  in  the  meet- 
ing binding.  This  is  quite  another  thing ; 
an  invitation  to  come  and  have  a  good 
time  with  your  old  friends  and  to  make  a 
lot  of  new  ones.  There  is  a  lot  of  busi- 
ness to  be  transacted,  for  the  NEMPA  is 
a  big  and  important  organization  with  a 
heavy  responsibility  on  its  shoulders.  This 
business  must  be  transacted  in  an  orderly 
and  businesslike  way.  But  wholly  out- 
side the  business  considerations  let's  get 
together  for  two  days  of  that  comrade- 
ship which  grows  steadily  through  hav- 
ing been  associated  together  and  working 
for  a  common  end. 

It  will  be  a  reunion  of  the  old  timers, 
men  who  were  with  the  association  in  its 
struggling  days  when  Richard  Pattee  was 
an  almost  unknown  person,  long  before 
New  England  dairy  farmers  woke  up  to 
the  fact  that  real  leadership  was  develop- 
ing and  that  the  dairy  industry  was  to  be 
brought  together  in  an  effective  and  per- 
manent way  largely  through  the  person- 
ality of  one  energetic  man.  Some  will  be 
there  who  were  working  for  a  united 
dairy  industry  even  before  Mr.  Pattee  ap- 
peared as  a  factor  in  the  -situation.  Stan- 
ley Abbott,  for  instance,  who  can  re- 
member the  very  beginnings  of  organized 
marketing  of  dairy  products  on  the  part 
of  the  farmers. 

With  these  old  timers  will  be  many  of 
a  newer  day,  men  who  have  come  to  the 
forefront  since  that  first  formative  pe- 
riod and  who  think  of  the  association  and 
its  problems  in  the  light  of  relationships 
with  other  groups  and  with  the  larger  as- 
pects of  milk  marketing  instead  of  in 
terms  of  that  first  problem  of  getting 
strength  enough  to  secure  recognition. 
These  are  the  men  who  have  been  active 
in  the  association  for  the  past  five  or  six 
years ;  the  men  of  the  second  period. 

The  extent  to  which  new  men  have 
taken  the  place  of  the  old  leaders  who 
formed  the  NEMPA  stands  out  strongly 
in  looking  over  Vol.  I,  No.  1  of  the 
Dairyman,  published  in  April,  1917.  The 
editor  has  been  on  this  job  seven  years, 
yet  of  nearly  100  county  officers  listed  in 
the  first  issue  he  finds  the  names  of  only 
a  few  who  are  still  active  and  at  all  likely 
to  be  present  at  the  coming  meeting. 
There  are  a  few  others  who  were  in  posi- 
tions of  leadership  seven  years  ago  but 
have  since  been  replaced  by  new  men.  The 
only  names  which  call  up  familiar  faces 
are  L.  E.  Mclntire  of  East  Waterford, 
Me. ;  from  New  Hampshire,  H.  N.  San- 
born of  Lakeport,  Herbert  N.  Sawyer  of 
Atkinson  and  A.  L.  Osgood  of  Pittsfield; 
from  Vermont,  F.  E.  Gorham  of  South 
Newbury,  C.  O.  Church  of  Whiting, 
Frank  W.  Clark  of  Williston  and  Mark 
L.  Moody  of  Waterbury;  from  Massa- 
chusetts, Elmer  M.  Poole  of  North  Dart- 
mouth, Chauncy  Gleason  of  Haverhill, 
Henry  S.  Ashley  of  East  Longmeadow, 
C.  E.  Wolcott  of  Barre  Plains  and  R.  D. 
Lull  of  Hardwick ;  E.  H.  Theinert  from 
Rhode  Island ;  R.  A.  Sikes  from  Con- 


necticut and  Dr.  George  R.  Little  from 
New  York. 

An  unusual  number  of  new  faces  will 
appear  at  the  annual  meeting  this  year, 
due  to  the  changes  in  the  by-laws  pro- 
viding for  direct  representation  from  lo- 
cals with  35  or  more  members.  There 
will  be  a  material  increase  in  the  number 
of  voting  delegates  coming  to  the  annual 
meeting  as  direct  representatives  of  their 
locals.  We  hope  also  that  there  will  be 
a  good  many  others  coming  in,  just  from 
interest  in  the  association  and  for  the 
good  time  they  are  bound  to  have  with 
their  fellow  producers. 

While  we  have  to  confine  voting  to  the 
regularly  elected  delegates  in  order  to 
keep  the  organization  in  a  businesslike 
form,  our  by-laws  provide  that  any  mem- 
ber of  the  association  has  full  liberty  to 
present  resolutions,  introduce  business  and 
make  speeches  in  support  of  his  resolu- 
tions just  as  though  he  were  a  voting 
delegate.  This  has  always  worked  out 
well  in  the  past  and  has  led  to  a  con- 
siderable freedom  of  discussion. 

So  to  every  member  of  the  association 
we  send  this  invitation  to  come  to  Boston 
Oct.  25  and  26.  You  will  all  find  a  wel- 
come here.  You  may  all  take  part  in  the 
meeting.  You  can  meet  old  friends  and 
make  new  ones.  You  can  get  an  idea  of 
the  association  and  its  work  which  it  is 
impossible  to  get  in  any  other  way.  By 
all  means,  take  a  few  days  off  and  come. 


ARBITRATION 

Are  we  approaching  a  period  in  the  his- 
tory of  organized  dairy  marketing  in 
New  England,  when  arbitration  will  be  a 
recognized  factor  in  settling  price  con- 
troversies ? 

The  Chief  raises  this  question,  in  a 
way,  in  his  Personal  Word  this  month. 
It  is  suggesting  itself  to  the  minds  of 
many  through  the  satisfactory  outcome  of 
the  price  negotiations  coming  in  conjunc- 
tion with  the  study  of  conditions  made  by 
Commissioners  of  Agriculture.  Largely 
through  the  stand  taken  by  the  Commis- 
sioners that  an  increase  in  the  price  Of 
milk  was  necessary  to  the  continuance  of 
the  dairy  industry  in  New  England  it  was 
possible  for  us  to  advance  the  price  to 
9l/2  cents  for  September.  It  will  be,  to 
a  considerable  extent,  through  recom- 
mendations made  by  the  Commissioners 
that  the  present  difficult  problem  of  ad- 
justing surplus  prices  will  be  met. 

In  thus  invoking  the  aid  of  the  Com- 
missioners in  price  negotiations,  is  the 
NEMPA  surrendering  any  of  its  proper 
function?    We  think  not. 

Times  change.  In  the  old  days,  when 
our  association  was  struggling  for  recog- 
nition it  was  inevitable  that  there  should 
be  trials  of  strength  between  the  organ- 
ized dairymen  and  the  dealers.  We  had 
what  we  called  "strikes."  They  were  ex- 
pensive for  all  parties  concerned  and  were 
only  justifiable  on  the  ground  of  estab- 
lishing principles  and  standing  up  for  our 
rights. 

Most  of  these  basic  principles  have  been 
established.  There  is  far  less  necessity 
to  resort  to  the  extreme  methods  to  en-, 
force  fair  treatment.  Moreover,  the  deal- 
ers have  recognized  that  we  are  a  perma- 
nent piece  of  machinery  in  the  market  and 
that  negotiations  can  generally  bring 
about  a  trade.  We  do  not  look  for  the 
necessity  arising  for  any  further  "strikes," 
either  to  insure  recognition  or  to  de- 
fend rights. 

We  believe  that  in  the  future  nego- 
tiations will  bring  about  a  tarde  in  nine 
cases  out  of  10,  perhaps  99  out  of  a 
hundred.    But  on  the  10th  or  the  100th 


time  there  might  be  some  plan  of  arbi- 
tration invoked 'in  order  to  obviate  the 
danger  of  the  great  losses  which  come 
from  a  real  clash  between  the  association 
and  any  dealer  or  group  of  dealers. 

In  addition  to  this  possibility  of  the 
need  of  arbitration  on  a  price  matter, 
there  are  certain  functions  which  the 
Commissioners  or  other  board  of  arbitra- 
tion might  assume.  There  is  a  limit  to 
the  extent  to  which  we  can  negotiate. 
Experience  has  shown  our  ability  to  ne- 
gotiate prices  with  dealers  and  if  they 
were  all  the  factors  in  the  market  any 
further  need  of  some  outside,  unbiased 
body,  might  not  arise.  But  under  condi- 
tions as  they  are  with  four  or  five  differ- 
ent methods  of  getting  the  milk  into  the 
markets  and  almost  as  many  sales  plans, 
there  is  a  point  of  contact  which  we  can- 
not make.  Our  relations  are  with  dealers, 
not  with  the  co-operatives,  chain  stores 
or  any  other  agency  which  may  be  selling 
milk  or  cream  in  Boston. 

In  such  matters  as  affect  all  these 
groups  and  in  which  each  group  has  a 
right  to  express  its  views,  the  aid  of  an 
outside  group  is  needed  to  hear  all  sides 
of  the  story  and  make  recommendations. 
If  the  various  groups  have  confidence  in 
the  source  of  these  recommendations  all 
will  follow  them.  This  was  the  case  in 
the  recent  activities  of  the  commission- 
ers. Their  recommendations  have  great 
weight.  But  the  question  still  remains 
whether  a  plan  should  be  developed 
whereby  all  parties  agree  beforehand  to 
follow  such  recommendations.  That  is 
the  basis  of  the  arbitration  suggestion; 
an  outside  body  to  whom  deadlocks  might 
be  referred. 


MORE  THAN  WE  EXPECTED 

Our  estimate  of  the  number  of  voting 
delegates  who  will  come  to  the  annual 
meeting  was  too  low.  On  a  recheck  of 
the  situation  we  find  that  there  will  be  a 
total  of  226  accredited  delegates  instead 
of  213  as  reported  in  the  September 
DAIRYMAN. 

The  increase  comes  through  the  fact 
that  we  did  not  take  into  account  the  fact 
that  a  membership  of  more  than  100  en- 
titled a  local  to  a  second  delegate.  Be- 
fore the  by-laws  were  amended  a  local 
having  50  members  was  entitled  to  a 
delegate  and  a  second  delegate  was 
allowed  when  the  local  had  more  than 
150.  In  our  statement  of  the  situation 
we  lost  sight  of  the  fact  that  when  the 
minimum  was  reduced  to  35  the  second 
delegate  minimum  was  also  reduced  to 
101. 

Thirteen  locals  have  a  membership  of 
between  100  and  150  and  are  thus  entitled 
to  a  second  delegate  in  addition  to  their 
president.  Nine  of  the  two-delegate  locals 
are  in  Vermont  giving  that  state  the 
largest  representation  of  any  in  the  entire 
territory.  In  our  September  issue  we 
credited  Maine  with  59  delegates  and 
Vermont  with  56.  The  new  count  gives 
Maine  60  and  Vermont  65. 

Some  of  our  staunch  members  who  re- 
called the  wording  of  the  amendment 
passed  two  years  ago  and  which  became 
operative  for  the  coming  annual  meet- 
ing, had  insisted  that  their  locals  were 
entitled  to  a  second  delegate  on  the 
ground  of  having  more  than  100  mem- 
bers. At  Randolph,  Vt.,  for  instance, 
Director  F.  B.  Catlin  was  so  sure  that 
his  local  should  have  a  second  delegate 
that  one  was  elected  at  their  annual  meet- 
ing. P.  W.  Connolly  was  selected  and 
will  come  to  the  meeting  in  company  with 
the  president,  E.  H.  Frink.  This  will 
make  the  Randolph  locals  with  three  men 
at  the  annual  meeting,  Mr.  Frink,  Mr. 
Connolly  and  Mr.  Catlin,  who  comes  as 
a  director  but  does  not  have  a  vote  in  the 
meeting  as  he  is  not  a  delegate. 

At  Thorndike,  Me.,  the  secretary, 
Henry  Small,  insisted  a  year  ago  that 
the  local  was  entitled  to  a  second  dele- 
gate. It  was  not  entitled  to  one  at  that 
time  for  the  reduced  number  required  was 
not  effective  until  this  annual  meeting, 
but  is  entitled  to  one  now.   Thorndike  is 


October,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


the  one  which  is  added  to  Maine's  total 
and  which  brings  her  representation  to 
60. 

The  single  addition  in  New  Hampshire 
is  at  Lancaster,  bringing  the  total  for 
that  state  to  33.  Colebrook  also  has  a 
second  delegate,  but  was  so  credited  in 
last  month's  issue  as  it  was  one  of  the 
few  locals  with  more  than  ISO  members. 

Barton  local  is  not  entitled  to  a  second 
delegate  on  the  new  basis  of  figuring. 
This  local  might  be  entitled  to  a  second 
delegate  on  the  151  basis  as  some  of  the 
leaders  have  been  doing  a  lot  of  work 
to  bring  the  local  past  the  150  mark. 
President  Forrest  Fifield  has  been  one  of 
the  most  enthusiastic  workers,  having  put 
in  10  days  canvassing  with  Field  Mana- 
ger Stearns  .  When  the  last  report  came 
in  Sept.  20,  they  were  only  four  short 
of  the  151.  They  may  have  them  by  this 
time.  They  will  have  a  second  delegate 
anyway  as  the  local  is  way  past  the  100 
mark  and  has  been  for  some  time. 

North  Walden,  Lyndonville,  Newport 
and  Newport  Center,  Vt.,  locals  are  each 
entitled  to  second  delegates  as  their  mem- 
bership is  well  above  the  100  mark. 
Alburg  comes  in  for  a  second  delegate 
and  at  a  recent  meeting  it  was  left  with 
President  A.  W.  Darby  to  select  the  man. 
St.  Albans  will  have  an  additional  dele- 
gate and  will  have  three  men  at  the 
coming  meeting,  as  Director  George 
Dunsmore  is  a  member  of  that  local. 
Milton  comes  in  the  same  class  with  an 
additional  delegate  and  Director  George 
Phelps  and  president  of  the  local,  Fred  A. 
Walston,  making  three  in  all.  Milton 
just  came  under  the  wire  at  the  last 
moment.  They  had  97  members  in  good 
standing  and  needed  four  more.  Mr. 
Phelps  and  Mr.  Walston  got  into  the 
game  in  earnest  and  produced  the  four 
needed. 

New    York    gains    one    delegate  as 
Hoosick  will  have  a  second  representative, 
in  addition  to  Salem,  which  has  more  than 
|  150   and   was   credited    with   a  second 
delegate  last  month. 

The  only  gain  in  Massachusetts,  Rhode 
Island  and  Connecticut  is  an  additional 
delegate,  from  the  Lawrence,  Mass.,  local. 


MARKET  CONDITIONS 

Production  of  milk  in  August  dropped 
off  from  July  production  somewhat  more 
than  it  did  a  year  previous.  The  same 
decline  continued  in  early  September. 
While  there  may  have  been  some  slight 
stimulation  to  increased  production  from 
the  price  increase  in  effect  in  August  and 
the  additional  increase  in  September  there 
i  is  no  indication  at  present  that  there  will 
be  any  material  increase  until  the  usual 
season  flush  begins  after  the  first  of  the 
year.  The  market  is  well  cleaned  up  of 
extra  milk  and  some  dealers  are  seeking 
extra  supplies  in  anticipation  of  a  sudden 
decline  in  production  when  killing  frosts 
com? 

Sales  also  fell  off  in  August  the  same 
as  in  1926.  Informal  reports  from  the 
dealers  indicate  that  sales  are  picking 
up  somewhat  since  September  1.  The 
opening  of  schools  and  the  return  of 
people  from  vacations  generally  increases 
sales  somewhat. 


The  net  price  for  all  milk  in  August 
was  26  cents  a  hundred  above  July  and 
10  cents  a  hundred  higher  than  in  the 
previous  year.  This  comes  from  an  in- 
crease of  17  cents  in  the  fluid  milk  price, 
as  compared  with  a  year  previous,  and 
a  surplus  price  one  cent  higher  than  in 
August,  1926.  Butter  averaged  the  same 
as  last  year.  The  comparative  prices  are  : 
July  August  August 
1927       1927  1926 

Fluid   $3.02      $3.36  $3.19 

Surplus    1.55        1.56  1.55 

Net  price  all  milk  2.29  2.55  2.45 
Avg.  butter  per  lb    .418        .421  .419 

Neiv  York  and  Boston  Prices 
The  New  York  League  price  for  Au- 
gust was  $2.52  per  hundred  3.7  per  cent., 
181-200  mile  zone  as  compared  with  the 
weighted  price  for  Boston  dealers  of 
$2.55  same  test,  same  zone.  The  New 
York  fluid  price  is  now  $3.47,  3.7  per  cent, 
test,  181-200  mile  zone,  as  compared  with 
the  Boston  fluid  price  of  $3.60  per  cwt., 
same  test,  same  zone. 


CONSIDER  SURPLUS 
PROBLEM 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

Cream  price  to  apply  to  that  portion  of 
the  surplus  which  is  resold  as  cream ; 
3.  Surplus  price  as  at  present  by  apply- 
ing only  to  that  portion  of  the  surplus 
which  remains  after  cream  sales  are  de- 
ducted. 

Serious  objections  are  made  to  this 
plan.  One  of  the  most  important  is  that 
some  of  the  larger  dealers  buy  cream 
from  Canada  and,  at  times,  from  the 
West.  Under  the  plan  proposed  there 
might  be  a  tendency  on  the  part  of  these 
dealers  to  increase  their  cream  purchases 
from  these  outside  sources  and  leave  the 
surplus  milk  purchased  within  New  Eng- 
land nearly  all  in  the  third  class.  This 
would  not  result  in  any  material  increase 
in  price  to  New  England  producers  and 
would  be  against  their  interests  as  it 
would  tend  toward  the  introduction  of  an 
increasing  amount  of  outside  cream. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  9^  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  October  1,  1927,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 

Cwt. in    Cwt. in  Cwt.in 


8qt. 

8^qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21$4qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

2V/4qt. 

40qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del.  Trucked 

.736 

.783 

.921 

1.841 

1.955 

3.682 

4.281 

4.281 

4.281 

1 

1-20 

.643 

.688 

.816 

1.656 

1.761 

3.332 

3.851 

3.855 

3.874 

2 

21-40 

.628 

.673 

.801 

1.626 

1.731 

3.292 

3.792 

3.790 

3.827 

3 

41-60 

.623 

.668 

.785 

1.601 

1.706 

3.252 

3.723 

3.735 

3.781 

4 

61-80 

.608 

.653 

.776 

1.591 

1.696 

3.217 

3.699 

3.713 

3.740 

5 

81-100 

.598 

.643 

.766 

1.571 

1.671 

3.187 

3.653 

3.658 

3.705 

6 

101-120 

.598 

.643 

.761 

1.566 

1.661 

3.172 

3.641 

3.637 

3.688 

7 

121-140 

.588 

.633 

.751 

1.551 

1.646 

3.147 

3.606 

3.615 

3.659 

8 

141-160 

.583 

.628 

.746 

1.541 

1.636 

3.127 

3.583 

3.582 

3.635 

9 

161-180 

.578 

.623 

.741 

1.531 

1.626 

3.112 

3.560 

3.560 

3.618 

10 

181-200 

.573 

.618 

.731 

1.521 

1.616 

3.092 

3.537 

3.538 

3.595 

11 

201-220 

.568 

.613 

.726 

1.506 

1.606 

3.072 

3.502 

3.516 

3.572 

12 

221-240 

.563 

.608 

.721 

1.501 

1.596 

3.062 

3.490 

3.494 

3.560 

13 

241-260 

.558 

.603 

.716 

1.491 

1.586 

3.042 

3.467 

3.472 

3.537 

14 

261-280 

.553 

.598 

.711 

1.486 

1.581 

3.032 

3.455 

3.462 

3.525 

15 

281-300 

.548 

.593 

.706 

1.476 

1.566 

3.012 

3.432 

3.429 

3.502 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del.  Trucked 

.736 

.783 

.921 

1.841 

1.955 

3.682 

4.281 

4.281 

4.281 

1 

1-20 

.668 

.713 

.836 

1.671 

1.771 

3.332 

3.886 

3.853 

3.875 

2 

21-40 

.648 

.693 

.821 

1.641 

1.741 

3.292 

3.816 

3.787 

3.827 

3 

41-60 

.643 

.688 

.816 

1.636 

1.726 

3.252 

3.805 

3.755 

3.782 

4 

61-80 

.638 

.683 

.806 

1.601 

1.706 

3.217 

3.724 

3.711 

3.741 

5 

81-100 

.633 

.678 

.791 

1.596 

1.696 

3.192 

3.712 

3.690 

3.712 

6 

101-120 

.633 

.678 

.791 

1,596 

1.686 

3.192 

3.712 

3.668 

3.712 

7 

121-140 

.633 

.678 

.791 

1.576 

1.676 

3.157 

3.665 

3.646 

3.671 

8 

141-160 

.618 

.663 

.786 

1.571 

1.671 

3.142 

3.654 

3.635 

3.654 

9 

161-180 

.613 

.658 

.781 

1.561 

1.656 

3.117 

3.631 

3.603 

3.625 

10 

181-200 

.613 

.658 

.776 

1.546 

1.646 

3.102 

3.596 

3.581 

3.607 

A  second  suggestion  is  that  each  dealer 
should  be  allotted  a  certain  amount  of 
surplus  which  must  be  paid  for  at  the 
negotiated  cream  price.  Under  this  plan 
a  dealer  would  pay  for  his  supply  in 
three  classes:  1.  Fluid  milk  price  for 
that  portion  of  the  purchases  which  were 
resoltl  as  milk  ;  2.  cream  price  for  a  fixed 
amount  of  surplus;  3.  surplus  price  on  the 
remainder  of  the  surplus. 

This  plan  holds  considerable  promise, 
but  still  leaves  a  major  contention  as  to 
what  formula  shall  be  used  for  deter- 
mining the  fixed  amount  of  surplus  which 
shall  be  paid  for  at  the  cream  price.  It 
is  to  the  advantage  of  the  dealers  to  get 
this  as  low  as  possible ;  it  will  be  our 
effort  to  get  it  as  high  as  possible.  The 
present  trend  of  discussion  is  to  find  some 
way  of  relating  the  cream  sales  to  the 
milk  sales.  It  would  be  possible  to 
determine  the  average  amount  of  cream 
sold  by  each  dealer  and  its  relation  to 
the  amount  of  milk  sold  by  such  dealer. 
This  percentage  might  be  used  as  the 
basis  for  fixing  the  amount  of  product  to 
be  paid  for  at  a  cream  price.  We  have 
been  going  on  the  assumption  that  the 
relation  was  about  as  three  to  five;  , 
that  for  every  500  pounds  of  milk  re- 
sold in  fluid  form,  300  pounds  of  milk 
was  necessary  to  furnish  the  amount  of 
cream  needed  for  the  period.  Dealers 
say  that  this  is  too  high  a  percentage. 
We  are  still  looking  into  the  matter  and 
expect  to  determine  soon  what  the  cor- 
rect percentage  should  be. 

Another  suggested  way  of  determining 
this  fixed  amount  of  surplus  to  be  paid 
for  at  the  cream  price  is  to  require  the 
dealers  to  pay  for  all  surplus  at  the  cream 
price  during  October,  November  and  De- 
cember and  to  take  the  average  of  these 
three  months  as  the  amount  which  must 
be  paid  for  at  cream  prices  for  each 
month  during  the  succeeding  nine  months. 
Thus  a  dealer  would  pay  cream  price  for 
as  much  surplus  in  June  as  the  average 
for  the  preceding  October,  November 
and  december.  For  the  remainder  of  the 
surplus  he  would  pay  butter  fat  prices. 
This  suggestion  has  both  advantages  and 
disadvantages.  It  is  being  made  the  sub- 
ject of  a  careful  study  by  our  sales  com- 
mittee. 

Still  another  suggestion  as  to  tem- 
porary measure  is  that  a  flat  advance  on 
all'  surplus  should  be  made  soon  and  held 
until  a  proper  figure,  on  any  of  the  above 
suggestions,  could  be  established.  This 
would  be  a  quick  and  ready  way  of 
stabilizing  the  market,  along  with  other 
readjustments  in  price,  and  could  serve 
1  until  the  commissioners  finished  their 
study. 


Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station,  a 
premium  of  .0075  cents  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
or  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  deduction  of  2  cents  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for 
NEMPA  members'  dues  and  1  cent  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


Turner  Centre  Price 
The  Turner  Centre  price  for  August, 
as  well  as  for  many  months  past,  has 
been  reduced  to  all  patrons  by  reason  of 
the  milk  which  is  sold  in  the  unorganized 
markets  of  Portland  and  Auburn  and  at 
the  various  creameries,  also  by  the  7]/z 
cent  price  which  was  in  effect  in  Worces- 
ter, while  the  Boston  price  was  9  cents. 
The  Portland  going  price  is  6  J/2  cents 
and  the  price  at  Auburn  and  the  cream- 
eries is  5  cents. 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  August,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  August  is  correct.   Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.042  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract 
$.042  per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  August  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

Zone  5  Zone  6  Zone  7  Zone  8  Zone  9  Zone"H)  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 
81-100  101-120    121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281-300 


Zone  1 

Miles  from  Boston    1-20 

Class  1  Milk  Price   3.641 

Class  2  Milk  Price   1.562 


Zone  2 
21-40 

3.594 
1.562 


Zone  3 
41-60 

3.548 
1.562 


Zone  4 
61-80 

3.507 
1.562 


3.542 
1.562 


3.455 
1.562 


3.426 
1.562 


3.402 
1.562 


3.385 
1.562 


3.362 
1.562 


3.339 
1.562 


3.327 
1.562 


3.304 
1.562 


3.292 
1.562 


3.269 
1.562 


Dealers 


Gass  1         Class  2 
(Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 


51.0% 

49.0% 

2.604 

2.580 

2.557 

2.536 

2.518 

2.510 

2.495 

2.483 

2.474 

2.462 

2.450 

2.444 

2.433 

2.426 

2.415 

50.7 

49.3 

2.636 

2.612 

2.589 

2.568 

2.551 

2.542 

2.527 

2.515 

2.506 

2,495 

2.483 

2.477 

2.465 

2.459 

2.448 

64.2 

35.8 

2.873 

2.843 

2813 

2.787 

2.764 

2.753. 

2.73S 

2.719 

2.709 

2.694 

2.679 

2.671 

2.656 

2.649 

2.634 

43.8 

56.2 

2.471 

2.450 

2.430 

2.412 

2.397 

2.389 

2.376 

2.366 

2.359 

2.348 

2.338 

2.333 

2.323 

2.318 

2.308 

54.4 

45.6 

2.692 

2.666 

2.641 

2.619 

2.600 

2.591 

2.575 

2.562 

2.553 

2.540 

2.528 

2.521 

2.509 

2.502 

2.490 

52.9 

47.1 

2.661 

2.636 

2.612 

2.590 

2.572 

2.563 

2.547 

2,535 

2.526 

2.514 

2.501 

2.495 

2.483 

2.477 

2.464 

57.7 

42.3 

2.761 

2.733 

2.707 

2.683 

2.663 

2.653 

2.636 

2.623 

2.613 

2.600 

2.586 

2.579 

2.566 

2.559 

2.546 

56.0 

44.0 

2.703 

2.677 

2.651 

2.628 

2.608 

2.599 

2.582 

2.569 

2.560 

2.547 

2.534 

2.527 

2.514 

2.507 

2.495 

Turner  Centre  System  includes  an  extra  payment  of  $.185  per  cwt. 


Page  Four 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


October,  1027 


WESTERN  MARKET  jjj 
DISTRICT  g 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr.  [jj 
585  White  St.,         Springfield,  Ma*«.  Cj 

Telephone  Walnut  1714  |Q 

PRICES 

Worcester   8^  cents  per  qt. 

Springfield   cents  per  qt. 

I  Iolyoke   8^2  cents  per  qt. 

Northampton   8>4  cents  per  qt. 

The  new  headquarters  of  the  Western 
Market  Ditsrict  is  in  the  Dexter  building, 
360  Worthington  street,  Springfield. 
After  some  months  of  handling  the  dis- 
trict work  from  his  home  Mr.  Adams  has 
reached  a  point  in  the  organization  work 
where  an  office  is  necessary.  Beginning 
October  1  members  of  the  association  in 
that  district  can  get  in  touch  with  him 
at  the  above  address.  Mr.  Adams  will  be 
out  in  the  district  most  of  the  time,  but 
there  will  be  a  clerk  in  the  office  who 
will  always  know  where  he  can  be  reacherf 
and  who  can  relay  messages  to  him  in 
case  he  is  needed  quickly  in  any  market 
in  the  district.  Establishing  an  office  is 
another  step  in  putting  the  western  dis- 
trict on  a  thoroughly  organized  basis. 
Worcester 

The  Worcester  price  advanced  to  8^2 
cents  Sept.  16.  This  advance  of  a  cent 
a  quart  came  after  a  scries  of  negotia- 
tions between  the  Worcester  marketing 
committee  and  the  committee  representing 
the  dealers'  association.  A  proposition  to 
advance  the  price  a  half  cent  Sept.  1  was 
accepted  by  the  dealers'  association  com- 
mittee but  did  not  prove  acceptable  to 
the  Whiting  or  the  Turner  Centre  com- 
panies who  said  they  would  advance  the 
price  a  cent  or  leave  it  where  it  was. 
Subsequent  negotiations  resulted  in  an  ad- 
vance of  a  cent  for  the  whole  market. 
Since  the  advance  the  conditions  in  the 
market  have  been  better  than  for  some 
time  past.  Indications  point  to  somewhat 
of  a  shortage  for  the  next  few  months. 

Part  of  the  trade  made  with  the  deal- 
ers was  that  there  should  be  paid  from 
the  amount  the  producers  would  receive 
at  Bl/2  cents  a  quart  delivered,  one  cent  a 
hundred  for  the  promotion  of  sales  of 
milk  through  the  New  England  Dairy 
and  Food  Council.  It  was  agreed  that 
this  amount  contributed  by  the  producers 
should  be  matched  by  an  equal  amount 
from  the  dealers,  thus  giving  two  cents 
a  hundred  for  the  work  of  the  Council  in 
the  Worcester  market.  This  work  will 
be  under  the  direction  of  a  committee 
consisting  of  P.  J.  Kingston  of  Charlton 
and  Rudolph  Viegneault  of  New  Brain- 
tree,  representing  the  producers,  John 
Gaffney  and  Howard  C.  Dunn,  represent- 
ing the  dealers,  and  County  Agent  G.  F. 
E.  Story.  This  committee  will  meet  soon 
and  map  out  the  program,  with  the  aid 
of  Prof.  W.  P.  B.  Lockwood,  head  of  the 
Council  activities.  The  work  of  the 
Council  has  had  a  very  beneficial  effect  on 
milk  sales  in  every  market  where  it  has 
been  developed  and  there  is  no  doubt  it 
will  be  equally  effective  when  carried  out 
on  a  systematic  basis  in  Worcester. 
Springfield 

Conditions  in  this  market  seem  to  be 
more  satisfactory  than  for  some  time  past, 
especially  from  a  resale  standpoint.  There 
is  still  sore  need  for  a  more  uniform  buy- 
ing plan  among  the  dealers.  Satisfactory 
conditions  cannot  prevail  for  any  con- 
siderable period,  when  two  or  more  buy- 
ing plans  are  used  in  the  same  market  and 
where  there  is  not  a  generally  accepted 
basis  for  arriving  at  a  fair  and  reason- 
able price  to  be  paid  the  farmers.  When 
the  sales  committee  made  the  advance  in 
August  sonic  of  the  dealers  advanced 
their  price  to  the  farmers  a  half  cent. 
Others  delayed  the  advance  until  Sept.  1. 
These  variations  tend  toward  confusion 
and  dissatisfaction  among  the  farmers. 
Sonic  way  should  be  found  whereby  the 
various  agencies  selling  milk  in  Spring- 
held  could  establish  their  base  price  in 
the  light  of  the  supply  and  demand,  not 
on  the  arbitrary  and  often  erronious 
opinion  of  some  dealer.  Comparison  of 
prices  on  a  flat  price  basis  gets  us  no- 
where as  it  does  not  take  into  account  the 
amount  of  surplus  carried  by  each  dealer 
or  give  an  opportunity  to  compare  it  with 
the  surplus  carried  by  other  dealers. 


Holyoke 

Conditions  in  this  market  are  not  very 
satisfactory,  due  to  the  fact  that  there 
are  a  number  of  small  dealers  selling  un- 
pasteurized milk  and  making  little  attempt 
to  conform  to  the  health  regulations.  This 
enables  them  to  sell  their  milk  more 
cheaply  than  the  dealers  who  are  comply- 
ing with  the  regulations  of  the  board  of 
health  and  are  working  steadily  to  in- 
crease the  quality  of  the  product  they  are 
putting  on  to  the  market.  In  justice  to 
the  responsible  dealers  and  as  a  safeguard 
to  the  public  health,  some  way  should  be 
found  of  getting  these  small  dealers  up 
to  the  standard  of  quality.  This  would 
remove  some  poor  quality  milk  from  the 
market  and  tend  to  stabilize  conditions. 
Check  Ttesting 

Check  tests  were  run  at  the  Hood 
Grade  A  plant  at  Shelburne  Falls  in  Au- 
gust. The  cold  wet  weather  this  summer 
has  resulted  in  a  lowering  of  the  tests. 

During  the  next  few  weeks  the  officers 
of  several  of  the  grouped  locals  will  get 
together  to  select  some  one  to  represent 
the  group  at  the  coming  annual  meeting. 


What  net  profit  will 
your  cows  make  this  year? 


BUTTER  PRICES 

The  butter  price  has  made  a  very  rapid 
advance  since  last  month  and  now  is 
47'/2  cents,  2  cents  per  pound  above  last 
year.  This  advance  has  taken  place  in 
the  face  of  the  largest  storage  holdings 
of  butter  we  have  ever  had,  163,000,000 
pounds,  as  compared  with  138,000,000  last 
year.  The  supply  of  92  score  butter  is 
short.  Shifts  in  trade  to  cold  storage 
stocks  may  affect  the  price  adversely. 
Storage  stocks  for  the  past  five  years 
were : 

Year        Sept.      Butter  Holdings  (lbs.) 

1923  103,000,000 

1924  156,000,000 

1925  128,000,000 

1926  138,000,000 

1927  163,000,000 


COST  OF  PRODUCTION 

Grain  prices  advanced  $1.50  per  ton 
from  August  to  September,  while  hay 
dropped  $2.00  a  ton.  Grain  is  now  $3.50 
per  ton  above  last  year,  while  hay  is  $2.50 
per  ton  lower.  The  price  of  grain  has 
the  greatest  effect  on  production  since  it 
is  all  purchased.  The  price  of  hay  has 
little  effect  on  production  in  the  northern 


1927 
Aug. 

Grain  per  ton  ....$48.49 

Hay  per  ton    15.87 

Labor  per  month 
with  board    48.70 


:  prices 

are : 

1927 

1926 

Sept. 

Aug. 

$49.97 

$46.47 

13.78 

16.17 

48.70 

46.60 

NEW  LEADERS 

Progress  along  very  practical  lines  is 
indicated  by  the  following  report  coming 
from  the  University  of  Vermont : 

Dairying  is  conceded  to  be  the  back- 
bone of  Vermont's  agriculture.  Recog- 
nizing this,  the  last  legislature  made  a 
special  appropriation  to  the  dairy  depart- 
ment of  the  University  so  that  this  de- 
partment might  operate  a  dairy  farm, 
build  up  a  high  class  dairy  herd  and  give 
additional  instruction  in  technical  dairy 
subjects. 

Proceeding  to  carry  out  this  enlarged 
program,  Professor  H.  B-  Ellenberger,.' 
head  of  the  department,  has  announced 
the  recent  appointment,  of  t,wo  new  pro- 
fessors. M.  H.  Campbell,  formerly  of 
the  University  of  Illinois,  has  been  made 
professor  of  dairy  production  and  be- 
sides teaching  dairy  production  courses, 
will  have  direct  supervision  of  the  herd 
and  the  dairy  farm.  His  excellent  quali- 
fications for  the  position  were  noted  in 
the  September  Dairyman. 

R.  W.  Smith,  Jr.,  comes  from  the 
Massachusetts  Agricultural  College  to  be 
professor  of  dairy  manufactures.  He  is 
a  native  Vermonter  and  was  graduated 
from  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  Col- 
lege in  1921,  since  which  time  he  has 
taught  dairy  manufacturing  in  that  insti- 
tution with  the  exception  of  one  year 
during  which  he  did  graduate  work  and 
received  his  Master's  Degree  from  the 
University  of  Illinois.  He  has  also  done 
special  investigational  work  for  the  New 
England  Ice  Cream  Manufacturers'  Asso- 
ciation. He  comes  to  Vermont  highly 
recommended  and  will  render  technical 
(Continued  on  page  ten) 


These  eighteen  cows  on 
Amco-mixed  feeds  show 
an  average  profit  per  cow 
.  of  $168.76  for  R.  A.  Eisa- 
fnan,  Irwin,  Pa. 


Pieterje  Concordia  Pontiac,  564849, 
one  of  Mr.  Eisaman' s  cows  which  on 
Amco-mixed  dairy  feed  netted  her 
owner  $235.78  above  feed  cost  in  a 
year. 


ACCORDING  to  Extension  Bulletin  83  of  the  New  York  State  Col-| 
lege  of  Agriculture,  a  cow  must  produce  $100  worth  of  milk  over  feed| 
costs  before  there  is  any  profit  in  her.  Hundreds  of  cows  are  doing  this, 
and  better,  on  Amco-mixed  open  formula  feeds.  The  herd  of  R.  A. 
Eisaman  of  Irwin,  Pa.,  is  an  example.  The  Westmoreland  County  Cow 
Testing  Association  credits  this  herd  with  the  following  production 
for  the  year  beginning  September  1,  1925,  and  ending  August  31,  1926 

Number  cows.  .  .".  18 

Total  milk  produced   1 78,926  lbs. 

Average  milk  production  9940  lbs. 

Value  of  product   $5452.43 

(Based  on  wholesale  price) 

Cost  of  feed  $2414.73 

Netprofit  ,  $3037.70 

Average  profit  per  cow  $  168.76 

What  Mr.  Eisaman  thinks  of  Amco  feeds 

Amco  Feed  Mixing  Service 
Peoria,  111. 

I  have  been  feeding  your  Dairy  and  Poultry  feed  for  the  past  four  years.  Dur- 
ing this  time  I  have  been  well  pleased  with  the  results  obtained  from  feeding  them. 
The  fact  that  your  feed  always  is  up  to  standard  and  uniform  in  quality  means  a 
great  deal  to  me:  also  I  find  that  your  feed  has  been  universally  cheaper  in  price 
than  the  feeds  of  like  quality  sold  in  this  vicinity. 

Prior  to  using  your  feeds,  I  had  tried  other  commercial  feeds  but,  of  course, 
the  fact  that  I  am  still  feeding  Amco-mixed  feeds  after  four  years  use  shows  what 
I  think  of  them. 

Thanking  you,  I  am 

(Signed)  R.  A.  EISAMAN 

Irwin,  Pa. 
June  28,  192  7 


//  there  is  no  Amco  Agent  in  your  town,  write 

DIVISION  OFFICE:  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


FEED  MIXING  SERVICE 


AMERICAN  MILLING  COMPANY 
EXECUTIVE  OFFICES:  PEORIA,  ILL. 

Plants  PEORIA,  ILL.;  OMAHA,  NEB.;  OWENSBORO.  KY. 
Alfalfa  Plant,  at:  POWELL,  GARLAND,  and  WORLAND,  WYO. 


October,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Suggested  District  Names 


Some  confusion  has  arisen  over  the 
naming  of  the  field  districts.  The  area 
in  northern  New  Hampshire  and  north- 
eastern Vermont  has  been  named  the 
Northern  Field  District.  But  we  already 
have  the  Northern  Market  district  with 
F.  Leon  Brown  as  manager.  We  are 
suggesting  the  following  renaming  of  the 
districts  to  the  field  men,  market  district 
managers  and  to  the  membership  in  gen- 
eral. 

A  field  district  including  all  of  Maine 
except  the  Portland  market  and  a  little 
milk  which  moves  into  Lawrence,  Lowell 
or  Haverhill  south  of  Portland ;  to  be 
known  as  the  "Maine  District".  Its 
manager  is  F.  L.  Foley,  and  his  head- 
quarters are  with  the  State  Department 
of  Agriculture  at  Augusta. 

A  field  district  including  all  of  New 
Hampshire  north  of  Lebanon  and  all 
northeastern  Vermont  to  Morrisville ;  to 
be  known  as  the  "Northern  District."  Its 
present  manager  is  Sam  L.  Stearns,  with 
headquarters  at  St.  Johnsbury. 

A  field  district  including  all  the  rest  of 
northern  Vermont  from  Morrisville  west 
and  as  far  south  as  North  Ferrisburg ; 
to  be  known  as  the  "Champlain  Valley 
District."  Its  manager  is  N.  H.  Wells, 
with  headquarters  at  St.  Albans. 

A  field  district  including  Rutland  rail- 
road  territory   from   North  Ferrisburg 


south  and  east  as  far  as  Chester,  also 
eastern  New  York ;  to  be  known  as  the 
"Western  District."  Its  new  manager  is 
Chas.  R.  Parmalee,  with  headquarters  at 
Rutland. 

A  market  (our  present  Northern  Mar- 
ket District)  including  the  markets,  and 
the  local  milk  coming  into  these  markets, 
of  Concord,  Manchester,  Nashua,  Ports- 
mouth, Lawrence,  Lowell,  Haverhill, 
Portsmouth,  Lynn,  Beverly,  Salem  and 
Danvers,  to  be  known  as  the  "Merrimack 
Valley  District."  Its  manager  is  F.  Leon 
Brown,  with  headquarters  at  Lawrence. 

A  market  district  (our  present  South- 
ern Market  District)  including  the  mar- 
kets of  Brockton,  Fall  River,  New  Bed- 
ford, Providence  and  Newport;  to  be 
known  as  the  "Southern  District."  Its 
manager  is  Henry  W.  Fienemann,  and 
its  headquarters  is  in  Providence. 

A  market  district  (our  present  Western 
Market  District)  including  Worcester, 
Springfield,  Holyoke,  Northampton  and 
Greenfield  and  the  territory  which  ships 
to  them;  to  be  known  as  the  "Central 
District."  Its  manager  is  Harold  P. 
Adams,  with  headquarters  at  Springfield. 

These  names  are  simply  suggestions. 
If  any  of  the  managers,  either  market  or 
member  can  think  of  any  better  ways  of 
naming  them  so  as  to  avoid  confusion  and 
not  make  the  names  too  long,  we  would 
be  glad  to  get  them. 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  August,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  substracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7  per 
cent,  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container;  per  &/2 
quart  can  $0,007;  per  10  quart  can  $0,009;  per  20  quart  can  $0,018;  per  21 J4  quart 
can  $0.019 ;  pe  r40  quart  can  $0.035 ;  per  cwt.  $0,042. 


Dealers 

Elm  Spring  Farm  Milk) 

7th  Zone  (121-140)   73.6% 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   86.4 


Boston  District 

Class  1    Class  2   

(Mkt.  (Mfg.  %y2 


Size  of  Can  ■ 


20 


Milk)  Quart  Quart 
26.4%    .516  1.337 

13.6  ....   


2154 
Quart 

1.259 


40 
Quart 
2.552 


Cwt. 
2.968 


Northern  Market  District 


Class  1    Class  2 


Robert  H.  Sawyer  (Mkt. 
Zoned  from  Haverhill  Milk) 

Delivered   94.4% 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Wason  MacDonald  Co. 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

Delivered   86.8 

1st  zone  

2nd  zone   


Findeisen  Farms, 

Zoned  from  Lawrence 

Delivered   66.7 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

9th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   76.1 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   


(Mfg. 
Milk; 
5.6% 


13.2 


33.3 


in 

8^'s 


3.503 
3.054 
2.982 


—  Size  of  Can  

in  in 
20's  40's  Cwt. 

    3.909 

  3.525 

    3.481 


3.503 
3.130 
3.080 


3.503 
3.150 
3.110 


23.5 


E.  C.  Blake 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   85.: 

1st  zone  

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   81.: 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Roby  Farm  Dairy 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   36.. 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   


14.9 


18.2 


13.7 


3.200 

2.899 
2.839 


3.200 
2.969 
2.921 


3.200 
2.986 
2.950 


3.260 
2.988 
2.958 
2.899 
2.818 


3.338 
3.128 
3.093 
3.057 
3.026 
2.999 
2.986 


3.497 
3.248 
3.192 
3.146 

3.008 


3.336 
3.043 
2.989 


BACK  IN  THE  BARN 

. . .  .for  another  winter 

PASTURE  will  soon  be  gone  and  your  cows  back  in  stanchions 
for  another  long  season  of  heavy  grain  feeding. 

Milk  prices  are  higher  and  will  be  higher  still  before  long. .  . .  some 
of  your  cows  have  freshened  and  are  starting  off  on  a  new  lacta- 
tion period,  milking  heavily  just  now. ...  a  good  combination  of 
factors  for  profits  ....  the  time  of  all  times  to  feed  well,  to  hit 
upon  the  ration  you  will  want  to  feed  all  winter. 

The  protein  basis  of  your  ration  is  the  profitable  part. 

Diamond  Corn  Gluten  Meal 

furnishes  highly  digestible  and  productive  protein  economically. 
DIAMOND  has  at  least  40%  crude  protein,  over  80%  total  digesti- 
ble nutrients,  and  not  more  than  4%  fibre.  Compare  this  analysis 
with  other  protein  feeds,  and  then  build  your  ration  on  DIAMOND 
this  Fall  and  Winter.  It's  the  logical  way 
to  keep  your  milk  checks  much  higher  than 
your  feed  bills. 

MAMQNI 


We  have  several  good  formulas,  showing 
how  to  feed  DIAMOND  with  homegrown 
grains  and  other  feeds.  These  formulas  will 
be  sent  to  you  free.  Just  write: 

Ration  Service  Dept. 

CORN  PRODUCTS  REFINING  CO. 
17  Battery  Place  New  York  City 


FMKQt 


CflfiN  PR0UUC15  Kt 

Cf/0*M.  Off  tCtl-WCW  TBftK  U1A 


I  CORN  GLUTEN  ME 

/  ■  -*  I  HQ  i. — ' 


5%  Interest 


Federal  Land  Bank 

FIRST  MORTGAGE  FARM  LOANS 

Application  should  be  made  NOW  for  loans  wanted 
this  winter  or  early  spring.  Appraisals  cannot  be  made 
during  the  winter. 

FOR  INFORMATION 

Ask  the  SECRETARY-TREASURER  of  the 
NATIONAL   FARM    LOAN  ASSOCIATION 
in  your  County,  or  write  direct  to  the 

FEDERAL  LAND  BANK 


at 


SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 
Serving  New  England,  New  York  and  New  Jersey 


Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


October,  1927 


THEY  DON'T 

LAUGH  NOW 

The  young  man  of  to- 
day without  hesitation 
or  blush  orders  a  glass  of 
milk  with  his  dinner. 

Ten  years  ago  he  would 
have  been  laughed  to 
humiliation. 

While  the  whole  world 
is  thus  turning  to  the 
wholeso  men  ess  and 
healthfulness  of  milk 
foods,  the  dairy  food  pro- 
ducers are  aiming  at  yet 
better  quality  produc- 
tion. 

Step  to  step  in  this 
effort 


keeps  pace  with  progress 
towards  better  dairy 
products. 

So  definitely  has 
Wyandotte  Dairyman's 
Cleaner  and  Cleanser 
contributed,  for  over 
twenty-five  years,  to 
purer,  cleaner  dairy 
foods,  that  '  'Wyandotte 
Cleanliness"  is  the  stand- 
ard of  the  dairy  industry. 


Ask  your  supply  man  for 
"WYANDOTTE" 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
( cream  acidity  standardizer) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
your  cream  ? 


Dates  of  Dairy  Conventions: 
Memphis,  October  15-22. 
Cleveland,  October  24—29. 


THE.  J    B    FORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturers 
"Wyandotte      -     -  Michigan 


FIELD  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT 

F.  C.  WARNER,  Manager  51  Cornhlll,  Boston 

DISTRICT  MANAGERS 
Maine  Field  District — F.  L>.  FOLEY,  Department  of  Agriculture,  Augusta,  Me. 
Northern  Field  District — S.  L.  STEARNS,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 
Northwestern  Field  District — N.  H.  WELLS,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 


Don't  Trust 
Your  Butter 
To  LucK^ 


Market  men  and  con- 


Our  field  service  department  is  now 
complete.  The  addition  of  Charles  R. 
Parmalee  of  Brandon,  Vt.,  as  field  mana- 
ger for  the  newly  organized  Rutland 
district,  covers  the  entire  NEMPA  terri- 
tory with  field  or  market  district  men,  as 
planned  for  at  the  annual  meeting  two 
years  ago  and  as  provided  for  in  the 
small  increase  in  dues  which  has  since 
gone  into  effect.  The  entire  area  is  now 
covered  and  every  member  has  a  "service" 
man  within  comparatively  easy  reach 
whose  sole  duty  is  to  help  the  members 
in  that  district. 

Mr.  Parmalee  comes  to  the  NEMPA 
service  well  equipped  by  personality  and 
experience.  His  father,  Dan  Parmalee  of 
Brandon,  is  one  of  the  old  war  horses 
of  the  association  and  has  a  wide  ac- 
quaintance in  western  Vermont.  Our 
new  field  manager  graduated  from  the 
Brandon  high  school  and  the  agricultural 
school  at  Randolph.  He  took  a  short 
course  at  the  University  of  Vermont  and 
has  been  in  cow  test  work.  He  is  married 
and  has  one  daughter,  one  week  old  at 
this  writing. 

His  headquarters  will  be  at  Rutland 
and  his  territory  will  begin  at  North 
Eerrisburg,  take  everying  south  of  that 
on  the  Rutland  railroad  main  line  and 
will  extend  down  to  Chester  on  the  road 
to  Boston.  He  will  have  all  of  Benning- 
ton county  and  eastern  New  York  in  his 
jurisdiction  and  will  serve  the  members 
in  this  large  area  with  check  tests,  work 
on  reinstatements  and  other  forms  of 
service. 

Check  testing  and  organization  work 
have  kept  the  field  men  quite  busy  the 
past  month.  A  considerable  part  of  their 
time  has  been  spent  in  helping  make  ar- 
rangements to  get  delegates  to  the  an- 
nual meeting.  As  they  have  gone  over 
the  territory  on  the  routine  work  they 
have  so  far  as  possible  called  on  the 
officers  of  the  locals  and  discussed  with 
them  the  proper  ways  of  getting  a  duly 
accredited  delegate.  Some  of  the  presi- 
dents who  are  entitled  to  come  without 
any  special  action  on  the  part  of  their 
locals  (those  having  35  or  more  mem- 
bers in  good  standing)  have  not  realized 
that  they  also  have  the  right  to  appoint 
an  alternate  in  case  they  could  not  come 
themselves.  The  field  men  have  explained 


this  possibility  and  the  result  will  be  that 
a  considerable  number  of  locals  may  have 
representatives  at  the  annual  meeting 
which  did  not  have  such  a  representative 
last  year. 

Here  again,  the  small  increase  in  dues 
voted  two  years  ago,  is  making  it  possible 
to  have  a  considerably  larger  number  of 
our  members  coming  to  the  annual  meet- 
ing as  voting  delegates.  Under  the  old 
scale  of  dues  it  would  have  been  impos- 
sible to  have  brought  in  so  many  and 
paid  their  expenses.  The  increase  in  dues 
means  not  only  having  a  field  man  at 
your  service,  but  that  your  local  or  the 
group  of  which  it  is  a  part  will  have 
their  own  man  attending  the  annual  meet- 
ing and  can  thus  express  its  wishes  on 
important  policies  more  directly  and 
forcefully. 

The  field  men  have  also  been  able  to 
assist  the  officers  of  grouped  locals  in 
selecting  their  delegates.  The  original 
by-laws  providing  for  this  grouped  form 
of  representation  required  that  there 
should  be  a  joint  meeting  of  the  pro- 
ducers in  all  locals  in  the  group.  The 
amended  bylaws  provide  that  the  officers 
of  these  locals  may  get  together  and 
choose  a  delegate  to  represent  the  group. 
This  saves  much  time  and  inconvenience. 

MAINE  DISTRICT 
Mr.  Foley  reports  making  767  check 
tests  of  butter  fat  for  members  and  re- 
porting in  each  case  what  he  "found  so 
that  the  member  could  compare  with  the 
test  given  by  the  dealer.  Tests  were 
made  at  the  Whiting  plants  in  Belfast, 
Thorndike  and  Dover,  at  the  Hood  plants 
in  Belfast,  Brooks  and  Winthrop,  and  at 
the  Solon  creamery  plant  in  Harmony. 

He  completed  the  canvass  of  dairymen 
at  Newcastle,  adding  five  new  members 
and  securing  dues  orders  from  two  old 
members.  S.  D.  Wood  is  president  and 
Jonathan  Dodge  is  secretary  of  this 
local. 

At  Damarascotta,  with  the  assistance 
of  President  Edward  B.  Denny,  he 
secured  eight  new  members  and  a  dues 
order  on  one  old  member. 

At  Monmouth  he  secured  10  new  mem- 
bers and  got  dues  orders  on  two  old 
members.  At  Winthrop  he  secured  20 
(Continued  on  page  nine) 


sumers  are  insisting  on  uni- 
form color,  now-a-days,  and 
no  real  dairyman  can  afford  to 
trust  to  luck  any  more.  Keep 
your  butter  always  that  golden 
June  shade,  which  brings  top 
prices,  by  using  Dandelion  But- 
ter color.  All  large  creameries 
have  used  it  for  years.  It  meets 
all  State  and  National  Food 
Laws.  It's  harmless,  tasteless 
and  will  not  color  Buttermilk. 
Large  bottles  cost 
only  35c  at  all  drug 
and  grocery  stores. 

WeB»  &  Richardson  Co.,  Inc. 

IFREE 

Burlington,  Vermont 


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By  Tenths  of  a  Pound 

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Made  to  comply  with  De- 
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Measures.  Large  7-in.  Cir- 
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black  figures  and  gradua- 
tions. Patented  adjustable 
hand  for  obtaining  the  tare 
weight  of  empty  pail. 
Order  through  any  leading 
Supply  house  or  direct. 

Specify  " Pelouxe" 

No.  D-40       No.  D-60      No.  D-120 
$4.50  $5  50  $6.50 

Postpaid 

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232  East  Ohio  Street.  Chicago 


CLIP  YOUR  COWS 

//  Means  More,  Better 
and  Cleaner  Milk 

Easier  to  keep  them  clean, 
make  them  feel  more  comfort- 
able and  keep  the  dirt  out  of 
the  milk  pail. 

CLIPPING  improves  the  health 
of  CATTLE,  HORSES,  MULES, 
etc.  Use  a  GILLETTE  PORT- 
ABLE ELECTRIC  CLIPPING 
MACHINE.  Also  furnished  with 
GROOMING  ATTACHMENTS 
for  cleaning.  Operates  on  the 
light  circuit  furnished  by  any 
Electric  Light  or  Power  Co.  or 
on  any  make  of  Farm  Lighting 
Plant.    Price  list  free  on  request. 

GILLETTE  CLIPPING  MACHINE  CO. 
129  Weit  3Itt  St.,  Dept.  K  New  Tork,  N.  Y. 


For  over  100  years,  liquid  molasses  has  been  used  as  a  stock  feed,  but 
for  only  a  quarter  of  that  time  in  New  England.     Feed  manufacturers 
realize  the  extraordinary  value  of  molasses  and  therefore  have  included  it 
in  their  feed.     Because  it  is  rather  difficult  to  keep  such  feeds  sweet, 
when  they  contain  any  large  amount  of  molasses,  the  general  practice  is  to 
use  only  about  bfo  molasses. 

So  far  as  this  goes,  b%  is  good,  but  it  does  not  go  far  enough,  be- 
cause molasses  must  be  used  in  much  more  liberal  quantity  if  the  best  re- 
sults are  desired.    To  accomplish  this„  a  feeder  should  add  a  considerable 
quantity  of  liquid  molasses.     By  so  doing,  he  secures  not  only  the  value  of 
the  added  molasses,  but  it  gives  a  much  greater  feeding  value  to  the  other 
parts  of  the  ration  and  the  whole  ration  is  much  easier  digested  when  a 
liberal  quantity  of  molasses  is  fed.    During  the  cold  weather,  there  is  much 
roughage  obtainable  and  if  a  diluted  molasses  is  well  sprinkled  over  this 
roughage,  the  stock  will  like  the  taste  of  it  and  they  eat  it  up  clean,  in- 
stead of  nosing  it  aside  and  pushing  it  into  the  bedding.    Full  value  of  the 
roughage,  which  might  otherwise  be  a  waste  product,  is  thus  obtained  by 
the  liberal  use  of  this  molasses. 

The  Record  Jersey  Cow  was  fed  a  mixed  ration  containing  molasses,  but 
there  was  added  to  this  a  liberal  quantity  of  Xtravim  molasses.  Whether 
you  are  trying  to  make  a  record  with  any  of  your  cows,  or  are  just  after  the 
most  milk  production  at  the  lowest  cost,  you  will  find  Xtravim  feed  molas- 
ses, when  used  liberally,  will  accomplish  the  needed  result  for  you. 


October,  1927 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


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NORTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 


477  Essex  Street,  Lawrence,  Mass. 


AUGUST  AND  SEPTEMBER 
PRICES 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  to 

Sept.  25,  1927   70c    per  Syi  qt.  can 

After  Sept.  25,  1927..74.3c  per  8]/2  qt.  can 
Nashua,    N.    H.,  to 

Sept.  15,  1927   66c    per  %Vi  qt.  can 

After  Sept.  25,  1927..72.4c  per  &l/2  qt.  can 

Lowell,  Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can 

Lawrence,  Mass  90c    per  10  qt.  can 

Haverhill,  Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can 

Concord,  N.  H  61.2c  per  %l/2  qt.  can 

Portland,  Me  7.6c  per  qt. 

Salem,    Lynn,  Dan- 
vers  and  Beverly, 

to  Sept.  4,  1927....72c  per  8  qt.  can 
After  Sept.  4,  1927..76c    per  8    qt.  can 

PRICES 

In  the  last  issue  of  the  Dairyman  we 
stated  that  the  Nashua  price  was  to  ad- 
vance Sept.  1.  The  Nashua  Sales  Com- 
mittee met  the  latter  part  of  August,  but 
was  unable  to  obtain  an  agreement  on 
price  advance  at  that  time  effective  for 
Sept.  1.  They  did,  however,  negotiate  an 
advance  of  Y^c  per  quart  to  take  effect 
on  Sept.  15.  This  puts  the  Nashua  mar- 
ket back  on  the  same  basis  it  was  last 
winter  and  this  new  price  will  give  pro- 
ducers selling  in  the  Nashua  market  a 
very  fair  return  for  their  milk. 

1  he  Manchester  market  was  on  an  8>4c 
basis  when  the  price  advanced  in  Bos- 
ton on  Sept.  4.  The  matter  of  a  price 
advance  in  Manchester  was  up  for  dis- 
cussion. The  Manchester  Sales  Com- 
mittee was  called  into  session  twice  dur- 
ing the  early  part  of  September'  and 
finally  negotiated  a  price  advance  of  l/2c 
per  quart  effective  Sept.  25.  This  means 
that  the  price  basis  in  Manchester  is  on 
a  9c  level  which  is  also  the  price  basis 
in  the  markets  of  Lowell,  Lawrence  and 
Haverhill. 

The  committees  in  both  the  Manchester 
and  Nashua  markets  have  been  exception- 
ally good  about  attending  Sales  Commit- 
tee meetings.  This  co-operation  is  ap- 
preciated by  the  District  Manager  and 
much  of  our  success  in  moving  these 
markets  up  to  a  reasonable  price  level  is 
due  to  the  splendid  help  given  by  the  mar- 
ket committees  of  these  two  markets  dur- 
ing the  past  two  months. 

The  July  price  advance  which  was  ef- 
fective in  Lowell,  Lawrence,  and  Haver- 
hill and  the  September  advance  in  Salem, 
Lynn,  Danvers  and  Beverly  has  been 
quite  uniformly  accepted  by  the  differ- 
ent dealers  buying  milk  in  these  markets. 
There  has  been  some  hesitancy  on  the 
part  of  a  few  Lowell  dealers  to  advance 
their  price  to  the  producers.  In  these 
cases  we  have  had  meetings  of  the  pro- 
ducers and  the  dealers  to  whom  they  were 
selling  their  supply.  After  going  over 
the  situation  thoroughly,  agreements  have 
finally  been  reached  whereby  tfiese  deal- 
ers have  agreed  to  pay  their  producers  the 
recognized  market  prices  as  shown  by  the 
NEMPA  price  cards. 

MARKETING  ASSISTANCE 
The  District  Manager  has  spent  some 
time  attempting  to  locate  buyers  for  milk 
of  producers  who  seem  to  be  temporarily 
out  of  a  market.  As  most  of  the  mar- 
kets are  short  of  milk  just  now,  we  have 
been  able  to  find  an  outlet  for  the  milk 
of  all  those  who  have  asked  for  help. 
The  District  Manager  has  also  spent  some 
time  attempting  to  collect  some  money  for 
producers  whose  dealers  have  been  slow 
in  paying  them.  Considerable  success  has 
been  met  with  and  it  looks  now  as  if  we 
are  going  to  be  able  to  get  for  these  pro- 
ducers all  the  money  due  them. 

NASHUA  MILK  DEALERS 
ORGANIZE 
On  Thursday  night,  September  15,  the 
milk  dealers  of  Nashua  had  a  banquet  and 
organization  meeting  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
in  Nashua.    The  purpose  of  this  meeting 
was  to  form  a  Nashua  Milk  Dealers' 
Association.    Similar  milk  dealers'  asso- 
1  ciations  are  in  operation  in  the  cities  of 
Lawrence  and  Manchester.    There  was 


a  large  representation  of  the  Nashua  milk 
dealers  present. 

Fred  A.  Lovering,  president  of  the 
Manchester  Milk  Deaiers'  Association, 
was  the  principal  speaker.  Mr.  Lovering 
told  about  the  miik  dealers'  association 
operating  in  Manchester,  and  said  that 
much  good  had  been  obtained  through  a 
closer  understanding  of  the  problems,  of 
proper  handling,  and  careful  distribution 
of  milk.  He  stated  that  meetings  of  their 
Manchester  association  at  which  those 
present  discussed  their  problems  had  been 
very  beneficial.  That  because  of  the 
Manchester  association  dealers  in  general 
were  operating  their  plants  more  effi- 
ciently, and  giving  a  better  product  as 
well  as  better  service  to  the  public. 

Other  speakers  were  Leroy  Batchelder 
of  the  Batchelder  &  Cushman  Company, 
Henry  Magoon,  and  E.  C.  Blake  all  milk 
dealers  in  Manchester.  Each  one  stated 
that  he  felt  the  milk  dealers'  association 
in  Manchester  had  been  of  great  assist- 
ance to  the  industry  in  general  and  urged 
the  dealers  in  Nashua  to  organize  a 
similar  unit.  The  district  manager  was 
an  invited  guest  and  was  called  upon  to 
make  a  few  remarks.  He  stated  briefly 
the  matter  of  distribution  of  milk  was 
a  problem  entirely  confronting  the  dealers, 
but  said  that  he  felt  efficient  distribution 
methods  also  reflected  favorably  upon  the 
producers. 

After  the  addresses,  the  Nashua  deal- 
ers present  decided  to  carry  out  and 
organize  a  unit  in  Nashua.  They  elected 
Leon  Morse  as  president ;  R.  D.  Kimball, 
manager  Roby  Farm  Dairy,  vice-presi- 
dent, and  Roland  Abbott,  secretary.  There 
were  17  milk  dealers  present  who  became 
charter  members  of  the  association. 

The  Roby  Farm  Dairy  has  changed  its 
name  to  Producers'  Dairy  System,  Inc. 


BE  RIGHT 

the  first  time — 


choose  Safekote  Roofing 

Don't  shut  your  eyes  and  trust  to  luck  when  you  choose 
the  roofing  for  your  buildings.  It's  too  easy  to  be  right 
—now  that  Safekote  Roll  Roofing,  smooth  or  slate-sur- 
faced, is  sold  in  practically  every  New  England  com- 
munity. Compare  Safekote  with  other  kinds  quality 
for  quality  and  price  for  price  -and  you  also  will  agree 
that  here  is  the  finest  roofing  of  its  kind  in  all  the  world 
for  new  or  old  farm  buildings.  Safekote  is  remarkably 
tough  and  enduring.  It  resists  fire,  time  and  weather. 
It  is  quality  roofing  through  and  through— yet  it  is 
surprisingly  economical.  See  the  various  Safekote  roof- 
ing products  at  your  dealer's  or  write  us  for  complete 
information  and  samples.  Safepack  Mills,  Box  600  , 
Millis,  Mass. 


Roll  Roofing 

MADE  IN  NEW  ENGLAND 


Mare  Milk  \ 
and  Better  W 

when  you  feed 


XViaviiti  MOLASSES 


MilK  Production  Cost 
Is  Reduced 

when  you  add  to  your  regular  ration  the  proper  amount  of  Xtravim 
Molasses. 

The  increased  cost  of  grain  this  Fall  requires  careful  watching  of 
feeding  costs.  Dairymen  who  are  successful  meet  the  present 
situation  by  freely  feeding  Xtravim — by  doing  this  they  keep  the 
cost  down  while  the  milk  production  is  kept  up. 

Xtravim  is  Guaranteed  Pure  West  Indies  Molasses 


barrel 


or  a  ca 


rload — it  pays 


Sand  for  Booklet,   "MOLASSES  FOR  STOCK  FEEDIMG 


BOSTON  MOLASSES  COMPANY 


173  MILK  ST.,  BOSTON 


Page  Eight 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


October,  1927 


I  E"teni  S^tes  Farmers'  Exchange 

Experience  A 
Great  Teacher 

August,  1927,  was  another  rec- 
ord month  for  the  feed  service  de- 
partment of  the  Eastern  States 
Farmers'  Exchange.  Every  month 
in  1927  has  run  substantially 
ahead  of  the  corresponding  month 
of  the  record  year  of  1926  and 
August  closed  with  128  carloads 
more  than  last  August,  and  nearly 
3200  tons  more  than  last  August. 

The  steady  growth  of  which 
August  is  typical  means  that  the 
co-operative  buying  service  which 
the  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Ex- 
change is  performing  for  farmers 
is  a  paying  proposition.  There 
are  a  hundred  and  one  reasons 
why  the  various  20,000  farmers 
ordered  their  first  order  through 
their  Exchange  but  the  reason 
they  keep  on  buying  regularly 
through  it  is  that  they  find  it 
pays. 

Experience  is  a  great  teacher 
and  experience  has  taught  the 
members  of  the  Eastern  States 
Farmers'  Exchange  that  through 
it  they  secure  grain  selected  with 
their  interests  in  mind  and  dis- 
tributed so  as  to  cost  them  the 
least  possible  expense.  They  find 
that  they  can  make  a  greater  net 
profit  month  after  month  when 
they  standardize  on  Eastern  States 
feed  and  grain. 

Where  records  are  kept,  East- 
ern States  Open  Formula  Feeds 
prove  their  worth. 

If  no  group  of  farmers  in  your 
section  has  been  organized  to 
make  Eastern  States  feed  service 
at  your  station  possible,  and  you 
would  like  to  know  how  to  go 
about  getting  one  started,  write 
the  office.  There  are  500  such 
feed  service  stations  now  in  New 
England,  Delaware,  Maryland, 
and  Pennsylvania,  and  new  ones 
are  being  organized  each  month. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

A    non-mtock,    non-profit  organization 
owned  and  controlled  by  the 
farmer*  It  terve* 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


SOUTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


H.  W.    F1ENEMANN,  Manager 
Slade  Bldg.,  44  Washington  St.,  Providence 


Tel.  Dexter  6469 


SEPTEMBER  PRICES  H.  P.  Hood  Company,  Turner  Centre 

Providence,  Sept.  1  to  15   9c     per  qt.  System  and  Providence  Dairy  have  all 

Providence,  Sept.  16  to  30  .~9j4c  per  qt.  been  check  tested.    Greenville  Farm  and 

Fall  River   9c     per  qt.  Narragansett  Dairy  will  have  been  check 

Brockton   &lAc  per  qt.  tested  before  this  issue  of  the  DAIRY- 

New  Bedford  ...."!!....""..!...!...9c  per  qt.  MAN  reaches  you.  All  producers  supply- 
Newport   9c     per  qt.  mS  these  companies  in  this  area  are  check 

tested  and  all  are  notified  of  the  result 

PKUV1UEJNCE  on  {ne  fjrst  round,  whether  they  are  mem- 

This  market  is  quite  steady  now  that  bers  of  the  association  or  not.    On  the 

the  chain  stores  are  selling  for  13  cents  second  round  of  tests  which  will  be  made 

a  quart  with  the  family  delivered  price  within  a  short  time,  only  members  of  the 

at  15^  and  16  cents.    Providence  had  association  will  be  notified  of  the  results, 

been  following  Boston  prices,  generally  This  policy  was  adopted  as  it  was  thought 

speaking,  but  there  was  some  variation  wise  to  inform  the  non-members  of  the 

this  summer.    The  variation  came  largely  service  which  is  offered  by  the  associa- 

from  an  effort  of  various  agencies  to  tion  and  the  notification  of  the  result  of 

straighten  out  the  chain  store  inequality.  the  first  test  was  a  good  way  to  making 

The   Providence   price  had   been  the  the  announcement.    With  members  the 

same  as  Boston  until  July  1,  when  it  went  report  on  the  check  testing  will  be  a 

up  a  half  cent,  three  weeks  in  advance  of  regular  service.    In  addition  to  the  actual 

the  Boston  price.    The  advance  of  a  full  check  testing  when  plants  are  visited  the 

cent  in  the  Boston  price  July  24  made  the  scales  are  inspected  to  see  that  they  are 

market  a  half  cent  higher  than  Provi"  properly  sealed  and  the  equipment  is  gone 

dence.    This  situation  held  for  only  one  over  to  determine  if  the  composite  sample 

week  as  the  Providence  price  advanced  bottles  are  properly  taken  care  of  and  that 

another  half  cent  August  1.    The  price  daily  samples  are  taken  so  as  to  insure 

for  August  was  the  same  in  both  markets.  a  proper  composite  sample. 

When  the  Boston  price  advanced  another  FALL  RIVER 

half  cent  for  September  the  Providence  The  Fall  River  market  does  not  follow 

price  did  not  change  which  again  left  Boston  prices  any  more  as  experience  has 

Boston  a  half  cent  above  Providence.  The  shown  that  the  conditions  jn  the  two  mar. 

Providence  market  advanced  to  9%  cents  kets  are  often  quite  unHke  and  that  the 

September   16,  again  bringing  the  two  Fall  Rjver  prke  had  better  be  decided 

markets  on  the  same  level.  upon  ]ocal  conditions  with  little  reference 

These  various  changes  even  up  the  re-  tQ  conditions  in  the  area  from  which 

turn  to  the  farmers  and  leave  the  prices  Boston  draws  its  supply     Local  condi. 

on  the  same  level.   Providence  was  ahead  tions  did  not  warrant  a  change  in  Sep- 

three  weeks  in  July     Boston  was  ahead  tember  and  the  price   is  sti]1  9  cents 

one  week  m  July  and  two  weeks  in  Sep-  Check  testi      has  been  done  for  local 

tember      One   three   weeks  offsets  the  trons  of  the  H  p  Hood  Company  and 

other  three  weeks.    The  net  results  of  the  Xurner  Centre  System. 

these  differences  in  time  of  making  the  pi?nrK"rn\T 

change  made  no  difference  in  the  total  BKUtKlUW 

amount  of  money  received  by  the  farmers  An  advance  in  price  m  this  market  is 

around   the    Providence   market   except  logical  but  is  not  at  present  possible  due 

such  as  came  from  fluctuations  in  their  to  an  unhealthy  condition  in  the  market, 

production,  but  it  had  an  important  effect  One  dealer  who  buys  his  supply  from 

in  straightening  out  the  chain  store  situa-  northern   New  England  is  sending  his 

tion  teams  into  town,  wholesaling  bottled  milk 

We  wish  all  our  producers  to  know  the  for *2  an?  13  cents-  .and  is  sel"n?  ™ 

helpful  way  in  which  Rhode  Island's  new  f,s  ™  cents.fa  ?.uart  ,nncans-    f  »  h°P£d 

Commissioner  of  Agriculture,  Harry  R.  that  this  situation  will  correct  itself  by 

Lewis,  has  assisted  in  getting  the  difficult  c  o  er  . 

situation  straightened  out.    He  has  taken  NEW  BEDFORD 

a  keen  interest  in  the  problems  of  milk  The  problems  which  arose  through  the 

marketing  and  has  done  much  to  stabilize  development  of  the  so-called  "Farmers' 

the  Providence  market.  Dairy  Company,"  made  up  of  members 

Check  testing  is  going  ahead  well.   The  of   the    recently   organized  Dairymen's 


7c  for  Bags 

Right  now  bundle  up  your  bags  and 
ship  them  out  to  us  by  freight  (not 
express)    collect  while  these  prices 
hold.  For  /l  clean  bags 
Eastern  States  Dairy  and*  Horse 

Feed  Bags  7c 

Eastern  States  Poultry  Feed  Bags  5c 
Amco.  Wirthmore,  Gluten,  Bran 
and  Other  Feed  Bags  ....  5c 
Cracked  Corn  and  Oat  Bags    .  4c 
/2s  According  to  Condition 

Other  bags  write  for  prices. 

We  pay  the  freight.  Minimum  of 
1 00  bags. 

Water  damaged  bags,  or  bags  from  apples, 
potatoes,  corn  or  sawdust  graded 
as  No.  2's  only. 

Prices  effective  on  all  shipments  made 
on  and  after  October  1,  1927. 

CARL  BURWICK  &  CO. 

1  Fay  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 
"  The  Bag  House  of  the  New  England  Farmer " 


Member 
Federal 


Reserve 
System 


How  To  Win 

Spend  less  tban  your  income. 
Invest  your  savings  —  and  at 
the  end  of  your 
journey  you 
will  find  inde- 
pendence, sat- 
isfaction and 
happiness. 

LIBERTY 
TRUST 
COMPANY 

199  Washington  St. 
Boston,  Mass. 

(Corner  Court  St.) 


COMPLETE 
SHOWN 


U.  S.  ARMY  WAGONS  S 

$72— 


Brand  New 


EASY  TERMS  IF  DESIRED 


Front  Wheels  3  ft.,  8  ins.  high.      Axle  2  ins.  square.    Solid  Col- 


Weight  ready 
for  shipment 
1200  pound* 


Rear  Wheels  4  ft.,  6  ins.  high. 

Tires  3  ins.  by  %  ins.  steel. 

Body  size  10  feet  by  40  inches. 

All  wood  material  ingrain  Oak 
or  Hickory. 


lar,  standard  gauge  5  ft,  4% 
ins.,  center  to  center  of  tire. 
Wheels  and  Axles   separate  if 
desired. 

Send  for  Circular 


Make  Money  Order*  Payable  to 

Federal  Stores 

Rochester,  N.  H. 


October,  1027 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


Union,  are  being  slowly  settled  through 
the  inevitable  efforts  of  economic  con- 
ditions. Many  of  the  farmers  who  joined 
the  association  and  sent  in  their  milk  to 
its  plant  are  now  turning  back  to  their 
old  dealers  in  the  assurance  of  a  better 
price  and  the  prospect  of  a  more  prompt 
payment  than  the  new  organization  seems 
able  to  make.  The  Farmers'  Dairy  Com- 
pany has  given  up  their  former  building 
and  arc  doing  business  in  part  of  an  old 
brewery  they  have  hired.  The  plans  of 
the  promoters  seem  to  be  coming  to 
nothing.    It  was  impossible  for  them  to 


pay  as  good  a  price  as  the  dealers  were 
paying  so  long  as  they  turned  into  by- 
products a  considerable  portion  of  the 
milk  of  the  members  and  so  long  as  they 
strove  to  sell  such  milk  at  a  price  con- 
siderably below  the  market  level  and  be- 
low the  fair  and  reasonable  price,  based 
on  supply  and  demand.  The  plan  was 
also  doomed  to  failure  as  it  \vas.x>rganizcd 
as  a  movement  against  selling  on  the 
weight  and  test  basis  which  is  favored 
by  the  health  department  of  the  city  as 
a  means  of  getting  a  better  and  more 
uniform  quality  of  milk  for  the  con- 
sumers. 


Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Dealers  (Mkt. 
Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 

W.  B.  Brown   100.0% 

H.  T.  Burton,  Inc   93.f> 

G.  T.  Chambers   80.7 

E.  A.  Fiske    <;.?.') 

Leon  E  Goff   100.0 

C.  W.  Grant    93.0 

Greenville  Farm   100.0 

A.  B.  Monroe   100.0 

Providence  Dairy  ....  86.2 

Turner  Centre   100.0 

W.  C.  Viall    90.1 

C.  A.  Warnock   100.0 

E.  P.  Westcott   100.0 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 

6.4% 
19.3 
6.1 

7.0 


13.8 
9.9 


Deliv- 
ered 
4.052 
3.890 
3.560 
3.901 ' 
4,058 
3.858 
4.053 
4.052 
3.708 
4.060 
3.807 
4.054 
4.048 


Zone  1 
1-20 
Miles 
3.718 
3.577 
3.290 
3.587 
3.723 
3.547 
3.718 
3.718 
3.475 
3.726 
3.506 
3.720 
3.714 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  2  Zone  3    Zone  Willi- 

21-40  41-00     net  mantic 

Miles  Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.670  3.604   

3.532  3.470   

3.251     3.198  3.080   

3.542     2.973    •   

2.675  2.609   

3.503  3.441  

3.670  3.604   

3.670  3.604     

3.444  3.384     3.185  3.310 

3.678  3.611   

3.463  3.403   

3.672  3.606   

3.666  3.600   


FIELD  SERVICE 

(  Continued  from  page  six) 
new  members  and  one  new  dues  order. 
These  two  locals  arc  grouped  and  ar- 
rangements were  made  with  the  officers 
to.  have  M.  K.  Donnell  go  to  the  annual 
meeting  as  their  representative. 

At  Mt.  Vernon  he  secured  three  new 
members.  Arrangements  were  made  to 
have  this  local  and  the  Belgrade  local, 
with  which  it  is  grouped,  represented  by 
F.  .  C.  Foster,  president  of  the  Belgrade 
local. 

At  Pittsfield  he  attended  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  local  and  gave  them  a 
talk  on  market  conditions.  Arthur  Oliver 
was  elected  president  and  will  come  to 
the  annual  meeting  as  the  delegate. 

NORTHERN  DISTRICT 
Mr.  Stearns  has  kept  up  the  good  work 
of  adding  new  members  in  this  district, 
but  the  time  is  coming  when  some  of  the 
locals  will  be  so  close  to  100  per  cent, 
strong  that  it  will  be  hard  to  find  any 


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His  most  important  piece  of  work  was 
at  Barton  where,  with  the  able  assist- 
ance of  President  F.  S.  Fifield  and  the 
former  secretary,  John  Pudvah,  41  new 
members  were  enrolled  and  16  new  orders 
secured.  This  local  is  rapidly  approach- 
ing the  100  per  cent.  mark.  It  is  believed 
that  in  that  area,  covered  by  several 
locals  there  are  not  more  than  a  score  of 
dairymen  not  belonging  to  the  association. 

At  Lunenburg,  Vt.,  a  meeting  was  held 
to  elect  a  president,  their  former  presi- 
dent having  moved  to  Maine.  Joseph  J. 
M  ail  let  was  elected  and  will  come  to  the 
annual  meeting.  President  George  Hast- 
ings of  the  Concord,  Vt.,  local,  and  Presi- 
dent M.  A.  Meader  of  the  North  Haver- 
hill, N.  H.,  local,  were  present  and  spoke, 
briefly.  The  afternoon  before  the  meet- 
ing Mr.  Stearns,  in  company  with  Secre- 
tary Irving  Silsby,  "went  calling"  and 
brought  back  memberships  from  three 
more  dairy  farmers  and  two  new  dues 
orders.  This  brings  this  local  well  past 
the  50  mark. 

At  Concord,  Vt.,  Mr.  Stearns  added  20 
new  members  and  secured  new  dues 
orders  from  six  old  members.  He  was 
assisted  by  President  George  Hastings 
and  Secretary  W.  P.  Streeter. 

The  H.  P.  Hood  Company  took  over 
the  Maple  Farms  dairy  at  East  St.  Johns- 
bury,  September  1.  This  affects  pro- 
ducers in  our  locals  in  Concord,  St. 
Johnsbury  and  Lyndonville. 

Mr.  Stearns  was  working  at  last  re- 
ports at  Brownington  Center.  He  had 
secured  six  new  members  and  two  new 
dues  orders.  If  he  is  equally  successful 
for  the  next  few  days  he  will  have  the 
local  close  to  the  100  per  cent.  mark. 
He  is  assisted  by  President  F.  V.  Swan- 
son  and  Secretary  Henry  behind. 

The  third  check  test  has  been  com- 
pleted at  the  Hood  plant  at  Newport 
Center  and  the  second  check  test  at  North 
Troy. 

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point  of  interest.  About  65  were  present 
and  their  discussion  of  the  relative  merits 
of  the  old  cream  plan  and  the  present 
plan  were  direct  and  to  the  point.  It  was 
brought  out  that  at  the  present  price  of 
market  milk,  9K>  cents  delivered  in  Bos- 
ton, producers  could  get  considerably 
nmre  money  by  shipping  milk  than  by- 
shipping  cream.  It  is  altogether  optional 
with  them  and  a  considerable  number  are 
changing  over.  The  good  feeling  toward 
the  NEMPA  which  is  felt  in  this  region 
is  shown  by  the  addition  of  11  new  mem- 
bers and  11  new  dues  orders.  President 

A.  W.  Darby  will  come  to  the  annual 
meeting  and  it  was  left  with  him  to  select 
a  second  delegate  as  the  local  has  more 
than  100  members.  Floyd  Young  is  sec- 
retary of  the  local. 

At  Isle  LaMotte  three  new  members 
were  added  and  dues  orders  were  secured 
from  four  old  members.  The  veteran 
supporter  of  the  NEMPA,  President 
G.  S.  Stanhope,  assisted  in  the  canvass. 

At  Milton,  with  the  assistance  of  Presi- 
dent F.  A.  Walston  and  Director  George 
Phelps,  enough  new  members  were 
secured  to  pass  the  100  mark  and  entitle 
the  local  to  a  second  delegate.  Mark  W. 
Melavin  was  selected  as  the  second  dele- 
gate. 

Fairfield,  Franklin  and  Enosburg  Falls 
are  in  a  group.  Their  officers  met  and 
selected  J.  P.  Ryan,  secretary  of  the 
Fairfield  local,  as  their  delegate.  The 
president  of  the  Fairfield  local  having 
moved  from  town,  Mr.  Ryan  is  acting 
president. 

At  East  Fairfield  Mr.  Wells  called  on 
a  good  many  of  the  farmers  explaining 
the  market  situation.  There  is  much 
uneasiness  in  this  region  due  to  the 
higher  prices  which  are  being  offered  by 
New  York  buyers.  Harry  Hale  and  his 
son,  Frank,  assisted  in  making  the  rounds. 

B.  J.  Branon  is  president  of  the  local, 
and  John  S.  Riley  is  secretary.  If  Mr. 
Branon  is  unable  to  come  to  the  meeting, 
Mr.  Riley  will  come  as  alternate. 

Somewhat  the  same  situation  was  found 
at  Highgate  where  the  New  York  buyers 
are  making  a  bid  for  present  Hood 
shippers.  In  making  the  rounds  in  this 
region  Mr.  Wells  was  assisted  by  Secre- 
tary O.  C.  McCuin,  H.  E.  Shelter  and 

C.  A.  Poole,  former  county  delegate. 
Bakersville  and  Waterville  are  grouped. 

V.  L.  Langdell,  president  of  the  Water- 
ville local,  will  be  the  delegate. 


NEW  LEADERS 

(Continued  from  page  four) 

further  developing  the  college  market 
milk  and  dairy  manufacturing  work 
which  has  been  growing  so  rapidly  since 
Professor  Ellenberger  became  head  of 
the  department  of  dairv  husbandry  in 
1918. 

Considerable  new  equipment  is  being 
installed  both  on  the  farm  and  in  the 
assistance  to  her  dairy  plants  and  aid  in 
dairy  laboratories  which  will  make  it  pos- 
sible to  give  more  and  better  work  to 
both  regular  and  short  course  students. 
An  up-to-date  unit  for  processing  market 
milk  is  being  added  just  now. 

When  Professor  Ellenberger  took 
charge  he  had  one  graduate  student  as 
assistant  in  college  and  station  work. 
There  are  now  three  full  professors  and 
one  instructor  on  the  regular  teaching 
staff  and  two  associate  dairv  busbandmen, 
a  dairy  bacteriologist  and  an  assistant 
dairy  bacteriologist  engaged  in  research 
work.  Ten  bulletins  have  been  published 
from  this  department  during  the  last  few 
months  and  others  dealing  with  recent 
investigations  are  being  nrenared. 

Assistant  Professor  W.  B.  Silcox  has 
recently  resigned  to  go  to  the  University 
of  Wisconsin  for  graduate  work  in  milk 
marketing. 

J.  M.  Frayer  has  recently  come  to  the 
rollege  as  assistant  dairy  bacteriologist 
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BOSTON,  MASS.,  DECEMBER,  1927 


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Boston  Price  Advances  on  November  16th 


The  Boston  milk  price  advanced  to 
%  cents  per  quart  Nov.  16.  Most  of 
ihe  lesser  markets  have  also  advanced 
;>r  will  do  so  Dec.  1.  The  advance 
'means  at  least  $100,000  additional  pay- 
ment to  the  farmers  of  New  England 
for  November  milk  and  at  least  $200,- 
100  for  December  milk. 

The  advance  came  as  the  result  of 
shortage  of  milk  created  by  flood  con- 
ditions.     Not    in    the    history    of  the 
milk  industry  in  New  England  was  an 
advance  in  price  so  generally  approved. 
Naturally    the    farmers    wanted    it  but 
lit  was  an  unusual  condition  when  prac- 
tically  every   dealer,    large   and  small, 
^was   advocating    an    increase    or  when 
■  public   officials,    representing    both  pro- 
!  ducers  and  consumers,  expressed  them- 
-  selves   in    favor  of   a   raise.     So  gen- 
;  erally  was  the  need  for  an  increase  in 
price    recognized    that     some    of  the 
Boston  papers  published  editorials  sup- 
porting it. 

i    But    the    increase    would    not  have 
!  come   if   the    NEMPA   had   not  taken 
I  the  initial  steps  toward  putting  it  into 
effect.     No   dealer    would    have  volun- 
tarily advanced  the  price  to  his  patrons 
[  unless    he    had    assurance    that  other 
I  dealers  were  making  a  similar  advance. 
I  The  special  milk  commission  appointed 
'  by   Acting    Governor    Frank    H.  Allen 
would  not  have  taken  the  initiative  in 
advocating  an  advance  in  price  although 
thev  were  glad  to  approve  of  it  after 
i  it  had  been  made  by  the  NEMPA.  The 
'  creameries  and  lesser  groups  selling  milk 
in  Boston  could  not  have  made  the  ad- 
vance to  their  farmers  or  to  the  trade 
,  if  the  NEMPA  had  not  led  off. 
;    The    three-quarters    of    a    cent  ad- 
vance   is    not    all    clear    gain    to  the 
farmers   as   it   will   be   offset   to  some 
1  extent   by   a  certain   proportion   of  the 
'increased  costs  of  getting  the  milk  into 
)  the  market  during  the  period  when  rail 
.  transportation    is   crippled.     Under  the 
trade   between    the    NEMPA    and  the 
;  dealers,  milk  is   sold  on  the  delivered 
if  in  Boston   basis,   the   producers  paying 
I  all  charges  of  getting  the  milk  to  the 
[city.     As    a    matter    of    practice  the 
Mealers    actually    pay    the    freight  bills 
},and  deduct  that  amount  from  the  checks 
of  the  farmers  when  payment  is  made. 
\     When    the   flood   crippled   rail  trans- 
portation,  dealers   immediately   put  into 
operation   a    trucking    service    to  move 
,  the  milk.     They   did   not   stop   to  ask 
>  who    would    pay    the    extra    costs  but 
[  they  moved  the  milk  as  an  emergency 
f  proposition.     They    did    not    open  the 
'question    of    increased    costs    with  the 
sales  committee  of   the  association  for 
I  several    days    afterwards    when    it  be- 
came   apparent    that    the    trucks  would 
i  have  to  be  used  for  some  little  time  to 
'  come  in  some  areas.     Then  they  asked 
i  the    sales    committee    to    consider  the 
;  question   of    these    increased  costs. 
[    The  sales  committee  and  the  dealers 
L  have  reached  an  agreement  that  a  part 
f  of  these   increased   costs   of  transport- 
|  ing  milk   to  the  city    should   be  borne 
I  by  the   farmer  and   the   remainder  by 
!  the    dealer.      The    emergency  burden 
i  should  be  borne   by  both.     It   was  to 
|  the  advantage  of  the  dealer  to  get  all 
!  possible  milk  so  as  to  meet  the  trade 
demands  in  the  city ;  it  was  equally  to 
]  the  advantage  of  the  farmers  to  have 


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°        J  c    The   Bostyy  price  to  the  consumers  not 

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°  .wual  expenses  in  getting  in  the  enter- 

C>  gency  supply. 

Practically   all   milk   north   and  west 


as  much  of  their  milk  moved  as  possible 
instead  of  having  it  replaced  by  milk 
from  the  west. 

The  amounts  which  will  be  paid  by 
each  are  still  under  negotiation  but 
the  policy  of  distributing  the  producers' 
share  of  the  cost  over  the  entire  in- 
dustry has  been  settled.  Instead  of 
placing  the  burden  •  of  the  trucking 
charges  on  the  individual  farmers  whose 
milk  was  trucked,  the  extra  costs  to 
each  dealer  will  be  figured  and  a  cer- 
tain proportion  of   these  costs   will  be 


O-:  gency 

on  dairy  production.  Some  farmers  haMT 


lost  cows,  some  have  lost  barns,  some 
have  lost  hay,  some  have  lost  valuable 
land  through  the  washing  away  of  the 
soil.  Some  few  have  suffered  all  these 
losses.  In  addition,  some  have  been 
shut  out  from  the  markets  altogether 
for  a  period  or  have  had  to  transport 
their  milk  considerably  farther  to  get 
it  to  where  it  could  be  taken  by  rail- 
road or  by  the  emergency  truck  serv- 
ice inaugurated  by  the  dealers. 
All    this   has   brought   about   a  con- 


FRESH  MILK  FOR  THANKSGIVING 

''I  learn  from  my  Emergency  Milk  Commission  that  the 
people  of  Boston  and  vicinity  are  now  assured  their  usual 
milk  supply.  There  is  therefore  no  further  need  for  curtail- 
ment in  the  use  of  milk. 

(Signed)    "FRANK  G.  ALLEN, 

"Acting  Governor." 


"The  people  of  Boston  did  not  feel  the  pinch  of  a  shortage 
of  milk  during  the  Vermont  flood  which  might  have  been  very, 
very  serious.  Why?  Because  the  farmers  of  New  England, 
the  milk  distributors,  chain  stores  and  railroads  put  forth 
superhuman  effort  so  that  the  people  of  Boston  should  not  be 
deprived  of  this  absolutely  necessary  article  of  food. 

"Sincerely, 
(Signed)    "ARTHUR  W.  GILBERT, 

"Commissioner  of  Agriculture." 
— Advertisements  in  Boston  Newspapers. 


charged  to  all  producers  shipping  to 
that  dealer.  Thus  the  burden  of  extra 
costs  will  fall  on  the  whole  industry, 
which  is  able  to  bear  it  through  the 
increase  of  of  a  cent  in  the  price, 
not  simply  on  those  farmers  whose  milk 
was  transported  by  truck.  To  assess 
the  whole  cost  on  these  men  would  be 
to  increase  their  costs  greatly  in  excess 
of  the  ^  of  a  cent  a  quart.  Dis- 
tributing the  burden  over  the  whole 
industry  leaves  the  cost  to  each  pro- 
ducer considerably  less  than  -)4  of  a 
cent. 

The  increase  of  $4  of  a  cent  more 
than  offsets  additional  costs  of  get- 
ting the  milk  to  market,  but  it  does 
not  represent  any  material  reimburse- 
ment to  those  farmers  who  have  suf- 
fered heavy  losses.  At  first  these  losses 
were  reported  in  exaggerated  terms. 
It  was  said  that  15,000  cows  were  lost, 
that  great  numbers  of  barns  were  car- 
ried away  and  that  large  quantities  of 
hay  were  ruined  by  the  high  water. 
Later  information  showed  that  these 
estimates  were  far  too  high ;  we 
swung  in  the   opposite  direction. 

The  latest  information  from  the 
areas  where  the  flood  hit  indicates  that 
there  will  he  a  definite  long  time  effect 


siderable  discouragement  which  will 
have  a  material  effect  on  the  pro- 
duction of  milk  for  some  time  to  come. 
The  loss  of  about  1,500  cows,  the  pres- 
ent estimate  .for  Vermont,  is  insig- 
nificant when  taken  in  comparison  to 
the  total  number  of  cows  in  the  state. 
But  a  considerable  number  of  the  men 
who  were  hit  by  the  flood  are  now 
offering  their  herds  or  their  farms 
for  sale.  The  price  of  cows  is  high. 
They  have  suffered  losses  and  need 
some  ready  money.  If  they  are  to  have 
difficulty  in  getting  their  milk  to  mar- 
ket for  some  time  to  come  they  feel 
that  it  is  good  business  to  sell  the 
cows  and  get  what  money  they  can. 
Whether  or  not  they  will  buy  herds 
again  next  spring  or  later  will  depend 
on  milk  prices  and  general  conditions 
iii  the  dairy  industry. 

In  meeting  the  emergency  condition-, 
dealers  got  milk  where  they  could. 
They  bought  some  in  New  York,  some 
in  Philadelphia,  some  in  Maryland  and 
some  from  the  west.  The  most  distant 
shipment  came  from  Waterloo,  la.  This 
milk  cost  them  from  11  to  13  cents 
delivered  in  Boston.  For  a  few  days 
it  was  necessary  to  bring  in  about  40 
per  cent,  of  the  supply  from  a  distance. 


of  Woodsville  was  shut  off  by  flood 
conditions.  There  was  no  rail  trans- 
portation beyond  White  River  Junc- 
tion on  that  line.  The  St.  Johnsbury 
and  Lake  Champlain  was  out  of  com- 
mission. Milk  from  Franklin  county 
was  partially  shut  off  from  rail  com- 
munication but  some  was  run  in  by 
way  of  the  Delaware  and  Hudson. 
Boston  &  Albany,  and  Boston  &  Maine 
over  the  Fitchburg  division.  The  flood 
practically  shut  off  fully  40  per  cent, 
of  the  milk  supply  of  Boston  at  a  time 
when  milk  was  short.  Dealers  did  a 
fine  job  in  their  emergency  trucking 
service  but  there  was  not  nearly  enough 
milk  quickly  available  to  meet  the  de- 
mands. In  the  city  an  acute  shortage 
threatened  but  was  averted  by  the 
prompt    work    of    the  dealers. 

When  the  acute  shortage  threatened, 
Acting  Governor  Allen  appointed  a 
special  milk  commission.  They  met 
the  various  parties  at  interest  and  it 
was  through  their  wise  leadership  that 
the  general  understanding  of  the  best 
course  to  pursue  was  reached.  Their 
statement  to  the  press  is  given  on  page 
three.  It  was  an  important  factor  in 
stabilizing  conditions  and  prices  after 
the  NEMPA  had  made  the  advance. 


DAVIS  MADE  DIRECTOR 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Na- 
tional Co-operative  Milk  Producers' 
Federation  in  Milwaukee,  W.  P.  Davis, 
general  manager  of  the  NEMPA,  was 
made  a  director  in  the  national  or- 
ganization to  take  the  place  left  vacant 
by  the  death  of  Mr.  Pattee.  The  Chief 
served  in  several  capacities  in  the  na- 
tional organization.  His  place  as  first 
vice-president  was  filled  by  the  election 
of  C.  E.  Hough,  of  the  Connecticut 
Milk  Producers'  Association,  and  his 
place  on  the  executive  committee  was 
filled  by  the  election  of  Frank  CI. 
Swaboda.  Judge  J.  I).  Miller,  of  the 
Dairymen's  League,  was  re-elected 
president ;  Harry  Hartke,  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati association,  was  elected  second 
vice-president;  Frank  P.  Willits,  of  the 
Philadelphia  association,  was  elected 
treasurer,  and  C  W.  Holman  was 
elected  secretary.  It  was  one  of  the 
largest  and  most  enthusiastic  meetings 
of  the  federation.  Practically  every 
dairy  organization  in  the  country  was 
represented.  There  are  about  300.0O) 
organized  dairymen  in  the  United  States 
and  their  business  aggregates  about 
$300,000,000  annually.  In  the  develop- 
ment of  this  great  organization,  the  Na- 
tional Co-operative  Milk  Producers' 
Association,  we  have  had  an  important 
part  through  the  influence  and  work  of 
Richard  Pattee.  In  its  present  and 
future  work  we  expect  to  have  close 
contact  through  our  new  general  man- 
ager, Mr.  Davis. 


Page  Two 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


December,  1927 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 
NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 
51  Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass. 
Devoted    to    the    Interests    of  Dairy 
Farming  and  Marketing  in 
New  England 

Subscription  Price,  Fifty  Cents  Per  Year 
W.  P.  DAVIS,  Treasurer 

ADVERTISING  RATES 
"Oo  per  meat*  line,  fiat,  14  lines  to  the  Inch. 
One  pare.   Inside,  700  lines.  $1*0.00.  Last 

pace,  120  lines.  $144.00. 
F.  I>.  WEARE,  Business  Manager 

Entered  as  second  class  matter.  July  SO. 
1»17,  at  the  Postofflce  In  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, under  the  Act  or  May  3.  137S. 

Acceptance  for  mailing  at  special  rates  of 
postage  provided  tor.  Section  1103,  Aot 
ot  Oct.  J.  1117,  authorized  July  13.  1»1»- 

MARRY.  E.  PIPER,  Editor 


N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1926 
President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
General  Manager,  W.  P.  Davis,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt.;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B. 
Catlin,  Randolph,  Vt.;  George  H. 
Dunsmore,  St.  Albans,  Vt. ;  O.  A. 
Tuttle,  Hardwick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M. 
Poole,  North  Darthmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank 
L.  Nichols,  Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank 
T.  Peckham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell, 
Lebanon,  Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan, 
N.  Y. ;  George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
N.  Y. 


Born.  Alrxanhria.  N.*..  April  27.  18f2 
8tri>.  Earnnta,  N.      Now.  6,  1927 


Some  such  simple  record  will  mark 
the  last  resting  place  of  The  Chief  up  in 
the  Bristol,  N.  H.,  cemetery.  The  stone 
is  only  about  10  miles  from  the  spot 
where  he  was  born,  yet  in  between  the 
birthplace  and  the  resting  place  was  much 
travel ;  during  the  55  years  between  the 
dates  on  that  stone  lay  much  more  of 
human  experience  and  accomplishment 
than  falls  to  many  men. 

It  is  not  easy  for  us  who  were  so  close 
to  The  Chief  to  judge  of  the  true  value 
of  his  service  to  the  world,  expressed 
particularly  in  his  field  of  agricultural 
co-operation.  We  know  that  he  has 
made  a  great  contribution  to  co-opera- 
tive marketing  and  that  he  was  recog- 
nized throughout  the  country  as  one  of 
the  great  leaders  in  co-operative  enter- 
prises. But  we  are  thinking  of  him  more 
as  a  big  hearted,  friendly  man.  Our 
thoughts  of  him  at  this  time  are  natur- 
ally of  a  close  personal  nature. 

So  it  seems  best  in  this  issue  of  the 
Dairyman  to  close  the  record  by  simply 
reprinting  some  of  the  things  which  have 
been  said  since  his  death  by  others,  less 
close  to  him,  rather  than  to  attempt 
to  ourselves  review  his  record  as  a  leader 
in  the  co-operative  cause.  This  only  we 
would  say  as  coming  from  the  men  who 
have  "grown  up"  under  his  leadership; 
we  will  carry  on  the  work  and  will  do 
all  that  we  can  to  make  our  association 
all  that  The  Chief  dreamed  it  could  be. 


TO  RICHARD  PATTEE 
Richard  Pattee,  managing  director  of 
the  New  England  Milk  Producers'  Fed- 
eration, is  dead!  The  news  of  the 
passing  of  this  wonderful  person  came 
as  a  blow  and  shock — despite  the  fact 
that  he  has  been  critically  ill  for  months. 
To  know  Richard  Pattee  was  to  honor, 
love  and  respect  him.  One  of  the 
finest  of  the  best — an  ardent  worker  for 
argiculture — Richard  Pattee  died  with 
his  boots  on — for  from  a  sick  bed  for 
the  past  few  months  has  he  been  guid- 


ing the  destinies  of  his  association.  To 
dwell  on  the  achievements  of  Richard 
Pattee  would  be  a  recital  of  some  of 
the  most  worthy  contributions  to  the 
betterment  of  agriculture.  The  guiding 
factor  in  the  development  of  co-opera- 
tive milk  marketing  in  New  England — 
the  father  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Co-operation — a  leading  director  in  the 
National  Milk  Producers'  Association — 
an  outstanding  leader  of  the  Grange 
movement  in  his  section,  are  merely 
milestones  in  his  glorious  career.  Rich- 
ard Pattee  has  gone — but  in  body  only 
— his  spirit  and  soul  continues  a  guid- 
ing factor  in  the  hearts  and  minds  of 
his  New  England  friends.  It  was  just 
last  month  that  Richard  Pattee  asked 
permission  to  resign  his  post  as  man- 
aging director  of  his  association  and 
the  annual  convention  of  his  organiza- 
tion in  refusing,  passed  a  resolution 
which   reads   in   part :    .    .  . 

This  resolution  was  passed  just  two 
weeks  before  his  death.  A  finer  tribute 
could  not  be  paid  a  man  nor  could  a 
man  more  worthy  of  such  a  tribute  be 
found.  Richard  Pattee  has  lived  a  life 
of  usefulness — the  world  is  better  be- 
cause of  him  and  there  is  little  left 
that  we  can  say  or  do  to  hallow  his 
name  or  concentrate  his  memory  any 
more  than  was  done  by  his  fellow 
workers.  For  his  family  and  for  his 
co-workers  we  express  our  sympathy. 
Richard  Pattee  was  a  friend  to  all. — 
Dairymen's   Price  Reporter. 


RICHARD  PATTEE 

Richard  Pattee,  who  died  in  New 
England  last  week,  was  an  apostle  of 
a  new  order  of  rural  life  through  co- 
operation. Through  all  his  years  of  ac- 
tive service  as  the  guiding  genius  of 
the  New  England  Milk  Producers'  As- 
sociation, his  eyes  were  lifted  to  the 
far  horizons  where  he  believed  surely 
lay  greater  happiness  and  prosperity 
icr  country  people.  To  this  end,  all 
his  life  he  preached  the  doctrine  of  co- 
operation and  practiced  it. 

The  glowing  record  of  his  service 
to  the  organized  dairymen  of  New 
England  will  forever  illumine  the  pages 
of  their  history.  The  influence  of  his 
exalted  personality  and  leadership  is 
written  deeper  still  in  the  heaits  of  all 
men  who  worked  with  him  through 
these  years  either  in  New  England  or 
elsewhere  throughout  the  entire  realm 
of    co-operative  endeavor. 

Gentle,  of  never  failing  modesty,  al- 
ways considerate  of  the  other  fellow 
even  though  he  might  be  his  enemy, 
firm  in  his  convictions,  unflinching  in 
his  courage,  born  with  a  passion  for 
fair  dealing,  Richard  Pattee  spent  him- 
self while  he  was  still  young  for  the 
farmers  of  New  England.  Without 
any  regard  for  his  own  welfare  he  mar- 
shalled all  his  energies  in  the  cause 
which  was  nearest  and  dearest  to  his 
heart.  To  the  very  end  their  welfare 
was  uppermost  in  his  heart  and  mind. 
He  was  not  concerned  so '  much  about 
the  petty  advantages  of  the  hour  as 
he  was  about  the  ultimate  blessings 
that  he  believed  would  come  to  rural 
communities  through  practical  co-opera- 
tion in  the  business  of  farming. 

The  body  of  Richard  Pattee  was 
buried  the  other  day  among  his  own 
people  in  a  peaceful  New  Hampshire 
valley  set  amid  pine  clad  hills  and 
quiet  silver  lakes.  But  the  spirit  of  his 
leadership  lives  on  and  will  continue 
to  live  on  among  the  farmers  of  his 
own  New  England  and  throughout  the 
length  and  breadth  of  this  land  wher- 
ever the  gospel  of  agricultural  organiza- 
tion is  being  spread. — Editorial  in 
Dairymen's   League  News. 


TO  A  GREAT  LEADER 
No  finer  tribute  could  be  paid  to  a 
great  leader  than  that  which  is  em- 
bodied in  the  resolutions  passed  at  the 
recent  annual  meeting  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Milk  Producers'  Association  fol- 
lowing the  request  of  Richard  Pattee 
that  he  be  allowed  to  resign  as  its 
managing  director.  Certainly  not  in 
the  agricultural  world  and  we  doubt 
in  the  whole  world  of  business  his 
there  ever  been  recorded  a  finer  ex- 
pression of  sympathy  or  a  loftier  tri- 
bute than  is  contained  in  this  message 
which  the  embattled  dairymen  of  New 
England    have    sent    to    their  beloved 


leader.  The  resolution  is  printed  in 
full  on  another   page  of   this  issue. 

In  one  place  it  says,  "this  is  not  a 
message  going  as  to  a  martyr  who  has 
given  his  life  to  a  cause  but  as  to  a 
mighty  warrior  who,  mortally  wounded 
on  the  field  of  battle,  still  hears  the 
sound  of  his  followers  pressing  on;  of 
one  who  as  sight  grows  dim,  hears  the 
shouts  of  victory  in  the  distance." 

In  refusing  to  accept  Mr.  Pattee's 
resignation  and  voting  to  continue  him 
at  full  salary,  these  New  England 
farmers  back  up  their  sentiment  and 
loyalty  with  concrete  action.  It  is 
striking  proof  of  how  imperishable  are 
the  ties  that  exist  today  between  mem- 
bers of  farmers'  co-operative  organiza- 
tions and  their  chosen  leaders;  ties  that 
are  rooted  far  below  the  cold,  shallow 
soil  of  the  humdrum  business  world — 
way  down  in  the  warm,  rich  soil  of 
everlasting  fellowship  created  only  out 
of  the  sacrifices  and  co-operation  of 
men  engaged   in   high  endeavor. 

Every  .  co-operative  organization  of 
dairymen  in  the  country  will  join  with 
these  New  England  farmers  in  the  im- 
mortal tribute  they  have  paid  Mr. 
Pattee.  His  leadership  has  not  been 
confined  to  rock  ribbed  New  England. 
Its  influence  has  been  felt  in  our  own 
association,  among  the  dairymen  of  the 
great  west  and  south  and  wherever 
farmers  are  rallying  to  the  standards 
of   organization  and  co-operation. 

The  whole  co-operative  world  learns 
with  universal  regret  of  the  dire  neces- 
sity that  has  brought  about  the  retire- 
ment of  Richard  Pattee  as  an  active 
leader  in  his  own  rural  New  England 
which  is  so  dear  to  him.  But  it  re- 
joices in  the  fact  that  the  influence  of 
his  militant  leadership,  as  the  resolution 
passed  by  his  brother  farmers  so  fit- 
tingly says,  "is  marching  on  in  the 
nation-wide  movements  which  would 
never  have  been  born  but  for  his  vision 
and  through  the  personal  inspiration  he 
has  given  to  all  kinds  and  conditions 
of  men." — Dairymen's  League  News. 

The  first  official  action  taken  at  the 
opening  of  the  first  session  of  the  Na- 
tional Co-operative  Milk  Producers  Fed- 
eration was  the  adoption  of  a  resolution 
on  the  death  of  Richard  Pattee,  first 
vice-president  of  the  federation  since  its 
inception  and  one  of  its  original  founders. 
The  resolution  follows : 

WHEREAS  Richard  Pattee  was  the 
leader  among  the  early  and  aggressive 
organizers  of  the  dairy  industry  in  New 
England. 

AND  WHEREAS  He  was  for  years 
a  member  of  the  board  of  directors,  the 
executive  committee  and  first  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  National  Co-operative  Milk 
Producers  Federation 

AND  WHEREAS  He  was  not  only 
one  of  our  most  active,  capable  and  in- 
fluential workers,  but  by  his  kindly  ways, 
his  well-considered  advice,  and  his  will- 
ingness to  sacrifice  his  personal  interests 
for  a  cause  he  endeared  himself  to  us  all 

AND  WHEREAS  The  Great  Reaper 
has  seen  fit  to  call  him  to  the  Greater 
Fields  beyond,  therefore,  be  it  Resolved 
that  we  mourn  his  passing,  that  we  ex- 
tend to  his  family,  and  to  his  associates 
of  the  New  England  Milk  Producers  As- 
sociation our  heartfelt  sympathy 

AND  FURTHER  BE  IT  RE- 
SOLVED that  a  copy  of  these  resolu- 
tions be  spread  on  a  page  of  our  perma- 
nent records  and  that  such  page  be  dedi- 
cated to  the  memory  of  Richard  Pattee 
and  that  copies  be  sent  to  the  family  and 
to  the  office  of  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers  Association. 

J.  D.  Miller 
F.  P.  Willits 
N.  P.  Hull 
Committee 


On  Monday,  November  7,  a  telegram 
delivered  to  the  office  of  the  Connecti- 
cut Milk  Producers'  Association  brought 
us  the  sad  news  of  the  death  of  Richard 
Pattee,  which  occurred  on  Sunday, 
November  6. 

Mr.  Pattee  has  been  the  manaein^ 
director  of  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association  since  it  was 
organized  many  years  ago.  He  was 
without  exception  the  best  informed 
man  in  New  England  on  the  subject  of 
the  co-operative  marketing  of  milk  by 
producers.  To  the  best  of  our  knowl- 
edge he  was  the  oldest  man  in  years 


of  service  in  the  field  of  co-operative 
milk   bargaining  in  the  United  States. 

Those  of  us  who  knew  him  well  feel 
deeply  the  loss  of  a  true  friend,  a  wise 
counselor,  a  courageous  fighter,  a  clear 
thinker,  and  a  man  thoroughly  devoted 
to  the  cause  he  sponsored  and  to  the 
people  whom  he  served. 

Mr.  Pattee  has  suffered  failing  health 
for  nearly  two  years.  One  year  ago 
at  this  time  he  submitted  to  an  opera- 
tion which  his  friends  supposed  would 
result  in  his  recovery.  Such  did  not 
prove  to  be  the  case  and  he  has  failed 
rapidly  during  the  past  few  months 
and  the  end  came  after  weeks  of  great 
suffering.  The  Connecticut  Milk  Pro- 
ducers' Association  share  with  milk 
producers  in  all  parts  of  New  England 
the  great  loss  of  this  outstanding  per- 
sonality. 

Mr.  Pattee  grew  up  on  a  farm  at 
Laconia,  N.  H.  (located  in  the  foot- 
hills of  the  White  Mountains).  It  was 
among  these  hills  that  Mr.  Pattee  spent 
the  last  few  months  of  his  life  and 
where  he  was  buried  on  November  9. 

We  will  not  attempt  to  record  the 
history  of  his  most  useful  life,  but  it 
will  be  written  by  those  best  qualified 
for  the  task. 

Mr.  Pattee  was  managing  director  of 
the  New  England  Milk  Producers'  As- 
sociation until  his  resignation  was  ten- 
dered to  that  organization  on  October 
25,  1927.  He  has  for  several  years 
been  vice-president  of  the  National  Co- 
operative Milk  Producers'  Federation 
and  a  member  of  its  executive  com- 
mittee. He  was  the  first  man  in  Amer- 
ica to  propose  the  creation  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Co-operation, 
which  has  become  an  institution  of 
great  benefit  to  the  entire  co-operative 
marketing  movement,  and  was  chair- 
man of  the  Institute  from  the  begin-! 
ning  of  its  career  in  1924  until  his 
death. 

Every  New  England  dairy  farmer 
should  be  thankful  for  the  valuable 
life  and  service  of  this  great  leader  in 
dairy  farming.  His  memory  is  a  chal- 
lenge to  those  who  remain  in  the  serv- 
ice of  marketing  milk  for  dairy  farm-; 
ers  throughout  the  United  States. 

It  is  hoped  that  no  one  will  imagine 
for  a  moment  that  his  work  is  finished, 
or  that  progress  has  stopped.  Mr. 
Pattee  built  an  organization  of  men 
who  will  carry  on  his  work  and  by 
reason  of  their  number,  character  and 
ability,  will  be  able  to  record  still 
greater  achievement,  but  we  hope  will 
never  be  obliged  to  face  such  tre- 
mendous obstacles  as  Mr.  Pattee  had 
encountered  and  conquered. — Connecti- 
cut Milk  Producers'  Association  Bulk'-1 
tin. 


Richard  Pattee,  aged  55,  one  of  tht 
organizers  of  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association  and  since  its 
birth  the  managing  director,  died  at  hi; 
home  in  Laconia,  N.  H.,  November  6. 
following  a  year's  illness.  At  the  re- 
cent annual  meeting  of  the  Association 
which  he  had  long  led,  it  was  an- 
nounced that  Mr.  Pattee's  condition  was 
critical.  Soon  after  he  began  to  fail 
more  rapidly. 

Mr.  Pattee  helped  organize  the  New 
England  Milk  Producers'  Association 
in  January,  1917.  That  formal  work 
was  preceded  by  long  campaigning,  and 
was  followed  by  days  of  strenuous  ac- 
tivity, ending  sometimes  with  encourage- 
ment, but  more  often  in  discourage- 
ment. Devoted  to  his  self-assigned 
task,  Mr.  Pattee  waged  the  battle  of 
the  dairymen  without  thought  of  self, 
fought  and  worked  on  until  the  dread 
malignant  disease  to  which  he  had  fallen 
victim  forced  him  to  abandon  his  ac- 
tivities. 

Mr.  Pattee  underwent  an  operation j 
a  little  more  than  a  year  ago  and  never 
regained  strength.  For  some  months 
he  waged  a  courageous  fight  against, 
disease,  but  in  recent  months  he  had 
been  slowly  losing  ground.  Directors 
of  the  association  and  close  friends: 
have  known  for  some  months  that  there  > 
was  no  hope  for  his  recovery,  but  the 
announcement  at  the  annual  meeting  | 
came  as  a  great  shock  to  the  member-: 
ship  as  a  whole.  The  association  paid 
him  a  heartfelt  tribute,  but  it  came 
too  late  for  him  to  fully  recognize  it.  , 


December,  1927 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


Statement  of  Special  Commission 


Born  in  the  little  town  of  Alexan- 
dria, up  in  the  New  Hampshire  hills, 
Mr.  Pattee's  early  days  were  spent  in 
country  surroundings  which  shaped  his 
course  in  later  life.  He  received  early 
impressions  of  the  difficulties  under 
which  farmers  were  working  which, 
later  in  life  crystalized  into  an  over- 
mastering desire  to  bring  about  bet- 
ter conditions  among  the  people  he 
knew  so  well  through  co-operative  ef- 
forts in  the  leading  industry,  dairying. 

It  was  largely  through  his  vision  of 
a  united  and  prosperous  dairy  industry 
and  his  persistence,  backed  up  by  his 
winning  personality  and  power  of 
speech  and  pen,  that  the  present  New 
England  Milk  Producers'  Association 
was  developed.  At  the  beginning  of 
the  association  he  traveled  about  the 
country  districts,  sometimes  driving, 
sometimes  on  foot,  but  always  preach- 
ing the  gospel  of  co-operative  effort. 

In  the  face  of  apathy  and  discourage- 
ment he  kept  at  the  task  of  building 
up  a  following  of  sufficient  size  to  de- 
mand recognition  from  the  dealers.  It 
was  slow,  hard  work  and  the  first  few 
years  would  have  stopped  a  less  deter- 
mined man.  But  with  the  courage  of  a 
crusader  he  kept  on  talking  co-opera- 
tion, organizing  a  group  of  men  who 
had  confidence  and  some  fighting  spirit. 
The  result  was  the  present  New  Eng- 
land Milk  Producers'  Association,  20,- 
000  strong,  with  field  service  men  in  all 
pails  of  New  England,  with  a  force 
of  experts  in  market  analysis  ind 
sales  practices,  and  with  the  recogni- 
tion and  goodwill  of  public  and  private 
agencies  having  to  do  with  agriculture. 
All  this  in  some  12  years  of  work. 

Mr.  Pattee  was  the  son  of  Samuel 
L.  and  Lucy  Pattee  and  was  born  April 
27,  1872.  His  early  education  was  re- 
ceived in  the  district  schools  of  his 
home  town  and  afterwards  he  attended 
New  Hampton  Institute,  an  academy 
in  a  neighboring  town.  He  took  special 
courses  in  the  University  of  Minnesota 
and  Dartmouth  College  and  then  set 
out  to  see  life  as  a  newspaperman.  In 
various  sections  of  the  country  he 
covered  special  assignments  for  lead- 
ing newspapers  and  '  found  pleasure^  in 
the  variety  and  insight  into  the  lives 
of  all  kinds  and  conditions  of  men  and 
in  following  the  events  of  the  day. 

But  wherever  he  went  thoughts  of 
his  home  state,  New  Hampshire,  were 
uppermost  and  in  1898,  when  still  a 
young  man,  he  returned  there  and  be- 
gan life  anew.  He  became  prominent 
in  Grange  work  and  rose  through  the 
various  offices  until  he  was  made  state 
lecturer  in  1904.  This  work  gave  him 
a 'renewed  and  wider  acquaintance  with 
conditions  in  his  home  state  and  from 
it  the  determination  to  make  effective 
the  already  growing  sentiment  for  some 
betterment  of  the  conditions  in  the 
dairy  industry  through  co-operati\e  ef- 
fort. 

His  success  in  the  New  England 
field  won  nation-wide  recognkiou  and 
the  power  of  his  personality  and  sound- 
ness of  his  judgment  soon  gave  him  a 
place  in  the  small  group  of  men  of 
similar  strength  of  mind  and  purpose 
in  other  sections  who  were  devloping 
a  nationwide  policy  in  co-operative 
marketing  and  were  making  the  wants 
of  the  industry  known  through  demands 
for  legislation.  He  was  a  powerful 
factor  in  the  organization  and  develop- 
ment of  the  National  Cooperative  Milk 
Producers'  Federation  and  had  served 
as  its  first  vice  president  and  as  a 
director  several  years. 

His  vision  of  a  co-ordinated  dairy 
industry  in  New  England  was  trans- 
lated into  the  larger  vision  of  a  na- 
tion-wide dairy  industry  working  to- 
gether for  the  benefit  of  all.  More 
and  more  as  the  years  went  on  he  be- 
came a  power  in  the  national  field  and 
in  the  larger  developments  which  grew 
out  of  organization  on  a  national  scale. 
His  greatest  contribution  to  the  co- 
operative field  was,  perhaps,  the  Na- 
tional Institute  of  Cooperation  which 
grew  up  quite  largely  from  his  original 
suggestion.  He  had  been  chairman  of 
its  board  of  trustees  since  its  organiza- 
tion and  it  was  his  good  judgment 
which  steered  the  movement  through 
some  of  the  perils  of  its  early  or- 
ganization period. 


After  conferences  with  the  chief  of- 
ficials of  the  milk  carrying  railroads, 
representatives  of  the  agricultural  offi- 
cials of  the  University  of  Vermont  and 
the  state  department  of  agriculture  of 
Vermont,  representatives  of  the  farm- 
ers' organizations  and  all  others  who 
could  provide  information,  we  learn 
that  the  milk  shortage  has  been  met. 
This  has  been  accomplished  by  im- 
plementing the  short  milk  supply  from 
New  England  sources  by  milk  brought 
from  without  New  England — milk  com- 
ing from  as  far  south  as  Maryland 
and  as  far  west  as  Iowa.  This  was, 
of  course,  brought  in  at  great  addi- 
tional expense,  and  the  loss  borne  by 
the  distributors. 

Vertnont  Devastated 

"In  the  flooded  areas  centering  chiefly 
in  Vermont,  but  including  also  parts 
of  Massachusetts  and  New  Hampshire, 
barns,  cows,  hay,  ensilage,  etc.,  have 
been  destroyed,  bridges  are  down,  roads 
are  almost  impassable  and  railroad 
service  will  not  be  restored  for  some 
weeks  in  portions  of  the  chief  milk- 
producing  areas,  therefore  the  cost  of 
increased  haulage  to  more  distant  rail 
connections  and  over  bad  roads  must 
be  met.  This  is  throwing  an  increased 
burden  of  expense  upon  the  farmers 
who  bear  this  cost  and  which  must 
continue  for  a  considerable  period. 
This  expense  is  further  increased  by 
the  difficulty  of  delivery  to  the  farmers 
of  the  concentrated  cattle  feeds  which 
must  be  used  to  supplement  the  hay 
rations. 


Prof.  W.  P.  B.  Lockwood,  manager  of 
the  New  England  Dairy  and  Food 
Council,  presented  the  educational  and 
advertising  work  done  by  the  Council  in 
a  new  and  interesting  way  at  our  annual 
meeting.  He  put  on  a  series  of  stere- 
opticon  slides  with  terse  definite  state- 
ments as  to  the  selling  points  which  milk- 
has  and  which  are  being  utilized  by  the 
Council  and  by  the  dealers  individually. 
Many  of  the  members  who  heard  the 
report  went  home  with  a  new  idea  of 
the  value  of  the  work  of  the  Council. 
It  is  not  possible  to  give  quite  the  same 
impression  as  was  given  by  the  talks  but 
the  following  statements  which  were 
presented  on  the  slides  will  serve  as 
examples. 


THE  MEANING  OF  MILK  TO  THE 
HEALTH  OFFICER 

1. - — Milk  is  a  food  that  is  universally 
used. 

2.  — Milk  is  important  in  the  com- 
munity health. 

3.  — The  nature  of  milk  is  such  that.it 
may  be  easily  adulterated  or  con- 
taminated. 

For  the  above  three  reasons  there  are 
laws  and  regulations  governing  its  fat, 
total  solids  and  bacteria  content  as  well 
as  governing  production,  pasteurization 
and  handling. 


MILK  IS  OF  STANDARD  QUALITY 

On  account  of  the  laws  and  restric- 
tions, we  believe  that  the  great  volume 
of  milk  handled  by  the  reputable  com- 
panies is  of  practically  the  same  standard 
as  to  content  and  safety. 

The  special  milks,  such  as  Grade  A  and 
certified,  for  which  additional  prices  are 


"After  many  conferences  between  the 
farmer  representatives  and  the  dealers 
these  interests  have  reached  the  opinion 
that  this  loss  should  be  neutralized  in 
part  by  an  advance  of  one  cent  per 
quart  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  price, 
of  which  three-quarters  shall  go  to  the 
farmer  and  one-quarter  to  the  distribu- 
tors— this  price  to  become  effective 
Nov.  16,  and  to  continue  for  a  few 
weeks,  probably  not  later  than  Jan.  1. 

Would  Helf>  Farmers 

"The  emergency  commission  has  no 
power  to  fix  prices.  The  three  state 
officials  constituting  one-half  of  the 
commission  are  of  the  opinion  that  they 
may  not  as  such  officials  properly  par- 
ticipate in  price  discussions.  The  civil- 
ian members  of  the  commission,  in- 
cluding Chairman  Allen,  Messrs.  Bird 
and  Snyder,  after  hearing  all  the  evi- 
dence, are  of  the  opinion  that  this  small 
advance  in  price  is  not  only  appropriate 
as  entered  into  between  the  distributors 
and  producers  but  believe  further  that 
the  milk  consumers  of  metropolitan 
Boston  would  welcome  the  opportunity 
to  aid  the  restoration  of  milk  producing 
farmers  and  so  contribute  to  the 
permanency  of  Boston's  nearby  milk 
supply — the  permanence  of  which  is 
highly  important  to  Massachusetts  con- 
sumers. Should  the  public,  realizing 
that  the  emergency  is  past,  increase 
their  consumption  of  this  low-cost  food, 
it  would  serve  to  encourage  the  farmers 
of  Vermont,  New  Hampshire  and 
Massachusetts  who  are  the  chief  suf- 
ferers from  the  flood." 


asked  are  also  produced  and  sold  under 
specific  standard  rules  and  regulations, 
making  them  standard  for  those  grades. 


THE  ARTICLE  WE  HAVE  TO  SELL 
The  consumer  thinks  of  milk  in  terms 
of  a  pint  or  a  quart  milk  bottle — the  unit 
}f  purchase. 


WHEN  NEW  GROUPS  ENTER  A 
MARKET 

New  groups  entering  a  market  usually 
do  so  on  the  basis  of  a  price  reduction. 
This  does  not  increase  consumption  but 
takes  the  market  from  other  groups  who 
have  been  building  it  up  for  years.  These 
new  groups  have  done  nothing  to  create 
the  market. 

It  would  seem  that  they  should  co- 
operate by  doing  their  share  to  increase 
the  consumption  of  the  general  market 
for  themselves  and  the  industry. 


STATEMENTS  ABOUT  MILK 
"Apart  from  the  marked  gain  in 
weight  and  height,  which  is  shown  by 
the  boys  who  are  receiving  the  extra  milk 
ration,  there  is  also  a  general  improve- 
ment in  their  physical  condition." — Med- 
ical Research  Council  of  London,  Eng- 
land. 

Los  Angeles  school  authorities  found 
that  the  milk  drinking  group  of  children 
not  only  excelled  in  athletics  but  also  in 
their  studies. 

One  office  manager  states  that  the  mid- 
morning  lunch  of  milk  and  a  cracker  at 
10.30  in  the  morning  and  again  in  the 
afternoon  has  increased  the  efficiency  of 
the  office  25  per  cent. 

One  company,  a   large   employer  of 


women  dropped  pop  and  tea  and  coffee 
from  their  sales  list,  featuring  milk  in- 
stead. They  say  that  the  health  of 
employees  has  improved. 

Milk  is  being  used  extensively  on  train- 
ing tables  for  athletes. 


WORLD'S  LEADING  PEOPLES 
USE  MILK 

"The  people  who  have  achieved,  who 
have  become  large,  strong  vigorous  peo- 
ple, who  have  the  best  trades  in  the 
world,  who  have  an  appreciation  of  art, 
literature  and  music  and  who  are 
progressive  in  science  and  in  ever  activity 
oi  the  human  intellect,  are  the  people 
who  have  used  milk  and  its  products 
liberally."— Dr.  E.  V.  McCollum. 


MILK  IS  AN  ECONOMY  FOOD 
Milk  is  the  lowest  cost  animal  protein 
food  that  is  purchased  by  the  consumer. 
In  protein  content,  one  quart  of  milk 
has  the  equivalent  value  of  about  three- 
quarters  of  a  pond  of  steak  or  of  eight 
eggs  and  it  costs  much  less. 

The  purchaser  may  not  regard  it  as  an 
energy  food  although  it  has  good  energy 
value. 

It  also  provides  vitamines  and  lime. 


MILK  IS  AN  ESSENTIAL  FOOD 
The  best  argument  used  in  selling  an 
article  like  milk  is  a  description  of  the 
service  it  will  give  or  what  it  will  do. 

Milk  is  essential  to  a  satisfactory  diet 
because : 

1.  — It  contains  excellent  muscle-build- 
ing material. 

2.  — It  is  essential  to  the  proper  develop- 
ment of  bones  and  teeth. 

3.  — It  contains  the  various  vitamins— 
A.  B.  C.  (?)  D,  (?). 

4.  — It  contains  materials  for  fuel 
(sugar  and  fat). 

5.  — It  is  easily  digested  and  its  food 
elements  are  of  the  best  quality  and  in 
the  most  usable  form. 

6.  — It  builds  up  the  weak  points  in  the 
modern  diet  and  is  therefore  considered  a 
protective  food. — Dr.  E.  V.  McCollum  of 
John  Hopkins  University. 

(Continued  on  page  ten) 


RESOLUTIONS 
Adopted  by  National  Co-operative  Milk 
Producers'  Federation  at  Milwaukee 

I.   EXTENSION  OF  CREDIT 

We  believe  that  farmers  and  their  co- 
operative, associations  have  received  di- 
rect and  substantial  benefits  from  the 
various  types  of  agricultural  credit  now 
provided  through  the  agencies  of  the 
Federal  Government.  However,  we  feel 
that  this  service  to  our  farmers  should 
be  extended. 

The  federation  therefore  urges  suit- 
able Federal  legislation,  to  provide  at 
once  for  enlarging  the  agricultural  credit 
facilities  of  the  Government  to  include: 

1st.  Through  the  appropriate  Govern- 
mental agency,  to  extend  to  co-operatives 
on  the  security  of  their  plants  and  facili- 
ties, long-time  credits  to  be  repaid  on 
the  amortization  plan. 

2nd.  To  make  more  flexible  the  crop 
production  credit  to  producers  and  to 
make  it  possible  for  co-operatiyes  to  se- 
cure loans  on  commodity  security  for  as 
short  a  period  as  two  months. 

//.  TARIFF 

It  has  long  been  the  policy  of  the  Fed- 
eral Government  to  fully  protect  Ameri- 
can industry  by  means  of  import  tariff 
duties.  We  believe  that  the  industry  of 
agriculture  should  have  an  equivalent 
protection.  To  do  so  would  bring  a 
great  measure  of  relief  to  American 
farmers  now  suffering  from  an  economic 
depression,  caused  in  part  by  Federal 
laws  and  acts  of  duly  constituted  Federal 
authorities.  As  a  partial  correction  of 
this  inequality  we  therefore  ask  of  the 
Congress  of  the  United  States  the  im- 
mediate passage  of  a  tariff  bill  which  will 
place  adequate  duties  on  farm  products 
and  all  the  raw  products  imported  into 
the  United  States  which  either  directly 
or  by  substitution  come  into  competition 
with  products  produced  by  farmers  of 
the  United  States. 

We  further  urge  the  Congress  to  levy 
an  excise  tax  on  all  vegetable  oils  and 
raw  materials  from  which  such  oils  are 
produced  that  are  imported  into  this 
country  from  the  Philippine  Islands. 
(Continued  on  page  seven) 


Increase  in  milk  consumption  in  Boston  as  indicated  by  the  shipments  of 
milk  reported  by  five  largest  Boston  dealers  in  millions  of  pounds. 

1921      1922      1923      1924      1925      1926  1927 


1st  Quarter                       59.6      65.1      67.4  70.1       74.0      78.5  83.6 

2nd  Quarter                      63.4      68.2      71.8  75.9      78.7      81.1  85.3 

3rd  Quarter                       63.5      68.9      71.4  77.9      79.2  83.6 

4th  Quarter                       62.9      66.5      69.7  72.3      77.3  83.4 

Totals                             249.4     268.7     280.3  296.2     309.2  326.6 

Gains                                            19.3       11.6  15.9       13.0  17.4 

Per  Cent.  Gains   89       4.31       5.67       4.39  5.62   

Gain  21-22                  19.3  M.  lbs.  89.0   per  cent. 

Gain  21-23                  30.9  M.  lbs.  12.39  per  cent. 

Gain  21-24                  46.8  M.  lbs.  18.76  per  cent. 

-  Gain  21-25                  59.8  M.  lbs.  22.57  per  cent. 

Gain  2-26                  77.2  M.  lbs.  30.95  per  cent. 


Dairy  and  Food  Council  Report 


Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


December,  1927 


Sales  Committee  Report 

Condensed  Statement  of  Conditions  in  Market  as  Given 
at  Our  Recent  Annual  Meeting. 


In  general,  conditions  in  the  Boston 
market  have  been  good  through  the 
year.  Prices  have  been  somewhat  bet- 
ter than  they  were  during  the  previous 
year  in  spite  of  the  decline  last  De- 
cember. In  general,  the  year  has  been 
one  of  readjustment  of  conditions  in 
the  market.  These  readjustments  hav- 
ing been  made,  the  dairy  industry  can 
look  forward  to  a  period  of  consider- 
able stability  provided  that  all  factors 
in   the    market    continue    to    base  their 


Relief  came  from  the  prompt  and 
effective  work  of  the  commissioners  of 
agriculture  of  New  England  who  had 
been  making  a  study  of  the  milk  sit- 
uation with  especial  reference  to  chain 
store  prices  and  spreads.  As  the  re- 
sult of  their  recommendations  the 
sales  committee  increased  the  price  to 
9/  cents.  The  chain  stores  went  to 
13  cents.  One  of  the  important  results 
of  this  price  change  was  that  the 
large  dealers  came  onto  the  same  resale 


was  not  a  reduction  to  NEMPA  mem- 
bers as  the  advance  on  surplus  offset 
the  reduction  in  fluid  milk  prices. 
Other  prices  in  the  market  remained 
unchanged. 

Since  the  sales  committee  report  was 
made  at  the  annual  meeting,  the  flood 
conditions,  reported  elsewhere  in  this 
issue,    brought    about    another  advance 


DILI  ION  POUNDS 
70 1  


in  price.  It  is  included  in  the  above 
table  to  complete  the   record   to  date. 

The  charts  accompanying  this 
abridged  report,  also  the  table  of  prices 
paid  by  the  large  dealers  operating  in 
the  Boston  market,  are  worthy  of  the 
serious  consideration  of  all  members 
and  others  interested  in  the  dairy  in- 
dustry of   New  England. 


1926  Hood 

October    $2.62 

November    2.67 

December    2.83 

January,   1927    ....  2.59 

February    2.63 

March  '   2.59 

April    2.54 

May    2.25 

June    2.11 

July    2.21 

August    2.48 

September    2.75 

Average    $2.52 


Whiting 
$2.53 
2.84 
2.83 
2.45 
2.58 
2.52 
2.50 
2.26 
2.14 
2.32 
2.69 
2.76 


Turner     New  Eng. 


Centre 
$2.50 
2.69 
2.62 
2.32 
2.51 
2.53 
2.36 
2.14 
1.99 
2.18 
2.38 
2.57 


Cr.  Pr. 
$2.57 
2.63 
2.81 
2.43 
2.45 
2.53 
2.49 
2.19 
2.15 
2.21 
2.54 
2.70 


Cummings 
$2.59 
2.84 
2.84 
2.59 
2.62 
2.57 
2.52 
2.29 
2.21 
2.24 
2.51 
2.76 


Boyd 
$2.63 
2.90 
2.71 
2.49 
2.58 
2.54 
2.65 
2.38 
2.14 
2.29 
2.60 
2.91 


$2.53 


$2.40 


$2.48 


$2.55 


$2.57 


prices  on  general  market  conditions  and 
the  supply  and  demand. 

The  NEMPA  price,  store  price  and 
dealers'  home  delivered  prices  for  the 
year  were  as  follows: 

NEMPA     Stores  Dealers 
Oct  8/*  12  14*4-15 

Nov.  16   9  13  15-l5/2 

gS"  27 8  12  14-14/ 

?uk;  24        9  12  14-14/ 

Sept.  4  «H.  13  15/** 

Oct    9       ..-9  13  15/ 

Nov.  16"'.  93/4  14***  16/ 

♦At)  adjustment  of  a  half  cent  was 

made.  .   

**A11  dealers  came  on  the  same  re- 
sale price.  .  ,  , 
***Chain   store   advance   was  delayed 

several  days. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  year  (Oct , 
1926)  the  association  was  faced  with 
the  difficult  problem  of  the  Turner 
Centre  Svstem  refusing  to  pay  the 
NEMPA  price.  This  was  satisfactorily 
met  Turner  Centre  has  paid  the  price 
and  has  since  made  up  in  overpayments 
any  underpayments  made  during  the 
period  when 'they  did  not  figure  their 
prices  on  the  NEMPA  basis.  The  only 
actual  loss  to  the  producers  was 
through  an  adjustment  of  a  half  cent, 
made  on  October  milk,  due  to  the  tur- 
ner Centre  situation. 

The  advance  of  a  half  cent  in  the 
NEMPA  price  Nov.  15  was  accom- 
panied by  a  full  cent  advance  in  the 
store  prices  which  tended  to  stabilize 
the  market  conditions  materially.  The 
<*ood  conditions  continued  until  Dec.  27, 
when  the  First  National  Stores  re- 
duced their  price  to  12  cents  and  other 
stores  followed  their  lead.  In  response 
to  demands  of  dealers  for  relief  from 
the  spread  of  3  and  3/  cents  between 
the  store  price  and  the  home  delivered 
price  the  NEMPA  sales  committee 
dropped  the  price  to  8  cents.  The 
home  delivered  price  dropped  a  cent 
and  the  former  condition  of  a  2  and  a 
2/    cent    spread    was  restored. 

This  condition  continued  until  July 
24  when  the  price  was  advanced  to  9 
cents.  The  chain  stores  did  not  ad- 
vance their  price  and  the  wide  spread 
condition  was  again  a  difficult  prob- 
lem to  handle.  The  sales  committee, 
however,  held  firm  on  the  nine  cent 
price  in  spite  of  the  demands  of  the 
dealers  and  for  six  weeks  a  battle  was 
raging  in  the  market  with  demands  for 
a  reduction  in  price  coming  in  every 
few  days.  By  early  September  a  con- 
dition of  unrest  had  developed  which 
demanded  action. 


price,  15/  cents.  The  fact  that  one 
large  dealer  had  for  some  time  been 
selling  at  a  half  cent  below  the  others 
had  been  a  source  of  considerable  un- 
rest in  the  market  and  difficulty  in 
solving  the  chain  store  spreads  rightly. 

At  the  time  this  advance  was  made 
there  was  a  general  agreement  among 
all  parties  that  the  NEMPA  price  for 
surplus  was  too  low.  During  Febru- 
ary, March,  April  and  May  a  premium 
of  10  cents  a  hundred  bad  been  se- 
cured on  surplus  milk.  Through  the 
better  understanding  of  conditions 
brought  about  largely  by  the  confer- 
ences sponsored  by  the  commissioners 
of  agriculture  it  was  possible  to  ne- 
gotiate a  trade  for  October,  November 
and  December  surplus  at  an  advance  of 
about  28  cents  a  hundred.  With  this 
advance  on  surplus  the  fluid  milk  price 
was  reduced  to  9  cents  Oct.  9.  This 

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OCT    NOV     DEC    JAN    FEB    flOftR    APR  JUNC  JULY    AUG  SEPT 


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CLASS  TWO  PRICE 


CLASS  TUO  PKfCE  023-26 


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December,  1927 


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Field  Service  Department 


Flood  conditions  in  Vermont  and 
Northern  New  Hampshire  put  a  stop 
to  some  of  the  work  of  the  field 
service  department  but  the  men  are 
utilizing  their  time  in  other  sections  of 
our  territory. 

In  the  Maine  district  F.  L.  Foley  has 
been  steaming  ahead  as  usual,  meeting 
with  good  success  in  signing  new  mem- 
bers, getting  the  co-operation  of  everybody 
and  making  friends  everywhere  he  goes. 
At  Dover,  following  a  check  test,  he 
added  14  new  members  and  signed  up 
four  members  on  the  new  dues  order 
basis.  Five  i*ew  members  were  added 
to  the  Sebec  local.  At  Dover  the  an- 
nual meeting  of  the  local  was  held 
following  an  oyster  supper.  W.  H. 
Burgess  was  re-elected  president  and 
George  B.  Dow  secretary.  At  the 
Dexter  annual  meeting,  also  attended 
by  Mr.  Foley,  George  H.  Knowles  was 
elected  president  and  Carroll  R.  Brown 
secretary.  Hampden  and  Hermon  Pond 
locals  held  a  joint  annual  meeting  fol- 
lowing an   oyster  supper. 

A  canvass  of  the  Thorndike  local 
resulted  in  the  addition  of  12  new 
members.  This  is  the  only  local  in 
Maine  entitled  to  two  delegates.  They 


held  their  annual  meeting  before  the 
central  association  meeting  and  elected 
W.  S.  Libby  as  the  second  delegate. 
President  Arthur  W.  Leonard  was  un- 
able to  come  to  the  Boston  meeting  but 
he  appointed  Archie  A.  Hartford  as 
his  alternate. 

Hale  Rose,  president  of  the  Brooks 
local,  assisted  Mr.  Foley  in  the  can- 
vass in  that  town  which  resulted  in  the 
addition  of  three  new  members  and 
securing  seven  new  dues  orders. 

Richmond  local  broke  the  record  by 
holding  two  meetings,  one  just  before 
the  central  meeting  to  elect  officers, 
and  one  afterwards  to  hear  reports  of 
the  Boston  meeting.  George  W. 
Thompson  was  elected  president  and 
W.  M.  Dingley  secretary  and  delegate 
to  the  Boston  meeting.  Mr.  Dingley 
reported. 

In  addition  to  attending  meetings  and 
carrying  on  test  work,  Mr.  Foley  has 
been  making  friends  in  the  Granges. 
He  has  his  office  at  the  Department  of 
Agriculture  in  Augusta,  by  invitation 
from  the  State  Commissioner  of  Agri- 
culture Frank  P.  Washburn.  On  sev- 
eral occasions  when  the  state  depart- 
ment has  been  asked  to  provide  speak- 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  9|  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  November  16,  1927,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 

Cwt.in    Cwt.in  Cwt.in 


8qt. 

8/,qt. 

10qt. 

20qt. 

21/4qt- 

40qt. 

20qt. 

2VAqt 

40qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del. 

Trucked 

.756 

.804 

.946 

1.891 

2.008 

3.782 

4.397 

4.397 

4.397 

1 

1-20 

.663 

.709 

.841 

1.706 

1.814 

3.432 

3.967 

3.971 

3.990 

2 

21-40 

.648 

.694 

.826 

1.676 

1.784 

3.392 

3.908 

3.906 

3.943 

3 

41-60 

.643 

.689 

.811 

1.651 

1.759 

3.352 

3.839 

3.851 

3.897 

4 

61-80 

.628 

.674 

.801 

1.641 

1.749 

3.317 

3.815 

3.829 

3.856 

5 

81-100 

.618 

.664 

.791 

1.621 

1.724 

3.287 

3.769 

3.774 

3.821 

6 

101-120 

.618 

.664 

.786 

1.616 

1.714 

3.272 

3.757 

3.753 

3.804 

7 

121-140 

.608 

.654 

.776 

1.607 

1.699 

3.247 

3.722 

3.731 

3.775 

8 

141-160 

.603 

.649 

.771 

1.591 

1.689 

3.227 

3.699 

3.698 

3.751 

9 

161-180 

.598 

.644 

.766 

1.581 

1.679 

3.212 

3.676 

3.676 

3.734 

10 

181-200 

.593 

.639 

.756 

1.571 

1.669 

3.192 

3.653 

3.654 

3.711 

11 

201-220 

.588 

.634 

.751 

1.556 

1.659 

3.172 

3.618 

3.632 

3.688 

12 

221-240 

.583 

.629 

.746 

1.551 

1.649 

3.162 

3.606 

3.610 

3.676 

13 

241-260 

.578 

.624 

.741 

1.541 

1.639 

3.142 

3.583 

3.588 

3.653 

14 

261-280 

.573 

.619 

.736 

1.536 

1.634 

3.132 

3.571 

3.578 

3.641 

15 

281-300 

.568 

.614 

.731 

1.526 

1.619 

3.112 

3.548 

3.545 

3.618 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del.  Trucked 

.756 

.804 

.946 

1.891 

2.008 

3.782 

4.397 

4.397 

4.397 

1 

1-20 

.688 

.734 

.861 

1.721 

1.824 

3.432 

4.002 

3.969 

3.991 

2 

21-40 

.668 

.714 

.846 

1.691 

1.794 

3.392 

3.932 

3.903 

3.943 

3 

41-60 

.663 

.709 

.841 

1.686 

1.779 

3.352 

3.921 

3.871 

3.898 

4 

61-80 

.658 

.704 

.831 

1.651 

1.759 

3.317 

3.840 

3.827 

3.857 

5 

81-100 

.653 

.699 

.816 

1.646 

1.749 

3.292 

3.828 

3.806 

3.828 

6 

101-120 

.653 

.699 

.816 

1.646 

1.739 

3.292 

3.828 

3.784 

3.828 

7 

121-140 

.653 

.699 

.816 

1.626 

1.729 

3.257 

3.781 

3.762 

3.787 

8 

141-160 

.638 

.684 

.811 

1.621 

1.724 

3.242 

3.770 

3.751 

3.770 

9 

161-180 

.633 

.679 

.806 

1.611 

1.709 

3.217 

3.747 

3.719 

3.741 

10 

181-200 

.633 

.679 

.801 

1.596 

1.699 

3.202 

3.712 

3.697 

3.723 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  station, 
a  premium  of  .0075c  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
or  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices,  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country 
creamery  expense,  can  service,  and  a  deduction  of  2c  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for 
NEMPA  members'  dues,  and  lc  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


crs  at  Grange  meetings  they  have  asked 
Mr.  Foley  to  go.  One  of  the  latest 
was  at  Oakland  Grange  where  he  gave 
a  general  talk  on  milk  marketing  con- 
ditions. 

F.  C.  Warner,  head  of  the  field  serv- 
ice department,  has  attended  a  number 
of  meetings  in  Maine  and  was  a 
speaker  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Maine  State  Dairymen's  Association  at 
Lewiston.  He  gave  them  a  talk  on 
the  lessons  brought  out  by  the  flood 
and  the  efforts  which  were  made  to 
supply  Boston  with  milk.  Some  of  the 
milk  which  was  brought  in  from  the 
west  might  just  as  well  have  come 
from  Maine,  he  said. 

In  the  St.  Johnsbury  district  Stearns 
had  a  full  time  program  of  meetings 
arranged  but  the  flood  stopped  it  al- 
together. He  was  at  Newport  when 
the  flood  struck  and,  his  first  knowledge 
of  the  disaster  was  when  he  heard  pigs 
squealing  as  they  swam  around  in  Lake 
Memphremagog  after  being  washed  out 
of  their  pens.  His  car  was  in  a  garage 
and  he  had  to  get  it  out  as  the  waters 
were  washing  the  gravel  floor  away. 
The  lake,  about  30  miles  long  and 
several  miles  wide,  rose  about  10  feet. 

A  schedule  of  meetings  had  been  ar- 
ranged for  Orleans,  Barton,  Irasburg, 
Coventry  and  Brownington  Center,  but 
the  meetings  will  have  to  be  held  later. 
Before  the  flood  came  a  meeting  was 
held  at  East  Hardwick  with  both  Mr. 
Warner  and  Mr.  Stearns  present. 
Ernest  Coture  was  the  second  delegate 
from  this  local. 

The  canvass  at  Brownington  Center 
was  completed    with   the   assistance  of 


President  Swanson.  Ten  new  members 
were  added  and  four  new  dues  orders 
were  secured.  President  F.  J.  Free- 
hart  assisted  in  the  canvass  of  Orleans 
which  resulted  in  the  addition  of  seven 
new  members  and  two  new  dues  orders. 
At  North  Troy  Secretary  Noel  I^arcau, 
who  attended  the  Boston  meeting  as  a 
delegate,  assisted  in  the  canvass  which 
resulted  in  eight  new  memlK-rs  and 
three  dues  orders. 

At  Wheelock  the  meeting  was  called 
off,  but  with  the  assistance  of  R.  C. 
Bickford,  21  new  meml>ers  and  three 
dues  orders  were  secured.  At  Lyodon- 
ville,  with  the  assistance  of  President 
L.  W.  Merriam,  ten  new  members 
and  six  dues  orders  were  secured  but 
no  meeting  was  held.  At  St.  Johns- 
bury  Mr.  Stearns,  working  alone,  se- 
cured  17  new  members. 

At  Morrisville,  with  the  assistance  of 
Secretary  Story  and  Frank  Thomas, 
18  new  members  were  secured  and  16 
dues  orders. 

St.  Albans  local  was  scheduled  to 
have  an  annual  meeting  and  oyster 
supper  as  usual.  The  meeting  was 
held  but  the  oyster  supper  was  given 
up.  Its  probable  cost,  $50,  was  donated 
to  the  Red  Cross  for  flood  relief 
work. 

In  the  Rutland  district  Charles  R. 
Parmalee  was  prevented  from  carrying 
out  his  program  in  the  lowlands  but 
has  been  doing  some  good  work  up  in 
the  hills,  also  in  the  New  York  area. 
Lack  of  space  prevents  giving  a  full 
account  of  his  month's  work  but  he- 
will  be  given  double  space  in  the  next 
issue. 


Providence  Market 


Dealers 
Per  Hundredweight 

B.  Brown   

T.  Burton,  Inc.  ... 

T.  Chambers  

A.  Fiske   

E.  Goff  

W.  Grant  

Greenville  Farm   

C.   H.  Hunt   

A.  B.  Monroe   

Providence  Dairy.... 

Turner  Centre   

Viall  


W. 
C. 
E. 


C. 
A. 
P. 


Class  1 

Class  2 

Zone  1 

Zone  2 

(Mkt. 

(Mfg. 

Deliv- 

1-20 

21-40 

Milk) 

Milk) 

ered 

Miles 

Miles 

100.0% 

4.090 

3.783 

3.735 

96.3 

3.7% 

4.032 

3.711 

3.665 

100.0 

4.108 

3.774 

3.726 

100.0 

4.114 

3.780 

3.732 

100.0 

4.117 

3.783 

3.735 

90.3 

9.7 

3.862 

3.561 

3.517 

100.0 

4.117 

3.783 

3.735 

99.0 

1.0 

4.092 

3.765 

3.717 

100.0 

4.117 

3.783 

3.735 

83.4 

16.6 

3.767 

3.541 

3.512 

100.0 

4.137 

100.0 

4.120 

3.786 

3.738 

100.0 

4.117 

3.783 

3.735 

100.0 

4.105 

3.776 

3.728 

Truck- 
ing 

Zone  3  Zone  Willi- 
41-60  net  mantic 
Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.669   

3.601 
3.659 
3.666 
3.669 
3.458 
3.669 
3.650 
3.669 
3.454 


3.528 


3.253  3.381 


3.672 
3.669 
3.662 


Northern  Market  District 

October  and  November  Prices 

Manchester,  N.  H.,  to  October  16,  1927    74. .k 

October  16  to  November  23    70c 

On  and  after  November  23    76.5c 

Nashua,  N.  H.,  to  November  20,  1927    72.4c 

On  and  after   November  20    78.8c 

Lowell,  Mass.,  to  November  20,  1927    72c 

On  and  after   November  20    78c 

Lawrence,  Mass.,  to  November  20,  1927    90c 

On  and  after   November  20    97.5c 

Haverhill,  Mass.,  to  November  20,  1927    72c 

On  and  after   November  20    78c 

Concord,  N.  H   61.2c 

Portland,    Me   7.6c 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers  and  Beverly,  to  October  9,  1927    76c 

From  October  9  to  November  16    72c 

On  and  after  November  16    78c 


per  8K- 
per  8'A 
per  8'/, 
per  8>/> 
per  8j/ 
per  8 
per  8 
per  10 
per  10 
per  8 
per  8 
per  8'/j 
per  <|t. 
per  8 
per  8 
per  8 


qt.  can 
qt.  can 
qt.  can 
qt  can 
qt  can 
qt.  can 
qt.  can 
qt.  can 
qt.  can 
qt.  can 
qt.  can 
qt.  can 

qt.  can 
qt.  can 
qt.  can 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  October,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  October  is  correct.    Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.048  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract  $.048 
per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  October  by  your  dealers'  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 


Zonel     Zone  2    Zone  3    Zone  4   Zone  S    Zone  6      Zone  7    Zone  8    Zone  9    Zone  10  Zone  11   Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14   Zone  15 
Miles  from  Boston    1-20      21-40      41-60     61-80    81-100  101-120    121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-2S0  2*1-300 


Class  1   Milk  Price. 

2.701 

3.654 

3.608 

3.567 

3.532 

3.515 

3.486 

3.462 

3.445 

3.422 

3.399 

3.387 

3.364 

3.352 

3.329 

Class  2  Milk  P; 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

2.013 

Gass  1 

Class  2 

Dealers 

(Mkt.  Milk) 

(Mfg.  Milk) 

Hood  1-15 

58.2% 

41.8% 

3.006 

2.979 

2.952 

2.928 

2.908 

2.898 

2.881 

2.867 

2.858 

2.845 

2.831 

2.824 

2.811 

2.804 

2.791 

Hood  16-30 

58.8 

41.2 

2.992 

2.965 

2.937 

2.913 

2.893 

2.883 

2.866 

2.852 

2.842 

2.828 

2.815 

2.808 

2.794 

2.787 

2.773 

Whiting   

61.8 

38.2 

3.022 

2.993 

2.965 

2.940 

2.917 

2.907 

2.890 

2.875 

2.864 

2.850 

2.836 

2.828 

2.814 

2.8"7 

2.702 

Turner   Centre  .. 

41.6 

58.4 

2.864 

2.844 

2.825 

2.808 

2.794 

2.787 

2.774 

2.764 

2.758 

2.748 

2.738 

2.733 

2.724 

2.719 

2.709 

N.  E.  Cry.  Prod. 

61.6 

38.4 

3.053 

3.024 

2.995 

2.970 

2.949 

2.938 

2.920 

2.905 

2.895 

2.881 

2.867 

2.859 

2.845 

2.83.S 

2.823 

F.  S.  Cummings.. 

58.2 

41.8 

2.996 

2.969 

2.942 

2.918 

2.898 

2.888 

2.871 

2.857 

2.847 

2.834 

2.820 

2.813 

2.800 

2.793 

2.780 

F.  E.  Boyd 

65.0 

35.0 

3.110 

3.080 

3.050 

3.023 

3.000 

2.990 

2.971 

2.955 

2.944 

2.929 

2.914 

2.906 

2.892 

2.884 

2.869 

Weighted  Avg. 

60.3 

39.7 

3.042 

3.014 

2.986 

2.961 

2.940 

2.930 

2.912 

2.898 

2.888 

2.874 

2.860 

2.853 

2.839 

2.832 

2.818 

Turner  Centre  Price  includes  an  extra  payment  of  $.199  per  cwt. 


Page  Six 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


December,  1927 


Farm  Land  Damaged  by  Raging  Waters 


The  flood  wrought  great  damage  in 
some  places ;  in  others  its  effect  was 
relatively  light.  Taking  the  conditions 
as  a  whole  it  seems  apparent  that  the 
total  effect  on  agriculture  and  especially 
on  the  dairy  industry  will  be  much  less 
than  was  at  first  estimated.  The  story 
of  the  flood  wamage  resolves  itself  into 
the  plain  statement  that  a  relatively  few 
farmers  were  very  hard  hit  and  that  the 
great  majority  of  the  farmers  are  doing 
business  as  usual,  excepting  for  such 
handicaps  as  they  may  be  suffering  from 
lack  of  transportation. 

But  the  plight  of  these  farmers  who 
were  hard  hit  by  the  flood  is  a  serious 
one.  In  some  cases  they  will  have  great 
difficulty  in  reestablishing  themselves.  In 
order  that  we  may  bring  home  to  our 
membership  in  general  the  situation  on 
these  farms  we  publish  a  series  of  pic- 
tures furnished  by  County  Agent  Ross 
Wilson  of  Grafton  County,  N.  H.,  illus- 
trating the  damage  done  on  a  few  farms 
in  Woodsville  where  the  Ammonoosuc 
River  went  on  a  wild  rampage.  They 
tell,  better  than  words,  the  story  of  flood 
havoc. 

These  pictures  were  taken  in  the  valley 
of  the  Ammonoosuc  River  in  New  Hamp- 
shire but  they  represent  scenes  which 
could  be  found  along  the  Winooski,  Lam- 
oile,  Mad  River,  White  River  and  many 
other  of  the  swift  flowing  rivers  of  Ver- 
mont. It  is  to  assist  farmers  in  various 
sections  of  Vermont  who  have  suffered 
as  these  men  have  suffered,  that  funds 
are  being  raised. 

Pictures  No.  1,  2  and  3  are  on  the  W. 
V.  Darling  farm  in  Woodsville.  No.  1 
shows  the  channel  cut  by  the  Ammon- 
nosuc  River  through  a  30  acre  field. 
What  was  fertile  tillable  land  a  few  weeks 
ago  is  now  a  waste  of  rocks  and  debris 
which  it  will  be  impossible  to  put  a  plow 
into. 

No.  2  shows  where  six  acres  of  good 
corn  land  were  washed  away.  On  the 
left  of  the  picture  can  be  seen  the  old 
level  of  the  corn  field.  The  remainder 
to  the  depth  of  several  feet  went  down 
stream,  leaving  a  mass  of  rocks  and 
pebbles  of  no  value  whatsoever. 

Picture  No.  3  taken  on  the  same  farm 
shows  a  sand  dune  four  feet  deep  on  a  15 
acre  field.  Sand  covers  the  field  from  a 
depth  of  two  inches  to  four  feet. 

Sand  damage  is  also  shown  in  picture 
No.  4  taken  on  the  Guy  Southard  farm 
in  Woodsville.  Forty  acres  of  good 
pasture  bordering  on  the  river  were 
covered  with  sand.  The  depth  of  the 
sand  is  shown  by  the  tracks  made  by  a 
man  walking  across  it. 

Pictures  5  and  6  were  taken  on  the  W. 
Noyes  farm  in  Woodsville  as  typical  of 
what  has  happened  to  many  a  home. 
No.  5  shows  the  farm  buildings  while  the 
water  was  still  rising.  No.  6  shows  what 
was  left  after  the  water  subsided.  The 
rushing  waters  undermined  the  house,  the 
ell  and  the  shed  were  washed  away 
entirely  and  the  main  part  of  the  house 
was  left  standing  on  one  corner  with  the 
floor  broken  in. 

In  reporting  on  the  loss  in  his  region 
County  Agent  Wilson  says  that  in  addi- 
tion to  the  40  acre  pasture  ruined  on 
the  Guy  Southard  farm,  as  shown  in 
picture  No.  4,  four  acres  of  best  corn 
and  potato  land  were  washed  away  and 
one  mile  of  road  leading  from  the  farm 
to  the  main  highway  was  destroyed  and 
18  acres  of  land  covered  with  silt  and 
sand  mixture  to  a  depth  of  from  one  to 
three  feet.  It  was  Mr.  Wilson's  opinion, 
however,  that  this  field  would  not  be 
greatly  damaged. 

Other  facts  about  the  flood  and  its 
results  in  that  section  as  reported  by 
County  Agent  Wilson  indicate  the  situa- 
tion which  confronts  the  farmers  in  some 
sections.  The  Austin  Hall  farm  on  the 
road  to  Lost  River  was  ruined.  He  has 
purchased  a  farm  near  Stillwater  and  has 
moved  there.  The  horse  barn  of  Russell 
Drew  of  East  Haverhill  was  lost.  Harry 
Tewksbury  of  Lisbon  had  90  acres  of 
meadow  land  badly  washed,  30  acres  be- 
ing covered  with  sand  which  will  not  be 
moved  off.  Jim  Cummings  of  Plymouth, 
commonly  known  as  "Turkey  Jim"  lost 
250  turkeys.  Patrick  Dufour  of  West 
Rumncy  lost  26  head  of  sheep.  Ross 


Some  Flood  Pictures  Taken  at  Woodsville,    N.  H. 


wood,  West  Lebanon  had  26  cows 
drowned  in  their  stanchions  as  the  result 
of  the  rapid  rise  of  water  when  the 
Sharon  Dam  broke. 

Commenting  on  the  general  situation  in 
his  district  Mr.  Wilson  says :  "Mils  from 
the  country  continued  to  move  to  Boston, 
Manchester  and  other  markets  but  not, 
however,  without  considerable  effort  and 
quick  work  on  the  part  of  farmers,  rail- 


roads and  milk  companies.  The  state 
highway  from  Woodsville  south  to 
Lebanon  and  to  Boston  served  as  the  main 
entry  to  this  region  for  several  days 
after  the  flood  as  it  was  one  of  the  few 
roads  passable  for  large  trucks.  Monroe, 
Bath  and  Lisbon  milk  is  collected  at 
Woodsville  and  trucked  south  to  the 
nearest  railroad  connection  which  is  Brad- 
ford, Vt.   Littleton  milk  is  trucked  north 


to  Lancaster  and  shipped  over  the  Main 
Central. 

"The  dairy  feed  situation  has  not  been 
acute  as  dealers  have  conserved  their 
supply  by  celling  in  small  quantities  to 
dairymen  in  need  of  grain.  The  present 
supply,  supplemented  at  places  with  grain 
f  picked  in,  will  tide  over  the  dairymen 
(Continued  on  Page  14) 


ecember,  1927 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


NATIONAL  RESOLUTIONS 

(Continued  from  Page  3) 

///.   CHEESE  STANDARDS 
Realizing  the  intimate  market  relation- 
ship of  the  various  dairy  products  and 
'ealizing  that  a  greater  consumption  of 
•i,;heese  would  be  beneficial  to  the  public 
health,  we  urge  the  establishment  aud 
:lose  supervision  of  Federal  grades  and 
standards  for  all  forms  and  varieties  of 
;heese. 

IV.    EXTENSION  OF  FEDERAL 

MARKET  SERVICE 
Appreciating  the  value  to  the  dairy  in- 
dustry of  the  United  States  Government 
market  information  with  respect  to  the 
production  of  dairy  products  and  their 
distribution  in  the  larger  markets  of  the 
country,  the  federation  urges  extension 
5f  this  service  by  the  Bureau  of  Agri- 
cultural Economics  and  particularly  to 
the  extension  of  the  information  service 
with  reference  to  movements  of  milk  and 
cream  into  all  metropolitan  areas  receiv- 
ing substantial  quantities  of  car  lot  ship- 
ments of  these  products. 

The  federation  further  urges  adequate 
appropriation  to  be  made  by  the  Congress 
to  the  Department  of  Agriculture  for 
financing  this  additional  service  and  also 
for  adequately  financing  technical  dairy 
research  conducted  by  the  Bureau  of 
Dairy  Industry. 

V.   EXPANSION   OF  CO-OPERA- 
TIVE MARKETING  DIVISION 
The  federation  urges  that  adequate  ap- 
propriation be  made  by  the  Congress  for 


expanding  the  division  of  co-operative 
marketing  in  the  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
Economics  in  the  Department  of  Agri- 
culture and  particularly  for  including  a 
direct  efficiency  service  to  co-operatives 
on  request. 

VI.    LENROOT-TABER  ENFORCE- 
MENT 

There  having  failed  ef  enactment  in 
the  last  Congress  the  bill  providing  ade- 
quate appropriation  to  defray  the  cost  of 
administering  the  Lenroot-Taber  Act,  the 
federation  urges  the  importance  of 
prompt  action  by  the  next  Congress  with 
respect  to  this  matter. 

VII.  T.  B.  INDEMNITY 
Because  of  the  increasing  demand  on 
the  part  of  our  cities  for  dairy  products 
from  tuberculin  tested  cows,  the  federa- 
tion urges  the  Congress  of  the  United 
States  to  co-operate  with  the  states  in 
providing  adequate  appropriation  to  in- 
demnify the  owners  of  cattle  which  react 
to  the  test. 

VIII.  MILK  DISTRIBUTION  COSTS 
Believing  that  efficient  distribution  is 
an  important  factor  in  securing  an  ade- 
quate return  for  the  dairy  farmer,  we 
recommend  that  the  Division  of  Co- 
operative Marketing  of  the  Bureau  of 
Agricultural  Economics  in  the  United 
States  Department  of  Agriculture,  ex- 
tend its  research  with  respect  to  the  milk 
industry  so  as  to  include  an  accurate 
analysis  and  a  fair  estimate  of  the  costs 
of  each  step  in  the  process  of  bringing 
the  milk  from  the  producer  to  the  ulti- 
mate consumer. 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  October,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  substracting  per  point  of  butter  fat  above  and  below  3.7  per 
cent,  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container;  per  8^2 
quart  can  $0,009;  per  10  quart  can  $0,010;  per  20  quart  can  $0,021;  per  2\%  quart 
can  $0,022;  per  40  quart  can  $0,041;  per  cwt.  $0,048. 


Boston  District 

Class  1  Class  2   

Dealers  (Mkt.  (Mfg.  8}4 

Elm  Spring  Farm  Milk)  Milk)  Quart 

7th  zone  (121-140)   68.5%  31.5%  .532 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   97.0  3.0 


20 
Quart 
1.294 


Size  of  Can  

2\yA  40 
Quart  Quart 
1.374  2.618 


Cwt. 
3.044 

4.152 


Northern  Market  District 


Dealers 
Robert  H.  Sawyer 
Zoned  from  Haverhill  Milk) 

Delivered   95.5% 

3rd  zone   

,  4th  zone   

\  Wason  MacDonald  Co. 
1    Zoned  from  Haverhill 

[Delivered   88.1 

l|2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   ;  

•  Findeisen  Farms, 

Zoned  from  Lawrence 

i  Delivered   68.2 

(list  zone   .-.  

!  2nd  zone   

»4th  zone   :  

i  9th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

L Delivered   86.8 

1 1st  zone   

I  2nd  zone   

f  3rd  zone   

i  4th  zone   ;  .... 

5th  zone   

6th  zone   


Class  1  Class  2 
(Mkt.  (Mfg. 

Milk) 
4.5% 


11.9 


in 

8/2's 


3.649 
3.193 
3.120 


—  Size  of  Can  — 
in  in 
20's  40's 


3.649 
3.270 
3.219 


3.649 
3.291 
3.250 


Cwt. 
3.957 
3.569 
3.524 


31.8 


13.2 


E.  C.  Blake 

I1    Zoned  from  Manchester 

(Delivered   82.4 

J  1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

j  5th  zone   

;W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 
I    Zoned  from  Nashua 

1  Delivered   81.8 

\  1st  zone   

'  2nd  zone   

1 

I  Producers'  Dairy  System 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

.Delivered   82.9 

:  2nd  zone   

1, 3rd  zone   „  


17.6 


18.2 


17.1 


3.595 
3.280 
3.213 


3.595 
3.352 
3.295 


3.595 
3.371 

3.333 


3.344 
3.066 
3.035 
2.975 
2.892 


3.781 
3.543 
3.503 
3.463 
3.427 
3.397 
3.382 


3.588 
3.347 
3.293 
3.248 
3.114 


3.604 
3.324 
3.273 


Now  is  the  Time 

to  take  stock  of  the  years  dairying 

Have  you  made  any  mistakes  which  have 
lessened  your  profits,  such  as : 

1.  Turning  your  cows  on  pasture  too  early. 

2.  Leaving  them  on  pasture  too  long. 

3.  Getting  your  hay  in  too  late. 

4.  Neglecting  to  weigh  the  jeed  consumed 
and  milk  produced  by  each  cow. 

5.  Failing  to  Jeed  enough  grain  through 
the  Summer. 

6.  Not  properly  utilizing  your  home- 
grown grains. 

7.  Spending  too  much  money  Jor  unpro- 
ductive jeeds. 

If  you've  made  any  oj  these  mistakes  this  year 
don't  make  them  again  in  1928.  Nos.  1  to  6 
are  entirely  up  to  you.  But  we  can  help  you 
in  regard  to  No.  7. 

Diamond  Corn  Gluten  Meal 

is  one  of  the  most  productive  of  all  jeeds. 
Why?  Because  it  is  so  high  in  protein  oj  good 
quality,  and  so  high  in  total  digestible  nutri- 
ents that  a  small  or  moderate  amount  oj 
DIAMOND  in  the  ration  permits  the  inclusion 
oj  large  amounts  oj  homegrown  grains  and 
other  low-priced  carbohydrate  jeeds  such  as 
bran,  middlings,  hominy,  etc.. 


Write  us for  circular  showing  how 
to  jeed  DIAMOND  with  your 
homegrown  grains  jor  bigger 
production  at  smaller  cost. 


Ration  Service  Dept. 
Corn  Products  Refining  Co. 

17  Battery  Place,  New  York  City 


B0  POUNDS  NET 

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Save  with 

Harder 


The  Early  Buyer 
Gets  the  Extras 


The  1928  Harder  Silo  will  have  many 
exclusive  features  which  will  make  it  more 
than  ever  "The  Bulwark  of  the  Paying 
Dairy."  There's  a  Harder  to  meet  the 
needs  of  every  dairyman,  priced  to  fit  his 
pocketbook. 

We  are  making  a  special  proposition  to 
foresighted  dairymen.  If  you  will  need  a 
silo  next  season,  it  will  pay  you  to  place 
your  order  now.  Write  today  for  full  par- 
ticulars of  our  Early  Order  Proposition. 
PThe  Harder  Round  Brooder  House  is 
built  on  this  silo  principle — extra  warm 
and  strictly  sanitary.    Send  for  free  folder. 

HARDER  SILO  CO.,  Inc. 


Box  H 


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Member 
Federal 


Reserve 
System 


Money 


in  the  bank  makes  all  the 
difference  between  confidence 
in  the  future 
and  fear  of  it. 
Start  your  sav- 
ings account 
today. 

LIBERTY 
TRUST 
COMPANY 

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Boston,  Mass. 

(Corner  Ooort  St.) 


Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


December,  1927 


Sir?  ffflpHaage 

of  Good  Will  which 

never  grows  old 
is  sincerely  and  gladly 
extended  to  you  for 

GHjriaimaH 

and 
from 

in  the  new  spirit  of 
1927  and  1928 


THE  J.  B.  FORD  CO. 

WYANDOTTE,  MICH. 


NORTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

F.  LEON  BROWN.  Manager 
477  Em«x  Street  •  •  Lawreace,  Mais. 

PRICES 

The  increase  in  price  of  Y\  of  a  cent 
in  the  Boston  market  made  it  necessary 
to  call  in  our  committees  of  our  mar- 
kets in  our  district  to  consider  what 
we  should  do  here. 

The  policy  in  all  of  our  markets  has 
been  to  follow  the  Boston  market  up 
or  down.  A  joint  committee  meeting  of 
the  Lowell  and  Lawrence  sales  com- 
mittee of  producers  was  held  at  Law- 
rence. At  that  meeting  the  producers' 
committee,  after  carefully  considering 
the  general  milk  marketing  situation 
made  a  request  of  the  dealers  in  these 
markets  for  an  advance  of  Yn,  of  a  cent 
per  quart.  The  dealers  in  these  mar- 
kets have  accepted  this  advance  and 
advanced  their  retail  prices  to  the 
trade  in  Lawrence  on  November  27, 
and  in  Lowell  on  December  1. 

The  Haverhill  market  advanced  £4 
of  a  cent  and  the  dealers  in  that  mar- 
ket passed  this  on  to  the  consumers  by 
advancing  their  prices  to  the  trade. 

This  same  situation  prevails  in 
Nashua  where  the  producers'  price  was 
advanced        of  a  cent. 

In  Manchester  the  producers'  com- 
mittee voted  to  request  a  cent  ad- 
vance. This  was  accepted  by  the  deal- 
ers who  came  as  individuals  to  meet 
the  members  of  the  sales  committee. 

The  sales  committees  of  our  various 
markets  feel  that  the  prices  asked  by 
the  producers  in  their  last  advance  are 
reasonable  and  warranted,  due  to  the 
fact  that  many  dealers  have  been  bid- 
ding for  the  supply,  also  the  increased 
cost  of  cows  at  the  present  time  and 
the  advance  in  grain  prices.  Your  com- 
mittees have  authorized  me  to  send 
out  the  price  announcements  as  has  been 
done  in  the  past  and  they  are  expect- 
ing all  producers  to  stand  loyally  be- 
hind these  prices  which  they  deem  are 
fair  and  warranted  at  this  time. 

PUBLIC  EXPECTED  ADVANCE 
Reports  coming  from  the  markets  of 
Haverhill,  Nashua,  Salem,  Lynn,  Dan- 
vers  and  Beverly  seem  to  indicate  that 
the  public  did  not  resent  the  fact  that 
the  farmers  were  to  get  more  for  their 
milk  during  this  emergency  period  and 
have  taken  this  extraordinary  advance 
in  milk  prices  with  a  spirit  of  good 
co-operation  just  the  same  as  was  done 
by  the  people  served  in  the  Boston 
market. 

MARKETS  SHORT  OF  MILK 
Many  dealers  have  called  our  office 
stating  that  they  have  been  very  short 
of  milk  and  are  still  in  the  market  for 
local  production.  Never  since  I  have 
been  district  manager  in  this  Northern 
District  have  I  known  of  milk  to  be 
in  such  demand  as  it  has  been  these  past 
three  weeks,  due  to  the  unusual  situa- 
tion in  Vermont.  The  situation  is  be- 
coming relieved  somewhat,  but  there 
are  still  many  requests  for  milk  which 
we  have  not  been  able  to  fulfill  to  date. 
Local  farmers  do  not  seem  to  be  mak- 
ing as  much  milk  as  they  were  a  year 
ago  at  this  time.  Cow  replacements 
are  not  being  made  because  of  the 
fact  that  cows  are  so  very  high  and 
scarce. 

CHECK  TESTING 

Some  work  in  check  testing  has  been 
done  with  the  Wason-MacDonald  Co. 
of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  the  Hood  Co. 
at  Lawrence,  Mass.  Results  of  tests 
were  sent  ot  those  who  had  requested 
that  their  tests  be  checked  up. 

NEW  MEMBERS 
Through  the  assistance  of  Mr.  Hen- 
derson, a  member  of  our  organization 
living  in  West  Andover,  two  new  mem- 
bers joined  the  association  from  his 
locality.  This  makes  the  entire  group 
of  producers  selling  to  Sidney  Mc- 
Govern,  a  Lawrence  dealer,  practically 
100  per  cent,  signed  up  with  the 
NEMPA.  The  new  members  are  J. 
A,  Gleeson  and  Nelson  Morin. 


J.  J.  Finn,  of  Newfields,  N.  H.,  was 
given  a  market  for  his  milk  at  the  re- 
quest of  the  district  manager  with  the 
Wason-MacDonald  Co.  of  Haverhill. 
Mr.   Finn  has  joined  our  organization. 

Charles  H.  Piper,  of  Lee,  N.  H., 
wrote  in  stating  that  he  wished  to  be- 
come a  member  of  the  organization, 
taking  the  place  of  his  father,  J.  H. 
Piper,  who  has  retired  from  the  milk 
business. 

These  new  recruits  coming  into  the 
organization  are  appreciated  and  we 
hope  to  be  able  to  give  them  worth- 
while service. 

ANNUAL  MEETINGS 

The  Lee,  N.  H.,  local  had  a  splendid 
annual  meeting,  held  in  the  Lee  Town 
Hall,  at  Lee,  N.  H.  The  district  man- 
ager was  present  and  many  interesting 
features  of  the  milk  marketing  pro- 
gram were  discussed.  Secretary  John- 
son's report  shows  that  the  Lee  local 
has  a  100  per  cent,  membership,  no  one 
in  their  community  being  outside  the 
NEMPA.  It  is  a  real  pleasure  to  note 
the  splendid  spirit  of  co-operation  which 
exists  among  these  members  of  the  Lee, 
N.  H.  local.  The  officers  elected  for 
the  Lee  local  are  as  follows :  Presi- 
dent, Wm.  T.  Phair ;  secretary,  Chas. 
H.  Johnson. 

For  the  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  local : 
President,  Arthur  E.  Dutton ;  secretary, 
Paul  Swanson,  G.  Leslie  Putnam  rat- 
ing committeeman  for  Burbeck  Co. 
producers,  and  E.  E.  Paignon,  sales 
committee. 


DELEGATES  ATTENDING 
ANNUAL  MEETING 

Checking  over  the  records  of  at- 
tendance at  our  recent  annual  meeting 
shows  that  there  was  the  most  general 
representation  of  the  members  since 
the  organization  was  started.  The  new 
plan  of  allowing  any  local  with  35 
members  a  direct  representative  (their 
president)  worked  out  well  and  made 
a  substantial  increase  in  attendance  and 
interest.  There  were,  however,  some 
gaps  in  the  ranks  of  those  who  were 
entitled  to  come.  Some  of  the  gaps 
were  presidents  of  locals  with  more 
than  35  members  who  did  not  come 
and  failed  to  select  an  alternate ;  others 
were  grouped  locals  which  did  not  go 
through  the  necessary  steps  to  get  a 
delegate  appointed  or  whose  delegate 
did  not  come  after  being  appointed. 
The  following  list  is  of  the  accredited 
delegates  who  were  in  attendance  at 
the  meeting.  Where  a  single  local  is 
given  it  means  that  the  local  has  a 
membership  of  35  or  more.  Where  two 
delegates  are  given  it  means  that  the 
local  has  a  membership  of  151  or  more. 
Where  several  locals  are  given  it  means 
that  the  delegate  represents  the  group. 
The  missing  numbers  are  the  locals  or 
groups  which  were  not  represented. 

MAINE 

1.  Walter   H.   Burgess,  Dover. 

3.  Stanley  Higgins,  Charleston,  Sil- 
vers Mills. 

4.  G.  H.  Knowles,  Dexter. 

6.    H.  O.  Phinnev,  Cambridge,  Riplev. 

10.    R.   E.   Littlefield,  Hermon. 

17.  First  delegate,  Archie  Hartford; 
second  delegate,  W.  S.  Libby,  Thorn- 
dike. 

19.  Percy  C.  Vinson.  Troy. 
22.    Arthur  Oliver,  Pittsfield. 

24.  E.  M.  Brown,  Athens,  Harmony. 

25.  L.  L.  Sanford,  Norridgewock, 
Skowhegan. 

26.  L.  A.   Monk,  Clinton. 

29.  H.  W.  Austin,   South  China. 

30.  C.  A.  McManus,  Windsor,'  North 
Whitefield. 

31.  L.  H.  Ford,  Whitefield. 

33.  Edward  B.  Denney,  Jr.,  Damaris- 
cotta,    Newcastle,  Nobleboro. 

34.  J.   E.   Benner,  Winslow  Mills. 

37.  H.  F.  Woodard,  Bowdoinham, 
Litchfield. 

38.  W.   M.   Dingley,  Richmond. 

41.  F.  A.  Pike,  East  Livermore. 

42.  A.  H.  Taylor,  Chesterville,  Mer- 
cer, New  Sharon. 

43.  Charles    Gay,  Farmington. 

44.  Burton  D.   Moore,  Strong. 

45.  C.  W.  Noyes,  East  Wilton. 

46.  George   G.   Young,  Livermore. 
50.    G.  W.  Q.  Perham,  Bethel,  Bry- 
ant Pond,  West  Paris. 

(Continued  on  page  thirteen) 


Don't  Lose 
the  quarter 

Dr.  Naylor  Medicated  Teat  Dilators  teach 

the  seat  of  the  trouble  give  positive  results. 

Atwayt  keep  a  package  on  hand  for  treatment 
of  Spider,  Obstructions,  Cat  or 
Bruited  Teats,  Hard  Milker:  Steri- 
lized and  packed  in  medicated  ointment. 
Their  absorbent  texture  carries  the  medication 
into  the  teat  canal. 

Heals  the  Teat- 
Keeps  it  Open 

Big,  3  dozen  package  mailed  postpaid 
for  $1.  with  Satisfaction^  or  Money 
Back  guarantee.  Give  dealer's  name  so  we 
can  arrange  your  future  supply  locally. 

Dr.  H.  W.  NAYLOR.  Veterinarian 

Dept.  9  Morris,  N.  Y. 

Other  Dr.  Naylor  products : 


Liquid  Udder  Balm,  $1,, 
Garget  Powder,  60c, 
Car-min-ton,  a 
concentrated  mineral 
tonic  for  cows,  $1, 
Foul  Treatment, 
$1.  White  Scour 
Tablets,  SOc.  « 


DR.NAYLOrT 

Medicated 

TEAT 


Vt„  OR. 


TEAT  \>--li5£^: 
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Here's  Your  Xmas  Money 

It  won't  be  long  now  before  you'll  be 
shopping  around  for  those  gifts. 
You'll  want  every  penny  you  can 
scrape  together.  So,  just  as  hundreds 
of  our  customers  have  made  it  a  prac- 
tice to  ship  us  their  empty  bags  at  this 
time  for  Xmas  funds,  you,  too,  can 
turn  your  bags  into  Xmas  cash  now. 
Ship  your  bags  today  ;  we'll  mail  your 
check  right  away,  and  we'll  all  have 
a  merry  holiday.    Price  list  follows  : 

Eastern  States  Dairy  and  Horse 

Feed  Bags  7c 

Eastern  States  Poultry  Feed  Bags  5c 
Amco,  Wirthmore,  Gluten,  Bran 
and  Other  Feed  Bags  ....  5c 
Cracked  Corn  and  Oat  Bags   .  4c 
/2s  According  to  Condition 

Other  bags,  write  for  prices. 

We  pay  the  freight -minimum  of  100  bags 

Water  damaged  bags,  or  bags  from  apples, 
potatoes,  corn  or  sawdust  graded 
as  No.  2's  only. 

CARL  BURWICK  &  CO. 

1  Fay  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 
"  The  Bag  House  of  the  New  England  Farmer  " 


For  growing  calves  use  TI-O-GA  CALF 

FOOD.  It  furnishes  as  nearly  as  possible 
the  same  food  elements  as  are  supplied  in 
milk — easily  digested  and  assimilated,  and 
at  much  lower  cost.  Send  for  sample, 
descriptive  circular  and  feeding  tables. 


Address 

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WAVERLY,  N.  Y. 


When  writing  to  advertisers 
Please  mention  the 

New  England  Dairyman 


December,  192? 


N  E W    ENGLAND    I )  A  I  R  Y  M  A  X 


Page  Nine 


WHAT  IS  MEANT 

BY 


Automatically  Controlled 


NO  PIPE  LINES 

NO  PULSATORS 

Duplex  means  DOUBLE— two 
in  one— and  the  DUPLEX  is  just 
that — two  milkers  in  one.  Two 
small  pumps.  EACH  pump  is 
instantly  adjustable,  giving  just 
the  right  amount  of  suction  for 
EACH  cow,  whether  she  be  a 
hard  or  an  easy  milker.  There- 
fore, there  is 

NO  OVERMILKING 

of  the  easy  milker.  Each  cow's 
milk  is  PLAINLY  VISIBLE  as 
it  passes  through  an  individual 
glass  chamber  (an  inverted  pint 
milk  bottle) .  You  know  what 
you  are  doing.  There's  no 
guesswork.    And  the  Duplex  is 

AUTOMATICALLY  CONTROLLED 
When  milk  stops  flowing  through 
either  chamber,  suction  on  that 
cow  stops. 


SPECIAL  OFFER  NOW 

To  only  one  actual  dairyman  in  each  com- 
munity to  introduce  DUPLEX  VISIBLE 
in  New  England.  Remember,  DUPLEX 
is  not  a  new,  untried  or  experimental 
machine.  While  it  embodies  the  latest 
and  best  development  in  milkers,  hun- 
dreds are  in  use  today  and  it  is  the  result 
of  eight  years'  painstaking  research. 
Send  in  the  coupon  below  TODAY.  No 
obligation.  Only  the  first  responsible 
dairyman  in  each  community  will  get  this 
offer  now.    BE  THE  FIRST. 


Bath  Mfg.  and  Sales  Corporation 
Bath,  N.  Y. 

Please  send  me  (without  cost  or  obli- 
gation) your  circular  "What  Users  Say" 
and  your  SPECIAL,  OFFER  which  '  I 
agree  to  consider  confidential. 

Name   

Address   State  

R.  F.  D.  No  No.  cows  milked  


WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 

Room  205  Dexter  Building 
p]  360  Worthiogton  St.,  Springfield,  Man. 
p]  Telephone  No.  4  0500 

PRICES 

Springfield    9^c 

Worcester   9}4c 

Holyoke    9c 

Westfield    8c 

SPRINGFIELD 

The  flood  quite  seriously  affected  the 
milk  supply  in  this  market,  making  it 
necessary  for  a  time  to  import  milk 
from  Philadelphia  and  New  York. 
Following  the  advance  in  Boston, 
the  dealers  of  this  market  met  and 
were  very  willing  to  advance  the  price 
one  cent  to  the  producers. 

This  price  went  into  effect  on  No- 
vember 20,  and  on  the  same  day  the 
resale  market  advanced  one  cent.  It  is 
expected  that  this  price  will  hold 
through  the  winter. 

The  only  dealer  in  Springfield  whose 
plant  was  in  the  flood  area  was  the 
Springfield  division  of  the  United  Dairy 
System.  This  area  was  flooded  to  the 
depth  of  four  or  five  feet,  and  it  was 
a  week  before  it  was  possible  for  the 
company  to  use  it.  Meanwhile  the 
milk  of  this  company  was  bottled  at 
the   C.  A.   Nash   Company's  plant. 

HOLYOKE 
Business  conditions  are  somewhat  de- 
pressed in  this  market,  and  dealers  did 
not  feel  that  an  advance  of  one  cent, 
was  warranted.  It  was  finally  agreed 
to  advance  the  producers'  price  one- 
half  cent,  effective  November  28. 

WORCESTER 

Because  of  the  advance  in  Boston,  and 
due  to  the  fact  that  the  Boston  market 
is  open  to  many  of  the  producers  in 
this  section,  the  sales  committee  de- 
cided to  advance  the  price  to  the  deal- 
ers three-quarters  of  a  cent,  effective 
December  1,  making  the  price  9*4 
cents  delivered  at  the  market. 

Although  the  flood  did  not  seriously 
threaten  Worcester's  milk  supply,  it 
did  contribute  toward  causing  an  acute 
shortage.  This  is  now  somewhat  re- 
lieved, but  the  high  price  of  cows  and 
of  grain  prevents  any  immediate  in- 
crease in  production. 

The  cartage  problem  has  caused  con- 
siderable discussion  among  the  pro- 
ducers of  this  market.  A  committee  of 
five  dealers  has  been  appointed  to  meet 
with  the  producers'  committee  to  con- 
sider this  question. 

LOCAL  MEETINGS 
On  November  IS  about  fifty  pro- 
ducers gathered  at  the  Cummington 
Community  House  at  Cummington, 
Mass.  Mr.  Leland,  the  new  county 
agent,  presided.  Talks  were  given  by 
Harry  Piper  and  Prof.  Fawcett  on  the 
T.  B.  test  work.  N.  F.  Sykes  gave  a 
red  hot  talk  against  the  T.  B.  test 
as  now  carried  on.  The  district  man- 
ager talked  on  the  necessity  of  a  known 
price  plan  for  the  Springfield  market 
The  following  were  elected  to  serve 
as  officers  for  the  coming  year :  Presi- 
dent, Rollin  E.  Bates;  secretary,  W.  A. 
Harlow. 

HARDWICK,  MASS. 

An  oyster  supper  was  served  at 
Ilardwick  November  18  at  the  town 
hall.  O.  A.  Tuttle  reported  on  the 
annual  meeting.  Harrv  Piper  talked 
on  the  NEMPA,  and  "L.  H.  Rickert, 
field  representative  for  the  United  Dairy 
System,  talked  on  problems  of  market- 
ing milk.  The  district  manager  was 
unable  to  attend  this  meeting,  as  it  was 
necessary  to  hold  a  very  important 
meeting  of  the  Worcester  sales  com- 
mittee on  that  night. 

On  the  whole,  conditions  are  fairly 
satisfactory  in  the  markets  of  this 
district.  Worcester,  especially,  has  be- 
come a  more  stable  market  during  the 
last  two  or  three  weeks. 


MILK  PRICES  HAVE  ADVANCED 
FEED  FOR  HIGHER  MILK  PRODUCTION 


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With  both  a  shortage  of  milk  and  an  advance  in  price  there 
are  added  inducements  to  teed  for  increased  milk  production. 

Wirthmore  25%  Balanced  Kation  and  Wirthmore  20% 
Dairy  Feeds  have  proved  to  increase  milk  production.  The  in- 
creased yield  of  milk  obtained  by  feeding  Wirthmore  Dairy 
Feeds  reduces  the  cost  per  quart. 

You  are  interested  in  using  the  dairy  feed  which  will  make 
more  money  for  you  by  producing  a  heavy  How  of  milk  while 
keeping  your  herd  in  pood  flesh.  Wirthmore  20%  Kation  pro- 
duces these  results.  Give  this  feed  a  three  months'  trial  and 
you  will  acknowledge  its  merits.  Feed  through  a  full  lactation 
period  and  be  thoroughly  convinced  of  its  superiority.  More 
milk — herd  in  better  condition — bigger  and  better  calves — and 
more  profits  for  you. 

There's  a  Wirthmore  Dairy  Feed  for  Every  Need 
Wirthmore  25%  Balanced  Ration      Wirthmore  20%  Dairy  Feed 
Wirthmore  16   Summer  Ration 

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Boston,  Mass. 


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WE  no  longer  plant  by  the  light  of  the  moon.  .  .  . 
Agriculture  has  become  a  sound  business,  depending 
on  the  volume  of  its  income,  the  same  as  any  other  business. 
....  Fortunately,  during  IQ27  there  was  a  steady  increase  in 
the  farmer's  purchasing  power.  His  income  will  probably  be 
greater  this  season  than  last.  He  is  looking  into  a  brighter  future. 

By  investing  this  increase  in  income  wisely,  he  can  make 
the  most  of  the  opportunity  to  build  a  sounder  and  more 
profitable  business  undertaking.  Advisory  groups  and  agri' 
cultural  bureaus  are  available  to  help  him,  because  they 
realise  that  the  prosperity  of  the  farmer  is  the  basis  of  all 
true  prosperity. 

It  is  in  accord  with  this  general  policy  that  the  work  of  all 
departments  cf  the  N.  V.  Potash  Export  My.,  is  conducted. 

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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


December,  1927 


The  Farmers'  Best  Investment 

TEN  years  of  increasing  strength  of  the  Federal 
Land  Banks  have  made  their  Bonds  a  seasoned 
standard  investment.  Not  a  default  on  interest  or  principal.  Over 
one  Billion  dollars  of  these  Bonds  now  held  by  investors.  They  are 
guaranteed  jointly  by  the  twelve  Federal  Land  Banks,  with  combined 
capital  and  reserves  exceeding  $70,000,000.  Back  of  these  Bonds  are 
farms  valued  at  more  than  twice  the  amount  loaned.  These  Bonds 
are  safer  than  any  single  first  farm  mortgage. 

Federal  Land  Bank  Bonds 

Completely  Tax-Exempt 

You  can  buy  Federal  Land  Bank  Bonds  at  the  current  market 
price  from  any  Federal  Land  Bank  or  from  the  Fiscal  Agent. 
Denominations:  $40,  $100,  $500,  $1,000,  $5,000  and  $10,000. 

When  ypu  need  money  these  Bonds  can  be  readily  sold; 
and  they  make  acceptable  collateral. 


Send  for  Federal  Farm  Loan  Circular  No. 
16,  "Financing  the  Farmer"  —  FREE 

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Because  it  is  the  ONE  strainer  that  strains  ab- 
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creameries,  condensaries,  thousands  of  farmers. 

WHY  TAKE  CHANCES 
when  you  can  use  Dr.  Clark's  Purity  Strainer  with  its 
sterilized  cotton  disc  and  KNOW  that  your  milk  will 
grade  100%  clean? 

Dr.  Clark's  Purity  Strainers  are  simple  to  use  and  easy 
to  clean — save  time — bring  you  higher  prices  for  your 
milk.  Also  best  for  straining  maple  syrup,  vinegar, 
cider  and  home  beverages. 

Sold  by  good  dealers  everywhere.  Two  sizes, 
10  quart  and  18  quart.  Write  for  descriptive 
folder  and  our  10  Day  Trial  Test  Offer.  If 
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and  get  your  money  back  if  it 
doesn't  remove  every  particle 
of  dirt  from  your  milk.  Get  all 
the  facts.  A  postal  or  letter 
brings  you  complete  informa- 
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by  return  mail. 


Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 


MORE  EVIDENCE 

Sixty-six  Massachusetts  herds- 
will  be  placed  on  the  National 
Dairy  Association's  roll  of  honor 
this  year  as  these  66  herds  dur- 
ing the  year  ending  July  1,  1927, 
have  succeeded  in  averaging  per 
cow  in  their  respective  cow  test 
associations  for  a  full  12  months 
300  lbs.  butterfat  or  more.  Of 
these  66  herds,  37  received  half 
— and  the  owners  of  31  have  con- 
tracted with  their  Exchange  for 
dairy  feed  for  the  present  year. 
The  Exchange  records  indicate 
that  70%  of  the  feed  and  grain 
tonnage  used  by  its  members  is 
ordered  on  contract.  The  records 
indicate  that  84%  of  the  Eastern 
States  members  on  this  roll  of 
honor  from  Massachusetts  are  se- 
curing their  grain  requirements 
on  contract. 

The  4  leading  Massachusetts 
herds  were  all  fed  Eastern  States 
grain  and  all  4  herd  owners  have 
contracted  for  their  1927  supply. 
The  leading  herd,  17  pure  blood 
Guernseys,  belonging  to  Unkamet 
Farm,  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  produced 
an  average  of  443  lbs.  fat  per  cow. 
Thomas  Dyer's  13  Jerseys  from 
Springfield,  Mass.,  were  a  close 
second  with  439  lbs.  fat  per  cowv 
Of  the  10  herds  which  averaged 
400  lbs.  fat  or  more,  five  were 
Eastern  States  fed. 

Where  records  are  kept,  East- 
ern States  Open  Formula  Feeds 
prove  their  worth. 

Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire 
and  Vermont  are  the  only  states 
in  New  England  in  which  cow 
test  records  are  available  for  this 
year's  National  Dairy  Associa- 
tion's roll  of  honor.  In  Massa- 
chusetts 66  herds  qualified  and  37 
were  Eastern  States  fed.  In  New 
Hampshire  8  herds  qualified  and 
7  were  Eastern  States  fed.'  In 
Vermont  98  herds  qualified  and 
57  were  Eastern  States  fed.  In 
Massachusetts  the  4  top  herds 
were  Eastern  States  fed ;  in  New 
Hampshire  the  7  top  herds  were 
Eastern  States  fed;  and  in  Ver- 
mont the  3  top  herds  were  East- 
ern States  fed. 

With  dairymen  the  purchasing 
of  grain  is  a  means  to  an  end. 
The  end  is  to  secure  the  greatest 
net  profit  possible  from  the  dairy 
enterprise  with  due  regard  for 
the  cost  of  making  milk,  of  grow- 
ing young  stock  and  of  maintain- 
ing the  general  health  of  the 
herd.  Cow  test  association  mem- 
bers have  records  which  give 
them  more  accurate  information 
than  other  dairymen. 

It  is  significant  that  so  large  a  portion 
of  the  lending  cow  test  association  mem- 
bers in  Eastern  States  territory  are 
standardizing  on  Eastern  States  feeds. 
It  indicates  that  their  records  have  con- 
vinced them  of  the  value  of  the  selective 
buying  service  their  Exchange  is  per- 
forming for  them. 

For  information  on  Eastern  States 
feeds,  write  the  office. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

M   non-itock ,    non-profit  organization 
ownod  and  controlled  by  the 
farmer*  it  toroe* 

SPRINGFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


REPORT  OF  DAIRY  AND 
FOOD  COUNCIL 

(Continued  from  Page  3) 

THE  PROPER  AMOUNT  OF  MILK 
TO  USE 

"Carefully  controlled  experiments  with 
diets  containing  systematically  varied 
amounts  of  milk,  lead  to  the  conclusion 
that  one  quart  of  milk  per  child  per  day 
is  the  amount  required  for  optimum  stor- 
age of  calcium  and  presumably,  there- 
fore, for  optimum  development  of  bones 
and  teeth." — Dr.  Sherman  of  Columbia 
University. 

"Because  there  is  no  effective  substitute 
far  milk,  every  satisfactory  diet  should 
include  one  quare  of  milk  and  a  leafy 
vegetable  every  day." 


THREE   WAYS  OF  USING  THIS 
ESSENTIAL  FOOD— MILK 

1.  — Milk  may  be  used  in  its  liquid  form 
as  a  drink. 

2.  — It  may  be  used  in  combination  with 
other  foods  as  bread  and  milk,  cereal 
and  milk,  fruit  and  milk. 

3.  — It  may  be  used  in  cooking  in  the 
preparation  of  other  foods  and  in  making 
desserts.  Its  use  in  all  cases  adds  food 
value  and  improves  flavor. 


OUR  PROSPECTIVE  CUSTOMERS 
Pre-school  age. 

Baby  in  arms. 

Crawling  child. 

Runabout. 
School  age. 

Five  to  eight  years. 

Nine  to  fifteen  years. 

Sixteen  to  twenty-one  years 
Adults. 

Young  married  age. 

Middle  age. 

Old  age. 

Peoples  of  all  ages,  nationalities  and 
classes  are  potential  milk  users  to  be 
turned  into  actual  users. 

The  selling  appeal  must  fit  the  age  and 
sex  group. 

The  constant  change  in  the  group 
makes  the  education  a  continuous  pro- 
cess. 


There  are  Four  Million  of  these 
Potential  Milk  users  in  Southern  New 
England  to  whom  we  can  sell  milk. 


HOW  TO  REACH  THEM 
People  buy  things  because  they  want 
them.    Our  work  is  to  make  them  want 
milk  so  much  that  they  will  buy  it. 

1.  — To  make  the  present  customers 
want  to  use  more  milk. 

2.  — To  make  those  who  are  not  using 
milk  do  so. 


PRE-SCHOOL  AGE 
Appeal  to  parent  through — 
Health:  Talks. 
Good  sound  bodies :  Lecture. 
Builds  good  teeth:  Exhibits. 
Child  will  have  better  chance :  Movies, 
newspapers. 

SCHOOL  AGE 

Appeal  to  child  through — 

Health :  Stories. 

Better  growth :  Plays. 

Good  teeth :  Literature. 

Play  better :  Lectures. 

Gives  snap  and  pep :  Movies. 

Athletics :  Exhibits. 

Appeal  to  parent  through- 
Health :  Talks. 

Better  growth :  Lecture. 

Sturdy  bodies :  Literature. 

Gives  child  better  chance :  Exhibits, 
movies. 

Economy :  Newspapers. 

THE  CHILD 

The  appeals  are  made  to  each  group 
according  to  age  and  separate  appeals 
are  made  to  boys  or  girls  above  nine 
years  old. 


GOOD  ADVERTISING  INCREASES 
SALES 

It  is  estimated  that  good  individual 
dealer  advertising  to  increase  sales 
benefits  the  advertiser  about  60  per  cent 
and  the  balance  of  the  industry  40  per 
cent. 

Any  advertising  of  a  dealer  that  dis- 
credits another's  product  affects  the  con- 
sumers' attitude  adversely  to  all  the 
products  of  that  market. 


CLIP  AND  GROOM  YOUR  COWS 
IT  MEANS  CLEANER  AND 
BETTER  MILK 

Clipped  and  groomed  cows  during-  stable 
months  will  keep  them  clean  and  com- 
fortable and  keep  the  dirt  out  of  the 
milk  pail.  Clipping'  and  grooming  Im- 
prove the  health  of  your  Live  Stock. 
Use  a  GILLETTE  Portable  Electric  Clip- 
ping- and  Grooming-  Machine  Operates 
on  the  light  circuit  furnished  by  any 
Electric  Lig-ht  and  Power  Co.,  or  on  any 
make  of  Farm   Lighting-  Plant. 

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December,  1927 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


(PRESIDENT  COOLIDGE  SAYS 
"A3  a  food  product  there  is  no  substi- 
tute for  that  which  comes  from  the 
"  dairy.  It  contributes  an  important 
,  element  to  the  growth  and  development 
1  both  of  body  and  mind,  for  which  there 
I  never  has  been  discovered  any  adequate 
I  substitute." 


WHAT   PRODUCERS  AND  DEAL- 
ERS HAVE  TO  SELL 
Both  the  producer  and  the  dealer  have 
milk  to  sell.    In  this  their  interest  is  a 
common  interest. 

In  addition  the  dealer  sells  the  service 
of  his  company  to  procure  a  supply  to 
meet  all  needs  be  they  great  or  small, 
I  to  transport  the  milk  from  the  country  to 
[the  city,  to  pasteurize  the  milk,  to  make 
I  it  Safe  and  to  deliver  it  to  the  consumer 
in  good  condition  at  all  times  and  in  all 
kinds  of  weather. 


EOOD  ADVERTISING  THAT 
HELPS  THE  INDUSTRY 
The  advertising  of  bread,  crackers, 
breakfast  foods,  cocoa,  Burnett's  vanilla, 
Junket  tablets  and  prepared  puddings 
that  mentions  milk  in  connection  with 
their  products,  gives  the  industry  bene- 
ficial free  advertising. 


FRESH  LIQUID  MILK  COM- 
PETITORS 

1.  — Evaporated  milk,  condensed  milk 
and  milk  powders  are  direct  competitors 
af  fluid  milk  particularly  in  cooking. 

These  are  produced  in  other  sections 
dI  the  country. 

2.  — Meats  and  protein  foods.  Drinks : 
Tea,  coffee,  etc.  These  are  well 
advertised. 


MILK  ASSOCIATION  GIVES  IM- 
PORTANT AID  TO  FARMERS 
The  NEMPA  is  now  the  most  in- 
fluential force  in  the  New  England  milk 
market.  Very  few  cities  in  New  England 
:erritory,  outside  of  Connecticut,  do  not 
3ase  their  milk  prices  on  the  determina- 
:ions  of  the  NEMPA  Sales  Committee. 

This  organization  took  a  leading  part 
n  the  recent  vain  effort  to  persuade  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission  to  for- 
)id  the  increase  in  freight  rates  on  rail- 
landled  milk.  It  was  active  in  lobbying 
tor  increased  taxes  on  imports  of  dairy 
jroducts  and  for  federal  legislation  to 
)ar  the  importations  of  low  grade  milk 
md  cream  from  Canada. 

The  recent  study  of  the  milk  situation 
n'New  England  was  undertaken  by  the 
J.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture  largely 
>n  the  invitation  of  this  body  and  with 
ts  active  co-operation.  During  the  past 
'ear  notable  progress  has  been  made  in 
>ringing  into  harmony  the  various  or- 
ganizations selling  milk  in  NEMPA 
erritory, — and  in  this  co-operation  the 
tew  England  association,  which  indeed 
lad  most  to  gain,  took  a  leading  and 
audable  part. 

The  annual  meeting  of  delegates  and 
lirectors  held  in  Boston,  October  25  and 
!6,  was  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
atisfactory  ever  held  from  the  point  of 
Hew  of  numbers  and  harmony.  Remark- 
ble  advance  was  noted  in  the  field 
ervice.  Four  field  agents  appointed  in 
927  endeavor  to  render  immediate 
ervice  to  former  members  and  to  keep 
he  members  in  touch  with  the  policies 
"nd  program  of  the  central  office. 

The  one  outstanding  omission  in  the 
p  rogram  is  the  failure  to  emphasize  suffi- 
iently  the  responsibility  resting  on  the 
>ormer  members  themselves  to  produce 
<lilk  of  high  quality  at  the  time  and  in 
he  quantity  required  by  consumers.  Full 
uccess  cannot  come  to  a  co-operative 
larketing  association  until  the  members 
ecognize  and  accept  their  individual 
csponsibility  to  produce  a  marketable 
rticle. 

The  central  office  is  evidently  laboring 

;  aliantly  to  assist  its  farmers.  It  is 
ime  to  call  on  farmers  to  do  their  best 

/?  help  themselves  and  their  associations, 
n  this  education  of  the  dairy  farmers 
he   New   England   Dairy   Council  and 

|  ie  field  men  are  the  responsible  agencies. 

'  'hey  can  show  the  co-operators  the 
easons  for  a  superior  supply  of  milk, 
leir  obligation  to  furnish  it,  and  how  to 
roduce  it ;  in  other  words,  how  to  give 

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To  make  the  machine  as  durable  and  pleas- 
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IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


ALFALFA  HAY 

Select  Dairy  Alfalfa  for  sale.  Prompt 
shipment.    Write  for  delivered  prices. 

JOHN"  DEVLIN  HAY  CO.,  INC. 
1»8  No.  Clark  St.  Chicago.  Illinois 


Page  Treelve 


X  K  \V    K  X  GLAND    1)  A  I  H  V  I\I  A  X 


December,  t92X 


STOP 

Profit 
teaks 

Fight  Udder  Troubles 

Poorly-filled  milk  pails  are  a  disappoint- 
ment— and  a  loss.  When  they  occur,  be 
sure  the  trouble  is  not  under  your  very 
eyes. 

*r  Remember  this — cows  are  nervous,  sen- 
sitive animals.  The  slightest  discomfort  of 
the  udder  or  teats  is  extra  annoying  during 
milking.  The  milk  is  held  back — lost  to 
you  as  surely  as  if  the  cow  lacked  the 
fir   ability  to  produce. 

Fight  udder  troubles  constantly — the 
way  the  bes.  dairymen  in  the  country  now 
do — with  a  can  of  Bag  Balm,  the  great 
healing  ointment.  Bag  Balm  is  a  rapid 
antiseptic  healer  of  all  sores  or  hurts, 
chaps,  cracked  teats,  inflammation  of  the 
udder,  caked  bag,  bunches,  cow-pox,  etc. 
It  is  clean  and  pleasant  to  use — cannot 
taint  the  milk.  For  any  sore  or  skin 
trouble  Bag  Balm  is  sure  relief. 

Use  Bag  Balm  liberally  to  keep  your 
cows  comfortable  and  productive.  Big  10- 
ounce  package  60c  at  feed  dealers,  drug- 
gists, general  stores.  Mailed  postpaid  if 
hard  to  obtain  locally.  Booklet,  "Dairy 
Wrinkles"  free  on  request. 


$ 


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Dairy  Association  Co.,  Inc. 
Ly ndoavllle,  Vermont 


"MADE.  BY  THE 

KOW-KARE  PEOPLE" 


Butter  Must 
Look  Good — 
Be  Appetizing 

"DandalioB  Butter  Color"  gives  Winter 
Butter  that  Golden 
June  Shade 


^ —  Just  add  one-half  tea- 
faf"  spoonful  to  each  gallon  of 
YjA  cream  before  churning 
and  out  of  your  churn 
comes  butter  of  Golden 
June  shade.  "Dandelion 
Butter  Color"  is  purely 
■vegetable,  harmless,  and 
meets  all  State  and  Na- 
tional food  laws.  Used 
for  years  by  all  large 
creameries.  Doesn't  color 
buttermilk.  Absolutely 
tasteless.  Large  bottles 
cost  only  35  cents  at  drug  or  grocery 
stores.  Write  for  FREE  SAMPLE  BOT- 
TLE. Wells  &  Richardson  Co.,  Inc., 
Rurlington,  Vermont. 


Use  Moore  Bros.  PURPUL  medicated 
Wax  Dilators  to  heal  the  injured  teat 
without  closing.  After  operating,  when 
sore  or  congested,  (or  reducing  slid- 
ers or  obstructions  insert  this  won- 
derful  healing  dilator.  Avoid  expen- 
sive troubles,  lost  quarters,  unpro- 
ductive cows. 

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DELEGATES  ATTENDING 
ANNUAL  MEETING 

(Continued  from  page  ten) 

55.  Clarence  C.   Dresser,  Turner. 

56.  (ieo.  W.  Waterman,  Auburn* 
Lewiston,  New  Gloucester,  Poland. 

57.  \V.    S.    Dixon,  Lisbon-Webster. 

59.  R.   D.   Webber,  Eliot. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

60.  W.  T.  Phair,  Alton,  Lee,  San 
bornville.  Stafford. 

60A.    Herbert  Hayes. 

61.  W.  R.  Weeks,  Greenland,  Ports- 
mouth and  Newington,  Hampton  Falls 
North  Hampton. 

62.  Harry  Wiggin,  Newmarket, 
Stratham. 

63.  J.  V.  Carossi,  E.  Kingston,  Ep- 
ping,  Exeter. 

64.  W.  P.  Tenney,  Chester,  Perry, 
Hampstead,    N.  Londonderry. 

65.  Stacy   Sheldon,  Londonderry. 

66.  Paul    Sargent,    Auburn,  Candia. 

67.  David  Story,  Hooksett,  Man- 
chester, New  Boston,  Dunbarton. 

68.  George  Gookin,  Bedford. 

69.  Bert  L.  Geer,  Concord. 

70.  H.  O.  Dahmen,  Center  Barn- 
stead,  Pittsfield,  Suncook  Valley. 

72.  L.  A.  Rossiter,  Greenfield,  Han- 
cock, Milford,  Peterboro. 

73.  John  A.  Spalding,  Antrim,  Hills- 
boro,  Weare,  Lyndeboro. 

74.  Frank    A.    Sargent,  Henniker. 
74A.    Chas.  M.  Harriman,  Bradford, 

Contoocook- Warner. 

75.  C.  E.  Colburn,  Canaan,  Danbury, 
Enfield,  Grafton,  Lebanon,  Mascoma, 
W.  Andover. 

76.  A.  E.  Russell,  Hartland,  Vt. ; 
Norwich,  Vt. 

77.  H.  J.  Mativia,  Lyme,  N.  II.; 
North  Thetford,  Vt. 

79.  Everett  Smith,  East  Haverhill, 
Haverhill,  W.  Rummey. 

80.  M.  A.  Meader,  North  Haverhill. 

81.  Alfred  E.  Houston,  Bath. 

82.  A.   L.   Sherman,  Lisbon. 

83.  H.    Hubert    Merrill,  Littleton. 
87.    First  delegate,  D.  W.  Pinkham ; 

second  delegate,  Chester  Marshall,  Lan- 
caster. 

89.  M.  R.   Holbrook,  Stratford. 

90.  First  delegate,  A.  B.  Frizzell ; 
second  delegate,  Walter  I.  Gray,  Cole- 
brook. 

91.  Geo.  M.  Weeks,  West  Stewarts- 
town. 

VERMONT 

92.  J.   J.    Maillet,    Lunenburg,  Vt. 

93.  Geo.   H.  Hastings,  Concord. 

94.  Clarence   Joslin,  Waterford. 

95.  L.   T.   Bailey,   Groton,  Ryegate. 

96.  E.    L.    Frazier,  Barnet-Monroe. 

97.  J.  R.  Moore,  Danville,  E.  Bar- 
net,    Passumpsic,    St.  Johnsbury. 

98.  First  delegate,  W.  E.  Stevens; 
second  delegate,  Ernest  Couture,  North 
VValden. 

99.  G.   C.   Bartett,   Walcott,  Stowe. 

101.  Floyd    Ellsworth,  Johnson. 

102.  First  delegate,  L.  W.  Merriam; 
second  delegate,  G.  T.  Ruggles,  Lyn- 
donville. 

103.  H.    I.    Howland,    West  Burke. 

104.  R.  C.  Bickford,  Wheelock. 

105.  First  delegate,  F.  S.  Fificld ; 
second  delegate.   Robert   Baird,  Barton. 

106.  E.    J.    Freehart,  Orleans. 

107.  John  Burkewitz,  Albany,  Iras- 
burg. 

108.  F.  V.  Swansea,  Browningtou 
Center. 

109.  H.   E.    Miner,  Coventry. 

110.  First  delegate,  F.  J.  Libby  ; 
second  delegate,  Ed.  Graveline,  New- 
port. 

111.  First  delegate,  C.  L.  Lemay ; 
second  delegate,  Henri  Founder,  New- 
port Center. 

112.  Noel   Lareau,  North  Troy. 

114.  J.  P.  Ryan,  Enosburg  Falls. 
Fairfield,  Franklin,  Richford,  W.  Enos- 
burg. 

115.  P.    R.    Austin,    East  Fairfield 

116.  V.    L.    Langdell.  Bakersfield. 

117.  Herbert   P.  Marsh,  Sheldon. 

118.  C.   A.   Poole,  Highgate. 

119.  First  delegate,  A.  W.  Darby; 
second  delegate,  Gordon  Vosburg,  Al- 
burg. 

120.  R.  D.  M.  Beebe,  Isle  LaMotte, 
North   Hero,  Swanton. 

121.  First  delegate,  F.  O.  Collins; 
second  delegate,  Fred  B.  Touchette,  St. 
Albans, 


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122.  M.   O.   Bragg,  Georgia. 

123.  First  delegate,  Fred  Walston ; 
second  delegate,  Mark  Melaven,  Milton. 

124.  C.  A.   Leach,   Fairfax,  Jericho. 

125.  Maurice    Irish,  Westford. 

126.  M.  L.  Porter,  Jeffersonville. 

127.  John  L.  Pratt,  Williston. 

128.  H.  R.  Pike,  Waterbury  Center. 

129.  L.  C.  Jones,  Duxbury,  Middle- 
sex, Moretown. 

131.  Harry    F.    Hale,  Montpelier. 

132.  Chas.  W.   Campbell,  Northfield. 

133.  Geo.  Andrus,  Barre,  Williams- 
town. 

134.  G.   C.  Fullam,  Brookfield. 

135.  First  delegate,  Geo.  Manning ; 
second  delegate,  P.  W.  Connolly,  Ran- 
dolph. 

138.  G.  E.  Pierce,  Brownsville, 
Springfield,  Vt. ;  Alstead,  N.  H. ; 
Claremont,  N.  H. 

142.  H.  E.  Barnard,  Orwell,  Leices- 
ter Junction. 

142A.    W.  G.  Larrabee. 

143.  L.   A.    Webster,  Whiting. 

144.  Scott    H.    Hammond,  Brandon. 

145.  E.  N.  Blondin,  East  Clarendon, 
East  Wallingford,  Mount  Holly,  Rut- 
land, South  Wallingford,  Wallingford, 
Tinmouth. 

146.  L.  H.  Cook,  Danby,  Wells. 

147.  E.  J.  Beebe,  Dorset,  Pawlet, 
West  Rupert. 

NEW  YORK 

150.    J.   D.   Greaves,  Salem. 

152.  W.   J.    Rich,  Shushan. 

153.  Geo.  L.  Allen,  East  Greenwich. 

154.  J.  J.  Dugan,  Archdale,  South 
Cambridge. 

155.  Geo.  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke, 
Hudson  Valley  and  Fort  Miller. 

156.  Geo.    Barnett,  Johnsville. 

157.  Ed.  C.  Brownell,  Buskirk  and 
Eagle  Bridge. 

159.  First  delegate,  Chas.  A.  Breese ; 
second  delegate,  Guy  Philpott,  Hoosick. 

MASSACHUSETTS 

161.  Oscar    R.    Fairbanks,  Colerain. 

162.  Gilbert    Griswold,  Buckland. 

163.  A.  C.  Bray,   Shelburne  Falls. 

164.  Geo.   H.   Spear,  Greenfield. 

165.  James  W.  Tufts,  Amherst. 

166.  Jos.  F.  Long,  Granby,  South 
Hadley,    Southampton,  Westfield. 

168.  Clinton  Powell,  Swift  River 
Valley. 

169.  M.  S.  Howes,  Cummington, 
Whately. 

171.    Arthur    Taylor,    Feeding  Hills. 

173.  H.  S.  Ashley,  East  Long- 
meadow,   Hampden,  Wilbraham. 

174.  S.  O.  Russell,  Brimfield,  Lud- 
low Center,  Monson. 

175.  A.  G.  Goddard,  Hardwick, 
Palmer. 

176.  C.    E.    Walcott,    Barre  Plains. 

177.  Rudolph  Vigneault,  New  Brain- 
tree. 

178.  A.  O.  Grise,  North  Brookfield, 
Spencer,    Warren,    West  Brookfield. 

180.  W.  H.  Davis,  Grafton,  Oxford, 
Sutton. 

182.  Thomas  Poskitt,  Northboro, 
Westboro. 


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183.  Thos.  F.  O'Neil,  Marlboro, 
Waltham,   Southboro,  Sudbury. 

184.  Thomas    L.    Eldridge,  Concord. 

185.  W.  A.  Flint,  Harvard,  Little- 
ton, West  Acton. 

186.  Arthur  F.  Dutton,  Chelmsford, 
Danvers,  Groton,  Ptpperell,  Rowley, 
Topsfield. 

188.  Arthur    W.    Colburn,  Lowell. 

189.  First  delegate,  Belmont  H.  Fox  ; 
second  delegate,  Frank  F.  Bailey, 
Lawrence. 

190.  Chauncey    Gleason,  Haverhill. 

191.  L.  R.  Brown,  Bridgewater, 
Easton,    Halifax,    West  Bridgewater. 

Coggeshall,  North 


A. 


193.  Wm 
Darthmouth 

194.  Walter  C.  Slocum,  South  Dart 
mouth. 

195.  Alexander 

196.  Christopher 
Westport. 

RHODE 


Smith,  Westport. 
Borden,  North 


ISLAND 
W.  Mersey, 


Little 


197.  Edward 
Compton. 

200.  F.  W.  Theinert,  Attleboro, 
Mass ;  Bristol  County,  R.  I. ;  Lime 
Rock,  R.  I. ;  Rehobeth  and  Seekonk, 
Mass. 

201.  Alton  Bassett,  Foster  Center, 
Summit. 

202.  Geo.  E.  B.  James,  East  Green- 
wich, South  County. 

CONNECTICUT 

204.  C.   J.   Abell,   Bozrah,  Lebanon. 

205.  Frank  A.  Mell,  Jewett  City, 
Lisbon,  Sprague-Franklin. 

207.  W.  F.  Spokesfield,  Scotland, 
South  Windham. 

208.  Chas.    A.    Tanner,  Plainfield. 

209.  C.  B.  Jewett,  Brooklyn,  Daniel- 
son,  Hampton. 

210.  A.  H.  Amidon,  Pomfret. 

211.  A.  H.  Williams,  Ashford,  East 
Woodstock. 


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FLOOD  DAMAGE 

(Continued  from  Page  6) 

until  freight  begins  to  move  over  the 
railroads." 

This  general  story  of  flood  damage  and 
its  results  is  typical  of  what  is  being 
reported  by  other  county  agents  all 
through  the  areas  where  the  flood  did  any 
considerable  damage.  Everywhere  the 
story  is  the  same ;  farmers  meeting  their 
difficulties  with  good  courage  like  real 
New  Englanders,  farmers  who  were  less 
hard  hit  helping  their  neighbors  who  had 
suffered  more  than  they  have,  and  every- 
body doing  the  best  he  could  to  get  back 
to  normal.  Most  of  the  dairy  farmers 
who  were  hit  by  the  flood  will  be  in  a 
position  to  help  themselves  but  there  are 
a  few  who  sorely  need  help  if  they  are  to 
reinstate  themselves  in  anything  like  a 
position  where  they  could  hope  to  build 
up  again. 

Take  the  story  as  told  by  Ross  Wilson 
and  change  the  name  of  Ammoosuc  River 
to  any  of  the  lesser  rivers  of  Vermont 
and  you  will  have  a  picture  of  what  has 
happened.  It  is  true  that  the  total  number 
of  cows  lost  in  the  flood  is  small  as  com- 
pared with  the  total  number  of  cows  in 
Vermont,  also  that  the  number  of  acres 
of  crop  land  ruined  by  the  flood  is  in- 
significant as  compared  with  what  re- 
mains. But  the  burden  of  lost  herds  and 
ruined  land  falling  on  these  few  farmers 
calls  for  us  to  lend  a  helping  hand. 


The  extent  of  the  flood  damage  in 
Vermont  as  reported  by  Commissioner 
of  Agriculture  E.  H.  Jones  was  much 
less  than  was  first  reported.  He  reports 
a  total  of  not  over  1,700  cows  lost  instead 
of  the  15,000  at  first  estimated  by  Direc- 
tor of  Extension  Bradlee,  also  that  only 
about  4,000  acres  of  land  were  damaged 
and  118  homes  damaged  or  injured.  The 
land  damage  was  in  various  degrees, 
ranging  all  the  way  from  slight  washing 
or  deposition  of  silt  to  the  havoc  as  re- 
ported by  Ross  Wilson. 

Conditions  in  Vermont  as  reported  by 
the  County  Agents  to  the  New  England 
Homestead  are  as  follows : 

Conditions  here  are  not  in  any  way 
comparable  with  those  north  of  us  or  even 
in  Bennington  county.  Losses  in  live 
stock  may  be  rated  as  low  as  15  to  20 
head,  with  approximately  40  sheep.  Other 
damage  was  done  to  buildings  and  in  many 
cases  furniture  is  practically  ruined  due 
to  water  coming  into  homes.  In  some 
cases  hay  in  the  barns  is  in  bad  shape. 
There  is  some  damage  to  land  which  has 
either  been  washed  or  a  large  quantity  of 
mud  and  sand  deposited  upon  it.  I  have 
heard  no  one  finding  any  fault  with 
their  losses  and  even  those  who  are  hit 
hardest  are  planning  to  go  ahead  with 
their  enterprises.  I  am  sorry  local  papers 
printed  such  a  gloomy  picture. — Windham 
County  Farm  Bureau. 

I  understand  from  telephone  conversa- 
tion that  there  was  one  barn  lost  in 
Rochester,  with  very  little  live  stock,  in- 
cluding a  few  sheep  and  some  poultry. 
The  river  meadows  are  damaged  with  a 
layer  of  silt  and  in  a  few  cases  some  have 
been  washed.  What  permanent  damage 
this  silt  will  do  depends  upon  the  depth 
of  course.  In  some  cases  along  the  Con- 
necticut river  it  is  too  deep  for  the  grass 
to  come  through  and  will  mean  plowing 
and  in  some  places  scraping  and  reseeding. 
In  some  instances  gravel  has  been  washed 
over  the  meadows  which  will  damage 
them  considerably.  There  was  a  very 
small  live  stock  loss  in  this  county  as 
compared  to  those  elsewhere.  As  to 
farmers  in  this  county  leaving  their 
places  to  work  as  day  laborers,  I  think  it 
is  stretching  the  point  beyond  the  imagina- 
tion.— H.  W.  Soule,  Windsor  County. 

Damage  in  this  county  is  comparatively 
slight.  It  is  undoubtedly  true  that  scores 
of  farmers  in  the  Winooski  and  Lamoille 
valleys  have  had  their  stock  drowned, 
their  hay  and  crops  ruined,  their  build- 
ings severely  damaged  or  swept  away 
entirely  and  their  land  washed  and  gullied, 
entirely  and  their  land  washed  and  gullied 
Added  to  direct  losses  will  be  the  enor- 
mous tax  burden  for  years  to  come. — 
R.  D.  Aplin,  Addison  County. 

I  want  to  say  it  is  wonderful  to  see 
the  spirit  Vermont  farmers  are  showing 
in  shouldering  losses  and  determination 
to  start  all  over  again.  This  county  was 
hit  as  hard  as  any  in  the  state  and  will  be 
back  on  its  feet  again  as  soon  as  any. — ■ 
H.  E.  Bolan,  Chittenden  County. 


It  costs  but  a 
few  cents  a 
month  per 
cow  to  play 
safe  .  .  .  • 


Think  what  an  extra  burden 
your  cows  take  on  when  they 
come  into  the  barn  for  winter! 
A  sudden  shift  to  dry  hard-to- 
digest  food.  Little  exercise;  lim- 
ited fresh  air  and  sunlight.  To 
keep  up  a  milk  flow  that  seems 
to  tend  downward  some  outside 
help — besides  good  food — is  de- 
manded or  a  breakdown  is 
certain. 

Kow-Kare  is  designed  to  sup- 
ply what  winter-fed  cows  need  to 
keep  the  milk-flow  at  top  notch. 
Gradually,  but  sure, 
ly,  this  great  regula- 
tor and  conditioner 
builds  up  the  vigor 
of  the  digestion  and 
assimilation,  a  lib- 
eral, rich  milk-mak- 
ing ration  is  now 
safe  because  the  cow 
is  capable  of  turning 
it  into  milk.  She  is 
responsive,  profit- 
able, able  to  ward  off 
disease. 

The  Kow-Kare 
conditioning  treat- 
ment is  so  simple,  so 
inexpensive.  A  table- 
spoonful  to  the  feed- 
ing, one  to  two  weeks 
each  month  is  all 


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the  average  cow  requires.  Use 
Kow-Kare  on  the  whole  herd 
this  winter  and  you  will  never 
go  back  to  the  old  way. 

Freshening  Cows  Need 
Kow-Kare 

At  calving,  no  feed,  be  it  ever  so 
well  balanced,  supplies  all  the 
elements  needed  to  withstand 
the  terrific  shock  of  producing 
and  bearing  a  healthy  offspring. 
A  tablespoonful  of  Kow-Kare  in 
the  feedings  for  three  weeks  be- 
fore and  after  will 
save  hundreds  of  dol- 
lars in  the  disorders 
it  prevents.  Don't 
allow  cows  to  freshen 
without  this  valuable 
aid. 

Feed  dealers,  general 
stores  and  druggists  have 
Kow  -  Kare.  Large  size, 
$1.25;  6  cans  for  $6.25. 
Small  size,  65c.  Each  can 
shows  how  to  use  Kow- 
Kare  in  successfully  treat- 
ing—  at  home  —  such 
disorders  as  Barrenness, 
Retained  Afterbirth, 
Abortion,  Bunches, 
Scours,  Lost  Appetite,  etc. 
If  your  dealer  is  not  sup- 
plied we  will  mail,  post- 
paid. 


KOW-KARE 


Regulates 

and 
Conditions 


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December,  1921 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fifteen 


RAILROAD  RATES 

One  of  the  important  reports  on  the 
program  of  our  annual  meeting  was  by 
Wesley  H.  Bronson  on  the  Railroad  Rate 
Case.  It  was  omitted  in  the  meeting 
from  lack  of  time  and  it  was  omitted 
from  the  last  Dairyman  for  lack  of 
space.  It  is  of  such  importance  and  in- 
dicates such  an  important  saving  to  the 
dairy  industry  of  New  England  that  it 
is  given  in  brief  form  in  this  issue. 

The  rate  case  committee  now  has  a 
proposition  before  the  railroads  and  the 
Inter-State  Commerce  Commission  to 
esfablish  10-mile  zones  which  would 
make  a  substantial  additional  saving  to 
the  farmers  as  compared  with  the  present 
20-mile  zones.  Wholly  aside  from  this 
possibility  of  a  new  saving  through  the 
work  of  the  committee,  there  is  the  rec- 
ord of  accomplishments  already  made. 

In  the  first  place  the  committee,  by 
opposing  the  movement  of  the  railroads 
to  get  an  increase  in  rates,  the  commit- 
tee delayed  such  increase  for  14  months. 
During  that  time  the  old  rates  were  in 
effect  whereas,  without  the  committee  to 
oppose  the  increase,  the  increase  of  20 
per  cent,  (totaling  about  $750,000  a  year) 
would  have  gone  into  effect. 

The  railroads  got  some  increase  but 
not  what  they  asked  for.  Through  the 
work  of  the  committee  the  increase  was 
only  10  per  cent  beyond  the  100-mile 
zone.  The  savings  actually  made  through 
the  work  of  the  committee  are  shown  in 
the  following  table,  which  affects  all  pro- 
ducers shipping  by  rail  beyond  the  fifth 
zone. 

On  February  28th,  1926,  the  railroad 
published  a  new  tariff  increasing  milk 
and  cream  rates  in  New  England ;  20  per 
cent,  rates  to  be  effective  April  1st,  1926. 
The  New  England  Milk  Rate  Committee 
petitioned  the  I.  C.  C.  for  suspension  of 
rates  and  a  hearing.  The  rates  were 
suspended  and  hearing  ordered.  These 
hearings  covered  a  period  of  eight 
months  with  the  final  argument  about 
one  year  after  the  request  for  suspension 
was  made.  The  findings  of  the  I.  C.  C. 
were  made  April  11,  1927,  and  the  new 
rates  ordered  by  the  I.  C.  C.  were  made 
effective  June  10th,  1927 — 14^4  months 
after  the  original  rates  were  to  be  ef- 
fective. If  the  original  schedule  of  rates 
had  been  effective  through  this  period  the 
increased  costs  of  moving  milk  and  cream 
in  New  England  would  have  been  $900,- 
000.00. 

The  carriers'  request  for  an  increase 
in  rates  was  based  on  about  three  reasons. 

1.  Cost  study — indicated  that  a  45  per 
cent,  increase  in  rates  were  necessary  to 
meet  operating  costs,  taxes  and  return  on 
investment. 

2.  Milk  rates  low  when  compared  with 
rates  on  other  commodities. 

3.  New  England  rates  lowest  anywhere 
in  the  country.  Particularly  lower  than 
to  New  York  City. 

Our  committee  met  these  contentions 
by  seriously  damaging  their  cost  study 
and  also  fairly  well  meeting  the  conten- 
tion on  comparison  of  rates  on  other 
commodities  but  the  third  reason  was  dif- 
ficult to  meet.  It  was  difficult  to  give  a 
reason  why  the  New  England  rates  should 
not  be  as  high  as  the  rates  to  New  York. 

The  result  was  that  the  I.  C.  C.  gave 
the  railroads  permission  to  publish  rates 
equal  to  New  York  rates  beyond  100 
miles  and  a  20  per  cent,  increase  in  rates 
on  less  than  100  miles.  This  latter  20 
per  cent,  increase  on  hauls  under  100 
miles  results  in  rates  actually  less  than 
for  the  same  distance  under  the  New 
York  scale  of  rates.  The  decision  gave 
the  carriers  about  one-half  of  what  they 
asked  for  since  the  greatest  volume  of 
movement  originates  beyond  the  100-mile 
zone. 

We  have  now  before  the  commission 
a  complaint  to  the  effect  that  whereas 
the  commission's  findings  and  order  au- 
thorized rates  in  New  England  equal  to 
the  New  York  rates  the  carriers  have 
filed  rates  higher  than  the  New  York 
rates  for  distances  101-110,  121-130,  etc. 
miles  since  in  New  York  the  rates  are 
made  by  10-mile  blocks  101-110,  111  to 
120,  etc.,  while  in  New  England  rates 
are  made  in  20-mile  blocks,  101-120  miles. 
In  publishing  rates  the  carriers  made  the 
New  England  rate  for  101-120  miles 
equal  to  the  New  York  rate  111  to  120 
miles,  thus  for  the  distance  101-110  miles 
to  Boston  rates  are  higher  than  New 
York.   For  example,  the  New  York  LCL 


rate  per  40  qt.  can  for  101-110  miles  is 
36c  per  can  and  the  111-120  mile  rate 
is  37c  per  can.  The  New  England  car- 
riers published  a  rate  for  101-120  miles 
of  37c.  We  maintain  that  the  rate  for 
the  distance  101-110  miles  in  New  Eng- 
land of  37c  is  lc  a  can  more  than  New 
York  and  that  the  New  England  carriers 
should  have  published  a  36c  rate  for  the 
distance  101-120  miles  if  they  were  not 
to  have  rates  in  excess  of  the  New  York 
rates.  If  the  complaint  is  decided  in  oui 
favor  the  costs  of  moving  milk  and 
cream  in  New  England  will  be  reduced 
about  $30,000  to  $35,000  a  year. 


SAVING  MADE  BY  COMMITTEE 

Zone                       Old  Rate  Asked  for  New  Rate 

40Qtcan  Cwt  40  Qt  can  Cwt  40Qtcan  Cwt 

6-  101-120                   32  37  38/2  45  4Q'/2  43 

7-  121-140                   34  40  41  48  39l/2  46 

8-  141-160   36'/2  42  44  51  4\'/2  48 

9-  161-180                   3&'/2  45  46  53  43  50 

10-  181-200                 40  46  48  56  45  52 

11-  201-220                 42  49  50</2  59  47  55 

12-  221-240                 44  51  53  62  48  56 

13-  241-260                 45  52  54  63  50  58 

14-  261-280                 47  55  S6'/2  66  51  59 

15-  281-300                 48'/2  56  58  67  53  62 


Saving 
Cwt 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
6 
5 
7 
5 


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Milk  Pail  Proof 


The  Phelps  Farms,  Leeds, 
Mass.,  put  on  a  split  herd 
demonstration,  comparing 
Cow  Chow  and  Bulky-Las 
with  their  home  mixture. 
They  found  that  Purina  pro- 
duced $27.20  extra  profit  for 
every  ton  of  feed  used. 

A.  E.  Mooers,  Houlton,  Me., 
gets  an  extra  profit  of  $46.50 
per  month  from  Cow  Chow 
with  14  cows. 

Fred  Viets,  East  Granby, 
Conn.,  finds  that  Cow  Chow 
increases  his  net  profit  $31.30 
per  month  with  12  cows. 


If  these  men  can  profit  by  feeding 
Purina,  you  can  too!  Get  Purina  at 
the  store  with  the  checkerboard  sign. 


PURINA  MILLS,  850  Gratiot  Street,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Eight  Busy  Mills  Located  for  Service 


The  Home  of  the  Good  Shep- 
herd, Springfield,  Mass.,  has 
14  cows  producing  340  pounds 
of  milk  daily  from  90  pounds 
of  feed. 


Charles  Heath,  Colebrook,  N. 
H.,  owns  14  cows  that  pro- 
duced 564  pounds  more  milk 
on  Cow  Chow.  His  extra  pro- 
fit in  one  month  was  $75.00. 

Frank  M.  Luther,  Johnson, 
R.  I.,  received  an  increased 
net  profit  per  month  of  $44.70 
by  feeding  Cow  Chow  to  his 
herd  of  16  cows. 


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The  splendid  exhibit  of  the  Ayrshire  Breeders'  Association  attracted 
marked  interest  at  many  of  this  year's  big  shows.  The  Association  se- 
lected the  De  Laval  Milker  to  do  the  milking  in  this  exhibit  and  a  special 
glass  pail  was  provided  in  order  that  the  audience  might  see  the  milk  flow. 
Large  crowds  witnessed  every  milking. 


The  N.ezv  York  State  Guernsey  Breeders'  Ass'n.  staged  a  most  interesting 
exhibit  which  was  a  center  of  interest  at  the  New  York  State  Fair.  In  a 
model  dairy  barn  erected  on  the  grounds  seven  purebred  Guernseys  were 
kept  and  the  milk  sold  to  an  appreciative  audience.  This  Association  ah" 
selected  the  De  Laval  Milker  for  its  exhibit. 


De  Laval  MilKers  were  at  tKe  Shows  and  Fairs 
witH  tKe  Breeders  and  Breed  Associations 


\7"ISITORS  at  many  of  the  noted  shows  and 
fairs  this  season  had  an  excellent  oppor- 
tunity of  seeing  for  themselves  the  extent  of 
the  confidence  that  the  various  breed  associa- 
tions and  the  breeders  themselves  place  in 
the  De  Laval  Milker. 

The  Ayrshire  Breeders'  Association  and  the  New 
York  State  Guernsey  Breeders'  Association  each  se- 
lected the  De  Laval  Milker  for  use  in  splendid  educa- 
tional exhibits  that  evoked  interest  and  commenda- 
tion from  all  who  saw  them. 

Prominent  herds  like  the  Munroholm  Guernseys 
owned  by  Mr.  Thomas  Munro,  Camillus,  N.  Y.,  and 
the  Shelter  Valley  Holsteins  owned  by  Messrs.  R.  M. 
and  J.  H.  Stone  at  Marcellus,  N.  Y.,  were  milked  dur- 


ing their  entire  sojourn  at  the  fair  grounds  with  the 
De  Laval  Milker.  The  fact  that  prominent  breeders 
place  sufficient  faith  and  confidence  in  the  De  Laval 
Milker  to  see  to  it  that  their  valuable  show  herds  have 
the  advantage  of  De  Laval  milking  even  when  away 
from  home  on  the  show  circuit  is  extremely  gratify- 
ing. It  clearly  demonstrates  the  point  that  wherever 
better  milking  and  greater  production  are  sought 
after  the  De  Laval  Milker  is  considered  the  only  solu- 
tion by  those  with  whom  these  are  such  vital  prob- 
lems. And  for  the  dairyman  who  produces  a  low 
bacteria  count  milk,  the  De  Laval  Milker  has  a  combi- 
nation of  sanitary  features  that  are  undefeatable. 

Write  to  the  nearest  office  for  complete  informa- 
tion, or  if  you  prefer  ask  to  have  a  De  Laval  repre- 
sentative call  at  your  home. 


De  Laval  Milker 
THE  DE  LAVAL  SEPARATOR  COMPANY 


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Above :  The  splendid  Guernsey  show 
herd  of  the  Munroholm  Farm,  owned  by 
Mr.  Thos.  Munro  at  Camillus.  N.  Y .,  at 
the  New  York  Stale  Fair,  where  they 
were  milked  with  the  De  baval  Milker 
as  in  the  home  barn.  Right  :  Part  of 
the  noted  purebred  Jersey  herd  kept  at 
Ashland  Farm.  Chattanooga,  Tenn.  This 
herd  is  said  to  be  one  of  the  finest  in  the 
South  and  captures  prizes  wherever  it 
goes.  Mr.  J.  ().  Key.  manager,  says 
that  the  De  Laval  Milker  is  a  great  aid 
in  making  maximum  production. 


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Another  renoitmed  herd  that  ivas  made 
to  feel  at  home  with  the  De  Laval  Milker 
at  the  New  York  State  Fair  was  the 
Shelter  Valley  Holstcin  shoiv  herd.  This 
herd,  which  is  ozvncd  by  Messrs.  R.  M. 
and  J.  H.  Stone  of  Marcellus,  N.  Y.,  re- 
ceived much  attention  from  Holstein  fan- 
ciers and  fanciers  of  fine  cattle  in  gen- 
eral. To  their  credit  it  may  be  said  that 
this  interest  was  not  confined  to  the 
audience  alone  for  the  judges  saiv  fit  to 
permit  individuals  of  the  herd  to  carry 
home  several  valued  aivards. 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  11.    Number  9 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  JANUARY,  1928 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


January  Price  Nine  and  One-Quarter  Cents 

4fty  tit-  v 


We  start  the  new  year  with  a  9%  cent 
Class  1  milk  price  and  60  per  cent,  of  the 
surplus  milk  in  the  "cream  class"  bring- 
ing about  28  cents  a  hundred  higher  than 
the  regular  surplus  price.  This  gives  a 
fairly  good  price  for  January.  If  this 
price  can  hold  for  several  months  1928 
looks  like  a  good  year  ahead. 

The  cent  price  came  after  numerous 
conferences  and  as  the  result  of  a  general 
desire  to  put  the  market  on  a  basis  of 
stability.  There  was  a  necessity  for  a 
decrease  as  the  9i/^  cent  price  was  gen- 
erally regarded  as  an  emergency  proposi- 
tion, due  to  the  flood  conditions,  and 
could  not  continue  now  that  conditions 
have  so  nearly  returned  to  normal.  The 
extent  of  the  decrease  was  the  question 
which  had  to  be  decided. 

Dealers  reported  that  sales  were  off 
somewhat  under  the  l6]/2  cent  price  which 
they  adopted  generally  when  the  NEMPA 
price  advanced  to  9^4  cents.  It  was  their 
opinion  that  there  should  be  a  drop  of 
24  of  a  cent.  In  other  words,  that  the 
NEMPA  should  go  back  to  the  pre- 
flood  price.  This  would  enable  them  to 
make  same  reduction  to  the  trade  and 
thus  stimulate  sales. 

The  attitude  of  the  chain  stores  was 
an  important  factor  in  the  situation. 
When  the  NEMPA  price  advanced  34 
of  a  cent  due  to  the  flood  conditions  the 
chain  stores  advanced  their  price  from  13 
to  14  cents,  thus  keeping  the  same  rela- 
tion with  the  family  delivered  price,  2 l/2 
cents  below  it.  The  stores  cannot  change 
except  a  cent  up  or  down  and  it  was  a 
question  what  they  would  do  if  a  decrease 
of  }i  of  a  cent  was  made; 

Through  one  of  the  members  of  the 
emergency  milk  commission,  created  by 
Acting  Governor  Allen  at  the  time  of  the 
flood  shortage,  the  chain  store  point  of 
view  was  determined.  C.  F.  Adams  of 
the  First  National  Stores  expressed  his 
opinion  that  the  price  should  stay  where 
it  was,  9j4  cents  to  the  farmers,  14  cents 
at  chain  stores  and  16  l/2  cents  to  the 
family  delivered  trade.  Furthermore  he 
said  that  if  the  NEMPA  price  went 
down  Yn  of  a  cent  and  the  dealers  de- 
creased their  price  to  15}4  cents  he 
would  drop  his  store  price  to  12  cents. 

It  was  a  question  of  difference  be- 
tween chain  store  and  family  delivered 
price.  This  has  been  a  matter  of  con- 
troversy for  some  time  back.  Mr.  Adams 
claims  that  the  three  cent  difference  is 
normal  and  right  and  will  not  cause  any 
considerable  shifting  of  milk  over  from 
family  delivery  to  the  stores.  The  deal- 
ers claim  that  2l/2  cents  is  the  right  dif- 
ferential. It  is  a  question  of  resale  in 
which  we  are  not  directly  interested  but 
the  records  of  the  past  few  years  show 
that  this  controversy  over  the  differential 
between  stores  and  family  delivered  price 
is  one  of  the  factors  which  most  easily 
disturb  the  market. 

The  position  of  Mr.  Adams,  as  ex- 
plained to  members  of  the  emergency  milk 
commission,  was  that  he  had  accepted  the 
2Vz  cent  differential,  against  his  best 
judgment,  for  the  past  three  months.  He 
now  wished  that  a  three  cent  differential 
might  be  tried  out  for  three  months  and 
that  the  results  of  the  two  periods  of 
three  months  each  might  be  studied  and 


Premium  on  Sixty  Per  Cent  of  Surplus  Will  Give  Good 
Price  to  Farmers  for  the  Month  —  Reduction  of,|ialf- 
Cent  Made  to  Meet  Demand  for  Return  to  Normal  Con- 
ditions and  to  Stabilize  Market  —  Decision  Comes  After 
Prolonged  Conferences  Called  by  Milk  Administrator 


compared  by  impartial  men  who  might 
make  recommendations  as  to  the  differ- 
ential in  the  future.  This,  it  seemed  to 
him,  was  the  fair  way  in  which  to  arrive 
at  some  conclusion  in  the  matter  and  he 
was  ready  and  willing  to  give  all  possible 
aid  in  the  way  of  supplying  figures  on 
costs  and  sales.  This  fair  and  reasonable 
attitude  on  his  part  was  an  important 
factor  in  later  developments  in  the  situ- 
ation. The  three  cent  spread  was  finally 
accepted  as  an  experiment  and  not  as 


a  permanent  settlement  of  the  vexed 
question  of  which  is  the  right,  three  cents 
or  2y2  cents. 

The  possibility  of  12  cent  store  milk 
(n  case  any  decrease  was  made  in  the 
NEMPA  price  looked  bad  to  the  sales 
committee  of  the  association.  Nearly  all 
of  the  milk  sold  in  stores  except  the 
First  National  Group,  comes  from  deal- 
ers. It  would  be  impossible  for  them  to 
buy  milk  from  the  NEMPA  at  9  cents, 
pasteurize  and  bottle   it  and  sell  it  to 


Wants  to  Pay  ^Unknown"  Price 

New  England  Creamery  Products  Company  Notifies  Sales 
Committee  of  Its  Decision  —  Negotiations 
Still  in  Progress 


When  negotiations  on  the  January  price 
were  started  by  the  sales  committee  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Com- 
pany (the  combination  of  the  Alden, 
Childs,  Noble  companies)  gave  notice  that 
they  would  not  continue  to  buy  their  milk 
through  the  NEMPA  or  make  returns  to 
the  milk  administrator  under  the  sur- 
plus plan.  It  will  be  recalled  that  when 
these  three  companies  came  together  there 
was  considerable  discussion  as  to  whether 
or  not  they  would  buy  their  supply 
through  the  NEMPA,  under  the  surplus 
plan  or  buy  independently.  The  Alden 
and  Childs  companies  had  been  buying 
through  the  NEMPA  but  the  Noble 
companies  had  not. 

After  some  conferences  the  consoli- 
dated company  agreed  to  buy  on  the 
NEMPA  price  basis  and  since  that  time 
they  have  reported  under  the  surplus  plan 
along  with  the  others.  They  have  paid 
the  NEMPA  price  as  figured  under  the 
surplus  plan  and  have  on  several  occasions 
actually  paid  more  than  the  NEMPA 
price  figured.  Their  dealings  with  the 
NEMPA  have  been  very  businesslike  and 
satisfactory.  Hence  it  is  especially  dis- 
appointing to  have  them  take  the  present 
attitude. 

The  final  outcome  of  their  statement  is 
not  yet  certain.  The  door  has  not  been 
closed  to  further  discussion  and  at  the 
time  this  issue  of  the  Dairyman  goes  to 
press  conferences  are  being  held  in  an 
aim  to  bring  about  an  understanding 
through  which  they  will  continue  to  buy 
through  our  association.  It  is  our  hope 
that  these  conferences  will  be  successful. 
In  any  event  fair-mindedness  and  mutual 
confidence  over  a  period  of  years  will 
help  straighten  matters  out. 


While  we  hope  that  we  will  be  able  to 
persuade  them  to  continue  to  buy  through 
us,  we  are  keenly  aware  of  the  serious 
situation  which  might  develop  if  they 
should  refuse  to  do  so.  The  situation  is 
not  far  different  from  what  prevailed  a 
little  more  than  a  year  ago  when  the 
Turner  Centre  System  decided  to  break 
away  from  the  association  and  the  sur- 
plus plan.  It  was  the  will  of  their  stock- 
holders, producers  whose  milk  they  sold, 
that  brought  the  Turner  Centre  directors 
back  into  dealings  with  the  NEMPA 
again. 

Under  our  plan  of  selling  the  milk  of 
our  members  we  negotiate  a  price  with 
the  principal  dealers  in  the  market,  such 
price  being  based  on  the  assumption  that 
each  dealer  will  pay  the  same  base  price 
for  his  milk  as  his  competitors.  In  case 
the  New  England  Creamery  Prod- 
ucts Company,  or  any  other  large  com- 
pany, refuses  to  deal  with  the  NEMPA 
and  report  its  surplus  to  the  milk  ad- 
ministrator for  the  purpose  of  having  its 
composite  price  figured  officially,  other 
companies  cannot  be  held  to  their  agree- 
ment to  pay  the  NEMPA  price  as  nego- 
tiated. 

It  is  a  question  of  the  "known"  or  the 
"unknown"  price.  The  known  price  is 
the  NEMPA  price  where  each  dealer 
who  pays  that  price  knows  that  the  price 
paid  by  his  competitors  has  been  figured 
on  the  same  basis,  the  only  variation  be- 
ing the  amount  of  surplus  carried  by  each 
dealer.  The  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company  seeks  to  go  on  to  the 
"unknown"  price  basis.  Such  a  stand  on 
their  part  might  lead  to  a  period  of  un- 
fortunate readjustments  and  uneasiness  in 
the  market. 


.  stores  so  that 'the  stores  could  sell  it  at 
'12  ce.nU  and  make  any  profit. 

As  has' 'been  explained  many  times  in 
the  Dairyman,  all  store  milk  has  to  be 
7"jold  at  the  same  price.  There  are  com- 
peting stores  on  nearly  every  corner  in 
greater  TitkQifK  If  the  First  National 
Stores  sold  at  12  cents,  the  competing 
stores  must  also  sell  for  12  cents  or  the 
trade  would  go  to  their  competitors.  The 
sale  of  the  milk  in  itself  would  be  a 
small  matter  but  if  the  customer  went 
to  the  other  store  for  milk  he  would  also 
buy  sugar,  coffee  and  other  groceries 
there.  The  loss  of  a  milk  customer  at 
a  store  actually  means  the  loss  of  a  cus- 
tomer on  all  groceries. 

If  a  12  cent  price  came  in  chain  stores 
dealers  would  come  back  on  the  associa- 
tion for  a  reduction  in  price  below  the 
nine  cent  level,  as  there  would  be  a 
considerable  volume  of  their  milk  which 
could  not  be  moved  at  a  price  which 
would  give  them  even  the  cost  of  handling. 
Moreover  they  would  not  have  held  a 
15y2  cent  family  delivered  price  with  the 
store  price  at  12  cents.  The  3'/2  cent 
difference  would  shift  over  much  trade 
to  the  stores. 

We  say  again  that  all  this  is  a  question 
of  resale  of  milk  and  is  not  our  business 
except  as  it  affects  us  indirectly.  But 
we  know  from  hard  experience  that  a 
12  cent  store  milk  price  would  mean 
about  an  8  cent  price  to  the  farmers, 
also  chaotic  conditions  in  the  milk  mar- 
ket through  price  cutting  and  general  up- 
setting of  conditions.  The  danger  in  the 
Boston  market  was  that  a  price  contro- 
versy between  dealers  and  chain  stores 
would  result,  as  it  has  in  the  past,  in  the 
farmers  paying  the  cost  to  the  tune  of 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  in  les- 
sened prices  over  a  period  of  some 
months. 

In  this  emergency  the  sales  committee 
requested  Dr.  A.  W.  Gilbert,  milk  admini- 
strator and  a  member  of  the  special 
emergency  milk  commission  to  call  a 
meeting  of  all  parties  at  interest  to  dis- 
cuss the  situation  and  try  to  reach  some 
solution  which  would  keep  the  market 
stable  and  prevent  the  calamity  of  a 
price  war  and  resulting  low  prices  to 
the  farmers. 

Such  a  meeting  was  called  Dec.  30  and 
a  second  session  was  held  Dec.  31.  At 
this  conference  R.  W.  Bird  and  Philip 
Snyder,  who  were  members  of  the 
emergency  milk  commission,  sat  in  but 
did  not  act  in  any  official  capacity  as  the 
commission  had  practically  completed  its 
work  and  dissolved  itself.  Nearly  all 
of  the  larger  dealers  were  represented, 
also  the  Boston  Suburban  Milk  Dealers' 
Association,  the  Vermont  Federation  of 
Creameries  and  other  groups. 

The  solution  reached  after  long  dis- 
cussion was  based  on  the  statement  made 
several  times  by  Mr.  Adams  that  "if 
given  a  three  cent  spread  he  would  go  up 
or  down  with  the  market."  The  dealers 
objected  seriously  to  giving  him  the  three 
cent  spread.  The'  NEMPA  sales  com- 
mittee were  equally  insistent  that  no  situ- 
ation should  be  forced  on  the  market 
which  would  result  in  a  sharp  reduction 
<n  prices  to  the  farmers. 

(Continued  on  page  eight) 


Page  Txvo 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1928 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 

NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 

51  Cornhill.  Boston,  Mass. 

Devoted    to    the    Interests    of  Dairy 
Farming  and  Marketing  in 
New  England 

Subscription  Price,  Fifty  Cents  Per  Year 

W.  P.  DAVIS,  Treasurer 

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F.  L.  WEARE,  Business  Manager 


Entered  as  second  class  matter,  July  30, 
1917,  at  the  Postoftlce  in  Boston,  Massa- 
chusetts, under  the  Act  of  May  3,  1879. 

Acceptance  for  mailing  at  special  rates  of 
postage  provided  for.  Section  1103,  Act 
of  Oct.  3,  1917,  authorized  July  13,  1911. 

HARRY  It.  PIPER,  Editor 


N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1928 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
General  Manager,  W.  P.  Pavis,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I. ; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt.;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me. ;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B.  Catlin, 
Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H.  Dunsmore, 
St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A.  Tuttle,  Hard- 
wick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M.  Poole,  North 
Dartmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank  L.  Nichols, 
Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank  T.  Peck- 
ham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen  Sikes, 
Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell,  Lebanon, 
Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan,  N.  Y. ; 
George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke,  N.  Y. 


THE  NEW  YEAR 

To  all  members  and  friends  of  the 
association  we  wish  to  extend  the  sea- 
son's greetings  and  express  the  hope  for 
a  happy  and  prosperous  year  ahead.  May 
it  be  a  year  of  renewed  confidence  in 
dairying. 

There  are  sound  reasons  why  we  may 
look  forward  with  confidence  to  the  com- 
ing year  and  to  the  years  which  will  come 
after  it.  There  are  still  some  weighty 
problems  which  we,  as  an  association, 
must  face  and  solve  in  a  manner  which 
will  work  out  for  the  good  of  the  dairy 
industry  as  a  whole,  not  just  for  one 
particular  branch  or  section  of  it.  There 
is  no  expectation  that  everything  will 
run  along  altogether  smoothly.  But  in 
the  main  we  believe  that  conditions  in 
the  industry  will  be  such  that  the  new 
few  years  may  be  looked  upon  as  a  new 
period  in  the  history  of  collective  market- 
ing of  milk;  a  period  which  we  can  face 
with  confidence. 

Chief  among  these  reasons  for  confi- 
dence is  the  fact  that  in  New  England, 
perhaps  more  than  in  any  other  place  in 
the  country,  the  consumers  have  accepted 
the  fact  that  if  they  are  to  continue  to 
have  a  supply  of  good,  clean  wholesome 
milk,  coming  from  within  a  reasonable 
distance,  they  must  pay  a  fair  and  rea- 
sonable price  for  it.  It  is  significant  that 
not  a  single  newspaper  has  raised  any 
question  about  the  price  of  milk  or  pro- 
tested against  it  for  a  year  past.  They 
are  the  best  indication  of  the  state  of 
mind  of  the  people  as  they  reflect  public 
opinion  very  quickly  and  very  accurately. 
In  Boston  and  most  of  the  lesser  mar- 
kets of  southern  New  England  the  people 
have  quite  generally  accepted  a  price  of 
about  15  cents  a  quart  and  are  buying 


freely  at  about  that  price.  They  do  not 
expect  it  to  go  much  below  that,  nor 
would  they  buy  as  freely  if  it  went  much 
higher. 

This  general  acceptance  of  a  fairly 
standard  and  uniform  price  to  the  retail 
trade  tends  toward  a  stability  of  the  mar- 
kets which  is  one  of  the  chief  causes  for 
confidence.  Taking  into  consideration  the 
fluctuations  in  price  in  Boston  and  other 
markets  during  the  past  few  years  it  is 
apparent  that  stability  is  a  much  greater 
factor  than  high  price  in  getting  good 
returns  to  the  producers.  A  high  price 
for  a  month  or  two,  followed  by  sharp 
reductions  forced  by  price  cutting,  does 
not  leave  so  good  an  average  return  to 
the  farmers  for  the  year  as  a  slightly 
lower  price  maintained  in  a  stable  mar- 
ket for  a  number  of  months  in  succes- 
sion. 

Another  basis  for  confidence  is  in  the 
growth  of  mutual  understanding  among 
the  various  agencies  which  are  marketing 
milk  in  Boston.  Through  the  good  of- 
ficers of  the  New  England  Council  and 
the  Commissioners  of  Agriculture  more 
gain  has  been  made  in  establishing  a 
fuller  realization  of  problems  than  in 
many  years  before.  In  a  most  surprising 
and  gratifying  way  the  various  agencies 
have  been  brought  to  understand  one  an- 
other's problems  and  out  of  this  has 
grown  a  mutual  confidence  and  a  will- 
ingness to  work  together. 

Within  our  own  organization  confi- 
dence grows  steadily  through  the  work 
of  our  field  service  department  and  the 
market  district  men.  The  accumulation 
of  a  certain  amount  of  "deadwood"  in 
our  association  has  been  removed  and  in 
their  place  active  members  have  been 
brought  into  the  association.  We  are 
strong  in  membership  and  steadily  grow- 
ing stronger.  We  are  strong  in  leader- 
ship all  over  the  territory.  With  this 
added  strength  of  membership  comes  con- 
fidence in  ability  to  handle  problems  with 
a  firmer  hand,  to  stand  more  squarely 
on  our  feet  and  ask  for  our  members  the 
recognition  due  to  an  association  with 
more  than  20,000  members.  Without  in 
any  way  adopting  a  warlike  spirit  we  can 
still  feel  the  confidence  which  comes  from 
sure  knowledge  of  strength. 

The  knowledge  on  the  part  of  dealers 
that  our  membership  is  growing  steadily 
and  that  the  morale  of  the  organization 
was  never  better  is,  in  itself,  a  powerful 
factor  in  keeping  the  markets  in  a  con- 
dition of  general  stability.  Along  with 
this  knowledge  of  growing  strength  is  a 
general  recognition  on  the  part  of  the 
principal  dealers  in  the  market  that  the 
NEMPA  is  the  great  stabilizing  factor 
and  that  without  such  an  organization  to 
negotiate  prices  on  the  greater  part  of 
the  milk,  chaotic  conditions  would  result. 
They  recognize  that  it  is  for  their  own 
benefit  to  have  such  a  stabilizing  influence 
at  work  all  the  time. 

Confidence  in  the  future  should  come 
most  abundantly  from  a  knowledge  of 
the  general  situation  of  the  dairy  indus- 
try, not  only  in  New  England  but  all 
over  the  country.  There  is  a  general 
shortage  of  cows,  indicating  that  the  sup- 
ply of  dairy  products  in  the  country  is 
not  excessive.  In  New  England  there 
are  no  new  areas  to  be  tapped  for  addi- 
tional milk  supplies,  no  new  places  where 
milk  in  carload  lots  can  be  secured.  This 
means  that  the  old  law  of  supply  and 
demand  is  at  work  on  our  side.  Until 
the  pendulum  of  production  again  swings 
the  other  way,  resulting  in  an  overpro- 
duction of  milk,  we  can  look  forward  to 


a  period  of  generally  good  conditions  for 
the  dairymen. 

For  these  and  other  reasons  we  wish 
our  members  and  our  friends  a  good  year 
ahead,  the  kind  of  a  year  we  can  face 
with  confidence  and  the  assurance  that 
our  products  will  bring  a  fair  and  rea- 
sonable price. 

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DECEMBER  PRICES 

Manchester,  N.  H  76.5c  per  8y2  qt.  can 

Nashua,  N.  H  78.8c  "  8>4  "  " 

Lowell,  Mass  72c  "  8     "  " 

Lawrence,  Mass  97.5c  "  10   "  " 

Haverhill,  Mass  78c  "  8     "  " 

Concord,  N.  H  612c  "  S]/2  "  " 

Portland,  Me  7.6c  "  Qt. 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers 

and  Beverly   78c  "  8     "  " 

It  was  expected  that  the  Lowell  mar- 
ket would  advance  December  1.  Business 
conditions,  however,  in  Lowell  are  ex- 
tremely bad.  We  have  stated  in  previous 
reports  the  condition  in  this  market.  We 
dislike  very  much  to  be  pessimistic,  and 
have  tried  not  to  be  too  much  so.  How- 
ever, we  wish  to  impress  upon  readers 
of  the  Dairyman,  especially  those  who 
are  selling  milk  in  the  Lowell  market, 
the  serious  situation  which  exists  with 
respect  to  the  textile  industries  there. 
A  10  per  cent,  reduction  in  wages  of  mill 
workers  together  with  a  curtailing  of 
the  number  of  days  work  per  week  makes 
the  pay  of  the  mill  workers  very  small. 
Realizing  these  business  conditions,  the 
milk  dealers  in  Lowell  were  very  much 
opposed  to  advancing  prices  to  the  con- 
sumers. They  have  had  great  difficulty 
in  collecting  bills  for  milk  sold  even  at 
the  prices  existing  since  the  middle  of 
July.  The  dealers  did,  however,  state 
that  they  were  willing  to  reimburse  the 
farmers  for  any  losses  they  might  have 
due  to  the  market  not  rising  in  December 
by  paying  a  higher  price  to  Lowell 
producers  during  the  summer  months. 
Thus  over  a  period  of  time  they  hope  to 
demonstrate  to  the  producers  furnishing 
the  Lowell  market,  that  they  are  willing 
to  co-operate  with  them  and  try  to  work 
out  their  mutual  problems  in  the  produc- 
tion, distribution,  and  sale  of  the  milk. 

In  Nashua  a  disturbing  element  ap- 
peared in  early  December.  A  large 
producer  in  Milford,  N.  H.,  who  had 
been  selling  his  milk  in  Milford  and  Wil- 
ton, decided  to  also  sell  milk  in  Nashua. 
In  order  to  build  up  a  route  he  started 
selling  milk  3c  a  quart  cheaper  than 
other  dealers.  This,  of  course,  upset  the 
market  as  he  canvassed  the  entire  city, 
and  it  was  neccessary  for  me  to  do  con- 
siderable work  around  the  market  trying 
to  straighten  this  matter  out,  and  also  for 
the  Nashua  Sales  Committee  to  come  in 
and  consider  the  Nashua  situation.  This 
condition  in  Nashua  has  been  met  to  a 
considerable  extent,  and  the  market  price 
has  held  through  December  in  that 
market. 

Lawrence,  Haverhill,  Salem,  Lynn, 
Danvers,  and  Beverly  have  been  carrying 
along  at  the  advanced  prices.  We  find, 
however,  that  milk  sales,  either  due  to 
high  prices  or  the  mild  weather  have 
been  very  poor.  Milk  is  not  moving  well 
in  the  cities  of  our  minor  markets.  This 
is  causing  some  surplus  to  accumulate. 
We  have  had  some  requests  for  markets. 
To  date  we  have  not  been  able  to  find  a 
market  for  all  those  who  have  requested 
same.  However  the  amount  of  milk  in- 
volved in  these  requests  is  very  small 
compared  to  the  total  amount  used  daily. 
It  is  only  a  dairy  here  and  there  that  is 
without  a  market.  We  hope  that  the 
consumption  of  milk  will  increase  so  that 
the  upward  trend  of  production  which 
will  occur  from  now  on  will  be  taken 
care  of  through  increased  consumption 
by  the  public.  Doubtless  this  lack  of  con- 
sumption of  milk  in  our  industrial  cities 
is  largely  due  to  the  fact  that  consumers 
have  curtailed  because  of  the  lack  of 


work  and  small  wages  which  they  are 
receiving. 

Annual  Meetings 

We  notice  that  due  to  an  error  the 
report  of  the  Dunstable  Annual  Meeting 
was  omitted  from  last  month's  Northern 
Market  District  Report.  This  local  had 
a  splendid  annual  meeting  held  in  the 
town  hall  at  Dunstable,  Mass.  Local 
problems  with  reference  to  the  sale  of 
their  milk  and  the  trucking  of  same  to 
Lowell  were  the  chief  topics  for  discus- 
sion. This  local  makes  real  progress 
when  it  tackles  a  problem.  At  their  last 
meeting  the  cost  of  trucking  was  up  for 
discussion.  A  very  business-like  consid- 
eration of  all  phases  of  the  trucking 
problem  were  thoroughly  studied,  and 
when  the  question  was  finally  put  to  vote 
everyone  knew  exactly  what  the  issue 
was.  The  member  votel  intelligently  on 
this  matter.  They  have  so  arranged  their 
trucking  problem  that  they  will  save  a 
cent  per  eight  quart  can,  as  they  now  have 
reduced  their  cost  from  six  to  five  cents 
per  can  per  trip  for  delivery.  The 
officers  elected  for  the  local  for  the  com- 
ing year  are  as  follows :  President,  John 
F.  Kelley;  vice-president,  A.  N.  Hall; 
secretry,  Carl  Livingston,  and  market 
committee  man,  Herbert  Kendall. 

Arrangements  have  already  been  made 
to  hold  the  annual  meetings  of  the  Pitts- 
field,  N.  H.  and  Suncook  Valley,  N.  H. 
Locals. 

Other  meetings  will  be  scheduled  just 
as  fast  as  the  programs  can  be  arranged. 

Dues  Collections 

Considerable  time  was  spent  around 
Hollis,  N.  H.  collecting  dues.  The 
response  was  certainly  gratifying.  Produc- 
ers in  this  section  are  selling  their  milk 
in  the  Nashua,  N.  H.  Market.  They 
accept  their  dues  obligations  to  our 
association  as  a  regular  business  proposi- 
tion and  are  always  willing  to  pay  their 
accounts  promptly  to  the  association  when- 
ever a  collector  is  in  their  territory. 

The  District  Manager  wishes  to  ex- 
press his  appreciation  to  the  people  of 
Hollis  for  their  kind  spirit  of  co- 
operation. 

Sales  Committee  Meetings 
During  the  past  two  months  when  we 
have  had  market  changes  and  been 
negotiating  for  price  advances  we  have 
had  to  have  many  sales  committee  meet- 
ings. The  members  of  our  committees 
have  been  giving  much  time  in  order  that 
they  could  attend  these  meetings.  We 
appreciate  this  service  and  hope  that  we 
will  not  have  to  call  upon  them  as 
frequently  during  the  next  few  months 
as  we  have  since  the  middle  of  July.  We 
have  had  many  problems  come  up  with 
respect  to  the  advance  in  surplus  price 
and  also  with  the  changes  in  fluid  milk 
prices  caused  by  the  flood  situation.  These 
unusual  conditions  are  now  over,  but  we 
can  look  back  and  realize  the  timely 
assistance  and  real  effort  which  the  com- 
mittees of  our  various  markets  have  put 
in  due  to  their  attempt  to  obtain  for  the 
producers  in  their  respective  markets  a 
worthwhile  price  for  their  milk. 


FROM  COUNTY  AGENTS 

Loss  has  been  considerably  less  in  this 
county  than  reported  elsewhere  in  Ver- 
mont. In  the  town  of  Bolton  I  under- 
stand 600  cattle  have  been  lost  and  it 
was  reported  4,000  for  the  towns  of 
Waterbury  and  Bolton.  The  actual 
damage  done  to  farms  will  not  be  entirely 
known  for  years  to  come  because  consid- 
erable land  contains  gravel  and  sand  from 
1  to  3  feet  deep,  something  that  will  never 
be  recovered.  — J.  A.  McKee,  Bennington 
County. 

I  have  just  finished  a  county  survey  of 
farm  losses  and  here  is  the  summary :  181 
acres  meadow  land  washed  away,  388 
acres  meadow  land  covered  with  sand, 
mud  or  debris,  435  tons  wet  hay,  59  milk 
cows  lost,  1  bull,  27  head  young  stock,  4 
hogs,  325  hens  and  5  geese.  Not  a 
farmer  has  been  put  out  of  business  and 
everyone  I  spoke  to  feels  thankful  that 
they  got  off  so  much  lighter  than  farmers 
in  the  center  of  the  state.  Some  of  our 
men  have  suffered  the  loss  of  best 
meadow  land  but  none  are  complaining. 
Losses  in  this  county  are  especially  heavy 
on  roads  and  bridges.  Our  total  estimate 
for  all  losses  is  $1,153,500.— J.  L.  Mac- 
Dermid,  Orleans  County. 


January,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


FIELD  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT 

F.  C.  WAKNEB,  Manager  51  OornhiU,  Bottton 

DISTRICT  MANAGEB8 
Maine  Field  District — F.  L.  FOLKY,  Department  of  Agriculture.  Augusta,  Me. 
Northern  Field  District — S.  L.  STEARNS,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 
Northwestern  Field  District — N.  H.  WELLS,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 


Oysters  were  the  outstanding  features 
in  the  reports  of  the  field  service  depart- 
ment men  the  past  month.  An  increas- 
ing- number  of  locals,  in  connection  with 
their  annual  meetings,  have  something  to 
eat  and  what  better  is  there  at  this  season 
than  a  first  class  oyster  stew,  all  milk 
and  plenty  of  oysters  ?  Anyway,  the 
chances  have  been  about  nine  to  one  that 
oysters  would  be  served. 

The  boys  are  getting  in  fine  training. 
At  first  a  couple  of  bowls  full  were  all 
they  could  handle  but  now  that  they  have 
settled  down  to  real  business  there  is  al- 
most no  limit.  Some  records  in  oyster 
eating  will  probably  be  broken  by  Spring. 
Parmalee  appears  to  be  high  man  at  pres- 
ent, having  faced  the  oysters  more  times 
consecutively  than  any  other  man  in  the 
service. 

In  the  Maine  district  F.  L.  Foley  has 
been  having  a  variety  of  experiences  in 
local  meetings,  raising  the  price  in  the 
Portland  market,  and  general  strengthen- 
ing of  the  organization  by  field  work.  He 
has  not  been  doing  so  much  check  test- 


ing but  he  has  already  tested  once  or 
more  for  some  1,600  members.  It  is  one 
of  the  most  appreciated  features  of  the 
field  service  work. 

Hermon  Pond  and  Hampden  locals  had 
a  joint  meeting  Nov.  14  with  about  50 
present  to  enjoy  the  oyster  stew  and 
listen  to  a  discussion  of  the  general  mar- 
ket conditions  and  the  flood  by  the  Maine 
district  manager.  The  officers  elected  by 
Hermon  Pond  local  are  W.  O.  Mowatt, 
president,  and  R.  E.  Littlefield,  secretary. 
Hampden  local  elected  George  H.  Good- 
ell  president  and  C.  H.  Rogers  secretary. 

Dover  local  turned  out  55  strong  the 
following  night  for  an  equally  good 
oyster  supper  followed  by  a  talk  from 
Foley  on  market  conditions.  W.  H.  Rog- 
ers was  elected  president  and  George  B. 
Dow  secretary. 

Dexter  local  met  on  the  16th  with  12 
present  but  did  not  elect  officers.  Rich- 
mond Corner  local  had  a  meeting  sched- 
uled for  the  18th  with  dinner  and  dis- 
cussion of  market  conditions,  but  it 
(Continued  on  page  ten) 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  November,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7  per 
cent  per  1/10  per1  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container;  per  8^4 
quart  can  $0,009;  per  10  quart  can  $0,010;  per  20  quart  can  $0,021;  per  21 can 
$0.022 ;  per  40  quart  can  $0.041 ;  per  cwt.  $0,048. 


Boston  District 


Dealers 
Elm  Spring  Farm 

7th  zone  (121-140). 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   


Class  1 
(Mkt. 
Milk) 

,76.1% 


Class  2   

(Mfg.  %y2 
Milk)  Quart 

23.9%  .565 


20 
Quart 

1.378 


Size  of  Can  

21^  40 
Quart  Quart 

1.464  2.791 


.1000 


Cwt. 

3.245 

4.326 


Dealers 


Northern  Market  District 

Class  1    Class  2   


Robert  H.  Sawyer  (Mkt. 
Zoned  from  Haverhill  Milk) 

Delivered   94.6% 

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

Wason  MacDonald  Co. 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

Delivered   94.4 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms, 

Zoned  from  Lawrence 

Delivered   74.3 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

9th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   85.5 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

E.  C.  Blake 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   85.0 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   87.9 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Producers'  Dairy  System 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   89.4 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   


(Mfg. 
Milk) 
5.4% 


5.6 


Cwt. 

in 
8/a's 


—  Size  of  Can  — 

Cwt.  Cwt. 

in  in 

20's  40's 


Cwt. 

4.064 
3.680 
3.635 


25.7 


3.927 
3.438 
3.360 


3.927 
3.521 
3.455 


3.927 
3.543 
3.499 


14.5 


15.0 


12.1 


10.6 


3.769 
3.430 
3.358 


3.769 
3.508 
3.446 


3.769 
3.528 
3.487 


3.435 
3.133 
3.098 
3.034 
2.943 


3.470 
3.236 
3.196 
3.156 
3.121 
3.091 
3.076 


3.616 
3.367 
3.312 
3.265 
3.127 


3.854 
3.526 
3.473 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1928 


MARKET  CONDITIONS 

With  flood  conditions  preventing  a 
considerable  quantity  of  milk  from 
coming  into  the  markets  in  Novem- 
ber, comparisons  of  milk  production 
with  the  preceding  month  and  with 
last  year  mean  very  little.  Total  milk 
deliveries  reported  by  Boston  dealers 
dropped  off  22  per  cent,  from  October 
as  compared  with  5  per  cent,  a  year 
previous.      Later     reports     from  the 


country  indicate  that  the  increase  in 
production  in  December  is  less  than 
normal. 

Flood  conditions  also  curtailed  sales 
as  for  a  few  days  dealers  were  short 
of  milk  and  their  customers  had  to 
content  themselves  with  less  than  the 
usual  supply.  The  records  of  sales 
show  28.1  million  pounds  in  Novem- 
ber as  compared  with  28.4  million 
pounds  in  November,  1926,  and  28.7 
million  pounds  in  October,  1927. 


The  November  net  price  of  $3.01 
per  hundred  is  19  cents  above  last 
year  and  the  best  price  we  have  had 
since  1923.  The  November  Class  I 
price  of  $3.54  had  an  average  extra 
trucking  charge  of  about  12  cents  per 
hundred  deducted  to  cover  cost  of  moving 
milk  from  the  flood  territory.  With 
this  out,  our  net  Class  I  price  in  the 
10th  zone  averaged  $3.42  or  12  cents 
per  hundred  above  last  year.  Our 
Class    II    cream    price    averaged  26 


cents  above  last  year.  The  butter 
price  was  about  one-half  cent  a  pound 
lower  this  year  than  last.  Compara- 
tive figures  are : 

1927  1927  1926 
Oct.  Nov.  Nov. 

Fluid   $3.42  $3.54  $3.30 

Net  price  all  milk  ....  2.87    3.01  2.82 

Surplus    2.00   2.09  1.83 

Avg.  butter  per  lb  478   .480  .484 

(Continued  on  page  nine) 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  November,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  November  is  correct.   Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.048  for  each  .1  per  cent.   If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract  $.048 
per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.   If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  November  by  your  dealers'  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 


Zone  1    Zone  2    Zone  3  Zone  4  Zone  5  Zone  6  Zone  7  Zone  8  Zone  9  Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 

Miles  from  Boston   „                         1-20     21-40  41-60  61-80  81-100  101-120  121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281-300 

Class  1  Milk  Price  3.815     3.768  3.722  3.681  3.646  3.629  3.600  3.576  3,559  3.536  3.513  3.501  3.478  3.466  3.443 

Class  2  Milk  Price  2.094     2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094  2.094 

Class  1        Class  2 
Dealers  (Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 

Hood  1-15   69.7%            30.3%  3.165     3.132  3.100  3.071  3.047  3.035  3.015  2.998  2.986  2.970  2.954  2.946  2.930  2,922  2.906 

Hood  16-30   75.2               24.8     3.349     3.314  3.279  3.248  3.222  3.209  3.187  3.169  3.157  3,139  3.122  3.113  3.096  3.087  3.069 

Whiting   65.0               35.0     3,140     3.110  3.080  3.053  3.031  3.020  3.001  2.985  2.974  2.959  2.944  2.936  21922  2.914  2.899 

Turner  Centre   50.5               49.5     2.926     2.903  2.880  2.859  2.841  2.833  2.818  2.806  Z797  2.786  2.774  2.768  2.756  2.750  2.738 

N  E  Cry  Prod   65.0               35.0     3.143     3.113  3.083  3.057  3.034  3.023  3.004  2.989  2.977  2.963  2.948  2.940  2.925  2.917  2.902 

F '  S '  Cummings   65.0               35.0     3.160     3.130  3.099  3.073  3.050  3.039  3.021  3.005  2.994  2.979  2.964  2.956  2.941  2.934  2.919 

F*  E    Boyd   65.0               35.0     3.183     3.152  3.123  3.096  3.073  3.062  3.044  3.028  3.017  3.002  2.987  2.979  2.964  2.956  2.941 

Weighted  Avg  69.1               30.9     3.206     3.174  3.142  3.114  3.090  3.078  3.058  3.041  3.029  3.014  2,998  2.989  2.973  2.965  2.949 

Turner  Centre  prices  include  an  overpayment  of  $.104  per  cwt. 


Providence  Market 

Class  1  Class  2 

Dealers             (Mkt.  (Mfg.  Deliv- 

Per  Hundredweight     Milk)  Milk)  ered 

W.  B.  Brown   100.0%  4.044 

H.  T.  Burton,  Inc  100.0  4.051 

G.  T.  Chambers   100.0  4.044 

E.  A.  Fiske   100.0  4.055 

L.  E.  Goff   100.0  4.055 

C.  W.  Grant   100.0  4.031 

A.  B.  Monroe   100.0  4.055 

Providence  Dairy  ....  94.0  6.0  3.961 

Turner  Centre   100.0  4.075 

W.  C.  Viall  100.0  4.031 

C.  A.  Warnack   100.0  4.053 

E.  P.  Westcott   100.00  4.055 


Zone  1 
1-20 
Miles 
3.710 
3.716 
3.710 
3.716 
3.716 
3.696 
3.716 
3.707 


Zone  2 
21-40 
Miles 
3.662 
3.669 
3.622 
3.668 
3.668 
3.648 
3.668 
3.674 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  3  Zone  Willi- 
41-60  net  man  tic 
Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.596   

3.602   

3.596   

3.602   

3.602   

3.582   

3.602   

3.608 


3.415  3.509 


3.696  3.648  3.582 
3.719  3.671  3.605 
3.716     3.668  3.602 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Based  on  9£  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Effective  January  1,  1928,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Subject  to  Surplus 


At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


Cwt.in    Cwt.in  Cwt.in 


8qt. 

8#qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21J<qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Can9 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del.  Trucked 

.716 

.762 

.896 

1.791 

1.902 

3.582 

4.165 

4.165 

4.165 

1 

1-20 

.623 

.667 

.791 

1.606 

1.708 

3.232 

3.735 

3.739 

3.758 

2 

21-40 

.608 

.652 

.776 

1.576 

1.678 

3.192 

3.676 

3.674 

3.711 

3 

41-60 

.603 

.647 

.761 

1.551 

1.653 

3.152 

3.607 

3.619 

3.665 

4 

61-80 

.588 

.632 

.751 

1.541 

1.643 

3.117 

3.583 

3.597 

3.624 

5 

81-100 

.578 

.622 

.741 

1.521 

1.618 

3.087 

3.537 

3.542 

3.589 

6 

101-120 

.578 

.622 

.736 

1.516 

1.608 

3.072 

3.525 

3.521 

3.572 

7 

121-140 

.568 

.612 

.726 

1.507 

1.593 

3.047 

3.490 

3.499 

3.543 

8 

141-160 

.563 

.607 

.721 

1.491 

1.583 

3.027 

3.467 

3.466 

3.519 

9 

161-180 

.558 

.602 

.716 

1.481 

1.573 

3.012 

3.444 

3.444 

3.502 

10 

181-200 

.553 

.597 

.706 

1.471 

1.563 

2.992 

3.421 

3.422 

3.478 

11 

201-220 

.548 

.592 

.701 

1.456 

1.553 

2.972 

3.386 

3.400 

3.456 

12 

221-240 

.543 

.587 

.696 

1.451 

1.543 

2.962 

3.374 

3.378 

3.444 

13 

241-260 

.538 

.582 

.691 

1.441 

1.533 

2.942 

3.351 

3.356 

3.421 

14 

261-280 

.533 

.577 

.686 

1.436 

1.528 

2.932 

3.339 

3.346 

3.409 

15 

281-300 

.528 

.572 

.681 

1.426 

1.513 

2.912 

3.316 

3.313 

3.386 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del.  Trucked 

.716 

.762 

.896 

1.791 

1.902 

3.582 

4.165 

4.165 

4.165 

1 

1-20 

.648 

.692 

.811 

1.621 

1.718 

3.232 

3.770 

3.737 

3.759 

2 

21-40 

.628 

.672 

.796 

1.591 

1.688 

3.192 

3.700 

3.671 

3.711 

3 

41-60 

.623 

.667 

.791 

1.586 

1.673 

3.152 

3.689 

3.639 

3.666 

4 

61-80 

.618 

.662 

.781 

1.551 

1.653 

3.117 

3.608 

3.595 

3.625 

5 

81-100 

.613 

.657 

.766 

1.546 

1.643 

3.092 

3.596 

3.574 

3.596 

6 

101-120 

.613 

.657 

.766 

1.546 

1.633 

3.092 

3.596 

3.552 

3.596 

7 

121-140 

.613 

.657 

.766 

1.526 

1.623 

3.057 

3.550 

3.530 

3.555 

8 

141-160 

.598 

.642 

.761 

1.521 

1.618 

3.042 

3.538 

3.519 

3.538 

9 

161-180 

.593 

.637 

.756 

1.511 

1.603 

3.017 

3.515 

3.487 

3.509 

10 

181-200 

.593 

.637 

.751 

1.496 

1.593 

3.002 

3.480 

3.465 

3.491 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroads  or  milk  stations 
a  premium  of  .0075  cents  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices,  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight  country  cream- 
ti^3^"516'  C.an  s,e r,vice  and  a  de^uction  of  2  cents  per  cwt.  has'  been  made  for 
i\ tMrA  members  dues  and  1  cent  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


...  at  N  ight  while  my 
Neighbors  are  Sleeping" 


CjC  An  Advertisement  of  the 
American  Telephone  and  Telegraph 
Company 

A  fruit  and  truck  farmer  of 
New  York  state  is  so  located 
that  he  can  ship  his  products 
to  New  York,  Albany  or  Pitts- 
field.  He  obtains  the  market 
prices  in  these  centers  by  tele- 
phone and  then  ships  to  the 
one  in  which  they  are  highest. 

"I  obtain  the  market  price," 
he  says,  "between  eight  and 
nine  o'clock  in  the  morning, 
agree  on  the  price,  load  my 
trucks,  and  make  the  deliveries 
at  night  whrle  my  neighbors 
are  sleeping." 

Thousands  of  grain  and  stock 
farmers  throughout  the  United 
States  also  use  the  telephone 
when  they  are  ready  to  sell. 
The  work  of  a  whole  year  may 
hinge  on  the  result  of  a  few 
days.  It's  easy  to  lose  $io  a 
steer  by  selling  at  the  wrong 
time. 

The  telephone  ends  isolation. 
It  runs  important  errands.  Or- 
ders extra  parts  when  there  is  a 
breakdown.  Buys  and  sells  at 
the  best  price.  Is  a  guardian  in 
time  of  accident  or  sickness. 
Pays  for  itself  many  times  over. 

The  modern  farm  home  has 
a  telephone. 


January,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


MORE  FOR  SURPLUS 

Substantial  increases  in  milk  prices  are 
corning  to  our  members  through  the 
special  prices  on  Class  2  milk  secured 
through  the  past  three  months  and  com- 
ing for  some  months  more  according  to 
the  present  plans. 

For  some  time  there  has  been  a  grow- 
ing recognition  of  the  fact  that  our  sur- 
plus price,  based  on  butter  values,  was 
too  low.  We  have  been  in  negotiation 
with  the  dealers  for  some  time  to  get  a 
means  by  wliich  Class  2  milk,  or  at  least 
some  portion  of  it,  could  be  accounted 
for  and  paid  for  at  a  price  which  more 
nearly  represented  its  value  when  resold 
as  cream.  At  times  in  the  past  we  have 
been  able  to  get  a  small  premium  on  skim 
but  not  until  the  past  fall  have  we  been 
able  to  get  full  recognition,  of  a  "cream 
class"  into  which  all  or  a  part  of  the  milk 
not  sold  in  fluid  form  should  fall. 

For  October,  November  and  December, 
we  negotiated  a  trade  under  which  all 
Class  2  milk  was  to  bring  a  premium  of 
about  28  cents  a  hundred  above  what  it 
would  have  brought  if  sold  at  the  butter 
value.  This  added  very  materially  to  the 
returns  during  the  last  three  months  but 
the  dealers,  in  accepting  it  early  in  Oc- 
tober, would  make  no  trade  beyond  the 
first  of  the  year.  It  fitted  the  situation 
during  the  short  season  but  was  not  ac- 
ceptable to  them  during  the  season  when 
milk  would  be  more  abundant. 

The  question  of  a  price  for  the  cream 
class  milk  simmered  down  to  three  main 
propositions,  any  one  of  which  would  have 
given  us  a  substantial  increase  in  the 
price  for  Class  2  milk  as  compared  with 
the  old  price  for  surplus  based  on  butter 
values.  The  original  proposition  made 
by  the  sales  committee  as  a  permanent 
policy  was  that  all  Class  2  milk  should 
go  into  the  cream  class  for  October,  No- 
vember and  December  and  that  for  the 
remainder  of  the  year  an  amount  of  sur- 
plus equal  to  AO  per  cent,  of  the  sales 
of  fluid  milk  should  go  into  the  cream 
class  and  be  paid  for  at  the  special  cream 
class  price.  This  was  on  the  basis  that 
for  every  100  pounds  of  fluid  milk  sold 
at  least  40  additional  pounds  was  needed 
to  supply  table  cream  for  which  the  deal- 
ers could  secure  a  return  considerably 
above  what  it  would  cost  them  at  butter- 
fat  prices. 

This  plan  proved  inacceptable  to  the 
dealers,  some  objecting  on  one  ground  and 
some  on  another.  Two  other  propositions 
were  made  by  the  sales  committee.  One 
was  that  a  price  should  be  negotiated  on 
skim  which  would  represent  the  increased 
value  of  the  milk  falling  into  the  cream 
class,  the  skim  price  being  adjusted  from 
time  to  time  to  meet  conditions  as  they 
changed  according  to  season  and  supply 
of  milk.  It  was  another  way  of  getting 
at  the  same  thing  and  would  have  re- 
sulted in  a  substantial  increase  in  the 
Class  2  price  at  all  seasons  of  the  year. 

This  also  proved  inacceptable  to  the 
dealers  and  the  third  plan  was  proposed 
and  was  the  basis  for  the  trade  finally 
made.  It  was  that  for  October,  Novem- 
ber and  December  all  surplus  milk  should 
come  under  the  cream  class.  That  for 
January,  February  and  March  75  per  cent, 
of  the  surplus  should  fall  in  the  cream 
class,  for  April,  May  and  June  50  per 
cent.,  and  for  July,  August  and  Septem- 
ber 75  per  cent,  should  fall  in  the  cream 
class  and  be  paid  for  at  the  advanced 
price. 

This  last  proposition  was  more  accep- 
table to  the  dealers  and  was  being  made 
part  of  the  basis  for  trade  for  January 
milk  with  the  expectation  that  such  a 
trade  would  last  for  at  least  three 
months.  The  price  situation  difficulty, 
told  elsewhere  in  this  issue,  changed  the 
situation  somewhat  but  the  principles  of 
the  percentage  of  Class  2  milk  to  be  paid 
for  in  the  cream  class  price  remains  un- 
changed. 

In  the  final  trade  for  January  the  pro- 
portions were  fixed  at  60  per  cent,  of  the 
Class  2  milk  to  be  paid  for  at  butter 
average  plus  20  per  cent,  and  40  per 
cent,  to  be  paid  for  at  the  old  basis  of 
butter  value  minus  five  cents  plus  16  2/3 
per  cent.  The  difference  is  about  28  cents 
a  hundred  weight.  Negotiations  will  be 
continued  as  to  the  percentage  of  milk 
which  shall  come  under  the  cream  class 
in  subsequent  months,  but  the  important 
thing  is  that  a  cream  class  has  been 
established. 


GOOD  WORK 

No  better  proof  of  the  value  of  the 
New  England  dairy  and  food  council 
could  be  had  than  the  way  it  met  the 
emergency  created  by  the  flood. 

When  the  shortage  came  to  the  market 
because  of  flood  conditions,  Acting  Gov- 
ernor Allen  of  Massachusetts  issued  a 
statement  asking  that  milk  should  be  con- 
served for  a  few  days  in  order  to  meet 
the  unusual  situation  and  leave  a  sure 
supply  of  milk  for  those  who  needed  it 
most. 

Consumers  met  this  request  in  fine 
shape  and  accepted  two  quarts  instead  of 
three  and  in  other  ways  cut  down  some- 
what on  their  supply  of  milk.  The 
trouble  was  that  after  two  days  the 
dealers  had  a  normal  supply  of  milk  for 
sale,  some  of  it  bought  at  high  prices 


from  afar  off  and  transported  to  Boston 
at  a  high  cost.  Consumers  did  not  realize 
that  the  critical  period  was  past  and  did 
not  return  to  normal  buying. 

Through  the  action  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Dairy  and  Food  Council  a  supple- 
mentary statement  was  secured  from  the 
acting  governor  saying  that  the  emer- 
gency was  past,  that  there  was  plenty  of 
milk  and  that  buying  should  be  resumed 
at  a  normal  rate.  This  statement  was 
used  as  an  advertisement  in  the  principal 
Boston  papers  and  did  much  to  restore 
normal  conditions  of  sale.  It  was  not  so 
much  the  actual  increase  in  buying  which 
took  place  immediately  as  it  was  that  the 
salesmen  and  all  connected  with  the  milk 
industry  took  new  courage.  Statements 
were  also  secured  and  used  as  advertise- 
ments from  the  Commissioners  of  Agri- 
culture of  the  various  states. 


LESSER  MARKETS 

Reports  from  the  lesser  markets  indi- 
cate that  a  return  to  prices  existing  be- 
fore the  flood  is  in  progress.  In  some 
markets  which  were  below  Boston  the 
prices  established  at  the  time  of  the  last 
raise  in  Boston  will  hold  but  for  the 
most  part  they  are  dropping  back  to  their 
former  level.  The  coming  of  colder 
weather  will  shorten  the  supply  of  milk 
somewhat  and  assist  in  holding  prices  at 
the  present  level.  The  unseasonably 
warm  weather  in  a  part  of  December  left 
the  milk  coming  in  more  strongly  than 
it  would  under  ordinary  conditions  at  this 
season.  There  are  indications  from  all 
sides  that  milk  will  not  be  coming  in 
very  plentifully  for  some  weeks  yet. 


ALFALFA 

"THE  IMPERIAL  FORAGE  CROP" 

BEATS-THEM-ALL 


This  Alfalfa  field  was  seeded  in  August.  It  produced  big  crops  the  following  year 
and  the  picture  shows  the  first  crop  of  the  next  year.    Lime  was  the  first  essential. 


ABOUT  AS  RICH  IN  PROTEIN  AS  WHEAT  BRAN 

A  WONDERFUL  FEED 

New  England  Farmers 

Are  Rapidly  Adding  to  their  Acreage 


For  Young  Stock,  Horses,  Milch  Cows,  and  Poultry 
A  MONEY  SAVER      A  MONEY  MAKER 

To  Get  Alfalfa 

Buy  Grimm  Seed 

Inoculate'  Soil  or  Seed 

Fertilize,  and  Most  Important 

Sweeten  your  Soil  with  Pownal  Limestone 

ORDER  YOUR  LIMESTONE  NOW  OF 

Pownal  Lime  Company 

92  STATE  STREET 
BOSTON  MASSACHUSETTS 


Page  Six 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1928 


1928 

Business  for  1928 
bears  the  promise  of 
prosperity. 

Sound  judgment,  con- 
structive management, 
and  wise  economy  are 
essential  if  you  are  to 
realize  your  share  of 
this  prosperity. 

These  qualities  of 
successful  business 
management  explain 
why  hundreds  of 
creamerymen,  cheese- 
makers,  and  dairymen 
have  standardized  the 


for  all  their  cleaning 
work. 

Unvarying  quality 
and  uniformity  is  guar- 
anteed in  these  un- 
equalled cleaners  be- 
cause the  manufactur- 
ers own  their  own 
quarries,  mines,  rail- 
roads, steamships,  fac- 
tories, and  laboratories. 

The  great  confidence 
enjoyed  by  the  Wyan- 
dotte Products  has  been 
built  on  a  foundation 
of  quality  and  perform- 
ance. 


Ask  your  supply  man  for 
"WYANDOTTE" 


THE  J    B.  rORD  COMPANY 

Sole  Manufacturer* 
Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 

Roam  205  Dexter  Building 
pQ  360  Worthington  St.,  Springfield,  Matt. 

rQ  Telephone  No.  4-0500 

Prices 

Springfield   09'/< 

Worcester   08^4 

Holyoke   09 

Westfield   08^ 

SPRINGFIELD 

Prices  have  been  well  maintained  in 
this  market,  but,  due  to  the  dullness  of 
business  conditions,  sales  have  not  been 
up  to  normal  for  this  season  of  the  year. 

Northern  milk  is  now  coming  through 
by  its  old  routings  as  before  the  flood, 
and  it  now  appears  that  the  acute  point 
of  milk  shortage  is  past  for  this  year. 
With  this  return  to  normal  it  is  expected 
that  prices  will  soon  return  to  the  previ- 
ous levels. 

WORCESTER 

After  the  Y^c  increase  made  to  the 
dealers  of  this  market  by  the  sales  com- 
mittee several  meetings  were  held  by  the 
dealers'  association  to  determine  the  re- 
sult on  the  resale  prices.  They  finally 
decided  not  to  increase  the  price  to  the 
consumers.  This  decision  was  not  agree- 
able to  all  distributors  and  resulted  in 
the  dealers  asking  for  a  rebate  effective 
December  1st.  The  sales  committee  re- 
fused to  do  this  but  did  agree  to  a  re- 
duction of  price  to  8^c  per  quart,  ef- 
fective December  16th,  it  being  under- 
stood that  this  price  would  run  to  July 
1st,  providing  that  no  crisis  should  arise 
in  the  market. 

The  effect  of  the  fifteen  day  increase 
has  been  favorable  and  the  market  is  in 
a  more  satisfactory  condition  than  existed 
a  month  ago. 

ORGANIZATION 
One  day  spent  with  John  O'Donnell  at 
Barre  Plains  netted  four  or  five  dues  or- 
ders from  members  who  had  changed 
dealers. 

A  day  in  North  Brookfield  with  A.  O. 
Grise,  and  one  alone  was  especially  pleas- 
ing because  of  the  spirit  shown  by  the 
producers  we  met ;  eight  new  members 
were  enrolled  and  seven  orders  obtained 
from  old  members.  This  local  is  now 
nearing  one  hundred  per  cent,  mem- 
bership. 

At  Charlton,  E.  A.  Lamb  gave  me  his 
time  for  part  of  one  day  and  I  spent  one 
alone.  Six  new  members  were  obtained 
and  dues  orders  from  two  of  our  old 
members.  Pres.  G.  S.  Warren  and  I 
visited  several  producers  in  Spencer.  We 
found  mostly  a  good  spirit  toward  the 
association  and  the  sales  committee. 
Three  new  members  were  signed  up. 

On  the  whole,  support  of  the  Worces- 
ter sales  committee  has  improved  tremen- 
dously. The  membership  is  increasing 
steadily,  as  is  also  the  spirit  to  stand 
behind  the  committee.  This  condition 
has  vastly  improved  the  position  of  our 
sales  committee  in  the  Worcester  market. 


MONEY  PROVIDED 

An  appropriation  of  $50,000  by  Con- 
gress puts  the  Benroot-Taber  law  for  the 
Federal  inspection  of  foreign  milk  and 
cream  into  practical  effect.  The  bill  was 
introduced  into  Congress  through  the 
efforts  of  the  National  Co-operative  Milk 
Producers  Federation  as  a  measure  of 
protection  against  uninspected  milk  and 
cream  coming  into  the  United  States  and 
entering  into  competition  with  milk  and 
cream  which  was  subjected  to  a  rigid 
inspection.  The  bill  became  law  but 
there  was  no  money  with  which  to 
establish  a  system  of  inspection  and  the 
law  was  not  so  effective  as  was  con- 
templated. All  this  is  past  with  the  new 
appropriation.  Federal  inspectors  can  be 
put  in  the  field  and  from  now  on  New 
England  producers  can  feel  assured  that 
any  product  coming  in  from  Canada  in 
competition  with  their  own  product  will 
have  to  bear  the  same  inspection  as  their 
own  products. 


An  Open  Formula 
Dairy  Feed  is  your 
only  check 
on  value 


WHEN  you  buy  a  ready-mixed  dairy  feed,  you  pay 
for  its  feeding  value,  the  mixing  service,  the  cost 
of  getting  your  order,  the  local  handling  charge,  and  a 
margin  for  profit.  You  want  to  be  sure  that  most  of  the 
dollar  you  pay  brings  you  feeding  value,  and  that  an 
undue  proportion  does  not  go  for  service,  sales  cost,  and 
profit.  The  only  way  you  can  know  just  what  you  are 
paying  for  is  to  use  an  open  formula  feed.  The  open 
formula  tells  you  exactly  how  much  of  each  ingredient 
goes  into  the  mixture,  so  you  can  check  against  current 
market  feed  values  to  make  sure  the  price  is  fair  and  not 
loaded  with  a  heavy  sales  cost  and  a  big  profit.  Amco 
Feed  Mixing  Service  was  the  first  commercial  feed  or- 
ganization to  adopt  the  open  formula.  Amco  invites  you 
to  check  the  value  of  Amco  feeds  by  figuring  the  price  from 
the  formula 


A  Variable  Open 
Formula  Dairy  Feed 
is  your  only  protection 
on  price 


FEED  markets  change.  The  cost  of  one  ingredient  goes 
up,  while  another  goes  down.  The  only  way  to  make 
milk  at  a  profit  is  to  follow  the  changing  market  by  using 
a  feed  of  changing  formula.  Amco  Feed  Mixing  Service 
selects  the  ingredients  which  are  most  economical,  and 
combines  them  in  mixtures  which  change  from  time  to 
time  with  the  market.  To  make  sure  that  feeding  value 
is  unchanged,  Amco  varies  its  formulas  under  the  super- 
vision of  nineteen  state  college  feeding  specialists.  This 
price  protection,  through  variable  open  formula  feeds,  is 
a  distinctive  Amco  service. 


For  feeding  value  and  price  protection  use 

Amco  2o%  Dairy 

Amco 

§  FEED  MIXING  SERVICE 

AMERICAN  MILLING  COMPANY 
EXECUTIVE  OFFICES:  PEORIA,  ILL. 

Plant!  at:  PEORIA,  ILL.;  OMAHA,  NEB.;  OWENSBORO,  KY. 
Alfalfa  Plant!  at;  POWELL,  GARLAND,  and  WORLAND,  WYO. 

DIVISION  OFFICE:  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


January,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


Kow-Kare  Conditions 
Cows  for  Freshening 

It  is  well-known  that  most  cow  disorders  have 
their  origin  in  breeding  troubles.  The  terrific 
strain  of  producing  a  healthy  calf  and  coming 
through  the  freshening  period  calls  for  more 
than  good  food  and  comfortable  quarters. 
Let  Kow-Kare  be  your  aid  when  cows  freshen. 
No  investment  is  so  certain  to  pay  big  returns. 
Instead  of  expecting  trouble,  you  prevent  it — 
effectually  and  at  slight  cost.  Kow-Kare  in- 
vigorates the  genital  organs — makes  them  func- 
tion as  nature  intended.  Feed  Kow-Kare  two 
or  three  weeks  before  and  after  calving  —  a 
tablespoonful  with  the  feed,  and  say  good-bye 
to  worries  with  freshening  cows. 

Treating  Cow  Disorders 

For  all  cow  ailments  arising  from  weak  diges- 
tive and  genital  organs  —  Barrenness,  Retained 
Afterbirth,  Abortion,  Bunches,  Scours,  Lost 
Appetite,  etc.,  Kow-Kare  is  a  reliable  home 
remedy.    Full  directions  on  each  can. 

For  Healthy  Udders 

—  use  BAG  BALM,  the  wonderful  healing 
ointment.  A  great  healer,  of  the  delicate  tissues 
of  udder  and  teats.  Big  10-ounce  can  of  this 
famous  healer,  only  60c. 


Home-Mix  Your  Own 

Complete  .Mineral 

With  Kow-Kare  you  can  easily  mix  your 
own  complete  mineral  at  a  surprisingly  low 
cost — a  mixture  of  recognized  conditioning 
value.  Simply  mix  30  lbs.  salt,  30  lbs.  finely 
ground  limestone,  30  lbs.  steamed  bone  meal 
and  four  cans  (large)  Kow-Kare.  For  well 
under  $6  per  hundred  you  will  have  an  un- 
beatable mineral.  Use  80  lbs.  of  this  mix- 
ture to  a  ton  of  grain. 


Saves  money-  gets  Mttore 

milli  from  low-  cost  feeds 


COWS  on  winter  feed  need  a  different  type  of 
care  and  handling  than  cows  in  pasture.  Suc- 
culent, green  feeds  are  turned  into  milk  with  a 
minimum  strain  and  effort  of  the  milk-making  and 
digestive  functions.  The  outdoor  life  induces  health 
and  vigor. 

Barn- feeding  conditions  are  a  different  story.  The 
diet  is  heavier,  richer,  harder  to  digest.  Fresh  air 
and  exercise  are  largely  lacking  —  but  the  milk-yield 
must  keep  up.  A  slump  means  profits  wiped  out.  The 
cow  must  be  forced  or  the  milk  check  disappoints. 

Secret  of  Heavy  Winter  Yields 

During  the  long  winter  months  —  when  your  cows 
are  subjected  to  this  unnatural  strain  of  modern  dairy- 
ing —  you  can  gear  up  the  whole  herd  to  new  heights 
of  production  by  the  simple  addition  of  small  quan- 
tities of  Kow-Kare  to  their  low-cost  feeds.  This 
great  product  is  a  concentrated  regulator  of  the  diges- 


tion and  assimilation  of  milk  cows.  It  replaces  the 
wear  and  tear  on  the  over-worked  organs  of  produc- 
tion. 

Kow-Kare  makes  a  reasonable  forcing  process  safe 
and  effective  —  helps  the  cow  to  get  all  the  milk  value 
from  Nature's  foods  with  safety  to  her  health  and 
vigor.  No  need  to  pay  out  all  your  income  for  rich 
and  expensive  concentrates  which,  at  best,  have  only 
temporary  effect  on  production. 

Give  Kow-Kare  a  real  test  this  winter  on  the  whole 
herd.  For  a  few  cents  a  month  per  cow  you  will 
reap  a  surprising  milk  crop  from  natural  low-priced 
feeds.  A  tablespoonful  of  Kow-Kare  with  the  feed 
one  to  two  weeks  in  each  month  is  all  the  average 
cow  needs.    The  benefits  show  in  the  milk  pails  — 


inevitably.  Health,  vigor  and  freedom  from  disorders 
is  your  bonus  for  adopting  the  Kow-Kare  feeding 
practice  that  is  now  standard  in  thousands  of  money- 
making  dairies. 

Thirty  Years  of  Success 

For  over  thirty  years  Kow-Kare  has  been  helping 
dairymen  to  make  more  money  from  their  herds  — 
both  as  an  aid  to  greater  yield,  and  in  the  prevention 
and  cure  of  cow  disorders.  Get  your  supply  from 
your  feed  dealer,  general  store  or  druggists.  Large 
size  $1.25;  six  cans  for  $6.25.  Small  size  65c  If 
your  dealer  is  not  supplied,  we  will  mail  direct,  post- 
paid. 

DAIRY  ASSOCIATION  CO.,  Inc. 

LyndoaviUe,  Vermont 

Write  todav  for  our  valuable  free  book. 
'•More  Milk  from  the  Cows  you  Have" 


K0  W"  KARE  and?rniditions 


Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1928 


I  Eastern  States  Fannys'  Excnan8e 

Do  You  Buy  Supplies 
as  You  Do  a  Smoke? 

Your  ancestors  lived  on  the 
farm  off  the  farm.  You  live  on 
the  farm  but  you  do  not  begin 
to  grow  your  farm  needs.  You 
are  a  manufacturer,  making  milk, 
or  eggs,  and  growing  crops.  You 
buy  raw  materials — dairy  and 
poultry  rations,  seed  and  fer- 
tilizer. The  quality  of  the  raw 
materials  and  the  price  you  pay 
for  that  quality  affects  your  pros- 
perity— the  net  profits  or  losses 
from  the  manufacturing  processes 
you  carry  on. 


Do  you  buy  your  raw  materials 
the  way  the  manufacturer  buys 
his  cigars  and  books,  or  do  you 
buy  them  the  way  he  buys  his 
raw  materials?  He  buys  cigars 
and  books  on  whim  and  fancy 
out  of  the  store  handy  to  his 
house  or  office  and  sometimes 
from  an  agent.  His  purchases  of 
tbese  things  are  not  important 
enough  to  justify  doing  anything 
else.  But  he  buys  the  raw  ma- 
terials for  his  business  through  a 
buying  department  in  his  busi- 
ness set-up. 

As  an  individual  farmer  buy- 
ing by  yourself,  you  purchase 
raw  materials  exactly  as  other 
business  men  buy  incidentals — 
luxuries  and  conveniences.  Pool- 
ing your  requirement  with  more 
than  20,000  farmers  in  the  East- 
ern States  Farmers'  Exchange, 
you  buy  your  raw  materials  as 
other  manufacturers  buy  their 
raw  materials.  Through  a  de- 
partment in  your  business  set-up, 
the  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Ex- 
change, you  control  the  quality 
and  keep  down  the  cost  of  your 
supplies  as  otber  business  men  do. 

For  information  on  the  Eastern 
States  Farmers'  Exchange  write 
the  office. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

»   nan-stock,   non-profit  organization 
owned  and  controlled  by  tha 
farmers  It  soroes 

SPRINGFIELD,  M\3SAClUSErrS  j 


JANUARY  PRICE 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

It  was  apparent  that  the  family  de- 
livered price  would  have  to  remain  at  16 
cents  to  give  the  First  National  Stores 
a  three  cent  spread  at  13  cents.  This 
would  be  a  decrease  of  a  half  cent  to 
the  family  trade  and  would  be  simply 
passing  along  to  the  family  trade  the 
half  cent  decrease  offered  by  the 
NEMPA.  The  spread  of  the  dealer  would 
remain  unchanged.  This  was  the  final 
decision,  based  on  the  assumption  that 
the  chain  store  price  would  drop  one 
cent  only.  It  was  accepted  with  con- 
siderable reluctance  by  the  dealers  but 
seemed  the  only  way  to  keep  the  market 
stable.  The  three  cent  spread,  however- 
is  an  experiment  to  give  a  ground  for 
further  consideration. 

Throughout  the  discussion  it  was  ap- 
parent that  the  public  was  in  a  kindly 
frame  of  mind  toward  the  producers, 
knowing  the  troubles  which  had  come  to 
them  through  the  flood  and  its  resultant 
high  prices  of  getting  their  milk  to 
market.  The  consumers  wanted  a  de- 
crease but  apparently  are  quite  content 
with  the  half  cent  drop  on  the  part  of 
the  NEMPA  as  a  partial  return  to  nor- 
mal conditions  after  the  flood.  It  is  gen- 
erally realized  that  the  after  effects  of 
the  flood  are  still  making  the  costs  to 
the  producers  high  and  that  the  farmers 
must  have  reasonable  encouragement  if 
they  are  to  continue  to  produce  milk  in 
sufficient  quantities  to  keep  New  Eng- 
land markets  supplied. 

The  question  of  surplus  prices  is  dis- 
cussed elsewhere  in  this  issue,  but  merely 
as  a  record  of  the  January  trade  made 
with  the  Boston  dealers  is  also  included 
in  brief  here.  Under  the  provision  of  the 
trade  made  for  October,  November  and 
December  all  Class  2  milk  was  to  be  paid 
for  at  the  average  butter  quotation  for 
the  month  plus  20  per  cent.  This  gave 
on  all  Class  2  milk  an  increase  of  about 
28  cents  a  hundred  over  the  regular  Class 
2  formula  of  average  butter  quotation, 
minus  five  cents  plus  16  2/3  per  cent. 

It  was  not  possible  to  continue  this  price 
on  all  Class  2  milk  bevond  the  short  sea- 
son and  negotiations  have  been  in  prog- 
ress for  some  time  to  determine  how 
much  of  it  should  be  put  into  this  special 
or  "cream  class,"  so  called  because  the 
premium  was  supposed  to  represent  in 
some  measure  the  resale  value  of  this 
Class  2  milk  as  table  cream.  The  trade 
finally  reached  in  the  conference  of  deal- 
ers and  producers  was  that  60  per  cent, 
of  the  Class  2  milk  in  January  should  be 
put  into  this  cream  class  and  40  per  cent, 
should  be  paid  for  at  the  regular  Class 
2  price. 


RETURNING  TO  NORMAL 

Conditions  in  the  flood  areas  of  Ver- 
mont are  gradually  but  surely  approach- 
ing normal.  With  the  exception  of  the 
Central  Vermont  and  some  of  the  small 
branch  lines,  transportation  is  possible 
over  all  the  railroads  and  it  is  now  pos- 
sible to  get  milk  into  the  markets  by 
rail  without  the  excessive  trucking  charges 
which  prevailed  for  a  time.  Milk  and 
passengers  from  Montpelier  and  bevond 
come  to  Boston  bv  wav  of  the  Wells 
River  and  Montpelier  branch  which  is 
operating  on  a  fairly  good  schedule  on 
an  emergency  basis. 

In  certain  sections  of  the  state  the 
damage  was  great.  Whole  farms  were 
wiped  out  and  practicallv  ruined.  In 
other  sections  considerable  financial  assist- 
tance  will  have  to  be  given  before  the 
farmers  get  back  on  their  feet,  but  in 
general  the  attitude  of  the  people  is  cour- 
ageous and  there  is  little  doubt  that  thev 
will  come  back  strong.  In  spite  of  the 
great  damage  done  in  some  sections  it  is 
not  apparent  that  the  dairy  industrv  of 
the  state,  taken  as  a  whole,  has  suffered 
anv  irreparable  loss  except  in  a  very  few 
sections. 


Old  Ladv:  "You  can't  be  so  poor,  mv 
pood  man.  if  vou  wear  spats." 

Trarrm  ("sadly")  :  "Ma'm.  these  are  suede 
shoes  with  the  soles  worn  off." 


Basil :  "Do  vou  know  who  that  sweet 
little  girl  is  that  I've  been  dancing  with 
all  evening?" 

Gwendoline:  "Oh.  yes,  that's  mother!" 


By  using  the  new  nitrogen  fertilizer  Calcinm  Nitrate, 
(nitrate  of  lime),  which  contains  15$  of  nitrogen, 
equal  to  18.2$  ammonia,  with  28$  of  LIME. 

Calcium  Nitrate  is  perfectly  soluble  in  water,  and  at  once 
available.  A  pound  of  water  dissolves  its  own  weight  of 
calcicum  nitrate. 


Calcium  Nitrate 

(Nitrate  of  Lime) 


Calcium  Nitrate  is  the  best  form  of  nitrogen  for  top-dressing 
'  grass.    Apply  it  just  as  the  grass  starts  to  grow,  and  watch 
the  crop  double. 

Calcium  Nitrate  is  the  preferred  form  of  nitrogen  for  New 
England  orchards.  Apply  before  blossoming,  and  see  how 
it  makes  the  blossoms  set  and  the  young  fruit  hang  on. 

Calcium  Nitrate  is  especially  good  for  use  alongside  the  row 
of  growing  crops.  It  dissolves  and  gets  into  action  with 
less  water  than  any  other  fertilizer. 

Calcium  Nitrate  is  the  best  form  of  nitrogen  for  use  on  the 
acid  soils  of  New  England.  A  ton  contains  as  much  lime 
as  iooo  pounds  of  limestone,  but  no  extra  charge  is  made 
to  cover  this  added  value. 

Calcium  Nitrate  and  its  uses  are  described  in  a  new  pam- 
phlet, which  is  yours  for  the  asking. 

Ask  your  fertilizer  dealer  for  Calcium  Nitrate 

Let  us  know  if  he  doesn't  fill  your  order. 
"It's  Nitrate  from  the  Air" 

SYNTHETIC  NITROGEN  PRODUCTS 
CORPORATION  . 

285  MADISON  AVENUE      -      ■      NEW  YORK| 


January,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


MARKET  CONDITIONS 

(Continued  from  page  four) 

One  hundred  pounds  of  milk  at  the 
November  net  price  will  buy  119 
pounds  of  grain  as  compared  with  115 
pounds  in  October  and  125  pounds  of 
grain  last  year  in  November.  Grain 
prices  were  unusually  low  last  year. 
The  average  of  the  last  five  years  has 
been  118  pounds  of  grain  in  exchange 
for  100  pounds  of  November  mrlk. 

The  states  of  Vermont  and  New 
Hampshire  in  the  coming  year  will 
spend  $8,000,000  to  $10,000,000  in  build- 
ing roads  and  bridges  in  the  heaviest 
milk  producing  territory  of  New  Eng- 
land. The  expenditure  of  this  huge 
sum  will  attract  labor  and  more  par- 
ticularly teams  from  farms.  This 
movement  is  likely  to  result  in  less 
milk  than  normal  being  produced  dur- 
ing the   coming  summer   and  fall. 

Price  of  Cattle 

The  price  of  cows  is  higher  today 
than  it  was  during  the  war  period. 
As  quoted  by  the  U.  S.  D.  A.  for 
Vermont  the  fall  price  per  head  was 
$58  in  1915;  reached  a  peak  of  $101 
a  head  in  1919;  declined  to  $57  in 
1921,  and  is  now  back  to  $102  per 
head. 

Beef  today  is  selling  for  the  best 
prices  since  1920  and  further  advances 
are  probable.  The  number  of  cattle 
per  1,000  population  in  the  United 
States  was  586  in  1913;  651  in  1919, 
and  510  in  1926,  with  the  figure  lower 
now  than  last  year. 

Beef  prices  will  show  further  ad- 
vances in  the  next  two  years  and  the 
price  of  dairy  cows  will  probably  move 
up  with  beef.  About  1931  the  prices 
of  dairy  cattle  are  likely  to  drop 
sharply  if  the  prices  of  cattle  follow 
their  normal  trend. 

New   York   and  Boston  Prices 

The  New  York  League  price  for 
November  was  $3.12  per  hundred,  3.7 
per  cent.,  181-200  mile  zone,  as  com- 
pared with  the  weighted  price  for 
Boston  dealers  of  $3.01  same  test,  same 
zone. 

Most  of  the  markets  are  holding  the 
same  prices  in  December  as  in  Novem- 
ber. Lowell  did  not  advance  in  No- 
vember as  reported  in  our  last  month's 
letter. 

Comparative   prices   are : 

1926  1927 

Dec.  Dec. 

Boston   „  090  .0975 

Lawrence   090  J0975 

Lowell   090  .090 

Haverhill   090  .0975 

Manchester   085  .090 

Nashua   087  .0925 

Concord,  N.  H  065  .072 

Worcester   085  .0925 

Holyoke   075  .090* 

Springfield   085  .095 

Providence   090  .090 

Fall   River   090  .090 

Newport,  R.  I   .090  .090 

Brockton   090  .085 

New  Bedford   090  .090 

*.085  after  December  16. 

Cost   of  Production 

Grain  prices  advanced  $1.50  per  ton 
from  November  to  December  and  now 
average  $5.50  above  last  year.  Hay 
continues  cheap.  Comparative  costs 
are : 

1927  1927  1926 
Nov.      Dec.  Dec. 

Grain  per  ton   $49.29   $50.65  $45.04 

Hay  per  ton    13.97     13.44  15.50 

Labor    per  month 
with   board           48.70     48.70  46.60 

Corn  meal  at  retail  advanced  11 
cents  per  hundred  from  November  to 
December  and  averages  26  cents  per 
hundred  above  last  year.  Cotton-seed 
meal  is  63  cents  a  cwt.  above  last  year. 
All  other  feeds  also  average  above 
last  year. 

Butter  Prices 

Butter  is  now  quoted  at  50  cents. 
A  year  ago  it  was  53  cents.  December 
first  stocks  of  butter  were  not  much 
above  normal  and  withdrawals  from 
storage  were  about  normal  in  No- 
vember. 


IfTOWOgg  Dairy  Feeds 


TRADE-MARK  REGISTERS 


Are  REAL  FEEDS  for 

REAL  DAIRY  COWS 


DID  you  read  J.  G.  Watson's  article  in 
the  November  26th  Issue  of  the  New 
England  Homestead  about  A.  P.  Bige- 
low's  Real  Holstein  Cows?  If  not,  you 
should — see  page  four. 

There  is  a  good  lesson  in  this  article 
for  all  dairy  men,  either  large  or  small — 
Commercial  Milk  Farms  or  Pure  Bred 
Dairy  Farms.  What  Bigelow  of  Middle- 
sex Farms  has  done — you  can  do.  We 
are  indeed  proud  of  what — 


fTCM*0^    Dairy  Feeds 


have  done  to  assist  and  to  supplement 
Mr.  Bigelow 's  efforts  during  the  past  four 
years.  It  has  been  his  exclusive  grain 
feed,  100%,  to  his  milking  herd.  During 
that  time  his  individual  average  has  been 

Chan.  M.  Cox  Co. 

Wholesale  Dist. 
Boston,  Mass. 


increased  more  than  4,000  lbs.  per  year 
and  this  last  year  more  than  5,000  lbs. 

Persistency  in  Production 

Mr.  Bigelow  will  tell  you,  is  one  of  the  out- 
standing good  results  of  feeding  Wirth- 
more,  as  well  as  healthy,  vigorous  calves, 
and  he  will  particularly  emphasize  the 
safety  in  feeding.  In  fact  Wirthmore  has 
particularly  demonstrated  that  it  is  indeed 

A  New  England  Feed  (or  New 
Englands'  Needs 

A  long  time  feeding  of  Wirthmore 
Dairy  Feeds  is  a  real  test — Wirthmore 
Poultry,  Dairy  and  Stock  Feeds  have 
stood  that  test  over  24  years. 

Every  livestock  man  should  read  this 
article.  If  you  have  mislaid  or  missed  your 
Homestead,  write  us  for  another  one. 

St.  Albans  Grain  Company 

Manufacturers 
St.  Albans.  Vt. 


Testimony  Like  This  Counts 
When  You  Want  Milk 

"I  have  fed  XTRAVIM  Molasses  for  the  past  ten  years  and  find  it  is  one  of  the  best  feeds 
there  is.  It  keeps  the  cows  in  good  condition  and  also  increases  the  amount  of  milk.  The 
best  way  to  feed  XTRAVIM  Molasses  is  to  mix  it  with  either  beet-pulp  or  bran.  I  feed  from 
50  to  60  cows  and  would  recommend  XTRAVIM  to  any  dairyman  who  wishes  to  keep  his  cows 
in  good  condition.  So  writes  Mr.  Gustave  A.  Peterson  of  W.  Brulgewater,  Mass. 

And  When  You  Want  Records 

Experience  Like  This  Tells 

"XTRAVIM  is  absolutely  essential,  in  my  opinion,  to  cows  making  advance  registry  records.  It  acts 
both  as  tonic  and  laxative,  thereby  enabling  the  animal  to  eat  more,  produce  more,  and  feel  better 
all  the  while."  So  writes  Ernest  Woodbury  Files,  M.  D.,  of  Portland,  Me. 


Xtravim  Comes  in  50  or  54  Gallon  Barrels    Try  a  Barrel  or  a  Carload— nothing  better 

Send  for  new  Booklet,  "MOLASSES  FOR  STOCK  FEEDING."  Boston  MoIaSSCS  Co.,  173  Milk  St.,  BostOD 


Page  Ten 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1928 


FIELD  SERVICE  DEPART- 
MENT 

(Continued  from  page  three) 

rained  so  hard  that  only  13  were  present 
and  the  business  meeting  was  deferred 
until  later.  However,  Foley  had  a 
chance  to  talk  things  over  with  the  few 
who  did  come  and  there  was  no  danger 
that  the  dinner  would  run  short. 

At  Whitefield  on  the  21st  the  oysters 
again  drew  out  a  good  crowd  and  the 
general  discussion  of  market  conditions 
proved  interesting.  The  22nd  was  Foley's 
busy  day  with  a  meeting  in  South  China 
in  the  afternoon  and  at  North  White- 
field  in  the  evening.  In  the  North 
Whitefield  meeting  the  following-  offi- 
cers were  elected :  President,  F.  A. 
Noray ;  vice-president,  B.  A.  Fowler ; 
secretary,  A.  F.  McCurdy. 

At  East  Livermore,  after  an  excellent 
dinner  at  noon,  the  following  officers 
were  elected:  President,  A.  G.  Mor- 
rison ;  vice-president,  Frank  B.  Day ; 
secretary,  William  C.  Stevens. 

In  addition  to  these  meetings  Foley's 
records  show  five  new  members  and  new 
dues  orders  signed  by  nine  old  members 
at  Newburg,  one  new  dues  order  at  Her- 
mon,  one  new  member  at  Levant.  Three 
new  dues  orders  at  Hampden,  one  new 
member  and  six  new  dues  orders  at  Car- 
mel  and  one  new  member  at  East  Liver- 
more. 

At  Newburg  valued  assistance  was 
given  by  the  secretary,  Guy  Kimball. 

The  Maine  district  does  not  regularly 
include  the  Portland  market  but  Foley 
was  doing  some  organization  work  in 
that  section  and  with  the  approval  of 
the  Northern  Market  District  Manager, 
F.  Leon  Brown,  he  interviewed  some  of 
the  leading  dealers  with  the  aim  of 
bringing  about  a  more  stable  and  satis- 
factory price  situation  in  that  market. 
The  net  result  was  an  advance  of  a  cent 
in  the  general  price.  The  price  to  the 
farmers  is  now  from  8^2  to  9  cents, 
according  to  the  dealer,  the  chain  store 
price  is  12  cents  and  the  family  delivered 
price  is  15  cents.  Surplus  carried  by 
some  of  the  dealers  brings  the  net  price 
below    the    fluid    milk    delivered  price 


but  the  market  has  been  considerably 
strengthened  by  the  general  advance  all 
along  the  line. 

Flood  conditions  in  the  upper  Connecti- 
cut Valley  made  it  so  hard  to  get  around 
that  all  meetings  were  called  off  and  the 
district  field  man,  Sam  Stearns,  was 
moved  into  Connecticut  for  a  short  time 
to  do  some  organization  work.  He  has 
added  about  150  new  members  and  close 
to  50  new  dues  orders  have  been  secured 
from  old  members  as  the  result  of  his 
visits.  This  is  recorded  in  the  report 
of  the  Southern  Market  district. 

However,  a  few  meetings  were  pos- 
sible in  the  northern  section  and  F.  C. 
Warner,  in  general  charge  of  the  field 
service  department,  was  at  most  of  them. 
An  interesting  development  took  place 
at  the  Colebrook  meeting  where  it  was 
found  that  some  of  the  members,  within 
easy  distance  of  the  shipping  station, 
were  still  sending  cream.  Mr.  Warner 
began  figuring  for  them  and  showed  how 
the  dealer  would  actually  pay  them  $1.18 
a  hundred  for  the  skim  milk  they  kept 
at  home  if  they  would  only  change  over 
to  milk  shipments.  As  the  cartage  charge 
on  this  skim  would  be  25  cents  a  hundred 
the  actual  net  gain  to  the  farmer  would 
be  93  cents  a  hundred  if  he  changed  over 
to  milk.  Some  said  that  they  wanted 
the  skim  to  feed  at  home  but  Warner 
found  the  answer  in  the  fact  that  the 
dealer  would  sell  them  skim  at  30  cents 
a  hundred  at  the  plant  and  that  the  haul- 
ing charge  back  to  the  farm  would  be 
only  25  cents  a  hundred  more  leaving 
the  skim  for  feeding  purposes  costing 
only  55  cents  a  hundred  instead  of  93 
cents.  In  other  words  by  shipping  the 
skim  (whole  milk  instead  of  cream)  and 
then  buying  back  the  skim  from  the  plant 
the  farmer  would  save  38  cents  a  hun- 
dred. And  he  would  not  have  to  run  the 
separator. 

In  the  Coldbrook  annual  meeting  A.  B. 
Frizzell  was  re-elected  president  and 
Everett  Wiswell  was  re-elected  secretary. 

At  Lancaster  about  50  members  and 
their  wives  came  to  the  G.  A.  R.  hall  for 
an  oyster  supper  followed  by  a  general 
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January,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


1 

Clark  of  the  Boston  Board  of  Health, 
I  Mr.  Douglass  of  the  H.  P.  Hood  Co.  and 
j  Mr.  Blossom  of  the  Cummings  Co.  In 
}  the  business  meeting  D.  W.  Pinkham  and 
H  Chester  Marshall  were  re-elected  presi- 
dent and  secretary. 
|     Lunenbury  local  also  served  an  oyster 
supper  as  a  preliminary  to  the  annual 
meeting  in  which  Joe  Mallett  was  re- 
*  elected  president  and  Irving  Silsbee  sec- 
retary-treasurer. 
Grade  A  milk  and  the  rating  plan  came 
1  up  for  discussion  in  the  meeting  of  the 
North  Haverhill  local,  attended  by  about 
i  75    producers.     Theodore  Chamberlain 
was  elected  president  and  Roe  McDan- 
olds  secretary.    A  special  committee  con- 
'  sisting  of  Mr.  Chamberlain,  F.  V.  Land 
and  Wesley  White  were  selected  to  make 
,  a  further  study  of  the  Grade  A  and 
rating  plans. 

Oysters  again  preceded  the  annual 
business  meeting  of  the  Brownsville,  Vt, 
local  with  35  present.  W.  R.  McBride 
was  elected  president  and  Roger  Dunn 
secretary. 

Work  in  the  Champlain  Valley  field 
district  is  practically  at  a  standstill  due 
to  flood  conditions  and  to  the  resignation 
of  the  field  district  manager,  N.  H.  Wells. 
Mr.  Wells  resigned  on  advice  from  physi- 
cians and  his  place  has  not  been  filled  yet 

■  as  it  has  been  practically  out  of  the  ques- 
tion to  do  much  work  there  until  normal 
conditions  have  returned  after  the  flood. 
Several  promising  men  are  under  con- 
sideration for  the)  position  and  within  a 
short  time  work  will  doubtless  be  re- 
sumed in  that  district. 

Parmalee  was  also  driven  out  of  his 
schedule  by  the  flood  but  has  been  doing 
good  work  in  New  York,  including  valiant 

i  attacks  on  the  oysters,  both  escal- 
loped  and  in  stews.  It  takes  a  good  man 
to  eat  oysters  five  nights  in  succession 

'  and  call  for  a  third  helping  on  the  fifth 
night.    In  between  the  oyster  suppers  he 

.  rounded  up  quite  a  number  of  new  mem- 
bers and  took  his  examinations  and 
passed  as  a  tester  before  the  New  York 

'  Department  of  Farms  and  Markets. 
At  Easton  about  50  were  present  but  a 

'  considerable  number  of  the  shippers  in 
that  section  have  changed  over  to  New 

[  York  owing  to  the  higher  prices.  Dr. 

!  George  R.  Little,  president  of  the 
NEMPA,  spoke  at  this  meeting  which 

,  was  held  after  the  oyster  stew  was  re- 

,  duced  to  lowest  terms.    In  the  business 

j  meeting  George  N.  Allen  was  elected 

■  president  and  Adam  McAuley  was  elected 
secretary. 

30  YEARS  OLD  AND 
AS  GOOD  AS  EVER 

!i  "I  have  a  'Cutaway'  Harrow  that  I  have  had 
30  years  and  there  is  a  lot  of  good  service 
|  in   it  yet  if  I  can  get  the  little  cup  that 
[  screws  on  the  axle.     I  will  appreciate  very 

■  much  if  you  will  send  it  by  insured  parcel 
Tpost." — J.  C.  Wakefield,  Glencoe,  Ala. 

25  Years -Still  in  Service 

y  "My  father  bought  one  of  your  7-ft.  discs  25 
(years  ago  and  it  is  still  in  use;  it  was  a 
j  little  wooden  frame  disk  and  always  did 
good  work  with  light  draft." — Ed.  Frey, 
f  Remington,  Ind. 

18  Years  of  Service 

j  "Please  send  me  your  complete  catalogue  on 
"harrows  and  book,  'The  Soil  and  Its  Tillage.' 
I  I  have  been  using  one  of  your  Single  Action 
I  Harrows  for  18  years." — P.  G.  Greenleaf,  R. 
'P.  D.  1,  Auburn,  Maine. 


Model 
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ONE 


New  Idea 


BUY  wisely!  Do  not  place  your  order  for  any  make  of  spreader  until  you  have 
first  compared  it  with  the  latest  model  NEW  IDEA.  You  will  then  be 
equipped  to  judge  of  spreader  merit 
according  to  a  definite  standard. 
For  there  is  still  only  one  genuine 
NEW  IDEA.  Not  because  it  is  the  oldest  and  best 
known  —  the  original  widespread  machine;  not 
because  it  is  the  finished  result  of  nearly  thirty  con- 
tinuous years  of  progressive  development;  but 
because  the  NEW  IDEA  actually  is 


Middletown,  Conn. 

The  New  Idea  Spreader  Co.: 

In  reply  to  yeur  letter,  would  say  that  tie  success  »f 
my  farmint  operations  is  principally  due  It  the  com- 
hined  use  of  200  Hereford  Cattle  and  to  two  NEW  IDEA 
Spreaders. 

For  the  past  five  years  this  combination  has  saved 
me  over  S2.000.00  in  commercial  fertiliser  hills  and  the 
farm  is  producint  nearly  three  times  what  it  did. 

Very  truly  yours,  Samuel  Mussell,  Jr. 


The  Leader  in  Every  Spreader  Improvement 


The  Model  8  NEW  IDEA  stands  supreme — whether  judged 
by  quantity  and  character  of  performance,  ease  of  operation 
and  control,  or  durability  of  service.  Never  excelled  for 
light  draft  —  shortest  turning  radius  —  easy  loading  over 
sides  that  are  not  only  low  (less  than  40  inches  in  height) 
but  absolutely  unobstructed.  16  inch  clearance  underneath. 

Riveted  frame  of  rail  steel  —  three  times  stronger  than  the  steel 
generally  used.  Body  of  highest  grade,  absolutely  clear,  yellow 
pine,  riveted  (not  bolted)  to  frame  —  cannot  warp,  crack  or 
open  up.  Semi- steel  instead  of  ordinary  castings.  Tempered 
steel  chains  instead  of  malleable.  Wide  tires.  Extra  size,  self- 
aligning,  enclosed  roller  bearings.  Cylinder  teeth  riveted  to 
angle  steel  beater  bars.  Distributor  blades  of  rust-and-acid- 
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The  New  Idea  Spreader  Co. 

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Mass.   ADDITIONAL  STOCKS  at 
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Over  4,000  dealers  display  thin  sign  of 
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Farmers,  yon  wonld  not  think  of  buy- 
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Use  the  same  judgment  In  bnylng  a 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1928 


Don't  Lose 
the  quarter 

Dr.  N»yloi  Medicated  Teat  Dilators  teach 

the  seat  of  the  tiouble  give  positive  results. 

Always  keep  a  package  on  hand  for  treatment 
of  Spider,  Obstructions,  Cut  or 
Bruised  Teats,  Hard  Milkers.  Steri- 
lized and  packed  in  medicated  ointment. 
Their  absorbent  texture  carries  the  medication 
into  the  teat  canal. 

Heals  the  Teat- 
Keeps  it  Open 

Bis,  3  dozen  package  mailed  postpaid 
for  $1.  with  Satisfaction^  or  Money 
Back  guarantee.    Give  dealer's  name  so  wo 
,  can  arrange  your  future  supply  locally. 

Dr.  H.  W.  NA  YLOR,  Veterinarian 

Dept.  9  Morris,  N.  Y. 

Other  Dr.  Naylor  products ! 
Liquid  Udder  Balm,  $1., 
Garget  Powder,  60c. , 
Car-min-ton,  a 
concentrated  mineral 
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Foul  Treatment, 
$1.  WhiteScour 
Tablets,  50c 


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health  of  your  Live  Stock. 
Use  a  GILLETTE  Portable 
Electric  Clipping  and  Groom- 
ins;  Machine.  Operates  on 
the  light  circuit  furnished 
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At  South  Cambridge,  Parmalee  secured 
four  new  members  and  two  new  dues  or- 
ders with  the  help  of  J.  J.  Dugan  and 
George  Cornell,  president  and  secretary 
of  the  local.  This  makes  all  but  five  of 
the  shippers  from  this  station  members 
of  the  NEMPA  in  good  standing. 

In  the  canvass  of  Salem,  with  the  as- 
sistance of  Golden  Greaves,  12  dues  or- 
ders were  secured.  At  Cossayuna,  with 
the  assistance  of  Secretary  Samuel  Gra- 
ham, 15  new  members  were  secured  and 
four  new  dues  orders.  At  Shushan,  with 
the  assistance  of  Secretary  R.  J.  Tor- 
rens,  nine  new  members  and  four  new 
dues  orders  were  secured.  At  the  annual 
meeting  of  this  local  (oysters)  the  of- 
ficers of  last  year,  W.  C.  Campbell  and 
Mr.  Torrens,  were  re-elected. 

At  the  Salem  annual  meeting  (oysters) 
80  were  present  with  their  wives.  J.  D. 
Greaves  was  elected  president,  John  A. 
Skellie  vice-president  and  J.  Stanley 
Burnett  secretary. 

At  Granville,  with  25  members  present 
at  the  annual  meeting  in  Odd  Fellows 
Hall,  Frank  Roach  was  elected  president 
and  Ernest  Bemis  secretary.  One  of  the 
chief  questions  for  discussion  in  this 
meeting  was  the  reason  why  New  York 
could  pay  a  higher  price  than  Boston. 

West  Hebron  local  had  quite  a  social 
event  in  connection  with  their  annual 
meeting,  the  program  including  readings 
and  music  in  addition  to  the  talks  on 
marketing  conditions.  About  100  mem- 
bers and  their  wives  were  present. 
Oysters.  John  T.  McConnell  was  elected 
president  and  Paul  Crosier  secretary. 

In  the  canvass  of  Greenwich  local,  with 
the  assistance  of  former  field  man  M.  B. 
Morrow,  six  new  members  were  added 
and  two  dues  orders  were  secured. 

The  only  meeting  Parmalee  had  in 
Vermont  was  at  Brandon  where  an  oyster 
supper  was  served  to  about  70  members 
and  their  wives.  The  discussion  cen- 
tered around  surplus  and  the  reasons  why 
there  should  be  a  surplus  at  a  time  when 
the  markets  were  short  of  milk.  Scott 
H.  Hammon  was  elected  president  and 
Robert  P.  Dean  was  elected  secretary. 


Letter  said  to  have  been  received  by  a 
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bruised  any,  but  on  your  notifying  me 
that  you  have  brought  suit,  I  will  hit  him 
in  two  or  three  places  with  a  hammer. 
Yours  truly,  etc." 


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The  calving  period  is  a  criti- 
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cow  must  not  be  fed  grain,  also 
means  a  loss  of  a  month  or 
more  of  heavy  milk  flow,  if  it 
does  not  result  in  a  lost 
quarter. 

If  the  cow  approaches  par- 
turition constipated,  hide- 
bound and  generally  out  of 
condition — look  out  for  trouble 
■ — it  is  almost  sure  to  come. 

Trouble  at  calving  time  is 
due  in  most  cases  to  the  use  of 
a  poor  grain  ration.  Such  ra- 
tions are  usually  mixtures 
loaded  with  some  single  in- 
gredient because  it  is  cheap, 
but  they  do  not  meet  the  re- 
quirements of  a  high-class  cow. 

Union  Grains  is  the  ideal 
ration  to  fit  a  cow  for  success- 
ful calving.  It  is  a  scientific 
blend  of  ten  different  ingre- 
dients, each  one  contributing  a 
definite  nutritive  value  to  the 
ration.  Union  Grains  has 
exactly  the  proper  kinds  and 
amounts  of  protein,  carbohy- 
drates, fat  and  minerals.  Its 
vitamin  content  is  complete. 
Such  a  perfect  balance  protects 
the  delicately  adjusted  mam- 
mary and  reproductive  systems. 
Union  Grains  is  slightly  laxa- 
tive in  its  effect.  This  pro- 
motes   perfect  elimination 


through  bowels  and  kidneys. 
The  skin  is  kept  loose  and 
pliable  so  that  the  pores  also 
function  perfectly. 

Union  Grains  is  the  dairy- 
man's standby.  It  reduces 
trouble  incident  to  calving  time 
to  the  minimum.  No  valuable 
time  is  lost  in  getting  the  cow 
started  on  a  new  lactation 
period  when  Union  Grains  is 
fed.  Dairymen  believe  in 
Union  Grains  because  they 
find  an  extra  profit  in  the  milk 
check  every  month.  Try  it  on 
your  own  milkers.  Your  dealer 
sells  Union  Grains. 

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\  January, 


1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


INCREASED  INDEMNITY 

The  movement  for  an  increase  in 
indemnity  to  be  paid  by  the  state  of 
•Massachusetts  for  cattle  condemned 
i  and  slaughtered  after  test  for  bovine 
;|  tuberculosis  has  gathered  considerable 
|  headway.  It  was  started  at  our  an- 
f  nual  meeting  in  October  when  a 
^resolution  was  introduced  by  Albert  C. 
i  Bray  of  Buckland  and  unanimously 
,  adopted  that  the  Massachusetts  mem- 
i  bers  of  the  association  go  on  record 
I  as  favoring  a  substantial  increase.  No 
t  specific  increase  was  named  but  senti- 
ment has  since  settled  on  doubling  the 
!,  present  indemnity  limit  of  $25  for  a 
grade  animal. 

|    At  the  meeting  of  the  Massachusetts 
■  State  Grange  in  December  the  matter 
came  to   a  definite   head  when  State 
Master  William   N.   Howard  made  it 
f  one   of    his    outstanding  recommenda- 
i  tions.     It  was  subsequently  put  in  as 
l  a  resolution  and  unanimously  adopted. 
A  resolution  was  also  adopted  calling 
for    full    indemnity    for    any  animal 
i  slaughtered  which  showed  no  sign  of 
i  the  disease.    Both  of  these  resolutions 
will  be  put  in  the  form  of  bills  and  in- 
troduced by  the  Grange. 

Under     the     present  Massachusetts 
,'law   the   state   will    pay    one-third  of 
the  difference  between  the  salvage  and 
the  appraised   value  of   the  animal  up 
to  $25  for  a  grade  animal  and  $50  for  a 
purebred  animal.    The  law  was  passed 
in  1922  and  was  based  on  the  theory 
1  that   the   loss   through    the  condemna- 
tion and  slaughter  of  an  animal  should 
be  split  three  ways,  the  state  bearing 
3ne-third  of  the  loss,  the  federal  gov- 
ernment one-third  and  the  farmer  one- 
i  third.    The  apportionment  on  the  one- 
L third  basis  was  all  right  when  a  good 
I  sow  could  be  bought  for  $100  but  now 
that   the   same   cow   would   cost  from 
$150  to  $200  the  loss  to  the  farmer  is 
;  Tiuch  more  than  one-third.    In  case  he 
1  ioses   large,   good   producing   cows,  he 
stands  more  than  one-half  of  the  loss. 
,    The    question    of    proper  indemnity 
i  las  been  thrashed  out  pretty  thoroughly 
!  since  that  time  and  at  present  senti- 
i  nent  is  strongly  for  raising  the  limit 
;  :o  $50  for  a  grade  animal  and  $75  for 
i  purebred  and  at  the  same  time  changi- 
ng the  law  to  read  one-half  the  dif- 
ference between  salvage  and  appraised 
'  /alue  instead  of  one-third  as  at  pres- 
ent.   This  would  make  it  possible  for 
i   farmer  to   get   from  the  state  up 
|  owards  $50  for  a  big  high  producing 
row  but  it  would  still  leave  him  bear- 
:  ng  about  one-third  of  the  loss  as  was 
;  >riginally  contemplated  in  the  bill.  It 
s  probable  that  the  bill  to  be  intro- 
luced  in  the  legislature  by  the  Massa- 
:husetts    State    Grange    will   be  along 
!  hese  lines.    It  will  have  the  unanimous 
liacking  of   the  other    farm  organiza- 
1  ions    and   should    receive    the  support 
\f  NEMPA  members  as  it  is  in  strict 
'.ccordance  with  the  vote  in  our  annual 
ineeting.     The    federal    limit    of  $25 
•vould  not  be  changed, 
j   The  bill  for  full  payment  for  animals 
vhich    show   no    sign    of    the  disease 
jWhen   slaughtered   is  not   so  generally 
(•pproved.    Commissioner  Jones  of  Ver- 
mont in  a  recent  statement  to  the  New 
i  England  Homestead  expressed  his  view 
t  tiat    it    was    unsound.     The  Massa- 
;  husetts   Grange   has  put  itself  solidly 
|  ack  of  such  a  bill,  however,  and  there 
l,re    other   groups   of    considerable  in- 
i  uence   in   the   state   who  believe  that 
I  uch    a    law    should    be    enacted.  It 
Vould  apply  to  only  a  small  number 
LI  cattle  in  the  state  and  would  not  be 
;  ,iuch  expense.     It  would  tend  toward 
n   increase   in   confidence   in   the  test 
I  nd  would  prevent  some  of  the  cases 
f  unusual  and  apparently  unnecessary 
I  >ss   which   keep  coming  to  the  fore- 
ront. 

'  Maine,      New      Hampshire,  Rhode 
sland,  Connecticut  and  New  York  are 
!  11     paying     substantially     higher  in- 
i  emnities    than    Massachusetts.  Ver- 
,(ont  is  paying  on  the  same  basis.  The 
fills    will    be    pushed    in    the  Massa- 
i  nusetts    legislature    on    the    basis  of 
aying     the     farmer     for  condemned 
|  ittle   on    as    high    a    basis   as  states 
l  ith   which   they   come   in  competition 
i  the  sale  of  milk. 


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When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me. ,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


ALFALFA  HAY 

Select  Dairy  Alfalfa  for  sale.  Prompt 
shipment.    Write  for  delivered  prices. 

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Page  Fourteen 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


January,  1928 


^et  this  famous 

Ointment 

guard 

Udder 

and 

Teats 


Don't  allow  quart  after  quart  of  milk  to  be 
held  back  by  your  cows  because  of  some 
discomfort  of  the  udder  or  teats.  Go  after  the 
extra  quarts  by  giving  constant  care  to  even 
the  "little0  hurts  of  these  tender  tissues. 

Bag  Balm  has  wonderful  healing  power, 
remarkable  ability  to  penetrate  and  restore 
the  injured  parts  that  make  cows  nervous 
and  hard  to  milk.  For  all  chaps,  cracked 
teats,  teats  stepped  on,  inflammation  of  the 
udder,  caked  bag,  bunches,  cow  pox,  etc., 
Bag  Balm  brings  relief  with  the  first  applica- 
tion. Complete  healing  is  quickly  brought 
about. 

Bag  Balm  is  sanitary,  clean,  pleasant  to 
use,  and  cannot  taint  the  milk.  Big  10-ounce 
package,  only  60c  and  goes  a  long  way.  At 
feed  dealers,  general  stores  and  druggists. 
Mailed  postpaid  if  hard  to  obtain  locally. 
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Use  it  on  every  case  of  Eheumatism, 
Sore  Muscles,  Sciatica,  Inflammation, 
Burns,  Bruises,  Sprains  or  Wounds  of 
any  kind.  Use  it  to  relieTe  the  pain 
of  corns,  bunions,  aching  feet,  in- 
growing nails,  chilblains,  insect  stingt 
and  froit  bites. 

If  it  does  not  relieve  the  pain  and 
sterilize  the  injury  against  infection 
from  microbes  of  tetanus  (loekjaw), 
blood  poison  or  germs  of  any  sort, 
m  will  return  your  purchase  price. 

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Morrison's  Old  English  Liniment  and 
it  will  instantly  stop  its  bleeding  and 
yon  will  have  no  soreness. 

S»14  by  all  Drugrglsta.  If  yours  doesn't 
keep  ft.  buy  from  us.  For  family  use 
call  for  the  liniment  In  white  cartons. 
Priee— Full  Pints,  $1.00;  Half  Pints,  60c. 
Mailed  prepaid  on  receipt  of  price  by 
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SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

CHARLES  E.  GIFFORD,  Mgr. 
Slide  Bidding,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 
Telephone.  Dexter  6469 

December  Prices 

Providence,  R.  I  $4,052 

Fall  River,  Mass   4.052 

New  Bedford,  Mass   4.165 

Brockton,  Mass   3.952 

Newport,  R.  1   4.165 

(Above  prices,  per  cwt.  for  3.7%  milk 
delivered   at  dealers'  plant.) 

How  does  this  departure  from  the  cus- 
tomary manner  of  quoting  prices  strike 
you?  Since  the  bulk  of  all  milk  in  each 
market  is  sold  on  a  hundredweight  basis, 
why  not  quote  it  that  way  and  get  used 
to  it?  To  determine  what  your  milk  ac- 
tually nets  you -per  quart,  divide  the  hun- 
dredweight price  by  46.5,  the  number  of 
quarts  in  a  hundredweight  of  milk. 

BROCKTON,  MASS. 
This  market  was  all  set  to  go  up  to 
9l/2c  or  $4,417  per  cwt.  Dec.  1.  A  dealer 
coming  in  from  out  of  town,  however, 
began  to  cut  prices  and  continues  to  do 
so  at  present,  thereby  making  it  impos- 
sible for  the  new  price  to  take  effect. 
This  dealer  gets  all  of  his  milk  from  up 
north,  buying  it  from  creameries.  We 
expect  this  situation  to  clear  up,  and  that 
Brockton  producers  will  enjoy  higher 
prices  for  their  milk. 

PROVIDENCE,  R.  I. 

This  market  has  always  followed  Bos- 
ton but  on  the  last  advance  to  9}ic  or 
4.533  per  cwt.  in  that  city  it  did  not 
seem  wise  to  go  to  a  higher  price  in 
Providence.  A  9}4-cent  price  would  have 
meant  16}^-cent  milk  in  town.  To  be 
sure,  this  price  is  not  too  high  for  the 
value  received  in  a  quart  of  milk,  but 
with  business  conditions  as  they  are,  the 
market  committee  were  afraid  that  a 
higher  price  would  cut  down  the  use  of 
milk  and  pile  up  a  surplus,  which  would 
of  course  cut  the  price. 

For  this  reason  a  trade  was  made  with 
the  dealers'  committee  to  run  the  nine- 
cent,  or  $4,052  per  cwt.  price,  long  enough 
into  the  coming  spring  or  summer  after 
Boston  went  below  nine  cents  to  equal 
the  J^-cent  advance  which  Boston  en- 
joyed. 

MANY  NEW  MEMBERS 
Sam  Stearns  of  the  field  department 
got  flooded  out  of  Vermont  and  went 
into  Eastern  Connecticut,  where  he  has 
signed  up  about  150  new  members.  He 
also  secured  37  old  members  on  new  dues 
orders.  He  has  received  good  support 
from  these  dairymen  and  found  a  very 
evident  desire  to  support  the  work  of  the 
NEMPA.  We  expect  Sam  to  stay  with 
us  a  while  longer  and,  believe  me,  we  are 
glad  to  have  him.  When  he  breezed  into 
East  Woodstock,  that  local  had  51  mem- 
bers. When  he-  left  town,  the  secretary 
had  to  add  59  new  names  to  the  list, 
bringing  this  total  to  a  strength  of  110. 

Ashford  had  its  membership  more  than 
doubled.  Stearns  added  29  new  ones, 
making  a  total  membership  of  52. 

MEETINGS  OF  LOCALS 
The  same  up-country  flood  brought  us 
another  campaigner  who  felt  he  could  not 
qualify  as  a  mermaid.  Warner  says  he 
has  got  to  get  into  Eastern  Connecticut 
about  once  in  so  often,  anyhow,  so  he 
attended  a  number  of  annual  meetings  of 
locals  and  did  some  membership  work 
as  well. 

COLUMBIA,  CONN. 
This  local  held  its  meeting  in  the  Town 
Hall  Nov.  28,  1927,  which  was  a  rainy 
night,  and  only  ten  members  attended. 
NEMPA  interest  in  this  local  seems  to 
be  increasing  since  the  recovery  of  the 
Providence  price  following  the  spring 
and  summer  price  of  8c  delivered,  which 
returned  to  producers  in  Columbia  less 
than  could  be  obtained  in  nearby  Con- 
necticut markets  at  Hartford  and  New 
Haven.  A  membership  canvass  was 
started  later  in  the  week  and  the  first 
day's  work  brought  in  12  new  members, 
in  fact  all  who  were  seen  signed.  Stearns 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fifteen 


and  Warner  added  a  total  of  37  new 
members.  This  local  already  had  86, 
thus  bringing  its  strength  to  123.  H.  B. 
Hutchins  and  Wm.  P.  Wolff  were  re- 
elected president  and  secretary. 

NORTH  STONINGTON 

Twenty  attended  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  No.  Stonington  local  which  was 
held  Nov.  29,  being  one  of  the  best  held 
in  recent  years.  A  feature  of  the  meet- 
ing was  that  the  instructor  in  agriculture 
at  the  Wheeler  School  brought  his  class 
of  boys  to  the  meeting  to  see  what  could 
be  learned  in  regard  to  the  marketing  of 
milk.  Philip  E.  Gray  is  president  and 
Lyle  C.  Gray  secretary  of  this  local  for 
1928. 

PRESTON-LEDYARD 

The  Preston-Ledyard  local  held  its  an- 
nual meeting  at  the  home  of  the  presi- 
dent, Appleton  Main,  on  Nov.  29,  with 
more  than  half  of  the  members  present. 
Unusual  interest  was  shown  in  the  dis- 
cussion of  recent  price  changes  in  the 
milk  market.  J.  Kellogg  Hall,  one  of 
the  first  to  join  the  NEMPA  when  it 
was  organized  in  this  locality,  was 
elected  president  and  Joseph  Clark  was 
re-elected  secretary-treasurer. 

SPRAGUE-FRANKLIN 

About  20  members  of  the  Sprague- 
Franklin  local  turned  out  to  their  annual 
meeting  which  was  held  at  Baltic,  Conn., 
Wednesday,  Nov.  30.  The  product  of 
some  of  these  members  is  going  to  the 
New  Haven  market  and  discussion 
brought  out  the  fact  that,  while  this  mar- 
ket paid  more  the  first  six  months  of  the 
year,  recent  price  changes  in  the  Provi- 
dence" market  have  restored  the  balance 
and  at  the  present  returns  more  to  pro- 
ducers because  of  the  lower  cost  of  truck- 
ing the  milk  to  market.  Terrence  J. 
Coughlin  was  re-elected  president  and 
Henry  T.  Giddings  was  elected  secretary. 
Three  new  members  were  added. 

(SOUTH   WINDHAM  AND  SCOT- 
LAND 

'  The  South  Windham  and  Scotland 
locals  of  the  NEMPA  held  a  joint  meet- 
ing at  the  Windham  Center  schoolhouse 

I  Dec.  1.  Twenty-five  members  attended 
the  meeting  which  developed  a  discussion 
that  cleared  up  several  matters  of  doubt 
in  the  minds  of  the  members.  Samuel 
H.  Spencer  was  re-elected  president  and 

'  C.  E.  Simpson  secretary-treasurer  of  the 
Scotland  local,  while  Charles  P.  Gager 
was  elected  president  and  Thomas  Mara 
was  re-elected  secretary-treasurer  of  the 
So.  Windham  local.  William  F.  Spokes- 
field,  who  has  been  president  of  the  local 
for  a  number  of  years,  asked  to  be  re- 
lieved of  the  office  because  of  the  press 
of  business.    Five  new  members  were 

'  enrolled  by  Mr.  Warner.  Coffee,  dough- 
nuts, pie  and  cheese  were  enjoyed  after 

I the  business  meeting. 
POMFRET,  CONN. 
A  fine  oyster  supper  was  served  to  the 
i  members  of  the  Pomfret  local  at  its  an- 
nual meeting  held  in  the  Abington  Grange 
lHall,  Wednesday  evening,  Dec.  7.  Wil- 
!  Ham  S.  Warren  of  Eastford  was  re- 
flected president  and  A.  H.  Amidon  of 
Abington  secretary-treasurer.  Nine  new 
lembers  were  signed  up. 

HAMPTON,  CONN. 

The  annual  meeting  and  oyster  supper 
of  the  Hampton.  Conn.,  local  was  held 
,at  the  Grange  Hall,  Hampton,  Dec.  8. 
At  the  business  meeting  held  after  the 
supper  Charles  O.  Fitts  was  re-elected 
'president  and   C.   B.  Jewett  secretary- 
treasurer  for  the  ensuing  year.   The  sec- 
retary's report  showed  that  the  officers 
of  this  local  had  attended  several  confer- 
ences the  past  year  between  representa- 
tives of  the  Whiting  Milk  Co.  (Elm 
Farm  Division)  and  the  NEMPA  in  re- 
?ard  to  matters  affecting  the  production 
jind  sale  of  Grade  A  milk  which  is  pro- 
iuced  by  members  of  this  local.  Through 
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Milker  Used 
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Several  outstanding  records  have  been  made  by  in- 
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with  10,483  lbs.  of  milk  and  575.2  lbs.  of  butter-fat. 
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New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  11.    Number  10 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  FEBRUARY,  1928 


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New  England  Creamery  Products  Co.  Refuses 


As  this  issue  of  the  Dairyman  goes  to 
press  we  are  sending  our  held  men  into 
the  territory  from  which  our  members 
sell  milk  to  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Co.,  to  inform  such  members 
that  the  company  has  refused  to  pay  the 
association  price  for  milk.  After  nearly 
a  month  of  negotiations  between  the  as- 
sociation sales  committee  and  the  com- 
pany relations  have  finally  been  broken 
off.  We  are  advising  our  members  to 
seek  some  other  buyer  for  their  milk. 
Our  field  men  will  assist  them  in  finding 
such  new  buyer  and  will  do  it  in  such  a 
way  that  there  will  be  no  loss  of  product. 

More  than  that,  we  will  immediately 
set  up  the  machinery  for  collection  of  a 
reimbursement  fund  similar  to  that  which 
has  been  used  in  similar  situations  in  the 
past.  From  this  reimbursement  fund  all 
members  of  our  association  who  refuse 
to  deliver  their  milk  to  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Co.  at  any  other 
price  or  on  any  other  terms  than  those 
offered  by  the  NEMPA  will  be  repaid 
for  any  losses  which  they  may  sustain 
by  reason  of  being  forced  to  sell  their 
product  at  a  lower  price  than  the 
NEMPA  price.  In  other  words,  the 
members  of  the  association  all  over  New 
England  will  see  to  it  that  the  members 
involved  in  this  particular  situation  get 
as  good  a  price  as  all  other  members. 

There  are  three  stations  at  which  our 
membership  is  affected  directly.  They  are 
the  three  plants  formerly  owned  by  the 
Alden  Co.,  now  a  part  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products  Co.,  at  Brandon, 
at  Sheldon  and  at  East  Fairfield,  Vt. 
There  are  about  200  members  of  the  as- 
sociation selling  to  the  company  at  these 
points.  At  meetings  to  be  held  on  Tues- 
day evening,  January  31,  the  situation 
will  be  explained  to  them  all  and  offers 
of  assistance  in  finding  a  new  outlet  for 
their  milk  will  be  made.  There  are  sev- 
eral places  where  the  milk  could  be  sold. 

At  Brandon,  President  George  R.  Little 
will  be  present  to  go  over  the  general 
situation  and  F.  L.  Parmalee,  manager 
of  the  Rutland  field  district,  will  stay  on 
the  job  and  assist  the  members  to  handle 
their  product  to  the  best  possible  advan- 
tage. 

At  Sheldon  and  East  Fairfield,  F.  C. 

Warner,  manager  of  the  field  service  de- 
partment, and  F.  Leon  Brown,  manager 
of  the  Northern  Market  district,  will 
outline  the  situation  and  help  with  the 
preliminary  work  of  shifting  milk  over 
to  new  purchasers  if  our  members  so  de- 
sire.   Sam  Stearns  will  be  left  in  charge 

'of  that  area  to  see  that  the  milk  is 
handled  with  the  least  possible  loss  of 
return  to  the  producers. 

Coming  at  this  season  of  the  year 
when  there  is  no  considerable  flush  of 
milk,  it  will  be  an  easy  matter  to  place 
all  the  product  of  these  producers.  Some 
of  it  will  bring  butterfat  prices,  some  of 
it  probably  more.  In  any  case  the  dif- 
ference between  what  the  producer  re- 
ceives and  the  average  price  in  New 
England,  under  the  NEMPA  plan,  will 
be  made  up  from  the  reimbursement  fund. 
The  principle  of  the  reimbursement  fund 
was  firmly  established  at  the  time  of  the 
Whiting  controversy.  The  association  as 
a  whole  rallied  handsomely  to  the  support 
of  the  men  who  suffered  losses  with  the 


Negotiations  with  NEMPA  Ended — Farmers  Stand  By 
Association — Milk  at  Three  Stations  Being  Sold  Else- 
where— Reimbursement  Fund  To  Be  Established 


result  that  all  losses  were  paid  and  there 
was  some  money  left  over.  While  that 
controversy  affected  thousands  of  patrons 
the  present  one  involves  only  a  few 
hundreds. 

In  order  to  understand  the  situation 
fully  we  must  go  into  history  a  bit.  The 
Alden  Bros.  Co.  had  done  business 
through  the  NEMPA  since  the  days  of 


the  question  came  up  as  to  whether  or 
not  the  consolidated  company  would  buy 
on  the  NEMPA  basis.  In  other  words, 
would  the  Alden  and  Childs  interests 
bring  Noble  in  or  would  the  Noble  in- 
terests pull  the  others  out?  After  con- 
siderable discussion  it  was  arranged  that 
the  consolidated  company  should  make 
its  monthly  report  to  the  milk  administra- 


LATEST  FROM  THE  FRONT 

Reports  from  the  meetings  held  at  Brandon,  Sheldon  and 
East  Fairfield  indicate  that  the  producers  supplying  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Company  at  these  points  are 
standing  firm  for  their  rights  as  members  of  our  association. 

At  each  meeting  there  was  a  practically  unanimous  vote  of 
the  producers  to  support  the  decision  of  the  sales  committee 
and  the  directors,  even  to  the  point  of  withdrawing  their  milk 
from  the  New  England  Creamery  Products  Company  and  sell- 
ing it  elsewhere.  Their  decision  was  to  refuse  to  sell  to  the 
company  at  any  other  price  or  under  any  other  terms  than 
those  offered  by  the  sales  committee  of  the  association. 

With  this  fine  example  of  loyalty  to  the  organization  and 
support  of  the  principles  on  which  it  is  conducted,  every  mem- 
ber of  the  association  throughout  New  England  should  resolve 
to  stand  by  them  in  this  fight  and  help  them  to  bear  whatever 
losses  may  come. 

It  is  the  principle  of  organized  marketing  which  is  at  stake 
just  as  much  as  the  price  itself.  Let  everybody  stand  by  these 
sturdy  farmers. 


the  regional  milk  commission.  They 
were  among  the  staunch  supporters  of 
the  NEMPA  price  system  and  in  their 
monthly  negotiations  with  the  sales  com- 
mittee of  the  NEMPA  showed  a  willing- 
ness to  meet  situations  more  than  half 
way.  While  there  were,  of  course,  dis- 
agreements as  to  prices  at  times  the  Al- 
dens  were  open  to  reason  and  in  general 
played  the  game  of  keeping  the  market 
on  an  even  keel  quite  as  well  as  some 
other  dealers.  We  had  never  had  a  seri- 
ous clash  with  them. 

The  Alden  Co.  early  in  1926  merged 
with  the  Childs  Bros,  and  the  Noble  Co. 
into  the  New  England  Creamery  Prod- 
ucts Co.  The  Childs  Co.  was  another 
which  had  always  gone  along  well  with 
the  NEMPA,  paying  the  price  and  meet- 
ing the  conditions  in  a  businesslike  way. 
The  Noble  Co.  bought  its  supply  through 
the  NEMPA  for  a  short  time  after  the 
regional  milk  commission  disappeared  but 
since  then  has  bought  independently. 
When  these  companies  came  together  in 
the  New  England  Creamery  Products  Co. 


tor  like  the  others  and  pay  the  NEMPA 
price  for  its  product.  This  situation  has 
continued  until  shortly  before  Jan.  1 
when  the  company  gave  formal  notice 
that  they  were  discontinuing  to  buy  under 
the  NEMPA  plan. 

In  response  to  our  inquiries  as  to  the 
cause  for  this  action  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Co.  replied  that  our 
6ystem  of  selling  milk  did  not  fit  their 
consolidated  company's  needs  and  that 
they  were,  therefore,  going  to  buy  their 
milk  without  regard  to  the  NEMPA 
price  or  the  system  which  is  in  general 
use  in  the  Boston  market.  Their  claims 
were  based  on  the  fact  that  they  were 
buying  a  considerable  quantity  of  outside 
milk  and  were  carrying  a  heavy  surplus. 

The  Alden  Co.,  at  the  time  of  the  con- 
solidation, had  its  three  plants,  Brandon, 
Sheldon  and  East  Fairfield,  and  was  also 
buying  as  an  outside  purchase  a  carload 
of  milk  a  day  from  Irona,  N.  Y.  The 
Childs  Bros.  Co.  had  a  plant  at  Browns- 
ville, Vt.,  from  which  practically  all  their 
milk  was  bought.    Noble  had  a  small 


plant  at  Newport,  Vt.,  and  was  buying 
the  remainder  of  his  supply  from  the 
Granite  City  Co-operative  at  Barre.  This 
was  a  tuberculin  tested  supply  of  milk. 

After  the  consolidation  of  the  three 
companies  they  had  difficulties  with  the 
milk  drivers'  union  and  as  the  result 
sales  were  reduced.  Purchases  from 
Irona  were  discontinued  but  the  Irona 
milk  was  taken  on  by  another  company 
in  Boston.  The  Newport  plant  was 
closed.  The  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Co.  began  buying  milk  from 
The  Newbury  Creamery  Co.  of  New- 
bury, Vt.,  also  from  Howard  and  Eames 
at  Piermont.  During  the  time  when  the 
company  was  negotiating  prices  with  the 
NEMPA  these  purchases  from  Barre, 
Newbury  and  Piermont  were  regarded 
as  outside  purchases. 

When  the  company  made  its  claim  that 
they  were  unable  to  operate  under  the 
NEMPA  plan  they  asked  that  the  asso- 
ciation should  make  a  study  of  their 
business  and  satisfy  themselves  that  the 
claim  was  true.  The  association  accepted 
this  invitation  but  its  findings  were  ex- 
actly contrary  to  what  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  management  claimed. 

One  rather  important  factor  in  the 
situation  which  has  arisen  with  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Co.  was 
that  when  they  went  into  their  new  plant 
after  consolidation  they  equipped  it  with 
the  "electro-pure"  process  as  a  substi- 
tute for  pasteurization  by  the  method 
generally  used.  This  electro  pure  process 
is  not  accepted  by  the  health  authorities 
in  Massachusetts  nor  does  it  come  under 
the  provisions  of  the  law  regarding  pas- 
teurization. Milk  treated  in  this  way, 
therefore,  cannot  be  sold  as  pasteurized. 
In  those  markets  which  require  pasteur- 
ization or  the  tuberculin  test  it  cannot  be 
sold  unless  it  comes  from  .  tuberculin 
tested  cows. 

Greater  Boston  and  most  of  the  ad- 
joining cities  and  towns  now  have  a 
health  regulation  that  all  milk  shall  be 
pasteurized  or  come  from  tuberculin 
tested  cows.  It  was  necessary  for  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Co.  to 
secure  a  supply  of  tested  milk  for  their 
trade  in  this  area.  The  supply  of  the 
Alden  Co.,  coming  from  Brandon,  Shel- 
don and  East  Fairfield,  was  not  a  tested 
supply  and  whatever  quantity  of  this  the 
company  sells  must  go  through  the  regu- 
lar pasteurization  process  at  the  plant. 
The  supply  of  tuberculin  tested  milk  was 
secured  at  the  Barre,  Vt..  co-operative 
and  from  Newbury  and  Piermont. 

In  reporting  to  the  milk  administrator 
these  sources  of  supply  were  treated  as 
"outside  purchases."  Under  the  trade 
with  the  NEMPA  any  company  can  con- 
tract for  a  stipulated  supply  of  milk  from 
outside  sources  and  can  deduct  it  from 
sales  before  computing  the  surplus,  pro- 
vided it  is  bought  at  the  NEMPA  price. 
Other  outside  purchases  are  allowed  when 
the  surplus  carried  by  the  company  is 
less  than  35  per  cent.  The  large  surplus 
which  arose  in  part  from  taking  on  these 
tuberculin  tested  supplies  is  one  of  the 
foundations  of  the  trouble.  The  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Co.  claimed 
that  under  their  peculiar  set  up  they 
could  not  buy  milk  on  the  regular 
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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1928 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 

NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 

51  Comhill.  Boston,  Mass. 

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postage  provided  for.  Section  1103,  Act 
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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1928 

President  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
General  Manager,  W.  P.  Davis,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  L; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt.;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B.  Catlin, 
Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H.  Dunsmore, 
St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A.  Tuttle,  Hard- 
wick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M.  Poole,  North 
Dartmouth,  Mass.;  Frank  L.  Nichols, 
Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank  T.  Peck 
ham,  Newport,  R.  L;  R.  Allen  Sikes, 
Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell,  Lebanon, 
Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan,  N.  Y. ; 
George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke,  N.  Y. 


THE  UNKNOWN  PRICE 

An  "unknown  price"  again  threatens  to 
bring  disruption  and  to  lower  prices  to 
the  Boston  market.  The  refusal  of  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Co.  to 
continue  to  buy  its  milk  on  the  NEMPA 
price  and  to  make  its  monthly  reports  of 
purchases  and  sales  to  the  milk  adminis- 
trator, is  but  a  new  example  of  a  situa- 
tion which  has  come  up  from  time  to 
time.  It  is  nothing  more  nor  less  than 
a  declaration  on  their  part  that  they  will 
pay  for  their  milk  on  whatever  basis 
they  please  and  will  no  longer  obligate 
themselves  to  pay  on  the  same  basis  as 
the  other  principal  dealers  in  the  market 
are  doing.  They  wish  to  pay  on  the 
"unknown  price"  basis,  keeping  the  trade 
in  general  in  the  dark  as  to  what  prices 
they  are  paying  except  for  such  informa- 
tion as  leaks  out. 

A  principle  for  which  our  association 
stands  is  at  stake.  We  have  no  choice 
but  to  demand,  as  the  sales  agent  of  our 
members  selling  to  this  company,  that 
they  shall  be  paid  for  their  product  on 
exactly  the  same  basis  as  other  members 
of  our  association,  selling  to  other  dealers 
in  the  Boston  market.  The  established 
policy  of  the  NEMPA  is  to  sell  on  the 
so-called  "surplus  plan,"  each  dealer  re- 
porting to  the  milk  administrator  and 
paying  for  the  product  he  buys  from  our 
members  on  the  basis  of  a  negotiated 
price  for  that  portion  of  the  product 
which  is  resold  as  milk,  and  a  lower  price, 
based  on  butter  values  plus  such  prem- 
iums as  are  negotiated,  for  the  remainder 
of  the  product. 

The  present  stability  of  the  market  is 
largely  due  to  the  fact  that  90  per  cent, 
of  Boston's  supply  is  bought  on  this 
basis  or  on  a  basis  fairly  comparable  to 
it.    The  larger  dealers  in  the  market, 


Hood  Co.,  Whiting  Co.,  Turner  Centre 
System,  Cummings  Co.  and,  up  to  now, 
the  New  England  Creamery  Products  Co., 
also  23  smaller  dealers,  buy  their  milk 
on  the  surplus  plan  and  report  to  the  milk 
administrator.  In  addition  to  these  the 
federation  of  Vermont  creameries  and 
most  of  the  independent  creameries  sell 
their  product  in  the  Boston  market  on  a 
basis  which  can  be  compared  fairly  ac- 
curately with  the  prices  of  the  surplus 
plan  dealers.  Together  these  constitute 
90  per  cent,  of  Boston's  supply. 

The  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Co.  is  the  fourth  largest  dealer  in  Bos- 
ton. As  such  they  are  an  important  fac- 
tor in  the  market.  The  basis  on  which 
the  present  stability  of  the  market  has 
been  built  up  is  that  every  dealer  has  the 
same  opportunity  to  buy  milk  from 
NEMPA  members  in  the  country  and 
that  whatever  advantage  one  may  have 
over  another  depends  on  his  business 
ability  and  efficiency  in  the  market.  They 
all  pay  the  same  base  price  and  their 
success  or  failure  depends  on  their  effi- 
ciency. 

If  any  considerable  dealer,  such  as  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Co., 
breaks  away  from  the  established  custom 
and  tries  to  secure  a  supply  of  milk  on 
some  other  basis  the  competition  between 
him  and  the  rest  of  the  market  is  shifted 
from  the  basis  of  business  efficiency  and 
rests  on  the  purchase  of  product  at  a 
price  below  that  which  his  competitors 
are  paying.  No  such  departure  from  the 
accepted  and  established  form  of  buying 
milk  can  be  recognized  by  the  NEMPA 
unless  it  is  to  apply  equally  to  all  dealers 
buying  milk  on  the  association  plan.  The 
foundation  on  which  our  organization  is 
built  is  the  same  base  price  to  all.  In 
other  words  a  "known  price,"  one  nego- 
tiated and  announced  in  advance. 

Our  firm  stand  against  the  withdrawal 
of  the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Co.  from  the  established  system  of  buy- 
ing is  a  matter  of  principle  as  well  as  of 
price.  Under  the  "unknown  price"  sys- 
tem of  payment  a  company  might  pay 
more  or  it  might  pay  less  than  its  com- 
petitors in  the  market.  If  they  paid 
more  than  the  price  would  have  figured 
on  the  NEMPA  basis  no  other  dealer 
would  have  any  right  to  ask  any  read- 
justment of  prices  by  reason  of  unfair 
competition.  But  if  a  company  operating 
on  the  "unknown  price"  basis  should  for 
a  month  or  a  series  of  months  pay  less 
than  the  price  they  should  have  paid  un- 
der the  surplus  plan,  then  every  other 
dealer  in  the  market  might  claim  from 
the  NEMPA  a  readjustment  of  prices. 
No  dealer  of  any  considerable  size  in  the 
Boston  market  can  withdraw  from  the 
known  price  basis  without  opening  the 
way  for  an  endless  chain  of  adjustments. 

We  must  accept  the  viewpoint  that 
any  dealer  refusing  to  buy  on  the  known 
price  basis  intends  to  buy  his  milk 
cheaper  than  his  competitors.  If  he  did 
not  intend  to  do  this  there  would  be  no 
reason  for  not  buying  on  the  accepted 
price  basis.  Assuming  that  the  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products  Co.,  at  some 
time  in  the  future,  expects  to  pay  less  for 
its  milk  than  it  would  if  figured  on  the 
NEMPA  basis,  we  must  conclude  that 
we  would  be  laying  ourselves  open  to 
claims  for  readjustments,  just  so  long 
as  this  condition  lasted.  We  cannot  toler- 
ate such  a  situation. 

The  situation  is  comparable  to  that 
which  existed  with  the  Turner  Centre 
System  a  little  more  than  a  year  ago 
when  they  decided  not  to  continue  to  buy 
product  on  the  NEMPA  basis.    By  con- 


ferences between  the  association  and  the 
Turner  Centre  System  a  break  was 
avoided.  It  was  a  satisfactory  outcome 
for  all  concerned.  In  this  new  situation, 
arising  from  the  announcement  of  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Co. 
that  they  would  buy  no  milk  on  the 
NEMPA  basis  after  January  1,  we  have 
tried  to  use  the  same  methods.  Confer- 
ence after  conference  has  been  held. 
Every  avenue  of  persuasion  and  explana- 
tion has  been  used  to  get  the  company  to 
reconsider  its  decision.  Everything,  short 
of  an  offer  of  some  different  terms  from 
what  other  dealers  were  getting,  has  been 
suggested  as  a  way  of  solving  the  ques- 
tion and  avoiding  a  disturbance  of  the 
market. 

All  such  efforts  have  failed.  We  there- 
fore on  February  1  are  taking  such  steps 
as  we  can  to  enforce  our  demand  that  if 
the  New  England  Creamery  Products  Co. 
.buy  milk  from  our  members  it  shall  be 
on  the  same  basis  as  other  dealers  buy 
from  other  members.  Final  refusal  of 
the  company  to  meet  our  request  leaves 
us  where  we  are  advising  our  members 
who  have  been  selling  to  this  company, 
to  seek  some  other  buyer.  We  are  taking 
that  course  in  the  confident  belief  that  it 
will  meet  with  the  approval  of  our  mem- 
bership throughout  the  length  and  breadth 
of  New  England. 


PROPOSED  LAWS 

The  Massachusetts  legislature,  now  in 
session,  has  several  bills  under  considera- 
tion which  may  have  a  considerable  ef- 
fect on  the  dairy  industry  of  all  New 
England.  All  have  to  do  with  the  quality 
of  the  product  sold  in  Massachusetts  and 
thus  may  have  an  effect  on  milk  shipped 
in  from  other  states. 

It  is  too  early  in  the  session  to  form 
any  opinion  as  to  the  favor  with  which 
these  bills  will  be  received.  The  one 
which  might  interest  us  the  most  is 
House  bill  635  providing  for  a  special 
commission  "to  investigate  the  methods 
now  in  use  in  the  commonwealth  for 
maintaining  the  purity  of  milk  consumed 
in  the  commonwealth,  both  that  produced 
within  the  commonwealth  and  that  pro- 
duced outside  the  commonwealth,  and  for 
the  eradication  of  tuberculosis  in  cattle." 
This  bill  was  introduced  as  a  means  of 


starting  an  investigation  of  the  tuberculin 
test  but  is  so  worded  that  the  commission 
might  go  into  the  question  of  barn  in- 
spection and  handling  of  the  milk  in  coun- 
try plants  anywhere  in  New  England  so 
long  as  the  milk  was  sold  in  the  state. 

The  commission  is  to  consist  of  one 
member  of  the  Senate,  two  members  of 
the  House  and  two  members  appointed  by 
the  governor.  It  is  to  report  Dec.  1  of 
this  year.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  there 
is  considerable  agitation  in  certain  of  the 
lesser  markets  to  limit  their  supply  by  an 
inspection  system  which  would  shut  out 
distant  milk,  the  question  of  inspection 
may  be  brought  into  this  investigation  in 
a  way  not  at  all  contemplated  by  those 
who  introduced  the  bill. 

Another  bill  which  will  bring  on  con- 
siderable controversy  is  one  relative  to 
the  various  so-called  flash  processes  for 
handling  milk,  in  place  of  the  pasteuriza- 
tion process.  This  bill  would  require, 
among  other  things,  that  milk  handled  by 
any  system  except  the  well  defined  pas- 
teurization method  would  have  to  be 
labelled  "heated"  milk.  This  would  prob- 
ably be  unacceptable  to  the  dealers  who 
are  using  methods  other  than  the  pas- 
teurization method.  There  is  consider- 
able difference  of  opinion  among  health 
officials  as  to  the  merits  of  the  flash 
processes  and  the  testimony  of  experts 
would  play  an  important  part  in  the  hear- 
ings on  this  bill. 

The  bill  for  the  increase  in  indemnity 
to  be  paid  for  cattle  killed  as  reactors  to 
the  tuberculin  test  is  another  which  will 
come  in  for  a  sharp  discussion.  It  pro- 
vides for  an  increase  in  the  indemnity 
limit  which  can  be  paid  by  the  state  of 
Massachusetts  from  $25  to  $50  on  a  grade 
animal  and  from  $50  to  $75  on  a  pure- 
bred. The  bill  was  introduced  by  the 
State  Grange  and  has  the  unanimous  sup- 
port of  practically  all  the  agricultural 
organizations  in  the  state.  However,  it 
will  cost  the  state  considerably  more 
money  and  will  not  be  passed  without  a 
serious  opposition  from  those  who  are 
holding  down  the  costs  of  administering 
state  affairs. 

The  fourth  bill  of  interest  to  the  dairy 
industry  is  the  so-called  "Bigelow  Bill," 
providing  that  all  milk  sold  in  the  state 
must  come  from  tested  herds  or  be  pas- 
teurized. The  bill  has  been  up,  in  some- 
what the  same  form  at  the  two  previous 
sessions  and  has  been  defeated  each  time. 
It  is  introduced  by  the  state  board  of 
health  but  has  the  opposition  of  repre- 
sentatives from  the  smaller  places  as 
they  feel  that  it  would  be  forcing  the 
test  on  dairymen  who  are  not  selling  their 
product  to  dealers  who  pasteurize  the 
milk. 


FIELD  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT 

F.  C.  WARNER,  Manager  51  Cornhill,  Boston 

DISTRICT  MANAGERS 
Maine  Field  District — F.  Ii.  FOLEY,  Department  of  Agriculture,  Augusta,  Me. 
Northern  Field  District — S.  L.  STEARNS,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 
Northwestern  Field  District — N.  H.  WELLS,  St.  Albans,  Tt. 


Meetings  for  the  election  of  officers 
and  for  the  discussion  of  some  special 
problems  which  have  arisen  have  been 
a  considerable  part  of  the  program  of 
the  field  service  department  for  January. 
In  between  the  meetings  the  field  men 
have  had  time  for  a  considerable  amount 
of  check  testing  which  has  led  to  some 
definite  and   satisfactory  results. 

One  of  the  types  of  service  to  mem- 
bers which  had  been  planned  for  some 
time  was  put  into  practice  by  F.  L. 
Parmalee  at  Salem,  N.  Y.  One  of  our 
members  was  not  satisfied  with  the  test 
he  was  getting,  either  with  the  composite 
sample  or  under  the  daily  test  method. 
He  wanted  to  find  out  what  the  reason 
was  that  his  test  was  running  lower  than 
he  thought  it  should.  Parmalee  went  to 
the  farm  and  took  a  sample  of  the  milk 
of  each  cow.  On  testing  these  he  found 
that  there  were  three  or  four  cows  whose 
milk  was  testing  much  lower  than  the 
rest  of  the  herd.  This  seemed  to  point 
out  the  cause  of  the  low  test  at  the  plant 
and  to  give  the  owner  an  opportunity  to 
mend  the  situation  by  disposing  of  these 
cows. 

Another  important  result  of  the  testing 
in  Maine  was  in  the  Turner  Centre  Sys- 
tem. When  testing  at  one  of  the  plants 
F.  L.  Foley  found  some  variation  in  the 


tests  and  in  looking  about  for  a  cause 
was  convinced  that  greater  accuracy  in 
reading  results  was  needed.  On  taking 
it  up  with  the  management  it  was  soon 
announced  that  the  company  would  equip 
its  testers  with  calipers  for  the  accurate 
reading  of  results  of  the  test,  not  only 
at  the  plant  in  question  but  in  all  plants 
owned  by  the  system. 

The  month  has  been  a  very  busy  one 
with  Foley  and  at  the  time  the  Dairy- 
man goes  to  press  he  is  still  going  strong, 
with  meetings  practically  every  day  for 
a  week  or  two.  One  series  of  meetings 
was  held  at  stations  along  the  Rockland 
branch  for  the  express  purpose  of  dis- 
cussing with  Hood  producers  the  prob- 
lems which  arise  through  putting  them 
on  a  cream  basis.  F.  C.  Warner,  field 
service  manager,  was  present  at  these 
meetings  to  do  some  "figuring"  for  the 
patrons  and  the  result  was  that  all  got 
a  better  idea  of  the  situation. 

These  men  were  formerly  paid  under 
the  cream  plan  but  since  that  was  discon- 
tinued they  have  been  shipping  as  cream 
patrons.  They  ship  their  product  as  12 
per  cent,  cream  and  are  paid  for  it  on 
the  basis"  of  the  butterfat.  With  the 
premium  on  Class  2  milk  secured  by  the 
sales  committee  for  January  their  price 
(Continued  on  page  ten) 


February,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


I1  aye  Three 


Prices  Higher  than  Last  Year 

December  Highest  Point  Since  1920— Sales  Committee 
Gets  28  Cents  per  Hundred  More  on  Class  2  Milk- 
Surplus  Plan  Records  Indicate  December  Produc- 
tion Below  Average — January  About  Normal 
—Sales  Better  Tnan  in  Previous  Years. 


Milk  production  in  December  was 
somewhat  below  normal,  judging  by  the 
reports  submitted  by  the  dealers  who 
operate  under  the  surplus  plan.  Reports 
from  the  country  indicate,  however,  that 
January  production  is  about  normal. 

Under  normal  conditions  December 
purchases  are  about  the  same  as  October 
purchases.  This  year  they  were  per 
cent,  below  October.  Deliveries  in  De- 
cember were  16  per  cent,  below  those  of 
January,  1925,  but  the  figures  a  year  ago 
included  cream  plan  territory. 

Comparison  of  purchases  in  December 
with  the  purchases  in  November  does  not 
offer  any  basis  for  a  correct  judgment  as 
to  actual  production  as  the  flood  condi- 
tions kept  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
milk  from  reaching  the  markets  and  the 
November  figures  are  thus  considerably 
below  normal.  In  1925  there  was  an  in- 
crease of  five  per  cent,  from  November 
to  December.  This  year  they  were  17 
per  cent,  higher,  due  to  low  shipments 
in  November.  These  figures  would  in- 
dicate that  the  flod  decreased  shipments 
about  10  per  cent,  in  November. 

Sales  in  December  were  off  slightly 
from  the  November  figure  but  the  de- 
crease was  less  than  in  the  same  months 
in  the  preceding  year.  Records  show 
that  December  sales  were  one  per  cent, 
less  than  November,  whereas  there  is 
usually  a  decrease  of  from  two  to  five 
per  cent.  December  sales  were  only  two 
per  cent,  below  October  as  compared 
with  a  decrease  of  six  per  cent,  for  the 
same  months  the  previous  year. 

The  sales  in  millions  of  pounds  for 
November  and  December,  1927,  and  De- 
cember, 1926,  were  as  follows : 

November,  1927   28.1 

December,  1927   27.8 

December,  1926   26.6 

The  weighted  average  of  surplus  in 
December  was  36.3  per  cent,  as  compared 
with  36.2  per  cent,  in  December,  1926, 


figuring  on  the  milk  basis  with  the  cream 
plan  territory  excluded.  Including  the 
cream  plan  territory  the  surplus  in  De- 
cember, 1926,  was  50.7  per  cent. 

Milk  Prices 

The  December  net  price  of  $3.08  per 
hundred  is  26  cents  a  hundred  above  the 
December,  1926,  price  and  is  the  best 
price  received  for  December  milk  since 
1920.  The  December  Class  I  price  was 
$3.71  a  hundred  but  this  was  subject  to 
a  six  cent  hauling  charge  left  over  from 
November,  making  the  actual  fluid  price 
for  the  month  $3.65.  This  was  34  cents 
a  hundred  higher  than  in  December, 
1926. 

The  Class  2  price  was  $2.18  or  12 
cents  a  hundred  higher  than  in  December, 
1926.  As  the  butter  price  averaged  3l/2 
cents  a  pound  lower  than  in  December, 
1926,  the  increase  on  Class  2  milk  resulted 
altogether  from  the  premium  on  this  class 
secured  by  the  sales  committee.  If  we 
had  been  on  the  old  basis  of  butter  value 
for  Class  2  milk  the  price  would  have 
been  16  cents  a  hundred  below  last  year. 
The  sales  committee's  trade  with  the  deal- 
ers increased  the  return  to  the  farmers 
28  cents  on  all  Class  2  milk. 

The  Class  1,  Class  2,  composite  and 
butter  prices  on  a  comparative  basis  were 
as  follows:  m7      1Q27  m6 

Nov.  Dec.  Dec. 

Fluid   $3.54  $3.71  $3.31 

Surplus                    2.09  2.18 

Net  price,  all  milk..  3.01  3.08 

Avg.  butter,  per  lb.    .480  .498 

Butter  Prices 

Butter  is  off  2c  a  pound  from  Decem- 
ber and  VzC  per  pound  from  a  year  ago. 
Foreign  butter  markets  are  about  35c  to 
36c  as  compared  with  our  present  market 
of  48c,  the  difference  representing  the 
butter  duty  of  12c  per  pound.  Storage 
holdings  are  13,000,000  pounds  above  last 


2.06 
2.82 
.537 


Providence  Market 

Class  1  Class  2  Zone  1 

Dealers             (Mkt.  (Mfg.    Deliv-  1-20 

Per  Hundredweight     Milk)  Milk)     ered  Miles 

W.  B.  Brown   100.0%  4.058  3.723 

H.  T.  Burton,  Inc  100.0  4.051  3.717 

G.  T.  Chambers   100.0  4.053  3.718 

E.  A.  Fiske   100.0  4.058  3.723 

L.  E.  Goff   100.0  4.058  3.723 

C.  W.  Grant   100.0  4.058  3.723 

A.  B.  Monroe   100.0  4.053  3.718 

Providence  Dairy  ....  93.8  6.2%     3.927  3.673 

Turner  Centre   100.0  4.065  3.771 

W.  C.  Viall   100.0  4.058  3.723 

C.  A.  Warnock   100.0  4.058  3.723 

E.  P.  Westcott  100.0  4.053  3.718 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  2  Zone  3    Zone  Willi- 

21-40  41-60     net  mantic 

Miles  Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.675  3.609   

3.669  3.602   

4.670  3.604   

3.675  3.609   

3.675  3.609   

3.675  3.609   

3.670  3.604   

3.640  3.575     3.469  3.477 

3.723  3.656   

3.675  3.609   

3.675  3.609   

3.670  3.604   


year,  but  about  normal  for  this  time  of 
year.  Production  is  not  excessive.  With- 
drawals from  storage  in  December  was 
above  normal.  February  butter  prices 
are   likely    to   average   above  January. 

Comparison  with  the  price  of  grain 
shows  favorably.  Our  10th  zone  price 
in  December  would  buy  122  pounds  of 
grain    as    compared    with    119  pounds 


November  and  with  115  pounds  for  the 
five-year  average  December  grain  price. 

Retail  grain  price  advances  since  De- 
cember were  8c  per  cwt.  for  cottonseed 
and  10c  per  cwt.  for  wheat  bran.  All 
feed  is  now  considerably  higher  than  last 
year,  corn  meal  27c  a  cwt.,  cottonseed 
meal  75c  a  cwt.,  gluten  feed  24c,  ground 
(Continued  on  page  nine) 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  December,  1927 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7  per 
cent  per  1/10  pef  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container;  per  8</2 
quart  can  $0,009;  per  10  quart  can  $0,011;  per  20  quart  can  $0,022;  per  21  ]4  can 
$0,023;  per  40  quart  can  $0,041;  per  cwt.  $0,050. 


Boston  District 


Dealers 
Flm  Spring  Farm 
7th  zone  (121-140) 

J.  B.  Prescott 
Delivered   


Class  1 
(Mkt. 
Milk) 

..70.3% 


92.4 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 
29.7% 

7.6 


8/2 
Quart 
.555 


20 
Quart 
1.349 


Size  of  Can 

Quart 
1.434 


40 

Quart  Cwt. 
2.732  3.177 


Dealers 


Northern  Market  District 

Class  1    Class  2  Size  of  Can 


Robert  H.  Sawyer  (Mkt. 
Zoned  from  Haverhill  Milk) 

Delivered   89.2% 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Wason  MacDonald  Co. 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

Delivered   86.8 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms, 
Zoned  from  Lawrence 

Delivered   74.1 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

9th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   84.6 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   


(Mfg. 
Milk) 
10.8% 


13.2 


Cwt. 
in 

8^'s 


Cwt. 
in 
20's 


Cwt. 
in 

40's 


3.986 
3.536 
3.465 


3.986 
3.613 
3.552 


3.986 
3.633 
3.593 


25.9 


15.4 


E.  C.  Blake 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   79.7 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   75.7 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Producers'  Dairy  System,  Inc. 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   79.6 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   


20.3 


24.3 


3.727 
3.436 
3.373 


3.727 
3.502 
3.449 


3.727 
3.520 
3.484 


20.4 


4.329 


Cwt. 
4.158 
3.796 
3.754 


3.537 

3.236 
3.201 
3.137 
3.046 


3.640 
3.408 
3.368 
3.329 
3.295 
3265 
3.250 


3.674 
3.441 
3.389 
3.345 
3.216 


3.858 
3.568 
3.520 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  December,  1927 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  December  is  correct.    Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.050  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent.,  subtract  $.050 
per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.   If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  December  by  your  dealers'  price  after  making/the  above  adjustments. 

Zone  1    Zone  2    Zone  3    Zone  4    Zone  5    Zone  6    Zone  7     Zone  8    Zone  9    Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  1? 


1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

61-80 

81-100 

101-120 

121-140 

141-160 

161-180 

181-200 

201-220 

221-240 

241-260 

261-280 

281-300 

Class  1  Milk  Price 

3.990 

3.943 

3.897 

3.856 

3.821 

3.804 

3.775 

3.751 

3.734 

3.711 

3.688 

3.676 

3.653 

3.641 

3.618 

Class  2  Milk  Price 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

2.176 

Class  1 

Class  2 

Dealers              (Mkt.  Milk) 

(Mfg.  Milk) 

Hood   1-15   , 

72.6% 

27.4% 

3.351 

3.317 

3.283 

3.253 

3.228 

3.216 

3.195 

3.177 

3.165 

3.148 

3.131 

3.123 

3.106 

3.097 

3.081 

Hood  16-30   

64.0 

36.0 

3.282 

3.252 

3.222 

3.196 

3.174 

3.163 

3.144 

3.129 

3.118 

3.102 

3.089 

3.081 

3.066 

3.058 

3.044 

61.8 

38.2 

3.232 

3.203 

3.174 

3.149 

3.127 

3.117 

3.099 

3.0S4 

3.073 

3.059 

3.044 

3.037 

3.023 

3.015 

3.001 

Turner  Centre   

39.7 

60.3 

2.883 

2.864 

2.846 

2.830 

2.816 

2.809 

2.798 

2.788 

2.781 

2.772 

2.763 

2.758 

2.749 

2.744 

2.735 

N.  E.  Cry.  Prod. 

43.3 

56.7 

3.188 

3.167 

3.147 

3.130 

3.114 

3.107 

3.095 

3.084 

3.077 

3.075 

3.057 

3.052 

3.042 

3.037 

3.027 

F.  S.  Cummings  

66.4 

33.6 

3.300 

3.268 

3.238 

3.211 

3.187 

3.176 

3.157 

3.141 

3.130 

3.114 

3.099 

3.091 

3.076 

3.068 

3.053 

F.  E.  Boyd   

65.4 

34.6 

3.361 

3.330 

3.300 

3.273 

3.250 

3.239 

3.220 

3.204 

3.193 

3.178 

3.163 

3.155 

3.140 

3.133 

3.117 

Weighted  Avg  

63.7 

36.3 

3.260 

3.230 

3.201 

3.175 

3.153 

3.142 

3.123 

3.108 

3.097 

3.083 

3.068 

3.060 

3.046 

3.038 

3.023 

The  Turner  Centre  price  includes  an  extra  payment  of  $.076  per  cwt. 

The  New  England  Creamery  Products  Co.  price  includes  an  extra  payment  of  $.285  per  cwt. 


Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1928 


New  England  Creamery  Products  Co.  Refuses 

(Continued  from  page  one) 


NEMPA  basis  and  asked  for  the  in- 
vestigation of  their  business  to  deter- 
mine what  modifications  were  necessary. 

"As  the  result  of  this  study  of  the  busi- 
ness of  the  New  England  Creamery 
Co.  we  found  that  they  were  buying  a 
supply  of  milk  from  the  Granite  City  Co- 
operative under  a  contract  which  expires 
July  1,  192$.  This  milk  is  paid  for  at 
the  NEMPA  price  and  in  that  respect 
rightfully  comes  under  the  provisions  of 
our  trade  as  to  outside  purchases. 

"The  situation  at  Newbury  is  best  shown 
in  the  dehnite  report  made  by  the  asso- 
ciation after  a  study  of  the  conditions 
there. 

"We  find  that  you  are  purchasing  the 
entire  output  of  the  Newbury  Creamery 
Co.  plant  at  Newbury,  Vt,  at  the 
NEMPA  Class  1  price.  This  Newbury 
Creamery  Co.  is  owned  and  operated  by 
two  of  the  officials  of  your  company. 
The  prices  which  these  officials  of  your 
company  who  own  the  Newbury  Cream- 
ery Co.  pay  to  their  producers  reflects  a 
deduction  from  the  NEMPA  Class  1 
price  in  that  zone  varying  from  15c  to 
56c  per  cwt.  A  tabulation  showing  the 
variations  by  months  is  appended  hereto. 
This  difference  between  the  Class  1  price 
paid  to  the  Newbury  Creamery  Co.  and 
the  price  paid  to  the  producers  selling  to 
the  Newbury  Creamery  Co.  during  the 
period  from  February  1st,  1927,  to  De- 
cember 15th,  1927,  we  estimate  to  be  over 
$10,000.  It  has  been  stated  to  us  that  the 
reason  why  the  full  Class  1  price  was 
being  paid  at  Newbury  was  in  order  to 
build  up  the  volume  of  milk  at  that  plant. 
The  fact  that  producers  have  not  been 
paid  the  full  Class  1  price  for  their 
product  delivered  at  that  plant  indicates 
that  this  is  not  essential  to  the  main- 
tenance or  building  up  of  the  present 
supply.  The  Newbury  Creamery  Co.  is 
a  milk  receiving  plant  which  in  our  opin- 
ion could  be  operated  at  a  cost  not  in 
excess  of  the  allowance  made  to  dealers 
purchasing  under  the  surplus  plan  for 
plant  operation;  to  wit,  an  allowance  of 
23}4c  per  cwt-  This  allowance  of  23^c 
per  cwt.  has  been  given  due  consideration 
in  the  determination  of  the  NEMPA 
Class  1  price  paid  to  this  company  and 
the  prices  paid  to  the  producers. 

"We  find  that  your  company  is  pur- 
chasing milk  from  Howard  &  Eames  Co. 
at  Piermont,  N.  H.,  in  excess  of  the  re- 
quirement of  your  company. 

"We  find  that  when  the  increases  in 
volume  of  milk  purchased  from  these 
three  concerns  have  occurred,  the  volume 
of  sales  of  your  company  have  not  cor- 
respondingly increased,  so  that  it  has  re- 
sulted in  a  shrinking  in  the  volume  of 
sales  to  be  credited  to  producer  patrons 
thereby  resulting  in  a  decrease  of  the 
price  to  be  paid  to  producer  patrons  from 
whom  milk  is  being  purchased  under  the 
surplus  plan.  This  reduction  in  the  price 
paid  to  producers  supplying  your  com- 
pany because  of  the  conditions  above 
stated,  has  caused  the  price  to  be  paid 
by  your  company  to  its  producer  patrons 
to  fall  below  that  paid  by  competitive 
buyers  purchasing  their  supplies  under 
the  same  plan  in  the  same  territory.  We 
find  that  in  order  for  your  company  to 
continue  to  receive  supplies  from  these 
producer  patrons,  your  company  has 
adopted  the  policy  of  increasing  the  price 
as  ascertained  under  the  surplus  plan  in 
order  to  meet  the  price  paid  by  competi- 
tors in  the  same  territory.  These  addi- 
tions to  the  price  have  been  made  only 
at  such  times  as  the  volume  of  purchases 
from  sources  of  supply  other  than  pro- 
ducers has  been  increased.  A  chart  show- 
ing variations  in  volume  of  outside  pur- 
chases and  the  amount  added  to  the  pro- 
ducers' composite  price  by  months,  is  at- 
tached herewith. 

"From  our  investigation  and  study  we 
find  no  reason  to  justify  a  modification 
of  the  proposal  under  which  this  associa- 
tion offers  for  sale  the  milk^of  its  mem- 
bers generally  to  all  dealers  operating  in 
this  market  and  specifically  we  find  that 
there  is  no  justification  for  a  modification 
in  the  proposal  under  which  this  asso- 
ciation offers  for  sale  the  milk  of  its 
members  selling  to  your  company.  It 
seems  to  us  that  the  situation  in  which 
your  company  finds  itself  is  due  largely 
to  the  policy  of   fluctuating  purchases 


from  sources  other  than  producers  sup- 
plying company  owned  plants. 

"To  again  state  our  position  with  re- 
spect to  this  general  situation,  we  con- 
clude from  our  study  that  the  present 
surplus  plan  is  sufficiently  comprehensive 
to  adequately  care  for  the  requirements 
of  your  company,  and  we  therefore  re- 
new and  confirm  our  proposal  previously 
made  for  the  sale  of  the  milk  of  mem- 
bers of  this  association  selling  to  your 
company. 

"We  extend  to  you  the  assistance,  facili- 
ties and  co-operation  of  this  association 
in  the  solution  of  your  problem." 

In  its  report  to  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Co.,  made  after  the 
investigation  was  completed,  the  associa- 
tions make  certain  recommendations 
which  would  do  away  with  the  present 
problems  under  which  the  company  is 
laboring.  These  recommendations  may 
be  summarized  in  the  brief  statement 
"Restrict  your  purchases  of  tuberculin 
tested  milk  to  your  actual  needs  and  the 
difficulty  will  largely  disappear." 


TURNER  CENTRE  ANNUAL 

Big  plans  are  being  made  for  the  an- 
nual meeting  of  the  Turner  Centre  Sys- 
tem which  will  be  held  at  Auburn,  Feb. 
10.  The  recent  issue  of  the  Turner 
Centre  "Chatterbox"  outlines  the  char- 
acter of  the  night  before  supper  as  fol- 
lows : 

So  much  favorable  comment  came  from 
the  supper  held  the  night  before  the 
annual  meeting  last  year  we  are  again 
repeating  this  year.  Producers  from 
Canada,  Vermont,  New  Hampshire, 
Rhode  Island,  and  Maine  will  rub  elbows 
and  kick  shins  together  with  employees 
and  managers  from  all  over  the  system. 

As  before  it  will  be  just  a  plain  supper 
(no  banquet  or  dinner).  Flannel  shirts, 
hob-nailed  shoes,  spike  tail  coats,  boiled 
shirts,  all  go  to  make  this  a  real  family 
gathering  with  enough  to  eat. 

The  supper  will  cost  one  dollar.  If 
afterwards  you  think  we  have  cheated 
you  we  may  return  your  money,  and  then 
again  we  may  not.  We  expect  three 
hundred  present. 

Dr.  Charles  E.  North  of  New  York 
will  speak,  telling  us  some  more  about 
production  of  good  milk.  He  also  will 
tell  some  of  the  good  and  bad  points  of 
Turner  Centre.  "Doc"  has  visited  sev- 
eral of  our  plants  in  the  past  year  and 
knows  us  much  better  than  he  did  one 
year  ago. 

A  real  debate  is  going  to  be  held  on 
the  value  of  skimmilk  vs  cream  to  be 
settled  by  the  loudest  applause  from  those 
present.  Several  other  features  worth 
while  will  be  added. 

If  you  plan  to  come  make  reservations 
now  by  returning  below  blank  at  once  to 
Turner  Centre  System,  Auburn,  Me. 

We  can't  guess  whether  you  are  com- 
ing or  not.  We  must  know  or  somebody 
will  be  out  of  luck. 

The  following  men  have  been  nomi- 
nated by  local  districts  as  candidates  for 
the  board  of  drectors  for  the  ensuing 
year :  E.  Donald  Chase  of  Unity,  Me. ; 
H.  L.  Grinnell  of  Union,  Me.;  J.  E.  Irish 
of  Buckfield,  Me.;  G.  S.  Magan,  Tiver- 
ton, R.  I. ;  H.  J.  Mosher  of  Farmington, 
Me.;  L.  G.  Roundy  of  West  Burke,  Vt. 

Reports  show  that  a  gain  of  over  $500,- 
000.00  in  sales  over  1926  for  1927  and 
over  $1,000,000.00  over  1925  for  1926. 
This  brings  the  gross  business  close  to 
$7,500,000.00  for  the  past  year.  The  only 
decreases  in  sales  are  condensed  milk  and 
eggs  which  at  present  are  secondary 
products. 

Milk  and  cream  show  the  biggest  in- 
crease while  ice-cream  and  butter  show 
up  with  sizable  gains. 


New  England  needs  a  more  even  pro- 
duction throughout  the  year.  This,  in 
turn,  should  lead  to  further  co-operation 
and  co-ordination  in  establishing  stations 
and  increasing  volume  of  station  ship- 
ments so  that  costs  may  be  reduced  to  a 
minimum. 


FEBRUARY  PRICE  9  CENTS 

After  general  review  of  conditions  and 
conferences  with  dealers  the  sales  com- 
mittee of  the  association  offered  the  milk 
of  its  members  at  9  cents  a  quart,  de- 
livered in  Boston  for  February.  This  is 
a  return  to  the  pre-flood  price,  the  dealers 
also  returning  to  the  15^  cent  price  for 
family  delivery  which  prevailed  before 
the  conditions  were  upset  by  the  flood. 
The  change  went  into  effect  without  any 
disturbance  in  the  market,  store  milk  re- 
maining at  13  cents.  The  advance  which 
took  place  in  November  was  warranted 
by  the  extra  costs  of  transportation  occa- 
sioned by  the  flood.  Now  that  these  ex- 
tra costs  have  practically  disappeared  the 
return  to  the  pre-flood  price  was  deemed 
the  best  policy.  If  no  unforeseen  dis- 
turbances occur  this  price  should  hold  for 
several  months. 


JAMES  0.  JORDAN 

In  the  death  of  James  O.  Jordan, 
which  occurred  three  weeks  ago,  the 
dairy  industry  of  New  England  loses  a 
friend.  For  many  years  Dr.  Jordan 
served  as  the  chief  of  the  milk  inspec- 
tion department  of  the  Boston  Board  of 
Health  and  our  association  leaders  have 
frequently  been  in  contact  with  him  in 
that  capacity.  Always  he  has  been  a 
wise  and  temperate  executive,  working 
for  the  building  up  of  a  better  milk 


supply  for  the  City  of  Boston  but  at  the 
same  time  recognizing  the  situation  of 
the  farmers  who  produce  the  milk.  He 
has  not  asked  or  expected  the  impossible 
but  has  gone  on  step  by  step  toward  a 
high  general  standard.  This  has  had 
much  to  do  with  the  present  wholesome 
condition  of  the  market.  At  all  times 
his  friendly  interest  in  the  farmers  has 
been  manifest,  even  while  he  was  deplor- 
ing the  great  losses  which  come  every 
year  through  the  lack  of  sufficient  ice  to 
properly  cool  the  milk.  While  it  would 
have  been  easy  for  him  to  take  the  atti- 
tude of  many  health  officials  and  criti- 
cize the  producers  for  this,  Dr.  Jordan 
realized  some  of  the  difficulties  in  the 
way  and  rarely,  if  ever,  assumed  a  harsh 
attitude.  As  a  member  of  the  Federal 
Regional  Milk  Commission,  during  war 
time,  his  sane,  moderate  and  understand- 
ing attitude  meant  much  to  the  dairy 
farmers  of  New  England.  His  naturally 
friendly  disposition  and  manner  of  greet- 
ing all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact 
leaves  a  sense  of  personal  loss  to  us  all. 


New  Englanders  demand  "new  laid" 
eggs  and  the  finest  flavored  fruit.  They 
are  already  well  accustomed  to  quality  in 
dairy  products  so,  even  with  tank  cars  to 
hold  down  temperatures,  it  is  hardly 
possible  that  ordinary  milk  shipped  from 
the  Mid-west  will  satisfy  our  high  stand- 
ard demands. 


A' 

EMPIRE 


milks  4- quarters  at  once*  The  natural  way 


NATURE'S  milker  is  the  calf.  The  three 
cornered  massage  and  suction  of  the 
calf's  tongue  and  mouth  on  the  teat  is  nature's 
way  of  milking.  The  gentle  three  cornered 
action  of  the  Empire  teat  cups  is  exactly  like 
that  of  a  sucking  calf — with  one  exception. 
The  Empire  milks  all  four  quarters  at  once — 
the  natural  way — just  as  the  cow  makes  and 
gives  down  her  milk.  Like  four  sucking  calves 
working  together — and  just  as  gentle  and 
soothing. 

No  wonder  cows  like  the  Empire.  They  stand 
quietly  chewing  their  cuds  during  milking. 
Often  newly  freshened  heifers  mistake  the 
Empire  for  their  calves,  licking  it  as  it  milks. 

All  this  means  easier,  quicker  milking.  It 
means,  too,  a  longer  lactation  period  and 
more  milk  for  you. 

Your  local  Empire  dealer  will  be  glad  to  dem- 
onstrate an  Empire.  You  can  see  for  your- 
self how  the  Empire  will  simplify  your  milk- 
ing, how  you  can  operate  an  Empire  yourself 
without  constantly  calling  for  SERVICE.  A 
liberal  credit  plan  makes  buying  easy. 

A  new  booklet  explaining  the  Empire  has  just 
been  prepared.  Copy  will  be  sent  upon  request. 

EMPIRE  MILKING  MACHINE  CO. 

JDcpt.  6,  97  Ilumboldt  Street,  Rochester,  N~  Y. 


Empire   is  Superior 
to  Other  Milkers, 
Because 

The  EMPIRE  Milks  As  It 
Should.  The  Empire  takes 
milk  from  all  four  quar- 
ters at  once — just  as  the 
cow  gives  It  down.  This 
means  quicker  milking, 
with  less  strain  on  the 
cow;  a  longer  lactation 
period  and  more  milk. 
The  Empire's  three-sided 
tip-to-udder  squeeze  (a 
patented  feature)  exactly 
duplicates  the  massage 
of  a  calf's  tongue. 

The  EMPIRE  Is  EasyYTo 
Operate.  Cups  can  be 
quickly  placed  on  teats. 
Held  firmly  by  vacuum, 
they  do  not  climb  up  or 
drop  off.  No  harnessing 
to  waste  the  operator's 
time. 

The  EMPIRE  Cleans  With 
Ease.  Simply  draw  cold 
water,  then  hot,  through 
the  assembled  units  be- 
fore the  pump  is  stopped. 
Not  necessary  to  remove 
inflations  from  cups  after 
each  milking. 

The  EMPIRE  Lasts  Long- 
er. Some  Empires  are  still 
In  service  after  twenty-  5 
six  years.  Patented  rein- 
forced Empire  inflations 
prevent  stretching  —  a 
feature  exclusive  to  Em- 
pire. That  Is  why  Empire 
Inflations  stand  repeated 
handling  and  boiling  and 
last  five  times  as  long  as 
ordinary  inserts. 


February,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


New  Opportunity  for  Dairy  Council 

Factory  and  Store  Women  Show  Much  Interest 


The  new  work  of  the  New  England 
Dairy  and  Food  Council  in  stores,  shops 
and  factories  is  progressing  well  and  is 
building  up  a  reputation  for  itself.  More 
and  more  calls  are  coming  in  for  Miss 
Day,  the  special  worker  in  charge  of  this 
phase  of  the  council  work,  to  give  dem- 
onstrations, tell  stories  and  in  other  ways 
tell  the  women  in  these  various  establish- 
ments how  to  improve  their  health,  also 
their  looks,  by  using  milk  and  in  other 
ways  following  certain  rules  of  health. 
Milk  is  the  foundation  of  it  all  and  every 
time  she  says  milk  to  a  crowd  she  gives 
them  good  and  sufficient  reason  why  they 
should  use  more  of  it.  It  is  not  possible 
to  measure  the  results  in  terms  of  actual 
increase  in  the  use  of  milk  but  we  have 
full  confidence  that  it  is  considerable. 

Women  and  men,  too,  of  many  kinds 
and  classes  have  heard  the  message  of 
milk  in  some  form  or  other  from  this 
worker.  Looking  over  the  list  of  places 
which  have  been  visited  since  the  work 
started  last  fall  we  find  everything  from 
curbstones  to  soap  listed  as  products  of 
the  places  visited.  The  best  part  of  it 
is  that  she  is  being  asked  to  "play  return 
engagements,"  the  young  women  who 
heard  her  the  first  time  asking  for  her 
to  come  again  so  that  their,  friends  could 
hear  her  also. 

One  of  the  stunts  in  connection  with 
the  work  was  placing  "fortunes"  in  the 
pay  envelopes.  The  council  has  a  for- 
tune telling  machine  which  always  at- 
tracts attention  wherever  exhibited.  It 
was  found  impractical  to  put  that  in  at 
the  Slattery  store  so  the  "fortune  cards" 
were  placed  in  the  pay  envelopes,  much 
to  the  amazement  and  merriment  of  the 
employees.  Here  are  some  samples  of  the 
fortune  cards : 

"Thank  your  stars  for  milk.  If  you 
will  drink  a  quart  a  day  the  sky  is  the 
limit." 

"Monday,  Wednesday  and  Friday  of 
next  week  will  be  great  days  for  you — 
provided  you  eat  creamed  soup." 

"Have  something  warm  every  day.  It 
will  keep  you  out  of  hot  water." 

"You  were  born  under  the  sign  of  the 


milky  way.  If  you  drink  milk  you  will 
put  on  an  all  star  performance." 

"A  certain  young  lady  is  going  to  in- 
fluence your  entire  life.  Her  initials  are 
C.  O.  W.    Drink  plenty  of  milk." 

"Your  lucky  number  is  4 — glasses  of 
milk  every  day." 

"Your  weight  is  your  fate.  How  much 
do  you  weigh  ?" 

One  of  the  important  pieces  of  work 
is  in  following  up  the  store  and  factory 
visits  of  the  Boston  Tuberculosis  Asso- 
ciation. They  give  talks  but  want  them 
backed  up  by  additional  stimulation  to 
drink  milk,  the  chief  enemy  to  tubercu- 
losis. 

At  the  Shepard  Stores  where  Miss  Day 
gave  talks  considerable  interest  was  mani- 
fested and  the  results  have  kept  coming 
in  through  articles  in  their  store  paper 
and  recently  in  an  invitation  to  write  a 
special  article  on  milk  for  the  publication. 

The  "hello"  girls  of  the  telephone  ex- 
changes are  taking  to  milk  in  great  shape 
as  the  result  of  talks  given  to  certain 
groups  among  them.  Each  of  the  tele- 
phone exchanges  of  any  size  has  a  health 
supervisor  and  by  arrangement  the  milk 
talk  and  demonstration  was  given  to  17 
of  these  supervisors  from  all  over  New 
England.  This  opened  the  door  to  sev- 
eral invitations.  Miss  Day  was  invited 
to  come  to  Portland,  with  all  expenses 
paid,  to  talk  on  the  value  of  milk  to  about 
50  operatives.  They  were  so  pleased  that 
they  wanted  her  to  go  down  to  Biddeford 
and  repeat  the  performance,  which  she 
did.  Since  then  she  has  spoken  at  the 
telephone  accounting  department  in  Bos- 
ton to  about  200  girls. 

There  are  four  appeals  which  hit  the 
store  and  shop  girls  most  strongly :  Im- 
proving their  appearance,  increasing  their 
popularity,  possibility  of  more  rapid  ad- 
vancement and  personal  enjoyment  of 
life.  All  these  come  from  the  greater 
use  of  milk,  translated  into  terms  of  bet- 
ter health. 

This  factory  and  store  work  of  the 
council  is  less  than  a  year  old.  It  has 
great  possibilities  for  development  along 
the  lines  which  are  proving  so  popular. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Effective  February  1,  1928,  and  Uutil  Further  Notice 
Based  on  9  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 

Cwt.in    Cwt.in  Cwt.in 


8qt. 

8^qt. 

10qt. 

20qt. 

21  J<qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21$4qt. 

40qt. 

Zon« 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del. 

Trucked 

.696 

.740 

.871 

1.741 

1.849 

3.482 

4.048 

4.048 

4.048 

1 

1-20 

.603 

.645 

.766 

1.556 

1.655 

3.132 

3.618 

3.622 

3.641 

2 

21-40 

.588 

.630 

.751 

1.526 

1.625 

3.092 

3.559 

3.557 

3.594 

3 

41-60 

.583 

.625 

.736 

1.501 

1.600 

3.052 

3.490 

3.502 

3.548 

4 

61-80 

.568 

.610 

.726 

1.491 

1.590 

3.017 

3.466 

3.480 

3.507 

5 

81-100 

.558 

.600 

.716 

1.471 

1.565 

2.987 

3.420 

3.425 

3.472 

6 

101-120 

.558 

.600 

.711 

1.466 

1.555 

2.972 

3.408 

3.404 

3.455 

7 

121-140 

.548 

.590 

.701 

1.451 

1.540 

2.947 

3.373 

3.382 

3.426 

8 

141-160 

.543 

.585 

.696 

1.441 

1.530 

2.927 

3.350 

3.349 

3.402 

9 

161-180 

.538 

.580 

.691 

1.431 

1.520 

2.912 

3.327 

3.327 

3.385 

10 

181-200 

.533 

.575 

.681 

1.421 

1.510 

2.892 

3.304 

3.305 

3.362 

11 

201-220' 

.528 

.570 

.676 

1.406 

1.500 

2.872 

3.269 

3.283 

3.339 

12 

221-240 

.523 

.565 

.671 

1.401 

1.490 

2.862 

3.257 

3.261 

3.327 

13 

241-260 

.518 

.560 

.666 

1.391 

1.480 

2.842 

3.234 

3.239 

3.304 

14 

261-280 

.513 

.555 

.661 

1.386 

1.475 

2.832 

3.222 

3.229 

3.292 

15 

281-300 

.508 

.550- 

.656 

1.376 

1.460 

2.812 

3.199 

3.1% 

3.269 

,S2i  v 

At  R. 

R.  Sta 

tions  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del.  Trucked 

.696 

.740 

.871 

1.741 

1.849 

3.482 

4.048 

4.048 

4.048 

1 

1-20 

.628 

.670 

.786 

1.571 

1.665 

3.132 

3.653 

3.620 

3.642 

2 

21-40 

.608 

.650 

.771 

1.541 

1.635 

3.092 

3.583 

3.554 

3.594 

3 

41-60 

.603 

.645 

.766 

1.536 

1.620 

3.052 

3.572 

3.522 

3.549 

4 

61-80 

.598 

.640 

.756 

1.501 

1.600 

3.017 

3.491 

3.478 

3.508 

5 

81-100 

.593 

.635 

.741 

1.496 

1.590 

2.992 

3.479 

3.457 

3.479 

6 

101-120 

.593 

.635 

.741 

1.496 

1.580 

2.992 

3.479 

3.435 

3.479 

7 

121-140 

.593 

.635 

.741 

1.476 

1.570 

2.957 

3.432 

3.413 

3.438 

8 

141-160 

.578 

.620 

.736 

1.471 

1.565 

2.942 

3.421 

3.402 

3.421 

9 

161-180 

.573 

.615 

.731 

1.46-1 

1.550 

2.917 

3.398 

3.370 

3.392 

10 

181-200 

.573 

.615 

.726 

1.446 

1.540 

2.902 

3.363 

3.348 

3.374 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  stations, 
a  premium  of  .0075  cents  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices,  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  deduction  of  2  cents  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for 
NEMPA  members'  dues  and  1  cent  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


cTWr.  and  oMrs. 

discuss  the  cost  of  egg  production 

Mr. — Well,  it'll  be  a  sad  time  for  us  roosters. 
Mrs.— So?  And  how  is  that? 

Mr. —  Increasingscarcityofhens.  Toomanyof  'em  going  to  the 
block  because  they  can't  produce  enough  eggs  to  pay  their  keep. 

Mrs. — It's  not  always  because  they  can't  produce  enough 
eggs.  Sometimes  they  produce  a  great  many  eggs  but  it  costs  too 
much  to  produce  'em.  No  fault  of  the  hens,  but  of  the  farmers. 

Mr. — How  are  you  going  to  remedy  that? 

Mrs. — My  boss  knows.  He  cuts  down  the  feed  bill  by  sub- 
stituting DIAMOND  CORN  GLUTEN  MEAL  for  part  of  the 
meat  scraps.  DIAMOND  carries  40%  minimum  protein  and  is 
highly  productive  of  eggs.  Also,  it  is  lower  in  fibre  than  meat. 
And  it  costs  only  two-thirds  as  much  as  meat  scraps,  mind  you. 

Mr. — H-m-m.  Our  boss  has  a  head  on  him,  eh? 

Mrs. — Well  I  guess.  He  knows  that  some  animal  protein  is 
necessary,  but  that  a  little  goes  a  long  v/ay.  Therefore  he  puts 
in  200  lbs.  of  DIAMOND  for  200  lbs.  of  meat  scraps,  in  a  ton  of 
mash.  Saves  $2.50  on  every  ton— $1.25  saved  for  every  100  lbs. 
of  DIAMOND  used  to  replace  100  lbs.  of 
meat.  And  just  as  many  eggs  or  more. 

Mr. — Then  you're  not  headed  for  the 
block  for  awhile,  eh? 

Mrs. — Not  me.  /'//  be  in  your  old  harem 
for  a  long,  long  time. 


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Page  Six 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1928 


THE  DIG 
PROBLEM 

The  quality  problem, 
now  as  always,  over- 
shadows every  other  fac- 
tor in  the  creamery  and 
cheese  factory. 

And  the  quality  prob- 
lem can  only  be  met  by 
securing  sweet,  clean 
cream,  and  processing  it 
by  such  methods  that 
the  highest  score  butter 
and  finest  quality  milk 
foods  are  produced. 

For  over  a  quarter  of 
a  century 

has  assisted  milk  food 
producers  in  all  parts  of 
the  country  to  get  near- 
er to  their  ideal,  for  the 
sweet,  sanitary  clean- 
liness it  provides  has 
never  been  equalled  for 
efficiency,  dependability 
and  economy. 

Ask  your  supply  man  for 
"WYANDOTTE" 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
( Cream  Acidity  Standardize) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
your  cream? 

THE  J.  ».  FORD  COMPANY 

Sol*  MtnuUoturtri 

Wyindatt.     -    -  Miohigan 


REVISION    OF    TARIFF  ON 
MILK  AND  CREAM 

After  nearly  two  years  of  investigation 
the  United  States  Tariff  Commission  is 
ready  to  hear  arguments  as  to  whether 
or  not  there  should  be  an  increase  in  the 
tariff  on  cream  and  milk  coming  into  the 
United  States.  We  are  greatly  interested 
in  Canada  as  it  is  the  only  region  from 
which  we  could  expect  competition  in 
milk  and  cream.  The  chief  interest  in 
the  proposed  increase  is  in  New  England 
and  in  New  York  as  both  sections  are 
subject  to  an  increasing  competition  from 
Canadian  milk  and,  more  especially, 
Canadian  cream. 

A  hearing  has  been  set  for  the  latter 
part  of  February  when  our  association, 
as  part  of  the  National  Co-operative  Milk 
Producers'  Federation  will  have  an  im- 
portant part  to  play  in  supporting  a  sub- 
stantial increase  in  the  tariff  as  a  pro- 
tection against  Canadian  milk  and  cream, 
produced  under  cheaper  conditions  than 
in  our  own  territory.  The  present  rate  is 
2l/2  cents  a  gallon  on  milk  and  20  cents 
a  gallon  on  cream.  The  law  authorizes 
the  president,  through  the  tariff  commis- 
sion, to  increase  tariffs  up  to  50  per  cent. 

In  view  of  the  findings  of  the  special 
investigation  made  by  the  tariff  commis- 
sion we  would  be  justified  in  asking  for 
the  full  increase  of  50  per  cent,  on  both 
milk  and  cream.  Even  with  this  increase 
the  advantage  will  still  be  on  the  side  of 
Canada  as  the  duty  will  not  offset  the 
lower  cost  of  production  and  handling  in 
Canada  as  compared  with  New  England 
and  New  York.  Nor  will  the  proposed 
increase  of  50  per  cent,  in  duties  bring 
milk  and  cream  up  to  a  basis  comparable 
with  the  12  cent  per  pound  duty  on  but- 
ter, equal  to  48  cents  a  gallon  on  cream. 

The  preliminary  report  of  the  tariff 
commission  investigation  is  a  voluminous 
document  of  65  pages  with  an  appendix 
of  32  more  pages  of  statistics.  It  is  too 
much  of  a  document  to  present  in  any 
detail  but  some  of  the  outstanding  fea- 
tures should  be  noted  as  having  a  par- 
ticular bearing  on  the  situation  in  which 
New  England  producers  find  themselves 
at  present,  with  dealers  going  more  and 
more  to  Canada  for  a  cream  supply.  The 
authorization  for  the  investigation  was 
made  in  March,  1926,  and  since  that  time 
a  force  of  men  have  been  making  studies 
of  costs  of  producing  milk  in  various  sec- 
tions of  the  United  States  and  in  Canada. 
Studies  have  also  been  made  of  costs  of 
operating  plants  in  the  two  competing 
sections. 

In  New  England  the  regions  where 
farm  costs  were  determined  were  West 
Benton,  Me. ;  Manchester,  N.  H. ;  Brock- 
ton, Mass. ;  Holyoke,  Mass. ;  Bridgeport, 
Conn. ;  Bellows  Falls,  Vt. ;  St.  Johnsbury, 
Vt.;  Newport,  Vt.,  and  Shelburne,  Vt. 
A  study  made  in  Archdale,  N.  Y.,  is  also 
within  the  territory  shipping  to  the  Bos- 
ton market  and  is  of  particular  interest 
to  us.  Farm  studies  were  also  made  in 
17  other  regions  in  New  York  state  and 
in  15  regions  in  Pennsylvania,  New  Jer- 
sey, Delaware,  Ohio  and  in  the  butter 
producing  North  Central  States.  Ten 
regions  in  Canada  were  studied  on  a 
similar  basis. 

The  extent  of  the  importations  of  milk 
and  cream  from  Canada  is  shown  by 
years  from  1910  to  1926  in  the  report. 
From  1910  to  1914  there  was  a  duty  of 
two  cents  a  gallon  on  milk.  The  im- 
portations of  milk  for  consumption  in  its 
original  form  ranged  from  213,000  gal- 
lons down  to  22,000.  From  1914  to  1921 
there  was  no  tariff.  During  this  period 
importations  of  milk  from  Canada  grew 
from  585,000  gallons  to  2,520,000,  nearly 
five  times  as  much.  In  1921  and  1922 
there  was  a  duty  of  2  cents  a  gallon  on 
milk  which  was  a  factor  in  reducing  im- 
portations somewhat.  Since  1922  we  have 
had  a  2]/2  cent  duty  on  milk  but  in  spite 
of  this  the  importations  from  Canada 
have  increased  to  more  than  7,000,000 
gallons,  nearly  four  times  as  much  as 
they  were  in  1922.  The  value  of  these 
imports  of  milk  in  1926,  according  to  the 
preliminary  report  of  the  tariff  commis- 
sion, was  $1,245,392. 

The  story  on  cream  is  much  the  same 
as  shown  in  the  report.  From  1910  to 
1914,  with  a  duty  of  five  cents  a  gallon 
on  cream,  importations  from  Canada 
ranged  from  731,000  to  1,247,000.  During 
the  free  entry  period  from  1914  to  1921 


For  three  years  open  formula 
feeds  have  been  used  at 
Graceland  Farms  for  two 
years  AMCO  has  mixed  them 


Part  of  the  Amco-fed  herd  at  Graceland 


At  GRACELAND  FARMS  near  Providence,  R.  I.,  where  Holsteins  of  national 
reputation  are  bred,  the  whole  feeding  program  is  based  on  Amco-mixed  open 
formula  feeds.  A  letter  from  Franklin  N.  Strickland,  owner,  tells  about  it. 
"Every  calf  fed  at  Graceland  is  fed  whole  milk  from  two  to  four  weeks,  gradu- 
ally changing  off  to  skimmed  milk  to  which  a  little  AMCO  CALF  MEAL  is 
added,  until  at  about  three  months  they  are  on  this  CALF  MEAL  entirely  and 
from  then  on  until  they  are  from  six  to  ten  months  old.  From  this  time  until 
lactation,  they  are  fed  nothing  but  AMCO  FITTING  RATION  (12%)  with 
beet  pulp.  After  they  come  into  milk  a  part  of  the  FITTING  RATION  is 
gradually  replaced  with  AMCO  NATIONAL  DAIRY  (20%)  until  it  is  fed 
50-50,  to  approximate  a  16%  protein  mixture.  This  we  feel  is  about  right  to 
keep  animals  in  good  flesh  to  produce  heavily  and  safely  a  persistent  flow  of 
milk. 

Herd  Average,  12,300  Lbs.  Milk 
''Our  22  head  of  milk  cows,  including  five  heifers,  averaged  in  the  past  year 
over  12,300  lbs.  milk;  the  smallest  fat  production,  by  a  yearling,  was  400  lbs.; 
and  the  highest,  by  a  four-year-old,  was  660  lbs.  in  305  days.  This  cow  produced 
close  to  15,000  lbs.  of  milk.  Every  animal  carried  a  calf  for  more  than  200  days, 
and  has  since  freshened  or  will  freshen  very  shortly. 

Why  Home  Mixing  Failed 
"After  trying  most  of  the  advertised  brands  of  dairy  feed,  with  not  too  satis- 
factory results,  I  became  an  adherent  to  the  doctrine  of  'home  mixed  feeds' 
and  wasted  three  years  in  this  almost  silly  attempt  to  feed  milk  into  dairy 
cows;  'silly,'  because  I  long  ago  learned  that  it  was  not  so  much  the  fault  of 
home  mixed  ration  formulae,  as  it  was  my  inability  to  purchase  uniformly 
good  concentrates  from  local  grain  dealers.  Since  this  time,  fully  three  years 
ago,  I  have  been  feeding  open  formula  feeds,  and  for  the  past  two  years  or 
more,  I  have  purchased  only  those  compounded  by  the  American  Milling 
Company." 

Ask  your  Amco  Agent  for  formulas  and  prices  or  write  direct  to 
the  Division  Office,  23  PEARL  STREET,  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 

Amco 

f  FEED  MIXING  SERVICE 

AMERICAN  MILLING  COMPANY 
Executive  Offices:  Peoria,  111. 

Plants  at:  Peoria,  111.;  Omaha,  Nebr.;  Owensboro,  Ky. 
Alfalfa  Plants  at:  Powell,  Garland,  and  Worland,  Wyo. 


(Continued  on  page  tourteen) 


February,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


a  retail 
store  ideal 

that       ^  '<iPLi 

made  good/ 


B 


ACK  of  every  great  industry  are  the  ideals  of  The  J.  C.  Penney  Company  today  has  954  De- 
some  pioneer,  some  leader,  some  master-mind  partment  Stores,  scattered  over  46  States,  which 
—that  hew  close  to  the  line  of  some  great      serve  with  the  same  faithfulness,  millions  of  men, 


principle.  To  operate  in  strict 
conformity  with  the  principles 
of  the  Golden  Rule  was  the 
ideal  of  Mr.  J.  C.  Penney 
when  he  founded  the  family  of 
].  C.  Penney  Company  Depart- 
ment Stores  in  1902. 

This  ideal,  this  pledge,  was  un- 
failingly kept  in  his  first  Store. 
No  one  was  disappointed.  Be- 
cause people  had  confidence  in 
Mr.  Penney,  they  bought  his 
goods  and  returned  for  more. 


The  Famous  Nation-Wide  Values 
to  Be  Had  at  Our  Stores  in 

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For  Women,  Misses  and  Juniors 

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and  materials  —  invite 
your  immediate  attention 

The  work-dresses  of  the  house — Our  House 
Frocks  at  79  cents — are  preferred  by  thousands 
because  of  their  superiority  and  style. 

We  recommend  J  acid  Toilet  Goods 
for  we  know  them  to  be  pure,  effica- 
cious and  a  delight  to  use.  Sold  only 
in  our  stores. 
For  Men  and  Young  Men,  Our  Hats  at  #2.98 
and  $3.98  and  Our  Caps  at  $1.98,  represent 
an  unusually  high  craftsmanship  and  styling. 


women  and  children. 

Courteous  treatment,  a  sym- 
pathetic interest  in  the  buying 
problems  of  customers,  built-in 
quality  that  lasts  and  a  fair  price 
— from  these  people  have  learn- 
ed to  have  confidence  in  the 
Company  and  its  operations. 
Large  buying  resources  are  made 
to  function  to  the  economical 
advantage  of  the  public. 


The  Store — small  but  guided  by 

an  unwavering  ideal — 
was  the  beginning  of  a 
mercantile  achievement 
which,  twenty-six  years 
later,  was  to  be  a  boon 
to  the  consuming  public 
thruout  the  United  States. 


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The  ].  C.  Penney  Company 
Store  nearest  you,  cordially  in- 
vites you  to  call,  to  judge  for 
yourself  its  values  and  its  preparedness  to  serve  you 
well  and  save  you  more. 

Our  Spring  Store  News  Catalog  will  tell  you  of 
many  economies.  If  your  address  is  not  on  the  mail- 
ing list  of  our  Store  nearest  you,  please  send  it.  The 
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Derby 
Meriden 
Middletown 


Maine 
Biddeford 
Calais 
Caribou 
Fort  Kent 


New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  as  Follows — 

Lewiston  Framingham 

Gardner 


Rumford 
Waterville 

Massachusetts 
Clinton 


Greenfield 

Leominster 

Marlboro 


North  Adams 

Taunton 

Webster 

Rhode  Island 
Westerly 


New  Hampshire 
Berlin 
Concord 

Vermont 
Newport 
Rutland 


Page  Eight 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1928 


Eastern  Slates  Fanners'  Exchange 


Who  Selects  Your 
Fertilizer  ? 

Ever  since  commercial  ferti- 
lizer came  into  use,  agricultural 
experiment  stations  have  been  in- 
vestigating the  question  of  the 
comparative  value  of  ingredients 
under  all  sorts  of  conditions.  All 
of  this  information  is  available 
to  the  individual  farmer,  but  how 
much  time  has  he  to  study  it? 

Collectively,  farmer  members 
of  the  Eastern  States  Farmers' 
Exchange  have  made  a  thorough 
study  of  the  question.  Through 
their  trained  representatives, 
they  have  interviewed  agrono- 
mists and  directors  of  experiment 
stations.  They  have  studied  the 
mass  of  data  compiled  by  men 
whose  sole  interest  has  been  to 
separate  facts  from  prejudice 
through  painstaking  experimen- 
tal work. 

With  the  information  so  se- 
cured, these  farmer  members  of 
the  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Ex- 
change collectively  know  what 
grades  of  ingredients  and  what 
blends  will  best  fill  their  fer- 
tilizer needs.  Their  Exchange 
acting  in  their  interest  has  formu- 
lated fertilizers  for  them  in  ac- 
cordance with   the  knowledge. 

Collectively,  farmer  members 
of  the  Eastern  States  Farmers' 
Exchange  have  been  able  to  go 
to  large,  responsible  fertilizer 
manufacturers  with  their  formu- 
las and  have  been  able  to  secure 
advantageous  contracts. 

Collectively,  farmer  members 
of  the  Eastern  States  Farmers' 
Exchange  have  developed  a  sys- 
tem of  distributing  fertilizer  to 
themselves  at  a  low  cost  by  car 
door  distribution  and  by  doing 
away  with  costly  credit  expenses. 

You  can  buy  for  1928,  through 
Eastern  States  Farmers'  Ex- 
change, a  fertilizer  blended  for 
us  to  fit  your  needs  and  carry- 
ing only  the  charges  necessary 
to  assure  proper  purchases,  pro- 
cessing and  distribution. 

For  information  on  Eastern 
States  fertilizer  for  1928,  write 
the  office. 

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The  Dairy  Situation 
in  New  England 

J.  H.  Frandsen 

New  England  dairymen  have  been,  are, 
and  very  likely  will,  at  least  for  some 
years,  continue  occupying  a  very  favor- 
able position  in  comparison  with  the  pro- 
ducers of  other  farm  commodities.  In 
the  past  two  years  the  cow  population 
of  New  England  has  been  markedly  re- 
duced owing  to  the  extensive  tuberculosis 
clean-up  campaign  now  well  under  way 
and  to  the  fact  that  many  dairymen  are 
not  raising  dairy  heifers  to  take  the  place 
of  those  eliminated. 

Government  figures  indicate  the  extent 
of  this  reduction,  for  while  in  1925  we 
had  816,000  milk  cows,  in  1926  we  had 
only  780,000,  a  decrease  of  36,000.  To 
the  credit  of  our  dairymen,  however,  it 
must  be  said  that  the  fewer  number  of 
tows  produced  more  milk  and  at  lower 
cost  than  did  the  larger  number.  But 
production  has  not  kept  pace  with  in- 
crease in  population  nor  with  increased 
demands  for  dairy  products. 

Most  Important  Industry 

In  speaking  of  the  importance  of  the 
dairy  industry,  Chief  Larson  of  the  Dairy 
Industry  Bureau  recently  said: 

"In  dollars  and  cents,  the  farm  value 
of  milk  produced  on  American  farms  last 
year  exceeds  the  value  of  all  the  gold 
dollars  manufactured  in  the  United  States 
since  1886 — the  value  of  milk  on  the  farm 
was  greater  than  the  combined  value  of 
the  entire  cotton,  wheat  and  potato  crops 
last  year.  Dairy  products  even  exceed  in 
value  the  entire  motor  industry  or  the 
steel  industry. 

"The  value  of  all  the  buildings  erected 
in  all  the  cities  over  the  U.  S.  last  year 
is  barely  equal  to  the  value  of  dairy 
products  on  the  farm. 

"Back  of  the  industry  are  4,500,000 
dairy  farmers  and  families — nearly  one- 
fifth  of  the  population  of  this  country — 
and  these  people  care  for  30,000,000 
cows." 

But,  great  as  the  industry  is,  there  are 
some  things  yet  undone.  Many  dairy- 
men lack  efficiency — they  need  to  weed 
out  more  carefully  the  unprofitable  cows, 
feed  better  feeds,  grow  more  legumes, 
use  better  sires,  produce  a  superior  qual- 
ity of  milk — milk  that  will  be  demanded 
in  ever-increasing  quantities — and  they 
must  educate  consumers  to  see  the  de- 
sirability of  using  more  of  this  high- 
quality  product. 

Increasing  Consumption 

American  eating  habits  have  improved 
greatly  in  the  past  ten  years.  Consump- 
tion of  fruits  and  vegetables  by  the 
American  public  is  now  nearly  twice 
what  it  was  ten  years  ago.  This  is  due 
largely  to  the  fact  that  qualified  scientists 
have  been  energetically  boosting  for  the 
more  extensive  use  of  these  products.  But 
scientists,  school  nurses,  health  experts, 
and  family  physicians  have  worked  just 
as  faithfully  and  loyally  for  the  more 
extensive  use  of  good  milk,  butter,  cheese 
and  ice  cream,  and  yet  the  consumption 
of  dairy  products  up  to  this  time  has  in- 
creased only  about  33  per  cent.,  just  about 
one-third  the  increase  in  consumption  of 
fruits  and  vegetables.  Is  it  not  possible 
that  dairy  folks,  while  interested,  have 
not  boosted  as  effectively  and  as  enthusi- 
astically as  have  their  fruit  and  vegetable 
friends  ? 

I  happen  to  be  familiar  with  a  cow 
testing  association  in  Nebraska  in  which 
in  1925  the  average  profit  over  feed  costs 
was  $76  per  cow.  In  1926,  because  poor- 
est cows  had  been  sent  to  the  butcher, 
this  profit  was  raised  to  $96  per  cow. 
Feed  costs  and  other  expenses  were  re- 
duced. The  average  milk  production  per 
cow  was  increased  481  pounds.  This  was 
all  done  by  weeding  out  the  unprofitable 
cows,  by  giving  better  care  and  feeding 
better.  Taking  proper  care  of  the  milk 
reduced  the  bacterial  content  and  resulted 
in  members  being  able  to  sell  their  prod- 
uct at  a  better  price.  The  value  coming 
from  continuous  membership  in  a  cow 
testing  association  is  well  illustrated  in 
the  following  report  from  Pennsylvania : 

Better  bred  cows  are  an  economic  nec- 
essity and  the  pure-bred  proved  dairy  sire 
is  the  key  to  the  dairyman's  breeding 
(Continued  on  page  thirteen > 


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Corrects  soil  acidity. 

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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Pat/e  Nine 


The 


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Is  a  Mechanical  Marvel 


GAS   ENGINE  OR  ELEC- 
TRIC POWER 

For  years  users  of  milkers  have 
guessed  when  to  take  off  the 
teat  cups  to  avoid  over-milking. 
There's  no  guess  work  with  the 
DUPLEX.  You  can  see  the 
milk  plainly  as  it  comes  from 
each  cow  into  a  separate  glass 
chamber—  if  you  are  there  to  see 
it — but  if  some  one  were  care- 
less, SUCTION  will  STOP  on 
each  cow  when  MILK  STOPS 
FLOWING  from  THAT  cow. 

NOTE  THIS 

We  all  know  brakes  on  an  auto- 
mobile are  necessary,  but  they 
require  human  control.  The 
automatic  principle  of  the  DU- 
PLEX VISIBLE  is  an  automatic 
brake  against  the  danger  of  con- 
tinued suction  on  an  emptied  udder. 

NO  OTHER  MILKER 

gives  you  these  features — automatic  con- 
trol of  suction,  milk  flow  easily  seen, 
portable,  no  pipe  lines,  no  pulsators, 
milks  into  an  ordinary  milk  can,  simple, 
sanitary,  power  cost  to  run  two-unit  not 
over  4  cents  per  hour. 

REMARKABLY  LOW  PRICE 

If  there  is  no  DUPLEX  in  your  commu- 
nity and  you  are  an  actual  milk  producer, 
we  have  a 

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to  the  first  responsible  dairyman  who 
sends  us  the  coupon  below.  Mail  it  today. 


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Please  send  me  (without  cost  or  obli- 
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PRICES  ARE  HIGHER 

(Continued  from  page  three) 

oats  23c,  linseed  oil  meat  12c  and  wheat 
bran  24c  a  cwt. 

Grain  prices  advanced  about  $1.00  per 
ton  from  December  to  January  and  now 
average  $6.50  above  last  year.  Hay  is 
$1.50  a  ton  below  last  year.  Below  are 
comparative  costs : — 

1927  1927  1928 

Dec.  Jan.  Jan. 

Grain,  per  ton  $50.65  $45.34  $51.86 

Hay,  per  ton    13.44  15.47  14.01 

Labor,   per  month 

with  board    48.70  46.60  48.70 

Fluid  Milk  Prices 

With  the  flood  emergency  largely  over 
and  the  Boston  price  l/2c  lower  most  of 
the  other  markets  that  advanced  with 
Boston  are  back  to  October  prices.  Com- 
parative prices  are : — 

1927-1928 
Jan.  Jan. 
(Per  Qt.) 

Boston   080  .0925 

Lawrence   090  .090 

Lowell   090  .090 

Haverhill   090  .090 

Manchester   085  .085 

Nashua   087  .0875 

Concord,  N.  H  065  .072 

Worcester   075  .085 

Holyoke   080  .085 

Springfield   075  .085 

Providence   080  .090 

Fall  River   080  .090 

Newport,  R.  1  090  .075 

Brockton   085  .085 

New  Bedford   090  .090 


FLOOD  CREDIT  CORP.  TO 
AID  VERMONT 

Subscriptions  to  the  bonds  of  the  New 
England  Flood  Credit  Corp.,  organized 
at  the  instance  of  the  New  England 
Council,  were  closed  January  20,  with 
the  fund  asked  for  by  Vermont  success- 
fully raised.  The  Vermont  Flood  Credit 
Corp.,  charged  with  the  responsibility  of 
administering  the  fund,  is  now  function- 
ing and  is  passing  on  applications  for 
credit,  according  to  reports  to  the  New 
England  Council  from  Montpelier.  Sub- 
scriptions to  the  bonds  have  been  received 
from  banks,  bankers,  brokers  and  busi- 
ness houses  of  Massachusetts  and  from 
banks  of  the  various  other  New  England 
states,  said  Mr.  Beal. 

"The  amount  sought  was  $1,000,000,  of 
which  the  Vermont  banks  themselves 
agreed  to  subscribe  $250,000,"  he  con- 
tinued. "The  response  from  all  parties 
has  been  most  generous.  Particularly 
gratifying  has  been  the  ability  and  readi- 
ness of  the  Vermont  banks  to  so  promptly 
subscribe  an  amount  substantially  in  ex- 
cess of  that  requested  from  them.  Out- 
side subscriptions  have  also  been  received 
for  more  than  the  required  amount.  It 
has  therefore  been  possible  to  authorize 
those  business  men  in  Vermont,  who  are 
in  charge  of  the  administration  of  the 
fund,  to  proceed  with  the  extension  of 
the  guarantee,  for  which  the  fund  was 
formed,  to  local  business  houses  whose 
loans  might  require  this  credit  support. 
The  Vermont  Flood  Credit  Corp.,  which 
is  the  operating  company,  with  offices  in 
Montpelier,  Vt,  already  has  acted  favor- 
ably on  a  number  of  such  applications 
for  guarantees  received  from  banks 
throughout  the  flooded  district.  These 
banks  have  all  been  furnished  with  in- 
formation as  to  the  method  of  the  opera- 
tion of  the  corporation,  and  with  blanks 
on  which  applications,  accompanied  by 
financial  statements,  must  be  made.  It  is 
hoped  that  many  worthy  and  needy  in- 
dividuals and  industries  which  have  un- 
dergone substantial  losses  from  the  flood 
may  be  re-established  in  a  successful 
business  through  the  operation  of  this 
fund." 

The  organization  of  this  work  was  un- 
dertaken at  the  suggestion  of  the  New 
England  Council.  "It  is  gratifying,"  said 
John  S.  Lawrence,  president  of  the  coun- 
cil, "to  know  that  the  machinery  which 
the  council  set  in  motion  is  working  so 
effectively.  The  way  that  New  England 
business  has  come  to  the  aid  of  Vermont 
business  is  but  further  evidence  of  the 
co-operation  between  these  six  states 
which  the  council  was  established  to 
promote." 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1928 


Is  Your 
Manure  Pile 
Leaking 
Dollars? 

Manure  stored  in  an  open 
barnyard  loses  more  than  half 
its  fertilizing  value  by  seep- 
age, according  to  tests  made 
by  the  New  Jersey  Agricul- 
tural Experiment  Station. 
"At  present  prices  of  crops, 
manure  has  produced  crop 
increases  equal  toabout$4.00 
per  ton  of  manure  applied," 
reports  the  Purdue  Univer- 
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FIELD  SERVICE  DEPT. 

(Continued  from  page  two) 

has  been  increased  seven  cents  a  pound 
on  the  butterfat.  Most  of  the  producers 
seemed  to  be  quite  content  under  the  pres- 
ent price  but  in  each  of  the  meetings 
there  were  one  or  two  men  who  raised 
an  objection  to  being  placed  on  a  cream 
basis.  When  Mr.  Warner  explained  to 
them  about  the  seven  cents  a  pound, 
about  26  cents  a  hundred  on  their  milk, 
they  all  felt  better  about  it. 

The  situation  is  such  on  the  Rockland 
branch  that  they  come  naturally  into  the 
cream  classification.  They  ship  only 
three  or  four  times  a  week  and  there 
is  no  seven  day  service  on  the  railroad, 
as  is  necessary  for  milk  shipments.  None 
of  the  producers  wanted  to  go  on  to  a 
seven  day  delivery  basis,  either.  Alto- 
gether the  series  of  meetings  resulted  in 
a  considerable  clearing  up  of  the  situation. 

Damarascotta  and  Newcastle  locals,  of 
which  Edwin  B.  Denny  and  S.  D.  Wood 
are  presidents,  held  a  joint  meeting.  Mr. 
Denny  was  a  delegate  to  the  annual  meet- 
ing but  the  interest  in  the  home  problem 
was  so  great  that  he  found  no  time  to 
make  a  formal  report  of  the  Boston 
meeting.  At  Nobleboro,  J.  A.  Perkins 
was  re-elected  president  and  L.  A.  Dun- 
bar secretary.  At  the  Warren  meeting 
new  officers  were  elected:  President, 
Frank  Davis ;  secretary,  C.  A.  Webb.  At 
Winslow's  Mills  the  old  officers  were  re- 
elected, J.  E.  Bennett  president  and  C.  N. 
Light,  secretary. 

In  connection  with  these  meetings  and 
while  working  in  that  section  Mr.  Foley 
made  a  complete  test  of  the  patrons  ship- 
ping to  the  Turner  Centre  plant  at  Wis- 
casset  from  the  Rockland  branch  and 
from  the  Narrow  Gauge  railroad  up  to 
Albion.  The  Hood  producers  had  pre- 
viously been  tested,  making  383  members 
in  all  who  have  had  this  service  in  that 
section  of  the  Maine  district. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Turner 
local  H.  F.  Dressier  was  elected  president 
and  F.  P.  Ricker,  secretary. 

Sam  Stearns  has  been  doing  some  more 
good  work  up  in  the  Northern  Field  Dis- 
trict since  he  came  back  from  Connecticut 
where  he  made  a  record  for  signing  up 
new  members.  He  has  tested  the  milk 
of  all  Hood  patrons  at  Whitefield,  Little- 
ton, Lisbon  and  North  Haverhill,  also  the 
Turner  Centre  patrons  at  Littleton.  To- 
gether these  plants  number  250  patrons 
which  have  had  the  advantage  of  the 
check  test. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Concord, 
Vt.,  local  an  oyster  supper  was  served  af- 
ter which  a  business  meeting  was  held  in 
which  George  Hastings  was  re-elected 
president  and  Richard  Southworth  secre- 
tary. A  rising  vote  of  appreciation  was 
given  to  W.  P.  Davis,  general  manager 
of  the  association,  for  the  way  in  which 
he  has  helped  the  members  of  that  local 
improve  their  condition  through  negotia- 
tion of  a  better  price  with  their  dealer. 

Canvassing  in  that  territory  is  not  as 
swift  as  it  was,  due  to  poor  traveling 
conditions.  However,  a  late  report  from 
Stearns  showed  that  he  went  out  with  a 
horse  and  sleigh  one  day  and  signed  up 
eight  out  of  the  nine  men  he  saw. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Brownsville,  Vt., 
local  Ray  Blanchard,  for  many  years  sec- 
retary, got  after  the  members  by  saying 
that  of  the  30  men  shipping  from  that 
station  only  eight  were  paying  dues.  This 
local  has  been  a  very  loyal  one  to  the 
NEMPA  and  has  had  in  the  past  a  nearly 
100  per  cent,  membership.  Parmalee  went 
in  there  to  round  up  the  remainder.  He 
found  that  Mr.  Blanchard  was  wrong; 
about  20  were  paying.  But  he  visited 
10  who  were  not  paying  and  signed  them 
all  up.  There  is  only  one  shipper  left 
unaccounted  for.  Parmalee  did  not  find 
him  at  home. 

At  Bristol,  Vt.,  with  the  assistance  of 
W.  A.  Ferguson,  he  secured  eight  new 
members  and  five  new  dues  orders  from 
present  members. 

At  North  Ferrisburg,  Vt.,  where  S.  E. 
Noonan  is  president  and  W.  E.  Ball,  sec- 
retary, he  saw  seven  men  and  signed  them 
all  as  members,  making  the  local  prac- 
tically 100  per  cent,  membership. 

He  has  been  doing  some  check  testing 
in  the  New  York  area,  at  the  Hood 
plants  in  Salem,  Shushan,  Cooasyuna  and 
West  Rupert,  and  at  the  Whiting  plants 
at  West  Greenwich  and  Archdale.  Check 
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most impossible  to  bring  her 
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The  dairy  ration  is,  by  far, 
the  most  important  factor  in 
controlling  the  uniformity  of 
milk  production.  If  it  is  not 
properly  balanced,  if  it  is 
loaded  with  some  single  con- 
centrate because  it  happens  to 
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digestive  disturbance,  consti- 
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udders  to  reduce  the  milk  flow 
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The  modern  farmer,  these  days,  doesn't  just  keep  cows  and 
hogs.  No  —he  knows  the  breeds  and  knows  just  why  he 
wants  any  special  breed. 

And  its  the  same  with  everything  else  that  the  wise  buyer 
spends  his  good  money  for.  He  must  have  a  certain  name 
on  his  car  radiator,  and  a  certain  trade-mark  on  every  im- 
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February,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


NORTHERN  MARKET  cj 
DISTRICT 

F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager  S 
477  Essex  Street  -  -  Lawrence,  Mass.  N 

JANUARY  PRICES 


Lawrence,  Mass. 


72.4c 

'  m " 

72c 

'    8  " 

90c 

'  10  " 

72c 

'   8  " 

61.2c 

'   8/2  " 

7.6c  ' 

'  qt. 

74c 

'   8  " 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers 


PRICES 

With  the  change  in  price  in  the  Bos- 
ton market  came  a  change  in  price  in 
those  markets  of  our  district  which 
closely  follow  Boston  up  or  down. 

The  Manchester  market  dropped  one- 
half  cent,  making  the  price  in  this  market 
on  the  8j^c  basis. 

The  Nashua,  Lawrence  and  Haverhill 
markets  dropped  Y\C  per  quart,  making 
the  price  in  Nashua  on  the  basis  of  8^4c, 
and  the  price  in  Lawrence  and  Haverhill 
on  the  9c  basis. 

There  has  been  plenty  of  milk  avail- 
able for  these  markets  ever  since  mid- 
December,  and  it  was  thought  wise  by 
the  sales  committee  to  move  prices  back 
in  an  attempt  not  to  over  stimulate  pro- 
duction and  also  it  was  felt  that  a  revi- 
sion down  in  the  retail  price  would  in- 
crease sales. 

There  is  not  much  new  to  report  about 
business  conditions  in  the  various  markets 
of  our  Northern  Market  District  except- 
ing in  the  city  of  Haverhill.  Here  the 
shoe  workers  are  out  on  strike  and  it  is 
reported  that  some  five  thousand  of  these 
workers  are  out  at  the  present  time. 

Should  this  strike  continue,  it  would 
have  a  serious  effect  upon  not  only  the 
sale  of  milk,  but  also  the  ability  of  the 
people  to  pay  for  it.  This  condition  will 
undoubtedly  affect  the  milk  business  in 
the  city  and  will  reflect  upon  farmer 
prices  unless  the  situation  is  straightened 
out  within  a  comparatively  short  time. 
Conferences  are  being  held  between  rep- 
resentatives of  the  shoe  workers  and  the 
manufacturers  with  the  hope  that  some 
agreement  may  be  reached  whereby  the 
factories  can  be  re-opened. 

ANNUAL  MEETINGS 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  Pittsfield, 
N.  H.,  local  was  held  in  Pittsfield.  Pres. 
H.  O.  Dahmen  presided.  The  attendance 
was  about  the  largest  we  have  had  in  re- 
cent years  and  the  interest  seemed  very 
good.  Carl  Smith,  manager  of  the  Man- 
chester unit  of  the  United  Dairy  System, 
was  present,  and  told  about  the  activities 
of  the  United  Dairy  System  in  general 
and  in  particular  with  respect  to  the  Man- 
chester unit.  The  district  manager  out- 
lined market  conditions  with  respect  to 
the  Boston  market,  probable  market 
trends  for  the  immediate  future,  and  also 
gave  a  detailed  report  on  conditions  in 
the  Manchester  market.  The  following 
officers  were  re-elected :  President,  H.  O. 
Dahmen;  secretary,  F.  M.  Morrill. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Suncook 
Valley  local  was  held  at  the  home  of 
Russell  Yeaton  of  Epsom.  There  was 
also  a  very  good  representative  crowd  of 
the  producers  in  this  section  present.  Mr. 
Smith  again  went  over  the  affairs  of  the 
United  Dairy  System  with  this  group,  as 
these  men  are  marketing  their  milk  in 
that  unit.  The  district  manager  gave  a 
report  on  market  conditions  similar  to 
that  given  at  Pittsfield,  after  which  there 
was  a  general  discussion  of  milk  market- 
ing affairs.  Officers  were  re-elected  as 
follows :  President,  Blanchard  H.  Fow- 
ler ;  secretary,  Russell  S.  Yeaton. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Derry, 
N.  H.,  local  was  held  at  the  club  house 
in  North  Salem.  President  Chas.  Pflug 
presided.  Officers  elected  were :  Chas. 
Pflug,  president ;  Van  Ness  Smith,  sec- 
retary ;  Leroy  V.  Nelson,  sales  commit- 
tee. There  was  an  excellent  attendance 
and  a  great  deal  of  interest  in  the  dis- 
cussion of  the  milk  marketing  program 
for  this  group  of  producers  in  this 
locality.   This  group  of  producers  in  this 


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MORRISON'S  OLD  ENGLISH 

Liniment  "fills  the  bill"  every  time,  not 
only  in  the  woods,  but  also  in  the  home, 
in  the  mill — in  fact  wherever  a  liniment 
is  needed. 

It  is  a  tried  and  proven  remedy  for  the 
treatment  of  Rheumatism,  Sciatica,  Lum- 
bago, Lame  Muscles,  Sprains,  Strains, 
Bruises,  Cuts,  Burns,  Frost  Bites,  Insect 
Stings.  Use  it  to  relieve  the  pain  of 
Corns,  Bunions. 

For  a  fresh  cut  or  wound  pour  to  it 
Morrison's  Old  English  Liniment  and  it 
will  instantly  stop  its  bleeding  and  you 
will  have  no  soreness. 

Sold  by  all  Druggists.  If  yours  doesn't 
keep  it,  buy  from  us.  For  family  use 
call  for  the  liniment  in  white  cartons. 
Price — Full  Pints,  $1.00:  Half  Pints,  60c. 
Mailed  prepaid  on  receipt  of  price  by 
the  Owners  and  Manufacturers. 

THE  JAMES  VV.  FOSTER  CO. 
Box  91  Bath,  New  Hampshire 


50,000  Weekly,  Prepaid,  100  Per  Cent  Live  Delivery 
Guaranteed.  All  flocks  culled.  SO  100  400 
White,  Buff  as  Brown  Leghorns  .  6. SO  12.00  46  00 
White  &  Barred  Rocks,  r.laek  Minorcas  .  7.50  14.00  54.00 
Buff  Orpingtons  and  Luff  Rocks  ....  8.00  15.00  58.00 
Rhode  Island  Reds  &  White  Wyandottes  .  8.00  15.00  58.00 
.  8.50  16  00  62.00 
12.50   24.00  94.00 

/inconaa  7. 00    13.00  50.00 

HEAVY  MIXED  $12  per  100.  ODDS  &  ENDS  S9.00  per  100. 
PEKIN  DUCKS  $30  per  100.      Catalog  in  colors  free. 


Black  Giants  and  Light  Brahmas  . 


vicinity  have  been  improving  their  stables    GoLDEW  RtJLE  Hatchery.  Box  26  Bucyrus,  Ohio 


Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 

Farmers,  you  would  not  think  of  buy- 
ing A  pair  of  driving:  horses  to  do  your 
draft  work! 

Use  the  same  judgment  in  buying:  a 
furnace.  The  Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 
has  the  capacity  with  its  extra  large 
door  and  firebox. 

Manufactured  by  the 

DANIELS  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

HARD  WICK,  VERMONT 
F.  F.  Fuller.  Gen.  Art.,  Waterbury.  Vt. 


Member 
Federal 


Rttern 

System 


Your  Chance 

big    may  come 


to  do  something 
but  once. 
Your  chance 
to  get  pre- 
pared through 
a  savings  ac- 
count comes 
every  day. 
Start  today. 


LI8ERTY 
TRUST 
COMPANY 

199  Washington  St. 
Boston,  Mass. 

(Oormer  Osrt  M.) 


Page  Twelve 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1928 


and  general  conditions  under  which  they 
are  producing  milk,  and  expect  to  be  able 
to  produce  a  quality  product  which  will 
be  in  good  demand  as  time  goes  on. 
Some  of  the  producers  have  already  had 
their  herds  tested,  the  last  two  men  un- 
dergoing the  test  being  Messrs.  Nelson 
and  Pflug.  Mr.  Pflug  was  particularly 
fortunate  in  that  he  lost  no  animals  from 
his  tuberculin  test.  Mr.  Nelson  lost  one 
cow. 

Considerable  time  has  been  spent  in 
Eliot,  Me.,  Greenland  and  Stratham, 
N.  H.,  on  quality  work.  Efforts  along 
this  line  centered  around  visits  to  the 
farms  of  the  various  producers  who 
are  making  milk  for  the  Portsmouth 
Creamery. 

D.  W.  Badger,  manager  of  the  Ports- 
mouth Creamery,  is  offering,  beginning 
with  his  next  contract  with  the  NEMPA, 
a  premium  of  5c  per  qt.  can  for  milk 
which  is  of  extra  good  quality  and  pro- 
duced under  certain  specified  conditions. 
Mr.  Badger  and  the  district  manager  have 
been  visiting  the  various  farmers  going 
over  with  them  the  conditions  which  are 
necessary  to  fulfill  before  a  producer  can 
expect  to  compete  for  the  extra  premium 
on  his  milk.  Briefly  it  was  recommended 
that  in  order  to  compete  for  the  premium 
a  dairy  must  have  plenty  of  light  and 
air,  must  remove  the  manure  promptly 
at  least  twice  a  day,  must  have  a  white- 
washed stable,  must  have  an  ample  supply 
of  bedding,  all  utensils  must  be  kept 
clean,  ice  must  be  harvested  in  the  win- 
ter for  use  during  the  summer,  and  milk 
must  be  cooled  in  water  the  year  round. 

Many  of  the  dairies  visited  could  easily 
qualify  for  the  production  of  premium 
milk.  In  fact  with  a  few  changes  and 
a  little  more  attention  paid  to  the  bed- 
ding of  the  cows  and  the  whitewashing 
of  the  tie-ups,  the  majority  of  the  dairies 
could  qualify  for  the  production  of 
premium  milk. 

We  urge  all  producers  selling  to  this 
company  to  consider  this  matter  carefully 
and  make  an  earnest  attempt  to  secure 
this  premium. 

Better  milk  will  not  only  mean  more 
money  to  the  producers  of  this  company, 
but  also  will  mean  better  sales  of  milk, 
which  of  course  helps  the  industry  in 
general. 


Only  one  sales  committee  meeting  has 
been  held  during  the  month  of  January. 
That  taking  place  at  Manchester,  N.  H. 
At  this  time  the  general  situation  of  the 
Manchester  market  was  considered  and 
an  attempt  made  to  negotiate  a  long  term 
price  for  the  Manchester  market.  As  the 
agreement  now  stands  between  the  sales 
committee  and  the  individual  dealers,  a 
price  of  8j^c  per  quart  has  been  agreed 
upon  for  the  next  six  months  provided 
no  serious  disturbances  occur  in  the  Man- 
chester market. 

The  members  of  the  Manchester  sales 
committee  were  faithful  as  usual  in  their 
attendance  at  this  meeting.  A  sub- 
committee of  Messrs.  E.  H.  Smith  of 
E.  Haverhill  and  Paul  Sargeant  of 
Candia  went  to  Boston  and  met  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Hood  Co.  to  discuss 
with  them  the  Manchester  situation. 

It  is  hoped  that  this  market  can  go 
along  for  some  time  without  any  serious 
trouble. 


Scene:  A  gasoline  station  in  a  small 
town  on  the  Overland  Trail. 

Dramatics  Personae :  Small  boy  in  back 
seat  of  sedan  and  resident  minister  of  the 
gosepl. 

Minister :  'And  to  whom  do  you  be- 
long, my  little  man  ?" 

Young  American  (proudly) :  "Daddy  is 
a  lawyer  and  a  Rotarian,  and  mother  is 
president  of  the  Law  Enforcement 
League-" 

Minister:  "And  what  do  you  do?" 
Young  American :  "Oh,  I  look  out  of 
this  back  window  for  the  motor  cop." 


Pat  Neff  was  standing  on  the  station 
platform  of  a  small  Texas  town,  waiting 
for  a  train  one  hot  summer  day,  when  an 
old  panhandler  came  up. 

"Waitin'  for  the  train?"  he  asked. 

"Yes,"  said  Neff.   "Late,  isn't  it?" 

The  old  man  shielded  his  eyes  with  his 
free  hand  and  took  a  long  look  up  the 
track,  which  extended  in  a  straight  line 
to  the  horizon. 

"I  reckon  it  is  a  bit  late,"  he  drawled, 
looking  at  his  great  soda  cracker  of  a 
watch.  "It's  due  in  an  hour — an'  I  don't 
see  it  nowhere." 


Feed  Your  Cows  at  Home  f 

Cut  hay  and  grain  bills.  Make  your  pastures  and  silage  corn  fields 
more  productive 

Fertilize  with 


Animal  fertilizers 


You  will  find  that  1 1  cows  can  be  fed  on  a  pasture  of  Fertilized 
land  where  only  six  can  be  fed  on  UNfertilized. 

That's  certainly  turning  your  land  to  your  pocketbook  advantage! 

What  a  demonstration  of  the  fact  that  it  is  cheaper  to  grow  feed  in 
a  fertilized  pasture  and  send  the  cows  after  it,  than  to  grow  it  on 
crop  land  and  send  the  hired  man  and  a  team  after  it. 

Try  it  this  Season 

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Branch  Consolidated  Rendering  Co. 
40  No.  Market  St..  Boston.  Mass. 


Steady 
Money-Mak 

For  Thousands  oS  Eastern 
Dairymen  and  Poultrymen 

Thousands  and  thousands  of  Eastern  Dairymen  and  Poultrymen  tes- 
tify ...  in  unsolicited  letters  each  year  .  . .  that  B-B  (Bull  Brand)  Dairy 
and  Poultry  Feeds  are  Steady  Money-Makers  for  them. 

They  say  that  B-B  (Bull  Brand)  Feeds  produce  more  milk  and  eggs 
per  pound  of  feed  .  .  .  maintain  maximum  production  for  a  longer 
period  .  .  .  keep  their  cows  and  chickens  in  better  physical  condition  . . . 
and  cause  them  less  profit-losing  troubles  .  .  .  than  any  other  rations 
they  have  ever  used — regardless  of  price. 

Feed  merchants  report  that  the  news  of  the  uniform  profits  and  the  all- 
around  satisfactory  results  which  B-B  (Bull  Brand)  Feeds  produce — 
spreads  rapidly  from  feeder  to  feeder,  and  that  it  creates  a  constantly 
growing  demand  which  means  increased  business,  satisfied  customers, 
and  more  earnings  for  those  who  handle  Bull  Brand  Feeds- 

B-B  (Bull  Brand)  Feeds  will  produce  these  results  for  you,  too.  Their 
proof  will  be  shown  to  you  in  the  results  they  produce,  the  dollars  they 
earn,  and  the  profit  they  leave  after  their  cost  is  paid. 

The  money-making  ability  of  B-B  (Bull  Brand)  Feeds  has  made  pos- 
sible the  striking  success  of  Maritime  Milling  Company  as  an  institu- 
tion. In  a  few  years  this  company  has  risen  to  a  place  among  the  leaders 
of  the  industry. 

Try  B-B  [Bull  Brand]  Feeds  Under  This  Guarantee 

Get  300  pounds  of  B-B  [Bull  Brand]  Sweetened  or  Dry  Dairy  Ration  or  a  30-day 
supply  of  B-B  [Bull  Brand]  Poultry  Feeds  from  your  local  Bull  Brand  Dealer.  Feed 
according  to  the  directions  in  each  sack.  Check  the  production.  Compare  the 
results.  If  B-B  [Bull  Brand]  Feeds  do  not  produce  greater  results  per  dollar  of  feed 
cost  .  .  .  bring  the  empty  sacks  and  the  unused  feed  back  to  our  dealer  and 
he  will  refund  every  cent  of  your  money. 

MARITIME  MILLING  CO.,  INC.,  BUFFALO,  NEW  YORK. 

Makers  of  Properly  Balanced  and  "Always  Uniform"  Dairy,  Poultry,  and  Stock  Feeds 

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Built  in  our  own  plants  to  our  own  specifications 
When  better  cans  are  made,  we  will  build  them.  Accu- 
rate standard  capacities,  best  materials  heavily  tinned, 
seams  filled  with  solder.  May  be  easily  cleaned.  As 
bacteria-proof  as  possible.  In  your  next  milk  can 
order  specify  C-P — you  will  not  be  disappointed. 

Write  for  FREE  Catalogue  of  Dairy  Goods. 

The  Creamery  Package  Mfg.  Company 

]41  Washington  St.  N.  -   -   Boston,  Mass. 


1028 


February,  1928 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


THE  DAIRY  SITUATION 

(Continued  from  page  eight) 

problems.  An  accredited,  proved  sire  has 
been  designated  as  one  with  5  or  more 
daughters  with  production  records  equal 
to  or  greater  than  their  dams.  Cow  test- 
ing association  work  on  a  much  larger 
scale  is  therefore  needed  in  order  to  find 
and  develop  good  bulls  in  larger  numbers. 

New  England  dairymen  who  continue 
to  raise,  buy,  or  keep  inferior,  low- 
producing  cows  cannot  successfully  com- 
pete with  their  neighbors  who  are  raising 
or  buying  dairy  cows  of  higher  producing 
quality.  To  better  our  dairy  economic 
condition,  it  is  admitted  that  we  must  in- 
crease individual  cow  production  and  im- 
prove the  quality  of  the  milk  so  as  to 
command  the  best  available  markets. 
Some  Vermont  figures  show  that  a  cow 
producing  2,000  pounds  of  milk  nets  the 
owner  only  $5.00  over  cost  of  feed, 
whereas  a  cow  giving  10,000  pounds  pays 
its  owner  $130.00. 

Big  business  avoids  losses  by  carefully 
following  a  cost  accounting  system.  The 
cow  testing  or  herd  improvement  asso- 
ciation is  that  sort  of  check  for  the 
dairyman.  It  will  show  him  what  feed 
and  milk  production  costs  are  per  cow. 
It  assumes,  of  course,  that  he  will  weed 
out  the  poor  producer  as  discovered  by 
the  cow  tester. 

The  Bureau  of  Dairy  Industry,  in  a 
long  study  involving  some  4,360  yearly 
records,  concludes  that  when  the  average 
grade  dam  reaches  a  production  of  over 
8,000  pounds  of  milk,  the  average  bull 
mated  with  such  cows  failed  to  get 
daughters  whose  production  would  ex- 
ceed that  of  their  dams.  Therefore,  in 
order  to  continue  improving  the  produc- 
tion of  the  herd,  proved  sires  with  ability 
to  transmit  production  qualities  must  be 
used. 

Proved  sires  once  found  should  be  used 
to  capacity  and  arrangement  made  to  ex- 
change with  other  herd  owners  when  no 
longer  needed  in  their  own  herd.  Thus, 
cow  testing  associations  are  valuable  not 
only  in  spotting  and  eliminating  unprofit- 
able cows  but_  are  quite  as  valuable  in 
finding  good  sires. 

Feeds 

Grains  represent  the  greatest  "out  of 
pocket"  expense  in  New  England  dairy- 
ing. Now  when  it  appears  as  if  grains 
and  concentrates  may  be  considerably 
higher,  we  will  be  more  than  ever  in- 
terested in  how  to  reduce  the  grain  bill. 

Alfalfa  and  clover  are  now  grown  on 
many  Massachusetts  dairy  farms  and  it 
seems  pretty  well  demonstrated  that  they 
can  be  grown  to  advantage  in  many  sec- 
tions of  Massachusetts.  Their  more  ex- 
tensive use  in  our  dairy  rations  will  tend 
to  reduce  decidely  our  cash  grain  bill; 
and  farmers  are  advised  to  make  careful 
inquiries  as  to  what  most  progressive 
farmers  are  doing  with  legumes  in  their 
neighborhood  and,  if  practical,  arrange 
to  grow  more  of  these  crops. 

New  experimental  work  at  least  points 
to  the  fact  that  certain  feeds  give  us 
better  vitamin  content  in  the  milk.  In 
the  years  to  come,  we  likely  will  have 
to  pay  more  attention  to  the  vitamin  con- 
tent of  feed  and  to  the  amount  of  sun- 
light to  which  cows  and  feeds  are  ex- 
posed. 

Markets 

I  think  I  know  the  farmers  of  the 
Mid-west.  They  have  rich  fields,  large 
farms,  and  they  like  to  raise  corn,  wheat, 
hogs  and  beef  cattle.  When  prices  look 
up,  as  seems  to  be  the  case  now,  they 
are  likely  to  reduce  their  dairy  opera- 
tions just  as  they  have  done  so  often 
before;  thus  we  need  not  expect  any 
abnormally  great  continued  increase  in 
products  that  will  compete  with  ours. 
Wondetful  things  are  being  claimed  for 
the  new  thermo-lined  tank  cars,  but  the 
present  high  freight  will  be  almost  pro- 
hibitive so  far  as  New  England  markets 
are  concerned. 


I  m  sorry,"  said  the  pitcher,  "but  if 
Biggins  is  going  to  umpire  today,  I  don't 
think  I'd  better  pitch." 

"Why  not?"  inquired  the  manager. 

"Well,"  explained  the  pitcher,  "last 
winter  when  I  was  down  in  Florida  I 
sold  him  a  lot." 


A  HANDSOME  Speed  Truck,  ideal  for  a  great 
v-*^*  variety  of  farm  loads.  International  Har- 
vester makes  eight  distinct  Speed  Truck  models. 
For  IVi,  lj^,  and  2-ton  loads  and  with  4  or 
6-cylinder  engine.  Express  or  stake  body,  stock 
rack,  grain  tank,  or  any  other  type  of  body 
provided  for  any  size  truck. 


Speed  Truck  or  Heavy- Duty 

the  Farmer  Sticks  to 
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It  is  no  accident  that  farmers  are  relying 
on  International  Trucks  in  the  process  of 
bringing  farm  hauling  up  on  the  plane 
with  tractor  farming  and  automobiling. 

International  Harvester  equipment  has 
served  them  in  every  farming  operation 
for  so  many  years.  International  Harvester 
tractors  have  given  them  the  standard 
farm  power.  And  they  have  benefited  by 
the  intimate  contact  with  International 
Harvester  service,  close  by,  everywhere 
in  the  land. 

Most  important,  they  have  preferred 
International  Trucks  for  what  they  are — 
fine,  sturdy  trucks  to  be  proud  of,  trucks 
sure  to  render  many  years  of  faithful  farm 
hauling,  ready  for  field  and  road,  for  heav 


iest  going.  They  know  that  Internationals 
have  been  serving  tens  of  thousands  of 
owners  in  city  and  town  and  country,  for 
nearly  a  quarter'century.  And  they  know 
of  the  quality  of  International  service  ren- 
dered by  136  Companyowned  branches. 

Speed  up  your  hauling  in  speed,  quality* 
and  efficiency.  Own  an  International — the 
sizes  run  all  the  way  from  the  ^4 'ton 
"Special  Delivery"  to  the  5'ton  Heavy 
Duty  truck.  Let  a  good'looking  Interna' 
tional  save  your  time  for  profitable  work. 
We  will  mail  you  an  International  truck 
folder  on  request. 

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INTERNATIONAL 


One  of  the  Heavy- 
Duty  Internationals 
with  a  day's  dairy 
harvest.  The  Heavy 
Duties  are  of  2Vi,3Vi, 
and  5-ton  capacities. 


THE  BLUE  RIBBON 
ELECTRIC  MILKER 


A  Portable  Milker 


No  Installation  required.  Haa  seven 
years  of  satisfactory  service  behind 
it.  Furnished  complete  to  run  from 
light  line  or  32  volt  plant.  Sanitary 
and  very  easy  to  handle 
Prices  and  further  information  fur- 
nished on  request. 

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DR.  DANIELS 

COW 
INVIGORATOR 

UDERKREAM 

REAL  COW  MEDICINES 

Less  Weakness         Better  Cows 
More  and  Better  MilK 
More  Profit 

FALL  AND  WINTER  «  VZ" 

HEALTH  FOR  YOUR  COW  is  the  Secret  of  Profit 

Prevent  the  Run  Down  Condition 

Give  INVIGORATOR  in  the  Feed 

Use  UDERKREAM  for  the  Udder 

■  end  for  COW  BOOK  — Its  Freb 

Dr.  A.  C.  DANIELS,  Inc. 
172  Milk  Street  Boston  9.  Mass. 


IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


ALFALFA  HAY 

Select  Dairy  Alfalfa  for  sale.  Prompt 
shipment.    Write  for  delivered  prices. 

JOHN  DEVLIN  HAY  CO.,  INC. 
US  No.  Clark  St.  CMeagro,  luteals 


Page  Fourteen 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1928 


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dried  Skim  milk 

which  is  pure,  sweet,  fresh'  skim 
milk,  with  the  water  removed  by  a 
process  which  in  no  way  impairs 
its  food  value. 

It  is  economical,  and  is  the  easiest 
fo  rm  of  milk  to  handle,  keeping 
sweet  indefinitely. 

Ask  your  dealer  for  Buell-Boston. 

For  further  information  and 
feeding  directions,  write 

C.  E.  BUELL,  Inc. 

Board  of  Trad*  Building 
BOSTON     -      -      .  MASS. 


Lime  and  Fertilizer 
SPREADER 

That  will  do  the  best  of  work,  made  to 
attach  to  any  farm  cart  or  wagon  $15.00 

Send  for  circular 
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TARIFF  REVISION 

(Continued  from  page  six) 

the  amounts  of  importations  varied 
greatly  but  in  general  were  not  so  large 
as  during  the  preceding  period.  This  was 
due  to  war  prices  in  Canada.  Beginning 
in  1921  importation  of  cream  from 
Canada  have  been  growing  by  leaps  and 
bounds.  In  1921  and  1922  with  a  five 
cents  a  gallon  duty  the  importations  of 
cream  were  about  2,000,000  gallons.  In 
1922  a  20  cents  a  gallon  duty  was  put 
on  (thanks  to  the  good  work  of  the  or- 
ganized dairy  industry  of  the  United 
States)  but  the  importations  went  on  at 
an  increasing  rate.  The  figures  for  1926 
show  importations  of  5,374,131  gallons  up 
toward  three  times  the  importations  in 
1922,  coming  in  spite  of  the  higher  duty. 
The  value  of  the  cream  shipped  in  from 
Canada  in  1926  was  $8,050,912. 

The  basis  on  which  the  claims  for  an 
increase  in  the  duty  on  cream  could  be 
made  is  cost  of  production  and  handling. 
The  tariff  commission  investigators  have 
done  a  fine  piece  of  work  in  getting  a 
great  volume  of  data  which  will  be  avail- 
able for  study  in  presenting  the  case  for 
an  increased  duty.  For  purposes  of  com- 
parison costs  of  production  are  divided 
into  five  regional  groups,  North  Central 
States,  Philadelphia  milkshed,  New  York 
milkshed,  Boston  milkshed  and  Canada. 
There  is  some  question  about  the  justice 
of  including  the  figures  from  the  North 
Central  States  in  drawing  conclusions  as 
they  are  not  in  direct  competition  with 
Canadian  milk  and  cream,  except  as  they 
might  ship  into  Eastern  markets. 

Putting  all  cream  shipments  on  a  40 
per  cent,  cream  basis  for  purposes  of 
comparison  we  find  that  the  cost  of  pro- 
ducing cream  is  materially  lower  in 
Canada  than  it  is  in  the  milksheds  of 
Philadelphia,  New  York  or  Boston.  Even 
including  the  cheaper  producing  sections 
of  the  west  the  advantage  is  still  on  the 
side  of  the  Canadians.  The  weighted 
average  of  the  costs  of  all  four  sections 
in  the  United  States  is  $2.37  per  gallon 
while  in  Canada  it  is  $2.01.  That  is,  the 
investgiations  show  that  Canadians  pro- 
duce cream  36  cents  a  gallon  more 
cheaply  than  the  United  States  average 
in  the  sections  studied. 

The  difference  is  even  more  marked  in 
the  milksheds  of  the  three  Eastern  cities, 
Philadelphia,  New  York  and  Boston.  In 
the  Philadelphia  milkshed  the  cost  of 
producing  40  per  cent,  cream,  including 
interest  on  investment,  is  $249  a  hundred, 
48  cents  higher  than  in  Canada.  In  the 
New  York  milkshed  the  cost  is  $2.42  or 
41  cents  higher  than  in  Canada.  In  the 
Boston  milkshed  (New  England)  the 
cost  is  $2.48  or  47  cents  a  hundred  higher 
than  in  Canada. 

Plant  costs  also  are  factors  in  the  situ- 
ation of  Canadian  and  United  States 
cream,  also  the  transportation  costs.  The 
average  plant  cost  in  the  four  regions  of 
the  United  States  which  were  surveyed 
was  19.4  cents  a  gallon.  The  Canadian 
plant  cost  was  17.6  a  gallon.  This  plant 
cost  is  a  little  more  than  offset  by  the 
increased  transportation  costs  to  terminal 
markets,  Canadian  points  to  Boston,  New 
York  or  Philadelphia. 

The  final  figure,  which  is  the  basis  for 
forming  a  judgment  as  to  what  increase 
should  be  given,  is  the  sum  of  farm  cost, 
plant  cost  and  transportation  cost.  The 
average  for  the  four  sections  studied  is 
$2,632  per  gallon  as  compared  with  $2,277 
a  gallon  for  Canadian  cream.  The  dif- 
ference in  these  final  costs,  35.5  cents  a 
gallon,  is  the  basis  for  such  a  judgment. 
In  order  to  put  Canadian  cream  on  the 
same  basis  as  United  States  cream  a  duty 
of  35.5  cents  would  be  justified.  The 
present  duty  is  20  cents  a  gallon.  The 
limit  which  the  law  will  permit  the  presi- 
dent to  increase  duties  is  50  per  cent.,  or 
to  bring  the  present  dutv  up  from  20  to 
30  cents.  If  the  full  50  per  cent,  limit 
should  be  allowed  it  would  still  be  STA 
cents  below  what  was  necessary  to  put 
Canadian  and  United  States  cream  on  the 
same  basis. 

The  difference  as  compared  with  New 
England  cream  is  still  greater.  The  total 
cost  of.  New  England  cream,  including 
production  cost,  plant  cost  and  trans- 
portation charges  is  $2,683  or  40.6  cents 
hieher  than  Canada,  even  taking  into  con- 
sideration the  cost  of  getting  Canadian 
cream  to  Boston.  The  limit  which  the 
tariff  commission  can  give  as  an  increase 


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would  still  leave  an  advantage  of  more 
than  10  cents  a  gallon  on  Canadian 
cream.  The  report  shows  that  Canadian 
cream  has  an  advantage  over  New  York 
cream  of  41.8  cents  a  gallon  and  of  59 
cents  a  gallon  over  Philadelphia  cream. 
In  all  three  markets  the  full  increase  of 
50  per  cent,  allowed  by  law  would  still 
leave  the  advantage  with  Canada  by  a 
substantial  margin. 

In  considering  costs  of  producing  milk 
a  more  concentrated  study  was  made  in  a 
section  of  Northern  Vermont,  Northern 
New  York,  Western  New  York  and 
Canada.  The  totals  show  that  even  if  the 
full  increase  of  50  per  cent,  were  al- 
lowed on  milk  imports  the  advantage 
would  still  be  on  the  side  of  Canada.  The 
present  duty  is  2l/z  cents  a  gallon.  In- 
creasing it  50  per  cent,  would  make  the 
duty  cents  a  gallon.  The  weighted 
average  cost  of  milk,  delivered  at  the 
receiving  plant,  is  25.5  cents  in  the  three 
sections  in  the  United  States  which  were 
surveyed  while  it  is  21.2  cents  in  Canada. 
The  advantage  to  Canadian  milk  on  the 
score  of  production  costs  is  4.3  cents  a 
gallon.  The  utmost  duty  which  the  law 
will  allow  is  3J4  cents.  Thus  the  advan- 
tage would  still  be  more  than  a  half  cent 
a  gallon. 

Comparisons  are  also  made  with  the 
cost  of  producing  milk  in  all  nine  areas 
studied  in  New  England  but  as  this  takes 
in  the  cost  of  production  in  areas  like 
Brockton  and  other  areas  near  to  city 
markets  it  is  not  so  fair  a  comparison 
as  the  ones  between  milk  close  to  the 
border,  as  in  Northern  Vermont  and  ad- 
jacent areas  in  Canada.  As  much  of  the 
Canadian  milk  from  these  areas  is  trucked 
over  to  plants  in  northern  Vermont  or 
sent  from  Canadian  plants  at  very  little 
greater  distance  from  the  terminal  mar- 
kets, the  cost  of  transportation  can  be 
left  out  of  the  consideration.  The  fair 
basis  for  comparison  seems  to  be  cost  of 
production  on  either  side  of  the  line. 


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tions in  New  England,  made  by  the 
U.  S.  D.  A.  crop  reporting  service  Jan. 
17,  has  some  interesting  general  state- 
ments.   The  report  was  in  part: 

"Reports  from  many  dairymen  in  all 
parts  of  New  England  indicate  that  the 
average  milk  production  per  cow  for  all 
cows  on  Jan.  1  was  nearly  three  per  cent, 
less  than  3  year  ago.  Total  milk  produc- 
tion will  show  a  greater  reduction  as  it 
appears  certain  that  there  are  fewer  milk 
cows  in  New  England  than  a  year  ago. 
Recent  high  prices  for  milk  cows  indicate 
a  shortage  of  this  class  of  livestock.  On 
Jan.  1,  1928,  the  average  daily  milk  pro- 
duction for  all  cows  was  14.61  pounds 
per  cow  compared  with  14.01  pounds  a 
month  ago;  15.04  pounds  a  year  ago  and 
14.64  pounds  two  years  ago.  Average 
milk  production  per  cow  on  Jan.  1  was 
close  to  the  average  of  several  years. 

"Recent  weather  conditions  have  been 
unusually  favorable  to  milk  production. 
For  New  England  by  states,  average  milk 
production  per  cow  on  Jan.  1  was :  5.3 
per  cent,  less  in  Maine ;  4.4  per  cent,  less 
in  New  Hampshire;  9.1  per  cent,  less  in 
Massachusetts.  Connecticut  shows  an  in- 
crease of  2.5  per  cent.,  Rhode  Island  a 
10  per  cent,  increase  and  Vermont  .2  of 
one  per  cent. 

Dry  cows  are  increasing  in  importance. 
On  January  1  for  New  England  as  a 
whole,  26.07  per  cent,  were  dry  compared 
with  23.61  per  cent,  on  December  1  and 
24.78  per  cent,  on  January  1  a  year  ago. 
Maine  shows  24.6  per  cent,  of  all  cows 
as  dry  on  January  1 ;  New  Hampshire 
26  per  cent.,  Vermont  33.7  per  cent., 
Massachusetts  19.4  per  cent.,  Rhode 
Island  17.6  per  cent,  and  Connecticut 
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February,  1928 


Shipments  of  Western  Milk 


The  effects  of  the  flood  on  the  dairy 
industry  are  indicated  by  the  records  of 
shipments  to  Boston  for  November  and 
to  a  lesser  degree  for  December.  The 
records  show  that  there  was  a  large  de- 
crease in  the  shipments  from  Vermont, 
accompanied  by  a  record  of  receipts  of 
milk  and  cream  from  distant  points  to 
meet  the  emergency.  The  decrease  in 
Vermont  shipments  was  about  20  per 
cent,  for  November  and  from  10  to  12 
per  cent,  for  December.  In  January 
most  of  the  Vermont  milk  was  moving 
to  market  by  rail  but  there  are  a  few 
points  from  which  the  costs  are  still  high 
through  lack  of  rail  service. 

The  outstanding  feature  of  the  records 
is  the  great  increase  in  shipments  from 
points  west  of  Buffalo.  The  report  of 
the  Massachusetts  Department  of  Public 
Utilities  for  October  shows  Boston  &  Al- 
bany railroad  receipts  of  milk  from  points 
west  of  Buffalo  as  64,400  quarts  of  cream 
and  no  milk.  The  similar  report  for 
November  shows  that  the  cream  ship- 
ments increased  to  282,080  quarts  and  the 
milk  shipments  amounted  to  327,996 
quarts.  There  were  no  receipts  of  either 
milk  or  cream  recorded  on  other  rail- 
roads for  October  but  in  November 
about  33,000  quarts  of  milk  and  12,000 
quarts  of  cream  came  into  Boston  over 
the  Boston  &  Maine  and  the  New  York, 
New  Haven  &  Hartford  railroad.  The 
total  milk  shipments  from  points  west  of 
Buffalo  in  November  were  360,384  quarts. 
Cream  shipments  totaled  290,080  quarts. 

In  addition  to  the  Boston  &  Albany 
record  of  milk  receipts  from  "points  west 
of  Buffalo,"  all  such  shipments  being  put 
into  one  item,  the  Boston  &  Maine  rec- 
ords show  23,836  quarts  of  milk  received 
from  Maryland,  12,000  quarts  of  cream 
received  from  Michigan,  44,172  quarts  of 
milk  received  from  Pennsylvania.  New 
York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  records 
show  13,110  quarts  of  milk  received  from 
Delaware,  164,000  quarts  of  milk  from 
the  District  of  Columbia,  24,188  quarts 
received  from  Illinois,  161,716  quarts  from 
Maryland,  8,200  quarts  from  Ohio,  817,- 
354  quarts  of  milk  and  13,658  quarts  of 
cream  from  Pennsylvania  and  50,100 
quarts  of  milk  from  Virginia. 

These  figures  indicate  the  extremes  to 
which  dealers  went  to  get  a  normal  sup- 
ply of  milk  from  their  trade.  It  is  also 
an  indication  of  the  competition  which 
we  might  be  subjected  to  except  for  the 
high  transportation  costs.    The  dealers 


went  out  and  bought  this  milk,  paying 
whatever  price  they  had  to  in  order  to 
get  it  on  an  emergency  basis  and  paying 
whatever  transportation  costs  were  neces- 
sary. The  public  was  well  served  during 
the  emergency.  While  the  dealers  were 
hard  put  to  it  to  supply  everyone  with 
all  the  milk  they  wanted  for  the  first  48 
hours  of  the  cutting  off  of  their  normal 
supply  by  the  flood,  after  that  they  sup- 
plied the  trade  with  all  it  needed. 

The  comparisons  of  November  ship- 
ments with  shipments  for  November,  1926, 
from  the  New  England  states  and  other 
points  shows  the  extent  to  which  the 
flood  disturbed  normal  conditions : 

1926  1927 

Maine   1,408,000  1,317,000 

New  Hampshire    983,000  894,000 

Vermont   9,864,000  2,124,000 

Massachusetts   r  912,000  1,066,000 

Connecticut    200,000  164,000 

New  York   2,003,000  1,932,000 

Records  of  cream  shipments  from  the 
New  England  states  and  from  New  York 
indicate  the  extent  to  which  cream  ship- 
ments were  changed  over  to  milk  ship- 
ments to  meet  the  emergency,  also  the 
extent  to  which  cream  and  milk  was 
rushed  in  from  all  available  territory. 
The  cream  shipments  by  states  were  as 
follows : 

1926  1927 

Maine   227,000  207,000 

New  Hampshire   51,000  89,000 

Vermont   629,000  548,000 

Massachusetts    31,000  63,000 

Rhode  Island    3,600  2,000 

Connecticut    1,000   

New  York    96,000  43,000 

The  full  story  of  the  flood  disturbance 
is  told  in  the  combined  shipments  of  milk 
and  cream  from  the  several  states  which 
regularly  supply  the  Boston  market.  The 
totals  for  November  were  as  follows  in 
the  two  years : 

1926  1927 

Maine    3,635,000  3,387,000 

New  Hampshire        1,493,000  1,784,000 

Vermont   16,154,000  13,604,000 

Massachusetts    1,222,000  1,696,000 

Rhode  Island    3,000  2,000 

Connecticut    210,000  164,000 

New  York   2,963,000  2,362,000 

These  totals  are  interesting  for  several 
reasons  indicating  changes  in  milk  pro- 
duction and  possibilities  of  bringing  in 


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and  produces  milk  at  an  extremely  low  cost  per  unit  of  production.  Fish  Meal, 
which  is  proving  of  inestimable  value  in  the  feeding  of  dairy  cattle,  is  one  f 
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BET-R-MIL.K  is  the  outstanding  20%  Dairy  Ration.    Its  ingredients  are  all 
selected  grain  products,  so  combined   with  Fish  Meal,  molasses  and  minerals     fl  ■, 
as  to  make  it  not  only  palatable  and  productive  but   a  health  builder  and 
a  profit  maker  as  well:    It  has  the  endorsement  of  many  prominent  feeders.  . 

HKKDHI5L.TH  16%  ia  a  low  protein  Dairy  Ration  of  many  uses.  Because 
of  its  complete  mineral  balance,  palatibility  and  digestibility,  it  is  ideal  for       '  i 
young  stock,  dry  stock,  as  a  pasture   ration,  and  as  a  base  for  use  with 
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additional  milk  in  an  emergency.  In  the 
case  of  Maine  it  is  fair  to  assume  that 
tiie  dealers  would  get  every  possible 
quantity  of  milk  from  that  state,  rather 
than  pay  the  higher  prices  and  higher 
transportation  costs  from  the  West.  Yet 
the  figures  show  that,  with  both  milk  and 
cream  taken  into  consideration,  Maine  in 
an  emergency  shipped  250,000  quarts  less 
product.  This  is  an  indication  of 
lessened  production  in  that  state  as  com- 
pared with  the  year  previous. 

The  New  Hampshire  total,  with  its  in- 
crease of  300,000  quarts,  would  be  a 
puzzle  if  it  were  not  for  the  fact  that 
a  considerable  portion  of  product  origi- 
nating in  Vermont  was  trucked  over  into 
New  Hampshire  for  rail  shipment,  as  rail 
communication  was  shut  off  from  the 
Vermont  side.  It  is  not  to  be  taken  as 
an  indication  that  there  is  any  consider- 
able supply  of  milk  in  New  Hampshire 
which  could  be  brought  in  during  an 
emergency.  It  is  simply  a  case  of  some 
product  originating  in  Vermont  being 
shipped  from  New  Hampshire  points. 

The  flood  situation  is  shown  clearly  in 
the  Vermont  totals,  16,154,000  quarts  of 
product  in  November,  1926,  and  13,604,- 
000  quarts  of  product  in  November,  1927. 
The  difference,  about  2l/z  million  quarts, 
represents  the  effect  of  the  flood  in  re- 
ducing shipments  from  Vermont. 

In  Massachusetts  the  increase  of  474,- 
000  is  due  in  part  to  supplies  for  Boston 
which  were  secured  in  some  of  the  lesser 
markets  and  more  particularly  to  some 
New  York  milk  which  was  trucked  into 
Massachusetts  and  shipped  from  some 
point  within  the  state. 

Shipments  of  milk  from  Rhode  Island 
are  so  small  that  they  do  not  appear  in 
the  table  at  all.  Shipments  of  cream,  ex- 
pressed in  terms  of  milk  production,  were 
only  two-thirds  what  they  were  in 
November,  1926.  A  similar  situation 
exists  in  Connecticut  shipments,  all  the 
cream  being  shipped  over  to  milk  and  a 
material  decrease  in  the  milk  shipments. 
In  both  cases  the  figures  indicate  that 
there  is  no  additional  milk  available  for 
Massachusetts,  even  under  emergency 
conditions. 

In  New  York  the  decrease  may  be  ex- 
plained in  some  small  part  by  the  fact 
that  some  product  originating  in  New 
York  is  credited  to  Massachusetts  as  ex- 
plained above,  and  partly  by  the  fact 
that  there  has  been  a  considerable  shrink- 
age of  the  shipments  from  New  York 
state  through  the  year,  due  to  conditions 
altogether  apart  from  the  flood. 


MORE  MILK  FROM  LESS 
COWS 

An  additional  2,000,000  people  each 
year  for  the  next  40  years  could  be  sup- 
plied with  as  much  milk  as  is  now  used 
per  capita  without  adding  to  the  number 
of  cows  in  the  dairy  herds,  if  each  cow 
would  produce  100  pounds  more  milk  each 
year,  C.  W.  Larson,  chief  of  the  Bureau 
of  Dairy  Industry,  says  in  his  annual  re- 
port made  yesterday  to  Secretary  of  Ag- 
riculture Jardine. 

The  dairy  herds  of  the  United  States 
include  about  22,000,000  cows.  About 
400,000  of  these,  owned  by  members  of 
dairy-herd-improvement  associations,  are 
tested  each  month  for  milk  and  butterfat 
production,  enabling  owners  to  eliminate 
unprofitable  cows  from  the  herds.  In 
1926,  Dr.  Larson  states,  on  the  basis  of 
comparative  records,  360,000  of  these 
cows  produced  as  much  milk  as  584,000 
average  cows,  and  returned  as  much 
profit  over  cost  of  feed  as  640,000  aver- 
age cows. 

The  average  annual  production  of  the 
cows  in  dairy-herd-improvement  associa- 
tions in  1920  was  about  6,000.  pounds  of 
milk,_in  1926  about  7,500  pounds,  or  an 
average  annual  increase  of  about  200 
pounds  as  the  result  of  improved  prac- 
tices growing  out  of  testing,  such  as 
elimination  of  unprofitable  producers, 
selective  breeding,  and  scientific  feeding 
of  the  profitable  cows  in  the  herd.  If 
only  half  as  much  gain  could  be  made  in 
herds  generally,  the  increased  milk  sup- 
ply' from  the  present  number  of  cows 
would  provide  for  80,000,000  more  people 

Included  in  the  report  are  summaries 
of  the  achievements  of  the  various 
branches  of  the  bureau  including  the  re- 
search laboratory,  the  breeding  investi- 
gation, market-milk,  and  dairy  production 
projects;  and  results  of  the  branch  ex- 
periment stations  of  the  bureau. 


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NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


February,  1928 


WESTERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Manager 

585  White  Street,  Springfield,  Mas*.  Telephone  Walnut  1714 

PRICES  and  several  of  the  members  were  unable 

Springfield   08^4  t0  attend.    The  following  were  chosen 

Worcester   '.  .08 y2  as  officers  for  1928:  President,  Raymond 

Holyoke                                        08^4  F.  Johnson, ;  secretary,  Eugene  Doerr. 

At  the  request  of  some  members  check 

Springfield  tests  were  made  of  those  producers  on 

At  a  meeting  of  the  dealers  and  sales  the  Grafton  route  who  ship  to  the  United 

committee    the    last    of    December    it  Daify  System     Check  tests  were  also 

seemed  for  the  best  interests  of  the  mar-  made  on  samples  taken  from  the  Brim- 

ket  to  go  back  to  the  pre-flood  price.    It  field  rout^  of  producers  shipping  to  the 

seemed  to  be  the  sentiment  of  all  that  United    Dairy   System.     In   nearly  all 

no  further  reduction  should  be  made  un-  cases  the  test.s  made  checked  very  closely 

less  some  acute  condition  should  arise.  Wlth  *hose  given  by  the  company. 

Local  dairies  have  again  begun  to  gain  Organisation 
in  production  and  the  Northern  supplies 

have  been  moving  regularly.  Beginning  with  the  first  of  the  year 

dues  orders  obtained  from  producers  sell- 

Worcester  ing  to  the  following  Worcester  dealers 

As  is  usually  the  case  during  the  first  are  being  put  into  effect  : 

two  or  three  weeks  after  New  Years,  _  T-  H.  Greenwood,  L.  H.  Blodgett  & 

there   was  considerable   surplus   in   the  Son    C.  T.  Salmonsen    R.  H.  Harbor 

market.    Weather  conditions  have  been  C;. ,W ■  Melgren  L.  H   Matson,  Orchard 

abnormal  and  have  been  favorable  to  in-  Palfy  and  J°s-  Garvey. 

creased  production  and  to  curtailment  of  ,,  Ar  dav  SP™\  wlth  Eugene  Doerr  at 

consumption.    However,  considerable  of  Grafton  netted  four  orders,  including  two 

this  extra  milk  has  been  cleaned  up  and,  new  members    At  Sutton  several  orders 

with  good  winter  weather  in  February,  were  obtained  and   four  new  members 

the  supply  and  demand  should  run  along  we.r.e  enrollea-  . 

on  a  good  even  basis.  During  a  day  spent  in  Shrewsbury  ar- 

There  are,  in  spite  of  the  good  work  rangements  were  made  with  those  pro- 
of the  Dealers'  Association,  several  deal-  *ucersA  selling  to  R.  H  Harlow  to  have 
ers  of  various  sizes  who,  when  they  have  the'r  dues  Pa'd  throu&h  th'f  dealer-  TSev" 
a  few  quarts  of  surplus,  rush  out  and  eral  duef  0,rd,efs  were  obtained  It  is 
sell  it  at  any  price.  Pla™ed  t0  ho,ld  a  ^ectrng  of  this  local 

At  the  last  regular  meeting  of  the  m  *he  neaI  future  for  the  purpose  of 

dealers  the  following  were  appointed  to  e            officers-  .   The   organization  is 

serve  on  the  committee  to  meet  with  our  5  ea dllvt  SaininS  in  strength  around  the 

sales  committee:    S.  H.  Wentzell,  T.  R.  Worcester  market. 

Wentzell,  Fred  Kingdon,  C.  B.  Cope-  

land,  Richard  Brooks,  C.  T.  Solmonsen, 

A.  J.  Cutting  and  E.  Medlinsky.  EMERGENCY  TARIFF 

This  makes  a  committee  a  little  larger  LEGISLATION 

in  numbers  than  that  representing  the 

producers.    It  is  perhaps  advisable  for  A  request  that  the  70th  Congress  enact 

the  producers  to  increase  their  committee  a  special  emergency  agricultural  tariff 

by  one  or  two  members.  bill  raising  existing  duties  is  announced 

Practically  all  of  the  dealers  are  now  by  the  National  Co-operative  Milk  Pro- 
contributing  toward  the  work  of  the  New  ducers'  Federation  following  a  meeting 
England  Dairy  and  Food  Council.  Miss  01  the  executive  committee  of  that  or- 
Robertson  has  been  busy  with  the  school  ganization  in  Washington.  According  to 
work  and  with  the  different  women's  terms  of  the  resolution  unanimously 
clubs.  She  states  that  the  school  people  adopted  this  bill  should  include  all  dairy 
are  giving  her  excellent  co-operation.  products  and  fats  of  animal  or  vegetable 

I  believe  that  this  work  the  council  is  origin,  which  compete  directly  or  indi- 

doing  is  not  fully  appreciated  by  the  ma-  rectly  with  dairy  products.    The  resolu- 

jority  of  producers.    It  is,  I  sincerely  tlon  aIso  asked  for  an  excise  tax  on 

believe,    a   work    that   every    producer  Philippine   agricultural    products  which 

should  most  willingly  support.  compete  with  American  produced  prod- 
ucts. The  resolution  also  took  cognizance 

Local  Meetings  of  the  fact  that  other  agricuitural  pro- 

A  meeting  of  the  Brimfield  local  was  ducers  other  than  dairymen  may  also 
held  January  11th  at  the  Brimfield  Town  need  upward  revision  of  duties  on  prod- 
Hall.  About  fifteen  producers  attended.  ucts  that  compete  with  those  of  their 
Mr.  Ellis  of  the  United  Dairy  System  own  raising. 

spoke  on  the  business  the  system  is  doing  Following  the  passage  of  this  resolu- 

and  he  answered  many  questions  asked  tion  a  special  committee  was  created  to 

by    producers.     The    district    manager  present  the  request  to  Congress  and  to 

spoke  on  the  advantages  of  a  known  get    into   touch    with    other  organized 

price  buying  plan.    S.  O.  Russell  was  groups  with  a  view  to  working  out  a 

elected  president  and  Orlo  Parker,  secre-  plan  of  concerted  action.    This  commit- 

tary.  tee  consists  of  John  D.  Miller  of  Susque- 

A  meeting  of  the  Somers,  Conn.,  local  hanna,  Pa.,  president  of  the  federation; 
was  held  Friday  evening,  Jan.  13th,  and,  Charles  W.  Holman  of  Washington, 
in  spite  of  the  terrible  condition  of  the  D.  C,  secretary  of  the  federation;  Paul 
roads  about  a  dozen  producers  were  Smith,  member  of  the  executive  commit- 
present.  Several  members  of  the  Elling-  tee  of  the  Dairymen's  League  Co-opera- 
ton  local  were  on  hand.  This  local  has  tive  Association,  Inc.,  of  New  York  City ; 
lort  a  majority  of  its  members,  they  John  Brandt,  president  of  the  Land 
having  turned  to  Hartford,  Conn.,  for  O'Lakes  Creameries,  Inc.,  of  Minneapo- 
their  market  and  have  become  members  lis,  Minn.,  and  Frank  G.  Swoboda,  gen- 
of  the  Conn.  Milk  Producers'  Associa-  eral  manager  of  the  Wisconsin  Cheese 
tion.  Producers'  Federation  of  Plymouth,  Wis. 

There  was  considerable  discussion  con-  The  executive  committee  admitted  to 

cerning  the   Springfield  market  and  it  membership  the  Challenge  Cream  &  But- 

was  thought  best  to  increase  the  size  of  ter  Association  of  Los  Angeles,  repre- 

the  Springfield  sales  committee,  at  least  senting  14  large  co-operative  creamery 

temporarily.    There  was  also  some  dis-  associations  of  California  and  Idaho,  and 

cussion  concerning  the  merging  of  the  the  Pure  Milk  Association  of  the  Chi- 

few    remaining    members    at    Ellington  cago  district  of  Illinois,  representing  3,000 

with  the  Somers  local.    It  was  decided,  dairy  farmers.    This  action  now  gives 

however,  to  let  this  matter  stand  until  a  the  federation  a  membership  of  43  im- 

later  date.  portant  co-operative  dairy  groups  with 

At  Frank  Donahue's  office  in  Grafton,  an  aggregate  farmer  membership  of  310,- 

Wednesday  evening,  Jan.  18th,  the  Graf-  000   located   in  the   dairy  belt   of  the 

ton  local  met  to  elect  officers.    Again  the  United  States  from  New  England  to  the 

roads  were  in  a  very  uncertain  condition  Pacific  Coast. 


Barn-feeding 

...need  not  rob  you 
of  Milk  Profits/ 


When  such  cow  ail- 
ments as  Barrenness, 
Retained  Afterbirth, 
Abortion,  Bunches, 
Scours,  Lost  Appetite, 
etc.,  threaten  your 
profits,  use  Kow-Kare, 
as  shown  on  each  can. 
For  thirty  years  this 
great  regulator  and 
remedy  has  been  sav- 
ing money  for  cow 
owners — bringing  ail- 
ing cows  promptly 
back  to  health.  No 
dairy  barn  should  be 
without  this  famous 
home  remedy  for  dis- 
orders of  milk  cows. 
Thousands  of  dairy- 
men find  it  the  most 
dependable  aid  to  cow 
health  and  profits. 


This  winter  you  can  say  good-bye  to 
many  of  the  production  losses  you've 
faced  year  after  year.  Kow-Kare  will 
change  these  losses  into  profits  for 
you.  When  you  pay  for  your  first  can 
of  Kow-Kare  you  can  depend  upon 
getting  back  two  or  three  times  this 
cost  out  of  the  milk  pail. 

The  difference  will  be  not  so  much 
in  what  you  feed  as  in  what  happens 
after  it  is  consumed.  Few  cows  can 
assimilate  and  turn  into  milk  all  the 
dry  rich  feed  they  consume — with- 
out systematic  conditioning.  Kow- 
Kare  keeps  the  digestion  and  milk- 
producing  organs  responsive.  Heavy 
feeding  is  made  safe — and  profitable. 

Feed  a  tablespoonful  of  Kow-Kare 
with  the  grain  one  or  two  weeks  each 
-month.  Note  the  fuller  milk  pails, 
the  better  looking  cows,  the  improved 
appetites.  This  conditioning  costs 
only  a  few  cents  per  month  per  cow. 
It's  the  biggest  little  investment  you 
ever  made.  Try  it  on  all  your  cows 
this  winter. 

When  Cows  Freshen 

be  sure  to  feed  a  tablespoonful  of 
Kow-Kare  in  the  feedings  for  two  or 
three  weeks  before  and  after.  You 
will  call  it  the  best  health  insurance 
you  ever  paid  for.  A  better  calf,  a  cow 
free  from  disorders  so  often  arising  at 
calving  is  worth  spending  many  times 
what  Kow-Kare  will  cost  you. 

Feed  dealers,  general  stores  and 
druggists  have  Kow-Kare.  Large  size 
$1.25;  6  cans  $6.25;  Small  size  65c.  If 
your  dealer  is  not  supplied  we  will 
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nized conditioning  value.  Simply  mix  30  lbs.  salt,  30 
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hundred  you  will  have  an  unbeatable  mineral.  Use 
80  lbs.  of  this  mixture  to  a  ton  of  grain. 


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the  same  general  principles  and  answers  your  question 
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February,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nineteen 


SOUTHERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

H.  W.  FIENEMANN,  Mgr. 
Slide  Building,  44  Washington  Street,  Providence 
Telephone,  Dexter  6469 

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JANUARY  PRICES 

Providence,  R.  I  '.  $4,052 

Fall  River,  Mass   4.052 

New  Bedford,  Mass   4.165 

Brockton,  Mass   3.952 

Newport,  R.  1   3.467 

(Above  prices  per  cwt.  for.  3.7  per 
cent,  milk  delivered  at  dealers'  plants.) 

This  new  way  of  quoting  prices  must 
be  satisfactory.  At  least  we  received  no 
criticism  on  it.  Once  folks  become 
familiar  with  it,  they  will  like  it  better 
than  the  old  way.  There  are  still  46.5 
quarts  in  100  pounds  of  milk. 

FROZEN   MILK  COMING 

Much  frozen  milk  is  arriving  at  the 
plants.  Some  of  this  can  be  blamed  onto 
the  truckmen  who  travel  long  distances 
and  do  not  take  the  necessary  precau- 
tions. However,  when  a  truckload  of 
milk  arrives  with  certain  producers' 
product  frozen  badly,  and  their  neighbors' 
milk  in  good  condition,  can  we  blame  the 
truckman  ? 

Milk  should  not  be  left  out  in  the  cold 
all  night.  Once  it  gets  cooled  to  about 
50  degrees  F,  cover  it  up  well  or  take 
some  other  precaution. 

This  office  has  had  more  complaints 
than  usual  about  variations  in  tests. 
Frozen  milk  cannot  be  sampled  in  a  fair 
manner.  Furthermore,  badly  frozen  milk 
is  not  improved  any  in  quality  and  we, 
as  producers,  should  at  least  do  our  part 
in  furnishing  a  desirable  quart  of  milk 
to  consumers.    It's  good  business. 

Then,  too,  nothing  breaks  up  the  sched- 
ule in  a  milk  plant  much  more  than  hav- 
ing to  thaw  out  the  day's  supply  before 
putting  it  through. 

Providence,  R.  I. 
Milk  is  more  plentiful  and  dealers  are 
running  some  surplus.  Competition  is 
very  keen  and  many  small  dealers  are 
feeling  its  pinch.  If  there  is  any  doubt 
in  a  producer's  mind  as  to  his  dealer's 
financial  tending,  get  in  touch  with  this 
office.  We  have  found  it  necessary  to 
start  proceedings  against  three  dealers, 
selling  out  two  and  attaching  a  third 
heavily.  There  are  enough  reliable  deal- 
ers in  this  market  who  will  buy  your 
product,  that  it  is  entirely  uncalled  for  to 
tie  up  with  a  doubtful  one  and  lose 
money. 

Fall  River,  Mass. 
This  market  has  had  more  milk  than 
it  needs,  but  dealers  are  disposing  of  it 
so  far,  as  whole  milk  to  other  markets 
very  well.  Seventeen  are  reported  idle 
and  several  of  those  in  operation  have 
announced  10  per  cent,  wage  cuts. 

New  Bedford,  Mass. 
There  is  little  change  in  conditions  on 
this  market.  The  Farmers'  Dairy  Co.  is 
selling  milk  at  13  cents  of?  the  wagon 
to  families,  while  the  other  dealers  have 
continued  to  get  15c.  Apparently,  the 
Farmers'  Dairy  Co.  is  due  for  a  rather 
liberal  education  on  the  surplus  question, 
and  our  members  who  have  remained 
with  their  dealers  have  reaped  the  bene- 
fits of  a  nine-cent  price  and  no  surplus. 

Brockton,  Mass. 
There  is  still  some  severe  price  cutting 
going  on  by  the  dealers  who  are  bringing 
in  outside  milk.  This  continues  to  make 
it  impossible  to  raise  this  market,  but 
we  are  keeping  a  close  watch  and  as  soon 
as  conditions  change,  price  negotiations 
will  begin  once  more. 

Newport,  R.  I. 
Newport  has  enough  milk,  in  fact  a 
little  too  much  by  spells.  The  Aquid- 
neck  Dairy  began  paying  one  cent  more 
on  January  1st.  A  price  cutting  bee  is 
engaging  the  other  two  dealers  on  the 
market,  but  we  expect  this  will  cease  in 
a  short  time. 


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Improvements 

Golden  Color.  These  new  1928  machines  are  finished 
in  beautiful  gold  and  black  colors,  which  are  pleasing, 
durable  and  practical. 

Enclosed  Gears.  All  gears  on  the  "Golden  Series"  are 
completely  enclosed  and  protected,  insuring  maximum 
durability. 

Regulating  Cover.  A  new  type  of  regulating  cover 
and  float  affords  a  flow  of  milk  from  the  supply 
can  in  a  smooth,  even  stream,  without  spattering. 
Turnable  Supply  Can.  A  novel  feature  every  sepa- 
rator user  will  appreciate.  Permits  bowl  and  covers 
to  be  removed  or  put  in  place  without  lifting  the 
supply  can  from  its  position. 

Easier  Turning.  The  "Golden  Series"  machines  are 
easy  to  start  and  turn,  requiring  the  least  power  or 
effort  to  operate  for  the  work  they  do. 
Oil  Window.  Shows  at  a  glance  the  amount  and 
condition  of  the  oil  and  whether  the  separator  is 
being  properly  lubricated. 

Floating  Bowl.  The  finest  separator  bowl  ever  made. 
Self-balancing,  runs  smoothly  without  vibration,  with 
the  least  power,  skims  cleanest,  delivers  a  smooth, 
rich  cream,  and  is  easy  to  take  apart  and  wash. 


Liberal  trade  allowances  are  made  for  old 
separators  of  any  age  or  make  on  account  of 
new  De  Lavals,  which  will  soon  pay  for 
themselves  in  saving  of  butter-fat  and  time. 


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A  great  companion 
to  the  De  Laval  Cream 
Separator  —  equally 
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Now  milking  more 
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and  better  than  any 
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Simple  and  durable, 
does  not  require  ad- 
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well  as  more  profit- 
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five  to  500  or  more 
cows.  Sold  for  cash  or 
on  self-paying  terms. 


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The  "Golden  Series"  Separators  are  now  on  display  by  De 
Laval  dealer-agents,  who  will  gladly  show  their  numerous  im- 
provements and  refinements.  See  and  try  one  of  the  "Golden 
Series,"  or  send  coupon  below  to  your  nearest  De  Laval  office 
for  catalog  and  full  information. 


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Dr.  De  Laval's  invention,  in  1878,  of  the  first  continuous  discharge 
centrifugal  cream  separator,  was  the  foundation  of  modern  dairying  and 
has  done  more  than  any  other  one  factor  to  develop  the  dairy  industry 
into  the  largest  and  most  profitable  branch  of  agriculture. 

First  in  the  beginning,  the  De  Laval  has  kept  in  the  lead  ever  since. 
Practically  every  detail  of  separator  construction  has  been  De  Laval 
originated.  As  De  Laval  features  have  been  imitated,  further  De  Laval 
improvements  have  been  made.  Four  million  De  Laval  machines  have 
been  sold  the  world  over.  They  have  always  been  the  standard  by  which 
cream  separators  were  measured. 

Now  the  1928  "Golden  Series"  De  Laval  machines  mark  another  step 
forward.  In  a  word,  they  are  the  most  complete,  efficient  and  beautiful 
cream  separators  ever  made.  They  are  all  that  could  be  hoped  for  in 
such  a  machine.  They  must  prove  a  source  of  pride  as  well  as  profit  to 
every  owner. 

The  best  way  to  judge  a  new  Golden  Anniversary  De  Laval  machine  ia  to  see  ©ne, 
and  better  still  to  try  it  side-by-side  with  any  other  separator,  old  or  new.  We  do 
not  believe  anyone  can  do  that  and  not  choose  the  De  Laval. 

The  new  machines  are  made  in  seven  sizes,  ranging  in  capacity  from  200  to  1150 
lbs.  of  milk  per  hour.  They  may  be  operated  by  hand  or  any  form  of  power  and  may 
be  bought  for  cash  or  on  such  terms  as  to  pay  for  themselves. 


New  England  Daii  yman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


I Hfc  HORARY  Otfs*ued  by  the  New  England  Milk 

Producers'  Association 


Volume  11.    Number  11 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  MARCH,  \m%  ILLINOIS 


.50  Cents  Per  Year 


MARCH  PRICE  9  CENTS 


Boston  Market  Holds  in  Spite  of 
Unsettling  Conditions 

The  March  price  is  nine  cents  a 
quart  for  Class  1  milk  and  60  per 
cent,  of  the  Class  2  milk  will  be  paid 
for  under  the  cream  class. 

This  brief  announcement  of  the  con- 
tinuance of  the  price  gives  us  con- 
siderable satisfaction.  For  there  were 
a  number  of  conditions  in  the  market 
which  might  have  led  to  demands  for 
a  reduction,  although  no  such  reduc- 
tion would  have  been  warranted  by  the 
conditions  of  supply  and  demand.  Hold- 
ing the  price  at  nine  cents  for  March 
was  a  real  accomplishment,  considering 
all  the  conditions. 

In  this  satisfactory  outcome  of  the 
negotiations  with  dealers  we  wish  to 
express  our  appreciation  of  the  fair 
mindedness  with  which  they  met  a 
somewhat  complex  situation  and  gave 
the  NEMPA  an  opportunity  to  work 
out  its  own  problem  of  enforcing  the 
known  price  in  so  far  as  its  members 
were  concerned. 

A  month  ago  we  called  definite  at- 
tention to  the  disaster  which  might 
come  to  the  market  through  the  pull- 
ing away  of  the  New  England  Cream- 
ery Products  Company  from  the  sur- 
plus plan.  Their  adoption  of  the  un- 
known price  policy,  at  variance  with 
the  practice  of  the  other  large  deal- 
ers in  the  market,  left  the  door  open 
for  claims  for  adjustments  of  prices 
by  other  dealers,  based  on  claims  that 
the  company  was  securing  its  supply 
at  a  lower  price. 

No  such  claim  was  made  by  any 
of  the  dealers  with  whom  we  are  do- 
ing business.  They  realize  that  our 
association  is  doing  all  in  its  power 
to  rectify  the  conditions.  Their  will- 
ingness to  ignore  this  phase  of  the 
prices  paid  in  the  market  was  a  dis- 
tinct factor  in  holding  the  price  where 
it  belonged.  We  appreciate  their  at- 
titude. 

There  are,  of  course,  other  reasons 
and  quite  important  ones,  which  led 
the  dealers  to  accept  without  question 
a  continuance  of  the  nine  cent  price 
for  March.  The  New  York  price  is 
holding  and  is  slightly  higher  than  the 
New  England  price.  Supplies  of  milk 
are  not  unduly  plentiful  and  the  neces- 
sity for  paying  a  competitive  price  in 
the  country  is  quite  a  material  factor 
in  the  situation. 

The  only  suggestion  of  any  change 
fn  the  price  for  March  came  from  one 
company,  which  spoke  of  milk  being 
sold  by  certain  groups  of  producers 
at  less  than  the  NEMPA  price.  This 
was  not  pressed  as  a  definite  claim  and 
any  uneasiness  which  may  have  been 
felt  on  that  score  was  allayed  by  the 
fact  that  in  the  conferences  of  all 
interested  parties  with  the  Commis- 
sioners of  Agriculture  of  New  Eng- 
land some  of  these  groups  agreed  to 
file  with  the  commissioners  a  state- 
ment of  its  prices  each  month.  It  is 
expected  that  the  others  will  follow. 
This  action  on  their  part,  while  not 
exactly  placing  them  in  the  "known 
price"  class,  will  go  a  long  ways  to- 
ward establishing  general  confidence. 

Subsequent  to  the  announcement  of 
the  NEMPA  price  of  nine  cents  per 
quart  with  60  per  cent,  of  the  Class  2 
(Continued  on  page  four) 


Association  Forcing  Issue  with  Lyndonville 

Demand  for  NEMPA  Prices  and  Terms  Refused.    Members'  Milk  to  be  Sold  Else- 
where.    Losses  of  Loyal  Producers  to  be  Made  Goo.<i  Through  Benefit 
Fund.    Principle  of  Known  Price  Is  Being  Lilmght  For 


The  "known  price"  battlefield  has 
spread  from  Western  Vermont  to 
Lyndonville  and  Bradford.  The  Lyn- 
donville Creamery  Association,  which 
has  come  to  be  a  real  factor  in  the 
sale  of  fluid  milk  in  the  Boston  mar- 
ket, has  refused  to  pay  the  NEMPA 
price  or  to  pay  for  its  milk  on 
NEMPA  terms.  In  view  of  the  threat 
their  attitude  makes  to  the  stability  of 
the  Boston  markets  we  are  taking  steps 
to  bring  them  into  line. 

As  this  issue  of  the  Dairyman  goes 
to    press   our    field    men    are    in  both 


This  is  the  second  step  in  the  sub- 
stantial progress  which  is  being  made 
in  our  efforts  to  enforce  a  "known 
price"  plan  for  all  New  England.  We 
are  still  acting  for  our  members  who 
are  selling  to  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company.  When 
the  New  England  Creamery  Prod- 
ucts Company  refused  to  con- 
tinue to  pay  the  NEMPA  price 
or  report  to  the  Milk  Administrator, 
February  1,  we  recommended  that 
they  sell  their  milk  elsewhere  and 
assisted    them     in    finding    a  market 


Trustees  of  Dairyman's  Benefit  Fund:  S.  W.  Guptil  of  Water- 
bury,  Vt,  Theodore  Chamberlin  of  North  Haverhill, 
N.  H.,  Chauncy  Gleason  of  Haverhill,  Mass. 


these  areas  helping  the  producers  who 
have  been  selling  to  the  Lyndonville 
Creamery  to  place  their  milk  elsewhere. 
Negotiations  to  get  this  creamery  on  to 
the  NEMPA  price  having  failed,  we 
are  taking  the  proper  remedy  of  sell- 
ing the  milk  of  our  members  to  some- 
one else.  In  this  effort  we  feel  that 
we  will  have  the  support  of  the  entire 
membership  of  the  organization  and 
the  approval  of  all  connected  with  the 
dairy  industry  who  hope  to  see  the 
markets  stabilized  by  the  extension  of 
the  "known  price"  basis  into  every 
market  milk  producing  section  of  New 
England. 


where  there  would  be  the  least  possible 
loss  due  to-  a  lower  price. 

The  attempt  at  Lyndonville  to  en- 
force the  "known  price"  plan  came  as 
the  result  of  a  similar  recommendation 
to  our  members  who  sell  milk  to 
the  Lyndonville  Creamery  Association, 
which  has  also  refused  to  pay  the 
NEMPA  price  or  to  make  any  re-, 
port  to  the  milk  administrator.  Ai 
this  issue  of  the  Dairyman  goes  to 
press  we  are  advising  our  members 
who  have  been  delivering  their  milk 
to  the  Lyndonville  plant,  also  to  the 
plant  owned  by  this  same  company  at 
Bradford,  Vt.,  to  withdraw  their  milk 


from  that  company  and  to  sell  it  else- 
where. 

As  in  the  case  of  our  members  who 
were  selling  to  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company  we  are 
promising  these  loyal  members  thai 
whatever  losses  they  may  sustain  by 
reason  of  their  support  of  the  NEMPA 
and  its  known  price  plan  will  be  made 
up  from  the  dairymen's  benefit  fund 
which  is  being  raised.  We  are  telling 
them  that  their  fight  is  recognized  as 
a  fight  of  the  organized  dairy  industry 
of  New  England  and  that  their  fellow 
producers  in  other  parts  of  our  terri- 
tory are  standing  by  them. 

The  only  important  development  in 
the  controversy  with  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company  is  the 
agreement  for  sale  of  the  Brandon 
plant  to  the  Whiting  Milk  Company. 
The  Brandon  producers  who  were  sell- 
ing to  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company  followed  our 
recommendation  to  sell  elsewhere  one 
hundred  per  cent.  They  sent  no  more 
milk  to  the  Brandon  plant  and  it  has 
been  closed  since  that  time. 

When  the  controversy  came  to  a 
head  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company  made  known  its 
willingness  to  sell  this  plant.  This  is 
one  of  the  three  plants  from  which 
the  Alden  Brothers  Company,  now  a 
part  of  the  New  England  Products 
Company,  secured  its  supply  of  milk 
When  the  consolidation  of  the  Alden. 
Noble  and  Childs  companies  into  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products 
Company  took  place  a  strong  sales 
campaign  for  additional  trade  was 
niade  in  the  Boston  market  on  the 
b  is  of  a  tuberculin  tested  supply 
ich  was  already  being  handled  by 
ihe    Noble  company. 

The  trend  of  the  trade  of  the  con- 
solidated company  was  toward  a  tested 
supply  of  milk  and  their  purchases 
from  the  Barre  Co-operative,  the  New- 
bury Creamery  Company  and  Howard 
and  Eames  at  Piermont  were  in  the 
development  of  such  a  supply.  Their 
supply  coming  from  Brandon  and  from 
Sheldon  and  East  Fairfield,  the  other 
two  plants  of  the  old  Alden  Company, 
was  not  a  fully  tuberculin  tested 
supply.      i1t>    j-   jfljj^j,  ■  ... 

Vermont  is  going  forward  in  its 
tuberculin  testing  program  on  the  area 
basis  and  it  will  be  some  little  tim< 
before  there  will  be  money  available 
to  clean  up  the  area  in  which  these 
three  plants  are  situated.  The  produc- 
ers in  these  areas  are  as  desirous  of 
having  their  herds  tested  as  they  were 
in  other  parts  of  the  state  but  must 
wait  their  logical  turn.  The  progress 
which  can  be  made  depends  on  the 
money  which  can  be  spent  on  eradica- 
tion. 

i^he  New  England  Creamery  Products 
t  xwepany,  however,  started  in  on  a 
p-.ogVam  of  increasing  their  milk  sales 
on  the  tuberculin  tested  basis  with  the 

(Continued  on  page  four) 


Page  Two 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  192 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 

NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 

51  Cornhill.  Boston,  Mass. 

Devoted    to    the    Interests    of  Dairy 
Farming  and  Marketing  in 
New  England 

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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1928 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
General  Manager,  W.  P.  Davis,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I.; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me. ;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me. ;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H. ;  F.  B.  Catlin, 
Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H.  Dunsmore, 
St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A.  Tuttle,  Hard- 
wick,  Mass. ;  Elmer  M.  Poole,  North 
Dartmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank  L.  Nichols, 
Narragansett,  R.  I. ;  Frank  T.  Peck- 
ham,  Newport,  R.  I. ;  R.  Allen  Sikes, 
Ellington,  Conn. ;  C.  J.  Abell,  Lebanon, 
Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan,  N.  Y. ; 
George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke,  N.  Y. 


THE  BENEFIT  FUND 

The  best  time  in  the  day  is  when 
we  look  over  the  morning  mail.  Then, 
more  than  at  any  other  time,  do  we 
realize  the  strength  and  loyalty  of  our 
membership.  Then,  more  than  at  any 
time  in  many  years  past  do  we  have 
such  concrete  proof  of  this  support. 

For  more  than  two  weeks  now  the 
morning  mail  has  been  made  up  largely 
of  letters  to  the  "Dairymen's  Benefit 
Fund."  They  are  in  response  to  the 
general  letter  we  sent  out  to  all  mem- 
bers in  February  asking  them  to  con- 
tribute five  per  cent,  of  their  milk 
checks  for  two  months  to  provide 
money  to  reimburse  those  farmers  who 
are  fighting  for  the  benefit  of  the 
entire  dairy  industry  of  New  England. 

Any  statement  we  might  here  make 
as  to  the  number  who  have  responded 
to  the  call  would  be  a  long  ways  off 
by  the  time  you  read  this.  Some  morn- 
ings as  many  as  250  letters  have  come 
in.  On  other  mornings  it  has  dropped 
considerably  below  that  but  only  once 
or  twice  has  the  number  dropped  be- 
low 50.  And  they  are  still  coming 
strong. 

Every  letter  bears  its  message  of 
confidence  in  the  association,  variously 
expressed.  By  far  the  greater  num- 
ber simply  sign  their  names  to  the 
power  of  attorney  slip  which  will  au- 
thorize their  dealer  to  pay  over 
the  amount  due  and  take  it  out  of  the 
milk  check.  That  is  proving  the  most 
popular,  as  it  is  the  easiest  way  of 
sending  in  the  contribution.  But  simply 
signing  the  slip  is  complete  evidence  of 
support  and  recognition  that  the  as- 
sociation is  standing  up  for  a  principle. 

Let  us  restate  that  principle  so  that 
everyone  will  get  it  firmly  in  his  mind. 


It  is  simply  this :  Wherever  and  when- 
ever a  dairyman  or  group  of  dairymen 
who  are  members  of  the  NEMPA  suf- 
fer losses  through  their  refusal  to  sell 
their  milk  at  less  than  the  NEMPA 
price  or  on  any  other  terms  than  those 
offered  by  the  NEMPA  sales  com- 
mittee, then  these  losses  should  be  made 
good  by  dairymen  who  are  continuing 
to  get  the  NEMPA  price  and  are  thus 
suffering  no  loss  as  compared  with 
other  dairymen. 

Stating  the  principle  in  another  way : 
The  interest  of  this  farmer  or  group 
of  farmers  in  getting  the  NEMPA 
price  is  shared  by  all  other  members 
of  the  association.  In  principle  it 
makes  no  difference  how  small  the 
group  is,  or  where  it  is  located.  If 
they  are  NEMPA  members  and  do 
not  get  the  NEMPA  price  then  the 
whole  price  structure  reared  by  the 
association  after  many  years  of  struggle 
for  recognition  is  endangered. 

In  this  particular  instance  the  lesson 
comes  home  with  great  force.  The 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Com- 
pany refused  to  pay  the  NEMPA  price 
to  NEMPA  members.  If  the  central 
association  or  those  producers  had  al- 
lowed the  company  to  take  this  step 
without  vigorous  opposition  a  drop  in 
the  market  milk  price,  probably  an  ad- 
justment on  milk  already  delivered, 
would  have  been  inevitable.  As  it  is, 
thanks  in  part  to  the  sound  judgment 
of  the  dealers,  the  nine  cent  price 
holds. 

Consider  the  situation  if  it  had  not 
held.     With   the   complex   price  situa- 

-  tion  in  the  Boston  market,  due  to 
causes  altogether  apart  from  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Company, 
the  drop  would  probably  have  been  a 
full  cent,  as  it  is  not  practical  for  the 
chain  stores  to  go  a  half  cent,  and  the 
general  price  would  not  have  stopped 
at  a  half  cent  if  the  chain  stores  went 
a  full  cent.  But  the  nine  cent  price 
did  hold  and  you  are  all  to  benefit  by 
it  in  March. 

Assuming  that  the  price  would  have 
dropped  a  cent  but  for  the  staunch  re- 
sistance of  these  farmers  who  had  been 
selling  to  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company.  A  drop  of  a  cent 
from  a  nine  cent  price  would  have 
been  a  loss  of  more  than  11  per  cent, 
on  your  market  milk  price  for  March. 
Leaving  out  of  consideration  every- 
thing after  March,  you  can  still  con- 
tribute your  five  per  cent,  for  two 
months  and  be  better  off  than  if  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Com- 
pany's refusal  to  pay  the  price  had 
been  allowed  to  go  unchallenged.  It 
is  a  plain  piece  of  good  business  to 
contribute  to  this  fund. 

The  spread  of  the  effort  to  secure 
the  NEMPA  price  for  NEMPA  mem- 
bers selling  to  the  Lyndonville  Cream- 
ery Association  is  but  another  step  in 
the  general  plan  of  progress  towards 
the  "known  price  basis."  We  expected 
that  it  was  coming  when  we  sent  out 
the   call    for    the   benefit    fund.  The 

•  five  per  cent,  for  two  months  will  re- 
imburse both  groups  of  producers  fully 
for  their  losses,  provided,  of  course, 
that  enough  of  our  members  subscribe 
to  it. 

We  expect  and  hope  that  there  will 
be  some  left  over  to  be  used  for 
similar  purposes  under  similar  condi- 
tions. In  the  past  few  years  there 
have  been  numerous  cases  of  small 
dealers  in  the  lesser  markets  refusing 
to  pay  the  price.  In  some  cases  the 
producers    pulled    off    their    milk  and 


stood  the  entire  losses  themselves.  More 
often,  being  unable  to  stand  such 
losses,  they  had  to  accept  the  lower 
price.  By  so  doing  they  weakened  the 
whole  NEMPA  price  structure  in  that 
particular  market. 

How  different  the  story  would  have 
been  if  we  had  had  any  money  with 
which  to  reimburse  them.  The  issue 
was  not  great  enough,  nor  the  amount 
involved  large  enough,  to  call  for  any 
general  subscription  as  in  the  present 
cases.  But  if  we  had  had  a  fund  of 
a  few  thousand  dollars  available  it 
would  have  been  possible  for  these 
producers  to  have  stood  up  and  refused 
absolutely  to  sell  at  any  other  price 
than  the  one  set  by  their  association, 
the  NEMPA,  or  on  any  other  terms 
than  the  NEMPA  terms.  In  a  very 
large  number  of  cases  this  ability  to 
stand  up  and  fight  would  have  won  the 
battle  at  the  start.  The  dealer  wanted 
the  milk  and  would  pay  the  price  if 
he  had  to. 

So  we  are  hoping  that  after  the  losses 
to  our  members  selling  to  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Company 
and  to  Lyndonville  are  made  good 
through  the  benefit  fund  there  will  be 
some  left  which  may  be  held  in  reserve 
to  do  justice  to  these  groups  of  dairy- 
men, in  lesser  markets,  should  need 
arise.  It  would  tremendously  increase 
our  morale  and  prestige  in  these  mar- 
Wets  if  we  were  able  to  say,  as  we  are 
saying  in  the  present  controversies,  "We 
will  take  care  of  our  members.  Their 
fight  is  our  fight.  Their  losses  are  our 
losses ;  we  will  stand  these  losses  along 
with  them." 

Looking  into  the  future  of  the  as- 
sociation we  feel  that  at  our  next  an- 
nual meeting  the  question  of  a  perma- 
nent fund  of  considerable  size  should 
be  considered  carefully.  This  going 
out  and  raising  a  special  fund  when- 
ever one  is  needed  is  not  so  good  as 
a  permanent  fund.  Much  better  would 
it  be  to  raise  a  sufficient  fund  to  guar- 
antee repayment  of  losses  in  such  a 
case  as  the  present  one ;  to  invest  this 
money  where  it  will  grow  of  itself  if 
not  needed,  and  thus  to  insure  our- 
selves for  the  future. 

That  is  the  course  which  is  being 
taken  by  the  Connecticut  Milk  Pro- 
ducers' Association.  It  was  the  course 
taken  by  the  Baltimore  association 
many  years  ago.  It  is  something  which 
we  have  to  look  forward  to  as  a  pro- 
gressive step  in  the  development  of 
our  association  strength.  We  feel  sure 
that  such  a  thing  can  be  done  and  will 
be  done  by  our  own  loyal  membership. 

Doubly  sure  are  we  when  we  look 
over  the  morning  mail  and  see  the 
answers  pouring  in  from  all  quarters 
of  New  England.  We  do  not  believe 
that  any  other  organization  in  New 
England  would  have  had  such  a  prompt 
or  so  generous  a  response  to  such  a 
call.  It  is  a  new  and  tangible  ex- 
pression of  faith  in  the  NEMPA. 
Long  may  it  flourish.  Long  may  it 
see  justice  done  to  its  members. 


About  the  only  surplus  we  haven't 
experienced  in  agriculture  is  a  surplus 
of  real  co-operators. 


The  audience  of  co-operation  is  gain- 
ing more  wise  owls  and  fewer  hoot 
owls. 


If  the  failure  of  co-operative  mar- 
keting is  worth  a  million  dollars  to 
a  certain  group  of  middlemen  who  met 
recently  in  Chicago,  then  the  success 
of  co-operative  marketing  is  worth  a 
billion  dollars  to  the  farmers  who  are 
co-operating. 


COUNCIL  CONFERENCE 

Our  sales  committee  members  had 
a  fine  opportunity  to  get  a  first  hand 
view  of  the  many  sided  work  of  the 
New  England  Dairy  and  Food  Council 
as  the  special  guests  of  the  Council  at 
a  conference  of  leaders  on  educational 
milk  work  for  adults.  What  they 
heard  and  saw  was  a  revelation  to 
them  as  well  as  to  a  number  of  others 
who  stood  on  the  side  lines  and  listened 
to  the  vigorous  discussion  of  adult 
work  from  many  viewpoints.  Inci- 
dental to  the  gathering  was  a  very 
pleasant  social  hour  preceding  the 
formal  conference,  giving  all  an  op- 
portunity to  get  acquainted  with  the 
staff  and  to  see  some  of  the  posters 
and  other  means  which  are  used  in 
presenting  the  milk  educational  work 
in  attractive  form. 

After  a  brief  introduction  to  the  gen- 
eral subject  of  milk  educational  work 
for  adults,  Prof.  W.  P.  B.  Lockwood 
called  on  Dr.  Daniel  E.  Lynch,  of  the 
New  England  Telegraph  and  Telephone 
Co.,  to  give  some  account  of  the  health 
work  which  is  being  done  in  his  or- 
ganization. It  was  a  highly  interest- 
ing and  illuminating  talk  on  how  the 
great  company  has  developed  a  system 
of  instruction  in  health  and  efficiency. 
It  works  both  as  a  very  effective  piece 
of  "missionary  work"  of  the  highest 
type,  comparable  with  what  is  done  by 
men  and  women  who  are  strictly  in 
the  missionary  field.  It  is  spreading 
the  gospel  of  good  health  in  a  very 
efficient  way.  On  top  of  this  aspect  of 
the  work  there  is  the  quite  tangible  re- 
sults in  greater  efficiency,  less  time  out 
because  of  illness,  less  frequent  resigna- 
tions because  women  or  men  are  un- 
able to  keep  up  with  the  quite  exact- 
ing demands  of  the  telephone  service  of 
today.  Dr.  Lynch  told  his  audience 
that  the  general  health  and  well  being 
of  the  hello  girls  was  of  importance 
to  everybody  as  it  made  a  very  great 
difference  in  the  service  which  they 
could  give. 

The  health  work  in  the  telephone 
company  is  done  by  employee  of  the 
company.  Special  ones  are  selected  as 
leaders  and  they  are  given  a  course  of 
training  by  experts.  Then  they  go  back 
and  pass  on  the  instruction  to  groups 
of  their  fellow  employees.  Dr.  Lynch 
said  that  this  was  much  more  effective 
than  having  highly  trained  specialists 
talk  to  the  employees  as  the  message 
of  good  health  through  proper  ex- 
ercise, proper  habits,  proper  diet  (in- 
cluding a  plentiful  use  of  milk)  gets 
expressed  in  common  everyday  terms 
that  can  be  understood  and  applied  to 
the  daily  life  of  telephone  company 
employees.  That  is,  one  employee 
knows  'better  what  other  employees  can 
do  or  will  do  than  any  outsider  can 
know. 

Mrs.  Francis  Stern,  dietician  for  the 
Boston  Dispensary,  and  Dr.  Merrill  E. 
Champion,  of  the  State  Department  of 
Health,  introduced  quite  a  bit  of  spice 
into  the  meeting  with  their  give  and 
take  over  the  possibility  of  teaching 
adults  or  changing  their  food  habits. 
Dr.  Champion  was  rather  pessimistic 
about  the  possibilities  of  adult  health 
education  and  felt  that  the  same 
amount  of  money  would  accomplish 
much  more  on  work  for  children.  Mrs- 
Stern  got  after  him  in  merry  mood ; 
so  did  a  number  of   the  others. 

An  interesting  talk  on  the  work  with 
high  school  girls  was  given  by  Miss 
Simon,  of  the  Newton  High  School. 
Miss  Sally  Lucas  Jean,  consultant  on 
the  National  Dairy  and  Food  Council, 
was  one  of  the  high  spots  of  the  eve- 
ning, as  she  always  is  when  she  speaks. 
Not  only  has  she  a  very  interesting 
personality  but  she  has  traveled  widely 
and  has  had  experiences  in  health  or- 
ganization work  of  many  kinds. 

Prof.  C.  E.  Turner,  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology,  gave 
a  brief  talk,  also  W.  A.  Munson,  state 
director  of  extension  service.  There 
were  a  number  of  the  home  demon- 
stration agents  present.  They  are  all 
hearty  believers  in  and  assistants  in 
the  milk  educational  work. 

Dr.  C.  E.  Larson,  for  some  years 
head  of  the  Dairy  Bureau  at  Wash- 
ington, and  now  a  director  in  the  Na- 
tional Council,  was  present  at  the 
meeting.  He  also  took  part  in  the 
conferences  of  workers   the  next  day. 


March,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund  Growing  In  Volume  Daily 


Have  you  signed  your  "Dairymen's 
Benefit  Fund"  slip  yet?  If  not  do  so  at 
once  and  send  it  in.  Cheer  up  those 
loyal  members  of  the  NEMPA  who 
have  refused  to  sell  to  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company  until  they 
come  back  to  the  NEMPA  and  the 
NEMPA  way  of  doing  business.  Let 
these  producers  feel  that  you  are  back 
of  them,  that  you  understand  that  the 
fight  they  are  making  is  your  fight  and 
that  you  want  to  bear  some  part  of  the 
expense. 

The  way  to  show  your  support  and  to 
give  them  the  backing  they  must  have  is 
to  give  to  the  trustees  of  the  Dairymen's 
Benefit  Fund  an  order  like  the  one  re- 
produced below.  Just  such  an  order  has 
been  sent  to  every  member  of  the  asso- 
ciation, all  over  New  England.  Hunt 
yours  up  and  sign  it  and  send  it  along. 
If  you  cannot  find  it  or  if  for  some 
reason  you  did  not  get  it  cut  this  one 
out  of  the  Dairyman,  sign  it  and  send 
it  in.  It  will  do  just  as  well,  not  only  as 
a  means  of  raising  the  benefit  fund  but 
as  an  assurance  that  you  are  standing 
back  of  these  men. 

Every  one  of  these  that  comes  in  is 
another  shot  fired  in  this  battle  to  main- 
tain the  position  which  our  association 
has  gained  through  long  years  of  standing 
for  the  principle  of  the  "known  price" 
and  an  equal  opportunity  for  all  dealers 
to  buy  milk  at  the  same  price  and  under 
the  same  terms.  The  time  has  long  passed 
when  any  dealer  of  considerable  size  can 
break  away  from  the  established  order  of 
things  and,  by  so  doing,  throw  the  entire 
milk  marketing  machinery  of  New  Eng- 
land out  of  gear  without  an  emphatic 
protest. 

When  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company  refused  to  continue 
to  pay  the  NEMPA  price  or  to  submit 
its  report  to  the  milk  administrator  the 
same  as  other  large  dealers  were  doing, 
they  threw  down  a  challenge  which  the 
association  promptly  took  up.  Through 
the  directors  of  the  association  steps  were 
immediately  taken  to  place  the  respon- 
sibility and  the  cost  of  the  fight  to  main- 
tain our  "known  price"  principles,  upon 
our  members  as  a  whole,  instead  of  leav- 
ing it  to  be  borne  by  the  producers  who 
were  backing  up  that  principle  at  a  cost 
which  might  prove  ruinous  to  them,  if 
they  were  standing  alone. 

The  Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund  plan  has 
been  carefully  worked  out.  Its  success  or 
failure  rests  now  with  you  members  of 
the  association.  If  you  believe  that  this 
is  really  your  fight  and  that  you  will  win 
or  lose  according  as  the  association  is 
able  to  enforce  its  known  price  policy 
then  it  is  up  to  you  to  get  into  line  and 
support  your  brother  members  of  the 
association  in  their  time  of  great  need. 
Remember  that  you  are  not  suffering  any 
unusual  inconvenience  or  loss  at  the 
present  time.  Your  milk  is  going  for- 
ward in  its  accustomed  way  at  prices 
comparable  with  what  other  producers 
are  getting  all  over  New  England;  the 
best  prices  you  have  received  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  Yet  the  men  who  were 
shipping  to  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company,  and  who  have  with- 
drawn their  milk  from  shipment  to  that 
company,  are  facing  lower  prices,  un- 
certainty, in  some  cases  physical  hard- 
ship in  order  to  fight  the  thing  through 
on  the  "known  price"  basis  for  you  as 
well  as  for  themselves. 

Signing  the  benefit  fund  order  printed 
below,  or  the  one  sent  to  you  by  mail, 
insures  that  you  will  be  doing  your  bit 
along  with  thousands  of  other  dairymen 
in  New  England  to  back  up  these  loyal 
dairymen  on  the  firing  line  and  to  protect 
yourselves  from  almost  certain  reduction 
of  prices  if  the  effort  should  fail.  It  is 
a  small  thing  which  is  asked  of  any  one 
producer.  If  we  were  sure  that  every 
last  member  of  the  association  would  do 
his  bit,  we  could  safely  ask  for  some- 
what less.  But  as  it  is,  the  five  per  cent, 
for  two  months  is  far  less  than  you 
would  be  out  of  pocket  if  prices  in  Boston 
should  break  as  the  result  of  a  failure 
on  our  part  to  enforce  our  demand  that 
all  dealers  shall  pay  for  their  milk  on  a 
comparable  basis. 

You  will  be  in  good  company  when  you 


send  in  your  slip,  signed  in  due  form. 
The  orders  began  coming  back  almost  as 
soon  as  we  sent  them  out.  A  few  on  the 
first  possible  mail,  more  the  next  morn- 
ing, then  more  and  more  and  more  until, 
at  the  present  time  several  hundred  are 
coming  in  each  day.  This  was  in  re- 
sponse to  the  general  letter  sent  to  all 
producers  and  reprinted  on  this  page. 

It  was  a  fine  response  but  it  will  not 
continue.    A  very  large  number  of  you  will 


have  laid  the  letter  aside  thinking  you 
would  sign  and  send  it  the  next  day  or 
as  soon  as  you  got  time.  It  got  buried  up, 
as  letters  will,  and  you  forgot  all  about  it. 
By  the  time  this  Dairyman  reaches  you 
its  whereabouts  will  probably  have  gone 
out  of  your  mind  altogether. 

That  is  why  we  are  sure  that  the 
present  flood  of  letters  will  not  continue 
unchecked.  In  a  few  days,  by  the  time 
this  Dairyman  reaches  you  probably,  they 


will  have  dropped  back  to  a  dozen  or  two 
each  morning,  all  thankfully  received  but 
not  enough  to  bank  on  as  a  means  of 
raising  the  fund.  So  we  are  here  remind- 
ing you  of  your  responsibility  in  this 
matter  and  urging  you  to  send  in  the 
order  below,  or  the  original  order. 

We  can  form  no  estimate  of  the  amount 
of  money  which  will  be  needed  to  reim- 
burse these  farmers  who  are  on  the  firing 
line  during  the  present  fight.  But  we  arc 
very  certain  that  if  there  is  any  left  over 
after  this  fight  is  ended  it  should  go  into 
a  fund  for  future  emergencies  of  a 
similar  nature.  The  Connecticut  Milk 
Producers  Association,  an  organization 
much  smaller  than  ours,  is  now  raising 
a  permanent  fund  of  $50,000  for  just  such 
a  purpose  as  we  are  raising  this  fund. 
They  have  no  immediate  fight  on  their 
hands,  nor  any  prospect  of  any.  But  they 
consider  it  good  business  to  have  the 
"weapons"  at  hand  before  a  fight  starts. 
They  believe  that  having  the  fund,  and 
being  able  to  assure  reimbursement  to 
any  of  their  members  who  suffer  losses 
by  reason  of  their  loyalty  to  the  asso- 
ciation, will  be  the  best  kind  of  an  in- 
surance against  having  to  fight  at  all. 

The  Baltimore  association  has  found 
it  so.  Over  a  period  of  a  number  of 
years  they  have  built  up  a  fund  of  prac- 
tically a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars.  It 
is  well  invested.  More  important  than 
that  they  are  in  a  position  to  talk  firmly 
to  dealers  in  any  price  discussion  because 
they  know  that  in  case  of  an  open  breach 
they  have  sufficient  funds  to  handle  the 
business  themselves. 

The  whole  question  of  a  permanent 
fund  will  be  brought  up  at  our  next  an- 
nual meeting.  It  is  something  which  has 
been  under  discussion  for  some  time  and 
which  has  found  much  favor  among  the 
leaders.  The  question  is  brought  into  the 
forefront  of  attention  through  the  con- 
test with  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company.  Our  immediate  duty 
is  to  raise  enough  money  to  reimburse 
these  loyal  farmers.  After  that  we  can 
talk  about  the  future  needs.  And  don't 
let  any  member  think  that  it  is  not  his 
duty  to  send  in  his  order,  however  small 
his  herd  may  be.  Every  added  slip  is 
another  proof  of  the  strength  and  unity 
of  our  association,  as  well  as  additional 
dollars  for  the  fund. 

We  cannot  tell  just  how  long  this  con- 
troversy_  may  last.  It  has  gone  on  a 
month,  it  may  go  on  weeks  or  months 
longer.  But  we  are  going  to  fight  it 
through  to  a  finish,  however  long  it  takes 
and  we  are  counting  on  your  support  to 
back  us  up.  We  cannot  say  how  much  it 
is  going  to  cost  to  reimburse  these 
farmers  who  are  fighting  at  the  front,  but 
we  have  promised  them  that  they  will 
receive  as  much  as  other  farmers  in  New 
England  will  get  during  the  period  of  the 
fight. 


February  15,  1928 
TO  EVERY  DAIRYMAN  IN  NEW  ENGLAND 

Since  .February  1st,  the  producers  of  the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Company  have  refused  to  sell  their  product  at  a  price  less  than  that  offered  by 
the  Sales  Committee  of  the  NEMPA  and  accepted  by  other  dealers  in  the 
Boston  market.  In  spite  of  the  fact  that  we  have  placed  their  product  to  the 
best  advantage,  these  producers  have  and  will  suffer  serious  losses. 

The  directors  of  the  NEMPA  unanimously  voted  to  ask  other  dairymen 
in  New  England  to  reimburse  these  producers  who  are  suffering  this  loss.  The 
Executive  Committee,  after  a  careful  study,  have  arranged  the  establishment 
of  a  trust  fund  to  which  every  dairyman  is  asked  to  contribute  an  amount 
equal  to  5  per  cent,  of  his  receipts  for  dairy  products  for  two  months.  This 
fund  is  to  be  administered  by  three  well  known  New  England  farmers:  S.  W. 
Guptil  of  Waterbury,  Vt.,  Chauncey  Gleason  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  Theodore 
Chamberlin  of  North  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  acting  as  trustees. 

The  New  England  Creamry  Products  Company  producers  are  putting  up  a 
splendid  fight.  This  fight  is  everybody's  fight  since,  if  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company  buys  their  milk  cheaper,  every  other  company  will 
pay  less.  Our  milk  price  today  is  one  cent  (lc)  a  quart  above  last  year.  Let's 
hold  it  there  by  supporting  these  men  who  are  fighting  our  battle. 

There  are  two  reasons  why  we  are  asking  every  dairyman  to  help  raise 
this  fund  for  the  benefit  of  New  England  Creamery  Products  producers. 

This  is  everybody's  fight.  If  the  New  England  Creamery  Products  Com- 
pany owns  their  milk  cheaper  than  the  NEMPA  price,  other  dealers  will  de- 
mand a  similar  reduction.  They  will  have  to  have  it  to  compete.  If  the  price 
is  materially  lowered  in  Boston,  every  other  market  in  New  England  will  be 
affected.  That  means  a  less  price  to  all.  It  would  mean  a  reduction  in  price 
right  now  of  much  more  than  you  are  asked  to  "chip  in"  to  help  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company  producer  now.  Let's  line  up  behind  them  for  our 
own  protection. 

Give  these  splendid  men  who  are  putting  up  this  fight  a  square  deal.  It's 
everybody's  fight — let  everybody  help  win  it.  Let's  show  these  loyal  producers 
that  the  other  New  England  producers  are  back  of  them.  Let's  show  the 
dealers  that  when  they  tackle  the  NEMPA  they  are  up  against  a  united 
organization  that  can't  be  licked  one  at  a  time,  while  the  rest  look  on  await- 
ing their  turn. 

We  ask  that  every  dairyman  fill  out,  sign,  tear  off  and  send  in  at  once 
the  order  given  below.  The  order  calls  for  5  per  cent,  of  your  receipts  from 
dairy  products  for  two  months,  which  is  only  a  small  part  of  what  you  would 
lose  if  the  fight  should  be  lost. 

Protect  your  milk  price  and  give  the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Company  producers  a  square  deal — they  count  on  you — act  promptly — today. 
Fill  out,  sign  the  form  below,  tear  it  off  and  mail  it  now. 

NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS'  ASSOCIATION 

By  GEORGE  R.  LITTLE,  Schaghticoke,  N.  Y. 
GEORGE  A.  PHELPS,  Milton,  Vt 
W.  E.  KNIGHT,  Clinton,  Me. 
GEORGE  H.  DTJNSMORE,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 

R.  A.  SIKES,  Ellington,  Conn. 
W.  J.  RICH,  Shushan,  N.  Y. 
W.  P.  DAVIS,  Boston,  Mass. 

Executive  Committee. 


KNOW  ALL  MEN  BY  THESE  PRESENTS 

That  I,   

of  .'  in  the  State  of  

(Town) 

do  hereby  constitute  and  appoint  W.  H.  Bronson  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  my  true  and  lawful  at- 
torney for  me  and  in  my  name  and  stead,  to  make,  execute,  sign  and  deliver  assignments  of  a  sum 
equal  to  5%  of  the  amounts  due  or  to  become  due  to  me  for  milk  and/or  cream  sold  or  to  be  sold 
by  me  for  a  period  of  not  exceeding  two  months.  Said  assignments  shall  be  effective  for  the  month 
in  which  this  instrument  is  signed  and  the  next  succeeding  month.  Said  assignments  shall  be  for 
the  benefit  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund  and  the  moneys  so  received  by  said 
Trustees  shall  be  received  by  them  subject  to  the  terms  of  the  Dairymen's  Benefit  Fund  trust  dec- 
laration. Hereby  granting  unto  said  W.  H.  Bronson,  said  attorney,  full  power  and  authority  to 
act  as  fully  and  effectually  as  I  might  do  if  personally  present. 

IN  WITNESS  WHEREOF,  I  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  this   day  of 

 in  the  year  one  thousand  nine  hundred  and  twenty-eight. 

SIGN  HERE   (L.  S.) 

Address  ■  ■•  .....  ,  

Dealer   Shipping  Station   


Page  Four 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  1928 


Will  Report  Prices  to  Commissioner 


Improtant  Program  Made  at  General  Conference.  Value 
of  Skim  to  Be  Dertermined 


The  Commissioners  of  Agriculture 
of  New  England  have  again  rendered 
the  dairy  industry  a  great  service.  For 
two  days  last  week  they  were  in  con- 
ference with  the  representatives  of 
most  of  the  important  milk  selling  or- 
ganizations in  New  England  and  the 
results  in  actual  steps  taken  were  highly 
satisfactory.  Of  still  more  importance 
is  the  spread  of  the  feeling  of  mutual 
confidence  among  these  groups  because 
of  this  opportunity  to  see  one  another's 
problems  presented  in  a  businesslike 
way. 

The  most  important  development  of 
the  conferences  was  the  publicly  stated 
agreement  of  practically  all  groups  to 
report  to  the  commissioners  monthly 
their  prices  to  farmers,  also  their  sell- 
ing prices.  These  reports  arc  not  to 
be  considered  as  public  property  any 
more  than  the  reports  submitted  to  the 
milk  administrator  under  the  surplus 
plan.  But  they  will  serve  the  im- 
portant purpose  of  placing  with  some 
unbiased  party  a  statement  of  their 
operations.  It  will  remove  much  of 
the  cause  of  uncertainty  and  uneasiness 
in  the  market  due  to  vague  rumors  of 
cuts  in  prices.  If  the  information  is 
in  the  hands  of  the  commissioners, 
everbody  will  be  much  better  satisfied, 
as  the  commissioners  have  already 
shown  their  intention  of  helping  on 
the  new  era  of  good  will  and  con- 
fidence which  is  coming  in  the  milk 
business. 

Filing  these  reports  with  the  com- 
missioners will  not  be  placing  everyone 
on  the  known  price  basis  in  the  sense 


You  may  know  these  fellows  al- 
ready ;  they  have  been  most  all  over 
New  England  in  years  of  NEMPA 
service.  We  are  putting  them  into  the 
Dairyman  in  recognition  of  the  new 
titles  we  are  giving  them.  The  titles 
won't  make  any  difference ;  they  will 
be  just  the  same  good  fellows  to  meet, 
full  of  enthusiasm  and  goodwill  and 
with  plenty  of  good  stories  to  spice  up 
their  thorough  knowledge  of  the  as- 
sociation and  its  ways  of  doing  busi- 
ness. 

F.  Leon  Brown  is  being  transferred 
from  the  Northern  Market  District  to 
the  central  office  in  order  to  take  off 
the  shoulders  of  General  Manager 
Davis  some  of  the  routine  of  market- 
ing problems.  He  will  be  called  as- 
sistant manager  in  charge  of  market- 
irtg  service.  In  addition  to  his  duties 
in  the  Boston  market  he  will  exercise 
considerable  supervision  over  the  three 
market   districts   and   will    work  with 


that  the  NEMPA  is  on  a  known  price. 
These  prices  will  not  be  published, 
unless  at  some  time  and  by  general 
consent  they  are  made  public.  But 
it  is  a  substantial  move  toward  a 
basis  where  the  commissioners  can  com- 
pare prices  and  thus  be  able  to  stop 
many  vague  rumors  which  threaten  to 
disrupt  the  markets  at  times. 

The  second  important  outcome  of 
the  conferences  of  the  commissioners 
was  the  decision  to  make  a  special 
study  of  the  actual  values  of  surplus 
under  varying  conditions.  On  the  final 
analysis  most  of  the  misunderstandings 
among  those  who  sell  in  the  Boston 
market  arise  over  the  fair  value  of 
skim  milk.  ■  A  good  many  of  the  co- 
operative creameries  are  getting  a  sub- 
stantial return  for  the  skim  and  they 
feel  that  the  NEMPA  should  recognize 
this  value.  Our  special  price  in  the 
cream  class  does,  in  some  measure, 
recognize  the  value  of  the  skim  but  it 
does  not  make  the  skim  value  stand 
out  so  that  it  can  be  compared  easily 
with  the  creameries'  values. 

This  is  where  the  commissioners  can 
do  the  dairy  industry  a  very  important 
piece  of  service.  It  would  be  impos- 
sible for  the  various  interests  to  make 
any  study  which  would  be  accepted  by 
all  others  in  every  way.  But  if  the 
commissioners  make  such  a  study,  every- 
one will  feel  that  it  is  wholly  un- 
biased and  will  be  more  willing  to  ac- 
cept any  Class  2  prices  based  on  the 
findings  of  the  commissioners'  investi- 
gations. 


the  district  managers  in  strengthening 
the  price  negotiations  in  these  three 
districts. 

Mr.  Brown's  place  in  the  Northern 
Market  District  will  be  taken  by  F.  L. 
Foley,  who  has  been  through  a  process 
of  "initiation"  into  the  NEMPA,  first 
as  a  field  man  working  on  the  re- 
canvass  of  the  entire  territory  and 
later  in  the  Field  Service  Department 
as  manager  of  the  Maine  Field  Dis- 
trict. Foley  is  a  mighty  good  man, 
one  who  inspires  confidence  wherever 
he  goes.  With  such  assistance  as  he 
will  receive  from  Brown  he  will  make 
good   in  the  Northern  District. 

Introducing  Fred  Warner  to  an 
NEMPA  audience  is  entirely  super- 
fluous. He  has  been  with  us  through 
thick  and  thin  for  many  years  and  has 
so  many  friends,  all  the  way  from 
Bangor,  Me.,  to  Long  Island  Sound. 
Everybody  knows  Fred  and  has  a  high 
•respect   for  his  optimism   and  enthuis- 


asm.  The  "hardest  working  man  the 
association  ever  had  in  its  employ,"  is 
the  general  verdict  of  those  who  know 
him  best. 

For  several  years  past  he  has  been 
in  charge  of  the  field  men  and  has 
spent  his  time  largely  on  the  road. 
He  has  an  exceptionally  fine  wife  and 
family  who  see  him  only  now  and 
then.  When  Fred  breezes  into  the 
office  we  all  sit  up  a  little  straighter 
and  work  a  little  faster.  But  we  al- 
ways find  time  to  listen  to  his  highly 
entertaining  stories  of  events  and  ex- 
periences in  the  country.  From  now 
on  Fred  will  be  known  as  assistant 
manager  in  charge  of  field  service. 
He  will  be  the  same  good  fellow  and 
good  friend  that  he  was  before  and 
he  will  be  doing  the  same  good  piece 
of  work,  with  the  complete  co-opera- 
tion of  a  staff  of  field  men. 

Speaking  of  those  field  men;  we 
are  two  men  short  of  a  full  quota 
with  Foley  coming  into  the  Northern 
Market  District.  A  new  man  will  have 
to  be  secured  for  the  Main  district  and 
one  to  take  the  place  of  Mr.  Wells  in 
Northwestern  Vermont.  But  it  seems 
best  not  to  put  these  new  men  into  the 
field  until  traveling  gets  a  little  better 
in  the  spring.  A  number  of  men  are 
under  consideration  for  the  places. 


electro  pure  process  as  an  added  im- 
provement to  increase  their  sales.  They 
were  looking  forward  to  a  material  in- 
crease in  the  demand  for  this  tuber- 
culin tested,  electro-pure  processed 
milk  and  were  therefore  in  a  position 
where  they  could  dispose  of  one  plant, 
at  least,  in  which  the  supply  was  not 
all  from  tuberculin  tested  herds. 

After  our  members  who  had  been 
selling  to  the  Brandon  plant  had  with- 
drawn their  milk  one  hundred  per 
cent,  and  had  transferred  it  to  other 
dealers,  negotiations  were  entered  into 
between  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company  and  the  Whiting 
Company  for  the  sale  of  the  Brandon 
plant.  An  agreement  was  finally  made 
the  last  week  in  February  and  the 
Whiting  company  will  take  possession 
early  in  March. 

As  the  Whiting  Company  is  buying 
its  milk  on  the  NEMPA  plan  and  pay- 
ing the  price  we  are  advising  our  mem- 
bers to  immediately  begin  deliveries  to 
the  Whiting  Company  at  the  Brandon 
plant  as  soon  as  it  is  opened  by  the 
Whiting  Company.  Some  time  before 
this  Dairyman  reaches  you  we  expect 
that  they  will  all  be  back  delivering  tc 
the  Brandon  plant  and  getting  the 
NEMPA  price 

This  sale  of  the  Brandon  plant  to 
the  Whiting  Company  removes  quite 
a  group  of  producers  from  any  further 
need  of  the  benefit  fund.  During  the 
month  that  they  were  not  delivering  to 
the  Brandon  plant  their  milk  was  sent 
to  the  Middlebury  Co-operative  up  tc 
Feb.  18  and  since  then  has  been  sold 
to  the  Whiting  Company  and  delivered 
at  their  plant  at  Leicester  Junction 
While  they  were  shipping  to  the  Mid- 
dlebury plant  they  got  paid  for  their 
milk  on  the  manufactured  basis.  When 
they  began  shipping  to  the  Whiting 
plant  at  Leicester  Junction  they  received 
the  NEMPA  price  but  had  to  stand 
additional  transportation  charges.  They 
will  soon  be  back  where  they  were 
before  the  controversy  started,  not  only 
back  to  their  old  plant  but  back  tc 
the  "known  price"  basis.  That  was 
what  we  set  out  to  get  for  them.  The 
fact  that  they  get  it  through  the  sale 
of  the  plant  rather  than  through  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products 
company  deciding  to  come  back  into 
the  "known  price"  field  is  not  so  im- 
portant as  the  fact  that  the  Brandon 
area  is  now  on  the  same  basis  as  mosl 
of  the  rest  of  New  England  and  is 
likely  to  remain  so. 

It  is  rumored  that  offers  have  alsc 
been  made  by  other  dealers  to  buy  the 
East  Fairfield  plant.  Milk  from  this 
plant  has  been  taken  to  the  Sheldon 
Junction  plant  of  the  Hood  company 
also  the  milk  from  the  Sheldon  plant 
of  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company.  At  both  these 
plants  there  are  a  number  of  producers 
who  were  not  NEMPA  members  whc 


Have  you  subscribed  to  the 
Benefit  Fund  yet? 
If  not,  do  it  today! 


MARCH  MILK  PRICE  9  CENTS 

(Continued  from  page  one) 
milk  in  the  special  cream  class,  other 
agencies  made  known  their  intention 
of  continuing  the  price.  There  is  no 
change  in  the  chain  store  price  and 
so  far  as  we  know  there  is  no  group 
which  is  making  any  change  in  the 
price.  This  is  the  natural  result  of 
everybody  basing  their  decisions  on  the 
fundamental  laws  of  supply  and  de- 
mand and  laying  aside  their  suspicions 
that  some  other  group  is  trying  to  get 
some  undue  advantage  in  the  market 
by  buying  its  milk  at  a  lower  rate  than 
others   are  doing. 

The  whole  price  situation  can  be 
summed  up  in  a  nutshell.  The  nine 
cent  price  is  fair  and  reasonable  under 
existing  conditions.  The  public  so 
recognizes  it.  The  dealers  recognize  it 
and  the  various  groups  which  are  sell- 
ing milk,  with  one  or  two  exceptions, 
are  following  it. 


are  continuing  to  deliver  milk  to  the 
plants.  Their  continuance  of  shipments 
to  these  plants  is  not  a  matter  for  us 
to  take  up  either  with  the  producers 
or  with  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company.  We  are  simply 
acting  for  our  members,  leaving  non- 
members  to  make  their  own  decisions. 
Neither  have  we  any  desire  to  tell  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products 
Company  what  it  shall  pay  to  produc- 
ers who  are  not  members  of  the  asso- 
ciation. What  we  are  trying  to  main- 
tain is  the  principle  that  where  a 
producer  or  a  group  of  producers  are 
members  of  the  assftciation  and  have 
appointed  the  association  their  sales 
agent,  then  the  dealer  who  buys  their 
milk  must  pay  the  association  price 
and  accept  the  association  terms  like 
the  rest  of  the  market.  We  cannot 
allow  any  dealer  to  pay  one  group  of 
our  members  on  any  different  basis 
from  what  other  dealers  are  paying 
other  members. 

If  in  the  course  of  a  few  weeks  or 
months  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company  should  sell  its  East 
Fairfield  and  its  Sheldon  plants  our 
controversy  with  them  would  end — as 
there  would  be  nothing  more  to  con- 
test. They  would  not  be  buying  any 
milk  directly  from  our  members.  On 
such  milk  as  they  bought  indirectly 
through  co-operative  groups  or  prop- 
rietary concerns,  our  price  negotiations 
would  be  with  the  groups  or  dealers 
provided  our  members  were  selling  tc 
such  groups.  A  good  example  of  the 
situation  is  the  Granite  City  Co- 
operative Creamery  at  Barre,  Vt. 
which  is  now  selling  milk  to  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Com- 
pany. So  long  as  it  sells  this  milk  at 
the  NEMPA  price  we  can  raise  nc 
objection  to  either  the  Barre  Co-opera- 
tive or  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company. 

This  situation  is  in  some  measure  at 
the  bottom  of  our  newly  developed 
controversy  with  the  Lyndonville 
Creamery  Association.  They  are  sell- 
ing to  the  New  England  Creamery- 
Products  Company  at  an  "unknown" 
price,  that  is  a  price  not  publicly  stated 
It  was  admitted  by  the  manager  of 
the  Lyndonville  creamery  to  the  com- 
mittee of  our  members  who  waited  on 
him  that  he  was  selling  this  milk  a 
half  cent  below  the  NEMPA  price 
As  a  considerable  part  of  the  supply 
at  Lyndonville  comes  from  producers 
who  are  members  of  the  association 
this  price  below  the  NEMPA  price 
becomes  at  once  a  matter  of  vital  im- 
portance in  our  efforts  to  do  our  part 
in  bringing  about  a  "known  price" 
basis   for  all  New  England. 

Other    factors   come    into   the  situa- 
tion.    The   controversy   with   the  Lyn-' 
donville    Creamery    Association  would 
probably    have    come    anyway,  without 
(Continued  on  page  seventeen) 


F.  Leon  Brown  F.  C.  Warner 

Some  Changes  In  Titles 


FORCING  ISSUE  WITH  LYNDONVILLE 

(Continued  from  page  one) 


March,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Reports  of  Progress  at  Turner  Centre  Annual 

250  Producers  Express  Confidence  in  Management.     Financial  Outlook  Is  Now   Promising.     Ouality  and 

Efficiency  are  Keynotes  to  Meeting 


Confidence  that  the  Turner  Centre 
System  h(ts  turned  a  corner  in  its 
career  and  is  now  headed  into  a  period 
of  substantial  prosperity  was  the  out- 
standing note  in  the  recent  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  stockholders,  held  at  Au- 
burn, Me.  With  more  than  250  present 
at  the  dinner  on  the  opening  night  the 
general  meetings  and  the  group  con- 
ferences to  discuss  details  of  the  ap- 
eration  of  the  big  business  kept  the 
stockholders  and  employees  fully  oc- 
cupied for  two  days. 

The  reports  of  the  finances  of  the 
system  indicated  that  there  had  been  a 
substantial  gain  in  the  volume  of  busi- 
ness done  in  the  past  year  and  that 
there  was  every  indication  that  the 
coming  year  would  show  an  even  bet- 
ter return.  The  votes  taken  by  the 
stockholders  were  an  echo  of  this  gen- 
eral feeling  of  confidence.  All  the 
officers  will  continue  to  serve — another 
indication  of  strong  confidence  in  the 
management. 

The  question  of  a  reorganization  of 
the  company  on  a  proprietary,  instead 
of  a  co-operative  basis,  was  discussed 
at  some  length.  The  decision  of  the 
stockholders  leaned  toward  a  continua- 
tion of  the  present  organization  but 
there  are  still  a  considerable  number 
of  producers,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
management,  who  do  not  care  to  have 
their  money  invested  in  the  co-opera- 
tive and  would  be  glad  to  see  a  re- 
organization. The  success  which  the 
organization  may  have  during  the  com- 
ing year,  operating  as  a  co-operative, 
will  be  a  big  factor  in  the  feelings  of 
the  stockholders  a  year  hence. 

The  financial  report  was  most  grati- 
fying. In  1925  the  earnings  of  the 
company  were  $18,000  after  taking  out 
the  proper  sums  for  depreciation.  In 
1926  these  earnings  had  increased  to 
$56,000,  and  the  reports  of  the  year 
just  closed  show  earnings  of  $118,000. 
Considering  that  a   little  more  than  a 


year  ago  there  was  a  serious  general 
question  whether  the  organization  was 
going  to  come  through  financially  sound 
and  successful  the  present  showing  is 
especially  good. 

A  little  more  than  a  year  ago  the 
NEMPA  and  the  Turner  Centre  Sys- 
tem were  negotiating  over  the  pay- 
ment for  milk  delivered  several 
months  previously  but  not  paid  for 
at  the  NEMPA  price.  Since  that 
time  these  back  payments  have  been 
met  fully  and  that  cause  of  unrest  has 
been  wiped  off  the   slate  altogether. 

The  other  factor  which  is  causing 
some  uneasiness  in  the  Turner  Centre 
System  is  the  redemption  of  the  stock 
on  the  rotating  basis.  When  this  rotat- 
ing stock  plan  was  adopted  at  the  time 
the  Turner  Centre  System  was  being 
turned  over  to  the  stockholders  it  was 
provided  that  stock  should  be  rotated 
out  every  five  years.  Later  a  vote  was 
passed  making  this  five-year  rotation 
elastic  and  in  the  hands  of  the  di- 
rectors. 

Quality  and  service  have  been  the 
keynotes  to  the  progress  of  the  or- 
ganization during  the  past  year  and 
they  are  the  lines  on  which  still  further 
progress  is  planned.  In  carrying  out 
this  policy  Dr.  C.  E.  North  was  re- 
tained as  an  expert  adviser  on  methods 
of  raising  the  standards  of  quality.  As 
a  consulting  expert  he  has  brought  to 
the  Turner  Centre  System  some  of  the 
most  promising  new  methods  of  proc- 
essing milk  and  as  a  result  the  equip- 
ment of  the  System  as  a  whole  has 
been  materially  improved  and  brought 
up  to  date. 

Complete  changes  in  the  pasteuriza- 
tion at  Portsmouth,  Fall  River,  Lynn 
and  Lowell  have  been  made  and  a 
greatly  improved  laboratory  equipment 
at  the  Boston  plant  'has  been  developed. 
The  Turner  Centre  System  is  planning 
to  carry  the  modernizing  of  the  equip- 
ment still   further  in   1928.     Its  effort 


is  being  directed  toward  a  low  bacteria 
count.  Coupled  with  some  educational 
work  among  the  patrons  on  conditions 
of  handling  milk  at  the  farms  the 
modernizing  of  the  equipment  should 
have  a  decided  effect. 

These  changes  and  their  significance 
in  increasing  returns  to  the  organiza- 
tion and  ultimate  better  prices  to  all 
who  are  concerned  in  its  welfare  were 
explained  in  an  interesting  talk  by  Dr. 
North  at  the  meeting. 

Wesley  H.  Bronson,  of  the  NEMPA, 
gave  a  talk  on  the  general  conditions 
in  the  market,  congratulating  the  Tur- 
ner Centre  System  on  the  fine  show- 
ing they  had  made  this  year  as  com- 
pared with  the  previous  year.  His 
report  of  the  increased  stability  of 
the  market,  due  to  a  more  general  ac- 
ceptance of  the  needs  of  stabilization 
through  a  better  understanding  between 
the  various  groups,  was  of  decided 
interest. 

Prof.  W.  P.  B.  Lockwood,  of  the 
New  England  Dairy  and  Food  Council, 
outlined  the  education  work  which  the 
council  is  doing,  all  of  which  is  good 
for  milk  sales. 

On  the  second  day  of  the  meeting 
all-day  conferences  were  arranged  for 
various  groups  having  to  do  with  the 
management  and  sales  end.  The  sales 
managers  at  the  various  city  plants  and 
the  station  managers  in  the  country 
were  brought  together  for  a  discussion 
of  ''ways  and  means"  of  increasing 
business  the  coming  year  by  still  fur- 
ther developing  the  ideals  of  quality 
and  service. 

With  increased  earnings  and  a  gen- 
eral confidence  that  Turner  has  turned 
the  corner  and  is  now  heading  toward 
substantial  prosperity,  the  sales  man- 
agers and  plant  men  were  right  on 
their  toes  and  eager  for  new  ideas 
and  for  new  solutions  for  old  problems. 
Altogether  it  was  one  of  the  best 
meetings  in  years. 


Sales  of  dairy  products  by  the 
Turner  Centre  System,  amounted  to  $7,- 
200,131  for  1927.  The  larger  items 
making  up  the  total  were :  milk  and 
cream,  $4,644,980;  ice  cream,  $1,650,393; 
butter,  $766,718 ;  ice  cream  mixture, 
$71,233;  condensed  milk,  $53,638;  cheese, 
$11,267;  casein,  $1,902.  The  gross  in- 
come for  the  year  was  $7,415,125  and 
included  beside  dairy  products,  egg  sales 
of  $93,143;  supply  sales  of  $21,038. 

The  growth  of  this  co-operative  mar- 
keting enterprise  since  1913  is  hown  by 
the  following  figures : 


Year              Sales  of  dairy  Net  worth 
products 
amount 

1913   $1,781,597  $239,038 

1914                     1,961,383  264,119 

1915  ..„              2,210,809  403,963 

1916                     2,513,508  439,002 

1917                    3,107,586  622,234 

1918                     4,122,869  650,848 

1919                     4,825,370  867,277 

1920                     5,484,443  948,128 

1921                     4,162,565  1,112,211 

1922                     3,439,104  1,588,968 

1923                     4,307,457  1,791,198 

1924                     6,082,124  1,925,001 

1925                    6,266,914  1,786,740 

1926                     6,682,182  1,860,593 

1927                     7,200,131  1,979,727 


Winning  the  "Known  Price" 
fight  demands  the  support  of 
all  Dairymen.    Subscribe  to 
the  Benefit  Fund. 


The  finely  equipped  plant  of  Turner  Centre  System,  Providence,  is  now  a  money  maker.  Weston  B.  Hashell,  manager  of  System,  in  corner 


Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  1928 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  January,  1928 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below  for 
your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7  per 
cent,  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container;  per  Syi 
quart  can  $.009;  per  10  quart  can  $.010;  per  20  quart  can  $.021;  per  21 quart  can 
$.023 ;  per  40  quart  can  $.042 ;  per  cwt.  $.049. 


Dealers 
Elm  Spring  Farm 
7th  Zone  (121-140) 

J.  B.  Prescott 
Delivered   


Boston  District 


Class  1  Class  2   

(Mkt.  (Mfg.  8H 

Milk)  Milk)  Quart 

..83.7%  16.3%  .612 


20 
Quart 
1.493 


Size  of  Can  

40 

Quart  Quart 
1.585  3.023 


92.9 


7.1 


Dealers 


Northern  Market  District 

Class  1    Class  2   


(Mkt. 
Milk) 

Robert  H.  Sawyer 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

Delivered   84.2% 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Wason  MacDonald  Co. 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

Delivered   81.2 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone  

Findeisen  Farms, 
Zoned  from  Lawrence 

Delivered   71.4 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

9th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   88.5 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

E.  C.  Blake 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   72.4 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 
Zoned  from  Nashua 


(Mfg. 
Milk) 


15.8% 


Cwt. 
in 

sy2's 


—  Size  of  Can  — 

Cwt.  Cwt. 

in  in 

20's  40's 


18.8 


3.545 
3.125 
3.058 


3.545 
3.196 
3.139 


3.545 
3.215 
3.177 


28.6 


11.5 


27^ 


74.4 

25.6 

3.446 

3.446 

3.446 

3.159 

3.225 

3.242 

3.098 

3.173 

3.207 

3.078 

3.130 

3.173 

3.017 

3.112 

3.143 

Producers'  Dairy  System, 

Inc. 

Zoned  from  Nashua 

76.0 

24.0 

2nd  zone 
3rd  zone 


Cwt. 
3.515 

4.113 


3.473 
3.182 
3.149 
3.087 
3.000 


3.689 
3.446 
3.405 
3.364 
3.328 
3.297 
3.282 


3,361 

3.150 

3.102 

3.062 

2,945 


3.478 
3.199 
3.154 


Dairy  Tariff  Hearing  Held 


Substantial  support  for  an  increased 
tariff  on  cream  was  given  at  a  hear- 
ing before  the  United  States  Tariff 
Commission  in  Washington,  Feb.  23, 
24  and  25.  Our  association  was  rep- 
resented by  Wesley  H.  Bronson,  head 
of  the  research  department,  who  pre- 
sented a  brief,  outlining  the  reasons 
why  the  tariff  on  cream  should  be  in- 
creased. It  is  given  practically  in  full 
in  this  issue  as  it  was  one  of  the  most 
important    of     the     presentations  and 


should  have  considerable  weight  with 
the  commission. 

The  case  was  presented  by  the  Na- 
tional Co-operative  Milk  Producers' 
Federation,  but  the  NEMPA,  Dairy- 
men's League  and  other  members  of 
the  national  organization  took  a  major 
part  in  presenting  the  evidence.  Judge 
J.  D.  Miller,  of  the  Dairymen's  League, 
president  of  the  federation,  presented 
the  legal  aspects  of  the  case  and  C.  W. 
Holman,    secretary    of    the  federation, 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Effective  March  1,  1928,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Based  on  9  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


Cwt.  1 
2 
3 

3.728  i 
3.386  % 
3.347  ° 

8 
9 
10 

  11 

  12 

  13 

14 
15 


Zone  Miles 
Del.  Trucked 
1-20 
21-40 
41-60 
61-80 
81-100 
101-120 
121-140 
141-160 
161-180 
181-200 
201-220 
221-240 
241-260 
261-280 
281-300 


Del.  Trucked 


1 

2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 


1-20 
21-40 
41-60 
61-80 
81-100 
101-120 
121-140 
141-160 
161-180 
181-200 


8qt. 
Cans 
.696 
.603 
.588 
.583 
.568 
.558 
.558 
.548 
.543 
.538 
.533 
.528 
.523 
.518 
.513 
.508 


.696 
.628 
.608 
.603 
.598 
.593 
.593 
.593 
.578 
.573 
.573 


8$4qt. 
Cans 

.740 
.645 
.630 
.625 
.610 
.600 
.600 
.590 
.585 
.580 
.575 
.570 
.565 
.560 
.555 
.550 


10qt. 
Cans 
.871 
.766 
.751 
.736 
.726 
.716 
.711 
.701 
.696 
.691 
.681 
.676 
.671 
.666 
.661 
.656 


20qt. 
Cans 
1.741 
1.556 
1.526 
1.501 
1.491 
1.471 
1.466 
1.451 
1.441 
1.431 
1.421 
1.406 
1.401 
1.391 
1.386 
1.376 


21J*qt. 
Cans 
1.849 
1.655 
1.625 
1.600 
1.590 
1.565 
1.555 
1.540 
1.530 
1.520 
1.510 
1.500 
1.490 
1.480 
1.475 
1.460 


40qt. 
Cans 
3.482 
3.132 
3.092 
3.052 
3.017 
2.987 
2.972 
2.947 
2.927 
2.912 
2.892 
2.872 
2.862 
2.842 
2.832 
2.812 


Cwt. in 
20qt. 
Cans 
4.048 
3.618 
3.559 
3.490 
3.466 
3.420 
3.408 
3.373 
3.350 
3.327 
3.304 
3.269 
3.257 
3.234 
3.222 
3.199 


Cwt.in  Cwt.in 
21J4qt.  40qt. 
Cans  Cans 


At  R.  R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

.740  .871  1.741  1.849  3.482  4.048 

.670  .786  1.571  1.665  3.132  3.653 

.650  .771  1.541  1.635  3.092  3.583 

.645  .766  1.536  1.620  3.052  3.572 

.640  .756  1.501  1.600  3.017  3.491 

.635  .741  1.496  1.590  2.992  3.479 

.635  .741  1.496  1.580  2.992  3.479 

.635  .741  1.476  1.570  2.957  3.432 

.620  .736  1.471  1.565  2.942  3.421 

.615  .731  1.461  1.550  2.917  3.398 

.615  .726  1.446  1.540  2.902  3.363 


4.048 
3.622 
3.557 
3.502 
3.480 
3.425 
3.404 
3.382 
3.349 
3.327 
3.305 
3.283 
3.261 
3.239 
3.229 
3.196 


4.048 
3.620 
3.554 
3.522 
3.478 
3.457 
3.435 
3.413 
3.402 
3.370 
3.348 


4.048 
3.641 
3.594 
3.548 
3.507 
3.472 
3.455 
3.426 
3.402 
3.385 
3.362 
3.339 
3.327 
3.304 
3.292 
3.269 


4.048 
3.642 
3.594 
3.549 
3.508 
3.479 
3.479 
3.438 
3.421 
3.392 
3.374 


Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  stations, 
a  premium  of  .0075  cents  per  cwt.  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection  or 
receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices,  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  deduction  of  2  cents  per  cwt.  has  been  made  for 
NEMPA  members'  dues  and  1  cent  per  cwt.  for  advertising. 


Providence  Market 


Class  1 

Dealers  (Mkt. 
Per  Hundredweight  Milk) 

W.  B.  Brown   100.0% 

H.  T.  Burton,  Inc   99.5 

G.  T.  Chambers   96.5 

E.  A.  Fiske   100.0 

L.  E.  Goff   100.0 

C.  W.  Grant    94.2 

A.  B.  Munroe  _  100.0 

Providence  Dairy  ....  87.6 

Turner  Centre   100.0 

W.  C.  Viall    79.2 

C.  A.  Warnock   100.0 

E.  P.  Westcott   100.0 


Class  2 
(Mfg. 
Milk) 

.5 
3.5 


5.8 
12.4 


20.8 


Deliv- 
ered 
4.055 
4.040 
3.966 
4.058 
4.058 
3.822 
4.053 
3.793 
4.075 
3.629 
4.058 
4.047 


Truck- 
ing 

Zone  1  Zone  2  Zone  3   Zone  Willi- 

1-20  21^10  41-60     net  mantic 

Miles  Miles  Miles  at  Farm  Zone 

3.720  3.673  3.606   

3.707  3.659  3.593   

3.643  3.597     3.533  3.426   

3.723  3.675  3.609   

3.723  3.675  3.609   

3.600  3.555  3.493   

3.718  3.670  3.604   

3.556  3.525  3.464     3.354  3.408 

3.771  3.723  3.656   

3.365  3.327  3.274   

3.723  3.675  3.609   

3.713  3.665  3.598   


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  January,  1928 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  January  is  correct.    Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  milesi  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.049  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent,  subtract  $.049 
per  ;ach  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  January  by  your  dealers'  price  after  making,  the  above  adjustments. 

Zone  1    Zone  2   Zone  3    Zone  4   Zone  5    Zone  6   Zone  7    Zone  8    Zone  9   Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 

1-20     21-40     41-60     61-80    81-100  101-120  121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281-300 

Miles  from  Boston 

Class  1  Milk  Price  3.757     3.711      3.664     3.623     3.588    3.571      3.542      3.519      3.501      3.478      3.455      3.443      3i420      3.408  3.386 

Class  2  Milk  Price  2.011      2.011      2.011      2.011      2.011     2.011      2.011      2.011      2.011      2,011      2.011      2.011      2.011      2.011  2.011 

OIhss  1  Clciss  2 

Dealers  (Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 

Hood  1-15   65.1%            34.9%  3.140     3.110     3.080     3.053     3.030     3.019       3.000      2.985      2.974      2.958      2.944      2.936      2.921      2.913  2.898 

Hood  16-31   66.6               33.4     3.148     3.117     3.086     3.059     3.035    3.024       3.005      2.989      2.977      2.961      2.947      2.939      2.923      2.915  2.900 

Whiting   56.8               43.2     2.950     2.923     2.897     2.874     2.854    2.844       2.828      2.814      2.804      2.791      2.778      2.771      2.758      2.752  2.739 

Turner  Centre   33.0               67.0     2.624     2.609     2.593     2.580     2.568    2.563       2.553      2.545      2.540      2.532      2.524      2.521      2.513      2.509  2.501 

F.  S.  Cummings   59.8               40.2     3.020     2.992     2.964     2.940     2.919    2.090       2.891      2.877      2.867      2.853      2.838      2.832      2.818      2.811  2.798 

Weighted  Avg  61.9               39.1     3.084     3.055     3.027     3.001     2.980    2.969       2.951      2.936      2.926      2.911      2.897      2.890      2.876      2.868  2.854 


March,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


made  the  general  statement.  Con- 
gressmen Taber  and  Fish,  from  New 
York,  were  present  in  support  of  the 
increased  tariff.  It  was  noticeable 
that  none  of  the  New  England  Con- 
gressmen put   in  an  appearance. 

The  discussions  centered  around  the 
cost  of  the  product  in  Canada  and  in 
the  New  England  states  as  revealed  by 
the  special  study  of  conditions  made 
by  representatives  of  the  tariff  com- 
mission. In  addition  to  the  statement 
given  by  Mr.  Bronson,  the  Dairymen's 
League  had  on  hand  three  experts  on 
statistics,  on  quality  of  product  and  on 
transportation  matters,  but  none  of 
them  were  put  on  for  direct  testimony. 
J.  O.  Eastlack,  of  the  Philadelphia 
Association,  gave  testimony  as  to  the 
cost  of  moving  dairy  products  from 
Canada  to  the   Philadelphia  market. 

In  opposition  to  the  bill  appeared 
Cornelius    Parker,    of    the    New  Eng- 


Canada  in  search  of  a  supply  of  cream 
that  the  Canadians  sold  in  the  United 
States. 

It  was  claimed  by  opponents  in  the 
hearing  that  the  Lenroot-Taber  bill 
had  resulted  in  a  substantial  decrease 
in  the  shipments  of  cream  into  the 
United  States.  This  decrease  was  set 
as  high  as  SO  per  cent.  An  interest- 
ing feature  of  the  hearing  was  that 
Mr.  Parker,  in  addition  to  representing 
the  New  England  Cream  Dealers'  As- 
sociation, said  he  had  been  commis- 
sioned to  speak  in  opposition  to  the 
bill  by  the  Boston  Suburban  Milk 
Dealers'  Association.  This  was  the 
first  time  that  the  opposition  of  the 
Boston  dealers  had  been  stated  so 
frankly. 

The  situation  as  regards  increased 
importations  of  cream  from  Canada 
under  the  present  tariff  schedule  is 
shown  in  the  accompanying  chart.  The 


1920 


Increase  in  Importations  of  Cream  from  Canada  in  Millions  of 

Pounds 


land  Cream  Dealers'  Association.  He 
claimed  that  because  of  the  operation 
of  the  Lenroot-Taber  bill  the  costs 
of  producing  milk  and  cream  in  Can- 
ada had  increased  since  the  studies  of 
production  costs  were  made  by  the 
tariff  commission.  Part  of  the  basis 
for  the  opposition  to  the  increase  was 
made  on  the  claim  that  Canadian  milk 
is  made  largely  on  pasturage  and  that 
the  cost,  if  compared  with  the  costs  in 
the  United  States,  should  be  made  in 
relation  with  costs  of  similarly  situated 
farmers  in  the  United  States.  The  pro- 
ponents of  the  increased  tariff  claimed 
that  the  only  fair  basis  of  comparison 
was  the  year  around  one  as  that  was 
the  way  milk  was  being  produced. 

P.  C.  Armstrong,  of  the  National 
Dairy  Council  of  Canada,  appeared  in 
opposition  to  the  increase  in  duties, 
claiming  that  they  were  not  warranted. 
He  stated  that  it  was  not  a  case  of 
Canadians  trying  to  force  their  product 
into  New  England  but  a  case  where 
dealers  in  New  England  were  short  of 
product  in  their  natural  territory  and 
were  thus  forced  to  reach  out  into 
new  areas.  He  said  that  it  was  only 
when  the  American  dealers  came  into 


upper  lines  represent  the  increase  in 
cream  expressed  in  terms  of  the  but- 
ter ther  cream  would  make.  This  is 
in  order  to  make  it  comparable  to  the 
decreasing  butter  imports  line.  It  would 
seem  from  this  that  it  is  pretty  good 
business  for  dealers  to  bring  Canadian 
cream  into  the  United  States  for  manu- 
facture into  butter,  rather  than  pay  the 
relatively  higher  butter  duty.  Mr. 
Bronson's  statement  was  as   follows : 

Changes  in  Imports  of  Dairy  Products 
from  Canada 
During  the  past  seven  or  eight  years 
there  have  been  some  very  marked 
changes  in  the  nature  of  the  dairy  prod- 
ucts imported  from  Canada,  and  par- 
ticularly in  the  imports  of  butter  and 
cream.  The  imports  of  butter  from 
Canada  decreased  from  9,400,000  pounds 
in  1919  to  only  300,000  pounds  in  1926. 
During  the  same  period  the  imports  of 
cream  expressed  in  terms  of  butter 
have  increased  from  an  equivalent  of 
3,700,000  pounds  of  butter  to  21,500,- 
000  pounds  of  butter.  These  changes 
are  very  well  brought  out  by  the  chart 
and  table  here  submitted.  It  will  be 
(Continued  on  page  fifteen) 


NO  FEED  SHOULD  EE  BUILT 
FOR  PRODUCTION  ALONE 


OES  your  Dairy  Ration  contain  all  of  the  nec- 
essary  raw  materials  for  growth  and  de- 
velopment, maximum  production,  normal  repro- 
duction? 

What  profit  is  there  in  it  for  the  feeder  to 
stimulate  his  cows  to  abnormal  production, 
only  to  find  udder  troubles  developing  after  three 
or  four  months,  and  that  many  of  his  cows  fail 
to  breed  ? 

It  is  continued  production  plus  breeding 
efficiency  that  pays  profits.  Health  determines 
breeding  efficiency.  You  can  depend  on  it  that 
where  health  is  considered  an  important  factor 
in  herd  management,  that  dairy  is  on  a  paying 
basis. 

Every  dairyman  will  be  interested  in  the  facts  pre- 
sented in  our  new  booklet:  "Livestock  in  the  East," 
Book  II.  It  explains  in  detail  the  most  outstanding 
developments  in  the  field  of  animal  nutrition. 

Mineral  balance  is  the  most  important  problem  of 
the  feeder  today.  The  PARK  &  POLLARD  CO.  Dairy 
Rations  contain  a  specially  prepared  Fish  Meal,  rich  in 
iodine  and  in  easily  digested  and  readily  assimilated 
calcium  and  phosphorus  compounds.  The  grains  and 
grain  products  are  so  combined  with  this  valuable 
ingredient  as  to  provide  the  cow  with  all  of  the  raw 
materials  required  to  maintain  your  herd  at  a  high  level 
of  profit. 


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DAIRY     jtBfc)  POULTRY 
RATIONS  FEEDS 

151  STATE  ST.  BOSTON.MASS. 


THE  PA  KK  \  POLLARD  C  O., 
131  State  St.,  Boston.  Mass. 

Please  send  me.  without  obligation, 
the  booklet  "Livestock  in  the  Kast," 
Book  II. 

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Page  Eight 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  1928 


WHAT'S  IN 
A  NAME  ? 

Names  in  business  life 
only  become  nationally 
known  when  they  rep- 
resent a  necessary  qual- 
ity or  service  of  real 
value  to  industry. 

The  quality  of  sweet, 
wholesome,  safe,  sani- 
tary cleanliness  is  so  in- 
separable from  the  ser- 
vice which  the  use  of 


DtTry/r-tn  m  ^^^m 


definitely  supplies,  that 
the  name  "Wyandotte" 
has  become  synonymous 
for  dairy  sanitation. 

And,  too,  when  costs 
are  ased  on  results  ob- 
tained in  dependable 
work  and  positive  pro- 
tection against  quality 
losses,  Wyandotte  Dairy- 
man's  Cleaner  and 
Cleanser  proves  itself  the 
most  economical  cleans- 
er for  dairy  use. 

Ask  your  supply  man  for 
"WYANDOTTE" 


Are  you  using  Wyandotte  C.  A.  S. 
( Cream  Acidity  Standardizer) 
for  standardizing  the  acidity  of 
your  cream  ? 

THE  J.  D.  FORD  COMPANY 

Sol*  Mftnufftdurerl 
"Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 

Room  205  Dexter  Building 
[3   360  WorthiogtoD  St.,  Springfield,  Man. 
lj]  Telephone  No.  4-0500 

n,d5HSH5rI5rI5Z5ZSHSZSE5HSH5H5E5H5HScJ 

FEBRUARY  PRICES 

Springfield    8  l/2cts. 

Northampton    8]/2  cts. 

Holyoke    cts. 

Holyoke,  Feb.  13    ll/z  cts. 

Westfield    8  cts. 

Worcester    8yi  cts. 

These  prices  are  for  3.7  per  cent,  milk 
delivered  at  dealers'  plants. 

WORCESTER 
Milk  production  in  the  area  serving  this 
market  is  about  normal  for  this  season. 
During  the  first  half  of  January  there 
appeared  to  be  rather  more  milk  coming 
in  than  was  necessary  and  this  oversupply 
created  some  uneasiness  in  the  market. 
This  condition  changed  in  late  January 
and  February  and  for  some  weeks  past 
the  supply  has  been  more  nearly  in  line 
with  the  demand.  This  has  made  the 
situation  more  satisfactory  for  all  con- 
cerned. 

Sales  are  fairly  good  in  this  market 
and  are  expected  to  improve  through  the 
work  which  has  been  undertaken  by  the 
New  England  Dairy  and  Food  Council, 
made  possible  by  the  co-operation  of  the 
dealers  and  producers  in  supplying  the 
necessary  funds  for  this  work.  Miss 
Marian  E.  Robertson,  who  has  been  in 
charge  of  similar  work  in  the  past  has 
been  spending  part  time  on  it  for  several 
months  and  it  is  expected  that  "'ithin  a 
short  time  the  funds  raised  by  the  dealers 
and  producers  will  be  sufficient  to  place 
the  work  on  a  full  time  basis.  The 
work  is  being  done  with  the  co-operation 
of  the  Worcester  County  Extension 
Service. 

The  requirement  of  the  Worcester 
Board  of  Health  that  all  milk  sold  in  the 
city  must  come  from  tuberculin  tested 
herds  or  be  pasteurized  will  take  efW* 
June  1.  It  is  already  having  some  effect 
in  the  market  as  several  small  dealers 
have  made  arrangements  for  the  pas- 
teurization of  their  milk  and  a  number  of 
others,  anticipating  that  there  will  be  a 
tendency  to  shift  over  to  pasteurization, 
have  installed  new  equipment.  The  stif- 
fening of  the  regulations  regarding  pas- 
teurization was  in  part  resnonsible  for 
this  new  equipment,  including  the  auto- 
matic recording  annaratus. 

About  15  per  cent,  of  the  present  milk 
surmlv  of  Worcester  will  be  affected  by 
the  new  requirement  as  this  is  about  the 
quantity  which  has  been  sold  unnasteur- 
ized  and  from  untested  herds.  It  is  not 
generally  believed  that  there  will  be  anv 
great  number  of  farmers  who  will  have 
their  herds  tested  and  the  small  dealers 
they  sell  to  will  either  have  their  supply 
pasteurized  at  some  larger  plant  or  will 
sell  their  business  to  dealers  equipped  for 
pasteurization.  It  is  expected  that  there 
will  be  a  considerable  reduction  in  the 
number  of  the  small  dealers  selling  in 
Worcester  as  the  result  of  this  regulation 
as  it  works  out  over  a  number  of  years. 
DEALERS'  BANQUET 

The  biggest  event  of  the  month  in  the 
Worcester  market  was  the  banquet  of  the 
dealers'  association  at  the  Hotel  Bancroft, 
February  13.  About  SO  were  nresent  in- 
cluding four  members  of  the  NEMPA 
Worcester  sales  committee,  who  were  in- 
vited. It  was  a  fine  social  occasion  with 
plenty  of  fun  mingling  with  the  consider- 
ation of  topics  of  social  interest  to  dealers 
but  interesting  also  from  the  producers' 
standpoint  as  anything  which  makes  the 
milk  business  better  is  to  the  advantage  of 
all  factors  in  the  dairy  industry. 

Dr.  A.  V.  Gilbert,  State  Commi  ssioner 
of  Agriculture,  was  the  chief  speaker, 
and  his  expression  of  opinion  that  the 
growing  mutual  confidence  among  dealers 
and  between  dealers  and  their  producers 
was  one  of  important  developments  which 
would  work  for  the  general  prosperity  of 
the  industry,  around  Worcester  as  well 
as  in  any  other  market.  He  said  that  the 
foundation  of  confidence  among  dealers 
was  the  establishment  nf  a  known  price 


One  of  Mr.  DeRocha' s    leading  producers,  Meibloem 
Creamelle  Colantha  Nr  697637.  In  304  days  she  produced 
17,190  lbs.  milk,  containing  574.1  lbs.  butter  fat. 


12,201  lbs,  of  Milk 

was  the  average  production 
per  cow  in  this  herd  of 

27  Amcofed  Holsteins 


TWTR.  V.  J.  DEROCHA,  Bristol, 
Rhode  Island,  member  of  Rhode 
Island  Herd  Test  Association,  has  fed 
Amco  open  formula  feeds  for  over  two 
years— AMCO  20%  DAIRY  for  milk- 
ing herd  and 
AMCO  12% 
FITTING  RA- 
TION for  dry 
cows  and  grow- 
ing heifers. 


His  cost  of  pro- 
d  uc i n g  milk 
for  the  entire 
year  was  less 
than  3  cents 
per  quart,  some 
m  ont  hs  less 
than    2  cents 


With  alfalfa  and  clover  hay 
feed 

AMCO  20%  DAIRY 

i    i  1 

With  timothy  or  mixed  hay 
feed 

AMCO  24%  DAIRY 

111 

With  home-grown  grains 
mix 

AMCO  32%  DAIRY 


per  quart.  He  fed  l  pound  of  grain  to 
3-4  pounds  of  milk,  depending  on  the 
individual  and  her  stage  of  lactation. 
His  herd  is  made  up  entirely  of  pure- 
bred Holsteins. 

The  herd  test 
association  rec- 
ord book  shows 
that  last  year  he 
had  27  produc- 
ing cows  in  his 
herd,  of  which 
only  19  were 
milking  8  months 
or  more  during 
the  year  and  6 
of  these  were 
heifers.  The  av- 
erage production 
per  cow  was: 


Milk  per  cow   12,201  lbs. 

Butter  fat  per  cow  396 

Roughage  cost  incl.  pasture   $  72  09 

Grain  cost   89 . 48 

Total  feed  cost   161.57 

Value  of  product  above  cost  of  feed   371  13 

Return  per  $1  expended  for  feed   3  30 

Feed  cost  per  pound  butter  fat   -40 

Feed  cost  per  100  lbs.  of  milk  .  .    132 

Amco 

%  FEED  MIXING  SERVICE 

AMERICAN  MILLING  COMPANY 
Executive  Offices:  Peoria,  111. 

PlanU  at:  PEORIA.  ILL.;  OMAHA.  NEB.;  OWENSBORO,  KY. 
Alfalfa  Plants  at:  POWELL,  GARLAND,  and  WORLAND,  WYO. 
DIVISION  OFFICE:  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


March,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Nine 


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people  realize  that  alfalfa  and 
clover  hay  contain  as  much 
potash  as  they  do  lime.  A  ton 
of  alfalfa  hay  requires  as  much 
potash  as  there  is  in  75  pounds 
of  muriate.  Is  it  any  wonder 
that  alfalfa  and  clover  often 
suffer  because  of  a  lack  of  avail' 
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Fertilisers  are  among  the  cheapest 
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and  a  general  price  basis  on  which  all 
dealers  were  buying  their  milk.  Without 
such  a  generally  accepted  price  and 
method  of  figuring  the  price,  there  would 
always  be  unwarranted  suspicions  creep- 
ing in  and  rumors  of  bad  practices  which 
might  not  be  substantiated.  Without  the 
known  price  basis  such  rumors  were 
likely  to  be  believed  more  or  less  and 
breed  suspicion  that  other  dealers  were 
resortinr  to  unbusinesslike  practices. 

In  this  connection  Dr.  Gilbert  called 
attention  to  the  "code  of  ethics"  which 
has  been  adopted  by  dealers  in  many 
cities  throughout  the  United  States.  He 
felt  that  this  was  a  fine  thing  for  the 
business  and  would  go  a  long  way  toward 
building  up  of  confidence  between  dif- 
ferent dealers.  In  many  cases  simply 
calling  attention  to  a  certain  practice 
would  result  in  its  abandonment  by  a 
number  of  dealers  who  had  never  thought 
of  it  in  that  light  before.  With  a  gen- 
eral mutual  conference  among  dealers, 
Dr.  Gilbert  said  that  it  was  far  easier  for 
the  producers  to  maintain  confidence  in 
their  own  dealers.  He  congratulated  the 
advances  which  the  Worcester  dealers 
had  made  throu"1  -  organization  of  an 
association  for  their  consideration  of  com- 
mon problems. 

Prof.  W.  P.  B.  Lockwood,  of  the  New 
England  Dai^y  and  Food  Council,  gave 
a  talk  on  the  general  work  of  the  or- 
ganization, illustrating  it  with  steropticon 
pictures.  Miss  Robertson  asked  the 
dealers  to  forget  that  they  were  srown  up 
and  just  imagine  that  they  were  about 
six  years  old  while  she  told  them  the 
story  of  the  way  milk  would  make  them 
grow  strong  and  active,  able  to  win  in 
games  and  sports  and  grow  into  strong 
men  and  women.  Her  clever  presenta- 
tion made  a  fine  impression  on  the  dealers 
and  gave  them  a  good  idea  of  the  type  of 
work  she  is  doing  in  the  city. 

SPRINGFIELD 

Supplies  of  milk  in  the  Springfield  area 
are  somewhat  above  normal  and  there 
are  reports  current  of  dealers  who  are 
taking  advantage  of  this  situation.  The 
NEMPA  price  is  not  being  observed  quite 
so  strictly  as  it  should  be  nor  by  so  many 
dealers.  There  is  a  need  of  more  field 
work  in  this  section  in  order  that  the 
producers  may  have  a  better  understand- 
ing of  the  situation  and  of  their  respon- 
sibility in  holding  their  dealers  responsible 
for  somewhat  disorderly  marketing  prac- 
tices. 

For  some  months  past  it  has  been  neces- 
sary for  the  district  manager  to  spend  a 
considerable  part  of  his  time  in  getting 
the  Worcester  area  straightened  out  and 
the  Worcester  market  running  on  a  more 
stable  and  satisfactory  basis.  This  has 
now  been  largely  accomplished.  It  is 
generally  recognized  that  the  price  to  the 
farmers  in  the  Worcester  market  has  not 
been  in  so  uniform  a  condition  for  many 
vears  as  it  is  today.  The  district  manager 
is  now  transferring  a  large  part  of  his 
time,  thought  and  energv  to  the  Spring- 
field area  in  the  hope  and  expectation  that 
he  will  meet  with  the  same  fine  response 
from  the  producers  and  will  be  able  to 
bring  the  Springfield  market  up  to  the 
generally  satisfactory  condition  in  the 
Worcester  market. 

HOLYOKE 

The  Holyoke  market  is  in  a  jam  as  the 
result  of  a  cut  in  the  chain  store  price. 
The  price  to  the  farmers  dronned  from 
8^2  to  7lA  cents  February  13.  The  whole- 
sale prices  which  are  being  charged  are 
very  elastic  and  in  many  ways  the  market 
is  in  a  condition  where  everybody  is 
taking  a  licking. 

Throusrh  the  fall  the  retail  price  of 
milk  had  been  15  cents  with  a  12  cent 
chain  store  price.  At  the  time  of  the 
flood  prices  went  up  temporarily  but 
dropped  back  again  in  January.  Reports 
began  to  get  around  of  considerable  price 
cutting  to  the  farmers.  The  district 
manaeer  investigated  these  and  found 
that  they  were  largely  without  basis,  or 
at  least  very  much  exaggerated.  So  far 
as  the  farmers  were  concerned  most  of 
them  were  getting  the  price.  But  the 
stories  were  believed  enough  to  be  made 
an  excuse  for  price  cutting  in  the  market. 

The  A.  &  P.  stores,  securing  their  milk 
supnlv  from  the  United  Dairv  Svstem. 
bad  been  selling  at  12  cents  and  a  few  of 
the  indenendent  stores  were  selling  at  11 
cents.    The  A.  &  P.  stores  claimed  that 


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The  wife  of  a  farmer  near  Cin- 
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discovered  that  the  spoons 
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bought  for  5  or  io  cents.  Her 
husband  immediately  went  to 
his  telephone  and  warned  all  of 
his  neighbors.  Then  he  tele- 
phoned the  sheriff  at  Norwich, 
N.  Y.,  and  the  fraudulent  sales- 
man was  driven  from  the  coun  ty . 

The  telephone  is  the  farm 
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It  calls  the  implement  repair 
man.  The  doctor.  The  veteri- 
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when  to  sell  for  the  best  price. 
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The  modern  farm  home  has 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  1928 


Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 


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Is  your  land  clover  sick,  or  is 
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you  have  been  sowing?  Are  you 
again  going  to  take  chances  plant- 
ing clover  seed  of  unknown  origin 
when  you  know  that  foreign,  Pa- 
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Do  you  mix  clover  with  your 
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habit  or  to  get  a  bumper  crop  of 
palatable,  high-protein,  soil-sus- 
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40c  of  known  adaptability  will 
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this  competition  from  11  cent  milk,  plus 
their  claim  that  dealers  were  delivering 
milk  at  homes  at  the  chain  store  price  or 
less,  and  they  therefore  cut  their  price  to 
10  cents.  This  was  followed  by  a  gen- 
eral reduction  in  the  market  February  13, 
the  home  delivered  price  going  to  13  cents. 
In  this  drop  of  two  cents  in  the  family 
price  the  producers  took  one  cent  and  the 
dealers  one  cent. 

The  market  is  in  such  a  chaotic  condi- 
tion, with  new  developments  in  prices 
every  few  days,  that  a  general  meeting  of 
the  Holyoke  marketing  association  of  the 
NEMPA  will  be  called  soon  to  see  what 
can  be  done  about  it.  It  will  serve  as  an 
annual  meeting  of  the  marketing  associa- 
tion for  Holyoke  when  a  sales  committee 
for  that  city  will  be  elected  for  the  com- 
ing year.  It  is  hoped  to  make  the  in- 
coming sales  committee  representative  of 
the  various  sections  from  which  Hol- 
yoke's  milk  supply  is  coming. 

One  of  the  big  difficulties  in  the  Hol- 
yoke market  is  over  wholesale  prices 
which  are  very  ragged. 

A  new  element  in  milk  marketing  in 
Springfield  and  in  Holyoke  may  come 
through  the  "allied  stores."  This  is  a 
group  of  independent  stores  in  each  city 
which  have  banded  together  to  purchase 
in  larger  quantities  and  thus  be  in  a 
better  position  to  compete  with  the  chain 
stores.  It  is  essentially  the  same  as  a 
chain  of  stores  except  that  they  are  under 
separate  managements  and  probably  will 
find  it  impractical  to  purchase  all  of  their 
goods  together. 

They  are  making  a  start  on  bread,  get- 
ting bids  from  bakers  to  supply  the  whole 
string  of  stores.  They  are  already  buy- 
ing their  milk  supplv  together.  Their 
prices  are  generally  based  on  the  prices 
in  competing  chain  stores.  Some  of 
them  actually  deliver  milk  along  with  the 
daily  grocery  order.  If  they  should  find 
it  practical  to  buy  their  milk  from  one 
dealer  they  would  become  quite  a  factor 
in  the  market.  If  any  considerable  num- 
ber of  them  adopted  the  practice  of  home 
delivery  without  extra  charge,  a  milk 
war  between  them  and  the  chain  stores 
might  result.  All  of  which  would  be 
distinctly  bad  for  the  market. 


BIG  BUSINESS 

A  recent  report  of  the  Division  of  Co- 
operative Marketing  of  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agriculture  shows  that 
the  bargaining  form  of  milk  marketing 
organization  like  the  NEMPA  handles 
far  more  product  than  the  milk  distribut- 
ing associations.  The  creamery  associa- 
tions stand  at  the  head  of  the  dairy  or- 
ganizations in  the  volume  and  value  of 
product  handled  and  the  bargaining  as- 
sociations come  next.  The  40  bargaining 
associations  are  given  credit  for  handling 
$205,000,000  worth  of  product.  This 
really  does  not  tell  the  whole  story  as 
shown  in  our  own  case.  The  figures  given 
by  the  federal  report  includes  the  milk 
sold  directly  under  the  NEMPA  price, 
but  as  a  matter  of  fact  most  of  the  milk 
in  New  England  does  actually  move  up 
or  down  with  the  NEMPA  price  and  the 
actual  totals  should  be  considerably 
greater  than  reported.  The  report  of  the 
Division  of  Co-operative  Marketing  is  in 
part  as  follows : 

"Dairy  products  to  the  value  of  $640,- 
000,000  were  sold  through  co-operative 
associations  in  1927,  according  to  an  esti- 
mate based  on  reports  received  recently 
by  the  Division  of  Co-operative  Market- 
ing of  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture. This  huge  sum  is  roughly  divided 
among:  the  several  types  of  co-operatives 
as  follows :  Creamery  associations,  $250,- 
000,000 ;  milk-bargaining  associations, 
$205,000.000 ;  milk-distributing  associa- 
tions, $140,000,000;  cheese  factories,  $33,- 
000.000;  cream  stations,  $12,000,000. 

"Heavy  gains  in  the  volume  of  business 
handled  were  made  during  the  year  by  the 
creameries,  the  milk-barsraining  associa- 
tions and  the  milk-distributing  associa- 
tions. One  srroup  of  creameries  in  the 
Minnesota-Wisconsin  dairy  section  re- 
ported sales  for  1927  more  than  $6,000,- 
000  larger  than  for  1926.  Increased  sales 
were  also  reported  by  the  larger  co- 
operative creamery  enterprises  in  a  num- 
ber of  the  states. 

"Some  very  large  increases  in  gross 
sales  were  also  reported  by  the  milk- 
bargaining  associations  operating  in  a 
number  of  the  larger  cities.    Several  of 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


Dairymen- 
Read 
this  Letter 


Intervale  Jersey  Farm 

BURLINGTON,  VERMONT 

Jan.  1st,  1928. 

Elmore  Milling  Company, 
Oneonta,  New  York. 

Gentlemen : 

Having  completed  my  dairy 
records  for  the  year  1927,  I  am 
sure  you  will  be  interested  in 
learning  the  results  obtained  from 
feeding  Elmore  Milk  Grains  to 
my  Jersey  herd  for  the  past  year. 

My  herd  of  42  cows  made  an 
average  production  of  373.42  lbs. 
of  butterfat  and  7526.6  lbs.  of 
milk,  an  increase  of  8.8%  over 
that  of  last  year.  Out  of  this 
herd  there  were  24  cows  and 
heifers  that  produced  an  average 
of  431.6  lbs.  butterfat.  There 
were  14  that  produced  over  400 
lbs.  fat,  five  over  500  lbs.  fat, 
and  one  over  600  lbs.  fat.  We 
had  kept  over  some  cows  for 
breeding  purposes  that  made  the 
herd  average  come  below  the  400 
mark. 

I  was  particularly  interested  in 
comparing  the  records  of  the  14 
highest  cows  with  their  records  of 
last  year.  They  averaged  in  1926 
7183.3  lbs.  milk  and  353.9  lbs.  fat. 
In  1927  the  same  cows  averaged 
9792  lbs.  milk  and  477.7  lbs.  fat, 
an  increase  of  28%. 

The  roughage  fed  during  the 
past  years  has  been  practically  the 
same  and  so  convinces  me  that 
your  grain  has  contributed  largely 
to  this  remarkable  increase.  I 
might  also  add  that  the  cows  have 
more  than  held  their  own  and  fin' 
ished  their  records  in  excellent 
show  condition. 

I  am  sorry  that  I  can  not  give 
you  the  standing  of  this  herd  in 
the  three  Chittenden  County 
C.T.A.'s  because  the  records  for 
all  the  herds  are  not  yet  com' 
pleted.  However,  my  herd  aver' 
age  is  considerably  higher  than 
that  of  last  year  and  includes  the 
cow  C.  B.  Cilley  with  the  record 
of  13,982  lbs.  milk,  646.6  lbs.  but- 
terfat, which,  we  have  been  told, 
is  the  highest  in  the  county  and 
one  of  the  highest  in  the  State. 

The  results  obtained  at  Inter- 
vale  Jersey  Farm,  when  feeding 
Elmore  Milk  Grains,  prompts  us 
to  recommend  this  grain  to  any 
dairyman. 

Very  truly  yours, 

W.  C.  ARMS 
Owner  Intervale  Jersey  Farm 


the  milk-distributing  associations  also 
made  substantial  gains  in  gross  sales  in 
1927. 

"Many  of  the  creameries  and  cheese 
factories  bought  farm  supplies  for  their 
patrons,  the  value  of  which  would  in- 
crease the  total  volume  of  business  by 
several  millions  of  dollars. 

"Measured  by  value  of  dairy  products 
sold  co-operatively,  the  leading  states  in 
1927  were:  New  York,  Minnesota,  Wis- 
consin, Massachusetts,  Iowa,  Pennsyl- 
vania, Michigan,  and  California,  in  the 
order  named. 

"The  leading  states  in  co-operative 
making  and  marketing  of  butter  were : 
Minnesota,  Wisconsin,  Iowa,  and  Cali- 
fornia. States  leading  in  co-operative 
marketing  of  cheese  were :  Wisconsin  and 
Oregon;  and  the  states  leading  in  milk 
marketing  were :  New  York,  Ohio,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  Pennsylvania. 

"On  January  1  of  this  year,  2,479  co- 
operative associations  engaged  in  market- 
ing dairy  products  were  listed  by  the 
United  States  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture. These  associations  were  classified 
as  follows:  Creameries,  1,390;  cheese 
factories,  751 ;  milk-marketing  associa- 
tions, 119;  cream  stations,  102;  milk- 
bargaining  associations,  40;  miscellaneous 
enterprises,  77." 

MARKET  CONDITIONS 

Milk  production  in  January  was  about 
normal  and  sales  showed  about  the  nor- 
mal increase.  Reports  from  the  dealers 
operating  under  the  surplus  plan  showed 
an  increase  from  December  to  January 
purchases  of  10  per  cent,  as  compared 
with  a  normal  increase  of  five  per  cent. 
As  the  flood  was  still  keeping  back  some 
of  the  milk  in  December  it  seems  prob- 
able that  the  10  per  cent,  increase  was  due 
in  part  to  low  shipments  in  December 
rather  than  to  increased  production  in 
January.  The  New  England  crop  re- 
porting service  gives  January  production 
per  cow  as  four  per  cent,  less  than  last 
year.  This  is  additional  evidence  that 
the  milk  production  is  not  above  normal 
and  maybe  somewhat  less  than  normal. 

Sales  in  January  showed  the  normal 
two  per  cent,  increase  as  compared  with 
December.  The  total  sales  as  reported 
by  the  four  largest  dealers  were  4J^  per 
cent,  higher  than  last  year.  Part  of  this 
increase  was  due  to  the  consolidation  of 
two  dealers  in  January. 

The  weighted  percentage  of  surplus  for 
January  was  39.1  per  cent.,  as  compared 
with  46.9  per  cent.,  including  cream  plan 
territory,  and  with  33.9  per  cent,  on  the 
milk  basis.  Fluid  milk  sales  increased 
1J4  million  pounds  as  compared  with  a 
year  ago. 

Milk  Prices 
The  January  net  milk  price  of  $2.91  in 
the  10th  zone  is  36c  per  hundred  above 
last  year  and  the  best  price  since  1921. 
Our  Class  I  fluid  price  was  52c  above 
last  year  and  ClassII  price  14c  higher. 
The  butter  market  average  lc  per  pound 
lower  than  last  year.  Below  are  com- 
parative prices: 

Dec.  Jan.  Jan. 
1927     1928  1927 

Fluid   $3.71     $3.48  $2.96 

Surplus    2.18      2.02  1.88 

Net  price  all  milk..  3.08  2.91  2.55 
Avg.  butter  per  lb.  .498  .486  .495 
Milk  and  Grain  Prices 
One  hundred  pounds  of  milk  in  Janu- 
ary at  the  10th  Zone  price  bought  113 
pounds  of  grain  as  compared  with  112 
pounds  last  year  and  a  5-year  average 
for  January  of  109  pounds. 

Butter  Prices 
The  butter  market  has  been  very  weak 
during  the  month,  and  at  present  prices, 
45y2c  is  7c  per  pound  below  last  year. 
Storage  stocks  are  about  normal ;  pro- 
duction is  not  excessive,  but  consumption 
must  be  off  some  due  to  less  favorable 
business  conditions. 

Cost  of  Production 
Grain    prices    held    about    steady  in 
February  and  now  average  $4.00  a  ton 
above  last  year.    Hay  is  $2.00  below  last 
year.    Comparative  costs  are  : 

Jan.  Feb.  Feb. 
1927     1928  1927 

Grain  per  ton  $51.26   $51,68  $47.81 

Hay  per  ton   14.01     13.13  15.27 

Labor    per  month 
with  board    48.70     48.70  46.60 


Think  what  this  means 
on  your  feed  bills! 


2800  lbs. 
more 
Hay 

per  acre 


3.4  Tons 
more 
Silage 

per  acre 


That's  the  difference  between  crops  on  a  Fertilized  and 
UNfertilized  acre. 


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He  will  tell  you  that 
Safekote  Slate-surfaced 
Asphalt  Shingles  are  du- 
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He  will  quote  them  to 
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If  you  want  low-priced 
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Your  dealer  will  ex- 
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Page  Twelve 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  1928 


Out  of 
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"They're  Good  For 
Many  Years  More" 
Says  C.  W.  Benton 

Carleton  W.  Benton,  Lawton,  Mich.,  has 
something  to  say  about  disk  harrows  which 
will  interest  you.  He  recently  wrote  us  as 
follows: 

"Thank  you  for  your  letter  in  answer  to 
mine  with  reference  to  the  weeder  you 
manufacture. 

"I  have  one  of  your  'Cutaway'  Double 
Action  Tractor  disk  harrows  which  was 
made  before  you  made  dust-proof  boxes  and 
the  frame  and  disks  are  in  excellent  condi- 
tion. I  purchased  the  harrow  second-hand 
and  it  had  been  given  very  poor  care,  yet 
not  a  disk  was  even  cracked  or  notched 
and  while  they  are  thin  and  sharp  as  a 
razor  blade,  yet  they  are  tough 
and  substantial  and  are  good  for 
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DISTRICT 

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FEBRUARY  PRICES 

Providence   44.052 

Fall  River    4.052 

New  Bedford    4.165 

Brockton   3.952 

Newport   „   3.467 

Above  prices  are  per  cwt.  for  3.7  per 
cent  milk  delivered  at  dealer's  plant 

There  has  been  no  change  in  milk 
prices  to  producers  in  this  district  the 
past  month.  The  supply  continues  to 
be  ample  on  all  markets. 

CHECK  TESTING 

Considerable  check  testing  has  been 
done  during  the  past  month,  much  of  it 
being  in  the  Providence  market,  includ- 
ing Pawtucket,  Central  Falls,  East 
Providence  and  Cranston. 

The  dealers  who  were  check  tested  were 
George  T.  Chambers,  H.  P.  Hood  &  Sons, 
W.  C.  Viall,  S.  L.  Wallace,  H.  M. 
Desett,  E.  A.  Fiske,  Leon  E.  Goff,  C.  A. 
Warnock,  A.  Martin,  Charles  Hunt,  H. 
T.  Burton,  Narragansett  Dairy  and 
Charles  Stoddard.  Since  it  was  the  first 
check  test  on  several  of  these  dealers 
several  faulty  practices  were  brought  to 
light,  some  of  which  had  affected  the 
results  of  the  test  more  or  less.  The  re- 
sponse to  our  suggestions  for  improve- 
ment were  prompt  and  gratifying  and 
producers  may  be  assured  that  the  tests 
by  these  dealers  are  now  as  accurate  as 
they  can  be  made  in  every  day  practice. 

Check  tests  were  also  put  at  Dutchland 
Farms  in  Brockton,  Townsley  Dairy  in 
Fall  River  and  the  Whiting  Elm  Spring 
plant  at  Dorchester. 

Several  more  Providence  milk  dealers 
are  going  on  to  the  weight  and  test  March 
1  and  will  have  their  price  figures  and 
surplus,  if  any,  supervised  by  the 
NEMPA.  These  dealers  are  H.  C. 
Wade,  Fred  Rochon  and  Perrino  and 
Sons.  Very  few  dealers  are  now  buying 
on  the  old  per  can  basis. 

FALL  RIVER 

This  market  is  going  through  a  series 
of  trying  experiences.  First  the  big  fire 
which  destroyed  one  big  mill  and  20 
other  buildings  in  the  heart  of  the  busi- 
ness district.  The  heavy  losses  due 
to  this  fire  and  the  disturbance  it 
caused  in  business  conditions  was  not  good 
for  the  milk  business  any  more  than  for 
any  other  business.  Then  about  200  of 
the  independent  grocery  stores  formed  a 
Home  Circle  group  to  club  their  pur- 
chases on  certain  items.  Bread  was  se- 
lected as  a  starter.  A  local  baker  was 
selected  and  a  deal  was  made  with  him 
to  supply  them  all  with  bread  at  price 
which  would  allow  them  to  compete  with 
chain  stores. 

This  causes  us  little  concern,  as  dairy- 
men, until  they  begin  to  ask  for  bids  on 
milk  also.  Townsley  Dairy  secured  the 
contract  to  furnish  these  stores  with  milk 
at  1 1^2  cents  per  quart.  The  milk  is  re- 
sold by  these  stores  at  13  cents  a  quart, 
the  same  price  as  is  received  by  the  chain 
stores  in  the  city.  The  regular  home  de- 
livered price  is  15  cents.  Up  to  the  time 
when  this  Home  Circle  went  into  the 
milk  business  as  a  unit  of  purchasing  the 
wholesale  price  of  milk  in  the  city  had 
been  13  cents.  It  has  gone  down  to  11^4 
cents,  practically  every  dealer  in  town 
meeting  the  price  in  order  to  hold  their 
store  trade. 

The  Fall  River  marketing  committee 
will  meet  soon  to  review  the  situation 
and  to  state  to  the  dealers  the  attitude 
of  the  producers. 

Frozen  milk  is  still  coming  in,  in  the 
Providence  market  in  particular.  At  the 
same  time  there  has  been  a  marked  in- 
crease in  the  demands  from  members  for 
the  district  manager  to  secure  adjust- 
ments on  the  basis  of  weights  and  tests 
which  did  not  coincide  with  what  the 
producers  thought  they  should  be  getting. 
There  appears  to  be  a  definite  relation 
between  the  low  weights  and  tests  and 
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but  there  is  often  some  cause  which  can 
be  rectified.  If  your  district  manager 
can  assist  you  in  locating  this  cause  call 
on  him. 

A  good  many  thousand  dollars  have 
come  to  the  farmers  in  this  district 
through  the  service  of  the  NEMPA 
in  getting  them  payment  for  milk. 
More  is  coming.  ihe  most  outstand- 
ing case  in  wluch  the  association  had 
a  hand  was  the  Greenville  Farms  Dairy. 
It  was  $6,000  in  the  hole  on  payment 
for  milk  last  September.  All  has  been 
collected  now  and  paid  over  to  the 
farmers.  The  overdue  payments  for 
milk  by  this  company  extended  all  the 
way  from  May  to  September  of  last 
year.  The  district  manager  and  the 
attorney  for  the  NEMPA,  acting  in  be- 
half of  the  farmers,  went  at  the  situa- 
tion in  a  businesslike  way  and  made 
arrangements  to  take  over  the  business. 
The  stock  was  signed  over  and  the  as- 
sociation actually  took  over  the  busi- 
ness and  operated  it  for  a  few  days. 
That  was  just  before  the  flood.  This 
company,  in  addition  to  the  local  milk 
which  it  bought,  was  securing  1,000 
quarts  daily  from  Vermont.  The  flood 
stopped  this  supply  and  the  company 
was  not  able  to  make  its  regular  de- 
liveries. Customers  fell  off,  being  un- 
able for  a  few  days  to  get  their  milk, 
and  it  was  decided  to  sell  out  the 
business  altogether.  An  arrangement 
was  made  whereby  H.  T.  Burton  should 
take  over  the  business  for  $6,000  pay- 
ment to  the  NEMPA,  assuming  at  the 
same  time  other  debts  of  the  company. 
The  $6,000  was  distributed  to  the  mem- 
bers who  had  not  received  their  money 
for  some  months.  Some  of  the  in- 
dividual payments  ranged  as  high  as 
$800.  Thus  about  20  of  our  members 
were  assisted  in  getting  full  payment 
for  their  milk. 

Another  Providence  dealer,  Peter 
Buffoni,  owed  about  $6,000  to  pro- 
ducers near  to  Providence,  most  of 
whom  were  members  of  the  NEMPA. 
His  method  of  procedure  was  to  offer 
good  prices  and  pay  once  a  week  for 
a  time.  The  once  a  week  plan  would 
lapse  after  a  time  and  if  the  producer 
got  vigorous  in  his  demand  for  pay- 
ment he  might  be  dropped.  This  situa- 
tion was  brought  to  the  attention  of 
the  district  manager  and  with  the  as- 
sociation attorney  arrangements  were 
made  with  11  of  these  producers  to 
proceed  together  to  collect  the  money 
if  any  such  thing  was  possible.  About 
Christmas  time  11  different  attach- 
ments were  served  on  him  and  his  busi- 
ness was  effectually  tied  up.  The  sheriff 
took  away  the  milk  as  it  came  in  to 
him  and  sold  it  to  other  dealers.  A 
keeper  was  put  in  charge  of  the  place, 
but  one  night  Buffoni  came  in,  over- 
powered the  keeper  and  started  out 
with  one  of  his  teams  selling  milk  as 
usual.  The  police  were  called  in  but 
all  they  coluld  do  was  to  protect  the 
keeper  from  further  violence  at  the 
hands  of  Buffoni.  Then  the  sheriff 
was  summoned  and  he  went  right  out 
and  rounded  up  Buffoni  in  the  act  of 
selling  milk.  Altogether  it  was  a 
merry  time  for  a  few  days  but  it  was 
effective.  One  of  the  principal  after 
effects  is  that  producers  in  this  region 
have  had  their  attention  called  to  some 
unreliable  dealers  and  will  be  on  their 
guard  against  letting  the  back  pay- 
ments pile  up. 

After  these  two  successful  collections 
T.  G.  Hazard  called  up  and  said  that 
John  Grimes  owed  him  $1,000  for  milk 
and  was  unable  to  pay.  Another  mem- 
ber of  the  association  reported  an  over- 
due payment  of  $836.  The  business 
was  taken  over  under  an  assignment 
and  sold  to  the  H.  P.  Hood  Co.  While 
the  result  of  the  sale  did  not  square 
the  accounts  these  producers  had  about 
$1,100  to  divide  between  them  as  the 
result    of    the    association's  assistance. 

A  dealer  in  Brockton  now  owes  some 
$1,400  to  local  farmers.  Negotiations 
are  in  progress  to  collect  from  him 
The  reliable  dealers  in  all  these  mar- 
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of  the  association's  activities  in  this 
direction.  They  realize  the  importance 
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Light  Brahmas;  Black  Giants;  Heavy  and 
Lirht  Mixed,  Pekln  Ducks. 

Write  now  for  FREE  catalog  in  colors. 

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THE  DAIRY  OUTLOOK 

The  demand  for  fluid  milk  in  New 
England  during  1928  may  be  slightly 
greater  than  in  1927,  because  oi  the 
normal  increase  in  consuming  popula- 
tion and  the  prospects  for  maintenance 
of  the  1927  level  of  business  activity. 

There  seems  to  foe  no  likelihood  of 
a  material  expansion  in  the  production 
of  dairy  products  throughout  New 
England  during  1928.  Feed  prices  are 
tending  higher.  Losses  of  cows  in 
1927  due  to  tuberculosis  eradication 
campaigns  are  expected  to  continue  for 
a  number  of  years.  Loss  of  cows  and 
the  erosion  and  silting  over  of  many 
thousands  of  acres  of  river  bottom  land 
in  the  flooded  areas  are  also  expected 
to  lessen  production  in  these  impor- 
tant dairy  sections.  More  important 
still  is  the  effect  upon  the  farm  labor 
supply  of  extensive  reconstruction  work 
in  these  areas  which  will  attract  men 
and  teams  away  from  farms.  Attrac- 
tive prices  for  beef  cattle  this  year 
will  also  tend  to  encourage  culling  of 
dairy  herds  if  the  price  of  milk  be- 
comes unfavorable.  All  of  these  fac- 
tors seem  likely  to  retard  expansion  of 
dairy  production  in  New  England  dur- 
ing 1928  and  to  insure  favorable  prices 
for  milk  throughout  the  year. 

Returns  from  dairying  in  the  fluid 
milk  districts  are  also  expected  to  con- 
tinue more  favorable  than  in  the  areas 
where  butter  is  made.  Butter  making 
is  now  in  the  main  a  surplus  using 
proposition. 

There  is  a  rather  definite  cycle  in 
dairy  cow  prices  in  this  country.  If 
this  cycle  develops  as  expected,  the 
peak  of  dairy  cow  prices  should  be 
reached  in  the  vicinity  of  1931  and  be 
followed  by  a  falling  off  in  prices. 
A  decline  in  prices  would  naturally  be 
expected  to  result  to  a  considerable 
extent  from  increased  numbers  of  dairy 
cows  and  beef  cattle  in  the  United 
States.  For  the  last  two  or  three 
years  the  number  of  young  dairy  stock 
in  the  country  has  been  low.  However, 
on  January  1,  1928,  there  were  about 
3  per  cent,  more  yearling  heifers  and 
4.6  per  cent,  more  dairy  calves  than 
a  year  before.  This  increase,  while 
small,  seems  to  indicate  that  the  num- 
ber of  young  stock  has  passed  the 
low  point  and  is  now  on  the  upward 
swing. 

There  is  now  one  yearling  heifer  in 
New  England  for  each  six  cows,  a 
number  which  is  not  sufficient  for  nor- 
mal replacements.  In  the  North  At- 
lantic states  reports  for  January  1, 
1928,  indicate  an  increase  in  number  of 
yearling  heifers  10  per  cent,  over  last 
year.  Reports  also  indicate  an  increase 
of  6  per  cent,  in  number  of  calves. 

Dairymen  should  appreciate  that  the 
growing  of  young  stock  for  sale,  while 
apparently  an  attractive  proposition  for 
the  moment,  does  not  promise  to  yield 
as  good  financial  returns  after  a  few 
years. — N.  E.  Research  Council. 

HOLDING  FIFTY  MEETINGS 

An  intensive  campaign  for  signatures 
to  the  1928  contract  of  the  Connecticut 
Milk  Producers'  Association  is  in  prog- 
ress. Fifty  meetings  are  scheduled,  be- 
ginning February  13  and  ending  March 
16,  with  two  or  three  meetings  a  day. 

At  the  twelfth  annual  meeting  which 
was  attended  by  an  unusually  large  num- 
ber of  members,  the  president  reported 
that  the  business  had  reached  the  12  mil- 
lion dollar  mark  and  was  more  than  two 
and  one-half  times  larger  than  six  years 
ago,  yet  was  handled  without  any  increase 
in  the  office  force.  He  stressed  the  ne- 
cessity for  a  reserve  fund  and  resolutions 
were  adopted  in  favor  of  establishing  a 
fund  of  not  less  than  $50,000,  and  the 
directors  were  instructed  to  levy  and  col- 
lect an  assessment  of  one  dollar  per  cow 
against  all  the  cows  owned  by  the  mem- 
bership. This  assessment  with  accumu- 
lating interest  is  expected  soon  to  reach 
the  desired  minimum. 

The  present  membership  of  the  asso- 
ciation was  reported  as  3,505,  a  net  gain 
of  153  for  the  year.  The  number  of  cows 
listed  at  present  is  44,838,  or  1,447  more 
than  one  year  ago.  The  quantity  of  milk 
under  contract  is  324,000  quarts  daily, 
compared  with  302,000  quarts  last  year, 
and  the  number  of  members  under  con- 
tract is  2,957,  compared  with  2,780  a 
year  ago. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fifteen 


TARIFF  HEARING 

(Continued  from  page  seven) 

is  as  cream.  The  cream  duty  of  20 
cents  per  gallon  equal  to  about  5  cents 
to  6  cents  per  pound  of  butter  makes 
the  butter  duty  of  12  cents  per  pound 
inoperative. 

It  should  also  be  noted  that  the  duty 
of  20  cents  per  gallon  placed  on  cream 
in  1922  has  not  effected  the  exports  by 
the  Canadians  of  cream  to  the  United 
States.  Canada  exported  to  us  the 
first  year  the  20  cent  duty  was  in 
effect  (1923)  50  per  cent,  more  cream 
than  she  did  when  there  was  a  5  cent 
duty,  and  she  is  now  exporting  to  us 
over  2y2  times  as  much  as  she  was 
before  the  imposition  of  the  20  cent 
duty. 

The  abnormal  year  in  1927  due  to 
the  typhoid  epidemic  in  Montreal  and 
the  subsequent  federal  and  New  York 
City  embargo  against  milk  and  cream 
from  parts  of  Quebec  and  Ontario, 
leaves  the  import  figures  for  the  past 
year  not  a  true  picture  of  what  would 
have  happened  under  normal  conditions. 
The  federal  embargo  was  on  from 
March  26,  1927,  to  May  26,  1927,  while 
the  New  York  City  embargo  was  on 
for  a  much  longer  period — March  26, 
to  October  21,  1927. 

The  comparison  of  the  butter  quota- 
tions for  Montreal  and  United  States 
which  are  given  in  the  commission's 
milk  and  cream  statement  of  January 
18,  1928,  from  1921  through  1926  brings 
out  the  fact  that  the  difference  in  but- 
ter quotations  between  the  two  mar- 
kets reflects  the  cream  duty  only — and 
not  the  butter  duty.  In  1921  the  cream 
duty  was  5  cents  a  gallon  equal  to 
about  1  cent  per  pound  of  butter  and 
a  butter  duty  of  6  cents  per  pound.  It 
will  be  noted  that  butter  quotations  in 
the  two  markets  were  about  equal.  In 
1922  the  duty  of  20  cents  per  gallon 
on  cream  equal  to  5-6  cents  per  pound 
on  butter,  became  effective  for  part  of 
the  year  along  with  8  cents  per  pound 
on  butter.  That  year  the  Montreal 
market  averaged  3l/2  cents  per  pound 
lower  than  New  York.  The  20  cent 
cream  duty  equal  to  5  to  6  cents  per 
pound  of  butter  has  been  in  effect  for 
the  other  years  along  with  our  8  cent 
duty  on  butter  and  it  will  be  noted 
that  the  Montreal  butter  quotation  has 
averaged  from  5*4  to  7  cents  per 
pound  below  New  York  or  a  difference 
equal  to  about  the  cream  tariff. 

Seasonality  of  Production  of  Milk 

One  question  raised  by  the  commis- 
sion in  this  investigation  is  the  dif- 
ference, if  any,  in  the  seasonality  of 
production  of  milk  in  the  areas  cov- 
ered. It  is  onr  belief  that  the  com- 
parison of  costs  should  be  for  a  yearly 
cycle  of  production  irrespective  of  the 
time  of  year  when  the  milk  is  pro- 
duced. However,  such  data  as  we  have 
available  from  the  commission's  re- 
ports and  other  sources,  leads  us  to 
believe  that  the  seasonality  of  produc- 
tion of  imported  milk  is  the  same  as 
the  seasonality  of  production  of  the 
border  counties  in  Northern  New  York 
state.  The  chart  and  table  here  sub- 
mitted brings  out  this   fact  clearly. 

I  have  plotted  on  this  chart  the 
fluctuations  in  imports  of  milk  month 
by  month  into  the  St.  Lawrence  Cus- 
tom's District  for  1925,  using  the  aver- 
age monthly  imports  to  represent  100. 
In  comparison  with  this  I  have  plotted 
the  fluctuations  in  the  monthly  receipts 
of  milk  at  Sheffield  border  plants  in 
New  York  state  on  the  Rutland  Rail- 
road for  the  same  year  again  using 
100  to  represent  the  average  month. 
It  will  be  noted  that  the  two  lines 
have  about  the  same  movement,  the  dif- 
ference largely  being  in  the  peak  month 
for  receipts  at  Sheffield  plants  in  June 
and  imports  in  July. 

In  the  table,  I  have  also  worked 
out  the  seasonality  of  production  in 
the  four  New  York  border  counties 
with  about  the  same  fluctuations  in 
production  as  the  receipts  at  Sheffield 
plants.  This  chart  and  attached  table 
indicates  that  the  imported  milk  has 
about  the  same  seasonality  of  produc- 
tion as  the  domestic  product  in  the 
border  section  of  New  York  state. 

Transportation  of  Milk  and  Cream 
Milk  received  from   Canadian  points 
is  mostly  direct  plant  delivery  to  bor- 


der   plants   on    American    side.  Milk 
shipped  from  Canadian  points  direct  to 
Boston  moves  under  the  New  England 
scale   of    rates    from   points   north  of 
Newport,   Vt.,  on   the   Quebec  Central 
Railroad — a    line    formerly   owned  and 
operated  by  the  Boston  &  Maine  Rail- 
road,  and   now   leased    to   the  Quebec 
Central.     This    scale    of    rates    is  a 
mileage  scale  with  a  rate   from  Sher- 
brook,  P.  Q.,  to  Boston  of  4.25  cents 
per  gallon  in  C.  L.  and  4.8  cents  per 
gallon  L.  C.  L.    These  rates  are  about 
one-half  the  Canadian  8  cent  rate  used 
by  the  commission  in  Table  10,  page  35, 
of  the  report.     The  commission  states 
on  page  36  that  91    per  cent,  of  the 
imported  milk,  the  destination  of  which 
could  be  traced,  entered  border  plants. 
The   great    majority    of    the  imported 
milk  therefore  has  identical  plant  and 
transportation   costs    as   milk  produced 
in  the   border  counties  of   New  York 
and    New    England.     For   this  reason, 
transportation   and  plant  costs  may  be 
ignored  and  direct  comparisons  be  made 
between  farm  costs  in  Canada  and  in 
these   border  counties. 


IMPORTS  FROM  CANADA  OF  BUTTER  AND  CREAM 

Cream            Butter  at  Butter 

Year                                                           Gallons      4  lbs.  per  gallon  Pounds 

1919                                                           931,416          3,725,000  9,437,000 

1920                                                          1,397,160          5,588,000  9,235,000 

1^21                                                          2,033,769          8,135,000  2,846,000 

1922                                                         2,123,659          8,494,000  2,151,000 

1923                                                          3,024,663         12,098,000  5,931,000 

1925                                                          4,197,528         16,790,000  2,807  000 

1925                                                          5,171,498         20,685,000  3,626,000 

192°                                                          5,374,131         21,496,000  339,000 

DIFFERENT  PRICES  OF  BUTTER— NEW  YORK  AND  MONTREAL- 
CENTS  PER  POUND 

Equivalent  Tariff 

Tariff  Cream          to  on 

Year         New  York      Montreal     Difference     Per  Gallon         Butter  Butter 

1921  43.3              43.8               .5  Jan.  1 -May  27— Free  2^c 

May28-Dec.  31— 5c       lc  6c 

1922  40.7              37.2              3.5  Jan.  1-Sept.  21-Sc        lc  6c 

Sept.22-Dec.  31— 20c  5-6c  8c 

1923  46.9              39.9              7.0              20c              5-6c  8c 

1924  42.6             37.0             5.6             20c             5-6c  8c 

1925  45.3             38.5             6.8             20c             5-6c  8c 

1926  44.2              38.7              5.5              20c          Jan.-Apr.  1  8c 

Apr.  l-Dec.31— 12c 


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Page  Sixteen 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  1928 


Makes  the 

MILKINCS 


Part  of  the  ''knack''  of  making 
money  from  dairying  lies  in  keep- 
ing a  constant  watch  of  the  udder 
and  teats.  If  the  delicate  tissues  of 
these  important  organs  are  always 
normal  and  comfortable  the  milk 
flow  is  free  and  generous — the  job 
of  milking  is  made  easy. 

Bag  Balm  Is  a  wonderful  healing, 
penetrating  ointment — prepared  es- 
pecially for  the  care  of  injured  or 
stepped-on  teats,  cuts,  inflammation, 
caked  bag,  bunches  or  cow  pox, 
Bag  Balm  has  no  equal.  Healing  be- 
gins at  once;  irritation  disappears. 

Bag  Balm  is  clean  and  pleasant  to 
use — cannot  taint  the  milk.  Big  10- 
ounce  package  goes  a  long  way  and 
has  hundreds  of  uses  for  all  animal 
sores,  harness  galls,  etc.  60c  at  feed 
dealers,  general  stores,  druggists. 
Mailed  postpaid  if  hard  to  obtain 
locally.  Booklet  "Dairy  Wrinkles'' 
sent  free. 

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Experiment  [Stations"  and  leading 
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successfully  to  calves. 

It  is  more  economical  to  feed  Dried 
Skim  Milk  and  market  all  of  the 
whole  milk  produced. 

BUELL -BOSTON  is  a  quality 
product.  Keeps  sweet  indefinitely, 
and  is  safe  to  use  because  it  is  made 
only  from  milk  from  dairies  under 
regular  inspection  of  the  New  York 
City  Board  of  Health.  The  food 
value  is  there  ! 

Ask  your  dealer — or  write  us  for 
details  and  feeding  directions. 

C.  E.  BUELL,  Inc. 

Board  of  Trade  Building 
BOSTON     -      -  MASS. 


Lime  and  Fertilizer 
SPREADER 

That  will  do  the  beat  of  work,  mode  to 
attach  to  any  farm  cart  or  wag-on  $15.00 

Send  for  circular 
J.  8.  G  KEEN  LEAK    -    ANSON,  MAINE 


My  observation  of  the  movements  of 
cream  from  Canada  to  New  England 
markets  is  that  it  very  largely  moves 
as  a  through  shipment  from  point  of 
origin  in  Canada  to  final  destination 
to  the  border  nor  les  sthan  carlots  to 
and  does  not  move  in  less  than  carlots 
final  desination.  Take,  for  example,  Ayers 
Cliff,  P.  Q.,  on  the  Quebec  Central 
Railroad,  north  of  Newport,  where 
cream  is  purchased  for  the  Boston 
market.  This  cream  is  loaded  onto 
iced  cars  and  moves  either  in  L.  C.  L. 
or  C.  L.  to  Boston  at  a  rate,  when 
this  investigation  was  made,  of  5.65c 
per  gallon  L.  C.  L.  and  4.9c  per  gal- 
lon C.  L. 

Since  the  year  for  which  the  commis- 
sion's investigation  of  costs  was  made 
there  have  been  some  important  changes 
in  transportation  rates  in  Canada  and 
in  New  England.  The  Canadian  rates 
have  had  some  important  decreases 
while  the  New  England  domestic  rates 
have  been  increased  10  per  cent.  These 
changes  make  the  transportation  factor 
more  favorable  to  the  Canadian  pro- 
ducer than  they  were  for  the  year  the 
investigation  was  made. 

The  changes  and  reductions  made  in 
cream  transportation  rates  from  Can- 
ada are  as  follows : 

1.  The  Canadian  National  Railroad 
(Grand  Trunk)  on  their  line  from 
Portland  to  Montreal  have  extended 
their  rates  in  effect  for  movements 
from  stations  in  Canada  between  Rich- 
mond, P.  Q.,  and  Dixville,  P.  Q.,  to 
Boston  to  all  their  stations  in  Canada 
to  St.  Hyacinthe,  P.  0-  This  new 
tariff  L.  C.  C.  E107,  effective  March 
20,  1927,  gives  rates  from  St.  Hya- 
cinthe, P.  Q.,  to  Boston  5c  per  10 
gallon  can,  less  than  the  rates  given 
by  the  commission. 

2.  On  the  Quebec  Central  Railroad 
rates  from  Canada  have  been  increased 
along  with  the  increase  on  all  New 
England  lines.  These  increases  were 
about  5c  per  10  gallon  can. 

3.  On  the  Canadian  Pacific  a  new 
rate  from  Sutton,  P.  Q.,  to  Boston  of 
81c  per  10  gallon  can.  This  change, 
shown  in  I.  C.  C.  K2518,  effective  Sep- 
tember 24,  1927,  establishes  a  very 
favorable  iced  car  service  from  that 
point  at  somewhat  lower  costs  than 
used  by  the  commission.  Sutton,  P.  Q.. 
is  in  the  center  of  district  number  3 
in  Canada,  the  areas  being  Laurence- 
ville,  Knowlton  and  Brome. 

The  Central  Vermont  Railroad  tariff 
I.  C.  C.  N.  Y.  C.  15641,  effective  July 
at  which  time  increases  were  made  for 
Vermont  shipments  to  Boston,  extended 
the  mileage  rate  to  their  stations  in 
Canada,  thus  decreasing  the  trans- 
portation rates  on  cream  very  materially 
from  Canadian  points.  The  former 
rate  from  St.  Armond,  P.  Q.,  to  Bos- 
ton as  shown  by  the  commission  on 
cream  was  82c  per  10  gallon  can  C. 
L.  and  90c  L.  C.  L.  The  present  rates 
from  St.  Armond  to  Boston  is  56c 
per  10  gallon  can  C.  L.  and  63zAc 
L.  C.  L.,  a  decrease  of  26c  on  carload 
movements  and  26%  in  L.  C.  L.  move- 
ments. 

The  Quebec,  Montreal  &  Southern 
Railroad  in  their  tariff  L.  C.  C.  338, 
effective  November  19,  1925,  made  a 
rate  on  cream  in  carlots  from  St. 
Hyacinthe  to  New  York  of  68rAc  per 
10  gallon  can,  which  rate  is  59*4c  per 
10  gallon  can  less  than  the  $1.28  rate 
used  by  the  commission. 

The  New  York  Central  Railroad  on 
their  Ottawa  Division  tariff  number 
1  C.  C.  N.  Y.  C.  15641,  effective  Tulv 
12,  1927,  put  into  effect  the  New  York 
mileage  scale  of  rates  on  this  division 
in  Canada.  This  tariff  reduced  the 
transportation  rate  on  cream  from 
Finch,  Ont.,  the  center  of  Canadian 
District  No.  5,  to  New  York,  19^c 
per  10  gallon  can  in  carlots  and  23c 
per  10  gallon  can  in  L.  C.  L.  The 
new  rates  are  67c  in  carlots  as  com- 
pared with  the  commission's  rate  of 
86  l/2c  and  77c  in  L.  C.  L.  as  compared 
with  $1. 

All  these  decreases  in  rates  which 
have  come  with  the  development  of 
this  traffic  indicates  that  the  carriers 
will  give  favorable  rates  if  there  is  a 
demand  for  them  and  a  movement  and 
that  as  this  movement  of  milk  and 
cream  from  Canada  grows  that  other 
lines  will  give  lower  rates  and  better 
service. 


There's  Money 

for  You 
in  This  Sack 


When  you  buy  Quaker  Boss  Dairy 
Ration  you  get  the  very  finest  com- 
bination of  the  choice  ingredients 
that  are  essential  to  maximum  milk 
production.  There's  profit  for  you 
in  every  sack.  Use  Quaker  Boss  for 
your  grain  ration;  make  more  money 
from  every  cow.  It  is  the  ideal  sup- 
plement for  your  hays,  silage,  and 
other  home  grown  roughages.  See 
the  Quaker  Dealer  near  you. 

Made  by 

The  Quaker  0*t$  G>m  p&ny 

CHICAGO,  U.  S.  A. 

Manufacturers  of  a  complete  line  of  live  stock 
and  poultry  feeds  —  look  for  the  striped  sacks 


Quaker 
Sugared  Schumacher 
Feed 

Just  the  feed  for  combining  with 
Quaker  (16%),orQuaker  BigQ  (20%), 
or  Quaker  Boss  (24%),  or  any  high 
protein  concentrate.  Sugared  Schu- 
macher is  a  choice  feed  for  young  or 
dry  stock;  and  a  splendid  fattening 
ration  for  steers,  lambs  and  swine 


CLIP  AND  GROOM  YOUR  COWS 

It  Means  Cleaner  and 
Better  Milk 

Clipped  and  groomed  cows 
during  stable  months  will 
keep  them  clean  and  com- 
fortable and  keep  the  dirt 
rat  of  the  milk  pall.  Clipping 
and  grooming  improve  the 
health  of  yonr  Live  Stock. 
Use  a  OIIjLETTK  Portable 
Hei'trlo  Clipping  and  Groom- 
ing Machine.  Operates  on 
the  light  circuit  furnished 
by  any  IBeotrle  Light  and 
Power  Oo.,  or  on  any  make 
of  Funrv  lighting  FUnt. 
Price  List  On  Request 
QILLETTE  CLIPPING  MACHINE  CO. 
12*  Will  Hit  St.,  Dtpl.  K  N.w  York,  N.  T. 


Yonr  Horse  Stands  to  Win 

You  can't  lose  if  you  take  up  our  propo- 
sition. 

MORRISON'S 
OLD  ENGLISH  LINIMENT 

for  external  troubles — such  as  hard,  dry, 
pinched,  sore  or  contracted  hoofs,  corns, 
quarter-cracks,  thrush  and  mud  fever, 
for  all  cuts,  open  sores,  shoe  boils,  lame 
muscles,  contracted  cords,  sprains,  in- 
flammation and  rheumatism,  will  find  it 
the  most  effective  and  satisfactory  of 
anthing  he  has  used.  If  not,  we  will  re- 
turn every  cent  of  the  money  paid. 

It  is  just  as  good  for  man  as  for  beast 
and  should  always  be  in  your  medicine 
chest.  Sold  by  all  dealers.  Price  half 
pints  60c — full  pints  $1.00. 

TUB  JAMES  W.  FOSTER  CO. 
Manufacturers,  Bath,  N.  H. 


March,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seventeen 


FORCING  ISSUE 

(Continued  from  page  four) 

regard  to  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company.  The  Lyndonvillc 
Creamery  Company  was  for  many 
years  taking  the  product  of  a  consid- 
erable number  of  farmers  on  the  by- 
products basis.  They  made  butter,  sold 
cream  and  skim  but  were  not  a  very 
material  factor  in  the  whole  milk 
market.  So  long  as  that  condition 
prevailed  the  NEMPA  was  not  especi- 
ally obligated  to  raise  the  queston  of 
the  "unknown  price"  as  regards  the 
Lyndonville  Creamery. 

That  situation  has  changed.  For 
some  years  Lyndonville  has  had  a 
place  in  Boston,  largely  used  as  an 
ice  cream  distributing  plant.  Recently 
this  plant  was  remodeled  to  fit  it  bet- 
ter for  fluid  milk  sale.  Lyndonvillc 
also  has  acquired,  within  a  few  years 
small  plants  in  Fall  River  and  Lowell. 
There  is  every  evidence  that  the  com- 
pany intends  to  enter  the  fluid  milk 
field  more  aggressively.  Under  these 
conditions  it  is  obviously  the  duty  of 
the  NEMPA,  on  behalf  of  its  members 
who  sell  to  Lyndonville,  to  make  a 
sturdy  attempt  to  enforce  the  NEMPA 
price  and  the  NEMPA  conditions  of 
sale  on  Lyndonville. 

We  are  doing  it  in  an  orderly  and 
businesslike  way.  We  have  not  taken 
action  until  all  reasonable  efforts  had 
been  made  to  get  the  company  to  fall 
in  line  with  the  rest  of  New  England, 
Direct  negotiations  between  NEMPA 
officials  and  the  management  of  the 
creamery  having  failed  to  produce 
results  we  called  meetings  of  our  mem- 
bers who  sell  to  Lyndonville,  laid  the 
whole  situation  before  them  and  recom- 
mended them  to  sell  elsewhere.  The 
unanimous  decision  was  "to  fight  it 
out."  Committees  of  producers  were 
appointed  at  the  various  locals  whose 
members  ship  to  Lyndonville  to  back 
up  the  association's  demand.  These 
committee  members  joined  with  the 
central  office  in  making  a  formal 
request  on  the  Lyndonville  management 
that  they  pay  the  NEMPA  price  and 
report  to  the  milk  administrator  just 
the  same  as  other  dealers  who  are  buy- 
ing their  milk  from  NEMPA  mem- 
bers. 

The  manager  of  the  Lyndonville 
creamery  put  the  question  up  to  his 
directors  and  they  definitely  refused  to 
accept  the  proposition.  A  suggestion 
was  made  that  the  question  should  be 
submitted  back  to  the  producers  bu1 
that  was  so  obviously  a  "stall"  that  il 
was  not  acceptable  to  the  association 
The  attitude  of  the  producers  who  are 
members  of  the  NEMPA  had  already 

I     been  determined  in  the  meetings.  There 

'  was  no  need  to  go  over  that  aspect  of 
the  situation  again.  We  were  nol 
interested  in  what  other  producers,  who 
are  not  members  of  the  association 
wanted  but  we  knew  that  our  own 
members  wanted  the  NEMPA  price 
and  expected  us  to  get  it  for  them 
Moreover,  if  that  price  is  higher  than 
what  the  Lyndonville  producers  have 
been  getting  it  is  safe  to  say  that  the 

j  non-members  would  be  for  it,  provided 
of   course  that  the  question   had  been 

I    put  to  them  fairly. 

The    controversy    with  Lyndonville 

I     came   to    a   climax   Feb.   29    when  F 

|    Leon  Brown  paid  a  last  visit  to  Mr 

I  Connor,  manager  of  the  Lyndonvilk 
Creamery,  and  stated  the  views  of  the 
association  that  no  further .  negotiations 
were    necessary ;     the    company  could 

'„  agree  to  pay  the  price  or  the  associa- 
tion would  immediately  advise  its  mem- 
bers to  sell  elsewhere.  That  was  the 
final  word. 

Mr.    Brown    made    arrangements  to 

1  have  the  milk  of  our  members  shipped 
to    Findeisen   Farms    in    Lawrence,  or 

jj    taken  at  the  Turner  Centre  plant  at  St. 

n    Johnsbury    or    at    the    Hood    plant  at 

jl    East    St.  Johnsbury. 

At  the   time  of   going  to   press  we 

I  have  had  no  further  information  as  to 
the    situation    but    before    this  reaches 

'i  you  we  expect  that  our  members  will 
be  delivering  their  milk  elsewhere.  The 

|  fighting  spirit  they  displayed  at  the 
meeting  gives  us  every  confidence  that 
they   mean    business,    just    as    did  the 

i'    members  who  had  been  selling  to  the 

i  New  England  Creamery  Products  Com- 
pany   at    Sheldon,    Brandon    and  East 

}  Fairfield. 

\ 

i 


OINTMENT  FOR 

UDDER 
AND  TEATS 


ask  for  O-H  COW  TONE  compounded  for  cows  to  assist  digestion,  elimination, 
secretion.  Offset  hard  winter  conditions  by  giving  your  cows  the  help  they  need.  Mix  a  small 
quantity  of  COW  TONE  in  the  grain  twice  a  day  and  see  for  yourself  if  your  cows  do  not  look  better 
and  get  that  smooth,  comfortable,  rugged  condition  that  makes  bigger  milk  production.  The  use 
of  COWTONE  regularly  will  mean  pounds  of  extra  milk  at  a  trifling  expense.  GET  THE  BEST! 

The  history  of  the  O-H  line  shows  29  years  of  dependable,  prac- 
tical help  for  the  cow  keeper,  still  doing  the  same  good  work. 

COW  TONE  FOR  MILK  PRODUCTION 

COWS'  RELIEF  ointment  for  udder  and  tests 
CALVES'  CORDIAL  for  scours 

/It^«**»  1i\  <nN  We  guarantee  the  O-H  Line  to  give  satisfaction  or  we 
Wlir   jiSUUU   will  refund  the  purchase  price.    O.  H.  Mfg.  Co..  Inc. 

OUR  HUSBANDS  MFG.  CO.,  Inc. 


LYNDON,  VT. 


This  is  the  time  of  year  you  want  to  reinforce  the  regular  ration  with 
a  goodly  amount  of  Xtravim  Feed  Molasses. 

It  gives  an  extra  kick  to  the  animals'  appetite,  it  helps  assimilate  any 
part  of  the  ration  hard  to  digest,  it  helps  produce  more  and  better 
milk.   You  can  depend  upon  results  if  you  feed  Xtravim. 


A  Guaranteed  Pure  West  Indies  Molasses 

Try  a  barrel  or  a  carload —it  pays 
Send  for  Booklet,  " Molatset  for  Stock  Feed  ng" 

BOSTON  MOLASSES  CO.  173  MILK  ST.,  BOSTON 


Page  Eighteen 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


March,  1928 


New  England  Conference  Board 

Progressive  Plans  Outlined  at  General  Meeting.  Com- 
mittee to  Study  Farm  Inspection  Problems 


The  dairy  interests  of  all  New  Eng- 
land came  together  in  a  decidedly  help- 
ful way  February  27  at  a  meeting  of 
the  Dairy  Conference  Board  held  in 
Boston.  Nearly  every  marketing  or- 
ganization of  dairymen  in  New  Eng- 
land was  represented  by  one  or  more 
delegates  and  in  the  discussion  which 
lasted  the  greater  part  of  the  day 
some  decidedly  progressive  ideas  and 
suggestions  for  action  were  developed. 
One  of  the  most  worthwhile  features 
of  the  meeting  was  the  presence  of 
four  of  the  Commissioners  of  Agricul- 
ture of  New  England :  Mr.  Jones  or 
Vermont,  Mr.  Felker  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, Dr.  Gilbert  of  Massachusetts, 
and  Mr.  Piatt  of  Connecticut.  While 
not  officially  connected  with  the  con- 
ference board  in  any  way  they  were 
welcomed  to  take  part  in  the  dis- 
cussions and  their  presence  added  con- 
siderably to  the  general  feeling  of 
confidence  that  the  conference  board 
idea  was  sound  and  worthwhile.  Dr. 
George  H.  Bancroft,  of  Barre,  Vt.. 
president  of  the  conference  board,  pre- 
sided. 

Inspection  of  dairies  was  one  of  the 
important  matters  discussed.  It  was 
brought  forward  by  H.  E.  Bremer,  of 
the  Vermont  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture, in  a  general  talk  on  the  manner 
in  which  the  country  inspection  work 
in  his  state  was  being  carried  on.  He 
called  especial  attention  to  the  chief 
difference  in  the  manner  of  reporting 
inspections  by  his  department  and  that 
of  most  city  boards  of  health  using  the 
government   score  card  system. 

The  government  score  card  allows 
points  for  the  degree  to  which  farm- 
ers are  meeting  the  requirements,  and 
the  total  score,  on  which  they  are  ac- 
cepted or  rejected,  might  be  made  up 
of  a  quite  high  score,  on  some  point 
coupled  with  rather  low  ones  in  some 
other  respects.  Mr.  Bremer  told  how 
the  inspection  work  in  Vermont  was 
based  on  a  "yes"  or  "no"  answer  to 
definite  questions.  That  is,  under  the 
head  of  cleanliness  of  utensils  the  in- 
spector put  down  a  yes  or  no  answer; 
they  either  were  clean  or  they  were 
not  clean.  In  other  words  the  in- 
spection department  does  not  think 
that  varying  degrees  of  cleanliness 
should  be  made  a  part  of  the  inspec- 
tion. The  utensils  should  be  clean  or 
they  should  not  be  allowed  to  be  used. 

In  the  discussion  which  followed  Mr. 
Bremer's  talk  there  was  a  general  con- 
census of  opinion  that  considerable  pro- 
gress could  be  made  by  correlating  the 
various  systems  of  inspection  done  by 
state  departments  and  the  various 
boards  of  health  from  the  markets  in 
which  the  milk  is  to  be  sold.  One  of 
the  sources  of  frequent  irritation  in 
the  country  is  the  fact  that  each  city 
has  its  own  force  of  inspectors,  and 
if  any  creamery  sells  in  a  number  of 
cities  it  is  often  necessary  for  the 
members  to  go  through  a  series  of 
different  inspections,  all  made  by  dif- 
ferent health  departments  in  different 
cities  and  all  varying  more  or  less  in 
their  interpretation  of  the  require- 
ments. Much  good  might  also  come 
through  a  better  understanding  and 
general  correlation  of  the  work  of 
state  and  city  authorities. 

Mr.  Bremer  offered  the  following 
resolution  which  was  adopted  after 
slight  amendments  to  make  it  more  ef- 
fective : 

"Whereas  the  dairy  farmers  of  New 
England,  who  produce  fluid  milk  or 
cream  for  New  England  markets,  are 
subject  to  dairy  farm  inspection  by  the 
several  boards  of  health  of  the  cities 
or  towns  where  said  milk  is  pur- 
chased, as  well  as  being  subjected  to 
the  laws  and  inspections  of  the  state 
in  which  such  dairies  are  located,  and 

"Whereas  the  laws  and  regulations 
and  methods  governing  the  conduct 
of  the  inspection  of  dairy  farms,  dairy 
plants  and  milk  and  cream  vary  con- 
siderably, and 

"Whereas,     unnecessary  duplications 


of  milk  plant  and  dairy  farm  inspec- 
tions are   frequently  made,  therefore, 

"Be  it  resolved,  that  all  dairy  plants 
in  New  England,  receiving  fluid  milk 
or  cream  for  market  purposes,  obtain 
1  copy  of  the  state  inspection  laws  and 
regulations,  and  also  a  copy  of  the  in- 
spection laws  and  regulations  prevail- 
ing in  the  cities  and  towns  where  such 
milk  and  cream  is  sold  and  distribute 
copy  of  same  to  each  producer,  and, 

"Be  it  further  resolved,  that  all 
plants  be  requested  to  co-operate  and 
to  keep  on  file  in  the  local  plant  a  copy 
of  each  and  every  dairy  farm  and  -milk 
inspection  report  made  by  any  inspec- 
tor or  plant  employe,  and, 

"Be  it  further  resloved,  that  it  is 
the  desire  of  the  management  of  dairy 
plants  that  all  boards  of  health  and 
state  inspection  agencies  co-operate  to 
the  best  of  their  ability  in  the  enforce- 
ment of  the  various  laws  and  regula- 
tions so  that  all  laws  and  regulations 
will  be  complied  with  so  far  as  pos- 
sible and  that  duplications  of  inspec- 
tions will  be  less  frequent. 

"At  the  suggestion  of  Commissioner 
Gilbert  a  clause  was  added  to  this  reso- 
lution calling  for  the  appointment  of  a 
special  committee  to  study  this  inspec- 
tion situation  and  to  report  ways  in 
which  a  greater  correlation  of  the 
work  of  the  various  agencies  might 
be  secured.  The  committee  is  made 
up  of  one  representative  of  each  state 
department  of  agriculture  and  one  pro- 
ducer from  each  state." 

The  following  committee  was  re- 
elected with  the  understanding  that 
they  would  call  in  representatives  of 
the  various  member  organizations  to 
assist  them  in  developing  a  practical 
program  of  work. 

C.  P.  Osgood,  state  dairy  inspector 
for  Maine;  Adna  Pike,  state  dairy  in- 
spector for  New  Hampshire;  H.  E. 
Bremer,  Vermont  Department  of  Agri- 
culture; J.  C.  Cort,  Massachusetts  De- 
partment of  Agriculture;  Harry  R. 
Lewis,  Commissioner  of  Agriculture 
from  Rhode  Island;  Thomas  Holt, 
head  of  the  food  and  drug  commis- 
sion of  Connecticut;  W.  E.  Knight, 
of  Clinton,  Me.;  Fred  T.  Connor,  of 
Henniker,  N.  H. ;  Carroll,  of  Stowe, 
Vt;  O.  E.  Tuttle,  of  Hardwick,  Mass.; 
R.  C.  Mitchell,  of  Southerly,  Conn., 
and   Frank   L.   Nichols,  Narragansett. 

Under  the  head  of  stabilization  of 
markets,  Dr.  Gilbert  gave  an  able  dis- 
cussion of  the  factors  which  come  in 
to  break  down  such  stability,  basing 
his  judgment  on  the  actual  experiences 
over  a  number  of  years.  His  plea  was 
for  some  sort  of  co-ordination  of  the 
various  selling  plans  in  use  by  the  dif- 
ferent organizations.  He  did  not  claim 
that  they  all  should  adopt  the  same 
selling  plan,  but  he  thought  that  much 
would  be  gained  if  the  various  plans 
were  co-ordinated  and  stated  in  such 
terms  that  one  could  be  compared  with 
another  as  to  the  final  price  received 
for  the  milk,  or  the  final  price  paid 
to  the  producer.  One  of  the  main  dif- 
ficulties in  the  present  situation,  he 
said,  was  the  fact  that  it  is  often  im- 
possible to  make  a  fair  comparison  of 
prices  paid,  simply  because  so  many 
different  factors  enter  into  the  price 
plans  in  use  by  the  various  organiza- 
tions. 

Commissioners  Jones,  Felker  and 
Piatt  made  statements  concurring  in 
Dr.  Gilbert's  views  and  urging  this 
move_  in  the  way  of  a  better  under- 
standing between  the  various  organiza- 
tions. 

H.  P.  Young,  of  the  department  of 
agricultural  economics  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Vermont,  followed  with  gene- 
rally optimistic  statement  of  the  out- 
look for  the  dairy  industry  in  New 
England.  His  statement  was  in  gen- 
eral line  with  the  report  of  the  New 
England  Research  Council  published 
elsewhere  in  this  issue.  He  expressed 
his  belief  that  for  the  next  three  years 
at  least  dairying  would  be  in  a  strong 
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He  said  that  the  general  decrease  in 
the  number  of  cows  in  New  England 
through  the  past  20  years  had  reduced 
the  available  supplies  of  milk  to  a  con- 
siderable degree.  This  decrease,  coupled 
with  a  steady  increase  in  the  demand 
for  fluid  milk,  had  led  to  the  steady 
transfer  of  milk  from  butter  territory 
into  the  fluid  milk  market  to  keep  up 
the  balance.  This  transfer  has  now 
about  reached  its  economic  limit  as 
there  is  very  little  more  butter  terri- 
tory which  can  be  economically  moved 
over  to  supply  fluid  milk  markets.  The 
remaining  butter  territory  is  so  located 
that  it  is  not  practical  to  get  the 
prompt  seven-day  railroad  service 
which  the  fluid  milk  market  requires. 
The  progress  of  the  tuberculin  test- 
ing is  to  a  considerable  extent  de- 
pleting the  supply  of  milk  cows  in 
New  England,  and  there  is  every  pros- 
pect of  a  continued  shortage  of  good 
cows,  and  of  high  prices  for  cows, 
for  the  next  three  years  at  least.  There 
is  now  somewhat  of  a  swing  back  to 
raising  more  young  stock,  but  its  ef- 
fect will  not  be  felt  for  several  years. 
He  believed  that  the  dairy  industry  of 
New  England  could  look  forward  to 
quite  satisfactory  conditions  so  long 
as  this  balance  between  supply  and  de- 
mand continued. 

Wesley  H.  Bronson  of  the  NEMPA 
followed  with  a  discussion  of  even  pro- 
duction and  its  significance  in  New 
England.  Up  to  the  present  time,  with 
reserve  supplies  of  butter  and  cream  ter- 
ritory milk  to  be  drawn  on  when  needed, 
the  necessity  for  even  production  has 
not  been  so  vital  a  factor  in  the  mar- 
ket as  it  is  likely  to  be  in  the  near 
future.  Before  New  England's  home 
milk  supply  reaches  such  a  low  point 
at  the  short  season  that  substantial 
supplies  of  milk  have  to  be  brought 
in  from  outside  sources  to  meet  the 
demand,  even  production  should  be  one 
of  our  major  aims.  This  might  come 
this  year,  if  the  summer  should  prove 
hot  and  dry  and  unusually  hard  for 
milk  production,  or  it  might  be  delayed 
a  few  years.  Sooner  or  later,  he  felt 
that  the  necessity  for  even  production, 
in  order  to  develop  a  sufficient  supply 
of  milk  for  New  England's  needs  dur- 
ing the  shortest  seasons,  would  be  an 
important  matter  for  consideration.  It 
will  be  well  to  get  ready  for  this  emer- 
gency. He  discussed  various  types  of 
rating  plans  which  have  been  tried  out 
to  bring  about  even  production,  speak- 
ing especially  of  the  Connecticut  plan. 
This  plan  would  not  be  possible  of 
application  if,  for  even  one  short  sea- 
son, Connecticut  had  to  go  outside  her 
borders  for  milk  to  supply  the  demand. 

The  Connecticut  system  of  relatively 
high  premiums  and  penalties,  he  felt, 
would  be  a  necessity  in  any  area  which 
sought  to  even  up  production  to  any 
great  extent  and  thus  insure  a  suffi- 
cient  supply   at  the   short  season. 

In  connection  with  this  discussion 
of  variations  in  supply,  Cochran,  of 
Stowe,  offered  the  following  resolu- 
tion : 

"Whereas,  the  production  of  fluid 
milk  for  New  England  markets  greatly 
exceeds  the  demand  at  certain  seasons 
of  the  year  and, 

"Whereas,  the  price  for  fluid  milk 
has  fluctuated  frequently, 

"Be  it  resolved  that  the  price  for 
fluid  milk  be  maintained  for  longer 
periods  of  time  and  that  in  order  to 
develop  a  more  even  production  of 
milk  that  the  price  paid  for  surplus 
should  be  lowest  during  the  months  of 
heaviest  production  and  highest  during 
the  periods  of  short  production. 

This  general  statement  of  the  wis- 
dom of  expressing  price  changes  in 
terms  of  varying  prices  for  surplus 
instead  of  on  market  milk,  is  exactly 
in  line  with  what  our  association  is  at- 
tempting to  do  with  its  cream  class 
price.  Elsewhere  in  this  issue  will 
be  found  a  general  statement  of  a 
plan  developing  under  the  leadership 
of  the  Commissioners  of  Agriculture 
for  a  determination  of  the  actual  val- 
ues of  milk  not  needed  to  supply  the 
fluid  milk  market.  This  actual  value 
of  the  surplus  is  a  potent  factor  in 
this  _  situation  and  must  be  taken  into 
consideration  before  any  general  poli- 
cies can  be  adopted. 

The  lack  of  general  information  as 
t©  conditions  in  city  and  country  was 
brought  out  in  the  discussion  of  price 


changes.  It  was  brought  out  that  the 
NEMPA,  chain  stores,  Vermont  Fed- 
erated Creameries,  Proprietary  Cream- 
eries, Independent  co-operative  cream- 
eries, the  large  dealers  in  Boston  and 
the  Boston  suburban  milk  dealers'  as- 
sociation each  interpreted  market  con- 
ditions in  the  light  of  its  own  knowl- 
edge. It  was  felt  that  a  great  forward 
step  would  be  made  if  all  these  or- 
ganizations could  have  mutual  access 
to  accurate  information  as  to  condi- 
tions in  city  and  country  and  could 
thus  independantly  make  their  decision 
as  to  what  prices  they  would  charge 
but  at  the  same  time  their  decision 
would  be  made  in  the  light  of  ac- 
curate knowledge  of  conditions  all 
through  New  England.  This  view  of 
the  situation  was  concurred  in  by  rep- 
resentatives of  all  the  organizations 
assembled  at  the  meeting. 

The  dairy  organizations  represented 
at  the  meeting  were : 

Bellows  Falls  Co-operative  Creamery, 
Mt.  Mansfield  Co-operative  Creamery, 
New  England  Milk  Producers'  Associ- 
ation, St.  Albans  Co-operative  Cream- 
ery, Milton  Co-operative  Creamery, 
Brattleboro       Co-operative  Creamery, 


Richmond  Co-operative  Creamery, 
Holyoke  Co-operative  Creamery,  Pro- 
ducers' Dairy  Company,  Brockton, 
Pittsfield,  Milk  Exchange,  Easthamp- 
ton  Creamery,  Nashua  Co-operative 
Creamery. 


MOVEMENT   FROM  FARMS 

A  continued  movement  of  population 
from  farms  to  cities  but  at  a  less 
rapid  rate  than  in  preceding  years  is 
reported  by  the  Bureau  of  Agricultural 
Economics,  United  States  Department 
of  Agriculture.  An  increased  move- 
ment from  cities  to  farms  is  also  re- 
ported. 

The  bureau  estimates  that  1,978,000 
persons  left  farms  last  year,  compared 
with  2,155,000  in  _  1926,  and  1,900,000 
in  1925.  Offsetting  this  movement, 
1,374,000  persons  moved  from  cities  to 
farms  last  year,  compared  with  1,- 
135,000  in  1926,  and  1,066,000  in  1925. 

These  figures  show  a  net  movement 
of  604,000  persons  from  farms  to 
cities  for  the  year,  compared  with 
1,020,000  persons  in  1926,  and  834,000 
persons  in  1925.  Only  a  small  reduc- 
tion, however,  is  shown  in  farm  popu- 


lation, an  excess  of  births  over  deaths 
bringing  the  population  to  27,699,00C 
persons  on  January  1,  1928,  compared 
with  27,892,000  .,n  January  1,  1927,  a 
(kcrea.se  of  193,000  persons,  as  corn- 
par"!  with  a  decreas<:  of  649,000  in 
1926,  and   441,000  in  192S. 

The  decrease  in  net  cityward  move- 
ment is  considered  to  reflect  the  im- 
proved agricultural  conditions,  the  dis- 
illusionment of  those  who  sought  better 
economic  conditions  in  cities  and  who 
are  now  returning  to  farms. 

The  bureau's  figures  show  that  in 
the  New  England  states  65,000  persons 
left  the  farms  last  year  and  60.00C 
went  to  farms;  Middle  Atlantic  states, 
12(9,000  persons  from  farms  and  94,000 
persons  to  farms ;  East  North  Central, 
303,000  from  farms  and  220,000  to 
farms;  West  North  Central,  378,000 
from  farms  and  236,000  to  farms;  South 
Atlantic,  264,000  from  farms  and  189,- 
000  to  farms;  East  South  Central,  253,- 
000  from  farms  and  167,000  to  farms; 
West  South  Central,  330,000  from 
farms  and  206,000  to  farms ;  Mountain, 
139,000  from  farms  and  98,000  to 
farms;  Pacific,  126,000  from  farms  and 
104,000  to  farms. 


Lawrence  Quinlan,  an  enterprising  young 
hauling  contractor  of  Atlantic,  Iowa,  despite  his 
youth  (he  is  20)  has  worked  up  a  very  prosper- 
ous business  hauling  live  stock.  He  writes  us: 

"My  latest  2-ton  International  is  a  wonder. 
Your  trucks  have  given  me  satisfaction  and  serv- 
ice and  that's  what  I  need.  I  am  now  ready  for  a 
larger  truck  and  I'll  knock  on  International's 
door.  No  one  goes  wrong  on  International  Har- 
vester products."      Yours  truly, 

LAWRENCE  QUINLAN 


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The  Farmer  Knows 
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A  load  is  just  so  many  pounds,  or 
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milk  and  cream,  live  stock,  sacked  or 
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and  eggs,  chickens,  coal,  building  ma- 
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'T  is  no  wonder  that  farmers  rely  on  International  trucks 
to  bring  farm  hauling  up  on  the  plane  with  farming 
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Farmers  in  every  community  choose  Internationals  be- 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Marc  >8 


NORTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 

F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager      -  477  Essex  Street,  Lawrence,  Mass. 

February   Prices  draw    from    purchasing   milk    in  their 

Manchester,  N.  H.  ..70c    per  %l/2  qt.  can  vicinity.     We    have   not   been   able  to 

Nashua,  N.  H  72.4c  per  8}^  qt.  can  P^ce  all  of  the  producers  with  a  new 

Lowell,   Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can  market  as  yet,  but  expect  to  get  them 

Lawrence    Mass  90c    per  10    qt.  can  placed    permanently    as    openings  with 

Haverhill'  Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can  reliable  dealers  are  available.    We  have 

Concord,  N.  H  61.2c  per  S]/2  qt.  can  had  some  cases   where  producers  have 

Portland,   Me             7.6c  per  qt.  written   us   asking   us   to   find   them  a 

Salem     Lynn     Dan-  market.     After   having  done   this  they 

vers'  and  Beverly  ..74c    per  8    qt.  can  set    out    on    their    own    initiative  and 

have  located  a  market  before  notifying 
Prices  us.  We  have  gone  ahead  in  the  mean- 
There  has  been  no  change  in  price  time  assuming  that  they  were  still  out 
in  any  of  our  markets  during  the  month  of  a  market  and  have  made  arrange- 
of  February  excepting  those  bordering  ments  with  some  dealer  to  take  on 
on  Boston,  such  as  Salem,  Lynn,  Dan-  their  milk  only  to  find  out  their  milk 
vers  and  Beverly.  When  the  Boston  has  already  been  sold.  This  does  not 
market  changed  back  on  February  1st  happen  very  often,  but  when  it  does 
from  9J4c  to  9c  per  quart  those  mar-  happen  it  puts  us  in  a  bad  light  with 
kets  which  follow  Boston  changed  the  particular  dealer  with  whom  we 
their  market  price  to  the  9c  basis,  have  tried  to  place  the  milk  and  urged 
The  markets  of  Lowell,  Lawrence  and  to  take  it.  We  would  suggest  that  all 
Haverhill  were  already  on  the  9c  price  producers  having  once  notified  us  that 
basis.  they  are  without  a  market  that  they 
In  talking  with  some  of  the  dealers  give  us  an  opportunity  to  help  them 
doing  business  in  the  various  markets  out  in  this  respect,  and  if  they  change 
of  our  district  I  find  none  of  them  their  minds  and  are  looking  for  a 
are    complaining    seriously    about    the  market  themselves,  they  notify  us. 

condition  in  the  market.  There  has  a~-..„i  At„„t;.,„„ 
,  ,  .  ,  ■  -,i  Annual  Meetings 
been  some  upward  trend  in  milk  pro-  * 
duction,  but  none  of  the  markets  are  The  annual  meeting  of  the  Henniker, 
running  with  much  more  surplus  than  N-  H->  lo.cal  was  held  in  the  town  hall 
they  did  last  vear.  A  few  of  the  m  Henniker  on  Thursday  afternoon, 
larger  dealers  are  carrying  a  heavier  February  2.  President  Frank  A.  Sar- 
surplus  than  they  did  last  year,  while  g.ent  Presided.  There  was  a  representa- 
on  the  other  hand  our  records  show  t,ve  SrouP  present  and  we  had  a  splen- 
that  about  an  equal  number  of  dealers  dld  meeting.  General  milk  marketing 
are  carrying  a  smaller  surplus  than  affairs  were  discussed  by  the  district 
they  did  a  year  ago.  Some  dealers  manager  as  well  as  a  report  on  the 
when  flood  conditions  were  on  took  on  situation  with  the  New  England  Cream- 
more  local  production  than  they  had  erv,  Products  Co.  Carl  Smith  discussed 
a  year  ago  in  order  to  obtain  milk  with  the  men  present  United  Dairy 
during  the  flood.  This  they  were  un-  System  affairs.  Officers  elected  were: 
der  obligation  to  keep  and  have,  there-  President  Frank  A.  Sargent;  secre- 
fore,  with  the  return  of  milk  from  tary,  Fred  T.  Connor, 
the  flood  area,  a  greater  volume  to  In  the  evening  of  February  2  the  an- 
dispose  of.  Sales  of  milk  in  the  cities  nual  meeting  of  the  Dunbarton,  N.  H., 
are  still  somewhat  slow.  local  was  held  at  the  home  of  Iru 
.  -  .  Waite.  We  had  the  largest  crowd 
Business  Conditions  present   at  this   meeting  that   we  have 

Unemployment  around  the  cities  still  had   for   years.     The   district  manager 

continues  very  heavy.    A  recent  article  again    told    about    the    situation  with 

in   a    paper   stated   that   unemployment  the   New   England    Creamery  Products 

around  Boston  is   19.6  per  cent.    I  do  Co.  and  all,  of  course,  were  very  in- 

not    have   the    figures    for   our   textile  terested  in  this  affair.    Carl  Smith  gave 

cities,  but  there  is  no  doubt  a  greater  a  report  on  the  situation  with  respect 

percentage    of    unemployment    in    these  to    the    affairs    of    the    United  Dairy 

cities   than   there   is   in   Boston.     This  System.      At    the    conclusion    of  the 

situation    is,    of    course,    affecting    the  business  meeting  Mrs.  Waite  and  some 

sales  and  collections  of  the  milk  deal-  of    the    neighbors    prepared    an  oyster 

ers  operating  in  these  cities.  stew    supper    which    was    enjoyed  by 

A  note  of  optimism  is  seen,  how-  everyone  present.  The  meeting  did  not 
ever,  in  a  report  just  released  of  the  break  up  until  12  o'clock,  so  you  can 
Pacific  Mills'  1927  earnings.  The  fig-  see  that  all  must  have  enjoyed  them- 
ures  represent  an  improvement  of  $2,-  selves,  otherwise  they  would  not  have 
220,470  within  one  year,  as  there  was  stayed  until  that  late  hour.  The  offi- 
a  deficit  of  $927,952  at  the  end  of  1926.  cers  elected  were :  President,  Iru  M. 
In  his  annual  report  Edwin  Farnham  Waite ;  secretary,  David  Story. 
Greene,  treasurer  of  the  Pacific  Mills,  The  annual  meeting  of  the  Bradford, 
stated  that  the  outcome  of  the  year  N.  H.  local  was  held  on  Friday  morn- 
shows  a  distinct  improvement  over  the  ing,  February  3.  This  is  one  of  the 
three  previous  years.  "Nevertheless,"  smaller  locals  in  our  district,  but  in 
says  Treasurer  Greene,  "the  net  profit  spite  of  this  fact  there  was  a  very 
is  not  yet  an  adequate  return  on  the  good  attendance.  The  same  program 
capital    invested   in   the   business."  was   followed,  with   Mr.   Smith  telling 

The   above  'reports   does   look,   how-  about  the  affairs  of  the  United  Dairy 

ever,  as  if  the  Pacific  Mills  at  least  are  System,  and  the  district  manager  irnk- 

gettmg  in  shape  to  earn  better  returns  ing  a  report  on  general  market  condi- 

for  the  stockholders  which,  of  course,  tions  and  the  New  England  Creamery 

will   result   in   an   improvement   in   the  Products  Co.  situation.    Officers  elected 

textile  field  of  employment  and  general  were:   President,  E.  H.  Dodge;  secre- 

textile    situation.     Of    course    this    re-  tarv,  Oscar  A.  Colburn. 

port  is  for  just  one  mill  and  thr.re  is  The    Contoocook- Warner    local  held 

no  way  at  present,  until  annual  state-  its  annual  meeting  in  the  afternoon  of 

ments  are  released,  of  telling  how  the  February  3.    This  local  also  is  one  of 

other    mills    are    coming    along.     We  the  smaller  ones  of  our  group,  but  the 

hope,  however,  we  will  learn  of  favor-  attendance   was  satisfactory.     A  report 

able  reports  from  the  others  and  that  0f    the    situation    with    respect    to  the 

all    will    begin    to    show    similar    im-  New   England   Creamery   Products  Co. 

provement.  was   the  chief   topic   of   discussion  by 

Market   Requests  the    district    manager    and    this  group 

We  have  had  the  usual  number  of  seemed  very  much  interested  in  learn- 
market  requests  coming  in  from  pro-  ing  the  details  of  this  controversy, 
ducers.  Some  of  these  requests  came  Mr.  Smith  again  told  about  the  affairr 
from  producers  who  were  selling  to  of  the  United  Dairv  System  and  took 
dealers  whom  they  have  begun  to  sus-  up  some  local  problems  with  the  pro- 
ject of  being  in  bad  condition  finan-  ducers.  Officers  elected  were :  Presi- 
cially,  and  others  from  producers  dent,  Arthur  Clark;  secretary,  Chas. 
whose   dealers    have   decided    to    with-  M.  Harriman. 


Test 

this  winter- 
feeding  program 


With  freezing  weather  come  special  prob- 
lems in  the  dairy  barn.  To  keep  winter's 
thieving  fingers  out  of  the  milk  pails  your 
cows  demand  plenty  of  the  right  kind  of 
food.  They  just  as  urgently  demand  that 
their  vigor  be  built  up  and  maintained  so 
that  this  rich,  dry  diet  can  be  completely 
assimilated — turned  into  milk.  Other- 
wise part  of  your  high-priced  winter  feed- 
ing goes  to  waste. 

This  winter  join  the  army  of  dairymen 
who  are  now  systematically  conditioning 
their  cows  to  meet  the  added  winter- 
feeding  burdens.  Kow-Kare  does  this  job 
for  you  surely,  conveniently,  profitably. 
This  famous  concentrated  regulator  and 
conditioner  has  active  medicinal  ingredi- 
ents that  strengthen  and  tone  up  the  di- 
gestion and  assimilation — make  the  cow 
responsive  to  her  milk-producing  diet. 

Sure— and  Inexpensive 

Kow-Kare  is  very  inexpensive  to  use.  Only  a 
tablespoonful  in  the  feedings  one  to  two  weeks 
each  month  is  required  in  average  cases.  A  few 
cents  per  month  per  cow  is  a  small  price  to  pay 
for  top-notch  milkings  and  cow  health. 

Try  Kow-Kare  one  season.  Prove  for  yourself 
that  vigorous  cows  can  produce  real  milk  profits 
on  moderate-priced  natural  feeds.  Kow-Kare  is 
obtainable  from  nearly  all  feed  stores,  general 
stores  and  druggists.  Large  size  $1.25;  6  cans  $6.25. 
Small  size  65c.  Write  for  free  illustrated  book, 
"More  Milk  from  the  Cows  You  Have." 

Dairy  Association  Co.,  Inc. 

Lyndonville,  Vermont 

KOW-KARE 

Regulates  and  Conditions 


Needed  by  cows 
at  CALVING 

It's  good  sense — at  this 
most  critical  time  of  the 
whole  year  —  to  give 
needed  aid  to  the  cow 
about  to  freshen.  A 
small  investment  in 
Kow-Kare  gets  you  by 
many  expensive  dis- 
orders —  insures  a 
healthier  cow  and  calf. 
A  tablespoonful  in  the 
feedings  for  three  weeks 
before  and  after  meets 
average  needs. 

Banish  Cow  Ills 

Such  troubles  as  Bar- 
renness, Retained  After- 
birth, Abortion, 
Bunches,  Scours,  Lost 
Appetite,  etc.,  have 
their  origin  in  weak- 
ened digestive  and  geni- 
tal organs.  Kow  -  Kare 
clears  up  these  troubles 
by  helping  Nature. 
Thirty  years  of  success- 
ful use  is  your  Kow. 
Kare  guarantee. 


Home-Mix  Your  Own  COMPLETE  MINERAL 

With  Kow-Kare  you  can  easily  mix  your  own  com- 
plete mineral  at  a  surprisingly  low  cost — a  mixtur  of 
recognized  conditioning  value.  Simply  mix  30  lbs. 
salt,  30  lbs.  fine-ground  lime,  30  lbs.  steamed  bone 
meal  and  four  cans  (large)  Kow-Kare.  For  well  under 
$6  per  hundred  you  will  have  an  unbeatable  mineral. 
Use  80  lbs.  of  this  mixture  to  a  ton  of  grain. 


Read  the  advertisements  because  it 
pays  .  .  .  in  time  saved  .  .  .  in  in- 
formation   gained  .  .  .  in    a  wiser 
spending  of  your  money 


March,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Titcnty-one 


The  annual  meeting  of  the  Concord, 
N.  H.  local  was  held  at  the  Concord 
Dairy  Co.  on  the  evening  of  February 
3.  Here  again  the  producers  were  very 
much  interested  in  learning  of  the 
situation  with  respect  to  the  controversy 
with  the  New  England  Creamery  Prod- 
ucts Co.  After  this  a  general  dis- 
cussion of  the  milk  marketing  situa- 
tion in  the  cities  of  the  northern  mar- 
ket district  and  particularly  Concord 
was  considered.  Roy  Batchelder,  man- 
ager of  the  Concord  Dairy  Co.,  dis- 
cussed conditions  in  the  Concord  mar- 
ket, particularly  with  respect  to  the 
business  of  the  Concord  Dairy  Co 
As  practically  all  those  present  market 
their  milk  through  the  Concord  Dairy 
Co.  they  were  highly  interested  in  Mr. 
Batchelder's  discussion.  Officers  elected 
were :  President,  P.  R.  Dalbeck ;  sec- 
retary, Ray  Barnard. 

Field  Work 

Most  of  my  time  in  field  work  has 
been  spent  outside  of  the  district,  aside 
from  that  time  spent  attending  annual 
meetings.  I  have  been  to  Piermont  to 
work  on  the  situation  up  there  be- 
cause the  Piermont  Creamery  is  sup- 
plying milk  to  the  New  England  Cream- 
ery Products  Co.  I  have  also  been  to 
Lyndonville  to  attend  the  meetings  of 
the  Lyndonville  and  Wheelock,  Vt. 
locals.  Also  have  done  some  work 
around  these  sections  with  respect  to 
the  sale  of  milk  to  the  Lyndonville 
Creamery  Association.  The  Lyndonville 
Creamery  Association  was  supplying 
the  Millwood  Farms  of  Framingham, 
Mass.,  which  business  has  recently 
been  purchased  by  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Co.  This  means 
that  Lyndonville  Creamery  Association 
is  now  supplying  milk  to  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Co.,  which 
makes  it  advisable  that  this  company 
have  its  figures  administered  just  the 
same  as  any  other  dealer  doing  busi- 
ness in  the  market.  The  Lyndonville 
Creamery  Association  has  a  plant 
equipped  to  handle  fluid  milk  at  East 
Watertown,  Mass.,  and  Lowell,  Mass. 
The  majority  of  farmers  selling  to 
this  company  feel  that  this  company 
should  have  its  price  administered  and 
pay  the  NEMPA  price  just  the  same 
as  other  companies  that  are  selling 
milk  in  our  cities. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Lyndonville 
local,  held  on  Friday  night,  the  17th, 
President  Merriam  presided.  The  dis- 
trict manager  gave  a  report  of  the 
situation  with  respect  to  the  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products  Co.  and  also 
with  respect  to  the  Lyndonville  Cream- 
ery Association.  Many  of  those  pres- 
ent were  selling  to  either  Hood,  Turner 
Centre  or  Findeisen  Farms,  which  com- 
panies are  having  their  figures  admin- 
istered by  Commissioner  of  Agriculture 
A.  W.  Gilbert  of  Massachusetts.  Those 
men  felt  that  the  Lyndonville  Creamery 

I  Association  should  have  their  figures 
jf  administered,  too,  and  pay  the  NEMPA 
■  price. 

►       The   members  of   the   Wheelock  and 
Sheffield   locals   met   in   the  town  hall 
at  Sheffield.    F.  C.  Warner,  manager  of 
j)    the    Field    Service     Department,  was 
\    present    at    this    meeting.  President 
i   Roy    Bickford    presided    at    the  meet- 
ing.    In  spite   of   the   fact   that  there 
was  a  blizzard  on  the  evening  of  this 
meeting,  which  was  February  24,  Fri- 
i    day   evening,    there   was   a  representa- 
i  tive  attendance  present.     The  situation 
was  discussed   exactly  as   it   had  been 
at    the    meeting    of     the  Lyndonville 
local    and    those    present    stated  that 
.  they  felt  that  the  Lyndonville  Creamery 
•  Association    should    pay    the  NEMPA 
price  and  have  its  figures  administered 
by   the   milk    administrator.     The  dis- 

II  trict  manager  Imade  a  trip  with  Ray 
Burrington  into  East  Burke,  Vt.,  where 
several  producers  were  interviewed  and 
these  men  seemed  to  feel  the  same 
about  this  proposition  as  their  neigh- 
bors did. 


Farmer  Bill— "Here's  that  cow  you 
asked  me  about,  Si.  She's  a  dandy,  too; 
good  teeth  and  in  fine  physical  condition 
in  every  way." 

Farmer  Si— "Dot's  fine,  Bill,  but  has 
she  any  udder  accomplishments  ?" 


"Maude   says   her   husband  disgraced 
her  on  their  honeymoon." 
"How?" 

"On  the  steamer  she  wanted  the 
other  passengers  to  think  an  ocean  trip 
was  an  old  story  to  them,  but  almost  as 
soon  as  they  went  on  board  he  pointed 
to  a  row  of  lifebuoys  and  asked  the 
captain  what  was  the  idea  of  all  the 
extra  tires." 


First  Litigant — "I'll  follow  you  to  the 
District  Court." 

Second  Litigant — "Oh,  I'll  be  there." 


First  Litigant — "I'll  follow  you  to  the 
Supreme  Court." 

Second  Litigant — "Oh,  I'll  be  there, 
too." 

First  Litigant — I'll  follow  you  to  hell 
if  I  have  to." 

Second  Litigant — "Well,  in  that  case, 
my  lawyer  will  be  there." 


Old  Lady  (stopping  "double-deck"  bus 
in  the  pouring  rain) — "Any  sitting 
room  ?" 

Cheerful  Conductor — "*T~  ma'am; 
but  there's  a  bath  upstairs." 


Young  Mrs.  Wilkins  is  so  lazy  she 
puts  popcorn  in  her  pancakes  to  make 
them  turn  themselves. 


The  difference'  between  a  cow  chew- 
ing her  cud  anrl  a  flapper  chewing  her 
gum  is  that  a  cow  always  looks  as  if 
she  were  thinking. 


Irate  Employer — "Surely,  Miss  Jinks, 
you  know  the  King's  English!" 

Surprised  Typist — "Of  course  he  is — 
isn't  he,  sir  ?" 


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□ 


72,000 

Dairymen 

can't  be  wrong 

Thirty-five  years  ago  a  little 
group  of  dairymen  were 
feeding  Purina. 
They  made  money. 
The  news  spread. 

Today  72,000  dairymen  are  mak- 
ing money  by  feeding  Purina. 

Such  tremendous  growth  means 

something. 
72,000  dairymen  can't  be  wrong! 

Purina  will  make  you  money 
too.  Order  it  from  the  store 
with  the  checkerboard  sign. 

PURINA  MILLS,  850  Gratiot  Street,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Eight  Busy  Mills  Located  for  Service 

Write  us  for  a  Purina  Cow  Booklet — free 


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Letters  Show  Hearty  Suppo 


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Many  Who  Are  Not  Now  Selling  Milk  Send  In  Substan- 
tial Checks.    All  Gratefully  Received 


The  fighting  spirit  which  our  mem- 
bers have  only  now  and  then  an  op- 
portunity to  show  comes  to  the  sur- 
face in  the  letters  which  are  coming 
in  support  of  the  Dairyman's  Benefit 
Fund.  In  among  the  hundreds  who 
have  taken  the  easy  and  normal  way  of 
signing  an  order  on  their  dealer  for 
a  deduction  of  five  per  cent,  from  the 
milk  checks  for  two  months  there  are 
a  number  of  letters  which  have  the 
checks  themselves  enclosed.  They 
wanted  to  show  their  support  of  the 
movement  right  away.  Let's  look  over 
a  few  of  them. 

One  from  J.  E.  Hogan,  of  Riverton, 
Vt.,  says:  "Find  enclosed  check  for 
$13.44  for  Benefit  Fund.  I  will  pay 
for  January  and  February.  My  check 
for  January  was  $164.71.  I  will  send 
the  balance  in  March  when  I  know 
what  I  will  receive  for  February  milk. 
Atta  boy.  Hang  to  them.  The 
NEMPA  is  doing  good  work.  _  If  this 
will  not  be  enough,  call  again." 

Dr.  Little,  our  president,  also  begins 
his  payment  on  January  milk  as  his 
check  was  larger  then  and  would  count 
for  more.  He  says  in  part :  "I  am 
sending  completed  power  of  attorney 
to  help  you  collect  from  my  February 
check  and  a  check  for  $27.88  to  cover 
five  per  cent,  of  my  January  check. 
I  am  taking  the  liberty  of  sending 
this  check  direct  because  my  January 
milk  check  will  total  more  than  will 
my  February  or  March  checks." 

Here  is  another  from  our  good  friend 
and  former  fellow  employee,  W.  E. 
Currier,  of  Danbury,  N.  H. :  "You  will 
be  surprised  to  hear  from  me.  I  re- 
ceived your  Dairyman's  Benefit  Fund 
blanks  to  fill  out  and  return.  I  can- 
not do  that  as  I  am  not  selling  dairy 
products,  so  I  am  mailing  you  my  check 
for  $2  as  a  present  toward  the  fund. 
If  I  help  the  dairymen  when  I  am  not 
producing  or  selling  milk  then,  of 
course,  the  milk  producers  will  some 
day  reimburse  me  if  some  time  I  get 
hit  hard  in  the  potato  business."  Cur- 
rier always  was  full  of  his  little  jokes, 
but  the  NEMPA  never  had  a  more 
loyal  advocate  in  all  seasons  and  in  all 
weathers. 

Here  is  a  good  one  from  Maine :  "I 
regret  to  say  that  I  am  not  making 
any  cream  or  milk  this  winter  _  but  I 
want  you  to  know  that  I  am  with  the 
association  to  the  limit.  I  think  that 
the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Company  is  making  one  grand  mistake 
and  that  they  will  probably  find  out 
that  the  dairymen  are  not  to  be  fooled 
with.  We  are  with  you.  Keep  it  up. 
We  will  back  you  to  the  last  ditch. 
Please  find  enclosed  check  for  $5  as  a 
small  help  for  the  Creamery  Products 
men.    R.  N.  Lowell,  Hiram,  Me." 

William  H.  Shaw,  of  Danvers,  Mass., 
writes :  "I  am  enclosing  a  post  office 
money  order  for  $10  to  be  used  for 
Dairyman's  Fund.  I  consider  it  a  just 
cause  and  hope  all  will  contribute.  Will 
send  $10  next  month." 

Albert  Pierce,  of  Schaghticoke,  N. 
Y.,  one  of  our  staunch  members,  writes: 
"Enclosed  check  for  $10  to  be  applied 
to  the  Dairyman's  Benefit  Fund.  Al- 
though we  have  not  shipped  any  milk 
to  Boston  in  nearly  a  year  we  realize 
that  whatever  helps  the  Boston  market 
helps  us.  If  you  have  a  prolonged 
fight  will  send  another  check  later." 

Mighty  fine  and  encouraging,  all  of 
them.  Not  the  less  from  men  who 
send  in  only  a  dollar  or  two.  Here  are 
a  few  samples : 

"My  dairy  is  small.  Don't  know 
how  much  it  will  be  but  please  find 
check  for  $1.  Perhaps  it  will  help  a 
little." 

"I  am  enclosing  herewith  my  check 
for  $1.25  for  Benefit  Fund.  I  will 
forward  as  much  more  between  March 
1  and  5.  Yes,  fight  it  to  the  finish 
and  win,  cost  what  it  may.  Standing 
firm  is  true  co-operation." 

"In  reply  will  say  that  owing  to  ill 


health  this  winter  I  reduced  my  stock 
so  that  I  have  only  five  cows  at  pres- 
ent and  they  are  mostly  dry  so  that 
my  income  from  them  is  very  small, 
if  anything.  So  I  am  enclosing  check 
for  $2  to  help  out.     Hold  the  fort." 

"Enclosed  find  check  for  $3  which 
we  are  sending  to  help  you  in  the 
trouble  you  are  having.  Trusting  that 
you  will  push  this  business  to  a  finish 
we  remain." 

"I  have  a  home  market  for  my  milk. 
Am  sending  you  $1  to  help  on  the 
Benefit  Fund.  All  I  feel  able  to  do  at 
present." 

"I  am  not  selling  any  milk  and  have 
not  been  for  three  or  four  years,  but 
am  sending  you  $1." 

These  are  only  a  few  out  of  the 
hundreds  of  letters  of  encouragement 
and  good  will  which  have  come  in. 
They  tell  a  great  story  of  confidence 
in  the  association  and  its  trouble.  It 
is  really  amazing  the  extent  to  which 
men  who  have  never  come  to  annual 
meetings  or  have  been  in  any  way  in 
close  touch  with  the  association  are  re- 
sponding to  the  call  for  help.  There, 
are  some  aspects  of  this  fund  that  we 
might   well   consider  -briefly. 

We  say  very  frankly  that  we  do 
not  know  how  much  money  will  be 
needed  to  see  this  thing  through.  We 
mentioned  200  producers  who  would 
have  to  be  assisted  because  of  their 
loyality  to  the  association.  We  could 
not  at  that  time  express  our  belief 
that  there  would  be  a  considerably 
larger  number  in  line  for  assistance 
from  the  benefit  fund  within  a  few 
weeks,  yet  so  it  has  worked  out.  Be- 
fore this  reaches  you  our  members 
who  have  been  selling  their  milk  to 
Lyndonville  will  be  selling  it  elsewhere 
perhaps  at  butterfat  prices. 

The  end  is  not  yet,  in  all  probability. 
Judging  by  the  trends  of  public  senti- 
ment in  the  dairy  industry  there  will 
be  more  to  be  done  before  we  are 
through.  It  is  our  intention  to  do  a 
real  job  in  strengthening  some  of  these 
weak  spots  in  the  dairy  industry  of 
New  England  and  we  are  asking  our 
members  to  contribute  enough  so  that 
victory  will  not  have  been  won  at 
great  financial  sacrifices  to  the  men 
who  are  standing  in  the  front  line. 

More  than  that.  There  is  a  very 
strong  feeling  amoug  our  member? 
that  we  should  have  a  permanent  fund 
for  such  emergencies.  That  is  some- 
thing which  can  be  talked  over  at  our 
next  annual  meeting.  If  you  members 
contribute  more  than  is  needed  for  the 
immediate  repayment  of  losses,  that 
amount  could  be  used  as  a  nest  egg  for 
the  permanent  fund,  to  be  added  to  by 
very  small  but  regular  contributions 
until  it  was  built  up  to  a  sufficient  size 
to  meet  all  probable  future  emergencies. 

Remember  this,  when  thinking  of  the 
amount  which  five  per  cent,  for  two 
months  might  raise ;  the  money  can  be 
used  for  no  other  purpose  than  as 
payment  of  losses.  It  cannot  be 
diverted  into  any  other  branch  of  the 
NEMPA  work  nor  used  for  any  other 
purpose.  If  the  annual  meeting  does 
not  decide  to  use  any  remainder  as  a 
basis  for  a  permanent  fund,  then  it  can 
vote  to  distribute  it  back  to  those  who 
contributed  it. 

Then  again,  it  seemed  to  us  that 
the  interest  in  winning  the  fight  for 
the  known  price  was  directly  propor- 
tionate to  the  quantity  of  milk  a 
producer  sold  and  to  the  size  of  his 
milk  check.  It  did  not  seem  fair  tc 
us  to  ask  for  the  same  amount  of 
money  from  a  man  who  owned  10  cow? 
as  from  one  who  owned  100  cows. 
There  are  a  great  many  of  our  mem- 
bers who  own  less  than  10  cows.  It 
seemed  fairest  to  apportion  the  amouni 
which  each  man  was  asked  to  con- 
tribute to  the  size  of  the  dairy  business 
he  was  d«ing.  The  five  per  cent,  does 
distribute  the  cost  of  winning  the  fight 
exactly  in  proportion  to  the  benefits  to 
be  derived  from  winning  the  fight. 


A  word  from  the 
publisher . . .  about 
advertising 


The  products  you  see  consistently 
advertised  in  this  paper  are  worthy 
of  your  confidence. 

It  takes  two  things  to  make  a  con- 
sistent advertiser.  One  is  a  strong 
conviction  that  he  has  a  product  that 
will  hold  its  place  in  public  favor 
despite  competition.  The  other  is 
actual  proof  of  that  .  .  .  the  in- 
creasing popularity  of  his  product. 

If  his  product  will  not  stand  the 
test  of  comparison  he  would  simply 
be  throwing  his  advertising  invest- 
ment away.  If  the  buying  public  re- 
jects his  product  after  it  has  been 
offered  in  advertising  he  has  thrown 
his  advertising  investment  away. 

That's  why  the  manufacturer  who 
advertises  his  merchandise  consist- 
ently is  very  sure  of  his  quality 
.  .  .  and  why  you  may  be  sure 
of  it,  too. 


Read  the  advertising  here  in  your 
paper  .  .  .  it  will  guide  you  to 
the  buying  of  worthy  merchandise 


a  different  kind  of 
chain  store* 


(£/>VERY  J.  C.  Penney 


Company  Depart- 
ment Store  is  welded  to  local  needs  on  the  solid  anvil  of  Service. 
Today,  as  in  1902  when  Mr.  J.  C.  Penney  opened  the  first 
store  of  what  is  now  a  Nation-wide  Institution,  the  policy  is 
to  serve  the  customer  well  and  save  him 
more.  Because  this  policy  has  been  rigid- 
ly adhered  to  throughout  the  twenty- 
six  years  of  the  Company,  it  is  known 
as  a  different  kind  of  chain  store. 


t"'^-^  Street 
with  an  economy  center 
there are  954 of  them  in  the  USA* 


J.  C.  Penney  Company  Department  Stores,  with  Thrift  as 
the  guiding  spirit  of  all  Buying  and  Selling  plans,  are  essen- 
tially Economy  Centers  of  their  individual  communities.  To 
see  how  much  can  be  put  into  a  community — rather  than  how 
much  can  be  taken  out — is  the  foremost  consideration  in  the 

operation  of  each  store. 


Examples — 

of  Economical  Shopping  at 
J.  C.  Penney  Company  Stores. 

Quality  goods  at  quantity  prices, 
built  to  service  specifications, 
famous  for  satisfaction  given. 

For  Women  and  Misses: 

445 — Silk   and   rayon   full   fashioned  hosiery, 

good  weight    .98 

447 — Silk-to-top  full  fashioned  hosiery,  medium 

weight   1.49 

449 — Pure  silk  full  fashioned  hosiery,  lisle  top  1.49 
45  5 — Sheer  silk-to-top  full   fashioned  hosiery, 

chiffon  weight      1.49 

Hand-Bags    in    leathers,    fittings,    shapes  and 

colors  to  harmonize  with  new  Spring  outfits, 

For  Men  and  Young  Men: 

Suits  in  hard-finished  worsteds,  tweeds  and  cas- 
simeres — desired  models,  patterns  and  colors, 

19.75  and  24.75 

Work  Clothes  and  Footwear  for  farm  and  shop — the  kind 
that  helps  in  the  day's  work  and  satisfies  the  pocketbook. 


You  will  be  pleased  with  the  values 
and  you  will  enjoy  its  "home  town" 
spirit  of  neighborly  helpfulness. 

Our  Spring  Store  News  Catalog  is 
ready.  It  tells  an  interesting  story  of 
Quality  and  Savings.  If  you  have  not 
received  your  copy,  please  write  for  it. 


It  is  different  because  the  Merchant 
in  charge  selects  merchandise  from  a 
large  staff  of  expert  buyers  in  the 
world's  markets  to  meet  the  needs  of 
the  people  of  his  community — having 
a  financial  interest  in  his  store  he 
naturally  is  keenly  interested  in  every 
civic  move  that  will  make  his  com- 
munity a  better  business  place  and  a 
better  place  in  which  to  live — though 
strictly  local  in  its  Service  and  inter- 
ests, it  brings  to  its  customers  the  far- 
reaching  advantages  of  National  buy- 
ing resources. 

Dry 
Goods, 
Clothing, 
Furnishings 
and  Shoes,  for  • 
the  Entire  Family  "quality— always  at  a  saving' 

Home  Offices:  330  West  34th  Street,  New  York  City — 25  Stores  in  Connecticut,  Maine,  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island, 

New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  as  Follows — 

Lewiston  Framingham  North  Adams 

Rumford  Gardner  Taunton 

Waterville  Greenfield  Webster 

Massachusetts  Leominster  Rhode  Island 

Clinton  Marlboro  Westerly 


Connecticut 
Danbury 
Derby 
Meriden 
Middletown 


Maine 
Biddeford 
Calais 
Caribou 
Fort  Kent 


New  Hampshire 
Berlin 
Concord 

Vermont 
Newport 
Rutland 


Look  to  the  De  Laval  Milker  for  Better  Records  and  Cleaner  Milk 


Idylwilde  Korndyke,  purebred  Hol- 
stein owned  by  James  Seymour  & 
Sons  of  Ida,  Ontario,  has  just  com- 
pleted her  oflicial  305-day  test,  in 
which  she  made  the  remarkable 
record  of  19,669  lbs.  of  milk 
and  819  lba.  of  butter-fat,  with 
twice-a-day  milking.  Her  butter-fat 
production  is  a  world's  record  for 
a  Holstein  cow,  and  her  milk  pro- 
duction is  a  Canadian  record  for  a 
Holstein  cow  as  well  as  .third  high- 
est record  in  the  world.  * 


This  great  cow  was  milked  during 
the  second  half  of  her  test  with  the 
De  Laval  Milker,  and  instead  of 
falling  off  in  production  she  held 
up  in  a  splendid  manner  with  De 
Laval  milking  and  actually  had 
some  of  her  best  days  in  milk  and 
butter  production,  when  milked  tho 
De  Laval  Way.  Mr.  Seymour  says: 
"The  fact  that  we  used  your  milker 
on  this  valuable  cow  when  she  was 
undergoing  a  test  evidenced  the 
confidence  we  had  in  it  and  we  feel 
that  it  must  be  given  due  share  of 
credit  for  the  splendid  record  Idyl- 
wilde Korndyke  has  made." 


The  De  Laval  Milker  Aids  in  Making  Another 
Champion  —  and  Helps  Make  Cleaner  Milk 


CLAIMS  made  for  the  De  Laval  Milker  are  substantiated  each  day 
by  facts  and  the  enthusiastic  endorsement  of  users  who  have 
accomplished  their  goals  with  its  definite  aid.  A  De  Laval  Milker  was 
used  to  milk  Idylwilde  Korndike,  the  champion  Holstein  recently  de- 
veloped by  James  Seymour  &  Sons,  Ida,  Ont.  Records  such  as  hers 
are  conclusive  proof  that  the  De  Laval  Milker  does  produce  more 
milk  by  achieving  and  maintaining  the  maximum  flow,  through 
correct  milking,  uniformity  and  gentleness. 

Another  interesting  bit  of  evidence  is  offered  by  the  Highland  Guernsey  Dairy 
at  Roanoke,  Va.,  owned  by  Mr.  Roy  C.  Kinsey.  A  De  Laval  Milker  was  installed 
there  to  provide  cleaner  milk,  better  milking,  to  promote  greater  yield  and  to  save 
time  and  labor.  At  the  end  of  the  first  year  an  interesting  and  important  fact  is 
brought  out  by  a  comparison  of  yearly  bacteria  count  averages.  The  previous 
year,  with  hand  milking,  the  average  was  6226;  this  year,  with  the  De  Laval,  the 
average  is  1952. 

Cases  like  these  speak  volumes  and  back  claims  made  for  the  De  Laval  Milker 
with  unassailable  proof.  Investigate  the  De  Laval  Milker  thoroughly.  It  will 
solve  your  milking  problem.  Write  the  office  nearest  to  you  or  ask  to  have  a 
De  Laval  representative  call.    No  obligation. 

TKe  De  Laval  Separator  Company 


NEW  YORH 
1  65  Broadway 


CHICAGO 
600  Jachson  Blvd. 


SAN  FRANCISCO 
61  Beale  Street 


m  IIP 


HIGHLAND  GUERNSEY  DAIRY 


OPTICt  PHONE  *4 
DAIRY  MOM  MWJ 


OFFICE — L4  W.  KIRK  AVE, 


ROANOKE.  VA.     Jan.  26,  1928 

De  Ural  Separator  Company, 
165  Broadway, 
lav  York,  H.  T. 

Qentlemeni 

Va  have  just  finished  the  first  year's  use  of  the  Da  Laval 
Milking  Machine  and  have  found  It  vary  satisfactory.    The  baoterla 
average  for  the  year  was  18S2.    The  average  for  laet  year  whan  we  wera 
doing  hand  milking  was  6226.    Va  think  that  everyone  In  the  Certified 
business  should  use  the  De  Laval.    We  do  not  have  a  bad  odder  In 
the  barn. 

We  are  sorry  to  Bay  that  so  far  wa  have  dons  no  testing  of- 
ficially baoausa  we  have  been  so  Interested  In  the  production  of 
Certlllad  Milk.  We  do  however  weigh  and  test  for  feeding.  Wa  have 
some  very  nice  young  cows  that  we  will  test  next  year.  Our  bull  Is 
a  Grandson  of  Langwater  Foremost  and  out  of  a  daughter  of  Pink  whloh 
la  one  of  the  Deat  producing  dams  In  Virginia.  Be  la  registered  as 
"Highlands  Foremost  So. 103077." 

We  forgot  to  mention  In  our  last  letter  that  wa  soored  96. 64 
In  laet  year's  Oertifled  Kllk  Contest  at  Washington.    The  milk  waa 
drawn  on  May  3rd  and  examined  on  nay  13th  by  a  committee  from  the 
Bureau  of  Dairying  of  the  Dept.  of  Agriculture.    The  bacteria  waa  340 
per  O.C.  at  ten  days  of  age.    The  Da  Laval  was  used  in  this  operation. 
This  should  prove  without  a  doubt  that  olean  milk  oan  ba  made  with 
your  milker. 

Yours  very  truly, 
HIGHLAND  OVERHSEY  DADW, 


HOK/L 


October,  1027 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


Don't  fool  yourself!  Purina 
is  not  too  high.  When  men 
like  these— your  neighbors 
under  ordinary  farm  con- 
ditions—can make  more 
money  by  feeding  Cow 

Chow,  you  can  too. 


Cherry  Hills  Farms,  Stockbridge, 
Mass.,  were  feeding  a  very  good  ration 
but  since  they  changed  to  Cow  Chow 
the  cows  are  producing  40  to  50  quarts 
more  per  day. 

Gray  and  Palin,  Derby  Line,  Ver- 
mont, feed  Cow  Chow  to  their  37 
cows  which  averaged  740  pounds  of 
milk  and  39.7  pounds  of  fat  during 
the  month  of  May  1927. 

E.  Radewski,  East  Granby,  Conn., 
increased  his  monthly  net  profit 
$22.80  by  feeding  Cow  Chow  to  his 
herd  of  8  cows. 


J.  R.  Leetz,  Gloversville,  Maine, 
got  an  increase  of  $55.50  net  profit 
per  month  when  he  changed  his 
herd  of  18  cows  over  to  Cow  Chow. 

H.  C.  Munn,  Pittsburg,  N.  H., 
found  that  his  ten  cows  showed  an 
increased  net  profit  in  one  month  of 
$21.70  after  he  began  feeding  Cow 
Chow. 

D.  J.  Enman,  Milan,  N.  H.,  in- 
creased his  monthly  net  profit  $24.00 
by  feeding  Cow  Chow  to  his  herd  of 
15  Cows. 


These  men  are  saying  a  feed  which 
lowers  the  cost  of  production  cannot 
be  too  high.  They  are  saying  the 
feed  which  pays  the  most  profit  is 
the  cheapest  feed  you  can  buy.  All 
of  them  are  feeding  Purina  today. 


Thousands 
of 

dairymen 
say— 


Let  Bulky- Las 
work  with  Cow 
Chow  in  increas- 
ing  your  milk 
production. 


PURINA  MILLS,  850  Gratiot  St.,  Saint  Louis,  Mo. 

Bight  Busy  Mills  Located  lor  Service 

Write  us  for  a  Purina  Cow  Booklet  — free 


Mi 


The  North  Country  Farms'  herd 
of  purebred  Holsteins  is,  without 
question,  one  of  the  finest  Holstein 
herds  ever  assembled.  Its  owner,  Mr- 
George  N.  Smith  of  Watertown,  N.  Y., 


is  an  experienced  breeder,  well 
equipped  to  handle  a  herd  of  this 
nature.  Many  outstanding  records 
have  been  made  at  this  farm.  All 
cows,  including  those  on  test,  art 
milked  with  the  De  Laval  Milker. 


The  Best  Cows  of  Each  Breed 
Do  Better  with  the  De  Laval  Milker 


THE  rapidly  growing  list  of  prominent  herds 
and  noted  producers  of  all  breeds  milked 
with  the  De  Laval  is  one  of  the  most  impressive 
arguments  that  could  be  put  forth  for  it.  The 
fact  that  so  many  experienced  breeders  use  and 
endorse  the  De  Laval  as  the  most  practical  so- 
lution to  the  milking  problem  is  sound  evidence 
of  unmistakable  superiority  in  every  way. 

The  De  Laval  Milker  does  a  better  job  of  milk- 
ing, is  better  for  the  cow,  makes  for  maximum 


production  as  witnessed  by  the  number  of  test 
cows  milked  with  De  Lavals,  and  enables  the 
production  of  a  cleaner  milk.  As  a  time  or  labor 
saver  alone,  it  is  a  sound  investment. 

No  farmer,  dairyman  or  breeder  can  afford  to 
be  without  complete  information  on  the  De 
Laval  Milker.  A  post  card  will  bring  the  near- 
est De  Laval  representative  or  place  De  Laval 
engineering  experience  at  your  disposal  without 
obligation. 


De  Laval  Milker 

The  De  Laval  Separator  Company 


New  "YorK 

165  Broad-way 


Chicago 
600  JacKaon  Blvd. 


San  Francisco 

C>1  Beale  St. 


Below:  The  splendid  purebred  Jersey  herd  owned  by  Mr.  F.  E. 
Duffy  of  West  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  kept  at  Meadowbrook  Farm. 
Mr.  Duffy  is  one  of  the  best  known  and  best  qualified  judges  of 
Jersey  cattle  in  the  East.  Mr.  Duffy  has  used  the  De  Laval  Milker 
for  more  than  ten  years  with  great  success  and  he  speaks  very  highly 
of  its  work. 


Below:  M any" of  these  fine  purebred  Ayrshires  have  made  ex- 
cellent records  and  the  herd  is  widely  known  for  the  general  high 
type  of  its  individuals,  ft  is  the  Locust  Farm  herd  owned  by  Mr. 
E.  H.  Parsons  at  Warwick,  R.  I.    These  cows  are  De  Laval  milked. 

Left:  These  high  producing  purebred  Guernseys  are  De  Laval 
milked  and  are  owned  by  Mr.  Edward  Haas,  well  known  breeder 
at  New  Holstein,  Wis. 


_ 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


olume  11.    Number  1$ 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  MAY,  1928 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


MAY  PRICE  8  CENTS 


)  Demand  for  Change  in  Class 
1  Price — Class  2  Price 
Considered 

rhe  May  milk  price  is  the  same  as  in 
iril,  8  cents  per  quart  for  3.7  per  cent. 
:k  delivered  in  Boston.  When  the  sales 
nmittee  of  the  association  decreased  the 
ce  one  cent  April  1,  in  recognition  of 

increasing  seasonal  supply  of  milk, 
•was  with  the  expectation  of  holding 
3  price  until  July  1,  and  then  advancing 
ull  cent.    This  program  can  be  carried 

if  no  unforeseen  conditions  appear 
,upset  the  market.  Tjjere  is  a  general 
ognition  among  the  dealers  that  with 

present  high  cost  of  grain  the  pro- 
:ers  should  have  all  that  is  possible  to 
e  them  without  disturbing  market  con- 
ons. 

Advance  July  1 

Jnder  the  present  spreads  between 
'MPA  price  to  dealers,  chain  store 
ces  and  home  delivered  prices,  it  is 
essary  to  make  changes  of  a  full  cent 
or  down.  Any  change  of  a  half  cent 
jld  disturb  the  present  status,  which 
ms  to  be  proving  quite  satisfactory, 
less  conditions  arise  which  we  cannot 
w  foresee  there  will  be  a  full  cent 
ance  July  1. 

'he  condition  as  regards  Class  2  price 
lot  so  certain.    We  have  been  getting 
ubstantial  premium  for  some  part  of 
Class  2  milk  through  the  cream  class 
:e.    Under  the  terms  of  our  sales  for 
past  four  months  a  portion  of  the 
1  ss  2  milk  is  to  be  paid  for  at  butter 
ie  plus  20  per  cent.,  instead  of  butter- 
value  as  figured  on  the  old  formula 
average  butter  quotation,  minus  five 
ts  (cost  of  manufacturing  butter)  plus 
!-3  per  cent,  (overrun).   This  increase 
)unts  to  about  28  cents  a  hundred  on 
milk  which  comes  into  the  cream 

Inder  the  terms  which  we  have  offered 
formula  for  fixing  this  cream  class 
e  has  remained  unchanged  but  the 
portion  of  the  Class  2  milk  which 
tes  under  it  has  been  a  matter  of 
otiation  from  month  to  month.  In 
uary  60  per  cent,  of  the  Class  2  milk 
paid  for  at  the  cream  price.  In 
ruary,  75  per  cent. ;  in  March,  60  per 
.,  and  in  April  the  trade  was  for  SO 
cent,  paid  for  at  the  cream  class 
e  and  50  per  cent,  to  be  paid  for  at 
butter  fat  value. 

Ask  for  Change 

ome  of  the  dealers  have  asked  for  a 
■ige  in  this  proportion  for  May  milk 
the  ground  that  butter  and  cream 
es  are  off  and  that  the  relatively  heavy 
■lus  is  making  them  shoulder  too  great 
•oportion  of  the  Class  2  milk  at  the 
m  class  price. 

he  low  butter  market  in  April  and 
increased  seasonal  surplus  will  bring 
April  net  price  below  the  price  of  a 
I  previous.  Any  reduction  in  the  pro- 
for  in  May  under  the  cream  class 
ion  of  Class  2  milk  which  is  to  be 
Id  still  further  reduce  the  net  price 
impared  to  last  year.  The  sales  com- 
_'e  will  at  all  times  make  every  rea- 
ble  effort  to  get  the  cream  class  price 
the  largest  possible  percentage  of  the 
is  2  milk 


Known  Price  Is  Upheld 

Controversy  with  New  England  Creamery  Products  Is 
Ended  by  Purchase  of  All  Their  Country  Plants — 
Decisive  Victory  for  the  Association 


DISASTER  IS  AVERTED 


The  controversy  between  the  NEMPA 
and  the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Co.  was  settled  April  14,  by  the  purchase 
of  the  plants  owned  by  the  company  at 
Sheldon  and  East  Fairfield,  Vt.,  by  the 
H.  P.  Hood  Co.  The  Hood  company 
started  operating  the  plants  April  16. 
The  producers  shipping  to  those  plants 
are  now  back  on  the  NEMPA  basis  of 
payment. 

The  actual  transfer  of  the  properties  to 
the  Hood  company  was  made  through  the 
trustees  of  the  Dairymen's  benefit  fund. 
The  trustees,  acting  on  behalf  of  the 
association  members  who  had  contributed 
to  the  fund,  bought  the  two  plants  from 
the  New  England  Creamery  Products  Co. 
and  immediately  resold  them  to  the  Hood 
company  in  accordance  with  an  agree- 
ment previously  reached. 

This  highly  satisfactory  outcome  of  the 
controversy  which  had  been  in  progress 
since  February  1,  is  a  complete  victory 
for  the  association.  We  went  into  this 
trial  of  strength  with  the  company  to 
maintain  the  principal  of  the  "known 
price."  In  so  far  as  the  patrons  of  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Co. 
are  concerned,  our  contention  has  been 
completely  maintained.  They  are  all  on 
the  "known  price"  basis. 

The  purchase  of  these  plants  by  the 
Hood  company  came  about  through  the 
efforts  of  the  association  to  bring  the  con- 
troversy to  a  close.  It  had  dragged  along 
for  two  and  one-half  months  and  was  in 
practically  a  deadlock  stage.  Their  pat- 
rons at  Sheldon  and  East  Fairfield  were 
very  largely  selling  their  milk  elsewhere. 
They  refused  to  sell  to  the  company  at 
less  than  the  NEMPA  price  or  on  any 
terms  other  than  those  offered  by  the 
sales  committee  of  the  association. 

The  company,  however,  was  still  able 
to  get  an  abundant  supply  of  milk  from 
proprietory  and  co-operative  creameries 
and  from  other  dealers.  They  could  have 
prolonged  the  controversy  indefinitely, 
meanwhile  keeping  these  two  plants  open 
for  a  relatively  small  amount  of  milk 
and  operating  them  at  an  unduly  heavy 
expense.  On  the  other  hand,  we  were 
holding  the  fort  at  a  considerable  expense, 
not  only  in  money  but  in  terms  of  in- 
ability to  do  our  other  work  so  well  while 
waging  this  fight. 

During  the  first  two  weeks  of  April  it 
was  as  nearly  a  deadlock  as  could  well 
be  imagined.  Then  we  made  the  definite 
movement  to  place  the  milk  of  these 
patrons  on  a  permanent  basis  with  other 
dealers.  This  was  part  of  the  program 
and  would  certainly  have  gone  through  if 
the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Co.  directors  had  not  voted  to  sell  these 
two  plants,  just  as  they  had  previously 
sold  the  Brandon  plant. 

At  various  times  during  the  controversy 
we  had  made  overtures  to  them  to  buy 
or  lease  the  plants  and  thus  remove  all 
cause  of  controversy.    They  had  steadily 


refused,  expressing  their  intention  of 
keeping  the  plants,  as  they  expected  to 
develop  a  larger  supply  there  in  time.  If 
the  75  per  cent,  of  the  producers  who 
had  refused  to  sell  to  them  at  these  two 
stations  had  gone  through  with  the  pro- 
gram of  selling  their  milk  on  a  perma- 
nent basis  to  some  other  dealers,  the  pros- 
pects of  developing  an  increased  supply 
there  would  have  been  very  dubious. 
This  aspect  of  the  case  in  all  probability 
was  the  determining  factor  in  the  decision 
of  the  company  to  sell  the  plants. 

The  next  question  was  one  of  price. 
The  trustees  of  the  Dairymen's  benefit 
fund,  acting  for  the  members  of  the  asso- 
ciation who  had  contributed  to  the  fund, 
opened  negotiations  with  the  New  Eng- 
land Creamery  Products  Co.  for  the  pur- 
chase of  the  plants,  also  with  the  Hood 
company  for  the  sale  of  the  plants.  Both 
were  willing  but  they  were  a  long  way 
apart  on  price.  By  persistent  work  we 
induced  both  to  change  their  figures  until, 
on  April  14,  they  were  near  enough  to- 
gether to  make  the  sale  possible. 

The  actual  transfer  of  the  plants  took 
only  an  hour  or  two,  but  it  had  been  pre- 
ceded by  days  of  negotiations  and  weeks 
of  pressure.  While  we  look  upon  it  as 
a  complete  victory  for  the  association,  as 
our  stand  for  the  "known  price"  has  been 
upheld,  we  come  out  of  the  controversy 
on  a  basis  of  goodwill  and  fair  business 
relationship  with  the  company  whom  we 
opposed.  It  seems  to  us  as  a  much  better 
outcome  of  the  controversy  than  to  have 
placed  all  this  milk  elsewhere  on  a  perma- 
nent basis  or  encouraged  the  erection  of 
arival  plant  or  plants  in  that  territory. 
We  were  prepared  to  go  to  those  extreme 
measures  if  necessary,  but  the  transfer 
of  the  plants  to  the  Hood  company  seems 
much  the  better  way. 

The  sale  of  these  plants  by  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Co.  removes 
the  cause  of  the  controversy  and  thus  ends 
it.  The  company  refused  to  pay  to  the 
farmers  from  whom  it  was  buying  milk 
the  price  asked  by  the  NEMPA  sales 
committee,  the  duly  constituted  agent  of 
these  natrons  who  were  members  of  the 
association.  These  patrons  were  at  Bran- 
don, Sheldon  and  East  Fairfield.  The 
patrons  at  the  Brandon  plant  withdrew 
their  milk  100  per  cent,  right  at  the 
start.  The  company  sold  the  Brandon 
plant  to  the  Whiting  company  quickly. 
This  brought  these  producers  back  under 
the  NEMPA  price  plan  as  they  were 
taken  on  as  regular  Whiting  producers. 

The  purchase  of  the  Sheldon  and  the 
East  Fairfield  plants  by  the  Hood  com- 
pany accomplishes  the  same  results  in  that 
field  The  producers  who  normally  ship 
through  those  plants  are  now  selling  to 
the  Hood  company  as  regular,  permanent 
patrons  and  are  thus  under  the  NEMPA 
selling  plan. 

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in 


Association    Aids  Producers 
Central  Massachusetts  to 
Retain  Train  Service 

The  NEMPA  was  able  to  give  special 
service  and  prompt  assistance  to  its 
members  and  other  dairymen  living  in 
towns  along  the  Massachusetts  Central 
Railroad  recently.  Through  the  leader- 
ship of  our  staunch  supporter  Cliff  Wol- 
cott  of  Barre,  backed  up  ably  by  W.  H. 
Bronson  of  our  research  department,  we 
were  able  to  retain  for  these  dairymen 
adequate  railroad  service  for  their  Grade 
A  milk  coming  into  Boston.  Dr.  A.  W. 
Gilbert,  commissioner  of  agriculture,  was 
also  a  powerful  factor  in  bringing  about 
a  change  in  the  plans  of  the  Boston  & 
Maine  Railroad  which  controls  the 
Central  Massachusetts  line  from  North- 
ampton to  Boston. 

This  opportunity  to  be  of  special 
service  came  to  the  front  when  the 
Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  announced  its 
intention  of  discontinuing  the  morning 
train  into  Boston  over  this  railroad. 
For  many  years  the  Massachusetts  Cen- 
tral road  has  operated  two  trains  each 
day  in  each  direction.  A  train  went 
up  from  Boston  to  Northampton  in  the 
morning  and  back  again  in  the  afternoon 
and  one  came  down  from  Northampton 
to  Boston  in  the  morning  and  went  back 
in   the  afternoon. 

The  proposal  of  the  railroad  was  to 
discontinue  the  train  coming  into  Boston 
in  the  morning  and  get  along  with  the 
one  train  leaving  Boston  in  the  morn- 
ing and  coming  back  at  night.  The 
Grade  A  milk  coming  to  Boston  from 
towns  in  western  Worcester  county  is 
brought  in  by  the  morning  train.  The 
proposal  of  the  railroad  to  take  off  this 
morning  train  would  have  cut  them  off 
from  satisfactory  communication  with 
the  market.  If  they  loaded  their  milk 
on  to  the  westbound  train  in  mid  fore- 
noon it  would  stand  around  through  the 
day  in  Northampton  and  not  reach  Bos- 
ton until  late  in  the  afternoon.  If  they 
loaded  it  in  the  afternoon  they  would 
have  to  take  care  of  it  themselves 
through  most  of  the  day.  In  either  case 
it  would  not  get  to  the  dealer  until  it 
was  several  hours  older  than  it  is  at 
present. 

This  would  be  especially  bad  in  the 
case  of  Grade  A  milk  as  payment  is 
based,  in  part,  on  the  bacteria  count 
taken  when  the  milk  arrives  at  the 
dealer's  plant.  Not  only  would  the  milk 
be  in  less  satisfactory  condition  but  the 
producers  would  get  less  for  it  as  the 
bacteria  count  would  probably  be  higher. 
Moreover,  the  dairy  farmers  did  not 
want  to  be  bothered  with  bringing  their 
milk  to  the  station  in  late  forenoon  or 
late  afternoon.  They  wanted  to  deliver 
it  around  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning 
as  at  present  and  get  back  to  the  farm 
for  a  good  day's  work. 

Naturally  the  proposition  of  the  rail- 
road to  cut  off  this  morning  train  dis- 
mayed the  dairymen  in  the  towns  which 
ship  to  Boston.  The  stations  where  the 
bulk  of  this  milk  is  loaded  are  Cole- 
brook,  Barre,  Barre  Plains.  Gilbertville 
and  New  Braintree.  They  did  not  know 
what  to  do  about  it  and  were  greatly 
discouraged  until  Mr.  Wolcott,  one  of 

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N.  E.  M,  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1928 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
General  Manager,  W.  P.  Davis,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I.; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me. ;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H.;  F.  B.  Catlin, 
Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H.  Dunsmore, 
St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A.  Tuttle,  Hard- 
wick,  Mass.;  Elmer  M.  Poole,  North 
Dartmouth,  Mass.;  Frank  L.  Nichols, 
Narragansett,  R.  I. ;  Frank  T.  Peck- 
ham,  Newport,  R.  I.;  R.  Allen  Sikes, 
Ellington,  Conn. ;  C.  J.  Abell,  Lebanon, 
Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan,  N.  Y.; 
George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke,  N.  Y. 


SEASONED  TIMBER 

The  NEMPA  has  a  lot  of  seasoned 
human  timber  on  hand.  For  many  years 
past  it  has  been  seasoning  men  all  over 
New  England  so  that  they  will  be  ready 
when  needed.  It  is  a  source  of  great 
gratification  to  us  that  there  is  practi- 
cally no  area  within  our  territory  which 
lacks  its  leader,  seasoned  by  years  of 
service  in  all  weathers,  and  ready  to  give 
wisdom  and  strength,  born  of  experience, 
to  the  association. 

We  are  thinking  of  Cliff  Wolcott  of 
Barre.  He  sure  has  been  seasoned  if 
any  man  in  the  association  has.  In 
Volume  I,  Number  I  of  the  Dairyman, 
published  in  April  1917  the  name  of 
C  E.  Wolcott  of  Barre  appears  as  the 
Worcester  county  president.  How  much 
before  that  time  he  was  active  in  the 
association  we  do  not  know.  But  for 
11  years  certainly,  Cliff  Wolcott  has  been 
one  of  us,  much  of  the  time  as  an  officer ; 
all  the  time  as  a  staunch  supporter  of 
organized  marketing  through  the  asso- 
ciation. We  cannot  remember  an  annual 
meeting  when  he  was  not  present. 

Mr.  Wolcott  has  not  always  agreed 
with  what  others  in  the  association 
thought  was  for  the  best  interests  of  the 
dairy  industry.  He  has  at  times  been  a 
fearless  and  eloquent  opponent,  daring 
to  stand  alone  when  he  believed  he  was 
right.  Everybody  has  respected  him  as 
a  fighter  and  valued  him  as  a  friend. 

Elsewhere  in  this  issue  you  will  find 
an  account  of  a  crisis  met  in  Central 
Massachusetts,  of  thousands  of  dollars 
saved  to  the  dairymen  of  that  section, 
of  a  new  and  brighter  outlook  for  all 
dairymen  in  that  region.  More  than  any 
other  man,  Mr.  Wolcott  brought  this  to 
pass.  The  power  of  his  personality  and 
leadership  made  it  possible  to  bring 
together  powerful  forces  and  to  pre- 
sent a  case  so  convincingly  that  the 


management  of  a  great  railroad  reversed 
its  announced  policy. 

There  are  many  others,  of  course,  who 
figured  in  the  successful  effort  to  hold 
fast  to  the  advantages  which  the  Grade 
A  producers  in  western  Worcester 
county  now  have.  But  without  Mr. 
Wolcott,  the  seasoned  timber  of  the  as- 
sociation, the  results  might  not  have 
been  so  certain  or  so  prompt.  Again  we 
say  it  is  a  source  of  great  satisfaction 
for  us  to  know  that  we  have  such  men 
in  nearly  every  section  of  New  England, 
ready  to  rise  to  any  occasion  when 
needed. 


AFTER  THE  CONTEST 

From  choice  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association  would  always  be 
on  friendly  terms  with  the  dealers,  just 
like  any  other  men  transacting  orderly 
and  legitimate  business  together.  From 
necessity  we  are,  now  and  then,  forced 
to  break  off  the  ordinary  business  rela- 
tionships with  some  dealers  and  put  all 
our  energy,  all  our  strength,  all  our  re- 
sources in  opposition  to  such  dealer.  We 
do  this  in  order  to  maintain  our  position 
in  the  market  and  to  strengthen  the  struc- 
ture whose  foundations  were  laid  by 
pioneers  in  the  association  years  ago. 

Such  clashes  of  will  between  the  asso- 
ciation and  any  dealer  bring  anxiety, 
hardship  and  losses  to  all  concerned.  The 
one  through  which  we  have  just  passed 
was  no  exception.  They  are  things  which 
should  be  gone  into  only  after  long  con- 
sideration and  after  all  possibilities  of  a 
friendly  settlement  have  been  exhausted- 
But  when  once  entered  into  they  should 
be  pushed  through  to  a  successful  finish. 

In  the  controversy  just  ended  there 
were  substantial  gains  to  us,  far  offset- 
ting all  the  energy,  the  time,  the  money 
we  spent  on  it.  The  tangible  and  out- 
standing achievement  was  the  maintenance 
of  the  known  price.  It  was  in  defence 
of  the  principle  of  the  known  price  that 
we  went  into  it.  We  have  been  com- 
pletely vindicated.  It  is  a  substantial  and 
complete  victory  for  the  organized  mar- 
keting of  milk.  No  concessions  or  special 
considerations  were  given. 

The  principle  of  the  known  price  was 
maintained  by  transferring  those  pro- 
ducers whose  dealer  refused  to  pay  a 
known  price,  to  a  dealer  who  is  paying 
the  known  price.  The  transfer  by  the 
sale  of  the  plants  serving  these  producers 
assures  the  permanency  of  the  settlement. 
In  the  eyes  of  the  world  this  was  the 
victory  we  gained.  Wholly  aside  from 
this  tangible  victory  there  were  other 
results  of  the  controversy,  less  prominent 
but  perhaps  equally  important.  We  wish 
to  call  the  attention  of  our  members  to 
some  of  these  results  and  ask  them  to 
give  careful  consideration  as  they  will  be 
matters  to  be  taken  up  as  part  of  our 
future  policies- 

The  most  important  of  these  results  is 
the  impetus  which  was  given  to  the  idea 
of  a  permanent  emergency  fund.  Three 
years  ago  this  was  taken  up  at  our  an- 
nual meeting  and  the  directors  were  given 
authority  to  develop  a  plan  for  raising 
such  a  fund  and  to  put  the  plan  in  opera- 
tion. No  emergency  calling  for  such  a 
fund  arising,  the  idea  remained  in  the 
background  until  this  recent  controversy 
started.  Then  it  came  to  the  front  im- 
mediately. 

Through  the  generous  contributions 
made  by  part  of  our  members  a  special 
benefit  fund  was  raised  sufficient  to 
recompense  the  producers  involved  in  the 
recent  controversy  for  all  their  losses. 
One  of  the  big  factors  in  the  100  per 


cent,  withdrawal  of  milk  at  Brandon  and 
the  75  per  cent,  withdrawal  of  milk  at 
Sheldon  and  East  Fairfield  was  the  fact 
that  we  were  able  to  assure  these  pro- 
ducers at  the  start  that  their  losses  would 
be  made  good.  Equally  important  was 
the  ability  to  pay  these  losses  promptly 
and  fully.  However  loyal  these  producers 
may  be,  there  are  a  considerable  number 
of  them  who  would  not  be  able  financially 
to  stand  the  burden  of  a  lower  payment 
for  milk  month  after  month,  even  with 
a  prospect  of  an  ultimate  settlement  of 
their  claims.  Through  the  Dairymen's 
Benefit  Fund  we  were  able  to  reimburse 
them  each  month.  Our  being  able  to  do 
so  enabled  them  to  stand  firm  and  carry 
the  controversy  through  to  a  successful 
finish. 

By  so  doing  they  saved  the  dairy 
farmers  all  over  New  England  from  the 
loss  of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars 
through  the  lower  prices  which  would 
have  come  if  our  association  had  lost. 
It  was  good  business  to  spend  this  rela- 
tively small  amount  of  money  to  avert 
the  loss  of  many  times  that  amount;  just 
as  it  is  good  business  to  pay  an  insurance 
premium  to  protect  yourself  from  a 
ruinous  loss.  But  the  fact  remains  that 
the  benefit  fund  came  from  part  of  our 
members,  not  from  all  of  them.  The 
benefit  of  the  stabilized  price  came  to  all 
but  the  cost  was  borne  by  only  a  part  of 
the  members. 

Ever  since  the  need  for  the  fund  came 
to  the  front  three  months  ago,  the  wisdom 
of  some  more  permanent  basis  for  the 
fund  has  been  more  and  more  apparent. 
From  all  sides  the  call  has  come  in  to 
take  the  necessary  steps  to  establish  the 
fund  on  a  permanent  basis  and  let  every 
member  share  alike  in  raising  it.  Of  all 
the  gains  made  to  the  association  through 
the  recent  controversy  the  attention  which 
has  been  drawn  to  the  wisdom  of  sound 
and  permanent  finance  for  the  emer- 
gencies which  may  arise  in  the  future 
takes  first  place. 

Closely  allied  to  this  result  is  the  satis- 
faction in  being  soundly  financed  for  cur- 
rent expenses.  The  second  most  import- 
ant factor  in  winning  out  was  that  we  had 
a  staff  of  field  men  who  could  be  trans- 
ferred to  the  seat  of  the  controversy  and 
give  their  undivided  time  and  strength 
to  it.  In  similar  situations  in  the  past 
we  have  had  to  rely,  more  or  less,  on  the 
volunteer  help  of  our  officers  and  local 
leaders.  They  gave  great  service,  but  not 
just  the  kind  which  was  given  by  our 
field  men,  seven  days  in  the  week  for  two 
and  one-half  months.  We  would  not  have 
these  field  men  if  we  had  not,  a  few  years 
ago  made  the  small  advance  in  member- 
ship dues  which  would  make  it  possible  to 
develop  such  a  staff- 

Another  of  the  outstanding  results  of 
the  controversy  is  the  demonstration  that 
a  "milk  strike"  can  be  orderly  and  busi- 
nesslike. We  dislike  to  use  that  term 
"strike,"  for  it  does  not  fairly  represent 
what  we  do  nowadays  when  a  dealer  re- 
fuses to  pay  our  price.  But  merely  as  a 
means  of  comparison  with  the  old  days 
in  the  beginning  of  organized  dairy  mar- 
keting we  will  let  it  stand.  There  was 
none  of  the  old  time  waste  of  product, 
the  forced  dumping  of  the  milk.  There 
was  none  of  the  keeping  milk  at  home 
and  losing  much  of  its  value.  The  milk  of 
all  the  men  involved  was  handled  all  the 
time.  Every  pound  of  it  was  turned  to 
good  use.  If  one  dealer  would  not  buy  it 
another  buyer  was  found.  The  best  prices 
possible,  under  the  circumstances,  were 
secured.  The  difference  between  thai- 
price  and  the  weighted  average  price  in 


New  England  was  made  up  to  these  pr 
ducers.  Farm  practices  were  not  d 
turbed.  No  one  is  much  shorter  of  mon 
than  he  would  have  been  anyway.  V 
have  carried  this  thing  through  to  a  sti 
cessful  outcome  with  the  least  distui 
ance  of  conditions  or  least  loss  to  anyo 
of  any  similar  effort  in  the  history 
milk  marketing;  This  was  a  substant 
achievement,  wholly  apart  from  the  dirt 
effects  of  the  victory. 

Looking  back  over  the  controversy  a 
the  results,  we  think  that  the  quality 
these  field  men,  the  service  they  render 
and  the  impression  they  made  is  son 
thing  past  all  estimation,  measured 
terms  of  future  strength  for  the  as; 
ciation.  Our  hats  are  off  to  Warn 
Foley,  Stearns  and  Parmalee  for  the  w 
they  conducted  themselves  and  the  co 
fidence  they  won.  We  feel  sure  that  frc 
now  on  the  producers  in  the  area  whe 
the  controversy  was  fought  through  v\ 
have  an  entirely  different  idea  of  wl 
the  NEMPA  is.  It  will  still  be  the  b 
wide  spreading  machine  with  a  migl 
bargaining  power  but  more  than  that 
will  be,  to  the  men  in  the  battle  area, 
organization  with  almost  a  human  p< 
sonality. 

Ten  weeks  of  daily  contact  with 
group  of  men  who  can  work  long  hoi 
and  come  up  smiling  at  the  end,  who  c 
juggle  milk  cans  or  lead  a  meeting  w 
equal  facility,  who  can  laugh  and  t 
stories  and  give  encouragement,  men  w 
can  render  innumerable  little  services  o\ 
and  above  what  their  jobs  call  for 
what  they  get  paid  for,  cannot  h 
having  an  effect  on  a  community.  0 
men  went  into  these  communities 
strangers  and  made  themselves  part 
these  communities  in  a  way  that  will  g 
the  home  people  a  new  idea  of  what  1 
NEMPA  is;  something  bigger  and  bet 
than  merely  an  organization  to  get  a  pr 
for  milk;  something  quite  human  a 
personal  and  ready  to  help  them  in  ma 
ways. 

It  is  with  great  satisfaction  that 
think  of  the  kind  of  men  we  have  and 
the  new  era  of  individual  service  wh 
they  are  building  up  throughout  our  t 
ritory.  What  Brown,  Fienemann  a 
Adams  are  doing  in  the  market  distrk 
these  field  men  are  going  to  duplicate 
wider  fields.    Of  this  we  are  quite  si; 


THE  CLEARING  HOUSE 

In  this  issue  of  the  Dairyman  we  g 
considerable  space  to  the  plans  for  1 
American  Institute  of  Co-operation  wh 
will  be  held  in  California  in  July, 
would  be  a  fine  thing  if  a  considera 
number  of  our  officers  and  leaders  co: 
attend  some  or  all  of  these  sessions,  1 
it  is  improbable  that  more  than  four 
five  men  from  New  England  will  arte 
It  will  be  a  good  thing  for  us  to  c< 
sider  what  this  institute  means  to  us 
directly,  whether  we  attend  or  not. 
has  been  for  several  years  past  a  clear 
house  for  ideas,  a  school  in  which  n 
and    progressive    co-operative  thou 
could  find  expression.    Out  of  the 
change  of  ideas  and  the  study  which 
given   co-operative   problems  comes 
added  impetus  toward  continued  progr 
in  the  co-operative  field.  Through 
National   Co-operative  Milk  Produc 
Federation,  of  which  our  association 
a  member,  the  institute  reaches  us 
a  much  more  definite  way  than  we  r« 
ize.     Co-operation  must  continually 
forward  and  progress.    The  institute 
one  of  its  roads  toward  increased  « 
ciency   and  strength. 


M  ay,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


Changes  in  Sources  of  Boston's  Supply 


Interesting  figures  as  to  the  changes 
in  hte  sources  of  milk  supply  for  Boston 
have  been  assembled  by  W.  H.  Bronson, 
head  of  our  research  department.  In 
his  monthly  review  of  conditions  he  notes 
that  there  was  an  increase  in  the  ship- 
ments to  Boston  in  1927  amounting  to 
4,000,000  quarts,  as  compared  with  1926 
shipments.  This  increase,  however,  is 
considerably  less  than  the  normal  increase 
which  goes  on  from  year  to  year,  due  to 
increased  population,  increased  consump- 
tion of  milk  and  the  gradual  spreading 
out  of  the  area  served  by  the  Boston 
dealers.  The  normal  increase  is  about 
6,500,000  quarts  a  year. 

It  is  hard  to  get  comparative  figures 
which  can  be  taken  as  conclusive  proof 
of  the  increase  in  the  demand  for  milk  in 
Boston.  The  reports  of  the  sales  of  the 
larger  dealers  in  Boston  would  indicate  a 
considerable  increase  in  the  demand,  as 
the  sales  are  going  up  steadily.  But  these 
reports  do  not  give  a  true  picture  of  the 
situation  as  there  has  been  a  gradual,  but 
material  consolidation  process  going  on, 
the  larger  dealers  buying  out  the  smaller 
ones  and  thus  bringing  into  the  report 
quantities  of  milk  which  were  not  form- 
erly included  in  the  statistics. 

With  this  consolidation  there  has  been 
a  material  increase  in  the  territory  which 
is  being  served  by  the  Boston  dealers. 
As  the  cities  and  towns  within  20  miles 
of  Boston  have  increased  in  population 
their  supply  of  nearby  milk  has  fallen  off, 
naturally.  This  has  led  the  larger  dealers 
to  materially  expand  their  deliveries  in 
the  region  around  Boston.  It  is  impos- 
sible to  get  any  dependable  figures  as  to 
how  much  of  a  factor  this  has  been  in 
the  apparent  increase  in  the  demand. 
Under  the  old  order  of  things,  the  milk 

>  for  these  suburban  towns  and  cities  came 
largely  from  nearby  sources  and  was 
brought  in  by  team  or  truck.  It  did  not 
show  in  the  record  of  milk  receipts  at 
Boston  as  it  did  not  come  in  by  train. 
Under  the  present  situation  a  considerable 

r  .portion  of  the  milk  used  by  these  same 
people  is  furnished  by  the  large  Boston 

:  dealers  and  thus  comes  into  the  record  of 
receipts  of  milk  in  Boston. 

,  The  thirl  clement  which  must  be  taken 
into  consideration  in  making  comparisons 
is  the  steady  increase  in  population  in 
Metropolitan  Boston.  This  in  itself  would 

:   increase  the  demand  for  milk  in  the  city. 

I  Irf  spite  of  this  uncertainty  as  to  the 
fair  comparisons  between  the  present  and 
the  past,  as  indicative  of  an  increased  use 
of  milk,  we  are  of  the  belief  that  there 

'   has  been  a  considerable  increase  during 

t   the  past  years,  especially  since  the  New 

<  England  Dairy  and  Food  Council  has 
been  carrying  on  a  carefully  worked  out 
program  of  education  intended  to  stimu- 

,  late  the  use  of  milk.  From  observation 
we  feel  sure  that  there  has  been  a  very 

j  great  increase  in  the  amount  of  milk  sold 
at  restaurants,  especially  in  ho:  weather. 

,  As  to  the  home  consumption  we  cannot 

.  have  so  clear  an  opinion  but  the  fine  work 
the  Council,  and  other  public  and  semi- 

;  public  health  agencies,  must,  we  believe, 

'  be  having  some  effect  in  the  homes. 

Mr.  Bronson  explains  the  smaller  in- 
crease in  shipments  of  milk  to  Boston  as 

•  the  natural  result  of  the  flood  conditions 
j  last  fall.  For  a  short  time  dealers  were 
i  somewhat  short  of  milk  from  their  regu- 
l  lar  sources.  They  brought  in  quite  a  lot 
.  from  the  West,  as  shown  in  the  accom- 
panying table.    They  brought  in  some  by 

f  truck  also  which  did  not  show  in  the 
r  totals  of  receipts  in  Boston.  There  was, 
i  for  a  few  days,  a  decided  decrease  in  the 
consumption  of  milk  due  to  a  proclama- 
tion of  the  Governor  and  the  special 
emergency  milk  commission  calling  on  the 
public  to  conserve  the  milk  supply  during 

•  the  time  of  shortage. 

The  total  increase  in  shipments  of  milk 
. .  and  cream,  expressing  the  cream  in  terms 

of  the  quantities  of  milk  which  it  repre- 
' 1  sentcd  was  7,000,000  quarts.  While  not 
■  -  up  to  the  increase  in  previous  years  it 
if  was  a  quite  satisfactory  gain  and  must 
|li  be  taken  as  an  added  indication  of  the 
J,  wholesome  condition  in  the  Boston  mar- 
Vermont  made  the  largest  gain  in  milk 

shipments  but  reduced  her  cream  ship- 
s' ments.  This  was  in  line  with  the  general 
V  trend  in  Vermont  to  get  all  reasonably 


accessible  territory  on  to  the  whole  milk 
basis  as  paying  better  than  the  cream 
basis.  The  shipments  of  milk  to  Boston 
from  Vermont  in  1927  were  8,000,000 
more  than  in  1926.  At  the  same  time 
the  shipments  of  cream  dropped  off.  The 
net  gain  for  the  state,  expressed  in  terms 
of  milk,  was  about  4,000,000  quarts. 

The  decrease  in  shipments  of  cream 
from  Vermont  were  more  than  offset  by 
increased  shipments  of  cream  from  Can- 
ada. The  records  show  an  increase  of 
cream  shipments  from  Canada  to  Boston 
to  the  equivalent  of  8,000,000  quarts  of 
milk.  That  is,  the  increased  milk  ship- 
ments from  Canada  represented  as  much 
milk  as  the  increased  milk  shipments  from 
Vermont.  Canadian  shipments  of  cream 
in  1927  were  just  double  what  they  were 
in  1921. 

In  Maine  there  was  a  slight  decrease  in 
the  amount  of  milk  shipped  to  Boston, 
but  there  was  a  corresponding  increase  in 
the  amount  of  cream,  leaving  the  total 
shipments  practically  the  same  as  the 
previous  year. 

The  New  Hampshire  records  show  a 
decrease  in  both  milk  and  cream,  the 
combined  decrease,  expressed  in  terms  of 
milk  being  3,000,000  quarts. 


Year  Me.  N.  H.  Vt. 

1921    41  14  88 

1922    36  12  102 

1923    37  11  104 

1924    35  14  96 

1925    38           9  104 

1926    41  16  120 

1927    40  14  116 


KNOWN  PRICE  UPHELD 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

The  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Co.  no  longer  owns  any  country  plants. 
It  buys  no  milk  directly  from  producers. 
Its  entire  supply  is  being  bought  from 
co-operative  or  proprietary  creameries. 
Our  job  as  an  association  is  to  negotiate 
a  price  as  the  sales  agency  of  producers. 
Thus  we  have  nothing  further  to  do  with 
the  New  England  Creamery  Products 
Co.,  as  they  buy  no  milk  directly  from 
producers. 

Any  further  interest  which  we  may 
have  in  their  milk  supply  will  be  as  to 
the  price  paid  to  the  producers  who  make 
the  milk,  whether  they  sell  it  to  a  co- 
operative or  to  a  proprietary  concern 
who  resell  it  to  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Co.  The  Granite 
City  co-operative  at  Barre  may  be 
cited  as  an  example.  This  co-operative 
has  been  selling  milk  to  the  New 
England  Creamery  Products  Co.  for 
some  time  and  will  continue  to  do  so, 
so  far  as  we  know.  Our  future  relation- 
ship, as  far  as  this  milk  is  concerned,  is 
with  the  management  of  the  Barre  co- 
operative, not  with  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Co.,  or  any  other 
company,  to  which  it  resells  its  milk. 

It  is  our  understanding  that  the  prices 
charged  by  the  Barre  Co-operative  are 
based  on  the  NEMPA  price.  In  effect 
this  places  the  milk  in  the  "known  price" 
class.  Further  confidence  in  this  view  of 
the  situation  comes  from  the  fact  that 
Manager  Bancroft  of  the  Barre  co-opera- 
tive has  expressed  his  willingness  to  file 
his  prices  with  Commissioner  Jones  of 
Vermont,  who  in  turn  can  assure  Dr.  A. 
W.  Gilbert,  the  milk  administrator  for  the 
NEMPA,  that  there  is  no  wide  dispartiy 
in  the  prices  which  might  be  made  the 


The  largest  decrease  was  in  New  York, 
4,000,000  quarts  of  milk  and  cream,  equiv- 
alent to  7,000,000  quarts  more  milk.  This 
figures  out  as  a  decrease  of  15  per  cent, 
in  the  shipments  to  Boston.  This  de- 
crease results  from  a  transfer  of  a  con- 
siderable portion  of  the  Boston  supply 
arising  in  eastern  New  York  to  nearer 
markets  in  New  York  State. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  figures  is 
that  of  cream  shipments  from  west  of 
Buffalo.  The  first  record  of  cream  ship- 
ments from  the  West  came  in  1925,  an 
amount  sufficient  to  equal  2,000,000  quarts 
of  milk.  In  1926  these  shipments  in- 
creased to  5,000,000  quarts  and  last  year's 
record  shows  shipments  or  cream  equiva- 
lent to  13,000,000  quarts  of  milk.  Cream 
shipments  from  the  West  increased  six  and 
one-half  times  in  volume  in  two  years. 
They  are  now  greater  than  shipments  of 
cream  from  New  York  and  nearly  equal 
to  the  shipments  of  cream  from  New 
Hampshire.  The  volume  and  origin  of 
shipments  of  milk  and  cream  since  1921 
are  given  in  the  accompaning  table,  the 
figures  being  given  in  millions  of  quarts 
of  milk  and  in  the  millions  of  quarts  of 
milk  which  were  required  to  produce  the 
cream  receipts. 


151 

159 
165 
172 
178 
185 
189 


West  of 


N.  Y. 

Mass- 

Canada 

Buffalo 

Total 

16 

3 

21 

182 

18 

3 

18 

190 

19 

4 

18 

194 

15 

5 

25 

191 

20 

4 

25 

2 

201 

17 

4 

34 

5 

237 

10 

•5  ' 

42 

13 

240 

cause  of  uneasiness  in  the  market.  It 
would  be  equally  satisfactory  if  Dr.  Ban- 
croft should  file  the  prices  his  co-opera- 
tive paid  its  farmers.  So  long  as  there 
is  some  basis  of  comparison  which  can 
be  made  the  principle  of  the  "known 
price"  is  maintained. 

The  same  willingness  to  report  prices 
has,  we  understand,  been  expressed  by 
Manager  John  McGrath,  of  the  Federa- 
tion of  Creameries.  It  will  be  equally 
satisfactory  to  us  if  he  reports  to  Com- 
missioner Jones  or  to  Dr.  Gilbert,  or 
whether  he  reports  sales  prices  or  prices 
paid  to  the  patrons  of  the  creamery.  So 
long  as  some  basis  of  comparison  can  be 
established  by  filing  reports  with  some 
responsible  official,  like  Mr.  Jones  or  Dr. 
Gilbert,  the  principle  of  the  "known  price" 
can  be  maintained. 

It  is  our  earnest  hope  that  this  willing- 
ness to  report  will  be  followed  by  other 
co-operatives.  In  the  past  there  have 
been  frequent  differences  of  opinion  and 
some  clashes  in  the  market,  due  to  the 
fact  that  no  such  reports  had  been  filed 
anywhere.  This  left  the  question  of  prices 
open  to  false  rumors  and  guesses.  When 
all  factors  in  the  milk  market  get  around 
to  the  place  where  they  will  file  reports 
with  someone,  no  dealer  can  disrupt  the 
market  or  lower  prices  on  the  strength 
of  false  reports  of  cut  prices. 

The  NEMPA  had  done  a  good  work  in 
the  past  in  maintaining  fair  prices  in  the 
face  of  such  false  rumors.  It  can  do  a 
much  better  job  if  there  is  a  possibility 
of  spiking  these  false  rumors  at  the  start. 
We  believe  that  much  ground  has  been 
gained  in  the  past  few  months  through 
the  building  up  of  a  confidence  which 
makes  all  hands  more  willing  to  submit 
their  reports  to  someone  in  authority. 
We  pledge  our  wholehearted  effort  to  build 
up  and  strengthen  this  mutual  confidence. 


CO-OPERATIVE  INSTITUTE 


Sessions  to  Be  Held  at  University 
of  California  in  July 

The  American  Institute  of  Co-opera- 
tion will  hold  its  fourth  summer  session 
on  the  campus  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia at  Berkeley  in  July  of  1928.  The 
program  involves  three  distinct  phases : 

(1)  a  field  trip  occupying  one  week  be- 
ginning July  9,  during  which  various  co- 
operative organizations  will  be  visited ; 

(2)  a  two  week's  co-operative  trade  con- 
ference at  the  University  of  California 
at  Berkeley  beginning  July  16  and  end- 
ing July  28;  and  (3)  a  number  of  courses 
dealing  with  the  principles  of  co-operation 
and  co-operative  business  practices,  which 
will  be  offered  at  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia for  a  period  of  four  weeks,  be- 
ginning July  9  and  ending  August  4- 

Among  the  distinguished  speakers  who 
will  address  the  institute  are  Honorable 
J.  E.  Brownlee,  Premier  of  the  Province 
of  Alberta,  Canada,  Edmonton,  Canada, 
and  Charles  R.  Fay,  professor  of  eco- 
nomic history,  Toronto  University,  To- 
ronto, Canada. 

Premier  Brownlee  for  years  has  been 
associated  with  the  developing  of  the 
grain  marketing  associations  in  Western 
Canada,  and  is  thoroughly  versed  with 
the  principles  in  co-operation  and  their 
practices.  He  is  a  speaker  of  great  mag- 
netism and  force. 

Professor  Fay  was  formerly  a  member 
of  the  faculty  of  Cambridge  University 
in  England.  Has  studied  the  co-operative 
movement  in  various  parts  of  Europe  and 
is  the  author  of  "Co-operation  at  Home 
and  Abroad,"  one  of  the  most  authorita- 
tive contributions  to  the  literature  of 
European  co-operation. 

About  60  per  cent,  of  the  1928  pro- 
gram will  be  devoted  to  problems  of 
Pacific  Coast  co-operatives  and  40  per 
cent,  to  problems  of  co-operatives  in 
other  parts  of  the  United  States.  But 
in  organizing  the  program,  the  program 
committee  has  arranged  for  all  of  the 
morning  sessions  of  the  institute  to  be 
devoted  to  the  larger  questions  and  is- 
sues in  which  the  co-operatives  of  the 
United  States  have  a  common  interest. 
For  example,  the  morning  sessions  will 
feature  discussions  of  topics  such  as  ad- 
vertising, membership  control,  studies  of 
consumer  demand,  aims  and  methods  of 
collective  bargaining,  the  place  of  pooling 
in  co-operative  marketing,  the  clearing 
house  in  action,  competitive  versus  mon- 
opolistic co-operation,  market  control 
versus  sound  business  management,  ex- 
perience with  surplus  disposal  and  con- 
trol, and  national  problems  in  co-opera- 
tion. 

Afternoon  programs  will  continue  the 
discussions  of  some  of  these  larger  ques- 
tions in  group  conferences  and  the  groups 
will  also  take  up  specific  problems  affect- 
ing particular  commodities.  Distinguished 
authorities  will  present  their  views  on 
these  and  other  important  questions. 

Co-operative  Pilgrimage 

One  of  the  features  of  the  1928  session 
of  the  institute  will  be  a  pilgrimage  to 
the  birthplace  of  modern  co-operation. 
It  was  in  Southern  California  among  the 
citrus  groves  that  this  modern  idea  of 
co-operative  marketing  was  born  in  1889 
and  later  developed  and  perfected ;  and 
most  of  the  producers  who  owned  these 
citrus  groves  today  belong  to  the  Cali- 
fornia Fruit  Growers'  Exchange,  a  co- 
operative organization  whose  annual  turn- 
over is  more  than  85  million  dollars,  the 
largest  volume  of  business  done  by  any 
single  co-operative  organization  in  the 
United  States.  Moreover,  the  California 
Fruit  Growers'  Exchange  represents  71.5 
per  cent,  of  a  crop  which  has  been 
steadily  increasing  for  many  years.  Last 
year  more  than  50.468  carloads  of  fruit 
were  handled  by  this  pioneer  organiza- 
tion. 

From  grove  and  orchard  through  as- 
sembling plants  and  into  general  head- 
quarters the  eastern  pilgrims  will  be  con- 
ducted, and  every  detail  of  the  handling 
of  the  principal  California  products  of 
orchard  and  field  will  be  explained  by 
experts. 

The  "pilgrims"  will  assemble  in  Los 
Angeles  at  the  Hotel  Alexandria  bn 
Sunday  morning,  July  8,  for  registra- 
tion. 

On  Monday  morning,  July  9.  registra- 
tion will  be  completed  by  9.30.  Mem- 

( Continued  on  page  eleven) 


VOLUME  AND  ORIGIN  OF  MILK  SHIPMENTS  TO  BOSTON 


South 

Year  Me.  N.  H.  Vt.  N.  Y-  Massi.  Conn,  of  N.  Y. 

1921    22  18  64         28         13  5 

1922    18  19  73         29         15  5 

1923    16  17  80         33         14  4 

1924    16  14  93         34         12  3 

1925    15  13  101         37         10  3 

1926    14  12  115         30         11  3 

1927    13  11  123  26         12  3  1 


Below  are  given  the  cream  movements  to  Boston : 

VOLUME  AND  ORIGIN  OF  CREAM  SHIPMENTS  TO  BOSTON 


Page  Four 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  192  ft 


Conditions  in  the  Market 

Seasonal  Increase  in  Production  at  Hand — Sales  Increase 
Lees  Than  Normal — Surplus  Relatively  High — 
Butter  Price  Below  Last  Year 


Production  of  milk  in  March  showed 
more  than  the  normal  increase  from 
February,  judging  by  the  reports  of 
purchases  of  the  larger  dealers.  The 
increase  in  purchases  from  February  to 
March  was  12.3  per  cent,  as  compared 
with  8.6  per  cent,  in  1927  and  a  normal 
increase  of  10  per  cent. 

Sales  of  fluid  milk  increased  1.7  per 
cent,  in  March  as  compared  with 
February,  while  the  normal  increase  for 
the  month  is  2.6  per  cent.  The  less  than 
normal  increase  in  sales  and  the  more 
than  normal  increase  in  purchases  made 
a  considerable  increase  in  the  percentage 
of  surplus  over  what  was  to  have  been 
expected.  The  weighted  percentage  of 
surplus  was  48.3  per  cent,  in  March  as 
compared  with  38  per  cent,  in  the  milk 
territory  last  year  and  with  49.6  per  cent, 
including  the  cream  territory. 

The  net  price  in  March  continues  higher 
than  last  year,  the  10th  zone  net  price 
for  all  milk  being  17  cents  a  hundred 
higher  than  in  March  1927.    The  Class 

1  price  for  March  was  40  cents  a 
hundred  higher  than  in  March  1927  but 
the  class  2  price  was  one  cent  lower. 
Without  the  special  cream  price  on  75 
per  cent,  of  the  surplus  milk  the  Class 

2  price  would  have  been  considerably 
lower  as  the  butter  quotation  was  below 
last  year.    The  comparative  prices  were : 

1928  1928  1927 
Feb.    Mar.  Mar. 

Class   1   $3.36   $3.36  $2.96 

Class  2    1.98     2.05  2.06 

Net  price,  10th  zone  2.79     2.75  2.58 
Aver,  butter  per  lb  469     .496  .510 

Production  of  butter  is  running  ahead 
of  last  year  and  the  butter  quotations 
have  fallen  off.  The  last  quotation  for 
the  month  of  April  was  46  cents.  This 
is  six  cents  a  pound  less  than  a  year 
ago.  Even  with  50  per  cent,  of  the  Class 
2  milk  coming  under  the  cream  classifica- 
tion for  April  the  return  for  Class  2 
milk  will  be  less  than  a  year  ago,  due 
to  the  lower  butter  level. 

Grain  prices  jumped  $2  a  ton  from 
March  to  April  and  now  stands  $8.50  a 
ton  higher  than  last  year.  Grain  is  now 
the  highest  it  has  been  since  December, 
1920.  Hay  is  about  $2.50  a  ton  below 
last  year.    The  comparative  costs  are : 

1928  1928  1927 
Mar.    Apr.  Apr. 

Grain  per  ton   $53.02  $54.98  $46.36 

Hay,  per  ton    13.29    12.83"  15.12 

Labor  per  month 
with  board    48.70   48.70  48.70 

Retail  prices  of  feeds,  as  is  usually  the 
case  during  an  advance  in  the  market, 
showed  a  more  rapid  advance  than  did 


ready  mixed  rations.  As  compared  with 
a  year  ago  corn  meal  is  52  cents  a  cwt. 
higher,  cottonseed  meal  is  up  84  cents, 
gluten  feed  35  cents,  ground  oats  41 
cents,  linseed  oil  meal  34  cents  and  wheat 
bran  is  up  46  cents. 

The  prices  for  Class  1  milk  in  the 
lesser  markets  which  advanced  with 
Boston  at  the  time  of  the  flood  last  fall 
dropped  with  Boston  one  cent  April  1. 
In  other  markets  the  March  price  con- 
tinued. 

The  Boston  dealers  NEMPA  weighted 
average  price  for  3.7  per  cent,  milk  in 
the  181-200  mile  zone  for  March  was 
$275  per  hundred  as  compared  with  the 
New  York  League  price  of  $2.64  per 
hundred  for  the  same  test  and  the  same 
zone. 


A  SWELL  OF  CO-OPERATION 

Discussing  the  development  of  agri- 
cultural co-operation  in  the  United  States, 
R.  H.  Elsworth,  of  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agriculture,  compared  the 
movement  to  a  series  of  waves.  "These," 
he  said,  "have  not  been  of  equal  magni- 
tude, nor  have  they  been  evenly  spaced 
through  the  years.  As  each  wave  broke 
it  lost  its  momentum.  Furthermore,  the 
waves  did  not  reach  the  crest  in  all  parts 
of  the  country  at  the  same  time.  Be- 
sides the  big  waves,  there  were  minor 
local  waves  and  cross  waves  produced  by 
various  commodity-group  developments. 
Despite  the  backwash  from  the  waves, 
th^re  has  been  a  material  gain  through- 
out the  years  in  the  number  of  indi- 
viduals participating  in  co-operative  en- 
terprises, and  in  the  volume  of  sales  and 
purchases  made  on  a  co-operative  basis." 

In  analyzing  the  development  Mr.  Els- 
worth noted  that  of  10,803  co-operative 
associations  listed  by  the  Department  of 
Agriculture  in  1925  only  102  had  been 
organized  prior  to  1890.  Since  1905 
there  has  been  a  notable  increase  in  the 
number  of  associations  formed  each  year. 
The  years  1912  and  1919  recorded 
marked  increases,  and  1920  holds  the 
record  for  the  formation  of  co-operative 
organizations  with  nearly  1,400  associa- 
tions formed  that  year.  Two-thirds  of 
the  associations  active  in  1925  were 
formed  after  the  beginning  of  1915. 


HOLYOKE 

Some  field  work  has  been  done  in 
South  Hadley  resulting  in  several  new 
members  and  during  the  next  few  weeks 
it  is  planned  to  thoroughly  canvass  the 
other  locals  whose  member  ship  to  the 
Holyoke  market.  Plans  for  such  a  can- 
vass will  be  discussed  at  a  meeting  of 
the  Holyoke  sales  committee  to  be  held 
Friday  evening,  April  27th. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Effective  May  1,  1928,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


Cwt. in 

Cwt. in  Cwt. in 

8qt. 

8^qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21j4qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21J4qt. 

40qt. 

Zone  Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

i 
i 

1  -LA) 

.523 

.560 

.666 

1.356 

1.443 

2.732 

3.153 

3.157 

3.176 

2 

21-40 

.508 

.545 

.651 

1.326 

1.413 

2.692 

3.094 

3.092 

3.129 

3 

41-60 

.503 

.540 

.636 

1.301 

1.388 

2.652 

3.025 

3.037 

3.083 

4 

61-80 

.488 

.525 

.626 

1.291 

1.378 

2.617 

3.001 

3.015 

3.042 

5 

81-100 

,478 

.515 

.616 

1.271 

1.353 

2.587 

2.955 

2.960 

3.007 

6 

101-120 

.478 

.515 

.611 

1.266 

1.343 

2.572 

2.943 

2.939 

2.990 

7 

121-140 

.468 

.505 

.601 

1.251 

1.328 

2.547 

2.908 

2.917 

2.961 

8 

141-160 

.463 

.500 

.596 

1.241 

1.318 

2.527 

2.885 

2.884 

2.937 

9 

161-180 

.458 

.495 

.591 

1.231 

1.308 

2.512 

2.862 

2.862 

2.920 

10 

181-200 

.453 

.490 

.581 

1.221 

1.298 

2.492 

2.839 

2.840 

2.897 

11 

201-220 

.448 

.485 

.576 

1.206 

1.288 

2.472 

2.804 

2.818 

2.874 

12 

221-240 

.443 

.480 

.571 

1.201 

1.278 

2.462 

2.792 

2.796 

2.862 

13 

241-260 

.438 

.475 

.566 

1.191 

1.268 

2.442 

2.769 

2.774 

2.839 

14 

261-280 

.433 

.470 

.561 

1.186 

1.263 

2.432 

2.757 

2.764 

2.827 

15 

281-300 

.428 

.465 

.556 

1.176 

1.248 

2.412 

2.734 

2.731 

2.804 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del 

Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.861 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.548 

.585 

.776 

1.371 

1.453 

2.732 

3.188 

3.155 

3.177 

2 

21-40 

.528 

.565 

.761 

1.341 

1.423 

2.692 

3.118 

3.089 

3.129 

3 

41-60 

.523 

.560 

.756 

1.336 

1.408 

2.652 

3.107 

3.057 

3.084 

4 

61-80 

.518 

.555 

.746 

1.301 

1.388 

2.617 

3.026 

3.013 

3.043 

5 

81-100 

.513 

.550 

.731 

1.296 

1.378 

2.592 

3.014 

2.992 

3.014 

6 

101-120 

.513 

.550 

.731 

1.296 

1.368 

2.592 

3.014 

2.970 

3.014 

7 

121-140 

.513 

.550 

.731 

1.276 

1.358 

2.557 

2.967 

2.948 

2.973 

8 

141-160 

.498 

.535 

.726 

1.271 

1.353 

2.542 

2.9S6 

2.937 

2.956 

9 

161-180 

.493 

.530 

.721 

1.261 

1.338 

2.517 

2.933 

2.905 

2.927 

10 

181-200 

.493 

.530 

.716 

1.246 

1.328 

2.502 

2.898 

2.883 

2.909 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  stations, 
a  premium  of  .0075  cents  per  hundredweight  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
or  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices,  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  deduction  of  2  cents  per  hundredweight  has  been 
made  for  NEMPA  members'  dues  and  1  cent  per  hundredweight  for  advertising. 


Providence  Market 


Class  1     Class  2 
Dealers  (Mkt.  (Mfg. 

Milk)  Milk) 

W.  B.  Brown   100.0% 

H.  T.  Burton    89.7  10.3% 

G.  T.  Chambers    76.0  24.0 

E.  A.  Fiske   100.0 

L.  E.  Goff   100.0 

C.  W.  Grant    91.9  8.1 

A.  B.  Monroe   100.0 

Providence  Dairy    86.9  13.1 

Turner  Centre    95.6  4.4 

W.  C.  Viall    87.0  13.0 

C.  A.  Warnock   100.0 

E.  P.  Westcott   100.0 

G.  T.  Chambers'  prices  include  an 


Truck- 


Deliv- 
ered 

4.055 
3.845 
3.700 
4.058 
4.058 
3.873 
4.052 
3.800 
3.987 
3.794 
4.053 
4.048 

extra  payment  of  $0,138  per  cwt. 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  March,  1928 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  March  is  correct.    Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 
If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.050  for  each  .1  per  cent.    If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent,  sub- 
tract $.050  per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  March  by  your  dealers  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

CREAM  PRICES— MARCH  1928 

The  basis  of  payment  for  cream  is  the  zone  price  for  3.7  per  cent,  milk  built  up  to  the  test  delivered  by  adding  per  point  of  butterfat  1/10  the  price  for  butterfat 
in  Class  II  milk.    The  differential  above  3.7  per  cent,  this  month  is  $.0565  per  point  of  butterfat. 

Zone  1     Zone  2    Zone  3    Zone  4   Zone  5    Zone  6     Zone  7    Zone  8    Zone  9    Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 

Miles  from  Boston                                1-20     21-40     41-60     61-80    81-100  101-120    121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281-30O 

Class  1  Milk  Price   3.641      3.594      3.548      3.507      3.542      3.455       3.426      3.402      3.385      3.362      3.399      3.327      3.304  3.292  3.269- 

Class  2  Milk  Price   2.505      2.505      2.505      2.505      2.505       2.505      2.505      2.505      2.505      2.505      2.505      2.505      2.505  2.505  2.505 

Class  1         Class  2 
(Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 

Hood,    1-15   56.8%           43.2%        2,959      2.933      2.906      2.883      2.863      2.854      2.837      2.824      2.814      2.801      2.788      2.781      2.768  2.761  2.748 

Hood,   16-31   53.9             46.1           2.901      2.876      2.851      2.829      2.810      2.801      2.785      2.772      2.763      2.750      2.738      2.732      2.719  2.713  2.700- 

Whiting  44.8             55.2          2.756      2.735      2.714      2.696      2.680      2.673      2.660      2.649      2.641      2.631       2.621      2.615      2.605  2.600  2.589 

Turner  Centre  ....30.5             69.5          2.668      2.653      2.639      2.627      2.616      2.611      2.602      2.595      2.590      2.582      2.575      2.572      2.565  2.561  2.554- 

F.  S.  Cummings..53.7             46.3          2.905      2.880      2.855      2.833      2.815      2.806      2.790      2.777      2.768      2.756      2.743      2.736      2.724  2.718  2.706 

Weighted  Avg  51.7             48.3          2.894      2.870      2.846      2.825      2.807      2.798      2.783      2.771      2.762      2.750      2.738      2.732      2.720  2.714  2.702 

The  Turner  Centre  System  price  includes  an  extra  payment  of  $.104  per  cwt. 


Zone  1 

Zone  2 

Zone  3 

ing 

Willi- 

1-20 

21-40 

41-60 

net  at 

mantic 

Miles 

Miles 

Miles 

Farm 

Zone 

3.721 

3.673 

3.606 

3.545 

3.502 

3.442 

3.410 

3.359 

3.446 

3.239 

3.723 

3.675 

3.609 

3.723 

3.675 

3.609 

3.566 

3.522 

3.461 

3.718 

3.670 

3.604 

3.565 

3.534 

3.474 

3.363 

3.418 

3.696 

3.651 

3.587 

3.503 

3.462 

3.404 

3.767 

3.719 

3.652 

3.714 

3.666 

3.600 

May,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Five 


Permanent  Permits  Required 


On  and  after  June  1  Canadian  milk 
and  cream  which  are  shipped  into  the 
United  States  will  all  come  from  sources 
which  have  been  inspected  and  approved 
by  the  United  States  government.  The 
secretary  of  agriculture  on  April  20  gave 
formal  announcement  that  the  temporary 
permits  to  ship  milk  and  cream  into  the 
United  States  which  were  issued  previous 
to  January  1,  1928,  will  not  be  valid 
after  May  31.  No  milk  can  come  in 
after  that  except  on  a  permanent  permit. 
No  permanent  permit  will  be  issued  until 
the  plants  in  which  the  milk  is  handled 
and  the  farms  from  which  it  comes  have 
passed  the  federal  inspection. 

This  highly  desirable  result  comes 
from  the  passage  of  the  Lenroot-Tabor 
bill  for  which  our  association,  with  other 
groups  of  organized  dairymen,  worked 
so  hard  in  late   1926.     We,   with  the 


others,  asked  for  legislation  to  assure 
that  milk  and  cream  coming  in  from 
Canada  should  undergo  the  same  inspec- 
tion which  was  required  by  the  health 
departments  of  most  New  England  cities. 
In  brief,  we  were  asking  for  protection 
from  uninspected  milk,  produced  more 
cheaply  because  of  the  lack  of  inspection. 

In  order  to  give  the  producers  of  milk 
in  Canada  time  in  which  to  make  the 
proper  adjustments,  temporary  permits 
were  issued.  Under  these  permits  the 
milk  or  cream  could  continue  to  be 
shipped  pending  the  time  when  inspec- 
tions were  made  by  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agriculture  or  its  author- 
ized agents.  The  initiative  had  to  be 
taken  by  the  producer  of  milk  or  the 
plant,  on  the  Canadian  side,  which  was 
handling  the  milk.  No  inspections  were 
to  be  made  unless  applied  for  but  the 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  March,  1928 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out 
what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
for  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below 
3.7  per  cent,  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container: 
per  8yz  quart  can,  $0,009;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,011;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,022;  per 
21%  quart  can,  $0,023;  per  40  quart  can,  $0,041;  per  hundredweight,  $0,050. 


Boston  District 


Class  1  Class  2   

Dealers  (Mkt.  (Mfg. 

Elm  Spring  Farm  Milk)  Milk)  Quart 

7th  Zone  (121-140)   96.5%     3.5%  .643 

J.  B.  Prescott 

Delivered   85.7  14.3 


20 
Quart 
1.572 


Size  of  Can  

21  y4  40 
Quart  Quart 
1.669  3.183 


Cwt. 
3.700 

3.861 


Dealers 


Northern  Market  District 

Class  1    Class  2   


(Mkt. 
Milk) 

Robert  H.  Sawyer 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

Delivered   87.4% 

1st  zone  

2nd  zone  

Wason  MacDonald 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

Delivered   81.2 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Findeisen 
Zoned  from  Lawrence 

Delivered   62.8 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

9th  zone   

i  Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   79.7 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

|  3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

6th  zone   


(Mfg. 
Milk) 


12.6% 


Cwt. 
in 

8y2's 


—  Size  of  Can  — 

Cwt.  Cwt. 

in  in 

20's  40's 


Cwt. 


3.798 
3.443 
3.402 


18.8 


37.2 


...J 


20.3 


3.557 
3.137 
3.070 


3.557 
3.208 
3.152 


3.557 
3.227 
3.189 


E.  C.  Blake 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

,  Delivered   66.2 

filst  zone   

I  2nd  zone   

.  3rd  zone   

Ii5th  zone   

jlW.  T.  Boyd  &  Sons 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

|  Delivered   72.0 

I 'list  zone   

|  2nd  zone   

i  3rd  zone   

j  4th  zone   

I  Sth  zone   

J  Producers'  Dairy 

H    Zoned  from  Nashua 

j  Delivered   79.7 

j  2nd  zone   

i  3rd  zone   

1  Lyndonville  Creamery 

9th  zone  Mar.  1-15  34.9 

1 11th  zone  Mar.  1-15  

i  9th  zone  Mar.  16-31  37  7 

jjllth  zone  Mar.  16-31  


33.8 


28.0 


20.3 

65.1 
62.3 


3.412 
3.198 
3.148 
3.106 
3.090 
3.056 


3.412 
3.215 
3.182 
3.148 
3.119 
3.094 


3.192 
2.937 
2.908 
2.853 
2.776 


3.462 
3.243 
3.206 
3.169 
3.137 
3.109 
3.095 


3.227 
3.034 
2.990 
2.954 
2.846 


3.558 
3.265 
3.219 

2.696 
2.680 
2.640 
2.656 


Hie  great  EMgIKE 


milks  Right 

every  M 
day... 


As  a  practical  dairyman  you  know  that 
the  milking  operation  must  be  pleasing 
to  the  cow,  must  be  gentle  and  regular 
day  after  day,  if  you  are  to  get  the  most 
from  your  herd.  No  other  method  is  as 
natural,  as  gentle  or  as  uniform  as  the 
Empire  Milking  Machine. 

Milks  Like  a  Sucking  Calf 

The  famous  Empire  teat  cup,  with  its 
three-sided  tip-to-udder  squeeze,  ex- 
actly re-creates  the  suck  and  massage  of  a 
calf.  So  natural  is  its  action  that  even 
nervous  cows  quietly  chew  their  cuds 
while  being  milked. 

The  Empire  takes  milk  from  all  four 
quarters  at  once — the  natural  way — the 
way  the  cow  gives  down  her  milk.  It 
results  in  quicker  milking  and  more 
milk  from  your  cows.  Teats  and  udder 
are  kept  in  perfect  condition. 


The  EMPIRE  Milks  As 
It  Should.  The  I  mjHra 
takes  milk  from  all  four 
quarters  at  once — just  as 
the  cow  elves  It  down. 
The  Empire's  three-sldad 
tlp-to-uddcr  squeeze  (a 
patented  feature)  exactly 
duplicates  the  ma&sage 
of  a  calf's  tongue. 

The  EMPIRE  Is  Easy  To 
Operate.  Cups  can  be 
quickly  placed  on  teats. 
Held  firmly  by  vacuum, 
they  do  not  climb  up  or 
drop  off.  No  harnessing 
to  waste  the  operator's 
time. 

The  EMPIRE  Cleans 
With  Ease.  Simply  draw 
cold  water,  then  hot, 
through  the  assembled 
units  by  vacuum.  Not 
necessary  to  remove  In- 
flations from  cups  after 
each  milking. 

The  EMPIRE  Lasts 
Longer.  Some  Empires 
are  still  In  service  after 
twenty  years.  Patented 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1928  . 


On  the  Best 
Authority 

There  has  been  some 
confusion  about  the  rel- 
ative value  of  cleaning 
and  sterilization. 

On  the  best  authority 
these  two  methods  are 
complimentary  to  each 
other. 

Sterilization  should  al- 
ways follow  the  most 
careful  cleaning,  a  clean- 
ing such  as  the  use  of 


provides  with  its  efficient 
action  and  unequalled 
rinsing  qualities. 

In  this  way  a  perfectly 
clean  surface  is  provided 
for  dairy  equipment  so 
that  the  sterilizing  pro- 
cess can  complete  the 
work  of  insuring  a  sur- 
face free  from  pre- 
ventable causes  of  lost 
quality  in  milk  and  milk 
products. 

Ask  your  supply  man  for 
"WYANDOTTE" 


WYANDOTTE  C.  A.  S. 

(Cream  Acidity  Standardized 

Improves  texture  and  keeping  qualities 
of  butter. 
Tends  to  insure  more  exhaustive 
churning  with  a  corresponding 
increase  over  run. 
Insures  a  more  uniform  product. 


THE  J.  D.  FORD  COMPANY 

Sol*  Manufacturer* 
'Wyandotte     -    -  Michigan 


temporary  permits  were  granted  on 
application  before  the  inspections  were 
made.  Under  the  provisions  of  the 
order  just  issued  by  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture  this  leniency  to  the  Canadian 
producers  will  close  at  the  end  of  May. 

M any  Permits  Issued 

The  records  show  that  1055  temporary 
permits  were  issued  for  the  Province  of 
Quebec,  from  which  originates  all  the 
milk  which  is  likely  to  come  into  New 
England.  This  does  not  by  any  means 
represent  the  number  of  producers  who 
are  shipping  milk  into  the  United  States 
under  the  temporary  permits  as  a  large 
number  of  these  temporary  permits  were 
taken  out  by  the  plants  from  which  the 
milk  was  being  shipped.  The  permanent 
permit  to  such  a  plant  means  that  all 
the  producers  shipping  to  that  plant  shall 
be  inspected  before  any  of  the  milk  can 
come  into  the  United  States. 

Some  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  the 
shipments  of  milk  and  cream  into  the 
United  States  from  Canada  can  be  se- 
cured from  the  figures  given  at  the 
recent  meeting  of  the  Vermont  Dairy- 
men's Association  by  W.  R.  M.  Wharton 
of  the  U.  S.  D.  A.  He  reported  the 
following  totals  of  gallons  of  milk  and 
cream  coming  into  the  United  States  each 
year  from  Canada  at  different  points  of 
entry  all  in  Vermont : 

Beecher  Falls    225,000 

Norton  Mills    lOO^OOO 

Derby  Line    130,000 

Newport   2,550,000 

Troy    750,000 

Richford    600,000 

Berkshire    200,000 

Highgate  Center    270,000 

Franklin    15,000 

S  wanton    100,000 

Alburg    425,000 

Mr.  Wharton  stated  that  about  90  per 
cent,  of  all  the  milk  and  cream  coming 
in  from  Canada  to  the  United  States 
comes  from  the  Provinces  of  Ontario 
and  Quebec,  practically  all  of  this  90 
per  cent,  coming  in  at  border  points 
from  Buffalo  to  West  Stewartstown, 
N.  H.  Afbout  one  third  of  this  comes 
into  New  England  through  the  Vermont 
points  _  listed  above.  He  said  that  the 
total  importations  of  milk  and  cream 
from  Canada  approximate  20,000,000  a 
year,  12,500,000  of  which  come  into  New 
York  state  and  about  5,500,000  coming  in 
through  Vermont  border  points.  These 
totals  make  no  account  of  the  differ- 
ence btween  milk  and  cream  but  Mr. 
Wharton  said  that  on  the  basis  of  3.5 
milk  the  importations  from  Canada  to 
Vermont  are  equal  to  more  than  half 
of  the  total  milk  production  of  Vermont. 

Ample  Time  Given 

Under  the  new  order  concerning  perma- 
nent permits  any  producer  or  any  plant 
which  has  failed  to  make  application  for 
inspection  will  be  refused  permission  to 
ship  milk  or  cream  into  the  United  States 
until  such  an  application  has  been  made, 
followed  by  a  federal  inspection.  There 
has  been  ample  time  for  the  filing  of 
these  applications  and  all  such  applica- 
tions will  have  been  followed  by  formal 
inspection  before  June  1.  Any  producer 
or  plant  that  has  neglected  to  take  the 
necessary  action,  or  who  has  failed  to 
make  the  improvements  in  conditions 
required  by  the  inspectors  will  find  it 
impossible  to  ship  milk  after  that  time. 

Mr.  Wharton  said  that  in  order  to 
carry  out  the  provisions  of  the  act  it 
was  expected  that  a  bacteriological 
laboratroy  would  be  established  at  Rouses 
point,  N.  Y.,  and  that  a  testing  laboratory 
might  also  be  established  at  Richford,  Vt. 
Inspectors  will  be  stationed  at  various 
points  along  the  border  to  patrol  the 
area  assigned  to  each  and  to  make  sure 
that  no  milk  not  in  conformance  with  the 
regulations  comes  into  the  United  States. 
The  law  provides  that  no  unpasturized 
milk  or  cream  may  come  in  unless  it 
comes  from  tuberculin  tested  herds. 
There  are  certain  exceptions,  among 
them  being  that  sour  cream  unfiit  for 
consumption  as  cream  shall  be  allowed 
to  come  in  to  be  made  into  butter. 
Sweet  cream,  even  though  it  is  to  be 
made  into  butter,  comes  under  the  full 
regulations  as  to  bacteria  count  and  in- 
spection of  the  premises  where  produced 
or  handled. 


She  Noticed 
a  Quspicious  Jjght 


%.(  j^An  Advertisement  of  the  Ameri- 
can Telephone  and  Telegraph 
Company 

One  night  a  farmer's  wife  liv- 
ing near  Elmer,  New  Jersey, 
noticed  a  suspicious  light  near 
her  home.  She  suspected 
chicken  thieves.  Going  to  her 
telephone,  she  called  the  oper- 
ator at  Elmer.  The  operator 
notified  a  number  of  people  at- 
tending a  grange  meeting  there. 
A  constable  and  posse  went  at 
once  to  the  farm  and  caught  the 
thief.  He  had  nearly  3000  stolen 
chickens  penned  up  near  his 
place  of  residence.  He  was  con- 
victed and  sent  to  prison. 

The  telephone  serves  the 
farmer  in  a  thousand  emer- 
gencies. Runs  errands  to  town. 
Finds  out  when  and  where  to 
sell  at  the  best  price.  Brings 
the  doctor  in  case  of  accident 
or  sickness.  Reaches  the  homes 
of  relatives  and  friends.  Pays 
for  itself  in  money  and  con- 
venience many  times  over. 

The  modern  farm  home  has  a 
telephone. 


Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 

Farmers,  yon  would  not  think  of  buy- 
ing a  pair  of  driving:  horses  to  do  your 
draft  work! 

Use  the  same  judgment  in  buying-  a 
furnace.  The  Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 
has  the  capacity  with  its  extra  large 
door  and  flrebex. 

Manufactured  by  the 

DANIELS  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

HARD  WICK,  VERMONT 
F.  F.  Fuller,  Gen.  Art.,  Waterbury,  Vt. 


Member 
Federal 


Reserve 
System 


More  Pay 

is  of  less  value  to  you  if  you  spend 
it  all.    Plan  to 
•are    some  of 
your   earnings,  /^Cqj 
whether  big  or 
small. 


LIBERTY 
TRUST 
COMPANY 

199  Washington  St. 
Boston,  Mass. 

(Corner  Court  St.) 


When  Writing  to  Advertisers  Please  Mention  the 
New  England  Dairyman 


ay,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


j      SOUTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 

H.  W.    FIENEM ANN,  Manager 
(    Slade  BIdg.,  44  Washington  St.,  Providence  Tel.  Dexter  6469 


APRIL  PRICES 

ovidence   $4,052 

11  River    4.052 

tw  Bedford    4.165 

ockton   3.952 

wport    3.467 

The  above  prices  are  for  3.7  per  cent. 
Ik  delivered  at  dealers'  plants. 
The  supply  of  milk  in  this  district  is 
ire  plentiful  than  last  month,  but  no 
cessive  surplus  exists  in  any  of  the 
e  big  markets.  In  fact,  the  supply  of 
'.k  has  been  shorter  right  along,  than 
ordinarily   is  at  this  season  of  the 

IT. 

New  Milk  Regulation 
Our  membership  should  be  informed 
a  new  regulation  recommended  to  the 
ovidence  Board  of  Aldermen,  and  re- 
ltly  passed  by  them.    It  is  known  as 

hile  3  and  reads  as  follows : 
'On  and  after  July  2,  1928,  it  shall  be 
:  duty  of  the  inspector  of  milk,  or  his 
>uty  or  duly  authorized  agent,  to  visit 

|  >m  time  to  time  and  at  frequent  in- 

•  vals  all  places  where  milk  shall  be 
)t  for  the  purpose  of  pasteurizing,  sale, 

L:hange  or  delivery  in  the  City  of  Provi- 
ice,  and  if  he,  his  deputy,  or  duly  au- 
rized  agent,  shall  find  any  such  milk 

'ch  a  temperature  above  60  degrees  F., 
shall  in  the  presence  of  a  witness, 
lin  determine  such  temperature,  and  if 
is  above  60  degrees  F.,  he  shall  forth- 
:h  seize,  destroy  or  ship  back  to  the 

")ducer  such  milk,  and  he  shall  keep  a 
:ord  of  the  time,  temperature,  and 
ount  of  such  milk  in  the  office  of  the 
;pector  of  Milk." 


This  regulation  is  apparently  a  little 
vague  in  places,  but  we  will  call  it  to 
the  attention  of  the  proper  authorities  and 
see  if  it  cannot  be  revised.  As  one  of  the 
agents  of  the  Providence  Milk  Inspection 
Department  explained  the  measure  to  us, 
it  was  intended  to  mean  that  the  Inspec- 
tor or  his  agents  would  take  the  tem- 
peratures of  milk  arriving  at  the  deal- 
ers' platforms,  as  it  came  from  the  pro- 
ducer, and  if  it  was  not  60  degrees  F.,  or 
less,  it  would  be  returned  or  destroyed. 
Producers  shipping  milk  to  Providence 
must  cool  their  milk  sufficiently,  so  that 
it  will  be  60  degrees  F.,  or  less  on  arrival 
at  the  city  plant. 

Co-operation  of  Trackmen  Needed 
The  new  temperature  regulation  will 
call  for  the  close  co-operation  of  the 
truckmen  and  necessitates  that  they  equip 
their  trucks  with  tight  sides,  use  suffi- 
cient ice  and  cover  the  load  well  in 
transit  with  a  good  canvas  cover.  The 
producer  must  also  bear  in  mind  that 
warm  milk,  shipped  on  an  iced  truck  will 
not  cool  off  enough  to  be  accepted  at  the 
market. 

Your  district  manager  at  Providence 
offers  his  assistance  in  helping  members 
work  out  their  milk  cooling  problems. 

New  Bedford  Strike 
The  milk  industry  of  this  city  has  cer- 
tainly had  its  share  of  ups  and  downs 
in  the  last  10  months.  At  present  there 
are  between  25,000  and  30,000  textile 
workers  out  on  strike.  This  has  been 
so  since  the  middle  of  April  and  a  quick 
settlement  is  not  expected.  Consequently 
the  milk  producers  supplying  this  market 


The  quality 
of  a  roof  is  not 
all 

in  the  roofing 


In  buying  a  roof  that  is 
to  be  both  durable  and 
inexpensive  it  is  well  to 
remember  that  the  work- 
manship is  as  important 
as  the  roofing.  Here  is 
where  roofing  experience 
counts.  Consult  your 
local  Safekote  dealer. 

He  is  in  business  to  stay 
and  will  treat  you  right. 
He  will  tell  you  Safekote 
Shingles— made  in  New 
England  to  withstand 
New  England  climate  — 
are  durable,  inexpensive, 


good-looking,  and  easy  to 
apply.  He  will  recom- 
mend reliable  workmen  to 
do  the  job. 

For  inexpensive  roof- 
ing that  will  give  years 
of  service,  buy  Safekote 
Roll  Roofing.  It  is  made 
of  the  same  selected  ma- 
terials as  the  shingles,  in 
smooth  and  slate  surfaces. 
For  the  most  satisfactory 
and  economical  roof  you 
can  buy,  go  to  your  local 
Safekote  dealer.  Safe- 
pack  Mills,  Millis,  Mass. 


more  #  than  waterproof 

Shingles 
Roll  Roofing 

MADE  IN  NEW  ENGLAND 


Early  Pasture  Is  A 


TIMULANT 


But  Its  Not 
Square  Meal 


A 

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NHL 

THE  United  States  Department 
of  Agriculture,  in  a  recent  bulletin, 
sets  forth  some  facts  on  pasture 
feeding  worth  the  attention  of  every 
practical  dairyman.  The  bulletin 
says  in  part: 


"One  of  the  hardest-working  animals  on  the  farm  is  the  high- 
producing  dairy  cow.  If  she  produces  as  much  as  35  pounds  of 
milk  a  day  she  can  ordinarily  not  eat  and  digest  enough  grass 
to  furnish  all  the  nutrients  for  her  requirements.  A  cow  pro- 
ducing only  20  or  25  pounds  per  day  will  scarcely  be  able  to  get 
sufficient  nutrients  out  of  the  good  pasture  grass  which  she  can 
eat  to  keep  up  this  amount  of  production.  Yet  thousands  of 
farmers  expect  their  dairy  cows  to  produce  more  than  this 
during  the  summer  on  poor  pastures  with  no  additional  feed. 

"Early  spring  grass  is  watery  and  immature  and  may  contain  less 
than  10  pounds  of  dry  matter  per  100  pounds  of  grass.  This  is  a 
smaller  quantity  of  dry  matter  than  is  contained  in  100  pounds 
of  milk.  A  cow  producing  35  pounds  of  milk  per  day  must  gather 
and  eat  about  275  to  300  pounds  of  early  spring  grass  to  get 
enough  feed  for  her  requirements.  It  would  be  practically  im- 
possible for  her  to  do  this  on  the  very  best  of  pasture. 

".  .  .  In  addition  to  good  pasture,  cows  producing  more  than 
20  pounds  of  milk  daily  should  be  given  1  pound  of  grain  to 
each  4  to  6  pounds  of  milk  produced." 


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AMCO  20%  DAIRY  supplies  all  the  additional 
energy,  nutrients,  and  minerals  that  your  cows  need, 
at  a  price  that  makes  grain  feeding  on  pasture  no 
hardship.  Feed  your  35  pound  cows  5-6  lbs.  of 
AMCO  20%  DAIRY  daily,  and  your  50  pound  cows 
8  lbs.  of  AMCO  20%  DAIRY. 

See  your  Authorized  Amco  Agent  today. 


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AMERICAN  MILLING  COMPANY 
EXECUTIVE  OFFICES:  PEORIA,  ILL. 

Plants  at:  PEORIA,  ILL.;  OMAHA,  NEB.;  OWENSBORO,  KY. 
Alfalfa  Plant*  at:  POWELL,  GARLAND,  and  WORLAND,  WYO. 

DIVISION  OFFICE :  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


Page  Eight 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  192  i 


Eastern  State  Fanners'  Exchange 


The  Proof  of  the 
Pudding 

Farmers  purchase  through  the  Eastern 
States  Farmers'  Exchange  because  they 
know  from  experience  that  it  pays  them 
to  do  so.  In  1927,  farmers  purchased 
through  the  Eastern  States  commodities 
amounting  to  $7,722,900,  making  the  9th 
successive  record  year.  Since  January 
1st,  1928,  the  demand  for  Eastern  States 
service  expressed  in  purchases  of  feed, 
fertilizer  and  seed  has  broken  all  pre- 
vious records.  In  other  words,  immedi- 
ately following  the  largest  twelve  months 
in  the  Exchange's  history,  and  in  spite 
of  firm  price  markets  in  feed,  fertilizer 
and  seed,  farmers,  on  the  strength  of 

1927  experience  with  Eastern  States  serv- 
ice, are  purchasing  through  their  co- 
operative buying  organization  more  com- 
modities than  ever  before. 

Where  records  are  kept  Eastern  States 
commodities  prove  their  worth. 

POULTRY  FEED  GAINS 
PHENOMENAL 

The  actual  orders  received  from  mem- 
bers during  the  first  three  months  of 

1928  have  increased  over  the  demand 
for  the  same  three  months  of  1927  101% 
for  Eastern  States  Starting  and  Grow- 
ing Mash,  97%  for  Milk  Mash,  64%  for 
Egg  Mash  without  milk,  60%  for  Inter- 
mediate Scratch  Grains,  45%  for  Chick 
Grains  and  37%  for  Scratch  Grains. 

DAIRY  RATIONS  IN  DEMAND 

Eastern  States  Fulpail,  the  ration 
which  so  many  leading  herd  improve- 
ment association  members  have  been 
using  successfully  for  many  years,  con- 
tinues to  be,  in  tons  ordered,  the  leading 
manufactured  feed  of  the  Eastern  States 
Farmers'  Exchange.  Although  the  in- 
crease during  the  first  three  months  of 
1928  in  the  demand  for  this  commodity 
was  only  22%  over  the  same  three  months 
of  1927,  that  increase  amounted  to  more 
than  120  twenty  ton  carloads  of  feed. 
The  demand  for  Eastern  States  Pasture 
Kation  during  the  period  increased  63%. 
In  the  winter  this  feed  is  used  by  those 
Eastern  States  farmers  who  have  pro- 
vided themselves  with  an  adequate  sup- 
ply of  high  protein  legume  roughage. 

The  demand  for  Eastern  States  Fit- 
ting Eation,  recommended  particularly 
for  dry  cows  and  young  stock,  increased 
29%. 

Horse  feed  demand,  in  spite  of  the 
fact  that  farmers  as  a  class  do  not  grain 
their  teams  heavily  during  the  winter 
months,  increased  39%  over  the  previous 
year.  Farmers  have  learned  that  it  is 
good  economy  to  feed  all  their  stock 
including  their  horses  a  properly  bal- 
anced ration  rather  than  straight  grain. 
Eastern  States  Horse  Feed,  consisting 
of  crimped  oats  and  cracked  corn  of 
high  grade,  bran,  linseed  oil  meal  and 
molasses,  is  being  used  extensively  by 
dairymen  as  a  grain  ration  for  calves 
under  a  year  old.  Show-ring  records  in- 
dicate the  value  of  this  feed  when  used 
for  this  purpose. 

"The  proof  of  the  pudding  is  in  the 
eating."  The  steady,  incrensing  demand 
for  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 
feed  buying  service  proves  its  worth. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

A  momftoek,   non- profit  organization, 
owned  and  controlled  by  thm 


Headquarters  ■   SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


must  expect  that  the  thousands  of  fam- 
ilies who  have  their  income  entirely  taken 
away  for  the  present,  are  going  to  cut 
down  on  their  purchases,  not  only  of  milk 
but  of  everything  else  they  ordinarily 
buy.  This  will  mean  poor  business  con- 
ditions and__a_surplus  of  milk. 

Surplus  Plan  for  New  Bedford 
At  the  time  the  strike  seemed  imminent 
some  of  the  dealers  on  this  market  were 
carrying  about  as  great  a  surplus  as  they 
could  financially  bear.  In  the  face  of 
the  spring  flush  which  is  still  to  come 
and  a  big  decrease  in  sales  due  to  the 
strike,  some  kind  of  a  surplus  plan  had 
to  be  adopted  by  the  dealers.  They  asked 
to  have  the  NEMPA  plan  explained  to 
them  and  then  voted  to  adopt  it.  This 
action  was  approved  by  the  New,  Bedford 
Market  Committee.  This  Surplus  Plan 
is  the  identical  one  used  over  most  of 
New  England  and  administered  and  su- 
pervised by  Dr.  A.  W.  Gilbert,  Milk  Ad- 
ministrator. 

WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  M»r. 

Room  205  Dexter  Building 

p]  360  WorthingtoD  St.,  Springfield,  Masi. 
pj  Telephone  No.  4-050O 

April  Prices 

Springfield   $0,085 

Worcester   075 

Holyoke    .075 

Westfield   08 

Northampton   085 

WORCESTER 
On  March  14th  following  a  meeting 
of  the  dealers'  association  the  press  an- 
nounced that  there  would  probably  be  a 
decrease  to  the  public  of  one  cent 
April  1st. 

At  this  time  the  sales  committee  re- 
ceived a  letter  from  the  dealers'  execu- 
tive committee  asking  for  a  reduction 
of  one  cent  effective  April  1st.  This 
would  have  brought  the  price  to  7l/2 
cents. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  two  committees 
on  March  22nd  the  sales  committee  re- 
fused to  consider  a  reduction  unless  the 
Boston  price  should  drop  to  eight  cents, 
in  which  case  they  offered  to  make  a 
price  of  .08  FOB  Worcester. 

The  committee  representing  the  deal- 
ers refused  to  accept  this  proposal,  but 
agreed  to  lay  it  before  a  meeting  of  the 
dealers.  This  was  done  on  Friday  night, 
March  30th. 

In  the  meantime  however,  the  Boston 
price  had  been  reduced  one  cent  and  due 
to  market  conditions,  the  dealers  voted 
unanimously  to  reduce  the  market  resale 
prices  one  cent  effective  April  1st.  This 
action  was  announced  by  the  press,  and 
as  a  result  several  dealers  who  were 
strongly  opposed  to  a  reduction  of  the 
producers'  price  in  April  changed  their 
attitude  and  lined  up  with  those  who 
were  seeking  a  reduction  in  their  buy- 
ing price. 

With  the  support  of  some  of  the  larger 
dealers  the  committee  felt  that  it  should 
stand  pat  on  continuing  the  price.  In 
face  of  increasing  supplies  both  in  local 
and  northern  territories  it  did  not  seem 
advisable  in  the  opinion  of  the  commit- 
tee to  take  drastic  action  at  this  time, 
committees  held  April  2nd,  the  commit- 
Accordingly  at  a  meeting  of  the  two 
tee  accepted  the  demand  of  the  dealers' 
executive  committee  with  the  provision 
that  they  would  recommend  to  their 
members  the  adoption  of  a  uniform  buy- 
ing plan. 

The  sales  committee  made  it  clear  that 
they  considered  the  publicity  that  had 
appeared  in  the  press,  previous  to  the 
committee  meetings,  as  very  unfair  and 
unjust  to  the  producers.  It  was  agreed 
that  in  the  future  press  notices  as  to 
price  would  be  issued  only  by  approval 
of  both  committees,  except  in  event  of 
a  failure  of  the  two  committees  to  reach 
an  agreement. 

From  the  producers'  side  there  cer- 
tainly is  no  justification  for  a  reduction 
at  this  time,  and  the  feeling  around 
Worcester  is  now  such  that  there  will 
not  be  much  likelihood  of  Worcester 
dragging  behind  when  other  markets  ad- 
vance as  was  the  case  last  summer. 


H 


ere's  an  entirely  new  idea 
in  oil  ranges  — 


PERFECTION 

OIL  RANGE 


THE  PERFECTION  in  new 
light  colors,  in  the  new  Per- 
fectolac  finish. 

This  is  the  latest  kitchen  crea- 
tion, an  oil  stove  with  a  finish  like 
that  on  the  modern  automobile. 
Cheerful  and  cool,  yet  durable  and 
easy  to  clean. 

Other  models  come  in  snow- 
white,  full-porcelain  enamel.  And 
again  the  trim,  satin-black  finish. 


Then  there  is  the  Puritan  with 
the  new  giant  burner  for  those 
who  prefer  the  short  drum  type 
stove. 

All  are  equipped  with  burners 
that  produce  a  clean,  intense  heat, 
and  all  burn  that  safe,  economical 
fuel— SOCONY  kerosene. 

Drop  in  at  your  dealer's  today. 
See  this  great  variety  of  new  stoves 
at  a  wide  range  of  prices. 


Water  Heaters 


Whether  you  have  a  pressure  system  or  just 
a  kitchen  pump,  the  Perfection  water  heater 
will  give  you  hot  water  for  shaving  and  plenty 
of  hot  dish  water  in  a  few  minutes.  Rapid, 
reliable,  moderate  in  price;  ask  your  plumber. 


STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 


Pownal  Limestone, 

Is  essential  for  Alfalfa  and  Clover. 
Corrects  soil  acidity. 

Improves  the  soil's  physical  condition. 
Makes  other  plant  foods  available. 
Makes  fertilizer  give  bigger  crops. 


Send  for  booKlet 
•♦Liming  for  Profit" 


For  prices  and  literature  write 

POWNAL  LIME  CO. 

92  STATE  STREET,  BOSTON,  MASS. 


May,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Sine 


Several  new  members  have  been  added 
to  the  Sutton  Local  and  several  old  mem- 
bers of  the  Sterling-North  Brookfield 
and  New  Braintree  Locals  have  signed 
dues  orders. 

Board  of  Health  Regulations 

Effective  July  1st,  the  Worcester 
Board  of  Health  are  putting  into  force 
a  new  code  of  regulations  governing  the 
production  and  sale  of  milk  in  the  Wor- 
cester market.  These  regulations  are  in 
reality  along  the  lines  of  the  state  regu- 
lations and  are  already  in  effect  in  the 
majority  of  our  New  England  markets, 
but,  I  find  in  meeting  with  the  Worcester 
producers  that  many  are  unduly  disturbed 
over  them.  The  one  article  governing 
the  location  of  manure  seems  to  be  the 
thing  that  looms  up  as  the  greatest  ob- 
stacle in  the  minds  of  the  producers. 
This  article  reads  as  follows :  "That  all 
manure  shall  be  removed  a  distance  of 
50  feet  from  the  barn  or  stored  in  a 
ventilated  pit." 

At  a  conference  between  Dr.  Kenny, 
agent  of  the  Board  of  Health ;  Mr. 
Storey,  of  the  Worcester  County  Exten- 
sion Service ;  P.  J.  Kingston,  chairman 
of  the  sales  committee  and  the  district 
manager,  Dr.  Kenny  stated  that  a  well 
ventilated  barn  cellar  would  be  their  in- 
terpretation of  a  ventilated  pit,  there- 
fore, producers  with  barn  cellars  need 
not  worry — because,  with  very  little  ef- 
fort ventilation  can  be  provided  and  they 
can  continue  to  use  their  barn  cellars  for 
manure  storage. 

The  article  pertaining  to  milk  rooms 
will  probably  effect  quite  a  number  of 
producers  as  many  do  not  now  have 
separate  milk  rooms  that  would  answer 
the  requirements  according  to  the  new 
regulations.  Before  building  a  new  milk 
room  or  remodeling  an  old  one,  we  would 
recommend  that  you  talk  with  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  Board  of  Health  so  that 
you  will  make  no  mistake  and  thereby 
be  forced  to  alter  or  rebuild  again. 

On  the  whole  we  do  not  believe  that 
the  new  regulations  are  to  be  as  hard 
to  meet  as  many  producers  think.  There 
may  be  some  individual  cases  where  the 
cost  of  meeting  requirements  will  impose 
a  hardship  on  the  producer. 

If  uniformity  and  reasonable  judgment 
is  pursued  by  those  making  inspection  of 
dairies  we  believe  that  the  ultimate  result 
will  be  beneficial  to  the  milk  business  in 
Worcester. 

SPRINGFIELD 

The  meeting  of  the  Marketing  Asso- 
ciation has  been  postponed  until  local 
meetings  can  be  held  in  the  various  locals 
that  supply  the  Springfield  area — thereby 
insuring  a  larger  and  more  representative 
attendance. 

According  to  the  by-laws,  this  meeting 
is  supposed  to  be  held  during  the  month 
of  March  and  is  for  the  purpose  of 
electing  a  sales  committee  to  represent 
the  producers  shipping  to  the  Springfield 
market. 

At  the  present  time  none  of  the  Spring- 
field dealers  recognize  the  price  as  an- 
nounced by  the  NEMPA  sales  committee 
and  are  making  their  own  buying  price 
with  their  respective  groups  of  producers. 

It  is  being  arranged  for  F.  Leon 
Brown,  assistant  manager  of  the 
NEMPA,  to  assist  the  district  manager 
in  the  Springfield  district  during  the  next 
few  months. 

The  program  for  the  Springfield  mar- 
iket  is  being  planned  with  the  ultimate 
objective  of  creating  a  strong  producers' 
committee  and  more  especially  of  a  strong 
producer  backing  of  this  committee  with 
jthe  hope  that  by  late  summer  that  the 
producer's  demand  for  an  enforcement  of 
the  NEMPA  price  will  be  made  effective 
with  the  majority  of  the  dealers  in  the 
J  market- 

i    Meetings  of  several  of  the  locals  are 

I being  arranged  and  will  be  held  during 
the  month  of  May  and  it  is  expected 
that  the  Marketing  Association  meeting 
will  also  be  held  during  the  latter  part 
■>(  May. 
The  resale  prices  remain  unchanged 
in  the  Springfield  market.  There  has 
oeen  some  price  cutting  by  some  of  the 
mailer  dealers,  but  on  the  whole,  the 
narket  seems  to  be  in  a  fairly  stable 
:ondition  as  far  as  the  dealers  are  con- 
erned. 

I  On  the  producers'  side  however,  the 
jjirices  have  been  reduced  by  practically 
lj.ll  the  dealers  so  that  the  producers'  net 
|>rice  now  ranges  from  .06c  to  .06^4c  at 
Phe  truck. 


THIS  PICTURE  WAS  TAKEN 
at  Danville,  Indiana,  one  day  in  February. 
It  shows  two  carloads  of  the  New  McCormick-Deering 
Cream  Separators.  Six  motor  trucks  have  been  safely 
loaded  with  the  beautiful  new  machines  with  their 
glossy  japanned  finish  and  full  ball-bearing  equipment, 
ready  to  start  out  to  nearby  farms  and  towns.  Snow 
and  sleet  hampered  the  work  but  it  could  not  down 
the  enthusiasm. 

It  is  that  way  all  around  the  country.  Whole  communities — 
merchants,  bankers,  editors,  Chambers  of  Commerce,  as  well 
as  farmers — have  welcomed  the  new  cream  separator  and  its 
constructive  effect  on  dairying.  Big-scale  deliveries  like  the 
above  have  taken  place  at  scores  of  points— west,  east,  central 
and  south.  The  New  McCormick-Deering  is  going  out  to  the 
farmers  in  carload  quantities  —  up  to  150  machines  in  each 
freight  car — in  every  dairying  section.  Everywhere  the  enthu- 
siasm for  the  machine  is  being  passed  on  by  the  new  owners. 


WE  knew  farmers  would  like  this  new  separator— and  they 
do.  It  is  very  easy  to  understand  when  you  realize  what 
the  New  McCormick-Deering  offers.  It  is  the  ball-bearing 
separator — the  easiest-running  cream  separator  in  the  world. 
Every  one  of  the  six  sizes  has  ball  bearings  at  all  high-speed 
points.  It  makes  a  hit  with  everybody  who  turns  it ! 

An  outstanding  most  vital  feature  of  this  machine  is  its  ability 
to  separate  milk  at  a  wide  range  of  temperature  and  down  to  a 
surprisingly  low  degree.  Milk  may  be  skimmed  with  absolute 
assurance  of  maximum  butter  fat  recovery.  McCormick-Deering 
design  challenges  every  test  and  comparison  in  close  skimming,  what- 
ever the  conditions. 

Slow  crank  speed.  Japanned  finish.  New  bowl  design.  Auto- 
matic lubrication.  Visual  oil  gauge.  New  revolving  supply  can. 
Perfected  outside  faucet.  New  easily  cleaned  frame.  New  gear 
design.  Steel,  rounded-edge,  rust  proof  tinware.  Six  capacities 
—from  350  to  1500  lbs.  per  hour— for  one  cow  or  a  hundred. 

International  Harvester  Company 

oE  America 

606  So.  Michigan  Ave.  (incorporated)  Chicago,  111. 


Let  the  new  ball-bearing  machine  prove 
itself  in  every  particular,  by  demonstration. 
The  McCormick-Deering  dealer  is  at  your 
service — write  for  catalog. 


Mccormick-  deering 


COD  LEVER- OIL 


TO  BOTH 
POULTRY  AND  LIVE  STOCK 

It  Promotes  a 

Healthy,  Sturdy  Growth 

Cape  Ann  is  the  pioneer  Cod  Liver  Oil  for 
stock  feeding.  1 1  i  s  a  domestic  product  made  at 
Gloucester,  Mass. ,  and  is  Biologically  Tested  for 
Vitamins  A  and  D. 

THERE  IS  NONE  BETTER 

Order  from  your  grain  dealer  and  ask  him  for  a 
copy  of  "Feeding Instructions"  or  write  to 

CHAS  M  COX  CO 

Wholesale  Distributors 
BOSTON  MASS. 


Page  Ten 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1928 


NORTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


F.  LEON  BROWN,  Manager 


477  Essex  Street,  Lawrence,  Mass. 


APRIL  PRICES  the  part  of  their  producers  in  handling 

Manchester,  N.  H  70c    per  8/,  qt.  can  frPluses  as  thev.  arise-    »  is  much  better 

Nashua,  N.  H  72.4c  per  8/2  qt.  can  for  a  group  of  producers  supplying  a 

Lowell,  Mass  72c    per  8    qt.  can  >™U  6eak"  to  collectively  take  care  of 

Lawrence,  Mass  80c    per  10    qt.  can  J"»  s,urPlus  than  >t  >s  to  have  such 

Haverhill    Mass  64c    £r  8    qt.  can  dealer  drop  some  of  his  producers.  We 

Concord,  N.  H  61.2c  per  8^  qt.  can  *°Pe  that  a  l  will  make  an  honest  effort 

r>  -.I-  ,a   iv,f„             7a„„=^^*  to  co-operate  in  this  matter.    Later  on 

Portland,  Me              7.oc  per  qt.  ,       , *\        . ,                   ..  , 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers,  when  hot  weather  comes    all  producers 

and  Beverly   64c    per  8    qt.  can  w,»       nfded  to,  ^'PP1^  b°th  larSe  and 

small  dealers,  and  the  situation  so  far  as 

Prices  surplus  is  concerned  will  be  straightened 

The  markets  of  Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers,  out. 

Beverly,  Lawrence,  and  Haverhill  which  The  District  Manager  has  spent  some 

follow  the  Boston  Market  closely,  changed  time  around  the  various  markets  where 

their  price  back  to  the  eight  cent  price  the  smaller  dealers  have  been  having  sur- 

basis  with  the  change  in  Boston  April  1.  plus,  and  has  talked  with  both  dealers  and 

The  Lowell  market  did  not  advance  its  producers  regarding  co-operation  in  the 

price  during  the  flood  period  as  did  the  matter  of  handling  this  surplus, 

above  mentioned  markets,  and  in  order  p.      y,,  , 

to  make  up  this  difference  to  the  dairymen  10  or 

has  continued  its  nine  cent  price  basis  Many  producers  in  Milford,  Greenfield, 

through   the    month   of    April    without  Wilton,  South  Lyndeboro,  Antrim,  and 

change.  Hillsboro  selling  to  the  Whiting  Milk 

The  Nashua  market  has  been  on  the  Companies  and  supplying  Grade  A  milk 

8%  cent  basis  and  through  negotiation  were  temporarily  discontinued  as  Grade  A 

with  the  dealers  and  the  sales  committee  producers  by  the  Boston  Board  of  Health 

for  this  market  a  continuation  of  this  after  Mr.  Morin,  milk  inspector,  had  been 

price  has  been  agreed  upon.    It  is  not  to  their  dairies. 

expected  that  there  will  be  any  change  Most  of  these  producers  were  mem- 

this  summer  in  the  Nashua  price.  bers  of  the  Association  and  so  the  Dis- 

The  Manchester  market  is  for  the  first  trict  Manager  went  over  and  visited  them 

time  in  its  history  carrying  a  price  level  to  assist  them  in  making  such  changes  as 

above  that  in  Boston.     However,  pro-  were  necessary  in  order  that  they  might 

ducers  selling  in  this  market  are  getting  be  re-instated  for  shipment  to  the  Boston 

ready  for  the  tuberculin  testing  ordinance  market  and  also  for  Grade  A  shipments, 

which  goes  in  effect  in  Manchester  on  Many    of    the    producers    had  made 

December   1,   1928,  which  prohibits  the  changes  suggested  by  the  Board  of  Health 

sale  of  any  milk  in  Manchester  after  that  and  others  were  making  them.  Practi- 

date  which  does  not  come  from  cows  cally  all  have  been  re-admitted  to  the 

tested  for  tuberculosis  under  state  and  Boston  market  and  are  only  waiting  for 

Federal   supervision.   Because   dairymen  the  re-inspection  by  the  representative  of 

are  preparing  for  the  ordinance,  some  are  the  city  board  of  health  now  in  order  that 

selling  their  cows  as  fast  as  they  freshen,  their  milk  may  be  continued  as  Grade  A. 

and  others  who  have  had  their  herds  Several    of    the    producers  expressed 

tested  are  not  replacing  cows  that  have  their  appreciation  for  this  type  of  assist- 

re-acted,  and  therefore,  the  general  sup-  ance.    We  are  glad  to  co-operate  at  any 

ply  coming  into  the  market  has  not  in-  time  if  producers  will  let  us  know  when 

creased  the  same  as  is  true  of  the  supply  they   are   discontinued   by   the  various 

coming  into  other  markets  at  this  season  boards  of  health. 

of   tl'10  VGclI* 

During  the  last  week  in  March  the  six  New  District  Ma1ia^er  Arrivcs 
months'  contract  for  the  sale  of  milk  for  Last  month  I  stated  that  F.  L.  Foley 
NEMPA  members  to  the  Portsmouth  had  been  appointed  to  take  charge  of  the 
Creamery  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  was  Lawrence  office  as  the  new  District  Man- 
negotiated  by  the  Portsmouth  sales  com-  ager  for  the  Northern  Market  District, 
mittee.  The  terms  of  the  contract  of  Mr.  Foley  has  been  relieved  of  his  work 
sale  for  this  year's  prices  are  based  upon  up  there  in  Vermont  where  he  was  help- 
the  NEMPA  Boston  price,  and  are  about  ing  out  the  former  shippers  of  the  New 
the  same  as  they  were  in  1927  excepting  England  Creamery  Products  Co.,  who 
that  those  dairies  which  qualify  and  ship  were  withholding  their  milk  from  that 
to  the  creamery  a  better  grade  of  milk,  company  at  East  Fairfield  and  Sheldon, 
which  has  been  designated  as  being  in  the  Vt.  Since  the  controversy  with  this  com- 
A  classification,  will  receive  a  premium  pany  has  been  closed  Mr.  Foley  has  been 
of  five  cents  per  8*^  quart  can  for  their  relieved  from  this  work  and  has  arrived 
milk.  A  great  many  dairies  supplying  here  at  Lawrence  to  take  charge  of  the 
this  creamery  are  changing  over  their  Northern  Market  District, 
production  methods  and  are  trying  to  Mr.  Foley  has  been  with  the  Associa- 
compete  for  this  premium  and  are  sup-  tion  now  for  two  years.  First  working 
plying  the  creamery  with  a  better  grade  clown  in  Maine,  and  then  doing  field  work 
of  milk.  in  Vermont  and  northern  New  Hamp- 

The  usual  upward  trend  in  production  shire  and  also  New  Yor 
has  appeared,  and  we  find  many  of  our  I  plan  to  work  with  Mr.  Foley  and  the 
markets  carrying  about  as  much  surplus  producers  of  the  Northern  Market  Dis- 
as  they  usually  do  at  this  season  of  the  trict  so  that  all  will  receive  the  same  kind 
year.  We  want  to  urge  dairymen  not  to  of  uninterrupted  service  that  they  have 
produce  any  more  than  is  necessary  just  had  in  the  past,  and  we  urge  all  to  take 
now  because  it  is  difficult  for  all  dealers  up  their  problems  with  us  and  we  will 
to  find  a  way  to  handle  the  milk.  This  try  and  see  that  everything  is  worked 
is  especially  true  of  the  smaller  dealers  out  to  their  satisfaction.  It  will  take 
who  do  not  have  facilities  for  handling  some  time  for  Mr.  Foley  to  get  around 
large  quantities  which  they  cannot  sell  to  the  territory  and  meet  the  producers,  but 
their  regular  fluid  trade.  We  have  espe-  we  hope  you  will  be  looking  forward  to 
cially  urged  producers  selling  to  small  meeting  him  as  much  as  he  is  looking 
dealers  who  are  not  equipped  to  handle  forward  to  meeting  you. 
surplus,  to  co-operate  with  these  small  My  headquarters  in  the  future  will  be 
dealers  either  by  using  the  milk  at  the  with  the  central  office  at  51  cornhill,  Bos- 
farm  or  making  less  milk,  if  that  is  pos-  ton,  Mass.,  and  I  shall  be  glad  to  see  any 
sible,  or  by  allowing  such  dealer  to  sell  of  the  dairymen  who  come  to  Boston,  if 
the  surplus  to  some  large  concern  that  they  will  call  in  at  the  Boston  office.  I 
is  able  to  handle  it  as  surplus  and  make  would  suggest  that  members  of  the 
returns  to  the  dairymen.  Northern  Market  District  in  the  future 

This  flush  season  is  only  temporary  and  address  their  letters  to  Mr.  Foley  as 

always  exists  at  this  time  of  the  year.  District  Manager  of  the  Northern  Market 

In  my  experience  I  have  found  that  small  District  instead  of  to  me  as  they  have 

dealers  greatly  appreciate  co-operation  on  done  in  the  past. 


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the  size  of one  months  milk 
check  doesrit  tell  the  whole  story 


T^ACH  cow's  efficiency  should  be  determined  at  the 
end  of  her  lactation  period,  not  at  the  end  of  the 
first  or  second  month.  The  profitable  cow  is  the  one 
that  has  completed  her  year's  work  having  produced  a 
large  amount  of  milk  at  relatively  low  feed  cost.  She 
has  been  maintained  in  good  condition ;  has  milked  per- 
sistently ;  has  had  no  udder  trouble ;  and  finally  drops  a 
rugged,  healthy  calf  and  recovers  easily  from  the  strain 
of  parturition.  Such  a  cow  shows  a  profit  on  her  milk ; 
a  profit  on  her  calf,  and  a  profit  on  herself.  And  she 
stays  in  the  herd  year  after  year. 

In  addition  to  having  the  necessary  bulk,  variety,  pala- 
tability  and  digestibility,  The  Park  &  Pollard  Co.  Dairy 
Rations  are  bringing  maximum  profits  because — 

1 —  They  are  complete. 

2 —  They  supply  the  essentials  for  growth, 
maintenance  and  reproduction  as  well  as  for 
maximum  production. 

3  — Mineral  balance  is  given  as  careful  consid- 
eration as  are  the  other  factors. 

4— They  contain  Fish  Meal,  so  blended  with 
the  grain  products  as  to  provide  proteins  and 
minerals  in  forms  most  easily  digested  and 
utilized. 

Send  for  our  Booklet,  "Livestock  in  the  East"  Book  II. 
It  contains  facts  of  importance  and  is  worthy  of  the 
attention  of  every  feeder  of  livestock. 


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131  STATE  ST.  BOSTON,MASS. 


THE  PARK  A  POLXARD  CO., 
131  State  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Please  send  me,  without  obligation, 
the  booklet  "Livestock  in  the  East," 
Book  II. 

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,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


CO-OPERATIVE  INSTITUTE 

(Continued  from  page  three) 

*rs  of  the  institute  will  then  leave  in 
fusses  to  inspect  a  walnut  cracking  plant, 
iter   which   there   will   be  descriptive 
alks  and  discussions.  At  1.00  p.  m.  they 
*vill  visit  an  avocado  plant  where  another 
ession  will  be  held.    At  2.30  p.  m.  they 
inspect  the  plant  of  the  poultry  pro- 
ucers  of  Southern  California  and  the 
>lant  of  the  Poultrymen's  Co-operative 
/filling   Association,    returning   to  Los 
vngeles  for  the  night. 
1  Tuesday,  July  10,  will  open  with  a  trip 
3  Puente,  California,  to  see  a  packing 
lant  of  the  California  Walnut  Growers' 
Exchange.    The  route  taken  will  be  past 
lany  plantings  that  will  illustrate  the 
ultural  practices  of  the  industry. 

Next  on  the  program  is  the  lemon 
acking  plant  of  the  Co-operative  Asso- 
iation  of  San  Dimas  associated  with  the 
alifornia  Fruit  Growers'  Exchange,  and 
ae  orange  products  plant  at  Ontario, 
'alifornia.  Lunch  will  be  served  at 
'Jverside  at  the  "Mission  Inn,"  most 
imous  of  California  hostelries,  with  its 
ining  room  under  the  open  sky  in  a 
aim  garden.  At  Riverside  the  opera- 
.ons  of  the  district  exchange  of  the 
alifornia  Fruit  Growers'  Exchange  will 
2  explained  and  an  inspection  will  be 
lade  of  the  offices  of  the  district  or- 
anization. 

The  party  will  then  visit  the  Citrus 
Experiment  Station  of  the  University 
f  California,  near  Riverside.  This  is 
lie  only  institution  conducting  research 
l  a  large  scale  in  sub-tropical  horticul- 
"ire ;  its  plantings  and  projects  will  be 
loroughly  explained.  On  this  day  the 
-eatest  citrus-producing  belt  of  the 
orld  will  be  seen,  and  at  Riverdale  also 
iill  be  shown  the  mother  tree  on  which 
Je  orange  industry  of  California  was 
>unded;  it  is  a  navel  orange  imported 
om  Brazil,  set  in  a  park  in  a1  shrine  of 
5  own.  Thousands  of  acres  of  oranges, 
mons,  grapefruit  and  other  sub-tropical 
uits  will  be  seen.  Methods  of  tilling 
ese  groves  and  the  co-operative  prac- 
;es  with  regard  to  fumigating,  picking, 
indling  of  labor,  etc.,  will  be  explained 
detail.  The  return  to  Los  Angeles 
ill  be  through  the  Santa  Ana  Canyon 
iSt  avocado  plantations  and  the  lemon 
oducts  plant  of  the  California  Fruit 
rowers'  Exchange  at  Corona. 
On  Wednesday  morning,  July  11,  the 
'urs  committee  will  offer  the  visitor  a 
ioice  of  two  alternate  trips :  The  first 
ill  include  visits  to  a  large  hatchery, 
typical  dairy  farm,  and  a  drive  through 
niversal  City  to  see  motion  pictures 
the  making;  the  second  will  include 
early  morning  trip  to  the  producers' 
irkets  of  Los  Angeles,  after  which  a 
rty  of  not  to  exceed  25  may  attend  the 
;ekly  board  meeting  of  the  directors  of 
e  California  Fruit  Growers'  Exchange. 
I  the  afternoon  a  session  of  the  insti- 
te  will  be  held  at  the  Hotel  Alexandria 
which  descriptions  will  be  given  of  the 
erations  of  the  successful  co-operatives 
California  —  the  California  Fruit 
•owers'  Exchange  and  the  Mutual 
-ange  Distributors. 

On  Thursday  morning,  July  12,  a  trip 
II  be  made  to  the  new  warehouse  and 
ices  of  the  Challenge  Co-operative 
eamery  Association.  This  is  the  sec- 
d  largest  co-operative  butter  market- 
*  organization  in  the  United  States.  It 
a  federated  central  sales  agency, 
ndling  butter  and  other  dairy  products 
ide  by  its  member  organizations  seat- 
ed over  California,  Nevada  and  Idaho, 
trip  will  also  be  made  to  the  city  dis- 
puting plant  owned  by  the  California 
ilk  Producers'  Association,  one  of  the 
>st  effective  fluid  milk  and  cream  co- 
;ratives  in  the  United  States.  Members 
this  organization  own  as  subsidiary  a 
tributing  concern  with  over  200  routes 
ivering  milk  to  the  wholesale  trade 
1  to  the  housewives'  doors. 
The  afternoon  will  be  left  free  so  that 
mbers  of  the  institute  may  do  any- 
(ng  they  desire.  Some  may  wish  to 
it  the  old  San  Fernando  Mission,  one 
a  series  of  picturesque  reminders  of 
Spanish  era  of  colonization  in  Cali- 
■nia.  Some  of  these  missions  were 
cted  about  the  middle  of  the  18th 
itury  by  the  Franciscan  order,  and 
st  of  them  were  made  by  Indian  labor 
ier  supervision  of  the  Brown  Fathers, 
me  may  desire  to  visit  the  beaches  or 
educational  institutions. 


STANDARD   OIL  COMPANY  OF   NEW  YORK 


HAVE  YOU 
TRIED 
SOCONY  SPECIAL 
GASOLINE  ? 


^ood  morning,  motor' 


h.dear! 
h, dear 


SORRY,  BOSS,  but  it's  not 
good  morning  for  me.  I'm 
sick.  If  you  take  me  out  today, 
you'll  drive  in  second  most  of 
the  time.  I  warned  you.  It's 
that  cheap  gas  you've  been 
buying.  I'm  as  choked  up  with 
carbon  as  a  kerosene  lamp  in  a 
country  store.  My  valves  are 
about  as  tight  as  a  broken 
sieve.  Can't  you  grasp  the  idea 
that  I'm  as  delicately  adjusted 
inside  as  a  watch?  I  get  really 
peeved  at  the  stuff  you  dump 
into  me.  Where  do  you  get  it, 
anyway?  How  much  do  you 
save?  A  few  pennies — and  then 
pay  dollars  to  get  me  back  into 
shape.  And  while  I  am  getting 
this  grouch  out  of  my  system,  I 
want  to  say  a  word  about  oil. 
If  I  don't  get  a  crank  case  full 
of  good  oil  pretty  soon,  you'll 
be  walking.  My  bearings  feel 
like  sandpaper.  I  haven't 
enough  compression  to  blow  up 
a  toy  balloon.  Honestly,  I  don't 
see  how  I  turn  over.  It  must  be 
habit.  Treat  me  right  and  I'm 
good  for  another  twenty  thou- 
sand miles.  Give  me  good  gas 
and  oil,  Boss,  please." 


IF  you  haven't,  it's  probably  because  of  the 
stiff  competition  of  the  Socony  Gasoline 
pump  right  alongside  it. 

It's  pretty  hard  to  convince  a  man  who  has 
been  using  Socony  Gasoline  for  years  with 
never  a  snort  from  his  carburetor  that  he 
ought  to  pay  a  few  cents  more  a  gallon  for 
something  different. 

However,  if  you  have  an  old  car  or  a  new 
high  compression  motor  and  want  to  test  the 
capacity  of  your  engine  on  a  particularly 
creamy  cut  of  anti-knock  gasoline,  Socony 
Special  is  worth  trying.  It  gives  you  a  little 
better  pickup  in  traffic,  a  little  finer  silk  in  the 
purr  of  your  engine,  and  a  more  dogged  flow 
of  power  on  hills. 

You  may  get  along  perfectly  well  without 
these  "extras"  but  you  can  scarcely  help 
enjoying  them,  and  you  surely  will  appreciate 
the  absence  of  knocking. 

Like  Socony  Gasoline  and  Socony  Motor 
Oil,  it's  tested  thirteen  times  before  it  reaches 
your  car. 

Let  your  motor  be  the  judge 


STANDARD   OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 


CLIP  AND  GROOM  YOUR  COWS 

It  Means  Cleaner  and 
Better  Milk 

Clipped  and  groomed  cows 
will  keep  them  clean  and 
comfortable  and  keep  tha 
dirt  out  of  the  milk  pail. 
Clipping-  and  grooming'  im- 
prove the  health  of  your  Live 
Stock.  Use  a  GILLETTE 
Portable  Electric  Clipping' 
and  Grooming:  Machine.  Op- 
crates  on  the  light  circuit 
furnished  by  any  Electric 
Lig-ht  and  Power  Co.,  or  on. 
any  make  of  Farm  Lighting- 
Plant. 

Price  List  on  Request 

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IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


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Page  Twelve 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1928 ; 


Feed 

BUELL  BOSTON 
DRIED  SKIM  MILK 

for  Safety 

Good  poultry  and  young  stock 
should  have  the  best  in  feed. 
You  can  feed  them  this  quali- 
ty product  with  confidence, 
because  it  is  as  clean  and  pure 
as  the  best  fresh  fluid  milk. 
Made  in  factories  subject  to 
the  rigid  regulations  of  the 
New  York  City  Health  Board, 
from  milk  produced  by  dairies 
under  the  same  supervision. 

Write  for  further  information 
and  feeding  directions. 

C.  E.  BUELL,  Inc. 

Board  of  Trade  Building 
BOSTON     -      -      .  MASS. 


The  advertisers  in  the  New  Eng- 
land Dairyman  are  co-operating 
with  your  Association  and  with 
you  when  they  buy  space  in  this 
paper.  You  can  show  your  ap- 
preciation of  this  co-operation  by 
buying  from  them  and  it  will  be 
to  your  interest  and  ours  if  you 
mention  the  New  England  Dairy- 
man when  writing  them. 


For  growing  calves  use  TI-O-GA  CALF 

FOOD.  It  furnishes  as  nearly  as  possible 
the  same  food  elements  as  are  supplied  in 
milk — easily  digested  and  assimilated,  and 
at  much  lower  cost.  Send  for  sample, 
descriptive  circular  and  feeding  tables. 


Address 

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milk  profits  by  cooling 
your  milk  quick  to  pre- 
vent spoiling.   Our  milk 
coolers  will  do  this,  and 
soon  pay  for  themselves 
In  milk  saved.  Sever 
types.    Prices  from 
$9.00  up.     Send  for 
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AN  EDITORIAL  WHICH  WE 
APPRECIATE 

The  farmer  is  strikingly  individual  in 
thought  and  action.  He  has  always  been 
independent,  he  has  lived  much  by  him- 
self, he  has  done  about  as  he  pleased  in 
the  conduct  of  his  affairs,  and  he  has 
seen  little  in  it  for  him  in  working  with 
his  fellow  farmers  in  organized  effort 
for  mutual  benefit.  In  his  business  deal- 
ings, however,  he  has  been  up  against 
organization,  and  as  a  result  he  has  had 
to  take  about  what  the  other  fellows  have 
felt  like  giving  to  him.  His  efforts,  in 
consequence,  have  brought  returns  that, 
for  meagreness,  have  been  way  down  in 
the  scale,  when  the  amount  of  money  he 
has  invested  in  his  business  and  the  hard 
work  he  devotes  to  it,  are  considered. 
•  One  of  the  most  encouraging  signs 
about  farming  in  Massachusetts  is  the. 
growing  realization  among  the  farmers 
of  the  importance  of  collective  bargain- 
ing and  of  organization  as  a  means  of 
solving  the  many  and  varied  problems 
that  they  have  to  meet.  As  an  individual 
the  farmer's  wishes  count  but  little  with 
the  big  buyer,  and  with  the  transporta- 
tion companies,  and  with  the  others  with 
whom  he  deals  in  a  business  way ;  but  he 
is  learning  that  the  officers  of  his  or- 
ganizations, if  strongly  supported,  can 
accomplish  much  for  his  good,  and  that 
his  future  welfare  depends  pretty  much 
altogether  upon  the  strength  of  his  or- 
ganizations ;  and  organization  is  coming 
to  be  the  watchword  of  the  progressive 
farmer,  and  he  and  his  fellow  farmers 
are  beginning  to  stand  together  fairly 
well,  and  to  look  to  the  leaders  to  handle 
many  of  the  business  problems  in  a  busi- 
ness-like way. 

The  milk  producers  have  some  very 
serious  problems  to  deal  with.  There  is 
the  matter  of  better  returns  from  the 
dealers,  of  stabilizing  prices,  of  abolish- 
ing some  objectionable  trade  practices; 
there  is  the  matter  of  fairness  and  effi- 
ciency in  transportation.  There  are 
other  things,  including  practices  among 
some  of  the  producers  that  work  against 
themselves  and  against  the  producers  as 
a  whole. 

It  has  been  said  that  more  has  been 
accomplished  in  the  past  few  months  in 
organizing  the  milk  producers  of  this 
section  than  ever  before.  A  large  num- 
ber of  farmers  became  members  last 
fall  of  the  New  England  Milk  Producers' 
Association,  recognized  as  the  leading 
organization  of  the  milk  producers,  and 
it  is  good  news  to  many  producers  that 
the  work  of  strengthening  the  organiza- 
tion in  this  section  is  to  be  taken  up 
again  immediately  by  District  Manager 
Adams.  Manager  Storey  of  the  Wor- 
cester County  Extension  Service  and 
other  leaders. 

It  is  of  really  vital  importance  that 
the  milk  producers  be  strongly  organized, 
and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  efforts  that 
are  about  to  be  undertaken  along  this 
line  will  meet  with  abundant  success. — 
Editorial  in  Barre  (Mass.)  Gagette. 


Small  Brother :  "Sister's  expecting  you, 
Mr.  Borleigh." 

Borleigh  (delighted)  :  "Really?  Here's 
a  quarter  for  you,  my  lad.  How  do  you 
know?" 

Small  Brother :  "Cos  she's  gone  out." 


"Oh,  doctor,"  cried  a  wild-eyed  man, 
"I  am  dreadfully  afflicted.  The  ghosts 
of  my  departed  relatives  come  and  perch 
on  the  tops  of  the  fence  posts  all 
round  my  garden  when  dusk  is  falling. 
I  can  look  out  any  night  and  see  a 
couple  of  dozen  spooks  sitting  on  top 
of  the  posts,  waiting,  waiting,  waiting. 
What  shall  I  do?" 

"Sharpen  the  tops  of  the  posts," 
came  the  reply. 


U.S.  ARMY  WAGONS 

2  inch  Concord  axle,  Archl-    tf»  A  Cf\ 
bald  wheels,  3% -inch  tire.      "Ph^  _ 
Complete  ready  to  run.  — 

FEDERAL  STORES 

ROCHESTER,  N.  H. 


Send  for  Circular 


A  Concrete 

Milk  House 

with  an  asbestos-shingle  or  slate  roof 
is  FIREPROOF,  DURABLE  and  SANI- 
TARY. . .  It  is  believed  to  be  the  cheap- 
est in  the  long  run,  for  it  requires  few 
repairs  and  no  painting. 

— Farmers  Bulletin  No.  1214,  "Farm  Dairy  Houses" 
U.  S.  Dept.  of  Agriculture,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Free  Construction 
Plans 

A  four-page  leaflet  has  been  prepared 
containing  plans  and  instructions  for 
building  a  concrete  block  milk  house. 

INSULATED  CONCRETE  COOLING 
TANKS  which  SAVE  HALF  YOUR  ICE 
are  included  in  the  above  plans. 

Your  Copy  Is  Free— Ask  For  It 

These  plans  may  be  procured  from  your 
County  Agricultural  Agent  or  from  the 

PORTLAND  CEMENT  ASSOCIATION 

10  High  Street,  Boston 

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A  BOY  CAN  USE  IT 


May,  1928  NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN  Page  Thirteen 


1    DISASTER  IS  AVERTED 

(Continued  from  page  one) 
^iur  former  directors  and  sturdy  sup- 
wrters  for  many  years  past,  took  the 
leadership.  Acting  with  Representative 
|  Poland  D.  Sawyer  of  Ware,  a  hearing 
<  vas  arranged  in  Ware.  The  members 
4|f  all  our  locals  interested  were  notified 
|  nd  they  attended  the  conference,  to- 
rether  with  town  selectmen,  postmasters 
fnd  others  interested  in  retaining  the 
I  rain  service. 

1  Mr.  Bronson  assembled  and  presented 
onvincing  statistics  as  to  the  situation 
if  the  dairy  industry  in  that  region  and 
n  the  effect  it  would  have  if  the  train 
ervice  were  curtailed.    Furthermore  he 
wrought  out  the  fact  that  the  revenue 
he   railroad  derived   from  transporting 
lis  milk  was  an  important  part  of  its 
icome  and  that  any  move  which  cut 
own    the   shipments    materially  would 
e  a  disadvantage  to  the  railroad  as  well 
s  to  the  farmers. 
Dr.  Gilbert  came  in  strongly  on  this 
'oint,  saying  that  the  dairy  farmers  in 
lat   section   ought   to   have   every  en- 
gagement  to   increase   their  produc- 
on  of  high  quality  milk.    They  are  at 
comparatively  short  distance  from  the 
■larket  and  can  thus  get  their  product 
•to  the  market  in  first  class  condition- 
[e  believed  that  the  production  of  Grade 
.   milk   in   that   region   could  be  ma- 
•rially    stimulated,    if    adequate  train 
rvice    were   maintained.     This  would 
aterially   increase  the  revenue  of  the 
tilroad  and  bring  about  what  the  rail- 
Sad   desired,   more  economy   in  main- 
ining  train  service  on  that  branch. 
,  Mr.  Bronson  pointed  out  that  the  in- 
line  from   hauling  milk  on   this  line 
about  $80  a  day.    Of  this  amount  $65 
'  paid  on  milk  loaded  at  Colebrook  or 
yond.    He  expressed  his  opinion  that 
,e  greater  part  of  this  revenue  would 
lost  if  the  morning  train  service  to 
Dston  were  discontinued   as   it  would 
'ake  it  practically   impossible   for  the 
oducers  to  get  a  premium   for  their 
'-ade  A  product  if  it  were  held  over 
itil  afternoon.     They  get  an  average 
about  a  cent  a  quart  higher  than 
■'her  producers,  not  on  the  Grade  A 
isis.    They  are  entitled  to  this  premium 
they   have    made    changes    in  their 
j  uipment    for    handlnig    the    milk  in 
der  to  qualify  on  the  Grade  A  basis, 
the  premium  on  Grade  A  milk  were 
iuced  or  lost  altogether   they  would 
;e    their    incentive    to    produce  the 
ality  milk  and  would  soon  drop  back 
the  ordinary  Grade  B  basis. 
■The  dairymen  in  these  towns  can  ship 
:ually  well  to  Boston  by  train  or  to 
'orcester  by  truck.    The  train  trans- 
rtation  costs  somewhat  more  but  the 
Uher  price  they  can  get  for  Grade  A 
lk  in  Boston  warrants  the  payment  of 
s    higher   transportation    charge.  If 
:  Grade  A  premium  were  lost  to  them 
by  would  be  more  likely  to  ship  to 
orcester  by  truck.    Without  intending 
I  do  any  damage  they  might,  by  send- 
I ;   their   milk    into   Worcester,  upset 
stability   of   that   market   and  add 

II  further  to  its  present  complexities, 
jrcester  already  has  about  all  the  mlik 
can  take  care  of  readily  and  any 
litional  supply,  forced  into  the  market 
jht  bring  disaster  to  all  producers 
j.plying  that  market.  The  NEMPA 
>ts  committee  would  be  unable  to  cope 
!  h  the  situation  where  a  considerable 
f.ntity  of  milk  was  dumped  on  a  mar- 

at  short  notice, 
'/loreover  these  producers  in  western 
Srcester  county  might  be  induced  to 
I  to  irresponsible  dealers  in  Worcester 
are    are   quite    a   number    of  small 
lers  who  buy  milk  in  one  section  for 
ime  on  credit,  then  when  that  credit 
'exhausted,  go  to  some  other  section 
start  a  new  supply  with  more  rosy 
mises.    Under  the  present  situation, 
n  the  available  supplies  well  taken  up 
more  and  more  of   the  producers 
ing  on  as  regular  patrons  of  respon- 
e  dealers  (large  or  small),  it  is  be- 
fiing  increasingly  hard  for  these  ir- 
I    >onsible  dealers  to  get  a  supply  of 
i.    They  are  gradually  being  forced 
)e  responsible  and  pay  for  their  milk 
to  quit  selling  milk.     If   this  new 
on  were   suddenly  opened   to  them 
i  a  fair  guess  that  a  good  many  of 
farmers  might  get  stung, 
he  Boston  dealers  who  are  buying 
this  section  are  Whiting  and  Ross, 
i  are  responsible  and  both  are  look- 


ing for  qualily  milk.  We  understand 
that  the  Whiting  company  stands  ready 
to  increase  its  purchases  of  Grade  A 
milk  in  that  territory  as  fast  as  new 
producers  bring  up  their  standards  to 
where  they  can  qualitfy  for  Grade  A 
production. 

All  this  was  presented  to  Frederick 
T.  Grant,  traffic  manager  of  the  Bos- 
ton &  Maine  Railroad,  at  the  hearing. 
It  was  the  first  time  that  he  ever  had 
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recommend  the  retention  of  the  morn- 
ing train  to  Boston.  He  made  good 
his  promise  and  within  a  few  days  the 
announcement  was  made  that  the  morn- 
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This  was  welcome  news  to  the  dairymen. 

There  were  immediate  results  of  the 
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region  looking  toward  an  increase  in 
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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


May,  1928 


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FIELD  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT 


51  Corn  hill,  Boston 


F.  C.  WARNER,  Manager 

DISTRICT  MANAGERS 

Maine  Field  District— 

Northern  Field  District — S.  I>.  STEARNS,  St.  Jahnsbury.  Vt. 

Northwestern  Field  District — CAKKOLL  R.  MrltKIDE,  St.  Albans,  Vt. 
If  lit  land   District — CHARLES   R.   PARMALEE,  Rutland,  Vt. 


The  field  service  department  is  re- 
turning to  normal  work  after  about 
three  months  of  interruption  due  to  the 
controversy  with  the  New  England 
Creamery  Products  Company.  Now 
that  the  controversy  has  been  settled  in 
a  way  that  is  satisfactory  to  us,  our 
men  are  returning  to  their  regular 
duties.  Check  testing,  organization  work 
and  general  service  to  the  members  will 
be  resumed  where  it  left  off. 

There  will  be  some  changes  in  per- 
sonnel. F.  L.  Foley,  who  has  been  in 
charge  of  the  field  work  in  Maine,  will 
become  manager  of  the  Northern  Market 
District  to  succeed  F.  Leon  Brown,  who 
comes  into  the  Central  Office  as  assistant 
manager.  A  new  man  will  be  secured 
for  the  Maine  district  within  a  week 
or  two.  Sam  Stearns  is  back  in  his 
old  field  in  the  upper  Connecticut  Val- 
ley with  headquarters  at  St.  Johnsbury. 
A  new  man,  Carroll  R.  McBride,  is 
starting  to  work  in  northwestern  Ver- 
mont, taking  the  place  of  N.  H.  Wells, 
who  resigned.  Charles  R.  Parmalee  is 
at  work  in  the  Rutland  district. 

Foley  and  Stearns  have  been  in  the 
thick  of  the  fight  since  February  1,  and 
have  been  working  seven  days  a  week 
under  tremendous  strain.  Parmalee  did 
not  have  so  long  a  session  as  he  was 
stationed  at  the  Brandon  plant,  which 
was  sold  early  in  the  controversy,  thus 
restoring  him  to  regular  work.  All 
three  men  were  big  factors  in  the  suc- 
cessful outcome  of  the  controversy. 
Under  the  leadership  of  our  veteran 
campaigner,  F.  C.  Warner,  these  men 
saw  to  it  that  the  milk  moved  every 
day  in  the  week.  The  effective  handling 
of  this  problem  of  taking  care  of  the 
milk  which  was  pulled  off  from  the 
New  England  Creamery  Products  Com- 
pany was  one  of  the  biggest  factors  in 
success. 

You  members  of  the  association  in  the 
districts  where  these  men  were  working 
when  we  pulled  them  off  of  the  regular 
program  and  placed  them  in  the  front 
line  trenches  ought  to  realize  that  they 
were  on  the  most  important  piece  of 
business  the  NEMPA  had  on  hand  the 
past  three  months,  maintaining  the 
"known  price."  Most  of  you  have  ap- 
preciated this  and  have  not  made  many 
demands  for  special  service.  Now  that 
the  crisis  is  past  we  can  assure  you 
that  your  requests  for  service  will  be 
taken  care  of  just  as  promptly  as  pos- 
sible. 

In  Maine  there  were  some  special  re- 
quests for  check  testing,  coming  in  from 
men  who  were  dissatisfied  with  the  tests 
they  were  getting  from  their  dealers. 
Foley  will  go  into  Maine  for  a  few 
days  and  do  this  check  testing  as  it  will 
be  a  week  or  two  longer  before  a  new 
man  can  be  put  into  the  Maine  field. 
We  have  several  promising  candidates 
for  the  position  but  after  one  is  selected 
he  will  not  be  established  regularly 
until  the  mud  dries  up  a  little  more  and 
traveling  is  better.  Another  reason  is 
that  Mr.  Warner  is  spending  a  week 
or  two  with  his  latest  assistant,  Mc- 
Bride, up  in  the  Champlain  Valley  dis- 
trict getting  him  firmly  established  in 
his  new  job.  He  wants  to  do  the  same 
♦hing  with  the  man  in  the  Maine  dis- 
trict. 

While  the  final  transfer  of  the  Shel- 
don and  East  Fairfield  plants  was  made 
to  the  Hood  company  on  April  14, 
there  was  still  quite  a  bit  of  work  to 
be  done  in  both  places  in  order  to  get 
back  on  to  a  normal  basis.  For  one 
thing  pulling  off  75  per  cent,  of  the 
milk  from  the  New  England  Creamery 
Products  Company  and  selling  it  else- 
where disorganized  the  collection  routes 
badly.  Stearns  at  Sheldon  had  a  tough 
job  getting  these  collection  routes  re- 
established on  an  orderly  basis,  but  did 
the  job  well. 

Then  there  was  the  matter  of  get- 
ting the  cans  straightened  out  so  that 
each  farmer   would  have  his  own  and 


the  company  would  have  theirs.  There 
were  some  farmer  owned  cans,  and 
cans  owned  by  the  Hood  company  in- 
volved, not  to  mention  the  cans  owned 
by  dealers  or  co-operatives  to  whom 
the  milk  was  sold  on  the  temporary 
basis.  Having  men  like  Stearns  and 
Foley  to  get  these  things  straightened 
out  helped  greatly  to  restore  good  feel- 
ing. 

Still  another  point  on  which  the  field 
men  have  done  a  good  job  is  in  help- 
ing to  get  the  reimbursements  paid  to 
the  producers.  Stearns  made  the  rounds 
of  every  producer  at  Sheldon,  helping 
each  one  to  make  out  his  reimbursement 
claim  in  proper  form  so  that  there  would 
be  no  error  or  delay  in  the  full  pay- 
ment for  the  milk.  He  had  with  him 
checks  for  the  payment  on  February 
claims,  which  had  already  been  figured 
at  the  central  office,  but  in  every  case 
he  checked  up  to  see  that  the  amounts 
coincided  with  what  the  producers 
thought  they  should  get.  The  only  error 
reported  was  one  of  47  cents,  due  to  the 
producer  not  sending  in  his  weight 
slips.  The  claims  for  milk  delivered 
during  the  first  half  of  April  are  all 
made  out  and  the  checks  will  be  mailed 
to  all  producers  early  in  May. 

Somewhat  the  same  procedure  was 
followed  by  Foley  at  East  Fairfield.  He 
got  the  cans  straightened  out  and 
routes  re-established.  They  had  an- 
other "pay  day"  April  20,  when  W.  H. 
Bronson  went  up  and  made  out  the 
checks  for  each  man  as  he  came  in. 
All  but  eight  men  came  in  to  get  their 
pay  and  the  checks  for  these  eight  were 
subsequently  delivered  in  person.  Mr. 
Warner  and  Mr.  McBride  will  make  the 
rounds  of  the  East  Fairfield  producers 
helping  them  to  make  out  their  claims 
for  milk  delivered  in  April.  These 
checks  will  be  mailed  to  each  man  direct 
from  the  central  office.  It  will  be  a 
good  chance  for  Mr.  McBride  to  get 
acquainted  with  some  of  the  men  he  is 
to  serve. 

Since  the  Brandon  plant  was  sold  to 
the  Whiting  company,  Mr.  Parmalee  has 
been  check  testing  and  doing  organiza- 
tion work.  The  traveling  has  been  so 
bad  that  farm  visits  were  hard  to  make 
but  he  has  done  a  good  piece  of  work 
in  straightening  out  dues  orders.  At 
the  time  of  the  flood  there  was  a  con- 
siderable shifting  about  of  patrons  from 
one  dealer  to  another,  due  to  difficult 
.  transportation  conditions.  Few  of  these 
patrons  notified  us  of  the  changes  they 
were  making  and  the  consequence  was 
that  we  did  not  have  them  recorded  on 
the  dealers'  list  to  whom  they  are  now 
shipping.  Parmalee  took  advantage  of 
the  weeks  when  traveling  was  all  but 
impossible  in  his  district  to  get  these 
men  properly  recorded  and  thus  back  on 
a  regular  dues  paying  basis.  He  check 
tested  at  the  Hood  plant  at  Eagle 
Bridge  and  at  the  Whiting  plants  at 
Brandon,  Leicester  Junction  and  Ran- 
dolph, 

Carroll  McBride,  our  new  recruit,  will 
be  in  charge  of  the  field  service  work 
in  the  Champlain  Valley  District.  He 
is  a  native  Vermonter  and  has  been 
hearing  considerable  about  the  NEMPA 
R.  McBride,  has  been  president  of  the 
Brownsville,  Vt.,  NEMPA  local  for 
some  years.  Our  new  field  man  was 
brought  up  on  his  father's  farm  in 
Brownsville  and  attended  the  Woodstock 
High  School.  He  then  went  to  the 
State  Agricultural  School  at  Randolph, 
and  later  took  a  short  course  in  dairy 
ing  and  farm  economics  at  Cornell 
University.  He  has  also  had  quite  a 
practical  experience.  He  worked  under 
one  of  his  former  instructors  at  Ran- 
dolph Agricultural  School,  who  became 
manager  of  a  farm  in  New  York. 
He  also  served  as  acting  manager  of  a 
large  farm  in  Woodstock  and  last  year 
worked  the  home  farm  in  Brownsville 
on  shares  with  his  father. 


"Pullets  Laying  at  4  Months  and  10  Days" 

THOUSANDS  of  poultrymen  tell  us  that  they  eliminate  the  usual  chick  losses — develop 
2/4  to  2^  pound  broilers  in  8  weeks — and  have  pullets  laying  at  the  age  of  4  months 
and  10  to  12  days — by  feeding  the  complete  line  of  B-B  Chick  Feeds — The  B-B  Buttermilk 
Starter,  Chick  Feed,  Growing  Mash,  and  Developing  Feed. 

They  say  that  B-B  Chick  Feeds  contain  everything — minerals,  dried  Buttermilk,  and  other 
pure,  "Grade-One"  ingredients — that  growing  chicks  need,  and  in  just  the  right  proportions, 
to  build  big,  sturdy  frames — to  keep  them  bright  and  active — and  to  bring  them  into  the 
laying  season  full  of  vitality  and  egg-producing  ambition. 


E.  R.  Stiles,  Portland,  Maine,  writes,  "I 
have  never  had  as  satisfactory  results  from 
any  feed,  regardless  of  price,  as  I  have 
from  B-B  Chicle  Feeds.  /  had  white 
Wyandottes  dress  2  Yl  poundswhen  8  weeks 
old  and  pullets  start  to  lay  when  4 
months  and  3  weeks  old." 

"We  hatched  145  chicles  from  eggs  of 
B-B  Fed  hens,"  writes  W.  B.  Simpson, 
Manager  of  Moyerdale  Farm,  Liver- 
pool, N.  Y.  "These  chicles  were  fed  B-B 
Chick  Starter  until  7  weeks  old  —  then 
changed  to  B-B  Growing  Mash  and 
Developing  Feed.  They  laid  their  first 
eggs  at  the  age  of  4  months  and  todays.1' 

A.  W.  Early,  Fairport,  N.  Y.,  says,  "I 
started  118  chicks  on  B-B  Starter  and 
lost  only  one.  I  sold  2  3^  pound  broilers 
when  they  were  only  9  weeks  old." 

"We  fed  B-B  Chick  Starter  and  Growing 
Mash  to  our  chicks, "writes 
PauIA.  White,  Horsehead, 
N.Y.,"and  had  pullets  lay- 
ing at  4  months  and  1 1  days. 


Geo.  J.  Schappell,  Ham- 
burg, Pa.,  says,  "I  started 
300  chicks  on  B-B  Feeds 
and  raised  296."  "I  fed 
B-BGrowing  Mash  with  ex- 
cellent results,"  writes 


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V.  M.  Couch,  Ithaca,  N.  Y.  "It  makes 
rapid  growth  and  is  an  appetizing  food." 

"I  started  100  chicks  on  B-B  Starter," 
writes  Paul  Van  Hanezhein,  Walworth, 
1Y.  Y.  "They  are  now  12  weeks  old  and 
weigh  3  pounds."  A.  P.  Bowman, 
Corfu,  N.  Y.,  writes,  "We  hatched 7000 
chicks  this  year— fed  B-B  Chick  feeds 
and  had  very  good  results." 

Dr.  J.  R.  Dalling,  Stillwater,  N.  J.f 

President  of  State  Poultrymen's  Assoc., 
Secretary  of  White  Wyandottes'  Club 
of  America,  and  winner  of  hundreds  of 
cups,  medals,  and  ribbons  at  the  1927 
meets  and  fairs  says,  "Our  birds  are  fed 
exclusively  on  B-B  Feeds.  They  have  been 
conditioned  for  and  maintained  at  the 
various  shows  on  this  feed  and  have 
thrived  on  it." 


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begin  feeding  B-B  Chick  Feed  along  with  the  Starter.  The  5th  week  they  start  changing  from  the 
Chick  Starter  to  B-B  Growing  Mash.  The  7th  week  they  substitute  B-B  Developing  Feed  for  the 
Chick  Feed.  The  13th  week  they  substitute  B-B  Scratch  Feed  for  the  Developing  Feed.  And  when 
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munity, he  has  no  right  to  expect  its 
citizens  to  contribute  toward  his  suc- 
cess. Of  our  954  stores,  scattered  over 
46  states,  3 1  per  cent  of  our  managers 
own  their  homes,  and  90  per  cent  of 
them  have  contributed  both  time  and 
money  to  local  organizations  for  civic 
betterment. 

We  have  often  invited  you  to  examine 
*      our  merchandise.  We  urge  you  now  to 
examine  the  merchant  who  offers  it  to  you  and  the  part  he  plays 
in  your  community  life.   We  believe  you  will  be  satisfied. 


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Oxford  Gilsland  Poetess,  of  Gilsland  Farm, 
Falmouth,  Maine,  owned  by  Mr.  David  E.  Moul- 
Ion,  has  a  Registry  of  Merit  record  of  412  lbs.  fat 
made  as  a  Junior  two-year-old.  She  is  now  on 
test  as  an  age  cow.  Other  outstanding  Jerseys  who 
have  gained  their  fame  under  the  Gilsland  Farm 
colors  are  Flying  Fox's  Maid  with  a  record  of 
14,315  lbs.  milk  and  924.6  butter  as  a  Junior  four- 
year-old  [world's  record  when  made)  and  Poet's 


Duchess  of  Gilsland  with  a  record  of  13,596  lbs. 
milk  and  668.84  lbs.  butter- fat. 

A  De  Laval  Milker  is  used  at  this  noted  Jersey 
farm  and  Mr.  Moulton,  who  is  an  ex-director  of 
the  American  Jersey  Cattle  Club  and  a  prominent 
Jersey  breeder,  gives  it  the  support  of  his  valuable 
recommendation  as  a  means  of  obtaining  better 
records  and  better  milking. 


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HpHE  story  of  increased  production,  cleaner  milk 
and  better  milking  as  told  by  prominent  De 
Laval  Milker  users  everywhere  becomes  longer 
and  more  convincing  each  day.  Nationally  known 
breeders,  producers  of  the  finest  of  dairy  products 
and  dairymen  wherever  cows  are  milked  have  all 
found  the  De  Laval  Milker  the  one  best  way  of  in- 
creasing yield  and  decreasing  bacteria  counts,  of 
saving  valuable  time,  obtaining  greater  returns  on 
their  labor  investments,  and,  of  untold  importance, 
providing  each  cow  with  the  best  milking  possible. 

For  instance,  Mr.  David  E.  Moulton,  ex-director  of  the 
American  Jersey  Cattle  Club,  widely  known  Jersey  breeder 
and  owner  of  Gilsland  Farm  at  Falmouth,  Maine,  has  used 
a  De  Laval  Milker  for  some  eight  years  and  heartily  en- 
dorses it.    Daring  its  use  many  noteworthy  Jersey  records 


have  been  made  at  Gilsland.  Cows  on  test  showed  greatly 
increased  production  after  the  milker  was  put  into  use,  and 
in  speaking  of  this  at  the  time,  Mr.  Moulton  said,  "These 
were  official  tests  duly  authenticated  and  accepted  by  the 
American  Jersey  Cattle  Club.  The  records  show  their 
comparative  production  and  disclose  not  only  an  increase 
each  month  but  more  insistent  production.  ...  I  am  con- 
fident this  was  due  entirely  to  the  machine." 

Mr.  A.  R.  Webb,  of  Southwick,  Mass.,  uses  the  De  Laval 
Milker  for  the  production  of  low  bacteria  count  milk.  He 
has  maintained  a  count  of  less  than  1000  per  c.c.  ever  since 
the  installation  of  the  milker.  With  hand  milking  his  low- 
est count  was  20,000  per  c.c.  Note  Mr.  Webb's  laboratory 
report  illustrated  below. 

These  two  cases  are  typical  and  are  duplicated  by  hun- 
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Mr.  A.  R.  Webb,  of  Southwick,  Mass.,  uses  the  De  Laval  Milker  to  assure  consistently  low 
bacteria  counts.  During  the  entire  period  in  which  the  De  Laval  has  been  used  a  bacteria  count 
of  less  than  1000  per  c.c.  has  been  maintained  as  against  his  lowest  bacteria  count  of  20,000  per 


c.c.  made  with  hand  milking.  Note  his  laboratory  report  of  500  per  c.c,  which  was  the  lowest 
count  of  the  Grade  A  dairies  for  the  week.  Mr.  Webb  receives  a  premium  for  his  milk  and  states 
that  with  the  De  Laval  Milker  he  is  able  to  produce  a  cheaper,  cleaner  and  better  milk. 





New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


rolume  1 1 


Number 


BOSTOX,  MASS.,  JUNE,  1928 


.50  Cents  Per  Year 


THE   JUNE  PRICE 


irket    Uneasy    Under  Adverse 
Weather  Conditions 

The  flush  season  has  brought  its  ac- 
'  tomed  problems  in  the  market.  As 
5  Dairyman  goes  to  press  the  sales 
nmitte  of  the  association  is  being  called 
3  Boston  to  listen  to  complaints  of 
:ious  dealers  over  market  conditions, 
is  claimed  by  several  of  the  dealers 
t  there  is  considerable  milk  coming 
a  the  market  at  less  than  the  NEMPA 
ce  and  that  they  are  thus  under  a  trade 
advantage  by  reason  of  their  having  to 
j-  the  NEMPA  price. 
Vhile  it  is  not  possible  to  forecast  what 
1  be  said  and  done  at  the  coming  ses- 
l  of  the  sales  committee  there  are  sub- 
itial  reasons  for  holding  fast  to  the 
sent  price  and  refusing  to  make  any 
!  uction  for  June.  We  made  a  seasonal 
uction  of  one  cent  April  1,  to  cover 

flush  season  conditions.  If  some  low 
:ed  milk  is  now  coming  into  the  mar- 
L  it  is  nothing  more  than  what  usually 
ipens  in  the  height  of  the  flush  season 
en  there  is  much  more  milk  seeking 

market  than  the  market  can  absorb, 
would  still  be  seeking  a  market  at  a 
>er  price  and  nothing  would  be  changed 
ess  a  very  sharp  reduction  was  made. 
Veather  has  much  to  do  with  the  situa- 
1.  The  continuation  of  the  cool,  rainy 
ither  is  not  good  for  milk  sales  and 
lers  are  up  against  a  stiff  proposition 
holding  what  sales  they  have  even  if 
re  were  no  unusual  competition  in 
:es.  The  unfavorable  weather  naturally 
ds  to  make  the  dealers  pessimistic 
'Ut  the  condition  of  the  market  and 
lined  to  make  claims  which  would  not 
brought  in  if  the  weather  was  hot  and 
;s  were  booming.  However,  this 
ither  cannot  continue  indefinitely  and 
the  time  the  sales  committee  comes  in 
may  be  sizzling  hot  and  everybody 
ling  for  more  milk. 

"he  New  York  price  is  holding  and  is 
htly  above  ours ;  another  reason  for 
thinking  seriously  of  any  decrease, 
in  prices  are  high  and  it  would  be  a 
ere  blow  to  the  dairyman  to  have  an 
varranted   price   reduction    forced  on 
m  by  unsettled  market  condition.    It  is 
that  the  surplus  is  considerable  but 
re  is  nothing  in  the  present  situation 
{ indicate   that   it   will  continue  large 
;r  July  1. 

Vhile  the  high  cost  of  grain  at  the 
sent  time  has  less  to  do  with  the  price 
milk  than  most  people  think  it  is  still 
':act  that  the  dealers  know  that  the 
in  price  is  high  and  that  a  good  many 
their  producers  are  discouraged.  Any 
ther  decrease  at  this  time  would  tend 
restrict  production  later  in  the  year 
;n  the  milk  will  be  needed.  For  this 
son  they  are  not  likely  to  press  very 
d  for  any  reduction.  The  comPeti- 
•  conditions  are  what  they  complain 
ut. 

taking  all  these  things  into  considera- 
i  it  is  a  time  when  the  sales  committee 
I  be  inclined  to  sit  tight  and  refuse  to 
stampeded  into  making  any  changes 
he  fluid  milk  price.  They  will  listen 
vhat  the  dealers  have  to  say,  of  course, 
will  not  make  any  changes  unless  the 
ation  proves  to  be  much  worse  than 

]  think  it  is. 


Building  Up  or  Tearing  Down 


CONSIDER  TARIFF 


Two  great  forces  are  working  in  the 
dairy  industry  of  New  England.  They 
are  working  against  each  other.  The 
stronger  will  prevail.  For  some  months 
the  force  which  makes  for  progress  made 
long  advances.  Recently  the  destructive 
force  has  become  more  evident. 

For  a  year  or  two  past  confidence  and 
mutual  understanding  among  the  various 
groups  of  dairy  farmers,  organized  to 
market  their  products,  has  grown  steadily. 
The  New  England  Council  and  the  Com- 
missioners of  Agriculture  have  been 
potent  factors  in  bringing  these  groups 
together.  But  back  of  it  there  was  a 
will  to  come  together.  Otherwise  all 
efforts  of  Council  or  Commissioners 
would  have  come  to  naught. 

This  is  one  of  the  great  forces  shaping 
the  destiny  of  the  organized  dairy  indus- 
try ill  New  England. 

Out  of  this  mutual  confidence  and 
understanding  grew  the  movement  for  the 
"known  price"  on  a  basis  which  all  could 
support,  regardless  of  their  plan  of  one 
organization  of  manner  of  sale.  Sub- 
stantial progress  has  been  made  on  a  pro- 
position for  all  groups,  also  dealers,  to 
report  their  sales  and  purchases  and 
prices  to  some  disinterested  party.  It  is 
probable  that  Commissioner  Jones  of  Ver- 
mont would  receive  these  reports  for  his 
state.  It  is  a  wholesome  and  progressive 
movement. 

No  clearer  call  has  come  to  the  dairy 
industry  of  New  England  than  that  given 
a  few  weeks  ago  as  an  editorial  in  the 
New  England  Homestead.  Glenn  Sevey, 
after  many  years  of  intimate  knowledge 
of  the  forces  which  make  or  break  the 
cause  of  organized  marketing  of  farm 
products,  calls  on  the  various  groups  to 
fall  in  line.  We  commend  to  every  mem- 
ber of  the  association,  and  especially  to 
the  management  of  certain  co-operatives 
the  strong  message  in  the  Homestead,  re- 
printed on  our  editorial  page  in  this  issue. 

The  other  force,  working  against  and 
constantly  tending  to  break  down  this  will 
come  together,  is  the  desire  of  certain 
groups  or  individuals  to  secure  advantages 
for  themselves  at  the  expense  of  the  rest 
of  the  dairy  industry.  It  is  a  short-sighted 
point  of  view.  Profit  which  comes  to 
one  at  the  expense  of  the  many  is  but  a 
temporary  advantage. 

The  groups  and  the  men  who  take  this 
short-sighted  view  may  be  doing  so  from 
willful  determination  to  gain  a  stronger 
position  in  the  market  or  they  may  be 
doing  it  without  a  full  knowledge  of  con- 
ditions in  the  dairy  industry  as  a  whole, 
instead  of  the  conditions  in  their  particu- 
lar territory,  nl  either  case,  the  results 
are  disastrous.  Disorganization  of  the 
market  is  the  inevitable  result  if  they  go 
very  far  whether  it  is  from  purely  selfish 
motive  or  whether  it  comes  from  guessing 
as  to  what  conditions  of  supply  and  de- 
mand really  are. 

Guessing  has  been  abandoned  by  tin- 
modern  business  world.  It  is  a  relic  of 
the  old  times.  Today  business  is  carried 
on  in  the  light  of  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  general  conditions.  No  man  can  long 
manufacture  or  sell  goods  if  he  bases  his 
judgment  solely  on  what  he  knows  him- 
self. He  will  be  crowded  to  the  wall  by 
those  who  understand  and  interpret  the 
business  of  his  competitors. 


It  is  not  otherwise  in  the  dairy  indus- 
try. The  distributing  end  of  the  industry 
has  recognized  this  and  is  governing  itself 
by  it.  Dealers,  if  they  are  successful, 
study  their  markets.  They  forge  ahead 
or  fall  back  according  to  the  correctness 
of  their  judgment  of  the  market.  The 
one  who  knows  most  about  the  market  is 
the  .one  who,  in  the  long  run,  has  the 
greatest  measure  of  success. 

Why  should  it  be  different  with  the 
producing  end  of  the  dairy  industry  ? 
Why  should  groups  of  farmers  persis- 
tently refuse  to  recognize  general,  well- 
known  facts  about  supply  and  demand  for 
milk,  and  proceed  to  base  their  business 
operations  on  guesswork?  Just  because 
producers  in  a  certain  section  have  rather 
more  milk  than  usual  it  is  cause  for  them 
to  try  to  force  that  milk  on  the  market 
by  any  means?  If  they  really  knew  the 
conditions  in  the  dairy  industry  as  a  whole 
they  might  see  that  their  increase  in  pro- 
dustion  was  local  and  temporary. 

Modern  business  calls  for  a  thorough 
understanding  of  the  conditions  surround- 
ing that  particular  line.  It  is  possible, 
because  of  the  interest  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Council  and  the  Commissioners  of 
Agriculture,  for  each  of  the  various  or- 
ganized groups  of  dairy  farmers  in  New- 
England,  to  secure  this  broad,  general 
knowledge  of  conditions. 

It  is  an  opportunity  which  never  before 
has  existed  on  such  a  broad  basis  in  New 
England.  It  is  an  opportunity  which,  if 
utilized,  will  put  the  dairy  industry  of 
New  England  in  a  new  condition  of  as- 
sured stability  and  prosperity.  But  it 
does  not  lend  itself  to  the  purposes  of 
those  who  seek  only  their  own  advantage. 

They  can  come  into  the  era  of  mutual 
understanding  and  goodwill  only  with 
reservations  and  with  only  half-hearted 
intentions  of  giving  their  full  strength 
and  support  to  this  great  new  force  in  our 
industry.  The  pity  of  it  is  that  only  a 
few  with  reservations  can  block  the 
progress  of  the  many  who  come  in  whole- 
heartedly. These  few  can  wield  their 
little  force  to  prevent  the  force  of  pro- 
gress from  functioning.  They  may  not 
intend  to  do  so,  but  such  will  be  the  in- 
evitable effect. 

Within  the  past  few  weeks  there  has 
crept  into  the  market  an  uneasiness,  an 
instability,  due  almost  entirely  to  the 
fact  that  a  few  groups  are  conducting 
themselves  in  a  way  to  create  suspision  of 
their  understanding  of  true  market  con- 
ditions or  of  their  good  faith  in  the  con- 
ferences before  the  commissioners.  Some 
of  the  reports  which  come  in  to  us  re- 
garding their  business  methods  are  prob- 
ably exaggerated,  some  may  be  without 
foundation.  But  whether  from  misunder- 
standing or  bad  faith,  they  are  having  an 
effect  in  breaking  down  this  spirit  of 
confidence  and  goodwill. 

The  remedy  is  plain.  It  is  stated  clearly 
in  the  Homestead  editorial.  It  is  for  all 
groups  to  allay  suspicion  and  clear  away 
doubts  by  adopting  some  system  of  re- 
porting their  sales  and  purchases  to  some 
disinterested,  responsible  party.  If  all 
will  do  this  the  force  which  upbuilds  will 
have  practically  a  clear  field  toward 
stabilization  and  permanence.  If  some 
few  of  them  do  not,  then  progress  will 
be  halting  and  uncertain. 


Agricultural  Organizations  Favor 
Bill  for  Short  Session 

The  tariff  comes  into  the  forefront  of 
attention  again  to  all  the  group  of  organ- 
ized dairymen  in  the  country  through  the 
recent  refusal  of  the  United  States  Senate 
to  accept  the  Shipstead  amendment  to  the 
tax  bill,  calling  for  tariff  increases  on  a 
list  of  articles  coming  in  competition  with 
products  produced  on  American  farms. 
We  are  chiefly  concerned  with  those 
which  are  in  competition  with  our  dairy 
products. 

The  vote  in  the  Senate  was  13  in  favor 
of  the  amendment  and  44  against  it.  We 
have  been  in  communication  with  the 
New  England  Senators  and  several  of 
them  have  signified  their  general  approval 
of  the  purpose  of  the  bill,  but  did  not 
believe  that  the  present  amendment  was 
differently  drawn.  They  will  have  an 
opportunity  to  show  their  support  as  a 
bill  providing  for  the  increases  will  be  in- 
troduced at  the  short  session  of  Congress 
opening  next  November. 

The  movement  for  protection  of  the 
dairy  industry  from  the  competition  of 
substitutes  came  to  a  head  at  Washing- 
ton, May  7,  when  representatives  of  main- 
co-operative  organizations  of  farmers  met 
in  conference  on  tariff  matters.  As  the 
result  of  the  conference  a  special  legis- 
lative committee  on  tariff  was  created. 
The  committee  consists  of  J.  W.  Mont- 
gomery, manager  of  the  Central  Co-opera- 
tive Livestock  Association  of  St.  Paul, 
Minn. ;  Charles  W.  Holman,  secretary 
National  Co-operative  Milk  Producers' 
Association;  Judge  John  D.  Miller,  presi- 
dent of  the  National  Federation;  J.  R. 
Warsham,  Peanut  Growers'  Association; 
J.  W.  Shorthill,  secretary  Farmers'  Na- 
tional Grain  Dealers'  Association  ;  Harry 
R.  Lewis  of  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.,  presi- 
dent National  Poultry  Council. 

The  tariff  conference  brought  out  a 
vigorous  discussion  regarding  the  work- 
ings of  the  "flexible  tariff"  law.  It  was 
the  prevailing  opinion  that  the  law  did 
not  work  out  well  because  of  its  slow- 
ness in  operation.  Our  efforts  to  get  an 
increase  in  the  dairy  schedule  is  a  fair 
example;  two  and  one-half  years  in  the 
works.  The  process  of  getting  relief  in 
this  way  was  altogether  too  slow  and 
complicated  in  the  opinion  of  the  leaders. 
The  endless  procession  of  investigations, 
surveys,  hearings  and  rehearings  take  so 
much  time  that  conditions  may  change 
materially  from  the  time  a  moveijjent  for 
increased  tariff  is  started  until  a  decision 
is  finally  given. 

An  interesting  point  brought  out 
strongly  was  that  the  tariff  on  agricul- 
tural products  was  not  a  protective  tariff 
but  one  for  revenue  while  the  tariff  on 
manufactured  articles  was  Practically  pro- 
tective. This  difference  is  shown  in  the 
fact  that  60  per  cent,  of  all  the  revenue 
derived  from  the  tariff  comes  on  agri- 
cultural products.  It  was  the  general 
opinion  of  the  conference  that  a  vigorous 
effort  should  be  made  to  get  agricultural 
products  actually  protected,  if  manufac- 
tured products  are  to  be  protected. 

The  conclusions  reached  by  the  council 
were  transmitted  to  all  members  of  com- 
merce. These  conclusions  were  as  fol- 
lows : 

That  these  organized  co-operatives  en- 
(Continued  on  page  three) 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  192§¥ 


New  England  Dairyman 

Published  Monthly  by  the 

NEW  ENGLAND  MILK  PRODUCERS 
ASSOCIATION 

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Devoted    to    the    Interests    of  Dairy 
Farming  and  Marketing  in 
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of  Oct.  3,  1917,  authorized  July  13,  lilt. 

HARRY  L.  PIPER,  Editor 


N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1928 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  Vice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
General  Manager,  W.  P.  Davis,  51 
Cornhill,  Boston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  I.; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me. ;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  N.  H. ;  F.  B.  Catlin, 
Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H.  Dunsmore, 
St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A.  Tuttle,  Hard- 
wick,  Mass. ;  Elmer  M.  Poole,  North 
Dartmouth,  Mass. ;  Frank  L.  Nichols, 
Narragansett,  R.  I. ;  Frank  T.  Peck- 
ham,  Newport,  R.  I. ;  R.  Allen  Sikes, 
Ellington,  Conn. ;  C.  J.  Abell,  Lebanon, 
Conn. ;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan,  N.  Y. ; 
George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke,  N.  Y. 


THE  MILK  PRICE 

We  have  received  a  number  of  letters 
of  late  raising  the  question  of  why  the 
fluid  milk  price  was  reduced  April  1 
when  the  grain  price  is  still  so  high.  It 
is  apparent  that  there  are  a  number  of 
our  members  who  do  not  recognize  the 
way  in  which  the  old  law  of  supply  and 
demand  works,  regardless  of  costs  of 
production.  To  those  who  feel  that  the 
high  cost  of  production  in  April  should 
have  prevented  a  decrease  in  price  we 
suggest  consideration  of  some  of  the 
fundamental  facts. 

First  of  all  there  is  a  seasonal  varia- 
tion in  the  volume  of  milk  available  to 
the  markets,  without  regard  to  the  costs 
of  production  or  any  other  factor. 
Natures's  way  is  for  the  cows  to  pro- 
duce more  milk  in  the  spring  and  early 
summer.  New  England  farmers,  for 
many  generations  followed  the  natural 
way  and  had  their  cows  freshen  in  the 
spring.  In  some  sections  of  New  Eng- 
land, as  shown  on  the  chart  on  the  oppo- 
site page,  the  amount  of  milk  produced 
in  June  is  nearly  three  times  as  much  as 
in  November. 

There  is  only  a  slight  increase  in  con- 
sumption in  the  summer  and  it  does  not 
come  until  warm  weather  arrives.  The 
demand  increases  very  little  until  the 
flush  season  in  milk  is  more  than  half 
over.  This  brings  about  a  condition 
where  there  is  available  two  or  three 
times  as  much  milk  for  sale  as  the  con- 
sumers in  the  city  will  buy.  This  situa- 
tion comes  every  year,  whether  grain 
prices  and  other  costs  of  production  are 
high  or  low. 

It  is  true  that  high  costs  of  produc- 
tion over  a  period  of  years  tend  to  re- 
duce the  available  supply.  The  reduction, 
however,  takes  place  at  all  seasons  and 
generally  would  be  less  marked  in  the 
spring  and  summer  when  pastures  are 
good  and  when  less  grain  is  necessary 
to  produce  the  milk.  If  high  costs  of 
production  are  coupled  with  low  prices 
for  several  years  the  supply  of  milk 
might  be  reduced  so  much  that  there 
would  be  no  great  surplus  for  sale  in 
May  and  June  and  not  nearly  enough  to 
meet  the  demand  in  the  fall. 

But  it  takes  several  years  to  have  such 
an  effect  and  the  present  high  price  of 


grain  has  little  relation  to  the  volume  of 
milk  offered  for  sale.  So  the  old  laws 
of  supply  and  demand  works,  for  the 
short  period,  irrespective  of  costs  of  pro- 
duction. Just  as  in  every  other  line  when 
there  is  more  of  anything  than  the  people 
will  buy  the  price  has  to  go  down.  With 
such  a  highly  perishable  commodity  as 
milk  the  law  of  supply  and  demand  works 
quickly  and  surely. 

The  reduction  we  made  April  1st  was 
in  recognition  of  the  increasing  supplies 
of  milk.  Such  an  increase  brings  more 
milk  offered  on  the  market  and  with  a 
lower  price  on  buttter,  offered  at  lower 
prices.  The  greater  the  volume  of  prod- 
uct available  for  the  market  the  less  the 
product  is  worth  per  unit.  Increasing 
costs  of  product  increases  the  price  of 
the  product  through  limitation  of  supply. 
Our  experience  has  been  that  by  meeting 
such  a  situation  of  increased  supply  by 
a  reduction  of  price  the  market  will  be 
stabilized  and  will  carry  through  the 
flush  period  on  an  average  higher  level 
than  it  would  if  such  a  reduction  was 
not  made.  The  way  to  prevent  such  de- 
creases in  prices  in  the  spring  is  to  even 
up  production  so  it  more  nearly  fits  the 
sales  line  required  to  furnish  the  fluid 
milk  and  the  table  cream  needs  of  the 
market.  Then  without  the  large  flush 
production  prices  can  be  carried  through 
the  spring  period. 

We  cannot  get  for  our  flush  produc- 
tion as  much  as  we  could  get  if  milk 
was  produced  more  nearly  as  the  market 
needed  it.  If  producers  would  even 
up  their  production,  producing  more  in 
the  fall  and  winter  when  milk  is  short, 
instead  of  producing  so  much  in  May 
and  June  when  milk  is  plentiful,  the  total 
cash  receipts  for  the  year  would  be  ma- 
terially higher. 

Read  what  H.  P.  Young,  Vermont 
farm  specialist,  has  to  say  about  returns 
for  milk  produced  at  different  seasons 
and  their  relation  to  costs  of  production. 
We  produce  his  excellent  article  in  full 
in  this  issue.  In  it  lies  the  best  answer 
we  can  find  to  the  men  who  ask  why 
the  price  of  milk  went  down  April  1. 
It  will  always  go  down  when  there  is 
too  much  of  it.  The  wise  dairymen  will 
produce  more  of  it  when  the  demand  is 
good  and  when  the  price  is  bound  to  be 
at  the  highest  level  of  the  year. 


PATTEE  MANAGER 

The  following  from  the  Burlington  Free 
Press  will  be  of  interest  to  a  large  number 
of  our  members:  "Sam  W.  Pattee  of 
Newton  Highlands,  Mass.,  a  member  of 
the  junior  class  of  Middlebury  College, 
has  been  elected  to  the  managership  of 
the  varsity  debating  team,  according  to 
a  recent  announcement  by  William  North- 
rup  Morse,  head  of  the  department  of 
dramatic  and  public  speaking.  Pattee 
has  been  a  member  of  the  varsity  debat- 
ing team  for  the  past  three  years. 

"Mr.  Pattee  is  a  member  of  Tau  Kappa 
Alpha,  national  honorary  debating  society 
and  is  president  of  the  Middlebury  chap- 
ter. He  is  a  member  of  the  1929  Kaleido- 
scope board  and  of  Beta  Kappa  fraternity. 

"Pattee  has  taken  part  in  winter  sports 
activities  and  is  a  member  of  the  inter- 
fraternitv  baseball  team  of  the  college. 
During  the  past  season  Mr.  Pattee  won 
both  the  Lawrence  and  Wetherell  de- 
batnig  prizes  and  during  his  freshman 
year  won  the  Parker  prize  speaking 
trophy." 


ORGANIZED  MARKETING 

Another  nail  has  been  driven  and 
clinched  in  behalf  of  organized  milk  mar- 
keting. Several  months  ago  The  Home- 
stead called  the  attention  of  the  New 
England  creamery  products  company  to 
the  fact  that  it  could  hope  to  gain  nothing 
by  setting  itself  up  in  opposition  to  the 
best  interests  of  the  entire  dairy  industry. 
However,  like  many  sincere  manage- 
ments they  insisted  upon  having  their  own 
experience.  There  resulted  a  long  drawn 
out  controversy  with  the  New  England 
Milk  Producers'  Association.  It  now  has 
terminated  in  the  only  way  it  could, 
namely,  very  much  in  favor  of  organized 
marketing. 

The  co-oPerative  effort  of  New  Eng- 
land dairymen  the  past  30  years  has  not 
been  in  vain.  It  required  many  years  to 
establish  the  necessary  spirit  and  loyalty 
of    producers    themselves.     Then  came 


more  years  of  struggling  to  gain  recog- 
nition in  the  markets.  Finally,  came  that 
highly  desirable  condition  where  dealers 
and  middlemen  saw  that  they  could  better 
serve  the  public,  and  incidentally  them- 
selves, by  helping  forward  organized  mar- 
keting. They  saw  the  folly  of  each  man 
"going  it  alone,"  stirring  up  animosities 
and  holding  the  industry  back  by  the  in- 
evitable chaos. 

Always  the  whole  is  greater  than  a . 
part.  When  the  whole  (the  dairy  indus- 
try )  is  discouraging  and  unprofitable,  no 
part  thereof  can  expect  gratifying  results. 
Hence  no  part,  be  it  producer,  distributor 
or  combination,  can  hope  to  gain  maxi- 
mum returns  without  considering  how  his 
operations  will  affect  the  whole.  The 
JNiew  England  creamery  products  people 
challenged  those  fundamental  truths.  They 
have  learned  their  lesson  and  we  trust 
others  in  days  to  come  will  profit  thereby 

Apparently,  the  next  forward  step  is  to 
establish  the  known  price  system.  That, 
too,  is  a  detail  in  advancing  the  industry 
as  a  whole.  Much  credit  is  due  the 
NEMPA  and  the  dealers  or  groups  for 
the  stabilizing  influence  exercised  in  the 
market.  By  reporting  purchases  and  sales 
together  with  prices  to  a  milk  adminis- 
trator, the  finger  of  suspicion  has  been 
avoided.  Now  let  the  various  co-opera- 
tive groups,  largely  in  Vermont,  practice 
a  similar  method  and  thousands  of  dol- 
lars will  be  saved  to  the  industry.  These 
local  groups  need  not  report  to  the  same 
administrator  nor  need  they  adopt  the 
surplus  arrangement  of  the  NEMPA. 
Some  of  the  co-operatives  probably  have 
worked  out  plans  that  best  suit  their  in- 
dividual needs.  Yet  they  are  in  duty 
bound  to  contribute  something  in  behalf 
of  the  whole  industry.  They  will  best 
advance  their  own  cause  by  so  doing. 
Then  will  be  removed  the  biggest  cause 
of  rumors,  misunderstandings  and  price 
cutting  wars. 

Word  reaches  New  England  Homestead 
that  the  co-operatives  are  seriously  con- 
sidering the  advantages  of  just  that  sort 
of  report  to  someone  of  their  own  selec- 
tion who  will  command  public  confidence. 
'  It  is  good  news.  As  time  goes  on  New 
England  dairymen  are  realizing  that  state 
lines  constitute  no  barrier  against  the 
organized  marketing  of  milk.  Different 
sections  with  varying  conditions  may  ap- 
proach problems  from  different  angles, 
but  all  are  seeking  the  same  goal.  They 
are  trying  to  fit  their  individual  solu- 
tions into  the  complete  whole.  In  that 
effort  can  be  seen  every  reason  for  much 
encouragement. 

In  all  this  good  work,  of  course,  the 
NEMPA  has  great  responsibility.  By  far 
the  largest  group,  it  must  aid  this  co- 
operative approach  in  every  possible  way. 
It  should  continue  vigorously  the  cam- 
paign of  organization  and  enlistment  of 
members  among  those  producers  who  sell 
directly  to  dealers  in  Boston  and  other 
markets.  The  large  dealers  in  Boston 
are  now  buying  their  milk  on  the  known 
price  basis  and  reporting  to  the  milk  ad- 
ministrator. In  Lawrence,  Lowell,  Man- 
chester, Brockton,  Fall  River,  New  Bed- 
ford and  Providence,  the  greater  portion 
of  the  milk  is  bought  under  the  NEMPA 
plan  and  is  fairly  to  be  considered  on  the 
known  rice  system.  Worcester  and 
Springfield  are  weak  spots  and  it  is  up  to 
the  NEMPA  to  strengthen  those  markets. 
One  step  in  that  direction  is  to  eliminate 
the  hypocrisy  of  prices.  Naming  a  price 
which  all  knew  to  be  false  is  not  calcu- 
lated to  insire  confidence  nor  lasting 
progress.  With  the  NEMPA -doing  its 
part  and  the  individual  co-operatives  doing 
theirs,  the  New  England  dairy  industry 
will  attain  a  new  position  of  profit  and 
satisfaction. 


RESOLUTIONS 


"Acting  upon  the  mandate  of  the  dele- 
gates to  the  first  national  conference  on 
agricultural  tariffs  who  on  behalf  of  981,- 
000  farmers  have  taken  action  to  request 
the  70th  Congress  of  the  United  States 
to  pass  in  this  session  a  special  agricul- 
tural emergency  tariff  act  revising  upward 
import  duties  on  all  products  raw  or  re- 
fined that  come  in  either  direct  or  in- 
direct competition  with  products  produced 
by  the  farmers  of  the  United  States, 
your  committee  on  resolutions  submit  the 
following  report : 

"World  conditions  have  changed  ma- 
terially since  the  enactment  of  the  Tariff 


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Act  of  1922,  and  international  competi 
Hon  with  respect  to  many  agncultura 
products,  raw  and  refined,  has  become  in- 
tensified.   In  consequence  the  Tariff  Acifcur 
is  no   longer   adequate   to  equalize   the  in 
competitive    conditions    as    between    the  lire 
agricultural    producers    of    the  United 
Mates  and  those  of  foreign  countries,  oi  >t* 
to  maintain  the  economic  parity  of  our 
agricultural    producers    with  those 
other  domestic  industries. 

"At  this  time  agriculture  is  still  in 
condition  of  serious  economic  depression 
While  the  producers  are  suffering  because 
of  lack  of  domestic  markets,  more  thai 
a  billion  and  a  quarter  dollars  of  agricul- 
tural products  are  being  annually  im 
ported  into  this  country.  These  productillip 
constitute  from  59  to  62  per  cent,  of  tht;u: 
aggregate  value  of  all  imports.  Their  lit 
continued  importation  displaces  a  domes-  Wt' 
tic  market  for  enormous  quantities  of  our 
own  products  and  forces  our  products  intL  sur 
a  still  more  ruinous  competition  upon  the  k 
world  markets.  Agriculture  cannot  for 
much  longer  sustain  the  terrible  burden  l»| 
of  producing  products  whose  sales  returni  I 
are  often  below  cost  of  production  in«ri 
order  that  dwellers  in  industrial  com-t^i 
munities  shall  reap  the  benefit  of  a  greater ino 
per  capita  share  of  the  national  income 

"In  a  considerable  measure  the  malad-T' 
justment  between  the  farmer's  share  off" 
the  national  income  and  the  share  taken 
by  industrial  groups  is  due  to  inequalities  fan 
existing  in  the  Tariff  Act  of  1922. 

"It  is  a  time  to  speak  frankly.   The  im 
port  duties  on  products  competing  withjari 
the  agriculture  of  the  United  States  are_ 
in  a  large  measure  duties  for  revenue 
purposes  only,  while  a  long  list  of  com 
modities  coming  into  this  country  on  the :' . 
free  list  operates  to  depress  returns  oi  1 
farm  producers  and  to  partially  nullify 
the  effectiveness  of  the  existing  duties  oil 
other  commodities.    On  the  other  hand,  it  . 
appears  to  us  that  most  of  the  duties  levied lK 
on  products  which  the  farmers  must  buy 
are  highly  protective  duties.    In  conse 
quence,  agriculture  suffers  a  double  handi 
cap:    Duties  on  products  competing  with 
our  agricultural  products  are  so  low  as 
to  prevent  adequate  realization  of  tariff 
benefits.    On  the  other  hand,  duties  levied 
on  products  which  farmers  buy  are  sc| 
high  that   foreign  products  tend  to  fcx 
shut  out  and  our  producers  must  buy  a  ? 
relatively  higher  prices  on  the  domest:* 
market. 

"In  considering  remedies  for  this  de 
plorable  situation  in  the  hope  that  some 
measure  of  relief  may  be  had  that  wi 
tend  to  make  agriculture  self-supporting 
and  stay  the  present  alarming  drift  oi 
good  farmers  from  the  rural  districts  ta 
the  cities,  we  believe  that  a  long  step  cat- 
be  taken  by  raising  the  duties  on  rav) 
and  refined  commodities  coming  into  this 
country  to  compete  with  the  products  oi 
our  farmers  so  that  the  benefits  of  Tarifl 
will  be  more  equitably  shared  as  between 
the  respective  groups  of  the  nation.  To 
that  end,  we  declare  in  favor  of  a  pro 
tective  tariff  on  products  competing  with 
those  produced  on  farms  of  the  United 
States. 

"At  this  time  we  also  call  the  atten 
tion  of  the  Congress  to  the  fact  that  th< 
farmers  of  the  United  Sates  are  suffer 
ing  severely  because  no  tariff  duties  an; 
placed  upon  products  grown  and  im 
ported  from  the  Philippine  Islands.  Wt 
are  convinced  that  the  time  has  come  tc 
speak  just  as  frankly  about  our  relation 
with  the  Philippine  Islands.  For  year 
the  Federal  Government  has  been  pouring 
millions  of  dollars  into  the  developmen 
of  these  islands  and  allowing  product 
from  these  islands  to  come  into  this  coun 
try  duty  free,  notwithstanding  the  fac 
that  the  Philippines  are  not  a  part  of  tht 
territory  of  the  United  States.  We  there 
fore  demand  that  a  tariff  be  levied  upoi 
products  imported  from  the  Philippini 
Islands,  and  we  call  attention  to  the  fac 
that  the  principle  of  levying  such  a  tarif 
upon  the  Philippine  Islands  is  recosm'zer 
in  the  Tariff  Act  of  1922  although  th< 
Congress,  after  declaring  the  principle 
proceeded  to  make  an  exception  of  a! 
products  grown  in  those  islands. 

"It  seems  to  us  only  just  and  reasonable 
that  protection  against  competition  of  thi 
character  should  be  given  farmers  of  the 
United  States,  and  the  Philippines,  to  th< 
extent,  should  pav  the  cost  of  their  owt 
improvement,  which  is  now  costing  oui 
Federal  treasury  annually  12  million  dol 
lars  more  than  the  total  of  Philippin 
tax  receipts." 


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NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Three 


CONSIDER  TARIFF 

(Continued  from  page  one) 


Even  Production  a  Necessity 


orse  the  principle  of  a  protective  tariff 

n  all  commodities  coming  into  either 
kirect  or  indirect  competition  with  prod- 
ucts produced  on  farms  of  the  United 
"{(•tates. 

ft  That  Congress  should  levy  a  protective 
nport  duty  on  products  from  the  Philip- 
ine  Islands  that  come  into  either  direct 
r  indirect  competition  with  products  pro- 
uced  on  the  farms  of  the  United  States. 
That  the  Tariff  Act  of  1922  needs  dras- 
tic upward  revision  with  respect  to  some 
ommodities,  a  list  of  which  is  enclosed,  in 
itrder  to  equalize  more  nearly  the  present 
isparity  between  the  smaller  share  of  the 
i  Rational  income  obtained  by  farmers  and 
'he  larger  si'iare  obtained  by  other  groups 
fithin  the  United  States. 
|t  That  the  present  low  economic  state  of 
iur  agriculture  makes  it  a  necessity  for 
ifhe  70th  Congress  in  this  session  to  pass 
emergency  tariff  legislation  to  aid  our 
[■•eople. 

1 1  To  that  end  we  ask  you  to  give  not  only 
lierious  consideration  to  this  form  of 
Agricultural  Relief,  but  also  your  assist- 

nce  by  passing  this  proposed  legislation 
before  another  harvest  season  comes  on. 
ifo  do  so  will  give  a  gleam  of  hope  to 

armers  in  many  sections  who  now  are 

uffering  because  of  relatively  low-priced 
farm  products,  caused  in  part  by  a  huge 

olume  of  agricultural  imports, 
r  The  committee  asked  for  increases  in 
Ijariff  on  more  than  100  commodities  which 
i  

Present 

|.,asein  and  Lactarene,  per  lb   2l/2  cent 

;\nimal  Oils,  per  gal. 

Sod,  Herring,  Menhaden    5 

Whale  and  Seal    6 

All  Other    20% 

•'egetable  Oils 

Hempseed,  per  lb   \l/2  cents 

\  Rapeseed,  per  gal   6  cents 

j  Tung,  Palm  and  Perilla    Free 

.  Linseed,  per  lb   3.3  cents 

■  All  Other    20% 

■Vegetable  Oils,  per  lb. 

J  Coconut    2  cents 

j  Palm-nut    Free 

Soya  Bean  :        2y2  cents 

.-lard  Oils,  per  lb   4  cents 

jOil  Combinations    25% 

Butter  and  Substitutes,  per  lb   8  cents 

Cheese  and  Substitutes,  per  lb   5 

Oil-bearing  Seeds 

Linseed,  per  bu   40  cents 

Copra  and  Palm-nut,  per  lb   Free 

Hemp,  Palm,  Tung,  Rape,  Perilla,  Sesame  and 
All  Other,  per  lb   Free 


Read  carefully  the  statements  of  H.  P. 
Young',  farm  management  specialist  for 
Vermont,  reprinted  herewith  in  full  from 
the  Eastern  States  Co-operator.  It  tells 
the  story  which  should  be  uppermost  in 
the  minds  of  progressive  dairymen  in 
New  England — the  need  of  more  even 
production.  Study  also  the  chart  at  the 
bottom  of  this  page.  It  shows  the  situa- 
tion in  Vermont  by  counties,  as  regards 
uneven  production.    Next  month  we  hope 


come  into  competition,  directly  or  in- 
directly, with  the  products  of  American 
farms.  The  schedule  asked  for  an  increase 
in  duty  on  milk,  both  fresh  or  sour,  from 
2x/2  to  4  cents  a  gallon  and  from  20  cents 
to  40  cents  a  gallon  on  cream.  The  duties 
asked  for  on  milk  products  were  as  fol- 
lows : 

Milk,  Condensed 

per  lb.        Present  Proposed 

Not  Sweetened  1     cts.  V/2  cts. 

Sweetened           \V2    "  3 

Other    \H    "  2 

Powder    3       "  7'/2    "  or  45% 

Skimmed  Milk 

Powder    1 </2    "  3  " 

Cream  Powder  7       "  10 

Malted   20%  40% 

Duties  asked  for  on  other  commodities 
which  come  into  competition  with  dairy 
products  were  as  follows  : 


cents 
cents 


Proposed 

6  cents  or  50% 

23  cents  or  45% 
30% 

2  cents  per  lb. 

4  cents  or  45% 
45% 


4  cents  or  45% 
3  cents  or  45% 

5  cents  or  45% 
45% 

12  cents  or  30% 
cents  or  25%  8  cents  or  40% 

75  cents 
3  cents  or  40% 

y2  cent  or  35% 


to  publish  similar  figures  for  New  Hamp- 
shire and  Maine  to  show  to  all  our  mem- 
bers the  handicap  we  are  under,  as  a 
bargaining  organization,  in  having  to 
make  a  price  on  so  much  more  milk  in 
June  than  we  have  to  in  November. 

More  even  production  is  one  of  the 
matters  which  will  come  up  for  active 
discussion  in  our  coming  annual  meeting. 
It  is  the  crisis  we  face  in  the  near  future. 
Mr.  Young's  discussion  of  the  questiono 
is  timely  and  interesting.  He  shows  that 
there  is  more  money  for  the  dairymen 
in  producing  milk  when  the  market  needs 
it  than  when  it  does  not  need  it.  Not 
only  is  there  a  higher  price  for  milk  but 
the  costs  of  production  at  various  seasons 
of  the  year  show  that  the  even  producer 
is  the  one  who  comes  out  best.  Mr. 
Young's  article  was  as  follows : 

Farmers  in  certain  sections  of  New 
England,  particularly  in  northern  and 
western  Vermont,  are  producing  milk  for 
the  fluid  market  with  a  seasonal  distribu- 
tion of  production  suited  only  to  butter 
market  demands.  The  length  of  time 
after  production  within  which  fluid  milk 
may  be  consumed  is  a  matter  of  hours 
whereas  the  length  of  time  after  produc- 
tion that  butter  may  be  consumed  is  a 
matter  of  weeks  or  months.  Butter  pro- 
duced in  June  is  still  salable  as  high  grade 
butter  in  the  following  November,  but 
milk  produced  in  June  if  not  consumed 
immediately  cannot  be  sold  as  fluid  milk 
but  must  be  used  for  a  lower  priced 
product. 

Let  us  see  how  consumers'  demands  for 
fluid  milk  vary  during  the  year.  For  the 
eight-year  period  from  1920  to  1927  in- 


clusive the  larger  Boston  dealers  aver- 
aged to  sell  from  November  to  January 
23.6  million  pounds  of  milk  per  month. 
During  June  and  July  the  avcra«i  ^.ilcs 
amounted  to  25.6  million  pounds  or  8.5 
per  cent.  more.  In  other  words  a  repre- 
sentative group  of  Boston  families  re- 
quiring three  cans  or  120  quarts  of  milk 
per  day  in  November  will  take  during 
June  130  quarts.  Sharp  reduction-,  in 
price  will  not  induce  them  to  take  much 
if  any  more.  Producers  therefore  should 
find  a  way  to  produce  very  little  more 
milk  in  June  than  in  November,  if  they 
wish  to  sell  it  as  fluid  milk. 

A  comparison  of  Vermont  production 
by  months  with  fluid  milk  sales  by  months 
is  interesting.  In  November,  1925,  there 
was  delivered  to  Vermont  plants  56  mil- 
lion pounds,  and  in  June  122  million.  Of 
the  deliveries  in  June  only  35  per  cent, 
was  sold  as  fluid  milk  while  35  per  cent, 
was  sold  as  sweet  cream  and  30  per  cent, 
made  into  butter  or  other  manufactured 
products.  In  November,  only  8  per  cent, 
was  manufactured. 

Franklin  County,  Vermont,  the  worst 
offender  in  swelling  the  June  surplus,  in 
November,  1925,  produced  five  million 
pounds  and  in  June  18  million.  For  every 
120  quarts  of  milk  that  Franklin  County 
farmers  produced  in  November,  416  quarts 
were  produced  in  June.  Of  this  286 
quarts  were  surplus  pure  and  simple.  The 
following  table  shows  the  monthly  de- 
liveries in  1925  by  counties  to  Vermont 
plants. 

In  general,  western  and  northern  Ver- 
mont farmers  who  are  now  selling  milk 
as  fluid  are  producing  milk  in  total  dis- 
regard of  the  needs  of  the  fluid  market. 
On  the  other  hand  production  in  eastern 
and  southern  Vermont  is  in  compara- 
( Continued  on  page  fifteen) 


1 

2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 


1925 


Countv 


1 

Per  Cent. 

Month 

Month 

High  Month 

High 

High 

Low 

Low 

Above 

- 

Low  Month 

June 

3.3 

Sept. 

2.1 

57 

June 

8.8 

Sept. 

5.1 

72 

June 

1.4 

Nov. 

.8 

75 

May 

7.4 

Sept. 

4.0 

85 

June 

4.4 

Sept. 

2.3 

91 

June 

8.7 

Sept. 

4.5 

93 

June 

9.8 

Nov. 

4.8 

104 

June 

6.5 

Nov. 

3.0 

117 

June 

12.9 

Nov. 

5.4 

139 

June 

2.0 

Nov. 

.8 

150 

June 

17.1 

Dec. 

6.8 

151 

June 

19.0 

Nov. 

6.3 

201 

June 

2.8 

Dec. 

.9 

211 

June 

18.2 

Dec. 

5.1 

257 

Of  LOW  MONTH 
400 


Windham    Washington  Bennington       Orange         Windsor  Caledonia 
County  County  County  County  County  Count  v 


Hutlnnd 
County 


Lamoile 
County 


Addison 
County 


Essex 
County 


Orleans 
County 


Chittenden 
County 


(■rand  Isle 
County 


I  ranklln 
County 


SEASONAL  VARIATION  IN  MILK  PRODUCTION  IN  VERMONT 

rhe  chart  shows  the  high  and  low  Point  of  production  in  each  country  in  Vermont.  The  lower,  shaded  portion  represents  the  normal  production  at  the  low  period,  in  most 
:ases  November  is  the  low  month.  The  upper,  black  portion  represents  the  percentage  of  increase  at  the  flush  season  in  June.  The  problem  for  the  dairymen  of  New 
Zngland  to  solve  is  even  up  production  and  get  rid  of  this  wide  seasonal  variation. 


Page  Four 


NEW    ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1928 


CONDITIONS  IN  THE  MARKET 

Milk  production  in  New  England  is 
not  increasing  so  greatly  this  spring  as 
was  indicated  by  the  March  and  early 
April  figures.  Reports  of  Boston  dealers 
operating  under  the  surplus  plan  show 
that  the  increase  in  milk  production  from 
March  to  April  was  11  per  cent.,  which 
is  about  normal.  It  is  a  little  less  than 
the  increase  last  year,  also  less  than  what 
would  have  been  expected  from  March 
reports. 

Previous  to  April  the  figures  showed 
unusually  large  increases  in  production 
but  this  situation  appears  to  have  been 
passed.  It  would  appear  from  reports  for 
t he  first  half  of  May  that  the  increase 
in  production  in  May  is  considerably  less 
than  last  year.  This  slowing  up  in  the 
rate  of  increase  of  production  this  spring 
may  indicate  that  the  supply  will  shorten 
somewhat  earlier  than  normal  and  that 
milk  supplies  might  be  quite  short  next 
fall. 

Sales  of  fluid  milk  fell  off  in  April,  as 
compared  with  March,  due  to  the  Jewish 
holidays  and  the  fact  that  there  were  five 
Sundays  in  the  month.  Sunday  is  the 
lowest  sales  day  in  the  week,  and  when 
five  come  within  the  30-day  month  they 
must  be  taken  into  consideration  in  esti- 
mating the  true  situation  as  to  sales  in  the 
market.  On  the  whole  the  sales  were 
fairly  satisfactrov,  being  slightly  higher 
than  in  April,  1927. 

With  the  normal  increase  in  produc- 
tion and  slightly  reduced  sales  the  sur- 
plus ran  rather  high,  the  weighted  average 
for  all  dealers  being  54.6  per  cent.  Last 
year  in  the  milk  shipping  territory  it  was 
45.1  per  cent.,  and  with  the  cream  terri- 
tory included  it  was  55.3  per  cent.  That 
is,  the  percentage  of  class  2  milk  without 
the  cream  plan  this  year  was  nearly  as 
great  as  it  was  with  the  cream  plan  last 
year. 

The  10th  zone  April  price  for  all  milk 
was  16  cents  a  hundred  less  than  a  year 
ago.  The  class  1  price  was  six  cents 
lower,  while  the  class  2  price  was  19  cents 
lower  than  a  year  ago.  The  decrease  in 
the  net  milk  price  from  March  to  April 
was  39  cents  a  hundredweight.  Of  this  21 
cents  was  due  to  the  lower  class  1  price, 
10  cents  to  the  decrease  in  the  class  2 
price  and  eight  cents  to  the  larger  per- 
centage of  milk  sold  as  class  2. 

One  hundred  pounds  of  milk  at  the  10th 
zone  April  prices  would  buy  86  pounds  of 
grain  as  compared  with  104  pounds 
last  year,  and  an  average  for  April  of 
95  pounds. 

The  comparative  prices  of  milk  and 
butter  for  March  and  April  and  for  April 
1927,  were : 

1928  1928  1927 
Mar.    Apr.  Apr. 

Fluid   $3.36   $2.90  $2.96 

Surplus    2.05     1.87  2.06 

Net  price  all  milk  ....  2.75  2.36  2.52 
Avge  butter  per  lb  496     .460  .511 

The  present  butter  prices  are  two  cents 
higher  than  a  year  ago.  This  would  indi- 
cate that  the  June  butter  price  will  be  at 
lease  a  cent  higher  than  last  year.  Storage 
holdings  are  relatively  small  and  produc- 
tion appears  to  be  lower  than  last  year, 
due  in  a  large  measure  to  increased  feed 
costs. 


Food  prices  increase  from  April  to 
May,  $2  per  ton  and  now  are  $10  per  ton 
above  last  year.  Hay  is  about  $2  per 
ton  below  last  year.  Below  are  compara- 
tive costs : 

1928    1928  1827 
April     May  May 

Grain  per  ton   $54.98  $56.70  $46.84 

Hay  per  ton   12.83    13.51  15.30 

Labor  per  month  with 

board    48.70   48.70  48.70 

The  largest  increase  in  retail  feed  prices 
from  April  to  May  was  in  ground  oats 
with  a  jump  of  17  cents  per  hundred- 
weight. Corn  meal  advanced  16  cents, 
cottonseed  meal  17  cents,  and  glutten  food 
3  cents.  Cottonseed  meal  is  $20  per  ton 
above  last  year,  while  the  others  are  up 
$8  to  $12  per  ton.  The  advance  in  ready 
mixed  rations  has  been  less  and  now 
averages  about  $9  to  $10  above  last  year. 


Correction:  Class  II  Price  in  March 
was  $2,055  instead  of  $2,505  as  printed. 


ALL  CREAM  INCLUDED 

Provisions  of  the  law  regarding  im- 
portation of  Canadian  milk  and  cream 
have  been  interpreted  in  a  more  adequate 
way,  due  to  the  action  of  our  association 
and  the  Dairymen's  League  in  calling  at- 
tention to  practices  which  were  possible 
under  the  first  rulings.  The  director  of 
the  regulatory  work  of  the  U.  S.  D.  A., 
which  has  general  charge  of  the  inspec- 
tion and  permits  to  ship  milk  or  cream 
into  the  United  States,  at  first  ruled  that 
sour  cream  intended  solely  for  butter 
making  could  come  in  without  the  certifi- 
cate of  inspection  required  by  the  Len- 
root-Taber  bill. 

This  ruling  made  it  possible  for  slightly 
sour  cream  to  come  in  from  uninspected 
dairies.  If  the  cream  were  neutralized 
and  sold  as  cream  it  would  be  defeating 
the  purpose  of  the  law.  Uninspected  and 
unlicensed  product  would  be  coming  into 
the  United  States  in  competition  with  our 
own  inspected  products.  The  following 
notice  to  shippers  and  importers  of  milk 
and  cream  under  the  Federal  Import  Milk 
Act  came  through  promptly  after  the 
matter  was  called  to  the  attention  of  the 
director  of  regulatory  work  of  the  U.  S. 
D.  A.: 

"The  question  has  been  raised  whether 
imported  sour  cream  intended  solely  for 
butter  making  is  subject  to  the  provisions 
of  the  Federal  import  milk  act..  After 
full  consideration,  the  department  has 
reached  the  conclusion  that  the  provisions 
of  the  act  apply  alike  to  all  raw  or  pas- 
teurized milk  or  cream  offered  for  im- 
portation into  the  continental  United 
States,  whether  intended  for  use  as  such 
or  whether  intended  for  subsequent  manu- 
facture into  any  food  or  beverage  prod- 
uct ;  and  any  former  opinion  to  the  con- 
trary is  modified  accordingly. 

"Shippers  and  importers  are  advised 
that  all  imported  raw  or  pasteurized  milk 
or  cream  must  conform  to  all  of  the  pro- 
visions of  the  act.  These  include  not  only 
the  bacterial  and  temperature  limitations 
imposed  at  the  time  of  importation  but 
also  the  requirements  that  such  products 
must  be  produced  by  animals  which  are 
shown  to  be  healthy,  and  that  they  must 


be  handled  in  establishments  showing  a 
satisfactory  sanitary  score  as  provided  in 
the  act.  Although  intended  for  manu- 
facture into  butter  or  any  other  food  or 
beverage  after  importation  into  the  United 
States,  such  products  can  be  entered 
legally  only  under  adequite  permit  ob- 
tained previous  to  the  time  of  importa- 
tion." 


DAIRY  CREDIT  NEEDS 

Nearly  40  per  cent,  of  the  cows  in 
Massachusetts  dairy  herds  are  replaced 
each  year  according  to  a  study  just  com- 
pleted by  the  county  extension  services 
co-operating  with  the  college.  Sixty  per 
cent,  of  the  replacements  are  purchased 
and  40  per  cent,  are  raised.  About  one- 
half  of  the  cattle  purchased  are  bought 
on  time,  so  that  the  dairy  credit  problem 
involves  the  annual  financing  of  approxi- 


mately one-tenth  of  all  cattle  on  farms 
in  Massachusetts. 

The  local  bank  is  the  principal  source 
of  credit  in  buying  cattle,  but  cattle 
dealers  are  an  important  source  for 
nearly  40  per  cent,  of  the  farmers  who 
borrow.  The  usual  rate  of  interest  is 
6  per  cent.,  but  on  one-sixth  of  the 
farms  the  rate  is  higher.  The  usual  time 
of  the  loan  is  three  months,  which  may 
be  renewed  one  or  more  times.  One- 
fourth  of  the  repeated  loans  were  paid 
in  three  months,  40  per  cent,  in  six 
months,  and  most  of  the  remainder 
within  one  year. 

Present  sources  of  credit  were  reported 
as  unsatisfactory  in  one-third  of  the  re- 
plies. The  reasons  advanced  are  that  the 
time  of  repayment  is  too  short,  and  that 
cattle  dealers  charge  a  higher  price  for 
cattle  sold,  on  time.  The  rate  of  interest 
is  also  objectionable  in  many  cases. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Effective  June  1,  1928,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Subject  to  Surplus 


At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 

Cwt.in     Cwt.in  Cwt.in 


8qt. 

8/2qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21  !4qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

21  ^qt. 

40qt. 

Zone 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.523 

.560 

.666 

1.356 

1.443 

2.732 

3.153 

3.157 

3.176 

2 

21-40 

.508 

.545 

.651 

1.326 

1.413 

2.692 

3.094 

3.092 

3.129 

3 

41-60 

.503 

.540 

.636 

1.301 

1.388 

2.652 

3.025 

3.037 

3.083 

4 

61-80 

.488 

.525 

.626 

1.291 

1.378 

2.617 

3.001 

3.015 

3.042 

5 

81-100 

.478 

.515 

.616 

1.271 

1.353 

2.587 

2.955 

2.960 

3.007 

6 

101-120 

.478 

.515 

.611 

1.266 

1.343 

2.572 

2.943 

2.939 

2.990 

7 

121-140 

.468 

.505 

.601 

1.251 

1.328 

2.547 

2.908 

2.917 

2.961 

8 

141-160 

.463 

.500 

.596 

1.241 

1.318 

2.527 

2.885 

2.884 

2.937 

9 

161-180 

.458 

.495 

.591 

1.231 

1.308 

2.512 

2.862 

2.862 

2.920 

10 

181-200 

.453 

.490 

.581 

1.221 

1.298 

2.492 

2.839 

2.840 

2.897 

11 

201-220 

.448 

.485 

.576 

1.206 

1.288 

2.472 

2.804 

2.818 

2.874 

12 

221-240 

.443 

.480 

.571 

1.201 

1.278 

2.462 

2.792 

2.796 

2.862 

13 

241-260 

.438 

.475 

.566 

1.191 

1.268 

2.442 

2.769 

2.774 

2.839 

14 

261-280 

.433 

.470 

.561 

1.186 

1.263 

2.432 

2.757 

2.764 

2.827 

15 

281-300 

.428 

.465 

.556 

1.176 

1.248 

2.412 

2.734 

2.731 

2.804 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del.  Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.861 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.548 

.585 

.776 

1.371 

1.453 

2.732 

3.188 

3.155 

3.177 

2 

21-40 

.528 

.565 

.761 

1.341 

1.423 

2.692 

3.118 

3.089 

3.129 

3 

41-60 

.523 

.560 

.756 

1.336 

1.408 

2.652 

3.107 

3.057 

3.084 

4 

61-80 

.518 

.555 

.746 

1.301 

1.388 

2.617 

3.026 

3.013 

3.043 

5 

81-100 

.513 

.550 

.731 

1.296 

1.378 

2.592 

3.014 

2.992 

3.014 

6 

101-120 

.513 

.550 

.731 

1.296 

1.368 

2.592 

3.014 

2.970 

3.014 

7 

121-140 

.513 

.550 

.731 

1.276 

1.358 

2.557 

2.967 

2.948 

2.973 

8 

141-160 

.498 

.535 

.726 

1.271 

1.353 

2.542 

2.9S6 

2.937 

2.956 

9 

161-180 

.493 

.530 

.721 

1.261 

1.338 

2.517 

2.933 

2.905 

2.927 

10 

181-200 

.493 

.530 

.716 

1.246 

1.328 

2.502 

2.898 

2.883 

2.909 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  stations, 
a  premium  of  .0075  cents  per  hundredweight  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
or  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices,  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  country  cream- 
ery expense,  can  service  and  a  deduction  of  2  cents  per  hundredweight  has  been 
made  for  NEMPA  members'  dues  and  1  cent  per  hundredweight  for  advertising. 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  April,  1928 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  April  is  correct.    Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 

If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent.,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.046  for  each  .1  per  cent.  If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent  subtract 
$.046  per  each  .1  per  cent  below  this  standard     If  you  fiurnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  April  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

CREAM  PRICES  APRIL,  1928 

The  basis  of  payment  for  cream  is  the  zone  price  for  3-7  per  cent  milk  built  up  to  the  test  delivered  by  adding  per  point  of  butterfat  1/10  the  price  for  butterfat 
in  Class  II  milk.    The  differential  above  3.7  per  cent,  this  month  is  $.0515  per  point  of  butterfat. 

Zone  1     Zone  2    Zone  3    Zone  4   Zone  5    Zone  6     Zone  7    Zone  8    Zone  9    Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 

Miles  from  Boston                                1-20      21-40     41-60      61-80    81-100  101-120    121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281-300 

Class  1  Milk  Price   3.176      3.129      3.083      3.042      3.007      2.990      2.961       2.937      2.920      2.897      2.874      2.862  2.839  2.827  2.804 

Class  2  Milk  Price   1.869       1.869       1.869       1.869       1.869       1.869       1.869       1.869       1.869       1.869       1.869       1.869  1-869  1.869  1.869 

Class  1         Class  2 
(Mkt.Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 

Hood,  1-15   48.8%           51.2%        2.538      2.515      2.492      2.472      2-455      2.447      2.433      2.421       2.413      2.402      2.390      2.385  2.373  2.368  2.356 

Hood,  16-31   43.2             56.8          2.467      2.448      2.428      2-410      2.395      2.387      2.375      2.364      2.357      2.347      2.337      2.332  2.322  2.317  2.307 

Whiting   35.3             64.7          2.295      2.278      2.262      2.247      2.235      2.229      2.218      2.210      2.204      2.196      2.188      2.184  2.176  2.171  2.163 

Turner  Centre  ....42.7             57.3          2.518      2.498      2.478      2.461       2-445      2.438      2.426      2.416      2.408      2.398      2.389      2.384  2.374  2.368  2-358 

F.  S.  Cummings  ..51.7             48.3          2.543      2.519      2.495      2.474      2.456      2.447      2.432      2.420      2-411      2.399      2.387      2.381  2.369  2.363  2.351 

Weighted  avge  45.4             54.6          2.489      2.468      2.447      2-428      2.412      2.405      2.392      2.381       2.373      2.363      2.352      2.347  2.336  2-331  2.320 

The  Turner  Centre  System  price  includes  an  extra  payment  of  $.095  per  cwt. 


tJune,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fwt 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  April,  1928 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out 
jiwhat  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
for  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below 
*3.7  per  cent,  per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container: 
per  81/.  quart  can,  $0,008;  per  10  quart  can,  $0,010;  per  20  quart  can,  $0,020;  per 
20'A  quart  can,  $0-021  ;  per  40  quart  can,  $0.040 :  per  hundredweight,  $0,046. 


Boston  District 


Dealers 

J   B.  Prescott 

Delivered   


Class  1 

(Mkt. 

Milk) 

...90.6% 


Class  2   

(Mfg.  854 
Milk)  Quart 

9.4%   


20 

(Jiun-t 


Size  of  Can  

21J4  40 

Quart  Quart 


Cwt. 
3.521 


Dealers 


Northern  Market  District 

Class  1    Class  2   


Size  of  Can 


( Mkt. 
Milk) 
Robert  H.  Sawyer 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

.Delivered   83.1% 

.1st  zone   

2d  zone   

VV'ason  MacDonald  Co. 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

(Delivered  79.3 

(1st  zone   

2d  zone   

Findeisen  Farms 

Zoned  from  Lawrence 

(Delivered   56.6 

fcst  zone   

2d  zone   

'4th  zone   

9th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   90.3 

jlst  zone   

2d  zone   

3d  zone   

4th  zone   

5th  zone   

5th  zone   .... 

E.  C.  Blake 
Zoned  from  Manchester 

Delivered   63.6 

1st  zone   

2d  zone   

?d  zone   

5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   66.9 

1st  zone   

Id  zone   

5d  zone   

1th  zone   

5th  zone   

Producers'  Dairy 
Zoned  from  Nashua 

Delivered   82.7 

2d  zone   

5d  zone   

I^Lyndonville  Creamery 

>Hh  zone,  1-15  367 

1th  zone,  1-15  

hh  zone,  16-31   31.8 

L  1th  zone,  16-31   


(Mfg. 
Milk) 


16.9', 


Cwt. 
in 

8j/i's 


Cwt. 
in 

20's 


Cwt. 
in 

40's 


20.7 


43.4 


3.218 
2.805 
2.740 


Cwt. 


3.296 
2.958 
2.919 


3.218 
2.875 
2.820 


3.218 
2.893 
2.856 


36.4 


33.1 


17.3 

63.3 
682 


3.255 
3.056 
3.010 
2.971 
2.955 
2.924 


3.255 
3.072 
3.041 
3.010 
2.982 
2.959 


2.818 
2.587 
2.561 
2.512 
2.443 


3.631 
3.383 
3.341 
3.299 
3.263 
3.231 
3.215 


3.114 

2.928 
2.886 
2.851 
2.748 


3.582 
3.278 
3.230 

2.379 
2.362 
2.317 
2.302 


Providence  Market 

Class  1         Class  2 
Dealers  Mkt.  Mfg. 

If.  B.  Brown   100.0% 

-I.  T.  Burton,  Inc    88.2  11.8% 

tieo.  T.  Chambers    74.5  25.5 

|.  M.   Coolum   100.0 

£.   A.   Fiske   100.0 

L  E.  Goff   100.0 

1  VV.  Grant   100.0 

1.  P.  Hood  (April,  1-15)  Class  1  price  .... 
|.  P.  Hood  (April,  16-31)  Class  1  price  .... 

:has  H.  Hunt    89.9  10.1 

\.  B.  Munroe   100.0 

^.  Martin   100.0 

Perrino  &  Son   100.0 

'rovidence  Dairy    77.4  22.6 

I  E.  Rochon   100.0 

'urner  Centre  System    910  9.0 

V.  C.  Viall    84.1  15.9 

I.  C.  Wade   100.0 

:.  A.  Warnock   100-0 

'..  P.  Westcott   100.0 

ieo.  W.  Wright   100.0 


Delivered  Willimantic 

Zone  Zone 

$4,055   

3.793   

3.600   

4.048   

4.058   

4.058   

4.058   

3.661   

3.659   

3.825   

4.053   

4.058   

4.058   

3.563  3.221 

4.040   

3.879   

3.707   

4.053   

4.053   

4.048   

4.058   


Build  for  a  vigorous 
rugged  Herd 

It  is  a  fact  that  the  healthiest  herds 
return  the  largest  profits. 

This  is  not  only  because  of  higher  yearly  pro- 
duction, but  because — in  the  healthy  herd — 

1  —There  are  no  abortions  and  each  cow  calves 
normally. 

2 —  The  calves  are  bigger,  stronger,  easier  to 
raise  and  are  worth  more  money. 

3 —  The  T.  B.  test  finds  no  reactors. 

4 —  Udder  troubles  seldom  occur  and  garget  is 
practically  unknown. 

The  two  big  foundation  stones  in  the  program 
for  profitable  production  are 

BREEDING  and  FEEDING 

The  PARK  &  POLLARD  CO.  Dairy  Rations  develop 
inborn  capacity  to  its  limit,  at  the  same  time  main- 
taining the  cow  in  high  physical  condition  and  rugged 
health. 

In  our  special  edition  of  "Livestock  in  the  East'*  Book  II 
the  benefits  of  a  complete  ration  are  covered  in  detail. 
This  book  contains  data  on  other  subjects  of  importance 
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Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1928, 


Hot  Weather 
Troubles 

You  can  most  easily 
cope  with  the  high- 
er temperatures  of 
summer  by  keeping 
your  equipment  and 
plant  absolutely 
clean  and  free  from 
foreign  matter  by 
using 


The  sanitary  pro- 
tection which  this 
unequalled  cleaner 
provides  will  greatly 
assist  in  removing 
preventable  causes 
of  off  flavors  and 
odors  in  milk  and 
cream. 

"60^°,"  says  a  great 
dairy  authority,  "of 
the  causes  of  the  off 
odors  and  flavors  in 
milk  are  caused  by 
the  imperfect  clean- 
ing of  dairy  equip- 
ment." 


Ask  your  supply 
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CANADIAN  VIEWPOINT 

See  Benefit  in  Lenroot-Taber  Act 
to  Require  Inspection 

The  Canadian  viewpoint  on  the  in- 
spection of  Canadian  dairies  by  the  United 
States  Government,  under  the  provisions 
of  the  Lenroot-Taber  law,  is  well  ex- 
pressed in  the  accompanying  reprint  from 
Farm  and  Dairy,  published  in  Toronto. 
It  is  quite  natural  for  them  to  disapprove 
of  something  which  places  a  limitation  on 
their  shipments  to  a  good  market.  On 
the  other  hand  the  Canadians  are  accept- 
ing the  situation  and  are  making  their 
preparations  to  conform  to  the  require- 
ments. We  especially  commend  to  our 
members  a  careful  reading  of  the  clos- 
ing paragraph  of  the  statement  from  the 
Canadian  paper.  It  is  evident  that  the 
spirit  of  the  leaders  up  there  is  to  come 
into  this  market  with  a  quality  product. 

Their  estimate  that  75  per  cent,  of  the 
milk  and  cream  will  be  shut  off  from 
shipment  into  the  United  States,  June  1, 
may  or  may  not  be  too  large.  But  it  is 
evidence  that  our  contention  was  right 
and  sound  when  we  advocated  the  Len- 
root-Taber bill.  By  their  own  admission 
the  Canadians  were  shipping  a  very  con- 
siderable quantity  of  milk  and  cream  into 
the  United  States  from  dairies  which  were 
not  under  proper  inspection.  This  has 
been  stopped,  thanks  to  the  good  work  of 
the  organized  dairy  industry  in  behalf  of 
the  Lenroot-Taber  bill.  After  May  31 
we  will  be  freed  from  the  unfair  competi- 
tion of  uninspected  or  improperly  in- 
spected milk  supplies  from  Canada.  The 
statement  in  the  Canadian  paper  was  as 
follows : 

Permanent  Permits  Required 

"As  forecast,  the  United  States  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture  has  announced  that 
temporary  permits  under  the  Import  Milk 
Act  will  be  cancelled  as  of  May  31,  and 
permanent  permits  issued  as  on  June  1, 
after  complying  with  the  regulations  as 
per  said  Act.  The  work  of  inspection 
under  the  Department  of  Agriculture  at 
Ottawa  to  decide  what  shippers  can  ob- 
tain permanent  permits  is  progressing, 
but  in  several  areas  shippers  have  decided 
that  they  cannot  hope  to  re-enter  this 
market  at  present — these  being  creameries 
whose  patrons  have  not  shown  a  willing- 
ness to  go  to  the  expense  of  building 
milkhouses  and  making  other  changes  in 
herds  and  premises  to  meet  the  United 
States  requirements. 

"It  is  impossible  to  say  exactly  how 
large  a  proportion  of  our  exports  will  be 
cut  off  on  May  31,  but  competent  au- 
thorities say  75  per  cent.  That  is  a  serious 
matter,  especially  as  the  United  States 
market  was  the  highest  priced  one  open 
to  Canadian  dairy  products. 

"It  is  certain  that  there  is  a  market  in 
the  United  States  for  Canadian  milk  and 
cream,  and  despite  the  fact  that  the  in- 
spection imposed  on  Canadian  producers  is 
more  severe  than  that  on  United  States 
dairymen,  it  would  be  unwise  for  the 
Canadian  dairy  industry  to  decide  not  to 
cater  to  that  market.  We  are  making 
great  strides  in  the  eradication  of  tuber- 
culosis, and  there .  will  soon  be  a  much 
larger  supply  of  milk  and  cream  avail- 
able from  disease-free  areas  than  the 
Canadian  market  can  use  in  fluid  form. 
In  order  to  obtain  the  reward  for  the 
heavy  expenses  of  creating  these  areas  we 
must  make  a  concerted  effort  to  make 
sure  that,  in  at  least  those  areas,  the 
cleaning  up  of  stables  and  the  makine  of 
other  necessary  improvements,  is  finished, 
for  that  will  at  once  reopen  the  United 
States  market  to  our  products. 

"Tn  the  end  the  effect  of  the  action  of 
the  United  States  Government  should  be 
of  great  value  to  the  Canadian  dairv  in- 
dustry bv  making  the  reputation  of  Cana- 
dian milk  and  cream  higher  than  ever. 
We  have  the  chance  to  profit  bv  our 
present  hardships  and  we  should  not  neg- 
lect it. — National  Dairy  Council,  Ottawa. 


It  is  reported  that  four  stations  in  the 
Province  of  Ouebec  shipped  21  carloads 
of  cream  in  May,  1927.  This  year  not 
more  than  five  carloads  came  in  in  May 
from  these  same  stations.  From  six 
stations  which  sent  68  carloads  of  milk 
and  cream  last  year  in  June,  not  more 
than  11  carloads  will  be  sent  this  vear. 


June  Pasture  is  Good  News 

to  the  intelligent  dairyman.  He  knows  that  grass  like 
this  is  great  for  his  cows,  that  it  will  stimulate  milk 
production  and  keep  his  herd  feeling  fit  —  IF  he  keeps 
on  with  his  grain  feeding. 

But  June  pasture  is  anything  but  good  news  to  the 
dairyman  who  doesn't  know  better  than  to  rely  on  it 
alone.  In  his  case  only  one  result  is  possible  —  a  bad 
slump  in  production  that  will  carry  over  into  the  fall, 
and  a  consequent  slump  in  his  profits.  Why?  Because 
June  grass  is  about  85%  water  !  No  matter  how  good 
it  looks,  nor  how  the  cows  like  it,  it  simply  hasn't  got 
the  necessary  nutrients  to  keep  up  milk  production. 

A  simple  grain  ration,  based  on 

Diamond  Corn  Gluten  Meal 

will  cost  you  little  and  keep  your  herd  producing  well 
throughout  the  summer.  Write  us 
for  free  booklet  containing  good 
formulas.  Feed  one  of  them  and 
feel  secure  about  the  summer  milk 
output  of  your  farm. 


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Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 

Farmers,  you  would  not  think  of  buy- 
ing «  pair  of  driving  horses  to  do  your 
draft  work! 

Use  the  same  judgment  in  buying  a 
furnace.  The  Daniels  Chunk  Furnace 
has  the  capacity  with  its  extra  large 
door  and  firebox. 

Manufactured  by  the 

DANIELS  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

HARD  WICK,  VERMONT 
F.  F.  Fuller,  Gen.  Ajrt..  Waterbury.  Vt. 


Protection 

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une3  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


Institute  of  Co-operation 

Lelpful  Discussions  of  Co-operative  Progress  at  Sessions 
to  be  Held  at  Amherst,  June  26-29 


Plans  for  the  second  New  England  In- 
■;tute  of  Co-operation,  to  be  held  at  the 
assachusetts  Agricultural  College  in  Am- 
rst,  June  26  to  29,  are  practically  com- 
Eted.  The  committee  in  charge  of  the 
istitute  has  been  able  to  secure  as  speakers 
me  of  the  outstanding  leaders  in  co- 
ieraticve  thought  in  the  country  to  sup- 
?ment  the  New  England  men  who  will 
•eak  and  discuss  co-operative  matters  in 
e  light  of  their  practical  experience. 
Among  the  men  not  actively  engaged  in 
-operative  work  in  New  England  who 
ill  be  on  the  program  are  Prof.  H.  A. 
dss  of  Cornell  University,  who  has  made 
.tensive  study  of  the  Chicago  and  New 
ork  milk  markets  and  of  the  dairy  in- 
jistry  in  the  Northeastern  states,  also 
udies  of  transportation  in  its  relation 
■  dairying. 

'Dr.  John  D.  Black,  professor  of  agri- 
ltural  economics  of  Harvard  University, 
recognized  authority  on  co-operative 
arketing  and  economics,  will  be  on  the 
ogram.  Chris  L.  Christensen,  head  of 
e  division  of  co-operative  marketing  of 
e  U.  A.  D.  A.  and  A.  W.  McKay,  of 
e  Bureau  of  Agricultural  Economics, 
.  S.  D.  A.,  will  be  present  to  discuss 
'-operation  from  a  government  stand- 
fyint. 

While  all  types  of  co-operative  effort  in 
€w  England  will  have  their  place  on  the 
■ur-day  program,  dairying  will  have  its 
ill  share  of  the  time  and  attention.  Gen- 
al  Manager  W.  P.  Davis,  W.  H.  Bron- 
■n,  head  of  our  research  department,  and 
.  C.  Warner,  in  charge  of  the  field  serv- 
e  department  of  the  association  will  be 
1  the  program. 

The  New  England  Institute  of  Co- 
>eration  meetings  will  be  of  especial 
?nefit  to  students  of  co-operation  and 
Seers  and  executives  of  the  co-opera- 
ve  organizations.  But  the  programs  are 
i  arranged  that  any  farmer  who  is  in- 
rested  in  any  phase  of  co-operative  mar- 
king or  purchasing  will  get  much  bene- 
:  from  attending  one  or  more  of  the 
ssions.  Members  of  our  association, 
pecially  officers  of  locals  are  urged  to 
ian  to  attend  as  many  of  the  sessions  as 
ley  can.  The  preliminary  program  is  as 
allows : 

FIRST  SESSION 

Tuesday,  — June  26,  1.30  p.  m. 

Problems  of  Dairy  Co-operation 

Presiding — S.  R.  Parker,  secretary  of. 
|ie  Co-operative  Dairy  Council  of  Massa- 
lusetts. 

The  Economic  Position  of  Dairying  in 
le  Northeastern  States  —  H.  A.  Ross, 
ornell  University. 

Further  Developments  in  Co-operation 
esigned  to  Meet  the  Dairy  Situation— 
.  E.  Hough,  Connecticut  Milk  Pro- 
jcers'  Association. 

The  Relationships  Between  Co-opera- 
ve  Selling  Agencies  and  Market  Stability 
-W.  P.  Davis,  New  England  Milk  Pro- 
jcers'  Association. 

Discussion— H.  P.  Young,  University 
f  Vermont;  John  McGrath,  Federated 
o-operatives  of  Vermont;  E.  H.  Ban- 
roft,  Granite  City  Vermont  Co-opera- 
»e ;  John  Ellis,  United  Dairy  System ; 
/ •  B.  Haskell,  Turner  Centre  Creamery ; 

.  G.  Stitts,  Bureau  of  Agricultural  Eco- 
smics.  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture ; 
f.  B.  Rowe,  Massachusetts  Agricultural 
[ollege. 

;  General  Discussion. 

SECOND  SESSION 
Tuesday,  June  26,  8.00  p.  m. 
General  Get  Acquainted  Meeting 

Presiding — C.  E.  Hough,  Connecticut 
[ilk  Producers'  Association. 

Welcome — Roscoe  W.  Thatcher,  presi- 
?nt,  Massachusetts  Agricultural  College. 

The  New  England  Institute  of  Co-oper- 
ion — I.  G.  Davis,  Connecticut  Agricul- 
oiral  College. 

'  Everybody's  Meeting — Directed  by  the 
airy  Department,  M.  A.  C. 


THIRD  SESSION 
Wednesday,  June  27,  9  a.  m. 
Problems  of  Co-operative  Purchasing  — 
Peed,  Seed  and  Fertiliser 
The  Feed  Store  Cituation  in  New  Eng- 
land —  E.    A.    Perregaux,  Connecticut 
Agricultural  College. 

The  Place  of  the  Co-operative  Chain 
Stores  in  Solving  Purchasing  Problems — 
Miss  Alice  McAniff,  manager,  G.  L.  F. 
Stores. 

The  Small  Buying  Co-operative  — 
Representatives  of  Farmers'  Exchanges. 

Solving  the  Problem  of  Good  Seed  by 
Co-operative  Buying  —  C  W.  Clemmer, 
Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange. 

The  place  and  Service  of  the  Whole- 
sale Purchasing  Co-operative — John  D. 
Zink,  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange. 

The  Problem  of  Buying  Dairy  Cows 
for  Replacements  —  J.  C.  Cort,  Massa- 
chusetts State  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture. 

Discussion — L.  A.  Carlisle,  New  Hamp- 
shire ;  J.  H.  Putnam,  Franklin  County 
Extension  Service. 

General  Discussion. 

FOURTH  SESSION 
Wednesday,  June  27,  1.30  p.  m. 
Education  of  Members 
Presiding— 

Teaching  Co-operation  to  the  Co-opera- 
tor-— Representative,  U.  S.  Department  of 
Agriculture. 

The  Field  Service — Fred  Warner,  New 
England  Milk  Producers'  Association. 

Education  Through  Association  Pub- 
lications —  Quentin  Reynolds,  Eastern 
States  Farmers'  Exchange. 

Developing  a  Spirit  of  Loyalty — Marcus 
L.  Urann,  Cape  Cod  Cranberry  Exchange. 

The  County  Agent  Teaches  Co-opera- 
tion—  W.  A.  Munson,  Massachusetts 
Agricultural  College. 

Discussion — Representatives  of  several 
co-operatives. 

General  Discussion. 

FIFTH  SESSION 
Wednesday,  June  27,  8  p.  m. 
Recent  Progress  in  Co-operation 
Presiding— 

Moving  Pictures — "Co-operation  in  the 
United  States." 

Co-operative  Progress  in  the  United 
States  and  Present  Tendencies — Chris  L. 
Christensen,  U.  S.  Department  of  Agri- 
culture. 

The  Relation  of  Credit  to  Co-opera- 
tion —  E.  H.  Thompson,  Federal  Land 
Bank,  Springfield. 

Group  Action  and  the  New  England 
Farm  Marketing  Program  —  Harry  R. 
Lewis,  New  England  Council. 

General  Discussion. 

SIXTH  SESSION 
Thursday,  June  28,  9  a.  m. 
Co-operation  in  Fruits  and  Vegetables 

Presiding — -Howard  Gilmore,  ex-presi- 
dent Massachusetts  Fruit  Growers. 

The  Problems  of  the  New  England 
Market  for  Fresh  Fruits  and  Vegetables — 
Frederick  V.  Waugh,  executive  secretary 
of  the  New  England  Research  Council. 

Effective  Co-operative  Methods  to  Meet 
the  New  England  Situation — A.  W.  Mc- 
Kay, Bureau  of  Agricultural  Economics, 
U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture. 

The  Massachusetts  Type  of  Produce 
Association— A.  F.  MacDougall,  Middle- 
sex County  Extension  Service. 

Discussion — Ray  M.  Koon,  Massachu- 
setts Agricultural  College;  Leslie  Chase; 
Thomas  Collins,  representing  Winn- 
Ricker  Co.,  Boston. 

Specific  Conclusions  and  Recommenda- 
tions—R.  B.  Corbett,  Rhode  Island  State 
College. 

SEVENTH  SESSION 
Thursday,  June  28,  1.30  p.  m. 

Co-operative   Problems.  Standardisation 
and  Definition 
Presiding — 

Co-operative  Apple  Marketing  —  Ber- 
nard Miller,  Nashoba  Packing  Associa- 


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of  the  highest  efficiency  and  durability 

TUBULAR  COOLERS  ENDORSED 
AS  MOST  EFFICIENT 

Quality  control  associations,  in- 
spectors, health  officials,  agricul- 
tural colleges:  Authorities  agree 
that  the  tubular  type  of  milk 
cooler,  which  employs  cold  water 
circulating  under  pressure  through 
the  tubes,  while  the  milk  flows 
down  over  the  outside,  is  an  ef- 
ficient and  desirable  kind  of 
cooler  for  the  dairy.  The  Oriole  is 
endorsed  by  such  authorities 
everywhere.  It  is  a  type  of  cooler 
most  easily  kept  clean  and 
sanitary  and  is  genuinely 
tubular. 

Guaranteed  in  Every  Respect 

The  Oriole  is  guaranteed  with- 
out restriction  against  imperfect 
workmanship  or  materials  and  to 
withstand  without  leaking  a  pres- 
sure of  75  'pounds  to  the  square 
inch.  It  is  built  of  copper  and 
bronze  throughout  —  everlasting 
metals.  Nothing  can  rust  out; 
nothing  can  wear  out. 

Oriole  Coolers  are  made  of  XW 
diameter  seamless  copper  tubes 
spaced  so  that  cleaning  between 
them  is  easy.  A  lip,  formed  into 
the  tubes  when  made,  runs  along 
their  under  side,  providing  a  guide 
for  the  flow  of  milk  from  one  tube  to  the  next.  The 
water  flows  through  these  V-shaped  flanges  as  well  as 
the  balance  of  the  tube  interior  so  that  all  possible  cool- 
ing surface  is  utilized. 

Upper  and  lower  troughs  are  removable  without  use  of 
tools.  Reservoir,  troughs,  and  all  other  parts  have  only 
smooth  round  tinned  surfaces — no  square  corners  hard 
to  keep  clean. 


Large  Size 

$4059 


'the  Cooler 
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Specifications 


Capacity 
Gals.  Hr. 

35 
50 


Ht.  Cooler 

Reservoir 
33" 
33" 


Length 
Overall 
21%" 
31%" 


Shipping 
Weight 

70  lbs. 

85  lbs. 


Capacity 
Reservoir 

10  gal. 

10  gal. 


Sour  Milk  Losses  Would  Buy  An  Oriole 


Most  losses  are  due  to  improper  cooling.  With  the  Oriole 
you  will  always  cool  sufficiently  low — quickly.  A  few  days' 
losses  would  amount  to  more  than  the  cost  of  this  cooler.  Buy 
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than  this. 

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Boston,  Massachusetts 

Oliver  X.  Dean  &  Sons,  Worcester 
Hiuigerford  Bros.,  New  Haven 
Burbank  Seed  Co.,  Portland 
Allen-Sterling-Lathrop  Co.,  Portland 


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WAVERLY,  N.  Y. 


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Select  Dairy  Alfalfa  for  eato. 
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JOHN  DETIXN  HAT  CO-  ISO. 
198  No.  Clark  St.  Chicago, 


Page  Eight 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  192$, 


Eastern  States  Fanners'  Exchange 


Low  Cost  Summer 
and  Fall  Milk 

If  you  put  up  enough  silage  last 
fall  to  adequately  ■  supplement 
your  pasture  this  season,  you  are 
in  a  strong  position.  You  will 
make  milk  at  a  low  cost  at  the 
very  time  that  milk  is  becoming 
more  and  more  valuable.  Silage  is 
good  summer  and  fall  feed  and  it 
is  less  costly  than  green  crops 
which  have  to  he  gathered  every 
day.  . 

Every  year  more  dairymen  are 
providing  summer  silage.  By  using 
tall,  slim  silos  they  are  able  to 
feed  enough  each  day — 4  to  6 
inches  in  the  warmest  weather — to 
keep  the  contents  wholesome  and 
palatable.  There  is  plenty  of  time 
to  erect  a  summer  silo  to  store  the 
extra  tonnage  required  for  next 
summer.  By  immediately  plan- 
ning to  increase  acreage  for  silo 
filling  purposes,  dairymen  who 
have  not  planted  corn  enough  to 
care  for  their  silage  needs  all 
through  the  summer  of  1929  can 
still  remedy  their  situation.  Some 
can  plant  more  corn ;  others  can 
plant  soy  beans,  or  Japanese  Mil- 
let, or  Sudan  Grass.  Any  one  of 
these  three  crops  can  be  sown  as 
late  as  July  first  and  all  of  them 
make  good  silage  when  cut  into 
the  silo  with  corn  and  are  thus 
weighted  down  by  this  heavier 
material. 

There  are  three  important  rea- 
sons why  dairymen  should  plant 
a  crop  for  pasture  supplement  for 
this  fall,  if  they  have  not  silage 
enough  to  carry  them  through :  1. 
It  will  lower  the  cost  of  milk  pro- 
duction, and  will  tend  to  increase 
the  quantity  of  milk  per  cow  dur- 
ing August,  September  and  Oc- 
tober when  milk  is  nearing  the 
high  price  of  the  season.  2.  It  will 
reduce  the  quantity  of  grain  re- 
quired. 3.  It  will  enable  dairy- 
men to  relieve  the  pressure  on 
their  pastures.  Pasture  grass  like 
meadow  grass  can  protect  itself 
against  winter  killing  and  can 
store  in  its  root  system  organic  reserves 
Which  will  stimulate  growth  during  the 
coming  spring  and  summer,  if  it  is  al- 
lowed to  grow  sufficiently  to  provide  a 
thick  mat  of  leaf  growth  in  the  autumn 
before  a  killing  frost. 

The  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Ex- 
change has  made  careful  purchases  of 
Wilson  Black  Soy  Beans,  Japanese 
Millet,  Hungarian  and  Sudan  Grass 
to  furnish  seed  supplies  for  farmers 
who  recognize  the  economy  of  raising 
bumper  crops  for  silage  and  summer 
green  feed  purposes. 

For  further  particulars,  including 
suggestions  for  the  way  in  which  to 
make  profitable  use  of  these  crops, 
write  the  office  at  once. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

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owned  and  controlled  by  tho 


Headquarter*  ■  SPRINGFIELD.  MASS. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange  D-5 
Box  14X2,  Springfield,  Mass. 

l'lease  send  me  information  on  Soy  Beans, 
Sudan  Grass  and  Millets,  including;  the 
prices  of  Kastern  States  seeds: 


tion;  Representative,  Maine  Fruit 
Growers. 

Co-operative  Organization  of  Roadside 
Marketing — Representative,  U.  S.  Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture. 

The  Farmers'  Roadside  Stand  Associa- 
tion— Representative.  Massachusetts  Road- 
side Stand  Association. 

The  Consumers'  Interest  in  Effective 
Definition  and  Standardization — Mary  S. 
Woolman,  Boston. 

Everyday  Problems — Question  Box — 
Bona  fide  questions  asked,  considered  and 
perhaps  answered  concerning  co-operators 
and  their  problems — A.  W.  McKay,*  U.  S. 
Department  of  Agriculture. 

•     EIGHTH  SESSION 
Thursday.  June  28,  7  p.  m. 
Dinner  Meeting 

After  Dinner  Addresses — 

The  Relation  of  the  College  Services  to 
Co-operation — Roscoe  W.  Thatcher,  presi- 
dent Massachusetts  Agricultural  College. 

The  Department  of  Agriculture  and 
Marketing  Problems — Arthur  W.  Gilbert, 
Commissioner  of  Agriculture,  Massachu- 
setts. 

What  Can  Reasonably  be  Expected  of 
Co-operation — John  D.  Black,  Harvard 
Univeristy. 

NINTH  SESSION 
Friday,  June  29,  9  a.  m. 

Making  a  Great  New  England  Indus- 
try Successful — I.  G.  Davis,  Connecticut 
Agricultural  College. 

Solving  the  Problems  of  Price,  Produc- 
tion and  Profit — A.  U.  Chaney,  American 
Cranberry  Exchange. 

The  Work  of  the  Union  of  Co-opera- 
tive Associations — S.  R.  Parker,  Co-oper- 
ative Dairy  Council  of  Massachusetts ; 
Representative  of  New  England  Dairy 
Council. 

Discussion — F.  O.  Miner,  Connecticut 
Poultry  Producers ;  John  D.  Black,  Har- 
vard University ;  W.  H.  Bronson,  New 
England  Milk  Producers'  Association. 

General  Discussion. 

TENTH  SESSION 
Friday,  June  29,  1.30  p.  m. 
General  Round-Up 

Presiding  —  I.  G.  Davis,  Connecticut 
Agricultural  College. 

Conclusions,  Criticisms  and  Future 
Programs — Participants  to  be  announced. 

Business  Meeting  of  the  New  England 
Co-operative  Institute. 

Adjournment. 


REED  NEW  CHIEF 

Pcof.  Ollie  E.  Reed,  head  of  the  dairy 
husbandry  division  of  the  Michigan  State 
College  of  Agriculture,  has  been  appointed 
chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Dairy  Industry  of 
the  United  States  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture. He  will  take  up  his  duties  in  Wash- 
ington about  September  1.  The  position 
has  been  vacant  since  the  first  of  the  year 
when  Dr.  C.  W.  Larson  resigned  to  be- 
come director  of  the  National  Dairy 
Council. 

Professor  Reed  is  generally  recognized 
as  one  of  the  outstanding  men  in  the 
United  States  in  the  field  of  dairy  educa- 
tion and  dairy  research. 

The  new  chief  has  been  professor  of 
dairy  husbandry  and  head  of  the  dairy 
department  at  the  Michigan  College  since 
1921.  He  held  similar  positions  at  the 
Kansas  State  Agricultural  College  from 
l'Ml  to  1918,  and  at  Purdue  University 
from  1918  to  1920.  He  was  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  American  Dairy  Science  Asso- 
ciation in  1920  and  1923-1924,  and  presi- 
dent in  1925.  He  has  studied  the  dairy 
industry  abroad  and  is  one  of  the"  Ameri- 
can delegates  to  the  International  Dairy 
Congress  soon  to  be  held  in  England. 


Name 
Address 


IN  FIVE  STATES 

A  total  of  806,782,146  pounds  of  milk 
was  marketed  through  the  Inter-State 
Milk  Producers'  Association,  Inc.,  Phila- 
delphia, during  the  calendar  year  of  1927. 
This  was  an  increase  of  31  per  cent,  over 
1926,  when  615,931,400  pounds  of  milk 
was  marketed.  Total  sales  for  1927  were 
$28,866,665.  which  was  a  weighted  aver- 
age price  of  $3,578  per  100  pounds  of  4 
per  cent,  milk  f.  o.  b.  Philadelphia. 


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ever  before 

— an  oil  range  like  this 

PERFECTION 

OIL  RANGE 


THE  new  Perfections  will  cheer 
up  any  kitchen.  They're  light 
in  color!  Snow-white  in  full-porce- 
lain enamel.  Silver  gray  and  dove 
gray  in  the  new  Perfectolac  finish 
—  a  brilliant,  durable  lacquer  like 
that  on  the  modern  automobile. 

The  new  Perfections  have 
burners  that  give  clean,  intense, 
fast  cooking  heat.  They  have  all- 


grate  cooking  tops,  "live  heat" 
ovens,  and  temperature  indicators. 

And  all  of  them  burn  that  safe, 
economical  fuel  —  SOCONY  kero- 
sene. 

These  new  light  color  Perfections 
are  sold  in  your  own  town — in 
all  sizes  and  at  a  wide  range  of 
prices.  Drop  in  today  and  look 
them  over. 


Water  Heaters 


Whether  you  have  a  pressure  system  or  just 
a  kitchen  pump,  the  Perfection  water  heater 
will  give  you  hot  water  for  shaving  and 
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Rapid,  reliable,  moderate  in  price;  ask  your 
plumber. 


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and  Does 
It  Well 


Helps  Solve  the 
Labor  Problem 
by 

doing  the  hoeing 
by  machine  in- 
stead of  by  hand 
and  in  less  time. 


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June,  1928 


N  E  VV   ENGLAND   DA1RYMA  N 


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SOUTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


H.  W.    FIENEMANN,  Manager 
Slade  Bldg.,  44  Washington  St.,  Providence 


Tel.  Dexter  6469 


MAY  PRICES 


Providence   

Fall  River   

New  Bedford   

Brockton   

Newport   

These  prices  are  for  3.7  per 
delivered  at  dealers'  plants. 
Providence  is  now  back  on 
Boston.    Our  member 


 $3,582 

  3.582 

  4.1b5 

  3.952 

  3.467 

cent,  milk 
the  same 

price  as  Boston,  uur  mcsuuciS  will  re- 
call that  last  winter  we  did  not  follow 
boston  when  that  market  advanced  on  ac- 
count of  the  flood,  but  as  an  alternative 
continued  the  Providence  price  of  $405 
per  hundredweight  after  Boston  went  hack 
So  the  pre-flood  price.  The  Boston  price 
went  to  $3.58  April  1,  but  Providence  con- 
tinued the  winter  price  until  May  6.  The 
'winter  price  was  maintained  for  about  the 
limit  as  Providence  was  carrying  a  rather 
large  surplus  and  production  is  still  on 
the  increase. 

The  Fall  River  price  was  reduced  to 
$3.58  Mav  1,  due  mainly  to  the  cut  price 
milk  which  was  being  sold  in  the  market. 
Fall  River  has  a  number  of  cut  price 
dealers  who  can  generally  find  enough 
near-sighted  producers  who  are  willing  to 
Hsell  milk  at  a  half  cent  or  .even  a  cent 
below  the  NEMPA  price.  Why  any 
producers  can  be  so  foolish  is  hard  to 
understand.  They  could  just  as  well  get 
the  going  price  in  the  market  as  not.  But 
thev  don't  stiffen  up  their  backs  and  de- 
mand the  NEMPA  price-  When  there 
are  only  a  few  of  them  it  does  not  matter 
much,  they  are  the  only  ones  who  lose 
out.  But  when  there  are  quite  a  number 
of  them  letting  their  milk  go  at  less  than 
the  NEMPA  price  the  market  gets  more 
jr  less  unsettled  and  a  price  drop  is  the 
result. 

One  thing  I  want  all  members  to  bear 
i  mind.  That  is  to  always  get  the 
NEMPA  price  which  your  market  should 
pay  and  if  there  is  any  reason  why  you 
;aiinot  get  it,  or  if  you  have  difficulty  in 
getting  it,  call  the  situation  to  my  at- 
tention. 

Other  markets  in  this  district  remain 
it  the  same  price  as  for  April. 

Trucking  Becomes  Problem 
Now  that  practically  all  of  the  Provi- 
dence milk  supply  comes  in  by  motor 
.rucks  we  have  some  new  problems  to 
face.  When  the  truckmen  began  this  serv- 
ce.  even  before  the  milk  car  was  dis- 
continued, producers  were  easily  sold  to 
he  convenience  of  having  their  milk 
licked  up  at  their  farms  instead  of  having 
o  haul  it  to  a  station.  The  cost  was  not 
Tiuch  greater  and  there  was  a  considerable 
saving  of  time  to  the  producer.  The 
rain  always  left  at  an  early  hour,  went 
an  a  rather  rigid  schedule  and  many 
>roducers  had  to  pay  a  half  cent  a  quart 
o  get  their  milk  to  the  station. 

The  truckmen,  by  collecting  the  milk  at 
'he  farms,  have  overcome  most  of  these 
Ejections,  but  under  the  trucking  system 
,iew  problems  have  arisen  and  we  are  up 
Lgainst  a  serious  condition.  The  milk  is 
irriving  at  very  irregular  hours,  depend- 
ing on  the  reliability  of  the  truckman, 
t  is  seldom  iced  in  transit  and  is  often 
ransported  without  a  canvas  cover  on  the 
,oad-  As  a  result,  we  are  in  a  fair  way 
o  lose  our  market  to  up  country  milk 
vhich,  the  dealers  claim,  arrives  here  on 
I;  definite  schedule  and  runs  a  lower  bac- 
eria  count.  In  fact,  some  of  our  most 
lesirable  dealers  have  told  me  that  if  this 
>resent  unsatisfactory  service  continues 
hey  will  entirely  discontinue  buying  near- 
ly trucked  milk.  It  is  squarely  up  to  us, 
.s  producers,  to  get  our  product  to  the 
narket  in  the  best  possible  condition. 

The  way  the  transportation  question 
ets  today  the  producer  is  not  protected 
Kr  any  guaranty  of  service.  The  dealer 
ioes  not  get  the  service  he  wants  and 
urthermore,  the  truckmen  are  not  pro- 
ected  as  they  can  invest  $3,000  or  more 
a  a  truck  and  take  on  a  route,  only  to 
Sse  a  part  of  it  to  some  cut  price  truck- 
man.  Milk  must  go  through  regardless  of 


weather  and  roads  and  the  truckmen  must 
be  protected  by  a  contract,  so  that  they 
can  buy  good  equipment  and  give  good 
service  to  both  producers  and  dealers. 
Such  a  contract,  if  properly  drawn  up, 
would  also  protect  the  producer  as  it 
would  require  definite  good  service  on  the 
part  of  the  truckmen.  The  better  and 
more  responsible  class  of  truckmen  would 
welcome  the  contract  basis  as  it  would 
assure  them  of  a  steady  business  and  en- 
able them  to  equip  themselves  for  the 
lust  of  service  without  fear  of  losing 
some  use  of  their  investment. 

The  solution  of  the  problem,  as  I  sec  it, 
is  to  have  the  association  given  authority 
by  its  members  to  let  trucking  contracts 
for  them. 


New  Bedford  textile  workers  are  still 
out  on  strike  and  with  no  immediate  pros- 
pects of  a  settlement.  With  25,000  wage 
earners  idle  the  milk  business  has  suf- 
fered a  heavy  blow.  Sales  have  fallen  off 
greatly  and  the  surplus  has  piled  up, 
Coming  in  the  flush  season  the  strike  has 
lx-cn  particularly  disastrous  to  the  trade. 
If  it  had  come  in  July  we  would  not  have 
had  both  factors,  increasing  production 
and  decreasing  sales,  against  us.  Some 
dealers  report  that  they  have  no  sale  for 
at  least  a  third  of  their  daily  purchases. 
This  condition  is  being  met  by  the 
NFMPA  surplus  plan.  It  is  a  big  factor 
in  saving  the  situation  from  a  marketing 
standpoint. 

Harry  R.  Lewis,  commissioner  of  argi- 
culture  for  Rhode  Island,  reports  that  the 
new  dairy  inspector,  Mr.  Nichols,  is  now 
on  the  job.  He  was  brought  up  on  a 
dairy  farm  and  was  an  active  4H  club 
member.  After  graduation  from  the 
Rhode  Island  Agricultural  at  Kings- 
ton he  went  to  the  state  police  patrol 
where  he  has  served  several  years  as  a 
corporal.  All  this  sounds  like  good  ex- 
perience and  we  expect  some  real  help  and 
co-operation  from  him. 


Our  attention  has  been  called  to  mis- 
statements of  facts  in  the  March  Daikv- 
Han  in  an  account  contained  in  the  South- 
ern Market  District  of  the  transfer  of  the 
Greenville  Dairy  business  to  Harry  T. 
Burton.  The  mis-statements  were  due  to 
a  misunderstanding  of  the  condition  of  the 
transfer. 

The  Dairyman  stated  that  the  stock  of 
the  Greenville  Farm  Dairy  was  signed 
over  to  the  NFMPA  and  that  the  Asso 
ciation  actually  ran  the  business  for  a 
few  days-  This  was  not  the  lact.  Such 
a  method  of  meeting  the  situation  was 
discussed,  but  no  actual  transfer  took 
place.  We  were  also  in  error  in  saying 
that  the  transaction  took  place  just  before 
the  flood  in  NovemlK-r.  In  reality  the 
transfer  of  the  business  by  L.  B.  Burton 
to  Harry  T.  Burton  took  place  after  the 
flood,  and  to  some  extent,  as  a  result  of 
the  shortage  of  mlik  brought  on  bv  the 
flood. 

The  sale  of  the  Greenville  Farm  Dairy 
was  advised  by  the  NFMPA.  We  had  no 
part  in  the  arrangement  of  the  sale  of  the 
business  to  Harry  T.  Burton.  We  were 
both  surprised  and  gratified  at  the  terms 
of  the  sale  which  made  it  possible  for 
producers  to  receive  all  money  due  them. 


Cool  your  Milk 

this  new  and  better 


T/T7V»/%  f         Cool  it  quickly  to  below  50 
VV  tly.  .     degrees   and    KEEP  IT 
COOL.    Do  this  if  you  want  top  prices    .    .    .    and  if 
you  want  to  supply  milk  that  is  clean,  wholesome  and  low 
in  bacterial  count. 

The  ESCO  Milk  Cooling  Cabinet  is  designed  exclusively 
for  cooling  and  storing  milk  on  the  dairy  farm.  Operated 
by  electric  refrigeration  .  .  .  controlled  automati- 
cally, maintaining  an  uniformly  low  temperature.  Cans 
of  milk  placed  in  the  ice  cold  water  of  an  ESCO  Cabinet 
are  cooled  quickly  and  kept  at  a  temperature  below  50 
degrees. 

It  is  the  easiest  method — clean,  trouble-free  and  inex- 
pensive.  Exactly  what  you  have  been  seeking. 


F, 


ree 
Circular 
tells  all 
about  it! 


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Now! 


PATENT  APPLIED  FOR 


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COOLING  CABINET 


Some  territory  still 
open  for  distributors 
and  dealers 


Built  in  4,  6,  8,  10,  12 
and  14-can  capaci- 
ties. Insulated  with 
3"  cork  on  all  sides. 
Refrigerating  coils 
encircle  interior. 


Page  Ten 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1928 , 


CONCRETE 
SIDEWALKS 
MEAN  LESS 
"BROOM  and 
MOP"  WORK 

Hours  of  housework 
—  harder  work  than 
most  men  realize — are 
saved  daily  by  a  con- 
crete walk  and  pave- 
ment at  the  door. 

Floors,  rugs,in  fact  the 
entire  house  is  easier 
cleaned  and  stays  so 
with  less  eSort. 

Build  CONCRETE 
Walks  Yourself! 

Build  labor-saving  con- 
crete walks  around  your 
house  when  other  work 
is  not  pressing. 

Easy-to-follow  instructions 
are  given  in  "  Permanent 
Repairs  on  the  Farm."  Write 
today  for  your  free  copy. 

PORTLAND  CEMENT 
ASSOCIATION 

A  national  organization  to  improve  and 
extend  the  uses  of  concrete 
10  High  Street 
BOSTON 

Concrete  for  Permanence 


The  Purity  of 

BUELL  BOSTON 

Trad*  Mark) 

dried  Skim  milk 

Makes  it  a 

Safe  Milk  to  Feed 

It  is  made  by  the  same  meth- 
ods and  with  the  same  care  as 
the  most  approved  dried  milk 
baby  foods.  Dairies  from 
which  it  comes,  and  factories 
in  which  it  is  processed,  are 
under  direct  supervision  of  the 
New  York  City  Health  Board, 
guarding  purity  at  every  step. 

There   is   no   safer    feed  for 
poultry  and  young  stock. 

Write  for  further  information 
and  feeding  directions. 

C.  E.  BUELL,  Inc. 

Board  of  Trade  Building 
BOSTON      -       -       -  MASS. 


When  writing  to  advertisers 
please  mention  the 

New  England  Dairyman 


WESTERN  MARKET 
DISTRICT 

HAROLD  P.  ADAMS,  Mgr. 

Room  205  Dexter  Building 
}{j  360  Worthington  St.,  Springfield,  Mass. 
f3  Telephone  No.  4-0500 

r.dSHSrlSHSSSrlSrlSrlSZSZSrlSZSlSZSZSZSril 

May  Prices 

Springfield   $0,085 

Worcester*   075 

Holyoke   075 

Northampton   085 

Westfield   08 

Springfield 

It  is  planned  to  hold  a  meeting  of  the 
Springfield  Market  Association  for  the 
purpose  of  electing  a  Sales  Committee  for 
the  Springfield  Market,  sometime  in  June. 
Already  several  local  meetings  have  been 
held  for  the  purpose  of  electing  delegates 
to  attend  the  above  meeting,  and  more 
especially  to  acquaint  producers  with  the 
Springfield  situation  and  to  determine 
what  procedure  producers  are  willing  to 
stand  behind. 

At  Cummington  Community  House 
about  30  producers  gathered  on  the  eve- 
ning of  May  15.  The  District  Manager, 
H.  P.  Adams,  spoke  on  some  of  the  rea- 
sons for  the  present  state  of  disorganiza- 
tion and  low  prices  in  Springfield.  F. 
Leon  Brown,  assistant  manager  of  the 
NEMPA,  gave  a  very  interesting  ex- 
planation on  the  administration  of  the  so- 
called  "known  price"  as  used  by  the 
association  in  other  markets.  It  was 
brought  out  that  the  net  return  to  the 
farmer  is  lower  in  the  Springfield  terri- 
tory than  in  any  other  large  New  Eng- 
land Market.  A  keen  interest  was  shown 
among  those  present  and  the  sentiment 
expressed  was  strongly  in  favor  of  putting 
the  NEMPA  price  into  effect  in  Spring- 
field. The  following  men  were  elected  as 
delegates  to  the  Market  Association  meet- 
ing :  W.  A.  Harlow,  of  Cummington ; 
M.  S.  Howe,  of  Swift  River ;  R.  E.  Bates, 
of  Cummington ;  Lester  LeDuc,  of  Ches- 
terfield. Several  more  meetings  are 
scheduled  to  be  held  during  the  next  three 
weeks. 

Joseph  P.  Brown,  of  Easthampton,  was 
elected  chairman  of  the  Holyoke  Sales 
Committee  at  a  meeting  held  on  Friday 
evening,  April  27.  Mr.  Brown  maintains 
a  fine  dairy  farm  at  Southampton,  and 
has  always  been  very  much  interested  in 
the  work  of  the  Association. 

The  District  Manager  spent  part  of  two 
days  with  R.  E.  Brennan,  secretary  of  the 
Belchertown  Local.  Fourteen  old  mem- 
bers who  had  changed  their  dealer  signed 
dues  orders  on  their  new  dealer.  In  fact, 
all  the  men  called  upon,  except  two, 
signed  up  for  their  dues.  Secretary 
Brennan  has  always  been  very  much  in- 
terested in  the  work  of  the  Association 
and  much  credit  is  due  him  for  the  re- 
sults obtained  by  our  canvass. 

F.  Leon  Brown,  assistant  manager  of 
the  Association,  has  been  working  with 
the  District  Manager  on  the  problems  in 
this  section.  Mr.  Brown  and  Mr.  Tufts 
spent  two  days  visiting  members  of  the 
Amherst  Local  and  discussed  with  them 
the  Holyoke  Market  conditions.  Granby 
and  Southampton  have  yet  to  be  can- 
vassed and  if  they  respond  as  well  as 
those  already  canvassed  we  certainly  will 
be  in  a  much  stronger  bargaining  position, 
and  consequently  better  prices  can  be 
maintained. 

Conditions  remain  unchanged  in  the 
Worcester  Market.  There  has  not  been  a 
very  heavy  amount  of  surplus  in  evidence 
and  up  to  May  1  had  enforced  ratings  on 
dairies.  All  indications  now  point  to  a 
more  acute  shortage  of  milk  this  fall 
than  was  experienced  last  fall  and  winter. 

It  is  now  planned  to  hold  several  local 
meetings  throughout  the  county  during 
the  coming  month.  It  is  the  intention  of 
the  Sales  Committee  to  advance  the  price 
in  the  Worcester  Market  at  the  same 
time  that  the  Boston  Market  advances. 

Last  year  the  Worcester  Market 
dragged  -behind  for  two  mpnths  before 
advancing  to  a  level  with  the  other  mar- 
kets. We  do  not  purpose  to  repeat  that 
experience  this  year. 

To  be  successful  in  carrying  out  this 
program  it  is  absolutely  necessary  to 
have  the  support  of  the  individual  pro- 
ducer shipping  to  the  Worcester  Market. 


26,320.9  lbs.  of  milk 
1270.81  lbs.  of  butter 


on 


Amco  20%  National 


DUTCH- 
LAND 
Pietertje  Hill- 
dale,  purebred 
Holstein,  owned 
by  Dutchland 
Farms,  Bridge- 
water,  Mass.,  has 
just  completed  her  second 
consecutive  365 -day  record 
on  AMCO  20%  NATIONAL 
dairy  feed.  This  year  she 
produced  26,320.9  lbs.  of 
milk,  and  1270.81  lbs.  of 
butter,  exceeding  her  last 
year's  record  by  4163  lbs. 
of  milk  and  267  lbs.  of  but- 
ter. Hilldale  is  a  wonderful 
cow,  but  it  takes  a  good 
grain  ration  to  get  such  pro- 
duction and  leave  the  cow 
in  improved  condition. 

Early  in  her  second  test  she 
was  producing  86  lbs.  of 
milk  daily  on  a  home  mixed 
test  mixture.  The  herdsman 
began  feeding  AMCO  20% 
NATIONAL  and  in  a  few 
days  increased  her  daily  milk 
production  to  106  lbs.  That 
settled  it!  Her  only  grain 
mixture  for  the  rest  of  the 


ON  PASTURE 


Early  pasture  stimu- 
lates but  does  not 
supply  enough  diges- 
tible feed  to  sustain 
milk  production.  To 
cows  on  pasture 
feed  AMCO  18% 
DAIRY  or  AMCO 
20%  DAIRY. 


test  was  AMCO 
20%  NATION- 
AL. 


Amco  mixes 
two  approved 
open  formula 
20%  dairy 
feeds— AMCO  20%  NA- 
TIONAL (fixed  formula) 
for  special  feeding  such  as 
is  required  by  advanced 
registry  work,  and  AMCO 
20%  DAIRY  (variable  form- 
ula) which  is  the  dairy- 
man's best  buy  for  com- 
mercial milk  production. 
Your  Authorized  Amco 
Agent  can  supply  you. 


DIVISION  OFFICE: 
SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


Amco 

%  FEED  MIXING  SERVICE 

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EXECUTIVE  OFFICES:  PEORIA,  ILL. 

Plants  at: 

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Alfalfa  Plants  at:  * 
Powell,  Garland,  and  Worland,  Wyo. 


mine  j  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


|  GETS  IN  LINE 

Massachusetts   to   Pay  Increased 
Indemnity 

Massachusetts  gets  in  line  with  the 
ther  states  in  New  England  in  the  mat- 

fr  of  eradication  of  bovine  tuberculosis 
y  passing  a  law  for  increased  indemnity, 
i  spite  of  considerable  opposition  the  bill 
ltroduced  by  the  Massachusetts  State 
range  was  passed  by  both  Senate  and 
louse  and  will  be  effective  Dec.  1,  when 
le  new  Massachusetts  fiscal  year  opens. 
The  bill  provides  that  the  state  may 

(ay  up  to  $50  per  animal  for  reactors 
i  the  tuberculin  test  made  under  state 
ipervision.  The  old  limit  was  $25.  On 
Lire  bred  animals  the  new  limit  is  $75  in- 
ead  of  $50.  This  brings  the  payments 
t  the  state  more  nearly  equal  to  those 
f  other  nearby  states  and  will  tend  to 
icourage  testing. 

The  old  Massachusetts  law  was  passed 
i  1922  when  the  going  price  for  a  good 
vw  was  about  $100.  It  provided  that 
le  state  could  pay  one-third  of  the  dif- 

rence  between  the  appraised  value  of 
le  animal  and  the  amount  received  for 
ilvage  by  the  owner.  This  made  the 
Iss  to  the  owner  about  one-third  of  the 
>tal  loss.  Salvage  averaged  about  $25 
'id  on  a  $100  animal  the  owner  would 
£t  $25  salvage,  also  $25  from  the  state 
id  $25  from  federal  funds,  making  $75 
all. 

Now  Worth  $150 

The  same  grade  of  cow  today  is  worth 
150  and  the  only  increase  up  to  the 
me  the  present  law  was  passed  was  in 
,ie  salvage.  It  averages  $35  a  head, 
aving  $115  to  be  paid  for  by  the  state 
id  federal  funds,  the  remainder  being 
ie  loss  to  the  farmer.  On  a  $150  ani- 
al  or  one  of  higher  value,  all-  he  could 
?t  from  all  sources  was  $85,  leaving 
|  loss  $65.  This  was  so  large  a  loss 
tat  testing  went  very  slowly  and  in 
>me  counties  very  little  progress  has 
•en  made  in  the  past  few  years. 
All  this  is  changed  with  the  passage  of 
ie  new  law.  For  the  $150  cow  the 
vner  can  now  get  about  $110.  This  is 
uch  more  near  the  intention  of  the 
iginal  law  that  the  owner,  the  state 
id  the  federal  government  should  each 
tare  in  the  expense  of  eradicating  the 
sease.  With  the  changed  nancial 
tuation  it  is  expected  that  there  will  be 
considerable  demand  for  testing  when 
e  increased  money  is  available.  Most 
the  county  agents  are  expecting  that 
ere  will  be  much  additional  interest 
id  are  making  their  plans  to  assist  the 
irvmen  in  getting  replacements. 
The  Grange  bill  had  a  rather  stormy 
ssage  at  times  and  at  every  hearing  a 
tmber  of  farmers  came  in  and  expressed 
<eir  wish  for  an  increased  indemnity, 
that  they  could  have  their  herds  tested 
ithout  fear  of  losing  quite  so  much  money 
they  would  under  the  old  law.  In  the 
d  the  senators  and  representatives  were 
nvinced  that  there  was  a  very  general 
sire  for  the  passage  of  such  a  bill  and 
went  through  practically  as  introduced. 

Stricter  Requirements 

One  of  the  reasons  why  the  dairymen 
Massachusetts  were  especially  desirous 
having  the  bill  passed  was  that  a 
mber  of  cities  and  large  towns  are  re- 
iring  all  milk  to  be  from  tuberculin 
;ted  cows  or  pasteurized.  Nearly  30 
nes  and  towns  have  already  adopted 
ch  regulations  and  the  number  is  in- 
casing steadily.  With  the  added  indem- 
y  it  will  be  possible  for  the  farmers 
ar  to  these  cities  to  still  sell  their  milk 
pasteurized.  The  practical  effect  of 
I  old  law,  when  such  a  regulation  was 
t  in  force  by  any  city  health  depart- 
■nt,  was  to  so  discourage  some  of  the 
arby  dairvmen  that  they  went  out  of 
siness.  The  records  show  that  there 
s  been  a  large  decrease  in  the  number 
dairy  cows  in  these  nearbv  sections, 
ie  low  indemnity  was  one  of  the  main 


STANDARD   OIL  COMPANY  OF   NEW  YORK 


\  spinster  encountered  some  boys  in 
:  old  swimming  hole,  minus  every- 
ng  but  nature's  garb,  and  was  horri- 
1 

'Isn't    it    against   the    law   to  bathe 
thout  suits  on,  little  boys  ?" 
'Yes'm,"  announced   freckled  Johnny, 
lit  Jimmy's  father  is  a  policeman,  so 
',1  can  come  on  in." 


ANY 
CAR  OWNER 
CAN  DO 
AS  WELL- 

AND  MANY  DO 


£oo<J  morning,  motor 


M  T 


"oh, dear! 
oh,  dear!' 


'  f~^OOD  morning,  Boss.  Say,  talk- 
ing  about  horrible  examples, 
you  ought  to  look  over  that  car  next 
door.  He  was  just  coughing  the  sad 
tale  across  the  hedge.  Seems  that 
his  boss  is  a  bargain  hunter— drives 
all  over  town  lookingf or  cheap  hobo 
gas.  Whenever  he  sees  a  pump  with 
a  cut  price,  he  fills  the  tank.  Buys 
his  oil  at  the  same  places.  If  ever  a 
motor  had  the  T.  B.  that  poor  car 
has  it.  He's  so  choked  up  he  can 
hardly  inhale  his  gas.  His  bearings 
are  so  worn  and  loose,  it  sounds  like 
a  milk  wagon  going  over  cobbles 
even  when  he's  idling.  Says  his  cyl- 
inders are  in  terrible  shape.  When 
he  was  new  a  year  ago,  he  did 
eighteen  to  the  gallon  and  only  gets 
about  seven  now.  Ain't  it  a  pity, 
Boss?  There  ought  to  be  a  law 
against  abusing  motors." 


OUR  own  big  automotive  fleet  is 
fueled  with  Socony  Motor  Gaso- 
line and  oiled  with  Socony  Motor  Oil 
exclusively. 

Some  of  these  hardworking  trucks 
and  cars  have  gone  90,000  and  100,000 
miles  without  needing  overhauling. 

Any  car  owner  who  standardizes  on 
Socony  products  can  do  as  well — and 
many  do. 

Socony  Special  will  silence  that  knock 

If  you  have  a  new  car  with  a  high  com- 
pression engine  or  an  old  car  writh  car- 
bon in  the  cylinders,  try  Socony  Special 
—  a  particularly  creamy  cut  of  the 
world's  best  anti  -  knock  gasoline.  It 
gives  you  better  pick-up,  more  power 
on  hills,  and  a  lot  of  extra  comfort.  It's 
equally  good  in  cold  and  warm  weather. 


STANDARD   OIL  COMPANY  OF   NEW  YORK 


CLIP  AND  GROOM  YOUR  COWS 

It  Means  Cleaner  and 
Better  Milk 

Clipped  and  groomed  cows 
will  keep  them  clean  and 
comfortable  and  keep  the 
dirt  out  of  the  milk  pail. 
Clipping  and  grooming  im- 
prove the  health  of  your  Live 
Stock.  Use  a  GILLETTE 
Portable  Electric  Clipping 
and  Grooming  Machine.  Op- 
erates on  the  light  circuit 
furnished  by  any  Electric 
Light  and  Power  Co.,  or  on 
any  make  of  Farm  Lighting 
Plant. 

Price  List  on  Request 
GILLETTE  CLIPPING  MACHINE  CO. 
IZ9  Wctt  3Wt  St..  Dept.  K  Ntw  York.  N.  T. 


IMPORTANT 

When  you  buy  cotton  for  your 
milk  strainer  be  sure  that  the 
name  H.  C.  Soule,  Canton, 
Me.,  is  stamped  on  every  carton 
of  pads.  If  not  at  your  dealer's, 
send  to  me  for  the  genuine  Dr. 
Clark's  6-inch  sterilized  pads. 
Inferior  cotton  or  substitutes 
will  not  remove  all  sediment. 


„2 


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Kooms  with  private  bath: 

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Double,  $5.00  and  $G.00  per  day 

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Page  Twelve 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1921, 


NORTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


F.  L.  FOLEY,  Manager 


477  Essex  Street,  Lawrence,  Mass. 


May  Prices  May  7,  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  Lawrence. 

,                „      _„            a,,   .  One  of  the  largest  crowds  attended  that 

Manchester,  N.  H  70c    per  8/2qt.can  has  ever  begn         nt  at  m  annua,  meet. 

Nashua,  iV  H  72.4c  per  8/2  qt.  can  [ag  of  tys  local     There  were  several 

Lowell  Mass.   68c    per  8    qt.  can  matters  to  be  discussed  and  those  present 

Lawrence,  Mass  80c    per  10    qt.  can  thcse  matters  very  business-like  con- 

HaverhiH,  Mass  64c    per  8    qt.  can  sjderation.    Belmont  Fox,  who  has  been 

Concord,   \.  H  61.2c  per  8/2  qt.  can  presiden    of  the  local  for  several  years 

Portland,  Me               7.6c  per  qt.  back  and  served  very  faithfully,  was  re- 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers,  elected  president.    Mr.  Fox  is  a  large 

and  Beverly   64c    per  8    qt.  can  prodUcer  selling  to  C.  D.  Glennie,  and  has 

p  .  served  the  producers  well  in  his  capacity 

s  as  president  of  the  Lawrence  Local.  W. 

There  has  been  no  change  in  prices  in  A.  Turner,  a  Hood  producer,  was  elected 

any  of  the  markets  of  the  Northern  Mar-  vice-president.     Herbert  Lewis  was  re- 

ket  District  with  the  exception  of  the  ^c}eA  secretary.     Mr.   Lewis  has  been 

Lowell.  Mass.,  Market.    The  price  in  this  :i   faithful  helper  to  the  NEMPA  for 

market  went  on  to  the  8y2  cent  basis  on  >^s.    In  his  position  as  secretary  he  has 

,      c           r  .i.      lu           i  done  his  utmost  to  co-operate  with  the 

May  1.    Some  of  the  other  markets  ,n  assocjation    and    al         "has     iven  his 

this  district  decreased  their  price  at  the  he         supp„rt.     Everybody    likes  Mr. 

time  that  the  Boston  Market  went  to  the  Lew;s  and  was  verv  glad  of  his  re-election 

8  cent  level.    In  the  Lowell  Market  at  the  as   seCretary   of   the   Lawrence,  Mass., 

time  of  the  Vermont  flood  there  was  no  Local. 

advance  in  price.    Individual  dealers  re-  The  Sales  Committee  was  broadened 

presenting   the  bulk  of   supply   for  the  in  its  scope  and  some  members  added  in 

Lowell  Market  agreed  at  that  time  to  order  to  give  producers  selling  to  smaller 

carry  through  the   Lowell  price  at  the  dealers  better  representation.    We  have  a 

9-cent  level  for  such  length  of  time  after  larger  Sales  Committee  now  in  our  Law- 

a  drop  in  the  Boston  price  that  it  would  rence  Market  than  in  any  of  our  markets 

require   to  re-imburse   the   Lowell   pro-  and  everyone  feels  it  is  a  step  in  the  right 

ducers  for  what  thev  were  losing  due  to  direction.    We  are  glad  to  welcome  the 

the  failure  of  the  Lowell  Market  to  ad-  ,lew,  members  of  our  committee  m  the 

m„  ™k     ->n     a..  »u-  work  for  the  organization.     1  he  commit- 

vance  on  November  20.    At  this  time  a  .       ,    .   ,            r  h         t-          r>  i 

.  ■  ,  .  ,  tee  elected  are  as  follows :  George  Barker, 
suggestion  was  made  that  a  six  weeks  se„j  Glennie;  Frank  E.  Bailev, 
period  would  be  required  in  order  to  ob-  se„;  tQ  Hood  0  H  Butler_  se],. 
tarn  for  the  Lowell  producers  this  re-  ing  to  Findeisen ;  O.  M.  Chandler,  sell- 
imbursement  If  the  figures  are  com-  ;  to  Law;  George  W.  Disbrow,  sell- 
pared  carefully  between  the  Boston  price  ing  to  Hood .  Belmont  Fox,  selling  to 
and  the  Lowell  price  to  June  1  of  this  Glennie:  John  W.  Henderson,  selling  to 
year  it  will  be  readily  seen  that  the  McGovern :  C.  A.  Stevens,  selling  to 
dealers  in  the  Lowell  Market  have  ful-  Glennie:  W.  F.  Smith,  selling  to  Findei- 
nlled  their  agreement.  .  scn .  w  A  Turner,  selling  to  Hood,  and 
Production  J-  **,  Winney.  selling  to  Glennie 
™.  ,  ,  .  .  .  ,  ,  After  the  election  of  officers  and  riales 
The  larger  dealers  in  the  market  have  Committee,  the  question  of  supply  and  de- 
been  experiencing  the  usual  spring  sur-  mand  jn  the  Lawrence  Market 'was  dis- 
plus.  This  combined  with  the  fact  that  cussed  at  length  Last  year  there  was 
business  conditions  in  the  textile  cities  considerable  over-production  in  connection 
have  not  as  yet  shown  any  marked  im-  with  the  produCers  supplying  the  Hood 
provement  causes  dealers  to  be  especially  Company  plant.  This  vear  the  tables  seem 
desirous  of  avoiding  any  large  increase  to  have  been  turned  and  the  Glennie  pro- 
in  the  amount  of  milk  they  purchase.  ducers  are  now  producing  bevond  the 
There  has  been  the  usual  number  of  capacitv.  of  their  comoanv  This  is  onlv 
requests  coming  to  the  office  tor  markets  temporary  and  will  be  straightened  out 
for  producers.  There  are,  of  course,  at  vvhen  the  weather  changes  and  we  an- 
this  time  of  year  more  of  these  requests  proach  the  surnmer  months.  There  is  al- 
for  markets  than  at  other  periods  of  the  ways  a  surpIus  this  time  of  the  vear  and 
year  As  fast  as  possible  these  requests  in  general  the  surplus  is  not  anv  worse 
are  being  complied  with  and  the  milk  tnan  it  hns  been  ;n  other  vears  ;n  snite  o{ 
being  placed  w.th  reliable  dealers.  In  f)lP  fact  that_  due  to  poor  business  con- 
the  event  that  a  request  is  sent  in  and  ditions.  sales  of  milk  are  quite  low  in  our 
that   in   the   meantime   a   producer    has  industrial  cities. 

found  a  market  himself,  we  would  greatlv  tU            i                c  »u   t       u  t  i 

■»  :t  u„        ij      *-r          r  The  annual  meeting  of  the  Lowell  Local 

appreciate  it  if  he  would  notify  us  of  the  l  u    i  it    t»    _  *  <-          zj  n 

{"*  •.  •                  ■          r.     ■  ,    •      V  was  held  at  the  Dracut  Grange  Hall  on 

tact,  it  is  embarrassing,  after  placing  the  w  j     j            •      m      i<-    tu  u 
milk  with  a  dealer,  to  find  it  necessary  to  W^npsda>-  f^'ng,  May  16    Those  who 
inform  that  dealer  that  the  milk  has  been  fweret  P/esent    however,  took  a  keen  in- 
placed  elsewhere.  t/r,est  ,n.tlle  discussion  and  a  very  help- 

A.„(L„r  (  t         i  ■  ,    ,               ,  ful  meeting  was  held.    Market  conditions 

Another  factor  which  has  caused  con-  ■              ,                       .  . 

cirWiM^  i^r-^™.     *u            l   e  ,n  general  were  discussed  and  the  situa- 

siaerahle  increase  in  the  requests  for  mar-  •     .u    t       h  \t    i  *  *  n  a 

Wtc  fV,;c              u^.  u       *u     c    .  lL  .  tion  in  the  Lowell   Market  talked  over. 

Rets  this  spring  has  been  the  fact  that  . •             i    t  cc 

th*™  u~,-  kL„„                 »  -i       x    r  ,    .  At  this  meeting  the  last  years  officers 

there  has  been  some  curtailment  of  train  i    t  .       »           wr    r-  11, 

5„„-  .              „r  .i    ,•            •        ...  were   re-elected:     Arthur  W.  Colburn, 

service  on  some  of  the  lines  moving  milk  -j    »    v           t  r> 

i'r>trv        „„r(i,o,„        i   .      -ry       °     '  president :  Norman  L.  Peavev,  vice-presi- 

mto  our  northern  markets.    Requests  for  j    t    u  \i  tt  l 

•  ,  ,  e  j  dent:  H.  M.  Fox,  secretary, 
changes  m  dealers  for  these  producers  ,_„..  .  10,  , 
effected  by  this  change  in  train  service  0n  Fr,d;»v  evening,  May  18.  the  annual 
are  being  complied  with  as  raoidlv  as  pos-  meeting  of  the  Eliot.  Me..  Local  was  held 
sible.  This  effects  principally  producer*  ,h°  hnme  nf  R-  D-  Webber  in  Eliot, 
shipping  on  the  Portland,  Nashua  and  At  th,s  meeting  there  was  a  very  inter- 
Worcester  division  of  the  B  &  M  An-  ested  and  large  gatherin^-  The  question 
other  instance  of  curtailment  in  service  of  making  Grade  A  milk  for  the  Ports- 
has  been  the  proposed  abandonment  of  the  mouth  Creamery  was  discussed.  The  pro- 
trollev  line  running  between  Chester  and  ducers  shipping  to  the  Portsmouth 
Derrv,  N.  H.  We  have  been  working  to  Creamery  are  starting  in  on  a  program 
secure  trucking  service  for  hauling  this  bettering  the  quality  of  milk  shinned.  This 
milk  to  the  Lawrence  Market  At  present  matter  of  meeting  the  Grade  A  require- 
vve  are  pleased  to  sav  that  arrangements  monts  something  which  we  feel  will 
have  been  made  with  the  Holmes  &  e^entuallv  be  of  great  benefit  to  the  pro- 
Wheeler  Company  of  Derrv  N.  H  to  du"CCr^  as  vve"t  as^t0  thc  managem-nt  of 
tv,;c  m;it-  ti_  t  '  '  >t  "i  .  the  Portsmouth  Creamery.  Mr.  Badger 
nam  this  milk  to  the  Lawrence  Market.  t.  •  j  r  i  «.•  •  * 
(„  ,  .  .,  ,  .  .  .  has  given  wonderful  co-operation  in  art- 
We  fee  that  a  considerable  saving  m  ti  'the  nevv  svstem  started  Your  dis- 
t.me  and  money  will  be  made  to  the  pro-  trict  mana?er  pians  to  make  a  visit  to 
ducers  in  Chester  on  tins  new  arrange-  that  territory  soon  and  be  of  what  as- 
ment-  sistance  he  can  in  helping  producers  to 
Annual  Meeting  understand  and  comply  with  the  require- 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  Lawrence,  ments.  Tn  starting  anything  of  this  nature 
Mass.,  Local  was  held  on  Monday  evening,  it  requires  considerable  patience  on  a!! 


Milk  and  Fat  Champion 

Abigail  of  Hillside 

World  Champion  Jersey  in  Milk 
and  Fat  Production 


Bred  and  tested  by  John  T.  Carpenter  and  Sons  on  their 
hill  farm  at  Shelburne  Falls,  Mass.,  Abigail  of  Hillside  on 
three  milkings  a  day  in  365  days  broke  the  previous  Jer- 
sey record  for  fat  production  by  67.42  lbs.  and  for  milk 
production  by  3053  lbs.  By  producing  1197.51  lbs.  fat  in 
365  days  she  established  the  high  record  for  cows  of  all 
breeds  on  three  milkings  a  day. 


Official  Record 


Days 

Milk 

Fat 

May   22,  1927 

10 

684 

4.98 

34.06 

June 

30 

2206 

4.55 

100.37 

July 

31 

2193 

4.98 

109.21 

August 

31 

1826 

4.86 

88.74 

Sept. 

30 

2047 

4.79 

98.05 

Oct. 

31 

2084 

4.96 

103.37 

Nov. 

30 

1845 

5.29 

97.60 

Dec. 

31 

1952 

5.38 

105.02 

Jan.  1928 

31 

1994 

5.39 

107.48 

Feb. 

29 

1690 

5.23 

88.39 

Mar. 

31 

1974 

5.24 

103.44 

Apr. 

30 

1932 

5.08 

98.15 

May  1-20 

20 

1250 

5.09 

63.63 

Totals 

365 

23677 

5.06 

1197.51 

The  previous  world  cham- 
pion Jersey  milk  producer, 
Madeline  of  Hillside,  was 
also  bred  and  tested  by  John 
T.  Carpenter  and  Sons  and 
was  half  sister  of  Abigail. 
Both  these  cows  were  sired 
by  the  famous  bull  Hillside 
Torono  and  the  dams  of  both 
carried  blood  of  high  pro- 
ducing Jerseys. 


That  the  Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange  is  able  to  supply 
rations  which  owners  of  such  valuable  producers  will  feed  persistent- 
ly to  their  herds,  and  that  feeds  of  this  exceptional  quality  are  dis- 
tributed so  economically  that  they  enable  dairymen  to  make  milk  at 
low  costs  per  unit  of  production  shows  the  value  of  Eastern  States 
feed  service  to  breeders  and  dairymen.  John  T.  Carpenter  and  Sons 
have  been  feeding  Eastern  States  rations  since  1922.  Madeline  and 
Abigail  each  made  their  world  records  on  a  grain  mixture  composed 
of  Eastern  States  Fulpail  and  ground  oats  with  mixed  hay,  Abigail 
receiving  beet  pulp  and  Madeline  beet  pulp  and  silage. 

Where  records  are  kept  Eastern  States  feeds  prove  their  worth. 

pastern  §tates  pmncFs  Exchange 

Headquarters:  Springfield,  Mass. 


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:s  until  everything  is  running  smoothly, 
I  I  am  sure  that  we  will  have  the 
rty  co-operation  of  all  producers  sell- 
1  in  that  market. 

-ast  year's  officers  of  the  Eliot,  Me., 
:al  were  re-elected :  R.  D.  Webber, 
sident,  and  Maurice  J.  Drake,  secre- 

i» 

phis  is  my  first  report  to  the  producers 
the  Northern  Market  District.  In 
lowing  Mr.  Burns  as  manager  of  this 
rict,  I  hope  to  be  able  to  inspire  the 
le  confidence  in  both  producers  and 
lers  which  Mr.  Brown  has  had.  The 
ce  at  all  times  will  be  glad  to  co- 
rate  in  every  possible  way  and  we  will 
atly  appreciate  your  bringing  your 
blems  to  us.  There  are,  of  course,  a 
at  many  of  you  whom  I  have  not  met 
sonally,  but  as  time  goes  on  and  I 
vel  through  the  district  more.  1  am 
icing  forward  to  the  pleasure  of  meet- 
i  you  and  talking  with  you. 


GRADE  A  MILK 

'he  Grade  A  milk  proposition  for 
Ural  Massachusetts  looked  attractive 
!the  farmers  in  Barre  and  surround- 
towns.  More  than  200  gathered  to 
r  about  the  possibilities  wnen  the 
;s  meeting  was  called  at  the  Barre 
n  hail,  the  interest  was  keen  and  a 
d  number  of  the  farmers  signified 
r  desire  to  get  on  to  the  Grade  A 
is. 

here  was,  however,  some  slight  mis- 
erstanding  of  the  possibilities.  The 
ikers  who  pointed  out  the  advantages 
Grade  A  production  did  not  make  it 
gether  plain,  apparently,  that  the 
fde  A  business  was  limited  and  that 
e  would  be  no  good  profit  in  it  unless 
3uld  be  sold  at  a  premium.  The  sup- 
can  increase  only  so  fast  as  the  de- 
id  in  the  city  markets  will  take  care 
the  increase.  Otherwise  there  will 
a1  up  a  substantial  surplus  of  Grade 
nilk  seeking  a  market  and  with  no 
e  to  go. 

he  general  effect  of  the  meetings  and 
movement  for  Grade  A  milk  in  that 
on  has  been  quite  satisfactory,  how- 
.  The  attention  of  the  aairymen  has 
i  called  to  the  better  metnods  of  pro- 
ng milk  so  as  to  meet  a  quality  mar- 
and  it  will  De  possible  for  some  of 
i  to  come  .on  to  the  urade  A  basis 
never  tne  demand  warrants  it.  At 
ent  tnere  is  nttie  demand  in  Wor- 
;r  and  it  is  a  question  now  much 
tional  Grade  A  can  be  utilized  satis- 
•jrny  in  tne  Boston  market, 
ne  of  the  immediate  results  of  the 
ement  there  was  to  get  all  the  pres- 
Grade  A  producers  right  on  their 
and  up  to  high  standards.  Repre- 
itives  of  the  Boston  board  of  health 
of  the  Whiting  Milk  Co.  visited  all 
Grade  A  producers  and  gave  them 
ce  as  to  ways  in  which  their  methods 
andling  the  milk  could  be  improved, 
e  few  of  them,  who  had  been  ship- 
some  time,  had  grown  a  little  slack 
leir  care  of  the  milk.  With  the  pos- 
ty  that  they  might  be  supplanted  by 
producers  eager  to  get  on,  they 
ed  to  come  up  to  the  standard  right 
'.   They  were  given  30  days  in  which 

Lome   up  to   the   requirements  as  to 
_  iment  and  the  manner  in  which  the 
is  handled, 
le  effect  of  the  movement  in  this 
which    can    ship    to  Worcester, 
igfield  or  Boston,  has  been  to  in- 
dealers  from  all  markets  to  canvass 
members  and  see  who  will  stay  with 
and  who  will  not.    Some  changes 
ikely  to  take  place  in  the  Worcester 
:et  area  due  to  the   fact  that  the 
h  department  will  put  in  regulations 
ring  the  tuberculin  test  for  all  un- 
urized  milk  effective  July  1.    It  is 
ted  that  the  whole  system  of  milk 
ction  by  the  Worcester  health  de- 
tient  will  tighten  up  after  this  regu- 
l  goes  into  effect, 
a  meeting  of  Grade  A  producers 
in  the  Shelburne  Falls  region  a  re- 
i  to  the  Worcester  county  move- 
showed  itself.     "Why  try  to  get 
'  men  to  produce  Grade  A  milk  when 
ellows  already  are  producing  more 
;  A  milk  than  can  be  resold  ?"  was 
question.    It  is  a  pertinent  one  and 
ites  the  complexity  of  the  situation 
dealing  with  some  commodity  for 
l  there  is  a  limited  demand.  With- 
oubt  the  demand  for  Grade  A  milk 
|»row  but  the  present  outlook  is  not 
yhich  would  lead  to  rapid  expansion. 


Lawrence  Quinlan.  en  enterprising  young 
hauling  contractor  of  Atlantic,  Iowa,  despite  his 
youth  (he  is  20)  has  worked  up  a  very  prosper- 
ous business  hauling  live  stock.  He  writes  us: 

"My  latest  2-ton  International  is  a  wonder. 
Your  trucks  have  given  me  satisfaction  and  serv- 
ice and  that's  what  I  need.  I  am  now  ready  for  a 
larger  truck  and  I'll  knock  on  International's 
door.  No  one  goes  wrong  on  International  Har- 
vester products."       Yours  truly, 

LAWRENCE  QUINLANj 


i 


The  Farmer  Knows 
INTERNATIONAL  TRUCKS 

are  Best  for  Year-Round  Service  on  the  Farm 


Plenty  of  Work 
for  an 
INTERNATIONAL 
TRUCK 

A  load  is  just  so  many  pounds,  or 
tons,  to  an  International,  whether  it  be 
milk  and  cream,  live  stock,  sacked  or 
bulk  grain,  baled  or  loose  hay,  shelled 
or  ear  corn,  fruit,  vegetables,  butter 
and  eggs,  chickens,  coal,  building  ma- 
terials, feed,  or  any  other  of  the  many 
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NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


June,  1928, 


FIELD  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT 


F.   C.  WARNKK,  Manager 


51  Cornhlll.  Boston 


DISTRICT  MANAGERS 


Maine  Field  District- 
Northern  Field  District — S.  L.  STEARNS,  St.  J»hnsbury,  Vt. 
Northwestern    Field    District — CARROLL    R.    McBRIDE,  St.  Alhan*,  Vt. 
Rutland   Distpict — CHARLKS   R.   PAKMALKE,  Rutland.  Vt. 


The  field  service  department  is  back  to 
.normal  except  for  being  one  man  short. 
Transferring  F.  L.  Foley  from  the 
Field  District  to  the  Northern  Market 
District  leaves  us  no  man  in  the  Main 
territory  carrying  forward  the  good  work 
which  Mr.  Foley  has  been  doing  there. 
However,  a  new  man  will  be  put  in  charge 
of  that  district  soon  and  in  the  meantime 
calls  for  service  wil  lbe  met  in  other  ways 
so  far  as  is  possible.  Before  assuming  his 
new  position  in  the  Northern  Market  dis- 
trict, Mr.  Foley  did  some  check  testing 
work  at  the  Turner  Centre  plants  at  Wis- 
casset  and  South  Paris  and  at  the  Hood 
Plant  at  Winthrop. 

Sam  Stearns  got  back  to  his  head- 
quarters at  St.  Johnsbury  May  1,  after 
three  solid  months  spent  at  Sheldon. 
With  his  accustomed  vigor  he  pitched  into 
the  organization  work  and  at  Hardwick 
secured  24  new  members  and  added  28 
more  new  dues  orders  with  the  assistance 
of  T.  C.  Jennison.  At  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  Hardwick  local,  General  Mana- 
ger W.  P.  Davis  spoke  on  the  work  of 
the  association  and  the  way  it  is  handling 
the  collective  bargaining.  P.  Marsh  was 
re-elected  president,  and  Sam  McFeeters, 
-secretary. 

Stearns  spent  a  few  days  in  the  area 
around  woodsville  and  at  North  Haver- 
hill added  17  new  members  and  four  addi- 
tional dues  orders.  This  brings  the  mem- 
bership in  this  local  up  to  nearly  the  100 
j>er  cent.  mark. 

On  a  canvass  of  the  Whiting  shippers 
at  Bakersfield  he  added  17  new  members 
.and  31  new  dues  orders. 

In  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Georgia 
Jocal  the  following  officers  were  elected : 
President,  M.  O.  Bragg ;  vice-president, 
George  Webster ;  secretry,  H.  H.  Nye. 
The  sneakers  were  Leon  D.  Latham,  Rev. 
W.  C.  Clark,  John  McGrath  and  Judge 
F.  W.  Bliss. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Westford 
local,  Edgar  T.  Grow  was  elected  presi- 
dent, and  H.  M.  Irish  was  elected  secre- 
tary and  treasurer. 


Carroll  R.  McBride,  the  latest  addition 
to  our  field  service  staff  is  right  on  the 
job  in  the  Champlain  Valley  District.  He 
got  initiated  in  the  NEMPA  work  by 


CARROLL  R.  McBRIDE 

helping  F.  C.  Warner,  field  service  de- 
partment manager,  complete  the  work  at 
East  Fairfield. 

Charles  R.  Parmalee  has  been  making 
the  rounds  of  Eastern  New  York  ship- 
pers, check  testing  and  doing  organiza- 
tion work.  He  has  run  more  than  500 
check  tests  for  shippers  to  the  Hood  plants 
at  Middle  Granville  and  Salem,  N.  Y., 
and  Randolph,  Vt.  He  completed  the 
canvass  at  Eagle  Bridge,  West  Hoosick 
and  Pownal,  adding  48  new  members  and 
one  additional  dues  order.  He  was  as- 
sisted at  West  Hoosick  by  Alexander 
Smith ;  at  Eagle  Bridge  by  Sidney  Smith, 
and  Ed  Relihan,  and  at  Pownal  by  Lloyd 
Rathburn. 


MARKETED  CO-OPERATIVELY 

Approximately  eleven  billion  Pounds  of 
fluid  milk  was  marketed  through  co- 
oerative  associations  in  1927.  This  quan- 
tity is  nearly  one-fifth  of  the  estimated 
-quantity  used  in  continental  United  States 
ior  household  purposes  last  year. 

A  large  fraction  of  the  total  fluid  milk 
used  in  some  of  the  larger  cities  passes 
through  co-operative  channels  in  moving 
from  the  producers  to  the  consumers. 
Such  is  the  case  in  Philadelphia,  Balti- 
vmore,  Washington,  New  York  City, 
Hartford,  Boston,  Pittsburgh,  Cleveland, 
Cincinnati,  Detroit,  Minneapolis,  and 
other  cities. 

There  are  three  general  types  of  co- 
operative enterprises  engaged  in  market- 
ing fluid  milk.  These  are  the  producers' 
bargaining  association,  the  producers'  dis- 
tributing association,  and  the  consumers' 
-distributing  association.  The  bargaining 
association  functions  chiefly  in  the  de- 
termination of  the  monthly  price  to  be 
paid  by  private  distributors  to  the  pro- 
ducers. About  sixty  per  cent,  of  the 
fluid  marketed  co-operatively  is  under  the 
control  o  fthe  bargaining  associations.  Il 
is  this  type  of  association  which  oper- 
ates in  the  larger  cities. 

The  producer-operated  distributing  as- 
sociation assembles,  processes  and  de- 
livers milk  to  consumers,  such  as  hotels, 
restaurants  and  private  families  About 
40  per  cent,  of  the  milk  marketed  co- 
operatively is  handled  by  this  kind  of 
producers'  organization.  In  general, 
■these  distributing  associations  operate  in 
the  small  cities,  although  there  are  pro- 
ducers' associations  distributing  milk  at 
retail  in  a  few  of  the  very  large  cities. 

At  the  present  time  there  is  but  one 
outstanding  consumers'  co-operative  for 
handling  fluid  milk.  This  is  an  associa- 
tion serving  the  residents  of  Minneapolis. 


The  enterprise  buys  its  supply  of  milk 
from  a  producers'  association,  puts  it  in 
bottles  and  distributes  it  to  the  homes  of 
its  members  and  others. 

Such  data  as  are  available  indicate 
that  the  quantity  of  fluid  milk  handled  by 
the  co-operatives  has  been  increasing 
rapidly  during  the  last  three  to  five  years. 
Reports  collected  by  the  Department  of 
Agriculture  for  1924  and  1927  show  a 
substantial  increase  in  quantity  for  the 
latter  year  as  compared  with  the  former. 


STAMP  TAX  EXEMPTION  FOR 
CO-OPERATIVES 

The  new  Internal  Revenue  Bill  passed 
by  the  Congress  contains  an  amendment 
exempting  co-operative  associations  from 
paying  a  stamp  tax  on  stocks,  bonds  and 
certificates  of  indebtedness  issued  by 
them. 

This  amendment  was  introduced  by 
Senator  Shipstead  of  Minnesota  at  the 
request  of  the  National  Co-operative 
Milk  Producers'  Federation.  It  passed 
the  Senate  and  was  accepted  by  the 
House. 

This  was  one  of  the  many  nuisance 
taxes  held  over  from  previous  Internal 
Revenue  Bills.  The  Washington  Herald 
estimates  that  this  amendment  will  save 
the  co-operatives  of  the  country  3l/2  mil- 
lion dollars  annually.  So  far  as  we  know, 
it  was  the  only  tax  reduction  directly 
affecting  agriculture  embodied  in  the  new 
revenue  legislation. 


Farmer — "Samanthv,  do  you  want  me 
to  bring  you  anything  from  the  city 
today  ?" 

His  Wife — "Yes,  Si ;  you  might  bring 
me?  a  iew  jars  of  that  traffic  jam  I  see 

advertised  in  the  papers." 


Play  safe  in  reroofing— 
see  your 
local  dealer  first 


Sometimes  reroofing  is 
necessary  when  it  is  not 
financially  convenient. 
Consult  your  local  dealer 
— don't  delay.  He  can 
aid  in  arranging  time  pay- 
ments at  reasonable  car- 
rying rates.  He  will  treat 
you  right.  Go  slowly  with 
strange  roofing  concerns 
that  solicit  your,business 
by  offering  time  pay- 
ments. Exorbitant  carry- 
ing charges  are  often  dis- 
guised in  their  contracts. 
You  will  never  realize  the 
high  cost  of  such  a  roof 
until  you  have  finished 
paying  for  it. 


Your  Safekote  dealer 
will  recommend  the  best 
roofing  for  your  use.  He 
will  tell  you  Safekote 
Shingles  are  inexpensive, 
durable,  good-looking, 
and  easy  to  apply.  That 
there  is  no  better  asphalt 
roofing  than  Safekote.  If 
you  want  inexpensive, 
durable  roofing,  he  will 
show  you  Safekote  Roll 
Roofing.  It  is  made  in  New 
England,  of  the  same  se- 
lected materials  as  the 
shingles,  in  both  smooth 
and  slate  surfaces.  Safe- 
pack  Mills,  Millis,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 


more  0t\\in  waterproof 

Shingles 
Roll  Roofing 

MADE  IN  NEW  ENGLAND 


IT  PAYS  TO  FEED 

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It  Will  Put  Your  Horses  in  Fine  Condition 
—  Sheds  the  Old  Coat  of  Hair  Quickly — Puts 
on  a  Slick  New  Coat. 

COSTS  LESS  THAN  OATS-Feed  one-third  less  by  weight. 
100  lb.  bag  of  Oats  contains  84  quarts— HORSE  FEED 
110  quarts — 33  1-3  per  cent  more  bulk. 


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WJRTHMORE  HORSE  FEED, 


Twenty-one  Per  Cent  of 
Whole  Oats  Fed  are 
Lost — Not  Digested 

Save  this  loss  and  keep  your  horses  in 
better  condition  by  feeding  WIRTH- 
MORE  HORSE  FEED  -  Very  Pala- 
table —  Easily  Digested  —  No  Colic. 
Containing  only  the  highest  grade  in- 
gredients —  Crushed  Oats  and  Corn, 
Linseed  Meal,  Alfalfa,  Pure  Cane 
Molasses  and  Salt. 

FEEDING  INSTRUCTIONS,— Feed 
one  quart  of  WIRTHMORE  HORSE 
FEED  in  place  of  each  quart  of  oats 
you  have  been  feeding. 


GOOD  FOR  DRIVING  OR  WORK  HORSES 
Buy  Now!  Once  Used — Always  Used! 

ST.  ALBANS  GRAIN  CO.  -  St.  Albans,  Vt.  E 


June j  1928 


NEW   ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Vaye  Fifteen 


UNEVEN  PRODUCTION 

(Continued  from  page  three) 

.very  close  adjustment  to  the  market  de- 
mand for  fluid  milk. 

Price  the  Incentive  to  Adjust 

A  study  of  NEMPA  prices  for  fluid 
lilk  and  surplus  in  the  10  th  zone  (181 
>  200  miles  from  Boston)  during  1927 
;veals  an  interesting  situation. 

The  average  price  of  Class  1  or  fluid 
lilk  was  $3.20  per  hundred  pounds  and 
jr  surplus  $1.88  per  hundred  pounds, 
iow  unfortunate  to  produce  a  pail  of 
lilk  one-half  of  which  was  worth  $3.20 
er  hundred  pounds  while  the  other  half 
as  worth  only  $1.88.  Still  worse  and 
oth  unfortunate  and  unfair  for  an 
)range  County  farmer  to  produce  120 
Marts  per  day  in  November  worth  $3.01 
er  hundred  and  160  quarts  in  June  which 
'ould  have  been  worth  $2.50  per  hun- 
ted except  for  the  fact  that  Addison, 
,'hittenden,  Grand  Isle,  Franklin  and 
Orleans  County  farmers  were  flooding 
ae  markets  with  Class  2  milk  so  that  the 
Dmposite  price  was  only  $2.15.  In  an 
ijually  unfortunate  position  are  the 
armers  in  these  June  surplus  counties 
'ho  have  already  adjusted  to  market  de- 
lands, 

•  Until  1927  there  had  always  been  ample 
ipplies  to  satisfy  all  fluid  milk  require- 
ments even  in  November,  but  the  flood 
jist  fall  cut  off  so  much  milk  from  local 
)urces  that  360,000  quarts  from  west  of 
•uffalo  and  1,298,806  quarts  from  south 
f  New  York  were  brought  into  Boston. 
V hen  New  England  farmers  cannot  sup- 
ly  our  cities  with  milk  it  will  come  from 
|)mewhere  else. 
Since  1916  apparently  about  60,000  cows 
iditional  each  year  have  been  required 
.  supply  the  growing  demand  for  fluid 
lilk  in  New  York  and  New  England  cities, 
jhus  far  there  have  been  plenty  of  farm- 
;s  anxious  to  shift  from  producing  butter 
pd  cream  to  fluid  milk  production.  In  1928 
titter  cows  have  practically  disappeared 
rom  the  East.    New  England  and  New 
prk  dairy  farmers  are  in  a  very  strong 
psition.   If  the  consumption  of  fluid  milk 
mtinues  to  increase  at  the  present  rate 
gher  and  higher  percentages  of  our  milk 
tn  be  sold  as  Class  1  milk  provided  that 
oduction  is  properly  distributed  through- 
,it  the  year.    The  margin  of  production 
rove  fluid  milk  requirements  during  Sep- 
mber  to  December  is  becoming  so  nar- 
iw  that  even  though  there  is  a  heavy 
irplus  during  May  and  June  we  are  in 
inger  of  being  unable  to  supply  fluid 
ilk  demands  during  the  short  seasons. 

The  Remedy 
Obviously  we  need  to  produce  more  of 
ir  milk  during  September  to  December 
id  less  during  March  to  June.  We  need 
practice  "cow  birth  control,"  in  other 
ords,  to  breed  our  cows  to  freshen  in 
ugust  and  September  instead  of  in  April 
id  May. 

Optimists  believe  that  this  can  be 
ought  about  through  education,  through 
:plaining  the  situation  to  farmers.  It 
Duld  seem  that  this  should  be  true,  but 
is  probable  that  more  positive  measures 
ill  be  found  necessary  as  the  need  de- 
lops  for  larger  supplies  of  milk  during 
e  months  from  September  to  December. 
If  farmers  do  not  voluntarily  adjust 
oduction  to  market  demand  under  the 
esent  system  of  payment,  such  adjust- 
?nt  could  be  brought  about,  to  the  bene- 

of  all  concerned,  through  some  scheme 

payment  which  would  reward,  those, 
io  produce  heavily  in  the  short  season, 
:>re  highly  than  does  the  present  plan, 
d  would  penalize  those  who  contribute 

the  current  spring  and  early  summer 
rplus  more  drastically. 
One  such  plan  which  has  met  with  a 
ir  degree  of  success  in  operation,  and 
rich  has  been  given  serious  considera- 
>n  by  those  responsible  for  the  market- 
;  of  New  England  milk  is  the  so-called 
liladelphia  rating  plan.  Under  this  plan 
alers  would  record  the  average  daily 
livery  of  each  patron  from  the  months 

September,  October,  and  November, 
iring  these  three  months  the  price  to 
:  farmer  would  be  computed  as  at  pres- 
t.  During  the  ensuing  nine  months  the 
"mer  would  be  paid  as  under  the  pres- 
:  plan  for  any  quantity  of  milk  up  to 

per  cent,  more  than  his  short  season 
xluction,  but  for  all  milk  in  excess  of 
At  quantity  he  would  receive  the  current 
'ce  for  surplus  only. 
This  scheme  is  presented  here  only  in 


barest  outline,  and  for  the  purpose  of 
provoking  thought  and  discussion.  It 
might  result  in  adjustment  to  market  de- 
mand as  rapidly  as  the  need  developed. 
If  a  man  is  producing  milk  largely  from 
pasture  he  should  be  paid  the  surplus 
price  only  for  that  in  excess  of  fluid  milk 
requirements. 

The  arguments  are  all  in  favor  of  ad- 
justed production.  In  all  cost  of  milk 
studies  at  the  Vermont  Experiment  Sta- 
tion those  farmers  having  the  highest  per- 
centages of  milk  produced  during  the 
short  season  made  the  most  monev.  The 


Randolph  and  Royalton  cost  of  milk 
production  study  (Vermont  Bulletin  268, 
page  61 )  for  the  year  ending  April  1923, 
shows  the  effect  of  winter  production  on 
cost  and  labor  incomes. 

These  data  are  typical.  A  similar  situ- 
ation in  regard  to  the  relative  profitable- 
ness of  winter  and  summer  dairying  was 
found  to  exist  in  Enosburg  (1922-23)  and 
in  Cabot  and  Marshfield  (1925-26)  in 
spite  of  the  fact  that  neither  was  fluid 
milk  territory  at  the  time  the  data  was 
gathered. 

In  general  production  per  cow  increases 


and  cost  per  unit  of  production  decreases 
as  winter  dairying  is  adopted.  The  com- 
bination of  lower  cost  with  higher  prices 
results  in  much  higher  labor  incomes  for 
those  selling  most  of  their  milk  in  the 
winter. 

With  production  adjusted  the  demand 
for  fluid  milk  prices  to  Eastern  farmers 
will  approach  the  Class  1  level.  Surplus 
to  supply  the  cream  trade  will  come  from 
west  of  Buffalo.  Prices  to  consumers 
will  not  rise.  Milk  dealers  and  feed  deal- 
ers will  be  able  to  do  business  more  eco- 
nomically and  every  one  should  be  happy. 


From  old  New  England  to  the  Pacific  Slope,  De  Laval  Milkers  are  enabling  better  milking,  greater  yield  and  cleaner  milk 


The  well-known  and  valuable  purebred  Holstein  herd  at  the  Mt.  Hermon  School,  Ml.  Hermon,  Mass.,  is  milked  entirely  with  the  De  La<*  al  Milker.  Young  stock  is 
shipped  all  over  the  world  for  the  herd  is  an  outstanding  one  as  regards  type,  production  and  lineage.  The  management  is  well  satisfied  with  the  results  obtained  through 
the  use  of  the  De  Laval. 

Many  Leading  New  England  Dairymen  Use  and  Endorse 
the  De  Laval  Milker  as  the  One  Ideal  Method  of  Milking 

TV/TANY  of  the  De  Laval  Milkers  used  in  New  England  have  been  in- 
stalled  at  dairies  ranking  as  milk  producers  of  the  very  highest  type, 
where  maximum  yield  per  cow  is  constantly  sought  after  and  bacteria 
counts  are  kept  at  the  lowest  point.  A  large  number  are  also  used  in 
conjunction  with  the  finest  herds  in  this  section  and  a  number  of  cows 
nationally  known  for  their  remarkable  records  have  made  them  while 
receiving  the  advantages  of  the  De  Laval  "Better  Way  of  Milking." 

A  few  of  the  representative  New  England  users  of  the  De  Laval  Milker 
who  use  and  endorse  it  for  greater  production,  better  milking  and  cleaner 
milk  are:  Gilsland  Farm,  owned  by  Mr.  David  E.  Moulton  at  Falmouth, 
Me.;  Crystal  Brook  Farm,  owned  by  Mr.  Clarence  B.  Kelley  at  Derby 
Line,  Vt;  Mr.  George  M.  Burbank,  West  Burke,  Vt.;  Northfield  Semi- 
nary, Northfield,  Mass.;  Mr.  Otto  Jensen,  West  Hartford,  Conn.;  C.  H. 
Field  and  Son,  Cumberland  Center,  Me.;  The  Mt.  Hermon  School,  Mt. 
Hermon,  Mass.;  Mr.  A.  R.  Webb,  South  wick,  Mass.;  Lakeland  Farm, 
owned  by  Dr.  Owen  Smith  at  Sebago  Lake,  Me.;  Haskell  and  Cobb, 
Scarboro,  Me.;  Castle  Hill  Farm,  owned  by  the  Whitin  Machinery 
Works  at  Whitinsville,  Mass.;  Waveney  Farm,  owned  by  Mr.  R.  W. 
Bird  at  Framingham,  Mass.;  Deerfoot  Farm,  owned  by  Mr.  Robert  Bur- 
nett at  Southboro,  Mass.,  and  Mr.  Thos.  Holt,  Newington  Junction,  Conn. 


The  De  Laval  Milker  proves  its  value  at  the  milk  scales  at 
Lakeland  Farm,  owned  by  Dr.  Owen  Smith,  Sebago  Lake, 
Me.  Dr.  Smith  has  raised  and  bred  Jerseys  for  20  years 
and  his  present  herd  is  composed  of  purebred  Jerseys  of  ex- 
cellent character  and  lineage.  Many  very  creditable  records 
have  been  made  by  matrons  of  this  herd  and  the  test  work 
goes  on  constantly.  The  De  Laval  Milker  has  proven  of 
real  assistance  in  the  steady,  upward  push  of  production 
and  Dr.  Smith  writes,  "I  feel  that  after  using  the  De  Laval 
Milker  I  should  give  up  dairying  rather  than  return  to 
hand  milking.  I  have  had  no  udder  trouble  during  the 
time  the  De  Laval  has  been  used.  '* 


Write  for  detailed  information  as  to  just  how  the  De  Laval  Milker  can  aid  in  solving  your  milking  prob- 
lem whatever  it  may  be.    If  you  prefer,  a  De  Laval  representative  will  gladly  call  at  your  place. 

THE  DE  LAVAL  SEPARATOR  COMPANY 


NEW  YORK 

165  Broadway 


CHICAGO 
600  Jackson  Blvd. 


SAN  FRANCISCO 
61  Beale  St. 


These  are  the  modern  dairy  buildings  of  Mr.  Thomas  Holt,  Dairy  and  Food  Commissioner 
of  Connecticut.  Mr.  Holt  produces  a  special  Grade  A  milk  which  is  supplied  to  a  well- 
known  Hartford  hospital.  He  finds  the  De  Laval  Milker  a  real  aid  in  maintaining  maxi- 
mum yield  and  in  keeping  bacteria  counts  well  down. 


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St  1 


THE  U8RARY  OF  THE 
JUL  14  1928 


^LV  OF  ILLINOIS 


New  England  Dairyman 


A  Monthly  Publication  Devoted 
to  Dairy  Interests 


Issued  by  the  New  England  Milk 
Producers'  Association 


Volume  11.  Numbe 


r  W 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  JULY,  1928 


50  Cents  Per  Year 


Permanent  Reserve  Fund  Is  Proposed 

Directors  Approve  Plan  of  Special  Committee  —  To  Be  Brought  Up  at  Annual  Meeting 

Rotating  Feature  for  Special  Fund  Is  Provided  For 


Our  annual  meeting  is  less  than  four 
lonths  away.  Between  now  and  then 
/e  want  you  all  to  do  quite  a  lot  of 
linking  on  one  of  the  most  important 
latters  of  policy  which  has  come  up  in 
le  association  for  a  long  time.  It  is 
/hether  or  not  we  shall  take  out  insur- 
nce  for  the  future. 

It  will  not  be  just  the  kind  of  insurance 
ou  place  on  your  barn  or  your  automobile, 
.'erhaps  it  is  more  in  the  nature  of  a  sav- 
1  lgs  bank  account.    But  the  important 
iMing  is  that  either  insurance  or  savings 
ank  account  assures  you  of  being  able 
)  meet  an  emergency  quickly  and  readily, 
ire,    illness    or    other    calamity  may 
amper  you  a  little  and  cause  you  extra 
ork  but  cannot  put  you  out  of  business 
[together  if  you  have  proper  insurance 
t  an  adequate  savings  bank  account. 
It   is   not   much   different   with  the 
fEMPA.    In  looking  toward  the  future 
e  more  and  more  realize  the  importance 
f  having  something  to  safeguard  us  in 
ise  an  emergency  arises.    The  question 
t  whether  or  not  we  will  so  safeguard 
jrselves  for  the  future  will  be  one  of 
le  important  matters  discussed  at  the 
irning  annual  meeting.    We  want  the 
idest  and  fullest  expression  of  opinion 
i  the  matter.  Then  the  delegates  coming 
1  your  representatives   from   all  over 
j  e  territory  covered  by  the  NEMPA 
, ill  be  able  to  decide  on  the  right  thing 
do  and  leave  the  directors  with  full 
>wer  to  act.    It  is  a  matter  which  is  of 
rect  interest  and  importance  to  every 
ember  of  the  association. 
LT'he  proposition,  in  a  nutshell,  is  to 
'tablish  a  permanent  fund  with  which  to 
eet  emergencies,  such  as  the  one  which 
ose  when  we  went  into  the  recent  con- 
nversy  with  the  New  England  Cream- 
y  Products  Company.    We  raised  an 
lergency  fund  to  reimburse  the  mem- 
rs  who  withdrew  their  milk  from  the 
>mpany,  rather  than  sell  it  at  any  other 
ice  or  any  other  terms  than  those  made 
the  NEMPA  for  the  Boston  market, 
e  carried  the  controversy  through  to  a 
ccessful  and  satisfactory  victory.  Our 
ility  to  do  this  was  due  in  large  meas- 
e  to  the  way  in  which  producers  all 
er  New  England  rallied  to  the  support 
1  these  producers  who  would  otherwise 
ve  had  to  bear  a  disastrous  burden 
me. 

Once  before  we  had  the  same  crisis  to 
:e — when   we   went   into  controversy 
th  the  Whiting  company  in  1922.  We 
;  ne  out  victorious  then,  as  in  the  recent 
^itroversy.    In  both  cases  when  we  suc- 
i  isfully   upheld   a   principle   the  most 
iportant  factor  was  the  reimbursement 
lr  losses.    In  the  Whiting  controversy 
[!  could  only  tell  the  members  at  the 
"rt  that  we  "hoped  to  reimburse  them." 
the  more  recent  controversy  we  were 
!e  to  tell  them  definitely  at  the  start 
it  we  "would  reimburse  them."  In 
:h  cases  the  members  who  were  bearing 
■  chief  burden  were  good  sports  and 


would  have  gone  through  with  the  thing 
anyway,  just  so  far  as  they  could  stand 
the  losses,  but  it  was  much  easier  for  them 
to  stand  by  with  the  expectation  that  their 
losses  would  be  made  good.  In  the  first 
case  our  ability  to  see  the  thing  through 


their  contributions  even  though  they  may 
have  needed  the  money  badly  themselves. 
They  paid  a  small  amount  in  order  to 
avoid  the  loss  of  a  larger  amount.  It  is 
one  of  the  finest  records  in  the  associa- 
tion's history  that  enough  of  them  did 


WHAT  MR.  CHRISTENSEN  TOLD  US 

Chris  L.  Christensen  is  the  head  of  the  Division  of  Co- 
operative Marketing  of  the  Bureau  of  Agricultural  Economics 
of  the  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture.  He  is  closer 
to  the  progress  of  agricultural  co-operation  throughout  the 
United  States  than  any  other  man.  When  asked  about  our 
proposal  to  establish  a  reserve  fund  he  said  something  like  this: 

•'It  is  sound  business  policy  for  you  to  raise  a  substantial 
reserve  fund.  Other  co-operative  dairy  organizations  are  doing 
it.  It  is  in  line  with  the  progressive  co-operative  thought  of 
today. 

"Such  a  fund  will  go  a  long  way  toward  stabilizing  your 
markets  and  will  enable  you  to  maintain  prices  at  a  fair  and 
reasonable  level  more  easily.  With  a  substantial  sum  at  your 
disposal  you  will  command  the  attention  and  respect  of  busi- 
ness men.  Substantial  reserve  backing  is  the  foundation  of 
modern  business. 

"You  will  be  wise  to  start  this  fund  in  anticipation  of 
needing  it  in  a  practical  way.  Constructive  changes  are  taking 
place  in  the  co-operative  field  as  conditions  change  and  as  the 
possibilities  of  co-operative  marketing  are  more  fully  realized. 
You  cannot  say  today  just  what  you  may  want  to  do  five  years 
from  now.  The  reserve  fund  will  enable  you  to  proceed  wisely 
and  build  on  permanent  foundations. 

"As  a  bargaining  organization  you  are  doing  well.  But 
however  successful  you  are  at  the  present  time  in  securing  a 
fair  return  to  your  members,  you  should  not  lose  sight  of  the 
fact  that  you  have  some  big  problems  to  face  in  the  future 
and  might  find  it  desirable  to  purchase  property  and  to  operate 
plants  for  the  benefit  of  your  members. 

"The  reserve  fund  which  you  propose  to  raise  will  tend  to 
give  your  members  a  feeling  of  security  and  confidence.  It 
will  improve  the  morale  of  your  association. 

"From  every  standpoint  the  reserve  fund  is  good  busi- 
ness policy." 


would  have  been  greatly  strengthened  if 
we  could  have  said  boldly  at  the  start 
that  we  were  going  to  pay  all  losses.  Such 
an  action  might  have  shortened  the  con- 
troversy some  weeks. 

In  both  cases  the  methods  we  used  to 
raise  the  reimbursement  fund  was  volun- 
tary contributions  from  members.  In 
both  cases  there  were  many  members  who 
realized  the  seriousness  of  the  situation 
and  saw  the  losses  which  would  come  to 
them  personally  if  the  association  should 
fail  to  maintain  its  position.    They  paid 


make  their  contributions  so  that  all  the 
men  involved  directly  in  the  controversy 
were  reimbursed  promptly  and  in  full. 

We  are  highly  gratified  at  the  way  in 
which  members  responded  to  the  recent 
call  but  there  are  obvious  shortcomings  to 
this  way  of  raising  the  money.  The  first 
and  most  important  is  the  uncertainty,  as 
to  the  amount  which  would  be  subscribed. 
The  directors  showed  their  confidence  in 
the  membership  when  they  authorized  the 
statement  at  the  start  that  all  losses  would 
be  paid.    There  was  no  regular  NEMPA 


money  available  for  such  a  reimburse- 
ment. There  was  no  other  money  in  sight 
with  which  to  make  good  the  losses.  But 
they  pinned  their  faith  on  the  staunch- 
ness of  the  members  and  their  willingness 
to  contribute.  Their  judgment  was  amply 
sustained.  But  it  was  taking  somewhat  of 
a  chance.  It  would  be  very  much  like  a 
man  ordering  lumber  for  his  new  house 
right  after  the  old  one  was  burned  with 
no  insurance  and  no  savings  bank  account, 
in  the  belief  that  he  could  get  his  neigh- 
bors to  loan  or  give  him  enough  money 
to  pay  for  the  lumber.  Such  things  have 
happened  but  it  would  be  taking  a  long 
chance. 

The  second  serious  objection  to  the 
plan  of  raising  a  fund  for  each  crisis  is 
that  the  contributions  come  from  some  of 
the  members,  not  from  all  of  them.  All 
share  in  the  benefits  of  the  stabilized  price 
which  the  fund  makes  possible  and  it  is 
obviously  unfair  that  the  fund  should  be 
subscribed  by  only  a  part  of  the  mem- 
bers. However  appreciative  we  all  are  of 
the  way  a  large  number  of  producers  sent 
in  their  contributions  voluntarily,  the  fact 
remains  that  there  are  a  considerable 
number  of  members  who  shared  in  the 
benefits  of  the  victory  but  who  never  paid 
a  cent  or  suffered  any  inconvenience  to 
bring  about  that  victory. 

At  the  time  of  the  Whiting  controversy 
a  principle  was  established  that  the  asso- 
ciation as  a  whole  would  back  up  the 
members  who  were  withdrawing  their 
milk,  rather  than  sell  it  at  any  price  ex- 
cept that  agreed  upon  by  the  association 
sales  committee  for  the  market.  This 
principle  was  maintained  at  the  recent 
controversy  and  will  be  maintained  in 
future  emergencies  of  the  same  nature. 
But  we  should  overcome  the  two  main 
objections  to  the  method  of  procedure, 
the  uncertainty  as  to  the  size  of  the  con- 
tributions on  the  voluntary  basis  and  the 
inequality  of  the  contributions  from  dif- 
ferent members,  when  collected  on  the 
voluntary  basis. 

To  overcome  these  objections  the  di- 
rectors have  outlined  a  plan  of  procedure 
for  the  collection  of  a  permanent  fund  to 
be  kept  altogether  separate  from  regular 
association  funds  and  to  be  used  only  for 
the  specific  purpose  of  maintiining  the 
principle  of  one  price  to  all  dealers.  This 
plan  will  be  presented  at  the  coming  an- 
nual meeting  and  it  is  expected  that  defi- 
nite action  will  then  take  place.  In  order 
that  all  members  may  be  familiar  with 
what  the  plan  is  we  present  in  this  issue 
of  the  Dairyman  the  changes  in  the  con- 
stitution which  will  be  proposed  in  order 
to  make  the  systematic  collection  of  such 
a  fund  possible. 

The  amendments  to  the  constitution 
which  have  been  proposed  are  given  with 
a  full  discussion  of  their  provisions  on 
page  three  of  this  issue.  These  provisions 
are  the  result  of  long  deliberation  and  dis- 
cussion by  men  who  are  familiar  with  the 
(Continued  on  page  three) 


Page  Two 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1928 


Urges  Known  Price  On  All  Co-operatives 

Manager  Davis  Tells  Co-operative  Institute  of  the  Responsibility  of  All  Organizations  to 

Help  Stabilize  Markets 


"Whoever  assigned  this  topic  to  me, 
certainly  knew  something  about  the  milk 
marketing  problems.  1 1  he  Relation  of 
Co-operative  Selling  Agencies  to  Market 
Stability.'  it  suggests  the  problems  with 
which  New  England  Milk  Producers'  As- 
sociation has  been  contending  for  years 
and  which  are  now  apparently  on  a  fair 
way  to  be  solved  through  the  growth  of  a 
better  understanding  and  mutual  confi- 
dence among  the  various  co-operative  or- 
ganizations selling  dairy  products  in  the 
southern  New  England  markets.  There 
is  a  very  definite  relationship  between  the 
methods  used  by  co-operatives  in  market- 
ing their  products  and  the  stability  of 
that  market  in  which  they  are  sold.  The 
responsibility  for  stabilization  rests  with 
the  co-operative  selling  agencies.  Speak- 
ing in  a  broad  and  general  way,  they  have 
only  recently  recognized  that  responsi- 
bility. A  few  of  them  have  not  yet  ac- 
cepted it,  but  we  hope  that  they  will  soon. 

"1  assume  that  you  expect  me  to  deal 
with  this  subject  irom  tne  standpoint  of 
the  co-operative  selling  of  milk  and  dairy 
products  and  with  such  co-operatives  as 
are  selling  these  products  under  New 
England  conditions.  New  England  con- 
ditions are  quite  different  from  those  that 
exist  in  some  other  sections  of  the  coun- 
try, both  as  to  dairy  products  and  other 
commodities.  Nearness  to  good  markets 
is  a  governing  factor  in  the  situation. 
Dairy  products  are  somewhat  different 
from  other  farm  products  co-operatively 
handled  owing  to  their  relative  perish- 
ability. 1  know  from  years  of  experience 
some  things  about  the  co-operative  mar- 
keting of  milk  and  cream  in  New  Eng- 
land. 1  know  very  little  about  the  co- 
operative marketing  of  other  products.  So 
1  am  going  to  confine  my  attention  to 
milk  and  cream  and  let  you  who  are  more 
interested  in  selling  other  products  co- 
operatively take  unto  yourselves  such  of 
the  general  principles  as  I  may  state. 

"First,  as  to  the  types  of  co-operatives 
selling  milk  and  cream  in  New  England. 
'1  here  are  six  of  them.  First  and  largest 
is  the  New  England  Milk  Producers' 
Association,  a  bargaining  organization 
operating  in  all  the  commercial  milk  sec- 
tions of  New  England  except  in  Con- 
necticut, where  the  Connecticut  Milk  Pro- 
ducers' Association  fulfills  a  similar  func- 
tion. We  have  approximately  22,000  mem- 
bers. We  are  unlike  all  the  other  dairy 
co-operatives  in  that  we  do  not  actually 
handle  the  milk.  We  do  not  buy  the 
milk  from  our  members  and  resell  it  to 
someone  else.  We  serve  as  the  agent  of 
the  member  in  bargaining  for  a  price 
and  conditions  of  sale. 

"The  bargaining  operations  connected 
with  the  sale  of  the  milk  of  approximately 
22,000  producers  every  month  in  the  year, 
presents  a  real  job.  It  requires  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  market  conditions,  produc- 
tion costs  and  conditions,  supply  and  de- 
mand and  the  general  trend  of  prices 
that  go  to  make  up  the  cost  of  the  whole 
operation. 

"The  second  important  type  of  co- 
operative is  represented  by  the  Turner 
Centre  System.  It  is  an  organization 
with  approximately  4000  patrons,  they 
being  located  in  every  New  England 
State.  It  has  country  plants  and  city  dis- 
tributing plants  together  ■  with  a  large 
ice-cream  business.  It  sells  all  of  the 
milk  and  cream  produced  by  its  patrons 
and  operates  upon  a  known  price  policy, 
paying  an  agreed  upon  price  for  sales  of 
milk  in  each  of  the  markets  where  they 
operate  and  an  agreed  upon  price  for 
manufactured  or  Class  II  milk. 

"The  third  type  is  the  federation  of 
locally  owned  co-operative  creameries  in 
Vermont.  These  creameries  were  organ- 
ized locally  and  are  equipped  to  manu- 
facture by-products  as  well  as  to  sell 
market  milk.  In  federating,  they  estab- 
lished a  sales  office  in  Greater  Boston 
and  are  marketing  their  milk,  cream  and 
other  by-products  to  distributors  in  the 
southern  New  England  cities.   One  of  the 


units  of  the  Federation  has  recently  pur- 
chased an  interest  m  a  Boston  distributor, 
i  he  two  businesses,  however,  are  operated 
on  a  separate  business  basis. 

"The  fourth  type  is  the  independent, 
local  co-operative.  these  are  located 
largely  in  the  State  ot  Vermont,  they 
operate  on  the  same  basis  as  the  local 
unils  of  the  Federation,  receiving  the  milk 
Irom  their  stockholder  patrons  and  re- 
selling it.  Like  the  federated  units,  they 
do  not  agree  to  pay  their  patrons  any 
specified  price  in  advance  as  does  the 
j  urner  Centre  System,  in  practice,  how- 
ever, the  Federation  and  independent  co- 
operatives pay  a  competitive  price  in  the 
country.  Wit  hone  exception  they  do  not 
operate  city  distribution  plants  and  pri- 
marily sell  their  product  to  smaller  deal- 
ers. The  exception  is  the  United  Farm- 
ers' Co-operative  at  Morrisville,  Vt.,  who 
operate  a  bottling  plant  in  Boston  and  in 
addition  to  supplying  dealers,  serve  the 
wholesale  restaurant  and  store  trade. 

"The  fifth  type  ot  co-operative  is  the 
local  co-operative,  organized  in  and  aDout 
the  city  market,  i^xampies  ot  this  are 
Producers  Dairy  at  urockton,  PtolyoKe 
Producers'  Dairy  at  iioiyoke  and  tne 
Marlboro  Co-operative  at .  MariDoro, 
Mass.  ihese  marketing  agencies  whole- 
sale and  retail  the  product  direct  to  tne 
city  trade,  ihey  do  not  attempt  to  serve 
an  of  the  dairymen  in  tne  section,  oniy 
adding  producers  as  they  increase  their 
sales.  Ueneraliy  speaking,  they  are 
equipped  to  handle  a  small  amount  of  sur- 
plus. 

"The  sixth  type  of  co-operative  is  rep- 
resented by  tne  United  Dairy  System, 
winch  operates  four  plants,  sprmgheid, 
Vvurcesier,  iSo.  rtampton  and  Manchester, 
iv.  n.  ihis  marketing  agency  is  open  to 
ail  producers  m  tne  mnk  sheds  of  the 
city  m  which  their  plants  are  located, 
niey  operate  on  tne  surplus  plan  and  are 
a  party  to  the  negotiations  of  the 
iMEMPA  Sales  Committees  in  the  cities 
m  which  they  operate.  All  of  their 
patrons  are  members  of  the  NEMPA.  No 
other  co-operative  in  New  England  has 
this  provision. 

"I  here  is  still  another  selling  agency, 
which  is  the  privately  owned  country 
creamery.  These  creameries  serve  in  the 
same  capacity  as  the  local  country  co- 
operative creamery  except  that  the  profits, 
it  any,  go  to  tne  owner  rather  than  being 
distributed  among  the  patrons  on  a  profit 
ownership  basis.  As  tar  as  market  sta- 
bility is  concerned,  this  type  of  agency 
has  much  the  same  effect  upon  it  as  the 
local  co-operative  creamery. 

"it  is  necessary  to  get  a  clear  picture 
of  the  variations  in  these  various  types  in 
order  to  understand  their  relations  to 
market  stability.  Every  one  of  them  is 
practically  compelled  to  pay  a  competitive 
price  in  the  country  as  there  are  very  few 
areas  in  New  England  where  more  than 
one  dealer  is  not  buying.  There  are  two 
ways  in  which  this  competitive  price  is 
arrived  at.  First,  by  the  local  co-operative 
meeting  the  NEMPA  price  for  that  zone : 
second,  the  NEMPA  price  being  forced 
down  to  the  level  paid  by  these  co-opera- 
tives. Market  stability  and  the  evening 
up  of  the  competitive  price  go  hand  in 
hand.  Large  dealers  in  Boston  and  other 
principal  markets  of  New  England  de- 
mand that  they  shall  own  their  milk  as 
cheaply  as  their  competitors.  In  the 
absence  of  any  direct  proof  as  to  what 
price  their  competitors  (who  are  not  buy- 
ing through  the  NEMPA)  are  paying, 
the  prices  paid  by  the  co-operatives  to 
their  patrons  are  taken  as  presumptive 
evidence.  But  these  prices  are  not  known 
in  advance,  as  is  the  NEMPA  price,  and 
the  door  is  wide  open  for  all  kinds  of 
claims  and  representations,  some  with 
good  foundation,  some  with  no  foundation 
at  all. 

"Price  and  service  are  the  dominating 
factors  in  market  stability.  Supply  and 
demand  dominate  price,  but  service  also 
comes  in  as  a  dominating  price  factor. 


The  supply  of  milk  available  to  New 
England  markets  varies  greatly.  There  is 
a  Hush  season,  less  tnan  three  months, 
when  there  is  a  great  oversupply  of  milk 
for  fluid  milk  sales,  i  he  law  of  supply 
and  demand  would  make  it  nossible  for 
dealers  at  the  flush  season  to  buy  their 
milk  quite  cheaply.  But  they  know  that 
the  short  season  is  only  a  few  months 
off  and  they  protect  themselves  by  buy- 
ing largely  of  producers  or  co-operatives 
who  can  supply  them  at  the  short  season. 
One  of  the  outstanding  factors  in  mar- 
ket stability  at  the  present  time  is  the 
growing  insistence  ot  the  dealers  for  a 
year  'round  supply  for  which  t  hey  are 
willing  to  pay  tne  market  price.  ihey 
must  be  assured  of  service  the  year 
'round.  The  co-operative  or  the  indi- 
vidual producer  who  hopes  to  break  in 
and  sell  his  milk  just  tor  the  Hush  season 
to  some  of  the  established  dealers,  will 
have  a  hard  time  of  it.  He  can  to  some 
extent,  break  in  on  the  wholesale  trade, 
but  here  again  there  is  a  growing  de- 
mand for  year  around  service. 

"The  law  of  supply  and  demand  would, 
left  to  itself  over  a  term  of  years,  regu- 
late the  amount  of  milk  produced  and 
the  prices  paid  tor  it.  But  it  would  be  a 
disastrous  experience  for  the  producers, 
as  it  was  in  the  old  days  before  there 
v\ere  any  co-operative  dairy  organizations. 
The  law  of  supply  and  demand  needs  in- 
terpretation which  the  co-operative  or- 
ganizations can  give  where  individual 
producers  would  be  helpless.  The 
NEMPA,  as  the  most  widely  represented 
organization,  is  in  a  position  to  study 
trends  of  supply  and  demand,  costs,  etc. 
It  is  the  only  one  of  the  co-operative 
organizations  that  can  see  the  picture 
from  a  New  England  wide  standpoint  or 
which  has  equipped  itself  with  a  re- 
search department  to  determine  these 
costs.  This  does  not  mean  that  each  co- 
operative has  not  a  place  in  determining 
trends  but  simply  that  their  contribution 
is  necessarily  from  a  local  viewpoint.  The 
assimilation  and  co-ordination  of  these 
local  viewpoints,  plus  the  studies  of  the 
research  department  of  the  NEMPA,  is 
the  prime  necessity  in  market  stability. 
Out  of  such  a  process  can  come  a  sound 
judgment  as  to  what  is  a  fair  price,  all 
things  considered. 

"The  second  step  in  stabilization  is  the 
general  maintenance  of  this  fair  and  rea- 
sonable price.  It  should  be  a  price  which 
will  sustain  the  dairy  industry  in  New 
England  yet  not  such  a  price  as  will  ma- 
terially increase  production  and  in  the 
end  break  down  the  stability  which  has 
been  built  up.  It  is  for  the  welfare  of 
New  England,  speaking  from  the  consum- 
ing standpoint  as  well  as  the  milk  pro- 
ducing standpoint,  that  the  dairy  industry 
should  be  maintained  here  and  that  New 
England  shall  not  be  forced  to  go  to 
Canada  or  the  Middle  West  for  a  consider- 
able part  of  its  supply.  Maintenance  of 
the  fair  and  reasonable  price  to  the  pro- 
ducers is  the  only  way  of  insuring  this 
continuance  of  an  adequate  milk  supply 
from  within  New  England. 

"In  this  maintenance  of  an  adequate 
price  to  the  producers,  the  co-operatives, 
large  and  small,  hold  a  dominant  position. 
The  NEMPA  will  do  its  part  as  a  bar- 
gaining organization,  serving  as  an  agent 
for  the  producers  who  sell  their  milk  di- 
rect to  dealers.  Its  efforts  will  be  unsuc- 
cessful, however,  if  the  lesser  co-opera- 
tives fail  to  recognize  New  England  wide 
conditions  and  sell  for  a  fair  and  reason- 
able price  which  will  sustain  the  industry. 

"The  prime  factor  in  market  stability 
is  a  price  agreed  upon  in  advance  and 
made  public.  Looking  back  over  dairy 
marketing  history,  it  is  evident  90  per 
cent,  or  more  of  all  the  instability  has 
come  from  the  uncertainties  of  the  "un- 
known" price,  paid  by  co-operatives  to 
their  patrons,  or  charged  to  their  deal- 
ers or  wholesale  buyers.  It  is  sot  neces- 
sary that  all  these  co-operatives  should 
come  under  the  surplus  plan,  under  which 


the  NEMPA  is  operating.  It  is  highly- 
important  that  there  should  be  some  point 
along  the  line  from  producer  to  consumer 
where  comparisons  of  prices  can  be  made. 
The  possibility  of  such  a  comparison  will 
go  a  long  way  toward  the  establishment 
of  confidence  between  the  various  agen- 
cies selling  milk  in  New  England  markets. 

"The  degree  of  stability  in  the  markets 
depends  in  large  measure  on  the  mutual 
confidence  which  is  built  up.  Much  prog- 
ress has  been  made  through  the  action  of 
the  Commissioners  of  Agriculture  in  call- 
ing conferences  of  the  interested  parties. 
A  beginning  has  been  made  on  a  system 
under  which  all  co-operatives  will  report 
to  the  Commissioners  or  to  some  one 
Commissioner,  their  prices,  sales  and 
volume  of  milk  handled.  The  extent  to 
which  the  co-operatives  adopt  this  practice 
will  determine  very  largely  the  stability 
of  the  markets  for  the  coming  years.  We 
hope  that  all  will  adopt  such  a  practice 
It  will  open  a  new  era  in  organized  milk 
marketing  in  New  England. 

"On  top  of  this  understanding  of  con 
ditions  which  should  determine  price  and 
this  development  of  a  mutual  confidence, 
there  should  be  drawn  up  a  "code  of 
ethics"  for  the  guidance  of  the  milk 
selling  co-operatives.  Practices  which 
some  of  them  have  followed  have  taken 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  out  of 
the  pockets  of  New  England  dairymen 
I  am  willing  to  concede  that  most  of  this 
was  done  in  ignorance  of  the  results.  But 
if  we  had  had  a  code  of  ethics,  just  as 
most  modern  business  lines  have,  the 
cause  of  organized  marketing  would  take 
a  long  step  forward. 


CO-OPERATIVE  MARKETING 

Emphasizing  the  development  of  large- 
scale  co-operative  marketing  and  pur- 
chasing associations  in  the  United  States 
in  recent  years,  Chris  L.  Christensen, 
chief,  Division  of  Co-operative  Market- 
ing, United  States  Department  of  Agri- 
culture, told  members  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Institute  of  Co-operation  at  Amherst  ai 
that  there  are  now  approximately  150  co-  '' 
operative  associations,  each  of  which 
does  an  annual  business  of  upward  of  $1  - 
000,000.  *  ' 

"From  small  beginnings,  but  with  con-j 
stant  progress,"  he  said,"  the  last  quarter 
of  a  century  has  seen  co-operative  mar- 
keting methods  applied  to  all  kinds  of 
farm  products.    From  a  concept  of  co-( 
operation  which  was  little  more  than  a 
realization   of   the   economic   need  for 
changes  in  our  system  of  marketing,  wer 
have  built  up  thousands  of  small  local"" 
associations  and  hundreds  of  large  co-  ' 
operative  marketing  and  purchasing  as- 
sociations owned  and  controlled  by  farm 
ers." 

Mr.    Christensen    discussed    in  detail1" 
some  of  the  problems  which  affect  co-'*" 
operative   organizations,   including  thos< 
dealing  with  membership  relations,  man-  w 
agement,   contracts,   competition  among 
co-operatives,  and  market  outlets.  Ther-'*' 


It; 


has  been,  he  said,  a  tendency  away  from, 
the  "iron-clad"  contract  between  organi-0'1' 
zations  and  members  in  recent  years.  " 

He  declared  that  at  one  time,  contract' 111 1 
with  more  than  650,000  farmers  were  in 
volved,  but  that  some  of  these  associa- , 
hons  have  ceased  to  function  and  other« 
have  modified  their  plans  and  philosophy^1 
in  keeping  with  accumulated  experience. 

"The   hope   of   co-operation    for  thet 
future,"  Mr.  Christensen  said,  "depend!*.* 
on  how  well  we  train  our  people  in  its 
principles  and  practices.    Manv  farmer"  (j 
who  have  passed  the  prime  of  life  will  *'C! 

e\»  I  ' 
. . . .  Jit 

method  of  doing  business. 


find  it  difficult  to  accept  this  ne 
philosophy  of  living,  and  this  unfamiliar 


Our 


■  . 

greater  F 


progress  will  perhaps  come  from  educat-  tr 
mg  the  younger  generation  in  the  prin-  ! 
ciples  and  practices  of  co-operation  anq  P 
it  is  to  this  task  that  our  farm  leadff  "*P: 
and  our  educators  shall  bend  their  united  ', 
efforts  at  this  time."  *U 

nun 


July,  1928  NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN   Page  Three 


I  RESERVE  FUND  PROPOSED 

(Continued  from  page  one) 

*  needs  of  the  association  for  many  years 
back  and  who  have  been  through  these 

I  controversies.  The  directors  appointed  a 
committee  consisting  of  Dr.  George  R. 
Little,  George   H.   Putnam,   Elmer  M. 

*  Poole  and  George  H.  Dunsmore.  After  a 
careful  study  of  the  situation  they  sub- 
mitted a  plan  to  the  directors  which  was 

1  accepted  and  which  wil  be  presented  at 
the  coming  meeting.    The  exact  wording 
1  of  the  amendments  may  be  changed  some- 
what but  those  given  will  give  an  idea 
of  what  is  proposed.    Think  them  over, 
discuss  them  with  your  fellow  members, 
and  thus  give  your  representative  at  the 
,  annual  meeting   an   opportunity   to  act 
i  wisely  and  in  accordance  with  your  wishes. 

The  important  change  which  is  pro- 
posed is  a  provision  which  will  allow  mem- 
bers to  pay  in  a  special  commission  of 
one  cent  a  hundred  weight  on  milk  and 
one-fifth  of  a  cent  a  pound  on  butterfat 
in  cream,  these  commissions  to  be  used  to 
build  up  a  reserve  fund  of  proper  propor- 
tions. These  small  payments  from  a 
large  number  of  producers,  coming  regu- 
I  larly  and  systematically  would  in  a  few 
years  build  up  quite  a  reserve  fund  and 
place  the  association  in  a  position  to  act 
promptly  and  effectively  in  a  crisis. 

Section  three  of  the  present  regulations 
of  the  association  reads  as  follows : 

Each  member  shall  pay  to  the  Asso- 
ciation as  a  commission  two  cents  per 
(hundredweight  of  milk  and  one-half  cent 
per  pound  for  butter- fat  in  cream  sold 
[by  such  member,  payable  monthly  at  the 
principal  office  of  the  Association, 
i    The  fees,  commission  and  assessments 
.shall  be  collected  by  the  Central  Associa- 
tion. The  Board  of  Directors  may  author- 
ize the  collection  of  fees,  commissions  and 
assessments  by  Local  Associations,  who 
s shall  pay  over  the  same  to  the  Central 
[Association. 

]  The  revenues  of  the  Central  Associa- 
tion derived  from  commissions  shall  be 
I  apportioned  as  follows :  To  the  Central 

Association  85  per  cent.. ;  to  the  Local 
Association  15  per  cent.  The  allotment  to 
J:he  Local  Associations  provided  for  in 

:his  Section  shall  constitute  a  separate 
[.fund  to  be  used  for  the  following  pur- 
poses : 

]  (a)  To  pay  the  legitimate  current  ex- 
penses of  the  Local  Associations  as  cer- 
tified by  their  presidents  and  secretaries, 
jprovided  however,  that  no  Local  may 
draw  upon  this  fund  in  any  one  year  to 
Jin  amount  greater  than  10  per  cent,  of 
,:hese  commissions  paid  by  the  members  of 
ouch  Local  Association  during  that  year. 

(b)  To  pay  the  railroad  travel  and 
iiotel  expenses  of  the  President  or  duly 
i:hosen  representatives  of  the  Local  As- 
sociations in  attending  the  annual  or  spe- 
cial meetings  of  the  Central  Association. 

(c)  To  organize  new  Local  Associa- 
ions  and  to  strengthen  existing  Local  As- 
sociations. 

(   (d)  To  meeting  an  emergency  when  so 
declared  by  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
fhe  Central  Association. 
I  It  might  be  amended  so  as  to  provide 
jilso  for  this  special  payment  of  a  cent 
i  hundredweight  pn  milk  and  one-fifth  of 
]'.  cent  on  butterfat  in  cream.    The  pres- 
ent section  three  provides  for  the  pay- 
nent  of  the  regular  commission  which  we 
'ommonly  call  dues  to  the  association  of 
wo  cents  a  hundredweight. 
(  The  commission  for  the  reserve  fund 
^'ould  be  an  entirely  separate  thing,  but  it 
'night  be  provided  for  in  an  amendment 
[o  the  same  section.    The  exact  wording 
l^f  this  section  has  not  been  worked  out 
nit  it  will  be  framed  so  as  to  keep  the  two 
Payments  wholly  separate  and  distinct,  as 
hey  are  for  different  purposes.    It  was 
Jhe  belief  of  the  directors  that  the  com- 
Tete  separation  of  the  payments  would 
'void  confusion  in  the  minds  of  members 
s  to  the  purposes  for  which  the  pay- 
\  icnts  were  to  be  made. 

The  second  paragraph  in  the  present 
egulations  refers  to  the  routine  of  the 
ollection.  Its  purpose  is  obvious  and  is 
he  same  as  in  the  present  regulations. 
'Ve  have  several  ways  in  which  the  com- 
missions are  paid  in  to  the  association, 
'he  greater  part  comes  in  on  dues  orders 
n  the  dealers.  Some  pay  direct,  some 
thers  pay  to  their  local  officers,  and 
3me  pay  to  the  field  men.  The  paragraph 
.imply  provides  that  all  money  so  col- 
I'Cted  shall  come  into  the  central  associa- 
on  office. 


The  proposed  amendment  will  make  no 
change  wtiatsoever  in  the  method  of 
handling  the  present  commission  of  two 
cents  a  hundred  on  milk  and  a  half  cent 
a  pound  on  butterlat  in  cream.  The 
half  cent  a  pound  on  butteriat  in  cream 
is  equivalent  to  tne  two  cents  a  hundred- 
weight on  four  per  cent.  milk.  As  much 
of  the  milk  sola  as  cream  is  from  high 
testing  cows  it  is  probable  that  this  re- 
lationship is  equitable  and  fair.  The  same 
general  relationship  between  sales  of  milk 
and  cream  prevails  in  the  proposed  com- 
mission for  the  reserve  fund.  One  fifth 
of  a  cent  per  pound  of  butterfat  is 
equivalent  to  a  cent  a  hundred  on  high 
testing  milk. 

Our  present  regulations  provide  for 
the  division  of  the  regular  commission  of 
two  cents  a  hundredweight  for  local  and 
general  expenses.  The  Central  associa- 
tion receives  85  per  cent,  of  the  two  cent 
commission  for  general  expenses.  The 
remaining  15  per  cent,  is  set  aside  for  ex- 
penses of  locals,  with  provision  for  pay- 
ment of  expenses  of  delegates  to  the 
annual  meeting. 

Succeeding  paragraphs  provide  that  10 
per  cent."  of  this  local  fund  may  be  used 
tor  local  expenses  and  that  the  remaining 
five  per  cent,  may  be  used  to  pay  ex- 
penses of  attendance  at  a  central  associa- 
tion meeting  to  organize  a  new  local,  etc. 
The  five  per  cent,  is  what  formerly  went 
to  the  county  associations  and  is  still 
available  for  the  same  purposes  which 
were  fulfilled  by  the  county  associations. 

Section  5  of  the  proposed  amendments 
may  read  about  as  follows : 

Section  5.  The  revenue  of  the  Asso- 
ciation derived  from  the  1  cent  com- 
mission, shall  be  paid  into  the  Emer- 
gency Reserve  Eund  and  shall  be  held  by 
the  General  Association  subject  to  the 
supervision  and  direction  of  the  Board  of 
Directors.  The  purposes  for  which  such 
Emergency  Reserve  Eund  may  be  used 
are  as  follows : 

(a)  To  reimburse  members  of  the  As- 
sociation supplying  New  England  markets 
for  any  losses  which  they  may  sustain  by 
ieason  of  the  refusal  of  said  producers  to 
sell  their  dairy  products  on  any  other 
basis  than  the  terms  and  conditions  rec- 
ommended by  the  Sales  Committee  of  the 
New  England  Milk  Producers'  Associa- 
tion. 

(b)  To  create  a  reserve  fund  to  protect 
such  members  from  loss  of  a  market  for 
their  dairy  products. 

(c)  To  reimburse  members  of  the  As- 
sociation for  losses  which  such  members 
may  sustain  through  failure  of  a  dealer 
to  pay  such  members  for  dairy  products 
delivered  by  such  members  to  a  dealer, 
provided  however,  that  the  dealer  to 
whom  such  member  may  have  delivered 
dairy  products  shall  be  a  dealer  approved 
by  the  Association. 

(d)  To  acquire  by  purchase  or  other- 
wise, such  plant  or  plants  as  may  be 
necessary  to  provide  markets  for  the 
dairy  products  of  members  of  the  As- 
sociation. 

(e)  To  meet  an  extraordinary  or  un- 
usual emergency  when  so  declared  by  the 
Board  of  Directors. 

Section  6.  When  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  the  said  emergency 
reserve  fund  shall  have  accumulated  to 
an  amount  where  no  further  accumula- 
tions are  then  necessary,  the  Board  of 
Directors  shall  have  the  right  to  appro- 
priate the  monies  payable  into  said  emer- 
gency reserve  fund  during  a  year  to  the 
repayment  to  members  of  the  Association, 
in  the  order  of  their  contribution,  the 
amounts  previously  paid  into  said  fund. 

It  contains  the  definite  regulations  re- 
garding the  reserve  fund.  Paragraphs  (a) 
and  (b)  provide  for  payments  of  losses 
as  in  the  recent  controversy,  and  for  the 
creation  of  the  permanent  fund.  Para- 
graph (c)  is  in  line  with  acts  of  other 
dairy  organizations  and  will  prove  of  dis- 
tinct value  in  clearing  up  market  situa- 
tions, especially  in  the  lesser  markets.  It 
means  that  when  a  dealer,  approved  by 
the  association,  should  fail  to  pay  any 
member  in  full  for  his  milk,  such  member 
may  receive  the  remainder  of  the  amount 
due  him  from  the  reserve  fund.  It  will  be 
a  fine  protection  to  members  and  will  re- 
sult in  the  building  up  of  an  approved 
list  of  dealers. 

Paragraph  (d)  is  another  provision 
which  is  suggested  as  a  safeguard  for  the 
future.  In  a  controversy  it  might  be  wise 
to  get  quick  action  by  purchasing  a  plant 
to  handle  product.    Such  a  plant  might  be 


operated  by  the  association  fur  the  bcnehl 
oi  its  members  or  it  migni  Lie  resold  to 
some  dealer  operating  unucr  tne  i\i:.Aii'A 
pian.  this  aciuany  uappeueu  in  tne  suc- 
cessful Settlement  ol  tne  controversy 
with  the  i\cw  iuigiand  creamery  products 
company,  ilie  iueidon  and  nast  !•  air- 
field piants  were  actually  purchased  by 
the  trustees  ol  tne  reserve  tund  and  were 
sold  immediately  lo  uie  Hood  company. 

Again,  the  acquisition  ol  property 
might  take  tne  torm  ol  the  Baltimore 
association  wnere  an  efficient  city  plant 
costing  $oU,UUU  was  bougnt  but  never  has 
been  used,  it  is  tnere  ready  to  start  into 
operation  any  time  tne  association  is  un- 
auie  to  get  tne  price  and  conditions  it  de- 
sires trom  the  dealers,  it  is  good  insur- 
ance ot  a  stable  market  and  lair  prices 
to  have  it  there,  ready  to  be  opened  and 
operated  by  the  producers  at  any  time. 

Paragraph  (ej  is  an  emergency  propo- 
sition simply  giving  power  to  the  directors 
oi  the  association  to  act  pruinptly  m  some 
crisis. 

Section  6  is  an  important  part  of  the 
proposed  pian.  it  places  the  reserve  fund 
on  the  rotating  or  revolving  basis.  At 
the  present  time  we  have  no  suggestion  as 
to  the  proper  size  which  the  reserve  fund 
should  be  built  up  to  nor  how  many  years 
it  would  take  to  raise  it  on  tne  small 
commission  of  one  cent  a  hundredweight 
or  its  equivalent.  But  it  is  obvious  that 
in  time  it  would  reach  a  place  where  it 
would  be  sufficient  for  all  practical  pur- 
poses and  when  it  would  be  unnecessary 
lo  build  it  up  to  any  larger  proportions. 

The  question  of  what  action  to  take  at 
that  time  was  earnestly  discussed  by  the 
directors,  it  would  be  easy  to  say  that 
when  a  fund  reached  a  certain  size  the 
commissions  should  stop,  i  here  are  im- 
portant objections  to  this.  •  Une  is  that 
after  the  special  commissions  for  a  re- 
serve fund  had  been  stopped  a  crisis  might 
arise  calling  for  the  expenditure  of  a 
considerable  part  of  the  fund.  Then  it 
would  be  cumbersome  and  dithcult  to  start 
the  commissions  coming  again.  Another 
objection  is  that  the  cost  of  having  a 
reserve  fund  would  not  be  equally  dis- 
tributed, t  hose  who  came  into  the  asso- 
ciation after  the  special  commissions  had 
been  abandoned  would  not  be  paying  any 
of  the  cost  but  would  be  sharing  m  the 
security  it  afforded. 

It  seemed  to  be  a  much  better  plan  to 
have  the  fund  on  a  revolving  basis.  This 
would  make  it  possible,  when  the  fund 
was  of  sufficient  size,  for  the  directors  to 
begin  paying  back  the  amounts  paid  in 
several  years  before.  The  directors  were 
quite  emphatic  in  their  disapproval  of  any 
specific  agreement  to  pay  back  these  as- 
sessments at  any  definite  date,  as  that 
might  defeat  the  whole  purpose  of  the 
plan.  The  proposal  is  simply  to  set  up 
the  reserve  fund  in  such  a  way  that  pay- 
ments in  excess  of  real  needs  would  be 
distributed  to  those  who  made  payments 
some  years  before.  Under  such  a  plan 
a  producer  would  keep  on  paying  in  his 
assessment  of  one  cent  a  hundred  so  long 
as  he  was  selling  milk  but  after  a  period 
of  years  he  would  get  back  the  money  he 
paid  in  during  the  first  year.  Then,  if 
an  emergency  arose  calling  for  the  use  of 
the  fund,  he  might  not  get  any  further  re- 
turn of  assessments  for  another  year  or 
two.  If  he  stopped  seljing  milk  he  would 
receive  back  the  money  which  he  put  m. 

The  plan  provides  that  the  fund  shall 
be  invested  safely  and  shall  earn  inter- 
est. The  directors  discussed  the  ad- 
visability of  considering  the  special  com- 
mission of  one  cent  a  hundred  as  a  loan 
on  which  interest  would  be  paid.  It 
seemed  much  better,  however,  to  let  the 
interest  earned  through  the  investment  of 
the  fund  go  to  swell  the  fund  itself  and 
thus  make  it  possible  to  begin  paying  back 
money  to  the  original  contributors  that 
much  earlier.  It  was  brought  out  in  the 
discussions  that  no  producer  should  be  led 
to  think  that  he  was  going  to  get  anything 
back  from  the  fund  for  a  considerable 
number  of  years.  The  important  thing 
was  to  get  the  plan  in  operation  and  reap 
the  benefits  of  the  safety  it  gave. 


Little  Edgar  didn't  realize  till  he  got 
home  and  unwrapped  his  purchase  that 
his  mother  had  bought  him  a  two-pants 
suit. 

"Look,  mamma,  look,"  he  cried.  "That 
man  threw  in  a  spare." 
_  "That's  what  I  call  getting  out  of  a 
tight  place,"  said  the  world  traveler  as 
his  train  pulled  out  of  Edinburgh. 


MILK  REGULATIONS 

An  important  movement  has  started 
among  thj:  milk  inspectors  of  Massachu- 
setts cities.  It  may  have  a  far-reaching 
effect  on  the  dairy  industry  of  all  New 
England  as  it  is  in  these  markets  that  the 
bulk  of  the  New  England  milk  is  sold. 

The  Massachusetts  milk  inspectors'  as- 
sociation has  started  a  movement  for  a 
10-year  program  of  general  improvement 
of  the  milk  supplies  through  uniformity 
of  regulations  and  inspection  systems. 
Several  meetings  have  been  held  and  as  a 
result  some  recommendations  for  coun- 
try regulations  as  to  inspection  and  some 
modifications  of  the  existing  laws  have 
been  recommended. 

The  attitude  of  the  milk  inspectors  is 
fair  to  the  producers  and  there  is  no  ex- 
pectation that  all  these  things  will  be  done 
right  away.  Some  of  the  cities  and  towns 
already  have  strong  regulations.  Others 
are  not  so  strong  as  those  recommended. 
Some  idea  of  the  trend  of  the  movement 
can  be  gained  through  the  first  draft  of 
the  recommendations  which  were  as  fol- 
lows : 

Regulation  No.  1 

No  person  shall  in  the  town  of 
sell,  exchange,  or  deliver  or  have  in  his 
custody  or  possession  with  intent  so  to  do 
any  milk  brought  into  said  town  unless 
the  cows  from  which  said  milk  was  pro- 
duced, or  in  case  case  cows  are  in  a  herd 
of  cattle  all  the  cattle  of  which  herd 
have  been  tested  within  si<  months  prior 
thereto  by  the  tuberculin  test  as  estab- 
lished under  the  laws  of  Massachusetts 
and  have  been  certified  by  a  veterinarian 
acting  under  the  direction  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Division  of  Animal  Industry  not 
to  react  to  the  tuberculin  injection  and  to 
be  otherwise  healthy.  This  regulation 
shall  not  apply  to  pasteurized  milk. 

Regulation  No.  2 

No  person  shall  sell,  exchange,  or  de- 
liver or  have  in  his  custody  or  possession 
with  intent  so  to  do  any  milk  not  cooled 
to  and  kept  at  a  temperature  not  exceed- 
ing 50  degres  E. 

Regulation  No.  3 

No  person  shall  sell,  exchange,  or  de- 
liver or  have  in  his  custody  or  possession 
with  intent  so  to  do  any  milk  with  a 
bacterial  count  exceeding  the  following 
figures  as  determined  by  the  plate  method 
of  the  American  Public  Health  Associa- 
tion. 

A.  Raw  Milk  not  more  than  150,000 
colonies  per  c.  c. 

B.  Pasteurized  milk  not  more  than 
50,000  colonies  per  c.  c. 

C.  Raw  milk  intended  to  be  used  only 
for  pasteurization,  not  more  than  300,000 
colonies  per  c.  c. 

D.  Grade  A  milk  pasteurized  not  ex- 
ceeding 25,000  colonies  per  c.  c. 

E.  Raw  milk  intended  to  be  pasteur- 
ized as  Grade  A  milk  not  more  than  200,- 
000  colonies  per  c.  c. 

Regulation  No.  4 

Every  person  engaged  in  the  production, 
storage,  transportation,  sale,  delivery  or 
distribution  of  milk  for  sale  in  this  city, 
shall  notify  the  Board  of  Health  im- 
mediately on  the  occurrence  of  any  case 
or  cases  of  infectious  disease,  either  in 
himself  or  his  family,  or  among  his  em- 
ployees or  their  immediate  associates,  or 
within  the  building  or  premises  where 
milk  is  stored,  sold  or  distributed,  and 
at  the  same  time  shall  suspend  the  sale  or 
distribution  of  milk  until  authorized  to  re- 
sume the  same  by  the  Board  of  Health. 
No  vessel  which  has  been  handled  by  a 
person  suffering  from  a  disease,  or  which 
is  on  the  premises  of  a  person  in  whose 
family  or  household  infectious  disease  ex- 
ists, shall  be  removed  to  hold  or  convey 
milk  until  it  has  been  thoroughly  disin- 
fected and  sterilized  under  the  super- 
vision of  an  agent  of  the  Board  of 
Health. 

Regulation  No.  5 

The  proprietor  or  manager  of  each 
pasteurizing  plant  or  milk  station  shall 
himself  secure  and  shall  require  before 
employment  and  at  least  annually  there- 
after, each  person  handling  milk  or  milk 
utensils,  also  to  secure  from  a  physician  a 
certificate  stating  that  the  holder  thereof 
is  not  afflicted  with  any  communicable 
disease,  and  the  copv  of  such  certificate 
shall  be  filed  with  the  Board  of  Health. 
(Continued  on  page  ten) 


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July,  1928 


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N.  E.  M.  P.  A.  OFFICERS  FOR  1928 

President,  George  R.  Little,  Schaghti- 
coke,  N.  Y.  V ice-President,  R.  Allen 
Sikes,  Ellington,  Conn.  Treasurer, 
Herbert  L.  Webster,  West  Canaan,  N.  H. 
General  Manager,  W.  P.  Davis,  51 
Cornhill,  Bo.ston,  Mass.  Directors  at 
Large,  H.  W.  Tinkham,  Warren,  R.  L; 
George  A.  Phelps,  Milton,  Vt. ;  W.  E. 
Knight,  Clinton,  Me.  Directors,  Ralph 
L.  Worthley,  Strong,  Me.;  F.  E. 
Chandler,  Dover,  Me.;  George  M. 
Putnam,  Contoocook,  N.  H. ;  George  H. 
Nevers,  Starrking,  M.  H. ;  F.  B.  Catlin, 
Randolph,  Vt. ;  George  H.  Dunsmore, 
St.  Albans,  Vt.;  O.  A.  Tuttle,  Hard- 
wick,  Mass. ;  Elmer  M.  Poole,  North 
Dartmouth,  Mass.;  Frank  L.  Nichols, 
Narragansett,  R.  I.;  Frank  T.  Peck- 
ham,  Newport,  R  L;  R.  Allen  Sikes, 
Ellington,  Conn.;  C.  J.  Abell,  Lebanon, 
Conn.;  W.  J.  Rich,  Shushan,  N.  Y. ; 
George  R.  Little,  Schaghticoke,  N.  Y. 


RUBBING  ELBOWS 

It  is  a  good  thing  now  and  then  to 
rub  elbows  with  men  in  other  organiza- 
tions and  get  a  little  nearer  to  their 
point  of  view.  Whether  in  co-operative 
marketing  of  dairy  products  or  in  group 
action  looking  toward  agricultural  prog- 
ress of  any  other  nature,  there  is  danger 
of  seeing  the  problems  of  one's  group  so 
intimately  that  one  may  lose  sight  of 
some  of  the  larger  principles.  So  it  is  a 
fine  thing,  now  and  then,  to  get  together 
and  forget  the  boundaries  between  or- 
ganizations. 

The  recent  New  England  Institute  of 
Co-operation  served  just  that  purpose 
and  was  a  very  worth  while  thing  from 
that  point  of  view,  without  regard  to  its 
educational  value.  At  some  sessions  more 
than  100  men,  and  a  few  women,  came 
to  hear  and  take  part  in  the  discussions  of 
problems  vital  to  co-operatives.  They 
were  the  leaders  of  co-operative  thought, 
the  formulators  of  co-operative  opinion 
and  action,  in  New  England.  What  they 
carried  home  with  them  will  have  a  de- 
cided influence  for  the  good  on  the  fu- 
ture of  co-operative  action  in  New  Eng- 
land. 

Several  of  our  NEMPA  staff  were- 
there.  Most  of  those  who  attended  were 
in  somewhat  the  same  position,  paid  em- 
ployees of  co-operatives,  colleges  or  de- 
partments of  agriculture.  This  was  natu- 
ral and  right.  It  would  have  been  a  fine 
thing  if  there  had  been  more  of  the 
rank  and  file  of  the  members  of  co- 
operative organizations  present.  They 
would  have  come  home  with  a  new  idea 
of  the  possibilities  of  group  action  as  rep- 
resented in  the  development  of  the  co- 
operative organizations  in  New  England 
and  all  over  the  country.  There  were 
a  few  such,  among  them  Mr.  Fienemann, 


father  of  our  Southern  Market  District 
Manager.  We  wish  there  w  ere  a  lot  more 
ul  our  members  who  could  have  been 
present. 

But  it  was  essentially  a  meeting  of 
leaders  and  executives  and  as  such  amply 
justified  all  the  time  and  the  small  amount 
of  money  which  it  cost.  The  Massachu- 
setts Agricultural  College,  as  the  host, 
shouldered  the  heavy  burden  of  arrange- 
ments and  care  of  the  guests.  While 
it  was  not  a  large  conference  in  point  of 
numbers  it  was  still  considerable  of  an 
undertaking  right  at  the  close  of  the  col- 
lege year  and  we  wish  to  express  our  ap- 
preciation of  the  way  in  which  Dr.  A.  E. 
Cance,  general  chairman,  and  his  associ- 
ates at  the  college,  looked  after  the  wants 
of  the  guests  and  made  everything  run 
smoothly  and  pleasantly.  They  followed 
out  the  fine  precedent  of  hospitality  set 
by  the  Connecticut  Agricultural  College 
at  the  time  of  the  first  Institute  the  year 
previous. 

The  intestimable  value  of  the  getting 
together  and  rubbing  elbows  is  indicated 
in  what  was  said  afterwards  by  those  who 
attended  the  Institute.  Our  own  men  and 
others.  They  got  much  worth  while  in- 
formation from  the  meetings  and  dis- 
cussions, but  practically  every  one  of 
them  spoke  especially  of  the  get  together 
meeting  on  the  first  evening,  when  every 
man  told  who  he  was  and  told  a  story  or 
gave  a  bit  of  serious  thought  as  he  felt 
inclined.  It  was  then  that  they  came  to- 
gether, not  as  paid  executives  or  leaders, 
but  as  men.  Weighing  all  things  in  the 
balance  we  are  inclined  to  think  that  the 
mutual  respect  and  liking  which  this  meet- 
ing gave  will  count  for  as  much  in  the  de- 
velopment of  co-operative  enterprises  in 
New  England  in  the  future  as  will  any 
of  the  other  sessions.  It  is  a  good  thing 
for  any  man  to  see  what  likable  fellows 
other  co-operative  leaders  are,  once  you 
get  next  to  them. 

Our  association  has  a  bond  with  the 
New  England  institute  of  co-operation 
closer  than  any  other  of  the  organiza- 
tions which  co-operate  in  making  it  a  suc- 
cess. C.  E.  Hough  called  attention  to  it 
in  a  short  talk  to  the  conference  on  the 
way  in  which  the  New  England  institute 
came  into  being.  He  said  that  it  was 
through  the  vision  and  far  sightedness  of 
Mr.  Pattee  that  the  American  Institute 
of  Co-operation  was  started  some  years 
ago.  That  we  all  know.  The  national 
idea  worked  so  well  and  filled  such  a 
worth  while  place  that  some  of  the  New 
England  leaders  thought  it  might  also 
be  a  good  thing  for  them  to  come  to- 
gether to  discuss  the  co-operative  prob- 
lems from  a  New  England  standpoint. 
The  first  Institute  was  held  in  Connecticut 
last  year,  and  was  a  decided  success.  This 
year,  in  Massachusetts,  it  was  even  larger 
and  more  worth  while.  So  the  vision  and 
thought  of  our  late  Chief  years  ago  is 
still  bearing  fruit  right  here  in  the  terri- 
tory in  which  he  worked  so  long  and 
valiantly. 


.   WEATHER  RESPONSIBLE 

There  may  be  some  disappointment 
that  the  milk  price  could  not  be  ad- 
vanced July  1  as  was  confidently  ex- 
pected up  to  within  the  past  two  weeks. 
In  the  negotiations  it  was  obvious  that 
the  dealers  as  well  as  the  association  felt 
that  the  producers  ought  to  get  more. 
But  the  weather  conditions  were  against 
it  and  it  would  have  been  unsound  mar- 
keting practice  to  have  tried  to  advance 
in  the  face  of  the  excess  supplies  of  milk 
available   t()   the  market.     It   was  just 


one  of  those  cases  when  conditions  which 
could  not  be  foreseen  and  wholly  beyond 
our  control  stood  in  the  way. 

The  question  of  when  the  price  will  ad- 
vance rests  wholly  on  the  weather  con- 
ditions. If  it  comes  off  hot  and  dry  an 
advance  can  be  made  just  as  soon  as  the 
excess  supplies  are  cleaned  up  by  the  in- 
creased demand,  together  with  the  short- 
ening of  the  production  which  would 
come  quickly.  This  might  be  by  July  10. 
It  seems  as  though  it  must  surely  come  by 
July  IS.  Continuance  of  the  unfavorable 
weather  for  milk  sales  past  the  middle  of 
July  would  be  almost  without  precedent. 

When  the  advance  comes  it  will  be  for 
a  full  cent  and  there  will  come  with  it 
an  upward  adjustment  in  toe  proportion 
of  milk  sold  in  the  cream  division  of 
Class  2  milk.  During  the  season  of  great 
abundance  the  Class  2  proportion  went  to 
10  per  cent,  at  the  cream  price  and  90 
per  cent,  at  the  butter  price.  With  the 
advance  in  fluid  milk  prices  and  the  gen- 
eral shortening  of  the  supply  which  we 
expect,  the  proportion  should  be  changed 
to  75  in  the  cream  class  and  25  in  the 
butter  class. 

When  the  advance  comes  we  expect 
under  normal  conditions  to  carry  the  price 
through  the  winter  and  well  into  spring." 
Our  experience  is  that  the  best  returns 
are  obtained  through  much  long  term 
prices  rather  than  short  advances  for  a 
month  with  resulting  unstable  markets  on 
the  decline.  Only  an  acute  shortage  seems 
likely  to  bring  a  further  advance. 


PROGRESS  BEING  MADE 

Substantial  progress  in  the  eradication 
of  bovine  tuberculosis  in  New  England 
was  reported  at  the  recent  meeting  of  the 
heads  of  this  work  in  the  various  states, 
held  at  The  Weirs  in  New  Hampshire. 
The  live  stock  sanitary  officials,  heads  of 
divisions  of  animal  industry  and  others 
who  are  in  charge  of  the  carrying  out 
of  the  provisions  of  the  laws  discussed 
their  problems  and  faced  the  difficulties 
but,  on  the  whole,  were  optimistic  about 
the  progress  being  made. 

Massachusetts  is  still  far  behind  the 
other  states,  except  possibly  Rhode  Island, 
but  under  the  stimulation  of  the  increased 
indemnity  law  recently  passed  will  forge 
ahead  more  rapidly.  The  choice  of  Evan 
F.  Richardson  of  Millis  as  a  head  of  the 
work  in  Massachusetts  is  a  particularly 
good  one.  He  has  been  associated  with 
progressive  agricultural  movements  in  the 
state  for  many  years,  is  a  trustee  of  the 
Massachusetts  Agricultural  college  and  a 
prominent  Granger.  He  has  milked  cows 
for  40  years  and  knows  the  farm  side  of  ' 
it  better  than  any  of  his  predecessors  in 
the  work.  The  dairymen  of  Massachu- 
setts can  be  assured  that  their  side  of 
the  eradication  problem  will  be  given  due 
weight  with  him  in  whatever  he  under- 
takes. 

One  of  the  problems  of  eradication  was 
presented  in  a  somewhat  new  light  at  the 
Co-operative  Institute.  There  has  been 
considerable  agitation  of  late  in  regard  to 
working  up  some  co-operative  plan  of 
buying  replacements.  J.  C.  Cort,  head 
of  the  livestock  division  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Department  of  Agriculture,  gave  a 
talk  on  replacements  in  which  he  said  that 
the  dangers  of  losses  and  dissatisfactions 
were  so  great  under  any  co-operative  plan 
of  buying  that  had  yet  been  presented 
that  he  felt  that  purchase  of  replacements 
from  some  responsible  dealer  was  a  bet- 
ter policy  to  follow.    He  said  there  are 


dealers  who  are  making  a  specialty  of 
good  tuberculin  tested  cows  and  that  it 
would  cost  the  farmer  no  more  in  the  end 
to  purchase  from  them  and  let  them  take 
the  risk  and  stand  the  losses. 

Something  of  the  same  point  of  view 
came  to  the  front  in  the  address  given  by 
E.  H.  Thompson,  president  of  the  Federal 
Land  Bank.  While  the  bank  was  desirous 
of  assisting  the  farmers  in  every  way  he 
said  that  the  direct  financing  of  purchase 
of  cattle  was  not  a  workable  plan,  as  the 
risks  were  great  and  there  was  no  possi- 
bility of  the  bank  financing  him  except  on 
terms  which  would  be  a  burden  to  him. 
The  tendency  is  now  away  from  co- 
operative purchase  of  replacements. 


MILK  INSPECTION 

In  this  issue  we  are  giving  considerable 
space  to  the  proposition  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Milk  Inspectors'  Association  to  enter 
into  a  10-year  program  of  improvement 
of  the  milk  supplies  and  unification  of  the 
requirements.  These  are  not  to  be  taken 
as  the  final  judgment  of  the  milk  in- 
spectors as  to  what  should  be  done,  but 
as  indications  of  the  way  their  thoughts 
are  tending.  The  recommendations  will 
go  through  the  hands  of  some  committees 
before  being  finally  adopted. 

There  is  every  indication  that  the  milk 
inspectors  are  going  to  play  fairly  with 
the  producers  in  this  movement  and  give 
what  time  is  necessary  in  order  to  bring 
about  the  changes  without  disturbing  con- 
ditions unduly.  In  all  their  meetings  they 
have  not  only  thought  of  the  ultimate 
goal  of  a  good  milk  supply  for  all  cities 
and  towns,  great  and  small  but  they  have 
had  in  mind  the  limitations  and  the 
danger  of  going  too  fast  and  discouraging 
the  producers. 

There  will  be  ample  opportunity  for  the] 
producers  to  say  what  they  can  do  and 
what  they  cannot  do  in  the  way  of  im- 
provements from  the  country  end.  The 
milk  inspectors  are  taking  counsel  withj 
our  good  friend  and  supporter,  Mr.  CortJ 
for  instance.  There  is  little  danger  oil 
going  too  fast.  But  they  mean  business] 
and  there  is  no  reason  why  any  producer; 
should  ignore  the  fact  that  the  tendency 
is  toward  uniformity  in  milk  regulation) 
and  inspection.  We  believe  that  the  move- 
ment of  the  milk  inspectors  will  be 
wholesome  one  so  long  as  it  is  conserva 
tive  and  not  in  too  much  of  a  hurry 
reach  an  ideal  condition. 


EQUIPMENT  SHOWS  GAIN 

An  increasing  demand  for  labor  sav- 
ing farm  equipment  to  lower  productioi 
costs  and  eliminate  much  of  the  han 
work  connected  with  farming  is  indicate* 
by  the  statistics  on  the  manufacture  anc 
sale  of  farm  equipment  given  out  by  th< 
Department  of  Commerce.  The  growtl 
in  the  number  of  tractor  and  combinec 
harvester-threshers  in  use  over  precedim 
years  is  especially  notable,  the  production 
of  tractors  increasing  from  167,553  ii 

1925  to  181,995  in  1926  and  200,504  las 
year,  while  combine  production  jumpe< 
from  5,131  in  1925  to  11,760  in  1926  an 
18,307  in  1927. 

The  value  of  all  farm  equipment  manu 
factured  in  the  United  States  in  1927  wa 
four-tenths  of  1  per  cent,  less  than  ii 

1926  but  17.3  per  cent,  greater  than  i 
1925.  Some  of  the  other  items  whic 
showed  an  increase  in  production  during 

1927  are  moldboard  and  one-way  disl 
plows,  especially  in  the  larger  sizes,  grain 
drills,  soil  pulverizers  and  packers,  potato 
diggers,  lime  spreaders,  hay  machinery, 
ensilage  cutters  and  sprayers.  Though 
the  value  of  the  farm  equipment  produced 
in  1927  was  silghtly  less  than  in  1926,  the 
domestic  sales  showed  an  increase  of 
nearly  26  million  dollars,  still  further 
emphasizing   the  increased  demand. 


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Page  Five 


I  Production  in  New  Hampshire 


Southern  Counties  Have  Met  Fluid  Milk  Needs  More 

Than  Northern 


In  general  the  New  Hampshire  dairy 
farmers  arc  producing  milk  more  evenly 
throughout  the  year  than  are  the  Ver- 
mont farmers  whose  uneven  production 
was  shown  in  the  June  Dairyman. 

The  New  Hampshire  dairyman,  how- 
iever,  is  still  producing  much  more  milk  in 
the  flush  season  than  he  produces  in  the 
'short  season  and  the  result  is  a  serious 
surplus  problem,  with  the  production  all 
out  of  line  with  sales. 

New  Hampshire  as  a  whole  produces 
about  50  per  cent,  more  milk  in  the 
month  of  highest  production  than  in  the 
month  of  lowest  production.  The  high 
months  and  the  low  months  vary  slightly 
by  counties,  but  in  general  the  highest 
production  is  in  June  and  the  lowest  in 
November.  New  Hampshire  is  doing 
somewhat  better  than  Vermont  in  the 
matter  of  even  production  but  is  still  far 
from  where  she  should  be. 

There  are  two  important  reasons  why 
the  situation  should  be  different  in  New 
Hampshire  from  what  it  is  in  Vermont. 
First  because  the  topography  of  Vermont, 
with  its  high  hills  and  valleys  and  the 
large  amount  of  natural  pasture  land,  is 
more  favorable  to  summer  production 
than  is  the  type  of  country  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, especially  southern  New  Hampshire, 
where  there  is  less  pasture  and  the  gen- 
eral topography  is  more  level. 

The  second  important  reason  for  the 
difference  is  that  New  Hampshire  began 
selling  fluid  milk  in  the  Boston  market 
much  earlier  than  Vermont.  Much  of 
New  Hampshire  has  been  selling  fluid 
milk  for  30  to  40  vears,  while  in  Ver- 
mont the  fluid  milk  business  has  been 
largely  developed  within  the  past  10  or  12 
years.  In  some  sections  it  is  even  less 
than  that. 

The  natural  tendency  of  selling  fluid 
milk  is  to  even  up  production  as  the  ex- 
cessive surplus  which  has  to  be  carried  in 
the  flush  season  reduces  the  returns  as 
compared  with  the  good  prices  which  are 
secured  in  the  short  season.  Where  the 
milk  was  manufactured  into  butter  or 
condensed  milk  this  difference  was  less 
marked,  as  they  are  not  highly  perish- 
able products  like  milk,  and  the  price  paid 
for  them  depended  more  on  world  wide 
conditions  than  on  supply  and  demand  in 
New  England.  In  general  the  longer  a 
territory  has  been  selling  milk  the  more 
likely  it  is  to  even  up  production  some- 
what. 

This  factor  is  particularly  apparent 
when  we  compare  the  different  sections 
of  New  Hampshire,  as  shown  in  the 
table  and  the  chart  below.  The  southern 
border  counties,  Rockingham,  Hills- 
borough and  Cheshire,  have  been  selling 
fluid  milk  for  upwards  of  40  years.  The 
records  show  that  they  have  the  most 
even  production  of  any  of  the  counties 
with  the  production  of  milk  running  only 
25  to  35  per  cent,  higher  in  June  than  in 
November. 

Compare  this  figure  with  the  record 
of  Windham  County,  Vt.,  which  has  the 
most  even  production  of  any  county  in 
the  state,  but  is  still  producing  57  per 
cent,  more  milk  in  June  than  in  Novem- 
ber. Compare  this  record  also  with  the 
average  for  Vermont,  120  per  cent,  more 
milk  in  June  than  in  November. 

Farther  north  in  New  Hampshire  pro- 
duction becomes  more  uneven,  partly  be- 
cause the  topography  is  more  uneven,  but 
more  particularly  because  the  dairymen 
there  have  not  been  selling  fluid  milk  for 
so  long  as  have  the  dairymen  in  the 
southern  tier  of  counties.  Strafford,  Mer- 
rimrack  and  Sullivan  counties  vary  from 
28  to  40  per  cent,  in  production  between 
the  high  and  the  low  points.  Carroll  and 
Belknap  counties  produce  about  40  per 
cent,  more  in  the  flush  month  than  in  the 
short  month. 

Going  still  farther  north  into  Grafton 
county  we  find  a  much  wider  variation. 
This  is  the  most  important  dariy  county 
in  the  sjate  as  it  produces  more  milk  than 
any  other  county.  It  contains  the  im- 
portant shipping  stations  of  Pattee,  Pier- 


mont,  North  Haverhill,  Oliverian  and  the 
line  of  stations  north  of  Woodsville,  Bath, 
Lisbon  and  Littleton.  The  county  pro- 
duces about  50  per  cent,  more  milk  in 
May  than  in  November. 

Coos  county,  still  farther  north,  and  a 
county  which  came  into  the  fluid  milk 
field  still  later,  is  producing  double  the 
amount  of  milk  in  June  than  is  produced 
in  November.  This  was  the  latest  section 
of  New  Hampshire  to  get  into  the  sale 
of  fluid  milk,  but  it  is  a  fine  dairy 
county  and  a  section  which  is  producing 
large  quanties  of  milk.  It  includes  such 
important  stations  as  Whitefield,  Lan- 
caster, Mountorne,  Colebrook  and  West 
Stewartstown.  These  last  two  stations 
are  quite  recent  fluid  milk  shipping  points. 

A  comparison  of  the  variations  in  pro- 
duction between  the  high  point  and  the 
low  point  is  given  in  the  following  table 
for  each  county  in  New  Hampshire. 


Per  cent. 

High 

Month 

Low 

High 

Above  Low 

County 

Month 

Month 

Month 

Hillsboro 

March 

Sept. 

26 

Merrimack 

Nov. 

June 

28 

Rockingham 

Dec. 

June 

31 

Strafford 

Nov. 

June 

35 

Cheshire 

Nov. 

June 

37 

Sullivan 

Nov. 

June 

37 

Carroll 

Nov. 

June 

40 

Belknap 

Nov. 

June 

40 

Grafton 

Nov. 

May 

50 

Coos 

Nov. 

June 

105 

Not  only  is  there  a  considerable  varia- 
tion in  the  matter  of  even  production  be- 
tween different  counties  but  there  is  a 
wide  variation  in  different  parts  of  the 
same  county.  In  Coos  county,  for  ex- 
ample, the  production  at  Lancaster  is  80 
per  cent,  higher  in  the  flush  season  than 
in  the  short  season,  while  at  Colebrook 
it  is  132  per  cent,  higher  in  June  than  in 
November.  The  difference  may  be  ex- 
plained by  the  fact  that,  Lancaster  has 
been  shipping  fluid  milk  to  the  Boston 
market  about  20  years,  while  Colebrook 
did  not  develop  as  a  fluid  milk  shipping 
point  until  considerably  later.  For  a  long 
time  it  was  a  condensed  milk  manufac- 
turing center. 

A  similar  variation  exists  in  Grafton 
county.  The  production  in  the  territory 
in  the  southern  part  of  the  county  is  con- 
siderably more  even  than  is  the  territory 
on  the  line  north  of  Woodsville,  where 
some  of  the  stations  have  a  100  per  cent, 
variation  between  November  and  June. 
Some  of  the  stations  in  this  section  have 
their  low  period  of  production  in  August 
instead  of  in  November  and  in  some  cases 
the  November  production  is  nearly  up  to 
June.  It  seems  probable  that  the  natural 
evening  up  of  production,  due  to  fluid  milk- 
sales,  is  under  way  in  these  sections. 

The  future  devlopment  of  our  fluid  milk 
market  will  require  more  even  production 
than  we  now  have.  As  it  is  now  con- 
sumers require  about  10  per  cent,  more 
milk  in  hot  weather  than  in  cold  weather. 
The  dairy  farmers  of  New  Hampshire  are 
producing  in  excess  of  50  per  cent,  more 
milk  in  the  June  flush  season  than  they 
are  producing  in  November  and  De- 
cember. Coos  county,  the  worst  offender 
from  the  standpoint  of  even  production, 
is  producing  double  the  amount  of  milk 
in  June  than  is  produced  in  November. 

This  means  that  all  this  additional  vol- 
ume of  milk  must  be  marketed  in  some 
other  form  than  fluid  milk,  as  consumers 
will  drink  only  about  10  per  cent,  more 
milk  in  the  high  month  than  they  will  in 
the  low  month. 

The  chief  outlet  for  this  excess  produc- 
tion is  as  fluid  cream,  either  for  direct 
consumption  or  for  storage.  The  con- 
sumption of  cream  during  the  berry  sea- 
son is  somewhat  greater  than  in  Novem- 
ber and  December,  but  is  not  nearlv  high 
enough  to  move  this  excess  production 
as_  cream.  The  other  principal  outlet  for 
this  excess  production  is  as  butter.  This 
butter  must  come  in  competition  with  but- 
ter produced  in  the  middle  west  where 
feed  is  realtively  cheap  and  with  low 
transportation  costs  to  eastern  markets. 


This  means  that  for  this  excess  produc- 
tion in  June  a  much  lower  price  must  be 
taken  than  what  can  be  secured  for  fluid 
milk.  It  also  means  that  with  more  prod- 
uct available  for  the  fluid  milk  market 
it  is  difficult  to  maintain  fluid  milk  prices 
through  the  flush  season.  Returns  under 
even  production  will  be  higher  than  are 
now  possible  under  our  present  uneven 
production,  with  great  excesses  in  May 
and  June. 

We  are  presenting  these  studies  of  the 
uneven  production  in  the  various  states  in 
the  hope  that  our  membership  in  general 


PERCENT  HIGH 

OF  LOU  DOflfTH 

30Qr 


will  appreciate  the  difficulties  of  the  situa- 
tion which  their  methods  of  dairying 
bring  upon  the  association  as  a  whole. 
Some  progress  is  being  made  in  some  sec- 
tions but  it  is  not  coming  fast  enough  to 
enable  the  association  to  handle  the  situa- 
tion fully.  Some  way  must  be  found  of 
encouraging  our  members  to  produce  more 
milk  when  it  is  sorely  needed,  in  Novem- 
ber and  December.  If  this  results  in  pro- 
ducing less  in  May  and  June  it  would 
not  do  any  harm.  In  such  a  year  as  this 
it  vyould  prove  of  great  advantage  if  we 
had  an  evencd-up  production. 


Hillsboro       Merrimack    Rockrogham  Strafford 


Cheshire 


Carroll 


Belknap 


Graflon 


Coos 


Through  an  error  Sullivan  County  was  omitted  from  the  Chart.    It  would  appear  the  same 
as  Cheshire  County,  with  the  high  month  37  per  cent,  above  the  low  month. 


FIELD  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT 


51  Cornhill,  Boston 


F.  C.  WARNER,  Manager 

DISTRICT  MANAGERS 
Maine  Field  District —  FRANK  M.  SMALL,,  Augusta,  Me. 
Northern  Field  District — 8.  I..  STEARNS,  St.  johnsbury.  Vt. 
Northwestern    Field  District — CARROLL-    R.    McBRIDE,  St.  Albans,  Vt 
Rutland   District — CHARLES   R.   PARMALEE,  Rutland,  Vt. 


The  field  service  department  has  a  new 
member,  Frank  M.  Small.  He  is  to  be 
manager  of  the  Maine  Field  District  and 
will  be  on  the  job  soon  after  this  Dairy- 
man reaches  you. 

It  will  not  be  an  altogether  new  ex- 
perience for  him  to  go  about  Maine  visit- 
ing dairymen,  nor  will  he  be  wholly  a 
stranger  to  many  of  you.  For  some 
years  he  has  been  connected  with  the 
Turner  Centre  System  and  was,  for  a 
time,  assistant  dairy  inspector  for  the 
Maine  Department  of  Agriculture. 

He  is  a  farm  product,  having  been  born 
and  reared  in  Cherryfield,  Me.  He  grad- 
uated from  the  University  of  Maine  in 
1923  and  immediately  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Department  of  Agriculture.  Later 
he  worked  for  the  Jamesway  Farm  Equip- 
ment Co.  For  the  past  three  years  he  has 
been  employed  in  various  capacities  by  the 
Turner  Centre  System  and  has  risen  to  be 
the  foreman  of  the  pasteurization  depart- 
ment of  the  Boston  plant.  He  comes 
highly  recommended  by  all  who  have  em- 
ployed him.  By  experience  and  person- 
ality he  looks  like  a  good  man  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  field  service  department  family. 
It  will  take  him  a  little  while  to  get  the 
work  going  full  steam  where  Foley  left  it 
when  he  was  transferred  to  the  forefront 
of  the  battle  in  Vermont,  but  within  a 
few  months  he  will  see  most  of  you  mem- 
bers in  the  Maine  district.  He  will  be 
prepared  to  assist  you  in  various  problems 
and  to  reassure  you  by  check  testing  your 
milk. 

Sam  Stearns  has  been  following  his 
usual  hot  pace  in  the  Northern  Connec- 
ticut Valley  region.  When  we  reported 
him  last  he  was  traveling  around  North 
Haverhill,  N.  H.,  with  the  veteran  M.  A. 
Meader,  rounding  up  members.  They 
added  18  new  members,  bringing  the  total 
up  to  71,  nearly  JJDO  per  cent.  Theodore 
Chamberlain  and  Roe  McDonalds  are  the 
president  and  secretary  of  the  local  and 
assisted  in  the  work. 

Having  done  about  all  that  was  pos- 
sible in  North  Haverhill,  Stearns  started 
in  the  Piedmont  section.  He  secured 
nine  new  members  and  two  new  dues 
orders,  but  he  found  that  the  back  roads 


were  all  but  impassable  and  wisely  de- 
ferred completing  the  canvass  until  travel- 
ing was  more  easy.  William  Brown  is 
presidest  of  this  local.  When  the  can- 
vass is  completed  an  annual  meeting  of 
the  local  will  be  held  for  the  election  of 
officers. 

Lyndonville  and  vicinity  have  proved  a 
fertile  field  for  him.  When  the  Lyndon- 
ville creamery  agreed  to  come  in  under 
the  surplus  plan  and  pay  NEMPA  prices 
March  1,  the  producers  who  were  ship- 
ping to  the  company  were  highly  appre- 
ciative of  the  good  work  the  association 
had  done  in  their  behalf.  Stearns  can- 
vassed these  producers  and  added  more 
than  40  new  members  to  the  association. 
He  also  canvassed  producers  shipping  to 
Turner  Centre  at  St.  Johnsbury ;  to  Hood 
at  East  St.  Johnsbury,  and  to  Findeisen, 
who  ships  direct  to  Methuen  without  any 
plant.  The  net  result  was  57  new  mem- 
bers in  all  and  17  new  dues  orders.  Fif- 
teen of  these  new  members  belong  to  the 
Lyndonville  local  bringing  its  member- 
ship up  to  146  and  making  it  one  of  the 
outstanding  locals  in  Vermont.  The  local 
was  entitled  to  have  two  delegates  in  the 
annual  meeting  last  year,  as  it  had  more 
than  100  members,  so  the  additional  mem- 
bers will  not  make  any  change  in  the 
representation.  In  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  local,  which  was  largely  attended, 
G.  T.  Ruggles  was  elected  president ; 
R.  W.  Burrington  of  East  Burke,  was 
elected  vice-president,  and  E.  A.  Lawson, 
secretary  and  treasurer.  Mr.  Burrington 
had  served  the  local  as  secretary  since  it 
was  organized  and  the  members  showed 
their  appreciation  in  a  pleasing  way.  Be- 
fore the  election  of  officers  was  held  they 
passed  a  vote  that  the  vice-president 
should  serve  as  the  second  delegate  from 
the  local  to  the  annual  meeting.  Then 
they  elected  him  vice-president. 

Thirty  of  the  new  members  secured  by 
Stearns  in  this  section  naturally  belong  to 
the  West  Burke  local.  When  Stearns 
turned  in  his  report  he  did  not  know  that 
this  additional  30  raised  the  membership 
in  the  local  to  98,  within  two  of  enough  to 
give  the  local  a  second  delegate.  If  he 
liad  known  this  he  would  have  put  in 
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Page  Six 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1928 


Price  Increase  Deferred 


After  a  careful  review  of  all  conditions 
the  sales  committee  of  the  association  did 
not  press  for  an  increase  in  price  July  1, 
but  decided  to  wait  for  a  week  or  more 
before  making  the  change.  The  unusual 
weather  conditions  are  responsible  for  the 
situation  and  as  soon  as  settled  hot 
weather  comes  there  is  every  probability 
of  an  advance.  It  is  the  confident  ex- 
pectation of  the  sales  committee  that  the 
price  will  move  up  July  15,  if  conditions 
improve. 

Continued  cloudy  weather  prolonged  the 
ordinary  season  of  good  pasturage  and 
created  unusual  supplies  of  milk  in  all 
markets.  While  there  is  every  indica- 
tion that  the  tide  of  milk  production  is 
ebbing  through  the  last  two  weeks  in 
June  there  were  still  such  quantities  of 
milk  on  the  market  and  available  in 
competition  that  the  dealers  were  practi- 
cally unanimous  in  their  opposition  to 
an  immediate  raise. 

Coupled  with  the  unusually  large  supply 
of  milk  toward  the  end  of  the  month, 
when  under  ordinary  conditions  there 
would  be  a  considerable  shrinkage,  was 
the  fact  that  sales  were  low  for  the  sea- 
son. While  there  had  been  a  few  hot 
days  there  was  no  settled  hot  weather  and 
all  dealers  reported  that  sales  were  below 
normal  for  the  season.  This  still  further 
increased  the  difficulties  of  handling  the 
situation  caused  by  the  unusually  large 
supply  of  milk. 

These  various  factors  in  the  market 
were  reviewed  and  discussed  at  a  confer- 
ence called  by  the  commissioners  of  agri- 
culture June  28.  Representatives  of  the 
co-operative  organizations  met  in  confer- 
ence with  the  commissioners  in  the 
morning  and  the  dealers  came  together 
in  the  afternoon.  Out  of  this  careful  re- 
view of  the  situation  came  the  general  ex- 
pression of  opinion  that  any  advance 
July  1  would  be  unwise  as  it  might  be 
short  lived  and  not  well  followed  by  in- 
dependent sellers. 

The  sales  committee  of  the  association 
was  forced  by  its  own  good  judgment  and 
knowledge  of  the  situation  to  take  the 
same  view  but  they  made  known  their 
intention  to  meet  again  in  about  10  days, 
perhaps  less,  and  reopen  the  question  of 
July  price  if  the  conditions  warrant  it. 

The  sales  committee  took  up  the  ques- 
tion of  changing  the  Class  2  price  July 
1,  but  the  same  conditions  which  pre- 
vented an  increase  in  Class  1  stood  in  the 
way.  It  will  increase  when  the  Class  1 
price  is  changed. 

General  Market  Conditions 
Renorts  of  the  dealers  buying  under 
the  surplus  plan  showed  that  Mav  pro- 
duction increased  over  April  production 
11  per  cent.^  which  is  about  normal.  While 
the  first  half  of  May  brought  rather  less 


Feed  per  cwt.  Mar. 

Corn  Meal   $2.32 

Cottonseed  Meal    2.79 

Gluten  Feed    2.55 

Ground  Oats    2.46 

Linseed  Oil  Meal    2.98 

Wheat  Bran    2.30 


than  the  usual  increase  in  production,  milk 
came  with  a  rush  during  the  latter  part  of 
the  month  and  during  the  first  half  of 
June.  There  was  some  slackening  up  the 
latter  part  of  June  in  some  sections,  but 
reports  show  that  in  general  it  is  still 
high. 

Sales  of  milk  in  May  came  back  some- 
what from  the  low  point  in  April,  with 
the  normal  increase  of  about  two  per 
cent.  The  percentage  of  surplus  ran  high 
in  May,  57.1  per  cent,  as  compared  with 
54.6  per  cent,  in  April,  and  with  62.6  per 
cent,  last  year,  with  the  cream  plan  ter- 
ritory included. 

The  May  net  price  in  the  10th  zone  was 
2  cents  per  hundred  less  than  a  year  ago. 
The  Class  I  price  was  6  cents  lower  and 
the  Class_  II  price  1  cent  higher.  The 
May  butter  market  averaged  V/2  cents 
per  pound  above  last  year.  Comparative 
figures  are : 

1928  1928  1927 
April     May  Mav 

Fluid  $2.90     $2.90  $2.96 

Surplus    1.87      1.75  1.74 

Net  price  all  milk  2.36  2.24  2.26 
Avg.  butter  per  lb.    .460      .454  .439 

One  hundred  pounds  of  milk  in  May  at 
the  10th  zone  price  bought  79  pounds  of 
grain,  as  compared  with  96  pounds  last 
year  and  a  five-year  average  for  May  of 
87  pounds. 

Butter  is  slightly  higher  than  it  was 
last  vear  for  June  but  store  and  storage 
holdings  are  estimated  at  10,000,000 
pounds  less  than  a  year  ago  at  the  same 
time.  Production  is  now  just  catching  up 
with  last  year.  It  seems  probable  that  the 
July  price  will  average  a  little  less  than 
the  June  price. 

Ntw  York  and  Boston  Prices 
The  Boston  dealers  NEMPA  weighted 
price  for  3.7  per  cent,  milk  181-200  mile 
zone  in  May  was  $2.24  per  hundredweight 
as  compared  with  the  New  York  League 
price  of  $2.26  same  test,  same  zone. 

Cost  of  Production 
Feed  prices  held  about  steady  from 
May  to  June  and  now  stand  $7.00  a  ton 
above  last  year.  Hay  advanced  nearly 
$2.00  a  ton  from  Mav  and  is  about  the 
same  as  last  year.  Indications  are  that 
hay  will  be  worth  more  this  fall  than  it 
was  last  year.    Comparative  costs  are : 

1928  1928  1928 

May  June  June 

Grain  per  ton   $56.70  $56.38  $49.39 

Hay  per  ton              13.51  15.32  15.53 

Labor    per  month, 

with  board             48.70  48.70  48.70 

Retail  grain  prices  held  about  steadv 
from  May  to  June  and  all  stand  well 
above  last  year.    Comparative  costs  are : 

 1928   1927 

Apr.  May  June  June 

$2.40  $2.56  $2.52  $2.29 

3.07  3.24  3.35  2.38 

2.57  2.60  2.60  2.30 

2.55  2.72  2.84  2.42 

3.13  3.22  3.23  2.86 

2.47  2.48  2.45  2.15 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  May,  1928 

To  determine  the  correctness  of  your  milk  check  for  this  month,  find  out  what 
zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  from  your  market. 

If  your  dealer  buys  on  a  weight  and  test  basis,  adjust  the  prices  given  below 
for  your  zone  by  adding  or  subtracting  per  point  of  butterfat  above  and  below  3.7 
per  1/10  per  cent,  of  butterfat  the  following  for  each  size  container:  Per  8^2  qt. 
can  $.008;  per  10  qt.  can  $.010;  per  20  qt.  can  $.019;  per  21  ^  qt.  can  $.021;  per  40 
qt.  can  $.039;  per  cwt.  $.045 


Dealers 

J  B.  Prescott 
Delivered   


Boston  District 

Class  1    Class  2   

(Mfg.  8'/2 


(Mkt. 
Milk) 


Milk)  Quart 


20 
Quart 


Size  of  Can  

21^4  40 
Quart  Quart 


.91.2%  8.8% 


Dealers 


Northern  Market  District 
Class  1    Class  2   


(Mkt. 
Milk) 

Robert  H.  Sawyer 
Zoned  from  Haverhill 

Delivered   80.6% 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Wason  MncDonald 
Zoned  f-rom  Haverhill 

Delivered   79.3 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

Findeisen  Farms 

Zoned  from  Lawrence 

Delivered   60.7 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

4th  zone   

9th  zone   

Batchelder  &  Cushman 
Zoned  from  Manchester,  N.  H. 

Delivered   72.0 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   '. 

5th  zone   

6th  zone   

E.  C.  Blake 
Zoned  from  Manchester,  N.  H. 

Delivered   59.4 

1st  zone   •.  

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

5th  zone   

W.  T.  Boyd  &  Son 
Zoned  from  Nashua,  N.  H. 

Delivered   67.7 

1st  zone   

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

4th  zone   

5  th  zone   

Producers'  Dairy 
Zoned  from  Nashua,  N.  H. 

Delivered   79.8 

2nd  zone   

3rd  zone   

Lyndonville  Creamery 

9th  zone,  1-15   43.0 

11th  zone,  1-15   

9th  zone,  16-31   36.9 

11th  zone,  16-31   


(Mfg. 
Milk) 


19.4% 


Cwt. 
in 

8^'s 


—  Size  of  Can  — 

Cwt.  Cwt. 

in  in 

20's  40's 


20.7 


39.3 


3.167 
2.756 
2.691 


3.167 
2.826 
2.770 


3.167 
2.844 
2.807 


28.0 


40.6 


32.3 


20.2 

57.0 
63"i 


3.232 
3.031 
2.984 
2.944 
2.929 
2.897 


3.232 
3.047 
3.015 
2.984 
2.956 
2.933 


Cwt. 


3.521 


Cwt. 


3.229 
2.902 
2.864 


2.869 
2.622 
2.594 
2.541 
2.467 


3.241 
3.044 
3.011 
2.977 
2.948 
2.923 
2.910 


2.982 
2.809 
2.770 
2.737 
2.641 


3.497 
3.204 
3.158 

2.291 
2.271 
2.246 
2.229 


Zone  Table  of  Prices  for  May,  1928 

By  Boston  Dealers  Who  Purchase  by  the  Hundredweight 

To  determine  whether  your  milk  check  for  May  is  correct.    Find  out  what  zone  you  are  in  or  how  many  miles  your  railroad  station  is  from  Boston. 

If  your  milk  tests  more  than  3.7  per  cent,  add  to  the  zone  price  given  below  for  your  dealer  $.045  for  each  .1  per  cent.  If  it  tests  less  than  3.7  per  cent,  subtract  $.045 
per  each  .1  per  cent,  below  this  standard.    If  you  furnish  cans  from  the  farm  to  the  railroad  or  shipping  station  add  $.0075. 

To  find  the  exact  amount  of  your  check,  multiply  the  number  of  cwt.  sold  in  May  by  your  dealer's  price  after  making  the  above  adjustments. 

CREAM  PRICES,  MAY,  1928 

The  basis  of  payment  for  cream  is  the  zone  price  for  3.7  per  cent,  milk  built  up  to  the  test  delivered  by  adding  per  point  of  butterfat  l/10th  the  price  for  butterfat 
in  Class  II  milk.    The  differential  above  3.7  per  cent,  this  month  is  $.048  per  point  of  butterfat. 

Zonel     Zone  2    Zone  3    Zone  4   Zone  5   Zone  6     Zone  7    Zone  8    Zone  9   Zone  10  Zone  11  Zone  12  Zone  13  Zone  14  Zone  15 

Miles  from  Boston                                1-20     21-40     41-60     61-80    81-100  101-120    121-140  141-160  161-180  181-200  201-220  221-240  241-260  261-280  281-300 

Class  1   Milk  Price   3.176      3.129      3.083      3.042      3.007      2.990      2.961      2.937      2.920      2.897      2.874      2.862  2.839      2.827      2  804 

Class  2  Milk  Price   1.746      1.746      1.746      1.746      1.746      1.746      1.746      1.746      1.746      1.746      1.746      1.746  1.746      1.746  1.746 

Class  1         Class  2 
(Mkt.  Milk)  (Mfg.  Milk) 

Hood,  1-15   45.7%          54.3%        2.421      2.400      2.378      2.360      2.344      2.336      2.323      2.312      2.304      2.294      2.283      2.279  2.267      2  261      2  251 

Hood,  16-31   40.6             59.4          2.318      2.299      2.280      2.263      2.249      2.242      2.231       2.221      2.214      2.204      2.195      2.190  2.181      2  176  2167 

Whiting   34.0             66.0          2.201      2.185      2.170      2.156      2.144      2.138      2.128      2.120      2.114      2.106      2.099      2.095  2.087      2  083      2  075 

Turner  Centre  ....40.9             59.1           2.338      2.319      2.300      2.284      2.269      2.262      2.250      2.240      2.233      2.224      2.214      2.209  2.200      2  195      2  186 

F.  S.  Cummings  ..46.6             53.4          2.411      2.390      2.368      2.349      2.333      2.325      2.311       2.300      2.292      2.281       2.270      2.265  2.254      2.249      2  238 

Weighted  avge  42.9             57.1           2.360      2.340      2.320      2.302      2.287      2.280      2.268      2.257      2-250      2.240      2.230      2.225  2.215      2.210  2200 

The  Turner  Centre  System  price  includes  an  extra  payment  of  $.012  per  cwt. 


nly,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Seven 


SOUTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 

H.  W.    FIENEM ANN,  Manager 
I      Slade  Bldg.,  44  Washington  St.,  Providence  Tel.  Dexter  64«9 


Providence  Market 


MAY,  1928 


JUNE  PRICES 

Providence   $3,582 

Fall  River    3.582 

New   Bedford    4.165 

^Brockton    3.952 

r  Newport    3.467 

(These  prices  are  for  3.7  per  cent,  milk 
delivered  at  dealers'  plants.) 

Milk  prices  remained  unchanged  during 
func,  in  all  markets  in  this  district.  Milk 
las  been  very  flush  here  and  were  it  not 
tor  our  surplus  plan,  many  producers 
»vould  certainly  have  been  dropped.  A 
certain  dealer's  supply  suddenly  increased 
iy  40  per  cent,  and  sales  could  only  be 
ncreased  six  to  eight  per  cent.  This 
:ondition  repeated  itself,  in  lesser  degrees, 
kll  over  our  markets.  Apparently,  our 
surplus  is  greater  this  year  than  it  was  a 
rear  ago.  This  is  easily  explained  be- 
:ause  a  year  ago  January  the  price  broke 
o  eight  cents,  thereby  discouraging  ex- 
cessive production,  but  this  year  our 
winter  price  held  to  May  6,  and  we  did 
lot  have  such  a  check  on  production.  I 
lope  that  we  will  eventually  have  a  mar- 
keting plan  which  will  encourage  even 
production  and  penalize  the  man  who 
•aries  excessively. 

Trucking  contracts  to  fit  the  require- 
ments of  this  market  are  being  drawn  up 
>y  Reuben  Hall,  attorney  for  the 
NEMPA.  These  will  be  considered  care- 
fully and  one  of  them  will  be  recom- 
nended  to  our  members.  Special  commit- 
ees  on  the  trucking  problem  will  be  se- 
ected  in  each  locality  shipping  into  the 
narkets  in  this  district  and  these  com- 
mittees can  adopt  these  trucking  contracts 
or  their  associates.  These  contracts  will 
ie  put  in  force  as  soon  as  possible  in  the 
ections  where  the  members  are  asking 
:or  assistance  and  in  any  other  areas 
vhere  complaints  arise. 


The  textile  workers  are  still  out,  26,000 
strong.  Sales  are  becoming  less,  and  the 
amount  of  surplus  increases.  However, 
if  hot  weather  will  come  soon,  production 
will  decrease  and  sales  increase.  There  is 
no  prospect  of  an  early  strike  settlement 
either. 

Several  days  were  spent  in  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  this  local  calling  on  producers, 
signing  up  new  members,  and  at  the  same 
time  making  it  possibly  for  nine  producers 
to  hold  their  market.  The  truck  which 
hauls  milk  to  Providence,  does  so  to 
more  than  one  dealer.  One  of  these  deal- 
ers was  not  getting  the  milk  in  early 
enough  to  meet  his  plant  requirements, 
and  had  given  two  weeks'  notice  on  the 
600  quarts  involved.  Arthur  Holdsworth 
and  the  district  manager  called  on  all 
producers  on  the  route  and  found  a  will- 
ingness on  everybody's  part  to  assist  these 
nine  men  in  holding  their  market.  This 
act  of  co-operation  was  very  gratifying, 
and  required  some  inconvenience  and 
hardship  to  many  who  ship  to  the  other 
dealers  on  this  truck.  Everything  is  now 
settled  and  these  nine  men  held  their 
market. 

Cooling  Milk 

In  speaking  with  a  representative  of  the 
Providence  Milk  Inspection  Department 
recently,  he  reminded  me  about  the  new 
regulation  on  cooling  milk.  It  takes  effect 
July  1st  and  is  going  to  be  enforced.  I 
hope  every  producer  will  do  his  best  to 
meet  these  requirements  and  have  the 
milk  leave  cold  enough  to  arrive  in  Provi- 
dence at  60  degrees,  or  less.  This  will  re- 
quire the  co-operation  of  truckmen,  with 
the  use  of  ice,  tight  truck  bodies  and 
canvas  covers. 

Producers  who  have  difficulty  in  getting 
their  milk  to  market  under  Board  of 
Health  requirements  should  notify  the 
district  manager. 


Schedule  of  Prices 

Effective  July  1,  1928,  and  Until  Further  Notice 
Based  on  8  Cents  Per  Quart  Delivered  in  Boston 
Subject  to  Surplus 

At  R.  R.  Stations  Outside  Massachusetts 


Cwt.in 

Cwt.in  Cwt.in 

8qt. 

8^qt. 

lOqt. 

20qt. 

21^qt. 

40qt. 

20qt. 

2VMt. 

40qt. 

':one 

Miles 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Cans 

Del. 

Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.771 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

1 

1-20 

.523 

.560 

.666 

1.356 

1.443 

2.732 

3.153 

3.157 

3.176 

2 

21-40 

.508 

.545 

.651 

1.326 

1.413 

2.692 

3.094 

3.092 

3.129 

3 

41-60 

.503 

.540 

.636 

1.301 

1.388 

2.652 

3.025 

3.037 

3.083 

1  4 

61-80 

.488 

.525 

.626 

1.291 

1.378 

2.617 

3.001 

3.015 

3.042 

5 

81-100 

.478 

.515 

.616 

1.271 

1.353 

2.587 

2.955 

2.960 

3.007 

l  6 

101-120 

.478 

.515 

.611 

1.266 

1.343 

2.572 

2.943 

2.939 

2.990 

7 

121-140 

.468 

.505 

.601 

1.251 

1.328 

2.547 

2.908 

2.917 

2.961 

8 

141-160 

.463 

.500 

.596 

1.241 

1.318 

2.527 

2.885 

2.884 

2.937 

9 

161-180 

.458 

.495 

.591 

1.231 

1.308 

2.512 

2.862 

2.862 

2.920 

10 

181-200 

.453 

.490 

.581 

1.221 

1.298 

2.492 

2.839 

2.840 

2.897 

,11 

201-220 

.448 

.485 

.576 

1.206 

1.288 

2.472 

2.804 

2.818 

2.874 

12 

221-240 

.443 

.480 

.571 

1.201 

1.278 

2.462 

2.792 

2.796 

2.862 

13 

241-260 

.438 

.475 

.566 

1.191 

1.268 

2.442 

2.769 

2.774 

2.839 

I  14 

261-280 

.433 

.470 

.561 

1.186 

1.263 

2.432 

2.757 

2.764 

2.827 

15 

281-300 

.428 

.465 

.556 

1.176 

1.248 

2.412 

2.734 

2.731 

2.804 

At  R. 

R.  Stations  Inside  Massachusetts 

Del. 

Trucked 

.616 

.655 

.861 

1.541 

1.637 

3.082 

3.583 

3.583 

3.583 

I  1 

1-20 

548 

.585 

.776 

1.371 

1.453 

2.732 

3.188 

3.155 

3.177 

2 

21-40 

.528 

.565 

.761 

1.341 

1.423 

2.692 

3.118 

3.089 

3.129 

3 

41-60 

.523 

.560 

.756 

1.336 

1.408 

2.652 

3.107 

3.057 

3.084 

4 

61-80 

.518 

.555 

.746 

1.301 

1.388 

2.617 

3.026 

3.013 

3.043 

5 

81-100 

.513 

.550 

.731 

1  296 

1 .378 

2.592 

3.014 

2.992 

3.014 

6 

101-120 

.513 

.550 

.731 

1.296 

1.368 

2.592 

3.014 

2.970 

3.014 

7 

121-140 

.513 

.550 

.731 

1.276 

1 .358 

2.557 

2.967 

2.948 

2.973 

I  R 

141-160 

.498 

.535 

.726 

1.271 

1 .353 

2.542 

2.956 

2.937 

2.956 

9 

161-180 

.493 

.530 

.721 

1.261 

1.338 

2.517 

2.933 

2.905 

2.927 

10 

181-200 

.493 

.530 

.716 

v1.246 

1.328 

2.502 

2.898 

2.883 

2.909 

Where  farmers  furnish  cans  between  the  farms  and  railroad  or  milk  stations, 
premium  of  .0075  cents  per  hundredweight  is  paid. 

Wherever  dealer  maintains  country  milk  stations  or  agents  for  the  inspection 
ir  receipt  of  milk,  title  to  such  milk  will  pass  at  the  shipping  point. 

In  computing  zone  prices,  allowances  have  been  made  for  freight,  countrv  cream- 
ry  expense,  can  service  and  a  deduction  of  2  cents  per  hundredweight  has  been 
nade  for  NEMPA  members'  dues  and  1  cent  per  hundredweight  for  advertising, 


Class  1 

Dealers  Mkt. 

W.  B.  Brown    93.7% 

H.  T.  Burton,  Inc   77.7 

Geo.  T.  Chambers    72.1 

L.  M.  Coolum  (1-15)   100.0 

L.  M.  Coolum  (16-31)    95.8 

E.  A.  Fiske    81.9 

L.  E.  Goff   100.0 

C.  W.  Grant   83.9 

H.  P.  Hood  (1-15)  Class  1  price   

H.  P.  Hood  (16-31)  Class  1  price   

Chas.  H.  Hunt    93.4 

A.  Martin  (1-15)   100.0 

A.  Martin  (16-31)   100.0 

A.  B.  Monroe   100.0 

G.  Perrion  &  Son  (1-15)   100.0 

G.  Perrion  &  Son  (16-31)   100.0 

Providence  Dairy    68.8 

F.  E.  Rochon  (1-15)    90.4 

F.  E.  Rochon  (16-31)    91.5 

Turner  Centre  System    79.3 

W.  C.  Viall    74.7 

H.  C.  Wade   100.0 

S.  L.  Wallace    87.2 

C.  A.  Warnock   100.0 

E.  P.  Westcott   100.0 

Geo.  W.  Wright  (1-5)   100.0 

Geo.  W.  Wright  (6-31)   100.0 

Geo.  T.  Chambers'  price  includes  an  extra 


Class  2       Delivered  Willimantic 


Zone 

3.539 
3.236 
3.200 
3.819 
3.510 
3.320 
3.662 
3.343 
3.612 
3.596 
3.529 
3.825 
3.593 
3.446 
3.822 
3.590 
3.066 
3.532 
3.421 
3.259 
3.182 
3.663 
3.421 
3.658 
3.673 
4.045 
3.589 

payment  of  $.074  per  cwt. 


Mfg. 

6.3% 
22.3 
27.9 

42 
18.1 

16.1 


6.6 


31.2 
9.6 
8.5 
20.7 
25.3 

12.8 


Zone 


2.762 


The 

(pottage  was  J^eady  for  T'hem 


dt  An  Advertisement  of  the  American 
Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company 

A  farmer  of  Boone,  Iowa,  wished 
to  drive  to  McGregor,  Iowa,  with 
his  family  for  Labor  Day.  Cottages 
were  available  there  but  the  time 
was  too  short  to  write  and  get  an 
answer  before  they  started.  He  tele- 
phoned to  the  state  capital  and  got 
the  name  of  the  man  in  McGregor 
who  had  the  .cottages  for  rent. 
Later  the  same  day  he  got  this  man 
on  the  long  distance  telephone,  and 
the  next  afternoon  the  farmer  and 
his  family  started  on  their  2.00-mile 
trip.  The  cottage  was  ready  for 
them  when  they  arrived. 

The  telephone  makes  life  more 
enjoyable.  It  runs  errands  to  neigh- 
boring towns.  Calls  the  implement 
repair  man.  Gets  the  doctor.  Sum- 
mons aid  in  case  of  fire  or  accident. 

Often  the  telephone  pays  for  it- 
self many  times  over  by  finding  out 
when  and  where  to  sell  for  the 
best  price.  A  farmer  living  near 
Marion,  Indiana,  started  to  sell 
75  hogs  but  decided  first  to  tele- 
phone and  see  if  the  price  was  the 
same.  Prices  had  dropped  a 
cent  so  he  waited  until  next  day 
and  received  ^  of  a  cent  more. 

The  modern  farm  home  has  a 
telephone. 


Page  Eight 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1928 


PROSPERITY 

It  is  almost  impossi- 
ble to  estimate  the  vast 
improvements  which 
the  last  ten  years  have 
brought  about  in  the 
production  of  milk  and 
milk  foods. 

As  a  result  quality 
milk  foods  are  being 
produced,  greater  con- 
sumption is  being  en- 
couraged, and  bigger 
profits  accumulated  to 
the  producer. 

So  significant  is  the 
contribution  of  sanitary 
cleanliness  to  these  re- 
sults that  increasing 
numbers  of  dairymen 
are  specifying 


as  the  standard  material 
for  all  their  dairy  clean- 
ing. 

This  pure,  inorganic, 
greaseless  cleaner  has 
stood  the  test  of  twenty 
years  unfailing  sanitary 
service  to  the  dairy  in- 
dustry. 

These  years  have  been 
marked  by  the  greatest 
prosperity,  a  prosperity 
in  which  Wyandotte 
Dairyman's  Cleaner  and 
Cleanser  has  contributed 
a  valued  part. 


Ask  your  supply 
man  for 
"  Wyandotte" 


THE  J.  D.  FORD  COMPANY 

Sol*  Manufacturers 
Wyandotte      -     -  Michigan 


NEW  LEAGUE  PRESIDENT 

Fred  H.  Sexauer  of  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  was 
elected  president  of  the  Dairymen's 
League  Co-operative  Association,  Inc.,  at 
the  annual  electing  meeting  of  the  board 
of  directors  June  22,  following  the  annual 
membership  meeting  the  previous  day.  He 
succeeds  G.  W.  Slocum  of  Milton,  Pa., 
who  has  been  president  since  1920.  Mr 
Slocum  announced  a  month  ago  that  he 
would  not  be  a  candidate  for  re-election 
because  of  failing  health. 

Mr.  Sexauer  has  been  a  director  of  the 
league  since  December  9,  1919,  and  a 
member  of  the  executive  committee  since 
December  14,  1921. 

Other  officers,  all  of  whom  were  re- 
elected, are :  J.  D.  Miller  of  Susque- 
hanna, Pa.,  first  vice-president ;  J.  D. 
Beardslee,  Bainbridfte,  N.  Y.,  second  vice- 
president  ;  J.  A.  Coulter,  Watertown,  N. 
Y.,  secretary,  and  Chester  Young,  Napa- 
nech,  N.  Y.,  treasurer. 

L.  A.  Chapin  of  North  Bangor,  N.  Y., 
and  H.  H.  Rathbun  of  Vernon,  N.  Y., 
were  elected  members  of  the  executive 
committee,  of  which  other  members  are 
Mr.  Coulter  and  Mr.  Young,  with  Presi- 
dent Sexauer  an  ex-officio  member. 


FEED  MARKET  SITUATION 


The  Grain,  Hay  and  Feed  Market 
News  Service  Bureau  of 
Agricultural  Economics 

The  feed  market  was  rather  unsettled 
during  June  but  at  this  writing  (June  21) 
prices  of  the  principal  feeds  are  not 
greatly  changed  from  quotations  at  the 
close  of  May.  Demand  has  become  less 
active  with  good  pastures  generally  avail- 
able throughout  the  country.  Produc- 
tion of  most  feeds  has  been  light  and 
has  been  only  about  equal  to  current 
market  requirements. 

The  output  of  wheat  feeds  as  measured 
by  flour  production  at  the  principal  milling 
centers  fell  off  somewhat  but  was  about 
the  same  as  for  the  same  period  last  sea- 
son. Offerings  of  wheat  feeds  have  been 
nf  limited  volume  but  the  supply  of  bran 
has  been  easily  equal  to  market  require- 
ments, which  have  been  principally  for 
feed  for  immediate  delivery.  Buyers 
have  shown  but  little  interest  in  bran  for 
deferred  or  season  shipment  and  trading 
in  new  crop  feed  has  been  of  only  lim- 
ited volume,  according  to  trade  reports. 
New  crop  bran  was  selling  in  a  small 
way  at  Kansas  City  June  21,  at  $26.50-27 
per  ton  for  shipment  in  equal  amounts 
during  July,  August  and  September.  Most 
mills  in  both  the  hard  winter  and  spring 
wheat  markets  were  reported  to  have 
their  current  output  mostly  contracted  for 
and  were  not  actively  soliciting  orders  for 
deferred  shipment,  because  of  the  uncer- 
tainty as  to  the  quality  and  supply  of  new 
crop  wheat  this  season. 

(Continued  on  page  thirteen) 


A  Guarantee 
of  Purity 

is  contained  in  the  name 

BUELL  BOSTON 

Tr«d*  Marti) 

dred  skim  milk 

When  you  buy  dried  skim  milk 
under  this  trademark,  you  get 
a  pure  dairy  product,  produced 
and'processed  under^the'rigid 
inspection  of  the  New  York 
City  Board  of  Health.  For 
calves,  poultry  —  or  wherever 
fresh  skim  milk  is  used,  you 
can  profitably  feed  BUELL- 
BOSTON  DRIED  SKIM 
MILK. 

Ask  for  folder 
and  feeding  directions. 

C.  E.  BUELL,  Inc. 

Board  of  Trade  Building 
BOSTON     -       -       -  MASS. 


I 


f  you  see  it  — 

you'll  have  to  have  it 

PERFECTION 

OIL  RANGE 


IN  its  new  light  colors  the  new 
Perfection  oil  range  is  so 
bright  and  cheerful  looking  any 
woman  would  enjoy  cooking  on 
it.  Soft  colors — silver  gray  and 
dove  gray.  Cool  looking.  Clean 
looking. 

See  the  new  Perfectolac  finish 
— a  brilliant  lacquer,  wonder- 
fully durable  like  that  on  modern 
automobiles.  It  always  looks  well 
and  is  easy  to  clean. 

It  has  other  modern  features, 


too.  Burners  that  give  a  clean, 
intense,  swift  cooking  heat.  All- 
grate  cooking  top.  "Live  heat" 
oven.  New  heat  indicator,  and  it 
burns  the  safe,  economical  fuel — 
SOCONY  kerosene. 

See  them  at  your  store  today. 
21  new  models  in  the  Perfectolac 
finish;  3  in  full-porcelain  enamel; 
some  are  Puritan  with  the  new 
giant  burner  for  those  who  prefer 
the  short  drum  type  stove. 
Reasonably  priced,  of  course. 


Water  Heaters 


Whether  you  have  a  pressure  system  or  just 
a  kitchen  pump,  the  Perfection  water  heater 
will  give  you  hot  water  for  shaving  and  plenty 
of  hot  dish  water  in  a  few  minutes.  Rapid, 
reliable,  moderate  in  price;  ask  your  plumber. 


STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY  OF  NEW  YORK 


Breeds  and  Brands 


The  modern  farmer,  these  days,  doesn't  just  keep  cows 
and  hogs.  No  —  he  knows  the  breeds  and  knows  just 
why  he  wants  any  special  breed. 

And  it's  the  same  with  everything  else  that  the  wise 
buyer  spends  his  good  money  for.  He  must  have  a 
certain  name  on  his  car  radiator,  and  a  certain  trade- 
mark on  every  implement  he  buys,  whether  for  farm 
or  household  use.  It  is  a  day  of  definite  breeds, 
brands  and  trade-marks. 

Those  who  know  of  the  latest  ideas  and  improvements 
of  the  manufacturers  are  those  who  read  the  adver- 
tisements. 

Read  the  advertisements  in  this  publication.  They 
will  tell  you  of  the  best  brands  to  fill  your  particular 
needs.  They  will  help  you  to  do  your  work  better, 
and  to  live  more  comfortably  at  less  cost. 


July,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Sine 


SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 

Sept.  16-22,  1928 

A  Quality  Show  Throughout 

The  Eastern  States  Exposition  is 
noted  for  the  quality  of  its  exhibits, 
quality  and  interest  of  its  attend- 
ance and  competition  of  its  judging 
rings.  It  provides  the  greatest  op- 
portunity in  the  East  to  meet  and 
show  before  a  quality  buying  public. 

Superb  Accommodations 

Large,  airy,  permanent  barns.  Un- 
excelled platform  loading  and  un- 
loading conveniences.  Exceptional 
stabling  facilities. 

$103,333  in  Prizes 

offered  this  year. 

Premium  lists  now  available.  En- 
tries close  Wednesday,  August  22. 

Classifications  include  dairy  and 
beef  cattle,  draft  and  show  horses, 
sheep,  swine,  etc. 

For  premium  lists,  entry  blanks 
and  information,  write  to 

CHARLES  A.  NASH 

General  Manager 

292  Worthington  Street 

Springfield,  Massachusetts 


Plumbinl -plies 


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Big  Savings  made  by  thousands 
of  satisfied  customers  throughout* 
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and  your  satisfaction  guaranteed 

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Write  to  day.  Don't  miss  this  chance/ 


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Dept.  A137 


CLIP  AND  GROOM  YOUR  COWS 

It  Means  Cleaner  and 
Better  Milk 

Clipped  and  groomed  cows 
will  keep  them  clean  and 
comfort  nble  and  keep  tho 
dirt  out  of  the  milk  pail. 
Clipping  and  grooming  im- 
prove t l-.c  health  of  your  Live 
Stock.  Use  a  til  LLETTE 
Portable  Electric  Clipping 
and  Grooming  Machine.  Op- 
erates on  the  light  circuit 
furnished  by  any  Electric 
Light  and  Power  Co.,  or  on 
any  make  of  Farm  Lighting 
Plant. 

Price  List  on  rtenucst 
GILLETTE  CLIPPING  MACHINE  CO. 
129  Wtrt  3  lit  St,  D.pt.  K  New  York.  N.  T. 


FIELD  SERVICE  DEPT. 

(Continued  from  page  five) 

another  evening  there  and  got  four  or 
five  more  for  good  measure,  judging  by 
his  past  performances.  As  it  is  we  are 
sort  of  putting  it  up  to  the  officers,  F.  W. 
Ford  and  S.  I.  Howland,  to  get  two  more 
at  least  and  qualify  as  a  two-delegate 
local.  They  have  until  the  last  of  August 
to  do  this,  as  representation  at  the  annual 
meeting  is  based  on  members  in  good 
standing  the  last  day  of  August.  When 
they  get  these  new  members  they  will 
have  to  call  a  meeting  and  elect  a  second 
delegate.    It  will  be  a  pleasant  task. 

Twelve  of  the  new  members  in  this 
region  joined  the  St.  Johnsbury  local. 
They  are  largely  in  the  Danville  section 
and  are  men  who  formerly  sold  to  a 
butter  factory  and  have  changed  over  to 
the  Turner  Centre  plant  at  St.  Johnsbury. 

Since  then  Stearns  has  been  working 
south  of  St.  Johnsbury.  He  added  five 
new  members  and  secured  two  new  dues 
orders  in  the  Barnet-Monroe  local  and  is 
now  w  orking  in  the  Mclndoes  district.  In 
between  the  activities  of  canvassing  all 
these  locals  he  has  found  time  to  do  quite 
a  lot  of  odd  jobs,  such  as  speaking  at  the 
Coldbrook  Rotary  Club  and  a  few  other 
things  of  that  nature. 

Carroll  McBride,  our  new  man  in  the 
Champlain  Valley  District  now  and  then 
comes  to  his  home  in  Brownville  over  on 
the  east  side  of  the  state.  It  is  not  in 
his  district  but  he  sort  of  naturally 
started  in  to  do  some  canvassing  work 
among  the  shippers  to  the  Whiting  com- 
pany at  North  Walpole,  N.  H.  It  was  a 
wide  area,  stretching  all  the  way  from 
Claremont  to  Keene  on  the  New  Hamp- 
shire side,  and  from  Bellows  Falls  to 
Hartland  and  Windsor  on  the  Vermont 
side.  He  has  added  nine  new  members 
and  eight  new  dues  orders. 

He  got  initiated  in  the  NEMPA  field 
work  while  cleaning  up  the  last  of  the  re- 
imbursement fund  work  in  the  Sheldon 
and  East  Fairfield  section.  Then  he 
started  in  on  actual  canvassing.  He  added 
seven  new  members  shipping  to  Cummings 
at  North  Sheldon  and  four  new  members 
and  three  new  dues  orders  among  the 
Hood  producers  shipping  at  Fairfield. 
The  addition  of  these  new  members  brings 
Fairfield  local  past  the  35  mark  and  en- 
titles it  to  send  its  president  as  a  repre- 
sentative to  the  annual  meeting.  The 
local  was  grouped  with  Franklin  last  year 
but  in  the  regrouping  which  will  take 
place  the  last  of  August,  Franklin  will 
have  to  be  placed  in  some  other  erroup. 
J  T.  Ryan  is  secretary  of  the  Fairfield 
local  but  it  is  without  a  president  as  he 
has  moved  to  Burlington. 

We  have  a  lot  of  staunch  French  mem- 
bers around  North  Walden  and  McBride 
is  up  there  getting  acquainted  with  them. 
Ernest  Couture,  who  came  to  the  annual 
meeting  as  a  second  delegate  from  the 
North  Walden  local  last  year,  has  been 
assisting  him  in  getting  these  French 
dairy  men  to  join.  He  is  also  beinsr 
assisted  by  President  W.  E.  Stevens  and 
Secretary  W.  E.  Hatch.  Tn  the  first 
three  days  in  that  territorv  he  secured 
nine  new  members  and  added  four  new 
dues  orders.  This  brings  the  membership 
of  the  local  to  166. 

Charles  R.  Parmalee,  district  field  mnn 
for  southern  Vermont  and  eastern  New 
York,  has  been  check  testinsr  at  South 
Cambridge.  Greenwich  and  Salen.  N.  Y. 
At  Granville  he  added  23  new  members 
and  four  new  dues  orders,  nutting  the 
local  in  the  best  situation  it  has  been  in 
for  many  years.  He  had  the  assistance 
of  Ernest  Bemis,  secretary  of  the  local, 
who  is  an  old  timer  in  NEMPA  service, 
and  was  for  some  time  countv  president. 

Randolph.  Vt.,  has  been  for  years  a 
loyal  NEMPA  town  with  a  laree  mem- 
bership among  the  dairymen.  However. 
Parmalee  found  a  few  non  members  on 
his  last  visit  there  and  added  16  of  them 
to  the  membershin  roll,  in  addition  to 
gettinsr  five  new  dues  orders  from  other 
members.  This  brings  the  membership  of 
the  local  up  to  178,  making  it  one  of  the 
large  locals  in  the  state.  Tn  the  annual 
meetinT  of  the  local  P.  W.  Connolly  was 
elected  president,  and  Glenn  A.  Webster 
was  re-elected  secretary-treasurer.  He  was 
also  elected  second  delegate  to  the  annual 
meeting.  Members  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee are  the  officers  and  Georce  Man- 
ning ("who  was  a  second  delegate  last 
vear")  C.  A.  Webster  and  George  C. 
Flint. 


a  VERMONT  dairyman 


f  y  r  f 


a  New  Hampshire  dairyman 


O.K. 


Amco  20%  Dairy 


M.  E.  REYNOLDS  oper. 
ates  a  big  dairy  farm  and 
milk  route  at  West  Lebanon, 
N.  H.,  milking  approximately 
26  cows.  His  homestead  and 
barn  are  shown  at  the  right. 
Including  AMCO  20% 
DAIRY  to  his  milking  cows 
and  AMCO  FITTING  RA- 
TION to  his  dry  cows  and 
heifers,  he  feeds  three  to  four 
bags  of  AMCO  OPEN  FOR- 
MULA FEEDS  daily.  Mr. 
Reynolds  says,  "Previous  to 
using  AMCO  20%  DAIRY, 
I  was  feeding  a  carefully 
mixed  home  ration.  About  a 
week  after  switching  on  to 
AMCO  20%  DAIRY,  the 
cows  had  shown  a  gain  of  12 
quarts  per  day  for  the  herd, 
and  I  found  that  I  was  feed- 
ing less  by  weight  of  AMCO 
20%  DAIRY  than  I  was  of 
the  home  mixture." 

■>»      -r  t 

S.  D.  WRIGHT  at  White 
River  Jet  ,  Vermont,  has  a 
beautiful  purebred  herd  of 
some  thirty  Jerseys.  Along 
with  silage  and  good  hay,  he 
feeds  AMCO  20%  DAIRY 
to  his  milking  cows,  and 
AMCO  FITTING  RATION 
to  his  dry  cows  and  heifers. 
Mr.  Wright  says,  "I  am 
very  well  pleased  with  re- 
sults arid  your  price  is  cer- 
tainly mighty  fair." 


Plants  at: 
Peoria,  111.;  Omaha,  Neb. 
Owensboro,  Ky. 

Alfalfa  Plants  at.- 
Powell,  Garland,  and 
Worland,  Wyo. 


Mr.  Reynolds  (right)  getting  a  load  of  AMCO 
FEED  at  the  Amco  Service  Store,  West  Leb- 
anon, N.  H.  He  saves  $1.00  a  ton  by  taking  it 
from  the  car.  (left)  H.  H.  Rogers,  Store  Manager. 


Mr.  Wright  and  2  of  his  good  Amco-fed  Jerseys 


On  good  pasture  feed 
AMCO  18%  DAIRY 

On  short  pasture  feed 
AMCO  20%  DAIRY 


CO 


Am 

(feed  mixing  service 

AMERICAN  MILLING  COMPANY 
EXECUTIVE  OFFICES:  PEORIA,  ILL. 
DIVISION  OFFICE:  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


Page  Ten 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1928 


Eastern  States  Fanners'  Excnange 


IN  ALFALFA  SEED 
SELECTION  IS 
VITAL 


Adapted  Seed  -  Unadapted 
Seed -Selection  Pays 

Your  land  must  be  well-drained. 

Your  seed  bed  must  be  carefully 
prepared — free  from  weeds,  firm 
and  well  mulched. 

Soil  acidity  must  be  corrected. 
Adequate  plant  nutrients  must 
be  provided. 

You  must  also  make  sure  that 
the  seed  you  sow  has  been 
selected  from  winter  -  hardy, 
disease-free  stock,  and  that  you 
provide  it  with  inoculant  which 
will  produce  the  nitrogen-gath- 
ering nodules  so  vital  to  bumper 
crops. 

The  Eastern  States  Farmers' 
Exchange  has  selected  alfalfa 
seed  to  make  good  under  the 
trying  conditions  which  exist  in 
Eastern  States  territory. 

The  Exchange  ships  inoculant 
with  all  alfalfa  seed  and  it  is  in- 
cluded in  the  cost  of  the  seed. 

Make  sure  that  your  alfalfa 
crop  does  not  fail  because  of  un- 
adapted  seed.  Order  Eastern 
States  Certi-Seed  Alfalfa  direct 
or  through  your  local  represen- 
tative. 

Eastern  States  Farmers'  Exchange 

Jt   nan- itock,   non-profit  organization , 
o»»ld  and  controlled  by  thm 
farmers  It  tervwt 

Headquarter.  .  SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 


MILK  REGULATIONS 

(Continued  from  page  three) 

Regulation  No.  6 
All  premises  upon  which  milk  is  proc- 
essed or  handled  and  all  appliances  used 
in  processing  milk  shall  be  so  constructed 
that  they  can  be  easily  cleaned,  and  all 
such  premises  and  appliances  shall  be  kept 
clean. 

Regulation  No.  7 
All  containers  and  receptacles  used  as 
containers  of  milk  shall  be  cleaned  and 
Sterilized,  preferably  with  steam,  anjd 
shall  be  protected  from  contaminating 
conditions  until  used. 

Regulation  No.  8 
No  can,  bottle,  or  other  container  in- 
tended for  use  in  the  distribution  of  milk 
shall  be  filled  with  milk  elsewhere  than 
upon  the  premises  maintained  and 
equipped  for  that  purpose. 


DAIRY  FARM  REGULATIONS 

1.  Milk  or  cream  shall  not  be  shipped 
from  any  dairy  if  there  is  a  case  of  con- 
tagious or  infectious  disease  thereon,  or 
among  the  employees  or  families  thereof, 
and  the  proprietor  or  manager  of  the 
dairy  shall  immediately  report  any  such 
case  to  this  board  of  health,  and  sale  shall 
not  be  resumed  until  authorized  by  the 
board. 

2.  The  location  of  barns  in  which 
milch  cows  are  kept  shall  be  such  as  will 
insure  adequate  drainage,  light,  ventila- 
tion, and  freedom  from  undue  exposure  to 
the  elements  or  undesirable  odors. 

3.  Sections  of  barns  in  which  milch 
cows  are  kept  shall  have  smooth,  tight 
ceilings,  walls,  floors,  and  scuttles.  The 
cow  tie-ups  and  gutters  shall  be  so  con- 
structed as  to  be  easily  cleaned  and  to 
prevent  the  retention  of  urine.  Proper 
stanchions  and  such  tight  bottomed  feed 
troughs  as  can  be  easily  cleaned  shall  be 
provided.  Such  sections  shall  not  con- 
tain a  water  closet  or  privy,  unless  so  con- 
structed and  maintained  as  not  to  pollute 
the  atmosphere  or  contaminate  the  sur- 
roundings. 

4.  Barns  or  sections  thereof  in  which 
milch  cows  are  kept  shall  have  adequate 
direct  fresh  air  ventilation,  ample  air 
space,  and  be  adequately  lighted  by  un- 
obstructed window  glass. 

5.  Barns  or  sections  thereof  in  which 
milch  cows  are  kept  shall  have  the  walls, 
ledges,  and  ceilings  kept  free  from  cob- 
webs and  dust,  and  the  floors  and  lower 
sections  of  the  walls  free  from  manure 
The  walls,  ceilings  and  all  exposed  wood- 
work of  stables  shall  be  whitewashed  at 
least  twice  a  year,  unless  finished  with  a 
surface  that  can  be  easilv  cleaned.  Feed 
troughs,  drinking  cups,  milking  stools,  and 
all  other  equipment  shall  be  kept  clean 
at  all  times.  Any  portion  of  a  buildinar 
opening  directly  into  a  cow  section  shall 
be  kept  clean  and  free  from  dust,  manure, 
or  other  unsanitary  material. 

6.  Cellars  of  barns  in  which  manure  is 
stored  shall  be  adequately  ventilated 
through  to  the  eaves  or  roof.  Such  cellars 
shall  not  be  used  for  the  slaughtering  of 
animals,  or  any  unsanitary  purposes. 

7.  Yards  surrounding  milk  rooms  or 
barns  in  which  milch  cows  are  kept,  shall 
be  free  from  manure,  rubbish,  or  any 
unsanitary  material.  No  manure,  swine, 
open  drain,  or  priw  unless  flv  proof,  shall 
be  located  within  75  feet  of  barn  or  milk 
room. 

8.  Each  dairy  farm  shall  be  provided 
with  a  milk  room,  conveniently  located, 
but  not  opening  directly  from  the  cow 
tie-up.  which  shall  be  provided  with 
smooth,  titrht  ceilinsr.  walls  and  floor,  and 
have  facilities  therein  for  the  proper  rare 
and  storage  of  all  milk  utensils.  Said 
room  and  utensils  to  be  kept  clean  at  all 
times  and  used  for  the  handling  of  milk 
onlv.  Such  room  shall  contain  a  cooling 
tank,  the  floor  area  of  which  shall  be 
twice  as  large  as  the  floor  space  occupied 
hv  the  cans,  and  of  sufficient  depth  for 
thp  water  to  reach  the  neck  of  the  cans. 
The  water  used  in  cooling  shall  be  ade- 
nuately  protected  against  contamination 
from  animals  and  fowl.  If  running  water 
is  used,  the  inlet  and  outlet  must  be  at 
opposite  ends.  When  the  temperature  of 
the  water  is  above  SO  degrees  F..  suf- 
ficient ice  must  be  used  to  insure  prompt 
cooling. 

9  No  horses,  sheen,  cats,  dogs,  or  fowl 
shall  be  kept  in  anv  barn  or  section  there- 
( Continued  on  page  fifteen) 


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Stand  Up  Under 
Punishment 

No  other  pavement  with- 
stands the  attacks  of  the  elements 
and  the  pounding  of  traffic  like 
Concrete. 

Rain,  wind,  heat  and  cold  do 
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and  safe  all  the  year.  And  Con- 
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built  to  carry  the  heaviest  traffic 
indefinitely,  practically  without 
repairs. 

In  many  states  a  steadily  in- 
creasing mileage  of  Concrete 
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Mention  The  New  England  Dairyman 


\uly,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Eleven 


(   VALUE  OF  GOOD  SIRE 

Many  farmers  when  buyi''  a  sire  to 
with  their  dairy  herds  hesitate  at  a 
I  ice  sufficient  to  pay  for  raising  him. 
he  usual  excuse  is,  "I  have  just  a  small 
ird,"  or  "Mine  are  mostly  grades."  He 
'>es  not  want  to  pay  for  any  but  the  most 

dinary  bull. 

In  this  he  is  short-sighted.  The  usual 
rd  numbers  12  to  IS  cows.  A  bull  may 
:  kept  until  his  daughters  are  of  breed- 
g  age.  That  means  that  he  will  sire 
ree  generations  of  offsprings  or  35  to 
calves.  It  is  safe  to  estimate  that  20 
these  will  be  heifers.  Now  if  the  sire 
ed  is  just  the  ordinary  sort  that  can 

I  picked  up  anywhere  at  $50  to  $100,  he 
ill  in  all  probability  improve  his  off- 
rings  very  little  over  their  dams.  In 
ct  there  is  a  good  chance  that  he  may 
ork  the  opposite  of  improvement.  There 

*l-e  many  grade  cows  that  are  better 
ilkers  than  many  registered  cows.  This 
no  disparagement  of  registered  stock, 
is  rather  a  credit  to  grades  that  have 
■en  so  well  bred  that  they  are  certain 
oney  makers.   The  daughters  of  the  bull 

I  ^scribed  above  mated  with  these  cows 
ight  be  no  more  than  equal  to  their 
ms  or  even  inferior  to  them  due  to  the 
-called  cheap  bull. 

,On  the  other  hand,  suppose  that  when 

le  herd  bull  was  purchased,  one  with 
jown  production  on  both  sides  of  his 
digree  had  been  secured.  That  would 
ean  one  that  was  reasonably  certain  to 
insmit  to  his  offspring  a  capacity  for 
eduction  _  inherited  from  progenitors 
hose  ability  along  these  lines  has  been 

imonstrated  beyond  a  doubt. 
At  the  same  time  we  may  suppose  that 

4  will_  transmit  beauty  of  type.    Such  a 

II  will  cost  considerably  more  but  he 
11  be  worth  it.   It  is  not  at  all  unreason- 

.ile  to  expect  the  daughters  of  such  a 
ill  to  yield  40  pounds  more  of  butterfat 
larly,  than  their  dams.   At  current  prices 


that  is  an  increase  of  $16  in  income  per 
year  per  cow.  Those  twenty  heifers  would 
yield  $320  more  each  milking  year,  as 
the  result  of  their  superior  inherited  tend- 
encies. They  should  be  good  for  5  or  6 
years.  The  higher  priced  bull  is  certainly 
much  the  cheaper. 

Too  often  the  male  calves  in  herds  of 
this  size  are  a  drug  on  the  market.  The 
farmer  may  not  be  a  good  salesman.  The 
calves  have  little  to  recommend  them  if 
they  are  sired  by  the  sort  of  a  bull  first 
mentioned.  But  if  they  are  the  sons  of  a 
sire  similar  to  the  second  bull  they  should 
sell  readily  at  a  more  satisfactory  figure. 

Then  there  is  a  third  reason.  The  non- 
descript sire  will  beget  nondescript  off- 
spring in  type  as  well  as  in  production. 
The  dairyman  who  has  such  a  herd  will 
take  little  pride  in  his  stock.  If  he  does 
not  value  his  cows  he  will  soon  become 
half-hearted,  shiftless  and  inefficient.  He 
will  be  a  recruit  for  the  force  who  pro- 
claim dairy  farming  hopelessly  unprofit- 
able drudgrey.  The  bull  whose  first  cost 
was  small  will  be  far  the  more  expensive 
of  the  two  because  of  this  outcome.  The 
cheap  bull  is  likely  to  be  an  expensive 
luxury  in  the  long  run. — H.  E.  Colby  in 
The  Dairy  Farmer. 


It  is  a  notable  fact  that  most  speed 
records  are  made  by  people  who  are  not 
going  anywhere. 


The  superintendent  passed  the  infant 
class  just  as  they  were  all  singing: 
"I  want  to  be  an  angel 

And  with  the  angels  stand, 
A  crown  upon  my  forehead, 
A  harp  within  my  hand." 
"Beautiful,"    said   the  superintendent, 
deeply  moved.  "And  does  every  little  girl 
and  boy  here  want  to  be  an  angel  ?" 
On  which  one  little  girl  said  to  all : 
"I  don't.    I'd  rather  be  a  monkey  and 
swing  by  my  tail." 


Summer  Feeding  Pays 

Dairymen  who  know  say  so 


IftTBMOfte 


16% 
DAIRY 
FEED 

containing  minerals 


is  a  good  feed  -  no  filler.    RICH  IN  CARBOHY- 
DRATES, GOOD  IN  FAT,  AND  LOW  IN  FIBER. 
Look  at  its  analysis. 


Protein  16% 
Carbohydrates  60 


Fat  4fo 
Fiber  8.5^ 


Compare  this  analysis  with  any  others.  Of  course 
analysis  alone  does  not  tell  the  whole  story.  But  if  you 
will  feed  this  Summer  Ration,  your  cows  will  tell  you  a 
wonderful  story— big  summer  yields-  and  they  will  go  to 
the  barn  in  the  fall  in  the  pink  of  condition,  physically 
fitted  for  heavy  winter  milk  production. 

This  means  maximum  production  the  year  through  and— 

Bigger  Profits  for  You 

If  you  have  no  pasturage,  or  when  pasturage  is  short,  feed 

20% 

IRTHMOfte  DAIRY 

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cooler,  which  employs  cold  water 
circulating  under  pressure  through 
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cooler  for  the  dairy.  The  Oriole  is 
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everywhere.  It  is  a  type  of  cooler 
most  easily  kept  clean  and 
sanitary  and  is  genuinely 
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Guaranteed  in  Every  Respect 

The  Oriole  is  guaranteed  with- 
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bronze  throughout  —  everlasting 
metals.  Nothing  can  rust  out; 
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OTiole  Coolers  are  made  of  1%" 
diameter  seamless  copper  tubes 
spaced  so  that  cleaning  between 
them  is  easy.  A  Hip,  formed  into 
the  tubes  when  made,  runs  along 
their  under  side,  providing  a  guide 
for  the  flow  of  milk  from  one  tube  to  the  next.  The 
water  flows  through  these  V-shaped  flanges  as  well  as 
the  balance  of  the  tube  interior  so  that  all  possible  cool- 
ing surface  is  utilized. 

Upper  and  lower  troughs  are  removable  without  use  of 
tools.  Reservoir,  troughs,  and  all  other  parts  have  only 
smooth  round  tinned  surfaces — no  square  corners  hard 
to  keep  clean. 


Specifications 


Size 
A 
B 


Capacity 
Gals.  Hr. 

35 

50 


Ht.  Cooler 
Reservoir 
33" 
33" 


Length 
Overall 
21%" 
Sl%" 


Shipping 
Weight 

70  lbs. 

85  lbs. 


Capacity 
Reservoir 

10  gal. 

10  gal. 


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Page  Twelve 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1928 


NORTHERN  MARKET  DISTRICT 


F.  L.  FOLEY,  Manager 


477  Essex  Street,  Lawrence,  Mass. 


JUNE  PRICF.S  uct  was  discussed.    R.  D.  Webber  and 

iu m  t-t      7n~          qi/  r.i  E.  C.  Ferrin  of  the  Eliot,  Me.,  local,  who 

Manchester,  IN.  hi  /Uc    per  ayi  qt.  can  .            ,         ,       -a    .  '         'c  , 

»r,„,„n    \t    tt          n  <  *V_  c;/  „f   are  also  members  of  the  Portsmouth  hales 

.Nashua,  J\.  ri  /ZAc  per  6V2  qt.  can  A        ...                        .  ,       ,  •        ■  ,, 

t       „  u                ^ q            0'  M.  Committee,  were  present  to  advise  with 

Lowell  Mass.   68c    per  8    q  .  can  members  ^  the  £reenland  Local  as  all 

Lawrence,  Mass  80c    per  10    qt.  can  m     ^       he  Portsmouth  Creamery. 

Haverhill    Mass  64c    per  8    qt.  can  The  g        Committee  placed  be{ore  the 

Concord    N    H  61.2c  per  8/2  qt.  can  meetj      the  advisabilit/o{  an  increase  ;n 

Portland,  Me^            7.6c  per  qt.  ,he  Portsmouth  Market   in  conjunction 

Salem,  Lynn,  Danvers,  with  an  increase  in  the  Boston  and  simi_ 

and  Beverly   64c    per  8     qt.  can  kr  markets  nearby     Wm  R  Wceks  and 

PRICES  Gordon  M.  Hayden  were  re-elected  as 
president  and  secretary. 
During  the  month  of  June  all  of  our  On  Wednesday,  June  20,  two  annual 
markets  in  the  Northern  Market  Dis-  meetings  were  held.  The  Epping,  N.  H., 
trict  retained  the  prices  which  were  in  local  at  Epping  in  the  morning  and  the 
effect  during  the  month  of  May.  The  Exeter,  N.  H.,  local  in  the  evening  in 
amount  of  milk  available  for  sales  in  the  Farm  Bureau  Office  at  Exeter, 
these  markets  did  not  show  any  appreci-  Mathew  Harvey  is  continuing  as  president 
able  increase  over  the  amount  of  milk  and  Lewis  L.  Edgerly  as  secretary  of  the 
available  during  this  period  in  previous  Epping  local,  while  Mitchell  O'Briend  is 
years.  It  was  necessary  to  put  into  the  continuing  as  president  of  the  Exeter 
manufactured  class  a  somewhat  greater  local.  At  these  meetings  the  general  mar- 
amount  of  milk,  due  to  the  very  unseason-  ket  conditions  in  Boston,  as  well  as  in 
able  weather  which  we  have  been  having  markets  in  the  Northern  Market  District, 
in  the  past  month.  This  cold  and  damp  WCre  presented  to  the  producers  by  the 
weather  makes  it  extremely  difficult  to  district  manager. 

move  the  milk  either   in  the   form  of  At  Newington  Town  Hall  and  at  the 

fluid  milk  or  ice  cream  at  the  beach  re-  Stratham  Town  Hall  the  annual  meetings 

sorts  and  other  places  which  normally  0f  the  Portsmouth  and  Stratham  locals 

use  an  increased  amount  during  June  if  were  held.    At  Newington  last  year's  of- 

the  weather  is  fair  and  warm.  fleers  were  elected  to  serve  again.  Chas. 

The  Lowell,  Mass.,  and  Manchester.  W.  Coleman  will  serve  as  president,  and 
N.  H.,  markets  continued  the  8l/2c  base  L.  B.  Paquin  will  serve  as  secretary.  At 
price  for  the  month  of  June,  while  the  Stratham  meeting  the  former  presi- 
Nashua  maintained  a  base  price  of  8%c  dent,  M.  S.  Chase,  as  well  as  the  secre- 
Several  requests  were  received  to  take  into  tary,  Harry  Wiggin,  were  also  elected  to 
consideration  the  advisability  of  a  re-  serve  for  another  year.  At  the  Stratham, 
duction  in  prices  in  both  Lowell  and  N.  H.,  meeting  considerable  interest  was 
Manchester  to  take  effect  June  1st.  After  shown  in  the  method  of  figuring  ratings 
a  careful  investigation  of  conditions  in  both  by  the  Hood  Company  and  producers 
both  of  these  markets,  the  Sales  Commit-  who  are  shipping  to  C.  D.  Glennie  of 
tees  made  recommendations  that  the  Lawrence.  At  this  meeting  also  the  ques- 
prices  which  were  in  effect  during  May.  tion  of  quality  with  respect  to  temperature 
remain  the  same  during  the  month  of  0f  milk  delivered  particularly  was  men- 
June.    These  prices  in  Manchester  and  tioned  bv  the  district  manager. 

Nashua  which  were  above  the  Boston   

Market  were  necessary  in  as  much  as  con-  .  „         T-11->r.^r)  .  -r^r, 

siderable  tuberculin  tested  milk  is  either  RESEARCH  PROGRAM  FOR 

required  at  present  or  going  to  be  re-  DAIRY  INDUSTRY 

quired  in  the  near  future.  ^    ,.  .  f 

Outlining  a  program  of  economic  rc- 
Production  and  Quality  search  for  the  dairy  industry,  F.  A.  Bue- 
The  problem  of  quality  in  production  chel,  Department  of  Agriculture  econo- 
at  this  time  of  year  is  drawing  its  usual  mist,  addressing  the  American  Dairy  Sci- 
attention.  We  have  numerous  cases  ence  Association  at  Madison,  Wisconsin, 
called  to  our  attention  where  milk  is  June  26,  declared  that  the  general  ob- 
either  unusually  low  in  butterfat  content  jective  of  such  a  program  is  to  aid  in  low- 
or  difficulties  are  being  experienced  with  ering  costs  of  production,  adjusting  pro- 
proper  cooling.  In  looking  at  the  ques-  duction  to  present  and  prospective  market 
tion  from  a  market  standpoint  it  is  quite  requirements,  developing  a  more  efficient 
necessary  to  provide  the  party  to  whom  system  of  marketing  and  distribution,  and 
you  are  selling  your  milk  with  as  good  in  expanding  outlets  for  dairy  products, 
a  quality  product  as  it  is  possible  to  make  "Although  the  dairy  industry,"  he  said, 
under  existing  conditions  and  within  rea-  "is  perhaps  the  most  stable  of  all  agri- 
son.  In  regard  to  the  proper  cooling  cultural  enterprises,  periods  of  relative 
of  the  milk,  producers  are  often  some"  prosperity  in  this  industry  as  in  other 
what  tardy  at  this  time  of  the  year  in  agricultural  activities  frequently  contain 
starting  to  use  their  ice.  We  would  like  the  germs  for  their  own  ultimate  undoing, 
to  strongly  urge  all  producers  to  cool  milk  The  relatively  high  prices  which  have  pre- 
as  promptly  and  as  cold  as  possible,  be-  vailed  for  dairy  products  in  this  country 
cause  a  better  quality  product  is  delivered  in  recent  years  will  naturally  tend  to 
to  your  dealer  means  that  he  is  able  to  bring  various  competitive  forces  into 
increase  his  sales  in  the  market,  which  in  play  which  may,  if  not  recognized  and 
turn  is  a  benefit  to  producers  who  are  counteracted,  result  in  an  early  termina- 
shipping  to  him.  tion  of  the  present  favorable  conditions. 

In  regard  to  butterfat  tests  it  seems  that  High  prices  of  dairy  products  in  this 
they  hav  run  much  lower  this  spring  on  country  may  stimulate  excessive  expansion 
the  average  than  usual.  The  reason'  for  of  the  industry ;  it  may  tend  to  reduce  per 
this  is  very  difficult  to  explain,  but  in  so  capita  consumption,  or  it  may  lead  to 
far  as  possible  we  have  complied  with  all  the  importation  of  dairy  products  from 
requests  for  verifications  of  butterfat  other  countries,  especially  if  the  prices  in 
tests.  It  seems,  taking  the  whole  of  the  Europe  should  become  relatively  low." 
territory  into  consideration,  that  there  Mr.  Buechel's  program  of  dairy  re- 
must  be  something,  either  the  weather  or  search  would  include  comprehensive 
quality  of  feed,  which  has  affected  butter-  studies  of  the  economic  history  and  geog- 
fat  tests  this  spring.  raphy  of  the  dairy  industry ;  farm  organ- 
Check  testing  has  been  done  at  Findei-  ization  and  methods  in  dairy  regions ;  the 
sen  Farms  in  Lawrence,  the  Wason-Mac-  physical  movement  of  specific  dairy  prod- 
Donald  Company  in  Haverhill,  the  Hood  ucts  from  areas  of  production  to  centers 
Company  in  Lawrence,  and  the  Hood  consumption;  wholesale  price-making 
Company  in  Manchester.  .  mechanism  for  butter  and  cheese ;  quanti- 
j-  ,  -.f  ,.  tative  analyses  for  determining  and  meas- 
„,  urmg  the  factors  which  influence  the  price 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  Greenland,  and  supply  of  and  the  demand  for  butter, 
IN.  H.,  local  was  held  m  the  schoolhouse  cheese,  fluid  milk  and  concentrated  milk; 
at  Greenland  on  the  evening  of  June  19.  and  qualitative  studies  by  the  survey 
About  20  of  the  producers  were  present.  method  of  consumer  habits  and  prefer- 
The  question  of  the  quality  of  their  prod-  ences  with  respect  to  dairy  products. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Thirteen 


V 


EED    MARKET  SITUATION 

(Continued  from  page  eight) 

The   supply    of    middlings   and  other 
avy  wheat  feeds  has  been  scarcely  equal 
the  continued  active  demand  for  these 
«ds  and  flour  middlings  and  red  dog 
(Tticularly  are  selling  at  relatively  high 
emiums  over  bran  and  standard  mid- 
ings.    Southwestern  mills  were  offering 
orts  for  deferred  shipment  at  substan- 
il  discounts  under  spot  prices,  but  spring 
heat  mills  were  holding  quotations  gen- 
ally  steady.    At  this  writing  standard 
iddlings  are  selling  about  50c  per  ton 
igher  than  at  the  close  of  May,  while 
:-ur  middlings  are  quoted  about  $2  per 
■n  higher  at  the  principal  markets. 
The  market  for  high  protein  feeds  has 
eakened  during  the  past  two  weeks  and 
•ices   have   declined   slightly    for  both 
iseed  meal  and  cottonseed  meal.  The 
eaker  market  situation  may  be  attributed 
lore  to  a  slackened  demand  than  any  in- 
-ease  in  the  supply.    The  production  of 
Lnseed  meal  has  continued  of  moderate 
plume,  according  to  trade  reports.  Both 
Bills  and  resellers  in  eastern  markets  were 
feering    linseed    meal    more  liberally 
jtiward  the  close  of  June,  and  crushers 
['ere  reported  anxious  to  dispose  of  their 
relatively  small  output.    The  slow  de- 
I  land  for  linseed  oil  has  somewhat  re- 
ft ricted  the  production  of  meal  recently, 
Hit  the  output  for  the  season  to  date  has 
■pparently  been  larger  than  last  season, 
|nce  the  production  of  meal  from  Oc- 
bber  to  March  totaled  about  48,000  tons 
aore  than  for  the  same  period  last  year 
hd  the  marketings  of  domestic  flaxseed 
^id  imports  of  foreign  seed  during  the 
nast  two  months  have  been  about  as  large 
Ms  last  season. 

jj  The  supply  of  cottonseed  meal  has  been 
jery  limited  as  a  result  of  the  reduced 
ijpply  of  cottonseed  this  season  and  the 
\ght  crushings  of  meal.    Only  5,460  tons 
If  cottonseed  were  received  at  crushers 
hiring  May,  compared  with  about  56,600 
bns  for  May  last  year.    Only  about  66,- 
i00  tons  of  seed  were  crushed  and  about 
,1,375  tons  of  meal  were  produced.  Ship- 
bents   from  the  crushers  during  May 
btaled  about  56,500  tons,  leaving  slightly 
ess  than  60,000  tons  on  hand  at  crushers 
t  the  first  of  June.    This  compares  with 
53,850  tons  June  1  last  season.  Stocks 
Iff  seed  at  the  mills  amounted  to  only 
[bout  52,500  tons,  whereas  last  year  mills 
i\ad  about  173,500  tons  of  seed  on  hand  at 
he  first  of  June.   It  is  therefore  apparent 
I  hat  offerings  of  cottonseed  meal  will  be 
i  nuch  smaller  than  last  year  during  the 
;emainder  of  the  season.  Notwithstanding 
he  small  supply,  however,  demand  has 
alien  off,  with  buyers  apparently  unwill- 
ing to  purchase  except  in  a  small  way  at 
:urrent  quotations.    Prices  were  reduced 
|Sl-2  per  ton  at  the  principal  markets 
luring  the  past  two  weeks,  but  in  many 
nstances  quotations  are  only  nominal. 

The  gluten  feed  market  continues  firm 
I  lotwithstanding  the  decline  in  corn  prices. 
J  reduction  has  continued  large,  according 
J;o  trade  reports,  but  there  is  still  prac- 
j  ically  no  accumulation  of  stocks.  Mills 
Lire  reported  to  be  offering  more  liberally 
P'or  July  and  August  shipment  but  feed 
''or  immediate  delivery  appears  to  be 
principally  in  the  hands  of  resellers  who 
ire  offering  their  holdings  at  about  $1.50 
per  ton  premium  over  manufacturers' 
luotations.  Prices  of  gluten  meal  were 
owered  sharply  at  Chicago  during  the 
'week  ending  June  21  and  this  feed  for 
ifuly  shipment  was  quoted  at  $55.70  and 
,;or  August  and  September  shipment  at 
j  ibout  $55.20  per  ton. 
P  Hominy  feed  has  continued  in  good  de- 
jmand  during  the  past  few  weeks,  but  the 
1  narket  has  declined  $1-2  per  ton  influ- 
enced in  part  by  the  lower  corn  prices  At 
rBuffalo  yellow  hominy  feed  continues 
^scarce  but  white  feed  appears  to  be 
i  plentiful  with  some  mills  reported  in  need 
i  }f  shipping  instructions. 
I  The  alfalfa  meal  market  has  declined 
l  several  dollars  per  ton  at  some  points  as 
la  result  of  increased  offerings  of  new 
i  :rop  meal  at  lower  prices  than  those  pre- 
vailing for  old  crop  meal.  Rainy  weather, 
■  however,  has  retarded  shipment  of  new 
i  crop  meal  and  at  this  writing  the  market 
!  for  old  alfalfa  meal  is  firm  with  the 
supply  limited.  The  slow  arrival  of  new 
meal  has  forced  some  buyers  into  the  open 
Imarket  for  sunplies,  which  has  created  a 
[more  active  demand  for  the  limited  offer- 
ings or  old  meal. 


QUOTATIONS  ON  IMPORTANT  FKKDS TUFFS  IN  (  ARI.n'l.\  Jl  NF.  21,  192 


Soft  Winter  Bran   

Hard  Winter  Bran   

Stand.  Sprg.  Midds  

Soft  Winter  Midds  

Gray  Shorts   

Linseed  Meal  34%   

C.  S.  Meal  43%   

Alfalfa  Meal  No.  1  .... 

Gluten  Feed   

White  Hominy  Feed  .... 

Digester  Tankage   

Dried  Beet  Pulp   


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Minne- 

Chicago 

Cin- 

Kansas 

mil  ilwl 

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apolis 

cinnati 

St.  Louis 

(  Jmaha 

City 

June  21 

May  23 

37.00 

33.00 

30.00 

32.50 

33.15 

36.90 

36.50 

30.00 

32.25 

29.50 

33.55 

38.00 

37.50 

35.50 

32.50 

35.50 

31.75 

30.25 

29.50 

33.20 

36.15 

43.00 

38.00 

36.00 

38.50 

38.85 

40  10 

46.50 

47.00 

44.50 

42.00 

45.00 

43.75 

49.25 

46.00 

43.50 

41.50 

41.50 

44.35 

39.75 

56.25 

52.00 

51.50 

53.25 

55.50 

54.50 

56.00 

55.80 

54.35 

55.30 

69.00 

68.00 

67.00 

65.00 

65.00 

65.00 

65.00 

63.50 

65.95 

68.40 

30.50 

31.00 

28.50 

33.00 

30.75 

36.00 

47.75 

44.60 

41.90 

38.70 

41.10 

42.80 

42.80 

45.25 

43.50 

42.00 

42.50 

40.00 

39.00 

42.05 

44.20 

70.00 

70.00 

70.00 

70.00 

70.00 

70.00 

70.00 

STANDARD   OIL  COMPANY  OF   NEW  YORK 


SOCONY  MOTOR  OIL 
IS  CONSTANTLY 
ADAPTED  TO  MEET 
NEW  ENGINE  NEEDS 


'£ood  morning,  motor' 


CC  s^y  OOD  MORNING,  ma'am.  I  see 
VJ  you've  loaded  in  everything 
but  the  kitchen  stove — guess  we  are 
headed  for  the  Farm.  Too  bad  the 
boss  isn't  going.  No  offense,  but  I  al- 
ways feel  easier  on  a  300  mile  trip  if 
he  is  along  to  keep  track  of  oil  and 
water.  By  the  way,  if  I  were  you,  I 
would  drive  over  to  the  garage  now 
and  let  them  change  my  oil.  It's 
pretty  thin  and  dirty.  Only  take  a 
few  minutes  and  I'll  run  more  smooth- 
ly all  day.  Remember  that  I  turn  over 
2000  times  a  minute — 33  times  a 
second.  If  it  wasn't  for  a  protecting 
film  of  oil,  my  bearings  would  burn 
out  in  a  few  minutes.  Bad  oil  can't 
stand  the  heat,  gums  up  bearings  and 
gives  me  indigestion.  And  say,  I  know 
you  won't  think  I  am  rude  if  I  suggest 
that  you  buy  good  gas  this  trip.  Last 
time  you  picked  up  ten  gallons  along 
the  way,  at  a  bargain,  which  pretty 
nearly  did  me  in.  I  was  panting  like  a 
truck  in  an  excavation  towards  the 
end.  I  really  am  a  delicate  and  nicely 
adjusted  bit  of  machinery  and  I  need 
good  gas  and  oil." 


WHEN  the  new  Ford  was  announced,  Socony 
was  ready  with  the  proper  lubricating  oil 
for  it. 

When  the  new  high  compression  motors  were 
planned,  Socony  was  ready  again. 

Greater  speed,  higher  compression  and  thermo- 
static control  of  the  cooling  system  tend  to 
increase  motor  temperature.  Socony's  Labora- 
tories adapted  Socony  Motor  Oil  to  meet  these 
new  needs. 

You  are  not  interested  in  "'viscosity"  or  "flash 
points."  You  arc  interested  in  the  fact  that 
Socony  Motor  Oil  is  tested  13  times;  that  54 
years  of  refining  experience  stand  behind  it,  and 
that  whenever  a  new  automotive  development 
creates  a  new  lubricating  problem,  this  company 
will  have  a  motor  oil  to  meet  it. 

Standardize  on  Socony,  and  change  your  motor 
oil  every  .500  miles. 

Thunder  in  the  Rear? 

You  will  never  hear  thunder  in  the  differential 
if  you  will  have  it  flushed  out  and  filled  with 
new  lubricant  twice  a  year.  Do  the  same  thing 
with  your  transmission.  Socony  Transmission 
Lubricant  and  Gear  Oil  cost  little.  New  gears 
cost  a  lot. 


STANDARD   OIL  COMPANY  OF   NEW  YORK 


Page  Fourteen 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


July,  1928 


JUNE  PRICES 

Springfield  $°°85 

(Price  as  announced  but  not  being  paid) 

Worcester    -jgj 

Holyoke   

Northampton   

Westfield  m 

Springfield 
During  the  last  three  or  four  years  the 
milk  supply  for  Springfield  has  expanded, 
so  that  now  it  covers  an  area  of  a .forty- 
mile  radius  around  Springfield  Due  to 
Sis  it  has  been  impossible  for  the  district 
manager  and  Mr.  Brown,  assistant  man- 
aeer  of  the  NEMPA,  to  cover  all  the 
shipping  territory  in  time  to  hold  our  mar- 
keting association  meeting  during  the 
month  of  June.  As  it  stands  now,  we  hope 
to  hold  this  meeting  just  as  soon  as  the 
Springfield  milk  supply  is  thoroughly  cov- 

"About  15  producers  met  at  the  Hard- 
wick,  Mass.,  Town  Hall,  on  Friday  eve- 
ning May  25.  Assistant  Manager  F 
Leon  Brown  gave  a  very  interesting  talk 
on  his  work  as  former  manager  of  the 
Northern  Market  District,  which  was 
followed  by  a  round  table  discussion.  Pro- 
ducers in  this  local  are  certainly  inter- 
ested n  the  efforts  being  made  to  improve 
the  Springfield  market.  .Delegates  ap- 
pointed* to  attend  the  Springfield  Market 
Association  meeting,  O  A.  Futile Ernest 
Ritter,   H.   R.   Thresher   and  Anthony 

StOnlUMay  24  a  meeting  was  held  at 
Feeding  Mills.  It  was  a  very  rainy  night 
and  but  a  few  producers  attended.  Those 
that  did  attend  were  very  much  interested 
in  the  Springfield  situation.  Mr.  Brown 
was  present  with  the  district  manager 
Delegates  appointed  were  A.  W.  iaylor 
and  Lee  L.  Jenks. 

Practically  all  the  men  attending  the 
Huntington  meeting  on  May  31  were 
patrons  of  the  United  Dairy  System, 
which  is  the  main  buyer  in  this  section. 
The  discussion  centered  on  prices  paid  by 
Springfield  dealers  during  the  past  year 
and  the  advantage  of  putting  the  market 
onto  a  supervised  known  price. 

On  Friday,  June  1,  about  twenty  pro- 
ducers met  at  the  Hampden  Town  Hall. 
P  A.  Campbell,  manager  of  the  Hamp- 
den Improvement  League,  Assistant  Man- 
ager of  the  NEMPA  Brown  and  the 
district  manager  were  the  speakers.  All 
present  showed  a  spirit  and  willingness 
to  back  an  organized  committee  in  ob- 
taining a  fair  and  reasonable  price  for 
their  milk.  Delegates  elected  to  attend 
the  Springfield  Marketing  Association 
meeting  were  as  follows:  Chas.  Worth- 
ington,  of  Somers,  Conn.,  and  Louis 
Fisher,  of  Hampden,  Mass. 

On  Saturday,  June  9,  General  Manager 
W.  P.  Davis,  Assistant  Manager  Brown 
and  the  district  manager  met  with  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  United  Dairy 
Svstem,  Inc.,  to  discuss  with  them  the 
advantages  cf  the  United  Dairy  System 
adopting  a  supervised  price  in  making 
payments  to  their  producers.  Ihc  Exec- 
utive Committee  agreed  to  bring  the 
question  up  at  their  next  directors'  meet- 
ing. The  amount  of  milk  sold  in  the 
Springfield  and  Holyoke  markets  by  the 
United  Dairv  System  is  of  such  size  that 
adoption  iy  "them  of  this  method  of  pay- 
ing for  their  products,  would  be  of  tre- 
mendous help  in  placing  the  entire  market 
on  a  known  supervised  price  basis. 

Worcester 

Due  to  the  very  unfavorable  sales 
weather,  and  very  favorable  weather  for 
production,  this  market  has  suffered  from 
a  considerable  amount  of  surplus.  How- 
ever, with  favorable  weather  the  market 
would  very  quickly  clean  up. 

It  is  the  general  sentiment  throughout 
Worcester  County  that  this  market  should 
be  advanced  at  the  same  time  as  Boston 
advances.  Because  of  the  new  health 
regulations,  winch  are  practically  the 
same  as  those  required  by  Boston,  and 
because  costs  of  producing  milk  are  as 


much  or  more,  producers  feel  that  it  is 
only  reasonable  for  their  price  to  ad- 
vance with  Boston. 

Local  Meetings 

J  une  4,  at  Spencer  s  new  Town  Hall, 
about  2o  producers  met  to  hear  Ueorge 
U.  Meiican,  the  Worcester  Milk  Inspec- 
tor, talk  on  the  new  neaith  regulations, 
tjeo.  Mory  gave  a  very  interesting  talk  on 
ways  ol  decreasing  production  costs  and 
tne  district  manager  spoke  on  tne 
Worcester  market. 

Aitnough  it  rained  hard  about  30  pro- 
ducers were  on  hand  at  tne  iNortn  tfrook- 
neid  meeting  on  iuesday  evening,  June 
d,  at  trie  Orange  Hall.  Walter  inaw,  ot 
tne  Worcester  County  Extension  Service, 
explained  some  of  the  points  pertaining  to 
the  new  board  of  health  regulations.  K 
.Leon  Brown,  assistant  manager  ot  the 
wtMfA,  spoke  on  some  ol  the  important 
points  ol  securing  a  stable  market,  and 
uie  district  manager  spoke  on  some  of  the 
problems  of  the  Worcester  market,  the 
spirit  ol  this  local's  producers  reflects  the 
good  work  that  has  been  done  by  A.  U. 
urise,  and  by  President  John  Connelly 
and  Secretary  Leon  Adams.  A  few  more 
locals  like  North  Brookheld  would  put 
the  Worcester  market  on  as  good  a  basis 
as  any  in  New  England. 

Through  the  courtesy  of  the  station 
agent  ot  the  Boston  &  Albany  Railroad 
at  Barre  Plains  a  meeting  was  held  at  this 
place  on  Wednesday  evening,  June  6.  Cliff 
Walcutt  presided  with  his  customary 
vigor  and  enthusiasm.  Assistant  Manager 
Brown  spoke  on  general  New  England 
conditions  and  their  bearing  on  the  local 
market.  The  district  manager  spoke  on 
the  Worcester  market,  and  the  necessity 
of  having  the  individual  producer  place 
the  selling  of  his  milk  in  the  hands  of  the 
committee-man,  Mr.  O'Donnell.  The 
meeting  voted  to  back  their  Sales  Com- 
mittee in  an  advance  of  one  cent  per 
quart  when  the  Boston  market  advances. 

Fifty  producers  at  a  Sutton  meeting  is 
a  record,  but  some  counted  more  than  this 
number  at  our  meeting  held  in  the  Town 
Hall  on  Thursday  evening,  June  7.  The 
speakers  were  Walter  Shaw  of  the 
Worcester  County  Extension  Service, 
who  spoke  on  the  new  health  regulations 
required,  and  Assistant  Manager  Brown, 
who  discussed  some  of  the  general  mar- 
keting principles  and  urged  that  Worcester 
adopt  this  policy  of  following  Boston  on 
price  changes.  The  district  manager  spoke 
on  the  Worcester  market  conditions.  By 
a  unanimous  vote  the  meeting  went  on 
record  to  stand  behind  the  Sales  Commit- 
tee in  making  an  advance  when  the  price 
advances  in  Boston.  The  following  of- 
ficers were  elected:  President,  Geo.  H. 
Dodge;  secretary,  Herman  Harringa. 

Wednesday. evening,  June  13,  a  very  in- 
teresting meeting  was  held  at  the  Shrews- 
bury Town  Hall.  Assistant  Manager 
Brown  discussed  some  of  the  principles  of 
marketing  and  the  district  manager  spoke 
on  Worcester  conditions  and  of  some  of 
the  progress  that  has  been  made.  Geo.  F. 
Story,  who  came  a  little  late,  made  up  for 
his  tardiness  by  giving  a  fine  enthusiastic 
talk  on  the  value  of  co-operation  among 
milk  producers.  Harry  J.  Harlow  was 
elected  president  and  Harvey  Friars  was 
elected  to  serve  as  secretary.  The  at- 
tendance of  the  local  meetings  held 
around  Worcester  is  very  encouraging  to 
the  district  manager,  for,  where  we  for- 
merly had  only  five  or  six  present,  we 
have  noticed  at  this  last  series  of  meet- 
ings that  attendance  has  been  from  25  to 
30,  which  shows  that  the  interest  of  pro- 
ducers has  increased  rapidly  during  the 
last  18  months. 

A  meeting  was  held  by  the  Worcester 
Sales  Committee  on  June  14,  for  two  rea- 
sons :  First,  to  lay  before  the  dealers 
briefly  the  fact  that  the  feeling  through- 
out the  Worcester  County  was  that  the 
Worcester  market  should  advance  one 
cent  with  the  Boston  market. 

After  briefly  discussing  this  with  the 
dealers  they  were  asked  to  adjourn  and 


Trustworthy 


The  advertisements  in  this  publica- 
tion are  trustworthy  for  two  main 
reasons.  First,  no  advertiser  can  af- 
ford to  make  any  statement  that  is 
not  strictly  truthful  in  letter  and  in 
spirit.  Even  if  he  were  not  naturally 
honest,  the  risk  would  be  too  great 
to  be  otherwise.  He  might  fool  you 
once — but  it  is  upon  your  continued 
patronage  that  he  depends. 

Second,  the  publishers  scrutinize 
carefully  every  line  of  advertising 
that  appears  in  these  columns.  We 
must  know  beforehand  that  the 
goods  are  as  represented.  It  is  some- 
thing like  the  policy  of  stopping  all 
incoming  ships  at  Quarantine.  The 
advertisements  must  show  a  clean 
bill-of -health  before  they  can  come  in. 

Therefore,  read  the  advertise- 
ments with  assurance  of  the  sincerity 
of  their  purpose,  the  genuineness  of 
their  claims.  Make  it  a  habit  to  read 
all  the  advertisements  of  every  issue 
— the  little  ones  as  well  as  the  big 
ones.  That  is  the  way  to  buy  goods 
intelligently  and  profitably. 


Advertisements  are  sign-posts  along 
the  Road  to  Value.  Heed  them! 


j  July,  1928 


NEW  ENGLAND  DAIRYMAN 


Page  Fifteen 


the  Sales  Committee  took  up  the  discus- 
sion of  a  rating  plan  for  the  purchasing 

4 of  nearby  milk  by  those  dealers  who  are 
carrying  surplus  either  all  or  part  of  the 

jt  year. 

Holyoke 

It  had  been  the  hope  of  the  Holyoke 
\  Sales  Committee  to  advance  the  market 
before  July  1.  Weather  conditions,  how- 
ever, have  been  such  as  to  make  this 
impossible.  It  is  the  intention  of  the  com- 
mittee, however,  to  make  an  advance  in 
t  the  market  just  as  soon  as  conditions 
make  it  possible  to  do  so. 

Organisation  Work 

At  the  Sutton  meeting  three  new  mem- 
bers were  signed  up  as  members  of  the 
)  association. 

A  day  spent  in  Southampton  resulted 
in  six  new  members  and  one  old  member 
signing  dues  orders  upon  their  dealer. 

Within  three  days  three 'of  the  new 
members  who  joined  the  association  were 
dropped,  because  their  dealer  had  an  over 
supply  of  milk.  One  of  them  called  the 
district  manager  and  through  a  little  co- 
operated effort  a  better  market  was  found 
for  their  milk  than  they  had  previously. 

At  Sterling  several  old  members  signed 
dues  orders  when  visited  by  the  district 
manager  and  Mr.  Rugg.  Mr.  Rugg  in- 
herited from  his  father  an  interest  in  the 
milk  problems  and  has  been  an  enthusias- 
tic supporter  of  the  NEMPA. 

Twelve  producers  who  are  members  of 
the  Hardwick  local  signed  orders  on  the 
dealers  to  whom  they  are  now  shipping. 

it  is  the  plan  of  the  district  manager 
to  devote  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
next  month  in  a  membership  canvass  of 
the  Springfield  territory. 


MILK  REGULATIONS 

(Continued  from  page  ten) 

of  in  which  milch  cows  are  kept  or  in  any 
compartment  used  for  the  handling  of 
milk,  unless  separated  by  a  tight  partition 
with  no  entrance  into  the  cow  section  or 
compartment  used  in  handling  milk. 
Calves  shall  not  be  kept  in  cow  tie-ups 
unless  properly  segregated. 

10.  Milch  cows  shall  be  free  from 
tuberculosis  and  from  disease  or  infec- 
tion dangerous  to  the  public  health.  No 
milk  shall  be  shipped  from  a  cow  within 
fifteen  days  before  or  at  least  five  days 
after  parturition. 

11.  Milch  cows  shall  be  kept  clean  at 
all  times.  Their  teats  shall  be  washed  or 
be  wiped  with  a  clean  cloth  immediately 
before  each  milking,  and  they  shall  be 
milked  with  clean  dry  hands  or  a  clean 
milking  machine.  Such  animals  shall  not 
be  bedded  with  sand,  horse  manure,  or  any 
unsanitary  materials. 

12.  Milk,  as  soon  as  it  has  been  drawn 
from  the  cow,  shall  be  strained  in  a  clean 
room  or  compartment  apart  from  the  sec- 
tion in  which  animals  are  kept,  and  im- 
mediately cooled  to  a  temperature  of  50 
degrees  F.  or  less,  and  so  held  until 
shipped. 

13.  Milch  cows  shall  not  be  fed  with 
garbage  or  decomposed  feeds. 

14.  Separators,  if  located  other  than  in 
milk  rooms,  shall  be  operated  in  a  room 
or  compartment  apart  from  the  barn, 
kitchen,  or  other  room  used  for  domestic 
purposes,  and  which  is  not  susceptible  to 
contamination  by  animals,  fowl,  impure 
air,  dust,  personal  contact,  or  other 
sources,  or  which  is  not  kept  constantly 
clean. 

15.  All  milk  contact  parts  of  milking 
machines,  separators,  milk  containers,  and 
all  milk  utensils  shall  be  cleaned  and 
scalded  or  chemically  sterilized  after  each 
use  thereof,  and  protected  from  flies,  dust, 
handling  or  other  contaminating  in- 
fluences until  again  used. 

16.  All  milk  intended  for  distribution 
in  liquid  form  shall,  after  its  final  pro- 
cessing, be  kept  at  a  temperature  of  not 
more  than  50  degrees  F.,  until  it  is  de- 
livered to  the  consumer.  All  such  milk, 
during  its  transportation  from  farms  and 
receiving  stations,  or  during  its  storage, 
prior  to  its  final  processing,  shall  be  pro- 
tected from  freezing,  and  sufficiently  iced, 
covered,  or  otherwise  cared  for  at  other 
times  as  to  prevent  undue  rise  in  tempera- 
ture. 

_  17.  All  coverings  used  in  the  transporta- 
tion of  milk  shall  be  kept  clean  at  all 
times  and  used  for  no  other  purpose.  All 
vehicles  used  in  the  transportation  of  milk 
shall  be  kept  clean  during  such  use  there- 
of. 


18.  No  milk  shall  be  transported  in  a 
dirty  or  rusty  container,  or  in  a  con- 
tainer with  a  cover  which  is  dirty,  rusty 
or  punctured. 


RECOMMENDATIONS    OF  COM- 
MITTEE ON  REVISION  OF 
DAIRY  LAWS 

1.  All  licenses  and  registrations  issued 
governing  dairy  products  and  imitation 
dairy  products  shall  remain  in  force  until 
April  30  following  date  of  issue. 

2.  Milk    licenses  ,  and  oleomargarine 


registrations  shall  Ik  $1.(X),  and  ice  cream 
plant  licenses  shall  be  $5.00. 

3.  All  licenses,  registrations  and  per- 
mits shall  be  issued  by  the  Inspector  of 
Milk  in  Towns  and  Cities  having  same. 
Otherwise  by  Hoard  of  Health. 

4.  All  Grade  A  Milk  Regulations  and 
requirements  shall  be  uniform. 

5.  Amend  Section  37,  last  line,  to  read 
as  follows  :  "For  milk  solids  or  milk  fats 
prosecution  may  follow." 

6.  Change  Section  40  to  read,  "On  each 
outer  side  of  each  vehicle." 

7.  Change  Section  48,  second  last  line. 


to  read  as  follows :  "And  containing,  or 
having  been  contaminated  by  any  offal, 
swill,  etc." 

8.  Replace  in  the  laws,  rights  of  Milk 
Inspector  to  take  sample  outside  of  his 
own  City  or  Town. 

9.  Heating  milk  previous  to  pasteuriza- 
tion be  prohibited  by  the  passage  of  a  law 
substantially  in  accordance  with  Senate 
Bill  No.  176  of  the  year  1928. 

10.  Chapter  180,  Section  24,  to  be 
amended  to  include  "and  inspection  or 
supervision  by  local  Milk  Inspectors." 
(Open  for  discussion). 


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No  other  method  of  milking  cows  can  equal  the  De  Laval  Milker 


U  N  H  Amy,  purebred  Holstein 
owned  by  the  University  of  New 
Hampshire,  wko  recently  estab- 
lished a  new  world's  record  as 
a  Junior  two-year-old  in  Class  B 


by  producing  19,954.3  pounds  o 
milk  and  1013  pounds  of  butter 
She  was  milked  during  her  en 
tire  test  period  with  the  De  Lava 
Milker. 


University  of  New  Hampshire  Cow  Makes  New 
World's  Record  with  De  Laval  Milker 


"DECENTLY  another  cow  was  added  to  the  rapidly  growing  list 
of  champions  who  have  made  their  records  with  De  Laval 
milking.  This  cow  is  U  N  H  Amy,  a  purebred  Holstein,  bred  and 
owned  by  the  University  of  New  Hampshire,  who  established  a 
new  record  as  a  Junior  two-year-old,  Class  B,  three  milkings  daily, 
by  producing  19,954.3  lbs.  of  milk  and  1013  lbs.  of  butter.  Truly  a 
remarkable  record  and  one  of  which  the  State  of  New  Hampshire 
may  well  be  proud. 

While  the  purebred  herd  at  the  University  of  New  Hampshire 
is  comparatively  small,  they  have  some  remarkable  individuals  of 
all  breeds,  all  of  which  are  milked  with  the  De  Laval. 

Professor  J.  M.  Fuller,  head  of  the  Department  of  Dairy  Hus- 
bandry at  the  University  of  New  Hampshire,  writes  in  part,  "Our 
highest  records  have  been  made  with  machine  milking.  For  ex- 
ample, at  the  time  Amy  was  on  test  we  were  running  Belle,  Paw- 
huska,  Betty,  Marie  and  Poppy.  These  finished  with  records  rang- 
ing from  15,939  lbs.  of  milk  for  Poppy  to  24,091  lbs.  for  Pawhuska. 
This  is  sufficient  to  vindicate  my  belief  in  machine  milking. 

"We  use  the  machine  because  it  saves  energy  on  the  part 
of  the  men  who  must  do  their  stunt  twice  daily  for  365  days  in 
the  year,  because  it  is  a  guarantee  against  sudden  labor  shortage, 
because  it  saves  time,  and  because  it  is  possible  to  produce  a  qual- 
ity of  milk  beyond  reasonable  criti- 
cism.   Faculty,  students  and  towns- 
people get  milk  that  ranges  under 
certified  standard,  the  usual  bac- 
terial count  for  milk  delivered  at 
the  rear  porch  of  the  ultimate  con- 
sumer running  around  5000  per  c.c." 

In  hundreds  of  cases  such  as 
this  the  De  Laval  Milker  has  proven 
that  as  a  method  of  milking  it  has 
no  equal. 

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enables  users  of  the  De  Laval 
Milker  to  have  on  hand  a  supply  of 
hot  water  for  cleaning  the  milker  im- 
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has  been  concluded.  In  the  produc- 
tion of  low  count  milk  it  is  necessary 
to  have  hot  water  on  hand  immedi- 
ately after  milking.  With  the  Alpha 
Exhaust  Water  Heater  this  is  easy, 
for  the  water  is  heated  during  the 
milking  process,  does  not  have  to  be 
carried  far,  the  engine  necessarily 
being  close  to  where  the  milking  is 
done,  and  there  is  no  extra  cost  for 
fuel  consumed  in  heating  the  water. 

Everywhere  used,  the  heater  has 
been  extremely  successful  in  enabling 
the  production  of  cleaner  milk  with 
greater  ease.  It  is  scienti6cally  de- 
signed, causes  absolutely  no  back 
pressure  on  the  engine,  and  heats 
the  water  satisfactorily.  This  Ex- 
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