Litchfield enquirer., 1870-02-03

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 duce. before Aprik as much
 J more milk as they have pro- duced in the past 35 days. fg
 ~ Wn''n aea VIII s"na" make .ilas < l6o, 8 .Ig ael1 I4sa .ssaoa basIsaI Y sI :Sl.7O4. Il
 This is for Il S kS months. If Mr. 1eayit,
 could have got his spring ready s8 8ass tt
 have sent milk from April 1st instead 70 April 10th, he would have got3 over i$1O( l for the milk of each COW. I can safely say
 this because paid him for the first l4 day.
 than he did send mil. 7s s64S( lThisa amounta added to itheesq '.
 Tss 'ss r GOV. one year, slea $ ss' Q
 s It was thought at first that milk could 'tnot be safely transported from Pittsfeld to
 New York. but experience proves that milk
 can be transported from Pittsfieid to Ne@
 York, with equally asg good success as from any other point on the road. < Farmers at
 Pittsheld did not get to sending early iu spring, therefore l cannot give correct fstatements from that station, but T will say l that H. A. Barton, ID. Spragne and others have sent milk all through the hot weather
 of last summer with almost perfect success The largest dairy now on the road is sen
 by W. Fl. Bronch of Pittsfeld, who sends
 10 cans of 40 quarts each per day.
 Rev. B. l.. Wells, of Pittsfeld, commenc. ed sending milk to New York, May 10th, l 1869, but he was interrupted by the failure of his spring. therefore cannot get a fair statement from him the past season. But
 as he has made liberal outfit and good preparations for stabling and feeding COWS in summer as we'll as in winter. i am look ing to him for demonstration of the prof itabieness Or profitabieness of feeding COWS in summer to produce milk for New
 York market I think, it twill s pay. We will ascertain from him next summer.
 1 submit the above statements to the farmers of the Honsatonic Valley, hoping they, will investigate for themselves and see if this producing ofmilk for New York market is not the most profitable branch of farming that can be entered into along
 this valley; I am. quite sure that it is. How can you farm it any easier than to keep you do to get as quick and regular return y as to sell milk 2.fI We pay every 14 days for all milk shipped to us and I suppose that others do the same.G If you make butte r you cannot get. it into money as quick aas this. If you make cheese. it will take you from four to nine months to get it into ] money. Truly there is nothing you can do that will bring you as quick returns in ] money as producing milk for; market, and if you make butter and cheese, you make slaves of your wives and daughters, and
 unless you have uncommonly good tenn pered wives. they will sometimes fret and scold little and would not sblameT them
 if they did scoid, if yoa kept them tuggirg away at butter and cheese whom you can
 better sell the milk and save their strength and pauence and get more money. I yen- ture to say that within i've years this milk enterprise willhase revolutfonized this val t6ys nt woI swo3f f2 uei!aam uC4 {
 The staple production will be milk pre- pared for New York market. I am happy to say that every thing looks encouraging. We have nothing to fear if we go an inJ5a systematic way, although have Received several letters full of anxiety and, fear in reference to the success of their milk bus iness. They say, "what does it mean that milk is sent back at this time of the year? is the market glutted? can't all the milk be sold in New York that we are now sending 1 was calculating to get more cows and go into 1t more extensively, and ny neigh bors were calculating to send milk soon, but VIC find that milk has been sent back all along the road; can we tell us what we had better do?" have had letters and questions as ahoye about every day since Jan. 1st, 1870. but they are all very easily & SaS, L. Al about this matter. it twill all come out right and 80 on prospeaously. Cummings & Eaton have not sent back single can of milk; we sell all the milk that is shipped to us, but we look out to get our custom CTS for milk before we take on the milk and this is the only safe way, because you cannot keep milk on hand great while to look up customers for it utter it is in New York. This milk business wants to be managed properly as well as any other business, and, with proper management,
 ten times the amount Of milk now shipped | over the road could not glut the New York market. .s8asfusCg ~.
 Do not haye, any fears, New, York ccity increases foster than the increase of milk over all the roads now taking milk to New York. Send good milk, send it every day
 and send uniform quantity, and, it will
 always find a market. ' QeI
 Rut If, when milk is scarce and cati be sold on speculation, ,fas it was last October and November, you pnt your milk into the 1 hands of speculators, you will get it thrown ] back upon you when milk gets plenty.
 This is natural result; speculations al- l ways have their ups and downs. The. off cers of the road are sparing no pains to perfect the transportation of the milk to
 New York and thereturn ofsempty cans. Every reasonable help is offered by the railroad dvcompany, pand now it remains
 with the farmers, Do you. want to make Q permanent thing of this milk busin ess :? Do you want 'toamake a profitable business
 oft? If you do. then manage it, on good
 common sense principles. If you, have a good and reliable customer taking your mnkg help him if you can; try to do well tby him; in as sWords do honorablyTby him.
 Don't sell your milk away, from him If a I speculator offers you E a cent quart more than, you are getting This has been fdone to soIde extent on thissroad, and any
 man who does this will find, that i it will
 come back on him to his injury, and dam age the reputation of the farmer and Q the I blasinese on the road. lINtIossall lt6ok well