Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-22
The Milk Question.

- NEW LEBANON, N. Y, June 20, 1871.
y Editor Rutland Herald In my lie,
- ter to you of the 7th inst, giving you tn
, statistics Of the milk sent to New Yor
!, for the last half of May, I expressed tn
opinion that if proper care had been use
in curing the milk by the few who ha
twenty per cent. sour, that there was n
good reason why their average per cent
age should not have been as small a
those whs sent the greater number o
cans in good order. I have the satisfac
ton of knowing that the prediction i
A being fulilled-half of the eight hav
D learned the trade and send good average
milk. I now have before me the report
j. of Cummings, Baker 81 Co., of sales fo
e the first half of June, and find that TWEEN
ty-seyen diaries, sending 1902 cans, were
all sweet that of fourteen dairies, send
: ing 433 cans, only 81 were not sweet, an6
= five diaries, sending 273, had Sc sour
. That of the twenty-seven six were new
, beginners, of the fourteen three were
new.
This shows that forty-one farmers have
e sent 1926 cans with only 81 cans not
sweet, or only two per cent. venture to
say is it as good a show as any other road
can make-and it is highly creditable to
the dairymen that they have so soon
learned how to care for their milk. /
doubt if any enterprise of the kind has
ever attained so favorable result in so
short time.
Having demonstrated that milk can be
sent to New York with safety if proper
care is used in preparing it, the next
thing to be looked at is the prospect Of
a steady market, and how much that mar
ket will take. Now for the facts upon
which I base the opinion that there is a
market for all we can send. For the
year ending June 80, 1861, the Erie road
carried into New York daily average of
1926 cans; the Harlem, daily average
of 1888 cans; the other roads about 500,
making the daily supply two years ago
for the city, brought in by railroad, about
over 5000 cans, the Harlem nearly 5000,
the New Haven about 1,400, and the
other roads perhaps thousand more,
making the daily supply, by railroad, q
little over 10000 cans.
This shows that for ten years the aver.
age increase has been just about ten per
cent, and so long as New York and
Brooklyn, and their surroundings, con-
tinue to grow, the demand will keep
pace; and, in addition to this, if our
dairymen will continue honest, the su.
perior quality of their milk will gradual
ly crowd the swill milk out of market.
A demand for ten per cent. increase
per year, calls for an additional thousand
cans, making 1900; the second year
1900, the third year 1880, the fourth
year 14,643, the fifth year 16,107. In ten
ye"rr, in the same proportion, it will re-
quire over $4,000 cans daily to supply the
demand.
In letter to the Manchester Journal,
stated that to produce one thousand
cans daily it would, at an average of
seven quarts to the can, require only
5,714 cans. We have on the line of our
railroad over $4,000 cans, and capacity to
keep nearly, if not quite, double this
number if we abandon raising young I
stock and sheep. Can any one doubt our
ability to meet an increased demand up
to the quantity now carried on the Erie
road (over 5000 ?
A correspondent of one of the Vermont l
papers assumes indirectly that making &
outer and cheese is more profitable than '
sending milk to market. In a letter on '
his subject, published in a pamphlet
ssued five years ago, l went fully into I
he statistics as shown by numerous re-
'orts of State Agricultural Societies,
)airymens Associations, etc, the result 1
+ which was that it required on an aver
ge IA wine quarts or % pounds of milk @
or pound of butter, and five quarts or d
en- pounds of milk for a pound of cheese. b
he correctness of these quantities has '
cen confirmed by recent reports. A t
utter factory in Madison county, using q
be milk of a hundred COWS last year, n
eported their average at just about IA b
uarts. In the letter referred, said: s
When milk sells at three cents per quart, the fc
ock used for a pound of butter costs forty two
nts, and pound of cheese fifteen cents. Three
nts for milk is moderate price, while forty ~
70 cents for butter and fifteen cents for cheese "a
e extremely high prices-double sthe average S.
ice for a series of years. At the present time r.
esse made at the cheese factories is ruling very A.
gh. The danger is that the factories are in -
easing so fast that an over supply will be pro- IL
ced." D.
These results are fast working out, az Lii
i'll be seen by the following reports of
e butter and cheese markets cut from se,
papers last week: ma
WEST RrrpERT Fr
The Ross Cheese Factory If Wac. D.. :. tir
W making seventeen cheese daily, AVERAGE We
lght sixty pounds. Daily receipts of milk about thu
lie thousand pounds. Pounds of milk received $500.
week ending June 18th, sixty-two thousand ",
ZEN hundred and ejghty-two. The companv on
de shipment to New York last week which me
'ught Il 5.8 cents per pound. Net at factory clio
IS cents.
ST 4NLBANs BUTTER MARKET .
On Tuesday many loads of butter came in and
market was active but prices aec,na, spe
IN advanced We quote Common. l4c q. fair fac
gooa' 24c; and extra, 26c. Cheese, l2c to to
&c. Shipped, fourteen hundred and twenty - -,
IS of butter.
At the rates named for the cheese It
IL not clear two cents per quart for the ]
Tx, nor average over one and three no,
nth cents per quart made into butter, try
the high rates quoted at st. Albans. ani
The lowest rates estimated for milk nv ba,