The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-03-21

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thai wheu he bad built up 4 business, i
should not he unjusuy taken lrom hun.
This negotiation resulted 10 the l,c ysar.
contract.
But for this arrangement ! doubt il a
can of mix would have been sent the past
year No one who has not been conyers-
ant with tho business can have but & faint
conception of the labor and trials atteud-
ing It.
The worst i now over Nest Of our
farmers have learned how 10 can their
milk, aud from their experience their
neighbors can take lesson. Our milk
has obtained a good reputation for qual-
ily, aud It's sale viii be more readily made
hereafter II it, quality Is kept ult There
will be seasons Of depression with milk
as with other produce, which may dis
courage for the moment, but when we
take into view the fact that the demand
for the past ten years has Increased about
ten per cent per year, that there Is a
steady growth Of New York, Brooklyn
aud the surroundings, which will require
more additional milk than we can furnish
THAT the section Of country TO furnish
the milk Is limited am not justified in
assuming that Il is to be the great busi-
ness of our farmersy
That they have been disappointed the
pas, season grant; so have / No one
would have rcjoiced more than myself to
have seen their highest anlicipations real
izcd, but causes beyond an ones control
have conspired 10 produce the results,
and cannot sec that any one Is justly
blamable for these. Onr ideas Of prices
had been elevated so high during the war
that il was difficult aud unpleasant TO re-
alize that we were near a specie stand
ard. If you will compare the prices cur
rent now with those ruling few years
ago, you will find that about every article
farm produces for market, but hay, is
selling at this time for an average OF less
than half it sold for then. Cheese was
then 20 to y cents; butter 80 to 20 cents.
That milk went up with the i1Aation is
true; and is it singular that II should have
been depressed with the reactions
Other causes, however, more important,
have been operating TO cause an undue
depression in the market this winter.
cannot learn that there is an over supply,
in fact, think but for its adulteration
with water there would be a short supply.
The principal causes may be set down,
1st. There is an association here of small
dealers who assume to regulate the price.
II seems many farmers on the Erie and
Harlem have been sending their milk to
these dealers without any agreed price,
the understanding being that the dealers
should pay them the market price. So,
once month, this association hold meet
ing and vote the price they will pay for
the milk they have had the past month;
this then is assumed as the market price.
Such system puts the farmers entirely
in the hands Of the dealers, and should be
broken up as unjust and ruinons. I'd.
On the line of the Erie road are quite a
number of creameries who buy the milk
of the farmers, set 1t long enough for
portion of the cream to rise; il is then
skinned, the cream either churned or
sent to market and sold; the skim milk is
then sent to the city, sold at reduced
price, then sweetened and colored and
sold as pure milk. Sd. The profnse use
of water. AT seasons Of the year when
milk gets little scarce il is stretched out
with water to any necessary extent. as
will be seen by the extracts from Profess
sor Cbandler's report as chemist Of the
board of health. lie analyzed 297 speci-
mems of milk, and in his report saws
"Samples from 45 cans which were placed
in my hands for examination gave the fol-
lowing result: Two contained water not
any too pure, two contained water cloud
ed witha little milk, probably from hav.
ing been pumped into cans which had
contained milk; four contained water TO
which considerable milk had been added. /
representing by the galaclomcler from 81
TO 60 per cent ofmilk; nineteen cans con-
tanned milk 10 which considerable water
had been added, representing from 80 10
81 per cent Of milk; eighteen contained /
pure milk.
The large proportion Of pure milk is /
accounted for by the fact that the work of
dilutlon was interrupted by the police. In
conclusion he says; s'Thc average per
centage Of pure milk In the adulterated
article with which the city is supplied Is
1928 or In other words, for every three
quarts Of pure milk there is added one
quart Of water" and for the supply Of /
that year for the city, he estimates il cost
the consumers the snug sum OF four mil /
lion dollars.
How to remedy these evils and give to .
the consumers pure milk, aud a rcmuner- .
atiye price to the farmer, has been a mat
ter of much reflection. Measures are now .
under consideration whereby, II adopted. /
we trust this wholesale swindling may be .
abated. Heretofore associations Of milk .
producers have been formed for the pur-
pose Of protecting their interests. Agree
ments have been entered into a. to supply
and price, and II i claimed that tlie want
Of good iai;h Oh the part OF some has al
ways broken up the arrangements.
do nor feel discouraged, nor do
think the farmers should II they have
not realized al they anticipated, have
an lden lie Inn.i Al NOT iii hnte rral.,nl