New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-30

Connecticut. 1t is transported in jug-handled
cans containing nine and one-half and ten quarts
| eacn The cans used by the smaller milkmen,
obtaining their supply from nearby farms, contain
ten quarts The railroad milk is mostly brought
III cans containing nine and One-half quarts, and
ciosed by wooden plugs 10 prevent the milk from
| churning in its long journey. Then, again. the
wooden-plug cans can be piled up in the covered
MIX wagons pyramidal fashion, single wagon
| carrying as many seventy-fve eighty. This
system is preferred 20 the large plan. because
II can sours or is spoiled in any way, the loss
is smaller than In the case Of the large New-York
| cans
| The wholesale milk dealers have an organiza-
| ton, and settle upon the price af milk arrange
with railroad and express companies for trans
| ties usually have their local organization, but
| there is no general organization combination
| as against the middlemen The wholesale dealers
| are now paying different prices in different To-
calltles, but generally about thirty cents per
can OF nine and one-half quarts, delivered at the
railway station. In summer thy price ranges
| from twenty-five 10 twenty-seven cents can,
making the average price Of milk to the farmer
ABOUT 2.O5 cents quart. This, II must be under
STOOD. is for places not within carriage-reachlng
distance The average price for milk produced
within radius OF ten miles from the city is, as
stated above. 3.5 cents a quart
. The farmers who send their milk by rail be-
heve, here as elsewhere that the middlemen are
obtaining the lions share. and each SIX months
there are wcrdy consultations between the whole
salers association and the somewhat chaotic or
ganlzaton of farmers. Generally the farmers
icel ooilEcu 10 accept what tneN can OBTAIN, Dub
sometimes the breach becomes wide that
creamerles are organized by. the farmers instead.
The experience Of Rhode Island and Connecticut
farmers with cooperative butter-makng, how
ever. has resulted usually in convincing them il
is better TO sell the milk for the year around at
an average of 295 cents a quart than TO make
butter. III the skimmilk could be profitably
utilized at say one cent a quart, butter-making
In creameres would pay, but Providence people
declare that new milk is too good for them,
and che skimmilk goes to the pigs.
creamery was organized in this city few
months ago The milk was brought in by train
and set IN the deep cans of the creamery in this
city; The result was that the creamery made
good butter, which sold we'll, but the corporation
lost money rapidly, and soon made assignment.
The creamery people give as reason for their
failure that the milk was watered freely by the
farmers. The real secret of the failure probably
was that butter cannot be profitably made from
mllk costing three and one-half cents quart
IL has been mooted question among the
farmers as to whether raising milk is paying
business. Reckoning the value of their labor at
the market rates, the depreciation Of the animals,
etc, ii is doubtful if there is much money in it
but it cannot be denied that the farmers who
have gone into milk raising have, by increasing
their stock of cows brought their farms up to
high state Of cultivation. and in that way il no
other, they regard the business as fairly salts
factory