Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-10
A LILLE JOURNEY.
Among the Cows Tia, supply Now York
with Min.

comes from Orange, Sullivan, Ulster
and Dutchess counties.
| made little journey through this
region not long since and saw the COWS.
the milk farmers. their milk wagons
and the milk receiving stations along
the railroad and river. The stations arc
here called croamcries. by the word
"crcamery," western person under
stands factory whore cream is doliy-
cred anu made into butter For infor-
nation and for many courtosies | am In
debted especially TO Mr.. +. a. Willard,
of the Newburg Registers Mr.. j. w. #.
Ruttenbcr. of tho Nowburg Sunday
Telegram; Mr.. Frank Drake. Of the
Goshen Independent Republican, aud
Hon. Charles Sears, Of Montgomery, ior.
inerly New York state milk inspector;
also to Mr.. HOFFMAN, Of sunnydde farm.
| expected to see a fat and fertile c1un-
try, pasturod by shining aud picturesque
Jersey, Holstoin and Dutch Belt cows.
Judge. then. Of my discnchnuimcnt 90
passed mile after mile VI my journey 10
see great herds Of dingy colorod, long
horned. loose jointed animals, the word
scrub" painted all over them IN letters
OF fire and lightning. 20 tospeak. lneycr
saw 20 many scrub cows IN journey
Of the Same duration. There was some
good stock Of course, but not enough TO
save S0dom.
"wherc are the good cowsy' Mark
the answer;
Farmers cannot afford 20 keep
blooded stock. When a COW goes dry
they sell her TO the butcher. They say
they cannot afford TO let COW go dry
six weeks. Tho feed costs too much.
SO they huv fresh COW and go on.
They are under contract 10 supply Just
30 many quarts Of milk day, and they
must do it,"
"Where do they get these beasts sec
in the pastures hcrcaboutsy
"They call them Sullivan county cows
Some breeders there make "a spcclnlty Of
raising them for the milk farmers"
Under this unique system. 10y which
many good scrub goes untimcly TO the
butcher, the farmer gets Tor the milk no
sells from ccntsa quart in July up to
81 cents in midwinter. lie works til 10
o'clock at night. Talk Of slavery, when
tho thermometer Is 20 degs. below zero
he must hustle ont nj o'clock and take
the milk TO the station. Tho man at tho
receiving station sits by warm stove
comfortably. and secs tho cans put
aboard tic car or boat. We pay Ia New
York never less than eight cents quart
for this scrub COW milk. The irony VI
IA
"Thc farmers are all getting rich OF
course" remarked. Ny informant
smiled grimly. He said;
81 suppose one farmer In five IL pros
pering. The rest get poorer and poorer;
30 does their land. -Four or five men
handle nil the milk from this region aud
ship 1t to New York to their retail sta.
tions. Every milk shipper is getting
rich. Lane about hero used TO sell NJ
5000 an acr. Now II is down to thirty
dollars. Tho farmers raise hny every
year on the same ground, and sell itso as
TO get little more ready money. They
skim off the cream Of the soil aud nut
nothing back. They have no time for
varied farming, they say. All their
the milk to the shipper"
talked to the shipper. too this man
who owns the farmer soul and body; tho
man who sits back and grows fat and
sneers nj the farmer while ho takes tho
lifeblood out Of him. drop by drop.
do not blame this middle man. ON tho
contrary, admire his check There 10
something approaching tho aublime
about II. II the farmers, free American
citizens, are blessed fools enough TO
stand by and let themselves DO robbed,
they ought to he robbed; that is all.
THE trouble with the farmers" said
the milk shipper. lis that they are not
willing TO live as they used TO. They
are extravagant; their families want 10
many more things than they used TO-"
Extravagant on u cent and - half
quart for milk! In that last rcmarlS |
see a CLEAN Of hope. II tho farmors
have not been ground down to hominy
and bacon diet, perhaps they yet will
rise. A worm sometimes turns. Tie
result OF my Investigations WIS not ell
couraging to the future welfare OF New
York babies. The farmers hive no in.
ducement to furnish anything but quan.
tity in milk. The cheapest food that
will produce the largest quantity OF milk
they must hgve-brcwcrs grains or slop,
II is and must be all one To them. In
the judgment Of several gentlemen To
whom talked the present lactometor
test required 10y the state law is toolow.
The per cent Of cream In the milk Of
some of these COWS is rs low rs Q. when
1t is remembered that Jersey cows
milk sometimes yields 32 per cent. Of
cream the difference will appear.
"Who would be free themselves must
strike the blow" Inspector Sears saws
that il even dozen farmers would com.
bine and stand together they could
break the yoke that is crushing them.
They could establish receiving station
OF their own ON tho railway aud an
agency Of their own in the city. They
would have TO retail the milk from
their own agency, thus securing the
profit for themselves In word, what.
ever tho milk shipper now does and
pockets the difference, minus freight,
between two cents u quart and eight
cents, the farmer could do, ana pocket
the money himself. confess to feeling
considerably more oxHsperated ut tlg
farmers than nj the iniddleman,
l passed fom Nowburg to Goshen.
thence TO Monroe, Chester, Montgomery
and Waikiki and back TO Goshen again.
Everywhere the story was tho same.
scrub cowe, grmnblng farmers ana