The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-06

Cou-tio, In New York that Make Batter
,,A Cheese No More.

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OTEao. N Y. July 2.-The enormous increase
| in New York city's demand for milk has made
| n radical change in the dairyinG industry Of
! Otsego. Delaware. Chenango. Schoharie. Cort-
land. Droome, Tioga Tompkins. and several
! other central New York counties within two or
three years Five years ago only one car OF
milk day was shipped to New York from the
| sections mentioned above while at present
between twenty-five and thirty car loads arc
sent to the metropolis every day. The milk
spectators have established milk stations ut
every railroad depot on all the main lines ana
branches, and at necessary points they have
built icehouses and stocked them with pure
Empire State ice.
A cunning and an oiy-tongued chap is tho
speculator or his agent, who goes among the
dairy farmers for the purpose ofinducing them
to abandon the manufacture OF butter and
cheese. and to sell their yearly product OF milk
TO him at certain price per quart. IL the
farmer refuses to enter into n contract or II
wife and daashters. He shows them, what, a
SHs,' ss,s ssGs'n?!s f. mix u; Sc s.:
pack butter or skim milk or wash churns.
butter bowls; ladies'. pals. and pans any more.
nd he #Sch S. hs assn has
got tho women folks on his side II is an easy
matter Tor him to get the farmer TO sign q
yearly contract As another inducement the
contractor agrees to pay the dairyman spot
caah once month
Tho farmers for two or three miles around
draw their milk to the station twice day.
The quantity L. credited to them. and the
possible. When the farmer and his hired men
are uncommonly busy in the hay and harvest
season. one Of the women drives to the station
with the milk. which Is generally carried in
forty-quart cans. The cans and pals are the
only implements the women have to wash.
At present the farmers are getting Z, cents 4
quart for their milk. BY September they Will
receive cents quart. later In the fall ga
cents. and when cold weather sets in 8 cents
1uart-the highest price they receive during
The milk Of all this section to within fifty
miles of Albany is shpped to Binghamton
over the Delaware and Hudson Canal Compa:
ny's Albany and Susquehanna ltailroad. and
Lackawanna and Western. Albany Is the nat
ural outlet for much OF the milk producing re-
gion OF Schoharie, Delaware. and Otsego coun-
ties. but the speculators have seen fit to work
In the region drained of its milk to satisfy
the craving OF the great metropolis. you can't
heara calf bawl or hog sIueal nowadays.
The farmers have no sour milk to feed. so they
year round. Tho absence OF calves and pigs
Ia noticeable to the lover OF rural sights and
sounds who will also remark the disappear
ance OF long rows OF bright. clean milk pans
interesting and picturesque old man. who used
to trudgc about the dairying district soldering
leaky milk pans. is gone for there are no pans
that need mendfng any more. The milk SELL
ers have to buy their pork and young cows.
but they SOW that. on the whole their revenue
at the end of the year is lust about equal to
what 1t was when they made butter and cheese.
and raised calves and pigs.