The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-21
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THE Danny BUsINKSS.
Faye Oaiy Seven Fer Cent. IN the Invest.
meat. So the Farmers Want n Trust

Faye Oaiy Seven Per Cent. On the Invest.
meat. So the Farmers Want n Trust
III, as they persistently declare. the dairy
farmers Of this country are losing money every
year In tho milk business. owing 10 tho way
thoy are ground down In prices, a business
OF gigantic proportions is going to pieces"
rald q milk dealer. They have tho neat sum
Of $4,000. 900. 900 invested. In farms. stock,
&c. About 90, 600. 900 acres OF this fair land
OF ours arc given up TO tho pasturing OF their
$4,000. 900 cows. and many moro acrs are
necessary to supply those cows with hay and
fodder. To do tho work about the dairy farms
requires the services of 75o. 900 men and more
than ,000, 900 horsoe. Tho dairy farm stock.
bovine and equine. cat 30, 000,0 900 tons Of hay.
80, 600. 900 bushels OF corn. 0o.000,000 bush
oils OF corn meal, $4,000 900 bushels OF other
meals. and ~. 0O0. 900 bushels OF bran u year.
to say nothing Of tho 275. oOo. 900 bu shells Of
oAts that horses alone eat. The provcnder
for all that live stock costs $500, 900. 900 a
year. ani the 100, 900 laborcrr on the farms re-
ceivo Sl7a.000. 900 a year for their work. The
machinery and Implements used In the dairy
business. Just as they stand, now and second
hand. represent alone an Investment OF $780,
600. 900.
Now. of course. the farmers ought to know
whether they are losing money or not In the
LARRY business. They say they are. Statistics
say that the average cow will yield 400 gallons
OF milk q year. II that Is $50, the COVE OF this
country are giving down 0.750 0oo. 900 gallons
every Twelve months. or course, n good share
OF this goes into butter and cheese, but the re-
cetpts from that are calculated to be about tho
samo per gallon of milk used as II II had been
sold as milk. guess ~ cents gallon IL u
fair estimate OF the price the farmer receives
for that milk. which win figure mp II return to
them OF $50. 000,0 year. Help and feed
not counting the swoet-scontsd brewery grains
which the honest sarner gives his stock by
way OF change -cOst x575.000. 900 \ year.
Throw in $40. 000. 900 mOrs. say. TO cover the
cost OF brewers grains and incidentals. and tho
dairy farme spend $685.. 000. 900 rear to keep
their farms running and get their produce to
market. According TO the figures this leaves
trihs OF sect, 000. 900 10 their credit for the
years business. This isn't much. NJ course
IL is only little moro than per cont on tho
investment. but even Mt that It. dossn't look as
II the dairy business was going TO pieces very
fast, or that the farmers were knOc king very
hard at the poorhouse door for admittance.
by the way, isn't II the far mers who are
doing 90 much calamity shouting against
trustsp Seems TO me II Is, but then how 10 II
that they are busy Just now getting up q trust
OF their own: The dairy farmers. mean
especially the milk formers who supply New
York with milk. They arc at IL. They are
holding meetings all through the dairy regions.
and their trust II to DO known "a the Five
BtAtss MIX Producers Association. and the
avowsd purpose Of IL 10 to control all ths:mIlk
that 70 shipped. with view TO enforcing higher
prices The i've ststes.are New York, Penn