St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-08-19

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Measurement Of Milk.
Milk Never Tested as Low
as the Returns Made.
Hammond, La, Avg. 12.-The
statement of the New Orleans milk
icbbers in the papers of yesterday
created quite sensation among the
milk producers of this section.
Mr.. Villere stated that "the ques-
tion as to the cost of the production
Of milk should not be considered
from the Hammond standpoint be-
cause their reasoning as to the cost
OF production is not logical, for they
do not take into consideration that
they do not, as they ought to, raise
the greater proportion aof their food.
This matter puts on o very large
percentage of the cost OF the
product.
This seems like sublime irony to
the people of this section when they
remember that local real estate
dealer has for sale what is known
as the Cloverland Dairy Farm, the
most up-to-date property of the kind
in the State, consisting of eighty
acres of fine land about mile and
half south of town, on which there
is a model COW barn for one hundred
cows that cost s4,500: an up-to-date
dry cow barn for thirty cows that
cost $1,000; a 3,300-ton .silo, modern
In every detail horses, sheds for
tools, fine residence and laborers'
houses, and an abundance of artesian
water for every purpose, piped to ell
parts of the plant.
The labor problem was the same,
that every farmer In this section
has to meet and In this project,
which was intended as an invest
ment and demonstretInn farm, pro-
jected by and under ESsnpe pervisi0n
of Mr.. Geo. Where at cost OF near
ly $4,000, and with an abundance
of capital behind the project, enough
feed here produced to fill the silo
one time, and after meeting heavy
osses, month after month, the project
had to be Abandoned and the place
offered for sale.
Mr.. Nelson also projected similar
farm here known as the Home
Grown Dairy" consisting of $50
acres adjoining the town on the
southeast, and with 12O acres for
pasture and 40 acres for the culti-
vation of forage crops for a herd
of fifty COWS, and although the place
was we'll equipped and in line with
the best places here it failed in it's
purpose to teach the dairy farmers
Of this section how to produce their
| own feed, and thus Mr.. Villere says,
reduce the cost of the production
| of milk.
The local dairymen cannot under
stand why they should be held up
before the readers of the New Or
leans papers by these gentlemen for
not doing the very thing, which these
| gentlemen of large means and with
every facility, have failed to do.
| They complain of the demand OF
dairymen of the state for payment
by can measure, or by the gallon
but this is as fair for one as for the
other, and this was the basis of all
contracts up to the time Mr.. Villere
inaugurated the present method. The
United States standard weight fol
milk is 8.6 pounds to the gallon
which is Just as applied to milk
having a low butter test, but the
milk produced in this state will aver
age from 80 to s.3 pounds to the
gallon Thus on ten-gallon car
of milk the New Orleans jObber j:
getting about half gallon of mill
for which he not paid half a cen
to the producer While it is true
that the cans vary slightly in capa
city, it is as often in favor of thu
New Orleans jobbers as against him
and as this is the way they sci
the milk to the consumer it SEEM
it should fit all around and no on
lose money.
Mr.. Villere has always claimed tha
he could pay better prices for mill
if he was free from sour milk an
, oyer-production, and as the new or
. ganiZation here proposes, as far a
the New Orleans dealers are concern
ed. to relieve them from their burdel
, by keeping that for themselves the
, have right in the price of milk
Much is said about the test of mil
for butter fats and the ability Q
: the New Orleans dealers to pay onl
: As cents a point for the fats foun
: | by Badeock test in the milk. TIL
: producers in fixing the 'can meas
, ure" have sought to escape fruit
! full source of friction, as it is rar
! thing for the tests on the farm an
| in the city to agree, the latter neal
ly always being below the former
3 iii one instance lately the New o.
leans test for two weeks showed
| per cent below the country test
Y In another instance the reports show
). ed test for milk from Jersey COW
: of 3.4, which is below the Board
+. | Health standard. By receiving an
a having in their possession this mil
/. the New Orleans dealers violated tn
: law and aid themselves liable. NO
/. everybody here knows that this mil
J. never tested so low but that it weI
e over 4 per cent, possibly 4.4, as tn
|. is below the test OF even Holstei
I, cows milk.
1t is a well kown fact that all tt
O milk that reaches the consumer
+ New Orleans has passed through tt
separators and after clean skimmir