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VOL.  LI.  No. 
NEW  YORK,  JULY  2,  1892 
PRICE,  FIVE  CENTS. 
Sa.oo  PER  YEAR. 
A  Jeeseyman’s  Jotjrney. 
CENTRAL  NEW  YORK  COMPARED  WITH  NEW  .JERSEY. 
Notes  on  Farm  Practices. 
It  does  any  farmer  good  to  take  a  day  off  now  and 
then  and  visit  some  section  where  the  practices  are 
different  from  those  at  home.  I  don’t  care  if  the 
farming  is  entirely  different  from  his  own,  he  can  get 
something  new  to  think  about,  anyway.  The  only  way 
between  them.  The  sunshine,  air  and  grass  seemed 
just  a  little  brighter,  clearer  and  greener  than  they 
are  in  Jersey,  but  it  wouldn’t  be  so  if  I  lived  there  for 
good.  It  is  a  sort  of  second  nature  for  us  to  think  that 
others  have  a  little  better  show  in  the  world,  and  yet 
when  we  get  back  to  our  own  place — well,  “  there’s  no 
place  like  home.”  There  seem  to  be  lots  of  farmers 
up  in  Tompkins  County  who  think  “farmin’  don’t 
pay.”  You  will  find  such  folks  every  where,  and  not 
big  melon  patch.  Most  of  the  farmers  keep  a  small 
herd  of  dairy  cows  and  make  butter.  They  sell  pota¬ 
toes,  apples,  wheat  and  some  hay.  Mr.  YVyckoff, 
whose  place  was  described  in  The  R.  N.-Y.  last  year, 
has  done  so  well  with  his  hens,  that  many  farmers  are 
following  him,  so  that  the  northern  part  of  the  county 
is  getting  to  be  quite  an  egg  country.  Some  farmers 
also  grow  more  or  less  small  fruits,  but  the  output  of 
these  is  regulated  by  the  markets  afforded  by  the  small 
LABOR  BEHIND  ! 
CAPITAL  IN  FRONT  ! 
AN  ILLUSTRATION  OF  THE  RESULTS  OF  A  MODERN  DISTRIBUTION  OF  WEALTH.  Fig.  187. 
to  expand  and  toughen  your  muscles  is  to  work  them  ; 
you  can’t  rub  strength  into  them  or  get  it  in  by  taking 
medicine.  The  only  way  to  broaden  out  your  mind  is 
to  think  and  to  rub  up  against  other  thinkers. 
Two  weeks  ago  I  made  a  run  up  through  central 
New  York,  that  gave  me  enough  thinking  material  to 
last  me  for  months.  Tompkins  County,  N.  Y.,  looks 
pretty  on  the  map,  because  of  the  big  lakes  scattered 
about  it.  When  you  come  to  actually  ride  through  it, 
you  find  it  prettier  than  ever.  Big,  high  hills  rise  on 
every  hand,  with  beautiful  valleys  stretching  away 
one  in  ten  could  do  half  so  well  in  any  other  business 
as  in  farming. 
Different  Crops  and  Methods. 
Over  in  Jersey,  where  I  live,  we  depend  upon  Lima 
beans,  sweet  corn  and  other  garden  truck,  potatoes, 
rye  and  hay  for  our  money.  Some  farmers  keep  a  few 
cows  and  sell  a  little  butter,  but  as  a  rule  we  buy 
manure,  fertilizers,  horses  and  most  of  our  meat  and 
feed.  Up  in  Tompkins  County  I  felt  lost  not  to  see  a 
single  field  of  Lima  beans,  or  sweet  corn,  or  a  single 
country  towns.  They  grow  about  enough  to  supply 
these  small  places  and  that  is  all ;  they  are  too  far 
away  from  direct  communication  to  ship  to  the  big 
cities  They  would  be  too  much  at  the  mercy  of  the 
middlemen.  There  is  one  thing  about  these  smaller 
places  off  the  main  lines  that  is  a  good  thing  for  dairy¬ 
men.  The  butchers  still  slaughter  more  or  less  beef 
.and  thus  provide  some  market  for  fat  cows.  Near  the 
big  towns  you  can’t  sella  fat  (or  lean)  cow  to  save  your 
life  except  to  a  sausag’e  maker.  The  Chicago  dressed 
beef  is  cheaper  and  easier  for  our  butchers  to  handle. 
