1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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of the soil t These are the questions upon 
the answers to which the success of the 
farmer in this country is for the future to 
depend.” 
Measuring: an Education. 
The Secretary of the State Agricultural 
Society, W. Judson Smith, spoke on “ My 
Measure of an Education,” from which the 
following may be quoted : “ I would put the 
farmer boy where he could get in four 
years’ valuable information that he could 
not pick up at home on the farm in a life¬ 
time ; where he would acquire the best 
and most knowledge in the shortest time 
and at the least cost; where he will rub 
against other and perhaps smarter boys 
who will knock out his conceit and give 
him valuable lessons not laid down in books 
or taught by the professors. I would send 
him to just such a college as this one is, 
where he will find men the very best each 
in his particular line, devoting their lives 
to correcting his and other boys’ mistakes, 
to driving golden nuggets of knowledge 
into his head, to replacing wrong ideas 
with right ones, at the same time demon¬ 
strating to him by practical, actual work 
in the field, in the stable, in the dairy the 
truth of their statements.” 
SHOTS FROM THE “FARMERS.” 
The Alliance is getting all the credit for 
the third party movement and for ail the 
impossible and impracticable ideas and 
projects sent forth by men who have noth¬ 
ing to do but originate such things, while 
it is not responsible for them except in¬ 
directly. Members of the Alliance, like 
members of all other farmer organizations 
and outsiders, are at liberty to indorse or 
repudiate the third party principles, just as 
they please. The third party will have a 
good many farmers in it no doubt, and a 
good many Alliance men, Grangers, etc., 
but it is not the Alliance party, nor the 
farmers’ party, nor the Grange party. It 
is called the People’s Party, and stands be¬ 
fore the country just as the Republican, 
Democratic or Prohibition parties do, ask¬ 
ing the people, of all classes, for their sup¬ 
port.—Ohio Farmer. 
The Alliance should make that point 
clear at once. 
It is a great source of worry to the pro¬ 
fessional politicians to have the farmer, 
the merchant or the wage earner take an 
active interest in politic-, except as dic¬ 
tated by said politicians. The shyster poli¬ 
tician dies hard, but like the “scrub,” he 
must go.—Kansas Farmer. 
Will you breed, feed or kill him off the 
stage ? 
No one claims that corn doesn’t help 
make eggs. The claim is that the more 
nitrogenous grains will make twice as 
many eggs. If a farmer is satisfied to get 
an egg in four and one-fourth days, which 
barely pays for the corn eaten, well and 
good. We covet the additional two eggs 
besides the pay for the grain. We keep 
fowls for profit!—New England Farmer. 
Who doubts that hens can be fed for eggs 
as well as cows can be fed for milk ? 
Thkiie are plenty of means devised by 
the law-makers for punishing the farmer 
for selling adulterated milk or butter; but 
none to protect him from the rapacious 
coal merchant, the feedman and the dealer 
generally. To be cheated from 100 to 300 
pounds in weight by water in the coal is 
one of the business features from which 
there seems no redress.—Orange County 
Farmer. 
Except in buying through the Grange or 
some similar organization. The dealer 
makes money selling coals on a wet day. 
The English sparrow if a pest on your 
place should be trapped, not shot. The 
gun drives away the songsters, the insect 
eaters, the farmer’s friends ; but does not 
drive away the sparrows. — Maryland 
Farmer. 
But how do you propose to trap them ? 
Mr. Alanson Rose of Greene, makes a 
specialty of new cheese for the early 
market. He has a cow that has been mak¬ 
ing him five pounds of cheese per day 
cured ready for market.—Maine Farmer. 
Let us have more records of “cheese 
cows.” There is no better future in the 
dairy busines than that for the maker of 
small cheeses from big cheese cows. 
Undoubtedly low railroad charges have 
come nearer equalizing prices the world 
over, but they cannot equalize climate and 
soil. Hence the people who remain in New 
England are driven more and more into 
the cities and towns and those who prefer 
agriculture to life in the factories move 
West.—Home and Farm (Kentucky.) 
But with glass, stove heat and the aids 
of science they might equalize climate and 
sell water! 
Tiling road beds will save material 
enough in making stone and gravel roads 
to cover their cost— i. e., 12 inches of gravel 
on a tiled road bed are better than 18 Inches 
on an untiled bed. A tiled road can be 
graded so that it can be cut with a mower 
on both sides and present a pleasing ap¬ 
pearance to travelers, besides paying the 
owner in grass.—Orange Judd Farmer. 
For a clayey section of country the tile 
gives the best imitation of the stone at the 
bottom of a Telford road. 
SUMMER SPROUTS. 
Who is Benefited ?—During the five 
months ended March 31, the imports of car¬ 
pets to the United States amounted in 
value to $664 803, against $256,075 in the 
same period of the preceding year. When 
the duties on carpet wool were increased, 
in obedience to Ohio shepherds, the Amer¬ 
ican manufacturers were assured of “ com¬ 
pensation” in an increase of duties on car¬ 
pets. The American manufacturers were 
told at the same time that, under the 
McKinley Tariff, they would soon obtain 
cheap and abundant supplies of domestic 
wool for carpet making. But while they 
must draw all their supplies of raw mater¬ 
ial from abroad, and pay increased tax upon 
it, with no prospect of a change of con¬ 
dition, the imports of carpets are more 
than doubled under the brief operation of 
the McKinley Tariff. This is “ protection” 
to the carpet industry with a vengeance.— 
Philadelphia Record. 
The Opinion of an Authority.— It has 
been contended that the closing of the race 
tracks would mean the ruin of Long 
B r aoch and other adjacent watering places. 
A Long Branch correspondent of the N. Y. 
Tribune says that John Hoey, President of 
the Adams Express Company, owns more 
property there than any five or six men. 
He stoutly maintains that the race-track 
crowds have not made the prosperity of 
Long Branch, Monmouth Beach and El- 
beron, and says that the coming season will 
be a big one, races or no races. The future 
prosperity of the two little villages of Eaton - 
town and Oceanport will doubtless be re¬ 
tarded if there are no races at the park. 
They are immediately south of the old 
track, and are largely settled by men em¬ 
ployed in various capacities at the race 
track. 
Just What We’ve Been Doing —It is 
dangerous for a person to take in food 
faster than he can assimilate it, or for a 
country to pursue the same course with 
foreign immigration.—Chlcago^Mail (Dem.) 
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