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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
October 5 
HOW IT IS DISTRIBUTED. 
PART VIII. 
As was stated last week, this country 
is on the eve of an industrial revolution. 
The monopoly of steam power is to be 
broken at last. Water power is to reign 
again. The falling waters of the streams, 
and the mighty force of tide and wave, 
will be harnessed and sent on the elec¬ 
tric wire all over the land. Light rail¬ 
roads will spring up everywhere, and 
where now horse power slowly toils 
along muddy or dusty roads, the electric 
freight car will place the distant farmer 
within a few hours of his market. The 
telephone will place him within reach 
of a dozen dealers at a moment’s notice. 
This change is surely coming, and it will 
surely bring population, business and 
wealth back to the country. Will the 
average farmer find himself better off 
than now after affairs adjust themselves 
to their new condition? Not unless 
there is a moral and educational awaken¬ 
ing among the people. We must have 
purer politics in this country, more 
patriotism and less partyism, or the 
Nation will degenerate. 
If class distinction is to be peacefully 
righted in this country, it must be done 
by the rich. If done by the poor, it will 
be revolution. Here are two men, one 
poor and the other rich by inheritance. 
One man must work for his bread, the 
other is fed by the labor of others. 
What do these men owe as duty to their 
country ? The poor man’s duty is to his 
family. They require the best of his 
head and hand. The rich man’s duty is 
to society—from which his wealth came. 
If he fritter his time away in idleness, 
or devote his energies to hoarding up 
money which he cannot possibly spend, 
he is false to his duty and false to his 
country. From a moral point of view, 
to grasp and retain more of the world’s 
wealth than one really needs, is dis¬ 
honest. 
Until the rich realize and act upon 
that principle, absolutely fair compe¬ 
tition and a just distribution of wealth 
are impossible. Laws might be passed 
compelling the rich to give up certain 
business advantages, or pay to the Gov¬ 
ernment a share of their wealth as 
special taxes. In the end, however, such 
laws will only increase the bitterness 
between classes and establish precedents 
for even more dangerous legislation. 
The hope for this country lies in moral 
reform. The powerful influences that 
have corrupted our political system, must 
be made to realize that back of a demand 
for better and juster government, is a 
deep religious feeling that cannot be 
bought or bullied or frightened away 
from its purpose. In the opinion of the 
writer, the Christian Endeavor and other 
religious movements and the good gov¬ 
ernment clubs in our large cities, are the 
most hopeful public manifestations of 
the century. A healthy public spirit 
must demand laws on certain well de¬ 
fined lines. We should stop giving pub¬ 
lic franchises away to private corpora¬ 
tions. Town, county, State and Nation 
may well transact their own public busi¬ 
ness without the aid of middlemen to 
provide light, heat, pavements or trans¬ 
portation. 
Our patent system should be changed 
so that the Federal Government may 
have the right to purchase a notable 
invention from the inventor, and make 
it public property. 
Our present money system is wrong. 
The great majority of farmers have no 
bank account, and never draw a check. 
It is too difficult for them to turn their 
products into cash with which to pur¬ 
chase needed articles. Every dollar 
should h be “honest,” but our currency 
should be more flexible and driven away 
from the great money centers back to 
the smaller country towns. 
Laws protecting the consumer against 
adulterated food, shoddy cloth and other 
counterfeits, should be strictly enforced. 
Personally, I believe in inheritance 
laws that will limit the amount of prop¬ 
erty that may be legally bequeathed by 
one person to another. Alien owner¬ 
ship of land should be prohibited, as 
should the immigration of paupers and 
criminals. Instead of importing cheap 
laborers from abroad, we should educate 
and train our present laborers to do bet¬ 
ter work. A settlement of the liquor 
question should be started by introduc¬ 
ing some modification of the liquor law 
now in force in South Carolina wherever 
possible. 
I believe that the application of the 
single tax system of taxing land values, 
would have a tendency to drive business 
out of the great cities into cheaper 
country locations. 
But none of these things is possible 
without a system of higher country edu¬ 
cation. They will not come until we 
have a larger proportion of farmers who 
are satisfied with their lot and happy in 
their chosen calling. So long as the 
farm home is a mere drudging place for 
making and saving dollars, all attempt 
at political reform will fail because it 
will be a commercial article with noth¬ 
ing but personal gain for its basis. 
For years, the people of this country 
have been voting for “glittering gener¬ 
alities ”—with little real principle be¬ 
yond meaningless “platforms” that 
were purposely framed so that men 
might talk on both sides of them. The 
moral effect of this has been bad. Men 
have deceived themselves into the idea 
that they have been voting for a princi¬ 
ple when, in reality, they have been 
voting only for the selfish side of it. In 
“ Social Problems,” Henry George makes 
the following statement: 
I am firmly convinced that, to effect any great 
social imjjrovement, it is sympathy rather than 
self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the 
desire for self-advancement, that must be ap¬ 
pealed to. Envy is akin to sidmiration, and it is 
the admirsition that the rich and powerful excite 
which secures the perpetusition of aristocrsicies. 
Where tenpenny Jsick looks with contempt upon 
ninepenny Joe, the social injustice which makes 
the masses of the people hewers of wood and 
drawers of water for a privileged few, has the 
strongest bulwsirks. It is told of a certain Flor¬ 
entine agitator that, when he had received a new 
pair of boots, he concluded that all popular griev¬ 
ances were satisfied. How often do we see this 
story illustrated anew in workingmen’s move¬ 
ments and trade-union struggles ? This is the 
weakness of all movements that appeal only to 
self-interest. 
We believe that most thoughtful people 
will agree with that. The wrongs of 
society will never be righted so long 
as selfishness predominates in public 
affairs. Pure socialism is impossible in 
this age ; but cooperation is not. Even 
cooperation is impossible until men can 
acquire higher motives of conduct than 
purely self-interest. 
Again, reform must begin with the 
rich and strong and work downwards. 
The thousands of quiet and helpful char¬ 
ities that are working out this problem, 
are hopeful signs for the future. The 
Burnham Industrial Farm, where poor 
city boys are taught farm work and 
given a love for country life, is but one 
example of the influences that are quietly 
at work to bring the town back to the 
country. Our agricultural colleges, our 
experiment stations and farms—every 
influence that serves to dignify and 
ennoble farm life—will help restore the 
balance, because they give the farmer 
higher and broader ideas of life, and 
give him a greater love and respect for 
his home and calling. The chief hope 
for the farmer’s betterment lies in 
higher thinking. Without it, he will, 
as a class, fall lower than he now is. 
The next topic to be discussed under 
Primer Science is “ Curing a Sour Soil ”— 
which will outline some experiments in 
restoring some neglected and run down 
farms. After that will coroe “ Feeding 
a Hen.” 
Live Stock Matters. 
FORKFULS OF FACTS. 
Poultry Feeding Trial. —I shall be¬ 
gin to-morrow a trial, feeding as follows: 
My flocks average about 32 hens each. 
For each flock, I shall allow about two 
pounds pot cheese and one pound wheat 
bran in the morning ; at noon, about 
half as much wheat as they can eat, and ' 
at night corn ad libitum. This will give 
each hen about one ounce of pot cheese, 
one-half ounce of bran, and 1 % ounce of 
grain. The amount of grain eaten at 
night varies a good deal, flocks that are 
laying best eating most. I shall try the 
blood ration later. o. w. mapes. | 
A Cow Ration. —With one feed a day 
of ensilage from corn well matured and 
pretty well eared, and one feed of oat 
hay, oats and peas, clover or mixed hay, 
would the addition of cotton-seed meal 
make a well-balanced ration for milch 
cows ? If not, what else should be 
added ? What grain, if any, should be 
added to the above fodder for yearling 
heifers coming in next year ? Would 
the ensilage, if cut, be good for hens, ! 
and, if so, how much for 100 hens, and 
how often ? e. s. b. 
Connecticut. 
R. N.-Y.—You may safely add at least 
one pound per day of cotton-seed meal 
to that ration for the cows, and half a 
pound for the heifers. Very likely, the 
returns will justify you in increasing 
the cotton-seed meal fed to the cows to 
two pounds. You might feed the hens 
all they will eat of the ensilage, three 
times a week. 
Unhusked Corn. —Prof. W. A. Henry, 
of Wisconsin, has this to say about corn: 
I liave often wondered why farmers were so 
anxious to husk corn for dairy cows, when the 
cow does not thank them for ali their work, but 
prefers to do the husking herself. An ear of corn 
is never so fresh as just when taken out of the 
husk. It is like a hickory nut meat which grows 
stale by exposure to the air. Instead of husking 
shock corn, carting it to the mill and giving the 
miller a goodly share of it for grinding, leave the 
corn unhusked and throw it stalk and all to the 
cow in her manger. If the uneaten stalks annoy 
in the stable, run the whole through the feed 
cutter, which will reduce the material to fineness 
easily handled. If the droppings are wheeled to 
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