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The  Rural  New-Yorker 
the  ursixEsa  warmer's  taper 
A  National  Weekly  Journal  tor  Country  mid  Suburban  Homes 
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IlF.IITiKKT  W.  COLLlSOWOriFr,  VlTniilant  311(1  Editor. 
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*•  A  SQUARE  DEAL” 
AVe  believe  that  every  advertisement  in  this  paper  is  backed  by  a  respon¬ 
sible  person,  We  use  every  possible  precaution  ami  admit  l  lie  advertising  of 
reliable  houses  only.  But,  to  make!  doubly  sure,  we  will  make  good  any  loss 
to  paid  Mibt-e fibers  m -tamed  by  trusting  any  deliberate  trv  intller,  irrespon¬ 
sible  tulvertliters  or  misleading  advertiKOtiH'iita  in  our  columns,  and  any 
siioil  sw  indler  will  tie  publicly  exposed.  We  are  also  Often  ealted  upon 
to  adjust,  dUTereiioe*  or  niiHialo-  lietivcen  our  snliwrihers  and  liotlest, 
ri -sponsible  houses,  whether  advertisers  or  pot.  Wo  willingly  use.  our  pood 
other-  to  tills  end.  bill  sitcli  e.i-i  H  sliould  not  bo  confused  with  dishom  -t 
traivaction-  We  protect  subSCribei'H  against  rogm-s.  but  we  will  not  lift 
responsible  for  the  debts  of  honest  bankrupts  sanctioned  by  the  eotirt". 
Notice  of  the  complaint  must  be  sent  to  us  within  one  month  of  the  time  of 
tin-  transact  inti,  anti  to  identify  it.  you  sliould  mention  The  JU'kal  N'ew- 
YoRKKr  when  w  riting  the  advertiser. 
RIGHT  now  comes  the  last  word  to  dairymen 
to  take  care  of  their  orchards.  On  many  dairy 
farms  may  be  found  orchards  of  about  100  trees. 
They  are  usually  of  good  varieties  and  the  trees  are 
large  and  vigorous.  They  have  not  had  much  care, 
as  the  owners  are  cow  men  who  do  not  care  much 
lor  apple  culture.  With  a  thorough  spraying  these 
trees  can  tie  made  to  produce  a  crop  of  good  fruit 
which  will  add  to  the  income  from  the  farm.  Try 
it!  What  these  trees  need  right  now  is  spraying. 
Of  course  they  must  be  pruned,  but  that  can  wait. 
The  immediate  need  is  spraying  within  10  days  after 
the  blossoms  fall. 
* 
THREE  State  Senators  have  been  appointed  in 
that  committee  for  investigating  milk  and 
poultry  markets.  They  tire: 
C’ha.s.  W.  Weeks,  Sauquoit,  Oneida  Co. 
>1.  S.  llallida.v,  Ithaca,  Tompkins  Co. 
X.  M.  Marshall.  Malone.  Franklin  Co. 
There  will  he  one  more  Senator,  probably  from 
X'ew  York  City,  and  five  members  of  the  Assembly — 
not  yet  named.  The  committee  seems  likely  to  be 
composed  very  largely  of  lawyers  and  hankers.  It 
is  too  slow  in  getting  going.  The  work  should  be 
started  at  ouce,  and  carried  on  promptly,  so  as  to 
make  a  full  report  in  the  late  Summer  . 
* 
“/  am  only  song  that  the  rest  o/  the  grand¬ 
children  were  not  among  the  ‘ crowd V’ 
HAT  is  what  Mrs.  Mary  Jane  Clark  of  Holmes 
Co.,  Ohio,  says  about  the  picture  mil  first  page. 
Most  of  us  would  be  well  satisfied  and  pleased  with 
this  lively  crowd  of  youngsters.  ‘‘Are  there  any 
more  at  home  like  you?”  Mrs.  Clark  says  she  is 
the  oldest  of  a  family  of  12.  while  her  husband  is 
the  youngest  of  14.  They  have  had  14  children,  and 
there  are  IS  grandchildren  already!  Surely  a  pro¬ 
lific  race  of  fine,  sturdy  people.  There  are  11  of  the 
grandchildren  shown  in  the  picture  and  two  of  their 
uncles  or  aunts!  Can  you  separate  them?  Find 
Uncle  John  and  Aunt  Mary! 
* 
A  CHANGE  is  coming  in  the  dairy  business  just 
as  it.  has  come  in  every  other  line  of  farming. 
Many  of  us  can  remember  when  wheat-growing  paid 
well  on  many  of  the  smaller  Eastern  farms.  Changes 
came  which  took  much  of  the  profit  out  of  grain 
growing,  and  the  business  of  wheat  production 
moved  off  to  sections  where  the  soil  was  richer  or 
better  adapted  to  the  crop.  Something  of  the  same 
thing  is  coming  to  dairying — in  fact  it  1ms  already 
come  to  many  farms.  The  increased  cost  of  feed, 
higher  taxes  and  labor,  and  the  severe  restrictions 
imposed  by  inspection  have  made  dairying  a  losing 
business  in  some  sections  which  were  formerly  pros¬ 
perous.  This  will  he  likely  to  go  on  as  was  the 
case  with  wheat  growing,  though  dairying  will  hang 
longer  to  most  sections.  Yet  each  year  adds  to  the 
demand  for  dairy  products  and  this  demand  grows 
faster  each  year?  Where  is  the  supply  to  come 
from?  With  the  increase  of  Alfalfa  growing  in  the 
East,  dairying  will  become  more  concentrated,  but 
we  think  the  most  notable  change  will  be  found  in 
the  many  choice  herds  of  fine  cows  kept  by  fruit 
growers  and  poultrymen.  The  hen  and  the  cow 
make  good  partners,  and  in  the  near  future  it  will 
be  found  good  business  to  keep  a  choice  herd  on 
every  large  hen  farm.  The  chicken  manure  is  par¬ 
ticularly  valuable  for  growing  corn.  Alfalfa,  hay 
and  grass.  The  soil  of  poultry  farms  is  notoriously 
rich.  The  hen  can  provide  rich  forage  for  the  cow 
and  the  cow  on  her  part  can  furnish  milk— the  ideal 
food  for  little  chicks.  A  small  herd  of  good  cows 
could  furnish  cream  for  sale  and  leave  the  skim- 
milk  for  feeding.  With  a  silo,  Alfalfa  and  soiling 
crops,  a  comparatively  small  farm  run  in  this  way 
CAe  R  U  RAL  N  E  W-YO  R  K  E  R 
could  sell  cream,  eggs  and  broilers  as  cash  crops 
and  let  the  barn  and  the  henhouse  work  in  a  dou¬ 
ble  team.  Most  of  such  small  herds  would  natur¬ 
ally  he  composed  of  choice,  purebred  cattle,  or  at 
any  rate  good  performers.  While  the  output  of  a 
single  hen-cow  farm  may  not  be  large  there  will  he 
so  many  of  them  that  the  total  production  will  be 
great.  The  change  is  coming  rapidly  and  we  be¬ 
lieve  that  this  adjustment  of  the  dairy  business  is 
to  provide  a  great  market,  for  cattle  and  dairy  sup¬ 
plies  in  the  near  future.  We  understand  that  Tom 
Barron,  the  well-known  poultry  breeder,  has  about 
25  acres  on  which  he  keeps  some  hens,  ;i  small 
herd  of  cows  and  also  sells  some  hay!  This  will 
seem  beyond  belief  to  some  of  our  readers,  yet  we 
believe  we  are  to  see  many  such  hen  and  cow  com¬ 
binations  in  this  country. 
* 
WE  have  had  our  say  ahout  the  creamery  shark 
and  the  fake  promoter,  but  here  comes  a 
new  side  to  the  matter.  It  seems  there  was  a  dis¬ 
trict  cursed  by  one  of  those  wretched  inherited 
feuds.  Years  ago  there  was  a  quarrel  between  two 
sections,  and  ever  since  the  children  have  fought 
and  the  grown-ups  argued,  or  worse,  over  every  pos¬ 
sible  question.  Every  interest  of  tbe  district  would 
have  been  helped  by  cooperation  and  ponce,  and  the 
best  men  on  both  sides  knew  it.  YTet  there  seemed 
to  be  no  one  in  the  district  capable  of  bringing  peo¬ 
ple  together.  Finally  there  came  along  one  of  these 
liinbcr-tongued  creamery  agents,  capable  of  talking 
the  arm  off  a  wooden  Indian.  He  actually  got  both 
sides  interested,  got  them  together,  sold  them  stock, 
organized  the  company,  made  more  than  100  per 
cent,  profit  and  then  got  away.  These  hereditary 
enemies  were  left  with  a  white  elephant  on  their 
hands.  They  found  that  neither  side  could  accuse 
the  other  of  deception,  since  both  sides  had  been 
duped.  Then  they  found  that  the  only  way  to  get 
their  money  out  was  to  stay  organized,  forget  their 
old  feuds  and  work  together.  They  did  it.  and  thus 
changed  the  entire  character  and  history  of  the  dis¬ 
trict  We  all  know  how  a  stranger  can  often  go 
into  a  section  and  organize  a  business  when  men 
with  good  reputation,  right  at  home,  never  could  do 
it.  Just  why  this  is  so  no  one  seems  to  understand, 
but  in  the  case  here  mentioned  the  creamery  shark 
did  a  good  job. 
* 
NEW  YORK,  May  7. — Replies  to  the  Methodist 
Temperance  society’s  query  show  that  tile  4*2  daily 
papers  in  this  country  declining  liquor  advertisements 
in  11115  have  so  far  this  year  increased  to  *40. 
HAT  comes  from  a  California  subscriber  who 
started  in  some  years  ago  to  refuse  to  take  any 
paper  which  printed  liquor  advertising;  Now  he 
says : 
I  have  vowed  that  I  would  not  subscribe  for  a 
whisky  paper,  and  found  I  had  barred  .'ill  of  them. 
Well,  ‘‘the  world  do  move.”  as  the  above  elpiping  shows. 
This  liquor  advertising  has  been  driven  out  of  the 
newspapers  by  people  like  this  man  who  meant 
business.  Rome  people  think  they  have  no  influence, 
and  that  their  protest  will  not  he  heeded.  They 
are  wrong.  A  drop  of  water  is  a  very  small  thing, 
yet  in  old  times  when  they  wanted  to  torture  a 
man  with  the  very  refinement  of  cruelty  they  tied 
him  so  he  could  not  move  and  made  him  stand  un¬ 
der  a  spout  which  dripped  water,  drop  by  drop,  upon 
the  top  of  his  head !  Props  of  ink  will  work  in 
much  (he  same  way,  and  thus  the  readers  of  a  paper 
have  it  in  their  power  to  make  that  paper  represent 
them  fairly.  In  the  contest  between  the  liquor 
dealers’  check  and  the  readers’  ink  drop  the  latter 
will  win  if  there  is  a  “punch”  in  the  ink. 
* 
Is  it  true  that  the  last  Now  York  Legislature  made 
a  law  granting  a  pension  to  till  farmers  the  same  as 
widows?  If  so,  where  do  I  apply  for  it?  B.  s.  K. 
New  York. 
O.  it  is  not  true.  Shortly  before  the  close  of 
the  last  session  Senator  Thomas  B.  Wilson  in¬ 
troduced  a  bill  “to  amend  the  charities  law  in  rela¬ 
tion  to  farmers'  pensions.”  The  essential  feature 
of  Ibis  bill  follows: 
Any  person  who  has  continuously  lived  upon  a  farm 
or  farms  and  lias  eontiniiousl.v  followed  the  calling  or 
vocation  of  farming  for  a  livelihood  until  he  becomes 
of  the  age  of  MO  years  shall  thereafter  receive  from  the 
State  a  monthly  payment  of  ten  dollars  until  he  shall 
have  arrived  at  the  age  of  50  years:  twenty  dollars 
monthly  from  the  time  he  becomes  of  the  age  of  50 
years  until  he  shall  become  of  the  age  of  70  years,  and 
after  becoming  of  the  age  of  70  years,  a  monthly  pay¬ 
ment  of  thirty  dollars  so  long  ns  lie  shall  continue  to 
live.  After  becoming  of  the  age  of  MO  years,  it.  shall 
not  be  necessary  for  such  person  to  continue  to  live 
upon  a  farm  as  a  prerequisite  to  receive  the  payments 
herein  provided  to  bo  made. 
Of  course  this  bill  did  not.  pass.  Senator  Wilson 
did  not  expect  it  would.  He  says  ho  became  dis¬ 
gusted  with  the  number  of  persons  who  came  rush¬ 
ing  to  Albany  after  pensions.  There  were  teachers, 
firemen,  policemen,  widows  and  a  long  string  more — 
all  lining  up  as  mendicants,  hat  in  hand,  at  the  door 
May  27,  1916. 
of  the  State.  In  principle  the  widows'  pension  law 
is  sound,  but  it  is  being  abused.  As  for  teachers, 
firemen,  policemen  and  all  the  rest — why  are  they 
any  more  entitled  to  pensions  than  farmers?  They 
get  more  money  for  a  day's  work,  aud  wherein  is 
their  service  to  the  State  any  more  necessary  or 
important  than  that  of  producing  food  and  fibre? 
All  this  pension)  business  will,  sooner  or  later,  break 
the  back  of  the  State  and  •break  tbe  spirit  of  those 
who  draw  the  pensions.  Senator  Wilson  introduced 
his  bill  as  a  sort  of  legislative  sarcasm  to  show  up 
the  proposed  public  drain,  and  to  show  that  the 
work  which  farmers  do  is  just  ns  important  as  any 
other.  No  able-bodied  self-respecting  farmer  wants 
any  pension,  hut  they  all  want  equal  rights  and  no 
special  privileges. 
* 
I  have  road  what  you  say  about  those  prices  for 
milk  sent  P  Chicago.  I  cannot  agree  with  you  that 
flic  farmer  is  ns  much  entitled  to  wages  or  salary  as 
the  railroad  men  or  milk  dealers.  How  do  you  figure 
that  out?  .7,  G.  F. 
E  figure  it  hv  the  simple  rules  of  common 
sense.  The  milk  handlers  in  the  city  say  it 
costs  them  a  certain  sum  to  deliver  a  quart  of  milk. 
They  get  this  figure  by  dividing  their  total  expenses 
by  the  number  of  quarts  they  handle.  They  have 
a  comparatively  small  sum  of  money  in  equipment 
and  buildings  and  they  pay  a  small  tax.  They  pay 
cash  salaries  all  the  way  from  .$2.50  per  day  for 
drivers  to  $15,000  or  more  per  year  for  the  officers 
• — who  are  also  stockholders.  They  insist  that  a 
good  dividend  must  be  paid  on  nil  stock,  and  that  a 
good  sum  of  money  must  be  laid  aside  each  year 
for  sinking  fund  or  surplus.  This  fund  with  the 
large  companies  will  run  up  into  the  millions.  All 
this  is  taken  out  of  what  the  consumer  pays  minus 
what  the  milk  costs  when  taken  from  the  railroad. 
The  railroad  says  they  must  have  a  certain  price 
for  carrying  a  can  of  milk.  In  order  to  show  that 
this  price  must  he  paid  the  railroad  figures  the  cost 
of  equipment  and  material,  repairs  and  wages  and 
salaries  and  dividends  mi  stocks  and  bonds.  From 
the  laborer  who  earns  $2  per  day  to  the  president  at 
$50,000  per  year,  all  must  have  their  salaries,  and 
many  of  them  also  draw  money  as  stockholders  or 
are  interested  in  outside  companies  which  till  con¬ 
tracts.  rriie  point  is  that  each  and  every  one  of 
these  handlers  will  draw  a  good  salary  and  this 
salary  item  is  what  enables  them  to  claim  that  they 
cannot  sell  or  transport  milk  any  cheaper  or  pay 
the  farmer  more  for  it. 
And  then  comes  the  farmer — the  most  important 
link  in  the  chain.  He  has  money  invested  in  farm 
and  stock  and  buildings.  Such  investments  and  his 
taxes  are  larger  in  proportion  than  those  of  the 
railroad  <>r  the  dealer.  Tie  pays  for  feed,  fertilizers, 
machinery,  stock,  repairs,  and  he  pays  the  hired 
help.  Why  should  he  strip  right  there  in  figuring 
the  cost,  of  producing  a  quart  of  milk?  Why  is  he 
not  fully  entitled  to  $000,  or  more,  per  year  as  man¬ 
ager  of  the  farm  as  the  official  of  railroad  or  milk 
business?  Why  should  the  hired  man  he  the  only 
one  on  a  dairy  farm  to  draw  a  regular  cash  salary, 
while  till  hands  who  handle  the  milk  after  if  leaves 
the  farm  expect  to  take  cash  out  of  the  can?  Sup¬ 
pose  we  ask  the  railroads  and  the.  milk  dealers  to 
take  the  medicine  they  prescribe  for  the  farmers. 
Pay  the  workmen  in  cash,  but  let  the  men  higher 
up  have  what  there  may  b<*  left  after  screwing  the 
selling  price  down  to  the  last  turn!  Would  they 
do  it?  The  milk  dealers  would  quit,  and  the  rail¬ 
roads  would  run  to  Congress  for  help!  When  we 
come  to  figure  the  cost  of  producing  a  quart  of 
milk  we  should  put  in  a  fair  salary  for  the  farmer 
and  his  family  just  as  we  do  ihe  hired  man’s  wages 
and  the  cost  of  feed!  Why  not,  when  the  handlers 
do  it  in  order  to  show  cost  of  distribution? 
Brevities 
As  a  “war  measure”  '*l<‘o  is  being  sold  in  France. 
Ax  American  company  has  opened  in  New  Brunswick 
a  business  of  grinding  clamshells  for  fertilizer  lime. 
A  snEEi’-fi i! earing  contest  at  Hartford.  Conn.,  makes 
it  look  as  if  there  was  life  in  the  New  England  sheep 
business  yet. 
The  scientific  men  are  now  working  on  a  means  of 
treating  dogs  so  as  to  make  them  immune  to  rabies 
and  tlius  prevent  “mad  dog”  scares.  Let  us  hope  they 
work  it  out. 
Be  sure  to  let  the  pigs  have  all  they  will  eat  of 
wood  ashes  and  charcoal.  The  ashes  contain  “bone 
formers.”  While  we  do  not  eat  bone  the  meat  must 
be  packed  around  it, 
The  value  of  canned  goods  produced  in  American 
factories  during  11)14  was  $15*. 015.  SOM.  More  than 
half  of  this  value  was  in  vegetables.  We  should  esti¬ 
mate  the  value  of  home-canned  goods  at  $75,000,000 
more. 
Much  has  been  said  ahout  the  color  of  prime  eggs 
in  the  New  York  market.  At  one  of  the  most  fash¬ 
ionable  drugstores  we  saw  brown  eggs  used.  The  pro¬ 
prietor  said  there  was  a  growing  demand  for  them  its 
a  novelty. 
