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RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
-  —  -  pers  and  on  the  loeal  roads.  This  home 
trado  is  usually  safest  -and  best,  and  our 
advice  is  to  exhaust  it  before  reaching 
_  out  for  a  distant  trade. 
Business 
A  Woman  Farmer’s  Views 
Perhaps  it  puzzles  you  when  I  say  I 
am  a  woman.  Hut  it  is  true;  I,  a 
woman,  and  three  small  boys,  one  15.  an¬ 
other  nine,  and  the  little  one  three  years, 
are  fanning  and  doing  finely-  The  best 
of  all,  we.  came  here  four  years  ago  with 
no  capital,  only  our  bauds,  health  and 
brains. 
We  rented  a  little  place,  worked  out ; 
wherever  there  was  a  chance,  saved,  and 
now  last  year  we  got  a  home  of  our  own  ; 
not  paid  yet,  but  will  be  soon  if  God 
gives  us  our  health.  I  got  the  place 
cheap  on  a  mortgage  sale:  10  acres, 
house  and  barn,  of  course,  run  down,  but 
for  $085.  What  can  you  expect?  I 
paid  $100  down,  and  the  rest  goes  at  0 
per  cent,  interest;  1  have  to  pay  $100  on 
the  principal  every  year.  We  have  two 
cows,  a  cream  separator,  two  horse¬ 
power  engines,  pump  and  saw  outfit; 
power  cutting  box.  power  shell. -r.  power 
grinder;  one  horse,  wagon,  spike  and 
spring-tooth  harrow,  plow  and  disk,  and 
all  paid  for.  We  have  four  geese  and  100 
hens.  T  am  interested  in  Tom  Barron’s 
layers,  but  cannot  afford  the  same  yet. 
We  have  six  acres  in  corn,  preparing 
two  acres  for  potatoes,  and  five  acres  for 
beans.  Next  year  conies  the  clover,  as 
soon  ns  we  have  the  sod  under  ground. 
Corn,  cows  and  clover  for  me  on  sandy 
Michigan,  also  do  I  agree  with  the  Hope 
Farm  man  on  cover  crops.  We  came 
nine  years  ago  from  Germany,  lived  three 
years  in  New  York  City,  I  know  Fifth 
avenue,  also  the  Bowery,  the  Jewish 
Ghetto,  and  the  Bronx,  also  all  the 
islands  and  Jersey  City.  Two  years  we 
lived  in  Chicago,  and  this  is  our  fifth 
year  in  Michigan,  down  on  the  farm,  and 
although  city  bred  we  are  doing  well, 
and  The  R.  N.-Y.  did  its  share. 
When  the  crops  are  in,  and  my  dollar 
comes,  he  will  perhaps  bring  company  in 
form  of  your  blanks  with  the  names  of 
farm  women  in  this  vicinity,  but  1  have 
to  do  a  little  canvassing  first.  You 
know  the  seasons  do  not  wait  for  us,  but 
we  have  to  wait  for  them,  and  when  they 
are  here  we  have  to  make  the  most  of 
them. 
Never  mind  my  grammar,  orthography 
nor  penmanship,  just  listen  to  my  talk. 
I  had  no  English  teacher.  I  told  you  I 
came  nine  years  ago  from  Germany,  also 
am  a  German  by  birth,  and  an  American 
h.v  choice,  so  you  will  pardon  my  errors- 
My  wish  is  my  three  boys  would  plant 
German  economy  and  German  system 
here  in  our  adopted  country.  I  like 
America  for  its  democracy,  but  it  is  so 
wasting  in  many  things  and  when  the 
test  will  come,  and  it  surely  comes  some 
time,  will  it  stand  the  strain?  I  have 
three  hoys,  healthy  strong  boys,  and  if 
they  have  to  fight  for  Fncle  Sam  will  it 
be  in  vain?  It  surely  will  be  in  vain  if 
the  country  loses  on  account  of  its  graft 
and  wastefulness.  So  you  and  all  of  us, 
let  us  fight  then  our  real  enemies,  Graft 
and  Waste.  I  know  you  do,  and  I  will 
stick  to  you  if  you  give  me  a  chance. 
MRS.  J.  KAUFMAN  IV . 
Oceana  Co.,  Michigan. 
jeetionable  advertisements  and  try  to 
make  my  ink  count. 
MRS.  .1,  P.  WILLIAMS. 
R.  N.-Y. — This  is  printed  not.  because 
Mrs.  Williams  finally  decided  to  renew 
her  subscription,  but  to  commend  her 
spirit  in  this  matter  of  advertising.  It 
cannot  he  made  too  clear  that  the  sub¬ 
scribers  of  a  paper  have  it  iu  their 
power  to  decide  that  paper's  policy. 
There  are,  of  course,  some  papers  which 
are  owned  and  directed  by  commercial  or 
financial  interests  and  are  expected  to  do 
certain  things  no  matter  what  the  read¬ 
ers  say  or  think.  Even  these  papers  are 
failures  unless  they  can  obtain  a  good 
list  of  free  and  confiding  readers.  Most 
of  the  papers  will  die  slowly  nr  rapidly 
Unless  they  can. obtain  a  good  list  of  read¬ 
ers  and  make  those  readers  feel  satisfied. 
Tims,  in  the  last  analysis  the  indepen¬ 
dent  subscriber  is  the  best  and  final  asset 
of  any  paper-  Unless  he  is  satisfied  and 
feels  confidence  in  the  paper — it  is 
doomed  and  nothing  can  save  it.  That 
is  why  people  like  Mrs.  Williams  will 
finally  drive  liquor,  tobacco  and  other  ob- 
jectionahle  advertising  out  of  all  reputa¬ 
ble  publications.  This  cannot  be  done 
in  any  other  way.  We  just  want  the 
plain,  earnest  people  of  the  country  to 
understand  what  drops  of  ink  can  accom¬ 
plish  when  spread  out  into  earnest 
words. 
The  Trade  in  Butterflies 
Every  year  we  have  many  letters — 
most  of  them  from  women  and  boys,  ask¬ 
ing  where  they  can  sell  butterflies  or  in¬ 
sects.  It  seems  that  a  number  of  ad¬ 
vertisers  who  offer  material  for  killing 
insects  have  stated  that  there  is  a  large 
* 
demand,  and  that  specimens  are  salable 
at  good  prices.  This  seems  to  have  been 
done  for  the  purpose  of  creating  a  sale  for 
material,  but.  the  effect  has  been  to  start 
up  an  army  of  people  who  think  they  can 
make  good  wages  at  catching  butterflies. 
They  write  ns  asking  where  they  can  sell 
their  specimens.  It  is  true,  that  several 
firms  in  the  country  have  a  fair  trade  in 
certain  kinds  of  insects,  but  not  one  m 
100  of  the  ordinary  collectors  can  make 
any  kind  of  wages  at  this  business.  The 
dealers  in  insects  write  us  that  they  are 
overrun  by  requests  from  collectors  who 
have  insects  for  sale.  At  the  present  time 
there  is  very  little  market  for  butterflies 
and  moths.  This  is  due  to  the  war,  as 
shipments  to  the  other  side  cannot  be 
made.  One  prominent  collector,  who  ist 
former  times  had  a  good  trade  iu  butter¬ 
flies,  writes  us  as  follows  : 
I  wish  I  could  live  up  to  the  day  when 
the  American  people  would  get  their  wis¬ 
dom  and  their  knowledge  from  better 
sources  than  from  the  newspapers.  They 
used  to  take  a  man  with  a  butterfly  net 
for  a  lunatic — all  of  a  sudden  the  news¬ 
papers  told  them  that  there  was  a  fortune 
in  collecting  butterflies  and  now  they  run 
amuck  after  the  poor  creatures  of  nature, 
and  want  the  man  in  the  butterfly  store 
to  buy  their  perfectly  worthless  broken 
things. 
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Collapsible  Egg  Crate  of  Sheet  Metal 
capable  of  developing  a  good  trade  in 
some  article  which  they  know  how  to 
produce.  Perhaps  they  can  make  super¬ 
ior  bread,  or  cake,  or  sausage,  or  lace. 
Perhaps  they  have  a  special  instinct  for 
breeding  poultry  or  raising  calves  or  other 
young  stock.  It  may  be  that  they  can 
find  antique  furniture  or  old  and  curious 
relics  iu  the  neighborhood  to  sell  to  city 
people.  Each  one,  if  she  knew  it,  has 
some  special  gift  for  doing  things  well 
and  it  is  along  this  line  that  she  -should 
work.  There  are  good  chances  for  devel¬ 
oping  trade,  for  the  world  wants  high- 
class  goods  of  every  description.  Too 
many  of  these  gifted  women  are  like  the 
flower  that  is  born  to  blush  unseen,  be¬ 
cause  they  have  not  been  able  to  let  the 
world  know  what  they  can  do.  Thus 
our  country  people  must  learn  something 
of  the  art  of  advertising.  John  Wana- 
maker  told  the  recent  meeting  of  adver¬ 
tising  men  how  lie  built  up  his  great 
business : 
When  this  little  store  closed  its  doors 
on  its  first  day’s  business,  away  back  in 
1  SGI ,  the.  sum  of  $24.67  was  found  in  the 
old-fashioned  till  under  the  counter;  the 
sixty-seven  cents  was  left,  there  for  mak¬ 
ing  change  next  morning  and  the  $24  was 
taken  out  by  the  founder  and  spent  with 
the  newspapers,  which  wore  asked  simply 
to  say  that  the  new  store  was  open  and 
doing  business,  ami  had  a  good  stock  of 
goods  useful  to-  the  public. 
It  is  hard  fur  the  business  beginner  to 
realize  the  need  of  good  advertising. 
When  one  has  an  article  that  he  can  take 
l  nis  man  says  he  has  some  trade  m 
certain  kinds  of  butterflies,  but  he  must 
have  expert  collectors  who  know  the  busi¬ 
ness  thoroughly,  and  have  studied  the 
habits  and  characteristics  of  the  insect. 
After  a  careful  investigaton,  therefore,  we 
can  find  no  hope  for  the  average  collectors 
who  have  written  us.  feeling  very  sure 
that  there  will  be  any  money  in  the  busi¬ 
ness,  although  we  know  this  statement 
will  prove  disappointing  to  many  women 
who  think  that  insect  collecting  is  a 
profitable  trade. 
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Hi  •  *re|L  and  pavements  and 
Hr  '•  give  them  an  outing  at 
^  ful  food,  rest,  coolness, 
fresh  air  and  a  daily  dip 
in  the  surf?  Ten  thousand  poof  mothers  and 
children  are  wailing  for  invitations  to  our  Sea 
Breeze  Summer  Home.  You  can  send  as  many 
as  you  will  for  a  day,  a  week  or  a  fortnight 
Allow  50  cents  a  day  of  $3  a  week  for 
each  person,  and  direct  your  gift  to  George 
Blagden,  Treasurer. 
The  New  York  Association  for  Im¬ 
proving  the  Condition  of  the  Poor 
Cornelius  N.  Bliss,  Ji.,  Pres. 
105  East  22d  St.,  Room  200,  New  York  City 
A  Collapsible  Egg  Crate 
The  picture  given  above  shows  what  is 
known  as  a  collapsible  egg  crate.  The 
crates  are  made  in  two  sizes,  for  15  or  MO 
dozen  eggs.  Ttn-sc  crates  arc  made  of 
sheet  metal,  and  the  fillers  are  held  in¬ 
tact  within  the  frame  of  the  crate  when  it 
is  dosed.  As  will  he  seen  from  the  pic¬ 
ture,  a  number  of  these  crates  when  col¬ 
lapsed  occupy  only  the  space  of  one  of 
the  old  style.  This  is  one  of  the  new  can¬ 
didates  in  favor  of  egg  shippers,  and  may 
or  may  not  prove  worthy.  During  every 
year  a  number  of  new  crates  are  devised 
to  put  on  the  market,  blit  not  many  of 
them  are  able  to  survive  the  hard  struggle 
for  practical  value. 
The  Power  of  an  Ink  Drop 
Last  Fall  a  relative  sent  my  husband 
a  free  trial  subscription  to  Thf,  It.  N.-Y. 
As  we  were  taking  many  papers  we  gave 
little  heed  to  it  except  to  admire  the  pic¬ 
ture  on  the  front  page,  several  of  which 
we  have  on  the  walls  of  the  living  room. 
As  wp  had  not  ordered  the  paper  we  felt 
it  ought  to  stop  when  the  trial  order  ex¬ 
pired.  Recently  I  decided  to  state  the 
case  to  yon.  but  on  looking  over  the  last 
issue  I  read  the  article  about  papers 
which  do  not  admit  liquor  advertisements 
and  what  you  said  about  writing  your 
objection  to  such  advertisements  to  edi¬ 
tors.  As  I  very  much  object  to  having  a 
paper  in  the  home  which  advertises 
either  liquor  or  tobacco,  and  I  think  you 
do  neither,  I  decided  to  send  you  a  dollar 
for  renewal,  and  have  a  clean  paper,  aud 
stand  by  my  principles.  As  I  have  time 
I  shall  write  the  editor,  whose  paper 
would  be  excellent  if  they  omitted  the  ob- 
I  believe  you  are  doing  your  job  thor¬ 
oughly  and  well,  and  it  certainly  is  a  job 
worth  doing.  Methods  of  eliminating  the 
middleman  are  what  the  farmer  wants, 
practical  workable  methods. 
New  York.  E.  w.  iutkin,  m.  n. 
I  have  no  garden,  only  a  few  flower 
boxes.  This  paper  fills  my  wants  iu  a 
way  for  a  country  home.  I  expect  some 
day  to  have  a  small  place  for  Summer; 
meanwhile  l  enjoy  reading  Tin;  R.  N.- 
Y.  My  husband  laughs  and  says  it  is 
a  cheap  substitute.  I  like  the  way  you 
make  those  lazy  ones  pay  lip,  living  on 
hard-working  people’s  efforts. 
Massachusetts.  AIKS.  s.  v.  E. 
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Inside  of  Cover  Neat  Lining  Paper. 
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Youker”— on  outside. 
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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
333  West  30th  St.  New  York  City 
