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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 7, 1922 
Turning Green Grass 
Into Green Backs 
is the title of a free folder telling how 
New England farmers are raising better¬ 
paying grass crops by using Hubbard’s 
Bone Base Fertilizers for top dressing. 
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Library? 
A professor at one of our great universities 
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HOPE FARM NOTES 
“I do not believe that I have sent you a word about your ‘Hope 
Farm Notes.’ I have gone through the book the second time, and 
each time I find a new meaning, I have, this year, asked my students 
to read the book because of its in Mu once *m character and our attitude 
to the soil. This book should be in every rural school in our country, 
and, I do re say, many of our city schools would he benefited if the 
students were required to road true stories from life, such as you have 
given us. 1 am truly delighted with the book, uud I must tell you 
that it. has helped me in more than our way." 
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat calls this book “a life-like record 
of a phase and period of farming now rapidly passing away.” 
We all want our children to grow up with memory and vision 
of the best that- belonged to "the good old times.” This larok is to 
becomes classic which all who love the best in country life should read. 
Is it in your school library? 
Why not make yourself responsible for putting it there? That 
is one way in which you can help the district. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, 333 West 30th St., New York 
Gentlemen—Enclosed find remittance for $1.50, for which send 
me, postpaid, a copy of "Hope Farm Notes.” 
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Things To Think About 
The object of this department is to give readers a chance to express themselves on farm 
matters. Not long articles can be used—just short, pointed opinions or suggestions, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER does not always endorse what is printed here. You might 
call this a mental saiety valve. 
Railroad and Farm Wages 
I noted article on page 1453 from a 
|railroad employe who, 1 would under¬ 
stand, is a trainman, lie states his wages 
average $5.84 per day. but nothing is said 
about payments for overtime and other 
favors granted by I he railroads in their 
agreements with trainmen’s organizations, 
which they have been able to obtain as 
jtheir organizations gained strength and 
began to be recognized by the railroads. 
In the same mail I received from the 
New York College of Agriculture, United 
States Department of Agriculture, a busi¬ 
ness analysis of 17s farms, which shows 
that the average labor income for the 
past eight years was $305, or $1 per day. 
I have no reason to "knock” the rail¬ 
roader for taking as high wages as he is 
able to command, but there is something 
radically wrong with the system which 
gives a trainman $5.84 per day. with no 
capital investment or liability, and the 
farmer only $1 per day. with no overtime 
payments: in fact, he is penalized for 
working overtime, siuee it results in in¬ 
creased crop production, which means de¬ 
creased prices and revenue. The prefer¬ 
ence in the work is shown by the large 
number of young farmers entering the 
railroad train service as brakemen and 
firemen. In normal times the railroads 
experience no trouble in filling these po¬ 
sitions. Can’t the farmers be made to see 
the benefits to be derived from organiza¬ 
tion and co-operation, and give their 
united support to their County Farm Bu¬ 
reau? As to the "middleman.” it seems 
to me that the consumer is more respon¬ 
sible for bis existence than the farmer. 
Newfane, N. \ r . s. F. 
The Troubles of Workingmen 
Having .just read the article signed by 
K. J. Burnelle on the much-discussed sub¬ 
ject of railroad wages, and having rend 
your editorial some time ago, I take the 
liberty of writing a few lines. I am 47 
years old. and spent all but 15 years of 
it on a farm. I hired out as fireman on 
the Boston and Albany Railroad Decem¬ 
ber 5. lfttMl; was promoted as engineer 
January 20. 1911. I am able to state 
that if some of the editors and farmers 
would start with the scoop and go through 
the hardships and examinations- we are 
compelled to. they would change their 
minds on the wage question. Did you 
ever think, when yon were sleeping cozily 
in your Pullman berth ou a cold, stormy 
night, of the poor fellow on the bead end? 
Did you ever stop to think of the strain 
and mental anxiety that was required to 
guide you safely? Perhaps a quarter of 
a million dollars in property and 500 
lives. Before advocating wage cuts, 
please give this consideration. As T have 
done farming and railroading both. I 
think 1 am as well qualified to judge this 
question as a man that has done neither. 
, ARTHUR CIPPERLY. 
R N.-Y.—Yes. we have thought of the 
engineer and fireman on such nights. \Ye 
might ask much tlie* same question of the 
railroad workers regarding the farmer 
who endures heat and cold, sun and rain, 
bug and blight, with no definite and 
steady income, and no organized protec¬ 
tion against industrial robbers. 
One Improvement Calls for Another 
The farm horses in my country do not 
like the hard roads any better than Mr. 
Rerrang’s oxen do, and I was glad to hear 
from a man who lias the nerve to speak 
his mind about these modern atrocities, 
at which even the beasts protest. 1 am 
personally acquainted with a few men 
who do not like these roads any better 
than their beasts of burden. But they 
haven’t the nerve to say so out loud, but 
will sneak around two or three miles out 
of the way, through sand and mini, to 
haul their loads of produce to town, and 
avoid the hard roads. A team that will 
haul two tons at a good smart walk on an 
ordinary dirt road will creep along (like 
a timid old lady on the ice ). with half this 
load on a slippery macadam, and nego¬ 
tiate the grades with difficulty. If one 
of these noble animals falls and receives 
injury, the owner bears the loss. They are 
making it cement over on the south road 
which runs through an ordinarily good 
farming country, and the farms and all 
their equipment located on this road 
would not sell for enough to pay the cost 
of its construction. People who come Ibis 
way to buy farms arc not looking for, 
neither do they want, farms located ou 
the hard roads. There arc people who 
would prefer to have their farms cut in 
two with a railroad and their buildings 
located on its right of way rather thiin 
on a modern hard road. Rail ears mostly 
run on schedule; motor cars do not. A 
railroad is responsible for damage done 
by its rolling stock, and not the drivers. 
In the days before hard roads came in 
vogue there were men who owned teams 
and made a good living hauling wood, hay, 
lumber, potatoes, and all kinds of country 
produce to the city, and hauled back all 
sorts of merchandise for the village mer¬ 
chants at a cost of 20c per ton per mile. 
Nowadays this hauling is mostly done 
with expensive motor trucks on expensive 
bard roads, at a cost of 40e per ton per 
mile. The truck owners are not getting 
rich enough for anyone to notice. In the 
cracker-barrel days of horses as freight 
haulers, when Pete and Jim and Bill were 
not averse to shouldering a sack of flour 
or a sack of potatoes on their way home 
from the store, and the housekeeper went 
down with a market, basket, the \illage 
merchant was content to take a commis¬ 
sion of 2c a pound for butter. 2c a dozen 
for eggs. 5c or 10c a bushel for potatoes 
and other things according. Nowadays 
he asks a Commission, of 10c to 15c a 
pound for butter, 10c to 15c a dozen for 
eggs. oOe to $1.50 on a bushel of potatoes, 
and other tilings in proportion; and he 
stonily maintains that there is no money 
in his business, 1 am inclined to think 
he is mostly right, for his expense of 
maintaining motor cars and a bevy of 
clerks to distribute his wares in little 
driblets to bis patrons scattered all over 
town is so great aud the prices he asks 
for his goods are so high, that only the 
honest, only the industrious and frugal 
pay him in full for what they buy. 
IVa are living in au age that delights 
to do all the little things, all the ordinary, 
everyday commonplace things, in a very 
large way. and it. costs very large money 
to do them so. This large monev must 
all he gathered out of the soil, out’ of the 
resources of the earth, out of the toil and 
the sweat of human endeavor. In the 
final analysis we find it is the plain, hon¬ 
est, industrious, efficient, frugal folks who 
pay the bills. b, w. 
Rroudalbin, N. Y. 
Game Laws in the Mountains 
5Ye live in the center of the deer run¬ 
ways, 2 1 , miles up in the woods from the 
State road. N. Y., O. & \V. R. 1{„ iin ,i <-ast 
branch of the Delaware River, at an alti¬ 
tude of 1.550 ft. The highwuy runs par¬ 
allel to the ra ilroad around the mountains, 
with six different roads leading up into 
the mountains. Most of them are wood 
roads. Hunters run (heir cars up these 
roads to go hunting. Some park their 
cars on the main road, while many hunt¬ 
ers from tile valley and villages come on 
foot. The woods have all been cut over 
for lumber and acid cordvvood within the 
past 20 years. The woods are a jungle of 
briars, brush and small timber, with a net¬ 
work of old and new wood roads. Hunters 
come in parties of from two to six. usu¬ 
ally four to a party. One from each party 
will go to the swamps at the head of 
Tyler’s Creek nr City Brook, or on top of 
the ridge, and drive the deer, while the 
others hide .or keep very still ou roads and 
runways. With several parties in the 
woods every day for 15 days, it is a won¬ 
der that, there is a deer of any kind left. 
I have talked to many hunters, and most 
of them say that if they wait to see if the 
deer has horns, they will never get one. 
It is seldom a day posses that wo do not 
hear two or more times a day from two 
to eight shots in quick succession, some¬ 
times very near the house. The only 
buck deer reported killed in this hollow 
was killed inside of (!(K) ft. of my house. 
We feel most of the time like goiug to the 
cellar for safety. We put our cattle in 
the meadow or cultivated fields to save 
them. A Jersey looks too much like a 
deer in the woods. When the hunters 
pass, I usually go out and tell them if 
they get cold to come back t<> the house 
and get warm : not to build auy fire. We 
have bad nine here to get warm in a day. 
In gome through the woods to look at 
some timber. December 1(1. I saw but two 
very small fawn tracks in the snow. Two 
years ago the woods were tracked up 
much like a barnyard. One more year 
with the Betts law will finish the deer 
here as clean as they were in 1001. when 
we moved here. The first deer came in 
Imre about 1010-11. I do object to the 
issuing of bunting licenses to anyone old 
enough and having the price to pay for it. 
There arc two young men here who wear 
the license badge, both exempted from 
the draft for weak minds; one of them 
exempted from school on that account. 
T was in town last week and saw a hunt¬ 
ing license badge on a dog. I thought it 
safer than on some people. The hunters 
from the city are more considerate of our 
rights than those from village or country. 
Delaware Co.. N. Y. ii. s. downer. 
An Invalid’s Gift 
The best and most pleasing Christmas 
gift I ever received was. 1 believe, a 
small hand-made dresser, which was made 
and presented to me 12 years ago. The 
most pleasing features of this dresser 
were its three large, deep drawers, its 
light weight and its simple desigu. It 
has always been a prized possession, be¬ 
cause it was made by an did family friend, 
who was an old-time cabinet maker. In 
my opiuion. the best Christmas gift is 
the one of which we say : "That is just 
what I have been wanting ever so long.” 
The needed or practical gift of unusual 
quality (better than our purse will per¬ 
mit. perhapsl. coming unexpectedly, is 
the best Christmas gift- G. R. B- 
