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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 21, 1922 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BVSJXESS FA 7t3fXR’& FA PER 
K National Weekly Journal for Country anil Suburban Homer 
F.Htal'!LshttI iGsO 
fubllthcd weekly by the Rnral Piibliiihlne I'otiHiniiy. S8S Wen 80ih Street.Sen fork 
HERBERT W, COIJMXQWOOn, President and Editor. 
John- .1. Iiiu.nv, Treasurer and General Manager. 
IVm. F. Dillon. Sivi etury. Mrs. E. T. Rons. Associate Editor. 
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“A SQUARE DEAL" 
We believe that every advertisement In this paper is backed by a respon¬ 
sible person. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable Houses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make pood any loss 
to paid nubecrlher* sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertisers or misleading advertisements in our columns and any 
such swindler will be publicly exposed. We arc also often called upon 
to adjust dllTnreucc.i or mistakes between our subscribers and honest, 
responsible bouses, whether advertisers or not. We willingly use our good 
offices to this cad, but such coses should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions. We protect subscribers against rogues, but we will not ho 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts -auctioned bv the courts. 
Notice of the complaint must be sent to um within one month of the time of 
the transaction, and to identify it, you should mention The Rural New- 
Yorker when writing the advertiser. 
W E have had a dozen letters this year stating 
that cows and cheep have been killed by 
limiters. The bodies are usually found by accident 
io the pasture, and, of course, the slayers have es¬ 
caped. Some of our readers, seem to think that tlie 
State lias a fund from which the value of these 
animals can be paid. The theory they advance is 
that since the State licenses the hunters it should 
he responsible for their damage. That theory will 
not stand. The State issues a license to a ear driver, 
hut if he knocks me down on the road I do not ask 
the State to settle. I go after the driver. If these 
farmers do not know who shot their cows, we do not 
know of any legal way t«» collect damages. There is 
a public fund from which damages are paid when 
sheep are killed by unknown dogs. While it may 
be true that some farmers would class the hunters 
with, or even below dogs, the law puts them in a 
separate class. There is no redress against the mis¬ 
erable assassin who sneaks through the fields and 
murders a farm animal. Post your premises and 
pester the Legislature for a nearer perfect law. 
* 
W E think Mr. Lovett's letter, on page 68, 
a fair statement of an injustice to farmers iu 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We have just paid 
836 for a license to run a two-ton truck. This is an 
increase of $13 over last year. We usually make 80 
to 100 market trips a year. A business truck of the 
same size Avill run four times our mileage and pay 
the same license fee. It does far more to tear up 
and destroy the roads than a farm truck running 
only during the seasou. and should, therefore, pay 
more for the privilege of running. That, of course, 
is on the theory that, the State taxes ears and trucks 
for the purpose of obtaining funds l'or road improve¬ 
ments. as well as to identify them. This being so, 
tell us why Mr. Lovett’s plan of taxing trucks on 
their mileage is not fair? 
X 
IIE agricultural college of New Jersey asks the 
Slaie Legislature to appropriate $200,000 for a 
dairy and animal husbandry building. This request 
is .instilled, and we hope the leaders in the Legisla¬ 
ture will grant it. By reason of its unique situation. 
New Jersey lias the best agricultural opportunity of 
any State in the Union. The farmers of New Jersey 
have worked away from the old idea of raising a lit¬ 
tle of this and a little of that. They are now becom¬ 
ing specialists—producing the food which finds best 
sale close at hand. With the immense and fast- 
growing suburban population, there has come a great 
demand l’or milk. There is no reason why the New 
Jersey farmers should stand by and permit other 
section* to provide this milk supply. The dairy 
industry is needed in New Jersey. Much of the soil 
is light and demands full supplies of manure. Even 
when green manuring is fully worked out, a light 
dressing of manure will work wonders on this soil. 
Tin 1 manure supply from town and city is falling off. 
Dairying will supply the need. Again, one weak 
point about modern farming in New Jersey is the 
lack of profitable Winter work. As we increase our 
acreage of fruits and vegetables we shall have less 
to do in Winter, and dairying will supply this need. 
With the ordinary soiling crops and such new ones 
as Ilubani clover and kudzu. Jersey farmers can 
produce most of the needed fodder, with great ad¬ 
vantage to their soils. The need is evident to any¬ 
one who is capable of thought. The development of 
the poultry industry in the State shows how the col¬ 
lege may serve as headquarters. Who can deny that 
the college is chiefly responsible for bringing New Jer¬ 
sey back as a peach State? Given reasonable equip¬ 
ment, the college will make dairying in the State 
an even greater industry than poultry keeping has 
grown to lie. Every Jersey man should support this 
demand for a dairy appropriation. 
* 
Cheap bread means for such folk enough to eat of 
wliat almost undoubtedly is the best single comestible 
the world produces—the only one, perhaps, on which 
health as well as life can he long sustained without the 
help of anything else. 
IT.VT is taken from the New York Times, which 
refers to the fact that some of the city bakers 
are selling a 1-lfi. loaf for 3 cents. In most cases 
this is done to attract trade. The Times should read 
what Dr. McCollum and other authorities say about 
bread made of white dour. When rats and other 
animals wore fed on wheat alone they failed to grow 
properly and had but a short life. The addition of 
milk and butter made a good ration, but the old 
notion that wheat alone is a perfect ration has long 
been exploded. Many a child raised on the theory 
that bread alone is a perfect food has grown up to 
adult age with imperfect teetli or none at all, under¬ 
sized body and brittle bones. Milk is the one -perfect 
food. 
* 
LL sorts of strange things are happening in this 
country. One that will take high rank in tlie 
list is noted in the following, from the Albany (Ga.) 
Herald: 
REVEALED 
The first monument to the boll weevil—cotton de¬ 
stroyer—is unveiled at Enterprise, Ala. It is a bronze 
fountain, in the business district, with the table read¬ 
ing: "In profound appreciation of the boll weevil,'’ etc. 
The idea is that the boll weevil, by its ravaging the 
cotton crop, is turning the one-crop South into a self- 
supporiing agricultural country. Crop diversification 
is the farmer's insurance against failure. 
A fountain in honor of the boll weevil! And why 
not? The lion. IL Weevil is succeding in doing what 
all the great statesmen of the South failed to accom¬ 
plish. That is. show King Cotton just where he 
could get off tlie train. Cotton always was a tyrant, 
lie kept his subjects poor, forcing them to buy bay 
from Michigan, meat from Illinois, leather from New 
Hampshire, mules from Indiana, oats from Wiscon¬ 
sin—everything, from candles to coffins, outside of 
his territory. Wise men of all professions tried to 
make King Cotton leave his throne and go to work. 
They never made a dent on him. Then came tlie 
Hon. Boll Weevil. Tie delivered no oration—lie knew 
no science—he just hit and gnawed until he died. A 
single bite was of small consequence, but a billion 
bites made a hole through the chair of tlie throne 
and King Cotton got up and went to work, lie is 
no longer "His Royal Highness” but a good hired 
man. We are often made great by our calamities— 
when they drive us to work. 
* 
Everything considered, therefore, we can enter the 
new year in a spirit of hopefulness and good cheer. I 
see nothing which indicates boom times for (lie farmer 
in the near future, but there does seem to lie promise 
of better times, both for the farmer and for those whose 
business is largely dependent upon him. 
HAT is tlie conclusion reached by Secretary of 
Agriculture Wallace regarding fanning in 1022. 
We have had all sorts of reports. Some are very 
optimistic, claiming a very profitable year. Others 
are thoroughly discouraging, with no hope in sight. 
Neither of these extreme views can be justified. We 
see nothing in sight to warrant belief in any boom 
year. At the same time, we think general conditions 
are Improving. The farmer is now, and ever lias 
been, fully willing to do his full share. As compared 
with other industries, he has done more than his 
share—pulling his savings and his labor into bis 
business. Organized labor has not made the sacri¬ 
fices or given its best service as freely ns farmers 
have. ‘‘Capital” lias not made business investments 
or made use of its money as agriculture has been 
forced to do. During the coming year we expect to 
see a gradual but sure revival of business, which will 
be felt by farmers. On our own farm we are plan¬ 
ning for a lirtle increase of operations over last year, 
with a readjustment of expenses and equipment. 
Judging by past history, there is sure to come a 
revival of prosperity which farmers will share. "We 
think they will get a little more of the consumer’s 
dollar than formerly. They must keep up their 
farms and equipment if they expect to continue 
farming. 
* 
ANY of our people were interested in that “ty¬ 
phoid carrier’’ who stated her pathetic case 
some weeks ago, sin* had been practically driven 
from home and deprived of a chance to earn her 
living at the work she was best qualified to do. We 
printed her story and did what we could to influ¬ 
ence the authorities in her ease. Dozens of our peo¬ 
ple wrote her. They did not offer remunerative em¬ 
ployment, but they did offer her a home. The local 
Grange took the matter up and pushed it so well and 
thoroughly that the state Board of Health has now 
permitted this “victim’’ to return to her family. So 
that now all is well after nearly six months of 
trouble and loss. Let us thank all the good friends 
who gave help and counsel in this ease. Our folks 
can do almost any worthy thing if they can get to¬ 
gether on common ground and with common senti¬ 
ment. 
4 * 
Great issues arc put aside, great political questions, 
arc pushed into the background, questions and issues 
upon which the people might be organized, and elections 
won, are lightly considered, and men come more and 
more to rely upon the power of money to secure political 
honors. Thus far. my friends, we have traveled, in 150 
years. There was a Rome once which was declared to 
be controlled through the power of money in her elec¬ 
tions. but we have traveled further iu 130 years than 
Rome traveled in five centuries. 
T HAT is taken from a speech delivered by Sena¬ 
tor W. E. Borah of Idaho before the United 
States Senate in tlie contest which T. II. Newberry 
of Michigan made for admission. Senator Borah’s 
speech is said to be one of the greatest ever made in 
Washington. Wliat he says is true. Again and 
again great issues upon which men and women 
might organize have been buried beneath great heaps 
of money. We have all of us seen this thing worked 
out, all the way up from the nomination of a county 
clerk to the selection of a presidential candidate. 
The thing cuts down lo the very vitals of society. 
We have seen officers of farm organizations, men 
who obtain office through tlie confidence which the 
people have in them, taking this dirty money and 
rallying their followers—not for any principle, but 
for some personality more or less crooked. It is 
customary to heap all the blame for this upon the 
“leaders” and their agents who put up the money. 
They are not the only guilty ones. They would not 
float these great rafts of “graft” unless they felt 
sure that it would he accepted! We are all guilty— 
all of us who stand by and silently consent to such a 
purchase of manhood, even if we do not share in tlie 
spoils. Tlie evil cannol be cured by penalizing tlie 
men who spent this money. If there were no eager 
receivers there would ho no spenders. The only real 
remedy lies in a higher grade of moral power among 
the plain people, who have the votes to deliver. In 
a republic (lie ballot is the most precious thing which 
the citizen possesses. The most practical question is 
—what can we do to induce men and women to 
regard their voting privilege as something beyond 
price? It is easy lo denounce the big grafters who 
spend the money. They only smile and go on spend¬ 
ing "legally.” The remedy lies in training our peo¬ 
ple to refuse to accept this bribery and to bury all 
who attempt it, no matter who they are or what their 
party may be. 
Brevities 
Ttte (lancing master now calls himself a “professor of 
ehoregrapby.” It seems to us the hired man has a bet¬ 
ter right to the title. 
One way to bury the hatchet with your neighbor’s 
family is to invite them in to eat some fat hatcher that 
has incubated in a chicken pic. 
Y'ou may question the statement, but more tbau 140.- 
000 goals were marketed as meal last year in this coun¬ 
try—mostly as “mutton and lamb." 
We have one reader of 85 so nearly blind that lie 
must go to a neighbor’s to inve the young folks read 
the paper to him—yet lie renews hi* subscription. 
Question. — Has any reader, after studying ‘‘Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk” for a year or more, any right to complain 
if he "signs a dotted line” and finds himself in a trap? 
It would be hard to name a single farm operation 
which is not in effect a "future.” It is a gamble with 
the weather, blight and insects—sonic of the latter hav¬ 
ing two logs. 
A SURVEY in New Hampshire covering over 800 farm 
families shows that the average consumption of milk 
among farmers was a little over one pint per day for 
each person. Of butter there was an average con¬ 
sumption of lfA tablospooufuls. 
The Wisconsin Experiment Station claims consider¬ 
able gain from seeding Timothy with Alfalfa. A seeding 
of 15 lbs. Alfalfa and 5 lbs. Timothy per acre is sug¬ 
gested. This makes a good hay mixture, and gives a 
little better yield than pure Alfalfa. 
There is no reason why fine ground or burned oyster 
shells should not tie as affective as other forms of lime. 
All along the shore are great piles of those shells. 'They 
are often used for road building, and the value of their 
lime is proven by the way the clover comes iu along the 
road where the lime dust has blown out. The soil along 
the shore is usually much in need of lime, and these 
oyster shells should supply the need. 
A few weeks ago we told of the method of helping 
toothache by pressure on the fingers. Now we have the 
following treatment for baldness. At least, it will cost 
nothing to try it: "Dr. William IT. Eitz Gerald of 
Hartford, Conn., in reporting the results of zone or 
pressure therapy in Anierioan Medicine, says that rub¬ 
bing the finger nails of one hand against those of the 
other, including tlie thumb nails, very briskly for two 
or throe minutes a few times daily will cause the scalp 
to tighten and thus decrease or stop altogether the fall 
of hair.” 
