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The RURAL. NEW.YORKER 
February 18, 1922 
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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 safety valve. 
A Defense of the Railroads 
I cannot help making some reply to 
yonr article “Sympathy for the Rail¬ 
roads.” While anyone will admit that in 
the particular case of “.Tones'’ he was 
badly treated, yet the spirit of the article 
is entirely unjust and misleading. No 
railroad ever pretended to be a philan¬ 
thropic organization. They are business 
propositions, pure and simple, and mighty 
good ones. Without the railroads we 
would be three or four generations be¬ 
hind the times: farming and manufac¬ 
tories would still he in the pioneer stage; 
and our great West, would still he the 
land of the buffalo and Indian. 
1 was foolish, enough years ago to 
think that our railroads and coal mines 
ought to be in the hands of the Govern¬ 
ment, though we were then getting the 
best and cheapest railroad service in the 
world. Today, however, I am wiser. Our 
taxes in this township this year are 
almost unbearable, yet if it were not for 
the New York Central paying its thou¬ 
sands in taxes into the town treasury, 
they would he almost doubled. And then 
we taxpayers build roads for the trucks 
to run upon in competition with the rail¬ 
roads free of all tax! And again, there 
are countless elderly people, widows mid 
minors, who have all of their little sav¬ 
ings invested in the railroads of our 
country, and who today receive little or 
no incomes from them; whereas if they 
were paid iti proportion to the employees 
of those roads they would receive 14 per 
cent, or 40 per cent, instead of 4 per 
ccut. Don’t “knock” the railroads. They 
Irare been the backbone and ribs of our 
country. They have made US what we 
are, and today it is up to ns to give them 
all aid that we can to preserve and per¬ 
fect them. HARVEY LOSEE. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
A Word for the Hired Man 
As soon as I glance over the best things 
in The R. X.-Y. b give it. to the men to 
read, as they patiently wait for it, and 
should have it. In fact, every farm 
owner should practice to keep this paper 
for the hired man. It is only $1 to the 
owner, and may means hundreds to both 
of them, and not. as J. H. T. says on 
page 110. as though the hired man was 
far below all of us. Yes, it is true the 
hired man may not have that rising am¬ 
bition, and he may not. see far enough 
into the future to give him that much- 
needed start, which he is lacking. Why 
not get in back of him and help push, so 
that he will reach the top of the ladder 
ns we have done, and then the hired man 
of today will he more willing to work for 
ns and our interest. 
Most farm owners want men who can 
run a farm and garden, do dairy work, 
must he a good milker, experienced in 
breeding cattle, raising calves, understand 
tractors, must he capable of handling 
men. wife good hutter-innkev, and must 
board two or three men. Now. does that 
sound reasonable for any sane man to 
suggest to a working man? We all real¬ 
ize that the farmer’s wife has enough to 
do to help her husband and look after 
interests belonging to her, without hoard¬ 
ing extra men of low type. The farmer 
himself, putting in hours from five o’clock 
in the morning until eight, at. night, has 
a mighty long day, seven times a week, 
and if you can qualify for a position of 
this kind, you might get .$05 per month. 
I have been through all of this, and I 
am strong for farming and the right judg¬ 
ment for the working farmer, as he is one 
man we cannot get along without. 
I don’t wonder a hit. why the farmer’s 
hoys would rather work in the city, with 
the short hours, half-holidays, and good 
wages, and, most of all, that worry and 
cure which the farmer has to contend 
with. Some of you city pen-pushers come 
out on the farm and try it. I have had 
my experience, and all farms are alike. 
' New Jersey. w. J. B. 
An Echo of the Wolohon Case 
Whereas. The Rural New-Yorker 
has displayed in various ways its interest 
in the shooting of a thief caught in the 
act of robbing a hennery in this locality, 
(he property belonging to a member of 
this association ; and. 
Whereas, it extended its interest in 
raising a defense fund to help defend the 
person who did the shooting; therefore, 
be it 
Jtetiolverf, that this association, the Mt. 
hlphraim and 11 addon field Mutual Pursu¬ 
ing Company, desires and does hereby 
extend thanks and appreciation to The 
Rural New-Yorker, and also to each 
contributor to the fund raised, and be it 
further 
Ucsolvcd, that a copy of this resolution 
be spread upon the minutes of the associ¬ 
ation. and a copy forwarded to The 
R ruAi, New-Yorker. 
Mt. Ephraim and TTnddonfield Mutual 
Pursuing and Detective Co., Cainden 
County, N. .T. 
R. N.-Y.—This refers to the TTmry 
Wolohon case. Mr, Wolohon found a 
thief ill his henhouse, fired at random in 
the dark, and killed the intruder. He 
was arrested and ordered for trial for 
manslaughter. The ease was discon¬ 
tinued, largely through the influence of 
this Mutual Pursuing Company. This is 
an organization of citizens pledged to as¬ 
sist. each member in case of trouble from 
thieves of any sort. Organization is 
what does it. 
Another City Truckman 
I notice that some of my farmer friends 
object to the license fees on their trucks 
on the ground that they do not use the 
roads as much as mercantile trucks do. 
My business is in Pennsylvania, but I 
suppose most city merchants of New 
York State are affected by license fees 
just as we are. T have four trucks, which 
average 7.000 miles a year, all short runs, 
on city streets. I am taxed by the city 
to keep up these city streets! and the 
•State pays not a cent, for this purpose. 
Yet I pay the State $40 each for a 1%- 
ton truck, and in addition a tax of a cent 
a gallon on gasoline, practically one- 
eighth of a cent per mile, or $8.50 per 
yeai', for each truck. These trucks do 
not run 10 miles a year on a State road. 
On the other hand. I run a seven-pas¬ 
senger tonring car. perhaps 10.000 miles 
a year, all on State mads, and pay the 
Stale only $17.60 for the license and 
$8.33 gasoline fax. Of course the only 
just way for the State to tax cars is for 
mileage on State roads, but it is not 
practicable. So we must all pay up 
cheerfully, because we all wnnt good 
country roads, whether we use them much 
or not. FRANK A. KAISER. 
Pennsylvania. 
R. N.-Y.—Yet. if it were not for the 
country roads there would be little or no 
business for the city trucks. 
The Cost of Legal Service 
The inquiry and your answer in the 
matter of the cost of obtaining a mort¬ 
gage on page 1456 of your December 17, 
3021, issue is noticed. Your answer hardly 
seems fair either to the legal profession 
or to their clients. Three hundred dol¬ 
lars is, of course, au outrageous figure, 
but I have had searches where the dis¬ 
bursements alone came to over $40, and 
they generally are as follows: 
1. Tax searches, $2 to $3.50. 
2. Supreme Court searches (depending 
how many people owned the land during 
the past 20 years), $5 to $15. 
3. U. S. District Court search, S3 to 
$5 
4. Recording fees, $1.75 to $4.50. 
5. Survey, $14 to $20. 
On the above basis of $50 the attorney 
would have very little left to pay for his 
services. In any locality $5 is the usual 
sum for drawing a bond and mortgage, 
and an ordinary search takes from 15 to 
25 hours. To this must he added one to 
three hours for passing title and the cost 
of having the abstract written. 
Seventy-five dollars and expenditures is 
a very fair price for the average search. 
Rome searchings require as much as 50 
hours, and in such cases the attorney 
suffers a heavy loss, as generally the 
price is fixed in advance. We do not 
have in Jersey the mortgage tax of one- 
half of one per cent required in New 
York State. 
There is also to be added 5 cents per 
$100 for revenue stamps on the bond, In 
fairness to both sides, I think you ought 
to revise the figures given in your publi¬ 
cation. J. L. G ARAB RANT. 
New Jersey. 
Waterproofing Cotton Duck 
I see on page 1409 the question: 
“What is the best method of treating 
cotton duck to protect it against the 
weather?” The writer does not make 
clear his wishes as to whether he wants 
to protect the duck or wains the duck to 
protect him. There is a method of treat¬ 
ing cotton duck to make it waterproof 
that is so simple it has been a surprise 
to me that our War Department did not 
treat all their tents during the war by 
this method. Tt adds little or nothing to 
the weight, is perfectly pliable, and to 
all practical purposes waterproof. It 
consists of melting 1 lb, to 1J4 lbs- of 
paraffin wax and pouring tins into a 
gallon of gasoline, and either brush this 
on the duck or, if possible, dip it in the 
solution. 
I have a boat cover that was treated 
in this manner 10 years ago that is still 
waterproof. I have au ordinary fly which 
I use for camping that was treated in 
this manner some six or eight years ago. 
It withstands the hardest kind of rain 
without even splashing through. You 
know that it is customary to use a fly 
over the tap of n tent to keep the rain 
from pounding through. This is practi¬ 
cally the fly without the tent. If has 
been used from a month to six weeks every 
Summer for six or eight years. The appli¬ 
cation of moist waterproofing renders cot¬ 
ton duck bridle mid easily torn. The 
paraffin renders the material soft and 
pliable, and so simple and inexpensive 
that anyone can do it. and there is no 
danger of fire, as the paraffin alone is 
melted and poured into the cold gaso¬ 
line. B. G. PRATT. 
