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lhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 25, 1922 
There Is Nothing So Profitable As Our 
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$1000 AN ACRE 
after my thirteenth birthday, I plodded 
through the multiplication table, geogra¬ 
phy, percentage and history and the rest 
as they were doled out in the grades of a 
large town school. Some time later I 
began teaehing those same subjects to the 
sons and (laughters of farmers, teamsters, 
and woodchoppers. So yon see 1 care to 
criticize unfavorably neither the type of 
school that trained me nor the kind where 
I have chosen to give my best work for 
the past ten or twelve years. 
Rut if 1 were a little girl once more, I 
should like to go to a country school. I 
can picture myself ns starting out bravely 
on a bright September morning, holding 
my brother’s hand tightly in one of mine, 
and swinging a little tin dinner pail 
from the other hand. And instead of be¬ 
ing sept off to a strange room with n 
strange teacher and a roomful of strange 
boys and girls, 1 should be able to sit 
where I could at least look at my big 
brother and at. the big girl cousin with 
whom I used to play house. And if I did 
cry when I couldn't, get my “examples” 
(as T actually did) 1 am sure teacher 
would have let. me go back and sit. with 
brother a fw minutes till that dreadful 
homesick feeling was gone. To he sure, 
I shall never find a teacher who is 
kinder and more considerate than Miss 
White was during that wonderful first 
term at school. 
Still, if 1 had beeu going to country 
school then, I might have been spared 
the boredom of reading again that Barnes’ 
Second Reader when I could adready 
read in the third. I might have taken 
more difficult spelling lessons, too, there¬ 
by sparing the teacher explaining to me 
that I must go through the form of stud¬ 
ying even if I did already know nil the 
words. Of course the method is necessary 
when one small girl is only a cog in the 
wheel of the system, and therefore must 
move only as fast as the other cogs in the 
wheel. The flexibility of the system in 
a little rural school of 10 or 12 or 15 
pupils permits them more often t<> pro¬ 
gress according to individual ability— 
rntber than according to the average 
ability of a large class. 
Attending a country school, I should 
have become better acquainted with my 
teachers. Instead of remembering them 
afterwards only as sitting behind a desk 
on a platform or standing about the 
room, we would have memories of eating 
dinner together in the shade of the big 
trees by the sehoolhouse or down by the 
brook. At noon hour and after school at 
night we might, have walked along the 
road together or up through a pasture 
looking for wild flowers. Maybe my 
brother and I would have proudly es¬ 
corted her home to supper at our house. 
All these little intimacies have special 
place in the life of a rural school child. 
The great, beauty of rural school life-— 
its seems to me—lies in its fellowship, 
the family spirit, of big folks looking 
after little folks, and the close, friendly 
relations between teacher and pupils. 
And a little schoolhouse near the woods 
is certainly an ideal place to get acquaint¬ 
ed with nature, to learn to observe birds 
and animals at home and to love the 
wild flowers by their own first names. 
VTDA M. BATES. 
The Township School System 
On page 10S4 you speak of the book of 
Thomas E. Fiuegan, “The Township Sys¬ 
tem.” Could I in any way get a copy of 
the book? Thomas E. Fiuegan is at the 
present time State Superintendent of 
Education of this State, and is trying to 
introduce a system that, is objectionable 
to many people. We are having a lively 
tight in the school district where I reside, 
and I would like to get all the informa¬ 
tion on both sides of the question that I 
can. We are willing to give Dr. Fiuegan 
all the credit that is due him, but his 
methods do not look good to us. 
Bucks Co. Pa. c. s. balderston. 
This big book of 1092 pages is issued 
by the University of the State of New 
York at Albany. We do not know whether 
copies will be sent outside the State 
or not. No reply to our question about 
De Lue’s Golden Giant Sweet Corn 
Grow n on our own fanr«. Tim variety ha^ created a greater sensation than any other corn 
introduced since ihe Golden Bantam. Produces ears with 12 to 16 rows or a deep, 
golden yellow, many ears measurinc nine inches long. Many stalks produce two 
^,0S, well-developed ears. Quality delicious. A more profitable variety to grow than 
4 y^l When offered for sale in the markets, the De Lue s Golden Giant lakes the lead 
» Q./ 'A at a higher price, which means dollars to the producer. 
1 F A F rices: 1/2 lb. 35 c. I lb. 65 c, 2 lb. St. 20,5 lb. $2-75 postpaid. Order today. 
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j. j. h. GREGORY & SON 
R15 ELM ST.. MARBLEHEAD. MASS. 
SAWMILLS—POWER 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, FEB. 25, 1922 
FARM TOPICS 
Helping the Farmer to Help Himself .. .263. 264 
Winter Storage for Cabbage......... 
The Better New York Hilt Sou. 
Cultivating an Old Pasture....-. 
Making Tankage . . •.. 
Acetate of Limo Fertilizer. 
New York State Vegetable Growers.. 
A Family Debate. 
How I Handle Chicken Manure. 
Hope Farm Notes. . 
Moving From Re ited Farm.. 
Farmers and Happiness. 
New York State Grange. 
A Farm Bureau and Auto Thieves.... 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
A Day’s Work Shearing Sheep . 
The Wire Tag Cattle Danger... 
Grass Flavor in Butter.. 
Spoils d Silage . 
Thriftless Colt . 
Milklessness .... 
Analyzing Medicine ... 
Garget .. 
Poor Milk Yields. 
THE HENYARD 
Mold in Sprouted Oats. 
Fancy vs. Utility Poultry. 
Faring Ration ... 
Construction of Henhouse. 
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HARRIS' CATALOGUE is a book full of 
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Gardeners will find in the catalogue many 
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•••• 301 Freezing of Chemical Closet 
Tn the various catalogues I see adver- 
267 tisements of the indoor chemical closets. 
"" 237 Will this chemical stand very cold, freez- 
_ 267 ing temperature? We have no room in 
which we would care lo install Hie closet 
where water would not freeze in some or 
274 the extreme weather we get iu this dis- 
’.!!! 278 trict. .T.H.F. 
— Granville, N. Y. 
284, 286 There are two types of chemical closets. 
' fee one using a coal-tar disinfectant and the 
”!! 288 other a strong caustic solution (caustic 
_ 288 soda) in the receptacle, but either of 
.... 289 these will freeze at a sufficiently low tem¬ 
perature. I do not think that you would 
have any serious trouble with one of these 
.... 264 tanks in a room of the house, but should 
— f64 not expect it to withstand the very cold 
265, 266 weather of Winter iu au unprotected 
270 mit-room. It would be well to obtain the 
!... 270 guarantee of the manufacturer or dealer 
2 -n as to this matter before purchasing a 
— 270 chemical closet, though much will depend, 
re!’ 270 of course, upon whether the solution used 
_ 20 j s kept at its proper strength, and this 
■••• III is beyond the control of the denier. The 
272 makers of tanks used underground recom- 
;;;; 272 mend that they lie protected in very severe 
- 272 weather by a covering of earth, sawdust 
-HZ? or other non conducting materials where 
273 some portion of the tank may be ex nosed, 
!... 275 so it is evident, that their contents will not 
.... 276 withstand too low a temperature without 
* 276 froozing. M. B. D. 
! 1!276 _ 
!!!! 279 A tiny maid, held up to hear her fath- 
.... 281 Pr ’ s voice on the telephone, burst into 
- 283 ^ ars - ‘‘What are you crying for?” asked 
;;;; 2 S 3 her mother. “Oh, mamma,” sobbed the 
!!.. 287 child, “how ever can we get dadda out 
.... 287 () f that little hole?”—Morning l’ost. 
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;;; ■ 263 Tiie sympathetic-looking shopper in the 
!!!! 296 book department approached the clerk, 
-296 w ho had a bad cough. “Have you ‘Epie- 
— 296 fittus?' ” she asked. “No. madam, the doc- 
;;;; 296 tor says it is merely a bronchial cold,” 
!!!! 302 gasped the clerk.—Philadelphia Record. 
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