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Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Rural New-Yorker 
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\ National Wocklj Journal lor Country anil Suburban IIooiih 
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jotis .1. ini.i.oN, Treasurer and General Mnnatrcr. 
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“ A SQUARE DEAL” 
We believe that every advertisement in tliis |ja|«>r is barked by a respon¬ 
sible person. We use every poKsllile preeuntion anil admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only Rut to mnVo doubly sure, we will make pood any Iosh 
to paid Ktibsri ihent wisiaiued by irtmiuut silty delibemte sw indler, irrespon¬ 
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res|iouslble bouses, wlielbrr ailveflisers or not- We willingly use fiur Rood 
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Yorkeh when writing’ the advertiser. 
Hfive me from the friends icho never disagree. No 
flint can ever strike sparks out of soft soap. With¬ 
out sparks there can be no flame. Without flame 
there can be no light! Without light tee are in utter 
darkness. 
UK 
NUMBER of readers write asking if we have 
noted what some of the experiment stations 
are saying about Hubam clover. Yes, we have read 
their reports with great interest. As a rule the 
stations claim that no report on a new plant should 
he made until at least three years' trial. Most of 
them have not tried Huham more than one or 
two seasons. We think their reports are aimed, 
not so much at the new plant as at the very high 
price demanded for the seed. As most of our read¬ 
ers should know by this time. Hubam is simply an 
annual form of Sweet clover. The old-fashioned 
sort requires two years for lull maturity, while the 
llubam makes its growth, including seed, in one 
year. Most of the stations thus far reporting state 
that the llubam is inferior to the old clover. Per¬ 
haps the most vigorous arraignment of it is made by 
the Wisconsin Station, as follows: 
Where tin- crop was grown as a cultivated crop tinder 
garden conditions in rows, live bushels of seed was ob¬ 
tained from an acre. When grown under these condi¬ 
tions the crop may prove of value to bee men as a honey 
crop. As long as farmers are willing to pay exorbitant 
prices for the seed it will pay to grow it for seed, hut 
so far the experiments fail to show that it is a crop 
that can begin to compare with our common clovers and 
Alfalfa as a forage crop. There is a possibility for it 
as an emergency hay crop, hut its worth has not as yet 
been demonstrated in Wisconsin. 
Probably “not yet been demonstrated” is a fair 
statement of the ease. It is our judgment that these 
statements would have been modified if the stations 
hail not felt that llubam seed was being boomed at 
an extravagant price. We have never advised our 
readers to pay these high prices except for experi¬ 
ment samples of seed. No manorial or hay plant 
can ever give profitable returns at such figures. Our 
prophecy is that when Hubam seed gpts down to 20 
cents a pound it will he noted one of the best ma- 
nurial plants. We will not take hack one word we 
have said for Huham. We have great respect for 
the opinions of the station scientists, hut they have 
been wrong before now in their estimates of values 
and efficiency. The great trouble with Huham is 
that the seed costs too much at this time. When 
increased production pulls down the price we shall 
find a worthy companion for the other great legumes. 
PH 
E think the article on the first page gives 
sound advice about the analysis of a hen. 
We have dozens of questions about how to cull the 
drones out of a flock. Telling how to do it on paper 
is harder than trying to describe bridge-grafting. A 
man cast away on a desert island might work out 
both propositions if he were forced to do so. hut in 
these days it is necessary to see the operation per¬ 
formed before we can work it properly. The sim¬ 
ple rules given in this article will help. There have 
always been shrewd poultrymen who were able to 
select the good layers. Some followed one system 
and some another. It was like the long and slow 
accumulation of facts which precedes every develop¬ 
ment of science. Expert poultrymen collected these 
facts and indications, proved and adapted them, 
until they have developed a genuine science of lien 
analysis. It is easier for an expert to select a good 
laying hen than for a dairy expert to select a high- 
class cow. It has now become not only more im- 
]K>rtant hut easier to cull out the drones than to mix 
and feed a balanced ration. For what is the use of 
feeding a hen on a fully balanced ration if she con¬ 
tributes most of it to flesh, feathers and waste? 
W E asked our questions about Senator Wm. M. 
Calder in good faith. Wlmt has he done to 
deserve the votes of farmers for a second term in 
the Fulled States Senate? The first reply comes 
from a woman. It is short: we print il here, en¬ 
tire : 
1’lease agitate one matter. The farmers do not want 
United States Senator Calder for another term. It was 
lie who promoted the curse of national daylight saving, 
which is now being locally adopted in many places. It 
is lie who is now trying to nullify the value of the pure 
food and drugs act of 1006. under the guise of an 
amendment (o that act. The Calder hill, if passed, will 
deprive every city and State of the power to supervise 
and control the sale of misbranded foods, drugs, medi¬ 
cines, including eoeoanut oil compounds. 
MRS. ANDREW BROOKS. 
It is said that a woman will have the last word; 
here she gets in the first one. We think her state¬ 
ments regarding Mr. Calder’s position on these two 
questions are correct. Here are two Issues which 
vitally affect this farm woman. What has Senator 
Calder done while at Washington iu service to agri¬ 
culture to offset these evidently negative acts? Let 
us give the Senator’s farmer friends a chance to 
answer. 
W 
N page 456 of The R. N.-Y. we printed a letter 
from a woman who wanted a place to work on 
a farm where she might have a home and a chance 
to educate her little girl. Nearly 250 people have 
already written offering opportunities which seem 
more or less attractive. Several men suggest mar¬ 
riage. a few others seem to think they are conferring 
a great favor, but for the most part the letters indi¬ 
cate a great desire to obtain help and a willingness 
to he fair. Of course, where there are 250 applicants 
and only one woman there will he at least 240 disap¬ 
pointed people, but the incident shows anew the des¬ 
perate need of household help in the country. This 
woman frankly states that she has a child who must 
live with her. Judging from past experience wo 
thought that would end the matter for •most farm 
people, but evidently the labor problem is so hard 
that the child will prove welcome. Our own experi¬ 
ence has been that the woman with one child makes 
a good combination. The right sort of a woman has 
ambitions for her child which usually overcome sel¬ 
fishness or desire to wander on her own part. She 
will usually prove steady and faithful if she can feel 
that her child is to have opportunity. And what 
finer crop can your farm, or any other farm, pro¬ 
duce than a good citizen who owes opportunity to 
you and your home? We think there are thousands 
of women who. if they could he assured of a self- 
respecting home for their child, would gladly go to 
the country and give faithful and needed service. 
We think there are many of them right in the R. 
N.-Y, family, only waiting opportunity. 
* 
Whore eight tons of stall manure and 220 lbs. of acid 
phosphate are used per acre on corn the increase over 
the average unmanured yield is 24 bushels of corn. 15 
bushels of wheat and 2.414 lbs. of hay to the rotation. 
The average unmanured yield on this land is 35 
bushels of corn, 14 bushels of wheat and 2,815 lbs. of 
hay. 
IIEKE figures from the Ohio Experiment Station 
refer to a three-year rotation—one frequently 
followed in the Central West. Manure Is put on the 
sod and plowed under for corn. Wheat and grass 
are seeded after corn is harvested, the grass follow¬ 
ing the wheat. That means one manuring for the 
three years. The use of the phosphate supplies what 
the soil naturally needs and what the manure lacks. 
The fact is that lime and phosphates are elements 
most needed in the great majority of our soils. It 
is safe to say that there is no soil in the East which 
has been in cultivation 50 years or more that does 
not need both of these minerals. Ground limestone 
is needed not only as a plant food, but as an organ¬ 
izer or renovator of the soil. Phosphorus is abso¬ 
lutely needed as plant, food. The phosphates bal¬ 
ance the manure and practically double its value. 
That is one of the things we have all got to learn. 
* 
A CCORDING to Government reports farm wages 
in the United States dropped 27 per cent, or a 
little more than one-third during 1021. The average 
reported is $42.22 per month, without board, and 
$20.14 with hoard. The farmer, however, gained 
nothing on the reduction, because the products lie 
sold dropped about the same percentage. Retail 
food prices are reported to have dropped 27 per cent. 
The decline in farm wages was heaviest in the Smith 
and North Central States just west of the Missis¬ 
sippi. The smaller decline was in the industrial 
regions. 
April 8, 1922 
N April 1 the milk situation was disturbed and 
uncertain. On that date the sale of milk by 
the Dairymen’s League ceased, and the League no 
longer functions as a selling agency. The pooling 
association which was organized within the League 
to handle the milk reports sales monthly for about 
42.000 dairymen. It has been estimated that the 
League had about 80,000 active dairymen in its 
membership, so that according to this estimate 
something like one-half the number of old members 
of the League arc in the pool. 
The officers of the Dairymen’s League Co-opera¬ 
tive Association and the spokesmen for the New 
York Milk Conference Board have not been able to 
agree on prices and terms for April milk. The 
terms proposed by the association would, if accepted 
by the dealers, give the pooled milk the advantage 
of the liquid milk prices; and the other milk would 
have to go for wlmt it would bring in the manufac¬ 
turing classes. The association holds this would he 
entirely legal. The attorney for the Federation of 
Milk Dealers, however, asserted that It would leave 
the members subject to the Sherman anti-trust, law, 
and advised against the acceptance af the proposi¬ 
tion as a Federation. As a result the negotiations 
failed. 
The present information, however, is that, acting 
independently of the Federation, the Borden’s Com¬ 
pany has agreed to the terms. Inquiry at the Bor¬ 
den office resulted in the information that Borden’s 
had bought their full supply of milk from the pool¬ 
ing association, and would not ho in the market for 
any more milk, and that milk from producers who 
wore not in the pool would not be accepted. It is 
said that two small dealers and the dry milk com¬ 
pany had followed the Bordens' lead. All of the 
orher dealers, including Sheffield Farms and Empire 
Dairy Company, have announced that they have 
declined the Association’s offer, and that they will 
buy milk as heretofore from all producers who bring 
their milk and pay the same price to all. We have 
not been able at this time to find that any uniform 
price has been fixed by them. 
It. is not thought that the city supply will he in 
any way affected. The regular Supply will come 
through either one channel or the other. As a mat¬ 
ter of fact, some competition in the city wholesale 
trade has existed for some time, and as yet there 
is no apparent disposition to further disturb the 
city market. 
* 
S we predicted when the conference over arma¬ 
ment adjourned, the United States Senate rati¬ 
fied all the treaties. There was some sharp opposi¬ 
tion, as a two-thirds vote is required l’or ratification, 
hut the friends of the treaty won. with several votes 
to spare. We think most Americans recognized the 
fact that these treaties are not all that they should 
he. There are possibilities of danger in all of them, 
but the chief thing that carried them through was 
the thought that this was the first real effort to set¬ 
tle such things by world arbitration and not by war. 
Most of our people felt that it would he a great mis¬ 
take to fail to endorse the first serious attempt in 
the world’s history to discuss peace in the only prac¬ 
tical way, viz., dropping the weapons which are used 
in war. There are, of course, able men and women 
who insist that these treaties mean American sur¬ 
render and future trouble, hut the groat majority of 
Americans arc so weary of war and its burdens that 
they welcome anything that even looks like peace. 
We think one of the most alarming world indica¬ 
tions is the apparent revival of the old hereditary 
feeling between England and France. 
Brevities 
Tiie knife for black knot on plum. 
Many an argument is nothing but noise. 
There will be a heavy planting of Sudan grass this 
year. 
A gracious word to the living beats a gravestone to 
the dead. 
The surest thing about heredity is that man is born 
to trouble. 
Tobacco as a medicine for hens cleans out intestinal 
worms. In the form of cigarettes it makes many a 
human into a worm. 
One <>f the simplest things about successful fertilizing 
is that 40 lbs. of phosphates with each ton of stable 
manure will surely pay. 
A New York man lias just secured a verdict from 
his landlord for $2,500 for the death of a baby. The 
landlord failed to keep the house heated to an average 
of OS degrees, and il was claimed death resulted from 
this lark of heat. The original demand was for $10,000. 
We are getting information about ferrets. We find 
that many readers do not know what a ferret is. Ap¬ 
parently the ferret does not kill many rats, but he 
drives them away. There is no question that he will 
kill chickens if lie gets a chance, like his relative, the 
weasel. 
