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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July S, 1922 
The Rural New-Yorker 
TEE BUSINESS FARMER'S FArER 
A Notional Weekly Journul l‘or Country and Suburban Homes 
EstatiUslieA ISM 
Published weekly by the Kuml Publishing Company. 3Sit Vest 30th Street, Now Vorfa 
Hkrrkkt W. Ccifci.iNOWOOfl'. Trcsident and Editor. 
•John ,1. I hi. ix>X. treasurer and General Mniuttrer. 
Wh. F. Dnxox. Seeavtury. Mks. E. X. lb u . Associate Editor. 
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"A S^UAllE PEAL” 
TVe believe that every advertisement in thi* paper is backed by a respon¬ 
sible person. We use every possible precaution and admit tlie arlvertisinc of 
reliable houses mil v. But’to make doutdv sure, we will make good any loss 
to paid subscribers sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible adveitlsvo or mlaloading advert IsemenM in our colunuik, and any 
such swindler will be publicly exposed. We are also often called upon 
to adjust (inferences or mistakes between our subscribe is and honest, 
responsible houses, whether udvcra?ere or not. We willingly use our good 
otlioes to this end, but such cases should not lie confused with dishonest 
transactionr. Wc protect subscribers against rogues, but we will not be 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts, 
Notice of the complaint nine! lie sent to us w itldn one month "i the time of 
the transaction, and to identify it. you should mention Tin. limut Nkw- 
VORKKR when writing the advertiser. 
I have just started a cheeking account in a new 
bank (the old bank failed hist Winter), and I am mak¬ 
ing our the first cheek to you—a fine beginning. I only 
wish the other checks that will be written could pur¬ 
chase as much value to the dollar. n. E. h. 
Pennsylvania. 
E feed honored to be No. 1 on the new check 
hook. Let us all hope that the new account 
may be as unending as the widow’s cruse of oil. and 
that wc may always give a heaping dollar’s worth. 
The coal mines quit, mills and factories shut down, 
grain elevators ease off, harbor workers tie up water 
transportation, even the railroads of the country get 
into the toils of strikes or outlaw vacations. Put the 
agricultural industry goes on with its work. The 
American farmer stays on the job. 
IIAT from the New York Herald in speaking of 
the fact that rhe farmer "stays on the job.” He 
does, and he gets little praise and thanks for doing 
his simple duty. Every other “organized industry*’ 
plays more or less successfully the part of highway¬ 
man. The organization waits until the time is ripe, 
and then takes its enemy by the throat with a stern 
demand. Tlie real sufferer is always the innocent 
public. Neither employer nor labor could live at 
their job for a week if the public did not put up the 
money lo pay both capital and labor, but in a strike 
—well, it’s a case of what Commodore Vanderbilt 
declared he did not say! The point is that neither 
capital nor labor lias any regard for the rights of 
the public when either side thinks they can whip the 
other by a “strike’’ or a "freeze-out." The Amer¬ 
ican farmer lias stayed right on the job through 
frost and sun, through debt and prosperity. lie has 
always been on deck with bread and meat and milk 
and a full ration. He lias done the most important 
work of all laborers and received the poorest pay. 
The one worker of all the multitude who does more 
than his share of labor and receives a 35-cent dollar 
for doing it. When we were boys, studying pen¬ 
manship, we had to write “L irhtc is its men reward" 
100 times as practice. We believed it then, but can 
anyone study tlie history of agriculture and keep 
that belief? 
* 
A S nearly as we can make out the farmers and 
country people of Europe are better off than 
any other classes. The rulers of all European nations 
understand that the best guarantee of sound govern¬ 
ment and sane politics is a reasonably satisfied 
farm population. Therefore all are working to make 
farm life reasonably attractive and profitable. There 
are middlemen and snobs everywhere. One tries to 
take too much of the farmer’s dollar, the other tries 
to break the faith of young farm people by sneering 
at their work, but in Europe people have had their 
lesson, and they know that the land and the workers 
on the land must he fairly treated, or there will be 
starvation. We have never had this brought home 
to ns in this country. Food has come to the people 
somehow, and the supply has seemed inexhaustible, so 
why worry about the farmer? Call the crowds into 
the city where they may see each other and have a 
good time. That lias become a settled policy among 
most of our city people, and it opens a clear, straight 
path to national suicide if continued, 
* 
When Senator Towner said he would or would not do 
a definite thing anyone who knew him appreciated that 
that settled it. He also stood firm by his decision with¬ 
out regard for the consequences to himself or others. 
HAT is what the party convention said about 
Senator James E. Towner, as reported last week. 
When you come to think of it, what finer thing can 
be said of a man who Inis spent 10 years of bis life 
in the New York Senate? Anyone who lias ever seen 
the way laws are ground out at Albany will under¬ 
stand the way a member of the Legislature is pulled 
and hauled by politicians and private interests. 
Most men go to Albany with a firm determination to 
serve their people honorably and efficiently. Of 
course there are mere tools and creatures who are 
openly and brazenly corrupt, but we think most meu 
start in with a desire to be fair and clean. They 
drop into what seems like a whirlpool in which they 
are twisted and pulled and pushed by conflicting in¬ 
terests, The party caucus often demands that they 
do a certain thing when both common sense and 
plain humanity tell them to refuse. Tt is no wonder 
that most men learn how to dodge and prevaricate 
and live a double political life. You cannot bank on 
their word: it is not certified on what in slang we 
call the sand bank. These things are true and the 
men who passed that resolution for Senator Towner 
knew it. All the more honor, therefore, when they 
say that the Senator’s word was as good as his bond 
—in a situation where promises are usually kicked 
about like footballs. 
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F there is any side of human nature not fully rep¬ 
resented in the great family of The R. N.-Y., it 
has not yet been presented to us. Not long ago we 
received a dollar from a life-term convict in a States 
prison, for a renewal of subscription. At about tlie 
same time came a letter from Egypt. This was 
written by a wanderer, a native American who 
moves about tlie world from country to country, but 
always reading The R. N.-Y. So hero are two men 
—one confined within narrow walls for life, the other 
free as a bird, yet both finding in The It. N.-Y. 
something that forms a necessary part of life. Then 
last week came a letter from a farm girl in a West¬ 
ern State who is evidently “stage struck and wants 
us to tell her all about theatrical life. And while 
we are thinking about it comes the following from 
an old-timer: 
I have passed a number of years in this theatrical 
business and have managed everything in New York 
from the Century Theater to the Academy of Music, on 
14th Street, and the surest tiling 1 know is that I don t 
want my children to start in that atmosphere. 
Surely there is nothing In the world at this time 
quite like the “human nature” that is grouped 
around and through The It. N.-Y. We want to cap¬ 
italize it so as to make it useful to our readers. 
I have not yet printed a bulletin on which l have 
not worked five years, because I have always figured 
that we might have our theories about the snu and the 
moon, and they might not he right, and it would not 
do anybody any harm, but to be inaccurate with am- 
thing that had to do with the food supply would he 
nearly criminal. Hence 1 have been ultra careful, for 
I would rather err on this side than make mistakes 
that might reduce somebody's earning capacity or en¬ 
tail losses on farms where the struggles were hard 
enough without introducing factors of error. 
HAT comes from a very careful experiment sta¬ 
tion worker, and well states (lie case of the con¬ 
scientious scientist. Farmers are sometimes impa¬ 
tient at the long delay in reporting the results of a 
< arcful experiment, but. in the long run sanity is 
safer, than speed. Rut what about some of these 
scientists who rushed in to dogmatize about Ilubam 
clover before they had grown three crops? 
* 
NDER the new immigration law 375,903 aliens 
will be admitted to this country during the 
coming 12 months. That is 2.078 more than last 
year. The present law permits entrance of 3 per 
cent of the number from each foreign country now 
in America. Under this rule the following will be 
admitted from the principal countries: Austria, 
7.4.71; Belgium. 1.5(53; Czecho-Slovakia. 14,3o7: dor- 
many. 07,607; Italy. 42.057; Norway, 12.202; Roland, 
21,070; Rumania, 7,419; Russia (European and Asi¬ 
atic), 21.013; Sweden, 20,045; United Kingdom. 77,- 
342; Turkey (European and Asiatic, including 
Smyrna region and Turkish Armenian region), 
2.388; Greece, 3.294; Hungary, 5.03*; Denmark. 
5.019. The new law seems to give general satisfac¬ 
tion. There is some demand for unrestricted immi¬ 
gration. but the great majority of Americans seem 
to feel that we bad better try to assimilate what we 
now have before taking larger doses of aliens. 
There is but little need in ordinary industry of the 
types that are now coming. We have frequently 
asked any alien to give us a good reason why lie 
should not be naturalized'. Thus far we have never 
received what we call a satisfactory answer. It 
seems to us that the average alien is a pretty ex¬ 
pensive luxury. 
* 
J UST ns we expected, some of the growers of the 
Baldwin apple are coming to the defense of that 
variety. Our own reports indicate that except in the 
most favored localities Baldwin i5 losing ground. It 
is proving tender and a shy bloomer since the recent 
hard Winter. We have many complaints about this, 
and also requests for a better variety. On the other 
hand, Baldwin is an old friend to many, and has 
proved a great partner and helper. Any suggestion 
that the variety is failing is naturally resented by 
those who owe prosperity and home to Baldwin. 
There arc many such. In saying what we do about 
it we are only voicing tlie opinion of fruit growers 
who have given the variety fair trial. There are 
some sections where Baldwin is still first choice, and 
is still being planted, but the majority of reports 
indicate a desire for a better variety. And the 
trouble is going to be to find it. McIntosh is good 
for its season, but it is not a Winter apple. Wliat 
about Cortland, the new variety from the Geneva 
station? Has it got the stuff in it to fill Baldwin’s 
shoes? 
5k 
HAT system of identifying cattle by their nose 
prints (page 863) ought to be fully developed. 
It looks as if it might rank with finger printing in 
identifying criminals. The suggestion is to have a 
copy of the nose print go along with the papers, 
much as the color map is now used. Some years ago 
The R. N.-Y. showed up a great case where the 
papers would not fit tlie cows. We fought it through 
to the end. and it had a good effect on all cattle as¬ 
sociations. With this nose print in evidence, such a 
case would have been impossible. Nature makes the 
nose print, while man makes the record. You cannot 
bribe or flatter nature into a fraudulent entry. 
O N page S7S a correspondent gives a familiar 
argument about the way some of the great coi*- 
porations are composed. It is true that the stock of 
some of these great companies is widely distributed, 
and no doubt there are many persons of moderate 
means who own very small blocks. This we think 
was true of the great: railroad in New England when 
a few big financiers began playing with the stock 
and nearly wrecked the road. It was doing a good 
business, and should have paid dividends, but Ihe 
big gamblers, without consulting the small stock¬ 
holders. attended to that, and we know of cases 
where people who thought themselves financially 
secure were reduced to penury through the rascality 
of the big financiers. It is a source of strength for 
these large corporations to be able to say that their 
stock has a wide distribution among the common 
people, yet these small investors have practically 
nothing to say about the management. Let them 
attempt to organize and elect a few directors from 
their own ranks to look after their interests and 
they will no doubt find what they are expected to do. 
Our observation is that an investment in the stock 
of some big corporation which is likely to be affect¬ 
ed by tariff or political considerations .takes just 
about all the political independence out of any man 
or woman. 
Ox 
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T HE House of Representatives lias just passed a 
bill which will interest many American women 
who have married aliens. Under the present law a 
woman takes the nationality of her husband, and 
many an American woman lias married an alien 
only to realize later that she has deprived herself of 
American citizenship. In many cases the alien hus¬ 
band will make little or no effort to become natural¬ 
ized. Under the bill just passed by the House of 
Representatives, if an American woman marry an 
alien she may retain her American citizenship, pro¬ 
vided she does not reside continuously for two years 
in tlie country of her husband or five years in any 
foreign country. She can. of course, renounce lier 
citizenship in court, if she cares to do so. The bill 
also provides that any foreign woman who is max-- 
ried to an alien in this country may take out citizen¬ 
ship papers whether her husband does or not. 
Should an American woman be married to a man 
who is ineligible for American citizenship by reason 
of felony or other matters, she shall herself cease to 
be an American citizen, but she will regain her cit- 
k/ensliip if her marriage is terminated. 
Brevities 
Still there seem to be farmers who say wheat will 
turn to chess or cheat. 
The only legitimate place for the scrub rooster right 
now is in a chicken pie. 
Thekk seems little doubt that tobacco dust will kill 
or drive away the striped cucumber beetle. A good use 
for tobacco. 
Which would you vote for—the man with high ideals 
and no common sense, or the man all common sense and 
no ideals? 
tWB had a crop of fine clover hay on the ground over 
10 days—waiting for a chance to dry out. The color 
is bad. but the cattle will eat it. 
If a gardener wanted to raise a crop to provide 
mulching material for strawberries we think Sudan 
grass would suit him. 
