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Firsl Clast Sacend-Hanil Paicli anil 
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Of course this follow wns n farm boy to 
begin with, nrul if ho had not boon ho 
could lhd have done what bo did do. But 
I firmly believe that he was a better farm 
hand because be bad been to school. His 
brain was capable of giving thoughtful 
consideration to his work, instead of be¬ 
ing merely a depository for storing up 
foolish jazz songs and other trash to he 
poured out in an endless stream to the 
bewilderment and terror of everything 
with ears in the neighborhood. 
A neighbor hires his help from the 
Agricultural School at Morrisville, and 
has had very good success. Of course be 
hires farm boys who are going to school 
to become better farmers. Not all of 
these students would make good farm 
help. Some of them are city boys who 
are going to school to learn to farm. I 
think this is a mistake, for 1 don’t be¬ 
lieve that anyone can learn to he a farmer 
in school. But I do believe that a course 
in school will make a farm-raised hoy a 
better farmer. .r. grant morse. 
Are They School Voters? 
In a rural school district a taxpayer 
dies, leaving an estate and no will. The 
family (sons and daughters) fixes up the 
estate in the wife’s favor during her life¬ 
time. This property is taxed as the es¬ 
tate of deceased. Who is entitled to a 
vote at school meeting, the wife, daugh¬ 
ters and sons residing at home, all of 
age? c. J. 
It appears from the facts that the de¬ 
cedent died intestate, leaving an estate 
(presumably real property), and that he 
was survived l.’y his wife and certain chil¬ 
dren. Inasmuch as he died intestate, the 
“Take it to the house and sho\v it to the 
missus,” and off he goes. Don is a 
purebred fox terrier, and if you want an 
intimate acquaintance with him, come to 
our home some night after we have re¬ 
tired. The eats and little kittens all love 
Don. and are not ns friendly to the collie 
or chow. ii a mi a tt j. Reynolds. 
New York. 
Treatment of Hernia 
I saw an article on page 413 in regard 
to treatment of hernia, which interests 
me, as I am afflicted likewise. The - 
Laboratories are not indorsed. I have 
been corresponding with them for some 
time, and about to send for one of their 
pads, as they are so sure of curing me. 
I want to know the whole truth about 
the matter. Will you advise to the best 
of your ability? W, 
Suffolk Co.. N. Y. 
After you have sent for your “pad” 
and have lmd time to find out that it is 
worthless as a cure for hernia, you will 
he out the money that you paid for it, 
hut that sum will not he large enough to 
warrant your attempting to get it back 
through legal proceedings. The amount 
of money that you spend will amount to 
little to the advertising Concern that 
promises you a cure, but when there is 
added to it the amounts received from 
hundreds of thousands of others, the sum 
will he quite satisfactory. It is quite 
impossible to diagnose or prescribe in¬ 
telligently from a distance. The fact 
that some one might take a proprie¬ 
tary remedy and get well would in no 
way vitiate the truth of the above 
statement. Sick people recover under 
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Canning Time is Here 
title to the real property vested imme¬ 
diately in the children, subject, however, 
to the widow’s rigln of dower. Assuming 
that the widow possesses the general 
qualifications of age, residence and citi¬ 
zenship as prescribed by Section -03 of 
the Education Law. she is upon the facts 
slated a qualified voter at the school dis- 
iriel meeting in the district in which she 
resides. 
As to the children, who are of full age, 
and who possess the qualifications of 
residence and citizenship, there may he 
some question concerning their right to 
vote. The children have “fixed lip the 
estate in the wife’s favor during her life¬ 
time.” If by this it is meant that the 
children have gran led a life estate to the 
mother they would not have such a pres¬ 
ent. ownership of the properly, although 
the legal title was in them, as is neces¬ 
sary to qualify them as voters at a school 
district meeting. If, however, it is simply 
meant that they have assigned a portion 
of the real properly lo the mother in 
recognition of her right of dower, retain¬ 
ing their portion for their own use and 
benefit, they would then, in my opinion, 
be entitled to vote at a school district 
meeting. ikwin ESMOND. 
The Story of a Woodchuck Dog 
Smith may use his gasoline; Jones may 
set his traps in sand; Johnson may put 
his box trap in the hole; Brown may burn 
kerosene in the hole. You ma.V use your 
rifle; all of you may spend your time— 
“time is money”—if you have it to spend 
watching for chucks. Up here on our 
farm we have to “work for a living" nnd 
haven’t got no time for hunting, and. 
what's more, we don't have to. Our Don 
does all the work for ns. If my luemorj is 
not too treacherous, ill 1020 he brought 
home six or nine—call it six. In 1021 
he brought in HI. Tuesday. June 27. lie 
brought the second for this year. Aire¬ 
dale may he all right, blit our Don is “it " 
He will .-it on the porch, nose sniffing the 
air. eyes watching something in the distant 
field. Hold on! There he goes! YolJ 
wonder what he sneaks for so quickly. 
In the midst of work you forget all about 
Don, hut not for long, for he soon comes 
hack bringing, nr, perhaps better, drag¬ 
ging a large chuck, and as proud as a 
hoy with first pants. Don saves our time 
and labor He will bring Ids chock to 
ns in the field if we are working near by. 
We congratulate him. and tell him: 
ful. By testing with the protein ele¬ 
ment from the various plants and other 
sources of disturbance, the one at fault 
is found and a vaccine is prepared from 
its proteins with which the susceptible 
person may he gradually immunized to 
the poison. It is not to he understood 
that proteins are poisonous generally; 
only that certain proteins are poisonous 
to certain people, M, n. D. 
That Damp Stone House 
If H. Ij,, page 030, will plaster the 
outside of Ins stone house with a mortar 
made of one part, cement, one part hy¬ 
drated lime and two parts sand, then 
when the mortar is dry wash or coat the 
walls with a mixture of equal parts of 
cement and hydrated lime in water 
enough to be just lit irk enough lo be 
applied with a whitewash brush, I do 
not think that lie will he long troubled 
with moisture from the outside. The 
mortar for the first coat should lie about 
as thin as can he spread with a trowel. 
Two coats of lime-cement wash should 
he used, the second to be applied when 
the first seems to be well “set." A little 
moisture may come through at first, but 
it will soon become waterproof. I used 
lids combination on the inside of brick 
and cement block lumber driers to pre¬ 
vent moisture and heat from escaping 
through the walls, and I have seen it 
used with success on concrete porch 
floors. f. A- B. 
Roxboro, N. C. 
On page 636 II. I/. makes inquiry about 
damp stone house. Last Fall we built. 
The stone wall is 18 in. thick, about S 1 ^ 
ft. high and 2*4 ft. under ground. There 
is an air space nil ground the walls and 
underneath the beams. Underneath was 
filled in with stones and cinders; the 
beams rest solidly on the stones and are 
then filled in with the cinders. There 
were furring strips put around the walls, 
plaster, lath, and than plaster, double 
flooring in the living rooms and cement 
flooring in the cellar. We have been 
living in the house since January 1. and 
every room is bone dry; cellar, ba-h- 
room and bedroom on north side where 
sun does not strike, and kitchen, dining¬ 
room and living-room ou south side. 
Where there is an air space there will 
never he any dampness, and the plasterer 
ought to know that ; but never put on 
wallpaper before a year. mus. Herman. 
New York. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 15, 1922 
FARM TOPICS 
Onions and Potatoes; Intensive Agriculture 
in New Jersey.886 
College Students and Hired Men....887, 888 
Crop Notes . 890 
Soy Beans and Alsike Clovor. 891 
A Review of Farm Conditions. 897 
An Agricultural Survey in St. Lawrence 
County, N. Y. 897 
Can You Answer This?. 89. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
any treatment and under no treat¬ 
ment, for nature very frequently 
cures without any aid from man, and 
sometimes in spite of man's ignorance 
and blundering. To he absolutely accu¬ 
rate, nature always does the curing, 
though she frequently requires the aid 
of man to accomplish that beneficent 
work. Intelligent medical and surgical 
treatment is the highest art known to 
humanity; medical quackery reaches the 
depths of human depravity. Let the ad¬ 
vertising medical quacks alone, or be 
willing to pay for your credulity cheer¬ 
fully. M. B. D. 
Protein Poisoning 
I am writing in the hope that some of 
your readers may know of a remedy to 
some kind of a pois» n that has baffled 
two city physicians and myself. Last 
year, while working in my garden, pull¬ 
ing weeds principally, 1 became affected 
with some kind of poison, and while I am 
inclined to think it was from the dust off 
the vines. I am wondering whether some 
of The U. N.-Y. family know of some 
remedy. The peculiar part of it is that 1 
am a hay buyer, having been in the busi¬ 
ness 32 years, and up to last year han¬ 
dled considerable, hay each year without 
the dust affecting me. Since then, every 
time I handle the least bit of either hay 
or straw, the dust from same seems to 
poison my skin, picking out tile most ten¬ 
der places, such as my eyelids; hack of 
my ears and around my chin. It acts 
something like ivy poison, breaking out 
in pimples, and spreads and itches terri¬ 
bly. C. A. 1. 
Jamestown, N. Y, 
'Phis is quite likely to he a form of 
protein poisoning from the pollen of cer¬ 
tain plants or grasses. It is the form of 
poisoning that produces hay fever, rose 
colds, etc. Many people are poisoned in 
the same way by coming in contact with 
the dandruff from the skin of horses, or 
even the feathers of fowls. Others find 
the proteins of certain foods poisonous; 
they oantini eat eggs, shellfish, straw¬ 
berries, or some other food, without suf¬ 
fering from skin eruption or other evi¬ 
dence of the disagreement of certain nro- 
teins with them. One farmer reported his 
inability to milk more than one or two 
cows without the breaking out of an in¬ 
tensely itching skin emotion. 
Vaccines for protecting susceptible peo- 
_ , • 4» .. 
Plana for a Dairy Barn. 
Sheep t'or Cleariug Land. 
A Square Silo. 
Buttermilk Cheese . 
Itching Skin ... 
Feed for Horse. 
Skin Disease . 
Swollen Leg ... 
Fistula of Neck. 
Suppression of Milk... 
Necrohacilosis . 
Feed for Mother with Pups. 
THE HENYARD 
Rose Chafers and Chicks.885, 
Turkoy with Sore Eyes .. • • 
Construction of Henhouses. 
Vent Gleet; Crop Trouble.. 
Variation* iu Incubator Temperatures. 
Egg-Laying Contost . 
Systematic Feeding for Young Chicks. 
Catechu for Turkeys. 
Feeding Young Chicks. ... 
Chick* Fail to Feather. 
Cannibal Chicks . 
Loss of Chicks. 
Ailing Chicks . 
Partial Paralysis . 
Ration for Chicks.. 
Souring Milk for Chicks. 
Gapes * .. .. 
HORTICULTURE 
A Tractor Spraying Outfit. 886 
Big Joe a Desirable Strawberry. 887 
Notes from New England.889, 890 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 893 
Propagating Roses . 895 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 898 
Preparing a Rose Jar.... . 898 
Some New Gift Ideas.. 898 
The Rural Patterns.. . 898 
Flowers to the Living. 898 
Back-saving Hints ...898. 899 
Be of Good Cheer. 899 
Embroidery Designs . 899 
Shorleake Variations . 899 
We Are Alt « Flock of Sheep. 899 
An Old-fashioned Bedroom. 8P9 
Philadelphia Cinnamon Bun. 899 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Poison Ivy; Hot Soapsuds. 886 
Spelling . 891 
He Earne-I His Compensation. . 891 
Legislative. Language in New Mexico. 891 
Milk Thistle for Ivy Poisoning. . 895 
Can There be “Too Much Democracy?”.... 897 
The Local Co-operative Association... 897 
Examples of Real Co-operation......... .. 897 
A Ta’k About Parrots.. . .. 893 
Purchase of Mortgaged Property........... 894 
Delay in Filling Order. 894 
/'•Miming Stop-father’s Name .. 894 
Verbal Loaxo; Ownership of Barn .894 
1 heritanco Right* of Second Husband..... 894 
Fastening Separntor to Concrete Floor. 902 
Electricity fro*-. Wator Power. 909 
Acetylene or Eloctrio Light. 902 
Comparison of Concrete nno Wood for Fence 
Posts . 902 
Length of Horse Stall. 902 
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