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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 5, 1922 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE li 0&IXES8 FAR Mil It'S PAPER 
A National YVetM.v Journal for Country anil Suburban Home* 
Ext aliUtfhed. WO _ 
Publklied weekly by ilu> Rural Publishing Company, 3SS ffe.l SOth Strect.New fork 
Hf uukiiT W. Ciu-uKi wood. Vifsident amt Editor. 
Jonv .1. UibbON, Treasurer and General Manager. 
WM. I>]i.t.on, Secretary. Mus. E. T. K ( i.F, Asrociale Editor. 
SUBSCRIPTION : ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. 
To foreign countries In the ITiiiveraiJ Portal Tnlon, S2.0k Jfnnit in money 
order, exprew* order, personal check Or bank draft. 
Entered at New York Post Office as Second Cliis* Matter. 
Advertising rates. $100 per agate line—7 words. References required for 
advertisers unknown u> us ; and cash must accompany transient orders. 
“A SQUARE DKAL” 
We believe that every advertisement in t his paper Is backed by a respon¬ 
sible person. Wo uee every possible precaution and admit the advertising or 
reliable houses only. Hut to make doubly sure, we will make good any loss 
to paid subscribers sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertiHt*it: or mtRleudinr advertisement* in our column.*', and any 
such swindler will b«> publicly exposed. We are abo olton caned upon 
to ad Just difference 1 * or mistakes between Our smbsurfber* and honest, 
YopmHblt* whether advortisciv or not. >Vt* willingly um? our good 
office** to this end, but such eases vponld not be contused with dishonest 
traTi^irthm*. We protect ?ub*enbci-s against rogue', but we Mill not bo 
rr-pon*ibta for the debt* ol honest bankrupts sanctioned hr the courts. 
Notice of the complaint must he sent to us within on* month of the time of 
tl.i transaction, si ml to identify it. you should m. uUon Tin hi kau Nkw- 
Yorkku when wilting the advertiser. 
The man who told the Hope Farm man he was farm¬ 
ing for the dollar is making a sad mistake, as one ran 
make more at something else as to money; but as to 
wlmt makes a pleasant and complete life, give me the 
farm. I am glad to see that the editor takes these 
criticisms so sweetly, as it is best we all should do. 
Ohio. EDWARD D. WRIGHT. 
F a criticism is just we ought to thank the critic. 
If it is wrong, sooner or later the wrong Will 
appear. Then why fight about it? 
W E have many calls for information about 
Crimson clover. We grew this clover in 
Northern New Jersey for some years, but have given 
it up. It always started well and made a good Fall 
growth, hut seven times in 10 the plants were lifted 
out in Spring and killed. It does not root firmly 
enough to resist the pull of our Spring frosts. South 
ot Philadelphia Crimson clover makes a fine cover 
crop. It will grow well in corn or after tomatoes 
or potatoes, and gives a nice crop for plowing under. 
Crimson clover is a hot. weather crop, and it is use¬ 
less to seed it in Spring. In Southern New Jersey 
if is quite common practice to seed Crimson with 
vetch or rye. These companions give it some pro¬ 
tection and in case the clover is thrown out by frost 
there is always something to plow under. As a hay 
crop Crimson clover gives a fair yield and is good 
feed for cattle. We would not feed it to horses. 
North of Philadelphia we think rye and vetch or 
rye and Alsike clover will make a better crop. 
* 
T HE State Supreme Court of Wisconsin has de¬ 
cided an important case against the Carnation 
Milk Company, which is selling a compound of dried 
skim-milk and eoeoamit oil as a substitute for pure 
milk. Among other things, the court says: 
"If used as a substitute for milk, the public health 
may be impaired not because the compounds arc in 
themselves deleterious, hut because they lack in certain 
food elements essential to a well balanced dietary. 
"If such practice were to be allowed to be continued 
■ tilled’ milk will be followed by ‘filled’ butter and ‘filled’ 
cheese, and vegetable fats, cheap, but a lacking in tbe 
essential elements of vigorous life, will take the place 
of butter fats. _ , . , 
"A great industry of a State will decline, a Victim of 
’national advertising of cheap and deceptive substi¬ 
tutes.’ " 
The court says that the reputation of Wisconsin 
as tin* leading dairy State is in danger if the legis¬ 
lature cannot prohibit the manufacture of products 
which are below the standard needed to hold the 
State’s reputation. This is just what The It. N.-Y. 
Inis been arguing for years in regard to these dairy 
substitutes. Their free and unlimited sale would 
mean ruin to the dairy industry without compen¬ 
sating benefits to any other class of producers. 
* 
W ORK on the new tunnel under the Hudson 
from Manhattan Island to New Jersey has 
been started. There is now talk of a bridge across 
the river almost directly over tuis tunnel. ‘These 
new means of communication are necessary because 
the ferry service over the Hudson is all out of dale 
and inadequate, and the upper Hudson Valley needs 
better service no less than New York City. There 
must he a big, wide bridge across the river where 
cars and trucks may cross at any hour of the day 
or night. The railroad bridge at Poughkeepsie helps 
with freight, but vehicles must still depend on the 
slow and inferior ferry service, and this handicap is 
holding hack a full development of the Hudson Val¬ 
iev. Every other river of corresponding importance 
1ms been bridged, hut the two hanks of the Hudson 
are still held apart. Shortly after the Revolution it 
wa< thought by many public men that Albany, lit 
the head waters of the Hudson, would become the 
leading city of America. They felt in that day that 
the grain fields ol the ?Iohawk and Genesee valleys 
could feed the nation and have wheat for export. 
All this trade would naturally pass through Albany. 
The canals and the railroads ended this dream, and 
the noble valley of the Hudson has been neglected 
a-- a farm section. Now it is coming back, and is 
assured of a great: future, but it cannot take its full 
place until travel east and west across the river is 
made easier. There should be promptly built, at 
Poughkeepsie a big. broad bridge for trucks and cars, 
and this must he followed in the future by other 
bridges at convenient points. When the first bridge 
was built between Manhattan and Long Island there 
were many who said it would not pay; it would pro¬ 
vide for all traffic for a century. Now you may 
stand on the first bridge and see half a dozen others 
stretched across the river, while nearly as many 
tunnels run below the water. The original marriage 
of the two islands has surely been productive, and 
much the same development will follow efforts to 
bring the west shore closer to the east. 
* 
T HE recent primary in Nebraska gives new evi¬ 
dence of the revolt among farmers and country 
people against wlmt we may call old-fashioned 
political methods. North Dakota. Iowa, Indiana and 
Nebraska have elected progressive candidates for 
the United States Senate. We must understand 
just what this means. It has been a contest Inside 
the Republican party, and the progressive element 
has won. All these Western States are naturally 
Republican, and the party is strongest In the rural 
districts. It may therefore be accepted as true that, 
the Western farmers are not satisfied with the 
record being made by the present Congress. VYY 
believe the progressive strength is stronger now than 
in 1912. when Roosevelt ran on a third ticket, imd 
this feeling is not confined to the West. Every day 
brings new evidences of it in New York State. For 
some years the party at Washington lias been held 
together by a small group of strong and arrogant 
“leaders” who have dictated legislation largely in 
the interests of banking and manufacturing. This 
group leadership is now breaking, and with the 
break comes an opportunity for the agricultural 
states to gain greater power at Washington, The 
farmers of the West, see that, and they Will make 
use of the chance. In a smaller way the farmers of 
New York State might also find their opportunity 
in the present situation if they could only get to¬ 
gether as has been done in the West. 
5|C 
T HE papers and magazines are now selecting 
lists of “great” people—those living men and 
women who have done most for humanity, or have 
shown most remarkable constructive ability. The 
lists cover 12 men and 12 women. As for the men, 
practically every list that we have seen includes the 
name of Thomas A. Edison as an inventor and Dr. 
Charles W. Eliot as an educator. Statesmen, busi¬ 
ness men. actors, authors, artists—all classes of men 
are represented—all the leading walks of life in 
which men have appealed to the imagination, the 
spiritual power or the material interests of human¬ 
ity. As regards the 12 greatest, women, some rather 
curious lists have been given. Most of the selections 
seem to have been made from ihe ranks of women 
who have been prominent in the struggle for equal 
suffrage or for industrial rights. Many actresses 
and musicians are included on the theory that music 
and the stage have appealed to the imagination and 
helped to set it free. In selecting lists of groat 
women there seems to have been more of a personal 
choice than is the case of (lie men. Now ill all Ihese 
lists we see no reference whatever to people who 
have been prominent in advancing the cause of agri¬ 
culture. The development of the farm and of the 
farmer during the past 20 years has brought about 
one of the most striking changes in American life 
and one that will have a profound influence upon 
the future. This great development is not being 
worked out by “great” statesmen or inventors or 
capitalists, hut by plainer people who have remained 
in the ranks id' agriculture. We think it desirable 
for many reasons to learn if we can who these 
“great” men and women are. So we will ask our 
readers to give a list of the 12 living men and women 
who have done most to advance the cause of Amer¬ 
ican agriculture. That means improving the farm, 
the farmer and the family—making the farm a bet¬ 
ter place to live and the farmer a better and more 
prosperous citizen. The list may Include scientists, 
educators, organizers, practical farmers or home¬ 
makers- anyone who, in your judgment, has helped 
American agriculture. Come now. send in your list. 
Nome the 12 living men mid women who have done 
most in develop ihe farm and th< farmer. 
A reader in Ohio sends the following: 
"Evidently the coal situation is going to get the 
country into a moss. A young fellow lias just told me 
that a dozen police. 3N guards ami two machine guns- 
were being used to guard a pit where two were at work, 
't’liis was several weeks ago. and he says the temper of 
the miners is very bad. and use of force will be much 
worse, and although the miners will lose there is possi¬ 
bility of the strike dragging along.” 
E should have to see that before we could 
fully credit the story. We know the situa¬ 
tion is very had. Coal and transportation are re¬ 
garded by most of our people as next in importance 
to water, bread and meat. We need the coal, and 
we have a right to buy and use it. That is the way 
most people figure it out. though many of us who 
live on farms can keep warm and comfortable even 
if not a pound of coal he mined during the next five 
years! The general feeling is that the coal supply 
should belong to the public—at least the public 
should he free to obtain it at a fair price. Neither 
the miners nor the operators should be given the 
power lo hold up this public necessity, or use it as 
a weapon for fighting their industrial battles. Gen¬ 
erally speaking, our farmers feel that the railroad 
men. the miners and union labor generally have been 
able to hold up their war wages longer than the rest 
of us. We have all been forced to accept a lower 
price for our labor, and we see little reason why 
union labor should not take its share of deflation as 
wi have been forced to do. 
* 
VEIi in New England the dairymen are having 
their troubles. Wind and storm, rain and 
middlemen are had enough, but there are “investi¬ 
gators" and “legal authorities” in addition. District 
Attorney O’Brien has taken a hand, writing to the 
press to show that farmers are making money, and 
should he satisfied with a lower price for milk. A. 
1,. Dudley of Vermont answers him in the Boston 
Post: 
As to the profits of raising milk, I will give District 
Attorney O'Brien or any one of his assistants the use 
of a Inn-acre farm for one year free, will pay the* taxes, 
and stock it with 10 good cows, give him the pasturage 
and the hay crop, if he will agree to live for the year 
off the proceeds actually obtained from the farm and 
the dairy. I've got the farm and I've got the cows, and 
it’s a bona lido offer. Come on, brother, and make some 
real money raising milk at three cent- a quart f. o. b. 
the farm. That’s what we get, and it is sure a wonder 
we aren’t all rich. 
It is a fifty to one chance that. Mr. O’Brien will 
never accept the proposition. There are a good 
many people in the world who like to fill their 
mouths with words and with food, yet are very shy 
about filling their hands with farm work. “Come 
on, brother," by all means, and show us how. If 
you had an important case before judge and jury 
you know that “hot air” would not go. You would 
have to prove your statements by legal evidence. 
Go and live a year on that free farm, and then come 
hack and tell the truth about it! 
* 
His father is a well-to-do farmer, and is able to let 
the son have n reasonable amount of money, but re¬ 
fuses to do so. I understand that when a boy comes 
of age he is entitled to a certain amount of money. The 
son has spent all of his lime since lie left school, at the 
age of 15. ami his vacations before on his father's farm 
and feels that he is entitled to something. If he has 
any just claim, and any chance of collecting it. how 
would you advise him to go about it V ii. k. s. 
E find it quite a common belief among some 
young people that when they come to be 21 
years old “the law” will entitle them to a share of 
their parent's property. It is hard to see how such 
an idea originated. Sonic parents think it wise to 
make their children a present at such a time. The 
man who started to "bring up” the writer of this 
was to give him “a yoke of oxen and a suit of 
eiothes" on li is twenty-first birthday. We did not 
wait for it, but this idea of a gift lias grown, in the 
minds of some young people, to a legal obligation. 
The parent is under no compulsion to give n share 
ol his property in this way. Usually it is one of 
the worst things lie could do for his children. The 
parent is supposed to control or enjoy the labor of 
his son until the latter is of legal age. He lias i 
right to the son’s earnings, though in these days 
such right often becomes a dead letter 
Brevities 
,(h\'E of the worst victims of blindness is the man who 
cannot see a joke. 
The first carload of tree-ripened apricots has been 
shipped from California, This begins a Hew industry. 
About the only farmers who can smile at this rainy 
season are those who put in a system of tile drainage. 
Some things in the I’ostnffice Department seem to be 
done by rule rather than by law. and it surely makes 
a difference. 
Why not feed the scrub cows in your herd to the 
good animals? No. cattle are not flesh eaters, but you 
can sell the scrubs and let the other cattle eat the hay 
these scrubs wuikl require. 
