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Jht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 12, 1022 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BCS1XKSS FARMER'S PAPER 
A National ffecUj Journal Cor Country and Suburban Home 
Established fl/60 
Published nrrkly by lln* ttnriil PublUhine Company, 333 Writ 30th Street. NVrr Jfork 
HeiuiekT W. Ci'U t.vt,woon. President niul Editor. 
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“A SQUARE DEAR" 
AVe believe that every advertisement in this paper is backed by a respon¬ 
sible person. Wo use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make good any loss 
to tiaid subscribers sustained by t rusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertiser* or misleading advertisement* in our columns, and any 
such swindler will be publieiy exposed. AVe arc also often called upon 
to adjust differences or mistakes between one snbsertbers and honest, 
responsible houses, whether advertisers or not. We willingly use our good 
odices to this end. but such cases should not. be confused with dishonest 
transactions. We protect subscribers against roguiis, tint, we will not lie 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts, 
Notice of the complaiot must be sent to us within one month of the time or 
fhe (run-action, and to Idenlifv it, you should mention Tut: Kcrai. Kkw- 
i orker when writing the advertiser. 
I told him it anyone had doubts about the A'alue of 
The R. N.-Y. to refer them to me. chas. m. clabk. 
Maine. 
HAT is what one of our readers told the agent 
of a farm paper. We have been able to collect 
an account for this man. and obtain needed informa¬ 
tion. Such an endorsement is like having an army 
of responsible men anxious to put their names on 
your note. 
* 
This is the psychological season of the year to spend 
a little time in the henhouse getting acquainted with the 
birds. One can readily learn to spot the loafers and 
send them to market. 
ORIkS of wisdom from the (’onnecticut egg- 
laying contest, and it is good advice for this 
AAct season, or any other. It is an economic crime to 
feed and nurse a lot of lazy drones, whether they 
are dressed in feathers or in cloth. Yet that is what 
most of us have done for years. Now we are learn¬ 
ing lo analyze a hen. Many a man has been tunned 
into a dunce by a pretty drone. Keep out of the lire 
by putting her in the frying pan. 
* 
O VKR in Canada the Agrarian party seems to be 
gaining ground steadily. In Ontario the farm¬ 
ers still control the legislature and have made a good 
record. Last year the Province of Alberta followed, 
and now Manitoba has been carried by the united 
farmers' party. In Ontario the farmers’ party gov¬ 
erns only through the help of the labor vote, but in 
the western province agriculture is practically the 
only industry. The farmers, who provide practically 
all the business and produce most <>f the wealth, feel 
that they are quite capable of running their own 
government. They tire proving their right and their 
ability to do so. The political situation in Canada is 
different from what we find in this country. Here 
party prejudice is so strong that farm political sen¬ 
timent is expressed through one of the old political 
parties. Past experience has shown the futility of 
gaining national success through a third party. The 
most effective work can he done in Congress through 
some such organization as the '‘farm bloc.” In Can¬ 
ada il has been possible to maintain the united 
farmers’ party. The various groups have come to¬ 
gether for common interests, and the Canadian farm¬ 
ers rightly see that Congress or Parliament is the 
place for settling their troubles. They propose to 
go where the laws are mad<: and see to their execu¬ 
tion later. Our own Western States are following 
the example of Western Canada. That is natural, 
for both are agricultural sections, and both have 
been placed .at a disadvantage by hanking, manufac¬ 
turing and transporting interests. The people of 
these Western States are thinking along new lines 
of political economy. They are to he largely respon¬ 
sible for the nation’s food and clothing, and in ac¬ 
cepting that responsibility they intend to secure 
their business and social rights. They have evident¬ 
ly started to work their plans for reform inside the 
Republican party. If they fail in I hat line we pre¬ 
dict a new alignment of political parties, largely the 
agrarians against the conservative or financial ele¬ 
ments, with labor divided between the two. 
W E can easily remember when the "authorities" 
claimed that there was a natural “dairy 
belt” in this country, outside of which dairying 
would not pay. The lower side of this “belt" ran 
through upper Tennessee. Relow that, we were told, 
dairy cattle would not thrive and fine grasses would 
not grow! And most people believed it. Today, all 
over the South, even lo the Rio Crande R’ver. dairy 
cows prosper. Alfalfa and all the good grasses grow, 
and dairying is profitable. At the upper side of tlie 
“belt” Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, solemnly de¬ 
clares that fit) years from now Labrador will he ex¬ 
porting butter and cheese, made from reindeer milk! 
The fact is that the progress or development of civ¬ 
ilization has been a long process of fastening various 
“belts" around the mind and body of humanity, only 
to have them stretched or broken as thought and 
desire make the breaking necessary. We are. all of 
us. too much afraid of getting away from worn-out 
habits or customs. We hang on to them too long 
and thus have built up an army of paid educators 
who do not educate, thinkers who do not think, lead¬ 
ers who never lead, and helpers who are mostly a 
hindrance. Prejudice and polities make a strong 
team when hitched to the car of progress, hut about 
all they know is how to hark. The world offers 
great things to most of us, hut we let them pass be¬ 
cause they are new and not yet in fashion. We 
thought of this the other day when we found grow¬ 
ing on our New Jersey farm Sudan grass from 
Afi'ica. Soy beans from Japan, cow peas from Geor¬ 
gia, kudzu from Florida, peanuts from Virginia and 
vetch from Russia. Surely the corners of the earth 
are being brought together. 
* 
A STATEMENT of the famous “Charlie Cole" cow 
case is printed on the next page, in discussing 
this case Hoard's Dairyman well says: 
The real importance of the Cabana case, however, 
was the settling of the question of the right, of a mem¬ 
bership association to provide by-laws, rules and regu¬ 
lations for the conduct of its own business and for the 
correction' of any fraudulent records, either of breeding 
or production. The necessity of ibis would he appar¬ 
ent. Without, the association had that right, it would 
be idle for any breed association to engage in at) effort 
at improvement, for it would he unreasonable to sup¬ 
pose that any great industry could be carried on with¬ 
out some person perpetrating fraud, and if il could 
not be corrected, then the blood lines, as well as pro¬ 
duction of animals, would ho stultified and there would 
be no way of correcting the impurities. 
That is the position which The R. N.-Y. took from 
the first. That principle looms far above all other 
issues in this nasty controversy. Unless the Hol¬ 
stein Association, or any other association, can have 
actual power over its records, and the right to de¬ 
fend their integrity, there is no reason why any such 
association should exist. The sooner the play farm¬ 
ers and the cow jockey s understand that the better 
for the Holstein cow. 
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A MONG many suggestions for handling the auto 
hog is the following: 
Would it not he a good idea to hare the daughter of 
the farm equipped with n good camera, and when pos¬ 
sible have her slip up and take pictures of the auto, 
showing the license number, and of any occupant, if 
any? Then, instead of the farmer chasing away in¬ 
truders, meet them smilingly and rake their pictures, 
too. Then have the films developed and displayed in 
some store window in town, with the caption, "Who 
Are These Thieves?” This sort of evidence would peed 
no lawyer to Jell a jury what was done. Caught in the 
no by a photograph would he all the evidence one would 
need. Then there could he no mistake about the license 
number. The film will not see wrong. How about this? 
Would it be blackmail if one should send a photo to the 
people concerned with the suggestion that $10 would 
keep the plate from being printed in the local paper? 
New Hampshire. W. .r. b. 
The last suggestion is too close to blackmail. We 
would not attempt il. The general plan of taking 
the photograph is a good one. It may he difficult to 
obtain the proper advertising, for the stores in town 
might think they would lose a good customer. Rut 
picture the thieves if you can! Some of these are 
"eminently respectable" at home, and pointing a 
camera at them would he Averse than presenting a 
pistol. 
I am S3 years old. and have seen many changes. 
Have taken light from the tallow candle, coal oil. gaso¬ 
line and electricity, all in the last TO years. We are 
putting in a farm light system on the ranch this Sum¬ 
mer. In 1907 only one auto in our irrigation project ; 
now every farmer and many of the Mexican laborers 
have autos. Maggies hardly seen. W. It. WILSON, 
llopednle Ranch. New Mexico. 
A ND think of Ibis: In the year of your birth— 
is: 59—Ncav Mexico was largely a desert of cac¬ 
tus and lonely mountains. Where now your nutos run 
and your electric lights outshine the stars, jack rab¬ 
bits hopped along the hot sands and only an occa¬ 
sional campfire aided the moonbeams. When we try 
to realize what the man of SO years has seen in the 
way of physical development the wonder of it .‘ill is 
nearly overpowering. And the end is not yet. Wo 
have hardly begun. Eighty years hence, off in the 
next century, our great-grandchildren will look hack 
to this period of history as a crude age and wonder 
In w we were satisfied with the slow and inconven¬ 
ient fixtures of 1922! There is a glorious future 
before us. The great danger is that mental and 
spiritual forces may fall behind material power in 
their developmt nt and thus he mastered by it. 
W E often have letters from people who want to 
make a small loan from the Federal Land 
Rank. They have little, if any. land to offer ns 
security, and do not understand why the bank can¬ 
not make the loan. The following extract from a 
letter from one of the land hanks states the hank's 
position: 
"There must he sufficient acreage with a proper com¬ 
plement of buildings so that when put to the Uses to 
which the place is best adapted the farm will produce 
an income sufficient to support the occupants and meet 
the payments on our loan. Snob a small acreage there¬ 
fore as three acres would hardly come within this 
scope, and since we can loan but 50 per cent of the 
appraised value of the land, plus 20 per cent of the 
buildings or building proposed to Lie built, and no more 
can be loaned on the buildings than on the land, it 
would not appear that we could be of service to you.” 
In the case mentioned the man who seeks to bor¬ 
row has three acres of ordinary land, and wants to 
borrow enough to put up a good dwelling-house. As 
we know from experience, a building and Joan asso¬ 
ciation can make such a loan, and when the bor¬ 
rower has some income outside of the land he can 
usually pay out. The Federal Land Banks cannot 
operate on exactly that principle. The loans they 
make are supposed to he paid out of the proceeds 
from the land. 
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F OR a number of years now Mr. A. I>. Shame! 
has been telling our readers about the great 
work in bud selection carried on in California 
lemon and orange groves. Mr. Shamel worked 
on the theory that certain trees were naturally 
superior iw fruit production, while certain others 
were finite inferior. Most of us liaA’e observed 
this in other fruits. Shamel’s idea lias been 
that the superior qualities of the tree may be 
transferred through its buds, while the drone tree 
may have its evil qualities scattered about in the 
same way. Acting upon this theory records were 
kept of thousands of trees, their yields being as care¬ 
fully tabulated as the performances of tested cows 
or other animals. Then buds were taken from these 
recorded trees for nursery propagation. The Cali¬ 
fornia Nurserymen's Bud Selection Association xvas 
formed, and it has just held its annual meeting. 
During the past year about 3.500,000 buds were 
taken from record hearing trees for nursery propa¬ 
gation. The work has not gone far enough yet to 
prove everything claimed for the system, hut evi¬ 
dently the best growers in California are convinced 
that this plan will enable them to eliminate the 
drone or scrub trees. We think much the same work 
is needed in reforming some of our Eastern orchards. 
Take, for example, the Baldwin apple. There is no 
question but that this variety is proving a disap¬ 
pointment in many orchards. We think something 
of ils tenderness and habit of shy hearing is due to 
propagating with buds from inferior trees. Some 
such work as Shamel has done in the California 
orchards would, we think, bring the variety Ltaek 
near its old-time vigor. While we fully believe this, 
it must he admitted that our Eastern scientists are 
mostly inclined to ridicule the idea, though we un¬ 
derstand it is being faithfully worked out in Canada. 
We think our American scientists should get busy 
in testing this matter of hud selection, and we some¬ 
times regret that wo lack the personal experience 
and scientific knowledge needed to push the matter 
through. 
Brevities 
Canada is considering a law to prohibit entirely the 
tin manufacture and importation of oleomargarine after 
March 1. 1924. 
The speaker at the usual farmers’ picnic this year 
does not have much of a “picnic.” It has been too Avet 
for words. . 
Among Other exhibits at Farmers’ Week at the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Agricultural College was a model wayside 
vegetable stand where fruits, vegetables, jams, jellies, 
etc., Avere sold in neat shape and at fair prices. 
Several people want to know if the New York State 
Fair managers permit camping on the fair grounds. 
Yes. For several years past space oil the automobile 
parking ground has been given for such purpose. 
Several specimens of grape leaves have been sent us 
for examination. These leaves change color, shrivel 
and fall off. No insect or fungus can be found. The 
trouble seems to be due to a lack of organic matter in 
the soil. This leads to a lack of moisture, and the rem¬ 
edy is to plow manure or some green crop into the soil. 
The papers state that an Iowa farmer was attacked 
by a savage bull in a pasture III rough which ran a rail¬ 
road. The train crew on a passenger train saw the 
struggle. The train was stopped and all hands ran out 
and rescued the farmer. Years ago we knew of a rail¬ 
road in New Hampshire xvhere each day the trains 
stopped to take down and put up a pair of bars. "Rapid 
transit” in both cases. 
