The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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To help 
you select 
your winter 
underwear 
Actual sample of 
High Rock fabric 
HIGH ROCK 
FLEECE LINED UNDERWEAR 
If for any reason your dealer can¬ 
not show you the actual garments, 
send us a postal and we will mail 
you a booklet telling about this 
underwear and will include a gen¬ 
erous sample of the fabric. 
HIGH ROCK is made specially for 
outdoormen who know the warmth 
and comfort of soft, downy cotton 
next the skin. Special HIGH 
ROCK Fleecing methods guaran¬ 
tee unusual durability. 
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buy the garment that will best fit 
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SMYTH-DESPARD CO. 
801 Broad Street Utica, N. Y. 
Stop, Look and Listen 
Natural Yarn Cotton Socks. Not dyed or 
bleached. Just as they come from the 
machines. Keal comfort for 
tender, swollen or blistered fTfp 
feet. Give twice the wear «>i i | 
dyed stockings. Send it) cents l ! i 
for single pair; 95 cents for halt J';- 1 ' . 
dozen; or $1.80 per dozen. Sizes 111 
1H- Prices west of the Mis¬ 
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dozen or $1.90 per dozen. State i. 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, SEPT. 30, 1922 
FARM TOPICS 
Ryo nnd Alsike Clover......... 1167 
Handling Sov Beun Hay. 1157 
Growing Dill Pickles.1167, 1168 
Pulling Potato Vines. 1170 
A Successful Farmors’ Club...,,. 1171 
Hope Farm Notes...... .1174. 1175 
The Game Laws and Trespass Signs. 1177 
New' York State Notes. .... 1177 
A Reply to Secretary Wallace . 1186 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Newr York State Wool Pool.1166 
The Dairy Cow Situation .. . 1182 
Cleaning and Working Fleece Wools. 1186 
Sheep and Interested Young People the 
Greatest Assets to His Farm . 11.6 
THE HENYARD 
Making a Bargain with the Pullet 
Flocks .1165, U« ( 
A Railroad Man On the Track of Hens.... 1167 
Shipping Eggs ky Parcel Post. 1177 
Egg-laying Contest . U85 
Fowls Do Not Lay. 1185 
HORTICULTURE 
Outdoor Flowers and Mushrooms. 1166 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Investments in Children.. .. 1170 
"The Child"—A Real Incirjent . 11 .0 
The Education of the Bootblack's Son.... 1170 
Direct. Sales to City Women. 1171 
"He Also Acquires Merit”. 11 >. I 
Boys and Girls.1178, 11 10 
Tho Pastoral Parson.1180, 1181 
The Home Dressmaker. 11S1 ] 
A Family Budget System. 1186 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Tank to Hold Fuel Oil. 1167 
The District School. 1168 
Rural School Problems.1168, llu-) 
Editorials . liio 
The Fuel Situation. 1177 
Market for Wood Fuel. 1777 
Publisher's Desk . 1180 
| corely desirous of girling tho rural people 
in school imitter.s. When flip time conies 
lo pass any law there is likely to he some 
discussion. Until there is something def¬ 
inite al tempted t think the rural people 
are perfectly willing that anyone should 
investigate to his heart’s content. (>r 
course there is little chance to get the 
opinion of farmers generally. Local 
papers as a rule do not consider farmers' 
views as news, or even good copy. As to 
the agricultural papers, with the possible 
exception of Tiik Rik.w Xkw-Yokkkr. 
they will not touch the matter with a 10- 
foot pole. 
It might be well now to recall some of 
the reasons for the demise of the late- 
lamented township school law. chief of 
which reasons was Finneganism or au¬ 
tocracy. and. judging from l lie howls from 
across the line, our Pennsylvania friends 
have troubles also. Then there was phys¬ 
ical culture, and the sanitary closet steal; 
also, last, hut not least, consolidation of 
rural schools. On all of these the rural 
people put an emphatic veto. 
Still there are a few of the rural people 
in favor of consolidation. Farmers of this 
class know well that iu this climate it 
means the removal of families with small 
children to the towns, and reason, as do 
some officials, that less people producing 
farm crops and more old farms grown up 
to brush may mean scarcity and higher 
prices for what there is to sell, as wit¬ 
ness the coal situation at the present 
iime. Many inhabitants of smalt villages 
think that, erection of JL’OO.OOO school 
houses and the influx of country people 
would inflate dead real estate aiid boom 
building. Problems of taxation ami trade 
with a deserted country are not considered. 
Anyway, one comm unity near here will 
try it. Six districts will unite with the 
village in a consolidated school project, 
and the experiment will he watched with 
much interest. 
Where tried, consolidation results in 
intolerable taxation. Many townships in 
Ohio are practically bankrupt and are 
unable to raise the money to pay the high 
salaries of teachers, now they have the 
schools. Yet a speaker from there at 
Ithaca last Summer said an average farm 
pa ill $1.-00 taxes in Ohio. 
Further west, where they do things in 
shape, with school farms and buses for 
transportation, taxes run from to 
$75 per thousand, based on an $80 per 
acre assessment. Produce would have to 
go higher if we paid that kind of taxes 
here, or the sheriff would give us a call. 
There is no doubt the rural school is 
inefficient, in spite of higher wages for 
teachers and millions spent for higher ed- 
ueation. "Who is to blame? School pop¬ 
ulation has dwindled until thousands of 
schools have doubled up. If people re¬ 
turn to the hills, these selmols would re¬ 
open if there were children enough to 
make it an object. As it is in this sec¬ 
tion anyway, some district.- have consoli¬ 
dated under the old law. others have tried 
transportation and given it up. one has 
no scholars at present. They say every¬ 
thing comes to him that waits and keeps 
right busy. We will see what we will 
see. B. L. HATHAWAY, 
New York. 
The professor was putting the finishing 
touches on the sidewalk lu* was laying 
down. Tommy, aged six, had heen watch¬ 
ing the proceedings with great interest, 
and at length, deeming the time right for 
trial, started to cross before the mixture 
hard time to dry. When the professor dis¬ 
played some slight pii|iie, a passerby ob¬ 
served : "Why. profe—or. I though' you 
liked children.” “I like 'em all right in 
the abstract.’' the professor replied, “but 
not in the concrete."—Judge. 
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