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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 28, 1922 
to the kitchen and set a match to the 
kitchen fire, which must ever ho the 
mainstay of I ho farm homo. Another 
mystery harnessed down to the common- 
place, and, after all our scientific knowl¬ 
edge, still a mystery. 
The griddles tick gently over the 
warmth, and the flames roar. ‘‘I'm cold." 
says little Jane, and creeps close to the 
oven door. 
To be cold and be warmed. That is liv¬ 
ing. MRS. F. H. UNGER. 
sure to hunt the paper. Wherever they 
go, and read it, The R. N.-Y. will be a 
magnet which may attract these wan¬ 
derers and bring them home. All sorts 
of people have appealed to us in this 
way. At one time a farmer said his wife 
had run away with the hired man, but 
would surely read The R. N.-Y. and re¬ 
pent. We wish we could be so confident 
that the paper exerts such a moral in¬ 
fluence. We confess that at times we 
hardly know what to do with such cases. 
We are here to serve our readers in the 
best way we know, but of course a little, 
reflection will show anyone that we could 
not fairly or safely start such "person¬ 
alities” over unknown friends. In sev¬ 
eral cases, however, we have been able 
quietly to find these wanderers and bring 
them hack without publicity, and that is 
far better. 
A Farm Woman’s Notes 
Land Values and Speculation 
That is a most excellent editorial on 
page 123G, beginning “Prof. L. D. Cox,” 
etc., and just what it ought to be. But, 
it can't be done, probably, until the land 
question is adjusted; for, just as soon as 
any considerable movement toward the 
country is made, the land speculators 
will get the land first, and then “absorb” 
too much of the working capital of the 
people going cut “into the country." Peo¬ 
ple going upon land create land values; 
and, as long as land speculators are per¬ 
mitted by law to absorb such values, just 
so long will city congestion menace hu¬ 
man welfare. a. w. ijttlefield. 
Massachusetts. 
to hung on to their leathery cases against ]y down the grade that leads into the 
all comers, though the leaves have already collar. All right for that. I low the limi- 
fallen; . gry months surround one on every side; 
From my vantage on the hack of the one feels a sense of emptiness in that re¬ 
truck I can look olT across the township, gard himself. .So immediately, while El- 
There is a large field recently turned over, gie is feeding the hens, and Daddy is 
where a neighbor has been digging po- milking the cow. little Jane aud 1 mount 
t ft toes. The man who planted those rows 
expected twice as many potatoes as were 
found. Good fertilizer, good cultivation 
and seed stock ought to have brought him 
at least a normal yield, for they have 
been well supplied with moisture. Yet 
the fact remains that the yield is not 
there: the field will average around 75 
bushels to the acre, which is not » matter 
of congratulation to this farmer, with his 
good soil and careful tillage. When a 
field like this turns out small it may well 
he significant to observing folks that the. 
late potato crop is going to be a surprise 
to the crop estimators. Not long ago I 
read a report sent from our locality. It 
was only one of a long list that went t.o 
show how very, very well the fields were 
turning out among potato farmers. It 
was easy to believe that others in more 
favorable conditions were getting that 
100 per cent normal crop, but as to ray 
own locality, the vines have been dead in 
most cases since early in September, and 
it seems patent that the yield can scarcely 
be extra. It will lake at least until 
November 15 to prove this in black and 
white. 
But one doesn’t think about misplaced 
estimates when the air is full oi chil- 
dren’s laughter. The ball play with a 
patch of tiny bright pie pumpkins is ex¬ 
citing and keeps one's mind on the task 
in hand. This fun is "made" fun. Here 
are the four ingredients, which Ernest 
Thompson Solon tells us are the four 
lines of human development ; spirit, body, 
mind and service. The eternal mystery 
of harvest and the unchangeable law of 
the setting sun. that is to feed the spirit. 
The tang of the clear frosty air tones up 
both body and mind, especially when 
coupled with exercise like throwing gold¬ 
en pumpkins out of a background of 
green vines. And last of all, doing this 
to help Daddy, because the man from 
Florida is away on Ills vacation and the 
frost coming on. this supplies the service. 
You would scarcely buy all this by driv¬ 
ing downtown and paying a dollar for an 
evening's entertainment, would you? Yet 
this kind of enjoyment is what brings ns 
ihat. rarest of faculties, that of being 
good company for ourselves, not to men¬ 
tion entertaining other people.. I think 
country people have the gift in greater 
degree than those who are accustomed to 
pay for amusements; for instance, our 
town brothers and sisters. We are 
taught to call the gift adaptability. Bus¬ 
iness men write whole articles to show 
that it is the keynote of their success— 
the secret of a winning personality. But 
it makes men successful simply by bring¬ 
ing other people to lean on them for 
amusement or contentment. Take a con¬ 
firmed city dweller away from his bought 
living, put him in the country all by him¬ 
self— there, you see wliat T mean. No 
one is more helpless than a person who is 
not good company for himself. 
As fast as one spot is cleared, Daddy 
climbs into liis seal and takes us on to a 
fresh area, aud the end being in sight, we 
are quite sure Hint by building.carefully 
the pumpkins will all ride. It is an odd 
mixture at the last, for there were the 
late watermelons ami muskiaelons that 
we could not bear to leave behind, and we 
dag a few Nancy Hall sweet potatoes to 
put in the oven for supper while we un¬ 
load. Fine, sleek fellows they are, about 
six large-sized tubers? to the plant, not to 
mention the small ones. There is nothing 
anv better than the sweet fragrance of 
potatoes linking in the oven when one 
comes in out of the sharp air. We have 
not forgotten the Irish potatoes either, 
but will put in half of each kind. "Well, 
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