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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
November 4, 1022 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER 
A National Wcvtly Journal lor Country nnd Suburban llomea 
Established itr.’P 
Vubl!aht<i —fklr hy Iht Rnr»l PuhlUhtor Cntnii.tij. 333 W.»t 30ib Strrrl. Nrn fork 
Hshbjcrt W. COLXlNQWOOH, President nnd Editor. 
John J. Dillon, Treasurer and Genera) Manager. 
Wm. F. Dillon, Secretary. 51ns K T. Roti.r. Associate Editor. 
L. H. Mt'Ri’Hr, Circnlation Manager. __ 
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*• A SQUARE DEAL"' 
We btdieve That every advertisement in this paper Is hacked by a respon- 
table person. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only But to moke adultly t-uiv, we will tmikt good any loss 
to paid subscribers sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon- 
eihli f»lvertis>a*< 01 misleading advertisements In our columns, and any 
nich S'vindlw will he publicly exposed. We are also often callid upon 
t,, adjust differences or mistakes between our Butooribeit and honest, 
responsible houses, whetht i advertisers or net. We willingly use our good 
office* to this end, hut such cases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions We protect subscribers against rogues hill we will not be 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
Notice of tip complaint nm*t be sent to us wiihlri one month of the time of 
the transaction, and to identity it. you should mention The Rural NEW- 
Yobkeh when writing the advertiser. _ 
One hours labor on tin farm must equal in earn¬ 
ing value 60 minutes of labor in ana other occupa¬ 
tion. 
* 
An I am not yet a citizen, 1 would like to know 
whether I am breaking the law by hunting game in 
hunting season without a license. What docs the law 
require? G. B. 
New York. 
ES, you are breaking the law unless you have a 
special license. An amendment passed in 1922 
makes it •"unlawful for any unnaturalized foreign- 
born resident in the United States to hunt for or 
capture or kill in this Slate any wild bird or animal, 
either game or otherwise, of any description, except¬ 
ing in defence Of person or property, and except un¬ 
der a special license issued by the Conservation 
Commission and to that end it shall he unlawful for 
any unnaturalized foreign-horn person in the United 
"■hates within this State to own or he possessed of a 
shotgun or rifle of any make.” The law also makes 
flu* possession of a shotgun in the house or room of 
an unnaturalized alien resident in the United States 
primn facie evidence that he is the owner thereof. 
Thus it is unlawful for you to hunt on your own 
property or elsewhere, or to possess a gun, without 
a special license issued by the Conservation Commis¬ 
sion. The cost of such a license is $10.50. Why live 
in this couutry and enjoy wlmt it offers and yet re¬ 
main an alien? 
* 
H ERE is an old suggestion, made a few years 
ago. about securing suitable speakers for 
<; range or other farm meetings. Several Granges 
and farmers' clubs have "adopted the plan of vot¬ 
ing popular speakers. Each member prepares a bal¬ 
lot by writing the names of the speakers he would 
must like to hear—In I he order of his choice. These 
ballots are “counted," and the names are rated first, 
second, third and so on, according to the number of 
times they are mentioned in the ballots- In that 
way it is learned just who the members would like 
to hear during the season, and the program commit¬ 
tee tries to secure them. It is not always possible to 
get all the speakers thus designated, but this is a 
good way to find out who is wanted, and that is the 
lirst step toward securing them. 
* 
W HEN a mail bites into a mellow, sour apple, 
he does something more than absorb a pleas¬ 
ant mouthful. He cleans his teeth with the most 
sanitary toothbrush in the world. Perhaps the worst 
enemy of tin* teeth is pyorrhoea. In these modern 
days this trouble seems to he worse than when we 
were children, but perhaps that is because we know 
more about it now, and increased knowledge means 
increased advertising. The bacteria which go with 
this disease, if unchecked, cause the gums to recede 
and the teeth to loosen. The acids of the apple act 
lo destroy or injure the work of these bacteria. A 
.solution of weak vinegar makes a good mouth wash, 
and the flesh of the apple, when driven in around 
Hit" teeth and gums, as is forcibly done by a good 
strong bite, is about as effective as any of the dental 
pastes now on the market. It is as effective and 
very much more agreeable. Yes, a good sour apple 
is a sanitary toothbrush; there is no danger that 
someone else will use it after you have finished. By 
using three such brushes every day you will keep 
your teeth and the rest of your body in fine condi¬ 
tion, and also provide a market which will save a 
great industry from Loss. Eat apples! There is a 
lug crop to he marketed. And also remember that 
there must he lime lo fill out the children's teeth, 
and milk supplies the lime. 
M ANY readers ask if it will pay them to drop 
fruit and vegetables and go to raising drug 
plants. It is a very doubtful chance. There is a 
market, for certain drugs, hut it is the easiest thing 
in the world to overdo it. For instance, belladonna. 
1 Miring the war prices for this drug soared and a 
number of farms were started. A crop of a little 
more than -SO tons glutted the market, and most 
growers were forced out. Up to a certain point drug 
production will pay: beyond that failure ensues, for 
there is no outside demand for the drug plants as a 
food. As a side issue, growing some of the common 
drugs might pay. but as a main business we cannot 
advise it. Of course, we know how eagerly many 
small farmers are searching for some new crop. as a 
result of this year's competition and low prices. We 
are iu just that, position ourselves, and have studied 
the drug plant business considerably. Some of the 
people who have seeds or plants for sale will give 
you a glowing prospect, but it would be too easy to 
overdo the business. 
* 
H EBE we are again with an argument for apple 
pomace as a dairy feed. Many dairy farmers 
have learned to feed pomace as they do silage, but 
there is still too much of it wasted. By analysis it 
is quite equal to ordinary silage. When dried, like 
beet pulp, it can be stored and transported like grain 
and will add succulence to a ration. One of the 
greatest feeding wastes we have occurs when this 
pomace is permitted to decay around the cider mill. 
We think it strange that some of the experiment 
stations have not taken this matter up and proved 
the great value of dried apple pomace. It is even 
more surprising that feed manufacturers, who say 
they are ever looking for new feed supplies, have 
not developed means for saving the great waste now 
going on. This would be great work for some organ¬ 
ization like the Dairymen’s League. 
* 
I have some apple trees on road side of fence by my 
lot. I trim and spray each year, lias the public a 
right to take these apples? 1 caught someone with 
them bagged up, and they forbid me to take them. 
s. n. o. 
OU are within your rights when you take these 
apples and keep them. They belong to you. If 
you own the property on one side, the land belongs 
to you up to the middle of the road. If you own on 
both sides, it is all yours. The public lias a right, to 
use it for travel, but has no right to what grows on 
it or alongside it. Apples, nuts, grass, flowers or 
other crops which grow on the fence line or along 
the road belong to you. and you have lirst right to 
them. The public’s right to the mad is simply one 
of unrestricted traffic. 
* 
T HE other day some of tbe daily papers con¬ 
tained a notice of the death of James L. 
Cowles. lie passed on at the age of 79, a veteran 
soldier in the cause of progress, yet unnoted and 
almost forgotten. There is no man or woman in 
America who does not owe a debt of gratitude to 
Mr. Cowles. It may safely be said that he did more 
than any other man to make parcel post a practical 
reality. Most of us are so busy in the rush and 
roar of life that we quickly forget public benefits 
and those who labor and endure that progress may 
be made. Parcel post was a privilege which be¬ 
longed to the American people. Even when prac¬ 
tically all other civilized nations recognized the 
need and the right, our public men refused to give 
us relief. It was necessary to force Congress at Ihe 
point of a pitchfork and under blows from a sledge¬ 
hammer, and this was done in one of the most nota¬ 
ble popular campaigns ever waged iu this country. 
Mr. Cowles gave his life to Ihe cause. His ideals 
ran far beyond the practical aspects of the case, for 
he saw in open, unrestricted postal communication, 
the building up of a great brotherhood and the dawn 
of peace and full justice. The world was not ready 
for all his dreams, but he made parcel posts pos¬ 
sible. His manners and his methods were not al¬ 
ways comfortable to cool-headed, conservative men, 
but he went ahead and forced the issue with the 
spirit, and unconquerable optimism of one of the old- 
time prophets. He showed America and the world 
-yvhat one earnest man, with true faith In an Ideal, 
may accomplish. What matter now that those who 
benefited have forgotten him? He did Ills work. II 
is good! 
* 
D O corporations have souls? No, hut sometimes 
the men who run them have. Up in Orange 
County. N. Y., a farm home was afflicted with a 
serious illness. The nearest telephone line was a 
mile sway. Application had been made for the nec¬ 
essary connection, but it would take time to provide 
material and construction. In Ihe meantime the 
afflicted family was inconvenienced and isolated 
from anxious relatives and friends. I’resident Fow¬ 
ler of the Walden Telephone Company met the situa¬ 
tion in an unusual way. He sent his men with a 
coll of insulated wire to construct a temporary and 
emergency line. The covered wire was stretched 
across a river, then from tree to tree, along the 
fence posts, and fiat on the ground, across new- 
sown fields, to connect the afflicted farm home with 
the outside world, and enrr,\ messages of confidence, 
cheer and hope to the sickbed. Here is a corpora¬ 
tion that actually has a soul. It has a high ideal of 
community service. It softens the stern exactions 
of business with the embellishment of sympathy and 
humanity. These qualities are not in the corpora¬ 
tion, it is true, but they are breathed into it from 
the big heart of the man who directs it. President 
Fowler may not operate a big corporation, but he is 
the type of man who should rule empires. 
* 
W HAT seems to he the lirst ease of trespass 
brought against a flying machine is reported 
from Pennsylvania. An airplane was stationed on a 
field near an occupied farm, and some business at. 
carrying up passengers was done. As a rule, the 
plane flew over the nearby farm, and tbe farmer, 
considering the plane a nuisance, had the owners ar¬ 
rested. lie charged that the noise of the plane dis¬ 
tracted the hired men and frightened flic horses, 
thus causing actual loss. The airplane owners were 
convicted and fined, on the theory, probably, that the 
proprietor of a farm owns the land to the center of 
the earth and tbe air above the farm up to infinity! 
No one can dig under him or fly over him to liis 
injury without permission. There seems no doubt 
that as flying increases new laws to govern traffic in 
the air must he worked out. 
* 
Y OU notice that while automobiles and airships 
are being developed in speed and capacity, 
trotting and pacing horses are still coming. When 
Dexter, years ago. trotted a mile in about 2:20, the 
limit of speed seemed to he reached. Now there are 
a number of records around two minutes or under. 
The trotters of today arc as a rule larger and more 
powerful than the old-timers. Many a man who has 
driven a car at full speed without a thrill will tingle 
to his toes at the sight of a trotting horse lighting 
for place at the end of a race. Iu the old days peo¬ 
ple would associate a livery stable and the men who 
hung arouud it with all that was evil In the town. 
Yet many a man of middle years will feel that some¬ 
thing worth while went out of his life when the car 
chased the road horse out of his barn. It is a pity, 
in a way, that many of our children are growing up 
without knowing that intimate association with 
man’s noblest brute friend—the road horse. We 
think he will come back some day—come back to 
many a family with some of the old-fasliioued coun¬ 
try class left in its blood. 
Brevities 
WSlY doesn’t the fuel commissioner advocate the fir*- 
less cooker as a fuel .saver? 
Now the chemists are after the so-called “buttermilk 
feeds.” Many of them proved to have little if any con¬ 
nection with either butter or milk. 
It is said that the German free state of Oldenburg 
has started a new form of paper money—rye note*, 
based on rye value or a certain amount of rye grain. 
The Ohio Agricultural College reports a can of 
peaches “put up” 54 years ago by Mrs. Joel Carter, still 
in "reasonably good condition.” It was the common 
“cold pack.” 
In his vacation notes the Hope Farm man referred to 
Laulern Hill in Connecticut. Some of the natives pro¬ 
test because this hill was referred to as limestone. It is 
really a white quartz of peculiar formation. 
Probably most of its have the conviction that the 
Bartlett pear is of American origin. It was originated 
in England ami brought r<t this country after the It evo¬ 
lution. No matter where it came from, Bartlett is n 
great pear. 
Wr have a question from a young mail who Mays Ju¬ 
lias a form of lung trouble. Shall he go into the coun¬ 
try and keep chickens or start a candy and lunch room? 
tin general principles we would say “outdoors with the 
chickens.” 
Wk have a good many letters from people who ask us 
to help them find a farm, and who admit that some sort 
of family trouble induces them to move. Few people 
care to take a chance on a family which airs its skeleton 
too much. “First be reconciled to thy brother” if you 
want n family job, 
ONE of our children stepped on a rusty uail and ran 
it some distance into his font. There was a Case of 
lockjaw in our neighborhood some years ago, and we 
took no chances. The doctor injected a serum. Years 
ago, as a barefoot hoy, a piece of salt pork would hart 1 
been put on the wound to “draw out the pniaon.” 
