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7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 30, 1922 
Reliability 
is a part of the bargain 
when you buy Kelly 
Trees. They are from 
responsible nurseries — 
with a national reputation. 
Kelly Trees are a source of 
future, sure profits—and they 
cost no more than other trees. 
Write for FREE 1923 
Catalog, lists and prices 
—also proper methods for 
ordering and planting. 
Kelly Bros. Nurseries 
1160 Main Street Danmlle, N. Y. 
Plant Trees This Fall— 
Save Time Next Spring 
'T'REES planted this fall form new 
root contacts with the soil before 
winter sets in. They start to grow 
with the first warm days of spring. 
Our hardy fruit trees, grown in New 
England, stand the winters well. Buy your 
stock from the original Barnes' Nursery, 
backed by' 32 years of satisfactory service. 
Write for Price List of Trees and Small 
Fruits, Shade Trees, Evergreens, Roses, etc. 
ATLOCK FARMS Strain ASPARAGUS 
ZOO.OtKl well grown root*. Sio per M TVi-vmi illy si'lrrl' il 
seed. 35 pel lb. Allock Farm*, Bmiml Brook. N J. 
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Selling High Grade Shoes consumer 
whole or part time. Libera! entntuissittn Capital 
or experience not necessary. Tanners Shoe 
Manufacturing Co., 477 C St . Boston. Mass. 
ill U/owl for sale, direct from mamifac- 
*11 Wool Knitting Tarn tiirer.at»6c, *1.85 and $1 <SO 
a pound. Postage paid on five dollar orders. Write for 
samples. II. A. BARTLETT - llurmoiiy, Maine 
The 
Hope 
Farm 
Book 
This attractive 
234-page book 
has some of the 
j best of the 
Hope Farm 
Man’s popular 
sketches—phil- 
I osophy, humor, 
I 
j and sympa- 
thetic touch. 
Price $1.50 
For Sale By 
The Rural New - Yorker 
333 West 30th St., New York 
All Sorts 
Is ‘'Bobbed Hair” Silly or Sensible? 
The Hope Farm man speaks of "fool¬ 
ish bobbed hair." No style of hair dress¬ 
ing within my memory—and I am 52— 
has been so sensible from a purely prac¬ 
tical standpoint. Surely it is worthy of 
commendation when compared with those 
huge artificial structures which one could 
see, row upon row. in every high school 
and everywhere else a few years since. 
“I can do my hair in one minute." re¬ 
marked a hard-working teacher in a fash¬ 
ionable girls' hoarding school I he other 
day. “The old way it took me 10. and 
lots of the girls spend 15 or 20. That 
gives me at least 27 minutes saved daily 
for myself. It's a perfect godsend." 
From the standpoint of feminine beauty 
I admit it was a loss in most cases—hut 
"foolidht" K. I). G. 
Connecticut. 
This is very much out of our line, and 
probably we should have said .smite of 
the bobbed hair arrangements are fool¬ 
ish. hut after consulting with a number 
of women who are good observers it 
would seem that the statement. I can 
do my hair in one minute." may he true 
of plain shori hair. That would mean a 
short cut and the hair merely brushed 
back, as a man's would be. That form, 
however, is apparently confined to hard¬ 
working teachers, writers or other peo¬ 
ple, who do not care particularly for 
their personal appearance or adornment. 
The type we had in mind is represented 
by what is known as the "flapper,” and 
that type certainly does not finish brush¬ 
ing their hair in one minute, Unless the 
hair of such girls is naturally curly, and 
that happens about once in 10 times, she 
either has a permanent, wave, at a cost 
of probably $25, or the hair is treated 
witli an electric curler or similar device. 
This operation takes as much time as 
brushing long hair. Another point which 
led us to call the performance a “foolish” 
one is the fact that the girl with bobbed 
hair is constantly combing it out in pub¬ 
lic places, such as street cars, theatres, 
or wherever she happens to be, and it 
would be hard to know of anything more 
foolish than such a public performance. 
Then we have seen some of these bobbed 
hair artists wearing what they call a 
“frizz," which makes the hair stand out 
like that of a South Sea Islander. As 
a result no hat will tit it. and in the city 
we constantly see girls with such hair 
carrying their hats and leaving their 
heads exposed. There are some styles of 
wearing bobbed hair where it is left in 
natural form, and this seems to us unite 
attractive, but the style has been taken 
up by a vulgar type of women and seems 
to lie something of a trademark with 
them. 
Many women who went to Europe dur¬ 
ing the war found that bobbed hair was 
necessary for cleanliness iu their work. 
Most of them.however, were very glad to 
let their hair grow again when they re¬ 
turned to this country. Of course we 
can understand that bobbed hair is a 
great advantage to those whose hair is 
not naturally thick and luxuriant, and it 
seems evident that a very large number 
of young women do not have naturally 
long or thick hair. Tit fact, we rarely, 
if ever, meet a girl with a naturally thick 
head of hair who is willing to have it cut 
off or bobbed. It seems to us very much 
like the arguments in favor of a vege¬ 
tarian diet on giving up entirely the use 
of meat. In the great majority of cases 
people who talk about doing that have 
reached the point where they cannot eat 
meat with any comfort to their own 
health. 
Naming the Farm 
The practice of giving the farm some 
specific name seems to he increasing in 
favor, and we are very often asked to 
advise in selecting a title that is at once 
suitable and attractive. This is not easy, 
for a stranger cannot name an unknown 
farm as appropriately as one who knows 
its appearance and surroundings. 
There arc three salient features that 
may be considered in naming the farm; 
topography, surroundings, and local his¬ 
tory. To this may be added individual 
or persona] happenings. There are some 
good and appropriate names that have 
become commonplace* from frequent use, 
these being lacking iu distinction, and 
we may include among these many tree 
names, such n< Maple Farm. Maple 
Shade. Oak Farm, and the like. If, how¬ 
ever, there was one conspicuous tree near 
the farm buildings, such a name as Lone 
Fine Farm, or Lone Oak, or Lone Ash. 
or whatever it might be, would be less 
common and very suitable. If one large 
tree stood in an isolated and conspicuous 
place, such a name as Sentinel Pine, or 
Sentinel Oak. would be anractive. 
Where one can learn of any Indian 
name connected with the locality it may 
prove very desirable if not too difficult to 
spell and remember. If there is a local 
historical society, its officers may he help¬ 
ful iu securing such a name. There is. 
however, a great difference between such 
a simple mime as Ku.shiiqun and a lengthy 
one like I >es-shre-shoskn. An Indian 
name that is absolutely accurate may be 
less desirable than one that is slightly 
modified. Again, there are cases where 
Indian associations are suggested without 
the use of au Indian word. In some 
localities it is not uncommon to plow up 
Indian implements, which would give 
such names as Arrowhead Farm. Stone 
1 hatchet Farm, Stoue Arrow Farm or In¬ 
dian Chief, Calumet, or Peace Pipe. 
Longfellow’s “Hiawatha” is full of In¬ 
dian names that may be turned to ap¬ 
propriate use. 
Where the topography of the farm 
must supply a name there are many 
names thar may he compounded, using 
one <>f the old Saxon words for valley, 
hill, stream or lake, and compounding 
this with a family name, or wi r h some 
adjoining feature. Thus tile word wold 
means woodland, burn or beck a stream, 
linn a deep pool, tarn a mountain lake, 
mere a lake or marsh, rithe running 
water, mode a meadow, shaw a wood. 
Such names as Tarn side, Meadowburu, 
Sunny wold. Sunuyrithe. Uichmede or 
Trout heck are not common, but arc 
euphonious and appropriate to conditions. 
If the family name is a simple one, it 
may be adapted !<• form port of the title 
—as Riehardsmede. Shawlynn. Davies- 
tarn. 
In reading English hooks, American 
readers are sometimes surprised, and also 
a little scornful or amused to find prac¬ 
tically all rhe houses, outside of num¬ 
bered streets, with some name. They 
are quite likely to think it pretentious or 
absurd. To English people, however, a 
house is quite generally regarded, not as 
a casual caravauserai. hut as a perma¬ 
nent entity, and there is a real story be¬ 
hind such names as c-rayladios. Mock- 
beggar, Doonloigh. Nine Elms or Green- 
gates. It seems a pity that our American 
forebears did not display the same feel¬ 
ing iu naming their homesteads, and pre¬ 
serving thereby both local and national 
history. We think naming the farm one 
way to show pride in it. and to assert the 
fact that the farm and its family are a 
permanent part of the community. 
Cheap Labor and Immigration 
I have just been reading extracts from 
the address of President Howard on page 
1440, and note what he says in regard 
in the immigration laws and far mar¬ 
keting. His opinion that the stringent 
immigration law is a mistake seems to 
agree with many other reported expres¬ 
sions of Farm Bureau officers and mem¬ 
bers during the last three years or more 
which appear !o me to be very much op¬ 
posed to reason. 
If, as Mr. Howard says, ihe Western 
farmer can no longer produce crops to be 
sold in bulk, and Eastern fanners must 
resort to the production of perishables re¬ 
quired by nearby markets, then why hope 
to improve the condition of either by 
securing cheaper labor in further Mood 
overstocked markets and further reduce 
market prices of staples, already selling 
below the cost of production? It seems 
io me that the old theory of producing 
two blades of grass where one grew be¬ 
fore has been overworked. The advocates 
of a largely increased immigration policy 
forget that nine out of lit new arrivals 
stop in the congested centers, and that 
only a short 12 months ago the greatest 
problem of this country was unemploy¬ 
ment. I was born in Wisconsin, raised 
on a farm iu Iowa, and followed the slur 
of empire through the various Western 
States until ihe tide of immigration broke 
on the shores of the Pacific and rolled 
back on the intennmintain States, and 
for more than M0 years 1 have heard noth 
ing but praise for the man who raised not 
only one but a thousand blades where one 
grew before. 
I have seen more than this; in the 
seventies 1 hauled live hogs to market in 
Iowa for 2 cents per lb., wheat at 2S 
cents per bushel, and corn and oats at 12 
to 15 cents. In the nineties wheat sold 
iu the Palouse country in Washington for 
30 to 40 i-ents per bushel, and in Idaho 
in 1013 it sold for «S0 cents to $1 per 100 
lbs. at farmers' stations, nr at 50 to <50 
cents per bushel. 1 have seen eggs sold 
at 5 cents per dozen in trade, and butter 
at 5 cents per lb; everywhere the same 
old story of overproduction. Can you 
give a single example of bumper crops 
bringing greatest prosperity to the pro¬ 
ducers. exccnt under extraordinary world 
or local conditions? 
1 quit the attempt to swell the rising 
tide of produce 35 years or more ngo. and 
joined the great com lining class in vari¬ 
ous cities, including Seattle. Isis Angeles, 
Ni ■w York and other Middle West and 
Southern cities, as a builder and contrac¬ 
tor. There 1 have had au opportunity to 
test and observe the working conditions 
of the various so-called lower grades and 
classes of labor which Mr. Howard seeks 
to have admitted to our shores, and I 
must insist that cheap labor and in¬ 
creased production arc a fraud and a de¬ 
lusion us far as the farmer is concerned. 
Again, Mr. Howard, and I think right¬ 
ly so. is strung for prohibit ion. yet iu ad¬ 
vocating illiterate immigration does he 
realize that at least three-fourths of all 
ilie crime and violations of law, includ¬ 
ing manufacture and sale of low-grade 
intoxicants, are committed by this same 
i lass of low grade laborers already here? 
1 know, and you know, that all over this 
fertile country of ours, here iu the East, 
on the vast plains sweeping from.the Ap¬ 
palachians to the Rockies, in the sunny 
South, and on the irrigated paradise dug 
from the deserts of the arid West, mil¬ 
lions of Americans, born of generations 
of American ancestors, are grubbing their 
lives away on farms for ti bare living, 
and always hoping that each succeeding 
year may bring better conditions and 
lighten the burdens. It seems now pos¬ 
sible that the day of relief is at hand. 
Let us change the two blades to one bet¬ 
ter blade. Let our farmers stop trying 
to flood the world with greater quantities 
of produce at a loss and produce better 
crops in less quantities at a profit. Then 
the real dirt fanner will receive an ade¬ 
quate return for Ids labor and begin to 
realize that the advocates of eneap labor 
on farms are really working to cheapen 
Ids own labor iu the life work be has 
chosen. 2. L. CLARK. 
New Jersey. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
(Continued from Page 1512) 
quotations often appear in New York, 
uud soon after in Chicago. Bostou and 
other centers. As the earliest and most 
costly products are shipped and reshipped 
in small lots by express tlit re is no way 
to define their distribution with any ex¬ 
actness. City hotels are reputed liberal 
buyers of fresh produce only when prices 
arc considered moderate. Extreme prices 
are reported obtainable not from hotels, 
but from the more luxurious individual 
consumers. Smaller city markets draw 
from the large ones, but seldom at any¬ 
where near the highest prices. Most 
small towns and villages use little perish¬ 
able out of season produce, except when 
the price is low enough to insure quick 
disposal. They depend us a rule far more 
mi homegrown supplies, than do the cities 
as a class. 
APPLES WEST AM) EAST 
Something semis to be working to 
advantage of Eastern apple growers. 
Perhaps it is high freight and scarcity of 
cars in tiie West- Whatever the cause. 
Eastern growers seem to be getting as 
much as Western in a season when there 
is a good crop in both regions. Fancy 
large Romes in Central Washington at 
$1.25 per box seem a fair comparison 
With Western New York high-grade 
Baldwins at *4 per barrel, and net price 
is just about the same to the grower in 
each instance, with a good-sized crop 
both Fast and West. The competition is 
by no means putting the Eastern class 
nut of business. Many an Eastern 
grower close to a market is netting as 
much for his windfalls as the Pacific 
coast producer receives for^ standard 
grades. Question: Is the Western or¬ 
chard worth more than the Eastern under 
the same care, or does it just sell for 
more? G - b- P* 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, DEC. 30, 1922 
FARM TOPICS 
Cheap Power for the Ontario Farmers. 1509, 1510 
A One-man, One-horse Farm. 1510 
Do Your Boarders Pay Their Bills?. 1510 
He Needs More Capital. 1511 
An Experience With Dry Corn Silage. 1511 
Thrashing With Flail. 1513 
Hope Farm Notes. 1516 
New York State Notes. 1519 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Conference of Dairy Groups. 1519 
Ration for Cows an 1 Heifers. 1524 
Millet for Cow Feed. .. 1524 
Combination With Com and Buckwheat- . • 1524 
Improving a Ration... 1524 
The Fat Stock Show. .1524, 1526 
THE HENYARD 
Turkeys in a Backyard. 
Apples for Poultry. 
Egg-laying Contest .. 
Prevention of Flying. 
Too Much Protein.. 
Hen’s Small Egg... 
Trouble With Roup, , . ... 
Hens Fail to Roost. 
Inbreeding Turkeys ... 
Poor Laying . 
Ailing Hens .. 
Hastening Molt . 
Heuliouse Construction . 
Dry Mash: Sprouted Oats. 
Hens With Colds. , . 
Ration for Pullets. . 
HORTICULTURE 
Dormant Budded Trees... 
Using Rabbits as Fertilizer. 
Notes from a Maryland Garden.... 
Sulphuring Apples ... 
WOMAN AND HOME 
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A Contest in Pie-making,... 1517 
A Farm Woman’s Notes. 1517 
Notes from a Sagebrush Farmer's Wife.... 1517 
Boys and Girls. .1520, 1521, 1530 
The Pastoral Parson ... 1522 
Tho Home Dressmaker,,.. 1523 
Reflections—1922 .. 1523 
Age Extremes iu Farmers... . 1523 
Naturalization Questions . 1523 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Advertising in a Market Bulletin. 1511 
Demand for Fireplace Wood..., .. 1517 
The Co-operative Convention at Washing¬ 
ton . 1519 
From New York to West Virginia. 1526 
