A. O., Beaconsfield, la. —Is Andersonville 
Violets to appear in book form? 
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E. H. T., Holland Patent, N. Y. —The ad¬ 
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DISCUSSION. 
DAIRY CARTOON. 
O. M. Tinkam, Pres. Vt. Dairymens’ 
Association, North Pomfret, Vt.—I very 
much dislike the “Dairy Cartoon” in the 
Rural of February 2o, because of its mani¬ 
fest injustice. I consider it a libel on, and in¬ 
sult to, the small farmer and dairyman, be¬ 
cause of its manifest untruthfulness. This is 
made worse by the editorial remarks: 
“About the strongest creamery argument 
that was ever put on paper is to be found on 
the first page. These pictures state the case 
with more power than a dozen pages of printed 
matter could. Who does not know of some 
cellar where butter is made about as shown 
in the ‘home dairy’?” 
The artist draws a picture purely from im¬ 
agination, and that is called an argument! 
“Who does not know of some cellar, etc?” 
I do not, and I never heard of one. Does the 
Rural writer personally know of one? And 
if it were possible to find one or a dozen such, 
it would no more be just to make them a type 
of individual dairies than it would be to rep¬ 
resent all married men as wife-beaters be¬ 
cause an occasional one is found, or all minis¬ 
ters as scoundrels because one in a thousand 
possibly, is found. The butter which sells 
for the highest price in New York and Boston 
every day in the year, is that from dairies; 
the butter taking the sweepstakes at our dairy¬ 
men’s association meeting was dairy butter, 
so was that at the dairy show in New York. A 
cellar, with a bin of potatoes in the back¬ 
ground, garlanded with cobwebs, a guttering 
candle in a hole in the wall, and a man skim¬ 
ming a pan of milk on his knee with a pipe in 
his mouth,is by no means a type of individual 
dairying, any more than the stylishly dressed 
gentlemen with their fine clothes, gold watch 
chains and charms are the necessary and logi¬ 
cal result of carrying milk to a creamery. 
The Rural stands as the friend and cham¬ 
pion of the farmer; yet its representation of 
the farmer before the counter in a “countri¬ 
fied” suit with his trousers-legs coming 
scarcely below the tops of his boot-legs, is 
well calculated to subject him to ridicule. In 
another cartoon, “Mother Earth” is represent¬ 
ed as being bound and tortured, and the dag¬ 
ger of “poor farming” is driven into her 
breast by the* farmers, while not a single one 
is shown as giving her any nourishment for 
the food they draw from her bosom. These 
things are not right. Do the farmers justice, 
and do not give the exception as the rule. 
R. N.-Y.—We thank our esteemed corres¬ 
pondent for his plain criticism. We have re¬ 
ceived several letters like the above, and as 
many more praising the picture. The Rural 
will never knowingly do any person or any 
class an injustice. If our friend had quoted 
the whole of the editorial remarks he would 
have softened his criticism. We do know of 
dairies where the cream is skimmed with 
dirty fingers, where pipes are smoked and 
tobacco is chewed within two feet of the 
cream, where cobwebs, decaying vegetables, 
old rubber boots and other odorous substances 
are kept in the same room with open pans of 
milk, and where children slide in and drink 
from the pans. Such practices, as we honest¬ 
ly believe, work a positive injury to dairying. 
For this reason we pictured them as power¬ 
fully as we could, just as we propose, next 
month, to picture the evils and folly of the sys¬ 
tem of “working out the road tax,” as em¬ 
ployed in many districts. The dairyman 
who secures the top price for his butter, 
gets it because his dairy operations are a 
constant guarantee against such a scene as we 
pictured. The object of the Creamery Spec¬ 
ial was to show the advantages or disadvan¬ 
tages of the creamery. The Rural does not 
appear as a special pleader for the creamery, 
as many papers do. The general conclusion 
our articles left in the minds of most of those 
who have written us was that the dairyman 
who has skill and enterprize enough to work 
up a line of customers of his own would lose 
money by going into a creamery. Beyond 
bringing this fact out, we did not deem it 
necessary to picture the advantages of 
the model dairy. Every good dairyman 
that we have ever talked with tells the same 
story about the methods employed in securing 
a superior market for his butter, and, almost 
without exception, they have said that the 
dairy industry is injured by careless and abso¬ 
lutely dirty butter makers. There are many 
who believe that the objectionable features of 
country life should never be brought promi- 
•nentlyinto view. It maybe better “policy” 
to continually pat the farmer on the back and 
ascribe all his misfortunes to causes outside 
of himself. Judging from our own personal 
experience, keen and honest criticism, distaste¬ 
ful though it may have been, has done us far 
more good than any equal amount of fulsome 
praise. We know plenty of “small farmers” 
who are neat and clean enough in their dairy 
operations to smile at the thought of being in¬ 
sulted by such a picture. In the same way 
there are thousands of farmers, and “small” 
ones at that, who are capable of dressing with 
neatness enough to enable them to laugh at 
the thought of being libeled by the figure in 
the country store. The object of these pic¬ 
tures was to show the two extremes of dairy¬ 
ing or what the same milk might be made to 
do under different handling. Some years ago 
papers in this city showed up the horrors of 
the swill milk business as conducted here. 
Why would not our friend be justified in say¬ 
ing that these dreadful pictures were an insult 
to every small milkman if he thinks our pic¬ 
ture of the worst possible type of butter 
making is an insult to every small farmer? 
The Rural New-Yorker will not intention¬ 
ally insult any one. Whenever it sees an evil 
it proposes to strike as hard as it can. It be¬ 
lieves that there are many dairy practices that 
are injurious and profitless, and it wants to 
see them abolished. 
PATENTS FOR COUNTERFEITS. 
H. E. D., New York. —The writer of the 
article in the R. N.-Y. of February, 18 in 
relation to a patent for making maple sugar 
by flavoring cane sugar with hickory sap, 
seems to have an erroneous idea of the scope 
of patents. The patent in question cannot in 
the slightest degiee protect the inventor in 
selling the mixture as maple sugar. It grants, 
no such right. If he practices fraud in the 
sale of it, he can be punished precisely as if 
he had no patent at all. In issuing this pat¬ 
ent the Government sanctions no fraud. It 
merely prohibits others from doing what the 
inventor had a perfect right to do before ob¬ 
taining the patent. If the patent were an¬ 
nulled, then every one would be at perfect 
liberty to make and sell the mixture in ques¬ 
tion. Would that be a more desirable state 
of affairs? 
R- N.-Y.—The writer of the article knew 
quite well that while the patent gave to the 
patentee, or his authorized representatives, 
the exclusive right to turn out a counterfeit, 
it did not give to him or them the right to 
(Continued on page 184.) 
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