1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
“Impossible, I cannot give it.’’ 
“Biit I’ve got to see one of them!’’ 
“What for?” 
“To help get a post office appointment 
for a< friend of mine!” 
“Oh, no! no! It won’t do you a bit of 
good.” 
The old gentleman looked about as thor¬ 
oughly annoyed as a man could. He glanced 
at the electric button and I fully expected.] 
to see him call his secretary to show me 
out. His hand started but it halted half- 
way and he asked: 
“Who wants this post office?” 
“My mother-in-law!” 
“What!!!” 
“My mother-in-law!” 
The old gentleman grinned from ear to 
ear! He thumped on his desk and said, 
with a chuckle: “Any man who comes here 
in the interest of his mother-in-law de¬ 
serves all he can get—even if he is trying 
to turn her off on the Government.” 
He wrote me a good letter of introduc¬ 
tion to the Postmaster-General, and sent 
me off in high hopes. 
And Grandmother got the post office? 
Well, hardly! I got a freezing in the 
Post Office Department that I can feel yet. 
I know what a western blizzard is, for I 
had my ear frozen in one, but I got a smile 
and a wave of the hand that discounted 
it by 40 degrees. Why, they even held on 
to Uncle Jerry’s letter, which I hoped to 
keep as a souvenir. There are some cir¬ 
cumstances connected with my exit which 
I have not space to relate. No, the Hope 
Farm man is no politician—for which fact 
he is profoundly thankful. h. w. c. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you will get a quick reply ana 
“a square deal.” See our guarantee 8th page. 
HOPE FARM. N0TES 
What is Smoke?— Here is one from Iowa: 
“Within a few blocks of my home there 
is a chimney 80 feet high where soft coal 
is burned to heat steam to warm four large 
college buildings. Out of that stack pours 
a huge black cloud of smoke. Now, of 
what constituents is that smoke composed? 
What becomes of the material out of 
which the smoke is composed?” 
While I am not a scientist I have seen a 
good many plans and hopes go up in high¬ 
ly-colored smoke! As I understand it, coal 
is chiefly composed of carbon, hydrogen, 
nitrogen and oxygen. If you could burn it 
perfectly there would pass away through 
the chimney steam, carbonic acid and nit¬ 
rogen and these alone would be nearly 
colorless. The combustion of coal in ordi¬ 
nary furnaces is not complete and so there 
are found mixed with the others, gases 
that might have burned and fine particles 
of unburned carbon. These are little pieces 
of the fuel so light that they float up in 
the draught through the chimney. They 
give the dark color to smoke and form 
what we call soot when they gather in 
black masses on the sides of the chimney. 
The gases and vapor in the smoke blend 
with the air. The little pieces of carbon 
or “soot” float about and finally settle to 
the ground or join dust storms. Thus the 
color is given to smoke by the parts that 
should have burned, but did not do so. 
Human Smoke.—I remarked that the Hope 
Farm man has seen various plans go up 
in smoke. I regret to be forced to admit 
the truth of that statement. The smoke 
was often so dark colored that it attracted 
attention from far and near, and brought 
shame and sorrow upon me. Now, if a 
man’s mistakes and poor judgments could 
be oxidized quietly and completely, they 
wouldn’t make much show, and the world 
might go on minding its own business. My 
experience is that we are apt to talk and 
brag too much about them, and all these 
words color the smoke. Then, again, we 
don’t always work them out as well as we 
might, and all this unburned matter, like 
the little particles of coal, makes the 
“soot” that just suits our critics. In some 
cases “smoke” is reburned until all possible 
fuel is taken out of it. Can the smoke of 
failure or misdirected energy be reburned 
in like manner? Why, yes—your neighbors 
and friends will know how to burn it so 
that you will feel its heat for years. 
Fodder Question.— An Ohio reader is 
looking ahead for next Winter’s fodder: 
“Would sowing to millet be more valu¬ 
able as a feed for cows in Winter than 
corn fodder, if early? The farm has been 
badly run, and I must take the shortest 
course to get feed for next Winter for 
dairy cows and farm horses.” d. f. w. 
I would use corn. With me millet re¬ 
quires a richer soil, and I think it leaves 
the ground in poorer condition than corn. 
I would rather sow our Thoroughbred flint 
corn than any variety of millet. At pres¬ 
ent we are feeding shredded fodder to all 
our stock. Millet could only be fed to the 
cows. When the waste molasses is put on 
the shredded corn the cows eat it as well 
as they would silage. Millet will “run” 
that farm faster down hill than ever. If 
you could sow Canada field peas early, cut 
them green or cure for hay, then plow and 
plant corn fodder, sowing turnips and 
Crimson clover at the last cultivation, you-rur- PUPPI/A DATATO PI AMTFR 
will get fair crops and cover the land for 1 nL LUKt.lV\ r L/lli I 
Winter. On a farm of this sort you need 
fertilizer—unless you have a lot of manure. 
You can turn the fertilizer into fodder and 
the fodder into manure. 
Politics.— I have a letter from a friend Every 
which ends as follows: 
io9 
CAUTION 
Our Weeder tooth so completely eclipsed all 
round tooth weeders tliat several manufacturers 
came out with cunningly devised imitations. 
The Eureka Mower Co., of Utica, N. Y., manu¬ 
facturers of the Davidson Weeder (tiat tooth), are 
permanently enjoined as infringers of our patent, by 
order of United States Appellate Court, and have 
made full settlement with us. For information to 
farmers aud dealers (who are also amenable to the 
law), we give a quotation from the court’s decree, 
dethung the scope of our patent. 
“Substantially round or equivalently shaped in 
cross section, and small in size, adapted to engage 
with the soil, and a tiat spring, yielding ppper por¬ 
tion.” Full copy will be sent on application. 
We now liave suit pending in United States Court 
against Keystone Farm Machine Co., of York, Pa. 
We shall instruct our agents to list (for future ac¬ 
counting) all dealers or fanners selling or using 
infringing weeders in their territory. 
We do not desire litigation with any one, but we 
must protect ourselves in theenjoyment of the rights 
justly ours as originators of the flat tooth weeder. 
Since our Anti-Clog Weeder lias proved a big in¬ 
vestment to more tlian 00,000 fanners in the United 
States, thousands liave written us tliat rather than 
be without one now they would buy one every year. 
May we tell you all about it? Sell you one direct 
from factory and deliver at your depot, freight pre¬ 
paid, if your dealer will not supply you. 
HALLOCK WEEDER CO, York, Pa. 
AL.PLANTER 
should plant all kinds of field seeds, 
Field, Ensilage and Sweet Corn, Peas, 
Beans, Sugar Beets, Stock Beets,etc. 
It should plant in hills, drills or check at the will of 
the operator. It should at the same time drop or 
drill all kinds of commercial fertilizers, wet, dry 
or lumpy, pulverized hen manure and other 
homo made fertilizers, evenly in any quantity 
iror Aero 
easily adjusted. easy to handle. 
WEIGHS 150 LBS. 
The Eclipse 
Corn Planter and 
Fertilizer Distributer 
does all this in the most perfect manner. Drops 
seed from 6 to 45 inches apart. Will distribute from 
50 to 450 lbs. of fertilizer per acre. They arestrongly 
built of good material and will last indefinitely. 
Write for free catalogue, circulars, etc. 
THE BELCHER & TAYLOR A. T. CO. 
Box 75 , Chicopee Falls, Mass 
ACME 
Agents 
Wanted 
Pulverizing Harrow 
Clod Crusher and Leveler 
SENT ON TRIAL 
To be returned at my expense if not satisfactory. 
I deUver free on board at NewYork, Chicago, 
Columbus, Louisville, Kansas 
City, Minneapolis, 
San Francisco, etc. 
Sizes 3 TO 13 1-2 Feet 
he best pulver¬ 
izer — cheapest 
HP-Riding' Harrow 
Bp* on earth. We 
_ also make walk¬ 
ing Acmes. The Acme crushes, cuts, pulverizes, turns and levels all soils for 
all purposes. Made entirely of cast steel and wrought iron—indestructible. 
Catalog and Booklet, “An Ideal Harrow by Henry Stewart, mailed free. 
DUANE H. NASH, SOLE MFR., MILLINGTON, NEW JERSEY, and CHICAGO. 
iron Age 
Thn rmmA has ffrown 
No. 15 
Iron Ago 
Combined 
Single Wheel 
Hoe, llill and 
Drill Seeder. 
No. 12 
Iron Age 
Wheel How 
and Cultivator 
The name has grown 
in fame since 1836. Farmers have 
grown in enterprise since then. Iron 
Age implements have helped 
make crops larger, expense 
smaller. There’s a 
long line of Iron 
Age tools—for farm 
aud garden work— 
every one a winner! 
They are fully described in the 
Iron Age Book for 1902 
It will give you ideas. It shows the tools by large, accurate 
wood engravings, “just as they are,” gives prices and all 
details. Whether you have a quarter acre garden 
or a great big farm you can find the tools you* 
need described in this book. It is Free. 
,BATEMAN MFG. CO., 
Boxl02, 
~y ?\LI \-y Grenloch, N. J. 
No. 6 
Iron Age 
Horae Hoe 
and Cultivator 
No. 70 Iron Age 
Combined Pivot 
and Fixed Wheel 
Riding Cultivator 
This Yankee Spring Tooth Riding Harrow 
is the best and only practical riding spring tooth harrow made. Equal of similar 
harrows sold at more than twice the price. Wheels are set on a long steel axle— 
cannot become untrue, rock or wabble. Frame is high, almost impossible to clog 
it. Front end is supported by large strong castor w heels or shoes according to 
whether the ground is rough or smooth. Strong, convenient levers for control¬ 
ling depth and regulating teeth; throws them entirely out of the way in moving 
harrow from place to place. Lightest draft. Consider these points. Do not buy 
before seeing our large General Catalogue of Farm Implements and Field and L;*- 
Garden Seeds. Mulled tree on request. 
ROSS BROTHERS, WORCESTER, MASS. 
Is light, strong, weighs with fertilizer at¬ 
tachment, 285 pounds; is light'draft for 
one horse; is 95 per centeorrect 
in its drop; will sow from 150 to 
700 pound* fertilizer per acre; 
plants whole or cut seed ; wifi 
plant any depth required; is 
made with or without fertilizer 
attachment. Write for Testi¬ 
monial Circular. Send for our 
"The Hope Farm man doesn’t seem to be« u “;~ #nti> '-^j^ A 
much of a politician!” 
He is quite right about that, and he 
doesn’t hurt my feelings by saying so. I 
went on a political mission once, and don’t 
want to go again! Grandmother is the 
only Hope Farmer who ever held down a 
political job. She may not look it now, 
but some years ago she was a lively post¬ 
mistress in a Mississippi town. She lost 
the job when the ins went out, but when 
they came back she wanted it again. I was 
requested by some of my fellow citizens 
to go to Washington and use my vast in¬ 
fluence in her behalf! That was over 10 
years ago. I thought quite highly of my- 
setl then, since the Madame hadn’t had 
time to point out all of my failings. I am 
frank to say that I found Washington 
filled with cold-blooded people who had 
never heard of Bergen Co., N. J., and 
pulled my “pull” out by the roots by sim¬ 
ply staring at me! I was turned down by 
white men, black men and yellow men 
until I turned up at the Department of 
Agriculture. Uncle Jerry Rusk was then 
Secretary, and after hanging around for 
some time I got in to see him. The most 
interesting part of our conversation was 
ibout as follows: 
“What can I do for you?” 
“I would like a letter of introduction to 
.he President or the Postmaster-General.” 
LEAN’Ss a t l e l el HARROWS HAND ROLLERS 
Made throughout of specially forged steel and tempered under 
our own process. Light weight and light draft combined with 
greatest strength and rigidity. All working parts are placed 
within an outside frame. The position of the teeth can be 
instantly adjusted by steel lever to any pos ition o r cleared 
of rubbish without stopping team. In pre- 
paring ground for seed or for harrowing all f Steel 
kinds of crops there is nothing that will equal Lean’s* f hand 
f_ Roller 
OUR 
Send for 
Illustrated 
catalogue to-day. 
STEEL ROLLERS 
are so constructed that all parts are inter¬ 
changeable and If any part should break, can 
he repaired at home at small cost. We want to 
tell you more. Why not Bend for our catalogue? 
RODERICK LEAN MFG. CO. MANSFIELD. 0 HI 0 , 
POTATO MACH IN ERY 
Our POTATO 
ALSO 
PLANTS 
CORN. 
BEANS. 
ENSILAGE. 
DISTRIBUTES 
FERTILIZER. 
WE MAKE 
CUTTERS, 
WEEDERS, 
SPRAYERS. 
DIGGERS, 
SORTERS, 
BARREL CHURNS. 
POST-HOLE 
AUGERS, 
LAWN SWINGS. 
THE ONLY’ CONCERN IN THE WORLD MAKING A COMPLETE LINE OF POT ATO MACH IN ERY 
AN ESTABLISHED REPUTATION. TWENTY YEARS ON THE MARKET. 
WRITE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, MAILED FREE._ 
AS PIN WALL MFG. CO. mic c h k ms n a. 
