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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 27 
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" WORKING POWER/’ 
Some months ago, in Congress, a 
speaker gave the following illustration 
to show the working power of a dollar : 
Wben I was a small boy, I saw something that 
I shall never forget. It was at a circus. The 
clowns and some other employees arranged 
themselves in a circle. Let us say that there were 
20 of them in all. No. 1 said to No. 2: “ I owe you 
$2. I’ll pay up as soon as I can.” No. 2 made 
this statement to No. 3, No. 3 to No. 4, and so on 
around the circle, No. 20 saying it to No. I. No. 1 
shoved his hands into his pockets and with a 
look of pleased surprise pulled out a dollar. 
Turning to No. 2, he said: ”1 didn’t know that I 
had that dollar. Here’s so much on account.” 
No. 2 took the dollar, and with similar language 
passed it on to No. 3, and so it went around the 
ring. No. 20 passed it to No. 1, who received it 
with a smile and started to put it into his iiocket, 
but instead he turned to No. 2 and said, “I didn’t 
expect to be able to pay you the balance so soon, 
but here it is.” And so it went around the ring, 
Anally coming back to No. 1, who with a satisAed 
smile put it into his pocket. 
Now it does not matter whether this 
man was arguing for silver or for gold ; 
the illustration is a good one, for it 
shows how a dollar or its equivalent in 
the form of a check, note, mortgage or 
anything that may be easily handled, 
will circle about among the people, 
satisfying, perhaps, thousands of wants 
and obligations before it goes out of 
circulation. Strawberry growers are 
getting so that they must have new 
baskets and crates for each lot of berries. 
It is not so with a bushel basket, or a 
barrel, or with a yard stick. These 
things simply measure articles, and are 
kept in use till they wear out. This is 
true to a greater extent of the dollar. 
It keeps moving about from hand to 
hand, measuring values and paying 
debts. 
Let us take a simple example. You 
send us a money order for $L in payment 
for a year’s subscription. We take it to 
the post office in New York, in company 
with many others, and receive a check 
for the full amount. We deposit this 
check in the bank. On Saturday, we 
draw from the bank what cash we need 
and pay off the hands. The dollar you 
sent goes, in another form, into the 
hands of a printer. He takes it home 
and pays his board. The landlady takes 
it with others and pays the butcher. He 
puts it into the bank, and in a day or so, 
draws a check with which to pay his 
rent. The landlord puts the check into 
another bank. That bank may use that 
value to pay a draft in San Francisco, 
and thus the dollar jumps away across 
the continent. Some fruit grower bor¬ 
rows at the bank cash with which to 
pay his hands. The dollar goes into 
some man’s pocket. He goes wandering 
about after a job, and the dollar goes 
with him until it is broken up and scat¬ 
tered in all directions—paying for food, 
sleep, hat, shoes, car fare, cigars and a 
hundred other things. And thus the 
dollar and its representatives in the way 
of checks, tickets, notes, etc., go wan¬ 
dering through the land doing their 
part in the work of exchanging values. 
It is this “working power” of the dol¬ 
lar that gives true value to money. 
When some one holds the dollar out of 
circulation, and will not pass it along, 
dozens of people must suffer. Suppose 
you refuse to send us the dollar for your 
subscription ! We cannot pay the printer. 
We might offer him a year’s subscription 
to The R. N.-Y., but he would not ac¬ 
cept it. Why ? Because his landlady 
would not accept it as payment for 
board. She would not take it because 
she knows the butcher would refuse it. 
Suppose our printer had some of his 
former savings invested in a bicycle. If 
he could not pay his board, the chances 
are that his landlady would make him 
give up the bicycle. He might have paid 
$75 for it, yet, at a forced sale, it brings 
only $45. There you have a loss of $30, 
because the working power of your dol¬ 
lar has been cut off by lying inactive in 
your pocket or in your bank. Or, take 
the case of The R. N.-Y. Suppose you 
and 5,000 other subscribers refuse to 
send the dollar on time. We must have 
cash to pay our bills, and we are forced 
to go and borrow it. We go to a bank 
and say, “ Here are 5,001 good men, each 
of whom owes us $1. Lend us $1,000, 
and we will tell 1,000 of them to pay 
you when they get ready.” They would 
laugh at us, not because they doubt 
your willingness to pay, but because 
they demand better security. We have 
to pay them interest, and mortgage 
property in order to get that money, and 
all because there is a stoppage in the 
circulation of 1,000 single dollars. 
Happily, The R. N.-Y. does not 
have to do such business, because 
its readers are prompt and exact—but 
that is a fair illustration of what hap¬ 
pens when this movement of dollars is 
paralyzed. On a large scale, that is what 
ails the land to-day. Money has lied 
from the country districts, and while 
farmers have products to sell, and de¬ 
sires to be gratified, there is a hitch 
somewhere in the circulation of money, 
and as a result, they are like the printer 
—making a sacrifice of his bicycle in 
order to pay his board. 
And now let us consider another side 
of the matter, viz.:—the “working 
power ” of a thought. Some years ago, 
in New Hampshire, an old man thought 
out a plan for killing weeds by raking 
among them with long, slender rods or 
sticks. That was the original thought. 
It grew and spread—passed from farm 
to farm and mind to mind until the 
present weeder was perfected. This 
implement has been worth millions to 
the farmers of this land, yet it all grew 
from that old man’s thought—polished 
and perfected by passing from mind to 
mind. Suppose that old man had never 
worked out his thought ! Suppose it 
had never been pushed and advertised 
or made much of ! Farmers would still 
be using the slower methods of weeding 
with hoe and cultivator—paying for 
human labor that is now done by the 
horse. 
It is the working power of a thought 
that lifts up farming, and puts the pro¬ 
gressive farmer on a business plane with 
the manufacturer. The dollar kept in the 
miser’s pocket, fails to fulfill its mission. 
The progressive tho,ught chained to the 
lonely farm may help hold back the 
wheel of progress. How does the farm 
thought get into circulation and acquire 
working power? We answer without 
hesitation—through the agricultural 
paper! You may say what you like 
about the farmers’ institute, the bul¬ 
letins or the catalogue, a new and valu¬ 
able thought is never given true work¬ 
ing power until the agricultural papers 
take hold of it and pass it along. We 
think that you will agree with the prop¬ 
ositions made above. We will close with 
the following statements which we think 
can be substantiated : 
1. During the past 15 years, The 
R. N-Y. has given “working power” to 
more new ideas and new articles than 
any other agricultural paper in the 
land. 
2. During the next 15 years, we expect 
to lead the procession as in the past. 
3. The price of The R. N.-Y. is only 
one dollar a year, and we guarantee the 
most profitable terms to agents. 
4. There is room upon our list for the 
names of a dozen of your neighbors. 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Watermelons are becoming more plentiful. 
Supplies of honey are small and the trade light. 
Receipts of milk and cream are unpreced¬ 
entedly heavy. 
Niagara grapes have made their appearance 
from Florida. 
The Le Conte pear is the Arst to make its appear¬ 
ance in market. 
Large quantities of southern tomatoes are being 
sold at auction. 
Demand for beeswax is moderate at 26 to 28 
cents per pound for pure. 
Grasshoppers are reported to be doing great 
damage in some parts of Indiana. 
Receipts of most vegetables are heavy, both 
from the South and from nearby points. 
The Afth National Irrigation Congress will be 
held in Phoenix, Arizona, in December next. 
Receipts of hay have been liberal, demand 
moderate and the market weak with lower prices. 
It is estimated that the cold storage in this city 
available for butter, will accommodate 300,000 
tubs. 
A beet sugar factory with a capacity of 400 
tons of beets per day, is being erected at Menom¬ 
inee Falls, Wis. 
There has been no glut of strawberries this 
year; the heaviest supplies were from the South 
early In the season. 
California fruit growers have the beneAt of 
more competition in refrigerator transportation 
this year than ever before. 
A company has been incorjjorated for the pur¬ 
pose of starting a large coffee plantation in 
Mexico, and planting 1,000,000 coffee trees. 
The cheese market is doing better under an in¬ 
creased export demand, though the quality of 
much of the arrivals is not up to the mark. 
It is proposed on the New York Produce Ex¬ 
change, to abolish the hav inspection system, but 
the hay dealers are making a vigorous protest. 
The supply of maple sugar is light, market 
quiet, and sales at seven to eight cents per pound, 
with syrup nominal at 40 to 60 cents per gallon. 
Southern new potatoes have been in large sup¬ 
ply, and the price has declined greatly. Old pota¬ 
toes cut no Agure in the market, and there is 
little sale for them. 
The 14th annual convention of the American 
Seedsmen’s Association, comprising those In the 
United States and Canada, has been in session in 
Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
Have you noticed that long rye straw is worth 
more than the best Timothy hay ? And the pros¬ 
pect is good for continued high prices. Better 
take good care of the straw this year. 
A case has been made out in this city against 
a Chinese restaurant by the inspectors of the 
New York Agricultural Department, for violation 
of the oleomargarine law. This is said to be the 
Arst case on record against a Chinaman. 
Reports are to the effect that not more than 
half the usual acreage of hops will be cultivated 
in the State of Washington this year. Many of 
these will not be sprayed, which means that they 
will amount to little. Altogether, the crop there 
will be far below the usual one. 
The swine breeders of North Carolina have 
formed an association, and now desire to have 
sufficient membership fees sent in to the secre¬ 
tary to warraut the incorporation of the associa¬ 
tion, and offer liberal prizes at the coming Stale 
Fair. Frank E. Emery, secretary, Raleigh. 
The fruit market changes rapidly these days. 
All the small fruits are in fair supply. Southern 
peaches are not plentiful, but supplies are in¬ 
creasing. Plums and pears from the South add 
variety. Cherries are plentiful, while musk- 
melons and watermelons are becoming plentiful 
and cheap. 
Alabama enacted a law prescribing a penalty 
for the sale of oleomargarine and other similar 
substances without labels to distinguish them. 
Violators of the law pleaded unconstitutionality, 
but were convicted. They appealed, but the 
Supreme Court decided against them, thus affirm 
ing the constitutionality of the law. 
The United States Consul atDenia, Spain, says 
that the outlook for the Spanish wheat crop is 
excellent, yet large importations will be neces¬ 
sary. He says that no country that has grain to 
export has any advantage over the United States 
In the matter of distance and shipping facilities. 
It could be transported more cheaply than from 
Russia or India. He suggests that a line of ves¬ 
sels direct to Mediterranean ports would open a 
proAtable market for our surplus products. 
The production of butter is reported heavy in 
all parts of the country. Receipts in this market 
have not been heavy, but immense quantities 
have gone into cold storage in different parts of 
the country. It is said that there never before 
was so much butter stored in Chicago at this sea¬ 
son. Exporters are endeavoring to open up a 
trade, and present prices are likely to be main¬ 
tained, or, in case of increased exports or buying 
by speculators, might be somewhat increased. 
At a recent meeting of the board of trustees of 
the University of Illinois, important changes were 
made in the organization of agricultural inter¬ 
ests at the university. Two new departments 
were created for the College of Agriculture—a 
department of agricultural physics, and one of 
dairy manufactures. Both these positions are to 
be Ailed before the beginning of the college year 
in September, so that, hereafter, the instruc¬ 
tional force in agriculture will consist of three 
men instead of one as heretofore, and the three 
great interests—live stock, soils and crops, and 
dairying—will each have an individual who will 
make their study his specialty. The same organi¬ 
zation and the same men will also serve the ex¬ 
periment station. This department of the uni¬ 
versity has also undergone an important change 
in that the dean of the College of Agriculture has 
been made ex-officio director of the station, and 
the board of direction, which has hitherto served 
in the capacity of director, is retained as an ad¬ 
visory board. The importance of this extension 
of the teaching force, and the recognition of the 
three great lines in agriculture, mean that the 
trustees recognize the importance of the subject, 
and are determined to put it upon a sound basis. 
Connecticut Crops.— We have had no experi¬ 
ence with barley or Hungarian grass, always de¬ 
pending upon corn to make the hay shortage 
good. We have doubled our corn area this year, 
and would plant more had we sufficient help to 
take care of it. We are struck on corn ; instead 
we shall put in some Hungarian grass about 
June 25. Since May 25, we have had considerable 
rain, and grass, in many Aelds, is thickening up. 
We expect a fair crop on our farm, except on the 
very driest land. One 20-acre Aeld adjoiniug our 
farm will hardly yield one ton of hay on the 
entire piece. More corn was planted in this 
locality than ever before. Potatoes which were 
planted in moist or very early land are doing 
well ; but those on dry soil, were very slow to 
come up, and much of the seed failed to start. 
Early ones are beginning to bloom, and some 
show signs of early blight. Old potatoes are 
getting scarce and are a little better in price. 
Strawberries are a full crop, and better than 
ever. Recent rains helped them very much. All 
vegetation is about a week earlier than usual. 
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