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THE RURAL NEW-V ORKER 
December;.'12 
THAT CHESHIRE PIG 
offered as one of the prizes to club raisers January 1, is no little 
runt. It is a good, big boar pig fit for service. He is seven months 
old, and weighs 200 pounds. Send to W. E. Mandeville, Brookton, 
N. Y., for full particulars about him. There are only about three 
weeks left now in this contest, and no one has yet made any attempt 
to get any of the prizes. Here they are again : $50 Cash, a Cutter, 
a Washing Machine, a Land Roller, a Cheshire Pig, a Sewing Ma¬ 
chine, and $15, $10 and $5 in cash prizes. 
Besides these, the fine Elgin watch goes out every Saturday night 
to the largest club sent during the week. Last week, it went to W. 
Pickhardt, New York, for a club of 12. If our people could only see 
this watch, there would be more effort to get it. There are three 
more to go out in this contest. Remember that you have an oppor¬ 
tunity to get one, and the same names count for the pig or any of the 
other nine prizes for January 1. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
world and the nation need. Make a 
start at something. If nothing better 
offers, go out and hang on to some one 
until The R. N.-Y. has a new subscriber. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 
Cass County, Ia. —The acreage of potatoes 
was about 80 per cent of last year—one-fourth 
early varieties, three-fourths late. Early varie¬ 
ties were not one-fourth of a crop, yielding from 
nothing to 50 bushels per acre; late potatoes 
poor, stand about 75 per cent of full yield, some 
pieces very good; quality generally very good. 
Nearly one-fourth of the crop remains undug, a 
total loss; many more rotted in the pits. Notover 
one-fourth of the crop harvested has been sold, 
but is stored, waiting for better prices, r. b. v. o. 
Fulton County, N. Y.— Potatoes have been a 
fair crop this year; some farmers had almost no 
crop at all, while others had about as good as 
last year. Many of the farmers in this part of 
the county have sold their crop, while a few are 
holding for better prices, although prices have 
been good, mostly 40 cents at wholesale, w. h. s. 
AS WE GO TO PRESS. 
" HEREDITY 
During the past 10 years, there has 
been a great change in public ideas re¬ 
specting the education of women. New 
colleges for women are starting every 
year, and even the most conservative 
universities in the land are opening their 
doors to the more talkative sex. These 
young women students are learning the 
same things that their brothers learn, 
and a singular thing is that they are 
playing much the same games. They 
row and play football, wrestle and box, 
run and jump—in fact, do everything 
but play baseball ! The champion of 
the woman runners has a record but one 
second behind the male champion in a 
100-yard race, and but 10 seconds behind 
in a half-mile run. At jumping and 
skipping, the women champions are 
making great progress—but they can’t 
play baseball ! 
Why is it ? It wouldn’t do for me to 
express an opinion on this subject. I 
will simply ask you to observe the next 
woman you see trying to throw a stick 
or stone ! I’ll guarantee that she won’t 
come within gunshot of the object at 
which she aims. She throws “over¬ 
hand”, and seems to think that the 
proper thing is to mount the missile into 
the air and let it drop down on its mark. 
I can’t possibly imagine a woman pitch¬ 
ing an out-curve, or getting a ball up to 
first base in time to put a fast runner 
out. The simple fact is that, while a 
woman may catch or stop a ball, she 
can’t throw it, and thus she fails as a ball 
player. 
Why can’t she throw ? is the next 
question. We will let the instructor at 
a college gymnasium answer. He says : 
We haven’t got the girl among us now who can 
do much with ball, but we are going to have her. 
She is hampered now, not so much by her own 
deficiency as by the lethargy and lack of activity 
in her mother, grandmother and great-grand¬ 
mother before her. The next generation will 
develop a girl who will be as excellent a judge of 
distance and force and rebound as her brother, 
and who can move her hands, arms and legs just 
as dexterously. It is now a mere matter of time; 
women, for so long, have been accustomed to the 
straight-jacket of conventionality and prescribed 
form that it must take a generation or two for 
them to unbend and get supple. 
There you have the whole story—a 
great lesson in heredity. I don’t know 
that the world is going to be any better 
off when women are able to throw a 
baseball, but I, for one, won’t object to 
having my women folks take part in any 
honest sport that they can find. Of 
course, some man will say that the 
women can find exercise enough over 
the washboard and broom. The reason 
he says that is because all his ancestors 
believed that woman was made to do all 
the inferior labor that men kindly term 
“housework”. Far back in the past, the 
woman was just a slave, and lots of our 
men folks to-day, still have that old 
slave idea, only that it has been polished 
and cleaned up a little. It’s another 
case of heredity, you see—the men have 
inherited slow minds, and the women 
slow muscles! Why, I heard a man 
last week prove by a whole cart-load of 
science and several miles of logic, that 
woman is only a “ partly developed man /” 
Call her what you will, she is the best 
part of human kind, and if the madame 
and the baby can jump around lively 
enough to play ball in their spare time, 
they are welcome to do it! 
But now then, what has this to do with 
The R. N.-Y. ? What a question that 
is ! Why, this great problem of heredity 
sticks right out! Improvement comes 
through practice. My great grand¬ 
daughter will certainly be a ball player 
if the baby and her children and child¬ 
ren’s children all try hard to throw a 
ball. At the end of three generations, 
what an improvement you would find 
in the muscles of the arm, shoulder and 
back. Now the point is that, while it 
may take 100 years to make a good ball 
player out of a woman, it doesn’t neces¬ 
sarily take 100 hours to make a fair sub¬ 
scription agent out of a man ! Lots of 
men try to get their neighbors to sub¬ 
scribe to The R. N.-Y., and sit right 
down at the first rebuff. Why, the first 
time a woman throws a stick at a hen, 
she is sure to break a window, yet she 
may live to be the grandmother of a 
woman who can drive a nail through a 
two-inch plank at 100 feet distance. In 
just the same way, these men who say 
that they cannot get a subscription for 
The R. N.-Y. will secure a dozen if they 
keep on trying. If woman can learn to 
play ball, surely man can learn to solicit 
subscriptions. Surely that is true, or 
we shall have to admit that man is a 
partly developed woman ! 
There seems to be too much of a tend¬ 
ency on the part of people to sit down 
and wait for something to come along. 
Here, now, you stout and rugged man 
with the best years of your life ahead 
of you, just read this note from an old 
friend up among the New England hills. 
We would not print this personal letter 
if it did not fit right on to the point we 
want to make : 
My age is 66 years. I own two 'Small, deserted 
homesteads of 50 acres of level pine land. My 
wife died 10 years ago. A son and daughter have 
distant homes. I have lived entirely alone for 10 
years. My time is very fully occupied in improv¬ 
ing my home. This fall, I have set 50 quince 
trees, 50 President Wilder currants, 50 White Im¬ 
perial currants, and 1,000 Victoria currants. I 
am perfecting a landscape plan for ornamental 
planting. There is no end to my work. 
Now think of that! Here is an old 
man on a deserted New England farm, 
happy and industrious in the thought 
that he is making that abandoned place 
bloom and take on new life. One might 
say that a man of that age should sit 
down with folded hands and live among 
the memories of the past! But no ! 
This man will leave the world better 
and more beautiful. Some might say, 
“ What use for me to work when two 
years after my death the weeds will 
choke out all my flowers and fruits ?” 
That is the coward’s way of looking at 
it! Move on ! Keep the blood in circu¬ 
lation ! Do not leave the world an idle 
hand, but let men speak of you as one 
who labored on with a true ideal, and a 
courage that could not be denied. That’s 
the sort of hereditary influence the 
DkKalb County, III.—Farmers here mostly buy 
their flour, and feel most interested in an advance 
in the price of corn and oats. Grain is being held 
to a large extent. The creamery paid about 70 
cents for 100 pounds of milk for October, de¬ 
livered. Some hogs have died of cholera, and 
some have been sold for fear of the disease, j. s. 
Potatoes in Tolland County, Conn.— The po¬ 
tato crop in the western part of this county was 
rather irregular. Some fields were very good, 
others almost a failure; in no case was the crop 
as large as that of last year, which accounts for 
the better prices. There has been quite a call 
for the crop at 50 cents per bushel in small lots, 
and 40 cents for large orders, which is quite an 
improvement on 25 cents last year, and no sale 
for them at that. Many farmers (I think that the 
majority in this section) have already sold what 
surplus they have for 50 cents; possibly a few 
may be holding for higher prices. But the ex¬ 
perience of those who held them last year for 
higher prices and got nothing, makes them 
ready to sell while the market is lively at 50 cents, 
although the price will, doubtless, be higher, but 
there is waste in holding. 
Otsego County, N. Y.—Although this is the 
second day of winter, we have had no sleighing, 
the ground, for the most part, having been free 
from snow entirely. The autumn was an ex¬ 
cellent one to do fall work, and in consequence, 
it is up in good shape. The recent rise in the 
prices of hops greatly encouraged the hop grow¬ 
ers, many of whom have profited by it. All in all, 
I think that it may be fairly said that the pros¬ 
pects hereabouts for better times are far more 
promising than they were a year ago. f. o. s. 
Crimson Clover and Potatoes in Wisconsin.— 
I promised The R. N.-Y. to report on Crimson 
clover from seed raised by myself this year. A 
little patch that wintered among pop-corn stalks, 
bloomed freely, and I saved some seed by pulling 
(Continued on next payed 
C HILDREN ought to 
brighten a mother’s 
daily cares and help 
her to be strong, capa¬ 
ble and cheerful. It 
is’nt right for mothers 
to feel the burden of 
life growing heavier 
Vand heavier year bv 
'year because of child¬ 
bearing and child-rear¬ 
ing. That shows some¬ 
thing is wron^ in the 
mother’s physical con¬ 
dition. There is some 
unnatural weakness in 
her delicate organism 
which disqualifies her 
for motherhood. 
When this is wrong 
everything is wrong. 
A woman’s physical 
life is wrapped up in 
the special organs of 
her sex. When these 
are restored to health 
and strength the whole 
woman becomes 
healthy and strong. Dr. R. V. Pierce of 
Buffalo, N. Y., has made a life-study of this 
problem of restoring health and strength 
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