1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
It would seem that W. M. Ostrander of 
Philadelphia has no monopoly of his pe¬ 
culiar methods employed in the real estate 
business. One J. Lee Woodcock of Salis¬ 
bury, Md., who claims to be an M. D., 
has found methods which even rival the 
illustrious Ostrander. An Illinois sub¬ 
scriber relates his experience as follows: 
I have been a reader of The It. N.-Y. for 
10 years, and I assure you it is a welcome 
visitor to my home. I am much interested 
iu the Publisher's Desk, and I like the 
way you get after rogues. Last September I 
bought a farm in Maryland from J. Lee 
Woodcock, of Salisbury, Md., said to con¬ 
tain 100 acres, good buildings, orchard, 
springs, and oilier things. Of course I bought 
the farm without seeing it, the same as I 
buy goods from mail order houses, seedsmen, 
nurserymen, etc. But the farm I bought 
from Woodcock was misrepresented in every 
way. I had a description of the place print¬ 
ed in circular form, to send out to the 
different parties who inquired about renting 
the place. This I did from a written de¬ 
scription Dr. Woodcock gave me, sending a 
circular to each one writing me. I want to 
emphasize this letter to you, and say the 
whole thing is a fraud and fabrication from 
beginning to end, and beg pardon of any 
parties who may have gone to look at this 
farm and were deceived, for I did it inno¬ 
cently, and I was heart-broken when I went 
to look at tho place last April. I note that 
the said Woodcock is doing business at the 
same old stand, advertising a 100-acre farm, 
price $000, and sigus himself J. Lee Wood¬ 
cock, M. O. I will further say he never was 
a doctor, only selling spectacles and calling 
himself doctor, which I found out from a 
four-weeks’ stay with the good people of Sal- 
isbury, Md., and vicinity, and they all know 
him to be a rogue. I lost $875 hard-earned 
money through Dr. Woodcock, and now have 
charges pending against him with the post 
office authorities at Washington for using the 
mails to defraud, and Mr. Hitchcock writes 
me that the case is in the hands of the Chief 
Inspector. I could give you the names of 
a score or more people who could verify all 
I have written. I can’t understand why 
such people can cheat, wrong and defraud 
people for so long a time and go unpunished. 
I hope other papers as well as The R. N.-Y. 
may list all frauds known to be such and 
give their names to your many readers, so 
they may know who they are and shun them, 
and a long-suffering community will be 
thankful for all you can do to advertise 
frauds. w. r. strunk. 
Illinois. 
This party must not be confused with 
Samuel P. Woodcock of the same address, 
who is doing a legitimate real estate busi¬ 
ness. 
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from those who have received a copy of 
‘The Farmer’s Garden.” The following 
is a fair sample of the many received: 
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den,” and was so well pleased with it that 
1 started out and got a new subscriber for 
our friend, the old R. N- J T.; may it prosper! 
New York. p. e. knack. 
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expressing his appreciation in words—he 
evidently believed in the old adage that 
“deeds are stronger than words.” Be¬ 
sides, he wished his neighbor to share the 
benefits and pleasure which he received 
from the little book and the weekly visits 
of The R. N.-Y. If any reader has not 
yet received his copy of “The Farmer’s 
Garden,” all he will have to do is to send 
in his renewal, and a copy will go back 
to him in the very next mail. 
Now here is a letter from a Texas 
friend which hardly needs comment. 
I have The R. N.-Y. running back some 
30 years. My large family has grown up 
under its fine influences, and it seems so 
much of a fixture I must have it continued, 
although I can no longer get to read it fully 
as of yore. So I enclose my check for $1. 
Texas. t. v. munson. 
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work than any amount of remuneration of 
a grosser sort. 
Here is another suggestive note: 
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Massachusetts. Arthur barmby. 
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INCOMES FROM WESTERN FARMS. 
A Nebraska Farmer's Outfit. 
The best farms here will bring to the owner 
from $430 to $700 per quarter section, de¬ 
pending somewhat on the man who farms it. 
One-third of crop delivered at market, or two- 
fifths delivered on farm or at market is 
the present rental. Where cash is paid, $3.50 
to $4.50 is the price paid. Good farms well 
improved are worth from $12,000 to $15,000, 
according to location: farms within two miles 
from York are selling for $100 per acre. 
Wheat and corn are the paying grain crops 
here. As to the equipment .necessary for 
farming in this country, one man with a 
little hired help at harvest and corn-husking 
times can farm 1G0 acres with horses and 
tools about as follows: Four to five horses, 
value from $100 to $175 each ; one gang plow, 
$60; one sulky plow. $35; one harrow, $18; 
one corn planter, $40; one grain drill, $60; 
one reaper (binder), $125; one disk, $28; one 
wagon (grain), $68; wagon and hayrack, 
$40; cultivator, $25. This does not include 
buggy or carriage, or manure wagon, or har¬ 
nesses and many other things necessary in the 
caring for different stock and poultry, etc., 
that are usually kept by the average renter. 
Landlords do not usually furnish any extra 
buildings for the renters’ use. Some renters 
get along with less tools by hiring grain 
drill and corn planter. Two men can har¬ 
vest from 40 to 60 acres grain and put it in 
stack. One man will cultivate from 40 to 
60 acres corn, three to four times, usually 
only three times. One man with five horses 
will put in 80 acres Winter wheat and with 
two helpers will harvest it. In giving you 
Hie foregoing I have not gone into details. 
There are many other little things necessary 
which naturally belong to a well-equipped 
farmer. G. h, p. 
York, Neb. 
A Nevada Stock Ranch. 
It is a hard matter to make anything but 
approximate estimate, as there is not much to 
be called farming or grain raising done in 
this locality or raising of hay exclusively for 
sale. There has been a good deal of grain 
raised here in former years, but the ground 
squirrels became very numerous and did a 
good deal of damage to crops, so the ranch¬ 
ers quit grain raising and engaged in stock 
raising, cattle and horses. Most ranchers or 
farmers do not keep itemized accounts of re¬ 
ceipts and expenditures, except some of the 
larger holders, and these are nod willing to 
make public how their business is prosper¬ 
ing. With the smaller holders, they are 
ail doing well. There were some that had 
mortgages on their real estate, contracted 
during the hard times between 1S93-1897, 
but they have all disappeared. About the 
only way to make anything like a correct 
statement of the income of a ranch here is 
to deduct the number disposed of for beef 
from the number of the increase. What it 
leaves added to the herd is profit, provided 
what is disposed of will pay expenses, and 
then add on what improvements made on the 
ranch during the year. In my own case, I 
located here about 30 years ago, got posses¬ 
sion of about 300 acres of Government land, 
mostly bottom land. My personal property 
consisted of a pair of mules and a wagon, 
a cow and calf. I bought the cow on time; 
started to build dams for irrigation, as one 
cannot raise crops here of any kind without 
irrigating. I raised vegetables and cut hay 
to make a living. I improved the land, 
built fences by degrees, increased the hay 
cutting, till now I cut sufficient to winter 
400 or 500 head of cattle. I.ast year I 
branded 145 head of calves. They were the’ 
increase from that cow of 30 years ago. I 
sold 50 head for beef, butchered four, lost 
six by accident or otherwise, so it leaves 
85 head added to the herd; say they are 
worth $20 per head, it is $1,700; then about 
$400 worth of improvement on the ranch 
makes a total of $2,100. It takes about what 
the beef brought to pay expenses. Land is 
under irrigation or mostly along the streams 
and low upland that water can be brought 
on without too much expense. There are also 
some reservoirs built, some by companies, 
some by individuals. The hay that is cut 
along the river and creek bottoms is mostly 
wild native grass. Red top and Timothy does 
well, especially Timothy. Sometimes 2 Vi 
to three tons are cut to an acre. Alfalfa is 
grown on higher ground, and will, under 
favorable conditions, yield two to 2(4 tons to 
a cutting, always two cuttings, some parts 
of the State three. All land not under irri¬ 
gation is used for pasture. All that have 
stock have more or less inclosed for pasture, 
according to need. Most of it was bought 
from the State in time past, as we could 
then buy land in almost unlimited areas. The 
past Winter was very severe, the hardest we 
had since 1890; it caused a good deal of loss 
on open range. The large holders have part 
of their stock running at large the year 
round. The small holders gather up every¬ 
thing they can find in Fall, keep them in 
pastures, though they need to be fed. Most 
ranchers raise hay enough to carry their 
stock through any Winter. Hay has sold here 
the past Winter from $6 to $10 per ton; po¬ 
tatoes, 2)4 cents per pound; vegetables high¬ 
er, hardly obtainable; butter, 35 cents; eggs, 
three dozen for $4 ; beef steers last Fall, two- 
year-old, $28; dry cows, about $20. a. r. 
White Rock, Nevada. 
A Gardener in Colorado. 
In this community I think there are no 
books kept, and the ranchmen themselves 
do not know their income. A good many 
know that at the end of the year there is 
not money enough earned to pay the year's 
expenses. My neighborhood is in the moun¬ 
tains, next to the mines. All above here is 
mining; that is my market. The valley is 
narrow, but below at Montrose (where the 
Government is driving the Gunnison Tunnel) 
the Valiev is broad and the farms are more 
tillable. There you can get 160 acres and 
have 150 tillable. I asked a neighbor who 
tills three acres of garden what his gross 
sales were, and he said about $600. I have 
six acres of garden, and my sales are between 
$2,500 and $3,000. I know of one 40 acres 
of Alfalfa in the valley at Montrose that 
cut last season 200 tons of hay; it cost 300 
to put it in the stack (was done by con¬ 
tract). That hay will sell this Spring for 
$7 per ton in the stack. That luiy would 
generally sell for $5 per ton in the stack, 
but this Gunnison Tunnel project makes hay 
scarce. I hear of orchards that sell their 
crop for $4,000 and $6,000, but I do not know 
how many acres, or the cost of production. 
There is one thing to take in account in what 
might seem like big figures to people of the 
East. Our cost of living here is greater 
than in the East. As you probably know, our 
smallest currency here is a nickel. You 
wanted to know the men and teams used to 
work the farms. I have myself and son, a 
hired man part of the season, then last, but 
not least I have four daughters that help 
pick the strawberries, and when they are 
not picking strawberries they are going to 
school, one to University of Colorado, two 
in the- high school here and one in the 
grades. e. r. 
Ouray, Colo. 
Income from an Alfalfa Farm. 
There are very few farms in this part of 
the State, where farming is carried on as it 
is in the East. They nearly all raise one 
special crop, some fruit farms, some cattle, 
and some straight hay to sell. I will give 
you the returns fx-om an Alfalfa farm of 190 
acres, of which about 150 are in Alfalfa, 20 
acres rough pasture land and feeding corral, 
and 20 acres in orchard, garden, potatoes 
and grain for. farm use. The 190 acres will, 
one year with the other, put out 700 tons of 
hay, which is fed out to other people’s cattle 
at an average price of $4 per ton, a gross 
income of $2,800. One man will irrigate the 
hay land at a cost of about $200 for the 
season. With the latest machinery this hay 
is put up at a cost of about 75 cents per 
ton. Two good teams are kept the year 
around, and while stacking more teams are 
hired at a cost of $2.50 or $3 per day ; man 
at $1.50 to $2 per day. I think $200 will 
pay all bills for putting up the hay and keep¬ 
ing up the machinery, one year with the 
othex-. This will leave a net income of $2,600, 
besides which 20 acx-es will produce about the 
needs of the farm. There is also a bee¬ 
keeper in this same place who 10 years ago 
sold $2,400 worth of honey without owning 
any farm at all, and practically no expense 
except his boxes and crates to ship his 
honey in. A. w. 
De Beque, Col. 
“See here, Aunt Dinah, I sent two 
brand new shirts of my husband’s to the 
wash last week and you have brought only 
one back. Now, what have you done with 
the other?” “Yes, Miss Lulu, ma’am, I 
was coming ’round to the ques’ion of dat 
dar shu’t. You knows dat I ain’t a pus- 
son dat pretends to one thing and pre¬ 
tends to anudder, so I’se a-gwine to tell 
de truf ’bout dat shu’t. It was dis away. 
My ole man he up and died las’ week, 
and de Bur’al Sassiety dey didn’t do noth¬ 
ing but cavort ’round, and I neber had 
anyt’ing to lay dat man out in. So I 
helps myse’f to dat shu’t for a fac’. An’, 
oh, Miss Lulu, honey, I jes’ wishes you 
could hab seen how dat nigger sot dat 
shu’t off!”—Lippincott’s Magazine. 
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