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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 24 , 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
Established 1850. 
Entered at New York as Second Class Matter. 
Herbert w. Colungwood, Editor. 
DR. WALTER VAN FLEET, I 
Mrs. K. T. Boyle, ( Associates. 
John J. Dillon, Business Manager. 
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to adjust trifling differences between subscribers and honest, 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
409 Pearl Street, New York. 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1906. 
TEN WEEKS FOR 10 CENTS. 
In order to introduce The R. N.-Y. to progressive 
intelligent farmers who do not now take it, we send it 
10 weeks for 10 cents for strictly introductory purposes. 
We depend on our old friends to make this known to 
neighbors and friends. 
* 
Our poultry correspondent, Geo. A. Cosgrove, was 
elected a member of the Connecticut Legislature at the 
recent election. We trust that Mr. Cosgrove will make 
a true Wyandotte legislator—keep asking why and help 
put a dot on some of the big aspiring Is! 
* 
Many farmers are lighting their houses with acety¬ 
lene gas. It gives a brilliant light, and in all cases thus 
far reported to us is very satisfactory. We are often 
asked if the refuse or residue taken from the gas tanks 
has any fertilizing value. It is largely a carbonate of 
lime, and is about as useful as other forms of lime 
would be. 
* 
Mr. Dexter Field of Oregon has reason to be thank¬ 
ful this year. It is a great thing to have given such 
a family as this to God and to country. And we think 
the proceeds of that life of toil were well invested 
in bringing up these children so that they may face the 
world well equipped with health, good character and 
education. After all, is there any more satisfactory 
investment than a group of children who carry our 
confidence and hope? Mr. Field has lived up to the 
theory that the child crop is the best crop on the farm, 
and also the best form of investment for a man’s love 
and money. The evening of life ought to be a happy 
time for him. 
* 
Our object in printing the facts about those Jersey 
cattle last week was to call public attention to an im¬ 
portant matter. We find more or less dissatisfaction 
with the methods of registering animals. It seems to 
have been demonstrated that there have been cases of 
fraudulent registry. Some of these have been discov¬ 
ered by the associations, and the criminals have been 
punished. As matters stand now, an outsider can ob¬ 
tain little satisfaction from one of these associations, 
even if his cattle are registered therein. In the case 
which we outlined something is wrong on one side or 
the other. There can be no question about that, for 
statements were made which involved the honor of the 
managers of the A. J. C. C. We ask cattle owners and 
Jersey breeders in particular to aid us in securing a 
thorough investigation of this case. If it is possible, 
under the present rules, to substitute one animal for 
another, let the facts be known, so that by stricter 
rules or more accurate description such things can be 
prevented. So long as such charges are possible the 
A. J. C. C. should welcome the chance to hunt them 
down. 
* 
Prof. Hillgard, in his new book, “Soils,” says that 
ancient civilization was largely based upon the cultiva¬ 
tion of arid lands. It was the dry soils of the deserts 
irrigated, and thus supplied with life-giving water, that 
provided food for the most successful and richest na¬ 
tions. On both sides of the ocean the most prosperous 
people were found living on the watered deserts—not 
on the so-called stronger soils of the humid regions. 
The dry “sands of the desert” seem poor enough at 
first sight, and yet, when irrigated, they produce re¬ 
markable crops. And even without irrigation these 
light soils are capable of great things. On Long 
Island, South Jersey and on the Delaware peninsula 
there are few chances for irrigation, and yet the crops 
which skillful farmers produce are the wonder of visi¬ 
tors. These light soils produce, one year with another, 
far greater values per acre than the heavier clay soils 
which are supposed to be much stronger. One reason 
for this is that the lighter soils may be easily and 
rapidly worked. A farmer can plow under green crops 
for humus and add such chemicals as he needs, and 
thus come close to scientific accuracy in feeding his 
crop. 
* 
It seems to us very desirable that Senator Dryden, 
of New Jersey, should not be sent back to the Senate. 
We have heard no one say that he has done any great 
or worthy thing for the State. So far as farmers are 
concerned they could hardly have a worse man at 
Washington. He voted against the Grout oleo bill and, 
we understand, would vote for a bill removing the tax 
from colored oleo. We are also informed that he is 
opposed to a parcels post. With this record in direct 
antagonism to the interests of farmers he has done little 
or nothing for their benefit. He deserves defeat if ever 
a man did, and it seems quite possible to defeat him. 
The case is different than with Mr. Wadsworth. It 
was possible to reach the latter directly with a vote, 
while Mr. Dryden can be reached only through the 
Legislature. We ur^e every reader in New Jersey 
to write at once to the Senator and Assemblymen from 
his county and ask them to vote against Dryden. Give 
your reasons clearly as a farmer, mentioning oleo and 
parcels post in particular. Do not be afraid of your 
representatives, but stick a stamp on them at once. 
Don’t let those farmers in Mr. Wadsworth’s district 
have all the glory! Get a postage stamp’s worth at 
least. 
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Trained hands should be the harmonious accompani¬ 
ment of a trained intellect, and it is in recognition of 
this that modern educators are increasing the scope of 
what is called manual training in the public schools. 
The skill that any handy boy or girl may acquire, under 
proper direction, is quite surprising, and we have 
often wished there were more opportunities in this 
line for the young people in country districts. There 
is real pleasure in constructive work, whether it take 
the form of carpentry, basket-making or weaving, and 
some specialty of this sort may afford much pleasure 
to young people in isolated homes during the shut-in 
days of Winter. If there is a home supply of good 
timber from the wood lot, and the well-equipped tool¬ 
room or shop that every up-to-date farm should possess, 
there is no reason why the boys should not try their 
hands on so-called “Mission” furniture; they will 
surely produce something attractive for porch and 
lawn, even if they do not add to the furnishing of the 
living room. It used to be said that all Mission furni¬ 
ture looked as though it had been made by the hired 
man with an ax, but we now see less of the grotesque 
clumsiness that marked imperfect knowledge, and more 
of the genuine simplicity of the style. Work in this 
line is worth studying; it will give accuracy of eye 
and hand, an appreciation of the real beauty that lies 
in utility, and a scorn of dishonest workmanship that 
may be a powerful factor in future life. 
Several times when Mr. Cosgrove has been asked to 
prescribe for sick chickens he has advised the use of 
“Squibb’s Mixture” for bowel troubles. People thought 
this was some proprietary medicine, but it is a reliable 
prescription often used by physicians. So many readers 
have asked for it that we give it here—copied from the 
U. S. Dispensatory: Tincture of opium, 20 Cc; tincture of 
capsicum, 20 Cc; spirit of camphor, 20 Cc; chloroform, 
7J4 Cc; alcohol, 32% Cc. The “Cc” means cubic cen¬ 
timetre and any druggist can put up the prescription 
In bowel trouble among chicks it can be used in the 
drinking water and will be found very effective. An¬ 
other famous and reliable remedy for diarrhoea is the 
“Sun Cholera Cure”: Tincture of opium, tincture of cap¬ 
sicum, tincture of rhubarb, spirit of camphor, spirit of 
peppermint, each 20 Cc. These remedies may well be 
found in every farm home. 
* 
The newspapers have dropped the discussion of 
Cuba's troubles. They still exist, however. The R. N.-Y. 
has a number of subscribers in Cuba, most of them 
Americans who went from this country to live on the 
island. We wrote a number of them asking for opin¬ 
ions as to the cause of the rebellion. The following 
from Camaguey Province is a fair sample of the replies: 
It began over a year ago by some Cubans firing on and 
killing some Rural Guards. The same proceeding was re¬ 
peated with fatal results in Pinar del Rio Province a year 
ago this Summer. The native Cuban is not educated, there¬ 
fore he can’t get registered and vote, which causes bad 
feelings to them and their party leaders, so the elections 
are all one-sided. The “outcome” no man can tell with 
certainty, but in m.v opinion eventually Cuba will be an¬ 
nexed to the United States. It will be better for the 
Cubans to have Cuba annexed. It will be better in the long 
run for everybody on the island. The United States and 
her people will be better off. Florida and California need 
not worry about losing their fruit trade: they will get 
just as much for their fruit after annexation as they are 
getting now. The sugar makers do not need to worry 
either. They worried without cause when Hawaii was 
annexed. 
We believe that powerful forces are working quietly 
for annexation, but we do not agree with this corre¬ 
spondent. We believe our fruit and sugar growers 
would be injured by it. 
* 
Shakespeare has a saying to the effect that it is a 
glorious thing to have a giant’s strength, but a cow¬ 
ardly thing to use it like a giant. In other words, the 
strong should try to win by showing their strength, 
keeping part of it in reserve, and not by brutally crush¬ 
ing out those who oppose them. It is evident to us 
that farmers as a class are to have a mighty influence 
upon public affairs. In the contest against Mr. Wads¬ 
worth several things were on trial. Farmers’ clubs and 
Granges have taught organization, and tried to over¬ 
come prejudice. The agricultural college and the ex¬ 
periment station have been teaching farmers to think 
and observe. Rural free delivery has made the daily 
paper possible, and the telephone has concentrated 
business and brought people together. All these things 
have changed the farmer in his relation to the rest of 
the woi Id. We felt sure they had made him more 
independent and self-reliant. The ’Wadsworth cam¬ 
paign demonstrated among other things that this was 
true. It appears that the man who stays on the farm 
and brings conveniences to him is rather more of a 
patriot than he who chases to the city after such con¬ 
veniences. The power of the farmer will grow as the 
country home is improved. He should begin to think 
of the giant and his strength. 
BREVITIES . 
Get in the sun whenever you can. 
It seems that too much mulch will make the soil sour! 
M oui.d the average politician know a moral issue if he 
met it on the road? 
I he muslin front henhouse has come to stay and will 
also enter the cow stable. 
A life that was a constant succession of plum puddings 
wouldn’t be worth living. 
I he stable is thankful for a good coat of whitewash. 
In that way it is like a politician. 
A soft pencil on soft paper with letters run together 
doesn't make any thanksgiving for the proof reader! 
We hope those men in the Thirty-fourth District split 
kindling wood for the kitchen as effectively as they can 
split ballots! 
It isn't the food or the shelter that makes Thanksgiving 
its the home spirit. We had a merry tipie one year with 
cold boiled pork and bread—with spring water. 
Two years ago Mr. Wadsworth’s majority was 13.03G. 
This year the majority against him is 5,156. His own 
county gave the Republican candidate for governor 2,114 
while Mr. Wadsworth carried it by only 553! 
Newspaper reports say that a school-ma’am famine ex¬ 
ists in South Dakota, and that farmers in Beadle County 
recently kidnapped two teachers bound for another section 
as the only means of filling vacancies. We hope the 
Beadle County juveniles show equal enthusiasm in the 
cause of education. 
Some Minnesota college students recently displayed the 
advantages of the higher education by publicly “spanking” 
a number of young women in a Chicago hotel, during 
riotous celebrations over a football game. Our own im¬ 
pression is that the spanking was not begun early enough 
in the case of either spanker or spankee. 
