1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
3i 
THE COW AND THE RAILROAD TRAIN. 
A recent issue of The Country Gentleman contains 
the following well meant advice: 
We printed two weeks ago in this department the official 
reply of the American Jersey Cattle Club to certain charges 
against that body that were unadvisedly admitted to the 
columns of The Rural New-Yobker; and thought the 
matter might as well be allowed to drop. But the breeding 
fraternity is very generally of a different opinion, resenting 
strongly what is regarded as an attack on the whole Industry, 
'flie resolutions adopted at the annual meeting of the New 
York Stnte Breeders' Association last week, and given in 
another column of this issue, are only a mild expression of 
the feeling that prevails. It seems to us that too much is 
made of the matter, much more than Its importance de¬ 
serves—that is to say, Its Importance to the breeders. Our 
esteemed contemporary, unfamiliar with the subject, has 
been tricked and misled into assuming a position of hostility 
to the interests of the purebred live-stock industry as a 
whole; but you know what. Stephenson said when some¬ 
body asked him what would happen if a cow got in the 
way of his newfangled railroad train. lie did not appre¬ 
hend any very great damage—to the train ! Everybody 
would bo sorry to see so good a paper as The Rural New- 
Yorker undertake the role of the cow. 
Why drop it before it is settled? The case brings up 
the most important question that breeders have to face. 
People said “drop it” when the insurance investigations 
were started. Now they arc loudest in approval. It 
will pay the A. J. C. C. to have the tooth out now. 
Who represents “the breeding fraternity?” Well-known 
breeders tell us the only safety in their business lies in 
rooting out any suspicion of mistake or foul play at 
once. No one has claimed that we did not state the 
facts. As for the cow—if she has the right to be on 
the track—she stays there and the train stops—or takes 
the consequences. The R. N.-Y. is said to have “under¬ 
taken the role of the cow” in the Thirty-fourth New 
York district. A good-sized railroad train made its 
run—and is now laid up for repairs! Out West an 
engineer ran his train into a herd of cattle. The train 
went to the hospital. There wasn’t enough of the engi¬ 
neer left to go there. When The R. N.-Y. “under¬ 
takes the role of the cow,” Justice will stand at the 
switch. The engineer on the train will get a glimpse 
of something over 100,000 more cows lining the track, 
and lie will know what to do! 
The Philadelphia Record says a teacher in that city re¬ 
ceived this note from the mother of one of her pupils—who 
fieems to us quite sensible: “Please dont teach my Mina 
any fiskel tortur. Make her mit the gograf.v, and lie give 
her the jumps.” 
THE DANGER FROM OLEO. 
There are some dairymen who seem to feel that there is 
no further danger from oleo legislation. They are wrong, 
and they make a vital mistake when they sit down and say 
there is no danger that the present law will lx 1 changed. 
As a matter of fact the oleo men are quietly working up a 
sentiment in favor of a repeal of the 10-cent tax in the 
Grout bill. They are working upon the feelings of milk 
buyers in the largo cities. Hero is a copy of one of a dozen 
advertisements which have appeared in New York papers: 
Milk Monologues—No. 11. 
The milk supply in New York could be easily increased and its 
cost to the consumer cheapened if the Laws of the State would permit 
the .sale of Butterine: 
But when 40 quarts of milk are needed to produce three pounds 
of butter, is it'any. wonder that milk is scrCe, with the population 
increasing rapidly, and the pasture lands being converted into suburban 
towns? Less grass—fewer cows—more people. 
A single quart of milk—with the addition of pure fat from fresh 
killed cattle,- makes three pounds of Butterine, possessing every good 
point of the purest Butter. And it costs the consumer about half the 
price with all the goodness. 
When Butterine is understood and the Law permit* its sale there 
will be no panic about milk scarcity or milk prices. 
AMMON & PERSON 
Dealers In Butter and Butterine 
138-140 Ninth Street JERSEY CITY, N. K 
You will sec the point at once. They try to make the 
people believe that If bogus butter can be made and sold 
without the tax, the price of milk will go down, because 
thousands' of gallons now used in butter making will 
he taken from the creameries beenu.s'e it. will not pav to 
make butter. This side of the proposition is right. ' Un¬ 
restricted sale of oleo would mean ruin to tnc dairy 
business, because the greater part of it would reach con¬ 
sumers under the guise of butter. That was the case before 
the tax was made legal, and It. would he so again. We print 
this at the close of the campaign against Senator Di-vdon in 
New Jersey. We want the Jersey farmers to realize what the 
oleo men are doing, and what will happen if they permit 
the Legislature to elect Mr. Dryden. He voted against the 
Grout antl-oleo 1)111, and the Inference Is that he would vote 
to repeal the tax on colored oleo if he got the chance. Dairy¬ 
ing is a growing industry in New Jersey. How do you like 
the Idea of having the small price you now receive cut In 
two? The remedy Is in your own hands! Get after your 
iuomber of the Legislature at once, and make him realize the 
situation. Last call for the postaye stamp! 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—TTio Itesoarcti Department of the Woman’s 
Municipal league of New York has presented evidence to 
the District Attorney’s office yvhicli. If sustained in the 
courts, will reveal a shocking condition of affairs In the 
shipping agency business. According to the evidence placed 
in (he hands of the District Attorney it appears that many 
immigrants who cannot read or speak English have been 
shamefully victimized by some of the shipping agents. The 
cattle ships apply to flic agents for employes to care for the 
cattle going over, and the agents take ‘advantage of this 
circumstance to sell tickets for passage on these ships 
and as much further as the purchaser wants to go. An 
order to an agent in Liverpool for a ticket to cover the 
rest, of the Journey is put in a sealed envelope, and the 
purchaser only finds when he presents it to the Liverpool 
agent that, the latter has never heard of the New York agent 
and knows absolutely no reason why he should comply with 
the request of the order to "give the bearer a ticket to 
Hamburg.” So the Immigrant, having enrned his passage 
on the cattle ship by hard labor, after having paid for it 
finds himself stranded in Liverpool. The witnesses In two 
cases were brought back from Boston before taking passage 
on the cattle ships for which they had bought tickets, but, 
the League has had one of its investigators buy one of 
the fraudulent tickets and make the entire voyage on a 
cattle boat. He paid .$10 at a shipping office (a different 
one from the two firms to he mentioned in the specific 
complaints) for a ticket to Hamburg, and sailed from Boston 
on October 17 with twenty-two other men, eight Americans 
and the remainder Hebrews and I’oles. During this voyage 
he relates that unspeakable cruelties were practised both 
on the men and the animals. One of the foremen, he says, 
never was seen without an ax or Iron instrument with which 
he beat the animals on the head. The men were also 
beaten cruelly. . . . Secretary Wilson December 25 
transmitted to the Department, of Justice nine additional 
cases of alleged violation of the act of Congress which pro¬ 
vides that railroad companies shall not detain live stock 
on cars longer than thirty-six hours without food and water. 
The cases are one each ngainst the Great Northern, the 
Oregon Short. Line, the Southern Pacific, the Union Pacific, 
the Lake Shore and the Burlington, and three against the 
Santa Fe. The Secretary forwarded complete evidence in 
each case to Attorney-General Bonaparte and requested him 
to institute proceedings against the railroads. The law 
provides a fine of $500 in each case. Secretary Wilson 
says there are several hundred such cases under considera¬ 
tion by the Agricultural Department and that. In every case 
where the evidence warrants, prosecution will be Insisted 
upon. The Attorney-General now has, in addition to these 
cases, cases of a similar violation against the Southern 
Pacific, the 1 Lake Shore, the Big Four and the Milwaukee. 
Efforts are being made by the cotton-growers of the South 
to have the Post-Office department issue a fraud order 
against the New York Cotton Exchange and forbid it: the 
use of the mails. The matter will be brought to the at¬ 
tention of the department offieials within a short time. A 
joint committee of the Southern Cotton Growers' Protective 
Association, of which Ilarvie Jordan, of Atlanta, is president, 
and the Co-operative Farmers' Educational Union, with a 
membership of 8,000.000, Is now drawing up the charges. 
Representative Lon Livingston, of Georgia, recently called 
the attention of the Department of Agriculture to what, he 
asserted to bo gross irregularities. Secretary Wilson was 
told that because of the practices of the Cotton Exchange 
$41,000,000 had been lost to the cotton growers of the 
South in a single year. Mr. Wilson advised Representative 
Livingston that the Department of Agriculture could do 
nothing and that the only remedy lay In the Post-Office 
Department. The producers charge that the Cotton Ex¬ 
change Is maintained solely for the purpose of speculating 
in cotton, and that practically none nt aU is sold for 
commercial purposes, and that the speculators practically 
control the situation. It will he shown. It is said, that 
even where actual deliveries of cotton are made through the 
Cotton Exchange of New York, purchasers are forced to 
take "rotten" instead of the "middling" cotton called for 
under the contracts, and that, this poor class of cotton can 
only he disposed of at a loss of from $10 to $20 a hale by 
the purchasers on whom it is forced by the trading rule's 
of the Cotton Exchange. Local cotton men at New Ortenns 
have figured out that the New York Exchange already has 
cheated the South out of $100,000,000 by arbitrarily, through 
a committee of seventeen, fixing the differences between the 
grades of cotton. The movement to have southern Repre¬ 
sentatives all over the cotton belt take the matter up In 
Congress Is being pushed. The exchange at Memphis has 
taken action looking to this end. and the New Orleans 
exchange likely will adopt a similar policy. . . . Alex¬ 
ander Johnston Cassatt. President of the Pennsylvania Rail¬ 
road Company, died suddenly December 2.8 at his home in 
Philadelphia. “The Stokes-Adams syndrome,” a form of 
heart disease, was the cause of death ascribed by the 
physician who attended him in the last weeks of an illness 
superinduced by an attack of whooping cough contracted 
from his grandchildren last Spmraer. lie was <>7 years old. 
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