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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 29, 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE B TJSINESS FARMER'S PARER. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
Established 1850. 
Entered at New York as Second Class Matter. 
Herbert W. Collingwood, Editor. 
Dr. Walter Van Fleet, ( . . 
Mrs. K. T. Royle, j-Associates. 
John J. Dillon, Business Manager. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
409 Pearl Street, New York. 
SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1907. 
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. 
* 
If any statement should appear in The R. N.-Yi 
which you know to be unjust or untrue it is your privi¬ 
lege and duty to correct it, with proof, at once. This 
is addressed to the public in general and to Frank E. 
Dawley and Prof. Henry S. Redfield in particular! 
* 
Will a galvanized iron roof help protect a barn from 
lightning stroke? If the roof is connected with moist 
earth by suitable conductors it will help. If such con¬ 
ductors are not used we need not expect service of this 
kind from the roof. John L. Shawver, one of the 
most experienced barn builders in the country, tells us 
heavy building paper may be put under the iron roofing. 
This will largely prevent steam or moisture from reach¬ 
ing the iron, and thus stop condensation of moisture. 
If this is not done moisture will form on the iron and 
drop back upon the hay or grain. 
* 
We want the truth about vetch as a green manure or 
fodder. This includes good and bad qualities. Here is 
a fair statement: 
Grain farmers will do well to let Winter vetch alone. It 
will self sow and become a nuisance In the grain. Sown 
two bushels per acre in the proportion of three bushels wheat 
to one of vetch it makes an ideal crop for soiling pur¬ 
poses, or for making into hay. Horses and cattle eat it 
with relish and do well on it. For hay it should be cut 
as soon as the blossom falls from the wheat, and should be 
cured in the cock as much as possible. c. E. w. 
Dutchess Go., N. Y. 
We have heard of this trouble of seeding the entire 
farm before. Most fruit growers would not call that 
an objection. 
* 
We have heard parents say that they wish they could 
make their children know how they feel about them. 
The average man and woman may not like to admit it 
publicly, but still know, that they have not lived up to 
their possibilities. Most of them cherish the hope that 
their children may live down some of the mistakes of 
their own lives. If the child could only understand 
what father or mother would like to have them make, 
perhaps they would take a more earnest view of life. 
Some people think these things, but they do not realize 
that the feeling is mutual. While they grieve that the 
child cannot realize the ideal they have set for it, they 
cannot understand that the little one has, also, an ideal 
man and woman in mind when it looks at father and 
mother. Has not one as much right to demand ideals 
as the other? If we are disappointed in our children, 
how much are we responsible for not living up to what 
the little one needed as an example ? 
* 
Several very smooth gentlemen are after endorse¬ 
ments for what they call a new principle in churning. 
They claim to make good butter in less than five min¬ 
utes by revolving a beater inside a churn, and also 
“forcing air through the cream.” They state that some 
of the experiment stations “endorse” the churn as 
superior to the old style. Some men can hang a very 
strong story on a weak support. From what we can 
learn, it seems that the churn was tried at several ex¬ 
periment stations—by the introducers. The station au¬ 
thorities carefully refrained from giving any opinion. 
A beater revolves inside the churn at a high speed, 
whipping the cream violently. The butter does come in 
a few minutes—from two to six—and was of very fair 
quality. The loss of fat was greater than with an ordi¬ 
nary churn. There is nothing in particular new about 
this churn. The principle of a high-speed beater has been 
often tried. The theory of “air circulation” does not 
seem to be sound. The power required to run the churn 
is very large—too much for an ordinary back. A rig 
which would churn 200 pounds of butter would require 
many horse power! We give these facts so that readers 
may know what to do when these smooth gentlemen 
call. 
*' 
One of the big express companies, to which we have 
paid our respects on previous occasions, recently caused 
the arrest of a scrubwoman charged with the horrible 
crime of absorbing a cake of soap, retail value five 
cents. A correspondent of the New York Evening 
Post remarks, concerning this: 
It strikes me It would be a very good idea for the com¬ 
pany to impress upon its claim department that it is only 
a matter of common honesty for it to settle its own debts 
promptly. If is my experience, and I fancy the same is 
true with others, who are at the mercy of the monopoly 
the company has, that no claim, however just, can ever be 
collected from the company without months of delay and 
repeated applications, such as it is not worth one’s while 
to make over small amounts. Just at present, for instance, 
the company is owing me a claim which was agreed as due 
last December, but on which I have not heard anything 
from it. and. as it is only a few dollars, have not taken the 
trouble to keep dunning the company about it. Of course, 
this may simply be part of an utterly incompetent service, 
but the salvage in such little matters must amount to 
enough in the aggregate to cover the loss of quite a number 
of cakes of soap. 
* 
For the benefit of Prof. Henry S. Redfield we print 
another letter about Jersey cattle. This one is from 
a well-known man living in Ohio: 
I have watched the Jersey cattle discussion with a great 
deal of interest, because I formerly grew some excellent 
Jersey grades, and had planned to buy some registered 
Jersey heifers to eat some surplus pasture and surplus 
fodder which is already partly grown for next Winter. I 
have waited somewhat impatiently for the report, and finally 
decided to get some Guernseys Instead, but find that there 
are others who are changing their plans; the price of the 
latter has stiffened on account of the Jersey scandal, and 
it is not easy to get Guernseys at a figure which common 
farmers can afford to pay. The Jersey Cattle Club could 
have well afforded to pay the few hundred dollars involved 
in the Dawley-Rogers deal and hush it up in the start. It 
will take years for cattlemen to forget that Jersey registra¬ 
tion is liable to favoritism, and perhaps tainted with dis¬ 
honesty, and many hundreds of honest breeders of Jerseys 
will have to stand the cost. Accept the congratulations 
of one who wears the Grand Army button. 
We think Prof. Redfield will find, if he takes a little 
time to investigate, that the feeling expressed in this 
note is rapidly growing. Perhaps he does not now 
realize what this will mean to breeders of Jersey cattle, 
but there ought to be plenty of men in the Club to 
tell him. Quite a number of people have expressed 
surprise that this matter has been permitted to grow 
when a little money would have “hushed it up.” There 
should be no “hushing.” Better have the tooth taken 
out at once. There is no more useful animal on earth 
than a good Jersey cow in her right place. There are 
no more honorable men than Jersey breeders as a class. 
They are both sure to suffer if the present “muss” is 
left as it is or covered up. Will Prof. Redfield hear 
any such expression as “Thou art the man!”? 
* 
Near The R. N.-Y. office is a bakery and lunch 
place. The shop is a small affair, and the customers 
the kind who want a whole lot for their money. Yet 
in about two years the proprietor cleared $5,000. In¬ 
credible as this may sound, it would be understood by 
anyone who watched the “rush time” trade of a single 
day. Two people behind the counter haul in 
money about as rapidly as a hungry hen would 
pick up corn. This rush trade consists largely 
of lunches for the workers in nearby printeries 
and factories. From 500 to 1,000 people work 
in some of these buildings, and many of them 
have their noon meal, a few cakes, a sandwich, or some¬ 
thing more extensive, brought in, a boy being appointed 
by the employer to take orders and get the food. Com¬ 
petition is sharp, there being 25 or 30 similar bake shops 
within a short distance, though not all so prosperous. 
Within the 10 years’ observation of the writer this 
unpretentious little bakery has put three men on the 
road to fortune. 
* 
The Rocky Mountain News prints reports' from 
Laramie, Wyo., that the compulsory spraying or dip¬ 
ping of cattle is causing serious loss to the owners of 
large herds. It appears that the prevalence of scabies 
renders the dipping necessary, but the strong odor of 
the dip so saturates the skin of the animals that it 
prevents the cows from recognizing their own calves, 
and vice versa. These range animals depend on the 
delicate sense of smell to recognize their offspring, and 
after spraying all the cows and calves smell alike. The 
cow’s instinct causes her to disown any calf she does 
not recognize, and thus many of the poor little creatures 
slowly starve. In the dipping machine generally used 
the cattle are made to pass through a chute where an 
emulsion of crude petroleum and soap is forced in 
innumerable jets against every part of their bodies, so 
saturating them that the smell remains for weeks in 
that dry climate. The problem involved, which may be¬ 
come serious on the range, is one that hardly enters 
the horizon of the eastern farmer with barn-housed 
cattle. 
* 
There has not been for years anything like the pres¬ 
ent situation in the hay market. We recently bought a 
ton of fairly good hay in New York for $22. It cost 
a little less than $25 when delivered by freight 25 miles 
from the city. That same quality of hay now retails 
at $26, and will very likely go to $30 before the middle 
of July. There seems to be very little hay left in farm¬ 
ers’ hands, and this year’s crop promises to be at least 
two weeks late on account of the cold season. We have 
no doubt that people who buy small lots of. hay will 
be obliged to pay at the rate of $40 before September! 
While grain prices are likely to soar, we doubt if they 
will rise in proportion to those of hay. It is strange 
that this enormous rise comes in the face of the strong¬ 
est theoretical arguments.' More and more of the work 
formerly done by horses is now being done by steam 
and gas engines. We have been told that the horse is a 
“back number,” yet horses are higher than ever, while 
hay never was in such demand. A farmer with a good 
lot of hay to sell will surely be in clover this year, pro¬ 
vided he can take care of it properly. If there ever 
was a year when it will pay to invest in hay machinery 
this is that year. Any implement that will help put the 
crop under cover with less cost and loss will go far to 
pay for itself this year. Some farmers argue that hay 
should never be sold from the farm because it takes 
away too much plant food. That all depends upon what 
the plant food brings in money. The plant food in a ton 
of Timothy hay would cost about $7 if bought in chem¬ 
icals. This year’s prices will pay for the plant food 
and leave a good margin. It will be good business to 
put in all the unsalable forage like corn foddder, roots, 
cow peas and millet we can—use this for feeding our 
own stock and sell more hay. 
* 
We still print the names of those New York Senators 
who opposed Gov. Hughes. The feeling against them is 
bitter, and the people only want a chance to give expres¬ 
sion to it. The only chance thus far has been in Or¬ 
leans County, where the issue seems to have been made 
squarely between the friends of Gov. Hughes and those 
who opposed him. S. P. Franchot is the Senator from 
that district. Last Fall he polled 3,507 votes in Orleans 
County, while Gov. Hughes on the same ticket polled 
4,115 votes. Anyone of common sense would say that 
this showed that a majority of the people in Orleans 
County endorsed Gov. Hughes and wanted his pro¬ 
gramme carried out. Yet Mr. Franchot, though receiv¬ 
ing 608 votes less than the Governor, misrepresented 
the people of that county. Of course his party turned 
him down hard just as soon as they got a chance at 
him. Very likely Niagara County will do the same, and 
in every district represented by these Senators the same 
thing will follow. We hope there will be a new election 
of Senators this Fall. If farmers can get a chance at 
these men with other issues taken out at least six of 
them will be left at home, and the others will be driven 
so hard that they will go back to Albany very quiet and 
humble men. In a Presidential year they would stand a 
better chance of crawling back under the wing of a 
stronger candidate, but this year they would have noth¬ 
ing but their own record to hide under, and that is too 
thin to disguise them. The best way to hit them now is 
to dominate the county conventions. Do not stay at 
home and find fault if politicians try to capture the 
delegates. Get out and do some capturing yourself. 
You cannot do anything more in line with good morals 
and good politics than to help control your county con¬ 
vention against any of the men named in our list. Do 
not wait to cut the ticket later—cut them now! 
BREVITIES . 
What about concrete for culverts and large drains? 
How about painting: witb a spray pump —page 509? 
Bordeaux Mixture and tobacco tea will help keep the 
black flea beetles from potato vines. 
With all this talk in the papers about ‘‘nature fakers” 
the Hope Farm man feels doubtful about his animal stories. 
Make no mistake in supposing that people do not grasp 
the principle involved in that A. 5. C. C. struggle. 
We are surprised to see the interest taken in vetch 
growing. It is pronounced a remarkable plant for green 
manuring. 
Those men who have been drinking water brought through 
lead pipes for years do not seem to t hink much of the 
theory of lead poisoning. 
We are coming after you now for information on many 
subjects. You will see some of the questions on page 509. 
The information wanted will not be found In printed pages 
but In the great book of experience. Is it on your page? 
