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The Rural New-Yorker 
TUE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
Established i860. 
Entered at New York as Second Class Matter. 
Herbert w. Collingwood, Editor. 
Dr. Walter Van Fleet, ( . , 
Mus. E. T. Koylk, Associates. 
John J. Dillon, Business Manager. 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
409 Pearl Street, New York. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
danger. In a properly conducted Grange, however, this 
possibility is eliminated; old and young work together, 
and the middle-aged woman finds that her practical 
knowledge and experience possess a social value of 
which she had never dreamed. Many a hard-worked 
matron who has felt only fit for the background finds 
herself taking an active part in Grange affairs, and 
developing character anew, while the young girl realizes 
that there is more in social life than the ability to dance 
a two-step or play indifferent rag-time. Great are the 
material benefits of the Grange, but the moral and men¬ 
tal benefits are still greater, and not the least of these 
is the inclusion of the whole family, old and young, in 
well-ordered social union. 
SATURDAY, JULY 6, 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 
k) weeks for 10 cents for strictly introductory purposes. 
We depend on our old friends to make this known to 
neighbors and friends. 
* 
We submit that no one is satisfied with that Jersey 
cattle case as it stands. We propose that members of 
the A. J. C. C. (who realise what will follow if noth¬ 
ing is done) join us in promoting an open and free 
investigation. We will guarantee that the case for Mr. 
Rogers is fully presented: We make the definite charge 
that we have evidence to prove that animals now regis¬ 
tered by the A. J. C. C. are not true. 
* 
We have advised farmers to plant flint corn at this 
late season in the hope of making a corn crop. As 
all know, we have advised the use of cow peas for 
green manuring. Requests are coming by the dozen 
for Early Canada flint corn. We have hunted among 
all the seedsmen, but they have sold the last kernel. 
Cow pea seed hqs also been cleaned up—there is none 
to be found. We had no idea there would be such 
a demand for this corn. It only shows how desperate 
the situation is for many corn growers. 
* 
The later the corn and the poorer the crop the 
greater the need of saving every particle of it in good 
condition. This is the year for a silo if there ever was 
one. No one will claim that he can possibly feed dry 
cornstalks as profitably as he could the same stalks well 
preserved in a silo. Many of us are not likely to get 
much more than stalks in our cornfields. It will depend 
upon the Fall, but unless the Hon. John Frost lives 
fully up to his title there will be little grain. Frosted 
fodder is poor stuff. Get it into a silo! You may find 
calamity a blessing if it drives you to silage. 
* 
In the Spring of 1870 hay sold at $40 to $48 per ton 
in New York. The following August the price had 
fallen to $14 to $20. T his year these extreme prices 
have not been reached, but it is not likely that figures 
will drop so rapidly. Old hay seems to be well cleaned 
out. The season has been so cold that the crop is far 
behind in growth, and will not be ready to cut until at 
least two weeks later than usual. There is a greater de¬ 
mand than ever before for good hay, and farmers are 
in better shape than formerly for holding until the price 
suits them. Altogether the outlook for hay farmers 
never was better. Those who top-dressed with fertilizer 
or manure this Spring will make great interest on their 
investment. A forkful of hay is about like a dollar 
bill this year. Most of us can handle all the dollars we 
are likely to get with our fingers. The hay needs the 
steel fingers of hay machinery to put it where it be¬ 
longs. This is just the year for buying haying tools. 
* 
The Grange confers many social benefits upon its 
members, and not the least of these is the mutual inter¬ 
dependence of old and young. In many rural commu¬ 
nities active social life exists among the young only; 
the elder people do little visiting, and attend few enter¬ 
tainments; they are “laid on the shelf.” The result 
is not good; the older people become more and more 
fossilized, while the younger, relieved from any re¬ 
straint, are free to pursue their frivolous bent, with, 
sometimes, a slackening of decorum that leads to moral 
We continue our efforts to enlighten Prof. Henry S. 
Redfield, and show him what bread and butter dairymen 
are saying. Here is a note from a young farmer in 
Kentucky: 
I wish there were more than yon to “go after” the A. J. 
C. C. We are very much interested. Father started in the 
dairy business a few years ago with cows that would average 
one-quarter pound butter daily. Now we have 14 head milk¬ 
ing of which only one fell below one pound (and she is for 
sale), and one made two pounds. We have a great grandson 
of Golden Lad. Jerseys have been our favorite, and we are 
just now getting in a position to change our grades to reg¬ 
istered ones, but if we sell what we know to be good grades, 
to buy what are likely to be poor grades, what then? They 
are all strangers, and we are not in a pecuniary position 
to be duped. We shall be like the burnt child; let them 
all severely alone until justice is proven. If the A. J. C. C. 
will not act honestly, other breeds are desirable, for their 
registry descriptions are more explicit and such an opening 
for fraud is not to be had. 
We could fill a good share of The R. N. Y with just 
such letters. They come from all over the country. 
Of course wealthy men may continue to play with Jer¬ 
sey cattle, and toss great prices back and forth for fine 
animals. They can keep that up for a time, but when 
hundreds of men like this young dairyman begin to feel 
like the “burnt child” it will be like drying up the hill¬ 
side springs that supply the river! And we put it 
straight to Prof. Redfield—what else can they think? 
Rogers bought a cow for a purebred Jersey. She is de¬ 
clared to be bogus, her value as a breeder impaired, 
and yet Rogers is left to shoulder the loss. Can Prof. 
Redfield blame farmers for thinking that a poor man 
has little chance for redress against a member of this 
rich club? What has Prof. Redfield done to make them 
think otherwise? We offer him another little note from 
our collection—from a Long Island dairyman: 
The A. J. O. O. seem to have run up against a good-sized 
landslide instead of a poor old bossy. The Jersey is a fine 
animal and deserves better caretakers than she has the mis¬ 
fortune of having at at present. 
Why, yes, that train which was to crush things cut out 
too large a contract. But let us do justice to the A. J. 
C. C. Several members write us that the club should 
not be held responsible. What, then, are these club 
mmbers doing that they permit this matter to grow into 
a serious scandal? They at least can realize what the 
result will be unless it is absolutely cleared up. It is 
high time they made their influence felt at headquarters; 
every week of silence helps make another ring on that 
cow’s horn! 
* 
Blight and other diseases of the vine have driven 
thousands of melon growers out of business. Many 
sections where i n former years melon growing was a 
leading industi -r now barely produce enough for home 
consumption The Adams Express Company has just 
cut up a “melon” which shows that blight and downy 
mildew have no terrors for them! They are able to 
spray the crop with dimes and dollars taken out of the 
public. The Adams Express Company is supposed to 
have a stock capital of $12,000,000. Up to 1898 it paid 
eight per cent interest. It then had sufficient earnings 
to issue gratis to stockholders $12,000,000 worth of 
four per cent bonds. Now, besides paying 10 per cent 
dividends the company issues out of its earnings $24,- 
000,000 more of these bonds, or 200 per cent on its 
capital stock. Surely there is nothing sickly about that 
“melon” for those who hold stock in the Adams Ex¬ 
press Company! We should remember, however, that 
every cent of this $36,000,000 came out of the people 
in small sums paid for carrying express packages. 
People have wondered why this great surplus was dis¬ 
tributed in this way. The New York Evening Post 
gives this, among other reasons: 
One reason why the 200 per cent, dividend was declared 
at this time was that, under the Hepburn Rate law. the 
Adams Express Company, for the first time in its history, 
would be forced to make a statement of Its affairs. Up 
to the present time none of the express companies has 
ever published a statement of earnings, liabilities, or assets. 
In fact, there is only one copy of the Adams Express Com¬ 
pany’s charter, and that Is kept locked up in a safe. When 
the shares were listed on the Stock Exchange it was not 
customary to demand a copy of the charter, together with 
statements of earnings, assets, liabilities, mortgages, etc. 
Under the Dew law the express' company will be 
treated as a “common carrier”—though it seems to have 
uncommon capacity for carrying money away from 
July 6, 
the people. By changing this vast sum of cash into 
stock the express company can make a great bluff 
that it is paying only a fair rate on its stock. This 
will not deceive anyone who knows the facts. There is 
no use cursing the express company. That concern 
has our money and will continue to absorb it until we 
obtain a fair parcels post. Give us the privilege of 
sending packages by mail at fair rates, and that “melon” 
will grow down to normal size. No wonder these 
express companies are opposed to a parcels post. 
* 
Since printing the article about damage done by deer 
in Massachusetts we learn that the law in that State has 
been changed. The act which was approved April 18, 
1907 reads as follows: 
Section 17, Whoever, before the first day of November 
in the year nineteen hundred and eight, hunts, chases, 
wounds or kills a deer, or sells or offers for sale or has in 
his possession for the purpose of sale, a deer captured or 
killed In Massachusetts, except his own tame deer, kept on 
his own grounds, shall forfeit one hundred dollars for each 
offence; provided however that nothing contained herein 
shall prevent a farmer or other person from chasing, wound¬ 
ing or killing, by use of a shot gun, any deer found injur¬ 
ing or destroying any crop or fruit tree upon cultivated land 
owned or occupied by him. Any farmer or other person kill¬ 
ing a deer found injuring or destroying any crop or fruit 
tree, as aforesaid, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred 
dollars, unless he shall in writing, under his signature, 
report such killing forthwith to the clerk of the city or 
town in which the deer was killed. The report shall state 
the time and place of the killing and the crop or tree which 
was being injured or destroyed by the deer, and shall be 
recorded by the clerk receiving it, who shall thereupon for¬ 
ward it to the board of commissioners on fisheries and 
game. 
This establishes the principle that a farmer may de¬ 
fend his property from damage. It will not be neces¬ 
sary in Massachusetts to follow the advice given on 
page 523. 
* 
One great thing about that campaign against Wads¬ 
worth last Fall was the way farmers all over the coun¬ 
try took a hand. The actual voting was limited to the 
Thirty-fourth New York District, but in every State of 
the Union there were farmers glad to give moral sup¬ 
port to a good cause. They all recognized that a prin¬ 
ciple of national significance to farmers was a stake. 
We find that the same is true of the contest against 
those New York Senators. For example, here is a 
note from Massachusetts: 
We are very glad to see the way that you are holding up 
the names of the “good and great” men (?) in the New York 
Senate. If all the newspapers would only do that, fraud, 
corruption and graft would all have to crawl into that hole 
that “Cousin Woodchuck” lives in. 
Now “Cousin Woodchuck” is no grafter, and the 
reception he would give those gentlemen would fit them 
to realize what is coming when their home voters get 
at them. His teeth are no sharper than the ballots they 
will feel later. To show how widespread is this influ¬ 
ence here is another note from North Carolina: 
We are all with you In your fight for the farmer all along 
the line. Every State and almost every county has its ring 
of grafters, but we are all interested in New York. 
They are all “interested in New York.” Thousands 
of men carry life insurance policies, and they realize 
how New York laws and New York supervision of in¬ 
surance affect their interests'. Then again, the great 
money interests centered in New York affect more or 
less directly 90 per cent of the people in this country. 
Of course they “are interested” in what New York 
country people will do. They also have an idea after 
last year that these New York farmers are good fighters 
when they have a leader and a principle to fight for. 
Gov. Hughes has provided the principle, and people all 
over the country are justified in expecting New York 
farmers to fight. They will not be disappointed. The 
fight has already started. 
BREVITIES . 
The best butter color—carrots. 
Put in some millet for cow feed. 
We find fruit growers far more hopeful that they can hold 
the San Jos6 scale in check. 
Some of these Cape Cod farmers put money in a sand 
bank when they plant asparagus. 
Who can tell us whether old engines taken from auto¬ 
mobiles are useful for farm work? 
We want all the Information we can get about using chem¬ 
icals of any sort for destroying weeds. 
The weak man expects to absorb character from a “situ¬ 
ation.” The strong man adds character to a job. 
It is safe to say that not one man in a dozen drinks as 
much water as he should. Why not drink a little extra 
and help out the average? 
The coal trade of this country is immense, but not as old 
as some others. Plymouth, Penn., Is preparing to celebrate 
the centennial of that trade’s real beginning. 
A reader jells how his neighbors laughed because he used 
the weeder in his potato field three times before the plants 
were up. He will see them later giving some other reason 
for the size of the crop. 
How do you like to “trim up” and spend time improving 
your grounds and then have taxes jumped up in consequence? 
They ought to remit part of the taxes when a man helps 
shine lip the neighborhood! 
