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October 5 , 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FABMER'S PAPER. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
Established 1850. 
Published weekly by the Rural Publishing Company; H. W. 
Collingwood, President; Dr. Walter Van Fleet, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent; John J. Dillon, Treasurer; Wm. F. Dillon, Secretary; 
409 Pearl St., New York. 
Entered at New York as Second Class Matter. 
Herbert W. Collingwood, Editor. 
PR. WALTER VAN FLEET, I Asso< , iatfiH 
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John J. Dillon, Business Manager. 
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backed by a responsible person. But to make doubly sure 
we will make good any loss to paid subscribers sustained 
by trusting any deliberate swindler advertising in our col¬ 
umns, and any such swindler will be publicly exposed. We 
protect subscribers against rogues, but we do not guarantee 
to adiust trifling differences between subscribers and honest, 
responsible advertisers. Neither will we be responsible for 
the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
Notice of the complaint must be sent to us within one 
month of the time of the transaction, and you must have 
mentioned The Rural New-Yorker when writing, the adver¬ 
tiser. 
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is for, should appear in every letter. 
Remittances may be made in money order, express order, 
personal check or bank draft. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
409 Pearl Street, New York. 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 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. 
* 
Try to make a man see the end of a road before you 
put him on the track and push him. We know o£ sev¬ 
eral cases where men have been led to take up fruit cul¬ 
ture. They did the work well and made a fair yield, 
only to find a perishable crop on their hands with no 
facilities for handling it. They lost most of the crop, 
or had to sacrifice it because they could not sell to 
advantage. 
* 
It may not be understood by some why so much space 
is given to asparagus culture. The readers of The R. 
N.-Y. to a large extent determine its contents—that is, 
we are guided largely by questions from readers. Just 
now there is more interest manifested by gardeners in 
asparagus than in any other crop. There is good reason 
for this, because few people ever have all the asparagus 
they want, and few local markets are well supplied. 
We do not know of any more promising crop for those 
who are willing to learn how to grow it. 
* 
More and more of the instruction at our agricultural 
colleges is given outside the regular class room. Forty 
students in engineering at the Colorado college spent two 
weeks in the mountains surveying for a proposed reser¬ 
voir site. They did actual work of surveying, estimating 
and figuring. At the Massachusetts College next year 
Prof. Waugh hopes to take a class to Hale’s peach 
orchard and to some good market garden section where 
they will camp out for a week or 10 days and see just 
how the work is done. This sort of instruction 
planned with class room work is the best kind of 
teaching. 
* 
We want you to get acquainted with “Dotshome Har¬ 
mony,” and so her picture is printed again. We also 
have pictures of other famous characters in this contest 
for Jersey justice, such as “the black cow with rings 
in her nose” and our old friend “with five years in her 
pedigree and eight years on her horn.” They may be 
shown later, but right now our friend' “Harmony” 
holds the stage. It must be said that thus far she has 
caused more discord than harmony, but we want you to 
look at her head, horns and general shape. With these 
peculiarities you would identify her anywhere if you 
had ever owned her. 
* 
Every year we advocate selling apples in smaller 
packages than the ordinary apple barrel. More apples 
are eaten than ever before, but facilities for storing the 
crop have changed. About 25 years ago the man in 
a town or even in a small city could buy several bar¬ 
rels of apples and keep them in his cellar. Most likely 
his house was heated by stoves, so that the cellar was 
cool. Now such a cellar usually contains a heater of 
some sort, and is so warm that the average family 
would lose one-third of the barrel before they could 
use all the apples. If they could buy fruit by the box 
the family could just about keep the apples from 
spoiling. In a city flat the need of a smaller package 
is even more apparent. No one would think of taking 
a barrel of fruit into such a place unless several fam¬ 
ilies could divide it between them. The result is that 
such families usually buy apples by the “measure,” 
which means such an extravagant price that they can¬ 
not afford to eat what they otherwise would. Of 
course the apple grower does not profit by this high re¬ 
tail price, though he finds the consumption of fruit 
cut down by reason of it. The remedy for this is to 
provide some way of delivering boxes of apples at a 
fair price. There might be a chain of stores in this 
city at which such fruit could always be found. An 
enormous trade could be developed if it were handled 
in a business-like way. We believe this is well worth 
the attention of the New York State Fruit Growers’ 
Association, for here is a chance to co-operate and in¬ 
crease their income. 
* 
On the next page is a synopsis of the complaint and 
answer in that first Dawley suit. Naturally, we do 
not give full details regarding our evidence at this 
time. Readers- may rest assured, however, that we 
have ample proof to support all that we allege in this 
answer. Mr. Dawley has now had every chance to 
clear himself of all suspicion without in any way com¬ 
promising his suits against The R. N.-Y. He must 
realize how his failure to employ such opportunities 
will now be regarded. Under the circumstances it is 
very poor taste, to say the least, for Mr. Dawley to 
remain at the head of the Farmers’ Institute Bureau 
this Winter. If he does not know it himself, the insti¬ 
tute speakers can quickly tell him what they will be 
called upon to face at these meetings. They may start 
discussions about Alfalfa, potato culture or dairying, or 
even try to deliver a “high moral talk,” but the spirit 
will pass out of them every time the question box is 
opened, for the same old question will ever confront 
them. 
“Is it true that Dawley bought grade Jersey heifers 
and sold them as registered purebred cattle?” 
This question will dominate every institute during the 
Winter, and no honest man will envy the job of the in¬ 
stitute worker who must answer it and remain loyal to 
his chief. Why should New York spend $25,000 to have 
that question answered by State employees? Commis¬ 
sioner Wieting could “get busy” for very much less 
money than that. At the Dryden Fair, Governor Hughes 
spoke the following sensible words: 
My friends, the equal interest which you have in common 
with mo at this particular moment is this: That the 
government of the State of New York shall he run for the 
benefit of the people wthout anyone using the State’s power 
for his own advantage. * * * * We must also learn 
that the business of government Is not to he conducted in a 
haphazard way. That men are not to be put in office for the 
purpose of drawing their salaries or being agreeable to 
their friends and grant special favors. * * » * We 
want that feeling throughout the community which will 
make every man act upon his honor and lie glad to give the 
best service to the State, and put every man in a position of 
disgrace who would dare act against the interest of the 
community or try to serve his own pocketbook. 
The Governor is a man who attempts to make his 
preaching and his practice fit. We suggest that he 
look up the connection between the private sale of 
Alfalfa soil and a certain printing establishment and 
the farmers’ institutes, with Frank E. Dawley as the 
connecting link. 
* 
We doubt if the principle involved in that Jersey 
cattle case has ever been more clearly or more forcibly 
expressed than in the following paragraph of a letter 
from one of the best breeders of the State. 
There is a principle of most vital importance to the up¬ 
building of not only the breeding but also the dairy Industry 
of this country, involved in this issue. Absolute truthful¬ 
ness in the ancestral records as published by the record 
associations is the foundation not only of successful busi¬ 
ness in the breeding and selling of purebred cattle, but 
also of all progress in the improvement of the common 
dairy cows of the country. The lesson applies to all breeds, 
and never has there been a more forceful opportunity to 
illustrate it. 
Will the Country Gentleman, the Jersey Bulletin and 
the politicians of the New York State Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation tell us what is the matter with that statement 
of the case? 
* 
A friend who read the recent editorial on graft and 
attempted bribery of institute workers asks if the 
agricultural paper grafter is not as bad. This man 
usually accepts a present of some useful thing with 
the understanding that he is to praise it in print. The 
publisher of the paper is in the scheme to the extent 
of permitting this notice in order to attract adver¬ 
tising. We have had some experience with this form 
of grafting. A few years ago a carriage manufac¬ 
turer sent us correspondence with a man who was 
writing for The R. N.-Y. at the time. This man said 
that if the manufacturer would give him a carriage he 
would praise it in an illustrated article. If they did 
not give him one he would praise another make and 
disparage theirs. This manufacturer did right in re¬ 
fusing to be blackmailed, and we had no further use 
for that writer. Such things are constantly being at¬ 
tempted, and yet we think the grafting institute speak¬ 
er is a worse sinner, because he is a public official. He 
is paid out of public funds, and his petty crime is a 
crime against society, while the other is a crime against 
business. 
* 
Prof. King has had his say about the use of cloth 
for ventilating stables. He still argues for the plan of 
running tubes or boxes from the lower part of the 
barn to the roof. The cloth men are not by any means 
convinced that they are wrong; in fact, they feel sure 
they are right. This is what one of them says: 
Less than one per cent of the stables of this country are 
ventilated by the so-called “King system,” after all these 
years of strenuous effort upon the part of many good men. 
Then why should anyone object because the other 99 per 
cent were advised to try something that costs but a few 
cents, would break no one if it were discarded later, but 
which has been universally satisfactory where properly tried? 
How much Influence will the learned professor’s scientific 
dissertation have upon the farmer whose muslin ventilated 
stable is always dry, the air pure and the stock doing well? 
Try it, farmers, and report the failures. Give the muslin 
a fair trial, Professor, and publish the failures. 
The beauty of the cloth system is that it costs very 
little to try it, and no one has yet reported failure or 
injury to stock from its use. 
* 
Now and again we receive circulars and pamphlets 
from the Standard Oil Company purporting to give 
their side of the case now being made against them. 
The chief claims put out are that the Company has 
been a great public benefit, and that the present results 
could not have been attained if the Standard had not 
been able to monopolize the business. Strange to say, 
this appeals to some men, who for the drop in price of 
a few cents on a gallon of oil are willing to overlook 
the wicked crimes against society that are now being 
unearthed. The American people as a whole look at 
results, and see what has been stolen from the public. 
It has been shown that the Standard Oil Company has 
a capital of something over $98,000,000. In the last 
eight years this has been increased by less than $2,500,- 
000. In these years its net assets increased from 
$196,220,017 to $359,400,193. During these eight years 
the total profits are given as $490,315,934, of which 
$308,359,403 were distributed as dividends. Most of this 
went to a few men already so rich that by no possi¬ 
bility could they spend their income. These vast sums 
of money taken from the people in the first place are 
used to manipulate stocks, control railroads or influence 
legislation. The result is that the people are hit both 
ways. The Journal of Commerce puts it in a few words 
as follows: 
This concentration of wealth and financial power is the 
fruit of a single monopoly and honest and above-board com¬ 
petition in the same industry and trade would beyond doubt 
have produced more actual wealth and diffused it abroad in 
a much wider beneficence for the common welfare and 
without exerting a demoralizing influence upon the business, 
social and political standards of the country. 
BREVITIES. 
Every question that is pertinent to one man is most 
likely impertinent to another. 
With prices for nitrogen going up the thing to do is to 
put down more seed of clover and peas. 
In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin new game laws permit the 
officer to confiscate boats or guns when used in unlawful 
hunting. 
Too bad to bring a potato crop within 20 days of a full 
yield and then have the blight step in because Bordeaux was 
not used. 
We have been asked if the hot air engines work well in 
cold climates. Better service is obtained in cold than in 
hot climates. 
The more crooked people are in their dealings with you, 
the straighter you should try to be. If nothing else pays 
the contrast will. 
A farmer writes us that, they got in their hay on the 
eight-hour system—that is, eight hours before dinner and 
eight hours after. 
We find many people who / still believe in the “water 
witches” who locate water with the rods. These believers 
are after the professors. 
“Good corn but awful weedy,” said a farmer, looking 
at the field where Cow-horn turnips and Crimson clover are 
growing! Good weeds! 
In judging the value of land for farm purposes, which 
judgment would you rather take—that of an old farmer, or 
an agricultural chemist? 
A carload of strawberries in Portland, Oregon, was 
dumped into the water, as we are told to prevent a glut iu 
the market and hold up prices. 
To find out the most rapid transformation of soft into 
hard, let some man with a naturally poor hand run a soft 
pencil over a soft paper and then try to read his words. 
The picture of the working hay loader, page 730, was 
taken at the Delaware Experiment Station. It “looks 
natural” because the men did not know they were to be 
“taken.” 
No human power can help a farmer who, at this season, 
has no vegetable except potatoes. We can pick any of 15 
things from the garden at any time. What do people live 
in the country for? 
