1907. 
757 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
THAT SECOND DAWLEY SUIT. 
Complaint by Mr. Dawley. 
The complaiut in the second of those Dawley suits quotes 
a portion of an article in the June 1st issue, page 449, in 
which reference is made to Dawley's praise of the cattle be¬ 
fore the sale and his description of them as a “job lot” after¬ 
ward; that the animals were foul with disease; that one of 
them had already died and others were dying. The publica¬ 
tion of this article is alleged to be malicious and falsely 
intended to charge Dawley with fraud in the sale of said 
cattle, and with selling to Rogers diseased and worthless 
stock. 
Answer of The R. N.-Y. 
We repeat the essential statement made in answer to the 
first suit regarding Mr. Dawley’s failure to deliver necessary 
papers not only to Rogers, but to other named parties. We 
deny that all the cattle sold by Dawley to Rogers were pure¬ 
bred Jerseys. We allege that several of them were grade cat¬ 
tle, bougni as such by Dawley, also that all the others were 
not properly registered to their real dams. We allege that 
Rogers purchased and paid for the cow called “Dotshome 
Harmony,” relying upon the truth of Dawley’s statement, 
and believed that this cow was a purebred Jersey known as 
“Dotshome Harmony” on the records of the A. J. C. C. 
We allege that Dawley never delivered to Rogers the true 
“Dotshome Harmony,” but did deliver a certain cow not 
truly registered under that name. 
We allege that among the cattle sold to Rogers by Dawley 
was a black cow with rings in her nose; that on several occa¬ 
sions Dawley described and represented this cow to be a reg¬ 
istered animal known as “Dotshome Queen Carey,” and that 
later he claimed her to be “Dotshome Matilda Naiad,” daugh¬ 
ter of Matilda of Side View. We allege upon information 
and belief that said cow is not a daughter of “Matilda of 
Side View,” and that she was sold by Dawley to Rogers under 
a wrong name and under misrepresentation and false state¬ 
ment of facts. We allege that one cow was sold by Dawley 
as “Kitty D’Argent,” and that later Dawley stated that this 
cow was “Dotshome Queen Carey.” We allege that Dawley 
represented that “Dotshome Queen Carey” had not been 
served, which statement was untrue, as to the cow now iden¬ 
tified by him as “Dotshome Queen Carey.” We allege that 
this cow is not in fact the true “Dotshome Queen Carey” ; 
that said cow dropped a calf on or about December 4, 1905, 
and the A. J. C. C. has refused to register this calf on appli¬ 
cation of Rogers, although the said calf was dropped by the 
cow which Dawley identified as “Dotshome Queen Carey.” 
We allege that Dawley claimed that the cattle were ail pure¬ 
bred Jerseys of high quality in all respects, sound and serv¬ 
iceable and fit for breeding; that Rogers bought the cattle 
believing these statements. Rogers had little experience in 
breeding Jersey cattle, and relied upon Dawley’s word and 
representation. We allege that the cattle were not high- 
class, sound, purebred Jersey, but that some were grades and 
that some were weak and afflicted with tuberculosis, 
and have since died of diseases with which they were afflicted 
at time of sale, and that Rogers has been obliged to kill an¬ 
other as worthless. We allege that Dawley's herd, from 
which these cattle came, had been affected with a severe 
epidemic of contagious abortion with frequent, recurrence of 
the same disease up to the time of the sale to Rogers; that 
some of the cattle thus sold were affected with such dis¬ 
ease, which thereafter appeared among the said cattle while 
owned by Rogers. We repeat the statement regarding the true 
functions of an agricultural paper; allege that, our object was 
to serve the public in good faith, and that we acted without 
malice toward Mr. Dawley. 
MORE BARN INSTITUTES WANTED. 
Four dairy meetings under the direction of Secretary of 
State Board Dye were held in New Jersey in August. These 
meetings were stripped of the usual formalities, and in each 
case were held on a farm and in a stable. The object and 
purpose was not to discuss abstractly the cow, her feed and 
care, but to get into touch with the “real thing.” While 
farmers support the institute work as a whole, I must con¬ 
fess there is a lingering sentiment with many that they 
are not being taught by men who can do and are doing 
those things about which they talk. Mr. Dye is, I believe, 
sound in his views that the place to teach is where business 
is being done. I have for some time taken this view of the 
case. College teaching has departed from the old platform 
method, anil now takes pupils to stable, field, laboratory 
and milk room. Somehow we fail to appreciate the true 
philosophy of teaching farmers who have not had the advan¬ 
tage of a' prescribed school curriculum. All of us who have 
grown up in the business and learned a few things only 
through a bitter school of experience are backward about 
accepting the word of anyone, only as we see the proposi¬ 
tion worked out. In fact farm science is of recent devel¬ 
opment, and many so-called facts in the early days proved 
to be theories, which makes the farmer jealous and skeptical. 
The relation of science, or formulated truth, to our farm 
practice is now upon a good, safe, sound working basis, 
and this includes animal husbandry, and if we can get 
directly to the stable and field much of the prejudiice will 
vanish, and more, if these meetings could be periodically 
held on the farms of (hose who pretend to instruct it 
would still further remove the difficulty. The people who 
attended these meetings certainly showed deep interest. 
Secretary Dye personally conducted and I’rof. Minckler, now 
in charge of the recently formed department of animal 
husbandry and the writer did the work. 
Mr. Minckler, a graduate of Ames Agricultural College, 
is a hustler who quickly analyzed eastern conditions, and 
will adapt himself and be of great value and service to the 
State if the State will do its share. Mr. Dye is now pre¬ 
paring, with this recent success in mind, to hold a portion 
of the regular Winter institute service in connection with a 
nearby farm. Wake up to this plan, farmers, and demand 
of your management a triaL at least. I am sure there will 
be a place for the institute and kindred meetings in every 
State until the college, secondary schools and rural schools 
have performed their full mission in directing farm thought 
and country life. But I am just as frank to say unless they 
are in part directed along demonstration lines they will be 
passing. It is always a safer proposition to anticipate than 
to wait and suffer. Am I not right? h. e. cook. 
GEO. M. CLARK'S ALFALFA.—Here comes my fourth 
crop of Alfalfa of 1907. On June 18 was my first on 3% 
acres, second crop July 11, third crop August 10, fourth crop 
September 17. Less than four inches of water had fallen 
during the growth of the three last crops. Since the fourth 
crop was cut there has been plenty of water. The fourth 
crop was in the barn September 21. It is now the 20th, the 
fifth crop is fully eight inches high. The field was seeded 
June 3, 1905, two crops first year, four crops next; this year 
up to date four crops, the fifth is growing. I have gone 
over the field every time immediately after the crop was 
removed in two directions with my double-action barrow set 
at light angle, except this last crop I set the harrow at a 
stronger angle and went over it in three directions. I have 
sown a little more Alfalfa seed every time, and with the 
harrowing have made a more perfect stand. I used decom¬ 
posed yard manure for the first three crops this year, but 
I found that when decomposed yard manure is put on the 
field immediately after cutting the crop I cannot harrow 
enough to get best results, that is, when it is dry, so that 
after cutting this last crop I used bone and muriate of potash 
in equal parts. It is doing well; in fact, the field is in the 
best condition since sown in 1905. The more I cultivate the 
better it grows. I expect this fifth crop will be the largest 
of the season. george m. clark. 
Connecticut. 
OBITUARY.—Prof. Wilbur O. Atwater, head of the de¬ 
partment of chemistry at Wesleyan University, and famous 
for his experiments with the calorimeter, died September 22, 
at Middletown, Conn., after an illness of two years. He 
was born at Johnstown, N. Y., in 1844, and was graduated 
from Wesleyan in 18(55. He received his doctor’s degree 
from Yale in 18(59, and afterward studied at Leipsic and 
Berlin. He was professor of chemistry at East Tennessee 
University, and at the Maine State College before he came 
to Wesleyan. Professor Atwater was director of the office 
of experiment stations in the United States Department 
of Agriculture from 1888 to 1S91. Since 1894 he had 
charge of the nutrition investigations of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, and with Professor Rosa of the 
Bureau of Weights and Measures, lie invented the Atwater- 
Ilosa calorimeter, for experiments on the metabolic changes 
going on in the human body. His work along this line has 
caused world wide interest and comment, and it is for this 
line of investigation that he was chiefly noted. Dr. Atwater 
was the author of numerous articles on physiological and 
agricultural chemistry. 
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