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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 8, 
The Rural New-Yorker 
TUE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
Established 1850. 
Entered at New York as Second Class Matter. 
Herbert w. Colling wood, Editor. 
DR. WALTER VAN FLEET, | 
Mrs. K. T. Koyle, j-Associates. 
John J. Dillon, Business Manager. 
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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1907. 
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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. 
* 
We are having an unusual number of questions about 
vetch as a green manuring plant. Cow peas are very 
high in price this year, and some similar legume is want¬ 
ed. Will those who have had experience please tell us 
about Spring and Winter vetch? How do they com¬ 
pare with other green manuring crops ? Can you advise 
their use? When and how do you grow them? 
* 
The Connecticut Agricultural College will this year 
hold its sixth Summer school. This school is designed 
for teachers who wish to teach agriculture in rural 
schools, but it is also found helpful for parents who 
wish to interest their children in country life. There 
are already 68 applications for this course. Keep this 
up in all the States, and before 10 years are over there 
will be a great change in the spirit of our rural schools. 
* 
Let's see, it was our good friend The Country Gen¬ 
tleman who said there was “nothing to investigate.” 
The same good friend warned us about that railroad 
train that was to run us down. It seems that the train 
actually found a bogus cow on the track, and switched 
off in time! And the New York State Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation, with their solemn “resolution” offered “at the 
request of certain friends of Mr. Dawley!” They all 
helped! We arc quite willing that the A. J. C. C. should 
include them in the vote of thanks which, without doubt, 
the executive committee will now offer to The R. N.-Y. 
for spurring them on to find that bogus cow! 
* 
Readers still send us circulars of the Seedless Apple 
Co., which show the same old game. One agent in 
Missouri offers trees in lots of 100 at 75 cents! He 
also has 250 glass jars of Seedless apples to give away. 
At the Connecticut Pomological meeting last year Prof. 
A. G. Gulley and J. H. Hale showed how these “Seed¬ 
less” samples were prepared. They took Baldwin apples 
and cut a thick slice through the center. This removed 
the core. By putting the two ends together they had an 
apple without seeds ! What bluffers those Seedless apple- 
ites are! They threatened to bring suit against Prof. L. 
A. Taft of Michigan for telling the truth about them! 
Suit! Why, you couldn’t haul such people into court 
with a steam engine! 
* 
Don't ever forget it! What ? That it pays to try to 
make the home and its surroundings trim and beautiful. 
We do not mean that it is wise to spend money or time 
which are needed on the farm in beautifying the 
grounds. If a man needs a cultivator and a lawn 
mower and has the price of only one he ought to get 
the cultivator. Still, there are dozens of little things 
that can be done, without great expense, to make the 
home attractive. We have come to a time when neat¬ 
ness and taste have commercial values. In old days 
New England people built large and substantial houses, 
spending considerable money on them. These houses 
were mostly great square boxes with nothing to relieve 
their solid ugliness. Some of the boys and girls went 
away from home for a time, and brought back visions 
of what a country house might be. By building bay 
windows, porches and little extensions here and there, 
and using taste in painting, they have changed the entire 
appearance of the homestead and made it beautiful. 
This not only makes home better, but adds to the selling 
value of the farm. We often see substantial and cos.tl.v 
farmhouses where it seems as if people did their best 
to give them hideous surroundings. Trim them up! 
* 
“They make Dawley right, hut make one cow dead 
wrong!" That is one comment we hear about that 
A. J. C. C. “resolution.” Here is still another. “It does 
not rise to the dignity of a zvhitewash—you can see 
through it!" 
Are such remarks justified? The committee could 
not make the papers fit the cows. The attitude of the 
Cattle Club all through this controversy has led the 
public to believe that this committee would fit the cows 
if it were possible to find any reasonable grounds for 
doing so. It is well understood that in only one case 
would the committee actually say that the cow corre¬ 
sponded with her papers. We all understand that 
“quite possible” and “could be” leave the question re¬ 
garding two other cows in doubt. In the case of 
“Dotshome Harmony” there is no possible getting 
around the point, and the committee has fully justified 
The R. N.-Y. But how does this executive committee 
meet the statement of its own investigators? Its reso¬ 
lution does not fit the report! Both Rogers and Dawley 
identify a cow as one which Dawley sold and trans¬ 
ferred as a registered animal. This is what the com¬ 
mittee says about her: 
According to her teeth, this cozv is between five and 
six years old, and from the evidence adduced she does 
not, in the judgment of the committee, correspond to 
the registry, which shows her to have been dropped 
December io, 1903 . 
On the strength of this the executive committee con¬ 
demns the cow and refuses to transfer her as a pure¬ 
bred Jersey. In the same breath, and on his own evi- 
- dence alone, they clear Mr. Dawley of blame. How can 
they separate the cow from the man? What are their 
transfer and registry papers good for if they do not 
bind the man to the cow closer than the Siamese twins? 
The transfer paper is a part of the breeder or owner’s 
character which goes along with the cow. The transfer 
records of this rejected animal carry a part of Mr. 
Dawlev’s character. The committee proves that there is a 
cow which the A. J. C. C. will not accept, in the 
place of Dotshome Harmony. How did she get there 
without transfer papers from Mr. Dawley, recorded by 
the Club? The committee condemns her and destroys 
half her value as a breeding animal. Now do they ex¬ 
pect Mr. Rogers to stand the loss, after they created 
the value by granting the pedigree and transfer? The 
question now is, “Do the papers tie the man to the cozv? 
We do not see how Frank E. Dawley can plume himself 
on such a “letter of credit.” There is a string tied to 
it, with a bogus cow at the end of the string! 
* 
We begin the story of that concrete barn this week. 
The details are about as complete as we can well make 
them. Just imagine how people would have regarded 
such a thing 20 years ago! Yet we are only at the 
beginning of our use of concrete for building. Mr. P. 
A. Rockefeller is building a house in Connecticut of 
terra cotta blocks of which it is said: 
The walls of the house have not a piece of wood in them. 
Altogether there are 57,000 square feet of these walls—that 
is, more than 800 tons. On the outside there is an eight- 
inch thickness of the hollow blocks, then comes the confined 
air space of four inches, and then the inside thickness of 
four inches of terra cotta. Thus, in effect, there are two 
walls four inches apart, constructed of material through 
which moisture cannot he absorbed. It is said that if all 
the windows and doors were closed on a hot Summer day, 
air being introduced only through the basement, the tem¬ 
perature would be from 15 to 20 degrees lower inside the 
house than without. 
People were driven to this use of concrete by the high 
price of lumber. Now that they realize what it will 
do new uses are being discovered for it. What was 
first considered an unfortunate thing is now known as 
a blessing. That is the way great changes in industrial 
life work out. 
* 
Practical farmers sometimes find fault with advice 
given by the scientists. One year they will say the sci¬ 
entists are too slow, another that they are too fast, and 
again that they change their advice. Most of this 
trouble comes from urging the scientific men to put out 
a fair guess and call it a fact. Some years ago the 
scientists very properly advised farmers to spray with 
Bordeaux Mixture to prevent fungous diseases. After 
some years it was found that under certain conditions 
the full strength of Bordeaux did more harm than good. 
The scientists again very properly urged farmers to be 
careful until the true cause for this could be found out. 
Then they were blamed for changing their minds. In 
Louisiana the Crop Pest Commission by one majority 
passed a resolution urging all cotton growers to use 
Paris-green to kill the boll weevil. The director of the 
Station and the entomologist show that this is not sound 
advice, since the poison will# not kill all the insects and 
may hurt the plants. Sometimes a farmer says that 
these scientists could not make a living on a farm. Did 
he ever stop to think what would happen if he dropped 
hoe or plow handle and established himself in a 
laboratory? 
* 
The State of Vermont will spend $2,500 on a nursery 
for forest seedling trees. It will be established at the 
experiment station, and the young trees are to be sold 
at a low price to farmers and others who will plant 
them. This year seedlings of White pine and locust 
are offered—the list will be enlarged later. This is a 
sensible effort to encourage practical forestry. There 
are thousands of acres of waste lands—old pastures or 
hillsides which are of no value as they stand. There 
would be no profit in trying to plow and cultivate 
them, and, in some cases, they would not even make 
good pasture. If well planted with pine and other 
timber trees, they will, after some years, produce a 
good crop. It will be at least 40 years before such 
trees will make suitable timber, but every year after the 
first five will give evidence of increased value. The 
writer well remembers, as a boy, how a tract of ten 
acres of New England land-was cut off and left to 
grow up to scrub oaks and brush. Had it been planted 
to young pines and given a small amount of care, it 
would now be worth enough to care for a middle-aged 
man through life. There ought to be a great extension of 
forestry all through New England. If a man feels that 
he is too old to benefit from such planting, let him 
think of his children. And the citizen is not the only 
one that is helped by such work. The State of Ver¬ 
mont will be helped if those wasted fields can be turned 
into timber lands. Not only will the wealth of the 
State be increased, but the happiness and hope of the 
people as well. At one end of the country Vermont 
is organizing a nursery for forest seedlings; on the 
Pacific coast Oregon is building a “hatchery” for 
10,000,000 young salmon! 
★ 
No doubt many of our readers have read the story of 
“The Christ of the Andes.” For years there has been 
hard feeling between Argentina .and Chili—the two 
most prosperous South American republics. They 
were close to war a few years ago, and most of us won¬ 
dered how bloodshed was prevented. The army, the 
navy, the political leaders and fighting men generally 
wanted war. It now seems that the women and the 
common people, upon whom war is always a fearful 
burden, created a sentiment which proved stronger than 
revenge or mere national spirit. The result was arbi¬ 
tration instead of war. After it was over, as we are 
told in the Youth’s Companion, the women of the two 
nations raised a fund for a noble monument. A gigan¬ 
tic statue of Christ was cast in bronze produced from 
old cannon. It stands on the very summit of the Andes 
on the boundary line between the two nations. It bears 
a tablet with these words: “Sooner shall these moun¬ 
tains crumble into dust than shall the people of Argen¬ 
tina and Chili break the peace to which they have 
pledged themselves at the feet of Christ the Redeemer.” 
The significance of this action has been pointed out 
by the advocates of peace among nations. To us it 
has another and more practical meaning. If the humble 
people of these South American countries can in this 
way overcome the spirit of war, cannot we in this 
great Republic right civil wrongs and overcome oppres¬ 
sion? We have held for years that whenever the plain 
people will take up the right side of any public question, 
and stick to it honestly and fearlessly, they will win 
in spite of politicians or bribery. That is why we keep 
at this subject persistently and cheerfully as a part of 
our regular business. 
BREVITIES. 
Tillage and tiling are both manure. 
Ip you can’t help a goofl cause—at least don’t binder It. 
Has anyone obtained a good seeding of clover and grass 
with Japan millet? 
Nine to one you can remember an instance where silence 
would have been golden for you. 
Cut oats and peas for hay as soon as you find oat heads 
that will crush to milk in the fingers. 
The best millet for good soil that we have found is the 
Japanese Barnyard variety. Don’t feed this hay to horses. 
It seems to be almost impossible to get good seed of 
cow peas at a fair price. This crop is now being used all 
over for green manuring. 
Here’s a cheerful man from New York State: “Noth¬ 
ing discouraging about the season. We get used to late 
Springs up here anyway.” 
Have you ever seen some “smart” child showing off In 
public places and felt like contributing 50 cents toward a 
“fresh heir” fund to buy a shingle? 
Southern strawberries thus far are sour enough, but we 
don’t care for the second dish. We learn the difference 
between sourness and flavor. The latter is a child of 
sunshine. 
There are more than the usual reports from people who 
say their cows gnaw wood or old bones this Spring! 
Some of them are “well kept” too. The trouble is a lack 
of bone forming food. Give them ground bone, wheat 
bran or linseed meal. 
