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November 9, 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
Established 1850. 
Published weekly by the Rural Publishing Company; H. W. 
Coilingwood, President; Dr. Walter Van Fleet, Vice-Presi¬ 
dent; John J. Dillon, Treasurer; Win. F. Dillon, Secretary; 
409 Pearl St., New York. 
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Herbert W. Collingwood, Editor. 
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1907. 
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* 
THE REFORMER. 
Before the monstrous wrong he sets him down— 
One man agaist the stone-walled city of sin. 
For centuries these walls have been a-building; 
Smooth porphyry, they slope and coldly glass 
The flying storm and wheeling sun. No chink, 
No crevice lets the thinnest arrow in. 
He fights alone, and from the cloudy ramparts 
A thousand evil faces gibe and jeer him. 
Let him lie down and die; what is the right, 
And where is justice in a world like this? 
But by and by, earth shakes herself, impatient; 
And down, in one great roar of ruin, crash 
Watch-tower and citadel and battlements. 
When the red dust has cleared, the lonely soldier 
Stands with strange thoughts beneath the friendly stars. 
—e. r. sill. 
* 
The New Jersey Agricultural College makes a spe¬ 
cialty of its short-term Winter course. As this is the 
important course at the college students receive every 
possible opportunity for study and practice. Last Win¬ 
ter’s course was very successful, and there ought to be 
150 Jerseymen at the college this year. The course be* 
gins early in December. Write to Prof. E. B. Voorhees, 
New Brunswick, about it. 
* 
We miss one old friend this year—that is the Seedless 
apple. One by one the nurseries where this wonderful 
novelty was to be grown have been reported out of 
business. Now the company back of this apple might 
have sold a good many trees at a fair price if it had 
been content to make a fair statement and offer the 
fruit as a long-keeping novelty. That is all it ever was, 
and there would have been a place for it under this 
description. We hope this will be a lesson to others 
who are tempted to start fake horticultural schemes. 
* 
A Connecticut reader starts his letters as follows: 
“R. N.-Y. (or as we call it), the Agricultural Game 
Cock" 
Left to our natural inclinations we would prefer to 
follow a course in life which would gain the reputation 
of a Wyandotte or Rhode Island Red. Those birds are 
built for utility rather than for fighting. Still, when a 
hawk sails over the yard or a cat is after the chickens 
the Game is about the most useful member of the barn¬ 
yard family. One trouble with this world is that lots of 
160-pound men haven’t one per cent of the Game cock’s 
courage to fight for his rights. 
* 
We went on record some weeks ago regarding that 
“agricultural” convention at Syracuse. Our correspond¬ 
ent, who reports on the next page, was instructed to 
study the convention rather than to report it. We 
wanted to learn how much of a part the actual farmers 
of the State had in this meeting. Suppose farmers went 
around in Syracuse counting the unpainted and tumble- 
down buildings and the saloons and other evidences of 
unthrift or decay. They call a meeting and give their 
figures and show pictures of weed-grown back yards to 
prove that city life is a failure! What a howl there 
would be from the cities, and yet why would not such 
a convention be just as fair to the city as this meeting 
at Syracuse was to the country! Our correspondent 
says the real farmers had too much to do on their 
productive farms to learn about the unproductive ones. 
Why do these lawyers and business men and “thinkers” 
act as if they regarded farmers as a lot of children, 
with themselves as indulgent parents and teachers? 
What we need in New York is some honest and capa¬ 
ble man who will put the possibilities of the State fairly 
and attractively before the public. 
* 
We think we are nearer a trial of the parcels post in 
this country than ever before. The Post Master Gen¬ 
eral favors a trial of parcels post and postal savings 
banks. Last week 1,500 postmasters convened at Wash¬ 
ington and urged such a trial. They are reported as 
follows: 
The general parcels post suggested by the convention con¬ 
templates a reduction in the merchandise rate from 1G to 12 
cents a pound and an increase of the limit of weight to 
eleven pounds. For the rural delivery service the rate Is 
to he five cents for the first pound and two cents for each 
additional pound up to eleven. 
While this is by no means equal to the mail privilege 
enjoyed in England and Europe we would welcome it as 
an experiment. There are so many classes in opposition 
to the parcels post that we realize that the American 
people must prove its value before the full right will be 
given them. All we ask is a chance for the people to 
show that they will make such a post self-sustaining if 
they once have the chance to do so. There will be a 
lively fight upon Congress this year for the right to 
prove the value of a parcels post. 
* 
We have received the following letter from the Sec¬ 
retary of the A. J. C. C.: 
At the meeting of our Executive Committee held yesterday, 
October 24, the subject of the new charges against Mr. F. 
E. Dawley was considered, and the Committee passed the 
following resolution : 
“New charges of wilful misrepresentation in regard to 
Jersey animals by Mr. F. E. Dawley having been presented 
to the Club, and Mr. Dawley having requested that these 
charges be investigated: 
“Resolved, That the President appoint one or more persons 
to investigate the purity of breeding of all animals bred by 
Mr. Dawley and entered in the Herd Register during the 
last six years, and the other matters covered by the charges, 
and report the result of the investigation to the Club at as 
early a date as possible.” 
NOVEMBER 22, 1905. 
That was the date of the original sale of cattle by 
Dawley to Rogers. Thus the matter has hung for about 
two years without settlement. Several of the cattle 
have during this time died or been killed as worthless, 
and some of those now alive have been kept at a loss— 
not giving milk enough to pay for their feed! The 
Cattle Club now has a chance to find the truth and set¬ 
tle the case within 10 days after the investigators are 
appointed. We expect them to conduct a fair open in¬ 
vestigation, with only one object—to make the truth 
known. It would be interesting to know if our worthy 
friend, The Country Gentleman, still thinks “there is 
nothing to investigate!” 
* 
If there ever were 11 persons who ought to thank 
the judge they are the gentlemen whose names are 
printed on page 820. These State Senators may well 
thank their stars that they do not have to ask for a 
“vindication” this year. More than half of them would 
have fallen by the wayside—the rest would have hobbled 
into Albany with combs badly cut and few tail feathers 
left. The court saved them by deciding that no election 
is to be held this year. In the meantime the Superin¬ 
tendent of Insurance is making another spectacle of 
himself at a new hearing. The following comments 
are taken from the New York Sun: 
Mr. Kelsey “expressed surprise” that Mr. Fleming, his 
present inquisitor, possessed so much information about 
recent insurance transactions. Mr. Kelsey had no suspicion 
of the facts on which Mr. Fleming interrogated him. He 
has “had no occasion to inquire”; he “would not care to 
pass on that question offhand”; his “attention never had 
been called to” this and that; he “would have looked into” 
various matters had his subordinates brought them to his 
notice. 
It is boasted by Mr. Kelsey’s friends, and generally admitted 
by those who are not liis admirers, that he is an “honest 
man.” The distinguished former managers of the great in¬ 
surance enterprises must regret that in the days of their 
power they did not have so innocent and trusting an 
“honest man” to deal with as Superintendent of Insurance. 
Had Mr. Kelsey been in his present office when they were 
in authority in the companies their course might have been 
easier than it was. 
We keep the names of our Senators under the sign 
of “The Farmer’s Club.” That weapon will fall upon 
their backs later. It is a good thing for farmers -to 
become club men. 
The picture at Fig. 406, page 818, shows what grew 
from some “molasses feeds”sampled at the Vermont Ex¬ 
periment Station. The collection includes pigweed, smart- 
weed, foxtail, mustard, quack grass and Timothy. It 
is known that these weeds came from the feed, because 
the soil in the pots was sterilized so as to destroy all 
seeds before these were added. It is estimated that a 
ton of such feed gave the farm a liberal seeding of 
over 100,000,000 weed seeds. When fed to cattle and 
horses these weeds show up in the manure pile full of 
vitality. As is well known, “wheat screenings” consist 
chiefly of weed seeds screened from the wheat. When 
plastered with waste molasses they make a fine sugar- 
coated pill with which Satan can seed the wheat with 
tares! 
* 
They seem to think more of Apple Day out West 
than eastern people do. Here and there at the home of 
some enterprising man, a great feature is made of calling 
the school children together and filling them with apples 
—and good advice. At Guthrie, Oklahoma, a good 
programme was rendered—with apples all the way 
through. Frank Householder, a local “apple king,” 
made a good speech in which he said: 
Eat all the apples you can in every shape and form that 
you can induce your mother to prepare them. But don’t 
stop this good work with this day, but keep it up 365 days 
in the year and get in an extra day somewhere if you 
possibly can (o make out good measure. Do you know that 
the apple eating habit has everything to do with the general 
health? And I defy you to show me a man that eats lots 
of apples that is a drunkard. You can’t do it. 
That advice should be given to “children of a larger 
growth” who are attending the hard school of experi¬ 
ence. Mr. Householder is right when he says that 
no heavy consumer of apples will be found a drunkard. 
For years we have challenged the public to produce a 
man who habitually ate apples freely and at the same 
time drank liquor to excess. We have never found but 
one man—now dead ! 
* 
Over 2,000 years ago people who lived on the shores 
of the Mediterranean Sea had a simple way of identi¬ 
fying themselves. If a man went to a foreign city he 
became the guest of some reputable citizen. When he 
went home a piece of crockery was broken—the host 
keeping one, the guest the other. The guest was bound 
to protect his host or anyone he might send. Who¬ 
ever came bringing the piece of broken crockery which 
would fit into the other half must be taken care of. 
It looks as if the spirit of this old custom is still alive, 
though used in a different way by politicians and people 
who have been helped by them. A man in some public 
position wants help to secure an appropriation. It may 
be legitimate enough, but he does not want to have it 
shouted from the housetops. So he goes to a politician, 
who knows how to handle members of a legislature. 
This man burrows under the surface—and the appro¬ 
priation is made. The man who is benefited does not 
know how it was done, and does not want to know, but 
he must realize that he has broken a piece of crockery 
with the politician. Later the politician gets under fire. 
Those who have had dealings with him know what he 
ought to get, and wonder why he doesn’t get it. He 
knows. He took those pieces of broken crockery to a 
number of men high in place and greatly respected. 
Each piece filled into the other half of an obligation, 
and these men, while knowing the character of the poli¬ 
tician, carried out their contract and gave such protec¬ 
tion as they could. That is the way such things are 
done. There seems to be growing up a sort of frater¬ 
nity or defensive alliance among those who call them¬ 
selves leaders or teachers of agriculture. It might be 
well enough for some of these gentlemen to stop and 
ask themselves what they are holding office for, and 
who it is they are supposed to serve. 
BREVITIES. 
Bran and oats make good colt food. 
Some men never will toe the line until they feel the heel. 
Some renew their youth like the eagle—others like the 
clown. 
Wonderful Fall pasture! Crimson clover on good soil 
with an early start. 
It must he hard to weigh 250 pounds and yet he filled with 
a wild desire to dance ! 
No—there is no “hoodoo” hovering over those who do 
things on time and with care. 
Face the “lion in the way" and find it a liar. It is only 
dangerous when you run away from it. 
Deep plowing doesn’t seem to be necessary for the Cow- 
horn turnip. It makes its own furrow. 
Has any reader used the dry milk powder as a substitute 
for skim-milk in feeding poultry? If so please tell us how 
it substituted. 
We endorse one form of shady business—tree planting on 
village streets. You will be safer to put these trees on your 
own property—inside the line. 
It has been figured that every increase of one cent a 
pound in meat makes an increase of $168,000,000 in the 
yearly meat bill of this country. 
Under the sign of “The Farmers’ Club” is a good place 
for the names of these insurance Senators. They will need 
insurance before they are done with the people. 
