November 18, 
844 
T1IE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Rural New-Yorker 
77/a; HUM NEB ft NAHM IOC ft 1‘APEU. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Home. 
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I 'iilil IhImiI weekly by Dm Hum I Publishing Company; II. W. 
<'olllngwood, Presldenl ; Dr. Walter Vim lfleH, Vice Presl- 
flciit; John .1. Dillon, Trcaaurar; Win, K. Dillon, Herretary; 
401) Pearl HI,, New York. 
Entered nl New York i»h Hceoud Class Muller, 
IIKUIIKKT W. COI.I.INOWOOD, ltd I Ur r. 
im, WAl.TBIt VAN I A 
Mus. K. T. Itovi.K, (A««oomu», 
John .1. Ini.i.oN, llmtlimim Miumgor. 
SUBSCRIPTION: ONK DOLLAR A YEAR. 
To foreign connlrlcs In I In* I'nlvci'siD I'onIiiI Union, fU.OI, 
cijuul to 8 m. 0d„ or H'd, murks, or IO'/j francs. 
“ A SUIT ARK DEAL.” 
We believe Ihnl every Advertisement In this paper In 
bucked by n rcMpollsIblu person. Hill In ninke iloilbly Miire 
we will lllltke good liny 1 1 inn In paid HiilmerlbeiH miMlnllieil 
by trusting iiny deliberate swindler advertising In one ml 
uinn k, iiiul liny atieli Mwlndler will be publlely exposed, Wn 
protect subscrlbcm against rogues, bill we do liol guarantee 
III lid | UMt Hilling differences between subscribers find linneMt, 
responsible lid veil laerH. Neither will We be responsible for 
Die deblH of hoimst ImnUruptH snimDoimd by Die courts. 
Nut lei* of Die eoinpbllnt liillNl be sent In ns wltliln mm 
ninnlli nf Die Dine nf Die triiijMiictlnn, mid you mii hi hove 
mentioned Tnr: Hpiiai, Niow Yohki;ii when writing Die ndver 
liner. 
,\'ii me and oddrinm of Mender, and wbnl Dm remlflnneo 
la for, should appear In every letter. 
IteinlDiineeN may be made In money order. express order, 
personal check or bank draft. 
THE RURAL NIOW YOU KICK, 
4011 Pearl Street, New York. 
SATURDAY, NOVKMBKR 10, 1907. 
I’,miller Wadsworth, who would then be iiominalcd. 
'I bis is a «real game anti il will In played fur all il is 
wurlli by tin* old W.’nbworlli inaehinc, I be farniers 
who did that famuli: surgical operation will) lln ir bal 
lots in mod i annul pel together too soon and break 
Ibis little game tip. 
iit 
As is usually the case when we print a letter from 
a city man who wauls to be a farmer, the note on 
page 7117 , lias called out a wide discussion. People 
wlio have succeeded and people who have failed arc 
writing their experience. North, south, caul and west 
farmers are slating the advantages of their own section. 
Men with large farms and elderly men who think of 
taking a “pailncr" are staling their wants. We shall 
print some of these letters. They will do us all good 
by showing bow the relalions between city and country 
arc developing. The columns of I id R. N. V form a 
great place for thrashing the truth mil of a subject. 
* 
So mi', of our readers evidently have little time for 
mischief. They keep busy all the lime, One Mass,a 
pliiisrlls man has blocked out the following: 
Mill In prove Die claim Ihnl I mndc would nny that I 
bn v« two hoi'HCM, li cow, inn hellM Illid t ,500 ehlckenn now, 
with Incubators setting and more eoiulmr, iim I Intend to 
rn lHe 6,000 I bln Henson, mid I Idl e one young mini DM years 
old) to do Du* work, nod be does enough of oilier work fully 
lo bnlnncc wbnl work I do wlmji m home. 
'I his man promises lo (ell us bow il is possible for 
one man’s labor to count for so it, licit. Il is a matter 
of system in management. In these times when labor 
is so scarce and unreliable anything that will multiply 
one man's labor is worth limiting for. 
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TEN WEEKS POP 10 CENTS. 
In order lo introduce The R, N. Y. to progressive 
intelligent farmer who do nol now take it. we send it 
to weeks for l() cents for slrietly inlrodtictory purposes, 
We depend o'l our old friends to make Ibis known 10 
neighbors and friends. 
* 
( alii steel litis been the eff retire wca/nitt of revolution 
and 71 /iu Cold tyj’e m the heller wc(i/>on of evolution 
noil wisdom' 
* 
Wi. iindi'i .land dial the New York Stale Dairymen’s 
Association will not discuss the value of registry pa¬ 
per, fur purebred cattle at thi* Malone meeting II is 
thought heller to turn the subject ovei to the Niw 
York State Breeder* Why advise a dairyman to im 
prove bis bud by introducing pure blood unless you 
give him safe rules fur knowing what lie is buying? 
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Some of our readers help us greatly by sending 
clippings from their favorite papers. I bese local jour¬ 
nals often have the most interesting tilings aboul farm¬ 
ing, and unless special attention is called, we might 
not see them. Anything relating to the history or 
development of agriculture is valuable to us also odd 
and iriking happenings to farmers. Ilelp of ibis sort 
from you will be appreciated. 
In New Knglainl a campaign has begun for cow 
testing asuociations. Tim plan is for the* farmers of 
a neighborhood to combine and test lluir cows by 
Weighing die milk and having il tested for fat. Il is 
estimated dial an outfit of scab needed foi die tesl 
ing will coaI $3,r»0 or a little more, The milk of each 
cow is to In weighed Ibr<-c days in each mouth, and 
fairly sampl'd and tesled till* < times a ycai Ibis 
will give a fair idea of the work each cow is doing 
and will form a fair basis for comparison. Of course, 
one man can tesl bis own i mvs without regard to 
what others do, bill evidently il would be better if a 
dozen oi more farmer , could work together in a plan 
of ibis soil, 'I here arc robber cow, in most bams, 
many of llicm frauds as well as robbers. These cow 
listing clubs have done great work in liuropt and 
Canada. 
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I’akhikry is the art of shoeing horses. A blacksmith 
may nail a shoe to a horse's hoof, but a farrier got 
further, and nails it on just right In order to do ibis 
lie must know all about the hoof and leg of the horse, 
and be prepared lo adapt tile shoes properly I be < ol 
or,ado Agricultural ( olk*g< lias opened a course in fai 
ricry, bolding dial ibis in a business of iisclf. The 
course will run through two years live months m 
each year. In speaking of ibi course Prof. Carlyle 
says: 
'I HI KE has been a fair crop of apples in some locali 
tic in New Kngland, In New Hampshire some beau¬ 
tiful fruit has been produced pronounced by good 
judges fully e<|ual lo that grown on the Pacific coast. 
1 1 has been a struggle lo gd ibis New Kngland crop 
under cover. Help of all kinds was scarce and skilled 
fruit handlers could not be hired. Women and girls 
came to the retime in many places, climbing trees and 
working ovcilime lo save tin crop. 
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A.s will be seel), we begin ibis week a Study of that 
orchard experiment in western New York I,el us g< i 
down into lh< merits of mulching and cultivation, and 
try to settle the mallei for good. As this experiment is 
outlined we ask readers to give their experience with 
such figure, as they have. I he experiment under db. 
cushion is a good one. We hope that later the Station 
may be permitted !<» take one of these so-called "aban¬ 
doned farin'" and develop all orchard on il. I hat, 
with an accurate statement of cost and income, would 
hr a better advertisement for New York than til) “con¬ 
ventions." 
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Wk learn from reliable sources of a very slick scheme 
blocked out by our old friend, James W Wadsworth! 
In spite of the knockout lie received last year, he is 
pulling tin- wires to go back to Congress next year, 
IP figure, that if he can get the nomination in a 
Presidential year lie can be elected, because fanners 
will not split the ticket So his game seems to be to 
convey the idea that be has retired, and elect a dele 
galioli from Living-ion County pledged to his son, 
James W Wadsworth, Jr. Then the wires will be 
worked to have Wyoming, Urnesec, Niagara and Or 
leans declare for some “favorite sou," each presenting 
a candidate I The scheme is to have these "favorite 
0 ona“ after a number of ballots all retire in favor o{ 
An energetic young man can lie Ids own Iiomm end own 
IiIm own InisIncHs establishment, ttH n farrier, with a small 
on I lay of money, cun enrn more cash from Ihe mIiicI limn 
III. could In many of tin- prof.duns, The young men who 
Ion rn n furriery will lie busy from Die hour he opens Ids 
establishment, and will have a hunk hank necount by Dm 
Hum Ills friend who spent sc vers I years In preparing himself 
for ilie praellee of lew him opened III I office null begun Dm 
long, grinding wall for clients. 
Thai is solid common sense, and Prof. Carlyle might 
have gone furtbei and said that society has need of It) 
pood farriers where il needs one lawyer. Speed tlie 
day when young men realize that skilled band labor is 
far ahead of unskilled bead work. 
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Do you realize that nearly one half the territory of 
lln United Stales is now under prohibitory liipior laws? 
Do you also realize that ibis territory contain* (lie 
lowest proportion of foreigners and the largesi propor 
lion of people who live in the country- farmers? It is 
true, for in ilu* South, where tin anti liquor sentiment 
il growing mosi rapidly, hh per c ut of the inhabitants 
live in the country. In fact Ibis campaign for temper 
mice has been the mod successful of any political 
movement which farmers as a class have ever tgkcil 
up In the North a temperance campaign is largely 
one of sentiment III tin South il has become a busi 
ness proposition. The time came when the southern 
country people could not handle llmii crops properly or 
leave home safely if lllC lower class of negroes had 
access to whisky. Haifa dozen white men found them 
■elves on a lonely plantation with several hundred 
drunken negroes. A farmei hauling bis crop to the 
nearest markei town niiglil be several days and nights 
on the journey, wilh wife and daughters alone at home 
and a saloon nearby. Such men would not have felt 
more Ilian ordinary worry if the whisky bad been left 
out of the situation, but the knowledge that it was 
within reach filled them with terror. This came to be 
the greatest industrial (picstion of their lives, and the 
.southern people settled it It is a curious thing that 
men usually wait until the enemy lias them by the 
llirual before they really begin to fight. Watch a light 
between a big unskilled man and a trained boxci I lie 
former waits until he is bit and puts bis baud upon 
the place. The boxer sees the blow coming and wards 
il in lime. I lie southern people waited unlil the very 
life of society was threatened by the evil. 1 ben they 
struck il bard. The North had the chance to ward it 
off, but has wailed until from brewery down to boot 
logger the business has grown upon society As tilings 
look now n is not impossible that enough .Stales with 
rural voters will pass prohibitory laws to give the two 
thirds necessary to amend the United Slates Count it ti 
t ion! 
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1C VERY day brings us additional evidence of the value 
of apples as food and medicine. Massachusetts takes 
good care of those who are bereft of reason. I lie 111 
sane asylums of that Stale arc usually regarded as 
modd , and they report ,i large per cent of cure#. At 
I lie* Northampton State Hospital many of these un¬ 
fortunate: lecovcr, and all except the violent are as 
happy as one can be under tbeii awful afibetion. One 
reason for this may be found in the following state 
im ul : 
An Inlcriodlttg practice Is that of allowing Die patients 
It, have nil Die apples they want to eat. A barrel of them 
In placed In different parts or Die lioapttnl mnl In n good 
apple cut Ing day about three barrels in.a (ell. H.v the way, 
II nilgli 1 he mentioned Dint Dili Iiiih liccn a poor apple year 
with the hospital orchard, only about !100 ha r re Is have 
I,ecu raised. Horae years five and idx hundred barrels hove 
bean harvested. 
Thus the Apple Consumers’ League lias another rea¬ 
son for its cxi'.tenet We knew already that the apple 
cultivates patriotism, keeps men from drink, insures a 
bale old age and keeps peace in families. Now we 
know that il can even "minister lo a mind diseased.” 
pull down the mortal and pestle from over our drug¬ 
stores, and put up the apple barrel or box! We think 
of but two ways in which an apple could disturb the 
(.dm of an even mind. One is the present retail price. 
'I lie oilier results from Idling into a red-cheeked fruit 
with pleasant anticipations of a Baldwin or a North 
im Spy and putting the longue against a sample of 
another variety! 
it 
Wk always did believe ill birthday celebrations. Oil 
Novembci 11)07;, Mr. b K. Hawley Hold those fa 
moils cows to I. (.’. Rogers. On November 17, 1908, 
we made the Inst public announcement <>f tlu* ease, 
Tlij- paper is dated November lfl. As the 1 711 1 comes 
on Sunday we may celebrate today for both events, 
and our birthday announcement is a pleasant one. Kor 
,i year we have stuck to the principle that when there 
j a serious question about the identity of registered 
cattle or otlici animals, some otic in authority must 
settle it Otherwise there is no use in buying pure 
Rred stock. That lias been our position from the first, 
and we now take gn at pleasure in announcing that Tut' 
R. N, Y ’s demands have been acceded to. Ar¬ 
rangements an being made at last for a full and open 
investigation of Hie whole matter! Ibis is all we 
have asked from the fir.I and to day we ask no more, 
Kvery meinbei of the Kxeriitive Committee that we 
have met, in fad, every disinterested member of the 
A ) C. C, with whom we have talked, has approved the 
course of Till' R. N. Y. as soon as it was made dear 
to ibent This position has been pronounced eminently 
fair bv one nienibei after another, just as soon as they 
learned the « in uni'.lances and bad opportunity to know 
the full reasons for our part in the controversy. 
BREVITIES. 
He Judicious wllli your praise, 
In any bed of roses one must beware of thorns. 
TliMin; should Is* .106 Thanksgiving days In the year. 
Dm basic alag roam up lo your expectations as a phos¬ 
phate? 
A non lu Ihe bauds of Judicious parent may aid the child 
In divining lln' straight path. 
Oi'i'iO'iKK a hogpen I The mao who steals your thoughts, 
writes a lew words around II.. and prints tliein as Ills own. 
The average man doesii'l like to have Die farmers' lusll 
lull- lecturer preach ul him and Im likes scolding even less. 
As a boy we were langlil lo do two tilings when the 
water In a well began lo “smell bad" pump II dry If pos 
slide, and throw down s good quantity of red hot charcoal. 
We never bad so many cpieslloris about "dishorning" 
apple trees as nn now coming. Tills plan of eliding off the 
lops of Dii' old trees lo gel a new and vigorous growth l« 
orm of Dm tineessury things In llmse scaly days. A bullelln 
Issued by Die Ohio Experiment Hlalloii, Wooster, Ohio, 
gives a good Idea of Die Job. 
I/amt year we Imard much about Dm carbolic add for the 
imale. The advice was to paint Ihe trunk of Dm tree with 
carbolic add and lot It soak through Dm bark Into Dm sap. 
prof .1 It Hud I li of New Jersey has made sa Investigation 
of Dlls remedy, and says Die add will kill such scales as 
II loiiclics, but will not work Into Dm circulation and kill 
through Dm sap. 
