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<THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
VALUES OF FARM LAND. 
Can you or some one of your many 
readers explain the following phe¬ 
nomena ? A lady living near Bloom¬ 
ington, Ill., making us a visit last Fall, 
gave the following version of affairs as 
they existed 20 years ago and at the 
present time in her vicinity: Her hus¬ 
band (since dead) owned a farm of 200 
acres, and about 20 years ago or there¬ 
abouts he was offered $60 per acre for 
some and considered it a good price and 
entertained the idea of selling, but de¬ 
cided at last to hold, and has since had 
offers of $100, $125, $150 and last 
Spring she was offered $175 per acre, 
which she refused. My advice to her 
was to take the first train for home and 
dispose of her farm, and come East and 
invest her money. She laughed at my 
proposition, and said she expected land 
in her section to go still higher. There 
is a limit to the value of land for farm¬ 
ing purposes, and that limit I should 
say has been reached in the West. 
Now the other side of the case. I am 
living in the Hudson River Valley and 
land 30 years ago commanded a good 
price in this section, Greene Co., N. Y., 
From that time till the present land has 
steadily decreased in value, and it would 
seem that the bottom has been reached. 
Land in this vicinity can now be bought 
for less than the buildings would cost in 
many instances. Can it be that every 
year that land has advanced in the 
West it has decreased in price here? 
Can you explain it? The land in this 
section was rather impoverished by the 
sale of hay, as this was a hay section. 
It was no uncommon thing during the 
Civil War to see a string of teams a 
quarter of a mile long, all loaded with 
hay, and making their way to Cox- 
sackie, Catskill or Coeymans to ship on 
boats that ran daily to New York. This 
is one of the best fruit sections in the 
State. Apples, pears and plums grow 
finely, and thousands of barrels of 
apples and pears are shipped to New 
York every Fall. Dairying has taken 
the place of selling hay in this section, 
and the soil is improving in conse¬ 
quence. p. s. 
Greenville, N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—We could probably fill three 
issues of The R. N.-Y. with answers to 
this question, and still not say it all. In 
the West farming is still the chief busi¬ 
ness. While there are great cities and 
great business enterprises, at heart the 
people realize that farming is the foun¬ 
dation of it all. Thus farming and sell¬ 
ing what the land produces dominates 
all other kinds of business. It was much 
the same in the East when farming was 
at its best here. It is the spirit of con¬ 
fidence in and respect for farming which 
makes western farm land such a good 
investment. The owners of that land 
develop and push it just as they would 
any other kind of business. Banks lend 
money on land, both because values are 
rising and also because it is one of the 
best investments in sight. The situa¬ 
tion East is very different. The drain 
has been away from the eastern farms 
to the big manufacturing towns and to 
the West where new land was given 
away or sold at a low figure. The pro¬ 
tective tariff, the transportation de¬ 
velopment and the money system of the 
country and dozens of other things 
have year by year built up the interests 
of the great eastern cities, and drained 
the farms in doing so. Thus eastern 
farming lacks much of the spirit and 
confidence -which is back of western 
farming, because it is no longer the 
dominating industry in political and so¬ 
cial life. 
This is not true of all eastern farm 
sections. In several counties of western 
New York fruit growing and gardening 
have been developed so that they are 
the dominating industries. Farmers 
have confidence in their business, and 
invest their money in it. As a result 
land values are high, farming prospers, 
banks loan money upon farms and farm¬ 
ers control public affairs. The eastern 
farm is to-day far ahead so far as op¬ 
portunity goes. Land in New York 
which is valued at $50 or less will pro¬ 
duce more corn to the acre than your 
$175 Illinois land. The corn will be 
worth nearly one-third more. There 
are no better markets in the world than 
are found in the territory east of a line 
drawn at Rochester. As compared with 
the West, farm products in this terri¬ 
tory will bring at least one-third more, 
ing how to raise larger crops, or how to 
improve the soil. Look into those 
States where land is high and farming 
ranks so well, and you will find public 
opinion dominated by the country. 
Respect and spirit go with power, and 
we must have deeper respect for farm¬ 
ing and greater public spirit before we 
can take the old place, which belongs 
to us. We see in the present struggle 
for primary nominations in New York a 
deeper significance than the politicians 
would have us realize. Let the farm¬ 
ers demand and force this legislation, 
and the weapon they have long needed 
will be in their hands. 
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I T all depends on you —on whether you 
make full value a possibility. 
To prepare your soil—to plant good seed 
and plant it at the right time—to care for 
your fields while the grain is growing, all 
this is vital to farming success. You know 
it is vital and you use all your intelligence, 
all your ingenuity, all your energy to do 
things as they should be done. 
How about the harvest? 
That’s when the reward comes. That’s 
when you transform your season’s thought 
and labor and watchfulness into gold. 
Your harvest will bring you full value if 
you are prepared to harvest at the right 
time—just when the grain is ripe—and 
prepared with a machine that will get all 
the grain, whether standing, down or 
tangled, without delays, without break¬ 
downs. A dependable machine in depend¬ 
able condition is an absolute necessity. 
In all walks of life we are guided best if 
guided by known truths. 
It took years of expense, years of vexa¬ 
tions and worries, for the farmers of the 
world to learn that of all the many harvest¬ 
ing machines, there were six on which 
they could depend: 
Champion McCormick Osborne 
Deering Milwaukee Plano 
HARVESTING MACHINES 
—depend on them for an easy harvest 
—for a quick harvest 
—for a harvest with least labor 
—least expense 
—a full value harvest. 
Need we suggest that you let this known 
truth guide you ? You don’t want to experi¬ 
ment. You want a machine you know 
will give you a full-value harvest—this year 
and next year and through years to come. 
These six dependable harvesting ma¬ 
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grain is grown, are manufactured by the 
International Harvester Company under 
conditions guaranteeing highest quality in 
every machine that leaves the works—con¬ 
ditions which cannot exist in the business 
of any individual manufacturer. 
This company, because of the tremen¬ 
dous demand which it supplies and because 
of its great working capital, is enabled to 
provide for you machines of most improved 
and practical design, choicest tested mate¬ 
rials and finest workmanship. From its 
own mines, this company brings its own 
ore to its own foundries and steel mills— 
from its timber range it brings lumber to 
its own sawmills—from its coal mines, coal 
to its own furnaces. 
Owning these great natural resources, 
this company never knows a shortage in 
materials of the very best quality. And 
what it does not own, it can buy—because 
of its tremendous consumption—the very 
best at lowest prices. 
From all of which you benefit. 
The individual manufacturer could not 
offer you such advantage. 
Neither could the individual manufacturer 
maintain a staff of inventors and designers. 
By working together the manufacturers 
comprising the International company do 
maintain such a staff and experimental 
shops and laboratories—all for the further 
development and improvement of every 
principle and detail of harvesting machines. 
From all of which you benefit. 
’ The stability which co-operation and 
thorough organization has given thfs com¬ 
pany appeals to the most skilled workmen. 
There is certainty and satisfaction in work- 
mg for the International, with its annual 
pay roll of $15,000,000. So this company 
employs and keeps the most capable work¬ 
men, the ambitious, earnest workmen who 
know how. 
From all of which you benefit. 
After working a whole year to grow a 
crop, you cannot afford to place your har¬ 
vest in jeopardy—you cannot afford to put 
yourself in danger of unnecessary delays in 
the harvest field. In other words, you 
should have a machine that can be repaired 
quickly if anything should go wrong. 
It you have an International binder, there 
will be no occasion for worry, because every 
dealer handling the International line car¬ 
ries a full stock of repair parts. Under 
ordinary conditions, the International ma¬ 
chine will not break or get out of order—for 
each machine is tested and retested under 
far more trying conditions than will ever be 
encountered in the harvest field. 
In the manufacture of International ma¬ 
chines, the principle of construction is right 
—the materials are right—the workman¬ 
ship is right—but, of course, all these things 
could not be done without an adequate 
organization—facilities to secure the proper 
raw materials and to employ skilled work¬ 
men and equip the manufacturing plants 
with the most modern facilities for turning 
out the machines. It is the thorough work 
in the selection of the raw materials and 
designing machines and the careful con¬ 
struction that lessens your responsibility 
when you go into the harvest field. There¬ 
fore, it behooves you not to ma.ke a mis¬ 
take when you buy your binder. 
Now, while you have the time, get ready 
for a full-value harvest. Call on the Inter¬ 
national dealer. Ask him for the catalogue 
of whatever of these six tested and proven 
dependable harvesting machines you want. 
If you do not know an International 
dealer near you, write to our Chicago office, 
or any of our branch offices, and a dealer’s 
name and address will be sentyoupromptly. 
Second in importance only to a perfect 
machine is perfect binder twine. No better 
twine can be made than Champion, McCor¬ 
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and International in sisal, standard, manila 
and pure manila brands. These twines— 
and repair* that fit for all machines of the 
International line—sold by International 
dealers everywhere. 
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA, CHICAGO, U. S. A. 
(Incorporated) 
International lines:—Binder*, Reapers. Headers, Header Binders, Corn Binders, Corn Pickers, Huskers and Shredders, Corn 
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