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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
OTHER SIDES TO THE DEAL. 
Referring to the article on page 018, 
“A Ply-by-night Apple Man,” this is one 
of the many pitfalls that the average farmer 
or fruit grower participates in, and in 
many instances it is the farmer or the 
fruit grower who makes it possible for fake 
buyers to do business. The idea of getting 
something for nothing is prevalent in sell¬ 
ing as well as in buying, and it is only the 
reasonable growers who win out in the long 
run. When a buyer looms up and offers a 
price for goods far in excess of the known 
market there is a certain amount of risk 
to be run in marketing all lines of products. 
Present market quotations are always avail¬ 
able to all those so interested as to make 
inquiry and the prices quoted range from 
the poor to the very best or fancy of the 
particular line, so that when a grower 
thinks that his goods are better than other 
people’s best, there is a fuzziness in his 
thinkshop that takes some kind of “snide” 
scheme to jolt and bring him back to his 
senses, and there are just as many of these 
unreasonable growers in existence as there 
are dishonest commission men and dishonest 
buyers. In this game of “do me or I will 
do you” there is no satisfactory result, one 
side gets the best end of the stick to-day and 
loses it to-morrow. Re fair and you will 
be treated fairly; expecting impossibilities 
eventually ends in disaster. The It. N.-Y. 
deserves great commendation in endeavoring 
to clear its columns from unreliable adver¬ 
tisers, and its efforts in that direction are 
well appreciated by the reliable thinking 
class of readers, but for the persons who are 
looking for gold dollars for fifty cents there 
is no hope but through actual experience. 
L. A. P. 
THE FARM TENANT PROBLEM. 
I firmly believe that not among the least 
of the evils of agriculture of to-day is the 
question of farm tenants. The problem is 
of most vital importance to those who own 
valuable farming lands. I think in 75 per 
cent of eases where farms are run down 
and played out, so to speak, and thrown 
on the market at prices less than one-half 
the value of the buildings, the fundamental 
principle underlying these conditions is 
the farm tenant. The problem is the same 
to-day that it has been for 25 years, and 
for aught I know will be for all time to 
come unless some radical change can be 
brought about to keep the farmers’ sons 
on the farm. The average farm tenant 
has no interest in the farm except to get 
all out of it possible. He has no future 
prospects in it as a home, and cares little 
for its environments. Many are the farms 
in my acquaintance that 25 years ago were 
clean, tidy, thrifty-looking places, good 
buildings in good repair, good fences and 
the land clean and free from foul and 
noxious weeds, but to-day the conditions 
are nearly the reverse, and if sold under 
the hammer would not bring the original 
cost of the buildings. If 50 per cent of 
the farm tenants would be content to labor 
by the month or year at the present wage 
scale of farm labor, they would be far bet¬ 
ter off at the end of the year, at least 
from a financial standpoint, and 50 per cent 
of the farms now rented would be under 
the management of the owner and kept in 
far better condition than it now is. and at 
the same time go a long way towards solv¬ 
ing the farm help question. And if a 
few of the millions of State funds that are 
ruthlessly squandered yearly by politicians 
for graft were invested in semi-worthless 
farm lands that, were never intended for 
anything but timber, and never ought to 
have been cleared of the virgin forest, it 
would be a godsend to the farmer and a 
benefit to the agricultural interests of the 
State. F. D. SQUIERS. 
Jefferson Co., X. Y r . 
WHAT BECAME OF THE HOUSE? 
Can any of your readers give me infor¬ 
mation concerning a house built at Fishkill, 
X. Y., in 1850. by Prof. 0. S. Fowler, the 
famous phrenologist? In 1853 Mr. Fow¬ 
ler published a book entitled “Homes for 
All,” describing this house and others built 
on a similar plan and of the same material. 
It is in regard to the durability of this 
material that I especially wish to be in¬ 
formed, for a 50 year test would be a most 
conclusive argument in favor of its good¬ 
ness. If the house is still standing, what 
is the condition of its outside walls? If it 
has disappeared, was it because of some in¬ 
herent defect of the lime-and-gravel wall or 
did it last long enough to prove it a cheap 
and practical method of construction? In 
these days of expensive lumber it would 
be of interest to many readers to be as¬ 
sured of a cheap and durable building ma¬ 
terial, and one which would not call for 
the service of high-priced union labor. 
Most farmers in the eastern section of the 
country either have sand and gravel, or 
pebbles and small stones or large ones, 
which can be broken, on their own land, or 
else live where such can be had for the 
,mere cost. of. haylip^. Pqrbaps , many, .qf 
U i ■ h uimti huh u t»u u u uut: uu 
these actually need new barns and other 
structures who are kept from building by 
the extreme cost of the usual methods, but 
who would welcome a cheaper way if dur¬ 
able. The fate of Mr. Fowler’s house might 
decide this question and I would be glad to 
have the facts concerning it. 
Philadelphia, Pa. R. F. s. 
ALFALFA IN WASHINGTON. 
The soil is volcanic ash, running from 
heavy to quite light and sandy, with a 
great abundance of potash and phosphoric 
acid and other mineral elements and surely 
does not need lime, though lacking in ni¬ 
trogen and humus. Everywhere the Alfal¬ 
fa grows like a weed, only needing plenty 
of water to get it started; after that it is 
a great deal harder to kill it out than to 
keep it growing. I well remember trying 
to start a little patch in Massachusetts 
over 16 years ago, with the result that one 
might expect. If I had then had the bene¬ 
fit of the most excellent articles in Tiie R. 
N.-Y. some months ago the result might 
have been different. In the light of my 
observation here I believe the abundant use 
of lime and potash would be of the most 
use in the East. l. a. p. 
Kennewick, Wash. 
R. Y.-X.—We have several reports from 
people who followed the advice given by 
Prof. Cottrell in The R. Y.-X. with good 
results. 
WANT TO KNOW. 
Telephone Information Wanted. —Can 
you get me the following information in 
regard to co-operative telephone lines? 
What service do they give? How much 
does it cost the subscriber? About what does 
it cost to build per mile and to maintain? 
Do the regular long distance companies give 
toll service, and how do they charge? What 
do the regular companies give you for ser¬ 
vice, and what do they charge. 
Massachusetts. a. b. copeland. 
Eagi.e Fighting. —Some of our western 
readers may think farm life in Xew Eng¬ 
land is too tame for them. This is what 
happened to one of our Connecticut read¬ 
ers : Charles Kencli. of East Litchfield, 
who has hunted big game in Alaska and the 
Northwest was feeding his pigs yesterday, 
when he was startled by the yelping of his 
pointer. Wheeling, he saw the dog in the 
clutches of a big eagle. Kench had a 
trowel in his hand and with this he beat 
the bird away from the dog. Then the 
eagle attacked him furiously with beak 
and claws. Flying in his face and almost 
blinding him with its wings, it tore his scalp 
and ripped his clothing. Finally a lucky 
stroke with a trowel cut its throat just 
as Kench dropped exhausted. The eagle 
measured nine feet two inches from tip to 
ti]i across its wings and six feet five inches 
from its head to the tip of its tail. 
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“PLANET VENUS” - 4,495 tons 
“BELLE OF SCOTLAND” - 6.898 tons 
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