1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE CATTLE CASE IN POLITICS. 
When Governpr Hughes sent that 
printed circular to the farmers who 
asked him to investigate charges against 
Dawley, he probably expected that would 
end i fc . He only raised a worse storm. 
Among other letters he received the fol¬ 
lowing : 
Your secretary says : “While the Governor 
is solicitous that every proper subject of 
departmental investigation should bo thor¬ 
oughly inquired into, it is a different 
matter to take up questions relating to 
transactions outside the scope of official 
duty which are involved in pending liti¬ 
gation." From which I would assume 
that if a public servant: had committed 
acts which might cause his removal from 
office, it would only be necessary for him to 
start a lawsuit with some citizen in order 
to make him immune from investigation 
until such lawsuit might be settled. I had 
formerly believed that the citizen paid 
taxes for the purpose of having his rights 
defended by the State and not that he 
should be expected to prove the guilt: or 
innocence of State employees at his private 
Jexpense. j. g. m. 
It seems tliat these farmers have be¬ 
lieved a lot of things—coupling ideals 
of government with ideal conceptions of 
men. It is evident that they arc waking 
up. This is what a New York man 
wrote the Governor: 
The farmers of New York have no mind 
1o sit by and see one who serves them in 
an official capacity, on the strength of the 
prestige he gains from such capacity, de¬ 
fraud in private deals those whom he is in 
duty bound to serve, and then attempt to 
hide behind ids efficient official services. 
■ I have felt that you stand for right and 
honor. I trust I am not mistaken. 
P. M. v 
Here are opinions from other New 
Yorkers: 
It looks a little to me as though the 
Governor was pretty good at telling us 
'what: we ought to do and be, but when it 
comes for him to do, he makes excuses. 
J. A. ir. 
I know JPr. Dawley personally. I also 
know plausible explanations to be one 
of his longest suits, but cannot, figure 
out by what arguments lie has caused you 
to think his suing the Rural Publishing 
Company answered the question of 
whether he sold grade cattle to Rogers for 
registered Jerseys. w. h. 
If straighter talk is wanted here it is 
from Wisconsin: 
Perhaps Alfred Henry Lewis was about, 
right in saying that Gov. Hughes will 
fail to make good. I am a Republican, but 
I’ll vote for Bryan in preference to Hughes 
after his actions in this ease. lie doesn’t 
practice what ho preaches. Success to 
Tub Bubal Nbw-Youkkr, and may your 
shadow never grow less. k. w. l. 
In the article by Alfred Henry Lewis 
referred to here we find this paragraph: 
“Let me tell you a story,” I said: “It 
should shed a ray. There was a careful 
farmer who owned a coop of priceless 
Cochins. ‘Some one,’ 'says the tjarmer, 
‘will steal these chickens if I don’t watch 
out. I’ll buy a dog- an honest, able and 
intelligent dog.’ lie bought the dog. in¬ 
stalled him, and sought, his downy couch, 
confident, satisfied and secure. That night 
every Cochin was stolen. The farmer 
was amazed. There sat the dog—honest, 
able and intelligent. And yet that great 
coop-emptiness never seemed 1o bother him 
a bit. The farmer couldn’t fathom it. His 
wonder abated. However, when, upon back¬ 
tracking tile miracle, he found that the 
party who stole tile chickens was the party 
who sold him the dog.” 
Let us consider this one from Ver¬ 
mont : 
I am not in favor of (lie farmers of ibis 
country using any postage stamps on Gov. 
Hughes to try to make him, against his 
own free will, live up to the sentiments 
he has so freely expressed in his speeches. 
If Governor Hughes will not voluntarily 
do ids duty in this matter that seems so 
plain, it will be well for the people of the 
1'niied States to understand lids matler 
fully before next November. Any man, be 
lie President. Governor or just a plain 
everyday farmer, who will not do a plain 
duty (and I believe nothing can be plainer 
than ibis Dawley-Rogers case), without 
being plastered witli postage stamps is not 
worth the stamps. a. a. it. 
1 be Governor, in an excellent address 
on the evils of race-track gambling, 
said it was well to improve the breed of 
horses, but far better to improve the 
breed of men. This prompts a Con¬ 
necticut farmer to say: 
I have been watching with interest the 
progress of the cattle case, and Governor 
Hughes’ unsatisfactory reply to the import¬ 
ant case in question. Ilis sound thinking 
and principles are good as far as 1 can 
see from the enclosed clipping, which I 
think you will be glad to read, and if 
Governor Hughes is a man of deeds, not 
only a man of words, a man for the coun¬ 
try and the people, not a man to endure the 
evil doings of gambling and men holding 
position h of trust, and if he stands for the 
improvement of men as well as horses, the 
question is, why isn’t the breeding of men 
in connection with cows of like import¬ 
ance? h. w. 
We think Governor Hughes can now 
readily see why people wonder at his 
attitude in this case. Very likely his 
wonder is that this case should stir 
men up in this way. He evidently can¬ 
not learn from the politicians of the 
Agricultural Department or from Mr. 
Tucker of The Country Gentleman— 
so the working farmers will tell him. 
They know that Dawley bought grade 
Jersey cattle from F. D. Squiers. They 
know-that Mr. Squiers swears that lie 
found? some of these grade cattle in 
Rogers’ barn, and that Mr. Benedict 
corroborates his testimony. They know 
that the cattle thus identified were sold 
by Dawley as purebred. They know 
that if these things are so, Dawley has 
no business to hold his State office. They 
know that Governor Hughes has said 
more about honest and clean men in 
office than any man who held his office 
before him. We think Governor Hughes 
meant to do what was right and fair, 
but that we went to the wrong people 
for advice. He is finding out, very late 
in the day, that his “agricultural” ad¬ 
visers do not represent the real farmers. 
About a year ago a shrewd, long¬ 
headed man made this prophecy: 
“Before this cattle case is done the 
Jersey cow will stand in front of the 
White House and bar entrance to a can¬ 
didate 
We knew that the Jersey had lifted 
farm mortgages, sent boys through col¬ 
lege, made waste places glad and other 
worthy things, but we had not thought 
of her in politics. It seems that such a 
thing is quite possible. Tf so, Governor 
Hughes must now sec that it has been 
made possible by listening to the advice 
of the politicians, and by permitting The 
Country Gentleman to put him in a 
false position before the farmers. It is 
a pity, for no man ever had just the 
opportunity which Governor Hughes has 
turned aside to realize the hopes of men 
who have no representation in public 
life, and yet stand for true ideals, clean 
living and the vital strength of the 
farm. 
Storage Battery For Electric Light. 
IF. K. IF., Pennsylvania .—Is a storage 
battery system practical for a farm electric 
light plant to lie operated by gasoline en¬ 
gine, the dynamo to be run while engine is 
pumping water or grinding feed? It is as¬ 
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to suit the requirements, and that a man 
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Rotation in Fertilizer Farming. 
7). F. M., Pittsburg, Pa .—I am much 
interested in your fertilizer farming. On 
page 124, where do oats come in under 
Mr. Lewis’ rotation? Ts it a reasonable 
expectation to figure on five tons of hay 
to the acre and 150 bushels of your corn 
under proper manuring and cultivation— 
soil good ? 
Ans. —Mr. Lewis docs not grow oats 
at all. Very few oats arc grown in that 
section, since other crops pay better. 
The Lewis rotation is potatoes after 
corn _ with 1,200 pounds or more of 
chemical fertilizer per acre, wheat fol¬ 
lowing potatoes, seeded with Timothy— 
with clover on the young wheat the 
following Spring. After the wheat is 
off the grass comes on and is cut two 
years. After the second cutting the farm 
manure is hauled out and spread on the 
sod. This is plowed in Spring and 
planted to corn, thus completing the ro¬ 
tation. Fertilizer is used on any crops 
that seems backward, but the plan is 
to use nearly enough on the potatoes 
to carry the entire rotation. No, it is 
not reasonable to expect five tons of 
hay and 150 bushels of corn. While 
such crops have hecn raised the average 
farmer could not do it once in 1,000 
times. We are more than pleased if we 
get %y 2 tons of hay to an acre. Even 
on the same farm soils will vary. For 
instance, there are four fields on Mr. 
Lewis’ farm. One of them is far better 
adapted to potatoes than the others. 
With the season just right the crop on 
this field might be more than twice as 
much as on another field of the same 
size in a poor season. The latter field 
might far outyield the other in hay. 
The correct figures for the Lewis farm 
are 100 acres—90 in cultivation. 
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