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THE KURAL NEW-YORKER 
Julio I’U, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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KEEP THEM AT HOME! 
doing. Take any 25 people you know 
and get them to work together with a 
fair division of income. Each should 
receive four per cent of the proceeds, 
yet sortie.are capable of earning 10 per 
cent, while others can harely earn one 
per cent. One will feel that he ought 
to have more, while the other will not 
Tlie following members of the New York 
Senate voted against Governor Hughes in 
Ills efforts to remove the Supei-ituendent 
of Insurance. Some of them have done so 
twice—others are backsliders. All have 
proved unworthy In a fair test. All are in 
districts where the votes of farmers can 
defeat them. It should be the duty of 
every farmer to blacklist them and keep 
them away from Albany. Vote them out! 
.TOTHAM P. ALLDR.Norwich, N. Y. 
ALBERT T. FANCIIRK. .Salamanca. N. Y. 
S. PERCY llOOKEU.I.eRoy, N. Y. 
JOHN RAINES .Canandaigua, N. Y. 
SANEORI) \V. SMITH.Chatham. N. Y. 
WILLIAM .T. TELLY.Horning, N. Y. 
HORACE WHITE .Syracuse, N. Y. 
BHN.L M. WILCOX.Auburn, N. Y. 
JOSEPH ACKROYD .Utica. N. Y. 
FRANK M BOYCE... East Sehodack, N. Y. 
FRANCIS H. GATES. . .Chit!ensmgo, N. Y. 
WM. IV. WEMPLE.Schenectady, N. Y. 
WM. T. O'NEIL.St. Regis Falls, N. Y. 
OWEN CASSIDY .Watkins, N. Y. 
MANURE SPREADERS. 
I have read in The R. N.-Y. the opin¬ 
ions of a number of farmers in regard 
to manure spreaders and their useful¬ 
ness. The good spreaders are no longer 
experiments; they are indispensable. To 
the small farmers they are expensive 
luxuries, but no farmer should be with¬ 
out one. At the West Virginia State 
University last Winter I was asked my 
opinion of manure spreaders. I told 1 
the class if I had 10 acres 1 would buy 
a manure spreader. To select a good 
spreader one must know something 
about machinery. If I did not have 
manure or muck enough to keep my 
spreader busy I would hire it out to my 
neighbors. The thought is, to make the 
spreader pay its way. My spreader 
works as well in snow as on the ground. 
It is always best to put plenty of power 
to them to get the best results. 
Tucker Co., W. Va. e. d. h. 
Freezing of Potatoes. 
(1. E. Lakeside, Cal .—Being a potato 
grower I would like to know why one hill 
of potatoes will freeze and not another 
in the same row, or oven one stalk of a 
hill and not the others? 
Ans. —There are a lot of questions 
about potatoes that I would like to have 
some one answer. Why will one hill of 
potatoes give six or eight hue large 
tubers and the hill adjoining have pos¬ 
sibly only one or two? Why will one 
hill of potatoes blight and the hill ad¬ 
joining be entirely free from blight? 
There are many questions that might be 
asked with reference to plant growth, 
which cannot be satisfactorily answered. 
This question with reference to freezing 
would come in that class. Tire reason 
that one hill might freeze while an¬ 
other hill in the same row might not 
freeze could be due to several things. 
If the row happens to he on irregular 
land that portion of the row in low 
ground would be most likely injured by 
frost. A strong vigorous plant might 
withstand the temperature that would 
be fatal to a weak spindling plant. Very 
much of success with potatoes depends 
upon having the plants vigorous and 
strong, and there are many things 
which influence the growth. In our po¬ 
tato field I find the most vigorous 
plants come from using liberal-sized 
seed pieces, planting to a depth of about 
four inches, and that broadcasting the 
fertilizer is more satisfactory than using 
it in the drill. L. A. Clinton. 
Connecticut. 
Farmers and Co-operation. 
TT. IT., Monongahela, Pa .—Why is it so 
hard to get the farmers to see the benefit 
of co-operation both in selling and in 
buying? 
Ans. —Farmers quickly see the ad¬ 
vantages to be gained through coopera¬ 
tion—the trouble is to get them to prac¬ 
tice it. Most anyone can demonstrate 
a theory on paper better than he can 
practice it. Most attempts at coopera¬ 
tion seem to fail because those who 
combine do not realize what they are 
be satisfied with his share. The na¬ 
turally strong and capable will feel that 
they can do better working alone. Farm¬ 
ers are also naturally independent. They 
have seen so many failures and so many 
rogues “organizing’’ people for what 
there is in it that they are wise to be 
more or less suspicious. We think 
cooperation will come slowly, but surely 
first among families, communities, sec¬ 
tions, and gradually on to larger opera¬ 
tions. __ 
A VILLAGE FIRE BELL. 
The accompanying picture, Fig. 237, 
may furnish a suggestion to any farmer 
who is about to hang a farm bell. When 
Farmer Misenbrink, of Cook County, 
Ill., retired from the farm and took up 
his abode in the village of LaGrange 
Park, the villagers made him fire mar¬ 
shal. On the outskirts of the village 
the farmer owns spacious property, and 
close by there has been just completed 
a combination wagon shed and bell 
tower. Farmer fire-marshal may stand 
in his kitchen door and grasp the rope 
that connects the big clanger at the 
A VILLAGE FIRE BELL. Fig. 237. 
top of the derrick. The bell is the kind 
used by railways at road crossings, and 
it formerly did that kind of duty. The 
iron frame of the tower once belonged 
to the derrick of a railway semaphore. 
The neat looking wagon shed is roomy 
enough to hold a big two-horse wagon. 
The one shown in the picture shelters 
the wagon used to haul the hose to a 
fire. The whole makes a serviceable, 
economical, and attractive bell tower. 
The scope of usefulness may materially 
be increased. The building may be made 
two stories high and additional room 
may be turned to storage purposes, and 
if the farmer is inclined to show his 
patriotism on certain occasions like July 
4 and Memorial Day, he may add a very 
strong and neat flagstaff. A good 
many Illinois farms to-day are showing 
novel ideas in hanging the farm bell. 
In many instances bells are larger than 
in former years, big enough to sound 
a lusty alarm for any cause. 
Illinois. J. I- GRAFF. 
STATE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. 
State Civil Service examinations will be 
held June 27 for establishing lists of per¬ 
sons to be available for appointment in the 
Department of Agriculture, as follows: Milk 
agent, $800 to $1,200 per year; butter in¬ 
structor. $900 to $1,500 per year; cheese 
instructor, $900 to $1,500 per year. Full 
information and application blanks can be 
had by addressing the Chief Examiner, 
State Civil Service Commission, Albany, 
New York. Intending competitors must 
have application blanks filed in the State 
Civil Service Commission office in Albany 
before noon of June 20. Commissioner of 
Agriculture Pearson hopes that this exam¬ 
ination will be widely advertised. It will 
be given at various points throughout the 
State so as to Ire in easy reach of all. 
Late Blooming Fruits. 
E. C., Pikeville, Tenn .—Fruit in Ibis 
country is almost always killed in April, 
sometimes as late as the 25th. Are there 
any very late-blooming apples, peaches, 
plums and pears that will escape the late 
freezes? If so, I would like to know 
what they are, or if there is any way of 
grafting or budding that a good variety of 
fruit could he brought about that would 
bold back blooms until the late freezes are 
over ? 
Ans. —Late Spring frosts have long 
been one of the great hindrances to 
successful fruit culture in many sec¬ 
tions, and the hilly regions of Tennessee 
are badly affected in this way. There 
are very few varieties of apples or any 
other kind of fruit that bloom late 
enough to escape. The old Genet is one 
and Northern Spy is another that some¬ 
times do escape the Spring frosts. The 
former is well suited to the Southern 
States, and is a good Winter apple there, 
but the latter, although a good keeper 
in the North, is a Fall apple in the 
South. Blackberries and grapes bloom 
late and are rarely injured by Spring 
frosts, and it would be well to grow 
plenty of them instead of such fruits 
as are often killed when in bloom. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Good Roads for Long Island. 
On page 493 there is an article from a 
Long Islander on the “Potato Trust.” I 
note that in the near future lie expects to 
own an automobile, a rubber tire buggy and 
a trotting horse. Well, I hope he will have 
all these luxuries, and to enjoy them be 
should have a good road to travel on. 
Organize, got together, join the good roads 
movement. Send one dollar to .T. Robbins 
of Babylon, L. I.. and become a member of 
the Suffolk County Taxpayers’ Good Road 
Association. g. P. 
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