1911. 
'jflrlLC RURAL NEW-YUKKKR 
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OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. 
The new Lewis bank has again been 
assassinated—a double assassination, too. 
Some months ago the Missouri State 
Banking Department ordered the de¬ 
positors paid and the bank closed, and 
the U. S. Court has now placed it in 
the hands of a receiver. The old bank 
was also doubly assassinated, according 
to Lewis, by the same State Depart¬ 
ment and a fraud order of the Federal 
Postal Department. In that case the 
alleged martyr induced investors to turn 
over their stock to him in exchange for 
promises and worthless notes and stocks. 
The Lewis banking experiences show 
these conclusions: 
1st. That he does not operate his 
banks without criticism and interference 
of the Missouri State Banking Depart¬ 
ment. 
2d. That he cannot resist the temp¬ 
tation to use the funds of the banks for 
the interests of himself and of the con¬ 
cerns which he controls. 
3d. That he cannot run a bank with¬ 
out loss to the stockholders. 
The $80,000 certificate of deposit in¬ 
cident serves to throw some light on the 
Lewis style of- finance. He controlled 
the bank or trust company. He also 
controlled the University Heights 
Realty and Development Co. He bought 
/0 acres of land for $114,000. He after- 
wards sold this to his Realty Company 
for $537,000, leaving himself personally 
a profit of $423,000. The same day he 
issued a mortgage in trust for note¬ 
holders to his bank for $537,000, so that 
personally he had a profit of nearly half 
a million, and when the notes were 
sold his bank had the property subject 
to the mortgage for nothing. The 
note holders took a mortgage for the 
full price to the company on the day 
of sale, and for nearly five times the 
original purchase price. Neither taxes 
nor interest was paid. Now he brazenly 
tells you the land will not sell for 
enough to cover the mortgage, and 
would have you turn the notes over to 
him after such trickery and fraud. Nor 
was this all. The mortgage was so 
drawn that lots could be sold and re¬ 
leased from the mortgage without turn¬ 
ing the proceeds over to noteholders. It 
seems that this has been done in many 
cases. He sold the notes against the 
mortgage to country people with a prom¬ 
ise that $6 for every front foot would be 
used for improving the lots or held for 
that purpose. Instead of doing so he in¬ 
vented the fiction that notes are cash, 
and deposited some of the unsold notes 
with the bank, and issued an $80,000 
certificate of deposit for them. This 
made it appear that the bank had re¬ 
ceived $80,000 cash deposits. If reports 
of the bank were made under oath, the 
judge’s pointed inquiry would indicate 
a possible case of perjury or forgery, or 
both. The State Banking Department 
says that stockholders will lose because 
of bad loans, which probably means 
loans to Lewis himself, or to some of 
his concerns, which is virtually the same 
thing. And this is the bank that Lewis 
promised would pay 100 per cent profit 
the first year, and many times that 
amount in succeeding years. It is the 
bank on which a dividend of five per 
cent was declared recently when you 
were being urged' to buy debentures of 
the straw-man. What a pity to assassi¬ 
nate such a paragon of virtue! Madden 
would better get busy and write a new 
book. “The Shame of the United 
States” should be revised. The shame 
is that Lewis should have been allowed 
so long to plunder the people. 
DIARY OF FARM WORK. 
On a New Jersey Truck Farm. 
August 7.—This is strictly a truck and 
fruit farm. During the busy season (and 
that is quite ail Summer) the time for 
rising is five a. m. On this particular day 
everybody was in his place at the appointed 
time. Chores were done and breakfast 
eaten by six o'clock. Two men were sent 
picking tomatoes, while two more went 
to pull corn for market. I took the family 
horse and went for a woman who was to 
pack tomatoes for us. The distance being 
only a mile I was soon back, and then 
joined the two men in the cornfield. The 
corn was finished, loaded and home by 
10.30. The remainder of the day was 
devoted entirely to picking and packing 
tomatoes, two men picking till 10.30 a. 
in., and four men from that time till night. 
Personally I was all afternoon and the 
major part of the ev«ning carting and 
shipping the day’s gatherings. When the 
corn was sacked and counted we had 3,600 
ears; this made one load. Sixty crates of 
tomatoes makes a good load ; we had two 
loads, hence 120 crates with a few left 
over, not packed, to begin on Tuesday morn¬ 
ing. Now with four men picking more 
than half the day and two men all day 
this may not seem a very heavy day’s 
work to many. Then, too, every tomato 
section has its own methods and own pack¬ 
age ; hence, 1 think, a word of explanation 
necessary to make it al) clear. Mere we 
pack in crates holding three-fourths bushel 
(a standard package through all this sec¬ 
tion). The pickers pick the fruit, take 
them to sheds or convenient shady places, 
dump them carefully, and thinly. Here, 
in tliis case, two women accustomed to the 
work. sort, grade and pack the fruit, all 
cracked, specked or otherwise imperfect 
fruit being thrown out and fed to the 
bogs. Two grades only are made, primes 
auo culls. When it is near time to load, 
a man goes ahead and nails a cover on 
i ach crate, and another hands them to 
the driver, who places them in the wagon ; 
60 crates make a good load on our coun¬ 
try roads. They weigh crate and all 6t> 
pounds. The last of the 120 crates went 
on my wagon a few minutes after five 
o’clock, the men continuing picking till 
6 n. m., while the load had to be hauled 
3% miles before shipping. Thus ended 
August 7 on this farm; many other days 
have' been just as busy. C. c. hulsart. 
Monmouth Co., N. J. 
On An Iowa Farm. 
August 15.—Early in forenoon our 
thrashing was finished. Quality of grain 
was good, and yield was greater than we 
expected. After the machine had pulled 
out into the road and disappeared over the 
hill, I went at the weeds along the road¬ 
side. I do like to see a clean road along a 
farm. It adds much to the appearance, 
saying nothing of the preventing lots of 
pestiferous weeds from spreading over the 
farm. Unfortunately in a short time I 
broke the scythe, so came to the house. 
Mother wanting some potatoes, I went to 
the garden. A few hills filled the pail, so 
I went over and picked a few ripe toma¬ 
toes ; passed by the early cabbages that a 
few weeks ago between drought, heat and 
worms looked as if they had about given up 
the light, now have fine solid heads. This 
being the first time for several days that I 
had been in the garden, having been busy 
with making hay and harvesting, I went 
over to the strawberry bed that I planted 
last Spring. The rains started them grow¬ 
ing nicely, the runners are setting plants, 
filling up the vacant places. The prospect 
of having lots of Senator Dunlap and War- 
field to pick next Summer is promising. I 
then went to see how the muskmelons and 
watermelons were doing. We will have an 
abundance of Emerald Gem. I think there 
is nothing more delicious in the fruit line 
for breakfast than the Gem, picked early in 
the morning when cool and the dew is on 
them. A heaping platter is about what 
Mother, our two girls and myself set before 
us for breakfast. The watermelons are not 
ripe yet, but I found a number of fine 
ones that we will £oon be feasting on- 
On returning to the house I passed by 
the rows of Concord and Worden grapes; 
they are well loaded with fruit. The Wor¬ 
dens are now purpling a little. These two 
grapes are by far the best for this section ; 
at least that is my experience. Getting back 
to the house the telephone rang. Answer¬ 
ing I found that it was neighbor Walker, 
and that he and his wife would visit us 
in the afternoon ; just the man I like to talk 
with, a pleasant, intelligent man, honest, 
generous and true as steel in principles. We 
had a very pleasant visit with them. In 
the afternoon he and I went down through 
the orchard. He wanting some crabs, I 
found a few young trees bearing fruit for 
first time. I could not name them. There 
will be more apples than we can use, but 
as we had so very few last year wo will have 
keener appetites for apples this year, so will 
roll several barrels into the cellar this Fall. 
There will be apple sauce, baked apples and 
apples before bedtime. Supper over, hand 
shakes and good byes, our friends drove 
out of the gate and over the hill. Mother 
and I watched them until they disappeared 
(the girls being away). We each turned to 
do our evening chores. When they were 
finished in the twilight we sat on the porch 
talking over the offer we had for the farm, 
if it was best to or not. Now we are get¬ 
ting old and cannot stand the shocks and 
labor of former years, but as we talked we 
looked down through the orchard with trees 
loaded with fruit, out over the vineyard 
of purpling grapes, over the green fields 
we have seen for so many years. We saw 
the cows lying contentedly in the yard, 
saw the gentle, faithful horses down by the 
creek. Counting these and the home we had 
spent years in making and adding to, and 
making better, we found there was an at¬ 
tachment and love for it which would make 
it hard to part with it. Then, too, to go 
away from friends ; friends we respect and 
through years of acquaintance we know are 
true and good. The one advantage we 
could see of selling and moving into town 
was that we would have the privilege of 
doing nothing. Mother was the first to 
speak. She said: ‘T think we had better 
not sell the farm.” Just then a White 
Leghorn rooster flew up onto the fence fac¬ 
ing us, flapped his wings and crowed as if 
he highly approved her saving, then flew 
down. We will not sell the farm. 
BYRON DAVIS. 
CROP NOTES. 
Albany County Grange Ficnic.— On 
August 19 the first annual picnic under the 
auspices of the Albany County Association 
of the Patrons of Industry was held in 
Green’s Grove at Alcove, N. Y. Large dele¬ 
gations from the various associations in 
the county met at Indian Fields and drove 
to the grove in a mile-long procession, 
headed by the New Baltimore Band. For 
tin; first event of its kind that has been 
attempted by the county association, the 
attending was large, there being probably 
2,000 people present. The speakers of the 
day were : Mr. F. .1. Itiley, Past Supreme 
President of the Patrons of Industry of 
North America, whose subject was ••The 
Advantages of Farmers’ Organizations,” 
and Rev. Mr. Cranston, of Ravena, who 
spoke of the advantages enjoyed by farm¬ 
ers of to-day that were not known" to the 
farmers of the past generation. Mr. Frank 
Stanton, Grand President of New York 
State P. of I., was present. r. e. b. 
Apples, enormous crop, wonderfully free 
from insects or spot. Hay, SO per cent of 
a crop, but lots of 1910 crop left. Oats, 
75 per cent of crop, straw short. Apples 
are being bought about $1.50 for No. 1 
Duchess; $2 is being talked as possible for 
tree run of orchard for both Winter and 
Fall fruit, seller supplying barrels and 
delivering at the railway—-an average haul 
of 2Yj miles. Starting from one co-opera¬ 
tive company in 1907 wo now have 23, 
and they are grouping together to sell as 
one agency with a good man. W. S. I?. 
Chute of Berwick as general manager. The 
companies will control 250.000 barrels of 
apples, and it is likely they will greatly 
extend operations in the course of the 
next.two or three years. Barrels cost us 
25 cents, good help in Summer $26 per 
month and board. Rain has at last come 
on August 15 and 16. j. b. 
Berwick, N. S. 
We have had the worst drought here in 
its effect on crops that old men can re¬ 
member. We have perhaps had as bad 
droughts, but they came later in the sea¬ 
son, or began early and were broken before 
the growing season was at an end. Tills 
year, however, we have had no rain of con- 
secfuence sfnee the snow went off in the 
Spring. We have had a few showers, but 
in no case did they wet the ground to a 
depth of more than two inches, while most 
of them barely laid the dust. Coupled 
with this we have had since early Spring 
abnormally high temperatures. The com¬ 
bined effect has been to make this a pretty 
desolate-looking country. I do not expect 
to get more than one-third of a crop of 
string beans and potatoes unless we have 
immediate relief, and it has been a hard 
fight to get even that. Potatoes are sell¬ 
ing here for $1.80 wholesale. We are for¬ 
tunate to have a spring in the pasture 
which enables us to get water for our cows, 
but many of our farmers are having to 
haul water for their cows. e. s. b. 
St. Albans, Vt. 
White Lead on 
the Farm 
Iron Work 
There is one 
sure and easy 
way to protect 
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it two coats of red lead and 
linseed oil, then add a coat of 
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and linseed oil. tinted as de¬ 
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by architects and contractors 
for protecting the iron work 
on the largest buildings, and 
it is the one best way to treat 
every piece of iron on the 
I farm. It not only affords per- 
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but adds greatly to the ap¬ 
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We offer 5.000 bushels selected Early Ohio, Triumph and 
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Wise farmers will not plant their dwarfed potatoes any 
more than they would breed from runts in then* herd of 
live stock. Three-fourths of our country has produced 
practically nothing but runty potatoes this season. 
$2.00 per bu. October delivery, or will hold till March 
if ordered and paid for in October. 
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Are You In The Dairy Business 
or Simply “Keeping Cows”? 
To be in the dairy business requires business 
sense and judgment and in times like the present, 
when prices for the product are low, the business 
dairyman is looking for a way out of his 
predicament. 
What have you done to offset low prices ? 
You can’t change the price of your product. 
You can’t change the price of feed. 
You can’t change the cost per month of hand 
milkers. 
The thing to do is to produce the same quality 
and quantity of product for less money. 
And the way to do this is to install a 
Sharpies Mechanical Milker 
One man will milk at the rate of forty cows per 
hour, do it easily and thoroughly and you will make 
a handsome profit even at the present prices. 
Let us know your conditions and we will advise 
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DAIRY SPECIALTY CO., Trust Bldg., West Chester, Pa. 
PRIZE 
APPLES 
OR CIDER 
APPLES!? 
For the past four years the great state of Pennsylvania has made a special appropriation of from $30,000 to $40,000 annually to 
teach the fruit grower how to use Lime-Sulfur washes, and incidentally, to warn them against the use of “Scalecide,” in spite of 
which the demand for “Scalecide” lias increased from year to year and apples from trees sprayed with “Scalecide” for live 
years took all the first prizes at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society meeting in 1910; three silver cups, the Adams County 
sweepstakes and 20 first prizes at the meeting of the same society in 1911. "Which pays best? Prize apples or cider apples? 
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