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M'HB RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 22 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Three men who have taken an active part 
in advancing agriculture in the State and 
country were awarded certificates of recog¬ 
nition by the regents of the University of 
Wisconsin at Madison at the annual 10- 
days’ farmers’ course, recently held. The 
men honored are H. W. Collingwood, editor 
of The Rural New-Yorker; Oliver It. 
Kelley, founder of the National Grange, the 
first general cooperative association among 
farmers; and Henry D. Griswold, West 
Salem, Wis., one of the most prominent 
agriculturists of the State. Mr. Kelley, who 
was 86 years old, died a few days ago, after 
all plans for his recognition had been com¬ 
pleted. The testimonial has therefore been 
sent to his family. 
rightful interests. There is no room 
for personal presumption or conceit in 
such a policy; but every person in pub¬ 
lic life and every institution consecrated 
to the service of the people owe some 
sense of obligation to the public. Per¬ 
sonal preferences must be overruled. I 
believe that the friends who know Mr. 
Collingwood only through the paper as 
well as those who know him personally 
will feel a personal interest in this dis¬ 
tinction bestowed on him by a great 
university. Many of them would learn 
of the honor only through the R. N.-Y., 
and I believe that in conveying to them 
the information of this distinction to 
The names of these three men were pre¬ 
sented to President Charles R. Van Hise 
of the University, who conferred the testi¬ 
monials, by Dean H. L. Russell of the Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture. Dean Russell outlined 
briefly the work done by each of the men 
in advancing agriculture, 
Mr. Collingwood, one of our foremost 
agricultural journalists, has been the edi¬ 
tor of The Rural New-Yorker for many 
years. He has made that magazine a power 
in farm affairs through liis wise editorial 
policy, his fearless campaigns for truth, 
and the sage advice embodied in the de¬ 
partment known as “Hope Farm Notes” 
which gives the story of his actual experi¬ 
ences in reclaiming a worn-out New Jersey 
farm. Mr. Collingwood is also the author 
of several books that have been of great 
help to farmers. 
He -was the son of a soldier killed in the 
Civil War and at an early age was appren¬ 
ticed to a Cape Cod farmer on whose rocky, 
infertile farm he labored at all sorts of 
work until nearly 14 years of age, when 
he was sent to be an errand boy in a 
Boston bookstore. There he used to run 
errands for Longfellow* Emerson and some 
of the lesser literary lights of Boston 40 
years ago. 
Determining to have a college education, 
Mr. Collingwood worked his way through 
the Michigan Agricultural College by milk¬ 
ing the college cows at eight cents an hour, 
digging ditches on Saturdays at 12 cents an 
hour, working in the lumber camps, and at 
other odd jobs. After graduation he worked 
for two years on a southern agricultural 
journal and then joined the staff of The 
Rural New-Yorker, where he rose to be 
editor. 
Henry D. Griswold, the second man hon¬ 
ored, has been prominent as a dairyman 
and farmers’ institute lecturer for many 
years. Born at Guilford, Conn., of a long 
line of agriculturists, he came to Wisconsin 
40 years ago, possessed of little capital, but 
with great faith in the possibilities of the 
State. He is one of the best examples of 
successful intensive farmers, because for 
many years he has made 60 acres of land 
support 50 head of cattle. By the use of 
a purebred sire he built up one of the 
finest herds of grade Guernsey dairy cows 
in the State, later replacing them by pure- 
breds. On his small farm he has not only 
made a comfortable living, but is giving 
his five children a university education. 
For several years he has been active in the 
farmers’ institute movement both in Wis¬ 
consin and Minnesota, and in 1910 he was 
president of the Wisconsin Dairymen’s As¬ 
sociation. 
Oliver H. Kelley became interested in the 
agricultural conditions of the South just 
after the Civil War, and from his study 
saw that there was need for closer organi¬ 
zation among farmers. 
To foster cooperation, he organized the 
Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, popu¬ 
larly known as the Grange. To this move¬ 
ment Mr. Kelley devoted the best years of 
his life. His work in this connection has 
had a lasting and profound influence on 
rural conditions, and for this he received 
the college recognition.—Hoard’s Dairyman. 
In reprinting the above from Hoard’s 
Dairyman of February 21, 19x3, without 
the knowledge or consent of Mr. Col¬ 
lingwood, I confess that I am presum¬ 
ing on good nature and long years of 
friendship. I know we could never get 
his consent to publish it, so there is no 
use trying. We are simply going to 
keep the proof of this page out of his 
sight until after the press begins to turn 
out the papers. It is the fixed policy of 
this paper to avoid the publication of 
anything that would leave a suspicion 
of personal puff or glorification. We 
realize that the power of a paper comes 
from its readers more than from its 
editors or publishers. The management 
can only lead the volunteers who find 
in the paper an expression of their 
principles and a championship of their 
Mr. Collingwood I anticipate their wish 
to sympathize with this recognition of 
his services to agriculture so fittingly 
expressed by the University of Wiscon¬ 
sin. 
A subscriber in Michigan sends us 
some new literature from the Gardner 
Nursery Company, Osage, la., and asks 
us what we think of it. It is the old 
scheme that we have referred to many 
times before. You are to buy a hundred 
plants of some variety of strawberries 
for $10 and get in connection with them 
a gift of an alleged free advertising 
orchard. Stripped of its romance and 
its fake, the proposition simply means 
that this company has made a list of 
nursery stuff that they want to sell for 
$10, but, believing that no one would 
buy it on a straight business proposition, 
they write it up in a sort of romance 
to make the customers believe that they 
are getting something free in the form 
of an advertising orchard. They have 
been at this for several years, and we 
have repeatedly asked them to show a 
single one of the advertising orchards in 
growth or bloom that they had pre¬ 
viously sent out, and we have never 
had any of them located. On the con¬ 
trary, we have received many complaints 
about the quality of the stuff shipped, 
but in any event no one need expect 
to be getting any part of the shipment 
for nothing; $10 is their price for the 
whole bunch. Last year they gave a 
watch as a premium with the straw¬ 
berry plants, representing it worth $20. 
We found the manufacturers of the 
watch. The price was $ 1 . 35 . j. j. d. 
Express Tricks. —The daily papers re¬ 
port the following: 
“Milwaukee, March 9.—A case has been 
found here in which an express company 
took advantage of the parcel post to save 
trouble and make a neat profit for itself 
at the same time. The case has been laid 
before the local postal authorities, but it 
is not thought that any action will be 
taken. The "name of the complainant has 
been kept secret. A box of cigars was 
shipped from Detroit to Milwaukee by a 
Detroit man about to visit here. This man 
wished to find if there was any ground for 
his suspicion that some express companies 
were using the parcel post. He addressed 
the box to a Milwaukee friend and. ship¬ 
ping by express, paid 40 cents charges. 
When he reached here he found that the 
package, which he had marked for identi¬ 
fication, had been delivered by parcel post, 
bearing 22 cents in postage stamps. The 
express company had made 18 cents on 
the shipment.” 
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