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The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER’S PAPER 
A Rational Weekly Journal for Country an<l Suburbnn Home* 
Established iSSO 
Pal>li«lie<l weekly by lb® It urn I PulilUhlar Company. S3S IV®»t 90tb Street, !tew York 
Hkkuert W. Com.tkowood, President nod Editor. 
Jons J. nitJ.os, Treasurer and General Manager. 
Wm F Diixon secretary. Mrs. K. T. Koyi.k, Associate Editor. 
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“A SQUARE PEAL” 
We believe that every advertisement in this paper is backed by a respon¬ 
sible luM-son. R.i! lo make doubly suis- we will make good any lops to paid 
subseribers sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler adverttsmg in our 
columns, and any such swindler will be publicly expewed. ne protect sub¬ 
scribers against rogues, but wo do not. guarantee to adjust trifling differences 
bet" ecu subscribers and honest, responsible advertisers, bl ither will we bo 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
Notice Of the complaint must be sent to us within one month of the timeof 
the transaction, ami you must have mentioned Hik liUBAI* X»KW-xoJuam 
when writing the advertiser. 
Last call for planting fodder com. The present 
indications are that the hay crop will be light In 
most of the shipping districts the open Winter and 
dry May have hurt the grass. Better hire or draft 
a substitute. Fodder corn is best, all tilings con¬ 
sidered, and now is the last chance to get it into the 
ranks. 
* 
June 20 was a great event in the history of Ohio 
agriculture. There was a meeting at the Experi- 
ment Station at Wooster to celebrate the twenty- 
fifth anniversary of Doctor Chas. E. Thorne’s con¬ 
nection with the station. This silver wedding de¬ 
served to be celebrated in words of gold, for Dr. 
Thorne during his long years of service has given 
material value to the State of Ohio and also given 
character to Ohio agriculture. It was a tine thing 
for the Governor of Ohio and leading men of the 
State to pay this just tribute to a modest and highly 
deserving man—Dr. Charles E. Thorne. 
* 
The new co-operative bureau of the New York 
Agricultural Department 1ms been started. The 
first thing to do is to apply the principles of co-op¬ 
eration to it. You can help. There are in New' 
York State hundreds and thousands of societies or 
organizations of men and women who have goods 
to sell or who want to buy. Some of these societies 
have the goods which persons in other societies 
want to obtain. As they do not know of each other 
middlemen step in and hold them up and apart. 
Now naturally the first thing is to “get acquainted.” 
This new department is to be like the ‘‘central’ in 
a telephone system, and first of all we must locate 
the people who want to buy or sell co-operatively. 
Here is where you help. If you are in any way in¬ 
terested write to Marc W. Cole, Albany, N. Y., and 
give him all the information you can. There should 
be printed at once a list of the reliable organiza¬ 
tions which desire to buy or sell farm produce. The 
only way to make such a list complete is to co-op¬ 
erate and see that pour organization is listed. 
* 
The man who believes everything he sees in the 
daily newspapers ought to read the reports of the 
last Washington investigation. In the efforts to 
keep the tariff on sugar both the sugar producers 
and the refiners seem to have spent money freely 
trying to “accelerate public opinion.” Large sums 
of money were raised to influence Congressmen and 
to buy reading matter in the papers. For one thing 
1,500,000 copies of a pamphlet entitled “Sugar at a 
Glance” were mailed free under the frank of several 
Senators. Thousands were spent for so-called “news 
items” printed in the daily papers as genuine news. 
Here is a direct case of the evil of printing paid 
advertisements as editorial matter. It was expected 
that readers would accept this stuff as genuine news, 
endorsed by the editor, when it was paid for by 
people who expected to profit by it. This is a clear 
violation of the postal laws, and is a good example 
of the neiHl of such legislation. We have many let¬ 
ters from our readers stilting that they have no 
confidence in the “news” they find in certain papers, 
since they feel sure it is bought and paid for in an 
effort to deceive them. Last Spring an effort was 
made in Congress to repeal the law which compels 
publishers to mark advertisements or lose the privi¬ 
lege of the low mailing rates. We wrote the Con¬ 
gressman in charge of that hill protesting iigainst 
such repeal, lie replied that this was the only 
letter be had received from a publication supporting 
the Government in its efforts to shut off bogus and 
fake advertisements. So far as we could learn 
every other paper was indifferent, or else wanted 
the chance to sell the confidence of its readers. This 
seems astonishing to us in these days when every¬ 
one knows that intelligent men are growing more 
and more suspicious of what they see in print. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
And now the unoccupied or “delinquent” farms in 
New York are to be investigated. Gov. Sulzer has 
appointed Elliott B. Norris, ex-Master of the New 
York State Grange, as agent for this job. We pre¬ 
sume the plan is to visit these farms and determine 
just what can lie done with them. Some of the 
descriptions of such farms given in public docu¬ 
ments have proved very deceptive and have caused 
loss and sorrow to people who wanted homes. It 
is a wicked thing to fool a back-to-t lie-lander with 
what seems to him a “big bargain” endorsed by the 
State. Tell the truth about these farms! 
* 
People who dash through the country in their 
automobiles at this season say they never saw so 
many climbing rose hushes as are now spreading 
over farm homes. These flowers have burst into a 
glory of bloom, and their beauty adds new character 
to many a plain farmhouse. Tiif, R. N.-Y. is glad 
that, it has helped place these roses on the home. 
Some of the tiny plants we sent by mail now cover 
square yards of house surface, and by their beauty 
and pleasant memories have made farm life more 
worth living. 
During the past two years friends of the New 
York Milk Exchange have stated that it helped the 
producer because the price quoted was usually 
higher than the Borden and Sheffield schedules. 
These schedules were what the companies actually 
paid, a premium being given in some eases for 
cleanliness and high quality. But the Exchange 
price was merely si target set up to shoot under. 
Contracts were made with farmers at a certain 
amount less, few ever getting the full Exchange 
price. There is si demand for a commercial quota¬ 
tion that may fairly represent the condition of the 
New York market, and perhaps it may be possible 
to print such a figure before long. 
* 
Tiie New York Legislature made short work of 
Gov. Sulzer's direct nominations bill. The Assem¬ 
bly voted it down 92 to 54, and the Senate 38 to 10. 
Two Senators who formerly voted against it 
changed. One of these, Senator Thomas, represent¬ 
ing the counties of Otsego, Madison and Chenango, 
asked his people publicly to tell him what they 
wanted him to do. In this way he received the 
surest evidence that a strong, direct primary bill 
was desired. In one typical neighborhood that we 
know of a vote was taken which showed 90 for the 
Sulzer hill and 20 for all others! Now we know 
that all through the rural counties of New York a 
large majority of the iieople want direct nomina¬ 
tions. Why then did the Legislature treat Gov. 
Sulzer in this way? 
The reasons are personal and political and the 
situation has been worked up by very shrewd poli¬ 
ticians. Gov. Sulzer has been known as a sharp 
politician and has been in close relations with the 
strong body of men who control his party. For this 
very reason his break with them lias caused hatred 
and very bitter feeling. We think the Governor is 
sincerely trying to improve our public life, but this 
very fact has made the “gang” turn fiercely upon 
him. We think both the Governor and his enemies 
realize that he cannot be renominated except by a 
direct primary which gets away from a State con¬ 
vention. This will explain why the Democratic 
politicians have so fiercely assailed the Governor 
and his bill. 
But if this is a battle of politics rather than of 
principles what of the Republicans? Their stronghold 
is in the rural counties, and large numbers left their 
party last Fall. Why was not this a chance to 
make a ten-strike by supporting Gov. Sulzer, split¬ 
ting the other party and bringing back many of the 
Progressives? It was a great opportunity, hut we 
think the politicians are playing a deeper and more 
desperate game. Gov. Sulzer made several moves 
in farm legislation which were resented by many 
farmers. The veto of tin* appropriation for a new 
building at Geneva hurt him badly in a dozen coun¬ 
ties around the lakes. The refusal to indemnify 
owners for tuberculous cattle killed by the State 
greatly exasperated dairymen in the dairy counties. 
The appropriation of $300,000 for the new forestry 
school was in opposition to the expressed wishes 
of practically all the State farm organizations. 
These things gave the politicians a chance to shift 
the issue from Gov. Sulzer’s primary hill to his 
supposed attitude toward farmers, and this is 
largely why the country Assembly men dared to go 
back and vote as they did. It is now reported that 
when the Legislature returns to Albany the Re¬ 
publicans will offer to support a compromise which 
is really the Sulzer hill with the State convention 
left in. If this is true we hope Gov. Sulzer will 
accept such a Dill and make the question of a State 
convention an issue for this Fall’s campaign. 
July 5, 
We have great crops in prospect this year. Con¬ 
necticut is expected to produce 1,000,000 baskets of 
peaches this season—2,000 carloads. 
CHARLES E. LYMAN. 
And these peaches will he good—no wooden nut¬ 
megs about them. Men like Mr. Lyman can easily 
remember when only a few devoted “cranks” be¬ 
lieved that peaches would he more than a garden 
luxury in New England. The faint hearts knew 
that Jack Frost would chase the peach out of Con¬ 
necticut. The peach growers learned to climb the 
hills and put' their trees on the mountain tops, and 
now the 2,000 carloads come rolling down while 
dollars are rolling back. Let the peach eaters get 
ready to lighten those cars. 
* 
Your “35-cent dollar” shows you are cognizant of the # 
situation, hut so far you have not offered a remedy. 
Your readers are entitled to the remedy. B. L. G. 
They are, and most of them realize that the true 
remedy means a change in human nature. We 
have had some 500 beautiful theories submitted to 
us, but 90 per cent of them fall down in assuming 
that men will do what they ought to do whether 
they want to or not. The 35-cent dollar is largely 
the result of suspicion, prejudice and a wrong and 
narrow way of thinking about public questions. We 
have all been more or less guilty in failiug to trust 
our neighbors and friends and in trying to be a 
little smarter than the people we do business with. 
No remedy for the 35-cent dollar will he worth 
much until human nature can be changed, and we 
realize that we cannot beat the politicians and the 
handling hogs at their own game. Our remedy is 
the slow one—education and making the wrongs of 
this 35-cent dollar a part of popular thought. 
* 
Do not misunderstand the excellent article on 
Crimson clover. This plant is at its best in Mary¬ 
land, where it is of great value as a cover crop. On 
many of the Maryland soils the use of available 
phosphoric acid and lime seem to insure a good crop 
of the Crimson clover. We have told our readers 
how sowing a good crop of Alfalfa is like obtaining 
four tons of wheat bran from each acre. In like 
manner an acre crop of this Maryland Crimson 
clover when plowed under is equal to about a dozen 
tons of good stable manure. Consider the other side 
of it, too. This Crimson clover does not interfere 
with the corn or other farm crops. It is a “catch 
crop,” making its growth while the soil would other¬ 
wise be idle—losing its substance as nil idlers do. 
Crimson clover will do this in Maryland, but it is 
out of the question for Northern farmers to expect 
the same thing. For, north of Philadelphia, depend¬ 
ing on Crimson clover alone as a cover crop is much 
of a gamble. The plant is not suited to our North¬ 
ern climate, and will prove unsatisfactory seven 
times out of 10. There are many places where the 
humble and despised rye will pay better than Crim¬ 
son clover. We have found a combination of rye, 
Crimson clover and Cow-horn turnips very useful 
for Northern New Jersey. Winter or Hairy vetch is 
another catch crop which adds power and plant 
food to the soil. This ability to grow Crimson clover 
as a ma mi rial crop is one of the great farm advan¬ 
tages which the South lias to offer. The great les¬ 
son is never to let the soil remain hare through Fall 
and Winter. If nothing else can be used sow rye. 
BREVITIES. 
When to start spraying potatoes? When the bugs 
begin feeding is us good a sign as any. 
Time to get rid of the old hens. The surplus roost¬ 
ers should have gone long ago. 
•The onion boom in Texas seems to have burst this 
year. Thousands of carloads have been shipped at a 
loss to all—except the railroads. 
Before we spent money to be taught various “health 
exercises” we would make full experiment with the 
bucksaw or the washboard. 
It is late to start treatment for brown rot in the 
peach, but spraying with self-boiled lime-sulphur or 
commercial brands one to 40 will help. 
A big weed growing beside a young tree is a suekf r. 
Pull that weed out and lay it on the ground beside the 
tree and it provides succor—a very different tiling. 
There is another hen contest on in Massachusetts 
among members of the Grange. The prize is a short 
Winter course at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege. 
The creamery shark tries to pick the money for a 
creamery before the dairy business is ripe. It you 1*>I 
low him you pay twice what the creamery is worth au* 1 
have only half enough milk to run it. 
There is the usual crop of complaints of ben ties 
pass. A lively hen in the neighbor’s garden can sciatca 
the life out of brotherhood and good feeling. I lie lies 
way is to entice the lien into your own house aud keep 
her until the owner comes. 
A PHILOSOPHICAL judge of the Brooklyn Supreme 
Court lias decided that it is not legally slanderous tot 
a horse buyer to cull the seller a skin. In denying a 
motion in a suit where this term had been used. Juiim 
S cudder remarked: “Things like tlmt are nearly uluu.' 
said in the course of a horse deal.” 
