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HIRED MAN TALKS—“ MIXING.” 
Do you know that I believe the 35-cent 
dollar is one of the most important things 
the American people can think about at 
the present time? It is a live question 
to everyone, but of course the farmer Is 
the one it interests the most, although 
there are some farmers who are ignorant 
of the meaning of the phrase. I believe 
that every publication, individual or 
other agency engaged in rural “uplift” 
ought to miss no opportunity to hammer 
the 35-cent dollar into the brain of every 
farmer until every time he hears the 
word “dollar” he will see a piece of sil¬ 
ver with a 65-cent hole bitten right out 
of the middle. IIow is he going to get 
his share of that G5 cents? Why, by co¬ 
operation, of course. Co-operation means 
organization. IIow are farmers going 
to organize without any experience in 
that direction? Will they let some 
smooth-tongued stranger flatter them, 
fool them, organize them, and then bleed 
them? No, farmers must train in or¬ 
ganization. High school is a good place 
to teach organization. Each class should 
be organized for some useful purpose. 
There should be literary societies, ath¬ 
letic clubs, glee clubs and any other kind 
of society that may suggest itself." Some 
of us are past high school age. What 
about us? Why, let us go to lodge, join 
the Grange, or best of all, let us go to 
Sunday school and join some good, live, 
organized Bible class. If there is no 
such class, the pastor would be overjoyed 
to help us organize one. If you have not 
an ambition in the world except to collar 
the almighty dollar, you will further that 
ambition by attending church and Sun¬ 
day school and taking an active part in 
all the religious work possible. Does the 
hired man want to make hypocrites of 
you? By no means, for any thinking 
man who follows my advice will soon 
learn that there is something in life be¬ 
sides almighty dollars; that the Al¬ 
mighty is high above the dollar; but, at 
the same time he will find that the con¬ 
tact with his fellow men, and conversa¬ 
tion with them will teach him things that 
he never could learn by grinding away at 
his farm incessantly. 
IIow do I know that the course I have 
suggested will bring such results? Be¬ 
cause by using my eyes I see that the 
majority of successful farmers are those 
who get out and “mix.” Of course there 
are some farmers who make money by 
grinding, but they are not getting the 
most out of life by any means, and occa¬ 
sionally we see men apparently prosper¬ 
ous who are building their bank account 
at the expense of wife’s comfort and 
children’s development. 
I do not think that the church should 
be passive iu this work. If the farmers 
will not go to church, church ought to go 
to the farmers. There are many ways 
that this can be done. Probably the 
simplest and most effective are fairs and 
cooking and baking contests. However, 
the principal thing is to get the farmers 
to “mix” (good thing for their wives, 
too), for the country certainly has a 
tendency to narrow the mind of a man 
who devotes himself too closely to his 
labor - THE HIRED MAN. 
THIS RURAL NEW - YORKEfH 
CROPS 
104 
August 2G. There are practically no 
apples in this section, not over five per 
cent of an average crop. What few can 
be bought are sold for $1 per bushel. 
Enosburg, Vt. h. t. s. 
August 31. Butter, 30; eggs, 30. Ap¬ 
ples, .$1 per bushel; peas, $1; plums, 
$1.50; tomatoes, 50. Green corn, $1 per 
100; onions, white, $1.25 per bushel; 
cabbage, $5 per 100; potatoes, $1.20 per 
bushel. Oats, 45; rye, 70; wheat, $1. 
Athens, N. Y. e. c. b. 
Dairy cows, new milch, $G0 to $75; 
beef, live weight, six to seven ; pork, 8V> ; 
work horses, $200 to $300. Butter, 
dairy, 27; butter, creamery, 32; milk, 
six cents a quart; eggs, 18. Hay, $8 to 
$10; wheat, 80 to 82; oats, 45; bran, 
$1.50; apples, $1; peaches, $2.25. 
Athens, Mich. s. b. h. 
The apple crop is poor, excepting or¬ 
chards that have had good care and 
been well sprayed, which will give nearly 
a normal crop. A shy year for Baldwins, 
better for Greenings. It seems as though 
all apples must be small if it stays dry 
much longer. I have not heard of any 
apples being sold. j. f. b. 
Interlaken, N. Y r . 
Cows, Jersey, $50 to $S0; horses, $150 
to $200; wheat, 77; corn, 85 to 00; oats, 
55; hay, Timothy, or prairie, $16 to $17. 
Bran, per 100, $1.30; chops, corn. $1.70; 
cornmeal, $2. Lambs, live weight, $6; 
beef, live weight, $8.10; veal, live weight, 
$3.50 to $6._ Eggs, per dozeu, 12; but¬ 
ter, 20 to 25; hens, nine; Spring chick¬ 
ens, 12; potatoes, bushel, 75 to $1. 
Bunch garden vegetables, 30 to 40 cents 
a dozen. Strawberries, five to 15 cents 
a quart; apples, per bushel, $1. a. n. 
Carthage, Mo. 
The apple crop in this vicinity is large¬ 
ly spotted. A good deal of damage was 
done by frost and on the old neglected or¬ 
chards there was very little bloom to 
start with. I should say that an average 
of about half a full crop would be a "fair 
estimate. Personally we have a large 
crop except of Newtown, which was very 
heavy last year. The quality is good. 
The few sales made run from $2.25 to 
$2.75 for Baldwins, and $1.75 to $2.25 
for Greenings; growers not over-anxious 
to sell at that. h. d. l. 
Annandale, N. Y. 
September 1. Late frosts damaged the 
berry crop and fruit some; then hot and 
dry. A good wheat crop selling for 85 
cents; oats half crop, 38 cents. Hay, 
medium, $12 to $14. Corn will be a fair 
crop if frost holds off. Apples half crop, 
GO cents; early potatoes scarce, $1 per 
bushel; late potatoes will be poor crop. 
This is not a dairy country, hut could 
be if farmers would do it. Butter fat. 
24; beef cattle scarce and worth seven 
to eight cents; hogs, seven to eight cents; 
cows are selling for $50 to $150. 
De Kalb Co., Ind. 
F. c. K. 
Trespass. 
One neighbor (A) in driving cows to 
pasture, has to pass a branch lane lead¬ 
ing to another neighbor’s (B) house; 
sometimes the cows will go up this 
branch lane to feed, and when they do 
so Mrs. B will set their dogs on 
them. The lane is a private road be¬ 
tween our farm and neighbor A’s, but 
neighbor B has a right to use same from 
public road to their farm. The road or 
lane is between neighbor A’s and our 
farm, but the branch to the house (see 
diagram) is wholly on our land. Neigh¬ 
bor B maintains a gate at place marked 
gate on diagram. Has B any right to 
dog cow of A while iu their branch, and 
it not would A be justified in shooting 
dogs while after the cows, or what re- 
dress would A have legally? It lias be- 
J? uch !l nuis ance that A has to go 
with the cows personally, as the children 
mo afraid to pass B. M . 0 . k. 
It would appear that B has a private 
road through your land to his house, and 
he is the only one entitled to use it. A’s 
cows are trespassing when they go up 
tins lane, and B is entitled to drive them 
out. A has no right to shoot B’s dogs 
while they are iu this lane. An amicable 
settlement of this trouble would be best. 
11 ' v °uhl probably pay A to erect a gate 
across B’s private road when it leaves 
ie main road, if this is agreeable to B. 
August 25. The prices of farm pro¬ 
duce at present are as follows: Wheat, 
SG; rye, GO; oats, 41; corn, 77; beef 
cattle, live, 4*4 to seven; dressed hogs, 
11 to 1-; hay, $16 to $19; creamery but¬ 
ter. 28. Potatoes on the Grand Rapids 
market, 25 to 75. according to size; ap¬ 
ples, 85 to $1. The canning factory at 
Coopersville pays for Lima beans $2.50 
per 100 pounds and $8 per ton for sweet 
corn under contract. This has been the 
driest Summer we have had in over 20 
years, and corn, which is one of our main 
crops, is almost a failure. There is a 
fair growth of stalks, but no corn, ex¬ 
cept on very low lancf. e. e. s. 
Ottawa Co., Mich. 
The apple crop is a failure except on 
some very high land; there are a few 
such favored locations in the county 
where there will be about half a crop. 
You will not see an apple in any or¬ 
chard below 1,300 feet above sea level • 
the late frost did them up. There are 
but few large orchards; people think 
they can make more out of other crops. 
Wo are 20 miles from Pittsburgh, so 
milk, butter, poultry, eggs, small fruits, 
garden produce and general farming are 
some of the things we try to supply. Of 
course nearly every farm has five or six 
acres of orchard planted with varieties 
for home use; the surplus goes to small 
towns in the Pittsburgh district. We 
have an improved road to the city and 
there is quite a lot of corn hauled to the 
wharf. g. v L 
Eighty Four, Pa. 
All crops are 
section; oats are 
several years 
at 42. Hay . „ 
Per acre and buyers art 
generally good in this 
^the best we have had in 
.The new oats are selling 
yielded a little over a ton 
paying from $11 
t° $12 per ton delivered at station. 
account ol wet weather last season but 
little wheat was put in. Fall wheat sells 
at about ,)0. Corn crop in good and is 
list'd most for silage. Pasture is excel¬ 
lent and second crop clover is good. Ap¬ 
ples are small crop this year. Plums 
have yielded an abundant crop and sell 
from .si to $2 per bushel. The rasp¬ 
berry crop brought about $4 per bushel. 
1 lus section is not adapted to peach 
growing Potatoes are fair yield and 
bring about G5 per bushel. Handy 
butcher cattle sell at about $7 per 100 
live weight. Cows bring from $50 to $75 
a head. Most cream is sent to factory 
nml about ~t> cents is allowed for butter 
tat. Hogs bring 13 cents per pound 
diessed. Eggs 2o per dozen; poultry, 
dressed. 19, and live hens, 12. a m i " 
Atkins. Mich. ’ 
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