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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 1 ~>, 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BCSI.XESS FARMER’S PAPER 
A National Weekly Journal fo- Country ami Suburban Homes 
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“A SQUARE PEAL” 
IVe believe that every advertisement in this paper is 1 lacked by a respon¬ 
sible person. Tbit to make doubly sure wc will make pood any loss to paid 
subscribers sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler advertisinp in our 
columns, and any such swindler will be publicly exposed. We protect, sub¬ 
scribers apainst rogues, but we do not guarantee to adjust trilling differences 
between subscribers and honest, responsible advertisers. Neither will we bo 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
1 Notice of ihe complaint, must be sent to us within one month Of the time of 
tbo transaction, ami yon must have mentioned The Rural Ntw-ioRKEK 
when writing the advertiser. 
It is said that a progressive farmer in Branch 
Co., Mich., paid $40 for lime and hauled it eight 
miles for use on Alfalfa. The county agent a little 
later found, 40 rods from this farmer's barn, a lied 
of marl. Close to the surface were thousand of 
tons of good lime. All you need do is to dig it out 
and spread it. This is but one instance of thou¬ 
sands where we spend money for things which are 
right in our soil if we only knew it. Every farm 
with a pond hole or swamp can produce organic 
nitrogen in the muck. 
* 
There was ail apple show at a point in the South¬ 
ern Mountains where Crimes Golden and .York Im¬ 
perial are famous. As this is a shipping district 
a buyer in the market which absorbs this fruit was 
selected as judge. To the surprise of many visitors 
this expert buyer gave a prize to a barrel of green 
Grimes Golden—about the color of, R. I. Greenings. 
The consumers were accustomed to select Grimes as 
a yellow apple. Yet this expert was right, for he 
was figuring on the basis of shipping quality—the 
best coudition for going to market. If these Grimes 
apples were kept until they turned yellow they 
would not reach market as fit as when they were 
sent green and hard. In a section where the apples 
are shipped to a distant market this scoring on the 
liasis of shipping conditions and not on eating qual¬ 
ity was right. 
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We favor Edward C. Gillette of Yates Co., as chair¬ 
man of the Agricultural Committee in the next New 
York Assembly. This chairmanship is important. 
It was once something of a joke but the time lias 
now come for making a dignified and commanding 
position out of it. Our farmers ought to know who 
is to represent them in popular legislation and they 
should have some say about his selection. Mr. Gil¬ 
lette is an honest and independent man who now 
goes back to Albany for his third term. We have 
seen him under fire and know he will not flinch. 
He knows what to do and will do it. Come gentle¬ 
men—get busy with your influence for Edward C. 
Gillette as agricultural chairman. A small matter? 
No, a big one, for this is about the first time the 
great farm industry of New York has had the chance 
to do such a thing. 
* 
I have taken The It. N.-Y. over a year now, and I 
believe its biggest appeal to me is because it is so largely 
written by its subscribers. Your paper throughout is 
like a visitor coming in and telling in a casual way 
what he has found out about a certain subject—he is 
jour friend and neighbor, has his problems to solve, 
solves them and gives you the benefit. I may be wrong 
in this analysis of your paper, but it seems to me that 
if I ever saw a paper for the people and by the people 
it is The It. N.-Y. r. l. w. 
Michigan. 
This letter well expresses wliat we have for years 
been trying to do with The It. N.-Y'. There are, of 
necessity, different ideals in journalism. Some men 
like to be known as great teachers—knowing every¬ 
thing and assuming that their readers must be dom¬ 
inated by the force of tlieir own opinion. Others 
assume a cold, distant attitude and convey the idea 
that warm friendship cannot enter into the rela¬ 
tion between an editor and his readers. Some take 
a cynical view of life. Some merely try to please 
or entertain by strong or exaggerated statements—so 
we might go on through the list. 
Our own idea is to try to make each issue of The 
R. N.-Y. like a gathering of sincerely honest neigh- 
lx>rs and friends. Those of us who were brought 
up in the country know just what such gatherings 
mean in a community where social life depends 
upon good neighbors. There will be kindly and 
helpful criticism, burning indignation at wrong, 
plain discussion of useful and new things and kindly 
sympathy and suggestion. It means ah earnest ef¬ 
fort to dignify and make hotter the plain and 
homely things of life. This is not done through 
any dogmatic spirit of superiority, but rather by 
putting friends together and giving them fact and 
vision so that they may analyze the question and 
reason it out. 
We have frequently stated that The R. N.-Y t . is 
edited by its readers. There is no paper in the coun¬ 
try which enjoys such confidential relations with its 
people. They come with such strong and kindly 
advice and suggestion, and always respond so well 
when we ask for information that we have come to 
rely upon their judgment. They* * tell us what they 
want to know about farming, and we get: them the 
information if it is obtainable. And from these con¬ 
fidential relations we have gained the right to 
tell our people at times what we think they ought 
to know about certain public questions. They do 
not always agree with us—that is one great beauty 
of our relationship, for our people know that what 
we state is personal conviction—unbought and un¬ 
bargained for, and given with no purpose except to 
give thought to a friend. 
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Martin H. Glynn, now Governor of New York, 
has an opportunity which few public characters 
have ever known, yet we think most men have no 
desire to take his job. Mr. Glynn led his ticket last 
year, lie received 6(55,762 votes and Wm. Sulzer 
649,559. As comptroller of the State he has a good 
reputation for honesty and efficiency. He lias been 
made Governor through the luost unfortunate and 
disgusting political incident in New York’s history. 
It must be said that during this unhappy trial Mr. 
Glynn conducted himself with tact and dignity. We 
have heard no claim from Mr. Xulzer’s friends that 
Governor Glynn acted unfairly. Mr. Glynn of course 
understands that in the present xcited state of 
the public mind his acts will be viewed with sus¬ 
picion. There are a good many people who honestly 
and violently believe that Mr. Sulzer was the victim 
of what they call a “political lynching.” Some of 
them go so far as to say that Sulzer was “crucified,” 
and they will fight with the bitterest hatred anyone 
who, in their opinion, eaters in any way to Charles 
F. Murphy or the politicians allied with him. Every 
act of Gov. Glynn will he eagerly watched by these 
people, who are both strong and noisy. Then we 
have a much larger class of people who are fair- 
minded, and who realize the position in which the 
Governor is placed. They are at present disposed to 
believe that he desires to give New York an honest 
and clean administration, and they will support him 
heartily just as long as he permits them to do so, 
We all realize that Mr. Glynn is in a hard and em¬ 
barrassing position. That is what makes his op¬ 
portunity for if after the political night-mare we 
have just passed through he can convince the pub¬ 
lic that he is honestly trying to give them a square 
deal he will pass into history asr a great man. 
* » 
It seems that the entomologists do not agree as 
to the value of this scale parasite. The New Jersey 
side of the controversy is given on page 1228. It 
will lie seen that 14 different parasites and scale 
diseases have been tried in New Jersey, and that 
only one of the latest reported parasites can be 
said to be “new.” The chief criticism of I)r. Sur¬ 
face of Pennsylvania concerns the spectacular man¬ 
ner in which these parasites are announced. We do 
not think Dr. Surface is responsible for all of this, 
for we well understand how the newspapers would 
make a startling and “new” romance out of a rusty 
cooking stove if other news was dull. The parasites 
can do no harm to the fruit or the trees, and we 
think it a wise plan to study and distribute them 
if it can he done quietly and without fooling the 
people. Under no circumstances whatever should 
any fruit grower stop spraying in the belief that 
this parasite is sure to clean out the scale. No 
more foolish policy than that can be thought of. 
You might just as well sell your stoves or your 
furnace because some wise man reports that the 
warm gulf stream will move in to the coast and 
give New Jersey a Florida climate! 
* 
We will ask you to read the articles which we are 
printing on the value of purebred stock. Before we 
are done the subject will be lighted up as never 
before. We are convinced that only by the use of 
purebred animals of superior quality can our flocks 
and herds be improved as they should bo. Our sta¬ 
tistics show that only a small proportion of our 
business dairy herds are headed by purebred ani¬ 
mals. Most fanners realize the value of pure blood, 
but hesitate for two chief reasons. They do not 
know just how to be sure they are getting their 
money’s worth or selecting the sire best suited to 
their herd, and they find it hard to raise the money 
needed to buy high-class stock. Much of the in¬ 
formation printed about purebred animals has been 
prepared from the standpoint of the breeder. We 
intend to analyze the matter from the other side— 
which is that of the business dairyman. The highest 
breeding experts in the country will give their side, 
and the plain men who milk the cows will also tell 
us how to select the sire and how to mate him so 
as to produce high-grade cows. We can promise a 
discussion of this subject fresher, more original and 
nearer to the plain farmer than any ever started be¬ 
fore. We have tens of thousands of readers who 
want to know how to handle and buy purebred stock. 
When The It. N.-Y'. starts a thing you know it goes 
through. 
* 
On page 1112 we suggested that many farmers’ 
wives could take orphan children to educate and 
bring up with their own. We referred more par 
ticularly to school teachers who have married farm¬ 
ers. Some of them are not very strong—not able 
to do the harder farm work. They should not be 
expected to take these children as a matter of char¬ 
ity alone, but should be paid for their work. In this 
way they could obtain a fair income and at the 
same time, do a fine work for humanity. This sug 
gestion has called out letters from several farmers’ 
wives who might be willing to take such children. 
On the other hand there are several well-to-do 
women who seem disposed to take up the other side 
and raise a fund to be used in financing such a plan. 
These women realize that it should be a business 
proposition, and that the farmers’ wives who do this 
work should be well paid. The plan has merit, but 
it should be developed with great care, and with 
great business judgment. At present we can only 
say that we shall be glad to hear from women who 
are interested—both in caring for such children 
and in financing such a plan. 
* 
There were several sure things about the recent 
New York election. One of the surest is that the 
people demand a real direct primary law. The 
test for this came in the election of Assemblymen. 
We wrote the candidates of various parties in all the 
rural counties and have most of them on record. 
Not one cared to express himself as opposed to 
direct primaries. Some of them talked wiselj’, as 
politicians do, about leaving it to the people, but 
every man of them knew what their people want. 
The Assembly will favor a suitable law. The Senate? 
Before the election the Senators turned down a 
direct primary bill twice. If they had come up for 
re-election this year at least 15 of them would have 
been snowed under so deep that all the petty poli¬ 
ticians in New York State never could shovel them 
out. Now we know several of these men personally. 
They are wise and shrewd in business matters, 
honest and good citizens. They heard every ballot 
which fell into a box in their districts and it 
sounded like a brick wall falling down. These men 
have had their lesson—they do not want the direct 
application next year, and they will line up for 
direct primaries if we keep right at them and trans¬ 
late the writing on the wall. The first part of the 
battle has been won. Now for Albany. 
BREVITIES. 
Tiie rains are spoiling the seed corn. 
Sheep will eat chestnuts if they can get any. 
In parts of the Far West Russian thistle is being 
put into silos. It makes a fair silage. 
The Colorado Station advises sugar beets for table 
use claiming them far superior to table beets. 
Ice water is fine for the harvest field in July, but 
rather coarse for the stock in December. 
Never pay your good and active money for inactive 
organic nitrogen while beans or clover grow and muck 
lies in the swamp. 
There must be a big demand for good dairy butter. 
Whenever one of our people speaks of making it there 
are several calls for further information . 
Amanda Township, Ohio, has been indulging m a 
rat-killing contest, 600 citizens uniting to destroy the 
vermin. In six weeks they killed 10,013 rodents. 
“Children on the farm!” The latest on this subject 
is a letter from a widower with two children who wants 
a farm job so as to have the children with him. 
Tiie boarding-house prune has been the subject of 
many a joke, but as a commercial proposition the prune 
is no joke. Exports alone last year ran to 118 , 000 ,uuu 
pounds. 
A short time ago some New England papers stated 
that boys had been poisoned by eating chestnuts ana 
that the chestnut blight was responsible. This report 
was wrong. The true chestnut disease is not poisonous. 
The Ohio College of Agriculture will distribute puic- 
ql White Leghorn cockerels to < >hio farmers. I 
al cost is 50 cents and express charges. These hints 
ve been bred at the college. It is a distribution ot 
3 college idea in feathers. 
Kansas shows an increasing movement of population 
jvanl the cities of more than 1,000 population, ac- 
rding to recent statistics. Ten years ago the per- 
utiige of town population was 34 per cent, while it 
now 39 per cent. It is said that farm yields aie 
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