1914. 
THE RURAL NK'.V-YORKER 
4M9 
Home Problems 
[ Under this heading we discuss act¬ 
ual home problems of real people. The 
questions are all genuine and they relate 
to real troubles. Some of them can be 
helped by kindly advice or discussion.] 
Trade for a Boy. 
Is it advisable for a young man to 
learn telegraphy for a trade, or would 
some other trade be preferable? It 
should be understood the young man has 
no special desire for a certain one. Just 
wants to learn some trade. It is said 
that telegraphy would not be desirable 
because it is expected the railroads will 
do away with telegraph in near future 
and use ’phone, thereby putting thou¬ 
sands of telegraph operators out of work. 
Missouri. c. r. 
This trade does not offer great induce¬ 
ments. We should not care to have one 
of our own boys enter it. It is quite 
likely that the telephone and an improved 
wireless system will finally be substituted 
for much of the telegraph work, and the 
outlook now is for government control 
of these utilities. We think there are 
greater opportunities in one of the me¬ 
chanical trades. 
Two Girls and $400. 
I have a problem on which I would 
like advice from some of the readers. 
Maybe I can get ideas if not help. I 
do not know where there is a good mar¬ 
ket. It only sells for 75 and SO cents per 
gallon here, unless we peddle it, and we 
do not have time for that. We should 
get $1 per gallon packed and delivered 
at the depot, to make it pay. We would 
tap a thousand or 1,500 trees if we 
could get the market. Of course we sell 
a little here for the dollar and have a 
good customer in Florida. Can you sug¬ 
gest where we can get the market? I 
have tried until I am discouraged. 
Pennsylvania. T. E. n. 
Our chief reason for starting the de¬ 
partment of “Subscribers’ Exchange was 
to help find just such markets. There 
are thousands of our readers who would 
like to buy fine syrup. You do not 
know them and they do not know you— 
therefore you cannot find a good market, 
and they do not know where you live. 
The introduction would come through a 
few lines in this “Exchange.” This was 
started far more to help in such intro¬ 
ductions than to make any profit. Our 
best advice is to try it. 
A Clergyman and Tramp Hens. 
A clergyman has a small farm on 
which he grows small fruits, corn and 
potatoes. Just across the way his neigh¬ 
bor, a vociferous professing Christian 
keeps unrestrained a large dock of poul¬ 
try to the constant annoyance and fin¬ 
ancial loss of the long-suffering preacher. 
This neighbor’s attention has been re¬ 
WOMAN’S WORK IN THE PEACII ORCHARD. 
have .'5-100 saved up. and two girls. I 
wish to come East and get some small 
place, where I can raise poultry and 
keep a few cows. Our fares would have 
to come out of my capital. Can one get 
a place by small payments? Have some 
of the women readers had any experience 
getting homes that way? I would pre¬ 
fer to rent with privilege of buying. I 
was horn and raised on a farm, and have 
worked outside at almost all kinds of 
men’s work. I am ignorant of fruit, ex¬ 
cept small fruit; have never seen an 
apple tree. I have always had good suc¬ 
cess raising chickens, turkeys and geese. 
I am not particular about any place, but 
I cannot afford to look around either. I 
don’t want to be too far from school. 
Minnesota. mks. L. w. 
This is not an exceptional case. We 
have hundreds of cases where women left 
alone in this way, with a few hundred 
dollars, wish to start a home in the coun¬ 
try. The great danger in such cases is 
that these women will fall into the hands 
of land sharks or swindlers who will ob¬ 
tain their money and then take the home 
away from them. We know where this 
very thing has been done. This woman 
presents one side of a hard problem. The 
other side, which fits into it, is presented 
by the man or woman with a farm, yet 
lacking the needed little capital or the 
housekeeper to conduct the business 
properly. The R. N.-Y. tries to fit the 
two sides together. “Two girls and 
.$400!” Where can a home be found for 
such a capital? 
Developing a Direct Trade- 
Where can I find a good market for 
pure maple syrup? We make fine syrup, 
weight 11 pouuds to the gallon, or 11% 
pounds with can. We have been making 
only about three or four years, and we 
pentedly called to this nuisance, but with¬ 
out avail. What can be done? A. 
Wayne Co., N. 
We sympathize with this clergyman. 
Those wandering hens are enough to 
scratch the pulpit off the platform and 
change the course of many a sermon. 
The ungodly might take a shotgun, shoot 
a dozen of the hens and throw them on 
to the neighbor’s premises. If he were 
large enough, he might challenge the hen 
man to come out into the middle of the 
road and settle it. He might bring suit 
before the local justice of the peace, and 
find that he could not prove damages. 
The wives of the two parties might each 
stand at the fence, tell each other a few 
truths, and then never speak again as 
they pass by. All these things, and 
many more like them, have resulted from 
the visits of wandering hens, but in the 
ease of this clergyman they are not to be 
thought of. Judging from experience, the 
best plan would be to make those hens 
work out and pay for their own dam¬ 
age. Rut up a good house in a conven¬ 
ient place, with a good-sized yard around 
it. Leave the door of the yard open and 
scatter some corn inside. The hens will 
do the rest. They will go in after the 
corn. When a good bunch of them are 
safely inside, no one could bo arrested 
who went out and shut the door and kept 
it shut. The hens will proceed to lay in 
their new quarters, and the owner of the 
hens cannot come and get them, without 
rendering himself liable for trespassing. 
Thus he will either find it necessary to 
make the clergyman a present of the 
hens, or pay for the damage they have 
done, and keep them at home. We could 
give a dozen methods of ending the trou¬ 
ble. which would involve a great deal of 
hot language, but “A soft answer turn- 
eth away wrath,” and nothing could be 
softer than the “snap” of making this, 
neighbor’s hens contribute to your own 
egg basket. 
A One-armed Farmer’s Plan. 
I am a young farmer. Two years ago 
I had the misfortune to lose my right 
arm. I am now trying to “farm it”; I 
have a farm of 115 acres, keep a team 
of big draft horses and a general pur¬ 
pose team. I intend to breed all four 
horses. Would it pay me to keep cows 
and a hired man. or sell cows and buy 
sheep and do my work alone? I have 
good pasture for sheep and goats, f. c. 
During the past few months we have 
had a dozen problems like this one sub¬ 
mitted to us. Several men who have lost 
an arm. at least three who have lost a 
leg, several who are totally deaf, others 
who are nearly blind, women who are 1 
lame or feeble—all have come asking 
how they can make a living on a farm. 
It is wonderful how the beaten and the 
afflicted look to the country for help and 
a new chance. It will do us all good to ] 
think out, if we can, a sensible plan for j 
a crippled or afflicted farmer. We have 
several times referred to the farmer on 
Long Island with only one leg. This : 
man, by using machinery and studying 
farm economy, has been able to make a 
great success. He has probably done 
better than he would, had he not lost his 
leg. The physical affliction has forced 
him to study his work as he could not 
otherwise have done. We advise this one- 
armed man to give up dairying. We 
know of a case where a man with a dairy 
had his arm crushed. He bought a milk- ! 
ing machine and kept on. but a man j 
should have two hands to start in the 
dairy business. There is surely a future 
with milch goats, breeding sheep and 
selling high-grade heifers. What would 
you do? We mean that there shall be 
one place at least where the troubled 
and afflicted may receive honest and sen¬ 
sible advice. That means experience! 
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