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The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes 
Established isso 
Published ireofclj by the Rural Publishing Company, 333 ITest 30th Street, Ifcw York 
Herbert W. Colungwood, President and Editor. 
John - J. Hilton, Treasurer and General Manager. 
Wm. F. Dillon, Secretary. Mrs. E. T. Hoyle, Associate Editor. 
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columns, and any such swindler will be publicly exposed. We protect sub¬ 
scribers against rogues, but we do not guarantee to adjust trifling differences 
between subscribers and honest, responsible advertisers. Neither will we be 
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 time of 
the transaction, and you must have mentioned Tub Rural New-Yoiikrb 
when writing the advertiser. 
TEN WEEKS FOR 10 CENTS. 
In order to maintain the improvement and enlarge¬ 
ments that we are now planning for The R. N.-Y., 
we should have a circulation of 200,000 copies week¬ 
ly. We must depend on our old friends for this in¬ 
crease. To make it easy for these friends to intro¬ 
duce the paper to other farmers who do not now 
take it we will send it 10 weeks for 10 cents for 
strictly introductory purposes. We will appreciate 
the interest of friends who help make up the needed 
increase of subscriptions. 
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Here are some points from that New Jersey cow 
case which was reported last week. The cow be¬ 
longed to Van Nest and she went over upon Deala- 
man’s farm. Van Nest’s lawyers argued that Deala- 
man made an agreement by telephone to keep up 
his share of the line fence—therefore he was re¬ 
sponsible for what happened when the cow passed 
over the farm line. Dealaman’s lawyers argued that 
if he had gone after the cow with gun, dog or club 
and injured her he would have been responsible for 
damage. As it was the hired man drove the cow 
off peacefully. Dealaman helped doctor the cow and 
also helped bury her. Before the Court of Errors 
Dealaman’s counsel showed what might follow if the 
verdict should stand. Suppose a farm worth $4,000 
and mortgaged for $2,000. A purebred cow worth 
$1,500 or more, as many are, breaks in, grazes on 
corn as Van Nest’s cow did, and dies, tinder the 
first verdict in this case the farmer would be forced 
to pay for the cow and thereby lose his farm and 
home. This would he manifestly unjust, yet it 
might easily have happened had this cow verdict 
not been reversed. It was a good thing that Deal¬ 
aman carried the case to the highest court. A much 
better way is to keep out of court entirely and make 
an agreement to put up a strong line fence. 
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There is no reason now why every farm mortgage 
in the State of New York should not he written for 
a long term of yeai’s under the new farm credit law. 
Where local saving and loan associations now exist 
these will be able to handle the farm mortgage, or 
new associations may be formed if this is thought 
necessary. Where no association exists certainly 
one should be organized promptly. Each loan hank 
may take mortgages anywhere within 50 miles of 
its office. The mortgage may run 40 yeai - s. It 
cannot be called, hut it may be paid in full or in 
part any time. If you have any money to invest or 
if you want money on mortgage the bank will serve 
you. Talk it up in your neighborhood; and the 
State will help you organize, and will supervise the 
bank to protect your interests. The rate of inter¬ 
est on the mortgages will depend on the rate at 
which land bank bonds will sell. These bonds will 
be such an attractive investment we expect the first 
issue to sell at par at four per cent, interest, and 
later issues for less. Take this up in the Gi’ange 
and in the clxib. It means a safe and convenient 
investment for any money you have idle; and if 
you have a mortgage or want one, it means peace 
of mind and smaller interest payments. 
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A Pennsylvania reader wrote Senator Boies 
Penrose, or rather “licked a stamp,” asking the 
Senator to stand up for parcel post He received a 
letter back so quick that it must have got the first 
train out of Washington. What do you suppose the 
Senator told him? Here is part of the letter : 
I have always advocated the building up of the par¬ 
cel post system, and shall continue to urge the develop¬ 
ment of the same to its fullest extent for the conven¬ 
ience and benefit of the American people. I am not in 
favor of any legislation which will hamper or cripple 
in any way the Postmaster General in the administra¬ 
tion and development of the parcel post system. My 
attitude in Congress in this connection is well known 
and is a matter of public record. 
There are a good many farmers in Pennsylvania ! 
THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
who have on file letters from Senator Penrose about 
parcel post, written two years ago. In those old 
days Mi 1 . Peni’ose made very short work of this 
correspondence. He told the farmers that he would 
give the subject “careful consideration,” and then 
apparently he forgot all about it. His attitude in 
Congress strikes us like that of a man who gave 
“careful consideratioil” until he saw that the people 
were absolutely determined to have parcel post, or 
not to have public servants who opposed it. At any 
rate, hei’e we have a great sign of progress. It’s a 
very happy step forward from “careful considera¬ 
tion” to such a position as Senator Penrose now 
takes. “But why did you wait, my brother?” 
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We once saw four men trying to turn a locomotive 
on an old-fashioned turnstile. It was one of those 
circular holes with a revolving track. The en¬ 
gine ran upon this track, then the men pushed 
against a beam or handle and turaed the track 
around. In the case mentioned the engine ran on 
the track and the men pushed. They strained and 
toiled, hut they could not stir the weight. Half 
a dozen others came, but it was like trying to lift 
the dead weight of the engine. Then the engineer 
opened the valve and let in a little steam. The en¬ 
gine crawled two feet ahead and stopped. Then the 
four men without effoi-t pushed the track around. 
One stout man could have done it. In the first place 
the engine was out of balance. Those men were 
forced to lift tons of useless weight. By moving 
two feet ahead the engine balanced its own weight 
and no lifting was needed. Last week we saw a 
man and a boy trying to haul a load of bags on a 
two-wheeled cart. They strained, but could hardly 
move it. The boy got on the hack end of the load 
and the man walked off with it easily. The load 
had been adjusted so that a large share of the 
weight was carried by the workmen. When the 
boy got in behind the balance was restored and the 
mxxn was not obliged to carry it. Now a good many 
cooperative societies are bound to have the same 
trouble unless all the members keep in their place 
and do their fair share of the work. Good organiza¬ 
tion gives each man his own work to do. That 
means “balance,” the same as with the engine and 
the cart. Let some of these men neglect their sliax’e 
or go to doing some other part and the weight of 
the entei-prise is thrown upon someone else. Co¬ 
operation means not only sharing profits but sharing 
the labor and care as well. It is give as well as 
take. # 
You may be interested to know I am getting from 
$9 to $1- a barrel for fancy Northern Spy and Wag¬ 
oner apples. These apples were all wrapped in the 
orchard the day they were picked, and have never been 
dumped from a basket. These prices make a man feel 
he has reached the highest mark, but I have thought 
so many times before, only to do a little better later. 
These Spies have been retailing all Winter for $1 a 
dozen. geo. r. schauber. 
We have several reasons for printing this. First, 
possibilities in selling fruit. There are in New York 
City alone at least 250,000 people who never stop 
to ask the price of anything which pleases the eye 
or taste. If it suits them, they want it regardless 
of price. Draw a line just west of Buffalo straight 
down until it sti’ikes the ocean or gulf and you 
have more of these buyers than can he found in any 
other territory of equal size on earth. These fine 
products are perishable and cannot be safely sent 
far in small lots. Therefore, those who live inside 
this territory, or near it, have a superior market 
chance. A poor soil near a great market is worth 
more than a rich soil far x'emoved. Another thing 
is the fact that no man touches these high and 
dainty markets until he puts the highest skill into 
his pi’oducts. If these apples had been sent to a 
commission man last Fall they might perhaps have 
netted $2 a barrel. The extra $7 to $10 represent 
judgment and skill and nerve on the part of the 
growers. These are only two of many points about 
these high prices. * 
Why do you not do your duty and tell your read¬ 
ers that the San Jos6 scale is dying out so that 
there is no need of spraying? s. a. e. 
Michigan. 
This matter of duty seems to come very easily to 
some people—with us it is often hard to understand 
just What a public duty is. “ Let us hear the conclu¬ 
sion of the whole matter The fact seems to be 
that throughout parts of New England, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania and to some extent New Y r ork the 
scale is losing something of its power to spread. 
This seems to he due to an increase of its natural 
enemies. The scale has been with us about long 
enough for the parasites and insects which feed 
upon it to become quite numerous. All know how 
certain insects, like the potato beetle, increase as 
potato' growing spreads. In somewhat the same 
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manner the parasites which live upon a certain in¬ 
sect will inci’ease as that insect spreads and thus 
provides the special food for the parasites. This 
seems to be what is happening slowly to the scale. 
After some years it is quite likely that this scale 
will be brought to the economic conditions of some 
other insects once very destructive but now kept in 
check by their parasites. The same thing may fin- 
ally happen to the potato beetle, yet suppose we 
reasoned from that hope that there is no use spray¬ 
ing to kill the beetles! We consider it our duty to 
tell our readers to keep right on spraying to kill 
the scale. We hope that the parasites will some 
day master it, but they have not done so yet. We 
shall keep right on spraying, though we have 
“planted” the parasites in the oi*chard. It is our 
duty to tell our friends what we are going to do 
ourselves. Spray! 
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We never knew the time when more interest was 
taken in convenient water systems for the farm¬ 
house. Men may come and men may go, each bi’ing- 
ing some large “issue,” but the greatest household 
problem will l'emain the same—bringing water to 
the house, letting it circulate freely with heat and 
cold, and then taking it out in a safe and sanitary 
manner. We want to make our readei*s see that the 
bathroom, the “septic tank” and the kitchen water 
x’ank with the silage cutter, the reaper and the farm 
engine in importance. The Agricultural Department 
at Washington has just issued a pamphlet on “Farm 
TYater Systems,” which is of far gx - euter impoi’tance 
than any bulletins on the Mexican War. It will tell 
you just how to get water to the house, what to do 
with it when you get it there, and how to take it 
out. It is free, and you should send for it. We 
shall stand for this water question just as we do 
for Alfalfa, lime or cooperation. 
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Our old friend E. G. Lewis had a full and complete 
vocabulary of guff, sarcasm and abuse. No one 
knew better than he how to induce a confiding per¬ 
son to part with his money, or how to turn on him 
when, later the poor thing found that he had been 
duped. The R. N.-Y. went through it all, from oily 
guff to murderous sarcasm. Mr. Lewis thought he 
did a master stroke when he urged his soldiers to 
call The R. N.-Y. 
That 10-cent paper! 
Lewis seemed to think that would end us. It did 
drive the other farm papers out of the trial term 
offer, but we kept right on. We think of Lewis on 
receiving the enclosed: 
We subscribed for Tiie R. N.-Y. for a period of “10 
weeks for 10 cents,” and although we do not harbor any 
ill-feeling toward you or your solicitor, we think you 
have taken an unfair advantage of us by filling the 
paper so chock full of good things that we cannot possi¬ 
bly get along without it; consequently we are enclos- 
you $1 for a renewal for one year. 
M isconsin. c. e. Patterson. 
We could show thousands of letters like this one, 
where a short visit has led to life-long friendship. 
Some of them put it in a foi’cible and pointed way: 
“You have your toe in my door and you force your 
way in. I cannot help helping you to do so 
New Jersey. j. D . M< 
Selling goods by sample is the fairest way of do¬ 
ing business, provided the samples are representa¬ 
tive and uniform. The R. N.-Y r . spends no time tell¬ 
ing a stranger or anyone else what it is going to do. 
We rather say to all ; “We put all we have into 
each issue of The R. N.-Y. Some issues will suit 
your personal tastes better than others, but a fair 
reading of 10 papers will show you whether the 
paper will help you or not. We will accept your 
judgment in the matter.” The other papers have 
abandoned this plan of selling by fair sample. The 
R. N.-Y. has found it an admirable plan for extend¬ 
ing its circulation, for a very large proportion of 
these visiting friends become I’egular membei*s of 
the family. 
BREVITIES. 
Oh who can hope to pay the piper when—old boarder 
cows ai*e kept by boarder men? 
_. wa y to got that heavy soil of yours into the 
limelight is to use lime. Lime will lighten it. 
The Japanese are shipping eggs to Hawaii. The 
Business hen” covers the world, and hatches out trade 
in all the corners. 
Striking the keynote. Many people do it, hut most 
of them put on the soft pedal, and seem to be afraid 
that someone will really hear the note. 
In Bulletin 127 the Pennsylvania Experiment Sta¬ 
tion gives a thorough study of the limestone and lime 
supplies of that State. It is a very full and complete 
record of Pennsylvania lime. 
A newspaper report from Isabella do Sagua, March 
.50, states that Boatswain Lnnemberg of the steamer 
Borney Castle fell from the bridge of the vessel into 
the harbor that day and was devoured by sharks before 
a rescuing boat could he lowered. Last year The It. 
N.-Y. was informed, by a government official that 
sharks did not attack human beings, hut several of 
our readers came forward with dissenting opinions. 
