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Where Boys Make Good. 
(Concluded from page 883.) 
milk. I do not believe these boys will 
ever become cureless dairymen. I asked 
a boy why be took all these pains to 
wash himself and the cows. The answer 
was in effect that it was not merely to 
be clean but to furnish clean, healthful 
milk for children. 
AN INSPIRING INFLUENCE.—I 
confess that I was charmed with the en¬ 
thusiasm and vigor, skill and ideals of 
those boys. Their conduct was edifying. 
Their work was inspiring. We complain 
of the congestion of cities and the diffi¬ 
culty of getting competent help at the 
farms. Here is a school making com¬ 
petent dairymen of city boys, and placing 
them on the farms of the State. We 
complain of the decrease of dairy cows. 
Here are boys practically trained to raise 
healthy dairy cows from reacting moth¬ 
ers. We hear complaint of unclean milk. 
Here is a school training boys how to 
produce clean milk by actually producing 
it, and inspiring them with the highest 
ideal of dairymen. 
THE BOYS AND THEIR FUTURE. 
—When the boys are fit for service they 
are engaged to farmers who are willing 
to take them into their homes, make them 
members of the family, and pay them 
fairly for their services. The boys are 
placed in families of their own religious 
professions, the Catholic boys in Catho¬ 
lic families, Jewish boys with Jewish 
families, and Protestant boys with fami¬ 
lies of their particular denomination. 
Agents of the school are on the road con¬ 
stantly, finding places for the boys, and 
visiting them after they are placed. 
Brother Barnabas writes them a personal 
letter three times a year, and encourages 
correspondence from them. 
I know no other school doing this kind 
of work; but there are millions of city 
boys who need just this kind of training. 
Millions of places await them on the 
farms, and millions of opportunities will 
be open for them in the future to become 
substantial farmers of their own lands. 
Hundreds of millions are now being spent 
by cities and States to care for boys and 
girls in charitable institutions without 
training them for any useful occupation 
or ideal in life. Churches of all denom- 
nations are doing their best with this dif¬ 
ficult problem of the dependent and de¬ 
linquent boy and girl; but somehow they 
have for the most part failed of satis¬ 
factory results. It seems to me that the 
Lincoln School affords a significant sug¬ 
gestion to the old charitable institutions. 
They must, however, bear in mind that 
a farm with suitable buildings and a 
dairy of cows is not enough. It will re¬ 
quire a leader devoted to the education of 
boys, with a broad vision and with a 
heart palpitating with sympathy *or 
humanity. All schools will not find teach¬ 
ers like Brother Barnabas, gifted to in¬ 
spire boys with an ambition of usefulness 
and ideals of service to others; but he 
has produced a model, which men of 
lesser talent and zeal may follow with 
success. j. j, d. 
Rye as a Cover Crop. 
1 SOWED rye after digging potatoes 
last year. I also sow it with buck¬ 
wheat and find it dries out the land, 
so I must put on an extra horse to plow 
it under, and I am afraid it may prevent 
the rise of capillary water. How would 
wheat do to mix with buckwheat? Would 
it not rot easier? Would it make better 
pasturage for cows and swine (until it 
was plowed down)? When I sowed rye 
with buckwheat it was shoulder high 
early in June and I hired a man with 
a tractor plow to turn it under. World 
you risk putting beans on that ground, 
or would you put in buckwheat again? 
I use basic slag as fertilizer. g. d. s. 
Ovid, N. Y. 
The wheat will make better pasture 
or hay than the rye, but not such a mass 
of growth. The wheat will also rot 
quicker than the rye. On our own farm 
with a moist season and the use of lime, 
the rye is rotting freely in the soil. If 
that rye is packed down hard and you 
use lime or slag we should plant beans. 
THE) RURAh NEW-YORKER 
July 4, 
Buckwheat and Sour Soil. 
I N a recent issue of The R. N.-Y. there 
was an article regarding the reaction 
of soils which certain kinds of plants 
require. The writer gathered from this 
article that buckwheat would thrive best 
on a soil giving an acid reaction. Am I 
correct in this? My experience in grow¬ 
ing buckwheat here in California seems 
to indicate that it does require an acid 
soil. Last Summer we secured a much 
larger growth than we are securing this 
Summer. Last year the soil would give 
an acid reaction; the crushed limestone 
has begun to act, the soil now gives an 
alkaline reaction. Across the street from 
our grove is a grove over MO years old. 
I know that the soil in this grove is acid 
to the extent of .07 of one per cent, acid 
expressed as calcium oxide. This man’s 
buckwheat is making a very much better 
growth than we are getting. b. s. t. 
Highland, Cal. 
Both practice and scientific experiment 
show that buckwheat and rye can make 
a good growth on soils so acid that wheat, 
oats or barley would give partial failures. 
A small quantity of lime will sometimes 
help buckwheat, but heavy dressings— 
enough to sweeten the soil—would not 
pay with this crop. 
Quinces for Profit. 
H OW many quince trees on a farm of 
this size would you set. for com¬ 
mercial purposes, and of what va¬ 
rieties? Would you advise Fall plant¬ 
ing? t. s. 
Indiana. 
From our own experience we would 
not set any. The quince is the most un¬ 
profitable fruit we have tried to raise. 
Unless the conditions of soil and climate 
are exactly su.ted to it the trees will 
bloom freely but set little or no fruit. 
There is a limited demand for quince. 
We would not plant over 100 trees if we 
knew they would thrive. 
LEGAL QUESTIONS. 
Distribution of Estate. 
1. If a husband dies leaving no will, 
will all his property (real estate and 
personal) go to his wife, provided there 
are no children? 2. How much would 
fall to the wife if there were children, 
and no will? r. c. k. 
New York. 
1. Where there is no will, real and 
personal property are not distributed in 
the same manner nor proportion. Wheth¬ 
er there are children or not makes no 
difference with the real estate. The wife’s 
only interest in that woudl be her one- 
third dower interest for her life, and if 
there were no children, the balance would 
go to the husband’s father, mother or 
brothers and sisters, according to which 
side of the house the property came from 
and which were living at his death. The 
personal property, if there were no chil¬ 
dren, would go, one-half to the widow, 
and the other half to the next-of-kin, 
that is, to the parents, brothers and sis¬ 
ters, etc. 
2. If there were children, the wife’s 
interest in the real property would be the 
same, that is. she would have her dower 
interest and the balance would go to the 
children. One third of the personal 
property would go to the widow and the 
balance in equal portions to the chil¬ 
dren. _ M. D. 
Rights in Exchanged Property. 
About 20 years ago my father bought 
a piece of property specified as a quarter 
of an acre more or less. The deed gives 
the usual boundary lines, but does not 
give the number of feet bounding on any 
of the properties or on the street. My 
father made a verbal agreement with one 
of the adjoining property holders giving 
him four feet in the road for two feet in 
front. A wall of stone was built on the 
line agreed to. This wall has stood for 
nearly 20 years. Last year our neighbor 
built a house on his property and the 
wall was torn down with our consent. 
Now he wants to claim the two feet he 
traded and holds as the agreement has 
not been recorded in writing he has a 
right to this two feet still. t. n. 
Connecticut. 
The boundary between your neighbor 
and yourself seems to have been definitely 
settled by the location of the boundary 
by your father and his neighbor, and you 
and your neighbor are bound by it now, 
especially so if he has acquiesced in the 
present boundary and keeps the four feet 
in rear. It would have been better, of 
course, if your father had had a enm- 
the land made after the 
then the neighbor had 
containing the two-foot 
strip to your father and he in turn had 
signed one to the neighbor containing the 
four-foot strip so that there could be no 
dispute over the line. The boundaries 
should remain as settled, and your neigh¬ 
bor would not be entitled to change them 
now unless there are other equities in¬ 
tervening which you do not name. 
plete survey of 
exchange and 
signed a deed 
Renewal of Demand Note. 
Will you please tell me if. under the 
laws of Connecticut, a note like the fol¬ 
lowing has to be renewed and how often? 
It reads: “For value received I promise 
to pay on demand $500 without interest.” 
It is signed and dated. In this case a 
son lays out money on his mother’s place. 
As there, are other brothers and sisters 
he was given this note to secure himself, 
but he asked no interest, and does not ex¬ 
pect to ask for the money during his 
mother’s lifetime. e. w. h. 
Connecticut. 
The demand note which you set out 
does not have to be renewed, but is a 
binding obligation, and may be collected 
from the mother’s estate. 
'F 
E. Frank Coe Fertilizers 
1QC7 THE BUSINESS FARMERS’ STANDARD 
lOD / FOR OVER FIFTY-FIVE YEARS 
1914 
YOUR CROPS 
Are 100% Important to You! 
Will It Pay You to Observe and to Study Them? 
T HE first essential toward improving your crops is to understand them. 
To understand them it is necessary to study and to observe them in 
their true present condition. Remember that there are those who 
have eyes to see—but see not. To encourage home study and ob¬ 
servation and improvement of farm crops, we offer the following prizes: 
A—FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPH 
OF CORN— 
First Prize—$20.00 in Cash 
Second Prize—$10.00 in Cash 
Third Prize—$5.00 in Cash 
Five Gratuities of $1.00 each 
B—FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPH 
OF POTATOES— 
First Prize $20.00 in Cash 
Second Prize— $10.00 in Cash 
Third Prize— $5.00 in Cash 
Five Gratuities of $1.00 each 
C—FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPH 
OF HAY- 
First Prize—$20.00 in Cash 
Second Prize—$10.00 in Cash 
Third Prize—$5.00 in Cash 
Five Gratuities of $1.00 each 
D-FOR BEST PHOTOGRAPH OF 
WHEATOR OTHER GRAINS— 
First Prize.—$20.00 in Cash 
Second Prize—$10.00 in Cash 
Third Prize $5.00 in Cash 
Five Gratuities of $1.00 each 
Photographs not receiving a prize or gratuity will either be returned or purchased by 
us at a price to be agreed upon. In the event of a tie between two or more pictures the 
prize will be equally divided. CJ[ There is no red tape connected with this competition. 
The only stipulation that we make is that the crop photographed shall be raised with 
E. Frank Coe Fertilizers. The greatest freedom will be allowed in regard to choice of 
subjects. Crops may be shown growing in the field, while being harvested, or after harvesting. 
The competition will close on OCTOBER 15, 1914, and all photographs 
should be in our hands not later than that date. CjJThe prize-winning 
pictures will be published in the leading farm journals during the winter of 
1914-1915, thus putting the results before a multitude of farmers. 
JUDGING THE PHOTOGRAPHS 
The photographs will not be judged by The Coe-Mortimer Company nor by any of its 
representatives. CJThc judging will be done solely by the following disinterested committee:— 
Mr. William F. Dillon, Secretary of the “Rural New-Yorker,” a farm paper that 
always stands for a square deal. 
Mr. H. H. Charles, President of the Charles Advertising Service, the largest organization 
in the country handling agricultural advertising exclusively. 
Mr. Arthur Stewart, President of the Stewart Publishing Company and Treasurer of 
the Van Dyke Gravure Company, prominent art publishers of New York City. 
In awarding the prizes the Committee will use only this scale of points:_ 
General Excellence of Crop as Illustrated - 
Artistic Merits of the Picture .... 
60 points. 
40 points. 
Write to us for full details of the contest today 
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