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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 17, 1915. 
gwered by some member of the Depart¬ 
ment of Poultry Husbandry; questions 
concerning fruit growing are answered by 
some member of the Department of Po¬ 
mology, etc. So instead of having (as 
you suggest) one correspondent to an¬ 
swer queries, the information is given by 
members of the faculty, each of whom is 
an authority on the subject referred to 
him. There are about 50 faculty mem¬ 
bers who give part of their time to an¬ 
swer these questions. An average of 35 
to 40 letters a day are referred to the 
various departments for reply. Some de¬ 
lay occurs at times, but an earnest effort 
is made to send a prompt and helpful re¬ 
ply to each letter. 
Pet me call attention to the fact that a 
broad general question is difficult to an¬ 
swer. A random request for advice on 
how to run a farm gives very scanty data 
on which to base a reply. A specific 
question is best. It should be accom¬ 
panied by a description of local condi¬ 
tions so that the particular problem in 
question can be better understood and 
appreciated. B. T. galloway. 
Dean N. T. Agricultural College. 
We know from experience that some 
questions are very hard to answer be¬ 
cause they are not clear. The writer does 
not always state his case in full, and not 
knowing all the particulars it is not possi¬ 
ble to give a positive answer. There is 
about as much skill required in asking a 
question as there is in answering it. 
A Day With the Pastoral Parson 
On page 528 we referred to the work 
being done by Rev. Geo. B. Gilbert in his 
country parish among the hills of Con¬ 
necticut. This has awakened much in¬ 
terest among our readers, and we are glad 
to give below the story of Palm Sunday 
as it was spent by Parson Gilbert: 
We, little George and I, did not get 
started on our Sunday missionary trip 
till Sunday morning, as mother was 
away and I could not leave things 
over night. We had in the wagon a large 
number of Easter cards, and also a great 
quantity of reading of all kinds, includ¬ 
ing many farm papers. Over the other 
side of the foot hills we stopped at the old 
Peeden Place farm. There are two little 
boys here. After the first attempt at 
farming they had to go back to the city, 
and one child died there, so they are back 
again, and certainly must be helped all 
one can. We left some Easter cards and 
farm papers, passed the time of day, told 
the woman we thought her hens would 
begin to sit soon, and went on. At the 
next stop we found the children—eight 
at home—were having the mumps. We 
left some cards and papers for them and 
the next door neighbor, cheered them as 
we could, and went on to the first family 
connected with the church. Here we 
drove up to the barn, for we are going to 
change horses. It is 10 miles from home 
and two from the church, and “Old Doll” 
can have a good rest and dinner. This 
family came out from the city to fight its 
way for a living against dreadful odds 
until now it is winning out. Only the 
good woman here could tell in how many 
ways the Pastoral Parson has helped her 
out. The neighbors still tell of how in re¬ 
sponse to her appeal for help in getting 
her a pair of pigs—very scarce at $12 a 
pair—he appeared one Sunday morning 
with two in the back of the buggy 
that made the “finest pair ’round” for $8. 
Every week the team comes up to town, 
from this home, and the horse is stabled 
in the Parson’s barn while his horse and 
carriage make the rest of the trip to town. 
The first year the Fall roasters from this 
place were sold for 11 cents a pound. The 
next year they were sold over the Pas¬ 
toral Parson’s telephone for 22 cents a 
pound. 
From here we hasten down to church, 
but must turn aside to stop to see a new 
family. They have just moved out from 
New York City. While the two boys are 
getting ready to go down to church, we 
have so much to talk about—seeds, kind 
of corn to plant, where to sell the eggs 
and to*buy produce, etc. This family is 
not getting over 45 per cent eggs while 
that just left is getting 80 per cent. Rut 
from here we hastened down to the coun¬ 
try church. Many had got no word of 
our coming—it was not our regular Sun¬ 
day—but we had 17 out—10 men and 
seven boys. Everything about the ser¬ 
vice was happy and hearty. Some time 
during the service there is always a talk 
about things going on in the country at 
large—the war, prices of foodstuffs, Billy 
Sunday, and anything that is “in the air.” 
This Sunday the people heard all about 
the minister’s recent trip to Virginia and 
Washington, the jitney bus lines, the 
farms down there, the prices the farmers 
got, etc. The farmer interviewed in Vir¬ 
ginia took and read The Rural New- 
Yorker. 
After this talk came the sermon. It 
was on Palm Sunday. Why did they 
lake off their coats and put them down 
in the road to have Him ride over them? 
It was because lie had helped them. The 
blind man, the palsied, the lame, deaf, 
they would do it in a minute for Him. 
Let all church people go out and just 
help, help, help, in any way and every 
way. Then will the people come to 
church as they came out on the way to 
Jerusalem. After dinner we go back and 
get our own horse again for the long, 
different, way home. We must ust stop 
a minute at this first house. There are 
five little children and Easter cards were 
left and reading matter with a couple of 
farm papers. The Pastoral Parson must 
come here oftener and help more. Though 
in a hurry I consented to run out and 
look at the place where he is going to 
build a henhouse and to draw a little 
sketch as to how I would build it. I 
could also tell him where there was soon 
going to be a sawmill near by where he 
could get out the lumber. When I told 
him how I got 60 eggs from 67 hens the 
day before, he had great respect for my 
advice. But we could not stop again for 
about 10 miles till we pulled up for sup¬ 
per at a farmhouse. In this district we 
held a sehoolhouse service in the even¬ 
ing. We have had such here for nine 
years, and that night we find 24 present— 
16 men and boys. We had a fine sing to 
start off, hymn after hymn of the old fa¬ 
miliar tunes. Then a psalm, the Creed, 
Lord’s prayer and other prayers. Then a 
talk about like the morning one. After 
the offering, more singing. Then after 
the service we always stay for a good visit 
and something to eat. We always have 
a bite together, it makes us social. Then 
came the six miles home, over the big 
hill. We turned in as the clock hit 12-^ 
tired—but such a good time as we had 
had, and there wasn’t a bit of time the 
next day for “Blue Monday Musings,” as 
we had to get the chicken nursery, as I 
call it, ready for business and next Fall’s 
early layers. 
THE “ STRONG-ARM ” ON THE POTATO- 
DIGGER. 
The hired man and the horses are both 
getting too high-pricCd for ordinary farm 
work. Both results have upset the pre¬ 
dictions of 10 years ago. Then it was 
claimed that there would be a great drift 
of laboring men away from the town and 
city on to the farm, so that wages of 
farm labor would fall and farmers would 
have less difficulty in getting their work 
done. The reverse of this has proved 
true. Wages have steadily risen in the 
city, and especially in the Eastern States, 
anywhere near town, the drift has been 
more and more away from the farm. The 
expert and faithful hired men have really 
made their business into a profession, and 
they can command practically their own 
figure. The well-to-do farmers can se¬ 
cure this high-priced labor, but the farm¬ 
er of moderate means must cither take 
inferior helpers at a lower price or ar¬ 
range his farming so as to do most of the 
work himself, or with the help of mem¬ 
bers of his own family. Much the same 
thing has proved true of horse labor. 
When the development of gasoline motive 
power was well under way, predictions 
were freely made that the horse would 
disappear and that automobiles and tract¬ 
ors would supersede him for both city 
and farm work. As every farmer knows, 
this prediction has not proved true. It 
is a fact that many of the light road 
horses have disappeared, and motor cars 
have taken their place. For trucking in 
the city, and plowing and other farm 
(Concluded on page 588.) 
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