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'X'HK IN UKAL NEW-YOKKEK 
April 24, 191.I. 
Business 
The Scotch Collie on the Farm. 
I T is the day of high-grade stock on the 
farm. Many have specialized on horses, 
others on cattle, some turn their attention 
to sheep. Prize-winning hogs are raised 
on farms all over tin* world, each pro¬ 
ducer aims high and our world exhibits 
of fine stock bear convincing testimony 
to the magnificent results. Few farmers 
have turned their attention to raising fine 
dogs. Where it has been tried it has 
proved so successful and remunerative 
that the wonder is so few farmers see 
their opportunity along this line. This 
may he explained by the fact that anyone 
who loves dogs becomes so attached to 
a bunch of puppies that it is like selling 
part of the family to place them on the 
A Family of Dogs. 
market. A Scotch collie will often raise a 
family of nine healthy puppies, and there 
is ready sale for them at prices ranging 
from five to fifty dollars, according to 
the points of excellence developed and the 
ability of the owner to advertise success¬ 
fully. Where a farmer has a good trade 
in purebred stock of any kind it is 
very little added expense to handle pup¬ 
pies. When a trade is once established 
the difficulty often seems to be an ability 
to supply the demand for these household 
pets. The supplying of pets for children 
is not the most important branch of the 
trade. Every farm needs a good dog as 
“watchman” and assistant in driving 
stock. There should be training schools 
for these intelligent animals, as they re¬ 
spond so quickly to instruction and be¬ 
come invaluable on a farm when well 
trained. 
Many farm boys have the ability so to 
train a puppy that he develops all those 
traits most to be desired in a farm dog. 
It is a real education to children to have 
the care and training of an animal, for 
they learn many lessons of obedience 
themselves in doing this work. Sheep¬ 
killing dogs are an abomination on any 
farm, and in sheep growing localities the 
attitude of farmers is so bitter against 
dogs in general that little discrimination 
is shown these intelligent, well-trained 
farm helpers, and many a farmer has 
vowed never to keep another dog after 
losing some favorite animal by the hand 
of the sheep avenger. As purebred dogs 
replace the mongrel curs on the farm, 
their rights will be more respected and 
their usefulness more appreciated. That 
there is a splendid profit in this industry 
has been proved too many times to need 
discussion. Wherever this industry is 
established the problem of keeping the 
boys on the farm is diminished. It is 
one of the farm industries as yet in its 
infancy, but one well worth exploiting 
as high grade Scotch collies have not 
only a market value but are valuable from 
an industrial and aesthetic viewpoint. 
T.et the children and puppies romp and 
frolic together, create a love for intelli¬ 
gent animals in the hearts of the youngs¬ 
ters. and life on the farm becomes so 
full of interest and pleasure for the chil¬ 
dren as they grow up that the allurements 
of the city life take small hold on them, 
and they do not drift away from the best 
place on earth to establish a real home. 
FLORENCE CARPENTER RROWN. 
The 100-Cent Dollar. 
Every Spring a farmer in Vermont 
writes to a friend in New York City 
announcing that it is maple syrup and 
sugar time. This friend passes a list 
around the shop where he works, and 
the men put down the amount of syrup 
or sugar each will take. The sugar and 
syrup is shipped to the shop, and each 
man carries home his share. The freight 
charges are added to the cost of the goods, 
and an average of so much per gallon 
and pound is figured. The friend collects 
the money and remits to the farmer. The 
transportation charges are paid by the 
New Yorker. Around Christmas another 
man gets up an order for turkeys, and 
in 1914 this order amounted to two bar¬ 
rels of turkeys. The maple syrup and 
sugar bill was nearly $50. This scheme 
might bo applied to other produce. Every 
farmer may have a reliable city friend, 
who might get up a club of neighbors or 
a club in a shop or office. The goods must 
be of the best, and all of the same qual¬ 
ity, otherwise ill-feeling and dissatisfac¬ 
tion will develop. It is not human nature 
to be satisfied with inferior goods when 
others in the cooperation get better. 
j. A. w. 
It. N.-Y.—There is without question a 
chance to develop this city trade. Church¬ 
es. fraternities, clerks in large business 
houses, will combine to buy if they can 
be assured of a square deal and a con¬ 
tinuous supply. No single farmer can 
hope to take care of this trade. There 
must be combination and fair dealing at 
both ends. 
Printers’ Ink for Farmers. 
We thought it might possibly be of in¬ 
terest to you to know that we are con¬ 
ducting an advertising campaign along 
rather unique lines. We have a small 
printing press, purchased at a low fig¬ 
ure, on which we do all of our own print¬ 
ing. All of our work is done on stormy 
days, or at night, when there is nothing 
else to do. The boys and girls can be 
Handling Choice Merries. 
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used to good advantage, the boy doing the 
composing and press work, and the girl 
doing the more artistic work, such as 
arranging booklets, binding with fancy 
cords, etc. We do not have to carry a 
large amount of type on hand, as we can 
arrange with our local papers to set up 
the body of all matter we wish to print. 
This is set up on tin* intertype or sim¬ 
ilar machine and can be purchased at 
very low figures, the paper taking it back 
again when we are through with it. We 
utilize almost everything in the line of 
paper, tin* enclosed booklet being a fair 
example of what we done with a lot of 
old manila paper. 
We purchased a high-priced Berkshire 
boar this year, and in every letter sent 
out by the farm we enclosed a small 
printed slip stating the good points about 
Merkshires and about this particular 
boar. It certainly paid, as a great 
many of our farmers in the county did 
not know we had registered hogs, and 
furthermore a great many of them were 
sort of dormant, relative to the proper 
breeding of this species of live stock. 
Our literature has stated good plain 
facts, in fact in all advertising matter 
the truth is the main thing to stick to. 
It has set a great many of the farmers 
thinking, and when you can get the farm¬ 
er thinking your way, and you can if 
your way is right, it is an easy matter 
to do business with him. We believe that 
tin* average farmer does not advertise 
enough; many of them think it does not 
pay. How can anyone tell if anything 
won’t pay until they try it? We have 
tried it and know that it will pay big 
dividends if carried out with the least 
bit of judgment. 
Your paper is always a very welcome 
visitor at our farms, and we have been 
very much interested in the articles on 
electric lighting plants. We have a plant 
that has been in operation five years. We 
use the 19-cell low voltage system and 
have never had any trouble whatever, 
tlx* cells seem to be in as good shape as 
ever. We have used the milking machine 
for two years and would truthfully say 
that we like it in every way. It does 
not seem possible that the dairyman of 
today can get along without it. 
II. II. IIOSLEY. 
Summer Boarders—and Education. 
Having just read the article on “Edu¬ 
cating a Daughter Through City Hoard¬ 
ers,” I would like to add my experience 
along this line. We have a beautiful 
home, but through a had investment were 
set back financially, far more than our 
place would bring. We had two daugh¬ 
ters and one son. The girls lacked one 
year of being through high school. Our 
struggle began in earnest through the per¬ 
fidy of a man in my husband’s employ, 
his business was ruined. 
We live on the side of a small rural 
village, with ideal surroundings, and own 
a few acres of land. We opened our 
house to Summer boarders. Every one 
in the family worked. One maid was 
hired in the Summer, or a woman at the 
price of 10 cents an hour. I have always 
done my own cooking. The daughters 
cared for bedrooms, dining-room and 
helped at other things. For years we 
did all our own laundry work. We raise 
all our vegetables, use what we can, 
“and what we can’t we can”; have our 
own poultry, eggs and milk. The inter¬ 
est and taxes were heavy but the educa¬ 
tion problem must be met. 
One daughter of 10 years got a partial 
scholarship, which later was changed to 
a full one in a musical conservatory, and 
worked for her board. She graduated in 
four years. There was no high school in 
our town, so during her fourth year in 
the conservatory, the other daughter went 
to the same town, and took a year’s work 
in high school, preparatory to taking up 
domestic science, then becoming popular. 
The following year number one was home, 
and the other girl entered one of the best 
schools where domestic science was 
taught in Brooklyn, and in two years 
graduated. The last year of her work 
in school, the son was sent away to high 
school. He graduated in three years, 
won a State scholarship to Cornell Uni¬ 
versity, when at the end of four years he 
graduated in M. E. This totaled 14 
years away from home, with expenses 
made by keeping boarders. 
We are no longer young and not yet 
out of debt. Part of our laundry work 
is now done out of the house, while sta¬ 
tionary tubs and vacuum washer make 
“Brought Up By Hand.” 
light work of the rest of it. We now keep 
two maids in Summer. We have always 
done all our own sewing. We have a 
private sitting room in which is a i*ound 
table large enough for our family to dine. 
The little river that flows hard by 
furnishes power to run a dynamo, giving 
us electric lights at cost of the outfit. 
Our house is equipped with steam heat, 
toilet and bath. We cater to nice people 
only. One daughter teaches music in 
our home town, and helped with expenses 
as best she could till others were educated. 
The other daughter is at head of her pro¬ 
fession of domestic arts in a school in 
one of the largest cities in the country and 
the son, two years ago out of college, is 
working on the efficiency line in a busi¬ 
ness that employs six thousand men. 
We can accommodate 25 to “0 board¬ 
ers. and we find time to work in church 
and civic society, and try to keep too busy 
to think how fast it is all passing away. 
It has been a long pull, and a strong 
pull, and a pull altogether, to pull us 
through. a. n. c. 
Business by Parcel Post. 
The following announcement was made 
in a Minneapolis paper: 
To handle the rush of Easter eggs, 
flowers, poultry, candy and millinery that 
arrived in Minneapolis late yesterday. 12 
autos will be kept busy to-day delivering 
these gifts at the order of Postmaster E. 
A. Purdy. The influx of parcel post pack¬ 
ages that arrived tob late for distribution 
to homes yesterday numbered close to 
5.000. An unprecedented amount of 
packages were received and the conges¬ 
tion resembled a Christmas rush. During 
the past three days the average of pieces 
has been 0.000 daily. 
Much the same report is made from 
all the largo cities. The other day we 
saw two mail carriers here in New York 
so loaded down with packages that they 
looked like walking Christmas trees. 
Everywhere the business of direct dealing 
by parcel post is gaining. It required 
some time to learn b w to pack and han¬ 
dle the goods, and to become acquainted 
with customers, but those who have pa¬ 
tience and perseverance have hung on, 
and are now reaping a reward. 
Testing the Back-to-the-Lander. 
[Tiie R. N.-Y often prints statements 
of farm propositions which are now or 
out of the usual order. The purpose is 
to stimulate interest and show what new 
lines farming is working into. Here is a 
plan suggested, as we believe, in good 
faith to test some of tlx* people who 
think they would like to trv farming. 
The property is in Maine.] 
I have been much interested in the 
back-to-the-land desire of men and wom¬ 
en in the cities, and note that many seem 
to think the Western States offer the best 
chance. I believe more money can be 
made on one of our abandoned Eastern 
farms in less time, and under much b<*i 
ter conditions, if one would be willing to 
put up with half tlx* hardships they would 
have to undergo in any part of the West, 
where land is cheap. 
I have a farm, about 50 acres of 
cleared land in Franklin Co., Maine. 
Land will raise corn, wheat, potatoes, 
etc. Great wheat land, sloping to south 
and east, from MS to 42 bushels are rec¬ 
ords per acre in that locality. Some years 
ago I myself have raised Spring wheat 
and Spring rye in good quantity and tlx* 
highest quality. Quite a lot of grafted 
fruit and many natural fruit trees. There 
is a cottage house, six furnished rooms 
on first floor, unfurnished attic, two 
rooms in attic, studded and lathed. A 
good shed about 20x40. The barn about 
40x50 has blown down, but lumber is 
there, so I understand. I have not been 
on the place for five years. The bouse 
would need repairs as some of the win 
(lows and doors have been stolen and as 
it needs some roofing, some repairs no 
doubt would be needed on plastering, but 
at the outside $100 would make the house 
comfortable. There is a good cellar un¬ 
der it. Water from one of the finest nev¬ 
er-failing springs was piped to the house, 
but last tenant let it freeze up or some¬ 
thing, but a little work would start it 
again. I have never sold the grass stand 
ing on this place for less than $20 per 
year. When I was there last I got from 
$28 to $40 per year for apples, and fruit 
is highest quality and no better orchard 
land in Maine. 
Now if any of our folks want to try tlx* 
back-to-the-land life I will lease any n 
li<ible man or woman tlx* place for five 
years, provided that they go there and 
live, for my taxes in the town which have 
not been over $18 or $19 per year. I will 
also allow them to use tlx* lumber in tli-■ 
fallen barn for any buildings or repairs 
on the place. Also I will allow them t" 
cut all the dead hardwood needed for 
their own use there on the farm. I own 
a lot of woodland on this same place, 
and if wanted I would sell stumpage 
for firewood so a man could make some¬ 
thing Winters cutting wood and hauling 
to town. A’o liay or manure can be 
taken from the place but all crops raised 
can be used as desired. r\ r ‘- 
