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1 H H. Jhi U IN A. L, NKVV-VOKKKK 
The Rural New-Yorker 
the nasi ness farmer- s paper 
\ National Weekly Journal lor Country nn<l Suburban lloinca 
Established tsiiO 
I'ublMud weekly by the Rural I'uklUblur CeupeDT. 8113 Heat 30th Street,New Vorft 
IIkuiikkt W. Coujvgwood, President ami Editor. 
Jons' J. Cilxok, Treasurer ami General Mannpr. 
Wm. F. Dntoit, Secretary. Mrs. E. T. Royle, Associate Editor. 
SUBSCRIPTION : ONE DOLLAR A YEAR 
To foreign countries in the Universal Fort n 1 fnlon. 82.04. equal to 8s. 6d., or 
td-i marks, or 10 tj francs. Remit in money order, express 
order, personal check or bank draft. 
Entered nt Near York Post Office as Second Clnss Mat ter. 
Advertising rates. 75 cents per Rente line—7 words. References required for 
advertisers unknown to us-; and cash must accompany transient orders. 
"A SQUARE DEAR" 
We believe that every advertisement in this paper is lmcketl by a respon¬ 
sible person. We use every possible precaution and admit the ndvertisinir of 
reliable houses only. But to make doubly sure, wo will mnkc (rood any loss 
to paid subscribers sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertisers or misleading advertisements in our columns, and any 
such swindler will bo publicly exposed. We are also often called upon 
to adjust difference* or mistakes between our subscribers and honest, 
responsible houses, whether advertisers or not. We willingly use our Rood 
offices to this end, but such eases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions. We protect subscribers against rogues, but we will not be 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanetioneil by tlie courts. 
Notice of the complaint must be sent to us within one month of the time of 
the transaction, and to identify it, you should mention The Rprai, New- 
Yorker when writing: the advertiser. 
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. 
(1863.) 
F OURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers 
brought forth on this continent a new nation, 
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the pro¬ 
position that all men are created equal. 
Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, to de¬ 
cide whether that nation, or any nation so conceived 
and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met 
on a great battlefield of that war. We have come 
to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting- 
place for those who here gave their lives that the 
nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper 
that we should do this. Rut. in a larger sense, we 
cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot 
hallow—this ground. The brave men. living and 
dead, who struggled here have consecrated it. far 
above our poor power to add or detract. The world 
will little note, nor long remember what we say here, 
hut it can never forget what they did here. It is 
for us. the living, rather, to he dedicated here to 
the unfinished work which they who fought here 
have so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be 
here dedicated to the great task remaining before 
us—that from these honored dead we take increased 
devotion to that cause for which they gave the last 
full measure of devotion—that we here highly re¬ 
solve that these dead shall not have died in vain— 
that this nation, under Clod, shall have a new birth 
of freedom and that government of the people, by the 
people, for the people, shall not perish from the 
earth. 
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I want to say amen to your editorial in relation to 
college boys in your issue of May 15. It covers the 
situation exactly. We have to turn down whole bunch¬ 
es of them every year, because they are not ready to 
come until the rush of Spring work is over, and thou 
want to leave right in the middle of the harvest season; 
it forces us to give them a lot of education at our ex¬ 
pense at a time we do not need them, and then they 
run away when we want them most. j. h. half.. 
T HIS is not the fault of the college boys—many 
of whom would gladly work through the 
Spring. Their vacation comes at the wrong 
time for the best farm labor. Some of the colleges 
have a course which gives boys six months at school 
and six months at home. They work on the farm 
all Summer and do some experiment work which 
counts in their college work. 
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we never try to do it. Here is a good suggestion, 
however, in a letter which one of our people wrote 
The New York World: 
To the Editor of the World: 
I have read the letter of the director of your Bureau 
of Accuracy and Fair Play to Mrs. P. J. O'Connell 
under date of April 28. 1915. in respect to the Kalos 
Mfg. Co. advertisement. I know nothing of the merits 
of this controversy, but I wish your attitude could have 
been that where there is a doubt you felt that your 
subscribers rather than the advertisers should have the 
benefit of it. 
My reason for writing you is this: I am and have 
for a long time been a reader of The Rural New- 
Yorker. whose advertising policy in regard to fakers 
and fake schemes is the one I consider best of all the 
newspapers of any description 1 read. They have an 
“Anti-Fake" Club connected with their paper, which 
I have long wished to join, and the reason I have not 
is that I have not had the moral courage to give up 
reading the New York World, which I would have to 
do if I joined the Club, because I feel that you have 
for some time carried advertising which I know Tite 
It. N.-Y. would not carry, and which I personally could 
not justify, and I hate to give up reading your paper. 
Its editorial policy I have considered to be the best 
of the large newspapers of New York City, or any 
that I know, but I feel that the paper should do more 
to keep out of its advertising columns some of the 
stuff that finds its way there; and before long I shall 
feel that I must join the “Anti-Fake Club.” and that 
will deprive me of my greatest newspaper pleasure. 8o 
you see where I stand, and what I wish you would do. 
because each bit of evidence like this letter to Mrs. 
O’Connell goes to strengthen my moral courage. 
MILLARD DAVIS. 
That is a good way to put it up to your favorite 
paper. It. will probably have more effect than de¬ 
nunciation or abuse. Most papers will go far to re¬ 
tain the friendship of readers who show real affec¬ 
tion, for they well know that when such people 
really break off the old ties there is no healing for 
the wound. Fake advertising will stop just as soon 
;is conscientious readers follow Mr. Davis and the 
Anti-Fake Club. 
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During 1014. this journal published 118 separate 
articles nn marketing and allied subjects. In all. those 
articles covered a discussion of 23.845 words, which 
clearly shows that at the present time some history 
is being made by farmers in solving tlie market prob¬ 
lem.—The American Agriculturist. 
O UR neighbor has been so licked with postage 
stamps for its failure to oppose the Kincaid 
Dill that it offers the above statistics as its 
only defence. Wonderful work surely! You can 
produce two things out of words—wisdom or wind. 
Some men can take 23.845 words and produce a 
very thin quality of hot air. The following 17 
words of wisdom printed last February in the 
American Agriculturist would have meant more than 
the entire 23,845 words of wind. 
We oppose the Kincaid hill, and will fight the rc- 
election of unit man who voles for it!” 
Not one word of this sort appeared. The great 
mistake in all this thing seems to be the failure to 
appoint Mr. Herbert My rick as Commissioner of 
Foods and Markets! lie would have had the en¬ 
tire problem settled by this time, and other great 
enterprises as well. The My rick system of finance, 
the Myriek cooperative scheme and very likely the 
Myrick Building enterprise as well. Someone may 
say that Mr. Myrick could not act as Commissioner, 
since he is not a citizen of New York. If that is*so 
—what about the American Agriculturistt It is 
printed, published and distributed in Massachusetts, 
and is no more a citizen of New York than Mr. 
Myrick is. What business, then, has it to interfere 
in New York affairs, or tell New York farmers 
their duty? 
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May Iff*, 1 tilCi. 
ceivetl 42 replies, “any one of them capable of tilling 
the bill.” This advertiser writes: 
“Now if I had let them know I was a woman how 
many replies would I have had?” 
You see she merely used her initials, so no one 
knew whether she was a voter or merely a “gonter- 
l»e.” The chances are, however, that if she had an¬ 
nounced herself a woman farmer she would have had 
fewer applicants. Most men say they will not “be 
bossed by a woman,” when many of them would 
render very much better service if they were thus 
directed! 
* 
C AN any of our readers tell of using small gaso¬ 
line engines to work the hay-fork or slings in 
unloading hay? In some cases a windlass ojt- 
orated by such an engine is used successfully. This 
saves the long return trip with the horses, and the 
work is under better control. We would like to 
have definite accounts of such work. 
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I have noticed that the position of men on the ques¬ 
tion of woman’s ability to help guide the ship of State 
is influenced largely by the women with whom they 
happen to be well acquainted. Let rae become well ac¬ 
quainted with ;i man’s wife and I can guess pretty 
accurately whether he is a suffragist or not. without 
asking questions. 
T HAT comes from a good observer of human na¬ 
ture. Do you agree with his conclusions? If 
so what is the test? Is the woman of such 
strong character that the political opinion of the 
husband expresses admiration? Is the woman of 
such inferior ability that her husband does not con¬ 
sider her wise enough to vote, or is he afraid she 
will vote against his party? Is the man dominated 
by his wife and thus a walking advertisement of 
her opinion? Most men, at least at times, like to 
please their wires. Thus if a majority of women 
want the suffrage they can have it when they show 
they are in earnest. 
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J FST liow much of a market for farm products 
does the business of distilling liquors give? We 
tire told about the vast aid to farming which 
whisky, brandy and rum give by providing a grain 
market! The figures from the Commissioner of 
Internal Revenue show the following: 
Bushels of Gallons of Gallons of Gallons of 
rYear Grain used Molasses Spirits Rum 
1012 32.777.004 61,605,281 175,417.460 2,832.510 
1013 34.030,277 64,640.076 183,602.537 2.750.846 
These grain figures look large as they stand, but 
they represent only a little more than one peck for 
each inhabitant of this country. Here are the total 
grain crops for these two years: 
Corn . 
Wheat . 
Oats . 
Barley . 
Rye . 
Buckwheat . 
Total . 
1912 Bushels 
3,124,746,000 
730,267.000 
1.418,337.000 
223.824.000 
35,664,000 
10,249,000 
5,552.087.000 
1913 Bushels 
2.446.988,000 
763,380.000 
1.121.768,000 
178.189,000 
41,381,000 
13,833,000 
4,595,539,000 
Thus it seems that this business of “booze” or 
making whisky, brandy and rum “marketed” one 
bushel in 179 of the total grain crop in 1912 and 
one bushel in 138 in 1913! No greater or more in¬ 
sulting bluff was ever put up than this ridiculous 
claim that “booze making” provides a market for 
farmers! 
Brevities. 
W E have had many letters from readers asking 
about a law which prohibits aliens from keep¬ 
ing a dog. The only tiling of the sort we can 
find is a bill before the Pennsylvania Legislature 
which states: 
“It shall bo unlawful for any unnaturalized foreign- 
bom resident to hunt for or capture or kill in this Com¬ 
monwealth any wild bird or animal either game or 
otherwise of any description excepting in defense of 
person or property and to that end it shall bo unlaw¬ 
ful for any unnaturalized foreign-born resident within 
lliis Commonwealth to either own or be possessed of a 
dog of any kind.” 
This hill has not yet become a law. It would 
compel each alien who kept a dog to pay a line of 
,$25 “for each offense” or serve in jail one day for 
each dollar of unpaid fine and costs. Any dog found 
in the possession of an alien is to he forfeited to the 
State and humanely killed. We doubt if the bill 
will pass the Legislature, but it has stirred up great 
trouble among the dog lovers. One man writes ms 
that the dogs are worth far more than sheep to any 
farmer! He should remember that this bill refers 
only to foreigners, and is not likely to pass anyway. 
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S OME of our readers ask what they ought to do 
when they find a favorite paper running adver¬ 
tisements which they know are dishonest or 
clearly misleading. It is always difficult for oue 
person to lay dowu a line of duty for another, and 
E VERY now and then some one writes for advice 
regarding a legal matter which is clearly an 
attempt to take an unfair advantage of an¬ 
other or ;in effort to escape an honorable settlement. 
Through some small legal technicality it may be 
possible to take advantage of an unsuspecting man 
or woman and squeeze property or private rights 
out of them. In some cases parties have committed 
sin and seek to escape the legal consequences. 
There are only it few of such cases, we are glad to 
say. We believe that The It. N.-Y. has the most 
efficient machine for honest service to its readers ever 
organized by it farm paper. Not one cog or spoke 
of this machine will ever he knowingly turned to 
Help promote a dishonest scheme or Help one party 
to take tin unfair advantage of another. Those who 
make such suggestions will be told this and may 
receive an opinion along with the information. 
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L AST month there was an offer of an unoccupied 
farm in Maine as a test for back-to-the-hinders. 
A few people applied, but most seemed to think 
there must l»e some catch about it, since the offer 
was a liberal one. There is so much fraud in the 
real estate business that when a person tries to be 
liberal his motives are misunderstood. The offer of 
this farm was genuine, but whoever takes it must 
work and spend some money on repairs. One ad¬ 
vertiser called for a hired man or manager and re- 
If bread is the staff of life what do you call milk? 
The re-tired farmer is all right. We do not mean the 
lazy “sitter” in town who has “retired,” but the out* 
who has put on new tires on and starts over. 
In North Dakota the average distance of all farms 
from a railroad is seven miles. In New Jersey you 
can hardly get that far away from a railroad. 
We want till the information we can get about hay 
caps. Some report great success with them. Others 
are indifferent. What is the truth? Does it depend 
on the location or the season? 
Creosote is used for wood preserving. Most of it is 
imported from Germany and England, and the war 
has cut imports by half. American manufacturers are 
now planning to increase the home production. 
Holland is a heavy producer of oleo, yet Dutch but¬ 
ter sells at a high figure and dairying is profitable. 
That is because the Government puts its brand upon 
Dutch butter when it is honestly made. 
The question about killing tints comes up again. 
Find the nest or “hill” and punch a hole into it with a 
crowbar. Pour in half a pint of bisulphide of carbon 
and cover with a blanket. The fumes will do the rest. 
Wiiat is “Java” coffee? There will be a public hear¬ 
ing at the Department of Agriculture in Washington 
on June 4 to settle the question. One side holds that 
the name should be confined to coffee grown on the 
island of Java. Others say coffee grown on Sumatra 
should be included! 
The Alabama Supreme Court has declared constitu¬ 
tional the law forbidding papers or magazines to print 
advertisements of liquor. This is important, because 
it deals with the right of the public to determine what 
a paper shall print. The point was that so long as the 
liquor interests could advertise largely they could con¬ 
trol the policy of the newspapers. 
