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The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER 
\ National Weekly Journal lor Country and .Suburban Homes 
Established mso 
Published sieekly by the Rural Publishing fninpnny. 8.1S tt est 30tli street, .New lord 
Herbert W, Coli.ingwood, President and Editor. 
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IVm. F. Dillon, Secretary. Mrs. E. T. Hoyle, Associate Editor. 
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“A SQUARE DEAL” 
We believe that every advertisement in this paper is backed by a respon¬ 
sible person. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make good 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 be publicly exposed. We arc also often called upon 
to adjust diiferences or mistakes between our subscribcis and honest, 
responsible houses, whether advertisers or not. We willingly use our good 
offices to this end, but such cases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactIons. We protect subscribers against rogues, but we will not bo 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
Notice of the complaint must be sent to ns within one month of the time of 
the transaction, and to identify it, you should mention The Rural New- 
Yorker hen writing the advertiser. 
O N page 11G4 the public received an invitation to 
throw eggs at the parcel post service. It did 
rot require a certificate of innocence to qualify one 
to throw an egg. All that was needed was a con¬ 
crete case of damage or neglect on the part of the 
authorities. Here is a sample egg just thrown: 
It will, I feel, interest you to learn that a new phase 
has developed in parcel post vs. egg shipments. On 
Sept. 27th I marked two cartons of eggs, one to Wm. 
J. Marsden, 304 Hawthorne Ave., Yonkers. N. Y.. the 
other to Miss Ethel Post, 23 Cliff Ave., Yonkers. N. Y. 
Up. to this writing (Oct. S) absolutely nothing is 
known of the whereabouts of these packages, which 
did not reach Yonkers! Surely the plot thickens. I 
have reported this to Mr. Stone at Washington. 
Massachusetts. J. w. cary. 
Since we found those packages of butter in the 
“empty” mail sack we think it likely that the eggs 
have gone to join the butter. They will make a 
cake that is “ail dough.” 
* 
We have the smallest and most zealous member of 
the Apple Consumers’ League, and wish you would 
enter his name for membership. He is ah .opera singer 
by profession, reaching his high notes easily by way 
of his swing. He begins in the Spring eating the ap¬ 
ple blossoms we have for decoration, welcomes father 
and the first eatable apple with a song and much bop¬ 
ping and eager chirps, which change to rapid chatter if 
his Share does not come soon. He will eat his Weight 
in apple a day at any time. You should see the trust¬ 
ful eagerness with which he tastes a red tomato laid 
up to ripen on the window ledge, shakes his bead at it, 
then returns to it later thinking perhaps it may be an 
apple this time. Ilis name is Sunny Jim, he is a very 
small and (to us) a very valuable canary. Is he 
eligible for membership? E. s. K. 
E certainly is! His name is entered in com¬ 
pany with other notables—including a cat 
which eats Ben Davis apples as sauce for a mouse 
steak, and a man who once used hot baked apples 
as a poultice. All are welcome to the great democ¬ 
racy of the Apple Consumers’ League. The more 
the merrier, and the more merriment the greater 
market for apples. 
* 
Give us, when the spirit moves you again, another 
article on baked apples. The sauce you serve helps 
wonderfully to appreciate this most wholesome dish. 
What apple do you recommend as the best, or one of 
the best to bake? E. G. E. 
Illinois. 
F an average of four baked apples a day for 
many years qualifies us to pose as experts we 
should say that the best apple for all purposes, bak¬ 
ing, pie making, or eating from the hand is Fall Pip¬ 
pin. “Every man to his taste,” but during its brief 
season Fall Pippin is a pippin. Our next choice for 
baking would be McIntosh. No man could ever 
whip the children after eating one. After eating 
two lie would write his mother-in-law giving her a 
most cordial invitation to make her home with him. 
Next we would put Baldwin and Greening—about 
even in excellence for baking. Other varieties may 
be better for eating from the hand, but the above 
list is our choice for baked fruit. At the other ex¬ 
treme—things to avoid are baked Ben Davis or 
Wolf River! 
* * 
L AST week we referred to Mr. J. Leslie Kincaid, 
candidate for the New York Assembly from 
Onondaga County. Mr. Kincaid is the man who, 
last Winter, introduced the “Kincaid bill” which 
aimed to abolish the Foods and Markets Depart¬ 
ment. He failed to accomplish his purpose because 
the farmers throughout the State demanded that the 
Department have a chance. We thought that per¬ 
haps Mr. Kincaid had learned wisdom since one of 
the apple auctions was held in his district, so we 
wrote asking him where he stands now and what he 
will do about the Department if he goes back to 
Albany. From Syracuse comes the following report 
from persons who have known Mr. Kincaid for 
years: 
He is absolutely without independence, probably with¬ 
out ideas. He has been placed in public view by our 
benevolent boss, Mr. Hendricks. We have never knoYvn 
him to ^express an idea on any subject. 
We are obliged to conclude that this report is 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
correct, for not a word can we get from Mr. Kin¬ 
caid on the market question. Now do the farmers 
in the towns of Fa bins, Lafayette, Onondaga and 
Tully, want to be represented at Albany by a man 
who never bad an idea, and would not know how to 
give expression to it if he had one. If they do they 
seem to have a fine chance to have such a represen¬ 
tative in Mr. Kincaid. But these farmers up in that 
rich Alfalfa country are among the most intelligent 
and progressive of any in the State. They particu¬ 
larly need the help which the Foods and Markets 
Department can give them. For such men to vote 
for the author of the “Kincaid bill” and send him 
back to repeat his stupid performance would be a 
political joke calculated to make the Goddess of 
Liberty weep! 
* 
“ Lay On, Macduff.” 
T HERE probably never was a hen named Mac¬ 
duff, though it would be appropriate for a 
rooster. At any rate the sentiment is suitable for 
those 20 hens in the two leading pens at the egg- 
laying contest. Most likely the Leghorns are out 
of it, though they still have a cackling chance, but 
the American birds are October layers! The 10 
leading Wyandottes had laid 1.9SS eggs up to Oct. 
17, with the R. I. Rods second with 1,981. Come on, 
Vermont!—spur up your Reds! May the best hens 
win, but American hens of an American breed will 
look well carrying the banner. There are 14 days 
more for these hens to lay it out! And never forget 
“Tilly,” The R. N.-Y. “Favorite Hen.” Up to Oct. 
17 she had laid 24G eggs in 321 days, and is still 
“going strong.” 
* 
The New York Constitution. 
EW YORK farmers do not take kindly to the 
proposed new constitution. They have had no 
time to study it, and this makes them suspicious. 
A great complicated document is rushed upon them 
without chance for fair examination. Intelligent 
men say it is little less than a crime to ask them 
to pass on such an important matter with only a 
few weeks for study or discussion. By what 
seems like a stupid blunder the adoption or rejec¬ 
tion of the constitution has been made a party poli¬ 
tical question. Farmers as a class were not repre¬ 
sented in the convention. It was ruled by lawyers 
and representatives of big business. We pointed 
out last year the definite need of strengthening the 
Agricultural Department so that it could enforce 
the agricultural laws. Nothing was done about it. 
Farmers object to increased salaries for officials, 
which will mean higher taxes. There is a genuine 
demand for cutting down rather than increasing. 
The $100.000,000 already spent on the Barge Canal 
was authorized against the protest of farmers, who 
have as a class steadily opposed such appropriations. 
They now oppose the further spending of $27,000.- 
000 under the new constitution. Far better let the 
canals alone and spend $27,000,000 for the real 
benefit of the people, adequate terminals in the large 
cities for instance. The new constitution will wipe 
out many State Departments and bureaus or com¬ 
missioners. This Yvill affect the new Foods and 
Markets Department Under the new constitution 
this Department will be abolished. It was created 
on the demand of the Grange and other farm organ¬ 
izations. The farmers have stood by it so valiantly 
that the politicians have not dared to abolish or in¬ 
terfere with it. They expect the neYV constitution 
to kill it for them. The greatest problem before 
the American people today is the economic dis¬ 
tribution of food. The new Department gi\-es the 
only practical and energetic help for marketing re¬ 
form that the State has ever had. While just 
started and working under the severest handicap 
this Department has demonstrated its need. Already 
other States are shaping similar plans for market 
departments. The great lawyers and financial men 
who framed the proposed constitution knew nothing 
about the 35-cent dollar, and cared less. Thus they 
offer nothing which will directly help New York 
agriculture in its hard economic struggle. The is¬ 
sue has come squarely up before our farmers. There 
are some excellent things in the proposed constitu¬ 
tion, but they are tied up with things which are not 
desirable. Do you stand for an increase of official 
salaries? Do you want to bury $27,000,000 more in 
that big ditch? Do you want to abolish the Foods 
and Markets Department? If so you will vote “yes.” 
If you do want these things done you will vote 
“no.” It is a clear challenge to the farmer. We 
have had many letters about the proposed tax 
amendment. This will be voted on separately— 
such vote not affecting the general constitution. A 
discussion of this is given on page 1288. 
October 30, 1915. 
HE potato outlook is very much better than it 
was last year at this time. Disease has un¬ 
doubtedly cut down the yield. The latest reports 
show a steady fall in crop conditions and it seems 
now assured that the total crop will be 40.000,000 
bushels or more less than last year. In addition to 
this there may even be a demand in Europe for our 
potatoes—something that has not happened in years 
before. While therefore the situation has improved 
for potato growers, there should he no let-up in the 
campaign for potato education. We must not only 
show town consumers that the potato is a valuable 
food, but we must also develop the manufacture of 
potato flour, dry potato and other forms of food. 
While there may not be such great need of these 
things this year in disposing of the crop, other years 
of overproduction ar" coming and we should pre¬ 
pare for them. 
* 
T HE Jerseyman still proposes to boss the political 
job! That is what we learn from the woman 
suffrage vote in New Jersey. A majority of the 
men in that State do not want women to vote. That 
is all there is to it at present in a republic. It was 
not really expected by those familiar with the con¬ 
ditions that this conservative old State would vote 
“yes.” Our own opinion is that the women forced 
the issue too soon. They were not fully organized, 
and public sentiment had not fully developed. They 
made a great showing on the whole when they con- 
vimed nearly 130.000 Jerseymen that they should 
have the ballot. It is only a question of time befoi’e 
women will have the vote, for anyone can see that 
the tendency of modern political development is 
working that way. A good loser is the logical can¬ 
didate for sure winner. Many women have the repu¬ 
tation of being poor losers. Proof to the contrary 
over this campaign will be their best asset. 
* 
T HE Jamestown, N. l r ., Journal prints a report 
showing the result of an investigation of the 
milk supply of that city. The milk was scored on 
the basis of the bacterial count—or the number of 
bacteria found in a stated sample of milk from each 
dairy or dealer supplying the public. The limit of 
bacteria count for the various grades of milk, under 
State law and local ordinance are: 
Grade A, pasteurized . 30,000 
Grade A, raw . G0.000 
Grade B, pasteurized . 100,000 
Grade B, raw . 200,000 
Grade C . 500,000 
Milk of higher than 500,000 bacteria count may be 
refused sale in the city. 
It is concluded that all impurities of milk will 
show in this test for bacteria. In all 121 dairies 
or wagons were investigated. The best milk con¬ 
tained 11,000 bacteria—the poorest sample 12.000,- 
000. There were 18 samples with more than 1,000,- 
000 or twice as much as the limit of safe milk for 
sale. The names of the dealers are openly printed 
—the record being a convincing argument—-good or 
bad for the milk men. This plan has been suggested 
in many towns and cities, but usually no one has 
the courage to print the names and record. Per¬ 
sonally we do not think such publicity should be 
made until the dealer has been fairly warned and 
given full chance to clean up his dairy and offer 
clean milk. The man who offers milk containing a 
count of 12,000,000 bacteria is just about as dan¬ 
gerous to children as one who sells a solution of 
arsenic. He certainly is an advance agent for King 
Herod. 
Brevities. 
Are you keeping any pigeons to live on the neighbors? 
Who blames the molting hen for striking? She needs 
feed rather than fretting. 
Tiie last chance for seeding rye as a cover ci'op in 
the latitude of New York. 
Maude Hall of Grain Valley, Mo., won second prize 
in a stock judging contest at Kansas City. 
Our advice and practice is to feed f he corn fodder 
early. Do nbt wait until late Winter. 
Germany is substituting small coins of iron as 
temporary substitutes for copper and nickel. 
This year should see thousands of tons of apple 
pomace utilized for cattle feeding. It will prove a 
substitute for silage if fed properly. 
What will make the agricultural college “sheepskin” 
all wool and a yard wide? The tanning which comes 
from practical labor in the field. 
In 1914 763.185 men were employed in this country 
at mining coal. The average yearly output for each 
man was 724 tons of bituminous coal and 505 tons of 
anthracite. 
“A bushel of black walnuts at $1—the food value 
of $9 worth of beefsteak at 25 cents a pound.” That 
is what the experts tell us, but it is hard to make a 
meat eater think so. 
Many a cow has lost her milk through feeding too 
many apples. A few apples will help a cow—too many 
will spoil her. By starting with a few you can safely 
work up to 20 pounds a day. Worth about half as 
much as good silage. 
