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TJHfcC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 27, 1915. 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Home* * 
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I'lilillulu-d ueekl.T by the- Rural I'liblixlilng Company, 83.'! 'Vest 30lh Street, New Torn 
Herbert W. Collingwood, President and Editor. 
Jons J. Dillon, Treasurer and General Manaprer. 
Wm. F. Dillon. Secretary. Mrs. E. T. Royle, Associate Editor. 
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advertisers unknown to us ; and cash must accompany transient orders. 
“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 are also often called upon 
to adjust differences or mistakes between our subscribers and honest, 
responsible bouses, 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, lint we will not be 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the 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 Rural New- 
Yorker when writing the advertiser. 
H ERE is one which apple eaters may like to try: 
W. K. W. II. says: “Tell your readers to try 
boiled apples, which are infinitely more delicious 
than baked. Put eight or 10 fair apples in a pot, in 
water enough to prevent adhesion to kettle. Cook 
slowly till soft, don’t let them fall apart. Sugar to 
taste or not at. option.” 
* 
T HERE is no question about the business ad¬ 
vantage which goes with neat stationery. The 
name of your farm and your own address, well 
printed on your letters and envelopes, puts you in 
the class with business men, and always attracts 
attention. Use a pen if possible in writing letters 
and use good paper. The expense of these things is 
.not great, but the profit is large. 
* 
Y OU would hardly think that the tree dopers and 
secret remedy fakers would thrive in Niagara 
Co., N. Y. That is in many respects the most re¬ 
markable fruit section in the country! Yet we see 
on page 1.395 that they are at work on the “snuff 
scale” and sure and permanent blight cures. It only 
shows how persistent these fellows are. They will, 
not last long in that intelligent community. 
* 
T HERE has been considerable complaint of late 
about loss of mail—failure to deliver both let¬ 
ters and packages. There is great carelessness in 
the postal service. Again and again we find in 
“empty” sacks sent here for carrying mail, to the 
post office both letters and packages which have been 
left in the sacks! It looks as if many a package is 
“lost” in this way. 
* 
I note what the Hope Farm man has to say about 
getting after the lawmakers. I have been holding public 
office in a small way for about six years; am a council¬ 
man in a city of about 15.000 and receive no salary, 
only “honor.” My experience has been that as soon as 
a man has been elected to an office lie puts in most of 
his time trying to cinch his job. and is constantly 
afraid of offending someone and thereby losing votes. 
The man holding public office who has not made many 
enemies, in my estimation is not worth his salt. 
Virginia. j. l. iieydenreicii. 
W HEN a man tries to “cinch his job” he straps 
the saddle to the back of the public so tight 
that it grows on. Public oflice is a public bust as 
most men see it. Mr. Heydenreich has the Scripture 
tc prove his last statement: 
“iPoc unto you, when all men shall t spealc well of 
you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets .” 
It is like a mental and moral thanksgiving dinner 
when men come forward with such sentiments. 
* 
R EV GEO. B. GILBERT gives us all something 
to think about this week when he asks if we 
are getting “hard to get along with!” It must he ad¬ 
mitted that when some of us get to be 45 and over 
we are not exactly what one would call genial 
companions. The worst of it is that the sourer the 
man grows the harder it is for him to realize what 
he represents to others. A man is not unlike a 
potato plant. You cannot have mealy, dry, good 
quality potatoes unless you can keep the plant grow¬ 
ing steadily to the end. Let the plant stop growing 
before its time and the tuber is sure to he soggy 
and poor. The trouble with many grown-up people 
is that they stop growing in mind and spirit. Char¬ 
acter stops growing too, and turns sour and dis¬ 
contented—and the man is “hard to live with.” The 
man, like the potato plant, should he kept growing 
up to full maturity. The way to avoid the bug and 
blight of depression and “grouch” is to keep your¬ 
self sprayed with the joy and hope of childhood. 
* 
A LL editors receive from time to time, various 
“cures” or methods of treating diseases of 
plants or animals. Usually some farmer tries a new 
method on a sick animal or a feeble tree. Improve¬ 
ment follows, and a “cure” is promptly announced. 
A familiar case is slitting the bark of a tree to cure 
the blight, or pouring boiling water on the trunk, or 
driving nails into the trunk or roots to kill the 
scale. Sometimes these cures are given freely to 
the public, while in others they are kept secret, to 
be sold for $5 more or less. Many of the people who 
offer these “cures” are honest and sincere, and they 
have no patience with the scientists who must have 
the true connection between cause and effect. Some 
of these men tell us the scientists are jealous of 
them because they have not discovered the secret 
first. In one case we had a sure cure for blood dis¬ 
eases. The principle of this consisted in packing the 
patient’s head in ice and raising the rest of his 
body to a temperature of 156 deg. We suggested 
that the inventor try it first on himself, for surely 
one should take his own medicine. A little thought 
will convince anyone that a paper like The R. N.- 
Y. should not print these untested cures without a 
clear explanation from some one who can analyze 
them. 
* 
H 
ERE as a couple of Thanksgiving reminders: 
I sent this young man a 10-weeks’ trial some time 
ago, and this is the result: We have secured another 
convert. Whenever I want to treat any of my friends, 
instead of giving them a cigar or drink, I send them a 
10-weeks’ trial, and in the last ten years I have sent 
you quite a few. I believe in extending a favor to mu¬ 
tual friends, which I am doing when I send a 10-weeks’ 
trial. s. c. borcii. 
We can find no fault with that sort of “treating.” 
It is not likely to lead to intemperance. Whenever 
we think it advisable to ask a man to “have some¬ 
thing,” we give a good apple in place of a drink or a 
cigar. Mi’. Borch’s “treat” will last longer. 
Some years ago at a Buffalo poultry show a young 
man accosted me with The R. N.-Y., and I subscribed 
for it as a joke, not being a farmer, hut to-day it is the 
most cherished paper I get, and I get a number of 
them. J. a. nix. 
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“And they who came to scoff remained to pray!” 
All we have ever asked is the chance to show just 
what we are. We have not found it necessary to 
tell our people what we have done or what we are 
going to do. We assume that they know a good 
thifig when they see it, and so we spend our time 
trying to make good and not in telling about it. 
TTE rail ourselves a commercial farm 
rr journal.” 
We find that in “The New York Packer”—seven 
profoundly wise -words in a five-column criticism of 
the Department of Foods and Markets. A man may 
stick any label he pleases upon himself, but the 
public may he trusted to edit it. properly. One of 
our readers sent the “Packer” a true report of crop 
conditions in his locality. It was a brief, good re¬ 
port, with nothing which could give the writer any 
trade advantage or advertising. As a “commercial 
farm journal” the “Packet*” is full of such reports— 
supposed to give honest and unbiased statements. 
The “Packer’s” “reports” seem to have a string tied 
to them. Our friend says: 
Their representative called on me and said they had 
received the communication, and they had not published 
it, giving as a reason that they had received no adver¬ 
tising from the dealers in this belt, leaving me to infer 
that they were perfectly willing to withhold a general 
news item until such time as they received the adver¬ 
tisement, which he was seeking then. Naturally I de¬ 
clined to advertise, and so far as I know, they did not 
publish the article, in which, of course, they were per¬ 
fectly within their right, hut to my mind, it only goes 
to show that they are favoring the advertisers and the 
commission men rather than the growers of this section. 
In view of this we think “The Packer” is right. 
It is a commercial farm journal—very commercial 
indeed! 
* 
A MERICA and the world lost a great man in 
the death of Booker T. Washington. In many 
respects the life of this .colored man was the most 
remarkable ever lived in this country—noted as it 
is as a land of marvellous opportunities. Here was 
a man, horn a slave, with all the handicaps of color, 
abject poverty and lack of training. By sheer abil¬ 
ity, perseverance and indomitable will he grew up 
and away from slavery and became a great educa¬ 
tor and trusted leader of 10.000.000 people of his 
race—receiving the highest honors from the great¬ 
est universities. Other men have come up from 
poverty and hard conditions to gain one or more of 
these things, which may well represent the prizes of 
human life. Y T et we venture to say that America, 
with all its wealth of glorious human product, has 
not yet given the world a man who won more of 
them under harder conditions than Booker T. Wash¬ 
ington. The writer knew Mr. Washington person¬ 
ally, and followed his work with care. Few real¬ 
ize what the nation owes to this quiet, unassum¬ 
ing man for his work in organizing industrial train¬ 
ing for the colored people. He had the common 
sense to see that his people must work out their 
own salvation through habits of industry, thrift 
and skilled manual labor. Such men, through one 
short human life, can only hope to spread abroad a 
little of the leaven of hope and education, but their 
work is never lost. We think it is fair to say that 
Mr. Washington held the respect of intelligent and 
thoughtful men at the South as well as at the North, 
for all must realize that the South is the natural 
home of the colored man, that the section needs him. 
and that the faster he becomes a better man and a 
more skillful worker the faster the South will gain. 
We think all men will agree that Washington’s in¬ 
fluence, in his school and on the platform, was de¬ 
signed to make a better workman and a more pros¬ 
perous South. lie did his hard work well. The 
R. N.-Y. delights in honoring such men regardless 
of color or race or creed. 
* 
Hood River apples are selling in Wisconsin at 2*4 
cents each. Apples grown in the Middle States are sell¬ 
ing at less than one cent each in hulk ; the quality is 
frequently as good, but cannot be depended upon. The 
Western apple growers are a long way from market. 
The necessary costs are heavy and often leave little 
for the producer. It is the enterprise of the western 
grower in raising the quality to the highest point, put¬ 
ting his product up in attractive packages, and co¬ 
operating in the sale of them, that keeps him in the 
business at all. It is the lack of these qualities in the 
fruit growers of the Mississippi Valley that permits the 
man two thousand miles away to take the market from 
him. 
T HIS is taken from the Wisconsin bankers’ farm 
bulletin. It is true. Our reports from the 
Northeast are that buyers are abandoning other 
sources and ordering more and more of these ap¬ 
ples from the Pacific Northwest. Many of them are 
willing to admit that these apples are not superior 
or as good in quality as New York, Pennsylvania 
cr New England fruit. The western fruit is uniform¬ 
ly packed and when a man buys a package he knows 
before he opens it just what he will receive. He 
feels the same confidence that he would in buying 
a standard brand of baking powder, breakfast food 
or a trade mark tool. Now there are no finer ap¬ 
ples in the world than the best of those grown in 
the Hudson Valley and other Eastern sections. Mr. 
Teator and Mr. Hitchings win national prizes 
against all comers. Some of the most beautiful 
fruit from Dutchess County, N. Y., went to the 
copper regions for sale this Fall, but unless the gen¬ 
eral pack of New York apples can be improved and 
standardized, our people will lose the great north¬ 
ern trade to the Pacific Coast. 
* 
“How do you stand on the question of the tariff?” 
W E are in favor of a tariff commission to reg¬ 
ulate and enforce rates of tariff. It is evi¬ 
dent that for years at least a portion of our public 
revenues must be raised through a tariff on import¬ 
ed goods. While the tendency will be to work more 
and more toward direct taxes no one imagines that 
free trade could be put into practice for years. All 
this being so, the tariff question ought to he taken 
out of politics and put into the hands of a strong, 
independent commission. We would have strong bus¬ 
iness men from the leading lines of industry handle 
the tariff question much as the Interstate Commerce 
Commission handles transportation problems. Every 
politician in the country will object to this because 
they want the tariff to he settled by Congress di¬ 
rectly. A general tariff bill gives a chance for 
dickering and trading, so that there never has yet 
been a tariff law passed in this country that was 
satisfactory. Such a commission as we suggest 
could adjust the tariff without tearing it all apart. 
Here is something for our farmers to work together 
on. In former years while they have been fighting 
each other over the tariff, robbers have been going 
through their pockets. 
Brevities. 
Better salt pork with thanks than a turkey stuffed 
with growls. 
A few of these German “meatless” days will not 
hurt you. 
These farmer problems will not be made right until 
more educators show some fight. 
And now Hong Kong, China, is shipping chilled beef 
of native growth to the Philippine Islands. 
“Brighten up the corner where you are!” Sing 
this in the wood-shed and beat time with the ax. This 
will brighten up all the other corners in the house. 
When we buy a machine to take the place of one 
or more men, do we give it a better show than the man 
had? 
The Japanese government ordered 72 crates of Black 
Minorca poultry from this country to aid in the recent 
coronation of the Mikado. 
It is said that the Germans are using potash taken 
from seaweed for making explosives. One would think 
this kind ought to be used by the navy ! 
An English farmer near the sea coast was fined $2.50 
for leaving a fire burning out doors at night. It might 
serve as a “signal, guide or landmark” for the enemy. 
