1410 THE RURAL >1 hi VV-YORKER 
Business 
Farming on Broadway. 
People who go to New York City are 
not usually looking for a farm, espe¬ 
cially on Broadway. In fact most New 
Yorkers pass this one unnoticed. But 
here is a real farm producing celery, let¬ 
tuce, carrots, beets, potatoes, corn and 
other vegetables, all of which are readily 
sold directly to customers. There are 
four acres in this farm, which lies in the 
valley northwest of the summit of Fort 
George, between Broadway and Nagel 
avenue, just south and to the west of 
the Dyckman Street subway station. 
Probably the highest prices for farm pro¬ 
duce received by anyone in the United 
States are those paid to Mrs. Adolph 
Zerrener, who has owned the property 
for the last quarter of a century.' Di¬ 
rectly in front of the farmhouse, and on 
Broadway, is a public market, from 
which vegetables are delivered to pur¬ 
chasers who take them away in auto¬ 
mobiles. There is never any difficulty 
about disposing of the products of this 
farm; in fact many of the crops are sold 
before they are grown. This property 
is for sale, the same as almost everything 
else in New York, the price asked being 
$278,000, or nearly $70,000 an acre. 
Apples by Parcel Post. 
I am shipping you by parcel post today 
a small box of apples. When they ar¬ 
rive would you mind opening them and 
examining them for bruises, and please 
give me any pointers that I can improve 
on? We have a 10-acre orchard and we 
have about 100 bushels of No. 1 McIn¬ 
tosh, which we can this year easily dis¬ 
pose of locally. Our idea was the fol¬ 
lowing: To pack the best apples in small 
containers, same as I am sending you, 
and a larger peck size, and to put these 
into crates like banana crates, and Whip 
by boat to New York, as we are close 
to Portland. Of course the fruit would 
be wrapped in stamped papers and only 
the very best sent out. It would be in 
New York two days after it was packed. 
We thin all our fruit, and have some ex¬ 
tra fine Wealthy, Duchess, Greening, Mc¬ 
Intosh, Hubbardston, Kings and Graven- 
stein. By this method we would do away 
with railroad and express or parcel post 
charges. n. e. anderson. 
Maine. 
R. N.-Y.—The apples came in fine con¬ 
dition. There was only one slight bruise 
on one apple—larger than the rest— 
which did not pack down close. This 
method of shipping would be excellent 
if you could have an agent here to take 
the packages out of the crates and mail 
them to local buyers. The fruit was 
fine. 
Work for an Auto Truck. 
Our business note for the month fol¬ 
lows : 
Having been a subscriber to your paper 
for some time, I am taking the liberty 
of asking a favor of you. I have a three- 
ton auto truck (covered) and have been 
proprietor of an express route for 11. 
years. Having sold my route, would like 
to get something to do in the line of haul¬ 
ing or contract work, and thought perhaps 
you might be able to advise me. I would 
prefer something in the South, where I 
can use my truck in Winter, if possible, 
but would be very glad of anything in 
that line any place for the present. 
New York. E. a. f. 
The Summer birds go south in Winter 
for new food and new work. People who 
feel the chill keenly and have the price 
go South in December and remain until 
April. Why should not a big truck fly 
South if it can find a good feeding place? 
This exchange of business and location 
is a good idea. Perhaps some of our peo¬ 
ple can tell where the big truck can find 
work. 
The Dissatisfied Customer. 
In reading Hope Farm Notes on page 
1326, allow me to commend the way you 
treat “kickers.” I try to do exactly the 
same way. A neighbor wanted 100 
pounds cabbage from me. I priced it at 
50 cents, just what it sold for in town. 
She wanted to wait till cooler weather 
set in. When it came she asked me to 
bring the cabbage, then cabbage was 
selling at $1 per 100. This she would 
not pay, saying, “I want it at 50 cents.” 
I told her “Not me.” Then she bought 
from another person, paying five cents 
per head. Later she wanted some pump¬ 
kins from me. I told her, “Get your 
pumpkins where you got your cabbage.” 
Missouri. c. P. 
R. N.-Y.—It often becomes a hard 
matter to knew what to do with com- 
plainers. Some people have a way of 
soothing them, but our experience is that 
the chronic complainer is a demoralizer. 
"Pay him and let him go” is the best 
advice we can offer. 
The Business of Song Writing. 
The U. S. Government is prosecuting 
John T. Hall of New York for using the 
mails to defraud song writers. This trial 
has made it evident that hundreds, if not 
thousands, of otherwise sensible people 
are as vain and silly as geese over their 
attempts to write poetry. Hall knew 
this evidently, and he bled these so-called 
poets through their silly spot. His 
scheme was to set their song to music 
and “publish” it. It cost $35 or more to 
do this. Hall got the money safely, but 
the song was either not published at all 
or else only a few copies were ever sold. 
It looks now as if Hall would go to jail 
for his deceptions. That is where lie 
seems to belong, but what we want to 
speak of now is the folly of the so-called 
“poets” who kept this man going. These 
poets are of all classes—lawyers, min¬ 
isters, business men, carpenters, women 
old enough to bo grandmothers and foolish 
young girls. Few if any of them show 
any poetic ability whatever, yet with 
that strange insanity which goes with 
writing poetry these foolish creatures 
sent $35 to Hall and actually expected 
that he could make them famous and 
rich. These respectable people probably 
would not stand on their heads in public, 
yet they are made far more ridiculous 
and more of a nuisance with their silly 
songs. Song brokers like Hall ought to 
be put out of business, but the song 
writers never should get into business. 
Of course we know what it means to hit 
at a man’s poetry, but as one who has 
suffered from the evil habit we feel 
like uttering a solemn warning. If you 
feel an impelling power to write a song 
•—keep it for private consumption. Do 
not send these music brokers $35 or 35 
cents to have the song published. It is a 
1,000 to one chance that the public will 
simply laugh at it. In some cases people 
have taken the $35 from absolute neces¬ 
sities—or even borrowed it from their 
wife’s relatives in order to have a song 
“published.'’ Of course we know that the 
song habit is a terrible thing to break 
off—but try it anyway! 
Mathematics of the Egg Business. 
The New York Sun recently stated 
that the value of one year’s product of 
hens’ eggs is $307.000.000! Then it 
asked the following questions: 
1. Ilow many dozens of eggs are ac¬ 
counted for at prevailing prices? 2. How 
many ordinary freight cars would be re¬ 
quired to hold the product? 3. If the 
eggs were placed end to end, how many 
times would they reach to the moon and 
back? 4. If all were aggregated in a 
single egg, how would it compare in bulk 
with the earth? 
A reader in New Jersey who evidently 
has a head for figures, takes this up and 
gives the following figures. We see that 
the hen does fairly well when sized up 
against freight cars and the moon, but 
assumes smaller proportion in a compari¬ 
son with the earth! 
It may be assumed that the average 
value of eggs is two cents each, while the 
dimensions are two inches long and 1*4 
inches in diameter and the increase of 
bulk when crated is 25 per cent. The di¬ 
mensions of a freight car are: Inside, 
length 36 feet, width S 1 /* feet, height 8 1-3 
feet; outside, length over all, 40 feet. 
The mean distance of the moon, surface 
to surface, is 238.84(4—(3,964 plus 1,081) 
equals 233,795 miles, and the mean diam¬ 
eter of the earth. 7.918 miles. 
From these figures it appears: (1) 
November 27, 1915. 
The year’s product is 1,279.000,000 dozou 
eggs. (2) 19.590 freight cars would be 
required to transport them, and these 
would make a train 14814 miles iong. 
(3) If placed end to end, the eggs would 
reach slightly further than from the earth 
to the moon and back. (4) If the year’s 
product was aggregated in a single egg. 
its bulk would be about fourteen one 
hundred thousandths of a cubic mile, and 
this would be less than fifty-five one hun¬ 
dred thousand million millionths of the 
earth's volume. 
Canning Clams. 
Will you tell us how to can long 
claims? c. d. c. 
Connecticut. 
We have been unable to obtain defi¬ 
nite information. The following is the 
nearest: 
From my experience in canning meats 
should say that it will be necessary to 
cook the clams thoroughly, letting the 
liquor cook down, but not dry, using salt 
enough to season, pack well into cans 
having .enough of the liquor to cover, 
then seal while boiling hot; keep in cool 
dark place. By trying a few cans one 
can easily tell whether this method will 
prove a success. mrs. e. c. g. 
A Source of Information. 
As you seem to be called on for all 
kinds of information from “how to raise 
a baby” to “how to sell a white ele¬ 
phant,” I thought 1 would impose on 
your good nature too. j. w. 
It is true we are asked all sorts of 
questions, and we usually find an answer. 
Selling “white elephants” is no easy task, 
though quite a number of back-to-the- 
Janders have asked us to find market for 
their farms! We are here for service to 
our readers, and while they sometimes 
give us impossible tasks we do the best 
we can cheerfully and diligently. 
Smoking Meat in the Chimney. 
In our living room we have a brick 
fireplace 44 inches wide, 35 inches 
high, 19 inches deep at the bottom 
and 15 at the top. Our family consists 
of my husband and myself only, and he 
has the idea that fo>’ the limited amount 
of smoked meat we will have we might 
make use of the big fireplace to do the 
smoking, his idea being to partition off 
one side with bricks and make a smudge 
fire on that side. The fireplace being our 
only means of heating the greater part 
of the house, the main fire would also 
have to burn, and the difficulty would be 
to avoid the heat in the smoking oven. 
Can any one offer any suggestions? lias 
the thing been done before, and if so, just 
how? We are back-to-the-landers and 
will do our first pig-killing and smoking 
this year. The pigs are youngsters — 
about six months’ old. 
Believing that the R. N.-Y. will, as 
usual, be able to advise us what to do— 
or what not to do, I remain, as ever, its 
appreciative reader. mrs. f. t. c. 
Virginia. 
R. N.Y.—This is turned over to readers 
for answer. It does not seem practical 
to us. We should think the heat would 
be too great. _ 
Disinheriting Husband. 
Can a married woman who owns a 
farm, under the laws of New Jersey, 
make a will and leave her property to 
an outsider, excluding her husband en¬ 
tirely? No children in the case. 
New Jersey., P. K. 
If there has been no child or children 
born to this couple which would enable 
the husband's right to courtesy of a life 
interest in the wife’s real property to at¬ 
tach. she may make a will of her separ¬ 
ate estate as if she were unmarried and 
exclude her husband from any participa¬ 
tion in it. But she cannot, as said be¬ 
fore, defeat her husband’s right to 
courtesy if it has attached. 
Tenants by the Entirety. 
I have a deed of our farm, and I 
wanted it made out so when myself or 
wife dies the other has it to do as 
survivor sees fit. The deed reads: 
“.and.his wife, of the town 
of . in said county and State as 
tenants by the entirety and not as ten¬ 
ants in common parties.” Now I want 
to know why we are not common par¬ 
ties, for I think that comes off, and if it 
does what steps must I take to have it 
right? F. D. 
New York. 
A conveyance of real property to a hus¬ 
band and his wife makes them owners 
by the entirety, that is they each own all 
of the property and at the death of one 
the title would vest in the other without 
further transfer. Tenants in common 
own an undivided share in the property, 
and on the death of either his or her 
share would go to his or her heirs and 
not to the other. Your deed is therefore 
all right. You wish to be “tenants by 
the entirety” and not “tenants in com¬ 
mon” and the words you quote should be 
used in the habendum clause (the one 
beginning “to have and to hold, etc.”) of 
your deed, and if used there it covers the 
situation exactly. 
A Productive Farm on Broadway. 
