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-Uhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 13, 1917, 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
Taxks.- 'rin'i-o jii'o soiiM' who st'om able 
to dods*' them, blit most of us must walk 
up ami pay our share—and sometimes as 
we think a little more. Here are the 
items covering my taxes for 1010. You 
might compare them with your own : 
State school .Tax on .$100 .$.204 
f'ountv school .Tax oji .‘sKX) .05!) 
Poor .Tax on .$100 .011 
District ('oiirt .Tax on .$100 .00.3 
I.ocal .Tax on .$100 1..3.3.3 
Total. .$2.27 
In addition I pay a poll tax of $1 and 
a dog tax of .$1.2.o. In New .Tersey we 
are supposed to have no tax for State ex¬ 
penses. since that is paid by corporation 
taxes or licen.se. You will see. however, 
that they get to us on the State school 
tax aii.l make up for lost time on the 
county schools and local expenses. In 
our case the heavy local tax is due to 
road improvement, since the town bor¬ 
rowed the money to rebuild all our roads 
in the best manner. I think I have told 
befoi-e how this town, with something 
like 12.3 voters, bonded for about .$2.3,000 
for this road building! 
As for assessments, they are very low 
for real estate. !My land is asse.ssed at 
only .$00 per acre, including the orchards, 
while the buildings and personal prop¬ 
erty are assessed for nearly as much as 
the land. 3'here has been very little in¬ 
crease in the land assessment since we 
came up here to live, while the personal 
proiierty and buildings are assessed at 
about three times as much. Thus it 
seems to be a sort of jienalty for a prop¬ 
erty owner to build or improve his prop¬ 
erty. All through this country are tracts 
of land or parts of farms which stand 
idle and unjiroduclive. 3'hey are simply 
held for an increase in value—not 'hrough 
increased service at production, but for a 
speculative value as town lots or small 
places. Thus a man may let his fields 
run to briers ao.l weeds for years and pay 
a mere pittance in the way of taxes. He 
will not sell it at any price which would 
enable a man of moderate means to buy it 
for a home or small farm, but he hangs 
on as a speculator until others settle 
around him and thus force up the jirice. 
'J'he result is that owners of such prop¬ 
erty do not pay their fair share of taxes. 
3'hey keep land out of production, pay but 
little to keep up the public improvements, 
through which their land is to become 
valuable, and finally sell at a great profit. 
I think an.v such form of taxation and 
])ublic siiending gives the owners of this 
idle land, a special privilege which they 
do not deserve, ''i'diy not compel all prop¬ 
erty owners to name the pi-ice at which 
they will sell? Publish their figures and 
use them as a basis for asses.sing taxes? 
3'he speculators in idle land (often non- 
i-esidcnrs) would have to come up and 
liay. Such things as roads and schools 
benefit their projierty and make it a fit 
investment. AVhy should they not pay 
their share? You will see from my fig¬ 
ures that .Jersey justice does not cost much 
in our district! We get it, though, and 
it is the right brand. As for the poor. 
They are always with us in Jersey, but 
they get good care when they need it, and 
work when they are able. We Jerseymen 
think our thumb of land I'eaching out 
into the ocean is about the solid part of 
T’ncle Sam’s hand ! 
WiXTER Pe.\dixg. —Some weeks ago I 
had some remarks on “Silent Compan¬ 
ions,” and I have been surprised to see 
how many of our readers walk through 
lonely hours with the companions whose 
homes are in good books. Here is one 
letter from Iowa: 
I wish that article could be more widely 
read and acted on. In our home Winter 
evenings are passed as pleasantly and 
profitably as any of all the year. It has 
liemi our custom for years to buy what 
Ixioks we can read through the Winter. So 
when all the animals are gathered into 
shelter and fed. supper over. Mother and 
girls gather near, while I. the deaf one, 
read aloud. Choosing from the best 
authors, what grand books we i*ead! 
By this i)lan we have gathered a library 
that I value more than anything we have 
in way of luxury. No lonesome evenings 
with us. ' BYUOX PAVIS. 
There is no question about the truth of 
that. It is the most wonderful way to 
pass the winter evenings—with the great, 
silent companions who have come down 
out of history. INIy only regret is that I 
do not have more time for such reading. 
It becomes more and more evident that 
the most thoughtful readers iii the c-oun- 
try live in farm homes, where they may 
read slowly and not try to jump through 
the book at a gallo]). We must remember 
that great books are not dashed out in a 
week or month, but they reiiuire years in 
their making, and must be read slowly in 
order to get their full meaning. There is 
<iuite a discussion on now as to which is 
the finest story of American life. All sorts 
of opinions ai-e given. My choice would 
be “Nathan Burke,” by Mary S. ‘Watts. 
Of coui’se, I know that such things are 
matters of opinion. Some jieople would 
probably find this book dull enough, but 
to me it is wonderfully true to human 
nature and human life. 
A Dairy Ki.xg. —For many years Ber¬ 
gen Co., N. .1., as been the home of plain 
people—built for utility rather than show. 
I presume that very few of us have prided 
ourselves on our beauty or pedigree. It 
has remained for one of our neighbors to 
come forward with the first scion of roy¬ 
alty. Bight over the fence from our 
lower farm Mr. D. Y. Lewis has a dairy 
farm which has now become famous 
through a new king. Mr. Lewis some 
years ago took a rough hillside farm, 
mostly weeds and brush, and has turned 
it into productive fields which provide 
for a herd of choice cattle. Starting 
with the ordinary stock of the country 
Mr. Lewis has worked into high-class 
Ilolsteins, aiming constantly at pure 
blood of the best strains. On Christmas 
Day there was born on this farm a great 
calf—great in pedigree and promise. Let 
Mr. Lewis tell about him : 
^ Ilis .sire is Siiring Farm King Pontiac 
Korndyke. whose sire. Spring Farm King 
Pontiac, is a son of King of the Pontiacs, 
and he by Pontiac Korndyke. llis dam is 
Lotta Belle De Kol, who made 84.00 lbs. 
of butter in a week. 044.87 lbs. in a year, 
and nine tons of milk in a year, and is 
the dam of two A. TL O. daughters, llis 
granddam is 3’weede JVhite Lady with 
87.4,3 lbs. of butter in a week, 1127.28 in 
a year .and 10 tons of milk in a year, and 
is the dam of a 20-lb. two-year-old. llis 
great granddam. Pontiac liUnde Ilenger- 
veld, made 28.41 buttc'V in a week and 
114.82 in 80 days, and is the dam of one 
A. R. O. daughter, one A. R.. O. son, and 
has 17 .30-lb. granddaughters. Lotta Belle 
De Kol’s dam jiroduced 21.00 butter and 
4.88.,30 lbs. milk in seven days. She is 
also the dam of three A. R. O. daughters 
and two producing daughters, and her 
dam is also the dam of three A. R. O. 
daughters and one pro<lucing son. The 
dam. of our young King is Boon Beauty 
Segis, A. R. O. 20.81 lbs. butter, 42.3..30 
lbs. milk at three years, whose sire. King 
Prilly Segis, is a son of King Segis. llis 
dam, Prilly, is one of the greatest cows 
of the breed, with 08.08 lbs. of butter and 
2.019.70 lbs. of milk in 80 days at 12 
years of age. She is the dam of six great 
A. R. O. daughters and three A. R. (). 
sons. His grandam A. and Ginka IMc- 
Kinlej', made 29.02 lbs. of butter in a 
week when nine years old, and is the dam 
of four A. R. O. daughters, with records 
from 20 to 29 lbs. She is also the dam 
of four producing sons and four produc¬ 
ing daughters. Every line in his pedi¬ 
gree is that of a king, and should he live 
he will surely add thousands of dollars to 
the d.airy interests of Bergen and ad¬ 
joining counties. 
This surely puts our community on the 
map in the Holstein world, and this 100 
pounds or more of live meat surely 
brought a great Christmas present of pos¬ 
sibilities to Northoi'u New Jersey. 1 have 
heard how during the war a comiiany of 
pompous Jerseymen went to I*rosident 
Lincoln and told him what to do. They 
Avanted him to understand that they were 
very important citizens ! Lincoln listened 
to their remarks and then turned to his 
secretary: 
“Go out and look at the map and see 
if New Jersey has tipped up since these 
dig men stepped off.'' 
The entrance of this big royal Holstein 
is not going to tip up the north end of 
NeAV Jei’sey. The weight Avill anchor her 
doAvn because Ave shall have greater pride 
and greater hope for the future. These 
are the things Avhich make farming Avorth 
Avhile. "Whether it be a coav, a hen, a sheep, 
a hog or a dog—this idea of royal pedi¬ 
gree—reaching back through a long line 
of honorable performers is Avhat adds 
spirit to farming. Noav aa’c Avant in this 
territory a big community breeding club 
Avith the choicest cattle Ave can get. 
After a few years of it we could have the 
cattle men imnning to us to buy good 
cows. H. \v. c. 
Mr. Ward Raised 
$43,000Worth of Potatoes 
Farmers are getting $4.00 a barrel for potatoes. 
Mr. Benjamin H. Ward of Aroostook County, Maine, 
raised 10,882 barrels (29,925 bushels) on his 75 
Acre field last season. This is not an unusual yield 
but with the unfavorable weather conditions last 
season it is greatly above the average. 
Did You Raise 399 Bushels Per Acre Last Season? 
Mr. Ward insured his profits by furnishing his 
crop with an ample supply of E. Frank Coe Fertili- 
He wrote us recently : 
zers. 
“ 1 have used the E. FRANK COE Brands continuously on my farm 
since 1912, and they have always given me entire satisfaction. The 
crop which I secured this year is, I believe, fully equal if net better than 
any crop raised in my section of the country as I produced a total of 
10,882 barrels on a measured 75 acre field. (Equal to 399 bushels 
per acre.) ... I used 1,500 pounds of E. FRANK COE’S Excelsior 
Potato Fertilizer, 1916, per acre at the time of planting and applied 500 
poueds per acre as a top dressing just before leveling off the hills. 
. . . Please increase my order for 1917 to 100 tens.” 
Why not Insure your profits in the same way and 
order a generous supply of E. Frank Coe Fertilizers 
for your 1917 crop ? Potatoes, corn and all kinds of 
farm produce are selling at high prices. The demand 
for food stuffs is greater than the supply. Will you 
help America feed the World ? 
Our practical book entitled, *‘Potatoes, A Money 
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