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The Rural New-Yorker 
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No. 12. 
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full baker’s dozen: 
We take five farm papers, and wife says that The 
Rural Neav-Yorkeb is the best of the bunch and she 
knows. A. O. HOWARD. 
Michigan. 
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is a discriminating Avife. Such Avomen may well 
decide upon the reading matter AA'hich enters the 
home. 
I think this is my fifty-ninth subscription to your 
jiaper. It has renewed its life from j^ear to year and 
became more helpful and vigorous as time rolled on. 
Wishing you every success I am your friend. 
Anniston, Ala. C. A. SPRAGUE. 
For more than 30 years the writer has seen Mr. 
Sprague’s annual subscription come in. We ai’e 
able to keep the paper fresh and helpful only be- 
' cause our readers take personal interest and give 
us out of their eA-eryday IWes. 
* 
D uring the past few years there has groAvn a 
large demand for apple pomace. Formerly this 
Avas considered a Avaste and nuisance, and it col¬ 
lected around the cider mills in great piles. Noav, 
it is considered nearly equal to silage in feeding 
value, and is shipped 50 miles or more at a profit. 
As a fertilizer pomace contains about fiA^e pounds of 
nitrogen and three of potash to the ton. When 
used Avith lime it makes a fair dressing for corn 
or for orchards. We think it Avill pay, in the fu¬ 
ture, to dry the pomace somewhat like beet pulp, 
so that it can be shipped and stored Avithout too 
much bulk and useless Aveight. The Agricultural 
Department ought to look into this. 
♦ 
O N page 1510 of last year aa’o printed the picture 
of a German machine for raking and picking 
.stones. At least 25 readers haA^e asked Avhere such 
a machine can be Imught. The picture Avas re¬ 
engraved from a German farm paper, and Ave do 
not knoAv Avho manufactures it. We have tried to 
interest several American manufacturers in such a 
machine, but they, seem to doubt the profit in it. 
They think feAv farmers Avoukl pay for such a ma¬ 
chine Avhen they can buy stone-boats for a little 
money. IToav much could a farmer afford to pay 
for a stone picker? That Avould determine the 
profit in manufacturing. 
* 
T he annual meeting of the Ngaa' York State 
Agricultural Society Avill be held at Albany 
on Jan. 16 and 17. A strong progx’am is promised. 
On the evening of Jan. 16 there Avill be addresses 
by Dr. J. G. Schurman of Cornell and Mr. M. D. 
Munn, president of the National Daii’y Council and 
of the American Jer.sey Cattle Club. The fine old 
State society is and should continue to be the sen¬ 
ate of NeAv York agriculture—an organization in 
Avhich representatives of all farm societies can come 
together for definite accomplishment. There should 
be a great gathering this year. 
* 
T he statement from Judge Ward of the Wicks 
. Investigating Committee is probably in the line 
of a “feeler” of public opinion. He favors a new 
“Food Department,” There is to be a commissioner 
Avith a salary of $12,000, and the neAV laAA' Avill 
outline a very dignified and “sane” program for 
him. The present Foods and Markets Department 
Avill he Aviped out under this ari-angement, and in 
its place Ave shall have an expensive department 
Avith less punch and loss real accomplishment than 
the present Agricultural Department. Our people 
may ansAver for themselves hoAV much good they 
Avould get 011^01 that! If Judge Ward undertakes 
to put his program through the Legislature there 
Oic RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Avill be the clearest line-up of farmers ever seen in 
New York. 
On one side Avill be found all the dealers, com¬ 
mission men, handlers—all Avho are noAV taking 
“graft" or tribute out of farm produce. There Avill 
also be found eA'ery politician and every parasite 
Avho is now feeding at the public agricultural ci’ib. 
There will be other men, honest and high-minded, 
but mistaken, prejudiced, lacking in A-ision or afraid 
of being called “radicals.” These men, honest and 
clean in personal chaimcter, Avill be forced to line 
up Avith the “crooks,” politicians and para.sites Avho 
Avant a Department Avhich they can control. It is 
an old trick of the opposition to come and say that 
Ave call all men Avho oppose us “crook.s.” We an¬ 
ticipate that by saying Ave do not, but the honest 
men know who they must associate with, and Avhat 
the motives of .their companions are. On the other 
side Avill be ranged a great majority of the plain 
farmers of the State. We knoAv this, because they 
are going on public record. There are letters 
enough going to Albany to pave the entire city. 
These farmers know that the work done by the 
present Department is responsible for the uprising 
Avhich won the milk war and forced the present 
situation. Half a century of “investigation” and 
“Avise council” did less for the 35-cent dollar than 
half a year of punch at the sore .spot in distribu¬ 
tion. There are in NeAV Y’oi-k at least two men who 
want to be President and three Avho want to be 
GoAmmor. They all AA-ant to capitalize this food 
situation and make it feed their political ambitions. 
Let us tell these men, and others, right noAv, at 
the beginning, that before the White House and 
before the State Capitol they will find a big, husky 
farmer pi’epared to punch their ticket or punch 
their head, according to their behavior. The more 
they play with the situation the bigger that farmer 
Avill loom up before them. The issue is clear. Do 
the farmers of Noav Y’’ork Avant a Department of 
their own, or do they want one conducted by in¬ 
vestigators and “experts?” The political situation 
is such that they can have one put into their hands 
like a weapon by fighting for it. or have the other 
saddled upon them, like an additional burden! 
* 
J UDGE WARD of the Wicks Committee asks 
sneeringly hoAv you can advance prices to far¬ 
mers and at the same time reduce the cost of food 
to consumers. We venture one example for the 
judge’s information. The fa inner gets .$2.15 a hun¬ 
dred pounds for the so-called R milk. If he com¬ 
plies with prescribed regulations, he gets $2.25 for 
100 pounds. For the alleged extra quality he gets 
10 cents a lOO pounds—47 quarts. The cost of han¬ 
dling, transporting and distributing one is virtually 
the same as the other; but the con.sumer pays two 
cents a quart or 94 cents for the 10 cents worth of 
quality put in the A milk. 
We could give the farmer 20 cents more for the A 
quality and sell it to the housewives for 64 cents 
less. That Avonld be a half cent more per quart to 
the farmer and qeiit less to the consumer. The 
dealer has the same profit he makes on the B milk. 
He adds nothing to the quality, and is entitled to 
nothing extra. One dozen of eggs may be Avorth 
more than another, but no express company Avould 
dare charge 94 cents extra for delivering it. If this 
does not enlighten the judge Ave Avill gWe him all 
the examples he Avants—possibly more. 
* 
Why do you call the sale of co’d storage eggs rob¬ 
bery? Why do you call a man who puts eggs in cold 
storage a rascal? I don’t think they compel people 
to buy their eggs. Some years ago I bought a sheep 
for 50 cents. I sheared 14 pounds of wool from it, and 
got 15 cents per pound for the avooI. I sold the sheep 
for $3. Was I a rascal? s. M. K. 
Oregon. 
not this a case of hasty reading or snap judg¬ 
ment? Cold storage is a necessity. With 
.some perishable products it is about as neces¬ 
sary as production. It is entirely legitimate to 
put eggs, butter, fruit or any other product 
into storage and sell them later at a fair 
profit. The man avIio does this is no robber or 
rascal and Ave have never said he Avas. When a 
man uses storage to monopolize the market and 
then practices fraud he deserves the titles we have 
given. This has been done this season. Last May 
eggs were bought at about 20 cents and put into 
storage. iThen Avhen fresh, new-laid eggs are high in 
price these storage eggs are taken out and sold, as 
Ave believe, fraudulently. The stoi’age egg is good 
but it is not a neAV-laid egg and the effort to dis¬ 
guise it and sell it for AA’hat it is not is as much a 
fraud as substituting oleo for butter, chicory for 
coffee or bleached axle grea.se for lard! Not only 
does this cheat the consumers Avho think they are 
eating neAAMaid eggs, but it ruins the business of 
poultrymen Avho are producing Winter eggs at great 
January 6, 1917. 
expense. Men Avho knowingly do this deserve what 
ought to come to them Avhen they are caught at it. 
As for for your .sheep and avooI, Ave do not see that 
you had any monopoly, or that you misrepresented 
the goods. The men Avho sell storage eggs and say 
they are “neAA'-laid” do both. 
!»! 
L ast year the New Y’ork Legislature considered 
a very strict dog Iraav This passed the Senate, 
but Avas too late to get through the Assembly. This 
.season it Avill be introduced early and pushed hard. 
It is clearly and openly designed to aid sheep men 
by getting rid of Avorthless dogs. Under tliis law 
every dog oAvner must take out a license .from the 
toAvn clerk. The fee Avill be $2 for each male and 
$5 for each female. For each additional dog the 
cost will be .$4 for males and $5 for females! All 
the dogs in each township must be reported and the 
list of dogs and owners published. A kennel of 
purebred dogs where the animals are kejit re¬ 
strained may pay a general tax of .$10. Each dog 
must wear a metal tag giving its number and the 
name of the oAvner. We knoAv one man who keeps 
fiA'e dog.s. Under this laAv he would have to pay 
$19 in dog taxes! The great sum of money raised 
under this hiAv Avill be put into a “dog fund” to be 
used in paying for animals, including -chickens, 
which are killed or wounded by dogs! Under the 
proposed laAV “any person may kill any dog he sees 
pursuing, ivorrying or wounding any horses, cattle, 
sheep, swine or other live stock, or domestic foicl.'’ 
Such in brief are the points of this drastic dog law. 
which is likely to be passed this year. The bill 
covers the machinery for carrying out its provisions. 
The logic back of the demand for such a laAv- is as 
folloAA^s: 
The sheep business is a necessity to Noav Y'ork 
State. 
It has been practically destroyed by dogs that are 
not necessary. 
Therefore the dogs must go or pay for the dam¬ 
age they do. 
* 
A FEW Aveeks ago Mr. Geo. T. PoAvell told of his 
success in groAving the Cox’s OVange Pippin ap¬ 
ple. As an experiment he sent 35 boxes of the 
smallest size to England. They measured 1% to 
tAvo inches in diameter—a size seldom sold, but 
fed to stock or made into A-inegar. Yet these little 
apples netted, at the farm, after paying heaA-y ship¬ 
ping cost to Ix)udon, $2.50 per box. At the same 
auction sale the largest and most beautiful Oregon 
Spitzenburgs sold for less than these small dull- 
colored Pippins! The English people Avant this 
apple and Avill pay for it. The first principle of 
successful marketing is to find out Avhat your cus¬ 
tomers want and giA^e it to them as they Avanr. it. 
But it takes an apple groAver to produce Cox’s 
Orange Pippin. 
* 
T he testimony taken in an investigation of the 
live poultry trust by the Department of Foods 
and Markets some months back Avas turned over 
to District-Attorney SAvann and resulted in an in¬ 
dictment of several dealers. Samuel Levy, one of 
the indicted dealers, has noAV pleaded guilts’’ and 
pi'omises to reveal all the crookedness of the busi- 
nes.s. The live poultr.A' arriving in Noav York 
amounts to about .$25,000,000 •annually, and the De¬ 
partment estimates that $7,000,000 could be saved 
annually by economies in the physical handling 
alone. With proper facilities and regulation prob- 
ablA^ $3,000,000 could be saved the ultimate consum¬ 
er by more direct sales. This AAmuld also open up 
the NeAx-" York market to Noav Y’'ork State and near¬ 
by shippers. The present supply comes largely from 
the West in car lots, and the sj’stem discriminates 
against the near-by supply. 
Brevities 
Peroxide of hydrogen is advised for bedbug bites. 
For adults tincture of iodine is suggested. 
The Christmas spirit ought to be large and strong 
enough to last all through the year. Why keep it 
bottled up except for one Aveek? 
Where did this idea of bleaching celery plants Avith 
sulphur come from? We cannot leaim anything prac¬ 
tical about it. 
If you are even tempted to give “Avorm medicine” to 
a horse through his nose try it on yourself fir.st. Never 
dose the horse in this Avay. 
We have had (juite a number of questions about the 
business of breeding and training farm dogs. Some 
farm AA’omen Avish to try it. In the next magazine 
number there Avill be an excellent article on this 
subject. 
Ada'ICE from the Kansas College is to use hot Avater 
in thawing frozen pipes: “The first thing to do Avhen 
a frozen pipe is discovered is to examine it to see if it 
has burst in freezing. If cracks are found the water 
should be turned off above the pipe and hot water 
poured over it.” 
