tshe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
237 
Those children who are determined to 
leave school as soon as the law will allow 
it, will still do so, but the boy or girl who 
really wants an education will get it un¬ 
der the present system and will make all 
the better man or woman for having had 
to work for it. Where have many of the 
best men and women of our country re¬ 
ceived their early education? It was in 
the rural schools and when they were not 
half as good as they are now. 
Advantage To The City. —The village 
and city people say, “Yes, let the bill pass, 
it would be a grand thing.” It would for 
them, of course. People would move to 
city or village, many of them, rather than 
have their children taken in conveyances 
for miles during the Winter weather. 
That would help the city and village 
people, but what about the farmer? 
Where is he? It looks like very selfish in- 
at least by proxy, when he was two 
months old. His father put up the money 
and did the correspondence, but the young 
man has his name on the list, and ac¬ 
cepts the responsibility which goes with 
a subscription. Of course, the parents 
of this youngster have high hopes for him, 
one of them being the fact that they 
trust he will live to be the oldest sub¬ 
scriber perhaps a century hence. At any 
rate, the young man evidently takes his 
honors lightly, and is more concerned just 
now in paddling in the water than he is 
about figuring on the future. 
New York Prize Spellers 
There follows a list of the county 
champion spellers in New York. Spell¬ 
ing bee conte.sts were conducted in which 
most of the county schools took part— 
the local winners settling it at the coun- 
A Couple of Little Farm Scamps 
terest on the part of the townspeojde. 
The largest village in each town will want 
the .school, regardle.ss as to wlu'ther it is 
in the center of the town or not. A cor- 
resptmdent from a village in this town 
.shows that spirit in his writing for .a local 
paper. That village is in one corn<>r of 
the town. Let parents compare the chil¬ 
dren of village or city, who spend their 
sjiare time on the street, with the country 
boy or girl who has legitimate work at 
home for .spare time, and say which they 
prefer to have their children pattern after. 
r.ET The FARifEKS Speak. —It is time 
that the farmers had a little more tt> say. 
They have been ruled by the city about 
long enough. It is time .some laws were 
pas.«ed for the benefit of the country peo¬ 
ple. It is quite necessary that we have 
farmers and they should have a .show. 
It is to be luqted they will Avake up in 
thi.s .school que.stion as they did over the 
milk strike. Next the farmer Avill be told 
he must come into some village or city 
for his meals, Avhere they can be pre¬ 
pared by experts. AVill people interested 
in the (education of children in other i".iral 
districts join us in the fight to help keep 
the rural schools under control of the dis¬ 
tricts, and to make the rural .schools 
better? EIOKA M.VT.COI.M. 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
ty town. You will notice how many of 
these winners are girls. They all re¬ 
ceive silver medaks. This is excellent 
work, for good spelling counts for far 
more in business than many people real¬ 
ize. The ability to write a good busi¬ 
ness letter is a great asset. 
County Name of Winner Town 
Albany—Martha C. Maxwell.Cohoes. 
Allegany—Genevieve Karns.Almond. 
Cattaraugus—Irene W. Cole..Salamanca. 
Cayuga—Gladys Loulan.Springport. 
Chenango—Gertrude Gilles.Oxford. 
Chemung—Goldie Friedman.Elmira. 
Clinton—011a May Goewey.Cliazy, 
Cortland—Dorothy Beaud'ry..Cortland vllle, 
Dutchess—Esther Snyder.Khinebeck. 
Erie—.Tulia Zittle.Eden. 
Franklin—Warren Whitten.Malone. 
Gene.see—Samuel J. Farla-r.Batavia. 
Jefferson—Frank A. Bolger.Watertown. 
Eivingston—Frederick Milliken.York. 
Madi.son—Mareda D. Wemple.Oneida. 
Monro(!—Emma II. McCord. .Perinton. 
Montgonier 3 ’—Vada Vosburgli.Palatine. 
Nassau—Endemile Polk.llenii)stead. 
Oneida—Dura Barrett.Sangerfield. 
Onondaga—Marie Dennis.Onondaga Valley. 
Ontario—Josephine AVebster.A'lctor. 
Orleans—Bose De Sanctis...,.Murray. 
Oswego—Carl Amos I’ratt....Albion. 
Putnam—J. Bennett .Southard.Cold Spring. 
Bichmond—Bose Eidain.Tompklnsville. 
Saratoga—Florence Dropper.Galway. 
Schenectady—Ethel Wliitelionse.Rotterdam. 
Schuyler—Harold linger.Hector. 
Seneca—Parry Kraatz .Covert. 
Steul)en—Birdseye Merritt.Prattsl)urg. 
Sullivan—Gledj’s Van Tnyl.Lumberlanil. 
Tioga—'Augub t Babenstein.Berkshire. 
Tompkins—Lucy Kimbel.Dryden. 
Warren—Aileen Gage.I.uzerne. 
Wayne—Marjorie Ellen Wilson.AV<dcott. 
Westchester—Jack I.aurens.Mt. I'Pnsant. 
Wyoming—Edna Nora Maher..• ngle. 
Yates—Ralph Butenber, Jr.Benton. 
Our Youngest Subscriber 
The picture shoAvii on ptigc is nota- 
fible in the fact that it .show.s the young¬ 
est subscriber to The IL N.-Y. This is 
Kniest Sigurd .Tohnson. Tliis young man 
is shoAvn wading in the Pacific Ocean, as 
he lives with his i»arents in the ranal 
J^oiie. He has certainly discoA'ered that 
the Pacific is true to its name in January, 
Avhen there is no storm raging. Young 
J.Aliuson subsci-ibed to The li. N.-Y., or 
I.N fin Eastern city a pastor of a col¬ 
ored Baptist church consulted a plumber 
and steamfitter about tlie cost of putting 
in a baptistry. The estimate was so-, n 
furnished and the figure was regar.le s 
sfiti.sfactory. “But,” Sfiid the jili: 
“this covers only the tank and the water 
supply. Of course, you will want some 
sort of arrangement to heat the water.” 
But the colored pastor had a truly eco¬ 
nomic mind, and his own ideas of religion 
also, for he promptly dissented. “You 
see,” said he to the plumber. “I don’t ’low 
to baptize nobody in that there baptistry 
what hain’t got religion enough to keep 
him warm.”—The Continent. 
Mapes Standard 
Maintained 
In Field and State Experiment Stations 
1 he Mapes'Manures for 1916 and 191T were made, 
and are being made precisely as in the past, under 
pledge to supply the Phosphoric Acid from Animal 
Bone and Guano, made available Avithout acidity, no 
Rock or Acid Phosphates used. While they do not con¬ 
tain as much Potash as formerly, they do hold enough 
to greatly aid the present crop to more perfect growth 
and development and thus insure the balance of its 
necessary Potash being taken from latent soil supplies. 
We give below all the station analyses which we have 
received of our prominent brands for 1916. 
1916 ANALYSES 
MAPES POTATO 
STATBJN 
AM MO.MA 
PHOS. 
AVAIL.VBLE 
ACID 
TOTAL 
rOT.'VSH 
New York . 
9.32 
10.58 
1.12 
Connecticut . 
8.38 
10.66 
1.06 
Pennsylvania . 
9.30 
10.28 
1.18 
New Jersey . 
8.20 
10.29 
1.32 
Massachusetts . 
8.81 
9.82 
.97 
Massachusetts . 
8.96 
10.20 
1.18 
Guarantee . 
8. 
8. 
1. 
GENERAL SPECIAL 
Connecticut ... 
New York .... 
Pennsylvania . 
New Jersey ... 
Massachusetts 
Massachusetts 
Guarantee .... 
. 8.28 
. 8.10 
6.37 
7.97 
7.89 
5.48 
7.06 
7.09 
6. 
9.21 
9.67 
9.09 
8.72 
8.88 
9.34 
8. 
1.35 
1.45 
1.77 
1.85 
1.47 
1.20 
1. 
TOBACCO STARTER, IMPROVED 
Connecticut ... 
6.41 
8.87 
1.16 
Connecticut ... 
. 5.64 
6.11 
9.58 
1.07 
Pennsylvania . 
. 5.61 
6.52 
9.20 
1.50 
New York ... 
. 5.33 
6.15 
9.21 
1.23 
New York .... 
5.36 
6.57 
9.39 
1.14 
Massachusetts . 
. 5.54 
8.18 
9.67 
1.26 
Guarantee .... 
. 5. 
6. 
8. 
1. 
CORN MANURE 
Connecticut .. 
. 3.35 
8.28 
11.58 
.85 
Pennsylvania . 
. 3.26 
10.37 
11.97 
1.50 
New York .... 
. 3.07 
9.24 
11.40 
1.00 
N ew J ersey .. 
. 3.24 
7.59 
11.35 
1.08 
Massachusetts 
. 3.28 
9.71 
11.74 
1.16 
Guarantee ... ., 
. 3. 
8. 
10. 
1. 
TOP DRESSER, FULL 
STRENGTH 
Connecticut .. . 
. 12.22 
6.38 
8.84 
1.84 
Pennsylvania . 
. 11.90 
7.27 
8.20 
1.55 
New Jersey ... 
. 11.82 
5.11 
8.60 
1.52 
Massachusetts 
. 12.62 
8.28 
8.88 
1.35 
Guarantee .... 
. 12. 
5. 
8. 
1. 
TOBACCO MANURE 
AM MO.MA 
TOT.\L 
PHOSPHORIC ACID 
POT.VSH 
Connecticut . 9.48 
Connecticut . 10.07 
Pennsylvania ... 10.08 
Massachusetts . 10.99 
Guarantee . 10. 
9.94 
8.99 
8.85 
8.65 
8 . 
1.20 
1.44 
1.59 
1.57 
1 . 
We are equally proud of the results in the field. 
They have been most excellent, fully substantiating our 
theor}^ as to the advisability of supplying at least limited 
Potash to aid the crop to make a start, and so enable it 
to avail itself to the utmost of the latent supplies of 
Potash in the soil. 
Order early and so avoid all possible delay. 
The Mapes Formula Peruvian Guano Co. 
Central Building, ' -Jd Liberty Street, Ne’w York 
Branch—239 State Street, Hartford, Conn. 
