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Records of a Busy Life 
I took my paper from tln> com¬ 
menced reading it. and oanie to the two 
articles of the old friomls about my age. 
I stopped and began to think. I was S-'l 
last Monday. I .also I'ead ^Mooke’s 
XK w-yoitKEK when a youug 
man. I liked it then, but a gmat deal 
better now. It has kept right ui» to 
date in everything. My two youngest 
sons who wer<‘ not brought up farmers, 
but now have a fruit farm, .say they do 
y 
Mr. Dumond’s Signature at 83 
not know what they eoiibl do without 
it. AVhile I was brought up on a farm 
at New Kingston in dear old lUdaware 
County, my whole life, except the last 
few years, has been spent in the school¬ 
room.,' I assure you you have no other 
subscriber who watched with more in¬ 
terest the farmer.s’ milk fight, or also 
rejoiced more over their victory. 
Hut Avhat changes we old-timers have 
seen I Sixty-three years ago, when I 
was 20 years old, I t.uight my first 
school at New Kingston, receiving 
$14.."iO a month, sw«‘ei)ing my own 
schoolhouse, building the fires, and 
boarding at a dilVerent place each night, 
and that could only continue for three 
months, as they could get a woman 
teacher .che.aper in the Summer. The 
little schoolhouse was used for religious 
services on .Sunday, when an old gentle¬ 
man would stand ui> and lead the sing¬ 
ing by repeating a line of each stanza 
befoi-e singing it. Xow they have their 
ne:it church, with a good organ, and in 
place of the lumber w.-igons with boards 
acro.ss the sides of, the box for seats 
with bed blankets for cushions, the 
street is lined for a (juarter of a mile 
with autos, and all owned by farmers. 
A few years ago when I went home (we 
will always call it home, where we 
.si)ent our first 20 years), my old aunt 
told me .she made three firkiiis of but-^ 
ter from seven cows the first year of 
her married life. Wo all know what a 
cow will do in making batter with the 
care she gets now. I remember when a 
j'oung man with a younger brother driv¬ 
ing a load <if Oti turkeys from New 
Kingston to Hondout. a distance of over 
50 miles. Tlnn-e we dressed them and 
sent them to New York City. Noav they 
sent me my Thank.sgiving turkey by 
parcel post. But the change that pleases 
me more than all others is that in those 
early days evbVy farmer in our neigh¬ 
borhood Ix'lieved it to be a necessity, 
and always had a bottle of whiskey In 
the, hay field, and mu.st take a drink 
every time they mowed around to it, 
and sheep washing, stone b<‘e.s, logging 
bees, and in everything else that brought 
the men together was an excu.se for 
drinking, sometimes gallons of whiskey. 
Now every town in Delaware T’ornity is 
dry. I am always glad to notice that 
The It. N.-Y. is on the right side of this 
good work, as on every other. 
I would like to .say to 31r. .Smedley, 
who seems to think that the old people 
of New York are nowhere when coiu- 
)»ared with tho.se of Pennsylvania, that 
the old man on this Sleepy Hollow farm 
has shot three foxes since he was 80 
years old, and that during the last Sum¬ 
mer he and a 10-year-old boy, who 
worked for his board and attended 
school every day except vacation, plant¬ 
ed. cared for and sold .$100 worth of 
swetJt corn, .$101 worth of tomatoes, .$40 
worth of strawberries, $53 worth of 
rhubarb, $10 worth of .string beans. He 
C-Ae R U R AL N EW-YO R K E R 
March 17, 1017 
picked every ear of the corn, and car¬ 
ried it fo thie end of the field, so that the 
boy could i>ut into the wagon. lie 
jnilled every stalk of the rhubarb and 
helped tie it in bunches, lie also picked 
all the string beajis. Be.sides this work, 
we had the cow. horse and hens to care 
for. We also sold about $800 worth of 
egg.s. But these were not all of our 
own jM'oduction. Most of the eggs were 
from Delaware County, but we had to 
handle them all. Mr. Smedley seems to 
think it is something wonderful for old 
Iteoplc in Pennsylvania to be able to 
break their legs. In New York State 
we believe it’s better to do s<nnething 
useful. X. II. nUMO.XD. 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 
B. N.-Y.—.Tust as we were preparing 
this matter for the jtress word came 
that Mr; Duniond had died .after a ser¬ 
ious illness of only ii few hours. He wa.s 
a man greatly resjtected by all who knew' 
him and we may see from his lett<'r, 
aiinted above, what a useful life Int has 
le<l, and how hojiefully he looked ahetid. 
Filing Bulletins 
Let me t.dl you of my system of filing 
bulletins. In tin' first place I S'laired a 
number of old city directories, school re- 
uorts, etc., of wi ich I renmved the con¬ 
tents. 1 also bought: some note books— 
smdi as tire u.sed by )t!ij)ils in schools and 
college's. On tin' Itttck of these I jeasted 
white' lalx'ls. 111)011 wlii'Ji I neatly wrote 
the titles, as: Alfalfa, corn, cattle, dairy¬ 
ing. jn'ar iind iiecch, apple, berries, cover 
crops, poultry, ducks and . geese, farm 
management, garden crops, insects and 
spraying and dis- ases. et<-. Whenever I 
want to look up a certain subject 1 have 
everything toge'ther. In this way I have 
easily arranged not only the bulletirm of 
the government, but also those of other 
station.s, as they fit in nicely with the 
others. 
In addition to this I have an alpha¬ 
betically arranged letter file. Here I keep 
the clippings from The B. N.-Y. In the 
long Winter evenings I paste them to the 
various bulletins and thus 1 have an en¬ 
cyclopedia of agriculture up to date. 
Besides tlu'se I have another enc.vclo- 
pedia. It is astonishing liow magazines 
accumulale. and as they are too valuable 
to be thrown away, they become a bur¬ 
den after all. I take them ai»art and se¬ 
lect any article. whi<-h is worth v/hile 
keeping for future reference. These I 
sew fogetlier and keo)) them in book 
cov*'rs. Here .-ire some subjects: Fiction, 
history, travel, art, music, photography, 
nature study, education, economy, litera¬ 
ture. idectriiity. game.s, etc. Everybody 
in tin* family not only help adding to these 
collections, but makes freiiuent use of it 
for ••ssjiys in sch<;ol or young p('e|)l?s’ so¬ 
ciety. 
I also made some large books out of 
wrapping j)aj)er. into which all kinds of 
jiicturc's are ))laced. Many an illustra¬ 
tion of The B. N.-Y. is found there, not 
only the front page j)ieturi>s, but also the 
ilin'enmt tyjit'S of cattle, fowl and ma- 
dilVeient tyja's of cattle, fowls and nia- 
and is easily, found and new subjects are 
constantly :idded. w. E. 
What the Poseyville Gang Did 
(Continued from page 409) 
the hill half mile away, read the wig¬ 
wag to “climb higher.” The afternoons 
were spent in hiking and trailing. One 
day the boys made nine miles in four 
hours. The first hour after supper was 
spent in games, and then the big fire wa.s 
built and stories told until the embers 
glowed and blinked a good-night. 
•Vll wet'k long no one had .a better 
time than the preacher. He does not 
look much like a preacher, anyhow, for 
he is young and is just as alive as any 
of the boys in the gang. He wore a 
soft shirt, he could outrun and outclimb 
any of them, he could catch more fish, 
.and he could fry his catch better than 
:iny of them. You can see him in the 
picture putting his catch into the frying- 
pan. Then. too. he did not try to make 
:i jirayer-ineeting out of it all. He knew, 
just as much as the boys, that it was 
a )»icnic that was lasting a w’eek long. 
4’liis Winter he is getting his reward 
in the size of his boys’ Sunday .school 
class. 
Summer camps such as this one could 
be oigiinized in .any community. The 
best way is to organize the gang into 
some sort of a club. If there are Boy 
.Scouts, so much the better. But any 
crowd in a countr.v or small town can 
get up such a club and then have a camp 
next Summer. This Winter is a good 
time to get together and organize one. 
Then iibims could b<' made for a basket¬ 
ball team this Winter and a baseball 
nine in the Si)ring. 
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