B»c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
437 
Again the 35-cent Dollar 
“Still harping on my daughter.’’ That 
was what Othello’s fether-in-law said 
when the conversation always swung 
around to his beautiful daughter. It has 
come to be a favorite quotation when 
anyone persistently brings up the thing 
that is uppermost in his mind, and so 
we bring up our old friend “the 35- 
cent dollar.” There are thousands of 
people who claim there is no such thing 
as a 35-cent dollar. Therefore, in order 
to keep up with the crowd we shall have 
to refer to it a thousand times in order 
to be even. During the Winter the 
newspapers have many references to 
this matter, without intending to prove 
that there is any such thing as a 35- 
cent dollar. Many farmers and fruit 
growers have learned the trick of en¬ 
closing letters inside the package when 
they .sell their goods, and this brings 
evidence which is hard to get away 
from. For instance the Biddeford Daily 
Journal of Maine recently printed the 
following: 
The “high cost of living” business 
was brought to a pretty sharp form of 
<-omparison, recently, Avhen a Hub 
grocer opened a barrel of apples and 
found tucked away in the middle of the 
fruit a note which read, “I got .$2.50 
for this barrel of apples, how much did 
you pay?” According to that the mid¬ 
dleman made .$4, as the grocer paid 
.$0.50 for that barrel of apples. 
We figure it about this way. The 
grocer had to sell those apples for an 
advance of at least .$1.50 in order to 
come out even. Thus the apples cost the 
con.sumer about .$8. Let some smart boy 
figure out from this what the producer 
got of the dollar when he sold them for 
$2.,50. We make it about .31 cents. It 
may be we are old-fashioned in our fig¬ 
uring. 
Then comes the following from the 
Philadelphia North American. 
MACON. Mo., Jan. 22. — Robert 
Shouse, a local dealer in fruit, received 
today h-om the Quincy (Ill.) Produce 
Company a barrel of Jonathan apples, 
with a bill for $0.50. In going through 
the apples Mr. Shouse found this writ¬ 
ten on a piece of paper: 
“Dear Sir: This barrel of apples was 
packed by Alfred Pepper, Rural Route 
4. Quincy, Ill., and sold for $2.50. 
•Shouse has supplied the producer 
with the information called for. He 
showed Pepper’s note to the traveling 
salesman of the firm from which he pur¬ 
chased the apples and asked what would 
be the price of another barrel. 
“Seven dollars,” replied the -salesman. 
Here again it was necessary for the 
retailer to add at least .$1.50 to make 
any profit on the same, and we have the 
same figure. It thus appears that Mr. 
Pepper received 31 cents of the con¬ 
sumer’s dollar on the sale of these ap¬ 
ples, and it is not likely that Mr. Pep¬ 
per will salt down very much money as 
the result of this kind of business. The 
question is, who gets the 69 cents? That 
part of the dollar ought to be cut up 
and the trimmings distributed so that 
the apple grower will get more than he 
does now, while the buyer Avill pay lo.ss 
for the fruit. ■ • 
The John Deere-Dain 
System Rake 
Here is what you do with the 
Dain System Rake: 
Follow the mower closely, rake 
while leaves are still active and 
place hay upon clean stubble. 
Make straight windrows, and 
no dumping of rake is required. 
There is no bunching of hay in 
turning corners. 
Put the hay in medium size 
windrows, with the 
bulk of the leaves in¬ 
side and the majority 
^ of stems outside. 
The windrows will 
be loose in the center 
for the free circulation 
of air. The hay retains 
its color and nutrition. 
|Thc John Deere- 
Dain System is the 
rake employed with 
the Dain System of 
Air-Curing Hay. 
Reel raised or low¬ 
ered, rake thrown in 
or out of gear and 
angle of teeth chang¬ 
ed by means of con¬ 
venient levers. 
Ample capaci ty. 
The inclined frame 
grows higher where 
the windrow becomes 
larger — an exclusive 
Dain feature. 
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Patented spring 
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Using a disc harrow 
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the trash decays rapidly and no 
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John Deere Harvesting 
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The John Deere -Dain Mower 
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even after years of 
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mesh, even after they start to 
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The teeth can be set for trans¬ 
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John Deere-Dain 
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bar always can be 
kept in alignment 
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21-point clutch- 
instant cutting—not 
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Frame with strong 
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Rake head turns on 
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John Deere, Moline, Illinois 
Jiidge Ward of the Wicks Committee 
says that this is impossible, and that 
anyone who claims that it is possible 
must be a faker or a crook. We will 
accept both titles cheerfully, and insist 
that .Judge Ward has been hired by the 
people of the State not to work in the 
interest of the C9-cent dollar or those 
who capture it, but he is paid to find 
some plan for cutting the 69-cent dol¬ 
lar and tacking the fat of it on to both 
ends of the game. The trouble with most 
sales of food in this country is the fact 
that the middle is fat and the feet and 
the head are lean. Work some of that 
fat off, and give the man a better pair 
of shoes and a better hat. 
Hope Farm 
(Continued from page 418) 
great future profits. I thought I had a 
great novelty, but the skunk farmer was 
proclaimed a nuisance by the town au¬ 
thorities and the business was abandoned. 
Therefore all over the country people be¬ 
gan writing me as a “high authority on 
skunk farming”J 1 must have had 500 
letters asking how to start at the busi¬ 
ness. It got so that I told all who wrote 
that skunk farming ,or any attempt to 
keep wild animals in captivity was a 
fraud and a humbug. I thought it was 
so. and yet_ here, on my own fann, was 
the foundation of the business. No won¬ 
der the pioneer winked at me, though his 
future .stood on the feeble foundation of 
one muski-at and a boy’s faith. ir. w. c. 
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are 
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l^ffreii riMlPuLVE llI^ 
“l used one p»rt Portland Cement, 
two parts pulverized limestone, 
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It is far better and stronger work 
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