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The Rural New-Yorker 
THE liVftlNESS FAItMER-8 PAPER 
A National Weekly Journal for Country aud t>ubiirl>an Ilomca 
• Established isio 
Poblirhrd wMkIy by Ihr Rnnl rnbliuhlngr rompsny, 333 Wen 30ih Street. Xew fork 
Herbert W. Collingwood, President and Editor. 
John J. Dillon, Trc.'surer and General Manager. 
Wm. F. Pillo.n, Secretary. Mrs. E. T. Hoyle, Associate Editor. 
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“A .SQUARE DEAL” 
We bellere that every advertisement in this paper is backed by a respon¬ 
sible peiaon. We use every jKissible jirecaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable liouses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make good any lo.ss 
to jMiid subscribers sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertisers or misleading advertisements in our columns, and any 
such swindler "will be publicly exposed. We are also often called upon 
to adjust dilTcrcnees or mistakes betiveen our subscribers and honest, 
responsible houses, whether advertisers or not. We willingly use our good 
offices to this end, but such cases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions. We protect subscribers against rogues, but we will not be 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
Notice of the complaint must be sent to us within one month of the time of 
the transaction, and to identify it. you should mention The Rl’ral New- 
Yorker when writing the adyertiser. 
One of our substantial farmei’s has 100 gallons of 
maple .syrup and 100 pounds of maple sugar, just niiide, 
which he cannot sell. I bought five gallons of the syrup 
and find it Xo. 1 quality. I am sure the sugar also is of 
superior quality. It strikes me as outrageous that a 
man like this cannot find a market for his product. I 
told him The It. X.-Y. would jiut him in touch with a 
reliable house. El), the times. 
HI.S is from the editor of a good local paper in 
Central X'ew York. It does not seem possible that 
sui»erior maple goods cannot be .sold. This farmer 
ought to advertise the goods right in The Times. 
That is what the paper is for, and we are sure that 
right among its readers are to be found buyers for 
the maple goods. That is the very first principle of 
distributing food iiroduct.«. .'^uiqdy the home demand 
first. Do not send goods to this market if you can 
sell them direct—at home. 
* 
A. C. Laut in an article in .Saturday Evening Post 
of .Tune 2nd makes the statement that in the West, 
farmers often get (iOO bushels of jiotatoe.s jier acre, 
while in Xew England 200 is high. Will you tell us 
the Western average, al.so that for Xew York State, 
New England and for Maine? r. d. h. 
Connecticut. 
T he 10-year average for all Xew England is 1.3.3 
bu.shels of potatoes per acre. 'Phe Xew York 
average is 04 bushels. Xew .Jersey 102. XTiw and 
then there comes a report of a 000-bushel potato 
croj), but any such thing is a novelty, like the cow 
making a can of milk every day, or the oOO-egg hen, 
or the perfect hired man. The average yield for a 
lO-year period is 0.’5.4 bushels per acre for the en¬ 
tire country. This average is highest in Maine, 
200 bushels, and lowest in Texas, 50 bushels. The 
.'States on the Western slo]ie have a high average, 
under irrigation, but not a large acreage. During 
the jia.st 25 years the average farm price has run 
from 2.S cents to .$1.40 per bushel. A short crop has 
always brought more money than a big crop. In 
1000 a crop of .3S0,10.5.000 bushels brought $210,- 
O02,OCK3 and 400,021,000 bushels in 1014 brought 
$100,400,000. In 1011 a crop of 202.7.37,000 bushels 
brought .$2.3.3.72.3,000 Avhile in lOKi, 2S,5.4.37,o00 brought 
.$417,00.3,0001 The article by Miss Laut is a strong 
one. On the next page will be found her .final .sum¬ 
ming up, and At states the case just as farmers un¬ 
derstand and believe it. 
♦ 
Of all times now is the time we would not want to 
be without The K. X.-Y. It is not afraid to tell the 
jiowers that be what is what, and is giving all fair 
warning, so if the lightning should strike in unex¬ 
pected places by and by they will have only themselves 
to blame, I saw an editorial in last Sunday’s St. 
Louis Itepublic about China’s offer to send laborers to 
lis farmers. Is it not abgut time we took active steps 
to make these crazy bone-headed ‘‘adviser.s” learn that 
sometimes enough is too much? I have advised said 
editor that he would better try the innovation in the 
editorial rooms of the Republic. Ilis readers would 
w’elcome the change, and we have invited the whole 
Republic editorial staff down here on our 1500-acre 
farm to spend their Summer A-acation ! When Ave get 
ready to turn them loose the editor will know how to 
write an intelligent editorial about farming and far¬ 
mers’ needs anywaj-—perhaps. John cologna. 
Missouri. 
OTHIXe does us more good tlian the AA’ay far¬ 
mers are handling the tOAvn and city papers. 
Most of these papers have come to the point where 
they consider it the jiroper thing to sneer at the 
farmer and belittle his efforts in all Avays. They 
may giA’e the farmer buncombe, but business goes to 
the toAvn. Xoav Ave hold that this condition is a 
natural one, and that as country people Ave are part¬ 
ly responsible for it. We have not used these pa- 
jiers as Ave should have done to put our side of the 
case before the public. Xo one Avill do this for us 
without charging far more than the service is Avorth. 
The thing to do, Avhen we find these papers printing 
some sneer or some stab at farming, is to get right 
into the ring and ansAver the article. Xo one can 
do this better than a farmer or his Avife. A plain 
and simple letter of this sort Avill be far more ef- 
Oie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
fective than any elaborate article. The editor may 
not print such letters at first, but he Avill finally 
come to it. There is not an editor in the entire 
country Avho can stand a dozen hot sfirong letters 
from farmers. He AA’ill change his policy if you 
kec]) at him. There is no finer AA’ork ju.st noAV for 
intelligent farmers to do. One of the most useful 
men in the .^tate in this line is William Trueman of 
Ulster County. Mr. Trueman Avrites for the local 
Orange and prints his letters in the local paper. 
In this Avay he has jiut the farmer's side right into 
lirint. and the effect of it is noticed all oA'er the 
Hudson Yalle.v. There should be at least 100 men 
doing this sort of work and keei>ing right at it. Xo 
one can realize the good it Avould do to our coun-> 
try iteoide. 
* 
I E you are interested in saving for food the grain 
noAV used in making liquor, Avhy not encourage 
the use of barley for human food? The way to do 
this is to begin to eat it yourself. Do not ask others 
to do AA'hat you AA’ill not do in your own household. 
Barley makes a good “cereal,” either crushed or 
cooked Avhole, and Avhen mixed Avith Avheat or corn 
it can be used for biscuits and cakes. It has been 
neglected ftir human food too long. Xoa\' it is needed. 
Let us make it popular if possible. 
* 
T hat article on irrigation should giA'e us all 
something to think about. Think of u.sing 
the.se pipes for AA'atering, spraying and fertilizing! 
By connecting the drainage system Avith big pools 
or jiits the drainage Avater can be used over and 
over again, thus saving the soluble jdant food Avhich 
is now Avasied. Did you ever stop to think of the 
jiossible future of irrigation? Xcav .Jersey does not 
rank as a large State in area, but if the Avaters of 
the DehiAvare River Avere held back and put on the 
level land as needed, and the drainage Avaters Avere 
held for reusing, XeAV .Jersey could iiroduce more 
food than is noAv groAvn in all Xoav England and 
part of XeAV York. This is but a suggestion of 
Avhat is coming AA'hen the Avater Avhich noAV runs 
useles.sly aAvay is held in jionds and canals and 
spread OA'er the IcA'el land. When that great con¬ 
centration of Avorking the .soil comes there Avill be 
a reA’olution in the farming back upon the hills. 
Tlien Ave must remember the uncounted treasures of 
plant food in the ocean. For ages the streams and 
the rains IniA’e been leaching the earth and carrying 
its substance doAAHi into the sea. The shells and the 
coral shoAv Avhat has become of part of the lime but 
the AA'aters of the ocean contain in solution quanti¬ 
ties of everything of Avhich the earth is composed. 
The ocean is the great storehouse—carrying AA’hat 
the earth has lost. In time of need AAays aahII be 
found for bringing it back. We knoAv a learned man 
Avho says that in the future the poAver of the ocean 
Avave Avill be used to jiump up the salt Avater, treat 
it electrically so a.s to remove its injurious quali¬ 
ties, and send it over the land as food and drink 
for the crojjs! 3’his man is Avhat they call a 
“dreamer,’’ or one Avho lives in the future, but does 
the AA’orld forget that every pioneer, eA’eryone AA’ho 
has jnished the Avorld on to progress has also been, 
in his day, “a dreamer”? 
W E IniA-e made hiAvs to permit men to create 
corporations through the printing of paper 
certificates. These certificates may then be used as 
instruments of legalized robbery, provided the pro¬ 
moters keep Avithin certain prudent limits. The 
preten.se of value used as an excuse for printing- the 
certificates may ^le a hole in the ground called a 
gold mine, a pipe driven into the ground, called an 
oil Avell, a paper map called a continental railroad, 
or a list of names called a publi.shing business. The 
latest is a small machine shop, a feAA’^ patterns and 
an automobile Avith a ncAv name built on old or 
pilfered patterns. A little more than a year ago, 
three men put their heads together to organize a 
company to make automobiles. None of them had 
money, Imt they planned to get it from the public, 
and they did—nearly $2,0(X>,000 of it. They organ¬ 
ized the Emerson Motor Company—on paper. In 
full-page advertisements, they told of the profits 
made by Ford and promised big profits to the men 
and Avomen Avho bought the paper certificates. They 
had authority to issue $10,000,000 of them. It is 
not Avorth Avhile to go into details of the trickery by 
Avhich the advertising Avas secured, and the money 
received from investors Avas legally divided. It is 
enough that the company is noAV admitted to be 
bankrujit and 14 men concerned Avith the promo¬ 
tion are under Federal indictment for misu.se of 
the United States mails. At least one of the pro- 
moter.s—one X^icholas F. Wilson—is yet under a 
former indictment for a .similar offense in California, 
and has a penitentiary record besides. The inA’est- 
June IG, 1017. 
ors may as AA’ell frame and hang up their certificates 
to remind themselves of their dream of quick ric4ies 
and their cupidity and folly. This and .similar 
schemes could not be Avorked AA’ithout the advertis¬ 
ing in the public press. To our mind the papers that 
accepted the advertising became accomplices in the 
crime. Xoav Avith the money for their advertising 
jingling in their pockets, these papers are exposing, 
too late, the fraud that they helped to promote. 
■+ 
W E jiredict the heaviest use of fertilizers for 
Fall grain this Autumn that ever AA’as knoAvn 
in the country. Phosphates and nitrogen Avill be 
used on the Avheat and rye. It does not seem pos¬ 
sible at present that the 191.S harvest can be over¬ 
done, and experience has .shoAvn that fertilizers and 
especially phosphorus, Avill pay a profit on 00 per 
cent, of American Avheat land Avhen the price 
reaches one dollar per bushel. There Avill be a tre¬ 
mendous increase in the use of fertilizers, but un¬ 
less farmers plan ahead and order early they Avill 
have trouble over freight deliveries. The service is 
noAA’’ all upset, and it Avill be AA'orse yet as men anjQ 
munitions begin to move more freely to the sea¬ 
board. rjet in eai'ly Avith the orders, or you may not 
be able to receive the goods in time. This advice ap¬ 
plies to a'l goods Avhich a farmer may need. You 
cannot safely AA’ait until the last call—get in early. 
W E find the folloAving in “The Canner,” a mag¬ 
azine published in the interests of the can¬ 
ning industry: 
It has been sugge.stcd that the Government may order 
farmers to groAV for the country’s canning factories the 
vegetables necessary to make possible the large packs 
of canned foods Avhich the Government desires shall be 
made this season. 
We have no precedent for this, but Avhat of that? 
If the Government can order Avholesale grocers to de¬ 
liver to it A'arious quantities of canned foods at prices 
to be determined later, Avhy can it not compel farmers 
to render such service as is in their poAver to render? 
Our farmers have been the petted and coddled class 
for many years, but if orders may be issued to business 
men Avhy not orders be issued to farmers also? If acre¬ 
age is essential, and it is, if more tomatoes, peas, corn, 
etc., for canning are essential, if the country and Goa’- 
ernment need them, Avhy not compel the OAvners of land 
to pi’oduce them, and of the kinds and quantities 
Avail ted? 
Here’s Avhere the farmer can do his bit. Business 
men and manufacturers haven’t been favored in the past 
as haA’e the farmers. It’s time that more was being 
required of them, Avho just noAv occupy a peculiarly 
favored position, and Avho are reputed to be making 
money hand over fist. 
For many years the caniiers have had prices for 
vegetables and fruits pretty much their oavii Avay. 
They did things about like the milk dealers—that is, 
settled prices to suit themselves and then presented 
a contract and told the farmers to take it or noth¬ 
ing! This year the producers, like the dairymen, 
organized, demanded a fair price and got it. Hence 
these tears from “The Canner.” This is the boldest 
open statement of Avhat many of these interests 
think or .say privately that Ave have yet seen. They 
really seem to think the farmers have been “petted 
and coddled’’ because they have received taffy and 
education Avhile special privilege has gone to the 
other interests. The government Avill not try to 
force farmers to jiroduce canning crops. The force, 
* if any, AA’ill be applied to the caniiers to make them 
pay fair prices. The government kiiOAvs Avhen that 
is done the farmers Avill do the rest. 
* 
H ere is one of the many cases Avhere applica¬ 
tion Avas made for a loan under the Patriotic 
Farmers’ Fund. .-V Avoinan living an Xoav York City 
oAvns a farm in Central XeAv York. Some relative 
lives on it, but the farm is not AA’orked. There is 
no money, but this Avoman AA’ants to borrow 
money to buy buckAvheat seed aud .some fertil¬ 
izer. The AA’ork Avill be done by the relative as best 
he can manage. There is no harder job than thi.s 
one of long-distance landlordism. This woman is 
trying to run a farm by the absent treatment—both 
money and personal oversight being ab.sent. Xoav 
AA’e ask if you AA’Ould lend your personal money on a 
proposition of this sort? 
Brevities ' 
You ought to be getting ready for that buckwheat. 
It i.s an economic measure to conserve the emotions. 
Don’t neglect the floAvers in Avar time. Not so much 
a luxury a.s a stimulant! 
A COLD and rainy June Avill put the corn crop all out 
of tune. 
Taa’O w’ays of “picking apples by hand.” One is off 
the tree, the other off the ground! 
Will .Tefferson Co., X. Y., give Senator E. B. 
Brown a black ball or a Avhite card? 
He who keeps an ordinary rooster after June 15 is 
robbing him.self and supporting a fraud. 
The best “war time ration” for poultry is not to cut 
out the hen’s grain, but to cut off' the surplus rooster’s 
head. 
