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The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSiyESS FARMER'S PAPER 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban llomei) 
Established isso 
PiiblUhrd weekly by the Ilural I* *ublish!nir Company, S33 We«t 30lh Street, .\ew Vork 
^ Herbert W. Coleisowood, Prosidriitaml Editor. 
John* J. DthtO-V, Tre.'.surer and (Jeneral .Manajjrer. 
Wm. F. Dillo.v, Secretary. Mkk. E. T. Royee, .Aswieiate Editor. 
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"A SQUARE DEAL” 
TVe believe that every atlvcrfisement in this paper is backetl by a respon¬ 
sible iMjrson. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make trood any loss 
to T)aid 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 differences or mistakes between our subscribers and honest, 
responsible houses, whether advertlseis or not. AVe willingly use our good 
offices to this end, but such cases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions. AVe protect subscribers against rogues, but we will not be 
resiH>nsible 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 Rurae New- 
Yorker when writing the adverti.scr. 
T he T'. S. (Jealojiicfil Survey states that a “fake 
^:eolo^;ist“ i.s at larfre. Ilis name is Geo. 11. 
Smith, and lie claims to be “looking up mineral.^.” 
There Avas a time Avhen the Smith fjimily Avas the 
largest known assemblage of persons grouped under 
one name. Xoav the Smiths are taking second 
lilate. Ill the last New York directory there are 
47 columns of Smiths and 49 columns of Cohens. 
But at any rate make Mr. Smith or Mr. Cohen show 
his jiapers before you believe Avhat he says about 
minerals on your farm. A “fake geologist'’ is a 
man Avho makes out of his OAvn native bra.ss, a gold 
mine on your fiirm. 
* 
T HIS season Avhen eA’aporatoi's are going up on 
every side for drying surplus fruits and vege- 
liihles we hope some one Avill e.xperiment Avith dry¬ 
ing ajiple pomace. 'Within the imst.few yeiirs the 
feeding A'alue of this cider mill refuse has been rec¬ 
ognized find in some localities it has become a com¬ 
mercial product. The next step is to try it out as 
a dried food—like dried beet pulp. It contains 
enough food value to Avarrant the experiment and 
if it can be handled in this way successfully it 
Avill mean u iiractically new food for cattle. 
* 
A I’EBFECT iilague of green lice has suddenly 
appeared ujion the potato and tomato tields 
around this section. The insect has been known be¬ 
fore, but never came in such numbers as to be con¬ 
sidered serioiLS. This year they are ruining many 
crojis and most groAA’ers have been iiowerless—not 
knowing how to fight them. AYe are using tobacco 
extract Avith fair results, but the constant rains 
have made it impossible to do effective AA’ork. It 
Avas a surjirise attack Avhich “drove us back on a 
Avide front.” As these insects are suckers of c<iur.'<e 
the poisons Avill not kill them. 
* 
H as there eA’er been as.sembled at AA’ashington a 
more lazy, inefficient or leaderless (.'ongress 
than the one now marking time behind the firing 
line? AYe doubt it. Through its trifling and child¬ 
ish action Congress is playing the most dangerous 
exjieriment Avhich can ever be tried, in a Republic. 
The iieople are becoming restless and tired at this 
foolish di.splay of “.state.smanship.” Their enthu¬ 
siasm is growing cold, and what does Avarmed-over 
enthusiasm ever amount to? It is not so much that 
important bills are held up as the fact that the 
American people begin to feel that these long de¬ 
lays are due to some seci’et disloyalty or indiffer¬ 
ence. Is there no Avay of making Congress Avork? 
I.ast Aveek AA'e saAV a balky horse blocking the AA'ay 
by refusing to budge. As a last resort a big lO-ton 
truck got behind—and put on power! The horse 
went! The American peojile are just about ready 
to get behind and put on full poAver! 
* . 
C ONGRESS has now giA’en the President the 
poAver to enforce an embargo on exports of 
food, fuel, feed and some other nece.ssities. It Avill 
be promptly enforced against the neutral nations, 
and after July 15 none of the.se products may be 
exjiorted Avithout a government license. This is, 
frankly and openly, a AA’ar measure. AA'ithout doubt 
much of our grain, coal, explosives and metals, os¬ 
tensibly sent to neutral nations, has been shipped 
by them to Germany. The government Avill noAv stop 
this trade, and the embargo is a prompt and .stern 
AA'ay of doing it. This AA’ill decrease our foreign 
shipments during the Avar, but Avill not greatly 
change i>rices for farm product.s, since there is full 
demand from our Allies at iiresent. The embargo 
puts the neutral nations like Holland, SAA’eden or 
SAAntzerland in a pio.sition Avhere they Avill finally 
be forced to enter the Avar on one side or the other, 
and it will probably be impos.sible for them to ob- 
B'Ae RURAL NEW-YORKER 
tain fuel and food excejit from the Allies. Thus we 
see clearer than ever that biscuits are more im¬ 
portant than bullets in this Avar. 
* 
I.N your issue of June 2.3rd the article of F. R. Allen 
on how the State helps farmers on the labor cpiestion 
is true and to the point. Down here in .Tersey we 
have Rockefeller and Carnegie millions to add to our 
troiible.s, as well as many other millionaires who pay 
much more for iabor than the product of the farm. 
New Jersey. o. n. g. 
E have the same report from everywhere— 
interference Avith farm labor by competition 
from jiublic Avork or rich back-to-the-landors. In 
some cases Avealthy men go out and play at farm¬ 
ing. They steal good hands aAvay from practical 
farmers by offering extravagant Avages, and then 
spoil the Avorkmen by putting them at useless or 
impractical labor. Then they join the chorus of 
criticism and complaint because the farmers do not 
“speed up!” 
* 
The 35-cent dollar and .35-hour government clerk, 
shooting hot air to the farmer, makes a good combina¬ 
tion. I Avonder if the farmers realize that a govern¬ 
ment clerk works 35 hours in seven days and a salary 
from .$75 to .$3(X) per month, while we AVork .SI hours 
in seven days, and take Avhat we can get in .salary. 
Maryland. av. ii. sciiro.ai. 
E have all sorts of combinations the.se days. 
The farmer has not said so much about it 
yet, but his time is coming. Of course the “gOA’ern- 
ment clerk" Avill feel insulted Avhen he is called a 
.35-hour man, for he claims to Avork liai-d. AVe do 
not see liim resigning his job to take the .M-hour 
job on a mortgaged farm. Now and then someone 
stands up to say Ave should not talk in this Avay 
about “a very Avorthy class of iiersoiis.'’ In the 
language of the school boy, “you started it" and ju.st 
as long as these Avorthy jiersons .sjieak as tlH>y do 
about the farmers they must expect to get it back 
in full measure. 
* 
I N some respects the conference held in Syracuse 
on July 5th and Gth Avas aliove the average in 
merit. The importance of it did not consist in tiie 
set addresses, nor in the breadth of vieAv of the dis- 
cu.s.sions, nor in the Avisdom of the committee rec¬ 
ommendations. The.'^e AAcre iirobably a fair average 
for such meetings generally. The same speakers had 
lieen heard before. The same .subjects had been dis¬ 
cussed before, and similar recommendations had 
been reported before. AA^'liat distinguished this meet¬ 
ing from many others Avas the determination of the 
actual farmers jiresent not to stand for any gnlT. 
Idle and silly advice to the farmer Avas turned doAvn 
Avith a bang. The advisors Avere told Avith some em¬ 
phasis that to advise farmers to do things that 
could not he done by them Avlthout loss of money 
Avas an aff’ront to farm intelligence, and they re¬ 
sented that kind of advice. 
TAventy years ago fanners in Ncav York State 
Avould have accepted the dictum in silence or jios- 
sibly Avith an affirmative vote. At that time official¬ 
dom and regularity Avere held :in a sort of reverence. 
An.vAvay it Avas the regular thing to go Avith the 
croAvd, and organized forces led the Avay. At Syra¬ 
cuse the men from the ploAV handles Avere alert and 
discriminating. Some of them Avere iirinu'd for 
things that Avere expected but did not materialize, 
and they launched the full force of their iieiit-up in¬ 
dignation again.s't the suggestion that the farmer is 
an economic idiot. .After a feAV meetings like that 
the business interests of this country Avill begin to 
understand that if they Avant any particular kind 
of food or any food at all for that matter, in tlie 
future, they Avill have to jiay enough for it to cov&r 
the cost of production. .Artificial stimulation of 
farm production that does not pay Avas not par¬ 
ticularly jiojiular at the Syracuse meeting. 
♦ 
.As an insult to the fanners of the State, can you 
beat it? , a. g. e. 
Lucerne, N. Y’. 
Enclosed you Avill find part of a column of guff, a 
copy of Avhich is, I suppose, being sent to every Grange 
in this State. l. k. 
OTII notes are from Northern NevA' YMrk and 
both refer to the speech by EdAvard I*. Doyle 
Avhich Ave referred to last Aveek. Somebody is spend¬ 
ing a lot of money trying to plant Mr. Doyle's re¬ 
marks in the minds of the Graiige.s. It Avill not re¬ 
sult in a large crop. “Insult and guff'’ is Avhat they 
call it. The names fit. Mr. Doyle booms Senator 
BroAvn as the greatest friend of the farmer, and he 
knocks “fake reformers.” lie ought to tell us Avhat 
sort of a reformer Senator BroAvn is I Mr. Doyle 
and others like him Avill not get very far for his 
money. Ilis hot air Avill start an explosion. It is 
a shreAvd and cunning scheme to discourage and 
divide the farmers noAV that they haA’e started to 
get together and to think out their oavii jiroblem.s. 
It is the old plan Avhich has Avorked so Avell in the 
.Tuly 21, 1917. 
pa.st: hut it Avill not work in this case, for our far¬ 
mers size it up as “insult and guff'.” 
* 
S OME of the city papers hai'e printed great stor¬ 
ies about the work of Boy Scouts picking pota¬ 
toes on Maryland farms. It was said the.se Scouts 
did about $5tX) Avorth of AVork at a co.st of $1.5001 
Man.v of the rejiorts blame the farmers for the fail¬ 
ure of the.><e scouts to make good as farm hands. 
This Avas to be expected, for it is evidently a part 
of the game to .shoA-e all posible blame upon the 
farmer. We pay little attention to these paper re- 
jiorts any more. .After looking the case up right 
Avhere the trouble happened AA-e think the folloAving 
.statement is fair: 
From all that I can learn the trouble Avas that a 
lot of boys entirely too .young for steady Avork' in the 
field were sent doAvu. They were little city felloAvs, 
never accustomed to the picking up of potatoes in the 
hot sun. and toting baskets to the barrels. They sim¬ 
ply had not the physical ability, Avere too young and 
tender, and of course they .soon got dissatisfied and 
gave up. No blame could be attached to the farmers, 
for no one could expect little city boys 13 to 15 years 
old to .stand Avorking in the field in Summer. And even 
those a year or two older could not stand the sudden 
dumping into the field in hot weather. The country 
boys who have been at AVork in the open air ali the 
season have gotten hardened to it. It Avas unwise to 
put city boys suddenly in the field in hot Aveather. The 
little felloAvs could not stand it and got homesick, and 
that is about the Avhole of it. av. f. ma.ssey. 
♦ 
AA’iiat reasons liaA-e you for s.aying that Senator E. 
R. BroAvn of Jefier.son ('ounty, does not fairly represent 
the dairymen of the “North Country?” s. R. 
W E are glad to see the North Country daiiy- 
meii coming foiavard. We have a long string 
of reasons. First Ave may give the folloAving ex¬ 
tract from rc.solutions passed by the St. LaAvrence 
County IIolstein-Friesian Breeder.s’ A.ssociation on 
.Tune 14: 
I’lie Club Avas unanimous for the principles em¬ 
bodied in the ToAvner Bill and considered that it Avas 
not given fair treatment. The folloAving resolution aa’Us 
presented and unanimously carried: 
“We, the members of the St. LaAvrence County IIol- 
stein-Friesian Breeder.s’ <’lub, consider that the actions 
of E. R. BroAvn. Majority I>eader in the Ncav A’ork 
State Senate, are in opposition to dairy interests.” 
The Holstein coav means more to the North Coun¬ 
try than all the politicians Avho ever pulled a Avire 
or pushed a button. These black and Avhite citizens 
Avill go on keeping the North Country in the ring 
long after Senator BroAvn is forgotten. Does the 
North Country, and .Tefferson County in particular, 
Avaiit Senator BroAvn to continue his AVork at .Al¬ 
bany? It Avoiild be a .strange thing for intelligent 
men first to shoAv that a man is opposed to their in¬ 
terests and then turn around and send that man as 
their representative! It is up to .Teffer.son County 
dairymen. If they Avant Senator BroAvn it is their 
privilege to keep him in office. If they do not Avant 
him it is their duty to do something more than 
“resolA’c.” 
* 
NEW game is reported from Wisconsin. Tavo 
young men appear and offer a card on Avhich 
is J) rill ted : 
S'r.ATE REBRESENT.ATIYE 
$7ocA- Rttisino (ind Af/riciiltural Literature 
, They try to make it appear that they are straight 
from the .Agricultural College and are after names 
of farmers to Avhoiii they jiromise to .send “litera¬ 
ture'’ about stock di.seases. The farmer is to pay 
OS cents a year for “postage,” but no receipt is 
given. .All sorts of Avires are noAV being pulled in 
efforts to obtain names of farmers. The best thing 
to do Avith such young men is to put them at Avork! 
Brevities 
.A F.4IU imitation of milk i.s made from Soy beans. 
.A NEAV Liberty loan is contemplated Avithin a year! 
AViien a package goes on the market—mark it Avith 
your name. 
The Ohio Experiment Station finds 10 iiounds of 
Alfalfa seed to the acre the most satisfactory rate of 
seeding. 
Publicity ! The bc'st boost for a good thing and the 
hardest knock for the bad thing. It clears the air and 
opens up to the sunlight. 
DimxG small lots of fruit and vegetables will help 
out the household supplies, but Ave Avould not advise 
it as a commercial proposition. 
The presiding elder surely gave The R. N.-Y. a 
good send off (page 904). Well, avc shall have to run 
a very straight course after that! 
I.\ the '.Southern .States they will work this gar¬ 
dening proposition double time. Here is the Alabama 
Experiment Station telling Avhat to plant in October. 
There are many calls for information about keeping 
vegetables in cellars over Winter. The Pastoral Par¬ 
son seems to be an expert at this, and he Avill tell us 
how he does it next month. 
M.A.NY reports shoAv heavy bloom on potatoes this 
year—Avith prospeeff for a crop of .seed balls. There 
Avill be some experiments Avith new seedlings. The 
Agricultural Department at Washington has issued a 
very good bulletin by Prof. Wm. Stuart on this subject. 
