922 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE IIUSIXESS FAE^rER•S PAPER 
A National M'eekly .loiiriiiil for Country ami huliiirban Ilomcx 
Eslnhlished fSiO 
Piibibhrd irrckly by tlir Rural I’nbliKhlnir Comjiany, 33 S Wo«t 8 OII 1 Street, New York 
Herbkrt W. Collingwood, I’rosidcnt and Editor. 
.loiiK .1. OiLLON, Tre.'surei' and Gonoral Mantitjor. 
Wm. P'. DiiJxt.v, Secretary. Mrs. E. T. Koylk, As.sociate Editor. 
SUBSCRIPTION : ONE DOLLAR A YEAR 
To foreiffn conntries in the Universal I’ostal Union, $2.01, eqtial to 8s. Cd., or 
8* *4 marks, or 10 !* francs. Kenilt in money order, express 
order, personal check or bank draft. 
Entered at New York Post Odico as Second Class Matter. 
Advertisinp: rates, 75 cents per apratc line—7 words. References required for 
advertisers unknown to us ; and cash must accompany transient orders. 
“A SQUARE DEAL” 
We believe that every advertisement in this paper is backed by a respon¬ 
sible person. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertisinp: of 
reliable houses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make prood any loss 
to jMiid subwribers sustained by trustinp: any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertisers or mislemlinp: a<i\-ertisements 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 advertisers or not. We willinpriy use our Rood 
offices to this end, but such cases should not bo confused with dishonest 
transael.ions. We protect subscribers aprainst rogues, but we will not be 
resiKUisible 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 Tiik Rural New- 
Yorker when writing the aiivertiser. 
W l’ have alway.s claimed that if there is to be 
any real improvement in eonntry liviiij? the 
farmer’s share of the consumer’s dollar must he in¬ 
creased. That alone will bring hope, independence 
and true jirosiierity into country neighborhoods. 
The various “uplift” plans are useful and many of 
them are good but not one can make permanent 
headway so long as country people feel that they 
are un.iustly treated in the markets. Increase the 
income' <ind the country will jirosper in every way. 
To jirove this go through the dairy districts and 
see what effect the increase of milk iirices has done 
for the people. See what is being done with the 
extra money thus obtained. There can be no Ques¬ 
tion about it. 'The way to improve and repopulate 
the country districts is to increase the .size of the 
.‘{5-eent dollar. 
* 
A nother newspaper lie which has been put out 
broadcast is tlie story that Maryland farmers 
were refusing to dig potatoes—so as to let them 
rot—rather than let the price go down. It would 
be hard to invent a more stupid story than this. 
Our reports from farmers are summed up in the 
following; 
I mu.st say frankly that it surprises me to know 
the idea is getting broadcjist in the city that we are 
holding potatoe.s (or anything else) to boost prices. 
When the fiict is we are shipping potatoes long before 
they are ripe. Therefore we have deducted from the 
potato yield. 
Instead of holding the crops back these farmers 
have dug as fa.st as they could and sent the potatoes 
to market. Many of them, however, have not 
played into the hands of dealers as usual. The 
farmers have organized, studied the markets and 
sent their crop just where they could get most for 
it. That is Avhy these stories have appeared. The 
daily papers have floated the lies in order to help 
the middlemen. 
* 
W E are told that some years ago the dust from 
a cement factory in California blew into an 
orange grove so thickly that con.siderable damage 
was done. The cement company had to jiay the 
damage and they began hunting for some way of 
catching and saving the dust. This Avas tinally done 
by placing “hoods” on the chimneys. When the 
dust Avas examined it Avas found to contain 10 per 
cent, or more of ])otash. As Ave understand it this 
pota.sh comes from the clay used in making the ce¬ 
ment. The high heat emidoyed in the jirocess acts 
ujion this potash to separate it and make it avail¬ 
able. At any rate instead of being an annoyance 
and damage breeder, this dust, upon examination, 
Avas found to he a vahmhle fertilizer and is noAV 
being u.sed for that purpo.se. It is not suitable for 
use in mixed fertilizers and probably contains too 
much lime for sucli crops as potatoes. For fruit and 
many other crops Avhere lime is needed it promises 
to be a great helj) and Avill, Ave think, be used freely. 
Thus a combination of accident and necessity has 
made this Avaste product and nuisance into a val¬ 
uable and timely agricultural help. 
* 
D I'RINC the past few years Ave have had many 
Questions about milch goats. It may seem 
a small matter to many yet hundreds of poor Avomen 
and men haA'e been tenpited to iiiATSt money in 
breeding “the poor man’s cow.” All sorts of stories 
are told iibout the great profits in goat breeding, but 
some of the cold facts are brought out in a bulletin 
from the Geneva (N. Y.) Experiment Station. The 
cost of feeding a goat Avas about three cents a day, 
or .j:il.05 a year. The milk yield ran from a little 
over .lOO pounds per year to over 1,800, the average 
being 800 pounds, or about 400 Quarts. The average 
food cost of producing a Quart of goat’s milk Avas 
not far from cents. Avhile the food cost of cow’s 
C'Ac RURAL NEW-YORKER 
milk Avas a little le.ss than one cent. Of cour.se 
there is nothing to the projiosition that goats A\ill 
li\’e and give milk on a diet of tin cans and old 
hoots. ’There is no Que.stion that goat's milk proved 
more digestible for iiiA’alids and children than coa\’’s 
milk. In iminy cases where goat’s milk AA'as tried 
sick babies recoA’ered and made fine gains. It is 
evident that the goats produce less milk to the 
liound of grain and hay consumed than coaa’s do. 
Unless there could he some siiecial sale for the 
milk at a high jirice the goat Avould not jirove as 
economical a dairy animal as a good cow. The 
price of a good milch goat .seems to be $.50 or more. 
The facts do not seem to leaA’e much of the theory 
that people with small families and small places 
can find in the goat an economic substitute for 
the cow. If, hoAATver, the goat men have the facts 
to disprove this they should come forward Avith 
them, for, as )ve have stated, there are hundreds 
who AAmnt to know. 
* 
O N many farms this year at least part of the 
corn Avill be “hogged down.” This means that 
no time Avill be spent in cutting, husking or grind¬ 
ing. Hogs will be turned right in after the ejirs are 
ready and left there to eat stalks and gniin. It 
may seem a AAmsteful process but there iire other 
things to consider. In this AA’et season many corn¬ 
fields are hard to get into Avith machiner.v and the 
stalks Avill be badly bloAvn down. Labor is scarce 
—in some ca.ses impossible to obtnm. Pork is high 
and Avhen the hog jilays the jiart of hired man, mil¬ 
ler and machinery, all in one, he becomes a A’ery 
economical citizen. ’That is Avhy this plan Avill be 
AA’orked out on many farms. Neitber hog nor imin 
can thriA’e best on cornmciil alone. There must be a 
“balance” to the ration in meat, beans or cheese. 
The Avestern farmers put the meiit in the hogs’ 
sandAvich by .seeding dwarf Es.sex rape in the corn. 
In some cases a tin can Avith a small hole punched 
through the bottom is hung at either side of the 
cultWator. Then at the la.st cultivation these cans 
are filled Avith rape seed. As the cultivator goe.s 
on the seed trickles out, is scattered on the ground 
and Avorked in by the cultiA’ator. From this easy 
seeding there Avill be a heavy growth by the time 
the corn is ready and the hogs find a “sandAvich” 
or balanced ration aAvaiting them. They need no 
other introduction. ’This Avill .seem Avasteful to 
many a farmer but long experience has lu-oved it 
an economical plan for many farms. You Avould 
be surpri.sed to see hoAV little of the stalks the.se 
hogs leave. 
♦ 
T he R. N.-Y. has helped before noAv in bringing 
town and city peoiile together for mutual ben¬ 
efit. Here is a somewbat neAV case. ’The folloAving 
letter is from a Presbyterian minister located in a 
town near Noaa’- York. ITis projiosition is genuine 
and he is capable of giving good service: 
During the month of August, my vacation. I should 
he glad to “do my bit” in helping out some fiirmer 
harvest his crops jirovided accommodations for myself 
and famil.v—we have two boys ages nine iind six— 
were furnished. If you knoAV of anyone Avho would be 
Avilling to niidvo these arrangements or can inform me 
where I might inquire further I shall he grateful. My 
idea is to get my family into the countrv, get some 
wholesome exercise for myself, help out ' a little in 
food conservation .and let whatever my services might 
he worth to the fiirmer, apjily on our boiird hill. 
E. I). AV. 
This is a business-like proposition and a neAV one. 
Does any farmer Avant to try the plan? If so AV'e 
can furnish the address. 
I AAi a farmer’s wife and feel A'ery much interested 
in everything pertaining to the farmer. I cut this 
clipping from “’The Evening Gazette,” a Worcester, 
Ma.ss., paper, and would like to know what you think 
of the article. All the farmers 1 know, AA'ork just 
as long and just as hard as their hired men. and at 
the end of the year the hired man generallv has iihout 
iis much to show for his labor as the farmer. I think 
the farmer runs as great risk.s as his help, and who 
compensates him for his losses or injuries? 
-Anus. L. ir. 
HIS is a case Avhere a AA’ell-meaning b;ick-to-the- 
lander undertakes to settle the farm problem 
by shorter hours of labor! He Avants Government 
regulations to shorten hours but thei'e seems to be 
no provision for doing the Avork! ’There never Avas 
anything like the adA'ice Avhich is so freely ladled 
out to farmers. We do not find these people telling 
the manufacturers or railroad men Iioaa^ to run their 
business. ’Tbe daily papers Avould not print their 
guff if it Avas aimed at other industries but the 
farmer and his AA’ork seems to be fair game for 
every crack brained theorist Avho knoAvs hoAv to 
Avrite. It is true that under existing conditions the 
hired man u.sually makes more than the boss. ’The 
strange part of it all is that these Avriters cannot 
seem to grasp the simple foundation truth of it 
all. Give the farmer a fair chance in marketing and 
.Tilly 28, 1917, 
distributing his goods and he will feed the world 
and provide the fine.st market for manufactured 
goods the Avorld eA^er saAV. .\dd 10 cents to the 3,5- 
cent dollar and a million needs Avill be turned into 
orders. 
WifEX I read the city dailies I realize that hot air 
is constantly arising from the editorial desks there and 
we country folk might as Avell get into the game. If 
I didn’t appreciate the need for filling so much space 
each day, I should believe that about the worst fools 
in the country became editors of city dailies, n. m 
N ew York. 
The Inclosed clipping of an editorial in the “San 
rrancisco Ghronicle” is respectfully submitted. It has 
to me the style of an “inspired” article communicated, 
perhaps syndicated. r n tt 
California. 
S UCH notes are coming from all over—from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific. The daily papers are 
filling up Avith mi.sleading or lying articles on the 
food Que.stion and the attitude of farmers. ’This 
stuff is more than foolish; it is mendaciou.s. We 
think it is jiart of an organized plan to throAV the 
hlame for short crops or high prices or popular un¬ 
rest upon the farmers. Our country people luiA'e 
had a bitter struggle against hard conditioms. ’They 
luiAe AA’orked harder and shoAA’ii more genuine jia- 
triotism than any other class of citizens. ’They 
Avill not noAv be made wbat the hoys call “the goat” 
Avithout butting back. They can do no better thing 
than to get right into these city papers AA'ith their 
own argument. You may think this is a small mat¬ 
ter. In reality it is one of the most imiiortant 
things Ave can do —rind no one ivill do it for ns! 
* 
It is announced that Luther Riirbank has perfected 
the most jiroductive wheat ever evohmd by man It 
IS claimed that it Avill give a yield of .50 to 70 bushels 
to the acre, Avhich is three or four times the average 
yield at iire.sent. He has been working at it for 10 
year.s iuid noAV thinks he has reached the very climax 
of wheut culture.—Ohio State Joui'iial, 
\3^E have been looking for such an announcc- 
V V ment! ’This is the time to make five grains 
of Avheat groAv Avhere one gi-oAV before! Who among 
the long list of distinguished Americans should be 
better (lualified to do the trick than Luther Hur- 
hank? ’This Avheat is cerLiinly a Avouder—a Avonder 
herry! We have been looking for iigavs tlnit our 
soldiers in France are to he fed on fried spineless 
cactus but Avith 70 bushels of Avheat to the acre the 
cactus may be used in a .sand\A-ich.- We must not 
let the Germans secure a submarine load of this 
Avonderful Avheat. .Some of our critics are inclined 
to chide us beeau.se Ave do not take Burbank and 
his Avheat seriously—as jiurveyors of the very bread 
of life. Oh Are do! We uoav expect any day to 
see ’The Luther Burbank Society come to life and 
offer this Avonderful Avheat for $100 or more per 
bushel. ’That Avill be the .serious part of it. ’Phe 
.sadne.ss Avill come in the fact that thousands of 
people Avill actually believe the story and throAV 
their money at it. 
Brevities 
The dirty feeding bucket may .scour the calf. Rem¬ 
edy—.scour the bucket. 
’PiiEKE hiive surely been some raw statements made 
about raiv phosphate rock. 
I.\ not one case in 10 is lime needed as a jdant food. 
AA e do not use it as Ave Avould manure or fertilizer hut 
for its effect upon the soil. 
Many people complain that they cannot get their 
children to eat cornmeal. In old times it Avas a cus¬ 
tom to serve cornmeal before the meat iind give a 
prize of ii second help to meat to the child who ate 
the most cornmeal! 
’The Ohio Experiment .Station reiiorts that in a 
period of 23 years covering 10!) different whciit crops 
one ton of acid phosphate h:i.s made a gain of 80 bush¬ 
els of wheat, ’The u.sual apiilication Avas about 350 
pounds of the phosphate per acre. 
Great quantities of sweet potatoe.s Avi.ll he dried 
in the Southern States this year. In the past l.-irge 
quantities of SAveet potatoe.s Imve been lost for lack of 
good storage room, but this Winter will find tons of 
dried potatoes put aAvay for use. 
’The corn ear-Avorm does great damage in many 
SAveet corn fields. ’The eggs are laid on the silks and 
the Insect hatches and works down into the eiir. ’The 
effective remedy is to dust the silks with a mixture of 
one part .sulphur or flour and three parts arsenate of 
lead. It Avould not pay with field corn. 
Noav come the calls for a “lice poivder” to use on 
jioultry. ’The folloAving is a “homemade” mixture Avhich 
has giA'eu satisfaction. Mix three parts gasoline and 
one part crude carbolic iicid in a pan. Work into it 
four parts plaster of paris and stir well. Dry for 24 
hours .and crush to a dust. Worked into the plumage 
—it Avill give relief. 
’There have been several calls for the method of 
making kerosene emulsion. Before the great day of 
proprietary remedies this was the standard remedy 
for plant lice: Dissolve one-half pound of common 
soap in one gallon of boiling water. Pour this into 
tAvo giillons of kerosene and stir vigorously so as to 
mix the kerosene with the soiijiy Avater. When ready 
to apply, mix one gallon of the .solution (Avhich looks 
.somGvhat like .sour milk) and 10 gallons of water. 
