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Thrift on Mountain Farms 
AVhat might be called ordinary prac¬ 
tice in one place may well be named 
thrift under other radically different con¬ 
ditions. In this section the farms are 
very lough and much of the hay must 
be cut and gathered by hand. Because 
of thin soil and the uneven or stony 
condition of the soil hindering cultiva¬ 
tion, little grain is grown. When I see 
a farmer harvesting many bushels of 
.sweet apples miles from a market, stor¬ 
ing them carefully for stock feeding, es¬ 
pecially to hogs, when I know apple tree 
brush grows naturally along the road¬ 
side, that the farmers must fight it, and 
this farmer places an order for nursery 
stock to plant on his rough place to raise 
more sweet apples for the purpose o2 
stock feeding, it seems a move in the 
right direction. I*,9ee him marketing from 
his own truck good pork that has cost 
him scarcely a cent a pound for grain. 
This same farmer gets Winter eggs, 
being again ’way in the lead of his grain 
bill. He says his aged sheep are worth 
more to feed to his hens than to dispose 
of them in any other way. He feeds the 
internals first, then the carcass, then the 
bones in the green state. I argued 
against the hay eaten to save them, but 
he replies, “They eat very little, for they 
have no teeth.” This farmer markets 
most of his meat and berries from his 
own truck, making money from a rough 
farm where others would find it hard to 
live. Dressed in his white, washable suit, 
he as a farmer on his meat cart with his 
'home-grown beef, mutton, pork, poultry, 
butter and eggs, can well compete -with 
jthe town butcher’s cart at the Summer 
I re-sorts and cottages around our moun¬ 
tain lakes. 
Another farmer buys a rough farm 
with a steep mountain woodlot. He pays 
for the farm, rears a family, while a 
spacious comfortable home is built where 
few such homes seem pos.sible wdtbout 
outside aid. I have studied to know how 
it was done with little ca.sh outlay. His 
venture at present is the key. Some time 
ago he bought a lot in a thriving rail¬ 
road town seven miles distant. Others 
speenLatod on what he would do with it. 
I don't know how many nail-keg and 
cracker-barrel prophets were right, but 
had they been familiar with his home 
buildings they would have seen flooring, 
seasoning here, some clapboards in an¬ 
other place, shingles in another and 
framing timbers over there. Instead of 
marketing his lumber each year in the 
log, he markets the finished product. 
Grading, digging the cellar, and putting 
up the bouse, by taking two years for it 
can largely he done xvith home labor, 
thus making a profitable emplo.vmeut for 
himself and team in slack times while 
others are idle. He also has the satis¬ 
faction of seeing things grow, while by 
rent or sale he realizes the maximum for 
labor or woodlot products. It is inter¬ 
esting to know how small may be the 
outlay in cash, when hardware, cement, 
windows, etc., are bartered for, or taken 
jin exchange for maple syrup, fence posts, 
or beef when careful previous arrange¬ 
ments are made. The window frames 
were made in a neighbor s shop six miles 
distant from the structure, but on the 
road the man must travel to his wmrk. 
We have learned to term this thrift 
in a section where many farmers do not 
count their income by hundreds of dol 
January 19, 1918 
for the farmer to build up a direct trade 
with the consumer, for as the amount of 
food that can be bought for a dollar de¬ 
creases, the efforts of the people to buy 
more cheaply will make them willing to 
them by the pail, usually having unfilled adopt new methods of buying. 
orders for the next day's delivery. Field 
.strawberries, hulled and sold by the 
pound, bring her as much more some 
yeans, while the wild red raspberries and 
blackberries finish the season. “Where 
there is a will there is a way,” while 
finding the way and persevering in it, 
wins. BERT S. VAN VLEET. 
Schuyler Co., X. Y. 
Massachusetts. 
ROBERT MASON. 
Corporation Farming 
How Can I Help ? 
The following has just reached me from 
Anna Stcese Richardson in response to a 
local inquiry as to what a group of farm¬ 
ers’ wives can do in the line of ■war relief, 
without expense for materials. It seems 
to me so helpful that it should have wider 
publicity. There must be many Avomen 
among your readers who would be inter¬ 
ested in some parts of it. 
“So many things can be done without 
actually sewing or knitting, and women 
like a variety of work. There is no place 
near your town where wool can be se- 
I have a farm of 150 acres an 1 would 
like to turn it into a dairy farm, but I 
have not the cash to do so. I could get 
the money from our bank, but do not 
wish to mortgage the farm. I was think- cured without charge unless you form a 
ing of going in the city and getting some Red Cross Auxiliary and turn to the Red 
customers and having them take out 
shares of $50 each, and paying up shares 
at one dollar per week until paid. By 
doing so, when I took them some butter 
and they did not have the money I could 
leave the goods and at the same time be 
sure of my money. J. T. 
On a small scale this is what some of 
the corporations try to do. Before start¬ 
ing such a plan you should consult some 
good lawyer and see that your plan is 
legal. You might get into tionble with 
such a scheme unless you are sure. Of 
course, if you do not mortgage the farm 
or put it up as security there would be 
nothing back of these shares except your 
promise or reputation. You Avould prob- 
Warm Reception for a Faker 
ably have some trouble in selling such 
share.s, except to your personal friends 
or relatives. We have known of cases 
where people of good reputation secured 
capital in this way. They ordered lai-ge 
quantities of coal or grain or groceries 
and went around among the people sell¬ 
ing a season’s supply. The buyers put 
up money in advance to enable the agent 
to meet his bills on delivery. This has 
worked well in a few cases, but very 
good judgment and hn.sine.ss ability is re¬ 
quired to organize such -i plan. 
The Farmer’s Side of Trade 
Cross Chapt r for supplies. A Red Cross 
chapter will also give out cut-out gar¬ 
ments ready for making, but you have to 
send for them and deliver them, and the 
Red Cross is so particular about the fin¬ 
ishing of garments that the average 
woman becomes discouraged. So may I 
make some suggestions which Hour-a-I)ay 
workers have found practical? 
“First, to get funds, ask the ladies to 
take turns at your post office or iirincipal 
store, where they ask every man who en¬ 
ters to give the price of one cigar or 
pouch of tobacco each week, to pay your 
current expenses. ITou will need this for 
shipping charges on your finished work. 
Now, start with, the easiest work. Have 
an old muslin or linen day, your members 
to solicit old tablecloths, bed linens, even 
half-worn underwear. This should be 
washed free of starch, ironed, rolled and 
sent to the National Surgical Dressings 
Committee, 290 Fifth Avenue, New York 
City, parcel post charges paid._ In some 
French field hospitals there is such a 
shortage of old muslin that they are 
dressing wounds with newspapers. 
“Then yon can have a treasure and 
trinket day. I enclose literature about 
thi.s. Do not undertake a big celebration. 
Just ask everybody in town to make some 
little offering of broken gold or silver. 
The small lot which has been sent to the 
Woman’s Home Companion has brought 
in more than $8,000 for the aviators. 
“Then have a refugee day, asking your 
town to contribute half-worn clothes, new 
materials, anything that can be made 
over into garments for little children. Dis¬ 
tribute these among your^ members to 
clean, patch, and darn. When they are 
ready send them to Miss Elsie Randolph, 
Stage Women’s War • Relief, 300 Fifth 
Avenue, New York City. 
“Then you can have a kid glove day. 
Let each member contribute old gloves or 
leather of any .kind, cushion covers, cen¬ 
terpieces for tables. These scraps of 
leather are made into vests for the Fi’eucli 
soldiers who lack the warm uniforms 
American men have. Send this collection 
of old kid and leather to Miss Jessie Bon- 
stelle. Stage "Women’s War Relief, 366 
Fifth Avenue, New York City. It is 
made into vests right there in the work¬ 
rooms.” . , 
A recent meeting of our ladies revealed 
the fact that everyone not too old or too 
occupied was doing somethiug to help 
along, and arrangements have been made 
to take out Red Croas work for those w;ho 
wi.sh. Sister is interested in collecting 
reading matter, and I shall try a treasure 
and trinket campaign. The children in 
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One car load of choice 
wr,.- NOKCKOSS sekd potatoes 
ralsiiiff, fi’oui selected, disinfected stock; and 
been verv tlioroupthly field-sprayed. Price reason- 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West Thirtieth Street, New York 
I have been reading your paper for the__ __ ^ 
last three or four years, and while I am the public schools are making comfoi't 
not a farmer I always find enofigh news to pillows. EDNA 8. KNAPP, 
interest me to make me kee)) on sub- “ 
scribing, and one of the interesting topics New York Women and the Ballot 
to me is the 35-cent dollar. I have -he- Most of the w^omen around here are 
lieved with you, that if the producer and highly elated over the victory for equal 
consumer could be brought in more direct suffrage, and very proiffi of our own ele(> 
contact with each other it would be more tion district, NO‘^3,^o^ fn’lt LawTeiL 
profitable for both. So I decided this c'omjty to give a good majority for w'oraan 
year that I would get in direct touch wdth suffrage. Just now they are taking a live- 
some farmer to supplv me with enough Her interest than the men in working to 
■ ^ 1 f get the Machold law repealed. Some of 
eggs to put up in waterglass foi older and more conservative women 
"Winter ; about 30 dozen was what I when asked how they like the prospect 
wanted. of voting, “I haven’t thought much about 
I went to the postmaster and got a list it, but I do think that a woman ought to 
. , , 1 1 have as much to say as a man in matters 
of egg producers who had listed them- children and property 
cr 
folks. 
It is all so new to the women, as if they 
had grown wings or fins over night and 
did not exactly know how to make them 
go. It seemed to me that after election, 
men treated women just a trifle differ- 
Hrs in cash each vear. M'e cannot well selves as being willing to deal direct with and on the liquor question.” There 
* %vhpn Hipv make the public through the parcel post. From is no doubt that such women w’lll vote 
■I.!!’!'!..*':." ” wT ’ ,1 “ tho list I selected eight „an,es, and n tote as they belieye, independent of their nten- 
to them, asking what their prices would 
be for clean fresh eggs by the case. 
Out of the eight inquiries I received two 
replies, both said they didn't have any, 
but one gave me the names of two other more as if she were another citizen 
dealers whom he thought could supply like themselves; more on an equal, as if 
I also wrote them hut have received she were a person whose say-so meant 
, -_,,_ something. Also, I thought that some men 
no reply from them. ^ peeved look. This was no- 
Now, Mr. Editor, how can the farmer especially in the city, where there are 
hope to cut out some of the middlemen many saloons, etc., that woman in general 
^r. , , o .... mikG hist himiness more nrofitable if do Bot approve of. In the counti-y the 
kets in the M inter, by her feiiinmer ae- * ^ good-naturedly, finding much 
tivities. In sea.sou she markets $25 to He is not willing to reiily to a request about, but feeling in their hearts, 
,$35 worth of dandelion greens, dug from information? Even if he couldn't supply j believe, that they have a powerful ally 
r.i.^f.riiio'st near the house washed in me it would have been good business to in the woman vote. As it appears to me, 
dealings neai the nouse, ''^snea m t-pouest to some one who the one great thing to impress on the mmd 
mountain spring water and delueied to leply o g e y Q ^ country women is the need for her 
a town three miles away. She digs, could. I believe that there is no time the rest and do it Intel- 
deans and delivers them herself, selling that will ever be better than the present ligently. bertha e. doren. 
a success with those same methods. 
These two instances of “trousers” 
thrift may not he more marked than 
some “petticoat" accomplishments, A 
farmer's wife who with her husband is 
rearing a family of six children on a 
wooded farm on the side of a mountain, 
lives in a log house they built with their 
own hands. This Avife augments the 
family income from pulp wood, stove 
wood and logs, which the hui^band mar 
