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February 2, 1918 
The 
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Death of Edward Van Alstyne 
I'dward Van Alstyno, for many years 
(liroctor of farm instiliite.s in New York 
State, died after a short illness .Tanuary 
17. lie was at his oflicc until two day.s 
ht'fore his doiith 
Mr. Van Al.styne was horn in IS-IS on 
the farm in Kinderhook where his life 
was sjient. and whicli had been in the 
family since llJliT. 
After ciliication at Kinderhook 
Acadt'my tind Schenectady Classioil In* 
stitiite he rctt'.nied to the farm at tho 
iifte of 17. .and a year later, on the death 
of his fa'lier. heraime mana};er. TlirotrKh 
iina'sliiieiits. which tunual out h.id'y be¬ 
cause of the ('ivil IViir, the farm liad 
been heavily mortKaged, hut Mr. A'an 
Alstyiie maiiaitcd it with such skill and 
energy that the mortftage was jiaid. im- 
lirovemeiits made and a lar^e family 
cared for. 
In juihlic life lie siient his time and 
•Mieifty witlioiit reserve. 'riioiifth best 
known as an interesting speaker on agri- 
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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER, 
S33 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
Edward Van Alstyne 
cnlturiil topics in New York .•iml othc’r 
States, he wa.9 .active in miiny otln'r 
lines, incliulinK the (Bainge, church, edn- 
Ciition .and cooiieration work. Any tiling 
that would henelit farm, hmiie or <avic 
ife had his interest and belli, lie will 
he sadly missed hy the thousands who 
have heard ’lis voice and have known 
his sympathy and help. 
Experiments with Sweet Clover 
I rmul last year in Tub It. N.-Y. almut 
Sweet clovc'r. I bought a nO-acaa' farm 
and I wi.sh to improve it witli Swi'ot 
clover. I bought IflSS worth of scaal and 
it did not grow. I depend on your 
grows all over. It does not grow in this 
sca-tion. Next time, what, any .lack or 
Bill tells' yon. don’t put it in the imper 
if yon don't know it for sure yonr.self. 
(’ami)hell, N. Y. v. w. 
Nfiw and (hen we have a letter like 
the ahov(‘. and the strange thing is that 
along with it will come .s<>veral coinjilain- 
ing that W(' ari' too conservative about 
urging readers to try the.se new tilings. 
Tub K. N.-Y’. was certainly among the 
first to talk aliont f'rim.son clover. Al¬ 
falfa. Soy beans. Sweet clover, cow pmis. 
Sudan grass, vefeh and otlu'r new or not 
eomiiion crops. Bong e.\|)eriene(‘ on our 
(iwn farm and sfndying rt'ports from otluu' 
farm's has made inT cautions in advising a 
trial of iK’w crops or methods. As for 
Sweet clover, we bought over ’JttO iioniids 
of the seed and tried it in half a dnjcen 
(liflVrent ways. AV(> nnnh' a full reiiort 
of our own results. We have again and 
again urged oni' ri'aders not to ])lnngeon 
tills clover, if it did'niit grow wild in the 
neighliorhood. hut to sei'd a comparatively 
small jiatch or field and study it before 
siiending much money on it. We 'haye 
been .so careful about this that we felt 
that every reader would understand about 
these new crops. There 'have been S('veral 
other cas<>s where'farmers put nearly the 
('iitire farm into Swo<‘t (dover, only to 
The New York School Law 
Repeal the Perfidious Thing 
As a farmer and an American citizen 
I wish too, to lift my voice in indigna¬ 
tion against the school law. We have 
one of the best little country schoohs in 
the State. Our people are proud of it. 
AYe get the best teacher we can find. 
We have grand times at our ('hristmas 
and last day school exercises. But I 
fear, unless we get busy, that our doom 
is .sealed, as a free district. Heretofore 
oiir district trustee looked diligently 
after the wc'lfare of the school. sn)vplied 
its ever.v neo'ssary need. But how 
changed this year! For three months 
after school begun, onr ti'achor could get 
no chalk except what she borrowed from 
neighboring tc'achers. She cmild not get' 
tho stovepipe cleaned, could get no 
erasers. She was utterly ignored, al¬ 
though she had written them repeatc'dly. 
until a patron “got .after” the hoard. 
()iir district ('xpi'iises are much lower 
than last year, but our taxes are just 
one-third higher. Theri^ is a little one- 
hor.se higli school in our town, and their 
taxes are lower. Two of the memibers of 
the hoard liv.* in that district. The 
only three iieojilc whom I have heard 
ujihold tho law, live in the two districts 
in which tlie taxes w(>re lowered, and 
they are memhers of the school board. 
I have written Senator Klon K. Brown, 
and am gning to circulate a pi'tition ask¬ 
ing the Legislature to repeal the perfid¬ 
ious thing. T. H. WOltTII.MAX. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
He Stands for the Law 
As a member of the Board of F.dnca- 
tion in the town of Onondaga I wi.sh to 
express my yiews in regard to the 
Machold school law. I will assume that 
ever.y fair-minded taxpayer is in favor of 
better education, and believes that the 
little red .school house, where hi.s child 
attends, up to the average in eqnip- 
nu'iit and mainteiianee. I think that I 
am right in saying that if this xvas tho 
ea.se all over the State there would he 
no Machold law. But when this law 
went into effect last Summer and took 
away the right for the taxpayers to meet 
in their own ri'spective districts, di.s- 
ouss the high cost of living, then elect 
the man who would cut the tax budget, 
make only nece.ssary improvements and 
on tho whole run the seliool as economi- 
call.v as jiossible, they concluded that 
they had jierformod their iiatriotic duty 
for -higher education, and they would 
settle hack into routine affairs for another 
year. Tho town (board begins the work 
where the model trustee left off. hut in 
a far different manner, fii'st hy determin¬ 
ing what improvements would he bene¬ 
ficial. 'hut in many cases ah.soluBfiy nec-■ 
e.ssary, and then demands installation of 
such improvements, thus tending to bring 
all schools up to a par. The increased 
taxes we hear so much about in all the 
arguments, were caused lai'gely hy the 
former district trustee, for when he 
lieard that the town was fii )iay the 
taxes he saw his chanee to jint one uver. 
and incr(‘as(“d his teacher s salary, not 
realizing tliat eventually it would come 
out of his own pocket. 
To lie a member of the element that 
5*7 'ITomen 
whose sensitive 
nerves often yield 
to coffees harmful 
stimulation, appre 
date the change 
resulting fronn a 
ten days trial of 
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C. N. Robinson & Bro., Dept.51* Baltimore,/A<l. 
lose most of their nionev inv(“st(‘<] in, it. sent through the (Irnnge to a majority 
Tlioy (li.l not. blame n.s. hut frankly stat- <>f the tax).ayers asking them to expresH 
ed that they took a chanee. knowingly, 
anil having failed, clu'erfull.v shouldered 
('ontrohs file country chnrcli, tlie corner -- --- 
store, or the country school is the height j If C J 
of some of our taxpayer.s’ ambition, and ^Italia 066(1 
the los.s of the du’f'et control of the' 
school together with the advance in taxes, 
is a hitti'i' pill for them to swallow. 
But these are war times. Mr. Taxiiayer, 
and perhaps Sherman was right even 
when it comes to iiaying school taxes. 
Why do not some of the iieoiile who are 
not satisfied with the results take theii' 
complaints to the hoard and (hnnand 
action? I doubt if scarcely any one has 
done this; they would nuich^ ratio*!' .sit 
hack and kick like a Missouri mule at a 
law that was three years in the making, 
and during this time a r(*<inest was 
5foRt economical and profltalilo to row hr it produces 
plaiitR wl'lch do not winicrkill like otlier v.ii ietles; larger 
yield hipber fveiUnpr Rookl<‘t *'How 1 discovered the 
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Danish Bal Ihead Cabbage Seed 
IfAlOlEUy SYNDICATE, Ino., COKTioXNU, N. Y. 
t’.ie hlauH*. It is part of our business to 
try to find new croiis, machines or meth¬ 
od for onr iieople, but we cannot think oi' 
I I't'ason for them, nor can we settle thost* 
things which can only he worked out 
I tliroiigh local ex]ierimcnt. AVc do onr 
liest to separate a fact from an exiteri- 
I nicnf, hut a reader must use judgment of 
1 his own. We hav(‘ a case of this in the 
liresent discussion about s(‘cding .Mfalfa 
and oats on the frozen ground. e have 
no doubt whatever that Mr. Shirley docs 
just as he says, but we cannot and^do not 
advise our people to try it except as au 
experiment. 
.their views and have a jiart in it. Now 
tliat we liave the law I eonsider it a 
far more patriotic duty for the taxiiayer 
to get h(*hind his local hoard and assist 
in tin' work of improving the standard 
of education in his schools to the satis¬ 
faction of all concerned, through a law 
made hy some of onr best educators, in¬ 
stead of condemning the authorities at 
.\lhanv and asking for the repeal of the 
whole' law, before it is six months old, 
and had a fair trial. 
If we taxpayers would cease onr con¬ 
demning till* law and make our wants 
known in a ch*ar and concise way through 
the hoard as a nn'dium to the Education 
ifepartment. they would be able to give 
n.s far more valuable assistance, and a 
definite solution for the proposition to 
the advantage of all would be 
j^cllicvod. RAYMOND C» IIlTCIilNGS* 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
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