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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 23, 1918 
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Time to Banish Booze 
This is .Tan. 20, and wc are .snowbound. 
We live a short distance from the stone 
road leading from f’amden, N. .7., to 
I’ennsgrove, N. J, Yesterday there was 
no travel. This morning a school wagon 
and two or three farmers were out and 
opened the roads for short distances only. 
There Avas no mail yesterday or today, 
.Tnst now at 2 o’clock P. M. one big auto 
truck has come through, and that is Avhy 
I am Avriting this. That truck Avas loaded 
with beer! Think of it! Mail stalled, 
bread trucks held up, and the first con¬ 
veyance that goes through must carry 
.something Avor.se than nothing. Once be¬ 
fore this AV'iliter the road Avas snowbound 
and only trucks got through to 
I’ennsgrove. vine Avas a bread truck 
and the other tAvo beer trucks. 
The '.at urougiit a big boom to Penns- 
grovo. The groAvth of the poAvder plant 
located there Avas jilicnomenal. Officials 
found that rum and poAAder di'^’ not mix. 
The hotel Avas closed. Since tiien Ave see 
two or three big truck loads of beer going 
to PennsgroA’e daily. I am told that 
this is nothing compared Avith the quant¬ 
ity that goes there by boat and train, 
A friend living there tells me there are 
a miinher of speak-ea.sies running con¬ 
tinually. This article is not intended to 
show bad conditions in Pennsgrove. I 
use that tOAvn as an illustration. Similar 
conditions exist in many other towns and 
will exi.st so long as the vicious stufT is 
made. When the roads are ojAcn there are 
tAA'o or three of these beer trucks running 
daily. Usually tAvo robust men go along 
Avith each truck. Last Summer there 
AA'ore not enough auto trucks ojicratiug in 
this section to get our produce to 1‘hila- 
deliihia. Farmers and city consumers 
both lost hecau.se of this fact, yet the 
beer trucks run as usual. 
One day in late August I Avas di-iving 
to Bridgeport, X. .T., Avith a load of pro¬ 
duce for the (’hester, Pa., boat. The 
draAvbridge Avas oft’ and several teams 
Avere held up. I dr<Ave up be.side my 
neighbor ('. He had a load of about TOO 
baskets of Oldmixon peaches. I imiuired 
as to hoAV AVork'Avas coming along, and 
he complained of the shortage of help. 
One of his men had gone off on a spree 
Saturday night, and had not yet returned. 
He Avas doing the best he could Avith 
help available, hu£ everything Avas aAvay 
behind. A few minutes later a large 
truck pulled up on the opp().site .side of 
my Avagon. It Avas loaded Avith emi)ty 
beer crates, and on the Avay back to the 
city for another load. There Avero three 
men on the truck. Two appeared ,t() he 
healthy, robust felloAvs, capable of doing 
some really important Avork. Tin' other 
appeared large and' strong also, hut for 
the time being Avas doAvn and out. He 
Avas in a drunken stupor, and not re¬ 
sponsible (for anything he might do or say. 
He Avas not my neighbor C.’s hired man,' 
hut he surely had .some place to fill in 
the grand scheme of things Avhich. for the 
time being, he Avas utterly unable to fill. 
While Avaiting for the bridge I asked the 
driver of the truck Iioav many crates of 
beer he carried each trip. He told me 
the inside of the truck held 90 crates, hut 
they usually let doAvn the tail gate and 
piled 15 crates on that, thus making a 
load of 105 crates. I notice that mostly 
the tail gate is Avell filled. The price per 
crate, he told mo, Avas .'i:l.-5. This makes 
the cash receipts foi- each load of beer 
that he takes doAvn this road an.vAvhere 
from $112.50 to $1.31.25, and this par¬ 
ticular truck usually makes two trips a 
day. The bridge swung back, and avc all 
drove on. A Avoek later I saw neighbor 
('. His load of peaches sold for 30 cents 
.a basket. They struck a glutted market. 
Deduct the usual expenses of freight, com¬ 
mission. baskets, etc., from this figure and 
you can imagine his net profit on that 
load of 100 baskets of peaches. [There 
was no “glutted market’’ or Ioav price for 
the beer. It brought about 30 cents a 
quart-—more than tAvice the pnee of milk, 
Avith about half its food value.—Eds.] 
(’ompare it Avith the load of beer! 
laist Fall a great many acres of SAA’cet 
potatoes Avere frosted in this section, and 
thus made Avorthless for human food. 
Farmers could not get help to get them 
dug before the cold weather came on, yet 
the beer trucks kept going as_ usual with 
their big, husky drivers busily engaged 
carrying “poison” to humans, Avhile 
Avlioiesomci food in the shape of SAveet po¬ 
tatoes froze in the fields because there 
was not sufficient help to get them out. 
There has been a congestion of freight. 
Everything has been .shipped subject to 
dela}\ At Christmas time a neighbor 
shipped 30 or 40 bushel hampers of .SAyeet 
potatoes to Xcav York for the holiday 
trade. The hill of lading was stamped 
“Subject to delay on account of conges¬ 
tion.” Those potatoes should have been 
in New York in less than 24 hours’ time. 
That lot was nine days on the road, and 
arrived frozen and Avorthless. My neigh¬ 
bor got nothing for the potatoes and can¬ 
not collect from the railroad, as they 
were .shipped subject to delay as indicated 
by that rubber stamp. What makes this 
freight congestion? Several things, but 
we cannot help but notice that much of 
the valuable space in freight cars is taken 
up by beer. How long Avill we as a peo- 
l)le stand for such a condition? Recently 
a score or more of schools Avere closed in 
Philadelphia on account of coal shortage. 
A thousand or more people made raids on 
coal cars to get coal to heat their homes, 
yet saloons Avere Avarm, and the big brcAv- 
eries Avere belching forth smoke and cin¬ 
ders as they strove to make a record in 
the production of the vicious liquid that 
makes for misery, crime, poA’erty and in¬ 
efficiency. 
We are told to save food and increase 
the production of it. People in Europe 
are facing famine, and food is the main 
factor in Avinning this Avar, If this is 
true, why are these big hrcAveries alloAved 
to destroy hundreds of thousands of 
bushels of grain, together Avith hundreds 
of tons of sugar, and by this destruction 
lay on our Avorkers the burden of booze 
that makes beasts of men and prevents 
them from doing their share of the Avork 
to be done? 
We farmers as a class realize more 
tliiin othei's iierliaps the great moral ques¬ 
tions involved in this booze business. 
Morally speaking, there is absolutely no 
good hi the entire despicable business. In 
addition to the moral side Ave kuoAV and 
are realizing more and more all the time 
that the making and sale of intoxicants of 
any kind is economically wrong. The 
greatest economic problem in this country 
today is the liquor problem. Farm Avoric 
and any other Avork cannot go forAvai’d in 
an efficient manner while booze is sold 
to our AA’orkers. Personally I believe a 
large portion of our farm labor problem 
AA’Ould be solved in short order if Prohi¬ 
bition measures Avere enacted and strictly 
enforced. Sometimes it seems as though 
Ave Avere bound hand and foot by tlie 
liquor intei-ests. The time is here Avhen 
AA'C should six-ak right out in meeting and 
declare _ourselv<‘s free and independent of 
this evil Avhich handicaps us at eA-ery 
turn. TKUCKKH JK. 
Frosted Potatoes 
Referring to inquiry signed I'\ G. R.. 
on page 151. headed “Frosted Potato 
Seed.’’ I i»resume the Avriter refers to the 
toi)S or haulm of the potatoes being 
frost«‘d, not the tubers themselves. That 
being so, ]•'. G. P. need he under no appre¬ 
hension Avhatever in using such stock for 
jdanting purposes, as it is a well-knoAVU 
fact, proved by careful comparative tests 
that unripe Seed makes much better stock 
for planting than tubers from plants 
Ayhich Avere thoroughly idpened before 
lifting. In fact, up-to-date potato spec¬ 
ialists invariably lift that part of the po¬ 
tato cro]) Avhich is intended for seed some 
time before the cr<»p is matured. 
GEO. AV. KERR. 
Crop Notes 
Last mouth he.at the record for cold, 
stormy Aveather. Most of the time Ave 
have had zero AA'eather. Many cellars 
have been entered by frost, freezing i)o- 
tatoes and fruit. There has been a large 
amount of ice harvested, it being very 
thick. Farmers are busy chasing after 
the pound of sugar and 500 lbs. of coal. 
Coal is very high—$8.75 per ton. Clover 
seed has gone to $24 per bu. Will Uncle 
Sam please sit on that? We certainly 
need the article as Avell as Avheat to help 
Avin the Avar. The hoard of supervisors 
granted the loan for a farm bureau for 
this country. The taxes are higher than 
ever, especially the .school tax, being 
quadrupled this year under the ncAV hnv. 
Many protest meetings are being held 
against the Iuaa’. e. t. b. 
Ontario Co., X. Y. 
Crops have not been up to the average 
the past season. Hay crop seems the 
only thing that farmers could call plenti¬ 
ful ; potato crop very light, Avith consid¬ 
erable rot; average yield to' the acre of 
sound potatoes .35 hbls. Some farmers 
sold their rotted potatoes at siding for 
$1 hbl. War gardens on the average 
Avere only fair ; lack of knoAA'ledge of same 
and Aveather conditions Avere to blame for 
-light crops. Predictions are that next 
season’s gardens Avill be planted Avith 
more success, as they ought to be. (’orn 
crop practically a failure. In this sec¬ 
tion $4 per CAvt. for next season’.s crop 
looks to be a great inducement for fann¬ 
ers to i)lant more corn. 
Fuel here is in good demand, and the 
farmer Avho has a woodlot can sell all he 
can haul. Green Avood is bringing ,$S 
per cord. Itetl Cross and food conserva¬ 
tion are matters of great interest in this 
section. Farmers have been forced to sell 
some of their poorer cows OAving to the 
high cost of grain. IMilk is sold to the 
factory, the prices for February being 
3 per cent milk $2.05 cwt. Good dairy 
coAvs are in demand and bring from $100 
to $150. More calves are being raised 
than formerly. More sheep are being 
raised than in previous years, Avool being 
quoted at 70c per lb. Farmers have .sold 
most of their poultry OAving to the high 
cost of grain; fresh eggs bring 55c per 
doz. sold to stores; butter, 50c per lb.; 
potatoes bring at sidings $1.25 per bu.; 
hay $10 to $12 at barn per ton; lard, 27c 
per lb.; bran, $2.50; mixed feed, $2.05; 
cracked corn. $1.92 per bu. v/. ii. B. 
Dexter. Me. 
