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oTic R U RAL N E W-YO R K E R 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE ECSIXESS FARMER'S PAPER 
A National Weelily Journal for Country and Suburban llomcH 
Established isso 
I'libllthrd nrrki; by tbr Roral Fubliihinr Company, 833 Writ 80tb StrrrI, .\rw York 
Hebbebt W. Collingwood, President and Editor. 
.John J. Dnxox, Treasurer and General Manager. 
■Wm. F. niixo.v, Secretary. Mbs. E. T. Royee, Associate Editor. 
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“A SQUARE DEAL” 
We lielieve th^ every advertlfvment in this paper is backed by a I’c.spon- 
Bible person. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
relialile houses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make good any loss 
to paid subscrtbei*s surtained by trusting any deliberate swinoler, 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 dilTcrences or mistakes between our subscribers and hone.«t. 
responsible houses, whether advertisers or not. We willingly use our good 
offices to this end^ but such cases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions, w e protect subscribers against rogues, but we will not be 
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e of the complaint must be sent to us within one month of the time of 
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\ ORKEK when writing the advertiser. 
M'hni are you going to resign f 
ms question is now addressed to Charles H. 
Betts, seci'etary of the X. Y. Food Commission, 
fur the seventh time. Mr. Betts says he will never! 
nei)cr!! resign. He also writes that this tiuestion 
amuses him! He surely needs some amusement, and 
v.e predict that he ivill resign. When are yem going 
la resign? 
T here is one thing these politicians and officials 
want to understand. The big movement among 
farmers now going on in Xew York docs not mean 
disloyalty or treason. The politicians are trying to 
make it ajipear that those who are in this move¬ 
ment are members of the I. W. W., pi’o-Cermans 
or. iiacifists. The fact is that you may take BM) of 
the leaders in this movement and compare them 
with 100 ]x»liticians. You Avill lind the 100 farm 
leaders have more hoys and relatives in the army, 
that they are making greater personal sacrifices 
and that they have invested more of their savings 
ii'. Liberty bonds than the KM) politicians. If there be 
any truer test of patriotism they will cheerfully 
meet it. Further than that every one knows that 
the hope and lighting sinrit which this movement 
is creating will make these men work harder to 
increase <toj)s and produce food. Such organiza¬ 
tions as the Federation of Agriculture can do twice 
as much to incn'ase crops as the Food Commis.sion 
ever could. And yet the “authoritie.s” are trying to 
kill it off because it will cut out .some of their 
graft. 
T he .statement in Publisher's De.sk of this issue 
relating to Mr. Myrick and his jiublications, 
Is made to clarify the situation in a manner sati.s- 
factory to all concerned and to clo.se the contro¬ 
versy. IVhile we believe that nothing previomsly 
iniblished was substantially at variance with those 
< ight ])roi)ositions, and Avhile we never intended to 
give a contrary impression, we freely publish the 
statement to correct it, if any such impression was 
conveyed, and to remove any reason for a thought 
that The Rural Xew-Yorker would knowingly do 
in.iuslice to anyone. 
Our well-known views uiion the impropriety of 
^fhe sale by editors of the securities of their publica- 
^tions to their own subsciibers, and their funda¬ 
mental undesirability as an investment for farmers, 
we will not need to repeat here. 
The controvcr.sy is clo.sed. 
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R eports from England show that Engli.sh farm¬ 
ers will plant fruit trees freely this year. In 
parts of this country some of the experts advise 
against itlanting apples, because the land should be 
given to food crops. In England the need of larger 
crojis is greater than here, yet the peojile realize 
that fruit is a necessity. It is said that as human 
rations are changed and new kinds of food must be 
eaten, fruit becomes needed as a “regulator.” Apples 
in England are higher than ever before and people 
demand more of them in these meatless and other 
“less” days. War and reduced rations have brought 
out a new use for apples. We think the demand will 
grow, and a fair planting should be made this year. 
N ext week Ave .shall print an article on jtreserv- 
ing eggs, and Ave Avant to begin uoav to urge 
cur readers to put all the eggs they can into Avater 
.alass. That Avill be one good AA-ay to meet the 
poultry situation. Without any question there A\-ill 
he a shortage of hens and pullets next Fall. We 
are in a position here to know A\diat ponltrymen are 
doing, and you may take it from us that not over 70 
per cent of the usual number of chicks Avill be 
hatched, and that after May 1 a flood of hens Avill he 
let loose upon the live poultry market. Now, unless 
country people act, both surjilu.s eggs and poultry 
AAill be gathered in by the cold storage men, and next 
Fall we shall haA’e to buy them back at exorbitant 
rates. Unde* the circumstances the thing for us to 
do is to put cheap eggs into water glass and part of 
the .surplus poultrj' into can.s. In this way we keep 
both products off the market and prevent extreme 
loAV iiiices and at the .same time lay up a store of 
food for our oavu use. The Food Admini.strator is 
on record as urging people to can and preserA-e food. 
The water glass egg is like a nest egg for the future. 
Millions of them .should be prepared. 
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N ew YORK farmers are being advised to sow 
Winter AA'heat as a “war inea.sui’e.” We doubt 
the Avisdom of this course, as aa'g think barley or oats 
Avill produce more food to the acre. Experience 
ought to decide it, and Ave asked our readers for the 
fact.s. Here is the first report: 
Three years ago I plauted oats and Spring Avheat on 
iidjoining fields. It Avas seeded as soon as the soil was 
fit to work, and drilled in AAnth a moderate application 
of fertilizer. The soil is a medium loam which has 
since produced two satisfactory corn crops without ma¬ 
nure. I had a good crop of oats, hut no AA'heat. The 
Avheat grew about one foot high, and if I had harvested 
it the yield AA’ould not have exceeded the seed planted. 
The same fields haA e grown 20 bushels of Winter wheat 
to the acre, and I belieA’e they AA'ould again. The farm 
is located in Northern Wc-stchester County, N. Y. The 
seed Avheat was bought from a reliable seed house in 
XCAV York. GEORGE HALL. 
Westchester Co., N, Y. 
That is about our experience in Northern NeA\' 
.Tei'sey. On the other hand, Ave hUA'e reports of good 
yields in ^Torthern Ncav York. In Northern Maine 
.Spring wheat gives good returns. Its acreage is ex¬ 
tending so fast as to bring flouring mills back to 
Maine. We doubt if it will pay much .south of Al¬ 
bany, and any farmer who .seeds it tries an experi¬ 
ment 
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The Liberty Loan—Creditors of the 
Nation 
N April 0 the U. Covernment AA'ill offer a iieAv 
series of Liberty bonds. The American people 
fully understand Avhat these bonds are. 
Y\mr country asks you to lend your money, and 
offers as .secuidty for it a bond or i>romise to pay 
this money with interest. I’his bond or ])romise Is 
secured by every dollar of the one hundred and 
tAventy-five billions and more of property in this 
country. You are asked to liecome a financial cred¬ 
itor of the nation. The R. N.-Y. asks its readers 
(o buy these bonds to the limit of their financial 
ability. We never a.<k our pco])le to do Avhat Ave 
would not do ourselves, and Ave are buying what Ave 
can of these bonds as the best investment Ave can 
find. In a few brief articles Ave Avant to tell Avhy 
Ave tliink so. 
Our gOA’ernment must have money in oi’der to 
Avin this Avar. Every man Avho is capable of thought 
knows that if Germany Avins this AA'ar or forces us 
to a compromise there Avill be a mortgage “made in 
Germany” uimn all the money, muscle and man¬ 
hood in America. We shall, in such an event, 
simply transfer to our children a more horrible 
struggle than even this hideous AA'ar, or deliver them 
into a form of slavery. We have drafted our fighters, 
but the bondholders Avill be A'olnnteers. Those Avho 
hold the bonds of this government Avill control that 
government for 25 years after the Avar. If a small 
groui> of financiers control these bonds they Avill 
hold a first mortgage on the goA'ernment. If K),- 
0fM),(*00 of idain, common iieojile Avill hny bonds— 
CA’en for small amounts—the jxiAA'er Avill come to 
them, and they may. in the future, decide the 
destiny of this nation. 
History ])roA'es this. We have a living example 
in the French nation. Nearly 50 years ago France 
A\.as beaten to her knees. The Germans demanded 
an indemnity AA'hich staggered the Avorld. The great 
financial interests stood back in dismay, but the 
French farmers came forAvard Avith their money, 
and laid it gladly upon the altar of their countr.v. 
Those farmers saved Prance, and the nation has 
never forgotten their sacrifice. They dominate the 
nation. They control France. That is why the 
French farmer today has a fairer share in markets 
and business than an.v other farmer in the Avoiid. 
That is Avhy France has perfoi'ined a miracle by 
holding firm without comitlaint in this Avar. No 
nation can ri.se, in permanent strength and civili¬ 
zation, ahoA'e the leA'el of the spirit and life of its 
free holding farmers. 
The farmers of America now have a chance to 
serve their country as these Fi*ench farmei-s did. 
The result Avill he the same. We shall .give the lie 
to the ])eople Avho call us slackers and coAvards. In 
the great stru.ggle for our political and bu.siness 
rights which is comhig. the fact that avc are hond- 
March .10, 101 ,<5 
holder.*!, that wo have backed up our country Avith 
the best we have, will give us a double power. We 
knoAA’ only too well the disappointment and loss 
which has been forced upon us by blundering and 
unjust regulations and conditions. These things 
will be made right We can make them right by 
I'ising above them, and considering the broader view 
of our country's needs. This is the first reason 
why we a.sk you to buy Liberty bonds. Next we 
A’cant to speak of them as a national duty and ns 
an investment 
W HEN we doubt the practical value of the ad¬ 
vice to groAv sugar beets in the backyard and 
make your oavu sugar, several peojile refer to a bul¬ 
letin on “Sugar Beet Sirup,” issued by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. In .spite of that pamphlet we 
continue to doubt if the plan is practical. The way 
to .settle it is to call for information. Did anyone 
try it la.st year? If .so, hoAV did it come out? The 
Avay to find out is to find out. 
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A CONVENTION of farm bureau agents in Cali¬ 
fornia sent a telegram to President Wilson 
coA'eriug seven points of a plan to increa.sc the food 
supply. The first tAvo follow: 
1. —To urge the building of a silo and planting of 
SAveet .sorghums for silage and for .sirup on every dairy 
fiirni in California. 
2.—Ihit out on 20,000 farms one good brood soav or 
tAA'O pigs in order to increase the amount of pork thiit 
State Avill raise. At least 40,0(X) more hog.s Avill be so 
raised. 
Others refer to boy and Avoman labor, simpler 
plans, tested seed and fire protection for grain fields. 
They Avere all sensible, and the tAA'o here pi'inted 
ought to be considered everywhere. TIi^ sugar sit¬ 
uation is hard. AVe are told in Washington that a 
larger supply of sugar is expected during the Sum¬ 
mer, hut we should all try to help out Avith a home 
supply of SAveets. We have little faith in the ad¬ 
vice to groAA' sugar beets for home sugai’-making. 
Sor.ghum Avill make a good sirup and can be groAvn 
on nearly eA'ery farm. It also makes good stock 
fodder. As for the silo, there .should be five times 
as man.v as are noAV to be found in New York and 
Ncav England. There AA'ere 4.1,620 silos in NeAv 
York in 1010. The brood .soav is a farm lady and 
she Avill help carry the army on her back. AVe 
kiinAA' now that Ave can make pork on pasture. It 
is no longer a que.stion of feeding grain entirely. 
The pig is a grazing animal; as much so as a coav 
or she<q)—if Ave give him a chance. Silo, sorghum 
and soav! A great combination—as straight as the 
S is crooked! 
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A S we AA'i’ite the N. Y. Senate, following the lejid 
of Senator E. R. BroAvn, is holding up the bill 
tor ri'iiealiug the school hiAV by playing Avith one of 
Senator BroAvn’s amendments. We have told our 
readers plainly that any “amendments” these poli¬ 
ticians put on that bill Avill make it more offensiA'e 
than ever. Meetings are being held to get support 
for the amendment. The Ratrons’ Leagues must get 
busy at these meetings and insist upon repeal. After 
that is done Ave can get together and arrange for the 
future. Get right after your Senator at once and 
liold him to reiical. 
Brevities 
Hoes ;iii.v bi'cod of lions lay a darker .shelled egg than 
the Light Brahma? 
No matter what el.se you do to them, our advice is tn 
(hist dry .sulphur on the potato .seed. 
Noav the scientists tell of a uoav bacterial disease in 
\vh(‘at Avliich produces shriveled grains. Use plum]) 
seed. 
The viherinarians say no one knoAvs the true cause 
of “big h(>ad” in sheeii. That may be so. but mo.st of 
us know Avhat causes this gimeral disea.se in humans. 
A TIMOTHY .sod except in very rich .soil needs nitrogen. 
Nitrate of soda on .such grass Avill act as a A'ery lively 
epistle to the Timothy. 
It is a temiitation to feed all sorts of poor grain to 
the ifoultry. Bettc'r resist the temptation and refuse to 
fei'd smutt.A’ Avlnait to the layers. 
AVe AAiint to hear from Northern farmers who have 
succeeded in groAving sorghum and making syrup. I'lieri' 
is a run this year on honu'made SAveets. 
Shali, Ave SOAV A'etch Avith oats for hay or fodd(>r? 
Canada oats Avill be better. They make as much groAVth. 
a better hay or feed, and the seed is cheaper. 
.\ ALyss.vchusktts reader offers this toast—'or roast: 
“The s<]uirrel; like the rat. a universal pest, Avithout 
cue virtue.” AA411 some one respond in defen.se? 
4’iii.S is a year of battle. A'ou cannot send your boys 
liver to fight in the trenches and yourself sit doAvn in 
jieace and let things go as they Avill. AVhile the boys 
are cleaning up the German Avar lords Ave must clean up 
things at home. 
Bean groAving in A’cav York State has been a puzzle 
and a penance for the past feAV years. As one groAVi'r 
jmts it: “AVe beau growers haA-e been ‘spelling doAvn.’ 
and most of us have gone to the foot. I for one am 
trying to get back ‘up tin' line’ toAvard the head of the 
class, Avhere the company is more congenial.” 
