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The Rural New-Yorker 
rz/K jiusmsss farmer s paper 
A Xmlonnl '\V<-eUly Journal lor C’oiinlry and Suburban IIomcA 
Established isso 
I’ulillkbpd nppkl^ bj tlip llnriil I* *nbllfblnr Compnny, 333 Writ SOIh Street,Rcit Vork 
llEBBKRT W. COLUNOWOOD, President and Editor. 
John J. Dri.ixt.v, Treasurer and General Mannprer. 
Vm. K. 1)imx)N, Secretary. Mrs. E. T. Royle, Associate Editor. 
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\ ORKER wlien writing tho ailvert^ir. 
E VKKY .vonr wc luive a minilior of oases like tho 
followiiiK: A tenant niovos on the farm and 
JT-niains for sonic years. lie jilants fruit trees and 
vinos and ornainontal shriilts. Aff-or a time things 
haiipon wliioh nniko it notrossaiy for tlio tomint to 
move, and lie tliinks ho c;in dig nj) his trees anrl 
slirulis and carry thorn aloiijr witli liim. lie finds 
that tho law will not permit him to do so. llo finds 
thiit anything which hocomos “iiermanontly attached 
to the groniid” is regarded as real estate, and lie 
cannot remove the trees and shnihs any more thiin 
he could the huildings. This rule of law dlscourage.s 
many a tenant who would like to improve and 
heautify the jiropert.v. He does not feel like doing 
so -when all his labor and expense will go to an- 
(ther Avho may never iippreciate it. They do this 
thing hetter in England. T’ndor the law thei'O a 
t<*nant receives compensjition for tree-pianting or 
imiirovement. When he moves away a lair estinuite 
of the value of his improviunent is m.Mde, ami either 
the fiwner or the new tenant must pay it. In one 
<'ase a temint planted an orchard on rallier cluaiji 
land and brought it iiito he.aring. Wlum he vacated 
tlie new tenant was obliged to pii.v him for the 
orchai’d, alone, more than the land w.-is origiiiiilly 
v.'orth. Such a hiAV iu this country would iiidm-e 
many a tenant to tiike latter care of his farm. 
E VEKY day brings new testimony about the 
danger in the seed corn sitiiation. Tuhlic tests 
a Hi b(‘ing made everywhere, and in ever.v case 
samjiles of coi-n Avhich were considered “jiIl right’’ 
are found neai-ly worthless for seeding. Su])pose a 
farmer put white sand in his .soil, thinking it was 
niti'ate of s<ala. or siijiiiose he seeded slum ja^gs in 
place of oats! Niuther action would he more disas¬ 
trous this .ATiir than to jdant dead corn seed Jifter 
lilting the land. Ev(*ry Oiir of corn slumld he tested 
this yejir. It is the onl.v safe way. One of our read¬ 
ers in Tenns.vlvani.-i has a lot of seed corn which 
seems low in te.st and he will work out the follow¬ 
ing: 
1 propo.sp. ratluM- tliaii to jilant any other corn tlnin 
the strain that I luive iicciliniiitcd and selected on my 
land here, to soiik the seed until it is possible to deter¬ 
mine by the .swelling of the germ, which grains will 
sprout; rej(‘ct those that .show no signs of germination, 
dust the balance well with .sulphur iis a drier, and plant 
by hand in hills marked out by running the corn-marker 
both ways acro.ss the lield, dropping three grains at each 
intersection, which will bring the hills feet jipart 
*'ach W!iy, .simply drojiping the seed and covering with 
lilank V di'ag, or 10-foot wceder, or using both. 
* 
ir/iu/ itf/ricuUiire okciIh (•tin hr put in a siiit/lc 
hrlvf sentrn/jr. It weds mnnhers of either Jlousc 
II ho will thinlc of iiyrieuUurc first. Here the Cen¬ 
tral Chamher of Agrieulfurc has failed ns. 
HAT i.s tiikeii from the English Miirk Eano 
Express. It tiiiplies to the movement to ])ut i)0 
farmers iu tho New York Legislature. For the jia.st 
11.1 years no one has seemed to think we could leiirn 
much from English farmers. 'I’he.v luive now endured 
netirly four years of Avjir, and their big problems 
luive been brought out into the light. Tlu^y have 
endured committees Jind commissions and admini.s- 
1 rat ions and advice and regulation, hut it all makes 
the jioint more clear. What Ave want is a group of 
men in ])owor Avho will think of ayrieultarc first. 
We are now ladng regulatial iind “helped" by men 
Avho think of .some other industr.v tirst. This may 
be becau.se .such men belong to other industries. In 
such event they can never give us anything but a 
.second-hand thought. More likely they are partisans, 
tied uj) to some political psirty iind using our needs 
as fiirmers to help along some jiarty advant.Mge. In 
either event they cannot give us what we need. Whom 
Lave we in imlilic life who can be said to think of 
uyrieultare firstf We shall never hiive them until 
we pick them out of our own ranks and buck them 
RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
hp. A man thinks along the line of the public forces 
which lie hack of him. Fifty farmers in the Neio 
York Legislature. 
T lfE energy of youth is the pulling or driA'ing 
force of life, -while the experience of ago is the 
h.arness Avhich w'ould enable youth to move the 
AA-orld. Tell tis how to induce .vouth to stand and be 
AAell harnessed and Ave A\ill tell you Iigaa’- to pull the 
w’orld up hill out of the mud. 
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P ROF. E. (). FirriN of the Cornell College of 
Agriculture has Issued a bulletin containing sug¬ 
gestions to pi'ojile Avho think of jmrehasing Noaa' 
York farm lambs. 'I’his ]»amiihlet giA'es the informa¬ 
tion Avhich .strangers Avill find most u.seful in trying 
to understand the possibilities in New York farm¬ 
ing. 1 luring the yciir Ave luiA-e many letters from 
Western and .'southern men Avho liaA'e an id(*:i that 
Noaa' Yoi-k is full of cheaii and abandom*d land. 
Most of these iieojile liaA-e no fair concejition of the 
F.jistern farming. Many of tlwun neA'er saAV h steep 
hilt or a stone AA'all. The Avord has gone out thiit 
our farms are ahandomal and “cheaii." and they 
Avant a bargain. Of course eA’ery man Avho comes 
Id NeAA' York Avith the idea that good farms are 
given iiAViiy wiil be Iiiidi.v disapjiointed. There are 
fiirms, hoAvever, on Avhich a hard Avorker can make a 
good living, imt he .sliould know beforehand Avhat he 
can do and wlmt he can find. Miin.v of these farms 
constitute a rich asset for the [State, Aviiich should be 
developed. Rut Ncav York does not need or desire 
any mon* disapjiointed farmer.s. This bulletin by 
I’rof. Fi]i|)in Avill helji many a stranger to lociito 
jirojKU-ly. It ciiii be obtained from Itlmca, N. Y. 
ft 
Liherty Bonds—An Invcstmenl. 
E ask our reiiders to do just Avhiit Ave .slmll do 
our.selves—buy Lilierty bonds iis iin invest¬ 
ment. ’rh(*r(‘ is nothing more solid or .secure in the 
Avorld. An.v man Aviio luis contiihmce in tlu* future of 
his country must IniA'c confidemee in tiiese lionds. 
I'ver.v dolliir in evi'ry bank, trust comiiany, fai-tory, 
business (‘iiterjirise, iind eviu-y farm, .stiinds biick of 
.A'our bonds. If you ciin conceive of any condition 
und(‘r Avhich the Liberty liond Avould be Avorthless 
you must iniiigine a time AA’hen life itself Avould not 
be AA’orth living. So long iis this iiiition (‘iidiin's the 
Libert.A' bond Aviil i-miiiiiu the sounde.st security on 
eiirlh. We iin* uoav tiiIking to jieojile of nioderiite 
meiins who Ciinnot atford to giimlile Avitii their .siiv- 
ing.s, iiiid Avho must ju-ovide for those Avho folloAV 
llumi. In the jiiist, country iK'ojde Inive ofimi fiilb'U 
victims to g(*t-rich-<(uick sclnum^s and lost their sua'- 
ings. 'I’ho I’iist Otlice Dejiurtment estiniiited timt in 
one yciir the Americiin jiCojile lost ij!7()(),0(IO,(Kl(i in 
“gold brick’’ or fake sclumies. A good slmre of this 
AViis lost heciiu.se farmei’s hiive little chance to invi'st 
sniiill iimounts in stiindard securities. Thus 1he.A' 
are victimized by slick ra.sciils Avho jiromise ille- 
gitiniiite jirotits. 'The Liberty b(»nd otfers ju.st the 
needed oj»])oi-tunity to imike ii siife, sound iind .siicred 
iiiA’cstment for your fiimily iind for your i-ountry. If 
iit this iiioment you hiive iin.v thought of jmtting 
,A(tur money into iiny sjieculiitive invostnumt, Ave iieg 
of you to iibiindon the thought iind put the money 
into Libert.v bomls. You are Avorking and saving in 
order to jirovlde for your own coming years of ago 
and for your children. In these coming years you 
Avill fei'l the deejiest satisfaction to realize that you 
had this faith in the future of your country. After 
the Civil War the AA’idoAVS and orjdians Avho Avei-e 
jirotected by government bonds Avere objects of ein-y 
(luring any tinancial crisis. We have seen jmnic 
after jiiinic sAvei^ji awa.v Iiiinks and liiiancial credit 
and melt the railroad .stock and .soundi'st business 
jiajier. Land valhes have declined and farm mort¬ 
gages have ix'en Aviped out. but the government bond 
alAAays stood like the shadow of a rock in a irrary 
land. Ruying these bonds is like AA'caving the Amiu-- 
iciui liag into your jirojiiM-ty and pa.ssing it along to 
your children. 'I'here is no liner investment in the 
Avorld. 
A S Ave Avrite the situation at Alliany regarding 
tlie toAviishij) school liill is mixed. At the hear¬ 
ing on this bill the dimiand for rejieal Avas so over- 
Avhelniing that all agri'od that the liill should go 
through. It passed the As.senilily by a vote of 107 
to .‘10. ’I'he Senate has thus far failinl to act and 
friends of rejieal are ru.shing to Iind out Avhat is 
the matter. .Senator E. R. I’.roAvn is ojijio.sed to 
rejK'al and is trying to defeat tin' Martin bill l»y 
olfering a substitute. As Ave understand it this 
makes ii.se of the jmblic funds so as to give every 
district additional State aid. It is in elfect like 
offering a bribe to country jieoph* so that they Avill 
accept the present hiAV for the sake of reciMving this 
April 0, mis 
extra money. This is a shrewd and dangerous 
move to sidetrack repeal in the face of an almost 
unanimous demand. Friends of the repeal hill in 
th.e Senate feel confident that they can jiass it early 
next Aveek. I^et everyone i-ememiier that Seuiitor 
E. R. Brown is responsible for this hold-up. From 
the first The R. N.-Y. has AA'arned its readers against 
Senator RroAvn and any of his “amendments.” There 
must he no compromise, but a .solid fi-ont for repeal. 
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F IFTY’ years ago thei'o Avas no land jn-ohlem in 
this country. AYhen a man felt cramped for lack 
of room he tr.-iA-eled off to cheaji or free land, and he 
could alAvays find it. The liojuilar song at that day 
Avas: 
Keep uj) .A’oiir courngo, boy.s, don’t take alarm; 
I’lide Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm ! 
At that time more than 50 per cent of the total 
Avealth of the country was rural wealth; that Is, it 
Avas found on the farms. TTncle Sam was rich and 
generous because he could giA'e aAA-ay land in small 
jiarcels, and his gifts Avere jiojuilar. No one sings 
that song iioaa'. The following A-ersion is more jrajiu- 
la r: 
.Shall we go to farming, boys? No, sir-ec Rob; 
Uncle Sam is big enough to give us all a job. 
The hard truth is that too much of our iigricul- 
tural education is devoted to the task of croiifiiig 
n.'ore jobs, instead of jieojiling more farms. 
T he .state of Maine has an .Vgricultural and In¬ 
dustrial Tieague backed by some of the most 
lirominent citizens of the Stale. Maine is already 
on the maji. but this I.eague Avill pin her on more 
.securel.A' and brighten uji the c-olor. We luiA’e never 
been able to under.stand Avhy jieojile haA^e ru.shed to 
the NorthAvest Avhen Maine has stronger soil, cheiijx'i- 
l:ind and 10 times the market pos.si])ilities as a farm¬ 
ing State. The A'ery finest traditions of old-time Ncav 
Lngbind fiirining ought to be brought uji to diite in 
Miiine. 
O UR jidvices shoAA’’ that most jioulli-ymen Avill do 
Iavo thing.s—cut dOAvn the number of chicks 
hatched this season and try to groAv moi-(‘ grain on 
their oAvn farm.s. AVe are sjmaking of commercial 
j'oultr.vimm. Avho for the juist foAV years IniA-e been 
buying most of their grain. 'I'lie uoav famous 
jxniltry rule No. 14 is respon.sible for the short crop 
of jioultry. On the next jiage Rrof. Ujird puts ujt 
.ibout the best jio.ssible argument for this rule, but 
the fact remains that it has done more to discourage 
poultr.A--ke(‘]t(‘rs than any other thing since the Avar 
began. AVe go on n'cni’d uoav as saying that this 
rule Avill cirt down commercial jioultry by 40 jier 
cent, and simjily jiroA-e a gr(*at bmiefit to the jiack- 
ers and cold .storage jiromoters. Its final (*ffect Avill 
bo close to that of robbei/y. A.s' for grain groAviiig 
on lhe.se jioulliy farms it is a good thing. Many 
hen men IniA-e lieen seliing all the manure for some 
years. Noaa-, liy using jihosjilmle Avith it, they can 
groAA' good crojis of ojits, b.-irley jind corn, and save 
much of the gniiii bill. 
T he U. .S. Si'iiate voted to incnqisi* liie llxial 
jtrice of Avheat from .$2.20 to .$2..50 j»er bushel 
tor this year’s croji. Tlieri* Avas a large majonty 
for this increase—the oj)j»osition coming almost en- 
t'ndy from Ncav England and the Stall's Avhere the 
grain crop is small. It is bidieved that the House! 
of Reju-esentutiA-es Avlll endorse this lirojiosition, Init 
I’ri'sident AA’il.son Avill veto it Avhen the bill i.s finally 
j assed. The Avhole tlu'ory of jn-ice-lixing is a mis¬ 
take. It has Avorked out Avrong in England, and 
has done nioi-e harm than good lu'ri! in its ajijdica- 
tion to Aviieiil. If the ju-ice is to he tixi'd at all 
that jti-ice .sliould be high enough to give the farmer 
u fair jii-ofit and thus stimulate j»roduclion. EA-ei-y- 
(iK' .-idniits UOAV that bi.scuits are more neces.sary 
than bullets. AA’heat is the foundation of the Avar, 
and that being so. it seems like the jilainest com¬ 
mon sen.se to givi' all jio.ssible encouragement to 
Avheat jiroduction. 'I'he Ava.y to get more Avheat is 
to make its jiroduction Avoith Avhile. 
Brevities 
It shows good breeding to change habits of bread 
eating Avithout a imirniur. 
.SuKEi.y Avhen a man jierniits himself to be bulldozed 
he is (lowed. 
On many farms the runt jiigs are killed or given to 
the Avife or children to rai.se, and they will often make 
the runt beat the liest of (he litter. 
Now Avo are told that dead .stems and stalks of the 
jieanut vine Avill lie ground into a meal and olTered for 
sale.—sujierior to Alfalfa meal. 
There are many calls for a market jirice on mangels 
or other roots for feeding, lake .silage they have a 
local cost—in comjiarison Avith good hay. AVe call 
them worth 40 to 45 jiey cent of hay. 
