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The Rural New-Yorker 
THE liUSIEESS FAEMEKS PAPER 
A >'alIonal Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes 
Established tsso 
I’liblisbrd wrrkljr by the Kara) Publishlnir Company, S33 West 80th Street, Sew fork 
Herbert W. Colringwood, President and Editor. 
John J. DrbLON, Treasurer and General Manaprer. 
Wm. F. Dilion, Secretaiy. Mr.s. E. T. Koyu!, Associate Editor. 
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“A SQUARE DEAL” 
■We believe that every advertisement in this paper Is backed by a respon¬ 
sible person. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make pood any loss 
to paid subscribers sustained by trustinpr any deliberate swindler, irrespon- 
.sible advertisers or mislemlinp advertisements In our columns, and any 
such swindler will be publicly exposed. We are also often called upon 
to adjust differences or mistakes between our subscribers and hones^ 
responsible houses, whether advertisers or not. We willlnprly use our grood 
offices to this end, but such cases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions. We protect subscribers apainst roftues, but we will not bo 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
Notice of the complaint must be sent to us within one month of the time of 
the transaction, and to Identify it, you should mention The Rcrai. New- 
Yorker when writing the advertiser. 
EPORTS from all over the country sJioio that 
farmers are responding fully to the call to pur¬ 
chase Liheriy Bonds. More than half a million bond 
holders mill he added to the list—and all from the 
country. In proportion to their available capital 
farmers are doing better than any other class. 
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The farmers of New York are blest; 
Their brains may now enjoy a re.st. 
For Charles II. Betts will tell them how 
To feed the hens and milk the cow, 
How many blades of grass to grow, 
And other things that they should know. 
They’ll flock to him both large and small. 
For he’s the man who knows it all. 
He’ll diagnose their farming ills; 
But it’s up to them to pay the bills. 
C. M. MOORE. 
ANY a man, larger than Brother Betts, has as- 
.sumed the attitude of Ajax defying the light¬ 
ning and said—/ tcill never resign! That was when 
ordinary people who must think and speak in prose 
get after him. They may not count, but when the 
lioets start in the wise men will come out. Daniel 
Webster was a somewhat larger man than Betts. 
He fought off the enemies who got after him in 
lii'ose, hut Whittier’s poem “Ichabod” haunted him 
to the end of his life, and still haunts Ins memory. 
The ])oets seem to have started after Mr. Betts, and 
his name offers a chance for some significant 
rhymes. So we ask again foi- the tenth time, llTica 
are you going to resign! 
A fter three weeks of “daylight saving” it seems 
clear the city peoiile .are well pleased, while 
farmers are opposed to it There are of course ex¬ 
ceptions to every rule, but that seems like a fair 
statement Town workers simply get up an hour 
earlier than most of them used to, and the em¬ 
ployers seem to think this early morning work is 
more satisfactory. Fai-mers generally object to the 
chiinge. They have always been in the habit of 
getting up early, and there is no gain at that end 
of the day. Under the new time the work after 
dinner starts in the hottest part of the day, while 
“quitting time” comes w’hen it is most comfortable 
to put in an hour or two. As the factory whistles 
now blow an hour earlier than formeidy, the hired 
help want to qiiit when others do. We shall print 
some reports fi-om farmers showing how this day¬ 
light saving affects them, and what they are doing 
to rearran,ge their work. 
U P in Central New York last Winter we met a 
man who had a cow easily woi-th $4,500, Her 
lierfonnance at the pail and the performances of her 
sons and daughters justified a higher price even than 
that. The owner told us that his grandfather was 
a dairyman owning a farm of 150 acres M’hicli had a 
value of $4,000. This man was known as a good 
farmer, and was called independent because he had 
.$4,000 ill hind and a fair equipment. Yet here was 
a mail of middle age who has one cow which is 
worth more than grandfather’s entire farm! At 
the same time the old farm is worth less now than 
it was in those old days! What would grandfather 
have said, 00 years ago, if someone had told him 
such things were to happen? Y"et this is only one 
of many similar things which are being worked out 
ill the readjustment of agriculture. Where does it 
all lead? 
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Y E.S, The R. N.-Y. is making something of a run 
on hogs at this time. It is partly because many 
readers ask questions, and also because last yeai-’s 
experience on our own farm shows that the hogs 
paid better than any other farm stock. That was 
because we did not go over the limit of economical 
feeding of farm wastes. It will be easy to feed 
hogs so thiit they cost moi-e than they are worth 
JTAc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
if we keep them up and fee<l almost entirely on grain. 
The only way to make hogs pay on an Eastern 
farm is to have good pastui’e and let them eat waste 
apples, pumpkins and weeds or garden waste. You 
ought to regulate the size of the herd to about their 
capacity for using this waste to maintain life. 
Then feed enough grain to make growth. Handled 
in this way there is money in hogs. Many farmers 
seem to think they can turn a hog into an old 
orchard or pasture, feed no grain, :uid have him 
turn up fat in the Fall. It cannot be done. Most 
of the growth you expect in a hog must be made by 
feeiling him something aside from the pasture. 
G OY. WHITMAN has signed the Martin school 
law bill, and the Machold law is now repealed. 
As we have pointed out, this result does more to 
show the power of our country people when full.v 
organized than anything which has happened before 
in 50 years. Read the note on the next page. 
Every voter in the rural districts should attend 
the next school meeting and sec to it that the 
best men or women in the district go in as school 
officers. There must be no more fooling or playing 
with this school question. After a ti*emendous battle 
we have won back the right to district government. 
We must now show the possibilities of that system 
by taking new interest in the schools. Having won 
a gi’eat victory it is now up to us to show that we 
are capable of self-government and home regulation. 
Put in the best school officers yon can find! The 
bill to appoint a school commission has not yet be¬ 
come a law. If the Governor signs it we must insist 
that it be dominated by men and women who have 
sympathy for country people and fair knowledge of 
rural school conditions. Keep the faddists and the 
experimenters at home! 
W E want you to read the article <»n the fii’st 
]iiige and consider these figures. The R. N.-T. 
started this talk aliout the .SS-cent dollar ye:irs ago, 
and our readers will agree that we have stuck to 
our guns with proof. Our readers have certainly 
stuck to us in this campaign. We claim that most 
of the present ills of fanning are due to the way 
this consumer’s dollar is .split up. When a woman 
in New York pays 15 cents for a lo.if of bread iind 
only .”..8 cents get liack to the wheat grower we need 
not be sui’prisfKl when we find the youth and enter¬ 
prise of the farm running to pick up a part of the 
11.2 cents Liken out of the price of the loaf before 
the fai-mer gets his share. Manhood and muscle 
chase after money. It ought not to be so, but we 
are dealing not with sentiment, but mth facts. The 
town and city through their preponderant share of 
the consumer’s dollar have set the “fashion” in man¬ 
ner of living, and country people run to imitate it. 
There can be no permanent upbuilding of country 
life until country people have a larger share of the 
price of the loaf. The answer to these statements 
will be a long list of figures compiled from printed 
reports. Others may eat figures, but we shall eat 
bread—that is, go right into the shops and markets 
and see what the people p:iy. There are about 
.3,000,000 people at the mouth of the Hudson River 
who live on bakers’ bread, or buy bread instead of 
flour and meal. The Food Administrator has a diffi¬ 
cult and disagreeable task. We do not know of any¬ 
one who envies him the job, and we would gladly 
help make the job lighter. While such statements 
as the one given on the first page sire being printed 
in the daily papers it is impossible for anyone to 
help overcome the bitterness and suspicion which 
have come into the minds of country people. Tliei-e 
is absolutely no sensible reason why any such figures 
should be printed, because they are not true, and 
they simply increase the trouble between town and 
country people. When are we to have men in au¬ 
thority who ^vill really show interest and sympathy 
for farmers? 
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T he following extract is made from a letter sup¬ 
posed to have been written to a young man who 
has los $50 in some gold-brick scheme. His friend 
gives him advice: 
I am sorry to hear about you getting milked out of 
that money, but still and all you should ought to be 
thankful they didn’t get you for the whole $100 in¬ 
stead of just $50, and I don’t see how anybody only 
a half wit could invest one-half of their savings in a 
gag like that and if a man really did invent a magnet 
that would draw U-boats up on top of the water they 
could sell it to President Wilson and Frank Daniels for 
a trillion dollars cash money and they wouldn’t have 
to hot foot from house to house like they was trying 
to pedal a ball bearing potato peeler or something. 
Now% out of the half million mature men and 
women who read The R. N.-Y, each week (saying 
nothing of the younger people) there are very few 
who have not invested some money in fool invest¬ 
ments. We use the word “fool” advisedly, because 
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most of these investments are made against the ad- 
lice of wiser people who know the principles of 
honest business. The “gold brick” schemers make 
tw’o strong appeals. One is to a man’s cupidity. 
They ask him wdiy he .should play with standard 
securities at four or five i>er cent when they can 
make his money earn 25! Or they flatter him by 
telling him the.y knoiv he never was appreciated at 
home but thcii can see at once he is a veiy superior 
business man, etc., etc. That is why they make him 
this fine offer! The love of money and the love of 
praise. One is the root of all evil, the other the 
root of all folly. At any rate the field of the world 
is well filled with these roots. In one year alone 
the Government estimiited a public loss of $700,- 
000,000 blown away in these fake investments. Now 
we want to put it up straight to those of our read¬ 
ers who, today, have mone.y which they are tempte<l 
to invest ill wildcat schemes. We beg of you 
abandon the ide.a and invest that money in Liberty 
Bonds. The only wildcat scheme you, as an Ameri¬ 
can, have any right to go into now is a plan to put 
1,000,000 human wildcats on the battlefront in 
France. It is un-American and unpatriotic for any¬ 
one at this time to gamble with money on some hot¬ 
air proposition when your country needs every dollar 
and every man and woman who has a dollar to in¬ 
vest, Let the iiromoters and the fakes go to work. 
Uncle Sam needs your money. 
Sts 
Some of the.se questioners get nboiit as full a concep¬ 
tion of the actual conditions they are trying to report 
as most of the commissions get of the problems they are 
created to solve. The next commission appointed should 
be made up of milliners and barbers, because they have 
had years and years of head work. s. 
ELL, why not? A barber would know better 
than to rub a farmer’s hair the wrong way. 
Tlnay would not try to give him .a shamiioo or a 
“massage” ivithout explaining ivhy. A milliner 
would have sense enough to know that she must say 
something to make a farmer’s wife or daughter “look 
pleasant” before she would come back for anothei’ 
hat. Surely they have had years of “head work,’’ 
and have gjiined a knowledge of human nature which 
has cry.stallized into common sense. A barber conld 
shave the beai'ds off the wheat situation, and the 
milliner could make Avar bread fashionable by pnt- 
ling ribbons oii it. 
J ABEZ S. AVOODWARD of l.ockport, N. T., died 
on April 10 at the ripe age of 87. Mr. WoodAA'ai-d 
was about the last of the famous “old guard,” who 
long before the days of college, experiment stations 
and “departments,” did pioneer work for agricul¬ 
ture. Some men grow old aivkAvardly. They cannot 
realize that youth has left them, so they pass the 
ei'ening of life trying to grasp a fleeting shadow, or 
else bitter and despondent. Others realize that while 
old age cannot endure the fierce conflict it does 
mean the sunny side of life, and they act out the 
siiirit of BroAvning’s poem :— 
‘'Grow old along with me, 
The best is yet to be. 
That Avas the spirit in Avhich .labez S. WoodAvard 
lived the last years of his life. And we think the 
Example of those last years—this growing old grace¬ 
fully—Avas the best and most influential part of his 
life. We kneAV Mr. WoodAvard intimately as farmer, 
public man and strong, loyal, per.sonal friend. Others 
may Avrite the story of his achievements and the 
details of a busy life extended far beyond the allotted 
yeai's of man, but to us the greatest thought of all 
is the fact that our dead friend kept his earthly 
spirit SAveet and kindly and hopeful and true to the 
end. He passed on into the silent country with a 
smile. 
Brevities 
Rabisits prefer Soy beans to most other crop.s. 
The man without a “kick” will never turn the trick. 
Dishavashing seems to be drudgery only when your 
thoughts are in the pan. 
The famous hen-killing order Avas lifted on April 20—• 
10 days earlier than at first stated. 
We Avould like to see a service flag hanging from 
every Grange hall, country church and farmers’ <-liib 
headquarters. 
Do NOT try to poison fleas, lice or mosquitoes. They 
are suckers, and like all such must have the rennaly 
rubbed into them from the outside. 
A Neav .Teksey reader Avauts to know if the GoA’ern- 
ment has commandeered seed Lima beans as food. No— 
cars of this seed from California seem to have been 
sidetracked. 
An Eastern man took a ride through a Kansas farm¬ 
ing district and counted 15 burning strawstacks! That 
seemed an aAvful Avaste. He came back home to tell 
about it, and in another ride saAV 12 expensive farm 
machines exposed to the Aveather and 13 barayards 
draining right doAvn to the brook ! 
