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Saving Daylight 
The farmers in this section regard it as 
a very serious disadvantage. In this sec¬ 
tion help is very scarce; in fact, it is 
about impossible to get enough extra help 
by the day. If so, they consider nine 
hours a day. They, of course, want to 
begin at 7 o’clock and to get through 
early. The result is they are usually from 
20 to 30 minutes late in the morning, ex¬ 
actly on time in the afternoon. At 6 
o’clock in the morning very often every¬ 
thing is wet with dew. It is simply im¬ 
possible for us to spray while the trees 
are wet. Neither can we cultivate small 
com and potatoes while they are wet, 
and the dirt sticks to the young plants. 
Again, how are we to cut our grain and 
hay while ^ it is wet? Very often we 
cannot begin to cart hay to the barn or 
grain to the stack until 10 or 11 o’clock. 
How are we to pick apples when the trees 
are wet? The fruit would look like 
windfalls. Still another, what would 
happen if we send any sensible man to the 
field at 6 o’clock to cut corn while the 
stalks are as wet as if it had rained all 
night? ^ We shall be obliged to work our 
teams in the heat of the day and at 5 
o’clock, when the conditions are usually 
most favorable for working, everything 
stop with the sun from two to three 
hotirs high. We are urged from every 
quarter to increase our production and 
help feed the world. This change of time 
may be the way to do it, but the farmers 
of this section fail to see it. The whole 
world is clamoring after shorter hours, 
yet they think it so^ strange everything 
costs more. Would it not be strange if 
it did not cost more? Unless the farmer 
is given some consideration the day is 
not very far distant when some of these 
labor agitators and their followers will 
be hungry, and who caused the trouble? 
Monmouth Co., N. J. JOHN H. Barclay. 
The new plan of putting the clock an 
hour ahead seems to be working out to ad¬ 
vantage for me. I employ all colored 
help, who live in three tenant houses on 
the farm. These men all have gardens 
which they take care of after the day’s 
work is done. I believe they will raise 
better produce this year and more of it 
because of the extra time in which to 
work the gardens. I personally greatly 
appreciate the extra time at night in 
which to work out some of the many odd 
jobs which seem always to await the busy 
farmer. Yes, the new schedule works 
finely for me, although I am not sure the 
majority of my neighbors would voice this 
opinion. They seem to think they began 
work early enough before. 
New Jersey. earl dilatush. 
Any new legislation ought to be given 
a fair and impartial trial before criti¬ 
cism is offered. The new plan of “sav¬ 
ing daylight” is so broad and affects so 
many people that opinion will be as varied 
as individuals. Conservation is the watch¬ 
word, but just where conservation is vis¬ 
ible to the farmer is diflScult to see. The 
bill specifically states that everyone will 
be favorably affected except the farmer. 
Instead of saving daylight, the farmer to¬ 
day is wasting lamplight, as he rises an 
hour before daylight in order to be ready 
for his help, which arrives at 7 A. M. 
The help quits work at 6 P. M., but the 
farmer will keep at work and then some. 
The class of people who need conserving 
most of any, since all others are depend¬ 
ent on his efforts for subsistence, is being 
used up the fastest, and by October 31 the 
poor overworked critter on rising in the 
morning will meet himself going to bed. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. lewis f. allen. 
There is considerable difference of opin¬ 
ion among the farmers in this vicinity in 
regard to the benefits to be derived from 
the change of time. Most of them, how¬ 
ever, regard the scheme as a sort of non¬ 
sensical piece of foolishness, analogous to 
a childish attempt to do something with¬ 
out knowing what to do or how to do it. 
They are, nevertheless, secretly pleased, 
for the scheme enables them to get a 
little more work out of their men. The 
hired men, on the other hand, are strongly 
opposed to it, since they are accustomed 
to regard a day’s work as extending from 
5 o’clock A. M. until dark, and the new 
plan plainly takes an hour’s work from 
them each day. For this reason they are 
even more inefficient than ever, and on 
account of the change it is becoming 
more difficult than ever before for the 
farmer to hire help. In many instances, 
where the farmers quit work an hour 
earlier, the men take advantage of the 
extra hour to go to town and hang 
around the village until late at night, and, 
consequently, are of little use during the 
next day. On the whole, it seems to be a 
detriment to the farmer who depends 
upon his hired help, and a slight advan¬ 
tage to him who does his work alone. 
Vermont. C. o. o. 
Advantages.—One more hour in cool of 
morning for both men and teams during 
hot weather. 
Disadvantages.—^Too early for dairy¬ 
men ; dark at 3.30 A. M. Morning dews 
bad for spraying, cultivating beans and 
hay and harvest work; 5 to C P. M., sun 
time, is best hour of the day for spraying 
on account of no wind and can spray from 
any direction. Morning frosts and heavy 
dews hold back work in apple harvest. 
One whole township in county is under 
old time (new time'one hour late), j. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
I have heard no particular complaint 
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