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S»c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Rural New-Yorker 
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sible peison. AV'e use every possible precaution nnd admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only. Dnt to make doubly stire. we will make pood any loss 
to paid siibi^ribers sustained by trnstinp any deliberate swindler, irre'spon- 
sible advertisers or misleatlinp advertisements in our columns, and any 
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to adjust differences or mistakes between our subscribers and honest, 
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transactions. AA'e protect subscribers apainst ropues. but we will not be 
responsible for the debts of honest bankruiits sanctioned bv the courts. 
Notice of the compl.aint must be sent to us within one month of the time of 
the translation, and to identify it. you should mention The Rural New- 
A orkeb when writinp the advertiser. 
L ancaster county, PonnsAiA-ania stands at 
the top of tlie list as the most prosiierous farm 
county in tlie country. Tlio soil is naturally fertile 
and it is aa’cII farmed. Toliacco and other special 
money crops are irroAvn and tlio.se require intense 
culture and A'ery lioaA-y fertiliziii!?. The effect of 
this is shoAA’n all thronsh the rotiition—the influence 
of the special crop liciujc noticed on AA'lieat, potatoes, 
grass and all others. The jteople of Lancaster 
County are aide to co-operate AA’ithont ]ierhaps 
hnoAA'ing they are doing so. They haA’e retained 
many of the old-fashioned habits and methods 
AAdiieh belonged to the good old times AA'lien country 
neighborhoods AA'ere like big familie.s. The most im¬ 
portant factor in the prosperity of liancaster 
County farmers is their famous curb market Avhere 
all soi’ts of farm iiroduce is sold direct to con¬ 
sumers. Thi.s marketing has become a habit AAdtli 
farmers and tOAA-n people and the farmers declare 
that they get a ilO-cent dollar! Noaa* Monmouth 
County, New Jersey is in seA'eral AA’ays a lietter agri¬ 
cultural locality than Lancaster County. The soil 
is good and is AA’orkod AA'ith great skill and highly 
fertilized. The markets are the finest in the AA’oidd 
for AAdiolesale dealing, and there is no more enter- 
yirising class of farmers anywhere. Yet Lancaster 
jvanks aboA-e Monmontli as an agricultural county, 
Ihough AA’e bclieA'e tlie farming in Monmouth is 
superior and the difference lies in the superior mar¬ 
ket in Lancaster—tliat is the Lancaster County 
farmer gets a larger share of the consumer’s dollar. 
With any such system of direct marketing Mon¬ 
mouth County would, aa'c beliCA’e, lead the proce.ssion. 
The profipcrity of any community and the price of 
farm land will depend upon the share of the con¬ 
sumer's dollar {joing to the farmer. 
•f* 
T he NeAA- .Ter.sey State Potato Growers’ Associ¬ 
ation has a large opportunity. They represent 
a standard crop aa-IiIcIi means much to Jersey 
farmer.s. Tliore are big pi’oblems coming up in 
connection AA’itli it. They cannot be handled by 
indlA’idnals. It is either get together in a strong 
organization or hand the business OA’er to the 
dealers and handlers. The problem of grading 
sprung upon us by the Food Administration must 
lie met or tlie entire cost and labor of sorting AA’ill 
be saddled n))on the groAA’ers. The Jer,sey men are 
ready to meet it. Tliey mean bu.siness. At the 
recent potato meeting at Ilolmdel 1,200 farmers 
turned out. When the rain soaked them outdoors 
each man took up his chair and AA’alked under a 
big shed AVliere the meeting AA’as resumed. Tn Nbav 
. lersey, the same as eA’erywliere else, the farmers are 
oi'ganizing and lining up for action. They A\-ant to 
do their share and they realize AA’hat that .share 
is. Tliey know hoAV to do it better than any of 
Iheir adA’isers and they cannot do it properly unless 
they can feel that their bn.siness is profitable. 
T he news coining from Europe during the past 
feAA’ AA-eeks has been enough to stir the pride 
of e\ory true American. Our hoys, taken from the 
]ieaceful farm or slioii, and hastily hut thoroughly 
trained are more than holding their oaaui against 
the world’s best professional soldiers. We are all 
proud of them whether they are part of our own 
flesh and blood or just “neighbor’s boys.” Some of 
ns who have boys in the army have had a great 
Irnth pu.slied in upon us. We had come to have 
a rather poor estimate of this younger generation. 
Tliese boys did not seem to have full ambition or 
energy. We thought they had been ruined by pros¬ 
perity—made lazy and indifferent by these easy, 
modern times. Many a man has considered his boy 
a sort of degenerate because the .young felloAv did 
not Avork or try to save as father was obliged 
to do. But noAV these men must suddenly Avake up 
and realize that these same idle and lazy hoys 
have been trained and disciplined into the finest 
soldiers this world has ever seen. They are doing 
greater things than father ever did. He gets reason 
for great pride from an unexpected source and he 
may well ask himself: “Now, that Henry is proving 
himself in the fight, what am J doing to haclc him 
up on the farm?" 
We older men who must stay at home in tlie 
quieter seiwice of our countiy have a double duty 
to pei’form. We have got to help feed the world. 
That is our .io'h and we cannot escape it. Our hoys 
ai’e paid and insured and proAuded for and we will 
pay our share of the bills. We cannot produce the 
food and pay the bills unless, like our own boys, 
Ave are paid and insured and provided for with fair 
I'rices and a Lair chance in the market. There is 
nothing of disloyalty or insubordination when a 
farmer demands a fair price and a fair chance. We 
have another duty—to make this country a better 
place for our boys to live in when they finish up 
their job for Democracy and come home. Those 
Iioys will Avant to know if we are still being nosed 
and ordered around by a lot of politicians—men 
that they knoAV are morally inferior. They Avill 
AA’ant to knoAA' if Ave still permit prejudice and 
jealousy to keep us apart and prevent true co¬ 
operation. What are we going to tell them when 
they come back and look around? Shall we tell 
them that Ave are still doing Avlmt the politicians 
tell us to do; that Ave are still trying to crucify 
anyone Avho takes the unpopular side and strikes 
straight at the evil; that Ave are still walking like 
sheep along the path of least resistance? When the 
boys hear that they will rightly think that Dad 
and TTncle Bill are getting old and have very cold 
feet. We Avant to tell them that we have made a 
beginning and put 50 farmers in the Neiv York State 
Legislature and made 50.000 grafters go to work. 
W E think IMr. Hartman, in his articles last 
week and this, has struck an important point 
regarding plant groAving in Avarm Aveather. We 
have not seen this idea of the effect of a Avarm or 
liot soil n])on plant groAvth brought out so clearly 
befoi'e, and we Avonld like a discus.sion by both 
practical and scientific men. At first thought the 
suggestion about cooling the soil by means of cold 
Avater may seem impractical l)ut many of the things 
noAA' done in ]ii))e irrigation Avere called “impossible 
dreams” AA’hen first iiroposed. The fact is that fcAA-^ 
people are able to realize the po.ssibilities of the 
humble hegiunings of groat things. Benjamin 
Franklin’s kite in the clond.s, Avith the string at¬ 
tached, never could moA’e a train of ears yet it 
gave the suggestion AA'hich made the wonder's of our 
present electrical service possible. The “impos.sihle” 
of today is the commonplace of tomorrow. 
T he campaign to put 50 farmers in the New York 
Legislature is Avell under Avay and making pro¬ 
gress every day. Over in Ncav Jersey the idea of 
farm representation at Trenton is gainin.g. Of all 
single industries in New .Jersey farming is the largest 
and bv far the most necessary. Out of 21 counties 
ill the State 14 are or should be dominated by far- 
niers in population or bnsine.ss necessity. Yet the 
last liGgislature was divided as follows into occupa¬ 
tions : 
XEAV JERSEY SENATE. 
T.awyers. 11; maiiiifactin-ei’, 1 ; insurance, 2; business 
men, 3; salesman, 1; farmer, 1; doctors, 2. 
NEAV JERSEY ASSEiMBLY. 
Engineers, 2; real estate, 5; lawyers, 15; maiinfac- 
tiirers, (1; farmer.s, 4; doctors, 3; undertaker, 1; drug¬ 
gists, 2; philantliropist, 1; salesmen, 2; teachers, 3; 
insurance, 3; jonrnalLsts, 2; dentist, 1; printers, 3; 
conductor. 1; broker, 1; carpenter, 1; architect, 1; 
'banker, 1; plumber, 1; merchant, 1. 
Noav Jerseymen are coming up to ask AA'liy the 
3,500 laAvyers in the State should have a majority 
of the State Senate, AA’hile some 95,000 farmers should 
iiave only one man aa’Iio has the moral courage to 
say “I am a farmer!" Let ns start another cam¬ 
paign to put SO farmers in the New Jersey Legisla¬ 
ture. 
* 
S OME of our people have read a long article in 
the Dairymen’s Ijeague NeAvs in Avhich The R 
N.-Y. and Mr, Dillon are attacked. As usual there 
is nothing in this long outpouring that can possibly 
benefit the I..eague. We Avant to make it clear to our 
readers that in all this controversy Mr. Cooper and 
his associates offer no helpful suggestions—^nothing 
of a constructiA'e argument, Init simply personal at¬ 
tacks or stories about things noAv passed aAvay! 
Let any thinking farmer study this article and he 
Avill see that there is not one suggestion that Avill 
help the League. On the the other hand it must hurt 
the I-iCague, becan.se a falsehood—either quarter. 
August 2, 1918 
half or whole—is ahvays destructive. The authors 
of this long article liase their entii’e argument upon 
tlie charge that Mr. Dillon had nothing to do with 
the sale of milk at 7 cents per quart. They frankly 
say that this was what induced them to “break their 
silence.” Now we ask yon to read the article on the 
next page. It is clear and direct and every state¬ 
ment can be corroborated. Noav we ask you as a 
man capable of intelligent thought to consider what 
that means. These politicians of the League confess 
that their entire ai’gnment is based upon a state¬ 
ment which we hereby show to be false! What do 
you think about it? Who is trying to injure the 
League? The R. N.-Y. submits a clear, definite 
policy for reorganization and improvement. It has 
never said one word against the League as a sound 
and stx’ong organization. We luiA'e criticized the 
management and a large majority of the thinking 
members agree that I’eform is needed. We Avant to 
call your attention to the fact that the politicians 
now in control cannot defend their record by argu¬ 
ment but can only offer abuse or talk about dead 
issues. 
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O N page 898 we referred to an article printed in 
the Farm Bureau News of St. Lawn’cnce 
County, N. Y. We now have the following letter 
from the Farm Bureau manager; 
I AA’ould say that there Avas no intention of having 
this appear as a personal attack upon Jlr. Dillon. The 
article referred to Avas part of the circular sent ont 
by the Dairymen’s League, and through an oA'orsight 
on my part, Avas not marked “From Dairymen’s 
League.” It is a fundamental part of the Farm 
Bureau policy^ to avoid political discussions or personal 
attacks upon individuals for any business and I regret 
that the article referred to appears .ns such. 
E. S. BIRP, 
Farm Bureau Manager, 
There was no reason why this article should eA’er 
be printed in a farm bureau paper. It AA'as not even 
an item of le.gitimate news and could not possibly 
help the Dairymen’s League. EA’eryone recognized 
it as a poor and coA’ert attempt to injure Mr. Dillon 
and The Rural Neav-Yorker and there is no reason 
why the Farm Bureau should help in any such 
“drive.” The effect has been very different from 
what the politicians of the League figured. The 
farmers of New York know The R. N.-Y". and they 
knoAv that its motives are true. Their memory is' 
good and they know we have been abused before 
noAA^ and that in the end our position was found to 
be sound. We put up solid reasons for our belief 
that the policy of the League managers is not what 
the organization needs. The iwliticians aahII not 
reply to these arguments but ansAA’er Avith abuse and 
false statements. Noav Ave know the farmers of 
New York well enough to feel sure that they see 
through any such camouflage and will Avait for the 
facts and the logic of the situation. Nothing could 
be more senseless than the claim that needed criti¬ 
cism of the policy of the present management is an 
attack upon the League. Wait and think! 
* 
Soil fertility tests at the Ohio Experiment Station 
shoAv that it Avill be possible to grow larger Avheat yields 
in Ohio for many years even though the commercial 
source of potash is largely controlled by Germany. 
HE Ohio Experiment Station clearly shoAVs that 
phosphorus is the dominating element in most 
Ohio soils. With manure and acid phosphate in a 
rotation, the yield of Avheat can be kept np foi- many 
years. Another sure thing is the fact that most of 
the potash in manure is carried in the liquids. There 
is far more potash in the liquid manure of this coun¬ 
try than has ever been imported from Germany. 
When we let these liquids get aAvay from us before 
they are put out AAdiere the crops grow we play right 
into the hands of the Kaiser. 
Brevities 
Splendid advice to the angry—'keep the moutli closed 
and the fingers away from pen or pencil. 
The chances are you never heard of “ganister.” It 
is used in making silica brick and last year in this coun¬ 
try $1,113,675 Avorth was turned out. 
At the time the Gloucester Co. folks Avere Avorrying 
about the prices of early tomatoes, this fruit Avas selling, 
my wife tells me, in Augusta, Me., for 35 cents per 
pound. G. s. p. 
A carload (20,000 pounds) of Avhale meat Avas re¬ 
cently shipped from the I’acifie Coast to Boston, Avliere 
it sold at 15 cents a pound. The flesh of the porpoise 
is also ‘being sold fresh or smoked! 
Some one has figured that ice cream is a real food 
because it contains in one quart the “energy” found in 
8% pounds of straAvberries, 5.11 pounds of bananas, 
6.96 pounds of apples, 1% pound of round steak, and 
1^2 dozen eggs! 
The usual plan for destroying the ants in an “ant 
hill” is to punch a hole doAvn into it Avith a crowbar 
and pour in bisulphide of carbon, covering Avith a 
blanket. An English Avriter says he scatters a little 
poAvdered cyanide of potassium over the hill. This 
poisons the ants, but is dangerous for other forms of 
life. 
