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The Rural New-Yorker 
THK nVSiyESS FAn^EJi'S PAPER 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Hubiirban Ilomon 
EstahUtihfid 16^0 
FnblUbfd weekly liy the Knra) PiihlUblnir ('ompniiy, Z9fi lle«t SOih Street,.New Vork 
llEKHKKT W. COLi.iKoa’ooD, and Editor. 
JoHS J. niu/)N, Trea?mrer an<l Gonoral Manapr^'i*. 
Wm. F. Dnxo N, SfHTctary^ Miia. K. T. Koylk, AKSoclato Editor. 
SUBSCRIPTION : ONE DOLLAR A YEAR 
To foreign countries in the Unix’crsal Costal Union. $;2.04. equal to Ss. Cd., or 
8^ marks, or 10^ francs. Hcmit in money onler, express 
order, personal check or l)ank draft. 
Entered at New York Post Ofllce as Second Class ?Iatter. 
Advert isinff rates, 76 cents per aprate line—7 words. References required for 
a<lvertisers unknown to us ; ainl cash intist a^'coinjiany transient orders, 
-‘A SQUARE DEAL” 
NVe believe thnt every advertisement in this paper is bneked by a respon- 
slb e peT;^n. >\ e use every possible precaution and wlmit the adveitisiiiK of 
rc*Iiah)<* houses only. Rut to make oouhly sure, wo will make crood any loss 
to paid FUbwrihers sustaine<i by trustinpr any deliberate swindler, irresiion- 
eible mlvertiHcrs or mislca/lin^ advertisementa in our columns, and any 
such jmblicly exposed. Wo are also often called u|K)n 
to adjust difierences or mistakes bctwe<»n our subscribers and honest, 
reiqxmsiblo houses, whether a<ivertisers or not. We willintfly use our ffood 
oniccH to this end, but s\ich eases should not be eonfused with dishonest 
Iransactions. %V e protect mihserila^rs oprainst rotrues, hut we will not bo 
j^sponslble for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts, 
Notice of the complaint must lie sent to us within one month of the time of 
the transaetion, and to identify it, you should mention Tmk Rural Nkw- 
k oRKKU wlien writing: the advertiser. 
KIIK are two letters which came to us iti ex¬ 
actly the same mail: 
Miicloserl ()f(‘ase find .fl for my suhscrijition. I iim a 
hoy just 14 yc'jU'S old and have be(“n savin}? iny si)are 
j>eiitiies fur I'hrift Stainjjs, as I have two hrotliei’s tliat 
ar(‘ in the service, and I am workiii}? on a farm d(jtn{: 
iny Ix’.st to teacii (tennany a li'sson. I am a farnu'r’s 
son and enjoy tiie i)aiK‘r so nuich, especially alxmt the 
<‘*>tl le. l.KON s. CUKTIN. 
X(‘w London To.. Conn. 
J’ardon me—it, is nothin}? hut neglect; can’t do Avilh- 
out Tmk It. N.-Y. I am nearly (>!) years old,-and this 
war has juit additional work on me, so 1 have to work 
day aiul part of niglit. My two .son.s, wlio are jdaced in 
( lass it. and my.self have three farms, f<inr gji.s eng'nos, 
small gasoline jdant, gas pumi)s, etc., to nm. and ji 
truck and two autos, besides servijig o>i committeet^ etc.. 
So you see we can hardly keep up -wirn our work, bur, 
are doing our bit tlie best we can. j. l* .i 
Wood Co., W. Va. 
Hero wo have the April and November of life 
inarching together in ii common cause. I'lie hoy jiml 
the man iire hotli doing their l»est for their country, 
and we are proud thiit they both feel as they do 
about The II. N.-Y. 
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J rST now there i.s every indication of a lioiivy 
trade in ])oultry stock ami eggs for liatcJiing next 
S])rlng. We .judge from onr reports tliat a good 
many people wlio “went light.” last year will tiow 
come hack into tlie business. Prices for meat jiiid 
eggs itromise to he lilgli. iind many growers luive 
lai.sed fair crops of whe:it, barley jind corn. There 
i.s nolliing sure about feed jii'ices, hut the finding now 
certainly is more encouraging fov tlie jioultrymeu. 
We think that those who liave liCld on througli the 
dark days will now get into tlie liglit. IVe have a 
iiumher of letters like the following: 
Now let me tell yon how tilings have worked out Avith 
me. Last sea.son, when I could see that the higli cost 
of feeds would not allow any jirotit on market eggs or 
Iioultry, I (allied riglit to the bone early in tlie Fall. 
Hesnlt is that I uoav have the grandest lot of cliieks I 
ever saw. W'ith an average reduction of some 40 jier 
cent in jmilets 1 look for an average iiroduction of eggs. 
My reason for making sucli a statement is that 1 fully 
hidieve the imiirovial (luality of our coming layers will 
b(‘ far alioye tlie av(*rage, making tlie egg siiiiply about 
normal. Avitli possibly one-lialf the usual amount of 
grain. That’s where poultry keeper.s tliat .stayed Avill 
J. J. l)A.\.SUO. 
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T he contc'st ill tlie CiiitcA Stales Senate oviw 
the suffrage ameiulmeiit to tlie comstitutimi 
was very hitt<'r, and di'vcdojied som<‘ straiigi; coiii- 
Idiiatioiis, Presidi'iit Wilson went before the Seiial<‘ 
and iiiaile a strong idea for Avomaii sulTragi'. He 
also wrote iiersoiml l<dters to several Senators. For 
tlie first time during tlie war tiie Senate leaders of 
his jiarty icfiised to follow tlio President, and the 
amoiidimMit Avas defimtcxl .TI to .'{1. A Iwo-thirds 
vote Avas necessary in order to aimuid the constitu¬ 
tion. 'Tlie opjiositioii came mostly from Noav Eng¬ 
land and from the Southern State.s. This Is ]irob- 
iihly tlie tirst time in 75 years that Noav England 
and tlic old slave-holding States have combined to 
decide an important (piostion. It Avould he hard to 
liiid the argument advanced by the New England 
Senators. Q'lie Southern men frjinkly .stated their 
oiijiosition in the language of Senator 'Williams of 
Mississiiipi: 
“W li(‘ii the President tells me Ihiit he cannot AAdiip 
Hindenhuig and l.iidendorff and cannot .scare the Pul- 
garians and clean up Palestine Avithout letting the 
negro womtui «>f the Soutli vote, I cannot go \.ith him. 
'I'his is not race i»rejiidioe. I belong to the class that 
owned slaves and knoAV them. It is imt race prejudice 
hut race knowledge that dictates my jiresent action.” 
'riie (picstioii may come up again before this Con¬ 
gress, hut there i.s not likely to he any different 
result until several "anti” Senators are retired, '^’’e 
have felt that the wonderful war Avork which women 
are doing in the Ped Cross and at actual labor en¬ 
titled them to an equal share in citizeushi]). The 
Women must learn to be good lo.scrs, for a good loser 
is a sure Avinner. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
L.VHtJEIt number of farmers than ever before 
ha A C been nominated for the New York Legi.s- 
lature. In .scA’eral cases men of other industries 
have ho(‘n nominated after giving clear i)ledges to 
sni)i)ort farm interests in legislation. In other cases 
politicians were defeated at tljo piamary, clearly 
through the influence of farmers. Pefore the pri¬ 
mary we mentioned four cases in i)articnlar. In 
Washington County Jolin C. Cottrell Avas a candi¬ 
date for Assemblyman. He carried his oavu and .sur¬ 
rounding toAvns, Init was beaten by ii Avealtliy mann- 
factnrer in ji county pnrfdy agricultural. In Snlli- 
A’an County W. C. Misner AViis nominated at ji fjirm- 
ers’ independent meeting, and voters of both parties 
Avere asked to Avrite his name on the primary ballot. 
Only about .'100 voters did tlii.s, hut the result of Mr. 
Misner’s Avork was the nomination of a good fanu 
cjindldate avIio Avill he elected. .Inlius E. Pogors 
was !i farmers’ candidate for Congress in the Thirty- 
lonrth District. This district is purely ngi’ieultnral, 
and out of 4.‘{ Congre.s.smen New York State has not 
one .single farmer. Yet Mr. Pogers Avas defealed. 
In Dehnvare County .T. Clark Nesbitt Avas a candi¬ 
date on all lhrc(‘ tick(‘ts. He Avas nominated by the 
Democrats jind Prohibitionists,' and ))ollcd over 1,(100 
Pei)nhlican vote.s. ’I'lie conto.st now lies hetAveen IMr. 
NosI)itt and a good man Avlio has been jint up by the 
Pepuhliean “machine” to kill off any independent 
movement iiinong the farmers of Delaware County. 
Mr. Nesbitt made a good record at Albany, and is in 
every way entitled to a re-election. "We I'calize that 
Aoters do not care to he reminded of their duty, hut 
tlu're lias rarely been a case AAdiore a ballot Aviil nu'an 
.so much for faian independence as will a vote for 
Mr. Nesbitt this year. 
W E are told of a man living in a country toAvn 
who is Avortli probably .$40,000. He has no 
children and lias alAvays lived frugally, if not 
miserly. His money is largely 
invested in mortgages, and he 
does .some little business at 
note-shaving and money-lend¬ 
ing on chattel mortgages. He 
has giAen little or nothing to 
tlie eommuiiity in Avliicli he 
Ha'os, Avliile tliat community 
lias made it po.ssihle for iiim 
to accumnlato his little for¬ 
tune. Noav this man has here¬ 
tofore refn.sed to buy any Lilierty Ponds. The 
rea.son he lias given is that he can got iiitere.st at 
six or seven per cent for his money, and no one 
lias any riglit to ask liim to accept 4 % per cent 
from tlie (loA'crniiieiit I ’riiero are a few such men 
scattered through the country, and Ave are sorry 
for it. There are niaiiy men avIio lionestly cannot 
afford to buy bonds. Tlic.v Inu’e large families to 
jirovide for, or tliey ne('d every dollar th(\v can raise 
to .serve as liquid cajiital. Their sjiirit is true, and 
it is a jiart of hard self-denial for them to refuse, 
.A’et tliey must do it. There is no excuse Avliat<'\’(* *r 
for such misers as Ave have iiieutioiied. ’The jiro- 
tectioii given them by this Nation has luadejt po.s- 
sihl(‘ for tliem to accumulate. It is tlie basest sort 
of iiigi'jititude to stand on a jialtry two ])er cent 
Avlieii their couiitry lu'cds their mou(\v and offers 
Ihe tiiK'st security in the Avorld. ’riiere is no sadder 
sjieclaclo in the whole Peimhlie than that of a ‘‘.suc¬ 
cessful” mail Avith all the iiatriotisiii and national 
honor ill him dric'd up and blown away! I'lie man 
Avho told us about this miserly charaetc'i: .shut his 
teeth and .sjiid : 
“We iiit('n(l to viakc him buy bonds 
“How’r” 
“Tell liim lie must buy or get out I” 
“Suppo.se he Avill not go I” 
“Ho Avill live a life' tliat is Avorse tlian death. 
IN'ory mail, Avomaii and child Avill scorn him, and 
he AA’ill he houudc'd Avith a marlv of shame Avliich 
AA'ill make him feel it !” 
“Put that iiia.v lie called a moral boycott?” 
“I don’t care Avhat it is. 'Tliat is tiie feeling in 
onr noiglihorliood. and no man can stand iij) against 
popular thought in a Pcjuihlic Avheii tlie soul of the 
peo])lo has been stiriedi” 
We just ]irint this as evidence of the Avay the 
American people have come to regard this Avar. 
There are too many gold .stars orc'cqiing upon tlie 
service flags—too mucli suffering and self-deiii;.l on 
the jiart of tho.se who must Avork in lonely homes, to 
permit plain men ami Avomc'ii to have re.spect <u‘ 
I'atience for those Avho let two ]i(>r cc'iit mc'asnre 
their jiatriotisin. As a little hoy. tin* Avriter faintly 
remembers the life of a man who, during our Civil 
War, iilayc'd much the same miserly jiart. Hod Iic'lj) 
any lionest man or Avomau Avith a remaining shred 
of conscience from living any such life I, 
October 12, nils 
OT a pound of apjilo pomace should he-Avasted 
this year. Feed it all to the stock. We can 
all rememlior hoAv some years ago this pomace accu¬ 
mulated around the cider mills in great, na.sty-lookiiig 
pile.s. No one AV’anted it. and if any farmer had 
haiih'd it liome for feeding he aaouIcI haA’e been 
laughed at. Now we have found that this jiomace is 
worth about as much as silage for fec'ding dairy 
coAvs, 'To let the pomace at Noav York cider mills 
rot as in former years Avould he about the same as 
duminug the contents of lialf the .silos in the State 
into the barnyard! Not only is tlie jiomaoe being 
fed fresh, hut in some cases it is dried and fed about 
like beet juilj). In the.se days of eo.stly feed —save 
Ihc apple jtnmacc. 
♦ 
In any case A\’liore tlie farmer feol.s that he is not 
being fairly treated, he should report the matter fear¬ 
lessly and courteously to his County Food Adminis¬ 
trator. giving all the facts, and .should be willing, if 
he feels he has a grievance, to report the matter in 
Avriting over his own name. 
HAT advice is giA'on by Charles E. 'Treman, 
State Food Administrator of New York. He 
is referring jiarticularly to feeds and feed jirices. 
We liaA'o had a good many comjdaints about jirices, 
and in a few cases it avjis evident that millers or 
dealers Avere taking advantage of a farmer’s lack of 
knowledge. A jironijit and ojien comjilaint Avitli the 
facts presented has usually lirought a settlement. 
The Food Admiui.strators Avant to he fair and helji- 
ful. They cannot do it all, and from the v'ory na¬ 
ture of the ca.se they have got to liavo the full back¬ 
ing of fanners avIio make complaints. 
» 
Ik you could do something to stir nji interest in 
I'.astiire investigations in tliis eoiiiitry, I believe you 
Avould he aeeomitlisliing a very important work. It 
seems .strange that with an industry as valuable and 
imjmrtant as our i)a.stures are tliere i.s not an experi¬ 
ment station devoting its main work to i)asture .studies. 
ELIi, here is A\here avo start it. The ordinary 
“invo.stigation’’ does not got very far. It 
usually ends by going out to pa.sture, Avhero it dies. 
'Tlioro is great need for some one to toll how to Im- 
proA'e the W‘orn-out i)asturo at moderate cost. Any¬ 
one Avitli an ahuudauee of labor and eajtital can 
work uj) old fields, and lime and fertilize and seed 
them hack. .What we need is some simple and prac¬ 
tical Avay of improving the grass in the ordinary 
jiasture. It i.s a big subject, and gets bigger the 
more you think of it. Croat attention has been paid 
to the corn crop and the silo, and avo have all made 
progress along the.se lines. Y’ct in the long run the 
pa.sture is even more important to tlie dairy industry 
than tlie silo or corn crop. Some experiment station 
ought to go out to jiastiire and .stay there until it 
can h'arii how to double the value of an acre of 
jxisture land. It can ho done. We will try to stay 
by it until some one starts. 
« 
A NFW situation has ari.seu in New .lersey as a 
result of the Senate vote on the woman suf¬ 
frage amendmeiit. On the lU'atli of the late Sonatoi’ 
Hiigho.s, CoA'. Fdge ajqioiiited David Halnl for the 
unexjured term Avhlcli runs until .March 4 of next 
yi'ar. Noav it is lu'cessary for Senator Haird to he 
('l(*ct('d by pojuilar vofi', ami lie is a candidate for 
the Senate. Wlu'ii tlie suffrage ameudmout came 
up last Avei'k Semator IhiinI vot('d against it. I’resi- 
d('ut Wll.soii ask(‘d him jicr.soually to vole for it, ami 
he must liave known that a large majority of the 
intelligi'iit jieojile of Ncav Jersey favored the amoiid- 
iiioiit. We feel tliat !Mr. I’aird does not fairly rep¬ 
resent New Jersey in tliis matter, and he should he 
defeati'd in tlie election. Ojijiosed to liim is Charles 
O. Hciiucssi'y, ojiciily and Avarmly in fa\'or of suf¬ 
frage. Tlie amendment is now in such shajie tliat 
it can he called up oiici' mon' before March 4. A 
change of two vote's will jiut it over. New Jersey 
lias a chance to fiiniisli one of these voles by elect¬ 
ing Mr. Heiincssi'y. No jiarty man need fear to do 
this, for the Senator thus eli'cted can serve only 
four moiitlis, hut during tliat lime his vote may 
settle this great (piestion right. If Mr. Baird goes 
hack llie Avhole tiling must he fought all over again 
in the next CoiigiTss. 'The i.s.suo is thus clear and 
delhiiti'. If the fric'uds of suffrage in Ncav Jersey 
Avaiit to advance tlieir cause the only thing tliey can 
do is to vote for Mr. lleiine.ssey. 
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Brevities 
^'iia.i.s of liickorv. hiittornut and walnuts are used m 
making gas ina.sks to otT.sot tlie Horniuii gas shells. 
Ax Eiigli.sh farmer was fined $100 for not protecting 
some stacks of oats and liiirley from rats and other 
Vermin ! 
SoAiE of the amateurs Avill try to store squash this 
Winter in a co!<l cellar as they Avoiild beets or potatoes. 
If they do their hopes will be “squa.slied.” This vege¬ 
table must be kept warm. 
