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November 2:’., 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BVEiyEffS FARMEE'S PAPER 
A Aiitioiiiil Wofkly Jouriiul for Country niid f«iibiirl>uii lltinicK 
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Hehbkrt rv. f'oi,uNc:'v<V)ii, Presiiloiit and Editor. 
•loHN .T. Dit.ixi.v, Trca.«iirer and (rcm-ral Manajrer. 
Wm. F. r)lLlx>N, SocietAi-y. Jins. E. T. ItOYXE. .Yasociate Editor. 
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to paid subscribers sustaintnl b.v trusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertisers or misleadintr advertisements in our columns, and any 
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to adjust differences or mistakes between our subscribers and honest 
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offices to this cud, but such eases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions. We protect subscribers airainst rojrues. but we will not bo 
responsible for the debts of honest baitkruius sanctioned by the cotirts. 
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 Tjik RUKAh New 
Yorker when writing the advertiser. 
nOT,l> yoUR IJBERTY BONDS! 
I\ liiiio of not'd iuid ad vice I conic to you for cither, 
as I can bet iny last Liberty bond on its .soundness. 
J. T. P. 
ITliN it comes to bettiiijx IJborty iiomls we 
strike the last siiiirenit' test, and we would 
like to have every st;iteiueiit in The R. N.-Y. measure 
up to that sort of authoriiy. We liave surrounded 
ourselves with men and women who ai‘e eaiialde of 
} iving tliat sort of haukahle advice. If they fail it 
will he through some mistake, and never througli 
lat'aiiiK'ss. 
It looks now as if egss would go over the dollar mark 
wholesale soon. ''J'his is nniking the snhurbanitt's wish 
they had a few pullets in the backyard, and I believe 
next yt'iir we can sell all we can riiisc. It looks now iis 
if the end of the great world war was in sight, and I 
see good times for us poultrymen. c. s. G. 
E go on record as saying that next Spring 
will see a rush to get liaclc into high-class 
poultry. Those people who Imng on, culled their 
docks to the hone and improved their stock will nnij) 
their reward. I'here must he more eggs and ])oultry 
in the future, and Yve think that feed prices Yvill he 
more favorable in the future. This season will he 
one of the best for investing in imi)rov(Hl stock, he- 
<ause most of the culls have been weeded out, and 
YOU can buy the cream. It is a good time to get hack 
i!it4) the husine.s;. 
■i! 
D LRINd the past week we have received over a 
dozen unsigned letters or with such signatures 
,ps “A Render,” “One Who Knows,” “Fair Blay,” 
■‘Farmer.” These letters contain (piestions mostly of 
a ] ersonal character. 'I’hey would not interest the 
public, and we are unable to reply to them personally. 
(!f course such letters go to the waste basket, as our 
invariable custom is to take no notice of anonymous 
lettor.s. W'e cannot understand why so many peo]>le 
(ontinne to send these unsigned questions. It is 
(juile likely that a 'feYV monlhs hence we may he 
p.ccused of favoi'itism or negligeTice in refusijig to 
answer Ihose qffestions. Si(/n iij)! 
a, . 
P EACE, when finally and olliciall.v declared, will 
not relieve the food situation. It will become 
harder, for we shall he exjioctod to feed many of the 
I'cople whose armies we have been li.ghting. People 
:.re already asking how long it will take to produce 
a surplus of food in the world—such as was found 
I efore the Yvar. AVe believe three, and very likely, 
five normal crops will he needcHl to secure a safe 
irirplus of food to the nation at large. Europe will 
1 e occupied in rebuilding and changing the iiroperty 
wasted by war. It will rt>quire :i long time for the 
a.nnies to settle down to i)rodnctive labor, and the 
world will n^irally turn to America for food and 
materials of Til sorts. EY'ery business except agri- 
(u.lture will he organized and ready to take advant- 
i'.ge of its opportunities. 
N ew Y<)RK consumers will i)ay 10 cents or more 
IHM- quart of milk, with another rise in prospect. 
The price has been advanced because the distributors 
claim that they must pay more for labor ! The Daii-y- 
men’s League insisted on a price for November milk 
which was careftilly based upon cost of ])i’odnction. 
The Food Administrator refused to a.gree to this 
I'rice and named a lower one, regarding which he 
sent a telegram containing the following; 
AA^ith sonic sacrilicc to the distributors, it Yvill result 
in l()-cent milk to the New York consumer, the highe.st 
price ever paid for milk. A'oiir demands, Yvhich result 
in 17-cent milk. I consider are based upon an attempt 
to profiteer, and will react uiion the dairymen by de¬ 
creased consumption. This decrease in consumption will 
come from the jioor children of the city, to whom milk 
is vital. 
Noyy' within two Yvoeks the price is suddenl.v 
jumped up because the distributors must pay more 
ZT/>e RURAL NEW-YORKER 
money to their drivers! Do we hear that these distri¬ 
butors or their drivers aie accused of “iirofiteering” 
because they have forced the poor childx-en to give 
up 19-cent milk, or is that term resorvt'd for fanners 
who must produce the milk for less than cost? These 
di-ivers .got from $33 to $40 per week and one per 
cent commission. It might he a good thing to locate 
about 500 of them oil farms and make them iiroduce 
the milk at loss than cost, while 500 farmers drove 
their wagons and ]iocketod their salaries. Can any¬ 
one tell ns wliy these State and Federal officers and 
eommi.ssioners are all afraid of strong combinations 
of middlemen like milk distributors and commission 
men? AA’hat is the reason for this evident fear? 
Find out the reason and remove it, and the food 
in’ohlem will soon he setthnl. 
* 
D VIRA'MEN must not forget the annual meeting 
of the Dairymen's League at Jersey City. N. J., 
oa Dec 10. This slionld he the gi’eatest gathering of 
milk producers ever held in the world. There are 
big questions up for solution, and they must he lian- 
dh'd in a denioeratic and poimlar way. There is 
safety for cooperative organizations in a crowd 
whei’C memhers can niei't face to face and talk it 
ever. Dairymen may well make this a great ]iopnhir 
assembly. Show each other and sIioyy’ the world the 
collective ])ower of organization. 
T hose of ns ivho have seen onr chestnut trees 
fa(l<' nwa.v with the blight disease will he doubly 
intei’Csted in Mr. Riehl's stor.Y’ on i)age 1307. He lives 
in a section where chestnut blight and chestnut 
worms are unknown. A'ields and ])riees are such 
that good-sized frees earn $25 or more each year. 
AA’e do not know of any other honicnltnral projiosi- 
lion superior to that. It is whaf men like II. AI. 
Engle of Bennsylvania ami others figured on before 
the blight disease swept through this section. A’ears 
ago we saw Mr. I'higle’s orchard just coming into 
hearing, and it looked like a gold mine ]»rot(‘cted by 
chestnut burrs. A'et tlie weevil and the blight soon 
finished it. Those Illinois nut groivcrs now hai’c the 
sifnafion at the flood. They should make the most 
of it. for we donhf if the blight and the iiueets can 
he kept permanently aivay from chestnut enlture. 
* 
Is there a law in New A'ork t^tate stating that a 
farmer .shall receive $5 for every heifer calf raised? If 
so, to whom does one apply? E. A. n. 
Ncyv A'ork. 
E liave liad some 50 letters containing this 
question and as many more asking if there 
is a penalt.v of $5 for killing a lieifor lailf. AVe can¬ 
not imagine how the.«e ideas got into the inihlic mind. 
There are no such laws—no such bonus and no such 
penalty. AAm are not forced to raise all heifers and 
the goY’ernment will not jiay yon for doing so. “To 
irhom dora onr apph/T’’ To the calf! If she is of 
good breeding, with a mother and grandmother noted 
for milk jirodiiefion. find out Yvhat she most needs 
and wants to .make her grow and develop well. Hive 
it to her and .she will pay far more than the $5. 
T he Fourth Liberty I-oan was so largo that it 
took nearly three weeks to count it. Tlie final 
shoYving was $;‘.>''0f5.41()..300. The full total will run 
f<» at least $d,t)()0.0()(l.000. There Yvere more than 
21.000.000 snhseuiher.s. it was the most rmnarkahle 
pnhlie investment in national securitie-i ever known 
ill the world's history. J'he Yvoik Yvas done under 
very liaril conditions. The sconrage of infiuonza pre- 
Ycnted much jaihlic work, and tl e nimors of peace 
made many people hesitate or ent down their invest¬ 
ment. It was a reinarkahlo achievement, and the 
most satisfactory thing about it was the way the 
country or rural districts came np to the mark. As 
a rule they reached their (inota and over.aih.scrihed 
before the city district.s. In proiiortion to their in- 
eome and Yvorking capital onr fanners did better in 
this loan than any other class, and we shall ht'ar 
nothing more about slackers and misers from the 
city paper.s. 
T he development of those potash lakes in 
Nidira.ska Hirst page) shows how a nuisance 
may he turned into a neet'ssity. Hermany undertook 
to starve the world by shutting off the iiotash supply. 
This country simply had to find ])otash. The dis¬ 
covery has 4-reated a new industry, bi’ought wealth 
to a iioverty-strieken section, and put us on the Yvay 
to independence in the production of jilant food. 
Men and nature, when brought face to fac-e with 
starvation or iieril, always find relief in places where 
they never <lreamod there was any chance. These 
hateful alkali lakes were the last places the average 
man would look to for national help in time of need 
—yet they will carry us through a hard situation. 
AA’^e believe this is only the hegimiiDg of great indus¬ 
trial discoveries whieh are to change society during 
the life of the young child of today. Some day onr 
Yvise men will learn how to reach np into the air 
and take from the clouds unlimited store.s of ele< 
tricit.v to he harnessed and turned into power. Every 
thunderstorm, every flash of lightning is evidence 
that the power is Ihere. Ben Franklin’s old experi 
ment with the kite sIioyvs that it may be bronghi 
down. Some day this mighty supply of power will 
he harnessed and made to serve humanity. Sonic 
great necesrity may ai’ise to compel the discovery, or 
it may come like the gasoline engine, the flj’ing 
machine or the telephone. Few people dreamed that 
these wore to become necessities when they were 
startcNl. AA'e heliei-e that the tireless energy which 
lias found potash in nnexpeeted placer will find 
che,aper poiY’cr for the yy IioIo people 
I N 1917 there were produced In country 
3,7S<I,.3Ui4 tons of lime—■4SS.297 being used for 
agi-icultural purposes. New York stands No. 12 
among the States in point of production with 108,7$.^ 
tons. Bennsylvania came first with 93(>,209 tons. It 
is not generally known th.at both Maine and Massa- 
(Ini.setts rank above Now A'ork in lime proiluction 
I’lie need of agricultural lime for the soils along the 
Atlantic coast is great. There should be used two 
tons of lime for every ton of commercial fertilizer, 
liinie, clover and shecqi Yvill fit many a deserted farm 
so that many piniiile Mill come running to try it. 
S OME of our readers say the.y hai’e planned-to buy 
fertilizer, soeils. tools and other things in order 
lo get them early. Now they hear this war is likely 
to end .^oon and the.v think of delaying so as to wait 
for bettor liargains. Onr advice is not to wait, but 
to buy early. Even with the surrender of Germany 
it Mill he a long time before any effect in trade or 
transportation would he made evident- Our soldiers 
M’ill remain in Europe for a long time. Peace will 
hi'ing even largei’ demands from European countries. 
AA’e shall he conii)elled to furnish food and other 
necessities for a long time, and there can be no 
immediate let-np in present conditions. AV’^e think 
the transportation and manufacturing troubles are 
likely to he wor.se than ever this AVinter, and onr 
advice is to order early and make sure of the goods 
llOML 
* 
I WAS rai.sod on a farm, and do not believt in theories, 
hut like the practical YYork. o. B. M. 
Ohio. 
HAT is good, hut can onr friend name a single 
practical operation M'hich was not once a theory? 
The theory goes alioad and makes men guess or think. 
Penally this gue.ssing and thinking develop a fact, 
and men learn that by doing a thing in a certain 
way they are quite sure to .get definite results. They 
also learn that one Yvay nia.v he better or surer than 
another. Such a simiile thing as using fire for cook¬ 
ing or heatin.g M'asoneea (hoory—before men learned 
the iiroiTcrtieH of lire or how to handle it. No, you 
caimot name a sin.gle part of practical woi-k that M’as 
not once a theory. The very men who stick so close 
to practical woi'k are. in'their way,“ theoi’ists'when 
they develop noM- methods or plans. The theory 
must go ahead of the fact. The tronlile is that so 
many pc'ople nmUn-take to make the theory take the 
place of the fact. That imts the cart before ttie 
house, and simils the usefulness of both. 
Brevities 
The outlet of the tile drain decides the drainage. 
AIany a man M'oiild help his bank account by banking 
up his house this AVinter. 
Fumigate Yvitli bisuliihide of carbon to get the “evil 
out of M’eevil!” 
It seems to us that the ordinary di.scussions about 
“health” are about as unhealthy as anything we read. 
One philosopher finds this advantage in working a 
rooky farm : AVlien he jilows all day among the roeks 
he sleeps at night Yvithout rocking! 
Given the soil and locality to suit it, can any apple 
variety show inorc good (uialities tlian McIntosh Red? 
It prefeis a light soil on a hillside in a cool climate. 
A A’ermont man made a hot on the outcome of a 
murder trial. Later on he M-as called as a juror to try 
the case, 'riie i-c'sult Yvas a new trial for the prisoner. 
’riiEKE seems little doubt that spraying peach trees 
M-ith Yvhitewasli several times during ilie AATnter gives 
protection against injuries from freezing. 
A nozE.N jieople have M'ritten telling how they cure a 
(’"g that eats egg'-'. Alust of them bloYV out the egg and 
14.1 it Yvith pepj)er. Others boil the egg and put it hot 
in the dog’s mouth and make him crush it. 
It seems that many discolored oats are treated with sul¬ 
phur fumes to give them a better color. This sulphuring 
is apt to hurt the vitality of the oats. They are not .so 
good for seed, and it is a risk to use feeding oats foj- 
seeding. 
AViio was it said the gamecock is the bravest thing 
in feathers? 8ome of the carrier pigeons in this Yvar 
luive .shamed tlie gamecock ! Roth were true to inherited 
in.stinct. One faced others of its kind—the other faced 
bullets. 
