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Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 12, 1919 
Our Stockholders 
There are over 135,000 
stockholders who own the 
American Telephone and 
Telegraph Company. This 
great body of people, larger 
than the entire population of 
such cities as Albany, Dayton 
or T acoma, share the earn¬ 
ings produced by the Bell 
System. 
More than 45,000 of these 
partners are workers in the 
telephone organization. They 
are linemen, switch board 
operators, clerks, mechanics, 
electricians. 
The vast property of the 
Bell System represents the 
savings of these thousands of 
people, in many cases all 
their savings. 
In the truest sense of the 
word this big public service 
corporation belongs to the 
people. The people own it 
and the people receive the 
profits. More than 93% of its 
stock is owned by persons 
holding, each, less than one- 
ninth of one per cent. 
The Bell System is a real 
industrial democracy. On its 
economic operation depends 
the future independence of 
many citizens of small means, 
as well as the profitable em¬ 
ployment of thousands of 
other men and women. 
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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
A Canadian friend intimates that I am 
wrong in supposing that till the Northern 
people prefer the dry. choky Jersey sweet 
potatoes. He says that he has tried the 
Nancy Hall and finds it good, but failed 
to get any hist Fall, and finds it impossible 
to buy them there, and thinks that perhaps 
it is because of the reason I suggested that 
they do not want them. But anyone, 
engaged in growing sweet potatoes knows 
that if he ships Nancy Hall or any of 
the soft yam varieties of sweet potatoes 
lit' will get less money for them than for 
tin; dry. yellow potatoes like the Big 
Stem Jersey. I am glad to know that 
there are some people in the North who 
have found out what constitutes a good 
sweet potato, and if they only get numer¬ 
ous enough it may pay to supply them. 
But as yet the vast majority of the 
Northern people want a sweet potato that 
can he boiled or steamed, and that, sort 
of cooking does not agree with a yam. 
The selling exchanges will ship any 
variety demanded when there is a call 
for them. 
.Tost, ns the merry rattle of the lawn 
mower was about to begin March began 
to roar like a lion, and pushed the tem¬ 
perature down to the freezing point. The 
tomato plants in the cold frame came 
through the storm till right, and the re¬ 
serves in the greenhouse are now going 
to the frames. 
The error often made by inexperienced 
gardeners who imagine that the more soil 
they give a plant, the better, and they 
put little plants into big pots and winder 
why they do not thrive, is well illustrated 
by what is now shown in my greenhouse. 
I had a lot of seedlings of the Bonfire 
Salvia that were thick in the seed fiat, 
and I transplanted them as soon as a 
pair of rough leaves had formed. Some 
of these I put into little 1.%-ii*ch pots, 
but not having enough of these I set the 
remainder in 2 , / (*-inch pots. Those in 
the little thumb pots with only a level 
tablespoonful of soil are now larger than 
the plants in the 2^-inch pots, and are 
ready to go into three-inch ones. 
The scarlet Salvias of the best type 
nowadays bloom much earlier than the 
old type. Years ago. especially north of 
the Mason and Dixon line, it. was well 
into Summer before tlie Salvias began to 
bloom well. Now the plants from seed 
of my own saving have spikes of bloom 
on the three-inch pot plants before they 
go into the beds, and there D at once a 
blaze of color that is maintained till 
frost. To keep a bed of scarlet sage in 
good color the older spikes are cut out 
as fast as fresh ones appear at their 
base. These old spikes are full of seed 
and T spread them out on paper to dry 
and then rub out the seed. Now T hope 
that no one will write that he wants 
to buy some of the seed. I am not writ¬ 
ing an ad. When T have anything worth 
selling I will advertise it and pay for the 
ad. In anything I write for The R. N.-Y. 
please take for granted that I am not 
slyly slipping in a free ad. Some people 
seem to think that 1 am. and write asking 
price, and I have to tell them I am not 
selling seed or plants. I am gardening 
because T like it, and like to tell other 
people what and how I am doing those 
things. 
Though it. is later than we bed sweet- 
potatoes here by those engaged in grow¬ 
ing them for Northern shipment, there is 
still plenty of time to start them. The 
growers here do not bed the culls from 
the. main crop, but grow potatoes espe¬ 
cially for bedding by making cuttings of 
the vines from the best hills in August 
and setting these in rows and cultivating. 
They make small and medium sized pota¬ 
toes, sometimes getting much larger than 
the grower desires. But they make* far 
better plants than the culls from the main 
crop. It is getting more common to use 
frames and hotbed sashes for starting the 
plants. Here end there one sees a fire- 
heated frame covered with cotton cloth, 
while those not in a hurry to get. the 
earliest plants make a mild hotbed and 
merely cover with a thick layer of pine 
needles that are pulled off daily after 
plants get above the ground. For the 
market grower the glass is a great im¬ 
provement. Bedding in clean sand, and 
never bedding twice in the same place, 
and taking cuttings from healthy vines 
will keep the grower generally clear of 
diseases. A gardener of my acquaintance 
once tried to get a very early crop by 
starting the potatoes to sprouting in his 
propagating house, lie .set the plants in 
four-inch flower pots, and by the time it 
was warm enough to set them in the 
garden the roots had filled the flower 
pots, growing around the sides of the 
pots. When the potatoes were dug it 
-was found they had adhered to the style 
of growth started in the pots and every 
potato was the shap-? of a corkscrew. So 
do not pot sweet potato plants. For 
growing northward the Ilayman is the 
best, potato, though it i.s of the yam type. 
It is the earliest sweet potato and the 
easiest to keep in Winter. Any cellar 
where the temperature is moderated by 
the heating apparatus will keep them 
well. This potato was brought to North 
Carolina by Captain Ilayman, who traded 
to Brazil. Some years ago a New York 
seedsman got hold of it and sent it out 
under the name of Southern Queen, by 
which name it is still known in many 
sections. w. f. massey. 
A Minister's Right to Property 
A minister who has preached in this 
vicinity for several years has moved away. 
While here he lived in a parsonage be¬ 
longing to the church, and also had about 
three acres of land which went with the 
parsonage. lie built a chicken house on 
the land several years ago of lumber 
which he bought, building it on runners, 
so that it. could be moved. He kept quite 
a few chickens and accumulated quite a 
little chicken manure. He raised no chick¬ 
en feed on the land, except, of course, 
that the chickens (about 200 of theml. 
roamed over the place and ate some grass. 
The land produced nothing but hay, and 
a wmall part of it he kept for a garden. 
He kept one horse and fed it on the hay 
which the land produced, besides corn 
fodder and grain which he bought. Be¬ 
fore he left this vicinity he sold us the 
chicken house, chicken manure and horse 
manure, which we paid him for. Yester¬ 
day we went to the place to haul away 
the chicken house and the manure. Sev¬ 
eral of the trustees of the church were on 
the place and forbade us to remove them. 
They said it all belonged to the church 
property, and it was against the law for 
us to remove it unless the church sold ir 
to us. Fnderstand, he paid for the lum¬ 
ber of the chicken house and the labor for 
putting it up. and the manure (except the 
horse manure from the hay), was pro¬ 
duced from feed which was hauled on the 
place. There were about two dozen tipple 
trees on the place which the minister 
pruned every tear, so that he had quite a 
large pile of wood when he left. This he 
also sold us. and this the church Frustees 
also claim belongs to the church. We 
will appreciate your opinion of our rights 
in this case, as everything is paid for and 
the minister Inis our money, and we 
haven’t got our goods. W. IT. 
Tennessee. 
We consider the following a fair state¬ 
ment of your rights; The chicken house 
ou runners, and made from lumber bought 
by the minister was a part of his persona! 
property. lie had as much right to sell 
or dispose of it as lie would have bad in a 
table or chair made in the same way. 
Had he built on a solid foundation, the 
house would have liecome a part of the 
real estate. As it is. the house is per¬ 
sonal property. The same is generally true 
of manure made from feed bought, by the 
tenant and not produced ou the farm. 
Thus we think the minister was fully 
justified in selling'you flu* chicken house 
and the chicken manure. If you paid for 
them they are yours. T nder the circum¬ 
stances lie lmd no right to sell the horse 
manure or the nnmingA from the apple 
trees. The latter is part of the real es¬ 
tate and the minister did not gain owner¬ 
ship by cutting off this wood. Thus the 
house and chicken manure belong to you. 
The horse manure and wood do not. and 
the minister should return the money you 
paid for them. All this is on the theory 
that there was nothing in the church con¬ 
tract specially holding the minister on 
property rights. , 
“If you notice,” said Homely, 'the* 
poets invariably say ‘she’ when referring 
to the earth. Why should the earth he 
considered feminine?” “Why not?” said 
Biuks. “Nobody knows how old the eiirth 
is !”—Melbourne Australasian. 
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