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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
May 3, 71)19 
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Things to Think About 
A Law to Certify Farmers 
Will you read the clipping inclosed? 
What do you think of it? I would like to 
know what others would say. I took it 
from the Toledo News-Bee: 
“What is considered a ‘trick’ resolution 
was introduced in the House today by 
Representative Carson. (Meigs County). 
It provides that a commission of four 
farmers in the House draft a bill to 
license’ all agriculturists through State 
and county boards. No one would be 
permitted to farm without a certificate. 
Backyard gardeners would be prohibited 
from competing with .certified farmers.” 
I am not a farmer, nor do I call myself 
a gardener, but I raise a large garden each 
year and have some stuff to sell, so it 
would hit me. I think it a rank imposi¬ 
tion. and should not be allowed at all. 
Maumee, O. a. m. K. 
This is probably a joke, or what is 
called a “strike.”. In a Legislature, or 
even in Congress, a member can “intro¬ 
duce” about anything he can put into the 
form of a bill. It is not likely that any¬ 
thing will come from this. 
The Cost of Production 
T understand the Secretary of Agricul¬ 
ture at Washington is trying to get some 
figures relative to the cost of production. 
Here is the chance of a lifetime; let's put 
it up to him. Right here next to me is the 
new Government magazine reservation of 
400 acres, called Fig Point Reservation. 
These magazines are built apart about 
100 yards each way. They are cultivating 
between these magazines now, intending, 
they say. to plant vegetables, etc., to keep 
the weeds down. If this isn’t a good 
chance for them to find out all about the 
cost of production, then I don’t know 
anything about it. They won’t take the 
1 farmers’ figures about the 35-cent dollar, 
and they don’t seem to have enough 
gumption to find out for themselves. In¬ 
deed, it never occurred to me that they 
were in earnest about it. anyway. Let’s 
j put it up to them and make them “come 
up or shut up.” The ground Avas. last 
year, one of the most highly productive 
farms in Norfolk section. They have at 
the head of the agricultural gang one of 
the best farmers hereabouts, they are con¬ 
venient to railroad and water shipping 
facilities, and have every facility for keep¬ 
ing accurate figures. E. L. weight. 
Norfolk Co., Va. 
R. N.-Y.—A good idea. Let the gov¬ 
ernments—both National and State—toil 
us just what it costs to produce a quart 
of milk or a bushel of wheat or potatoes T 
They have expert bookkeepers, because 
they teach bookkeeping and tell us all to 
keep accounts. We might also include 
the business men who run farms as a side 
line. These men have usually made a suc¬ 
cess in their city business, so that, of 
course, they are fully up on management 
and the financial side of the farm busi¬ 
ness. Let them all show up their figures 
of cost and compare what the crop nets 
them and what it sells for at retail! 
And last, but not least, let everyone who 
can produce the figures send straight »o 
Washington the proof that there is a 35- 
cent dollar. 
“Cull the Bread Lines” 
In the Chatham (N. Y.) Courier Albert 
S. Callan has a good article on “Cull the 
Bread Lines,” in which he says: 
Nearly all of the New York papers are 
complaining of the growing bread lines 
and unemployed in that city. At the 
same time, we note that at the convening 
of the Supreme Court in Hudson on Mon¬ 
day of this freek 48 jurors were excused, 
principally because of the lack of farm 
help at home, and that the absence of the 
jurors at a protracted session of court 
would seriously imperil their prospects 
for the coming season. 
The condition is unfortunate. The cities 
have an abundance of labor, while the 
rural districts are suffering from a paucity 
of meu. 
To relieve the situation immediate stops 
should be taken along practical lines. Of 
course, no one can suppose that all of 
those who stand in the bread line or 
those who go about the city looking for 
work would make good farm help. They 
have neither the capacity nor the desire, 
but certainly among them there must be 
a fairly good percentage who have at some 
time or other worked on a farm. This 
element should not be handled with ample 
portions of soup uor lengthy sermons upon 
labor, as seems to be a growing custom iu 
the metropolis. They should be made to 
work and work tit a calling which is in 
the greatest need of their assistance at 
this time. 
To continue to feed these indolent char¬ 
acters, to give them places to sleep in and 
to otherwise coddle them, will only in¬ 
crease their ilk. 
Mr. Callan must remember, however, 
that many of those bread liners would be 
of no use in the country, and it would not 
be clean or safe to take them into a farm 
family. Our observation here is that the 
great majority of the people in these 
“lines” would be of no service in the 
country. They are results of social or in¬ 
dustrial conditions which have about 
ruined them for useful labor. 
Who Will Do the Work? 
I am sending a paragraph from editorial 
page of New York World. It looks as if 
the city press was sitting up and taking 
notice that the plain people were coming 
into their own. and I guess that means us 
farmers. This struck me so c/ood I thought 
I would call your attention to it. 
New York. chas. d. Rhodes. 
The following is the item : 
“to become extinct. 
“The rush of aliens from the United 
States to Europe is reported to have 
reached a total as high as 1,000 a day. 
Noting that 90 per cent of those who 
pass through this port are Italiaus, Byron 
R. Newton, Collector of the Port, sees a 
serious effect upon the labor market: 
“ ‘One of the greatest ueeds in the labor 
situation today is for plain meu with 
plain habits to do plain work. These men 
have been doing such work for our indus¬ 
trial establishments, and after they go I 
cannot sec who is going to do it. I would 
rather have men who will build our sub¬ 
ways than men who will build Soviets.’ 
“The plain worker willing to do plain 
work for modest pay will soon be an ex¬ 
tinct species iu the United States. 
“Suspended immigration has had a 
dismaying effect upon the supply of do¬ 
mestic servants and created a problem 
that is turning the head of many a house¬ 
wife prematurely gray. 
“Already the efficiency sharps are as¬ 
suring us that in the near future house¬ 
work will be doue only in eight-hour shifts 
by persons expecting the pay and treat¬ 
ment of highly trained experts. 
“By the time there is nobody to dig the 
sewers all but the very richest Americans 
will be washing their own dishes and mak¬ 
ing their own beds.” 
Start a Small Store 
The milk question is a big one—too big 
to be settled for some years yet, if ever. 
If you don’t believe it, read the first col¬ 
umn of your page 013 to an average 
farmer and make him understand it. I 
shall not live long enough. But in the 
meantime, when the saloons shut up. let a 
few farmers who can trust each other sub¬ 
scribe $200 and rent one and start a just, 
plain, common grocery store therein, pay a 
respectable man and wife $750 a year* to 
run it. They will be astonished at the re¬ 
sults. I paid 15 cents per pound. $300 per 
ton, for split peas today, because 1 was 
looking for some cheap food. Let the food 
front one region go to this particular store. 
If they choose the right man for the store 
they cannot help but come out handsome¬ 
ly* After that is a demonstrated success, 
$5,000 will finance the building and fur¬ 
nishing of a large mechanics’ boarding 
house, a thing all cities want. The store 
could supply the boarding house. 
New York. ir. Stanford martin. 
“A New England Farmer and Tractors” 
I have been interested in the article 
which appeared under this heading on 
page 414. I have owned and operated a 
tractor for the past three years, and have 
observed them in action under many dif¬ 
ferent conditions. It must be that the 
neighbors of E. M. do not own tractors, or 
lie could readily see just what they could 
or could not do on his “stony and hilly” 
farm. The man who buys a tractor aiid 
at the same time is selling his horses is 
Pretty sure to regret having sold the 
horses. I cannot think of a condition 
where a farmer could get along on a gen¬ 
eral farm depending altogether on a aac- 
tor. I use my tractor merely for extra 
work. There is part of my farm, which is 
one that is as well adapted to a tractor as 
the average farm in Western New York, 
that I do not attempt t<> use it at all. for 
these hills are like E. M.’s. “they are a bit 
stony and rather hilly.” 
On a small place like this, which I as¬ 
sume as E. M. has been working it with 
one team, the “overhead” is so large that 
it is quite unsound in a business sense to 
think of ever getting your money out of 
a tractor. < )n the average tractor the de¬ 
preciation alone would amount to $300 a 
year. It has been shown in surveys that 
the average life of a tractor is about 200 
work days. My tractor hits helped me 
out many times, but so would another 
three-horse team, which I could have pur¬ 
chased at just one-half of what the tractor 
outfit cost, and after using them for four 
or five years I could have sold them for 
nearly what I paid for them, but not so 
with the trateor. After that use it would 
he hard to sell it at any price. The trac¬ 
tor does not eat any oats or hay in the 
Winter when you are not using it. but it 
certainly makes it "hog” of itself when it 
comes to depreciation. c. s. p. 
New York. 
