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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
‘lasaissar 
Beats Out 
the Grain 
Here’s the * ‘Man Behind the 
Gun M ^~the device in the Red 
River Special Thresher that 
beats out the grain. It’s j ust be¬ 
hind the big cylinder. It beats 
the threshed grain out of the 
straw right there at the cylinder. 
Look for the man with the 
RED RIVER 
SPECIAL 
this year and save enough grain 
and time to pay your thresh bill. 
David Maynard, cf Hesperia, Mich,, 
mites that he is entirely satisfied with 
the 28 x 40 Red River Special bought 
last season. lie says: 
“Theoperator of a Red River Special will 
never have kicks from his customers. Ro 
grain goes into the straw stack.” 
If you are a thresherman doing cus¬ 
tom work you will please more custom¬ 
ers and get in longer, more profitable 
runs with a Red River Special. 
Or if you want a thresher for your 
own use, learn about our “Junior” Red 
River Special. 
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Things To Think About 
The object of this department is to give readers a chance to express themselves on farm 
matters. Not long articles can he used—just short, pointed opinions or suggestions. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER does not always endorse what is printed here. You might 
call this a mental safety valve. 
The Story of the “Profiteer” 
It was with a great deal of interest 
that I read “The Confession of a Profit¬ 
eer” on page S05, and the only fault that 
I can find with it is that it was pub¬ 
lished in the wrong paper. This article 
should have been published in all of the 
good daily city papers, as I believe _ it 
would go a long way to educate the city 
people as to just what are the farm con¬ 
ditions, and as to how rich the farmer is 
really getting. If there were more of 
this kind of articles printed, and less of 
the glowing accounts of farm life and 
profits, I think there would be less kick¬ 
ing on the high cost of living, and also 
fewer people induced to put their hard- 
earned money, as evidently the author of 
this article did, into the farm. Only 
yesterday I read in one of our daily 
papers an article on big money in eggs, 
and the writer knows something about 
the “big” money, as he has gone all 
through the game. There are too many* 
articles published that are simply rot. In 
big type they publish “Eggs are higher 
and feeds lower.” I would like to know 
where this condition exists, as I had to 
pay more for chick feed this morning than 
I ever did. Why not stop fooling the 
people and ourselves and get down to the 
truth? 
The writer has every sympathy for the 
author of the article you published, as 
we have here on this farm all kinds of 
improved machinery and think we are 
better off, financially, hut it did not come 
from the farm. There is no man for 
whom I have more pity than the one who, 
after saving a few dollars, thinks that 
the place to put it and spend an inde- 
I pendent life in after years is a farm. 
Too many have tried this, and found 
that it is like many other things; “an¬ 
ticipation is greater than realization.” 
Keep publishing this kind of articles, as 
there are many sermons in them. The 
one feature we admire in The R. N.-Y. is 
its hold, fearless, stand on the subject of 
the farmer as a profiteer. 
Pennsylvania. LESLIE JEFFERIS. 
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An Improper Fraction 
The United States produces one-fifth 
of the world’s gold, two-fifths of its sil¬ 
ver, two-fifths of its iron and steel, one- 
quarter of its wheat, two-thirds of its 
cotton, two-thirds of its oil. three-quarters 
of its corn, and one-twelfth of its wool. 
It exports all except wool, and imports 
it, as well as woolen cloth. It has the 
land, the intelligence and willing mind to 
produce at least one-half the amount the 
whole world does, of the very best grades. 
It could grow this among other things, 
and on its unoccupied land, without dis¬ 
turbing other productions, 
Instead of paying about half a billion 
for wool and clothing to others, it could 
collect that much for raw wool, and then 
much more for clothing. All the wool it 
could produce would find a ready market, 
because there is not half enough grown 
in the world to supply it. It should have 
a safe market for fully 30 years, because 
the sheep men of the world could not 
grow a surplus in that time. Why is the 
world producing so little, and why is 
the United States growing one-twelfth? 
What’s the matter with wool? It can¬ 
not be that people do not need woolens, 
because they think they are wearing them, 
nor that they are short of money when 
they pay $40 to $80 for much flimsy 
stuff. What’s the matter with wool, any¬ 
how? 
This is a question for sheep men, for 
land owners, merchants, bunkers, and 
everyone interested in the finances and 
welfare of the country. It is a question 
for the patriot and the politician, for 
capitalists and labor unions. Its correct 
reply affects everyone in the land. Why 
is a propaganda necessary for sheep, and 
why does it get such meagre results? 
Why is there such a thing when we are 
furnishing cotton, flour, beef and pork 
for the world, and why is hut one pound 
of mutton eaten against seven of beef? 
What is the main reason, the first cause 
of our one-twelfth production of the 
world’s wool, and only one-half of our 
own ? Surely this should set us thinking. 
Ohio. W. W. REYNOLDS. 
Give Poor Farmers a Chance 
I have read the soldier’s letter on page 
510, as well as all the rest; will ask why 
not let the soldiers who are left have the 
best there is in this country, and let us 
poor things that are no good financially 
and in the way of the automobile drivers, 
go on the unoccupied land? I. with a 
great many others, have worked for the 
farmers, clearing and draining land, and 
we could do better on that land than the 
average soldier. While they have had 
good homes and had but little experience 
in that line, we have had experience with 
all classes of farm work. I am working a 
rundown farm now the third year on 
shares, but if I can get in touch with the 
Government agent if I don’t get one of 
the abandoned farms you may know that 
I haven’t the chance. Ever since I can 
remember the man with money had all 
the chance in the world, but the boy who 
started to work out was kept working 
out, as a rule, all his life. A renter can¬ 
not buy feed at present prices to feed the 
landlord’s cows. Some of the landlords 
say they have a farm to rent, stock and 
tools. The stock sometimes are old cali¬ 
pers, and I have worked for gardeneis 
in Iowa who had 20 aci’es with more tools 
than they have here on 100 acres or more. 
Till there is a change in most everything 
I would rather have a piece of cheap land 
and buy a few young heifers and let their 
calves run with them than to rent land on 
shares and milk old eanners. 
New Jersey. frank hateaway. 
Dairy Prospects 
In regard to the dairy prospects here I 
can frankly say the outlook is much 
brighter in the Dairymen's League News 
than upon our farms. Many are selling 
their cows, and very few calves are being 
raised. We had a good hay crop here last 
year, but much went to waste, as we 
could get no help to take care of it. It 
has been cold and backward here, pas¬ 
tures starting slowly ; many hard freezes. 
Our milk is made into cheese here at 
present in our own factory. We lose no 
time in discovering who makes the price 
on butter and cheese. It begins to look 
as if somebody in the packing business 
had cashed in at our expense. Why was 
not the price of butter and cheese based 
on the cost of producing raw milk? 
Naturally, butter and cheeese could not be 
made until milk was produced. Please 
give us your opinion on this matter. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. s . D. L. 
Logically this correspondent is right. 
The tanner does not figure the price of 
leather on the cost of shoes, nor does the 
weaver figure the cost of cloth on the 
price of a suit of clothes. It is only the 
milk trust that discovered the science of 
figuring the cost of basic material on the 
basis of the surplus which it manages to 
create in fact or in fiction. 
Up-State Farm Notes 
Farmers and Horsemen Benefited. 
—Horse owners of all parts of the State 
will profit by the signing of the Brush 
bill, which provides that in the construc¬ 
tion or resurfacing of all State highways, 
excepting mountainous regions or where 
physical conditions make it impossible 
there shall be a stone shoulder on one or 
both sides of the road for hoi'se-drawu 
vehicles. If made on one side of the road 
only, the stone shoulder shall be S ft. in 
width. If on both sides, each side shall 
be 6 ft. in width. 
Investigates Price of Milk. —Com¬ 
missioner Datus C. Clark is investigating 
the price of milk in the city of Troy. 
Consumers_ were paying 15c a quart for 
grade B milk and 70c for inferior cream. 
Many blanks sent out by him to producers 
and distributors were returned to him 
without question as to expenses being 
answered, and the commissioner may issue 
subpoenas for the delinquents. He be¬ 
lieves the price unwarranted and that 
there are too many distributors serving 
the city. 
State Acquires Land.— More than 
50,000 acres of land, a large proportion 
of which lies within the Adirondack re¬ 
gion, with some in the Catskills, were ap¬ 
proved for purchase, to be added to the 
New York State Forest Reserve* at a 
meeting of the commissioners of the land 
oflice. Much of the land has been lum¬ 
bered once, but is now covered with dense 
second growth. Some of the purchases 
have already been made, and the total will 
be the largest ever purchased in the his¬ 
tory of the Conservation Commission. 
More Boys’ and Girls’ Clurs. —Pig 
clubs have been started in three towns of 
Cayuga County ; also potato clubs. It is 
the experience of promoters of similar 
clubs about the State that girls show more 
aptitude than boys in these branches of 
agricultural work. Bankers of the State 
are behind the movement, which is spread¬ 
ing in several counties, and will loan the 
boys and girls money to invest in. pigs ns 
needed, as an example of thrift. 
The Rural Free Delivery Changes. 
•—As Grange after Grange has flayed the 
Burleson rural postal changes in the 
State, and as Farm Bureaus, the State 
Grange, and almost every rural organiza¬ 
tion in the territories affected have added 
their protests to the thousands of indig¬ 
nant letters from individuals that have 
poured into Washington, the Post Office 
Department begins to see danger ahead. 
Mr. Burleson has now ordered an investi¬ 
gation into the I'outes changed on April 1 
and May 1 in 13 counties of the State, and 
though the changes went into effect, with 
a congestion of mail and other difficulties 
too numerous to mention in detail, it now 
seems probable that these changes will be 
modified before Summer is far advanced. 
Lansing M. Dow, chief clerk and secre¬ 
tary to the Assistant Postmaster General 
in charge of rural mail, with an inspector 
from Washington, are busy this week in¬ 
quiring into the effect of the recent 
changes. 
Holstein Sale. —R. IT. Beard of Cort¬ 
land held his ninth annual sale of Hoi* 
steins last week, when 82 head of pure- 
breds were sold. The top price was $(>10, 
and buyers were present from several 
States. M. g. F. 
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May 24, 1919 
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