The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
899 
The Story of a Day 
April 30, 1919. —To make this day’s 
work clear I will state that ours is a farm 
of 250 acres, mostly in fruit, employing 
seven men, four team<$ and two tractors, 
tip to this year we have averaged 10 
men, but have cut down the number 
partly because the high wages made it 
necessary, and partly because in the past 
we have set several new orchards and this 
is now done. 
Tub Start. —A 7 o’clock, political 
time, the men started out. Three went 
to a peach orchard to draw out the stumps 
of the derelict trees, frozen to death a 
year ago. It is estimated that 40 per cent 
of the peach trees in the Western New 
York pea. belt have met with this un¬ 
timely end and have been turned into 
fuel instead of food. We are not setting 
any trees to replace them because we 
cannot ge f the trees. Will make a special 
effort next year. One man with team 
drew manure from the barns and spread 
it on the corn ground. One man went 
out to drag. The other two took the 
spray rig. In this locality the delayed 
dormant spray on apples was started 
April 22. 
In the Orchard.— The aphids w T ere 
pretty thick and it looked as though we 
should have a fight. We used Black Leaf 
40 with lime-sulphur in some orchards 
and oil spray in others. The two rigs 
went out at the same time, so that all 
conditions were the same. It is interest¬ 
ing to note that the oil proved more ef¬ 
fective. It killed every bug it hit, while 
the Black Leaf left about 25 per cent 
alive. However, the cold weather which 
caine last week helped finish the lice. We 
think they were not frozen but starved. 
The outside of the buds were turned a 
little brown and dry. There was no sap 
left for the aphids to suck and they were 
too cold to crawl onto greener leaves, so 
they died. This is perhaps the only good 
turn which that bit of Winter did for us. 
Tractors at Work. —After dinner the 
work was changed somewhat. The wind 
had shifted so the spraying could not be 
finished. But the land had dried enough 
for the two tractors to go out disking in 
the orchards, and the teams dragged the 
rest of the oat ground. We had a short 
call from the Farm Bureau man. Such 
was our day thus far, a day of routine 
work which every farmer understands and 
of which there are so many in the Spring. 
But the rest was different and makes this 
day shine above its fellows. 
Puri.ic Matters. —The men’s class of 
the Reformed Church of our town and 
the Board of Trade of an adjoining town 
had wanted to get a man to speak on the 
League of Nations. The man was Prof. 
Irving Fisher of the Department of Po¬ 
litical Economy of Yale University. The 
meeting was held in the Grange hall and 
about 500 were present. It is a great 
temptation to write down every word that 
I can remember of this most eminent 
man. Twenty-five years ago Prof. Fisher 
began working on the idea of a league. 
He. if anyone, may be called the father 
of the le;"nie idea in America. It was a 
wonderful speech, because it was based, 
not on politics, but on the principles of 
political economy and history. Politics he 
pushed aside as being of little account 
and the cause only of petty arguments in 
this world question. It is too big for 
politicians. It is a question to be con¬ 
sidered by patriots. In an absolutely con¬ 
vincing and- reasonable way he proved 
that a league of the nations of the world 
is just as necessary as a constitution or 
• league of our own 4S States for three 
reasons; to finish up this war, to prevent 
the staggering taxation necessary to keep 
up a great army and navy, and to prevent 
future wars. 
Farmers and World Affairs. —Why 
should farmers be interested in this dis¬ 
cussion? Because we own land, and if 
the United States does not join the league 
this land will be taxed so heavily, so 
enormous will be the burden that we may 
not be able to endure it. Our homes will 
be threatened in order to build up the 
greatest war machine the world has ever 
known. Prof. Fisher concluded by speak¬ 
ing of our higher obligations. Our boys 
fought and died not only to win this war, 
but to make the world safe forever. We 
are failing them sadly if we stop now to 
play petty politics over their graves. It 
is our part to finish what they so nobly 
began. One of them wrote these lines to 
us shortly before he died: 
“To you from failing hands we throw 
The torch. Be yours to hold it high! 
If ye break faith with us who die. 
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow 
In Flander’s fields.” 
Now to go back to the farmer’s part. 
We have no foreman this year, but Mr. 
C. left his men at work and spent nearly 
the entire day in order that the meeting 
might be held. He drove on to Rochester 
to meet Prof. Fisher at the Chamber of 
Commerce luncheon, where he spoke on 
the league. He brought him out to sup¬ 
per on the farm and then to the meeting. 
I know some will say a farmer has no 
right to neglect his work in this way in 
the midst of the Spring rush. But reason 
it out in this way : A league of nations 
will be formed. The question is. “Will 
the United States join this league?” That 
question will be settled by our Senators. 
They will vote according to the opinions 
of the people behind them. And the opin¬ 
ions of the people or public opinion is 
formed by what we read and hear. 
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