The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
June 14 , 101 ‘J 
464 
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See That He 
Comes Right 
When the thresherman brings 
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lacks power and is constantly 
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A. L. Willson, of Frankfort, Ind., 
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you this season is giving me perfect 
satisfaction in every respect. I have 
used several other makes, but I never 
knew what a good engine was until I 
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"It steam3 and handles easily, has 
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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 be 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 Three C’s—Cows, Corn and Clover 
In Western New England there seems 
to be some question about the economy of 
increasing live stock on the farms. The 
Connecticut Dairymen's Association has 
adopted a slogan, “ The Three Cs — Cows , 
Corn and Clover /” There are others who 
argue that New England should let other 
sections produce the cattle. In that case 
the New England farmers would depend 
on cover crops and chemicals for plant 
food, and produce fruit, vegetables and 
similar crops. .1. H. Putnam, Farm Bu¬ 
reau Agent for Franklin Co., Mass., has 
the following practical comment: 
Speaking of surplus. I noticed today in 
the Greenfield railroad station cases on 
cases of condensed milk piled high, ship¬ 
ped in from Minnesota. We are told that 
the farmers out there are paid more for 
the milk from which this is manufactured 
than our farmers are paid for their fresh 
surplus milk. Surplus milk. (?) yet our 
country towns are some of them not pro¬ 
ducing enough milk for their own use. and 
the country stores sell condensed milk to 
feed the country children. Surplus milk 
( ?) and yet our farmers are eating oleo 
and the creameries closing their doors for 
lack of materials for manufacture. This 
kind of a surplus is not cured by less 
stock, but by more rational methods of 
handling and marketing our products, and 
by more cows, corn and clover. 
That Rural Route Service 
I have followed with a great deal of in¬ 
terest and attention the various articles 
criticizing the changes in rural mail 
routes that have been made recently by 
the Postoffice Department. No doubt 
much of the opposition was justified, but 
there is another side to the question that I 
have never seen presented in print, and I 
am writing to make a plea for that other 
side, and for the people benefited by those 
changes. For some years we have worked 
without much success for a mail delivery 
in our neighborhood, and this year, in 
April, much to our surprise, we received 
word to put up mail boxes, as we would 
get a carrier and mail service beginning 
May 1. Now we get our mail daily and 
only because of the changes in routing 
that have been so much protested against 
recently. It is not a new route; we have 
been connected with an adjacent service, 
and it is far from perfect, as my three 
nearest neighbors and myself have to go 
from one-fourth to three-fourths of a mile 
to the nearest corner. No doubt some of 
the patrons on the old route have been 
obliged to change their boxes from in front 
of their houses to the nearest corner, but 
if more people are now served by the car¬ 
rier. even if the service is slow and some¬ 
what uncertain in bad weather, is not the 
new system preferable to the old? The 
old patrons still get their mail without 
much trouble, and we new ones have a 
service that is far better than none at all, 
as it was before this Spring. I am not 
asking that others be deprived of service 
entirely, hut only that they give up a lit¬ 
tle of the benefits in order that a greater 
number get some kind of mail service. 
For my part, if the new system of routing 
is too much and too long for quick and 
efficient service. I would suggest mail de¬ 
livery on alternate days, letting the car¬ 
rier go on only half his route each day, 
so long as we could have some kind of reg¬ 
ular service. ALLAN A. GRIFFIN. 
St Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
A Farmer on Dirt Roads 
I do not agree with H. IT. M.. on page 
84S, and what he says about the farmer 
and the dirt roads. lie says it is ignor¬ 
ance and politics that are the cause of 
the bad hill roads. When the State built 
the road from Albany to Buffalo the 
State furnished the help and material, 
and made us hill farmers help pay the 
cost. About two miles east of Little 
Falls, where the Nev York Central 
crosses the highway, the railroad bridge 
is so low that those high moving trucks 
cannot go under the bridge, or a fair-sized 
load of hay. Two years ago the State 
started to build the road from Fast Creek 
to Dolgeville. They built it past my 
farm about one-fourth of a mile, when it 
was left, and is not finished to date. 
From this point there is p dirt road of 
a mile or more that branches off and leads 
to the road from Dolgeville to Little 
Falls. About four years ago the town of 
Manheim repaired this road. All our 
farmers turned in with teams and help, 
ridging up the road and opening the 
ditches, and then put on a foot or more 
of good gravel. was a better road 
when it was r -"isned than the Tattle 
Falls and Dolgeville road the State built. 
The farmers drew their milk over it to 
the milk station; it would carry a wagon¬ 
load of two tons or more, but what hap¬ 
pened? Last April a high moving truck 
that could not go under the New York 
Central bridge passed my farm, and when 
they took this dirt road they had not 
gone 20 rods before the gravel surface 
broke through, and it took them two days 
to get out. There are several that have 
been caught, and had to get these ignor¬ 
ant farmers to pull them out. This road 
was good for years for the farmers’ loads, 
but when a six or 10-ton truck is run on 
them they will not hold up. I am a man 
nearly 75 years old, and have done a good 
many days with team and other farmers 
to keep the roads good, and can say that 
our dirt roads years ago were better than 
some the State is building now. The heavy 
rains and no help is why these ignorant 
farmers have to got along with these bad 
roads, together with the autos of every 
kind that are spoiling the roads. 
Little Falls, N. Y. j. j. s . 
A Moon Farmer’s Argument 
I wish to put in a few remarks about 
the article on “Moon Theories,” written 
by L. D. Spann. Jefferson Co., Ind., page 
874. I do not like to be throwing slurs 
at a fellow farmer, but when he comes 
right out point blank and says that anyone 
who does believe in “signs” is igno¬ 
rant, that is more than I can stand. I 
sincerely think that if Mr. Spann had 
followed the different changes of the moon 
he would not have little runt pigs to lose. 
I am now 24 years old and I have been 
working with my father ever since I have 
been big enough to work, and he would 
no more think of putting in his crops 
without the moon to go by than I would 
to go fishing without a fish hook, and I 
think we have just as good crops as any of 
the average farmers in our neighborhood. 
Another thing I have noticed is that the 
farmers like to got their seed here, for 
they say it is heavier, especially the grain. 
If there was not something in this, why 
would they come here to get their seed? 
I\ hen we came here we bought our seed 
from one of our neighbors, which he con¬ 
sidered good seed ; now he gets all his seed 
from us. If the moon does not have any¬ 
thing to do with making the grain heav¬ 
ier, what has? He fertilizes and works 
his land just as well as we do. That is 
the only reason, as far as I can see, why 
he does not get the same amount and 
weight that we do. I hope that this will 
not offend Mr. Spann, but I think that he 
is wrong about this, and if he will put his 
crops in at the full of the moon he will 
have better returns. ffjdabare. 
Clinton Co., N. Y. 
What Kind of Education? 
On page G5G a discussion of the follow¬ 
ing statement is invited ; “A speaker here 
made the statement that the average city 
boy of 12 to 14 years old is much better 
educated than the country boy of the same 
age.” 
The best discussion of this matter that 
can be given is embodied in the advice of 
my grandparents given to me when I was 
a small boy. My grandmother would say 
to me, “Study hard and learn all that is 
in your books, and you will become a wise 
man, perhaps a professor or a minister.” 
My grandfather would say, “Hang your 
book learning! Learn how to do things 
and you may become a man of some use 
in the world.” The whole matter hinges 
upon the question of which of my grand¬ 
parents gave me the better advice. 
C. 0. 
Home Environment 
I wish if possible to add emphasis to 
Mr. Wing’s article that appeared on page 
S73, as this matter of the farm home 
surroundings is of first importance. The 
orderly and well-kept lawn and garden 
exert a steady, forceful influence on not 
only the immediate family, but the whole 
neighborhood. It is a silent educator to¬ 
ward a broader and better condition of 
things. The front yard at the farm home 
that my father bought and moved on to 
in my childhood days, and where a for¬ 
mer owner had employed a landscape gar¬ 
dener, had the walks bordered with box¬ 
wood. and all of the best varieties of ever¬ 
greens, shrubs, roses and flowers known 
at that time were given a place in that 
front yard. Helping my mother among 
those flowers gave me a lasting interest in 
the beauty and value of wholesome en¬ 
vironment. In the settlement of the es¬ 
tate number of years ago the place 
passed into the hands of strangers, and 
there is not at the present time a single 
bush, flower or shrub to remind one of the 
past condition of that front yard. A few 
evergreens are still standing. At this 
place I have a large garden, shrubs and 
flowers, and we all enjoy not only the 
beauty of the extensive and well-kept 
lawn, and the strip devoted to the flowers, 
but the succession of good things from the 
garden over a long season period. This 
great and vitally important feature of the 
farm home is too often neglected to such a 
degree that is is really pitiful. The chil¬ 
dren of the home are entitled to the best 
environment that it is possible to provide, 
and proper action along this line will 
surely be reflected in the future of condi¬ 
tions in the community, as the useful and 
practical life of the editor is reflected in 
the pages of The R. N.-Y. ii. e. cox. 
