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lit RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Save All the Com 
jJI 3 IJ !|l j ) and Grain You 
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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. 
A Back-to-the-lander's Plans 
Being a subscriber and faithful reader 
of The R. N.-Y. for the last few years. I 
come to you for an opinion and advice 
upon the following: We wish to go “back 
to the land.” We are not. farmers, al¬ 
though I was born on a farm and lived on 
it until 15 years of age, but. after leaving 
the farm I have been in retail business till 
1917. My family consists of wife, 42 
years old; daughter, 11 years; son, 22 
years, and self, 52 years, all in good 
health. Wife and self always worked 
hard at our former business. My son had 
been two years at Cornell University 
studying chemistry, when United States 
entered the world war. He then enlisted 
in the Navy in July, 1917. Upon being 
released last December, and not caring to 
return to college, he obtained employment 
with a wholesale house in New Y’ork City, 
but he is not content. If we move to a 
farm he intends to take the Winter course 
at Cornell, specializing in fruit and poul¬ 
try. lie and I are both willing to work 
and learn. Do you think that with the 
aid of a hired farmer to teach and help us 
there is a chance to make a decent living 
on,such a farm? 
The farm I have in mind is located 
about seven miles from Peekskill. N. 5.. 
one mile from State road on a dirt road ; 
70 acres of gently rolling land, including 
about six acres of woodland, about two 
acres in seven-year-old peach trees, about 
100 apple, pear and cherry trees. Apple 
trees, mixed varieties, lo to 25 years old, 
in fair condition ; house and small tenant 
house, barn and other buildings need re¬ 
pairing and painting. 
We intend to proceed as follows: Hire 
a good farmer, a married man, to live on 
the farm in the tenant house, furnishing 
him the things that, are customary to give 
such men, besides his salary. Buy a good 
team of horses, a cow. two or throe brood 
sows; build and equip poultry houses for 
200 laying hens, buy the necessary farm 
implements, and at the proper season plant 
10 to 15 acres of apple trees best adapted 
for this location ; this to form the nucleus 
of an- orchard that is to be the main money 
crop of the future on this farm. The 
buildings occupy about two acres. W e 
would use about one acre for the kitchen 
garden, ete. The remainder of the land 
would go to corn, potatoes, hay and some 
small grain. How would you apportion 
the land to the different crops? I suppose 
the practical farmer will deeide that. If 
we pay cash for the farm and improve¬ 
ments to the buildings, how much would 
it take to stock and equip the farm so 
that it may be worked right, about as 
outlined above? IIow much of a working 
capital would we need to be safe? Is the 
whole scheme sensible and feasible ? 
M. S. 
This plan is both sensible and feasible, 
and a far easier proposition than we had 
to work out here. Of course no one could 
apportion the land to different crops with¬ 
out knowing the location and soil peculi¬ 
arities. I know of a good fruit farm one 
side of the road, while the other side is 
naturally fitted for a truck or grain farm. 
From my own experience I would say to 
concentrate all efforts on fruit and poul¬ 
try. with some young stock to use up the 
roughage and grow into money. Corn or 
other cultivated crops can ho grown be¬ 
tween the rows of trees in the young or¬ 
chard and help pay expenses. Both 
horses and cows will thrive on corn stover, 
while the poultry can use the grain. I do 
not think there is any money in the dairy, 
but a few cows will be necessary for their 
milk, cream and butter, while the skim- 
milk, and buttermilk are needed for pigs 
1 and chickens. Really, the problem to be 
solved is to make the farm pay expenses 
until the orchards get to bearing age. 
Much can be done with truck crops, such 
as cabbage, onions, sweet corn and early 
potatoes. Also, there is good money in 
small fruits, but the necessary labor is not 
always to be had for all this. Owing to 
the extremely high prices of everything T 
would say $5,000 would be needed to stock 
this place and put it on a working basis. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
Bonus to Discharged Soldiers 
A good many of our readers have writ¬ 
ten to us about a certain bonus of $60, 
said to be paid to returned and discharged 
soldiers. In order to make sure of the 
matter we wrote to the Zone Finance 
Office of the War Department. Under an 
act of Congress approved February 24. 
1919. this additional pay of $60 was pro¬ 
vided for. This was to go to all persons 
separated from active military service 
under honorable conditions subsequent to 
April 6, 1917. Application for this bonus 
is made to the Zone Finance Officer. Lem¬ 
on Building, Washington, D. C. Such an 
application must contain all discharge 
certificates given to the soldier during the 
period of the war, or orders for discharge 
or relief if no certificate was issued. 
There must also be a statement of mili¬ 
tary service since April 6. 1917, and an 
address plainly written to which a check 
is to be sent. In case men do not care to 
forward their original discharge, they can 
present that, certificate to the nearest, re¬ 
cruiting officer. Among other require¬ 
ments. the following statement is made 
about persons who shall not be paid this 
bonus: 
“To the heirs or legal representatives' of 
any person entitled to any payment under 
this section who has died or may die be¬ 
fore receiving such payment. In the case 
of any person who subsequent to separa¬ 
tion from the service as above-specified 
has been appointed or inducted into the 
military or naval forces of the United 
States and has been or is again separated 
from the service as above specified, only 
one payment of $60 shall be made.” 
An Old Man in Clover 
This subscription will cover the 75th 
year of my age, and I have been spading 
down Alsike clover in my garden higher 
than my knee. Last year I had Crimson 
clover and Alsike mixed, and I never had 
finer results with tomatoes and cucumbers 
and sweet corn; yes, and cabbage, only 
about SO per cent of the cabbage “busted.” 
Clover, lime and phosphate will produce. 
1 was going to say on a brick pavement, 
and some of my garden was taken out of 
the bottom of a railroad cut, and with a 
little cement would make a fairly good 
pavement. T send you a trial subscrip¬ 
tion for a neighbor, and hope it will make 
as enthusiastic a R. N.-Y. fan as your 
present correspondent. J. N. it. 
Ohio. 
Subscribing for the 75th year of life, 
adding a trial subscription and spading 
under Alsike clover gives a combination of 
pleasant duties hard to beat. As for the 
clover, when you eau get it to grow well, 
you can do about anything you like with 
the soil and Alsike is about the most use¬ 
ful member of the family. Wood ashes 
used with the clover might furnish pot¬ 
ash to prevent these “busted” heads. 
More About Hill Roads 
J. ,T. S., on page 964. says that he does 
not agree with me, and then gives the 
best example of the effect of polities on 
roads that I know of. He then tells of 
the effect of what I think the only salva¬ 
tion of the back roads, intelligent co-op¬ 
eration of the farmers, will do to improve 
the roads. T would like to ask him if he 
thinks that the rains are any worse now 
than they used to be? The weather bu¬ 
reau records do not show it. if they are. 
Also. I would like to know if it is labor 
shortage or ignorance that causes the av¬ 
erage town superintendent to wait until 
the roads have dried out and the farmers 
are busy with their Spring work before he 
starts any work on them, when the roads 
should be worked when wet, and at that 
time the farmer could help him. Any 
farmer on hill land can tell yon that if 
he plows his land when it is wet it will 
puddle and get hard and cloddy, and that 
is just what a road wants—working when 
it is wet enough so that it will puddle and 
then when it dries up it will get as hard 
as possible J. J. S. must, realize that, the 
r.uto is here and will stay, and roads must 
be constructed accordingly. n. M. M. 
School Work and Daylight-saving 
I saw an item in The R. N.-Y. in re¬ 
gard to the effect of “daylight saving” 
on pupils. I am a teacher of children 
averaging seven years of age. I find they 
are getting from two to three hours less 
sleep than they would with the old time. 
As a result a number who have been do¬ 
ing good work through the Winter are 
failing now to keep up to grade. C. E. BYE. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. 
I like the way you stand up for the pro¬ 
ducer. I am a wheat raiser; have 425 
acres in wheat. Wheat was regulated, 
but flour was not touched, nor corn and 
oats. One bushel of our hard wheat 
makes 48 lbs. of flour; to be more exact, 
2,0 lbs. high patent. 12 lbs. of second. 0 
lbs. of third, and 12 lbs. of bran and 
shorts; this is sold as 50 lbs., but the 
2 lhs. if nothing more than pays for the 
sack. Don’t let Secretary Lane fool the 
returned soldier. My ranch is 117 miles 
east of the 100th parallel and six south of 
the 29th. The arid region is not an invit¬ 
ing home. The secret of success is sur¬ 
mounting the obstacles by which you are 
surrounded. w. F. k. 
Ellis, Kan. 
I have read the note by Frank Hatha¬ 
way on page 878. and would like to add 
a suggestion. Let the renter, if possible, 
buy as he says; then let the laborers and 
all who could combine to do so work only 
for the farmers who live on and till their 
land when possible, in order to drain the 
land held for speculation; then the man 
who buys and the bank that furnishes the 
money will have more power in fitting the 
price than the bolder. l. m. w. 
