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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
July 19, 1919 
MOLINE 
GRAIN DRILLS 
The Moline Line 
of Implements 
Plows 
(steel and chilled) 
Harrows ~ 
Planters 
Cultivators 
Grain Drills 
Lime Sowers 
Mowers 
Hay Rakes 
Hay Loaders 
Hay Stackers 
Grain Binders 
Com Binders 
Pitless Scales 
Spreaders 
Wagons 
Moline-Universal Tractor# 
Stephens Salient Six 
Automobiles 
By using a Moline Grain Drill you can grow more 
wheat or other grain crops and at the same time 
save seed. You can do this because Moline Grain 
Drills deposit every seed in the bottom of a wide, 
compact, moist furrow and all seeds are placed 
at a uniform depth. Every good seed grows, has 
plenty of room in which to stool, the crop ger¬ 
minates, grows, and matures uniformly. A big¬ 
ger and better crop is produced with less seed. 
Thousands of Moline Grain Drill owners prove 
this every year. 
Not only will Moline Grain Drills increase 
your yield and save seed for you, but they will 
give you a lifetime of good service. Steel is used 
largely in their construction and a straight line of 
draft direct from the furrow openers to the 
horses’ harness gives light draft. 
Moline Grain Drills are built in a variety of sizes and 
can be equipped with the famous Moline double disc or 
single disc furrow openers, wood or steel wheels. Either plain 
or fertilizer drills can be obtained with fluted or double run feeds 
The fertilizer drill illustrated 
here is equipped with the latest 
device for distributing any kind of 
fertilizer, in the best and most 
economical manner, in practically 
any desired quantity. 
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Order one of 
these drills now 
from your Moline 
dealer or write 
us for full 
particulars. 
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MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY FAPM IMPLEMENTS SINCE ISS5 
BARIUM-PHOSPHATE 
AN IDEAL FERTILIZER FOR FALL SEEDING 
ANALYSING 
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Every farmer knows that so long as hecan grow Clover he can grow anything else, and 
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deteriorate. 
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SWEETENS THE SOIL 
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CARLOADS, 20 TONS OR MORE 
LESS CARLOADS, 1 TON OR MORE 
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War Time Prohibition in New York City 
A number of readers ask how New 
York City is enforcing war-time prohi¬ 
bition. There are all sorts of stories 
about it. Probably the “wettest” spots 
in America are Northern New Jersey, 
New York City and Southern New Eng¬ 
land. The enforcement of prohibition 
will be hardest in these sections, and 
drinking to excess will probably continue 
longest in this limited area. The popu¬ 
lation is cosmopolitan, and very “liberal” 
in sentiment, and there arc vast fortunes 
invested in breweries and the liquor 
business. 
Ever since the National amendment 
was ratified the saloons in New Y~ork 
have been slowly fading away. In that 
part of the city where The B. N.-Y. 
office is located nearly every street cor¬ 
ner formerly carried a saloon. Three 
out of seven on our own block have been 
given up. and lunch-rooms opened in¬ 
stead. These saloons are usually owned 
by the brewers, the man whose name 
appears over the door is usually a sort 
of agent. “Wartime” • prohibition of 
course has nothing to do with the National 
amendment which will go into force next 
January. The “wartime” law was 
merely a piece of war legislation designed 
to save food and help in discipline. It 
was supposed to continue until the army 
is demobilized, and even after that is 
completed there would be only a few 
months before the nation goes legally 
“dry.” So there is a question not only 
about this “demobilization,” hut also as 
to what is an “intoxicating” drink. 
Congress will decide what such a drink 
is legally. There is no question about, 
whiskey and other “hard” liquor, hut 
there is some question about wines and 
beer. The brewers have been advised by 
able lawyers that they can safely take a 
chance on making and selling beer con¬ 
taining 2.75 per cent of alcohol. Tlmy 
are doing that while waiting for tho 
courts to decide just what “intoxicating” 
means. They take a chance on this, for 
tho Government has stated that they a>*e 
liable to prosecution if the courts finally 
decide against them. We must remember 
that a good many samples of “hard” 
cider carry five per rent and more of 
alcohol. 
On July 1 mos f of the large hotel: 
either closed their bars or sold only soft 
drinks. Tlieso hotels usually explained 
that they could not risk their immense 
properties by taking any chances with 
the law. Tt is clearly evident that full 
prohibition is to come next year anyway, 
and these big concerns depending entirely 
upon public favor cannot afford to appear 
as open violators. In these times when 
so many people are cursing the I. W. W. 
and the Bolshcviki as trying to break th« 
constitution, most people who have any 
property are careful not to ignore that 
instrument or to disregard public (not 
local) sentiment. About 75 per cent of 
the regular saloons kept open as usual. 
This they had a right to do while their 
license continued. They sell very little 
of the “hard stuff.” but such sales are 
quiet and guarded, and a good many ar¬ 
rests are made The liquor men. like the 
hotel men. realize that the worst thing 
they can do now is to get a public renu¬ 
tation as law-breakers. They sell the 
2 75 per cent beer and various soft drinks, 
taking a chance on the beer which the 
brewers will assume. 
The saloon men are mostly ready to 
admit that they made a mistake in koep- 
ing open. Sales have fallen off rapidly, 
and there is little or no profit left in the 
business. Had they shut up promptly 
on July 1 there would have been much 
local sympathy for them and great talk 
about “personal liberty.” There might 
even have been a mild riot and trouble. 
As it is they kept open to si'll beer, and 
they are losing money, and will in time 
slowly and surely work themselves out 
of the business. A few weeks of this and 
it will he next to impossible to work up 
any outcry for the saloom No one ex¬ 
cept the small army or “rounders” and 
“booze fighters” will put up an fight for 
the rumsbop. By keeping onen and 
slowly tapering off in this way the liquor 
men have made enforcement of National 
prohibition much easier. There will un¬ 
doubtedly for years he violations of the 
law. In some cases the confirmed “booze 
punishers” will probably come to use 
drugs. There never was a law compell¬ 
ing radical changes in personal habits 
which did not meet opposition. Outside 
of the sections we have mentioned and 
a few place where people of European 
blood are closely settled there will he 
general observation of the law. We do 
not think there will he needed radical 
measures or great force. We think the 
plain sense of the people will accept it as 
they did the draft and the enforcement 
of the income tax. Tt is our own opinion 
that hut for the questionable methods of 
the brewers the sale of light wines would 
have been permitted. As for cider, the 
country is far better off without the 
“hard” stuff, and we think there will be 
greater profit than ever in apple juice. 
New Schools for Old 
This is the title of an excellent work 
by Evelyn Dewey, published hv E. P. 
Dutton A Co., New York. We have 
never read a book which seems to come 
closer to the real problem in our rural 
school districts. Most books on this 
subject merely give the educator’s theory 
of what might he done to help the rural 
school. Others simply give the other side, 
and attempt to show that modern educa¬ 
tion does not fit into the rural school. 
Neither theory will ever get very far. 
for they both overlook the fundamental 
fact in all social improvement. If it is 
to he in any way permanent social im¬ 
provement in the country must be devel¬ 
oped and carried on by the people of 
the district. Unless you ran get the 
parents and taxpayers interested you can 
do little with the rural school. That is 
the idea brought out by Miss Dewey in 
this excellent book. It is very largely 
a record of the work done by Mrs. Marie 
Turner Harvey in a rural school near 
Kirksville. Mo. Mrs. Harvey was a suc¬ 
cessful teacher iu the city, where she 
conducted what was called a “model” 
rural school. This school was called a 
great success, the pupils being brought 
in from the rural districts outside the 
city. It finally came to Mrs. Harvey 
that such a school could not be made a 
“model” with its superior fixtures and 
its “imported” children. While such a 
school might give the children a superior 
hook training it. was evidently drawing 
them more and more away from farm 
life. Not only that, hut it was of no 
help whatever in helping community life 
in the home district. Mrs. Harvey be¬ 
came convinced that the only way to 
make a “model” rural school was to go 
right out in the country and take an 
ordinary district school with its poor 
equipment and weak moral hacking, and 
show what can he done with such a 
school. So she resigned her city position 
and went right out to a district with as 
poor a reputation as any in the country. 
The buildings were o'd and dirty. Tramps 
occupied the sehoolhou.se at night. The 
equipment was of the poorest, and public 
sentiment had fallen until only two or 
three families took any interest in the 
school. There was a strong party in 
the district opposed to any reforms, and 
growling constantly about taxes and ex¬ 
penses. A woman could have no harder 
task as a teacher than Mrs. Harvey as¬ 
sumed when she gave up her comfortable 
place in the city and “wont down into 
Jericho.” The honk tells soberly and 
with evident truth what this great woman 
did for that district. She induced these 
reluctant taxpayers to club together and 
improve the building. This work brought 
them together for other purposes. They 
slowly became interested in the school 
and out of it has grown a broader and 
finer community spirit which has helped 
all the way from farming to faith. We 
have never read a clearer and more sym¬ 
pathetic statement of the disadvantages 
under which men and women must work 
in these lonely rural districts. Nor have 
we read a more hopeful or saner solution 
of the problem. It is self-help—recog¬ 
nizing that the people who live in the 
district must he largely responsible for 
any real improvement, and that the rural 
school must ho made social headquarters 
for all the people. As a part of this 
work we must have men and women of 
sunerior quality and intelligence who are 
willing to go to the country at some¬ 
thing of a sacrifice. A fine, thoughtful 
hook. We shall have more about it 
next month. 
Farm and Garden News 
At the thirty-seventh annual convention 
of the American Seed Trade Association, 
held at Chicago, .Tune 24-26, the following 
officers were elected for the ensuing year: 
President. E. C. Dungan. Philadelphia, 
Pa.: first vice-president. W. G. Scarlett. 
Baltimore, Md.: second vice-president. 
David Burpee. Philadelphia. I’a.: secre¬ 
tary-treasurer. C. E. Kendel. Cleveland. 
O. 
At the forty-fourth annual convention 
of the American Association of Nursery¬ 
men. held at Chicago. June 25-27. the 
following officers were elected for the 
ensuing year: President. .T. Edward 
Moon. Morrisville, Pa. : vice-president. 
Lloyd Stark. Louisiana. Mo.; secretary. 
Charles Sizemore. Louisiana, Dio. : treas¬ 
urer. J. W. Hill. Des Moines, In. Execu¬ 
tive committee: E. S. Welch. Shenan¬ 
doah, la.; J. P. Pilkingtou. Portland, 
Ore. 
The annual field day of the Connecticut 
Agricultural Station will be held Friday, 
August 22. at the Mount Carmel Farm. 
The Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege will hold its first annual Summer 
Farmers’ Week July 28-August 2. Here¬ 
tofore “Farmers’ Week” has been held 
in March, on the theory that farmers 
could better come at that time, and could 
not leave their, business during the busy 
season in Summer. The following or¬ 
ganizations have agreed to have field 
days at the college during the week: 
Massachusetts State Grange, Tuesday, 
July 20: Tobacco Growers’ Association, 
Tuesday, July 20; Massachusetts Hol¬ 
stein Breeders. Wednesday, July MO: 
Massachusetts State Dairymen's Associa¬ 
tion. Wednesday. July 30; Seventh An¬ 
nual Poultry Convention. July MO to 
August 1; Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ 
Association, July Ml ; Boston Market 
Gardeners’ Association. August 1*2. 
