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with fresh, clean, moist air as warm as you desire. 
It is the ideal heating—the kind physicians rec¬ 
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One Fire Instead of Several 
lnste* t carrying coal and ashes for several stoves, 
making it difficult to keep the house clean, you will 
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in the cellar. The perfect heating from the New 
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A Real Investment 
The New Idea is a real investment and its 
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of dealer in your neighborhood. 
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XXm CENTURY FURNACES 
“Eleven years ago 1 had a XXth Century in¬ 
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been continually occupied by tenants since 
then with never a word of complaint or an 
item of furnace repairs. To operate a furnace 
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Write for descriptive catalogue No. 21 
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South Jersey Farms For Sale 
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warehouses. This paint covers well and is easily 
applied. 
You can buy this tested quality-grade paint and oul 
special red barn paintat factory prices now. Freight prepaid. 
There is an Arlington paint for every use—silos, interior and 
exterior house paints, implement enamels and MORE-LYTE, 
the interior sanitary white enamel for dairies. Arlington 
has stood for quality paint for 17 years. All paint sold on 
money-back guarantee. Try some and return what's left if not 
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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 Middleman’s Share 
From our village paper. Is this prof¬ 
iteering? 
“That a nearby housekeeper has solved 
the cause of the II. C. L. Having some 
apples ripening up, she called her market- 
man on the telephone and asked what he 
would give for them, and received the 
reply that $2 per bushel was a fair price. 
The next day she asked the price of ap¬ 
ples of the same market and was told 
apples were selling for 20 cents a quart. 
Figure it up yourself.”—Hingham Jour¬ 
nal (Mass). 
And yet there are some who argue that 
we should trade with our own towns¬ 
people because they will buy our produce. 
The two dollars might seem a fair enough 
price if we could know they would be sold 
at $2.50 or $3, but four dollars for dis¬ 
tribution ! “Good land !” U. s. B. 
Peach Trees Do Their Own Work 
I herewith enclose a clipping from a 
nearby city newspaper. These people 
naturally think the same tiling about ap¬ 
ples and other fruit. Isn’t it the limit? 
New Jersey. o. de young. 
“Can you tell me,” asked a woman, “why 
the peaches are so dear when the tiees 
along the roadways tie loaded with fruit 
this year? The farmer teds on-> that it is 
a fine peach year, yet he asks the highest 
price for his baskets! lie can’t tell me 
it is the high cost of labor, for there is no 
need of labor »o grow peaches. The trees 
do their own work, and all the owner has 
to do is to watch (he crop so the hoys 
don't steal them, and pick th? peaches 
when they are ready.” This high cost of 
everything brings out the murmurings 
wherever one turns. It is quite true that 
many advantages are taken to add the 
'ennies and dollars to the fair price, and 
also add to the burdens of the people. If 
the Fair Price Committee will help any, 
it cannot be too soon. 
TL N.-Y.—It is the limit—this idea that 
peach trees do their own work and there¬ 
fore the fruit has no labor cost. What 
can you do to or for such human hitching 
posts? We give it up. 
Serious Situation for New England 
Many of the stronger papers in smaller 
cities and rural communities are begin¬ 
ning to discuss the agricultural situation 
in a sober and sensible way. They should 
he encouraged in this by all farmers. The 
St. Albans (Vermont) Messenger *recently 
printed the following strong statement: 
SERIOUS SITUATION 
“New England imports three-quarters 
of her food supplies, and the gulf between 
production and consumption is steadily 
widening. 
“Time was when the normal family life 
was on the farm. There were industries, 
to be sure, but they were only of local 
importance. 
“It is not strange that we have high liv¬ 
ing costs in New England. Bringing in 
food from distant parts of the country is 
expensive. The manufacturer who is near¬ 
er the source of food supplies is better off 
because of the lower living costs which 
his employees have to face. 
“The marked unevenness in the balance 
between production and consumption of 
foodstuffs is a serious matter to the man¬ 
ufacturer and the laborer alike. If they 
look at it correctly they will see that it is 
for their interest and their advantage to 
bring about a development of the agricul¬ 
tural industry in New England. 
“And yet it is a very difficult matter to 
adjust. With the high wages that are be¬ 
ing paid city workers it is increasingly 
difficult to keep men on the farms. It is 
natural that they should feel the lure of 
shorter hours and greatly increased wages 
being paid in the city. 
“Farmers have kept their nerve pretty 
well, but they are beginning to show signs 
of losing courage. Good farmers, . with 
rich acres and modern farm machinery, 
a re getting discouraged right here in Ver¬ 
mont. 
“Go to a farmers’ meeting and listen to 
.the comment. There is a feeling growing 
up that there must he a return to the old 
days of the household unit, with the farm¬ 
er raising enough for himself and his fam¬ 
ily and not trying to raise a surplus and 
put it into the market which is vital to the 
city man. 
“The farmers don’t want to do this. 
They want to produce the necessary sur¬ 
plus. hut they feel they are face to face 
with a condition which masters them, t ost 
of grain, of labor (even if it is procur¬ 
able), and all other things is so great that, 
the sale of farm commodities at a profit 
may soon become impossible. 
‘"‘If the farmer today were running his 
farm on the basis of union pay and hours, 
none but the very rich could afford to eat. 
But the farmer asks himself why he 
should labor long hours with little re- 
I numeration, while the city dweller is e\ci 
netting shorter hours and higher wages. 
“The situation is getting serious. A 
strike in industry can be quickly sett loti 
if the necessary concessions are made. 
However, if the farmer fails to put in his 
seed in the Spring there won't be any har¬ 
vest in the Fall, no matter how urgent 
the case may be and no matter what con¬ 
cessions might willingly be made. 
“The movement in New England is the 
wrong way. There must be a readjust¬ 
ment brought about in some manner. The 
real situation in agriculture must be rec¬ 
ognized, by the laborers as well as by the 
manufacturers. It won’t make much dif¬ 
ference how much the city man is paid if 
there are no food stuffs which he can pur¬ 
chase with his wage. It is directly to¬ 
ward that condition that we are now 
tending.” 
Co-operation 
We people here sympathize with the 
Western beef producer, and are intently 
watching the proceedings at Washington 
in regard to so-called profiteering anti in¬ 
vestigating the cost of necessaries of life 
in the cities. Of course, with the unions 
prodding them and the voters shouting, 
there is sure to be some excitement, but 
looking hack over long experience, most of 
us are fairly certain that in the hitter end 
the farmer will be the goat. The specu¬ 
lator and wholesaler will still drive their 
12-cylinder cars, the retailer will skin the 
last cent out of his end of the business, 
and the vast bulk of the people will live 
as best they can. 
In regard to co-operative meat houses, 
anyone who knows conditions in our East- 
turn cities know, that the packers have the 
inside track and hold all the trumps. At 
one time farmers and hucksters who 
bought their stock did quite a lively busi¬ 
ness in a nearby city and encroached 
somewhat on the business of the meat 
houses. The next thing we heard was the 
cry of unclean meat, and the board of 
health got busy. As I remember, they 
had a long shed or building where every 
peddler who sold meat in the city drove 
through in line, and his meat was in¬ 
spected and stamped. Of course this delay 
ended peddling, as anyone knows who over 
tried to sell anything around a city late 
in the morning, and the meat wholesalers 
boosted prices a little more. 
In this State the Dairymen’s League is 
doing well, and there is every prospect 
that our farmers will back this movement 
to success. It is either that or extinction 
of the cow here, as no one will submit to 
the intolerable conditions of other days. 
We have much talk now of typhoid and 
tuberculosis from milk, and 23,000 deaths 
from using milk alone. Also one paper 
states that now the war is over more in¬ 
spectors are available, and a clean-up of 
conditions in the dairy business is about, 
due. Probably we shall see the same old 
schemes worked over again. 
One thing is a sure fact here; that few 
like to milk. The cry of cheap milk due 
to the labor of women and children will 
never be raised in this section. Few 
women milk now. and the children put in 
their time with their books, which is very 
right and proper. Our city friends can 
very easily inspect the dairy industry off 
the - map. * In fact, thousands of farmers 
are mad enough to sell every cow on the 
place, and people in high places have only 
to make them get out an hour earlier than 
there is any use in next Summer, and si5 
a few half-baked inspectors onto the cow 
man, and when they want milk they can 
go out on the hills where some farmer has 
a cow and buy a little for a curiosity. 
In this section every effort is being 
made to hack up the League program. 
Some of the best and most reliable farm¬ 
ers in the county are behind.the business, 
and the Farm Bureau, which is strong 
here, is also backing them up. But there 
are more ways of killing a cat than.chok¬ 
ing him to death with butter, and if our 
people beat the milk monopoly out of 
enough to pay expenses they can pat them¬ 
selves on the back for winners. 
The wool pool in this and adjoining 
counties has made a very successful show¬ 
ing. Wool is easily held and handled, and 
the prospects are very good that the sheep 
man is on the road to prosperity. . Of 
course, the total volume of wool sales is a 
small thing compared with the meat busi¬ 
ness, and is much the easier to control. 
The cruel losses of the feeders this past 
season, with the still cruder robbery of 
the consumer, are hard problems, and a 
sad arraignment of the business methods 
of an enlightened country like the United 
States. Someone is about due for trouble, 
and much interest in the outlook at W ash- 
ington is shown here, even if the farmers 
of this State are not largely engaged in 
meat production. B. L. HATHAWAY. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. 
Willow Fence Posts 
In answer to the question of S. M. B., 
on page 1209. I would say that it is 
practical to grow willows from cuttings 
in land that is too wet to hold driven 
posts, especially between two pastures. If 
used in meadows they will sap the land 
for several feet each way. and soon be¬ 
come a nuisance. The kind we have, here 
is what my father called black willow. 
Spring is the time to set them, using fresh 
cuttings from one-half to two. inches 
through, and set a foot or so into the 
ground. I intend to set a few rods next 
Spring in this way between two pastures. 
Vermont. O. K. PRESTON. 
