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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 4, 1919 
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DIVIDING LINE between COLD and COMFORT 
When winter’s icy blast cuts its way through 
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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. 
One Farmer’s Opinion 
I live in the extreme western part of 
Schoharie County. N. Y.. (within a mile 
of the Otsego County line), and our main 
product is milk, which is sold at. League 
prices. We should have a league for 
farmers in general, or a union, that we 
might strike, as laborers in all other in¬ 
dustries are doing, for shorter hours and 
bigger pay. The editorials regarding 
bigger production on page 1348 hit the 
nail on t ho head. The middlemen and 
politicians (who are virtually one) have 
been demanding bigger crops, etc., for a 
long term of years. They want the 
farmers to produce double crops, regard¬ 
less of cost and labor, causing an over¬ 
supply, which they report as such so long 
as Ihe crops are in the producer’s hands, 
to induce them to sell at low prices. 
Then, when the crop is bought up. the 
report is changed to “short crop” and 
half the crop is sold for enough to make 
a Urine/ profit on the whole, while the 
rest is shipped abroad for a “get-rioh- 
quick” amount. M.v theory has been for 
some time for the farmers *to produce 
what they can by working on half time 
(eiwht hours), and feeding what they 
raise without buying fertilizers, thus sav¬ 
ing the middlemen’s profits on feed and 
fertilizers. Then we would receive just 
as much for our small crops as we now 
do for the large ones. 
Some of t lie people who live without 
work might starve, and those who live, on 
what others have worked for might, get 
out and enjoy a little “farm work.” If 
all the people would help perform the 
labor that one-half are doing, there would 
he chance for a little recreation for all. 
I do not mean to belittle the other pro¬ 
fessions and trades, but so many people 
are flocking to these others that Mother 
Earth is beginning to lack tillers, and 
soon must fail to provide for all unless 
many come back to her. 
To come back to crops and prices, hay 
was a good crop with very little of grade 
No. 1, due to the clover coming in and 
growing so luxuriantly. The prices of¬ 
fered are $‘20 to $22 for grades two and 
three, and $15 to $18 for shipping. Very 
few potatoes have been dug, though judg¬ 
ing from the growth of the vines the later 
varieties will yield an average crop. A 
few potatoes ha\/i been sold at $1.50 per 
bn. and some are trying to contract at 
that price. We have the best yield of 
corn, especially silage corn, that we 
have had in years. There isn’t very much 
State or flint corn grown in this section, 
though what there is looks very promis¬ 
ing. providing we have no heavy frosts in 
a couple of weeks. Eggs are selling at 
52c at the stores. Butter brings from 
50 to 60c. The price of feeds follow: 
Corn and oats. $3.60 per cwt.; wheat 
middlings, $3.30; wheat bran, $2 60; 
gluten (sacked). $3.75; oilmeal, $4.45; 
wheat feed. $2.70; hominy. $4.20; scratch 
feed, $4.60; cornmeal, $4.10; oats, 06c 
per bu.; corn. $2.50 per bu.; Commercial 
calf meal, $5.50 per ewt.; dairy feed, 
$3.70 per cwt.; flour. $13.60 per hhl.; 
coarse salt. $2.75 per hhl. w. J. T. 
Dorloo, N. Y. 
Undesirable Farm Neighbors 
Here are some more “Things to Think 
About.” Mr. Young American wanted to 
start farming in Connecticut. The real 
estate man was encouraging him : 
“Certainly you can make a go of it. 
Witness the success of Joe. who came over 
from Poland 10 years ago. With only 
$300 he tackled a stony 10-acre plot two 
miles from town. Now he owns the land, 
has built a small hut modern house and 
barn. Last week he sold out for $5,000 
and has started on an 80-acre proposition 
nearer town. Surely an intelligent young 
chap like you with several thousand capi¬ 
tal can do as well; undoubtedly better. 
Go out and talk with Mr. American Farm¬ 
er who has an orchard adjoining Joe’s 
land.” 
This is what Mr. American Farmer said 
when asked to account for Joe’s success: 
“In the first place, .Toe and his family 
live on a little less than nothing, plus 
what they c:m appropriate from their 
neighbors. To amplify, this family, like 
the majority of foreign born in this coun¬ 
try, is content with food and housing con¬ 
ditions that <io American would tolerate. 
You should sec the inside of Joe’s house. 
I saw it when I took the constable over 
to recover about $50 worth of apples 
which had disappeared from the fruit 
house. .Toe was very much grieved when 
I took my hoe and several pitchforks back 
with the apples. Here are other factors 
which contribute to .Toe’s success; 11 is 
wife and children work with him in the 
fields; they keep hoarders; they pasture 
their cattle along the public highway and 
in the orchard. I have even known the 
pigs to jump over ' .five-foot stone wall to 
get into the orchard.” 
Here Mr. American Farmer stopped a 
moment when asked if all foreign born 
were that way. 
“No; the two best yen I have are for¬ 
eigners. but they seem io be from a better 
class. The rest, even though they be hon¬ 
est, are not desirable as neighbors. They 
are not being assimilated.” 
Mr. Young American climbed aboard a 
train and searched every corner of the 
State all in vain. He wished his children 
to he Americans. 
I wish these true stories to sharpen this 
point: The great number of unassimilat¬ 
ed foreigners which are scattered through¬ 
out New England on farms and plots of 
ground too small to be called farms is now 
keeping many desirable Americans from 
farming, and will continue to do so in the 
future. l. p. 
Connecticut. 
The Rooster and the Poet 
The poets have now started after the 
rooster, and they are doing a good job 
with him. Here is a specimen printed in 
till' 'Weekly Press Letter from the Ari¬ 
zona College: 
The rooster is a noble bird, 
lie’s master of the chicken herd; 
He leaves his stamp on every chick, 
And that’s why they are thin or thick. 
But when the chicks are hatched, by gum, 
That dear old rooster’s work is done; 
And if you leave him in the flock, 
The eggs are almost sure to rot. 
Go put him in another pen 
Till breeding season comes again ; 
Or if lie’s just a common scrub, 
You’d better make him into grub. 
GEORGE W. KABLE, 
Benton Co. (Ore.) Agent. 
Virginia Boys in Camp 
Reading what the Pastoral Parson has 
to say about camping, on page 1244, put 
me to thinking that some of The It. 
N.-Y. readers might lie interested in an ac¬ 
count of an encampment of Virginia Corn 
Club boys. Early last Spring the County 
Agents in Southampton, Greensville and 
Brunswick counties began planning to 
give their club hoys an outing of this 
kind, which would be one-third education 
and two-thirds just fun. The location 
chosen is on the bank of the Nottoway 
River, in Greensville County, a hill slop¬ 
ing back from the water and covered with 
grand old white oak and hickory trees, 
with a spring of cold water nearby. 
Between 10 o’clock and noon. August 
10. 52 boys, three County Agents and 
two workers from the State Extension 
Division gathered in. each one bringing a 
(in plate, cup. knife and spoon and pair of 
blankets or quilts. Thirty pup tents were 
on hand, and were soon set up in two 
rows. One of the County Agents had two 
years’ army training, and he was put in 
command of the boys, and eoon had them 
drilling at a wonderful rate. An ex¬ 
perienced colored cook, under the direc¬ 
tion of a mess sergeant, prepared fabu¬ 
lous quantities of bread, meat and vege¬ 
tables for the boys, all of whom had full- 
sized campers’ appetites. 
The programme was about as follows: 
Out of bed at sunrise; fall in for roll call 
and 10 minutes setting-up exercise. Then 
a swim in the river, followed by break¬ 
fast. After breakfast the camp put. in 
order, then hoys gather under a great 
tree and listen to talks by extension men 
or County Agents for two hours. Then 
baseball or other games, more swimming 
and numerous stunts the rest of the day 
until supper. After supper camp-fire 
stories and songs until 9:30. then fall in 
for roll call, repeat the Lord’s prayer in 
concert and to bed. The boys, without 
exception, enjoyed it greatly, and we hope 
to meet again at the same place with a 
larger number <>f boys in attendance. 
Virginia. JonN b. i.ewts. 
A Bushel of Peaches 
There are no peaches in this section 
this year, so we bought a bushel from 
the fruit store. The bushel cost $4._5, 
and the peaches were fancy Elbertas ot 
medium size, properly ripened and of good 
quality, and were well packed in the 
usual*peach basket. I expected to get 
16 or 18 quart cans of peaches from the 
bushel, but we got 22 quarts. We used 
about 75 cents worth of sugar making 
the 22 cans cost us $5. exclusive ot (lie 
cans. We did not peel the peaches, but 
removed the skins by scalding them in 
boiling water for two minutes. No chem¬ 
icals wore used. This was much quicker 
and less wasteful than peeling with 
knives, and probably explains why we 
got so many cans as we did. While tins 
is pretty high for peaches, canned peaches 
on the market are quoted at prices twice 
as great. w - E - ,)- 
Ohio. 
Destroying Snails 
I have had much trouble with snails 
in the cellar, and have now learned how 
to control them. To pour salt on these 
things means death to them. They seem 
to disappear in the crevices of the wall 
during the daytime, and come out at 
night. One day I tried the experiment of 
pouring a row of coarse salt about an 
inch deep or so around the cellar floor 
close to the wall, so that when they came 
out at night they would have to cross 
this salt. It has seemed to he a success, 
and I have not been troubled this year. 
They do not cross the salt; if they try 
it is almost sure to kill them. I don t 
know whether they have the power to 
iump or not, but this method has prac¬ 
tically kept them from bothering mo. 
c. H. K. 
