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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes 
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“ A SQUARE DEAL” 
We believe that every advertisement in this paper is harked by a respon¬ 
sible person. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make good any loss 
to paid subscribe)-* * sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertisers or misleading advertisements in our columns, and any 
•neb swindler will be publicly exposed. We are also often called upon 
to adjust differences or mistakes between our subscribers and honest, 
responsible houses, whether advertisers or not. We willingly use our good 
offices to tl’.is end. but such cases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions. We protect subscribers against rogues, but we will not bo 
responsible for the debts of honest, bankrupts sanctioned bv the courts. 
Notice of the complaint must be sent to us within one month of the time of 
the transaction, and to Identify it, you should mention The Rural New - 
Yorker when writing the ad. . .ris er 
The R. N.-Y. seems to lie made in N£w York and 
read in Panama—at least that is my experience. I re¬ 
cently advertised a farm in the Hudson Valley. A read¬ 
er of The It. X.-Y. in the Canal Zone saw the adver¬ 
tisement and promptly bought the farm. r. p. 
HE It. X.-Y. *goes everywhere and seems to he 
read by everybody. Pun through all that the 
world has to offer—from acorns to zinc, and beyond— 
and you cannot name one for which our people can¬ 
not provide both seller and buyer. In all your list of 
possessions you cannot name one thing, except per¬ 
haps a disease or some evil trait, which some other 
reader does not want. He will buy it if you can only 
make him realize that you offer a bargain. 
M ANY of our people are interested in the appli¬ 
cation of the new prohibitory law as it refers 
to cider and light wines. There have been several 
changes made in the bill, hut the following seems to 
be final: 
The penalties provided in this act against the manu¬ 
facture of liquor without a permit, shall not apply to a 
person for making non-intoxicating cider and fruit, juices 
exclusively for use in his home, but such cider and fruit 
juices may be sold and delivered to persons having per¬ 
mits to manufacture vinegar. 
The law defines intoxicating liquor as any beverage 
containing more than one-half of one per cent of 
alcohol. The penalties are very strict, such as a fine 
of $1,000 or imprisonment for not exceeding six 
months for first offense, and for $200 to $2,000 for 
second offense. As we understand this cider clause, 
a citizen can make cider and keep it for his own use 
or for his guests, or he can soli it to a vinegar manu¬ 
facturer. He cannot sell it as a beverage after it 
contains over one-half of one per cent of alcohol. A 
great trade is being planned in bottled or pasteur¬ 
ized cider. 
* 
T IIE following, written from a college'-town in Cen¬ 
tral New York, shows what is going on in the 
local milk markets: 
The college opened and our demand for milk went up 
from 200 to 500 quarts. Of course, there was no way 
we could jump the cows 100 per cent, or hurry up those 
that are due to freshen, so there was nothing to do lmt 
go out and buy the milk. In doing this I learned some¬ 
thing. and that is that practically every can of milk in 
this section is tied up tight by contract. The only way 
I finally worked it out was by sending our Ford out 16 
nules to get. milk from a shipping station. Surely the 
milk-drinking habit has struck this town. You never 
saw how the boys are taking the milk drinks without 
any pushing. In fact, the soda fountains don’t like to 
handle the milk drinks, as there is less money in them 
than in a glass of water with some gas blown into it. 
and a little flavoring added. Right here is one of the 
real difficulties in getting milk drinks across. However, 
at one small soda fountain which we supply they sold 
the boys 40 quarts of milk in 30 minutes, and kept up 
the rate as long as the milk lasted. E. 
We have been watching sales at several large 
“fountains” in this big city, and notice more calls for 
milk than ever before. There seems to be no question 
that prohibition, reasonably enforced, will bring 
about an immense increase in the demand for milk. 
Up to within a few years too many people have re¬ 
garded milk drinking as an indication of weakness 
or infant practice. Now they know that milk gives 
more strength and health than any other possible 
liquid. The future market for milk and pure fruit 
juices will be immense—larger than anything we 
can now’ imagine. 
* 
W E want to call attention to the new depart¬ 
ment, “Pasture and Barn Notes.” There is a 
section of them on page 1558. These are written by 
a real dairyman, who will give from week to week 
items about the common happenings on a New’ York 
farm. This w’eek, as you see, there is a plain story 
about having a calf registered. Many of our people 
do not know how tills is done. Later facts about test¬ 
ing and making records will he given. Several new 
departments are coming. The R. N.-Y. cannot stand 
still. We must move with the flood, and we promise 
our readers to spare neither expense nor energy in 
securing the best moving picture of farm life that 
can be obtained. 
W E understand that a number of Holstein 
cattle breeders have joined Mr. Oliver Ca¬ 
bana in an effort to prevent any official action on 
dairy tests based on work done by Charles Cole. We 
do not know the full particulars or ‘the reasons for 
such action, but the majority of dairymen will surely 
consider it very short-sighted policy. Cole has sworn 
to two entirely different stories, and the conclusion 
Is forced upon us that he must have committed per¬ 
jury in one of his statements. Such a character 
must smear everything he touches with suspicion, 
and now every dairy tost in which Charles Cole had 
any part will carry the taint of trickery. It cannot 
he otherwise, and there is no possible way of remov¬ 
ing this taint except through the most merciless ex¬ 
posure and publicity. Cole could not have worked 
his scheme in all his tests, and we think it possible 
to separate any fraud from the honest records. Un¬ 
less this is done promptly and effectively, a vast in¬ 
jury will He done to the business future of Holstein 
cattle. Suspicion comes first, like dust upon a gar¬ 
ment, and honest men who value their character 
make haste to brush it away by demanding full ex¬ 
posure. It is when men hesitate or try to evade ex¬ 
posure by covering up the scandal, or trying to pile 
legal technicalities on the lid. that suspicion becomes 
a parasite, and sooner or later sucks the life blood 
out of character. We think that the men who are 
trying to silence this scandal by tying an injunction 
to it are doing vast injury to a great breed of cattle. 
Dairymen, who must provide the final market for 
these cattle, are not fooled. They know that any 
record which, must he kept in place by an injunction 
will he regarded as junk, and nothing more. 
* 
A S most of our readers probably know, there is a 
strong movement on foot to organize a national 
organization of Farm Bureaus, with headquarters at 
Washington. Many prominent Farm Bureau men 
favor this, while we understand the National Grange 
and the National Board of Farm Organizations op¬ 
pose the plan. The chief argument in favor seems 
to he that the Farm Bureaus would indhis way come 
into direct contact with the Department of Agri¬ 
culture and thus influence it! It is also claimed 
that it would give a real nation-wide organization at 
Washington, which has never yet been found there. 
In opposition it is claimed that the Farm Bureau is 
an educational or business institution. Nothing can 
go to Washington without mixing into politics—and 
if these bureaus once start into politics their real 
usefulness will he ended. Another objection is that 
the Department of Agriculture would dominate the 
bureaus if they once came together. We suspect 
there are other objections not. openly made; that the 
farmers’ representatives now in Washington do not 
want any rivals or partners in the business of speak¬ 
ing for farmers. One thing is sure—the Farm Bu¬ 
reaus do not want any “swivel-chair” representatives 
anywhere. Their work in the home counties is not 
half done yet: it has only just begun. Both men and 
organizations have gone down in a crash before now 
because they tried to reach up for big things before 
they had a sure footing. The Farm Bureau repre¬ 
sents the latest and best chance-to build up a strong 
democratic farmers’ organization, and it should he 
very slow to get into the nest with the Department 
of Agriculture. We have seen that ponderous or¬ 
ganization eat the heart and enthusiasm out of too 
many hopeful and promising men! We have heard 
the story of the elephant and the quail. The ele¬ 
phant, marching through the field, saw a nest full of 
baby quail, the old'bird having been killed. “Poor 
little things,” said the elephant, “you need mother¬ 
ing—j am here.” So she laid down on the nest to 
brood the quail! They were “mothered” to death! 
* 
W HILE picking Baldwin apples this Fall we 
have come upon at least three distinct types 
of that familiar old variety. There are as great dif¬ 
ferences in shape, color and quality between them as 
can be found between several named varieties. One 
of them is as flat as Wolf River, while another has 
somewhat the shape of Ben Davis. There is no 
question about the variety, and frequently two types 
will grow on the same tree. A single limb will often 
show the long, pointed apple, while the rest of the 
tree grows the flat specimens. These differences 
seem to be‘due to bud sprouts, and wo often hear ob¬ 
serving orchard men telling of finding such varia¬ 
tions. We think such strains or varieties as the 
Ditchings Twenty Ounce have come iiutliat way. Wo 
think it is evident that buds from these varying 
limbs would come true to type, and surely such ap- 
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pies represent an improvement over the ordinary 
Baldwin. Mr. Shamel’s work in California, along 
these lines, has been of great value to orange and 
lemon growers in that State. We would like to have 
similar work started in some of our apple orchards. 
I T seems a pitiful thing to us to find so many peo¬ 
ple living in the country on farms without a sup¬ 
ply of good fruit. This ought not to he. We know it 
is not from choice, for whenever such people get 
within reach of a barrel of good apples they quickly 
show their craving for fruit acids. It is next thing 
to a crime for a farmer to start the Winter without 
at least one barrel of good apples for each member of 
the family—including the baby. Any man who does 
that should make a solemn pledge openly before his 
family that he will start a good orchard next year. 
To make sure of it while his heart is warm he 
might plant the apples this Fall. Last Spring we 
started a campaign for 100 fruit trees on event farm. 
There were thousands of such orchards started. 
Now we go after it again. Never mind any particu¬ 
lar number, but plant fruit trees—and take care of 
them! That is one way to be a good citizen. 
*!e 
t4/^HARLIE” COLE squeezing cream out of a 
v/ water bottle into a pail of milk to increase 
a cow’s record is regarded as a fraud—and justly so. 
When a man buys a calf to head his herd he wants 
honest character and pedigree. It will make great 
difference to coming generations of Holsteins 
whether the cream supposed to he in that calf’s 
pedigree traces back to an honest cow or a dishonest 
water hag! Yet how much worse is such a cream fake 
than the scheme of publishing a bogus price for a 
cow? We have on the best authority the record of 
a case where an honest man sold a good cow for 
about $3,500. It was a fine cow and a fine price. 
When the seller came to turn over the papers the 
buyer asked him to write on the bill of sale that 
the price was $60,000! That would look larger and 
“make something big to talk about!” The seller, 
being an honest man, refused to help in such 
deception. We find that this sort of thing has 
been done repeatedly, and it can only be done for 
the purpose of deception. Now what about this 
question? Is “Charlie” Cole dropping cream into 
the milk pail to make a deceptive test really any 
worse than the men who put wind and water into 
the price to make a deceptive value? In both cases 
injury is done to the honest breeders who want 
to he straight and fair. 
* 
I F you hope to carry the Alfalfa safely through the 
Winter you must plan to leave a good growth in 
the ground when Winter comes on. The truth is 
that many farmers try to grow Alfalfa under un¬ 
natural conditions—that is, on soil that is not well 
suited to the crop. By draining the soil and using 
lime freely they are able to ‘make the Alfalfa grow, 
but it is an artificial condition at best, and the crop 
will need Winter protection. It is a mistake there¬ 
fore to cut the Alfalfa close late in the Fall, or to 
pasture it too heavily. You may got a little more 
feed in that way, hut it is taken at the expense of 
the Alfalfa crop. We would leave enough on the 
field to serve as a blanket. We have readers who 
ask how the farmers of Lancaster Co., Pa., are able 
to keep up their land and their place at the head of 
the procession. During a recent visit to that county 
we saw fine, thick second growth of grass and clover 
being cut. These farmers would not take it out of 
the field, but left it where it fell —to help the land! 
Brevities 
Frf.sh eggs sell at wholesale iu London, England, 03c 
to $1.00 per dozen. 
Have you got a crop of rye working for you on that 
cornfield? If not, why not? 
Whatever became of the Wonderberry? We once 
received a letter which the writer said was written with 
a fountain pen filled with Wonderberry juice! Tt looked 
like blue, ink. 
No use talking—“phosphated manure” is the great 
fertilizer for live stock farming. What sort of manure 
is that? Manure with some form of phosphorus scat¬ 
tered on it each day. 
We have had several articles about the blueberry 
culture experiments of Miss Elizabeth C. White of New 
Jersey. This year the blueberries produced over 300 
crates of 32 quarts each. 
It is said that the annual production of milk in Swit¬ 
zerland per cow has fallen off nearly 30 per cent since 
before the war. Most of the cows now milked are heif¬ 
ers, and feed can hardly be bought. 
It is an old saying that Caesar, being baldheaded, 
covered his defect, with laurels! Too many people make 
the mistake of framing their troubles with complaints, 
uud thus making them worse than ever. 
