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The Rural New-Yorker 
THE I! VS I NESS FARMER'S PA VICE 
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“A SQUARE DEAL” 
We believe that, every advertisement in this paper is backed by a respon¬ 
sible person. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only, lint to make doubly sure, wo will make good any loss 
to |slid subscribers sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertisers or misleading advertisements In our columns, and any 
such swindler will be publicly exposed. Wo nro also often called upon 
to adjust differences or mistakes between our subscribers and honest, 
responsible houses, whether advertisers or not. Wo willingly use our good 
offices to this end, hut such eases should not he confused with dishonest 
transactions. We protect subscribers against rogues, but we will not bo 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
Notice of the complaint, must lie sent to us within one month of the time of 
the transaction, anil to identify it, you should mention Tilt: lirn.M, New- 
Yoiikkii when writing the ad.vi'tiscr 
Years ago Peter Henderson published two books, "Har¬ 
dening for Pleasure 1 ’ anil "Hardening for Profit.” To 
his mind there was evidently nil incompatibility about 
the two objects which prevented their being treated un¬ 
der one bead, but I cannot say the same of The It. 
N.-Y. I find it both pleasant and profitable reading. 
r. j.. i\ 
AN there be any real profit without a feeling of 
pleasure? Who ever heard of genuine pleasure 
without profit? Life would surely be stale and un¬ 
profitable if we tried to keep pleasure and profit, in 
separate cages. What we seek to do is to graft one 
upon the other, and make a perfect union. The 
grafting wax is human nature. 
* 
My wife and I are breeders in a small way n£ , icoivd 
Ilolsteins, and were more than pleased with your edi¬ 
torial on page 1548 in regard to the Hole fraud. We had 
intended applying for membership in the Holstein—Frie¬ 
sian Association, but if men like Oliver Cabana keep 
their records in place by injunction we will forever re¬ 
main outside of said association. - 
MU. AND MRS. I. 1*. SHADS. 
T HAT is a fair sample of the letters we receive. 
We feel justified in saying that it represents 
tin* feeling of a very large majority of Holstein 
breeders. Mr. Oliver Cabana has now introduced a 
new element into the controversy. Instead of wait¬ 
ing until the courts decide his injunction demands 
(as others were ready to do) Mr. Cabana conies out. 
in a big advertisement telling what he intends doing. 
He says he is coming hack to the business of breed¬ 
ing Ilolsteins and expects to accomplish great things. 
Ho wants to buy 50 of tin 1 best Ilolsteins in the 
world, and will prove that cows can make 50-lb. 
tests—without any aid from Charlie Cole. Of course 
every advertiser wants to know the exact results of 
his advertising. If Mr. Cabana wants to know how 
Holstein breeders regard his statement we think we 
can tell him. 'Pile great, majority of the men who 
have* made the Holstein cow a business success evi¬ 
dently regard this advertisement as a big bluff, made 
by a boastful man who seems to think that the dis¬ 
play of a big barrel of money will draw public at¬ 
tention from a straight moral issue. Most, of us 
have seen some big bluffer pull u “wad” of money 
out of his pocket and wave it in an effort to side¬ 
step when he knows lie is on the wrong side! Well, 
that seems to he the way this bluff of advertising 
strikes the average breeder. Nobody wants a dairy 
record that must he carried on the hack of an injunc¬ 
tion, or have its legs bandaged with greenbacks In 
order to stand. Dairymen want records that trace 
back to the pail—not to the pockefbook. We think 
Mr. Cabana lost an opportunity when he failed to 
come right up promptly with all his records and all 
his evidence when lids Cob* story was first, published. 
Had he done so every honest mail in the country 
would have experienced a thrill of pride and admira¬ 
tion for Ihe man who eouhl at such a crisis rise 
above the danger of pecuniary loss and seek only the 
truth of the matter. Through his failure to meet 
the ease in that way Mr. Cabana has undoubtedly 
aroused a feeling of suspicion which we honestly 
think is not justified. II seems to us that he has been 
badly advised by a group of cynical men who be¬ 
lieve that tln‘ American people can he blinded to a 
.suspicion of fraud through the display of money. 
They are wrong, and events will prove it. There is 
not money enough in all the investments of Holstein 
cattle to wipe out tin* picture of Charlie Cole and 
iiis water-bag full of cream. Like Dunquo's ghost, 
it will not “down” until the evil done by it is opened 
up and destroyed. 
* 
T HOUSANDS of readers watched the dock with 
great satisfaction ns the hands went hack an 
hour into “sun time” on October 20. T.ot them not 
think, however, that they have heard the last of day¬ 
light saving. The New York City aldermen have 
passed un ordinance to go back to the new time next 
The RURAL NEW-YdRK Ei R 
April. There is a National Daylight Saving Asso¬ 
ciation which aims to have all tin* large cities pass 
•similar laws. In New .York State the Legislature 
passed a daylight saving law, in order to follow the 
national law. While Congress lias repealed the law 
for the country, New York has not done so. The 
fight; will come in the next Legislature when efforts 
are made to repeal this State law. Unless it is re¬ 
pealed New York would go back to the new time 
next April. The daylight savers will attempt to 
prevent its repeal, and they expect to line up the 
city against the country. Wo warn our people now, 
in advance, that they must not go to sleep by either 
old or new time, or more daylight will be saved for 
them. 
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N OW wo have the story (on the first page) of a 
profitable business in raising pond lilies! Most 
of us. as boys, have gone in swimming in ponds 
where these bowers grew, but at that time we never 
dreamed that their cultivation could be made a legit¬ 
imate business, like raising corn or potatoes. Yet 
bore is tlio impossible worked out. The useless 
swamp produced a crop of noisy frogs only. Turned 
into a pond and “planted” to lilies it becomes more 
profitable than any equal area of dry land. Twenty- 
five years ago this could not have been worked suc¬ 
cessfully. There were not enough people demand¬ 
ing the flowers, and transportation had not been 
developed, 'flic same thing is true of many other 
lines of production which have been developed along 
with the changes of society. We know women who 
are doing better financially than most dairymen at 
breeding rats and mice, or canary birds or cats, or 
decorating shells or growing mushrooms or chickens. 
Tn every case such people had the vision to see a fu¬ 
ture market for very common tilings. It is just ns 
legitimate an enterprise to grow and sell pond lilies 
as it is to fatten hogs or milk cows. Let not the 
practical man or advocate of old-time farming sneer 
at those who succeed with these new enterprises. 
There is room for all of us. uu the other hand, let 
not either the old-timer or the amateur think he ran 
plunge right, into some new trade and make a for¬ 
tune. He who makes a living selling pond lilies will 
surely he required to toll and spin out his brains to 
their finest thread. Most of us will do well to stick 
to the bread and meat of life. It requires a “lily” 
to produce a lily. 
*» 
T ill! order from the Stale Educational Depart¬ 
ment to Install “sanitary toilets" in all rural 
sehoolhouses is without question a serious hardship 
in many communities. School taxes are so high in 
many cases that the result; is plain and open confis¬ 
cation of property. At present, returns for farm pro¬ 
ducts the farm lands simply cannot stand these 
taxes. Tin* present, law gives the State Department 
arbitrary power not only to compel the school officers 
to adopt sanitary fixtures, hut also to decide what 
“sanitary” means. There are many eases when* the 
present • meats are suitable, hut under the 
pres... ,uid ruling the district voters have noth¬ 
ing to say about it. for the department actually has 
tin 1 power to withhold public school money in case 
thi* toilet, demands are not met. No individual or 
department, should over he given such arbitrary pow¬ 
er over the lives and habits of a free people. A part, 
of this “enforcement.” Is not; law, but a department 
ruling, and it ought to be tried out in the courts 
through some test ease. The trouble is the unques¬ 
tioned fact that in a few country districts the olli- 
eers and people have permitted the outhouses to be¬ 
come a disgraceful menace to health and decency. 
There can he no use in denying this, and the fact of 
these comparatively few disgraceful instances has 
inude it possible for the experts and the uplifters to 
make the present compulsory laws. No one can 
consistently make any defence for the condition per¬ 
mitted in a few of the school districts, and these 
few “examples” have made the present trouble pos¬ 
sible. 
* 
N OT long ago a man told us in great glee that lie 
had saved 5*5 by drawing up some legal papers 
himself and tints saving a lawyer’s fee. Later a 
Haw was found in the contract lie drew up, and it. 
cost him nearly $100 to get out of it. Such things 
do not always turn out that way, but enough of them 
do to make the average man careful how he trios to 
play the part, of lawyer. We think the world would 
he better off if the number of lawyers in it; were re¬ 
duced by 75 per cent. Most of them seem to live by 
devising new laws and technicalities, and then charg¬ 
ing good fees for leading the people around them. 
And flint is why a layman will mix things up worse 
than a lawyer. If you have any serious business 
which requires drawing up legal papers, our advice 
November 8, 15)1!) 
is to go to some good lawyer and have him do it. 
Every man to his trade. If you try to play lafvyH* 
the rhjinces arej that you will cut a. sorrier figure 
than would a lawyer trying to do your work. ll • 
* 
<lanmla thistles , quark urns* mid boll-warmsl 
HE average farmer would call them a trio of 
wretched posts and robbers. So they are when 
we run away from them or let them alone to do as 
they please. Yet we may come to regard the hated 
pest, as a patriotic friend if we heed the advice 
which in* writes in our fields In letters of ruin ! The 
boll-worm ruined the cotton crop in many Southern 
States, yet it forced the farmers into live stock. 
This meant more corn and forage crops and im¬ 
proved culture. Scientific agriculture gets most of 
the benefit for the added prosperity this change has 
brought, hut the boll-worm is chiefly responsible. Tn 
Wisconsin vast; areas of land wore overrun with 
Canada thistles and quack grass. They were aban¬ 
doned for corn, potatoes and similar crops, hub it 
was found 1 lint; hemp would thrive on such soil and 
also kill out. the pests. The hemp strangled the 
thistles and quack, and waxed fat on their remains, 
the result is that \\ iscousin lias become second 
among fho States in hemp production, and is still 
coming. Thus hemp is not only roping the State 
closer to prosperity, hut is giving hack thousands of 
acres well cleaned of thistles and quack grass. This 
is hut one of the changes that have come to agri¬ 
culture. Many a trait grower now hopelessly strug¬ 
gling to kill weeds would lie far better oil if lie 
Would make use of them instead *-f killing himself 
In a hopeless tight. 
E \ EUYTITING points to a great revival In the 
poultry business. We predicted it last, year, 
and advised our readers to hang on and improve 
their flocks. Those who did so will be rewarded. 
This year there has been a rush to enter the poultry 
contests, and several new ones will have to he start¬ 
ed next year. The demand is for improved laying 
stock or “ utility" breeds. The development lias been 
about as we expected when the egg-laying contests 
started. The “fanciers” ridiculed these contests and 
would have nothing to do with them. Also the men 
who report tremendous egg records made in private. 
The utility men simply went ahead, banking on the 
value of an official, certified record for (heir birds. 
They seem to have won out. Eggs are preferred to 
leathers, and an official record for laying heats any 
private performance. 
* 
From Washington conies the report a Senate in- 
vestignting committer that prices charged by retailers 
there frequently are from 200 to 5t0O per cent ill excess* 
of the wholesale price, and that retail meat dealers 
receive a greater per cent of profit, than the farmer, 
livestock raiser, buyer, railroads, commission men and 
cold storage all combined. What is the matter with 
that Senate committee? Don’t \ve need another com¬ 
mittee to investigate the Senate committee, and forbid 
the publication of such information for the future? 
New York. x. n. a. 
t It correspondent is a hit sarcastic, but it is 
justified by experience. Secrecy lielps (be 
speculator and the profiteer, Publicity helps fair 
and honest business, hut the publicity of the past 
in reference to food disfrlhul ion has been meager 
and misleading. If our committee will get into the 
way of publishing plain facts farmers may lose 
some of (hi* distrust they now reserve for many of 
them. Honimittees, however, will never furnish the 
publicity needed to correct, the abuses in the food 
markets. To he effective publicity must he per¬ 
sistent and regular, from day to day, springing 
fresh from the actual transactions of the market, 
and embracing all the fundamental conditions. Doth 
producers and consumers want this. Speculators do' 
not want it. A few thousand speculators assert 
their demands. A hundred millions of the general 
public give no effective expression to their prefer¬ 
ence, and so the speculators get. away with a policy 
that favors themselves at the expense of the public. 
Brevities 
T.tve steers soil in Paris, France, at .'*251 to $20 per 
100 pounds. 
The old three It’s of education must now have another 
It, making it reading, writing, arithmetic and right 
living. 
Dio lots of year-old onion seed are coining from the 
Canary Islands. It lias a germination of not over 70 
per cent. 
Dexter go over tin* cattle now and hunt for the 
“grubs” along the back. If you can find any, squeeze 
them out while they arc small. Otherwise they will 
grow to full size, annoy the entile all Winter and spoil 
the hide. 
A (loon tireless cooker beats daylight snviug for the 
women folks. They can prepare most of tin* breakfast 
ever night, put it in I lie lireles*. and sleep half an 
hour Inter in the morning. In that new life that is 
coming to farmers we are not going to consider extra 
sleep as evidence of crime. 
