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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 22, 1910 
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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 35-cent Dollar 
Senator Capper of Kansas prints the 
following story: 
A Maryland farmer brought to the 
Washington wholesale market a truck 
load of apples. lie received 50c a bushel 
for them, the commission merchant de¬ 
ducting 5c a bushel for his commission. 
Including the commission, the apples cost 
the farmer to raise, pack and ship, just 
54c a bushel. He was out 4c and his ap¬ 
ples by the deal. Strolling about that 
afternoon this same farmer happened to 
see a bushel of his own apples at one of 
the retail markets. He inquired the 
price. “Three dollars and twenty cents a 
bushel,” was the astounding reply. More 
than 500 per cent profit had been taken 
by the two commission merchants, whole¬ 
sale and retail, on the apples which the 
farmer had suffered a net loss of 4c a 
bushel. Yet there are people who fatu¬ 
ously suggest that profiteering is all a 
matter of the operation of the law of sup¬ 
ply and demand and that it is useless to 
attempt to cure profiteering by means of 
legislation. 
Pretty much the same story can be told 
of any market where handlers and middle¬ 
men have a chance to finger the goods. 
Such things never happen at Lancaster, 
Pa., or in any other place where there is 
a good public market. The big problem is 
to get up close to the consumer and stay 
there. While some forms of legislation 
will help, most of the work of getting 
closer to the consumer is a job which we 
have got to do for ourselves. 
An Ex-Hired Man Talks 
I am a subscriber to R. N.-Y., an cx- 
hired man, now a tenant farmer. I wish 
to state some of my views on the hired 
help question. I worked for eight years 
as a hired man, and one man I worked 
for quite a while. I found him very dif¬ 
ferent the last year I worked for him 
from the first year. I was single, and 
lived with the family. The first year I 
worked for him he was satisfied with a 
reasonable day’s work, but the last year 
he would have liked me to work lb hours 
a day and half of Sunday, but I told him 
I would not do it. The house he fur¬ 
nished me was not. fit for a decent man 
to live in. He did not want me to keep 
any chickens; lie did, however, consent 
for me to keep a dozen hens in a 5xl0-ft. 
vard, and I must keep them up at all 
times of the year. He would not allow 
me fruit, not even drop fruit on the place. 
He did let me have a little wood that 
was on the place when he bought it, but 
none out of the woods, and there was lots 
of dead wood in the woods at that. There 
was no well on the place, only a spring, 
and that was a good way from the house, 
and one had to lug it up a hill to the 
house. Now would any man want to 
work under those conditions long? If all 
farmers treated their help that way they 
must not wonder why they cannot get or 
keep good help. Treat a man right, give 
him a good house to live in and pay him 
the wages, and then wonder why you 
cannot get good help and keep it! That 
man I worked for has a single man now, 
because he could not find a married man 
to live that way. I am just writing this 
to show some farmers the reason they 
cannot get or keep good help. Another 
thing, men in other lines of work demand 
an eight-hour day and get it. and the man 
on the farm must work 16 hours a day. 
They will no longer do it, the eight-hour 
day on the farm is right, and I think in 
some respects the way things are going 
now it would be a good thing in many 
respects. l. m. r. 
New Jersey. 
can surrender his lease and receive 20 
per cent of all ho has paid in, which will 
leave the landlord fair rent, and yet not 
leave the tenant without something for 
his labor, e. <j., he has paid the landlord 
eight years, or $12,000, and then sur¬ 
renders his lease (everything as good as 
when he took it) and gets $2,400 and the 
landlord gets his farm stock and tools 
back. It may look big to the tenant. Let 
us see. He pays $1,500 per year, $125 
per month, or if milk brings eight cents 
per quart it takes hut 52 quarts a day to 
pay all he owes. If he cannot do it in 
these times he is not an extra good 
tenant. He cannot complain if lie gets 
a $14,000 property for so few quarts of 
milk per day. If the tenant can fulfil, 
the landlord can afford to sell. All minor 
points can he written into the sale-lease. 
I am a landlord, and thinking of selling 
on such terms. l. t. giffin. 
Sussex Co., N. J. 
Riparian Watar Rights 
What constitutes a riparian water 
right? The creek runs the full length of 
one 40-acre of our farm, and we have a 
ditch, but the mill below us claims the 
water right on the whole creek. Will a 
riparian water right give us any water 
to irrigate with? e. l. w. 
Washington. 
Any person owning property along the 
banks of a natural watercourse has what 
is known as his “riparian rights” in the 
stream. This “right” entitles him to the 
natural flow of the water in its accus¬ 
tomed channel, undiminished in quantity 
and unimpaired in quality, except as may 
be occasioned by the reasonable use of the 
stream by other like owners, and each one 
has the right to its reasonable use for do¬ 
mestic and farming purposes, as it flows 
past or through his property. Emphasis 
is placed on the word “reasonable,” taking 
all the facts of the case into consideration. 
This _ is the general rule in regard to 
riparian rights. We cannot pose as hav¬ 
ing knowledge of the special laws of your 
State, if any. But uuless the people be¬ 
low you have by prescription (use for 20 
years) obtained the right to the full flow 
of the stream, or uuless there is a special 
rule in your State, you would seem to 
have a right to the use of a reasonable 
amount of water from the stream for ir¬ 
rigation purposes. 
A Suggestion as to Selling and Buying a 
Farm 
Seeing an article by Earle W. Gage on 
page 1512, I make bold to offer a sug¬ 
gestion in regard to selling a farm with 
stock and tools. There are men who 
would like to sell their farms and yet 
would not like to take a second mortgage 
for about 55 per cent of the whole; and 
also there are worthy tenants, men who 
would rather buy than not. By the gov¬ 
ernment method the United States gets 
the first mortgage for about 4S per cent 
of value of farm. Then there are some 
fees to pay besides. I offer the sale-lease 
plan. Suppose a man owns 100 acres 
worth $100 per acre (about the average 
price of New Jersey land), or $10.000; 
also stock and tools worth $4,000. or total 
$14,000. Now suppose this farm, stock 
and tools have been producing the owner 
or landlord $1,000 net per year. If the 
tenant wishes to buy and the landlord 
wishes to sell. I offer the following to 
bring them together : If we add 50 per 
cent to the $1,000 we have $1,500, which 
the landlord can afford to take each year 
for 20 years (not 34% years, as by gov¬ 
ernment method). Probably the tenant 
can do this without trouble if he has a 
will to do it. The landlord will get his 
rent for the farm and $500 on payment. 
The tenant any time (at end of any year) 
Price for Boarding Hired Men 
One of our readers in Massachusetts 
is the wife of a poultryman working on a 
large farm. In addition to her own house¬ 
work she is expected to board some of the 
hired help working on this farm, and it 
becomes something of a problem to know 
what is a fair price, in these times, for 
boarding such people. The ow T ner allows 
her $6 per week board for the men, and 
she finds, after some figuring, that this 
hardly covers the full expenses. She has 
no washing to do for these men, except 
the hand towels, hut she provides all the 
food for them. She thinks she. ought to 
have $1 a day for doing this work. Is 
she right? 
I am unable to give the information you 
ask. I never had any experience. But if 
decent meals are furnished I don’t think 
at the present food prices $1 per day 
would leave anything to pay for the wom¬ 
an’s work, getting the meals. 
Connecticut. mbs. jessie Andrews. 
I do not know how the wages are in 
Massachusetts, but I would say that $6 
per week was not enough for any house¬ 
wife to cover expenses. I don’t know why 
it should make any difference whether the 
people are working for you or for some¬ 
one else; the food costs just as much. I 
have a son who is working in New Brit¬ 
ain. boarding out. He rooms with an¬ 
other lad, and pays $S.50 per week, just 
for food and part of a room. We have a 
farm and used to have hired help, hut 
wages and food prices were different then. 
I would say that $9 a week would not 
he any too much if one wants a little for 
herself, perhaps for clothing, etc. 
MRS. P, ODERMANN. 
Dogs and Sheep 
I note your remarks on page 1584 re 
the increased number of sheep and the 
dog law. As a breeder of both dogs and 
sheep, it is my opinion that the crux of 
the dog situation is that instead of hav¬ 
ing any more law on the subject it would 
he a good plan to have less. I am firmly 
convinced that the licensing of clogs 
should be abolished, and that dogs should 
be put on the same basis as other live 
stock. I believe that just so long as one 
is obliged to pay a license for liis dog he 
has a right to expect, and I believe justly, 
that his dog lias some rights that un¬ 
licensed stock lias not, and that if the 
license were abolished hi' would feed more 
disposed to keep his dogs at home. It 
seems to me that the trouble with the 
sheep men is that they want to legislate 
dogs out of existence, whereas I see no 
objection to people keeping as many dogs 
as they wish if they are kept where they 
belong. If a man keeps his dog on his 
own property, why should lie be licensed? 
Massachusetts. ’ n. i\ J. eabnbatt. 
