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7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 17, 1920 
A lifetime of heating comfort 
for the farm home! 
New IDEAL-Areola Radiator-Boiler 
Puts IDEAL HOT WATER HEATING comfort at lou) 
cost in farm houses, with or without cellars 
The IDEAL-Areola takes the place of a parlor stove. But a stove wastes much 
of its heat up the chimney, whereas the IDEAL-Arcola is water-jacketed, and 
conveys its heat by hot water circulation through pipe-connected AMERICAN 
Radiators stationed in the adjoining rooms. Every bit of the big volume of heat 
developed from each pound of fuel is therefore made useful in keeping ALL the 
rooms uniformly, healthfully warm. There is no coal-waste. The IDEAL- 
Arcola does not rust out or wear out—will outlast the building—is a genuine, 
permanent investment! 
Shipped complete ready for immediate operation 
The beauty of the IDEAL-Arcola method is that no cellar is needed. Everything 
is on one floor. The Areola is placed in any room that has a chimney connection. 
No running to cellar. 
Same water is used 
over and over again 
for years. 
Cleanly heating— 
healthful heat¬ 
ing-free from 
fire risks! 
Unlike stoves, there are no 
coal-gas leaks into ti.e liv¬ 
ing-rooms. The IDEAL- 
Arcola delivers the soft, 
radiant warmth of hot 
water—not the dry burnt- 
out atmosphere of stove 
heating. There is no fire 
risk to bull ding—no d anger 
to children—fire lasts for 
hours! The Areola bums 
hard or soft coal. Brings 
cost of heating down to the 
lowest notch — and gives 
* IDEAL comfort. 
Simple way of heating a four-room cellarless cottage by IDEAL- 
Arcola Radiator-Boiler and three AMERICAN Radiators 
I 
Catalog showing open views of houses, with the IDEAL* 
Areola Boiler in position will be mailed (free). Write today 
•vsassr American R adiator company »*ssar.» 
THE GRIMM SUGAR MAKING UTENSILS 
HAVE STOOD THE TEST FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS. 
Some of tlie first evaporators sold are still in use and producing that 
good grade of syrup for which the Grimm Evaporators are noted. We 
can ship promptly evaporators, arches, spouts, buckets, covers, tanks 
ami all other supplies. If you need an evaporator and arch tell us the 
size wanted or the number of trees you tap and we will give you price 
or send a representative to see you. Our new booklet is ready. May we 
send you a copy? __ __. _ __ _ , _, 
G. H. GRIMM ESTATE, RUTLAND, IVT. 
THE LITTLE BROWN JUG 
If I had a cow that gave such milk 
I’d clothe her in the finest silk 
I’d use morelimestoneandgrowbett.erhay 
And I’d start in early and milk all day 
FOB THE LIMESTONE, WRITE 
GRANGERS LIME CO., 
174 Frelinghuysen Avenue Newark, N. J. 
WORKS : West Stockbridge, Mass. 
Maple Syrup Makers! 
ProHt by Adopting theft GRIMM SYSTEM 
(OECTJONAL pans with 
iO high partitions. 
Light and heavy cannot 
intermix insuring high- 
Jeat quality with least 
fuel and labor. 22 dif¬ 
ferent sizes. Write for 
'catalog and state num¬ 
ber of trees you tap. 
GRIMM MANUFACTURING CO. 
619 Champlain Ave., Cleveland, O. 
LOOK FOR THIS 
MARK on the BAG 
It means 
GOOD FERTILIZER 
Booklet Free on Any 
Crop You Grow ! 
ROGERS & HUBBARD CO. 
Dopt. A 
Middletown, Conn. 
The Back-to-the-Landers 
A very large share of our questions come from people who meditate moving 
to the country, or who have already made such a move. They have a story to 
tell, or they ask for advice. This department will be a sort of clearing-house 
for the back-to-the-lander, where he may obtain information and swap troubles 
and triumphs, failures, fads and fancies. 
Successful Back to the Landing 
It might be of interest to The R. N.-Y. 
to know that I am an appreciative reader, 
and have built up on this little place of 
ours in the last four years a nice little 
side-line income. Last year we cleared 
over $800 on chickens, pigs and cows. 
Next year we have fruit coming in bear¬ 
ing, along with more chickens and another 
cow. We sell our milk at the door, eggs 
and chickens, also baby chicks and hatch¬ 
ing eggs. Today we sent a pen of Rhode 
Island Reds to enter North American 
competition. This was a dump when I 
came here. I filled up and built a barn 
and chicken-houses. I am not quite com¬ 
pletely fit, as I do it all myself, but by 
Spring I shall have it completed. I take 
The R. N.-Y. to the mill to read at spare 
times, as I have no time here. It has 
helped me well. We started with 18 
chicks four years ago; today we have 250. 
Pennsylvania. e. c. l. 
THIS WAS A FAILURE 
Last Spring I saw an advertisement 
in a local paper to work a farm on shares, 
all potatoes. I sold our home and took 
a chance. One can tell about agents 
talking one into a proposition; this one 
could do so. The land on this farm, he 
said, could grow 250 to 300 bu. per acre, 
and I would have $1,000 for my work. I 
was to have the privilege tf keeping pigs, 
hens and raising three calves, with one 
acre for a garden. I got on the place 
May 16, with one cow. Think what time 
I had to make a garden, plow 20 acres 
to get planted, cut 200 bushels of potatoes 
and get them planted in time to get re¬ 
sults. I tried to get baby chicks, but 
agent said to leave it to him; that he 
could get them for 10c apiece. Six weeks 
passed and no chicks came, but he helped 
me to get four pigs, and I paid for them. 
Then he claimed two for himself. Five 
months passed and he has not paid me 
for them yet. 
Before I was three weeks here I had 
got all of the seed potatoes and paid for 
them. He sold eight bushels and told me 
I was to blame for selling them because 
I helped him put them on the wagon. 
Here I am now with 400 bu. of_potatoes 
in the barn selling at $1 to $1.25 per bu. 
The crop has given me and my 14-year- 
old boy all Summer and Fall work, and 
seven men at $4 per day to harvest and 
had them five days. Plowing, dragging 
and planting with fertilizer and spraying 
cost me $537.60. I say to the ex-farmers 
and others who are thinking about going 
back to the land to beware of agents and 
bright advertisements. I shall have to 
move out of here by March, with about 
50 hens, 30 hives of bees, three calves, 
one horse, and some implements, $250 
out of pocket, no wages for my Summer 
and Fall work, to get another home to 
put my head in. A. S. B. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
Real Estate Swindles 
The story of “What a Farm Loan As¬ 
sociation Did,” on page 1709, makes a 
stir in memory of how a similar case oc¬ 
curred in New Jersey nearly 40 years 
ago, and how very little change in the 
methods of crooked lawyers by virtue, 
save the word, of a real estate goat, there 
seems to be as time passes. They were 
old people and they lost their farm and 
did not have enough money to pay carfare 
to go to their relative’s home. But the 
lawyer was the master crook in this mis¬ 
erable piece of business, and the real es¬ 
tate man, worse, if anything, than the 
lawyer, because of a low-down craven 
disposition to want to make a few dol¬ 
lars out of the misfortune of the old 
people. There used to be a certain per¬ 
suasion, and you could recognize them by 
their names, whose education took them 
away from honest labor, who were on the 
lookout for any crooked game by which 
they could eke out a living without work¬ 
ing. Of late we have not seen as many 
of the names of the characters referred to 
above, as formerly in your “Publishers 
Desk.” Perhaps they are lying low for 
what they think will sooner or later 
be the biggest crooked games the country 
has ever heard of. M - T * 
Moving from West to East 
I am a native of New York State, was 
born and reared on a farm. I . 0 , arn <» 0 o An/f 
to Montana eight years ago with $8,000. 
to get rich quick, grain raising. We had 
good luck the first three years, as we got 
hailed out completely, and these three 
last years we have not seen hardly a 
drop of rain. The result is that hundreds 
of farmers here are completely broke 
Can I find anv farmer who would want 
to lease his place for a term of years, 
equipped with stock, or some widow or 
widower who would want to hire by the 
year? I am 48 years of age and perfectly 
healthv; never was sick. Am of Amer¬ 
ican birth; parents came here from Nor¬ 
way. I claim to understand agriculture 
and stock raising. H. J. II. 
Montant. 
We get an increasing number of letters 
from Western people who want to move 
hack East. There seems to be a general 
belief that during the next 25 years or 
more the strip of country along the upper 
Atlantic coast will enjoy great prosperity. 
There will evidently be a heavy import 
and export trade, and manufacturing 
towns will prosper. Farming is expected 
to feel the effect of this, not only through 
increased demand for farm prorducts, but 
through better markets and more efficient 
transportation. Our roads will be de¬ 
veloped and trucks will be used in the 
future to an extent now hardly dreamed 
of. Some of the Western men realize 
this and would like to locate here. Men 
who have been trained for farm work 
ought to find such places as this man 
speaks of, and we think that in the future 
something of this plan will help solve the 
labor question. But this is no job for the 
city clerk or mechanic without experience 
on a farm. For them to attempt such a 
job would usually be only an invitation 
to failure. 
A Civil War Prisoner Makes Good 
I have taken The R. N.-Y. for 20 or 
more years, and I take three others; they 
are all good. I love the editor of this 
paper for temperate advice. I have 
worked hard all iny life, and cannot 
recollect when daylight caught me in bed. 
I left Elmira Prison Camp June 30, 1865, 
with one nickel, and now have 735 acres 
of good limestone land, all paid for, all 
improved, five good dwelling houses and 
four barns, four silos and well fenced. I 
owe nobody and have $5,000 in Govern¬ 
ment bonds. I am not telling this to 
brag, but to show what can be done bv 
industry and economy. 
TT JOHN C. RUTHERFORD. 
vlrginia. 
Forty Acres and Liberty 
There were nearly 60 calls for that 40- 
acre farm in New Jersey mentioned on 
page 1666. We tried the experiment to 
see if there are really any number of peo¬ 
ple who are interested in such a plan. 
Evidently there are many of them, but. 
comparatively few have any exact idea of 
what the life will bo. The letters cov¬ 
ered many lines of life and ambition, and 
included women who have ambition to be¬ 
come farmers. Some of the letters were 
evidently written out of curiosity. There 
being only one farm, of course, all could 
not be satisfied, and it finally came down 
to the exercise of pretty nice judgment 
between half a dozen “prospects.” One 
thing seems to be clear: There are plenty 
of people who want to go “back to the 
land.” Some of them are evidently not 
well qualified for the job—but they want 
to go! There are also a good many peo¬ 
ple who have places which they will rent 
or put on a snare basis, if they can find 
sensible and efficient people who mean 
business. We believe that TnE R. N.-Y. 
can find among its big family sale for any 
article of reasonable value; or a fair busi¬ 
ness arrangement between any honest 
worker and reasonable employer! 
A Mechanic Wants to Go Back 
I have read The R. N.-Y. ever since I 
was the boy and the hired man. I have 
been a mechanic in the city for a number 
of years, and I want to go back, and I 
don’t know how to do it. I was raised in 
the Berkshires, and like general farming. 
I have been studying The R. N.-Y. to 
learn where and how to go about it, and 
what to get into. I am all mixed; your 
paper seems to discourage. There are 
more kicks than helps. My father got 
along, and I don’t believe it is as bad as 
you say. Anyway, I am tired of the fac¬ 
tory- E. A. A. 
R. N.-Y.—The writer of this has been 
“ba'ck-to-the-laud” three times himself, 
and has watched the operations of hun¬ 
dreds of other baek-to-the-landers. lie 
ought to know something about it, and 
could, if need be, tell some strange tales. 
We do discourage some cases and try to 
encourage others, for back-to-the-landing 
is not like making a trip to Europe. It is 
a solemn business to risk your chances for 
a home, and it depends on the personality 
of the man and the persistence and pluck 
of the women folks. You will find all 
sides frankly given in this department. 
Back-to-the-Landers 
I wish to ask your help about locating 
a farm in Franklin Co., N. Y., as near 
Loon Lake as possible, or between Loon 
Lake and Malone. Do you think one 
could make a business of poultry and pigs, 
and be able to grow what crops are neces¬ 
sary for them in Franklin County? 
New York City. f. r. 
That is a very fair sample of letters 
we have from would-be baek-to-the- 
landers. You should write to the County 
Farm Bureau Ageut at Malone. Of 
course we do not kuowf why you particu¬ 
larly desire to locate in that far northern 
county. From choice we should go further 
south to raise pigs and poultry, but you 
may have some reason for going north. 
Unless you have ample capital and some 
experience we think the chances would 
he against you. 
