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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 124, 1920 
A Great Fuel Saver 
Avon, New York. 
The CaloriC is a great fuel 
saver, as I have used only 5 
tons of coal a Winter. It is so 
simple to regulate and keeps the 
house evenly heated without over¬ 
heating the cellar. The CaloriC 
certainly is great. 
Wm. Rossborough. 
WARMTa 
m JANUARY-- 
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The CaloriC heats homes of 18 rooms 
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over 76,000 buildings, many in farm homes 
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Circulates pure, balmy, healthful heat into 
every nook and corner of every room, up¬ 
stairs and down. Burns any fuel. So 
simple a child can operate it. Tempera¬ 
ture regulated from first floor. Installed 
in old homes or new, usually in one day. 
Sold on a money-back guarantee to heat your 
home to 70° temperature in coldest weather. See 
the nearest CaloriC dealer or write us TODAY for 
CaloriC book and names of users in your locality. 
THE MONITOR STOVE COMPANY 
{The Monitor Family) 
101 Years in Business 
127 Woodrow Street CINCINNATI, OHIO 
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T HE steel in the CLARK “CUTAWAY” 
Disk is the finest, and the forged 
edge is the toughest and hardest 
part of the disk. This is a strong reason 
why you should buy the 
Single Action 
Disk Harrow 
It will give you many years of service. It cuts deep 
without straining your team. It’s reversible. The 
perfect balance of the whole machine helps lighten the draft. 
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You can’t get the best from your land without the best tools. This 
nation and half of Europe depends upon you to do your best. 
It is to your own interest to get a Clark “Cutaway” before spring. 
Ask your dealer ~ about genuine Cutaways and write 
to-day just a line for valuable free book on cultivation 
and the interesting Cutaway_eatalog, 
The Cutaway Harrow Co. 
661 Main Street 
Higganum - Connecticut 
Maker of the original CLARK Disk If arrows and Plows 
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 
ifor the back-to-the-lander, where he may obtain information and swap troubles 
iJand triumphs, failures, fads and fancies. 
The Sunny Side 
I consider your paper the best I ever 
read. I am a Southern farmer. My 
crop is bright tobacco. I make plenty 
of corn to do me, and also food. I had 
3 y% acres in tobacco; weighed 2.200 lbs.; 
brought $2,500. I never hired any labor 
at all. I bought my farm of 75 acres 
last Fall; gave $2,500 for it. Sold it 
last week for $4,500. and bought another 
for $6,000—150 acres. This farm I 
bought is in high state of cultivation; 
about $3,000 improvements on it. 
H. F. STRANGE. 
Nottoway Co., Va. 
The Frosty Side 
In view of the repeated assertions in 
the city papers that farmers are rolling 
in wealth, the experience of a successful 
farmer and his son may be of interest. 
Without charging any interest on iuvest- 
has no money, but I am willing to spend 
some to prosecute him if the law in New 
Jersey covers moving live stock which 
does not belong to him and not turning 
over the money due me for my share of 
the crops, as well as other cash advances, 
and failure to harvest and market crops 
according to lease. 
Thei’e has been a lot published on how 
hard landlords were on tenants, but I 
feel that I gave this man more than a 
fair deal, and in return he has stolen 
everything he could get his hands on and 
abandoned the farm, and loft it in con¬ 
siderably worse condition than when he 
took it. r. a. c. 
New Jersey. 
We have had much the same experience 
and so have many others who go “back to 
the land” and expect to run the farm by 
proxy—through the average tenant. There 
are honorable tenant farmers who will 
treat such an owner fairly. There are 
Sizing Up the Calf 
ment. the son actually received board and 
clothes and the father the same, plus 75c 
a day. Their farm could be sold for 
$4,500. How should this pay appeal to 
some of our city profiteers? 
CHARLES H. HESS. 
Reunselaer Co., N. Y. 
Buying Farm by Contract 
In answer to L. T. Giffin on page 1716, 
would like to know how a farm producing 
$1,000 net to landlord can be made to 
produce $1,500 for buyer-lessee?- How 
can buyer pay $500 per year and pay 
debt of $14,000 in 20 years? Why should 
buyer pay rent? ! If tenant leases farm, 
why should he buy it? If tenant buys 
farm, is he not entitled to all proceeds so 
long as he meets his payments? If it 
takes 52 quarts of milk per day to make 
payment, would it not take 52 quarts to 
pay running expenses? In eight years the 
tenant pays the landlord $8,000 rent, 
$4,000 payment.'and receives $2,400 back. 
What did lie give $1,600 for? In other 
words, the tenant-buyer pays 235 per cent 
interest on $4,000. Who would do it? 
La Porte Co., Ind. frank fenton. 
The “Cruel Landlord's” Story 
In March of last year I purchased a 
farm in Salem County, N. J. I rented 
this farm to a tenant on the usual lease 
used in that section, in which tenant and 
owner share 50-50 in the crops and pur¬ 
chase of seed ; owner to pay for all seed 
to be planted for green cover crops, and to 
pay for fertilizer. The lease was for three 
years. 
In addition to the above I purchased 
for this tenant two cows and four pigs, 
same to be my property until he paid for 
them out of his share of the crops. I 
also advanced him money for living ex¬ 
penses until crops came in. After he had 
harvested and sold crop of onions ho gave 
me a check for $59.65 as part of my share 
of the crop, claiming he had not received 
the full returns as yet. In October he 
gave me $50 more on account of balance 
of onions, and on account of tomato crop. 
He had a crop of corn and potatoes of 
which there is no accounting. Early in 
December I received a letter stating that 
he was going to move off the farm, and 
had left my share of the potatoes in the 
cellar, and one of the pigs with a neigh¬ 
bor. The cows I had previously taken 
away from him on reports from the neigh¬ 
bors that he was starving them, and said 
he was going to move, lie denied that he 
was going to move, and said if he did 
would give me ample warning and stay 
until I got another tenant. His letter 
was mailed from the place he moved to, 
nnd was not mailed before he moved. 
What come-back have 1 on this man? lie 
others who will simply hold him up. 
Judging from our own experience, it is 
doubtful if you can obtain any satisfac¬ 
tion through the law, as such men are 
usually “judgment proof.” The best plan 
in case you want to proceed is to see some 
good lawyer who understands country 
practice, and follow his advice. 
This Man Starts Right 
I am another back-to-the-land disciple, 
and I have been a student of The It. 
X.-Y. for 'two years or more, and going 
into my junihr year the first of January. 
I'have bought o() acres of land, 10 acres 
in a good state of cultivation, and 10 
acres' in pasture and timber. I expect to 
cut five acres or so of timber, as I think 
it will be Worth more to me for pasture 
than in trees. My farm is near a town of 
about 2,000 inhabitants, and alongside of 
a State road to Altoona, a city of from 
60,000 to 70.000 people, with a good road 
all the way; no hills to climb; I expect to 
truck this land and haul my produce by 
auto to Altoona, 40 miles distant, which 
will be a pretty long haul, but it only 
takes three hours to make the run, and I 
think I can compete with the farmers who 
are much closer to the city. I have much 
less overhead expense than they have, ex¬ 
cept in the transporting of my produce. I 
can sell direct to the consumer, as we 
have a fine market house in Altoona, as 
well as a good curb market in the Sum¬ 
mer, or I can sell to the grocery trade. 
I was born on a farm and worked on 
the farm until I was 16 years old, when 
we got it into our head to sell out and go 
to the city. I am now 40 years old and 
have a family of four children, two girls 
IS and 16 years old, two boys, 14 and 
12 years, and myself and wife. We have 
a fine little farm, and the children can go 
to the grade school, as one is out of school 
and two will be in high school next year, 
leaving only one in the grade school. We 
moved out here over two years ago. and 
we all are much better satisfied here than 
in the city, so we are all ready and anx¬ 
ious for Spring to come. I have used 
every precaution I could so as to gi t a 
place that the whole family liked, as I 
think that is half the battle of life. We 
do not expect the farm to keep us, as we 
all work and expect to keep right on work¬ 
ing. All we want now is some good ad¬ 
vice. w. W. KERN. 
Pennsylvania. 
“Do you believe in mustard plasters, 
doctor?” asked the patient. “Yes, I do.” 
growled the medico fiercely. “I prescribe 
them for patients who call me out in the 
middle of the night when there’s nothing 
the matter with them.”—Credit Lost. 
