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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 he 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. 
Spanking the Newspaper Men 
As to spanking the city dailies, etc., no 
one to my mind is to blame so much for 
the idea of city people, dealers, etc., that 
the farmer is rolling in wealth and mak¬ 
ing good money, as the farmer himself. If 
the farmer has a failure, does he publish 
it? No, sir ! If he has a wonderful crop, 
if he gets a fine gain on fattening ani¬ 
mals, sells at a high price, what does he 
do? Seeks the reporter or editor at first 
opportunity and gloats over it. The city 
people see it, figure it; 10 acres cabbage, 
say 15 tons at $30 or $40 per ton. My! 
$5,000 for 10 acres ; a farm of 100 acres ; 
why. of course, the farmer is profiteering! 
Is not the farmer the one most largely to 
blame? F. E. B. 
Seneca, N. Y. 
No, not entirely. Most real farmers 
know enough to he conservative about 
iheir income. Most of the big stories 
come from hack-to-the-landers or people 
who are trying to sell farm property. 
Someone has a tree or a hen or a small 
garden patch. Under exactly right con¬ 
ditions this gives a large yield. Some 
man with an imagination filled with hy¬ 
drogen hears about it, multiplies the fact 
by two and the unit by 100, and prints it. 
Other papers copy it and each one may 
multiply it by two or more. The thing 
grows like a snowball, and of course city 
people come to think farming is a “bo¬ 
nanza.” A sensible farmer will no more 
think of blowing about his income than 
a business man will invite a larger income 
tax. 
The Deer Nuisance in New Jersey 
May I tell Mrs. Baird and others 
what wo are trying to do in our section 
to overcome the deer nuisance? For the 
last 10 years deer alone have destroyed 
my crops on an average of over one hun¬ 
dred dollars per year; this last year about 
$200. To a city man the present law 
seems a just one, but to the farmer like 
irrigating a farm by throwing a bucket of 
water on a pet poodle and driving him 
out to shake himself. Last year I got a 
permit to kill deer destroying crops from 
May 20 to Aug. 31. after which date I 
was told the Game Commission could not 
extend it. This was when I needed it the 
most. I Avant. to ask, in all fairness, 
where is the man who can work from day¬ 
light till dark one day, get up and go to 
market the next, come home, work till 
dark, then with flashlight or gun keep 
deer off some 20 acres of land when the 
mosquitoes are so thick you practically 
take your life in your hands after dark if 
quiet and watching for deer, drag yourself 
to the house at daylight, more dead than 
alive, and find that the deer have been 
feeding to their heart’s content all night 
in some other field or just out of sight of 
yourself? I have done all this and more, 
too. 
The only way in our section we can 
handle the deer question is to have a law 
by which the farmer, when troubled by 
deer, can start and trail same from the 
spot of destruction with dogs, run same 
down and kill them at any time of the 
year, the carcass to belong to the killer, 
with a bounty of $5 per deer to the farmer 
to partly pay for trouble and cost; to got 
together and stand together; take our 
complaint to headquarters and tell them 
what we want, and if refused, put some 
one there who will. We must do this in 
my section to live, and live we are de¬ 
termined to do. 
At the annual meeting of the County 
Board of Agriculture at May’s Landing, 
N. J., we appointed a legislative body to 
take care of troubles of this kind. Our 
secretary, Albert E. Wilkinson, wishes to 
hear from all who will join us in this 
campaign and what they will do. (I wish 
to also state that year after year, when 
the deer season comes in. in my own 
, woods strangers are so thick it is unsafe 
! to go there, either to work or gun.) 
Atlantic Co., N, J. harry v. Rogers. 
Who Runs the Railroads 
As to the Government running the rail¬ 
roads. I wish to give my observation and 
experience in the matter. My farm is so 
situated that the West Shore Railroad 
goes through not only the center of the 
farm, hut through the center of the old 
farm orchard as well. I also border on 
public road, which I can use to get to my 
land on east side of track. The use of 
railroad crossing further south on farm 
would often he convenient, hut there 
seems to be no such thing as crossing 
plank, so that the section foreman can 
put my crossing in order for use. The 
large gates to ibis crossing have also got 
beyond repair, with no prospect of getting 
them repaired. On the west side of this 
farm crossing is my pasture land, and 
this gate has become entirely useless. I 
have been obliged to spike saplings across 
this place in order to keep my stock from 
the railroad. Some tell me the Govern¬ 
ment would have to pay if one should suf¬ 
fer loss of stock in this case, but as we 
have a very good grade of Jersey butter 
cows, I question if we could get their 
value in this way, counting one’s own 
loss in the meantime, while passing 
through an endless amount of red tape, 
and then in the end the value would be 
laid by some one who was quite incom¬ 
petent to judge my complete loss in such 
an instance. 
Under the old system we could at least 
find some one in a reasonable length of 
time who would give us a hearing, in 
such necessary repairs, and usually wore 
very quick to make repairs where the dan¬ 
ger of paying for valuable stock was at 
stake. SYLVAN US VAN AKEN T . 
Ulster Co., N. Y. 
The Government and the Railroads 
Having read your article on Govern • 
ment-owned shipyards and railroads, I 
believe, like the Government, that they 
have not had a fair chance. Living on 
a farm with two different railroads on it, 
one a one-horse branch and the otnor a 
Now York City line, I have noticed that 
just as soon as the Government took over 
the roads the number of workmen was 
greatly increased, while improvements 
that otherwise would never have been 
made have been steadily going on. such as 
painting all the stations, building new 
fences, extra work on tracks and cross¬ 
ings, etc. I was asking a railroad man 
the meaning of all the rush. His reply 
was as I suspected, that the railroad 
companies wanted to spend all the money 
they could while under Government con¬ 
trol to show them that they were not able 
to compete with private ownership. I 
believe also that the railroads have been 
run more by the former owners and their 
men than by the Government. Having 
made a lot of unnecessary expenses for 
the Government that it will not he neces¬ 
sary to make again in years, they have 
been successful in pulling the wool over 
the eyes of the Government, and thus 
make it appear that it was or is abso¬ 
lutely necessary to allow them to raise 
the freight rates in order to operate at a 
profit, which, I believe, is an injustice 
to the public. I believe if the Govern¬ 
ment would get right down to the busi¬ 
ness of running the railroads, and see 
that the roads were run for the Govern¬ 
ment, they could bo run at a profit to 
the Government at much less expense to 
the public. g. r. h. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
The Hired-Man Problem 
Last year I had more trouble than ever 
to get a good man. I got a man from 
Ohio January 1. Tie proved to be older 
than I thought, 72 years old, and had 
rheumatism and kidney trouble, and could 
work only half the time. His wife had 
asthma and dropsy and could not stand it 
here, so they moved back to Ohio May 1. 
Then I got a colored man whose wife had 
left him, and he was anxious to make Op 
with her and to get back near her, and 
stayed only a short time. Then I got a 
man who said he was experienced, who 
had no experience at all; could not hitch 
a horse, or plow, and did not like the 
country, and stayed only a month. Then 
in August I got a man who worked the 
season out and then went to the dye 
works. W. W. W, 
New Jersey. 
Settlino a Fence Trouble 
One of our readers sends us the follow¬ 
ing, taken from a Quaker paper. We 
commend it to the attention of the numer¬ 
ous farmers who fight over the line fence: 
“Two neighbors, who were brothers by 
marriage, had difficulty respecting their 
partition fence. Although they had mu¬ 
tually erected a substantial fence, 4% ft. 
in height, on the line separating the 
sheep pasture of one from the grain field 
of the other, yet the lambs would creep 
through the crevices and destroy the grain. 
“Each asserted it was the duty of the 
other to chink the fence. After the usual 
preliminaries of demands, refusals, 
threats, etc., they resolved to try the 
uncertainties of the law. They were, 
however, persuaded by their friends to 
the more amicable mode of submitting 
the defense to the final determination of 
a very worthy and intelligent neighbor 
who was forthwith conducted to the scene 
of the trouble, and in full view of the 
premises. Each party in turn, in a speech 
of some length, asserted his rights, aud 
set forth the law and the facts, at the 
conclusion of which the arbitrator very 
gravely remarked. ‘Gentlemen, the case 
involves nicety, and is important, not oniy 
to the parties interested, but to the com¬ 
munity, and it is my desire to take suit¬ 
able time for deliberation, etc. In the 
meantime, however, I will just clap a few 
billets of wood in the sheep holes,’ and in 
a very short time, he, with his own hands, 
effectually closed every gap, the cause of 
all the contention. The parties silently 
retired, each evidently heartily ashamed 
of his own folly and obstinacy, and the 
umpire was never called upon to pro¬ 
nounce his final judgment ia the case." 
