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<Ihe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 21, 1920 
For Your Boy— 
at College 
or on the Farm 
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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. 
Dividing Crops With a Boy 
Here is another problem for your kind 
consideration and advice: The boy in 
question goes to school, is large, strong 
and willing. School is out at 2 p. m. 
The boy and I raised a field of Gold 
Nugget corn this year. I helped the boy 
get out manure, plow, work land and 
cultivate. The boy planted corn, cut 
same, husked the crop. I have the fodder 
and half the corn. The boy helped me 
with my haying. The threshers have just 
left and the boy is interested in raising 
more corn, some Spring wheat and White 
Lincoln oats (they were fine). I will fur¬ 
nish everything, help fit land. The boy 
will help me with my haying (10 or 15 
tons). I want corn fodder and straw. 
Tell us how to divide the crops. 
F. W. w. 
Connecticut. 
You cannot treat such a case as you 
would a contract with a neighbor or hired 
man. We should give the boy half or 
60 per cent of the income. And give it 
to him without any string tied to it. Do 
not keep it or bank it for him, but let him 
have it for his own without any reserve. 
And if there are girls m the family give 
them an equal chance and also without 
reservations. The league of a farm fam¬ 
ily will not be complete if there are any 
reservations tacked onto the use of well- 
earned money. 
The Contract-breaking Man 
Last November I hired a man to work 
on my farm, to start the first of April, 
next Spring, for $30 per month. An¬ 
other farmer, where he worked before, 
hired him this month for $38 per month 
for next April. This leaves me without a 
man. Can I force him to work for me? I 
have no writing of it, only I have a wit¬ 
ness that I hired him. w. B. V. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
It is not likely that you can force a 
man to work for you under these condi¬ 
tions. Even if you could force him, it is 
doubtful if you would get satisfactory la¬ 
bor out of him. Judging from our own 
experience in such matters, the best way 
would be to let him alone. This is not 
uncommon, and the behavior of some of 
these hired men under such circumstances 
is close to criminal. Unless you have any 
written contract with sueh a man it is 
very doubtful if you could get any satis¬ 
faction from him. As a rule such men 
are judgment proof, and a man who will 
break his contract in this way is not 
usually responsible enough to satisfy any 
legal claim. 
Tho Lonely Daughter and Her Treasure 
I enclose letter just received from Val¬ 
encia, Spain, addressed to John W. Roe, 
who died in April, 1911, and of whose es¬ 
tate I was administrator. This is sent you 
for the purpose of informing you of a 
scheme that was undoubtedly intended to 
defraud my decedent were he living to be 
into it. Probably similar letters are sent 
out to others. Make any use of it that you 
may see fit. W. G. M. 
Connecticut. 
The letter referred to follows: 
Although I have not the honor to know 
you personally, address me to you by the 
good references that I have of your hones¬ 
ty, then your address has been given to 
me by a countryman of yours, who thinks 
that I am of your own family. 
Owing to my illness, I am imploring 
your protection for my alone daughter 12 
years age, at the same time under your 
valuable concurs as a personal relational 
to be able to recover the sum of $120,000 
that I have in a secure spot deposited. 
If you accept the sacred mission that I 
intrust you I will name you tutor of my 
daughter’s patrimony, giving you the 
fourth part of said sum as a just reward. 
When I will -eceive your reply I will 
inform you about this affair; today only 
I tell you that I am in prison by political 
causes, and as I am closely watched by 
my political enemies, I beg you keep thia 
secret. 
As the local council of this goal reads 
all the letters prisoners addressed, I beg 
you reply me by cable inclosed, person of 
reliance, who as soon as will receive it, 
he will deliver it to me safely. 
Being my health state grevious I *m 
imploring you a soon reply. I am your* 
faithfully, alfonso roe. 
This 12-year-old daughter must be gray¬ 
haired by this time. At least 25 years 
ago we received just such a letter, appar¬ 
ently written by the same hand. Thia 
man is certainly “all things to all men," 
for he signs any name to suit the sucker. 
The game is simple enough. Suppose you 
cable him that you accept the “sacred 
trust.” In due time some mysterious 
stranger appears with a fine, romantic 
tale. He knows where the $120,000 is 
hidden and he is willing to share $30,000 
of it with you if you will help pay 
expenses—but you must pledge yourself to 
keep the matter a secret. It will cost 
about $500 to make the dangerous journey 
to where the treasure is hidden. You put 
up half, or $250, and keep quiet about it, 
and you will receive $15,000. That is the 
game, and, if you will believe it, plenty 
of people have put up that money and are 
now waiting for their share. There is no 
treasure, and no lonely daughter—only 
two smart rascals who are after your 
money. They ought to be in prison, but 
somehow they have, thus far, kept on the 
outside. 
A Garden Gang Plow 
Mr. J. F. Sullivan of Cayuga County, 
New York, sends us the picture shown at 
Fig. 77. He calls it his garden gang 
plow, and has this to say about it: 
In the first place, my plow is simplicity 
itself. I bought a lawn mower handle at 
the junk shop for 25 cents. I then had 
the frame or draw-bar cast at the foundry 
in one piece. This cost me $1.25, the 
center being slotted so that the plow may 
be set wide or narrow. I then tool? draw • 
bar to machine shop with one plow, that 
it might be properly fitted. Any garden 
plow will do; mine is a Planet Jr. 1 had 
it put on the planer; this cost $2. The 
draw-bar should not be less than 25 
pounds. The draw-bar on my plow is 
about three inches wide, one inch thick 
and 24 inches long. This plow has many 
advantages over other garden plows, es¬ 
pecially when one has no horse. 
v Selling a Farm on Contract 
I have been reading articles in regard 
to selling farms on contract. I will tell 
you of my experience in selling a farm 
that worked out well. I had a farm I 
asked $3,600 for, and got a buyer who 
had no money, but seemed to be indus¬ 
trious. I wanted some money down, and 
this is the way we did it: He had two 
good horses, cow, chickens and farm tools. 
I took chattel mortgage on stock and 
tools. This was only as security in case 
he did not pay interest. lie borrowed 
$-100 from a friend of his to give me. I 
found a man who would take a first mort¬ 
gage for $1,500. That gave me $1,900. 
and I took balance, or $1,700 for second 
mortgage. He was to pay me $200 each 
fall and interest every six months, which 
he has done very promptly. He has had 
place three years, paid off $200 each two 
years and $500 last year, and both of us 
are well satisfied. e. f. 
New York. 
No Oil in New Jersey 
I have just read an extract from The 
of January 17, 1920, page 106, 
Hope Farm Notes.” I want to express 
my very great appreciation of the admir¬ 
able way in which you have answered the 
suggestion that oil occurs in this State 
because here and there an oily looking 
scum is found upon the water in swampy 
places. I have seen this scum hundreds 
of times in my work in the State, and in 
every instance the material has been not 
oil, but a thin, iridescent, metallic scum 
formed by the oxidation of the soluble 
iron eomponds in the water. When 
stirrred with a twig it breaks up and 
floats away in separate patches, whereas 
it is absolutely impossible to break up 
true oil scum upon the surface. 
Thousands of dollars are being spent in 
New Jersey today in prospecting for oil. 
In so far as this expenditure is being 
made by wealthy men who are spending 
their own money in hacking their judg¬ 
ment, it is a legitimate, although in my 
opinion an ill-advised attempt. In the 
last analysis the drill is, of course, the 
final test as to the presence or absence of 
oil. The fact, however, that so far as I 
know, all oil geologists who have studied 
conditions in New Jersey, and those of us 
who do not claim to be expert oil geol¬ 
ogists, hut who do claim expert knowl¬ 
edge of the structure of the State, are a 
unit in the belief that oil in commercial 
quantities does not occur in this State, 
ought to deter the man of small means 
from risking any of his money in a gam¬ 
ble of this character. I am glad that 
your paper with its wide circulation is 
lending the weight of its influence to pre¬ 
vent the possible exploitation of our citi¬ 
zens by any stock selling oil schemes. 
HENRY B. KUMMEL, 
State Geologist. 
Hazel : “The first time George pro¬ 
posed I didn’t accept him.” Helen : “I 
know it dear. You weren’t there.”—Port¬ 
land Express. 
