The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
A 60-Year Slave Mortgage 
Mr. L. B. Pierce of Ohio is wintering in 
Florida and as part of his observation 
wnds us the following remarkable story: 
One cannot stay long in this country 
without getling new experiences and see¬ 
ing things from new viewpoints. In a 
Tampa daily I find the following. A 
South Carolina farmer wrote as follows: 
•'[ sold my crop of cotton in January, 
•iiid it brought nearly $!)000. Out of that 
I paid a debt against this plae? that my 
father contracted before the close of the 
Civil War amounting to $0,0'"!). lie bor¬ 
rowed money and mortgaged the. estate 
to pay for slaves that were freed before 
the war was over; in fact, they never 
came onto the farm. My father paid in¬ 
terest on that debt until the time of his 
death, and for 30 years I have been pay¬ 
ing on it until the 23d of January, when I 
settled it in full for $5,102.08. That night 
for the first time in 2,0 years I slept in 
my house clear of a mortgage. Father 
and I together paid on that old negro 
slave debt, in interest and partial pay¬ 
ments. since the year before the surrender 
over $40,000." 
Then the editor says: “That the high 
price of cotton has not turned the heads 
of all cotton farmers is evident from 
further reading of this letter, which says: 
‘We have just hung up 30 hams, shoulders 
and middlings, as fine meat as I ever saw : 
the wife has just plit away a dozen tin 
water buckets full of lard, and is now set¬ 
ting lions for her Summer chickens. I 
have also a registered sow, Nancy Hanks, 
and a registered boar named Abe Lincoln, 
still harking back to slavery times, and 
have plenty of purebred hogs, turkeys and 
chickens, which with pur 11 mules and 
horses are in good condition on home- 
raised corn and bay and fodder.’ ” 
This is certainly an interesting show¬ 
ing, not only of perseverance but of intel¬ 
ligent enterprise. I wonder how many 
families where The It. N.-Y. goes have 
30 big chunks of hog meat and 12 pails 
of lard laid by? 
Those who have lived at the South know 
how low-priced cotton kept farmers in 
slavery. It was impossible for them ever 
to pay their debts or acquire free capital, 
and no man can farm properly without 
free capital or fair credit. The higher 
prices for cotton have set these men free 
by increasing their income, at. the same 
time that they been forced into a change 
of farming which has provided most of 
their food and others saved cash expenses. 
But think of paying interest for nearly 
50 years on a debt contracted for the pur¬ 
chase of slaves! 
Subscribers’ Exchange 
Other Advertisments of Subscribers’ 
Exhange will be found on page 667. 
300 A011ES in high state of fertility: one of the 
best t:ruin and dairy farm in Orange County: 
00 miles from New York City, on State road: 
good house with running water and furnace heat; 
also tenant house; new modern hams to r‘ able 
til) cows, t; horses, etc.: price .$100 per acre: or 
will sell with stock and machine: v no agents. 
Address owner, ADVERTISER 0517, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
TTAVE YOU children to educate? Ray this 71- 
acre dairy and tobacco farm and it will fur¬ 
nish you with both home and income: located 
<m good road, near graded school and academy, 
and only 5 miles from Smith College, 5 miles 
from Amherst College and 8 miles from Mt. 
Holyoke College: good house of 11 rooms, with 
furnace, hot and cold water and electric lights; 
stock barn, 30x50, with good silo: warm stables; 
can tie 10 head in stanchions, and 5 good box 
stalls; cement gutters and mangers: tobacco 
barn, corn house, ice house, hen house for 200 
Jens and wagon sheds; smooth productive fields, 
free from stone; cuts 3(1 tons hay and raises 
an extra quality of tobacco; pastures are well 
fenced and watered; also 3%-acre woodlot, 
easily accessible: this farm is for sale to settle 
**i estate. For price address C. M. PRATT, 
Hadlev, Mass., or M. K. PASCO, Administrator, 
New Britain, Conn. 
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PUR SAJ.E—Hillside dairy farm, Tioga Co., 
1 ‘a-: 85 acres; sugar camp: living springs; 
bargain if sold at once. I.EON TII.LINGHAST, 
Oval, N. Y. 
POU RENT—Cash or shares, 100-acre dairy and 
vegetable farm: four miles to Bridgeport; 
road; new buildings, with improvements. 
JOHN 11. NICHOLS, Routed, Bridgeport, Conn. 
BEAUTIFULLY located 255-acre farm; lUj 
miles to village; 100 acres woods, 150 acres 
<1oaretl. HOW ELI., Louisa. Va. 
] FOR SALE—One of the host farms in Allegany 
Co.; very pleasant location: in high state of 
cultivation; consisting of 128 acres; fine new 
• house and basement barn, hog house, garage and 
hen. house: painted last year; timber and sugar 
bush; new sugar outfit; 12 cows, young stock, 
team, farming tools and some hay; terms $5,000 
down: balance on easy terms if desired: price 
$12,000: possession about April 15. ADVER¬ 
TISER 0795, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—Fruit farm, 75 to 100 acres; Hud¬ 
son Valley, east shore, below Hudson, pre¬ 
ferred; state full particulars and price in first 
letter: no agents. ADVERTISER 0781, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
230-ACRE Delaware C.nnty, N. Y.. dairy farm: 
45 milch cows, 25 heifers, two teams: all farm 
machinery; milking machine: fine buildings: 
sugar bush, evaporator and buckets: $8,000 sold 
from farm last year: price $15,000 if disposed of 
at once. ADVERTISER 0780, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
FOR SALE—217 acres, dairy and potato farm: 
located Broome County, N. Y.: 00 rods 
from main State highway, between New York 
City and Ruffalo; good state cultivation: new 
house; 2 barns: gravity spring water; plenty 
wood, some timber; 25 head Holstein cattle, 
mostly purebreds; 3 horses: good line farming 
tools: is paving good interest for a $1(5.000 in¬ 
vestment: $13,(too takes everything, or the bare 
farm at $30 pier acre: buy direct. Address 
DWH3HT MANOR STOCK FARM, Windsor, 
I OR SALE—121 acres .in peach section of West 
Virginia: 500 peach, 200 apple trees: all neces¬ 
sary buildings: good water; 3 miles to station: 
price $2,000 cash if sold at once. ADVER¬ 
TISER 0740, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Two good farms in Orange Countv. 
N. Y.: one of 181 acres and one of 70U acres: 
finely located. Inquire of G. N. LANDS, Mont¬ 
gomery, N. Y. 
FARM FOR SALE—Situated in town of T.ed- 
yard, consisting of about. 200 acres: ln-g> 
Colonial house, barn, etc.; must be sold to clos- 
an estate. Write or inquire of F. W. TURNER 
It. F‘. D. 1, Gales Ferry, Conn. 
FOR SALE—90-acre fruit, truck and grain farm 
in sunny Delaware: good buildings: fine water: 
convenient to market, high school and churches; 
price $5,800 if sold at once. Address owner 
R. A. HUSTON, Wyoming, Del. 
V AN 1 ED lo rent, with purchase privilege 
small farm, with good house and sonic fruit: 
not over 70 miles from N. Y. C. ARTHUR 
RUIZ, 427 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
M ANTED—Near or in small town, country 
home, furnished: house of eight or nine rooms'; 
one to ten jicres of land; will rent for one year 
at about $o00, with option to buy: desire to be 
near good school: must have fruit and place f r 
chickens: possession desired Mav 1. Addre-s 
with full particulars, MRS. G. I.’ HORTON !< { 
North Sixteenth Street, East Orange, N. j 
BARGAIN—About 20 acres, mostly muck. C 
W. BROWN, Nanuet, N. Y. 
SMALL village property wanted, one or m< r-> 
acres, in business section, where barber is 
wanted: all particulars, population, industries. 
IT. LIPP, COCHECTON, N. Y. 
I-OR SAT. E—At a bargain, dairy farm; 135 
acres: 10 acres woods; no rocks or waste 
land: mostly level soil, gravely loam; trolley 
service every hour to Hudson and Albany; 
owner lias other business in citv; quarter-mile 
from village; ten minutes’ walk to Catholic and 
Protestant churches and high school: electric 
lights to house from village: on main road; milk 
route goes with farm if wanted; pays between 
four and five thousand per year, anil a good hay 
and grain producer: about fifty apple trees anil 
other fruits; thirteen-room house, in A-l condi¬ 
tion: wagon house, ham and other buildings: 
running water in house and barn and fire hydrant 
Cb feet from buildings: stable for nineteen cows 
now kept on farm; a good opportunity ami sure 
success; price eleven thousand dollars, or will 
sell with stock ami machinery; no agents Ad¬ 
dress LOCK BOX 10, Valatie, N. Y. 
FARM BARGAIN—On account of sickness and 
death, I offer my farm of 150 acres, located 
in Chenango Co.. N. Y.. one mile from town 
1 nlon. school. Borden’s plant, nine miles from 
railroad: new modern 12-room house, furnace 
and hath: garage: basement barn, concrete floor: 
20 Holstelns, Empire milker, good team, farm¬ 
ing tools; spring water; poultry dept.—laying 
house for 800 liens, with 300 layers, incubators 
colony houses: price $0,50(1:' $4,500 down 
SPRING WILLOW FARM, McDonough. N Y 
WANTED—To buy, 15-20-acre farm, within 
commuting distance of N. Y.: must have good 
house and hams, some fru't trees; no agents- 
cun pay S3.000 down. a. JANAL, 412 Schenek 
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
FOB RENT—Hundred no-os; two barns: two 
houses; all improvements: one old and two 
young orchards; seven miles from Bridgeport 
Conn. Address ADVERTISER (5803, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
Kilt SALE—A farm of 144 acres; best soil: in 
Niagara County, New York; good ten-room 
house: 40x00 barn with full 8-ft. basement; 
line outbuildings, such as fruit pack house hen¬ 
nery. workshop, all in good condition; 18 acres 
bearing apnle orchard, 5 acres quince, never 
known to fail in crop; 4 acres prune. 5 acres 
grapes, 3 acres pears, 1 acre cherry; farm situ¬ 
ated on improved road, about six miles from 
Loeknort. For price and terms w-ite to RALPH 
0. TAYLOR, 37 Spalding Street. I.oekport. N. Y. 
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION — 22-acre poultry 
farm; on State road, near trolley, two rail¬ 
roads: comfortable house; excellent furnace; 
good barn, stables three horses, three cows: 
houses for 500 la'-ers. 1,000 chicks: lot personal 
property Included: fine s-bo-ls and churches; 
near Cornell University; $2,500 down; mortgage 
$1,200. BOX 284. Ithaca. N. Y. 
>OU SALE—145-acre farm, near M 
N. Y.; 14-room modem house; la 
enough stock and tools for buyer to 
Particulars upon request, 
Jisl.R (5790, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FULLY EQUIPPED farm of not less than 
acres ami water frontage, within 100 mile 
TV, |V,. bulldiugs must be complete and in j 
attention must state 
n larS ,‘ ,0 '' at!on - l' ri,- ‘‘- terms, etc. BE7 
(■■8.t Broa dway, New York. 
BARGAIN—24-acre poultry farm; 
nrn , ClW,r: r,,st 8t‘»vcwoml: level land. 
5 excellent for corn, grain. AID 
onl « n. r a, ' v orops; fine for peaches. . 
Hum. , * froln railr ' ,;ll *s: ..piles ( 
bung w°'! : <,pliv cred; on public road; 
hiih u '' 111 ,lrNt 'Class condition, six rooms 
lar tln.;,"" '\ ater large cemented 
broodli i Poultry bouses, each 300x1(5 ft.; 
and I 80: 8 * ze harm new larjje . 
klttu. „ 10 'i’ s, ,‘ : excellent drinking water 
lets- .b,J m llorse; 300-egg strain 
price 84 vin, arruw ' cultivator and small tc 
incx : |,art /■“*»>, rest easy terms; hi 
Hamm.mton N j! prIce> FKKD LAPi> ’ 11 
FARM FOR RENT—40 acres: well-watered pas¬ 
ture: woods: o-ehnrds; 1 mile from tr-illev: 
4 miles frym Newburgh; fine water supply, drv 
air. beautiful country; very attractive seven- 
room house, improved fireplace: all outbuildings 
in good condition: m-w chicken louse: most suit¬ 
able for comde f-.ni (tie city who wish to t-v 
farming or country life. A. E. ROBBINS, 43(5 
West 27tli Street, New York. 
EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY — Berkshire 
farm: 400 acres: 50 arable: 50 pastures; 10 
bead cattle, registered hogs, 3 horses; all ixissi- 
blc fn-in machinery; hams and tenant house, 
with gravity water siinplv, electric lights; will 
turn over farm and $2,400 yearly to mail who 
furnish owner, family of two. butter, cream, 
naultry. pig products, etc.; no garden truck, as 
have gardener: party applying must lx* able to 
give satisfactory guarantee that $200 monthly 
is sufficient and that owner will not have to pay 
any debts c make anv further cash oufinv. 
Penlv ADVERTISER 0810, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
FOR SALE—200-acre dairy farm; 100 tillable; 
balance brook watered pasture; fertile early 
land: 12-room house: 100-ft. barn; prim reason¬ 
able and terms easy. G. PERCY BROWN, 
Barre, Mass. 
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For every type oT building—home, store, shop, school, 
church, etc.,—the Summit Pipeless meets all requirements 
and is your guarantee of warmth and comfort. For the 
home, particularly, the special Summit installation has 
one big feature alone which recommends it above all 
others, and that is the 
POSITIIVE ELIMNATION OF COLD 
AIR DRAFTS OVER THE FLOORS 
One central hot air register directly over the furnace, and 
two cold air returns, completes the installation of the 
Summit. No piping through the walls and under floors. 
No trouble to install in ready built house. Made in 
different sizes. 
Write us for further particulars and name of nearest 
dealer handling the Summit. 
SUMMIT FOUNDRY CO. 
GENEVA, N Y. 
HOT AIR 
COLD AIR 
FOR SALE—150 acres; good dairy farm; two 
miles south of Ballston; water, timlier, mail. 
State road; good house; outbuildings. S. MAI’S- 
DEN, R. 3, Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—20-horsepower portable gasoline 
Titan engine: running order; 18-inch pulley; 
cash price $450. Wanted—Milking machine, 3 
double units, complete; state particulars and 
price; also hay hoist with reversible drum. 
BOX 1, Andover, N. J. 
FOR SALE or lease, farm of forty-seven acres. 
located between Mt. Kiseo and Wilwood, 
Westchester C >., N. Y. JOHN RUSSELL, 9 
Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—3.000-egg Candee incubator; price 
$350. WOODWARD FARM, Wayland, Mass. 
Miscellaneous 
FOR SALE—Carload of chestnut posts; two car¬ 
loads 12-inch firewood. Address JOSEPH 
ROGERS, Farmingdule, Monmouth Co., N. J. 
CHOCOLATES—Pure honey centers; healthful 
and delicious; 1-lb. box. 65c; 2-lb.. $1.25, up 
to fourth zone; money with order. "ENDION," 
Naples, N. Y, 
FOR SALE—Four 14-inch bottom, power lift 
I’. A- O. tractor plows; good condition. $100. 
PELL BROS,, Interlaken. N. Y. 
in. power lift engine plow; used little: price, 
$100; Forkner light ilraft 5-section 10-foot har¬ 
row. cheap. BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, Rushford, 
N. Y. 
WANTED-—Five ears hay. any grade; one of 
Alfalfa, if 2d cut; state quality and price 
f. o. b. H. MOORE, R. F. D. No. 2, Nauga¬ 
tuck, Conn. 
FOR SALE—One S-ft. John Deere tractor, 
double disc, slightly used, $125; one 7Vi-ft. 
Clark Cutaway tractor disc, slightly used, $150; 
two New Clark Cutaway tractor, discs. 7'j and 
8 ft., $175 each; one 10-20 Case Tractor, used, 
in good running order, $500; one 9-1S Case 
tractor. completely overhauled, $750. HAS¬ 
KELL BROS. CORP, Youngstown, N. Y. 
TRACTOR—Bates Steel Mule, Model D: plowed 
forty acres; practically new: fourteen hun¬ 
dred; two 3-bottom Oliver tractor plows, 12 and 
14-inch, nearly new. three hundred: “Eyrie" 
auto trailer, used twenty miles, ten hundred ra¬ 
pacity, fifty dollars; six hundred-egg Buckeye 
incubator, new, seventy dollars. E. W. HAR¬ 
RIS, Niverville, N. Y. 
FOR SALE— 35-horsepower Farqnhar engine 
and 4tl-horsepower boiler; in good order: terms 
reasonable. C. I.. FULLER, Kent, Conn. 
EUREKA potato planter for sale; perfect con¬ 
dition; make offer if interested. A. H. ARM¬ 
STRONG, R. D. 1, Schenectady, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Blue Hen Mammoth Incubator, 
4.000 capacity. 10 coal-burning brooders. 6 
colony hoppers, 7 h.p. gasoline engine, bone-cut¬ 
ter. root-cutter, feed-cutter, com-sheller. plow, 
disc harrow. W. W. WALLACE, Homewood 
Farm, Pleusautville, N. Y. 
WANTED—Two-horse corn planter; also seed 
drill; give make, condition and price. C. B. 
MUNSON, Arlington, Va. 
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FOR SALE—l’im‘ maple syrup: $2.50 per gallon. 
A. E. WEAVER, Fillmore, N. Y. 
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FOR SALE—Fonlson tractor; good as new; used 
one season; has pnllev for belt work; price 
$700. P. A. POST. Putnam, N. Y. 
HAY WANTED—Carload clover. Alfalfa or good 
mixed cow hay: quote price. BOX 271, St. 
James, L. I., N. Y. 
THREE 390 Prairie State incubators. $30 each; 
two 150 Prairie. $20 each; two Blue Hen 
300-egg. $25 each; almost new. FOREST FARM, 
Rockaway, N. J. 
WANTED—Potato planter, digger and sprayer, 
60 or 100 gal.; riding cultivator, with spring 
lines, and 60-tooth harrow. F. RODIN, East 
Chatham, N. Y. 
WANTED—Hi or 18 li.p. steam traction engine, 
not over five years old. FRANK C. WILSON, 
Fredonia. N. Y.; No. 15. 
WANTED—To buy for own use, a few pieces of 
antique furniture, china, etc., especially a 
long, low sideboard which sets up on legs; pair 
of andirons with little men on front: table with 
eight legs, which shuts up: an old brown shiny 
pitcher,- sugar bowl or teapot; old wooden 
chairs; silhouettes; a little pewter: a desk: a 
china cabinet; a high chest of drawers which 
stands on legs and reaches almost to ceiling; 
an old door knocker; a clock shaped like a 
hanio: bureau with brass handles, in fact, a 
little of anything very old; furniture acceptable 
even if broken or parts missing: give full de¬ 
scription. size and price. C. J. HARDING, Box 
1436, Pittsfield, Mass. 
PURE MAPLE SYRUP, finest quality, $3.00 per 
gallon. RANSOM FARM, Geneva. O. 
WANTED—To purchase, second-hand canning 
and evnoorating machinery. Address ADVER¬ 
TISER 6794, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Seeder. phosphate attachment. 
rakes, hoes and wheel, for Iron Age garden 
cultivator: eight dollars. C. II. LOAN, Cole¬ 
man’s Station, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Grease rendering outfit: steam 
jaeket and boiler: good condition. MAURICE 
V. BOWERS, Waterford, Conn. 
NEWCOMB fly shuttle loom, complete: post 
drill: screw plates: top buggy. C. W. 
BROWN. Nanuet,. N. Y. 
WANTED—Second-hand standard beehives: also 
good canoe. S. D. OGDEN, New Cauaan, 
Conn. 
WANTED—Second-hand greenhouse, to raise let¬ 
tuce nnd radishes Dr market. C. P. YOUNG- 
KIN, Mmintaindale, Pa. 
WANTED—Carload of mixed hay. baled: quote 
price. GROSS FARMS, Green ,-ood Lake. 
N. Y. 
ANY PART 15.000 No. 3 cans. 2 7/16, opened 
with solder, hemmed caps, slightlv rusty, at 
$15 per M. II. N. FLEMING, Brie, Pa. 
WANTED—One-horse lawn mower: good condi¬ 
tion: state lowest-cash price. ADVERTISER 
0797, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED — Standard make tractor. H. N. 
FLEMING, Erie. I*a. 
