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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 10, 1920 
The STEWART ONE-PIPE 
Sectional view 
showing 
circulation 
of heat 
A wonder for 
Heating and 
Saving 
Fuel 
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 be 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. 
Heater 
NOW 
Put This Powerful 
In YOUR Cellar 
—Not because you need its service 
right now but so that you will be sure of 
having it when you want it next Fall and Winter— 
so that you will not need to close up some of your 
rooms to keep the others warm—so that you will never 
again need to have stoves in several rooms, making dust 
and dirt all over the house. Have your heating plant down cellar 
where it belongs. 
This Powerful, Durable Heater is 
built for lifetime use. It burns WOOD, 
Coal or Natural Gas—and SAVES Vj to V2 usual 
fuel expense. It is no more trouble to tend than 
a stove. Its construction is such that no heat escapes into 
the cellar—it is all sent upstairs where it thoroughly, evenly 
heats every nook and corner of the house. 
Think how much this Heater will add 
to the attractiveness, comfort and enjoy- 
ment of your home. It is not expensive to buy— 
and can usually be installed in one day. You will 
probably SAVE MONEY and avoid disappointment by 
buying NOW. Orders are coming in so fast, and it is so 
difficult to secure steel and iron, that we shall not be able to make enough 
furnaces to fill all orders this Fall. 
BE SURE YOU GET A STEWART ONEPIPE 
Ordinary Sloping Firepot Stewart Straight Firepot 
Above at the left is pictured the firepot of the ordinary pipeless furnace. 
Note how the sloping sides collect ash, which deadens the fire and prevents 
proper radiation. Picture at the RIGHT shows the STEWART firepot, 
built EXTRA heavy and with STRAIGHT sides to increase grate area, 
coal capacity, heat radiation and assure perfect combustion This is just one 
of the many features that make the STEWART ONEPIPE so successful. 
FULLER ft WARREN C0..TR0Y.N.Y. 
Since l8K.Makers of STEWART Stoves Ranqes.furnaces 
Send for catalog and name of nearest dealer 
Is a Senator Supreme? 
The R. N.-Y. is quite right iu its po¬ 
sition that the great question relative to 
Senator Wadsworth in the United States 
[Senate is whether he should, in the suf¬ 
frage matter, have reflected in his action 
the clearly expressed wishes of his State 
lor follow his own inclinations, as ho did, 
in opposition to such known wishes. Does 
history sustain him? This is a founda- 
Ition question of representative govern¬ 
ment. How has it. been answered? In¬ 
variably in favor of the people; the rep¬ 
resentative must bow to the will of those 
lie represents. 
Take England, where representative 
government has longest flourished, and 
whence most of the ideas of representa¬ 
tive government have been taken by the 
rest of the world. The government (the 
ministers) are the creatures of the House 
o.f Commons, and the very day they meet 
with an adverse vote and lose the “con¬ 
fidence” of tin* house, out they go, and 
a new ministry comes in, and that min¬ 
istry stays only so long as it meets with 
approval of the majority of the House. 
Whati controls and often changes the sen¬ 
timent of the House of Commons towards 
a ministry? Public opinion reflected by 
I lie members. In our own coun try, why 
have short terms been so uniformly al¬ 
lotted representatives in every form' of 
our government, in every county board, iu 
every Legislature, even in Congress? To 
maintain control over such representa¬ 
tives. But Senator Wadsworth may say 
to himself, though hardly to the people, 
jthat Congress consists of Representatives 
and Senator*—and that he is a Senator. 
But did not the people settle that by pro¬ 
viding direct election of United States 
Senators? dates c. smith. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
Buying Farms on Contract 
In this section of the State the farmers 
complain a great deal on account of the 
labor situation. It is no worse here than 
it is in many other places. This i.s a city 
of approximately 100.000, devoted almost 
exclusively to the automobile industry, 
and the man feels, especially the young 
man. that he is wasting his time staying 
on the farm for what lie can get there 
when lie can make all the way from $8 
to $15 per day in the factories, but there 
arc some who are staying on the farm. 
I wish-, that I could draw for you the 
oicture that I saw in this office the other 
day. A man bought a farm for .818.000. 
'hi it was a Federal farm loan for $3,500. 
There were a young man and young 
woman in the office, and I noticed that 
they were very much interested in the 
1 making of the deed and the preparing of 
|lhe. abstract. After the deed had been 
I delivered and the money paid, then the 
[purchaser of the farm turned to me and 
said. “Now I want a contract made.” 
and so I drew a contract between himself 
and the young man and the young woman. 
They paid $13,000 for the farm, paying 
$1,000 down and tin 1 balance on or before 
20 years, with six per cent interest, with 
the provision that they could pay any 
amount 011 the principal at any time at 
'the end of any six-months period. I told 
1 them that they were undertaking a big 
job. and they said that they realized it. 
I also told them that I did not know of 
any better way for them to get a start 
than tb«' method they were pursuing. 
Genesee Co., Mich. r. a. 
A Comfortable Seat on Farm Implements 
The season of the year i.s drawing near 
when outdoor work in the fields will be 
on in earnest on the farms of the country. 
In justice and mercy to the farmer, I 
think manufacturers of farm machinery 
should be placing more comfortable seats 
on farming implements intended for rid¬ 
ing during operation. The last decade 
has witnessed the changing from walking 
to riding equipment <>n very many farm 
tools, and the farmer dressed in store 
clothes riding mi the eat is quite general 
among us. But alas, what tortures he 
is often compelled to endure through this 
seemingly great Convenience! Have you 
ever driven a manure spreader over frozen 
ground, or rode a disk harrow across fur¬ 
rows? Believe me, if you have you are 
not much gratified by your experience. 
And what is the use in all this careful¬ 
ness iu auto equipment, such as riding 
on air. shock absorbers, etc., if we are to 
have our insides jolted around by hard, 
unyielding seats on our farming imple¬ 
ments? Many. farmers have riding 
machines, too. who through conscientious¬ 
ness or lack of funds do not have auto¬ 
mobiles to enjoy a soft and easy spin in 
to compensate them for the hard knocks 
received on their farm machines. I 
worked for a dairyman who had oyer 100 
cows who said his father before him was 
a big dairyman, hut who disdained to use 
a milking stool, considering it fit only for 
the lazy and weakling. But the older 
men of such sturdy and rugged habits 
are passing away—the men of the scythe 
aud the cradle and of the hand-bound 
sheaf. We of this generation are seeking 
and demanding all the necessary amelior¬ 
ations of our existence as workers and 
tillers of the soil. A brother farmer said 
he thought about the only objection the 
manufacturer would make in putting •{ 
good comfortable seat on the machines 
they turn out would he the added ex¬ 
pense. One would think, though, at the 
prices of farm machinery now manufac¬ 
turers were not sensitive on that point 
Another plea for an easy riding seat must 
be made on behalf of the farmerette_of 
the increasing number of women who -ire 
helping out on the farm production 
position. Just this last Summer 
boring farmer’s daughter 
from a disk harrow and 
used up.” What we want 
able seat, as,well as a seat that is safe 
and dependable. o. E. HERSIIEY 
Pennsylvania. 
pro- 
a ueigh- 
was thrown 
“considerable 
is a comfort- 
The 
Owing to 
Tree 
the 
Eating Rabbit 
, _ long-continued covering 
ot deep snow the damage from rabbits 
and mice has been considerable to ymin<» 
orchards in this section of the Hudson 
Valley, and orehardists are again con¬ 
sidering the possible remedies. I have 
about 80 acres of orchards from one to 
nine years old. and have tried such re¬ 
pellents as sulphur mixtures, oil and tar 
paints, animal fat# and blood, tobacco 
extract, and poison applications like ar¬ 
senate of lead and strychnine painted 011 
the trunks and crotches of trees. Also 
some poisoned baits and the protection of 
hawks aud snakes which feed on mice, 
together with wire netting screens and 
burlap wrapping. I have also encouraged 
hunters and dogs to hunt on my land, 
and in spite of all the above I lnivo had 
several acres of trees destroyed this Win¬ 
ter. and about 80 per cent of the fruit 
spurs from low-headed trees nipped off 
by jack rabbits this Winter. The snakes 
working under the mulch, and hawks 
above, have solved the mice problem, but 
all the repellents, poisons and protectors, 
etc, have been insufficient to prevent a 
few wiso old jack rabbits from doing 
serious damage. They work above pro¬ 
tectors, avoid poisons and disregard re¬ 
pellents. We are swamped with bird 
hunters in the Fall, who will not bother 
rabbits, and as fox skins are selling for 
$-5 hounds are taught to follow only fox 
tracks, and hunters will not even shoot 
at a rabbit, fearing, to scare a fox. Sev¬ 
eral persona] friends who hunt hoi pod 
me by making a business of killing the 
most destructive and wary jack rabbits, 
after which I have seen little damage 
done. How would it do only to renew 
bunting licenses for six months of Winter 
to hunters showing a take of five rabbits 
and 12 months to those taking 10 rabbits 
during the season? 
Ulster Co., N. Y 
C. C. MITCHELL. 
The Varying Hare or Snowshoe Rabbit 
Knowing you like to have the right of 
things. I am going to correct a part of 
Chief Game Protector Uegge’s statement 
in reference to varying hare or snowshoe 
rabbits. Contrary to Mr. Legge’s state¬ 
ment that these rabbits were only found 
in the Adirondack Mountains, they have 
been quite plentiful in Rensselaer County 
for 80 years that I know of, until some 
five years ago they were almost exter¬ 
minated in a year, T think by some dis¬ 
ease. I have hunted and found them in 
The mountains of Petersburgh, Berlin, 
Pocstenkill. Sand Lake, Stepheutown and 
a few in Nassau. I killed one at West 
Sand Lake seven miles from Albany. The 
only time these hares leave the large 
swamps in these mountains is during the 
mating season, coming along about this 
time of the year. I then have known 
the bucks to travel mauy miles down in 
the lowlands or foothills. In 10 years as 
a game protector T never saw or heard of 
their doing any damage to crops or fruit 
trees: in fact, they rarely come near any 
buildings or cultivated lands. 
They are also quite plentiful in Ver¬ 
mont. not far from Bennington, and in 
Massachusetts, near North Adams.. I 
also think I have heard of them near 
Green River, in Columbia County. Last 
Winter and this Winter they are gaining 
ground, and many have been seen ou Sam! 
Luke and Poesteukill Mountains. '' e 
hope by another year we will have them 
hack with us as they were a few years 
ago. I am ashamed to say I. was of a 
party of four that killed seven in one day 
near Taberton, Sand Lake, about jo 
years ago. 1 have seen these rabbits 111 
the North Woods in many places, ami 
only know of one territory where they 
were more plentiful than they were here 
15 years ago, and that was near the 
quette Lake railway station, near 
derbilt’s and other preserves. It is 
estiug to know how nature has provide 
for them. During the season of hi' 1 ', 
ground you will find them with a redd s 
brown coat, so that they just fade a"' 1 , 
in the color of the wood. As soon as snow 
comes they begin to lose the red ami tm 
snow white, so white that I have stooa 
swamps and had them pass up 
without my seeing them on tm 
»uuw. iVe are thinking of trying to get 
a close season for them here in Renss . 
County, N. Y. abtuub c. febguson. 
Ra- 
Vnu- 
in the 
runway 
snow. We 
