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June 19, 1920 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Those barns of yours 
This time paint them 
with a barn paint 
that’s made to paint barns 
You’ll agree that a thing 
that’s made for a particular 
thing, ought to be a particu¬ 
larly good thing. As long as 
there are Barn Paints made 
for barns, why not paint your 
barns with them? Further¬ 
more, as long as there are 
some barn paints better than 
others, why not find out what 
they are? 
And still furthermore, as 
long as with paint, as with 
everything else, there is al¬ 
ways some one paint that is 
better than all others, why not 
have that one? 
Why not have it, especially 
if the makers can prove to you 
that it actually costs less per 
job, even if it should happen 
to cost more per gallon? 
Give us a chance to prove 
that our paint is the barn paint 
to buy. Send direct to us for 
the facts and figures. 
Remember that Lowe Broth¬ 
ers' Paint is sold by the one 
best dealer in each town. 
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quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
School 
Teachers’ Bonus in New York 
Will yon give mo an explanation of the 
new school law? I wish to know whether 
(he $250 which is to he paid by the. State 
is to be given to the teacher over and 
above the salary which the district will 
pay, and does the trustee of the district 
have any jurisdiction over the $250 State 
money? For example, would a teacher 
to whom the district paid $20.75 last year, 
and to whom the district is willing to pay 
$20.75 this year, get the $250 State money 
in addition to what the district will pay? 
F. H. p.‘ 
The law referred to is known as the 
Loekwood-Donahue bill, which is Chapter 
GS0 of the Laws of New York. It became 
a law May 10, 1020. The law is long and 
complicated and every teacher or school 
official should have a copy of it, which can 
be obtained from the Secretary of State 
at Albany. We have already printed a 
synopsis of the law, but in reply to many 
questions we print it again. It will be 
seen that certain minimum salaries are re¬ 
quired to he paid to teachers. These vary, 
as is evident from the figures here shown. 
The increases required to be given should 
be included in the teacher’s contract, and 
should be paid as a part of the teacher’s 
regular compensation. Where the school 
district complies with this law it will be 
paid the additional teacher’s quota as pro¬ 
vided for. These quotas will be obtained 
at the time of the payment of regular 
sehool money. 
QUOTAS 
(In addition to the regular district and 
regular teachers’ quotas.) 
1. District employing more than one 
teacher, for each full Jtime 
teacher . $250 
2. District employing but one teach¬ 
er and having an assessed val¬ 
uation of over $100,000. 200 
3. District employing but one teach¬ 
er and having an assessed val¬ 
uation of $100,000 or less. 200 
and in addition $2 for each entire $1,000 
that the assessed valuation is less than 
$ 100 , 000 . 
SALARIES 
The salary of each teacher employed 
shall be not less than at the 
rate of. $800 
for a term of 40 weeks. This means at 
least $20 a week, and is effective for the 
school year beginning August 1, 1020. 
CONDITIONS 
1. The quotas provided in this bill will 
take the place next year of the extra 
teacher’s quotas of the present year. 
2. The quotas will be paid next year at 
the usual time of the payment of public 
moneys and will be based <?n the number 
of teachers employed during the present 
school year. 
3. Where teachers are employed for a 
school year of less than 40 weeks the 
quotas will be reduced proportionately. 
4. The quotas are apportioned for the 
purpose of aiding districts in paying the 
increased salaries of teachers provided for 
in the bill and shall lie applied for such 
piirpose. 
Brief Notes from College 
Reports from steer feeders in Western 
Ohio show that practically all beef pro¬ 
ducers have lost money on the past sea¬ 
son’s operations. In many cases fat 
steers have sold for the same price per 
pound as the thin steers that were put on 
feed in the Fall. However, records kept 
by these feeders in co-operation with the 
county agents show that steers fed on 
rations which included silage were fed 
with less loss than those on dry feed, such 
as shock corn and liberal quantities of 
mixed hay. In most cases steers have 
been fed from 25 to 50 lbs. of silage per 
day, depending upon the amount of grain 
which was fed in conjunction.—Ohio Ag¬ 
ricultural College. 
Only a few years ago it was claimed 
that silage was not a .profitable feed for 
beef-making. This is the way agricul¬ 
tural practices develop—a few thought¬ 
ful farmers go ahead and experiment, the 
colleges come on and clinch practical 
work with scientific fact, and first you 
know what was once a fad becomes com¬ 
mon practice. 
“Ohio Oolantha Balcker, a Holstein cow 
at the Ohio State University, has pro¬ 
duced more than 100.000 lbs. of milk and 
4,310 lbs. of butter since March 1, 1912. 
In addition, she has produced eight valu¬ 
able calves. The value of the butter and 
milk alone at present prices is estimated 
at $3,000. The record has been made 
under ordinary conditions. With the ex¬ 
ception of one year while on test, she has 
been milked twice each day, and has been 
cared for along with the herd. Her semi¬ 
official record is 19,396 lbs. of milk and 
837 lbs. of butter in one year. Although 
recently crippled for three months with 
contracted tendons, she lias never pro¬ 
duced less than 40 lbs. of milk per day, 
and is now giving 45 lbs.” 
It would seem like a “big story” if our 
colleges were capable of telling such nar- 
Notes 
ratives! Has any reader a larger tale? 
The explanation given by the college is 
that this cow had the breeding to make 
use of good feeding. 
“The ration that this cow has received 
has generally consisted of about 35 to 40 
lbs. of corn silage per day. 12 lbs, of 
clover or Alfalfa hay and i lb. of grain 
for every 3 lbs. of milk. This ration is 
made up of 150 lbs. of bran, 150 lbs. of 
ground oats, 150 lbs. of corn and cob 
meal, 100 lbs. of gluten meal, 50 lbs. of 
oilmeal and 50 lbs. of cottonseed meal.” 
An average return per acre of $73.55 
was obtained by pasturing six cows on a 
small plot of Sudan grass at Manhattan 
last Summer.—Kansas Agricultural Col¬ 
lege. 
The West and South claim great things 
for Sudan grass. In Oklahoma it was 
used as a silage crop with good success. 
It is said to be “the best annual pasture 
crop” that Kansas has ever known, and 
it. gives its best growth in hot weather. 
In Now Jersey the Sudan grass gave us 
a good crop, but not superior, we thought, 
to Japanese millet. 
Some women drag a heavy mop pail 
from room to room ; others screw castors 
on the corners of a piece of board about 
15 inches square, load the bucket aboard, 
and roll it easily wherever reeded. One 
woman says she saves from a half-hour 
to an hour and a half daily by a dish- 
drainer. It. is only a wire rack which 
holds the dishes after they are washed. 
Boiling water dashed over the dishes does 
Die rinsing and they dry themselves.— 
Cornell Leaflet. 
We have seen a baby carriage rigged 
up into a dish wagon. The top was 
taken off and a flat, box fitted in its place 
The outfit of dishes or half the dinner 
is put on this wagon and wheeled between 
the table and the sink or stove That 
saves much walking, and while the ex¬ 
perts may say walking adds to the beauty, 
some other journey than carrying dishes 
will he better. 
Our Rural Schools 
I believe we patrons have been too 
loth to leave our children’s education en¬ 
tirely in the hands of the powers higher 
up. and unfortunately those powers 
strong and efficient though they are, live 
and work far from the rural schools, un¬ 
knowingly and unmindful of their needs 
Our country—and the world—needs now 
and will need for yeai*s more food pro¬ 
duction. Where are the producers of to¬ 
morrow to come from, and where are they 
being trained? Why, from the country 
* in the rural schools largely 
And how are they trained? Is not thp 
™uree of Study identical with that of the 
child who is to be an artisan, a merchant, 
or a professional man or woman? What 
is in it. to he especially helpful to the 
farmer of the future? 
. T1 i e teaching profession is filled prin¬ 
cipally by town and village girls, or those 
educated and trained there, with the view¬ 
point of dwellers therein. The high 
school and training school arc too far 
away, the expenses too great, the reward 
in salary not worth the time and effort 
required to prepare for teaching of the 
farm girls and young men. Result, a 
shortage of teachers and a great cry from 
the rural population for the kind of 
schools fitted to their needs. Suggestions 
Tor betterment, a shorter and more prac- 
tical period of training in school for pros¬ 
pective teachers, thus giving the students 
from distant farms a chance. More and 
closer supervision of actual work, thus 
keeping teachers up to the mark of thor¬ 
oughness in essentials. Many teachers’ 
conferences each. year, instead of one; 
conferences meaning meetings for discus¬ 
sion or exchange of opinion. An awak¬ 
ening of interest of rural school patrons, 
and discussion of needs in The It. N.-Y. 
as far as possible. We must “do it our¬ 
selves.” a RURALITE. 
Indorses the Sanitary Toilet 
I have noticed at different times ar¬ 
ticles in The It. N.-Y. in regard to the 
sanitary toilet, and would like to tell the 
readers that we have one in our house 
that has been in use for two years, and 
we would not know how to do without it. 
It is one of the large ones. 125-gallon tank 
under the house, cost $54, and we in¬ 
stalled it ourselves, and would not take 
many times that for it if we could not get 
another. We also have them in our school 
here, and they are proving very satisfac¬ 
tory. I note that Mr. Stevenson, page 
199. .says practically no homes in his 
locality have other than outside toilets. 
True, but why should small children be 
compelled to go from a warm room out in 
zero weather, simply to save a little 
money for the taxpayers? If people 
knew liow handy these’ toilets are where 
there are aged people or small children, 
more farm homes would have them, and 
then more schools. jaytryon. 
Albany Co., N. Y. 
The sliy man stood in a crowded street 
car next to a woman who wore very dan¬ 
gerous. protruding hatpins. For a time 
lie bore her movements, which spelled 
danger to all in her vicinity, but at last 
he summoned up courage enough to say: 
“Forgive me. madam, for addressing you 
without an introduction, but I thought I 
ought to tell you there is a spot of blood 
from my cheek on one of your hatpins. 
—New York Globe. 
