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The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER'S TAPER 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban llomctt 
Established isso 
Pnblithed weekly by the Rural I’lihlishitic Company. 333 West 30th Street. New York 
Herbert AV. Collingwood, President and Editor. 
John J. Dillon, Treasurer and General Manager. 
Tfit. F. Dillon, Secretary. Mrs. E. T. Ho yle, Associate Editor, 
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sible person. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make good any loss 
to paid subscribers sustained by trusting any deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertisers or misleading advertisements in our columns, and any 
such swindler will be publicly exposed. We are also often called upon 
to adjust differences or mistakes between our subscribers and honest, 
responsible houses, whether advertisers or not. We willingly use our good 
offices to this end, but such cases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions. We protect subscribers against rogues, but wo will not be 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
Notice of the complaint must be sent to us within one month of the time of 
the transaction, and to identify it, you should mention The Rural New- 
Yorker when writing the advertiser. 
A few days ago the agent was visiting the creamery 
plant of the Barre Creamery Company, when the 4 
o'clock whistle blow for closing at the granite com¬ 
panies. The employes came hurrying out. singly and 
in groups, glad that the day’s work was over and now 
wanting refreshments. Many entered the retail store 
of the creamery company to purchase buttermilk at 5c 
a glass for refreshment. Some took one glass of milk, 
others two or three. Now, all substitutes are not to be 
recommended as containing the nutritional value of the 
article for which they are used, but in this case what a 
fine substitute—buttermilk for beer. 
HAT is taken from the Farm Bureau News of 
Washington County, Vt. There are thousands 
of places in this country where milk or pasteurized 
apple juice could he sold to workmen. The saloon is 
fading away, never to return, and a reasonable sub¬ 
stitute for beer is demanded. Fruit juice and milk 
in various forms will provide the substitute if dairy¬ 
men and fruit growers will see that they are adver¬ 
tised and sold. We are to have a great apple crop 
this year, and with limited export trade we shall 
have an overstock unless the inferior grades can be 
kept at home. They should be made into juice so 
that the market can absorb the better class of stock 
at a reasonable price. The apple juice can be pas¬ 
teurized and sold at a fair price for beverage pur¬ 
poses, thus holding the market for good fruit and 
bringing a good price for the culls. 
* 
W E have never seen any legume grow, in New 
Jersey, as the new annual white Sweet 
clover is growing on our farm. On August 1 plants 
stood nearly 22 in. high—the seed being planted 
June 12. On favorable days it grows nearly 1 in. 
in 24 hours. It has all the appearance of the regular 
Sweet clover, but is far ahead of the regular biennial 
variety seeded at about the same time. It now seems 
evident that we have in this new strain of clover a 
manurial crop of great value. We can apparently 
seed it up to the middle of July, after an early crop, 
and expect a large growth before killing frost. As 
a manurial crop it ranks with clover or Alfalfa, and 
In a few months of growth will add tojthe soil about 
as much nitrogen as will be found in eight tons of 
good manure. We have never seen a more promising 
manurial crop for the latitude of New York. If 
fairly handled it will give our Northern farmers and 
gardeners a crop which will rank in value with the 
Crimson clover and cow peas in the South. 
* 
O FR local market has been flooded this year with 
early apples. Never before has there been such 
a rush of fruit. The smallest of windfalls have 
been picked up and thrown upon the market, with 
disastrous effect. Of course, the bottom dropped 
out. and the flood of poor stuff brought down the 
wholesale price of good apples to below the cost of 
production. The advantage of this went to the deal¬ 
ers and buyers, as it always does. Prices to the con¬ 
sumer were held up. Having used the poor stuff to 
beat down prices for good fruit, the dealers could 
even afford to throw the culls away. That is an old 
trick, often played with perishable goods. Some of 
our best apples sold at 50c- a basket. Later we saw 
what seemed like the same fruit sold at 5c each. 
None of this windfall fruit should ever have been 
sent to market. It did not pay the cost of hauling, 
but simply glutted the market, so that all fruit, even 
the best, brought barely the cost of production. This 
cull fruit should have been kept at home and fed to 
stock. That would have held the market and given 
growers a fair chance. As it was, the man who sent 
this stuff not only lost money himself, but gave the 
buyers a weapon with which they could beat every 
other farmer. Of course the only remedy for this 
trouble is full co-operation among the shippers, and 
an honest understanding that they will keep low- 
grade goods off the market. If it were possible for 
those cull goods to be sold cheaply direct to consum¬ 
ers without interfering with the price of standard 
Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
goods, there might be a benefit all around, but, ns 
usually happens, a flood of this poor stuff simply 
enables the middlemen to rob all who ship. The fact 
is that we have all got to find some home use for 
the cull, and keep it off the regular market. 
* 
M ANY readers will remember how a few years 
ago The It. N.-Y. entered 30 “favorite hens” 
at. the Storrs egg-laying contest. Thirty farm wom¬ 
en each contributed a pullet. They were divided.into 
three pens and entered with others. They made a 
creditable showing, and the records brought to notice 
several flocks where, perhaps unconsciously, farm 
women had developed a superior strain of layers. 
We shall now try to repeat this experience by enter¬ 
ing a pen of “favorite” Red pullets in the new West- 
wood contest. Twenty good R. I. Red pullets are 
needed—one from each of 20 farm flocks. The birds 
must be good specimens of the breed, and we prefer 
farm flocks; that is. flocks owned by people who 
cannot be said to be commercial or professional 
breeders. Many people cannot provide 20 pullets for 
a full pen. They can. however, select the best one in 
their flock and put it with 19 others and have each 
one trap-nested. We confine the pen to R. I. Reds 
because the birds must all be of one breed, and the 
Red is a typical farm or general purpose bird. Let 
us, therefore, hear from farm women who would like 
to contribute a pullet to this contest. We would like 
a wide display for selection. 
* 
^-r-x AYLIGHT saving” will be a lively issue in 
1 J the New York campaign this year. It was 
claimed last Spring when Governor Smith vetoed 
the repeal -bill that opposition from farmers would 
die out. Whoever said that knew little about life in 
the country. We have made a canvass of the rural 
counties, and find that there is a more determined 
opposition than ever to the new time. Farmers are 
very bitter. They claim that this trying season has 
made the inconvenience and loss clearer than ever 
before. To show how the farmers feel we may give 
the following: Last Winter the supervisors of one 
rural county voted on a resolution to ask Governor 
Smith to sign the repeal bill. The farmers remem¬ 
bered it, as we see from the following: 
Last Saturday a farmer came to me, saying: “Did 
Mr. Blank (mentioning the supervisor from his town) 
vote against the daylight saving repeal resolution that 
was brought up before the supervisors?” I replied: 
“It appears that he did. I saw by the papers that he 
did, and the member who introduced the resolution told 
me afterwards personally that he did.” The farmer said. 
“Well, he needn’t come to me for my vote again, and I 
don’t believe that he can ever be elected again. The 
farmers in my town are solidly opposed to this daylight- 
saving proposition, and they do not want to be misrep¬ 
resented like that.” 
Any man who knows the farmers of New York 
will realize what it means when they carry their 
political resentment into the election of a super¬ 
visor ! 
* 
A friend of mine who spent some time in Arizona 
last Winter came back full of praise for the Swedish 
butter that was served in the hotels in Prescott, and 
declared that he would stock up with Swedish butter 
for the coming Winter. The present rate of exchange 
makes the importation of Danish and Swedish butter 
certain this year, and its quality will make its impor¬ 
tation permanent unless our butter-makers match it in 
quality. 
IlINK what that means. A New York man goes 
to Arizona and finds Swedish butter on the hotel 
tables. It suits him so well that lie comes home and 
orders a supply for bis home use. You may question 
this man’s patriotism, or find fault with bis taste, 
or make any other criticism you like, but the fact 
remains that this incident reveals a danger to our 
dairy industry. How is it possible that Swedish 
dairymen are able to ship their butter across the 
ocean and then across the continent and still com¬ 
pete with our own butter-makers? The soil of 
Sweden is not superior to ours, nor is the climate 
milder. In fact, the Swede must work under some 
disadvantages which we do not know of here. 
Where Sweden has the advantage is in the uniform 
and superior quality of her dairy goods. Through 
careful inspection and thorough work the Swedes are 
able to give an absolute guarantee with their butter. 
When people buy it they may know just what they 
are buying. We must be able to give the same guar¬ 
antee of quality and uniformity here if we are to 
compete with foreign butter. 
» 
S OME feed manufacturer or dealer may well in¬ 
terest himself in dried apple pomace. We be¬ 
lieve that the future has a large place for this pro¬ 
duct. It will follow dried beet pulp in popularity 
and value. For many years this pomace was thrown 
out to decay—a nuisance if not a danger. We must 
remember that for many years cottonseed was 
dumped into the swamps and rivers, simply to get 
rid of it. It is row more valuable than the lint in 
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the oil and feed obtained from it. In a somewhat 
like manner the wasted apple pomace will be util¬ 
ized and made into jelly and feed. In these days of 
high prices we cannot afford to let millions of 
pounds of cattle feed go to waste. Science has shown 
the value in pomace and mechanical invention will 
show how to get. it out. 
* 
T HE State of New York has bought 2 14 grains of 
radium, paying .$225,000 for it. This money Avas 
appropriated by the last Legislature. It will be used 
for research purposes in the New York State Insti¬ 
tute for Malignant Diseases. It has long been hoped 
that a successful treatment for cancer and other 
malignant growths may be worked out through ra¬ 
dium. This precious substance was extracted in 
New Jersey. The ore of canolite is found on the Col¬ 
orado deserts. It was necessary to bring 025 tons of 
this ore across the country to New Jersey in order to 
obtain the 2 Vi grains of radium. This represents the 
first purchase of this kind ever made by any State, 
and the largest transaction yet recorded. It will be 
worth 1.000 times its cost if it will lead to some 
reliable cure for the dreaded cancer. Fcav if any 
will object to such an investment on the part of the 
State. Milk is another life-giving product which is 
worthy of a great State investment. 
* 
T 1IE Republican and Democratic parties in New 
York have noAA r held their so-called conventions, 
and farmers may uoaa" realize how little difference 
there is between them when it comes down to the 
real needs of agriculture or the common rights of 
the people. Neither “convention” was in any way 
representative. The few who really tried to make 
their party stand for sincere reform and honest man¬ 
hood met the broadax as the only argument. These 
politicians came together to dicker and compromise 
—to gain power regardless of methods. As for the 
“planks” on agriculture. Ave shall endeavor next 
week to analyze them fairly and show just what 
they mean. On “daylight saving” the Republicans 
declare for the law which Governor Smith vetoed. 
The Democrats do not mention the subject. The 
Republicans dodge Prohibition—claiming it is a 
Federal matter entirely. Everyone knows that the 
enforcement of this and all other laws is a matter 
of local and State public opinion. The Democrats 
are frankly “Avet.” They stand for a more liberal 
enforcement and for an amendment to the constitu¬ 
tion which Avill favor a light “booze.” The Repub¬ 
lican politicians are frankly opposed to the primary. 
The Democrats pretend that they favor it. yet they 
“suggest” a State ticket which makes all opposition 
of an independent candidate a mere farce. The 
Republicans have praise for woman suffrage, and 
then nominate Senator Wadsworth, who has been 
the bitterest opponent that suffrage has had in the 
State. The Democrats nominate a woman for Sec¬ 
retary of State, openly to please the women voters. 
We are not told whether this lady is qualified by 
experience or training to fill this office! So we might 
go on through these “platforms.” Both are mere 
collections of words put together to attract votes. 
The one big outstanding feature so far as farmers 
are concerned is the nomination by the Democrats 
of George I,. Fitts of Tompkins County for Lieuten¬ 
ant-Governor. Mi 1 . Fitts is a real farmer—young, 
enterprising and clean—at present a State l air 
commissioner. So far as avo know this is the first 
time since the CiA'il War that a .real farmer has 
been nominated for a State office. The campaign is 
only beginning. There aa* ill be time enough to 
analyze the situation and determine just Avliat avo 
can all do to put greater respect for farming into 
the next administration. Do not get,excited or lose 
courage. A Avay Avill be provided to show our power. 
Brevities 
Barlea' is the crop to seed late at this season for a 
all hay crop. 
The cover crop! The cover crop! Its searching loots 
ill surely stop the loss of nitrogen and foil the robbers 
ho would skin the soil. 
Many a field of buckwheat and barley will be bar- 
psted by the hens this year. And Avhy not. 1 be lien, 
ill do a cleaner job than any human being ever <ouiu, 
nd every kernel of the grain \vill be utilized. 
We think some form of arsenic in dust or liquid is 
je surest “remedy*’ for cabbage worms, hut it is / 
nly Avliile the heads are open. After the leaves < 1 
round the head avo would not use the poison. 
One great trouble with Sweet clover hay is that 111,1 
mners let it stand too long before cutting. - lll,1! \! 
talks get too hard and tough. It is a great temptation 
i let this crop grow to big size, but what you g. 
ulk is more than lost in quality. 
Nearly $7,500,000 worth of asbestos was bn por t ed 
ito lliis country last year. The Canadians sent $7, J 1 . 
00 of this, as they have had a monopoly of the P rod 
nd thus dictated the price. Now the Geological ^ . 
ev is hunting for new deposits and has found , 
Li’izona. Wonderful how the minerals have been tucKeo 
way in desert places waiting for man s necessities 
or-pel him to hunt for them. 
