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The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMERS RARER 
A Nntlonnl Weekly Journal for Country an«l Suburban Home* 
Established tsso 
Pnbll«hed weekly by the Hnral Publishing Company, 333 West. 30th Street, New fork 
• Herbert W. Colling wood, President and Editor. 
John J. Dillon, Treasurer and General Manager. 
wm, F. Dillon, Secretary. _ Mrs. E. T. Hoyle. Associate Editor. 
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Advertising rates, 00 cents per agate line—7 words. References required for 
advertisers unknown to us ; and cash must accomjwmy transient orders. 
1 ’ “A SQUARE DEAL” 
We believe that every advertisement in this paper is backed by a respon- 
Bible person. We use every possible precaution ami 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- 
Bible advertisers or misleading advertisements in our columns, and anv 
such swindler will be publicly exposed. Wo 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. we 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 weeks ago my husband and I went to an auc¬ 
tion nearby, and among other things bought, an old 
print of Lincoln and Seward. When we come to wash 
the glass and dust the picture, on taking off the hack 
of the picture we found a copy of The Rural New- 
Yorker dated August 1, 1868, edited at that time by 
Moore and called Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. I 
enjoy your paper more than any other magazine we 
have ever taken, and read it when I cannot seem to find 
time to read any other except the daily. 
Vermont. mrs. Ernest de vine. 
N its day The R. N.-Y. backed Lincoln and 
Seward in every way, and it is not surprising 
that the paper also backed their picture. It always 
was in good company. It is our ambition to have it 
back every sound and worthy enterprise. 
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AST week we spoke of reports that Iowa farmers 
might burn corn for fuel. Our direct reports 
show that nothing of this is being done. Soft coal 
is selling at about $14 per ton and anthracite at $21. 
In some remote localities coal is very scarce. but in 
such places most farmers have wood. A big corn 
crop is in sight, and the price will he low. but the 
reports of corn burning seem to be “an invention of 
the enemy.” 
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R EV. DR. ANDREW SCHRIVER of Chester, Or¬ 
ange County. N. Y.. died at his home in that vil¬ 
lage last week. He was 80 years old. Dr. Sell river 
was president of the Orange County Agricultural So¬ 
ciety and vice-president of the New York State Ag¬ 
ricultural Society. He was interested in sheep hus¬ 
bandry and active in every movement to improve 
the conditions of the farm. Farm spokesmen of his 
sterling character and ready independent speech are 
hard to replace. We learn of Dr. Schriver’s death 
with a feeling of personal loss. 
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N ESTLE'S FOOD COMPANY has offered The 
Rural New-Yorker an order for two pages of 
advertising for the publication of a letter to them by 
Alfred McCann, and their reply. There is nothing 
in the letters that we are unwilling our people should 
read, but under the thin disguise of a food expert, 
McCann has always been in the service of the milk 
trust, and neither he nor the Nestle's Company are 
competent to instruct, farmers. For this reason we 
refused to publish the advertising. We believe that 
our refusal to publish the advertising will be neither 
gain nor loss to the dairymen or to their cause. It 
was not refused for that reason, but simply to sat¬ 
isfy our own conception of the fitness of things. 
A frank discussion of the provisions of the milk 
contract from the membership point of view is right 
and proper, and the subject is being discussed, but 
we have little patience with pretences, and no space 
for Mr. McCann’s milk trust romances. 
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W HENEVER wc want the truth about farm 
conditions we go to our own readers. They 
are found everywhere. No paper has a wider circu¬ 
lation, and they are all more than willing to report. 
The daily papers have of late been filled with wild 
stories about conditions among .Southern cotton 
growers. In order to learn the truth we wrote many 
of our Southern readers, and the following reply is 
fairly representative: 
To give you au idea of the conditions of my State 
(Georgia) I will take myself as an example: I have a 
wife and six children, all of whom, except two babies, 
work m the fields. We have been producing 12 bales 
of cotton ‘on halves,” as the darkies call this way of 
renting, and we saved enough last vear to buy a mule 
so avc rented a “one-hoss” farm for 1920, paying two 
bales rent for same. Our year’s expenses, including 
fertilizer, is a bit over $1,000. We icill have one hale of 
cotton above the rent, with which to pay those debts' 
We raised, besides cotton, about 75 bu. corn, 100 gals 
syrup and 50 bu. sweet potatoes. These will likely have 
to go to satisfy our creditors. Of my entire acquain¬ 
tance I do not know one tenant who can pay out of 
debt with less than 40e cotton, and many, like myself, 
Tm RURAL NEW-YORKER 
could not do it. with cotton at $1 per lh. The South 
faces ruin, and nothing but a miracle can save her. 
C. F. MORGAN. 
As we explained last week, these men planted cot¬ 
ton on the basis of a 40-eent price. The crop is 
worth that, and more in a fair world’s market, but a 
combination of human bloodsuckers and robbers has 
been formed to steal at least half the value of this 
cotton by forcing it out of the hands of the producer. 
While the effect of this outrage is most clearly seen 
at the South it. reaches out to injure the business of 
every farmer in the land. 
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W E have corresponded with every sheriff in 
New York. New Jersey and most of New 
England regarding the effect of Prohibition on crime 
and the number of criminals. With only one excep¬ 
tion the reports show that crime has greatly de¬ 
creased. and that expenses for courts and jails liaA’e 
been reduced. In many counties the jails are prac¬ 
tically empty. In Bergen Co., N. J., a jail built at a 
cost of over $300,000 has hardly a dozen inmates. 
In Mercer Co., N. J., including the city of Trenton, 
Pbms Avere made for spending $250,000 for enlarging 
the workhouse. The number of prisoners 1ms fallen 
"ff so that these expensive pi a ns-have been aban¬ 
doned! The testimony everywhere is that in spite 
of lax enforcement, in some places Prohibition has 
decreased crime and greatly increased the buying 
power of the working people. It will not be possible 
to repeal the amendment, but should a majority of 
the next Congress be “wet” there will be a let-up 
on enforcement If you Avant the law enforced, re¬ 
fuse to A-ote for any candidate who Avill not pledge 
himself to stand tor “dry” laws, no matter what else 
he represents. Do it this year. The shift in popu¬ 
lation from country to city will mean a new adjust¬ 
ment for Congress in 1922, with greater power to 
the cities. 
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The consumption of milk and its products forms 
the greatest factor for the protection of mankind, in 
correcting his faults in his otherwise vegetarian and 
meat diet. 
D R. E. D. McCULLUM lays down that rule as a 
settled proposition. It is not an easy matter to 
obtain a full supply of food from A r egetables alone 
without, using too much bulk. The hearty eaters of 
meat, in addition to their other faults of diet, do not 
use enough bulk. Milk, the perfect food, will remedy 
both faults. Tt supplies the needed vitamines and 
the lime for bone building. Children in particular 
need milk—they must, have it in order to make a 
normal groAvth. If the money now spent for candy 
could be used for buying milk for the children the 
nation Avould be far better off. And not only the 
children, but adults as well, need milk—the perfect 
food. It is more useful even than bread. The man 
who produces it is a more useful citizen than the 
banker or the laAvyer. 
NST RANCE for the potato crop. Quite a number 
of readers are asking about that It was tried 
this past season in a number of cases. The insurance 
companies were Avilling to insure an income of $200 
an acre in certain sections for a premium of $16— 
that is. $8 per 190. This was figured on the basis 
of at least 100 bushels per acre at $2 per bushel. 
The price fell, and the yield in many ca.se* was Ioav. 
and the insurance company got on the wrong side of 
the gamble in many cases. They now refuse to talk 
insurance until next .Spring, when fertilizer, labor, 
seed and weather conditions may he estimated. 
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VERY day brings us new questions about put¬ 
ting running water into a farmhouse. We 
never saw such universal interest in the water prob¬ 
lem. and it is one of the finest things we know of. 
No one is more entitled to every comfort and advan¬ 
tage which may come from a full Avater supply than 
those who live in farmhouses. Only let us set hot 
and cold water flowing freely through every farm¬ 
house in the country, and we will put neAA T life into 
farming as surely as renewed circulation puts neAv 
A'igor into the human body. Some farmers are tap¬ 
ping springs, others are using rams or pumping 
water from Avells. For years it has been a case of 
“water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink!” 
Noav comes the great development, and we only hope 
it A\’ill continue until every farmhouse in the land 
has its full water conveniences. 
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HE agricultural school at Morrisville. N. Y., 
tried the experiment this year of holding its 
“Farmers’ Week” in October instead of, as usual, in 
Winter. The meeting during the week of October 
11 was a great success. Thousands of farmers and 
their families spent one or more days at the school. 
October r?0, 1020 
Morrisville is beautifully situated among the hills 
and the rolling country, with the trees brilliant in 
their Autumn coloring, made a glorious picture 
People came not only from Madison County, but 
from all over Central Noav York, and long lines of 
cars were parked around the college buildings 
There was plenty of entertainment and instruction. 
The object of this school is not to make professors 
or scientists, but to train practical farm boys and 
girls so that they Avill make better farmers and live 
a more satisfactory farm life. The school term is 
six months. Thus the student spends the Fall and 
Winter months in study and the other six months 
on the home farm, or as hired man on some other 
farm. His farm work is supervised and his home 
labor is made a part of his school record. The peo¬ 
ple of Madison and nearby counties are A’ery loyal 
to the school. It has become headquarters for local 
agriculture. These Madison County people are 
hopeful, and looking to the future for better things 
—and they will find what they are looking for. 
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D R. J. RUSSELL SMITH, in his new book, “The 
World’s Food Resources,” quotes one who has 
seen men in all stages of starvation. “// a man 
misses his meals one day he will lie. ]f he misses 
his meals two days he will steal. If he misses his 
meals three days he will kill” 
Having seen something of hunger among men, avc 
believe the statement A large part of the wealth 
in the world has grown from the production and 
handling of food, but all the money now on the face 
of the earth can never change the truth of that 
statement unless there is food to be exchanged for 
that money. r l here will be no food to exchange 
unless the farmer who is to produce it can feel that 
he is being fairly paid for his services. Tt is true 
that for some years past a good share of the world’s 
food Avas produced by the unpaid labor of women 
and children. That has been true of many an 
American farm, but it will not be true of the future. 
You will not be able to force the next generation of 
farmers to work for the wages they haA'e averaged 
in the past 20 years—not with anything like the 
present purchasing power of a dollar. If the world 
is to eat the farmer must have a fair price for bis 
labor. 
I know that from one small New York county alone 
in the last year, a good deal over $300,000 has been 
invested in oil. mining, bank stocks, Western mort¬ 
gages and other high interest-bearing stocks. 1 have 
checked this carefully from two or three sources, and I 
know the individuals in many cases who have secured 
the stock subscriptions totaling the above. I think it 
would be a fair estimate to eay that a larger amount 
than this had been sent out of the adjoining counties, 
and I mean money Avhich has come directly from active 
farm operators, and not from the village or city dwel¬ 
lers. It makes me hot under the collar when I think 
of the easy way in which these stocks arc put across, 
and the unscrupulous way in which the newspapers of 
the cities and towns of this State will sell their space 
to advertising concerns which have these stocks and 
doubtful investments for sale. m. 
O T R observation is that these figures are quite 
conservative. The farmers of New York are 
each year investing several millions of their hard- 
earned money in gambling propositions or in securi¬ 
ties Avhich injure farming—directly or indirectly. 
It is a source of great satisfaction to us to know 
that no reader of The R. N.-Y. can ever say that he 
was advised by us to make such investments, or that 
he was not Avarned against them. The great pity of 
it all is that there never was a time when capital 
was more needed right in the business of fanning. 
There never avus a business that will yield a surer 
and more satisfactory income for such investments 
than our own business of farming. The farmers of 
this State and country have the needed capital and 
credit to finance their own business Avhenever they 
can get together and make up their minds to do it. 
Ultimately they will have to do it. for the finances 
of this Government are mnv controlled by money 
interests which will never really help farming if 
they can avoid it. We have got to do it ourselves. 
Farmers have the money and the credit needed to 
finance any farm operation. 
Brevities 
One healthy sign of the times is the fact that avc have 
nearly every day calls for help in making sauerkraut. 
Noav they say that the way to bring out the flavor of 
the Ben Davis apple is to bury it in a pit over Winter. 
The latest advice is to use sulphur on the apples in 
storage to prevent decay and keep off the rats. We 
doubt the wisdom of such a plan. 
As evidence of the “interest” manifested in this polit¬ 
ical campaign we have the following report from Vir¬ 
ginia : “The Democratic committeeman of our county 
asked me: ‘Do you know the initials of the Democratic 
candidate for the presidency?’” A New Jersey Repub¬ 
lican asked if the name of his candidate was Hardy or 
Ilartwi'k. The country us safe. 
