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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 13, 1921 
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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 he 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. —. 
Undesirable Immigration 
C. L. P.. on page 1822. strenuously ob¬ 
jects to the immigration of _ the lower 
classes of foreigners into this, country, 
with especial reference to Mexicans anti 
Polanders. lie bitterly bemoans the fact 
that the large sugar interests are buying 
up large tracts of the best beet sugar 
land and importing this class of people 
and settling them upon these lands. Well, 
how many generations ago is it that our 
own forebears were a poor, illiterate, 
down-trodden lot of foreigners from , va¬ 
rious parts of Europe? In America it is 
truthfully said that there are but three 
generations from shirt sleeves back to 
shirt sleeves, and there. are very few 
among our so-called American aristocracy 
whose ancestry cannot be traced back fo 
some illiterate' foreign immigrant. For a 
time these people occupy the lowest planes 
in our various industries. But, under 
our system, iu a very few generations 
they become thoroughly Americanized, 
move to higher levels, and their places 
are filled by others, and we, as a nation, 
become stronger. In fact, they reach an 
intelligence and a competency which 
places them above working upon their 
knees in a field of sugar beets. Were it 
not for this class of immigration and 
their descendants of the second and third 
generations all our beet, sugar, factories, 
as well as many other industries requir¬ 
ing a low class of cheap labor, would pass 
out. of existence. The time may come 
when we shall have no room for them, but 
we have it now. and to spare. So let 
them come, and lot us. instead of giving 
them a kick in the back, reach out a 
helping hand and aid in lifting them up 
to our ideals of true Americanism. 
c. o. o. 
Is “Co-operation” the Answer? 
From one end of the land to the other 
the cry goes up. “The middleman gets the 
profits, while the farmer does the work 
and gets robbed of his dues.” Is not this 
merely the expression of a condition of 
destructive competition? Farming is not 
the only industry which has suffered from 
destructive competition. Other industries 
have found the cure; therefore let us look 
to them for guidance. Take the oil men, 
for instance. Once the oil industry was 
run by individuals and small companies. 
Only a few were making money. Com¬ 
petition and lack of capital forced them 
to use methods which were criminally 
wasteful. Many of them organized into 
one big company. What happened? Old 
wasteful methods were discarded. One 
man took the place of 10. sometimes more. 
One big shipper told the railroads what 
rate to charge, or a pipe line was laid. 
Well, that is history. Today the Stand¬ 
ard Oil Company pays about 150 per cent 
and is forbidden by court injunction to 
sell its products for less than its com¬ 
petitors. To sum up, the oue cure is 
co-operation. 
Let me illustrate: Suppose 10 farms 
could all be merged into one. Ten scrub 
herds of cows, badly handled for the most 
part, placed under the care of the best 
cow manager, with modern barns and 
equipment would save in labor and over¬ 
head cost and turn loss into profit. Ten 
flocks of hens replaced by one good flock, 
same result as with cows. Thirty to 40 
i horses, replaced by two or three tractors, 
two or three trucks, and about eight or 10 
j horses. Big saving here. Several flocks 
of sheep all merged into one. Ten pens of 
poorly-kept hogs replaced by on" herd of 
purebred, well-managed hogs. Each crop 
managed by the man best suited to grow 
that crop. 
You can use the imagination to picture 
other savings. For instance, one farm 
has a small woodlot. and must cut trees 
for fuel which should be saved for timber. 
Another farm pastures land which is level 
and smooth, while the next farm plows 
hillsides and rough land quite suitable for 
pasture. It is a safe assertion that to 
combine any 10 average New 1 ork farms 
a saving could be effected as follows: 
Overhead Expenses— 
Per cent 
50 
Running Expenses— 
50 
25 
Small tools, harness, etc... 
... 25 
The increase in production should be 
around: From live stock, 25 per cent; 
farm crops. 40 per cent. 
T hear vou say : “The plan isn’t prac¬ 
tical.” You are right; hut why? Sim¬ 
ply because farmers don’t think iu terms 
of co-operation. As I said before, we 
must practice and dream co-operation till 
we can educate ourselves to work to¬ 
gether. Then we (or will it he our chil¬ 
dren?) can combine along business lines, 
just as every other successful business is 
doing or has done. If you think this is 
all idle dreaming, go stick your finger in 
the entrance of a beehive. Mud wasps 
are independent, but yellow jackets and 
honev-bees co-operate. 
New York. U. BRONSON TAYLOR. 
R. N.-Y.—As a first question, what is 
to become of the seven or eight men out 
of the 10 who would be put out of inde¬ 
pendent ownership by such a change? 
What would they do? Where would they 
go. in the present state of society? 
That Hired Man’s Wife 
One of the things that takes from the 
farmer’s profits is his attitude toward 
hired help. I read with interest the letter 
by “A Hired Man’s Wife.” and certainly 
appreciate it, for our experience has been 
much the same as theirs, only having 
four children we do not find it as easily 
remedied as they. I love farming and 
country life, but had it not been for the 
children we would have given it up before 
now, although children are looked upon 
by our present employer as a necessary 
evil. But we hope some time to find one 
of the good kind we read about. It would 
profit an employer if instead of working 
his men from 05 to 75 hours per week he 
would give them time off to work their 
gardens and do the odd jobs which accu¬ 
mulate, so they could have Sunday for 
rest and recreation and thereby increas¬ 
ing their efficiency, as no man can do his 
host or'take as much interest in his work 
if he is tired all the time. 
I believe I am safe iu sayiug that 
nine-tenths of the tenant houses through¬ 
out the East are unfit for a self-respect¬ 
ing family to live in. Build your tenants 
good comfortable houses; give them some 
time off and take them to farmers’ meet¬ 
ings and gatherings. They are human, 
and will appreciate it and show their 
appreciation in added effort and interest 
taken in your behalf. J. R. C. 
A Farm Cropper’s Wife 
I am not a hired man’s wife, but my 
husband crops on the half plan, and I 
have experienced pretty much the same 
thing as “A Hired Man’s Wife.” If the 
woman could only have had the grit and 
not heeded the slights to herself and in¬ 
terested herself iu some of her less for¬ 
tunate neighbors, all might have gone 
well. We have lived on a farm where 
the owners have made a big pile of money 
out of oil. yet I lived for five years in a 
little log cabin almost ready to cave in, 
and could get no better house, although 
the people we cropped for could have 
well built us a beautiful little cottage, 
but the most they were interested in was 
the money we made for them year after 
year. My husband was a good cropper, 
and we saved a nice bank account. I 
finally rebelled and gave the owners of 
the land to understand I simply would 
live no longer in such a degrading-looking 
lint, and the outcome was that rather 
than give up a man who made them such 
good money they bought a house almost 
adjoining their farm, and we have now 
lived for two years in a nice, decent- 
looking little cottage. It was a matter 
of living for a time in a dilapidated log 
house and having good land to crop or 
take chances on taking poor land and 
probably not much better house. I think 
a great many tenant houses through this 
part of Kentucky are a disgrace to the 
land owners. By making ourselves con¬ 
tented with our lot and having God’s 
blessings we now have a bank account, 
and if God continues to bless us we shali 
in a few years be independent of land¬ 
lords, who are interested mostly iu what 
money the tenant makes for them, and 
not much interested in their welfare and 
comfort. If the land owners were not so 
selfish and so greedy for worldly gain 
and worldly honor they would assuredly 
do a better part by their tenants. Sel¬ 
fishness is, I believe, the cause of more 
sin and misery than anything else ou 
earth. M. D. M. 
The Wife’s Share 
1 was much interested iu the question 
of M. F. S., page 1442, concerning a 
wife’s rights. Now I would very much 
like to know what is considered proper 
support. Most wives would go without 
almost anything rather than to ask. as 
they feel that they on the farm have 
earned it many times over, and even a 
hired man does not have to ask for Ins 
pay. Compared with a city business 
man. a farm wife often takes the place 
of bookkeeper, nursemaid, cook, laun¬ 
dress, and office boy, and should she not 
get something else besides necessary food 
and shelter? 
There is much bitterness among farm 
women of today because of this verv 
thing, and when a teacher earning $800 
to $000 per year says she cannot live 
respectably on that amount, it surely in¬ 
tensifies the bitterness, for we farm 
women consider ourselves respectable peo¬ 
ple. and we have to live on much less, 
with less time off duty. As for cleaning 
house, it is easier work than teaching, 
if two can do it together without any 
children around ; but most of us have to 
do it alone, besides getting meals and 
waiting ou children at the same time. 
This all may sound silly on the surface, 
but I am wondering how many of us are 
going to allow our children to become 
farmers’ wives if we can avoid it. or how 
many are going to raise large families, for 
without children we could earn some 
money of our own. and could have a lit¬ 
tle pleasure once in a while F. w. 
