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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 1, 1921 
65 Lb. LAMBS BY APRIL 
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 RITUAL NEW-YORKER does not always endorse what is printed here. You might 
call this a mental safety valve. ___ 
The Labor Question 
There is now a great change in the 
farm labor situation ; a large number of 
men looking for work and no orders. It 
seems rather early in the season for so 
few orders, as I am sure there ought to 
be a lot of work still on the farms. It 
certainly looks like a bad Winter, as far 
as unemployment is concerned, and I hope 
the present shortage of orders for farm 
help will be of short duration. S. p. 
Our reports generally show that indus¬ 
tries are slacking down so that many 
workmen are going out of employment. 
There will be hard times in many cities 
this Winter among the improvident classes 
who never save. As it looks now, the 
farm labor problem ought to be easier next 
Spring. 
ALONG THE 
Seaboard 
the south's newest groat railway- 
In Florida farmers get **hot-house” 
prices for pastured Iambs. Ewes drop 
lambs from November to January which 
are pastured on oats, rye and rape. By 
April they have a well-grown, fat, 65-lb. 
lamb ready for market. 
Two Crops of Com 
Corn can be planted in February, har¬ 
vested in May; planted again in April 
and harvested again in September. Velvet 
beans, planted with the crop, give the 
equivalent of 16 additional bushels. 
There are millions of acres of yet un¬ 
touched by the plow, productive prairie 
lands—and hammock soils that grow 75 
bushels of corn—and muck soils that pro¬ 
duce even more. Model schools and 
churches, excellent roads. 
Write for information about Fla., Ga., 
Ala., N. C., S. C. and Va. farm opportu¬ 
nities. 
J. M. Jones, General Development Agent 
SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY 
Boom 152, Royster Building, Norfolk, Va. 
Reduction of Immigration 
I urge upon you the importance of 
sounding the alarm against the proposed 
plan for restricting immigration. There 
is nothing needed so much by the agri¬ 
cultural interests of America as several 
million new workmen from Central Eu¬ 
rope. . 
In Monmouth County, N. J.. we had 
to pay as high as $5 per day for workmen 
to help haul cornstalks into the barnyard 
for horse feed. Farming cannot stand 
such wages, and nothing will bring the 
wages down except more workmen who 
have had experience in farming in Eu¬ 
rope. 
In my judgment it would he a great 
mistake to restrict immigration. In fact. 
I would make it very easy for the Euro¬ 
pean people to como here, restricting only 
those who are criminals or have conta¬ 
gious diseases. Of course, this movement 
is being promoted by the labor unions, 
and I have never heard labor unions ad¬ 
vance one single thing which was not 
against the best interests of American 
agriculture. In my judgment, every 
workman who comes here from Europe is 
adding thousands of dollars to the wealth 
of America. If I had the running of 
things. I would send our idle ships over 
there and bring them here at the expense 
of the Government and then distribute 
them throughout the country. 
New Jersey. theron ji’Campbell. 
R. N.-Y.—From a look at the immi¬ 
grants now pouring into this country we 
do not believe in opening the doors with¬ 
out restriction. It seems to be evident 
that the most desirable classes are not 
coining. We believe there is a movement 
to dump thousands of undesirables upon 
us. and we are in favor of keeping such 
people out. 
What About Those Abandoned Farms? 
I noticed that there are quite a num¬ 
ber of abandoned farms in Massachusetts. 
I would like very much to know about 
the conditions of these farms, whether 
they are worth renting or could be 
rented. I would rather have a farm 
suited for grain and dairying. I am a 
Hoosier. I was born and reared on a 
farm about seven miles from Indianap¬ 
olis. Ind. I have been married eight 
years. The first four years I rented about 
100 acres, and the last four years I 
rented about 210 acres. I raised over 
15,000 bushels of grain in the last three 
years, besides hay and stock. I have had 
experience in sheep and hog raising, cat¬ 
tle feeding and dairying. Last year I 
raised and mai’keted 150 head of hogs. 
I have owned and operated practically 
all pieces of modern farm machinery. I 
am 28 years of age. with wife and two 
hoys, sevoi^ and five. We moved from 
Indianapolis to Beaufort. N. C.. where 
1 lost a little sum of money in a bad land 
proposition. On seeing my condition I 
left my place there and bought here. I 
have now sold this, and am looking for 
something more productive and nearer 
like the West. I have $800 on hand, 
besides a team, small tools and other 
stock. On account of my limited capi¬ 
tal I would rather go in partnership with 
a man who would do the right thing. 
Virginia. A. H. tinkle. 
There are no abandoned farms in this 
section that are really worth cultivating. 
A man could take one and go on and 
make a living if there was a good deal 
of capital expended. As a matter of 
fact, while there are no abandoned farms, 
there are many farms which are not 
being worked as individual farms, or are 
not being worked at all to their capacity. 
mm A 1/ F U F y C I AVI own such a farm myself in Vermont 
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that would furnish a profitable living to 
a person who worked them with reason¬ 
able intelligence. This man’s limited 
capital would hardly be enough to pur¬ 
chase them and furnish the working cap¬ 
ital necessarv. If he was the right man 
he could take one of these farms and 
make good on it. but as usual it all de¬ 
pends upon the man. J - r. 
Franklin Co.. Mass. 
The Art of Neighboring 
After reading A. R. C.’s article upon 
“Lost Art of Neighboring,” on page liyy. 
I thought the matter over and studied it 
out. and this is the reason. I believe, for 
the lost art of neighboring^ 
The writer states that with our labor- 
saving machinery we ought to have more 
time now than our forefathers had a 
half-centurv ago. We ought, if we had 
the help to go with our labor-saving ma¬ 
chinery. and also one must remember we 
are tilling about double tne land and milk¬ 
ing almost double the number of cows, 
keeping a good deal more stock all around 
than thev did half a century ago. bo 
our modern machinery is simply taking 
the place of the day help that once was 
so abundant in our small villages and 
hamlets, and also doing the work that a 
few years ago our steady year-round 
farm help did. 
Another thing: half a century ago al¬ 
most every farmer lived and worked his 
own farm.' and there was a tendency then 
to neighbor more because of the keen in¬ 
terest put out by all farmers to try to 
make hie farm produce more and better 
than his neighbor. They could then go 
visiting, and the host and hostess would 
be proud of their stock and crops, and 
take their visitors around the farm, 
through the barn and house, and boast 
of their labors. But today what a change ! 
The old farmers have either passed away 
to a better land, or retired, or rented 
their farms. Their children have mostly 
gone to the cities, and our present farm¬ 
ers today are mostly renters who formerly 
lived in'our extra houses and worked by 
the- day. If they didn’t, their forefathers 
did. and after accumulating a little ma¬ 
chinery they rent farms on shares and 
take what they can from the farm in one 
year, and then move on to another. Is it 
any wonder we do not neighbor more? 
These people neighbor among themselves, 
perhaps travel six to seven miles to visit 
one of their kind. 
Around here those who owii and operate 
their own farms neighbor just as much 
as they did half a century ago. There 
are some farmers who live in the same 
township year after year, rent farms and 
only change when they see a chance of bet¬ 
terment. and are a help and blessing to a 
community. These people also are back 
and forth with their neighbors. But when 
A. R. C. thinks that the art of neighbor¬ 
ing is banished, she is mistaken : it is just 
changed a trifle, and there is a line drawn 
between two classes of people. 
A. S. W. 
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vigorous, broilers earlier, fowls heavier, * 
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tie, yet I am uow only cutting the hay 
and selling it because of labor conditions 
during the war. I might think of offering 
it to such a man as your correspondent 
if terms could be made which would ap¬ 
pear to be advantageous to us. I have 
a furnished house, with some farm tools, 
but no stock at present. 
I know of two farms iu this county of 
approximately 100 acres each which are 
good, attractive farms, and can be bought 
for right around $3,000. The buildings 
could not probably be replaced for per¬ 
haps twice this amount. Both are farms 
Let Us Have Truthful Clothing 
At the ‘'Truth-in-fabric” hearing on the 
French bill one of the arguments ad¬ 
vanced against it was that “it was.ad¬ 
vocated by a few misinformed and mis¬ 
guided wool growers.” If that had any 
semblance of truth there must have been 
a change. I have the following letter 
from an official of the United Mine Work¬ 
ers iii a Western State : 
“I am forwarding a copy of resolutions 
asking for a speedy passage of the 
French-Capper law. signed by the Amer¬ 
ican Federation of Musicians of this city. 
The central body of the American Feder¬ 
ation of Labor meets the 19th. I will 
get their endorsement and forward it. 
Also one from the United Mine Workers 
of America. 
“I am for American-made and grown 
goods. My brother and I fought iu the 
war for truth. Now let's have it in cloth¬ 
ing. I think I am entitled to wear aud 
ought to get home-grown wool clothes 
and not cast-off rags.” J. O, m. 
There is a wonderful stir among the 
farmers. They are bunching in cities 
every day. planning. Eastern^ men are 
not so badly off as Western. Very many 
Western stockmen carry their equipment 
on money borrowed in the banks, "as mer¬ 
chants do on their rolling stock, aud the 
drop on meats, grain and wool amounts 
to over $5,000,000,000. It will break a 
lot of them. Representative men from all 
the wool States are in Washington uow 
looking for relief from Congress. To show 
the condition of wool, a worsted firm has 
bought a million and a half pounds of 
wool from the Antipodes at 20 cents de¬ 
livered. Since the counterfeit shoddy has 
supplanted wool it is possible to get it at 
lLtle more than the cost of shipping. Now 
it is a question whether we will let the 
industry be killed outright, or compel a 
law that will put wool and its counter¬ 
feit each where they belong. The rag 
men. to still the tempest, are in favor of 
a “misbranding” law. If successful they 
will not brand, leaving the matter just 
where it is. Every friend of sheep and 
every person who wants clothese tit to 
wear had better wake up. 
W. W. REYNOLDS. 
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Winter Eggs 
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