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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 19, 1921 
flavored berries, with few seeds, from July until freezing weather. 
The fruit is twice the size of other raspberries and of the same 
delicious flavor from first to last. Immense branches covered with 
berries which are constantly ripening. 
il is grown in the gardens of J. P. Morgan. Glen Cove, N. Y.; John D. Rocke¬ 
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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 be used—just short, pointed opinions or suggestions. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER does not always endorse what is printed here. You mignt 
call this a mental safety valve. _ 
Land Speculation in Iowa 
Iowa is now reaping the harvest of 
the five or six years of land speculation 
indulged in. Some of the farms were 
sold several times, each time at a higher 
price. A greater part of the buying was 
pure speculation, instead of making 
homes. When the slump in "rices of 
farm products came no more land sales 
were possible, and now they are finding 
that enough cannot be sold off' the farms 
to pay interest on balance of debt left 
against the land, and many will throw 
up the deal, losing what they have paid. 
It is hard to tell where the trouble will 
end, for those farmers who sold, invested 
in town property or other farms, hoping 
to make back what they lost by selling 
too soon. All of these deals were made 
with a less amount of paid-down capital 
than in other tim.es would be accepted. 
There are probably as many second and 
; third mortgages as there were land sales. 
I They were considered good at first, and 
I taken at a higher interest rate. They 
i will not be accepted at the banks now 
as collateral. No one is feeling sorry 
for the land speculator, but it is bad for 
the young farmer who was led to be- 
i lieve it was the last chance to secure a 
home before capitalists got it all. J. S. 
Suggestion for Game Laws 
1. Why compel hunters of wild game to 
take out a license to hunt, and not the 
hunters of wild vegetation, such as dan¬ 
delions, elderberries, mushrooms, dogwood 
flowers, etc? 2. If no hunter could get a 
license to hunt unless he first show the 
authorities a written permit from the 
landowner or landowners on whose land 
lie intends to hunt, would not that be 
an efficient means for the farmer to get 
rid of the trespassers, who now during 
familiar with the standard varieties 1 
have noticed several writers’ claims that 
it is an easy matter for an “expert" t«• 
sort out mixtures readily; however, in 
this matter. "I am -from Missouri." 
Would certainly like to see one of these 
experts in action. 
3. I have known cases of farmers who 
were selling, or offering for sale, rasp¬ 
berry and strawberry plants, claiming 
they were certain varieties. Investiga¬ 
tion proved that there were mixture in 
tin' patch and said grower could not tell 
the difference, even when plants were in 
bearing. Supposing a nurseryman, in 
good faith, had purchased these plants' 
for reselling. Who would be to blame? 
4. There is probably no nurseryman, 
doing any quantity of business, who 
grows all the stock lie sells, because there 
was never one yet wise enough to look 
ahead-two or three years and' determine 
just what his trade will demand. Con¬ 
sequently, he is forced to depend on other 
nurserymen to make up his shortage and 
dispose of his surplus. I believe that 
most growers are “square,” but there are 
so many chances of mistakes while stock 
is going through a number of hands, due 
to inexperience and slight errors (to 
which we are all liable). I believe this 
last reason the main cause for the present 
day form of “guarantee.” It is one thing 
for a man to guarantee his own stock; 
an entirely different matter to do that 
for another. 
These few reasons do not suggesl a 
remedy ; neither do I attempt one. Hot¬ 
ter heads than mine have failed. Let 
the farmer, or fruit grower, who thinks 
the nursery business is all profit land 
graft) enter the ranks and show us how 
it should be conducted. 
In closing let me ask if the rotten np 
pie that somehow got into the ha rel. 
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about Pyrox, the combined poison and fungicide, in the March 12th issueofthi* paper. 
A "Shack” in Netc York During the Housing Shortage 
the hunting season infest the country? 
3. Would not a system of licensing as 
indicated above be far more conducive to 
the preservation of wild game than the 
present system, which turns loose a lot 
of amateur hunters, who are not fit to 
carry a gun? 
4. Don’t you think that through the 
immense strength and influence of the 
Farm Bureau Federation the present 
game laws, which are the creation of the 
city sporting clubs, can be so modified 
as to meet the just demands of the 
farmers? R. J. DALLINGA. 
Ohio. 
R. N.-Y.—It is hereby submitted to 
readers for consideration. 1. We find 
many of the fruit and flower thieves more 
of a nuisance than the hunters. 2. We 
hold that every land owner has the right 
to say who shall come on his farm and 
hunt. That, we understand is the prin¬ 
ciple enforced in Europe, where game in¬ 
creases. 3. We think such 'a system 
would help. 4. The organized farmers 
can do anything to enforce reasonable 
legislation if they will only go out after 
it. and not tie themselves up in political 
deals. 
The Nurseryman’s Side of It 
Naturally your various editorials re¬ 
garding the nurserymen in general have 
been of interest to me; and I venture to 
advance the statement that there are. at 
least, a few 7 good reasons why a nursery¬ 
man mav refuse to guarantee his stock 
being absolutely all “true to name.” 
1. It sometimes (though seldom) hap¬ 
pens that some bud or graft develops a 
freak, instead of coming true to name. 
2. At budding or grafting time, there 
is generally a large “budding crew, 
sometimes being paid by the day and 
often by the “piece.” At this time a 
number of varieties of buds, or scions, 
will be handled in a short time—s-ay 10 
or 12 different kinds. Careless or inex¬ 
perienced help may accidentally, or ma¬ 
liciously mix the varieties—which is 
no fault of the nurseryman. May I say 
here that I have in the past 18 years 
budded, grafted, dug and sorted thousands 
of trees and plants, and feel somewhat 
cause other apples to spoil, will you 
ireimburse the purchaser the amount paid 
ifor the whole barrelful? If your seed 
grain that I purchase contains foul weed 
seed, will you come and clear out tin 1 
weeds? Will your poultr.vmen guaran¬ 
tee me that eggs from his “pun bred” 
stock will not produce any chickens un¬ 
true to type? In other words, will you 
guarantee something which is beyond 
your control? Finally, if anyone has a 
practical remedy for eliminating the “mis¬ 
fit” trees entirely, we want it. J. 
Michigan. 
R. N.-Y.—That’s right. Let us get il 
all out so that both sides understand. We 
have, personally, refunded money for 
fruit which evidently went bad through 
our fault. There are several cases where 
seedsmen and dealers have paid damages 
for introducing weed seed in their graiij 
land where poultr.vmen have made good 
on inferior poultry. But none of them 
exactly parallels cases of “misfit” trees. 
Silver Fox or Costly Cattle 
The article about silver black fox rais¬ 
ing., on page 93, seems to find a plainer 
“hole in the ground” than one on page 
jr>4. concerning a Guernsey animal some 
months old. I should think the chances 
for loss on $2r»,000 each head of cattle, 
to the average person, would offset a pair 
of foxes at $1,000. and would take very- 
much more effort to start vfith. The fur 
industry might equalize up well, as those 
would sell for about the same figure, 
if successful; while few of the cattle 
kind bring such a price. In questions 
like these there seems to be such a mix¬ 
ture of ideas involved concerning losses 
that it would be more of an experiment 
than a safe investment in either. I should 
think. w. J. wai.sh. 
Vermont. 
Father (to Sammy, coming home in a 
bedraggled condition) ; Great Scot! How 
you look!” Sammy: “Yes. pa. I fell in 
a mudhole.” Father; “What! and with 
your new pants on?” Sammy : “Yes. I 
didn’t have time to take them off.”— 
Boys’ Life. 
