“ Daylight Saving ” Will be Repealed 
“Daylight saving” is to be made a “party issue” 
at Albany. At their “conference” before the pri¬ 
mary nominations the Republican party went on rec¬ 
ord as favoring the repeal of the present law. The 
Democrats said nothing about it. but Governor Smith 
had vetoed the repeal bill and that put his party on 
record. The issue, thus made clear, cut a large figure 
in the election, and was one of the big reasons for 
the election of Governor Miller. The Republicans 
now seek to make good on their promise. There 
seems little doubt that the State Senate is for repeal. 
The Assembly is close, as practically all the members 
from New York. Rnffalo and other large cities are in 
favor of “daylight saving.” The Republican members 
of the Assembly met in caucus and decided, 78 to 23, 
to repeal the present bill. The 23 members from 
New York City left tbe meeting and refused to be 
bound by it. Seven of those who remained are op¬ 
posed to repeal, but will support the party’s prom¬ 
ise. It. is probable that at least 85 votes will be 
found for repeal—70 being necessary. Governor 
Miller will surely sign the bill, and thus repeal the 
present law. The plan is to give the cities a chance 
to vote on the question and adopt a local "daylight 
saving' law if they care to. The following note is 
taken from the Boston Post: 
At* the hearing on the repeal of the so-called “daylight 
saving” law here in Mas.sachu.sett the other day one of 
the proponents of the system, a manufacturer, said that 
if the law is repealed, his firm, at least, will adopt a 
daylight saving rule of its own. Asked by the chairman 
if, in case of repeal of the law, industry in general could 
not adjust itself similarly, so as not to injure the farmer, 
he said that he thought it could. 
There is no doubt that in eight cases out of 10 
manufacturers and business men can change their 
hours of labor without demanding any law. And 
that is the exact point we have been making. The 
working people in the cities can obtain their “extra 
hour of sunshine” if they want it by getting up 
earlier and agreeing with the employers to start 
working earlier. That should be their own personal 
agreement and they should not demand a law which 
they know is injurious to farmers when they can 
easily do it themselves. 
Prof.^Hedrick for Station Director 
the Eastern . 
turul Society, 
1021 
meeting of the N 
held at Poughk 
unanimously at 
State Horticul- 
ebruary 9-10-11, 
B hereas. Prof. Tj. P. Hedrick has been intimately 
connected with the Geneva Experiment Station for 
many years and has shown both his ability as an execu¬ 
tive and his interest in and loyalty to the' best interests 
of the farmers of this State ; therefore be it 
]texol> ed. That the Eastern meeting of the New York 
State Horticultural Society, held at Poughkeepsie, on 
February 9-10-11, unanimously request the Board of 
Gontrol to choose Prof. Hedrick as director of the ■ 
Geneva Experiment Station and that a copy of this 
resolution be mailed to each member of the Board of 
Control. T. E. cross, President. 
roy i*. m’phersox, Secretary. 
The fruit-growing interests of the State are 
strongly supporting Dr. Hedrick for this position. 
They think he is the logical successor of Dr. Jordan 
and that he would continue the work of the station 
in its present thorough and conservative manner. 
Dr. Hedrick is a man big and broad enough to give 
all agricultural interests a fair showing, and he is 
a man of undoubted integrity and sound character. 
The Fight for Stronger Game Laws 
East week we gave the Grange’s demand for a 
trespass law for New York State. The principle of 
the demand is that each owner is to have control of 
his own land. No one shall enter his premises for 
purpose of hunting, fishing or taking fruit or nuts 
without written consent of the owner. Whoever 
‘The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
the right to decide who is to destroy it. This is the 
principle laid down by the State <1 range, and also 
worked out in the Betts bill. There should be a fight 
for that principle greater even than that made for 
the repeal of the school law three years ago. There 
will he another hearing on February 23 at Albany 
to give the farmers a chance to be heard. Thousands 
of farmers cannot make the trip to Albany, but they 
can write their representatives in the Legislature 
and make them support the Betts bill. Unless this 
is done at once the sportsmen will shoot it to death 
as they do the game. 
Advertising the Value of Milk 
A Massachusetts reader sends us a copy of the 
advertisement shown in the accompanying picture. 
It appeared in a Boston paper—about twice the 
size of the copy here shown. It is proving very ef¬ 
fective in calling attention to milk as a needed food 
for children. Some of the advertisements put out 
by the dairy people are not very effective. They 
do not get down to the language of common people. 
The consumers are not much interested in the farm¬ 
ers’ struggle for a living. Most city people want 
of School Children 
are undernourished 
Dul two cases m approximately 6,000,000 children. 
Fresh, fluid milk brought these two boys to health, and strength 
before it was too late. It’s the Vitamines in milk that did the work, 
nothing el6e can take their place. 
See the! jour children t et the start in li/e thet is their rieht -do 
your part. 
(jive them move Fresh MiU ^ 
-—a quart a day, 
the doctors sav” 
MflllUh 
>•* MX* L>»« 
An Effective Advertisement of Milk as Food 
all they can get and have no benevolence in their 
dealings. They will not buy more milk until it is 
made clear that they or their children need it. 
The New Ruling on Centralized Butter 
The butter trade was badly shocked by a recent 
ruling regarding what is known as “centralized 
butter.” This ruling is as follows: 
“To All Collectors of Internal Revenue and Others 
('oneerned : 
"l nder an opinion of the Attorney General, dated 
December 21, 1920. a grade of butter produced 
“(1)—From decomposed or rancid cream, which has 
been neutralized with chemicals before churning, or 
“(2)—From cream which is high in acid and lias a 
bad odor, and which has been neutralized with chem¬ 
icals before churning, 
"Is adulterated butter, and is subject to a tax as 
such at the rate of ten cents per pound, under Section 
4 of the Act of 1902. 
“A manufacturer of adulterated butter is required by 
law to register his factory, to give bond, pack and label 
his product in a prescribed manner, and to pay a special 
tax of $000 per annum. 
“A wholesaler of adulterated butter is required by 
law to pay a special tax of $48 per annum. 
“This Treasury decision shall be effective on and 
after the first day of February, 1921 (said to liav^ 
been modified as above reported) ; the question of 
taxes and penalties accruing prior to said date will be 
subject to future consideration.” 
If this ruling is strictly enforced it will mean a 
enters without such written consent is classed as a 
revolution in the “centralized” butter business. 
trespasser, and suitable means for punishing him 
are provided. The Betts bill, before the Legislature 
at Albany, is formed to carry out these principles 
and should have the backing of farmers. On Fet> 
ruary 9 there was a hearing at Albany on the bill. 
It was attended by 75 to 100 sports and hunters, but 
no farmers were present. The sportsmen were forced 
Through many parts of the West cream is collected 
in small lots and taken to some central point where 
it is either worked into butter or sent to some 
larger depot for manufacturing. Naturally, through 
this system some of the cream sours and is not in 
good condition. It has been the custom to neutralize 
it by adding lime water or chemicals before churn¬ 
to admit the damage done to farmers by hunters and 
the evils of the present system. They suggested no 
remedy, but made a great noise to show that the 
Betts bill would he an invasion of their rights. They 
claim the right to tramp over another man’s property 
at will.' The farmers claim that they should have 
the right to protect their fields the same as they may 
protect their homes. The conflict over the game laws 
comes up over this battle for “rights.” Farmers 
must stand for the principle that they are to control 
their own land. If a man's “house is his castle” into 
which "even the king may not enter without war¬ 
rant.” the farmer must control his farm land in the 
same manner. He feeds the game, and he must have 
ing, and the ruling is aimed at this practice. A 
very large proportion of Western butter is made 
in this way. We have interviewed a number of per¬ 
sons in the trade and give below their statements, 
one each for New York, Philadelphia and Chicago: 
From Chicago 
You do not imagine that any manufacturer would 
neutralize cream if he had to pay 10c a pound. That’s 
out of the question and if the manufacturer is not al¬ 
lowed to neutralize his cream with lime water, we shall 
have immenese quantities of butter that will be inferior 
in quality to the butter now being produced. Butter 
made without neutralization will be impossible to pas¬ 
teurize. and without neutralization and pasteurization it 
will be uneven in quality from sour to more sour. It 
will be a terrible thing in any butter industry to 
lower the quality of butter in United States both to 
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the producer and consumer. We think the losses will 
be tremendous if the ruling is enforced. 
From New York 
We do not think it possible for this law to be enforced 
for it. is too far-reaching and would affect almost all 
manufacturers of creamery butter in the United States 
of America. 
I bis is especially so with the manufacturers of cen¬ 
tralized butter; and these manufacturers make it pos¬ 
sible for cream coming from sparsely populated sec¬ 
tions to be utilized for the farmer who ships his cream 
and for the consumer. As far as we have heard, or 
.are able to determine from the manufactured article 
that has come before us in a merchandising wav, we 
cannot see that there is anything injurious about cen¬ 
tralized butter to the health of anyone. In our opinion 
the law as presently framed must be modified so as to 
make its application practical. 
T . ^ will absolutely turn the butter business of the 
I nlted States upside down. From our own point of 
view, it will probably mean a groat change for the 
better in our own business. It will, to a large degree, 
eliminate the Western centralizing plants from coming 
in here and selling our trade at the same prices that 
u'>"• \ vo ' 1 “ Row sell us in carloads. It will practically 
abolish trading on futures in carloads of butter on the 
hicago Mercantile Exchange. It will put out of 
business the arge centralizing plants in the West and 
promote small creameries. 
Whether it will work out for the best interests of 
all concerned is too big a matter for us even to venture 
° D t at HlP time. Looking at it. of 
comse only from benefit to ourselves, we would sav 
Dml" H f ia ’f vv j ,,nl( J bp a fino thing, but on the other 
hand, the neutralized cream butter has never hurt any¬ 
one and should therefore not be legislated against. 
The American Mutual Seed Company 
The R. N.-Y. has referred several times to the 
American Mutual Seed Company. We have exposed 
their methods of doing business. Some of their 
patrons, deluded by plausible statements, thought 
we were too hard on them. M'any an oily bluffer has 
succeeded in fooling the public, but sooner or later 
they are all found out. The Federal Trade Commis¬ 
sion has now fully investigated the doings of this 
seed company, and as a result has ordered them to 
“cease and desist” from publishing lying statements 
in their catalogues and advertisements. It. has been 
a favorite trick of this company to claim that its seed 
is unusually clean and vital. It claimed to buy most 
of its seed direct from growers, to clean it with extra 
care and grade it into superior brands. The Federal 
Trade Commission finds that most of these great 
claims are “false and misleading.” The Mutual 
Seed Company has been buying seed from other 
seedsmen or in the general market, and then trying 
to put over the claim that its seed was "bought ex¬ 
clusively for us.” The truth is that in many eases 
they did not know where the seed was grown. They 
picked it up anywhere, gave it a “brand,” and tried 
to make the public believe it was specially grown for 
them. They tried to make the public think their 
Timothy seed was superior to that sold by other 
seedsmen. The Trade Commission says the state¬ 
ment is false—that the company sells old seed with 
new and does not know where all its seed comes 
from. Seed from this concern “guaranteed” pure 
and free from weed seeds has been found low in 
vitality and with a considerable per cent of weeds. 
The company also sold mixed seeds, one mixture said 
to contain Alsike clover and Timothy. The adver¬ 
tisements were worded so as to lead the buyer to 
think the mixture contained at least one-third Alsike. 
In truth there was only 5 to 8 per cent. The commis¬ 
sion makes 13 different counts, and brands each 
statement as “false and misleading.” It is a polite 
and convincing way of calling the Mutual Seed Com¬ 
pany liars 13 distinct times, with abundant proof to 
back up the statements. The company is now or¬ 
dered to “cease and desist,” which in plain English 
means stop lying to the public. Here is a case 
where a bluffer is “caught with the goods (or seeds) 
on.” 
New York Apples at Retail 
This morning, in handing me the list of articles she 
wanted from town. Mrs. T. said, “Bo sure to get some 
apples.” I read your article on page 240 on New York 
State apples, where the statement is made, “New York 
State produces the finest apples that are grown any¬ 
where. They are unequaled in color and flavor. Of this 
last crop millions of bushels of good fruit were given 
away or rotted on the ground.” Thinks I to myself, 
that item of my errand will be easy and cheap. Imagine 
my amazement upon pricing some fair-looking fruit in 
a barrel in one of our local stores to be told, “Apples, 
19 cents a pound.” I bought two pounds and was hand¬ 
ed six apples in a paper bag. The surprised look evi¬ 
dently had its effect upon the dealer. lie said, “Apples 
are hard to get.” I mentioned that I had been reading 
about New York State apples. He said: “Those are 
New York State apples, and I am prepared to pay $7 
a barrel^ for apples like those, and will take five barrels. 
The $35 is waiting here for the man who will deliver 
them.” These apples looked like Baldwins—evidently 
picked a little green. In your market reports on page 
257 the price of apples in the public market, Rochester, 
is quoted at from 50 cents to $1.25 for different varieties. 
Right alongside this barrel of New York State apples 
stood a box of apples from Oregon, same size fruit, for 
which the dealer asked four cents apiece. What’s tbe 
matter with the New York growers that they seemingly 
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