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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 12, 1921 
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GENEVA. N Y. 
CO. 
COLD AIR 
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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 might 
call this a mental safety valve. 
A Bill That Should Be Passed 
New York Assembly bill No. 809 
amends the labor law to do away with 
abuses -in manufacturing, repairing or 
finishing articles in tenements in cities 
of the first and second class. At present 
a large amount of this work is done un¬ 
der unsanitary conditions. Some of the 
articles thus handled in tenements, and 
which find their way to farm communi¬ 
ties and homes, are slippers, underwear, 
neckties, shirts, all sorts of women’s and 
children’s wear, dolls’ clothing, cloth and 
paper flowers, paper ornaments for 
Christmas trees and house celebrations, 
tablecloths, cushions, etc. This work is 
done largely in kitchens and bedrooms, 
where such diseases as tuberculosis and 
contagious itch are prevalent, and fre¬ 
quently suppressed cases of scarlet fever, 
typhoid, etc., are harbored. The bill is 
worthy of general support in order that 
this menace to public health may he re¬ 
moved. 
Setting the Hired Man’s Wages 
Is there any truth in the enclosed clip¬ 
ping? If so. while necessary, wonder if 
the first peeling isn’t a hit too thick? 
“Chestertown. Md., Thursday.—A new 
wage scale for farm labor was adopted 
at a mass meeting of farmers here. The 
scale calls for a day’s work to be from 
sun-up to sundown, with the following 
compensation : 
“The maximum wage for a month la¬ 
borer to be $25 a month with board, and 
keep for laborer’s horse, or $.30 a month 
with hoard and no keep for the horse. 
“The maximum wage for a day laborer 
for regular farm work to be $1 a clay and 
board. 
“The maximum wage for a woman’s 
work in a farmhouse kitchen, including 
washing, to be $15 a month, or $10 a 
month without washing.” v. J. M. 
East Orange, N. J. 
We*sent this to one of our readers at 
Chestertown. Md.. who says: 
“The clipping is correct as far as the 
meeting and wage scale is concerned, and 
if the farmers have to pay over this scale 
of wages there will he lots of farms not 
tilled. Our principal crops are wheat 
and corn. We are a good way from mar¬ 
ket, and when we ship our stuff and pay 
the freight and middleman we have little 
left. Our freight on grain is 12c a 
bushel; used to be 3c. Our potatoes will 
not pay expressage if we ship by ex¬ 
press. Freight is entirely too high. We 
have fine truck land down here, but no 
market for truck, as Chestertown is a 
small place. A truckload of any vegeta¬ 
bles will glut the market.” w. A. n. 
Children and Daylight Saving 
The following note by Elaine Westfall 
Could appeared in the Boston Herald. 
In our experience with children this is ex¬ 
actly right: 
“What daylight saving does do is to 
deny to children of school age the hours 
of sleep that they actually need. The 
majority of children are not put to bed 
until after dark, which, under daylight 
saving, means between 9 and 10 o’clock, 
and yet they must be roused in the morn¬ 
ing an hour earlier, often in the dark, to 
make school on time. Even if were mor¬ 
ally right to insists upon their going to 
bed while it is still light, many parents 
would not do it. It is their children who 
must be protected, even at the expense of 
the relatively small class of industrial 
workers to whom daylight saving would 
give an extra hour in their gardens ; even 
at the expense of a smaller though more 
influential class who may thus enjoy a 
more protracted game of golf. Any sys¬ 
tem that operates to the detriment of the 
children of the nation is a wicked system 
and should not be allowed.” 
Production on Borrowed Capital 
My suggestion is not offered to meet 
the present acute situation of those who 
have produced at high cost to have their 
crops finding a low market, except as they 
have done this on borrowed money. It is 
the general practice of the farmer using 
money not his owu in business, increas¬ 
ing his production and thereby lessening 
his prices and adding to his risks, that 
I seriously question as economic wisdom. 
I will not attempt, to lay down a narrow 
rule, and to the best of rules there are 
a thousand exceptions, but is it not true, 
generally, that when tillers of the soil 
grow crops upon oui' 'nd, but upon an¬ 
other’s capital, we ai\ .>entiwi»g into the 
“No Man’s Land” of business, with much 
risk and uncertainty as to result? Are 
we not in this “plunging,” though in the 
good cause of more production? Are we 
not doing as Wall Street does, though 
dealing in realities, as Wall Street does 
not? Are we not building our house? 
upon the sands of business uncertainty 
when, controlling only the producing end 
of our business, while a second party is 
at the.price end. still another party can 
tell us when to sell our goods by calling 
in his loans? 
Is not “tenancy” of capital related to 
tenancy of land, both necessary under 
some conditions, but desirable to emerge 
from as soon as may be? The elements 
9f our farm calling, are they not land, 
labor, capital and management? Is not 
our success as producers usually propor¬ 
tioned to the degree in which we possess 
(actually have in our owning) these four 
factors? 
Management we practically always 
must have, but management that can 
brjng success with hired land and hired 
labor and hired capital; all three are cer¬ 
tainly rare; while with two or'even one 
factor obtained outside them is a strain, 
too often as we see. reaching the break¬ 
ing point. If our thought is sound, and 
its suggestion should he followed, there 
would be less produced for market, and 
this, it will be said, would be calamitous. 
I see it otherwise. Speculative produc¬ 
tion. is it desirable in the long run? 
(’heap food, does it not populate the 
cities and depopulate the country? 
I nder the cheapening of products from 
the soil is there not a cheapness of meth¬ 
od that is robbing it of its fertility, and 
so for our ease and comfort, for our citi¬ 
fied life is putting under mortgage the 
wealth in the land that should be passed 
on to the children unimpaired? Is the 
larm family crop not better even and 
more to he considered than the wheat 
crop, the corn or cattle or cotton crop? 
Fan wo penalize the farmer for the pros¬ 
perity of the cities and have him remain 
content and the city remain prosperous? 
Higher prices, actual and relative, for 
farm products, are these not needed for 
(he higher life of the farm, and needed 
to draw (perhaps compel) thousands 
away from the cities into country living? 
Less market production, with the re- 
sultii.g higher food prices, would it not 
naturally tend to more home production— 
production for local and family needs— 
draw population from the cities, as has 
been said, into a simpler industrial and 
social life, and so help to stabilize so¬ 
ciety? 
. M hat our country needs socially, civ- 
leally, even industrially, is millions of 
country home economically well founded, 
either, producing something out of the 
earth, or as near to direct production as 
possible, in secondary lines of usefulness. 
Simplicity of ideals (that will relieve the 
temptation to use borrowed money in 
business), with science and thrift,* will 
iavor thes< jome-buildings. Panics will 
he few when this is realized. There will 
be less fever of inflation, there will he less 
debility of deflation when such a steadying 
influence is established. All encourage¬ 
ment should be sought for this end of 
country population. 
Farm life, which now pays excess taxes 
(of a sort) in isolation and hours and 
exposure, should not have the further tax 
put upon it of a too low price of product. 
An excessive production makes for" de¬ 
pressive values; is not inflation of our 
liquid capital by borrowing for crop in¬ 
creases economically unsound? Are many 
farmers suffering (even in this time of 
economic disturbance) who have money 
in the bank? Why not. have this as an 
aim as much as for manure in the soil, 
cattle iii the stall or pasture or corn in 
the crib? By use of legumes the farmer 
can grow his own fertilizer. By thrift, 
can he not accumulate his own capital? 
The most successful farmers we have 
known in the East have done this, and 
today are not worried. 
The writer has done hut little borrow¬ 
ing except, to purchase upon time the bare 
land he began farming with. In the 
North, among our most successful farm¬ 
ers are immigrants, and they seldom bor¬ 
row. to my knowledge, except for their 
purchase of land. 
Another thought, more to be questioned, 
perhaps, certainly in a wider field. The 
thrifty farmer who. after capitalizing his 
own business, has finally acquired a sur¬ 
plus for investment in stocks, we will say 
of the railroads that carry his freight, 
the factory that makes his cloth, his mer¬ 
chandise and commission houses, his elec¬ 
tric service corporation, etc., has he not 
virtually achieved co-operation? And by 
the simplest means. Co-operation through 
his own dollars won by thrift, acting with 
capital of others for mutual service. Is 
not this way of thrift the ideal way to 
realize not alone individual good for the 
family, but also associated and general 
welfare without the advent of “socialism” 
and with but secondary assistance from 
the Government? e. f. Dickinson. 
Massachusetts. 
“For the land’s sake” use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.— Adv. 
