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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 16, 1921 
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Fertilizer Sower 
BROADCASTS lime, ashes, ground rock phos- 
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Regulated from driver’s seat. Machine thrown 
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A long reel running the full length of the hopper, 
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CUTS tnflamation 
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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. 
What Is “Smart”? 
The Boston Post prints the following. 
There are a good many “smart” people in 
this world who will sooner or later smart 
for their smartness : 
“If one of the gentlemen taking part in 
the hearing on the bill to repeal the Mas¬ 
sachusetts separate time law last Wednes¬ 
day was correctly quoted, he said : ‘I was 
brought up on a farm; but I was smart 
enough to get out of it.’ 
“(if course that sounded very clever and 
humorous and raised its laughter due. 
But for the several hundred hard-work¬ 
ing, honest-living, right-thinking farmers 
present the remark must have been as a 
gratuitous slap in the face. For if it 
meant anything, it meant that a young 
man of keen ability and real enterprise 
would abandon the farm its soon as he got 
a chance, and that those who stayed were 
not ‘smart.’ 
“Just what ‘smart’ is. as applied to the 
human animal, we need not attempt to 
define accurately. But this much is cer¬ 
tain, that if all the present-day farmers 
had been ‘smart’ in like manner with the 
man who patted himself on the back at 
that hearing, the.world would be a sorry 
place to live in and the city families 
would come precious near to starving.” 
The Farmer and the Times 
Are the farmers prepared to meet still 
harder times? This is a question that 
must be met, and will come right home 
to the farmers, especially to those of the 
South and West, the coming season, if 
they are to enjoy equal prosperity with 
the i*est of the country in the deflation 
of prices. This will surely come after 
such a period of extravagance and waste¬ 
fulness, both by the people and the gen¬ 
eral government, as we have seen in the 
last few years. Organized labor will not, 
unless compelled by circumstances beyond 
its control, take its share in the general 
reduction in the price of labor. Big busi¬ 
ness and high finance, in its selfish on¬ 
ward march, has never stopped its steam¬ 
roller methods long enough to allow the 
under dog to get out of its way. Will the 
unorganized farmers its a class be able to 
meet these two forces and prevent what 
wealth, good times and their thrift, has 
brought to them from being absorbed into 
the cities where these two classes dwell? 
After the Civil War the grain-produc¬ 
ing farmers of the West were bled white, 
while the manufacturing cities of the Fast 
were prosperous and paying high wages. 
Then when the Western farmers could 
not buy the product of those mills a«_for¬ 
merly (the war had made boom times 
everywhere), they had to shut down, 
throwing many out of work, with a big 
cut in wages for those who could get 
work at all. One business failure fol¬ 
lowed another, and the panic of the early 
seventies taught the neople that only by 
hard work, self-denial and saving would 
good times come to them again. History 
sometimes repeats itself, and conditions 
are much that every farmer should study 
conditions that may meet him in the fu¬ 
ture. The sailor when he sees squalls 
ahead furls sails, and prepares to be ready 
for it. If he tried to see how fast he 
could sail before it, when overtaken by 
the storm he would be wrecked. 1 believe 
most farmers should go safe this next sea¬ 
son ; not run into debt, unless absolutely 
necessary, for prices are still high. Most 
farmers have many things left undone 
on account of the rush of other things in 
years of prosperity. Now is a good time 
for those who can do such work to look 
after things. The farmers of New Fug- 
land have little to complain of, as last 
season was fairly prosperous for them. 
That labor may be cheaper and more plen¬ 
tiful is no reason why most of them should 
enlarge their crops. The more raised 
the less the price, and nearly always the 
profits. Taken as a whole it is a good time 
for those who do not absolutely need it to 
give the other fellow who needs it a little 
better chance. More team work and help¬ 
ing each other amongst farmers would (b> 
the mass or class more good than hard 
times can hurt them for a year or two. 
Massachusetts. 
Low Grade Apples and the Market 
Every year at the very first of the sea¬ 
son apples, like other fruits, are high 
priced; then, with apples especially, 
comes a big slump in prices. As good 
fruit comes on the market later prices 
improve. The question with many grow¬ 
ers is what causes this big slump in 
prices. I believe there is more than one 
cause. First is that with a bare market 
prices start out too high. I have known 
small Wealthy thinnings to sell at $2 and 
up per bushel. In a few days they are 
practically worthless, especially if the 
weather is hot, and to my mind what 
hurts the market the worst is too many 
hand-picked green apples. Some people 
have queer ideas about thinning and pick 
the best apples on the tree when perhaps 
half grown, qnd sell them because they 
will bring something. I do not believe 
this pays (although I. too, have sold thin¬ 
nings for good money) because if left to 
ripen so that a customer will wish for 
more it will bring much better prices. 
Anyway, I never thought it hurt my prices 
much or objected to others selling as they 
pleased. 
I.ast Fall I was in an orchard where 
they had begun to pick Ben Davis thin¬ 
nings. 1 heard they sold well (probably 
for export.). In the same orchard were 
Hravenstein drops, which if properly ban- 
would have sold for good money, and 
I do not think such apples really hurt 
the apple business. A few years'ago 1 
sold my apple crop on- the trees. There 
were some very nice Williams in the lot 
one-half to two-thirds grown. When the 
buyer got on his telephone and sold in 
Ins local market 20 bushels at 75 cents 
two at the help went, over nearlv 
all tho trees picking only the largest and 
best, colored fruit. The grower received 
very little for the fruit after all expenses 
were paid, and the buyers did not wish 
any more. Had these apples been shipped 
later to the • Boston market, when he 
shipped the others, T think they would 
have sold for more than four times as 
much, and the pi-ofits a much larger 
™t;o- . The same grower once picked his 
Baldwins early, ran through a sizer, then 
shipped the small green fruit in barrels, 
which did not pay expenses. Had the 
small ones been left on the trees two or 
three weeks longer they would have 
brought quite a little money. 
One trouble with the early apple mar¬ 
ket is that many storekeepers buy too 
largely of cheap stuff, try to get too high 
Prices, and still s<‘ll after they know the 
stuff is worthless, which is really a fraud 
on their customers. 
People would eat more and com plain 
less of apples hurting them if they would 
buy riper fruit. There has been a good 
demand for ripe (not soft) high-grade 
fruit, for the last few years, and growers 
of such fruit have little to complain of. 
But such fruit should be grown within 
trucking distance of one’s market. I see 
no reason why those who prefer to bur 
a cheap priced apple should not be allowed 
to do so. and I notice that they soon 
learn to desire better fruit, it. o. mead. 
Massachusetts. 
Hired Man and Farmer 
Is that right what It. F. Spencer says 
on page 491 about the farmer and his 
own job? I worked for many years as 
a hired man, and for two years I worked 
in Maryland on an orchard. Orcharding 
is more uncertain than the dairy busi¬ 
ness. The first years no income, but the 
hired man. also the teams, do not care 
about that, part, and so my boss was 
forced to look for another source of in¬ 
come the first few years. Now I am in 
Dakota. Little by little I saved $2,000, 
and rented a place myself, half-section. 
I invested all my savings in personal 
property and then T had a heavy mort¬ 
gage. This is a grain country (wheat, 
oats and barley). I have been farming 
for two years, but both years had a fail¬ 
ure with the crops. If my chickens did 
not pay the grocery bill, and a few cream 
checks from the cows help along other¬ 
wise. my $2,000 (that is, the sweat from 
myself and my wife, saved seven years) 
would be lost. AVe save as much as pos¬ 
sible. mvself, mv w’ife and seven horses 
doing all the work on 220 acres of land. 
But a few days of rust weather iu the 
Summer will spoil it all. LEO HTJERL. 
North Dakota. 
Are We Importing Diseased Food? 
A Vo lead a great deal about new dis¬ 
eases, such as sleeping sickness, which 
seem to baffle the doctors by their pres¬ 
ence in America. It. may seem out of 
place for a layman to advise the doctors, 
but 1 am impressed by some strange co¬ 
incidences. In the first place, two new 
foods have come into general use in the 
last few years, viz., nut butter and Chi¬ 
nese eggs. Both of these foods have come 
into popular use at about the same time 
as sleeping sickness. Both foods come 
from countries where sleeping sickness is 
more or less common. Most every poul- 
tryman knows that any germ picked up 
by a lien may be present in the yolk of 
the egg. This is proven by the fact that 
in Summer eggs sometimes hatch iu which 
the. yolk has rotted so that the chick can¬ 
not absorb it. 
As to the possibility of infection from 
nut butter. I leave it to you to picture 
the natives drying the cocoanuts in the 
sun while swarms of flies greedily attack 
the juice along the split edge of the nut. 
Again, watch the natives carrying strings 
of dried copra over their naked shoulders, 
or see the native peddlers crouched on 
heaps of dried copra as they convey the 
lighters out to the traders’ ships. Whether 
the oil is sterilize 1 after it is pressed 
from the copra cake I do not know. Per¬ 
sonally I prefer butter at 70c per pound 
to nut margarine at 10c. 
One more coincidence : More nut but¬ 
ter and more imported eggs are used in 
England than in the United States; also 
sleeping sickness is much more prevalent. 
W. BRONSON TAYLOR. 
R. N.-Y.—There is uo doubt that the 
imported oils are chemically treated. 
Many of the eggs imported from China 
are frozen or dried. 
