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The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER 
K National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Home* 
Established i860 
Pohllihcd weekly by the Rural Publishing Company, 833 We»t 80th Street, New fork 
Herbert W. Coixingwood, President and Editor. 
John J. Diixon, Treasurer and General Manager. 
Wm. F. Dhxon, Secretary. Mrs. E. T. Royi.e, Associate Editor. 
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Check enclosed. I have lost flesh ever since February 
20, when my subscription expired. Send along The it. 
N.-Y., lively, to the rescue. j. b. s. 
Stuyvesant, N. Y. 
OME people are glad to lose a few pounds of flesh, 
especially in this hot weather. We hope to make 
The R. N.-Y. like milk—the great protective food. 
It regulates—puts needed flesh on thin folks, and 
“reduces” the fat. 
* 
I do not agree with you in your answer to B. S. on 
page .853.. I think there is danger in such a license de¬ 
veloping into a permanent right of way, though it may 
take 20 years or more to do so. The safest way would 
be to have a written agreement and make an annual 
charge. G. f. s. 
Connecticut. 
HIS refers to a case where certain “hunters” 
pay for the privilege of riding across the farm, 
chasing a real or an imaginary fox. Sorry we can¬ 
not agree with our friend, but we do not believe such 
privilege will develop ii*to a right of way. It seems 
to us that these hunters are licensees—quite differ¬ 
ent from the usual case, where a permit grows into a 
definite right of way. The license in the case of the 
hunter is personal, revokable and non-assignable. 
We think there are court rulings to sustain this 
view. 
* 
Why does an express company lose a shipment, and 
on settlement try to deduct expressage on a service they 
never rendered? E. c. 
HIS seems another case where we must repeat 
the scriptural advice, referring to the agent or 
president of the express company: 
“7/e is of age—ask him,." 
We know beforehand that you are not likely to get 
any comprehensive answer, but the oft-repeated 
question may help. The rule of transportation com¬ 
panies is to charge everything and then take chances 
on having some items cut out. This idea of losing a 
package and then charging for losing it is about the 
limit. 
* 
T the New York State Fair this year there will 
be a cheese weighing 12 tons. Governor Miller 
will cut the cheese, and the pieces will be sold at re¬ 
tail. l’his big cheese was made by Horace A. Rees 
of Lewis County, a veteran cheese maker, 80 years 
old. It is proposed i. carry this monster to Syracuse 
on a truck, and some of the bridges along the way 
must be reinforced before the load can safely pass. 
A great crowd attended the ceremony of making this 
cheese, and there were speeches from various nota¬ 
bles. Judge Pyrke, the new Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture, made a sensible speech in which he said he 
would do his best to divorce the department from 
politics: 
“If my impression is right the farmers will not 
stand for having the office of Commissioner of Agri¬ 
culture made a dry dock for the derelict .” 
The trouble is that the farmers have been obliged 
to stand for too much,.of that already. They want 
the “derelicts” put in some other safe harbor. If 
Judge Pyrke can cut out the politics he will be a 
“big cheese” indeed. 
* 
N our local markets this year we .have had a good 
example of what results w T hen farm produce is 
not graded and regulated for sale. Apples are scarce 
—the crop is short—but the early varieties generally 
give a fair yield. They are tender and easily bruised. 
This year farmers got the idea that apples would be 
higher, and they have crowded the market with 
culls and inferior grades. Small fruit, wormy fruit, 
drops badly bruised—anything has been scooped up 
and sent to market. The natural result has been to 
snoil all sales. This flood of cheap stuff has cut 
down the price for everything. Those who sent these 
noor drops have hardly been paid for their labor, 
Dt RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
while the graded and sound fruit has brought barely 
half of what it would had all this poor trash been 
kept at home. Many buyers have learned the trick 
of making apple sauce and “pie filler” out of the en¬ 
tire apple—working the boiled fruit through a colan¬ 
der! This foolish plan of sending inferior fruit 
broke the market and gave all the advantage to the 
buyers. One of the strongest features of a co-opera¬ 
tive selling association is the power to grade pro¬ 
ducts and to keep the cull stuff off the market. 
* 
{{OUNDAE” is a new word—hardly in the dietion- 
aries as yet. Still it has come to represent 
about the highest form of profiteering. A “sundae” 
is a mixture of ice cream, syrup, fruit or nuts, very 
popular as a light lunch in town and city. The 
New Jersey Board of Agriculture has weighed and 
measured many of these sundaes and found that on 
the average they cost the dealer from 4 to G cents 
per plate. Yet the average retail charge is 20 cents. 
The ice cream manufacturers have cut down the 
wholesale price of cream, yet the retailers are charg¬ 
ing war prices or even more. This means a reduc¬ 
tion in sales, the effect of which is felt clear back to 
the cow. Ice cream has become a necessity with 
many. When pure and well made it is a good food, 
and millions more of gallons of milk would be con¬ 
sumed in this form if these profiteers would stop 
holding up the public. We have “struck” on the 
sundae issue until the prices comes down. We order 
milk. 
* 
AST year we had occasion to speak of the large 
number of questions relating to divorce which 
came to us. They still continue; some weeks there 
will be half a dozen or more questions from men or 
women asking how to break the marriage tie legally. 
Some of the stories which accompany these requests 
are pitiful, and reveal a sad state of affairs. Others 
are plainly dictated by petty differences or foolish 
notions. Still others are plainly and uncompromis¬ 
ingly vulgar. We do not believe in divorce. We re¬ 
gard marriage as a sacred covenant, a life contract, 
never to be entered into lightly or for a mercenary 
purpose. Feeling as we do about it, we cannot give 
proper advice about divorce, and do not attempt to. 
We do advise those who write us to make every 
effort to effect a reconciliation, to forgive and forget. 
If that is impossible, our only advice is to see some 
honest attorney and act upon his counsel. 
* 
E seeded Hubam clover on July 12 in good 
soil. On the 16th it was well above ground. 
Last year, earlier in the season, it was slow to grow 
at first, but this year it has waked up early. Our 
object is to seed it every week up to September 1, 
to see how much growth it will make before frost. 
As for the kudzu, by July 15 we had vines over a rod 
long, with over two months yet to run. It surely 
does make a tremendous growth. It looks like a pest 
in the garden, but a partner in the pastures. The 
stock enjoy it. 
* 
U NDER the legal ruling by Judge Andrews, noted 
on the next page, no farmer in New York State 
can recover damages for crops destroyed by deer or 
other wild animals. The logic of this decision seems 
to be that the State in introducing and protecting 
wild animals does so as the government, or repre¬ 
sentative of the people. Thus it is not responsible— 
as a private individual would be—unless the Legis¬ 
lature by special legislation makes the State respon¬ 
sible. We think the present situation is unjust and 
wicked. The preservation of game does not benefit 
the entire population. Only a limited class receive 
benefit from it. It is unjust and wicked that farm¬ 
ers and fruit growers should be forced to stand by 
and see their crops injured or ruined and then re¬ 
ceive nothing in the way of recompense. In Massa¬ 
chusetts and other States the right of the injured 
farmer to fair compensation is admitted, and the 
New York Legislature ought to make this matter 
right by providing legal compensation for damages 
•by its wards, -whether they walk on two feet or on 
four. 
* 
There is nothing in this world harder to change than 
the habits of the human animal. For thousands of 
years prior to the time of Ponce de Leon, and from his 
time “to the last syllable of recorded time,” men will be 
searching for some panacea that can be taken from a 
bottle to restore the health they so recklessly throw 
away by ignorant, careless overeating and a long host 
of other indiscretions. J. 
HE gentleman referred to above was the old 
Spaniard who, years ago, came to Florida seek¬ 
ing “the fountain of perpetual youth.” He thought 
he had found it at the famous Silver Springs, and it 
July 30, 1921 
is said that he waded hopefully into the water. But 
his white hair refused to change its color, his bent 
back and aching limbs remained as evidence of age. 
Youth had passed him by ; there was no “fountain of 
youth!” Yet, as we are told, men ever go chasing 
after something that will bring back the power of 
youth—long after it has been squandered. They are 
still searching for some mysterious elixir that will 
overcome the effects of their own indiscretions and 
folly. After all these years we seem to have come 
nearer to the great universal remedy than ever before. 
It is plain, pure milk. We ask you to read the inter¬ 
view with a man who has faithfully tried the milk 
cure, on page 980. We believe these statements fully, 
and know in our own case something of the wonder¬ 
ful power of milk to rebuild and purify the human 
system. It comes nearer to the true “elixir of life” 
than any other fluid yet discovered. 
* 
S OME few changes are being made in the tariff 
bill now before Congress. In the original bill 
there was a low tariff on oil. That has been changed 
and oil will be put on the free list. This was done at 
the request of President Harding. Hides were orig¬ 
inally on the free list, but this has now been changed 
to a low tariff. This was done at the request of 
farmers, but it is said that, it will work to the benefit 
of the big packers and against the interests of the 
independent tanners. 
* 
T FIE following telegram from Utica, N. Y., gives 
the financial result of figuring the pooling 
prices for June milk: 
League pool price for June milk ; 10 cents of 
this will be paid in certificates of indebtedness. De¬ 
ductions total 8y% cents for general expenses, adver¬ 
tising and a fund to be returned to locals. 
The pooling price for May milk was .$1.45 after 
deductions were taken out. The fund for adver¬ 
tising is new. On page 968 will be found a full 
statement made by the League through its general 
manager. The organization is living up to its prom¬ 
ise of giving full financial details. The following 
figures show the average prices paid for milk for 
the 10 years ended October 1, 1916, or the years 
immediately before the war. These prices were for 
three per cent milk, figured on what is now the 
200-210-mile zone. At that time three cents a point 
was allowed for butterfat instead of four cents as 
at present. 
January.$1.84 
February . 1.77 
March . 1 63 
April . L43 
May . 1.10 
June. 1.05 
July . 1.22 
August.... ’ j’gg 
September. 1.43 
October . 1.70 
November .’ 1 . 34 . 
December .’ 
Brevities 
Never kill a lady beetle or a toad. 
Put a head on them—the young trees. 
The bigger the man the less show he makes of him¬ 
self. 
A Pennsylvania farmer fed canned asparagus, 
which had spoiled, to his hogs—and killed the hogs. 
Cash, character and children are the farm crops 
which most men aim to grow from the soil, and the 
greatest of these is children. 
Two lions escaped from a circus and the entire county 
stopped work to hunt them down. Yet the common 
houseflies in that section were far more of a menace 
to health and life. 
Virginia wool growers have leased a mill in the Blue 
Ridge where old-fashioned Colonial coverlets are made 
from home-grown wool. Members of the Virginia Farm 
Bureau are sending wool to this mill at the rate of 
2,000 lbs. per day, and city women are helping to sell 
the goods. 
A number of our readers have written of cases where 
eating the leaves of poison ivy has made the eater im¬ 
mune to the poison. Others come, vigorously condemn¬ 
ing the practice,-and begging others not to try it. We 
shall not eat poison ivy ourselves. It is safe only for 
those who are immune to the poison. 
A reader complains a little because milk prices to the 
farmer are quoted in pounds—not quarts. A quart does 
not make an exactly even weight. When we consider 
the volume of milk poured into the market each day, 
exact measurement would be impossible. Weight is the 
quickest and most reliable standard for estimating it. 
The pigmentation test for laying hens is based on the 
fact that the yellow pigment, or color, in shank, beak 
or skin, is taken up by the blood and deposited in the 
yolk of the egg. Thus a hen or pullet with yellow 
color will not be laying heavily. The bird with white 
beak, skin and shanks, has “laid herself out,” and is the 
one to select for breeding. 
During the war the government took over the year’s 
wool clip and licensed certain dealers to handle wool. 
The profit allowed them was 1% cents per pound. They 
were to return all profit above that amount to the gov¬ 
ernment. Some of the dealers refused to do this, and 
the government sued to recover the balance. The courts 
have deeidod in favor of the govornment. 
