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The Rural New-Yorker 
the nr si \ ess farmers paper 
k. National Weekly Journal tor Country anil Suburban Home* 
Establish'd JS60 
Published nefllr hr the linral Publishing Company, 333 West 30th Street. Sew York 
Herbert tv. Coi.i.ing'VOOI). President anil Editor. 
Jou.v J. I mi. ix> s'. Treasurer and General Manager. 
TVm. F. Dillon, Secretary. Mrs. E. T. Rotle. Associate Editor. 
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“A SQUARE DEAL” 
AVe believe that every advertisement in this paper is backed by a respon¬ 
sible person. We use every possible precaution and admit the advertising of 
reliable houses only. But to make doubly sure, we will make good any loss 
to paid subscribers sustained by trusting any' deliberate swindler, irrespon¬ 
sible advertisers or misleading advertisements in our columns, and any 
such swindler will be publicly exposed. We are also often called upon 
to adjust differences or mistakes between our subscribers and honest, 
responsible houses, whether advertisers or not. We willingly use oui good 
to this end,but such cases should not be confused with dishonest 
transactions. We protect subscribers against rogues, but we will not he 
responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
Notice of the complaint must lie sent to us within one month or the time of 
tlie t ransaction, and to identify it, you should mention The Rural New- 
Yorker when writing the advertiser. 
Father’s hearty recommendation and the high stand¬ 
ard of your paper have at last won me over for a year. 
Ohio. • C. E. BROUST. 
W E are hound to say that here is a son Mho 
will. Me trust, fulfill the old text. “A wise son 
maketh a glad father.” We like to think that The 
R. N.-Y. ranks with the things that are handed down 
like a family heritage. 
Enclosed is the dollar that gets more than 34-cent 
returns ! It might interest you to know a few of the 
things the Subscribers’ Exchange has done to or for me. 
One cook. Good, but couldn’t stay. 
< hie cook. Fair. Brought a small son with her, w'ho 
first appeared about three months later. Then both 
left. 
One housemaid. Very fair, but must go home after a 
year’s stay. 
One housemaid. Very fair, and stayed quite a while. 
One honey extractor. 
One tractor and harrow. 
One pipeless heater. 
Interest on the savings thus made ought to provide 
the dollar for a good many years to come. I wonder if 
many others have had as much use of this department! 
Best of success to you. L. s. haskin. 
New York. 
T is something of a stretch between a good cook 
and a pipeless heater and a tractor, but The 
R N.-Y. family goes far beyond these extremes, and 
covers all in between. There is no paper published 
which attends such a "wide range of humanity. In 
order to cover all the elements which make up The 
R.N.-Y. family it would be necessary to take at least 
three of any other papers and magazines. That is 
because our readers are attracted and hold together 
by a common bond of sympathy and human nature. 
We look for good in everyone. We can learn from 
the humblest as well as from the learned, and we 
have sincere confidence in humanity. Our people 
know that. They know that their confidences and 
their property are safe with us. Their interests 
and occupations are so varied that it would be im¬ 
possible to name any ordinary article at a bargain 
which will not b© supplied our bought by one of our 
people. 
* 
M ANY readers report a late bloom on apple and 
pear trees this season. There seems to be 
more of this than usual, and many growers are 
puzzled in trying to account for it. Following sea¬ 
sons of severe late frosts or freezes, such as oc¬ 
curred in the East in 1013 and 1921. it is quite com¬ 
mon to see a second crop bloom upon pears and 
apples and a second crop set of fruit. This is due 
to the fact that the growth of the trees is checked 
in certain parts and there is a tendency to fruit bud 
formation and fruit production. When a severe 
drought occurs in Summer the trees may be checked 
in growth as much as they are in late Fall, and if 
good growing conditions then folknv, fruit buds may 
bloom prematurely. Sometimes tlie attacks of cer¬ 
tain diseases will defoliate trees or plants and result 
in much the same checking effect as a drought or a 
freeze, and when good growing conditions follow the 
trees put forth some flowers. At times a second crop 
of strawberries will develop when the first bloom is 
killed. Many of us lost half or more of our apples 
this year in the late freeze. It looks now 7 as if new 
fruit buds have developed so as to provide a great 
crop next year. 
P LANS are developing in California for a line of 
steamships to run between Los Angeles, through 
the Panama Canal, to Boston, New York and Phila¬ 
delphia. They will carry citrus fruits, and a part 
of the plan is to have the orange and lemon growers 
control a large share of the stock. It has already 
been demonstrated that fruit can be safely trans¬ 
ported in this M 7 ay at a less cost than by railroad. It 
7RURAL NEW-YORKER 
is not likely that many apples or peaches will be 
sent in this way but we think the great bulk of the 
oiange and lemon crop of Southern California will 
finally come by water. Later there will he shipments 
of cotton and Alfalfa hay by the same route. In 
many of the Rocky Mountain States today Alfalfa bay 
is selling at 84 per ton. Many of our Eastern dairy¬ 
men could use such hay to great advantage if it 
could he delivered in our seaboard cities at a fair 
price. Why not grow it themselves? There are 
many points op the Atlantic slope where Alfalfa will 
not thrive. If often pays better in such sections for 
farmers to raise large crops of corn for the silo and 
buy their protein cow feed if they can obtain it at a 
fair price. Water shipments may make it possible 
for a New Jersey cow fo make a profitable meal on 
Pacific coast Alfalfa. 
, * 
F IFTY portly ladies (we can hardly bring our¬ 
selves to call them fat women) are in this city 
undergoing an experiment in trying to reduce their 
weight. Exercise and diet are the two mediums 
through which they expect to fight off their flesh. 
They appear to he “gaining” in shadow and losing 
in substance. The diet consists mainly of fruit, lean 
meat and vegetables without starch. We notice that 
raw 7 apples and skim-milk form a fair proportion of 
their food. Butter, potatoes, white bread and sim¬ 
ilar foods are not permitted. There is to be a prize 
for the lady who loses most in weight. Now we 
want to see a public contest of worn, weary and ill- 
nourished people who will try tlie “milk diet” faith¬ 
fully for one month. It would pay the Dairymen’s 
League to put up the milk for this contest and em¬ 
ploy physicians to supervise it. Let the public know 
that skim-milk will take the surplus layers of fat off 
the poor, overworked bones, while whole milk will 
round out the beanpole form into a figure that may 
serve as model for a goddess. And milk is the only 
food that can work these wonders. 
* 
My family and myself were out riding a short time 
ago and came across an apple tree planted just inside of 
the fence. Quite a lot of the branches hung out over the 
sidewalk or roadway, and had some nice apples on them. 
My children wanted to get some to eat on the way along. 
Had we any right to take some that hung on the road¬ 
way? I had an idea that we had a right to take some 
as long as they hung out over the roadway. h. j. b. 
O, you had no legal right to take the apples. 
They belong to the owner of the property out 
of which the tree is growing. No matter where the 
branches hang, it is his tree, and the fruit belongs to 
him. Practically all the right you have in the high¬ 
way is to travel over it without obstructing other 
travel. It is a strip of land put aside for the public 
convenience, but it really belongs to the owner of 
the adjoining property. The grass or fruit which may 
grow there or hang over the road do not belong to 
the public. In this case the tree does not grow in 
rhe highway, but is clearly over the line and lienee 
a part of private property. Very likely the owner 
might let the children have a few apples if you asked 
for them, but you have no right to take them without 
permission. 
'T' 
T HE annual income of the family of the late Gail 
Borden, one of llie founders of the Borden milk 
companies, is, according to official estimates, $128,788. 
This is not considered sufficient, for the needs of the 
family, and application lias been made to tlie court 
for permission to use some of the principal of the 
estate. The estate is made up principally of stocks 
and bonds of the Borden milk companies. The last 
available official estimates give the income produced 
by the labor of the farm family as $402 per year. 
On this basis it would take the labor of 123 farm 
families to produce the income drawn annually from 
the milk industry by this one scion of the Borden 
family, who does no work, while the 123 families 
will average 12 to 14 hours per day. 
* 
I posted my farm for trespass and hunting October 1, 
1921. Now I am told that I cannot convict anyone 
because the farm was not posted during July, August 
and September: also that I must have a license to* hunt 
on mv own farm. A. c. B. 
New York. 
S UBDIVISION 8 of Section 185 of the conserva¬ 
tion law provides that the owner or owners of 
farm land and their immediate family or families 
occupying and cultivating the same, or the lessee or 
lessees thereof and their immediate family or fam¬ 
ilies. who are actually occupying and cultivating the 
same, shall have the right to hunt, kill and take 
game or trap fur-bearing animals on such farm land 
during the open season without procuring a license, 
and also that minors under the age of 1G years shall 
not be required to take out a license to trap fur¬ 
bearing animals. This does not include hired ern- 
Novembor 5, 192i 
ployees on the farm, but only members of the imme¬ 
diate family. If you posted your land on October 1 
the notices are good until the last day of September, 
1922. Once during either the months of July, Au¬ 
gust or September. 1922, and during the same months 
each year thereafter, notices which have been de¬ 
stroyed or have become illegible should be renewed, 
and this is all that is required in order to obtain con¬ 
viction of trespassers who either take or disturb 
game on the property or trespass with or having in 
their possession a rod, gun or any implement or 
means by M'hich fish, game or fur-bearing animals 
might he disturbed, taken or killed. The State police 
have been instructed to arrest and prosecute tres¬ 
passers. Hunters must display the number of their 
shooting licenses. To post a farm properly the no¬ 
tices must he at least 12 inches equare. There must 
he one at each corner of the farm, and at least one 
on each side. They must not be more than 40 rods 
apart and be placed along the boundary lines. In 
order to be sure, put them less than 40 rods apart. 
VTe think some of the articles appearing in farm 
papers were written by sportsmen who are trying to 
discourage farmers from posting their farms. 
* 
A FTER completing 24 years of active service at 
the Geneva. N. Y., Experiment Station, Prof. 
George A. Smith has resigned. He leaves the service 
November 1. This veteran dairy expert and in¬ 
structor is no laboratory product or accident. He 
is a veteran who began as a cheese-maker on a 
small scale years ago, and through persistent ability 
developed into one of the best dairy experts ever 
known in New York State. A quiet, retiring man. 
George A. Smith never attempted to push or ‘‘boom” 
himself. He went about his work quietly, using 
his great knowledge and keen judgment always in 
the interest of the State and his fellow dairymen. 
1-Ie was part of the fine “old guard” of strong, prac¬ 
tical men who laid the foundation of much that our 
younger people now enjoy. George A. Smith has won 
that finest of all memories in history—he wdll be 
missed, though we hope he may be spared for many 
years of n’ork. 
O UR old frieud J. W. Stubenraucli lived for years 
in a Texas town of moderate size. In such 
places you come to know 7 everyone, and the best part 
of living is the comradeship and joy of acquaintance. 
Then came the oil excitement. It w 7 as found that 
this town, all around and below it, w 7 as in the oil 
belt, and our old friend pictures the changing scene: 
Strangers have taken possession of our towns. While 
formerly knowing about all of the people, today I hardly 
know one out of 50 that I meet on the streets. It no 
longer looks like home to me. Nearly all of our mer¬ 
chants sold out to strangers. True, money comes in 
freely, but we have not even the pleasure of spending it 
with our old friends. Being used to a quiet life, this 
present condition, with strangers crowding in every¬ 
where, does not suit at all. hence I shall have to find 
another home outside of this tumult and chasing after 
leases and oil. 
The young and thoughtless may laugh at this. To 
them “a bunch of money” is far better than an or¬ 
chard or a lonely farm back on some hill or side 
road. Yet we can fully understand just how 7 such 
older men feel. They have seen their trees grow 
from little sticks. With the labor of their own hands 
they have conquered a prairie, an old pasture or a 
wooded slope, and turned it into lawns and gardens. 
It is like the death of ambition, the blight of life, to 
see all this beauty change to a golden sear on the 
face of nature. We cannot think of any sura of 
money that could compensate us for the destruction 
of our home and the wiping out of old neighborly 
associations. One of the glories of true farm life is 
the fact that there are some things about it which 
money cannot buy. 
Brevities 
We hope there is an open fireplace in your house. 
No. one dares to think about the possible pedigree of 
a “hot dog.” 
Remember that bisulphide of carbon is the chemical 
that kills grain weevils. 
Something new 7 under the son! A little dynamite to 
start him going. 
All you have to do is to make milk drinking fash¬ 
ionable—the rest is easy. 
The meanest thing in life—when you are caught in 
some mean trick, to charge it to your wife. 
In many of our markets the barrel package seems to 
be disappearing. The bushel hamper takes its place. 
Students of the Oregon Agricultural College will 
build a $300,000 union building, financed entirely by 
students and alumni. The students voted unanimously 
to pay $3 each term toward such a fund. Here is an 
idea for the alumni of some of these old country schools. 
Go back and help the district put up a new building. 
