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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 26, 1921 
“NO RUINOUS VI3RATION” 
MEANS EXTRA YEARS OF SERVICE 
THAT ELECTRICITY on the farm is a money saver 
is now generally acknowledged. Thousands upon 
thousands of farmers who have added this great im¬ 
provement know the many ways in which it saves 
money, time and labor. They also know the comfort 
and happiness it brings to the farm home. 
Write for free booklet, “What Owners Say About 
Silent Alamo.” It shows that you pay for electricity 
whether or not you buy the Alamo. We will also send 
booklet, “What a Difference It Makes.” Write today. 
ALAMO FARM LIGHT CO., 752 TOWER BLDG., CHICAGO 
FACTORIES AT HILLSDALE, MICHIGAN 
FARM ELECTRIC POWER AND LIGHT PLANT 
ANNOUNCEMENT 
of interest to 
Fruit and Vegetable Growers 
Leading orchardists, fruit and produce dealers of Western New York have 
been organized by Mr. Theodore Dosch, for 13 years general Manager of the 
Niagara Sprayer Co., into a new company, capitalized at two and a half million 
dollars, known as the Dosch Chemical Company. 
This organization manufactures the much-needed, improved combination fruit' 
and vegetable-dusting machine, all dusting and spraying materials, also nico¬ 
tine-sulphate. 
The factories are located at Louisville, Ky., near the raw materials and cheap 
labor. You pay freight only on the finished product, resulting in a substantial 
saving to the consumer. 
The warehouses, carrying the year around a full line of machines, parts and 
materials, are located throughout the state, wherever the goods are used. 
If you want a duster, insecticides, fungicides, or nicotine-sulphate of superior 
quality, you can save money by ordering from 
DOSCH CHEMICAL COMPANY 
LOUISVILLE, KY. 
New York State Office - - - 41 Main Street, Lockport, N. Y. 
WAYNE FOLGER, Mgr. Phone No. 1596 
Look at these Prices and Terms 
RADIATOR AND HOOD COVERS 
Dull Finish, Long Grain, Drill-Brown, Kersey Lining 
Rad. Cover only R. & H. Covers 
Fords—all models. 
$1.25 
$2.75 
Other 4 cyl. cars. 
1.50 
3.25 
Six and 8 cyl. cars. 
2.25 
4.25 
Fabric Leather Quality 
Fords. 
$1.50 
$3.00 
Other 4 cyl. cars. 
1.7 5 
3.75 
Six and 8 cyl. cars... 
2.25 
4.75 
FORD RETOPPING OUTFIT 
Top—Back Curtain, complete, ready for 
mounting. Guaranteed lit.. . $5.00 
Back Curtain. 3 window ... 2.75 
Made of 32-oz. Rubber Fabric. 
TERMS—Money Order or Cash accompanying order. 
L. E. MEARS SPECIALTY CO. 
84 Sirth Avenue . - Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Barnes’ Fruit Trees 
Are Northern Grown 
Barnes’ Trees are hardy, grown to thrive 
in severe Northern climates. They 
include standard varieties of Apples, 
Peaches. Plums and Cherries, also Small 
Fruits. We especially recommend Barnes' 
one-year-old Apple Trees. They stand 
transplanting remarkably well and make 
rapid growth. 
Write today for KIIKK Fruit Book and 
Price List. Buy your fruit trees from 
nurserymen with long-established repu¬ 
tation tor quality and fair dealing. 
Box 8 Yalesville, Conn. 
Make Oat Sprouter 
For S2.I9 you can Imild the simplest, m /\ 
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$135.00 FOR BEST NUTS 
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ENGLISH WALNUTS, HAZELNUTS. HICKORYNUTS. JAPAN 
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Highly Flavored, Indiana Grown, SEEDLING PECANS 
for eating and planting. 40 cent* per pound. 
•L F. WilkiriKon Hoi 55 Kockport. Indiana 
CURRANT CUTTINGS “SJbS 1 "’ from 
James A. Staples Marlborough-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
Strawberry 
PLANTS for fall setting. ?5e per 100 post¬ 
paid. Dm Id Bod way, llurtly, Delaware 
CAioDanno FOR SALE. Early Wilson. Blacksand 
jUluDUullo Virginias. No. I quality. Farmer’s 
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y. Satisfaction guaranteed f. WETDEMA, Weslovcr, Marylsnd 
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SYSTEMS OF TAXATION 
The Single Tax: The theory of the 
single tax rests on the economic law of 
rent, and other principles expressed in 
the last chapter. A single tax means a 
tax on land only. It includes water¬ 
fronts, rights of way, water powers, coal 
and oil fields, mineral deposits and all 
natural assets associated with the earth 
and forming part of it. It excludes 
all improvements of land and all arti¬ 
ficial products. A single tax would do 
away with all other forms of taxation 
whatever. It proposes, 'n short, that all 
economic rent be collected and used to 
pay public expenses. For convenience 
this rent revenue would be called a tax. 
Ricardo did not originate the theory of 
rent, but he formulated it in a definite 
law. and impressed it on public attention. 
So. too. the application of the law of rent 
to taxation and the idea of a single tax 
did not originate with Henry George, with 
whom the theory of a single tax is gen¬ 
erally associated; hut he caused a wide 
discussion of the policy by the publication 
of his notable book, “Progress and Pov¬ 
erty.” lie wrote in a most appealing lit¬ 
erary style, and his broad human sym¬ 
pathies and earnest convictions won for 
him a host of admirers and devoted fol¬ 
lowers throughout the world. He. how¬ 
ever. offered the single tax as a specific 
for the abolition of poverty, and drew 
conclusions from debatable premises to 
sustain his theories of economic justice. 
His opponents, of course, disputed his 
conclusions; and many with an open 
mind and sympathetic interest, having 
discovered the weakness in his philos¬ 
ophy, lost sight of the great economic 
truth in the law of rent through the con¬ 
fusion of an argument to justify it as a 
panacea for social ills. In consequence 
many people rejected the whole subject as 
•in illogical and radical theory. They 
have therefore never experienced the de¬ 
lightful mental discovery of the great fun¬ 
damental truth of economic rent, and con¬ 
sideration of the application of it to tax¬ 
ation problems has been proportionately 
delayed. 
A single tax would not change the 
amount of revenue to be raised. It would 
shift the payment of it from those who 
now pay it, who are mainly ultimate con¬ 
sumers, to the owners of land. From 
information at hand and experiments al¬ 
ready made it would seem that the op¬ 
tion of the single tax would not affect 
much, if any, the farmers’ direct tax 
for local expenses. The amount taken 
off improvements and personal property 
would simply be added to the tax on 
land. It. should, however, relieve him of 
a considerable burden of indirect tax that 
he now pays as a larger price for his sup¬ 
plies; and notwithstanding the broad 
areas of cultivated land, their total rental 
value is small as compared with the value 
of city land, site values generally, and 
the vast natural assets of the earth. In 
consequence of the estimated ratio of 
these rental values, the tax on farm lands 
should be comparatively small; we how¬ 
ever, need Federal statistics, not yet pro¬ 
vided in the census, on which to base def¬ 
inite and final conclusions. 
When a government establishes a def¬ 
inite and fixed policy of taxation, and 
maintains it for considerable time, the 
policy cannot be suddenly and radically 
changed without hardship to some of the 
taxable subjects. When a system of tax¬ 
ation is adopted by the government, the 
individual has no choice but to adapt his 
affairs to the general plan. All are sub¬ 
ject to the general law, and all comply 
with it as a matter of necessity. No pru¬ 
dence or foresight can protect an indi¬ 
vidual against changes in the system, 
because no one can know in advance that 
there will be changes, or what the 
changes, if made, are to be. Men and 
women with foresight work and save dur¬ 
ing their prime that they may be able 
to provide for illness and declining age. 
Husbands and fathers save and accumu¬ 
late wealth that in case of future disabil¬ 
ity or death the wife and children may 
have means of support. They invest in 
hind values, trusting to the income as the 
future revenue. Society encourages this 
prudence. It relieves society from the 
burden of caring for dependent widows 
and orphans. Surely the government 
should proceed with caution when it is 
proposed suddenly to destroy the capital 
values in such investments. It is true 
that government gives no assurance of 
the property value. The subject must 
take that risk, but he has a right to ex¬ 
pect a measure of stability and justice 
from the government. Sometimes abuses 
grow out of laws and customs enacted or 
encouraged by society, and changes must 
be made in the interest of public welfare 
even at the inconvenience or loss of indi¬ 
viduals, but the changes should be made 
with the least possible hardship to the 
individual. It would seem, therefore, 
that if a full study of the taxation prob¬ 
lem convinced a majority of the peopie 
that the full economic rent of land be¬ 
longs to society as a whole, and should 
be used to pay public expenses without 
other forms of taxation, the change 
should be made gradually over a series of 
years, and not all at one time. The 
American people will never consent to 
anything that has even the appearance of 
confiscation of regularly and lawfully ac¬ 
quired property; but, if convinced of the 
truth of a great principle, they would 
find a way to put it. in practice without 
serious hardship to the individual. A 
shift of only 5 per cent a year would 
complete the change of taxation from 
personal property to land in 20 years. If 
convinced that the principle itself were 
sound, and the change demanded for pub¬ 
lic good, no one could object to the change 
worked out on some such basis on the 
ground of personal hardship. 
The forty-seventh annual meeting of the 
New Jersey State Horticultural Society 
will be held in Atlantic City, Dec. 6, 7 and 
8. in the hall fronting Haddon Hail and 
adjoining the Chalfonte. which hotel will 
be headquarters. Discussion may be ex¬ 
pected about bettering the marketing of 
apples and peaches, which under normal 
cond’tions should prove a big crop in 102‘ ) , 
as the trees have made good growth this 
year. Apples will be the feature of Tues¬ 
day afternoon, peaches and apples 
Wednesday morning, and vegetables 
Wednesday afternoon. Thursday will he 
given to the big feature, “How are our 
crops of peaches to he distributed shoull 
a big cop arrive as expected?” 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NOV. 26, 1921 
FARM TOPICS 
Corn for Fuel or Food. 1372 
Effect of Rye as a Manorial Crop. 1373 
The Use of Green Cut Bone. 1373 
Hope Farm Notes. 1376 
The Farmers’ Bureau and Farm Prices.... 1379 
Farmers and Comparative Incomes. 1379 
State Farm Bureau Federation Meeting... 1379 
Inoculated Sulphur—Part IV. 1388 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
A New Law for Trespassing Stock. 1372 
The Dairymen’s League Co-operative Asso¬ 
ciation . 1379 
Guernsey Field Man for New York State... 1386 
Berkshire Notes . 1386 
“Hothouse” Lambs . 1386 
Hog Scalding . 1386 
Meat from a Wounded Animal. 1386 
THE HENYARD 
A Remedy for Blackhead in Turkeys. 1373 
HORTICULTURE 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1375 
Locust Hedge . 1375 
Gladiolus fr r Cut Flowers. 1377 
Preparing Horse-adish for Market. 1377 
Moving Arbor Vitae; Strong Turnips. 1377 
As+er Yel’owa .1377 
McIntosh Apple at a Banquet. 1379 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Bovs and Girls.1380, 1381 
The Home Dressmaker. 1335 
The Pastoral Parson. 1382 
“Boys Will Be Boys”. 1382 
Cats and Melons. 1382 
Notes from a. Sagebrush Farmer’s Wife.... 1 ;< “3 
Happy Thanksgiving . 1383 
Blind Canary Reaches Age of Twenty-one.. 1383 
MISCELLANEOUS 
How to Make a Concrete Walk. 1371 
Sad Case of a Typhoid Carrier.1371, 1372 
Care of the Insane in New York. 1372 
An Amplifier for Public Speakers. 1373 
A Primer of Economics—Part LII. 1374 
Editorials . 1378 
Whitewashing Building Paper. 1384 
Cleaning Motor Oil. 1384 
Baking Powder and Yeast. 1384 
Artificial Ice . 1384 
Welding Compounds . 1384 
Cutting Glass,' Removing Rust and Repel¬ 
ling Rats . 1384 
How to Feed Skunks. 1390 
Fish in the Well. 1390 
Killing Wasps . 1390 
Events of the Week. 1391 
Publisher’s Desk . 1394 
