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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Business Farmer’s Paper 
. NE W YORK CITY 
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 
cail this a mental saiety valve. 
He Can Get Hired Men 
Seeing Paul C. Woodnutt’s comment, 
on page 1407. let me give my experience. 
When 1 have seen a desirable man adver¬ 
tising for work in The It. N.-Y.. I have 
written him and sent a stamped, addressed 
envelope; have had only two men reply 
in course of nine months. I had a “man 
wanted" advertisement put in issue of 
November 20. On December 2 I had 35 
replies. Practically all were desirable 
for the position I was offering. The 
wages asked in nearly all cases were rea¬ 
sonable. These were largely country- 
raised young men from the farm, and they 
wanted work. This shows that if you 
give the men an opportunity they will 
work. Your R. N.-Y. give** you touch 
with the farm where the;, are. I have 
sent advertisements to the city papers 
(dailies) and not heard from them. I 
expect to have a No. I man. 
Chenango Co.. N. Y. leo l. nichols. 
A Hired Man Has His Say 
In answer to “Where are the work¬ 
men?" will say that is the only article 
in The K. N.-Y. that ever got on my 
nerves. There are plenty of good men, 
willing to work on the farms, if they were 
treated as men should he treated. The 
trouble is this : The majority of farmers 
who want help don’t want to pay a mas 
enough to exist on. Some wouldn’t have 
a child within 10 miles if they had the 
power to prevent it.- Then, again, they 
expect a man’s family to live in any kind 
of an old shack. (For example. I. my 
wife and live children are practically liv¬ 
ing in two rooms at the present time) ; 
give us one quart of milk a day. garden 
and fuel (wood, of course), which the 
man has to get on his own time. But 
when is he going to get it when he works 
from five in the morning until five and 
six at night? lie cannot very well go in 
the woods and cut it after dark. I have 
seen vegetables and fruits going to waste 
by the wholesale, and ray- family going 
without on farms where 1 have worked. 
Does (hat give a man any courage 
to work? They do not want a man 
or his family to have any of the pleasure 
of eating those good things which lie lias 
worked hard to produce. Take in any 
ether line of employment, a man can buy 
these things that, the hired man lias to do 
without. il<’ can save a little money and 
1 e respected in the community in which he 
lives. The hired man never has a holi¬ 
day Sundays, or privacy in which to 
be with his family. At night he feels 
more like going to bed. in order to be 
ready for work in the morning. If he has 
to go to town to do any shopping, he has 
to walk while the horse or flivver stands 
in the barn. 
There are lots of good men. willing to 
work, as The It. N.-Y. says, and will do 
so; but give them something to induce 
them: they will more than repay it in 
their labor. I don’t say all farmers are 
like this, but the majority are. So let the 
farmers who can’t get help and keep it 
wake up and he more considerate with 
the hired man, and his trouble will he 
ever. I had to stop reading The R. N.-Y. 
in order to write this, and will have to 
hurry to read the ‘‘Hope Farm Notes” 
and go to bed. as I have to be on deck 
at five in the morning. hired MAN. 
Rockland Co.. N. Y. 
Back to the City for These. 
As members of The R. N.-Y. family, 
we are going to take the liberty of offer¬ 
ing an answer to the question Mr. Wood- 
mitt asks about the problem of the un¬ 
employed refusing to come to the country 
for “just plain jobs.” We did. 
My husband’s position in the city gave 
him $100 a month for eight hours’ work 
a day. out of doors. With that money 
he got a warm, clean room, next door to 
the bathroom, and two blocks from Cen¬ 
tral Park; all the food lie wanted, with 
little luxuries, like ice cream and cigar¬ 
ettes. And he saved $20 a month, his 
war-risk insurance, which lie has kept up. 
I was working in an office and had a tiny 
apartment with hath ; I sent the wash out, 
and had a colored woman to do my clean¬ 
ing. Fven she had stationary tubs in 
her apartment, not to mention a bath and 
electric lights, and a savings account. 
We all had Saturday afternoons and Sun¬ 
days free. 
Here, we are unusually lucky, for we 
have a pretty cottage on a thoroughly 
modern farm, under a perfectly charming 
employer. There is running water in all 
the barns, the flower garden and the 
chicken runs. But not in our house. We 
depend on a rusty pump for drinking 
water and on the rain barrel for laundry 
purposes. My husband was given the 
privilege of cleaning the privy one Sun¬ 
day; it was so unspeakable. lie also has 
the privilege of chopping wood for an 
hour or so each evening after 12 hours of 
work on the place, or h« can work in the 
garden, where we arc allowed to grow our 
own vegetables. We are given the pota¬ 
toes which are too small to sell, the dam¬ 
aged fruit, a quart of whole milk daily, 
and all the skim-milk we want, except 
when there is* not enough skim-milk for 
the cats and dogs and us. we go without. 
And my husband’s salary is just half 
What he got in town, not counting the 
"privileges” just mentioned. Of course, 
we are leaving at the end of our year. 
I think that if farmers want men who 
have been working for wages in the city 
to come to them, they must bid higher or 
wait till those savings banks are all 
empty, for nothing short of starvation 
will drive men hack to living conditions 
which, in the city, would he punishable 
b.v a heavy fine. How long will it be be¬ 
fore employers learn that running water 
in the homes of men pays as well as it 
does in the barns? Or electric lights get 
more work out of men as well as Leg¬ 
horns? the hired man’s wife. 
No Such Thing as “Unearned Increment” 
The editorial on page 1330, concerning 
increase in land values due to neighbor¬ 
hood development, voices a quite common 
argument regarding what some consider 
as an evil, which they term “unearned 
increment.” There is, however, another 
side of the question. It is far from being 
the evil the well-intentioned people who 
decry it make it appear. On the whole, 
such investments pay poorly ; on an aver¬ 
age far less than savings banks or Liberty 
bonds. Like mining and some other 
forms of “chance” sneculation. a few are 
fortunate and “strike it rich.” and that 
induces many to try to do likewise; hut 
the carrying charges, interest, taxes and 
special assessments eat constantly, and 
nine times out of 10 the investor’s profits, 
if any. are slim. Local assessing boards 
are not usually over-friendly, especially 
if the owner of such property chance to 
lie a non-resident. From a “money-mak¬ 
ing" standpoint, one would scarcely wish 
to advise his best friend to take his sav¬ 
ings from the savings banks, or out of 
Liberty bonds, ard search for a chance 
to buy land, hoping and expecting "un¬ 
earned increment” on such investment 
would pay better. Yet if such profits are 
abnormal, such would be the logical thing 
to do. 
The facts are the “evil” so often com¬ 
plained of lately is imaginary. T'nder 
our system of land titles and tenure—and 
there seems to I e none better—the people 
who “carry" these surnlus tracts and 
parcels till such time as development will 
he profitable, at an average lower rate of 
profit than savings banks pay. are not 
“leeches.” but. on the contrary, do the 
pub'ic a favor. It may he well to re¬ 
member that “development” should he 
gradual, and only so fast as permanent 
demand warrants. Were the thousands 
< f vacant lots about “Greater Boston” 
budded on suddenly it would be a calam¬ 
ity. The great demand for material and 
labor would make construction costly, and 
buildings already standing would shrink 
in value as rental demands declined. The 
■ ' ’vings banks holding mortgages on them 
would lose heavily. The “town” would 
le “overbuilt. ‘ So with farm production; 
it can be overdone. With his corn at 20c 
this year, it might be hard to convince 
the Nebraska fa-mer too little is grown. 
It is right and proper to denounce evil 
at_ all times, but it: is well to be sure a 
thing is evil before decrying it. 
“ ’Twixt optimist and pessimist the dif¬ 
ference ’tis droll ; 
The optimist the doughnut sees, the pes¬ 
simist the hole.” 
Massachusetts. j. f. frost. 
R. N.-Y .—And yet the average dough¬ 
nut without any hole is often about as 
indigestible a lump of dough as you can 
find. In New York City several of the 
great family fortunes came directly from 
this “unearned increment.” For example, 
practically worthless swamp land was 
taken by the original Astor for next to 
nothing. It was drained, graded and 
filled, largely at public expense, and now 
carries a rental value of millions. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — December 7-0 serious 
rioting occurred at the Chicago stock 
yards, one man being killed and others in¬ 
jured. The riots resulted from labor 
strikes. Women were (lie principal agi¬ 
tators in leading attacks on the police and 
in raiding the homes of persons at work 
despite the strike. While the men tired 
revolvers and hurled missiles, the women 
rushed to their aid armed with red pop¬ 
per to throw in the eyes of the police. 
Charles T. Coggeshall. formerly of 
New York State, who has held several 
government offices, has been indicted by a 
grand jury on charges of defrauding Okla¬ 
homa Indians. lie was released Decem¬ 
ber (5 in Guthrie on $5,000 bonds to await 
trial at the January term of court. The 
government charges, if is understood, that 
the Ind'anS were defrauded of from $10.- 
000 to $40,000. 
Wilberforce University, an institution 
for colored students at Xenia. (J.. suffered 
a loss estimated at $300,000 from fire 
December 7. which completely destroyed 
Shorter Hall, the oldest building on the 
campus. 
Upon the recommendation of Frank J. 
Perkins. Socialist member of the City 
Council. Buffalo. N. Y.. will embark on 
the ent?rprise of sinking test wells for 
’’atnral gas on city property. Two manu- 
December 24, 1021 
factoring concerns are said to have se¬ 
cured sufficient gas to run their plants 
without the use of other fuel. 
Sergeant N. S. Bethcrs. U. S. M. C., a 
guard on a mail car attached to Atlantic 
Coast Line train No. SO. Jacksonville to 
New York, fired his sawed-off gun five 
times December S at three men. two of 
whom were negroes, who were throwing 
packages from a sealed express car ahead, 
near Savannah, Ga. Two of the men 
were wounded and the third is at large. 
Some of the packages thrown off were re¬ 
covered. 
Twelve swindlers, who obtained $21,004 
in cash from stockbrokers and promoters, 
some of whom were reputable business 
men. and others who were not. came tip 
for sentence December 9 before Judge 
Rosalsky in General Sessions. New Y’ork. 
A thirteenth man, who was arrested re¬ 
cently in connection with the case, 
dropped dead - a week ago on his way to 
court. These men represented themselves 
as stock salesmen. Their game was to 
flit from job to job. staying in each place 
long enough to bring in a “buyer” or 
"customer.” who would subscribe for 
stock or bonds, giving promissory notes. 
The “salesman” then collected his com¬ 
mission on the “business” he had secured 
and the cash advances were divided. The 
face value of the promissorv notes they 
gave totalled $2,000,000. They obtained 
employment either through answering ad¬ 
vertisements in the want columns or 
through their own advertising. 
Four men were reported December 12 
to he missing in a fire which destroyed the 
main fonr-sLiry building of the Hoyden 
Chemical Works nlant in Garfield. X. J.. 
December 12. The fire started with a 
series- of exnlosions which flung burning 
chemicals about and injured more than 
”0 men. The damage is estimated at 
more than $200,000. The plant formerly 
was owned by Germans. It was bought 
about two years ago by Allan A. Ryan 
at a sale conducted by the Alien Enemy 
Property Custodian. Mi'. Rvan paid 
$1,500,000 for it. 
Ten persons are known to have been 
killed, a number of others injured and 
heavy property damage has been done by 
railroad accidents and landslides caused 
by the worst flood Western Washington 
has known in years. December 10-12. 
Heavy rains have sent rivers out of their 
banks, washed out bridges, torn through 
railroad embankments and interrupted 
rail and wire communication. Inunda¬ 
tion of a large area is feared as a result 
of a jam of flotsam behind wreckage of 
a Northern Pacific train in Miller River. 
Two lives wc-e lost when the train 
plunged through a bridge weakened by 
the floods. Near Aberdeen four persons 
were killed and several injured in two 
logging railway accidents caused by land¬ 
slides. 
Roy Gardner., twice convicted mail rob¬ 
ber. whose trial at Phoenix Ariz.. on a 
charge of robbing a mail car at Maricopa. 
A' iz.. resulted in a hung jury December 
11. pleaded guilty December 12 in the 
Uni Fed States District Court to a charge 
of attempting to rob a mail car at Phoe¬ 
nix and assaulting Herman F. Tnderlied. 
a mail cle>-k. Judge William IT. Sawtell 
immediately sentenced Gardner to 25 
venrs ir. the Federal Penitentiary at 
Leavenworth. Kan. Tt is understood the 
nr'son authorities will he requested to 
have an operation performed on Gard¬ 
ner’s skull to remove the pressure which 
the defence claims caused Gardner to 
commit his crimes. Gardner now faces a 
total of 75 years’ imprisonment for .sen¬ 
tences imposed upon him for robbing the 
mails 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The New 
York State School of Agriculture at 
Cobleskill will give short courses in agri¬ 
culture. home making and ice cream mak¬ 
ing January 3 to February 24. 1922. 
Labelling vinegar made from dried ap¬ 
ples as “apple cider vinegar” is a viola¬ 
tion of the pure food act. Federal Judge 
F. A. Geiger ruled at Milwaukee Decem¬ 
ber S. in the case of the government ver¬ 
sus the Douglas Packing Company. Fair- 
port. N. Y. The case on trial was made 
a test case, and it is expected that the 
case will be carried to the Supreme Court. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
January 3-Fehruary 24. 1922—New 
York State School of Agriculture. Coble- 
skill. short courses in agriculture, home¬ 
making. ice cream making. 
January 4-7—Ridgewood. N. J.. Pool¬ 
in' Show. North Jersev Poultry Po-eed- 
.Hammerstein. secretary. 
TTolstein-Frie- 
annual meet- 
on’ Club. S. .T 
Hillsdale. N. J. 
January 10—New York 
sian Association, second 
ing. Syracuse. N. Y. 
January 10-12—Maryland Agricultural 
Society and allied societies. Baltimore. 
Md. 
January 10-12—-Virginia State Horti¬ 
cultural Society, annual meeting. Murphy 
Hotel. Richmond. Ya. 
January 10-13—Vermont State Poultry 
Association, twenty-fifth annual exhibi¬ 
tion. City Hall. St. Albans, Vt. B. P. 
Greene, secretary. 
January 11-13—New York State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society. Rochester. N. \ r . 
January 30-February 3 — Farmers’ 
Week. Ohio State College, Columbus. O. 
February 22-24—Eastern meeting. New 
York State Horticultural Society. Pough¬ 
keepsie. N. Y. 
Helen : “What do you consider to be 
the next best thing to marrying your 
ideal?” May: “Oh—marrying some 
other girl's, I suppose.”—Credit Lost. 
