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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 31, 1921 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
The Rural 
year 1921 with 
paid in advance 
largest and best 
New-Yorker closes the 
a circulation of 200,000 
subscribers. This is the 
circulation in the entire 
history of the paper. During the present 
management of thirty-odd years it has 
had no boom year, but the growth has 
been uniformly steady year by year up to 
its present proportions. This was our 
aim from the first, and we would not have 
had it faster or different if we could. 
Thirty-odd years ago. at the very be¬ 
ginning of this administration of The 
Rural New-Yorker, two tests were pri¬ 
vately adopted for the matter that was to 
go into the paper. This included text, 
editorial and advertising: 
I. It must, in our best judgment, be 
true. 
II. It must, in our best judgment, he 
a benefit to the farmer. The paper must 
defend the farmer’s rights and champion 
his cause at all times and everywhere. 
No public notice was made at the time 
of this purpose. The policy was not pub¬ 
licly known until farmers had discovered 
it and commented on it more than 20 
years after it was adopted. We elected 
to try the experiment on its merits of 
running a paper exclusively in every 
feature for the benefit of the farm, with¬ 
out regard to opposition or circumstances 
cording to our reports, the concern has 
no producing or distributing facilities as 
yet. The company was only organized 
in September, 1921, and a building has 
been leased at Arlington, N. ,T., for man¬ 
ufacturing purposes. The only activities 
of the concern, according to our informa¬ 
tion, have been selling stock. The presi¬ 
dent of the company was formerly super¬ 
intendent of a glass factory, and that fact 
seems to be the principal asset of the 
company, on which it bases its prospects 
of large profits to investors. 
I received your letter and voucher for 
$900 for claim against the railroad com¬ 
pany. There is no need of saying how 
thankful I am. Without your help I 
could not get it settled in years, if ever. 
Before I sent it to you I tried the Inter¬ 
state Commerce Commission, only after 
much correspondence to be referred back 
to the railroad. I have had similar ex¬ 
periences with lawyers and lawsuits, so 
you can see how pleased I am or this 
settlement. I would like to send . k 
for your expenses. yf 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
A. T. 
of any source or kind. With a burden of 
debt and small resources, the task was 
not an easy one. Details of the struggle 
are not necessary. In one notable fight 
we were obliged to face not only the agri¬ 
cultural institutions of the State, and 
powerful political organization, but also 
for the time to displease many of our own 
best friends. In one of the hardest two- 
year fights ever waged by the agricultural 
press anywhere we proved the justice of 
our position to the satisfaction of the 
whole world. Without, flinching we re¬ 
fused advertising, sacrificed income, fought 
crooks and defended libel suits. Hardest 
of all. at times we bore the misunder¬ 
standing of friends, and occasionally ac¬ 
cepted their abuse with such patience and 
grace we could command. Without going 
into details, we may confess to a pride in 
the fact that the experiment has been a 
success, measured not only by the present 
results, but generously acknowledged by 
farmers and the farm press everywhere. 
It is far from our mind, however, to 
take full credit for the growth and sue- 
cess of this paper to ourselves. From the 
nature of the work we had to lead it and 
assume responsibility for it; but. after 
all, it was the interest and help and 
friendship of our friends in the country 
that made these results possible. We are 
glad to be able to publicly acknowledge 
that service and share with our friends 
■the credit for a notable agricultural suc¬ 
cess. 
Now we approach a new year, and we 
face it with confidence and hope. We 
aspire only to a healthful growth. As 
means permit we wish to improve the 
paper, maintain a modern equipment and 
increase the service to the farm industry 
in general and to our own subscribers in 
particular. 
We always find encouragement for the 
New Year in the size of the subscription 
mail for the day after New Year’s. With 
the growth of circulation it has generally 
increased from year to year. We hope 
for the same record in the first mail of 
1922. and thanking all in advance who 
contribute to it, we wish all. without ex¬ 
ception, a Happy New Year. 
Your advice given me on all occasions 
(two in number) was lOOper cent good. 
What can you tell me about this concern, 
whose letter I enclose? Any truth about 
their claims in paragraph T have under¬ 
lined? Who is the president or head? 
Many thanks to you for information 
sought. Respectfully yours—a member 
of your large family, c. F. r. 
Connecticut.. 
The circular letter enclosed of Bullet 
Proof and Non-sbatterable Class Car. 25 
West 43d Street, New York City, refers 
to the “problem of enlarging our produc¬ 
ing and distributing facilities,” but, ac- 
This case was one to cover value of a 
pair of horses injured in a railroad car 
in transit. It has itakon several months 
to adjust the claim, because following 
more or less of a general policy the rep¬ 
resentatives first wanted to settle for 25 
per cent of the damage, and advanced 
only slowly to the point of real damage. 
We have had no outside legal expense in 
the case, and there is never any charge for 
our services. It is one of the pleasures 
of this department that we can at times 
do a service for those who are not in a 
position to serve themselves. 
What is the standing of the fJreat 
American Casualty Company. 221 West 
Adams Street. Chicago, Ill.? I)o you 
think that this insurance is worth taking 
up 
C. M. N. 
New Jersey. 
A cheap Chicago paper with a farm 
name is offering four years’ subscription 
and a $1,000 policy of this company for 
$1. We have never yet found a case 
where something is given for nothing, and 
we regard the policy not worth more than 
the dollar asked for it with the paper 
should expect an acci- 
to be made to order to 
the exemptions of such 
thrown in. We 
dent, would have 
come outside of 
a policy. 
Will you read the enclosed and warn 
your readers to beware of this new fake 
through your Publisher’s Desk column? 
It will oblige the poultry industry in gen¬ 
eral- a. f. b. 
New York. 
The circular is a product of the brain 
of F. W. King, Peoria. Ill., asking for a 
$2 membership fee in what he calls “Unit¬ 
ed Purebred Poultry Specialists.” Mr. 
King proposes advertising in poultry 
papers, and in consideration of the above 
fee send the poultr.vman member orders 
resulting from his advertising on his par¬ 
ticular breed. The scheme is impractical, 
at any rate, and may be a fake, as this 
correspondent brands it. Experienced 
poultrymen are not likely to give such a 
scheme any consideration. 
The Chamber of Commerce of Houston, 
Texas, very properly takes exception to 
our remarks in November 19 issue to the 
effect that one is justified in “looking 
with suspicion on anything in the way of 
investments emanating from that section.” 
We of course had in mind the class of 
investments offered to farmers through 
the mails and by stock salesmen traveling 
about country districts: and in this view 
we are fully justified in the advice. There 
are. however, many legitimate oil enter¬ 
prises in Houston, Texas, including some 
of the substantial oil companies, but such 
oil promoters as S. E. .T. Cox and Henry 
II. Huffman have given the section much 
unfavorable notoriety, and it is to keep 
the fingers of gentlemen of this class out 
of the pockets of country people that 
prompted our remarks. The official of 
the Chamber of Commerce conducting the 
correspondence sizes the situation up in 
this fashion : 
We have in Houston a very prolific soil 
commercially. When properly cultivated 
it yields well and profitably. L,,„ the 
weeds keep springing up between the rows 
and sometimes, under certain conditions, 
they grow even taller than the crops, and 
advertise themselves in various ways— 
sometimes by an attractive bloom, by the 
richness of their foliage, but always ad¬ 
vertising. However, being a farmer, you 
will understand how it is. and you will 
know just what our difficulties are here. 
Some Cases of Workmen’s Compensation 
We have some curious questions here 
about the compensation laws in various 
States. Many persons are injured under 
peculiar circumstances. They naturally 
want to obtain the compensation, and 
they come with all sorts of stories about 
the way the accident happened. The 
New York Times has recently collected a 
list of curious cases, some of which have 
been adjusted. 
In one case a man was employed as 
gamekeeper by a rod and gun club. This 
man saw a hawk flying over the field 
where game birds were kept. He fired 
one barrel of his gun at the hawk and 
missed. Then he stepped forward, in¬ 
tending to fire again. His foot caught in 
a piece of wire and he was tripped. As 
he fell the contents of the second barrel 
entered his left hand. He claimed com¬ 
pensation from the rod and gun club, and 
this was allowed. 
In another case reported a man was 
employed by a building contractor who 
had a contract for moving a building. 
While helping to move the chicken coop 
a rat ran from under the building. A 
workman caught up a short piece of 
board and struck at the rat. A sliver 
from this board ran into his hand and 
blood poisoning developed. He was 
obliged to quit work for several weeks 
and claimed compensation under the law. 
The referee decided against him on the 
plea that he was hired to move the build¬ 
ing, and not hired to kill rats. He as¬ 
sumed the responsibility of killing the rat 
outside of his regular employment. 
In another case a woman entered a dry- 
goods store and saw a cat sitting on the 
counter. She started to pet the cat. as 
women often do. but the cat resented her 
advances and scratched her hand badly. 
Claim was made for compensation against 
the owner of the cat, but the matter has 
not been decided. 
In another case a workman for an oil 
company went into the belt house and 
knelt down to fix a broken part. A gun 
was fired and the workman felt severe 
pains in his hip and side. It was found 
that he had been shot in 11 places. It 
seems that this workman had on white 
rubber boots, and a hunter, seeing the 
boots, mistook them for a rabbit and thus 
filled the workman up with shot. Com¬ 
pensation was demanded for this accident, 
and paid. 
In another case a workman put on a 
pair of shoes too tight for his feet. In 
an attempt to stretch the tight shoe with 
a sharp instrument the blade slipped and 
punctured his stomach, and he died in 
about five minutes. Compensation was 
demanded and allowed for this accident. 
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Measuring a River’s Flow 
It is not likely that many of our read¬ 
ers will ever be called upon to measure 
the water flowing in a river. Still, a 
farmer must be prepared for anything, 
and so we ropy the following directions 
from, a United States Geological Survey 
bulletin : 
Choose a place where the channel is 
straight for 100 to 200 ft. and has a 
nearly constant width and depth ; lay off 
on the bank a line 50 or 100 ft. in length, 
marking each end ; then throw small chips 
into the water and .allow them to float 
downstream, noting the time the chips 
require to travel the distance laid off on 
the bank. The surface velocity in feet 
per second may he found by dividing the 
distance in feet passed over by the chips 
by the time in seconds the chips take to 
travel this distance. The average of sev¬ 
eral such determinations will give the 
Tmean velocity of the surface of the 
stream. The surface velocity multiplied 
by 0.S0 gives very nearly the average ve¬ 
locity of the whole stream, from surface 
to bed. 
To determine the area of the cross sec¬ 
tion of the stream, stretch a tape from 
shore to shore and take the depth of the 
stream at intervals of 2 to 5 ft. Compute 
the average of these depths in feet to de¬ 
termine the mean depth of the stream. 
This average multiplied by the total width 
in feet will give the area of the cross sec¬ 
tion of the stream in square feet. 
The discharge—that is. the quantity of 
water flowing in the stream—is found by 
multiplying the area of the oross section 
by the average velocity as determined by 
means of the chips, the result being the 
discharge in second-feet. or. in other 
words, the number of cubic feet, flowing 
past the point of measurement every sec¬ 
ond. A cubic foot contains 7.48 gallons. 
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