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January 26, 1924 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
DIBBLES 
1924 
FARM 
SEED 
CATALOG 
T HE largest and most complete strictly Farm Seed Book 
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our own Seed Farms, with warehouses of 100,000 bushel 
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ORGANIZED 
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By 
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333 West 30th Street, New York 
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THE DINGEE & CONARD CO., Box 195, West Grove, Pa. 
live forward in hope." We must always 
live in the future. Think what a fuss the 
Parson’s father made when we put a silo 
in the old bay in the barn. Which, from 
what he in turn used to say, was nothing 
like the fuss his father made when just 
after the Civil War, he came home and 
bought a Walter A. Wood mowing ma- 
crine. lie declared he wouldn’t have the 
thing on the farm. "It cut the grass so 
close that it would kill it all.” As a mat¬ 
ter of fact, father used to say, he, father, 
showed the new machine off before all the 
neighbors and cut a big lot of Timothy so 
close that a very hot dry spell coming on, 
the grass never showed its head again. 
The field turned as brown as a berry. 
The Hen Business. —Think how the 
hen business has changed in the Parson’s 
time. As he sits here writing there is a 
big dish of eggs over on the table. George 
brought in 46 last night. He has charge 
of the hens, and has about 100—70 of 
which are pullets. He is doing real well 
with these hens, and had quite a remark¬ 
able record during December. Think of 
the way these hens are cared for, and the 
place they stay in, as compared with the 
hens on the old farm in Vermont 40 years 
ago. Father kept the hens (and the Par¬ 
son presumes it was the best judgment of 
those days) in a cold, damp, dark cellar 
on the northeast corner of the barn. It 
had a long glass window, to be sure, and 
the Parson can see the icy frost on that 
window to this day. There couldn't have 
city parish, especially because he would 
be so “good with the young people.” 
Keep Young Company. —There is 
nothing like keeping round with the 
young folks. Not as a chore or a bore, 
but because we are having the best time 
of them all. The other night the Parson 
and one of the boys went to church sup¬ 
per, and the Parson spoke for about an 
hour after the supper was over with. He 
started home about half-past nine—at 
least it seemed as though we were start¬ 
ing home. ‘‘How long before you get 
home?” asked one of the good church 
folks. He dodged the question and re¬ 
marked, autos made long distances seem 
short. lie wonders if any of them were 
looking as he and the hoy pulled out of 
the churchyard in that yellow, low-down 
daredevil racer of Shelley’s. He trusts 
not, for we nosed the (leaking, half- 
frozen old radiator right in the opposite 
direction from home and heat it 12 miles 
further down the valley to a dance. 
"Some swell time we had” was what the 
boy told the other boys the next morning. 
We were having some company the other 
day : “Quite a family of boys,” remarked 
Mrs. Parson. “Yes,” they answered, 
“and their father is the biggest boy of 
the lot.” 
The “Dead Line.” —People are for¬ 
ever talking about the dead line. In the 
minister this is said to be at 50 years of 
age. We have all read about Dr. Frank 
Crane, and more than five million people 
This Family Walked 2J4 Miles to the Parson's Church 
ai i; r | Beautiful yellow and others. 
biaaiOII-MOra E.N. Tilton Ashtabula, Ohio 
Gladioli—20 Varieties, all Different, SI P B^ d ' 
varieties only. If bought separately would cost many 
times price asked. GEESER BROS., Box Y, Dalton, N.Y. 
r t nn i rr prrn Danish ball head Tested. 
LAKKAllhNhfcU nest strain. One-half lb., $1. 
UmunUL OL>L> V CAULIFLO WER- Snowball. 
One ounce, 41. Postpaid. Cash with order. 
Farmers' Service Co., Inc. t Middletown, N.Y 
been over five or six hours of daylight in 
this room on a sunny day in Winter, and 
on a cloudy day they probably never left 
the roost. If they got a little ice water 
poured on top of a kettle already half 
full of ice any time before noon they were 
lucky. The very height of care and nurs¬ 
ing was to warm the corn a little by the 
kitchen stove, which they got for supper. 
And really they were much more work . 
and worry than are George’s hens over 
here now. For George has a dry mash 
hopper that holds 100 lbs. easily. lie 
made it himself at practically no expense. 
Then he has some hoppers built right in 
between the studding on the side of the 
henhouse. These hoppers take up no 
room and are really the best kind. He 
got the idea out of a Popular Mechanics 
magazine that someone gave us. He has 
one of these for wheat, one for cracked 
corn and one for oyster shells. Each 
place holds easily 100 lbs. The corn and 
wheat places are not self-feeding hoppers, 
for these grains are thrown in the litter. 
Chopped up cornstalks make the very best 
litter. The Parson thinks warm water is 
a great thing for hens in the Winter time. 
Electric Lights. —We have often 
planned an automatic electric light 
switch, and kind friends have sent us sev¬ 
eral plans to go by, but we never got to it. 
Now we do not bother to get up so early; 
simplv turn on the lights when we do get 
up—just a little before it is real light. 
This helps them to get right to work m 
the morning. At night the electric lights 
are on till about 8 o’clock. We have no 
dimmer arrangement, but think we ought 
to have, and we hope to get one some day. 
Most people buy scratch feed around here, 
but the Parson has never bought any ot 
it simply giving them corn and wheat, 
this latter as it is so good for hens, is 
cheap in price, and its use helps out a bit 
on using up the surplus. 
Getting Old. —But there, the Parson 
was talking about growing old, and like 
a regular minister switched right off on 
something else. Why not all be looking 
for more success and accomplishing more 
in the future than we have ever done in 
the past, no matter how old we are? 
Won’t this help tremendously to keep us 
all young? Keep read up with the times, 
right up to the minute, in our line of 
work, whatever it is. Instead of sitting 
back and saying. “I’ve had my best days, 
we can say to ourselves, “Think of the ex¬ 
perience I have had and the great advan¬ 
tage it gives me over these young sprigs 
just coming in.” The Parson believes this 
great craze for a younger man m all 
phases of life is passing, and more and 
more people are appreciating the reliabil¬ 
ity of older heads. Since he was •><>, the 
Parson has had a call to quite a large 
read his writings. Instead of accepting 
the dead line, at 50 he planned for himself 
a great career. It is claimed that because 
he was thinking young and progressive 
thoughts there was a great demand for 
his message. There is an old saying that 
a woman is as old as she looks and a man 
is as old as he feels. The Parson will not 
speak for the womenfolk, but as for ns 
menfolk we will begin this New Year by 
feeling young, and carry it all the way 
through in the same way. 
The Weather. —As Mark Twain used 
to say, “Never saw anything there was so 
much talk about and nothing done about 
as the weather.” The thermometer is 
56 here today—most the middle of Janu¬ 
ary. There were about 5 in. of ice on the 
pond, and we had hoped to get some in 
the icehouse if the cold snap could only 
have kept up. It beats all how cold the 
weather feels when the coal bin is low 
and the icehouse is full, and how hot it 
feels, when you have plenty of coal and 
no ice for next Summer’s ice cream. 
There is no frost in the ground at all 
here, and no wonder, for nearly an inch 
of warm rain fell this forenoon. The 
children came home from school at one 
o’clock and we had hamburg steak and 
mashed potato, and as a special _ treat, 
after some whispering with Clossie, we 
had a bottle of sweet cider from the cellar. 
IIow good this cider is! And how nicely 
it keeps if only you boil it a little and bot¬ 
tle it up hot, just as you would preserves. 
“Could you put up a barrel of this, Pa? 
said one of the boys. 
Covering the Field. —The telephone 
has been pretty busy today. After cover¬ 
ing a large field with Christmas cheer for 
all who needed it, the Parson still had 
quite a lot of things left. So we put no¬ 
tice in the most widely circulated paper 
of the county that we were prepared to 
help any needy family anywhere in the 
way of clothing for children, or layettes 
or Christmas toys. Three families have 
already been reported. Just think of the 
good times the Parson will have from 
finding out the location of some more 
large country families whose living can be 
cheered and brightened. 
Town Clerk’s Right to Vote 
Will you give advice as to legality 
of town clerk’s right to vote on matters 
that come before the town board? 
New York. m. h. s. 
The town clerk as a member of the 
town board has the same right as other 
members to vote on all questions coming 
before it. N. t. 
