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27* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 2, 1924 
Things To Think About 
A Dissatisfied Hired Man 
Would you advise me as to the follow¬ 
ing? The place where I am employed is 
a fruit farm. I have been here going 
on my fourth season, and my employer 
is of good judgment. But he will not 
let me keep a pair of pigs or chickens for 
my family use. Of course 1 expect to buy 
their feed for them. He said there is no 
money in either pigs or chickens, but has 
his own chickens. My wages are $60 per 
month for eight months, and catch what 
1 can in Winter;- myself, wife and five 
children. I can get more money with 
a place to keep pigs and chickens, hut 
do not like to move. I cannot work for 
$60 without privileges of some kind, be¬ 
sides my house and month’s wages. At 
the present time I am thinking of leaving 
the farm for good, and going in a factory 
here that is paying from $22.50 to $25.00 
a week; hire a house in the village for 
$10. and then I can keep a few chickens, 
a pig if I wish, which I cannot do on the 
farm. What would be your advice, for I 
would depend on your reply? Would I 
be doing the right thing to leave for the 
reason stated? Money is not enough. I 
am the only one employed on 22 acres of 
fruit farm. No other help besides my¬ 
self and wife, when needed to help. 
i. w. s. 
We would not take the responsibility 
of trying to settle such a case. We know 
nothing about the personality of either 
The Farmer and the Radio 
My experience with the radio leads me 
to believe that it is no financial benefit 
to the farmer, because, just at the time 
he would like to get a weather or market 
report, something will happem to prevent 
its being received. Any farmer will spend 
a lot of time with a radio that could be 
much more profitably used in some other 
way, but as a recreation or diversion the 
radio is a great success. However, I 
hope no farmer will install one with the 
mistaken idea that it will be of any com¬ 
mercial value. A. c. H. 
We have heard the same idea expressed 
by other farmers, but the great majority, 
however, seem to think that the enjoy¬ 
ment they get from the radio makes it a 
necessity. It is much the same with the 
modern car. Probably 90 per cent of its 
use is for pleasure rather than business. 
Salaries of Judges 
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$25,000. and what they think of it. I 
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some of whom I have spoken to, who are 
feeling bitter about this, and think a lit¬ 
tle more of bow their scant earnings com¬ 
pared to some of these salaries. Couldn’t 
a judge find it possible to live real com¬ 
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party, and that is the most important 
thing about it. If this farmer does not 
want pigs and chickens on his farm there 
must be some reason for it. We have had 
some experience along this line, and it 
was never satisfactory. The pigs got out 
and made great trouble. The chickens 
were a nuisance and there were many 
quarrels about feed. The hired men often 
“borrowed” corn and other grain from 
our bins, and there were many arguments 
as to whether they ever put it back. As 
a rule, two sets of live stock on a farm 
do not match well; at least that has 
been our experience. We have found it 
wiser to supply milk and a reasonable 
number of eggs from the farm stock. As 
for keeping a pig, we think it better to 
let the man select a good pig from some 
litter, mark it and let it run with the 
others, with an agreement to slaughter at 
some specified time—the man to have the 
meat. It pays to be liberal in such things 
when the man is fair and honorable, hut 
we find it far better to work in the way 
here mentioned rather than try to keep a 
little stock separate. In one case we 
know of the hired man’s wife raises a 
number of chickens, the boss providing 
implements, eggs and feed. In the Fall 
the stock is divided evenly, the woman 
getting credit in eggs and poultry from 
the general flock for her share. The 
wages this man speaks of are low for 
the work he claims to do. If he is a 
worker, and reasonable in his habits and 
disposition, he could earn more than that 
on some other farm. His scheme of go¬ 
ing to work in town at possibly $25 a 
week will fail. -He is not sure of con¬ 
stant work, and his expenses will soon 
eat that up. If he loses his job or meets 
with accident or sickness, he will be far 
worse off than he is now. We should try 
to make some new arrangement with the 
boss about supplies, or try to get on 
some other farm, Keep away from town, 
and feel so well fed that he could dis¬ 
pense real justice as far as humanely pos¬ 
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