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<tot RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 22. 1924 
Get Those Extra Bushels 
per Acre 
Every seed is planted to best advantage and fertilizer 
placed where the growing crop easily gets the additional 
plant food which makes a bigger yield of better grain from 
the same field when you use a 
Things To Think About 
Picturing the Pennsylvania Sky 
Reading “Farm Life in Idaho” in a re¬ 
cent issue, and the writer’s closing re¬ 
mark : “I wonder if you in the East have 
anything to equal it?” made me desire to 
write you the best I can of a two days’ 
happening here in the region of the Blue 
Ridge Mountains in Pennsylvania, 
though I know I cannot begin to do the 
wonderful beauty justice. 
Winter is here, and only yesterday we 
woke to a typical Spring morning; warm, 
raining easily, pools of water every¬ 
where. Then the wind came along; it 
grew cold, the rain began to freeze about 
as soon as it landed ; trees, bushes, fences 
—everything covered with ice. About 5 
o’clock there was a blinding flash of light¬ 
ning, followed by a clap of thunder so 
deafening we knew it had struck some¬ 
where near, and the roar of it vibrated 
for at least two minutes, and made one 
think of Summer. 
Gradually it stopped raining and clouds 
began to hurry across the. sky, beautiful 
in shape. A horse and rider, a Roman 
chariot, a fleet Atalanta in her flowing 
robes—all rushing westward. Higher 
than these was another layer of darker 
clouds going directly north.. Soon in the 
southwest a rift was seen in the darker 
layer of clouds, gradually growing wider, 
farmers should think over; poor quality 
in anything floods the market, and pulls 
down the price of the best. I read with 
interest the recent article relative to the 
roadside stand, and find many of the 
experiences related there the same as my 
own. I always charge high prices, but 
back it up with real quality, and find 
that since I can sell more than I can 
raise I must be on the right track. Last 
Summer a machine stopped and a lady 
bought our corn at 7c a doz. more than 
she had paid elsewhere. The corn she 
had bought from another farmer she 
began stripping and the first four ears 
weren’t fit to eat. She became dis¬ 
gusted and threw the rest down on the 
floor of her car—anyone with common 
sense can see that it didn’t pay that 
farmer in any sense of the word to 
gather such corn. On the bottom of 
everything we sell is as good or better 
than on the top. Of course there are days 
when it storms that we are stuck with 
a surplus, and what we can't use or 
give to neighbors goes straight to the 
manure pile. We strip all corn, plug all 
watermelons, and pick and sort until 
everything is fit for a king to eat. Peo¬ 
ple buy from us year in and year out; 
they in turn tell their friends, and they 
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Plants seed properly —the 
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force-feed compels seed to flow 
from grain box in even, continuous 
streams—no clogging or bridging 
—no seed or ground wasted. Fin¬ 
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seed tubes and closed disc boot de¬ 
livery protect seed until it reaches 
bottom of seed furrows of equal 
depth—an even stand of gr.am, all 
maturing at one time is the result. 
Covers the seed —tilting lever 
enables you to Set disc boots to 
plant and cover seed at the de¬ 
sired depth under all field condi¬ 
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The discs pulverize the soil 
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Scrapers keep the discs clean. 
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When this team is driven through the streets of Olean, N. Y.. people stop to look, if 
not to listen. These steers were taken young and taught to drive with bits and lines. 
It shows what you can do with the “patient ox. ’ 
until a wonderful golden cloud appeared, 
hanging in a sky of lovely blue. Then 
a smaller one, further south. The light 
streak grew narrower and longer till fin¬ 
ally it was only one light greenish-yellow 
streak from north to south ; then night 
slowly drew her curtain and pinned it 
with a star. 
This morning at daylight it was snow- 
ing; there was half an inch of ic-e on 
GVGrv tree, bush <incl fence, ulso most of 
the lawn, and the gently falling snow¬ 
flakes clung to the ice just where it land¬ 
ed. A few hours of this, and dear old 
Mother Earth was clothed in a gown of 
glistening white. The trees and wire 
fences were most magnificent, to look at, 
and the little white church and the com¬ 
munity hall bathed in the golden sunshine 
with the white snow-covered hill and blue 
sky as a background made a picture all 
by themselves. The beautiful dark green 
of the stately fir trees, with their glisten¬ 
ing snow-laden boughs, on the tree-cov¬ 
ered south hill, were wonderful to look 
upon. Then, raising the eyes and looking 
beyond further south, are the beautiful 
Blue Ridge Mountains. We are near 
enough to discern on a clear day the 
woods and the fences outlining the fields. 
Late yesterday afternoon a blue haze 
hung over the peaks. Above this were 
the most beautiful clouds, ranging in 
color from the lovely pink to lovelier lav¬ 
enders. then to dark blues as night was 
falling. The wonderful colors and 
shapes in the western sky made me stand 
spellbound to gaze and think of the Won¬ 
drous Being who created all the exquisite 
things the likeness of which no man can 
ever hope to reproduce. Some go wild 
over new things invented by man, which 
cost thousands of dollars, and whose life 
is of short duration, but they rarely no¬ 
tice these gorgeous, ever-changing things 
of everyday life. 
Perhaps because I have always lived 
iu a crowded city until two years ago. 
makes me more sensitive to the wondoi- 
ful scenes around me in the country. I 
feel it so clearly in my heart, but have 
never tried to write it so anyone else 
could see it. that I am afraid I am very 
inadequate in expression. MRS. e. e. m. 
It Pays To Be Honest 
I find honesty is the most profitable 
crop I ever planted—yes, planted. I 
have a large roadside stand, and it was 
the first thing I planted in my business. 
Every year we have to enlarge the 
stand, and it takes more of us to wait 
on the customers. I never gather in¬ 
ferior vegetables or flowers to put on 
the stand. Herein is a lesson that all 
tell yet others—a sort of endless chain, 
and that is the greatest advertisement 
anyone can get. The stand is always 
kept painted, clean, and none of us ever 
argue with a customer, nor a prospective 
one. None of us ever venture opinions 
unless asked; never inquire where a 
person bought this or that if their ma¬ 
chine is full of flowers and vegetables 
when they come to us. We attend to 
our own business, and attend to it right, 
and it has never suffered in comparison 
with others. I wouldn’t be enthused 
over eating anything I purchased from a 
man who was dirty, unshaved, tobacco 
juice running down his chin, and no¬ 
body else would. All these little things 
are the difference between success and 
failure. This Winter 1 was talking with 
a fertilizer salesman, and 1 ventured the 
remark that I pitied the many farmers 
who were dependent on shipping their 
produce to the commission merchant, and 
he said, “I am all around the country, 
and if you could see some of the worth¬ 
less junk that is packed and shipped 
you would wonder how the commission 
merchant ever stays in business.” Of 
course we all know there are dishonest 
commission merchants, and dishonest 
farmers, and the good have to suffer with 
the bad. In conclusion I would like to 
point out that if the farmer, large and 
small, would let the poor quality stay in 
the field to be plowed under there would 
be such a great demand from everywhere 
that they would be the richer in every 
way. It’s a waste of time to gather 
something unfit to eat. This will apply 
to all people, at all times in any locality. 
Be honest, and your reward will be so 
great that you will have no time to be¬ 
moan your fate. harry n. jenness. 
A Tax On Gasoline 
On page 420 Whitney I*. Howes writes 
of the injustice of the truck licensing 
as it stands. It is true the owner of a 
Ford truck has to pay $24 fee whether 
he runs it one mile or 1.000. As all 
know, the farmer’s truck in most cases 
is really busy only about quarter of the 
season, but still lie has to pay the same 
fee as the other fellow who runs his 
every day. I would suggest a flat rate 
of say $5 for every motor-driven vehicle, 
and a tax on gasoline to make up the de¬ 
ficit. The tax wouldn’t need to be very 
high considering the amount of gas con¬ 
sumed in one year. In that way the one 
using the ear most would pay the largest 
tax, and the farmer’s truck lying idle 
would not eat its head off paying taxes. 
Rensselaer Co., N. Y. ward wagob. 
