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April 19, 1924 
The Rural New-Yorker 
THE BUSINESS FARMER’S PAPER 
A National Weekly Journal lor Country and Suburban Homes 
Established i860 
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Herbert W. Collingwood, President and Editor. 
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responsible for the debts of honest bankrupts sanctioned by the courts. 
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the transaction, and to identify it, you should mention The Rural New- 
Yorker when writing the advertiser. 
Why is it that city people cannot start their business 
an hour earlier, without laws to make them get up, and 
force hardships on others, who have enough already to 
bear? Where is the “do as you want to be done by” 
in it? 
E used a new pair of spectacles and a micro¬ 
scope and still could not see anything of the 
Golden Rule in this daylight saving. It is more like 
a brass rule. It seems true that most city people 
need a law to compel them to get up an hour earlier. 
They seem unable to do it themselves. The average 
city man seems to lose his individuality or ability to 
act on his own impulse, and becomes more or less a 
puppet or automaton—the slave of social habit, help¬ 
less without some big drill-master to make rules for 
him and regulate his living. The effect of the crowd 
upon a man’s psychology is to make him fall in line 
and surrender his power of original action. If this 
process keeps on we shall hardly have human beings 
in the city—just little cogs of a big machine walk¬ 
ing about. And the saddest part of it all will be 
that they really imagine they are free and independ¬ 
ent. Daylight saving! It is just further evidence of 
the way city people have been drilled and dried out 
until they must have their private habits regulated 
by law, not that they may accomplish more, but that 
they may play more. 
L AST week we suggested a celebration for “School 
Meeting Day.” We would like to make this day 
rank with Christmas or July Fourth in the annals 
of every school district. It can be made to occupy a 
large place in public affairs. At the great hearing 
at Albany we were reminded of a river, strong, bank 
full and powerful. Perhaps in times past you have 
followed some large stream from the mill where it 
exercises its power, back through smaller stream, 
brook and little trickle, to the spring where the 
water started. The beginning was small; a child 
could step over the brook, yet when they all com¬ 
bined and went steadily on together, nothing could 
block its way. The great crowd at Albany im 
pressed the Legislature in just that way. It came 
out of the hills and lonely places, with some strange, 
mysterious power. Now, we believe that power 
should be organized and developed and used for the 
finest purposes. You will agree with us in saying 
that after our experience with the school bill there 
is no present organization quite capable of organ¬ 
izing this new force. We must do it ourselves, and 
the district schoolhouse is the place for manufactur¬ 
ing it. We want better schools and better teachers. 
They cannot be forced upon the people by law until 
the people can feel that they are being fairly treat¬ 
ed and that they are to have the management of 
their own. We hold that the foundation of any im¬ 
proved school system must be laid right in the home 
district by the home people. As a starter, we urge 
our friends to make the most of school meeting day 
this year. All come out, as to a jubilee. Let the 
women provide a supper and let all hands discuss 
the school question openly and frankly. Try to 
elect the best men and women in the district for 
school officers. Admit frankly that our schools must 
be improved, and go at that improvement right at 
home. This is another call for volunteers. We want 
to hear from any man or woman who will take the 
lead in their home district and develop such a meet¬ 
ing. 
A “WORLD’S Poultry Congress” is to be held at 
Barcelona, Spain, on May 10-18 of this year 
This is the second congress of this sort. A dis¬ 
tinguished committee of poultry experts is arranging 
an exhibit at this Spanish show, and every American 
ben man should support them. There are a number 
The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
of Americans in feathers which will be welcome in 
Spain. The R. I. Red, Wyandotte, Plymouth Rock, 
Jersey Black Giant and others were made in Amer¬ 
ica, and will invade Europe if their good qualities 
are made known. Our country should be on good 
terms with Spain, and the way to many a Spanish 
heart is well paved with filed chicken and omelet. 
Money will be needed to put this exhibition over. 
Can you not induce your hens to scratch up a few 
dollars for this enterprise? Well we know that most 
hen men are not using dollar bills for henhouse litter 
this year, but help as you can. Money should be 
sent to Prof. H. R. Lewis, Davisville, R. I. 
Dairymen Must Get Together 
I N the symposium on another page the official 
heads of our four dairy groups agree that the 
organizations have completely failed to stabilize the 
milk market. Each of the groups is anxious to re¬ 
duce its surplus by increasing its sales of liquid 
milk. The competition of sellers creates a buyers’ 
market and the dealers are in a position to buy 
milk at their own price. Group organization has 
completely broken down. Their managements frank¬ 
ly admit their inability to restore prices of milk to 
a reasonable level, or even to prevent the price from 
going still lower. To continue the present procedure 
they all freely admit is ruinous. 
Naturally enough each of the leaders pleads the 
merits of his own particular organization as the 
basis for the unit of future usefulness. These merits 
will need to be considered in the future. The 
fundamental weaknesses of each of them may need 
to be revived later. It is no time just now, however, 
to discuss either the merits or the faults of the 
existing organizations. None of them has brought 
results expected of organized co-operation. The ma¬ 
chinery of each will need to be examined that the 
best features of all may be used in the recon¬ 
structed mechanism, but that stage of the problem 
has not yet been reached. 
The most hopeful feature of the interviews is the 
admission by all of them that the best results in the 
New York milk territory can come only from one 
dominant dairy organization. Coupled with this 
admission is the equally important recommendation 
that a committee of the wisest lay dairymen selected 
from all the groups will be the best agency to study 
the whole problem, and to work out a plan for the 
unification of our dairy industry, and the industrial 
salvation of our individual dairymen. For the first 
time all the heads of groups are openly committed 
to this policy. There remains now only the task of 
selecting the best men for the work. Let us make no 
mistake in these selections. Let us have broad, 
capable, successful dairymen who are concerned only 
in the welfare of the dairy farms and who have 
vision to see that a recognition of the rights of the 
weakest dairyman is the safeguard of the strongest. 
Suggestion of names for the committee if sent to 
us will be submitted to the proper authorities. This 
is putting the responsibility right back to dairymen 
themselves where it belongs, and where it must rest 
if co-operation is to be a success. We see great pos¬ 
sibilities in this departure, and we urge every dairy¬ 
man to use his best influence to make it a success. 
Whom do you suggest for this responsibility? 
*k 
BOUT a year ago we mentioned a renewed in¬ 
terest in clingstone peaches by canning con¬ 
cerns in the East. The clingstone varieties are 
firmer in flesh and will stand peeling in the lye hath 
to which they are usually subjected, and the pit may 
be quickly and cleanly removed by cutting out with 
a pitting spoon. The resulting canned product is a 
clean, firm, yellow peach, in clear, golden syrup, free 
from pieces of flesh or strings or fibers that are so 
noticeable in canned freestone peaches. Of course, 
these rubber-like clingstones are not nearly so juicy 
nor so deliciously flavored as the freestones, but in 
the restaurants, hotels and lunch rooms the eye is 
the buying agent, and good appearance is of much 
greater importance than whatever may be said in 
favor of quality. Clingstone peaches are therefore 
commanding higher prices in the canned goods trade 
than the freestone varieties. California is the home 
of the clingstone peach, with its Tuskena, Oriole, 
McDevitt, Orange, and so on, while the East stands 
with practically no plantings of clingstone varieties 
that could be used for canning purposes. When the 
canning companies inquired to find what clingstones 
were adapted to the East they found that all cling¬ 
stones had been so religiously grubbed out in favor 
of freestone varieties that no information could be 
obtained. Now extensive tests are being made in 
several important peach producing States in Amer¬ 
ica to determine the varieties of clingstone peaches 
adapted to the Eastern United .States. It will be in¬ 
teresting to watch the developments in this new 
prospective industry in the next few years. 
* 
Almost directly opposite my home an advertising com¬ 
pany has erected a very large unsightly sign, almost ob¬ 
literating a beautiful view of a lake and woodland. The 
sign has depreciated the value of my property, and I 
would be glad to know if I have any redress; either 
have the sign removed entirely, or, if not, can I claim 
for depreciation? I understand the ground on which 
this sign is erected has been leased. f. c. 
HIS case happens to be in New Jersey, and un¬ 
der the laws of that State F. C. seems to have 
no redress. The law seems to hold that the right to 
an unobstructed view is considered merely a pleas¬ 
ure or delight. As it is not a necessity, the courts 
have generally refused to restrain another party 
from cutting it off. An agreement with adjoining 
land owners or a reservation in a deed would be 
needed to insure such an unobstructed view. There 
seems to be one case in New Jersey where a man 
was prevented from erecting a house close to one 
owned by another man who had enjoyed a view for 
35 years. This decision has been greatly criticized, 
for if such a law were general no town or city could 
ever be built up. 
* 
M ANY of our readers will remember Julius Mol- 
denliauer, and will be glad to hear of him once 
more. Mr. Moldenhauer came to this country from 
Denmark 45 years ago. He was one of the pioneer 
dairymen who came from the Scandinavian coun¬ 
tries and have had much to do with the development 
of American dairying, and especially the growth of 
the creamery system. Mr. Moldenhauer was one of 
the first to make use of pasteurization in handling 
market milk. He has aided in the development of 
New York by inducing many Danes and Swedes to 
come and settle on New York farms. They have be¬ 
come some of our best citizens. He is now nearly 78 
years old and some of his Danisli-American friends 
are making him a very suitable gift. That is, they 
make it possible for him to take a trip to Denmark, 
his native country, where he will spend the Summer 
and early Fall. This is a well-deserved tribute to a 
kindly and useful gentleman who has had an hon¬ 
orable part in the development of our great dairy 
industry. How much better to make this trip pos¬ 
sible than to offer some medal or a costly inscription 
on a monument. It seems a part of that strong com¬ 
mon sense which characterizes the Danish people. 
* 
HE postal employes of the country are up after 
an increase of salary. It seems that these em¬ 
ployes were classified and given increases during the 
war. Now they want more. They are organized, 
and are capable of bringing great pressure to bear 
upon Congress. In all these questions of increase of 
salary or increased prices, our first thought is to 
compare conditions with those of farmers. The in¬ 
come of farmers, as compared with that of other 
workers, should be the standard, and if that stand¬ 
ard is taken there can be no fair reason for this 
continued boost of wages in other industries. Farm¬ 
ers are not receiving their fair share of the returns 
from labor, while they are forced to work harder 
than ever for what they get. Until their financial 
condition improves we can see no reason why other 
industrial workers should be boosted. 
Brevities 
What do you pay a doctor for if not to obey his 
directions? 
A TEAM of dogs hauling a sled in Alaska over the 
snow, made 40(1 miles in 78 hours. 
A contract showing that its terms are to be per¬ 
formed on Sunday is not valid. A reeipt or a bill of 
sale made on Sunday is good. 
Well, one good thing about this late Spring is that 
the fruit buds have been held back. Last year at this 
time they were open, and were caught by a late frost. 
Fruit trees with a weak crotch may be strengthened 
by natural grafted braces, as shown last week, or inside 
growing branches may be intertwined and bound to¬ 
gether. 
Tiie fire warden of Connecticut has tried to start a 
“drive” for early firing this year. Most farmers start a 
clearing fire each Spring, to run over rubbish and brush. 
Too often it gets away from them and does great dam¬ 
age. 
A woman farmer in France. Mine. Dordoigne, has 
received the highest honors which the French can of¬ 
fer, the Cross of the Legion of Honor. She received 
it in the presence of nine of her children and 29 of her 
grandchildren ! 
We understand that in some of the Western States 
drivers of school conveyances are obliged to give bonds 
to keep such conveyance warm and comfortable. We 
have several reports of drunken and careless drivers and 
others who permit immoral practices. 
