The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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Notes  from  North  Carolina 
A  justice  of  the  peace  had  been  elected. 
He  had  no  experience,  and  when  the  at 
torney  for  the  plaintiff  closed  his  argu¬ 
ment  “His  Honor”  turned  to  the  defend¬ 
ant's  lawyer  and  said :  “That  settles  it. 
The  plaintiff  wins.”  Finally  the  justice 
was  persuaded  to  listen  to  the  defendant’s 
attorney  also.  The  court  was  visibly  im¬ 
pressed,  and  at  the  end  said :  “That’s 
funny.  Now  the  defendant  wins.”  If 
you  read  the  arguments  on  the  report  of 
the  Committee  of  Twenty-one  you'll  feel 
about  like  that  magistrate. 
The  three  best  apples  for  this  section 
are  the  Gravenstein,  the  Spitzenberg  and 
the  Albemarle  Pippin.  Occasionally  a 
russet  will  also  do.  If  other  people  do 
not  agree  with  me  I  shall  feel  like  the 
juror  who  said  that  the  other  eleven 
were  stubborn  and  did  not  want  to  see 
What  is  the  best  record  ever  made  by 
one  man  raising  corn?  I  have  known 
men  to  plow,  plant,  cultivate  and  harvest 
00  acres  of  corn,  yielding  about  50 
bushels  per  acre,  but  I  have  heard  of 
men  harvesting  (that  means  taking  the 
ears  off  the  stalks  standing  in  the  field, 
pulling  off  the  husks,  loading  on  wagon, 
driving  home  and  unloading  in  the  crib) 
100  bushels  per  day.  This  means  shelled 
corn.  But  what  is  the  largest  crop  com¬ 
pletely  produced  and  harvested  by  one 
man?  Is  there  a  man  who  thus  produced 
and  harvested  alone  4,000  bushels  in  one 
year?  'What  is  the  best  one-man  record 
for  wheat,  and  what  is  the  best  one-man 
record  for  corn,  oats,  wheat  or  other 
grains  combined?  If  one  man  in  Iowa  or 
Eastern  Kansas  and  Nebraska  can  pro¬ 
duce  3,000  and  more  bushels  of  corn  and 
other  grain,  how  can  the  farmer  in  New 
York  or  New  England  compete  with  him? 
My  cow  Jane  insists  that  10  to  12  lbs. 
of  clover  hay  is  not  enough.  We  showed  her 
The  R.  N.-Y.  and  pointed  out  to  her  that 
she  was  getting  a  more  than  ample  and 
well  balanced  grain  ration,  and  that  she 
was  giving  only  about  12  lbs.  of  milk  per 
day,  but.  it  was  in  vain,  and  we  shall  have 
to  pay  $32  for  another  ton  of  clover. 
Jane  belongs  to  the  ancient  and  well- 
known  family  of  scrub.  Judged  by  local 
standards,  she  is  considered  a  fair  milker. 
We  are  living  4,000  feet  above  sea  level, 
in  the  “Land  of  the  Sky,”  the  “Land  of 
Opportunity”  and  the  “Poor  Man’s  Rich 
Country,”  the  Blue  Ridge  Mountains  of 
North  Carolina,  the  land  that  in  scenic 
beauty,  floral  wealth  and  wonderful  cli¬ 
mate  has  no  equal  either  on  the  American 
continent  nor  elsewhere.  Agriculturally 
this  section  is  just  beginning  to  develop, 
and  the  growing  of  seed  potatoes  for  the 
“Lowlands”  is  the  first  attempt  at  com¬ 
petition  in  the  world  market. 
North  Carolina.  mountaineer. 
Winters  in  South  Jersey 
If  the  editor  of  The  R.  N.-Y.  had  ever 
lived  in  Salem  County,  N.  J.,  he  would 
not  say  the  Winters  are  mild.  I  lived 
there  12  years,  and  found  them  severe ; 
snowdrifts  so  deep  schools  had  to  close, 
and  no  train  service  for  a  week.  Ex¬ 
cepting  for  a  channel  kept  open  by  the  ice 
boats,  the  Delaware  River  was  frozen 
from  Pennsgrove  to  Wilmington.  There 
are  exceptional  Winters  not  so  bad.  The 
Winters  are  usually  long  and  severe,  and 
the  Summers  very  hot.  J.  K.  n. 
Washington. 
I  dislike  cold  weather  as  much  as  any¬ 
one,  yet  would  not  say  the  Winters  in 
South  Jersey  were,  on  an  average,  long 
or  severe.  We  often  get  rain  down  here, 
as  was  the  case  December  27,  when  North 
.  Jersey  and  New  York  City  got  snow. 
This  is  probably  more  disagreeable  for 
the  time  than  snow  would  have  been,  but 
when  it  is  over  we  are  done  with  it.  I 
live  within  half  a  mile  of  Salem  County 
line.  I  do  not  know  when  .T.  K.  II.  lived 
there,  but  it  must  have  been  some  time 
ago.  I  cannot  remember  when  the  trains 
were  blocked  for  as  long  as  a  week.  It 
seldom  happens  now  that  trains  are  more 
than  an  hour  or  two  late  on  account  of 
snow.  Autos  are  seldom  blocked  for 
more  than  a  day  or  so.  The  rural  mail 
carriers  get  around  practically  every  day, 
and  so  do  the  school  busses.  I  think" 
there  is  an  explanation  for  this.  Years 
ago  the  fields  and  roads  and  lanes  were 
all.  fenced  with  hedges  or  rail  fences.  A 
light  snow  would  be  followed  by  a  north¬ 
west  wind  that  would  carry  this  light 
fall  of  snow  and  pule  it  up  4  to  8  ft.  deep 
in  the  roadways,  and  of  course  block 
traffic.  These  fences  and  hedges  have 
now  been  removed  to  a  great  extent  along 
the  main  highways,  and  it  makes  a  big 
difference. 
Our  Winters  are  severe  enough  to  stop 
farm  work,  and  some  of  our  weather  is 
far  from  pleasant,  but  it  is  nothing  com¬ 
pared  to  what  the  people  farther  north 
have  to  put  up  with.  We  seldom  have 
more  than  two  or  three  days  a  year  when 
the  thermometer  reaches  zero,  and  it  is 
very  uncertain  as  to  whether  satisfactory 
ice  can  be  gathered  for  filling  icehouses. 
TRUCKER,  .TB. 
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