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The  RURAL.  NEW-YORKER 
February  10,  1923 
You  Cart  Grow 
Scabby  Potatoes 
if  you  want  to. 
But  you  don't 
have  to.  Just  use 
Inoc-Sul 
Inoculated  Sulphur 
It  will  positively  overcome  the  scab  organism 
and  keep  the  crop  clean,  bright  and  marketable 
Things  To  Think  About 
The  object  of  this  department  is  to  give  readers  a  chance  to  express  themselves  on  farm 
matters.  Not  long  articles  can  be  used — just  short,  pointed  opinions  or  suggestions. 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER  does  not  always  endorse  what  is  printed  here.  You  might 
call  this  a  mental  safety  valve. 
Aliens  and  Immigration 
Inoc-Sul  is  a  necessity  anti  a  big 
profit-producer  for  every  grower  of 
potatoes,  either  table  stock  or  seed. 
The  potato  market,  for  seed  and  table 
stock  alike,  will  not  tolerate  scabby  or 
rough  potatoes. 
The  seed  grower  very  often  has  his 
whole  crop  condemned  because  of  a 
small  percentage  of  scab.  He  can  no 
longer  afford  to  take  a  chance — he 
must  keep  his  crop  clean. 
The  grower  of  potatoes  for  table 
stock  who  has  scab  must  go  to  the 
heavy  expense  of  inspecting  and  sort¬ 
ing  his  whole  crop  or  be  willing  to  ac¬ 
cept  a  reduced  price  or  even  entire 
refusal  of  his  shipment.  Even  the 
table  stock  market  now  refuses  scabby 
potatoes  and  insists  upon  clean,  sound 
stock. 
Inoc-Sul  is  dependable  insurance 
against  potato  scab.  It  cleans  up  in¬ 
fected  fields — it  keeps  uninfected  fields 
clean.  It  is  inexpensive  and  easily  ap¬ 
plied,  requiring  no  special  machinery. 
Broadcast  by  hand,  fertilizer  or  lime 
broadcaster,  or  seed  drill. 
Inoc-Sul  strikes  at  the  very  root  of 
the  potato  scab  evil — it  overcomes  the 
scab  organism  IN  TIIE  SOIL ,  not 
merely  the  scab  on  the  seel,  as  does  seed 
treatment. 
Write  us  today.  We  will  without 
cost  or  obligation  tell  you  all  about 
Inoc-Sul — what  it  is — where  to  get  it 
—how  to  use  it — how  it  will  save  your 
market  losses.  Tell  us  how  many  acres 
of  potatoes  you  will  plant  and  the 
name  of  your  dealer.  Our  reply  will  be 
worth  dollars  to  you. 
We  have  had  many  letters  ot'  late  from 
people  who  have  friends  iu  Europe  and 
desire  to  have  them  brought  to  this  coun¬ 
try.  Many  of  these  people  are  Germans, 
while  others  are  from  the  south  of  Eu¬ 
rope.  They  do  not  seem  to  know  very 
much  about  the  immigration  laws,  and  do 
not  quite  know  how  to  proceed.  The 
Commissioner  of  Immigration  at  Ellis 
Island,  New  York  Harbor,  will,  upon  re¬ 
quest,  send  a  circular  which  gives  infor¬ 
mation  about  the  immigration  laws. 
First  of  all,  the  person  who  desires  to 
enter  must  obtain  a  passport  front  the 
European  country  in  which  he  now  re¬ 
sides.  This  passport  must  be  vised  by  the 
American  Consuls  before  any  alien  can 
hope  to  obtain  admission.  It  is  not  pos¬ 
sible  to  give  any  alien  permission  to  enter 
the  United  States  in  advance  of  his  ar¬ 
rival.  Some  of  the  people  who  write  us 
think  such  permission  can  be  given,  and 
that  all  they  will  have  to  do  will  be  to 
write  and  send  the  money  for  the  pas¬ 
sage.  That  is  a  mistake.  The  right  to 
admit  or  reject  an  alien  is  vested  in  the 
immigration  inspectors  in  this  country, 
and  will  follow  the  personal  examination 
by  the  medical  and  inspection  officers.  It 
is  only  iu  the  event  of  an  appeal  that  the 
Washington  authorities  could  interfere. 
The  immigration  laws  do  not  permit  the 
giving  of  a  bond  or  any  guaranty  so  that 
the  alien  could  be  admitted.  There  is  no 
fixed  amount  of  money  which  an  alien 
must  possess  in  order  to  secure  admission 
here,  but  he  should  have  sufficient  funds 
to  provide  for  reasonable  wants,  and  a 
railroad  ticket  to  his  destination,  or 
funds  for  the  purchase  of  the  same.  The 
friends  of  such  an  alien  in  this  country 
could  help  about  this  matter  by  forward¬ 
ing  to  the  inspectors  an  affidavit  or  other 
good  evidence,  showing  they  are  respon¬ 
sible,  and  the  fact  that  they  will  guaran¬ 
tee  that  the  incoming  alien  will  not  be¬ 
come  a  public  burden.  In  making  such 
an  application,  the  name  of  the  alien  and 
the  name  of  the  ship  must  be  stated  in 
each  instance,  and  also  the  date  of  ex- 
1  pected  arrival.  It  is  a  desirable  thing, 
!  whenever  possible,  that  the  responsible 
person  who  brings  an  alien  over  should 
come  here  when  the  alien  arrives  and  be 
prepared  to  take  personal  charge  of  the 
matter.  The  first  thing  of  all,  however, 
j  is  to  make  sure  that  the  man  on  the  other 
side  can  obtain  a  passport  from  his  own 
country,  and  have  it  vised  by  the  Amer¬ 
ican  Consul.  When  this  has  been  worked 
out,  an  application  may  be  made  to  the 
immigration  inspectors  here,  and  they 
wjll  give  the  information  necessary  for 
the  alien’s  friend  to  meet  him  on  arrival 
and  arrange  for  his  coming. 
An  Alien  and  His  Taxes 
Why  is  $4  taken  from  an  alien  when 
he  goes  before  the  county  clerk  with  his 
witness  when  applying  for  second  papers? 
Ilis  first  papers  being  taken  out  in  Con¬ 
necticut,  he  is  informed  he  will  have  to 
pay  $5  for  the  clerk  in  Connecticut  for 
the  search.  He  had  to  pay  $8  immigra¬ 
tion  tax.  I  was  under  the  impression 
that  it  didn’t  cost  anything  for  one  to  be¬ 
come  a  citizen  of  our  country.  Alien  was 
a  subject  of  Russia.  MRS.  a.  c.  w. 
Long  Island. 
This  question  was  submitted  to  the 
Naturalization  Aid  League,  and  the  fol¬ 
lowing  statement  is  made : 
(1)  Anyone  filing  a  petition  for  nat¬ 
uralization  must  pay  the  legal  fee  of  $4 
before  they  can  proceed  with  their  natur¬ 
alization. 
(2)  The  law  requires  that  the  appli¬ 
cant  must  have  witnesses  who  have 
known  and  have  seen  him  for  the  last  five 
years.  The  party  referred  to  in  the  let¬ 
ter  has  resided  in  the  States  of  Connec¬ 
ticut  and  New  York  during  that  period. 
He  must  have  two  witnesss  from  Connec¬ 
ticut  who  must  appear  before  an  investi¬ 
gator  of  that  city,  who  will  be  appointed 
by  the  court  in  New  York  where  he  has 
filed  his  petition  for  naturalization,  who 
will  depose  by  affidavit.  This  investi¬ 
gator  charges  $5  for  his  fee. 
(3)  Anyone  coming  to  the  United 
State  must  pay  a  per  capita  tax.  If  one 
did  not  pay  the  per  capita  tax,  that  party 
had  entered  this  country  in  an  illegal 
manner.  For  example :  A  person  com¬ 
ing  from  Canada  informs  the  United 
States  authorities  in  Canada  that  he  does 
not  intend  to  remain  in  the  United  States 
but  does  remain  permanently ;  or.  if  he 
arrived  to  the  United  States  as  a  desert¬ 
ing  seaman  or  a  stowaway,  that  person 
had  entered  the  United  States  in  an  il¬ 
legal  manner  and  must  pay  the  per  capita 
tax,  when,  applying  for  citizenship. 
If  that  is  true  in  the  case  referred  to, 
then  the  money  asked  is  legal,  and  the 
clerk  is  justified  in  charging  this  sum. 
The  Way  to  Help  the  Actual  Farmer 
Would  it  not  be  beneficial  to  the  actual 
tillers  of  the  soil  to  tax  all  land  not  oc¬ 
cupied  by  its  owner,  twice  as  much  as 
land  occupied  and  tilled  by  its  owner? 
When  a  farmer  decides  to  retire  and 
moves  into  a  city  and  rents  his  farm,  be 
ceases  to  be  an  actual  farmer,  but  he  still 
holds  on  to  the  farm  for  profit,  and  lets 
someone  else  do  the  work,  while  he  lives 
at  ease,  and  the  farm  grows  in  price. 
Would  not  such  a  condition  have  a  ten¬ 
dency  to  cheapen  land  so  that  the  actual 
farmer  could  own  a  farm,  instead  of  pay¬ 
ing  out  all  of  his  profit  for  rent? 
A  large  portion  of  the  land  in  this 
country  is  owned  by  retired  farmers, 
wealthy  city  people,  and  banking  corpora¬ 
tions,  and  the  price  kept  high  in  order  to 
represent  their  wealth,  and  the  rent  is 
kept  high  in  order  to  pay  them  as  high  a 
rate  of  interest  as  possible.  Just  now 
there  is  demand  for  legislation  to  help  the 
farmer.  The  farmer  who  does  the  actual 
work  does  not  need  any  help  if  we  get 
the  price  of  land  down  where  it  belongs 
and  put  the  taxes  on  the  earning  of 
wealth.  The  trouble  is  they  make  it  pos¬ 
sible  for  the  rich  farmer  to  borrow  money 
and  make  more  money  with  it,  but  he  is 
not  the  one  that  should  be  helped.  The 
way  to  help  the  real  farmer  is  to  make  or 
create  a  demand  for  his  produce  at  fair 
prices,  and  the  only  way  to  do  that  is  to 
make  work  for  idle  laborers;  and  the 
only  way  to  do  that  is  to  get  money  to 
pay  for  such  improvements' as  hard  roads, 
etc.,  by  some  such  plan  as  described 
above.  c.  corkin. 
Wanted — A  Country  Doctor 
In  times  past  we  have  been  able  to  find 
almost  everything  our  people  have  called 
for.  Our  belief  is  that  some  one  of  our 
readers  can  find  the  answer  to  any  prob¬ 
lem  that  another  can  present.  We  get 
some  puzzlers,  and  sometimes  the  answer 
comes  hard,  but  we  always  try.  Here  is 
a  new  one  :  A  community  wants  a  good 
resident  doctor,  as  we  learn  from  the 
following  note.  There  is  said  to  be  a 
scarcity  of  doctors  for  country  work,  but 
perhaps  some  of  our  readers  are  looking 
for  a  location.  As  usual,  we  try  it,  any¬ 
way  : 
This  is  a  good  farming  country  and 
good  people,  able  to  pay  their  bills,  and 
we  are  in  a  desperate  condition — no  doc¬ 
tor  to  be  had.  We  need  some  active'  and 
strong  man  to  come  here  and  locate,  not 
only  to  be  here  when  sick,  but  to  keep  us 
well.  I  have  lived  here  all  my  days,  and 
this  is  the  first  time  in  63  years  that  we 
have  been  without  a  doctor  here.  A 
doctor  could  find  lots  of  enjoyment  in  this 
place  if  a  fisherman  or  hunter.  It  is  said 
over  80  bears  and  that,  many  deer  were 
got  in  this  neighborhood  this  season.  We 
have  no  muddy  sti-eams  here  in  this  coun¬ 
try,  all  clear  water.  A  doctor  would  have 
all  he  could  attend  to.  Good  roads  are 
a  tine  thing,  and  we  have  them  here. 
Sullivan  Co.,  Pa.  .T.  w.  brown. 
Catnip  as  a  Rat  Repellant 
Someone  has  suggested  that  blue- 
flowered  catnip  planted  around  barns  and 
poultry-houses  would  keep  away  rats. 
What  is  your  opinion  about  it?  Would 
chickens  eat  it,  and  if  so,  would  it  in¬ 
crease  the  egg  production?  Would  it  in¬ 
jure  them  ?  m.  F.  R. 
We  never  before  heard  that  rats  are 
afraid  of  catnip.  It  must  be  some  form 
of  psychological  treatment.  Perhaps  the 
rats  know  that  cats  are  very  likely  to  be 
found  where  catnip  grows.  Seriously,  we 
do  not  believe  there  is  anything  in  it,  and 
we  doubt  if  the  hens  would  eat  enough  of 
the  catnip  to  show  any  effect  upon  their 
egg  yield. 
Some  weeks  ago  the  Hope  Farm  man 
told  of  a  bootblack  in  a  New  England 
town  who  plans  to  send  two  boys  to  col¬ 
lege.  The  daily  papers  now  publish  the 
story  of  a  Russian  in  Boston  who  plans 
to  educate  two  girls  and  two  boys.  Two 
of  them  are  already  at  Harvard.  This 
man  is  a  shoemaker.  In  one  corner  of 
his  shop  is  a  chair  for  shoeblaekiug  car¬ 
rying  this  sign : 
“Pedal  ligament  artistically  illuminated 
and  lubricated  for  the  infinitesimal  re¬ 
muneration  of  10  cents  per  operation.” 
Very  likely  that  is  the  educated  way  of 
announcing  “Shine  10  cents!”  And  this 
man  wants  his  children  educated  “so 
they  will  make  better  citizens.” 
f  TEXAS  GULF  SULPHUR  CO. 
Desk  B  41  East  42nd  Street 
New  York  City 
Inoc-Sul  is  the  best  form  of  sulphur  for  any  farm  use  —  dusting 
os  o-r.  seed,  preserving  manure,  fertilizer,  soil  corrective  and  livestock. 
Learn  the  truth  about  Fertilizer 
■-  //  T  \W“//  n  v  '> 
Commercial  fertilizer  is  not  magic.  It  is  no 
substitute  for  work, or  for  farming  brains.  It  will  not 
make  a  successful  farmer  out  of  a  shiftless,  ignorant 
failure.  Fertilizer  varies  in  quality  like  corn  or  to¬ 
bacco  or  cotton,  and  some  brands  are  worth  more 
than  others.  Good  fertilizers,  like  Royster’s  reli¬ 
able  old  mixtures,  are  a  godsend  to  good  farmers 
who  learn  how  to  best  use  them  to  make  money. 
Nearly  forty  years  experience  enters  into 
the  making  of  the  Royster  mixtures,  and  hundreds 
of  thousands  of  the  country’s  best  farmers  pin  their 
faith  to  this  famous  old  brand. 
For  advice  about  the  use  of  fertilizer,  write 
to  Farm  Service  Department,  F.  S.  Royster  Guano 
Company,  Baltimore,  Md. 
ROYSTER 
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