American,Agriculturist, November 17,1923 
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Letters From A. A. Readers 
Recollections of An Old Soldier—Topics of Interest 
“T ENCLOSE one dollar for renewal of 
J- my subscription. It seems like an old 
friend and I must give you a reminis¬ 
cence. When I was a lad of maybe 
twelve, which was sixty-seven years 
ago, for I am a Civil War veteran, my 
father used to take the American Agri¬ 
culturist. That and the “Tribune” and 
the Bible were his standbys. I had 
wanted a dictionary, for I was a some¬ 
what studious lad, but father, like most 
farmers, had to figure expenses close. 
Well, that year you offered a Webster’s 
unabridged dictionary for ten, or was 
it twelve? subscribers, and I worked 
hard and got the club. I remember 
father paid for several and took pro¬ 
duce for them. Our nearest railroad 
station was Addison, twenty-two miles 
away, for we were in the Pennsylvania 
woods clearing up a hemlock farm. One 
day I went to our near town, Knoxville, 
four miles away, to have my foot meas¬ 
ured for a pair of boots, as everybody 
did in those days, when I found that 
a merchant with whom we traded had 
been to Addison and found a package 
there for me and kindly brought it 
over to his store. I grabbed that dic¬ 
tionary and, forgetting all about my 
long-looked-for boots, I trudged home 
with that ten-pound load, the happiest 
lad in the State. I have bought many 
books since and was principal of schools 
forty years, yet I have that old book 
now as one of my most cherished pos¬ 
sessions, and I always look on the 
Agriculturist with kindly regard.”— 
F. M. Smith, Holland, N. Y. 
HUNTERS ARE BECOMING A 
NUISANCE 
I am a reader of the American Agri¬ 
culturist. My son is a subscriber to the 
paper. I wish to say a few words 
about hunters and pheasant hunting. It 
is a very foolish thing to stock up our 
country farms with the birds and then 
allow hunters to run .over us in the 
way that they do. They pay but little 
respect to posting. They go four or 
more in autos, park by roadsides, dig 
your potatoes, pick apples, sweet-corn, 
squash, anything in fact that they can 
put into bags and carry away. 
On Sunday, October 14, one of our 
farmers saw four hunters on his prem¬ 
ises helping themselves to his potatoes. 
One of them shot his gun and a bird 
dropped. The farmer reached the place 
whei’e the bird fell first and found that 
it was a hen pheasant. The farmer 
forbade the hunter from taking the bird 
away, and telephoned to an officer. The 
officer came and took the bird and said 
that he would take care of the case. 
As yet we have not heard in what way 
it was settled. 
There will have to be some way to 
get along with the hunters. Farmers 
cannot put up with their abuse. They 
are out Sundays and every day during 
the week. 
I am sending a clipping from one of 
our papers about what happened last 
Thursday to a woman who is my neigh¬ 
bor who is some sixty or more years 
old. You can see that some of the time 
it is not safe to go out of the house. 
Woman Shot By Hunter 
Mrs. John Kadlgack narrowly escaped being 
shot to death by a hunter last Thursday as 
she was carrying water from a spring to her 
house. The shot struck a pail, grazed the lit¬ 
tle finger on her left hand and peppered her 
dress full of shot holes. The woman fs nearly 
prostrated by the shock. It does seem that 
the hunters go frantic over game, when they 
go into the fields, and use no regard where 
they are shooting or how near the buildings. 
And as far as your posters are concerned 
hunters don’t stop for them. Some stricter 
means will have to be taken in the future or 
more people and stock will be in danger of 
life. It really sounds like war over the coun¬ 
try on a hunters’ day. 
A CHEAP SOURCE OF POWER 
Your editorial, “Stored Heat,” in your 
Sept. 22nd issue, is surely correct. The 
heat of the sun will be so used, sooner 
or later, but perhaps not until we are 
forced to it. The suggestion you make 
about water power, however, makes me 
wonder why more of it has not been de¬ 
veloped. In many communities there is 
plenty of power fpom small streams, 
that could be used, very cheaply, to 
light and give electric power to the 
people living there, but no one. seems to 
develop them. It need not be an ex¬ 
pensive job. Many communities have 
old grist mills, no longer used and going 
to decay, that could be turned into elec¬ 
tric plants for very little. Those that 
have no old mills, have some stream 
that could turn a waterwheel, and it 
would not cost much to install a plant 
there large enough to care for the needs 
of the community. Yet such places will 
continue to go without the comfort and 
convenience of electric light and power. 
The writer has seen many such com¬ 
munities in the eastern part of this 
country, and most of' them say they 
want electricity, but none of them seem 
to have the ambition to start such a 
plant for themselves, or to have a citi¬ 
zen among them that would put up such 
‘a plant as an investment for himself. 
If the writer had the money to start 
such a plant himself, he would have 
started one long ago, ahd given to some 
community the much needed comfort 
and convenience of electric power that 
they were too slow to develop for them¬ 
selves.—W. H. S., New York. 
DISCUSSING SCHOOL BILL 
I am glad you are printing a series 
of discussions on the N. Y. Rural School 
Bill in the “Old Reliable.” We are 
studying this Bill and the Report of 
the Committee of Twenty-one in our 
local Home Bureau, and h^ve enjoyed 
and been helped by articles appearing 
from time to time in your paper. _ We 
shall read the discussions on the bill as 
they appear. W r hen rural people under¬ 
stand the bill they are convinced of its 
soundness.—Mrs. B. B., New York. 
WE ARE NOT LESS SPIRITUAL 
Let us not perceive with alarm this 
changed status of our once beloved 
Country Church. It is so natural, so 
inevitable I think, if we but consider 
how all our other institutions and 
practices have changed also. Just be¬ 
cause we take less time for quiet 
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