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American Agriculturist, June 7, 1924 
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necessary that something must be done, 
and I am sure that all small property 
owners and especially land owners welcome 
the opportunity to be heard through the 
columns of your paper. 
As I see it, there are a few fundamental 
tilings that must be done to relieve the 
ever-increasing burden of small property 
taxpayers. First, there should be a much 
larger amount of the personal property on 
the tax rolls. There is no justice in a system 
that makes it necessary for a small land- 
owner to pay out in taxes more than he 
can realize from his land, when his neigh¬ 
bor with perhaps ten times as much prop¬ 
erty escapes taxes entirely, just because 
his property happens to be personal. 
Second, there could be a great saving 
in our public expenses from the State 
government clear down through to our 
towns. But the lesson should begin at 
the State capitol. I am somewhat famil¬ 
iar with the State budget, and am frank 
to say that if the public could have the 
same opportunity many of our taxpayers 
would seed red. 
It is true that many of our local ex¬ 
penses are very large, especially road 
building, the schools and charitable build¬ 
ings. Who was it that required Yates 
County this year to build a so called 
“secondary road” of concrete at a cost 
of $70,000 per mile (against the wishes of 
the people) when a road good for all time 
in this location could have been built for 
$37,000 per mile? Answer: the State 
Bringing the Bull Home 
{Continued from page 536) 
publicly. We went to the barn, and re¬ 
moved the rope from several bales of 
binder twine, and thus armed, I was 
ready to start back to Mr. Brown's. 
“ Guess I’ll go along,” said Jim. 
“You don’t need to, unless you want 
to,” I replied, hoping he would, and yet 
not wishing for a larger audience, in case 
I was again to be submitted to such indig¬ 
nities as I had already experienced. 
Jim just grinned and fell in behind me. 
I suppose a bull hasn’t much in the 
way of brains, after all, this one at least 
failed to realize that a new factor had en¬ 
tered the situation, in the shape of a rope 
fastened to each front foot. What a glor¬ 
ious sensation of power it gave me, as he 
again started, as he evidently thought, to 
show me who was boss, to bring him to his 
knees. Even at that, he travelled several 
yards, and Jim had hold of the rope 
around his nose, too. 
The Other Extreme 
Our next problem was to get motion 
from him in any direction. Like so many 
of us, when he couldn’t have his way, he 
refused to play at all. We prodded and 
coaxed, and when he did start, it was on 
a gallop as before. About three such les¬ 
sons apparently convinced him that there 
was no use in objecting, and he went 
along like a gentleman. 
Our home was just over the hill, and as 
we neared it, I said to Jim, “I can manage 
him all right now, if you are in a hurry 
to get home.” 
“ Guess, I might as well go all the way, 
haven’t anything to do at home, your 
Dad will just think I came up for a visit, 
anyway.” 
“All right. They will find it out to¬ 
morrow anyway, even if they don’t from 
us, but don’t say anything about it to¬ 
night, will you, Jim?” 
* * * 
“Hello, Jim,” said mother, when we 
had turned the bull in at the gate, and 
had gone to the house, “come on in and 
have some supper. What made you so 
late, son? Dad has eaten his supper and 
has the milking nearly finished. I had 
begun to worry about you.” 
“You needn’t worry about me, mother. 
The bull didn’t lead very good, at first, 
Who is making necessary the ever- 
increasing cost of our schools? Largely 
the experts at Albany. 
Who has made it necessary for our 
county during the last year to use large 
sums of money to provide quarters for the 
county poor, accommodations more regal 
than any of the taxpayers ever dream of 
enjoying? The same answer: Albany. 
Therefore, localities are not always to 
blame. They have a lesson to learn, also. 
Out farmers are not pikers. They 
want good schools, good roads, and good 
institutions. Furthermore, they are 
willing to pay their share for them. They 
are not willing however to mortgage their 
farms (as many have done lately) in order 
to pay taxes for the building of stately 
boulevards that they never will use, or for 
buildings for public use the cost of which 
is all out of proportion to the needs of the 
community. Taxes will soon be the means 
of depopulating many farming districts. 
Then who will pay for the bonds and in¬ 
terest that is continually being increased? 
Surely it is time some one should 
“stop, look and listen.”—H. S. F., Yates 
County, N. Y. 
* * * 
1 Rich Ground Best 
T WAS pleased at what I saw in Ameri- 
A can Agriculturist about planting in 
the moon. It reminds me of what I heard 
several years ago. Several farmers were 
discussing the subject and after they 
had all said their bit one of them says 
to the silent one, “Well, John, what do 
you think?” 
John answered “Well, some people like 
to plant in the moon, but for me I’d just 
as soon have good rich ground.”—M. J. 
BrainaRD, Genesee, New York. 
* * * 
Why Don’t Farmers Write More? 
F ARMERS as a rule only seem to write 
a letter when absolutely necessary, 
yet radio means much more to us than to 
people in the cities. A neighbor told me 
recently that they would rather sacrifice 
their automobile than their radio outfit 
and I imagine there are thousands of 
others just as enthusiastic who have 
never written to show their apprecia¬ 
tion to any broadcasting station and 
am sending the names of these three 
neighbors hoping you will be able to get 
them started. 
A person need not be a close observer 
to see how radio has broadened the minds 
of the rural people in the past year, yet the 
time that should be spent in writing their 
appreciation of each and every speaker or 
artist whom they enjoy listening to, they 
spend in worrying for fear something will 
happen and broadcasting eventually be 
given up.— Chas. L. Bennett, Middle- 
town, N. Y. 
Mixture of Everything 
{Continued from page 535) 
engineer, or the cement people, some 
wonder which. 
} 
but Jim helped me to get him started, and 
then came along to keep me company.” 
^ “Yes,” said Jim, “I have been intend¬ 
ing to come up, anyway, for two or three 
nights, now.” 
Mother looked us over, with sort of a 
funny smile, and I couldn’t help Wonder¬ 
ing whether there Was any grass stains 
on the seat of my pants. 
“Well, I see you arrived all right, but 
it took you quite a spell,” said Dad after 
we had finished supper and I had gone to 
help finish the milking. “Have any 
trouble? ” 
“He bothered some, but I showed him 
who Was boss. I’ll bet he knows a lot 
more than he did, and I guess I do, too,” 
I added. 
* * * 
I heard Dad telling mother something 
that they seemed to think was a good 
joke, when he came back from taking the 
milk to the cheese factory, the next 
morning, but I didn’t bother to ask what 
they were laughing about. I didn’t need 
to. Dad chuckled to himself several 
times during the day, but neither he nor 
mother bothered me about it, for which 
I was duly thankful. 
The confidence of youth is a great thing. 
Parents and grandparents are often great¬ 
ly disturbed, because the younger gener¬ 
ation will not listen to their advice, and 
be .guided by the experience of their eld¬ 
ers, and yet if anyone did just as their 
parents did, we wouldn’t get anywhere 
because progress is largely a matter of 
doing something that others say “can’t 
be done.” After all I did bring the bull 
home (with just a little assistance). That 
wasn’t the only time, though, that I found 
that the advice of Dad made a much 
firmer impression on my youthful mind, 
after corroboration by personal experi¬ 
ment. 
New York Farm News 
{Continued from page 539) 
son, his son L. J. Emerson has been the 
owner. 
The public market at Binghamton is 
now completed.—E. L. V. 
Tioga County. —April rains continued 
through May and it turns very cold after 
each rain. The ground has been so wet 
that it has held back plowing to a great 
extent, so much so that many farmers 
have still got to sow oats. Some farmers 
are of the opinion that what is not sown 
now will have to be sown to other crops. 
It is so cold that fear is entertained that 
seeds sown will decay and fail to germi¬ 
nate. We certainly hope they will not. 
Quite a quantity of maple syrup was made 
this year, although not as much as usual 
owing to the lack of help and the unfav¬ 
orable weather conditions. The milk 
question is occupying the minds of many 
farmers. What we want and need for the 
mutual benefit of all is cooperation.— 
Mbs. C. A. B. 
In the Hudson Valley 
Saratoga County —Spring has been 
unusually cold, wet and backward. 
Grass and fall sown grains are making fine 
growth. Only a small acreage of oats has 
been sown, in fact none at all on low 
ground, which is not fit for tillage as yet. 
Gardens have not been planted, in fact no 
planting of any kind has been attempted. 
The water is very high in the Hudson 
Valley. Help is unattainable, conse¬ 
quently but little work is being done on 
the farms. Many farmers are leaving 
their farms, going to work in nearby mills 
or on public works, notwithstanding the 
report of factories running on short time 
or closing down for indefinite periods. 
A great deal of productive land will be 
allowed to lie fallow or allowed to run to 
pasture or meadow. Cows have been 
turned out to pasture and are apparently 
doing well. Hay has been bringing 
fairly satisfactory prices, $13 a ton at the 
farm being the general price. Farmers 
have sold all the hay they had and mows 
are generally empty. Potatoes are bring¬ 
ing $2.50 to $2.75 a barrel. Last year’s 
crop is about all disposed of. Fruit trees 
look promising. Prices paid for milk are 
not very satisfactory, butter bringing 45 
to 50c per pound wholesale. Eggs are 
25c a dozen. Feeds of all kinds are high 
priced. Tax returns show that very few 
taxes have been unpaid, which is much 
better than last year when a large amount 
of taxes were not paid when due. Farmers 
in this territory fully appreciate the work 
American Agriculturist has done to 
reduce their burden of taxes which is still 
more than they can bear. The farm 
bureaus are doing excellent work too.— 
E. S. R. 
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