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DOMESTIC— All  the  mills  of  the 
American  Brass  Company  at  Ansonia, 
Connecticut,  were  closed,  Feb.  17,  by 
strikes.  The  strikers,  numbering  4,500, 
are  unskilled,  and  although  speaking  a 
dozen  European  languages  have  been  se¬ 
cretly  welded  into  one  organization  with¬ 
out  the  assistance  of  an  officer  of  an  or¬ 
ganized  labor  union. 
New  Jersey  would  add  $200,000,000  to 
the  value  of  its  taxable  property  by  get¬ 
ting  rid  of  mosquitoes,  Unssel  W.  Giles 
of  Elizabeth  told  the  State  Mosquito  Ex¬ 
termination  Association  at  Atlantic  City, 
Feb.  17.  Mr.  Giles  eai.d  that,  effective 
control  work  in  other  parts  of  the  world 
costs  about  $1  per  capita,  while  in  New 
Jersey  only  from  five  to  20  cents  per 
capita  is  spent.  ITe  said  the  most  thor¬ 
ough  work  had  been  done  between  Hack¬ 
ensack  and  Long  Branch, 
Five  workmen  wore  killed  and  a  half 
dozen  injured,  one  perhaps  fatally,  when 
a  tank  of  acid  exploded.  Feb.  17.  in  a 
building  of  the  Semet  Solvay  Company's 
now  pirie  acid  plant  at  Split  Bock.  N.  Y. 
The  explosion  took  place  when  the  plant 
was  i,n  full  operation.  Officers  of  the 
company  say  that  nn  acid  tank  was  sub¬ 
jected  to  to('  much  pressure. 
Ignatius  T.  T.  Lincoln,  who  escaped 
from  Federal  authorities  in  Brooklyn,  N. 
Y.,  Jan.  15.  was  captured  in  New  York, 
Feb.  20.  Lincoln  calls  himself  an  inter¬ 
national  spy,  hut  is  wanted  in  England 
for  forgery.  His  escape  from  custody 
caused  severe  comment  on  the  negligence 
of  F.  8.  marshals. 
Eleven  workmen  were  burned,  five,  of 
them  severely,  by  what  is  believed  to 
have  been  the  explosion  of  an  acetylene 
gas  tank  in  the  forward  hold  of  the 
Bri.tish  steamship  Stormount  in  dry  dock 
at  Twenty-fifth  Street,  South  Brooklyn, 
Feb.  22.  It  is  believed  that  one  of  the 
tanks  leaked  gas,  which  was  ignited  by 
torches  used  in  repair  work. 
An  express  train  bound  for  New  York 
on  the  New  York,  New  Haven  and  Hart¬ 
ford  Railroad  which  was  about  25  min¬ 
utes  late  had  stopped  for  a  minute  or 
more  about  nine  miles  east  of  Bridgeport, 
Conn..  Feb.  22.  because  an  air  brilko  tube 
had  broken,  when  a  local  train  for  New 
York,  also  20  minutes  late  and  pounding 
along  at  a  high  rate  of  speed  to  make  up 
lost  time,  swept  around  a  curve  just  hack 
of  the  Stalled  express  and  smashed  into  it. 
An  instant  later  a  freight  flrnin,  also  hound 
westward  but  on  the  second  or  inner 
westbound  track,  struck  the  buckled 
wreckage  bulging  from  the  outside  west¬ 
bound  track.  The  result  was  a  ripping 
and  tearing  and  tossing  of  engine  boilers, 
steel  coaches,  wooden  freight  cars,  deaths, 
scoldings  and  broken  bodi.es  that  left  a 
tangled  mass  of  wreckage  on  both  sides 
of  the  four  tracks  that  was  next  to  un¬ 
believable.  Ten  deaths  have  resulted  and 
more  of  the  75  wlio  were  injured  are 
expected  IQ  die. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— At  the  re¬ 
cent  meeting  of  the  American  Associa¬ 
tion  of  Official  Horticultural  Inspectors, 
held  at  Columbus.  O.,  one  of  the  partici¬ 
pants  is  reported  as  offering  a  resolution 
requiring  that  “an  absolute  quarantine 
be  placed  on  all  plants  imported  with 
soil  about  the  roots,  except  such  as  are 
introduced  by  the  United  States  depart¬ 
ment.  of  agriculture  for  ex  fieri  merit  and 
those  to  he  held  in  quarantine  for  a  rea¬ 
sonable  period.”  It  is  further  reported 
that  this  resolution  was  adopted  by  the 
above  organization  and  that  copies  of 
the  resolution  were  forwarded  to  the 
Federal  Horticultural  Board,  Washing¬ 
ton.  D.  C.  The  enforcement  of  such  a 
regulation  would  practically  prohibit  the 
importation  of  many  kinds  of  florists’ 
stock,  such  as  palms.  Azaleas,  bay  trees, 
etc.,  also  au  extensive  line  of  nursery 
stock. 
The  forty-first  annual  convention  of 
the  American  Association  of  Nursery¬ 
men  will  he  held  in  Milwaukee,  Wis.. 
Juno  28.  At  the  Detroit  meeting  last 
year  a  new  constitution  was  adopted,  the 
object  sought  being  to  enhance  the  value 
of  the  organization  to  members  by  the 
larger  scope,  given  to  its  activities.  Those 
seeking  fuller  information  as  to  benefits 
and  terms  of  membership  are  asked  to 
communicate  with  Secretary  John  Hall, 
204  Granite  Building,  Rochester.  N.  Y. 
Dr.  Henry  Baird  Favill,  a  leading  phy¬ 
sician  of  Chicago,  died,  Feb.  21.  in 
Springfield,  Mass.,  where  he  was  taken 
ill  a  week  before.  Hi1  had  gone  to  Spring- 
field  to  speak  on  dairying  at  nn  agricul¬ 
tural  dinner.  He  was  interested  in  farm¬ 
ing.  was  tile  owner  of  a  famous  herd  of 
Holstein  cattle,  and  had  been  president 
of  the  National  Ilolstein-Friesian  Club. 
The  proposed  uniform  State  seed  law 
to  regulate  commerce  in  certain  agricul¬ 
tural  seeds,  which  is  before  the  Massa¬ 
chusetts  Legislature,  has  for  its  chief 
points  the  naming  of  the  agricultural 
seeds  with  which  the  bill  deals,  the  ap¬ 
proximate  percentage  of  purity  or  free¬ 
dom  of  such  seed  from  foreign  matter,  or 
from  other  seeds  distinguishable  by  their 
appearance.  The  bi.ll  allows  no  greater 
proportion  of  weed  seeds  than  one  to 
2.000  of  the  variety  of  agricultural  seed 
offered  or  exposed  for  sale.  The  enforce¬ 
ment  of  this  act  shall  ho  intrusted  to  the 
State  Seed  Commissioner,  and  the  State 
Treasury  appropriates  the  sum  of  $50,- 
000  annually  to  cover  the  expeuse  con¬ 
nected  with  the  State  Commissioner’s 
duties. 
A  general  meeting  of  members  of  the 
415  i 
seed  trade  from  various  parts  of  the 
country  was  held  at  Washington,  D.  C„ 
Feb.  11,  to  discuss  a  proposed  amend¬ 
ment:  to  the  present  seed  importation  act. 
regulating  grass  and  clover  seed.  What 
the  seedsmen  had  in  mi, ml  was  to  have 
the  present  bill  amended  so  that  impor¬ 
tations  of  Crimson  clover  and  Orchard 
grass  seed  would  be  requited  to  show  a 
germination  power  of  65  per  cent.  The 
matter  was  very  thoroughly  discussed  at 
the  meeting,  but  no  definite  step  was 
taken,  the  matter  being  put  back  for 
further  discussion  later. 
The  ninth  annual  convention  of  the 
National  fanners’  Association  and  allied 
organizations,  held  in  Louisville,  Ky., 
Feb.  7  to  11,  was  one  of  the  best  at¬ 
tended  in  the  history  of  the  industry. 
The  work  was  divided  into  sections,  such 
as  the  pea  section,  the  corn  section,  the 
tomato  section,  the  milk  section  and  the 
sauerkraut,  section.  Each  held  meetings 
daily  with  demonstrations  and  each  con¬ 
sidered  problems  of  particular  interest  to 
those  who  attended  i.n  large  numbers. 
One  of  the  features  of  the  convention 
was  the  huge  exhibit  of  machinery,  seeds, 
supplies,  etc.,  at  the  Jefferson  Comity 
Armory,  where  it  was  stated  there  was 
a  showing  of  $250,000  of  all  the  latest 
and  most  improved  types  of  canning 
equipment.  The  seed  houses  wore  per- 
ticularly  well  represented. 
The  Granite  State  Dairymen’s  Associa¬ 
tion  recently  held  at  Manchester,  N.  Y., 
the  largest  meeting  with  the  largest,  dis¬ 
play  of  dairy  machinery  and  products 
ever  got  together  in  New  Hampshire, 
tine  of  the  features  was  an  exhibit  of 
flint  corn  raised  in  1015  by  boys  in  a 
State  contest  apart  from  the  national 
competition  previously  reported.  Most 
of  the  corn  would  have  done  credit  to  a 
corn  specialist.  There  were  IS  that  re¬ 
ported  the  results  of  their  attempts. 
These  varied  from  40  to  76.80  bushels  of 
corn  per  acre,  or  at  that  rate,  for  most 
of  them  planted  loss  than  an  acre.  Six¬ 
teen  reported  their  cost  accounts.  Al¬ 
lowing  $7  a  ton  for  the  fodder  the  costs 
ranged  from  24.97c  per  bushel  to  n  lit¬ 
tle  more  than  80c.  Corn  may  never  be¬ 
come  king  i,n  New  Hampshire,  but  it  is 
getting  back  to  its  former  position  that 
it  held  before  the  farmers  got  into  the 
habit  of  buying  their  grain  from  the- 
West. 
WASHINGTON. — At  least  03  Amer¬ 
icans  have  been  killed  in  Mexico  since 
President  Wilson  entered  the  White 
House.  A  statement  submitted  to  the 
Senate,  Feb.  17.  by  Secretary  Lansing 
in  response  to  a  resolution  gives  a  list  of 
76  Americans  who  lost  their  lives  in  the 
southern  republic  in  the  years  1013,  1014 
and  1015.  This,  of  course,  does  not  in¬ 
clude  the  seventeen  Americans  massacred 
by  Villa  bandits  early  in  January,  so 
that  the  known  list  now  totals  03.  In 
addition  to  this  Secretary  Lansing  dis¬ 
closes  that  20  civilian  Americana  in  those 
three  years  and  16  American  soldiers 
were  killed  on  American  soil  ns  the  re¬ 
sult  of  border  troubles.  Thus  the  total 
of  Americans  who  were  officially  acknowl¬ 
edged  to  have  perished  is  120.  The  state¬ 
ment  submitted  by  Mr.  Lansing  to  the 
Senate,  Feb.  17.  is  the.  first  li,st  that  the 
Wilson  Administration  ever  has  made 
public  of  the  loss  of  American  life  in 
Mexico.  The  resolution  which  called 
forth  this  disclosure  was  introduced  by 
Senator  Fall  of  New  Mexico;  Republican, 
OBITUARY.— Henry  Wallace,  pub¬ 
lisher  of  Wallace’s  Fanner,  died  sudden¬ 
ly,  Feb.  22,  while  attending  a  missionary 
meeting  at  the  First  Methodist  Church 
in  I>es  Moines,  la.  Mr.  Wallace  was 
born  on  a  farm  in  Westmoreland  County, 
Pa.,  and  was  educated  at  the  Allegheny 
Theological  Seminary  for  the  ministry  in 
the  United  Presbyterian  Church,  lie  also 
studied  at  the  Monmouth  Theological 
Seminary,  and  during  the  years  from 
1863  to  1876  held  charges  in  Rock  Island, 
Ill.,  Davenport,  la.,  and  other  smaller 
towns  in  those  States.  About  tills  time 
Mr.  Wallace’s  health  failed,  and  lie  was 
forced  to  live  an  outdoor  life,  so  pur¬ 
chasing  several  farms  in  western  Iowa, 
be  gave  up  the  ministry  and  spent  lii.s 
time  in  taking  charge  of  them.  Early 
in  the  ’80’ a  he  began  writing  on  farm 
topics,  and  became  editor  of  an  agricul¬ 
tural  paper,  soon  becoming  a  force  for 
1  lettering  condi, tious  on  the  farm.  In 
1805,  with  bis  sous,  he  established  Wal- 
7(i re's  Farmer.  He  was  president  of  the 
Wallace  Publishing  Company,  and  was 
president,  of  the  Third  National  Conser¬ 
vation  Congress  in  1910-11.  Mr.  Wal¬ 
lace  was  the  author  of  several  books  on 
agricultural  subjects. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
National  Feeders’  and  Breeders’  Show, 
Fort  Worth,  Tex.,  March  11-17. 
Fourth  National  Flower  Show.  Society 
of  American  Florists,  Convention  TIali, 
Philadelphia,  Pa..  March  25  April  2. 
^  International  Flower  Show  of  the  New 
York  Horticultural  Society  and  the  New 
York  Florists’  Club.  Grand  Central  Pal¬ 
ace.  New  York,  April  5  12. 
American  Jersey  Cattle  Club,  annual 
meeting,  New  York,  May  3. 
Holstein -Friesian  Association  of  Amer¬ 
ica,  Detroit,  Mich..  June  6. 
American  Association  of  Nurserymen, 
Milwaukee,  Wis.,  June  28-30. 
International  Apple  Shippers’  Asso¬ 
ciation,  New  York,  Aug.  2. 
National  Dairy  Show,  Springfield, 
Mass.,  Oct.  12-21. 
New  York  State  Fair,  Syracuse,  N.  Yl, 
Sept.  11-16. 
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