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RURAL.  N  E  W  -YORKER 
July  8,  1916. 
JiThc  21.  If-  is  threatening  vain  these 
two  flays,  hut  it  has  not.  come  yet.  We 
hove  harl,  practically,  no  rain  here  since 
April,  though  we  have  had  several 
drizzles.  Our  crops  are  badly  in  need  of 
rain,  and  a  lot  of  it.  Pasture  and  sod 
fields  are  hard  as  the  road.  The  weather, 
so  favorable  to  working,  dry,  clear  and 
coo],  is  exceedingly  bad  for  growth.  We 
are  going  to  have  poor  hay  crop-  and  pas¬ 
tures  arc  keeping  very  poor.  Late-sowed 
grains  are  a  poor  stand.  Put  a  tecs  are 
coming  well.  Potatoes  planted  May  22 
are  coming  up.  I  thuiic  we  arc  likely  to 
have  a  bumper  crop  of  potatoes  on  this 
island  province  this  year — may  run  to 
ten  million  bushels  as  iu  1913.  Wool  was 
a  great  Crop  along  the  shore  farms-  Sheep 
sheared  remarkably  heavy  fleeces,  and 
the  price,  50c.  lb.,  washed,  makes  our 
sheepmen  feel  good.  The  lamb  crop  was 
also  remarkably  good.  Seldom  were 
then'  so  few  losses  of  young  lambs.  Sheep 
keeping  along  the  Gulf  shore  here  has  a 
great  future.  Kelp,  which  is  used  so 
much  along  here  for  potato  fertilizer,  is  a 
grand  feed  for  sheep.  They  are  raven¬ 
ously  fond  of  this  kelp  on  account  of  its 
saltiness.  I  suppose,  as  there  cannot  be 
much  virtue  in  it.  for  food.  I  think  it  is 
a  great  appetizer.  Prices  are  all  the  far¬ 
mer  could  wish  for.  Wool,  50c.  (wash¬ 
ed)  ;  eggs.  24c.:  butter,  32c.:  cheese, 
1(>  94  c. ;  potatoes,  <S0c.  bush.;  oats,  70c  ; 
hay.  SOe.  c-wt. ;  cattle,  away  up.  and 
prospect  for  big  lamb  prices  good.  Never 
in  history  did  a  bushel,  a  dozen  or  a 
pound  of  farmer's  product  have  such  pur¬ 
chasing  power  at  the  stores  as  now, 
even  if  prices  at  store  are  high.  .1.  \  m. 
llermanville.  Prince  Edward  Island. 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC, — Charging  that  the  hard 
coal  companies  are  exacting  $50,000,000 
more  a  year  from  the  people  than  is  nec¬ 
essary  to  compensate  them  for  the  in¬ 
creased  wages  and  weary  of  the  delay  of 
the  Federal  Trade  Commission  to  begin 
am*  investigation  into  the  alleged  hard 
coal  combination  Senator  Hitchcock,  of 
Nebraska  introduced  a  resolution  in  the 
Senate  June  22  instructing  that  commis¬ 
sion  to  begin  an  immediate  inquiry,  liis 
resolution,  which  was  adopted,  requests 
an  immediate  investigation  into  the  op¬ 
erations  and  accounts  of  the  leading  com¬ 
panies  producing  anthracite  for  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  ascertaining  the  relations  between 
the  increased  cost  of  labor  and  the  re¬ 
cent  increased  price  of  coal  in  the  last 
few  months  following  the  increased  wage 
scale, 
The  Appellate  Division.  New  York, 
June  23,  sustained  the  sentence  of  Dr. 
F.  W.  Sears,  of  the  New  Thought 
Church,  to  pay  a  fine  of  $50  or  spend  live 
days  in  the  city  prison,  which  sentence 
was  pronounced  in  Special  Sessions,  be¬ 
cause  Dr.  Seal's  had  practiced  medicine 
illegally- 
The  dissolution  of  the  so-called  Corn 
Products  Trust  as  “an  illegal  combina¬ 
tion  which  has  shown  an  inveterate  and 
incorrigible  insistence  upon  interfering 
with  the  course  of  commerce'*  is  ordered 
by  Judge  Learned  Hand  of  the  United 
States  District  Court  in  n  lengthy  opin¬ 
ion  tiled  .Tunc  24  at  Chicago.  The  con¬ 
cerns  involved  are  restrained  from  con¬ 
tinuing  the  practices  by  which  they  built 
up  the  trade.  The  corporations  included 
iu  Judge  Hand’s  decision  are  the  $30.- 
000.000  Corn  Products  Refining  Com¬ 
pany,  the  National  Starch  Company,  the 
Novelty  Candy  Company  and  the  St. 
Louis  Syrup  and  Preserving  Company, 
which,  according  to  the  Federal  prosecu¬ 
tors.  control  more  than  (SO  per  cent,  of 
tin  Trade  in  glucose,  starch  and  their 
by-products.  The  suit  asking  for  the 
dissolution  under  the  Sherman  Act  was 
tiled  March  I.  .1013. 
Cedro  Garcia,  a  Mexican,  tried  June 
25  to  steal  a  Santa  Fe  locomotive  from 
the  El  Paso  yards,  near  the  Rio  Grande, 
intending  to  run  it  over  the  railroad 
bridge  into  Mexico.  The  engine  crew 
was  nt  supper,  hut  a  fireman,  P.  J.  Rodg¬ 
ers.  turned  Garcia  over  to  the  military 
police. 
The  United  States  Circuit  Court  of 
Appeals  in  an  opinion  filed  June  2(1,  re¬ 
versed  the  conviction  of  Jacob  L.  Salas, 
a  commission  merchant  at  Colon,  who 
was  sentenced  by  Judge  Hunt  in  the  Fed¬ 
eral  District  Court  to  13  months’  im¬ 
prisonment  for  conspiring  to  defraud  the 
United  States  iu  connection  with  the  fur¬ 
nishing  of  supplies  for  the  commissariat 
in  the  Panama  Canal  Zone-  Salas  was 
charged  with  paying  $22,000  to  John 
Furke.  deposed  head  of  the  commissary 
department,  to  induce  Burke  to  award 
him  contracts  for  furnishing  the  canal 
laborers  with  tobacco.  Burke  was  indict¬ 
ed  with  him,  but  testified  for  the  Govern¬ 
ment  at  the  trial.  In  its  opinion  revers¬ 
ing  the  eonviction  the  Circuit  Court  of 
Appeals  holds  that  the  lower  court  was 
without  jurisdiction  in  the  first  place  and 
that  there  was  not  sufficient  evidence  to 
justify  the  jury  in  finding  Salas  guilty 
beyond  a  reasonable  doubt. 
WA  S 1 1 1 NGTON.— The  fort  5  lion  lions 
appropriation  bill  was  passed  In  the 
House  June  22.  It  carries  approximate¬ 
ly  $22,000,000  for  fortifications  through¬ 
out  the  United  States  and  the  insular 
possessions  and  is  the  third  national  de¬ 
fence  measure  to  pass  the  lower  house. 
The  House  adopted  the  Tavernier  amend¬ 
ment  to  the  bill  stipulating  that  Govern¬ 
ment  arsenals  shall  not  employ  stop 
watch  or  other  “speed  up”  systems  affect¬ 
ing  the  work  of  Government  machinists. 
This  legislation  has  been  supported  by 
organized  labor  and  a  similar  provision 
relating  t<i  navy  yards  was  carried  in  the 
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