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The  Pictures 
A  Chautauqua  Co.,  N.Y-,  Farmers’  Meeting 
The  first  page  picture  was  taken  at  the 
field  day  of  the  South  Western  Holstein 
Breeders’  Association  and  the  Chautau¬ 
qua  County  Farm  Bureau.  This  meet¬ 
ing  was  held  on  the  farm  of  II.  Buss  & 
Sons,  near  Sherman.  There  were  350 
people  present.  The  picture  shows  two 
Holstein  cows  being  inspected  by  the 
Crowd.  These  field  days  and  farm  gath¬ 
erings  are  becoming  popular  and  famous 
throughout  the  Eastern  States.  Many 
<  f  them  are  organized  and  helped  by  the 
county  farm  bureau,  and  this  sort  of 
work  is  excellent.  Bringing  people  to¬ 
gether  for  some  definite  business  propo¬ 
sition  is  about  the  best  way  for  laying 
the  foundation  for  sound  cooperative 
work.  There  cannot  be  too  many  of  such 
farm  meetings. 
Working  the  Bull 
The  picture  at  Fig.  414,  page  1047, 
shows  how  a  Michigan  farmer  hitches 
up  the  hull  in  order  to  make  a  team 
strong  enough  to  haul  the  manure  spread¬ 
er.  Mr.  C.  Beckwith,  who  sends  us  this 
picture,  says  “We  all  work  together  for 
farm  fertility.”  The  two  horses  arid  the 
hull  haul  the  spreader,  the  children  have 
a  ride  in  front,  and  the  machine  puts  the 
manure  on  where  it  will  do  the  most  good. 
Wc  have  a  good  many  cases  where  farm¬ 
ers  are  able  to  work  the  bull  to  good 
advantage.  In  a  case  like  this  we  think 
those  horns  ought  to  lie  cut  oil’,  or  the 
hull  in  thrashing  his  head  around  may 
wound  his  companions  in  the  harness.  At 
any  rate  they  have  got  him  so  that  he  is 
obliged  to  work.  There  does  not  seem  to 
be  any  escape  for  him,  and  most  bulls 
when  they  find  what  is  expected  of  them, 
seem  to  be  rather  proud  of  their  strength, 
and  throw  nemsclves  into  the  harness  so 
that  something  has  to  follow  them  when 
they  move.  There  is  no  question  lint 
that  reasonable  work  of  this  sort  is\  good 
for  the  bull,  and  on  many  farms  he  can 
1  e  made  to  give  economical  labor.  We 
have  often  wondered  why  more  of  them 
are  not  put  at  work,  and  as  Mr.  Beck¬ 
with  says,  “get  together  the  rest  of  the 
farm  helpers  for  farm  fertility.” 
A  Field  of  Lima  Beans 
The  picture  at  Fig.  415,  page  1017,  shows 
a  field  of  I.ima  beans  on  a  farm  at  Port 
Norris,  New  .Tprsey.  There  are  K,000  bills 
i  f  beans  in  this  field.  This  crop  is  a  pop- 
'lar  and  profitable  one  in  many  [tarts  of 
N»w  Jersey  near  the  larger  cities.  In 
Kune  cases  the  bush  Limas  are  planted. 
These  are  really  dwarfed  specimens  of 
the  larger  pole  varieties,  and  on  light 
ground,  and  in  a  reasonably  dry  season, 
they  will  yield  a  good  crop.  In  a  wet 
season  like  the  present  the  bush  Limas 
are  apt  to  mold,  and  the  beaus  close  to 
the  damp  ground  often  go  wrong.  In 
some  of  the  drier  sections  of  the  country 
tlw  pole  varieties  are  planted  in  hills, 
very  much  like  corn,  and  the  vines  are 
permitted  to  grow  into  a  tangle.  Fair 
cultivation  is  given  as  long  as  the  cul¬ 
tivators  can  get  through  the  vines  with¬ 
out.  doing  much  damage.  Then  they  are 
let  alone  to  r i m  as  they  please.  In  this 
way  a  fair  crop  is  picked,  and  the  vines 
make  a  very  good  manorial  crop  for  or¬ 
chards.  The  picture  shows  a  typical  field 
of  the  pole  Limas.  The  polos  are  put 
into  the  ground  about  four  feet  apart, 
with  the  soil  thoroughly  prepared.  Then 
an  average  of  four  beans  will  be  planted 
close  around  the  pole.  Care  is  taken  in 
planting  to  set  the  bean  eye  down  rea¬ 
sonably  deep  in  the  soil.  The  plants  are 
thinned  out  to  two  or  three  at  the  pole, 
and  as  they  grow  they  are  twined  around 
the  pole  and  fastened  with  strips  of  cloth 
or  straw.  This  holds  them  oft’  the  ground, 
and  they  grow  to  the  top  of  the  pole  or 
beyond.  The  yield  will  vary  with  tin-  va¬ 
riety  and  the  season.  We  know  of  large 
fields  which  have  averaged  10  cents  per 
pole  income,  in  some  exceptional  cases 
giving  a  value  considerably  above  that. 
The  pieking  is  laborious,  and  in  most 
of  the  markets  the  beans  must  be  shelled 
in  order  to  obtain  the  best,  prices. 
New  Haven  Station  Field  Meeting 
The  annual  field  meeting  of  the  Con¬ 
necticut  Agricultural  Experiment  Station 
will  be  held  at  its  experiment  field  at 
Mount  Carmel,  near  New  Haven,  on  Au¬ 
gust  1  fitli.  These  gatherings  differ  from 
most  Summer  meetings  because  the  field 
is  not  a  farm,  run  for  money  profit,  hut 
is  rather  an  open  air  laboratory  run  for 
profit  of  another  kind. 
Here  are  a  great  variety  of  crops 
growu  solely  for  observation  and  experi¬ 
ment.  For  example,  about  70  represen¬ 
tative  dent  and  Hint  varieties  of  eorn, 
gathered  from  all  parts  of  the  State,  are 
being  grown  for  three  years  in  succession 
to  test  their  relative  value  for  grain  or 
silage.  This  is  in  cooperation  with  the 
Stores  Station.  Here  arc  also  first  gen¬ 
eration  corn  hybrids  growing  side  by  side 
with  the  parent  varieties  to  eompare  their 
yield.  There  are  also  eorn  varieties 
which  have  been  self-pollinated  for 
as  much  as  1”  generations;  “pure 
strains,”  very  insignificant  in  size  and 
yield,  showing  the  effect  of  continuous 
“in-breeding”;  but  when  these  pigmies 
are  crossed  with  another  strain  they  usu¬ 
ally  yield,  in  the  first  generation,  as 
much  as  and  in  many  eases  far  more 
than  the  original  varieties,  recovering  at 
once  all  their  former  size  and  vigor  and 
even  acquiring  more. 
Different  species  of  the  nitrogen-gath¬ 
ering  crops — Alfalfa,  Sweet  clover,  Red 
clover,  cow  pirns,  and  Soy  beans  are 
growing  in  plots. 
Market  garden  vegetables  are  also  tin¬ 
der  experiment.  The  effect  of  time  of 
planting  tomnlo  seed  and  of  the  way  of 
growing  and  handling  the  seedlings  on 
the  time  of  ripening  fruit,  is  the  subject 
of  a  particularly  elaborate  experiment. 
The  field  is  also  a  hospital.  Potato 
blight  is  invited.  Peach  leaf  curl  is  wel¬ 
come.  Codling  moth.  San  .lose  scale  and 
borers  receive  skillful,  medical  and  sur¬ 
gical  treatment,  but  with  greater  atten¬ 
tion  to  the  efficacy  of  the  drugs  adminis¬ 
tered  than  to  the  feelings  of  the  patients. 
The  doctors  are  on  hand  to  explain  the 
treatments  and  point  with  pride  to  the 
“remains” — sometimes  of  the  crops,  oft- 
ener  of  the  patients. 
Last  year  about  400  Connecticut  and 
Massachusetts  farmers  met  at  this  meet¬ 
ing  and  exchanged  views  on  a  great  var¬ 
iety  of  farm  topics  suggested  by  the 
crops  before  them,  and  an  even  larger 
number  are  expected  this  year.  All  who 
are  interested  are  invited  to  come  and 
to  bring  their  lunch  with  them. 
Boston  Produce  Markets 
FRUIT  MARKET  SOMEWHAT  BETTER. 
The  last  of  the  Maine  strawberries 
were  small  and  soft,  but  brought  10c, 
compared  with  3c  for  such  fruit,  at  the 
height  of  the  season.  A  few  good  Nova 
Seotias  bring  about  13c.  Raspberries 
bother  dealers  by  molding  over  night. 
Natives  range  from  6  to  12c  per  box. 
N.  V,  2  to  Sc  per  pt.  cup.  Green  goose¬ 
berries  are  S  to  10c.  Currants  5  to  8c. 
Native  blues  12  to  16c.  N.  Y.  blacks  8 
to  10c,  A  few  native  green  apples  not 
much  larger  than  big  marbles  sell  at  $1 
a  box.  There  are  still  a  few  old  Rus¬ 
sets  at  $2  a  box.  Said  a  dealer  who 
seems  to  have  all  the  good  ones  in  sight: 
“I  shipped  out  the  last  of  my  Baldwins 
July  25  at  .$7  per  bbl.  to  clear  them  out. 
but  1  have  billed  some  before  that  at 
$8.  $0  and  $10.  No.  1  didn't  lose  any¬ 
thing  by  hanging  on  to  the  apples.  It 
was  the  best  year  I  ever  had.  I  cleared 
close  to  80o  u  barrel,  compared  with  72c 
last  year.  1  bought  them  in  the  coun¬ 
try  and  stored  them  myself,  all  fancy 
fruit.  The  profit  ranged  from  30c  to 
$1.00  per  barrel.”  The  only  well  satis¬ 
fied  men  this  year  seem  to  lie  the  grow¬ 
ers  who  sold  early  and  the  dealers  who 
hung  on  to  the  end  of  the  season. 
VEGETABLES. 
Peas  have  been  scarce  right  along. 
Large  ones  from  the  Portland  district 
bring  $2  per  bskt.  Many  string  beans 
are  poor  and  rusty,  but  good  wax  bring 
$2  or  more  a  box.  Cabbages  are  low  at 
75c  to  $1  per  bid.  Native  box  onions 
sell  at  $1.50;  beets  40c  per  box;  car¬ 
rots,  35  to  40c  doz. ;  cauliflower  $1  per 
box;  native  corn  $1  per  box;  Summer 
squash  75  per  doz. ;  cucumbers  $3  to 
$3.50  box. 
BUTTER  STEADY. 
Arrivals  continue  large  and  some  are 
going  into  storage.  Extra -creamery  holds 
at  20c  and  firsts  27  to  28c.  Trade  is 
light.  Said  I.  II.  Ballou  &  Co.:  “But¬ 
ter  receipts,  have  caught  up  in  Boston 
and  gone  ahead  of  last  year,  but  prices 
are  higher  than  last  year,  which  seems 
to  be  from  the  good  general  demand,  and 
also  from  the  speculative  demand  based 
on  a  state  of  mind  caused  by  the  short¬ 
age  the  first  of  the  year.  Quality  is  now 
about  as  usual  for  the  time  of  year  and 
there  is  no  special  change  in  prices.” 
EGG  MARKET  STRONG. 
Egg  market  is  very  firm  ;  27c  for  West¬ 
ern  prime  firsts,  and  33c  for  nearby  hen¬ 
nery  stock.  Eastern  extras  bring  32c. 
Much  stock  arrives  poor.  A  dealer  was 
surprised  to  find  three  rotten  eggs  in  a 
gilt-edge  nearby  lot.  Everything  has  to 
be  candled  with  care  this  weather. 
BOUT. TRY  SUPPLY  SLOWLY  INCREASING. 
.Said  Bachelder  &  Snyder:  "The  mar¬ 
ket  is  a  little  weaker,  as  is  usual  as  the 
season  advances.  Live  broilers  24e; 
dressed  27  to  28c;  live  roasters  23  to  28e ; 
dressed  32c  up;  live  fowls  18  to  10c; 
dressed  22  to  23;  live  ducklings  18c; 
dressed  20c.  Spring  goslings,  dressed 
28e ;  Spring  turkeys,  dressed,  $2  per 
pair.”  Said  S.  L.  Burr  &  Co.:  “Broil¬ 
ers  for  Ibis  market  should  dress  not  less 
than  1  lb.  Roasters  bring  35e  a  lb. 
and  must;  weigh  4  lbs.  or  more.  There  is 
some  demand  for  cheap  poultry-  Old 
roosters  sell  af  12  to  13c  live.”  A  North 
Market  St.  dealer  found  17  dead  ehiek- 
ens  in  an  express  orate  from  Maine  with 
about  35  inside.  He  says  it  is  the  weather 
and  too  many  in  one  crate,  and  the  habit 
of  piling  the  stuff  too  closely  in  (he  cam 
FRE8IT  MEATS  TENDING  HIGHER. 
Western  beef  is  n p  a  cent.  Country 
dressed  cow  beef  is  11  to  1 2  e.  Choice 
mutton  11  to  12c.  Eastern  Fall  lambs 
12  to  18c.  Best  veals  10c  and  fair  to 
good  11  to  14c. 
New  York  State  News 
Fruit  Prospects. — Reports  from  Gen¬ 
esee  County  are  to  the  effect  that  the 
apple  growers  are  much  discouraged  over 
the  outlook  for  a  crop  this  year.  The 
constant  rains  late  in  the  Spring  resulted 
in  scale  development  so  rapidly  that  even 
frequent  spraying  availed  little.  As  a 
result  of  the  spread  of  the  scale  the  foli¬ 
age  is  stunted  badly.  Experts  seem  to  be 
unable  to  account,  for  the  fact  that  the 
Duchess  of  Oldenburg  apple  seems  to  he 
exempt  from  the  effects  of  the  scale.  One 
grower  near  Batavia  says  he  may  have 
2,000  barrels  from  a  40-acre  orchard 
whose  normal  production  is  8,000  barrels. 
A  canvass  of  the  grape  belt  indicates  that 
the  grape  crop  will  be  much  smaller  than 
last  year  when  about  7.000  carloads  were 
shipped.  The  estimate  for  the  present 
season  is  from  4.500  to  5.500  cars. 
Tompkins  -County  Farmers  Organ¬ 
ize. — An  organization  known  as  the 
Tompkins  County  Farmers’  Company, 
Inc.,  has  just  been  formed  at  Ithaca  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $10,000.  The  aims  of 
the  new  association  arc  to  secure  better 
storage  accommodations,  better  marketing 
methods,  careful  gradings,  saving  in  cost 
of  supplies,  etc.  Manager  A7.  B,  Blatehe- 
loy  of  the  Tompkins  Farm  Bureau,  is  in 
charge  of  the  organization  plans. 
Trust  Controls  Dairy  Business. — 
Attorney  General  Woodbury  lias  in  his 
possession  the  report  recently  made  by 
Referee  Edward  K.  O'Malley,  who  has 
been  investigating  the  butter  and  egg 
business  in  this  State.  The  referee  de¬ 
clares  that,  the  control  of  the  butter  and 
egg  market  is  really  in  the  hands  of  a  few 
members  of  the  Mercantile  Exchange  of 
New  York.  The  total  business  in  eggs  in 
New  York  City  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 
April  80,  1014,  is  estimated  at  $84,614,- 
140,  and  it  is  shown  by  the  accountants 
that  20  receivers  and  packers  handled  40 
per  cent,  of  the  business,  The  referee 
also  declares  that  the  Exchange  manipu¬ 
lates  and  misrepresents  the  butter  and 
egg  quotations  by  means  of  quotation 
mediums.  This  misrepresentation  is  ac¬ 
complished  largely  by  the  establishment 
of  numerous  complex  grades  in  the  classi¬ 
fication  of  eggs  and  butter.  j.  w.  n. 
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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — An  attempt  was  made 
to  dynamite  the  home,  of  Charles  O’Neill, 
superintendent;  of  the  Colorado  Fuel  and 
Iron  Company  mine  at  Starkville,  Col., 
July  21.  Two  women  sustained  minor 
injuries  from  flying  pieces  of  glass  and 
plaster, 
July  22,  during  a  preparedness  par¬ 
ade  in  Sun  Francisco,  bombs  concealed 
in  a  suitcase  caused  the  death  of  nine  per¬ 
sons,  and  injuries  to  many  more.  It  is 
believed  to  be  the  work  of  Anarchists 
who  object  to  military  preparedness.  One 
Finnish  sailor  was  arrested  as  a  suspect. 
Warnings  of  some  outrage  had  been  sent 
out  anonymously  before  tin*  parade*.  The 
bombs  had  a  time  fuse,  ami  were  then 
left  in  the  suitcase  on  a  crowded  corner. 
James  Whitcomb  Riley,  famous  and 
much  loved  Indiana  poet,  died  at  his 
home  in  Indianapolis  July  23,  aged  63. 
July  25  22  lives  were  lost  in  an  ex¬ 
plosion  of  gas  in  a  waterworks  tunnel 
being  constructed  from  the  foot  of  West 
Eleventh  Street,  Cleveland,  <).,  to  cribs 
in  Lake  Erie.  Thirty-two  men  in  all 
were  imprisoned  120  feet  below  the  sur¬ 
face  of  Lake  Erie  when  an  explosion  of 
gas  took  place  in  the  new  waterworks 
tunnel.  Ten  men  escaped  and  10  bodies 
have  been  recovered.  The  workmen 
struck  a  “gas  pocket,”  it:  is  believed. 
Four  investigations — city,  county.  State 
and  Federal — will  be  started  to  determ¬ 
ine  flic  cause  of  the  explosion.  The  lack 
of  safety  devices  such  as  gas  helmets 
and  pulmotors  at  the  t  rib  and  shore  ends 
of  the  16,000  foot  tunnel  also  will  be  in¬ 
vestigated. 
Rev.  W.  T\  Evclond.  missionary  Josh  op, 
of  the  Methodist  Church  for  the  Philip¬ 
pines,  who  had  been  missing  for  24  hours, 
was  found  dead  near  Mt.  Holly  Springs, 
Pa.,  July  25.  He  had  been  electrocuted 
when  his  steel  fishing  rod  came  in  con¬ 
tact  with  a  high-tension  electric  wire, 
while  passing  under  a  railroad  bridge. 
Capt.  Jack  Benson’s  crew  of  pound 
seiners  enme  in  to  the  station  of  the  ship 
bottom  fishery  on  Long  Beach,  five  miles 
above  Beach  Haven,  N.  J„  July  25,  tow¬ 
ing  behind  their  motor  boat  a  600  pound 
shark  10  feet  8  inches  in  leugt.lt,  the 
largest  captured  since  the  mnneaters  from 
southern  waters  began  their  raid  on  the 
New  Jersey  coast.  Four  other  sharks 
were  in  the  boat,  two  of  them  five  foot¬ 
ers  and  two  four  footers.  All  of 
them  had  been  taken  in  the  morn¬ 
ing  draw  of  the  nets.  The  ship  bot¬ 
tom  fishermen  had  a  highly  exciting 
battle  with  the  big  shark.  Fishermen 
who  in  plying  their  trade  have  been 
navigating  the  hitherto  shark  infested 
waters  at  the  mouth  of  Havana  harbor 
and  around  the  rocks  of  Morro  Castie 
report  that  recently  no  sharks  have  been 
seen  there.  Their  theory  is  that  the  Cu¬ 
ban  maneaters  from  some  unknown  rea¬ 
son  have  migrated  to  the  north  Atlantic 
coast. 
When  Detective  Mitehel  found  a  crowd 
of  Chinamen  in  Mott  Street,  New  York, 
July  25,  eagerly  purchasing  cucumbers 
at  $4  each  he  made  sin  examination  and 
found  that  each  cucumber  held  a  small 
tin  box  filled  with  opium.  Mitehel  ar¬ 
rested  the  vender,  Lee  Erin,  of  15  Mott 
Street,  and  arraigned  him  iu  the  Tombs 
August  5,  1916. 
court  whore  it  was  found  he  was  under 
suspended  sentence  for  the  same  offence. 
He  was  held  in  $500  bail  for  examina¬ 
tion. 
WASHINGTON. — After  rejecting  the 
smaller  building  program  of  the  House, 
the  Senate,  by  a  vote  of  71  to  8,  passed  the 
naval  appropriation  bill,  July  21.  Every 
fffort  of  both  Democratic  and  Republican 
"little  nav.v"  Senators  to  reduce  the 
enormous  measure — the  amount,  of  ap¬ 
propriations  being  $315,826,843 — failed 
by  overwhelming  votes.  The  Senate  re¬ 
fused,  Tiy_  a  vote  of  65  to  12.  to  accept 
the  building  program  of  the  House  bill, 
and  in  every  instance  stood  back  of  the 
big  program  recommended  by  the  Senate 
Naval  Affairs  Committee. 
All  restrictions  upon  the  movement  of 
exports  into  Mexico,  except  munitions  of 
war  and  machinery  for  their  manufac¬ 
ture,  were  removed,  July  21,  by  order  of 
the  Treasury  Department.  Without  the 
iormajity  of  a  proclamation,  an  embargo 
on  shipments  into  Mexico  was  put  into 
effect  by  customs  and  military  authori¬ 
ties  soon  after  Villa’s  raid  upon  Colum¬ 
bus.  Two  weeks  ago  the  State  and  War 
Departments  agreed  to  lifting  of  restric¬ 
tions  upon  exports  of  food  and  clothing 
and  lafr  to  the  movement  of  household 
goods  and  of  fuel  in  reasonable  quanti¬ 
ties.  The  Treasury  Department  has  been 
urging  the  broad  order  issued,  July  21,  to 
relieve  freight  Congestion  at  the  border 
cities  and  to  accommodate  both  Mexican 
and  American  industrial  firms  in  Mexico. 
Many  requests  have  come  from  mining 
men  whose  mining  machinery  has  been 
tied  up  for  weeks.  The  munitions  em¬ 
bargo  probahly  will  be  maintained  rigidly 
until  conditions  in  northern  Mexico  are 
more  settled. 
The  War  Department  lias  instructed 
army  commanders-  on  the  border  to  sub¬ 
mit  weekly  reports  showing  the  actual 
physical  condition  of  their  commands, 
describing  the  treatment  accorded  the 
men,  and  detailing  the  duties  they  are 
performing.  The  reports,  it  was  an¬ 
nounced,  July  28,  will  he  published  un- 
eon  sored  by  the  department  to  meet 
criticisms  alleging  mistreatment  and  un¬ 
due  hardships  suffered  by  militiamen. 
Negotiations  between  the  United  States 
and  Denmark  looking  to  the  purchase  of 
the  Danish  West  Indies,  are  practically 
completed  and  both  Governments  are  now 
awaiting  an  opportune  moment  for  ob¬ 
taining  legislative  action  to  a  treaty  em¬ 
bodying  the  deal.  The  object  of  obtain¬ 
ing  the  three  islands  is  primarily  the  es¬ 
tablishment  of  a  coaling  and  cable  sta¬ 
tion  at  8t.  Thomas.  Incidentally  Ameri¬ 
can  capital  and  American  enterprise  will 
ho  used  to  build  up  the  islands,  which 
have  fallen  into  dire  financial  straits  and 
become  a  burden  to  Denmark.  The  stra¬ 
tegic  importance  of  the  islands  for  the 
T’nited  States  is  the  elimination  of  the 
possibility  of  some  European  Power  tak¬ 
ing  them  off  Denmark’s  hands  and  there¬ 
by  having  access  to  a  naval  base  in  close 
proximity  to  the  Panama  Canal. 
MEXICO. — Inauguration  of  a  cam¬ 
paign  by  the  de  facto  Government  of 
Mexico  against  General  Cantu.  Governor 
of  Lower  California  was  reported,  July 
21,  in  advices  transmitted  to  the  War 
Department.  It  was  reported  that  4,000 
men  had  been  ordered  to  Guaymas  to  em¬ 
bark  for  Lower  California  ports.  Gov¬ 
ernor  Cantu  has  held  aloof  from  all  fac¬ 
tions  in  Mexico,  issuing  a  formal  neu¬ 
trality  proclamation  and  Lower  Califor¬ 
nia  virtually  has  been  an  independent 
State  .since  the  war  between  Carranza 
and  Villa  began.  When  the  de  facto  Gov¬ 
ernment  extended  its  control  over  other 
portions  of  northern  Mexico  General 
Carranza  sent  an  officer  to  take  over 
command  of  the.  territory.  The  Gover¬ 
nor  refused  to  surrender  his  authority 
and  put.  the  official  back  on  the  train  with 
instructions  to  tell  General  Carranza 
that  when  a  stable  Government  had  been 
established  Lower  California  would  join 
it.  He  also  served  notice  that  either 
Carranza  or  Villa  forces  entering  his  ter¬ 
ritory  would  be  attacked. 
Forty  persons,  including  a  number  of 
soldiers  and  women  were  killed  during  a 
severe  lightning  and  rain  storm  in  the 
suburbs  of  Mexico  City.  July  20.  Most 
of  the  deaths  occurred  at  San  Grcgoria, 
Atlapuleo  and  near  Xoehimilco. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN— The  Sum¬ 
mer  meeting  of  the  Maryland  State  Hor¬ 
ticultural  Society  will  be  held  at  Han¬ 
cock.  Mil.,  Aug.  29-30.  The  members  of 
the  society,  and  all  others  interested  in 
the  industry,  are  invited  to  assemble  in 
Hancock  on  the  evening  of  August  29th. 
A  meeting  will  be  held  in  the  town  hall, 
which  will  be  addressed  hy  prominent 
speakers.  On  Wednesday,  August  30th, 
9  a.  m.,  the  visitors  will  he  conducted 
through  the  orchards  of  the  vieiuity  in 
automobiles,  as  guests  of*  fhe  citizens  and 
fruit  growers  of  Hancock.  It  is  hoped 
to  have  a  demonstration  of  packing  ap¬ 
ples  and  explanation  of  the  new  Mary¬ 
land  apple  grading  and  packing  law  that 
went  into  effect  July  1st,  1916.  Special 
arrangements  are  in  progress  for  the  an¬ 
nual  meeting  and  exhibition  of  the  Hor¬ 
ticultural  Society,  which  will  be  held  in 
the  Fifth  Regiment  Armory,  Baltimore, 
“Maryland  Week,”  November  11-18, 
1916. 
Proposed  increased  rates  over  New 
England  railroads  on  milk,  cream  and 
their  products  were  found  not  justified, 
July  26.  by  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission  The  increases  would  have 
given  the  carriers  about.  $500,000  a  year 
iu  additional  revenue.  Rates  in  other 
sections  will  be  passed  on  later. 
