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Ghe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
September  23,  1010. 
i;  BLACK  SHELLS 
a  Bushel  a  Minute 
"*We  ran  M  through  on  flu*  finite  to  tho  time  of  ft  bnsltoi 
a  niiuoiu— »*J»qm  of  I»n*k  am!  b&ya  a  N«sw  Kur¬ 
land  Farmer.  Huudjoa  picked  corn  a*  writ.  Ollier 
farmers  <lo  lliw  Hiuue,  J fc*y*  f.I*o  kind  of  liuwkerl  .'iaf  nUimlo 
up  uivJr  r  Mryvrc  trial  and  rcMtrta  the  Btrair*.  it  iabiuipio 
— litMJ  fow  parw.  U  hunks  hut  d<juf  nut  flutter 
^  CHICOPEE 
CORN  BUSKER 
fairly  <-at.«  tip  work.  Need*  hut  liulit  jtowor— 3 toll  H.  P. 
Kiigln. .  II  will  <lo  n<-  inucU  lu  ttvu  hours  Bfl  oue  man 
ran  liutk  In  twit  dnyt*  It  maln’w  you  ln<1'|i*'ri.l|,lii  of 
liilp  at  a  ltm<-  «.!  Jmc  w  t.ru  ll’a  sesice.  Uct  olio  t li  l« 
season.  IViilrt*  mil  it.  If  in.no  in  joar  lwnlilv  writous. 
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“  The  3  Free  Black  Shells  ” 
1st  Act— Take  one  Black  Shell  and 
test  the  lightning  primer.  A  strong 
primer  means  complete  burning  of 
the  powder. 
2nd  Act— Use  the  second  free  shell 
to  test  penetration,  velocity  and 
shot  pattern— killing  power. 
3rd  Act— With  the  third  free  shell 
test  the  waterproofing  —your  as¬ 
surance  that  ram  won’t  spoil  your 
hunt. 
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denenbing  Uu»  Urate  In  detail,  simply  do 
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the  free  bh«ll»  and  information  booklet. 
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Save  15  to  50$  on  building  materi¬ 
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R«*um‘tt  MJoftfipM  art;  noted  Tot  Duality.  All  kinds 
•ilwnyrt  in  tdovk— rubber,  a.si»hnlt,  i.hinprlcH,  etc. 
IVnnrU  1  -ply  Rubber  Rcx/tir.)  $1.10  j>t*r  square 
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WALL  BOARD  (—« 
Bennett  Wallboatd  .......  $24  pet  1,000  ft. 
M  Gvphuui  Pluttlri*  liuurd 
...... _  .  .  16c  **  b  sq.  ft. 
‘  Positively  the  beat  grade*  lit  the  price. 
lion  nett  paint?  are  itdxed  under  Our  own  fiuper- 
vision,  of  the  very  beat  taut*«ruLl?. 
Bennett  House  Faint,  khIIod  can . $1.75 
"  **  IJurnl,  per  gallon  ♦  .  1.65 
26  color*.  Ready  tor  urk>  Imride  or  out.  Write 
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Landscape  Gardening,  Parsons . 2.00 
I.awti  Making.  Hamm .  1.10 
Fertilizers  and  C/roptt.  Van  Slyke....  2.60 
Weeds  of  Farm  and  Garden,  Pummel  1,60 
Hook  of  Wheat,  Dondlinger . 2.00 
Successful  Fruit  Culture,  Maynard..  1.00 
Irrigation  and  Dralnnge,  King....  1.60 
Ftudy  of  Corn,  Sboegioltb . 60 
The  Soil,  King.... .  1.60 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
833  W.  30th  Bt„  New  York  City 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Suit  for  $1,000,000  was 
filed  by  Henry  Ford,  the  Detroit  ninmi- 
faeturer,  against  the  Chicago  Tribune  in 
the  United  States  District  Court  at  Chi¬ 
cago,  Sept.  7,  Mr.  Ford  asks  for  per¬ 
sonal  damages  as  compensation  for  an 
editorial  printed  in  the  Tribune  June  2.’>, 
which,  !t  is  charged,  called  him  an  ’‘an¬ 
archist.” 
The  Federal  District  Court  at  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa.  Sept.  S,  handed  down  a 
decision,  iu  tho  so-called  South  Dakota 
express  case.  The  decision  overruled  the 
petition  of  South  Dakota  shippers  for  an 
injunction  to  restrain  express  companies 
tloing  business  in  the  State  from  increas¬ 
ing  their  tariffs  to  conform  with  the  uni¬ 
form  rates  fixed  by  the  Interstate  Com¬ 
merce  Commission. 
Maine  State  elections,  Sept.  11,  went 
solidly  Republican.  The  Republican 
plurality  in  the  State,  will  be  more  than 
13,000.  The  Republicans  elect  their 
candidate  for  Governor,  Carl  E.  Milli- 
keu ;  they  elect  both  their  candidates  for 
the  United  States  Senate,  a  solid  Repub¬ 
lican  delegation  to  the  House  of  Represen¬ 
tatives  in  Washington  and  carry  both 
branches  of  the  State  Legislature. 
With  the  loss  of  11  lives,  Sept.  11.  the 
attempt  to  bridge  the  St.  Lawrence  lV.v- 
er  at  Quebec  resulted  in  a  failure  when 
the  masHvc  centre*  span  of  the  great  can¬ 
tilever  structure  weighing  5.100  tons  sud¬ 
denly  collapsed  and  fell  into  the  river. 
Of  the  00  men  caught  on  tlm  span  when 
it  began  to  sway  ail  were  rescued  except 
the  11  and  of  these  but  four  bodies  have 
been  found.  The  span  was  being  raised 
from  pontoons  and  was  about  15  feet 
above  the  water  when  from  some  un¬ 
known  cause  it  eol  hi  used  and  sank  into 
the  liver,  which  is  200  feet  deep  at  this 
place.  The  property  loss  will  be  approx¬ 
imately  $000,000.  In  1007  the  first 
bridge  constructed  at  this  place  collapsed 
in  a  similar  manner  with  the  loss  of  70 
lives. 
Henr.v  Ford,  through  his  attorneys, 
filial  answer,  Sept.  .11.  in  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  District  of  Columbia  to  the 
charges  of  the  Navy  League,  which  in¬ 
stituted  a  libel  suit  to  recover  from  him 
$100,000  damages.  Mr.  Ford  in  display 
newspaper  advertisements  said  that  the 
league  was  supported  by  the  munitions 
makers.  The  suit  was  Ifled  at  the  in¬ 
stance  of  Col.  Robert  M.  Thompson,  pres¬ 
ident:  of  the  league. 
Attorney-General  ‘Woodbury  has  en¬ 
tered  a  suit  on  behalf  of  New  York  State- 
in  the  Supreme  Court  at  New  City, 
Kept.  11,  to  recover  damages  from  Bart 
Dunn,  the  Tammany  leader  and  contrac¬ 
tor,  for  fraudulent  State  road  work. 
Dunn  was  convicted  of  defrauding  the 
State  and  put  in  jail  for  eight  months 
after  a  two  years  fight.  He  built  roads 
in  Rockland  County  that  iu  some  in¬ 
stances  wore  out  iu  a  week. 
The  filing  of  an  inventory  of  the  es¬ 
tate  of  the  late  Col.  Janies  Gay  Butler 
in  the  Probate  Court  at  St.  Louis,  Sept. 
12,  reveah'd  that  the  Colonel  drew  a  pen¬ 
sion  of  $25  a  month  from  the  United 
States  Government  despite  the  fact  that 
liis  fortune  aggregated  $4,150,000.  Col. 
Butler,  who  died  August  22,  served 
through  the  Civil  "War,  enlisting  as  a 
private  and  rising  to  the  command  of  a 
regiment.  Listed  among  the  assets  of  his 
estate  was  a  claim  for  $75  for  the  quar¬ 
terly  pension  due  August  4. 
A  runaway  trolley  car  manned  by  two 
strike  breakers  of  the  Union  Railways 
Company  dashed  down  the  Boston  Post 
Road  in  New  York  City.  Kept.  12, 
jumped  tie  tracks  at  the  Tremont  Av¬ 
enue  curve  and  smashed  two  jitney  auto¬ 
mobiles.  Two  men  were  killed.  Twelve 
were  budl.v  hurt,  including  Policeman 
William  Kcheer,  who  'was  doing  strike 
duty  ou  the  ear. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— Cue  of  the 
big  brick  aud  stone  barns  ou  Broadbrnok, 
Ketlt  Low’s  dairy  farm  near  Bedford 
Hills,  N,  Y.,  was  damaged  by  fire,  Kept. 
10,  with  a  loss  of  $5,000.  There  was  no 
livestock  in  the  building  at  the  time. 
New  legislation  requiring  all  milk  deal¬ 
ers  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  to  use 
the  sanitary,  uon-refilluble  milk  bottles 
made  of  paper  instead  of  the  glass  bot¬ 
tles  now  in  common  use  is  being  framed 
by  the  officials  of  the  State  Dairy  and 
Food  Department.  Philadelphia  officials 
are  very  much  in  favor  of  the  proposed 
legislation,  while  many  of  the  milk  deal¬ 
ers  themselves  are  said  to  hack  such  a 
reform.  The  larger  dealers  contend  that 
the  paper  bottles  are  as  yet  not  cheap 
enough  to  justify  their  use.  and  that  it 
will  compel  them  to  install  iu  w  filling 
and  capping  machines. 
WASHINGTON. — Congress  adjourned 
Kept.  8.  After  nine  months  devoted  to 
legislation,  both  houses  held  protracted 
sessions  to  wind  up  their  affairs  by  ap¬ 
proving  the  conference  agreement  ou  the 
emergency  revenue  bill  to  raise  approxi¬ 
mately  $200,000,000,  desired  by  tin*  Ad¬ 
ministration,  A  further  increase  of  the 
taxes  on  lnuuitious  marked  the  closing  of 
the  conference  ou  the  war  revenue  bill. 
The  big  light  in  the  Conference  Commit¬ 
tee  was  over  the  munitions  (ax.  The 
makers  of  munitions  preferred  the  Senate 
tax  of  10  per  rent,  on  the  net  income  to 
the  House  tax  on  gross  income.  The 
Senate  provision  was  retained,  but  modi¬ 
fied  so  as  to  raise  the  tax  from  10  to  12U. 
per  cent.  The  revenue  expected  to  flow 
from  the  bill  as  the  House  sent,  it  t<»  the 
Senate  was  $197,000,000,  The  Senate 
retaliatory  features  wore  retained  in  part 
aud  eliminated  in  part.  The  Thomas 
amendment  directing  the  President  in  his 
discretion  to  refuse  clearances  to  foreign 
ships  that  discriminated  against  ship¬ 
ments  of  American  merchants  was  kept, 
but  the  Phelan  amendment  for  the  denial 
of  the  use  of  the  malls  to  nations  which 
intercept  and  interfere  with  the  mails  of 
the  United  States  passing  between  citi¬ 
zens  of  this  country  and  foreign  coun¬ 
tries  was  eliminated.  The  Chamberlain 
amendment  relating  to  fisheries  shipments 
was  also  cut  off.  The  James  important 
amendment  for  a  genera]!  retaliatory  pol¬ 
icy  with  respect  of  duties  was  kept.  All 
stamp  taxes  weut  out  of  the  bill.  The 
special  taxes  remain.  The  tax  on  thea¬ 
tres  and  places  of  amusement,  which  was 
the  subject  of  much  discussion,  remains 
as  in  the  present  law.  The  graduated 
wine  tax  proposed  in  the  House  bill  was 
retained  and  the  contention  of  the  Cali¬ 
fornia  wine  producers  that  the  tax  on 
the  brandy  produced  by  them  and  used 
in  the  fortification  of  their  fitiLl  wines 
should  be  retained  at  10  cents  a  gallon 
instead  of  55,  as  the  Senate  had  pro¬ 
posed,  was  agreed  to. 
The  Ohio  State  Fair  for  1916 
The  fair  slogan,  “Bigger  and  better 
than  over,”  is  hard  to  live  up  to,  but  the 
Ohio  fair  makes  good  from  year  to  year. 
I  think  no  one  goes  home  with  the  belief 
that  the  big  fair  is  perfect,  but  I  can 
safely  say  that  there  is  much  improve¬ 
ment  over  the  past.  This  year  there 
was  much  less  annoyance  from  the  con¬ 
cession  people,  who  in  the  past  were  al¬ 
ways  noisy  pests  that  the  sightseers  had 
literally  to  run  over  to  get  away  from. 
Good  drinking  water  was  provided  this 
year,  and  the  thirsty  were  not  at  the 
mercy  of  the  venders  of  soft  drinks  made 
from  synthetic  acids  and  flavors  as  in 
tlte  recent  past*.  The  State  Fair  should 
he  for  education  and  recreation,  aud  not 
commercialized,  and  there  is  room  for 
further  improvement.  It  is  frequently 
said  that  each  year's  fair  is  about  like 
preceding  ones,  and  in  some  respects  this 
is  true,  hut  there  are  noticeable  differ¬ 
ences  ill  every  department.  In  machin¬ 
ery  there  were  many  things  indicating 
new  tendencies.  For  instance,  practically 
nil  gas  tractors  bud  multi-cylinder  mo¬ 
tors,  and  quite  a  number  of  stationary 
farm  engines  of  even  small  size  were 
operating  on  coal  oil.  Another  thing  no¬ 
ticed  was  the  use  of  very  small  gasoline 
engines  directly  connected  to  the  small 
machine  they  were  to  run,  such  as  Mash¬ 
ing  machines,  cream  separators,  etc. 
These  little  engines  were  air-cooled  ami 
of  fractional  horsepower.  There  was  a 
very  creditable  display  by  local  dealers 
and'  branch  houses  of  many  well-known 
makes  of  automobiles,  and  this  is  in  keep¬ 
ing  with  the  fact  thut  farmers  are  good 
buyers  of  cars. 
Among  the  livestock  one  can  spend 
much  time  to  good  advantage,  and  the 
individuals  on  show  were  SO  good  that 
it  would  seem  there  is  no  room  for  fur¬ 
ther  improvement.  I  would  like  to  sug¬ 
gest.  to  exhibitors  of  stock,  and  to  the 
fair  managers,  that  stock  is  exhibited 
not  alone  for  the  premiums  offered,  and 
that  all  entries  be  labeled  oil  stall  or 
crate  with  name  of  breed  and  class  and 
perhaps  to  issue  a  catalogue  to  those  in¬ 
terested.  'The  writer  searched  all  over 
the  horse  barn  for  an  exhibit  of  seven 
draft  horses,  aud  did  not  succeed  iu 
finding  them. 
Autos  were  admitted  free  at  the  gates 
and  the  results  were  that  all  available 
parking  places  were  well  filled  and  the 
number  on  the  grounds  must  have  been 
enormous.  There  Was  much  traveling  of 
alltos  over  the  drives,  which  if  not  neces¬ 
sary  is  to  he  condemned,  as  it  was  a 
great  annoyance  to  those  afoot.  .  The 
buildings  are  in  first-class  condition  and 
the  drives  and  grass  plots  kept  smooth 
aud  free  of  litter. 
One  could  write  almost  endlessly  of 
horticulture,  fruit  and  agricultural -dis¬ 
plays,  and  of  the  horse  racing  and  light 
horses,  to  say  nothing  of  the  draft  horses, 
the  pigs  aud  poultry,  or  of  the  sheep  and 
cattle.  There  were  many  special  meet¬ 
ings  ami  lectures  for  those  interested. 
Where  there  are  110  acres  of  ground  and 
such  a  multitude  of  exhibitions  aud  at¬ 
tractions  one  should  decide  what  be  is 
most  interested  in  and  go  to  see  his 
special  interests  first,  rent  ('inhering  to 
lest,  frequently  and  to  cat  at  regular 
times,  and  not  try  to  see  everything,  or 
how  long  one  can  walk  around  before 
wearing  out.  Make  a  thorough  study  of 
the  exhibitions  you  are  mist  interested 
in  and  you  will  arrive  hotnc  with  a  con¬ 
tented  feeFng  that  the  big  fair  was  worth 
while.  Dining-room  and  lunch  service 
was  good,  though  prices  were  almost 
twice  as  much  as  were  current  up  town 
in  some  instances.  The  attendance  was 
record-breaking  which  may  he  accounted 
for  by  a  lull  in  farm  work,  easy  money 
and  convenient  transportation.  Reports 
of  weather  and  crops  were  various  as 
<  )bio  Weather  this  year  has  been  ex¬ 
tremely  local  in  character.  For  instance, 
ill  central  Highland  Comity  we  had  three 
weeks  of  dry  weather  in  July  and  seven 
indies  of  rainfall  in  August,  while  in 
adjoining  counties,  Glia  toil  and  Fayette, 
there  has  been  no  rain  for  10  weeks,  and 
sueli  is  true  of  t he  rest  of  the  State  and 
southern  Michigan.  Section*  reporting 
rain  were  visited  by  storms,  so  it  seems 
probable  that  the  corn  crop  will  be 
lighter  than  usual  aud  even  a  complete 
fn'hire  in  places.  W.  K.  MXKWAI.L. 
(  Oiiu 
Paint  This  Fall 
WOOD  pores  are  open— paint 
sinks  deep.  Larking  damp¬ 
ness  all  dried  out.  No  gnats  and 
moths  to  stick  in  paint.  Less 
danger  of  frequent  showers. 
Painters  less  busy— jobs  not 
rushed.  Mild  weather  best  for 
drying.  Paint  this  fall, 
Dutch  Boy 
White  Lead 
mixed  for  these  ideal  con¬ 
ditions,  wi.l  brace  your 
bouse  for  winter  weather. 
Wrif*  us  for 
Paint  lips  No.  A-l 2 
National  Lead  Company 
New  York 
Boston 
Cincinnati 
Clevsland 
tuff  aid 
Chicago 
Son 
I'rnnclsca 
St.  Louis 
(John  T. 
Lewis  & 
Bros.  Co.. 
rtilla. 
dolphin) 
(National 
Lead  &  Oil 
Co., 
Pittsburgh) 
TYGERT 
Fertilizers 
RIPEN 
CROPS 
EARLY 
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PHILADELPHIA 
SUBSIDIARY  OP  THE  AMERICAN  AGRI*  CM  EM.  CO. 
SALESMEN  WANTED 
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to  represent)  u-  In  udiHIihI  territory  solltiiKour  linen  of 
high  Briwlo  paLutr  mol  vaj-nlrlics direct  to  liia  consuming 
mol  (f'  «or*I  atoro  trade.  Aiiplieauta  must  he  nieu  of  in- 
N'gHtv  mid  alillity.  Aetualexperiei.ee in  tlie  lino  la  not 
orwUUrtl.  a»  wo  wilt  instruct  yon  direct  from  tho  homo 
oflloe ai  to  ihe  tHji-r  meih.nl  of  mailing  onion.  This  is  a 
rate  oppoi'tii.  lty  for  a  f.  iv  energetic  honest  men  to  oon- 
noet  with  one  of  i  he  oldest,  and  best  equipped  manu¬ 
facturing  coiU]*nn1iM  In  tho  country.  Jtefereneoa  required 
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