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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — The  space  basis  for 
compensating  railroads  for  transportation 
of  mails  will  b<>  put  into  effect  November 
1  throughout  HO  per  cent,  of  the  service, 
the  Post  Office  Department  announced, 
Sept..  28.  Final  decision  us  to  whether 
it  shall  be  made  permanent  is  left  to  the 
interstate  Commerce  Commission.  The 
10  per  cent,  of  the  service  in  which  the 
present  weight  basis  will  be  retained  is 
the  “closed  pouch  service,”  consisting  of 
mails  transmitted  in  locked  sacks  in  bag¬ 
gage  cars  and  handled  by  agents  of  the 
railroad  companies. 
Christopher  Price,  member  of  the  crew 
of  the  Monitor  in  its  fight  with  the  Mer- 
rimac  during  the  Civil  War,  died  at  his 
home  at  Stoekbridge,  Wis.,  Sept.  28, 
aged  70  years.  Price’s  death  is  said  to 
leave  only  one  survivor  of  th*1  Monitor’s 
crew.  Price  never  drew  a  pension  from 
tlic  Government. 
Following  a  legal  fight  lasting  nearly 
two  years,  Mrs.  Mary  Whalen,  widow  of 
Patrick  F.  Whalen,  a  freight  conductor, 
of  IVekskill,  N.  Y.,  and  her  10  children, 
have  been  notified  that  their  verdict  of 
$20,000  against  the  New  York  Central 
Railroad  •Company  for  the  death  of  Wha¬ 
len  had  been  upheld  by  the  Court  of  Ap¬ 
peals.  Mrs.  Whalen  sued  for  $100,000 
damages,  the  first  case  under  the  Em¬ 
ployers  Liability  act,  in  Westchester 
county,  and  it  is  said  the  verdict  estab¬ 
lishes  a  precedent.  The  jury  brought  irt 
a  verdict  for  822,000,  but  .Tufitice  Keogh 
reduced  it  to  820,000. 
Three  persons  were  instantly  killed  and 
four  seriously  injured  when  an  automo¬ 
bile  in  which  they  were  riding  was  struck 
by  a  train  on  the  Cincinnati,  Hamilton 
and  Dayton  Railroad,  at  Overpeck  Cross¬ 
ing,  five  miles  north  of  Hamilton,  O., 
Oct.  1. 
More  than  100  grave  diggers  at  Cal¬ 
vary  Cemetery.  New  York,  went  on 
strike,  Oct.  1,  for  an  eight-hour  day  and 
increase  in  pay  from  $2.25  to  $2.50. 
There  arc  between  150  and  200  diggers 
employed  at  this  cemetery.  The  strikers 
received  their  demands  and  returned  to 
Work  the  next  day. 
The  so-called  “little  town  elections”  in 
Connecticut,  Oct.  2,  were  marked  by  live¬ 
ly  contests  over  tlic  excise  Questions  anrl 
the  “dry”  forces  made  a  gain  of  four 
towns.  Of  the  108  towns  in  the  State 
19  are  now  no  license.  Fifty  towns  voted 
on  the  issue,  six  changing  from  license 
to  no  license  and  two  changing  from 
“dry”  to  “wet.”  In  two  of  the  towns 
the  decision  to  change  from  "wet”  to 
“dry”  was  carried  by  a  single  vote. 
Fifty-three  persons  were  injured,  Oct. 
1,  when  the  floor  of  the  First  Pres¬ 
byterian  Church  of  .1  oh u son  City,  N.  Y., 
Collapsed  during  the  services  being  hold 
in  connection  with  the  laying  of  the  cor¬ 
nerstone.  Seven  of  this  number  are  ser¬ 
iously  hurt.  Two  hundred  and  fifty  per¬ 
sons  were  hurled  into  the  basement  IS 
feet  below  when  the  floor  gave  way. 
Out  of  a  gathering  of  400  high  school 
and  grade  pupils  at  Belle  Plain,  Kan.. 
Oct.  3,  only  seven  -were  found  who  had 
seen  a  saloon  and  hardly  more  than,  that 
number  had  seen  any  one  intoxicated. 
This  surprising  result  of  Kansas  pro¬ 
hibition  was  brought  out  at  n  service  in 
commemoration  of  Frances  Willard  Day 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Woman’s  Chris¬ 
tian  Temperance  Union. 
Two  persons  were  killed  and  more  than 
30  were  injured  as  the  result  of  a  street 
car  Collision  at  Cleveland,  O.,  Oct.  3. 
Two  cars  crashed  on  the  West  Third 
Street  bridge,  causing  the  structure  to 
collapse  and  precipitating  the  cars  30 
feet  to  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio  Railroad 
tracks  below,  where  they  almost  rolled 
into  flio  Cuyahoga  River.  There  were  40 
persons  on  one  car  and  20  on  the  other. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— Howard  W. 
8elby  of  Philadelphia  was  elected  presi¬ 
dent  of  the  Vegetable  Growers’  Associa¬ 
tion  of  America  at  the  close  of  the  ninth 
annual  convention  at  the  LaSalle  Hotel, 
Chicago.  Sept.  2(5-29.  H.  F.  Thompson, 
Arlington,  Mass.,  was  elected  vice-presi¬ 
dent;  S.  W.  Severance,  Louisville.  Ky., 
secretary:  and  Eugene  Davis,  Grand 
Rapids.  Midi.,  treasurer  for  the  coming 
year.  The  next,  convention  will  he  held 
at  Springfield.  Mass.  Included  in  the  list 
of  speakers  who  took  part  in  the  conven¬ 
tion  program  were:  C.  E.  Durst,  Univer¬ 
sity  of  Illinois,  A.  T.  Irwin,  lotva.  State 
College,  R.  D.  Watts,  Pennsylvania 
State  College.  II.  G.  Bell,  Soil  improve¬ 
ment  _  Committee  of  National  Fertilizer 
Association.  C.  W.  Waiil.  Michigan  Agri¬ 
cultural  College,  L.  R.  .Tones.  University 
of  Wisconsin,  Arnold  IT.  Goelz,  Chicago, 
Leonard  II.  Vaughan,  Chicago. 
A  remarkable  program  has  been  ar¬ 
ranged  for  the  next  session  of  the  Farm¬ 
ers’  National  Congress,  which  js  to  he 
held  at  Indianapolis,  Oct.  37-20  inclusive, 
and  it  is  expected  that  the  meeting  will  be 
the  most  notable  one  in  the  history  of 
the  body.  Many  speakers,  high  in  tho 
affairs  of  the  nation  and  men  who  have 
won  fame  ns  agricultural  experts,  will 
address  the  convention,  and  women  prom¬ 
inent  in  women’s  work — those  who  are 
seeking  to  belter  the  condition  of  the 
farm  women,  will  lend  their  efforts  to 
make  the  session  a.  success. 
The  regular  Fall  meeting  of  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  the  Percheron  ■Society  of 
America  was  held  September  25.  Pro¬ 
vision  w’as  made  for  holding  the  regular 
annual  meeting  of  the  stockholders  at  8 
p.  m.,  Monday,  December  4,  in  the  Flor¬ 
entine  Room,  Congress  Hotel,  Chicago, 
Ill.  Tbi  s  is  on  Monday  of  International 
Live  Stock  Exposition  week.  Percheron 
judging  will  begin  on  Tuesday  morning, 
December  5.  Fred  Pabst,  of  Oeonomowoe, 
Wis.,  C.  ,T.  Tucker,  manager  of  Longview 
Farm,  Lees  , Summit,  Mo.,  and  Alvin  II. 
Sanders,  editor  of  the  Breeders’  Gazette, 
were  appointed  as  the  members  of  the 
proxy  committee.  Classes  for  four-year- 
old  stallions  and  mares  were  provided  for 
at  the  International.  The  National 
Feeders’  and  Breeders’  Show,  which  will 
be  held  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  in  March. 
1917,  was  recognized,  and  the  same  class¬ 
ification  and  prizes  were  offered,  as  have 
been  granted  to  State  fairs  in  1916. 
More  Pert-herons  have  been  sold  into 
Texas  this  season  than  for  many  years 
past. 
4  The  Michigan  Milk  Producers’  Asso¬ 
ciation  desires  that  a  conference  of  of¬ 
ficers  and  secretaries  of  the  Milk  Pro¬ 
ducers’  Associations  of  the  several  States 
be  called  for  1:30  p.  m.,  October  16th, 
at  the  Holstein  booth  of  the  National 
Dairy  Show,  Springfield,  Mass. 
WASHINGTON.— The  Federal  Farm 
Loan  Board  returned  to  Washington, 
Sept.  28,  after  a  tour  through  29  States 
to  gather  information  for  its  guidance  in 
dividing  the  country  into  12  form  loan 
districts  and  designating  the  sites  of  the 
12  farm  loan  banks  authorized  under  the 
rural  credits  law.  The  board  expressed 
satisfaction  over  the  results  of  the  hear¬ 
ings  held  and  said  the  plan  of  putting  the 
farm  loan  banks  into  operation  before 
February  1  uext  would  be  carried  out 
without  change. 
^  Organization  of  the  Chincse-American 
Exchange  Company,  a  shipping  corpora¬ 
tion  which  purposes  to  establish  a  gen¬ 
eral  mercantile  trade  between  China  and 
American  ports  on  the  Pacific,  Gulf  and 
South  Atlantic  was  announced  at  Wash¬ 
ington,  Oct,  1.  It  is  headed  by  Dr. 
Clarence  J.  Owens,  managing  director  of 
the  Southern  Commercial  Congress,  and 
is  understood'  to  have  the  active  backing 
of  that  organization.  Establishment  of 
regular  sailings  is  contemplated  between 
Norfolk,  Charleston,  Wilmington,  Savan¬ 
nah,  Jacksonville,  Mobile  and  Galveston 
on  the  east  coast  and  San  Pedro,  Los 
Angeles,  San  Francisco  and  Portland  on 
the  west  coast.  At  Portland  connection 
will  be  made  with  another  fleet,  plying  to 
and  from  the  Chinese  treaty  ports.  The 
company’s  Chinese  correspondent  will  bo 
Tsai  Fn  Shah,  formerly  Chinese  Minister 
to  the  United  States. 
.  MEXICO. — Presentation  to  the  Amer¬ 
ican  members  of  the  Mexican-Amevican 
Joint  Commission  by  General  Carranza’s 
representatives  of  a  definite  border  pro¬ 
tection  plan,  calculated  to  prevent  furth¬ 
er  bandit  raids  into  United  States  terri¬ 
tory,  marked  the  reopening  of  the  peace 
board’s  conferences  at  Atlantic  City,  N. 
•T.,  Oct-  2.  It  is  understood  that  the  plan 
calls  for  the  immediate  withdrawal  of 
Pershing’s  troops  and  the  concentration 
of  a  large  Constitutionalist  force  in  the 
territory  now  in  American  control.  A 
further  provision  is  for  a  Mexican  mili¬ 
tary  patrol  of  the  northern  boundaries  of 
the  States  of  Sonora,  Chihuahua  and  Coa- 
huila.  The  Mexicans  hold  that,  the  de 
facto  government  has  ample  military 
strength  to  carry  out  this  programme 
without  neglecting  other  sections  of  the 
country  in  which  enemies  of  the  de  facto 
government  are  operating.  Later  repre¬ 
sentatives  of  American  mining  interests 
were  received  by  the  American  commis¬ 
sioners.  The  mining  men,  headed  by 
William  Loeb,  Jr.,  of  tho  American 
Smelting  and  Refining  Company,  came 
from  New  York  to  enlighten  further  the 
commissioners  regarding  industrial  condi¬ 
tions  in  Mexico.  A  forty-page  complaint 
against  Carranza’s  confiscatory  decrees 
was  sent  by  the  mining  interests  to  tho 
commission  recently. 
Better  Crop  Reports  Needed 
Is  there  any  way  of  getting  reliable 
crop  reports?  A  man  recently  told  us 
tlmt  at  a  recent  meeting  he  attended  he 
was  assured  by  a  man  whose  business  it 
is  to  know  such  things  that  the  North¬ 
west  has  more  apple  scab  than  ever  be¬ 
fore.  The  Inst,  number  of  “Better 
Fruit.”  says  that  the  apples  of  the  North¬ 
west  have  the  least  apple  scab  this  year 
of  any  year  yet.  Reliable  men  of  our 
acquaintance  tell  us  there  are  practically 
no  apples  free  from  fungus  in  the  coun¬ 
try  so  far  as  they  have  been,  but  a  recent 
crop  report  estimates  that  some  seetions 
will  have  from  75  to  90  per  cent,  of  the 
crop  free  from  all  defects.  One  man  will 
say  that  there  is  practically  no  apple 
crop  in  the  country,  and  the  next  one 
says  that  there  are  more  apples  and  more 
good  apples  than  last  year.  a.  c.  w. 
New  York.  . 
We  have  found  it  very  difficult  to  get 
observers  to  agree  about  crop  reports. 
We  have  had  several  experts  go  into  a 
fruit  section  and  spend  some  time  there 
and  then  make  three  entirely  different  re¬ 
ports.  As  a  rule  the  buyers  or  those 
interested  in  handling  the  crop,  invaria¬ 
bly  over-estimate  it.  It  is  their  business 
to  do  this,  since  a  general  report  of  a 
large  crop  makes  it.  easier  to  buy  fruit. 
On  the  other  band,  the  commercial  grow¬ 
ers  usually  underestimate,  since  a  small 
crop  will  naturally  bring  higher  prices. 
Most  crop  reports  on  fruit  arc  caught 
between  these  two  conflicting  forces,  and 
it  is  very  hard  to  get  them  straight. 
(Top  reporting  is  a  science,  and  with  most 
amateurs  it  is  largely  a  guess  aud  not 
much  more. 
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