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C/><?  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
October  21,  1910. 
WASHINGTON— Hearings  by  the 
Federal  Farm  Fean  Board  to  gather  in¬ 
formation  for  its  guidance  in  dividing 
the  country  into  districts  and  locating  the 
DOMESTIC. — Retail  merchants’  as-  12  farm  loan  banks  created  by  the  Rural 
sociations  throughout  the  country  are  Credits  act  was  resumed,  Oct.  16.  The 
joining  in  a  movement  to  petition  l*rem-  itinerary  calls  for  the  following  hearings: 
dent.  Wilson  to  prod  aim  November  22  as  October  16,  Trenton,  N.  J.;  October  17, 
Thanksgiving  Day  instead  of  the  last  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  and  October  IS,  Balti- 
Tbnrsday  in  November  in  order  to  length-  more.  The  Board  will  start  on  its  Sou  th¬ 
en  the  period  of  Christmas  shopping  and  era  trip  about  November  15,  and  will 
relieve  congestion  in  the  stores.  The  hold  hearings  in  the  Atlantic  nud  Gulf 
merchants  backing  the  plan  explain  that  States  proceeding  as  far  as  Arizona,  Re¬ 
no  Christmas  shopping  is  done  before  turning,  it.  will  hold  hearings  in  Okla- 
Thauksgiving.  As  December  24  falls  on  horn  a,  _  Arkansas,  Tennessee,  and  West 
a  Sunday  this  means  that  there,  will  be  Virginia.  This  will  complete  the  Board’s 
only  twenty  days  of  Christmas  shipping  canvass  of  the  entire  country.  It  is  ex- 
if  November  30  is  observed  as  Thanks-  pected  that  the  proposed  banks  will  be 
giving  Day.  established  and  ready  for  business  about 
Nine  men  are  know  u  to  have  perished  February  1.  The  board  is  being  deluged 
in  n  tire  that  destroyed  the  central  part  with  requests  from  farmers  for  organiza- 
of  the  main  building  of  Christian  Broth-  tion  of  local  farm  Joan  associations.  This, 
ers’  College  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Oct  5.  in  the  opinion  of  members  of  the  Board, 
Two  of  the  dead  were  aged  members  of  assures  the  success  of  the  farm-loan 
the  Christian  Brothers  order.  Brothers  bank  system.  Already  there  are  approx- 
Corniae,  who  was  S)3,  aud  Clement,  who  imately  6,000  applications  on  tile  with 
were  trapped  on  the  fifth  floor  by  the  tin;  Board  for  positions,  with  few  oppor- 
Five  of  the  known  dead  were  tonifies  of  appointment.  Each  Federal 
They  plunged  to  the  basement  bank  in  the  12  districts  will  have  an  at- 
tliird  floor  when  a  wall  col-  torney,  a  farm-loan  registrar  to  supervise 
firemen  were  taken  out  the  issue  of  bonds,  and  several  land  ap- 
Tlie  loss  is  estimated  praisers  to  inspect  securities.  These  ap- 
partly  covered  pointmonrs  will  be  made  from  among  can- 
The  cause  of  the  fire  has  dldates  in  the  respective  districts  as  far 
as  possible. 
■$  gathered  in  the  A  formal  announcement  was  made  at 
the  City  Hall,  Omaha,  Neb.,  Oct.  5,  that  President  Wil- 
insistenee  of  son  has  selected  .Major-Gen.  Goethals,  Ed- 
of  gar  E.  Clark  of  the  Interstate  Commerce 
.  signed  an  agree-  Commission  and  George  Kublee  of  the 
ght  oil  every  loaf  trade  commission  as  members  of  the 
If  they  fail  to  do  this  hoard  created  by  Congress  to  investigate 
the  railroad  eight  hour  law.  While  the 
'  h -•  not  go  iuto  effect  until  January 
ad  would  apply  for  in-  1  the  President  desired  the  members  of 
"  as  a  re-  the  board  to  give  a  close  study  to  the 
entire  situation.  Gen,  Goethals,  who  will 
net  ns  ehnirman  of  the  board,  obtained 
the  President’s  consent  recently  to  resign 
as  Governor  of  the  Panama  Canal  Zone 
o  the  United  States  with 
the  understanding  that  he  would  not  re¬ 
turn  to  the  Canal  Zone. 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
Answers  Every  Question 
About  Electricity  on  the  Farm 
flames. 
firemen, 
from  the 
lapsed.  Seven 
alive,  badly  him 
at  more  than  j?300,000. 
by  insura  tin 
not  been  ascertained, 
Three  hundred  baker 
Alderman  ir*  Chamber  in 
New  York.  Oct  .  5,  and  at  the 
Joseph  llartignn.  Commissioner 
Weights  and  Measures,  signed 
meat  to  mark  the  w«*ij 
of  bread  st 
they  will  be  liable  to  proseeutiou. 
Announcement  that  the  Boston  and  h('v,  do< 
Maine  Jtnailrq; 
creased  rates  of  transportation 
suit  of  the  eight  hour  law  was  made,  Oct. 
5,  by  James  H.  lTiistis,  president  aud 
temporary  receiver  of  the  road,  in  bis  an¬ 
nual  report,  to  the  stockholders. 
In  tin*  first  ease  brought  under  the  new  :inf>  come  back  t 
false  advert :sing  law  of  tile  District  of 
Columbia,  Henry  C,  South  wick,  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Sontliwick  Shops, 
I  in1.,  selling  clothing  and  haberdashery, 
was  found  guilty  at  Washington,  Oct.  6. 
A  $300  fine  was  imposed  on  the  corpor¬ 
ation  and  a  60-day  jail  sentence  on  Mr.  National  Dai 
Southwick  personally.  The  sentence  was  -Mass.,  Oct.  J2-2i 
suspended.  International  i 
Rammed  h.v  a  fifteen-foot  swordfish,  the  Products  Exposit 
Eniteil  States  engineering  launch  Notices  17-26. 
was  kept  afloat  with  difficulty  in  the  in-  Farmers’  National  Congress,  thirty- 
tercoastal  canal  between  Caney  Creek  nixth  annual  session,  Indianapolis,  Inch, 
and  the  Brazos  River,  near  Galveston,  Oct.  17-20. 
Tex..  Get  5.  Captain  Prendergnst  shot  Meeting  of  New  York  State  Dairy- 
the  fish  and  hauled  it  aboard.  Its  sword  noil’s  AssoriaFon,  Grauge  Carnival  and 
was  five  feet  long.  field  day,  Richfield  Springs,  N.  Y.f  Oct. 
The  British  steamer  Hawkhend,  at  21. 
anchor  in  Hampton  Roads,  off  Sewnll’s  N-w  Ilnn.pshire  Horticultural  Society. 
Point,  Vn.,  was  run  down  and  sunk,  (Jet.  Keene,  Y.  I  i Oct.  26-27. 
6,  by  the  Chesapeake  Steamship  Com-  Annual  show.  Rhode  Island  Fruit 
pan.v’s  bay  liue  steamboat  City  of  Nor-  Growers’  Association,  Mnthewson  St. 
folk,  outward  hound  from  Norfolk  for  Church  Null,  Providence,  R.  I.,  Nov.  7- 
Baltimore  with  nearly  100  passengers.  16., 
The  collision  occurred  during  a  heavy  New  England  Fruit  Show  aud  Ver- 
fog.  Fifteen  minutes  after  being  struck  »'n>ut  State  Horticultural  Society,  joint 
the  British  ship  Hank  in  30  feet  of  water,  meeting.  City  Hull,  Montpelier,  Vt., 
Fire  did  damage  in  excess  of  $100,000  Nov.  13-18. 
in  the  centre  of  Rahway,  N.  J.,  Oct.  9.  Indiana  Apple  Show,  West  Baden, 
R.  J.  Dunham,  vice-president  of  Ar-  Nov.  14-20. 
mour  &  Co.,  announced  at  Chicago,  Oet.  Paterson,  N.  .T.,  Poultry  Association 
9,  that  at  the  next,  meeting  of  the  board  annual  show,  Paterson,  N.  J.,  Nov.  21- 
of  directors  an  increase  in  capitalization  *2- 1 :  Dr.  Gilbert  Johnson,  secretary- 
frorn  $20,000,000  to  $100,000,000  will  be  treasurer. 
considered.  While  nothing  was  said  in  .  Holyoke  Poultry  and  Pet  Stock  Asso- 
his  formal  statement,  as  to  the  disposition  cat.nn  _  anneal  exhibition,  Holyoke, 
of  this  stock,  it  was  inferred  there  would  Mass.,  N-'V.  22-24. 
be  a  distribution  of  accumulated  profits  Quanuapowitt  Poultry  Association, 
in  the  business.  Such  a  d’sti-buticu  third  annual  show,  Wakefield,  Mass., 
would  mean  a  stock  dividend  of  400  per  Nov.  2->-2,», 
cent.  Northwest  Live  Stock  Show',  Lewiston, 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— Alfred  C.  Idaho.  Nov.  26-Dee.  2. 
Ilotte*,  formerly  instructor  in  iloricul-  Interuutniuul  Liv«i  Stock  Show,  Cul¬ 
ture  in  Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  ^  2-0. 
l:as  been  appointed  a  s'start  professor  ,  V"uth  National  Conference  on  Mar- 
of  floriculture  at  the  Ohio  State  Univer-  V  an<1.  h i,rm  <  r,‘,hts>  Chicago,  Ill., 
s  ty  at  Columbus  O 
The  Connecticut  Berkshire  Breeders’  Paeific  International  Live  Stock,  Exhi- 
Association  is  a  live  organization  with  hxtaou.  North  lort laud,  Ore.,  Dec.  4-9. 
Richard  L.  Faux  of  Niantie  as  presi-  ^  Virginia  State  Horticultural  Society, 
C  -nt.  Its  members  are  keenly  alive  to  twenty-first  annual  meeting,  Roanoke, 
the  needs  of  New  England  swine  breed-  '  a-»  Dec.  5-7. 
ers,  ami  are  working  Iiu *■<]  to  improve  and  ....  Via  State  Poultry  Show,  I  ortlaml, 
extend  the  business.  They  are  to  have  Dee.  „ 
u  meet:-  g  on  Oct.  25  at  the  Hotel  .  N«w  Jersey  State  Horticultural  So- 
Carde,  Hartford,  Oonn.  Organization  is  c'.ety,  annual  meeting,  Burlington,  N.  J., 
now  the  watchword  and  all  who  are  in-  Dec.  1--14.  ,  .  .  . 
t  rested  in  New  England  Berkshirea  ~  Horticultural  Society  of 
should  correspond  with  Mr.  Faux.  University,  sixth  annual  show 
Five  oliicers  of  the  Aroostook  (Maine)  of  trmt  and  vegetables,  December  14,  15 
Potato  Shippers  Association  were  found  an(1  J  *• 
guilty  under  the  Sherman  act  of  con-  - 
rpiracy  in  restraint  of  trade,  Oct.  10,  at 
Boston,  Mass.  They  are  Carl  O.  King  of  The  weather  has  been  altogether  too 
Caribou,  Me.,  president  of  the  assec’a-  wet  and  garden  truck  has  suffered.  Wo 
titin;  John  M.  llovey  of  Mars  Hill.  Me.,  ulso  had  a  dry  spell  in  June,  which  in- 
secretary  ;  Clarence  II.  Powers  of  Maple  jured  the  hill  corn.  It  also  injured  the 
Grove,  Me.,  members  of  a  so-called  listing  oats  to  some  extent.  Wheat  was  a 
committee;  Edward  II.  Doyle,  New  York  medium  crop.  Potatoes  did  extra  well, 
a  jent,  and  H,  \\',  Sylvester,  Boston  agent,  though  they  are  not  much  of  a  crop 
Sentence  was  deferred.  They  blacklisted  here.  Hay  was  an  extra  good  crop,  and 
dealers  and  boycotted  persons  who  trad-  fine  weather  to  harvest  it  in,  though  I 
id  with  the  blacklisted  ones.  They  suppose  it  was  good  all  over  the  eouu- 
claliu'-d  immunity  under  the  Clayton  try.  Apples  are  a  good  crop  but  peach- 
amendment  on  the  ground  that  theirs  was  cs  are  a  total  failure.  There  is  none  ou 
an  agricultural  association,  but  Judge  the  market  only  ut  the  fruit  stands. 
Morton  held  that  the  jury  must  decide  Cracked  corn  is  selling  at  $1.95  per  hun- 
vhether  the  measures  adopted  were  justi-  divd,  oats  are  60c  per  bushel,  wheat  is 
fled,  $1.30  per  bushel.  JJorumeal  $1.05  per 
I.nngwater  Dairymaid,  a  Guernsey  of  bushel,  mill  feed  $1.50  per  hundred,  mid- 
purest’ biood  set  a  new  record  iu  price  dlings  $1.60  per  hundred,  red  dog  or  low- 
when  sold  at  North  Easton,  Mass.,  Oct.  grade  flour  $1.85  per  hundred.  Friers 
10.  She  is  the  highest  priced  Guernsey  selling  at  20e  per  lb.,  chickens  12c,  eggs 
cow  in  the  world,  having  sold  at  auction  at  38c  per  dozen.  Country  butter  30c 
under  the  bidding  of  wealthy  farmers  per  lb„  creamery  40c.  Beef  cattle  $5 
from  all  parts  of  the  country  for  $6,150.  per  hundred,  veals  10c  per  lb.  on  foot. 
Charles  L.  A.  Whitney  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  Milch  cows  $50  to  $75  according  to 
was  the  buyer,  F.  Lothrop  Ames  of  grade,  horses  $75  to  $150.  j.  a.  m. 
North  Easton  the  former  owner.  Huntington.  W.  Va. 
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