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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
FARM  AND  GARDEN. — The  Na¬ 
tional  Farrows’  Congress  adjourned  its 
thirty-sixth  annual  session  at  Indian¬ 
apolis.  Inch,  Opt..  20.  By  unanimous 
vote  the  congress  went  on  record  as  fav¬ 
oring  the  Susan  B.  Anthony  amendment 
to  the  Federal  Constitution  providing  for 
equal  suffrage.  Other  resolutions  adopt¬ 
ed  by  the  congress  recommended  changes 
in  the  Smith  Lever  law  so  that  funds 
would  be  distributed  according  to  acre¬ 
age  under  tillage  and  not  according  to 
population;  withdrawal  of  the  Shields, 
Myers  and  Phelan  water  power  hills 
pending  before  the  Senate;  administra¬ 
tion  of  the  farm  loan  board  law  for  the 
benefit  of  the  farmers  of  the  country;  no 
increase  in  freight  rates  ns  compensa¬ 
tion  for  increased  wages,  and  an  inves¬ 
tigation  of  the  manner  in  which  the  tight 
against  the  foot  and  month  disease  was 
conducted  in  l!>14  and  1!)15.  The  11)17 
convention  will  probably  be  held  at 
Houston,  Tex. 
At  the  annual  convention  of  the  Na¬ 
tional  Ice  Cream  Manufacturers  Asso¬ 
ciation  at  Atlantic  City,  N.  ,T.,  Oct.  20, 
Dr.  C.  L.  Alsbcrg,  chief  chemist  of  the 
Federal  Bureau  of  Chemistry,  successor 
to  Dr.  Wiley,  told  the  delegates  that  the 
bureau  was  interested  in  aiding  the  man¬ 
ufacturers  in  increasing  the  purity  of 
their  product.  Eggs  were  broken  whole¬ 
sale  in  transportation  to  New  York,  he 
said,  and  a  seismograph,  an  instrument 
used  to  record  earthquake  shocks,  was 
placed  in  the  egg  car,  and  it  faithfully 
told  where  the  “shocks"  were  sustained, 
and  the  railroads  and  express  companies 
joined  in  eliminating  the  “shocks"  and 
thus  saved  millions  of  eggs  from  destruc¬ 
tion  annually. 
A  resolution  calling  for  an  embargo  on 
wheat  exports,  adopted  at  a  meeting  of 
New  York  city  and  vicinity  members  of 
the  National  Association  of  Master  Bak¬ 
ers.  was  forwarded  to  President  Wilson, 
Oct.  10.  The  President  is  asked  to  set 
a  date  to  receive  a  committee  of  ten  of 
the  master  bakers.  The  resolution  sets 
forth  that  all  Governments  of  the  world 
except  the  United  States  have  taken  con¬ 
trol  of  the  wheat  situation  ;  that  the  pres¬ 
ent  crop,  together  with  last  year's  sur¬ 
plus,  is  only  Sufficient  for  the  needs  of 
this  country;  that  there  may  he  very 
little  wheat  next  year  because  this  year’s 
seed  wheat  is  had;  that  millions  of  bush¬ 
els  of  wheat  are  shipped  abroad  every 
week,  although  it  is  sorely  needed  here. 
The  resolution  requests  an  immediate  in¬ 
vestigation. 
Five  members  of  the  Aroostook  (Me.) 
Potato  Skippers’  Association,  who  were 
brought  to  trial  at  Boston.  Mass..  Oc¬ 
tober  3,  following  a  charge  of  conspiracy 
to  restrain  trade  were  found  guilty  un¬ 
der  the  Sherittp n  net.  October  11.  It 
was  alleged  they  blacklisted  dealers  and 
boycotted  persons  who  traded  with  the 
blacklisted  ones. 
The  Chicago  Cooperative  League, 
through  the  courtesy  of  the  International 
Apple  Shippers’  Association,  distributed 
50.000  apples  to  the  poof,  Tuesday.  Oc¬ 
tober  17,  the  occasion  being  “National 
Apple  Day." 
Announcement  has  jus!  been  made  of 
plans  for  a  new  $1,000,000  packing  plant 
and  stock  yards  for  Macon,  Gn„  which 
plant,  it  is  staled  will  he  in  operation  by 
next  Fall.  This  is  the  third  packing 
plant  to  he  opened  in  Georgia  in  the  last 
three  years,  the  other  two  being  at  At¬ 
lanta  and  Moultrie,  Further  interest  in 
stock  raising  mid  other  diversification  of 
crops  in  Georgia  will  be  stimulated  No¬ 
vember  18.  when  “Georgia  Products  Day” 
will  be  celebrated  throughout,  the  State 
by  an  earnest  and  concerted  effort  to 
bring  about  better  markets  for  diversified 
products  in  this  State.  Stock  raising 
and  diversified  farming  of  course  can  nev¬ 
er  supersede  the  production  of  cotton  in 
the  South,  but  will  tend  more  and  more 
to  make  cotton  a  surplus  money  crop  for 
Dixie. 
The  Oneida  Poultry  Association  will 
held  its  fourth  annual  show  at  Oneida, 
N.  Y„  Jan.  0-12.  1017;  secretary  R.  II. 
Dewitt. 
The  twenty-seventh  volume  of  the  Hol¬ 
stein  Friesian  Advance  Registry  herd 
book  will  soon  be  ready  for  distribution. 
It  contains  "00  pages  and  is  filled  with  the 
information  which  breeders  of  the  black 
and  white  cattle  ought  to  have.  It  is 
remarkable  wlint  a  fund  of  information 
not  only  for  breeders,  lad  for  dairymen 
generally,  can  be  grouped  into  this  vol¬ 
ume.  The  price  for  the  book  is  $2  per 
copy  and  it  is  sent  out  by  M.  II.  Gard¬ 
ner  of  Delevan,  Wia 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Annual  show,  Rhode  Island  Fruit 
Growers'  Association,  MathewRon  St. 
Church  Hall,  Providence,  R.  I.,  Nov.  7- 
10. 
Now  England  Fruit  Show  and  Ver¬ 
mont  State  Horticultural  Society,  joint 
meeting.  City  Hall,  Montpelier,  Vt., 
Nov.  13-18. 
Indiana  Apple  Show.  West  Baden, 
Nov.  11-20. 
Paterson,  N.  Poultry  Association 
annual  show,  Paterson .  N.  J.,  Nov.  21- 
25;  Dr.  Gilbert  Johnson,  secretary- 
treasurer. 
Holyoke  Poultry  and  Pet  Stock  Asso¬ 
ciation  annual  exhibition,  Holyoke, 
Mass.,  Nov.  22-24. 
Quannapowitt  Poultry  Association, 
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GEORGE  W.  O.  Mathews,  Superin-  example  of  the  value  of  concrete  as  a  protection 
tendent  of  the  Boys’  Farm  and  Training  against  fire  losses.  . 
School,  Shawbridge,  Quebec,  says:  “Fire  again  destroyed  the  barn  in  the  spring 
“In  1910  our  wood  barn  and  out-buildings  of  1913.  The  fire  commenced  among  the  hay 
were  entirely  destroyed  by  fire,  leaving  only  a  and  straw  on  the  second  floor,  and  when  we 
new  concrete  silo  which  rebuilt  we  decided  that 
had  just  been  completed.  ^  _ *  wmz  this  must  not  be  possible 
Its  scaffolding  was  still  f  T  j  f\§  f  ww  I  in  the  new  barn.  So  the 
standing,  and  it  [the  silo]  ~  hay  mow  floor  is  of  steel 
alone  passed  through  the  *  °  H  PERMANENCE  beams  and  concrete.  .  .  . 
fire  without  harm.  “Thedrivewayretaintng 
“  In  1912  fire  occurred  after  the  root  cellar  walls,  floors  of  the  dairy,  cow  and  horse  stables, 
underneath  the  stable  floor  had  been  filled,  and  workshop  and  feed  mixing  rooms,  the  ceiling, 
the  roots  were  not  burned  at  all.  .  .  .  floor  and  walls  of  the  root  cellar  underneath 
“  The  silo  has  now  passed  through  three  fires  the  stable  floor,  the  ceiling  of  the  cow  and 
and  the  concrete  walls  of  the  barn  have  with-  horse  stable,  are  all  of  the  same  permanent 
stood  two  fires,  which  we  think  is  a  pretty  good  construction.” 
If  concrete  had  no  other  advantage  than  fireproofness,  you  could 
not  afford  to  overlook  it.  Fire  prevention  is  the  best  fire  protection. 
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