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75he  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
December  0,  1910. 
Harmony  Poultry  Show,  TTnrmony,  Growers'  Association.  Harrisburg,  Ta'., 
Minn.,  Dec.  5-7,  Jan.  23-25. 
Missouri  Poultry  Show,  St.  Joseph,  Appleton  Poultry  Show,  Appleton, 
Mo.,  Dec.  5-0.  Wis.,  Jan.  2S-31. 
New  York  State  Breeders'  Association,  Farmers’  Week,  Ohio  State  University, 
annual  meeting,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  Columbus,  O..  Jan.  20,  30.  31-Feb.  1-2. 
6‘10*  _  Ohio  State  Dairymen's  Association, 
National  Corn  Show,  Minneapolis,  Ohio  State  University,  Columbus,  O., 
Minn.,  Dec.  11-16.  Jan.  30.  31-Feb.  1-2. 
Maine  State  Poultry  Show,  Portland,  Ohio  State  Horticultural  Society,  Ohio 
Dec.  12-14.  State  University,  Columbus,  0.v,  Jan. 
New  Jersey  State  Horticultural  So-  30-31, 
ciety,  annual  meeting,  Burlington,  N.  J.,  Ohio  Percheron  Breeders’  Association, 
Dec.  12-14,  Ohio  State  University,  Columbus,  O., 
University  Horticultural  Society  of  Jan.  31. 
Ohio  State  University,  sixth  annual  show  Ohio  Vegetable  Growers’  Association, 
of  fruit  and  vegetables,  Columbus,  O.,  Ohio  State  University.  Columbus,  ()., 
December  14,  15  and  16.  Feb.  1-2. 
Madison  Square  Poultry  Show,  Madi-  Ohio  Rural  Life  Association.  Ohio 
son  Square  Garden.  New  York  Citv.  Dec.  State  University,  Columbus,  O.,  Jan.  30, 
-  ~  31-Feb.  1. 
n,  Iowa.  Ohio  State  Corn  Show,  Ohio  State 
University,  Columbus,  O.,  Jan.  29.  30,  31- 
ltural  So-  Feb.  1-2.  Entries  close  Wednesday, 
town  "W  Jan,  — 
Machinery  Show,  Ohio  State  Univer- 
,  ,  sity.  Columbus,  O.,  Jan.  30-31-Feb.  1-2. 
•> i'm-'  Duluth  Poultry  Show,  Duluth,  Minn., 
ty,  Dover,  Feb*  1‘t>-  _ 
New  Jersey  Institutes 
i  Fayette,  The  following  farmers’  institutes  are 
scheduled  for  December  in  New  Jersey : 
Blue  Anchor,  Camden  County,  Dec.  1; 
1617.  Eldora,  Cape  May  County,  Dec.  2;  Dias 
,  Kansas  Creek.  Cape  May  County,  Dee,  5 ;  Co¬ 
logne.  Atlantic  County,  Dee.  5,  6;  Bar- 
folk,  Va.,  gaintown,  Atlantic  County.  Dec.  5,  6; 
Montague,  Sussex  County,  Dee.  9;  Lake- 
10-16  ’  wood,  Ocean  County,  Dec.  11 ;  New 
’r^  Egypt.  Ocean  County,  Dec.  12;  North 
.vlOhWi.m  Ilaledon.  Passaic  County,  Dec.  13; 
’  Clarksburg.  Monmouth  County,  Dec.  14; 
i  c?  Middlebnsh,  Somerset  County,  Dec.  15; 
i  Society,  Hopewell,  Mercer  County,  Dec.  16; 
_  Wriglitstown,  Burlington  County,  Dec. 
touirty  IS;  New  Monmonth,  Monmouth  County. 
1  *•>  Dec.  19;  Vineland,  Cumberland  County, 
.  Dec.  19.  20;  ITatmnonton,  Atlantic 
■letta,  O.,  County-  Dec.  19,  20;  Mt.  Freedom,  Mor¬ 
ris  County,  Dec.  20 ;  Newton,  Sussex 
:  Agricnl-  County  (exact  date  not  yet  set)  ;  Stew- 
■ty.  State  nrtsville.  Warren  County,  Dec.  22 ; 
Vegetable  llightstown,  Mercer  County,  Dec.  30. 
Corn  husking  is  earlier  this  year  thafl  statistics  made  public  by  the  Department 
usual.  A  good  many  are  through,  not  Nov.  24,  were  $63,867,000.  For  the  same 
much  husking  done  by  machine  this  year  month  in  1915  the  exports  of  these  arti- 
on  account  of  corn  being  so  poor.  The  cles  amounted  to  $56,535,323.  In  the  10 
apple  crop  in  this  county  is  almost  a  months  ending  in  October  the  year  1916 
failure,  also  the  potato  crop.  The  farm-  shows  a  decrease  as  compared  with  the 
ers'  elevators  of  this  county  are  sending  preceding  year  of  almost  8100,000.000  in 
to  Maine  and  other  places  for  potatoes,  the  value  of  breadstuff's  exported.  Ex- 
some  elevators  getting  as  many  as  four  ports  of  meat,  and  dairy  products  show 
or  five  carloads,  selling  at  $1-50  per  bn.  a  slight  increase.  For  the  10  months 
at  car.  Wheat  $1.80  per  bu. ;  corn  $1.15  ending  in  October  the  United  Stat‘d  ex- 
per  cwt. ;  oats  51c  per  bu.;  barley  $1  ported  $358,421,947  worth  of  bread-stuffs, 
per  bu. ;  hogs  9c;  chickens  15c;  eggs  30c.  as  compared  with  $446,931,261  for  the 
Napoleon,  U.  o.  R.  b.  same  period  during  the  preceding  year. 
We  had  a  good  crop  of  early  potatoes,  r  Representatives  the  United  States 
yielding  100  bu.  per  acre,  and  late  200  J  eP&r  men t  of  Agriculture  and  of  agrieul- 
hu.  per  acre,  a  total  of  1,700  bu- ;  sold  J»raI  departments  of  Canada  and  more 
1.000  bu.  out  of  field  at  $1  to  $1.15  per  Statc*  l,°san  a  two-days’ 
lm.  as  thev  ran.  without  sorting,  and  at  session  at  Albany,  Nov.  -0,  in  an  effort 
present  $L30.  Most  farmers  had  a  short  Revise  ways  and  means  for  preventing 
crop  of  potatoes  and  cabbage.  We  used  tbe.  gP^ead  f  Whit*  Pine  bhster  rust, 
only  one  ton  of  fertilizer  and  part  of  g^,L^1iSSt.en®.P1Se  ,trees  valued  at 
the  patch;  attribute  the  good  yield  to  $-f '0.000.000  m  the  Eastern  and  Northern 
Alfalfa  roots  and  good  culture.  Cattle  ,.  TT  ■  r  , 
bring  from  6  to  Sc  per  lb.;  hogs  11c,  Ciders  closing  the  Union  Stock  Yards,  D(.|. 
live;  13c  dressed.  Butter  35c  at  store,  at  Chicago,  and  the  National  Stock  . 
40  to  42c  market.  Milk,  Hershey  cboco-  lards,  at  East  St.  Louis,  against  the  T  V 
late  factory,  $1.80  to  $1.90;  cup  cheese  shipment  of  any  cattle,  sheep  or  hogs,  Ana; 
5c  cup  Eggs  at  market  44c.  Dressed  save  lor  immediate  slaughter,  were  Issued  (  1 
chickens  75c  to  $1  each  at  market;  by  the  Illinois  State  Veterinarian,  Dr.  tiou 
hucksters  pav  from  14  to  16c.  live  weight.  Dyson.  Nov.  27,  after  receipt  of  news  of  K 
Calves  Calves,  hucksters.  10V>c  lb.  live,  a  suspected  epidemic  of  foot  and  month  Citv 
Cabbage  3c  lb:  apples  30  to  40c  pk.;  disease  in  Nebraska,  Kansas  and  Mis-  jr 
pears.  Kieffer,  $1  bu. ;  beef  at  store  16,  souri.  t„„ 
20,  22c;  market  14.  16,  20c;  pork  16  to 
20c;  sausage  19  to  20c;  pudding  14c; 
liver  14c;  home-cured  ham  27c-;  shoulder 
25c;  flitch  22c.  Wheat,  per  bu.,  $1-75; 
Coming  Farmers  Meetings 
International  Live  Stock  Show,  Chi¬ 
cago.  Ill.,  Dec.  2-9. 
Fourth  National  Conference  on  Mar¬ 
keting  and  Farm  Credits,  Chicago.  Ill- 
Dec.  4. 
Pacific  International  Live  Stock  Exhi¬ 
bition,  North  Portland.  Ore.,  Dec.  4-8. 
Wisconsin  Butter  makers,  annual  con¬ 
ference.  Sparto,  Wis.,  Dec.  5-7. 
Virginia  State  Horticultural  Society, 
twenty-first  annual  meeting,  Roanoke. 
Va..  Dee.  5-7. 
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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
Population  of  continental  United  states 
on  January  1,  1917.  will  be  102,826,309, 
and  with  its  outlying  possessions,  113,- 
309,285,  the  Census  Bureau  estimates, 
upon  the  increase  as  shown  by  the  Fed¬ 
eral  censuses  of  1900  and  1910.  Treasury 
Department  statisticians,  using  a  differ¬ 
ent  method  of  calculation,  estimated  the 
population  of  coutiuertal  United  Slates 
as  103.002.000  on  November  1. 
Nov.  26  fire  of  unknown  origin  de¬ 
stroyed  the  farmhouse  of  Levi  Wilson,  in 
West  Cape  May,  x\.  J.  Seven  members 
of  the  family  lost  their  lives. 
A  cargo  of  dried  codfish  that  swelled 
when  the  schooner  l’onbook  shipped  water 
opened  the  schooner's  seams  and  sank  it, 
according  to  the  crew  of  the  Norwegian 
steamship  Ifroustad,  which  arrived  at 
Galveston  Nov.  25.  The  Kr  on  stud,  two 
days  out  from  the  Azores.  _  sighted  the 
ronhook  in  a  sinking  condition  and  res¬ 
cued  the  crew  on  the  night  of  October  30 
in  a  heavy  sea.  The  Ponhook  was  en 
route  from  St.  Johns  for  Gibraltar.  Capt. 
Doyle  and  the  'seven  men  of  the  Ponhook 
weye  lauded  at  Punta  Del  Grade,  Azores. 
The  navy  is  preparing  to  place  its  fuel 
oil  supply  at  various  stations  in  under¬ 
ground  storage  reservoirs  to  protect  it 
from  attack  by  hostile  aircraft.  An  esti¬ 
mate  of  $1,000,000  for  additional  storage 
space  of  this  nature  at  the  Guantanamo, 
Pearl  Harbor,  Puget  Sound,  San  Diego, 
Mare  Island  and  Narragansett  Bay  sta¬ 
tions  was  explained  Nov.  25  to  the  House 
Naval  Committee  by  Rear  Admiral  Har¬ 
ris,  chief  of  the  yards  and  docks.  The  six 
stations  mentioned  now  have  a  surface 
tank  oil  capacity  of  30,000.000  gallons. 
The  new  project  would  increase  this  sup¬ 
ply  by  58.000.000  gallons. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.— The  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Agriculture  announced  Nov.  23 
that  it  would  construct  a  plant  in  Cali¬ 
fornia  for  experimental  work  in  the  pro¬ 
duction  of  potash  from  kelp.  The  plant 
will  handle  about  200  tons  of  wet  kelp  a 
day.  producing  about  five  tons  of  muriate 
of  potash.  It  is  hoped  to  make  the  United 
States  to  some  extent  independent  of  for¬ 
eign  sources  of  supply. 
Complaint  that  freight  rates  on  peanut 
products  from  Houston  to  Northern  and 
Eastern  points  are  unreasonable  and  in 
restraint  of  trade  was  filed  with  the  In¬ 
ti  rtsate  Commerce  Commission  in  Wash¬ 
ington  Nov.  23  by  the  Houston.  Tex., 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  a  local  firm 
engaged  in  the  preparation  and  marketing 
of  peanuts  and  peanut  products.  The 
complaint  sets  forth  that  the  growing  of 
peanuts  in  Texas  is  an  infant  industry 
and  that  its  expansion  is  hindered  by  the 
alleged  unreasonable  rates. 
Exports  of  breadstuff's,  cottonseed  oil, 
live  stock  and  meats  and  dairy  products 
for  the  month  of  October,  according  to 
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