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Our  Specialty 
of  agriculture.  Lecturers  from  Cornell 
and  other  schools  who  deliver  talks  in 
English  are  accompanied  by  lecturers 
who  give  explanations  in  Yiddish.  Spe¬ 
cial  lectures  are  given  the  farmers  to  en¬ 
able  them  to  become  naturalized. 
Gov.  Whitman  of  New  York  an¬ 
nounced.  Dec.  2,  liis  appointment  of  a 
committee  of  five,  with  George  W.  Per¬ 
kins  as  chairman,  to  investigate  the  high 
cost  of  living  and  to  recommend  such 
legislation  as  may  result  in  lower  prices 
of  food  through  economical  distribution. 
Mr.  Perkins’s  associates  on  the  commit¬ 
tee  arc  State  Senator  Charles  W.  Wicks 
of  Oneida  County,  chairman  of  the  legis¬ 
lative  committee  investigating  the  dairy 
industry  which  is  now  having  sessions  in 
New  York  city;  Judge  George  W.  Ward, 
counsel  of  the  Wicks  committee;  S.  J. 
Lowell,  master  of  the  New  York  State 
Grange,  and  Clifford  S.  Sims,  vice-pres¬ 
ident  and  general  manager  of  the  Dela¬ 
ware  and  Hudson  Railroad. 
Giant  Forest,  the  privately  owned 
tract  of  the  world's  largest  trees  in  the 
heart  of  Sequoia  National  Park,  is  about 
to  pass  into  the  hands  of  the  Govern¬ 
ment  through  cooperation  between  the 
Interior  Department  and  the  National 
Geographic  Society.  Congress  during  the 
last  session  appropriated  $50,000  to  pur¬ 
chase  the  land,  but  tbe  owners  refused 
to  sell  unless  adjacent  holdings  valued 
at  $20,000  were  taken  at  the  same  time. 
An  option  on  the  eutire  tract  was  ob¬ 
tained,  and  the  board  of  managers  of  the 
Geographic  Society  has  appropriated  the 
$20,000  to  make  possible  the  immediate 
payment  of  $70,000.  In  the  Giant  For¬ 
est.  are  trees  said  by  experts  to  be  4.000 
years  old.  One  of  them  is  the  General 
Sherman,  the  largest  iu  the  world,  hav¬ 
ing  a  circumference  at  its  base  of  102 
feet  and  towering  279.9  feet,  into  tile  air. 
The  buffalo,  once  threatened  with  ex¬ 
tinction.  is  increasing  in  numbers  on 
Government,  reservations,  according  to 
the  annual  report  of  the  Biological  Sur¬ 
vey.  Five  big  game  preserves  and  67 
bii‘d  reservations  are  maintained  by  the 
survey.  The  report  urges  that  more 
tracts  of  land  not  suitable  for  agricul¬ 
tural  purposes  be  converted  into  breed¬ 
ing  grounds  for  birds.  Many  thousand 
acres  of  marsh  land,  it  declares,  could 
be  turned  easily  into  breeding  grounds 
for  waterfowl. 
A  plant  for  the  manufacture  of  sau¬ 
sage  _  from  the  meat  of  the  Texas  jack- 
rabbit  is  to  be  erected  soon  and  put  into 
operation  iu  west  Texas,  according  to  an 
announcement  made,  Dec.  2,  by  Fred  W. 
Davis,  State  Commisioner  of  Agricul¬ 
ture.  Promoters  of  the  plant  expect  to 
handle  most  of  the  annual  rabbit  crop  in 
their  mill.  The  Texas  State  Department 
of  Agriculture  has  decided  to  attempt  to 
create  a  countrywide  demand  for  rabbit 
meat.  It  is  expected  that  not  less  than 
one  million  rabbits,  Texas  born  and 
reared,  will  be  shipped  to  New  England 
and  Eastern  markets  during  the  next 
few  months.  Commissi  oner  Davis  says 
the  rabbits  are  quoted  in  some  cities  at 
a  higher  price  than  turkey  or  chicken. 
An  order  to  remove  the  embargo  on 
shipments  of  live  stock  from  the  Kansas 
City  stock  yards  was  received  from 
Washington.  Dec.  2.  The  embargo  was 
placed  on  the  yards  on  account  of  sus- 
pected  cases  of  foot  and  mouth  disease. 
The  forty-second  annual  meeting  of 
the  Ayrshire  Breeders’  Association  will 
be  held  in  New  York,  January  11,  1917, 
at  Hotel  McAlpin,  Broadway  at  24th 
Street,  at  1  o’clock  F\  M.,  to  hear  re¬ 
ports  of  president,  secretary  and  treas¬ 
urer,  and  to  elect  officers  for  the  year 
ensuing. 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. 
-Frederick  G.  Strobel, 
one  of  the  owners  of  the  Moon  Auto 
Sales  Company  of  Bedford  Avenue, 
Brooklyn,  told  Assistant  District  Attor¬ 
ney  Royal  H.  Weller,  Doc.  1,  that  the 
company  had  collected  between  .$45,000 
and  $50,000  on  bogus  automobile,  insur¬ 
ance  claims.  The  company  had  been  or¬ 
ganized  primarily  for  the  purpose  of  de¬ 
frauding  the  automobile  insurance  com¬ 
panies,  he  said,  and  while  it  did  a  legiti¬ 
mate  repair  and  sales  business,  this  was 
simply  a  pretense  and  the  company  de¬ 
rived  less  than  25  per  cent,  of  its  in¬ 
come  from  these  channels.  Strobel  plead¬ 
ed  guilty  before  Judge  Wad'll  a  ms  to  pre¬ 
senting  a  fraudulent  claim  for  motor  in¬ 
surance.  He  had  asked  the  Globe  In¬ 
demnity  Company  to  pay  him  for  an 
automobile  stored  iu  his  company's  gar¬ 
age.  It  wras  proved  that  the  automobile 
was  an  old  one,  although  Strobel  had 
claimed  reimbursement  for  a  new  car. 
Flying  through  an  open  switch  at  25 
miles  an  hour,  the  New  York-Winsted 
express  on  the  New7  Haven  Railroad 
crashed,  Dec.  1,  into  the  caboose  of  a 
freight  train  standing  on  a  siding  at 
Beacon  Falls,  Conn.,  and  plowed  its  way 
through  three  cars,  setting  them  afire 
almost'  instantly.  Eugene  Lake  of 
Bridgeport,  engineer  of  the  express,  and 
Charles  Slack  of  Waterbary,  his  fireman, 
were  killed,  as  were  two  other  men,  be¬ 
lieved  to  be  tbe  brakeman  and  flagman 
of  the  freight. 
The  Supreme  Court  in  a  decision  ren¬ 
dered,  Dec.  4,  declared  constitutional  the 
New  Jersey  automobile  license  laws  en¬ 
acted  in  1908.  The  constitutionality  had 
been  attacked  by  Frank  ,T.  Kane  of  New 
York,  who  appealed  after  being  convicted 
of  a  violation.  The  New  Jersey  law  im¬ 
poses  licenses  of  $2  for  ears  of  10  horse¬ 
power  or  less ;  $5  for  10  to  29  horse¬ 
power  and  $10  for  more  than  20  horse¬ 
power.  The  American  Automobile  Asso¬ 
ciation  and  the  National  Automobile 
Chamber  of  Commerce  were  represented 
in  tiie  arguments  before  tbe  Supreme 
Court. 
The  captain  and  crew  of  four  men  of 
the  British  schooner  Arthur  .J,  Parker 
were  brought  to  Baltimore,  Dec.  2,  by 
the  steamship  Rockingham.  The  Parker 
was  wrecked  in  a  storm  about  200  miles 
south  of  Halifax.  The  men  had  been  on 
their  dismasted  -and  waterlogged  craft 
seven  days,  suffering  great  hardships, 
when  the  Rockingham  rescued  them. 
The  Parker  sailed  from  Weymouth, 
Mass.,  November  4,  for  Halifax,  N.  S., 
with  a  cargo  of  phosphate. 
Gaston  Weigel  and  Hughey  Hughes 
were  killed,  Frank  Galvin  probably  was 
mortally  injured  aud  a  number  of  other 
persons  were  less  seriously  hin  t  near  the 
end  of  the  Universal  trophy  automobile 
race  at  the  Uniontown,  Pa.,  speedway, 
Dec.  2.  Hughes  had  run  his  car  into 
the  guard  rail  near  the  centre  of  the 
speedway  on  the  sixty-second  lap  of  the 
race  because  of  engine  trouble  and  had 
walked  to  the  press  stand  when  Galvin 
came  tearing  down  the  truck.  When  al¬ 
most  opposite  the  stand  Galvin  seemed 
to  lose  control  of  his  car.  and  it  shot 
with  lightning  speed  toward  the  stand 
which  Hughes  had  reached  scarcely  a 
moment  before. 
_  A  blanket  indictment  charging  viola¬ 
tion  of  the  Donnelly  anti-trust  act  and 
naming  Louis  Werner,  Mark  Sokol  off, 
Charles  S.  Frank,  Goodman  Levy,  Harry 
Baft'  and  Dr.  Paul  Abelson  was  handed 
up  by  the  November  Grand  Jury,  New 
York,  Dec.  5,  to  Judge  Delehanty  in  Gen¬ 
eral  Sessions.  Harry  Baff  is  the  son 
of  the  poultry  dealer  who  was  mur¬ 
dered  in  West  Washington  Market  two 
years  ago.  Dr.  Abelson  is  business  agent 
of  the  Kehillah,  tbe  Jewish  community 
organization.  The  indictments  resulted 
from  an  investigation  by  the  District  At¬ 
torney’s  office  into  the  live  poultry  bus¬ 
iness  in  the  city.  The  investigators  found 
that  practically  the  entire  trade  was  car¬ 
ried  on  by  four  organizations  which  were 
incorporated  last  year.  According  to  a 
When  water  must  be  laboriously  pumped  from  a  well  or 
carried  from  a  spring,  it  is  used  as  sparingly  as  possible.  A 
Milwaukee  Air  Power  Water  System  not  only  saves  the  time 
and  hard  work  of  pumping  and  carrying,  but  it  supplies  an 
ABUNDANCE  of  water  for  a  multitude  of  uses.  You  can 
have  fresh,  cold  water  about  the  buildings  or  farm  anywhere 
you  want  it.  And  you  can  have  hot  water  and  lake  or  river 
water  or  cistern  water — anywhere  you  want  it.  A 
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Cooking 
Washing  Dishes 
Scrubbing 
Drinking 
Canning 
The  Garden 
The  Bathroom 
The  Toilet 
Plants 
Washing 
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ten  feet  or  ten  miles — tons  of  water  daily.  You  just 
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water  you  can  use  without  going  into  the  hot  summer 
sun  or  the  icy  winter  winds. 
The  wonderfully  simple  Milwaukee  Pump  makes 
all  this  possible.  We  have  a  pump  for  drilled  wells — 
and  a  shallow  water  pump  that  works  fine  in  one  foot 
of  water.  A  Milwaukee  Air  Power  Water  System 
never  freezes.  Its  cost  is  wd4  within  your  reach. 
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