January 14, 1922 
into the hands of the big meat packers 
without any henefif to cattle raisers. Sen¬ 
ators apparently did not agree with this 
conclusion. Through John S. Kent of 
Brockton, Mass., the manufacturers’ asso¬ 
ciation asked for a 15 per cent duty on 
shoes and boots, declaring that this was 
necessary to equaliae difference in labor 
costs in the United States and foreign 
countries. Mr. Jones, who followed Mr. 
Kent., and who was assigned to present 
the argument in favor of free hides, de¬ 
clared in response to question* of Sena¬ 
tors that, as a matter of fact, a majority 
of the mannufacturers did not want a 
duty on shoes. 
On the theory that the pay of a mem¬ 
ber of Congress is sufficient to provide a 
home with a bath. Representative Blan¬ 
ton, Democrat, Texas, introduced Janu¬ 
ary 3 a bill to close the free bath estab¬ 
lishments, Turkish and domestic, in the 
House office building. The measure would 
drop from the Government pay roll what 
the Texan described in his measure as 
“body rubbers.” Other bills introduced 
by the Texan would eliminate the ITouse 
barber shop, where a member may have 
his hair cut at 25 cents, half the city 
price, and the House restaurants, run 
partly at a Government expense, without 
a corresponding reduction in prices. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
Test by A. J. Dewey, Madison Ohio 
Right, top-dressed with 113 ibs. 
Sulphate of Ammonia—4840 Ibs. per A 
Left, not top-dressed —2340 " 
Increase 2500 lbs. per A 
1) O M K vS T I C.—I< ivc persons were 
recently killed within a week in holdups 
within New York City. Two of the vic¬ 
tims were holdup men. The other three 
were intended victims. December 23, 
cigar store robbery, 880 TfemOnt avenue, 
the Bronx, one killed. The man killed 
was a robber who "jumped his bail twice 
last year.” December 23, rental office 
robbery, 243 West Sixty-third street, one 
killed. The man killed was a robber out 
on bail after conviction for grand larceny. 
December 23, soft-drink saloon robbery, 
2S Madison street, one killed, ’file man 
killed was the proprietor. December 24, 
jeweler’s apartment robbery, 1(588 Nelson 
avenue, the Bronx, one killed. The man 
killed was the jeweler. December 28, 
street holdup, near 338 Vermont avenue, 
Brooklyn, one killed. The man killed was 
the victim, a salesman. Four other per¬ 
sons were injured in the perpetration of 
the same live crimes. Two of them were 
policemen, fine was a robber, afterward 
captured, and the. fourth was the wife of 
the jeweler. 
E. C. Drury, Premier of Ontario, De¬ 
cember 28 threw in the switch that set 
in action the first of the generating units 
of the Canadian Hydro-Electric Commis¬ 
sion’s Chippewa - Queenstown Develop¬ 
ment plant at Queenstown, the greatest 
hydro-electric power system in the world, 
just completed at a cost of over $88,000,- 
000. The project has been under con¬ 
struction for three years. The maximum 
eapacity of the canal will be from 550,- 
000 to (500,000 horsepower, and the max¬ 
imum installation in the generating sys¬ 
tem will be five units of 55.000 horse¬ 
power each, or a total of 050,000 horse¬ 
power. 
Fire in the warehouse of the Plastergon 
Company, on West Delcvan avenue, Buf¬ 
falo. N. Y.. December 30, caused damage 
estimated at $150,000. The stock con¬ 
sisted chiefly of bagged cement ready for 
shipment. 
Four men armed with automatic pistols 
held up 12 men and women in the grocery 
store of Thomas Koulston & Co., 525 
Fifth avenue, Brooklyn. January 3, and 
escaped with more than $8,000 in cash 
and several watches and other jewelry, 
although the store is within a block of 
the Seventy-eighth precinct police station, 
and a patrolman was on post not. more 
than 50 feet away. The policeman, how¬ 
ever. knew nothing of the holdup until 
two or three minutes after the bandits 
had left the place, when the customers 
and the employes ran from the store 
shouting that they bad been robbed. 
Lieutenants Frank Slomiin of Oakland, 
Cal., and Elton C. Ilersemau of Weston, 
W, Ya.. aviators from the naval air sta¬ 
tion at Pensacola. Fla., were killed Jan¬ 
uary 3 when their airplane went into a 
nose dive at an altitude of 1,000 feet, and 
crashed nil' Fort Barrancas wharf. Lieu¬ 
tenant Slomau was acting as instructor 
and Lieutenant Her soman was making 
his first (light at the station. 
During the recent holidays there were 
about 10 deaths in and around New York, 
caused by poisonous forms of alcohol. 
Many persons were reported dangerously 
ill from drinking illegal liquor, 
FARM AND GARDEN. — Complete 
survey of the menace of the corn borer 
and examination of the light which is now 
being waged against the pest is expected 
to be made by the National Agricultural 
Conference to be called by Secretary Wal¬ 
lace. Study of the subject may evolve 
a new policy to be adopted by the Fed¬ 
eral and State authorities in their efforts 
to exterminate the borer. The corn borer 
is prevalent in some sections of New Eng¬ 
land. and a new infestation appeared re¬ 
cently on the southern shore of Lake Erie 
on the edge of the corn belt, which has 
led some entomologists to believe the Fed¬ 
eral quarantine ought to be made more 
drastic. The suggestion may be put for¬ 
ward in the conference, it was said, for a 
regiouul quarantine to include all of the 
northeast quarter of the United States, 
as far west as the Indiana western State 
line. Regional quarantine already in 
force restricts shipments out of Massa¬ 
chusetts. New Hampshire, New York and 
Pennsylvania for oats and rye straw, 
spinach, beets with fops, and a number of 
other vegetables. Stale officials at a 
hearing held in October with the Federal 
Horticultural Board, proposed continua¬ 
tion of the quarantine along these lines, 
with closer inspection and establishment 
of new local quarantine territories iu 
threatened localities further west. The 
conference has been called to meet in 
Washington January 23. 
A total of 255 Governmental agricul¬ 
tural and live stock advances, amounting 
to $9,359,000. was approved by the War 
Finance Corporation from December 29 
to December 31. inclusive, it was an¬ 
nounced January 3. During the week 
elided December 31 the corporation ap¬ 
proved a total of 372 advances, aggregat¬ 
ing $13,050,000. Most of the loans were 
made in Southern and Western sections 
of the country. 
WASHINGTON. Shoe manufactur¬ 
ers appearing December 28 before the 
Senate Finance Committee understood 
from Senator McCuraber, acting chair¬ 
man, that hides would not be oil the free 
list when the permanent tariff bill is re¬ 
ported to the Senate. Charles E. Jones 
of Whitman, Mass,, representing the Na¬ 
tional Boot and Shoe Manufacturers’ As¬ 
sociation of the United States, declared 
that the result of a duty on hides would 
be to place control of the shoe industry 
TOP-DRESSING TALKS 
Increase the Profits from the Meadow 
One hundred pounds per acre of Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia 
will greatly increase the yields and profits from the meadow. Ten 
Ohio farmers in carefully conducted tests obtained an average 
increase of 1,646 pounds of timothy per acre from an average 
top-dressing of 110 pounds of Sulphate of Ammonia per acre. 
Waterproof Cement 
Can you inform me of a way of mixing 
cement that will keep the water from 
leaking through? I am building a cellar 
wall, and find that water leaks through. 
I have heard of waterproofing used in 
army trenches. Can you give some sug¬ 
gestions in regard to mixing cement that 
will be waterproof? W. F. ii. 
Dunkirk, N. Y. 
Where concrete is correctly propor¬ 
tioned mid mixed, and carefully placed, 
there will be very little seepage of water 
through it. It may appear damp and 
cold, usually not particularly undesirable 
in the case of a cellar wall, but very little 
water will pass through it. Water does 
come through these walls, however, and 
a careful examination will usually show 
that it is coming through a “stone pocket.” 
a porous place in the wall where the grout 
has settled away from the stones used iu 
mixing, due to incorrect proportioning, 
poor mixing or placing or a combination 
of the three, nr through cracks or seams 
in the wall that are due either to a poor 
bond between portions of the wall laid 
at different times, or to contraction or 
shrinkage duo to drying, cold weather, or 
a stress of some kind. From a consider¬ 
ation of the above it is evident that any 
surface wash or compound can scarcely 
be expected to stop this leaking, as these 
washes are designed to render the con¬ 
crete impervious by sealing the pores, 
and cannot strengthen it in any way, pre¬ 
venting the cracks through which most 
of the water comes. 
1 Tobably the best waterproofing com¬ 
pound. cost considered, is more cement. The 
use of more cement makes a rich dense 
mixture which is less porous and less sub¬ 
ject to shrinkage and contraction cracks 
than is concrete of a leaner mixture. For 
waterproof work concrete should not be 
mixed leaner than one part of cement to 
two of sand and four of gravel or crushed 
stone, and in many cases a richer mixture 
is desirable. If gravel Is used for the 
stone or coarse aggregate, it should first 
be run over a 1 j -in. mesh screen, and any 
material passing the screen used as sand. 
The concrete should be thoroughly 
mixed dry. and sufficient water added to 
make it of a sluggishly flow consistency 
to insure that it settles into the forms 
well. After placing, it should be spaded 
to cause it to settle into as dense a mass 
as possible, and the spade worked be¬ 
tween the forms and the enclosed con¬ 
crete to work the stones back toward the 
center of the Avail and bring the dense 
mortar to the surface. When work is 
resumed in the morning or at noon, when 
tlie preceding work has set at all. it should 
be scrubbed with a wire brush to remove 
any adhering scum, flushed with water 
and a paste of clear cement applied to 
the surface before adding more concrete, 
iu order to secure a bond between the old 
work and the new. If these precautions 
are taken, and in addition a drain laid 
about the base of the wall and the roof 
water conducted away, a dry cellar is 
practically assured. The tile in the drain 
should slope to an outlet at one corner 
and should bo covered with from t» in to 1 
ft. of cinders or gravel, presenting ample 
opportunity for the entrance of water. 
They should also, of course, be laid some¬ 
what below the cellar bottom or door, 
which snould be laid on a course of cin¬ 
ders or gravel, permitting the water be¬ 
neath to escape to the drain. 
Waterproofing is also accomplished by 
putting in a membrane of several layers 
of waterproof paper laid in tar or as¬ 
phalt, In the case nl* a cellar this would 
have to be carried over the floor as well, 
making the cost of this method high. I 
am unable to say what material was used 
by our army in the late war for water¬ 
proofing purposes, but it was probably 
the following iir a modification of it : 1 lb. 
concentrated lye. 2 to 5 Ibs. alum. 2 lbs. 
water. This appears in an old army re¬ 
port. It is probable that the formula used 
can be secured by writing the War De¬ 
partment. Washington, 1). O. When a 
water repellent is used, it should In* ap¬ 
plied to the side from which the water 
comes, the outside of the wall iu this case, 
making its use difficult, 
ROBKHT II. SMITH. 
ARCADIAN 
Sulphate of Ammonia 
Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia is the only top-dressing ammoniate 
that is fine and dry, quick-acting and lasting. It is low in price 
per unit of actual plant food. 
Ask your fertilizer dealer or write 
Write for Bulletin 27 , 
"How to Increase the 
yield of Timothy." 
40 Rector Street 
New York City 
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT 
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