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March 11, 192D 
7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
tends to stop buying airships in foreign 
Countries, If experiments with dirigibles 
are to be continued, in the face of strong 
opposition, it will be with American-built 
craft, the gas bags of which will be tilled 
with helium. This policy developed Feb¬ 
ruary 27 in the War Department and the 
Navy Department, in direct consequence 
of the Roma disaster near Norfolk, Va. 
The ZR-2, which collapsed over Hull, 
Tin gland, last August, with the loss of 
17 American officers and men, in addition 
to the British crew, had been bought from 
the British Government by the navy ; the 
Roma, the wrecking of which cost the 
lives of Ml. was bought from the Italian 
Government by the army. The Navy 
Department is going ahead with the build¬ 
ing of the Zlt-i, an airship corresponding 
in size, but of different construction, than 
the ill-fated ZR-2, Assembly is about to 
be started at the naval air station at 
Lakeliuxst, N. J. The ZR-1 will be 
finished in about a year. 
The woman suffrage. Or Nineteenth 
Amendment was February 27 declared 
constitutional by the Supreme Court of 
the United States. The court dismissed 
for want of jurisdiction the suit brought 
by Charles s Fairchild of New York} 
who sought to challenge the constitution¬ 
ality of the amendment. 
President llarding presented to a joint 
session of Congress iu the House Feb¬ 
ruary 28 the administration’s plan for 
Government aid for the American mer¬ 
chant marine. In brief, the project con¬ 
templates the return to private interests 
of the United States merchant ships built 
during the war under conditions which 
will insure to a reasonable extent a profit¬ 
able investment. The President would 
for a Real 
Power Sprayer 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Seven persons were 
killed and a number injured February 2M, 
when the Winnipeg flyer on the Great 
Northern Railway was struck by a snow 
plow near Delano, Minn. 
Sentences aggregating more than 100 
years at the maximum limit were imposed 
February 23 upon six holdup men by Judge 
Gibbs in Bronx County Court, New York. 
Joseph F. Oates, who pleaded guilty to 
robbery and assault, both in the first de¬ 
gree. got 10 to 20 years on the first charge, 
and five to 10 on the second. Five other 
men. who held up a restaurant at 085 
Westchester avenue on November 7. were 
sentenced as follows: Louis Loviuger, 
seven to 10 years; Max Scbwoit, four to 
12 years; Tony Cancellaro, three to 10 
years; Barlint Sleisig, eight, to 18 years, 
and Steve Long, 10 to 21 years. 
Three women were drowned February 
20 when the automobile in which they 
were riding pill Aged from the State road 
near Port Crane, N. Y., into the Chenango 
River. The dead arc: Mrs. Mary Brady 
and Mrs. Margaret Reardon, both of Bing¬ 
hamton, and Miss Josephine Casey of 
Susquehanna, Pa. 
Charles McCabe, 63, professional crip¬ 
ple and panhandler, has been collecting 
on an average of $100 a week from the 
gullible, he confided to Magistrate Jean 
Norris, before whom he was arraigned 
in Jefferson Market Court, New York, 
February 21, on a charge of vagrancy. 
Detective Lavender found McCabe at a 
subway exit at Times Square, his hands 
and arms twisted to convince the char¬ 
itably inclined that he was a helpless 
cripple. After ho hud been arrested Mc¬ 
Cabe told Lavender that he had collected 
$S in small coins from subway crowds 
in the hour preceding his arrest. Bank 
books showing that be had deposits total¬ 
ing $1,000 were found iu bis possession. 
Explosion of a powder magazine in a 
stone quarry in the southwestern out¬ 
skirts of Chicago February 2M shook the 
entire city. No one was killed. The in¬ 
tensity of the explosion was so great that 
the street lights iu Summit, two miles 
from the quarry, were put out, and spec¬ 
tators iu motion picture theaters in the 
southwestern part of the city and at Argo, 
three miles from the quarry, were thrown 
into temporary panic. 
Five members of a band of counter¬ 
feiters were arrested in New York Feb¬ 
ruary 28. when the printing plant and 
$65,000 in bogus bills were seized. The 
counterfeits, in the form of $20 Federal 
Reserve Bank notes, first made their ap¬ 
pearance in New York February 25. The 
men arrested gave their names as Max 
Sasauoff, engraver. Ml 21 Daly avenue, 
is a complete power sprayer for the small orchard 
Light in weight — 500 pounds without the truck 
— it is big in capacity, and maintains 200 pounds 
—the adequate spraying pressure. High-efficiency 
pumps and 2 H. P. engine throw 5>"2 gallons a min¬ 
ute. Equipped with 25 feet of hose and the Hardie 
Orchard Gun. It provides the small grower with a 
real power sprayer of known merits that fits his needs. 
Hardie Manufacturing Co. Hudson, Mich. 
BROCKPORT SPRAYER & PUMP CO., Brockport, N. Y 
H. V. HART COMPANY - - Hagerstown, Md. 
The Hardie Big Three Tnplex is the ideal outfit for tfie com¬ 
mercial orchardist. It is rugged, big, and powerful without be¬ 
ing heavy and cumbersome. Pressed steel frame and malleable 
iron parts give it strength and stamina without one ounce of ex¬ 
cess weight. Throwing 10 gallons a minute, its low operating 
cost, its ease of operation and its dependable mechanism fit it 
•prayer 
Cabbage Plants 
Y r ou should use our FROST PROOF 
cabbage plants and get your cabbage 
into the markets four to six weeks earlier 
than vim could by using borne grown HO 1 
HOUSE plants. Early Jersey and C’barles- 
lon Wakefield. Succession and Flat Dutch, 
$1.26 per 1,non—5,0(KI for $5.00—10.000 for $0.00 
—25.000 for S20.O0. E. O. P,. here by express. 
Should vou desire shipment, by parcel post 
prepaid, add $1.00 per l.nOU (•> above prices. 
Satisfactiorl Ctta r a nice if 
S. M. GIBSON CO., Yongcs Island, S.C. 
The report just received from 
the Ontario Experiment Station, 
Canada, shows that Michigan HU3AM 
outyleided Other HubamS by 
Why? Because It'a northern-grown, 
harvested, hulled, scarified and 
cleaned under strict regulations. 
How bciuo of you who want to 
try out the wonderful possibili¬ 
ties of this new annual legume 
With your small gram, for hay, 
pasture, to shorten your crop 
rotation, build up your soil, or 
for an excellent honey orop.will 
be disappointed, for in view of 
the great shortage in field seed 
many wide awake producers have 
already laid in their supply of 
genuine hardy HUBAM aaed. UiO 
Michigan Btete Farm Bureau,a co¬ 
operative organisation with 
quality and low prices ita aim, 
suggests that you place your or¬ 
der immediately. fhls aeason 
started with a rush snd the're a 
great many orders on hand. By 
placing your order now we will 
he glad to hold shipment until 
date you specify. This will en¬ 
able us to give you beet of ser¬ 
vice. For your convenience we're 
eending along With your informa¬ 
tion and quotations e stamped 
and self addressed order blank. 
If you want Certified Genuine 
Hardy HUBAK seed write 
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Select grade Chesapeake Oysters, *al. . medium, 
all prepaid. Satisfaction Umiraiiu*u»l 
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EDMONDS POULTRY 
ACCOUNT BOOK 
Blossom End Rot of Tomatoes 
When tomato vines are normal in 
growth and the fruit has black spots in¬ 
side and sunken black or brown spots at 
the blossom end, the cause is the so-called 
blossom-end rot. It makes its appearance 
at. the blossom end in the form of sunken 
brown spots, which gradually enlarge and 
spread inside the fruit. Such spots are 
dry and hard. The trouble is more ser¬ 
ious in dry weather on light soils where 
the supply Of water is insufficient. To 
correct this condition a good supply of 
humus in the form of barnyard manure 
should be added. Varieties differ in sus¬ 
ceptibility, The nature of the disease is 
unknown. 
MICHIGAN STATE FARN BUREAU 
Seed Department 
Box: N-5 
If you keep only ten or a dozen liens 
there will be Satisfaction and Profit 
in knowingjwst liowtkeaccount stands. 
This book will tell the whole story. 
The account may be begun at any time, 
and the' balance struck at any time. 
Simple and Practical. 
Price, $1.00 - - To Canada, $1.25 
For sale by 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 3011, SL, New York 
