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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 17, 1022 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Herbert Tuliey. aviator, 
who flew low over the heads of the audi¬ 
ence attending the ceremonies at the 
dedication of the Lincoln Memorial May 
30, was dismissed June 2 from the Offi¬ 
cers’ Reserve Corps by Secretary of War 
Weeks and publicly reprimanded at the 
White House, l'ahey was a Lieutenant 
in the Reserve Corps. The aviator was 
dismissed without court-martial under 
authority which gives to the President 
power to take disciplinary measures and 
dismiss members of the corps at will. 
Fahey was charged with disrespect to the 
President of the Linked Slates and with 
having endangered the lives of the as¬ 
sembled spectators. His defense was he 
thought he might fly over the crowd be¬ 
tween 2 and 3:30 p. in. The War De¬ 
partment says he was warned not to fly 
at. all between 2 and 5 p. m. 
Seven members of a crew working on 
a city pipe line on the Cle Elurn River, 
Cle Elum, Wash., were drowned June 2 
when a rowboat in which they were at¬ 
tempting to cross the river was over¬ 
turned. 
Further harriers to the transportation 
of liquor from Canada to the United 
States were set up June 2 by the passage, 
of a bill in the Ontario Legislature mak¬ 
ing it illegal to carry liquor over the 
roads of tbe province. Fader the Ontario 
Temperance act the distillers were re¬ 
quired to ship by rail or boat. The new 
act is intended to end the practice of con¬ 
signing liquor to fictitious persons in the 
United States and then smuggling it 
across the border by truck. 
Ren Jeukins, Jr., of El Paso. Tex., a 
Lieutenant in tbe Reserve Corps, and 
Sergeant Arthur Juongliug of the Tw elfth 
Observation Squadron at Fort Bliss were 
burned to death June 2 when their air¬ 
plane crashed against the side of a moun¬ 
tain .'mil was destroyed by fire. The 
bodies were consumed and only ashes left 
of the plane. Hundreds of soldiers and a 
score of civilians saw’ the accident, but 
none was able to reach the aviators to 
give aid. 
A storage magazine of the du Pout 
Powder Company, containing about 2(H) 
pounds of nitroglycerine, near Gihbstowu, 
N. J.. blew’ up June 4. The building was 
destroyed, but all the workmen escaped 
injury. 
A total of 3,407 children of ex-service 
men in Saskatchewan, Can., out of a pos¬ 
sible 3,773 are receiving their education 
through financial assistance provided by 
the province, An act was passed in May, 
1320, designed to enable children of de¬ 
ceased or disabled soldiers who but for 
its provisions might be compelled to re¬ 
linquish their school career to pursue 
their studies in the higher educational 
establishments. So successful has this 
work proved that two other provinces of 
the Dominion are now contemplating tin 
act similar to that, of Saskatchewan. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—'Thousands 
of acres will be reclaimed in Saskatche¬ 
wan this season when the several drain¬ 
age schemes under the Department of 
Highways are carried out. The work, 
which is being undertaken in various 
parts of the province, will cost the pro¬ 
vincial Government about $50,000. 
Manitoba is in a position to sell more 
than 1,000 horses to Russia if Albert 
Champagne, cx-rnoniber of the Dominion 
Parliament for Pnttlcford, who is ex¬ 
pected to tour the province shortly to in¬ 
spect them, desires to buy for Russia, 
according to G. H. Malcolm, Minister of 
Agriculture. Mr. Champagne probably 
will purchase between 10.0(H) and 20.000 
animals for n British syndicate for ship¬ 
ment to Russia. 
The University Farm at Si. Paul, 
Minn , has developed a system of ’‘nose 
prints” for the identification of purebred 
cattle. Experimented with at the univer¬ 
sity farm by W. E. Peterson, superin¬ 
tendent of the official testing in Minne¬ 
sota. at the suggestion of O. II. Baker of 
the American Jersey Cattle Club, the HOW 
identification system lias acted as a sub¬ 
stitute for 1 lie unsatisfactory branding 
methods. More than 2.000 prints have 
been taken and are on file, and no two 
have been found alike. The procedure in 
making nose prints is simple. The cow's 
head is taken under left arm, its nose 
wiped and ink applied with a soaked 
stamping pad. A small board to which 
mimeograph paper has been attached 
takes the imprint. The lower edge of the 
paper is started at the base of the cow's 
upper lip and with slight even pressure, 
rolled upward. The resultant nose print 
is a permanent record, as noses do not 
change with time. 
The Interstate Commerce Commission 
in Washington served notice on the Penn¬ 
sylvania Railroad June 5 to withhold the 
embargo on potatoes for New York City. 
This action was taken after a hearing 
held at the instance of the Pori Author¬ 
ity, which opposed the plan to dump pota¬ 
toes out at the Manhattan Produce Yard 
ill Kearney, N. J., eight, miles from the 
Protect Your Ford 
Against Its Worst Enemy! 
Road shocks mean breakdowns—repair shop—expense. 
Your Ford cannot give the service you are entitled to 
when it is subjected to constant racking. 
But there is a remedya positive protection from this 
unnecessary wear and tear:— 
Apco Shock Absorbers, by adding 66 inches of resilient 
coiled steel to each end of your Ford springs, protect its 
vital parts and reduce your repair bills to a minimum. 
Made and guaranteed for long service. Easily installed. 
Have your dealer attach a set to your 
Ford. Try them for 10 days. Your 
money back if not satisfied. 
If your dealer can’t supply you we will /<v 
ship direct on receipt of price, — $20. fe 
for set of four. ZlHP 
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Apco Manufacturing Co. V 
Providence, R. I. 
Makers of the Famous Apco Equipment for Fords 
Interest Rate Reduced On New 
-sp Federal Farm Loans 
AFTER June 1st, the rate of interest on new loans will be 5 x /z°/c. 
-CV This is a reduction from Funds are available for first 
C .7/mortgage loans on improved farms in New England, New York 
-*«rai- and New Jersey operated by owners whose major income is from 
j • that business.' Loans are mode for purchasing farm property, 
gHrmaMM erection, repair and improvement of larm buildings, tile drain- 
age, purchase of live stock and equipment and the refunding of 
MjjjMtiMMMlI existing mortgages and larm debts. 
Inquire of the Secretary-Treasurer of the National Farm Loan 
Association in your County or write to 
THE FEDERAL LAND BANK of SPRINGFIELD, MASS 
PROGRESS g PROSPERITY 
ARE ASSURED WITH A 
Don’t let another day pass without it. cm dm H 1 u yjT JM i* j [7 
No bending, no kneeling, nor endless, 
tiresome hoeing. 
THE MOTOR MACULTIVATOR 
Does for plant life what exercise does for you. Plants must have light 
and air—must be healthy to grow and produce properly. The sharp little 
It is not an experiment. It does the kind ol work that you need ana tnat 
every up-to-date man likes to see on his place. Simple and easy to 
handle. Think of the joy of being able to cultivate your whole garden as 
often as you please in less than one-fifth of the time required to do it by 
hand—a half day's job in an hour without effort or worry, and it does it 
better. There are many reasons why the Macultivator should have your 
first consideration. You always have it when you want it—it’s ready 
to use. It’s simple. Any man who has ever pushed a wheel hoe can 
operate a Macultivator. It does taster and better work than can be 
MOTOR 
MACULTIVATOR COMPANY 
1316 Dorr Street 
TOLEDO - - OHIO 
whore it rests more to distribute and 
serve than it does to produce,” Chairman 
Sidney Anderson said in n forecast on 
the commission report. "Commodity 
values are lost in a mass of service costs 
and the time has come for a consideration 
of the fundamental problem of the econo¬ 
mic distribution of tbe essentials of liv¬ 
ing." Responsibility for betterment, the 
report said, "rests on the entire people,” 
who, it was declared, must "make such 
readjustment of custom and habit as will 
permit the development of an ecouomic 
system of distribution." 
WASHINGTON.—A permanent organ¬ 
ization lo work for "absolute abolition of 
child labor in the United States” was 
formed recently by representatives of 
national associations called into confer¬ 
ence by Samuel (Jumpers, president of the 
American Federation of Labor. The 
United States Supreme Court recently 
held that special excise taxes ou the 
product of minor labor were invalid. 
Spokesmen for the new organization ap¬ 
peared before the House Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee to urge legislation prohibiting or 
regulating employment of children in 
mines, factories and similar arduous oc¬ 
cupations. Representative Chandler (N. 
V), Republican, said be and other mem¬ 
bers of the committee believed the Su¬ 
preme Court’s ruling had made il impos¬ 
sible to accomplish anything by legislative 
regulation unless and until a constitu¬ 
tional amendment bud been adopted. 
Classified tax receipts of the Govern¬ 
ment for April fell off about $83,000,000 
as compared with (he same month last 
year, according to reports issued June 1 
by the Internal Revenue Bureau. Re¬ 
ceipts for the month aggregated .$154,- 
000.000, as against $237,000,000 in April, 
1021. Income and excess profits taxes 
aggregating $02,000,000 showed a de¬ 
crease of about $50,000,000; taxes on lux¬ 
uries, amusements, transportation, etc., 
aggregating $25,000,000 fell off by $35,- 
000.000. while tobacco taxes decreased 
by $1,500,000. Taxes contained under the 
national prohibition act, however, during 
the month aggregating $254,000,000 
showed an increase of $01,000,000. 
More About “Death from a Bee Sting” 
[On page 715 we had a discussion of 
the ease of Henry Oollerd, who died after 
a bee’s sting. We printed the newspaper 
report, with comments. The ease has 
brought out several comments and evi¬ 
dently interests beekeepers. Tbe follow¬ 
ing statements come from a neighbor of the 
injured man and from the physician who 
attended hiin.l 
On May 27 you printed tbe article re¬ 
ferring to Harry Collerd’s death from a 
bee sting. I knew Harry Collerd. He 
bad a weak heart. When I went there 
this Spring to get some bees I had bought 
from him previously I wan told of his 
death. (I had read it before, bat did not 
believe ii). He was splitting wood at the 
time he was stung, and lie should never 
have split wood, especially since he was 
very tired at that time. Ilis condition 
was such at the time that be needed noth¬ 
ing more than a very slight shock to kill 
him. and that the bee sting gave him. 
Now as for death by a sting on the knee, 
or the temple, I’ve been playing hookey 
from the graveyard for the last three years, 
according to that ; in fact, Collerd’s bees 
caught me mi the knee several times last 
Fall and this Spring. I’m glad you had 
the comment from such a man as E. R. 
Root. He knows wbut be—is talking 
about. 8licit rasll statements by physi¬ 
cians should not be made. And yet it 
may work the other way around. If peo¬ 
ple believe it, the professional beekeeper 
will never be crowded out <>f business. 
OBSERVER. 
A STATEMENT BY THE PHYSICIAN 
Kindly allow me space enough to make 
a few corrections re your clipping and 
comment, on the death of a patient fol¬ 
lowing a bee sting, as printed on page 
715. 
(1) I never said that "a bee sting on 
the temple results fatally in nine out of 
10 raxes." What I did say, and I believe 
statistic will bear mo out, was that in 
rare cases, possibly one in 10,000 or 
more, a bee sting causes severe symptoms 
and may cause death. In these rare cases 
the victim reacts lo an unusual degree to 
the introduction nf any foreign protein 
substance (anaphlactic shock), whether 
it be tbe secretion of a bee, ant, horse 
serum or in foods such as fish, strawber¬ 
ries, cheese, eggs, milk, etc., which quite 
commonly cause hives (not the bee kind), 
asthma, and so-called acute indigestion 
when eaten by persons who are suscep¬ 
tible. 
(2) As to the location of the sting, why 
bring in the young lady’s knees so often? 
Their knees have received too much 
notoriety of late as it is. The only rea¬ 
son for a sting on the temple being of 
serious import is the possibility of the 
bee’s lancet, which I heAr is quite too 
long, penetrating the wall of the temporal 
artery, which is superficial iu this loca¬ 
tion, ami discharging his dose into the 
blood stream. 
I agree with you when you say that 
the walk from the woodlot made matters 
worse for the patient, but differ when you 
say that il overheated him: the weather 
was too mild. Also agree that the mor¬ 
tality rate of “nine out of every 10” is 
utter nonsense, but whether it be ropor- 
tariul, editorial or typographical non¬ 
sense is up to you to determine—it ear- 
tainly was not medical. 
C, A. UIKDSALL. M. D. 
