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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 15, 1922 
All Sorts 
Notes from New England 
SUCCESS With Peonies. —Tl j's in¬ 
creasingly apparent that the peony is 
fast becoming a serious rival of the rose. 
Peony shows are being held everywhere, 
and the interest in peonies is growing 
rapidly. Although many varieties are 
Silver Moon Roue on Trellis 
rather expensive, it isn’t necessary to 
spend a great amount of money to have 
a good collection, and peonies, once estab¬ 
lished. go on for many years. There are 
instances in plenty of peonies blooming 
well after standing in one spot for from 
20 to 40 years. One mistake often made 
is in buying peonies which have been 
divided too closely. This means weak 
stock and a long wait before typical 
flowers are seen. Garden-makers who are 
not experienced with peonies often plant 
them far too deep. The eye should not 
be more than 1 or 2 inches under 
the ground. If Ihey are planted deeper 
a new root growth is likely to appear 
along the stems, and will almost invar¬ 
iably make a sterile plant. Sometimes 
stalks come tip from both the. old and the 
new roofs, with the result that the peony 
blooms well on one side ami not at all 
on the other. Peonies have a great dis¬ 
like for fresh manure, but respond readily 
to applications of boncincal and wood 
ashes. They need a sweet soil, so that 
lime may 'be used freely. Some expert 
growers make a practice of dusting lime 
over the roots at planting time. When 
peonies begin to go bad they can often 
be restored by removing them to new 
ground ami applying lime freely. It is 
quite important to water the plants well 
now that the blooming season has passed, 
for it is at thitime that they commence 
making their growth for next year. 
The Best Climbing Robes. —This has 
been a wonderful season for climbing 
roses, and some of the newer kinds have 
been remarkably fine. In my own garden 
Paul’s Scarlet Climber, which was pro¬ 
duced only a few years ago, has covered 
itself with glory. It is altogether the 
best red climbing rose that I know. It 
keeps its color very much better than 
('limbing American Beauty, and lasts a 
long while when cut. as well as standing 
well on the plant. I believe this is going 
to prove one of the finest climbing roses 
in cultivation. 
Silver Moon has few equals as a white 
climber, although 1 can see but little dif¬ 
ference between Silver Moon and Purity. 
Both have bloomed with the greatest 
freedom this year. The blossoms arc 
almost dazzling in tlioir whiteness, and 
the gold centers give just the touch of 
color needed to make the picture perfect. 
Dr. Van Fleet has been a hit disup- 
fioiming, It is a handsome rose, but tor 
some reason does not keep its color as 
well as 1 should like. Christine* Wright 
is one of the loveliest climbers T grow. 
Its beauty can hardly be described, and 
vet it has little value as a cut flower. 
Even on the plant the petals drop quickly, 
but this does not mean a short season, as 
new buds are constantly opening. With¬ 
out question the climbing roses are among 
the most delightful of all flowers which 
are adapted to the home garden. More 
of them should be planted around the 
doors, over the porches and on the fences 
of country homes. K. i. faiuungton. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—‘William A. Ilogftn. sec¬ 
retary of the International Brotherhood 
of Electrical Workers. Local No. M, who 
has been on trial since June 12 charged 
with stealing $20,000 from the union, 
was found guilty of grand larceny in the 
first degree June M0 by a jury before Jus¬ 
tice Leonard A. (liege rich in the Supreme 
Court, New York. It was charged that 
Hogan collected money from non-union 
workers, who had to pay for the privi¬ 
lege of working on union jobs, and that 
he failed to turn over his collections to 
the union. Hogan's indictment resulted 
from the Lockwood investigation. 
Twelve of 30 lynehitigs in the United 
States during the first half of the year 
were in Texas, according to a statement 
issued June MO by the department of 
records and research of Tuskogee Insti¬ 
tute. Mississippi was second to Texas 
with seven lynch ings, while four were re¬ 
ported from Georgia. Arkansas had two 
and one each was reported from Alabama, 
Florida. Louisiana. Oklahoma and South 
Carolina. 
Lightning July 2 struck itbe roof of one 
of the several great grain elevators at 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s ter¬ 
minals at Locust Point, Md„ and in a 
few minutes the immense structure was 
in flames. Although deluged by rain in 
the terrific storm prevailing the flames 
spread rapidly. Nearly the entire city 
fire department, including lire boats, was 
quickly at work, but the tire soon envel¬ 
oped elevators B and C and Pier 5. all of 
which were wrecked. The elevators con¬ 
tained more than 500,000 bushels of 
grain, .vhich. with GO carloads of export 
tobacco on the pier, was destroyed. The 
railroad company’s loss is estimated at 
between $3,200,000 and $4,000,000. Sev¬ 
eral firemen were injured or overcome by 
heat and smoke. The American Sugar 
Refining Company’s big plant and other 
valuable property on the south waterfront 
were untouched. Some freight ears were 
burned. Several vessels were scorched 
before they could be towed out into the 
harbor. 
The will of William Rockefeller, for¬ 
merly president and one of the organizers 
of the Standard <>il Company, who died 
on June 24. was tiled in the Surrogates’ 
Court June Mfl. The instrument, executed 
on September 5. 1010. a few months be¬ 
fore the death of his wife, disposes of an 
estate which has been estimated as high 
as $500,000,000. No part of this vast 
property goes outside the family of the 
testator, whose desire it was to perpetu¬ 
ate the estate in the Rockefeller family. 
To that end Mr. Rockefeller created trust 
funds under which each of his four chil¬ 
dren receives the income from one-quarter 
of the residuary estate, the principal in 
each, case passing to their issue. Only in 
<1)0 case of Percy A. Rockefeller, younger 
sou, is an exception made. He receives 
outright three-fourths of one of the quar¬ 
ter shares of the residue, while the re¬ 
maining quarter of That share goes to his 
children upon liis death. No provision is 
contained in the will for public institu¬ 
tions. 
Fire starting from the explosion of a 
barrel of shellac destroyed the factory of 
ithe N. J. Magnan Company, tennis rac¬ 
quet manufacturers, at North Attleboro. 
Mass.. July 2. For a time it threatened 
to spread to adjoining buildings. The 
loss is estimated at $100,000. 
July 4. during an automobile race at 
Uiverhead. N. Y., Edward Harvin. me¬ 
chanician, of Oyster Bay. was killed, and 
Theodore Ilall seriously hurt. Their ear 
struck a car ahead, which hurled l>oth 
men out on the* track. 
July 3 an express train on the Phila¬ 
delphia & Reading left, the track at Win¬ 
slow Junction, N. ,L, the wreck causing 
the death of seven persons and injuries 
to many more, The wreck was due to 
an open switch leading to a curve, the 
high speed of the train preventing it from 
taking the curve iu safety. 
Florida's first “rolling courts’' got into 
action July 4 on Atlantic Boulevard be¬ 
tween Jacksonville and the beaches. Jus¬ 
tices of the peace and their bailiffs in the 
districts traversed by the boulevard were 
constantly on patrol in touring cars and 
dozens of deputies ou motor cycles and 
in automobiles were ready to pounce upon 
any driver who endangered traffic. Upon 
making an arrest the deputy and his 
prisoner proceed until they meet one of 
the “rolling courts.” The “court” will 
stop, give a preliminary hearing and fix 
bond for the appearance of the defendant 
in criminal court.. If the prisoner fails 
to make cash bond on the spot he will be 
taken to Pablo and held in the city jail. 
Four hundred thousand dollars' worth 
of the $2,500,000 in securities stolen from 
a mail truck October 24 were found July 
4 in the apartment of George Anderson 
at 12 G pa mercy Park, New York, ac¬ 
cording to the Post Office Inspectors. 
This was in addition to the $100,000 in 
bonds found there after the arrest of An¬ 
derson, Gerald Chapman and Charles 
Lambert. 
Three men were killed and four Others 
injured, one of them seriously, when an 
engine of the Pennsylvania Railroad ran 
into a string of newspaper wagons at 
Ashury Park. N. J., July 4. as the New 
York dailies were being taken from a 
train that had just arrived. Paul Alex. 
Jr,, of Philadelphia, engineer, and George 
Kruse of Jersey City, the fireman of 'the 
engine, were arrested on homicide charges 
and were released in $1,000 bail each by 
County Judge Rowland V. Lawrence, be¬ 
fore whom they were arraigned at Free¬ 
hold. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The plan 
for the complete eradication of tubercu¬ 
losis in the cattle herds of the country 
seems well within the bounds of possi¬ 
bility to Department of Agriculture ex¬ 
perts us the result of a demonstration 
that an entire country may bo cleared of 
all its reactors in a week and a day. 
Such a demonstration was recently com¬ 
pleted in Essex County, New York, where 
local authorities, assisted by the State 
and the Department of Agriculture, be¬ 
gan the 'testing of the herds on Friday. 
May 12, and finished the job on Satur¬ 
day, May 20. The county was divided 
into convenient districts, and 25 veteri¬ 
narians were taken from farm to farm 
in automobiles by 25 fanners who volun¬ 
teered their services. By this use of 
rapid transportation and by careful plan¬ 
ning of routes it was possible in two days 
to test 020 herds containing 5.274 cattle. 
This was mi average of more than IS 
herds a day for each veterinarian. Be¬ 
cause the loss of time was cut. to a mini¬ 
mum and supplies were bought in quan¬ 
tity. the work was done for less than half 
the usual cost when herds are tested in¬ 
dividually. the report to the department 
said. 
The French Chamber of Deputies July 
4 passed a law authorizing the Govern¬ 
ment. to decree the utilization of a 
greater percentage of wheat in flour and 
the addition «f substitutes iu preparation 
for the expected shortage in this year’s 
wheat crop. The crop is variously esti¬ 
mated at from 50,1100.000 to 1IM>,000.000 
bushels short of requirements. 
The American Seed Trade Association 
held its fortieth annual convention at 
Chicago. Ill,, June 21-23. The following 
officers were elected for the ensuing year: 
President, Alexander Forbes. Newark. N. 
,T.; first vice president, S. F. Leonard, 
Chicago; second vice-president. Louis A. 
Reuter, New Orleans, La.; secretary- 
treasurer. <’. E. Kendel. Cleveland. O.; 
assistant secretary treasurer, Clifford 
Cornell, St. Louis, Mo. 
Recommendation that the farmers of 
the United Stales “be encouraged to de¬ 
velop co-operative associations to hasten 
the standardization of agricultural pro¬ 
duction. improve the distributing pro¬ 
cesses and reduce their costa” form the 
foremost conclusion of the Joint Con¬ 
gressional Commission of Agricultural 
Inquiry in its completed report on mar¬ 
keting and distribution made public June 
30. The commission says the “situation 
of the agricultural producer can be 
materially improved by a standardization 
of production of crops in producing cen¬ 
ters so ns to permit more economic selec¬ 
tion. grading and preparation of com¬ 
modities in the producers’ local markets.” 
It notes that the Federal Government has 
removed limitations which have previously 
retarded the full development of co-opera¬ 
tive associations, but declared “both State 
and Federal Governments should enact 
the accessary legislation to assure co¬ 
operative associations against unfair dis¬ 
criminations and to insure such associa¬ 
tions against, unfair practices." Econo¬ 
mies. in marketing and distribution, the 
commission found, can be effected through 
development of greater uniformity of 
products, grades, standards and contain¬ 
ers; improvement in methods of handling 
by agencies .in local, primary and terminal 
markets which will tend to create greater 
certainty as to salability of products; 
establishment of qualified, and .authorized 
agencies to arbitrate disagreements be¬ 
tween shippers and receivers as to value, 
condition, kind, grade and quantity of 
commodities; development of adequate, 
organized and correlated terminal mar¬ 
kets, and minimizing movement of com¬ 
modities. The report says that the com¬ 
mission is of the opinion that Congress 
should speedily enact legislation looking 
to the regulation of future trading in 
grain “in accordance with sound consti¬ 
tutional concept ions,” Much also can be 
accomplished in the way of economical 
distribution, the commission found, by a 
more systematic utilization of warehouses 
to absorb temporary surpluses and enable 
distribution more evenly adjusted to de¬ 
mand. 
Crop Notes 
This has been one of the most back¬ 
ward Springs in many a year; rain every 
day for more than two weeks past ; lots of 
corn land drowned out. and what corn 
was left the crows pulled out. and that in 
spite of its being tarred. Some report 
that crows are also pulling potatoes. Hoe¬ 
ing is delayed by the wet weather, and 
haying will begin later than usual, 
but the bay crop promises to be consid¬ 
erably better than last year. A good 
deal of complaint, is heard from creamery 
patrons at the small returns received for 
cream. Our city friends are arriving 
fast, some to their cottages, some to ho¬ 
tels, and others to farms. Ar an auction 
the other day cows sold at an average of 
$45 apiece, most, of them not due to 
freshen till Fall. Retail price of meat 
is advancing, butchers complaining they 
cannot get native beef that is fat enough. 
Bennington Co., Vt, G. h. k. 
We are having hot weather, but nights 
are comfortable; have had some heavy 
rains With high wind, lodging much wheat 
and corn, and harvesting is being delayed, 
due to soft ground. Some bay made be¬ 
tween showers. Oats will he a good crop. 
Money seems scarce, and yet many sport 
new autos. Some improvement in busi¬ 
ness conditions. Cherry crop was short; 
The Useful Scuffle Hoe 
some sour ones. Apples about half a 
crop; some peaches; no plums; plenty of 
grapes. Early potatoes in bloom and do¬ 
ing well. Wheat from mill, $1.50 bn.: 
middlings, $2.20 cwt.; corn, 40c single 
bn.; oats. 60e. Butter, 30c; eggs, 20 to 
25c doz. c, a. 
Huntingdon Co., l‘u. 
