1903 
553 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Events of the Week. 
domestic.—I n Pennsylvania, 41 persons died from 
lockjaw as the result of celebrating July 4.A 
tornado in Illinois July 17 killed four persons at Mendota 
and four more at Streator. The property loss through¬ 
out the district was heavy.July 21 robbers took 
$50,000 in gold bullion from the safe of the C»nnors Creek 
mine at Baker City, Ore.A test is to be made 
in the United States Court, San Francisco, Cal., of the 
legality of a boycott by the Owl Drug Company of San 
Francisco, which is being driven to the wall by a com¬ 
bine of wholesale druggists. This company had cut the 
price of proprietary medicines, and the wholesale and 
retail druggists united to boycott it. The company now 
sues 65 druggists for $5,000 each for damages, and, if it 
succeeds, will also bring criminal suits. The complaint 
declares that all the wholesale druggists refuse to sell 
to the Owl Company, even when cash is tendered. As 
the articles which the company can’t buy are manufac¬ 
tured outside of California and imported by the whole¬ 
salers, the complaint is made that the monopoly of the 
drug market created by the combine is a conspiracy con¬ 
trary to the Sherman Anti-Trust law.July 20 a 
bolt of lightning preceding a furious storm in the north¬ 
ern part of New York City struck 20 children who were 
playing under trees, seriously burning nine of them. One 
boy had every vestige of clothing tom off and reduced 
to fragments, even his shoes being chopped to pieces. 
. ... A rain, wind and hall storm of great severity 
extended over sections of Minnesota, Iowa and South 
Dakota, July 21. The crop damage in Rock County, Minn., 
Is estimated at $1,000,000. Bert Felchester was killed by 
lightning near Lake Benton. In northwestern Iowa all 
crops in the path of the storm were destroyed and tele¬ 
graph and telephone wires laid low. At Atlantic, the 
court house, Methodist church and other buildings were 
destroyed. Though the storm lasted less than 10 min¬ 
utes, more than two inches of rain fell. Sheep, cows and 
fowls were killed by the hailstones, and every trace of 
vegetation in many districts was destroyed. Trees were 
stripped of their leaves and the growing corn was riddled 
by the hall. The same day a terrific hailstorm did much 
damage to property in Chicago.July 22 a tor¬ 
nado struck Paterson, N. J., doing great damage in the 
district untouched by previous flood and fire. Four per¬ 
sons were killed and a great number injured. 
ADMINISTRATION.—The Russian government has 
emphatically refused either to receive or consider the 
petition of American citizens concerning the Klshlneft 
massacre, and unless the President should direct other¬ 
wise. this closes the Incident.Two indictments 
have been found by a Federal grand jury against G. W. 
Beavers, former Superintendent of the Bureau of Salaries 
and Allowances of the Postofflce Department. 
PHILIPPINES.—The Philippine Commission has tabled 
both the opium bills. The first bill provides for the crea¬ 
tion of an opium monopoly in the archipelago, and its 
sale to the highest bidder. The second is a substitute. 
Introduced by the commission, making the importation of 
opium unlawful except by pharmacists, and permitting 
the sale of the drug on a phy.sician’s certificate. A special 
commission was appointed to visit the Oriental countries 
and investigate the regulations regarding the sale of 
opium. Afterward all the records will be sent to Wash¬ 
ington. Governor Taft has courageously championed 
the theory of regulation, and has demonstrated that the 
monopoly bill meant the absolute prohibition of the drug 
to the eight million Filipinos and Moros, and an effective 
regulation for the one hundred thousand Chinese in the 
archipelago, more stringent than the English regulations. 
He declared that It was generally known that the opium 
habit as practiced by a majority of the Chinese was less 
pernicious than whisky drinking, and mercilessly exposed 
the corrupt combination of Chinese dealers who were cir¬ 
culating falsely signed protests and raising money for 
the defeat of a legitimate bill. 
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.—A serious state of af¬ 
fairs in Chile, in consequence of the rapid progress of 
bubonic plague in nearly all the seaport towns, is re¬ 
ported to the State Department in a cable message re¬ 
ceived from United States Minister Wilson, at Santiago, 
Chile. Mr. Wilson says that the plague, which it was 
thought was confined to a few places. Is now spreading 
to nearly all ports. The alarm In Chile is so great that 
the postal service is disorganized, and Mr. Wilson adds 
that only one American mall has been received at San¬ 
tiago in nine weeks.Pope Leo XIII., the vener¬ 
able head of the Roman Catholic Church, died in the 
Vatican, Rome, July 20. He was one of the great figures 
of the past century, venerated for his learning and piety, 
his character inspiring reverence from people of all creeds. 
Pope Leo was born in Carplneto, Italy, in 1810, the family 
name being Peed. When eight years old he entered the 
Jesuit college at Viterbo and later the school of the 
Roman college, where he studied physics and mathemat¬ 
ics. He next took up the study of theology, which he 
completed in the Roman university, winning high honor 
in his classes. In 1837 he was ordained priest and was 
assigned to the governorship of Benevento. In 1843 
Father Peed was made titular archbishop of Damletta, 
and after his consecration was sent as nuncio, on a dip¬ 
lomatic mission to Belgium. In 1846 Bishop Peed re¬ 
turned as archbishop of Perugia. During the 32 years of 
administration there he built 36 churches and restored 
and enlarged many others. In 1853 he was made a car¬ 
dinal by Pope Pius IX. and In 1878 he succeeded that 
Pontiff as the ruling head of the Catholic Church, taking 
the name of Leo, after Pope Leo XII., for whom he had 
a great veneration. In the affairs of the American branch 
of the church Pope Leo always took the deepest Interest. 
Under him the American college in Rome, for the train¬ 
ing of Americans to the priesthood, and the Catholic uni¬ 
versity at Washington were founded. In 1893 he com¬ 
pleted the work of raising this country from the rank of 
a missionary district and in that year Mgrr. Satolll was 
made apostolic delegate to the United States. Through¬ 
out his entire life, but more especially during his ponti¬ 
fical administration. Pope Leo was deeply Interested in 
the welfare of the working classes. One of the great 
events in his reign was the celebration of his sacerdotal 
jubilee In 1887. It afforded a striking proof of the large 
place the papacy holds in the world. Prom all parts of 
the globe, even from China, Japan, Persia and Morocco, 
deputations pressed to the Vatican, bearing gifts to the 
distinguished Pontiff. One of the most acceptable of 
these gifts was a copy of the Constitution of the United 
States presented by President Cleveland. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—More than 200 Grangers from all 
parts of the State, as well as legislators, officers of boards 
of trade and others, met in convention at Rochester, N. 
T., July 21, to oppose the building of the 1,000-ton barge 
canal, which, it is estimated, will cost $101,000,000. A com¬ 
mittee of nine was named to perfect a permanent organ¬ 
ization, and a resolution was passed condemning the 
building of the canal by the State. 
A field day with spraying machinery In the potato field 
was arranged by the Cornell College of Agriculture to 
be held on the farm of Charles W. Driggs, at Elba, N. 
Y., July 30. A number of manufacturers of spraying ma¬ 
chinery were present prepared to exhibit the workings 
of apparatus. Short talks on “Why We Spray,’’ and 
“Does It Pay To Spray?” were given by representatives 
of the College. 
The butter and cheese manufactured in the State of 
New York for the year 1902 was as follows: New York 
has 61 counties: dairy establishments are operated in 52 
of them. 
No. of 
Lbs. of 
Lbs. of 
factories. 
butter. 
cheese. 
Butter factories .... 
. 448 
60,060,954 
Cheese factories ... 
.1,010 
89,982,002 
Factories making 
both 
butter and cheese. 
. 193 
6,117,251 
29,307,711 
Milk stations . 
. 539 
4,646,661 
4,668,303 
Condenseries . 
. 18 
96,604 
639,280 
Total . 
..2,208 
59,920,270 
124,497,296 
Increased number of pounds of butter over 1900. 
...20,736,595 
Decreased number of pounds of 
cheese as com- 
pared with 1900.... 
... 2,061,376 
The United States Census of 1900 shows that the total 
number of pounds of cheese made in the United States 
was 298,344,654, and that 130,010,584 pounds were made In 
New York State. Prom these figures it would Indicate 
that New York State made approximately one-half of the 
cheese made in the United States. 
CROP PROSPECTS, 
The crop situation in Yates County may be summarized 
approximately as follows: Wheat and rye, 85 per cent; 
oats, 90 per cent; corn, 40 to 50 per cent, and potatoes not 
much better. Hay is a great deal better than expected, 
and of good quality where secured without rain. Beans 
a large acreage but much damaged by rain and want of 
cultivation. Farmers at this writing are very blue, as 
wheat harvest is upon us; haying half done. Corn, pota¬ 
toes and beans are full of weeds and too wet to cultivate. 
Penn Yan, N. Y. e. d. o. 
We are having at time of writing a most terrific 
thunder shower, whose like we seldom see. The weather 
man said we were to have fair weather Monday and 
Tuesday, so I started the mower and shook out some 
hay I mowed on Friday previous; got in two loads before 
the rain. This has been a peculiar season; early Spring 
everything looked beautiful, then dry and nothing would 
germinate; hardly a piece of corn in town. I planted 
one piece of sweet corn twice, and then plowed and 
sowed to buckwheat. At one time we thought there 
would be no hay; now we have a fair crop of good qual¬ 
ity. Oats are good; rye poor. It is almost Impossible to 
get help to gather the crop. Apples are slim; some or¬ 
chards are full; most of them thin. Pears none to speak 
of. Last year this time I was through with haying; now 
I have Just begun. We had Jonathan apples July 19 in 
fair condition, with no extra care to keep them, and 
quite a few Russets and Red Astrachan. l. c. r. 
Greene Co., N, Y. 
We are experiencing a very peculiar season, weather 
conditions of all kinds out of the ordinary, but a fair 
crop of wheat harvested; hay rather better than expect¬ 
ed; oats promise fair, a sparse crop of fruit among farm¬ 
ers, not much being grown commercially here. Field 
corn is variable, mostly backward. We are harvesting 
a crop of early cabbage which was kept back by the 
drought, and the rains now are causing some to burst 
Early potatoes are rather light yield but good prices. 
Our farm and garden operations this year are a little 
like the weather; some rather out of season, and the 
results are questionable In some cases, but sure to be 
the proper thing in others. We have potatoes just com¬ 
ing up (July 20); are still planting sweet corn, now that 
we have rains and can work the ground, and are plant¬ 
ing about 6,000 cauliflower, which we find does best 
planted late, as a rule, fertilized heavy and cultivated 
well. We planted 860 pear trees about June 20. Predic¬ 
tions were that they would not grow, but they are prac¬ 
tically all growing flnely. These were a surplus lot that 
came late, and, in fact, we could not plant them early, 
as our working force was otherwise busy. Then came 
the drought and heat, and when this was broken we 
planted the trees, having kept them about dormant up 
to that time, and the results are very satisfactory. 
Wayne Co.. O. c. w. 
It has been said that there are no two seasons Just 
exactly alike, and I think the saying must be true, for 
in many respects the present is different from any other 
season I ever knew. The weather was so dry In May 
and Juno that much of the land intended for corn and 
potatoes still remains unplanted. Many fields of com 
were planted three times, and now the stand is none too 
good. Oats and barley came up very unevenly. We 
have a field of eight acres of oats that was sown in April 
and the grain did not come up until the drought was 
broken in June. Since the rain began to come there ha* 
been lots of it, and it has done a world of good. The 
wheat and hay crops will be fair but hardly an average. 
There seems to be a disposition on the part of most 
farmers in this part of the State to go more and more 
into the milk or dairy business, and that means more 
corn and clover and consequently better farming. Wo 
certainly have got to do something to make more money 
-if we are to make the barge canal—and bring the great 
West in close competition with the people of our State 
in the production and shipment of its grain and other 
products. As one studies this great canal question he 
finds some problems that are hard to solve and very dif¬ 
ficult to harmonize. Why we should be asked to vote a 
tax on our farms that will last fof'^years with little or 
no compensation for it, while on the other hand we are 
denied a small appropriation for Cornell University, is 
hard to understand. There have not been Insects of any 
kind to injure the fruit crop in any way In this vicinity 
that I am aware of. In a somewhat close examination 
of thousands of apple and other trees I have not noticed 
but two apple-tree worms’ nests this season.- There has 
been none of the plant lice on any of the fruit trees. 
The apple crop will not be over one-half of what It was 
last season in our county, and about the same in Wayne 
County. There have been several fruit buyers along with 
their usual story of big crops and small prices for the 
fruit. There bids fair to be a good crop of plums, pears 
and some peaches. The berry crop is fine, both in yield 
and quality. m. m. 
Port Byron, N. Y. . 
FARMERS 1/5. CANAL APPROPRIATfO N. 
A great meeting was held at Rochester, N. Y., July 20, 
to protest against the scheme for spending $100,000,000 or 
more on the Erie Canal. It was largely a farmers’ meet 
ing—a large proportion of the delegates representing the 
New York State Grange. The sentiment of the meeting 
was practically unanimous against the canal appropria¬ 
tion and the following resolutions were passed: 
Whereas. The electors of the State of New York are to 
be called upon at the approaching general election, to 
be held in November next to vote upon the proposition 
for the expenditure of the enormous sum of $101,000,000 
for the enlargement of the canal system of the Stale; 
and. 
Whereas, Such proposition, if approved by the electors, 
will result in the immediate creation of a great mortgage 
indebtedness upon all taxable property within the State, 
and the ultimate expenditure of sums largely in excess 
of the original estimate, necessitating the collection of 
a sum aggregating many millions of dollars annually for 
interest and sinking fund requirements and will also re¬ 
quire the annual expenditure of further great sums for 
the maintenance of such canal system; and. 
Whereas, The Government of the United States has 
already expended hundreds of thousands of dollars in 
making surveys for a ship canal, which surveys have 
never been completed; and. 
Whereas, It Is the history of all similar propositions 
that the expenditure by the State government of large 
sums of money for canal Improvements invariably results 
in the wasting of the people’s money by extravagant 
administration: and. 
Whereas, It Is believed that the question of canal im¬ 
provement is still an open question and one to which suf¬ 
ficient consideration has not been thus far given by the 
people; therefore be it 
Resolved, That It is the tenor of this eonvention that 
the Interests of the State will be best conserved if the 
aforesaid 1,000-ton barge canal proposition is disapproved 
by the people at the polls, and that, believing as we do, 
that our commercial and industrial interests and the in¬ 
terests Of the agriculturists and laboring classes of the 
State will be most disadvantageously affected by the 
approval of said canal proposition, we do earnestly 
recommend the defeat of such proposition; and be it 
further 
Resolved, That a permanent organization be effected tc 
have charge of and carry on an Intelligent, aggres.sive 
and persistent campaign against the proposition, and that 
the chairman of the convention be authorized to appoint 
a committee to consist of one member from each county 
of the State to have the active management of such cam¬ 
paign. 
A permanent organization was effected with the fol¬ 
lowing officers: President, James Wood, Westchester 
County; vice-presidents, J. B. Flagler, Wm. B. Jones, 
Frank Zollar, H. E. Cook, G. J. Wilber, E. B. Norris 
and A. W. Lltchard; secretary, John M. Ives. 
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Itl-. are familiar to many of our 
readers. They are the result of many years’ experience 
in hay press manufacture. A feature of the No^ 1 con- 
two-horse press is the Immense pressure 
applied to the hay for the power used. The Elis are 
inachlnes, have large feed opening! 
and do rapid work. Any prospective buyer should write 
the manufacturers for full information and prices. 
Much good ^ being accomplished by the Osgood Scale 
Company, E3 Central St., Binghamton, N. Y. They have 
a Department of Personal Advice, the object of 
which is to place free in the hands of every farmer the 
best general information on farm scales of all kinds, and 
advise him especially as to his particular needs. It will 
pay every farmer who wants to know all there is to 
know, to send his name and address to them with par¬ 
ticulars as to the size of his farm and the nature of his 
products. 
The Smalley Blowers, made by the Smalley Manufac¬ 
turing Company, Manitowoc, Wis., are built with safety 
fly wheel and pulley, just the same as when carriers 
were used. The driving device Is new. There is no wasted 
power and belt will not slip. The largest size machines 
will easily handle 10 tons of silage in an hour, cut one- 
half inch, and elevate into any silo. An interesting cat¬ 
alogue telling all about these machines and full line of 
drag and circle saws, sweep tread powers, etc., will be 
sent on request to the manufacturers. 
