THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
73 
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Events of the Week 
DOMESTIC.—Chief Justice Burford, of Oklahoma, has 
issued an order to the effect that if there be only one 
colored child of school age in a school district, the au¬ 
thorities must provide a separate school house and 
teacher.Twelve thousand barrels of apples, 
valued at about $30,000, were destroyed in a fire which 
broke out in the A. J. Stillwell Meat Co.’s cold storage 
plant at Hannibal, Mo., January 15. The apples were be¬ 
ing held until Spring. The blaze is supposed to have origi¬ 
nated from a defective flue in the adjoining packing 
room. A careful estimate places the total loss at over 
$50,000.As the closing act of his administration 
Governor Shaw, of Iowa, now Secretary of the Treasury, 
made public the names of 473 prisoners to whom he had 
extended executive clemency within the last two years. 
The Governor’s record in this respect has never been 
equaled in Iowa. Twenty-two prisoners convicted of mur¬ 
der were released. Others released were: Offenses against 
women, 38; fraud, 20; manslaughter, 14; forgery, 18; per¬ 
jury, 5; embezzlement, 4, and burglary, robbery and lar¬ 
ceny, 128. . . . Four stores in the business section of 
Detroit, Mich., collapsed January 19, causing a loss of 
about $200,000 on stocks and buildings. Had the accident 
occurred on a week day, instead of Sunday, there would 
have been heavy loss of life. ... A Are in a lumber 
camp near Hambleton, W. Va„ January 21, burned seven 
men to death. . . . Oscar Berman, a-15-year-old school 
boy at Parkersburg, W. Va., has been arrested on the 
charge of conducting a mail order swindle. Some time 
ago Berman sent out circulars purporting to come from 
the “Yankee Novelty Company.’’ The names of school 
children were solicited and the recipient of the circular 
was asked to send Berman 10 cents himself and collect 
an equal amount from those whose names were sent. But 
he was permitted to keep six cents from every dime, the 
four going to Berman. This endless chain was in fine 
running order when the crash came. Another scheme ad¬ 
vertised in various papers was designed to catch owners 
of Columbian half-dollars. The “Yankee Novelty Com¬ 
pany’’ offered $5.25 for 1S92 and $3.25 for the 1893 date. The 
coin owners had first to send 10 cents to get a price list 
of rare coins. These lists were absolutely worthless. The 
immense proportions of Berman’s mail aroused suspicion, 
and complaints poured in from New York, Chicago and 
cities far and near. At Berman’s trial it is expected to 
be shown that older persons have been behind the scheme. 
. . . Herbert R. Fulton, of Chicago, was arrested in 
New York January 20 on a charge of using the mails for 
fraudulent purposes. Fulton was connected with the firm 
of Fred Parker & Co., brokers, who, in September, 1901, 
opened an office at Chicago and advertised that “$z5 and 
upward invested with us will earn from 30 to 40 per cent 
monthly.” The inspectors say that during the short time 
it was in business the firm took in $40,000. When arrested 
Fulton was wearing numerous diamonds, and carried 
about $700 in money. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The New Jersey State Board 
of Agriculture, in session at Trenton January 16, elected 
the following officers: President, E. B. Voorhees, New 
Brunswick; vice-president, John T. Cox, Readington; 
secretary, Franklin Dye, Trenton; treasurer, William R. 
Lippincott, Moorestown; executive committee, Walter 
Pancoast, Mickleton; H. V. M. Denise, Freehold; William 
Henry Rogers, Plainfield. 
The Hereford bull Perfection 92891 was recently sold at 
the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, for $9,000, being the 
highest price ever paid in America for a Hereford. The 
purchaser was G. H. Hoxie, of the Mallory Live Stock 
Commission Co., whose farms are at Thornton, ill., and 
Taylor, Tex. The sire of Perfection, Dale 66481, was sold 
nearly 12 years ago for $7,500. 
At the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Agri¬ 
cultural Society, January 15, the following officers were 
elected: President, Hiram Young; first vice-president, C. 
H. Bergner; secretary, J. p. Nissley; treasurer, W. F. 
Rutherford. 
At the recent annual meeting of the Indiana Corn 
Growers’ Association the following officers were elected: 
President, Aaron Jones, South Bend; vice-president, Jo¬ 
seph Saunders, Anderson; secretary, H. L. Nowlin, Law- 
renceburg; treasurer, J. L. Thomas, Pendleton. 
The first annual meeting of the Wisconsin Butter 
Makers’ Association opened at Madison, Wis’., January 
14. There was a fine attendance, and addresses were 
given by many dairy authorities. 
The Ayrshire Breeders’ Association held its twenty- 
seventh annual meeting at the Crown Hotel, Providence, 
R. I., January 15. The officers elected were: George H. 
Yeaton, Dover, N. H., president; Obadiah Brown, Provi¬ 
dence, R. I., vice-president; James J. Hill, St. Paul, 
Minn., second vice-president; Thomas Turnbull, Jr., Alle¬ 
gheny, Pa., third vice-president; Etna J. Fletcher, Green¬ 
field, N. H., fourth vice-president; C. M. Winslow, Bran¬ 
don, Vt., secretary and editor; N. S. Winsor, Greenville, 
R. I., treasurer; Charles H. Hayes, Portsmouth, N. H., 
executive committee for three years; E. B. Sherman, Har- 
risville, R. I., executive committee for three years, it 
was voted to appropriate money from the treasury to pay 
the expense of placing a herd of Ayrshire cows in the 
breed test at the world’s fair at St. Louis in 1903, and a 
committee was appointed to take charge of the same. 
KENTUCKY PEACHES.—On the plateau lands of cen¬ 
tral Kentucky there will be no general peach crop. There 
are a few live buds on old trees, and on some old seed¬ 
lings, but in the enfeebled condition of the trees from the 
tremendous crop of last season, the buds were unable to 
resist eight degrees below zero. All other fruits are in 
good condition, and promise a full crop. j. a. m. k. 
Kingsville, Ky. 
HOT CHERRIES.—The Portland Oregonian tells of a 
man who made a serious mistake in buying what he sup¬ 
posed were cherries. There is a variety of red pepper 
which looks so much like cherries that they are called 
cherry peppers. When packed in the box with stems 
down the deception is complete. One day an out-of-town 
buyer came along, asked the price of the cherries, paid 
for a box and ordered them sent to his home by express. 
After he had gone a bystander asked the dealer what he 
meant by swindling the man in selling him peppers for 
cherries. Then it occurred to the dealer that the man 
really thought they were cherries, and he is wondering 
what happened when the peppers arrived and were tested. 
EASTERN CONNECTICUT NOTES.—I find few sub¬ 
jects that farmers are more ready to talk about this 
Winter than corn fodder and how to use it. It is safe 
to say that there is more corn fodder used this Winter 
than ever before, and I am feeding very little of it shred- 
ded. Nearly all of it is cut with a silage cutter, one-half 
inch or so, and fed dry or mixed with silage. I am steam¬ 
ing mine in a closed box with boiling water, and my horses 
are greedy for it. I am feeding corn fodder almost ex¬ 
clusively—aside from a little grain, and but little of that 
—as my horses are not working hard. They seem to thrive 
at least. One thing is sure; there will be a large increase 
in the acreage of field corn the coming season. Lucky 
the man who has it in his barn this Winter, and all say 
they’ll have more next time. Of varieties, a white and 
yellow flint, mixed, seems a favorite where I have been, 
and I have seen some fine fields of it. I have been inter¬ 
ested in tracing out the ’’breed." for as a seed corn 
grower, it is a new one to me. The yellow variety grows 
the larger ear, the white variety a smaller cob, and bet¬ 
ter "capped out" when grown true. The cross, and it 
seems to be well established, grows a good combination 
of the two qualities, with clear yellow and white corn on 
same ear; 100 bushels per acre I am assured. Very little 
of the “100-day dent” varieties have I seen. s. e. f. 
Putnam, Conn. 
MISSOURI NOTES.—You will remember I wrote you of 
a neighbor curing the poll evil on a horse by using com¬ 
mon salt. After a time it broke out again and she was 
taken to a veterinary and cured. Our Winter thus far 
has been fine, rather dry; our coldest weather came rath¬ 
er early, being in December. Farmers are busy plowing 
for Spring. Oats are rather scarce, many having to buy; 
will not sow any for that reason. Hogs are about six 
cents gross, fat; beef, three cents. Many are using wheat 
for feed. One must use great care in feeding it. This is 
a mining country for lead and zinc; jack, as the ore is 
called as it comes from the mines. Joplin, Carthage and 
Webb City are the leading cities of Jasper County. Last 
year wheat was good; other crops almost a failure. 
Oronogo, Mo. c. s. l. 
SHELLED CORN IN MAINE.—I notice the statement 
that there are a great many localities in the North where 
corn has been grown year after year, and by selection a 
very desirable variety has been the result. I have found 
lately two or three locations in our immediate vicinity 
where this is also true. I read with interest all the items 
in The R. N.-Y. which encourage iarmers in the East to 
raise more yellow corn, for where a farmer does his own 
work and has the time, the expense per acre of field corn 
is almost nothing, because, as a rule, they cannot find 
employment away from their own premises. It is more 
than like that shelled corn will command so high a price 
for another year, that many farmers whose circumstances 
than likely that shelled corn will command so high a price 
will now find it to their advantage to try it again. 
Portland, Me. j. h. r. 
APPLES AT ST. LOUIS.—Stocks of native apples in St. 
Louis are still very heavy. The principal variety in cold 
storage is Ben Davis. There are, of course, some Jona¬ 
than, Grimes, Gano and other varieties. Very few eastern 
apples have been brought here, except such fancy stock 
as King. There are some western apples in the market 
from California and Oregon and also Washington. What 
varieties of eastern apples sell best here? When we have 
not large quantities of natives on hand, and have to im¬ 
port from the Eastern States. Baldwin is the best seller; 
some few Greenings, but this is not a very good Greening- 
market. King of course and Northern Spy bring fancy 
px-ices. It is probable that a car of Greening and Baldwin 
would bring $4 to $5. v. scalzo fruit co. 
St. Louis, Mo. 
MICHIGAN NOTES.—This has been a fine Winter for 
working; it has been very mild with the exception of the 
last week in December, which was unusually cold. A 
good many potatoes are reported frozen among those 
stored in cellars. Wheat was looking fairly well; hardly 
enough snow to protect it in good shape. Potatoes are 
at a standstill, 60 cents per bushel being offered. It will 
take more to get them, as most are holding for 75 to 80 
cents per bushel, but very few are left in the county. 
Cattle are looking well, and this Winter has demonstrated 
the utility of shredded corn fodder. This is the first Fall 
there has been a husking and shredding machine here. 
We are well pleased with its work. Look at the work of 
the machine before using it, some shelling a large amount 
and blowing it into the fodder, leaving the stalks simply 
broken up; others shelling scarcely one bushel in one 
thousand, and leaving the fodder so it looks like Timothy 
hay. w . B . 
Mecosta Co., Mich. 
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