1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
199 
Events of the Week 
DOMESTIC.—To stop the sale of tons of butterlne for 
butter each week in the Chicago market the Illinois State 
Pure Food Commission has begun the prosecution of all 
dealers against whom evidence can be found. Twenty- 
one suits were brought February 26 before Justice Rich¬ 
ardson by Assistant Food Commissioner Patterson. The 
assertion was made that over $500,000 worth of oleomar¬ 
garine was annually sold for butter in Chicago alone. 
. . . . February 28 avalanches on Smuggler Mountain, 
near Telluride, Col., buried 70 miners. The loss of life 
was heavy.March 1 it was stated that the early 
break-up of Winter is likely to cause much damage to 
mill men. Millions of feet of timber, cut and ready for 
hauling, will now have to be abandoned until next sea¬ 
son. It is estimated that the loss to the logging and 
lumbering industries will not be less than $10,000,000. 
. . . . The total death list from the fire in the Park 
Avenue Hotel, New York, February 22, is 21. 
Thaw following the heavy snow of the previous two 
weeks caused severe floods in many sections March 1-3. 
At Pittsburg, Pa., the damage done by the flood is esti¬ 
mated at $1,250,000. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., all previous 
flood records were broken; damage $5,000,000, and 18,000 
people in the Wyoming Valley were homeless. Paterson 
and Passaic, N. J., suffered severely by the rising of the 
Passaic River, the water reaching a greater height than 
it has done before in 130 years. More distress has been 
caused than by the great fire three weeks before, as the 
flood has stopped work in many large factories, and 
driven 600 families from their homes.A disas¬ 
trous fire occurred in a New York factory March 3, the 
result of dropping a match into scraps of celluloid; one 
person killed, 20 injured, and a property loss of $200,000. 
. . . . Riots have occurred at Norfolk, Va., in connec¬ 
tion with a strike of street railway employees. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Territorial Horticultural 
Society (of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory) met at 
Guthrie, Okla., February 13 and 14. The attendance was 
large, and the meeting a marked success. There was un¬ 
usual interest shown in the arrangements for preparing 
a suitable fruit display for the Louisiana Purchase Expo¬ 
sition, at St. Louis, next year. The new officers elected 
are: President, J. A Taylor, Wynnewood, I. T.; vice- 
president, A. P. Watson, Shawnee, O. T.; secretary, J. B. 
Thoburn, Oklahoma City. In conjunction with the fruit 
growers, the Southwestern Nurserymen’s Association met 
in annual session. The past year’s business was reviewed 
and the future of trade discussed. The new officers elect¬ 
ed are: President, J. W T . Preston, Kingfisher, Okla.; vice- 
president, J. A. Lopeman, Enid, Okla.; secretary, J. A. 
Taylor, Wynnewood, I. T. 
At the annual meeting of the Wisconsin State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association the following officers were elected for 
the ensuing year: President, J. Q. Emery; secretary. 
Geo. W. Burchard; treasurer, H. K. Loomis; reporter, 
Mrs. R. Howard Kelley. The executive board remains 
the same. 
The recent Short-horn cattle sale of N. P. Clark, Chi¬ 
cago. was a good one. Twenty-seven cows averaged $707 
per head, and the 47 sold, including the two bulls, aver¬ 
aged $587.75. J. G. Robbins & Son, Horace, Ind., paid $1,050 
for Lavender Princess, two years old, imported. 
C. E. Fisher, W. H. Goodwine and F. C. Fleming have 
brought over 50 Aberdeen-Angus cattle from Scotland. 
Among the lot is the famous bull, Bion, the former 
great stock bull of Sir George Macpherson Grant, of Bal- 
lindalloch. This bull has been a great prize winner, and 
held the prize for bulls sold at public sale in Scotland 
until it was taken by one of his sons, who now holds the 
record. A young cow, Krivina, by Bion, sold last Spring 
at the Escher sale in Chicago for $1,700. 
CORN FOR MAINE.—The two kinds of corn giving the 
best yields shelled per acre here are the Angel of Mid¬ 
night and Early Canada, either of which will mature a 
crop in from 80 to 00 days from planting. My opinion is 
that the Angel of Midnight yields the most shelled corn. 
I was in a gristmill a short time ago, and while there 
a man brought in five bushels of ears of corn to be ground 
corn and cobs together, and I honestly think that in that 
five bushels there was one bushel of ears that were at 
least one foot in length, which is very long corn. That 
cob meal was finer and looked nicer than a great deal of 
the feed meal that 1 buy made from western corn. That 
was Angel of Midnight corn. l. h. r. 
Alfred, Me. 
SPELTZ IN PENNSYLVANIA.—On page 115 I noticed 
an inquiry by E. D. G., of Massachusetts, as regards the 
productiveness and yield of speltz. When I was a young 
man back in the fifties my father for a number of years 
seeded from four to six acres of speltz, sowing it at wheat 
seeding time, from 2% to three bushels per acre. The 
straw is very stiff and hard, so much so that it was hard 
to cut with cradle. Reaping machines were not in use 
then. We raised it for horse feed instead of oats. It 
weighs about 40 pounds per bushel, is fine horse feed, and 
much preferable to oats. On good ground and fair season 
it would yield 40 or more bushels per acre. We usually 
would hull some by running it through the thrashing 
machine in order to have it ground for bread, which to 
our fancy far exceeded wheat bread. The bread was a 
yellow cast, sweet and of an excellent flavor, and did not 
dry out like wheat bread. h. e. w. 
Quincy, Pa. 
VELVET BEANS IN PENNSYLVANIA.—During the 
early Summer of last year I asked The R. N.-Y. for in¬ 
formation in regards to sowing Velvet beans as a soil 
renovator. You considered that I lived too far north to 
grow them successfully. But as I had purchased the seed 
already I concluded to give the beans a trial, and on 
June 15 I drilled, with a double-row corn planter, half an 
acre in my orchard in rows 44 inches wide and 12 inches 
apart in the rows, this being rather late, although the 
soil was moist and otherwise in good condition. The 
beans at once came up and began to grow rapidly. The 
cultivation was kept moving until the spreading of the 
vines interfered, and when frost set in in October I had 
a dense mat of foliage covering the half-acre plot from 
two to three feet deep, many vines running out 20 to 30 
feet in length. Many people learning about the ‘‘weeds,’’ 
as they termed them, came quite a distance from curi¬ 
osity to see the green mass and their beautiful clusters 
ot purple blossoms. As the beans were grown as a trial 
to restore fertility to the soil and the mulch will be 
plowed under this Spring for a crop of corn, I will later 
report the results. e. r. d. 
Barto, Pa. 
R- N.-Y.—In our own experiments cow peas have proved 
more useful than Velvet beans, especially on poor soil. 
We feel sure that the vines will show themselves in the 
corn crop. 
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