1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
2l9 
Events of the IVeek 
DOMESTIC.—The floods in Pennsylvania, New York 
and New Jersey have caused severe suffering and heavy 
loss. The little village of Cochecton, N. Y., was almost 
wiped out by the rise of the Delaware. Around Paterson 
and Passaic, N. J., the damage will reach over $1,000,000. 
Great suffering prevails among refugees in both these 
cities.A broken rail caused a frightful wreck 
on the Southern Pacific Railroad near Maxon Station, 
Tex., March 7; 15 persons killed outright and 28 injured. 
.... The attention of the United States District At¬ 
torney’s office has been called to alleged swindles per¬ 
petrated on Wisconsin farmers and laboring men by par¬ 
ties who claim to be selling homestead entries in South 
Dakota on the Indian reservation in Gregory County. The 
land is not open for settlement, but there is a bill pend¬ 
ing to open it before Congress, which will open between 
2,300 asd 2,400 acres. It is said a large number have been 
induced to pay $10 in cash each and give a note for $90, 
payable when the quarter section is filed In the Govern¬ 
ment land office. They get nothing in exchange for their 
money or note. The confidence game is being worked, it 
is said, in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and South Da¬ 
kota.The United States Supreme Court decided, 
March 10. the Illinois Anti-Trust statute to be unconsti¬ 
tutional because of the provision of the law exempting 
agricultural products and live stock from the operations 
of the law. The decision was made in the case of Thomas 
Connelly and others against the Union Sewer Pipe Com¬ 
pany of Ohio, and was delivered by Justice Harlan. The 
decision of the Court, in effect, declares unconstitutional 
(lie Anti-Trust laws of Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louis- 
iana, Michigan. Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North 
Carolina, South Dakota. Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. 
In each of these States there is an exemption in favor of 
live stock and agricultural products in the hands of the 
raiser or producer, or of labor organizations. Under the 
rulings of the Court, an anti-trust, law, to be constitu- 
linnal, must apply indiscriminately to all combinations, 
with no exemptions or exceptions whatever. The case 
grew out of the sale of pipe by the pipe company to Con¬ 
nelly and others, who, after securing it, declined to make 
payment on the ground that the pipe company is an 
illegal combination for the restraint of trade under the 
common law, because it combines a number of pipe manu¬ 
facturing concerns; that it is a combination in violation 
of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. and further, a violation 
of the Anti-Trust law of the State of Illinois.A 
fall of slate in a coal mine at Emblem, Pa., March 11, 
killed five men. 
CONGRESS.—The House Committee on Immigration, 
March 5, unanimously ordered a favorable report on the 
General Immigration bill. It codifies all the existing 
laws, perfects the administrative features and increases 
the head tax from $1 to $1.50. Another general provision 
is that extending to five years the period during which 
Immigrants may be deported if they become public 
charges. The educational test which was proposed was 
omitted in the final draft.The Spanish Treaty 
Claims Commission decided March 6 that seamen Injured 
hy the explosion that destroyed the Maine had no indi¬ 
vidual claims against Spain, even if that government was 
responsible for the explosion, and. therefore, are not en¬ 
titled to awards from the Commission. A dissenting opin¬ 
ion was filed by Commissioner Chambers. . . . The 
House Committee on Territories decided March 7 to re¬ 
port the bill giving the Indian Territory a territorial form 
of government, to be known as the Territory of Jefferson, 
with a Legislature similar to the other Territories, a 
Governor and a delegate in Congress.March 10 
the House passed the bill to classify the rural free de¬ 
livery service and place the carriers under the contract 
system, but in a form that completely changed the pur¬ 
pose for which it was framed. . All the provisions relating 
to the placing of carriers under the contract system were 
stricken out, and the salary system not only was con¬ 
tinued, but the maximum salary of carriers was increased 
from $500 to $600 per annum.Secretary Long re¬ 
signed his position at the head of the Navy Department 
March 10, and he will be succeeded in the Cabinet by Rep¬ 
resentative William Henry Moody, of Massachusetts. 
The change will take place about May 1. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The annual meeting of the 
Central New York Horticultural Society was held at Syra¬ 
cuse February 29. The following officers were elected: 
President, Samuel T. Betts; vice-presidents, Rev. William 
A. Beauchamp, Col. A. C. Chase, J. William Smith, L. E. 
Marquisee, E. A. Powell and A. D. Perry; secretary, N. 
H. Chapman; treasurer, David Campbell; members of ex¬ 
ecutive committee, F. H. Ebeling and John T. Roberts; 
delegates to rose show, held in New York March 11, 
Samuel T. Betts and David Campbell; alternates. Col. A. 
C. Chase and J. William Smith. 
The annual meeting of the Walklll Valley and Hudson 
River Poultry Association was held at Fishkill-on-Hud- 
son, N. Y., March 15. 
A Summer term has been added to the instruction given 
at the Wisconsin Dairy School. Students are admitted to 
this course at any time during the Spring and Summer 
after March 1, 1902. They are expected to remain at least 
10 weeks, although they may continue the work longer if 
desired. No previous experience in dairy work Is required 
for admission to this course, which is intended for be¬ 
ginners or for persons with little practical knowledge of 
creamery or dairy work. While some lectures will be 
given, nearly all of the students’ time will be occupied 
in the work of the various departments under the super¬ 
vision of the instructors. 
The Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agri¬ 
culture united with the Agricultural College at Amherst 
In a union farmers’ Institute March 20. It was a dairy 
meeting, and a valuable programme was arranged. 
SIBERIAN MILLET FOR KANSAS. 
Not long ago I wrote you about the new Siberian millet 
introduced in 1897, and since then I have received a great 
many inquiries about this new forage plant. First of all, 
I have no seed to sell, but will buy some more for my 
own use, so I have no ax to grind, and have never sold 
a pound of this seed to anyone, as I regard it of too much 
value to part with just now. How much seed per acre? 
As this millet is the stooling kind, it takes only half as 
much seed as common or German millet does, and as the 
price is the same ($1.50 per bushel) the actual cost of 
seeding is only half that of other millet, at this time no 
small item, when nearly everyone has to buy seed. It is 
the earliest millet there is, fully maturing in eight weeks. 
When sown in April or May and cut in July, the ground 
can be again put in the same millet and cut in plenty of 
time to sow Fall wheat, but all must remember that such 
work takes especial tools to prepare the soil, and some 
concentrated fertilizer should be used. Under favorable 
conditions of soil and rainfall the crop of millet cut off 
In July could be simply harrowed, and the stools and 
shelled-out seed would produce another crop without re¬ 
seeding, but this plan cannot be depended upon every 
time. One man says he plowed under a crop of cockle- 
burs last Fall that were so tall that his horses became 
sore clear up to their bodies, and he intends to put in flax 
in Spring. His flax stubble will be a green sod of young 
burs, and can be plowed under by the aid of a disk gang 
plow in July, and if some kind of a machine is used 
thoroughly to pack this soil each day as it is plowed, this 
new millet will germinate at once, make a crop and when 
cut off close to the ground eight weeks later or in Sep¬ 
tember, there will be such a clearing up of burs as was 
never seen before on that land; then if wheat is drilled 
in on the millet stubble and is pastured off with sheep, 
the wheat stubble again put in this millet the next sea¬ 
son, it will be good-bye to the cockleburs that once made 
his horses’ sides sore. 
Another says: “I own 60 acres of extremely rich land 
in the Missouri bottoms that is subject to overflow, and 
is not dry enough to plow until July. It is as black as a 
plug hat and as rich as a barnyard. I have never yet 
found a crop I could grow on it. Do you think this Si¬ 
berian millet would prosper on it?” Yes, I do. I think 
he has a veritable millet gold mine, so to speak. It will 
be of no use to plant this millet in July, unless the soil 
is very violently subpacked. I want to Impress this fact 
most thoroughly. There are several makes of rollers, 
subpackers and drills that will do this work most thor¬ 
oughly. It must be understood that when soil is plowed 
in July, there enters into it about 90 per cent too much 
air for successful germination, as there are no beating 
Spring rains to pack the soil at this time. For several 
years I have followed the plow each night with the slant¬ 
ing-tooth harrow, then a 1,200-pound roller followed by 
a 1,200-pound pulverizer or subpacker with the very best 
of results, but there is a grain drill now on the market 
that has a set of disks to open the furrows for the wheat 
and fertilizer, and a set of press wheels 24 to 36 inches 
tall running behind, that will do all the work any sub¬ 
packer will do. This drill has a fertilizer attachment, has 
no carriage wheels at the side, so all the weight can al- 
wtays be put on the disks and press wheels, or on the 
wheels alone. If this drill is run after the plow, there 
would be no need of any harrowing, as the disks will do 
all the work of the harrow, and the press wheels will do 
all the work of the roller or subpacker, and there is the 
advantage of also having a first-class grain drill on hand 
that is a superior article to put in both fertilizer and 
seeds of all kinds, even clover seed being drilled in suc¬ 
cessfully if mixed with fertilizer or bran. I believe there 
are about four different makes of these drills. My roller 
and the two seeders on it cost me $88, and my pulverizer 
or subpacker $55, or $143 in all; yet I would gladly trade 
them for one of these new $75 drills. This is one of the 
cases of the advancement in farm tools. The new seven- 
foot cut ball-bearing mowers and the 15-foot rakes also 
illustrate the advancement in harvesting a hay crop, a. 
single team being able to mow, rake and bunch 10 to 12 
acres a day. The new Siberian millet is just such an im¬ 
provement in forage as these machines are in the culture 
and harvesting of it. This millet in 1897 grew at the South 
Dakota Experiment Station the best of any millet ever 
tried there, and where proper tools are used in putting it 
in the soil, it has always proved superior to any other 
variety grown. It cures out an evergreen, no matter if 
exposed to the sun a week or more, and all kinds of live 
stock eat the thrashed straw perfectly clean, while with 
other thrashed millets, the coarse stiff straw will be 
found three feet thick around the feed rack, and in haul¬ 
ing out the manure, will be nearly as hard to handle as 
so much cornstalks. j. c. Norton. 
Allen Co., Kan. 
The Crimson 
Rambler Rose 
No rose ever introduced can compare with the Crimson 
Rambler Rose in any way for effectiveness and general 
value. Nothing equals it on account of its brilliant color, 
profusion of bloom, and length of time the flowers last. 
It can be used for a greater variety of purposes and is 
more effective than any other one hardy plant that we 
know. While it is primarily a climbing rose, it can also 
be used in large masses in hardy planting, can be trained 
in bush or tree form and in an endless variety of ways 
which will suggest themselves to the planter. It will lend 
ilself to all localities. It is a plant for the cottage, for 
the most beautiful private grounds, for the largest es¬ 
tates, parks, etc. 
It is particularly effective when bedded in large masses. 
A bed of this which we exhibited at the Pan-American 
Exposition the past season was the greatest attraction in 
the horticultural section during the time it was In bloom. 
The accompanying photograph shows a part of a large 
bed exhibited by us, in which it was estimated there were 
not less than 300,000 flowers open at one time when it was 
in full bloom. The best-known rose growers were warm 
in their expressions of surprise and satisfaction at the 
splendid result produced. Those who were fortunate 
enough to see this display of beauty will not soon forget 
tbe splendid effect produced. We were awarded Gold 
Medal, highest award, for our exhibit of Crimson Rambler 
Roses. 
We have a grand stock of extra large field-grown plants, 
which we can supply at 25c. each, $2.50 per dozen, $15 per 
100; selected heavier plants at 35c. each, $3.50 per dozen. 
WE WERE AWARDED EIGHT GOLD 
MEDALS, PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 
Largest Number Awarded Any Firm in 
the Fioricultural Department. 
Also live Silver Medals, Three Bronze Medals, and Ten Diplomas 
of Honorable Mention. 
TWENTY-SIX AWARDS IN ALL. 
We will be pleased to send 
New-Yorker, without charge. 
our catalogue to all readers of The Rural 
Mention The R. N.-Y. when writing. 
F. R. PIERSON CO., 
Tarry town-on-Hudson, 
Importers, Growers 
and Dealers Choice 
beeds, Bulbs and 
Plants 
NEW YORK. 
