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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 409 Pearl Street, NEW YORK. 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—The paymaster of a construction company 
was held up and robbed, near l'aterson, N. J., August 24, 
the robbers securing $5,112. . . The Water Users’ As 
sociation of the Imperial Valley, California, has voted to 
purchase the Imperial Canal system from the California De¬ 
velopment Company for $3,000,000, under the terms of the 
United States Reclamation act. The Government will, it is 
understood, advance the purchase price, the amount to lie re¬ 
paid in 10 annual installments. The reclamation of nearly 
half a million acres of desert land is the Anal result expected. 
. . . Twenty horsemen, with faces blackened, attacked a 
sheep herder and killed a flock of more than 1,000 purebred 
sheep belonging to Morrow & Keenan, of Willow Creek, Crook 
County, Ore., August 23. While the herder was alone and 
occupied with the care of his flock the horsemen emerged 
from the timber and commanded him to throw up his hands. 
Leaving the herder behind a tree for protection from bullets 
a general fusillade with rifles was commenced by the mob, 
which lasted nearly two hours, by which time the entire flock 
of sheep had either been killed or scattered. ... A tor- 
nado swept through Chautauqua County, N. Y., August 25. 
When it hit Parkhurst’s Grove in the town of Stockton, 15 
miles from Dunkirk, a great tree blown down by the blast 
crushed a carriage and killed four persons. No other loss of 
life is reported from the county, but the financial damage 
will be very great, as great stretches of vineyards and many 
orchards are reported laid waste. The county is a great 
grape growing district. . . . Uorest fires are raging in 
British Columbia more furiously than ever. It is estimated 
that millions of dollars worth of timber is burning. The 
last fire to start was at Point Grey, a short distance from 
Vancouver. Seven miles of forest were burning at this point. 
The camps and skid roads of R. S. Forbes were burning, the 
loss on them being $60,000. Four fatalities are reported at 
a camp owned by a Japanese named Tom Aoki, situated on 
Gambler Island. The fire swept around the camp so sud¬ 
denly that the residents had no time to save themselves and 
were driven to the water by the flames. Two men, one 
woman and a child, all Japanese, are reported to have per 
ished in the flames. The remaining workers at the camp 
made their escape by means of boats. . . . August 29 
Kansas counties fixed upon dates for old-fashioned corn fes¬ 
tivals. in Republic County, where the corn crop is phenom 
enal, the greatest in the history of the State, three days are 
to be given over to fun and frolic. Speeches will be made 
by citizens who will glorify Kansas as a corn State and show 
to the world that calamity, which stalked abroad a dozen 
years ago, has departed for other fields. With a big corn 
and wheat crop and with $100,000,000 on deposit in the 
banks, Kansas farmers feel good. . . . Salmon canneries 
on Puget Sound are threatened with extinction, owing to the 
use of trap nets by the British Columbia canners. The pro¬ 
prietors have induced the United States Government to pro¬ 
pose a conference for the purpose of considering joint action 
by Canada and the United States for the protection of the 
Sock-eye salmon in British Columbia. The United States 
assert Canada will benefit as much as the Republic by inter¬ 
national action. Canada can protect her own salmon fish¬ 
eries, and if she chooses can prevent the fish from reaching 
the nets of United States fishermen. This is said to be the 
real cause of the present alarm at Puget Sound. . . . 
Light snow fell at Virginia, Minn., August 30. Crops and 
flowers were damaged. Heavy frosts are reported from other 
Western Mesaba Range points. . . . Disorder continues in 
the Cripple Creek district of Colorado. Informations were 
filed before District Judge Lewis August 30 charging the 
Rev. T. S. I.eland, L. A. Jenks and Arthur Parker with a con¬ 
spiracy to murder Sheriff Edward Bell and Deputy Sheriff 
Underwood. E. S. Ilolden, ex-secretary of Engineers’ Union 
No. 75, was brutally beaten by four masked men while on his 
way to the Vindicator Mine, where he works. lie was op¬ 
posed to the strike in this district, and became identified 
with the non-union men, taking out a mine owners’ card last 
December. The first of the promised suits by Teller County 
men who were deprived of county offices by the Citizens’ 
Association was filed in the District Court August 30. Henry 
M. Robertson, ex-Sheriff, petitioned the court to oust Edward 
Bell from the office of Sheriff and assess $5,000 damages 
against him for usurping the place. In the complaint Rob¬ 
ertson recites the happenings of June G last, when he was 
compelled to resign. Soon after the Independence explosion, 
he says, he was induced to enter Armory Hall, where a 
large number of mine owners were congregated. The doors 
were immediately locked and a guard placed at them. Then 
he was informed* that unless he resigned as Sheriff he would 
be killed. lie demurred and a rope with a noose was shown 
to him, and he was informed that unless he resigned quickly 
the doors of the hall would be opened and the mob permitted 
to enter and lynch him. He resigned to save his life. 
APPLE DAY AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 
The American Apple Growers’ Congress, an organization 
of commercial growers, thought that such a day would bring 
before the people of all nations at the Exposition the fact 
that this is a great apple-growing country and that apples 
were so plentiful that the growers were willing that for one 
day the visitors at the Exposition should feast upon apples 
free of charge. In this way it was hoped to bring to their 
attention the fact that apples are good for everyone, and 
when they go home they will remember the apples they ate 
and would want more, and that wherever they were and 
wherever the order was placed a buyer was found and the 
“surplus” removed to that extent from market. The object, 
of course, was to advertise apples in such a way that the 
market would be developed, and especially that the foreign 
representatives should carry home with them the news that 
this was the greatest apple-growing nation on earth. Indi¬ 
viduals and States contributing will receive special mention 
in connection with the day. Illinois and Missouri growers 
have announced their intention to contribute several carloads 
from each State, and it is presumed that all States that con¬ 
sider they are commercial apple States will come forward 
with a generous supply. Apples can be wrapped in tissue 
paper with the name of the grower, or contributor, printed 
on the paper, and thus secure, in advertising, compensation 
for the expense incurred. No fund is available to pay 
charges, and all interested should correspond with the super¬ 
intendent of their State exhibit in horticulture building, 
World’s Fair, St. Louis, or address J. T. Stinson, Superin¬ 
tendent Horticulture, World’s Fair, who will answer any 
questions. Apples that are in season should be sent for con¬ 
sumption. Apples that are hard and not in good eating con¬ 
dition should not be sent. The commercial grower should so 
time the picking and ripening of the fruit that it should be 
exactly in prime condition. Probably most of the apples 
from Illinois and Missouri will be Grimes and Jonathan, 
than which no better varieties grow ; Wisconsin might con¬ 
tribute Wealthy; New fork its Fall Pippins and Twenty 
Ounce, etc. The distribution will be made from the building 
or from Horticulture Hill. henry m. dunlap. 
President A. G. Congress. 
Apple Day at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, under 
the auspices of the National Apple Growers’ Congress, is 
doubtless of greater importance than most people think. 
Apples to the majority of people are a luxury .rather than a 
food supply. In this respect the apple is very wrongly 
appreciated, for it supplies the place of both, more especially 
a food supply. Not only does its great value lie in its food 
properties, but in its health-giving qualities. No fruit is 
more healthful than a good apple. To fix the attention of 
the general public upon the intrinsic value of the apple as 
a food product and healthful diet is the prime object of 
Apple Day at the Fair October 4. On this day a good eating 
apple will be handed each visitor, accompanied by a neat 
folder giving the uses and benefits of the apple as a food sup¬ 
ply. The Jonathan, Grimes, Lowell, Blush, King or any 
good varieties ripe at that time will be used, perhaps mostly 
Jonathan, and this would be quite fitting, Jonathan having 
been crowned for excellency at the Centennial, 1876, would 
preside as host as worthily at the fair of 1904. Let every¬ 
one interested, and all should be interested in the growing 
and consuming of apples, do whatever he can to make Apple 
Day a grand success and a lasting profit to all people. 
Missouri. geo. t. tippin. 
The plan of distributing apples to the visitors at the great 
Exposition, on a certain day, known as Apple Day, is cer¬ 
tainly a very commendable one. It is simply utilizing an 
opportunity to let the public know that we have a good 
article, and invite them to share it with us for a considera 
tion. Enterprising manufacturers realized that there was a 
great deal of nutriment and health in a few cents’ worth 
of the grains, and by judicious advertising and u- at, attrac¬ 
tive packages, which were convenient to transport and han¬ 
dle, have built up an immense trade. The apple grower has 
an article the use of which will add much to the health and 
happiness of the consumer, and which will make clearer 
brains and a greater capacity for labor and enjoyment, and 
be of great value to mankind. Therefore we owe it not only 
to ourselves, but to the public, to call their attention to the 
value of apples, and then to “deliver the goods” in an accept¬ 
able form. So many interests are forcing upon the people 
their claims for recognition that if we do not “blow our own 
horn” nobody is likely to blow it for us. There are not one- 
half as many apples used in America as should lie, not to 
mention the vast possibilities of the foreign markets. If we 
will learn how to grow, store and ship properly, we need 
have no fear of over-production, when the people learn what 
good apples are, and nnd that they can be procured at all 
times. w. w. farnsworth. 
Ohio. 
CROP PROSPECTS. 
It has been very dry here, no rain for four weeks until 
August 19, when we got a good rain. Crops are very good. 
Oats are yielding from 40 to 50 bushels per acre; wheat 
15 bushels; potatoes look fine. Peaches will average three 
fourths of a crop. Apples, Summer crop good, Winter fruit 
light c. h. c. 
Coloma, Mich. 
The apple crop in this vicinity I think is fully as good as 
last year. There is but very little spraying done in this 
county ; apples now mostly smooth and clear from worms. 
Potato vines are badly affected and dying very fast; some 
complaint of tubers commencing to rot. I sprayed mine 
with Bordeaux Mixture three times; cannot see any benefit 
over those not sprayed, and the result to me last year was 
the same I let the vines go last year until all were entirely 
dead and they commenced to rot. They got so badly affected 
I lost nearly one-half of them. This year 1 shall dig them 
with the vines about half dead. I dig them and get them 
very dry on the barn floor'before putting them in cellar. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. o. h. s. 
This is a very poor year for fruit in eastern Connecticut. 
Strawberries one-half usual crop; raspberries one-quarter; 
Agawam and Wachusett blackberries one-quarter; all other 
varieties a total failure: no peaches except a few near the 
coast, and about one-third of the trees killed beyond recovery. 
Apple trees blossomed profusely, but scarcely any fruit set: 
not one-third of an average crop. Even apple trees were 
more or less injured by the unprecedented severity of the 
Winter. Currants and Japan plums alone show a full crop 
the limbs of the Burbank especially being loaded to the 
breaking point. Grapes few and far between. A meagre 
showing of pears and what there are much under usual size. 
At this date, August 26, potatoes are rotting badly. Several 
parties report fully two-thirds of those dug on moist ground 
to be worthless—a mass of doughy rot. Others, on land high 
and dry, find them all right and generally a good crop, 
though even here some report more or less rot and more 
scabby than usual. Early plantings of early varieties came 
through all right, while late potatoes have been much affected 
with blight. Corn promises well; much better than a year 
ago. Oats and grass also show improvement over last year. 
Connecticut. h. h. b. 
The apple crop Is very light in this section. Quite a large 
proportion of the orchards contain faulty fruit. ’Phis seems 
to be an off year in this section for Beil Davis. There are 
(piite a few Grimes and Wealthy, also some York Imperial 
and Jonathan. Most of the growers have been receiving 
their barrels during the past week. Rarrels are worth about 
the same as last year, 30 to 35 cents. Peaches are a failure 
except on high locations. There is a good crop of plums. 
Irving, Ill. e. m. m. 
APPLES IN MISSOURI.—From 300 postal cards received 
we know that our last report of one-third of an apple crop 
must be reduced to one-fifth, at least, for the State. This 
does not mean, of course, that every orchard will have less 
than 20 per cent. The crop is very spotted, and in the same 
orchard even we find some trees very full while a large part 
of the orchard is barren of fruit. There are places and 
parts of orchards where there will be a good half crop, or 
even a full crop, but they are few, and therefore we must 
count on only the crop as a whole, and that will be less 
than 20 per cent. At the meeting of the National Shippers’ 
Association held in St. Louis, August 3-5, from private con¬ 
versation with the members. I feel sure that the crop of the 
country will be less than last year, taking the country as a 
whole, although the report has gone out that it will be 20 
per cent larger. The prospect, therefore, should be for good 
fair prices, but not extreme prices. The cold rains of Spring 
destroyed the best prospect for years. The continued rains 
of late Spring and early Summer have caused some damage 
to our trees, which is showing now in the foliage. 
MiSSOUrl. L. A. GOODMAN. 
SUMMER PRUNING FOR YOUNG TREES. 
One of our readers in Illinois sends us the following ques¬ 
tion : Would you prune the trees this Summer? On young 
apple trees, five years old this Fall, that could not be pruned 
this Spring (press of work along other lines preventing) is 
there anything to be gained by pruning in August or Sep¬ 
tember, or would the pruning better be allowed to go over 
until next Spring? 
I would not hesitate to prune the five-year-old trees at 
the time you state if they are in good growth and vigorous. 
You understand that early pruning is more for fruit buds 
than Spring pruning would be; less growth of tree or wood. 
New York. albert wood. 
I would not prune in August or September. Growth is so 
nearly over that bark would be very liable to loosen from 
wood, letting water settle between bark and wood, causing 
decay. This decay possibly might extend some way into 
the tree. s. r. walker. 
Massachusetts. 
There is nothing to be gained by trimming the orchard 
trees now; would rather wait until leaves have dropped, 
then trim them at any time before budding out time in 
Spring. If limbs of an inch or more have to be taken out 
salve the wound over with grafting wax or a solution ot 
gum shellac. edwin iioyt. 
Connecticut. 
I do not think it advisable to trim or prune apple trees at 
this season ; better wait and do It in very early Spring ot 
late Winter, after the severe freezing weather is over. This 
season’s growth is now over or past, and the wounds will 
not heal, but remain to invite canker or exhale moisture that 
may be needed in a cold dry Winter. Further, the effect 
will be to stimulate a late and undesirable growth that will 
prove detrimental. geo. j. foster. 
Illinois. 
If the pruning could have been done earlier in the season, 
that is, if there was not very much to do, it would have 
been all right, but as late as this I should prefer that the 
trees went over until next Spring, when I should waut to 
trim them some time in March or April. My observation is that 
young trees trimmed in the Fall preceding a hard Winter 
are more or less damaged by cold penetrating the tissues 
through the cut surfaces. If trimmed in the Spring they 
have the following Summer partially to heal over, and the 
pores of the wood close up to a certain extent, so that there 
is less injury from trimming at this time. c. m. hobbs. 
Indiana. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
The steel frame silo offered by the International Silo 
Co., Jefferson, O., is a new departure in silo construction, 
and is worthy of the careful consideration of our readers. 
This firm offers special terms to farmers’ clubs and Granges. 
Perhaps some of our people have not made their selec¬ 
tion yet of a silage and fodder cutter for this season's work. 
To those we have no hesitancy in recommending the Smalley 
Modern Silo Filler. Hundreds of our people are using the 
Smalley machines, and they never fail to give satisfaction. 
Address Smalley Mfg. Co., Box R, Manitowoc, Wis., for cata¬ 
logue and full information. 
Butchering time is coming and many of our people will 
be glad to know where to get a perfect set. of tackle blocks 
which will do away with all the heavy lifting. The Burr 
Mfg. Co., Cleveland, O., are offering an excellent set of 
tackles to our people. It is said to save the labor of two 
or three men, and of course can be used for a hundred dif¬ 
ferent purposes on any farm. 
If you are serving on a committee to furnish schools or 
churches, or if you are in need of office or library desks 
for home use, it will be worth your while to write the A. II. 
Andrews Co., 174 and 176 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill., and 
get their catalogue and prices. They make a specialty ot 
these lines, and put up fine goods. " They are not in the 
trust, and therefore in a position to quote independent prices. 
The housewife who has been busy with the usual canning 
and preserving this season can fully appreciate the conven¬ 
ience of a well-equipped steel range. The expense of this 
work-saving kitchen necessity is greatly lessened when 
bought direct from the makers. The Imperial Steel Range 
Co.. 140 State street, Cleveland, O.. make a very attractive 
proposition, selling ranges for cash or on monthly payments; 
if interested write for their catalogue. 
The II. B. Camp Co., of Pittsburg, Pa., are said to pro¬ 
duce more drain tile than any other manufacturer in the 
world. The tile they are offering is vitrified. They are 
not affected by moisture or anything else which destroy tile 
outside of breakage, which would be purely accidental, con¬ 
sequently these tiling will last forever. Our readers should 
not fail to get their literature, which can be had for the 
asking. Write them to-dav for prices on anything you need 
jn the tile line. 
