1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
849 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—The suit for $50,000,000 brought by Eliz¬ 
abeth T. Greenough, of New York, against Henry II. Rogers, 
of the Standard Oil Company, which was dismissed by agree¬ 
ment of the parties on September 24 last, was re-entered 
November 7 in the Supreme Court, Boston. The new suit 
is entered under the name of CadwaJader M. Raymond agt. 
Henry II. Rogers et al, the damage being set at $50,000,000, 
as before. The parties at interest are the same as in tlie 
previous suit, the claim being assigned to C. M. Raymond, 
a friend of Mrs. Greenough. Alfred Hemmenway, of Bos¬ 
ton, accepted service on behalf of Mr. Rogers. Mrs. Green¬ 
ough is administratrix of the estate of her husband, Benja¬ 
min F. Greenough, an inventor, and seeks to recover royal¬ 
ties on the use of a secret process for treating petroleum 
to make it non-explosive. . . . Three persons were killed 
in a tenement tire in New York November 10. . . . The 
worst railroad accident in the history of Wyoming occurred 
November 12 near Aztiza siding on the Union l’aciiic, six 
miles east of Grainger, when an eastbound fast fruit special 
and No. 3, the westbound overland mail, met head on, killing 
13 persons and injuring from 25 to 30 others. The wreck 
was caused by a train despatcher at Grainger giving a “lap" 
order. . . . November 13 New York City was the center 
of a cyclone accompanied by rain and snow. One ferryboat 
from New York to College l’oint was driven ashore on Ber- 
rian's Island reef, but no loss of life resulted; much dam¬ 
age was done to telephone and telegraph wires. Snow fell 
over a wide area; in Baltimore many horses were killed by 
live wires hidden under snow. Snow fell as far south as 
Georgia and South Carolina; seven inches of snow was 
reported in New York State. . . . The twelfth National 
Irrigation Congress convened at El Paso, Tex., November 15. 
President Diaz has announced that the Mexican Govern¬ 
ment is preparing to issue bonds to the amount of $10,000,- 
000 to provide funds for national irrigation work. Govern¬ 
ment engineers have been investigating irrigation possi¬ 
bilities in various parts of that country the last several 
months, and the nation is to engage extensively in the re¬ 
clamation and improvement of agricultural lands. Mexico 
will co-operate with the United States in solving irrigation 
problems, and with this end in view special representatives 
of President Diaz and delegates from several Mexican States 
are present at the National Irrigation Congress. 
November 12 it was reported that in two days’ fishing 
nearly 20 tons of German carp were taken with seines from 
the Fox River, in Illinois. The work was done under the 
supervision of the State fish wardens, ami is still in prog¬ 
ress. All the Rock bass and other protected fish caught are 
released. The carp are loaded into specially prepared chests 
filled with water, and in their live state transported to Chi¬ 
cago. They are sold alive to the residents of the Ghetto. 
The war oh the German carp is due to that (ish’s depreda¬ 
tion upon the eggs of game fish. . . . Three white men, 
named Hamilton, Evans and Wayton, were arrested by 
United States Marshals November 15 and brought before 
Federal Judge Miles, at Jackson, Miss., charged with con¬ 
spiracy in whitecapping and in running negro homesteaders 
off Government lands. They were placed under $1,000 
bonds each, in default of which they went, to jail. These, 
all well known white men, are believed to be leaders of a 
band that has been terrorizing negro land owners in south¬ 
ern Mississippi for several years. The State and Federal 
Governments are determined to break up their work. Labor 
has been demoralized, and many tine farms in that section 
have been abandoned because of the scarcity of farmhands. 
ADMINISTRATION.—Information will be submitted to 
Congress at the coming session which is expected to result 
in the enactment of more discriminating immigration laws. 
This information comes from Europe, and, In the opinion 
of the Federal authorities, makes it incumbent upon the 
United States to provide for a more rigid examination at 
the ports of embarkation of all foreigners bound for this 
country. Facts have also been placed before the Govern¬ 
ment which demonstrate that more severe penalties must 
be imposed upon steamship companies bringing immigrants 
to the United States in violation of law. Another inter¬ 
esting phase of the immigration problem will be discussed by 
the Commissioner-General. Some months ago agents were 
sent into every State and Territory to ascertain the number 
of aliens confined in the various penal and charitable insti¬ 
tutions. The results are highly interesting. In the State 
of New York, for example, nearly 10 per cent of the inmates 
of public institutions are aliens who under the law are sub¬ 
ject to deportation. Conditions In New York, however, are 
worse than they are elsewhere, although each State is sup¬ 
porting at the’ expense of Its citizens persons who have 
no legal right in this country. 
PHILIPPINES.—The proposed changes in the Philippine 
tariff recommended by a committee appointed in Manila, the 
Philippine Commission and the Collector of Customs for 
the Philippines, have been received at the War Department 
and published, together with the existing tariff, and sug¬ 
gestions have been invited from the people of the United 
States interested in the subject, which will be received at 
the Bureau of Insular Affairs up to November 23. It is 
recommended that exterior packing of imported merchandise 
be exempt from duty, and that a number of articles be 
assessed at ad valorem instead of specific rates, as at pres¬ 
ent. In some cases the rates have been increased and in 
some decreased. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The thirty-fourth annual session 
of the Indiana State Grange will be held at Marion, De¬ 
cember 13-16. 
The American Forest Congress will meet at. Washington, 
D. C„ January 2-6, 1905, under the auspices of the American 
Forestry Association. Subjects to be considered are: Rela¬ 
tion of'the Public Forest Lands to Irrigation: Relation of 
the Public Forest Lands to Grazing: the Lumber Industry 
and the Forest; Importance of the Public Forest Lands to 
Mining; Forestry in Relation to Railroad Supplies; National 
Forest Policy; ‘State Forest Policy. The purpose of this 
Congress is to establish a broader understanding of the 
forest in its relation to the great industries depending upon 
it; to advance the conservative use of forest resources for 
both the present and the future need of these industries: to 
stimulate and unite all efforts to perpetuate the forest as a 
permanent, resource of the nation. All who are interested 
in securing these ends are urged to attend the Congress. 
The fact that the President of the United States will address 
the Congress and receive its members is significant of its 
national importance, while the promised attendance of many 
of the foremost men of our industrial life assures definite 
and far-reaching results from its deliberations. Address all 
communications to Win. L. Hall, secretary Committee of Ar¬ 
rangements, Atlantic Building, Washington, I). C. 
The annual meeting of the American Shropshire Associa¬ 
tion will be held at Assembly Hall, Record Building, Union 
Stock Yards, Chicago, December 1. The meeting is during 
the great International Stock Show. Special rates on all 
railroads. Mortimer Levering, secretary. I.a Fayette, Ind. 
The Association of Poultry and Pet Stock Breeders was 
recently Incorporated with a capital of $5,000. The officers 
are: President, Dr. Paul Kyle, Flushing, L. I.; vice-pres¬ 
ident, M. 11. Read, Jr., Crescent City. Fla.: secretary, Charles 
E. Gauss, Flushing. L. I. : superintendent, Walter S. Glad¬ 
ney, Somers Point. N. .T. The association will hold its first 
annual exhibition in Herald Square Exhibition Hall, New 
York, November 28, continuing one week. The judging is to 
be finished the second day. Silken ribbons, handsomely em¬ 
bossed. will be awarded all successful exhibits, and in addi¬ 
tion there are special prizes of intrinsic value aggregating 
upward of $1,500. These include a silver cup valued at 
$100, donated by Dr. Leslie Ward, of Madison. N. J., to be 
given the owner of the best Angora goat; also 10 silver 
cups, valued at $50 each, donated by Dr. Paul Kyle, presi¬ 
dent of the association. These are to be given for the 10 
best fowls exhibited. The judges include a score or more 
of the most prominent poultry and pet stock fanciers in the 
country, and seven different States are represented in the 
selections. 
The Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, has erected an 
addition to Agricultural Hall, a judging pavilion and a new 
greenhouse. The addition to Agricultural Hall is 60 by 100 
feet, three stories high, and is devoted to farm mechanics, 
photography and bulletin work. The judging pavilion is two 
stories high. The lower story is used by the Animal Hus¬ 
bandry Department, the upper one by the Department, of 
Agronomy. The new greenhouse is 38 by 82 feet, and is 
so divided as to accommodate agronomy, soil physics and 
horticulture. An insectary for the use of the Entomological 
Section of the experiment station has been erected in con¬ 
nection with the greenhouse. An addition has been made to 
the feeding sheds. A horticultural barn and laboratory lias 
just been completed at a cost of $5,000. The new Dairy 
Building, 60 by 110 feet, three stories with basement and 
attic, is of fireproof construction with pressed brick and cut 
stone walls and enameled brick, tile and pressed brick inte¬ 
rior finish. It will cost when completed at the opening 
of next term $55,000. A new central agricultural building 
will be begun during the coming year. This building will 
cost about $250,000. Buildings will be erected and improve¬ 
ments made on the dairy farm and poultry department dur¬ 
ing the coming year. 
The fifteenth annual meeting of the Indiana State Dairy 
Association will be held in the State House at Indianapolis, 
January 19-20, 1905. A number of prominent members of 
the Dairy Association living near Indianapolis, together with 
the large buyers of milk and cream in the city, have joined 
forces in an effort to make this the most successful meeting 
held in the State. For further particulars address Secretary 
11. E. Van Norman, Lafayette, Ind. 
The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture will hold 
its forty-second public Winter meeting for lectures and dis- 
cusssions at South Framingham, December 6, 7 and 8. These 
meetings have been held continuously since 1863, and the 
lectures delivered at them included in the annual reports of 
the Board. An unusually valuable and interesting programme 
has been arranged for this meeting by the committee in 
charge, and it is the wish of the Board that as many farmers 
as possible should attend the meeting, both to receive ben¬ 
efit and instruction from the lectures and to assist in the 
discusssions which follow them. 
The thirty-second annual meeting of the Central Illinois 
Horticultural Society will be held in the Agricultural Build¬ 
ing of the University of Illinois, Champaign, November 29-30. 
George J. Foster, president, Normal, III. ; .1. R. Iteasoner, 
first vice-president, Urbana, Ill. ; Behring Burrows, second 
vice-president, Decatur. Ill. : F. S. Phoenix, secretary, Bloom¬ 
ington, Ill.; Wllmarth Zeigler, treasurer, Clinton, Ill. 
THE MONEY SYSTEM IN ROAD MAKING. 
At present the town board and the road commissioner or 
commissioners go over the roads and apportion the money 
raised by the town, together with the additional 50 per cent 
furnished by the State, for the work to be performed. By 
this method you are simply doing a little larger job than you 
were by the old way—using up all the money, and year after 
year repeating the dose. I would like to present another 
plan : ’fake as much money as possible, say two-thirds of 
the whole amount, and decide upon some one road to be 
EVERYTHING COMES TO THE CORN FARMER THIS 
YEAR. 
Reproduced from the Chicago Record-Herald. 
improved. Drain,, roll and put the road in suitable shape 
for receiving a top-dressing of stone, which, in its turn, 
should be rolled immediately after putting on with a 10-ton 
steam roller. When dry this certainly should be good 
enough to take a covering of three inches of 1%-lueh, or 
stone from the run of the crusher, rolled down to two inches 
in thickness. This is 5 fair covering for the first year's use. 
During the following year go over this again with a top¬ 
dressing evenly laid on of 1 Vi-inch thickness that will roll 
down to one inch; this can be repeated as the wear requires. 
This method well and carefully worked can form the base 
for your ordinary roads. These roads can be made any 
width to suit the travel. During its use have at convenient 
points along the road stone to repair any depressions that 
may show. Fill a depression with the broken stone a trifle 
above the surrounding bed, ram with an iron-faced pounder 
until it is firmly reduced to grade. 
The second year, in addition to first yeitr’s work, take 
another piece of road to build, and so on, until the entire 
road is finished. You will, by this method, get continuous 
miles of a dressed-up road that will not require much tinker¬ 
ing with. Begin this work the first of May, and work right 
along into the season as the weather will permit until you 
are done. An organized force to do the stone crushing would 
consist of a foreman, engineer, crusher feeder and a few 
men; tools later. If a proper location can be had, the 
greater part of the crushed stone can be run into the wagons 
without rehandling. To get the best results, this work 
should go on continuously, and not be hampered by work 
on the farms, which certainly is one of the troubles gener¬ 
ally. Make a business of building a road, and you will get 
the result wanted. 
The town of Lysander has worked practically on this plan, 
and is quite well pleased with the work—at an average cost 
of $800 per mile. Canandaigua has worked in a similar 
manner several years; is improving its methods and build¬ 
ing better roads‘each vear. Other towns are taking up the 
work. The next step in advance, which is important, is to 
widen the wagon tires to suit the load. Make every wagon 
that carries over a ton be a road maker, rather than a 
destroyer. Do not wait for any law, but change the tire 
and get some in use, and you will not regret it. All the 
tests that have been made give lighter drafts for the wider 
tires, under average conditions. Our own experience is in 
favor of them, and we have them in use. Seventy-five per 
cent of the surfacing of the roads can be obtained by this 
method : extreme loads require six-inch widths. The follow¬ 
ing is the cost of an ordinary equipment: 10-ton Buffalo 
roller, $3,250; 10-ton per hour crusher. $875: one screen, 
$250: one dump wagon, $120: total. $4,495. You will get 
more for the expenditure by the use of a wide tire with a 
lighter-built road than to allow the ordinary narrow tire 
to rut a heavier road. In connection with this, it is of 
great advantage to have the rear axle longer than the front 
one, thereby doubling the work of rolling the surface. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. Frederick m. power. 
NOTES ON SHIPPING PRODUCE. 
I grow asparagus and peaches for market; asparagus 
shipped by express to Pennsylvania and New York markets 
and occasionally Massachusetts, rate being $2.25 and $2.50 
to $2.75 per 100 pounds. Asparagus put up in one and two- 
pound bunches, crates holding 16 two-pound or 32 one-pound. 
Peaches shipped by express mostly to Virginia markets, rate 
$1 per 100 pounds, which will admit three crates containing 
six baskets each. k. c. r. 
Batesburg, S. C. 
I ship peaches to Cincinnati, Ohio, 100 pounds consisting 
of three crates, six cups to crate, $1.15, from Chelsea, Ga., 
depot on farm. Beans, Early Valentine, same, $1.55 per 
100 pounds; strawberries, same. I have never shipped any 
carloads; wheat, 20 miles, Chelsea to Kensington, 5 cents 
per bushel. I have 12,000 peach trees to bear next year; 
then I shall ship by car. I raise corn and pork, but our 
cotton mills give a market at home. I raised this year 130 
bales cotton ; sell it at home. c. d. h. 
Summerville, Ga. 
My principal crop is apples, which I ship to the London 
(England) market. The cost of transportation per package 
of, say 150 pounds, from my station, 45 miles from the sea¬ 
board,’ to London, is about 95 cents, exclusive of dock 
charges, commission, etc., which bring the cost per barrel 
up to about $1.25. This rate on a. steamship line heavily 
subsidized by the Dominion Government is excessive when 
compared with the rates on fruit shipped to the British 
market from Boston and New York. The local freight on 
apples for a railway haul of 45 miles is about 20 cents 
per 100 pounds. f. c. b. 
Falmouth, Nova Scotia. 
Bowie is situated in what is known as the “Upper Cross 
Timbers" belt in Texas. Fruit and truck growing is becom¬ 
ing quite an industry, and were it not for the fact that it 
costs so much to transport our stuff to northern markets 
would be a highly profitable one. As it is, the railroad and 
express companies receive the lion's share of the profits. 
Express rates to Colorado points average about $2 per 100 
pounds. In the early part of the season we receive fairly 
good returns for our produce, but later on returns begin to 
come in about like this: “Just paid charges;” “Didn’t pay 
charges," etc. Wo feel confident that with proper organiza¬ 
tion and co-operation among our fruit and truck growers 
we shall be able to get better rates in the near future. 
BIJRREU. STEPHENS. 
Sec’y Bowie Fruit and Truck Growers’ Association. 
The Southern Railroad has a monopoly here and has no 
competition, hence makes the charges as high as possible. 
I ship honey and butter, and nave shipped some peaches, but 
shall not ship anything more on account of the high freight 
and express rates. Freight rates from Knoxville, 40 miles, 
are 35 cents per 100 pounds; express rates on 25 pounds to 
Chattanooga, 80 miles, 35 cents, and they will smash every¬ 
thing if possible, and if they fail to do that will steal part 
of the shipment. The Southern Express Company has a 
monopoly of the express business through the South. 1 am 
only a small shipper, and the farmer has to accept the 
charges or not ship his goods. The large mills and factories 
get a rebate on all the freight shipped, while the farmer 
has to pay the extreme rate. One of the great needs of this 
country is a parcels post, and then we could make terms 
with the express company. On account of the heavy freight 
charges we have to take a lower price for what, we have to 
sell than we ought to receive. R. N. R. 
Sweetwater, Tenn. 
THE FEED SITUATION. 
We do not look to see mill feeds on a lower basis than at 
present; in fact, we expect them to continue on about the 
present basis. The large crop will be against their getting 
higher, and the reduced output of the mills will prevent their 
getting lower, and our opinion is that about the present 
range will prevail. eagle roller mill co. 
New Ulm, Minn. 
We think the high prices on wheat, corn and oats likely 
to govern throughout the crop year with usual fluctuations, 
but with the advantage in favor of higher prices ruling than 
have ruled thus far. The mill feed situation is strong, and 
as the prospect is for general shutting down of mills, north 
and south, the output will be curtailed, and values will 
certainly not decline in consequence. listman mill co. 
La Crosse, Wis. 
We do not expect to see mill feed very much lower between 
this and January 1, and we expect to see higher prices after 
that date, as we expect that the production by the mills 
here will be less than it is at present. All kinds of 
corn products we expect to see very much lower than the 
prices ruling now. We see no reason to expect that linseed 
meal will be materially lower in price than it is at present. 
Cotton seed meal we do not handle, and gluten feeds are 
specialties which are not always affected by the general 
trend of raw feeds. The sentiment in the Northwest is 
that oats are as cheap at present as we can expect them 
to be, and that the tendency will be toward higher values 
from this on. We have an abundant crop of bay, which 
will no doubt tend to keep the price of all feeds lower than 
they would be were the crop of hay short. We figure that 
there is hay enough in all parts of the country to more than 
supply the wants during an ordinary Winter. 
Minneapolis, Minn. w. p. devereux co. 
The discounting of the value of the corn crop that has 
been taking place for the past, six or eight weeks has had 
so little effect in reducing the price of mill feed that we 
cannot believe the actual movement of the corn itself will 
depress the value of this article any further. In fact, mill 
feed has had a rise in price recently, and seems to be on a 
firmer basis than for some time past. We are manufacturers 
of mill feed, and are not directly conversant with the con¬ 
ditions affecting the value of linseed meal, cotton seed meal 
or gluten, but believe these are on the same basis of value as 
mill feed, and are, therefore, not likely to show any further 
decline in price. In other words, it seems to us that any 
effect which the present corn crop may have toward cheap¬ 
ening the price of feed the coming season has already been 
discounted, and that while lower prices are not to be looked 
for, an advance could easily be established if a large export 
movement of corn follows, which now seems to be very 
likely. BLISS MILLING co. 
Seymour, Ind. 
BUSINESS BITS . 
The Zenner Disinfecting Co. announce they have ready 
now for distribution to their agricultural friends a beautiful 
calendar for 1905. This is a reproduction, in many colors, 
of the famous picture, "Little Miss Zenoleum.” Any reader 
of The It. NY. can have a copy of this calendar sent, 
charges prepaid, by addressing the Zenner Disinfectant 
Company, 100 Bates street, Detroit, Mich. 
The Dorscli all-steel ice plow is manufactured in five 
different sizes, each size cutting and marking two rows at 
a time. The Dorscli plow is as complete an implement of 
its kind as modern ingenuity and experience can make. A 
complete and fully illustrated catalogue, just issued, will 
be mailed free, on request, to any reader of this publication 
who writes to John Dorscli & Sons, 226 Wells street, Mil¬ 
waukee, Wis. 
Forti important sales of Holstein bulls are reported from 
Star Farm, Cortland, N. Y., as follows: To W. II. King, of 
Massachusetts, the bull, Abracoraa’s De Kol, No. 33580. To 
Homer Utter. Cuba, N. Y., a bull sired by Mercedes .Tulip’s 
l’ietertje Paul, No. 29830, a son of Mercedes .Tulip's 
Pietertje, the 1900 world's champion cow holding an A. R. O. 
record of 29 pounds five ounces of butter in seven days, with 
an average per cent of fat in the milk of 4.025. Another 
sale is the bull, Lorina Paul DeKol, No. 35756, to F. B. 
Mills. Another sale was that of King DeKol 2d, No. 34767, 
to Rev. John W. Dennis. Deposit, N. Y. The actual sales 
from Star Farm herd since October 19 have amounted to 
$4,000. A lesser herd would soon be depleted by the fre¬ 
quent shipments, but from this great herd of over 250 head 
Mr. Bronson is able to supply the demands, and that with¬ 
out Impoverishing the herd, 
