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THE RURAL NEW-YORKEk. 
Events of the Week. 
domestic.— Five men were killed in a frelgrht wreck 
on the Grand Trunk Railway, near Norway, Me., Janu¬ 
ary 18; four locomotives and many cars were destroyed. 
The management of the Wabash Railroad has 
adopted a rule which prohibits the use of intoxicants by 
employees before reporting for duty or while on duty. 
. . . . The White-Shotwell feud at Corbin, Ky., has 
resulted in three persons being killed, many hurt, and 
a store wrecked by dynamite. . . . Near Goshen, Ind., 
January 18, four children were burnt to death in a burn¬ 
ing house, while their parents were at the barn milking. 
It is believed that the fire was caused by a lamp explod¬ 
ing. . . . Disaffected Creek Indians near Eufaula, I. 
T., are maltreating and killing peaceful Indians, who 
have appealed to the Government for protection. . . . 
The city council of Omaha, Neb., has offered a reward of 
$5,000 for Pat Crowe, dead or alive, irrespective of his con¬ 
nection with the Cudahy kidnapping. This makes the 
total reward offered for his capture $18,000. . . . Fire 
destroyed the business portion of Ellsworth, Mich., 
January 20. 
general foreign news.—V ictoria, Queen of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Em¬ 
press of India, died at Osborne, Isle of Wight, January 
22. She was born at Kensington Palace, London, May 
24, 1819, being daughter of the Duke of Kent, fourth son 
of King George III., and was baptized as Alexandrina 
Victoria. She ascended the throne June 20, 1837, succeed¬ 
ing her uncle, William IV., and was crowned June 28, 
1838; married February 10, 1840, Prince Albert of Saxe- 
Coburg Saalfeld, her first cousin to whom she had been 
Informally betrothed from infancy. She was the mother 
of four sons and five daughters; six of her children sur¬ 
vive her; became a widow December 14, 1861, and is suc¬ 
ceeded by her oldest son, her second child, Albert Ed¬ 
ward, Prince of Wales, born Novembr 9, 1841, her oldest 
child being Victoria, Empress Dowager of Germany. The 
new sovereign will be styled Edward VII. He married 
Alexandra, daughter of the King of Denmark, and has 
three daughters and one son, George, Duke of York, who 
becomes heir appai-ent, but does not succeed to the title 
of Prince of Wales. It is no exaggeration to describe the 
late Queen Victoria as the best beloved and most deeply 
reverenced monarch who ever occupied the British 
throne, her simplicity and purity of life, deep piety and 
constancy in family affection endearing her to all her 
subjects, and compelling the respect of those opposed 
to her by radical or political antagonism. 
FARM AND GARDEN.-Efforts are being made by the 
producers of vaccine to have the Agricultural Commit¬ 
tees of Congress omit from the forthcoming Agricultural 
Appropriation bill further provision for vaccine made and 
distributed by the Government. 
The National Live Stock Association, in session at 
Salt Lake City, Utah, January 17, adopted a memorial 
to be sent to the United States Senate, protesting against 
the Grout bill, which is denounced as class legislation. 
In an action for damages by a purchaser of seed 
guaranteed to be good, but which proves to be entirely 
worthless, the New Orleans "Democrat” says the Su¬ 
preme Court of North Carolina, In the case of Relger 
vs. Worth Company (37 S. E. Rep., 217), holds that the 
measure of damages is the amount paid for the seed, 
the amount expended in the preparation of the soil for 
the crop, and also reasonable rent for the land. 
The French government has conferred the decoration 
of the Legion of Honor upon Byron B. Huntley, president 
of the Johnston Harvester Company, this being in re¬ 
cognition of Mr. Huntley’s services in introducing im¬ 
proved agricultural machinery into France. 
A severe setback has been given the beet-sugar industry 
in Minnesota by Attorney-General Douglas’s decision that 
the beet-sugar bounty law of 1895 is invalid, following the 
refusal of the State Auditor to issue a warrant for $20,- 
000 claimed by the Minnesota Beet-Sugar Company. The 
opinion is based on the principle that the people cannot 
be taxed for the benelit of a private enterprise. 
WESTERN N. Y. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A GREAT MEETING.—The wisdom of the move to ad¬ 
mit people to the convention hall only on presentation 
of the membership ticket acquired on the payment of $1 
was proved by the great number of persons of both 
sexes in attendance at the opening of the forty-sixth 
annual meeting at Rochester, N. Y. The hall was 
more crowded during the entire first day than at any 
time before, while admittance was free to the public 
at large. The Society now stands on a firm footing, 
financially as well as otherwise, and seems far greater 
and stronger than ever, with every likelihood of a fur¬ 
ther rapid growth. The only discord developed in the 
proceedings came as an echo of last year’s clash of in¬ 
terests of nurserymen on one side and fruit growers on 
the other. Wm. C. Barry, the president, esteemed and 
beloved by every member, refused a renomination and re- 
election for the office, which he has filled so admirably 
since his father’s death, except on the condition that the 
Society drops all further discussion of the matter of 
legislation concerning the fumigation of nursery stock 
before its delivery to the planter. Mr. Barry has seldom 
made a serious blunder in presiding over the Society; 
but whether his course in this affair was altogether the 
wisest he could have taken, is open to question. It 
seems that a committee, properly appointed, and which 
has spent $500 the past year, should have a chance to 
report, even if the further discussion of the matter is 
dropped. 
A PEAR BLIGHT.—Albert Wood’s paper treated on a 
new form of Pear blight, which Prof. Johnson, of Mary¬ 
land, considers identical with the blight so prevalent in 
Kieffer orchards in Maryland and other southern points. 
The first sjmptoms are seen in a peculiar metallic luster 
of the foliage, or portions of the foliage, and in an affec¬ 
tion of the bark on the southeast side of the tree’s body. 
Mr. Wood has tried to check the spread of the disease by 
spraying with Bordeaux Mixture and whale-oil soap. 
Prof. Johnson states that they have been able to save 
the tree on appearance of the first symptoms by banding 
the tree body after the bark has been scraped oft, with 
cotton and soaking this in a two-per-cent solution of 
formalin or formaldehyde. Prof. Beach, on the other 
hand, Is by no means satisfied that the blight observed 
by Mr. Wood is the same as described by Prof. John¬ 
son, and thinks it may be a new manifestation of an old 
disease, something similar to the Apple canker, a para¬ 
sitic fungus which finds ingress through the bark, and is 
slow acting, not likely leading to the death of the tree. 
THE ARSENITES.—It seems strange that an ap¬ 
parently so valuable insecticide, as green arsenlte, after 
being advertised and spoken of for some years, should 
have found so few willing experimenters that only two 
or three in the large congregation of horticulturists were 
willing to report on It. Prof. Beach states that green 
arsenite is a definite chemical compound, but that green 
arsenold, under which name it is now being offered, is 
simply a trade name for a private mixture. He speaks 
well of green arsenite, however, as being lighter than 
Paris-green and more easily kept in suspension. Mr. 
Mann, of Niagara County, used 25 pounds of the arsenoid 
in 1899 with very satisfactory results, but found the same 
compound less reliable in 1900, when he used 100 pounds. 
The writer has used green arsenoid last year for the 
Potato beetle and slug, and some other insects, with so 
much satisfaction that he would always use it in place 
of the heavier Paris-green, with its irrepressible tendency 
to settle to the bottom, if assured of the same quality 
as the 1900 sample. Mr. Treadel, of Ontario, tells of white 
arsenic, which he can buy at six or seven cents a pound, 
and which, if used properly, does not seem to burn the 
foliage of trees. J. S. Woodward favors arsenate of lime 
or soda, as being just as good as Paris-green, and much 
cheaper. Soda is more soluble, lime a little cheaper. Mr. 
Bogue says he first cuts his arsenic with potash before 
adding it to the other mixtures. 
SOD OR CULTURE.—The question from the question 
box, “Why are apples larger and higher-colored on trees 
in sod than on cultivated trees?” brought a revival of the 
old discussions on the value of cultivation. Mr. Hooker 
admits the fact of apples In sod being of higher color, 
but not of being larger. With the heavy foliage and the 
full fruiting of cultivated trees, the apples on the under 
side were green as grass. In sod, the trees have made 
slower growth, had less fruit and less foliage, and con¬ 
sequently the apples were of higher color and better keep¬ 
ing quality. Notwithstanding this, he is not in favor of 
sod. Mr. Woodward is again provoked to come out in 
favor of pasturing apple orchards with sheep—sheep 
enough to keep the ground bare as a floor, and to be in 
need of feeding—and sees better results from this way of 
managing the orchard than from the best of cultivation. 
J. H. Hale, in a later discourse on peaches, however, 
demolished the sod theory by asking: "Can you name 
any crop one can grow that will do better without than 
with good culture, or any crop that you can hurt by too 
much cultivation?” 
POINTS ON VARIETIES.—That was a happy illustra¬ 
tion given by Prof. F. A. Waugh when he stated that the 
selection of varieties is like matrimony. You may pick 
out a wife, but it is very questionable whether all the 
neighbors would wish to make the same choice. It is 
really so with varieties of almost all fruits and vege¬ 
tables. Everyone has his special favorites and varieties 
which he can manage better than other varieties. Only 
two grape varieties were named in answer to the query: 
“What Is the best early grape, considering hardiness, 
productiveness and quality?” They were Green Mountain 
and Worden. Prof. Waugh has experimented with the 
Abundance plum, and finds that under ordinary circum¬ 
stances it is not self-fertile. In especially favorable 
locations or weather conditions it mav sometimes bear 
when standing alone. Mr. Hale says that the time to 
trim peaches is whenever you get ready, but he prefers 
the period from February until the buds begin to swell. 
According to Mr. Hale, the white-fieshed peaches are 
best for eating purposes, the yellow ones for canning. 
For home use, he would plant Mountain Rose, Champion, 
Oldmixon, Stump, and Fox, which will cover a peach 
season of seven weeks. 
When slaking lime for Bordeaux Mixture Prof. Beach 
says his practice is to pour a little water on the lime, 
then gradually adds more in moderate quantities, 
enough to prevent the burning of the lime, but not so 
much as to drown It. He wants a creamy paste, and to 
keep this covered with water until used. 
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