1901 
THE RURAI. NEW-YORKER. 
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Events of the Week 
DOMESTIC.—By an air blast at the Quincy mine, at 
Houghton, Mich., October 10, tons of rock were jarred 
down, completely covering and kiiling three men. 
. . . . Two men were killed and several injured in a 
boiler explosion at a saw mill, near De Witt Station, in 
Dinwiddie County, Va., October 10.President 
Lorenzo Snow, head of the Mormon church, died at Salt 
Lake October 10, aged 87. He was a native of Ohio, suc¬ 
ceeding Wilford Woodruff as head of the Mor non body 
four years ago.A McKinley memorial associa¬ 
tion has been formed, with the object of erecting a monu¬ 
ment to cost $1,500,000 in memory of the late President. 
Appeals for funds will be made throughout the United 
States.Four men were kilied and seven injured 
in a coiiision on the Santa Monica electric road, near 
Sherman, Cal., October 11.The board of health 
of Pottsville, Pa., has ordered all women to wear short 
dresses. This action is based on the ground that the long 
dresses, which sweep the pavement, gather up all the 
disease germs in the street, and are thus carried to the 
homes of the women.A lumber fire at Arkansas 
City, Ark., October 7, destroyed property valued at $500,000, 
including 4,000,000 feet of seasoned timber.James 
Gilleland and a son perished, October 13, in a mine shaft, 
near Connellsvilie, Pa., which they descended to rescue 
another son, who had fallen into the pit, and lost his life. 
The three bodies were recovered by miners.The 
bursting of a reservoir at East Liverpool, O., October 13, 
caused loss amounting to $150,000. The reservoir was a 
new one, filled for the first time.A disastrous 
fire occurred at Los Gatos, Cal., October 13, the damage 
reaching $250,000. .... The Apaches are on the war¬ 
path in the Mogollon Mountains, New Mexico, having 
killed five persons on Willow Creek recently. 
Settlers in the Mille Lacs region of Minnesota are 
alarmed over the ugly attitude of the Indians there; they 
are seven hours from a telegraph, and in case of an out¬ 
break might all be massacred before help could reach 
them. The Indians have been ordered to move off home¬ 
stead land, and the Government is withholding money due 
them because they will not go; this, together with a 
smallpox quarantine, has aroused their resentment. 
.... A boiier explosion at Clifton, Ariz., killed four 
men October 14.The village of Galien, Berrien 
Co., Mich., was almost wiped out by fire, which started 
in a laundry October 14; loss, $120,000. 
ADMINISTRATION.—The total of claims filed as a re¬ 
sult of the late Cuban insurrection and of the Spanish- 
American War is $57,581,807. Among the claims are the 
following: Deaths caused by explosion of the Maine, $1.- 
890,000; injuries caused by said explosion, $135,000; injuries 
and deaths caused by said explosion, $30,000.The 
postal money orders sold in the United States during the 
past fiscal year reached a total of $300,000,000 in round 
numbers. This is an increase of almost $40,000,000 over the 
previous year.There are indications, based upon 
returns now being received at the Treasury, that the 
coming months will show a considerable falling off in in¬ 
ternal revenue receipts as the result of the recent legisla¬ 
tion in reducing and abolishing war taxes. Recent figures 
published by the Treasury Department give the cost of 
the Spanish War and the suppression of rebellion in the 
Philippines as amounting so far to $489,000,000. 
PHILIPPINES.—^A detachment of the Twenty-first Com¬ 
pany of Macabebes encountered a large force of insur¬ 
gents near Lipa, Province of Batangas, October 10. Lieu¬ 
tenant Beau, of the Macabebes, was killed, and one of the 
force was wounded. The enemy was strongly entrenched. 
After two hours’ fighting the Americans retreated to 
await reinforcements. The insurgents numbered over .300, 
were armed with Remington and Mauser rifles and ap¬ 
parently had plenty of ammunition.It has been 
determined at the War Department to send troops to the 
Philippines to take the places of those whose terms of 
enlistment expires. Where the reenlistments are not 
large in any one regiment their places will be filled by 
separate detachments of recruits. If any considerable 
number of enlistments expire in a single organization, it 
is probable that the organization as a whole will be re¬ 
turned from the Philippines, and another regiment sent 
to take its place.The entire police force of Ca- 
tanag. Province of Tayabas, numbering 11, have been 
carried off by insurgents, armed only with bolos. Pre¬ 
sumably the police made no resistance, as they were well 
armed with carbines and revolvers.General 
Malvar, the insurgent leader, is believed to be planning 
an operation in the Province of Bulacan, Luzon. The 
police force of Banan, Province of Batangas, has been 
disarmed, and the chief of police arrested for belonging 
to an insurgent society. 
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.—Apprehensions for the 
safety of Miss Stone’s life are being entertained in the 
event of the Bulgarian troops attempting to rescue the 
captive missionary from the mountain outlaws, and ef¬ 
forts are being made to prevent any use of force by the 
soldiers pending the outcome of the negotiations with the 
brigands, which, it is expected, will result in the unfor¬ 
tunate woman’s liberation.The Pacific coast of 
Nicaragua was recently flooded to the depth of eight feet 
by tidal waves, believed to be due to volcanic disturb¬ 
ances in the bed of the Pacific Ocean. . . . . The re¬ 
cent clash between Venezuelans and sailors on a German 
steamer, at Porto Cabello, may lead to international com¬ 
plications. Berlin advices state that the German govern¬ 
ment does not believe the bluejackets violated Venezuelan 
territory, and may demand an apology and reparation for 
injured from Venezuela. A German cruiser is being fitted 
out at Kiel for South American waters. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The California State Grange, in 
session at Petaluma October 5, selected Sacramento as 
the place of meeting for 1902. C. W. Emery, Oakland, was 
elected Master. 
W. J. Hayes, an expert in growing shade tobacco on 
the Mitchelson farm, in Tariffvllle, Conn., has been en¬ 
gaged to experiment with shade tobacco in Porto Rico, 
where he will raise under shade, not the Sumatra, but 
the thick native Porto Rico leaf. It is hoped that the leaf 
can be made lighter In tint and thinner if grown under 
cheesecloth. 
Ranchers In southern Utah and northern Arizona are 
trying to destroy desert horses, holding big hunts for the 
purpose. The mustangs are so thick in the district lying 
between Hurricane Ridge and Kanab Wash and over the 
old Canan range to Mount Trunbill that ranchers are 
complaining on many scores. The range is being eaten 
up, gentle horses are being run off, and many valuable 
animals are being shot by mistake by careless sportsmen 
firing on supposed desert horses. Two years ago there 
was a similar hunt, and nearly 500 horses were killed. 
The next annual meeting of the Indiana Horticultural 
Society will be held at Indianapolis, December 5-6; secre¬ 
tary, J. Troop, La Payette, Ind. 
The Niagara Co. (N. Y.) Farmers’ Club will hold a har¬ 
vest meeting at North Ridge October 26. There will be 
an excellent programme in which well-known speakers 
will participate. 
Farm Matters in Kansas 
We had a very warm and dry Spring here, terminating 
in quite a serious drought in June. Early potatoes were 
half a crop, but sold for double usual price. Wheat was 
good, but only a few in Allen County had any. Corn was 
nearly exterminated by the fearful hot and dry weather, 
so that there is no corn for sale, and many will have to 
buy, but an extraordinary amount of fodder has been put 
up, and there is plenty of coarse feed, but a great shortage 
in fattening feeds. Late potatoes are a failure; only fit 
for home use, they are so small. Hay has been cut twice, 
and was a half crop each time, making the usual amount 
of hay, but twice the work to make it. Fall rains have 
given us the best Fall pastures we ever had, and clover 
fields will furnish pasture until the ground freezes. The 
only living thing that went right ahead in all its glory 
was the Mammoth Soy bean. This made a growth three 
feet high, and gave about 20 bushels per acre of beans. 
I had in 10 acres of them, and they are now in my barn, 
and will be fed out to hogs, sheep and cattle without 
thrashing, a very little at a time. 
Every farmer has put in a field of wheat, and there are 
actually over 100 times the usual acreage in. It Is now 
about two inches high, and the weather conditions are 
extra favorable. The pasturage during the Winter will 
help out wonderfully, and if there is a crop of wheat, the 
grain will take the place of corn by July 1. Farmers have 
sold their cattle, sheep and hogs down to a very few, and 
as a rule have more roughage than they will use, and of 
course they saved only their best stock; thus the great 
drought has been a great purifier, so to speak. It Is 
probable that wheat will always be raised here hereafter, 
and, of course, we must find a way to prevent the ravages 
of chinch bugs over surrounding crops. It is my plan to 
put in a field of Soy beans on one side and flax on the 
other. The bugs will not trouble either of these crops, 
and the flax ground can be plowed in August and put in 
wheat again. Everyone who put in wheat drilled in com¬ 
mercial fertilizer with it, and there has been a good trade 
in wheat drills and fertilizers. When it became apparent 
that all the corn had to be cut up, there was a great 
scramble for corn harvesters, and one concern sold four 
carloads in our little town. Now they are here with their 
shredders, and next Spring they will have to be here with 
their harvesters to gather in the wheat crop, and the 
thrashermen will have to multiply also. j. c. n. 
Allen Co., Kas. ' 
Farm Values. 
Real estate does not seem to be changing hands of any 
account,-although there seems to be quite a lot for sale, 
at what a few years ago would have been called low 
prices. I live in the edge of a village of about 3,000 In¬ 
habitants. We have two large creameries here and two 
corn-packing companies. A car of cream goes to Boston 
every morning from one company. Some farms are well 
kept up, while others are In fair condition, yet there 
seems to be an unrest among farmers. I attribute It to 
the high and still increasing taxes. My place is 1% acre, 
well situated every way. I have one acre of small fruit; 
it is under high culture. I get lots of currants, goose¬ 
berries. raspberries, plums, pears and apples, yet I 
could not sell for near (I was about to say for one-half) 
what it is worth, and that is the general complaint. 
Dexter, Me. _ a. r. b. 
New York State Cabbage Crop. 
The crop is about a general average. s 
Little York, N. Y. 
The weather conditions have been unusually favorable, 
but owing to the very small acreage planted the yield 
will be only about 50 per cent of the usual amount grown 
in this section. Crops on low lands have considerable 
stem rot and club-foot. The crop In general is 100 per 
cent better than last season. The severe drought a year 
ago caused an entire failure of late cabbage. a. g. m. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
We have a large acreage of cabbage, and until recently 
have had favorable weather and conditions; but our late 
or Danish cabbage has suffered from blight or rust, which 
first attacks the outside leaves and then the head, which 
seems to rot at the heart or core, and finally drops off 
the stalk. Our Warren or domestic crop was fine, which, 
however, is nearly harvested, being shipped to southern 
and western points, most of it being made into kraut. 
The price paid by dealers here is from $10 per ton early, 
or about September 10, to $7 per ton at the present time. 
The Danish or late crop will mostly be stored by farmers 
and dealers here for Winter shipment. 
Homer, N. Y. litz & watrous. 
The cabbage crop here is. I believe, about 10 per cent 
short in acreage of last year. I think the yield per acre 
will about equal that of last season. The heads are not 
as solid, and will not weigh as much, according to size. 
Prices now around $6 per ton. There Is some stem rot and 
leaf blight. We are in the midst of the late potato har¬ 
vest. Yields very uneven—from 50 to 200 bushels per acre; 
some dry rot in nearly every field and a good deal in 
some fields. An unusual quantity is going to market on 
that account. Quality of sound potatoes pretty fair, 
though a little rougher than last year. I don’t think that 
carefully sorted potatoes, pitted or put in cellar in good 
shape now, will rot any further. Prices just now 50 cents 
per bushel. We think they are good property to hold for 
the Winter market. a. f. w. 
Fairport, N. Y. 
Crop Prospects. 
The clover crop here in Lenox township, from what I 
can learn, is very good, and the yield is better than in 
former years. More has been harvested here than for 
several years. d. m. s. 
Rowenton, O. 
Last Summer was very dry here until the middle of 
August; our eight acres of sugar beets were late start¬ 
ing. and at this writing are still growing, with tops 
perfectly green. They may go 18 tons per acre. I sowed 
-41falfa in two and one-fifth acres of corn August 30, and 
oats with it to furnish a V/inter cover; cutivated both 
ways with one horse. Alfalfa is to two inches high 
now; oats five to six inches. l. c. b. 
Crown Point, Ind. 
OCTOBER 14.—The weather has been fine for the past 
few weeks, and farmers have been improving it in gath¬ 
ering in the crops. Apples are not quite all gathered in 
yet, but the crop is better than was supposed. Perhaps 
it may reach 50 per cent of an average crop in this vicin¬ 
ity. Buyers are offering $2.50 to $2.75 per barrel, and some¬ 
times $3 for Kings. The potato crop is of an ordinary 
kind, and there is complaint that many are scabby and 
wormy. Pall feed is good and stock is looking well. The 
yield of sweet corn was very satisfactory to the farmers. 
A smart rain is prevailing to-day. t. d. s. 
Madison, Me. 
New Jersey Farmers Institutes, 1901-1902. 
Locktown, Hunterdon County. 
'Three Bridges, Hunterdon County. 
Keyport, Monmouth County. 
Shiloh. Cumberland County.!..!.!!!!..! 
Swedesboro, Gloucester County... 
Salem, Salem County. 
Stelton, Middlesex County. 
Millstone, Somerset County. 
Harlingen, Somerset County. 
Pennington, Mercer County. 
Laytons, Sussex County.. 
Branchville, Sussex County..!. 
Blalrstown, Warren County. 
Delaware, Warren County. 
Stewartsville, Warren County. 
Clinton, Hunterdon County. 
Rlngoes, Hunterdon County. 
Hamilton Square, Mercer County. 
Haddonfield. Camden County.I’ 
Mt. Holly, Burlington County. 
Woodbine, Cape May County. 
Vineland. Cumberland County. 
Hammonton, Atlantic County. 
W'oodstown, Salem County.!! 
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Wllliamstown, Gloucester County... 
New Egypt. Ocean County.!..!.!!! 
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Secretary. 
Grass Notes by Geo. M. Clark. 
I don’t confine myself entirely to the cultivation of 
grass. I sowed an acre of oats for hay this year. The 
yield was 8,190 pounds. Cut in the milk it makes excellent 
feed for horse or cow. I also sowed acre to Japanese 
millet on land that is quite dry, but the season being wet 
it grew to five and seven feet high, and yielded, when 
well dried, 13,100 pounds. It took nearly two weeks to dry 
it. Some one said that it was a bad plant to get started 
in the land; that it made the land foul, so I removed it 
from the field where it grew as soon as possible, but it 
certainly killed hard. I could have killed the hardest sod 
on my farm easier. If I had let it alone it would have 
produced three or four tons more, and seed enough to 
have covered the town. When sown on moist land early 
it will make two large crops, 10 or 12 tons to the acre. 
Perhaps you will remember about my sowing some Tim¬ 
othy and Red-top the first of November, 1900. The grass 
did not come up till Spring. I let a quarter of an acre of 
it stand, fertilized it as usual, and cut it the middle of 
July. It produced less than 200 pounds of hay; 3% acres 
of the same kind of land adjoining, sown 40 days earlier, 
produced 35,415 pounds of dry hay cut July 1. Three years 
ago last Spring I set out 1,425 Japan plum trees. They 
produced about 400 baskets this year. The fruit was very 
large. I used no fertilizer of any kind, but kept the land 
intensively cultivated to the depth of five and six Inches. 
I didn’t raise a weed or spear of grass; nothing but the 
largest and best flavored plums of this kind I ever saw. 
Items of Interest. 
IMPORTED POTATOES.-We think that there will be 
a good many Imported during the season, especially the 
latter part of Winter. Crops on the other side seem to 
be good, and according to our correspondence all large 
potato-producing sections are depending on our markets 
to take a portion of their surplus. The principal variety 
heretofore imported has been the Magnum Bonum, tlie 
quality of which compares very favorably with the'best 
of the home production. They come principally from 
Great Britain, Belgium and Holland. 
Philadelphia. j. d. Hendrickson. 
EXPERIENCE WITH CORN.—During planting time 
last Spring there was so much rain that our silage corn 
could not be planted till the middle of June; varieties 
were Learning, Thoroughbred flint and two others highly 
recommended. Our success with the last two was not 
sufficient for us to make any statement except that we 
shall not try them again. The Thoroughbred flint was a 
little earlier than the Learning, but did not grow over 
four-fifths as many pounds of silage. Our plan would be 
in future to fall back on Sanford for perhaps one-third 
of the crop; or, if we were delayed in planting as we were 
this year, would plant nearly all Sanford, with another 
trial of an acre or two of Thoroughbred flint. With a 
good year where corn can be planted early. Learning 
would, on the whole, seem to be best. There are almost 
no apples this year in the State of Maine, not over 10 per 
cent of last year’s crop. Potatoes in this section are 
about the usual crop, but in Aroostook County they hav0 
a very large crop, and it has been an extraordinarily good 
year for that section of the State. j. h. r. 
Portland, Me. 
