1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—The Red Star liner Vaderland, from Ant¬ 
werp. arrived at New York January 24. after a tumultuous 
voyage, during which 10 steerage passengers died from sea¬ 
sickness. They were poorly nourished Hungarians of low 
vitality, and their quarters being forward, where the mo¬ 
tion of the ship was most violent, they were badly shaken 
and weakened by previous lack of food.. . . A great 
snowstorm centered about New York January 25, causing 
much delay in traffic. It was followed by the coldest day 
of the Winter, and much suffering resulted; 2,000 street 
cleaners in New Y'ork were reported suffering from frost 
bites, and nine deaths from exposure. Suburban travel 
was greatly crippled and the city's supply of milk and 
produce was cut short. A number of serious fires occurred 
in New York during the blizzard, one in a big East Side 
malt house causing a loss of $150,000. Stalled in a snow¬ 
drift for many hours, four carloads of hogs on an Erie 
Railroad stock train became so ravenously hungry that they 
attacked one another, and except for the intervention of 
trainmen many of the hogs would have been eaten. The 
trainmen, after hard labor, succeeded in getting the engine 
and one car of the train to Chester, N. Y., where enough 
food was procured to save the animals from starving. After 
remaining prisoners all the afternoon and night of January 
25, in one of the day coaches of the Long Island Railroad 
in a deep cut between Floral Park and Carden City, L. I., 
the forty passengers on hoard the stalled train were finally 
dug out with the assistance of two engines and a large 
snowplow. The loss in business in New York City due to 
the storm is put at $2,000,000. ... A dangerous fire 
in the oil warehouse of the Horne Scrymser Co., New York, 
January 2(5. caused a loss of $100,000. . . . Three sur¬ 
vivors of the giant steam dredger Texas, which foundered 
on Christmas eve about 280 miles northeast of the Azores, 
while on a voyage from Dantzig for Galveston, arrived at 
New York January 20, from Liverpool aboard the Cunard 
liner Etruria. The mate and nineteen of the crew of the 
dredger were lost by the swamping of the starboard life¬ 
boat, and one of 13 men who left the sinking craft in the 
port lifeboat died insane from exposure and starvation. 
The men were adrift 13 days before they were picked up. 
The police of Bridgeport. Conn., made an important 
capture January 30, in the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. John 
Myers, of Newark, N". .T.. and Mr. and Mrs. William Hock, 
of Elienville, N. Y„ who have confessed to the theft of 
20 horses in New York State during the past year. They 
operated in many places between Poughkeepsie and Bound 
Brook, N. J. Maps were found in their possession showing 
the situation of barns in various parts of New Jersey. The 
quartet drove about from town to town and posed as - farm¬ 
ers looking for property to buy. Hock and his wife were 
taken to Brewster, N. Y., January 30. Myers was turned over 
to a sheriff at Poughkeepsie, and Mrs. Myers must stand 
trial in Springfield. . . . The so-called Beef Trust was 
held by the United States Supreme Court January 30 to be 
a combination in restraint, of trade and commerce in viola¬ 
tion of the Sherman Anti-Trust law, and the injunction 
issued last Spring by Judge Peter S. Grosscup, of Chicago, to 
restrain its members front conspiring to depress the price of 
cattle and to raise the price of dressed beef, was affirmed, 
with some slight modifications to render it more specific. 
The opinion of the count, delivered by Mr. Justice Holmes, 
was unanimous. . . . The Supreme Court, January 30, 
by denying a writ of certiorari, in effect confirmed the con¬ 
viction of August W. Machen. George E. Lorenz and Diller 
B. and Samuel A. Groff for conspiracy to defraud the Gov¬ 
ernment in the purchase of postal supplies. They will, 
therefore, serve their sentence of two years each and pay fines 
of $10,000 each. It was announced by counsel for the 
prisoners that they would make no further fight against the 
verdict and that they would serve their terms. 
ADMINISTRATION.—S. II. Cowan of Fort Worth. Texas, 
representing the Cattle Raisers’ Association of Texas, was 
heard January 24 by the House Committee on Interstate 
and Foreign Commerce on the bills to give further power to 
tlie Interstate Commerce Commission. He said that the 
cattlemen believed that they had been injured by advanced 
rates, and had made complaint to the Interstate Commerce 
Commission. Whether the shipper should pay more than 
he did in ISOS, said Mr. Cowan, should not be left to the 
railroads for determination, but to some one else. Through¬ 
out the entire Southwest, he said, it was the universal opin¬ 
ion of cattlemen that freight rates on cattle were too high. 
Murdo McKenzie, a cattle raiser of Colorado and Texas, 
complained before the Senate Committee on Interstate Com¬ 
merce January 28. of inequalities, discriminations and poor 
service on the part of the railroads in the transportation of 
cattle, lie cited instances of delays in shipment of 
the markets, saving that such delays often meant the loss of 
a dollar a head. He admitted that the shippers had pro¬ 
tection under existing law, but said that in most cases the 
cost of legal proceedings would be greater than the value of 
the stock. He said the cattle men want power given to the 
Interstate Commerce Commission not only to fix rates, but to 
regulate the character of service. Judge S. II. Cowan, repre¬ 
senting the Southwestern cattle men, took up the question of 
railroad rates on cattle shipments. lie said that there had 
been a general increase since 1898. the average increase in 
shipments from Texas points being 8 V> cents a hundred pounds. 
Asked by Senator Elkins as to whether there had been a 
corresponding increase in the price of beef, the witness 
replied : “To the man who buys beef there has been an in- 
crease, hut to the man who sells there has been a decline.” 
He urged that a commission would he_ just as competent 
o adjust rates as were tHe railroad traffic men. because the 
data on which rates must he based were as available to one 
man as to another. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The newly elected officers of the 
Nebraska State Horticultural Society are: President, G. S. 
Christy. Johnson: first vice-president. C. S. Harrison, York: 
second vice-president. E. M. Pollard, Nehawka: secretary, 
L. M. Russel, Lincoln : treasurer. Peter Y'oungers, Geneva. 
The legislative commission of the Massachusetts Associa¬ 
tion for the suppression of the Gypsy and Brown-tail moths 
has a hilll before the State Legislature providing for an 
appropriation for their use extending over a number of 
years, the yearly expenditure limited to $250,000. The ex¬ 
termination of these insects is a matter of vital import¬ 
ance. 
At the Good Roads Convention held at Albany, N. Y., Jan¬ 
uary 24-25, resolutions were adopted asking for a bond issue 
of $50,000,000, and a State appropriation of $5,000,000 for 
road improvement, and the buying of a stone quarry. The 
now standing good roads committee is W. I’ierrepont White, 
Oneida : John B. Uhle, Albert R. Shattuck, New York : Ed¬ 
ward .1. Bedell. Albany: Charles E. Adams. Broome; S. S. 
Salisbury. Cayuga: Charles T. Chamberlain, Chemung; James 
A. Woodward. Erie; F. B. Parker, Genesee: Arthur Warren. 
Monroe: Robert E. Gillman. Onondaga : Ira P. Cribb, Ontario; 
George Moshier. Orange; John Giek, Saratoga ; G. W. Frelih, 
Schenectady; Joseph B. See, Westchester. 
GYPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAILED MOTH . 
A Menace to Our Country. 
From information at hand I am fully of the 
opinion that the Gypsy moth and the Brown-tail 
moth, which have located in Massachusetts, are very 
serious pests, and unless prompt measures are taken 
to stamp them out, and they become widespread over 
the I’nited States, they will become a National calamity. It 
appears that they eat everything, even the oak and pines 
are not exempt, and that, in a few years they entirely kill 
the orchards and forests where they go. This danger is not 
alone to the fruit interests, but to everybody, as well. What 
has been done by the Government of Massachusetts shows 
conclusively that these insects can not. only be controlled, 
hut that they can be entirely exterminated, only the work 
and expense is too much for any single State to bear. The 
general Government a few years ago did a yery wise and 
commendable thing in eradicating the scourge wnich tnreav 
ened our live stock industry, in the shape of rinderpest, and 
later it did the same when foot-and-mouth disease was 
introduced into Massachusetts. While the extinction of 
these two diseases cost the Government a large sum of 
money, it was a mere nothing to what the nation would 
have lost had these plagues been allowed to become scattered 
all over the country. But neither rinderpest, or foot-and- 
mouth disease, nor both combined, would have been such 
a national calamity as the universal spread of the Gypsy 
and Brown-tail moths. Not only will our orchards l>e de¬ 
stroyed. hut our forests as well, and so far as known no 
parasite has appeared to check these insects in their destruc¬ 
tive march. If, like the San Jose scale, it was impossible 
to exterminate them, there would be an excuse for the 
general Government not to interpose in the matter. But 
they can he entirely exterminated, only it will take prompt 
measures and cost considerable money. As the danger is 
National, the United States, as a Nation, should assume 
the work, and furnish the necessary money. It will be 
money well spent, even though it costs milllions of dollars. 
The Western New York Horticultural Society, at its recent 
meeting, passed strong resolutions asking Secretary Wilson 
to take hold of this matter, and I hope The R. N.-Y. and all 
other papers will do all they can to help along. A serious 
danger threatens us, and the best way is to meet, danger at 
the door. J. s. woodward. 
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(Clipping from New York Press.) 
obile when.orTTier w< 
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DEERFIELD. N. J; Aug. 29.—Thomas'M. 
Tice planted' 150 acre? of ground with white 
Dotatoes last spring, and is practicallv as¬ 
sured of a small fortune. The largest yield 
came from the Irish Cobbler variety, 350 
bushels , to the acre. The - lowest yield was 
225 bushels to the acre. As to his profits, 
Tice is reticent, but figuring on a low scale 
he harvested 250, bushels, to the acre, or 
37.500 bushes. Estimating his profits at an 
average .price, easily fifty c.ents a bushel, 
he received S18J750. The total cost of raising 
the crop is figured at abotit $7,000, leaving oil 
a Ptoflt of $11,750. This is the .first crop only. 
A second crop, for seed has been planted 
on the same ground: and It: Is .confidently 
expected the yield will be 18,000. bushels. 
Seed potatoes are worth two-or three times 
as much as the others, and a crop worth 
$15,000 is almost assured. Deducting the cost 
of production. Tice will clear $8,000 on this 
crop, making a “tuber” . mine worth $20,000 
a vear. A carload of potatoes has been 
shipped daily from the Tice farms sipca th« 
season opened. 
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