THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Henry Clay Weeks, secretary of the Amer¬ 
ican Mosquito Extermination Society, has secured the intro¬ 
duction of an anti-mosquito bill in the New York State 
Assembly through Mr. Wilsnack. The bill provides for a 
commission of 10 to be appointed by the Governor, to confer 
with similar commissions in adjacent States, for the pur¬ 
pose of exterminating the mosquito and to suggest a method 
of improving the great marshes of New Jersey, embracing 
over 40.000 acres of their favorite breeding ground. Another 
bill submitted to Mr. Rogers, chairman of the Ways and 
Means Committee, asks for an appropriation of $5,000 for 
the State entomologist to examine the breeding places of the 
malaria-bearing mosquito. "A similar bill has passed the 
New Jersey Legislature,” said Mr. Weeks, “and the question 
has been brought before the Federal. Pennsylvania and Cali¬ 
fornia State Governments.” . . . Fire in the Ninth Ave¬ 
nue car barns of the New York City Railway, February 9, 
destroyed 40 cars, valued at $4,000 each, and caused a total 
loss of over $175 000. ... A rear-end collision on the 
Second Avenue Elevated Railroad, New York, February !>, 
injured 40 persons, one fatally. . . . Reports from Mis¬ 
souri, Minnesota. Kansas, Nebraska. Iowa, the Dakotas, 
Northern Texas, the Indian Territory, Arkansas and Okla¬ 
homa February 12 describe unusually cold weather. High 
winds prevail in many localities, drifting the snow badly and 
delaying railroad traffic in all directions. From Oklahoma 
and Indian Territory come accounts of suffering and death 
as the result of the sudden norther. The country was cov¬ 
ered with a coat of ice and snow ranging in depth from three 
to eight inches, and this will serve as a protection to the 
wheat and fruit crops, but the live stock, and, in some in¬ 
stances. the people, were suffering severely. In northern 
Texas the worst blizzard in 10 years, with the thermometer 
at zero and below, prevailed. Coming so soon after the re¬ 
cent blizzard, when snow had been on the ground for 10 
clays, this severe weather will inflict great loss on cattlemen. 
The New York Suburban Company, 23 Park Row, 
and tiie 'twentieth Century Realty Company, 6 Wall Street, 
New York City, have been denied the use of the mails, a 
fraud order having been issued against them by the Post¬ 
master-General February 14. The Suburban company dealt 
in land in Suffolk County, L. I. To dispose of the land, 
which was declared by the postal inspectors to be worthless, 
it advertised alleged prize contests. To those participating 
in these contests, as well as to others whose addresses had 
been obtained, circulars of the company were sent informing 
the addressee that he was one of the prize winners and was 
entitled to one of the company's lots. Titles were conveyed 
to those who closed a deal on the payment of $5 to cover 
the cost of the necessary papers. On this payment the post 
office inspectors reported the company made an enormous 
profit. The Twentieth Century Company is the same kind 
of a concern and worked almost identically the same plan. 
The Battle House, a famous hotel at Mobile, Ala., 
was destroyed by fire February 13: loss $300,000. . ; 
Eire in a brick and iron business building on West Thirtieth 
Street New York, February 13. destroyed many valuable ob¬ 
jects of art, valued at $200,000. and other property put at 
$100,000; it took 14 engines to subdue the fire. . . . The 
expected break-up of the great ice field at the head of the 
harbor. Vineyard Haven, Mass., in which nine vessels had 
been held fast for more than two weeks, came February 13, 
when a portion of the field broke away and carried the Brit¬ 
ish schooner Greta ashore and demolished all the wharves 
on the west side of the harbor, with the exception of the 
steamboat wharf. . . . Through a settlement between 
the contending parties, the beautiful set of 80 rare china 
dishes which were plowed up on the Burdick farm, near 
West Edmeston, Otsego County, N. Y., in 1903, has gone 
into the hands of the Burdick heirs. Marion Cheesebrough, 
the tenant of the farm, who discovered the pre-Revolutionary 
relics, laid claim to them, and the title was in contest in 
the courts. The case has never teen tried on questions of 
fact, so the settlement out of court leaves the legal point 
still unsettled. The two grandsons and two granddaughters 
of the late Henry F. Burdick, who long owned the farm 
upon which the dishes were buried by Percifer Carr, the 
agent of Lord Edmeston, become the sole owners of the 
china over which collectors have been excited for two years, 
and which is said to be worth from $.>,000 to $10,000. 
ADMINISTRATION.—'The House Committee on Industrial 
Arts and Expositions February 9 favorably reported a bill 
the purpose of which is to enable the holding of the proposed 
Jamestown Exposition. The bill carries an appropriation of 
$2,650,000. Of this sum $2,000,000 is to be used for the 
establishment of a naval training station on the site of the 
proposed exposition. The remainder is to be used for the 
purpose of making a suitable Government exhibit. The 
buildings of the training station, it is proposed, shall be 
used for exhibition purposes.ludge A. II. Tanner, 
Senator Mitchell's law partner, confessed in Judge Bel¬ 
linger's court at Portland, Ore., February 11, to perjury in 
his evidence before the Federal Grand Jury in connection 
with tiie investigation of the land frauds in that State, when 
testimony was being taken with a view to connecting Senator 
Mitchell with the conspiracy to defraud the Government. 
Tanner, in his confession, said that there was a business 
agreement between Mitchell and Tanner, that Mitchell should 
have the proceeds of the practice of the law firm in tiie 
Federal courts, and that Tanner should have the proceeds 
resulting from practice before any of the governmental de¬ 
partments which would involve Senator Mitchell's oath that 
he would not take part in any law proceedings in which the 
Government is interested. The Federal Grand Jury indicted 
Congressman J. N. Williamson and his partner in the sheep 
business, Van Gesner, and also A. It. Biggs, land commis¬ 
sioner at Prlneville, Ore., charging conspiracy to defraud 
the United States of public lands. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—At a meeting of the stockholders 
of the llobart, N. Y., condensery recently it was decided to 
sell the plant to the Slawson-Decker Co. for $5,000. It was 
built at a cost of $8,500. The Slawson-Decker Co. have 
leased it for three years, and the sale will be completed 
April 1, when their lease expires. 
The conference on rural progress which was held last 
Spring at Kingston, II. I., under the auspices of the College 
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, was so successful that 
the committee appointed at that time have decided to hold 
a conference on similar lines in Providence March 22 and 
23. It is expected that speakers of National reputation 
will be present, and that a strong programme can be pres¬ 
ented. The committee in charge of the conference repre¬ 
sents a union of forces and is as follows: Hon. Rowland 
G. Hazard, Washington Countv Agricultural Society: lion. 
John G. Clarke, State Board of Agriculture: Frank E. 
Marchant. State Grange: Principal Charles S. Chapin. State 
Association of School Superintendents: Rev. E. Tallmadge 
Root, State Federation of Churches: Herbert J. Wells, 
Kingston Village Improvement Association: President Ken¬ 
yon L. Butterfield, Rhode Island College of Agriculture. 
The second atthual meeting of the New York Experiment 
ers' League was held at Cornell University, February 16 
and 17, following the Cornell Poultry Show. Timely papers 
and discussions by practical experimenters and farmers were 
strong features of the programme. J. W. Gilmore, Secre¬ 
tary, Cornell University. Ithaca. N. Y. 
The first annual meeting of the Ohio Live Stock Asso¬ 
ciation was held at Columbus February 7. 
The Montana State Horticultural Society held its annual 
meeting at Helena January 19 to 21. C. F. Dallman, Mis¬ 
soula, was elected president and W. Spurgeon secretary. 
MARKET TRAINS ON TROLLEY . 
An Ohio friend sends us the following clipping: 
“The Dayton and Troy, Ohio, system of electric railways 
Tuesday mailed a letter to each of its patrons living between 
Dayton and 'I'ippecanoe City, asking for an expression from 
them as to the practicability of some new service which the 
company proposes to install between Tippecanoe City and 
Dayton. On account of the extraordinary nature of this 
service it deserves more than passing mention, and it is the 
first time to our knowledge that an electric railway has ever 
nailed :o its patrons a letter asking for co-operation in ar¬ 
ranging details for operation. The company proposes to run 
on market days a special train, to be known as “The Market 
Men’s Special,” which will be scheduled on market days 
only, to arrive in Dayton before market opening and leave 
after market closes. Free storage room will be furnished by 
the company for market stands when not in use. and large 
hampers, with lids and locks, will be furnished for use in 
bringing stock to market. It is intended that these hampers 
will be transported free, together with contents, when ac¬ 
companied by passengers holding market, men's ticket. This 
will, as is readily seen, be a satisfactory way indeed for 
market men to attend market, to say nothing of being more 
economical and convenient than the use of the present 
wagons and teams. Dangers of freezing would be eliminated 
by reason of the electric heaters placed in the compartment 
where market stock would be carried. Whether or not this 
service will be installed depends largely upon the attitude 
of the peonle who will have occasion to use if, and it is to be 
hoped that they will enter heartily into co-operation with 
the company. It is proposed that a meeting be held in the 
near future where the whole plan in detail may be laid before 
the market people with a view to obtaining from them all 
possible information and advice." 
ABOUT FLORIDA.—We came to this town December 21 
from Charlottesville. Va. We came to escape cold Winters 
and late Spring frosts. But if it keeps on freezing as it diet 
on the nights of January 25. 26 and 27. we will have to 
move on to Cuba. Ice formed on the water buckets in the 
houses, and nearly every pump in town had to be “thawed 
out" before any water could be had. The truckers must 
replant the cucumbers and tomatoes. Some “cuke" vines 
were beginning to bear. All vegetables in the gardens are 
killed: oranges frozen solid on the trees, and many groves 
seriously injured, 'those who did not fire may lose many 
of their trees. In some orchards the entire crop is still 
hanging on the trees, 'the growers were waiting for higher 
prices tefore picking. It is getting to be “a gamble” to 
plant orange groves down here, for the freezes come too 
often for comfort. It was a lower temperature here than 
during the freeze of 1895. Then the temperature fell to 
17 degrees, and January 25 last was 15 degrees. w. f. 
Plant City, Fla. 
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Manures 
T HE potential or natural fertility of the soil is 
the latent plant food which all soils contain, 
but which is not immediately available for \ 
crops, a little of it becoming available from 
year to year through natural processes,— disintegration 
and decay. When we summer fallow, we develop the po¬ 
tential fertility of the soil. The farmer, however, who de¬ 
pends wholly or in part upon the potential fertility, unless 
he has summer fallowed, will get small returns for his 
labor, if indeed he gets anything at all. By supplying a 
single chemical now and then, like potash, he sometimes 
secures an accidentally large crop, but it is a speculation, 
a risk that no business farmer dependent on his crops 
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is to insure his crop by supplying what he knows it needs 
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happens to apply more than the crop needs, it is not 
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