1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
347 
Events of the Week. 
DOM’KSTIC.—Judge Hiram Brownlee, of Indiana, has been 
appointed to investigate “white slavery” in the lumber 
camps and on plantations in Mississippi, where it Is charged 
a large number of Indiana citizens are held in bondage. The 
men, many of whom are the heads of families, went to Mis¬ 
sissippi under contracts at .$3 a day, but they were informed 
on their arrival that the wages would be f>0 cents a day. 
Their railroad fare had been advanced, and when they pro¬ 
tested the alternative of working at tlie 50-cent wage to 
repay their fare or going to prison was given. . . . Egg 
shells containing acid were thrown from building tops in 
Chicago April 8 at teams and their drivers hauling goods 
from Montgomery, Ward & Co.’s store to the Northwestern 
freight house. A teamsters' strike had started the day be¬ 
fore. Fortunately no one was hit. the only injury sus¬ 
tained being by a policeman who attempted to pick up part 
of an egg slid 1 filled with the acid and burned his fingers. 
It is believed that the ammunition in this warfare of the 
teamsters was expected to burn the horses attached to the 
wagons and cause them to run away. In addition to this, 
acts of violence on tlie part of the strikers and their sym¬ 
pathizers, and fights with tlie police in which several non¬ 
union men were badly beaten, and many arrests, marked the 
passing of the second day of the teamsters’ strike. With the 
assistance of a large detail of police, Montgomery, Ward 
& Co. succeeded in the course of the day in moving It! wagon- 
loads of merchandise to the Santa Fe, Illinots Central and 
Michigan Central freight houses. . . . K. T. Marchand, 
special attorney for the Interstate Commerce Commission, 
is in Chicago looking up evidence to present to the com¬ 
mission, which is to meet there soon, relative to the charge 
that the rates on corn products are excessive and unjust. 
Complaint has been made that the tariffs from the Missouri 
ltiver to the Southwest and the Far West are out of propor¬ 
tion to the rates on the raw material. This is said to 
operate against the corn products factories in the Missouri 
River district, where a large percentage of (he raw material 
is grown. Under (lie existing adjustment, it is stated, fac¬ 
tories in the West and Southwest can buy corn in the Mis¬ 
souri River territory, ship it to their factories and manu¬ 
facture it cheaper than the Missouri River factories can 
buy the corn on the ground and ship out the corn products 
. . . Pittsburg, I’a., was visited by a severe hailstorm 
April 10, some of the hailstones measuring two inches in 
diameter; much damage was done to greenhouse structures. 
. . . An illicit saloon at Kin ora, fnd., was blown up 
April 10, and the fire ensuing caused a loss of $20,000 
. . . April 10 the officials conducting the Beef Trust in 
rpiiry in Chicago seized six trunks stored with a safe de- 
posit company, which are said to contain books, papers and 
office records which will be used as evidence. The Govern¬ 
ment has information that 20 more trunks, also said to 
contain packing house-records, have been secreted, and Secret 
Service men are making strenuous efforts to locate them. 
. . . The homes of William Cato, a negro, and John 
Alexander, a white man, both non-union miners at BIoss- 
burg, 15 miles west of Birmingham, Ala., were blown up with 
dynamite April 11. A 10-year-old daughter of Alexander 
was killed and two other children were injured. The ex¬ 
plosive was placed on the front porch of Alexander's house. 
Both houses were badly wrecked. There Is a strike of min¬ 
ers on at Blossburg. No clue to Hie perpetrators of the 
outrage has been found. 
ADMINISTRATION.—Pension Commissioner Vespasian 
Warner created consternation among the subordinates In his 
department April 10 when be let it. be known that he had 
issued an order citing 10 members of the Board of Pension 
Review to show cause why they should not be dismissed for 
irregularities and slipshod methods In passing upon cases 
brought to their official attention. Mr. Warner is after the 
members of the Board of Review for passing applications 
for pensions from persons who were never in the Government 
service. ThS members of the board have not answered MV. 
Warner’s demand that they show cause why they should not 
be dismissed, and it is not known what action the Commis¬ 
sioner will take. He declared in emphatic terms, however, 
that such irregularites should be stopped in the department, 
and expressed the opinion that perhaps the most effective 
way to put an end to carelessness and slipshod methods 
would be to make an example of the men who have been 
found delinquent. . . . Notice of the temporary injunc¬ 
tion restraining the postmaster at Kansas City from putting 
into effect the fraud order issed by the Post Office Depart¬ 
ment against the Ilaydock Distilling Company and Becker 
Bros. & Co., two concerns doing a mail order whiskey busi¬ 
ness, was received by the Attorney-General for the Depart¬ 
ment April 11. It is inferred by the Department officials 
that the temporary injunction will be made permanent and 
the associate Attorney-General announced that an appeal 
would be taken at once. This will bring the case before the 
United States District Court of Appeals, which sits at St. 
Paul on May 1. The law gives a case of this kind preced¬ 
ence, and every effort will be made to obtain a quick deci¬ 
sion. The fraud orders in question were based on the alle¬ 
gation that the two companies were securing business 
through false representations in their advertisements, the 
false representations being admitted by the manager of the 
companies. The Kansas City Judge, however, holds that 
a fraud order cannot be issued for false pretence and misrep¬ 
resentations of this character. Ilis decision is that an indi¬ 
vidual or company cannot be denied the use of the mails 
unless he or it is engaged in some kind of a lottery business. 
The importance of the question involved is apparent when it 
is known that 80 per cent of the fraud orders issued by the 
Post Office Department are based on the interpretation of the 
law that such orders shall issue against persons securing 
business through false or fraudulent pretences, representa¬ 
tions or promises. 
VENEZUELA.—A serious hitch in the agreement re¬ 
cently signed between British and German bondholders 
and the Venezuelan Government threatens to render 
the scheme for the satisfaction of the former’s claims un¬ 
workable. A clause in the contract provides that the pro¬ 
portion of the revenues assigned to the bondholders shall he 
paid to British legation and consular officials in Venezuela, 
but the British government refuses its consent. The bond¬ 
holders are discussing an alternative arangement, but con¬ 
siderable doubt exists that the contract will be carried out. 
Minister Bowen has made a detailed report of his negotia¬ 
tions with President Castro, of Venezuela, to have America’s 
claims settled by arbitration and of the arbitrary refusal to 
accede to this demand. 
ORCHARD AND DAIRY NOTES.—There are within a ra¬ 
dius of eight miles perhaps 75,000 peach trees owned by 25 
farmers. Not more than ten of these growers spray the trees 
with lime, sulphur and salt for San ,Tos<5 scale. As the sea¬ 
son has been very severe, traveling In the orchard was not to 
be thought of, until since the snow left; an average of snow 
two feet deep was on the ground. The mice played havoc 
in some sections, girdling the bark of the tree from a small 
patch large as a half dollar to eight inches up the trunk 
of the tree and all the way round. In one instance a man 
having a block of about 1.000 trees says fully 50 per cent are 
girdled; he fears beyond recovery, although he connected the 
bark by inserting twigs above and below the wound. These 
trees are five years old and about four to five inches in 
caliper. It: has been a very cold Winter; no severe cold 
(the lowest being 20 degrees below zero) that would kill 
the buds, except on the very low. undrained land. A hand¬ 
some crop is anticipated. The Bordens have just located at 
New Milford and agree to pay the farmers quite an advance 
over the prevailing price received heretofore, which was 
within one-quarter cent of New York Exchange. They will 
receive about 300 cans daily, and expect to erect a building 
which will cost $15,000, employing about 40 hands. 
New Milford, N. Y. h. v. 
MARKET FOR BUTTERMILK.—I saw in The R. N.-Y. 
some time ago, a man wanting to know where he could find 
a market for buttermilk. The people of this nart of the 
world are raised on buttermilk. Our cotton mills are run 
by native labor, so you see the demand is always ahead of 
the supply. The article sells here at 10 cents per gallon and 
any sort of butter sells for 20 cents per pound. We have 
mills all over this Piedmont section of South Carolina from 
two to 10 miles apart. Some of our mills employ several 
thousand operatives. Our people don’t seem to take to the 
truck business much. There is a good demand all the time 
for vegetables, chickens, eggs, buttermilk, etc. E. H. w. 
South Carolina. 
INDIANA NOTES.—We have had a beautiful March, 
more than the usual amount of sunshine, with only occa¬ 
sional Spring showers. Wheat looks fine and grass is begin¬ 
ning to look quite green. The heavy snow, which remained 
until late, was a great protection to the Winter, or grass 
crops. Poaches seem to be all killed, but otherwise we have 
good prospects for all kinds of crops. Ruby Queen was 
loaded witli beautiful roses last Summer but was badly win¬ 
ter-killed, only those branches lying flat on the ground 
survived. Crimson Rambler was partially killed; shall see 
to it that both plants have ample protection next Winter. 
Produce and stock of ail kinds bring a good price, roads 
fine and everything lively. a. s. o. 
Pittsboro, Ind. 
CAROLINA CROPS.—Eggs are retailing at 13 cents per 
dozen; hens 40 cents to 45 cents each ; broilers, 35 cents. 
Peaches are nearly done blooming; strawberries have lots of 
bloom; corn is nearly all planted. We will plant cotton in 
15 days If weather is favorable, about April 15. 1 am 
cutting asparagus freely. w. T. 
Aiken, S. C. _ 
BUSINESS BITS . 
Tub 1905 model bicycles, with coaster-brakes and punc¬ 
ture-proof tires, would have been considered miracles of 
mechanical achievement only a few decades ago, and yet they 
can be bought to-day for only a fraction of the prices then 
prevailing. The Mead Cycle Company, of Chicago, are offer¬ 
ing the finest of this year’s models at from $10 to $24, and 
the models of 1903 and 1904 at. from $7 to $12. Their fac¬ 
tory clearing sale is attracting much attention among wheel¬ 
men, and their special catalogue, which they mail free, is 
worthy of careful study. 
There are several manure spreading machines on the 
market, but there is one particular spreader which stands 
out as a splendid example of worthiness. It is the 
American manure spreader, made by (lie American Harrow 
Company, of Detroit, M'ich. Tt is sakl that a boy can 
operate this spreader as well as a man. By one lever, the 
driver, without stopping his team, may gauge the flow of 
manure as thick or thin, as coarse or fine, as he wishes. 
The bottom, which carries the load back to the cylinder, 
moves backward and forward on three frictionless wheels, 
running on three steel tracks. Every farmer ought to have 
the treatise on the value and uses of manures issued by 
the above named firm. Send your address. 
The Stoddard Mfg. Co., of Rutland. Vt., have just com¬ 
pleted their new silo catalogue for 1905, It is an elaborate 
booklet entitled “Green Mountain Silos and Silage,” and 
while if naturally points out the principal features of their 
own silos, such as the patented Green Mountain door front 
and doors, hoops with cold pressed threads and the lumber 
used, it also takes up the advantages of using silage as 
compared with other Winter feeds, making it a valuable 
book for anyone interested in this important subject. The 
principal claim of the Stoddard Co. for the Green Mountain 
silo is, that no expense is spared to make it the best silo 
manufactured. The Stoddard Co.’s new catalogue will inter¬ 
est yon if you are interested in silos. 
Those of our readers who use or are intending to pur¬ 
chase power sprayers will l>e interested in the gasoline en¬ 
gine spraying machine manufactured by the Doming Com¬ 
pany, Salem, Ohio. The Doming Company are old and well 
known manufacturers of all kinds of spraying devices. The 
power sprayer is one of their later inventions. It meets 
admirably the requirements of those who must employ a 
power of some kind to spray their large trees and in their 
field and orchard operations. The outfit can be conveniently 
mounted on a wagon bed or tank wagon. Any style or size 
of supply tank can be used. Any one Interested la power 
sprayers will do well to send to the Doming Company for 
their catalogue and full particulars about this machine. 
The Walter A Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Com¬ 
pany. whose enormous plant is located at Hoosick Falls, 
New York, are the oldest Independent manufacturers of har¬ 
vesting machines in the world. All their purchases and 
manufacturing operations are on such a large scale as to 
enable them to take advantage of all concessions. This in 
its turn goes to the purchaser in price, quality and ser¬ 
vice. This firm issues a handsome booklet which describes 
their full line of harvesting machinery and gives pictures 
of some of their experts whose skill makes the Walter A. 
Wood products world leaders. They will gladly mall a 
copy to any one interested. This is a valuable booklet, and 
their liberal offer should be taken advantage of by every 
farmer in the country. 
There is to be found In our advertising columns a novelty 
in the way of a fruit package which promises much for 
growers. We refer to the Ferres fruit box, manufactured by 
the .T. W. Sefton Mfg. Co., Anderson. Ind. The Ferres box 
is made of corrugated paper, properly water-proofed. Tt Is 
made to keep its shape by re-enforcing with tin and wood 
veneer. Besides being cheaper and lighter, a great advan¬ 
tage it has over wooden boxes is that if does not have to be 
nailed together and still is shipped packed flat, or in knocked 
down form. Tt is simply stretched or pulled into proper 
shape, something after the manner of egg case fillers. It is 
also claimed to be an excellent non-conductor of heat and 
cold. We would recommend packers and shippers of fruit 
to look into the merits of this package. 
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SOLUBLE AND VALUABLE PLANT-FOOD FORMS KNOWN 
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potash, carbonate ot potash, nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, etc . etc. Without knowledge of the sources or character of the materials used 
in making- a mixed fertilizer the chemist is unable to determine the plant food value of the ingredients, particularly organic nitrogen, phos¬ 
phoric acid insoluble, and all form3 of potash. 
FRUIT, TRUCK AND SPECIAL CROP GROWING ON A LARGE SCALE 
In many cases some of these soils are of the lightest sandy character Some in Florida have been described as “looking under a pocket magnifier 
like powdered window glass.” They have little plant food resources of their own. All has to be supplied in the fertilizer. 
“With judicious use of the Mapes Manures, worn-out lands can he restored to fertility quicker and with 
less expense than any other way.”—American Agriculturist. 
Special pamphlet and circulars sent free on the growing of Celery (over $11,500, 31 acres); a/so on Strawberries, Truck, Small 
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WHEAT YIELD.—Over 550 bushels wheat from 14 a res. Mr. R. W. Rives, “Carnwartli,” New Hamburgh, N. Y., President of the Dutchess 
County Agricultural Society, reports: “The thresher’s measure was 542 bushels, which I find in remeasuring overran to between 550 to 560 bushels. 
I consider that a fine yield, especially as I have a magnificent catch of grass besides. I used the Mapes Complete Manure.” 
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