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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Ralph C. Roberts, a student of the Univer¬ 
sity of Illinois, and a star football player, was killed in a 
railroad accident last fall. His administrator brought suit 
for $10,000. The railroad moved that the suit be dismissed 
on the ground that no evidence had been introduced to show 
that a person was depending upon Roberts for support, 
and that Roberts, being a college man, was really an ex¬ 
pense to his parents. Judge Wright, in the County Court, 
Rloomington. Ill., decided April 24 that the point was well 
taken, and dismissed the case. An appeal will be taken. 
. . . General Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, died at the Prov¬ 
idence Hospital, Washington, April 28, the result of an at¬ 
tack of apoplexy and paralysis, with which he was stricken 
while traveling by rail from Boston to Washington. Fitz¬ 
hugh Lee rendered his greatest service to his country during 
the Spanish war and the period that immediately preceded 
and followed that epoch in American history. At the out¬ 
break of the war he was in command of the Seventh Army 
Corps, and, though he did not see any actual fighting, took 
more active part in the conduct of the military movements 
than any other Southern man, with the possible exception 
of General “Hoe" Wheeler. During the period just before 
the war General Lee. as Consul General at Havana, where, 
though a Democrat, he had been retained by a Republican 
Administration, through his tact and firmness deserved so 
well of his country that his name will remain inseparable 
from 'that period of American history. After the war he 
became Military Governor of Havana, and did valuable 
work during the reconstruction period in Cuba. He was 
born in Clermont, Fairfax County, Va., November If), 183;". 
A nephew of Robert E. Lee, the famous Confederate General, 
and a grandson of General Henry 10. Lee, the noted “Light 
Horse Harry” of the Revolutionary war, he came from a 
family of famous soldiers. But his ancestors had been prom¬ 
inent in the councils of peace as well as the councils of war 
of their country ever since colonial days, and Fitzhugh did 
as much as any of his illustrious forbears to shed lustre on 
the name of Lee. He was a graduate of West Point, first 
saw active service in Indian warfare. lie resigned at the 
outbreak of the Civil War. and became a leader of the Con¬ 
federacy. After> the war he returned to his home in Staf¬ 
ford County. Va. For the next few years he applied him¬ 
self to farming. I,ike the majority of the other great Con¬ 
federate fighters, he accepted the result of the war phil¬ 
osophically and was one of the first recognized leaders of 
the Confederacy to preach the gospel of peace. '“The war is 
over, let bygones be bygones.” was the doctrine of Fitzhugh 
Lee. He spoke frequently in public in the interest of recon¬ 
ciliation. lie was elected Governor of Virginia in 1885. 
Conditions are becoming serious in the Chicago 
teamsters' strike. There have been riots in all parts of the 
city in which men have been clubbed, stoned and shot in the 
streets. . . The Cosmopolitan Magazine, established in 
1889 by J. Brisben Walker, and controlled by him ever since, 
has been sold to W. R. Ilearst, of New York. . . . New 
York City’s share of the profits of the Subway for the first 
five months amounted to $356,000. ... It is announced 
that the Rock Island and tlie St. Louis and San Francisco 
Railway Companies have selected Colorado as the principal 
State in which to settle the hulk of their employes to be 
benefited by the new pension plan, which is soon to be placed 
in operation. The officials of the two systems have decided 
to pension employes who have been in their service a certain 
length of time by giving them homes of 160 acres of agri¬ 
cultural land in the Western States, and Ben L. Winchell, 
president of the Rock Island, a former Denver man, believes 
it best to place the majority of them in Colorado. 
A fraud order was issued by Postmaster-General Cortelyou 
April 27 against Oscar I’. Smith. 105 Chambers Street, New 
York, on the ground that the Homeowners' Corporation, 108 
Broadway, against which a fraud order was issued recently, 
was seeking to evade the order by having its mail addressed 
to Smith. . . . Frank G. Bigelow, the defaulting Mil¬ 
waukee bank president, has confessed an indebtedness to 
banks, commercial institutions and estates of which lie had 
charge, which will aggregate between $2,000,000 and $3,000.- 
000, and, based on his confession, a voluntary petition in 
bankruptcy has been filed in the District Court, which con¬ 
tains the names of as many of Mr. Bigelow’s creditors as he 
can remember, together with a list <Af assets on which Mr. 
Bigelow's valuation is $1,410,000. By his own admission, 
his creditors extend all over the United States. One estate 
has been looted, his indebtedness to the Broadhead estate 
being $100,000. The debt is unsecured. It is also believed 
other trusts held by the former hanker have suffered. . . . 
April 2!) 20 persons were killed and many more injured by a 
tornado at Laredo, Tex. . . . By the wreck of a special 
train on the Southern Railway April 20 four persons were 
killed and many others injured. . . . Postmaster-Gen¬ 
eral Cortelyou has directed that the postolfice inspectors 
shall in future make investigation into any business that is 
being advertised under such inducements as to lead to the 
suspicion that the public is to lie defrauded. The advertis¬ 
ing columns of newspapers will be carefully scanned, and in 
cases where it is believed promises are put forth that cannot 
be made good under any ordinary methods of doing an 
honest business, fraud orders will issue or the parties will 
he summoned to explain their methods. Heretofore the 
Department has waited for complaints from victims of get- 
rich-quick concerns before taking action. 
The College of Agriculture of Cornell University has 
called a Good Roads Conference for May 16 to 19. This 
conference is for the purpose of discussing the educational 
phases of the good roads movement, and to give instruction 
to students and to all others who desire to come. Persons 
desiring further information should address L. II. Bailey, 
Director College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. 
SOUTHERN FERTILIZER LAWS. 
Cannot a farmer buy his fertilizer where he pleases? 
Could f buy my goods in New York if I pleased, and not 
be liable to a fine? Several years ago I wrote to two firms 
in a certain city; one agreed to furnish me goods, and the 
other claimed they had no license for Kentucky. 
READER. 
I send you our fertilizer law which. I think, will answer 
the question you ask. Where a manufacturer submits sam¬ 
ples, etc., agents are not compelled to do so. Furthermore, 
please notice what the law says in Section 1. 
Ivy. Station. m. s. scovell. Director. 
The sections mentioned read as follows: 
Section 1. In each year, before any person or company 
shall sell, offer or expose for sale in this State any commer¬ 
cial fertilizer, said person or company shall furnish to the 
Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, which 
Station is hereby recognized as the “Kentucky Agricultural 
Experiment Station,” a sealed quantity of such commercial 
fertilizer, not less than one pound, sufficient for analysis, 
accompanied by an affidavit that the sample so furnished 
is a fair and true sample of a commercial fertilizer which 
the said person or company desires to sell in this State; 
and said affidavit shall also state the name and address 
of the manufacturer, the name of the fertilizer, the number 
of net pounds in each package, and the minimum percentages 
of the essential ingredients guaranteed in said fertilizer, in 
such form and manner as may be prescribed by said Di¬ 
rector. 
Sec. 2. The Director of said Experiment Station, upou 
receipt of affidavit and sample as provided for in Section 1 
and upon receipt of the fees hereinafter provided, shall 
issue to said person or company a sufficient number of 
labels to tag not less than twenty (20) tons of said fer¬ 
tilizer, on which label shall be printed the name and ad¬ 
dress of the manufacturer, the name of (he fertilizer, the 
number of net pounds in each package, and the minimum 
percentage composition in terms approved by the said Di¬ 
rector as certified to in affidavit furnished by said person 
or company, together with a certificate from the Director 
over his facsimile signature, authorizing the sale of such 
package according to the provisions of this Act. 
The fertilizer laws in this State require of manufac¬ 
turers, jobbers and dealers in fertilizers, first, to register 
their brands of goods they propose to sell in Georgia with 
the Department of Agriculture, and to guarantee what it 
contains to the buyer. Then the State takes charge by in¬ 
specting these goods to see if they contain what they are 
guaranteed to contain. The seller is required to put upon 
each bag, barrel or package a tax tag showing that he 
has paid the tax of 10 cents per ton to the State, then he 
is prepared to do business; he may then sell to any per¬ 
son he desires in the State of Georgia. There is no law 
in this State to prevent anyone from buying goods, but the 
above-named rules must be complied with before they can 
be sold. o. B. STEVENS. 
Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture. 
Our State fertilizer law requires that each dealer in fer¬ 
tilizers shall pay a small license fee, and the sale of fer¬ 
tilizers by parties who have failed to take out such license 
is illegal. In addition, a tag tax of 30 cents per Ion is im¬ 
posed on all fertilizers sold in this State, and there is a 
fine attached to the sale of untagged fertilizers, and such 
sales are also considered void. Where goods are sold by 
manufacturers without the State and the actual delivery 
is made in the State, the courts of this State have held that 
such fertilizers must also be tagged, and manufacturers and 
dealers without the State have generally acquiesced in 
this interpretation of the law. I do not know of any case 
in which I lie buyer of untagged fertilizers shipped from 
without the State has boon made to suffer for the failure 
of the seller to tag the fertilizer. The courts, however, 
would hold such a sale to be void, and on this account 
manufacturers and dealers living without the State are 
very careful about tagging goods destined for points within 
this State. ’ “Could a citizen buy fertilizer on the outside 
from a farmer who has not paid your license?” To this I 
would reply that a sale of this kind would he considered in 
the same light as a sale made by a dealer or manufacturer 
residing without the State, and yet delivering the goods 
within the State. b. b. ross. 
Alabama State Chemist. 
As I understand it, the firms selling goods into this State 
are required to pay a tax of 50 cents on the ton for all 
goods sold here, and are liable to a fine if they sell un¬ 
tagged gooos. As far as I know, however, there is no pen¬ 
alty attached to the farmer buying the untagged goods. He 
simply runs the risk of being cheated. chas. a. mooers. 
Chemist Tenn. Exp. Station. 
BOXES VS. BARRELS FOR APPLES. 
What has been your experience with boxed apples as com¬ 
pared with barrels the past season? For cold storage which 
style of package is best? 
There are no eastern anples that will sell in boxes. The 
only apples which sell in that package are the Californias 
and Oregons. which are packed in boxes of light wood spe¬ 
cially made for them, with fancy lithographed labels. The 
eastern apples cannot compare with them in appearance, 
but have a better flavor, hut the only package that can 
be used for the eastern apples is the barrel. 
New York. R. w. dixon & son. 
We have not had very much experience in handling 1k>x 
apples. What few apples are handled in boxes are mostly 
fancy varieties, such as Jonathan, Spitzenburg, Winesap, 
Belleflower and a few such varieties, from Oregon and Colo¬ 
rado. We have not had any experience in handling Mich¬ 
igan or Illinois fruit in those packages, but we find that 
apples sell better in boxes, when the fruit is extra choice, 
and people only want a limited amount. frost bros. 
Chicago, Ill. 
We do not handle many boxed apples, hut it is our opin¬ 
ion that the box is the proper package for apples, as it 
seems to us that the goods must be honestly packed. In 
addition to this, it ought to cause wider distribution of 
apples in families who could not afford to buy a barrel, 
but could afford to buy a box. It is our opinion that at 
present there is strong prejudice against boxes in favor 
of barrels, and we think this prejudice is more on account 
of old associations than anything else. We consider that 
the new box is a much more preferable package for apples 
than a second-hand, musty old Hour barrel that may have 
been doing service as an ash barrel for six months before 
it. was used for apples. c. b. sanborn & co. 
Boston, Mass. 
Our experience with box apples compared with barrel 
apples this season has been about the same as previous 
seasons: if any difference, the situation has been in favor 
of barrels. The writer may be somewhat prejudiced in 
favor of barrels, as he has always advocated that nothing 
should be put in boxes except some few fancy varieties and 
fancy stock in a limited way. We have found that it is 
much easier to sell a car of barrel stock than a car of 
box stock. Our experience is that the retail grocerymen sell 
the hulk of apples that are consumed, and they prefer the 
barrel apples. In regard to cold storage, our experience in 
the way of keeping is in favor of the barrels. I am a 
grower as well as a dealer, and. as I said before, would 
put nothing in boxes except the fancy varieties. 
Kansas City, Mo. c. c. clemens. 
Our experience in shipping apples in boxes or small pack¬ 
ages has not been as satisfactory as we might have hoped. 
It has always been our opinion that at the prevailing price 
for cooperage stock, and the possibility of same being al¬ 
ways high, it would be a great advantage to the export 
trade in general if some other package could lie used to 
take the place of the barrel. Buyers on the other side do 
not seem to take to boxes for some reason or other, the 
chief objection seeming to be that they can buy the fruit 
cheaper in barrels when it comes to weight, for, as you 
know, apples in Europe as a rule are sold at retail by 
weight. In regard to storage of box apples I have no per¬ 
sonal experience this year. p. w. duncan. 
New York. 
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