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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Official reports, showed -13 new cases of 
yellow fever, and four deaths September 13 in New Orleans. 
Dr. White, of the United States Marine Hospital corps, 
feels sure that the yellow fever in New Orleans is under 
control and lias been for some time, but he has refrained 
giving publicity to his opinion, fearing that it would cause 
some of the citizens to relax from their steady efforts toward 
eradicating the disease and prolong the battle, lie hopes 
in have the fever stamped out before frost. Three of four 
vases reported in Hamburg, Miss., have been diagnosed as 
yellow fever. Twenty-four new cases of yellow fever and 
two deaths were reported at New Orleans September 17. 
Three of the new cases were brought in from the adjacent 
parishes, making the lowest report since the fever began. 
Among the new cases is that of Dr C’. M. Shanley of North 
Dakota, who owns plantations below the city. Country 
parishes report 22 new cases and oue death. September 
lb low temperatures in the Texas Panhandle and frost in 
New Mexico encouraged the health officers. Owing to the 
i igid quarantine Instituted against Baton Rouge by East 
Baton Rouge Parish, cotton is reported lo be going away 
from that city and corn is being stolen or rotting in the 
fields. Business men and the health authorities are trying 
to relieve this condition. . . Four men were killed, 
six were seriously burned, and a dozen more were stunned 
bv lightning, which wrecked a crowded poultry exhibition 
tent at the Warren County Fair at Indianola. Iowa, 
September 14, Lightning struck the tent pole, splitting it 
in two and tearing the sides of the tent into shreds. Hun¬ 
dreds of the chickens on exhibition were killed. 
David E. Sherrick, elected auditor of Indiana in 1002 and 
re-elected in 1004, has resigned his office at the demand of 
(lovernor llanly. lie is short in his accounts $145,000, of 
which $100,000 must be paid by the surety company bond¬ 
ing him. . . . Thirteen persons were killed and five 
critically injured by an explosion at the Climax Fuse Works, 
Avon, Conn., September 15. James Joyce was trying to 
remove an obstruction from one of the machines with hot 
iron, which came in contact with a fuse, and the explosion 
followed. The property loss is $150,000. . . Senator 
Henry S. Ambler died at Chatham, N Y., September 17. 
Senator Ambler represented the Twenty-fourth Senate dis¬ 
trict, which includes Dutchess. Columbia and Putnam coun¬ 
lies. lie was born in New York city in 1830 and received 
iiis education at the Mount Washington Collegiate Institu¬ 
tion and the City Institute, from which he was graduated 
in 1853. In 1856 he moved to his father’s farm in the 
town of Austerlitz, Columbia County, and took up farming. 
In 1801 he became agent and steward for the New York 
Institution for the Blind, a place formerly held by Grover 
Cleveland. He resigned in 1800 to enter the dairy produce 
business, and in 1873 he bought his father’s iarm and began 
breeding Jersey and Kerry cat He. lie retired from the pro¬ 
duce business in 1888 and after that he devoted himself to 
general farming and stock raising. He was also interested 
in oil wells in West Virginia Ohio and Indiana. Mr. Am¬ 
bler was always an active Republican He was a Columbia 
county Supervisor for ten years. In 1890 hetwas appointed 
Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture and held that place 
until 1899, when he took ids seat in the Senate, having 
defeated James II. Russell, lie was re-elected three times, 
lie was chairman of the Committee on Agriculture until this 
year, when he became chairman of the Committee on Insur¬ 
ance. He was a member of the committees on railroads, 
revision and agriculture. Senator Ambler was identified with 
the agricultural interests of the State and was appointed 
by Governor Morton, Black. Roosevelt and Odell as a dele¬ 
gate to the annual sessions of the National Farmers' Con 
gress. He was vice-president of the State Farmers' Con¬ 
gress and of the State Farmers’ League. He was the author 
of several measures for the benefit of farmers and dairymen. 
The Italian American Agricultural Association, 
formed to promote the distribution of emigration from Italy 
throughout the agricultural districts of the United States 
and especially over the undeveloped arable lands of the 
Southern States, was Incorporated at Albany N. Y., Sep¬ 
tember 18. The principal office is In New York city. The 
directors are Eliot Lord, Benjamin F. Buck, B. F. Broder¬ 
ick. If. W. Booth and G. R. Shroeder of New Yotk and C. 
R. Borzillory of Buffalo. . . . Colonel Henry C. Dem¬ 
ining. a geologist, of Harrisburg. Pa., has uncovered large 
deposits of uranophane and nranite, or pitchblende, from 
which radium is made, in Colorado. Ills discovery will re¬ 
duce the price of radium from $3,000,000 an ounce to only 
$1,000,000. The deposits found by Colonel Demining are In 
San Miguel and La Plata counties. The deposit in the latter 
lie estimates will yield 2.800.000 tons of ore, for It is more 
than seven miles in length and a foot thick. A ton and a 
half of this mineral will yield three grains of radium. 
PANAMA.—Reports from Bogota indicate that General 
Rafael Reyes, President of Colombia, backed by the army, 
is ruling as dictator, having violated the Constitution bv 
suspending all departments of the Government except the 
Executive. It is stated that General Reyes declared himself 
dictator on September 8. Ills first act was to imprison ihe 
members of the Supreme Court. The specific act of this 
body which precipitated Reyes’s action is not stated, but its 
members are known to have offended the President by rigor¬ 
ous interpretation of the Constitution contrary to his will. 
General Reyes bps only the army, such as it is, to support 
his action. Mobs in Bogota have attacked the presidential 
residence, and conflicts with the armed handful of men who 
make up the army have taken place. It is reported that 
tnanv have been killed and wounded. In addition to 
anarchy in the capital, there is revolution in the provinces. 
Popular uprisings have taken place in Antioqua and San- 
lander which threaten to swell to serious proportions. 
There has been a growing unrest in Colombia ever since 
the successful secession of Panama. Bitterness against the 
United States immediately after that event made anyone 
popular who had opposed America in any way. The mass 
of the people have become reconciled to the change, and 
favor a policy calculated to reap for Colombia a share in the 
benefits bound to come with the digging and operation of the 
canal. _ 
CROP PROSPECTS. 
As far as we can learn, there is very near a full crop 
of cabbage in this part of the country. 
Chicago. FROST BROTHERS. 
In our immediate section there is no cabbage to speak of, 
as this is not a egbbage section. We understand that in 
the northern and north central part of the State there 
is quite a fair crop, and that Wisconsin has a very good 
crop. BENDER, STREIBIG & CO. 
Cincinnati, O. 
In regard to cabbage crop in this section, on account of a 
poor stand and dry weather there will only be a half crop. 
Clyde, Ohio. a. t. w 
We have had several reports from some of our shippers In 
Illinois stating that they would fall short of last year's 
output, but did not know exactly how much. 
Louisville, Ky. a. m. emi.er & co. 
This district is usually cleaned up by October I : crop 
is not large. Racine and Green Bay, Wls., the principal 
cabbage districts in that State, report about 60 per cent, of 
a full crop—maybe a little more. P. M. kiely. 
St. Louis, Mo. 
The potato crop will be the lightest this year it has been 
in years, on account of the blight. Our potatoes were 
planted late this year on account of wet weather: bad the 
blight not struck them we would have had a fair crop, 
but as it is some fields will not be worth digging. Most of 
the farmers wish to sell right at digging time, as so many 
lost by holding last year. J. it. a. 
Coral, Mich. _ 
LIVE STOCK AT NEW YORK STATE FAIR. 
POULTRY.—The poultry show at the New York State 
Fair was larger and of better quality than any previous 
show. Below is a list showing how the numbers were dis¬ 
tributed among the breeds, giving the most popular breeds 
separate mention and grouping the rest in classes. These 
figures give the whole number of birds entered and should 
not be confused with the number of entries, as each entry 
for pen represents five birds: Whole number of birds en¬ 
tered, 3,541. American: Barred Plymouth Rocks. 112; 
White P. Rock. 108; Buff P. Rock, 63; Silver Penciled 
P. Rock, 14. Wyandottcs, Silver, 22; Golden, 6: White. 
162; Buff, 82; Black, 51; Partridge. 90; Silver Penciled. 
39; Columbian, 19. Black Javas, 35; Mottled Javas, 32; 
White Javas, 4. Dominiques, 40; Rhode Island Reds. 70; 
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, 68: Sherwoods, 4. Asiatic: 
Light Brahmas, 47 ; Dark Brahmas, 42. Buff Cochins. 31 ; 
Partridge Cochins. 31; White Cochins, 19; Black Cochins, 
15. Black Laugshans, 23; White Langslians, 22. Mediter¬ 
ranean : Single Comb Brown Leghorns, 66: It. C. Brown 
Leghorns, 87; S. C. White-Leghorns, 129; R. C. White, 29; 
Buff Leghorns, 77: Black Leghorns, 62; Silver Duckwing 
Leghorns, 19. Black Minorcas, 54: It. C. Black Minorcas, 
13; White Minorca, 49; R. C. White Minorca, 14. Anda- 
usians, 46 ; White Faced Black Spanish, 18. Anconas, 31 ; Eng¬ 
lish : White Dorkings, 29 ; Silver Gray Dorkings. 21 ; Col¬ 
ored Dorkings, 31. Buff Orpington, 43: It. C. Buff Orping¬ 
ton, 8; White Orpington, 7: Black Orpington, 16: Red 
Caps. 25. Polish: White Crested Black Polish, 20: Beard¬ 
ed Golden, 23; Bearded Silver, 22; Bearded White. 8; 
Buff Laced, 22; Non-Bearded Golden. 25; Non-Bearded Sil¬ 
ver, 20; Non-Bearded White, 17. Dutch: Golden Spangled 
llamburgs, 18; Silver Spangled. 50; Golden Penciled. 27; 
Silver Penciled, 16: White llamburgs. 16; Black llamhurgs, 
21. French: Houdans, 35; Crevecoeurs. 5; La Fleche, 19. 
Games: Cornish Indian Games, 15; White, 12: all other 
varieties, 152. Bantams: Game Bantams. 123: Orna¬ 
mental, 335. Miscellaneous: Silkies, Sultans, Frizzles ami 
Rumpless, 24; Guineas, 12; Pea Fowls. 6; pheasants, 8. 
Turkeys: Bronze, 4; Narragansett, 2: Slate. 4: White, 8; 
Black, 6. Ducks: Pekin, 12; Aylesbury. 8; Rouen, 10; 
all other varieties, 74. Geese: Toulouse, 12; Embden, 8; 
African, 6; Brown Chinese. 10: White Chinese. 8; all other 
varieties, 10. Pigeons, all varieties, 183. Rabbits, all vari¬ 
eties, 6; Belgian hares, 1. . 
While a large number of birds were shown by men who 
make a business of following a circuit of the Autumn shows 
with large strings of birds composed largely of the rarer 
breeds, there were many fine exhibits by breeders who breed 
but one or two of the more popular varieties; and a study 
of this class of exhibits will give a fairer idea of the popu¬ 
larity of the various breeds. The White Wyandotte appears 
easily to take the lead as a general-purpose fowl, and the 
Barred Plymouth Rock, though closely pressed for second 
place by the Wbii» and Buff Plymouth Rock and Buff Wy¬ 
andotte, seems to have a very loyal following. Of the newer 
general purpose varieties the Rhode Island Red seems to be 
gaining steadily in popularity, and the Partridge Wyandotte 
seems to be making rapid progress. Of the heavier breeds 
the Light Brahma easily takes the lead, with the Dark 
Brahma, Buff and Partridge Cochins following. These 
bieeds are but little bred on large poultry plants or on 
fauns, but seem to fit verv well in the small yards Of the 
village and suburban fancier. The White Leghorn still 
stands at the head of the Mediterranean class, and is the 
most popular of any breed for the esg farm. Browns and 
Buffs were well represented, as were also Minorcas and 
Andalusians. The 8 C Brown Leghorn takes second place 
in this class, and some claim they are hardier than the 
Whiles, but as a rule they are smaller and lay 
smaller eggs. The English Orpington is getting quite 
popular, especially the Buff, but with its light col- 
oiod legs it will have a hard time in supplanting the 
Plymouth Rocks and Wvandottes. The Polish, llamburgs, 
French and Games seem to be popular only with a few 
small fanciers and string men, hut they add much to the at¬ 
tractiveness and completion of a show. No doubt under cer¬ 
tain conditions these breeds prove valuable for eggs and 
poultry, but they aro not for the practical poultryman in 
taige numbers. Bantams wore well represented, and many 
cilv people who have not room to keen anything else derive 
great pleasure and considerable profit from these diminu¬ 
tive representatives of our larger breeds. The most nopular 
variety seems to he the Buff Cochin. The Black Cochin, 
Sebright and Rose Comb Blacks are also quite largely bred. 
Turkeys, geese and ducks were shown in fair numbers, and 
pigeons made a fair showing. Belgian hares seem to have 
lost their popularity, as but one was shown. There was a 
line exhibit of poultry appliances and foods, covering every¬ 
thing that a poultryman needs, and it would be hard to 
think of anything in the wav of poultry supplies that can 
not he bought readvmade or prepared. The cooping and 
management is as good as the best Winter shows. 
CATTI-E.—Most of the cattle shown were of exceptionally 
good quality, and though some classes were rather light and 
lacked competition, in other classes the competition was 
verv keen. The following table will give the number of en¬ 
tries in each class, hut does not represent the exact number 
of cattle, as the herd and champion entries were mostly 
filled with animals that were entered singly. There were 
ulso some club special entries that were filled by animals 
entered in the regular classes, but these are not included in 
the table: Short-Horns, 80 entries; Devons, 52; Iletefords, 
18: Aberdeen Angus, 60; Red Polled, 81; Galloways, 35; 
Brown Swiss, 52; Holsteiu-Friesians, 87; Ayrshires. 86; 
Jersevs, 50 ; Polled Jerseys. 54 ; Guernseys, 36; French 
Canadian, 29; Dutch Belted, 35; total cattle, 755. A very 
small percentage of the beef breeds were from the State; 
most of them coming from Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, 
with a few from Pennsylvania. The quality of the beef 
breeds was up to or ahead of previous years, but they lacked 
some In numbers. There is but little interest taken in beet 
cattle in the Stale, and if we stop to consider that we are 
one of the leading dairy States, and at one time were the 
foremost dairy State in the Union, it Is but natural that 
these tlesh producing breeds are left for our western neigh¬ 
bors. We cannot afford to own them. 
In the dairy breeds, however, these conditions are com¬ 
pletely reversed, and but one exmilAtor comes from the 
West and two from New England, where the conditions are 
very similar to our own. The Holsteiu-Friesians were the 
largest class and the premiums hotly contested for. There 
were some very fine Individuals shown, and considerable in¬ 
terest was manifest along Ihese aisles by milkmen and 
c heese factory patrons. The strong competition was partly 
due, no doubt, to there being no competition in this class 
in 1904, while the lack of competition in Guernseys was a 
result of the sharp competition of last year. The Ayr¬ 
shires were well represented by four large herds, a 1*1 from 
the .State, as were Ihe Holsteln-Frlesians. The competition 
here was exceptionally strong, and many fine animals had 
lo go unplaced. The Jersey class also was warmly con¬ 
tested by two well-known herds, one coming from Massachu¬ 
setts. The aged bulls iji this class were very choice, as were 
also some of the females. In Guernseys there was no com¬ 
petition, but the breed was well represented by a uniformly 
good herd that contained some exceptional animals. The 
cow that won first In class for cows over three and under 
five and champion cow any age was of a type that breeders 
would like to make their whole herds. She was of very sym¬ 
metrical form, had a well-shaped udder with fore udder very 
full and teats well placed and far apart, a hide the color of 
gold, and as fine and soft as silk. The Brown Swiss were 
all State cattle, and were very fine, one cow holding an 
official record of 23 pounds 1.94 ounces butter in seven days, 
though from appearances the cattle could easily he classed 
with the beef breeds. The Polled Jerseys were out in good 
numbers, and one herd was entered from Ohio. They re¬ 
semble their horned sisters very closely, though somewhat 
heavier. Of Dutch Belted there were two herds, one being 
entered from New Hampshire, the other a State herd. There 
was no competition in French Canadians, and but little 
interest seemed to be taken in these two last-named breeds. 
The Guernseys, Jerseys and IIoIsfein-Friesians seem to lie 
most in demand at present, and if the milk standard for 
New York is raised to three and one-half per cent of fat the 
Guernsey and Jersey will be In slill greater demand. Syra¬ 
cuse is in an Alfalfa section, and the rattle seemed to 
relish the fresh-cut Alfalfa brought to the grounds. 
SHEEP.—The exhibit of sheep compared very favorably 
with former years, and if any difference a little higher in 
quality. The number of entries for each breed is given be¬ 
low, and as in cattle these do not represent the exact num¬ 
ber of sheep, as many are entered the second time for Hock 
and champion prizes. There are also a few club specials 
offered which are not included here. Quite a number of 
entries come from outside the state, but the interest in 
sheep seems to he increasing: Cotswolds, 14 entries: South- 
downs. 67: Shropshlt'es, 66: Hampshire?, 67: Oxford-Downs, 
55; Cheviots, 74; Dorset-11 or ns. 17; Lincolns. 19; Leices¬ 
ter?!, 61 : Merino, American or Spanish, 31 ; Delaine, Dickin¬ 
son or Black Top Merinos. 28 ; Ramhouillcts, 32 : any other 
purebred sheep, 2; Angora goats, 6. The mutton breeds 
seem to be gaining rapidly In popularity, and the Cheviots 
in particular have gained very rapidly. The Southdowns, 
Shropsbires, Oxford-Downs and liarapshires are very popu¬ 
lar. and the" Dorset Horns are being used extensively for 
hothouse lambs, as they are more easily made to breed out of 
season. Individual taste has much to do with a person's 
sift-cess with a breed. 
SWINE.—A great many of the swine were from Ohio, and 
the quality of tin* exhibit in most classes was up to nr above 
the average. The Borkshires were not up to last year's 
exhibit. Below are the number of entries made on each 
breed: Chester Whites, 69 entiles; Chesliireg, 35; Poland 
Chinas. 117: Duroc Jersey*. 94: Small Yorkshires. 49; 
Large Yorkshires. 53; Borkshires, 38; Essex, 43; Victorias, 
38: Tamworfhs. 22. While hogs seem to have the prefer¬ 
ence in the East, and in many sections of the State farmers 
are strongly prejudiced against black : but color has not all 
to do with it. It is a common belief that black hogs are 
not as prolific ns while ones. In blacks the Berkshire seems 
to have the lead in Now York, hot the Chester Whiles, Large 
Yorkshires and Cheshires easily lead. The Duroc Jersey 
seems to come between the whites and Borkshires. The 
Boland Chinas seem to have very few friends in the East. 
Judging from the remarks made on Tamworfhs they have 
very few champions. Victorias, Essex and Small York¬ 
shires do not appear to he popular. There Is no doubt 
considerable in breed, but feed is a very important factor. 
G. R. S. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
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way of grinding all farm tools is with a grinding wheel of 
material known as carborundum. A system of cog wheels 
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revolves more than 100 times. An illustration of the ma¬ 
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St., I.ancaster, Pa. 
A rather Interesting experiment is suggested bv one of 
our advertisers this week, which will be well worth the 
while of our readers lo demonstrate for the younger mem¬ 
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