1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
685 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—Operations of the Tabasco-Chiapas Trading 
and Transportation Company and the Lu-Me-Mills Company, 
Mexican investment concerns, Chicago, were stopped Au¬ 
gust 22 by the United States postal authorities. Henry D. 
Bushr.ell, president, and 1. B. Miller, secretary and treas¬ 
urer, were arrested and arraigned before United States Com¬ 
missioner Foote. It is as ci ted by the postal authorities 
that the operations of Bushnell and Miller, which have cov¬ 
ered a period of five years, have netted them $850,000 
from investors. Together the two companies were capital¬ 
ized for $2,000,000. According to the literature of the two 
companies, they operate large coffee plantations and own 
several line§ of steamers. The postal authorities say that 
such is not the case, and that Miller and Bushnell have 
been paying dividends to investors from the money taken in 
for stock in the concerns. . . . Not less than $100,000 
damage was done by a fire that started August 24 in a hat 
and cap factory near the corner of Mercer and Fourth 
streets, New York, spread first to the west and then to the 
east, and, before being controlled, wrecked the top stories 
of three large buildings and necessitated the sending, in 
of three alarms. For the last three weeks there had been a 
strike among the employees of the concern in whose premises 
tlie fire started. , . . Three hundred and fifty thousand 
pounds of food stuffs were destroyed in Chicago the week 
ending August 27, because they were impure. The food in¬ 
spectors in the downtown districts alone condemned and 
destroyed 50,719 pounds. This includes 1G,000 pounds of 
canned goods and 2,930 pounds of fruit and vegetables. The 
inspectors took samples from five candy factories, three 
evaporated egg concerns, three baking powder factories, ten 
ice cream factories, thirty bakeries, and seventy-five fruit 
stands. . . . For the first time in the history of tho 
Government Federal postal employees have dared to organize 
a labor union. In so doing they have defied the order of 
President Roosevelt, issued three years ago, which forbade 
Federal employees voicing their grievances except through 
tlie chief of a department. Delegates from Chicago, Milwaukee, 
Louisville, Nashville, Salt Lake City and San Francisco met 
at Chicago August 27 and organized as the National Fed¬ 
eration of Post Office Clerks. As a union affiliated with the 
American Federation of Labor the clerks will depend on the 
Federation and President Gompers to air their grievances. 
. . . The recent mysterious death of eight cows belonging 
to Alansou Ilallock at Washingtonville, N. Y., caused alarm 
among the farmers of that neighborhood. It was feared that 
some contagious disease had killed the cattle, and several 
expert veterinarians were engaged to perform post mortem 
examinations upon the cows to determine the cause of death. 
It was decided that the cows had died from too much smoke" 
Near the place where the cows have been pastured a large 
steam shovel is at work, and clouds of black smoke issue from 
the engine and settle upon the dew-wet grass. When tlie 
stomachs of the cows were opened they were found to con¬ 
tain large quantities of black soot, arid it is believed that 
this is the cause of death. . . . Judge Fowler in the 
Circuit Court of Fond du Lac, Wls., August 28 , awarded 
Otto B. Schulz, a prominent baker of Racine, $0,000 dam¬ 
ages, in his suit against some eighty members of the Trades 
and Labor Council for boycotting Schultz’s business, and 
placing his name on the unfair list two years ago. because 
Schultz refused .to put the union label on his products. . . 
When the Real Estate Trust Company, at Broad and Chest¬ 
nut streets, Philadelphia, closed its doors August 28 with 
$7,000,000 owing to its depositors a rumor became general 
that Frank K. Hippie, president of the company, who looted 
the institution and who died August 24, had committed sui¬ 
cide. Discovery by the directors since Hippie's death that 
he had misappropriated millions of the company’s money was 
the cause of the failure. It was authoritivel'y stated that 
Hippie had loaned $5,300,000 of the company’s money to 
Adolph Segal, promoter and proprietor of numerous enter¬ 
prises in Philadelphia and in New Jersev. It was also dis¬ 
covered by the directors following Hippie’s death that the 
president had been speculating heavily and that his notes 
had been protested in many banks. Refusal on the part of 
the presidents of other banks and trust companies of Phila¬ 
delphia to place at the disposal of the Real Estate Com¬ 
pany the $7,000,000 necessary to cover the company’s de¬ 
posits removed the last possibility of the company’s weather¬ 
ing the storm. 
SPELLING REFORM.—President Roosevelt has indorsed 
the Carnegie spelling reform movement. He issued orders Au¬ 
gust 24 to Public Printer Stillings that hereafter all mes¬ 
sages from the President and all other documents from the 
White House shall be printed in accordance with the recom¬ 
mendation of the Spelling Reform Committee headed by 
Brander Matthews, Professor of English in Columbia Uni¬ 
versity. This committee has published a list of 300 words 
in which the spelling is reformed. This list contains such 
words as “thru” arid “tho” as the spelling for “through” 
and “though.” The President's official sanction of this reform 
movement is regarded as the most effective and speediest 
method of inaugurating (he new system of spelling through¬ 
out the country. Not only will the printed documents emanat¬ 
ing from the President utilize the reform spelling, but his 
correspondence also will lie spelled in the new style. Sec¬ 
retary Loeb.has sent for the list of words which have been 
reformed, and upon its arrival will order all correspondence 
of the President and of the executive force of the White 
House spelled in accordance therewith. As the Spelling 
Reform Committee shall adopt new reforms they will be 
added to the. President’s list and also to that of the Public 
Printer. While the order to the Public Printer does not 
contemplate an immediate reform in the spelling of official 
documents from the executive departments in Washington, 
it is regarded as more than likely that the respective heads 
of the departments will fall in line with the President’s 
ideas and have their official documents printed in the new 
spelling. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Veterinary surgeons representing 
the State associations of this profession in most of the 
States of the Union gathered at New Haven. Conn., August 
21, for the forty-third annual convention of the American 
Veterinary Medical Association. Among the prominent sur¬ 
geons who read papers are : Dr. W. Reid Blair, of the New 
York Zoological Gardens: D. C. II. Jewell. U. S. A. ; Dr. 
Austin Petei-Sj Boston; W. H. Dalrymple, Louisiana : Thomas 
Thacher. Ontario; W. J. Reynolds, Minnesota; Taft Butler, 
North Carolina F. A. Rich, Vermont, and others. Among 
the topics for general discussion were: "The City Milk Sup¬ 
ply,” by Dr. Austin Peters ; “Dissemination of Tubercle Ba¬ 
cilli by Insects a Source of Contagion,” by Dr. S. E. Weber, 
of Lancaster, Pa., and “The Blood Test in Glanders,” by a 
member of the Cornell faculty. 
The next annual meeting of the American Association of 
Farmers’ Institute Workers will be held at Baton Rouge, 
La., November 12 to 14. 1900. At the same place and begin¬ 
ning November 14 will be held the annual meeting of the As¬ 
sociation of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 
Stations. Arrangements are being made with the several 
passenger associations of the railroads of the United States 
for reduced rates of transportation covering the period of 
both meetings. 
The annual Chrysanthemum Show of the American Insti¬ 
tute will be held at the Berkeley Lyceum, New York, Novem¬ 
ber 7-9. 
The international Live Stock Exposition will be held at 
the International Amphitheater, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 
December 1-8. 
The Illinois State Horticultural Society will hold its Win¬ 
ter meeting at Champaign December 12-15. There is a 
liberal premium list. Fruit may be sent to Champaign, Ill., 
in care of A. J. Dunlap, Superintendent of Fruit Exhibit* 
but all charges should be prepaid. 
The Trenton, N. J., Poultry Show will be held at the 
Interstate Fair Grounds September 24-28, under (he auspices 
of the Fanciers' Poultry Association of New Jersey ; secre¬ 
tary and superintendent, T. Farrer Rackham, 450 Market St., 
Newark, N. J. 
The sixth annual exhibition of the Southwest Virginia 
Agricultural and Live Stock Association will be held at 
Radford, Va., September 11-14. 
The Talbot Co., Md., Fair will be held at Easton. Md., 
September 18-21 secretary, E. II. Lachmar, Easton, Md. 
The twenty-second annual meeting of the Society of Amer¬ 
ican Florists was held at Dayton, O., August 21-24. It was 
an extremely successful gathering in every way. Wm. J. 
Stewart, Boston, who has been secretary of the society con¬ 
tinuously from its first organization, was elected president; 
P. J. Hauswirth, Chicago, was elected secretary, and II. B. 
Beatty, Oil City, Pa., the perpetually re-elected treasurer, 
was again voted into the position. The next meeting will be 
held at Philadelphia. 
The Cornell College of Agriculture exhibit at the New York 
State Fair will include an electrically driven milk tester in 
charge of one of the assistants in the Department of Dairy 
Industry. Samples of milk and cream will he tested for fat 
and samples of butter will be tested for water free of charge. 
Milk and cream should be bfought in full bottles to prevent 
churning, and they should be preserved by tlie addition of a 
little bichromate of potash or corrosive sublimate to pre¬ 
vent souring. 
Owners of Angora goats who contemplate exhibiting their 
animals at any of the fairs this Fall will be interested (o 
know that the American Angora Goat Breeders’ Association 
offers a special award to the successful exhibitor of the best 
group or flock of Angora goats exhibited at any of the 
State, county and other fairs. The American Angora Goat 
Breeders’ Association was organized in 1900 and maintains 
the only record of thoroughbred Angora goats in America. 
It is the national organization representing and champion¬ 
ing this breed of live stock in the United States. It has 
500 members representing nearly every State and territory 
and lias over 58,000 animals recorded on its Pedigree Regis¬ 
ter. The Association obtains and diffuses information regard¬ 
ing the history, character, care and raising of Angora goats; 
it holds a national competitive exhibit of animals annually 
at Kansas City at which liberal premiums are provided and 
also patronizes and supports other Angora goat exhibits 
throughout the country to the encouragement and benefit of 
the Angora goat breeders of the United States. The head¬ 
quarters of the Association are at Kansas City, Missouri, 
though the resident office of the secretary, John W. Fulton, 
is at Helena, Montana. 
THE TRUSTS.—Indictments were returned August 24 by 
the Federal Grand Jury at Jamestown, N. Y., against the 
New York Central Railway Company for giving special 
freight rates to the Standard Oil Company. The Standard 
Oil Company was also indicted for accepting discriminating 
rates from the Pennsylvania Company and the New York 
Central and Vermont Central Railways. There are 123 
counts in the latter indictment. Ten indictments, includ¬ 
ing 0,428 counts, were returned August 27 in Chicago against 
the Standard OiJ Company, charging violation of the Elkins 
law. This marked the conclusion of the investigations car¬ 
ried on for two weeks by two Federal grand juries. No 
railways are indicted, although they are mentioned in con¬ 
nection with instances of rebate granting. The tines which 
may be imposed, should the Standard be found guilty on all 
counts, would amount to $125,500,000. 
CROP PROSPECTS . 
The hay crop is much better than last year, and has 
been gathered In better condition. New York State may 
not turn out as many tons as last year, but the decidedly 
better quality will help to put: the average above the last as 
I see it. Potatoes are late, but I never saw them look bet¬ 
ter: the acreage is large. Apples will be a bumper crop of 
excellent quality. w\ a. vanderveek. 
Port Ewen, N. Y. 
Beans for factories wore only about one-half crop, owing 
to dry weather. We have had no rain of any consequence 
in this immediate neighborhood since June 0. Tomatoes are 
looking very well : hay and oats nearly a failure. Wheat 
was good; corn will lx* short unless an immediate rain falls, 
but indications looks dry now. The building of an electric 
railroad from Louisville, Ky., to Indianapolis, Ind., which 
passes through our town, is helping wonderfully, making a 
good demand for labor. They are paying for teams $3.50 
per day (10 hours). Labor $1.50 per day. f. j. n. 
Austin, Ind. 
The season thus far has been a fairly good one on the 
farm. Grains are yielding well, and of good quality. The 
Spring was rather late, and more than usually wet, which 
made sowing and planting backward, but with an abundance 
of rain and plenty of hot weather all crops, especially corn, 
have made rapid growth, and it now bids fair to be one of the 
best crops in years. Sugar beets are looking fine where they 
have had a good, fair chance with the weeds. There is a 
large acreage" this year in the central and southern part of 
this county. This county has another crop that looks first 
class, and that is buckwheat. The weather is so hot it is 
a little early to say just how well it will fill, but it cer¬ 
tainly does look fine on the ground. The fruit crop has 
been "almost an entire failure. Peaches, prunes, plums and 
cherries are entirely out of the question. In hundreds of 
miles travel I have not seen any of these kinds of fruit on 
the trees, with the exception of a few cherries. Apples and 
pears are a little better. I have been well over northern 
Seneca, eastern Wayne and my own county, Cayuga. My 
very best judgment would say not over one-half of a crop 
of "apples or pears in any of these counties. m. >r. 
Port Byron, N. Y. 
OUTLOOK FOR THE APPLE CROP. 
The apple crop in this section will be about the same as 
last year. We expect about a thousand barrels this year, 
which is less than half what we had last year. n. t. 
Hamlin, N. Y. 
So far as I can judge, I think the apple crop in this sec¬ 
tion will be about the same as last year. Coopers are 
making and selling a good many barrels; more Greenings 
than last year and less Baldwins. f. e. v. e. 
Stanley, N. Y. 
We think there are about one-half more Baldwins and 
Greenings than last year. Roxbur.v Russets are very light; 
Twenty Ounce two-thirds of last year. Kings are very good, 
other kinds about the same. This is as it looks to us in 
western New York. E. E. C. 
nilton, N. Y. 
The apple crop in this part of the Hudson Valley is very 
short. Last season's crop was light in this vicinity, but 
this year’s is still more so. There are exceptional orchards 
which have had good care and management that promise 
fairiy well, but these are few. j. r. c. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
Growers are generally agreed that the apple crop in this 
town will be about the same as last year. The quality is 
better at the present time than a year ago, though some 
fungus is showing in unsprayed orchards. The Collamer 
brothers have sold their large crop to Chicago parties ; price 
not revealed but around $2 for the fruit. Buyers are pay¬ 
ing in the market $1.75 for Duchess and some "are getting a 
little more. b. w. b. 
Hilton, N. 1\ 
I have just made a trip into Pennsylvania, in parts of 
Bradford and Tioga counties. Apple crop in all that coun¬ 
try very light, not one-quarter of an average, and here in 
Chemung County no better. I would not see one tree in 
an orchard that was loaded with fruit. I think if the real 
facts were known it is not one-tenth of an average, and I 
know it is safe to say it is less than one-quarter of an 
average. c. o. h. 
Elmira, N. Y. 
In my opinion the apple shippers’ estimate is not far out 
of the way; that is, western New York has 200 per cent of 
last year's crop, but as eastern New York and the central 
portion of the State is much lighter, they place the entire 
State at 155 per cent of last year’s crop. The quality is 
fine. No fungus; showing on sprayed orchards so far, and 
not very bad on the unsprayed orchards. What we are 
afraid of is the immense crop in the Middle West. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. b. ,r. case. 
The condition of the apple crop in this locality is below 
the average, perhaps^ 40 per cent of a crop. I have been 
in three different counties; nowhere do I find more than 
50 per cent of a crop. This locality will not barrel as many 
as last year ; they arc free from “fungus" and quality good. 
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle is mistaken in tin; 
apple crop. 1 presume the editor contemplates buying ins 
Winter fruit at a low figure to save expensive living. A 
statement of that character works nothing but injustice to 
the grower, and is false and misleading. Apples are drop¬ 
ping quite badly. Hail has ruined many orchards for this 
year. Last year I sold 400 barrels of No. 1 apples. This 
year I expect only 300 No. 1 barrels, which is only one- 
quarter of a crop, and the same conditions prevail through¬ 
out this locality. w. r. f. 
Rtishville, N. Y. 
In this immediate locality there will not be a large crop 
of marketable Winter apples. There will be more than last 
year, but it will be a light crop generally in this section. 
It is reported there is a much better crop of apples farther 
east in the towns bordering the lake, but there is no com¬ 
parison between the crop this year and that of 1890. Texas 
and other Western States have been the best customers we 
have had heretofore for our apples, but owing to tbe im¬ 
mense crop reported in many of the Western States that 
market will doubtless be cut off to a large extent this year, 
inevitably lowering the price of Winter apples. f. s. h. 
Lewiston, ,N. Y. 
Apples arc not so large a crop as 1890; that year I had 
on my trees 1,000 bushels; the trees were 15 years old at 
that. time. They are 10 years older uow ; I have about 500 
bushels this year; while some of the trees are loaded there 
are lots of trees in my orchard that have not got an apple 
on. This is the case all around here, for I drove through 
Penfield to Webster line a few days ago. I took a good 
deal of pains to see what the apple crop was. I did not see 
one tree that you might call heavily loaded, but saw hun¬ 
dreds of trees that did not have a peck of apples on. I 
should judge the crop a little better than 1905; by no means 
as large as 1890. g. e. k. 
Pittsford, N. Y. 
The prospect for the apple crop is much below what I 
thought it when I wrote you some time since. My own 
orchards are much more loaded than they were a year ago, 
and so are my near neighbors, and I had supposed the 
whole community favored equally well, but on conversing with 
some of them I find great complaints of short crops. In 
talking with my cooper he tells me I am much out of my 
bearing. He says he would place the crop but little over 
50 per cent of last year’s. I have 20 acres in apples, and 
would place my own growth at not less than five times the 
last crop, and w<> have suffered heavy loss by many hail- 
slorms through (his region. My cooper cautions me to go 
very slow in selling; his interest is to have the crop esti¬ 
mated high, and he is a good careful man. His orders 
for barrels are running light in many of his best locations. 
Spencerport, N. Y. c. b. 
EGO STOCKS IN STORAGE . 
Regarding quantity of eggs in storage at present, it is 18 
per cent less than last year. Notwithstanding the produc¬ 
tion is very large, the consumption is something enormous. 
Strictly fresh white eggs will bring from one to two cents 
above the highest market price for mixed. 
New York. - e. b. woodward. 
In regard to stock of storage eggs here, we believe that 
stocks are about equal to last year, and not more stored 
here than local trade will readily consume. This market 
does not make any difference between white and brown eggs. 
There is no selecting done as to color. 
St. Louis, Mo F. C. PAPENDICK & CO. 
On Saturday, August 4, there were stored in Boston 210,- 
091 cases of eggs as against 230,734 a year ago at the same 
date. You will notice this is a decrease of about 10 per 
cent. The egg situation seems to be a very healthy one, as 
consumption is large, and from now on there will be a re¬ 
duction in the holdings of storage eggs. Brown eggs sell 
at a premium on this market. All browns would sell for 
at least two cents per dozen more than all white eggs. 
Boston, Mass. a. & o. w. mead & co. 
Stocks of eggs in cold storage here are 20,043 cases short 
of last year at this time. The demand for consumption is 
very heavy: It is estimated that there are 10,000 cases 
more per month being used in this market. Brown eges 
are much preferred here, and in fresh stock usually bring 
two to four cents per dozen more than white ones, al¬ 
though mixed lots, brown and white, sell well up to all 
brown. We believe the outlook on butter, eggs and cheese 
is very favorable for advancing prices, and that all storage 
stocks will lie wanted at profitable prices. 
Boston. Mass. amos iceyes & co. 
As near as we are able to find out, the holdings of eggs 
in Chicago cold storage houses are a trifle under 800,000 
cases as compared with 892,000 last year. There are less 
April eggs stored this year. At the present tiipe there is 
no distinction between brown and white eggs here. The 
distinction is all in the best quality eggs, regardless of color. 
As a usual thing in the early Spring, and again in the Fall 
and early Winter, there is a slight distinction between brown 
and white eggs, although the trade in Chicago is not very 
particular wliich they have to sell. The main difference 
is on car-lot shipments of eggs sold to eastern markets. 
There are very few genuine white eggs in this section. We 
receive quite a number of brown eggs, and the next or other 
color is mixed, running from white to brown eggs. 
Chicago. a. h. barber & co. 
CROPS IN ENGLAND.—The Mark Lane Express says; 
“When the time comes for writing the history of 1900" it 
will be described as being anything but a bad year for farm¬ 
ers. We have had better seasons, of course," but we have 
also had worse, and, all things considered, we have not a 
great deal to complain about. Haymaking has been a long 
time about, and even now it is not quite finished, but al¬ 
though the weather has been somewhat “catchy.” it has 
been good as a whole, and hay crops have turned out a 
good deal better than we anticipated at one time. Just at 
one period we feared for the welfare of the roots, but the 
rain came just in time, and we have the satisfaction of 
seeing excellent pieces of mangels about. Turnips are not 
quite so good, as the fly has been troublesome in many 
places, but corn (grain) looks well, and both wheat, oats, 
and barley should cut good crops. The reaper and binder 
is now at work in the cornfields, and under the influence 
of the glorious sunshine straw and ear have changed quickly 
from green to golden yellow. If fine weather continues there 
is every prospect of the corn harvest being one of short 
duration this year.” 
BUSINESS BITS. 
A. L. Brockway, Auburn. N. Y., is offering three choice 
Holstein bulls at prices which seem to us to he a real 
bargain. Better look up the announcement containing pedi¬ 
grees, etc., if you are interested in Holsteins. 
We are pleased to call attention to a simple device that 
makes stable cleaning easy. We refer to the Automatic 
Drew Carrier, an elevated system of manure and litter car¬ 
riers, and. in fact, carriers of all kinds, for carrying differ¬ 
ent articles from place to place on the farm. The Drew 
Company will show their line of carriers and gasoline en¬ 
gines at the New York State Fair, and you mustn’t fail to 
go to see them if you attend. Or, send to the Drew Ele¬ 
vated Carrier Co., Waterloo, Wis., and ask them for an 
illustrated catalogue. 
Our readers who have seen the Syracuse “Easy” washer 
advertised in our columns will be interested to see the 
washer in actual operation in the main building at the 
New York State Fair, September 10-15. The new gas and 
gasoline attachments for heating wash water in the washer 
will also be shown. The exhibit will be purely instruc¬ 
tive, so that visitors may gett a comprehensive idea of the 
washer, its working qualities, material, construction, etc. 
The exhibitors not only show the washer, hut load it with 
clothes and water and show hy actual operation how labor 
and fabric are saved by the application of correct" principles 
and improved methods. 
