1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
733 
MR. WADSWORTH AND MEAT INSPECTION 
The Rural New-Yorker lias stated that Congressman 
Lorimer, of Illinois, and Congressman Wadsworth, of New 
York, did their best to discredit the President's report on 
the Meat Inspection bill. We have been asked if we are 
justified in making this statement. Ample proof for it is 
found in the report of the hearing before the Agricultural 
Committee. We found it very difficult to obtain a copy 
of this hearing. Only a limited number were printed, and 
there was a great demand for them. It will be remembered 
that President Roosevelt sent to Congress in a message a 
report signed by Charles I’. Neill and .Tames B. Reynolds, 
who were appointed as a special committee to look over the 
conditions of things in the packing houses at Chicago. 'Hie 
Agricultural Committee of which Mr. Wadsworth is Chair¬ 
man) gave a hearing, and among others called Mr. Neill and 
Mr. Reynolds gave testimony before it. At the same hear¬ 
ing Thomas E. Wilson, a representative of the packers, 
came before the Committee to give their side of the con¬ 
troversy. lie was followed by Mr. Neill, and anyone who 
will read the testimony as printed, can easily see the posi¬ 
tion which Mr. Wadsworth took. Ilad he been an attorney 
for the packers he could not have done more for them. He 
asked impertinent questions or made insinuations about the 
reliability of Mr. Neill’s report. Again and again all through 
the hearing Insignificant matters were brought up or ques¬ 
tions were asked, which were evidently framed to confuse 
the witness or discredit his report, and it must be borne 
in mind that the report has been accepted by the President 
and used by him as part of an official message. This treat¬ 
ment of Mr. Neill became so insulting that finally a crisis 
was reached in the examination. We quote the exact words 
of the printed report from Page 124. 
“Mr. Lorimer : Do you consider when questions are asked 
you about this report that members of the committee are 
trying to discredit your statement? 
“Mr. Neill: I would like to answer that. I would put 
it this way, Mr. Lorimer: I think that the attitude of cer¬ 
tain members of the committee toward the witness yester- 
day, who professedly has seen none of the things he spoke 
about, who deliberately-stated that certain things that Mr. 
Reynolds and I stated in our report we had seen 
were things that we could not have seen—that we did 
not see them—I think the attitude of the members of 
the committee toward him and toward me is strikingly 
different.' 
"Mr. Lorimer: No, that is not it. Let me put It 
plainly, so that there will be no misunderstanding about 
what I mean. Do you think when I ask you a question to 
determine what you mean by this report that I do it to 
discredit you.-? 
“Mr. Neill: I \vould not like to impute any motive to 
you, Mr. Lorimer. 
“Mr. Lorimer: Y'ou did make a statement that questions 
were being asked to discredit this report, and I wanted 
to know whether you thought asking your questions about 
the report was discrediting the report. 
“Mr. Neill: I do not want to be discourteous to the 
committee, but I think the way in which questions are 
being asked is not quite fair to me, compared to the way 
in which it. was handled yesterday, when .the gentleman 
on the stand deliberately stated, for publication, that Mr. 
Reynolds and myself practically lied. 
“Mr. I.amb: I want to say right here, as a member of 
the committee, that T believe Mr. Neill is correct, and I am 
personally responsible for stating that. 
“Mr. Davis: I also want to make the same statement. 
“Mr. Neill: I merely go a step further and say I feel 
like a witness under cross-examination whose testimony 
is trying to be broken down, and I submit further than 
that some of the questions that have been asked me, and 
the attempt to lead me into making a statement which I 
plainly did not mean, and the—I won’t say the effort—but 
the fact that I was prevented, or was seemingly prevented, 
from expressing my ideas as they were in my own mind, 
was not fair to me.” 
Mr. Lamb is a Congressman from Virginia, and we can 
well understand what a southern man means by saying 
that he is personally responsible for a statement. Tt was 
clearly evident to all who kept track of the hearing that 
Mr. Wadsworth and Mr. Lorimer went out of their way 
to attack by insinuations witnesses who described the filthy 
methods employed by the packers. On the other hand, the 
representatives of the packers were treated with the utmost 
consideration; in fact, it was evident that efforts were 
made to treat them with the utmost consideration, no ef¬ 
forts being made to cross-examine them or discredit their 
statements. 
We simply give the facts from the report, which show 
beyond any attempt to controvert them where the sympathy 
of Mr. Wadsworth in this controversy was to be found. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Twelve persons were killed and 10 injured 
in a wreck on the Canadian Pacific Railway near Sudbury 
September 12. All the killed were in the colonist car next 
to the engine of a westbound train. Most of them were 
harvest hands. . . . Five men were injured, two fatally, 
six horses were killed, and the entire plant of the Illinois 
Brick Company, Chicago, was practically destroyed Sep¬ 
tember 12 when a thunderbolt crashed into two of the larg¬ 
est buildings of the South Evanston plant. Sixty men were 
about the premises, and not one escaped without injury. 
Many were pinned beneath the rafters of the building as 
it collapsed. Others were rendered unconscious when the 
stable was struck, and three were Injured when an attempt 
was made to stop the progress of the flames which were 
devouring the wreckage. . . . The big plant of the 
Cudahy Brothers’ Packing Company at Cudahy, Wis., six 
miles south of Milwaukee, was burned September 13. Pat¬ 
rick Cudahy estimates that the loss will reach about $400.- 
000. The plant carries an insurance of about $000,000. 
One man was killed and several firemen severely injured. 
• • . The New York Central Railroad, its vice-president. 
Nathan Guilford, and its general traffic manager, Frederick 
L. Pomeroy, filed pleas of not guilty in the United States 
District Court, New York, September 17. to the three indict¬ 
ments charging them with having given rebates to the 
American Sugar Refining Company. Judge Hough fixed 
October 10 as the date for the trial of the railroad cases. 
The three additional indictments against the sugar trust 
for accepting the rebates, to which the trust has already 
pleaded not guilty, come up for trial soon after. The 
indictments were found early in the Spring as a result of 
an investigation which began in January. C. Goodloe 
Edgar and Edwin Earle, Detroit sugar merchants, sup¬ 
posed to be affiliated with the trust, were named in the 
trust indictments. A seventh indictment was handed down 
accusing Edgar. Earle, Guilford and Pomeroy of criminal 
conspiracy to rebate, an offence punishable by two years 
imprisonment as well as fine. Demurrers were filed to 
this as well a-s to the three bills accusing the Central and 
its officials and this indictment was thrown out. There 
are seven counts in each of the indictments against Guil¬ 
ford and Pomeroy and several against the railroad com¬ 
pany. As a fine of $20,000 can be imposed under each 
count the Federal attorneys if they obtain convictions will 
urge that the maximum line be imposed—$140,000—on each 
man and about $100,000 more on the railroad company. 
. . . The Rock Island Railroad bridge over the Cimar¬ 
ron River, near Dover, Oklahoma, gave way September 18, 
carrying down an express train. The number of dead can 
only be conjectured. So far as known, the locomotive, 
two baggage cars and two, and possibly three, day coaches 
are ill the river. The Cimarron at the scene of the disaster is 
fully 1,500 feet in width, its waters red with the soil 
through which the river flows. Great eddies sweep down 
the middle of the channel. The river was swollen with 
what is known as ai head rise in the Northwest, which is a 
solid wall of water caused by cloudbursts. These floods 
are irresistible. They swallow acres of valley farms in an 
hour and gnaw away bridge foundations in a few min¬ 
utes. A common saying among frontiersmen in Oklahoma 
is “The Cimarron always buries its dead.” The river rolls 
in beds of deep quicksand. It is probable that the engine 
and the cars that lie in the bed of the river will disap¬ 
pear beneath the sand. 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND PACKERS.— 
Canned roast beef will continue to bear ’the label of 
“roast beef,” notwithstanding the fact that it really is 
boiled beef. This was a decision reached at a conference 
September 1.3 between Secretary Wilson of the Department 
of Agriculture and Senator Hopkins of Illinois and Thomas 
E. Wilson, general manager of the Nelson Morris Packing 
Company of Chicago. Senator Hopkins and Mr. Wilson 
discussed the matter with President Roosevelt at Oyster 
Bay and were referred by him to Secretary Wilson. Mr. 
Wilson explained that the method of preparing canned roast 
beef was to parboil the meat for 15 minutes, and then put it 
in cans and subject it to steam heat for three hours. The 
term “roast beef,” which was applied to this product, was 
of particular value to the packers. Mr. Wilson said, because 
the method had been copied by the Australian and South 
American packers, who would profit by it if the American 
packers were forced to abandon it. After full considera¬ 
tion, it was decided that the cans might bear the label of 
“roast,” but that it should be stated on the labels how 
the beef was prepared and cooked. Secretary Wilson made 
it clear that only perfectly healthy beef could be used in the 
preparation of the canned roast beef, although the product 
Is not of the highest grade of cattle. No preservatives of 
any kind will be used in the preparation of the product, 
and the label must state just how it is prepared. The 
decision was entirely satisfactory to the packers. 
CUBA.—As the result of a six-hour conference at Saga¬ 
more Hill September 14 between President Roosevelt. Secre¬ 
tary of War Taft. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte, and 
Acting Secretary of State Bacon. Messrs. Taft and Bacon 
started at once for Cuba as the special representatives of 
the American Government. It will be their mission to 
make a thorough investigation and to render such aid as 
may be necessary to the task of bringing about an immedi¬ 
ate cessation of hostilities and the permanent pacification 
of the island, which is declared by the President to be 
imperative. A commissioner from one of the rebel camps 
says the revolutionary army will not accept any terms 
other than the annulment of the elections. Including Presi¬ 
dent Palma’s. One of the Liberal commissioners at the 
revolutionary headquarters in Havana province states that 
the leaders demand the resignation of the Government and 
Congress, and the holding of new elections. He adds that 
this decision seems to be final. The rebels regret the sus¬ 
pension of hostilities. They say that if fighting had not 
been stopped they would have captured Havana and their 
cause would then have been victorious. Commander W. IT. 
II. Southerland, who has command of the ships in Domini¬ 
can waters, advised the Navy Department September 19 
that trouble had broken out anew in the province of Monte 
Cristi. Santo Domingo. Telegraphic communication be¬ 
tween Puerto Plata and Monte Cristi has been interrupted, 
and the situation is described as acute. Commander South¬ 
erland expects an uprising at any moment and reports that 
Government forces numbering 400 have arrived in Monte 
Cristi. He is anxious to have the Dixie returned to his 
command with lier force of marines. The Dixie was Com¬ 
mander Southerland’s flagship untP 0,i e was ordered to 
Guantanamo for the purpose of exchanging marines with the 
Columbia, which was at the naval station there on her way 
to Colon to bring home Secretary Root. The necessity for 
additional marines at Havana caused the Department to 
order her to Havana instead of having her return to Monte 
Cristi. Despite the urgency of the situation in Monte Cristi 
the Navy Department will retain the Dixie at Cienfuegos 
until she is relieved, either by the Tacoma or the Newark. 
Both the Minneapolis and the Newark have sailed for 
Cuban waters, the former from I/cague Island, Philadelphia, 
and the latter from Norfolk. Each carries a complement 
of about four hundred marines. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A black list containing the names 
of 10 firms found to be adulterating seed offered for sale 
to the Department of Agriculture has been made public by 
Secretary Wilson. The Secretary’s action was taken in 
accordance with the terms of an act of Congress whicn 
requires him to buy seed in the open market and to pub¬ 
lish the names and addresses of firms that sell or offer 
to sell adulterated seed to the Department. Samples sub¬ 
mitted were found to contain from 7 per cent to 53 per 
cent of adulterants, most In Yellow trefoil. Of 352 sam¬ 
ples of seed of Alfalfa nearly one-half were found to con¬ 
tain seed of the destructive parasitic plant dodder, nine 
samples were adulterated with Yellow trefoil and nine with 
Bur clover. 
For the first time the Illinois Central Railroad will oper¬ 
ate a farmers’ special train south of the Ohio River. For 
several years the railroads of the North have run seed and 
soil specials through the Middle West, and now the farm¬ 
ers of the South are to have the benefit of lectures on 
diversified crops. As farming in the South differs materially 
from the North the talks will lie of an entirely different 
nature. The special train will start from Hernando, Miss., 
October 2, and will terminate at Memphis 10 days later. 
The course will be south through Mississippi and Louisiana 
via Jackson to a place near New Orleans, and then north 
over the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley line. The train will 
be stopped and lectures delivered at about ninety-seven sta¬ 
tions. In some places town halls will be used. 
The first gang of convicts to be used for farm labor from 
the Oregon State prison was sent out September 7 to Rose- 
dale, where thev helped harvest a prune crop for J. W. 
Hunt. There were 13 men in the gang, one of them serving 
as cook for the rest. There was a shortage of help in the 
Rosedale district and Hunt applied for a gang from the 
prison. The men were sent out upon an agreement that 
Hunt shall pay the same wages that are paid to free men 
and the State will take its pay in prunes and pears to be 
used in feeding State prisoners during the coming year. 
FRUIT AT THE NEW YORK STATE FAIR. 
The exhibition of fruit at the State Fair at Syracuse was 
not quite as large as last year, but the building was well 
filled, and the display was very creditable to the various 
exhibitors. The largest and best display was made by the 
Western New York Horticultural Society, with John Hall, of 
Rochester, in charge. They had on their tables 1,924 plates 
of fruit, as follows: Apples. 979 plates, 235 varieties; 
pears. 497 plates. 170 varieties: peaches, 85 plates, 24 
varieties: plums, SO plates, 37 varieties; quinces. 11 plates. 
3 varieties; grapes, 210 plates. 130 varieties; nuts, 13 
plates, 7 varieties: strawberries, 1 variety: crabs, 42 plates, 
7 varieties. Their display of pears was remarkably tine, 
’rite greater part of them were sent by Ellwanger & Barry, 
of Rochester, and were the feather in the balance which 
turned the scale in their favor in the contest for the first 
prize offered by the State Fair Association for the best and 
largest display of fruit grown in the State and exhibited 
bv any society or organization. Quite a proportion of the 
Western New York Society’s exhibit was sent them by five 
nursery firms, while the fruit shown by the New York State 
Fruit Growers’ Association was almost entirely grown by 
individual growers. The New York State Fruit Growers’ 
Association was a close second, being only 11 points be¬ 
hind their competitors in a score of 1,090 points. The 
apples and grapes of the Fruit Growers’ Association were 
of higher quality than those of their competitors, but the 
larger number of varieties of apples and pears shown by 
the Western New York Society won for them the first 
prize. The Fruit Growers’ Association showed the follow¬ 
ing list of fruits: Apples, 1,042 plates, 134 varieties; 
pears, 347 plates, 36 varieties; peaches, 53 plates. 20 vari¬ 
eties; plums, 85 plates, 30 varieties; quinces, 17 plates, 5 
varieties: grapes, 324 plates, 116 varieties, besides a fine 
collection of chestnuts, walnuts, butternuts, gooseberries, 
raspberries, blackberries, currants, barberries, lemons, man¬ 
drakes, elderberries, etc. Their entire exhibit consisted of 
1901 plates. 
Next in size to the displays of these two societies, and 
perhaps exceeding in interest and as an educational fea¬ 
ture, was the exhibit made by the New York Experiment 
Station, Geneva. There were more than 1,100 plates of 
fruit on their tables, 300 more than they have ever before 
shown. There were 125 varieties of plums and a fine col¬ 
lection of peaches and grapes. Several valuable seedling 
grapes were shown. The apples and plums were all ar¬ 
ranged in groups or families, and all the fruits on their 
tables were placed in alphabetical order. Frost injury, 
spray injury, and hail injury were each made clear to the 
observer. Several plates of apples covered with San Jose 
scale were shown, as well as some limbs that were thor¬ 
oughly covered with the scale. A practical lesson In spray¬ 
ing was given on one of their tables, showing the experi¬ 
ment carried on this Summer in sprayipg to control Apple 
scab. A row of plates of Fall Pippin apples were arranged 
as follows: The first row were spraved with eight ounces 
copper sulphate to 50 gallons of water. The second 10 
ounces to 50 gallons: third, 12 ounces; fourth, 14 ounces; 
fifth, not sprayed. Then followed rows of plates of It. I. 
Greenings sprayed with Bordeaux Mixture of varying 
strengths of copper sulphate and lime, from 3-3-50 to 4 or 5 
times that amount. It was an intensely interesting study 
to note the different effect the various mixtures had upon 
the fruit. In fact, the whole exhibit was well worth a 
half day’s study by any fruit grower. 
Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, were the largest in¬ 
dividual exhibitors of fruit. They had 160 varieties of 
pears, 100 varieties apples, 36 varieties plums, and 93 
varieties grapes. They showed nearly 600 plates of fruit, 
besides all they furnished to the Weste.rn New York Society. 
The quality of their fruit was very high. D. Tv. Bell, of 
Brighton, N. Y., was a close competitor on pears, carrying 
off many “firsts” with his well-grown fruit. C. C. Corby, 
of Montclair, N. J., had the finest collection of grapes, but 
they were not quite up to his usual high standard. Other 
individual exhibitors were S. D. Willard, Geneva, N. Y. ; 
O. M. Lincoln, Newark; W. A. Bassett, Interlaken: Mr. 
Worden, of Fayetteville and W. H. Furgeson, of Albany 
Co. TJ. T. Cox. of Ohio, sent 30 plates of apples, which 
came in competition with the same number of plates from 
Grant Hitchings. of Onondaga Co. While the Ohio apples 
were large, perfect and of high color, thev failed to win 
first over New York State apples, for those shown by Mr. 
Hitchings were a little larger and of still better color. 
Prof. S. T. Maynard acted as judge on the large collec¬ 
tions of fruit, and his decisions were perfectly satisfactory 
to all the exhibitors concerned. Albert Wood, of Cari- 
ton, N. Y., and II. S. Wiley, of Cayuga. N. Y., judged tno 
single plates. They were careful and painstaking and gave 
righteous judgment. T. II. King, of Trumansburg, N Y. 
judged the grapes. He had a harder task to please all 
the exhibitors, but in the opinion of those who watched the 
judging his mistakes were few. e. c. gillett. 
Crops in Cayuga Co. are very good. Wheat a good crop; 
oats big; hay very good and being sold at $10 per ton. 
Apples an average crop, and going at $1 per barrel. 
Union Springs, N. Y. o. l. c. 
KILLING GARLIC.—Here in eastern Pennsvlvania the 
fields are badly infested with wild garlic. Allium' vineale L., 
and as this is a dairy country, producing milk for the 
Philadelphia market, it is quite a serious evil, and one of 
the worst weed pests to fight. As it produces bulbs for 
self-propagation at both ends, root and top (I have never 
seen it produce seeds), you can readily see how persistent 
It may be in maintaining a hold when once present. The 
Government has Issued a leaflet treating on this pest, but 
it does not help the farmer any, as it gives no good method 
for eradicating the wped. Pulling it up or cutting off its 
head when in bloom is the best thing to do, and we here 
on our little farm have had some experience of that sort: 
we, the whole family, went into the small field one dav and 
pulled enough to thatch a log cabin the boys had made 
near a copse of woods in the field, and to-day there is more 
garlic in the same patch than ever. Is the garlic good for 
nothing? Well, God never made anything in vain ; garlic, 
that is the bulbs at the top. are delicacies for the chickens 
In Winter, as I discovered; I had a great mass of the 
weeds at the wagon house, and fed it to the poultry, and 
they ate it with zest. Garlic is an evidence of careless 
farming. I am guilty, but with extenuating circumstances 
in my favor; I have to lean on neighbors to do my plow¬ 
ing, and even at 50 cents per hour it is indifferent service 
we get. To get rid of garlic you must rotate your fields, 
and give clean cultivation; must not allow a field to 
remain too long in grass, as I have to do. This is the 
only way to rid your place of the pest. I might add to 
the above that the farmers here whose fields are Infested 
with garlic avoid having the milk tainted with it by taking 
them from the infested field early in the afternoon before 
milking, the taint passing away from the milk before the 
same is extracted from the cow. a. a. k. 
Chester County, Pa. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
The chimney has as much to do with the light as the 
lamp has. There is only one make of good lamp-chimneys; 
there are many poor ones. Macbeth is the good one, the 
only one advertised, the only one worth advertising. 
We are in receipt of a circular describing new goods 
now being placed on the market by the Marlin Fire 
Arms Co., New Haven, Conn., i. e.. Marlin repeating shot¬ 
gun model No. 21, take-down, straight-grip, made In grades 
A, B. C and D, also Marlin model No. 18 baby feather¬ 
weight repeater, .22 calibre, which is now made take-down 
by using a thumb screw for a tang screw. Catalogue of 
full line will be mailed to anyone sending six cents to pay 
postage. 
Ilaniota, Man.. March 13, 1905. 
Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Gentlemen :—This is to testify to 
the value of Kendall’s Spavin Cure as a Spavin remedy 
and a liniment for general use. I used it for Spavin on a 
colt two years ago, requiring three bottles, and also for 
human use in cases of Rheumatism, and found it a com¬ 
plete cure. Enclosed find stamp, for which kindly send me 
a copy of your “Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases.” 
Yours truly, Wm. Juergens. 
Among sheep-owners throughout the world it is now gen¬ 
erally known that William Cooper & Nenhews, manufac¬ 
turers of the well-known Cooper Sheep Dip, have reached 
a very high position as sheep breeders, and their success 
at the recent Royal Show of England certainly places them 
in a foremost position, their Shropshire sheep capturing 
on the occasion six first premiums, practically sweeping 
everything before them and establishing a prize-winning 
record never approached by any other exhibitor. From 
the Cooper flocks last year sheep were shipped to every 
part of the world to the value of nearly half a million 
dollars. 
Star Farm, Cortland. N. Y., reports several important 
sales of registered Ilolsteins. To Mr. James Nivin, of 
Pittsburg, I’a., registered bull. Sir Vergius Ononis 35773 
and Beautiful Diva Clothilde 74477. To George Abbott, 
Cuyler, N. Y., the bull Coral DeKol Beryl Wayne 36538. 
To Mr. W. T. Vernon. Pa.. Bonnlbel 3d 22755 and the bull 
Veeman Mercedes I-ad 37813. To Mr. E. G. Persons, Erie 
Co., N. Y., a son of Aaggie Cornucopia Pauline Count 
named Prince Cornucopia Netherland 39080. To Mr. C. A. 
Kelsey, Erie Co., N. Y., one of the daughters of Aaggie 
Cornucopia Pauline Count named Aaggie Cornucopia Paul¬ 
ine Plersma 79226. Also a registered Holstein cow. Nazli 
Beryl Wayne 77722. To George Berchet. Md., a carload of 
heifers including in the list Lady Vlctorine Netherland 
07749 and bull Rosa Korndyke Ilengerveld 56906. the regis¬ 
tered Holstein cow Durkje A’s Clothlde 59839, Salo Jennie 
Hicks, 52359. Aaggie Fatrlawn 60701, Dekol Aaggie Bessie 
56792 and Belie Korndvke Ward Prince 36537. To Mr. 
II. H. Cobb, Pierrepont Manor. N. Y.. the registered heifer 
Buckeye Netherland Clothilde 79223 and the registered cow 
Johanna de Pauline Sarcastic 75209 and the registered bull 
Aaggie Cornucopia Pauline Somerset 37819. To Mr. Ed¬ 
win Leach of Blodgett’s Mills, N. Y., a son of Mercedes 
.Tulip’s Pietertje Paul named Mercedes Aaggie DeKol Paul 
30175. 
