1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
823 
THE LAST WORD ON WADSWORTH. 
After trying for nearly four months to state clearly and 
without prejudice the case against James W. Wadsworth 
we come to the last word. Step by step we have shown 
by his record on oleo legislation, meat inspection, good 
roads and parcels post that lie does not represent the 
true feeling of his district. It has also been shown that lie 
has made himself peculiarly offensive to the Grange, far¬ 
mers’ clubs and other farm organizations. Farmers of the 
Thirty-fourth District have a right to demand certain 
things of their Congressman. This right belongs to them 
because farmers and those who make a living by trading 
with them are in a vast majority. Now Mr. Wadsworth 
lias not met this demand, and his record shows that he is 
incapable of representing a district of working farmers. 
Is it not a sad commentary upon a man's work in Congress 
when after 20 years' service the farm organizations of his 
own district repudiate him? Butchers and oleo men in 
New York City call him their friend and champion, but that 
is about the limit of his backing among organizations which 
give expression to the feelings of farmers. 
lie represents the aristocracy—the large landed baron 
class which through all history has looked down upon the 
yeomanry or working farmers. Such men naturally favor 
the large farm system with landed gentry and tenants, 
which in Europe has crushed the real spirit out of the 
small freeholder. Farmers of western New York know that 
this old feudal system of farming is against their best in¬ 
terests. The development of power from Niagara will build 
in time one of the greatest manufacturing districts in the 
world. Tliis will mean higher-priced land, smaller farms, 
intensely cultivated and conducted in the most scientific 
manner. Farmers in that district will need every aid that 
science and the Government can legitimately give them. 
Mr. Wadsworth does not comprehend the needs of this won¬ 
derful district. Ilis record indicates that lie has neither 
the ability, the energy, nor the inclination to fight for 
what we may call the common rights of everyday farming. 
We say this without prejudice, but simply to state what 
seems to us a cold fact. We think this explains why he 
has been fundamentally wrong in his view of agricultural 
legislation. As chairman of the committee of agriculture 
he has been all out of sympathy with common working 
farmers, hut always on the side of the large operators, or 
those who handle what farmers produce. For example, on 
the questions of oleo and meat inspection he took the side 
of the manufacturers and packers, because they represent 
large industries. The man simply cannot put himself in the 
place of a plain, working farmer who must feed and clothe 
and educate his family out of the income from an average 
Milk Monologues—No. 5 
It takes forty time* as much milk to make butter as it does 
to mike Butterine—that's the way milk goes ! That iswhv it 
*• sckrce and increasing in price. 
Butterine is just as pure and nutritious as butter. Vet the 
Law* of New York prohibit its sale. 
If you would like to have plenty of fresh milk for your 
table at a reasonable price, remember that you’ll never get it 
unless the law permits the honest sale of Butterine. The more 
butter produced, the less milk you have and the higher its price. 
AMMON & PERSON 
Dealers In Butter and Butterine 
138-140 Ninth Street, JERSEY CITY, N. r. 
farm. This also explains why he has offended such an 
organization as the Grange. Never having had the need 
or incentive for doing so, he cannot see why men should 
combine to improve themselves and their homes and pros¬ 
pects. Worse than that, you cannot make him realize such 
things, for with his great majority and with his machine 
lie feels secure. The politicians at Washington who run 
things understand this. When the first oleo bill came up 
Mr. Wadsworth tried to smother it in his committee. lie 
would not move out of the way, and so others proceeded 
to move him. Ilis committee listened to the demand, and 
by a majority of one took the hill out of his hands and put 
Congressman Henry in charge. When Mr. Wadsworth went 
back to the next Congress no friend of honest butter trusted 
him. Speaker Henderson made sure of the committee before 
he appointed Wadsworth as chairman. So far as oleo 
legislation went that year he was like a figure head or 
wooden man, and yet he tried to block legislation as only 
a wooden man can. Again, we have seen how in the meat 
inspection bill Mr. Wadsworth’s obstinate position antag¬ 
onized President Roosevelt and nearly spoiled the bill. 
Again he was thrust to one side while abler men did the 
work. Why should the farmers of the Thirty-fourth Dis¬ 
trict keep on sending to Congress a man who must be driven 
to do the things they need, or moved out of the way that 
others may do it? Why not send one who will lead and 
hold his place? 
If a poor man of tricky character, and not the best of 
breeding failed to serve his constituents he would be ac¬ 
cused of taking “graft.” Mr. Wadsworth is a rich man, 
with as noble a pedigree as is often found in America. It 
cannot be “graft” which leads him to take the course he 
does, nor can it be any high sense of duty—for his duty 
lies the other way. It must be. therefore?, the old Tory 
aristocratic, bigoted ideas which seem to be a part of the 
man. 
We have been told of mean and contemptible things to 
which his henchmen stoop to maintain his power, hut it is 
not our place to name them. We could fill a page with 
letters sent us voluntarily from farmers in the district, who 
all tell the same story of indignant outburst. We are dis¬ 
cussing the one question of Mr. Wadsworth’s fitness to rep¬ 
resent working farmers. It is clear to us that his tend¬ 
encies and feelings are all toward the rich, and powerful. 
We have no wish to array one class of farmers against 
another, yet sooner or later the smaller freeholders will 
find themselves face to face with a crisis. The great landed 
barons who either Inherit vast estates or buy them with 
money made in other lines will naturally endeavor to 
legislate in their own interests. They shpuld not control 
the destinies of political agriculture. 
The best part of American manhood and hope will go 
down when working farmers surrender their influence in 
Pongress to such men as Mr. Wadsworth, who cannot pos¬ 
sibly feel the hopes and desires of those who work the 
land. They cannot feel it, nor can they be made to act 
in the interests of their constituents, because all their 
tendencies run in an opposite direction. The issue therefore 
rises above Mr. Wadsworth or any of his official acts. The 
question is one that will come down to your children and 
children’s children—who shall control the land: the free¬ 
holders who work it or the land barons who merely hold 
it? Our last word is that we are glad this question has 
shaped Itself in the Thirty-fourth District, where clear¬ 
headed, self-reliant and intelligent, farmers are found. They 
understand the situation and appreciate the danger. Let 
those who think there is no danger read this advertise¬ 
ment which we re-engrave from a city paper. Would oleo 
men spend money in this way if they did not still hope 
to repeal the law? 
Here you have it boldly stated. Permit these men to 
sell colored oleo as butter, and the price of both butter and 
milk and also cheese will fall. Dairymen will be driven 
to take up other lines of farming, and thus increase com¬ 
petition in these lines. Remember that Mr. Wadsworth is 
expected by the oleo men to help repeal the law. Down 
him ! Keep him at home ! 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Four persons were killed by a gasoline ex¬ 
plosion in a printing office at Fort Recovery, Ohio. October 
. • . . The first indictment to be found under the 
provisions of the Frelinghuysen Automobile law, which was 
passed at the last session of the New Jersey legislature, 
was reported in Atlantic Countv October 17. It presents 
Hart I>. Newman, a wealthy resident of New Orleans, for 
manslaughter. Mr. Newman’s automobile, it is alleged, 
caused a team belonging to Joseph Bartlett, of Abseeon, 
to run away. Bartlett was thrown out and died three 
days later from his injuries. . . . Mrs. Jefferson Davis 
died in New York October 1(5. aged 80. Mrs. Davis' maiden 
name was Varina Howell. She was a daughter of William 
Burr Ilowell, grandson of Governor Richard Ilowell. of 
New Jersey, and she was born at Natchez. Miss., on tbe 
seventh of May, 1826. . . . Fire in the Southern Pacific 
freight sheds in San Francisco October 10 caused $200,000 
damage. ... A heavy snowstorm, the earliest ever 
known in the State, raged. October 20 to 23. over western 
Nebraska. Colorado and Wyoming, total fall l>eing 25 inches, 
and the Tenth Cavalry, which had been ordered from Fort 
Robinson to start after the band of 500 renegade Ute In¬ 
dians in Wyoming, was tied up on (he side tracks at Craw¬ 
ford. Neb., only a few miles from the fort . . . Fran¬ 
cis J. Ileney. who convicted United States Senator Wil¬ 
liams and others of land frauds in Oregon, lias been re¬ 
tained to uncover municipal graft in San Francisco. Backed 
with $100,000, guaranteed by Rudolph Spreckels and to be 
collected among citizens of San Francisco, Ileney, assisted 
by Williams J. Burns, who has resigned from the United 
States Secret Service to work with Ileney. will undertake 
a campaign having for its object the prosecution of all who 
have fattened on graft before and since the fire. District 
Attorney Langdon made Ileney a deputy in his office in order 
that he may proceed with official sanction. Rudolph Sprec- 
kels has come to the front since the fire. He took charge 
of the refugee camps and in a week ended the soup kitchen 
graft and cleared camps of able-bodied loafers. Spreckels 
has been disgusted by the wholesale boodling and the in¬ 
efficiency of the police, so he has guaranteed $100,000 to 
hunt down the rascals. . . . Judge Holt, of the United 
States Circuit Court, fined the New York Central Railroad 
$108,000, October 10. for granting rebates to the American 
Sugar Company. Frederick L. Pomeroy, assistant traffic 
manager of the railroad, who was indicted with the cor¬ 
poration, was fined $6,000. $1,000 on each count. Before 
imposing the fines Judge Holt listened to arguments made 
h.v Austen G. Fox and John D. Lindsav, counsel for the 
corporation, in support of their motion's for a new trial 
and for an arrest of judgment to follow the conviction of 
the defendants. Both motions were denied. Pomeroy and 
the railroad company were each indicted on six counts. Tbe 
corporation was fined $18,000 and Pomerov $1,000 on each 
count. The range of possible fines provided by the Elkins 
Anti-Rebating law, under which the case was prosecuted, 
is from $1,000 to $20,000. A stay of 60 days was granted 
in which the defense may prepare its appeal. . . . Ten 
men were burned to death and three iniured in a fire in a 
boarding house at Birmingham. Ala.. October 10. . 
By the verdict of a jury at Findlay, O.. October 10. the 
Standard Oil Company of Ohio is found guilty of con¬ 
spiracy against trade, in violation of the Valentine Anti- 
Trust law of Ohio. The. penalty is a fine of from $50 
to $5,000, which may be repeated for each day of the of¬ 
fense, or imprisonment of from six to 12 months. The 
company has given notice that it will file a motion for a 
new trial. Under the practice of the court, the defendant 
has three days to put this motion in form. . A 
tropical hurricane struck Florida and Cuba October 18, the 
death list will exceed 1.000. Some estimates go beyond 
1,500. Millions of dollars’ worth of property was destroyed. 
Every hamlet along the coast and on the higher keys that 
escaped some of the fury of tbe storm has been' turned 
into a place of refuge. At each of these places are dozens 
of injured, while each incoming steamer brings the bodies 
of the dead. Searching parties have started out along the 
coast to look for dead and injured. Workmen on the ex¬ 
tension of the Florida East Coast Railwav from Miami to 
Key West suffered most. Ten barges, each hearing 150 men. 
were torn from their moorings and carried out to sea. Of 
these barges Nos. 6 and 7 were blown across Bisca.vne Bay 
and went aground, with the loss of only a few lives. An¬ 
other barge. No. 4, was broken up by tfie heavy sea. Forty- 
nine of the men were picked up by the Austrian steamer 
Jennie, which took the refugees to Key West. The other 
barges, with their 1,050 workmen, have not been heard 
from and it is feared that they have been destroyed. The 
Miami steamer St. Lucie, which was crushed against Elliotts 
Key by the high waves, lost thirtv-five out of 100 persons 
on board. Another one of the Flagler boats, stationed at 
Long Key, was torn from its moorings and went adrift with 
110 men on hoard. She was blown into the Gulf of Mexico 
and literally torn to pieces Many were drowned The 
steamer Peerless lost about thirty men, thev being blown off 
the vessel The launch Elmora was capsized and is thought 
to be a total loss. Well informed planters estimate the 
loss of sugar cane in the districts of Havana. Pinar del 
Rio and Matanzas at about 100,000 tons. This loss is 
distributed among 18 sugar estates lying to the east and 
west of Havana, though most, of the loss was in the dis¬ 
tricts to the eastward. The storm seems to have damaged 
Batabano more than any other individual town. The 
Mayor of that place telegraphed Governor Magoon that 
nine persons were killed or drowned there and several 
others are missing. Forty yawls have been lost and two 
steamers went ashore. The Mavor estimates the property 
loss at $600,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN-The jurisdiction of the Inter¬ 
state Commerce Commission over express companies, grant¬ 
ed under the new rate law. is likelv to he tested for the 
first time, in a proceeding started bv the Society of Ameri¬ 
can Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists against the 
United States Express Company. In a petition of the so¬ 
ciety, filed October 0, the commission is informed that 
florists in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, shipping flowers to 
New York, are aggrieved because of an advance of rates, 
which is very near ruinous. The change was made May 1 
and the rates advanced 20 to 50 per cent. As florists can¬ 
not use slower means of transportation, they are compelled 
to pay any rate the companies see fit to impose, and they 
demand investigation and an order establishing a reasonable 
rate. 
That the forestry problem is a serious one for the State 
of Vermont is shown in the annual report of the State 
Forest. Commissioner, Ernest Hitchcock, which has just 
been submitted to Governor Proctor. This report says that 
there are 4.000.000 acres of land in the State capable of 
producing nothing but lumber. Under present conditions, 
this great acreage has. to a large extent, been non-produc¬ 
tive, although, properly handled a revenue of from $1 to 
$2 an acre should be realized yearly. Commissioner Hitch¬ 
cock recommends that the State secure more definite knowl¬ 
edge of its forest, resources, either in cooperation with the 
National. Bureau of Forestry, or independently, and that 
the State cooperate with the Vermont Agricultural College 
in the establishment of a nurserv for the propagation of 
little trees to he used in planting the waste lands. 
The college of agriculture at the University of Maine 
has been greatly reorganized since last June. In previous 
years this department has had no dean, but this year Prof. 
Hurd, who had charge of the course last year, has been 
appointed dean and the college has had new quarters fitted 
up on the top floor of Lord Tlall. Prof. Munson, who has 
been university horticulturist, now gives his entire time 
to the experiment station, while Maxwell J. Dorsey, of 
Ohio, has taken his position. Percy A. Cambell who, a 
few years ago was instructor of animal industry at the 
university and who has been taking graduate work along 
this line, at Iowa State College, has returned to his former 
position. E. W. Gilbert, one of the last year’s instructors 
in agriculture, lias this year heen promoted to assistant pro¬ 
fessor under Dean Hurd. Short Winter courses will be 
given as usual this year, the first an eight weeks’ course, 
starting January 2. and another a two weeks’ course, in 
poultry management and horticulture, will be given com¬ 
mencing April 2. Those courses are given for the benefit 
of those not able to take the longer ones and the steady 
increase in registration each year speaks well for their 
popularity. 
The ninth annual conference of farmers’ institute work¬ 
ers of Indiana will be held at Purdue University, La Fayette, 
November 9-10. This university will give a short course 
for farm buttermakers, November 17-24. 1906, provided a 
sutficient number apply for same; fifth annual Corn School, 
January 14-19, 1907 : nineteenth Winter School of Agricul¬ 
ture will begin January 21, 1907. and continue eight weeks. 
CROP PROSPECTS. 
Not a very large crop of Winter apples in this section, 
but the size and color are very gratifying. Buyers offering 
$1.75, but few takers. Barrels cost about 30 to 32 cents. 
Cumberland Co., Me. f. c. c. 
Balmy Autumn weather since the Winter storm of Oc¬ 
tober 10; four inches snow and mercury 20 degrees. Apples 
and potatoes are being hustled under cover fast. Cow peas 
in the swath showed no loss of color or fragrance when 
hauled into the barn. Pastures good, water plenty, and 
stock in good condition generally. Wheat acreage is' large, 
owing to the extra yield, from 30 to 51 bushels reported. 
Corn large acreage and crop good, above average. 
Oak wood, Ind. l. s. f. 
Mercury was at 27 and 29 degrees two mornings last 
week and this is the first that injured tender vegetation. 
There was also quite a snow flurry. But the ground is still 
dry (October 151 and the weather warm enough again to 
make potato harvesting a comfortable job. The crop is 
good and very little rot. Apples an average crop. Not 
more raised in this county than can be disposed of at home 
markets, at fair prices. Corn ripened thoroughly without 
frost and is the banner crop for some time. We had three 
Prohibition party men in the State Legislature last term, 
and expect to have at least 20 after next election, one 
going from this district. w. s. 
Stockton, Ill. - _ 
FARMERS’ INSTITUTES IN NEW JERSEY. 
Wyckoff, Bergen County. 
12 
Woodcliff, Bergen County,. 
13 
Mullica Dili. Gloucester County.., 
15, 
16 
Hamilton Square, Mercer Countv. . 
17 
Newton, Sussex Countv.. 
19, 
20 
Layton, Sussex County. 
21 
Beemerville, Sussex County. 
90 
Branchville, Sussex County. 
23 
Ala ta wan, Monmouth County. 
.Nov. 
24 
Freehold, Monmouth County. 
26 
Keyport. Monmouth County. 
27 
Hopewell, Mercer County. 
28 
Ilightstown, Mercer County. 
30 
Pennington, Afercer Conn tv. 
1 
Moorestown, Burlington Conntv. . . 
3. 
4 
Steltor.. Middlesex County. 
7 
Harlingen, Somerset County. 
8 
Iladdonfield, Camden County. 
10 
Hainmonton, Atlantic Countv. 
11 
Shiloh. Cumberland County. 
12, 
13 
Vineland. Cumberland Countv. 
14. 
1 5 
Berlin. Camden Countv. 
17 
Woodbine, Cape May County. 
18 
Willlamstown, Gloucester County. . . 
19 
Norma, Salem Countv. 
20 
Columbus, Burlington County. 
21 
Afount Holly, Burlington Countv. . . 
22 
Frenchtown, Hunterdon County... 
IS. 
19 
Woodstown. Salem Countv. 
.Ian. 
21. 
??, 
Harmersville, Salem County. 
23 
Salem. Salem Countv. 
24 
Germania. Atlantic Conntv. 
25 
Allentown, Monmouth Countv. 
26 
Delaware. Warren Conntv. 
28 
Blairstown, Warren County. 
29 
Stewartsville, Warren Conntv. 
30 
Little York, Hunterdon County. . . . 
31 
I.ocktown, Hunterdon County. 
.Feb. 
1, 
f> 
Verona, Essex County. 
.Feb. 
4 
New Market. Middlesex Countv. . . . 
.Feb. 
5 
Three Bridges, Hunterdon Countv 
.... Feb. 
6 
Stanton. Hunterdon Conntv. 
7 
Wrigh f stown. Burlington Conntv. . 
.Feb. 
8 
New Egypt,* Ocean Conntv. 
9 
The Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the State Board of 
Agriculture will be held at the State House, Trenton. 
January 16, 17 and 18, 1907. Some of the best known 
speakers on agricultural matters in the United States and 
Canada have been engaged for this meeting. All farmers and 
others inferestd in the progress of agriculture are invited 
to attend both the Institutes and the Annual Meeting. The 
subjects to be treated at the Institutes, with the speaker’s 
name, for 1906-07, are ready for distribution. Full pro¬ 
grammes of the Annual Meeting of the State Board will be 
ready for mailing January 1st. Persons wishing copies 
of either should address Franklin Dye, Secretary. Trenton, 
N. J. The State Horticultural Society will meet at the 
State House, Trenton. January 3d and 4 th. 1907. For 
information, address Miss Marv W. Rudd. Secretary, Mount 
Holly, N. ,T. _ 
BUSINESS BITS. 
Tiiekk is nothing more interesting to ordinary human 
nature than an illustrated list of household supplies with 
a description and a low price for each article. That is the 
reason the new 600-page catalogue issued by White, Van 
Glahn & Co.. Chatham Square, New York, has heen sought 
after by our readers. Readers* of this paper may secure 
White, Van Glahn & Co.’s 600-page catalogue, with its 
descriptive, illustrated price list of over 30,000 articles 
for farm, house or shop, free h.v writing to No. 19. Chatham 
Square, New York City. 
The Kalamazoo Supply House, under the firm name of 
Cash Supply and Mfg. Co.. Kalamazoo. Mich., claim to 
handle a larger line of specialties than any firm in the 
United States. The catalog issued by this firm shows a 
full line of farm machinery as well ns household goods, 
and at surprisingly low prices. This is possible because all 
goods are shipped direct from factory, this saving all cost 
of extra handling. It is the policv of this house to guar-* 
ani-ee safe delivery of goods while legally responsibility 
ceases when goods are shipped. Another policy which shows 
the firm’s confidence in their goods is that they agree to 
accept the return of any article without quibble, refund 
purchase money and pay freight both ways. The Kala¬ 
mazoo Supply House catalogue may he had for the asking. 
It doesn't seem to make any difference what the basis 
of the dairy ration is. or how many different feed stuffs the 
ration includes, the proper proportion of dried beet pulp 
gives an added value to the whole combination far in ex¬ 
cess of its cost. It is no surprise to us that dried beet 
pulp should he coming to its own in this country, since 
it has been fed with such uniformly good results in Ger¬ 
many. Sweden, Denmark and other European countries. But 
sugar beet refining hasn’t reached the advanced stage in 
this country that it has in some others, and therefore we 
look for the demand for dried beet pulp soon to he greater 
than the supply. Write the Larrowe Milliner Co.. Produce 
Exchange, New York City, for their book covering the mattbr 
very thoroughly, free for the asking. It contains a report 
from Hon. .Tames Wilson. U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, 
in which he says he would rather have a pound of dried 
beet pulp to feed a dairy cow than a pound of corn. 
