1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
5i 
THE CATTLE ARE NAMED. 
Having a vital interest in the absolute reliability of 
the records of the A. J. C. Club and just as vital an 
interest in having the public give them full credence, 
because of their absolute reliability, I am prompted to 
ask you, for the publication in the columns of your 
journal, of the names and registration numbers of each 
of the animals in question, so that individual members 
of the A. J. C. Club and others interested may have 
the absolute data, for individual investigation, of this 
question under discussion, on page 949, and others in 
preceding issues of your journal. Without these it is 
a case of “you did and I didn’t,” so far as the public 
is concerned. Absolutely no good can, positively much 
harm must’, come from this kind of desultory attack 
and rejoinder. At this distance, and from such state¬ 
ments as show up through the blanket, that seems (fo£ 
some reason or other) to be kept over the transaction, 
the case may be possibly one of substitution. If this 
is the case the A. J. C. Club has its line of action out¬ 
lined by precedent, and can be trusted to, as it undoubt¬ 
edly will, follow it out, to its legitimate conclusion, and 
t'o the full discomfiture of any and all fraud that can 
in any manner impeach its high credit and the full in¬ 
tegrity of its registrations and records. Give us the 
names of the animals in dispute, together with the 
registration numbers, that an initial starting point for 
investigation may be had to this subject by that public 
to which you evidently appeal. a. f. peirce. 
Winchester, N. H. 
R. N.-Y.—We believe it is the business of the A. J. 
C. C. to take care of t'his matter. However, this re¬ 
quest from Mr. Peirce is natural and businesslike and 
we appreciate it. Here are the names and numbers: 
Dotshome Harmony 193207. This animal is registered 
as a heifer—the veterinarian considers her five nearing 
six years. Dotshome Matilda Naiad 191403. This cow, 
pronounced seven or eight years old, stands under this 
name and number as a heifer. Dotshome Queen Carey 
193277. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK . 
DOMESTIC.—Charges of fraud were filed January 2 with 
Postmaster General Cortelyou against the officials and the 
members of the New York Cotton Exchange by Representa¬ 
tive Livingston, of Georgia, and Harvie Jordan, president 
of the Southern Cotton Association, of Atlanta. On the charges 
they filed they base a request that the Postoffice Department 
issue a fraud order against the officials and members of the 
New York Cotton Exchange, to bar them from the use of 
the United States mails in conducting what the charges 
term fraudulent practices. The Postmaster General, after 
going over the papers submitted to him, referred his callers 
to Judge Goodwin, Assistant Attorney Gemeral for the Post- 
office Department. It is likely that a hearing on the charges 
will be held by Judge Goodwin before a determination of 
the question is reached. . . . Four men, said to be mem¬ 
bers of the bakers’ union, have been arrested in Chicago on 
the charge of putting acid on hundreds of loaves of bread 
delivered among the Jewish residents on the West side. A 
strike is in progress at a local bakery, and it is claimed 
that strike sympathizers threw the acid and also iodoform 
on wagonloads of bread and rolls after they had left the bak¬ 
ery. The police have confiscated baskets of poisoned bread 
and are holding them for evidence. In the pockets of the 
four men arrested were found bottles of carbolic acid and 
packages of powdered iodoform. . . . Thirty-four per¬ 
sons, mostly Mexican laborers, were killed January 2 in a 
head-on collision near Volande, Kan., between passenger 
trains on the Rock Island Railroad. Many of the victims 
were pinioned in the wreckage and were burned to death. 
Only their ashes remain. Twelve of the injured were seri¬ 
ously hurt and may die. The Mexicans were en route to El 
Paso to work for the Rock Island Railroad. The south¬ 
bound train was carrying extra cars for the heavy home- 
seeker excursion traffic and consisted of ten cars. John 
Lynes, the telegraph operator at Volande, who appears to be 
responsible for the collision, fled, but was arrested. Lynes 
received an order to stop both trains at Volande but let one 
slip by. . . . Fire which started in the cellar of a 
building on East 121st street, New York, occupied 
by Cowperthwait & Sons, furniture dealers, Janu¬ 
ary 3, caused fatal injuries to one fireman and a 
property loss of $250,000. . . . The Inter-State Com¬ 
merce Commission opened January 4 what promises to be 
a most rigid investigation of the recent wrecks on the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Terra Cotta, D. C.. in which 
more than twoscore of passengers lost their lives, and on 
the Southern Railway at Lawyers, Va., on Thanksgiving 
Day, when President Samuel Spemcer and six others were 
killed. The Inter-State Commerce Commission opened the 
investigation under a general resolution passed by Congress 
in the last session providing for an inquiry into the opera¬ 
tion of the block system on the railroads throughout the 
country. It is the purpose of the commission to determine 
whether the responsibility for these two wrecks should be 
put on the workings of the block system or on the care¬ 
lessness of the railroad employees on duty at the block signal 
stations. ... A man who said he was G. E. Williams, 
of Philadelphia, but who is supposed to have been R. Steele, 
of Garner. Ia., threw a bomb in the executive offices of the 
Fourth Street National Bank, Philadelphia. January 5. The 
bomb exploded, killing him and the cashier, W. Z. McLear. 
wounding about 15 others, two of them perhaps fatally, and 
wrecking the bank’s offices. The man hurled the bomb after 
he had been refused both by Cashier McLear and Richard 
H. Rushton, the bank’s president, on an application for a 
loan of $5,000. . . . Three more ticket agents were 
convicted Jamuary 7 in the Tombs police court, New York, 
of swindling foreigners by selling them bogus tickets to 
various parts of Europe. Their game was to promise pas¬ 
sage to interior places in Europe, take all the money their 
victims had and then put them aboard a cattle steamer, 
where they would work their way to Europe. On the other 
side they would be stranded, the railroad tickets given them 
being bogus. 
ADMINISTRATION.—By direction of the President, Secre¬ 
tary Hitchcock issued am order January 4 to Commissioner 
Riehards of the General Land Office to notify at once all spe¬ 
cial agents and Receivers and Registers of local land offices 
that the act of Feb. 25, 1885, for the summary destruction 
of illegal inclosures and obstructions existing on public 
lands will be rigidly enforced after April 1, 1907. The order 
will result ta the tearing down of many miles of fences. 
. ’ . . Senator Carter of Montana proposed a Congressional 
investigation January 7 of the causes of wrecks, collisions 
and other accidents occurring on interstate railroads. He 
introduced a resolution authorizing the appointment of a 
joint committee of Congress to be composed of four Senators 
and five Representatives to sit during recess of Congress, 
and report to Congress on the causes of wrecks, collisions, 
etc., not later than January 1, 190S. The sum of $25,000 
was authorized to carry an the investigation. The resolution 
was referred to a committee. . . . Opposition to the 
confirmation of George B. Cortelyou’s nomination as Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury developed January 8 in the Senate 
Committee on Finance, when Mr. Cortelyou’s nomination was 
brought up for action. At the request of Senator Daniel 
of Virginia, and Senator Teller, of Colorado, the ranking Dem¬ 
ocratic members of the committee, consideration of the nom¬ 
ination was postponed for a week. Their general ground of 
criticism is that Mr. Cortelyou had intimate dealings with 
great financial interests when he was chairman of the Re¬ 
publican National campaign committee, and for that reason 
should not be placed in charge of the finances of the Nation, 
a place in which his relations with these same financial in¬ 
terests would necessarily have to be continued. This is 
a revival of the old charge that Mr. Cortelyou made the 
big corporations disgorge large sums for the expenses of the 
Republican campaign of 1904. Friends of Mr. Cortelyou 
have denied this charge and declared in Mr. Cortelyou’s be¬ 
half that he had (nothing whatever to do with the collection 
of campaign expenses. 
THE TRUSTS.—The Government won a sweeping victory 
in the Federal District Court at Chicago January 3 in the 
suit against the Standard Oil Company, charged with accept¬ 
ing preferential rates on shipments of oil to Whiting, Ind. 
By Judge Landis’s decision the company is denied an “im¬ 
munity bath” and must stand trial on the merits of the 
case. The Judge overruled the demurrers to eight of the 
indictments. In only two unimportant indictments will the 
demurrers be sustained. . . . For the first time since the 
advent of Edward II. Harriman into the railway firmament 
the records and secret documents of the great system of 
railroads of which he is the dominant figure were dragged 
into daylight January 4 at New York. The agency by which 
this was accomplished was the Inter-State Commerce Com¬ 
mission, now beginning what is expected to be by far the 
most important of all its investigations. It was brought 
out January 5 at the inquiry that on March 31, 1903, Mr. 
Harriman sold to William Rockefeller, a Union Pacific di¬ 
rector, 300,000 shares of the Southern Pacific stock held by 
the Oregon Short Line, but sold it under an agreement that 
Mr. Rockefeller should sell it back on May 1, 1904. The 
Union Pacific owns the Oregon Short Line. At the time 
the sale was made James R. Keene was waging war against 
the control of the Southern Pacific by the Union Pacific in¬ 
terests and had brought suit on behalf of himself and minor¬ 
ity interests alleging that the control by the Union Pacific 
interests was unlawful and to the detriment of the Southern 
Pacific road. . . . That E. II. Harriman and those 
friendly to him hold more than $40,000,000 of the stock of 
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road was one of the 
points brought out when the Interstate Commerce Commis¬ 
sion resumed its inquiry into the Harriman activities at 
Chicago January 8. Of this $40,000,000 of Atchison stock 
$10,000,000 has been acquired since last July by the Union 
Pacific. This was absolutely unknown to President Ripley 
and most of the Atchison board until it was brought out in 
the testimony given in New York by Comptroller William 
Mahl of the Union Pacific. President Ripley testified that 
the Atchison was a direct competitor of the Southern Pa¬ 
cific, now part of the Harriman system. He testified that 
two years ago Mr. Harriman on behalf of himself and sev¬ 
eral other men informed him that they had $30,000,000 of 
Atchison stock and demanded representation on the board. 
This was given to them, as they could have forced it any¬ 
way, President Ripley said. 
N. Y. DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION . 
Part III. 
S. L. Stewart read a paper on the production of certified 
milk. This subject is one which commands attention wher¬ 
ever it is presented, and the convention this year was no 
exception. Mr. Stewart has won a very high reputation In 
respect to milk production and is receiving a good price ior 
his milk. He would have a stable with smooth walls, cement 
floor, King system of ventilation, and double-sash windows. 
The stanchions are recommended to be of galvanized iron, 
and there is to be a covered passageway from the barn to 
the milk house. The passageway is to have two doors, one 
at each end. There should be a boiler room and a laundry. 
The outer clothing of milkers and attendants should, accord¬ 
ing to Mr. Stewart, be washed and sterilized every day. At 
milking time, after the cows have been carded, each cow is 
washed, and a separate clean cloth or towel is used on each 
cow to dry the hair. Whenever, in washing, there is the 
least discoloration of the water, a fresh supply is obtained, 
and water containing an antiseptic is used. All utensils 
are sterilized at a temperature of 240 degrees, and, in milk¬ 
ing, the first few streams of milk are thx-own away. No 
metal strainers are used, but a fresh piece of cloth is used 
in straining each pail of milk, to remove any hairs or pus 
from the milk. The milk is at once cooled to 3(1 or 40 
degrees, and bottled, within 15 minutes after milking. The 
cows are examined by a veterinarian twice a year and are 
then tested for tuberculosis at each examination. Mr. 
Stewart states that there is a very ready market for certified 
milk, but says that it costs two or three times as much to 
make it as to make common market milk. It is a losing 
proposition, he thinks, to produce that grade of milk at 
four cents a quart, even in June. Some maintain that a 
separate stable for milking should be used, but Mr. Stewart 
thinks that moving the cows would stir up more dust than 
there would be in the stable where they stand. Planer shav¬ 
ings are used for bedding, because they come nearest being 
sterile of any thing that can be used. Considerable of the 
milk bottled by Mr. Stewart has proven to be sterile. 
Hon. Geo. L. Flanders, of the Department of Agriculture, 
spoke on the subject of “Agricultural Education.” He 
outlined the progress of education relating to agricultural 
colleges from about 1802, when the first act providing for 
such institutions was passed by Congress. Now we have 65 
agricultural colleges. We are to have agricultural high 
schools, and Mr. Flanders pleads for the common schools. 
Unfortunately, in the opinion of the public, the agricultural 
graduates do not rank with those from other colleges. 
This, however, is an age of specialties, and a training in 
science relating to agricultural pursuits is as good a training 
as one relating to other subjects. There is the same amount 
of training. Both are for the purpose of giving trained 
minds, and they are not two sorts of education. 
To close the regular work of the convention, a witty 
paper, not one the programme, was road by Mrs. Marshall. 
The topic discussed was the production of milk of good 
quality. Mrs. Marshall protested against the scare-heads 
who would seem to have the public believe that milk is 
dirty and is filled with all sorts of dangerous ingredients. 
She admitted, however, that some dairymen have a standard 
of cleanliness that is too low. The score card proposed by 
Prof. Pearson was advocated as being an excellent guide for 
conditions of cleanliness. The committee on resolutions 
presented the usual compliments to the Mayor, Chamber of 
Commerce and citizens of Elmira : also to those who con¬ 
tributed music and reading. Confidence was expressed in 
the State Department of Agriculture, the State experiment 
station, the Agricultural College, and the work of the State 
Farmers’ Institutes. The erection of a dairy building on the 
State fair grounds was urged. A law compelling tests to be 
made by qualified persons, where milk and cream are pur¬ 
chased on the test, was advocated: also the practice of 
selling milk and cream on the basis of their fat content and 
sanitary conditions. There was a request for an appropria¬ 
tion to stamp out anthrax wherever it is found in the 
State. A protest was lodged asking for a reconsideration 
by the Executive Committee of the National Butter Makers’ 
Association of the place of the next meeting, and requesting 
that the meeting be located where more easily accessible. 
Hon. George L. Flanders moved a resolution on the death 
of Hon. H. C- Adams, which was seconded by Prof. L. H. 
Bailey, both making short speeches highly commendatory of 
Mr. Adams’s unselfish devotion to the cause of agriculture. 
The place of the next meeting of the association was fixed 
at Malone, in Franklin County. The officers elected were 
as follows: President, W. JV. Hall, Gouverneur: vice-presi¬ 
dent. Dr. W. H. Jordan, ‘Geneva: secretary, Thomas E. 
Tiquin, Sherburne; treasurer, W. E. Griffin, Madrid, h. h. l. 
THE NEW YORK STATE FRUITGROWERS' 
ASSOCIATION . 
Part I. 
The sixth annual meeting of the Association was held in 
Penn Yan, January 2-3. The attendance was unusually large, 
and all were impressed with the Hearty welcome given by 
the people of that village. The display of fruit by the 
Geneva Experiment Station and individual growers was 
well worth seeing. The Station had on display 116 varieties 
of apples and altogether 375 plates of fruit. An interesting 
part of the exhibit was that showing experiments in spray¬ 
ing apples with different amounts of copper sulphate and 
lime in 50 gallons of water. Every available inch of space 
in the machinery exhibit hall was filled to overflowing with 
every kind' of spraying machines and pumps, as well as 
many other implements for use by the fruit grower. The 
first session of the meeting opened on the morning of January 
2 with an address of welcome by Hon. Thomas Carmody. 
of Penn Yan, who spoke briefly, confining himself to welcom¬ 
ing the association. In response to this, H. W. Collingwood 
said in part: “Fruit growing saved New York State when 
the cheaper western land ruined the profitable growing of 
grain, and men who have helped do this have a right to 
stand among the captains of industry. The turning of waste 
and abandoned farms into fruitful vineyards and orchards 
is just as wonderful as the turning of Niagara into power. 
The fruit grower can therefore have great pride in hl-s call¬ 
ing. Yet all must stand together, for they must unite against 
several enemies, such as business combinations and trans¬ 
portation, ignorance and false ideals of life and living. We 
must solve our problems by getting out of the money making 
rut and give our lives true expression.” The address by the 
.president, T. B. Wilson, was impressive and forcible, some 
extracts follow: “Co-operation is needed, therefore the 
membership should be increased to 5,000 members. The 
price of apples should be raised from that of the dealers’ 
and thus give a greater profit; co-operative storage and 
better packing are imperative.” Mr. Wilson also urged the 
support of the American Apple Growers’ Congress and recom¬ 
mended that the Fruit Growers’ send a delegate to that 
Congress. The report of the Secretary, E. C. Gillett, showed 
that the Association had a membership of 75 life members, 
165 active and 345 associate, making a total of 585. 
Three crop reports were sent out last season ; the reports 
as issued tended to raise the market price of apples for the 
members of the association at least 25 cents per barrel on 
each barrel that was sent from the State. So far as is 
known. New York State is the only State that does not use 
the normal crop for a basis for comparison. The report 
of the Treasurer, C. H. Darrow, showed that the receipts 
for last year amounted to: 
Cash on hand January 2, 1906. $478.42 
Received from all sources. 1,392.76 
Total .$1,871.18 
Expenses were.$1,316.15 
Balance on hand January 2, 1907. 555.03 
Total . $1,871.18 
Prof. Hedrick’s report on plant diseases said in 
part: “The apple and pear blight has been the 
worst in years, for many fine orchards have been 
ruined. Grape rots are favored by wet seasons, espe¬ 
cially the black and brown rots, which are not prevented 
by spraying. The Apple scab was less prevalent. Interest 
was aroused in the Gypsy moth, and the earnest desire 
of many to co-operate with us in its early detection. The 
Gypsy moth is extending its range in New England. The 
Browntail moth is not known west of the Connecticut 
Valley.” Iln the afternoon an interesting paper was given 
by Prof. Hedrick on “Fertilizers for Apples.” Prof. Hedrick 
confined himself largely to an experiment that has been 
carried on for 12 years in an old apple orchard in which 
wood ashes was the only fertilizer used. Check plots were 
left on each variety in the experiment, which included Bald¬ 
win, FalU Pippin, Rhode Island Greening, Roxbury Russet 
and Northern Spy. The soil is a medium heavy clay loam, 
which was in grass and heavily manured before the experi¬ 
ment began. The results, directly, were not very satis¬ 
factory ; there was but little increase in yield, the color 
was not remarkably changed nor were the keeping qualities 
influenced. lie said fruit growers often waste capital in 
buying fertilizers, yet soils often need extra food. This 
should be determined individually; in other words, brains, 
judgment and conscientious work is needed. 
Dr. Jordon spoke a few words on the needs of the Experi¬ 
ment Station for the coming year. He explained that they 
were going before the State legislature with a request for 
a larger appropriation than had ever been asked for, for 
the reason that new buildings are required, including a new 
auditorium, for the use of the station, seating from 800 to 
1,000 people, also three new houses for the staff of the 
station. “Good men are scarce, and I want to keep them,” 
said Dr. Jordon in closing. w. w. B. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
No less than 350,000 Lehman heaters are in actual use: 
they burn Lehman coal, from which there is no smoke, smell 
or danger of fire, at a cost of two cents per day. If you 
write the manufacturers, Lehman Brothers, 10 Bond St., 
New York, N. Y., they will send you free an attractive 
illustrated booklet telling all about these safe, comfort-giv¬ 
ing and pneumonia-preventing foot warmers. The comfort 
given on ane cold ride makes the heater worth all it costs. 
The Havana Metal Wheel Co., Box 17, Havana, Ill., are 
famous as leading manufacturers of low metal wheels for 
work wagons. It must be remembered, too, that they man¬ 
ufacture low wagons complete with metal wheels equipped 
with either grooved tires or flat tires. The wagons have 
steel gears or wood gears as may be desired. People having 
good wagon gears and needing wheels should write this firm 
for particulars how to measure the skein, so that they may 
supply new metal wheels which will fit perfectly. 
Since so much has been said about the quality of wire 
fence our people are sure to appreciate a first-class product 
even if the original cost is a little higher—the superior 
article in any line is always cheaper in the end. The fence 
made by Coiled Spring Fence & Wire Co., Box 263, Win¬ 
chester, End., is made of hiqlu carbon coiled wire, and the 
manufacturers claim it is the strongest made. It is sold 
direct from the factory, freight paid, and on 30 days’ trial. 
If in need of fence the coming Spring write for further in¬ 
formation. 
Your Cow, Steer and Horse hides when converted into fur 
coats, robes and rugs are far better and cheaper than any¬ 
thing you can buy. You know what they are whein you fur¬ 
nish the material from which they are made. See the ad¬ 
vertisement of The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, of Roches¬ 
ter. N. Y. These people—who are pioneers in this kind of 
work—are doing a large and ev<'r increasing business in cus¬ 
tom tanning, due to the fact tht they not only understand 
their business, but treat their patrons right. If interested 
get their illustrated catalog. 
Much of the apparent loss from the fields is due directly 
and primarily to the failure to give the grata, and grass a 
proper seed bed. Most farmers appreciate the need of a good 
seed bed. Not every farmer knows how to secure it, tnor is 
every farmer familiar with the good being done, the increased 
yields being secured by the New Acme Harrow. Those who 
are sufficiently interested in increased returns from their 
lands to do so will be well repaid if they will look up the 
advertisement of Duane H. Nash, Millingtdn, N. J., and write 
to him for his little book, entitled “A Perfect Seed Bed.” 
A copy will be sent on request if you will mention this paper. 
Not many concerns can truthfully say that their product 
has been continuously an the market for half a century. 
Time is the test of quality, and the Cahoon Hand Broadcast 
Seed Sower, although remodeled and improved on various oc¬ 
casions, has never failed to give perfect satisfaction during 
its long test. In order to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of 
the Cahoon Hand Broadcast Seed Sower, Goodell Company, 
Antrim, N. II., U. S. A., the manufacturers, are sending 
out a beautiful booklet in colors with seeding calendar, and 
a handsome souvenir to all who are Interested in sowing 
grain dr grass seed. Write them to-day and ask for free 
booklet and souvenir, but be sure to tell them the name of 
your implement dealer. 
