1907. 
TIIH RURAL NEW-YORKER 
71 
JERSEY BREEDERS ARE WAKING UP. 
We print below an article by E. W. Richter of Owat- 
ouna, Minn., which appeared in The Jersey Bulletin of 
January 2. Other articles, similar in character, are 
appearing, and it is evident that Jersey breeders appre¬ 
ciate the situation—just as we told the the A. J. C. C. 
they would. The most significant thing about it is 
the attitude of The Jersey Bulletin. This paper first 
sneered at our statement of the case, but as one breeder 
after another has taken it up the Bulletin has come 
down- closer and closer to business, and now shows that 
it realizes the gravity of the situation: 
CRITICIZES A. .T. C. C. POLICY. 
E. W. RICHTER, 
Owatonna, Minn. 
The writer has been deeply interested in the matter of 
alleged fraudulent sales of registered' Jersey cattle by a 
prominent breeder, to a party who now claims that the 
animals furnished him did not correspond with the descrip¬ 
tion contained in the certificates of registration issued by 
the A. J. C. C. and given him, and about which so much 
has been written and published in a certain agricultural 
newspaper. Whether or not the editor is “making a play 
to the galleries” in his championship of the buyer’s cause, 
be has, in the opinion of the writer, succeeded in placing 
the A. J. C. C. and its executive committee and other officers 
in a very unenviable light before the public in general and 
Jersey breeders in particular. 
To an outsider it looks as if the executive committee by 
its resolution attempted to assist the breeder out of a seri¬ 
ous scrape at great hazard to the reputation of (lie Club. 
In a letter the secretary promised “a thorough and impartial 
investigation.” Without any claim on the part of the com¬ 
mittee that it had investigated on its own account to ascer¬ 
tain the facts of the case (when it was claimed that the 
certificates issued by the Club had been used to defraud), 
it turns the matter down by a resolution based on what 
lawyers call “a slight preponderance of evidence ■” introduced 
by one party when the other party had been informed by 
the secretary that all which was required on his part at 
the hearing was an affidavit which was necessary to bring 
the matter properly before the Club. 
I fear that Jersey breeders will not be satisfied with that 
sort of ex parte proceedings on the part of the committee 
to clear up a charge of fraud. If I purchased registered 
stock from a breeder and received certificates of registra¬ 
tion not descriptive of the animals purchased, and the seller 
refused to do anything about it I should expect the associa¬ 
tion which issued the certificates to take some farther action 
than dismissing the matter without inquiry Into the facts 
of the case and without notice to both parties to produce 
all the evidence obtainable. Nothing short of such a hear¬ 
ing was sufficient to enable the committee to pass upon the 
merits of the case, and the Club would thereby be exonerated 
from any culpability in the affair. 
Of what value are the registration records of the A. J. C. 
C. unless it be to properly authenticate the breeding of 
native and imported Jersey cattle which it has found eligible 
for registration, and protect purchasers from imposition by 
false representations as to the purity of the blood and as 
to ihe blood lines of such animals? The main question now 
is not whether a fraud has been perpetrated on the buyer 
or not, but whether or not the Club will vindicate its action 
in this matter and stand by its certificates of registration 
by endeavoring to expose and punish their wrongful Vise 
by unprincipled parties if such should prove to be the case. 
I do not know whether or not your relations with the A. .T. 
C. C. will permit that you take a hand in this controversy, 
but I think it is up to the officers of the Club to show that 
no blame can be laid at the door of that organization if 
any wrong had been perpetrated—that they have made a 
full f.nd fair investigation and done their part in perform¬ 
ing the duty which rests upon all of us to further the 
interests of justice. 
In commenting on this The Jersey Bulletin walks all 
around the point without touching it. It says, however: 
We have no part in nor previous knowledge of the anony¬ 
mous accusation which Mr. Richter refers to. It is purely 
the business of Jersey breeders and of the American Jersey 
Cattle Club, and it is our duty to publish the 
comments from both sources if in our judgment this is 
expedient. The only limitation The Jersey Bulletin places 
on such discussions is that facts be adhered to—not fiction 
or imagination—and that they be stated In proper language. 
So far there has been little but insinuation in the source 
of this criticism of the American Jersey Cattle Club. As 
implied by Mr. Richter, it looks like "a play to the 
galleries”—a grandstand bid for applause or patronage on 
the part of the instigator. 
This of course is no answer, bt.t it indicates growth 
on the part of The Jersey Bulletin. The R. N.-Y. is 
not making “a play to the galleries,” or to people down 
under ground. There is “no patronage or applause” in 
sight from the buyer. On the other hand, the breeder 
has intimated that he is in a position to do us great 
harm—and he probably is. This, however, will have no 
effect upon the policy of The R. N.-Y. Is that cow 
seven years old or over? If so, some one has changed 
the cow or the number. The A. J. C. C. promised to 
investigate and find out, but through some influence 
failed to do as agreed. If the A. J. C. C. is too dig¬ 
nified or too cowardly to settle an important case of this 
sort let us find it out now. If the Jersey Bulletin rep¬ 
resents Jersey breeders it ought to help find out. 
NEW YORK MILK.—Agricultural Commissioner Wieting 
of New York gives some figures showing the extent of the 
milk trade : 
“The quantity of milk demanded for the supply of the 
large cities is constantly increasing, which is noted from 
the fact that the number of cans of crude milk, plus the 
number of cans of cream and unsweetened condensed milk, 
all estimated as milk, required for the New York markets 
for the year of 1906 was 20.081,997 forty-quart cans, or 
803,279,880 quarts, or 2,200,766 quarts daily. On account 
of the great quantity of milk going to the cities from the 
creameries, and from the fact that such adulteration as is 
done by the large dealers is done behind closed doors and 
in such a way as to still leave the milk above the standard, 
the work of detecting such adulterations as occur is 
difficult, and from the further fact that when such parties 
consign milk to themselves in New York so that the con¬ 
signor and consignee are the same person, no violation occurs 
until such time as the milk is exposed for sale. Therefore, 
he recommends that the statute be amended so as to make the 
shipping of adulterated milk to New York presumptive 
evidence of an offer or exposure for sale.” 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—One of the worst explosions in the history 
of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Works occurred January 9 at 
Pittsburg, I’a., when a large quantity of gas which had 
accumulated at the base of the furnaces exploded. Molten 
metal was showered around the furnace for a radius of 40 
feet. Out of 35 men employed at the furnace when the ex¬ 
plosion occurred three of them were taken to the morgue, 
their bodies horribly mutilated by the fire. Seven men were 
fatally injured, and 24 others injured. . . . The New 
York State Board of Pharmacy has enlisted itself in the war 
on the indiscriminate sale and use of cocaine, the victims of 
whose abuse figure increasingly in the criminal, pauper and 
hospital records of the State. In its annual session Janu¬ 
ary 9 the board took steps toward securing legislation at this 
session to prohibit the sale of the drug in any form except 
on a physician’s prescription. The proposed measure would 
permit the sale of cocaine on only one condition, that of a 
physician’s prescription, which can be filled but once. It is 
said that the measure will be drastic enough to reach many 
so-called catarrh remedies and other concoctions known to 
contain cocaine. . . . All efforts to repair the break in 
the Colorado River across the Mexican border, which is pour¬ 
ing its flood into the Imperial Valley of California, seem to 
have failed. Word reached the reclamation service officials 
January 9 that 600 feet of new construction work, which the 
California Development Company had put in was torn away 
by a sudden freshet, and now the gigantic torrent is as largo 
as ever. It is believed by reclamation experts that at least 
$2,000,000 will be needed to repair the break and make the 
Colorado’s banks flood proof.'Hie federal grand 
jury returned two indictments January 9 against the Santa 
Ee Railroad Company at Los Angeles, California. The 
two indictments contain 76 counts. The railroad 
is charged in the first indictment of 66 counts with 
granting certain concessions to the Grand Canyon 
Lime and Cement Company on shipments of lime 
from Nelson, Ariz., to certain California points, and to John 
P. Shirlen. The second indictment, containing 10 counts, 
charges the railroad company with giving rebates on lime 
Two indictments were returned also against the Grand Can¬ 
yon Lime and Cement Company, one of six counts for ac¬ 
cepting rebates and the other containing 17 counts, charg¬ 
ing it with accepting concessions. ... A terrific snow¬ 
storm prevailed in western Minnesota and North Dakota 
January 10-12, extending as far south as southern Wiscon¬ 
sin. The snow was from four to 10 feet deep. Trains from 
the Pacific Coast are stalled. Railroad men were discour¬ 
aged because the shipments of coal to the fuel famine 
districts were stalled. Settlers cannot get to towns, and 
are burning everything available, even to the haystacks, Cat¬ 
tle are being killed to save them from starving. The Great 
Northern, Northern Pacific and “Soo" lines report seven trains 
of passengers stalled in North Dakota. Considerable anxiety 
is expressed in St. Paul for the passengers on trains stalled 
two or three days in the wilds of North Dakota, but fuel and 
provisions are being provided by the neighboring villages 
and also by relief trains. . . . Ten thousand head of cat¬ 
tle, looking for shelter from the terrible blizzard, broke Into 
the city of Lethbridge, Manitoba, January 12, in a wild 
Stampede. They did much damage. The blizzard was raging 
in southern Alberta, the center of the cattle country. More 
than 1,000 head of cattle have been found dead on the 
ranges, which are covered deep with snow. . . . Infor¬ 
mation has reached Canadian Government officials of a 
scheme which is diverting lumber produced In British Col¬ 
umbia from Canadian markets, where it is greatly needed at 
present, to the United States, and Incidentally is cheating 
the American Government out of thousands of dollars in 
timber duty. The present great shortage of lumber in Brit¬ 
ish Columbia was believed to be due to the huge demand at 
San Francisco for lumber for rebuilding after the earth¬ 
quake. It is not denied that tremendous quantities have 
gone there, but the real destination of much of it has been 
the Isthmus of Panama. It is alleged that the timber nas 
only gone to San Francisco as a blind, to obtain advantage 
of the preferential rates of duty in force at that port since 
last April. Once there, the lumber has been immediately 
reloaded on other vessels and taken to the South to be used 
in the temporary work on the Panama Canal. It is alleged 
that the illegal profits have been divided between the con- 
cocters of the scheme and the British Columbia lumbermen. 
. . . The Grand jury of Hancock County, Ohio, brought in 
939 separate indictments under the Ohio anti-trust law, 
against the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the Ohio 
Oil Company, the Buckeye Pipe Une Company, the Manhat¬ 
tan Oil Company, the Solar Refining Company, the Standard 
Oil Company of Ohio and John D. Rockefeller, Henry H. 
Rogers, William Rockefeller, John D. Archbold, Wesley H. 
Tilford. Frank Q. Barstow and F. T. Cutlibert. All are 
charged with being members of a trust, a combination of 
capital, and skill that acts to increase and reduce the price of a 
commodity and to prevent competition in manufacturing, 
making, transporting, sale and purchase of a commodity in 
Hancock County. The cases cover an offence for each day 
for three years, from January 15, 1904, to January 15, 
1907. If Hancock County wins in each case when they are 
tried fines can be assessed aggregating $58,000,000. . . . 
January 14 eight men were killed by an explosion in a coal 
mine at Clinton, Ind. . . . The Chicago and Kansas City 
packing companies who were sued by the State of Arkansas 
for alleged violation of the State’s Anti-trust law received a 
severe blow January 14 when the Supreme Court affirmed the 
decision of the Pulaski Circuit Court in assessing a fine of 
$10,000 against the Hammond Packing Company. The opin¬ 
ion was delivered by Chief Justice Hill, three of the Associ¬ 
ate Justices concurring and Justice Battle dissenting. This 
was an action brought by the State of Arkansas against the 
Hammond Packing Company, alleging that it was doing busi¬ 
ness in the State contrary to the Anti-trust act of 1905. 
After answer, a commission was issued to a commissioner in 
Chicago to take testimony. Upon the defendant’s refusal to 
comply with the order of court requiring the production of 
witnesses and documents, after notice, the answer was strick¬ 
en out and judgment rendered against the Hammond Com¬ 
pany as by default. The Hammond Company appealed. 
. . . Fire at Lancaster, Pa., January 11, destroyed a 
tobacco warehouse and five dwellings; loss $1,000,000. . . . 
Colgate Hoyt, president of the Automobile Club of America, 
and Winthrop E. Scarritt. former president of the A. C. A., 
were sworn in as special patrolmen January 15 by Com¬ 
missioner Bingham at Police Headquarters, New York. Three 
other members of the club—Albert R. Shattuck, Dave H. 
Morris and George F. Chamberlain—have made application 
to become special policemen. All the new specials, with the 
exception of Mr. Chamberlain, have been presidents of the 
Automobile Club of America, and all have been active in 
trying to have violators of the speed laws punished. Several 
months ago a committee, composed of the five new specials, 
was appointed to seek steps toward putting an end to the 
constant infractions of the speed laws and aid the police 
in punishing the guilty ones. Mr. Hoyt and his associates 
on the committee conferred with Commissioner-Bingham, and 
it was decided that they be sworn in as specials and make 
arrests themselves. Special Patrolman Iloyt and his fellows 
intend to go after all offenders of the automobile speed laws, 
and when they nab any violator they will take him to the 
nearest police station without calling upon a regular police¬ 
man. 
ADMINISTRATION.—After five hours of exciting debate 
the Senate, Jan. 10, by a vote of 70 to 1, passed a bill limit¬ 
ing to 16 the number of hours of continuous service railway em¬ 
ployees operating interstate trains should be permitted to 
work and requiring 10 hours off duty out of everv 26. The 
bill as finally passed was proposed by Senator La Follette 
of Wisconsin as a substitute for a measure he had previously 
introduced and which had been amended beyond recognition 
in committee and on the floor. On the final passage of the 
bill Senator Pettus of Alabama was the only Senator who 
recorded himself against it, but on the test vote in com¬ 
mittee of the whole on the substitute proposed by Mr. La 
Follette the vote was 36 yeas to 32 nays. . . . President 
Roosevelt forwarded to Congress January 12 a message urg¬ 
ing action looking to an amelioration of conditions in the 
Imperial Valley of Southern California, which has been inun¬ 
dated by waters flowing from a break in the Colorado River. 
The President makes it plain that the California Develop¬ 
ment Company, a subsldiarv concern of the Southern Pacific 
Railroad Company, is directlv responsible for the distressing 
situation in which thousands of settlers have been placed 
through floods caused by the break in the river. ITe recites 
briefly the relations between the Southern Pacific and the 
Development Company, showing that the Harriman line ac¬ 
quired a controlling interest in the Development Company 
on account of tHe loans advanced to it. He recommends that 
an appropriation of $2,000,000 be made In this emergency 
in order that the break may be repaired without delay. He 
suggests the advisability of the government taking over the 
works of the Development Company, lie says the question of 
what sum, if any, should be paid to the Southern Pacific 
Railroad Company for work done since the break of Novem¬ 
ber 4 is one for future consideration. . . . The nomina¬ 
tion of George B. Cortolyou to be Secretary of the Treasury 
in place of Leslie M. Shaw was confirmed unanimously Janu¬ 
ary 15 by the Senate. There was no opposition to Mr. 
Cortelyou. - _ 
THE NEW YORK STATE FRUITGROWERS' 
ASSOCIATION. 
Part II. 
Mr. Beckwith, of Albion, who was a member of the St. 
Louis conference, appeared before the association asking 
for aid in the German tariff question. At the present apples 
from the United States go into Germany at a tariff of 50 
cents a barrel. After June, if satisfactory results have not 
been made before then, the tariff will be the same as Can¬ 
ada's tariff to Germany, $1.65 per barrel. Influence upon 
our congressmen and senators is needed at once. Mr. 
Eustace, of Washington, D. C., in the evening address, gave 
a paper and lantern slides on “Fruit Transportation and 
Storage Investigations of the U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture.” He brought out the point that the loss of fruit 
shipped across the United States in refrigerator cars is not 
due to the transportation or storage itself; it is further 
back than this. It is the care tne fruit receives after 
picking and before going into the car, also to the ripeness 
of the fruit when picked, mechanical injury to the fruit 
after picking causing the greatest loss, and neglect to place 
in cold storage as soon as possible after picking the next 
greatest cause. For best results fruit must not become 
too ripe, it must be handled as carefully as possible, and 
placed in cold storage directly after picking. Pre-cooling is 
often a necessity before shipment. 
One of the most interesting addresses of the whole meet¬ 
ing was that by Dr. L. II. Bailey, of Cornell University, on 
“The Little Red School House.” Figures were first given 
comparing the number of schools in country and city, the 
value of the two and the number of school children attend¬ 
ing in each, etc. lie said in part; “The school house is 
some status of the civilization of a community. The old 
type of schoo’house is noted for its sit-still benches and the 
reciting of books. This method is not effective to-day, and 
the old idea will have passed away in a few years. Chil¬ 
dren should begin by doing something with their hands. 
Personal experience should center in the schoolhouse, the 
child is going to begin by being put to work. The little 
school house recently built on the Cornell University campus 
shows at least one step in advance, the main feature of 
which Is a laboratory in which children work with their 
hands. It was built for $1,800 and will accommodate 30 
pupils. The laboratory will be a museum in spite of itself. 
Teachers will have to be trained for this new kind of 
education, the normal schools cannot do this. There must 
be a reorganization of the rural and village school and In 
this reorganization, agriculture will be introduced into these 
schools. We must take an entirely new attitude in the way 
of going at things. What is better in the study of physics 
than to study a plow and a Babcock test machine?” 
The morning of January 3 was entirely devoted to papers 
and discussions on the San Josd scale. Tills is a question 
that strikes home to each of us, and is receiving more at¬ 
tention to-day than any other insect in the past has done. 
L. L. Morrell, of Kinderhook, N. Y., gave the leading ad¬ 
dress on this important question. He said in part: “It 
is a fight first, last and all time. I have had the scale for 
16 years, have used all the different remedies of the past up 
to lime and sulphur, which I am using now. I use 15 
pounds sulphur, 20 pounds lime, in 50 gallons of water, the 
sulphur being put in after the lime has slaked; I boil it 
by steam until it is a dark amber color, at least one-half 
hour, and then apply while hot. I can put on 800 to 1,000 
gallons per day with two men besides myself. It requires 
your absolute attention; you must touch every scale if you 
want to kill it. Spray with the wind, the top of the tree 
first and the under side of the branches last. I have less 
scale to-day than eight years ago, and would not be afraid 
to set more trees if I wanted them. Success is a matter of 
thoroughness all the way through.” 
Other valuable papers in regard to controlling the scale 
were given by Dr. Francis P. Krautz, of West Virginia; 
George G. Atwood, of Albany, N. Y., and Prof. I\ J. Parrott, 
of Geneva. This session closed by an invaluable discussion 
of the merits and demerits of the various sprays for San 
Jose, the different methods of applying and the effectiveness 
of the work. 
C. B. Cook, of Michigan, in the afternoon session gave 
a valuable paper on “The Commercial Strawberry Bed.” Mr. 
Cook said it was the men who were able to overcome diffi¬ 
culties who were going to win in strawberry growing. The 
black-root has drivan out many growers, and' there are fewer 
berries grown in New York and Michigan to-day than a few 
years ago. Adaptability of climate, soil and variety is one 
of the essentials of success in strawberry growing. The 
closing address of the meeting was that by Prof. M. V. 
Slingerland, of Cornell University, who spoke on “Some In¬ 
sect Notes.” It was pointed out that some $15,000,000 
worth of farm and forest crops are destroyed in New York 
State every year and in turn New York State spends $40,- 
000 every year in Investigation and inspection work. The 
means of control of insect enemies are many and varied, 
such as mechanical methods, farm practices and applica¬ 
tion of insecticides. 
The following officers were elected for the ensufcig year; 
President, J. R. Cornell, Newburg; first vice-president. Grant 
Ditchings, Syracuse: third vice-president, Luther Collamer, 
Hilton; fourth vice-president, Albert Wood, Carlton Station; 
secretary, E. C. Gillett, Penn Yan ; treasurer, C. H. Darrow, 
Geneva: executive committee, B. J. Case, Sodus; S. W. Wad- 
hams, of Clarkson; L. L. Morrell, of Kfnderhook : Thomas B. 
Wilson, of Hall’s Corners; Geo. W. Potter, of Buffalo. 
_ w. w. B. 
BUSINESS BITS. 
“Telephone on the Farm” is the title of a new booklet 
just issued by Stromberg-Carlson ^Telephone Manufacturing 
Company, Rochester, N. Y. The booklet contains valuable 
information on the subject of telephones and the great 
advantage of them in the farm home. It also treats of the 
Stromberg-Carlson apparatus, and we would suggest that 
anyone interested in the telephone subject will do well to 
send for the booklet. It will be sent for the asking. 
The United Factories Company of Cleveland, Ohio, are 
announcing through our columns a new incubator book 
with some surprisinglv low prices on their Perfect incuba¬ 
tors and brooders. This new incubator book is Issued in 
conjunction with 12 other factories’ catalogues bound under 
one cover and sent out free. You can save time and trouble 
by writing for these 12 factories’ catalogues in one. Just 
say, “Send me that combined book as advertised in The 
R. N.-Y. 
In a modest little advertisement, the Middletown (Ohio) 
Machine Company pictures and enumerates the good qualities 
of a gasoline engine, that is cutting considerable of a 
figure on the farm. It is the “Woodpecker” engine of 3%, 
7 and 14 horse poWer. It runs on either gasoline or alcohol, 
and it is said to require as small an amount of fuel for the 
power generated, as any gasoline engine made. With the 
engine goes the guarantee of right working, which makes 
a purchaser safe. If interested in small powers suitable 
for farm work, look up this little “Woodpecker” advertise¬ 
ment and write for catalogue. 
The free trial offer that the Western Grain Products Co- 
have been making has interested farmers in all parts of the 
country and has made a great many new users of the 
Hammond Dairy Feed, which they have oeen advertising 
for some time past. This feed contains cane molasses, 
prime cotton-seed meal, gluten meal, corn, oats and barley. 
At all of the late stock shows it was discovered that in 
judging great stress was placed on the cattle with glossy 
coats and several stock raisers fed with that point in view, 
using chemicals and other ingredients, harmful to the 
animal, but the most successful used the feed with the most 
health giving qualities. These qualities are claimed bv the 
makers of the Hammond Dairy Feed. Address Western Grain 
Products Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 
