1907. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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THE COW AND THE MAN. 
Little by little we get closer to the core of this Jersey 
cattle case. Frank E. Dawley now makes it imperative 
for the A. J. C. 'C. to follow up its investigation and 
place the responsibility for the substitution of the cow 
Dotshome Harmony squarely upon either Dawley or 
Rogers. Before the committee Dawley did not deny 
that the cow shown was the one he sold Rogers. The 
fact that he let her stand, saying that if Dotshome 
Harmony were in the barn this was the cow, will pass 
as identification. Previously he had identified her in 
Rogers’ stable before a reliable witness. He now de¬ 
clares positively that the cow shown the committee was 
not the one he sold Rogers—that this is a different ani¬ 
mal altogether. It will seem strange to the average 
mind that a man should identify a cow once, not deny 
her identity at another time, and then after a decision 
had been made say it was an entirely different cow. 
Mr. Dawley explains that he did not know this until 
he got home, after the investigation at Dansville, and 
looked up the records. He had had over a year in 
which to look them up. 
Now here is where the A. J. C. C. should stand up 
and pay attention. Everyone who has examined this 
cow and her registry papers agrees that she is a substi¬ 
tute for the real Dotshome Harmony. The only dispute 
is as to who did the substituting. If after identifying 
the cow in the way he did Mr. Dawley now has evi¬ 
dence to prove that he sold the true Dotshome Har¬ 
mony and that the cow shown by Rogers is another 
cow, let him produce that evidence and enable the 
A. J. C. C. to place the responsibility upon Rogers! 
If the A. J. 'C. C. cannot see its way clear to do this, 
in justice to Rogers, who claims that he has a bogus 
cow and stands ready to prove that she is the identical 
cow bought from Dawley as Dotshome Harmony, it cer¬ 
tainly ought to feel the responsibility of clearing one of 
its own members from suspicion. Besides, if Rogers be 
guilty in this case, as Dawley now insists, how can the 
A. J. C. C. continue to register other animals for him? 
Any way you look at it the duty of the A. J. C. C. is 
plain. It should settle the matter once for 'all in a 
thorough, open investigation. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Suit In equity for the enjoining of the 
Powder Trust from further operations as such and the ap¬ 
pointing of receivers for its constituent properties was 
begun July 30 in the United States Court at Wilmington, 
Del. The defendant corporations, of which there are or 
were four "holding companies,” are 26 in number and the 
Individual defendants 17. The amount of capitalization 
represented by all of the constituent companies is something 
more than $300,000,000. . . . Joseph IUpley, engineer 
for the New York State Department of Public Works, is in 
charge of the repairing of the break of the Erie Canal at 
Onondaga Creek culvert. The Erie and Oswego canals will 
probably be closed for fully a month. If only one culvert 
that went through has to be rebuilt the damage to the 
State and to property owners will be $7.1,000 or $S0,000, 
■while if the whole culvert has to be rebuilt the damage 
will be fully twice that. The culvert was built in 1840 at 
a cost of $55,000. . . . August 1 fire in the Valvoline 
<Hl Company's refining plant at Edgewater, N, J., caused a 
loss of $150,000. Twenty-eight tanks each containing 5,000 
gallons of crude oil, were destroyed. The loss on the crude 
oil alone was estimated at $28,000. . . . Judge Landis 
of the United States District Court at Chicago, August 3, 
•fixed the amount of the fine the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana 
must pay for accepting rebates from the Chicago and Alton 
Railroad on shipments of oil from Whiting, Ind„ to East 
St. Louis, Ill., at $29,240,000. The maximum penalty that 
the oil company may be compelled to pay is $29,240,000, 
nnd the minimum is $1,462,000. The corporation to be 
punished is capitalized at $1,000,000. Its visible assets, 
including refineries, pipe lines, etc., have a value, it is de¬ 
clared, of $10,000,000. The trial was begun on March 4, 
and was concluded on April 13. After a deliberation of 
two hours, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. After 
arguments for a new trial had been heard, Judge Landis 
called for information concerning the relations of the Stand¬ 
ard OH Co. of New Jersey and the Standard Oil Co. of In¬ 
diana; their financial status, and holdings, so that he might 
l>e guided in determining the amount of the fine, and when 
this was refused by the defence, the court issued subpoenas 
for John D. Rockefeller and fourteen other officials con¬ 
nected with the two companies. The examination of Mr. 
Rockefeller and his associates July 6 showed that the In¬ 
diana corporation is owned by the New Jersey corporation, 
rand all other information desired by the court was obtained. 
A number of indictments are still pending against the com- 
panv. Judge Iaindls's decision opened with the following 
statement of the case. This is a prosecution of the Standard 
Oil Company of Indiana for alleged violations of the act 
approved February 19, 1903. known as the Elkins law. The 
«-toarge is that the defendants’ property was transported by 
tiue Chicago and Alton Railway Company at rates less than 
tlios« named in the carriers’ tariff schedules, published and 
filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission, as required 
bv law. The offences are alleged to have been committed 
during the period from September 1, 1903, to March 1, 
1905 The indictment contains 1.903 counts, each charging 
ithe movement of a car of oil. Cet'tain of the transportation 
is alleged to have been from Whiting, Ind., to East St. 
Jbouis, Ill., the remaining counts covering transportation 
firom Chappell. Ill., to St. Louis, Mo. The plea was "not 
•gnjlity.” On the trial, 441 counts were withdrawn from the 
^ consideration of the jury on grounds not going to the ulti- 
-mate questions involved in the case. On 1,462 counts, the 
verdlelt was “guilty.” Motions for a new trial and in arrest 
-of judgment having been overruled, the matter is now be¬ 
fore the court for the imposition of the penalty authorized 
by law. . . . George Wesener of Rockaway, an em¬ 
ployee of the New York and New Jersey Telephone Conp- 
pany, met his death at Mineola, L. I., August 1. in a singu¬ 
lar manner. A man on a pole dropped an ordinary linen 
tape measure. It fell on a high current electric wire used 
in the service of power to the Long Island Railway trolley. 
Wesener took hold of one of the dangling ends of the tape, 
which was wet. A current passed through him and he 
. dropped dead, . , . Charges that the Beatrice Creamery 
Company of Iowa, the Blue Valley Creamery Company of 
St. Joseph, Mo., and the Blue Valley Creamery Company of 
Sioux City, Iowa, are a monopoly in restraint of trade in 
violation of the Sherman anti-trust law were made in the 
answer of the Burlington Railroad filed in Washington with 
the Inter-State Commerce Commission July 30 in reply to 
charges which the creamery companies made in their com¬ 
plaint against the rates which the Burlington and other 
railroads out of Chicago charge upon milk and cream. The 
Burlington denies the charge that it is a party to an unlaw¬ 
ful combination which as vendee controls the milk supply 
of Chicago, and says there is no truth in the further charge 
that it and the Northwestern and St. Paul, by threatening 
a rate war, compelled the Illinois Central, the Rock Island 
and the Great Western to join in abrogating the low rate 
upon cream and substituting what the creamery companies 
claim Is a prohibitive rate. . . . The Tomahawk, Wis., 
plant of the United States Leather Company was totally 
destroyed by fire August 2. The loss to buildings and the 
great stock of hides in process of manufacture, and in the 
storehouses, is said to be close to $1,000,000. The Toma¬ 
hawk plant is said to be the largest sole leather tannery 
of the United States Leather Company, and the stock of 
finished skins on hand in the storehouses was said to be 
very large for this season of the year. It is the loss to the 
stock and machinery, as well as to the hides that are in the 
vats, that will bring the loss close to $1,000,000. The bark 
yards, containing tanbark valued at $125,000, were saved. 
. . . At Fulton, Fla., four persons were struck by light¬ 
ning August 4, one of them, Charles L. Eddy, Jr., 14 years 
old, being killed. The bolt ran down the front of a building 
and entering a door struck the boy on the neck, breaking 
the spinal cord. The three others in the building who 
were struck became unconscious, but all recovered. In 
Jacksonville the same day lightning set fire to the large 
manufacturing plant of the Armour Fertilizer Company and 
destroyed the building, which was valued at $80,000 and 
damaged the stock of fertilizer and fertilizer material $25,- 
000, all covered by insurance. . . . The Meyer Cord 
Lithographic plant at Fifty-second avenue and West Lake 
street, Chicago, was destroyed by fire August 5. Loss $100,- 
000. . . . Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, after having crip¬ 
pled a big trust August 3, killed a smaller one August 6. 
In response to the request of United States District Attorney 
Sims, he issued a perpetual injunction restraining the Ameri¬ 
can Seating Company from operating as a trust, llis order 
prevents the concerns which, combined under the above 
name, were found guilty of having violated the Sherman 
anti-trust law, from doing business again as they did during 
the time that they had the school boards of the country 
at their mercy and made their own prices for school and 
church furniture. . . . Federal Judge Rayner at Chey¬ 
enne, Wyo., August 5, overruled a motion for a new trial 
in the cases of E. M. Holbrook, E. E. Lonebaugh, and Rob¬ 
ert Mcl’hilamey, recently convicted of conspiracy to de¬ 
fraud the Government in the acquisition of coal lands at 
Monarch, Wyoming. The judge imposed a fine of $10,000 
each on Holbrook and Lonebaugh and a $2,000 line on 
McPhilamey. The cases will be appealed to the Circuit 
Court of Appeals. . . . Four persons were killed and 
25 injured in a railroad wreck on the Buffalo & Allegheny 
Division of tin 1 Pennsylvania Railroad at Kelly, l»a., Au- 
AN EXTRA MAN ON THE BINDER. Fig. 310. 
gust 6. While passing through Kelly the train was side- 
swiped by a gondola coal car, and the engine, tender, bag¬ 
gage, and express cars, with the three day coaches, were 
derailed. 
FARM AND GARDEN.-—Wisconsin has passed a new law 
which will be of interest botli to nurserymen and to persons 
buying nursery stock. It provides for uniform Inspection 
by the agricultural experiment station of the State University 
of all nurseries growing and offering stock for sale in the 
State, such inspection being for the purpose of determining 
whether or not the nurseries are free from dangerous fun¬ 
gous and insect pests. In the past this has been optional 
with the nurserymen, but hereafter all nurseries must be 
inspected. Parties who are growing plants for sale, other 
than greenhouse plants, should make application at once 
for inspection to J. G. Moore, inspector, Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, Madison, Wis. If the inspecting is done during the 
regular inspection season the cost will be much less than 
Where done out of season. 
Arrangements have been perfected whereby a congress of 
horticulturists will occur at Jamestown at the time, or near 
the time, of the American Pomological Society meeting, 
September 24-26. Immediately preceding it will occur the 
meeting of the Society of Horticultural Science and the 
Maryland State Horticultural Society. Immediately follow¬ 
ing, with the first session beginning on September 26, will 
occur the convention of the National Nut Growers. This 
combination of horticultural events will aesure the largest 
gathering of horticulturists the country has seen since the 
days of the World’s Fair at Chicago. The programme of 
the Pomological Society is nearly completed. In addition to 
the leaders in scientific research in pomology and the prom¬ 
inent orehardists of this country, the Pomological Society 
will be favored with representatives from Britain and 
Europe. Delegates from the Royal Horticultural Society of 
England, the National Society of Frapce and leading fruit 
growers and plantsmen of Germany are expected. All 
fruit growers who expect to visit Jamestown should plan 
to attend this great series of meetings. The heated period 
will be over by that time' and numerous attractions should 
conspire to make the occasion one of pleasure and profit. 
For further information apply to John Craig, Ithaca, N. ¥., 
secretary, or L. A, Goodman, Kansas City, Mo., president. 
The Executive Committee of the American Association of 
Farmers’ Institute Workers have announced jfiat the pest 
meeting of the Association will be held at Washington, 
D. C., October 23 to 25, 1907. This meeting promises to be 
one of the most interesting that the Association has yet 
held, a very complete programme having been arranged. 
The largest “swine pavilion” in the world is the latest 
Iowa boast. It is being built on the State Fair ground at 
Des Moines and when finished will occupy three acres under 
roof. The judging ring occupies a square almost surrounded 
by pens. Farmers Interested in swine breeding have been 
urging this improvement a long time. Last year they 
brought 2,700 hogs to the exposition and many others were 
sent back for lack of space. This is a larger exhibit of 
hogs than at all other State fairs together. With these 
improvements the Iowa State exhibit will be kept not only 
at the head of the list but far in the lead of all others. 
ROSE BUG REMEDY.—I have seen several letters to 
you asking for a remedy for Rose bugs, and thought I would 
jteil my experience with them. My berries were nearly 
rulped, and rose bush was stripped, so I concluded to try 
fly oil in u hand sprayer. The first dash at the rose bush 
drove them all off: then I tried my raspberries and sprayed 
them on the ground, and the strawberries between the rows, 
so as not to touch the berries. I have not seen a bug since.. 
D. B. T. 
fl CHAMPLAIN VALLEY ASSOCIATION? 
The Clinton County (N. Y\) I’omona Grange held June 7, 
1907, answered this question in the affirmative. There is 
a growing sentiment in favor of the formation of an as¬ 
sociation to promote the agricultural and horticultural in¬ 
terests of the Champlain Valley, and having for its prin¬ 
cipal objects the adoption of a trade mark to be used on 
the products of the valley, and the* establishment of a labor 
bureau in New York City. It is generally conceded that 
the products of the section are superior in quality to those 
grown outside this particular latitude. By adopting a trade 
mark we shall be following a legitimate course in advanc¬ 
ing our products in the markets of the world. More farm 
labor is one of the pressing needs of the day. An increased 
production will be beneficial not only to the farmer, but 
to all mankind. The establishment of a labor bureau in 
New York City will supply this great need. 
Chazy, N. Y. _ s. Gordon. 
NOTES OF THE WHEAT HARVEST. 
Our wheat harvest here usually lasts from June 25 till 
July 1, but this year our season had been rather back¬ 
ward, so our wheat was not ripe enough to cut till the 
Fourth of July. Who wants to work on the Fourth of 
July, a day now given over to firecrackers and horse racing? 
Well, we began cutting on the 5th, which was Friday. The 
wheat was still green enough and the knotter and needle 
on the binder being rusty, tile twine uneven and the wheat 
somewhat damp we had lots of trouble at first to get 
started and to keep going. We soon had the knotter tying 
all right, but something or other about the rest of the ma¬ 
chine was going wrong, frequently requiring lots of atten¬ 
tion. However, we had managed to cut about five acres 
when it rained about 5 o’clock and stopped us. Next day 
we did somewhat better, and finished the 10-acre field at 
three o'clock. We moved the binder across the road where 
we had 42 acres of bottom land in wheat, but before we 
could cut any it began to rain ami we unhitched. There 
followed one of the hardest and heaviest rains of years, 
completely flooding the bottom wheat and taking out most 
of the fences and water-gates. We built fences all day 
Sunday and tried the wheat cutting again Monday. Again 
a lot of tinkering, but we cut 10 acres, and Tuesday more 
tinkering nnd nine acres cut. We had a shower occa¬ 
sionally and sometimes the binder would slip in the mud 
when tying, or potato vines and straw would tangle the 
knotter or wind up on various parts of the machine. To 
vary the monotony a little the binder would now nnd then 
drop off a chain, but we never stopped for them unless the 
wheels quit turning. The thing we stopped fpr quickest of 
all was when the knotter quit tying, ns this raised such a 
kick from the shockers. Now this binder has only cut four 
harvests, had been repaired, ndjusted and put in good shape 
just before harvest; every nut was tight, every chain just 
right, yet the tiling would rather go wrong than to be 
decent: doubtless all due to having commenced on Friday; 
yet they say Columbus discovered America on Friday! 
Maybe the moon wasn't Just right. 
On Wednesday we tried cutting nearer the creek, but 
there was so much silt, near the condition of soft soap, 
on the field that the master wheel would rather slide than 
turn, nnd we were not sorry when at 9 a. m. a rain stopped 
everything. We wished for a rice binder or an airship or 
something else less dependent upon solid ground for its 
successful operation, than an ordinary wheat binder. Some 
of our neighbors similarly situated put Jong spikes in the 
rim of tile master wheel and managed to cut some way, 
but we waited. It rained lots Thursday, but Friday, Sat¬ 
urday and Sunday were clear, dry days, so we tried again 
on Monday. However we had lots of trouble, for soon 
the machine began to slide when tying, and sometimes when 
not. We thought of attaching a small gasoline engine to 
the pitman shaft, but as we had no engine at hand we used 
a crank instead, and managed to cut five acres by persever¬ 
ing. On Tuesday we broke the square hub off ’the wheel, 
I hat the crank fits into, so we had to operate the knotter 
when the machine slid, by means of any wheel or lever 
most conveniently reached. We also hit on the expedient 
of having an extra man ride the binder to give greater 
traction on muddy ground, and besides he was right at 
hand when anything went wrong, thus obviating the neces¬ 
sity for the driver to dismount. We loosened the springs 
in the knotter nnd on the twine box until the machine 
barely tied ; we kept the bearings well oiled, the canvasses 
as loose as possible, the master wheel clear of mud and all 
the chains and bearings free from wound-up straw, but all 
such attention seemed to help very little. After all our 
trouble and bother we managed to cut three or four acres 
by four o'clock, and being thoroughly disgusted we put the 
truck under the binder and left the field. It takes lots of 
patience to help a binder tie each sheaf and then to back up 
for a new start so the sickle will not choke. We left per¬ 
haps 10 acres of wheat for the pigs, it being well sanded 
and having lots of drift among it. If what we left uncut 
would have made 10 bushels of wheat per acre and we 
could have cut three acres per day we figured we would 
have made good wages, but we balked at the wear and tear 
on the horses and machine, to say nothing of the effect on 
ourselves. We made our bundles large and had them lightly 
tied and we put nine or 10 in a shock with a single cap 
sheaf on top. These shocks passed through three storms, 
and very few were blown down, while all were soon dried 
out Inside. The greener the wheat when cut the better the 
shocks stand irp and hold together, but when very ripe the 
reverse is true. Large, tightly-tied sheaves with even butts 
stand up much better than if loosely tied, or if small, and 
besides if large tight sheaves are made it requires less twine 
to tie a given field of wheat. One farmer here used 50 
pounds of twine on 30 acres, while another used but 35 
pounds on 32 acres of heavier wheat. The former made 
small loose sheaves, while the latter made large tight ones. 
Hillsboro, Ohio. j) t 
THE rECOS VALLEY,—In answer to R. P L, Massa¬ 
chusetts, in regard to the Pecos Valley, New Mexico, will 
say that there is no Government land worth taking for 
agricultural purposes in this Territory without artificial 
water. Good land seeded to Alfalfa and a water right, 
either canal or artesian, sells at $80 to $100 per acre; 
cheap at that, considering that they gave $50 an acre last 
year in hay and seed. This year the two first cuttings 
have given 3% tons per acre, $10 a ton aboard cars. 
This part offers good prospects, and is being bought up 
fast by Central and Northern State farmers. a. d. 
Dexter, New Mexico. 
THE ASPARAGUS BEETLE.—I notice what Mr Hul- 
sart has to say on page 569 about fighting the Asparagus 
beeti.e. I have been doing this many years on young seed¬ 
ling plqnts, grown for the sale of roots; it is especially de¬ 
structive on this class of plants. After trying all the reme¬ 
dies generally recommended, the most simple and reliable 
toy the |arvm is fine tobap.eo dust. Give the plants a dust¬ 
ing When they are yvet with rain or dew, and it will clean 
fiff pycry worpi if tonphes. It is inexpensive arid easily ap¬ 
plied by hand walking along the row. It also is a fertilizer 
and not lost after destroying the beetle. It will not kill'the 
mature beetle, but it Is the slugs that do most harm. The 
fine dust can he bought at $2 per bag of 100 pounds, Of 
course when It is possible to nave poultry range over the 
ground they keep it perfectly clear of beetles. 
New Jersey. cjias. black, 
ALFALFA IN OHIO.—So far as I have been able to learn 
there has been serious disappointment with the Alfalfa 
crop in southern Ohio this season so far. In this immediate 
section the first cutting was about one-half a crop, the 
second crop a discouraging disappointment. The April 
freezes gave the weeds the start, which they have kept. 
The second crop rested and made no growth, allowing the 
weeds to occupy the land. When I cut the second crop I 
expected nothing from the third, but 10 days after I am led 
by appearance to hope for a fair third crop. Of this Spring’s 
«o>ving I hear some fine reports, and some that are dis¬ 
couraging. Recent fine rains will start much of it to doing 
well, and wipe out much discouragement. The greater part 
of last Fall's sowing that I have heard from was killed 
outright. This serious setback is unfortunate just at this 
time, for it will utterly discourage many would-be growers. 
Ross Co., Ohio. john m. jamison. 
