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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
IK»M EKTI< 'nugh t in (he Rule <>n Lake ICnie the wooden 
Stumer George Slone wen I on Grubbs Iteef October 18. 
Six of the crew, Including ('apt. I’nnl Howell, of Erie, J’ji., 
were drowned while trying to make shore In a miniII 
hmil. Two of Ihose In the yawl rlung lo It until It was 
carried to shoal water and thou struggled a whore. Ten 
who remained on the Hteamer were taken olT hy the at on hut 
F. M. Osborne and landed at Detroit.Flfty- 
weven persona are known definitely to have been, killed, 
13 others are reported to have lowl their lives, and many 
are missing as a result of the tornado in the South <>e- 
talter 14. The property loss Is estimated at more than 
$1,000,000. The number of persons reported dead at va¬ 
rious places follows: Denmark, Tcnn,, 1 ; Mulberry, Term., 
1 ; KlnntonvlJlc, Tenn., 13 persons reported killed, Ind. 
uneontlrmed; Pittsburg 1-andlug, Tenn., 6; Parsons, Term., 
20; near Stanlervllle, 8; near Cnrlersvllle, tin ., 2; Heotts- 
lioro, Ala., 4;. Wyeth Cove, Ala., 8; Stanton, Tenn., 1; 
Nixon, Tenn,, 5, and near Marmadnke, Ark., 1. The storm 
did great damage nt Parsons, Tenn- Three traveling rep 
resenlatJvcs of Northern business houses who were there 
are missing. Andrew .1. Ilanks and his entire family of 
seven were killed by falling timbers. Dess than 100 per¬ 
sons lived In the community, but the denth list amounts 
to 20, and some others are unaccounted for. A property 
damage of at least $.",0,000 Is estimated nr Cartersvllle, 
Da., while that at Atlanta will run between $80,000 and 
$100,000. Memphis escaped unscathed. Bisizevlllr, a small 
town ten miles from Home, Ga., was destroyed. Three 
store* and 33 houses were demolished.Know 
plows were necessary to clear the tracks on the railroads 
east of Winnipeg, Mnnllobu, October 14. Know to the 
depth of Id Inches had fallen and a blizzard was raging. 
The mercury registered (I above zero at places In western 
Canada.Several former employees of the Sugar 
Trust, who were Indicted for conspiracy to defraud the 
Government through the falHe weighing of sugar on the 
Ilavemcycr & Elder piers In Brooklyn, have decided to 
turn Suite's evidence, and us a result the Government 
hopes to fasten the responsibility for these frauds, which 
have cost the trust Itself upward of $2,000,000, on one or 
more high officials of the corporation. The Federal Grand 
Jury took the ease up again October 15 with former Special 
Treasury Agent BrnzJnsky, who look part In the raid when 
the fraudulent scales were seized, as a witness. 
A most spectacular lire at Quebec, Canada, destroyed over 
n million dollars’ worth of property October id, originating 
In the Great Northern Hallway wheat elevator, which was 
nearly half tilled wllli grain. The flume* shot up over 300 
feet In the air. illuminating the country for miles around. 
Other properly destroyed are the steamship freight sheds 
close to 1 he elevator with most of their contents and 
(lienee the flue spread to several small buildings In prox¬ 
imity and to the custom house. For some time fears were 
entertained for the safely of the Canadian Fnclflc Railroad's 
steamship, Empress of Ireland, which was moored nt the 
udjolulng wharf.Property to Ike value of 
$lo0.000 was destroyed, six firemen were Injured and eight 
others narrowly escaped death at a fire October 17 In the 
big building nl 1 lie southeast corner of Italllmore and 
ICuluw streets, Baltimore, Md. The firemen Injured were 
iillcmpllng to protect the slock and tlx lures In the building 
occupied h.v UeJnlmrd Meyer &. Co., adjoining, when ..a si 
wall of the burning building, which lowered several stories 
above the adjoining structure, fell and crashed down 
through the roof. The great mass of bricks and mortar 
lore a Jagged hole through the building from the roof to 
the llrst floor and carried everything with II. 
The Supreme Court of the United Ktates will review I he 
findings of the lower court* In the case of McCue vs. the 
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. The (pies 
Hon Is whether the ordinary life Insurance policy Insures 
against hanging under sentence of the law. Met'uc is one 
of the heirs of Mayor McCtie, of Charlottesville, Vn., who 
was hanged for the murder of Ids wife. The company 
refused to make payment on a policy amount trig to $15,000. 
The Culled Ktates Circuit Court for the Western District 
of Virginia decided In favor of the company, holding that 
death on the gallows was not one of the risks against 
which McCue was Insured, hut the Court of Appeals for the 
Fourth Circuit reversed that finding, and held In favor of 
■the McCue policy.The l'osl Office Department 
tins Issued a fraud order against the European-American 
Transfer Agency, doing business at 53 Leroy street. New 
York City. After an Investigation by the Inspectors, It was 
learned that one Domlnlco Forte wrote letters to imfticrons 
persons, usually In a foreign language, lolling them the 
“agency” held a package for them which came by steam¬ 
ship and ujMin which there were certain charges. The 
European American Transfer Agency, It was learned by 
the Inspector, had received no such package or made pay¬ 
ments referred to. On the receipt of the money asked for 
In the letter Forte prepaid a package, placing therein 
cheap Jewelry, a small bottle of perfume and several 
Japanese handkerchiefs, or some such articles, and for¬ 
warded the same to the person as the package referred 
to In the letter.Antonio Musics and his son, 
Philip (A. Muslea & Son), Importers and exporters, of 25 
Water street, were on trial October 1H before Judge Holt 
and a Jury In the Criminal Branch of the United Ktates 
Circuit Court oil the charge of conspiracy to defraud the 
Government of customs duties on luipurJalIons of tigs and 
cheese from Italy by collusion wllli assistant weighers. 
Thomas C. Glddlngs, Joseph Quinn and Joseph McMahon, 
assistant weighers, are to he tried Inter. The Indictment 
says that the Importer filed false Invoices giving Hie number 
of pounds many hundreds short of the true weight and 
that the assistant weighers made the weights agree. The 
false weights wore disclosed by comparing the city weigh 
■ rs* tabulations with those of the Government weighers. 
The city weigher's tabulations were supposed to contain 
the correct weights. The compnrIsons made In this way 
showed In the ease of the Muslea firm discrepancies amount 
lag to 3(1,000 pounds.Night riders have again 
become active In the Burley tobacco region. Gov. Wilson lias 
ordered out Kentucky troop*, and they are scattered In tlie 
counties where night rider warnings have been given. In 
Mason county warnings were left October It! at the homes 
of Fred Adams and Harry Allen, both of whom were given 
five days In which to pool their crops or suffer the eon 
sequences. The warnings were addressed to the men and 
Hielr wives. Both have refused to he forced Into pooling 
their tobacco.The Supreme Court, of Ohio, 
October 1b, held the Slafo automobile law constitutional. 
A man arrested for operating « ear without n license 
claimed the law was Invalid Is-cause H made an arbitrary 
diserlmiuaflou against automobile vehicles. 
October 1!) Kan Francisco began a five-day carnival In 
honor of flic discovery of Knn Francisco Bay by Caspar dc 
I’orlola. Warships from Great Britain, Gerfonny, Japan 
and Holland united with the United Ktates fleet In the 
celebration.The plant of the August W. Horn¬ 
ing Glass Company, at No. 05 Canal street, Chicago, was 
damaged by tire October I!) to the extent of $75,000. 
. . . . For using the United Ktates mails to Hcnd a 
threatening letter to his hrol her In la w, who Is alleged to 
have abused Ids family, John Bower of Rockford, 111., was 
fined one cent by Judge K. M. Landis of the United Ktat.es 
District Court October IK. Bower explained that he was 
Ignorant of the postal laws covering the ease and tolfl 
Judge Landis the story of how the recipient of the letter 
had abused Bower's family. Judge Landis evidently sym¬ 
pathized with the accused and lined him the minimum 
amount allowed by law. He told Bower what he said to 
the hrol her in-law In t in* letter would have been all right 
If he had gone to the relative and said It lo his face. 
FARM AND GARDEN. Gov. Hughes has appointed as 
delegates to Ihr National Congress of Koad Builders, lo he 
held In Columbus, Ohio, on October 2(1, Slate Highway 
Commissioners l'erey Hooker of Leroy, W. l’lerrepoul 
White of Utica and Master of the State Grange Frank N. 
Godfrey of Glean. The Governor appointed 1 rn Short) of 
Lowvllle, It. II. Smith of Frankfort and W. W. Ware of 
Batavia as additional delegates lo the Farmers' National 
Congress, to be held In Raleigh, N. on November 4. 
A branch hygienic laboratory for that part of the Slate 
has been established al Cornell University, Ithaca, by the 
Slate Department of Health. II lias been constructed on 
the ground floor of Lincoln Hall, the Civil Engineering 
College, and will he In charge of Dean Haskell and Prof. 
II. N. Ogden, hygienic expert for the Health Department. 
By placing this branch here the State will be able to 
maintain a systematic Inspection of public water supplies 
In the surrounding counties and there will he accommo¬ 
dation* for making sewage examine!Ions, milk Inspections 
and sputum analyses at the request of physicians and 
health hoards, occupying the same relation lo the Slate 
Department of Health and Its general laboratory at Albany 
us the New York State Veterinary College does lo the 
Agricultural Department and State Veterinarian. 
In connection with the New York State Department of 
Agriculture the United Ktnlcs Department of Agriculture 
Is arranging to give a series of moving picture demonstra¬ 
tions of bow to conduct a poultry farm. L. S. Williams 
of Washington has been taking several thousand feet of 
films at the poultry^urm at Cornell and that If the cxperl 
merit Is a success he wdll gel a complete pictorial account 
of the work Unit Is being done there. 
The fourth annual dairy show was opened October II 
In Milwaukee. President Taft, from the Grand Canon of 
Arizona, pressed the button which started the machinery. 
LARGE FARMS IN DELAWARE. 
There are thousands of acres In this section where no 
nitrates are used. Cow peas and Crimson clover are no* 
used to nny extent In this section. You see very little of 
either sown here. The straw and corn fodder on these 
large farm* Is converted Into manure and applied to the 
land, generally on sod for corn or grass; this and a 
commercial phosphate composed of l,H00 pounds of solu¬ 
ble Koulh Carolina roelc nnd 200 pounds of potash applied 
at the.rate of 300 pounds per acre for wheal and corn 
Is about all that Is used to keep the land up In fertility. 
Of course, Red clover Is sown regularly on the wheal In 
the Spring, and Timothy Is seeded In the Fall when the 
Whoat Is sown. Although some seasons we get a very 
little Red clover, Alslke does well here. Alfalfa Is coming 
Into cultivation In a small way. Wheat wuis a poor crop 
(Ids year (plenty of straw); the crop was hurt about 
two weeks before It ripened, enuslng It to shrivel very 
much. We had prospects for a large crop. I had about 
250 acres In wheat, averaged a little over 20 bushels per 
acre. I have about 70 acres In KIoffer pears. We do very 
little for them In the way of manure; once In about three 
or four years we sow cow peas In the orchards. This Is 
all they receive, yet they hear well. This year we shall 
have from 12,000 to 14,000 % bushel basket*. We are 
now In the mid*I of harvesting them. Corn Is nboul (15 
to 75 per cent of u crop on most farm*. 
Newcastle Co., Del. JAH. T. niiA t.MMioss. 
OUTLOOK FOR THE POTATO CROP. 
I.ast year the market at our shipping point started at 
40 cents, then 45 cents, al which price a good many sold. 
Then It went up five cents at u Jump to 05 cents, and 
possibly a few brought $1. Then the market broke to (10 
cents late lit the Henson, after which It reacted to 75, KO, 
and a few al 85 cents. I think the hulk of the crop was 
sold around 70 cents. Tills year they started at 00 rents 
dropped to 50; this week a buyer said 45 cent* was all be 
could pay, and today, October 15, another buyer from u 
neighboring town said 40 cents was the price. I suppose 
the foreign crop Is always large. Do you know anything 
about It tills year? What price must potatoes Is- In New 
York before Importation becomes prolltnhle and a con¬ 
trolling factor In I lie market 7 Tills question seems to me 
the Important one for United Ktates potato grower* 1 <» 
consider when deciding the question whet her l<> sell or hold 
the crop. My experience has been that when our crop Is 
very large the early market Is the best, but If our crop Is 
only an average one, then the later market has been the 
best. r. 
Monroe Co., N. Y, 
The potato crop appears lo he a trifle belter limn last 
year, taking the country as a whole. There Is considerable 
rot In the stock now coming from Maine -cars tlinl looked 
fairly well when shipped opening badly, hut other large 
producing Meet Jons report no rot. Anything above $2 per 
1(15 pound sack seems lo attract shipments from Europe. 
Lust year some foreign potatoes brought only $1.75 per 
sack In New York, lull a good many sold for $2.25 to $2,50. 
II 1m safe to say that unless the crop In Europe is very 
short, $2 to $2.25 per suck will call oul large supplies from 
the other side. Last season the American Consul at Dull, 
England, gave the followlug cull mute of Hie eost of send¬ 
ing a ton of potatoes here: 
F. O. B. nt Hull.$15.82 
Ocean freight. $2,118 
Duly . 0 83 
Total .$27.83 
The English ton contains 2240 pounds, so that these 
potatoes cost a little over I 1-5 cent a pound In New York. 
This would mean 72 cents a bushel of (10 pounds. We see 
that the potatoes bring at Hull 7-H) of a cent per pound, 
or -12 rents a bushel. 
II Is said Hull German and Belgian potatoes run he pul 
iu New York, duly paid, for one Cent per pound. The 
German crop Is always heavy, from six to nine times as 
large as ours. A large share of It is umciJ for making 
stnrcli and alcohol, hut whenever the price In this country 
reaches $2 per sack In the sea coast markets millions of 
bushels can he sent If desired. Inst year there were heavy 
Import* which held down the wholesale price of American- 
grown potatoes, though there was little difference in Hie 
retail [irice to consumer*. Early report* Indicate a fair 
crop In England. 
NEW JERSEY FARMERS’ INSTITUTES, 
1909-1910. 
Ham monton, Atlantic Co., Nov. 10, 1000; Wednesday. 
Blue Anchor, Camden Co.. Nov. II ; Thursday. 
Red Rank. Monmouth Co., Nov. 12; Friday. 
Matawan, Monmouth Co., Nov. 13; Saturday, 
Elmer, Salem Co.. Nov. 15; Monday. 
Ilurmersvllle, Salem Co., Nov. HI; Tuesday. 
Hwedenhoro, Gloucester Co.. Nov. 17 18; Wednesday and 
Thu rsday. 
Vineland. Cumberland Co., Nov. 10, 20; Friday and Satur¬ 
day. 
Shiloh, Cumberland Co., Nov. 22. 23; Monday and Tuesday, 
Blackwood, Cuuiden Co., Nov. 24; Wednesday. 
Freehold, Monmouth County, Nov. 20; Friday. 
Allenlmvn, Monmouth Co., Nov. 27; Saturday. 
Klngsland, Bergen Co.. Dec. 13; Monday. 
Livingston, Essex Co., Dee. 14 ; Tuesday. 
Mlddlebiish, Somerset Co.. Dee. 15; Wednesday. 
Moorcstown. Burlington Co., Dee. 10; Thursday. 
Columbus. Burlington Co.. Dee. 17: Friday. 
Wllllainstown, Gloucester Co., Dee. J8; Saturday. 
Lock town, Hunterdon Co., Dee. 20, 21 ; Monday and Tues¬ 
day. 
Delaware, Warren Co., Dee. 22; Wednesday. 
Blnlrstown, Warren Co., Dee, 23; Thursday. 
Newton, Sussex Co., Dee. 24; Friday. 
Klnnion. Hunterdon Co., Jan. 4. 11)10; Tuesday, 
Allamuchy. Warren Co., Jan. 5; Wednesday, 
Layton. Sussex Co.. Jan. 0 ; Thursday. 
Beemervllle, Sussex Co., Jan. 7; Friday. 
Branchy I He, Sussex Co.. Jan. K; Saturday. 
South Brunch, Somerset Co., Jan. 10; Monday. 
Hopewell, Mercer Co., Jun. II ; Tuesday. 
Wright si own, Burlington Co.. Jan. 12; Wednesday. 
Woods!own, Salem Co., Jan. 13; Thursday. 
Egg Harbor ('H.v, Atlantic Co., Jan. It; Friday. 
Mount Holly. Burlington Co., Jan. 15; Saturday. 
Cranbury. Middlesex Co., Jan. 17; Monday. 
Dee. 27. 1009, to Jun. I. 1010, Farmers' Week al New 
Brunswick. 
Jan. 10. 20, 21, 1910, Annual Meeting of Slate Board. 
For programmes of Inslltut.es or of the Annual Meeting, 
address pimnkun iitjc. 
Secretary, Trenton, N. J. 
The potato rot Is becoming a serious factor In Aroo¬ 
stook County, Maine, and Is showing up In a little differ¬ 
ent manner than ever before. l’olatoes hare gone Into 
storage apparently sound, and after several week* are 
developing rot, and In some eases 50 to 75 per cent have 
gone to the starch factory. Few places In A roustmk 
County are free from the rot, while the central nnd south¬ 
ern parts of the Slate are lids year turning out more 
profitable crops tliiiu ever before. Btnreh factories are 
running night and day, and then are unable to handle 
all that are offered, paying 30 cents per barrel, Present 
market for sound slock, or what looks to he sound, about 
$1 per barrel. Cobbler* and special seed varieties higher. 
Loss estimated as high as $1,000,000 for this county al¬ 
ready, and more coming. w. L. m. 
Yoon series Just begun on the Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
mission will he valuable to many readers, and It reminds 
me that I saw an Item In some paper recently stating 
Hint the farmers of Illinois asked the railroads lo carry 
powdered limestone from the crushers to the farms at 
actual cost, a fraction of u cent per mile per ton, and 
the railroads granted same. It was shown that the lime 
greatly lietieflled the soils, thus permitting larger crops 
for the railroads to carry, nnd also more merchandise to 
carry to the fanners in exchange for Ids larger crops. 
Could not. the railroads of the East he shown In the 
same way that they would henetll by supplying powdered 
lime to farmers al cost, and even engage In the llme- 
erushlng business If necessary7 k j», h. 
There is nothing: to prevent the eastern roads, or 
any other railroads, from doing the same thing. It 
would certainly be to their profit in the long run. In 
New England the railroad people might argue, that any 
increase of crop would he sold locally, hauled direct 
to a local market. T3ut the railroads will benefit 
whenever the community has more money to spend. 
As for “showing” the. railroads that they ought to 
reduce freight rates we think it would require great 
power of persuasion! 
On wap “smoked salmon," recently Investigated by the 
Illinois Ktule Food Commission, proved t<> be carp which 
Imd been given a hath of pink dye and then I rented 
with "liquid smoke." These materials are not poisons 
of a deadly sort, but are said to hnve “nerumulatlve ef¬ 
fect." so Hint prolonged use Is dangerous. Kuril fish inny 
he sold If properly tugged, but the dealer muHt display 
signs staling that he handles such goods. 
