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A FEW MORE FERTILIZER FACTS. 
Four of the branch houses controlled by the Smith 
Agricultural Chemical Company sold fertilizers in 
Indiana, which were sampled by the Indiana Station. 
We have already printed what the Indiana State 
Chemist said about three of them. Here are his 
comments regarding the other: 
Hardy Packing Co. Of the 11 brands inspected bearing 
the label of this company six. or 54 per cent, fall into the 
“Not within 10 per cent - ’ column and only one equals 
in value the guarantee. Three of the brands are deficient 
in nitrogen, potash and available phosphoric acid. In one 
of these samples the deficiency in nitrogen is 62 per cent, 
the potash 37 pel* cent and the available phosphoric acid 
36 per cent of the guarantee. Six of the brands are defi¬ 
cient in nitrogen, the deficiency in two equaling 58 per 
cent and in another 50 per cent of the guarantee. One 
sample is deficient in potash and available phosphoric acid, 
the deficiency in potash equaling 66 per cent of the guar¬ 
antee. Three of the brands show a deficiency in value of 
$1 to $2, three $2 to $3. 
Thus the State Chemist reports that only one out of 
11 brands was equal to the guarantee. In order that, 
farmers may realize just bow poor some of these fer¬ 
tilizers were we give several of the analyses as cred¬ 
ited to the Hardy Packing Company. G. means guar¬ 
anteed and F. what was found: 
Nitrogen 
Available 
Phos. Acid 
Potash 
G. .1.6 
G. 8. 
G. 4. 
Tobacco and Potato Special F. 0.2 
F. 6.3 
F. 3.7 
G. 1.2 
G. 8. 
G. 10. 
Potato Grower . F. 0.5 
F. 6.9 
F. 8.6 
G. 10. 
G. 5. 
Acme Phosphate . 
F. 8. 
F. 1.7 
Tt is possible that these surprising figures show 
why the Smith Company has tried so hard to prevent 
the Ohio State Board from publishing its analyses. 
Here is one case where the guarantee calls for 32 
pounds of nitrogen in a ton, while the chemist finds 
only four pounds! 
It would be interesting to know how those lonesome 
four pounds of nitrogen ever got into that ton. We 
would also like to know what form of nitrogen it 
was, whether it came from nitrate of soda or dried 
muck. This poor showing does not seem to be an 
accident or confined to a single year. This Indiana 
bulletin states that in the six years, 1902-1907, 67 
samples of goods made by the Hardy Packing Com¬ 
pany were analyzed by the Station. Of these only 16 
were equal to the guarantee in every particular, while 
31 had one or more ingredient 20 per cent below guar¬ 
antee. Here is the six-year record in Indiana of the 
four branch houses of the Smith Company: 
RECORD FOR SIX YEARS. 
With one 
or more 
Equal to ingredient 
Number guarantee 20 per 
of in every cent below 
samples particular guarantee 
Albert & Martin Packing Co. 59 23 
Chicago Fertilizer Co. 62 16 
Hardy Packing Co.67 .16 
Ohio Farmers’ Fertilizer Co. 86 19 
22 
18 
31 
38 
Tn the Pennsylvania report the Hardy Packing 
Company is given the following analysis: 
Available 
Nitrogen Phos. acid Potash 
G. 1.24 G. 8. G. 2. 
Tankage, bone and potash.. F. 0.36 F. 6.17 F. 1.78 
The selling price of this fertilizer is given at $24, 
while the commercial value is figured at $13.24. 
There are two good reasons for giving these figures 
in some detail. By reason of the Smith Company’s 
action in the courts, farmers in Ohio cannot get the 
Ohio analvses. We give them the figures from right 
over the line in Indiana. Since they have criticised 
the fertilizer work in Ohio severely the Smith Com¬ 
pany ought to come before farmers with the strongest 
possible official record. We see what the Indiana 
record is! 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The Arnold soap factory at Avenue A 
and Sixth street. Bayonne N. .T.. was burned July 1. 
The loss is about $60,000. A loaded coal car was stand¬ 
ing on a track close to the factory, and if was also burned. 
The origin of the fire is not known. Residents of Bergen 
Point and the Board of Health had held several meetings 
to protest against the smell from the factory, and about 
a week before an injunction was secured restraining the 
owner from operating the plant unless some way was 
found of doing away with the offensive odors. 
Walter ,T. Bartnett, formerly vice-president and general 
counsel of the Western Pacific Railway, and vice-president 
and general counsel of the California Safe Deposit and 
Trust Company, which failed in San Francisco last No¬ 
vember for about $9,000,000, was sentenced to the San 
Quentin penitentiary for 10 years by Superior Judge 
Conley. Bartnett was convicted of having hypothecated 
bonds and securities to the amount of $205,000 belonging 
to the estate of Ellen M. Coulton, of which he was spe¬ 
cial administrator. His counsel immediately took an 
appeal, after sentence was passed. . . . Two charges 
of dynamite exploded by a time fuse under the Lehigh 
viaduct in Buffalo, N. Y., July 1, blew two heavy iron 
girders out of place, twisted the rails above and shattered 
the ties for many feet. The dynamite had been placed 
on top of one of the reinforced concrete girders between 
the third and fourth spans. The viaduct was but recently 
completed by a firm which operates an open shop. Several 
of their bridges have been wrecked by dynamite. One 
man was arrested on suspicion. ... In order to 
afford transportation facilities for taking out practically 
inexhaustible deposits of a high grade iron ore in the 
Adirondacks the up-State Public Service Commission has 
been appealed to for a charter for the Champlain and San¬ 
ford Railroad Company, which is to be operated for 58 
miles, wholly in Essex county. The Iron ore deposits, it 
is said, are ' situated in the town of Newcomb. Essex 
county, and explorations indicated the presence of 300,000,- 
000 tons, which average 50 per cent iron. The new road 
has a capital stock of $600,000. . . . The Bankers’ 
Special, a fast Missouri Pacific train from Kansas City to 
St. Louis, and No. 3. the midnight passenger, met head-on 
at a point three and a half miles west of Lamonte, Mo., 
July 2. Nine men were killed outright, and many injured. 
40 at least seriously. The wreck was due to defective 
orders and lack of night operators. . . . The new 
auditorium at Silver Bay, Lake George. N. Y., having a 
seating capacity for 1,500 was destroyed by fire July 2. 
Loss $40,000. The auditorium was built for the accom¬ 
modation of the conventions, religious and semi-religious, 
which meet at Silver Bay every Summer. . . Murat 
Halstead, the famous editor of the Cincinnati Commercial 
Uazette, died July 2, in his 79tli year. He was a farmer’s 
son, and began work as a reporter. He was remarkable 
for the amount of work he could accomplish in a given 
time, and this characteristic he retained as a news editor, 
editorial writer and editor in chief. As an editorial writer 
he did much to give character to the short paragraph. 
During the Franco-Prussian war he was correspondent in 
the field for his own paper. He walked over the battlefield 
at Gravelotte after the conflict, and it was to him that 
Archibald Forbes owed the personal description of scenes 
which the English correspondent used in a famous des¬ 
patch. President Harrison nominated XTr. Halstead in 
1889 as Minister to Germany, but the Senate rejected his 
name by a close vote because of articles he had written 
about the purchase of Senatorial seats. He wrote several 
books, including a history of Cuba, biographies of Presi¬ 
dents' McKinley and Roosevelt and Admiral Dewey, “The 
Story of the Philippines” and books about the Boer and 
Japanese-Russian wars. . . . Frank .T. MacKain, secre¬ 
tary of the Empire City Racing Association, filed at Al¬ 
bany, July 2, the association's statement of legislative 
expenses, amounting to $5,653.91, with the Secretary of 
State. The total amount expended by the various asso¬ 
ciations in their attempt to kill the anti-betting bills 
amounts-to more than $56,000, according to reports filed 
to date. ... In the presence of a number of com¬ 
muters and almost in front of the. Rye, N. Y.. station of 
the New Haven railroad company, two men were killed by 
electricity July 2, while straightening a signal pole. One 
of the poles which support the wires of the block signal 
system on the New Haven road was out of plumb and 
several employees were straightening it when it came in 
contact with the main feed wire, carrying 11,000 volts, 
which furnished the electricity for running the trains of 
the company. The current passed through the pole, and 
the men, who had hold of it, were knocked about 20 feet. 
They died almost instantly. Several other employees re¬ 
ceived bad shocks. . . . Martin R. Preston, of Ne-. 
vada, who is serving a 25-year term in the Goldfield, 
Nev., jail for shooting a man during a strike in that place 
three years ago, was nominated for President of the United 
States' July 5 at the session of the National Convention of 
the Socialist Labor party. Donald Munro, of Virginia, 
was nominated for Vice-President. . . . Joel Chandler 
Harris, familiarly known as “Uncle Remus,” and an au¬ 
thor of note, died at his home in a suburb of Atlanta. 
July 3. Joel Chandler Harris was born in Eatonton, Ga., 
December 9. 1848. . He was married in 1873 to Miss Essie 
Tgi Rose, of Canada, and in 1876 moved to Atlanta, joining 
the staff of the Atlanta Constitution. Tt was while he 
was connected with the Constitution that his tales “Stories 
by Uncle Remus,’ first attracted attention. Tn 1900 Mr. 
Harris retired from active journalism, and until last 
year, when he became editor and proprietor of Uncle 
Remus’s Magazine, spent most of his time at his suburban 
home. Ilis wife, four sons and two daughters survive him. 
. . . Seven persons were killed, two others fatally injured 
and 30 severely hurt as the result of a fire in a five and 
ten-cent store in Cleveland, O., July 3. The fire followed an 
explosion of fireworks displayed in the store. Opinions 
differ as to the exact cause of the explosion. . . . Seventy- 
two dead and 2.736 injured were the second-day totals of 
the accidents attending the celebration of the Fourth of 
July in the United States. This breaks all records for 
deaths since 1899. The number of deaths this year re¬ 
ported up to noon July 6 is 13 more than at the same time 
last year. Tn 1905 59 were dead at the same hour. The 
number of injured, however, is only two-thirds of the 
average for the last five years. This is regarded as an 
indication that the agitation for a sane Fourth is having 
its effect. Chicago leads the list of deaths. Cleveland 
with 10 deaths is in second place. In the death lists of 
various cities are counted those caused by premature cele¬ 
brations and casualties in fireworks stores previous to the 
Fourth. . . . Since the first of the year 77.067 stray 
dogs and cats have been destroyed in New York City by the 
agents of the American Society for the Prevention of 
Crueltv to Animals. Never in the history of the society 
were greater efforts put forth to rid the city of the home¬ 
less dogs and cats. During June there were 21,985 stray 
dogs and cats “seized, gathered and collected.” says the 
report of the society. This is an increase of 11.454 over 
the number collected iu .Tune of 1907. Last year there 
were 108,619 “strays” destroyed by the society. During 
the 14 years of the society’s existence it has cared for or 
humaneiy disposed of 800,000 cats and 480,000 dogs. 
Abe Rueif, the boss grafter, of San Francisco, who has been 
in the common jail for six months, was set free late July 
6 in $1,500,000 bonds, despite every effort of the prose¬ 
cution to prevent him securing liberty. District Attorney 
Ileney, assisted by Judge Dunne, refused to accept any 
sureties except those who owned real estate, but Ruef 
appealed to the District Court of Appeals and the court 
took the case out of Dunne’s hands and gave it to Judge 
Mnrasky. ltuef’s father and his sister. Henrietta Sitten- 
felt, went on $690,000 of bonds. Aside from these the 
other heavy bondsmen were the Aetna Indemnity Insurance 
Company for $200,000, Louis Friedman for $110,000, Leo¬ 
pold Ilirseli $100,000, and William Cohen $60,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Continuing its plan to provide 
for some of its future requirements in timber and cross¬ 
ties, the Pennsylvania Railroad forestry department has 
just completed its Spring forestry planting for this year, 
when a total of 625,000 trees were handled. These make, 
up to the present time, 2.425,000 trees which have been 
set out by the Pennsylvania Railroad since it undertook 
tree planting upon a comprehensive scale, this constitut¬ 
ing the largest forestry plan undertaken as yet by any 
corporation. 
CROP PROSPECTS. 
I may say. generally speaking. Niagara district crops 
(Canada), promise exceptionally well, as we have recently 
had plentv of rain and we have had good growing weather 
pretty constantly. Berries much lower in price than last 
year. F - l - L - 
Grimsby, Ont. 
I am not a farmer, but to me the crops are extra good. 
Mv eight acres of hay had a crop double that of last year. 
MV one acre of corn 'is backward, but doing splendidly, the 
first I have grown in nine years. My one-half acre of 
potatoes just coming up. Have just planted eight acres 
beans, one-half acre millet, the first in 22 years. Apples 
are a good crop, pears ditto. Peaches loaded to breaking 
down, cherries are a good crop. s. e. h. 
Illinois. 
We had fine weather to make hay. We had a large 
crop; the haying is all done except that which is made 
after harvest. Last evening, July 2. we had a heavy 
shower which was needed very much by all growing crops, 
though it will delay harvesting for a day. It was so dry 
the tobacco was at a standstill; potatoes were drying 
off. Wheat 84 cents per bushel; corn 78 cents; oats 57 
cents: butter 22 to 25 cents per pound; eggs 20 cents 
dozen. O- D - K - 
York Co., Pa. 
July, 1908. finds all farm crops in very good condition, 
and but few farmers need complain. The Spring was some¬ 
what backward, making work late, but with weather as 
favorable for another month as so far in season, there 
will be but few failures. Wheat harvest will soon begin. 
Early hay is well secured. Late meadows are thickening. 
Pastures' still good. Plenty of small fruits: apples and 
peaches are looking scarce after an extra full bloom and 
the .Tune drop. Early potatoes about ready for market 
Standing Stone, Pa. w. b. 
June temperature here has averaged 66 degrees, and 
rainfall somewhat in excess of five inches—not too much 
here, as the subsoil was dry from last Fall, South Dakota 
and Minnesota stations having from eight to 10 inches 
for the month. Corn has made very _ good progress in 
spite of cool weather, and early plantings. are beginning 
to touch leaves across the rows. Small grains very prom¬ 
ising. Winter wheat not much planted as yet. but those 
who have it are in luck. Some fields look good for 35 
bushels per acre, and nearly ripe. Last Fall’s seeding of 
Alfalfa poor, due to dry weather after sowing. Hay plenty. 
Fruit none, except few currants and strawberries. A ser¬ 
ies of freezes came after the hot weather of April had 
opened the bossoms. Corn has been bringing 63 cents on 
local market, but little to be had. v. f. 
Yankton, S. D. _ 
STATE MONEY FOR COUNTY FAIRS. 
There seems to be considerable misunderstanding in some 
quarters regarding State appropriations for the benefit of 
county and town agricultural societies. So far as the 
Commissioner of Agriculture is able to learn there has 
been no change of policy on the part of the State toward 
financial aid to these societies. At the last session of the 
Legislature $250,000 was appropriated “for apportionment 
to agricultural societies under the provisions of Section 88 
of the agricultural law,” and this money has already been 
sent out to reimburse societies throughout the State for 
premiums paid last year. The matter has been handled 
in exactly the same way every year since 1895. The ap¬ 
portionment to the different societies from the money ap¬ 
propriated by the State is always based upon the amount 
of premiums paid during the previous year, and the law 
provides that no society shall receive more than $4,000 
Chapter 283 of the laws of 1908 contain the following 
statement : “All such county agricultural societies, town 
or other agricultural societies, or fair associations, or agri¬ 
cultural expositions organized under the laws of the State 
of New York which have received moneys from the State 
for premiums paid for the promotion of agriculture and 
domestic arts, for the promotion of education along agri¬ 
cultural lines, or for the promotion of the improvement of 
the breeding of cattle, sheep, horses and other domestic 
animals, shall be deemed as agents for the State in dis¬ 
bursing such moneys and shall be entitled to be reimbursed 
for such moneys paid as provided in this Act. from an 
annual appropriation which shall not be less than $250,000. 
R. A. PEARSON. 
Commissioner of Agriculture. 
PROSPECTS FOR THE FRUIT CROP. 
It is too early in the season to make any definite state¬ 
ment about the outcome of the fruit crop. Statistics are 
being given by farmers and their associations, but, as every 
fruit grower knows, there are many things to happen before 
the crop can be harvested. It is not safe, therefore, to 
make definite statements at this time. The indications, 
however, now are for a comparatively small crop. West¬ 
ern Newt York, that is, the counties where many apples 
are grown, like Niagara, Orleans, Monroe and Wayne, ap¬ 
pears to have considerably more apples than last year. 
They are below an average crop, yet as compared with 
last year the total crop will be heavier. This estimate is 
not based on first-class apples or those which ought to go 
in barrels, but on the total crop as from the present out¬ 
look. In the Hudson Valley, a large apple-producing sec¬ 
tion, the crop is shorter than last year. Taken as a 
whole, therefore, New York will do well to produce as 
many apples as it did last year, the quality to be deter¬ 
mined by the next three months. From other States the 
ropopfs which come to us are conflicting. If seems to be 
settled beyond a doubt that in such States as Illinois and 
Missouri and in the Mississippi Valley generally the crop 
is much lighter than last year’s was. There may be some 
apples to be shipped out of that section but more will be 
bought. Throughout Connecticut and New England the 
crop, on the whole, appears to be short for some unaccount¬ 
able reason, as the early promise was for a heavy crop. 
The chances at present therefore are that the apple crop 
will be little, if any, larger than that of last year and 
that prices ought to be fair. Every year beginning about 
the first of August there is a contest between the grow¬ 
ers and the buyers over prices. Figures frequently con¬ 
flict and it is difficult to give exact estimates. Naturally 
an estimate made on green apples as they appear on the 
tree must always be taken with a good deal of salt. 
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN NEW YORK.—Commis¬ 
sioner Pearson says that the new law was discussed at a 
conference of the Agricultural Department officials on July 
3. It is stated that the prospect of getting bovine tuber¬ 
culosis under control in New York State was never more 
promising than now. This is due largely to the increased 
indemnity to be paid for condemned animals as provided 
for by tiie new law, and the requirement of the new law 
that no person shall sell for breeding or dairy purposes 
an animal which the owner knows is diseased, unless the 
buyer is informed in writing that the disease exists, and 
this information is also given to the Commissioner of 
Agriculture. Several reports were submitted at the confer¬ 
ence showing the value of the tuberculin test in connection 
witji the physical examination for the diagnois of tubercu¬ 
losis. In one herd, three advanced cases of tuberculosis 
were not found by a careful physical examinatiou made by 
the veterinarian assisted by the owner, but they were 
clearly shown by the tuberculin test and proved by post 
morte'ms. 
WHO OWNS THE MANURE.—A reader sends us the 
following clipping from the Independent Republican : 
“The second civil case was tried before Judge Royee and 
a jury. It was entitled William II. Denniston vs. George 
W. Kornochan. The issue involved was, whether manure 
is real estate or personal property. Mr. Denniston, in 
February, 1906, bought the Seaman" farm in the town of 
Newburgh, and took possession April 1. In March the. 
defendant, who was a tenant on the farm, sold a quantity 
of manure from the farm. Mr. Denniston brought suit 
to recover about $500. the value of the manure. The 
new owner claimed that the manure was a part of the 
realty which he had bought, and not having been re¬ 
served at the time of the sale, it belonged to him. The 
line of proof of the defendant was designed to show that 
the manure had been piled up and that thereby the char¬ 
acter of it was changed from real to personal property. 
The pile of manure was stated to be 60x30 feet and five 
feet high. This case was tried once before in Justice’s 
Court at Roseton. before Justice Monroe, and a jury gave 
the plaintiff $250, which was $50 more than was asked 
for. causing a mis-trial. Yesterday the jury rendered a 
verdict of $122.50 in plaintiff’s favor. 
SELF-BOILED LIME AND SULPHUR.—This past 
Spring we have been devoting considerable attention to 
determining the effects of the self-boiled lime sulphur 
wash and the Niagara and Rex brands of the concentrated 
lime-sulphur mixture upon the foliage of fruit trees and 
their effectiveness against plant diseases and various in¬ 
sects. It is too early to get definite results of the exact 
values of these remedies for the Summer treatment of 
plant diseases and insects, but there is no doubt in my 
mind that the self-boiled wash is a safe mixture for 
peaches, cherries, apples and pears in foliage. So far the 
applications of these sprays have caused no injuries on 
any of these fruits. Brown rot is now making its appear¬ 
ance on sweet cherries. Within a week we hope to get 
some results showing the probable value of the self- 
boiled lime-sulphur wash in the control of this disease. 
The Napoleon Bigarrean cherries show the rot the worst, 
but at the present time it. affects only about .10 per cent 
of the fruit. Some rot has appeared on the sides of the 
trees sprayed with the sulphur wash, and just now there 
is apparently more rot on the unsprayed than on the 
sprayed sides of the trees. The lime-sulphur wash has 
not entirely checked the brown rot. For peach and apple 
diseases we have as yet no results. I am sorry that I 
am unable to give you more conclusive data on the 
merits of this spray for plant diseases, but I hope that 
when we gather our peaches and apples, we shall have 
some valuable figures showing the merits of this new 
treatment for apple and peach diseases. p. j. parrott. 
Geneva Experiment Station. 
