1911. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Judg-o George A. Carpenter 
banded down a decision in the United 
States District Court at Chicago, March 22, 
denying the motion of attorneys for the 
beef packers to quash the three indictments 
against them charging a combination in re¬ 
straint of interstate trade, engaging in a 
conspiracy in restraint of interstate trade, 
and monopolizing interstate trade. Judge 
Carpenter's decision is what is known as an 
interlocutory order, from which there is no 
appeal. There are five counts in the con¬ 
spiracy indictment and one in each of the 
other two indictments. If convicted the de¬ 
fendants can be fined $5,000, or imprison-* 
ment for one year on each of the seven 
counts. The move of the attorneys for the 
packers was based upon a contention that 
the Government could not use in evidence 
against them anything that transpired be¬ 
fore Judge .T. Otis Humphrey gave them 
the famous “immunity bath" ia 1906. 
A parcels post conference will be held at 
the Mew Willard Hotel, Washington, 1). C„ 
April 25, at 10 a. m., under the auspices 
of the Postal Progress League. All inter¬ 
ested in parcels post are requested to at¬ 
tend. 
Investigation of the Robin banking 
schemes in New York continues. Joseph B. 
Reichmann, an intimate associate of Wil¬ 
liam J. Cummins in the management of the 
Carnegie Trust Company and for a time 
its president, stepped up before Justice 
Davis in the Criminal Branch of the Su¬ 
preme Court March 25 and pleaded not 
guilty to au indictment which charged that 
he knowingly concurred in making aud pub¬ 
lishing a statement of the affairs and pe¬ 
cuniary condition of the Carnegie Trust 
Company .containing material statements 
which were false, on September 8, 1910. 
The principal false item charged was that 
on August 31 at the close of business the 
Carnegie Trust Company had no liability 
for borrowed money, when in fact it was 
liable on a demand note to the Northern 
Bank for $130,000, secured by certain col¬ 
lateral. 
Defective insulation in the Assembly Li¬ 
brary on the third floor of the State Capitol, 
Albany, N. Y., started a fire March 29 that 
destroyed the west wing of the $27,000,000 
building. The State Library was completely 
destroyed, and both the Senate and As¬ 
sembly chambers burned out. The loss is 
variously estimated at between $5,000,000 
and $8,000,000 ; but in some respects it is 
incalculable, for many of the records and 
documents in the State Library can never 
he replaced. One watchman, Samuel Ab¬ 
bott, who was assigned to the State Li¬ 
brary, is missing, and is believed to have 
lost his life. Several firemen were over¬ 
come with smoke or injured bv falling 
stones from the walls. There was no fire¬ 
fighting apparatus at baud. 
FARM AND GARDEN.- The wool grow¬ 
ers of 18 States west of the Mississippi 
River have begun a movement for lower 
freight rates on raw wool to eastern and 
Atlantic seaboard points. Through the 
National Wool Growers' Association they 
filed a formal complaint March 23 with the 
Intei-state Commerce Commission against 
the Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, South¬ 
ern Pacific and other transcontinental lines 
and their Eastern connections, including 
the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Erie Rail¬ 
road. the New York Central and others. 
The complaint sets forth that the carriers 
have failed to establish a reasonable classi¬ 
fication for wool in the grease and are giv- 
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ing unreasonable preferences and advan¬ 
tages to certain localities, including Pacific 
Coast territory. The complaint also says 
that the carriers are violating the long 
and short haul provision of the railroad 
rate act, in that tney are charging a greater 
compensation in the aggregate in"the trans¬ 
portation of wool for a shorter than for a 
longer distance over the same route iu the 
same direction. Figures are given showing 
the alleged disparity in rates and the com¬ 
plaint says that in most eases they are 
more than the traffic ought to bear.' The 
statement is also made that in the last five 
years there lias been a constant increase in 
the cost of the production of w-ool through 
the curtailing of pasturage and the absorp¬ 
tion of the laud for irrigation purposes 
and for the addition to forest reserves. Ac¬ 
tive opposition to revision of the tariff was 
determined upon by the officers of the Na¬ 
tional Wool Growers Association at a con¬ 
ference at Salt Lake City March 23. on the 
tariff situation as it affects wool. The 
eonferrees volunteered to be in Washing¬ 
ton when the special session of Congress 
begins and the members in the wool-growing 
States are asked to send reinforcements, 
consisting of one or two men from each 
State. 
The Dairy Day, March 15, of Farmers’ 
Week at the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, Amherst, Mass., was highly suc¬ 
cessful. In the afternoon about 300 men 
interested in dairy work in Massachusetts 
got together and appointed a committee 
on permanent organization of a Massachu¬ 
setts Dairymen’s Association. Those ap¬ 
pointed on the committee represent the 
Massachusetts Creamery Association, Con¬ 
necticut Valley Breeders’ Association, Mass¬ 
achusetts _ Cattle Owners’ Association, the 
State Dairy Bureau, and the Agricultural 
College. This committee will meet very 
soon to push the work of permanent or¬ 
ganization. Another feature of the day 
was a market milk and butter exhibit. The 
butter exhibit was represented rather by the 
quality of the product than number of ex¬ 
hibits. On the other hand, the market milk 
exhibit, the first one held in Massachusetts, 
was fine. There were 55 entries of milk, 
53 of which were produced and distributed 
in Massachusetts. Two were produced out¬ 
side the State hut distributed by Massa¬ 
chusetts milk concerns. The entrance 
blanks and score cards were the same as 
those used at the National Dairy Show. 
Canadian Reciprocity. —I am glad to 
note the stand you have taken with regard 
to the Canadian reciprocity. As usual, our 
lawmakers hit the farmers the first jolt, 
and carefully, protected the manufacturers 
as of old. This, of itself, is enough to 
make us lose patience with them, and when 
they further try to pull the wool over our 
eyes by assuring us that this change in the 
tariff will make no difference at all except¬ 
ing a beneficial one. It makes us madder 
than. ever. The bumper crops produced in 
the United States last year were not so 
radically much greater than in one or two 
preceding years, but they were large enough 
to slump the prices radically. If we throw 
Canada's surplus in at this time, we can 
see no earthly reason why it will not de¬ 
press grain prices still more, affecting the 
prosperity of the manufacturer as well as 
of the business men. If we are going to 
reduce the protective tariff, manufacturers 
should be placed in exactly the same class 
as tine farmers, iu fact, if we have free 
trade with Canada on the stuff which the 
farmers produce, it scorns to us that we 
should have free trade with the world on 
NEW-YORKER 
everything, simply because Canada is the 
American farmer’s most important com¬ 
petitor at present, and likely to continue so, 
and reciprocity with that nation will affect 
the farmers more radically than reciprocity 
with any other nation we know of. 
Ohio. CIIAS. B. WING. 
THE POTATO OUTLOOK. 
The farmers in Michigan are getting 
about 30 to 35 cents per bushel. We be¬ 
lieve that there will be a gradual advance 
in the market until prices reach about 50 
cents at the loading stations. 
Toledo, O. J_ T. SMITH & SON. 
At the present time we arc buying the 
very best potatoes out of Ohio points at 
40_ cents per bushel. New York State has 
quite a lot of potatoes yet and is offering 
them at about the same prices. It is our 
opinion that they will not advance, but 
may decline should the weather turn warm 
and favorable in the near future. 
IRON CITY PRODUCE COMPANY. 
Pittsburg, Pa. 
It is our opinion that there will lie from 
this time, until new potatoes come in, a big 
demand for potatoes, and we expect the 
price to remain around 50 to 60 cents per 
bushel. There are no potatoes in the hands 
of consumers here. Even the farmers are 
buying, and we are having a big trade. 
Seed stock also is in good demand and 
prices are very high. This is not a potato 
district. 
A. E. GIUESSER FRUIT & PRODUCE CO. 
Peoria, Ill. 
The potato market here is quite a little 
firmer ; while prices have not advanced very 
much, there is a firmer feeling and many 
look for potatoes to do better. Regarding 
the amount held back in the country, we 
believe that there are’ a good many hack, 
hut not nearly as many as a year ago, and 
it looks to us now as though it was a 
weather proposition regarding the future 
of potatoes. In fact vve look for higher 
prices. d. o. WILEY & co. 
Detroit, Mich. 
There seem to be quite a good many po¬ 
tatoes still in the hands of farmers in this 
State. In fact we believe as many as 
they will he able to move to advantage. 
As a rule we draw the bulk of our sup¬ 
plies from Michigan, hut on account of 
the crop in this State the past season we 
have been getting most of thorn from In¬ 
diana. The prevailing price of good In¬ 
diana stock on this market at the present 
time is 43 to 45 cents per bushel. 
Indianapolis, Ind. e. f. shidei.kr & co. 
Our advices point to large stocks and 
probable lower prices to growers. The 
season is far advanced and the new crop 
will be on soon, so that to our minds it 
appears unwise for growers to hold longer. 
There is a change for the better in the 
YVestso that stocks from that section are 
not likely to he sent East, where there is 
enough and to spare, if our advices are cor¬ 
rect. It really looks to us that prices now 
are better than they will be. And vet we 
may be wrong. thos. bond & son. 
Baltimore, Md. 
The outlook for old potatoes at present 
is for low prices for some time to come. 
Market at present is very inactive at 40 to 
45 cents. Stocks in the city, stored early 
in the season, cannot be sold for less ex¬ 
cept at a sacrifice, and with the inactivity 
of the demand, holders are not inclined to 
push the sale. Supplies in this immediate 
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ritory, are equal to all demands tin- mar¬ 
ket may make. Local buyers are taking 
them in sparingly at 28 to 30 cents at ship¬ 
ping points. The outlook is uot favorable 
ior much higher values for some time to 
come. k. p. wonneli. co. 
Cleveland, O. 
Relative to the potato situation, there 
may be temporary advances, such as we 
are experiencing at the present time, hut 
these are due largely to local conditions, 
such as bad roads mid farmers being too 
busy with other stuff to bring in their po¬ 
tatoes. As near as we can learn, there 
are a great many potatoes left in Michigan 
and Now York State, to say nothing of the 
Central West (which are usually not con¬ 
sidered commercial producing sections) to 
cause any material advance in this terri¬ 
tory. We urge conservatism in tile making 
of price at loading station—we believe that 
farmers will best serve their own purposes 
by not getting excited. 
Cincinnati, O. the weil-brockman co. 
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section to speak of. The fanners have sold 
nearly all their stock, aud shipments now 
are coming largely from Maine. Prices 
there have advanced quite a little for the 
past two weeks. I do not just know why 
they have done so, as I understood that 
there was a large quantity of potatoes left 
back m Maine. The bad roads' may pos¬ 
sibly have something to do with it. ‘ How 
tar this advance will continue I do uot 
know, but cannot see why they should go 
very much higher than they are at the 
present time. It looks as though now 
that they might go out in fairly good 
shape, and if so southern new stock will of 
course be in much better position than they 
otherwise would had the markets continued 
so low as they have been the past three 
months. w. h. bloduet. 
Worcester, Mass. 
FRUIT NOTES, 
The fruit outlook is good and the pros- 
pect for a good crop up to the average. 
Judging from the enthusiasm manifested 
among tile farmers and fruit growers there 
would be heavier plantings with no fears 
of overproduction. While spraying may 
he considered practical it is not practiced 
extensively in this immediate vicinity, al¬ 
though on the increase, g. si g. 
Ilolden, N. Y. 
About all we can say at this early date, 
on fruit outlook, is that there seems a good 
prospect for an apple crop. The Fall was 
a good one to ripen the wood, and the 
buds seemed well developed. The Winter 
has not been a severe one, and we shall 
look for a crop from the trees which did 
not bloom iu 1910. Only 40 per cent of 
our trees were in fruit last season, and we 
hope and expect to hear from them this 
season. There will not be heavy planting 
of new orchards in this section. The hired 
help question is a serious one, and many 
seem to retrench rather than to enlarge 
their orchards. The apple show in Boston 
a year ago was an object lesson to the 
fruit growers here, it and the demand for 
hotter apples has caused more work to l>e 
done in the orchards. We think the pros¬ 
pect for the fruit business encouraging, 
hut no one knows better than the fruit 
grower the endless fight that is before any¬ 
one who wants good fruit; insects, fungi, 
scale disease, etc., are increasing the ex¬ 
pense of a fruit crop each year. 
Massachusetts. j. eames 
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