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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Organized for the purpose 
of conducting a crusade against smoking 
in public or semi-public places, the Non- 
Smokers’ Protective League of America, 
witti its principal office in New York City 
filed papers of Incorporation August 2. with 
Secretary of State Lazansky. The league 
will attempt to encourage and insist on 
the enforcement of laws, ordinances and 
regulations restricting smoking. The di¬ 
rectors include Dr. llarvey W. Wiley, of 
Washington, president of the American 
Therapeutical Society; William A. Me- 
Keever, Kansas Agricultural University; 
Chancellor James R. Day, Syracuse Uni¬ 
versity ; Jay W. Seaver, New llaven ; G. L. 
Babri and Dr. Charles G. Pease, New 
York; Thomas B. Stowell, University of 
Southern California; Burt G. Wilder, Cor¬ 
nell University; the Rev. Dr. Jenkin Lloyd 
Jones, Chicago; David Starr Jordan, Bo¬ 
land Stanford University, and Winfield S. 
Hall, Northwestern University, 
Disclosures of the most damaging nature, 
so far as regards the conduct of the indus¬ 
trial departments of health and accident 
insurance companies, were made August 2 
to the special committee of State insurance 
commissioners in session at the Hotel 
Manhattan, New York, according to re¬ 
ports received from various examiners of 
insurance. Much of the data has been 
taken from the books of the companies by 
the examiners. It was found that some 
companies compromised claims with the 
poor and with the ill and suffering, so 
that the beneficiaries received less money 
than the policies called for. None of the 
seven commissioners would make a state¬ 
ment in advance of their report on August 
14. It will be submitted to the national 
insurance commissioners’ convention in 
Milwaukee on August 22, with the inten¬ 
tion of having proposed reforms instituted. 
All the companies will have a chance to 
make replies to the reports of the exami¬ 
ners. 
Edwin E. Jackson, Jr., who was the su¬ 
pervisor of the various steel wire pools 
that tin' Government has been prosecuting, 
was fined $45.000 August 4 by Judge 
Archbald for the part he played' in their 
formation and administration. Ho re¬ 
turned from Europe in order to plead to 
the indictments. In all ten of the eighty- 
four men under indictment came before 
Judge Archbald August 4 and changed 
their pleas of not guilty to ones of nolo 
contendere. Herbert L. Satteriee, the son- 
in-law of J. I’. Morgan, was also of these 
and paid his fine of $1,000. Jackson’s 
fine was the one exception that has been 
made in all the wire pool cases that have 
come up. All heretofore have been fined 
$1,000 on the first count and $100 each on 
each succeeding count. But there were spe¬ 
cial circumstances that induced the court 
to levy the maximum fine of $5,000 in each 
of the nine counts against Jackson. 
Three coaches attached to a southbound 
passenger train on the Wichita Valley 
route were thrown from the tracks by a 
tornado at renicks, Texas, August 4. 
Practically every passenger, about 30, re¬ 
ceived more or less severe bruises. One 
infant was fatally hurt. 
Attracted by signals of distress from 
Bardwell Island, a barren rock near the 
entrance to Resurrection Bay, Alaska, the 
steamship Bertha, on August 2, sent out a 
small boat and took off two ragged and 
starving men, Charles Alexander and Al¬ 
vin Anderson. The men had been on the 
island for two months, and would have 
perished but for the arrival of Jhe Bertha. 
The men left Kodiak on May 11 in a 
dory on a prospecting voyage. About June 
1 a storm upset their craft off Bardwell 
Island and their provisions and outfit were 
lost in the sea. They managed to get 
ashore, but with practically nothing but 
their clothing. The men. who had a few 
matches, lived for a month on mussels, 
clams, young gulls, seaweed and wild herbs 
which they cooked. After their matches 
gave out, about July 1, they ate their food 
raw. Two vessels passed without noticing 
their signals of distress. 
The Wilson line Francisco, from Hull, 
brought to port at New York August 7 
from mid-Atlantic ten shipwrecked French 
seamen and three passengers of the three- 
masted schooner Charles Henry. The men 
were in a bad way when the Francisco 
came upon them and could not have lasted 
much longer on their water logged and dis¬ 
masted vessel. The Charles Henry left St. 
Pierre Miquelon several weeks ago in com¬ 
mand of Captain Pen, with a cargo of fish 
for Havre. She carried a crew of ten 
men and three French fishermen who were 
returning to France as passengers. On 
July 2(1 she encountered a heavy storm. 
Her seams opened rapidly and tons of 
water flooded her from stem to stern. The 
pumps were kept working constantly for 
four days. The schooner was sighted by 
the Francisco on July 30. A lifeboat was 
sent out and shipwrecked men were taken 
off. 
W. It. Laidlaw, who acted as a shield for 
Russel Sage when a crank hurled a bomb 
at the financier in his New York office in 
1891, died at the Bronx Home for Incur¬ 
ables August 7. As a result of his injuries 
in Mr. Sage’s office Mr. Laidlaw was un¬ 
able to support himself during the last few 
years of his life, and was cared for by his 
sisters. Laidlaw was employed as a clerk 
by the firm of John Bloodgood & Co., and 
had gone to the office of Mr. Sage, at 
Broadway and Rector street, to deliver 
some papers when Norcross made the at¬ 
tempt on the financier’s life. The insane 
man had demanded $2,000,000, and Mr. 
Sage was arguing with him when Laidlaw 
entered unexpectedly. Laidlaw contended 
afterward that the aged financier seized 
him and drew him between himself and the 
crazy man. Norcross dropped the bomb, 
and the explosion blew him to pieces and 
injured several persons in the office besides 
Laidlaw. The only part of Norcross’ body 
that was found was his head, which was 
picked up across Rector street on the pave¬ 
ment alongside Trinity churchyard. A 
damage suit brought by ' Laidlaw 
against Sage was brought to trial four 
times. Twice the plaintiff obtained a ver¬ 
dict, first for $25,000 and at the fourth 
trial one for $43,000, but each time the 
Court of Appeals reversed the verdict. The 
litigation extended over a period of about 
10 years. Mr. Sage fought the suit vigor¬ 
ously. Joseph H. Choate appeared as coun¬ 
sel for Laidlaw at the last trial. Laidlaw 
had impoverished himself and was forced 
to give up the fight in the courts, it was 
said. Afterward he looked to Mrs. Sage 
for help, but such bitterness had been 
stirred up by the suits that she never felt 
inclined to assist him. 
A bomb partly destroyed the plant of the 
Victor Jensen Electrical Supply Company 
at Chicago August 8. Windows within a 
block of the building were shattered by the 
force of the explosion. The firm employs 
non-union workmen, and the police believe 
that representatives of a labor union are 
responsible for the explosion. The rear 
end of the building was wrecked. The 
damage will exceed $2,000. 
The way for the final admission of the 
territories of New Mexico and Arizona into 
the Union was cleared by the Senate Au¬ 
gust 8 by the adoption, with unimportant 
amendments, of the House resolution ap¬ 
proving the two constitutions by a vote so 
largo that a Presidential veto is untimely, or 
might even be overruled, although it is a 
question how many Senators who voted for 
the measure would vote to override the 
Executive veto. On the final passage the 
ayes were 53 and the noes 18. The Nel¬ 
son amendment which, in effect, eliminated 
the provision in the Arizona constitution 
relating to the recall of judges, was re¬ 
jected by a vote of 43 to 26. In general, 
the Democrats opposed the Nelson amend¬ 
ment and voted to approve the constitu¬ 
tions. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Ten thousand 
men passed through Montreal August 3 on 
their way to the wheat fields of the Cana¬ 
dian West. Among them was a party 
of 400 New Englanders. Seven hundred 
were from Nova Scotia. Many are land 
seekers, but all are pledged to work through 
the harvesting season. They are traveling 
on special trains and hundreds of them 
have their wives with them. 
Governor Dix August 4 appointed the fol¬ 
lowing as members of the State Advisory 
Board which is to consider plans for the 
promotion of agricultural education and the 
advancement of country life: Senator Ralph 
W. Thomas of Hamilton, Gouverneur Mor¬ 
ris Carnochan of New City and Calvin J. 
Huson of Penn Yan. The other members 
of the board are: Commissioner of Educa¬ 
tion Draper, Commissioner of Agriculture 
Pearson, Dean L. II. Bailey of New York 
State College of Agriculture, W. II. Jordan, 
director of the New York Agricultural Ex¬ 
periment Station ; V. A. Moore, director of 
the New York State Veterinary College; O. 
S. Morgan, director of the State Schools of 
Agriculture at Alfred University; Dean II. 
E. Cook, director of the St. Lawrence Uni¬ 
versity, and F. G. Ilelyar, director of tin; 
Morrisville Agriculture School. The board 
was created by a recent act of the Legisla¬ 
ture. The members of it are to serve with¬ 
out compensation. 
The New York State Conservation Com¬ 
mission is trying to get accurate information 
regarding a disease fatal to the chestnut 
tree which has appeared in this State. C. 
R. Pettis, superintendent of State forests, 
through a circular letter sent to various 
sections of the State, is endeavoring to find 
out where the disease is at present, the 
length of time it has been attacking the 
trees, and the extent of the damage. Thomas 
Davy Candy of Langhorne, near Philadel¬ 
phia, declares that lie has discovered the 
cause of the blight which is withering chest¬ 
nut trees in the Middle and South Atlantic 
States. A boring beetle, one sixteenth of 
an inch long, black in color, which lays its 
eggs between the outer and inner barks, is 
the primary cause, he says. Grubs are 
hatched from the eggs, and these penetrate 
the soft inner bark, following its course 
around the trunk. Above the path of the 
borer Occurs the blighted appearance. .Myr¬ 
iads of the tiny worms were found upon the 
single tree upon which Mr. Candy has con¬ 
centrated his search. The results of their 
depredations was so extensive that the tree, 
lie says, appears to have been scorched by 
fire. The blight has become so serious in 
Pennsylvania that the Legislature appropri¬ 
ated $275,000 to a commission appointed by 
the Governor to Investigate the cause of the 
disease and to devise ways for extermin¬ 
ating it. 
The American Poultry Association August 
7 at Denver went on record as denouncing 
the hen as a loafer. It was declared that 
the average lien now lays only 80 eggs a 
year, while she should be made to lay at 
least 150. Five hundred delegates are de¬ 
liberating and by the time the convention 
is over the word will go out that it is up 
to the hens of this country to increase the 
nation’s yearly production of wealth by 
$400,000,000. Sounds mighty big, but it 
all lies within the power of the hen, ac¬ 
cording to the estimate which Grant Curtis, 
a member of the executive committee of 
the national organization has made. The 
executive committee also reported that poul¬ 
try raising should be more largely adver¬ 
tised and declared it the best business for 
a young man to enter. It is declared that 
eggs should bo made the “poor man’s food” 
by their abundance. 
DIARY OF FARM WORK. 
Work on a Truck Farm. 
This is Saturday night, July 29. Dur¬ 
ing the entire month things have been 
going at high pressure. In June Mr. 
J nicker attended a grass sale on a neigh¬ 
boring farm and purchased 23 acres of 
meadow Timothy. Getting this made ex¬ 
tra work at a time when truck crops need¬ 
ed most attention, and it required neat 
management at times to fit trucking and 
haymaking. But by cultivating, hoeing 
and laying by truck in the morning; haul¬ 
ing hay in the afternoon, and having 
things convenient for unloading, it was 
accomplished. Sixty-five loads were gath¬ 
ered from the 23 acres. The weather from 
July 1 to 15 was ideal for curing hay and 
all went in the barn in good shape al¬ 
though the extreme heat made the extra 
work quite burdensome. After the hay 
was in cooler weather prevailed, a few 
showers came and all hands tackled the 
12-acre sweet potato field with new energy. 
The sweets needed cultivating for the last 
time quite badly. Vines had grown to¬ 
gether, and in many places taken root, but 
by running a harrow fitted with vine turn¬ 
ers ahead tin 1 vines were thrown aside 
so the regular harrow could be used, after 
which the vines were thrown out by hand 
and grass pulled. This, together with cul¬ 
tivating egg plants, peppers, beans, aspar¬ 
agus, etc., took some time, but now most 
crops are cleaned up and time is spent 
in preparing vegetables for market, as 
the selling season is now in full swing. 
This week vegetables were marketed as 
follows: Monday, 50 crates tomatoes (about 
2<i quarts each), 52 baskets tomatoes (20 
quarts each), 53 baskets eggplants, 12 bas¬ 
kets cucumbers, 12 baskets apples. Tues¬ 
day, 128 baskets tomatoes, 25 paskets 
onions, 17 baskets eggplants, 20 baskets 
squashes, 4 baskets apples and one basket 
cantaloupes. Wednesday, 171 baskets to¬ 
matoes. 42 crates tomatoes, 15 baskets pep¬ 
pers, 19 baskets squashes, 10 baskets cab¬ 
bage, 28 baskets onions and two baskets 
apples. Thursday, 65 crates tomatoes, 148 
baskets tomatoes, 32 baskets eggplants, 9 
baskets cucumbers, 20 baskets cabbage, two 
baskets cantaloupes and one basket yellow 
(plum shape) tomatoes. Friday, 65 crates 
tomatoes, 179 baskets tomatoes, 20 baskets 
apples, 10 baskets eggplants and II baskets 
squash. Saturday, 161 baskets tomatoes, 
making a total for the week of 1,162 bas¬ 
kets and 222 crates of produce. Most of 
this produce was hauled 2*4 miles and 
shipped by boat to Philadelphia. The work¬ 
ing force consists of two day hands, two 
men by the month, three Italians, Mr. 
Trucker, the boy and Trucker, Jr. The 
Italians pick the tomatoes and gather 
onions at 2% cents a basket. Besides gath¬ 
ering produce, other seasonable work was 
done this week. After onions were removed 
an acre of ground was plowed for late 
sugar corn. Ground earlier occupied by 
string beans was plowed; then the plow 
was started in a six-acre field of rye stub¬ 
ble, four of which will be prepared for 
more Alfalfa. Seven acres of late sowed 
meadow Timothy was cut. Eight loads 
were hauled and put in two-ton stacks; one 
load of rakings will be out over Sunday. 
At odd times while hauling hay the day 
hands worked in a new bed of Gandy straw¬ 
berries, and have cleaned up about two 
acres. The berries are in matted rows, and 
pusley, hogweeds, crab grass, etc., make 
tedious work with a hoe. 
To-day being Saturday there was less to 
gather and more time to cultivate later 
crops. I will give a brief account of tue 
day'si work. By 5.45 A. M. the milking and 
barn work was done, and breakfast over. 
Mr. Trucker started the day hands for the 
strawberries armed with sharp hoes; one 
of the men by the month sorted tomatoes, 
the other hoed peppers. The Italians picked 
tomatoes ; they started about 5 o'clock. The 
boy harrowed peppers and 90-day corn. 
Trucker, Jr., saved seed from four baskets 
of tomatoes, then harrowed the garden; 
also a plot of young asparagus from seed 
sown this Spring. Mr. Trucker, after pro¬ 
viding everyone with work, drove three 
miles to town and brought home a mow¬ 
ing machine knife and a three-horse sulky 
plow to he used for the remainder of tin; 
Alfalfa ground, and later for plowing the 
tomato field. lie arrived home the middle 
of the morning, and sorted tomatoes until 
11.30 o'clock, when the bell rang for din¬ 
ner. After dinner the boy started for the 
meadow with a rake, the two-day men fol¬ 
lowed with hay-rack, and all three worked 
at hay through the afternoon. One of the 
men by the month hoed bush Lima beans 
in the pear orchard ; the other, after load¬ 
ing tomatoes, trimmed the lawn. Mr, 
Trucker dusted paris green mixed with 
plaster on the late white potatoes planted 
after strawberries. Trucker, Jr., hauled the 
tomatoes to the boat and sold to buyers for 
a Baltimore can house at 30 (4 cents a 
bushel, did some erraners and got back in 
time for supper. As it was Saturday night 
all quit work at 5 I’. M., an hour earlier 
than on other days. After a good supper 
the men went away to spend the evening 
as suited them best. Mr. Trucker and the 
good wife drove to town. The boy and 
Trucker, Jr., spent the evening in the bee 
yard, where several colonies of bees are 
being transferred‘from box hives into frame 
hives, and changed from black bees to Ital¬ 
ians. This was interesting, and darkness 
overtook them, much too soon, thus ending 
a pleasant day on the truck farm. 
South Jersey. trgcker, jk. 
A New York Truck Farm. 
Commenced day’s work at 5.30 by pack¬ 
ing tomatoes before breakfast. Hired man 
cleaned and fed three horses, also fed hens. 
Breakfast over at 6.40; four day hands 
ready for work at seven ; one; man drew a 
load of fertilizer into lot with team, an¬ 
other man distributed same along rows of 
celery with wheelbarrow drill, third man 
ran hand cultivator to cultivate in ferti¬ 
lizer, fourth man picking tomatoes. I 
went to station at 8.30 with a load of to¬ 
matoes, celery and lettuce; home by nine. 
Man with team dragging ground for let¬ 
tuce ; after smoothing same, went to culti¬ 
vating late tomatoes. I drilled lettuce seed 
until noon. After dinner the men finished 
fertilizing and cultivating celery, and then 
helped out the man picking tomatoes until 
three p. m. 1 sorted celery plants and the 
men set them; at five it commenced to 
rain. Day men went home; Frank and I 
packed tomatoes until six, in the barn. 
Frank did chores while I shut gates on irri¬ 
gated field. s. J. cook. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
Smaller Doings with Bees and Fruit. 
We have a rough hilly farm of 62 acres 
with about seven acres of apple orchard, 
and on account of poor health have not tried 
to farm much for the past eight years ex¬ 
cept to take care of the orchard and fruit. 
Our day’s work would not be interesting ex¬ 
cept by contrast with the strenuous labors 
of the dairy and grain farmers. We keep 
one horse, one cow, and chickens from 100 
up to four or five times as many, also from 
75 to 125 colonies of bees. This morning 
up about 5.15. I fed 60 chickens, 100 hens, 
milked the cow and fed the pig. Elmer 
(age 16) took care of the horse, Orson 
(age 11) watered and staked out the cow. 
Wife got breakfast. After breakfast the 
two oldest boys started for the berry patch 
for their day’s work. Wife washed dishes 
and cleaned up, then she and Carl (age 6) 
followed the boys. On account of the severe 
drought, the berry picking is not up to the 
standard, hut the day’s record was Elmer 
76, Orson 51, wife 57, Carl 14. These 
were the Columbia raspberries on one-year- 
old bushes, or as we call them, creepers. 
On account of a crushed heel which makes 
it difficult to get around, I did not get to 
the carrot patch as I wanted to, but worked 
in the shop and honey house. I extracted 
in the morning 29 supers of honey, about 
450 pounds, cooked dinner and built a grain 
cradle except the snath and scythe, at¬ 
tended to a couple of cases of robbing in the 
bee yard, read the daily paper a little and 
we had supper about 6.30. After supper 
we did chores about as in the morning, then 
I replaced about 40 supers on the hives, 
sorted out a dozen hens that I thought were 
boarders, caught 20 broilers, and quit about 
9.30. This has been the poorest season for 
the bees that I have ever known or I might 
hav given you a livelier day's record. We 
have quite a showing of apples in our or¬ 
chard, I should say about 50 per cent of a 
crop, since the rain on the 16th they began 
to grow finely. j. a. crane. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
THE WAYNE CO., N. Y., FRUIT GROWERS. 
Wednesday, August 2.—To-day the Wayne 
County Fruit Growers’ Association held 
their annual Summer field meeting here on 
our farm. About 00(1 were in attendance 
and those coming in automobiles, of whom 
there were a large number, began assem¬ 
bling as early as half-past eight. The 
morning was devoted to orchard inspection, 
special interest being shown in apple trees, 
which are being treated for collar-rot and 
for canker, and in a 50-year-old apple or¬ 
chard which has been “dishorned” by cut¬ 
ting about 12 feet from the tops of the 
trees. It has been found necessary to prop 
nearly every tree on this orchard, the 
Greenings especially promising now over 
10O per cent of a crop. 
For canker and collar-rot, the dead wood 
is cut and scraped away much as a dentist 
prepares the cavity of a tooth. Then cor¬ 
rosive sublimate is applied to the hard live 
wood underneath, and the whole painted 
with ordinary gas tar. There is another 
tree in the same orchard which has a cavity 
filled with cement. The tree was planted 
in 1824, and years ago lost a limb. It 
rotted in and was in bad shape. Conse¬ 
quently the cement experiment. After the 
tramp around the orchards the ladies of one 
of the churches served lunch in the village 
hall. At 1.30 all reassembled at the Corn¬ 
wall farm to listen to the addresses. Great 
regret was expressed over the absence of 
Mr. ( ollingwood, as his friends and readers 
in this region were looking forward with 
great pleasure to hearing him again. The 
speakers were introduced by W. P. Rogers, 
president of the association. Mr. Samuel 
Fraser of Gcneseo had charge of the ques¬ 
tion box. Among other things he explained 
twig blight or fire blight, which is quite 
prevalent here. Cause bacteria ; cure is to 
cut out the dead wood about one foot below 
the infected part and treat with corrosive 
sublimate, taking care to disinfect the knife 
each time. lie also explained his method 
of pruning young trees, which is nor, to 
prune at all. Great interest was shown in 
the remarks of Mr. Remington, of the New 
York Central Railroad, who attended the 
meeting with several other officials of the 
road. lie explained the “second-morning” 
delivery into New York City and Boston 
from the lake belt. 
The growers reported large crops of 
peaches and apples; also that less damage 
was done to this section by the big wind¬ 
storm of ten days ago than was suffered in 
other counties. One of the pleasant fea¬ 
tures of the meeting was the attendance of 
a large number of farmers’ wives and 
daughters. Some were enthusiastic enough 
to tramp through the orchards with their 
husbands in spite of the heat and plowed 
ground. To listen to tnese ladies talk 
would be an education for those city folks 
and some writers lor the press, whose cry 
is the great need of the “rural uplift.’ It 
would be hard to find an equally large 
gathering of women in a large city who 
looked as contented and happy and intelli¬ 
gent. At the close of this strenuous day 
we felt that such gatherings of fruit grow¬ 
ers and farmers cannot be too much entour- 
aged and may be developed into a great 
power in the agricultural business. 
New York. f. w. Cornwall. 
Crops in this vicinity fairly good (south¬ 
ern part of Onondaga County). Early set 
cabbage good, but late set poor. Drought 
has hurt potatoes. l’astures very poor; 
most farmers feeding milch cows. Apples, 
plums and pears good. Milk $1.64 at ship¬ 
ping station. Hay very light. n. a. f. 
Lafayette, N. Y. 
We have had very fine weather for har¬ 
vesting hay and wheat; it was secured 
without any rain. Oat harvest has just 
begun, not a heavy crop, and I think g.ain 
will he light weight. Wheat is thrasning 
out 40 bushels per acre. Early potatoes 
are turuing out very poor. The wind lias 
blown off many apples. Wheat, 80 cents 
per bushel; oats, 40 cents; old potatoes, 
$1.25 per bushel; new potatoes, 60 cents 
per peck. Buyers are offering $18 per ton 
for new hay to bale. Butter, 18 cents per 
pound; eggs, 18 cents per dozen. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. e. t. b. 
Yesterday, August 3, we had the first 
effective rain since Spring. All crops short, 
many a failure. Potatoes have been sell¬ 
ing for $4 to $5, string beaus $5 to $7 per 
barrel, cabbage, $2; eggs, 25 cents. Fruit 
crop light. But few gardeners made any¬ 
thing this season. A good farm here under 
irrigation this season would have made a 
fortune. There is lots of water going to 
waste that might be utilized, and lots of 
money not made that might be made. Far 
more than enough could have been made 
this season to have put a hundred farms 
along a stream that runs past my place 
under irrigation. When will the capitalist 
wake up to the country’s needs? When 
he can no longer find any farm produce 
for sale? There must be some improve¬ 
ment. I think it is well to have some of 
the dry seasons to get somebody awake and 
on deck before a greater storm arises. 
We farmers are very appreciative to the 
men that have made their millions from 
our produce for their kind advice, and it 
would be far move appreciated would they 
be half so kind with their capital as they 
are with their advice. I feel sorry for 
the millionaires who have such a hard time 
to find something to give to some of their 
troublesome millions to, and when they do 
find it they give so conditionally, "just 
enough in order to get notorietv. If they 
would come to the l\olp of the farmers by 
putting money in irrigation and drainage 
loans they might stand a chance of getting 
their names tacked up on some willow trees 
and at the same time got a goodly interest 
from a sure thing, for we fanners are very 
independent. We do not wish them to give 
us anything; all we would ask is a loan 
of some of the money gotten from our 
labor that we may so improve our farms 
that we can make 35 cents for ourselves 
and 65 for them. i». f. skinner. 
Maryland. 
