1912. 
THE RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Charles S. Keith, a coal 
and lumber dealer of Kansas City, testified 
January 24 for the defence in the ouster 
suit instituted by the State against 26 
lumber companies. The concerns are alleged 
to have violated the anti trust laws by fix¬ 
ing prices of lumber sold by the members 
of the Yellow Pine Dumber Manufacturers’ 
Association. Mr. Keith produced figures to 
show that of 17,359 producing lumber com¬ 
panies only 224 companies belonged to the 
association, and also showed figures taken 
from the books of 13 lumber . companies 
showing 2.892 cases of duplicate sales of 
the same quality of lumber, made on the 
same day, at a difference in price of from 
25 cents to .$7 in 96 per cent of the cases. 
The witness declared untrue the charge that 
dealers fixed prices. 
Donald L. Persch, who has been under 
bail since a jury disagreed as to his guilt 
in the theft of the Hcinze securities; Harry 
Ingram, already under indictment for the 
Canadian Consolidated Coal swindle, and 
Charles R. Mitchell and William J. Pollack, 
both of whom profess to be brokers, were 
arrested in New York January 25 charged 
with swindling William E. Shinks. of 
Springfield, Mass., out of $15,000. Other 
complaints against them bring the total of 
their alleged gains up to $56,000. Shinks 
complains that he bought utterly worthless 
stock to that amount in the Phelan Con¬ 
solidated Copper Company, of this city. 
Shinks charges that he was induced to buy 
the stock by one of the men under arrest, 
with the understanding that he could im¬ 
mediately dispose of it at a handsome profit. 
Persch was indicted in 1909 for the lar¬ 
ceny of $50,000 in the form of a loan on 
$110,000 collateral at the offices of the 
Windsor Trust Company. A second indict¬ 
ment was returned against him for work¬ 
ing with A. D. F. Adams, of Boston, in a 
transaction by which it was said that the 
Eclipse Oil stock of J. M. Everett, of Bos¬ 
ton, given as collateral for a $7,000 loan, 
was thrown on the market. He spent much 
time in the Tombs, and was released on 
April 21, 1910, when the jury in the Crim¬ 
inal Branch of the Supreme Court failed to 
agree at the end of eleven hours’ delibera¬ 
tion. Two days later he was back in court 
on a writ of habeas corpus and was re¬ 
manded in $50,000 bail. He was acquitted 
in July, 1910. 
Subpoenas were issued January 25 for 
three officers of the New York Mercantile 
Exchange to appear before the Grand Jury 
and testify in the investigation being con¬ 
ducted by the District Attorney’s office into 
the high price of butter and eggs. Assistant 
District Attorney William A. De Ford has 
been chosen by Mr. Whitman to look into 
butter. Mr. De Ford had charge of the 
prosecution of the so-called live poultry 
trust. The members of the Mercantile Ex¬ 
change who will appear before the Grand 
Jury are E. E. Martin, president; S. M. 
Knopp, secretary, and W. G. French, treas¬ 
urer. They will bring with them the orig¬ 
inal certificate of incorporation or a charter 
of the Mercantile Exchange, and books, 
papers and pamphlets containing the by¬ 
laws and rules of the exchange in force 
during 1910 and 1911. The investigation 
is made to ascertain whether a conspiracy 
exists which is responsible for the high 
price of butter, or whether the prices are 
due to supply and demand. The officers 
of the exchange will also bring with them 
records of the names of firms or corpora¬ 
tions which were members of the exchange 
during 1910 and 1911 and are at the pres¬ 
ent time; the records of the quantities of 
blitter and eggs offered for sale in the ex¬ 
change under its rules and regulations dur¬ 
ing 1911 and January, 1912, as well as 
records recording sales of these commodi¬ 
ties during the same time and under the 
same rules. The minutes of the stockhold¬ 
ers’ meetings for the last three years and 
January, 1912, as well as the minutes of 
committees appointed by the exchange will 
also be brought in. 
Thousands of five-gallon tins of refined 
oil went up in fire and smoke January 26 
in the Williamsburg, N. Y., plant of the 
Standard Oil Company. The blaze started 
from spontaneous combustion in the can¬ 
ning department at the east end of the 
400-foot dock. By the time the firemen 
reached the scene the flames had reached 
the dock, where many thousand cases filled 
with cans of oil were awaiting shipment. 
The firemen kept the blaze confined to the 
canning department and the land end of 
the dock. The damage was at least $30,000. 
Fire at Newark, N. J.. January 29, caused 
a loss of about $500,000. The first out¬ 
break of the fire was in the furniture store 
of Mullins & Co., where the loss is put at 
$300.000; the Essex Press printing estab¬ 
lishment, loss $130,000, and a cigar store, 
$25,000, in addition to some smaller losses. 
It is said that the United States Treasury 
is to get nearly $1,000,000 as a result of 
a settlement between the Government and 
the Philadelphia sugar refineries, which, it 
was charged, had been guilty of illegal 
practices in weights, drawbacks and samp¬ 
ling of sugar. Last Summer two Federal 
Grand Juries investigated the charges of 
fraud in importation and exportation of 
sugar. The Grand Jury found the Frank¬ 
lin, Speckels and McCahn sugar refining 
companies had saved large sums of money 
through the undervaluation and sampling 
of sugar at this point. It is said a tenta¬ 
tive agreement has been made and that 
within a short time the money claimed by 
the Government will be handed over to the 
United States Treasury. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Several valuable 
horses belonging to J. S. Phipps, of West- 
bury, N. Y., have been destroyed because of 
rabies infection. Other animals in the lo¬ 
cality are infected, and the State Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture will be force dto quar¬ 
antine the town. 
Pennsylvania State Dairy and Food Com¬ 
missioner James Foust, discussing high 
prices demanded for living necessities, says 
that there probably are enough poultry, 
eggs and butter in cold storage to supply 
the people of the country until next July. 
He suggests that to bring immediate re¬ 
lief a measure be adopted by Congress to 
force these perishable necessities upon the 
market. He says this would make prices 
drop 50 per cent within 72 hours through¬ 
out the United States. “It would break 
up,” he said, “the cornering and holding of 
poultry, game, butter and eggs in storage 
at the expense of the consuming public.” 
The second annual meeting of the New 
York State Vegetable Growers’ Association 
will be held at the New York State College 
of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y\, February 
20-22. The subjects to be discussed include 
greenhouse crops, plant breeding for the 
vegetable grower, good seed development of 
muck lands and also a number of individual 
crops, as asparagus, celery and cauliflower. 
The speakers include Prof. R. L. Watts, 
State College, Pa. : Dr. II. .T. Webber, 
Ithaca, N. Y\; C. W. Waid, New Carlisle, 
O.; R. IT. Garrahan, Wilkesbarre, Pa. A 
programme may be obtained by application 
to Paul Work, secretary, Ithaca, N. Y. 
The Bureau of Statistics gives the fol¬ 
lowing estimates of the numbers and values 
of farm animals on farms and ranges in 
the United States: Horses, 20,508.000. at 
$105.94, $2,172,573,000; mules, 4,302.000, 
at $120.50, $525,600,000; milch cows, 20.- 
699.000, at $39.39. $815,414,000; other 
cattle, 37,260,000, at $21.20, $790,064,000; 
sheep, 52,362,000, at $3.46, $181,170,000; 
swine, 65,410,000, at $8, $523,328,000. 
The Department of Forestry at the New 
Y’ork State College of Agriculture at Cor¬ 
nell University has just had a very im¬ 
portant addition to its staff. At present 
the department consists of Professor Walter 
Mulford and Assistant Professor John 
Bentley, Jr., the former having been ap¬ 
pointed over a year ago and the latter last 
Fall. It has just been announced that 
Professor Filibert Roth, who for the past 
nine years has been head of the forest 
school at the University of Michigan, is 
also to come to Cornell. He is to be the 
head of the department, and will begin his 
work at Ithaca next Summer. The depart¬ 
ment is now ready to furnish a lecturer on 
forestry to any Grange. Farmers’ Institute 
or other gathering. The lecturer will bring 
lantern slides wherever a lantern can be 
provided. The department would like to 
hear from any woodland owner in New 
Y’ork State who is planning to do consid¬ 
erable timber cutting between .Tune 1 and 
October 1, 1912, and who would be willing 
to allow men to come into his woods while 
the timber is being cut to measure the 
rate of growth. At the university itself the 
department is now giving three courses for 
agricultural students who wish to know 
something of the management of forest 
land. Beginning next Fall the department 
will also give a thorough professional for¬ 
estry course, aimed to train men for for¬ 
estry as a life work. 
ADMINISTRATION.—The Democratic bill 
revising the iron and steel schedule of the 
Payne-Aldrich tariff law was passed by the 
House by a vote of 210 to 109 January 29. 
During the discussion of the bill Represen¬ 
tative Cnllop, of Indiana, made an attack 
on the National Cash Register Company of 
Dayton, Ohio. Cash registers arc put on 
the free list by the bill now passed. Mr. 
Cullop declared that the cash register com¬ 
pany has the worst monopoly in the United 
States, and read from one of the catalogued 
of the concern giving prices of identical 
registers in the United States and Great 
Britain to prove his assertion and to show 
that a tariff on cash registers was not at 
all necessary. He quoted from this cata¬ 
logue to the effect that a register, the num¬ 
ber of which he gave, sold for $125 in Eng¬ 
land and $250 in this country ; that another 
sold for $150 abroad and $300 here, and 
still another for $170 in England and $350 
on this side. He was loudly cheered by 
the Democrats. The bill now goes to the 
Senate. The Democrats expect to have the 
support of the insurgent Republicans in that 
body and to put the bill up to President 
Taft in practically its present form. 
The army and agriculture appropriation 
bills were reported to the House January 
29 from the respective committees having 
them in charge 
A Winter Day’s Work. 
Monday, January 22.—Fed the stock 
about seven o’clock, at which time it is 
barely full daylight. The horses and cattle 
get half their grain and corn fodder in the 
morning; hay and the remainder of tne 
grain ration at night. When the stock 
have cleaned up their fodder they are 
turned out for the day, hay placed in the 
racks for night, and thd team hitched to 
the sled, as it is intended to haul in some 
shock eorn from the field. There Is some 
snow on the ground, and the sledding is 
good. The cornstalks are frozen to the 
ground and require much effort to loosen. 
After getting two loads I change to haul¬ 
ing firewood on the sled, which occupies my 
time the rest of the day till feeding time, 
about four o’clock. The thermometer ran 
up to 44 degrees, and as the sun shone 
most of the time the snow about disap¬ 
peared. Some minor breaks caused some 
delay, but the day’s programme was car¬ 
ried out practically as planned. 
At four o’clock p. m. I begin grinding 
feed, and while grinding I put the ground 
feed (corn and cob meal) in the feed boxes 
and let in the stock, coming back to the 
mill at short intervals to replenish the 
corn in the hopper and take care of the 
meal. At five I am through and rather 
glad to sit down near a fire to read and 
rest awhile before supper. To-morrow. it 
is intended to husk the corn hauled to-da.v, 
which, with the feeding and chores, will 
likely constitute next day’s work. We have 
had much cold, stormy weather lately that 
prevented about all outdoor work, so that 
we are glad of a little breathing spell, and 
try to make some use of the good days 
when they do come. w. e. duckwall. 
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Square Garden, Jan¬ 
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