1912. 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Lake Superior, for the first 
time in many years, is frozen over from 
Eagle River to Isle Royale, a distance of 
40 miles, and it is the belief of residents of 
Eagle River that the ice field extends clear 
across the big lake. Keweenaw Point peo¬ 
ple report that moose have been seen in the 
Keweenaw wilds. The animals must have 
crossed on the ice from Canada, as there 
have been no moose on Keweenaw Point 
for manyi years. 
The second big fire in Pittsfield, Mass., 
within two weeks broke out February 9. 
The loss is $125,000. 
The Committee on Corporations in the 
New Jersey Senate set February 13 as the 
day for a hearing on the Edge bill to limit 
the hours of women’s work. The bill asks 
for a 10 hour day and a 60 hour week in 
day work, and an eight hour day and a. 48 
hour week in night work for women em¬ 
ployed in factories, stores, laundries, baker¬ 
ies and restaurants. In 26 other States of 
the Union laws to limit the hours of 
women’s work are in force, and in Kentucky, 
Rhode Island and New York similar bills 
are being introduced this Winter. The Ken¬ 
tucky and New York bills are recommended 
by State commissions appointed to investi¬ 
gate conditions. The New Jersey bill is 
indorsed by the Consumers’ League, the 
State Department of Labor, the State Fed¬ 
eration of Women's Clubs, the Welfare Com¬ 
mittee of Essex County, the Social Service 
Commission of the diocese of Newark and 
several other organizations. 
John F. Conover and his wife, with their 
three-year-old daughter Eugenie, were res¬ 
cued February 9 from Eagle Island, a little 
strip of land near Atlantic City, N. J., 
where they had been icebound and facing 
starvation and exposure for 10 days. 
Martin Clark, an old "green goods" man, 
was sentenced February 9 in New York by 
Judge Hough in the United States District 
Court to three years’ imprisonment in the 
Atlanta Penitentiary. John Smith, who as¬ 
sisted Clark in the game, was sent to the 
Elmira Reformatory for one year. The two 
men tried to sell "green goods” by sending 
out letters from this city to farmers. One 
farmer informed the Post Office inspectors 
and they played farmers and trapped Clark 
and Smith. 
Indictments were returned against the 
Cudahy Packing Company in the United 
States District Court at Atlanta, Ga., Feb¬ 
ruary 12, charging the local branch of the 
packing house with making false returns on 
sales of oleomargarine. The contention of 
the Government is that the Cudahy com¬ 
pany entered on its books the sale of pack¬ 
ages and tubs of oleomargarine to restau¬ 
rants and cafes in Atlanta which were 
never ordered or received, but in reality 
were sent to another place. The Govern¬ 
ment probe is the result of a raid on a 
wildcat oleomargarine factory at Atlanta 
in which hundreds of pounds of oleomar¬ 
garine was seized. Thomas Hopkins, who 
was in charge of the factory, turned State’s 
evidence and it is said implicated the 
Cudahy company. It is said that other 
packers may be indicted. 
The snapping of an aerial cable across 
the Platte River at the Government path¬ 
finder dam near Carper, Wyo., February 10, 
hurled a gang of workmen from the tram 
car 168 feet to the rocks. Five are dead 
and several others seriously injured. 
Two three-masted schooners, the Annie 
R. Lewis and the Rhoda Holmes, with rig¬ 
ging and sails incased in ice and with their 
crews near exhaustion from long exposure 
to zero weather, were taken in tow for 
Provihcetown, Mass., February 10 by the 
revenue cutter Gresham. Both schooners 
were flying distress signals near Pollock 
Rip Shoals Lightship. The Monomoy Point 
lifesavers, in the face of a 30-knot gale, 
reached the Rhoda Holmes after a four- 
mile row, finding her helpless, with split 
sails and a frost-bitten crew. The Gresham 
reported by wireless that she found the 
Annie It. Lewis leaking badly and with her 
rigging gone on one side. 
By a vote of 30 to 0 the Senate of the 
Kentucky General Assembly February 13 
passed a bill providing for a pension of $10 
a month for each indigent Confederate 
soldier. There is also a clause in the 
measure which gives the widows a like 
sum rovided that their marriage took 
place before 1890. The bill, if passed by 
the House, will entail an expense of $120,- 
000 a year. 
By a vote of 16 to 1 the suffrage com¬ 
mittee of the Constitutional Convention at 
Columbus, O., February 13, decided to re¬ 
port a proposal for equal suffrage in Ohio. 
At the final hearing a group of Cincinnati 
and Columbus women appeared to antagon¬ 
ize the proposal. Among them was Miss 
Elizabeth Parsons, of Columbus, niece of 
President Taft. 
After rejecting the Sherwood dollar a 
day pension bill at Washington, February 
12. by a vote of 10 to 4, the Senate Com¬ 
mittee on Pensions agreed favorably to re¬ 
port a substitute measure based on service 
and age, carrying an estimated appropria¬ 
tion of $24,112,578. Senators Bryan, of 
Florida, and Gore, of Oklahoma, voted 
against the substitute. When the Senate 
substitute becomes a law, as it probably 
will, the pensions appropriations of the 
Government will have reached the high 
water mark. The pension appropriation bill 
for this year as recently passed by the 
House carries $152,000,000. The Senate 
substitute will increase this amount to 
$176,112,000 annually. The previous high 
water mark, reached several years ago, was 
$166,000,000. 
Clarence A. Dowd, business agent of the 
Machinists’ Union, was arrested at Roches¬ 
ter, N. Y., February 13. by United States 
Deputy Marshal Fred O. Viehmann on a 
warrant charging him with assisting in un¬ 
lawfully transporting dynamite and nitro¬ 
glycerine from one State to another. It is 
said that his arrest grew out of the inves¬ 
tigation of the dynamiting cases in India¬ 
napolis and that the warrant was issued 
as the result of an indictment found by 
the Federal Grand Jury in that city. It is 
said that Dowd was a union worker during 
the dynamiting outrages. Warrants have 
been issued for Frank M. Ryan, president 
of the International Bridge and Structural 
Iron Workers, and R. H. Houlihan, finan¬ 
cial secretary of the Chicago local of that 
organization, among others indicted by the 
Indianapolis Grand Jury. 
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PRIZES WON BY MR. EVERETT E. BROWN, of Pomfret 
Centre, Conn., AT THE WINTER EXHIBITION OF THE 
CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
Held At Hartford, February 6 and 7, 1912 
FIRST PRIZE, fer Best Collection of 5 Vari¬ 
eties for Market 
FIRST PRIZE, for Best Box R. I. Greenings 
FIRST PRIZE, for Best Box Northern Spy 
FIRST PRIZE, for Best Plate Northern Spy 
FIRST PRIZE, for Best Plate King 
FIRST PRIZE, for Best Plate Grimes Golden 
FIRST PRIZE, for Collection of 5 Varieties 
for Dessert 
SWEEPSTAKES, for Best Box of Apples, 
Any Variety 
At the Same Exhibition MR. E. ROGERS of Southington, Conn., Won the Following Prizes: 
FIRST PRIZE, for Best Barrel of Baldwins FIRST PRIZE, for Best Box of Baldwins 
SOME OF THE TROPHIES WON BY USERS OF 
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AT THE 
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Held at Boston, Mass., October 23-28, 1911 
International Apple Shippers’ Association’s Cup for Best Commercial Exhibit of 
Packed Fruit. Won by Conyer’s Farm, G. A. Drew, Manager, Connecticut. 
Silver Cup for Best Display of Baldwin Apples offered by Governor Foss, of 
Massachusetts. Won by T. K. Winsor, Rhode Island. 
Silver Shield for Best Exhibit of Rhode Island Greenings offered by Governor 
Pothier, of Rhode Island. Won by T. K. Winsor, Rhode Island. 
$25.00 Cash for Best Barrel of King Apples offered by W. & B. Douglas Company, 
of Connecticut. Won by Elijah Rogers, Connecticut. 
First Prize for Best Barrel of Rhode Island Greenings. Won by Elijah Rogers, 
Connecticut. 
First Prize—Best Box of Rhode Island Greenings. Won by T. K. Winsor, 
Rhode Island. 
Sweepstakes for Best Box of Apples Packed for Market $75.00, Won by Conyer’s 
Farm, G. A. Drew, Manager, Connecticut. 
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FARM AND GARDEN.—After a two 
weeks investigation of the butter situation, 
Assistant District Attorney De Ford is 
convinced that the New York Mercantile 
Exchange, an organization of produce deal¬ 
ers which comprises most of the butter, 
egg and cheese jobbers in the city and con¬ 
trols. it is said, 95 per cent of the trade, 
is virtually a conspiracy in restraint of 
trade, an object being to lower prices in 
the Summer and raise them in the Winter, 
lie has filed with Magistrate Murphy in¬ 
formation to that effect in which he asks 
for warrants for the 400 members of the 
exchange. Within a week or 10 days Magis¬ 
trate Murphy will take evidence in a 
series of public hearings similar to those 
held last Summer by Magistrate Appleton 
in the ice investigation. 
The New York State Grange adopted a 
resolution February 9 urging the submission 
of a constitutional amendment striking out 
the word "male” in che suffrage clause to 
a popular vote. The Grange declared for 
the repeal of the present direct primary law 
in toto, or the enacting of a new law 
“that meets the demands of the advocates 
of genuine direct primary legislation.” 
Other resolutions passed call for the repeal 
of the Levy law, extension of the powers 
of the Public Service Commissions to in¬ 
clude unincorporated telephone and tele¬ 
graph companies, the enactment of an 
adequate pure seed law, and the petition¬ 
ing of Congress to defeat any change in 
the present legislation affecting oleomar¬ 
garine. The convention closed February 9, 
the final business including the adoption 
of a resolution withdrawing all charges 
against the National Grange officers. 
Raymond A. Pearson, ex-Commissioner of 
Agriculture, at the request of the New 
York Food Investigating Commission, will 
devote the next two months to an investi¬ 
gation of the market conditions in the 
State outside of New York City, with 
special reference to the gross amount of 
business done by middlemen, the propor¬ 
tion retained by them for expenses and 
profits and the resulting share received by 
the growers of crops. Market conditions in 
New York City are now being investigated 
by a committee of the commission, com¬ 
posed of William Church Osborn. Ezra 
Tuttle and Calvin J. Iluson, State Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture. 
Made in New England. 
A few years ago I was a visitor at Sher¬ 
brooke Fair, as is well known, one of the 
great fairs held in the East, and among the 
many things that attracted my attention 
none lingers longer than a simple label 
that was scattered over the several exhibits 
in the large exhibition hall. It read “Made 
in Canada.” No matter where you went, 
nor what you were looking at, there was 
the label "Made in Canada” haunting you 
always, and try as hard as you might the 
impression was still with you that Canada 
was on the map of North America. I have 
often thought what a boom it would give 
the industries of New England if similar 
labels could be displayed on goods, not only 
shown at fairs, but offered for sale in our 
large retail stores. It would surprise even 
the best posted New Englanders if every 
article produced in New England was so lab¬ 
eled in our large marts of trade, and it sure¬ 
ly would be a source of great encouragement 
to our people generally. Why would it not 
be a good idea to start a "Made in New 
England” campaign? I believe, and always 
have, that the New Englanders are alto¬ 
gether too diffident about setting forth 
their -advantages, not only in the way of 
manufactures but along other lines. 
We all remember how the bold, bustling 
Westerners invaded our shores with their 
miserable tasteless, juieeless but highly 
colored apples, and sold them right under 
our own apple trees, as it were, at several 
times the price we were asking for our 
prime high quality fruit. Had the New 
England orcliardist been a little more push¬ 
ing -and a little more aggressive, not to 
say a little more appreciative of the real 
value of their goods, nothing of the kind 
would have been possible. We have often 
laughed at the simple apple boy, who passed 
in and out among the throngs with whom 
he wished to do business, forgetting even 
to uncover his wares, and when asked what 
he had in his basket became very indignant. 
How far removed have the average or- 
ehardists of New England been from the 
simplicity of this much quoted lad? The 
fact is. New England has such a great 
vantage ground over all her neighbors. 
East as well as West, and is so sure of her 
possessions, that it never occurs to her 
that there is any necessity of making any 
proclamation as to her rightful claim to 
superiority along the lines of quality, as 
well as quantity, and this is just whore 
she is so very apt to get left. In the 
good old times that we read so much about 
the world used to chase and hunt for the 
best things, just as the office used to chase 
the man. Now -all this is exactly reversed. 
Men chase for offices, and gold seekers for 
a purchaser, and the man or the community 
that sits idly by, waiting for fortune to 
come their way is dead sure to get sadly 
left in the running. e. p. m. 
Prices given are what I receive for my 
own produce and such others as I know 
about. Potatoes, wholesale, $1.30 per bushel, 
retail $1.75 per bushel; onions, $1 per 
bushel wholesale, $1.20 per bushel retail; 
beets, 70 cents per bushel wholesale, $1 per 
bushel retail; carrots, 80 cents per bushel 
wholesale, $1 per bushel retail; apples, $2 
to $3 per barrel wholesale, $3 to $4 per 
barrel retail; eggs, 40 cents per dozen 
wholesale, 50 cents per dozen retail; chick¬ 
ens, 20 cents per pound wholesale, 25 cents 
per pound retail; butter, 40 cents per pound 
wholesale, 48 cents per pound retail; hay, 
$27 per ton ; milk, four cents per quart at 
door wholesale; seven to eight cents per 
quart retail; milch cows, $50 to $100 ; beef 
cows. $20 to $40. No silage sold to my 
knowledge. C. E. B. 
Belehertown, Mass. 
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