1912. 
ree 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Twelve men, two of them 
Americans, were killed June 19, in an ex¬ 
plosion R,000 feet down in a new slope 
of the Hastings mine of the Victor Ameri¬ 
can Fuel Company. 16 miles north of Trini¬ 
dad, Col. The mine officials say the explo¬ 
sion was caused by a “windy shot” which 
set off a quantity of gas. The main slope 
was badly caved and it was difficult for 
rescuers to enter. 
little village of Edam, Ontario, June 20. 
The fire started in the Arizona Hotel and 
spread with great rapidity. The estimated 
loss is .$250,000. 
An excursion pier at Eagle Park, Grand 
Island, near Buffalo, N. Y., collapsed un¬ 
der the weight of a crowd June 23 and 
more than 100 persons were thrown into 
the Niagara River. The pleasure seekers 
were preparing to return to Buffalo after 
an outing at the park, and between 3»0 
and 400 persons were on the pier to take 
RURAB NEW-YORKER 
THE BILL-OF-LADING SITUATION. 
The “order” bill of lading is one of the 
standard negotiable papers in commerce. 
It is the acknowledgment of a transporta¬ 
tion company that goods have been put 
into its hands for delivery under certain 
conditions at some other point. A car is 
loaded with grain, for instance. The rail¬ 
road’s agent at the shipping point issues as 
order bill of lading, and this the shipper 
is able to turn into money before the grain 
has even started on its way to market. A 
_ ___ __ . common practice is to make a draft on the 
Convention June *19 decided to increase the way and hurled those nearest the boat into person tq whom the grain is shipped, at- 
The New Hampshire State Constitutional the steamer when the underpinning gave 
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size of the State Senate, its members to be 
elected on a basis of population instead of 
valuation, as at present. Among the 
amendments killed were those for initiative, 
referendum and recall. 
President Taft pardoned, June 19, Frank¬ 
lin P. Mays on the ground that govern¬ 
ment prosecutors had pursued improper 
methods in securing bis conviction of land 
frauds at Portland, Ore., in 1907. This 
is the second pardon granted by the Presi¬ 
dent in the famous Mitchell-Hermann land 
cases. Willard N. Jones was pardoned a 
few davs before. The President a year ago 
declined to pardon Mays. His change of 
attitude was due to an investigation of 
charges that government detectives pro¬ 
cured advance lists of names of men likely 
to be placed in the jury box and investi¬ 
gated each man to learn if he would con¬ 
vict. Mays was sentenced to four months 
imprisonment and to pay a fine of $10,000. 
The enforcement of his sentence has been 
delayed by Ms illness and his application 
for pardon. 
Eleven deaths, which have occurred since 
June 14 in the vicinity of San Juan, Porto 
Rico, have been diagnosed by the Insular 
Board of Health as cases of bubonic 
plague. M. Drew Carrel, Acting Governor, 
conferred with the medical authorities and 
has decided to take extreme measures to 
eradicate the disease. Steamships coming 
from West Indian and other ports from the 
south have been subjected to special fumiga¬ 
tion for the destruction of rats on entry 
the river. Seventeen bodies were recovered 
and 22 are missing. The accident has 
brought out strikingly the entire absence 
of dock inspection. The Federal authori¬ 
ties deny any responsibility in this respect, 
stating that their duty ends with steam¬ 
boat inspection. There is no county offi¬ 
cial charged with the responsibility of see¬ 
ing that the docks at rive* resorts are in 
proper condition. 
The business district of the town of Can¬ 
ning, in the Annapolis Valley, N. S., was 
tach it to the bill of lading, and put it 
through the local bank. Thus in one sense 
the order bill of lading is a certificate of 
deposit, and should be as good as a silver 
or gold certificate of United States cur¬ 
rency, provided the car is honestly loaded, 
the grain what it purports to be, and the 
draft not in excess of the grain’s value at 
the point to which shipped. The value of 
an order bill of lading hence depends upon 
somebody’s guarantee of the contents of 
the car and of its safe delivery. In some 
cases the railroad’s agent sees the car 
practically wiped out by fire June 23. Only loaded and checks over the contents and 
three buildings in the industrial section in others the bill of lading is issued ‘'ship- 
romnin stnndintr. Til ft loss totals noarlv onrl onnnF ” ar».r 1 + r«H1rr»n/1 
remain standing. The loss totals nearly 
$70,000. The blaze is said to have started 
in the store of the Cornwallis Trading Com¬ 
pany. The flames spread with great 
rapidity. 
June 24 fire swept through the main part 
of Chicoutimi, Quebec, with a property loss 
of $1,500,000. Chicoutimi is the head of 
navigation on the Saguenay River, and has 
a population of 6,000, of whom 1,000 are 
now homeless. The fire started from a gaso¬ 
lene engine in the Chateau Saguenay, 
which was a large six-story hotel, and 
spread to the business buildings and thence 
to the handsome cathedral, which was not 
completed and which had cost $200,000. It 
is stated that a Rubens and other valu¬ 
able pictures in the cathedral were worth 
as much as the cathedral building itself. 
All the pictures were destroyed Among 
per’s load and count,” and the railroad 
takes no responsibility other than to trans¬ 
port the goods, that responsibility being 
reduced to nearly the little end of noth¬ 
ing by 1500 words of fine print! on the bill 
of lading’s back. Constant litigation in an 
effort of owners to recover for goods lost 
or damaged and numerous frauds through 
counterfeit bills of lading show the need 
of definite reform, so that responsibility 
may be fixed quickly and the integrity of 
the order bill of lading as a negotiable 
paper be assured. 
Early in 1911 the firm of Otto Keusch, 
Inc., grain dealers in New York, lost nearly 
$100,000 through the crooked work of a 
railroad agent and an employee of a grain 
house in another city. Bills of lading were 
issued on cars of grain that never existed, 
and in some cases order bills of lading a 
Buff Orpington pullet No. 1; she has laid 
to date 192 eggs out of a possible 231, or 
over 83 per cent. This is a record to be 
proud of. If she reaches 250—and she has 
19 more weeks to do it in—and the eggs 
are of ordinary size they would weigh 35 
pounds or five times her own weight if 
she is a seven-pound hen. The next high¬ 
est scorer is F. G. Yost’s White Leghorn 
No. 1, which has laid 159 eggs, 113 less than 
the Orpington. In cattle we have succeeded 
in transmitting great milking qualities, and 
increasing speed in horses, but Prof. Gow- 
ell’s efforts to do the same thing with hens, 
ended after eight years of continued efforts 
under exceedingly favorable conditions, in 
failure. But some of the best biologists 
in the country are working on the problem, 
and they may some day produce results 
that will compare with what has been done 
with cows and horses. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
The second annual training conference 
for rural leaders will be held at the New 
York State College of Agriculture, Cornell 
University, June 25-July 5 inclusive. 
Field meeting of the New Jersey State 
Horticultural Society, Woodcliff Lake, N. 
J., July 17. 
International Dry Farming Congress, 
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; Congress of 
Farm Women, week beginning October 21. 
Massachusetts Fruit Show, under aus¬ 
pices of State Board of Agriculture and 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Association, 
Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass., Novem¬ 
ber 7-10. 
Indiana Apple Show, Lafayette, Novem¬ 
ber 13-19; secretary, C. G. Woodbury, La¬ 
fayette, Ind. 
Kansas Fruit Prospects. 
Reports received by the Kansas State 
Horticultural Society indicate the prospects 
for the fruit crop to be as follows: For the 
them were some broiurht to Canada three year ol <L that hatl once beeQ sood, were re- State compared with the prospects of June 
tnem yveie some uiougut lo eauiiun imee V ,, - the vear date. 1G1G ond inn 
centuries ago by the Jesuit 
Chicoutimi having been one 
missionaries, 
of the first 
The Grand Jury in the United States 
to the port of New York. A general order __ 
issued by the Health Officer on June 1 made Jesuit missions, 
it necessary for steamships coming hero 
from suspicious ports to present certificates . ^ . T o* 
dhnwimr that this special fumigation had Court at Wilmington, Del., June 2d in- 
been made Ufore departure for” this city, dieted J. J. Homan Vanderheide and .Tames 
Several cases of bubonic plague reported E. Lintott, president and secretary, respec- 
at Trinidad brought about a discussion by tively, of the Carnegie University diploma 
- - - - -mill. They are charged with using the 
mails to defraud. The men are said to 
the advisory board, and on its suggestion 
the Health Officer issued the fumigation 
orders. Seven steamships which had no 
certificates were fumigated on arrival here. 
Three men were killed, another seriously 
hurt and three others escaped with minor 
injuries, when a big touring car with five 
men in it crashed into a light runabout 
near Hempstead, L. I., June 20. The tour¬ 
ing car leaped in the air, turned a somer¬ 
sault and came down 30 feet away, pinning 
four of its occupants beneath it. One man 
was burned to death, and the others were 
fatallv roasted by burning gasolene. The 
same day one man was killed, another fa¬ 
tally injured, and two others injured when 
a racing auto hit a rail pile near Erie, Pa. 
Two days before a man and woman were 
killed near Erie, l’a., and another man near 
Bloomfield, N. J., by automobiles coming 
into collision with trains. 
Harry C. Seymour, who represents, him¬ 
self to’ be president of the Consolidated 
Tonopah Gold Mining Company, was 
arrested at Philadelphia June 20, charged 
with obtaining $600 under false pretenses. 
Jacob Iloltzeman, the complainant, de¬ 
clares that Seymour got him to invest $600 
in the stock of the gold company after 
telling him of the tremendous dividends 
the mining company had paid. Iloltzeman 
says these dividends were not paid from 
the earnings of the company, but came 
from the stock subscriptions. Seymour as¬ 
serted that the complainant was greedy for 
monev, and was willing to take very long 
chances to get a good return on his invest¬ 
ment. Some time ago Seymour was arrested 
on a similar charge, but cleared himself of 
the false pretense charge. The Consoli¬ 
dated Tonopah Gold Mining Company 
claims valuable gold deposits, and is a 
heavy advertiser. It has an immense num¬ 
ber of stockholders throughout the coun¬ 
try. 
The charge that Edgar A. Waite and 
Frederick J. Waite, who are in the real es¬ 
tate business at 110 West Thirt> -fourth 
street. New York, under the name of Waite 
Bros., induced a Vermont farmer to pay ^ ________ 
$25 a month for lots at Hollis, L. I., which associations in the State will meet at 
Issued by merely changing the year date. 
These fraudulent bills of lading were sand¬ 
wiched in between genuine shipments and 
were paid by the Messrs. Keusch, as the p eai .„ 
concern through which the business was 
done had a long and honorable record in 
the Albany grain trade. Before the crooked 
work was discovered payment had been 
made on 150 fraudulent bills of lading, in¬ 
volving $100,000. The Albany firm failed; 
suit was brought against the railroad and 
1910 and 1911. 
June 1912 June 1911 June 1910 
have skipped their bail of $3,000 each and 1 judgment obtained, but the case was ap- 
- ‘ ‘ ~ ~ " . pealed and is still in the courts. The rail¬ 
road disclaimed responsibility as never hav¬ 
ing had the alleged grain in its possession, 
and said that the agent who did the for¬ 
gery was a discharged employee. At the 
trial it was shown that at least part of 
the work was done before his discharge. 
As a result of this experience Mr. Keusch 
concludes that a new bill of lading embody¬ 
ing the following points is needed: 
1. That bills of lading shall be issued 
serially, and the railroad agent held ac¬ 
countable for each one as he is for tickets. 
2. That the date shall be stamped in a 
circle with a steel die similar to a post 
office stamp, and that the year shall be 
printed across the top of the bill of lading. 
3. That each bill of lading shall be made 
for one car only. 
4. That the railroad be forced to sign 
and deliver the exact weight, cut off on 
edge of bill of lading. 
Apples . 
. 71 
33 
57 
Pears . 
. 66 
27 
31 
Peaches . 
. 53 
10 
50 
Plums. 
. 60 
36 
51 
Cherries . 
. 70 
63 
21 
Grapes . 
. 73 
69 
60 
Strawberries . 
. 68 
37 
40 
Raspberries . . 
. 54 
46 
39 
Blackberries . 
. 46 
54 
51 
are fugitives. J. J. Homan Vanderheide, 
Ph. D., M. D., D. O., is the president of 
Carnegie University, which is said to have 
a charter under the laws of Delaware and 
whose New York offices occupied a space 
of 10x18 feet in the building at 12,S West 
Sixty-sixth street. The National Institute 
of Mecliano-Therapy was affiliated with the 
university at the same address. James Ed¬ 
ward Lintott, M. A., Ph. D., is secretary of 
the university and also secretary of the 
institute. The “board of regents, officers 
and faculty of Carnegie University” de¬ 
cided to confer honorary degrees upon per¬ 
sons who showed sufficient interest in the 
institution to buy $100 or $150 worth of 
stock at par. On May 4 the Federal 
authorities raided the home offices of the 
university in Wilmington, and Vander- 
heidc and Lintott were arrested and were 
held for examination on May 22. Witnesses 
were on hand on the date of the hearing 
from Chicago, Atlanta, New York and va¬ 
rious points in between, but the two de¬ 
fendants were not, and their bail was for¬ 
feited. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—At the com¬ 
mencement exercises of the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College June 19 the degree of 
Bachelor of Science was conferred upon 82 
members of the graduating class by Lieu¬ 
tenant-Governor Robert Luce. An honorary 
degree of Master of Science was given to 
Leonard S. McLane, ’10, of New York. The 
commencement address was delivered by 
Charles W. Garfield, of Grand Rapids, Mich. 
On June 21 the Cooperative Farmers’ 
Associations of the State of Maine were 
increased by the organization of the Cen¬ 
tral Maine Farmers’ Exchange of Water- 
ville. Officers are as follows: President, 
W. C. Stetson; vice-president, George E. 
Files; clerk, J. O. Peck; treasurer, II. S. 
Howard. This organization is one of the 
series being organized by C. E. Embree un 
5. That railroad agents have State au¬ 
thority and an official seal. 
6. That no car shall be delivered except 
on surrender of the original order bill of 
lading. 
7 That the conditions printed on back 
of the bill of lading be as clear and brief 
as possible. 
Several bills aiming to improve the bill 
of lading situation are now before Con¬ 
gress, and it is to be hoped that some¬ 
thing of real value in this line may be 
worked out before adjournment. 
THE EGG-LAYING CONTEST. 
The thirty-third week of the contest 
ended June 18, and it shows a further 
drop in egg production of 239 eggs; 1,789 
eggs were laid during the week; the first 
time for more than three months that the 
number has been less than 2,000. In the 
series being organized by C. E. Embree un- numuei mie, w <><>k 2 406 eaes were laid express business themselves in the r 
der the direction of the State Agricultural twenty- . . A, number will not territory. Whether they are still doing 
Department. On June 28 the officers of all this yean That was ah I do not know. Another thing; this h 
they had already sold to some one else was 
made before Supreme Court Justice Brady 
Bangor and organize a State central or- 
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be reached again this year, 
most exactly five eggs in the week for every 
bird in the contest. Two pens of hens have 
Fruit is generally reported in fine condi¬ 
tion. There was local damage by hail. The 
greatest injury to apple orchards was by 
canker-worms and tent-caterpillars, where 
they were not sprayed. 
WALTER WELLHODSB. 
Sec’y Kansas Hort. Society. 
World Crops. 
The International Institute of Agricul¬ 
ture gives the following crop information: 
Wheat, Hungary 9,404,000 acres; Italy, 
11,738,000; Canada, 9,926,000; Japan, 1,- 
248,000; Algeria, 3,372,000; Tunis, 1,263,- 
000. Rye: Belgium, 642,000; Denmark, 
682,000; France, 2,998,000; Hungary, 2,- 
949,000. Barley : France, 1.869,000; Hun¬ 
gary, 2,804,000 ; Canada, 1,429,000 ; Japan, 
3,123,000 ; Algeria, 3,159,000 ; Tunis, 1,102,- 
000. Oats: France, 9,896,000; Hungary, 
2,724,000 ; Canada, 9,486,000 ; Algeria, 506,- 
000 . 
The estimated production in bushels is as 
follows: Wheat: Spain, 117,374,000; Brit¬ 
ish India, 366,371,000; Japan, 24,453,000. 
Rye : Spain, 27,960,000. Barley: Spain, 
63.481,000; Japan, 95,587,000; Tunis, 6,- 
146.000. Oats : Spain, 25,105,000. 
The estimated area planted to corn in 
acres, is as follows: Spain, 1,147,000; 
France, 732,000; Hungary, 7,188,000; Italy, 
4,066,000. 
Railroads and Express. —I just noticed 
your editorial on page 726 about the 
Wells-Fargo Co. in Washington State. To 
keep history straight I wish to call your 
attention to the fact that the Chicago and 
Northwestern Railroad, when they extended 
their road into the newly opened Indian 
reservations in northern Nebraska and 
southern South Dakota, several years ago, 
instead of allowing the American Express 
Co. to extend their service, handled all the 
new 
so 
is a 
great dairying country here in eastern Ne¬ 
braska, and often the Burlington (C. B. & 
made before Supreme Court .Justice Braoy gan i za tion to be called the Farmers’ Union ^m^Hne with the pullets all through Q.) takes the cream shipments out of the 
'5 Ctorlo. O M« r . . in ot the state of Maine. S3? °. S nd tafe Sadc a ‘reL.rk- Ink of the Adame Cof.nd carries them 
opposing a motion by the Waites to vacate 
an order for their arrest obtained in be¬ 
half of Clarence D. Wilson, of North Ben¬ 
nington. Vt. Mr. Maas told the court that 
this contest, and they 
THF SUGAR TNOTTTRY The develon- ably good showing. It has geneial y been 
iMfiJiiu. ine develop- __„ ume d bv poultrymen that hens would 
th(: bee t industry in Utah little chance against pullets in 
and Idaho after it had been started by a 
in a special freight cream car just back of 
the engine. J. H. tubbs. 
Nebraska. 
ningron. vi. mr. lviaas uwu ime cvual and Idaho after it had been started Dy a have bfaJina^oontest but those hens have 
in May, 1907, a representative of the mere accident, and the benefits which the hLtfn manv of the pullets. C. S. 
Waites called on the Vermont farmer aa<i farmers of these two States derived through actually Renville entered a pen of R. C. 
after meturins the immense profit to be the sa ] 0 0 f SU gar beets were described June ® which have laid more eggs than a head'; fat cattle, seven cents; beef from 
19 at the hearing in the Government’s suit pen of their kind, their score 12 to 20 cents; veal, 11 cents. Butter, 25 
fnr the cli««nlntirm nf the American Suerar an Y olaa I PN U ~ A £i_,_ a ’ i___El SS On mmh, «1 - 
Horses are from $100 to $250; cows, $40 
to $50; hogs, seven cents; sheep, $4 to $5 
for the dissolution of the American Sugar ““A V.ca the next highest being E. S. 
Refining Company by Thomas R. Cutler, Edgerton’s R. C. IK I. Red *pullets, 579. A. 
_ s TTJ - " - j. °ciark entered a pen of Barred Rock 
vice-president of the Utah-Idaho Sugar 
Company. The story was told in response 
to a question as to whether there was much 
agitation throughout Utah and Idaho about 
1900 for the erection of sugar factories. 
Mr. Cutler said the whole of that territory 
was anxious to obtain sugar factories, be¬ 
cause the farmers were in need of creating 
hens and these stand third in a class of 12, per bushel • oats, 
with a score of 535. If all these birds wheat, $1.15. 
could be carried along in their present 
quarters for another year, it would be of 
some value to learn whether the pullets 
that have made the high scores in their 
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cents; eggs, 20 cents. Potatoes, $1, old; 
new potatoes, $2. Milk, eight cents per 
quart. Hay, $28 to $32 per ton ; corn, $1 
70 cents per bushel; 
J« c s 
Chalk Hill, Pa. 
after picturing the immense profit 
made in real estate in the vicinity of New 
York, got him to sign a contract for two 
lots, $250 down and $25 a week. The 
agent told the farmer that he would have 
to make only a few payments bi fore Waite 
Bros, would sell his lots for him and he 
would get all his money back and 10 per 
cent profit. The farmer did not see the 
propertv. The lawyer said that the farmer 
took nearly all his savings to make the 
cash payment, and then raked and scraped 
ever 
to 
with 
selling so low here that he couldn t get an d farms were mortgaged heavily because keeiMiack their pullets^the first year, with per 100 pounds; cheese, 16 cents; butter, 
anywhere near what he had paid at pres- 0 f their inability to find a market for pro- the exnectation of getting a larger number 25 to 35 cents. Hogs six cents per pound; 
At auction in Vermont, 60 cows sold at 
an average of $50 each, grade Holsteins, 
three-year-old registered Holstein bull, $54; 
ent. Finally they wrote that they saw a 
way out, and offered to give him lots in 
New Jersey for the Long Island property. 
Wilson replied that he wanted his money. 
Mr. Maas said that the Vermont farmer 
made 54 monthly payments up to last Jan¬ 
uary. when Clarence Bonynge. the sten¬ 
ographer, happened to go to Vermont and 
met the farmer. The latter told him all 
about the investment, and showed some of 
the letters. Mr. Bonynge said lie would 
investigate, and lie learned on his return 
to New York that Frederick J. Waite, who 
had title to the property, transfers 
his brother on May 12, 1909, and 
later the brother sold it to John 
Mr. Maas said that the property 
worth $2500 in the first place. 
A fire which originated from a gaso¬ 
lene explosion almost totally wiped out the 
inability to find a market for pro 
duce, and many farms had to be sold for 
tax arrears. The Utah Sugar Company 
was organized without any thought that 
sugar could be produced from beets grown 
near the factory, Mr. Cutler said, and the 
plan was to make sugar from sorghum 
cane. This was found un practicable be¬ 
cause of frosts, and finally beets were ac¬ 
cepted as a substitute. The first three 
years brought heavy financial losses, and 
only the bounty paid by the Federal Gov¬ 
ernment and the State of Utah saved the 
the expectation of getting a larger 
of eggs the second year. They make a 
business of selling day-old chicks, and their 
idea is that the hens’ eggs are superior or 
better to hatch, and give stronger chicks 
than pullets’ eggs. The White Leghorns 
of F. G. Yost have increased their lead 
over the pen of English birds, the score 
being now 695 by Yost’s, to 68- by the 
English pen. During the week Yosts pen 
laid 23, the English four laid 17. I he 
veal calves eight cents per pound, alive. 
Weather cold, wet, lots of frost. June 20 
little haying done yet. Hay crop will be a 
record yield. a. l. b. 
Vermont. 
Short crop of oats, very dry, no rain for 
a month. Corn looks well, good crop of 
wheat. Pasture all drying up for the want 
of rain. Short crop of meadow grass; 
barns will not be very full this year with 
mowing grass. Potatoes are drying up very 
beets. The farmers paid off their mort¬ 
gages, Mr. Cutler said, and the agitation 
for more factories swept over the country. 
are the highest scorers, but there are quite 
a number that are close to the OOO inark. 
The champion laver of all is O. 
Wilson’s 
per dozen, 19 cents. 
Jamesport, L. I. 
H. P. T. 
