1913. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
367 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—What is known to the 
police as the “Spanish prisoner fraud,’’ 
which has been worked on many credulous 
persons in this country, is now being sup¬ 
pressed by the police at Madrid, where a 
band of criminals has been operating this 
scheme. Daily hundreds of letters were 
despatched to the four corners of the earth, 
inviting foolish foreigners to lift the treas¬ 
ure hidden somewhere by a bankrupt pris¬ 
oner in Madrid. The victims were invited 
to telegraph to some bogus address here. 
Then the outdoor agent of the gang, a 
certain Antonio Gallego Ortega, an ex¬ 
telegraph messenger, was directed to fetch 
them. Ortega’s task consisted in bribing 
the telegraph messenger boys, who would 
receive a crown for each telegram delivered 
to Ortega. Several of the gang are now 
under arrest. They are believed to have 
secured large sums of money from other 
European countries, as well as from the 
United States, some of their victims giv¬ 
ing thousands in the expectation of getting 
vast sums in return. 
More than one thousand lives were lost 
in the mines of Pennsylvania in 1912, ac¬ 
cording to the annual report of the De¬ 
partment of Mines, which shows that the 
total production of hard and soft coal in 
the State amounted to 245,231,555 tons, 
or about one-half of the entire output in 
the United States. In the bituminous fields 
182.6S0 men and boys were employed, of 
whom 437 were killed. The bituminous 
production amounted to 160,973.428 tons, 
11,414,381 tons larger than the record 
year of 1907. In the anthracite fields 
there were 175,964 employed, of whom 593 
were killed. The production was 84.258,- 
127 tons, or 6,659,049 tons less than in 
1911, due to a six weeks’ suspension be¬ 
cause of labor troubles. 
Cities are shown to be more healthful 
than rural districts by a special message of 
Governor Sulzer sent to the Legislature 
at Albany February 19 in transmitting the 
report of the special health commission 
appointed by him. Statistics prove that 
the rural and village death rate is growing, 
and that the urban death rate is decreas¬ 
ing. The urban death rate, beginning at 
1,771 per 100,000 in 1902, fell to 1,455 
in 1912. The rural and village death rate, 
beginning at 1.404 in 1902, has slowly 
risen. In 1909 it exceeded the urban death 
rate for the first time, and since that date 
the divergence between the two in favor 
of the urban death rate has steadily in¬ 
creased. The urban computation is based 
on communities of more than 8,000 in¬ 
habitants, and the rural computation on 
places having a population of less than 
8,000. The abolition of town and village 
boards of health and the substitution of 
a State system of district sanitary super¬ 
vision is recommended by the commission. 
The Chicago local unions of the United 
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers were 
sued by the federal government there Feb¬ 
ruary 24, under the Sherman anti-trust 
law for alleged interference with mes¬ 
sages of the Postal Telegraph Company in 
interstate commerce. Local unions Nos. 9 
and 134 are named as defendants. As 
part of the labor war against the tele¬ 
graph company the government charges 
officers and employes of the unions with 
combining and conspiring, through acts of 
violence and depredations, to injure the 
Postal Telegraph wires and to interfere 
with the transmission of government and 
commercial messages in interstate com¬ 
merce. The alleged interference is declared 
to have been deliberate. 
On orders from the Department of Jus¬ 
tice, indictments brought at Dallas, Tex., 
for alleged violation of the Sherman anti¬ 
trust law by officials of the Standard Oil 
Company of Now York, the Standard Oil 
of New Jersey and the Magnolia Petroleum 
of Texas were nolle prossed February 25. 
The indictments were dropped both against 
the companies and their officials. The men 
against whom indictments are dropped are 
John D. Archbold and II. C. Folger, Jr., 
of New York; W. C. Teagle, of Plainfield, 
N. J.; Calvin N. Paine, of Titusville, 
Penn.; A. C. Ebie, of Dallas ; E. R. Brown, 
of Corsicana. Tex., and John Sealy, of 
Galveston. The indictments charged that 
the three companies conspired, in June, 
1912, to injure the business of the Pieree- 
Fordyce Oil Association. The business al¬ 
leged to be affected is in Texas, Arizona, 
New Mexico, Louisiana and Oklahoma and 
Mexico. 
The New York Assembly Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee, convinced that the present laws 
for the purpose of protecting the investing 
public against worthless securities do not 
give sufficient safeguards, voted February 
25 to report favorably Assemblyman Gold¬ 
berg's bill. This measure, which is pat¬ 
terned after the Kansas “Blue Sky” law, 
provides for the regulation of all invest¬ 
ment companies, so that a prospective in¬ 
vestor may secure accurate information 
concerning the trustworthiness and financial 
standing of the company offering securities 
for sale. The favorable action of the 
committee followed an hour’s hearing on 
the bill, during which representatives of 
investment concerns made a plea for less 
stringent legislation. 
Three indictments under the Sherman 
law against Chicago packers were dis¬ 
missed February 25 in the Federal Court 
by order of Attorney General Wickersham. 
Another indictment, obtained in 1905, also 
was dismissed, thus clearing the calendar 
of all charges against the packers. The 
packers were acquitted about a year ago 
in the Federal Court at Chicago on one of 
four indictments. The five counts on which 
they were tried carried the entire govern¬ 
ment case, it was said, and it was an¬ 
nounced at the time that the prosecution 
would be dropped. The Armours, Morris 
and Swift packing companies are those in¬ 
volved. The government claimed a victory 
in the dissolution of the National Packing 
Company, asserting that in that suit it 
had achieved its object in the prosecutions. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The report of 
the insecticide and fungine board of the 
Department of Agriculture under the in¬ 
secticide act of 1910 has been issued. 
Samples of insecticide and fungicides 
entered for interstate commerce are col¬ 
lected, analyzed and tested to determine 
whether there has been any misbranding or 
adulteration. Foreign importations are 
subject to the same restrictions as those 
manufactured here. During the year 1912 
there were 650 samples collected, repre¬ 
senting 330 different articles produced by 
212 different concerns. Of this number 
246 cases have been disposed of, 82 being 
placed in permanent abeyance, and 64 
transmitted to the attorney general for 
prosecution. Seven of these have resulted 
favorably to the government, while the 
others are still undecided. 
The following were chosen members of 
the State contest committee of the Washing¬ 
ton State Horticultural Association to 
award prizes to boys and girls raising the 
best crops of corn, wheat, potatoes, oats 
and peas: C. B. Kegley, chairman; Prof. 
W. II. Sparks, Prof. Geo. Severance, Fred 
W. Lewis, Josephine Preston , P. C. Kauf¬ 
man, C. E. Flint. 
More than 81.500 in cash premiums were 
distributed by the commercial club of 
Mankato, Minn., at the annual meeting of 
the crop breeders’ association and the mid- 
Winter seed show, February 25-28. The 
meeting is held under the direction of the 
agricultural division of the State Uni¬ 
versity. 
Announcement is made that the Metro¬ 
politan Dairy Company, of Brooklyn, has 
settled the action brought by a syndicate 
of Delaware County milk producers growing 
out of a milk strike last Fall. It is al¬ 
leged by the complainants that following 
an arrangement with the Brooklyn concern 
they accepted a better offer from W. 
Michaelson, of New York, whereupon, alleg¬ 
ing breach of contract, the Brooklyn com¬ 
pany refused to pay for part of the milk 
delivered. The twelve members of the 
syndicate are to receive 81,013 by the 
terms of the settlement. 
The Kansas State Senate has passed a 
resolution to request Kansas Congressmen 
and United States Senators to quit send¬ 
ing free seeds to their constituents. The 
resolution sets forth the fact that the 
growth of the agricultural colleges and the 
general knowledge of the people regarding 
the advantages of using good seeds has put 
an end to' the need of the old, time-worn 
congressional practice. In addition, the 
resolution stated that this practice loaded 
up the mails and constituted a heavy and 
needless expense to the federal government 
and the mail service. The resolution also 
requested the Kansas Congressmen to use 
their influence towards securing a bill put¬ 
ting an end to the distribution of free 
seeds by members of Congress. The Senate 
passed the resolution without a dissenting 
vote. 
Plans are under way for the establish¬ 
ment of a seed house by the agronomy de¬ 
partment of the Oregon Agricultural Col¬ 
lege at Corvallis. Thrashing, cleaning and 
weighing rooms are to be included in the 
new building. 
In order, it is claimed, to prevent the 
introduction of the gypsy moth into Can¬ 
ada, the following customs regulations have 
been decided upon : Forest plant products, 
including logs, tanbark. posts, poles, rail¬ 
road ties, cordwood, and lumber originating 
in any of the States of Maine. New Hamp¬ 
shire, Vermont. Massachusetts, Connecti¬ 
cut, and Rhode Island shall not be admit¬ 
ted into Canada unless such forest plant 
products shall be accompanied by a certifi¬ 
cate showing that they have been inspected 
by the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture and found free from the gypsy 
moth. Importation of coniferous trees, 
such as spruce, fir, hemlock, pine, juniper 
foliage thereof, and decorative plants, such 
as holly and laurel, from the States of 
Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts. New Hamp¬ 
shire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island is 
prohibited. 
A one week’s course for the managers 
and head operators in dairy plants in 
New York State, will be given March 6 
to 12 inclusive, at the Dairy Department, 
New York State College of Agriculture, at 
Cornell University. The work will include 
butter-making, chinldar cheese-making, test¬ 
ing, including tests for moisture in butter 
and cheese, salt test and acidity test. The 
work in cheese may include the making 
of fancy cheese, cottage, cream, neufchatel, 
club, etc. Special attention will be given 
to the making and handling of starters, 
the action of bacteria in connection with 
dairy work, problems in market milk, 
sanitary inspection of dairies, the judging 
of butter, milk and cheese, keeping of 
factory accounts, etc. The only require¬ 
ment for this course is that a person shall 
have at least one year of expeidence as 
manager or head man in a dairy plant in 
New York State. The only fee is $5, 
payable at the beginning of the course. 
OBITUARY'.—William D. Ellwanger, 
president of the Ellwanger & Barry 
Nursery Co., died at Rochester, N. Y., Feb¬ 
ruary 16. He is survived by a widow 
and one daughter. In addition to his busi¬ 
ness activities, Mr. Ellwanger was well 
known as a writer of prose and verse and 
was connected with many social affairs. 
He was a man of wide culture, and was 
a prominent figure in the business and 
social life of Rochester. 
Our main money crop is sweet corn for 
the canning factory, for which 214 cents a 
pound for the cut corn is paid. Some pota¬ 
toes are raised: they are worth 50 cents 
at present; cream is sent to the butter 
factory; 38 cents for butter fat was paid 
for December. Beef from five to seven 
cents; live hogs seven cents; apples $1.50 
a bushel; strawberries 10 cents; not much 
garden truck raised here. r. T. w. 
West Farmington, Me. 
Onions, 50: carrots, 25; beets, 45; but¬ 
ter, 38: beef six to nine dressed; hogs, 
7V> to 12% ; dressed poultry, nine to 10 
live, 12% to 18 dressed. Eggs 18 to 30: 
potatoes, 25 to 60 this year, last year 40 
to 81.40 per bushel. Beans 81.75 to 82 
per bushel; oats, 42. Hay, 810 to 818 per 
ton: straw, 87 to 89: fodder corn, five 
cents per bushel. Apples this year 25 to 
50; peaches, $1.50 to 82: pears, 81: straw¬ 
berries. 80 to 81 per crate, 16 quarts. Veal, 
9 to 12 at private sale. n. b. 
Ada, Mich. 
SEND THIS LETTER TO ALBANY, N. Y. 
Post Office, . 
March._. 1913 
Hon 
The Capitol, 
Albany, N. Y. 
The shipper of farm products to be sold on commission has now absolutely 
no check on the man who handles the goods. He takes the commission man’s 
word for the price, the condition and the charges. When the shipper gets any¬ 
thing, the returns do not average in excess of 35 per cent, of the consumer’s 
dollar. Country producer and city consumer contribute 65 per cent, to the 
handlers of farm food products. 
In view of this situation the undersigned respectfully urges your influence 
and vote in the New York State Legislature in support of the Roosevelt-Cole 
bill in regard to the sale of farm products on commission. 
Respectfully, 
Name 
Address 
No matter where you live, if you have 
ever shipped produce to market in New 
York State or ever intend to do so, fill 
out the blanks in the above letter and 
mail it, without delay, to one of the 
legislators in the following list: 
It would, of course, be still better if 
you would write a letter of your own. 
Even when you use this form you 
should write several of the other mem¬ 
bers in your own language. The com¬ 
mission interests have insulted the in¬ 
telligence of farmers in brazenly asking 
them to help defeat the bill. Now let 
us lick a few stamps and show them 
that there is a genuine demand for this 
bill. 
Following is a list of the senators: 
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•Members 
1— Thomas II. O’Keefe. 
2— Bernard M. Fatten. 
3— Thomas II. Cullen.* 
4— Henry P. Velte. 
5— William J. Ileffernan. 
6— William B. Carswell. 
7— Daniel J. Carroll. 
8— James F. Duhamel.* 
9— Felix J. Sanner.* 
10— Herman H. Torborg. 
11— Christopher D. Sullivan.* 
12— John C. Fitzgerald. 
13— James D. McClelland.* 
14— James A. Foley. 
15— John J. Boylan. 
16— Robert F. Wagner.* 
17— Walter It. Herrick. 
18— Henry W. Pollock.* 
19— Henry Sallant. 
20— James J. Frawley.* 
21— Stephen J. - Stilwell. 
22— Anthony J. Griffin.* 
23— George A. Blauvelt. 
24— John F. Ilealy. 
25— John D. Stivers. 
26— Franklin D. Roosevelt.* 
27— Abraham J. Palmer. 
28— Henry M. Sage.* 
29— John W. McKnight. 
30— George H. Whitney. 
31— Loren H. White.* 
32— Seth G. Heacoek.* 
33— James A. Emerson.* 
34— Herbert P. Coats.* 
35— Elon It. Brown. 
36— William D. Peckham. 
37— Ralph W. Thomas.* 
38— J. Henry Walters.* 
39— Clayton L. Wheeler. 
40— Charles J. Hewitt.* 
41— John F. Murtaugh.* 
42— Thomas B. Wilson, 
43— John Seeley. 
44— Thomas H. Bussey.* 
45— George F. Argetsinger. 
46— William L. Ormrod. 
47— George F. Thompson. 
48— John F. Malone. 
49— Samuel J. ltamsperger.* 
50— Gottfried II. Wende. 
51— Frank N. Godfrey, 
of the last Senate. 
The members of Assembly and coun¬ 
ties they represent are: 
Allegany—Ransom L. Richardson.* 
Broome—Mortimer B. Edwards. 
Cattaraugus—Clare Willard. 
Cayuga—Michael Grace.* 
Chautauqua—George W. Jude, John Leo 
Sullivan.* 
Chemung—Robert P. Bush.* 
Chenango-—Walter A. Shepardson.* 
Clinton—Charles J. Vert.* 
Columbia—Alexander W. Stover. 
Cortland—Niles F. Webb. 
Delaware—John W. Telford. 
Dutchess—Myron Smith,* John A. Kelly. 
Erie—George F. Small, Clinton T. Hor¬ 
ton.* Albert F. Geyer. Edward D. Jackson,* 
Richard F. Hearn.* James M. Itozan,* Jos¬ 
eph V. Fitzgerald, George Geoghan, John 
Dorst, Jr. 
Essex—Spencer G. Prime, 2d*. 
Franklin—Alexander Macdonald.* 
Fulton-IIanulton—James II. Wood. 
Genesee—Clarence Bryant.* 
Greene—J. L. Patrie.* 
Herkimer—E. Bert Pullman. 
Jefferson—II. Edmund Machold,* John 
G. .Tones.* 
Kings—John .T. Kelly, William J. Gillen.* 
Frank J. Taylor, Harry W. Kmuobis. Vin¬ 
cent A. O’Connor, Lester D. Volk. Daniel 
F. Farrell.* John J. McKeon,* Frederick 
S. Burr. George E. Dennen. Karl Soden 
Deitz, Wm. P. Hamilton, Jr., James II. 
Finnigan, James H. Garvey,* Thomas E. 
Willmott, Jesse P. Larrimer, Frederick Ul¬ 
rich, Joseph H. Schifferdecker, Cornelius J. 
Cronin, Harry Heyman,* Joseph J. Mona¬ 
han, Thomas L. Ingram. 
Lewis—James B. Van Woert. 
Livingston—Edward M. Magee. 
Madison—Morell E. Tallett.* 
Monroe—Jared W. Hopkins,* Simon L. 
Adler,* August V. Pappert,* Cyrus W. Phil¬ 
lips,* Charles H. Gallup. 
Montgomery—Walter A. Gage.* 
Nassau—Thomas B. Maloney. 
New York—Thomas B. Caughlan,* Alfred 
E. Smith,* Harry E. Oxford, Aaron J. 
Levy,* James J. Walker,* Jacob Silverstein, 
Peter P. McElligott,* Solomon Sufrin, 
Charles D. Donohue, Meyer Greenberg,* 
John Kerrigan, Joseph D. Kelly, James C. 
Campbell,* Robert Lee Tudor, Theodore H. 
Ward. Martin G. McCue,* Mark Eisner, 
Mark Goldberg.* Thomas F. Denney, Patrick 
J. McGrath,* Thomas Kane, Edward Weil,* 
David C. Lewis, Owen M. Kiernan, David 
H. Knott, Abraham Greenberg, Raymond 
B. Carver, Salvatore A. Cotillo, Charles J. 
Carroll, Louis A. Cuvillier,* Michael Schaap, 
Louis D. Gibbs, Thomas J. Lane, Patrick 
J. McMahon, Ernest E. L. Hammer. 
Niagara—Frank M. Bradley, Eugene A. 
McCollum. 
Onedia—Fred F. Emden, Herbert E. Al¬ 
len,* John B. Fuller. 
Onondaga—Patrick J. Kelly, Stephen G. 
Daley, Thomas K. Smith.* 
Ontario—Herman F. Schnirel. 
Orange—Caleb II. Baumes, William T. 
Doty. 
Orleans—Marc W. Cole. 
Oswego—Thaddeus C. Sweet.* 
Otsego—La Verne P. Butts. 
Putnam-—John R. Yale.* 
Queens—Samuel J. Burden, Alfred J. 
Kennedy,* Alfred C. Benninger, Howard 
Sutphin. 
Rensselaer—C. Fred Schwarz,* Tracey D. 
Taylor. 
Richmond—Ralph R. McKee.* 
Rockland—Frederick G. Grimme. 
St. Lawrence—Frank L. Seaker,* John A 
Smith. 
Saratoga—Gilbert T. Seelye. 
Schenectady—Arthur P. Squire. 
Schoharie—Edward A* Dox. 
Schuyler—John W. Gurnett.* 
Seneca—Augustus S. Hughes. 
Steuben—Charles A. Brewster, James L. 
Seely, .Tr.* 
Suffolk—Stephen A. Fallon, John J. Rob¬ 
inson. 
Sullivan—John K. Evans.* 
Tioga—John G. Pembleton.* 
Tompkins—Minor McDaniels.* 
Ulster—Lawrence M. Kennev, Samuel C. 
Waring.* 
Warren—Henry E. H. Brereton.* 
Washington—Eugene R. Norton. 
Wayne—Albert Yeomans.* 
Westchester—Tracy P. Madden. Y'erne M. 
Bovie, Wilson R. Yard, Mortimer C. O’Brien. 
O’Brien. 
Wyoming—John Knight. 
Y'ates—Edward C. Gillett.* 
•Members of the last Assembly. 
Dairy cows, 830 to 850; milk, six cents 
a quart; butter, 26 to 30; pork, dressed, 
10: live, 7% to eight; potatoes, 55; 
onions, 18 cents by carload lots; cabbage, 
two cents a head; carrots, 50 cents a 
bushel: apples, 85. s. c. u 
Curtice, Ohio. 
Prices obtained by the farmers: Beef, 
dressed, nine to 13; heavy hogs, eight to 
nine; light pigs, 10 to 11 : Spring lambs, 
15; veal, dressed, 13 to 14; turkeys, live, 
22: fowls, live, 15; carrots, per peek, 15; 
apples, per bushel. 50; potatoes. 70 to 75; 
parsnips, per peck. 15; cheese, per pound, 
20 to 21; butter, dairy, 32 to 36; butter, 
creamery, 36 to 37 ; eggs, fresh, 20. Prices 
the farmers must pay for grain: Corn, 
50; oats, 45 ; wheat bran, per 100 pounds, 
81.25; middlings, • per 100 pounds, 81-30; 
cornmeal, per 100 pounds, 81.05; hay, 
Timothy, per ton, 812 delivered. J. o. 
Jamestown, N. Y. 
Wheat is 90 to 95 cents per bushel; 
corn, 25; rye, 60: bran, 81.25 to 81.30 
per 100 pounds; ground corn, 81-25 per 
100; mixed feed, 81-25 to 81.35 per 100; 
ground corn and oats. 81.35 per 100. Po¬ 
tatoes, 30 cents per bushel; apples, 60 to 
75; onions, 8L Hay, 814 to 816.50 per 
ton. At an auction a few days ago corn 
in shock sold for 40 cents per shock ; hay 
for 816 per ton. Cows sold for 838 to 
815 each: horses for 8140 to 8176; young 
cattle about four cents per pound: calves, 
810 per nead. c. f. w. 
Aldeu, Mich. 
