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THIS RUHA.T N EW-YORKER 
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THE R. N. Y.’S NEW HOME. 
By the time this paper is in the hands 
of its readers we expect to be housed 
in the new building on West 30th street. 
The accompanying diagram will give 
our friends an idea of the new location. 
People coming to New York City by the 
Pennsylvania Railroad will land within 
a block and a half of our door. The 
new Post Office is almost at our back 
door but we go around the block to 
reach it. 
The pencil sketch in the diagram will 
give a little idea of the front elevation 
of the building. We may give a more 
detailed sketch later for the informa¬ 
tion of friends who are always inter¬ 
ested in The R. N.-Y. and its affairs. 
As has been previously told this build¬ 
ing was the once popular and pros¬ 
perous Chelsea Methodist Church; but 
as population shifted, the congregation 
moved up town, and the property was 
sold to speculators, and we purchased 
it from them last December. In the 
meantime the building has been entirely 
remodeled. In fact little remains of the 
old building except the walls and roof, 
and the second floor, which ‘constituted 
the church proper. The ground floor, 
formerly used as a gymnasium and of¬ 
fices, has been replaced by a concrete 
floor and here the presses and other 
printing machinery have already been 
installed. A third floor has been put 
in and this will be utilized for the edi¬ 
torial and business offices, so that The 
R. N.-Y. will occupy the first and the third 
floor. For the present the second floor 
will be rented, but if the business con¬ 
tinues to increase as in the past, it will 
not be long before the second floor will 
also be needed to accommodate it. 
The building, with its location and 
equipment, gives us exceptional publish¬ 
ing facilities. No paper in the city 
will have better. In New York City 
ground values are high and few publi¬ 
cations attempt to own their own print¬ 
ing and publishing house. The few that 
do erect large buildings and rent out the 
greater portion of them. The others 
are content with a loft or space in an 
office building. So The R. N.-Y. build¬ 
ing is _ unique as a city printing and 
publishing establishment for a weekly 
publication. We hope to gain new 
inspiration from the traditions of the 
old church to make a better and more 
helpful farm paper than ever was pub¬ 
lished before. We have many plans in 
mind which the larger conveniences and 
greater comforts of the new building 
will enable us to put in operation and 
we hope to make the paper and its home 
a matter of interest and pride to every 
man who tills the soil and to every 
woman who presides over the destiny 
of a country home. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The United States postal 
inspectors have received complaints that 
an “endless chain prayer” is being sent 
through the mails to persons in Philadel¬ 
phia. The prayer is couched in various 
terms, but contains a threat of some ca¬ 
lamity to befall the person who refuses 
to comply with the requirements and to 
pass the prayer on to nine other persons. 
The postal authorities say the sending of 
such a prayer through the mails is a viola¬ 
tion of the postal laws. An effort is being 
made to find the author of the letters. 
Representative W. E. Bussell of Putnam 
County, Fla., will introduce a blue sky law 
in the Legislature similar to the Kansas 
law, to drive from the State fraudulent 
land and investment companies. lie de¬ 
clares that the State has been injured by 
the operation of such concerns and that 
no company dealing in Florida lauds or 
securities will be allowed to do business 
unless they comply with the law. This 
will kill off a number of companies now 
handling Everglades lands on the install¬ 
ment plan. 
Seven or more persons were burned to 
death, two sustained injuries from which 
they may die, and several persons were 
rescued by firemen in a spectacular fire 
which destroyed the De Wilson Hotel, an 
old three-story wooden structure at Ma¬ 
lone, N. Y., April 17. An explosion 
caused the fire. According to figures 
compiled by ‘Safety Engineering,” there 
was a hotel fire every 33 hours during 1912. 
and one in every 30 hours is the record 
so far for 1913. Five hotels in widely 
separated parts of the country burned on 
iNew Year’s day, and there were 25 hotel 
nres in January. Besides a heavy loss of 
hfe, the property loss in January alone 
was nearly $700,000. It is estimated that 
in the last five years hotel fires in the 
um»000 have cost more than $25,- 
The bureau of navigation of the De¬ 
partment of Commerce reports that during 
the first four months of the operation of 
t io act to regulate radio communication. 
which took effect December 13 last, the 
bureau has issued 3,407 licenses to wire¬ 
less operators and stations in the United 
States. The first grade commercial opera¬ 
tors' licenses number 1,279; second grade, 
186, while 1,185 amateurs have been li¬ 
censed. Eight operators’ licenses of the 
experimental and instruction grade have 
been issued. Thus far 46 American ship 
stations, 18 coast stations and 685 ama¬ 
teur stations have been licensed. 
Deliberating only thirty minutes, a jury 
in the Federal Court at Minneapolis, Minn., 
April 18, awarded $50,000 for the loss of a 
leg to H. W, Otos, of Willmar, Minn., form¬ 
erly an employe of the Great Northern Rail¬ 
way. Violation of the federal safety appli¬ 
ance act was alleged. Otos was injured while 
coupling cars with, an old-fashioned coup¬ 
ling pin instead of the automatic appli¬ 
ance. which it was contended was pre¬ 
scribed by the statute. 
Complete returns from towns and cities 
of Illinois, in which the saloon was an 
issue in the elections of April 1 and April 
15, compiled by E. J. Davis, Chicago Sup¬ 
erintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, of 
Illinois, show that additions have been 
made to the dry territory sufficient to 
bring the total area up to 70 per cent, 
of that of the entire State. According 
to the figures of Superintendent Davis, 34 
per cent, of the population of Illinois now 
lives in “dry” territory. 
The annual award of five four-year col¬ 
lege scholarships for each Assembly district 
in Now York State is provided for In 
the Blauvelt bill, signed by Gov. Sulzcr 
April 17. The selections are to be based 
upon the school standing of the students. 
There are 150 Assembly districts. When 
all the scholarships are filled the an¬ 
nual expense in the State will be $300,- 
000 . 
Two breaks close together, which wid¬ 
ened into one great crevasse more than 
300 feet wide, occurred April 21 at Wood- 
lawn plantation, several miles north of 
the town of Mayersville, Miss., a village 
midway between Vicksburg and Greenville. 
The crevasse will flood all of Sharkey 
and Isaquena counties and nearly all of 
Washington and Warren. This part of 
the country is rich in cotton farms and 
is well settled. Conservative estimates 
place the number who will be rendered 
homeless at 15.000 and the property losses 
at several million dollars. At Natchez all 
previous records were exceeded April 21, 
when the river rose to 51.6 feet. 
The administration groups iu the Califor¬ 
nia State Legislature decided April 21 to 
draft an anti-alien land law which will 
bar all Asiatics from owning land in Cali- 
Ifornia. The new bill will be especially 
obnoxious to the Japanese because it 
classes them with the Chinese Asiatics, 
when they assert they are Aryans, not 
Mongolians. The new bill will be a sub¬ 
stitute for the Thompsou-Rirdsall bill in 
the Senate. The strong protests received 
from many banks, chambers of commerce 
and financial companies induced the legis¬ 
lators to drop the clause which barred all 
foreign owned corporations from doing busi¬ 
ness iu California. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Farmers of the 
United States paid an average of 7.75 per 
cent, interest on three to six months’ 
loans during 1912, an inquiry made by 
the Department of Agriculture has dis¬ 
closed. Iu March nearly 3,000 letters were 
sent by the Department to country banks 
inquiring the rates paid by farmers. About 
90 per cent, of the bankers replied, and 
their answers indicate the rate was slightly 
less than in 1911. when 7.79 per cent, was 
paid. Iu the North Atlantic States the 
rate was 5.96 per cent.; South Atlantic, 
7.36; Northern Central States east of the 
Mississippi, 6.38 per cent. : Northern Cen¬ 
tral States west of the Mississippi, 8.05 
per cent.; Southern Central States, 9.51 per 
cent., and Far Western States, 8.55 per 
cent. 
The Federal Horticultural Board, which 
has charge of the carrying out of the 
Plant Quarantine Act affecting imports of 
nursery stock, etc., from abroad, has issued 
a circular recommending amendments to 
the Act, which have been approved by 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture B. T. Gal¬ 
loway. Regulation 5 is amended to read 
as follows : "Permits for the entry of nur¬ 
sery stock or other plants and plant 
products of any grower or exporter may 
be refusel, and existing permits may be 
canceled, on proof that such grower or 
exporter has knowingly shipped into the 
United States any nursery stock, or other 
plants and plant products, the importation 
of which is forbidden by the Secretary of 
Agriculture under the authority conferred 
by section 7 of this Act.” Importers should 
send for Circular of April 4 containing 
Plant Quarantine Decision No. 2, copies 
of which may be had of the Federal Hor¬ 
ticultural Board, Washington, D. C. 
Stock interests throughout central Cali¬ 
fornia are alarmed because of the drought. 
Hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep 
will starve unless they are hurried to 
distant places where feed is procurable. 
The unprecedented lack of rain iu the 
valleys, notably San Joaquin, has killed 
all pasturage, and urgent appeals by the 
Legislature are being hurried to Washing¬ 
ton to issue emergency orders authorizing 
the opening of forest reserves to stock. 
Train loads of cattle almost too weak to 
stand are being shipped into Nevada, one 
lot of 18,000 arriving April 20 at pastur¬ 
ages at Winnemucca, where Californians 
own or control Nevada ranges. 
In South Dakota, after July 1, the wo¬ 
man who wants a hired girl, the man 
who wants to hire help, the man or woman 
who is looking for a job, the farmer or 
stock raiser who has any product for sale 
or exchange, either live stock or grain 
and vegetables, or the buyer of any of 
these commodities is to have a State Bu¬ 
reau, which has been designated as the 
State “swapping law,” to help him. C. N. 
Mcllvane, secretary of the State Fair As¬ 
sociation, is to be the universal dispenser 
of Information and “boss swapper” under 
the law, with every Register of Deeds as 
the fount of information in the different 
counties of the State. The law, which is 
the product of II. O. Richards, the author 
of the present primary election law of 
the State, goes into minute details as to 
how the law shall be carried out. Each 
Register of Deeds is required to keep three 
books, one for labor, one for live stock 
and one for cereals and vegetables, and is 
required to make daily reports to the State 
Head Department of all applications of any 
character presented to him, and the State 
Bureau is to compile and keep these on 
hand to answer any and all applications 
for labor, place of products either for sale 
or to be purchased. 
Municipalities to protect their water sup¬ 
ply can restrain the owner of domestic 
fowl from permitting the fowl to pollute 
waters which drain into a public water 
supply. This was held by the Court of 
Appeals April 22 in an action brought 
by New York City against Benjamin Blum, 
of Rockville Centre, Nassau County. Blum 
owned a plot of land on which there were 
ponds, which at times flowed into waters 
constituting a part of the water supply 
of New York City. He also owned two 
hundred ducks, which it was alleged pol¬ 
luted the waters. An action was begun 
to restrain Blum from permitting the ducks 
to follow the waters. The courts held 
that such a practice constituted a nuisance 
and granted an injunction requested by 
the city, uuless Blum allowed the city to 
clean the ponds, place gravel on the siopes 
and put a filter at the outlet of the duck 
pond at the expense of the city. The Court 
of Appeals sustained this decision. 
WASHINGTON.—Abrogation of the Hay- 
Pauncefote treaty and the Clayton-Bulwer 
treaty, under which the construction df 
the Panama Canal was undertaken, is 
the object for a joint resolution which 
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, a Demo¬ 
crat, introduced April 21, in the Senate. 
The brief debate on this radical resolution 
indicated that Senator O'Gorman of New 
York, chairman of the Senate Committee on 
Interoceanic Canals, is inclined to favor the 
resolution, which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, where it 
probably will slumber for some time. The 
appearance of this resolution in Congress is 
part of the fight of the free toll advocates 
against any efforts to arbitrate the ques¬ 
tion or to repeal the legislation so offensive 
to Great Britain. 
The Underwood tariff bill was reported 
out of the Ways and Means Committee 
April 22 and debate began iu the House of 
Representatives April 23. Night sessions 
will be held and it is hoped to send tlTe 
bill over to the Senate by May 15. By a 
party vote the Senate decided to hold no 
public hearings on the bill and thefle 
will be no filibuster. The measure may 
become a law by July 15. President Wilson 
wants some currency legislation at this ex¬ 
tra session and Senator Owen has called 
his committee together and arranged to 
begin hearings on May 2. A measure pro¬ 
viding more elasticity iu the currency may 
be passed before the session adjourns un¬ 
less the tariff bill makes slower progress 
than is expected. The report of the House 
Ways and Means Committee which accom¬ 
panied the Underwood bill's introduction 
has much to say of the economic demerits 
of the protective system. It suggests that 
the income tax rate may be changed from 
year to year by Congress, according as 
the tariff revenue increases or diminishes. 
Twenty treaties may be violated by a 
clause in the tariff bill which discrimi¬ 
nates against goods carried in foreign 
vessels, and representatives of the coun¬ 
tries affected are protesting. 
April 22 President Wilson sent a mes¬ 
sage to the California Legislature, in which 
he appealed to that State to avoid em¬ 
barrassing the National Government by its 
attitude towards Japan. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Canadian National Horse Show. Toronto 
Armories, Toronto, Canada, April 29-May 3. 
American Jersey Cattle Club, annual 
meeting, 324 West 23d Street, New York, 
May 7. 
Dutch Belted Cattle Association of 
America, annual meeting, Hotel Imperial, 
New York. May 8. 
American Guernsey Cattle Club, annual 
meeting, Hotel Imperial, New York, May 
14. 
Sixteenth annual convention of the Can¬ 
adian Horticultural Association will be held 
at Peterboro, Ont., in August. 
New York State Fair and Grand Circuit 
Meeting. Syracuse, N. Y., September 8-13. 
Lancaster Fair, Lancaster, Pa., Septem¬ 
ber 30-Qctober 3. 
’CROPS 
POTATO SHIPMENTS FROM MAINE. 
The total shipments of potatoes over 
the Maine Central lines for the month of 
March, 1913, amounted to 2,614,800 bush¬ 
els, the largest shipment in any month 
for two years, and 672,600 bushel more 
than in the same month in 1912. From 
July 1 last to April 1 there were 14,025,603 
bushels transported over the Maine Central 
lines, as compared with 14,886,000 for the 
same period in 1911-1912. Those ship¬ 
ments were divided as follows: 
1912-1913. 1911-1912. 
Central Maine points. 3,508,200 2,788,200 
From B. & A. points. 7,002.800 9,967,800 
From C. P. R. points. 2,520,600 2,132.400 
The total shipments from the State of 
Maine from July 1 to April 1, 1913, from 
all sources is approximately 17 000,000 
bushels. Central Maine shows a gain 
during this period of 722,400 bushels over 
1912, while Aroostook County shows a loss 
of 2,799,400 bushels, but the total loss 
from all sections amounts to 854,500 
bushels. The figures over the C. P. lines 
are not available as this road fails to 
render monthly reports, therefore while 
the figures given out by the Maine Cen¬ 
tral and Bangor & Aroostook are correct 
the shipments over the C. P. not delivered 
to the Maine Central lines can only be 
approximated, but the total of 17,000,000 
will be found to be a very close estimate. 
In an article written early in the season 
it was estimated that the Aroostook crop 
would fall short 25 per cent., while the 
central part of Maine'would gain 25 per 
cent. The foregoing figures show that the 
estimate has stood the test. 
It is a question, however, if in the final 
windup Aroostook County will show a loss. 
Had it not been for the strike on the 
Bangor & Aroostook the January and Feb¬ 
ruary shipments would been much larger. 
Again Maine had very little snow this 
season and consequently the frost reached 
a great depth, making the conditions of 
the roads the worst of many seasons and, 
in fact, during the last two or three weeks 
shipping was almost at a standstill in Cen¬ 
tral Maine and the conditions were not 
much better in Aroostook County. 
With the roads in this distressing con¬ 
dition in Maine and fully as bad up-State 
in New York there should have ‘been a 
sharp advance in prices but this was not 
the case. The buyers believe that there 
is an abundance of potatoes yet in the 
farmers’ cellars and that as soon as cart¬ 
ing improved there would be a rush of 
stock to the markets and a slump in 
prices. For this reason they only bought 
sufficient for present needs. However, the 
market improved up to a few days ago 
from 50 cents Boston to 62 cents and 
then fell off to 59 cents. In New York 
prices fell off to 60 cents Harlem and then 
advanced to 63-64 cents. The present 
prices are not as low as they appea • 
owing to the fact that the stock is being 
shipped in box cars which makes a differ¬ 
ence of six cents per hundred as com¬ 
pared with the cost when heaters must bo 
used, therefore 64 cents at the present 
time Is as good as 67 cents a month ago. 
NOTES FROM SOUTHWEST IOWA. 
Our people do not take kindly to gar¬ 
dening, so our towns depend on shippod- 
in stuff, except iu short intervals, when 
the farm garden is furnishing more than 
can be consumed on the farm ; then it 
sells at a low price. Fruit was nearly 
a failure last year, and our markets are 
supplied with small fruits and vegetables 
from the South, and apples from Idaho 
and Oregon. This is proving to be a good 
Winter wheat country; all is shipped out, 
selling for 80 cents now and prac¬ 
tically since last harvest. The new crop 
is very promising. Oats are not counted 
as a money crop in the southern part of 
the State. Probably about 75 per cent, 
of the oats grown are fed on the farms; 
they are worth now 27 cents a bushel. 
They would not be grown at all but our 
farmers have a notion that they give the 
ground a rest from continued cropping to 
corn. It is supposed they got that no¬ 
tion from changing feet when they get 
tired standing on one. The great grain 
crop is corn and is worth 45 cents on the 
market now, and bringing 50 cents in a 
small way by the wagon load. At least 
90 per cent, of it is fed in the county, and 
nearly all the hay. A good many horses 
are grown, mostly heavy draft; they sell 
for all kinds of prices but from fair to 
good horses are sold from $150 to $225 
a head. But the one great crop is meat 
on foot, so our people do not look with 
favor on the proposed free meat, unless 
we can buy in an equally free market; 
then we believe we can stand it, as long 
as they can. Cattle are sold on a meat 
basis. Fed steers sell for 7Ms to 8% cent? 
on foot, and feeding steers from 6% to 7 Vi 
cents. Many are shipped in from Omaha 
and fed here on our corn and hay. Hogs 
are selling by the wagonload at $8.60 per 
100 pounds now. With a comparative 
cheap corn the good farmers are selling 
their hogs weighing 300 pounds and over 
and a pig crop of less than 100 to the 160 
acres is a disappointment. Dairying is 
carried on as a side liue. Butter fat has 
sold nearly all Winter at 31 cents a 
pound, is selling from 30 cents now. Egg? 
and chickens cut no small figure in bring¬ 
ing iu revenue, liens are selling for 11 
cents a pound and eggs for 16 cents a 
dozen; both are shipped out of the mi riot 
towns by the carload in the flush season. 
Potatoes are an uncertain crop ; not enough 
for home consumption has been grown for 
the last three years on account of drought 
at a critical time. For the same reason 
clover has failed (now seeding) for three 
years. Alfalfa is being grown iu a small 
way and doing nicely. Farms here are 
from 35 to 45 years from the virgin 
prairie; some produce better than ever, 
others that have been cropped to corn 
with an occasional oat crop produce little 
if any more than half as much. j. s. 
Corning, Iowa. 
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