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THE RURA.D NEVV-YOKKliK 
November 1, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
I> MESTIC.—The loss of the Volturno 
iiud her cargo will cost the underwriters 
about $400,000. Most of the insurance 
was carried in London and Liverpool. 
Edward O. Thomas, general manager of 
the Uranium Line, said that $41)0,000 
Would probably cover the loss to the un¬ 
derwriters. while the company’s loss is 
placed at $100,000. 
Twenty-five enlisted men from Fort 
Morgan, Ala., were killed and more than 
one hundred were injured Oct. 19 when 
the cars of a special train in which they 
were travelling went into a deep ravine 
off Ihe Kuckatonna trestle, sixty miles 
north of Mobile. The wrecked train car¬ 
ried 179 enlisted men from the 199th and 
Thirty-seven til companies. Coast Artil- 
lery. stationed at Fort Morgan, and four 
officers, on their way to the Alabama- 
Mississijipi fair at Meridian. Miss. 
One of the most remarkable petitions 
ever presented at Washington was hi id 
Oct. IS before Attorney-General M<- 
Reynolds. It was signed by 13,000 em¬ 
ployees of the United States Steel Cor¬ 
poration. who pray that the suit under 
tiie anti-trust law for the dissolution of 
that corporation be withdrawn. This is 
not the only petition of this character 
that has been received at the Department 
of Justice. Another paper bearing an 
impressive number of names of em¬ 
ployees of the American Sheet and Tin 
Plate Company, another subsidiary of 
the Steel Corporation, has been received 
begg ;ing that this suit be discontinued. 
The State Board of Claims of New 
York refused Oct. 20 to allow the bills 
of the attorneys and handwriting experts 
who appeared for Senator Jotham P. 
Alkls at his trial before the Senate on 
charges made by Senator Benn Conger 
in 1910. The claims aggregate $17.93S.- 
<>0, as follows: Lewis E. Carr. $5,627.65; 
Danforth E. Ainsworth. $2.500; Albert 
II. Hamilton, for witness fees and ex¬ 
penses, $928.95; David N. Carvalho, wit¬ 
ness fees and expenses, $669.83; Lewis E. 
Griffith, $2,212.17: Martin W. Littleton. 
$0,000. “Only in the event of Senator 
Alids* honorable acquittal of the charges 
could he properly appear, either in per¬ 
son or through liis counsel.” says Com¬ 
missioner Rooney, who wrote the opin¬ 
ion. “to ask the State to make some pro¬ 
vision for die expenses to which he had 
been supposedly unjustly put. When the 
reverse is the result of the investigation 
and the charges are sustained it is diffi¬ 
cult to see where there is ground for re¬ 
lief in the plea that the State owes a 
moral obligation to the respondent’s 
counsel.” 
Snow and freezing temperatures were 
reported Oct. 20 in the Middle West and 
as far South as Atlanta. In Michigan 
and in sections of Minnesota the snowfall 
was heavy and see was reported to be 
forming on the streams. Unusually low 
temperatures for October were reported 
in Missouri and Kansas. Hie lowest mark 
reached being 24 degrees at Concordia. 
Kan. The earliest snowstorm on record 
is reported at Nashville, Term., and in 
sections of Kentucky. 
The State of New York must pay al¬ 
most $25,000 damages resulting from the 
automobile accident at the Syracuse 
State Fair in 1911, in which eleven per¬ 
sons were killed and ten injured. So 
Judge Irving G. Yann, who was ap¬ 
pointed referee in the case by the Court 
of Claims, leaded OdL 22. fbe State 
is responsible because it permitted the 
race to lie held on State property, J udge 
Yann held. 
Two hundred and thirty men were im¬ 
prisoned in the Stag Canyon and Daw- 
sou Coal Company’s mine, Dawson. N. 
M., by an explosion Oct 22. The entire 
day shift which was preparing to leave 
for the surface, was entombed and has 
small chance to escape. The Dawson 
mine is a soft coal vein in Northern New 
Mexico. It is owned by the Phelps- 
Dodge Company of New York and Bos¬ 
ton and is worked to supply coal and coke 
for the large copper furnaces in Douglas, 
Ariz. 
The main boiler of the plant of the 
Richmond Light and Power Company ex¬ 
ploded Oct. 21. At least five men were 
killed, a sixth is missing—the presump¬ 
tion is that he was blown to pieces— 
three more men were badly injured and 
one of them is expected to die, and the 
electric service on Staten Island was ren¬ 
dered useless. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A Statewide 
survey of forest resources, among other 
measures for the protection and proper 
use of the State's woodland, was urged 
at the Fall meeting of the New York 
State Forestry Association, held Oct. 
17 at the Bronx Park Botanical Gardens. 
Prof. Frank F. Mooli of the New Yoifc 
College of Forestry told the association 
that too much timber was being drawn 
from other States for use here. He ad¬ 
vocated a wider use of this State’s tim¬ 
ber and said that in a few years the 
Catskill and Adirondack forest reserves 
wonld he thrown open for timber market¬ 
ing rather than have the tremendous de¬ 
mand here be supplied from outside the 
State. Prof. Walter Mulford of the New 
York State College of Agriculture pro¬ 
posed a plan for cooperative selling of 
farm wood lots instead of individual mar¬ 
keting 
From the preparations that have been 
made for Farmers’ Week at the Ohio 
State University. Columbus. February 2 
to 6. 1914, it will probably be the biggest 
event of its kind ever held a,t the College 
of Agriculture. Every effort has been 
made by those in charge to give the 
farmers of the State the best instruction 
that the facilities of the college will af¬ 
ford. In addition to the important lec¬ 
tures by prominent agriculturists from 
Ohio and other States, several exhibi¬ 
tions and meetings of interest will be in 
progress during the week. The list will 
include meetings of the Ohio State Dairy¬ 
mens’ Association. Ohio Plant Breeders, 
students annual corn show and probably 
the Ohio Live Stock Association. 
Farmers of the American Northwest 
have a new source of supply in their 
movement to stock farms with purebred 
cattle, the new tariff measure operating 
in such a manner that the stock farms 
of Canada can be utilized for that pur¬ 
pose. Two hundred and sixty purebred 
Short-horns. shipped from Emerson. 
Manitoba, to Grand Forks. N. D.. ar¬ 
rived (let 17. Under the new tariff law 
the 27% per cent duty on cattle is re¬ 
moved. One of the men interested in the 
deal, which involves $15,000, said the 
purchases in Canada had been made at 
a good saving. 
The annual meeting and exhibition of 
the Maryland State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety and affiliating agricultural associa¬ 
tions. including Maryland Crop Improve¬ 
ment Association. Maryland State Dairy¬ 
men's Association, and Maryland State 
Beekeepers’ Association, at the Fifth 
Regiment Armory, Baltimore, Maryland, 
Nov. 18-22, promises to be the greatest in 
the history of the Association. Many 
speakers of national reputation will ad¬ 
dress the Society. Some of those are 
Senator lloke Smith; A. V. Lever; Prof. 
L. C. Corbett. Assistant Chief Bureau 
of Plant Industry. Dr. S. W. Fletcher; 
Prof. J. C. Johnson of Yirginia ; Mr. W. 
W. Farnsworth, of Waterville. Ohio; 
Judge Arthur B. Hayes, of Washington. 
D. C.. and others. With a view of in¬ 
teresting the school boys of Maryland in 
the agricultural development of the State, 
the officials in charge of “Maryland 
Week” have decided to hold an Essay 
Contest, the subject being “The Relation 
of Agriculture to the Material Develop¬ 
ment of Maryland.” Ail essays for this 
contest must arrive at the office of the 
Secretary. Horticultural Society. T. B. 
Symons. College Park. M<1- by Monday, 
November 10th, 6 o’clock P. M. 
The Ohio College of Agbi culture 
gives the following as indicating the great 
value of cooperation among farmers. The 
Portage County Improvement Associa¬ 
tion. through its agent. H. P. Miller, 
looked up fertilizer prices. He found that 
acid phosphate cost in small lots $16 to 
$18 per ton. After some correspondence 
lie finally secured figures on 1,000 tons, 
at a price which after paying freight, al¬ 
lowing 50 cents per ton for handling, 
cost the farm $12.30. It is said that 
nearly 1.900 tons of this phosphate have 
already been ordered and delivered. Here 
was a direct saving of something like 
$8,000 in that one county, because of 
the ability of those farmers to get to¬ 
gether and buy in a lump sum. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, Octo¬ 
ber 23-November 1. 
Vermont Corn Show, Windsor, Yt., 
November 5-7. 
Third Indiana Apple Show, Indianap¬ 
olis. November 5-11. 
National Grange. Annual Meeting. 
Manchester, N. II.. November 12. 
New Englaffnd Fruit Show, Horticul¬ 
tural Hall, Boston, November 12-16. 
National Grange, Manchester, N. II., 
November 13. 
Fruit Week, Washington, D. C., No¬ 
vember 17-22; union meeting of Ameri¬ 
can Homological Society, Society for 
Horticultural Science, Eastern Fruit 
Growers’ Association and Northern Nut 
Growers’ Association. 
Maryland Suite Horticultural Society, 
Maryland Crop Improvement Association, 
Maryland Dairymen’s Association, Mary¬ 
land Beekeepers’ Association and Farm¬ 
ers’ Jje&gue, Baltimore, November, 17-22. 
Paterson, N. J., Poultry Show, No¬ 
vember 14-22. 
Maine State Bornological Society, 
Lewiston. Me., November 1S-20. 
Society for Horticultural Science, an¬ 
nual meeting, Washington, D. C.. Novem¬ 
ber 20-21. 
Dover, N. J., Poultry, Pigeon and Pet- 
Stock Association, annual show, Dover. 
N. J., November 24-29. 
International Live Stock Show, Chi¬ 
cago, November 29-Deeenfber 6. 
The Capital Poultry and Pigeon Asso¬ 
ciation will hold its annual show at 
Washington, D. C„ December 2-6. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. Trenton, N. J.. December 8-10. 
New York State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion, Syracuse, December 9-12. 
SL Mary’s Poultry Club, first annual 
show, St. Mary’s Pa., December 18-19. 
Poultry Show, Madison Square Gar¬ 
den. New York, December 26 -1. 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Convention Hall, Rochester, N. 
Y.. January 7-8-9. 1914. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, an¬ 
nual Winter meeting, Easton, Md., Jan¬ 
uary. 13-15, 19 11. 
Annual Corn Show, Pennsylvania Live 
Stock Breeders’ Association, Pennsyl¬ 
vania Dairy Union, Pennsylvania Hor¬ 
ticultural Association, York, Pa., third 
week in January. 
Western New York Horticultural So- 
cietv. Rochester, N. Y., January 28-29- 
30, 1914. 
Farmers'’ Week, Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio, February 2-6, 1914. 
All The Water 
Fresh From the Weil 
The most wonderful and prac¬ 
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on the farm, or 
ranch, in stores, 
hotels or wher- 1 
ever well, lake 
or spring water’ 
is used. 
PERRY 
FRESH 
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SYSTEM 
All you need is a gas engine—a Perry Air Com¬ 
pressor, air tank, Perry Pump and ordinary piping,as shown 
in the illustration. The gas engine works the air compressor filling 
the tank with compressed air. Pressure from the air tank operates The 
Perry Pump and forces pure water directfrom the well to the faucets. 
No vator storage tanks are used thereforo the water drawn is never stale.but 
conies fresh and jmre. directly from the source. A simple turn of the faucet 
in the house-ham or yard nupplios cool.freah wutur in abundance. No danger of froezins: as the 
pipe* are laid below frost line. The Perry Fresh Water System is easy to install. Any handy man 
can doit. Will lit almost any condition. Made in various sizes to suit different requirement*. 
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UNITED PUMP AND POWER CO., 473 Old Colony Bldg., CHICAGO. ILL, 
YOU NEED THIS GASOLINE ENGINE 
Its a husky, strongly made, simply designed 
high-class power, the kind of an eugiue you 
point to with pride, just as yon do a first-class 
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If you do not fiud it the best gasoline en¬ 
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send It right back. We want to tell 
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We have a catalog free for the asking. 
Send for it to-day and learn about the kind 
of an engine that will make work easy on 
your farm. Tell us the size farm you have, 
or tiie size engine you need and get special 
offer. 
CONSOLIDATED GASOLINE ENGINE CO., 
200 FULTON ST., NEW YORK CITY 
Backet.Barrel.4-Row Potato Sprayers. 
Power Orchard Rigs, etc. 
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Ellis Engines give more power on coal oil than 
other engines on gasoline. You save 50c on the 
dollar in fuel. Strongest, simplest engines made 
—only three working parts. New two-cylinder 12 
H. P. engine does work requiring up to 15 H. P. All 
Eliis Engines can be run on gasoline, distillate or 
any fuel oil without extra equipment. 
Tree 
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spued -changing governor, ruua 
cither way, reversible while run¬ 
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pay freight. 30 days free trial. 
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with special prices. 
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6 Mulletl St.. Detroll. Mich. 
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