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rHE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 15, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The Attorney General 
and Edwin 1*. Orosvenor, special counsel 
for the government in charge of the prose¬ 
cution of the anti-trust case against the 
International Harvester Company, at¬ 
tended opening arguments at St. Paul 
Nov. 3 before Judges Sanborn, Hook, 
Adams and Smith in the United States 
Circuit Court. Mr. Groavenor made the 
opening argument in behalf of the gov¬ 
ernment and William 1). McHugh, of 
Omaha, and Edward A. Bancroft, of Chi¬ 
cago, argued for the defendant corpor¬ 
ation. Attorney General McReynolds 
will close the arguments for the United 
States. The petition in the case was 
filed in the United States District Court 
at St. Paul on April 30, 1912. Mr. 
Grosvenor has been in charge of the 
prosecution, his assistant being Joseph 
II. Darling. It is believed that the case 
breaks a record in point of number of 
witnesses examined, a total of 1,253 per¬ 
sons having testified, 80 for the govern¬ 
ment and 1,173 for the defendant. Hear¬ 
ings were held at Chicago, St. Louis, St. 
Paul, Omaha, Wichita, Kansas City, 
Sioux Falls, Pittsburgh and New York. 
The record constitutes eighteen printed 
volumes. William D. McIIugli, in his 
speech Nov. 4, pictured the Harvester 
Company as one of the greatest educa¬ 
tional aud beneficial forces in this coun¬ 
try. He assigned to George W. Per¬ 
kins, of New York, credit for this achieve¬ 
ment, and asserted that without Mr. Per¬ 
kins’s mind to direct the organization 
and expansion of the business the Inter¬ 
national Harvester Company of to-day 
would have been an impossibility. Mc¬ 
Hugh then attacked the government’s 
charge that the subject of foreign trade 
was an afterthought of the officials of 
the harvester company. lie said that 
the naming of the company was done par¬ 
ticularly with a view to the matter of 
foreign trade. 
The Democrats suffered uo significant 
reverse in the elections throughout the 
country Nov. 4, and won decided vic¬ 
tories in the two fights in which an issue 
was made on the Wilson Administration 
—New Jersey and Maryland. The lte- 
publicans made slight local gains, while 
the Progressive party did not come up to 
the expectations of its managers in any 
section. James F. Fielder was elected 
Governor of New Jersey over ex-Gov. 
Stokes, Republican, while Colby, Pro¬ 
gressive nominee, was a bad third. David 
I. Walsh, Democrat, was elected Gov¬ 
ernor of Massachusetts by a good margin 
over his three opponents. Charles Sum¬ 
ner Bird, the candidate upon whom Pro¬ 
gressives Centered their power, ran second. 
Blair Lee, Democratic candidate for the 
United States Senate, running upon a 
straight national issue, swept Maryland. 
Charles F. Coady, Democrat, was elected 
to Congress. The Republicans ran sec¬ 
ond iu Maryland, all figures indicating a 
tremendous falling oil in the Progressive 
vote. It is estimated that it will not be 
8 per cent of last year. In New York 
City, John Pnrroy Mitchel, fusion, was 
elected mayor of the city by a plurality 
of 111,000. The vote for Edward E. Mc¬ 
Call. Democrat, was 223,000. as com¬ 
pared with 304,000 for Sttlzer for Gover¬ 
nor a year ago and 250.378 for Gaynor 
for Mayor, four years ago. William Sul¬ 
zer has been returned to Albany as a 
member of the Assembly from the Sixth 
district. Aaron J. Levy, who was chair¬ 
man of the board of managers in the 
Sulzer impeachment proceeding and the 
Democratic floor leader in the Assembly, 
was elected Municipal Court Justice in 
the same district, despite the attacks 
made upon him by Sulzer. An analysis 
of the vote shows that the Sulzer im¬ 
peachment hurt the Democratic ticket. 
The fusionists have control of the city 
government and the county government. 
The Tammany rout is complete. There 
jwus a large increase in the Socialist vote. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—James V. 
Johnson, Little Bock, Ark., has resigned 
from the office of secretary-treasurer of 
the White Plymouth Rock Club, and 
Mr. M. T. Schulte of Bartlett, Tenn., has 
been appointed to succeed him. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
Amherst, Mass, announces the following 
short courses: Ten weeks’ Winter course, 
January 0-March 13, inclusive; Apple 
packing school, January 21-January 28, 
inclusive; Farmers’ week, March 10- 
Mareh 20, inclusive; Tree Wardens’ 
School, March 24-Marcli 27. inclusive; 
Polish farmers’ day, March 20; Beekeep¬ 
ers’ course and convention, dates to be 
announced; Summer school of agricul¬ 
ture and country life, June 30-July 28, 
inclusive; Poultry conference, July 22- 
July 24, inclusive; Boys’ agricultural 
camps, July, exact date to he announced; 
Conference of rural community leaders, 
July 28-July 31, inclusive . 
Good roads day was observed on No¬ 
vember 5 and 0 all over Texas in com¬ 
pliance with a proclamation of Gov. O. 
B. Colquitt. Thousands of business men 
promised to wield pick and shovel to im¬ 
prove the State’s system of highways. 
Beginning at noon Nov. 3 auction sales 
of live poultry will lx: conducted at 
Gansevoort Market, New York, by the 
Dive Poultry Auction Company, with a 
capital stock of $1,500,000, which prom¬ 
ises, it is said, to bring about a saving 
to thi* public annually of $1,000,000 iu 
Greater New York and vicinity. The 
sales will be conducted along the same 
lines as the fruit auction sales. They 
will continue at Gansevoort Market until 
such time ns there shall he completed in 1 
third 
Hall, 
Ohio. 
the Lackawanna Railroad yards, Hobo¬ 
ken. a large sales market, where the great 
bulk of the live poultry is now received. 
Then the sales will take place in the new 
quarters. This will save cartage and a 
large amount of handling. It is figured 
by the promoters of the enterprise that 
the saving will amount to between $125 
and $150 a car. 
On December 4 and 5, 1013. the Ohio 
State Horticultural Society will hold its 
annual apple show at Townsend 
Ohio State University, Columbus, 
Among the many interesting feat¬ 
ures of the show will be a demonstration 
given by the Domestic Science Depart¬ 
ment, of the numerous ways to prepare 
the apple; an exhibit of orchard heaters; 
pruning, spraying, picking appliances 
and lectures by fruit men. Liberal pre¬ 
miums consisting of both cash and mer¬ 
chandise are open for competition to 
anyone within the State having Ohio- 
grown apples. 
The American Bornological Society, or 
the fruit society of America, holds its 
biennial meeting in Washington, I). C., 
November 37th to 22nd. It is expected 
that a line display of fruit from all parts 
of the United States will he made at that 
time. The society lias offered prizes for 
the judging of fruit by college teams con¬ 
sisting of three men. It is announced 
that the University of Missouri, Cornell, 
Pennsylvania State College, University of 
West Virginia, Massachusetts Agricul¬ 
tural College, Iowa and Rutgers have 
already arranged to send teams to com¬ 
pete in the contest. The students will he 
required to determine whether the var¬ 
ieties judged are true to name as well 
as to score ■ the fruit for its size, color 
and freedom from blemishes. 
The K. B. Voorhees Agricultural So¬ 
ciety was organized among the students 
and graduates of the New Jersey Agri¬ 
cultural College at New Brunswick. It 
is one of the liveliest societies of the kind 
in the country, and is doing very effective 
work in New Jersey. At the coining 
Farmers’ Week, to be held at the Col¬ 
lege the last week in December, there 
will be an exhibit of farm products, 
grown by members of this society, with 
liberal prizes for corn, apples, potatoes 
and other products. This will be opened 
to members of the society from any part: 
of the State, and in connection with 
Farmers’ Week and the short course in 
agriculture will prove a very interesting 
thing. Farmers’ Week this year at the 
College will be unusually attractive, with 
such speakers as J. II. Hale, Prof. .T. C. 
Graham, Edward Van Alstyne, Dr. C. 
G. Hopkins, W. II. lngling, and others. 
It is doubtful if any other Farmers’ 
Week in the country can show a more 
attractive program than is being prepared 
for New Jersey. 
A quack doctor was holding forth 
about his “medicines” to a rural audi¬ 
ence. “Yes, gentlemen,” he said, “I have 
sold these pills for over twenty-five years 
and never heard a word of complaint. 
Now, what does that prove?” From a 
voice in the crowd came: “That dead 
men tell no tales.”—Tit-Bits. 
j Mr. Fruit Grower 1 
Every day brings its order *f| 
for one of these true 
“FRIEND” power spray¬ 
ing outfits from prominent 
fruit growers— 
i There’s a Reason I 
E These men live in California, E 
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E Virginia, Massachusetts, etc. E 
~ JohnT. Moore of Boscawen, N. TT., tz 
writes us November n, 1913— 
= Dear Sirs: * * * 1 have the best crop — 
of apples in this section of New —; 
j|j Hampshire this year—when apples 
S arc worth something—thanks to the — 
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E Our method of caring for you E 
E from the time you first inquire E 
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We Will Please Yoa— 
Tell Us Your Needs and 
We’ll Do the Rest 
1 “FRIEND” MFG. CO. of Gasport, N. Y. E 
§1 I am ,... will be. ...in the market for power 
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CAUTION! 
The great popularity of the 
clean, pure, healthful 
WRIGLEYSb. 
SPEARMINT 
is causing unscrupulous persons to wrap 
rank imitations that are not even real 
chewing gum so they resemble genuine 
WRIGLEY’S ESEEE^. The better 
class of stores will not try to fool you 
with these imitations. They will be 
offered to you principally by street fakirs, 
peddlers and the candy departments of 
some 5 and 10 cent stores. These rank 
imitations cost dealers one cent a pack¬ 
age or even less and are sold to careless 
people for almost any price. 
If you want Wregley’s look before you 
buy. Get what you pay for. 
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Be sure it’s 
WRIGLEY’S 
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We are inserting this advertisement solely 
to protect our customers, who are contin¬ 
ually writing us that they have been 
deceived 
chased 
i y wo uiuu jr uv.vti 
:eived by imitations which they pur- 
iscd thinking they were WRIGLEY’S. 
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BOTHERED 
WITH SCALE? 
The oncabsolute- 
ly sure spray for 
San Jose is 
“Scalecide.” Used 
in the best orchards 
everywhere. En¬ 
dorsed by Experiment Sta¬ 
tions. Will keep your trees 
cleanandhealliiy andinake them 
yield number one frutt. Better 
than lime sulphur. Kasy to handle Will not clog 
or corrode the pump or Injure th- s': In. "Sralecldo 
has no substitute. OURSliRVlCK DEPART- 
Mli'J T furnishes everythin? f»r the orchard. 
Write today to Department “N” fur near book 
—"Pratt's Hand Boole fur Fruit Growers" 
and “Scalecide" the Tree Saver. Both free. 
PRATT CO., 50 Church Street, New York City 
TO KII.I, 
San Jose Scale 
USK 
Bergenport Brand Sulphur 
The best sulphur for Lime Sulphur Solution. 
Combines easily and quickly with lime. Write to 
T. & 8. C. WHITE Jfc CO. 
HERGENPOKT SULPHUR WORKS 
100 Willifim Street, New Vorlr 
It tick tf, Barrel, 4-Row Potato Sprayers, Power 
Orchard Rigs, etc. World's host lino. All latest 
devices. Mechanical liquid agitation and strainer 
I cleaning. Tell us your needs— let us advise you. Cuta- 
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Field Force Pump Co., 2 11th St., Elmira, N.Y. 
Nitrate of Soda 
for 
Home Mixing 
Fertilizers 
WILCOX FERTILIZER CO. 
Manufacturers of Wilcox Fertilizer 
“Fertilizers that Fertilize" 
MYSTIC CONNECTICUT 
The Morrill & lYEorloy Way 
Use an Kclipse Spray Pump. 
Used by the U. B ; ■ p rt- 
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Illustrated catalogue free. 
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Stalioo 4 Benton Harbor. Mich. 
Eclipse Spray Pump 
San Jose ScaleKiller 
KIL-O-SCALE is the most reliable rem¬ 
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Spraying Outfits. Write for catalogue. 
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