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THE KURA.!* NEW-YORKER 
GENUiTe THOMAS^ 
PHOSPHATE POWDER 
(BASIC SLAG MEAL) 
KEY-TREE BRAND 
Grows Big Red Apples, Sound, High Colored 
Peaches, and Grapes that Do Not Shell Off 
GENUINE THOMAS PHOSPHATE produces fruit that ships better, 
looks better, tastes better and pays better than fruit raised otherwise. 
T By p u‘erfo" Genuine Thomas Phosphate Powder 
AT THE GREAT NEW ENGLAND FRUIT SHOW 
Held at Boston, Mass., Nov. 12-16, 1913 
First Prize, $150.00 in cash for best fifty 
boxes of Apples in the show—Won by 
T. K. Winsor, Rhode Island. 
First Prize best five boxes of Apples in the 
show—Won by Conyers Farm, G. A. 
Drew, Manager, Connecticut. 
First Prize Silver Cup offered by Governor 
Baldwin of Conneticut for best display of 
Baldwin Apples—Won by T. K. Winsor, 
Rhode Island. 
Sweepstakes Prize, $50.00 in cash for best 
box of Apples over entire show—Won 
by Conyers Farm, G. A. Drew, Manager, 
Connecticut 
First Prize Sitver Cnp offered by Governor 
Foss of Massachusetts for best display 
of Gravensteins—Won by T. K. Winsor, 
Rhode Island. 
First Prize best box of Baldwin Apples over 
entire show—Won by Arthur A. Moses, 
Connecticut. 
First Prize Bronze Statuette offered by 
Governor Pothier of Rhode Island for best 
display of Rhode Island Greenings—Won 
by T. K. Winsor, Rhode Island. 
First Prize best barrel of Roxbury Russets— 
Won by Bay Road Fruit Farm, Massa¬ 
chusetts. 
First Prize best ten boxes of Apples over 
entire show—Won by T. K. Winsor, 
Rhode Island. 
First Prize best barrel of Gravensteins— 
Won by T. K. Winsor, Rhode Island. 
First Prize best box of Grimes Golden^ 
Won by Conyers Farm, G. A. Drew, 
Manager, Connecticut. 
First Prize best box of Wagners—Won by 
Turner Hill Farm, Massachusetts. 
First Prize best barrel of Rhode Island 
Greenings— Won by Conyers Farm, G. 
A. Drew, Manager, Connecticut. 
First Prize best box of Mother Apples— 
Won by Conyers Farm, G. A. Drew, 
Manager, Connecticut. 
In addition to the above, many prizes were won in the State Classes as 
well as five firsts, several seconds in the plate classes, and many first in the 
various special competitions. 
The remarkably good results from the use of Genuine Thomas Phosphate 
Powder ( Basic Slag Meal) in fertilizing fruits and leguminous crops, no 
doubt account for the offering of other so-called Basic Slags said to be “just 
as good.” Prospective buyers are warned that these materials are not the 
same as Genuine Thomas Phosphate Powder, Key-Tree Brand. For 
your own protection insist upon having our Key-Tree trademark on every 
bag that you buy. 
Why Not Put YOUR Fruit in the Prize Winning Class by Purchasing 
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Key-Tree Bread 
FROM 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Gen. Jose Santos Ze- 
laya, for four terms President of Nicara¬ 
gua and now wanted in that country on 
the charge of murdering two fellow coun¬ 
trymen and also of stealing $11,500, was 
remanded to the Tombs Nov. 27, by 
United States Commissioner John A. 
Shields of New York for further hearing. 
Contending that $20,000 is too much 
for the life of a locomotive engineer, the 
Southern Railway Company, Nov. 28, ap¬ 
pealed to the Supreme Court of the 
United States to reverse the Supreme 
Court of South Carolina, which awarded 
that sum to the widow of an engine 
driver who was killed when his train 
dashed into a burning trestle near Alston, 
S. C., on August 29, 1911. 
Oliver P. Wiggins, known as Old Scout, 
a noted Indian fighter, the one surviving 
member of Kit Carson’s famous band, and 
the only resident of Denver who went 
through the Mexican war, died there 
Nov. 30 at the age of 90 years. Wiggins 
crossed the plains in 1S3S, running away 
from his home in Niagara Falls, N. Y., to 
become an Indian fighter at the age of 
15. He joined Carson immediately and 
he was with his band of forty-six trap¬ 
pers for ten years. 
The hunting season which ended Nov. 
30, cost 135 lives, in twenty-one States, 
according to a tabulation by a Chicago 
paper. In addition, 140 persons were in¬ 
jured, several of them fatally. Wisconsin 
was the chief sufferer of the season, with 
a total of 29 dead and 27 injured; Michi¬ 
gan came next, with 2S dead and 16 in¬ 
jured; New York was third, with 19 dead 
and 1 injured. The careless handling of 
weapons was the chief cause of death. 
Thirty-seven persons lost their lives at 
their * own hands. Twenty-four others 
shot themselves, but escaped with lesser 
injuries. The careless travelling compan¬ 
ion was held responsible for 24 deaths 
and 19 injuries. It was estimated that 
60,000 hunters were in the field in Michi¬ 
gan and Wisconsin alone, and with the 
thousands who tool^ the trail in Minne¬ 
sota, Maine and New York, the total 
was placed at more than 100,000. 
The strike of teamsters and chauffeurs 
began in Indianapolis Nov. 30. Accord¬ 
ing to Thomas J. Farrell, general organ¬ 
izer of the International Brotherhood of 
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and 
Helpers of America, 3,126 men are in¬ 
volved. With the exception of drivers of 
hearses, government wagons and auto¬ 
mobiles and express companies’ wagons 
and machines and union drivers of milk 
wagons, practically all the teamsters and 
chauffeurs will join the strike. One rioter 
was killed and four others were wounded 
in a battle Dec. 2, resulting from this 
strike. The teamsters appealed to other 
organizations for a sympathetic strike, 
their leaders asked that employers arbi¬ 
trate and a squad of police armed with 
l riot guns patrolled the streets all day un¬ 
der orders to shoot if order could not be 
otherwise maintained. 
Floods Dec. 2 destroyed several south 
Texas cities, killing twenty persons and 
destroying millions of dollars’ worth of 
property. The cities most affected are 
Belton, Nolunsville, Killone and \\ alker, 
the aggregate population of which is more 
than twenty-five thousand. Belton suf¬ 
fered the greatest loss. Here eleven 
lives were lost and more than $1,000,000 
worth of property destroyed. Girl tele¬ 
phone operators at Belton saved a hun¬ 
dred lives by refusing to leave their 
switchboards until they had warned all 
families possible of the on rushing flood in 
Nolan Creek and the Brazos River. 
Farmers were awakened by the girls and 
told to flee for their lives. The flood re¬ 
sulted from au excessive rainfall, which 
transformed small streams, normally 
hardly more than brooks, into rivers 
which for six to eight hours swept away 
houses, washed out railroad tracks aud 
cut gaps in telephone and telegraph lines. 
The Interstate Commerce Commission’s 
accident bulletin, issued Nov. 28 for the 
quarter ended June 30, 1913, shows that 
as compared with the corresponding 
quarter of 1912 there was a total increase 
of 140 in the number of persons killed 
and of 8,283 in the number injured in 
railroad accidents of all kinds in the 
United States. There was an increase of 
124 in the number of train accidents. 
Defective roadway aud defective equip¬ 
ment together caused more than 69 per 
cent of ail derailments reported. 15.1 per 
cent being caused by broken rails. The 
total number of casualties in all classes 
of accidents incident to railroading dur¬ 
ing the quarter was 2,535 killed and 49,- 
911 injured. These totals—2,286 killed 
and 15,868 injured—include accidents to 
employes while at work, to passengers 
getting on or off cars aud to trespassers.* 
The Pan-American Clearing House, an 
American concern at Havana, Cuba, ad¬ 
vertising extensively in the United States, 
is accused of fraud by postal officials 
there. The firm, which has offices in Ha¬ 
vana, has been advertising extensively 
in the United States, promising excel¬ 
lent positions in Cuba in return for a 
fee of several dollars. Owing to com¬ 
plaints coining from tbe United States 
alleging fraud the local postal depart¬ 
ment investigated the matter, and filed 
charges in court Dec. 2. It appears that 
many Americans are attracted to Havana 
hy the advertisements, expecting to take 
December 13, 
positions, but only sustain disappoint¬ 
ment on arriving in Cuba. Several have 
been forced to appeal to the American 
Consul for tickets home. 
An attempt to secure a monopoly of 
labor is charged in indictments returned 
by the federal grand jury held at Pueblo, 
Colo., Dec. 1., against national officers 
of the United Mine Workers of America. 
The men named are J. P. White, presi¬ 
dent; Frank J. Hayes, vice-president, and 
William Green, secretary-treasurer. Con¬ 
spiracy in restraint of interstate com¬ 
merce, in violation of the federal anti¬ 
trust law, is charged in indictments 
against officials of the United Mine 
Workers of America, as follows: Frank 
J. Hayes, John It. Lawson, Adolph Ger- 
mer, Robert Uhlrieh, A. B. McCary, 
James Morgan, Charles Batey and Edgar 
Wallace. 
December 1 magistrates in New York 
tried 398 auto speeders and collected 
$3,117 in fines. More persons were killed 
by automobiles in the streets of New 
York in the 30 days of November than in 
any other month of which record has 
been kept. Thirty-eight persons were 
killed in the five boroughs. Of that num¬ 
ber fifteen were children under 16 years. 
A hundred and fifteen persons were seri¬ 
ously injured, only hospital cases being 
included. Trolleys killed ten persons and 
injured fifty. Wagons killed eleven and 
injured thirty-four. Of the fifty-nine 
street killings twenty-one were children. 
Automobiles have killed more in eleven 
months of this year than all of last. 
The death list, to December 1 includes 
277 persons, of whom 147 were children, 
against 221 in all of 1912. In the last 
two months seventy-one persons have 
been killed by automobiles in New York 
city, against sixty-one killed in Chicago in 
the twelve months ended November 1. In 
Chicago the speed limit is ten miles an 
hour. 
Dominick Riley, ex-police captain and 
long considered one of the most capable 
and daring detectives on the New York 
force, was indicted for bribery Dec. 2. 
It is alleged that he took $1,000 in Octo¬ 
ber, 1912, from George McRae, and that 
this sum was one-half of the 20 per cent 
“rake-off” made by police officials on 
every wire tapping swindle. District 
Attorney Whitman believes that more in¬ 
dictments will be found against Riley, 
and that other police officials will follow 
him to the bar. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—T. P. Gill, 
secretary of the Irish Board of Agricul¬ 
ture is here to urge the removal of the 
embargo on potatoes from his country. 
He insists that the powdery scab found 
on potatoes imported from Ireland is no 
cause for a quarantine, because a similar 
blemish is common in the United States, 
and says that continuance of the embargo 
will contribute to the growing cost of 
living. 
The big free distribution of seeds by the 
Government will be discontinued if Con¬ 
gress adopts a recommendation of the 
Secretary of Agriculture submitted Dec. 
1. Secretary Houston asks $296,000 for 
seeds, $146,000 less than last session. If 
Congress authorizes the change allot¬ 
ments will be made sufficient for cultiva¬ 
tors to determine the value and possi¬ 
bility of economically cultivating and har¬ 
vesting new crops. 
In the final rush to get on their way 
down the lakes before midnight, and thus 
avoid the necessity of having their in¬ 
surance extended, twenty-five freighters, 
carrying about 8.000,000 bushels of grain, 
cleared for the East from Fort William, 
tint., Nov. 30. For a week ships had 
been lying two, three and even four 
abreast at the docks, awaiting their turn 
to slip under the spouts at the elevators, 
and the elevator men have been working 
from 14 to 20 hours a day to keep the 
streams of grain running into_the holds 
of the vessels. More than 250 vessels 
cleared from this harbor during Novem¬ 
ber, this constituting a record. 
Raw wool came into the country free 
for the first time under the provisions 
of the new tariff law Dec. 1. On that 
day there were 269 withdrawals from 
the public stores, where importers had 
allowed their consignments to accumulate 
for some time, awaiting the lifting of 
the duty. The withdrawals amounted to 
25.559 bales, weighing 10,128,231 pounds 
and valued at $1,694,347. The with¬ 
drawals Dec. 2 fell off considerably, num¬ 
bering only 44. Those included 3,209 
bales, weighing 1,322.542 pounds and 
valued at $232,774. The reduced duties 
on manufactured wool products will go 
into effect on January 1. 
The Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege Extension Service has arranged for 
an extension school to be held at Bolton 
Jan. 12 to 16. 1914. This school covers 
the six surrounding towns as well as 
Bolton. 
OBITUARY.—Henry Hales, nursery¬ 
man, poultryman and horticulturist, died 
at his home at Ridgewood, N. J., last 
month. lie had reached the ripe age of 
fourscore, having come to this country 
from England iu his early youth. Mr. 
Hales was an enthusiastic cultivator of 
fruits and nuts, and is commemorated by 
the Hales Paper-shell hickory nut, first 
described in The R. N.-Y. many years 
ago. In former years he was a valued 
contributor to our columns, and though 
advancing age caused his withdrawal 
from some former activities, he retained 
a keen interest in horticultural matters, 
which will make his loss felt by many 
friends and correspondents. 
