1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
33 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The six-story building at 
424 and 42(i West Fourth street, Cincinnati, 
O.. was gutted by fire December 22. The 
building was occupied by the Sol and Sig 
Freherg Company, wholesale whisky mer¬ 
chants. The loss is estimated by the 
Salvage Corps at $200,000. Among the 
stock lost was 12,500 bottles of whisky. 
Thomas Doyle, an assistant dock superin¬ 
tendent for Arbuckle Brothers, has been in¬ 
dicted by the Federal Grand Jury for de¬ 
frauding the customs. When John Arbuckle 
and his nephew and partner, William A. 
Jamison, restored $095,000 to the Treasury 
to cover customs frauds that had been going 
on about 10 years, the Government prose¬ 
cutors said that no immunity from criminal 
prosecution had been granted. The charges 
against Assistant Superintendent Doyle have 
to do with the entrance of raw sugar from 
Cuba at less than its actual weight. In 
February, 1907, 486 hags of raw sugar 
from Cuba were brought to the Arbuckle 
docks by the steamship Mexico. The gross 
weight of the sugar was returned to the 
Custom House as 1.102,380 pounds, but the 
actual weight was 1.124,380 pounds. The 
Government was defrauded of $335.83 in 
duties, according to the indictment. The 
steamship Falco, on June 1, 1906, brought 
from Cuba to the Arbuckles 9.000 hags of 
raw sugar. The weight was turned in to 
the (*ustom House as 2,899,736 pounds. The 
real weight of the consignment was 2,920,- 
422. On that cargo the Treasury was out' 
of pocket $364.04. 
Fines to the amount of $14,000 were as¬ 
sessed by Judge George F. Robinson at 
Youngstown, O., December 23, against the 
self-confessed grafters, who are to remain 
in the custody of the Sheriff until the fines 
are paid. Ten county officials and con¬ 
tractors are included. The sentence of (lie 
Court was a tine of. $500 for each indict¬ 
ment. 
After being practically given up by his 
friends as lost the Right Rev. I. O. Stringer, 
of the Church of England, Bishop of Sel¬ 
kirk, returned December 24 from Fort Mac- 
Pherson at the mouth of the Mackenzie 
River. With Charles F. Johnson, a mis¬ 
sionary, he left the fort on September 1. 
During the trip the two men laid to walk 
through fog and storm and bitter cold for 
twenty-five days. Their scanty food gave 
out and just before they found friendly 
Indians they were compelled to eat their 
moccasins. Each man lost fifty pounds in 
weight. 
The National Highways Protective So¬ 
ciety has concluded that the present laws 
of the State of New York regulating the 
issuing and revoking of automobile and 
motorcycle licenses are inadequate. Bills 
will be introduced at Albany designed 1o 
prevent the improper and unreasonable use 
of public highways, protect the rights of 
the public in the roads and streets and en¬ 
deavor to bring about reasonable and uni¬ 
form rules and regulations. The chief of 
police of Niagara Falls recommends that the 
license certificate of a chauffeur should have 
his photograph attached in duplicate, one 
to remain in the office issuing the license. 
The society wants a highway commission 
appointed by the Governor, consisting of 
three members, who shall have the sole 
power of issuing licenses to drivers of 
automobiles and motorcycles, such license 
to he issued only after the applicant has 
passed an examination as to ability to 
drive under congested traffic conditions 
and as to mechanical knowledge. T'nder 
the present law anyone can obtain a license 
by simply sending $2 to the Secretary of 
State. The commission would also have 
the power to revoke and reissue licenses. 
The bill will provide that no license shall 
be issued to a person under 18 and that 
any intoxicated person driving an auto¬ 
mobile or motorcycle shall lose his license. 
The Reily Building, a three-story brick 
structure at Pittsfield, Mass., containing 
the Bossey Clark Company, clothing; F. 
M. Kirby & Co., notions; Wood Bros., 
pianos, and offices and lodge rooms for five 
fraternal orders, burned December 20. The 
loss on building and contents is $90,000. 
The fire was fought in the face of a driving 
storm in two feet of snow. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Tobacco reached 
its highest price in the Kentucky market 
December 22, when one crop raised by Gar¬ 
ret Watts sold at the phenomenal figure of 
$30 a hundred. Still another crop brought 
$35.50 a hundred, both topping the former 
record price for Burley tobacco in Kentucky. 
During the present season over 12,000,000 
pounds of Burley tobacco has been sold 
on the local market at Lexington, which 
is far in excess of the sale for the present 
lime in 1907. and more than $1,o00,000 
has been invested by the buyers so far 
this year. The American Tobacco Company 
has been one of the largest buyers. 
At the annual meeting of the New Jersey 
State Horticultural Society, December 23, 
the following officers were elected : Presi¬ 
dent, Albert T. Repp. Glassboro; vice-presi¬ 
dent, Joseph Barton, Marlton; secretary, 
II. G. Taylor. Riverton ; treasurer, George 
E. DeCamp, Roseland ; executive committee, 
Horace Roberts, Moorestown ; Dr. .1. B. 
Ward, Newark; John S. Collins, Moores¬ 
town ; IV. II. Reed, Tennent ; E. S. Black, 
Little Silver: fruit committee, Lemuel and 
Charles Black. Ilightstown. and J. 11. I.ip- 
pineott, Moorestown ; Albert T. Repp. Glass¬ 
boro ; ,T. L. Lippincott, Riverton, and W. 
II. Reid, Tennent. 
One hundred and fourteen pounds of 
ladybirds, representing millions of insects, 
were received at the State insectary at 
Sacramento, Cal., I)eceml>er 24 from Hum¬ 
boldt Canon in Placer county. In this canon 
the ladybirds hibernate on moss beds. They 
were collected by Field Agent Whitney and 
carried on burros to railroad. They will 
be sent to melon and cabbage growers 
of Imperial Valley, wliose vines have been 
attacked by the aphis pest. 
The annual meeting of the New Y'ork 
State Sheep Breeders' Association will be 
held Wednesday evening, January 12, in 
connection with the New York State Breed¬ 
ers’ meeting at Utica, N. Y. Every farmer 
interested in sheep is urged to attend, as 
matters of importance are to be discussed. 
J. C. Duncan, president. 
The Ohio State Forestry Society will 
hold its sixth annual meeting in the as¬ 
sembly room of Hotel Vendome, Columbus, 
O., Thursday, January 13. Thursday even¬ 
ing the “grand’ combination banquet” will 
occur in Memorial Hall. The members of 
all of the allied societies are invited to 
join in this affair, which promises to be 
one of the big events in connection with 
these meetings. Note the date of the For¬ 
estry meeting, Thursday. January 13, which 
has been changed from that previously an¬ 
nounced. Write C. W. Wald, secretary, 
New Carlisle, O., for programme. 
PENNSYLVANIA STATE GRANGE.— 
James Wilson, Secretary of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, was se¬ 
verely criticised December 23 at the thirty- 
seventh annual meeting of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Grange, when a resolution was adopt¬ 
ed expression regret that lie had arrayed 
himself against Chemist Wiley on the pure 
food proposition. Another hit at Secretary 
Wilson was as follows : 
“Resolved, That the farmers of the nation 
have a right, to expect and demand of the 
Agricultural Department in Washington the 
very best action and service along the lines 
that will conduce to the enlargement of 
the farmers’ interests and welfare, and that 
we hold to strict account the Secretary 
of Agriculture, when the evidence is con¬ 
clusive that he is departing from those lines. 
“Resolved, That the persistent efforts of 
the Secretary of Agriculture to publish to 
the world the gross farm value of the pro¬ 
ducts of the farm without anything quali¬ 
fying or explanatory in connection with 
the same, is misleading, and we fear coming 
from the pen of so able a person as he 
designedly, cannot result in good to the 
farmer, but on the other hand is a positive 
detriment to his interests.” 
Resolutions were' adopted favoring the 
election of United Stall's Senators by pop¬ 
ular vote; opposing ship subsidies and a 
central banking system : favoring a closed 
season for the quail; demanding equaliza¬ 
tion of taxes; that public school teachers 
be paid the minimum salary for the mini¬ 
mum term, and for the publication of 
records of candidates for the Legislature. 
G. W. Larson, professor in the State Col¬ 
lege department of dairy husbandry, judged 
in the scheduled butter scoring contest, 
and announced these winners : S. E. Morse 
& Sons, Susquehanna, first: C. A. Morris, 
Olmsberg, second; Hillsdale Dairy, Pros¬ 
pect, and James Mahood, Troy, i’a., tied 
for third honors. The Finance Gommittee's 
report showed the Grange treasury to be 
in excellent condition and complimented A. 
Nevin pet rich, managing editor of the Penn¬ 
sylvania Grange News, for succeeding dur¬ 
ing his first year in office to put the publi¬ 
cation of the official organ on a paying 
basis. A recommendation to the National 
Grange was adopted that delegates to that 
body be chosen according to the propor¬ 
tionate numerical strength of the Grange 
within the State, as against the present 
system of each State only having as dele¬ 
gates the State Master and his wife. 
A Woman Farmer. — T am not a Nell 
Beverly, but four years ago, by the sudden 
death of my father, a farm was forced on 
my shoulders, and I realized that if I sold 
it, I should be forced to sacrifice on it. But 
I knew my father’s plans fully (he had’ 
only bought the farm a year before, having 
always been in the mercantile and lumber 
business, but had bought the farm as a 
place to retire to and take life easy) and 
J made up my mind I would take a try at 
it and see if I too could not work his plans 
out and make it a success. Fortunately 
he had bought a farm in “God’s own coun¬ 
try,” the Chautauqua County grape belt, 
where things are prosperous in every way. 
Well, I have worked it out and have 20 
acres of vineyard, all of which will ho in 
hearing next season. 1 have other land be¬ 
sides the vineyard, and I must own up 
that I have gleaned many ideas and hints 
from your paper that have been of value 
to me, though all my energies and thoughts 
nave been ^ directed toward the vineyard 
part first. You folks put up a good straight¬ 
forward paper that you can well be proud 
of, and I wish you continued success in it. 
New York. y. j. 
If I live and do well I will get you a 
new subscriber for your paper 12 months 
from now. I will do my share to double 
the circulation of The It. N.-Y. If more 
people would read it, humbugs and sharks 
would have a hard road to travel. In re¬ 
gard crops and conditions, corn in the shock 
is worth on the ground from $25 to $30 
per acre. Dogs, eight cents on foot; lx'ef, 
from four to six cents per pound on foot ; 
barley, 58 cents per bushel; oats, 45 cents; 
corn in the ear. $15 per ton ; potatoes, slow 
sale at 30 cents per bushel ; Timothy hay, 
from $10 to $12 per ton; in short, every¬ 
thing brings Chicago prices, with a little 
out for freight .and (ommission. I live 
about 80 miles from Chicago, aud 40 miles 
from Milwaukee. Land the last big salt) 
was $175 per acre near the little city of 
Delavan, a place of 2,500 inhabitants, but 
from $100 to $125 per acre is common. 
It pleased me quite a little when an Eastern 
man said they could not compete with the 
cheap lands of the West. m. if. 
Elkhorn, Wis. 
This has been a lean year with us, and 
many more I am afraid ; t he season was so 
unfavorable, first so very wet that the 
Spring work was delayed, then followed by 
the driest Summer we ever had here so 
far as I know, and insects to devour every¬ 
thing which did survive the drought, brand- 
new insects, too. We turned down a sod 
and applied lime to our early corn, and 
it was the worst we ever raised; the late 
corn would have been fine if it could have 
stood until next year, but on October 9, 
when the first hard frost came, it was just 
nice roasting ears. Neighbors told us it 
was so good for fattening hogs, but I don’t 
believe it, for they did not fatten, and 
were never satisfied. The chickens chased us 
all the time, even when their crops seemed 
to have about a pint of corn in them. 
They also left off laying for the first time 
in our experience of six years raising chick¬ 
ens. The Crimson clover, which was sown 
in the corn (our first experience) sprouted 
and came up in spite of the drought, only 
to be devoured by grasshoppers, which were 
very bad in this locality, just stripping 
whole fields of fodder. There is no clover 
to be seen, only in a few low places, but 
in spite of all this hard-luck story we are 
planning for next year, and we never had 
more courage in our hearts or more desire 
to keep on trying. Our young orchard did 
very well, and put out a good growth ; was 
planted in April, 1908. The ground has a 
cover crop of rye. We planted a bushel of 
potatoes just for trial, having read about 
some one’s experience in The It. N.-Y. Our 
wheat looks well; the hayfleld just tolerably 
well, so we are full of hope and courage, 
for which we feel very thankful. n. a. in 
Howard Co., Md. 
Horse Sense and 
Engine Sense 
When you,buy a horse, don’t you look at 
his feet and his teeth or see if he is balky ? 
Then according to his age, etc., you figure he 
is worth so much. 
Buy your engine the 
same way. Look at the 
quality of other engines 
as shown by design, 
material and workman¬ 
ship. 
Then Look at the IW~ 
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You will decide that 
all engines are not 
good engines, same as 
all horses are not good 
horses. You will also de¬ 
cide that for each dollar paid you receive more 
value in a “New Way ’’ than if you paid less for 
an ordinary engine. 
Owners of “NEW WAY” AIR COOLED ENGINES 
and “NEW WAY” POWER SPRAYERS never regret 
their bargain. 
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