THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—A blaze which started in 
the hold of the North German Lloyd liner 
i'rinz Friedrich Wilhelm as she lay at her 
pier in Hoboken May 25 called out the en¬ 
tire lire lighting force of that city. Before 
it was curbed Fire Chief Dunn and a dozen 
or more of his men had been. overcome by 
smoke and carried off to the hospital. Capt. 
i’rehn, commander of the ship, was also 
overcome, and for several hours the crew 
and a hundred or more firemen fought hard 
to keep the blaze confined to the hold in 
which it started. In this they succeeded. 
Some 250 bales of cotton were destroyed by 
the fire, and several hundred more bales, 
as well as part of the general cargo, are 
supposed to have been damaged by smoke 
and water. The cotton in No. 5 hold was 
estimated to be worth about .$30,000, and 
it is practically ruined. 
The State Court of Criminal Appeals at 
Austin, Tex., May 25, sustained the validity 
of the law prohibiting betting on horse 
races and operating poolrooms. It is held 
to be unlawful to bet on horse races in 
that State or to place bets within the State 
on races run in another State or even in a 
foreign country. In the ease at bar the 
race was run at Juarez, Mexico, and the 
bet was made with a man in Tulsa, Okla. 
It was in the ex parte proceedings of Jack 
Walsh seeking habeas corpus and who is 
remanded to the Sheriff of Grayson county. 
Walsh, according to the allegations in the 
record, accepted $10 from Y. 11. Allen and 
telegraphed the same to one R. L. Allison 
at Tulsa to be bet on Knight Deck, a horse 
entered at Juarez. The application for 
habeas corpus was based on the contention 
that the law was unconstitutional. The 
court wrote no opinion of itself, but adopt¬ 
ed as its view the elaborate brief of As¬ 
sistant Attorney-General John A. Mobley. 
It negatives the six counts urged against 
the law, presenting argument and citing 
authorities in each instance. 
The Hotel Champlain, situated at Bluff 
Point, on Lake Champlain, one of the larg¬ 
est Summer resorts in Northern New York, 
was destroyed by fire May 25. No guests 
were in the hotel at the time, as it had not 
yet been opened for the Summer season. 
Although the cause of the fire has not been 
ascertained, it is believed to have resulted 
from a lighted cigarette or cigar carelessly 
thrown aside. The loss will amount to 
about $300,000. It was insured for $233,- 
000. On June 24 last the Fort William 
Henry Hotel, on Lake George, another big 
hotel owned by the Delaware & Hudson 
Company, was destroyed by fire under some¬ 
what similar circumstances—a few days be¬ 
fore the date fixed for the Summer opening. 
A jury before Justice Dugro in the Su¬ 
preme Court May 25 returned a verdict 
finding Thomas Burke, coachman for O. F. 
White, of Cedarhurst, L. L, guilty of hav¬ 
ing a turkey buzzard in his possession, in 
captivity, contrary to the law of the State, 
and assessed the statutory penalty of $85 
and costs against him. If the fine is not 
paid Burke will have to spend eighty-five 
days in jail. 
The plant of the Hooker Development 
Company, at Niagara Falls, N. Y., one of 
the largest chemical concerns in this coun¬ 
try, was burned May 27. The loss is $400,- 
000 . 
The Dean Lumber Company’s plant at El¬ 
mira, N. Y., was destroyed by fire May 27. 
The loss is estimated at $100,000, partly 
insured. On the way to the lire a hose 
wagon was struck by a fast Lackawanna 
passenger train. No. 7, at the Madison ave¬ 
nue crossing. Both horses were killed out¬ 
right. Drivers O’Leary and Sullivan were 
hurled many feet from their seats, but 
miraculously escaped serious injury. 
James Strosnidcr, who is known to the 
police as a bunco man, was arrested May 
27 by two men from the Adams Street 
Police Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. He has 
been arrested before. The incident for 
which the police took him into custody 
occurred two months ago in New York. He 
and “Big Bill” Kellilier are alleged to have 
won $180,000 from George W. Coleman, a 
bookkeeper for the National City Bank of 
Cambridge, Mass., at a faro game in New 
York. Strosnider’s arrest comes, apparent¬ 
ly, as the result of the confession of George 
W. Coleman, the bank clerk. Coleman told 
the Cambridge police in the latter part of 
March that he had stolen $180,000 from 
the bank, and that all of it went in playing 
faro. Coleman said further that while he 
was in jail an attorney came to him from 
the faro gang in an effort to induce him to 
sign a statement to the effect that he had 
lost half of his takings in stock specula¬ 
tion, some more on the Mayoralty election 
in Boston and the rest in riotous living. 
He said the attorney told him that he was 
due to go to the Atlanta prison anyhow and 
that if only he would sign the statement 
pressure would be brought to bear to se¬ 
cure his speedy release. He repudiated the 
offer and proceeded to tell the Cambridge 
police how he got into the way of playing 
faro with the gang. 
Glenn H. Curtiss, the American aviator, 
sailed from Albany to Manhattan Island 
May 29, doing the 137 miles in 152 min¬ 
utes. His average speed was 54.8 miles 
an hour. He received a prize of $10,000, 
and has also made an international record 
for speed. 
Judge David P. Dyer, of the United 
States Circuit Court for the Eastern Dis¬ 
trict of Missouri, issued a temporary in¬ 
junction May 31 restraining twenty-five 
Western railroads from enforcing, effecting 
or making the advances in Interstate Com¬ 
merce Commission tariff All 5 on the 
ground that the advances have been arrived 
at ‘‘by the defendants therein by agree¬ 
ment with each other and without compe¬ 
tition and in violation of the act of July 2, 
1890, called the Sherman anti-trust act.” 
It is further stated in the restraining or¬ 
der that “unless such a restraining order 
be issued said advances will become effec¬ 
tive .Tune 1, 1910, to the grave harm and 
injury of the people of the United States.” 
The petition upon which the injunction 
was issued was presented to Judge Dyer by 
Edwin 1*. Grosvenor, of Washington, assist¬ 
ant to the Attorney-General of the United 
States, and Frederick N. Judson. of St. 
Louis, acting in a like capacity. The peti¬ 
tion was signed by George W. Wickersham, 
Attorney-General: William S. Kenyon, as¬ 
sistant to the Attorney-General; Frederick 
N. Judson and Edwin I‘. Grosvenor, special 
assistants to the Attorney-General, and 
Charles A. Ilouts, United States Attorney. 
These railroads are restrained from put¬ 
ting into effect the proposed advance in 
freight rates: Atchison, Topeka and Santa 
Fe, Chicago and Alton. Chicago and North¬ 
western, Chicago. Burlington and Quincy, 
Chicago Great Western, Chicago, Indiana 
and Southern, Chicago, Milwaukee and 
nary, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, 
Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis, Chicago, 
Bock Island and Pacific, Chicago, St. Paul, 
Minneapolis and Omaha, Elgin, Joliet and 
Eastern, Fort Dodge, Des Moines and 
South, Illiuois Central, Iowa Central, Kan¬ 
sas City Southern, Minneapolis and St. 
Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. 
Marie (Chicago division;, Missouri, Kansas 
and Texas, Missouri Pacific, Quincy, Omaha 
and Kansas City, Iowa and St. Louis, St. 
Louis and San Francisco, St. Paul and 
Des Moines and the Wabash. 
May 31 there was heavy snow and severe 
cold at Calumet, Mich.,’ accompanied by a 
violent gale, which extended over the Lake 
Superior region. It was the coldest May 31 
for 40 years. In Pittsburg, Pa., many 
schools were closed on account of the cold, 
the steam heat being unavailable. 
THE SUGAR FRAUDS.—The trail of the 
Government prosecutor in the sugar frauds 
led right into the executive olnces of the 
sugar trust at 117 Wall Street May 20 at 
the trial of Charles R. Hcike, the secretary 
of the company, with other dexendauts, be¬ 
fore Judge Martin in the United State Cir¬ 
cuit Court. In all of the previous cases 
arising out of the frauds and in the present 
trial up until now the evidence collected by 
Prosecutor Stimson and his assistants has 
had to do largely with what went on where 
the sugar was weighed and in the offices of 
the refiners. May 20 it dealt exclusively 
with what went on in Wall street, where 
the figures were put together. Mr. lleike 
was me defendant against whom this evi¬ 
dence was aimed. \\ nen the sugar frauds 
were exposed the books of the company in 
nail Street did not balance by many thou¬ 
sands of pounds on the basis of the false 
weights procured through the manipulation 
of the scales. With these weights as a 
basis—and statements put in showed this— 
more refined sugar was being turned out 
ot the refineries than raw sugar that went 
into them, and in the refining of sugar 
there is generally a loss. But the books 
were made to balance in the company’s 
offices by inserting there amounts that it is 
alleged represented the • difference between 
the true weights and the false. The false 
weights were made up first and appeared 
in black ink. Then the differences at the 
end of each month, carefully collected in 
the meantime, were inserted in red ink. 
Ihen the statements, with the black figures 
and the red figures were turned over to Mr. 
lleike. It was all done, according to the 
testimony, in liis oflice. After the Govern- 
ment had finished the introduction of its 
evidence May 27 three of the six men ac¬ 
cused of taking part in a conspiracy to de¬ 
fraud the Governmeut withdrew their plea 
of not guilty and entered pleas of guilty to 
the indictment. Judge Martin accepted the 
pleas, and explained that he would sentence 
these three men—namely, Harry Walker, 
the former assistant dock boss, and tally¬ 
men \ oelker and Halligan, after the con¬ 
clusion of the trial of the others. The 
judge’s ground in deferring sentence was 
that immediate sentence might affect the 
minds of the jury in the trial of the three 
defendants who are still fighting the Gov¬ 
ernment’s case. These men are Charles If. 
lleike, secretary and treasurer of the Sugar 
1 rust; Ernest W. Gerbracht, formerly su¬ 
perintendent of the Ilavemeyer & Elder Re¬ 
finery, and James F. Bendernagel, cashier 
of that refinery. _ Bendernagel was tried 
last December along with another lot of 
sugar employes, and the jury disagreed in 
his case, although it convicted the others, 
lie was reindicted with the five other men 
who have been defendants in the present 
trial. Attorney Dennison for the Govern¬ 
ment continued reading into the record let¬ 
ters written by lleike showing his close 
knowledge of every detail of the manage¬ 
ment of the sugar business and his knowl¬ 
edge of the fact that the weights obtained 
for Custom House purposes on the piers 
where the weighing frauds were perpetrated 
ran constantly below the weights on which 
the company was paying for its sugar, and 
was afterward estimating its meltings 
May 31 the defence began. The defence of 
both Bendernagel, the cashier of the Wil¬ 
liamsburg refinery, and Gerbraelit, its su¬ 
perintendent, is that Spitzer, the dock su¬ 
perintendent, had a department all to him¬ 
self, a lid that they had nothing to do with 
weighing, Bendernagel liardlv knowing one 
weight from another. In his opening for 
Gerbracht, George MacKellar, his counsel, 
in addition to laying whatever biame there 
was on Spitzer, mentioned the names of 
J. O. Donuer and F. E. Matthiessen, former 
directors of the trust and both dead. He 
said that Gerbracht instead of having 
charge of the refinery while these men were 
alive was only a sugar boiler seeing that 
the fires were kept under the pots, and that 
the man really in charge of what was go¬ 
ing on in a real managerial sense was first 
Mr. Douner and then Mr. Matthiessen, 
whose offices were at the refinery. Mr. 
Matthiessen died in 1900. After that Ger¬ 
bracht’s powers were slightly extended, but 
never did cover Spitzer, so Mr. MacKellar 
said. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Coney Island had 
a strange fire May 25 when 450 trees that 
had just arrived from Maine were burned 
under the supervision of inspectors of the 
State Agricultural Department, to prevent 
the introduction of the Brown-tail moth. 
A carload of trees had been shipped to an 
amusement park proprietor, who intended 
to decorate his pavilion on Memorial Day. 
His order called for pines, fir and cypress, 
but the woodmen included a lot of birch 
trees. When inspectors from the office of 
the Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture, 
Henry II. Kracke, examined the shipment 
they found the presence of Brown-tail 
moths on the birch trees, and they quickly 
held up the timber. 
Half a dozen egg dealers appeared in 
the Firdt Criminal Court at Newark, N. J„ 
May 30 against William Low, a grocer of 
142 Prince street, who was arrested for 
obtaining goods under false pretences. He 
was taken into custody on complaint of 
Jordan R. Fox & Son. poultrymen and egg 
dealers of Little York, N. Y., who allege 
he obtained 120 dozen fresh eggs from 
them on May 17. There are five other con¬ 
cerns who assert that they have sent eggs 
in lots of 120 dozen each to Low in the last 
two or three weeks, and with the excep¬ 
tion of one of them declare they have re¬ 
ceived no money from the shipments. 
Representatives of these concerns wont to 
Newark to hunt up a man named Everett, 
to whom shipments were sent. There is 
no one of that name at the Prince street 
address, and the only person in Newark of 
that name who deals in eggs on a large 
scale is William II. Everett, a grocer of 
Washington and Court streets. He con¬ 
vinced the agents that he was not the 
man and the police were called in. Per¬ 
sonating an employee of an express com¬ 
pany Detective Walzer of police head¬ 
quarters went to Low’s place, and the lat¬ 
ter is alleged to have said that he “received 
goods for Everett.” He was arrested, and 
according to the detective Low told him 
that “a fellow named Everett” came to his 
store a short time ago and asked if he 
might run his business from there. 
The Agricultural Improvement Associa¬ 
tion of New York State was organized May 
27 at the Hotel Belmont, with President 
W. C. Brown, of the New York Central 
lines, as president, for the purpose of at¬ 
tracting attention to the opportunities of¬ 
fered by farm life in this State. 
_ Mrs. S. F. Hennington, of Shelbyville, 
Ivy., made the star purchase at T. S. 
Cooper’s sale of imported Jersey cattle at 
the Linden Grove Farm May 30, buying 
Sultana Oxford Lad for $11,100. There 
was a general demand among breeders that 
Cooper offer his two fine young bulls of the 
Sultana strain. He led forth two, Oxford 
Lad and Golden Jolly, announcing that the 
high bidder might take his choice. Stand¬ 
ing beside Mrs. . .onnington was her uncle, 
James B. Haggin, the Louisville horse 
breeder. Wayne MacVeagh stopped bidding 
at $9,000 and James McCrea, president of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad, at $10,000. 
M. S. Beltzhoover, of Irvington-on-the- 
lludson, paid the world's record price for 
a Jersey cow, bidding Golden Sultana up to 
$3,700. One hundred and thirty-one head, 
including fourteen calves, were sold for 
$90,440. 
THE CONSUMER’S DOLLAR. 
A wholesale dealer in New York sends 
the following statement to the New Y'ork 
Times. This shows the difference between 
wholesale and retail prices for the week 
ending May 28. 
QUOTED PRICES. WIIOLESALEPRICES 
Strawberries, 20c. to Strawberries—Whole¬ 
sale, Gc. to 10c.; 
Jerseys, 7c. to 10c. 
per quart; Dela¬ 
ware, lid., and Vir¬ 
ginia, Gc. to 9c.; 
Norfolk, fancy, 7c. 
to 8 c. 
to Pineapples, 3c. to 15c.; 
Porto Rico, 4c. to 
15c.; Cuba, 3c. to 
15c.; Florida, Gc. to 
10c. 
Grapefruit, 20c. each. Grapefruit, 3c. to 
10c.; Florida, fancy, 
$3.50 to $4.50; 
Florida, straight, 
$2.25 to $3.25; 
Florida, small, $1.50 
to $2; California, 
$1.50 to $4; Porto 
Rico, $1.40 to $3; 
Cuba, $1.50 to $2.80. 
Apples, $1.50 per doz. Apples, $3.25 per box, 
Newtown and Ar- 7 to 10 dozen to 
kansas Black. the box. 
Asparagus, 20c. to Asparagus, $1.23 to 
40c. per bunch. $2.50 per doz.; ex¬ 
tra, Giant, $2.75 to 
$4. These are sel¬ 
dom sold to shop¬ 
keepers. 
Spinach, 20c. per half Spinach, 30c. to GOc. 
P<?ck. per barrel, 24 half 
pecks to the barrel. 
Green cabbage, 10c. Green cabbage, 25c. to 
each. $1.25 per barrel or 
crate of 50 to GO 
cabbages. 
Tomatoes, 25c. per lb. Tomatoes, $1.75 to $2 
per crate, 24 pounds 
to the crate. 
Cucumbers, 10c. each. Cucumbers, $1 to $1.50 
per basket, 60 to 
100 cucumbers. 
Eggplants, 15c. apiece. Eggplants, $1.50 to 
$2.50 per crate, 50 
to GO eggplants. 
Cauliflower, 25c. each. Cauliflower, $1 to 
$1.75 per half bar¬ 
rel, about 30 cauli¬ 
flowers. 
Rhubarb, 3 bunches Rhubarb, $1 per 100 
for 10c. bunches. 
Bermuda and Florida Bermuda and Florida 
new potatoes, 15c. new potatoes, $2 to 
a quart. $4 per barrel, about 
80 quarts or 2% 
bushels. 
Sweet potatoes, 10c. Sweet potatoes almost 
a quart. unsalable, 40c. to 
$1 per basket,, 30 
to 40 quarts. 
These “wholesale’ figures do not repre¬ 
sent what the farmers and gardeners re¬ 
ceived. Out of these prices must come 
freight and expressage, cartage and com¬ 
mission, supposing that returns were made 
on the actual sales at these “wholesale” 
prices. These items cover one-third or 
more of this price. Now how much of the 
dollar spent for these articles does the 
farmer receive? 
FIRST MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 
GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 
The American Gladiolus Society was 
formed at Horticultural Hall, Boston, 
Mass., May 27. A permanent organization 
was effected, with 75 charter members; a 
constitution and by-laws were adopted. 
There was great enthusiasm manifest from 
beginning to end, and the new society starts 
in with very brilliant prospects. The meet¬ 
ing was called to order by Maurice Fuld, of 
Boston, who by his voluntary efforts de¬ 
serves great credit for bringing the Gladio- 
lus people together. In a few well-chosen 
remarks intersnersed with timely sugges¬ 
tions, Mr. Fuld stated the purpose of the 
meeting and then introduced Prof. G. E. 
Stone, of Amherst College, who presided 
over the meeting. Prof. Stone gave a very 
interesting talk on floriculture and its re¬ 
lation to the farm and home, and received 
hearty applause. A paper by II. Youell. 
Syracuse, New York, giving the history of 
the first varieties of Gladiolus Gandavensis 
hybrids, was listened to with evident ap¬ 
preciation and interest. The society has 
accepted an invitation to meet with the 
Society of American Florists at their an¬ 
nual exhibition at Rochester, N. YU, in 
August. The Department of Horticulture 
of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., has 
tendered the use of their trial grounds for 
the growing and testing of varieties of 
Gladioli, and the offer was accepted with 
a lively vote of thanks. A sincere vote of 
thanks was also extended to the Massa¬ 
chusetts Horticultural Society for the use 
of their hall, to Prof. Stone for the able 
manner in which he presided, to Mr. II. 
Youell for his most interesting essay, and 
to the Society of American Florists for 
their kind invitation to meet with them at 
40c. a box. 
Pineapples, 25c. 
,75c. each. 
Rochester. The meeting was enlivened by 
spirited but friendly discussion in which 
the following ail took part: Arthur Cowee, 
Berlin, N. Y.; Arthur lioddington, New 
York City; Montague Chamberlain, Boston; 
Maurice Fuld, Boston; J. K. Alexander, 
East Bridgewater, Mass.; Robert Cameron, 
ot the Harvard Botanic Gardens; Eugene 
Fisher, Jamaica Plains, Mass.; I. S. Hen¬ 
drickson, Floral Park, N. Y. ; Prof.’ L. B. 
Judson, of Cornell University; Carl Cropp, 
New York, and L. Merton Gage, Orange, 
Mass. 
serve for one year: President, 1. S. Hen¬ 
drickson, Floral Park. N. Y.; vice-president, 
E. II. Cushman, .Sylvanin, O.; treasurer, 
Maurice I' uld, liostou, Mass.; correspond- 
ing secretary, L. Merton Gage, Orange, 
Mass. ; fianancial secretary, II. Youell, 
Syracuse, N. Y. Executive committee, 
Arthur Boddingtou, New York ; Arthur 
Kirby, New York; J. K. Alexander, East 
Bridgewater, Mass. Committee on nomen¬ 
clature, Arthur Cowee. Berlin, N. Y.; Prof. 
L B. Judson, Cornell University, Ithaca, 
N. Y.; Leonard Joerg, Floral Park, N. Y. 
l. ax. g. 
imttee on markets and transportation, 
the chairman, N. T. France, gives the fol¬ 
lowing estimates of this year’s crop from 
such counties as have reported: Peaches, 
Eastern Panhandle, 500,009 baskets. Apples, 
counties having county societies: Berkeley 
County,, iOO,000 barrels: Jefferson County, 
•> 0,000 barrels; Hampshire Couutv, 5,000 
barrels; mineral County, 3,600 bands; 
bounty, ->50u barrels; Mingo County, 
3,000 barrels; Mason County, not over GO 
per cent of a full crop; Monongalia County, 
no report; Greenbrier County, no report. 
MISSOURI FRUIT. The Missouri Board 
of Horticulture reports as follows; There 
was widespread injury from the low tem¬ 
peratures _ which prevailed between April 
-.0 aud 2 .>, and as a result it seems that 
practically all the fruit was killed iu the 
central-northern, northeastern, eastern and 
m many of the counties of the central 
part of the State. With the exception of 
three or lour counties in the second tier 
south of the Missouri River and extending 
southwestward about four counties back 
from the Mississippi River, all of the re¬ 
gions mentioned seem to have been swept 
clean of practically all kinds of fruits. The 
fruit that remains in good condition is con- 
lied to approximately one-third of the 
State, consisting of three or four tiers of 
counties along the western border and the 
whole of the southwestern corner, as well 
as one tier of counties along the Arkansas 
line extending as far eastward as Ripley 
County. In other words the apples and 
peaches up to May 15 were found to he 
confined to about 40 or 45 counties mainly 
in the west (from Iowa to Arkansas) and 
in the southwest and south. In these 40 or 
4o counties the condition of the apple crop 
tor the whole area is 46 per cent, while for 
the whole State it is only 26 per cent. In 
the 40 or 45 counties the peach crop 
amounts to 25 per cent, while for the whole 
State it is only 18 per cent. The best 
prospect for peaches is in the well-known 
Koshkouong district iu Oregon and Howell 
Counties, where the outlook is for a full 
crop. The highest percentage of a crop of 
apples is reported from Buchanan and the 
three surrounding counties. However, 
eight or 10 of the counties iu the extreme 
southwestern corner of the State have pres- 
pects of from 25 to 50 or 60 per cent of 
a crop. The cold weather has caused apple 
scab to anneal- iu a tVw places, particularly 
in the southwest. Cmeulio have begun to 
puncture peaches iu orchards that have not 
been sprayed. 
OHIO FRUIT NOTE.—We have excellent 
prospects for tree fruits iu this county 
generally, most all being full unless it is 
some that are on the decline or were too 
full last year. Not far north or west most 
of the fruit was killed a month ago, hut 
we escaped here on the hills aud along the 
Ohio River, hut on the creeks it frosted 
and froze hard several times, being down 
to 26 three or four times, while it was 
above tlie freezing point on the hills. We 
have no apple scab yet. the first time in my 
recollection when it did not show up. None 
even on trees not sprayed. Insect injury 
is not perceptible either, so the quality of 
the fruit and also foliage was never bet¬ 
ter and it is early, too. Pears did not 
bloom well generally so they are the light¬ 
est of all tree fruits here, still there will he 
enough Kieffer to go around. We have 
thinned quite a lot of plums aud com¬ 
menced on the early apples, aud from now 
on it looks like wo will be busy enough, 
thinning, mowing, gathering and 'marketing 
fruit, spraying for late brood of Codling 
moth, hauling cooperage for 4,000 barrels 
which we have ordered, making up the 
barrels, selecting fruit as the varieties 
ripen for the fairs aud the apple show at 
Columbus next Winter, unless it is post¬ 
poned on account of the poor prospect for 
apples in most of the State, most of them 
being killed except in this southern sec¬ 
tion of only a county or two, and some 
along the lake, aud even some growers 
there report very few left. We sprayed 
twice since the bloom dropped aud have 
commenced again, usiug Bordeaux and 
arsenate of lead on our Rome Beauty, and 
such varieties as do not show russ' ting of 
the fruit from Bordeaux, hut the varieties 
that have shown such injury we sprayed 
with homemade dilute concentrated lime- 
sulphur aud arsenate of lead, and the re¬ 
sults are promising, look as well as those 
sprayed with Bordeaux. There is no russet- 
ing of the skin from lime-sulphur that I 
have noticed, and not much from Bordeaux. 
The early part of the season was dry aud 
not favorable for Bordeaux Injury. As 
trees bloomed so early aud we got through 
with the spraying two weeks or more ear¬ 
lier than usual, and as it is rather wet 
since then and fearing fungi aud insect in¬ 
jury, wo deem it wise to be on the safe 
side and spray again now, as the interval 
is too long between the early spraying aud 
that for the second brood of the Codling 
moth, which is about the middle of July. 
Lawrence Co., Ohio. u. T. cox. 
Semi-Official Records More Uniform. 
—The American Guernsey Cattle Club at 
their last annual meeting voted to change 
their system of making semi-official yearly 
records by having the monthly test run for 
two days each month instead of one day, 
as heretofore. Further details are not 
available until the new rules are published. 
The change will strengthen the semi-official 
records of the Guernseys and will permit a 
more uniform comparison with Jersey and 
Holstein Friesian yearly records. L. u. d. 
