1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
666 
THAT CELEBRATED MILK CASE. 
Rallying ’Round the Cow. 
We have given the facts in that milk 
ease of S. K. Bellows, of Roxbury, N. Y. 
Mr. Bellows was treated in a most arbi¬ 
trary manner by agents of the N. Y. Board 
of Health. He brought suit and his ease 
was thrown out of court on the plea that 
oflicers of this Board cannot be sued while 
they act under rules. This case must be 
appealed and taken to higher courts or 
dairymen will be absolutely at the mercy 
of these inspectors. It is a matter which 
concerns every cow owner and the money 
for the appeal should be raised by dairy¬ 
men generally. This is the way they are 
starting: 
A Jerseyman Comes In. 
Seeing an article in your valuable paper 
in regard to that celebrated milk case, I, 
for one will help Mr. Bellows to carry it up 
to a higher court and add my mite to the 
fund to see if those milk inspectors have 
all to say about the matter. They have 
been out to my farm some two or three 
times and told me what to do in regard 
to my cow stables. I told them I would 
go out of the milk business and make but¬ 
ter. which we are doing now, and some of 
our customers say it is as good as cream¬ 
ery butter. I have only five cows at pres¬ 
ent and they are in box stalls, each cow 
by itself with a feeding floor in front of 
them and they have clean straw to lie on 
every night, ana if the Board of Health of 
New* York City wishes anything better than 
that at the present price of milk then let 
them go to the expense and fix the stables 
as they would like to have them. I built 
my stables some 30 years ago to suit me 
and not the Board of Health of New York 
City, and we have been drinking milk for 
the last 40 years and no sickness from it 
yet. WM. E. PAULISON. 
New Jersey. 
Solid Help from Massachusetts. 
I inclose check for two dollars, one dol¬ 
lar is to pay for renewal of my subscrip¬ 
tion to The Rural New-Yorker, and the 
other dollar I wish The R. N.-Y. to hold in 
trust as a starter for a subscription fund 
for Mr. Bellows to put that milk case up 
to the highest court and see if there is any 
justice in New York State law for farmers. 
If the higher courts hold that N. Y. State 
farmers producing milk have no legal rights 
under present laws as against irresponsible 
“Health" officials and their hirelings then 
the sooner they take the matter into poli¬ 
tics and fight it out, as -Massachusetts 
farmers do, the better lor the farming in¬ 
terests of the great State of New York and 
the rest of the country at large. The bur¬ 
den of expense for improved milk supply 
should not be all shoved on to the already 
overburdened farmers, and the farmer who 
will not contribute his mite towards secur¬ 
ing justice deserves to degenerate to the 
condition of Markham’s “Man ith the 
Hoe. Some, I am sorry to admit, of the 
men with the cow are fast approaching 
this. Other classes combine and not only 
put up a great yell to secure what is for 
their interests, but contribute freely ot 
their dollars to fight it out in both the 
courts and in politics, so that at the pres¬ 
ent time Darwin's theory of “the survival 
of the fittest” is now changed to the ser- 
vival of the fiyhtest. If farmers wish to 
hold their own against the aggressions of 
other classes they must join hands and 
fight for their own salvation. Mr. Bellows 
and his neighbors cannot afford to put up 
money enough to fight this case to a finish, 
and should not be expected to. Brother 
farmers, this is our fight and let every one 
who possibly can contribute his mite for 
the cause of justice, as we know not how 
soon our own business will be ruined by 
irresponsible public officials, if this court 
decision is allowed to stand. Yours for the 
fight for justice and the right. 
Massachusetts. f. a. putnam. 
TESTING EGGS WITHOUT HEAT. 
A friend insists that there is an egg 
tester on the market that will show fer¬ 
tility of eggs without putting into an in¬ 
cubator or subjecting them to heat. Do 
you know of any such tester? j. l. w. 
Long Island. 
I suspect that J. L. W. has in mind a 
device which was advertised quite exten¬ 
sively a year ago, known as the Magic Egg 
Tester, which, it was claimed, would de¬ 
tect the infertile eggs before they had been 
incubated. We secured one of these de- 
vices and made a very careful test, the re¬ 
sults of which we hone soon to publish. We 
were unable to secure results which would 
confirm the claims of the manufacturer. 
The method was based on a determination 
of the specific gravity of the egg. Possibly 
your correspondent had in mind the fact 
that under a very strong light a person 
could detect the development of the germ 
in its earlv stages, provided the egg had 
been subjected to a temperature sufficient 
to start the development of the chick. It 
is true that an egg may start to incubate 
even before it has been laid. This is espe- 
ciallv true where fowls have carried the egg 
for several days before depositing it. A 
fresh egg subiected to a temperature a 
little above 100 will show the primitive 
streak of the developing germ within 30 
hours. The germinal spot, located on the 
surface of the egg, exists whether the egg 
has been fertilized or not and continues to 
develop somewhat with the application of 
heat and appears as a small white patch on 
the surface of the yolk. This development 
sometimes is misunderstood to indicate that 
life has developed, which, however, would 
be impossible if the egg had not been fer¬ 
tilized. A person cannot tell a fertile from 
an infertile egg by any means, so far as I 
know, without first subjecting the egg to 
a temperature of approximately 103 degrees 
for at least 36 hours ,and then testing the 
egg with a strong light. james e. rice. 
New Way to Tar Corn. —Some one told 
in The R. N.-Y. how to tar corn. That 
was the way we used to do it before we 
learned better. The best way I ever saw 
I found out myself. Take an old paint 
brush and paint the ears before shelling, 
and let it drv, then shell. It grows just 
as well as if not tarred, which is not the 
case where the tar gets all over it and keeps 
out the moisture. It works in the planter 
all right when the tar is thoroughly dried. 
If it is at all sticky apply a little flour. 
Tarred all over it comes slower and un¬ 
even, and some does not come at all. 
j. H. C. 
OTHER PEOPLE’S NAMES. 
Mr. Lewis Borrows Respectability. 
After E. G. Lewis, of St. Louis, Mo., had organized two other companies and 
failed in both of them, he organized The U. S. Bank, and a publishing company. 
Fraud orders were issued against both these companies and himself by the 
post office authorities; and the hank was closed, and the papers were denied 
entry at the post office at second class rates, because they did not have a genuine 
subscription list, and did not comply with the Department regulations. In 
order to get a subscription list to admit the papers to the mails at pound rates, 
Mr. Lewis organized the American Woman’s League. The direct object was, 
of course, to get women to become subscription agents for his papers, but Mr. 
Lewis gave them a more attractive name, and called them members of the 
American Woman’s League. To become a member of the League the women 
must send him $52 each. This may be for subscription to a list of cheap 
papers, but the $52 remittance was the first condition. After he received 
these remittances Mr. Lewis could show the Post Office Inspector that his paper 
was eligible for mailing; and he thus continues to use the paper to induce his 
subscribers and other poor and inexperienced people to send him their savings 
for investment in his schemes. 
Mr. Lewis enumerated the many great benefits the women were to receive 
through the so-called League. Among them was the free tuition to a great uni¬ 
versity of education. He even went so far as to publish a list of the faculty of 
his university. Following is a reproduction from his educational prospectus: 
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS COURSES (AMERICAN SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS. CHICAGO) 
BERTHA M. TERRILL, A. M. ** - .. 
I'rofAiwor of Home Economic*. UntvsTSltr of Vermont, Author United. 8UtMV| 
, Government Bulletin*. “* ^ 
Qonnv.. ., , . 
Teacher Cookery, Columbia University Teacher* CoOc*?, director Chautauqua 4/ Alrfv n iiarfth pope 
School of Cookery. ~ instructor Presbyterian Hospital Tralnln* School of^ Kureea Now TOf* Clqr.’ £ 
ANNA BARROWS. 
qua School Domastlc Science. 
ISABEL BEVIER. P*.M. x _ „ 
Professor Household 8clence. University of JlUnol* author United States Oov- 
» 1 c neiwii aon. 
Instructor Domestic Economy Lewi* Institute. Chicago. 
* MARION POSTER WASHBURN. 
ernmenl Bulletin*. 
_ Editor Mothers' Magazine author and lecturer. 
S' _ n, ' 
. ALFRED CLEVELAND COTTON. A, M.. M. D. ' 
Professor Diseases of Children. Hush Medical C0{1***. University of Cblc#gto 
AGRICULTURAL COURSES (HOME CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL. SPRINGFIELD. MASS.) 
* 
■WILLIAM P. BROOKS, B. S-. Ph.O.. Principal Of Agricultural Department. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. B 3., Halle. Ph-D Professor of Agriculture 
and President ad Interim Imperial College ot Ajrrtouiture. Japan. Member . 
American Association for the Advancement of Science Author of three-volume ’ 
work on Agriculture now Lecturer on Agriculture In the Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural College and Director and Agriculturist nf tbs Massachusetts Agrlcol- 1 
turaJ Experiment Station. 
JOHN CRAIQ. B. 8.. M. 8.. Horticulture and Botany.' 
Iowa State College. R 8 . Assistant Director of the United States Experiment 
Station for Iowa. 1887-1259 Horticulturist to the Dominion Experiment Karma 
Canada 1*89-18*7. Cornell University. M B.. 18*8 Chair of Horticulture and 
Forestry, Iowa State College. 1898-1900; Director of Extension Teaching In 
Agriculture. Cornell University. 1900- r*0J. Professor of Horticulture, Q>m«u . 
University, since 1*0*. ^Editor of the Nations! Nurseryman. 
CHARLES K. ORAHAM, Poultry Culture. 
Graduated from Albert College, Ontario Interested tn poultry enterprises, three 
years tn the West as buyer for one or the leading New York houses; three 
years In a poultry-packing establishment In Chicago, buyer for the English 
markets: studied Scientific Poultry Culture. Ontario Agricultural College. 
JP^ofeasor of Poultry Culture. Connecticut Agricultural College. 1994-1948. ou»; 
- -- —‘rultural Department Hampton Institute, va 
1 ''Director of Acrlcuft 
J AMES B. PAIOE. O. V 8.. Veterinary Science. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College. R a. lM*; Montreal Veterinary College. 
V 8. 18M Veterinary Practitioner. I8M-1I99; Poet-groduate student. McGill 
University. 1891. D V S-. Faculty of Comparative Medicine .and Veterinary 
Science. McGill Unlvorslty 1892. Professor of Veterinary Science, Masaachu- 
aetta Agricultural College, etnee 1800 etudled In Royal Veterinary Institute and 
Munich University one rear 189S-1896 Member American Veterinary Medical 
Association Member Montreal Veterinary Medical Association, Member Mon- 
/, treal Society for the Study of Comparative Psychology Veterinarian Maasa- 
t chuaetta State Board of Agriculture Member Massachusetts Veterinary Medl- 
cal Association. Veterinarian Hatch Experiment Station. Author of Tubcrcu- 
| lost* In Cat tie. Stable Ventilation and Oastrtc Strongylosis in Angora Qoata 
and Sheep, etc 
HERBERT W CONN. Ph.D». Bactsriology and Human Physiology. 
Boston University. A. B.. Johns Hopkins. Ph-D. Author of many worts on 
Bacteriology and on Human Physiology. Specialist In the Bacteriology of Dairy 
Products, now Professor of Biology In Wesleyan Unlveraity. 
RAY L. ORIOBEN. B. 8^ Instructor .In Agriculture. 
lows State College. B 8. Member Stock Judging Team, lows 8tatsCollege. 
1905 Assistant Id Animal Husbandry Iowa State Collage. 1909-1907 Professor 
of Animal Husbandry Massachusetts Agricultural College, tlnco 1907 
The R. N.-Y. felt that if these people had lent their respectability to Mr. 
Lewis’s fake schemes, it was without an understanding of his record and methods. 
It was unthinkable that such people would knowingly allow Lewis to use their 
names to allay suspicions of his schemes that he may the easier allure money from 
poor and inexperienced people. So we wrote them, giving some little hint of 
what Mr. Lewis is doing and asked them if they knew the nature of the scheme 
with which their names were associated. Following is the substance of the 
replies: 
If this party (E. G. Lewis) is using 
my name it is without my authority ; fur¬ 
ther than this I know nothing about the 
matter. Jas. b. paige. 
Amherst, Mass. 
I do not understand how he (Lewis) can 
use my name or in what way he would care 
to. Will you give me some definite infor¬ 
mation on the point? 1 have no desire to 
lend either my name or influence to fraud¬ 
ulent schemes. With appreciation of your 
courtesy. Isabel bevieii. 
Urbaua, 111. 
Mr. E. G. Lewis, of St. Louis, Mo., whom 
you report as using my name, is an utter 
stranger to me. I never heard of him 
until your letter came; I never had any 
communication with him, and if he is using 
my name for any purpose whatever, he is 
doing it without my consent or knowledge. 
I do not understand why or how he is do¬ 
ing this. But I will make inquiries into it. 
(MRS.) ALICE PELOUBET NORTON. 
Chicago, Ill. 
Your letter of June 2d receive! yester¬ 
day. I was very muck surprised to learn 
that my name had been used in the manner 
stated in your letter. I have absolutely no 
recollection of ever allowing my name to be 
used in connection with any scheme such as 
this. I had never heard of Mr. Lewis pre¬ 
vious to receiving your letter yesterday. I 
should be very glad if you could allow me 
to look over the prospectus or whatever 
other circulars he may have in which he 
uses my name as a bait. Awaiting further 
information, and thanking you for calling 
this matter to my attention, I remain 
Amherst, Mass. ray l. gribben. 
Your letter of the 2d inst. has been re¬ 
ceived and I thank you for calling my at¬ 
tention to the matter. I was led to consent 
to become a member of the advisory educa¬ 
tional board of the People’s University 
through the representations of a former 
student here, a fraternity brother and a 
man with whom I had had satisfactory 
business dealings. This gentleman is now 
connected with the work of Mr. Lewis. You 
will understand that I believed the work to 
he honest and thoroughly sound. I have, 
however, such implicit confidence in the 
management of the great work which The 
Rural Nkw-Yorker is doing that I shall 
not hesitate at once writing Mr. Lewis, 
withdrawing from the advisory board and 
requesting him in the most positive manner 
not to use my name in any way in connec¬ 
tion with his operations. 
Amherst, Mass. WM. p. brooks. 
Your communication of May 31 has been 
duly forwarded to me. In reply would say 
that I think there must be some mistake. 
I know of no Mr. Lewis, nor do I remember 
ever having met such a person, and as I 
hold no position of importance I cannot 
conceive how any one could borrow money 
by the use of my name. amy e. pope. 
' New York. 
Your letter of June 2d is at hand. So 
far as I can remember I have never heard 
the name of E. G. Lewis, of St. Louis, Mo. 
I certainly have never given him my con¬ 
sent to use my name in collecting money. 
Your letter was therefore a surprise to me. 
I should he glad if you could give me any 
further information which would tell me 
how he uses my name, so that I may take 
measures to stop it. I thank you for call¬ 
ing my attention to the matter and for 
any further information you may give. 
Middletown, Conn. H. w. conn. 
Your letter received to-day is a cause of 
no little surprise and perplexity, since 1 
have not the slightest idea who Mr. Lewis 
of St. Louis is, what his schemes are, or 
how he has secured or is using my name. 
Considering these facts, I am naturally 
grateful for your notification and shall be 
further obligated if you can Inform me fur¬ 
ther as to the matter, also of Mr. Lewis’s 
address, and what steps you can suggest 
for the suppression of any sucty ■fraudulent 
usages. There could hardly be anything 
which could have caused me keener regret 
and it seems to me there should be some 
way of makiug him pay dearly for such a 
fraud. BERTHA M. TERRILL. 
Burlington, Vt. 
1 am very much surprised by your letter 
of June 2d. I have not given directly or 
Indirectly, E. G. Lewis of St. Louis, Mo., 
the smallest fragment of authority to use 
my name to further any of the enterprises 
in' which he is interested. Indeed to the 
best of my knowledge, he has not applied 
for such permission. I have had no cor¬ 
respondence with him, and therefore the 
statement that my name is being used by 
him in promoting his projects is all the 
more surprising. Your letter recalls to 
mind the fact that I was asked this ques¬ 
tion by a citizen of Ithaca some time ago, 
and I answered it then as now in the neg¬ 
ative. I had intended investigating the 
matter, hut it passed out of my mind. I 
a investigating it and shall take such ac¬ 
tion as seems wise and approoriate to the 
merits of the case. I thank you for call¬ 
ing my attention to it. joiin craig. 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
It will be seen that Prof. Brooks is the only one in all this list who per¬ 
mitted the use of his name in any way and this only in a merely nominal way 
through an employe of Lewis. 
The friends and apologists of Lewis may argue his use of the names of these 
distinguished educators without their consent a mere breach of faith with them 
and not the concern of the public. But they must remember that the names were 
used as the member of an alleged faculty of a university of education to which 
women were to have free tuition on the payment of $52 to Lewis. Furthermore 
their names were to lend respectability to the other schemes for the promotion 
of which Lewis is constantly borrowing money from country people. Now it 
appears that these professors and instructors in his much lauded university have 
not even heard of it or of him. From the first we knew his American Woman’s 
League to be a fake scheme, and here is plain evidence of it. Every publisher in 
the country who knows anything about it, knows it is a gigantic fake, and sooner 
or later it is bound to meet the /ate of all fakes. 
It should be remembered that we have about 50 claims against Lewis, aggre¬ 
gating about $20,000 for money sent him in the last 10 years by country people. 
Some of it is represented in his notes which are past due, and on which pay¬ 
ment has been refused. 
THE BOSTON MILK STRIKE. 
The Boston milk strike seems to he near- 
lug its end in a victory for the farmers. 
The Massachusetts legislature through a 
committee made a full investigatiou and 
its report shows that farmers cannot af¬ 
ford to make milk at the prices which the 
contractors offer them. The report also 
shows that the contractors can afford to 
pay a fair price at the retail price they 
now receive. The contractors have made 
several offers of increase which the.farmers 
rejected. It is now reported that Hood & 
Sou, the largest milk contractors, have of¬ 
fered Winter milk prices for 10 months, 
beginning July 1, and this was agreed to 
This will probably end the strike and put 
the farmers in a far better position. 
Experiments with Lime Sulphur. 
I have used and am using the lime-sul¬ 
phur in place of Bordeaux both on peaches 
and apples. Last year i used it ou peaches 
to control the leaf curl, but was not suc¬ 
cessful. I followed the directions of the 
manufacturers of the commercial brands, 
i. e., 1-12, but have since learned that by 
using it 1-8 it controls the peach leal-curl 
thoroughly, and it did so this year. I have 
sprayed the apples once this Spring 1-10, 
aud shall spray again after the blossoms 
fall with 1-35, adding two pounds arsenate 
of lead. This formula lias given fine results 
in this vicinity, therefore I have decided 
that it is all right, and have discarded the 
gas sprayer for a gasoline rig, so as to 
use the lime-sulphur safely. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. s. w. wadha.us. 
The Tennessee Exp. Station has issued a 
bulletin on “Insuring the Peach Crop.” Here 
is a summary of the results : 
1. Very dilute Bordeaux Mixture is al¬ 
most as effective in preventing peach rot as 
a stronger mixture, and does not injure the 
foliage appreciably. 
2. Bordeaux Mixture is of no value as a 
remedy for peach scab, and is less valuable 
than self-boiled lime-sulphur as a remedy 
for peach rot. 
3. The results of these experiments, while 
indicating a much less per cent, of efficiency 
for spraying than has been recorded at 
other stations, yet prove the great value of 
the remedies. 
4. Arsenate of lead added to the earlier 
applications of either Bordeaux Mixture or 
self-boiled lime-sulphur reduces the amount 
of wormy fruit. 
5. Thinning the fruit is profitable. 
G. Fires iu the orchard raised the tem¬ 
perature from four to six degrees and saved 
the crop. 
The weather is still much too cool for 
corn, which is making slow growth. Many 
fields have been planted over, owing to cut¬ 
worms, cold weather and depredations of 
crows and mice. Rainfall is light and 
much below normal. Pastures are only 
fair and meadows and wheat fields are 
showing the disastrous effects of the early 
Spring drought and later freezes. Joint 
worms have caused some damage to wheat 
and grasses, but the worst damage is due 
to the six weeks’ dry hot weather we had 
in March and April, and as a result wheat 
yields here will be about one-third a normal 
crop. Ilay will be a small crop aud orchard 
grass, Timothy and clover seed will likely 
be practically failures. Oats are doing 
well, but need more moisture. Some warm 
showers can materially change the corn 
prospects, hut wheat and hay fields are 
beyond help. w. e. d. 
Hillsboro, Ohio. 1 1 
A Jersey Record. —We have started a 
good one on a year’s authenticati d test, 
Angela of Bleak House 233250, a daughter 
of Channel King out of Anna of Elnia. She 
finished her first month on April 30, 1910, 
with 1,434.5475 pounds of milk to her 
credit, testing 5.413 per cent, fat, thus mak¬ 
ing 77.6461 pounds fat during the first 
mouth of 30 days, which is 1.2708 pounds 
more fat than Jacoba Irene made during 
her first month of 31 days. 
‘ HARRY S. GAIL. 
N. Y. State Jersey Cattle Club. 
Getting Rid of Poison Ivy.—I am con¬ 
stantly finding new uses for the new com¬ 
pressed air hand sprayers. My lawn was 
Infested with sprouts of the cork-bark elm 
and poison ivy. I take the sprayer, charge 
it with kerosene and spray the clumps of 
sprouting elms or the bunches of ivy, and 
set fire to them, and in a few moments 
they are destroyed. I assume that the best 
time to do this will be in August, hut I am 
so pleased with the ease of the operation 
that I am doing it now, and will repeat it 
in August if necessary. It oromises to be 
very much easier than grubbing out the 
elm and less dangerous than working with 
scythe or grub hoe among the ivy. 
Barrington Centre, R. I. R. F. g. 
Soy bean meal. —Soy bean meal is being 
fed in England and Europe- It comes from 
Japan, where the oil is pressed from the 
Soy beans and the "cake” grouuti. (ireat 
quantities of this meal are used. There 
have been several complaints that this 
meal contained poison and killed the stock. 
There was one case in England where a 
dealer in Soy bean meal was sued for 
damages. This suit failed. In another 
ease a farmer lost a heifer and believed the 
Soy meal caused her death. An agricultural 
college tried the sensible test of both 
analyzing the meal and feeding some of 
it to cattle. There was no sign of poison, 
and no bad effect on the animals 
Virginia Fruit Notes. —To-day, June 3, 
the wind is Mowing and it is more like a 
March day. It is really quite cold. How¬ 
ever, the apple prospect is looking up and 
now that we can see them better there are 
a great many more on the trees than we at 
first supposed: the trees as well as the 
apples are looking fine. More spraying has 
been done and the orchards are better 
looked after than usual. Our Horticultural 
Society in connnection with the Experiment 
Station sent out a man who gave spraying 
demonstrations in all of the fruit sections 
of the State. He had with him a barrel 
outfit aud made and applied the different 
sprays. A large number of fruit men were 
interested in these demonstrations. Before 
the picking season we expect to hold a 
series of packing demonstrations along the 
same lines. We can grow as fine apples as 
any section in the world, the flavor cannot 
be surpassed, but we have a lot to learn 
about getting them on the market iu good 
shape, and that Is what our society is try¬ 
ing to impress on the fruit growers. 
s. s. guekrant. 
Prest. Va. Hort’l Society. 
