1910 . 
1079 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—The United States Gov¬ 
ernment has instructed American consuls 
at points along the Canadian border to 
locate and report upon any naturalized 
citizens who reside in their localities, such 
as come across the line and obtain posi¬ 
tions as steamboat captains or engineers 
in Canada. Hereafter all such will lose 
their steamboat licenses if they have re¬ 
sided in Canada more than two years. Labor 
unions have been complaining to Washing¬ 
ton of American marine men residing in 
Canada and enjoying privileges in both 
countries. 
William Henry Brewer, professor emeri¬ 
tus of agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific 
School at Yale, died at his home at New 
Haven, November 2, from infirmities due 
to old age. Professor Brewer was born in 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., September 14, 1828, 
and was graduated from the Sheffield Scien¬ 
tific School of Yale University in its first 
class, that of 1852. He continued his edu¬ 
cation abroad, studying at Heidelberg, 
Munich, and Paris, and held the degrees 
of A. M. from Yale, 1859; Ph.D., from 
Washington and Jefferson, 1880, and LL.D., 
from Yale, 1903. In 1804 he came to Yale 
as professor of agriculture in the Shef¬ 
field Scientific School, and was active in 
that position until 1903, when he became 
professor emeritus. More than 30 years 
ago the veteran naturalist, who knew much 
about horses, predicted the coming of the 
two-minute race horse. He also caused 
something of a stir more recently by advo¬ 
cating the use of horse-fiesh for food, 
claiming that it was less liable to diseased 
conditions than that of bovine animals. 
Prejudice, he stated, was all that prevented 
its general use. Professor Brewer had held 
several important government positions, be¬ 
ing on the topographical survey of Con¬ 
necticut, on the commission on cereal pro¬ 
duction in the United States in connec¬ 
tion with the tenth census, on the United 
States Forestry Commission in 1890, and 
on the scientific survey of the Philippine 
Islands in 1903. 
Philip Sevasta, a professional musician 
and leader of the Bronx Zoo orchestra who 
had been on trial for two days in the 
United States Circuit Court in New York 
on the charge of importing a harp from 
London without paying duty on it was 
convicted November 2, and sentenced by 
Judge Martin to serve nine months in the 
penitentiary on Blackwell's Island. Sevasta 
purchased the harp ostensibly for his own 
use, in which case it would have been en¬ 
tered duty free. He sold the instrument to 
one of his pupils, however. The sentence 
is accepted as foreshadowing greater se¬ 
verity on the part of the federal courts in 
dealing with all customs fraud cases. 
The first prison sentence under the State 
pure food law was passed by Judge Iiar- 
ratt in Quarter Sessions Court at Philadel¬ 
phia, upon George D. Ellis, a commission 
merchant, convicted November 3 of selling 
eggs unfit for food. He was sentenced to 
three months in the county prison. His 
father, Thomas D. Ellis, senior member of 
the firm of Ellis & Son, convicted on the 
same charge, was sentenced to pay a tine 
of $500 and costs. Later Abraham Staples, 
a small egg dealer, was convicted of sell¬ 
ing "rots and spots” to bakers. He was 
also sentenced to three months in the 
county prison. 
A violent submarine earthquake or vol¬ 
canic eruption is thought to be the cause 
of the great tidal wave which swept the 
coast at Nome, Alaska, November 3, flooding 
the city and causing heavy damage to ship¬ 
ping. There was no loss of life, but 90 
residents of lowlands along the beach saw 
all their belonging swept away and barely 
escaped with their lives. Great waves 
swept away the frail structures along the 
beach, carrying many small coasting ves¬ 
sels far up on the land. It flooded base¬ 
ments and caused heavy damage to mer¬ 
chants’ stocks. The flood came without 
warning late in the afternoon. There was 
a complete calm at the time, but the waves 
were of giant size, as though raised by 
a hurricane. No reports of earthquakes 
have been received, but for several months. 
Mount Bogosloff and Mount Shishalden, 
near Unemak Pass, have been spouting fire 
and lava at short intervals and the Bogo¬ 
sloff lands have been undergoing peculiar 
contortions. 
Capt. G. W. Rickeman, Wisconsin State 
Fish and Game Warden, hopes to reduce 
the number of accidents in this season’s 
deer hunting in Wisconsin by urging all 
hunters to wear red caps, which, he thinks, 
will serve as a sort of headlight. Last 
year, during the open season for deer in 
that State, 33 men were fatally shot and 
36 were injured. 
A verdict of $35,000 was awarded to 
Mrs. Robert H. Kyle November 5 by a 
jury in the Somerset, New Jersey, court for 
the loss of her husband, who was killed 
on the night of April 9 last by the Black 
Diamond Express on the Lehigh Valley 
Railroad. This is the largest award ever 
made in that State for loss of a life in 
a railroad accident. Robert II. Kyle was a 
partner in the firm of Newland & Co., cat¬ 
tle dealers, of Jersey City. His home was 
about six miles from Somerville. On the 
night of the accident he was driving home¬ 
ward alone in a buggy and was run down 
at the Hillsborough crossing. Mrs. Kyle 
brought suit for $100,000. Her attorneys 
produced the books of Newland & Co., to 
show that Kyle’s income was from $8,000 
to $10,000 a year. The plaintiff’s lawyers 
showed that when Kyle was killed the 
Hillsborough crossing which has gates and 
a watchman in the daytime was entirely 
unguarded. 
An official typewritten statement was 
issued by the New York State Commission 
in Lunacy November 5, acknowledging that 
drastic economies may be inaugurated in 
that depart ..iont. The official statement is 
signed by Albert Warren Ferris of New 
York City, the president of the commission, 
who gets a salary of $7,500; Charles T. 
Vielc of Buffalo, who gets a salary of $5,- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
000, and William Cary Sanger of Sanger- CROP NOTES. £ b° xe , s a 
nnpfdfl <'nnntv who also cets a sal- which is far supeiior in grading, 
ary of $5 000 Each commissioner also re- We have had some cold weather, need prejudice against boxes is being rapidiy 
ceives «i’200 for exnenses In its com- rain badly, streams low. Wheat shows up overcome; in tact, we are now in a process 
municationaddressed 5 to the State Comp- well. Corn crop good. Hogs are scarce of distributing between 400 and 500 cars 
troller the commission recommends a single and bring high prices. Horses and cattle of boxed apples from the Northwest, and 
headed commission, whhh would effect the high; peculiar disease among horses. Corn find the demand much more extensive than 
vine- in salaries of $0 700 a year. An- 70 cents; wheat 90; oats 3o ; rye 70; eggs it has ever been in the past, and w.c are 
other important recommendation Is that the 30; butter 28 ; lard 10; potatoes 50. able to sell cars in markets that had prac- 
snecial attorneys now working for each Snyder Co., 1’a. n. d. s. tically no consumption of this commodity 
State hospital be abolished, with their sal- Weather fine as June, no frost, had good in previous years. H. woods & co. 
aries aggregating $19,850. The rcorgani- rains; all vegetation growing fast. Plenty Chicago, ill. 
zation of the Board of Alienists connected of all green vegetables in gardens; straw- The box apple is becoming very popular 
wdth the commission, which are known as berries plentiful; late potatoes growing too in our market. Our firm has this season 
the deporting physicians at the port of big. Farmers about through Fall sowing, handled more cars of western box apples 
New York, is recommended, so a saving of Bees working and bringing in honey: 
$4 000 will result. A number of minor of- weather idea for May. Brices of living 
flees are abolished, which will insure other climbing yet. E. J. L. 
economics. Portland, Ore. 
John Ellis Roosevelt, of New York, a The production of corn in the United 
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cousin" of" the ~’ex-President, attempted to States for this year is estimated at 8,121,- 
drive his 90 horse-power automobile No- 381,000 bushels; buckwheat, 17,084,000; po- 
vember 0 past another car owned and tatoes, 328,787,000; flaxseed, 15,050,000 
than this market has taken in an entire 
season in former years. Regarding the 
popularity of boxes as packages for the 
handling of apples in the States of New 
York, Virginia and the New England States, 
it is true that boxes as packages are not 
as popular, but this is simply due to the 
fact that they are not put up with the 
driven ,,on ” smwiprson or me Metro- ousneis: auu tooacco ipdmuv.vvu muiiiius. aame care as are the apples in the Western 
politan 
west 
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should do is to endeavor to educate the 
rowers and packers of the Eastern States 
killed'and three persons injured. bushels, nearly 8,000,000 less than last Mcktog 10 ©™ tteir^apiles^Otierwfre The 
The schooner Florentine, from Mexico year ^ ^ , Western States will soon put our Eastern 
picked up an improvised raft in mid-Gulf The report of the Ohio Department of states out of business as far as the apple 
November 5, on which was a large brown Agriculture for November 1 estimates the industry is concerned. It is actually a 
dog, half starved and almost famished tor area in wheat at 2,014,1°“ -- . .. - 
and then skidded on the top of the tonneau cent j PSS than last year. Illinois leads in 
for fully 50 feet. Alexander E. Ehbel, production of corn, with 413,751,000 bush- 
Mr. Roosevelt's chauffeur, was instantly els; and New York in potatoes, 44.670,000 5 
,180 acres, which crime the way our eastern farmers are 
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water. The sailors found the animal i S about 2 per cent, more than last year, putting up their crop of apples, and if you 
guarding a coat and cap which he held The average date of seeding this year was will make an investigation among the or- 
with his paws. The animal was not viei- September 28. There are now 23,136 acres chards in the Eastern States you will soon 
ous and permitted the sailors to pet hun of Alfalfa reported in Ohio with an esti- learn that we are giving you facts. Then 
but resisted their touching the coat and mated yield of 68,519 tons. The crop is is a great opportunity for agitation amonj 
cap which undoubtedly were the property now grown in every county of the State, 
of his master. The animal accepted food The rye crop is a little smaller than last 
and water but remained on guard for sev- year, as is buckwheat. The outlook for _ 
eral hours’ before he could be induced to clover seed is considerably below the aver- Buffalo N Y 
go aboard the schooner. There was noth- age, but a little over 60 per cent. The 
ing about the wreckage to indicate whence average crop of potatoes is put at 85 busli- 
it excent a small piece of wood bear- els per acre, which can hardly be a profit¬ 
ing the letters “S S Da-", the last word able yield considering the labor required NEW YORK FARMERS’ INSTITUTES. 
was broken in the wood. There was evi- to handle this crop. Less than 85 per 
dence of the raft having been occupied cent, of the hogs fattened last year will District No. 1, Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., 
hv one or more men. as the coat and cap be sent to market this Fall. It is said Conductor, Lawyersville. 
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mong 
the apple growers to take better care of 
their orchards and take more pride in their 
fruit. F. BHENN1SON & SON. 
schooner put in at Port Isabell and the encouraging 
ilog was provided with a good home. 
Use of the aeroplane for freight carrying 
was first made November 7 when Philip O. 
Parmelee in a Wright biplane made a record 
flight from Dayton to Columbus, O. I ar- 
melee’s cargo was two packages of mer- 
TIIE TRADE IN BOXED APPLES. 
1, 1910; Ames, December 2, 1910. 
Schoharie Co.—Carlisle, December 3, 
1910; Seward, December 5, 1910; Barner- 
villo, December 5-6, 1910; Esperance, De¬ 
cember 6, 1910; Gallupville, December 7, 
The buyers of this market prefer to buy 1910; Breakabeen, December 8, 1910 ; Gil- 
mt-icc o ___ -, apples packed in barrels. There are of b°a, December 9, 1910; Jefferson, December 
chandise weighing 200 pounds, which he course some fancy fruit stores and grocers 10, 1910. 
delivered from a store in Dayton to a store that prefer the fancy box apples, hut to Greene Co.—Prattsville, December 12, 
in Columbus. Covering the distance of take the trade as a whole the apples packed 1910; Ilensonville, December 13, 1910; Dur- 
approximately 70 miles in one hour and i u barrels have the preference. ham, December 14, 1910; Leeds, December 
six minutes, he is believed to have estab- Newark, N. J. c. wolters & co. 15-16, 1910. 
lislied a new cross-country flight record, The prejudice against the box for apples Albany Co.—Selkirk, December 17, 1910; 
an average, time of more than a nine a j s being overcome, and the package is gain- Indian Fields, December 19, 1910; South 
minute having been made. ing j n favor. It is a question of pack with Westerlo, December 20, 1910; Clarkesville, 
Elections November 8 gave astonishing the box as with any other package. Given December 21, 1910; Berne, December 22, 
Democratic victories. The following are an honest pack and many buyers will take 1910; Voorheesville, December 23, 1910. 
District No. 2, Edward Van Alstyne, Con¬ 
ductor, Kinderhook. 
Saratoga Co.—Corinth, November 25, 
some of the State pluralities : Democratic, the box in preference. 
Alabama, 45,000 ; Connecticut^ 2,600 ; jblor- Baltimore, Md. thos. bond & co. 
This -market will handle more box apples 
this season than any other two seasons be 
ida, 38,000; Indiana, 20,000; Massachu¬ 
setts 33,000; Nevada, 1,000; New Jersey, 
58,638; New York, 09,-4-; Ohio, 40,000, f 0re> Trade more prefers this style c 
Oklahoma, 20,000; South Carolina, 47,000, & especially so in the Pacific coas 
Texas, 125,000. Republican, Colorado, w hich fruit is about all that is 
-i r\s\r\ . n/vinumvA • frliinn I »_n.i.t.. m 
of paek- 
’coast fruit, 
,- wmxu mu .o auuui <,». mat is being 
1,000; Delaware, 3,500; Idaho, o,u>u , handled on this market in boxes. No other 
Michigan, 40,000; Minnesota, 30,000; Ne¬ 
braska, 10,000; New Hampshire, 6,000; 
North Dakota, 2,000 ; Pennsylvania, 18,000; 
South Dakota, 12,000; Tennessee, 10,000; 
1910; Charlton, November 26, 1910. 
Washington Co.—Clemons, November 28, 
1910; Putnam, November 29, 1910. 
Essex Co.—Ticonderoga, November 30- 
December 1, 1910; Moriah, December 2, 
1910; Whallonsburg, December 2-3, 1910. 
Clinton Co.—Elleuburgh Depot, Decem- 
rult that we know is coming here, 
Indianapolis, Ind. J. m. vinci & CO. 
The old prejudice against the box apple ber " 5 ,'1910 T Saranac," December'’’6,^1910*; 
Wisconsin 30 000 The next House of Rep- Is fast disappearing, and many of the fancy Lake Placid, December 7, 1910; Jay, De- 
Wisconsm, du,uoo. xue ucal nuuoc « e trade contine their dealing largely to the cember 8, 1910. 
resentatives will be Den o t y « box package. Of course barrel apples sell Clinton Co_Peru December 9-10 1910- 
well, hut the strictly fancy stock, packed ■ 1 e T“--F eccrnr)ei J ]<nu > 
in boxes, is becoming very much desired. 
The prejudice against them Is fast disap- 
;aring. wm. weinert & co. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
W 
iCSCUiatl vco .^ 
reno E. Payne lost his home town, Auburn, 
but got in. T. B. Wilson, tbe well-known 
fruit grower, was elected to the State 
Assembly in Ontario County, N. Y. pearing. 
Holding the Harriman systems control phila< 
responsible for grossly discriminatory 
“freight rates,” the Portland Lumber Com- .”. e ” 
pany and other big lumber concerns at the 
Chazy, December 12-13, 1910. 
Washington Co.—Whitehall, December 
14, 1910; North Granville, December 15, 
1910; Granville, December 16, 1910; Hart¬ 
ford, December 16-17, 1910; Cambridge, 
pany-- . 
Oregon metropolis complained November 8 
to the Interstate Commerce Commission 
rious 
might 
to tne intersiuie much in value provided the apple is a se- 
that they were being shu t °ut ol ma t lected fancy eating, but the barrel is pre¬ 
in Idaho, Montana, and a part ol Utah. f erre( j by long odds for any apple that 
The complainants include the Hest^Siae comes f 0 this market; nice No. 1, common 
allege that unreasonable tariffs that violate 
the law are being maintained by the Ore¬ 
gon Railroad and Navigation Company, the 
r. . . . _J Tin n 4-Vm 
Rensselaer Co.—Raymertown, December 
24, 1910. 
Schenectady Co.—Glenville, December 27, 
1910; Mariaville, December 28, 1910; 
South Schenectady, December 29-30, 1910. 
District No. 3, D. P. Witter, Conductor, 
Berkshire. 
Otsego Co.—West Laurens, November 28, 
1910. 
Steuben Co.—Jasper, November 28-29, 
carriers. 
Between 50 and 70 men are believed to be 
entombed in Mine 3 of tbe Victor American 
Fuel Company at Delagua, 22 miles north¬ 
west of Trinidad, Colo., as the result of 
Boston, Mass. 
It seems to be the growing disposition 
°p U eclfle anA* UnionPaciYc ’ the on the part of the apple growers through- Steuben Co.—Jasper, November 28-29, 
n?-^ Short Line and other connecting out Virginia and West Virginia to use 1910; Hedgesville, November 29-30, 1910. 
Oiegon Slioit L , boxes for the better grades of their fruit. Otsego Co.—Morris, November 29-30, 
Quite a number of the larger shippers have 1910; Elk Creek, December 1, 1910. 
put their best apples iu boxes this season, Schuyler Co.—Wayne, December 1, 1910; 
and we have been able to encourage them Tyrone, December 2-3, 1910. 
by better sales on our market in propoi* ‘otsego Co.—Scheuevus, December 2-3, 
tion than when they use the barrel. \\e 1910; Westville, December 5, 1910. 
Delaware Co.—Sidney, December 5, 1910. 
Otsego Co.—Fierstown, December G, 
1910. 
Delaware Co.—Franklin, December 6, 
1910; Treadwell, December 7, 1910: Dav¬ 
enport, December 7-S, 1910 ; Delhi, Novem¬ 
ber 8, 1910; Halcottsville, December 9-10, 
1910; Hobart, December 9-10, 1910. 
Chenango Co.—Oxford, December 12-13, 
1910; North Norwich, December 12-13, 
1910; Bainbridge (Institute School), De¬ 
an explosion November 8. Ihe disaster a( f V ocate the use of boxes for fancy fruit, 
follows closely on a similar one in this field as fbo popularity of the Western apples 
that cost the lives of more than ;>0 men. in t bese packages goes a long way toward 
The government rescue car left Denver for se ni nf r the home-grown product if put up 
Trinidad. Besides a crew of several men j as an attractive shape, 
in charge of C. J. Roberts of the United 
States Bureau of Mines, the car is well 
equipped with life-saving apparatus. 
GOLDEN & CO. 
Washington D. C. 
There is only one producing section which 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The next annual uses the box as a vehicle in the disposition 
meeting of the American Oxford Down of their fruit, and that is the mountain and 
Record Association will be held Tuesday, Pacific Coast country. The fruit iu New 
November 29th, 8 p. m., at the general York, Virginia and New England is not 
ineton 111 president that attention which the western grower Chenango Co.—Smithville Flats, Decem- 
A meet in e of the Executive Board of does, with the result that the fruit in the her 23-24, 1910. 
the New 1 York State \cricu tural Society Fast is not of sufficiently good quality to District No. 4, Fred E. Gott, Conductor, 
k JeJ to be held in the buMtig of tS be packed up in the boxes with any good Spencerport. 
st-fte 11 ^Department of Agricu ture Albany, results. As you probably are aware, there Wayne Co.—Macedon, November 28, 
The seventh annual convention of the if the same stuff is packed in boxes opening cl^ber 2-3 1910 ’ ’ 
American Road Builders’ Association will toPi or bottom exposes the poor fruit, 
be held at German House, East Michigan with t he result that the apple growers in 
and New Jersey 
on December 6, 
therewith will 
builders and a 
will be a large 
chinery and materials. 
Oswego Co.—Phoenix, December 5, 1910; 
It is reported by Dallas, Texas, com- ]>j ew y 0 rk, Virginia, New England and 
mission houses that orders for 2,000,000 other points to produce the same quality 
Hannibal, December 13, 1910. 
Ohio. 
than to attempt to compete with their fruit Henrietta, December 23, 1910. 
