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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Twenty-two men were killed 
and 26 entombed by an explosion in the 
Greenes mine at Tacoma, Va., December 14. 
The Greenes mine is owned by the Bend 
and Bruce Coal Company au.d is in Wise 
County. The explosion is said to have 
been caused by an accumulation of gas 
being ignited by an open lamp belonging to 
one of the miners. 
Dr. Christopher Koch, of Philadelphia, 
vice-president of the Pennsylvania Board 
of Pharmacy, appeared December 14 before 
the House Committee on Ways and Means 
to urge legislation to restrict the traffic 
in habit-forming drugs. lie illustrated his 
talk by making demonstrations with apron 
layouts, hypodermic* syringes and other de¬ 
vices for taking various kinds of dope. 
"The cocaine habit is a distinctly Ameri¬ 
can vice,” said Dr. Koch, who added that 
10 per cent of the retail druggists in the 
United States engage in illicit business in 
connection with their trade. He asserted 
that the debauchery from opium in China 
in the old days was no worse than the 
present opium conditions in this country. 
He called the committee's attention to a 
Federal drug inspector, who was illicitly 
selling "dope” and indicted therefor, who 
is still holding his office under civil ser¬ 
vice rules, in Philadelphia, and of many 
drug stores and individuals who are still 
buying large quantities of cocaine. Dr. 
William J. Schieffelin, of New York, rep¬ 
resenting the National Retail Druggists’ 
Association, urged an amendment to the 
pending bill to restrict punishments of 
dealers to those who "knowingly sold the 
interdicted goods.” 
F. E. Itoscbroek was put on trial De¬ 
cember 15 before Judge Hough and a jury 
in the United States Circuit Court, in New 
York, on the charge of selling for shipment 
frozen eggs which were unlit for human 
food. A can of the eggs was bought by 
John Worischeck, of Hoboken, in order to 
get a case under the Federal statute. Sev¬ 
eral witnesses from the bureau of chemis¬ 
try of the Department of Agriculture, where 
the eggs were subsequently sent for an¬ 
alysis, were called by the Government. 
One of these, Miss Reid, stated that the 
can of eggs bought by Worischeck con¬ 
tained embryo chickens, pieces of shell, 
egg clots, etc., and was a putrid mixture 
until) for human consumption. Another 
witness testified that the mixture contained 
formaldehyde. Herman Lind, pure food 
inspector, testified that he had several times 
examined eggs sold by the Rosebrock con¬ 
cern and found many of them bad, but 
that no prosecution could follow under the 
pure food act because none of these con¬ 
signments were shipped outside this city. 
Louis Conrad, Conrad Lotz and W. M. 
Bingham, operating the Correspondence 
Institute of America, at 307 Lackawanna 
avenue, Scranton, Pa., were arrested De¬ 
cember 16 by Deputy United States Mar¬ 
shals Hugh J. Evans and Samuel Ilofford 
charged with operating a scheme to de¬ 
fraud through the United States mails. 
The affairs of the concern have been un¬ 
der investigation by officials of the Post 
Office Department for three months and the 
arrest of the principals in its manage¬ 
ment is the result. The complaint against 
the institution alleges that these men have 
devised a scheme to defraud in conducting 
an alleged correspondence school for teach¬ 
ing art by mail and that they claim in 
their advertising literature that they have 
a corps of qualified artists on the teach¬ 
ing staff and that a famous cartoonist is 
closely connected with their instruction. 
An investigation, it is alleged, shows that 
the concern has no facilities for teaching 
art by mail or otherwise, and that the 
so-called art course is not what it is rep¬ 
resented to be. Nearly 70,000 students, it 
i« alleged, have been enrolled during the 
last few years, and only about 80 graduated. 
The Chicago packers were again indicted 
December 16 by the special Federal Grand 
Jury on charges of forming a combination 
in restraint of trade and of violating the 
Sherman anti-trust law. The indictments, 
which contain four counts, supplement the 
true bills of September 12 and cover new 
alleged offences, chiefly since the former 
indictments and extending up to December 
16, thus bringing the cases up to date. 
Two indictments were also returned in 
the oleomargarine investigation, one of 
them being for a prominent and wealthy 
man. The indictments were suppressed for 
service by Judge Landis. 
Eleven dead and a list of injured aggre¬ 
gating 60 or more, make up the casualty 
roll of an explosion which wrecked the 
New York Central Railroad power-house at 
Lexington avenue. New York, December 19. 
Of those who were killed, four were among 
the 12 passengers of a Lexington avenue 
trolley car, which was blown over on its 
side. An automobile, owned by the Edison 
Transportation Company, was hurled on 
top of the street car. All the passengers 
who escaped death were injured, as were 
the motorman, conductor and motor-car 
chauffeur. For blocks in all directions 
windows were shattered into fragments and 
walls cracked. All the firemen in a hook 
and ladder house on the avenue were hurt, 
while the wails of their building trembled 
and split. Not far away the windows of 
the the Nurses’ and Babies’ Hospital fell in, 
but none of the occupants suffered more 
than slight cuts. The initial cause was 
an accident of a peculiar minor character. 
A motor ear of the New York Central’s 
Harlem Division was run under the power¬ 
house to refill its tank of lighting gas. 
This Pintseh lighting gas is brought down 
to the yards in tanks on flat cars, and when 
it is to be poured into the smaller storage 
tanks with which the ordinary cars are 
equipped, a feed-pipe is run from one to 
the other. Car No. 4,358 was connected 
with the tank-car by a feed-pipe, when it 
ran into a bump with sufficient force to 
override the obstruction, breaking the feed¬ 
pipe and allowing the gas to escape into 
the surrounding atmosphere. There might 
have been no serious results even then had 
not a workman dropped a crowbar on a 
brake-bar of the train, dislodging Tt so 
that it fell on the third rail and caused a 
short circuit. Sparks from this short cir¬ 
cuit ignited the gas escaping from the feed¬ 
pipe. The ignition of the escaped gas in 
turn ignited the entire contents of the big 
tank on the flat-car, and it exploded. This 
explosion caused the explosion of one or 
more of the Ixfilers in the engine room of 
the power-house. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—After the par¬ 
ticularly disastrous forest fires of the past 
THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
Summer Secretary of Agriculture Wilson 
believes that the present appropriation for 
tire fighting purposes is insufficient. De¬ 
cember 14 he asked an urgent deficiency 
appropriation of $915,000 to supplement the 
regular fund. The Secretary also wants a 
deficiency appropriation of $50,000 to per¬ 
mit the enforcement of the insecticide law, 
which becomes operative January 1. The 
act forbids the manufacture or sale in 
Federal territory of adulterated or mis¬ 
branded insecticides and fungicides, speci¬ 
fically mentioning paris green and lead 
arsenates. It also forbids interstate ship¬ 
ments of such articles. Under the regula¬ 
tions samples of insecticides and fungicides 
are to be purchased by agents of the De¬ 
partments of Agriculture and Commerce 
and Labor and if found to be adulterated 
or misbranded prosecutions in the courts 
will be instituted. The regulations fix 
standards for insecticides and fungicides 
which must be observed by manufacturers. 
The Treasury Department will co-operate 
in connection with the importation of mis¬ 
branded insecticides and fungicides. 
The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Ala¬ 
bama State Horticultural Society will be 
held in Birmingham on Thursday and Fri¬ 
day, January 19 and 20. The session will 
be held in the Chamber of Commerce Audi¬ 
torium. Dr. W. E. Hinds, the State En¬ 
tomologist, who is conducting the fight 
against boil weevil in Alabama, _ will tell 
why the horticulturists are especially well 
prepared to meet this problem. An hour 
will be set apart for the answering of ques¬ 
tions relating to horticultural practice and 
insect control. P. F. Williams, secretary 
and treasurer. Auburn, Ala. 
The Society for Horticultural Science 
will hold its next annual meeting at Tampa, 
Florida, on February 9, 1911, the day pre¬ 
ceding the meeting of the American Borno¬ 
logical Society, which convenes there Feb¬ 
ruary 10 and 11, 1911. C. P. Close, sec¬ 
retary-treasurer, College Park, Md. 
That bee keeping is more profitable than 
poultry keeping was the conclusion an¬ 
nounced at a bee keepers’ institute held at 
Utica, N. Y., December »17. The institute 
was one of a number held by the State 
Department of Agriculture in various lo¬ 
calities. An idea of the magnitude of the 
industry, may be gained from the statement 
that the honey crop in the United States 
each year is worth $20,000,000. There are 
said to be 30,000 bee keepers in this State, 
and New York stands second among the 
States in the production of honey. Even 
when eggs sell at 50 cents a dozen the hen 
is said to stand below the busy bee as a 
payer of dividends. 
On account of the large increase of stu¬ 
dents at the New York State College of 
Agriculture at Cornell University the trus¬ 
tees have determined to charge tuition here¬ 
after to all coming from outside the State. 
Hitherto there has been no charge to stu¬ 
dents from any part of the United States. 
The total enrolment in the college now is 
1,254, compared with 932 last year. The 
records of the college show that 16 hold¬ 
ers of college degrees are taking the short 
Winter courses in general agriculture, dairy 
industry and poultry. They come from 
Yale, Cornell, Syracuse, University of Chi¬ 
cago, Hamilton, Rochester, Lake Forest, 
Depauw and New \*ork University. Nine 
of them are holders of the A. B. degree, 
two have the degree of I’h. B. and there 
is one mechanical engineer and one gradu¬ 
ate of the college of law. At the State 
College letters from western farmers de¬ 
siring to buy farms in the State of New 
Y’ork are pouring in regularly now. Prof. 
Elmer O. Fippen gets a batch of letters 
from farmers of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota 
and Ohio asking for land. Recently one 
Illinois farmer bought 150 acres for graz¬ 
ing in southern Tompkins, while an Ohio 
farmer purchased a farm in northern Tioga. 
OBITUARY.—Justin Perry Miner, editor 
of the Grape Belt, of Dunkirk, N. Y., died 
suddenly December 15. He was born in 
Sheridan, N. Y., in 1859 and was graduated 
from Harvard University in 1885 with an 
A. B. degree. Since then he had bee'n en¬ 
gaged in newspaper work, including em¬ 
ployment in Chicago and Boston offices. He 
is survived by his wife, his mother, a sister 
and a brother. 
David Flory, aged 90, one of the most 
prominent horticulturists in Indiana, died 
December 14 at his home five miles east 
of Logansport. Mr. Flory was the origina¬ 
tor of the famed Winter Banana apple and 
several new kinds of strawberries and 
blackberries. The latter part of his life 
was devoted to horticultural experiments 
and he was known as the Indiana Burbank. 
Mr. Flory was born in Montgomery County, 
Ohio, in 1820, and came to Logansport 
when only 21 years old. He worked at 
the cooper trade for a number of years and 
then engaged -in the fruit growing business. 
He is survived by six sons. 
PARCELS POST OPPOSED.—The Amer¬ 
ican League of Associations, a powerful 
combination of leading mercantile houses 
throughout the country, has started a cam¬ 
paign against the proposed establishment 
of local rural parcels post service, and a 
big fund is available to fight the bill now 
before Congress. For more than a year 
the organization has been in the process of 
formation, but heretofore all its movements 
have been marked with secrecy. Now 
everything is in readiness for action and 
the personnel of the organization is dis¬ 
closed. Edward B. Butler, of Butler 
Brothers, is president of the association; 
George H. Partridge, vice-president, and 
D. R. Forgan, president of the National 
City Bank, is its treasurer. Chicago mem¬ 
bers of the board of governors are D. I. 
Williams, of Marshall Field & Co.; H. B. 
Lyford, of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & 
Co.; T. H. Fullerton, of Carson, Pirie, Scott 
& Co.; F. E. French, of the John V. Far- 
well Company; Howard Elting, of Will¬ 
iams & Elting Company, and E. B. Moon, 
of Butler Brothers. According to Mr. Max¬ 
well and Mr. Moon, the association has a 
total membership of about 300. The mem¬ 
bers of the association do a wholesale mail 
order business, and are aiming their fight 
against the retail mail order houses. The 
apparent purpose of the campaign, accord¬ 
ing to the promoters, is to save the coun¬ 
try merchant from elimination. The bur¬ 
den of the association’s argument appears 
to be that while under the present post 
service it costs a retail mail order house 
perhaps 24 cents to mail its catalogue, the 
cost would be reduced to 10 and perhaps 
five cents under the proposed improvement, 
and put the retail mail order merchant in 
closer touch with the ultimate consumer. 
CROPS AND PRICES. CONDITIONS IN OREGON. 
Merchants are paying 40 cents per dozen 
for eggs; 25 cents for dairy butter. Snow 
is about 22 inches deep on a level. Many 
acres of potatoes are not dug. A. B. 
Ashtabula Co., Ohio. 
We have had severe Winter weather for 
two weeks. I^ots of snow and good sleigh¬ 
ing; water very scarce. Winter wheat looks 
fair. Hogs coming down in price. Beef, 
five cents pound wholesale live weight- 
Grippe epidemic among people, d. d. s. 
Snyder Co., Pa. 
Prices for feed at this place are as fol¬ 
lows : Bran, per ton, $25 ; middlings, $29 ; 
buckwheat middlings, $22 ; cotton-seed meal, 
per 100 pounds, $1.80; gluten, per 100, 
$1.40; oil meal, per 100, $2; wheat, per 
bushel, 95 cents ; oats, per bushel, 35 to 40 
cents; barley meal, per 100 pounds, $1.35. 
Baldwinsville, N. Y. J. h. 
Our leading market is Madison, with a 
population of 8,000. Potatoes are selling 
from 60 to 80 cents. Several grocers 
bought at 50 cents. More acreage was 
planted than usual this year. The early 
planting was good, although somewhat hurt 
by blight. The late planting was nearly a 
total failure, due to excessive rain through¬ 
out July. Hogs sell for $7 : corn, 40 cents; 
wheat, 85 cents ; hay, $12 and $15. n. G. 
Jefferson Co., Ind. 
The potato crop here is fair, 100 to 150 
bushels per acre ; prices are 35c to 50c. My 
oats went 55 bushels per acre ; wheat over 
30 bushels; corn about 50 bushels. I sold 
my wheat for $1 per bushel; had one field 
of 10 acres that went 41 bushels last year 
and 40 bushels this year; got a little 
over $800 in two years. Cows are sell¬ 
ing from $40 to $75 ; horses from $125 up. 
I sold three two, three and four-year-old 
colts this year from the same mare for $575. 
Cassopolis, Mich. w. M. B. 
Milk retails here at 6% cents per quart 
out of the farmer's wagon ; wholesale price 
is 20 cents per gallon ; cream, $1 per gal¬ 
lon in the city of Joplin (50,000 popula¬ 
tion) ; 20 miles distant prices average 10 
per cent higher. Bran sells at $20 per 
ton ; oil meal, $40 per ton ; clover hay, $10 
per ton; cane hay, $6 to $8 per ton; 
Timothy hay, $10 per ton; corn, 40 cents 
per bushel; oats, 30 cents. Dairy business 
is on the increase here; we have a fine 
climate and excellent water. H. H. 
Neosho, Mo. 
We had a bountiful crop of hay and 
corn. Potatoes were good. I sold all for 
90 cents per bushel. I sold most of _ my 
produce to consumers, for which I received 
about 80 per cent, instead of 35 per cent 
of the consumer’s dollar. I could have sold 
a great lot more if I had them, but the dry 
weather cut us short on cabbage, turnips, 
etc. It is yet dry, no water to make ice 
or water stock. My silo was filled full 
three times (measure 12x27) from 6% 
acres. I also have about 60 bushels of 
husked corn, and the dry fodder is in the 
barn in good shape. ~ - D. B. 
Meriden, Conn. 
Oregon is a great big country with all 
sorts of climates and all kinds of people, 
and thousands more of the same are com¬ 
ing every year. The real estate boomers 
are reaping a harvest, but not a very good 
one for the country. In this valley es¬ 
pecially many large farms are being di¬ 
vided into tracts of five and 19 acres, and 
many are made to believe that they can 
make a good living on these small tracts. 
They go on them and soon find out their 
mistake, and either sell out to some new 
comer at a higher price than they gave, or 
else they find work wherever they cun, and 
from this on they live by working for 
Others. Many are made to believe that all 
they have to do is to sow the seed and 
then go out and reap a bountiful harvest. 
One man only a mile from here had seen 
the reports of large onion crops grown on 
some beaver dam land, and he supposed 
the whole country was the same; he had 
five acres, and on an acre of it that he 
had recently plowed and harrowed he was 
going to sow onion seed broadcast, think¬ 
ing that was the quickest way to get it in 
the ground. One of his neighbors per¬ 
suaded him not to do it. Large crops can 
be grown with plenty of manure and culti¬ 
vation, but the greatest difficulty is there 
is no market when the crop is grown. 
There is a great lack of stick-to-it-ive-ness 
with too many, and at the first failure 
they are discouraged and change their busi¬ 
ness. Many are beginning in the poultry 
business, and soon the flocks are sold off 
and something else started. The great ten¬ 
dency is towards the city ; people are leav¬ 
ing the land and going where they can get 
more money and have a better chance to 
spend it, and then complain about high 
living. So many cannot live within their 
means; they want everything their neigh¬ 
bor has. We have not many very poor 
people here, and not many very rich, but 
lots of folks that want much money for a 
little work. The hop industry is a great 
curse of this country, and it is ruining 
many a heretofore prosperous man. It 
seems to be a question that many find it 
hard to decide. Can 1 be a Christian and 
grow or deal in hops? The two things do 
not go together. d. f. 
Salem, Ore. 
“PREPAID” EXPRESS CHARGES. 
Knowing Tiik R. N.-Y. is a champion of 
the much-needed cause, a parcels post, 1 shall 
add one more grievance against the express 
company. In endeavoring to open an east¬ 
ern outlet for my boxed fruit, I forwarded 
several consignments to New York City, 
being careful to prepay full charges (50 
cents per box from Berryville, Va.,), and 
upon delivery in New York each consignee 
was compelled to pay $1 before receiving 
his package. After forwarding the agent's 
receipt at this end to the consignee, the 
company would then refund the amount 
collected. Please suggest for the benefit of 
your readers and shippers a remedy for 
such a nuisance and annovanee a. k. a. 
The potato crop here is generally small, 
few trying to raise any to sell. This year’s 
crop nearly a failure—neglect of bugs and 
cultivation the cause. Many did not raise 
anv even for early Fall use, and all potatoes 
sold in this part of the State were shipped 
in from other States (mostly Wisconsin), 
and retail from 80 cents to $1. Corn crop 
generally light in yield and also quality; 
sells at 35 cents. Oats generally light, but 
qualitv extra good, selling at 25 cents. 
Live poultry—turkeys, up, 15 cents; chicks, 
7 cents; ducks and geese, 7 cents. Hogs, 
$6.75. w. H. H. 
Letcher, S. D. 
Here are the prices of bran and feed of 
various kinds; Bran, $31 to $32 per ton; 
cotton-seed meal, $30 per ton; sucrene 
dairy fet'd, $28 per ton; dried-beef pulp, 
$29; corn, 65c. per bushel; wheat $1.10; 
oats, 50c; eggs, 32c; butter 30c to 3oc; 
Irish potatoes, 80c per bushel; hay, $14 
per ton. Prices on all kinds of feed are 
very high, and the prospects are for higher 
prices. Dressed hogs are worth 10c to 11c 
per pound, and very few are for sale. 
Weather has been very dry from Septem¬ 
ber 1 to December 1 ; no rain to amount to 
anything; Fall-sown grain very poor. 
Cleveland, Tenn. K - n. b. 
'Following are prices that feed grain and 
other products are selling for here: Wheat, 
90 cents per bushel; bran, $1.30 per 100 
pounds; middlings, $1.40 per 100 pounds; 
corn, $1.20 per 100 pounds; gluten, $1.40 
per 100 pounds; cotton-seed meal, $1.50 
per 100 pounds; buckwheat, $1.05 at the 
car; potatoes, 30 cents per bushel, borne 
farmers are holding potatoes for higher 
prices. A number of acres in this section 
were not dug. Calves bring $9 to $10 live; 
Spring lambs, $5.50 to $6 live; Spring pigs, 
10 cents per pound dressed ; milk at Howell 
Station, $1.70 per 100 pounds. Fresh cows 
are selling from $50 to $80 for grades; hay, 
from $12 to $17 per ton according to qual¬ 
ity. Apples are scarce, selling for $1 per 
bushel for fair ones; not many No. 1 
apples raised in this section. J. L. 
NATIONAL FRUIT GROWERS’ UNION. 
The following call has been sent out to 
all fruit organizations. Ohio and Illinois 
will be represented, as well as New Eng¬ 
land. It is hoped that all fruit organiza¬ 
tions will respond : 
You are requested to send delegates to a 
conference to be held at two o’clock P. M., 
in Convention Hall, Rochester, New York, 
on Thursday, January 5, 1911, to consider 
the advisability of forming an association, 
whose aims and objects shall be to secure 
legislation, both State and National, tend¬ 
ing to raise grades and standards and im¬ 
prove methods of packing of all fruits, to 
the end that there will be no deception in 
either package or bulk orchard products. 
Also to aid in securing, as far as is 
practical, uniform State legislation, as to 
size of all fruit packages. 
Pennsylvania State Horticultural Society, 
Gabriel Hiester, President. 
Michigan State Pomological Society (by 
resolution), C. E. Bassett. Secretary. 
New Jersey State Horticultural Society 
(by resolution). 
Adams County, Pennsylvania, Fruit 
Growers’ Association, E. C. Tyson, Secre¬ 
tary. _ , , 
Western New York Horticultural Society, 
John Hall, Secretary. 
Growers’ and Shippers’ Exchange, E. W. 
Catchpole, Legislative Committee. 
Virginia . 
R. N.-Y.—We have felt well nigh obliged 
to stop prepaying express packages. Unless 
we do the agents are likely to demand 
additional charges before delivering. This 
annoys customers so that they will some¬ 
times refuse to buy direct. We believe 
these companies see the writing on the 
wall, and are getting in all they can while 
the graft lasts. 
The Russian Consumer’s Dollar.—• 
Consul J. II. Grant, of Odessa, gives the 
following report on Russian food crops. 
With potatoes gelling at about 12 cents a 
bushel, how much does the producer re¬ 
ceive? 
“In Russia, until lately, the food of the 
masses consisted, besides varying quantities 
of animal substance, principally of cereals, 
crucifer® (cabbages, etc.), cucurbitacese 
(melons, etc.), and a few other kinds of 
plant food. The potato did not enter into 
it to any appreciable extent. Now this is 
rapidly changing and the potato is more 
grown and more valued. This year’s po¬ 
tato crop proves to have been in many 
parts so abundant that the markets are 
filled, and prices for good table or indus¬ 
trial potatoes are as low as 6 to 6% cents 
per measure (a little over 36 pounds), 
and dealers have purchased in villages po¬ 
tatoes as low as 3% to 4 cents per measure. 
Naturally this could leave little or no profit 
for the growers, and in many places they 
have tried to solve the difficulty by ex¬ 
tracting the starch and selling it to treacle 
and distilling factories. The price of such 
starch, however, has in some places fallen 
as low as 30 to 33 cents per pood (36 
pounds), which goes far toward showing 
how little prepared Russia is to deal satis¬ 
factorily with any chance surplus.” 
Fruit Growers’ Organization. —An or¬ 
ganization to be known as the Eastern 
Fruit Growers’ Association was formed at 
Washington, I). C., December 21, by rep¬ 
resentatives of the fruit growing industry 
of the East. Problems of the trade were 
discussed and a plan of action outlined 
looking toward co-operation with various 
State horticultural societies and the uni¬ 
fication of methods of marketing fruits. The 
association will meet annually in Wash¬ 
ington. The following officers were elected : 
S. L. Lupton, Winchester, Va., president; 
Nat C. Frame, Martinsburg, W. Va., sec¬ 
retary ; F. I. Oswald, Smithsburg, Md., 
treasurer, and the following vice-presidents : 
Janies II. Harris, Stillpond. Md. ; Stewart 
Bell, Winchester, Va., G. L. Soper, Mag¬ 
nolia, Del. ; C. B. Hart, Wheeling, W. Va.; 
R. M. Elden, Aspers, l’a., and A. T. Henry, 
Wallingford, Conn 
Missouri Fruit Growers’ Institute.— 
he Missouri State Board of Horticulture 
eld a fruit growers’ institute at St. 
oseph. Mo., on December 9 and 10, in co- 
peration with the local Horticultural So¬ 
oty and the Fruit Grower. In connection 
ith the meeting, the State Board held a 
ruit show ; and at the same time the Fruit 
rower conducted its "Brother Jonathan 
ruit exhibit. The fruit crop in the neigli- 
orhood of St. Joseph, and in fact all over 
orthwestern Missouri, was a very good one 
his year. In the discussion following one 
f the papers which dealt with the fruit 
rap of the entire country for 1910, it de- 
eloped that the apple crop 50 miles north, 
outh, and east of St. Joseph this year 
,ms sold for approximately $2,400,000. The 
onathan is the leading variety, as it seems 
o find in the loess soil of the Missouri 
liver hills its most congenial home. 
