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THE RURAb IMEW-YOKEEH 
January 10, 
Really Grind 
any grain, separate or 
mixed, ear or shelled corn, 
coarse or fine meal; also 
husks, as well as cobs and 
corn; in fact, anything grind- 
able, whether wet, dry or 
oily. The high water mark 
of grinding perfection. 
Quaker City Mills are 
Sold On 
10 Days’ 
Trial- 
Direct From 
Factory— 
™ BHI— ™ 1 Freight Paid 
No risk whatever. 23 styles 
— hand power to 20 h. p. 
Every mill must be its own 
salesman—must prove how 
easy it operates, how fast it 
works, how fine it grinds and 
how little attention it needs. 
FREE — our complete catalog, 
with descriptions, illustrations 
and prices, together with valu¬ 
able information on feed grind¬ 
ing. Also booklet on labor-sav¬ 
ing farm machinery at bargain 
prices. Write us at once. 
The A. VV. Straub Co. 
Dept. E Dept T 
3740 Filbert St.. 3709 So. Ashland Ave.. 
Philadelphia. Pa. Chicago. Ill. 
LET 
THE 
WIND 
PUMPwaterFOR 
NOTHING 
WHY PAY FOR GASOUNE 
WHEN WIND IS FREE! 
Gel a Big, Heavy, Powerful, 
Light Running, Double Geared 
SAMSON 
WIND MILL 
SEND FOR CATALOG 
V/e also build Ideal Feed 
Mill*, Pump Jacks, Hand 
Grinding Mills for Poultry Rais¬ 
ers, Gasoline Engines, Ensilage 
Cutters end Brass Candle Sticks 
STOVER MANUFACTURING COMPANY 
n 188 Salmon Avenue, FREEPORT. ILLINOIS n 
Grinds Wet Grain Without 
Clogging 
At same speed as dry. Oat 
hulls too. No other Grinder 
docs this. Self alifming 
buhrs grind 1000 to 3000 bushels 
are easily replaced, 
on little gasoline. 
er set and 
ig results 
Letz SMent h B*uhr r ' ln ^ 
Feed Mill 
Write us giving H. P. of 
your engine and we’ll tell 
now to get one on your farm 
for 10 Days Free Trial. 
LETZ MFG. CO. 
213 E. Road, Crown Point, Ind. 
Duplex FARM Tool Grinder 
Pays for 
Itself in 
season. 
Grinds your plow shares,cultiva¬ 
tor points, axes, 
sickles,knives 
and all tools. 
Edge or side 
of wheel can 
be used. 
No Engine too small for 
it. Will last a lifetime. 
Special attachment for 
grinding discs furnished 
freo. Write for circular. 
Duplex Hill & Mfg.Co., Box 420• SprlnQflold.O. 
SLAUGHTERHOUSE 
FERTILIZERS 
greatly increase Agents’ sales, because they pro¬ 
duce larger and better crops and enrich soils. 
Proofs furnished. Quality guaranteed. Prices 
right. Responsible Agents wanted at once. 
D. B. MARTIN CO. 
706 Penn Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa. 
H CERSE HEAP: 
Pulverized raw phosphate builds fertile soils—maintains 
fertility. High test. Laboratory analysis with every car. 
WE WANT AGENTS. Successful experiments have 
paved the way. Price, your railroad station—liberal terms. 
THE HASEROT CANNERIES CO., Cleveland, Ohio 
FOR SALE-Agricultural Lime 
selected forked lump lime, hulk, 93# to 98# pure lime, 
$5.60; hydrated lime, paper sacks, $7.30 net ton; 
car lots, delivered any point between Buffalo and 
New York on the main line of L. V., N. Y- C., 
W. S., O. & W., 1)., L. & W„ and Erie R. R. 
J. VV. BALXAR1J CO., Binghamton, N. V. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—At Red Jacket, Mick., 
December 24, while copper mine strikers 
and their families were holding a Christ¬ 
mas festival in Italian Hall, some one 
started an alarm of fire. There was no 
fire, but in the panic that ensued 72 per¬ 
sons were crushed to death; 5S were 
children. 
A five weeks’ rat hunt in Union Town¬ 
ship, Ohio, ended Dec. 24, when the 213 
men and boys engaged in the contest pro¬ 
duced 10,336 rat tails, which were count¬ 
ed by the judges. The losers in the con¬ 
test gave a dinner for the winners. One 
of the most remarkable figures in the 
slaughter was a small rat terrier owned 
by J. M. Ilartman. More than two thou¬ 
sand tails were from rodents killed by the 
terrier, which made a record of thirty 
rats in one shock of corn. Another town¬ 
ship hunt is on, and it is believed that 
when the series of contests has ended 
50.000 rats will have been killed in Han¬ 
cock County. 
A violent gale swept the Atlantic sea¬ 
board Dec. 25, attaining along the New 
Jersey coast a velocity of 122 miles an 
hour. With the ocean lashed into moun¬ 
tainous seas, the bulkheads at Seabright 
were levelled, allowing the waves full 
play in their sweep over the Summer 
colony. Damage of more than $1,000,000 
was done by the storm, in some eases en¬ 
tire houses being lifted from their founda¬ 
tions and carried bodily out to sea. Road¬ 
ways were torn up, railroad tracks un¬ 
dermined, shipping demoralized and many 
towns along the coast were cut off from 
communication with the rest of the world. 
Ten men, the crews of two barges, were 
drowned when their vessels were swept 
on the bar near the Forked River life sav¬ 
ing station, below Barnegat. 
Political contributions from New York 
State canal employees amounting to $3,- 
150 in 1912 and $2,600 in 1911 were sent 
to Arthur A. McLean, the treasurer of 
the Democratic State committee, by Wal¬ 
ter G. Robinson of Schenectady, who is 
the superintendent of the eastern division 
of the State canal system extending from 
Albany to Utica and of the Champlain 
Canal. These contributions were re¬ 
ceived from about 500 employees accord¬ 
ing to recent investigation. In one year 
Mr. Robinson took the money to the Dem¬ 
ocratic State headquarters in New York 
city and in the other year he sent it by 
American Express. Harry Bogue, the 
Republican clerk to Owen Kearney, 
former canal section superintendent at 
Cohoes, and H. M. Hulsapple, a Repub¬ 
lican of Watervliet, a special agent on the 
canals stationed at Schenectady, each of 
whom has held his position for the last 
15 or 18 years, declared that during all 
that time under the Republican as well 
as the recent Democratic State adminis¬ 
trations the canal employees were assessed 
for campaign purposes and the money 
was collected and forwarded to the State 
committee representing the party in pow¬ 
er every year. 
An expedition of the Royal Northwest 
Mounted Police has left Dawson, Alaska, 
for Fort MaePherson and Ilerschel Isl¬ 
and, in the Arctic Ocean northwest of the 
mouth of the Mackenzie River. Part of 
the expedition will return at once after 
seeking from Eskimos, whalers and trad¬ 
ers all possible information regarding Ex¬ 
plorer Stefansson’s expedition. Another 
police expedition from Ilerschel Island 
will meet the Dawson party at Fort Mae¬ 
Pherson. If the Ilerschel Island party 
brings any definite news of the Stefansson 
party the Dawson expedition will hasten 
back from Fort MaePherson. The Daw¬ 
son party has orders to obtain all possi¬ 
ble news regarding Stefansson’s where¬ 
abouts and hurry it to some point where 
it may be telegraphed to Ottawa. Sergt. 
Dempster, veteran of many other expe¬ 
ditions across the Rocky Mountains to 
Ilerschel Island, will command the Daw¬ 
son party. It was Dempster who found 
the bodies of the Fitzgerald expedition 
three years ago. Corporal Hacking and 
four Indians will complete the party. 
Fire destroyed six of the hangars on 
the grounds of the Hempstead Plains 
Aviation Company at Hempstead, L. I., 
Dec. 29. The loss was $29,000. Those 
who suffered the greatest loss were Fred¬ 
erick C. Ilild and Edward Marshonett, 
who are incorporated as the American 
Supply Company. Some of the aviators 
in saving machines were severely burned. 
The announcement that radium-bear¬ 
ing deposits have been found near Mauch 
Chunk, Pa., has created excitement in that 
section. Farmers and others owning land 
between Tamaqua and Mauch Chunk are 
busy conducting examinations of the 
strata. The alleged carntite or radium 
bearing deposits were found along the 
right of way of the Eastern Pennsylvania 
Railroad, owned by the Lehigh Coal and 
Navigation Company. Mining men say 
that if carnotite exists in this section it 
should be found all over the southern 
anthracite region, as the formation is 
identical. Secretary of the Interior Lane 
asked Congress Dec. 29 to pass a law 
which will give the Government control 
of all radium bearing ores found in pub¬ 
lic lands. Dr. James Douglas of New 
York, who controls concessions in radium 
bearing ore deposits, thought Secretary 
Lane’s plan ambitious, but hoped for its 
success. 
W. M. Barrett, president of the Adams 
Express Company, said Dec. 29, the com¬ 
pany lost 25 per cent of its business in 
the last year because of the parcel post. 
The extension of the parcel post weight 
limit on January 1 still further would 
hit the express companies, he said. In 
addition, the 15 per cent decrease in ex¬ 
press rates, to take effect then, as or¬ 
dered by the Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
mission, will make still further inroads 
in the express company business. The 
express companies, Mr. Barrett says, 
have accepted the ruling of the Interstate 
Commerce Commission as inevitable, and 
they will now make retrenchments to 
show profits. For the year ended June 
30. he said, the deficit in the Adams com¬ 
pany was $89,872. This being the case, 
it is suggested that the $12 yearly divi¬ 
dend probably will be cut next year. 
Montreal, Canada, already facing a 
water famine, was obliged Dec. 29. to con¬ 
quer a fire to save a section of the city 
from destruction. To this end water was 
brought by fire hose from the St. Law¬ 
rence River, a mile away from the heart 
of the threatened district. There was but 
one stream besides this one available to 
fight the flames, as the city hydrants were 
all but useless owing to a break in the 
main water conduit on Christmas night. 
Two three-story buildings and 60 auto¬ 
mobiles were destroyed while the firemen 
were devoting their efforts successfully to 
preventing the flames from reaching a 
2,000-gallon tank of gasoline. The esti¬ 
mated property loss was nearly $300,000. 
Ex-Controller Edward M. Grout and 
James T. Ashley were indicted by the 
Kings County, N. Y., grand jury Dec. 29 
for perjury committed while president 
and cashier, respectively, of the Union 
Bank, now defuncL The men were in¬ 
dicted for misdemeanors on practically 
the same allegations a couple of years ago 
in the administration of District Attorney 
John F. Clark. These indictments are 
still pending. The charges are that Grout 
and Ashley wilfully made and swore to a 
false report as to the assets of the bank 
in April, 1910. Although the accusations 
were identical, separate indictments were 
found against the ex-officials. Under the 
1911 indictment Grout and Ashley were 
charged with making a false report, and 
the most serious allegations in the Grout 
indictment were stricken out by Justice 
Marean. The recent indictments ac¬ 
cuse Grout and Ashley of perjury. Ac¬ 
cording to the indictments, the false state¬ 
ment made it appear that the resources of 
the bank totalled $7,165,201.82. when the 
total in fact was only $4,924,555.28; also 
the statement made it appear that the 
bank had loans and discounts, part of its 
resources, amounting to $4,954,163.52, 
whereas the right amount was $2,955,- 
4S6.72. 
W. L. Moyer, former chairman of the 
board of directors of the American Union 
Trust Company of Kansas City, Mo., was 
arrested at Chicago, Dec. 30, charged with 
having used the mails to defraud. He 
was arraigned before United States Com¬ 
missioner Mason and his bond was fixed 
at $5,000. He is accused of promoting a 
$1,000,000 company, the actual capital 
of which is alleged to have been only a 
few thousand dollars. The Government 
charges that J. C. McDowell of Kansas 
City paid for $350,000 worth of the stock 
and that J. Ogden Armour was a large 
subscriber. Mr. Moyer was vice-presi¬ 
dent of the La Salle Street National 
Bank, now a State organization, for four 
months shortly after the bank, which was 
founded by William Lorimer, had begun 
the acceptance of deposits. He never 
was associated with the La Salle Street 
Trust and Savings Bank, the State com¬ 
pany, according to officials. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A fatal case 
of anthrax, a highly contagious and fatal 
disease among cattle, has been reported 
at Binghamton, N. Y. The victim was 
C. J. Banta, a prominent farmer. The 
source of the anthrax infection is un¬ 
known, but is supposed to have come 
from an animal he was skinning. It is 
probable the State Department of Agri¬ 
culture will order a quarantine until the 
source of the infection is located. 
The Secretary of Agriculture an¬ 
nounced, Dec. 27, the appointment of the 
following committee “to conduct a gen¬ 
eral inquiry into the various factors 
which have brought about the present un¬ 
satisfactory conditions with respect to 
meat production in tne United States, 
especially in reference to beef, with a 
view to suggesting possible methods for 
improvement.” Dr. B. T. Galloway, As¬ 
sistant Secretary of Agriculture, chair¬ 
man; Dr. H. J. Waters, president of the 
Kansas State Agricultural College; Pro¬ 
fessor C. E. Curtiss, dean and director 
of the Iowa State College; Professor II. 
W. Mumford, professor of animal hus¬ 
bandry, University of Illinois; Dr. A. D. 
Melvin, chief of the Bureau of Animal In¬ 
dustry, Department of Agriculture, and 
Dr. T. N. Carver, director of the Rural 
Organization Service, Department of 
Agriculture. The work of the committee 
will centre largely on the study of eco¬ 
nomic questions involved in the produc¬ 
tion. transportation, slaughter and mar¬ 
keting of meat. As the first step the 
committee will investigate carefully the 
changes within the last two or three de¬ 
cades which have increased cost of pro¬ 
duction and the centralizing of the meat 
industry. Among the important consider¬ 
ations to be gone into will be the taking 
up of the public lands, the effect of the 
capacity of the range, especially on the 
remaining public lands, and forest re¬ 
serves. with a view to suggesting changes 
in the laws to make the public lands of 
greater use in cattle raising. The com¬ 
mittee also will give special attention to 
the economic changes in meat production 
and distribution brought about through 
the centralizing of slaughtering and meat 
preparations in large packing establish¬ 
ments and the changes in transportation 
and similar matters which have resulted 
from this centralization and other causes. 
The economic possibility of communal 
and community effort in cattle raising and 
the advantages of establishing local or 
municipal abattoirs will also be investi¬ 
gated. 
Inspectors of the State Department of 
Agriculture began Dec. 30 to check the 
overfeeding of live poultry just before it 
is unloaded and sold to consumers in New 
York city. For a dozen or more years 
poor families, who consume most of New 
York’s live poultry, have paid on an 
average of $2,000,000 a year for sand 
and gravel in the crops of live poultry. 
Three arrests were made Dec. 30 at the 
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad terminal, at 
Twenty-sixth street, and others are like¬ 
ly to follow. Those arrested were Wil¬ 
liam Goebel of Pleasanton, Kan.; E. 
Willcock, Berr.vville, Ark., and Louis 
Levy, 214 Division avenue, Brooklyn. 
Each was held in $300 bail for trial. The 
three men were charged with cruelty to 
animals and with overfeeding poultry with 
coal, sand and gravel. The S. P. C. A. 
about six months ago investigated the 
matter, but no action was taken. Now 
the evil will be attacked by the State 
Agricultural Department and the Federal 
authorities are interested, as some of the 
unloading is done in Jersey City. 
FREIGHT SERVICE AT DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
Nurserymen at Dansville, N. Y., are 
Lip in arms against the Erie Railroad for 
poor freight service. They appealed to 
the Public Service Commission and a 
great meeting was the result. The local 
paper gives this account: 
“The foundation for all this demon¬ 
stration lies in the fact that our nursery¬ 
men have grown sick and tired of the 
rotten service they have received for 
years, at the hands of the Erie Railroad, 
in the matter of transporting their nurs¬ 
ery stock. Shipments that should have 
reached their destination, and been plant¬ 
ed in the orchards of their customer with¬ 
in 48 hours after they left Dansville, have 
been delayed for weeks, and frequently 
until it was too late to plant them. This 
thing has been going on so long that our 
nurserymen were well-nigh discouraged. 
They are paying a force of high-priced 
help to prepare these trees for prompt 
shipment, and then to have them held up 
because of wholly inadequate railroad 
facilities was too much of a strain, so 
they appealed to the P. S. C., for redress. 
“This meeting was productive of great 
good. The Erie officials acknowledged 
that the trouble was at their end of the 
Rochester division, as the D. and M. 
handled this end of the business promptly. 
The Erie folks promised that there should 
be no more trouble, as they would put 
on a force sufficient to handle all that 
came, promptly and carefully.” 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
West Virginia College of Agriculture, 
Morgantown. Farmers Short Courses, 
January 6-13; Agricultural Associations’ 
meetings, January 13-16. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, annu¬ 
al Winter meeting,‘Easton, Md., January 
13-15. 
_ Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, convention and trade exhibit. 
Springfield, Mass., January 15-17. 
New York State Agricultural Society 
annual meeting and convention, Albany, 
N. Y., January 20-21. 
Vermont State Poultry Association, 
seventeenth exhibition, St. Alban’s, Vt., 
January 20-22. 
Connecticut State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion, Hartford, Conn., January 20-22. 
Ohio State Horticultural Society, an¬ 
nual meeting, Cleveland, O., January 20- 
23, in connection with the Fifth Annual 
Ohio State apple show. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Richmond, Va., January 
21-23. 
Annual Corn Show, Pennsylvania Live 
Stock Breeders’ Association, Pennsyl¬ 
vania Dairy Union, Pennsylvania Horti¬ 
cultural Association, York, Pa., third 
week in January. 
New York State School of Agriculture, 
Alfred, N. Y., short course in agriculture 
beginning January 26; Farmers’ Week, 
February 23-26. 
Forty-first annual meeting, New Jer¬ 
sey State Board of Agriculture, Trenton, 
N. J., January 29-30. 
Farmers’ Week, State School of Agri¬ 
culture, Canton, N. Y., January 26-31. 
Ohio Corn Improvement Association, 
Mansfield, <)., January 27-30. 
Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Rochester, N. Y., January 2S-29- 
30. 
Farmers’ Week, Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio, February 2-6. 
Sixth National Corn Exhibition, State 
Fair Ground, Dallas, Texas, February 
10-24. 
Granite State Dairymen’s Association, 
Concord, N. H., February 12. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
Amherst, ten-weeks’ Winter course, Jan¬ 
uary 6-Marcli 13. 
Thirty-ninth annual meeting of the 
American Association of Nurserymen 
Cleveland, O., June 24-26. 
