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THE RURAI> NEW-YOKKER 
January 3, 
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Demand for apples far exceeds the supply— 
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Apple orchards yield 50# more profit per acre 
than can be obtained from any other crop. Rich 
Land Nurseries nevor before had a larger or a 
finer stock of applo trees than this season and 
the prices we quote were never lower. 
This is yonr opportunity to begin, or to in¬ 
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all fruits at the minimum of cost if you buy 
trees from us. Our prices on peach trees are 
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NUTS AND TREES FOR SALE 
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December 20, 1913 
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53 Reilly Road, Dansville, N. Y. 
850,000 Fruit Trees 
Apple, $15.00 per 100; Peach, 
$9.00 per 100; also Cherry, Plum, 
Pear and Quince, which I sell 
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WELLS WHOLESALE NURSERIES 
50 Wellsley Ave., DanBVille, N. Y. 
APPLE TREES $12.00 Per 100 f^ilS 
quality, healthy, grown by us. guaranteed true to name. 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Divorcement of the 
Western Union Telegraph Company from 
the American Telephone and Telegraph 
Company, the restoration of competition 
by the Bell system and the establishment 
of reciprocal relations between the Bell 
concern and independent lines are the 
essential features announced Dec. IB of 
an agreement reached by Attorney Gen¬ 
eral McReynolds and N. C. Kingsbury, 
vice-president of the Bell corporation, as 
a result of negotiations covering several 
months. The reorganization plan, which 
will prevent litigation to dissolve that cor¬ 
poration under the anti-trust act, origi¬ 
nated with the company, although it fol¬ 
lowed many reports that a suit against 
it might be filed. It was regarded by 
Department of Justice officials as the 
most striking indication offered in a de¬ 
cade that “big business” has come to the 
conclusion that it is better to follow the 
Sherman law than fight it. The plan 
meets not only the approval of the At¬ 
torney General but also of his chief “trust 
buster,” G. C. Todd, and officials of the 
subsidiaries of the combine, as well as 
President Wilson. 
The second fh-e within eight days in the 
plant of the Rock Plaster Company, at 
150th sti’eet and the East River, New 
Yoi’k. destroyed a two story brick build¬ 
ing used as a barrel factory Dec. 21 with 
a loss of ,$25,000. The plant suffered a 
$500,000 fire on the night of December 13. 
Bai’t Dunn. Tammany leader of the 
Eighteenth Assembly district, Manhat¬ 
tan; Joseph J. Fogarty, an inspector for 
the State Highways Department, and the 
Dunbar Construction Company, of which 
Dunn is pi'esident, were found guilty in 
the Supreme Court at New City, N. Y., 
Dec. 20, of conspiring to defraud the 
State in constructing a road in Rockland 
county. This is the first conviction re¬ 
sulting from one of the indictments ob¬ 
tained by John A. Ilennessy while he 
was special investigator of State graft for 
Gov. William Sulzer. 
According to' the report of Fourth As¬ 
sistant Postmaster-General Blakslee, 
there were in the United States on March 
3 of this year 42,644 rural routes in op- 
eration, of which 456 had been estab¬ 
lished during the current fiscal year. 
From that date to June 30, 1913, there 
were established 163 routes and two were 
discontinued, making a total of 42,805 in 
operation at the close of the fiscal year. 
To serve these routes 42,6S5 carriers were 
employed, whose annual salaries aggre¬ 
gated $45,377,442. There was a net in¬ 
crease of 606 routes, 14,532 miles and 606 
carriers. During the year 114 tri-weekly 
routes were established, while four were 
discontinued. At the close of the fiscal 
year there were 745 tri-weekly routes in 
operation. On June 30, 1913, the total 
length of rural routes in operation was 
1,038,076 miles; the daily travel 1.028,- 
603 and the annual travel 315,781.121 
miles. The average length of routes was 
24.25 mills, the average cost per mile 
$43.71 and tbe average cost per mile of 
travel $0.01437. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A regula¬ 
tion issued Dec. 18 by the State Commis¬ 
sioner of Health provides that cold stor¬ 
age goods in New York State in the fu¬ 
ture must be advertised and sold as such. 
All persons and firms retailing cold stor¬ 
age products must display prominently a 
card 8 by 12 inches on which is plainly 
printed the notice issued by the Health 
Commissioner. A further regulation 
makes it unlawful to remove from pack¬ 
ages containing cold storage foods the 
stamps showing when the articles were 
placed in cold storage and when they 
were taken out. 
The Indianapolis City Health Board 
recently found bottles of milk in which 
the cream settled upon the bottom of the 
bottle, instead of on the top. It was dis¬ 
covered that for a month many persons 
have been using a manufactured milk, 
which was sold for the real product. The 
milk is manufactured by mixing a pow¬ 
der with water and adding enough cream 
to give the mixture the proper amount 
of butterfat. This fluid stands all the 
tests required of real milk. The discov¬ 
ery of the manufactured milk was brought 
about when one company put too much 
butterfat in its newly made supply. This 
caused the cream to settle to the bottom 
of the bottles. When it was found the 
manufactured milk fulfilled all require¬ 
ments as to the various standards the 
board ordered that hereafter all manu¬ 
factured milk must be so labelled. 
Secretary of Agriculture Houston is¬ 
sued an order Dee. 22 extending ^the 
temporary quarantine of the United 
States against foreign potatoes so as to 
include importations of potatoes from 
Newfoundland, the islands of St. Pierre 
and Miquelon, Great Britain and Ire¬ 
land, Continental Europe and the Do¬ 
minion of Canada. This quarantine be¬ 
came effective on December 24, except 
that shipments covered by consular in¬ 
voices on or prior to December 24 will 
be admitted up to January 15, 1914. Sec¬ 
retary Houston makes it plain that there 
is no potato shortage in the country. It 
has been contended that if the quarauitne 
was extended there might be a potato 
famine here and prices would soar. The 
embargo practically includes every coun¬ 
try from which the United States can 
receive potatoes, but as soon as any 
country or district can be shown to be 
free from potato diseases the quarantine 
will be lifted. The object of the quaran¬ 
tine is to protect this country from pow¬ 
dery scab and other infections of potato 
plants. 
The highest Christmas tree ever 
brought to New York was erected by the 
city authorities in Madison Square Park. 
It cost $500. This ti'ee, a balsam, is 68 
feet in height. It was erected on a 10- 
foot base, which will make the total a 
trifle over 75 feet. The tree was cut in 
Canada, requix’ed two fiat cars to bring it 
to New York and the freight was $SS. 
The supply of Christmas trees this year 
was lighter than last. Ordinarily it takes 
150 carloads to supply the city. 
THE CURRENCY BILL.—The Ad¬ 
ministration currency bill was passed 
Dec. 19. It includes the following 
features: 
A Federal Reserve Board composed of 
the Secretary of the Treasury and six 
members, to designate not less than eight 
nor more than twelve reserve districts, 
each with a Federal reserve bank. 
National banks must and other banks 
may subscribe to the stock of reserve 
banks. If the stock subscription is in¬ 
adequate, stock may be offered to the 
public. 
Of nine Directors of each reserve bank, 
three are to be designated by the Fed¬ 
eral Board. 
Stockholders are to receive dividends 
up to 6 per cent. 
Reserve banks are to rediscount paper 
of other reserve banks. 
Employes of the Federal Board are not 
to be protected by the civil service. 
The Government is to make deposits 
in Federal reserve banks, which are em¬ 
powered to discount notes, etc., arising 
from actual transactions. 
Notes, etc., based on live stock and 
agricultural products and maturing in 
six months may be discounted. 
Circulating notes are to be issued by 
Federal reserve banks and circulated by 
the member, banks. 
Every Federal reserve bank must main¬ 
tain reserves in gold or lawful money of 
not less than 35 per cent. 
The amount of gold in each Federal 
reserve bank, together with the amount 
deposited by it with the Treasury, shall 
equal 40 per cent of the Federal reserve 
notes in actual circulation. 
Federal reserve notes shall he secured 
by commercial paper of prescribed char¬ 
acter and maturity. 
Not less than 5 per cent gold for re¬ 
demption of Federal reserve notes must 
be maintained on deposit in the Treasury 
by each Federal reserve bank. 
National banks not situated in reserve 
or Federal cities may make loans on farm 
lands. 
National banks may establish bi-anches 
in foreign countries. 
Members of Congress may not be of¬ 
ficers or directors of member banks. 
SOUTH PACIFIC VOLCANIC 
ERUPTION. — Further particulars 
brought to Sydney, N. S. W.. by incom¬ 
ing vessels regarding the volcanic erup¬ 
tion on Ambrim Island, in the New He¬ 
brides. indicate that it was the most vio¬ 
lent shock experienced in that part of 
the world for a century. It is estimated 
that at least 500 natives have perished. 
The eruption began on December 5. de¬ 
vastating entire villages and plantations 
and transforming the whole face of the 
island. At night the flames were seen 
shooting a thousand feet in the air, bril¬ 
liantly illuminating the whole scene of de¬ 
struction. Huge bowlders were hurled 
into space and were silhouetted against 
the brightness of the flames. Dust reach¬ 
ing ten miles from the scene of the vol¬ 
canic activity caused a great black cloud 
to spread from the new craters until it 
blotted out the light of the stars. The 
ocean itself seemed to boil and effervesce 
as huge meteors plunged into the sea and 
lava streams poured down the sides of the 
mountains and ran into the bay. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
West Virginia College of Agriculture, 
Morgantown, Farmers Short Courses, 
January 6-13; Agricultural Associations’ 
meetings, January 13-16. 
Special Farmers’ Course, Rhode Island 
State College, Kingston, It. I., December 
30-January 2. 
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association annual 
meeting, Hotel Manhattan, New York, 
January S. 
Farmers’ week, Pennsylvania State 
College P. O., December 29. 191.3-January 
3, 3914. 
Vermont Dairymen’s Association, an¬ 
nual meeting, Rutland, Vt., January 6-8, 
1914. 
_ New York State Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. Convention 11 all, Rochester, N. 
Y., January 7-8-9, 1914. 
Kentucky State Horticultural Society, 
College of Agriculture, Lexington, Ky., 
January 8. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, annu¬ 
al Winter meeting, Easton, Md., January 
13-15, 1914. 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, convention and trade exhibit. Spring- 
field, Mass., January 15-17, 3914. 
New York State Agricultural Society 
annual meeting and convention, Albany, 
N. Y., January 20-21. 1934. 
Vermont State Poultry Association, 
seventeenth exhibition, St. Alban’s, Vt., 
January 20-22. 1914. 
_ 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, 1914. 
Annual Corn Show, Pennsylvania Live 
Stock Breeders’ Association, Pennsyl¬ 
vania Dairy Union, Pennsylvania Horti¬ 
cultural Association, York, Pa., third 
week in January, 1914. 
Forty-first annual meeting, New Jer¬ 
sey State Board of Agriculture, Trenton, 
N. J., January 29-30, 1914. 
Farmers’ Week, State School of Agri¬ 
culture, Canton, N. Y., January 26-31. 
Ohio Corn Improvement Association, 
Mansfield, O., January 27-30, 1914. 
Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. Rochester, N. Y., January 2S-29- 
30. 1914. 
Farmers’ Week. Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio, February 2-6, 1914. 
Sixth National Corn Exhibition. State 
Fair Ground, Dallas, Texas, February 
10-24, 1914. 
Granite State Dairymen’s Association, 
Concord, N. II., February 12. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
Amherst, ten-weeks’ Winter course, Jan¬ 
uary 6-March 13. 1914. 
Thirty-ninth annual meeting of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
Cleveland, O., June 24-26, 1914. 
CROPS. 
Corn 90 ; hay $8 to $15 ; potatoes $1; 
rye 70; oats 52; small fruits 10 to 12 cts. 
per quart. Cows on sale $60 to $100 per 
head; butter 32 to 42; eggs 30 to 37. 
Gardening is not extensively carried on. 
Richland, Pa. w. F. s. 
Horse sales slow just now. Cows are 
bringing from $50 up to $80. Beef is 
selling by the side for 12% cents; pork, 
dressed, 11. Milk $1.85 per hundred 
pounds; butter 22 ; eggs 34 ; wheat 88; 
corn 65; potatoes 70. w. j. z. 
Dalmatia, Pa. 
Cows coming fresh in the Spring $40 
to $45; dry, on foot for beef, $35; year¬ 
lings $30 to $35 for beef; butter* 32; 
eggs 40 to 48; feed about $1.60 per cwt. 
for meal. $1.35 for bran and middlings; 
potatoes SO cents to $1 per bushel, ac¬ 
cording to quality; apples 75 to 80 cents 
per bushel. g. b. m. 
Cortez, Pa. 
Hay $15 to $18; oat straw $8; pota¬ 
toes $1; turnips 50 to 75; carrots SO; 
cabbage 2% cents pound; eggs 40; oats 
48 to 50; cows $60 to $80; beef 8 to 10; 
pork 12 to 14; horses $200 to $300; but¬ 
ter 40 to 42; onions $1 to $1.50; milk 
$1.90 to $2.10. according to grade; retail, 
seven cents per quart; buckwheat $1.80 
per cwt. t. s. r. 
Carthage, N. Y. 
We have a Lawrence pear ti’ee in our 
front yard which looks like one of those 
Oregon apple ti-ees, from the storm of 
November 9. when it was in a five-foot 
drift. Since then we have had fine weath¬ 
er. dandelions in bloom most of the time, 
and to-day I found a Narcissus, some 
Crocus and campernelles above ground. 
Farmers report unimproved roads in very 
bad condition from the snow and rains. 
Elyria, O. w. j. m. 
Fat cattle scarce, from $7 to $8 per 
hundred ; stockers $7.25 ; good grade cows 
from $60 to $90 per head ; hogs. $7 to $8 
per hundred; stock hogs very scarce; 
lard 13. Farm horses from $1.25 to $2.25. 
Old hens 30; springers 11; live turkeys 
20; geese 13; ducks 13; country butter 
30; creamery 35; fresh country eggs 30. 
I lay $15 per ton; white corn 62; yellow 
60; wheat 93; potatoes, scarce $1 per 
bushel. Apples about all sold, from $3 to 
$5 per barrel. The people are taking a 
great intei-est in planting new apple or¬ 
chards in Ross County. F. n. s. 
Chillicothe, O. 
Hay is now selling for $20 per ton in 
Washington. D. C. Milk 22 cents per 
gallon; fresh cows $75 to $100. and 
scarce; fat grass cattle $7.50 to $8 per 
100; hogs 9 to 10 cents net. Corn is all 
needed for home use; little sold out of 
the county. Robert D. Weaver, of Mont¬ 
gomery County, recently sold his 16 head 
of steers to A. Loffler, the well-known 
Washington butcher, at nine cents per 
pound. When Mr. Weaver bought them 
their average weight was 990 pounds; 
when he sold them the average weight 
was 1,300 pounds. When dressed they 
averaged 70 pounds per hundred. 
Ashton, Md. t. j. l. 
Cows selling from $40 to $75, with 
registered Holstein stock $200. Good 
young horses, weighing about 1,200 
pounds, $200 each, with higher prices for 
extra points. I have heard of no hog 
sales for a long time. The Fillmore Bel¬ 
fast Dairy Product Co pays $1.85 for 
300 pounds December milk, for shipment 
to New York, Philadelphia and Buffalo. 
Eggs, fresh, bring in trade or cash some¬ 
times 40 to 45 cents; creamery butter 
30Vx to patrons of creamery. The dealers 
paid for apples $1.50 to $2 per barrel, the 
dealer furnishing barrel and assisting in 
packing. Apples by retail 60 to 75 cents 
per bushel. Garden crops are not dealt 
in very extensively here. Potatoes about 
half a crop, and practically none shipped 
frfom this vicinity. A boarding-house 
nearby has been trying to stock up all the 
Fall, and has just succeeded in getting 
100 bushels for 70 cents per bushel. Deal¬ 
ers buying hay for shipping pay $10 to 
$12.50 per ton, seller to board men while 
billing and deliver hay to car. w. v. r. 
Caneadea, N. Y. 
