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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Thirty yachts, chiefly 
of the motor driven type, were destroyed 
at Port Washington, Long Island, dan. 
25, in a fire that wiped out the buildings 
and marine railway plant of the Man- 
hasset Shipbuilding Company, formerly 
known as the Stationary Marine and Mo¬ 
tor Supply Company. The estimated loss 
is $250,000. 
Suits were filed at Little Rock. Ark., 
Jan. 24, by Attorney General William L. 
Moose against six cotton oil companies 
of that city asking that they be ousted 
from the State and that fines of $4,215,- 
000 be assessed against each because of 
alleged membership in a trust formed to 
control the price of cottonseed. Defend¬ 
ants in the suit are the Buckeye Cotton 
Oil Company, the Arkansas Cotton Oil 
Company, the Little Rock Cotton Oil 
Company, the Southern Cotton Oil Com¬ 
pany. the Dixie Cotton Oil Company and 
the Rose City Cotton Oil Company. The 
alleged trust has been in operation from 
September 1, 1911, it is charged. 
Approximately 4,000 bales of cotton 
were destroyed or damaged at Memphis, 
Tenn.. Jan. 22. by fire, which swept the 
warehouse of E. W. Trout & Company. 
The loss is estimated at between $200,- 
000 and $300,000. Three firemen were 
slightly injured. 
Indictments were returned at New 
York. Jan. 26, by the federal grand jury 
holding ex-Representative Lucius N. Lit- 
tauer and his brother, William Littauer, 
under the charge of smuggling jewelry into 
the United States. The Littauers. mem¬ 
bers of the wealthy firm of Littauer 
Brothers, glovers, of Gloversville, N. Y., 
were indicted under Section 30S2 of the 
Revised Statutes, which provides a fine 
of $10,000 or imprisonment of not more 
than two years, or both, for smuggling. 
The jewels, believed to be worth $40,- 
000, are said to have been brought into 
the port last November by Lucius Lit¬ 
tauer and were intended as a present for 
Mrs. William Littauer, the wife of his 
brother. The gems are said to have been 
concealed in a trunk. 
Five lives here have been lost, thou¬ 
sands of head of live stock have been 
drowned, all steam and electric railroad 
traffic has been completely tied up by 
floods and property has been damaged 
to the extent of millions, as a result of 
the heaviest rainstorm in southern Cali¬ 
fornia in 18 years. From Tehacliapi 
south to San Diego all cities and towns 
were suffering from floods Jan. 26. At 
Santa Barbara a cloudburst in the moun¬ 
tains sent a raging torrent down through 
that city and Montecito. Louis Jones, 
vice-president of the First National Bank, 
and his wife were drowned in the flood 
which swept through Santa Barbara. 
Many houses in the city were wrecked 
and washed away. Almost every bridge 
in the region was destroyed. Telephone 
and telegraph lines were completely out 
of commission. It is estimated that 
$750,000 damage has been done. Two 
were drowned and $lt»0.000 damage done 
by floods throughout the San Joaquin 
Valley district. 
One man was severely burned and 
property valued at $750,000 destroyed, 
Jan. 27, .when tire swept the five- 
story brick building at Irving and Van 
Brunt streets, Brooklyn, N. Y., occupied 
by Hills Brothers Company, fruit pack¬ 
ers. 
Most of the New York bomb outrages 
of 1913 were explained in General Ses¬ 
sions before Judge Rosalsky, Jan. 27, by 
two men, each only 24 years old, who 
planted and sot oil between them about 
130 packages of dynamite. Alfred Leh¬ 
man, called Sclimitty, and Rocco Piccia- 
rello, known to the gangs as Zump, were 
the men employed by blackmailers. They 
told their cold-blooded stories of arson, 
thievery, thuggery and bomb planting at 
the trial of Angelino S.vlvesto, accused 
of helping in an attempt to explode a 
bomb at 170 East Houston street on the 
night of August 31 last. It was bomb 
No. 110 of the series of 1913. Sehmitty 
aud Zump averaged about $30 apiece ou 
dynamite jobs. This money they were 
likely to spend ‘‘sporting around” and 
to eke out a living they practised all 
kinds of theft. 
ADMINISTRATION.—The following 
bills are to be prepared for the supple¬ 
mentary anti-trust legislation recom¬ 
mended by the President: First, a bill 
creating the Interstate Trade Commis¬ 
sion. Second, a bill to regulate direc¬ 
torates of corporations and to prohibit 
interlocking directorates. Third, a bill 
defining unlawful monopoly or restraint 
of trade. Fourth, the trade relations bill, 
which among other things forbids unfair 
trade practices, such as underselling in 
one locality to stifle competition and re¬ 
couping the losses thus sustained by rais¬ 
ing prices in localities where there is no 
competition. The bill forbidding inter¬ 
locking directorates provides two years 
of leeway, during which the holding mem¬ 
bership on the boards of directors of 
interstate coal, steel and iron, common 
carrier corporations, banks and trust 
companies may be relinquished. A sec¬ 
ond section of the bill specifically forbids 
the holding of directorships by one indi¬ 
vidual in two or more financial institu¬ 
tions enjoying the protection and provis¬ 
ions of the new currency law. A fine 
of $100 for every day during which the 
provisions of the foregoing section are 
violated is provided. A fourth section 
establishes the dictum that disobedience 
of the eliminating provisions of the meas¬ 
ure shall he sufficient to constitute con¬ 
clusive evidence of infringement of the 
Sherman anti-trust law itself by the cor¬ 
porations whose boards contain duplica¬ 
tions of individual directorships. The 
bill to make clearer the definition of 
monopolies and restraints of trade speci¬ 
fically forbids the following: Combina¬ 
tions to create or carry out restrictions 
in trade or to acquire a monopoly in any 
interstate trade, business or commerce; 
to limit or reduce the production or in¬ 
crease the pric£ of merchandise or of any 
commodity; to prevent competition in 
the manufacturing, making, transport- 
in. selling or purchasing of merchandise, 
produce or any commodity; to make an 
agreement, arrangement or understand¬ 
ing. directly or indirectly, to prevent the 
free and unrestricted competition in the 
sale, production or transportation. The 
penalties for violating any of these pro¬ 
visions run against any person, firm or 
corporation, and the fine shall not exceed 
$5,000, with imprisonment for one year 
as an alternative, or both penalties, in 
the discretion of the court. A section 
of the bill makes the officers, directors 
and agents of the corporation equally 
guilty with the corporation for any act 
proved against the corporation. ' The 
trade relations bill proposes to add five 
sections to the Sherman law, defining 
what shall be classed as unlawful trade 
practices. Another section of this bill 
permits an injured party to take advant¬ 
age of proofs established by the Govern¬ 
ment as to the character of any unlaw¬ 
ful combination in the suit against such 
corporation to recover damages under the 
Sherman law. A section of the anti¬ 
trust programme specifically prohibiting 
holding companies is to be added later. 
PANAMA.—An executive order out¬ 
lining the permanent organization of the 
civil government of the Canal Zone was 
signed by the President, Jan. 27, and 
coincident with its promulgation the of¬ 
ficial announcement was made that Col. 
George W. Goethals had been appointed 
the first civil Governor of the Canal 
Zone. President Wilson’s order creating 
the civil government becomes effective on 
April 1 next, from which date the Isth¬ 
mian Commission, together with the 
present organization of the Panama Ca¬ 
nal and the Canal Zone, will cease to 
exist. The President, however, will ask 
Congress to pass a resolution creating 
the retiring members of the commission 
a committee in charge of the arrange¬ 
ments for the celebration for the opening 
of the canal. Under the terms of the 
executive order the Canal Zone govern¬ 
ment will consist of a department of 
operation and maintenance, a purchasing 
department, a supply department, an ac¬ 
counting department and a health depart¬ 
ment. Provision is also made for an ex¬ 
ecutive secretary. All the departments 
will be under the direction of the 
Governor, subject to the supervision of 
the Secretary of War. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Phillip 
herd of buffalo, kept in a ten-thousand- 
acre pasture near Fort Pierre, S. D.. has 
been placed on the market by Phillip 
Phillip and George Phillip, administra¬ 
tors of the estate of their father, James 
Phillip. This herd of buffalo, the largest 
in the United States, now includes 
seventy yearlings, fifty-five two-year-olds, 
and 275 older. 
A white radish, three feet high, 36 
inches in circumference and weighing 12 
pounds, was forwarded from Los Angeles 
to William J. Bryan, Secretary of State. 
The radish is said to be the largest ever 
produced in Southern California. The 
vegetable was grown by Japanese truck 
gardeners. 
The Ohio IVrcheron Horse Breeders’ 
Association will meet February 4. in the 
Judging Pavilion, at the Ohio State Uni¬ 
versity, Columbus, Ohio. Mr. A. 1’. 
Sandies, President of the Agricultural 
Commission of Ohio, has been asked to 
be present and talk to the breeders of 
Percheron horses. Mr. J. H. S. John¬ 
stone of the Live Stock World, Chicago, 
Ill., has consented to come and talk to 
the members of the association upon the 
subject of “Draft Horse Futurities.” 
The first Missouri high school to in¬ 
corporate poultry culture as a part of 
the regular school curriculum on a practi¬ 
cal basis is at Oak Grove. Prof. J. F. 
Blyholder, the principal, and his class 
in poultry husbandry have begun operat¬ 
ing a 150-egg incubator in the basement 
of the school building and have a Barred 
Plymouth Rock hen sitting on 15 eggs 
in the same room to test out both methods 
of incubation. 
CONDITIONS IN RURAL NEW YORK. 
Relating to the subject of abandoned 
farms, would say that while there are no 
such here, in the strict sense of the word, 
one can buy about any farm in this part 
of the country at prices ranging from $10 
to $30 per acre, very few if any of them 
selling for anywhere near what it would 
cost to replace the buildings now on 
them. These are good farms, farms that 
are capable of making money under rea¬ 
sonably capable management, mostly used 
for dairying now, but capable of raising 
good crops of grain and hay. The great 
drawback is that we are about 20 miles 
from railroad, and it costs us $4 per 
ton for cartage now, although it will 
likely soon be done for less, as we shall 
probably soon have a State road. This 
matter of cartage is a benefit to the 
grain farmer, not nearly enough grain 
being raised to supply the demand, so the 
seller is able to add the $4 per ton to his 
prices. I have in mind one young man 
Februury 7, ( 
who bought one of these farms and stock 
for $3,600, ran in debt for the entire 
amount, and paid for it at the rate of 
$500 per year and interest, and now has 
a good bank account, and there is no rea¬ 
son why anyone of equal ability can not 
do the same on any equally good farm, 
and this one is a poor one, except for 
dairying. It is a good fruit country, ap¬ 
ples, and in places peaches doing finely, 
and it costs but 25 ceiPs per barrel to 
get apples to the river boats or railroads. 
The great trouble here seems to be want 
of help to work on the farm, the farm¬ 
ers themselves having very few or no 
children, and what tew there are are 
leaving the farms; too dull for them here. 
We have a fine climate and a pleasant 
country to live in. A few miles north 
from us, farms can be bought for still 
less money, and in these days of high 
prices for meats of all kinds, it seems to 
me there are many good livings in this 
business. A farmer from Nebraska 
bought one of those hill farms a year 
or two ago, and says he would not give 
it for any section of land in western Ne¬ 
braska, and he has since bought two 
other farms near him and now owns 
about 600 acres, making it look as if he 
meant what he said. SILAS dean. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
COAL TAR ON TREES. 
Last Spring 7 set out some Burbank 
plum, Montmorency cherry and Yellow 
Transparent apple trees, also some locust 
and nut trees. A neighbor told me to 
put coal tar around the base of those 
trees for eight or 10 inches above the 
ground to prevent borers working. I took 
a small paint brush and painted them as 
directed, beginning at ground and paint¬ 
ing up eight to 10 inches. The other 
day I broke one of the White walnut 
(butternut) trees over iu letting my 
team get advantage of me, and inside the 
outside bark where the tar was put on, 
it is dark brown. Have I ruined all my 
trees? j. f. ii. 
Spring will determine this surely, but 
we fear you have injured or ruined the 
trees by painting with tar. We found 
that coal tar varies. Some of it is surely 
dangerous to paint oh young trees and 
we never advise its use. It is a much 
safer plan to dig the borers out with 
knife or wire. It may be possible to 
“bridge-graft” some of these if the bark 
is destroyed all around. This is done 
by inserting one end of the scion into live 
wood below the injury and bringing the 
other end up to live wood above the dead 
bark. 
SETTING UP WIRE FENCE. 
Having read the article “Putting TJp 
Wire Fence” in The R. N.-Y t . of May 
17, 1913, by W. E. Duck wall, of Ohio. 
I will say his way of bracing the end 
post and tying down fence at the foot 
of a hill was tried out here several years 
ago and found wanting, for the wire 
would rust off at the top of the grouud 
in two to four years, and the fence soon 
lost its tension by the end posts pulling 
over. We have overcome the trouble 
by putting in an iron rod to come up 
above the top of the ground four or five 
inches, with a hook or loop in the end 
to put the wire through. Both posts at 
each end should be of the same size and 
durability, for what good is one post 
when the other has rotted off? E. F. 
Alexander, O. 
Air Pressure and Springs. —The 
statements of R. L. C. on page 1342, 
under the title “Water Will Seek Its 
Own Level” were inveresting to me be¬ 
cause of an attempt to explain the same 
phenomenon in the case of natural 
springs, i. e., the rising of water in 
springs (or the appearing when the 
spring is dry) before a storm. The only 
explanation I have ever read was that 
probably the air was humid on account 
of the approaching storm that dew 
enough was absorbed to raise the springs. 
This has always seemed an improbability, 
if not an impossibility, and I had thought 
of the change of air pressure as the more 
probable cause before I ever saw It. L. 
C.’s statement. I am glad to have my 
conclusions confirmed. w. n. huse. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Farmers’ Week, Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio, February 2-6. 
Connecticut Vegetable Growers’ As¬ 
sociation, Foot Guard Armory, Hart¬ 
ford. February 4. 
Ohio Percheron Horse Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation, Ohio State University, Colum¬ 
bus, February 4. 
Midwinter meeting Michigan State 
Horticultural Society, Benton Harbor, 
February 5-6. 
Sixth National Corn Exhibition. State 
Fair Grounds, 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 to March 13. 
Thirty-ninth annual meeting of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
Cleveland, O., January 24-26. 
Stranger : “I should like to speak to 
Mr. Meyer, please. He asked me to meet 
him here to-day.” Domestic (sadly) : 
“Dear, dear, he must have forgotten all 
about it. I’m sorry, sir, but he went 
aud died yesterday.”—Credit Lost. 
