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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Investment bankers wert 
gratified Jan. 29, by the news that the 
“blue sky” law of Michigan had been held 
unconstitutional by the Federal Court for 
the Eastern District of Michigan, Judges 
Dennison, Sessions and Tuttle deciding 
unanimously. Three New York firms, N. 
W. Halsey & Co., Lee, Higginson & Co. 
and A. B. Leach & Co., were among the 
several plaintiffs who tested the law. 
Caldwell, Masslich & Reed, counsel for 
the Investment Bankers Association, 
which entered the suit, said that the de¬ 
cision held the law to be an unwarranted 
interference with the freedom of the in¬ 
dividual and beyond the police power of 
the State. 
Warren B. Hutchinson, a patent lawer, 
of 141 Broadway; William I.. Tucker, a 
promoter, of 185 Broadway, and Morris 
San, an inventor, were indicted by the 
Federal Grand Jury in New York, Jan. 
29, for using the mails to defraud in the 
promotion of a company for manufactur¬ 
ing childproof matches. The East Jer¬ 
sey Match Company of Garfield, N. J., 
in which the defendants are said to have 
sold If140,000 worth of bonds, according 
to the literature it sent out describing 
San’s scheme was to make “non-sulphur- 
ous, non-poisouous matches that could not 
be lighted save by an adult.” 
Sylvestro, the Sicilian, was convicted 
in four minutes, Jan. 29, of attempting 
to dynamite a tenement house occupied 
j by 25 families, in New York, on August 
Ml, 1918. He was sentenced to imprison¬ 
ment for three and a half to seven years, 
but a bill was introduced in the Legisla¬ 
ture later making such crimes punishable 
by forty years imprisonment. 
The Old Dominion steamship Monroe, 
northbound to this port from Norfolk, 
Ya., was rammed and sunk in a thick 
fog off the Winter Quarter Slioals Light¬ 
ship on the Virginia coast Jan. 30, by the 
Merchants and Miners’ steamship Nan¬ 
tucket, bound to Baltimore from Boston. 
Forty-one persons on the Monroe lost 
their lives. There was no loss of life on 
the Nantucket. Many of those lost had 
no opportunity to save themselves, as the 
Monroe did not stand up more than 12 
minutes after she was raked. The ves¬ 
sels came together in the mist. The 
Nantucket practically sliced the Monroe 
in two. The survivors say there was no 
confusion on board either steamship dur¬ 
ing the brief interval the Monroe re¬ 
mained afloat after the impact. Ferdin¬ 
and J. Kucha, the wireless operator on 
the sinking vessel, sacrificed his chances 
for life to save a woman passenger. The 
property loss exclusive of' freight and 
baggage, is estimated at $225,009. 
Several thousand barrels of oil and 
several large tanks of oils, with part of 
the plant of the Yalvoline Oil Company, 
were destroyed in a spectacular fire at 
Edgewater, N. J., Feb. L The flames, 
which caused about $300,000 damage, 
started in the plant opposite 110th stieet. 
The Panama-Pacific Exposition has in¬ 
vited the aviators of the world to cir¬ 
cumnavigate the globe. Ninety days will 
be peimitted them in which to make the 
flight, and the man who wins will get 
$100,000 for his pains. Then there will 
be $50,000 additional for other prizes, 
according to present plans, although it 
is expected that when the times comes for 
the start $150,000 more will be added to 
the prize money. 
Joseph Cassidy, political “boss” of the 
Borough of Queens and Louis T. Walter, 
Jr., were convicted in the Brooklyn 
Supreme Court February 2. The 
charge is conspiracy in having sold 
to William Willett, Jr., his nomin¬ 
ation to the Supreme Court bench 
in 1911. The maximum penalty is two 
years imprisonment and $3,000 fine. The 
case against Cassidy, Walter and Willett 
arises out of an editorial planted in Oc¬ 
tober, 1911, in the Brooklyn Standard 
Union. Charges were made that one of 
the Democratic candidates for the Su¬ 
preme Court bench had bought his nom¬ 
ination. William Berri, owner of the 
Standard Union, was accused of criminal 
libel, whereupon he set out to prove the 
allegations in the editorial. The libel 
suit was dropped, but John Doe proceed¬ 
ings were brought in Queens county be¬ 
fore Justice Scudder, sitting as Magis¬ 
trate, to determine the truth of the alle¬ 
gations. These proceedings resulted in 
no indictments, and District Attorney 
Whitman sent his assistant, William A. 
De Ford, to investigate the mailer. 
Eventually indictments against Willett, 
Cassidy and Walter were handed down. 
The New Jersey House passed, Feb. 3, 
49 to 4, the resolution for a State consti¬ 
tutional amendment extending the right 
of suffrage to women. The resolution 
now goes to the Senate. If that body 
adopts it the resolution will have to bo 
passed again by the next Legislature be¬ 
fore it can be put to a x’eferendum vote. 
President Wilson issued a proclama¬ 
tion, Feb. 3, lifting the embargo on ship¬ 
ments of arms from the United States 
into Mexico. The President’s order 
contains a word of encouragement for 
the Constitutionalists and the recognition 
of Carranza by the United Stages is ex¬ 
pected to follow. The Executive order 
became effective at oner. Arms and nmu- 
nition for 15,000 troops are in New Or¬ 
leans warehouses ready to be shipped to 
the rebels. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A bill pro¬ 
viding for the establishment of a national 
farm land bank system was introduced in 
Congress Jan. 29. This measure is ten¬ 
tatively the Administration bill for the 
establishment of a national rural credit 
■system. It represents the result of the 
labors of a United States commission ap¬ 
pointed by President Wilson last April 
to investigate the rural credit system in 
European countries and report thereon. 
The bill in the form introduced has not 
the unqualified indorsement of the House 
Banking and Currency Committee. It 
represents in the main the view of the 
committee and so far as the measure’s 
general principles are concerned it has 
the approval of President Wilson. Presi¬ 
dent 1\ ilsou has been positive upon one 
point in regard to a rural credit system 
lor the United States. He is opposed to 
any scheme by which the United States 
Government would become directly the 
creditor of Ihe farmer. This view is in 
entire accord with the views of the ma¬ 
jority members of the House Committee 
on Banking and Currency. 
Urging the necessity for a division of 
rural hygiene in the State Department of 
Health, Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, State 
Commissioner of Health, points out that 
the up-State death rate increased last 
year from 15.5 to 15.8 per 1.000 popula¬ 
tion, while the death rate in New York 
city fell from 14.1 to 13.7. The figures 
show that if the death rate in the rural 
districts had been as low as the New 
York city death rate there would have 
been 7.975 fewer deaths up-State. At 
Gov. Glynn’s recent conference on -agri¬ 
culture and allied matters Dr. Biggs .said 
that rural dwellers have as much right 
as city residents to the best health pro¬ 
tection that modern science affords. He 
added that the country districts have re¬ 
ceived little attention from sanitary au¬ 
thorities. 
Twenty-one horses, belonging to A. 
Henry Higginson. were lost in a fire 
which destroyed the big racing stable on 
the Higginson country estate at Lincoln. 
Mass., Jan. 31. Only four horses were 
saved. The loss is estimated at $60,000. 
Prof. 1\ alter Mulford, head of Cornell 
University forestry department, has ac¬ 
cepted the appointment of chief of the 
new department of forestry in the Uni¬ 
versity of California. His resignation at 
Cornell will take effect at the end of the 
present college year and he will begin 
bis duties at Berkeley on August 1. 
Prof. Mulford is a graduate of Cornell 
in both agriculture (1S89) and forestry 
(1901). He was appointed to his profes¬ 
sorship here in 1910, when he was a mem¬ 
ber of tbe faculty of the University of 
Michigan. 
THE OHIO APPLE SHOW. 
The fifth annual Ohio Apple Show, 
held iu connection with the annual meet¬ 
ing of the State Horticultural Society, 
was the biggest and best ever seen in the 
Buckeye State. It was held in the 
commodious Central Armory of Cleveland 
—a building admirably adapted to the 
purpose. Apples were exhibited on plates, 
in baskets of various sizes, in cartons for 
shipping by parcel post, iu trays, iu 
boxes, and in barrels. They were all well 
colored and free from insect injury or 
blemish of any kind. There were booth 
exhibits where artistic effect iu arrange¬ 
ment as well as variety and quality was 
taken into effect. There were also ex¬ 
hibits by countries. Altogether it was a 
great exhibition of a world-renowned 
fruit. It established beyond a doubt the 
continued capacity of Ohio to produce 
good apples, even in an unfavorable sea¬ 
son, and could scarcely fail to invite to 
the planting of new orchards and the 
renovation of ojd ones. One feature that 
attracted much attention and left a last¬ 
ing impression, was an immense apple 
map of Ohio. This map was about 25 
feet square, and was a perfect outline 
of not only the State, but of each of the 
88 counties into which it is divided. It 
took nearly SO bushels, or about two 
tons of apples to make tbe map. It 
called attention in a new and novel way 
to the fact that Ohio as a whole is a 
good average apple producing State, and 
that good apples can be successfully 
grown in some parts of every county of 
the State. It said to those who saw it. 
“Use the Ohio apple.” There is no 
doubt that the people of Ohio, like those 
of other States, eat apples too sparingly, 
and of the apples they buy too largo a 
percentage are grown outside of the 
State. It said also that no one need 
apologize for the Ohio apple, except on 
the score of its rarity, or too often on the 
score of lack of grading, and to our 
shame be it said, dishonest packing. 
There is something wrong when good 
apples cost more than good oranges, as 
they do in many if not most of the mar¬ 
kets of Ohio. It has been said that the 
farm orchards in Ohio have been disap¬ 
pearing at the rate of 10,000 acres a 
year. If this is true it is a deplorable 
situation. While the loss of farm or¬ 
chards is being partially balanced by the 
establishment of large commercial or¬ 
chards, is there any good reason why the 
farm orchard should go? There is urgent 
necessity of treating it better, of making 
very great improvements in its man¬ 
agement: Too often we who have srna-11 
orchards do-little or nothing fo'r 'them. * 
and are disappointed if the orchard does 
February 14, 
not do much for us. We do not seem to 
have learned the lesson that as a rule 
it is only work thoroughly well done that 
is generously rewarded. Raising apples 
is no exception to this stern but salutary 
law. We may be lacking in the knowl¬ 
edge and skill necessary to good orchard 
management, but we cannot clear our 
eyes to the fact that the best orchard 
management is that which is morally 
sure to give us the largest and most, 
certain reward. While we rejoice that 
the apple orchard is sometimes a profit¬ 
able corner of the farm, the rapid de¬ 
crease in farm orchards show that too 
■often they are little more than waste 
land yielding neither satisfaction nor 
revenue. 
In viewing the apple situation in Ohio 
I have been puzzled by this question: 
"Mould more apples be eaten if more 
were raised, or would more be raised if 
more were eaten?” This relation of 
cause and effect may not be readily de¬ 
termined, but the fact remains that too 
few are raised and too few eaten. I be¬ 
lieve the apple show will tend to correct 
both of these failures. In connection with 
the show there was an unusually com¬ 
plete exhibit of horticultural implements, 
tools and appliances of various kinds. 
To many this was quite as instructive 
as tbe apple show itself, and was a 
splendid opportunity for manufacturers, 
dealers and users to get together. 
By far the larger part of the premiums 
awarded were captured by the growers 
of the northeastern and southwestern 
Parts of the State. This seems to prove 
that as far as injury by late Spring frost 
is concerned the lake region in the 
north, and the higher hills in the south, 
are the most nearly exempt. The apples 
that came from other sections of the 
State were from orchards of unusually 
good location regarding cold air drain¬ 
age, or those that were protected by arti¬ 
ficial heat. 
Among the resolutions adopted was 
one opposing the 90-day limit of cold 
storage on apples, and one asking for 
relief from the game laws that are pro¬ 
tecting rabbits, so that they are becoming 
one of the worst pests in orchard and 
nursery. william r. lazenby. 
NEW YORK STATE GRANGE. 
The 41st annual session of the New 
York State Grange was held February 3- 
6, at Poughkeepsie. It was the largest 
in respect to voting delegates present 
over held, 570. Visitors included, there 
were probably 1200 in atteudance on 
Thursday when the sixth degree was 
conferred. State Master Vary’s annual 
address was a clear presentation of the 
politics of the order as he lias attempted 
to promulgate them during the past two 
years, and of the conditions and pros¬ 
pects as he views them. A large pait of 
the address was devoted to the trade co¬ 
operative efforts of the Grange with speci¬ 
fic reference to the State Grange Pur¬ 
chasing Agencies, which he said had done 
a business of $392,000 the past veai, al¬ 
though considerably less than one half 
of the Granges of the State had patron¬ 
ized it. State legislation was reviewed, 
and the activities of the Grange as re¬ 
lated to our agricultural institutions, the 
Department of Agriculture, the State 
Experiment Station, State fair, etc., were 
recounted. The Secretarv’s report 
showed that the total membership of the 
order iu the State on Oet. 1, 1913, was 
109,293 aud at the present time it is 
about 110,000. On January 1. 1914. tbe 
total number of Subordinate Granges was 
S38. Tbe receipts of tbe office were $31,- 
441.49. The treasurer’s report showed 
receipts for the year, including the bal¬ 
ance on hand Jan. 1, 1913, to have been 
about $59,000. It appears from this re¬ 
port that the expenses of the State 
Grange session last year at Buffalo, were 
over $11,000. Among the strong Grange 
counties of the State, Jefferson leads with 
a membership of about 7.900, Chautauqua 
closely following with perhaps 100 less. 
The total net gain iu membership for the 
fiscal year was 4,321. 
The following officers were elected: 
Master, W. II. Vary, IV atertown ; over¬ 
seer, S. J. Lowell, Fredonia; lecturer, F. 
E. Alexander, Pulaski; steward, F. J. 
Riley. Sennett; chaplain, S. I.. Strivings, 
Castile; treasurer, W. S. Bean, McGraw; 
secretary, W. N. Giles, Skaneateles. 
J. w. D. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Sixth National Corn Exhibition, State 
lO^M Texas, February 
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. 
A Kindekgakten teacher had been 
very strict in requiring written excuses 
from the mothers in cases of absence. 
\\ illie’s mother was quite annoyed. It 
seemed to her that anyone with the slight¬ 
est pretensions to gray matter ought to 
know the reason for his absence. The 
next morning he arrived all rosy with the 
cold and handed the teacher - liis excuse. 
It; read: “Dear Miss C. ~ 1 . —Little 
Willie’s legs are fourteen inches long. 
r l lie snow was two feet -deep. Very truly 
your, Mrs. J-.”—Credit Lost' 
