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'l id EC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 28, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—During the Federal in¬ 
vestigation into the loss of the steamship 
Monroe, it was brought out Feb. 12, that 
the captain, E. E. Johnson, left his ves¬ 
sel in the first, boat that got away, it 
was brought out that under the rules 
governing sea traffic under “ordinary 
conditions” the NantucKet had the right 
of way. The first officer declared that 
he had never seen on the Monroe any 
boat drills in which the boats were 
lowered far enough to allow their keels 
to touch the water. There was no 
chronometer on the Monroe. The ship’s 
clock in the pilot house was set by a 
time ball at Norfolk at the beginning of 
each voyage. The first officer said the 
captain never used the bridge except 
when the ship was making dock. 
The Hazard canning factory at 
Shrewsbury, N. J., was burned Feb. 14. 
It was the largest factory of the kind 
in New Jersey and was built by the late 
E. C. Hazard. The loss is $100,000. 
Five men were killed Fob. 12 by an 
explosion in the packing house of the 
Hercules Powder Works at Kenvil, N. 
J., owned by the Du Pout Powder Com¬ 
pany. How the explosion occurred will 
never be known, as all the men who were 
in the packing house at the time were 
killed. 
An earthquake shock was felt all over 
the city and district of Quebec, Canada, 
Feb. 14. The shock was violent enough 
to wake hundreds of people. 
With nearly half the population of 
Laytouville, Mendocino County, Cal., 
suffering from smallpox, and the disease 
epidemic among the Indians of the 
Round Valley reservation and through¬ 
out the mountainous sections of Mendo¬ 
cino and Lake Counties, the Board of 
Health has declared a quarantine cover¬ 
ing a wide area. Orders have been issued 
to prohibit the attendance at the schools 
of any child not vaccinated. 
Tides even higher than those which 
caused so much destruction in the storms 
of December and January shut off Sea- 
bright, N. J., Feb. 14, from all trans¬ 
portation connection with other towns. 
Tracks were washed out, and in other 
places are piled high with debris. 
A smaller percentage of fatalities in 
the metal mines of the country in 1912 
than in the year preceding is noted in a 
statement made Feb. 14 by the Federal 
Bureau of Mines. It shows that in 
1912 the percentage was 3.91 per thou¬ 
sand employed, while in 1911 it was 
4.19. For coal mines the figures were 
3.27 and 3.73 respectively in 1912 and 
1911. Fatalities in the metal mines of 
foreign countries, with a few exceptions, 
are lower than here, Italy being 1.1S, 
Portugal 1.34, Spain 1.49, Germany 1.51, 
Great Britain 1.53, Japan 1.70, France 
3.16, Transvaal 4.14. 
State’s Attorney Judsou of Connecti¬ 
cut, Feb. 10, quashed the manslaughter 
indictments against five officials of the 
New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail¬ 
road, but refused to annul the indictment 
against former President Charles S. Mol¬ 
ten. The indictments grew out of the 
wreck at Westport, Conn., on Oct. 3, 
1912, in which seven persons were killed. I 
Lieutenant J. McC. Murray, attached j 
to the Pensacola Naval Aeronautical 
Station, fell 800 feet into Pensacola Bay, 
Fla., Feb. 10, and was killed. Ilis body j 
was recovered floating about 100 yards 
from the wrecked aeroplane. The death 
of Lieutenant Murray makes the total 
number of aviation fatalities 265. Since ( 
January 1, 11 aviators have been killed. , 
J. B. Smith, vice-president and general | 
manager; F. C. Mills, superintendent, 
and E. II. Mayer, chief weigher of the 
Western Fuel Company, were found 
guilty at San Francisco, Feb. 18, of de¬ 
frauding the United States Government 
by obtaining illegal tariff rebates through 
false weights. E. L. Smith, a checker, 
the other defendant, was acquitted. The 
specific charge against the directors of 
the Western Fuel Company was con¬ 
spiracy to defraud the Government by 
making false returns on the weights of 
cargoes of coal incoming into San Fran¬ 
cisco. The alleged frauds were said to 
aggregate between a half million and a 
million dollars. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Fed¬ 
eration of Jewish Farmers held a 
Fanners’ Week. Feb. 23 to Feb. 26, at 
the Baron de Ilirsch School, Woodbine, 
N. .T. The programme was arranged so 
that the first two hqurs in the morning 
were divided into three kinds of lectures, 
one devoted to poultry, another to dairy 
and field crops, and the third to horti¬ 
culture. The last two hours in the morn¬ 
ing were devoted to the general lectures. 
In the afternoon, the laboratory and 
demonstration work was divided into 
three various groups, so that every 
farmer could attend only those periods 
in which lie was most interested. 
The Governor of Utah, William Spry, 
and other leading officials of that State 
met in Philadelphia, Feb. 14, with lead¬ 
ing Jews of that city and made arrange¬ 
ments to send 85 Philadelphia families 
to the Clarion colony of Jewish farmers 
in San Pedro county, 200 miles south 
of Salt Lake City. The Utah officials 
came as guests of the Jewish Agricul¬ 
tural and Colonial Association. The as¬ 
sociation sent 50 families to Utah three 
years ago, and Gov. Spry said that they 
have become excellent farmers and are 
winning prosperity. The association 
plans to send 100 families to the colony 
within a short time. They will be taken 
from the ghetto districts of New York 
and Philadelphia. 
The 27 suits brought by the State Fish 
and Game Commission to recover penal¬ 
ties aggregating $80,000 from the Frauco- 
American Poultry Company, which has 
farms at Little Falls, N. J., and Goshen, 
N. Y., were discontinued Feb. 17, on the 
payment of a fine of $5,500 by John V. 
Snyder, one of the officials of the com¬ 
pany. The complaint charged that black 
and mallard ducks trapped in Virginia 
and brought to Little- Falls for breeding 
purposes were recrated and shipped to 
Goshen, where they were reshipped to 
hotels and restaurants.. August Silz and 
other officials of the Franco-American 
Poultry Company were lined $20,000 in 
New York State recently for importing 
the game birds from Little Falls to 
Goshen. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Sixth National Corn Exhibition, State 
Fair Grounds. Dallas, Texas, February 
10-24. 
Annual farmers’ week, Vermont Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture, Burlington, Vt.., Feb¬ 
ruary 23 to 27. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
Amherst, ten-weeks’ Winter course, Jan¬ 
uary 0 to March 13. 
Thirty-ninth annual meeting of the 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
Cleveland, O., June 24-20. 
Hay, $15; corn, 70 to 80; oats, 50; 
potatoes, 90 to $1; apples, $1.25 to 
$1.50; Oregon apples, 30 to 40 cents per 
dozen; celery, home-grown, 40 cents per 
dozen; cabbage, 3*4 to four cents re¬ 
tail: turnips, 80; butter, retail, 35, 
further up the road, 20 to 28; eggs, 35, 
have been 40 and 45 until quite recently. 
Poultry about holidays ruled at 28 and 
30. This is a mining and railroad town 
and the merchants seem to deal more 
with Pittsburgh houses than with farm¬ 
ers. i. a. u. 
East Brady, Pa. 
Steers, seven to eight; veal, 10 to 11; 
lambs, six to seven; hogs, 8!4 ; potatoes, 
80; eggs, 25; butter, 28; Timothy, $11 
in mow; clover, $8.50; mixed hay, $9 
to $10; oats, 30; wheat, 90; corn, 80 
cents per cwt. Apples not as good as I 
fed my horse last Fall, retail at 00 to 75 
cents a peck; at 00 cents, a barrel would 
bring $0.00. The apples exposed for 
sale at five cents each and three for 
10 are from all apperances Western ap¬ 
ples. Spitzenburg, Rome Beauty and 
Jonathan seem to be the favorite and 
why this should be so I cannot see, when 
much better apples are grown all through 
this section. Southern Michigan, Ohio, 
New York and Pennsylvania. h. ii. 
Fort Wayne, Ind. 
House Your Hens in Comfort 
Give them plenty of sunlight and fresh air. Feed them well. 
Keep them in a warm, dry, clean concrete henhouse built of 
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72 West Adams Street Frick Building Security Bank Building 
Plants at Chicago and Pittsburgh. Annual Output 12.000,000 Barrels 
Corn, 75 cents per 100 pounds; clover 
seed, $7.50; wheat, 91 cents a bushel; 
oats, 35 ; Timothy, $12.65, baled; clover, 
$10.15; mixed. $10.50; potatoes, 75; ap¬ 
ples, $1; eggs, 32; butter, 27 to 30; 
chickens, 11 ; steers, six to seven; hogs, 
eight, dressed 10; lamb, six; veal, 10. 
New Haven, Ind. H. H. 
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feed plenty of fresh, sweet cut green bone, and 
clover, with grit, shell and cracked grains. Doesn’t 
pay to buy them—von must own the WILSON MILL. $5. 
“Crown” BONE CUTTER, SG.50, "Gem” CLOVER CUTTER, 
S9. Dealers or direct. Every Machine guaranteed. 
Write today for complete Free Ills Book and prices. 
WILSON BROS., - - Dept. E-6, EASTON, PA. 
The Cambridge No. 29 Steels Plow 
A reversible plow for hillside and level land that is remarkable for its strength and 
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guaranteed for five "years. 
Will last a lifetime. Fully 
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Puts It On Your 
Farm 
Handles 70 Kinds of Seed Grain and Grass Seed 
From Wheat, It takes Wild Oats, Tame 
Oafs, Cockle, ltye and Bumf. 
Cleans tiie dirtiest Flax. Has special 
Knocker and skimmer which prevents elofj- 
ffinar. (Other machines choke tip.) 
Takes Dodder,Darn Yard Grass and Foxtail 
You can’t afford to plant common Seed 
'and take chances on a poor crop, when I 
am offering to scientifically clean and grade 
every bushel of your Seed Grain for this spring’s 
planting for one paltry dollar. 
Here’s my proposition, and if yon are a smart 
man you will write me before sunrise tomorrow: 
Send me one dollar and I will ship you, 
FREIGHT PAID by MYSELF, this improved 
1914 Chatham Grain Grader and Cleaner, with 
all equipment. Clean your Seed Wheat, Oats, 
Flax, Barley, Peas. Beans, Corn, Grass Seed, 
etc. Then PLANT those fine seed. AFTER, 
you have harvested a bumper crop, pay me 
the balance of my low price. Not one penny 
need you pay, except the SI, until next Oc¬ 
tober. And by October YOUR CHATHAM 
WI1.L HAVE MORE THAN PAID ITS EN¬ 
TIRE COST IN INCREASED CROPS. Then 
you’ll have it to work FREE for you the rest 
of your life. 
Your Dollar Returned 
I onlywantthe doll nr na evidence o" good fnith— to 
protect myself from mischievous boys, l f after 30 dnvs* 
hard test, you don’t want my “Chatham,’’ send it buck 
at my expense and I will return the dollar. 
Takes Buckhorn from Clover. ** * A “Made-to-Order” Machine 
Sorts Corn for Drop Planter, 
i'anions DEAN MILL,. Handles all varie¬ 
ties, takes out the SPLITS, Clay, Straw, etc. 
Handles Peas as well as any Grain or Grass 
Seed. Itcniovcs foul weed seed and all 
shrunken, eraeked and sickly grains. Takes 
out all dirt, dust and chaff, it is also a bully 
chaffer. Handles <>0 bushels per hour, tins 
power or hand power. Easiest running mill. 
Every Chatham is practical ly a made-to-order ma¬ 
chine, for I send you the exact and proper Screens, 
Riddles, Iluydles and Sieves to grado and clean every 
Grain and Grass Seed grown in your locality. That’s 
the secret of my success. I would not be the leading 
maker of Graders and Oleanors if 1 hail tried to muke 
my equipment fit ten million farms. What would you 
think of a clothing maker whose suits were all one 
size? Wouldn’t it be n miracle if ho guvo you a fit. Yet 
all makers of Graders and Oleanors, except me, send 
the same equipment, whether you live in Maine, Ohio 
or Oregon. They wouldn’t do that, if they hud my 41 
years’ experience. 
Extra Screens Free 
I use, all together. 81 Screens and Sieves. It 
usually requires 15 to 17 for the average farm. These 
I select from the 81. _ Aftor 41 years in tho business. 
I am pretty sure to pick tho exact equipment needed 
on your farm. If I shouldn’t, just drop mo n line und 
I 11 send yo .r additional requirements. There will 
be no charge for this. 
Samples Graded Free 
Maybe you have some Seed Grain that you can’t 
clean or grudo or separute. Send mo a sample. I will 
purify it and tell you how you cun do it cheaply. No 
charge for this. 
Seed Corn Sorted 
My big Corn Sorting Attachment, invented 2 yean 
ago, is a groat success. Twelve thousand farmers and 
many leading Agricultural Colleges are using it. It 
is the only machine I know of which scientifically 
sorts seed corn for drop planters. 
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Send mo no money now—just a Postal, for the finest, 
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reeoipt of S1.00. Then clean und grade all your Seed 
Grain. If you writo today, you get my Book by 
return muil. Address nearest office. 
Manson Campbell Company 
Dept. 43 
Detroit Kansas City Minneapolis 
