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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 25, 
NEW YORK STATE NEWS. 
Tuberculous Cattle. —A hearing was 
given by Commissioner Iluson on April 
13 upon the charges that the carcass of 
a bull killed by order of the State author¬ 
ities at Kingston, and found to be tuber¬ 
cular, was afterwards sold in Poughkeep¬ 
sie. Several witnesses were examined. 
The inquiry developed the fact that some 
of the State veterinarians have been lax 
in the performance of their duties in re¬ 
gard to the slaughter and destruction of 
condemned cattle. This condition will be 
at once remedied by Commissioner Iluson 
who has issued specific orders that the 
letter of the law must be complied with 
in every instance. It appears that the 
stamps supplied by the department for 
marking condemned carcasses were not 
kept in the personal custody of the veter¬ 
inarian at Kingston, but “in a desk in 
the slaughter house and it was possible 
for anyone to have abstracted the stamps 
and used them without his (the veterin¬ 
arian’s) knowledge.” The veterinarian 
believed that the “condemned” marks, in 
this particular instance, had been cut 
off and the “passed” marks substituted. 
The proprietor of a slaughter house said 
that it was quite possible for anyone to 
cut off the stamps and sell the carcass 
for food. The hearing is to be continued 
as soon as other facts are secured. 
More City Laborers.— Another car¬ 
load of city laborers for the farm goes 
to Ogdensburg and to points in Jeffer¬ 
son County. It should be remembered 
that the labor bureau of tbe Department 
is constantly supplying farmers with 
help, in answer to the 25 applications, 
on the average, received at the Depart¬ 
ment daily. Already about 1.000 have 
found work on the farms of the State this 
season, and it is believed that 4,000 
or 5,000 will be placed before the harvest 
season closes. Since tbe establishment 
of the labor bureau in 1905 about 35,000 
men have been given positions on farms. 
Legislature To Meet May 4.—Gov. 
Glynn has called the Legislature in ex¬ 
traordinary session for May 4. He has 
announced that the only matters to be 
considered will relate to financial legis¬ 
lation. He says: “The Legislature dur¬ 
ing its closing hours passed over G50 
bills and sent them to me for approval or 
disapproval, and over 50 requests have 
been made of me to submit to this ses¬ 
sion matters for legislation which pro¬ 
ponents claim to be of importance. We 
have too many laws and in recent years 
we have had too protracted sessions.” 
With this statement about 99 per cent, 
of the people of the State will agree 
without argument. 
Highway Bills Vetoed. —The Gov¬ 
ernor refused to sign two bills relative to 
the purchase or lease of machinery for 
road making. One of these is the Thorn 
bill which would validate contracts made 
by town officers for the lease of high¬ 
way machines. There are more than 500 
such contracts between the manufactur¬ 
ers of road machinery and town boards 
and according to the Governor “these 
contracts represent a direct evasion of 
the highway law and misapplication of 
over $1,000,000 of the State’s money.” 
lie holds that the law does not permit 
the use of money appropriated for re¬ 
pair and improvement of highways, for 
the purchase of expensive road machin¬ 
ery. The Governor also vetoed the bill 
which would increase the amount which 
a town can appropriate for road machin¬ 
ery from $500 to $1,000 without the vote 
of a town meeting. Says the Governor: 
“If the townships of the State are to 
purchase machinery I believe that the 
purchase should be made in open meeting 
where every taxpayer will have the op¬ 
portunity to be heard.” 
children under 10 years may work from 
54 to 4S hours in any one Week, and 
from nine to eight hours in any one day. 
It also prohibits their employment after 
0 p. m. instead of after 7 p. m. The 
vetoed measure related to the sale of 
canal lands that have been abandoned. 
The Governor objects to the bill on the 
grounds that it should not become the 
policy of the State to permit municipali¬ 
ties to secure public lands, for which the 
people were originally taxed, for less 
than their real value. 
IIolsteix Mex To Have Special 
Train. —The Eastern States will send a 
big delegation to the national association 
meeting of Holstein Friesian breeders at 
Chicago on June 2 and 3. They will leave 
the day before the convention on a special 
train and many will be accompanied by 
their wives. This is the first time in 
many years that the annual meeting has 
been held outside Syracuse, and the west¬ 
ern breeders are planning to give the con¬ 
vention a royal welcome and an excep¬ 
tionally good time. 
Forestry School Dedication.— The 
formal opening of the new building de¬ 
voted to the forestry school at Cornell 
will take place on May 15 with appro¬ 
priate exercises. Among the speakers are 
Gifford Pinchot, Dr. L. H. Bailey and 
Henry S. Graves of Washington. On 
the following day .the annual meeting of 
the Society of American Foresters, the 
national professional forestry association, 
will be held at the same place. This 
will be the first gathering of this society 
outside Washington. j. w. D. 
Reports from Western New York show 
great damage to peach buds. Inspections 
of many large peach orchards in Orleans 
County show that the peach crop has 
been Winter-killed, and in several or¬ 
chards where tests were made there are 
no prospects of any kind of a crop of 
Elberta, which are the best commercial 
peach here. Tests in an orchard where 
a usual crop of 4,000 bushels is harvested 
showed only one fertile bud alive out of 
500. 
Apples sold last Fall for $2.50 a bar¬ 
rel; No. 1 and No. 2 potatoes sold this 
Winter for 50. 55 and 05 cents a bushel. 
Good cows $75; cream, January 39, Feb¬ 
ruary, 37 cents, butterfat. Pigs, four 
weeks, $4 ; pork 12 cents pound. 
Garland, Me. e. r. r. 
Accept no “test” of roofing 1 —for 
toughness, pliability, tensile 
strength, etc. There is no test— 
by which you can judge how long a roof 
will last. The only proof is on the roof. 
This label on 
Certain-teed 
ROOFING 
represents the responsibility of the three 
biggest mills in the roofing industry— 
when it guarantees you fifteen years of 
service on the roof in Ce rtain-teed. 
Look for this guarantee label on every 
roll or crate. 
Salt Industry. —It may not be 
known to many that the salt output of 
this State is practically one-third that of 
the entire country. The mines and brine 
wells were very actively worked last 
year and their output was 10,819.521 
barrels, which was an increase of 317,307 
barrels over 1912; that exceeded the 
amount produced in any previous year, 
and the records go back to ffT97. 
State Will Make Brick.— The Gov¬ 
ernor has signed the bill appropriating 
$25,000 to erect a plant for the manu¬ 
facture of brick for use in constructing 
highways. The works will be established 
at the Elmira State Reformatory and 
convicts are to be employed in the work 
of brick making. This is the first step 
in the Governor’s plan to have brick used 
more extensively for road making and 
the employment of prison labor for the 
purpose. 
National Milk Association. —The 
American Association of Medical Milk 
Commissioners is the lengthy title of an 
organization that will meet in Rochester 
on June 19 and 20. Dr. John W. Kerr, 
assistant surgeon-general of the United 
States Public Health Service, is presi¬ 
dent of tbe association. The object of 
the convention is to improve the milk 
supply. The program presents a list of 
notable speakers from several States wliq 
are experts on the question of milk pro¬ 
duction and supply. There will also be 
two contests, one a national certified 
milk contest open to all, and the other is 
a market milk contest open to all pro¬ 
ducers who ship milk into Rochester. 
One Signed. One Vetoed.— Gov. 
Glynn has signed the bill to amend the 
labor law in relation to the hours of 
labor in mercantile establishments. It 
reduces the number of hours in which 
Your dealer can furnish Certain - teed 
Roofing in rolls and shingles—made by 
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SPRflYINGfor GROUND CROPS 
Use the one best, Vreeland’s 
“ELECTRO”ARSENATE of LEAD POWDER 
(not powdered) 
Mixes easier, sticks better, kills quicker, and lias 
highest quality and efficiency. Always the same. 
Pull directions on every package. Used wet or 
dry. Will not injure the most delicate foliage. 
Also 6pray with Vreeland’s 
“Electro” Bordo-Lead Mixture 
A sure and safe killer for bugs, and early and 
late blight. Always ready for use. No grit or 
lumps. Highest amount of active copper. Pro¬ 
motes vine health and stimulates growth. A 
combination of “ Electro ” Arsenate of Head and 
Bordeaux mixture. 
Write today for Manual of Successful Potato Culture 
B. G. PRATT CO., SO Church St., New York 
Mfrs. of SCALECIDE and sole distributors for the 
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J To the Farmers and Fruit 
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PERMANENT FARM IMPROVEMENTS 
There is hardly an improvement about the farm for which cement can not 
be profitably used—anything from a watering trough to a silo. And 
when the lasting quality of cement is considered it is cheaper to 
use than any other material. Cement is not all alike and in order to get 
the highest efficiency he sure and ask for 
DEXTER PORTLAND CEMENT 
See that the accompanying trade mark is on the bag— 
your dealer has it or can get it for you. Farmers 
are using Dexter Cement for many purposes but 
there are many more for which it can be economically 
used. Write us for our free hook telling all about 
Dexter Cement, how and where to use it. 
SAMUEL H. FRENCH & COMPANY 
(Sole Agents) 
PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. 
Dealers should write for proposition 
Protection 
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CUSHMAN MOTOR WORKS, 2091N St., Lincoln, Neb. 
have a continuous rawhide center from cracker to 
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