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<I'II fcC RURAL NliW-YORKER 
April 25, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC. — Iu the Massachusetts 
Senate April 10 the anti-vaccination bill 
was passed to be engrossed. This measure 
provides that any person who has reached 
the age at which attendance at school is 
permitted or required, and who presents 
a written statement from a parent or 
guardian, or by himself, if 21 years old. 
which declares that such parent or guard¬ 
ian or person is opposed to vaccination, 
shall not, as a condition precedent to ad¬ 
mission to the public schools, be required 
to submit to vaccination, except at the 
time of a threatened or actual outbreak of 
smallpox, when the school board shall 
temporarily debar such person from the 
schools. 
The Hotel Sagamore, at Bolton, on 
Lake George, one of the largest hotels in 
the Adirondacks, was destroyed by fire 
April 12; loss $250,000. 
Fire destroyed three business buildings 
at Culpeper, Va., April 13, and caused 
the death of one person. Five firemen 
were also hurt. The fire loss is $65,000. 
A three-alarm fire at 545 and 547 W est 
Twenty-second street, New York. April 
13, stubbornly resisted the efforts of the 
firemen, caused a $200,000 loss and tied 
up street-car traffic on three lines converg¬ 
ing at the Twenty-third Street Ferry for 
more than an hour. 
A ton of flour going from Nezperce to 
Bierce City, Idaho, by mail, passed 
through Lewiston, April 13, and although 
the flour is in 50-pound sacks it is neces¬ 
sary to weigh it every time it is trans¬ 
ferred in order to get the weight for the 
mail contracts. A Spokane concern 
shipped 1,000 pounds of crackers to local 
dealers on the Camas Prairie, the rate 
being four cents a hundred pounds less 
than freight on that class of goods. 
Upon the theory that while it might be 
safe to give the Rockefeller Institute of 
Animal Research the wide latitude pro¬ 
vided by Senator Colgate’s bill, which had 
passed the New Jersey Legislature, it 
would be unwise to confer this authority 
on irresponsible persons. Governor Field¬ 
er vetoed the measure April 13. The bill 
would permit the institute to establish a 
bureau near New Brunswick. John D. 
Rockefeller had endowed the institute to 
the extent of $1,000,000, and James J. 
Ilill had given $50,000. The objections 
to the bill were numerous, but the prin¬ 
cipal one was by Frederick P. Bellamy, 
of Brooklyn, representing the Newark 
Vivisection Investigation League, who 
said the measure was so wide in its scope 
that it would pernrt the vivisection of 
human beings. Mr. Bellamy said the bill 
would give license to any one to practise 
any kind of vivisection, and any five per¬ 
sons w : sbing to incorporate might do any 
amount of experimenting. 
Seven persons were killed April 14 in 
a fire in The Melvin, an apartment house 
at Commonwealth and Long avenues, 
Boston, and sixteen were injured. Fire 
started in the boiler room and spread 
rapidly up the waste and elevator shafts, 
filling the house with flames and smoke. 
The house contained twenty-one families. 
The damage was $100,000. Mayor Cur¬ 
ley inspected the building, and said that 
the blame was due to “second-class con¬ 
struction.” 
Paul D. Cravath’s Summer home. Vera- 
ton. at Locust Valley. L. I., was destroyed 
by fire April 14, although most of the 
furnishings, except those in the servants’ 
hall, where the fire started, were saved. 
The loss is between $150,000 and $200.- 
000. April 15 the Summer home of Mrs. 
P. F. Collier, at Southampton. L. I., was 
destroyed by fire, with a loss of $100,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Winter came 
back to the Texas Panhandle April S 
with a temperature of 10 degrees above 
zero. All the fruit in the vicinity of 
Dallmrt, it is believed, has been killed. 
An inch of snow fell. 
Vegetable and fruit crops in central 
Florida were damaged to the extent of 
many thousands of dollars April 0 bv a 
hail and wind storm and a sharp drop in 
the temperature. Southern Florida 
escaped with a cold rain. Frost in the 
northern part of the State did not affect 
the crops, which are hardly matured. 
Bonfires and smudges were used. 
The American Florist reports that by 
a jury decision in the district court at 
Fort Dodge, Iowa, April 1, a grower of 
seed corn is held responsible for its fail¬ 
ure to germinate or produce a banner 
crop of corn. The case that thus goes on 
record was brought by Edward Hart, 
who bought seed corn of Robert Lawler, 
of Clare. The seed failed to germinate, 
a second planting was necessary, and was 
so late as to impair seriously Hart’s crop 
results. The jury found Lawler’s adver¬ 
tisement of tested seed corn an indirect 
guarantee of the seed and awarded llart 
$250 damages. Th « case will be appealed. 
The Postal Department at Washington. 
I). C.. has been notified by the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture of the Dominion of 
Canada that the importation of nursery 
stock, shrubs, etc., through the mails will 
no longer be allowed. The announcement 
is as follows: “Under a regulation of the 
Department of Agriculture, which took 
effect the first of March, 1914. the im¬ 
portation into Canada of all nursery 
stock, including trees, shrubs, plants, 
vines, grafts, scions, cuttings or buds, 
through the mails, is prohibited, except¬ 
ing greenhouse-grown florists’ stocks, cut 
flowers, herbaceous perennials and bed¬ 
ding plants, provided that a detailed state¬ 
ment of the contents be attached to the 
parcels containing such matter.” 
The annual series of “onion specials” 
are now running from Texas to Chicago 
and other Eastern markets. The vege¬ 
table is being delivered in large quantities 
at Laredo, Tex., the center of an enor¬ 
mous traffic in onions. From Laredo spe¬ 
cial trains are sent to St. Louis, Kansas 
City and Chicago, from which points the 
Texas product is distributed North, West 
and East. Heavy shipments are made 
also from Laredo to Galveston and thence 
by water to New York, New Orleans and 
other ports. 
The Senate Committee on Agriculture 
took formal action April 15 dissociating 
the educational work of the Department 
of Agriculture from the Rockefeller 
Foundation. By an amendment agreed to 
the Department is forbidden to accept 
any financial assistance from private 
sources or to prosecute any work with 
funds supplied from any source other 
than the Federal Treasury. The work in 
certain Southern States through the 
agency of the general education board of 
the Rockefeller Foundation will not be 
discontinued. The committee authorized 
necessary appropriations aggregating 
about $25,000 a year for continuing the 
work, in which more than 000 employees 
are engaged. 
A women’s agricultural conference will 
be held at the 1\- lvania School of 
Horticulture for Women, Ambler, I’a.. 
M ay 10. This is the first conference held 
under the auspices of the Women’s Na¬ 
tional Agricultural and Horticultural As¬ 
sociation. Among the speakers are Mrs. 
Francis King, of Michigan, president of 
the association and vice-president of the 
National Flower Club; George T. Pow¬ 
ell. W. P. Hartman. Chief of the Bureau 
of Information and Markets of the 
Grange. The conference is to cover many 
subjects, such as agricultural education 
for women, hardy flowers, foreign food 
plants, fruit, poultry, vegetables, paeonies 
and Iris, aquatic plants, violet culture, 
canning and preserving, etc. 
The record price for a New York fruit 
farm was recently paid in Yates County. 
The report is that Timothy Costello 
sold 55 acres of land just outside of Penn 
Yan for $60,000. This property carries 
an apple orchard of 50 acres, and it was 
bought by Glenn L. Wheeler. We under¬ 
stand that Mr. Costello bought the place 
nine years ago for about $11,000, and has 
since added about $5,000 in improvements. 
The apple orchard is a noted one. and 
known all over Western New York. All 
through the Lake section apple land has 
gone to a high figure when the orchards 
are of good varieties and properly han¬ 
dled. The increased value of fruit land 
in that section is not built upon boom 
prices, but represents a steady develop¬ 
ment in the earning capacity of the or¬ 
chards. Probably nowhere else on earth 
has the fruit business developed so solid¬ 
ly and securely as in Western New York, 
and the high values for good apple or¬ 
chards are legitimate, since they are based 
upon actual business and production. 
The Dutchess County Cooperative As- 
sociat’on was organized at the courthouse 
in Pone! keepsie on April 10. Charles C. 
Mitchell, of Millbrook. was elected presi¬ 
dent; Mr. Dickerson, vice-president ; Mr. 
Hasbrouck. financial secretary : Mr. Lacy, 
corresponding secretary, and Mr. Hogan, 
treasurer. Strictly cooperative by-laws 
were adopted, and the organization is in 
line for associating itself with the new 
Food and Market Commission when this 
is organized, and also with provisions to 
secure for its members the benefit of the 
new Land Bank law. 
OHIO CROPS. 
The Ohio Agricultural Department 
makes (he following report of crops for 
the State, April 1: 
Wheat—Condition compared with aver¬ 
age. 95% : condition reported one year 
ago, 93% ; crop of 1913 still in producer's 
hands, 14%, approximately, 3,500,000 
bushels. 
Winter Barley—Condition compared 
with average, 96%; condition reported 
one year ago, 88%. 
Rye—Condition compared with aver¬ 
age, 96%; condition reported one year 
ago. 94%. 
Corn—Condition in crib, compared 
with average, 93%; condition reported 
one year ago. 94%; remained on husk in 
field, 5%; damage to unhusked during 
Winter, 14% ; damage to fodder during 
Winter. 23%. 
Fruit—Prospect compared with normal 
yield, 83% ; reported one year ago. 89% ; 
buds, Winter-killed, 26%; reported one 
year ago 7% 0 . 
1913 1914 
Wheat . $1.01 $0.93 
Coni .53 .68 
Barley .64 .64 
Oats .36 .43 
Rye .74 .71 
Potatoes .57 .89 
Hay . 10.78 12.61 
I have 40 per cent, live buds left on 
Elberta peach trees, and 30 per cent, on 
Mountain Rose and Oldmixon, which is 
twice as many as are needed to make a 
full crop. Mr. Barnes, of Barnes Bros, 
one of the largest growers in Wallingford, 
tells me there are enough remaining gen¬ 
erally in that town to make a good crop. 
Wallingford and vicinity is the largest 
peach growing district in New England. 
Massachusetts and the northern part of 
Connecticut have lost probably all, or 
nearly all, the buds. n. s. p. 
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