May 16, 
1' H K RURAL NEW-YORKEre 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—An electric shock, caused 
by crossed wires. cost the New 
England Telephone and Telegraph Com¬ 
pany $15,000 in Superior Court at Ex¬ 
eter, N. H., April 30. This sum was 
awarded to John A. McAdam, who was 
disabled for more than a year by a 
shock received while telephoning in 1011. 
The loss of life in the coal mine 
at Eccles, W. Va., April 30, is now put 
at 172. 
A cloudburst in Oklahoma May 3 de¬ 
stroyed the new $125,000 railway bridge 
over the Canadian River at Geary, and 
caused great damage in the surrounding 
country. 
Michael P. Mahoney, who wounded 
Corporation Counsel Polk in an attempt 
to kill Mayor Mitchel, of New York, 
April 17, was ordered by Judge Mul- 
queen. in General Sessions, May 4. to be 
confined to Matteawan. The finding of 
the lunacy commission stated that Ma¬ 
honey was incapable of making his de¬ 
fence of the trial of the indictment and 
that he “was in a state of idiocy, imbecili¬ 
ty, lunacy or insanity at the time of the 
commission of the crime.” 
Two persons were killed at Maud, Tex., 
May 4. and half the houses in the town 
destroyed by a cyclone which also did 
severe damage at Redwater and near 
Pittsburgh, Tex., injuring some 14 people 
in the three towns. 
The freight steamer Columbian of the 
Leyland Line, bound from Antwerp for 
New York, caught fire and was wrecked 
by a series of explosions in her hold when 
150 miles south of Sable Island, May 3. 
A boat containing 14 of her crew was 
picked up, May 5. by the Cunard Line 
steamship Franconia, one of the vessels 
which responded to the wireless call 
from the North German Lloyd steamship 
Seydlitz, the first craft to sight the burn¬ 
ing Columbian. Captain McDonald and 
13 members of the crew in another boat 
were saved by the steamer Manhattan, 
bound for New York from Antwerp. 
There were no passengers. 
United States troops are keeping peace 
in Colorado. Attempts are being made to 
impeach Governor Ammons for his fail¬ 
ure to restore order. The inquest into 
the deaths of women and children when 
the tent colony at Ludlow was destroyed 
is arousing strong feeling against the 
militia. Major W. A. Holbrook, in 
charge of the Federal troops in the Trin¬ 
idad district, has construed Secretary 
Garrison’s proclamation as to the disarm¬ 
ing of all persons in the strike zone who 
are not in the active service of the 
United States Army to include members 
of the Colorado militia as well as strik¬ 
ers, mine guards, and others. Conse¬ 
quently the order is being carried out on 
that theory. 
MEXICO.—The announcement was 
made at Washington, May 5, that the 
three South American mediators in the 
Mexican difficulty would meet at Niagara 
Falls, Canada, May IS, to receive repre¬ 
sentatives of the parties to the contro¬ 
versy. * * * Carranza, following a 
split with Villa, threatened to resign as 
first chief of the Constitutionalists. 11 is 
resignation would mean a rival revolu¬ 
tion. General Velasco, Federal com¬ 
mander, is said to have offered to go over 
to help Villa with 1.200 men. * * * 
Huerta is reported in a panic as rebels 
take the capitals of three States and ap¬ 
proach to within 107 miles of Mexico 
City. Strategically, the dictator has to 
deal with the Americans in front and the 
rebels in the rear. * * * Huerta, who 
apparently has no intention of resigning, 
continues to concentrate troops between 
Mexico City and Vera Cruz. The rail¬ 
road has been mined between these points. 
The Iluerta government factory is turn¬ 
ing out 6,000 bombs daily. Funston’s 
army, ready to repel attack, chafes under 
the restraint of orders from Washington. 
* * * Villa has unequivocally declined 
the request of General Maas, commander 
at Saltillo, to join the Federals in aveng¬ 
ing the American occupation of Vera 
Cruz. * * * Two of the sailors shot 
in the fighting at Vera Cruz died on the 
hospital ship Solace. The wounded are 
being brought to New York. * * * 
Admiral Badger reported that Tampico 
was attacked by rebels, following the ar¬ 
rival of their artillery. * * * News 
reached Vera Cruz. May 4, that John R. 
Sillman, acting American Consul at San 
Luis Potosi, had been a prisoner in the 
hands of General Joaquin Maas, the Fed¬ 
eral commander, for 11 days and had 
been threatened every night with execu¬ 
tion. * * As far as is known no 
American in Mexico City has been killed 
or even injured so far. Clubs and busi¬ 
ness houses with few exceptions have re¬ 
opened their doors. Among them is the 
American Club, which was assaulted by 
a mob during the first few days after the 
American occupation of Vera Cruz, but 
is now open under the protection of a 
police guard. The country club also is 
in operation and is much frequented by 
American golfers. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—It is esti¬ 
mated that the Southern Pacific will need 
5,000 cars to move the west coast can¬ 
taloupe crop to eastern and southern mar¬ 
kets. The Southern Pacific expects this 
season to carry to the east from southern 
California alone close to 72,000,000 can¬ 
taloupes. The first trainload of canta¬ 
loupes will move east about May 20. 
The Department of Agriculture of New 
York State was informed, May 5, that an 
area of about one-quarter square mile in 
Westchester county is infested with Gyp¬ 
sy moth. Inspectors were despatched to 
fight the pest. 
The Farm Mortgage Bankers Associa¬ 
tion of America was formed in New Y'ork, 
May 7, by seventy-five men from all over 
the country, but principally from the 
South and West. It is the first organiza¬ 
tion of men in this business. One of the 
principal objects of the new association 
will be to obtain legislation favorable to 
farm mortgage investments. The farm 
mortgage men were told that there is 
x - eason to believe savings hanks in some 
States, such as Massachusetts, will join 
with them to get laws passed making 
farm mortgages legal investments for sav¬ 
ings banks and trustees in such States. 
A visitor told the convention that the best 
field for spreading the gospel of farm 
mortgages as sound investments was New 
England. A legislative committee will 
be appointed and the association’s work 
will proceed at once along several lines. 
There will be an immediate effort to 
counteract a tendency to lawmaking 
that the members consider adverse to the 
farm mortgage business, and there will 
be work to legalize farm mortgages as 
savings bank investments in those States 
, which, like Massachusetts, do not at 
present allow them. The members hope 
also to do something toward exempting 
farm mortgages in the banks of investors 
from taxation. 
FRUIT REPORTS. 
May 3. Apples 80% live buds; peach¬ 
es none; pears 20 per cent. o. w. n. 
East Bethany, N. Y. 
April 26. As far as I can yet judge 
we shall have a poor crop of peaches, a 
fair crop of apples and a good crop of 
cherries and plums. This only refers to 
our. own immediate neighborhood. 
Hamilton, Canada. n. a. 
Slay 4. Scale is vanishing; as a pre¬ 
caution we sprayed our orchards this 
Spring, although no live scale appear to 
remain. The parasite detected by Rrof. 
Grim of the Kutztown. Pa., Normal 
►School, "is manifest in this section, and 
the fruit growers feel grateful to Prof 
Grim, and are more than pleased with 
the hope that spraying may in* unneces¬ 
sary in future to hold San Jose scale in 
check. Prospects for fruit are very 
promising, and the lateness of the season 
leads to the belief that damaging frosts 
may not occur at the critical period. It 
is now three weeks later than usual for 
planting Spring crops, and much of the 
oats are yet to be seeded. Potatoes will 
be planted rather more than an average 
acreage. Grain and grass prospects are 
encouraging. The clover root-borer is 
very damaging to clover that is a year 
old, the roots being pulverized by the 
insects, of which a number are usually 
found near the crown of the roots. 
Schuylkill Co., Pa. w. h. stout. 
April 26. The peach buds are all killed 
by the hard Winter. One grower told me 
he had failed to find a live hud on his 
trees. Pears are also very light in blos¬ 
som. Very few plums, plenty of cher¬ 
ries and apple buds galore. With good 
weather at blossoming time, and barring 
frosts, I look for a bumper crop for 1914. 
Pavilion, N. Y. m. g. 
April 30. Peaches are not going to 
blossom very much; think the weather 
was pretty cold for them during January 
and February, but the apples are going to 
blossom very full, and it looks as though 
we might have a large apple crop. We 
are having lots of rain now, so that we 
may not have it so wet at blossoming 
time. I do not think pears will blossom 
very heavily as there was a good crop 
last year. m. a. c. 
Le Roy. N. Y. 
Our Winter was mild, and stock came 
through in good shape. Most fruits 
promise well; some varieties of apples 
are not blooming well, but the prospect 
is for a fair but hardly an average crop. 
Wheat is in fine condition. It is too 
dry for the young clover and for oats. 
The ground never plowed in nicer shape 
than this Spring, so we expect to raise 
corn this year. d. e. b. 
I’ayson, Ill. 
The severe Winter weather through 
February killed only a few peach buds 
here, and some of the cherry buds, but 
April 9th and 10th we had" some cold 
weather that killed many more buds, and 
still there are more than an abundance I 
of peaches left. The cherry crop prom¬ 
ises light, probably a third "to half crop. 
Plums and pears are full and apples seem 
to have the best average bloom I ever 
saw, and one in looking from the top of 
a high hill over the country can see by 
the white profusion bloom where the 
orchards are located, and they are num¬ 
erous in this part of the country. They 
are blooming about 10 days later than 
common, and all varieties are in bloom at 
practically the same time, the early 
bloomers starting out a few days before 
the late ones, and the warm weather hur¬ 
ried them along so that thev got out be¬ 
fore early ones dropped. Probably the 
fertilizer that was used last year had 
quite a lot to do with the good bloom. 
During and since the snows of Febru¬ 
ary the mice have wrought havoc in the 
orchards all over this part of the coun¬ 
try. Some people report as many as half 
the trees ruined. Generally it "is likely 
there have been as many as 5% of the 
trees girdled, not only in sod but in all 
kinds of loose soil. Some of them have 
been dug around and earth hanked up 
to keep them away but still they worked 
and poisoned wheat has been fed to them 
yet. Plant lice are 
ive some Black Leaf 
It will soon be time 
u. t. cox. 
and the end is not 
scarce yet, but we hi 
40 ready for them, 
for fruit packages. 
Lawrence Co., O. 
While in Western New York the past 
Winter, at nearly every institute, the 
question of the fruit buds and their con¬ 
dition would be raised. We found that in 
many cases, with the mercury dropping 
to 35 below, the peach buds were dead, 
while in other localities a large per cent, 
would be reported alive. Naturally I 
was interested, for with the mercury at 
34 and 36 below the day I started from 
Maine I felt certain there was no hope 
for fruit on my little experimental plot. 
It is now the first of May. and I am 
at my Summer home and find that the 
buds of the Waddell, Early Canada and 
Belle of Georgia are nearly all alive, 
while the Elberta, Mayflower and others 
are dead. My land is light rocky loam, 
underdrained, and if peach trees will live 
through the Winter we have just had. 
and which is so reluctant to surrender its 
grip, it seems as though we might count 
on their staying with us right along. 
Last year the Elberta’s came out in 
good shape after three or four attacks 
going to 24 and 28 below. 
Central Maine, geo. si. twitciieli,. 
April 30. We have had a bad month 
for business; it has been extremely cold 
or hot. For two different days the mer¬ 
cury has gone to 80 deg. in the shade, 
and then followed by freezes. Today we 
had a little snow. There has been a 
heavy fall of rain. April 25 we had a 
heavy thunder shower. The ground has 
been too wet to work ; very little plowing 
done. No oats sown yet. Cultivated or¬ 
chards too wet to do spraying. Stock 
take as much feed as in Winter; scarce-I 
ly any turned out to pasturage. Wheat 
and grass are looking very promising, i 
Alfalfa has come through well, and is : 
starting out finely where it was not win¬ 
ter-killed. People are afraid to put out 1 
cabbage on account of the tariff being j 
removed on foreign cabbage. More wild 
geese about than usual. Horses are not 
in as much demand as other Springs, 
and not quite as high priced. Hay $12 
to $34 per ton; wheat 95; oats 40; bar-I 
ley 70; corn 85; good seed corn $1.25 per 1 
60 pounds. Veal nine; young pigs $3 to 
$4 apiece. Early potatoes $1; late 75; j 
butter 24; eggs 38. e. t. b. 
Canandaigua, N. Y. 
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