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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
June 0, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—May 20, Chas. S. Mellen. 
in testimony at Washington, told of 
the acquisition by the New Haven of 
the Rhode Island trolleys at a cost of be¬ 
tween $19,000,000 and $20,000,000. These 
trolleys are now losing the New Haven 
between $300,000 and $400,000 a year, 
and Mr. Mellen acknowledged that the 
railroad had paid twice their value for 
them. Mr. Mellen declared that ex- 
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich had been 
active in bringing about this transaction. 
As the result of this testimony, light is 
beginning to break on the transaction in 
Boston and Maine stock by which John 
L. Billard of New Haven made $2,748,- 
000. The evidence seems to indicate that 
the New Haven’s holding of Boston and 
Maine was sold to Billard in order to 
evade a Massachusetts law, and was 
bought back as soon as this legal ob¬ 
stacle was removed. Billard refused to 
regard the transaction as a mere accom¬ 
modation and kept the profit, although 
the minutes of the New Haven board of 
directors showed that strenuous efforts 
were made to get him to give it up. 
The Federal Grand Jury, at Pitts¬ 
burgh, Pa., May 21, recommended the in¬ 
dictment of five employees of the Carbon 
Steel Company on a charge of conspir¬ 
ing to defraud the United States in con¬ 
nection with steel furnished for the locks 
of the Panama Canal. The steel is al¬ 
leged to have been of a very inferior 
quality, with the exception of the ends 
of the beams and plates, which were 
highly tempered, so that when the Gov¬ 
ernment inspectors chipped a piece off 
the ends to have the steel analyzed they 
would secure only the highest grade 
metal. The steel furnished by the Car¬ 
bon Steel Company is alleged to be of 
such a low quality as to make its use 
in the locks and gates unsafe. The gates 
and locks which contain this low grade 
metal are likely to collapse at any time, 
it is alleged. 
Between $312,000,000 and $313,000,- 
000 is the sum which will be placed op¬ 
posite John D. Rockefeller’s name on 
Cuyahoga county’s personal tax dupli¬ 
cate at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Rockefeller 
failed to make a return May 23, as or¬ 
dered, and county tax commissioners im¬ 
mediately began a compilation of a list 
of his tangible and intangible personal 
property. 
Fire in lumber yards on the flats at 
Cleveland, Ohio, May 25. caused a loss 
estimated at $1,000,000 and destroyed a 
large portion of the Central viaduct, 
which connects the south side with the 
business part of the east side. 
A compromise agreement was reached 
May 26 between the Administration and 
organized labor concerning the provisions 
in the anti-trust bill covering the rights 
of labor under the proposed law. The 
comprom'se forestalls a fight in the 
House which labor confidently expected 
it could win by an overwhelming major¬ 
ity. The compromise contemplates that 
the Democrats of the Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee shall offer two amendments to the 
pro-labor paragraphs. These will have 
the support of labor adherents and Dem¬ 
ocrats generally. The amendment covers 
the section providing that labor, frater¬ 
nal and agricultural associations formed 
for purposes of mutual help and not 
profit shall not be prevented from organ¬ 
izing and carrying out their legitimate 
objects. 
MEXICO.—A general plan for the 
pacification of Mexico, covering several 
of the important points at issue, has 
been drawn up by the A. B. C. media¬ 
tors. This plan has been agreed to by 
the United States and Huerta delegates. 
Justice Lamar said May 26 that the 
outlook for a satisfactory settlement is 
now “extremely favorable.” Carranza re¬ 
mains, however, a stumbling block in the 
way of peace. The Constitutionalist 
leader maintains his stand for the abso¬ 
lute elimination of Huerta and the Cien- 
tificos. He regards mediation regarding 
the internal affairs of Mexico as an un¬ 
warranted meddling on the part of the 
South American diplomats and the Unit¬ 
ed States. . . . Army and navy offi¬ 
cials in Washington are preparing for 
the moving of United States troops to 
Mexico City when Villa enters Huerta’s 
capital. It is feared that a reign of ter¬ 
ror will follow the occupation of the cap¬ 
ital by the rebels. . . . John R. Silli¬ 
man, the American Vice-Consul, who was 
imprisoned by the Federals at Saltillo, 
arrived May 26 at Vera Cruz. He is 
still suffering from fever brought on by 
the hardships of his journey to Mexico 
City from Saltillo. . . 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Three stu¬ 
dents in the agricultural department of 
Columbia University have started, 
through the efforts of Prof. O. S. Mor¬ 
gan, head of the department, experiment¬ 
al work in agriculture on a six-acre 
plot in Madison, N. J.. part of the Na¬ 
thaniel Niles farm. If the results are 
satisfactory it is possible the university 
will establish an experimental farm on 
which all its agricultural students will 
work. Through the Summer the three 
young men will cultivate the ground, 
each as if it were his individual enter¬ 
prise, save for the fact that a man who 
has had both practical and college expe¬ 
rience in agricultural metho will act 
as adviser. Not only will they raise 
their own products but they will mar¬ 
ket them. 
Fifteen thousand additional farmhands 
will be needed in Oklahoma to harvest 
the 1914 wheat crop. State Labor Com¬ 
missioner Daugherty announced May 23. 
He estimates the crop at 40,000.000 
bushels, the largest the State has ever 
produced. Harvesting will begin in the 
southern part of the State the first week 
in June, and will continue thirty days. 
The Chicago Doily Tribune of May 16 
states that the firm of Rosenberg & Lieb- 
erman, wholesale seedsmen of Milwaukee, 
was fined $400 recently for the fraudul¬ 
ent use of the mails, of which charge 
they were indicted last November. The 
firm advertised itself as specialists in dry 
land Montana grown Alfalfa seed, urging 
that this seed is grown farther north 
than any, and was a better drought re¬ 
sister than others. The firm also ob¬ 
tained the O. K. of the Agricultural Sta¬ 
tion of Wisconsin, and called its chief 
brand “The Government Brand,” yet 
they had purchased Alfalfa seed not only 
from Europe, but from the section that 
they had cautioned their customers 
against, and only a small portion of 
their purchases came from Montana. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Pennsylvania State Horticultural As¬ 
sociation, Summer meeting, State College, 
Pa., June 17-18. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
Cleveland, Ohio, June 24-26. 
Georgia State Horticultural Society, 
Summer meeting, Griffin. Ga., August 
5-6. 
Indiana Apple Show, Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis, Ind., November ls-24. 
The Massachusetts State Board of 
Agriculture will hold its Annual Sum¬ 
mer Field Meeting at the Hood Farm, 
Lowell, Mass., on Wednesday, June 24, 
1914. Lectures and demonstrations on 
topics of interest to farmers are being 
arranged. All sessions will be free to 
the public. 
May 20. William II. Reid and Secre¬ 
tary Taylor of the N. J. Horticultural 
Society were present at a largely attend¬ 
ed session of the Oak Grove Grange at 
l’ittstown to explain the workings and 
aims of the State Society. It was 
followed by an interesting discussion of 
fruit growing. Hunterdon County has a 
prospect of a good crop of fruit on the 
few orchards left in that section. n. 
Riverton, N. J. 
May 19. We have had a cold Spring, 
frost May IS. and the ground is just 
getting ready to plow, soil mostly clay, 
some red loam. Few have anything 
planted except peas and a few potatoes. 
Many farmers here are to plant squash 
for the factory, getting $8 a ton. Many 
also raise raspberries, and almost every¬ 
one raises poultry and ships eggs to the 
Boston market. The trees have not as 
yet leaved out, but are just started. Hay 
in the barn is worth $11 to $12; corn, 
bran, meal, and most feeds are $1.60 per 
100-pound bag; oats 54. Eggs from 20 
to 22 here in the market; those shipping 
get 25 to 27 and deduct three cents ex¬ 
press. j. c. S. 
So. Thomaston, Me. 
“Did the husband of that militant 
suffragette who was always longing for 
peace ever find if/” “He has found com¬ 
parative peace. He is with the army in 
Mexico.”—Houston Post. 
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