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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—All explosion of gas in 
the mine of the Ilill Crest Colliery, 
Alberta, June 10. resulted in the 
death of 105 of the 1225 men who were en¬ 
tombed. Twenty men were taken out 
alive. The explosion tore roofs off 
houses and wrecked buildings in the 
vicinity. The entrance of the mine was 
choked with debris. Thousands of tons 
of rocks crashed into the workings. The 
scene of the disaster is only a mile from 
Frank, Alberta, where a great disaster 
occurred ten years ago. The mines have 
been operated at intervals for twelve 
years, and at times there was consider¬ 
able difficulty in getting men to work 
there. The main tunnel opens on the 
crest of the mountain and an incline 
railway takes the output to a railway 
track a mile away. The Hill Crest mines 
are under the same mountain as the 
Frank mines. The town of Hill Crest 
has a population of <>00. This is the 
third great disaster which*has fallen to 
the inhabitants of Crows Nest Pass. 
Four years ago thirty-live men were 
killed in the Bellevue mine by gas and 
ten years ago Frank was wiped out by a 
mountain slide, 125 persons being buried 
alive. 
Inquiry into the Empress of Ireland 
wreck at Quebec continues to call out 
much conflicting testimony. The first of¬ 
ficer of the collier admitted. June 17, 
that he had not obeyed instructions in 
failing to call his captain from below 
when the fog shut down just before the 
collision. lie said he believed the Stor- 
stad had the right of way and that he 
was entitled to keep his course at reduced 
speed, even though he had signalled pre¬ 
viously to the Empress that he had 
stopped. He blamed the current for 
swinging the ship, and said she had not 
sufficient headway to give quick response 
to her helm. 
William Lorimer and Charles B. Mon¬ 
day are charged with looting the La Salle 
Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago of 
from $2,000,000 to $2,700,000, in the re¬ 
port filed June 17 by Bank Examiner 
Harkin with State Auditor Brady. Crim¬ 
inal prosecution of both was decided upon 
following a conference between Mr. Har¬ 
kin and Attorney-General I’. J. Luce.v. 
It is the intention of the Attorney-Gen¬ 
eral to base criminal action upon a gen¬ 
eral charge of conspiracy to loot the 
bank. Following is a list of some of the 
transactions which were called to the at¬ 
tention of fhe Attorney-General by Bank 
Examiner Harkin in his report: A $120.- 
000 loan to William Lorimer & Co. on 
a note secured by Southern Traction 
Company bonds. A $100,000 loan to J. 
P. Gallagher, William Lorimer’s partner 
in the firm of Lorimer & Gallagher, on a 
note secured by the same bonds. A 
$160,000 loan to the Southern Traction 
Company, in which William Lorimer 
was interested, on its unsecured notes. A 
purchase of $350,000 of the bonds of the 
same company. A $180,000 loan to Lor¬ 
imer & Gallagher on the notes of the 
firm. A $2011,000 purchase of the bonds 
of the Illinois and Louisiana Land Com¬ 
pany, of which ex-Gov. J. Y. Sanders of 
Louisiana is the head. 
June 18 the smoke and ashes from the 
eighth eruption of Mount Lassen since 
it became active May 30 were plainly 
visible from Redding, Cal. The erup¬ 
tion was a heavy one, the smoke show¬ 
ing plainly, although a thick haze pre¬ 
vented a view of the mountain. 50 miles 
away. There are two active craters now, 
the original vent near the summit and a 
smaller blow hole on the south slope. 
Twelve persons, most of them women 
and children, were drowned in the Oswego 
Canal, just south of Mud Lock, Onon¬ 
daga Lake, N. Y., June 21, when a pas¬ 
senger launch plying between Mud Lock 
and Liverpool struck a stump and cap¬ 
sized. 
Violence broke out anew, June 23. in 
the struggle between factions of the Butte, 
Mont., miners’ union; three men were 
shot, one being killed, by deputy sheriffs 
in clearing Miners’ Hall. Attempts were 
made to dynamite Miners’ Hall, but the 
charges failed to do any great damage. 
The explosions could be heard for blocks. 
Armed men went to the Stewart mine 
and carried down boxes of dynamite in 
their efforts to blow up the hall, but the 
guns of deputies prevented effective plac¬ 
ing of the charges. 
ADMINISTRATION. — The Senate 
has ordered a “thorough and complete” 
investigation into the use of Senate com¬ 
mittees’ stationery in the exploitation of 
the North Carolina gold mine promoted 
by Walter George Newman and into the 
sending of an employee of the United 
States Treasury to investigate the mine. 
The resolution was amended before its 
adoption, June 19, to provide that the in¬ 
vestigation should be conducted by the 
Senate Committee on Privileges and Elec¬ 
tions, of which Senator Kern is chair¬ 
man. instead of by a special committee 
of five Senators. The resolution author¬ 
ized the committee, acting as a body or 
through a sub-committee, to conduct the 
investigation. 
A substitute for the La Follette sea¬ 
man’s bill, passed by the Senate some 
months ago, was reported to the House, 
June 19, by the Committee on Merchant 
Marine and Fisheries, of which Repre¬ 
sentative Alexander of Missouri is chair¬ 
man. The bill is designed primarily to 
promote the safety of life and property 
at sea and to promote the welfare of 
American seamen. It provides for the 
use of a larger number of life craft on 
passenger vessels and reduces the hours 
of work of seamen. What are regarded 
as harsh measures in the treatment of 
seamen are prohibited. In an effort to 
improve the condition of seamen the bill 
provides that in all merchant vessels of 
the United States of more than 100 tons 
gross the sailors while at sea shall be 
divided into at least two watches, and 
the firemen, oilers and water tenders into 
at least three watches. The only excep¬ 
tions made in the application of this rule 
are in the cases of vessels navigating 
rivers, harbors, bays or sounds exclusive¬ 
ly and vessels whose routes between 
terminal ports do not exceed a run of 
thirteen hours. 
COMING FARMLRS’ MEETINGS. 
Summer meeting, Virginia State Horti¬ 
cultural Society, Charlottesville, Va., 
July 15. 
Summer meeting. New Jersey State 
Horticultural Society, farm of J. II. Bar¬ 
clay, Cranbury, N. J., July 15. 
Summer school of agricultural and 
country life, Massachusetts Agricultural 
College, Amherst. June 30-July 28. 
Annual Poultrymen’s convention, Mas¬ 
sachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, 
July 22-24. 
Georgia State Horticultural Society, 
Summer meeting, Griffin, Ga.. August 
5-6. 
International Apple Shippers’ Associa¬ 
tion. twentieth annual convention and ap¬ 
ple exhibit, Copley-Plaza Hotel, Boston, 
Mass., August. 5, 6, 7. 
39th Annual Convention of the Ameri¬ 
can Poultry Association to be held at 
Chicago, Ill., August Nth to 15th, 1914, 
inclusive. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, Ill., 
October 22-31. The following meetings 
and conventions will be held in connec¬ 
tion with the show: American Associa¬ 
tion Creamery Butter Manufacturers, 
Oct. 26. Ilolstein-Friesian Association of 
America, Oct. 26. International Milk 
Dealers’ Association, Oct. 26 and 27. 
Conference, Secretaries of State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association. Oct. 27. Official 
Dairy Instructors’ Association. Oct. 27. 
National Dairy Union, Oct. 28. Ameri¬ 
can Dairy Farmers’ Association. Oct. 2S. 
Council of the National Dairy Show, 
Oct. 28. National Association of Cream¬ 
ery Managers and Owners, Oct. 2S. 
American Jersey Cattle Club, Oct. 2S. 
National Association of Ice Cream Man¬ 
ufacturers, Oct. 28, 29 and 30. Inter¬ 
national Association of Dairy and Milk 
Inspectors. Oct. 29. American Guernsey 
Cattle Club, Oct. 29. Congress of Mar¬ 
keting, Oct. 29. Milk Producers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Oct. 30. 
Annual Show of the Paterson, N. J., 
Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion. November 18-21. 
Indiana Apple Show, Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis, lnd., November 18-24. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
The city markets begin to overflow 
with all sorts of home-grown produce, 
though the fruits, such as peaches, apri¬ 
cots, plums and cherries are still mostly 
from warmer parts of the country. Straw¬ 
berries are becoming very plenty and the 
quality better than usual. 
Beyond the slight decline in green stuff 
generally there is not much change in 
prices of late. Apples, the fruit that com¬ 
petes most directly with the Southern 
fruits, are still fairly plenty. Prices are 
declining, the range being $3 to $4.50, 
with Western apples $1 to $2 a box. 
They retail at 1 to 2 cents apiece in small 
measures, which is very low. Water¬ 
melons sell at 20 to 50 cents apiece by 
the hundred and muskmelons at $1.75 to 
$3.25 per crate. Potatoes are becoming 
scarce. They have been quoted for a long 
time at not over 85 cents a bushel whole¬ 
sale, but are now not less than a dollar 
for good quality. The consumer is eager 
for new ones, but finds them selling at 
$4.50 a barrel for Southern, and close to 
$2 a bushel at retail. New Bermudas 
are plenty, selling at 50 cents a peck, re¬ 
tail. The local potato crop is promising, 
but will be very late, as the conditions 
early in the season were against either 
planting or growth. Butter, cheese and 
eggs are steady, with prices little changed. 
Butter is not quoted at more than 29 
cents, and the markets are selling good 
grades at 28 cents. The sale of marga¬ 
rine is encouraged by the dealers in a 
way that gives the supposition that it 
nets them more than butter does. Chi¬ 
cago brands retail at 22 cents a pound. 
New cheese sells at 15 cents for best 
grades to the trade, and retails for IS 
Cents. Eggs are stronger in the higher 
grades. The wholesale price ranges from 
20 to 24 cents; duck eggs, 28 cents retail. 
The vegetable list lengthens steadily, 
everything being at moderate prices, ex¬ 
cept cabbage, which is $1 to $1.50 per 
crate. Peas vary much in quality. Tele¬ 
phones being $2.25 per bag and low- 
grades $1. Asparagus is plenty at 10 
cents a small bunch, or $1.25 to $1.50 per 
basket wholesale. String beans are $1.25 
to $1.75 per hamper, or at retail 10 cents 
a quart. New beets are 5 cents a bunch 
or 50 cents a dozen. Celery is about out 
of market, some Kalamazoo being offered 
at 20 to <15 cents a box. The dry. hot 
weather advanced the price of hay, which' 
is now strong at $16 for No. 1 Tinlothy. 
J. w. c. 
CUTTING AND CURING WHEAT. 
The Department of Agriculture makes 
the following statements about wheat har¬ 
vesting : 
“Wheat may be cut with safety when 
the straw has lost nearly all of its green 
color and the grains are not entirely hard¬ 
ened. If cut sooner than this, shriveled 
kernels will result; if left standing until 
fully ripe, a bleached appearance, due to 
the action of the elements, often results 
and loss from shattering may follow. 
Wheat that is fully ripe is also more diffi¬ 
cult to handle. 
“Wheat should be shocked in the field 
immediately after being cut and bound. 
A shock is begun by standing two bundles 
in a nearly upright position with heads 
together and butts sufficiently apart to 
prevent falling over. From 8 to 12, and 
sometimes more, bundles are then set up 
about these until a round shock of the 
proper size is formed. The number of 
bundles to place in a shock depends upon 
the degree of ripeness, the length of straw 
and the size of the bundle, fewer bundles 
being used where the straw is short or not 
fully ripe. In placing the bundles the 
butts should be jammed info the stubble | 
to insure firmness, and the heads should 
lean inward sufficiently to prevent falling 
over. When this part of the shock is 
completed it should be covered as per¬ 
fectly as possible with two bundles, the 
heads of which have been broken down 
at the band, to form a cap. This cap 
should be placed so as to protect the 
standing bundles from rain and sun as 
much as possible. If the heads of the cap 
are placed on the side of the shock toward i 
the prevailing winds some protection 
against blowing off may be afforded. 
“Stacking is particularly important 
when thrashing cannot be done soon after 
the cutting, because it affords better pro¬ 
tection for the grain at once. When the 
wheat is in the stack a process called 
‘sweating’ takes place which improves the 
color, condition, and test weight of the 
grain. It also improves its milling and 
baking qualities. A similar ‘sweating’ 
process may apparently take place in 
shock-thrashed wheat after it is placed in 
the bin.” 
Enlarged Liver. 
One in a while I find one of my fowls 
dead with enlarged liver. What is the 
trouble? I feed wheat in the morning, I 
corn at night, they are out all day in a 
large run. j. f. n. 
New York. 
Enlargement of the liver is not a dis¬ 
ease in itself but rather a symptom of 
one of several diseases from which fowls 
suffer. It may be enlarged from con¬ 
gestion as the result of irritating or poi¬ 
sonous food, from the presence of par¬ 
asites, the result of certain infectious dis¬ 
eases, . particularly cholera, or from ob¬ 
struction to the circulation in diseases of 
the heart. It is also found enlarged in 
fowls that are over fat as a result of 
having been heavily fed and closely con¬ 
fined. ii. B. D. 
Poisoning Pigeons. —On page 590 you 
advise poisoning pigeons. This is cruelty 
to pigeons, dangerous to other birds and 
poultry, a menace to some one’s pet cat 
which might find a poison victim, and a 
waste of good food. Feed the pigeons 
regularly on the ground for a few days, 
prop up a large box or sieve with a stick 
over the feed for two or three days, then 
tie a long string to the stick and pull 
when the pigeons are under it. You can 
then transform a nuisance into a pot-pie. 
Connecticut. d. ii. 
July 4, 
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