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July 11, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—Fire at Salem, Mass., 
June 25, swept over half the city, 
rendering 20.000 people homeless. 
At least six lives were lost, and tlie prop¬ 
erty loss is estimated at nearly $15,000,- 
000. The burned area covered about two 
Rquare miles. The lire, which started iti 
the plant of the Kara Leather Company, 
was apparently caused by an explosion. 
The city was immediately put under mar¬ 
tial law by Governor Walsh, food and 
tents being furnished by the State. Among 
historic buildings destroyed was tin' birth¬ 
place of Nathaniel Hawthorne, but the 
House of the Seven Gables escaped. 
Ilcat, tornadoes and lightning descend¬ 
ed upon various localities in the Middle 
West June 20, and claimed several lives. 
The storms resulted from the intense heat 
wave. Lightning started approximately 
fifty tires and killed one man at Aurora, 
Ill., and another at South Bend, Iud. A 
tornado swept through Wausau, Wis., 
and destroyed considerable property and 
killed two men. A cloudburst cut loose 
a dam and reservoir at Lanesboro, Minn., 
and flooded that town of 1,000 inhabit¬ 
ants. 
The 30-acre plant of the Richardson & 
Boynton Company, manufacturers of 
stoves and ranges, at Dover, N. .T., except¬ 
ing the shipping department building, 
was destroyed by fire, supposedly of in¬ 
cendiary origin June 28. The loss is 
$500,000. Eleven hundred men were em¬ 
ployed there before the works were shut, 
down, temporarily, three weeks ago, on 
account of the heat and for repairs. 
The Anchor Line steamship California, 
from New York for Glasgow by way of 
Londonderry, with 840 passengers aboard, 
went aground in a dense fog June 28 on 
the rocks of Tory Island, off the north¬ 
west coast of Ireland. The California’s 
bow was badly damaged when she struck 
the rocks, but all on board were taken off 
in safety. 
Stringent measures to prevent bu¬ 
bonic plague following the reports of one 
death and another case in New Orleans 
were admitted by Surgeon-General Blue 
on June 29. Two experts from the De¬ 
partment of Health were ordered to the 
afflicted city, and telegrams were sent to 
public health officials in every State bor¬ 
dering on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts 
and those fronting on the Mississippi 
River detailing preventive measures. 
Every port from New York to Galveston 
and up the Mississippi to St. Louis is 
to be urged to begin immediately a cam¬ 
paign of extermination against rats. 
Every ship from southern ports will bo 
scrupulously examined by health officials 
at all ports to learn if possible the origin 
of the disease. All steamers, whether 
starting for coast, foreign or Mississippi 
River ports, will he thoroughly fumigated 
and then protected with rat guards. All 
freight, whether leaving New Orleans by 
steamer or rail, that, a rat might hide in 
will he held up unless fumigated. In this 
way it is hoped to prevent the spread of 
the plague, which with the exception of a 
single case in California recently, has not 
been found in a human in the United 
States since the epidemic in cattle six 
years ago. 
After an uninterrupted service of sixty 
years the United States Express Com¬ 
pany retired June 30 from the transporta¬ 
tion business, the close of its fiscal year, 
in accordance with the plan adopted last 
.March. All the railroad contracts had 
been transferred to the other big express 
companies, and arrangements have been 
completed whereby Wells, Fargo & Co. 
will act as agents for the United States 
Express Company in carrying out the 
contract with the Government for the 
handling of money. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—More than 
1.500 farmers, their families and employ¬ 
es from all parts of Lake and Porter 
counties, Ind., were the guests of the city 
of Gary, the steel corporation, and the 
Gary Commercial Club, June 27. This 
was the annual farmers’ day celebration, 
which is a movement to encourage farm¬ 
ers to trade in Gary and to bring their 
produce to the public market. Most of 
the visitors came in automobiles. On 
their arrival in the city they were ad¬ 
dressed at the Commercial Club by Mayor 
Johnson. Following this the men marched 
to the Illinois steel works, where a spe¬ 
cial train of observation cars took them 
through the coke ovens, steel mills, tin¬ 
plate plants and bridge plants. Mean¬ 
while the women and children attended a 
concert at the Presbyterian Church and 
ot Jefferson Park. At noon the visitors 
dined without, cost in the hotels and res¬ 
taurants of the city. In the afternoon a 
public reception was held for them at the 
Commercial Club, followed by a free con¬ 
cert, automobile ride, inspection of local 
stores and an exhibition drill by tin* fire 
department at night. The visitors re¬ 
ceived tickets that admitted them to any 
theater and “movie” theater in Gary. 
Amendments to the regulations for the 
protection of migratory birds have been 
proposed by the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture to take effect as soon 
as the three months notice required by law 
lias expired. This will be on October 1, 
1914. Meantime copies of the regulations 
can be obtained from the biological sur¬ 
vey of the Department. The effect of one 
of these changes is to permit on the Mis¬ 
souri and the upper waters of the Missis¬ 
sippi the shooting of all migratory game 
birds for which there is an open season 
from October 1. 1914, to January 1, 1915. 
After the latter date the prohibition will 
be in force again. The new regulations 
provide for a closed season in Zone No. 1 
for all water fowl from December 1 to 
September 30, 1915. Exceptions to this 
rule are: In Massachusetts and Rhode 
Island the closed season shall be between 
January 1 and October 1 ; in Connecticut, 
New York, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Oregon 
and Washington between January 1(5 and 
October 1 ; in New Jersey between Feb¬ 
ruary I and November 1 ; in Minnesota, 
North Dakota, South Dakota and Wis¬ 
consin between December 1 and Septem¬ 
ber 7. For Zone No. 2 the closed season 
is between January 1(1 and October 1, 
with the following exceptions: In Dela¬ 
ware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, 
Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Mis- 
sippi and Louisiana the closed season 
shall be between February 1 and Novem¬ 
ber 1 ; in Florida. Georgia and South 
Carolina between February 1(5 and No¬ 
vember 20; in Kansas, Missouri and Ok¬ 
lahoma between February 1 and Septem¬ 
ber 15; in Texas, Arizona and California 
between February 1 and October 1. 
CROP REPORTS. 
.Tune 30.—Splendid rains lately, bring¬ 
ing crops along nicely. Hay will be about 
half a crop; old meadows are quite 
poor. Alfalfa is quite good; not much 
grown here. Potatoes come up slowly on 
account of dry, cool weather. Corn of 
all kinds rather backward for this time 
of year, hut looks quite healthy. Oats 
have good healthy appearance. Buck¬ 
wheat nearly all sown. Potatoes all sold. 
Elk Creek, N. Y. v. s. c. 
June 27.—Prices on nearly all farm 
produce here are variable, and are a 
matter of quality, supply, and the per¬ 
son selling. Corn, native, is selling at 
75 to 80 cents per bushel; oats 10 to 50; 
hay $12 to $15 per ton for baled native 
wild. Butter ranges from 20 to 35; 
milk 20 to 40 cents per gallon ; eggs 15 
to 20 c nts per dozen. Young chickens, 
frying size, 30 to 40 cents each. Cows, 
fresh, sell at anywhere from $20 to $05 
each. G. w. M. 
Jackson, Miss. 
My strawberries were ruined by the 
drought. Where I got 100 quarts a day 
last year (same patch), we did not sell 
a berry; just had enough for home use. 
Same with red raspberries. Sweet corn 
knee high and tasseling out and will not 
make seed. Farmers have no hay or 
pasture. We are feeding stock just as 
we do in January. Best wheat crop in 
years and farmers busy threshing; grain 
good quality. Gladiolus will not pay ex¬ 
pense of planting and cultivation ; have 
10,000 bulbs to plant for late cutting, 
that ought to go out now. hut can do 
nothing toward getting the ground in 
order, and they could not come up if 
planting for lack of moisture. K. T. F. 
Belleville, Ill. 
June 30.—The pastures through this 
section are in good condition, and with 
the amount of rain we have been having 
I think they will be in good condition 
for some time. Of course the drought 
we had last Summer hurt all our pas¬ 
tures, and we must not expect to have 
as good feed in them as we would had 
we had a better season last year. The 
market price for butter is lower this 
year than it has been for several years, 
and 1 understand that our creamery here 
is losing money even at the price, and sit 
the price of feed there is no money in it 
for the farmer. Jerseys are mostly kept 
in this neighborhood; there are si few 
black and white, but uot many, and most 
of our farmers sire interested in keeping 
a purebred hull to build up their herds. 
You may be interested to know that we 
have about 375 head of purebred Jerseys 
here. We have sold 50 head since the 
first of January. We keep all our stock 
in the barn daytimes, and pasture them 
nights. We find with this practice we 
get more milk from our cows, and our 
young stock grows much better. 
I telawsire Co., N. Y. l\ A. DUTTON. 
June 22. The condition of crops in 
Jefferson Co., Nebr., is good, due of 
course to ample rainfall and generally 
favorable weather. A lsirge crop of Al- 
falfsi was cut the first week in June, 
much of which was more or less damaged 
by rain. The second cutting is now near¬ 
ly ready, and will be heavy. Wheat is 
now about ready for harvesting, and will 
ho in full swing this week. The crop is 
large hut has been damaged to some ex¬ 
tent by Hessian fly over the territory 
south of the Platte River from the Mis¬ 
souri River west 200 miles. The dam¬ 
age in this county is estimated at 10 per 
cent. Notwithstanding this, Nebraska is 
slated for the largest, crop of wheat in 
her history. Oats too are very line, hut 
will not be ready for cutting this month. 
Corn was never in better condition at the 
time than now, but it has to run the risk 
of shortage of rain during July and Aug¬ 
ust, which may come and may not. 
Prices of horses and mules continue good. 
Butcher cattle six cents live weight; 
hogs $7.50 per hundred; butter 15; eggs 
15; wheat 75; corn 80; shipped in po¬ 
tatoes (old) $1.25; new potatoes just 
showing up and 50 cents a peck. 
Fairbury, Nebr. ir. m. k. 
June 25. This is mostly a dairying 
section, making market milk for New 
York City. This month, June, the Bor¬ 
dens are paying a flat contract price of 
$1 per 100 pounds of milk, with a 10-cent 
per 100 pounds premium for a score of 
08 or better, also uu extra 10 cents per 
100 pounds for milk testing 3.8 or hot¬ 
ter. The dairymen are dissatisfied with 
these prices, and I think I am safe in 
saying that there are not more than one 
half as many milch cows in this section 
as there were three years ago. Buyers 
are coming in here from the West and 
cleaning the country of cattle. Good 
young cows soil for from $75 to $100; 
young stock cannot be bought, as they 
are very few and the farmers are bold¬ 
ing them. The Spring was very back¬ 
ward this season, hut we have had line 
weather lately and the farmers have near¬ 
ly caught up with their work. There is 
a large acreage of Telephone peas in 
this country. The soil seems to be 
adopted to growing peas, but they are 
a very uncertain crop to raise, as we got 
anywhere from 25 cents to $2.50 per 
bushel, with the bulk selling from 50 to 
75 cents. We were very much inter¬ 
ested in the articles regarding late sowing 
of Telephone peas, and from my own ex¬ 
perience can say that all who discussed 
this are right. We have had late sown 
peas grow and keep bearing till frost 
killed them and again we have had the 
blue mold and lice destroy the whole crop. 
We put in our last sowing of peas yes¬ 
terday, the 24th of June. M. w. i\ 
Burlington, N. Y'. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Summer meeting, Virginia State Hor¬ 
ticultural 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—f 5. 
International Apple Shippers’ Associa¬ 
tion, twentieth annual convention and 
apple exhibit, Copley-Plaza Hotel, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass., August 5, 6, 7. 
Thirty-ninth Annual Convention of the 
American Poultry Association, to be held 
at Chicago, Ilk, August 8th 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. 2(5. IIolsteiu-Friesian Association 
of America, Oct. 2(5. International Milk 
Dealers’ Association. Oct. 2(5 and 27. 
Conference, Secretaries of State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association, Oct. 27. Official Dairy 
Instructors’ Association, Oct. 27. Nation¬ 
al Dairy Union, Oct. 28. American Dairy 
Farmers’ Association. Oct. 28. Council 
of the National Dairy Show, Oct. 28. Na¬ 
tional Association of Creamery Managers 
and Owners, Get. 28. American Jersey 
Cattle Club, Oct. 28. National Associa¬ 
tion of Ice Cream Manufacturers, Oct. 
28, 29 and 30. International Association 
of Dairy and Milk Inspectors, Oct. 29. 
American Guernsey Cattle Club, Oct. 29. 
Congress of Marketing. Oct. 29. Milk 
Producers’ Association, Oct. 30. 
Annual Show of the Paterson, N. .T., 
Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion, November 18—21. 
Indiana Apple Show, Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis, Ind., November 18-24. 
“Would George enlist?” “No, I don’t 
think he would.” “What’s the reason, 
lie comes of fighting stock.” “That’s 
the reason. He’s soured on fighting. His 
grandmother is a Colonial Dame, his 
aunt is a D. A. R., and his mother is a 
militant.”—Boston Globe. 
A young lady took down the receiver 
and discovered that the telephone was in 
use. “I just put on a pan of beans for 
dinner,” she heard one woman compla¬ 
cently informing another. She hung up 
tin 1 receiver and waited. Three times she 
waited, and then, exasperated, she broke 
into the conversation. “Madam, I smell 
your beans burning,” she announced 
crisply. A horrified scream greeted the 
remark, and the young lady was able to 
put in her call.—Christian Endeavor 
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275 Galloway Station 
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330 ACRESH4-R00M HOUSE 
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