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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 1, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—Charles Purcell. who 
admits a long criminal record, was 
held in $10,000 bail July 16 for the 
grand jury by United States Commis¬ 
sioner Houghton, at New York, charged 
with using the mails to defraud. Pur¬ 
cell, alias Mason, was arrested at the 
Pennsylvania station by Post Office In¬ 
spectors O'Brien and Entemann, of Phil¬ 
adelphia, immediately after ^ he had 
shaken hands with Albert W. Weblin 
and wife, who alighted from a train from 
Villanova, Penn. The Weblins, accord¬ 
ing to Inspectors O’Brien and Entemann, 
came over from England a few months 
ago to care for the estate of William Hep¬ 
burn, of Villanova. They wanted an¬ 
other place, and soon after they had ad¬ 
vertised in periodicals, they said, they 
got a letter from Purcell, signed “Charles 
Mason,” asking them to care for the large 
estate of his sister in Westchester Coun¬ 
ty. N. Y. They said he offered $80 a 
month and board, but as they would have 
to look out for considerable money he 
asked them to send him a $”00 bond. The 
Weblins suspected something and got 
Purcell to send on his photograph. They 
took this to Philadelphia, and Inspectors 
O’Brien and Entemann arranged to trap 
Purcell. He was committed to the 
Tombs. 
The fire on the Bronx side of the Har¬ 
lem River, New York, July 16, destroyed 
the big plant of the New York Yacht. 
Engine and Launch Company, the coal 
pockets of the Olin .T. Stephens Company, 
extending from 175th street to 177th 
street, and four yachts on the ways in 
the shipyard. The damage is placed at 
$200,000. Fifty horses in stables ad¬ 
joining the burning buildings and boats 
moored in the shipyard were saved by 
the quick work of policemen. 
After a pitched battle between several 
hundred striking coal miners and sympa¬ 
thizers and 100 guards stationed at the 
Prairie Creek mines of the Mammoth 
Vein Coal Company, near Fort Smith, 
Ark., July 17, which ended in the rout 
of the guards, tipples of three mines were 
destroyed by fire and dynamite. The 
property damage is estimated at $200,000. 
Whipple, Sears & Ogden, representing 
minority stockholders, brought suit in the 
Supreme Cotirt at Boston, July 17, for 
the appointment of a receiver to prose¬ 
cute claims aggregating $206,000,000 
against directors and estates of directors 
of the New York, New Haven and Hart¬ 
ford Railroad. It is set forth in the bill 
of complaint that these defendants, by 
authorizing the acquisition of the, Bos¬ 
ton and Maine Railroad and various trol¬ 
ley and steamship lines, wrongfully with¬ 
drew' $162,000,000 from the New Haven 
company “ultra vires and for illegal pur¬ 
poses” and are therefore responsible for 
the return of this amount. It is further 
alleged that the lo ses resulting from 
these acquisitions approximate $102,000,- 
000. and that the railroad company is ac¬ 
cordingly entitled to recover triple dam¬ 
ages. or $306,000,000. under the terms of 
the Sherman anti-trust law T . 
After litigation that began 12 years 
ago in the New York Supreme Court and 
went to the United States Supreme 
Court, R. II. - acy & Co. entered judg¬ 
ment in the Supreme Court July 17 for 
$140,000 against the American Publish¬ 
ers’ Association and the American Book¬ 
sellers’ Association. The judgment was 
paid at once by certified check. The 
suit was the outgrow'th of the defendants’ 
rule which fixed the retail price of their 
productions. R. II. Macy & Co. resented 
the effort of the book publishers to com¬ 
pel them to adhere to this fixed price sys¬ 
tem. 
The seventh case of bubonic plague was 
announced at New Orleans July 17. 
The premature explosion of a 4,800- 
pound dynam’.tj charge at Cucaracha 
slide, Canal Zone, July 20, killed five 
workmen, four of them white, and severe¬ 
ly injured one white man and seventeen 
negroes. The workmen were aboard the 
drill barge Teredo, which was wrecked 
and sank in the channel. The men had 
just completed charging the last of eight 
drill holes with 600 pounds of 60 per 
cent, dynamite, when the explosion oc¬ 
curred. The charge was to have removed 
the last stone in the channel cut. 
Serious trouble occurred at Vancouver, 
B. C., July 19-20, in the attempt to pre¬ 
vent Hindu immigrants from landing 
from the Japanese steamer Komogata 
Maru. The Vancouver authorities are 
determined to prevent the landing of any 
Asiatics. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Eight rail¬ 
roads were fined an aggregate of $30,000 
by Judge Landis at Chicago, July 17. for 
violation of the law providing that live¬ 
stock in transit must be fed and watered 
at least once every 28 hours. The roads 
penalized were the Chicago, Rock Island 
& Pacific, the Chicago & Northwestern, 
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the 
Illinois Central, the Baltimore & Ohio, 
the Chicago & Great Western, the Grand 
Trunk and the Chicago & Alton. 
Third annual meeting of the Cumber¬ 
land White-Egg Runner Club will be held 
September 1, at the Poultry Building, 
State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y. The first 
session will be held at 11 A. M. and an¬ 
other in the afternoon. Any new mem¬ 
bers will be welcomed and may then join. 
Initiation and first year’s dues, $2. C. S. 
Valentine, Ridgewood, N. J., president. 
Army worm invasion is reported from 
many different localities, including Phil¬ 
adelphia and Baltimore, as well as New 
York State. The grasshopper plague is 
also severe in tipper New York State. 
An informal field meeting of the North¬ 
ern Nut Growers’ Association will be 
held on Tuesday, August 4, or on Fri¬ 
day, August 7, if Tuesday should be 
very inclement, at Merribrook Farm, 
the home of Dr. Robert T. Morris, 
Stamford, Connecticut. Methods of bud¬ 
ding nut trees and Dr. Morris’s new in¬ 
arch method of grafting will be demon¬ 
strated, and the results of his past work 
in propagating and hybridizing nut trees 
may be seen. 
The Delaware Valley Co-operation As¬ 
sociation, which the farmers and milk 
producers of Belvidere, N. .T., and vicin¬ 
ity have formed, is a very strong organi¬ 
zation having at this time some 82 mem¬ 
bers. They have planned the erection of 
a modern sanitary creamery in Belvi¬ 
dere, N. J. They are now waiting on 
some legal matters pertaining to their 
charter, when they will have the erection 
of their building pushed rapidly. The 
officers of the association are: A. Russell 
Paul, president; Levi C. Mackey, treas¬ 
urer; Sam Fitts, secretary; Jay J. Har- 
tung, W. A. Mackey, Henry Stahl, 
Geo. Hummer, vice-presidents; Al¬ 
bert Smith. Sheldon Bush, W. C. 
Hurtling, Win. Hess. Geo. R. Good 
and Erwin Butz are the directors. All 
of the officers have been very active in a 
recent demand made for a better price 
for their milk, which being refused by 
the Castanca Dairy Co., has awakened 
a feeling of greater activity among the 
producers. At the time they made their 
demand for a better price for their milk 
the creamery was paying them 2%c. per 
quart. 
BUFFALO MARKETS. 
A LL berries are plentiful, but raspber 
ries are sometimes to be had as low as 
seven cents a quart, though that if 
their lowest regular wholesale quotation 
Reds and creams are 10 to 13 cents. Cher¬ 
ries are also low, but they are so lean that 
the value is mostly small, quoted at five to 
nine cents a quart, with currants same, 
blackberries 10 cents and blueberries, not 
plenty, same. Plums, red and blue, retail 
at about a cent apiece. Currants are very 
plenty at 25 cents a basket or six cents 
a quart, gooseberries same. Currants are 
also rather small and not as attractive as 
they might be. Peaches arc beginning to 
appear in quantity, though the big bas- 
kets are not here yet. They are quoted 
at $1.50 to $2.50 per crate, coming chiefly 
from California. The quality is good for 
early specimens. There is no promise of 
nearby offerings. New apples have now 
about crowded old ones out, new South¬ 
ern selling at 75 cents to $1.50 per ham¬ 
per, reds selling for half more than 
greens. There is a good supply of melons, 
but prices remain up, largest water¬ 
melons running as high as 40 cents and 
muskmelons $2 to $2.75 a crate. There 
is a variety of small muskmelons retail¬ 
ing at five cents each, of very good qual¬ 
ity. Wax and green string beans are 
down to 50 to 65 cents a bushel, and let¬ 
tuce, 20 cents a dozen. Some mammoth 
heads retail at five cents a head. Cu- 
curnL »s are 15 to 50 cents a dozen, re¬ 
tailing at three for five cents, medium 
sizes. Cabbage continues at four to five 
cents a head at wholesale and home¬ 
grown onions are $1.20 a bushel; home¬ 
grown tomatoes, 82.25 a bushel; peppers, 
$1.50 per box._ There is still a little cel¬ 
ery at 20 to 35 cents a dozen. Beets are 
down to 10 to 15 cents a dozen bunches. 
Butter is not quoted above 50 cents, 
which is a cent up from a week ago. The 
retail price is somehow only a cent or 
two more. Cheese is a little lower, the 
range being 12 to 16 cents, wholesale 
lhe egg supply is large and fancy whole¬ 
sale at 27 cents. The lowest quotation 
is five cents lower. Poultry is firm at 
21 to 22 cents for dressed turkev. and 15 
to 17 cents live; fancy fowl, 18 to 19 
cents dressed, 16 to 17 cents live; large 
broilers, live, 23 to 24 cents, j. w. c. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Georgia State Horticultural Society, 
Summer meeting, Griffin, Ga., August 
5-6. 
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, Ill., August 8th to 15th, 1914, 
inclusive. 
Northern Nut Growers' Association, 
annual convention, Evansville, Ind., Au¬ 
gust 20-21. 
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. IIolstein-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. 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, Oct. 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. 
Let This Excelsior Engine 
Do the Work on Your Farm. 
It’s making money for hundreds of 
farmers. It will make 
money for you. Get 
our special proposi¬ 
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each locality. We 
save you money. 
MR. FARMER, VOV simply 
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an EXCELSIOR GASOLINE 
ENGINE. They are willing 
workers, never ask for 
shorter hours or more 
money. They are the one en¬ 
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lot of gasoline engines on t he 
market, but the EXCELSIOR 
LEADS THEM ALL. Let 
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find it is what we say—the best engine made. BUT DON'T DELAY—WRITE NOW,TODAY. 
R. CONSOLIDATED GASOLINE ENGINE CO., 202 Fulton St., NEW YORK CITY 
Don’t Trust Your 
Alfalfa to Luck 
Make sure of a good, big, healthy stand 
by inoculating the seed with 
Ferguson’s 
NITROGEN 
BACTERIA 
DAISY FLY KILLER attracts and kills 
all flies. Neat, clean, 
ornamental, conven¬ 
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season. Made ol 
metal, can’tspill ortip 
over; will not soil or 
injure anythinar. 
Guaranteed effective. 
Sold by dealers. Of 
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paid for $1. 
HAEOLD SOMERS, 150 DeKalb Ave.. Brooklyn, N. 7. 
TYPEWRITERS.Hi* 
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Government tests in 34 counties of one 
State showed that four out of five of the 
crops without inoculation failed, while 
almost all the inoculated fields grew fine 
Alfalfa. Ferguson'sBaeteria gather Nitro¬ 
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feed it to the plants. One bottle contains 
all varieties of Bacteriafor Alfalfa, (’lover. 
Vetch, Peas. Beans—all legumes. Easy to 
use and costs very little. Soil is left en¬ 
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Costs only a fraction as much 
as the best commercial fertilizer 
Quarter-acre quantity. 50c. 1 acre, $2; 5 
acres, $9. Let us explain why you need 
Nitrogen Bacteria and why Ferguson's is 
best. Write for special booklet N—free. 
HOMEWOOD NITROGEN CO. 
51 Liberty St., New York City 
IVe want agents—a very liberal offer 
ALFALFA 
CRIMSON CLOVER AND WINTER VETCH. 
Write today for instructions to obtain larger yields 
by the use of FAKMOGERM. Onr free illus¬ 
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Earp-Thomas Farmogerm Go. 
BLOOMFIELD, N. J. 
A FAST CUTTER 
For 
Light 
Power 
This Gale-Baldwin re¬ 
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power demanded by 
other cutters of similar 
size. It has a revolving 
self-feed table—is astrong, positive feeder, 
and cuts more ensilage per hour than any 
machine operated with same amount of 
power. 
Baldwin 
ENSILAGE-CUTTER 
has the widely known, 60-year, B. & T. 
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enough. Buy one this season, Mr. Dairy¬ 
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Dealers sell it. If none near you write 
us. Catalog describing all our line—free. 
Write today. 
Belcher & Taylor Agricultural Tool Co. 
Box No.75, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 
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Nails. Cement. RUBBER ROOFING 
CO., 5 Cortlandt St., New York 
IAD PRINTING -250 cae * 1 envelopes and 
JUn rmmmil letter heads$2. Samples. 
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STATE 8 WARREN STS. 
Farm Agency sells farms, 
send for new bargain list. 
TRENTON. N. J. ESTABLISHED 1908 
CANVAS COVERS 
k—wagons, hay stacks, 
machinery, porches. 
Roofing, waterproof 
duck, and heavy canvas for all purposes at whole¬ 
sale prices, lll-oz. wagon covers 7'a x 12 feet. 
83.00 prepaid. Write for prices, stating size required. 
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Hardwood Ashes 
BEST FERTILIZER IN USE. 
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BOOKS WORTH BUYING 
The Rose, Parsons. 1.00 
Plant Diseases, Massee. 1.60 
Landscape Gardening, Maynard.... 1.50 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
S33 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
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