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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August S, 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK, 
D OMESTIC.—One man was killed and 
several injured in an explosion at 
Jasonville, Ind., July 24, when 
dynamite was used in an effort to check 
flames that threatened to sweep the entire 
business section of this city. The damage 
is estimated at $400,000. Jasonville was 
practically without water supply because 
of the drought. 
Three persons were killed in a terrific 
windstorm that swept down on Joliet, Ill., 
July 24. Seven persons were injured. 
With dynamite and power drills nearly 
a thousand men. working in relays, saved 
the lives, July 28. of fifty workmen who 
were imprisoned by a cavern 4,500 feet 
from the east entrance to the St. Paul 
Railway’s 12.000 foot tunnel under the 
Cascades at Snoqualmie Pass, Wash. 
The cavein cut off the power for the 
drills, leaving the crew helpless. Between 
the imprisoned men and the 7,500 foot 
bore at the eastern portal was a hundred 
and fifty foot rock barrier. All the crews 
at the western portal were put to work 
on double time in swift relays. For 
twelve hours they worked as fast as hu¬ 
man endurance would permit, piercing 
the barrier four days ahead of the time 
set by the engineers. The imprisoned 
were rescued without injury. 
Charges that government witnesses had 
been tampered with and important evi¬ 
dence had been destroyed were made in 
the Federal District Court at New York, 
July 28, against the Franklin Candy 
Company, Inc., the principal officers of 
which are on trial charged with using 
the mails to defraud investors. Kenneth 
M. Spence, Assistant United States At¬ 
torney, asserted that important cash 
books, ledgers and letters which were 
found by the government when the com¬ 
pany’s offices were raided a year ago were 
permitted to be taken away by John F. 
B. Atkins, who appeared for the defence. 
Mr. Atkins was called to the stand and 
was unable to tell what had become of 
the books and papers. The defence fin¬ 
ally agreed to let the government intro¬ 
duce as evidence its statement made up 
from the missing documents before they 
disappeared. 
The boldest holdup in the history of 
the West took place July 20, when two 
masked bandits held up 45 stage coaches 
in Yellowstone Park and robbed the 165 
passengers of more than $4,000. The 
robbery occurred at Shoshone Point, 
which is on top of Continental Divide 
and midway between Old Faithful Geyser 
and the Thum lunch station. 
Fire in the Morris lard factory, in the 
Chicago stock yards. July 25, destroyed 
the carcasses of 5.000 hogs, many tons of 
lard and other property; loss estimated 
at $500,000. 
The factory of E. S. Parkhurst & Co., 
manufacturers of hair and woolen goods, 
Gloversville, N. Y., was destroyed by fire 
July 26, with a loss estimated at $300.- 
000. No water was available, as the 
plant was outside the city. 
Two persons were drowned, 50 families 
were rendered homeless and 15 business 
blocks, including one hundred buildings, 
were partially wrecked at Telluride, Col., 
July 27, when a wall of water ten feet 
high, originating in a cloudburst, deceud- 
ed through Cornet Canyon, broke through 
the dam and flooded the town. The dam¬ 
age is estimated at $150,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—H. O. Have- 
meyer, whose estate at Mahwah. in the 
valley of the Ramapo Mountains, New 
Jersey, comprises about one-half of IIo- 
hokus Township, has sent a bill to the 
Ilohokus Township committee for $769, 
representing the value placed upon five 
blue ducks, worth $75 each; two dozen 
pheasants, valued at $6 each, and half a 
dozen geese, worth $25 each. These fowl 
were killed by wild dogs, a number of 
which are said to infest the Ramapo 
Mountains. Mr. Havemeyei’’s lawyer 
holds that the township committee is re¬ 
sponsible for permitting the dogs to run 
at large. The township committee real¬ 
izes that $769 is a lot of money for dead 
ducks, pheasants and geese, so the bill 
was sent to the State Fish and Game 
Commission at Trenton. 
The Farmers’ Union of New Zealand 
passed a resolution, July 24, urging the 
government to watch the operations of 
the American meat combine and prevent 
it gaining the foothold in New Zealand 
it already has gained in Australia. 
Considerable interest is being shown by 
farmers in a proposed visit to the farms 
of Middlesex. Mercer and Monmouth 
Counties, N. ,T., by a number of famous 
German plant pathologists, together with 
leading plant disease men of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture at Washington. Al¬ 
though the time of the visit has not yet 
been definitely decided upon, it will prob¬ 
ably be made during the early part of 
August. Included among the government 
officials who will be members of the party, 
will be Dr. W. A. Orten and Prof. Wil¬ 
liam Stewart, both of whom are connected 
with the United States Department of 
Agriculture. The tour will be under the 
direction of Dr. Melvin T. Cook, plant 
pathologist of the New Jersey State Ex¬ 
periment Station at New Brunswick. 
The new regulations governing the ship¬ 
ment of potatoes from Maine, which the 
presence of powdery scab in that State 
has necessitated, have now been promul¬ 
erated by the U. S. Department of Agri- 
enrture and took effect on August 1. 
These regulations supersede the inspec¬ 
tion hitherto carried on by the State 
authorities and are primarily designed to 
prevent the spread of powdery scab to 
other sections of the country. With this 
end in view the inspection is made es¬ 
pecially strict for all seed stock. This 
must be grown from clean seed and in 
soil not infected with powdery scab, and 
have been free from contact with any¬ 
thing through which they might have be¬ 
come infected with the disease. 
The schedule of premiums and awards 
for the Maryland Week exhibition, to be 
held under the auspices of the Maryland 
State Horticultural Society, Maryland 
Crop Improvement Ass’n., and the Bee¬ 
keepers’ and Dairymen’s Ass’ns., has 
been published. The exhibition will be 
held Nov. 16-21 at the Fifth Regiment 
Armory, Baltimore. Copies of this may 
be obtained from T. B. Symons, College 
Pk., Md., secretary of the Maryland 
State Horticultural Society. 
Health Commissioner Goldwater of this 
city wants more stringent ordinances for 
the control of dogs, owing to the spread 
of rabies. More than 40 cases of rabies 
have developed in Bronx borough since 
January 1. against nine in the same per¬ 
iod in 1913. In all the other boroughs, 
except Brooklyn, there has been a rapid 
spread of the disease. The first five 
months of this year showed 73 cases in 
Manhattan, against 110 cases for all of 
1913. Queens had 38 eases in 15)13; this 
year the borough has already shown 27 
cases. Richmond has already had two 
cases; last year there were four in all. 
In Brooklyn there have been only 19 
cases thus far, against 71 for 1913. Only 
one person has died so far this year from 
the disease, against eight in 1913, six in 
1912, and some very high records in other 
years, notably in 190S, when the high 
mortality of 28 deaths from rabies was 
recorded. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—July 30 
the dual Empire of Austria-Hungary de¬ 
clared war against Servia, and immediate 
invasion began, with the bombardment of 
Belgrade, the Servian capital. Great 
Britain had urged arbitration, but the 
influence of Germany was on the side of 
war. Great tension exists between Ger¬ 
many and Russia, and both countries are 
mobilizing their forces. Russia will not 
permit Servia to lose her identity. Both 
France and England are working for 
peace, their interests being thrown on the 
side of Russia, Italy, while neutral, is 
inimical to Austria, and an ally of Great 
Britain, Greece is believed to be ready 
to aid Servia. While all European na¬ 
tions are preparing for general war, the 
outcome was in doubt July 31. All of 
the Balkan States, Servia, Bosnia, Bul¬ 
garia, Albania, Herzegovina and Monte¬ 
negro, were expected to unite against 
their common foe, and in this they would 
be backed by Russia. 
OREGON NOTES. 
M Y experience with the Marshall 
strawberry is like the Hope Farm 
man’s. July 20 I picked a pint of 
lovely big berries and they have been 
bearing since May 21. Everything was 
very early this year. A thrasher is set¬ 
ting up this morning in our vicinity. 
Usually this goes over until the end of 
August. Fourth of July people were say¬ 
ing the cherries were about gone. Every¬ 
one is in the milk business. Cows with 
first calf, or rather heifers, for they are 
barely two years old, bring $100. We 
were asked $125 for grade Durhams a 
few weeks ago. and they appeared to be 
only scrubs. The high prices that were 
put on lands are all gone. So many 
easterners went back to where they came 
from. Potatoes, new, are selling at $1.25 
a sack; apples $1 a box and are over 
supply. There is a cabbage famine. Lo¬ 
cal peaches arrived last week and Cali¬ 
fornia stock is from 50 to 90 cents a 
box. There is a public market in Port¬ 
land. A charge of 10 cents a day is 
made for stalls. One can buy anything 
in any quantity; it is in the down town 
district. I^ocal corn was selling Jqly 
17 at 60 cents per dozen. c. j. H. 
Beaverton, Ore. 
FRUIT PROSPECTS IN NORTH CAROLINA 
T HOUGH early Spring prospects were 
very favorable for a bumper crop of 
nearly all kinds of fruits, the 
long-extended drought lengthened the 
season of the “June drop” and thereby 
subtracted proportionately from the final 
total. Orchards on which cultivation 
was started early and persistently fol¬ 
lowed through the dry spell suffered very 
little from the drop. There was however 
one advantage about the dry spell, if it 
was bad for fruit it was also bad for 
insects and especially fungus diseases. 
Early peaches showed practically no 
brown rot even when unsprayed. Ap¬ 
ples, though a little small in size, are 
clean and free from scab and blotch. 
Bitter rot could scarcely survive the hot 
parching days. Blight seems to have 
been worse than usual this season on 
peax-s and especially so on apples. In 
the last week or so the drought has been 
broken in all parts of the State and all 
late fruits are coming on in fine shape. 
The averaging up of a large number of 
reports from growers gives the following 
percentages of crop: Apples 65% of a 
full crop; peax-s 55%; peaches 65%; 
grapes 92%. w. n. iiutt, 
State Horticulturist. 
July 21. Crop conditions very favoi’- 
able at present; good soaking rains on the 
14th and 15th, which seemed to bring 
new life to the growing crops. Weather 
had been dry and hot for the past few 
weeks, and the rains were very much ap¬ 
preciated by the farmers. Wheat thrash¬ 
ing about done and crop unusually good. 
Oat crop not very good. Plenty of ap¬ 
ples and peaches now ripe. Green bran 
scarce on the account of no rain. Corn 
$1.05; wheat 90; oats 50; potatoes $2; 
hens 10; Spring chickens 1 2%; eggs 13; 
butter 15. Good horses and good milch 
cows very high; hogs 7 to 8; stock cattle 
5 to 8. w. H. 
Washburn, Tenn. 
July 21. Wheat 62; oats 36; wheat 
and oats fair crop. Corn 75, new crop 
drying up on account of drought. Pota¬ 
toes $1 a bushel; Winter supply is 
shipped in from Colorado. No fruit and 
very little garden stuff, too dry. Hogs 
$8.40 to $8.50 a hundred ; fat cows $5.50 
a hundred to butcher. Cream 18 cents a 
pound, butterfat; butter 15; eggs 10. 
Apache, Okla. e. h. g. 
July 24. We are having an extremely 
bad drought in this section and all kinds 
of feed promise to be very high this com¬ 
ing Winter, particularly hay and other 
roughage. The drought is general but 
is worse locally than elsewhere. Corn is 
burned up. cotton must have rain pretty 
soon or there will be no ci’op, the sec¬ 
ond cutting of Alfalfa was either absent 
or very short. Eggs 12 cents per dozen ; 
butter 20 to 22; hay, wild prairie, $10 
per ton; hay, Alfalfa, $12; cows, dairy, 
$50 to "85, rather scarce. Horses, good 
work type, $100 to $150, rather slow sale 
at this season. Chickens, hens, 10 cents 
per pound; Springs, 12. Corn 80 cents 
per bushel; Kafir corn 75; oats 30; 
wheat 65. N. o. B. 
Stillwater, Okla. 
July 23. Conditions in this part of Ne¬ 
braska are very good at this time. A 
large acreage of Winter wheat has been 
harvested, thrashed and a good share of 
it sold and shipped away. The crop is 
somewhat disappointing in yield, the aver¬ 
age being about 20 bushels per aei-e. The 
slump in yield was probably due to Hes¬ 
sian fly, the damage done by the fly be¬ 
ing moi-e than was expected. Oats are 
very good, and the yield from 60 bushels 
per acre down. The weather has been 
ideal during cutting and thrashing, and 
the entire crop has been thrashed from 
the shock without being wet. Corn is 
now in tassel and silk, and is looking ex¬ 
tra well, but is in need of rain. No rain 
has fallen in three weeks. Two good cut¬ 
tings of Alfalfa have been harvested, but 
the third is a failure, and will barely pay 
for the cutting; which must be done. 
Whether we are to have a crop of corn 
or not depends on the coming of rain 
within a week or two. Trade seems to 
be fairly active and more farmers have 
bought automobiles this season than ever 
before. Prices for cows have been re¬ 
duced somewhat, because of the low price 
of butter and butterfat. Good cows $60 
down; hogs $8 per hundred; butcher cat¬ 
tle 6 to 7 cents. Spring chickens 18; 
hens 10; butter 17; eggs 16; butterfat 
20 for sour and 30 for sweet. H. M. u. 
Fairbury, Nebr. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Thirty-ninth Annual Convention of the 
American Poultry Association, to be held 
at Chicago, Ill., August 8th to 15th, 1914, 
inclusive. 
Northern Nut Gi’owers’ 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. Holstein-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. 25). 
American Guernsey Cattle Cluh, Oct. 29. 
Congress of Marketing, Oct. 29. Milk 
Producers’ Association, Oct. 30. 
Maryland Week Exhibition, State Hor- 
ticultural Society, Maryland Crop Im¬ 
provement, Dairymen’s and Beekeepers’ 
Associations, Baltimore, November 16-21. 
Annual Show of the Paterson, N. J., 
Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion, November 18-21. 
Indiana Apple Show, Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis, Ind., November 18-24. 
2000 Farmers 
in Arkansas 
have been supplied by the State with 
Ferguson’s 
NITROGEN 
BACTERIA 
This is in connection with a conceited 
movement to advance the growing of 
Alfalfa in Arkansas. Realizing the great 
possibilities in this crop when given thor¬ 
oughly favorable conditions, the State 
has supplied 2000 farmers with a quantity 
of seed, lime and Ferguson's Bacteria for 
^ Nitrogen Inoculation. 
Ferguson’s Bacteria are a composite cul- 
ture.'for all legumes—A Ifalfa. clover, vetch, 
peas, beans, etc. They gather Nitro- 
? en from the air and store it up as plant- 
ood on the roots of the plants. A largo 
part of the Nitrogen is left in the ground 
to enrich it for the future. 
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 
fVe want agents—a very liberal offer 
PINEAPPLES 
Imported by every Steamer 
from HAVANA, CUBA 
We want you to put up three dozen jars pre¬ 
serves NOW. Send us your check for $3.50 and 
we will send by Express, PREPAID, to your 
nearest station a full TWO BUSHEL box (30 
to 36 pineapples) with selected recipes for pre¬ 
serving, canning, etc. 
We have a splendid blend of COFFEE that 
we deliver by parcel post in five-pound lots at 
28 cents a pound. This 37-cent coffee at vour store. 
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126 Front Street, New York City 
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Mammoth White Rye, Timothy. Alfalfa. Vetch, etc. 
1200 Acre Seed Farm*. Samples and catalog free. 
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