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THE RURAL, NEW-VORKER 
September It), 
The Sash that Eliminates 
Mats and Shutters 
The sash that doubles efficiency in the garden 
and cuts the cost one half 
Extra thick, of cypress, everlasting, double-glazed 
with an air space that admits the sun but not the cold, 
this sash has become the standard in every up-to-date 
garden and has rendered the old style single layer putty 
sash obsolete. 
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The catalog, which is free, explains everything in 
detail. Get it, if you are to know how to garden to the 
best advantage. 
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Write today for the Free Catalog and enclose, if you 
wish it, A& in stamps for Prof. Massey's helpful booklet 
on the use of cold-frames, hot-beds and small greenhouses. 
SUNLIGHT DOUBLE GLASS SASH CO. 
924 E. Broadway r. Louisville, Ky. 
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Mr. Business Farmer 
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not have to hIsii any notes until you are sure that the engine is 
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R. CONSOLIDATED GASOLINE ENGINE CO. 
202 Fulton Streat New York City 
Handy Farm Tool 
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HARKAH MFG. CO. 
Box 222 Bloomfield, Ind. 
ClltclWciy 
disk harrows are especially popular among 
farmers who understand the soil and in¬ 
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They are made in styles and sizes to meet the 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
OMESTIC.—Flames swept through 
two buildings of the Lister Agricul¬ 
tural Chemical Company on the Pas¬ 
saic River at Newark, N. J., Sept. 2, en¬ 
tailing a loss estimated at $100,000. 
The Women’s Cooperating Farming 
Community, near Morristown, N. .T., re¬ 
ceived a blow, Sept. 3, when its pro¬ 
moter, Edward Hart of 106 West Sev¬ 
enty-ninth Street, New York, was ar¬ 
raigned in (he Yorkville police court on 
a charge of getting money under false 
pretences. The complaint was made by 
Miss Mary Keelan of 164 West Ninety- 
eighth Street and her sister Elizabeth, 
who said in July of last year they gave 
Hart $750 for three acres of land on 
which they were to raise mushrooms. He 
told them, they said, that he had pur¬ 
chased 1,000 acres from Dr. Duncan Do- 
bie of Morristown and would sell the 
land in lots of three and six acres to New 
York women who wanted to get back to 
country life. After paying their money 
and not being able to get a deed for the 
land, they said, they learned that Hart 
did not own the laud. 
Newark, N. J., opened its municipal 
fish markets, Sept. 3, under the auspices 
of Mayor Jacob Haussling in an effort 
to force down the price to consumers. 
They did a rushing business. Markets 
were established in three of the most 
populous districts of the city and were 
manned by city employes. I‘orgies, weak- 
fish. lafayotte, fluke, flounder and small 
bluefish were all at the flat rate of six 
cents a pound. The markets will be 
open every Thursday and Friday. 
A decrease of more than $7,000,000 in 
the duties collected in the New York 
district for the month of August, as 
compared with the same month last year, 
is shown in figures now available at the 
Custom House. While the war has cut 
heavily into the revenues, the new tariff 
also lias had much to do with the re¬ 
duction. The effeet of the war is shown 
clearly, however, in a comparison of the 
revenues of July and August of this 
year, the decrease in August having been 
approximately $3,000,000. The severe 
cut is shown in tangible form by a com¬ 
parison of the withdrawals from ware¬ 
houses. The duties collected from this 
source in July were $4,516,630. In Au¬ 
gust they jumped to $6,077,429. The 
New York district includes the custom 
houses at Albany, Newark and Perth Am¬ 
boy. The decrease in customs receipts 
for the eight months ended August 31 is 
approximately $10,000,000. The big de¬ 
crease in August, however, indicates that 
the war has played havoc with our rev¬ 
enues, far more than the new tariff, 
which, of course, is also responsible for 
a part of the decrease. 
The first ship to carry a cargo through 
the Panama Canal, the Nebraskan, of 
the American-IIawaiiau Line, laden with 
California fruit and wines, came into 
port at New York, Sept. 8, and was wel¬ 
comed by Acting Mayor MeAneny and 
other city officials as California’s officially 
designated pioneer ship of the new trans- 
isthmian trade. The voyage was made 
in 27 days. 
The United States government has 
taken charge of the radio station at Tuck- 
erton, N. J., and messages will be re¬ 
ceived from all belligerent and neutral 
stations. 
More than 450 men were thrown out of 
employment at Paterson, N. ,T., Sept. 8, 
when fire destroyed the plant of the East 
Jersey Pipe Company, entailing a loss of 
between $250,000 and $300,000. 
September 10 Dr. M. S. Borden of 
New York and three other persons were 
killed near Palermo, N. J., when their 
automobile was struck by a freight train 
at a railway crossing, a fifth person be¬ 
ing badly hurt. The car was traveling 
at high speed when hit. Two months 
ago Dr. Borden, when running his car 
in Greater New York ran down and 
killed a mounted policeman. 
Orders received, Sept. 9, by General 
Pershing, commanding American troops 
on the American border at El Paso. Tex., 
to lift the embargo on arms to Mexico 
will, in the opinion of army men, mean 
the withdrawal from the border of the 
United States patrol. The lifting of the 
embargo is regarded as a victory for 
Villa. 
Two expeditions have gone in search of 
the missing thirty men of the Karluk, 
Stefansson’s vessel, which was wrecked 
in the Arctic Ocean on September 4, 
1913. The United States revenue cutter 
Bear has started from Nome on her sec¬ 
ond attempt to reach Wrangel Island, 
where the sailors are believed to be 
marooned. The second boat, the Corwin, 
has been chartered for the trip by Jafet 
Lindenberg, the founder of Nome, and a 
personal friend of Stefansson. This is 
the last rush before the Winter ice closes 
in. The Mary Sadio left Herschel Island 
on August 11 for Banks Land to estab¬ 
lish depots for Stefansson, should he suc¬ 
ceed in landing there from his floating 
island of ice. 
The United States Steel Corporation, 
through the Steel Produce Company, its 
export subsidiary, applied. Sept. 9, to 
have 10 vessels (lying the British flag 
transferred to American registry. At the 
same time the United Fruit Company 
took the first step for the transfer of 25 
of its ships from various (lags by apply¬ 
ing for incorporation papers for each ship 
at Albany. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—Paris was 
declared in a state of siege September 3; 
the Bank of France had then sent specie 
and securities to Bordeaux. Rheims was 
then occupied by the Germans. An 
enormous battle, extending over a line of 
150 miles, was in progress Sept. 5-11. 
Sept. S the Allies began to drive the Ger¬ 
mans back, and Sept. 11 they had re¬ 
treated about 37 miles, the Allies taking 
a strong offensive movement. It was 
then believed Paris was out of danger. 
.It was asserted Sept. 0 that Em¬ 
peror William had sent a dispatch to 
President Wilson in which he protests 
against the participation of the Belgian 
people in the war, and expresses deep re¬ 
gret at the destruction of interesting 
places in that country. He makes a 
strong protest against the alleged use by 
the French of dumdum bullets. The be¬ 
lief is held in Washington that this is 
merely an opening wedge for an effort on 
the part of the Germans to bring about 
peace. The British Foreign Office has 
already stated that it will not consider 
any peace terms that do not include full 
indemnity for sill injury suffered by Bel¬ 
gium.September S Ghent sur¬ 
rendered to the Germans, to avoid bom¬ 
bardment It was then reported that 
the Germans had destroyed the ancient 
city of Dinant. At Termondo the Bel¬ 
gians inflicted a loss of 5.000 upon the 
Germans. It is said that indemnities to 
the total of $140,560,000 have already 
been demanded by the Germans from the 
towns and districts they have occupied 
in Belgium. The demands are as follows; 
Brussels, $40,000,000; Liege. $10,000,- 
000; Louvain. $20,000; Province of Bra¬ 
bant, $90.000.000; Lille, $140,000; 
Amiens. $200,000; Roubnrx and Tur- 
coing, $200,000. A number of less im¬ 
portant towns have also been fined va¬ 
rious small siims.The Austrian de¬ 
feat at Lemberg, which ended a three 
days’ battle was followed by the flight of 
three army corps, with enormous loss of 
men and equipments. September 7 the 
Russians took possession of the Province 
of Galicia and Russian victories were re¬ 
ported at several points.September 
4 Premier Asquith announced that be¬ 
tween 250,000 and 300.000 men had re¬ 
sponded to Lord Kitchener’s call for re¬ 
cruits.September 5 a convention 
between France, Russia and England was 
signed at London, by which it was agreed 
that no one of these powers should agree 
to peace with Geremany unless all three 
agreed to it. Later Japan united in this 
agreement.The British cruiser 
Pathfinder was blown up by a torpedo off 
the coast of Scotland September 4, with 
a loss of 248.September 4 the Wil¬ 
son line steamer Runo. from Hull, 
for Russian ports with passengers, 
struck a mine in the North Sea; 
26 passengers were lost, hut more 
than 300 were rescued by British fisher¬ 
men.Vessels arriving at Manila 
bring reports indicating that Philippine 
waters are being constantly patrolled by 
British. French, Russian and Japanese 
warships to intercept German merchant¬ 
men. The Hampshire is west of Luzon, 
a Russian cruiser with seven destroyers 
is patrolling to the north, while the 
French armored cruisers Kleher and Du- 
pleix are to the southward, and the Jap¬ 
anese warships are oil’ San Barnardino. 
.Sept. 8 the British battleship 
Glory arrived at Halifax. N. S., convoy¬ 
ing the Spanish steamer Montserrat, 
which was seized on the high seas with 
150 German reservists on board. The 
Montserrat had sailed from New York 
two days before.Since the war be¬ 
gan 16 English fishing vessels from 
Grimsby have been sunk in the North 
Sea. Many trawlers are now engaged in 
collecting floating mines, for which the 
Admiralty pays them about $10 apiece. 
.Accompanying the 30,000 soldiers 
from British India now in France are 
a number of Indian potentates; the Ma¬ 
harajah of Mysore has contributed to 
British war funds 50 laks of rupees. The 
Dalai Lama of Tibet has offered 1.000 
soldiers.Sept. 9 the Holland-Ameri- 
ca liner Noordam, from New York with 
German reservists and a general cargo 
for Germany, was captured by a British 
vessel and taken to Queenstown. 
Great Britain is preparing to receive 60,- 
000 homeless Belgians, chiefly women and 
children but also men unfit for military 
service. Special boats are being sent to 
Ostend for them, and 52 towns and cities 
are ready to receive them. Many of 
these people, who are entirely destitute, 
will be taken into the homes of charitable 
people. 
WASHINGTON.—The first definite 
results of the Federal Government’s cru¬ 
sade against alleged conspiracies to ma¬ 
nipulate food prices came Sept. 4, when 
31 persons, including well-known pro¬ 
vision and commission merchants of 
Washington, were indicted by the Grand 
Jury on a charge of unlawfully engaging 
in a combination in restraint of trade in 
violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. 
It is charged that they had daily meet¬ 
ings at which the prices which they paid 
for farm products were fixed and that 
they obtained a monopoly of the local 
market in foodstuffs, which permitted the 
members of the alleged conspiracy to fix 
arbitrary and excessive prices. 
President Wilson submitted a plan. 
Sept. 7, for a three years truce to all 
parties in the Colorado mining strike. 
This action by the President will again 
necessitate a decision by the Rockefeller 
interests as to whether or not they will 
make concessions in the vital principles 
involved in the strike. The President 
points out that there are important pub¬ 
lic interests involved in the existing con¬ 
troversy aside from those of the two 
contending parties. The plan he submits 
was evolved by two representatives of 
the Government who have studied the is¬ 
sues in the strike for several months with 
a view to finding a solution. The plan 
contemplates establishment of a truce for 
three years, during which the State min¬ 
ing and labor laws shall be enforced, and 
the restoration to employment of all strik¬ 
ing miners who have not been found 
guilty of violation of the laws. Intimi¬ 
dation of non-union or union men is to 
be prohibited and wage scales ai'e to he 
posted at each mine. A grievance com¬ 
mittee is to be chosen by the employees 
of each mine, which shall be entrusted 
with treating with the employer when 
trouble arises. A commission of three, 
to be appointed by the President, is to be 
the appeal body to which grievances that 
cannot be otherwise settled are to be 
taken. 
The Merchant Marine Committee re¬ 
ported to the House, Sept. 8, the admin¬ 
istration bill for the creation of a gov¬ 
ernment controlled corporation to pur¬ 
chase or build ships to enter the foreign 
shipping trade while traffic is demoralized 
because of the European War. The re¬ 
port puts at rest fears that the neutrality 
of this country may be violated by a 
government operated steamship line, and 
assurance is given that the proposed ship¬ 
ping board to control the project, with 
the advice of the President and State 
Department, will avoid international pit- 
falls. 
An outline of the new taxation was 
given September 8. this is to provide for 
falling revenues due in part to the Euro¬ 
pean War. It contemplates increased 
rates on beer, wine and spirits, and a 
probable tax on Pullman tickets, gasoline, 
playing cards and cigarettes. 
CROP REPORTS. 
Sept. 1. Conditions here are good. It 
has been a fat year, and good prospects 
are ahead. The hay crop is 150% or 
hotter, both in yield and quality. Some 
of my neighbors with stump meadows act¬ 
ually ceased making hay because they 
lacked barn storage. Oats are poor, hut 
are grown mainly as a nurse crop, and 
the new seedings are fine. Other grains 
are fair. Corn is about 80 to 85%, but 
is slow maturing. Pastures have been 
good all Summer, and cattle have done 
well and are in good condition. Farmers 
will carry over more stock than ever be¬ 
fore with better feed for them. Prices 
are good, the best grade Jerseys being 
quoted $90 to $110, with good ones at 
$65 to $85. Beef prices control the rest. 
Irma, Wis. G. G. c. 
Sept. 4.—Wheat. $1.08; oats, 43; corn, 
80; rye. 80; barley, 70; clover seed, 
$9.25; Timothy seed. $2; steers, 8; 
cows, 4 to 6; calves, 9 to 10; hogs, 854 ; 
lambs, 5 to 7 ; sheep. 3 to 4 ; a little more 
for extra good stuff. Hay, Timothy, $12; 
mixed, $11; clover. $10; straw, no de¬ 
mand. Potatoes, 75 to 90e.; spring 
chicken, 14; eggs, 21; butter, 22 to 30 
and none to be had. I never saw country 
lmtter so scarce; pasture is good, but 
both country stores and those in the city 
are selling creamery butter. n. H. 
New Haven, Ind. 
Sept. 3. Prevailing prices which a 
farmer could obtain on following commo¬ 
dities at this point are as follows: Wheat 
90; oats 40; shelled corn 68; ear corn 
65; barley 52; liogs $8.60; fat cattle nine, 
cents. Butter, country made, 25; cream¬ 
ery 30; eggs 18; grapes four cents pound : 
tomatoes $1 bushel; potatoes 75; wild 
hay $8.50; Alfalfa hay $11. In addition 
to above we have regular gardeners who 
canvass the town daily, selling cabbage, 
melons, carrots, etc., hut our supply in 
that line is very limited, and prices Alien¬ 
ate. w. A. 
Tekamali, Nebr. 
The principal crops grown in Kern 
County are fruit, grain, hay and Alfalfa. 
The prices this year are away below cost 
of raising it, and at the price there is 
no sale for it. A neighbor of mine was 
offered $8 per ton for fine, wheat hay, $4 
per ton for Alfalfa, on the car. Out of 
that there would be $2 for haling, $1 for 
hauling and 25 cents for siding charges. 
Good cows sell at $80 to $125. Horses 
are cheaper than they were on account of 
so many autos in use. Chickens, old and 
young, any size, 16 cents live weight. 
Creamery butter 30; ranch butter 20; 
eggs 20 to the farmer at the store. 
Bakersfield, Cal. g. a. u. 
Sept. 1. Peaches are a total failure 
in Monroe County, N. Y. One grower 
congratulates himself on having 400 
baskets where lie should have had from 
4.000 to 6.000 in an ordinary year. Ap¬ 
ples are heavy crop; Bartlett pears about 
20% of a crop, and other kinds about 
75% of a crop. Grapes will be a heavy 
crop. The Rochester market consumes 
nearly all grown in the county, and the 
anticipated price is two to 2% cents the 
pound. Tomatoes are selling for 20 cents 
the basket, apples from 25 to 50 cents 
the bushel, melons from 75 cents to $1 
the dozen, and potatoes about 80 cents 
the bushel. Corn is good but a little late. 
Oats were good hut damaged by weather. 
It was the poorest time in the history of 
the county to care for the crop. Wheat 
is a good crop, lmy fair, and the farm¬ 
ers are holding it for higher prices, with 
indications of the prices reaching $15 
or $16 a ton. Last year the best was 
sold for $11. w- J- 
“Do you always acknowledge it when 
you know you are wrong?’’ “No; only 
when other people know it.”—Boston 
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