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EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—A cave-in at the Ameri¬ 
can Davy Zinc mines, Webb City, 
Mo., October 1, caused the death of 
12 men. 
C. F. Crecelius, Secretary of State for 
Kentucky was indicted on three counts 
by the Franklin County grand jury, Oct. 
1, for obtaining money under false pre¬ 
tenses and farming and selling State of- 
fices. It is charged in the indictments 
that Crecelius employed a new steno¬ 
grapher at $100 a month and drew that 
sum from the State while he only paid 
the stenographer $25 a month. It is 
alleged that he sold to one of his clerks 
a position for $800. 
Twenty persons were injured at the 
Interstate Fair at Trenton, N. J., Oct. 
2, when an automobile, driven by Jack 
Le Cain in the twenty-live mile race, 
crashed through a fence into the crowd. 
Le Cain was rounding a turn when his 
rear axle broke. lie was thrown out 
when the machine struck the fence, but 
the automobile plowed on through the 
crowd. 
Five persons were killed and seventeen 
injured in automobile and motorcycle ac¬ 
cidents in New York and vicinity, Oct. 4. 
Of the injured four were reported to be 
in such serious condition that the day’s 
death toll probably would reach nine. 
Jamaica Bay oystermen, who have 
been forbidden by the New York Board 
of Health to raise oysters in Jamaica 
Bay, L. I., on account of its proximity 
to a sewer, are interested in a "‘100,000 
damage and injunction suit, Oct. 5, 
against the city before Justice Maddox 
in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, by 
George A. Carman of Canarsie. lie 
says that before the Board of Health 
acted he made $5,000 a year from the 
oyster beds. Several other oystermen 
have brought suits against the city on 
the same ground, and if they are success¬ 
ful the city may have to pay $1,000,000. 
Sixteen men are known to be dead 
and twelve injured as the result of a 
pocket gas explosion, Oct. 5, at the Mul- 
ga mines of the Woodward Iron Com¬ 
pany, near Ensley, Ala. Mine officials 
state the explosion was purely local and 
was caused by striking a pocket of gas. 
Mulga mines had a previous explosion 
on April 20, 1910, when thirty-five were 
killed. 
T. E. Stokes of tin* Doited States De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, who recently 
came to Kentucky as State agent of the 
Boys’ Big Clubs, litis been looking over 
the field in that State, and it is possible 
that Woodford will be chosen as one of 
the counties in which the organization 
of the pig clubs will be undertaken. The 
object of pig clubs is to stimulate an 
interest in swine production and to teach 
farmer boys how to raise better and 
cheaper hogs by use of improved blood 
and the growing of forage crops; to com¬ 
plement the work of boys’ corn clubs by 
showing the boys how they can profitably 
soli their corn through hogs. 
In conformance with a vote of the 
New Haven Railroad directors last July, 
the railroad, Oct. (!. be trail a suit for the 
recovery of $3,900,000 against John L. 
Billard of Meriden, a former director; 
Edward D. Robbins of New Haven, 
former general counsel; Samuel C. More¬ 
house of New Haven, who acted as as¬ 
sistant attorney to Robbins; Charles F. 
Kinsley of Meriden, Henry Whipple of 
New Haven and Samuel Hemtmngway, 
the New Haven banker, who formerly 
was on the board of directors. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—The bat¬ 
tle of the Aisne, nearly at the end of the 
fourth week of consecutive fighting, was 
still bitterly contested, Oct. 7-8, both 
sides claiming gains in certain areas. 
.The Germans continued their at¬ 
tack on Antwerp, Oct. 7-S, and it was 
reported that the fall of several fort¬ 
resses would necessitate the capitulation 
of the city. All noncombatants had been 
warned to leave several days previously, 
and the seat of government had been 
moved to Ostend..Hard fighting 
continues between Russians and Ger¬ 
mans in Galicia, while in Hungary the 
Russians are only six hours by rail from 
Budapest.Oct. 7 the British sub¬ 
marine E-9 sank a German destroyer 
just off the mouth of the Eras.The 
British Admiralty has warned all ship¬ 
ping that it is now laying mines in cer¬ 
tain areas in the North Sea.Pa¬ 
peete. Tahiti, belonging to France, and 
the British cable station on the Fan¬ 
ning Islands, North Pacific, have been 
bombarded by German warships........ 
There has been further loss to shipping 
from mines in the North Sea and Adri¬ 
atic. The French licet is now laying 
mines in the Adriatic, but has an¬ 
nounced the danger zone.Japan 
continues hostilities in (’liina; it is re¬ 
ported that the bombardment at Tsing- 
Tao has wrecked a German cruiser. One 
Japanese mine-sweeper has been de¬ 
stroyed by a mine. Japan has seized 
Jaluit, in the Marshall group between 
Hawaii and the Philippines, for temp¬ 
orary strategic reasons. 
Corn. old. $1; new, no price. Wheat 
$1.05; oats (50; potatoes $1.20; hay $15; 
straw $7; sheep four to five cents per 
pound; hogs, fat 9; stock 8; cattle G to 
8; horses $100 to $200 each. Corn 
crop about 50% ; wheat 80% ; oats 50% ; 
hay 50%. Stock of all kinds rather 
scarce. A good many farmers are put¬ 
ting up silos and going into the dairy 
business. F. L. 
Albany, O. 
CROP NOTES. 
Sept. 28. The season has not been as 
favorable for crops, due to excessive rains 
in June and part of July, and later very 
hot and dry. All small grain grew very 
rank and a good deal of it lodged badly ; 
black rust struck our wheat and affected 
oats also, outing both quality and quan¬ 
tity from what it might have been under 
more favorable conditions. No. I wheat 
99; oats 39; rye 79; barley 44; corn 65. 
Live hogs around S cents a pound; fat 
cattle from 6 to 7. Common cows from 
$40 to $75; butter 30; eggs 22; hens 8; 
broilers 1% to 2 pounds, 11. Fruit is 
little raised here, and very little sold; 
no market gardening done. Hay plenti¬ 
ful and cheap, wild hay soiling at $4., 
tame hay $0. Horses from $100 to $200 
each. g. A. Q. 
Clearwater, Minn. 
Sept. 23. Old chickens 12; young, 13; 
roosters 5; eggs 23; butter 23-25; lard 
10; potatoes 75. Cattle 7 to 8; calves 8 
to 8% ; sheep 4 to 6; spring lambs 7; 
hogs per 100, 9; hides 12% ; tallow 5; 
wheat $1; corn $1.03 per 100; oats 43; 
rye. 80; clover seed $8; Alsike $7; clover 
$12 to $15; timothy $15 to $18; horses 
$100 to $300 as to quality; good drafty 
brood mares command fabulous prices. 
Good dairy cows bring $50 to $150 as to 
breed; grade Holsteins sell at $100 to 
$200. This is a diversified farming 
country, wheat, oats, corn, hay and to¬ 
bacco; nearly every farmer raises four to 
10 acres of Spanish or Seed loaf. Buyers 
are offering 10 cents per pound for Span¬ 
ish. No prices offered for seed yet, the to¬ 
bacco crop was universally good through 
here, of extra quality, and all housed be¬ 
fore any frost, in fact no frost of any 
consequence to present time except iit 
very low grounds, such as marsh low 
land. The wheat crop is being sowed 
and a few fields greening over, no fly 
noticed yet, hut chinch bugs are in corn¬ 
fields and very numerous. A few fields 
of corn damaged very badly by them, 
and farmers are sowing wheat in these 
fields late hoping freezing will keep the 
insects from injuring the crop. 
Ansonia, O. a. l. w. 
(’ass County lies about 200 miles north 
of St. Paul, near the center of the State 
east and west. It is mostly on cut-over 
country abounding in beautiful lakes and 
Itaska Lake, the source of the great Mis¬ 
sissippi, is only a little way to the west 
of us. We have a healthful and de¬ 
lightful climate, especially in Summer, 
and hundreds of pleasure-seekers come 
here every season. Fish and wild game 
and even bears are plentiful. Not one- 
tenth of this county is yet developed, and 
lumbering is the chief industry. This is 
the land of the big Red clover, and dairy¬ 
ing is coming to the front. We have 
numerous natural meadows where all 
kinds of grasses abound. Our Winters 
are rather long but are generally mild, 
with little wind. Speculators hold by 
far too much of the land but many new 
settlors are coming in and opening up 
farms. General prosperity and content¬ 
ment prevails. The farmers tire intelli¬ 
gent and nearly till belong to some club. 
Pine River, Minn. j. \v. w. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
National Apple Day, October 20. 
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. llolstein-Friesian Association 
of America, Oct. 20. 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. 
National Association of Creamery Man¬ 
agers and Owners, Oct. 28. American 
Jersey Cattle Club, Oct. 28. National 
Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers 
Oct. 2S, 29 and 30. International Asso¬ 
ciation of Dairy and Milk Inspectors, 
Oct. 29, American Guernsey (’attic Clm>, 
Oct. 29. Congress of Marketing, Oct. 29. 
Milk Producers’ Association, Oct. 30. 
New England Fruit Show in connec¬ 
tion with the Rhode Island Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association annual meeting, in Prov¬ 
idence, R. I., November 9. 10, 11 and 12; 
secretary, A. M. l’armelee, Norwood. 
R. 1. 
National Grange, annual mooting, Wil¬ 
mington, Del.. November 11-14. 
Maryland Week Exhibition, State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Maryland Crop Im¬ 
provement, Dairymen’s and Beekeepers’ 
Association. Baltimore, November 16-21. 
Annual Show of the Paterson, N. J., 
Poultry, Piveon and Pel Stock Associa¬ 
tion, November 18-21. 
Indiana Apple Show, Tomlinson I lull, 
Indianapolis, Ind.. November 18-24. 
Western Connecticut Poultry Associa¬ 
tion of Danbury, Conn.. Inc., nineteenth 
annual exhibition. Hull’s Armory TIall, 
Danbury, Nov. 26. 27, 28; secretary, 
Thomas Deans, 39 Hoyt St., Danbury, 
Conn. 
Second annual seed exposition, Mon¬ 
tana Seed Growers’ Association, Boze¬ 
man, Mont., December 8-10. 
Farmers’ Week, Pennsylvania State 
College, December 28, 1914 to January 
2, 1915, State College P. ()., Penn. 
January 9th to 15th, inclusive, 1915. 
Mid-Winter Exposition, State Fair 
Grounds. Columbus, Ohio, Corn, Apple, 
Dairy and Poultry Shows confirm'd. 
