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TFIE RURAL 
N E W - V O R K E R 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC—Fire at the Kansas City, 
Mo., stock yards, Nov. 7, caused a 
loss amounting to $125,000. 
The thirty-fourth, annual convention 
of the American Federation of Labor 
opened at Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 9. The 
convention will last two weeks. It is 
expected to bring out sweeping sugges¬ 
tions concerning the work of women and 
children in the United States and has a 
large number of women present as dele¬ 
gates of women and children in the va¬ 
rious industries. 
It was stated, Nov. 0, that a reserve 
army that will consist of more than 150,- 
000 in five years is being trained by the 
War Department in cooperation with 
educational institutions and organiza¬ 
tions advocating the upbuilding of a na¬ 
tional defence machine. Foremost among 
the agencies for the establishment of the 
reserve are the students of military in¬ 
struction camps, although the National 
Rifle Association of America, the Army 
League and other organizations are 
strong factors in the movement. Stu¬ 
dents between the ages of eighteen and 
thirty in universities, colleges and the 
graduating classes of high schools were 
trained at the camps during the last 
Summer, only those physically qualified 
for military service being enrolled. Army 
officers arc detailed to these camps, and 
where possible regulars are present to 
give a touch of realism to the encamp¬ 
ment. 
The State Department received notice, 
Nov. 7, that the American liner Ivroon- 
land, which had been detained by the 
British authorities at Gibraltar, had been 
released and was on her was to Naples. 
The copper and rubber on the Kroon- 
land, however, were taken off by the Bri¬ 
tish authorities and a prize court is to 
determine whether the goods are to be 
confiscated. While the United States 
Government will probably have a repre¬ 
sentative at the prize court proceedings 
as an observer, the burden of defending 
the copper and rubber taken from the 
Kroonland lies upon the ship owners and 
the owners of the goods. Should the 
prize court declare the goods prizes of 
war and order them confiscated as con¬ 
traband destined for the enemy, it is ex¬ 
pected the owners will appeal to the 
State Department, which will then take 
up the case diplomatically. This case 
seems likely to be the first test of the 
British policy of making the ultimate 
destination of contraband of war the de¬ 
termining factor as to whether it shall 
be seized or not. The British contend 
this copper and rubber, consigned to Na¬ 
ples, were really destined for points in 
Germany. 
Richard ,T. Hartman, who figured in the 
opera ticket speculation scandal, in New 
York, last year as president of Tyson & 
Co., was arrested here, Nov. 10, on the 
eve of his departure for Europe and 
lodged in the Tombs prison, charged with 
the larceny of nearly $700,000 from Mrs. 
Charlotte L. Mackenzie, widow of James 
S. Mackenzie, at one time an official in 
the Singer Sewing Machine Company. 
According to the information on which 
Hartman's indictment was secured, his 
thefts cover a period of three years, dur¬ 
ing which time he operated with the 
woman’s stocks on the strength of the 
power of attorney she unwittingly grant¬ 
ed him. His speculations have deprived 
her of her entire fortune, it is alleged. 
Reports from Butler Co., Ky., state 
that the district is terrorized by “night 
riders,” who have been guilty of many 
outrages. 
Henry Siegel, the department store 
man of New York, under many indict¬ 
ments for larceny in connection with his 
banking business, was put on trial at 
Geneseo, N. Y., Nov. 10, feeling against 
him in New Y r ork City being used to ob¬ 
tain change of venue. Ten of the jurors 
are farmers. 
James Powers, head of the Tax Ad¬ 
justment Bureau of fit) Wall Street, was 
sentenced by Judge Rufus E. Foster in the 
United States District Court, at New 
York, Nov. 11, to serve two years in the 
Federal penitentiary at Atlanta for using 
the mails to swindle persons who already 
had been defrauded in a real estate deal. 
Powers, it is said, discovered some time 
ago that a realty company had sold a 
number of lots under water at Montauk 
Point, Tv. I., and that the owners of these 
lots had not paid their taxes. On the 
stationery of the Tax Adjustment Bu¬ 
reau he sent these land and water own¬ 
ers a notice that their property would be 
sold for unpaid taxes unless they sent 
him $5.86. Thinking that the tax bu¬ 
reau was an official office many of these 
people, it is said, sent him the money. 
In all he is said to have taken in between 
$15,000 and $20,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The twen¬ 
tieth annual report of the Granite ,Stnte 
Dairymen’s Association contains among 
other interesting matter an article on 
“More and Better Cows for New Hamp¬ 
shire,” by 1’. A. Campbell, manager of 
the Balsams Stock Farm, Dixville 
Notch ; also articles on “The Milk Ques¬ 
tion from the Consumers’ Standpoint,” 
by Dr. ,1. R. Williams, of Rochester, N. 
Y. and “Summer Forage for the Dairy 
low,” by Prof. F. W. Taylor, of New 
Hampshire College, “Winter Roughage 
for Dairy Cows,” by Dr. J. L. Hills of 
the Vermont University. The secretary 
of the association is Fred Rasmussen, 
Durham, N. H. 
The Connecticut Horse Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation is trying, with the aid of the 
Boston Chamber of Commerce to induce 
i •», i << ■ i i i ii .i 
New England people attending the In¬ 
ternational Live Stock Show, Chicago, 
Nov. 2S-I)cc. 5, to travel together in a 
special car. Those interested may learn 
particulars from the president of the 
above association, Stanton D. Wicks, 
Pomfret, Conn., or the secretary, H. L. 
Garrigues, Storrs, Conn. 
The cattle quarantine has been extend¬ 
ed to New Jersey, Montana, Rhode Isl¬ 
and, Kentucky and Delaware, also Can¬ 
ada, though the disease has not yet ap¬ 
peared there. In addition to bovine cat¬ 
tle, dogs, horses, hens, ducks and pigeons 
are reported infected in one New Jersey 
case. The Philadelphia stockyards were 
found to be infected, Nov. 10. Nov. 14 
Commissioner Iluson raised the quaran¬ 
tine in New York, except on Kings, 
Queens, Seneca, Wayne and Erie Coun¬ 
ties, where the disease still exists. 
__ It was entered on the records at the 
Nov. 0 session of the hearing in the New 
York Attorney-General’s suit for the an¬ 
nulment of the charters of certain cor¬ 
porations who may be guilty of entering 
into a monopoly for the manipulation of 
butter and egg prices that the difference 
in the price that a farmer got for his 
eggs in 1916 and the price paid by the 
consumer was anywhere from 18 to 33 
cents a dozen. This statement was re¬ 
puted to have been made by Ileury Dun¬ 
kak of the firm of Zimmer & Dunkak, 173 
Duane Street, and a former president of 
the Mercantile Exchange, in an inter¬ 
view with an investigator and was re¬ 
read to Mr. Dunkak when he was on the 
stand by Deputy Attorney-General Ken¬ 
nedy. The farmer received 17 cents a 
dozen for his eggs and they cost 23 
cents when they were laid down in New 
York city. The jobber paid 25 cents for 
them (it was in December) and the re¬ 
tail dealer handed up 28*4 cents when 
they reached him. Then he sold them to 
the consumer for from 35 to 50 cents a 
dozen. Mr. Dunkak testified that the 
cost to the consumer depended largely 
upon whether the eggs we e bought in a 
fancy store or a less pretentious place. 
Queried as to whether a retailer could 
mix cold storage with fresh eggs, Mr. 
Dunkak said he didn’t believe he could 
do it as a regular thing. Howard J. 
Runyon of ,T. D. Stout & Co., receivers 
and jobbers of butter, cheese and eggs, 
19 Jay Street, said the profit in his busi¬ 
ness is about four per cent, gross and 
two per cent. net. He said conditions 
have changed in the butter business in 
the last 10 or 15 years, and cited the in¬ 
stallation of separators on the farms as 
one of the changes. 
The Wisconsin College of Agriculture, 
cooperating with the Potato Growers’ 
Association will hold an annual conven¬ 
tion and exhibition at Grand Rapids, 
Wis., Nov. 18-23. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—Nov. 7 
the forts at Tsing-tao, China, surren¬ 
dered to the Japanese beseigers, who 
captured 2.300 prisoners. The Japanese 
Ambassador at Washington announced 
that a Japanese-British garrison would 
occupy the fortress until the end of the 
war, when the question of returning the 
territory to China would be c* isidcred. 
.The British Admiralty confirmed 
the loss of the cruiser Good Hope in bat¬ 
tle off the coast of Chili, Nov. 1, stating 
that the Monmouth was beached, place 
not given; the Glasgow and Otranto es¬ 
caped to the Falkland Islands (British 
territory).The German cruiser 
Yorck was blown up by a mine in a Ger¬ 
man harbor with the loss of 266 men. 
.Nov. 9 the German commerce de¬ 
stroyer Emden was driven ashore and 
burned in a fight with the Australian 
cruiser Sydney. The Em/ n was 
beached on an island in the Cocos group, 
southwest of Java. During the past 
three months the Emden has destroyed 
British vessels amounting with their car¬ 
go to a value of $10,000,000. The Kon- 
igsberg, another German c iser causing 
great damage to British shipping, was 
trapped by the British cruiser Chatham 
when hiding in a shallow river on the 
coast of German East Africa, where she 
was bombarded, and then bottled up by 
sinking colliers aero the river.. 
Nov. 11 the British torpedo gunboat 
Niger was sunk by a hostile submarine 
in the Channel, off Deal, without any 
loss of life.Russian forces were re¬ 
ported 10 miles within the East Prussian 
border, Nov. 10, and they were also in 
the Province of Posen.Italy is 
sending troops to Tripoli, where Italian 
colonies are threatened by the Bedouins. 
It is asserted that Turkish and German 
emissaries are causing trouble. 
The Allies are gaining in Belgium, where 
violent fighting continued Nov. 7, 9, 10. 
German forces were again bomb. *ded by 
the Allies’ cruisers on the seacoast at 
Dixmude. The Germans’ bombardment 
of Ypres was reported to cause great 
destruction. In Alsace the German at¬ 
tack on Ste. Marie Pass is reported to 
be repulsed.Nov. 11 the Germans 
captured Dixmude, but were unable to 
cross the Yser.British and French 
warships have destroyed Dardanelles 
forts. The Turkish commander at Beirut 
threatens reprisals on Christians for any 
Mussulman losses.A Turkish force 
is said to have invaded Egypt. The Ot¬ 
toman licet has bombarded l’oti with 
heavy damage. 
L IMA bean thrashing is being done as 
fast as the beans are dry enough. 
The Summer weather being rather 
cooler than usual, delayed the ripening 
of the beans on the rich, moist soil, which 
delays the finishing of the harvest. The 
culture of the Lima bean began here 
about 48 years ago. The few seeds, 
found an ideal soil and climate so they 
were a great success from the first. The 
growth of the Lima bean on a commer¬ 
cial basis in this State began here first 
in Carpinteria Valley, about three- 
quarters mile from the Pacjfie Ocean. 
Their growth has spread from valley to 
hill soil, along the coast for 200 or more 
miles. They seem to thrive the best in 
the moist climate of the ocean. As yet 
but few insects or other pests have de¬ 
veloped to do much harm. So the growth 
of the Lima bean will be continued. 
Some of the best soils yield a ton or 
more per acre, while some of hill and 
thinner soils yield only one-quarter to 
half as much. Rich, deep, moist soils 
are the ideal for the growth of Limas. A 
large percentage of the Limas grown here 
go into the seed warehouses, where they 
are made ready and shipped to Eastern 
seedsmen. For about 20 years but one 
variety was grown for the market, the 
old pole variety we started with. No 
poles are used here, they run over the 
ground just as they like to. Since their 
growth for seed began new varieties have 
been introduced and developed. Now 
many of the bush type or short vine 
kinds are grown. Much careful work in 
thrashing and handling is required to 
prevent breaking and splitting, as all 
such must be cleaned out of the seed 
beans and sold at a cheap rate. 
Carpinteria, Cal. o. N. c. 
T HE Department of Agriculture tells 
of a method of burning out the 
stumps of long-leaf pine, which is 
used in the Southwest. A trench about 
eight inches deep is dug around the 
stump. Then a hole l 1 /^ inch in diam¬ 
eter is bored down from the bottom of 
the trench into the stump. A small stick 
of dynamite is exploded in this hole so 
that the stump is cracked. Then when 
fire is built in this hole a draft is cre¬ 
ated which keeps the fire going until the 
stump is burned out. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Maryland Week Exhibition, .State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Maryland Crop Im¬ 
provement, Dairymen’s and Beekeepers’ 
Association, Baltimore, November 16-21. 
Institute and convention, Lycoming, 
County Farm Bureau, Williamsport, Pa., 
November 17-20. 
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. 
Dover Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock 
Association, tenth annual show, Dover, 
N. J., Nov. 23-28. 
Mansfield Poultry Association, Mans¬ 
field, Mass., third annual exhibition, 
Nov. 25-28; L. Faye Howe, secretary. 
Western Connecticut Poultry Associa¬ 
tion of Danbury, Conn., Inc., nineteenth 
annual exhibition Hull’s Armory Hall, 
Danbury, Nov. 26, 27, 28; secretary. 
Thomas Deans, 39 Hoyt St., Danbury, 
Conn. 
Auburn Poultry Show, State Armory, 
Auburn, N. Y., Nov. 30-Dec. 5. 
Second annual seed exposition, Mon¬ 
tana Seed Growers’ Association, Boze¬ 
man, Mont., December 8-30. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, State Experiment 
Station, New Brunswick, Dec. S-10. 
Farmers’ Week, Pennsylvania State 
College. December 28, 3914 to January 
8, 1915, State College, I*. O., Penn. 
January 9th to 15th, inclusive, 1915, 
Mid-Winter Exposition, State Fair 
Grounds, Columbus, Ohio, Corn, Apple, 
Dairy and Poultry Shows combined. 
Ohio-Michigan Land and Live Stock 
Exposition, Toledo, O., Nov. 22-Dec. 5. 
“Please lidy, will you help a poor man 
who ain’t done nothin’ in the way o’ work 
for more’n twelve munce?” “Dear, dear; 
perhaps I could find you something. What 
can you do?” “Thank y’, lidy, thank y’ 
kindly, mum ; ef y’ could p’raps give me 
some washin’ ter do, I could take it ’ome 
to my wife.”—Loudon Opinion. 
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FREE ! — Leatherette Carrying Case 
with brass locks and trimmings will bo sent to those who 
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November 21, 
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BLASIER-SANBORN MFG. CO. 
331-341 Columbia St., Utica, N. Y. 
The New GREENWOOD LIME 
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Accurate indicator for 100 to 3,500 lbs. per acre, 
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NITRATE AGENCIES COMPANY 
106 Pearl Street, New Yerk City 
4-BUCKLE Pi"a ARCTIC 
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Extra quality, very serviceable. Matte all in 
ONE PIECE, with full snow excluding tongue. 
soles made of host quality pure gum 
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cold proof. Your local dealer would 
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Semi $3.29 to-day to obtain the 
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Men's Sizes, 5 to 13; Women’s 
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refunded. State size de¬ 
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WATER WELLS 
Our Free Drillers’ Book with 
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SKUNK 
We pay top prices for Skunk, Mink 
Muskrat, and all raw Furs. Price 
list free. M. J. JEWETT & SONS, 
REDWOOD, N. Y. DEPT. 20. 
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place of cash, for extending the subscrip¬ 
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