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THE RURAL NEW-YOKKEK 
December 1!), 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
D OMESTIC.—Despite assertions by 
the Standard Oil Company that it 
is the real owner of the tank steam¬ 
ship Leda, captured on August S by the 
British cruiser Suffolk near Bermuda, 
the Supreme Court of the colony has de¬ 
clared the ship to be a German, and has 
condemned her “as a good and lawful 
prize.” The State Department probably 
will be asked to make representations 
to the British Government in behalf of 
the Standard Oil Company, and unless 
these are successful the ship will be sold 
at auction. She is a new vessel, worth 
perhaps half a million dollars. She was 
owned by the Deutsch Amerikanische Pe¬ 
troleum Gesellschaft. having been built in 
Germany and hailing from Hamburg. 
She carried a German master and crew 
and flew the German flag. 
The business section of Ardsley, N. Y., 
was wiped out, Dec. 6, by a fire which 
killed a family of four, injured half a 
dozen men, and burned the homes and 
total possessions of about SO persons. 
The loss is estimated at from $100,000 to 
$ 200 , 000 . 
The plant of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 
where the great wizard worked out prac¬ 
tically all of his wonderful inventions, 
was destroyed by fire, Dec. 9, only three 
buildings being saved out of 22. The 
loss as announced by Mr. Edison, is $2,- 
000,000, and is entirely uncovered by in¬ 
surance. It was located at Orange, N. 
7. Two lives were lost. 
President John MeLennon of District 
Xo. 5 of the United Mine Workers of 
America announced. Dec. 7. after a con¬ 
ference with the international officers of 
the organization, that a resolution would 
be offered, Dec. 7. to the special con¬ 
vention of the Colorado miners, at Den¬ 
ver. to eyd the strike. The strikers will 
return to work under the terms of the 
three year peace plan outlined by Presi¬ 
dent Wilson and will demand that the 
Seth Low mediation committee enforce 
the terms of that proposal. 
Thirteen miners were killed at Scran¬ 
ton, Pa., Dec. 9, when one of their num¬ 
ber dropped a stick of dynamite while 
descending into the Tripp shaft of the 
Lackawanna Coal Company. The ex¬ 
plosion destroyed the cage, and the men 
fell to the bottom of the shaft. One man 
saved his life by clinging to an iron rod. 
A Ninth Avenue local elevated train 
carrying hundreds of passengers toward 
their homes in Harlem crashed into an 
express train standing at the 110th street 
station. New York, Dec. 9. Two men 
were instantly killed and in the panic 
that followed when the wooden cars 
which bore the brunt of the impact took 
fire scores were injured. 
Dec. 6-7 much damage was done along 
the Atlantic Coast by storm and high 
tide. At Seabriglit. N. J.. the estimated 
loss to property was $150,000. At Sea 
Gate, on New York Bay, the damage was 
about $35,000. There was much dam¬ 
age to shipping, and the full damage 
along the Jersey coast is reckoned at 
over $1,000,000. A conference has been 
called to meet at Trenton including im¬ 
portant officials and private citizens, to 
consider means of controlling storm dam¬ 
age on the Jersey shore. The State 
Legislature last Winter passed a law 
authorizing seacoast municipalities to is¬ 
sue 40-year bonds to an amount not to 
exceed $100,000* to build jetties and bulk¬ 
heads. Many towns have taken advan¬ 
tage of this statute and the walls have 
been built. But this storm damaged 
these bulkheads and in many instances 
washed sections away entirely. In South 
Jersey more than one set of railroad 
tracks have been washed away and it has 
become necessary to change the lines. 
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.— 
Dec. S President Wilson read his mes¬ 
sage to Congress, national defence being 
the chief theme. He urged the develop¬ 
ment of the National Guard, and the 
training of citizens in the use of arms, 
but decried the efforts of some citizens 
to alarm the country over its military un¬ 
preparedness. He referred to the im¬ 
mediate need of an adequate merchant 
marine, the lack of which is now hamp¬ 
ering trade, and urged the passage of the 
pending shipping bill. Referring to rural 
credits, the President said: “The great 
subject of rural credits still remains to 
be dealt with, and it is a matter of deep 
regret that the difficulties of the subject 
have seemed to render it impossible to 
complete a bill for passage at this ses¬ 
sion.” Philippine independence was 
touched on; the international convention 
for safety at sea already confirmed by 
Great Britain and Germany, and await¬ 
ing .acceptance by the United States; the 
adequate charting and survey of our 
coasts, and also the need for economy in 
government expenditures. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Isaac H. 
Odell, commission broker of White 
Plains. N. Y.. was fined $500 in New 
York Special Sessions, Dec. 3, for having 
condensed milk so impure it exploded. In¬ 
spector O’Keefe of the Health Department 
testified that on October 10 he condemned 
carboys of milk which Odell stored with 
the Heermance Storage and Refrigerating 
Company. The carboys were removed to 
an offal dock for disposal and there sev¬ 
eral fermented and burst, he said. Ac¬ 
cording to the testimony the explosive 
milk shot 50 feet into the air and show¬ 
ered bystanders. 
The regulations governing the ship¬ 
ment of hay, straw, and similar articles 
from States quarantined on account of 
the foot-and-mouth disease have been 
modified so that hay cut before August 1, 
1913, may be moved freely without refer¬ 
ence to the time when it was baled. 
Hitherto it was required that in addi¬ 
tion to being cut before August 1 the 
hay should have been baled before Oc¬ 
tober 1. The provision, however, that 
since being cut the hay should have been 
stored away from all cattle, sheep and 
swine, remains in force. In the case of 
hay that has been cut since August 1, 
or which has not been kept away from 
contact with any possible source of in¬ 
fection, disinfection under federal super¬ 
vision is required. This disinfection 
should be accomplished by fumigation 
with formaldehyde gas. 
The annual meeting of the Oregon 
State Horticultural Society was held at 
Medford. December 2-4. 
Dec. 7 Senator Pomerene of Ohio in¬ 
troduced a resolution in the Senate di¬ 
recting the Committee on Agriculture 
and Forestry to investigate and report 
fully on the extent and efficiency of the 
recent cattle quarantine. Delegations 
from Iowa and Ohio have protested vig¬ 
orously against the quarantine. 
Secretary Houston issued an order, 
Dec. 7. effective at once, under which the 
Federal quarantine in New York and 
other States, declared on account of the 
foot-and-mouth disease among livestock, 
has been modified. The effect of the 
amendment is to permit the interstate 
movement of all livestock from outside 
the quarantined area in New York, ex¬ 
cept the counties of Erie. Niagara, Or¬ 
leans, Genesee, Monroe. Wayne, Ontario, 
Seneca, Cayuga, Cortland, Tompkins, 
Saratoga, Washington. Rensselaer, Al¬ 
bany, Schenectady, Columbia, Suffolk, 
Nassau, Richmond, Bronx, Kings, 
Queens, Rockland and Westchester 
These counties are still subject to Fed¬ 
eral quarantine. The modification will 
permit the movement of dressed car¬ 
casses, hay, straw and similar articles 
hitherto subjected to quarantine regula¬ 
tions. Similar modifications were made 
as to Indiana, Michigan and Maryland 
with certain counties excepted. 
Florida farmers are alarmed over the 
threatened destruction of their grapefruit 
orchards through the ravages of an Or¬ 
iental canker, which devours slowly but 
surely trunk leaf and branch of the trees, 
and against which, according to the ex¬ 
perts of the Department of Agriculture, 
there seems to be no defence. Thus far 
the growers have tried to stop the spread 
of the pest by burning trees it has at¬ 
tacked, but this has proved ineffectual. 
Short courses in agriculture will be 
held at the New Hampshire College, Dur¬ 
ham. N. II.. as follows: “Renovating Old 
Fields for Hay and Forage Crops.” one 
week, beginning Jan. 4, 1915; “Grain 
and Potato Growing,” one week, begin¬ 
ning Jan. 11; “Apple Growing,” one 
week, beginning Jan. IS; “Small Fruits 
and Poultry,” one week, beginning Jan. 
25; “Farmers’ Week Course,” one week, 
beginning Feb. 1: “Course in Dairying,” 
five weeks, beginning Feb. S. 
THE EUROPEAN WAR.—Dec. 3 a 
hostile aviator dropped bombs upon the 
Krupp cannon factories at Essen. 
Dec. 5 French aviators dropped bombs 
on the aviation hangars in Freiburg, 
Germany.Dec. 7 a German aero¬ 
plane dropped bombs on Ilazebrouck, Bel¬ 
gium, killing several civilians....... 
The Allies assumed the defensive, Dec. 5- 
10, on their left wing in Flanders, and 
on their right in Alsace. The French 
and British artillery has been much 
strengthened, and the Allied fleet is co¬ 
operating with land forces, Zeebrugge be¬ 
ing again bombarded. The French have 
captured Yermelles. in Northern France, 
and maintain positions taken in Alsace 
and Lorraine.Advices from Rlieims 
Dec. S announced further damage to the 
Cathedral from German bombardment. 
.Dec. S a British squadron under 
command of Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick 
Sturdee, chief of the war staff, engaged 
a German squadron under Admiral 
Count von Spee off the Falkland Islands, 
in the South Atlantic. The armored 
cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and 
the protected cruiser Leipzig, three of the 
German warships which had been menac¬ 
ing British shipping, and part of the 
squadron which sank the British crui¬ 
sers Good Hope and Monmouth in the 
Pacific on November I. were destroyed, 
while the cruisers Dresden and Nurn- 
berg. the two other vessels which com¬ 
posed the German squadron, made off dur¬ 
ing the fight, the Nurnberg being captured 
later, the Dresden’s fate uncertain. Two 
colliers were captured. The British loss 
was very small.In Poland. Dec. 6. 
the battle line extended 300 miles. The 
Russians were then bombarding Cracow. 
The Germans had secured important suc¬ 
cesses around Lodz, the Russians evacu¬ 
ating that city.It was reported, Dec. 
10, that the Kaiser was seriously ill at 
Berlin.The Boer revolt in South 
Africa appears to be generally crushed. 
Gen. De Wet is a prisoner, liable, under 
existing law, to the death penalty. Gen. 
Beyers attempted to escape from his cap- 
tors while crossing a river, and was shot 
and killed.Australian and New 
Zealand troops have been landed in 
Egypt, where they will complete train¬ 
ing for European service.Japanese 
veterans in Hawaii have been called to 
the colors, and it is reported they will be 
sent to Egypt and India...Indian 
troops have defeated Turks in Persian 
territory.While it is freely assert¬ 
ed that Italy is prepared to join the Al¬ 
lies, a persistent report states that she 
has been offered the Trentino, an Aus¬ 
trian province populated by Italians, as 
the price of neutrality.Dec. 9 the 
Servians claimed victories over Austria. 
T 
OHIO CROP REPORT. 
« 
LIE Ohio Agricultural Commission re¬ 
ports thus on the condition of crops 
December 1, 1914: 
Wheat—Compared with an average, 97 
per cent.; amount sold as soon as thrash¬ 
ed, 43 per cent. ; damaged by Hessian fly, 
5 per cent.; damaged by white grub, 1 per 
cent. 
Corn—Area planted in 1914, 2,901,070 
acres; estimated average yield per acre, 
37 bushels; total estimated production, 
107,463,240 bushels; put in silo, 11 per 
cent. 
Clover—Area sown in 1913 cut for 
seed, 33 per cent.; average ield of seed 
per acre, 1.59 bushels. 
State Average Trices. 
Wheat, bushel. 
Corn . 
Barley . 
1914. 
1.06 
.64 
.68 
.47 
1 year ago 
1913. 
.90 
.66 
.65 
41 
Rye ... 
.S3 
.71 
(’lover Seed . 
8.56 
7.34 
Potatoes . 
.57 
.90 
Hay, ton. 
12.94 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Farmers’ Week, Pennsylvania State 
College, December 2S. 1914 to January 
2, 1915. State College, P. O.. Penn. 
Winter short courses. University of 
Vermont, Burlington, Dec. 28, 1914 to 
February 26. 1915. 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation annual •meeting, Rochester, N. Y., 
Jan. 6-7-8, 1915. 
January 9th to 15th, inclusive, 1915 
Mid-Winter Exposition, State Fair 
Grounds, Columbus, Ohio, Corn. Apple, 
Dairy and Poultry Shows combined. 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation annual convention. Horticultural 
Hall, Worcester, Mass., Jan. 13-14, 1915. 
Cooperative Associations of the State 
of New York, second conference, Utica, 
January 13. 14, 15, 1915. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
nineteenth annual convention, Win¬ 
chester, Va., January 13-14, 1915. 
Second annual meeting of the New 
Hampshire State Department of Agricul¬ 
ture and the thirtieth annual meeting of 
the Granite State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion. Manchester, N. H., Fob. 10 and 11 
1915. Fred Rasmussen, Secretary. 
New York State Agricultural _ Society 
75th annual convention, the Capitol, Al¬ 
bany, N. Y„ Jan. 20-21. 
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