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THE K NEW-YORKER 
April 24, 1915. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The New York Senate 
passed, April 8, the Thompson bill per¬ 
mitting women to work 72 hours a week 
in canneries during the canning season 
and permitting the employment of minors 
at night and on Sundays in canning es¬ 
tablishments. The vote was 27 to 15. 
The German cruiser Kronprinz Wil¬ 
helm entered Hampton Roads, April 11. 
Illness among prisoners—beri-beri from 
eating too much rice and drinking bad 
water—together with the poor condition 
• if the cruiser forced the Kronprinz to 
enter a neutral harbor. In the past eight 
months since she left New York harbor 
she sank 14 steamships, 12 of which were 
British. 
As a result of a strike among fur 
workers, live men were attacked in the 
crowded streets of Newark, N. J., April 
11 : two men were shot dead and three 
others wounded, before the police ended 
the battle. 
The Belgian relief ship Harpalyce, 
which had just delivered New York 
State’s cargo of gifts, was torpedoed off 
the English coast. April 10; 27 men of 
the crew were picked up, but it is be¬ 
lieved that 15 were lost. 
The Minnesota, an American steam¬ 
ship struck a rock. April 12, off Iwajima, 
near the southwestern entrance to the 
Inland Sea of Japan. Her call of dis- 
tx-ess was picked up first by the Japanese 
cruiser Yakuma. All the passengers and 
crew are safe. Mrs. Francis Burton 
Harrison, wife of the Governor-General 
of the Philippines, was aboard. 
General Vietoriano Huerta. ex-Presi- 
dent of Mexico, arrived in New York, 
April 12. He informed the immigration 
authorities under oath that he intended 
to remain in New York for an indefinite 
period. 
Cecil Peoli, a South American, and the 
first aviator to fly over the Andes moun¬ 
tains, was killed at the United States 
army aviation field at College Park, Md., 
April 12, while making a vertical dive 
in a machine of his own invention. Pe- 
oli’s machine fell from a height of 200 
feet. 
Four men were convicted in the Terre 
Haute election fraud trial and sentenced 
by Judge Anderson at Indianapolis, 
April 12, to the federal penitentiary at 
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The other six¬ 
teen, including Mayor Donn. M. Roberts, 
who received prison sentences and ap¬ 
pealed. and the 87 who received from one 
day to six months in the local jail, were 
committed April 12. Edward Holler, the 
ex-Chief of Police, who had pleaded 
guilty, also received a prison sentence. 
The four who withdrew from the appeal 
are John M. Masselink, City Sealer of 
Weights and Measures and ex-member of 
the Legislature; Arthur Gillis, Progres¬ 
sive election official; Joseph Strauss, 
liquor salesman, and George Sovern, 
gambler. Each had been sentenced to a 
year and a day in prison and to pay a fine 
of $100. To obtain liberty pending his 
appeal, Mayor Roberts, who was sen¬ 
tenced to prison for six vears and to pay 
a fine of $2,000—the severest sentence 
given—will have to furnish a bond of 
$60,000. Only eight of the 116 prisoners 
escaped punishment.' 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The farmers 
in many towns throughout St. Lawrence 
County, N. Y., have held meetings for 
the purpose of taking action to prevent 
the foot-and-mouth disease from getting 
into the dairy herds of St. Lawrence 
County. As the result of such meetings 
a committee composed of Mayor W. H. 
Daniels of Ogdensburg, M. H. Pierce and 
B. G. Parker of Gouverneur visited Al¬ 
bany and had an interview with the Gov- 
vernor and the Commissioner of Agricul¬ 
ture who placed St. Lawrence, Jefferson 
and Lewis Counties under quarantine, 
April 1. as a precaution against a possi¬ 
ble invasion of the disease. In addition 
to this quarantine the dairymen have 
quarantined their own premises by the 
posting of notices in bold type forbidding 
trespassing and every owner is alert to 
the gravity of the situation. 
At the National Convention of Basket 
Makers, held at Norfolk, Va., April 13- 
15, an effort was made to standardize 
the fruit packages particularly for grapes 
and secure exemption from the govern¬ 
ment regarding marking the packages 
with the size. 
The Florida State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety held its annual meeting at Tampa, 
April 13-10. 
A bill introduced into the West Vir¬ 
ginia Legislature by Delegate Herseman 
provides that all packages of agricultural 
seeds exceeding one pound weight must 
be labeled to show the name and variety 
of seed, name of seedsman, statement of 
purity and germinating power and lo¬ 
cality where grown ; that no agricultural 
seeds shall contain greater proportion of 
noxious weed than one in 3,000. En¬ 
forcement is placed in the hands of the 
commissioner of agriculture, who must 
be given access to all places in order to 
make inspection. 
The Hampden Co., Mass., Improvement 
League is making strong efforts to secure 
better roads and transportation facilities 
for that section. 
The Women’s National Agricultural 
and Horticultural Association will meet 
in New York at the Bronx Botanical 
Garden on May 7. This conference cov¬ 
ers a large variety of subjects. Among 
other speakers will be Mr. Geo. T. Pow¬ 
ell, Dr. W. C. Deming, Morris Fuld and 
others of national reputation. 
New* from the N. Y. Agricultural College. 
Director Galloway of the New York 
State College of Agriculture spent the 
Spring recess in Washington conferring 
with the officials of the United States 
Department of Agriculture on the plans 
to be used in applying the Smith-Lever 
Extension Act. Authorities of the col¬ 
lege and experiment station are looking 
forward to carrying out the greater part 
of the work done in the State under the 
provisions of the act through the co¬ 
operation of the farm bureaus. Thus 
counties with organized farm bureaus will 
receive greater benefits than those with¬ 
out. Therefore, counties lacking farm 
bureaus should organize at once in order 
to secure the benefits of the Smith-Lever 
Extension Act. 
The girls of the State College of Agri¬ 
culture have raised over two thousand 
dollars to erect a club building on the 
campus in which to hold their meetings. 
The serious aim of this club is to estab¬ 
lish a model rural community social cen¬ 
ter similar to those recommended in con¬ 
nection with rural recreation grounds. 
This is being done so that when the 
young ladies are graduated, they will 
leave with definite methods of establish¬ 
ing and operating rural social centers so 
that they may establish them in the com¬ 
munities needing them. 
The Tompkins County Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation is holding a contest for new mem¬ 
bers and new subscribers to the Tompkins 
County Breeders’ Journal which will 
close with the opening of the Associa¬ 
tion’s new quarters. The members of the 
association feel that the more residents 
of the county there are who belong to the 
association tin* greater progress the 
county will be able to make in agricul¬ 
ture. Therefore, public-spirited members 
of the association have donated the fol¬ 
lowing prizes to be given to the contest¬ 
ants: First prize, purebred Holstein 
heifer; second prize, purebred Holstein 
bull; third prize, purebred sow; fourth 
prize, pen of purebred Rhode Island 
Reds. _ The first prize was exhibited in 
the window of Ithaca’s largest depart¬ 
ment store, attracting the attention of 
many and almost doubling the number 
of contestants. It is the idea of the 
Tompkins County Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion to promote the breeding of pure¬ 
bred stock and they are putting forth 
every effort to accomplish this end. The 
lead which they have taken might be 
profitably followed by similar organiza¬ 
tions. 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Fourth annual Summer School, under 
auspices of Washington State College, 
Puyallup, Vash.; June 21-July 30. 
American Nurserymen’s Association, 
fortieth annual convention, Detroit, 
Mich., June 23-25. 
International Viticulture Congress, 
Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francis¬ 
co, July 12-33. 
National Fertilizer Association, annual 
convention, Hot Springs, Va., July 13-14. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
September 13-18. 
Genesee County Fair, Batavia, N. Y., 
September 21-25. 
Farmers’ National Congress, annual 
meeting, Omaha, Neb., September 28-Oc- 
tober 1. 
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