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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 19, 1915. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Fire, of unknown ori¬ 
gin, wrecked the plant of the Rowe Calk 
Company, Hartford, Conn., June 3. The 
loss is about $60,000. The factory, 
which was running overtime filling or¬ 
ders for calks and kindred supplies for 
the French cavalry, suddenly burst into 
flames from one end to the other. When 
the fire department arrived the roof was 
a mass of flames. 
After nearly four years of legal battle 
the Federal Government lost its suit, 
June 3, for the dissolution of the United 
►States Steel Corporation under the Sher¬ 
man law. The United States Circuit 
Court, sitting at Trenton. N. J., handed 
down a unanimous decision that the cor¬ 
poration should not only remain in ex¬ 
istence, but that it deserves the commen¬ 
dation of the American public for the up¬ 
right manner in which it has conducted 
its vast operations. 
Senator Cummins of Iowa announced, 
June 5, that he has prepared and will 
introduce in the next Congress a bill to 
create and train a force of reserves who 
would be ready to defend the United 
States in case of emergency. The bill 
as outlined by Senator Cummins would 
empower the Government to turn eight 
of the interior forts and barracks that 
no longer have strategic value into mili¬ 
tary schools. To these schools would be 
appointed boys in the same manner as 
they are appointed to Annapolis and 
West Point. They would receive train¬ 
ing that would enable them to take com¬ 
missions in the reserve or militia. 
A new investigation into certain ir¬ 
regularities in the examination at the 
Naval Academy at Annapolis was or¬ 
dered by Secretary Daniels, June 5. The 
Secretary has appointed four naval offi¬ 
cers who have not been recently associ¬ 
ated with the administration of the aca¬ 
demy to examine all facts. Seven mid¬ 
shipmen are already under arrest and 
have been recommended for dismissal on 
account of the examination questions, 
while about a hundred other midshipmen 
are understood to be involved. 
At Uriah, Ala., .Tune 6, seven persons 
were injured, one store building was 
wrecked, two dwelling houses were part¬ 
ly shattered and practically every resi¬ 
dence in the village was more or less 
damaged when lightning struck the ware¬ 
house of the Blackshear Stores Company 
and exploded 1,600 pounds of dynamite. 
Every window pane in the settlement was 
smashed and roofs of two or more houses 
were torn off. The warehouse and con¬ 
tents were destroyed. The shock caused 
by the explosion was felt for more than 
20 miles in all directions. 
Nine Roosevelt strike deputies, con¬ 
victed at New Brunswick, N. J., of man¬ 
slaughter in connection with the death 
of Alesandro Tessitore, were sentenced 
by Justice Bergen, June 7, to serve not 
more than ten years or less than two 
years each in the State prison. Joseph 
E. Strieker, attorney for the convicted 
men, gave notice of an appeal, carrying 
the conviction to the Court of Errors 
and Appeals on a writ of error, and Jus¬ 
tice Bergen granted a motion admitting 
the deputies to bail. The appeal will be 
argued at the September term. 
William Jennings Bryan resigned as 
Secretary of State, June 8, rather than 
sign the note which President Wilson 
sent to Germany, June 9, on her submar¬ 
ine warfare, on the ground that this re¬ 
ply might lead to the breaking off of 
diplomatic relations with the German 
Government. His resignation brought to 
an end a crisis which has been hanging 
over the Cabinet ever since the sinking 
of the Lusitania. President Wilson 
promptly accepted it, and Robert Lan¬ 
sing, Counsellor of the State Department, 
was made Acting Secretary of State 
pending the selection of Mr. Bryan’s suc¬ 
cessor. 
A posse of 10 American cowboys and 
miners rode eight miles across the border 
into Santa Cruz, Sonora, June 5, levelled 
their guns at the colonel commanding the 
garrison, while 450 Mexican soldiers 
looked on, and obtained the release of 
two American boys kidnapped by three 
of the soldiers on the Arizona side of 
the border. The colonel gave up his two 
17-year-old prisoners, George Vaughn, 
son of a storekeeper at Duquesne, and 
Henry Chang, son of a Chinese-Ameriean 
citizen of Washington Camp, Ariz., with¬ 
out demurrer, and the posse rode tri¬ 
umphantly back to the United States. 
On their way to bank with a deposit 
of $8,500—$7,500 in cash and $1,000 in 
checks—two employes of the Borden Con¬ 
densed Milk Company’s branch at Park 
Avenue and East 180th Street, New 
York City, were blackjacked and robbed 
at 11 o’clock in the morning two blocks 
from their office, June 8. Five men were 
arrested later under suspicion. The 
highwaymen escaped in a waiting motor 
ear. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—More than 
1,100 head of cattle, the first export ship¬ 
ment of live beef since the war in Eu¬ 
rope began, arrived in the Central Union 
Stockyards in Jersey City, June 3. The 
work of loading them aboard the steam¬ 
ship Shenandoah of the Chesapeake and 
Ohio Railroad was started at once. The 
vessel, when loaded, sailed for Bordeaux, 
France, where the cattle will be taken 
i'shore for the use of the troops at the 
front. It took 80 cars to bring 
the cattle from Chicago and other 
points in the Middle West. For sev¬ 
eral months it has been almost im¬ 
possible to get beef on the hoof through 
Jersey City on account of the foot and 
mouth disease. The disease is about 
stamped out. On account of the warm 
weather it was found necessary to ship 
live cattle instead of dressed beef. 
Establishment of 710 new rural mail 
delivery routes to serve 82,390 families 
and the extension of existing service to 
reach 5,460 additional families were an¬ 
nounced. June 6, by Postmaster General 
Burleson. Nearly all of the new routes 
went into operation on June 15. Orders 
are now awaiting the Postmaster Gen¬ 
eral’s signature providing for new rural 
automobile service in many localities, as 
authorized by the last appropriation bill. 
Persons on these routes, when living with¬ 
in a radius of twenty-five miles, will en¬ 
joy local rates. The first of the routes 
will go into operation on August 1. 
Preliminary steps for the reclamation 
of 1,100.000 acres on the west side of the 
San Joaquin Valley by irrigation, in co¬ 
operation with aid from the federal gov¬ 
ernment, were taken at San Francisco, 
June 2, by the organization of the San 
Francisco Land Owners’ club of the San 
Joaquin Valley West Side Irrigation as¬ 
sociation. The land owners interested 
decided to levy an assessment of five 
cents an acre on their holdings to pay 
the expenses of organization. 
The South Shore Growers & Shippers’ 
Association of Silver Creek, N. 1 T ., has 
placed orders for over 1,000,000 tomato 
plants in all for resetting in the fields 
damaged by recent frosts. Some growers 
have found that the original plants were 
not killed but that the tops only were 
frozen and that they are making new 
starts, and with good growing weather 
will yet make good plants. 
The University of Wisconsin renders 
direct service to the farmers of the State 
by inspecting seed potato fields during 
the growing time, and then again when 
the harvested potatoes are in the bin, 
and giving a certificate to show the stand 
of potatoes secured, this indicating the 
strength or weakness of the seed; the 
vigor of the vine, the presence or ab¬ 
sence of disease and the varietal purity. 
The bin inspection is to certify the cor¬ 
rect type, diseased conditions, market 
conditions, quality and yield. Forty-sev¬ 
en seed potato growers in 13 counties of 
Wisconsin have had this inspection ; and 
the university in its circulars can clear¬ 
ly recommend the potatoes that have met 
the requirements. 
Iowa’s weeds cause farmers a loss of 
not less than $25,000,000 a year, accord¬ 
ing to a bulletin on weeds just put out 
by the agricultural extension department 
at Iowa State College. 
The interstate commerce commission 
gained a victory in its campaign against 
commission companies which for years 
have defrauded railroads by fraudulent 
claims for the alleged damaging of goods 
in shipment when the Davidson Broth¬ 
ers’ Commission company of Des Moines, 
Iowa, pleaded guilty to such a charge in 
the United States district court at St 
Louis, Mo., June 1, and was fined $2,- 
500. The suit grew out of claims filed 
by the Davidson company with several 
southern railroads for alleged damage to 
peaches which were being shipped to the 
company in 1912. The company asked 
$16,000 damages, alleging the shipments 
were delayed, roughly handled and not 
given proper refrigeration facilities. The 
Davidson company and two other firms 
were indicted on evidence collected by 
the commerce commission. 
A jury in County Judge Sullivan’s 
court in Jersey City, N. ,T., June 9, re¬ 
turned a verdict of $3,000 against the 
Borden Condensed Milk Company in the 
suit brought by Edward A. Benson of 
North Arlington, N. J. He sought $100,- 
000 for the death of his infant twins, 
Esther A. and George A. Benson, who 
he alleges died from the effects of drink¬ 
ing injurious condensed milk. The trial 
lasted for three days. The jury allowed 
$2,000 on account of the boy’s death and 
$1,000 for the girl. 
A convention of dairy farmers from all 
over the county will be held in llacketts- 
town on Saturday, June 19. Locals of 
the Dairy Farmers’ Association, which 
was organized there last Winter, will be 
represented by large delegations of mem¬ 
bers and their wives. While the greater 
number will come from districts withiii 
the county many will attend from the lo¬ 
cals started in Pennsylvania and coun¬ 
ties adjacent to Warren. Special trains 
will be run from Blairstown via Vail, 
Hainesburg, Columbia, Delaware, Belvi- 
dere, Washington and Richmond and Mt. 
Bethel, Pa. Preparations are being made 
by the officers of the Association there 
to entertain several hundred members 
and their families. Addresses will be 
made by the officers of the Association 
and it is planned to have a prominent 
speaker from the State Agricultural De¬ 
partment present, who will talk on farm¬ 
ers’ organization, dairying and general 
agricultural subjects of great interest 
to farmers and others. 
New York State News. 
Goon Price For Heifer. —At the re¬ 
cent Cazenovia cattle sale the heifer 
Fairview Rag Apple De Ivol was sold 
for $3,650. This was the record sale of 
the second day. On the first day the sum 
of $2,825 was paid for Woodcrest Dora 
De Kol. The 35-pound daughter of King 
Segis went for $3,400. The two days’ 
sales amounted to $91,220 for 205 head. 
To Organize State Horsemen.— 
There is an effort being made to organize 
a State association of horsemen. It is 
not proposed to confine the membership 
to owners or drivers of trotting horses 
but to take in all owners whether of 
light or heavy harness, pedigreed or mon¬ 
grel. A meeting will be held in the neat- 
future to take some definite action. In 
this connection an event which took place 
this w-eek just over the Massachusetts 
line is worthy of mention. At Williams- 
town a horse parade was held that was 
so successful that it will be made an an¬ 
nual feature. The long parade was head¬ 
ed by the first prize stallion “Boreland - ’ 
owned by Robert Cluett, followed by 
draft horses in pairs and singles, farm 
teams, saddle horses, coach drivers, driv¬ 
ers and delivery horses. Before the par¬ 
ade a meeting of the Berkshire Animal 
Rescue League was held which was ad¬ 
dressed by Judge Penney and others, in 
observance of National Horse Day. 
Cheese Instructors Meet. — A' meet¬ 
ing of cheese instructors of the State De¬ 
partment of Agriculture was held at 
Alexandria Bay, beginning June 8 and 
continuing four days. Two professors 
from the State College and two from the 
State Experiment Station were the in¬ 
structors. 
A New Idea. —The first State fair to 
give free admissions will be tried out in 
Kansas this Fall. A special tax levy has 
been made on the county where the fair 
is located, to pay the premiums and the 
racing purses will be paid from funds 
secured by concessions, privileges and 
grand stand. The experiment will be 
watched w-ith interest by State fair man¬ 
agers in other States. 
Onion Growers Organize. —The 
Onion Growers’ Information Bureau has 
been organized at Sodus, Wayne Co., N. 
Y., the purpose of which is to gather 
statistics of the industry, the crop acre¬ 
age, the prospects, markets, etc. Secre¬ 
taries have been selected for several 
towns in the county. The recent freeze 
did not do heavy damage in or near So¬ 
dus, due largely to the moderating influ¬ 
ence of the lake. At Williamson the rec¬ 
ord price was obtained for 37 acres the 
past week. It was $15,800. 
Milk Station Burned. —The Levy 
Creamery Co.’s milk station at James- 
ville was burned recently. The icehouse 
was burned away from 1,500 tons of ice. 
A new icehouse of cement blocks will be 
built. j. w. d. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
New Jersey State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, Field Day, Raritan, Valley Farms, 
Somerville, N. J., June 19. 
Fourth annual Summer School, under 
auspices of Washington State College, 
Puyallup, Wash.; June 21-July 30. 
American Nurserymen’s Association, 
fortieth annual convention, Detroit, 
Mich., June 23-25. 
Certified Milk Producers’ Association 
of America, eighth annual convention, At¬ 
lantic City, N. J., June 30-July 1. 
Texas State Florists’ Association, an¬ 
nual convention, Fort Worth, Texas, July 
6-7. 
International Viticulture Congress, 
Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francis¬ 
co, July 12-13. 
National Fertilizer Association, annual 
convention, Hot Springs, Va., July 13-14. 
Ginners’ Association of the Cotton 
Belt, Atlanta, Ga., July 23-24. 
American Gladiolus ^Society, Annual 
show, Newport, R. I.,' August 18, 19, 
1915. 
Warren County Farmers’ Picnic, Bel- 
videre, N. J., August 18. 
New Y’ork 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. 
Internationa] Dry Farming Congress, 
Denver, Colo., Oct. 4-7. 
Southwestern New York Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation, consignment sale, Randolph, 
N. Y., Oct. 1. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
annual show, Cleveland, Ohio, November 
10-14, 1915. Special show, San Francis¬ 
co., Cal. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., Jan. 3-8, 1916. 
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