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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—August 26 dynamite 
was found in a dry dock at the Philadel¬ 
phia Navy Yard in the vicinity of the 
cruiser Prairie. At the Norfolk, Va., 
Navy Yard, two mysterious fires were 
discovered Aug. 26. Five such fires have 
occurred within the past two months. 
Revenue agents, in New York city, raid¬ 
ed an illicit distillery in an apartment at 
1345 Brook avenue, the Bronx, Aug. 27, 
and arrested Baruch Goldhagen, who 
was afterward held by United States 
Commissioner Houghton in $3,500 bail. 
The still was running full blast when 
the agents entered the apartment; the 
plant was one of the largest of its kind 
ever raided. Goldhagen is 68 years old. 
lie has been out on bail since last March 
waiting trial on a charge of counterfeit¬ 
ing. He and several others were ac¬ 
cused of making bad money in a farm¬ 
house near New Haven, Conn. 
August 25 it was announced that 18 
passengers and 25 members of the crew 
of the Arabic have not been accounted 
for. Since the disaster 10 members of 
the crew have died of exposure or in¬ 
juries in hospital at Queenstown. The 
bodies of Mrs. Bruguiere of New York 
and Dr. Woods of Wisconsin have not 
been recovered. 
The mystery of fires on ships laden 
with sugar and other supplies for the 
Allies, and the presence on board such 
vessels of bombs, was in part explained, 
Aug. 28, when the New York police made 
seven arrests. Of the prisoners five Ger¬ 
mans and one Belgian are charged with 
grand larceny. The other prisoner is an 
Austrian, who stands charged with re¬ 
ceiving stolen goods. Two of the men un¬ 
der arrest have, according to the police, 
confessed that the bombs and fires were 
set to cover up the wholesale theft of 
sugar. The police are unable to obtain 
accurate informatic of the amount of 
the alleged thefts or the amount of sugar 
that was damaged by the mysterious 
fires. Some of this information must 
come from the receivers of the sugar 
cargoes at Havre and Marseilles. It has 
been determined, however, that approxi¬ 
mately $75,000 to $100,000 worth of 
sugar was stolen and perhaps a larger 
amount damaged by fire. 
Aug. 29 another treasure train reached 
New York from Halifax with over $19,- 
000.000 in British gold, and about $25,- 
000.000 in securities. 
Valuable architectural designs that 
cannot be replaced brought the total loss 
to $150,000 when the pattern shop of 
the Peterson & Brooklyn Foundry Com¬ 
pany, Orchard Street and the Boulevard, 
Astoria. N. Y., was destroyed by fire 
Aug. 29. 
The U. S. submarine F-4 was raised 
and towed into quarantine at Honolulu 
Aug. 29. The F-4 was submerged on 
March 25 last, two miles off Honolulu 
Harbor. Ever since, tugs and wrecking 
vessels have been at work trying to raise 
the sunken submersible. The F-4 car¬ 
ried a crew of 22 men, and was com¬ 
manded by Lieut. Alfred L. Ede. Sev¬ 
eral of the bodies were found in the 
wreckage. It is asserted there were ser¬ 
ious faults in the construction of the 
vessel. 
Great Britain has given assurances to 
the United States that a large quantity 
of goods of German and Austrian manu¬ 
facture contracted for by American im¬ 
porters prior to March 2, when the Bri¬ 
tish orders in council became effective, 
will soon be released for shipment to this 
country. Most of these goods, said to be 
valued at several million dollars, and 
made up of chemicals, dyestuff, pharma¬ 
ceutical articles and Christmas toys, lie 
on the docks at Rotterdam. Whether 
or not the concession about to be made 
by Great Britain will apply only to the 
goods at Rotterdam or be extended to 
goods contracted for that are still at 
the factory is not definitely known. An 
effort will be made by this Government 
to persuade Great Britain to permit the 
shipment of all German and Austrian 
goods contracted for prior to March 2, 
whether actual delivery has been made to 
the docks or not. 
Gustav Ivopsch, the young German re¬ 
servist accused of violating the law in 
having photographs of fortifications and 
guns at Fortress Monroe, Cape Henry 
and elsewhere, was released, Aug. 31, in 
$3,000 bail to appear before the United 
States District Court at Norfolk, Va., 
November 1. Kopsch will be prosecuted 
in the Virginia court, as most of his al¬ 
leged offences—the taking of photographs 
of American fortifications—took place in 
Virginia. 
A dynamite bomb was exploded, Aug. 
31, at Depew. N. Y., in front of the home 
of Maurice F. Coombs, head of an aero¬ 
plane company, whose plant, in course 
of erection, will manufacture aerpolanes 
for the Allies. The explosion wrecked 
the wall and shattered windows in the 
vicinity. No one was injured. 
Sixteen men are dead and a score or 
more badly injured as the result of an 
explosion, Aug. 31, in the Orenda No. 2 
mine of the Merchants Coal Company at 
Boswell, Pa. It is said that a fall of 
rock loosened a gas pocket, which was 
fired by an open lamp. After damp 
killed most of the victims. 
FARM AND GARDEN—The basket 
picnic and Holstein field day of the East¬ 
ern New York Holstein-Friesian Breed¬ 
ers’ Association took place on the Hub¬ 
bard Farm, Red Hook, N. Y., on Fri¬ 
day, September 10. The picnic was held 
in the Hubbard apple orchard. The 
“Ilubbavale” purebred Ilolsteins were on 
exhibit, and there were some lessons by 
D. H. Warner of Pawling in judging 
Ilolsteins. Harry B. Davies of Chester 
spoke on “Success With Purebreds.” 
The entertainment committee furnished 
hot coffee, and Mr. Hubbard provided 
eating apples. There was a plate ex¬ 
hibit of the leading varieties of apples 
grown in the Red Ilook section, which is 
one of the best apple growing sections in 
the State. This exhibit included apples 
from the orchard of W. S. Teator. 
August 30 the stockyards at Brighton, 
Mass, were opened after being closed 
nearly a year on account of foot and 
mouth quarantine. 
Heavy frosts, in some instances taking 
the form of ice, were reported from 
Waterloo, Iowa, Aug. 29. The Govern¬ 
ment thermometer there registered 34 de¬ 
grees above zero. All tender vegetation, 
including melons, late potatoes and some 
sweet corn, is said to have been dam¬ 
aged. Field corn suffered considerably in 
northern Iowa counties. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
Orleans County, N. Y., Fair, Albion, 
Sept. 8-11. 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y., 
Sept. 13-18. 
Central Canada Exposition, Ottawa, 
Ont., Sept. 10-18. 
Bergen County Fair, Ilohokus, N. J., 
Sept. 14-18. 
Interstate Live Stock Fair, Sioux City, 
Iowa, Sept. 20-25. 
Genesee County Fair, Batavia, N. Y., 
Sept. 21-25. 
Trenton Inter-State Fair, Trenton, N. 
J.. Sept. 27-Oct. 2. 
Farmers’ National Congress, annual 
meeting, Omaha, Neb., Sept. 28-Oct. 1. 
Provincial Exposition and Horse Show, 
Westminster, B. C., Sept. 28-Oct. 2. 
International Dry Farming Congress, 
Denver, C-olo., Oct. 4-7. 
American Royal Live Stock Show, 
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 4-9. 
International Wheat Show and Expo¬ 
sition, Wichita, Kan., Oct. 4-14. 
Fifth annual apple show, Indiana Hor¬ 
ticultural Society Indianapolis, Nov. 
6-13. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
annual show, Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 10- 
14, 1915. Special show, San Francisco, 
Cal. 
Paterson Poultry Association, annual 
show, Paterson, N. J., Nov. 16-20. 
International Live Stock Exposition, 
Chicago, Nov. 27-Dec. 4. 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa., 
Dec. 24. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Reading, Pa., Dec. 
6 - 11 . 
Pacific International Live Stock Ex¬ 
position, No. Portland, Ore.. Dec. 6-11. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., Jan. 3-8, 1916. 
Vermont State Poultry Association, an¬ 
nual show, St. Albans, Vt., Jan. 18-21, 
1916. 
National Western Stock Show, Denver, 
Colo., Jan. 17-22, 1916. 
National Feeders’ and Breeders’ Show, 
Fort Worth, Tex., March 11-17, 1916. 
New York State News. 
Our Great Agricultural State.— 
The N. Y. State buckwheat crop will 
be about 200.000 bushels larger than last 
year and oats about 9,000,000 bushels 
larger than last year. This would bring 
the total as estimated up to about 46,- 
000,000 bushels. In potatoes we are com¬ 
ing short of last year’s unusual yield of 
approximately 53,000,000 bushels by 15,- 
000,000 bushels. 
“Gospel Lands.” —By a recent deci¬ 
sion of the courts what is known as the 
“Gospel School and Literature Lots,” lo¬ 
cated in Hamilton County, will revert to 
the State. These lands constitute the 
choicest parcels in the Adirondaeks. The 
name given above had its origin in an act 
ol the legislature of 1786 which provided 
that in every township the surveyor-gen¬ 
eral should mark one lot on the map 
“Gospel and School,” and another lot for 
the “promotion of literature,” and these 
lots were to be as near the center of the 
township as possible. They were not to 
be sold but were to be devoted to the 
promotion of the gospel and literature. 
State Scholarships. —The awards 
have just been made of the State scholar¬ 
ships under the new law. The education 
department gives five scholarships, each 
worth $100 a year for four years, to 
students in each Assembly district of the 
State, the prizes going to those holding 
college entrance diplomas granted by the 
secondary schools. Those who receive 
these scholarships can attend any college 
they choose within the limits of the State. 
Five More Amendments. —The Con¬ 
stitutional Convention adopted five more 
amendments to the Constitution August 
31. They are as follows: Increasing the 
salary of Senators and Assemblymen from 
$1,500 to $2,500 a year, and railroad 
fare to and from Albany once a week, the 
railroad fare to be repaid on the verified 
voucher of the member after audit by the 
Comptroller; enabling the Legislature to 
convene itself, on its own motion by a 
joint rule, in impeachment cases and re¬ 
moval of judges; vesting the Legislature 
with broader powers of taxation by pro¬ 
viding that hereafter no exemption from 
taxation shall be granted, except by gen¬ 
eral laws and upon the affirmative vote 
of two-thirds of all the members elected 
to each house. Providing that the man¬ 
agement and control of State hospitals 
for the insane, not including institutions 
for criminals or convicts, shall remain 
in the State commission in lunacy, except 
insofar as such management may now or 
hereafter be delegated by the legislature 
to the local boards of managers. Provid¬ 
ing that moneys authorized to be raised 
by the sale of highway bonds, pursuant 
to the law approved by the vote of the 
people at the general election in 1912, 
which have been apportioned to certain 
counties in excess of the sums to be de¬ 
termined by the Comptroller to be neces¬ 
sary to construct and maintain highways 
theretofore determined by general laws 
to be constructed and improved in these 
counties, shall be applied by the State 
Highway Commission, after appropria¬ 
tion by the Legislature, to the construc¬ 
tion and improvement of such routes and 
portions of routes, as were defined by law 
when the bonds were authorized, and lo¬ 
cated outside of the counties where the 
original apportionment was made, as it 
may deem expedient. 
This will provide for using about $2,- 
200.000 which otherwise would remain 
idle, because of the completion of the 
routes in counties for which the money 
could be used, in completing various con¬ 
necting links in the State highway sys¬ 
tem in other counties which will run 
short in their apportionment. J. W. D. 
The Use of Hay Slings. 
Answering S. F. B.’s question about 
hay slings, theoretically they are ideal, 
and most of the time in practice they 
work all right. However, it is far from 
pleasant to have the top sling trip just 
as it goes off the wagon, leaving its load 
on top of the next slingful. It is neces¬ 
sary then either to pitch part off on the 
ground and take it up after the rest of 
the load is out of the way or, as is often 
the case, try to take two slings up at 
once, in which case if the equipment is 
old or none too strong something is sure 
to break. I have had some bother with 
men becoming careless in laying the trip 
rope that is fastened to the slings in¬ 
correctly on the wagon, in which case 
it is impossible to trip the sling when 
it is in the barn. It is quite difficult as 
well as dangerous to unload the sling 
'when in this position. Taken altogether 
I fail to see how anything can be gained 
by the use of slings. N. M. HARRIS. 
Indiana. 
While running the farm myself, the 
slings were always used for unloading all 
crops that were housed. As I consider 
this the most practical and economical 
manner of transferring the load. In 
unloading teams the use of slings is of 
unquestionable advantage. In the use of 
slings a little care and good judgment 
is required in order that the slings are 
properly placed, that the lock is secure¬ 
ly in place, and that the load is not too 
heavy. An ordinary farm rack load can 
be taken off with three slings. They are 
just as efficient in unloading wheat bun¬ 
dles as they are for hay. There are two 
pulleys on the rope where slings are 
used. I always have a harpoon fork 
handy, so if a sling breaks or unlocks in 
unloading hay use the fork on one of 
the pulleys to take off a couple of fork¬ 
fuls, and then hook onto the next sling. 
There is always a lot of loose hay or 
grain on the lloor or ground after unload¬ 
ing with a fork, but with the slings every¬ 
thing is cleaned up with the last sling¬ 
load. The non-use of ’slings is in my 
opinion simply a repetition of the old 
adage the more “haste the less speed.” 
You seem to be doing faster work with 
the fork, but under proper management 
more will be accomplished with less wear 
and worry in a day, where the slings are 
used. H. E. cox. 
New York. 
I have often wondered why we see so 
few hay slings in the modern barn. They 
are to my mind (having used both slings 
and forks) greatly superior to any fork. 
They may be used on hay so short and 
fine that a fork is nearly an impossibil¬ 
ity, and will not leave any scatterings to 
be pitched up by fork. We always use 
three slings, and find no trouble in un¬ 
loading all one can haul at a load. It 
is very little trouble to place them pro¬ 
vided they are properly placed on the 
back standard while unloading. We have 
very seldom had them trip before we 
were ready. Another advantage of slings 
is they may be used equally as well on 
straw, bundles of grain, of any kind or 
hay. A boy old enough to drive the hay 
wagon may easily learn to place them. 
We use the team, and three trips out 
will finish a load with no scattering. 
Anyone can install the hay slings who is 
handy with a hammer. We use for slings 
^-inch rope, for the long pull %-ineh. 
If a rope breaks it may easily be spliced, 
a simple trick that my father, who was 
a sailor, taught me many years ago. The 
cost is about the same on either slings or 
forks, and a load may be unloaded in 
from 10 to 15 minutes, according to how 
swift the men are who mow away the 
hay. We always find hay comes out of 
the mow in better shape with slings than 
when we used the fork. 
Ohio. JAMES LAMPMAN. 
“Why are children so much worse than 
they used to me?” “I attribute it to im¬ 
proved ideas in building.” “How so?” 
“Shingles are scarce, and you can’t spank 
a boy with a tin roof.”—Life. 
September 11, 1915. 
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