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THE KUKAI> KwVv'-YORKBR 
Crops and Farm News 
The Fruit Exhibit at New York State Fair. 
This year the fruit was shown in one 
end of the Manufacturers and Fine Arts 
Building, and although in some respects it 
was an improvement on the old building 
it was not on the whole a successful 
change. The defects were not plainly 
noticeable to the visitor who merely 
passed through, but those who spent most 
of their time there for 10 days fully 
realized the unsuitability of the building 
for an exhibit of this character. Not 
only is the building unsuited for a fruit 
show, but insufficient space was allotted 
the fruit department, and one large county 
exhibit had to be placed in a wing of the 
building away from the rest of the fruit, 
to say nothing of the congestion made ne¬ 
cessary in caring for the smaller ex¬ 
hibits. Part of the space allotted to the 
Geneva Experiment Station had to be 
taken at the last minute for the exhibits 
of box fruit. The fruit growers of the 
State feel it is about time they had a 
building of their own at the State Fair; 
designed to fully meet the requirements 
of a fruit exhibit, and we trust the State 
will provide such a building in the near 
future. 
Five counties competed for the prize 
for the largest and best collection of fruit 
collected and shown by any county organ¬ 
ization. Ulster won first ($250) with a 
score of 82.4 ; Orleans came second with 
a score of 80.7 and a money prize of 
$200; Oswego won third ($i50) on a 
score of 77.7, and Niagara crowded them 
very close with a score of 77. Ontario 
scored 73.1. 
In the Subordinate Grange class, 
Gaines Grange of Albion won first, Ilall 
Grange second and Clintondale Grange 
third. Best display of three packed bar¬ 
rels, first E. W. Catchpole & Sons, North 
Rose; second L. B. Moore, Kendall; 
third J. A. Hepworth & Sons, Milton. 
Best three boxes, first E. W. Catchpole 
& Sons; second Graham Ilurd & Son, 
Clintondale; third Salisbury Bros., 
Phelps. In the barrel and box classes 
the packing is often the determining fac¬ 
tor, the very best fruit sometimes losing 
on account of slight defects in packing. 
Fruit farm collection, all kinds of fruit, 
first Graham Ilurd & Son; second J. A. 
Hepworth & Sons; third M. F. Pierson, 
Stanley. Largest and best collection of 
apples, first Grant G. Ilitchings, Syra¬ 
cuse ; second P. E. Nostrand. Shelter 
Island Heights, third E. W. Catchpole 
& Sons. 
Single plates on which extra premiums 
are offered on account of the commercial 
importance of the variety, first prize only 
given here: Baldwin, J. A. Hepworth & 
Sons, $50; R. I. Greening, Lewis L. Ed¬ 
wards, $50; Northern Spy, W. S. Teator, 
Upper Red Hook, $20; Tompkins King, 
G. G. Ilitchings, $20; McIntosh, W. S. 
Teator, $15; Twenty Ounce, G. G. Ilitch- 
iugs, $15; Wealthy, Joseph R. Hurd, 
Clintondale, $15; Spitzenburg, W. S. 
Teator, $10; Fameuse, Leslie Tanner, 
Medina, $10; Hubbardston, W. S. Tea- 
tor, $10; Pound Sweet, Elmer C. 
Stearns, $10; Red Canada, G. G. Hitch- 
ings, $10; Rome, W. S. Teator, $10; 
Roxbury, E. W. Catchpole & Sons, $10; 
Bartlett pear, D. E. Curtis, Sterling Sta¬ 
tion. $25; Elberta peach, Ridgleigh 
Fruit and Poultry Farm, Huntington, 
$25. 
In studying the exhibit one thing was 
very noticeable and that was the marked 
advantage the exhibitor from Long Island 
or the lower Hudson Valley has in color 
and maturity over the exhibitor from 
other parts of the State. The winnings 
at Fall fairs are often due to this fact 
alone. Apples from Long Island often 
show as advanced maturity at State Fair 
t ine as the same variety does the first 
of November in Northern and Western 
New York. The same can also be said of 
fruit from orchards under the sod-mulch 
system. The improvement in quality 
and uniformity during the past ten years 
is very marked. The judges for the past 
few years have been discriminating 
strongly against overgrown and irregular 
shaped fruit, and the experienced exhibi¬ 
tor in picking his plate of five specimens 
rtat^'knt of tiie ownership, manage¬ 
ment, CIRCULATION, Etc., required by 
the Art of August 24, 1912, of THE RU¬ 
RAL NEW-YORKER, published weekly at 
New York, N. Y., for October 1, 1915. 
Editor: Herbert W. Collingwood, Woodcliff Lake, 
New Jersey. 
Managing Editor: Herbert W. Collingwood, 
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. 
Business Manager: John J. Billon, 903 West End 
Avenue. New York, N. Y. 
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West 30th Street, New York. 
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John J. Billon, 903 West End Avenue, 
New York. 
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New York. 
Herbert W. Collingwood, Woodcliff 
Lake, N. J. 
There are no bondholders, mortgagees, or other 
security holders. 
(Signed) JOHN J. BILLON, Business Manager. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22d day 
of September, 1915. 
(Seal) P. J. NEWMAN, 
Notary Public, Rensselaer County, Certificate 
filed in New York County No. 73. 
My commission expires March 30, 1917. 
tries to have each specimen as nearly 
a counterpart of all the others as possi¬ 
ble. More uniformity is also noticeable 
in the boxes and barrels, and this uni¬ 
formity demanded by the judges has no 
doubt had an influence on better market 
grading at least by those growers who 
exhibit regularly. One fact was made 
very clear at the State Fair this year and 
that is that New York can grow fancy 
fruit. It is now up to the growers to 
pack so they can take their proper place 
in the world’s markets and hold it 
G. B. S. 
Sept. 2(5. Potatoes are being shipped, 
and the outlook for the growers seems 
brighter than it did some time ago. It is 
estimated that the crop is not more than 
75 to 80 per cent, of the normal, and 
about 65 per cent, of last year’s crop. In 
the northern section, the quality is better, 
and of a higher grade, less rust, and of a 
uniform quality. Potatoes are selling at 
$1 a barrel, and good prospects for higher 
prices. In the potato region the sidings 
are busy loading cars, and lines of wagons 
loaded with potatoes are arriving con¬ 
tinuously, showing the activity in large 
growing sections. It is noted that Maine 
will not suffer alone on the potato short¬ 
age ; other States have bad their crops 
ruined by the bad weather, and the de¬ 
mand will be far greater this season for 
Maine potatoes. It is estimated that New 
England is short about ten million bush¬ 
els ; how much this will affect the market 
prices will be difficult to figure at this 
period. With other States short, and 
Maine potatoes in better condition, the 
prospect looks good for soaring prices 
later, perhaps earlier than expected. 
Should the price remain at $1 a barrel the 
farmer is sure of breaking a little better 
than even. w. H. B. 
Bangor, Me. 
Sept. 20. There are no auctions here. 
Butter is now bringing 30 cents; eggs, 25 
all Summer, but probably 30 now. Lamb, 
$4; cows not freshening this Fall, $35. 
New milch cows, $50. Sucking colts, 
$05; cattle, yearling, $25. e. r. 
Garnet, N. Y. 
Sept. 27. Milk is sold at creamery at 
$1.40 per 100 pounds, with a raise of 10 
cents per month up to January, when it 
takes a drop of 10 cents every month. 
Butter, 25 to 35 cents; price now 30 
cents; cream, 25 to 30 per quart. Veal 
calves bring from seven to 11 cents per 
pound, live weight, price now nine cents. 
Good grade milch cows sold from $60 up 
to $100; lower grades, from $40 up. Dur¬ 
ing the season milk is sold to boarding 
houses for five cents a ouart. c. A. 
Parksville, N. Y. 
New Men at Pennsylvania State College. 
The following additions have been made 
to the State College faculty. All of these 
men w r ere raised on farms or have had 
practical farm experience: 
Richard A. Andree, formerly of the 
University of Wisconsin, has been ap¬ 
pointed instructor in agronomy. 
E. O. Anderson is instructor in farm 
management. Mr. Anderson, who was 
reared on a farm in Michigan, took the 
four year course in agriculture at the 
Michigan Agricultural College. 
I). C. Weimer, as an assistant in agro¬ 
nomy, will have charge of the laboratory 
work in soils and will assist also in a 
course in soil mapping. He is a graduate 
of State College, and has been engaged in 
soil survey work in Cambria County. 
R. W. Duck has been added to the De¬ 
partment of Agronomy as an assistant, 
lie had a four year course in Agriculture 
at the University of Missouri, specializ¬ 
ing in animal husbandry. 
L. F. Reese is instructor in horticul¬ 
ture- He received the degree of Bachelor 
of Science from the University of Mis¬ 
souri. 
L. S. Kleinschmidt has been appointed 
assistant in poultry husbandry. He was 
trained at the University of Missouri. 
H. P. Cooper, a graduate of the South 
Carolina Agricultural College, recently 
took up work as an assistant in agro¬ 
nomy. 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—Eight sticks of dyna¬ 
mite in a cigar box, which had bumped 
across the country in a mail bag from 
Napa Junction, Cal., to the foreign 
branch post office at Morton and West 
streets, New York, September 24, were 
confiscated by the authorities. The pack¬ 
age arrived as fourth class mail matter on 
September 7, and was addressed to “Ro- 
ascio, Virginia, P. C., Ceva, Italy.” It 
had been postmarked on September 1 and 
bore the sender’s name as Luigi Schirolfi. 
As it did not have the required amount of 
postage a notice was sent to Schirolfi that 
the package would not be forwarded until 
he sent the necessary stamps. Schirolfi 
was not heard from an I an examination 
of the contents of the package aroused 
suspicion. The dynamite sticks were in 
two canvas bags- They came originally 
from the plant of the Giant Powder Com¬ 
pany in California. 
From 70 to 80 Mexicans attacked a de¬ 
tachment of United States soldiers at 
Progreso, Texas, September 24, and killed 
one trooper, wounded the commanding 
captain, looted and burned the Progreso 
post office storehouse and escaped across 
October 9, 1915. 
the river under cover of rifle fire from 
several hundred Mexicans in trenches on 
both sides of the Rio Grande. 
The recent cave-in of the Seventh ave¬ 
nue subway excavation in New York 
brings out the fact that at least five miles 
of Manhattan’s thoroughfares, practically 
all of them running north and south, and 
subject to the heaviest traffic, are still un¬ 
dermined by subway construction. The 
wooden surface of the roadway upon 
which the street cars are operated and 
motor and horse drawn vehicles are 
driven is supported by a honeycomb of 
wooden girders similar to that in Seventh 
avenue which collapsed September 22. 
There are about 15 miles of new subways 
in the Borough of Manhattan under 
course of construction, some sections 
being nearer completion than others. A 
second landslip occurred on Broadway, 
near Times Sonare, September 25, just as 
the theater-going crowd began to gather 
in the evening. One woman was killed 
and several persons were injured. 
September 20 an attack by ITaitien 
rebels on an American force near Cape 
Haitien, resulted in the death of 46 
Ilaitiens; 10 Americans were wounded. 
It is asserted by the captain of the 
Fabre Line steamship Sant’ Anna, recent¬ 
ly on fire at sea, that an attempt was 
made to asphyxiate 1,500 Italian reserv¬ 
ists on board. Reservists who were sleep¬ 
ing in a forward compartment were first 
overcome by the gas. which spread after 
an explosion under hatch No. 2. Imme¬ 
diately the captain sent out S. O. S- calls, 
ordered the lifeboats ready and the pas¬ 
sengers gotten on deck. A second explo¬ 
sion added to the gases and to the heat, 
which became so intense that the deck 
plates were warped. Despite the heavy 
seas not a life was lost in transferring the 
passengers to the Ancona, which arrived 
eight hours after picking up the call. Cap¬ 
tain Pavy turned over to the authorities 
at Naples 18 pieces of the fuse, which 
were found after the fire was extin¬ 
guished. 
Fifty-five persons were killed and it is 
estimated 200 others were injured dan¬ 
gerously at Ardmore, Okla., Sept. 27, 
when a 250-barrel tank car of gasolene 
standing near the Santa Fe freight office 
in the business district exploded. The 
force of the explosion shook down many 
buildings and threw burning gasolene ail 
over the city. The fire loss is heavy. 
. Bichloride, of mercury solution, used to 
disinfect drinking glasses, was acciden¬ 
tally mixed with samples of a nerve tonic 
and distributed free to more than fifty 
persons in a Philadelphia department 
store September 27. Two of those who 
drank the solution are known to be in 
hospitals suffering from the effects of the 
poison and many more are believed to be 
affected in their homes. 
Eleven men were entombed September 
27 in the Lehigh Coal and Navigation 
Company’s Foster Tunnel, in the Panther 
Creek Coal Mines, near Tamaqua, Pa., as 
the result of a rush of coal and water that 
had broken through the roof of an aban¬ 
doned working. These men were em¬ 
ployed as loaders and driver boys, throw¬ 
ing coal from the chutes and hauling it 
from the mouth of the tunnel, when the 
flood of debris crashed down, completely 
blocking the gangway. 
The 00-mile gale which raged over the 
New Hampshire mountains September 
28, tore the famous Half Way House on 
Mt. Chocorua. New Hampshire, from its 
foundations, and blew it 4.000 feet down 
the mountain. Parts of the building fell 
into the valley in the town of Tam worth, 
not far from the former Summer home of 
ex-President Cleveland. The house had 
been vacant since September 15, w T hen the 
last Summer guests lert. No furniture 
could be found, so completely was the 
building demolished. 
Formal announcement of the agreement 
of American financiers to furnish $500,- 
000,000 so that foreign exchange between 
the United States and England and 
France may be maintained at normal fig¬ 
ures was made September 28 at New 
York by Sir Henry Babington Smith, 
member of the Anglo-French mission. An 
underwriting syndicate of bankers and in¬ 
dividual financiers from all sections of 
the country is to supply a credit to the 
two countries of $480,000,000, which is 
to remain in the United States to be ut : l- 
ized solely for the purpose of keeping the 
foreign exchange at the normal price. In 
return the two countries are to issue joint 
bonds due in five years, bearing 5 per 
cent, interest for the full amount of $500,- 
000,000. The price at which these bonds 
are to be sold to the investor will be 98, 
and the price at which the syndicate is to 
receive them is to be 90, making the in¬ 
terest return to the investor about S 1 /^ 
per cent. The premium to the investor is 
$10,000,000 and the commission to the 
syndicate is $10,000,000 more. 
At Suffern, N. J., a dangerous fire dur- - 
ing the night of Septemfier 28 put scores 
o people in peril, and caused a property 
loss of $200,000. 
Film frauds aggregating more than 
$500,000 and bringing profits of $50,000 
to the film “pirates” who are alleged to 
have violated the United States copyright 
law w-ere brought to light September 28 
in the arrest by the Federal authorities of 
Abraham George Levi, in business in 
New York as the Chaplin Film Company. 
Charged with reproducing and selling du¬ 
plicates of standard copyright films, he 
was arraigned before Commissioner Clar¬ 
ence S- Houghton and released on a bond 
of $1,000 for a hearing October 12. 
The entire Mississippi Gulf coast was 
swept September 29 by the worst tropical 
hurricane of many years. Forty persons 
are known to be dead and the property 
loss will exceed $1,000,000. Meagre wire¬ 
less advices and long distance telephonic 
communications indicate the flooding of 
the Mississippi River levees south of New 
Orleans and a. probable loss of life im¬ 
possible to estimate- The wind reached 
a velocity of ninety miles an hour at New 
Orleans and Bay St. Louis. 
Three workmen at iae plant of the E. 
I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, 
at Haskell, N. J.. were killed, one was fa¬ 
tally injured and a fifth was badly burned 
when 800 pounds of powder exploded 
September 29. while it was being trans¬ 
ferred from a truck to a small drying 
shed. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The fruit 
producers in the vicinity of Ithaca, Tomp¬ 
kins County, have recently organized the 
Tompkins Count Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, and will handle from 1,500 to 
2,000 barrels of apples this Fall, a con¬ 
siderable number of which will be Green¬ 
ings. 
Professor II. .T. Eustace, chief of the 
Department of Horticulture at the Mich¬ 
igan Agricultural College, has been grant¬ 
ed leave of absence for one year, during 
which time he will make a tour of in¬ 
spection of the fruit sections of the United 
States, reporting conditions as he finds 
them to the Federal Department of Agri¬ 
culture. and commending measures most 
needed for the advancement of the fruit 
growing industry. 
Complaints have been received by the 
Post Office Department to the effect that 
parcel post matter is being held for post¬ 
age in cases were post office addresses are 
changed because of re-arrangements of 
rural routes. It is pointed out that such 
postmasters are in error since Section 
595, Paragraph 5 of the Postal Laws and 
Regulations provides for the remailing of 
parcels without additional postage when 
post office addresses are changed “on ac¬ 
count of the establishment of or a change 
in rural delivery service.” 
The Department of Agriculture at 
Washington, D. C., says heavy importa¬ 
tions of Crimson clover seed of low ger¬ 
mination have caused It to warn farmers 
to ascertain the germination of the Crim¬ 
son clover seed they are using, otherwise 
many crop failures are sure to result from 
using dead seed. Since July 15, 1915, 20 
lots of Crimson clover seed have been im¬ 
ported. In three of th se lots containing 
enough seed to sow more than 2,850 acres, 
there was no seed that could be expected 
to grow under field conditions- In five 
other lots, aggregating enough to sow 
8._000 acres, the seed only germinated from 
45 to 50 per cent. The importation of 
these lots, together with 1,000.000 pounds 
of seed of low germination imported dur¬ 
ing May and June makes it more impor¬ 
tant than ever that farmers should know 
the germination of the Crimson clover 
seed they are seeding. The Department 
of Agriculture has no power to prevent 
the admission of such seed and it is there¬ 
fore warning farmers to be on their guard 
in sowing. 
Wheat 34 years old has just been 
thrashed in England, and it made excep¬ 
tionally good bread. The wheat was 
grown and harvested in 1881 by a farmer 
named Selby near Grantham, Lincoln¬ 
shire, who swore he would not sell it until 
it reached a certain price. That price 
was still a secret when the farmer died. 
The grain was then put on the market, 
bringing a good price. 
The estimated number of stock hogs in 
the United States on September 1 is 
about 107.2 per cent, of the number on 
same date last year, that is, an increase 
of 7.2 per cent., according to reports 
made to the Bureau of Crop Estimates of 
the United States Department of Agri¬ 
culture. The percentage numbers this 
year as compared with last year, Sep¬ 
tember 1, in imnortant States are: Penn¬ 
sylvania 103 ; Virginia 105; North Car¬ 
olina 104; Georgia 110; Ohio 104; In¬ 
diana 107; Ilbnois 107; Michigan 100; 
Wisconsin 103; Minnesota 108; Iowa 
110; Missouri 104; North Dakota 115; 
South Dakota 110; Nebraska 110; Kan¬ 
sas 114; Kentucky 107; Tennessee 105; 
Alabama 108; Mississippi 105; Texas 
110; Oklahoma 100; Arkansas 109 ; 
United States 107.2. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
American Royal Live Stock Show, 
Kansas City. Mo., Oct. 4-9. 
International Wheat Show and Expo¬ 
sition, Wichita, Kan., Oct- 4-14. 
New England Frir't Show, Mechanics’ 
Budding, Boston, Mass., Oct. 23-30. 
Fifth annual anple 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. 
Internat ; onal I ive Stock Exposition, 
Chicago, Nov. 27-Dec. 4. 
^ Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa., Dec. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Reading, Pa., Dec. 
0 - 11 . 
Pacific International Live Stock Ex¬ 
position, No. Portland, Ore., Dec. 0-11. 
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, Den¬ 
ver, Colo., Jan. 17-22, 1916. 
National Feeders’ and Breeders’ Show, 
Fort Worth, Tex., March 11-17, 1916. 
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