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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
October 16, 1915. 
Annual loss $35,000,000 through Smutty Grain 
Could, be prevented by using Formaldehyde 
says U. S. Department of Agriculture 
For the greatest yield this year you should treat all seed grains with the 
most up-to-date, cheapest and best method of seed cleansing we possess. 
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and black-leg on potatoes. It destroys disease germs in 
stables, kennels and chicken houses. It kills flies. 
One pint bottle of Formaldehyde treats 
40 bushels of seed — costs 35 cents 
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many uses of Formaldehyde—sent free on request 
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Quaker City Feed Mills 
Grind corn and cobs, feed, 
table meal and alfalfa. 
On the market 49 years. 
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$3.80 to $40. FREE TRIAL. 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The Federal Grand 
Jury of the District of Columbia re¬ 
turned indictments for perjury, Oct. 1, 
against President Charles C. Glover, 
Vice-President William J. Flather and 
Cashier Henry H. Flather of the Riggs 
National Bank. A controversy has raged 
for months between officers of the bank 
and Secretary McAdoo, Comptroller of 
the Currency Williams and other offi¬ 
cials in the Treasury Department. The 
Grand Jury’s presentment declares that 
the three officials in an affidavit filed in 
court during the hearing of the injunc¬ 
tion suit brought by the bank against 
Secretary McAdoo. Comptroller Williams 
and Treasurer John Burke embodied 
statements material to the issue of that 
case which they knew to be untrue. 
New York City tax books for 1915 
show an unprecedented increase in per¬ 
sonal property valuation. The tenta¬ 
tive rigures show a tenfold increase in 
tax valuation. The personal property 
valuation is raised more than $3,450,- 
000.000 over the final 1015 valuation of 
$352,051,755, and the real estate valua¬ 
tion $143,000,000 over the final 1915 
valuation of $7,728,787,717. The list in¬ 
cludes more than a hundred persons as¬ 
sessed on their personalty for $1,000,000. 
The few who are assessed for more than 
a million dollars personalty are John D. 
Rockefeller, $5,000,000; Andrew Carne¬ 
gie, $5,000,000; Isaac E. Weinstein, 
$5,000,000; Mildred B. Bliss, $4,- 
000,000; Margaret B. Vanderbilt, $3,- 
000,000; Emily F. Southma.vd, $2,000,- 
000, and James B. Ford, $1,384,000. 
Following the arrest of Edward Ride¬ 
out, an employe of the Remington Arms 
and Ammunition Company, at Bridge¬ 
port, Conn., Oct. I, on a charge of tam¬ 
pering with shrapnel shells destined for 
the French army, Prosecuting Attorney 
A. L. Delaney announced that for some 
time past unknown persons have been 
systematically tampering with the fin¬ 
ished products of the company and many 
passed as perfect have been found later 
to have been destroyed by outside agen¬ 
cies. For weeks past hindrances of all 
kinds have been placed secretly in the 
way of the arms and ammunition makers. 
Perfect products have been destroyed, 
machinery has been tampered with, and 
parts of completed orders have disap¬ 
peared bodily. 
Felix Sommerfield, a Villa agent here, 
was called as a witness, Oct. 1, before 
the Federal Grand Jury, at New York, 
which is endeavoring to determine if 
there is any truth in the reports that 
German agents have been trying to em¬ 
barrass the United States by fomenting 
trouble in Mexico. Other persons, some 
well known, others obscure, but all well 
versed in the State affairs of the turbu¬ 
lent republic, will also be called before the 
investigating body. The present inquiry 
grew out of the arrest on Sept. 30, of 
Andrew D. Meloy, a real estate man and 
promoter of Mexican enterprises, who is 
charged with having assisted Franz 
Rintelen, a German Government agent, in 
an unsuccessful attempt to get the latter 
a fraudulent American passport. 
Formal application for intervention by 
the United States Government to support 
their grievances against the British Gov¬ 
ernment was made at Washington, Oct. 
2, by representatives of a group of the 
leading American meat packers. The 
packers’ cases are divided into two 
groups, one consisting of cases already 
decided adversely to their interests by the 
British prize courts and the other group 
consisting of cases not yet passed on by 
the prize courts. The first group in¬ 
volves goods to the value of about $2,- 
500,000 and the second group goods val¬ 
ued at $12,500,000. With regard to the 
second group, the packers ask that the 
United States Government take up these 
cases with the British Government and 
“obtain for the packers redress for the 
past seizures and an opening of neutral 
ports to the same freedom of trade which 
this country enjoyed with those ports 
prior to the war.” 
Nine men who had been entombed in 
the Foster Tunnel mine at Coahlale, Pa., 
for seven days were rescued alive Oct. 
3. All had apparently given up hopes of 
rescue. It is believed that each one will 
recover. Although without food except 
the luncheons they had brought in their 
pails on the day the explosion imprisoned 
them, the victims did not suffer for lack 
of water. 
It is believed that the Panama Canal 
will be closed until Nov. 1. Excavation 
in the blocked section is being- pushed 
rapidly. Eighty vessels were awaiting 
entrance Oct. 2. 
An earthquake of unusual extent east 
and west was felt in Salt Lake City, 
Utah, Oct. 2-3, and reported from Sacra¬ 
mento and San Jose in California, Baker 
City in Oregon, Reno and Winnemucca 
in Nevada and Boise in Idaho. The cen¬ 
tre of the seismic disturbance seemed to 
be in Nevada, where it severed lines of 
communication. Throughout the north¬ 
ern part of California two distinct shocks 
occurred in rapid succession, the pei-iod 
of vibration being from ten to fifteen sec¬ 
onds. No shocks, however, were exper¬ 
ienced in San Francisco. Buildings were 
swayed in Sacramento and their occu¬ 
pants rushed into the streets. In Fres¬ 
no. also, the shocks were strong. In 
Reno, Nev., two slight shocks were felt. 
Victoria. B. C., also imported a slight 
shock. Much damage was done for a 
hundred miles along the Southern Pacific 
Railroad. Several railroad water tanks 
toppled from their high supports, and 
one at Lovelock, Nev., crushed the end 
of a dwelling. Walls of three brick 
buildings at Lovelock were cracked. 
Prof. F. J. Pack, geologist of the Uni¬ 
versity of Utah, said that a slip of the 
Wasatch Fault, extending about 150 
miles north and south along the Wa¬ 
satch Mountains of Utah, caused the 
third and most violent shock. This shock 
put the university seismograph out of 
service. 
Among Americans who fought in the 
French Foreign Legion now missing or 
dead is Edmund C. C. Genet of New 
York, a great-grandson of Governor De 
Witt Clinton. 
Conservative estimates, Oct. 2, place 
the death toll of the great storm that rav¬ 
aged the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts 
at 350. At Manila village, a famous 
shrimp settlement 80 miles below Nf>w 
Orleans, the life loss is estimated at 50. 
Rigolets and Dunbar, La., villages on a 
narrow strip of land between Lake 
Borgne and Lake Ponchartrain, north¬ 
east of New Orleans, have been wiped 
out with large loss of life. The full 
force of the storm apparently swept over 
the neighborhood of Houma. La., a city 
of 5,000 inhabitants. St. Bernard, ad¬ 
joining New Orleans Parish, was flooded 
by a tidal wave to a depth of from two 
to eight feet in the lower section of the 
parish. Crops throughout the district 
visited by the hurricane were almost to¬ 
tally destroyed. Captain Menges and 
three members of the crew of the tug 
Corsair were drowned in the Mississippi, 
off Nine Mile Point, when the Corsair 
and three fleets of barges sank while the 
storm was at its height. These fleets in¬ 
cluded more than 200 barges loaded with 
coal, valued at $1,500,000. Eleven small 
craft sank in New Orleans harbor during 
the storm and six steamships were dam¬ 
aged. The New Orleans naval station 
was badly damaged by the storm, the 
drydock being carried 300 feet down 
stream and hurled against a steel whaxff, 
the wireless apparatus being wrecked, all 
temporary buildings destroyed and the 
United States steamer Stranger sunk. 
One man was drowned, more than 100 
employes of a construction company were 
compelled to flee for safety and machin¬ 
ery worth thousands of dollars was en¬ 
gulfed when a retaining wall in the 
Louisville and Portland canal, which is 
being reconstructed around the falls in 
the Ohio River, broke at Louisville, Ivy., 
Oct. 5, releasing a wave twelve feet high. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The rulings 
of the Post Office Department making it 
obligatory that parcel post shipments of 
plants must be inspected at points of 
shipment or destination, in States de¬ 
manding it, and where inspection laws 
prevail, has been declared void by the 
attorney-general of the State of Wash¬ 
ington. Accordingly the horticultural 
authorities of that State have been re¬ 
fused access to parcel post shipments of 
all horticultural products. It is the opin¬ 
ion of the attorney-general that it is not 
permissible for inspectors to open mail 
packages unless before shipment and 
after delivery. 
It is the intention of the organizers of 
the Agricultural Society of Brazil to 
form “corn clubs” throughout the coun¬ 
try, to be conducted in the same manner 
as in the United States. At the opening 
ceremonies the director, Dr. Benjamin 
Hunnicutt, referred in enthusiastic terms 
to the success of such institutions in the 
country where they originated, and ex¬ 
pressed a hope that they could be fos¬ 
tered in Brazil. 
The U. S. Commerce Reports say that 
seeds more than seven inches long by 4.7 
inches broad, growing in pods nearly 10 
inches in length, have been collected by 
Mr. Henry Pittier from a tree he discov¬ 
ered during his recent botanical explora¬ 
tion of Panama. This tree is known to 
the natives as Alcornoque, and Mr. Pit- 
tier has given it the name of Dimorphan- 
dra megistosperma. The species name 
has reference to these seeds, which exceed 
in size those of any other known dicoty¬ 
ledonous plant. The wood from the tree 
is said to be better than any other for 
structures kept permanently under sea 
water. 
What is claimed to be the biggest po¬ 
tato show ever held, will come off at 
Marinette, Wisconsin, Nov. 17 th and 
19th. That is the date of the annual 
convention of the Wisconsin State Po¬ 
tato Growers’ Association. There will 
be an immense show of potatoes, good tu¬ 
bers and bad, a discussion and’ exhibit of 
diseases, all sorts of machinery, new pro¬ 
ducts made from potatoes, and the best 
speakers in the country; a great potato 
gathering. 
An outbreak of disease in the water¬ 
melon fields of Southeastern Missouri is 
being investigated by Prof. Reed of the 
Missouri Agricultural College and D. C. 
Welty, agricultural commissioner for the 
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern 
Railroad. The watermelon crop in that 
section is one of the greatest grown any¬ 
where in the United States, but during 
the last year, due to exti-aordinary cli¬ 
matic conditions or some other causes, a 
large pei’centage of the melons suffered 
from disease and in numerous instances 
as much as half of them wei’e lost. Up 
to September 1 the southeastern Missouri 
melon district shipped out over the Iron 
Mountain lines 1,108 cars of water¬ 
melons. 
