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THE KURA.L 
NEW-YORKER 
December 4, 1915. 
Farmers’ Institute Workers’ 
The seventeenth annual Normal Insti¬ 
tute of Farm Institute Workers was held 
at the State College of Agriculture, 
Ithaca. N. Y., November 10-12, under the 
direction of Edward Van Alstyne, State 
Director of the Bureau of Farmers’ In¬ 
stitutes. The conference was attended 
by the 32 Farm Bureau managers of the 
State and 30 institute workers. The key¬ 
note of the conference seemed to be co¬ 
operation—co-operation between produc¬ 
ers. consumers, farmers’ institutes and 
farm bureaus, and the college and the 
workers in the field. One of the 
undercurrents which pervaded the meet¬ 
ings was the belief on the part of 
all that extension and institute work for 
the farm women and the farm home 
should take a more definite form and 
should go further in making the farmer's 
wife's life easier and happier. The con¬ 
sensus of opinion was that there should 
be a county agent for the farm home, as 
the farm home is laying the foundation 
for the future success of agricultural in¬ 
terests. 
The Farm Home Workers held a two- 
day conference under the direction of the 
Department of Home Economics and dis¬ 
cussed the work to be covered in the insti¬ 
tutes during the coming Winter. “Better 
Farm Homes” will be the battle cry of 
the women workers as they present the 
subjects of home arrangement, home ven¬ 
tilating, home nursing, and numerous 
others. Mrs. Rose Morgan made an in¬ 
spiring address on the subject “Glorify¬ 
ing Our Work,” which made every worker 
present feel her personal responsibility 
to present her subject to the farm women 
in such a way that the conditions in the 
farm homes cannot but improve. 
A new subject which will be presented 
to the farmers of the State this year is 
the agricultural law, which affects them 
in their daily work. Mr. Geo. L. Fland¬ 
ers,- counsel of the New York State De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, presented the 
law involved by farm labor, fertilizers, 
dairy products, live stock, plant diseases, 
farm seeds, insects, food stuffs, and nox¬ 
ious weeds. These statutes will be ex¬ 
plained to the farmers at the various in¬ 
stitutes throughout tin- State during the 
Winter, that they may avoid being liable 
to the laws through ignorance of them. 
All the other subjects pertaining to ag¬ 
riculture were thoroughly discussed, and 
all the developments of the year explained 
to the workers. Director Van Alstyne 
spoke in favor of broadening the work of 
the cow-testing associations as the best 
possible way of making them a real help 
to the dairy interests. He told of the 
necessity of having a good tester, i. e., 
good morally, ambitious, and with a 
knowledge of the work. He expressed a 
hope that the other cattle clubs would 
soon follow the lead of the Jersey and 
Ayrshire clubs in allowing the advanced 
registry testing to be done by the asso¬ 
ciation. The advisability of puting the 
percentage of fat on the label of every 
bottle of milk was advanced favorably by 
Mr. Van Alstyne. 
Co-operation was discussed from a 
standpoint of marketing by Prof. Adams 
< f the College, and from a standpoint of 
working together educationally, socially 
and financially by Prof. Lauman of the 
College. Prof. Adams said that the main 
■ i tfalls nf co-operative marketing are the 
desire on the part of the consumer to save 
; 1 the middleman’s profit for himself, the 
substitution of a poorer product when the 
demand increases, and the lack of a 
standard. Prof. Adams said that the 
only remedy in sight at the present time 
was the public markets where the produc¬ 
er and consumer can get together to a 
certain extent, and where the consumer 
will have the opportunity to inspect the 
product before purchase. 
The meetings closed with a luncheon 
and “get-together” Friday evening. Many 
informal discussions and talks were held, 
interspersed with singing by Mrs. Rose 
Morgan. Essays on “Farm Management” 
and “Rotation of Crops” were read and 
prizes awarded. The evening con¬ 
ference closed with all the workers deter¬ 
mined to make the coming Winter count 
in the agricultural advancement of New 
York State. B. Y. K. 
Events of the Week. 
DOMESTIC.—The third death from 
the animal disease called anthrax to oc- 
ur at Bellevue Hospital, New York, 
within three months happened Nov. 18, 
hen Miss Sophia Rosen, a factory work- 
in- who had been taken from her home 
at 219 Seventh Street to Bellevue the 
■ ay before, died at the hospital. When 
correct diagnosis had been made at 
F'ollevue following a week of illness at 
!’’•> girl’s home, during which it had been 
thought she was suffering from acute 
nephritis, Dr. Leslie L. Ross of the State 
Department of Labor began an investiga¬ 
tion upon the theory that Miss Rosen had 
contracted anthrax from wearing a cheap 
fur neckpiece. It was believed that an 
abras’on of the skin gave entrance to the 
disease germ. 
Gold has been found in the Terry 
Lodge district, on Rapid Creek, S. I>. It 
is said to be the richest strike made in the 
Black Hills since the early days of 1S70. 
Owing to the blockade of the Panama 
Canal bv the recent slide many employes, 
mainly in the operating divisions, are be¬ 
ing furloughed or given vacations. It is 
the intention of Major General George 
W. Goethals, Governor General of the 
Canal Zone, to force a temporary channel 
through the slide as quickly as possible, 
and to pass through the waterway a few 
ships which have been waiting since the 
canal closed and then shut off traffic 
again until all danger of slides has been 
ended. This probably will be not less 
than six months, according to the best 
available estimates. The condition at the 
slide remains virtually unchanged, though 
slight gains are now being made by the 
dredges against the mass which is block¬ 
ing the channel. 
Lieutenant Henri Koch, one of the of¬ 
ficers of the interned German auxiliary 
cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, who vio¬ 
lated his parole and left Norfolk on Oc¬ 
tober 17, has been taken off a Danish 
steamer in the North Sea by the British 
naval authorities. Lieutenant Koch, who 
was sailing as a seaman, joined the steam¬ 
er at Baltimore, giving his nationality as 
Dutch. It is asserted that many others 
have left the interned ships, their places 
being taken by substitutes. 
Discovery of a quantity of dynamite 
near the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge 
over the I )elaware River at Trenton, N. 
J., Nov. 20, has resulted in the com¬ 
pany’s stationing detectives at the bridge. 
The precaution was prompted by fears 
of a possible plot to wreck the bridge. 
The bridge is on the main line between 
New York and Philadelphia and conse¬ 
quently large consignments of war muni¬ 
tions destined for shipment to the Allies 
from New Yqrk are constantly passing 
over it. 
Nov. 19 New York and vicinity suf¬ 
fered from a gale blowing 71 miles an 
hour, which did much property damage, 
caused the death of one man blown from 
a scaffold, and of a little girl blown under 
a street car, while 26 other persons went 
to hospitals with cuts, bruises or broken 
limbs. Coast shipping suffered consider¬ 
ably. The oyster schooner of Captain 
William Woodall, of Leipsic, Del., was 
capsized near Ship John Light, in the 
Delaware Bay. The owner, his son, Al¬ 
bert; William Parker, of Leipsic, and 
Allen Arthurs, of Dover, Del., were 
drowned. 
Flames which swept through the sec¬ 
ond floor of the brass foundry of Cramps’ 
Ship Yard at Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 20, 
were kept in check by the crew of a 
Pennsylvania Railroad switching engine 
until the firemen arrived. The railroad 
men ran the locomotive on a siding along¬ 
side the burning structure, and, after at¬ 
taching a hose to the engine tank, played 
a stream on the blaze. The fire caused a 
loss estimated at $3,000. It started 
among chemicals stored on the top Hoor 
of the building occupied by the brass 
foundry. Officials say it could only have 
been kindled by an incendiary. 
Nov. 21 a cleverly planned plot against 
the life of John D. Archbold, president 
of the Standard Oil Company of New 
Jersey, was discovered at Tarry town, N. 
Y., when four sticks of dynamite were 
found concealed within 50 feet of his 
home. The explosive was buried in the 
wheel ruts of the automobile path leading* 
from the garage to the avenue in a place 
where Mr. Archbold's chauffeur would 
have had to drive over it after taking his 
employer from the house. Only the fact 
that the Standard Oil magnate went to 
his offices in New York on his yacht 
Vixen saved his life, the police believe. 
It is his usual custom to travel to and 
from the city by water during the week, 
but on Saturday, a half holiday, he often 
makes the journey in his machine. This 
time, however, he changed his plans. The 
plotters evidently were familiar with his 
habits. 
A wireless station near Deering, Me., 
is under observation by the Navy Depart¬ 
ment, as result of suspicion that it is 
operating in violation of neutrality. It 
was acting as a receiving station for the 
German wireless base at Tuckerton, N. J. 
An explosion, attributed by officials to 
alien enemies, occurred, Nov. 22, in the 
plant of the Canadian Explosives Com¬ 
pany, Ltd., which covers nearly three 
square miles at Nobel, Ont. Five one- 
story buildings used to store cordite, 
which the company has been manufactur¬ 
ing in large quantities, were destroyed. 
The inquiry before the Federal Grand 
Jury in New York into the activities of 
German agents in this country brought 
out facts, Nov. 23, extremely damaging 
to Capt. Boy-Ed, naval attache to the 
German Embassy at Washington. It was 
Capt. Boy-Ed, according to the testimony 
of Gustave V. Kulenkampff, importer and 
exporter, who personally directed the 
spending of a fund of $750,000. a part of 
which, at least, the Government charges, 
was used by the Hamburg-American Line, 
Dr. Karl Buenz, the managing director 
here of the line, and others, to charter 
vessels at the beginning of the war and 
by means of false clearance papers and 
manifests clear the vessels from American 
ports to coal and provision German war¬ 
ships at sea. Another witness was An¬ 
drew D. Meloy, real estate agent and 
promoter of Mexican enterprises, who is 
already under indictments. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A suit for 
$100,000 damages was filed by attorneys, 
Nov. 20, at Waukegan, Ill., for Grace 
G. Durand and Scott S. Durand, owners 
of the famed Guernsey herd slaughtered 
at Crabtree Farm, in Lake County, on 
November 9. Among the State and Fed¬ 
eral officeholders named as defendants are 
Edward F. Dunne, Governor; D. F. 
Houston, Secretary of Agriculture; R. i 
M. Patterson, L. F. Brown and B. J. j 
Shanley, members of the Illinois Live¬ 
stock Commission; C. E. Dyson, State I 
Veterinarian, and Frank Smejkal. veter¬ 
inarian, who is alleged to have shot at 
Mrs. Durand. 
CEILING 
ROOFING 
WEATHER BOARDING 
BRICK SIDING 
The annual meetings of the New York 
State Breeders and Dairjmen’s Associa¬ 
tions will be held in Rochester. Decern- 1 
her 14th to 17th. at Exposition Park. 
The subjects to be discussed are: “But-j 
terfat as a Basis for Fixing the Value of 
Commercial Milk.” by Dr. L. L. Van 
Sl.vke, of the Geneva Experiment Sta¬ 
tion ; “Forage Crops for New York,” by 
Professor H. II. Wing, of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity ; discussion on cultural methods 
of forage crops by Professor E. G. Mont¬ 
gomery of Cornell University ; “A Year’s 
Experience with the Sanitary Milk 
Code.” by Dr. Tinsley R. Williams. Dep¬ 
uty State Commission of Health: “The 
Value of Farm Bureau in Developing the 
Livestock Industry of the Community.” 
by Floyd L. Barlow; Cow Testing Asso¬ 
ciations will be discussed by men prac¬ 
tically familiar with the subject. There 
will be round table discussions on horse 
breeding, on swine breeding, on sheep 
breeding, on cheese making, on butter 
problems and on market milk problems. 
Dec. 17 there will be a sale of liigh-elass 
Holstein cattle. 
Planters controlling about 50 per cent, 
of the sugar production of Louisiana or¬ 
ganized the Sugar Planters’ Association 
at New Orleans, Nov. 22, and agreed ro 
pool all sugar available for the local 
market hereafter and to co-operate in the 
disposal of their product. A selling com¬ 
mittee. composed of New Orleans bank¬ 
ers and business men, was appointed to! 
meet daily to arrange prices, and to ap¬ 
portion the sugar among the various re- I 
fineries to the best advantage of the 
planters. 
Mill feed, wholesale price, bran. $1 a 
hundred: shorts, $1.25; hominy feed, 
$1.35; potatoes, 50c. a bush.; cabbage 
sold at retail all Fall at one cent a 
pound. They were both a great crop this 
year. For two seasons now I have treated 
my potatoes with corrosive sublimate and 
I think it beats the formalin treatment 
which I formerly used. I planted pota¬ 
toes this year on August 4. The seed had 
sprouted badly and about one-third did 
not grow, but I got potatoes size of hens’ 
eggs. I shall save the be6t of them for 
seed. I like to bury my seed potatoes: 
seed kept in this way I think far superior 
to that kept in a cellar. I think my plan 
of burying potatoes, carrots and beets is 
the best I have seen. Dig a hole large 
enough two or three feet deep, and fill up 
so the vegetables are not quite level with 
the surface; then lay boards across so 
there is an air space on top of the vege¬ 
tables. On the boards put a layer of 
straw or hay, on top of this 18 or 20 
inches of dirt. If you wish to make as¬ 
surance doubly sure put some horse ma¬ 
nure on top of this after the ground 
freezes, but it is not necessary here. 
Crete, Neb. n. t. g. 
Nov. 21. Potatoes 90c to $1; eggs 40 
to 45c per doz., scarce. Large lot tur¬ 
nips 35c; rutabaga 50c. Table beets 50c 
per bu. Carrots for table use 50c. re¬ 
tail ; beans, yellow-eye. $.3.50 per bushel 
(wholesale). Dairy butter year round 
35c (stores pay about 30c). Milk, re¬ 
tail, 7c per quart; wholesale about 5c. 
Apples $2 to $4 ; cabbage, retail, lc lb. 
Cattle for beef range all prices; new 
milch cows $50 to* $75; chickens 16 to 
18c per lb.; fowl 14 to 16c wholesale, 
dressed. We have no regular markets, 
we trade with dealers mostly. They tell 
us what they will give us for our pro¬ 
duce and when we buy their goods they 
give us the price again, so we do not 
have much to say. w, K. B. 
Chelsea, Me. 
For New Buildings or Repairing old ones. 
Easy to put up. Make your buildings fire 
resisting. Write for illustrated booklet 
now. Send measurement of room or 
building for an estimate. 
NORTHROP, COBURN & DODGE CO. 
39 Cherry St., - New York City 
ALONG CUES, fit OHIO KYT 
At $15.00 an acre and up. Abun¬ 
dant rainfall, rich soil, mild winters, 
plentiful labor, excellent markets. 
Write for free illustrated Farm 
Home booklet, “Country Life in 
Virginia,” and low excursion rates. 
Address K. T. CRAWLEY, In¬ 
dustrial Agent, C. & O. By., 
Boom 1003, Richmond, Virginia 
11 
1SSESL 
Delightful, healthy climate. Good 
Land, Reasonable prices. Close to 
big markets of large cities of the 
East. Send for free descrip¬ 
tive booklet and map. 
•xW'MiJ- tive booklet ana map. /Ah 
ate bureau of immigration,/*? 
62 A Hoffman Bldg., Baltimore, Md. 
The State For Thrifty Farmers 
SOUTHERN LANDS ARE LOW IN PRICE 
but high in productive value; make two to four 
crops a year, and give largest profits in grain, vege¬ 
tables, fruits, live stock and dairying: unsurpassed 
climate, good markets. Publications on request. 
IVI. V. RICHARDS, Industrial and Aoricultural Com¬ 
missioner. Room 87, Southern Railway, Washington, 0. C. 
RARftAINQ- FARMERS, LISTEN We offer 20 head 
DHnUHIIlO 0 f fl n e registered Berkshires. Every 
one a bargain. Sows, 
HUB BELL BROS., 
pigs and service boars. 
Fish’s Eddy, N. Y. 
FARMS—VIR GINI A—FARMS 
Booklet free. JOHN E. WALKER, Salem, Va. 
FARMS FOR SALE 
75 desirable Cliantauqua Co. farms for sale. Send 
for farm list. Strong & Bradley, Dealers in Real 
Estate, Stocks 8 Bonds.1-2-3 Gokey Block, Jamestown, N Y. 
irn Cormo POK SALE—near Phila. and Trenton markets; 
I OU rarms railroad and trolley lacilitieK. New cata¬ 
logue. Entabliahed 25 years. Horace (J. Reeder, Newtown, IVima. 
Flour at Wholesale 
Coming straight from the mill to you. Freight 
prepaid. Write for delivered prices. 
NORTHWAY & PECK 
East Orwell, Ohio 
We pay top prices for Skunk, Mink. 
Muskrat, and nil raw Furs. Price list 
free. M. J. .IKWETT & SONS, 
KEDWOOD, N. Y. - DEPT. 29 
RAW FURS WANTED 
Highest Cash Prices. Liberal assortments. Send 
for Price List. 
SAM’L LEWIS, 153 W. 29th St., New York 
IGHEST PRICES 
Paid for All Kinds of RAW FURS 
T NEED largo quantities of 
- 1 - all kinds of furs, and it 
will pay you to get my price 
list. I especially solicit com¬ 
munication with dealers hav- 
large lots to sell. Write 
price list and shipping 
tags today to 
O. L. SLENKER 
P. O. Box.K, East Liberty, O. 
RAW FURS WANTED 
Highest prices, 
liberal grading. 
Write for free 
price list now. 
A. SUSKINO & CO. 
113 W. 25th Street 
New York 
WE WANT YOUR FURS 
Price list now ready. 
Get on our mailing' list. 
AT HIGHEST MARKET PRICES 
HONEST ASSORTMENT 
Write at once. 
VI. SAYER & CO., 
Est. 1900. 269 Seventh Ave., New York, N. Y. 
RAW 
Gr. X. FOSE 
279 SEVENTH AVE., N. V. 
A Square Deal, Liberal 
Assoilmenl, Top Price*. 
Write For Price Litt 
FURS 
W£ WANT YOUR RAW FURS- 
Write for Our Price List 
ROSENSTIEL FUR CO., Inc., New York 
MAURICE ROSENSTIEL, Pres. - - 269 Seventh Avenue 
We guarantee to hold all shipments entirely separate, and in ease our valua¬ 
tions are not satisfactory we will return your goods at once, and pay all 
express charges both ways. 
H. A. PERKINS & CO. 
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. VT. 
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