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New Jersey Horticulturists Meet 
(Continued from page 1480.) 
Prof. Blake opened the evening session 
with a very interesting history of the 
society during its, forty years of existence 
and told of the many eminent men who 
had taken part in its work. Mrs. Rose 
Morgan of New York followed with an 
earnest plea for the good old-fashioned 
songs and for singing in the home. For¬ 
tunately for Mrs. Morgan the hall was 
too cold for the audience would not have 
known when to stop calling for more 
songs. 
Dr. Cook and Director T.ipman fol¬ 
lowed Mr. Carey Thursday morning, the 
former giving the results of the season’s 
experiments in controlling the pear fruit 
spots and answering the numerous ques¬ 
tions that are saved for the station staff 
to answer. Dr. Lipman was to have told 
of his western trip looking into the pot¬ 
ash situation, but the time was too short 
so he had to confine his advice to the 
making the best of our conditions with¬ 
out that very important element of plant 
food. Ilis advice was to make full use of 
lime and cover crops and supplement 
them perhaps with a little salt to help 
liberate the soil supply of potash which 
is there in large quantities, but not in 
an available condition. lie did not ad¬ 
vise buying potash at its present high 
price nor to pay fancy prices for 
izers said to contain it in any 
amount. 
W. B. Gordy came from Laurel, Del., 
to tell how the sweet potato crop is han¬ 
dled in their section of sandy soils. He 
described their methods of saving the 
seed, starting the beds, etc., supplement¬ 
ing what had been said by Mr. Douglass, 
farm demonstrator from Atlantic County, 
previously, about the careful way in 
which the successful growers there saved 
their seed by hill selection making sure 
that the seed came from hills free from 
the many ills the crop is heir to. 
C. Fleming Stanger, of Glassboro, was 
elected president following the usual cus¬ 
tom of advancing the vice-president after 
two years’ service. L. Willard Minch of 
Bridgeton was elected vice-president and 
the other officers re-elected. President 
Stanger made an earnest plea that each 
member try to get five new ones so that 
the society may be what it claims, truly 
a State society with members more equal¬ 
ly divided among all the agricultural 
counties. H. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER! 
December 18, 1915, 
fertil- 
great 
Events of the Week 
DOMESTIC.—Details of the alleged 
conspiracy to blow up vessels carrying 
munitions to the Allies were confessed, 
Dec. 2, by Lewis J. Smith, charged with 
being implicated in the plots, according 
to a statement made by Don Rathbun, 
special agent of the Department of Jus¬ 
tice at San Francisco. Smith is charged 
with being an accomplice of Charles C. 
Crowley, who is accused of having caused 
the explosion of a barge loaded with ex¬ 
plosive consigned to Vladivostok in Seat¬ 
tle harbor on May 80 last. 
Two men were injured and damage of 
$78,000 inflicted by an explosion at the 
plant of the Peters Paper Company, a 
subsidiary of the Barrett Manufacturing 
Company, of New York, at Kingston, Pa., 
Dec. 3. The plant was manufacturing 
roofing paper, later to be tarred and 
shipped to Europe for use in covering 
trenches. 
The United States has demanded of 
Germany the immediate recall of Capts. 
Boy-Ed and von Papon, the naval and 
military attaches respectively of the Ger¬ 
man Embassy here. Announcement to 
this effect was made Dec. 3 by Secretary 
Lansing in the following statement: “On 
account of what this Government con¬ 
siders their improper activities in mili¬ 
tary and naval matters, this Government 
has requested the immediate recall of 
Capt. Boy-Ed and Capt. von Papen, as 
they are no longer acceptable to this 
Government.” The action of this Govern¬ 
ment against the German attaches is due 
to no single incident in either case, but 
was based on an accumulation of improp¬ 
er activities connected with the handling 
of German military and naval matters in 
this country. The connection of at least 
one of the attaches with the plot on the 
part of certain German interests to set 
Huerta un again in Mexico as a means 
of embarrassing this Government figured 
more than any other single incident in 
the determination to adopt a drastic 
course toward these representatives of 
the German Government. 
Fifty-four men were indicted forty-six 
times each by the November Grand Jury 
3. They are charged 
sluggers, and crooked 
business agents of unions and of con¬ 
spiracy and extortion. Assistant State 
Attorney Case asked that bail be fixed 
at $195,000 for each defendant. In ef¬ 
fect the indictments number 2,484. 
Against each individual there are 6,946 
counts. The punishment on each count 
varies from a $500 fine to 10 years in 
the penitentiary. The accusations grew 
out of the extortion, vandalism and whole¬ 
sale terrorism which a band of lawbreak¬ 
ers is alleged to have visited upon the 
building trades of Chicago for years. 
A fire started, Dec. 5, in a hold of 
the steamship Tyningham, lying in the 
Erie Basin hero loading sugar for an 
English port. The fire was similar to 
that which occurred on the steamship 
Euterpe on November 3, on which sugar 
was also being loaded for the Allies. It 
was quickly extinguished, with a loss es¬ 
timated at $2,000. The fire will not in¬ 
terfere with the sailing of- the ship, as 
there was no damage to the hull. 
The Sixty-fourth Congress convened at 
Washington, Dec. 6. The President's 
message, read Dec. 7, urged prepared¬ 
ness for defence, and denounced the dis¬ 
loyalty of many citizens of foreign de¬ 
scent. 
Dr. Karl Buenz, resident director of 
the Ilamburg-American Line, former 
at Chicago, Dec. 
with being labor 
German Minister to Mexico, former 
Consul General in this city, lawyer and 
judge in his own country, was sentenced, 
Dec. 4, by Judge Ilarland B. Howe to 
serve one year and six months in the pen¬ 
itentiary at Atlanta. He was found 
guilty of having conspired to defraud the 
United States in the procuring of clear¬ 
ance papers by the aid of false manifests 
for supply ships for German raiders in 
the North and South Atlantic in 1914. 
The British steamship Carlton, with a 
cargo of 7,300 tons of sugar for England, 
arrived at Halifax, N. S., Dec. 6, with 
her cargo on fire. 
The Hill line steamer Minnesota, from 
Seattle for England with a general cargo 
valued at over $1,000,000 was reported, 
Dec. 6, adrift and helpless off the coast 
of Lower California. It is asserted that 
all her boilers were disabled by certain 
members of the crew. 
Earthquake shocks of several seconds’ 
duration, Dec. 7, shook buildings at Padu¬ 
cah and other points in Kentucky, Cairo, 
Ill., St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, Mo. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The twenty- 
first annual session of the Winter short 
courses in agriculture will open at the 
University of Vermont, December 27. and 
close February 25. The study of cream¬ 
ery operations is covered as well as the 
essential principles and practices of soil 
management, dairy and poultry feeding, 
stock breeding and judging, vegetable gar¬ 
dening, orcharding, forest management, 
poultry husbandry, etc. The courses are 
open to men and women 18 years of age 
or older, who have had a common school 
education. Incidental fees aggregating 
$10 are the only charge made. Books 
cost about $5, working suits about $3. 
The entire cost of the nine weeks’ session 
need not exceed $65. Those interested 
may get information from Prof. G. F. E. 
Story, Morrill Hall, University of Ver¬ 
mont, Burlington, Vt. 
The Vermont State Poultry Associa¬ 
tion holds its nineteenth show at St. 
Albans, January 18-21, 1916. The Amer¬ 
ican Poultry Association has designated 
it as the official State show at which 
the various gold and bronze medals will 
be awarded. D. P. Shove, of Fall River, 
Mass., and F. G. Cook of Waltham, 
Mass., will be the judges. A series of 
lectures will be given during the even¬ 
ings. It is expected that an expert from 
the U. S. Poultry Department and from 
the State Agricultural College also a na¬ 
tional representative of the American 
Poultry Association will be present be¬ 
side the judges who will give addresses. 
If you want a premium list write to the 
show secretary, F. W. Sault, St. Albans, 
Agricultural Col- 
Dec. 27-Jan. 1. 
Show, Philadel- 
Society, 
Fay- 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
American Cheviot Sheep 
ettcville, N. Y., Dec. 18. 
The annual farmers’ week at the State 
School of Agriculture, Alfred University, 
Alfred, N. Y., will be held Feb. 22-25. 
Farmers’ Week, Pa., 
lege, State College, Pa. 
Philadelphia Poultry 
phia, Pa., Dec. 14-18. 
University Horticultural Society of 
Ohio State University, fifth annual show, 
Columbus, O., second week in December. 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa., 
Dec. 24. 
Pennsylvania State Grange, State Col- 
lego, I’a., Dec. 21-24. 
New York Poultry Show, Madison 
Square Garden, Dec. 31-Jan. 5. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracv, 
Minn., .Tan. 3-8, 1916. 
American Delaine Merino Association, 
Columbus, O., Jan. 5. 
West Virginia State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Morgantown, W. Va., Jan. 5-6. 
N. Y. State Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, Rochester. Jan. 5-7. 
Peninsular Horticultural Societv, Eas¬ 
ton, Md., Jan. 11-14. 
Boston Poultry Show, Boston, Mass., 
Jan. 11-15. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
twentieth annual meeting and fruit ex¬ 
hibit, Charlottesville, Va., Jan. 12-18, 
1916. 
Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Reading, Pa., Jan. 18-20. 
Vermont State Poultry Association an¬ 
nual show, St. Albans, Vt., Jan. 18-21, 
1916. 
State Agricultural Society, 
19. 
State Association of County 
Societies, Albany, N. Y., 
Den- 
Associa- 
Agricul- 
Associa- 
29. 
New York 
Albany, Jan. 
New York 
Agricultural 
Jan. 20. 
National Western Stock Show, 
ver, Colo., Jan. 17-22. 1916. 
Amherst Poultry Association second 
annual show, Amherst, Mass., Jan. 18- 
19. 1916. 
National Poland-China Record 
tion, Dayton, O., Jan. 26. 
Pennsylvania State Board of 
ture, Harrisburg, Jan. 26. 
Western N. Y. Horticultural Societv, 
Rochester, Jan. 26-28. 
N. Y. State Tobacco Growers 
tion, Baldwinsville, N. Y., Jan. 
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1-4. 
New Jersey State Board 
ture, Trenton, Feb. 2-4. 
Farmers’ Week, N. Y. College of 
culture, Ithaca, Feb. 7-12. 
New York Vegetable Growers’ 
ciation, Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 8-11. 
Farmers’ Week, State School of 
culture, Alfred University, Alfred, N 
Feb. 22-25. 
Ilolstein-Friesian Club of New 
State. Syracuse, N. Y., March 1. 
National Feeders’ and Breeders’ Show, 
Fort Worth, Tex., March 11-17, 1916. 
American Jersey Cattle Club, annual 
meeting, New York, May 3. 
Ilolstein-Friesian Association of Amer¬ 
ica, Detroit, Mich., June 6. 
American Association of .Nurserymen, 
Milwaukee, Wis., June 28-30. 
International Apple Shippers’ Associa¬ 
tion, New York, Aug. 2. 
Y. State Grange, Jamestown, Feb. 
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