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Vi-IH NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Hopewell, Ya., the 
boom f.Avn of 25,000 founded by the du 
Pont Powder Company, was destroyed by 
fire Dec. 9. The blaze started in a res¬ 
taurant. The financial loss is estimated 
roughly at $3,000,000, and thousands of 
. homeless families were taken to Rich¬ 
mond and Petersburg on special trains. 
Prosecution of 300 physicians for viola¬ 
tion of the vital statistics law has been 
ordered by the New York State Depart¬ 
ment of Health. The offences in every 
case are violations of the section requir¬ 
ing registration of births within five days. 
The prosecutions follow repeated warn¬ 
ings by the department directed to physi¬ 
cians and through local registrars and 
are the culmination of nearly two years’ 
effort to enforce the law. 
An explosion Dec. 30 in the fuse plant 
of the Bethlehem Steel Company at Red- 
ington. Pa., killed one workman and in¬ 
jured 15 others, several of them seriously. 
The accident occurred in the pellet de¬ 
partment of the plant and resulted, ‘it 
was said, from a spark at a die commun¬ 
icating with quantities of powder in the 
room. 
Two of the three Anchor Line grain 
elevators owned by the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Company at Erie, I’a., were de¬ 
stroyed by fire early Dec. 10. with their 
contents, about 500,000 bushels of wheat. 
The loss is estimated at $750,000. A 
third elevator, holding 325,000 bushels of 
wheat, was saved by firemen. The 
wheat came from Canada and awaited 
shipment to Great Britain and her allies. 
Several sticks of dynamite were found 
among the coal on the tender of an engiue 
pulling a trainload of war munitions on 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Callery 
Junction, Pa., Dec. 10. The fireman dis¬ 
covered a stick in a shovel of coal which 
he was about to cast into the fire. Search 
in the tender unearthed several other 
pieces of the explosive. 
Fire of unknown origin started in cot¬ 
ton bales stored on Pier 49, New York, 
Dec. 30. Owing to prompt action the 
pier, with $500,000 worth of goods await¬ 
ing shipment, was saved from destruc¬ 
tion ; $20,000 damage resulted to cotton 
consigned to Russia. 
A roll of motion picture film, exploding 
Dec. 11 in the plant of the Coroar Chemi¬ 
cal Company, New Rochelle, N. Y., start¬ 
ed a fire in which six employees, four 
girls and two men, were burned and 19 
families rendered homeless. The factory 
building was wrecked, two frame dwel¬ 
lings were destroyed, and every house on 
the adjacent block was damaged. The 
loss is placed at $150,000. 
Six million dollars’ worth of raw silk 
went through Omaha Dec. 10 on a special 
train en route from Japan to New York. 
In the train were thirteen large baggage 
cars. 
Postmaster General Burleson’s annual 
report, made public Dec. 31, says that the 
European war has cost the American 
postal service $21,000,000, but that econ¬ 
omies of administration have reduced the 
audited deficit to a little more than $11,- 
000,000 for the fiscal year ended last 
June. Considerations of service, the re¬ 
port says, were placed above all others, 
and. notwithstanding adverse revenue 
conditions, expansion and improvement of 
postal facilities continued. 
Sciama & Co., importers of ostrich 
feathers at 49 East Eighth street, New 
York, paid $111,000 to the Treasury De¬ 
partment Dec. 13, in settlement of the 
civil suits filed by the Government as the 
result of the undervaluation of more than 
$2,000,000 worth of ostrich feathers im¬ 
ported by the firm in 10 years. The ag¬ 
gregate damages asked were $2,501,000. 
The discontinuance involved one of the 
largest payments ever made in a similar 
case. 
Baron Wilhelm von Brincken, attache 
of the German Consulate at San Fran¬ 
cisco : Charles C. Crowley, secret ser¬ 
vice worker in the employ of the con¬ 
sulate, and Mrs. Margaret W. Cornell, 
secretary to Crowley, were indicted Dec. 
13 by the Federal Grand Jury for bomb 
conspiracies. One indictment charges 
that the two men and the woman “used 
the mails to incite arson, murder and as¬ 
sassination.” The other indictment 
charges “interference with commerce by 
the destruction of munition plants and 
vessels in foreign trade.” It was on this 
charge that Baron von Brincken and 
Crowley were arrested originally. 
The New York Assay Office has just 
finished turning $102,500,000 in British 
sovereigns, which have been imported 
since October 27, into gold bars. The 
bars have been deposited in a vault in the 
Sub-Treasury, and they make a pile of 
gold measuring 390 cubic feet or more 
than three cords. In the pile, which is 
six feet in height, are 36,345 bars, each 
worth about $7,000. and about seven 
inches in height. The bars are laid in 
nineteen rows, and make a total weight 
of some 200 tons. 
A note vigorously protesting against 
the removal by the French cruiser Des¬ 
cartes of six Germans and Austrians from 
the American steamships Carolina, 
Coamo and San Juan, was cabled to Am¬ 
bassador Sharp, at Paris, Dec. 14. for 
presentation to the French Foreign Office. 
Immediate release of the men is asked, 
on the ground that the seizure of citizens 
of any nation from an American vessel 
on the high seas is without legal justifica¬ 
tion and constitutes a flagrant violation 
of American rights. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The third 
annual show of the Greater Newark 
Poultry and Pigeon Association will be 
held at the Coliseum, Springfield avenue, 
Newark. N. .T., January 24-29; secretary, 
R. C. Bethell, 70 Montclair Ave., Mont¬ 
clair, N. J. 
t The annual meeting of the Connecticut 
Vegetable Growers’ Association will be 
held in co-operation with the Connecti¬ 
cut Pomological Society at Foot Guard 
Hall, Hartford, Feb. 1, 2, 3. Howard F. 
Huber, secretary. 
The annual meeting of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania State Horticultural Association 
will be held at Reading, Pa., January 18- 
20. Phases of fruit and vegetable grow¬ 
ing of interest to all horticulturists and 
(farmers will be taken up by lectures. 
Discussions will follow by growers and 
members of the association. An interest¬ 
ing feature of the meeting will be the 
question box', which will be open at each 
session, and the discussion led by one of 
Pennsylvania's prominent growers. 
The Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege and the University of Illinois have 
arranged an exchange professorship in 
landscape gardening for the present year. 
Prof. R. R. Root, head of the department 
in Illinois, will come to Massachusetts 
for two weeks in December, to give a 
special course of lectures in landscape 
gardening. During the same time Prof. 
F. A. Waugh, head of the department at 
the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
will go to Illinois and deliver a course of 
lectures and exercises before Prof. Root’s 
students. 
The. forty-first annual meeting of the 
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association will be 
held at Hotel Adelphia, Chestnut and 13th 
streets, Philadelphia, Pa., on Thursday, 
January 13, at 2 o’clock p. m., to hear 
reports of secretary, treasurer and execu¬ 
tive committee, and for the election of 
officers for the year ensuing. It is the 
plan to visit the herds around Philadel- 
« ’iia the next day after the meeting, and 
r. Valentine invites the association to a 
lunch at Highland Farm after the trip. 
OBITUARY.—Col. Charles F. Mills, 
editor of Farm and Home and an author¬ 
ity on livestock breeding in the United 
States, died Dec. 9 in Springfield, Ill. 
Col. Mills was born May 29, 1843, in 
Montrose, Pa., and was educated at 
Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Ill. He 
entered the Union army in the Civil War 
during his senior year as a private in 
Company C of the 124th Illinois Volun¬ 
teers. After the war he became a breeder 
of improved stock, and since 1890 he had 
been editor of the Farm and Home. He 
was secretary of the American Live Stock 
Association and of the American Fat 
Stock Show, and at the St. Louis Expo¬ 
sition was secretary and chief of the de¬ 
partment of live stock. Col. Mills had 
been secretary and president of the 
American Berkshire Association, and was 
secretary of the American Clydesdale As¬ 
sociation and of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Live Stock Herd Book Secretaries. 
Buffalo Markets 
The first appearance of Winter suffi¬ 
cient to close up the unprotected market 
booths is here. Produce is accordingly in 
smaller volume, but prices have not ad¬ 
vanced materially. Potatoes are strong, 
but the highest quotation is 90 cents, 
wholesale. Eggs continue to advance, 
users of actual newlaid paying about 00 
cents for them, wholesale price being 
40 cents, but most consumers get on with 
select storage eggs at 30 cents retail. 
Sweet potatoes are $1.25 per hamper, but 
often retail about with white potatoes, $1 
per bushel. 
The apple supply is large, and prices 
are not strong. Spys and a few others 
selling at $3.75 to to $4.25, with green 
colors 50 to 75 cents less. No. 2 Green¬ 
ings retail at $1 a bushel. Pears have 
about disappeared. They were a poor 
crop and sold low. A few Catawba grapes 
are 14 to 15 cents a small basket. There 
are many Californias going at 10 cents a 
pound, retail. The quality is good. 
The high vegetable is beans, at $4.10 to 
$4,255 for mediums and reds. Marrows 
are too scarce to quote. Onions are tend¬ 
ing upward at $1 for fancy and $1.50 for 
Spanish. Green onions are still plenty 
at 5 cents a bunch, retail. 
The supply of Brussels sprouts is still 
much above ordinary, fine ones retailing 
at 15 cents a quart, with string beans $3 
to $4.25 per hamper; cabbage, $1.50 to 
$2.25 per 100 heads; celery, from 10 
cents for small to 40 cents for fine larf t 
bunches; lettuce, 45 to 05 cents per box; 
squash, an over supply of medium prade, 
05 cents to $1 per 100 pounds; yellow 
turnips, 75 to 80 cents per barrel. 
The butter market is active, prices run¬ 
ning down from 37 to 23 cents. Cheese 
has advanced to 18 cents, and is firm and 
fairly active. Poultry is weak on account 
of heavy receipts, being 25 to 26 cents for 
fancy dressed turkey, down to 21 cents 
for old toms; 14 to 15 cents for fancy, 12 
cents for low grade, 13 to 30 cents for 
chicken, 16 to 20 cents for ducks, 13 to 
10 cents for geese. Live poultry is about 
three cents lower than dressed, for turkey 
and fowl, and 2 cents for ducks and geese. 
J. w. C. 
Onions, $1 per 50 lbs.; potatoes, 80 to 
85c. bu.; eggs, 50c. Poultry, 23 to 25c. 
per lb. This is all private sales, ir. s. 
Coram, N. Y. 
Dec. 13. Butter (creamery), lb.. 2S 
to 29c.; butter, dairy, 29 to 30c. Eggs, 
30c.; pork per lb.. 8c.; beef, 10c.; hogs, 
live, 0c.; live fat cattle, 9c. to 10c. Ap¬ 
ples per bu., 50c.; apples in bulk, per 
cwt., 85c.; hay, choice per ton, $17; 
straw. $7 ; wheat, per bu., $1; corn, ears, 
per 70 lbs., 00c.; oats, per bu., 50c. Tur¬ 
keys, alive, per lb., 18c.; chickens, live, 
He. j. j. A . 
Centre Hall, Pa. 
Dec. 13. New milch cows, $05 to 
$100; springers and dry cows, $40 to 
$85; good two-year-old heifers, $50; 
yearlings, $25 to $35. Heavy horses from 
$175 to $300; no sale for light horses 
and colts. Oats, 46 cents per bu., at 
auction last week; not much mill feed 
bought at present by the farmers, as they 
have large quantities of oats and mixed 
grains. Chickens, live, 12c. a lb.; dressed, 
15c.; fowls, 10c.; turkeys, 30c. lb. Pork, 
live, 6c.; dressed, 9c.; veals, live, 10c.; 
dressed, 15c.; grassers, 5c. lb. Hay, $12 
to $15, according to quality; straw, $6 
to $8. Potatoes, per bu., 90c.; turnips, 
*-»<\; onions, $1; cabbage, 5c. per 
head. Fall plowing nearly all done. 
De Kalb Jet., N. Y. h. q. b. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa., 
Dec. 24. 
Pennsylvania State Grange, State Col¬ 
lege, Pa., Dec. 21-24. 
Farmers’ Week, Pa., Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, State College, Pa., Dec. 27-.Tan. 1. 
New York Poultry Show, Madison 
Square Garden, Dec. 31-Jan. 5. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., Jan. 3-8, 1916. 
American Delaine Merino Association, 
Columbus, O., Jan. 5. 
December 25, 1015. 
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 Society, Eas¬ 
ton. Md., Jan. 11-14. 
Chenango Valley Poultry and Pet 
Stock Association, annual show, Oxford, 
N. Y., 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. 12-13, 
1916. 
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association, annual 
meeting, Hotel Adelphia, Philadelphia, 
Pa., Jan. 13. 
New York State Agricultural Society, 
annual convention, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 
18-19. 
. Pennsylvania Horticultural Associa¬ 
tion, Reading, Pa., Jan. 18-20. 
Pennsylvania A'egetable Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Reading. Pa„ .Tan. 18-20. 
Vermont State Poultry Association an¬ 
nual show, St. Albans, Vt., Jan. 18-21, 
1910. 
New York State Agricultural Society, 
Albany, Jan. 19. 
New York State Association of County 
Agricultural Societies, Albany, N. Y., 
Jan. 20. 
National Western Stock Show, Den¬ 
ver, Colo., Jan. 17-22, 1916. 
Amherst Poultry Association second 
annual show, Amherst, Mass., Jan. 18- 
19, 1916. 
Greater Newark Poultry and Pigeon 
Association, annual show, Coliseum, New¬ 
ark N. J., Jan. 24-29. 
National Poland-China Record Associa¬ 
tion, Dayton, O., Jan. 26. 
Pennsylvania State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, Harrisburg, Jan. 26. 
Western N. Y. Horticultural Society. 
Rochester, Jan. 26-28. 
N. Y. State Tobacco Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, Baldwinsville, N. Y., Jan. 29. 
Connecticut Pomological Society and 
Connecticut Vegetable Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, Hartford, Conn., Feb. 1-3. 
N. Y. State Grange, Jamestown, Feb. 
1-4. 
Farmers’ Week, Ohio State University, 
Columbus, O., .Tan. 31-Feb. 1-4. 
Ohio State Dairymens’ Association an¬ 
nual meeting, Ohio State University Cam¬ 
pus, Columbus. Feb. 2-4. 
Ohio State Corn Show. Ohio State Uni¬ 
versity Campus, Columbus, Jan. 31-Feb. 
1-4. 
. Ohio State Vegetable Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Ohio State University, Columbus, 
Feb. 3. 
State Round-Up Farmers’ Institute 
Workers. Ohio State University, Colum¬ 
bus. O., Feb. 1. 
New Jersey State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, Trenton, Feb. 2-4. 
Farmers’ Week, N. Y. College of Agri¬ 
culture, Ithaca. Feb. 7-12. 
New York Vegetable Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 8-11. 
Farmers’ Week, State School of Agri¬ 
culture, Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y„ 
Feb. 22-25. 
Holstein-Friesian Club of New York 
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. 
Holstein-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. 
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