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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The Newark, N. .1., 
Iloaid of Works, Feb. S. offered I’ort 
Newark Terminal to the I’nited States 
Covernment a.s a base for military and 
naval purposes. The terminal is near the 
Kill van Kull, which connects Newark 
Hay with New York Bay. The terminal 
consists of 1.000 acres embracing about 
one mile frontage of the west side of New¬ 
ark Bay and e.xtending two miles back. 
The city spent approximately .$2 ,.j 00,000 
on the develojunent of the property, part 
of which was for the construction of 4.500 
feet of wharfage. The port has direct 
ciinnections with the Pennsylvania and 
New .Tersey I’ailroad .systems. 
Fuel famines in many .Minnesota towns 
resulted Feb. S in the State Railroad 
Commission urging roads to give coal 
shipments prefei-ence over others to points 
complaining of .shortage. Heroic meas¬ 
ures were adopted to relieve the situation 
at Mankato. Behind a rotary snow plow 
two cars rtf coal were dragged under emer¬ 
gency orders. Along the country roads 
drifts 10 to 15 feet were reported from 
IMaynard with peaks of snow reaching to 
tree tops. 
A little leak in one of the two main 
I)i])es by which the Standard Oil Company 
of New .Jersey brings its crude jietroleum 
into Bayonne from the AVest. a leak : o 
in.slgnificant that it was allowed to pass 
b.v without attention, resulted in a blaze 
that spread over nearly .500 acres of the 
Hackensack meadows Feb. .S, endangered 
25 carloads of high explosives in a nearby 
freight yard and threw a panic into all 
towns in the immediate Aucinity. The 
main was a .‘lO-inch pipe through which 
the raw prodtict from the Ohio and Penn- 
^sylvania fields flows into the Bayonne re¬ 
fining plant. 
Twenty thousand dollars was paid ro 
Michael .1. Boyle by Horace F. Hill, vice- 
pre.sident of the Chicago Telephone Com¬ 
pany, to maintain peace among the work¬ 
men on the company’s skyscraper when it 
was under construction. That was sworn 
to Feb. 8 by Mr. Hill, a witness in the 
case of the Goveimment against four elec¬ 
trical workers’ union business agents and 
11 Chicago manufacturers of electrical 
supplies. They are charged with conspir¬ 
ing to boycott any goods, union or non¬ 
union. not made by the local nianufactur- 
<‘i‘s, in violation of the Sherman anti¬ 
trust law. 
(lov. Goodrich signed Feb. 9 the 
Statewide prohibition bill making Indiana 
dry on and after April 2, 191.S. The law 
prohibits the sale, manufacture, giving 
away or advertisement of all alcoholic 
licpiors except pure grain alcohol for 
chemical and medicinal purposes and wine 
for sacramental uses. This is one of the 
most stringent prohibition measures en¬ 
acted in any State. 
The machine shop building of the Union 
Switch and Signal Company, Pitt.sburgh, 
Pa., the largest plant for manufactuiing 
switch signals in the United States, and 
until recently engagetl in filling foreign 
munition orders, was destroyed by fire 
Feb. 10. with a loss estimated at .$4,000,- 
000. The cause of the fire has not been 
determined, although officials of the com¬ 
pany believe it resulted from spontaneous 
combustion. 
As a protection against hostile submar¬ 
ines a powerful steel net has been placed 
in Hami)ton Roads, between Fort AVool 
and the Government pier at Fortress 
Monroe. The net blocks entrance to the 
entire channel of the Roads and affords 
ab.solute protection to Fortress Monroe 
and Old Point Comfort. The net is about 
two miles long. 
A Southern Railway locomotive struck 
a crowded street car at a grade crossing 
in the western part of Louisville, Ky., Feb. 
12. and demolished it. Four persons were 
killed and more than twenty were injured. 
The Illinois Senate Feb. UJ passed a 
bill providing for a referendum on State- 
Avide prohibition in the general election 
of 191S. 
Fire in Atlantic City, N, .T.. Feb. l.S, 
d<*stroyed four tAVo-story buildings and 
caused a loss of .$70.0(K). 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The annual 
agricultural appropriation bill, carrying 
.$27,000,000, Avas passed by the Senate 
Feb. 8. An amendment Avas adopted pro¬ 
viding that no part of the appropriation 
shall be used in connection Avith money 
tendered by the (xeneral Education Board 
or any organization or individual asso¬ 
ciated' with it. and forbidding employ¬ 
ment by the Agricultuivil Department of 
any person Avho receives x'emuneration 
also from such sources. The effect of the 
amendment adopted Avill be to remove 
from the payroll of the Agricultural De¬ 
partment about 500 persons Avho have 
been carried on the roll as investigators 
of hog cholera and farm demonstrators^ at 
compensations ranging from .$1 to $25 a 
year. Avhile their principal compensation 
was derived from the Rockefeller Founda¬ 
tion through the General Education 
Board. 
A pure .seed bill Avas among those in¬ 
troduced last month in the loAver house of 
the Kansas Legi.slature. Hou.se bill 98, 
by Campbell, of Bourbon, makes it a mis¬ 
demeanor for any dealer or other person 
or corporation to sell mixed .seeds not 
plaiidy branded as such, providing a fine 
of from $10 to $50 for the first offense, 
and of not more than $200 for each suc¬ 
ceeding offense. Labels .stating plainly 
the different seeds in any mixture, and 
RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 24, 1917. 
the name of the dealer, are required. Sell¬ 
ing seeds of .lohnsou grass. bindAveed, or 
dodder is absidutely pi’ohibited. 
The annual meeting of the Massachu¬ 
setts Fruit Growers’ Association will be 
held at Horticultural Hall, AVoi’cester, 
Alass., Feb. 2.8, at 10 a. m. 
AA'ASHINGTON.—The seventeen bills 
drafted by the Department of .Tustice to 
give the Fedei’al Government greater 
poAver in the prosecution of spies, con¬ 
spirators and offenders against American 
neutrality, Avere reported to the Senate 
Feb. .8 by the .Tudiciary '(’ominittee. 
Among the bills ai'C measures to punish 
spying on any Avork of national defence, 
forgei'y or fraudulent obtaining of pas.s- 
j»orts. destruction or crippling of fordgn 
ships in American harbors, conspiracies to 
interfere Avith the export of munitioi.s and 
many other jjrovisions suggested by the 
plots of foi’eign sympathizers since the 
Avar began. 
A point of order made by Senator Gil¬ 
bert M. Hitchcock, of Nebra.ska. knocked 
out Feb. 10 the amendment to the post- 
office appropriation bill providing for one 
cent postage on “drop lettei's”—that is, 
letters to be delivered in the same com¬ 
munity in Avhich they are mailed. The 
same point of order also knocke<l out the 
increase in the postage rate on ncAVS- 
papers and magazines from one cent a 
pound to one and a half cents. Avith a 
provision that the rate should go to tAVO 
cents the folloAving year. 
A Tieasury deficit of .$:m.4(K).000 at 
the end of the next fiscal year is fore¬ 
cast in a report submitted Feb. l.'l by the 
Senate Finance rommittee recommending 
that the Administration revenue bill be 
amended to authorize a bond issue of 
.$195.25(;.(t(lR instead of $100,000,(XK) and 
that the authorization of the certificates 
of indebtedness be made $.500,000,000 in¬ 
stead of ,$:!(X),0(X).000. 
Senator Kenyon of loAA’a submitted in 
tbe Senate Feb. 18 the minority report 
in opposition to the river and harbor 
■pork barrel'’ bill. The report is signed 
by five Republican members of the com¬ 
mittee—Senators Kenyon, IoAA;a; .Tones, 
Washington; Sherman, Illinois; Hard¬ 
ing. Ohio, and Watson, Indiana. The 
minority report condemns the bill “as 
Avasteful and extravagant'’ and declares 
that the appropriations proposed in the 
bill are “inexcusable.’’ The report recom¬ 
ments that a permanent AvaterAvay com¬ 
mission be appointed to pass on appro¬ 
priations for improvement of rivers and 
harbors. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
NeAV Y'ork State Fruit GroAvers’ Asso¬ 
ciation annual Eastern meeting, Pough¬ 
keepsie, Feb. 21-2.3. 
Massachusetts Fruit GroAver.s’ Associa¬ 
tion, annual meeting. Horticultural Hall, 
Worcester, Feb. 28. 
American .Jersey Cattle Club, Ncav 
York City, May 2. 
Holstein-Friesian Association of Amer¬ 
ica, Worcester, Mass.. .June G.^ 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
forty-second annual meeting, Philadelphia, 
Pa., .June 27-29. 
Ncav Y’ork State Fair. Syracuse, Sep¬ 
tember 10-15; Albert E. BroAvn, secre¬ 
tary. 
No prime or choice cattle OAving to the 
fact that calves are all vealed. Fat coavs 
and bulls. $.50 to .$(5.5: veal calves, 10c; 
fresh coAv.s. $75 to .$1(X). Dairy butter. 
50c; milk. 2.3c to .30c per gal. wholesale. 
retail 10c per qt.; buttermilk, 20c to 25c 
per gal. Apples, $1 to ,$1.50 per bushel, 
the latter price being for choice BaklAvins. 
Hay. $12 to $15 per ton. The above 
pnces are Avhat farmers are getting from 
the Avagon. Mill feed, bran, $1.75; mid¬ 
dlings, .$2 ; gluten, ,$2.10; cornmeal. $2.40 
per cAvt. Flour, ,$10 to $11 per barrel. 
Beaver Co., I’a. w. c. s. 
Wheat, $1.72; corn, SOc; oats. 52c; 
clover seed, .$9.75 bu.; rye, $1.25; muL 
dlings, $1.75; bran, .$1.60; tankage. .$55 
per ton; eggs, 34c; butter fat, 41c. Corn 
is a good average crop, quality not good 
on account of late planting. av. i. 
Bourbon, Ind. 
In ton lots at our local dealers the fol- 
loAving are the ruling prices: Bran. .$34; 
middlings, $37 ; gluten, .$.38; dried breAV- 
er.s’ grains, $.‘*>2; cottonseed meal. $50; 
cottonseed, .$45 a ton by caiload. Deal¬ 
ers do not handle it at all. .T. AV. K. 
Bedford, Ohio. 
Farmers pay for bran .$31; middlings 
,$.35; hominy chops .$40; cornmeal .$.56; 
cottonseed meal $46; oilmeal ,$48. Far¬ 
mers receive for Avheat $1.44; corn .S5c; 
eggs .3,5c; butter 38c: choice hogs $10.25. 
lIoiAses ,$150 up: cows $100 up. t. n. 
Mason Co., Ill. 
Wheat bran sells from .$20 to ,$29..50; 
middlings, coarse, .$33.50 to $34; tine 
.$35 to .$36 per ton. Farmers are selling 
Alfalfa hay delivered at the track from 
$14.50 to $15 per^ ton. c. F. 
Campbell Co., Ky. 
Bran. .$20 per ton ; middlings. $42.,50 per 
ton; gluten feed. $.‘>8 per ton; .standard 
middlings, $35 per ton. ci. ir. T. 
Sheboygan Co., Wis. 
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