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In rural communities clusters 
mail delivery boxes at the 
crossroads evidence Uncle 
Sam’s postal service. Here the 
neighbors trudge from their 
homes—perhaps a few yards, 
perhaps a quarter mile or so— 
for their mail. 
Comprehensive as is the 
government postal system, still 
the service rendered by its mail 
carriers is necessarily restricted, 
as the country dweller knows. 
Long before rural delivery 
was established the Bell System 
began to link up the farmhouse 
with the neighboring towns and 
of Service 
villages. One-fourth of the 
10,000,000 telephones in the 
Bell System are rural. They 
reach more places than there 
are post offices. Along the 
highways and private lanes the 
telephone poles lead straight up 
to the farmer’s door. 
He need not stir from the 
cheerful hearth ablaze in winter, 
nor grope along dark roads at 
night for friendly news or aid 
in time of trouble. Right in the 
heart of his home is his tele¬ 
phone. It is the American 
farmer’s key to the outside 
world, and in no other country 
is it found. 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—To save the country 
from a shortage of canned footl next Win¬ 
ter the car service commission of the 
American Railway Association, March 
22 , brought to the attention of all the 
railroads of the country the importance 
of exempting from embargoes necessiiry 
shipments of tin plate with which to make 
cans. The commission acted upon re¬ 
quest of the Secretaries of Commerce and 
Agriculture, who were told by manufac¬ 
turers recently that a shortage of canned 
food was threatened because of railroad 
ojmbargoes on tin plate. 
Albert O. Sander and Karl N. Wnnnen- 
berg, who pleaded guilty to a Federal in¬ 
dictment accusing them of establishing for 
Germany a .system of espionage in Eng¬ 
land, received sentences of two years in 
the Atlanta penitentiary and a fine of 
,$2,.500 each in the Criminal Ri’anch of 
the United States District Court, New 
York, March 22. George Vanx Racon, 
who turned State’s evidence, and who is 
named in the indictment with the two 
men as the newspaper correspondent sent 
to England to gain information, was sen¬ 
tenced later to one year in prison. Racon 
was captured in London and was tried by 
court-martial, found guilty and sentenced 
to death. lie escaped with his life on his 
promise to reveal what he knew about the 
schemes of Sander and Wnnnenberg. 
IMarch 2‘{ ,a terrific windstorm at New 
Albany, Tnd., caused the death of P,7 per¬ 
sons and injuries to 70 others. The prop¬ 
erty loss is estimated at .$1,1.*1.3,000. 
Eastern railroads are about to ask for 
an increase in freight rates, except on 
bituminous coal, coke and ore, as a result 
of the Adamson eight-hour law decision 
and the great increase in the cost of fuel 
and materials now adversely affecting 
earnings. Pa.ssenger fares would not be 
affected. 
Priv.ate .John Poor of the Third Com¬ 
pany, Coast Artillery Coiqis, died at I’ort- 
land. Me., March 2.3, of a bullet wound 
received when he tried to halt two stran¬ 
gers detected near the 12-inch gun bat¬ 
teries at Fort Williams. As a result of 
reports of suspicious characters seen near 
the liarbor defences recently, culminating 
in the two attempts to approach the heavy 
batteries under cover of darkness, re¬ 
newed precautions were taken to guard 
all fortifications at Portland. A closely- 
drawn net of sentries was thrown across 
every approach and searchlights were in 
action. 
_ Private detectives of the Southern Pa¬ 
cific Company arrested March 23. at Gal¬ 
veston, Tex., a German in the hold of the 
Rritish steamer Phydwen, loaded with 
grain for the Allies. The man was plac¬ 
ing bombs in the hold. Officials refuse to 
discuss the matter other than to say 
homhs wei’e found and the arrest made. 
Later it was discovemi that eight homhs 
had been placed about the Southern Pa¬ 
cific grain elevator, which has .5,000,000 
bushels of grain for the Allies. 
Premature explosion of dynamite in the 
shaft leading to a new subway tube undei- 
the East River, New York, caused the 
death of five workmen and injuries to 1.5 
more IMarch 25. 3’he shaft is on Black¬ 
well’s Lsland, near the pier of the Queens- 
horo hi-idge. 
Instructions that fir.st naturalization 
papers should be refused to applicants 
who are unwilling to fight for the United 
States were given by .Tudge Dyer, of the 
United States District Court at St. Louis, 
Mo., March 20. On this order first papers 
were refused to .Toseph Gandil, who said 
he had two brothers in the German army 
and would not he willing to fight against 
Germany, hut would go back there if he 
could. 
The grounds around the Cathedral of 
St. .Tohn the Divine, one of New York’s 
most imposing places of church architec¬ 
ture, are to be offered ^ to the United 
States for hospital use in case of war. 
The announcement was made March 27 
at a meeting of the Cathedral board of 
trustees. 
An ingenious method of smuggling rub¬ 
ber out of this country was revealed 
March 27 with the arrest of four men and 
the seizure of two trunks and a victrola 
on the pier of the Norwegian-America 
line in Brooklyn, N. Y. Both trunks had 
false partitions which hid the rubber and 
contained numerous pairs of shoes, all 
having new rubber soles. There were 
false walls in the victrola stuffed with 
the rubber. More than 4.000 packages of 
dental rubber were thus hidden away. 
Whether the nibbor was intended^ for Ger¬ 
many or not has not been determined. 
WASHINGTON.—A force of 15,000 
National Guardsmen was added March 27 
to the units already called out to guard 
private and Government property. ’Fhe 
new coutingciit was obtained by the Pres¬ 
ident’s order that the muster out of all 
National Giuird organizations now in the 
Federal service be suspended. As origi¬ 
nally given out at the War Department, 
the list of troops retained in Federal ser¬ 
vice contained a number of units which 
already had been mustered out. Depart¬ 
ment officials explained that reports of 
the completion of the mustering out for¬ 
malities had been late in reaching them. 
Troops discharged from Federal service 
as late as March 27 included the Third 
North Carolina and First Mississippi In¬ 
fantry, which thus escape further Federal 
duty until another formal call is issued. 
It was the third call for militia troops 
within three day.s. When those called out 
by the previous orders are recruited to 
their full strength it is estimated that the 
number will total 52.0(X), although^ War 
Department figures of the number imme¬ 
diately available as a result of the thr.’o 
calls are about 47,000. 
American national banks have set a 
new high record for resources, again re¬ 
vealing the United .States as incompara¬ 
bly the richest nation in the world. Comp¬ 
troller Williams announced March 27 
that on Alarch 5, the date of the last 
bank call, the assets of the national banks 
aggregated more than $10,000,000,000. ex¬ 
ceeding by over $5,000,000 the combined 
resources of the Bank of England, the 
Bank of France, the Bank of Italy, the 
Bank of Spain, the Bank of Norway, the 
Bank of Sweden, the Swiss National 
Bank, the National Bank of Denmark, 
the Bank of .Tapan and the Reiehs Bank 
of Germany. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Farmers’ Week, ^Massachusetts Agri¬ 
cultural College, Amherst, Mass., March 
26-30. 
American .Teri?ey Cattle Club, New 
York Cit.y, May 2. 
IIolstein-Friesian Association of Amer¬ 
ica. Worcester, Mass., .Tune 6. 
American Seed 3’rade Association, De¬ 
troit, Mich., .Tune 10 to 21. 
American Association of Nurserymen, 
forty-second annual meeting, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., .Tune 27-20. 
Society of American Florists and Or¬ 
namental Ilorticulturi.sts, New York 
City. August 21-23. 
New York State Fair. Syi-acuse, N. Y., 
September 10-15. 
Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, 
Mass., Oct. 12-20. 
Condemned Food Products —I am 
glad to see the stand you are taking re¬ 
garding the foods and markets question, 
especially with reference to the condem¬ 
nation of spoiled or suppo.sed spoiled 
produce. Mr. Dillon’s interview with 
one of the daily newspapers a few days 
ago referring to the tons of grapes that 
have been destroyed when there were a 
few rotten ones, seems to bo at par with 
the method used by our government. A 
friend in the grain business tells me 
that a ^ short time ago 13 tons of 
macaroni were condemned beeau.se it 
contained some weevil, yet upon exam¬ 
ination weevil was not found. lie tells 
me that this macaroni could easily have 
been sold cheaply for animal food but 
due to the arbitrariness of the depart¬ 
ment, it had to be destroyed. F. M. 
Farmers in Clinton County are mak¬ 
ing preparations to tap their sugar or¬ 
chards, with prospects for a good sea¬ 
son. Cows are coming fre.sh and cream¬ 
eries open April 1st. Potatoes have tak¬ 
en somewhat of a decline in market, buy¬ 
ers are offering .$2 per bu. at shipping 
points. ITay $17 per ton; cornmeal 
$2..50 per cwt. Veals, alive, 12e per lb. 
Calf hides, $2..50 to .$3 each. Oats, 65c 
per bu. Eggs, 40c; butter, 40c per lb. 
Clinton Co., N. Y. n. T. J. 
The great trouble with truck farming 
in this portion of West Virginia is the 
labor problem. The lumbering, mining 
and railroading pick up all the good 
haiuLs, with wages ran 'ing from .$.3 to 
$8 per day, and the farmer has to take 
the culls at .$2 to .$3 per day ; in fact, 
some of them are not worth anything. 
I have answered some of the applicants 
in your want column.s, hut will I got 
them, or will they suit me if I get them? 
I would pay $7,5 per month for a real 
good willing hand. I want a man with 
will and muscle in-stead of college educa¬ 
tion, B, F. VIQUESNEY. 
Randolph Co., W. Va. 
Present local prices are as follows: 
Cows, fresh or springers, $50 to .$80, as 
to size and quality. Live hens, 16 to 
161/^c per lb. Eggs, 26 to 28c per dozen 
and rapidly dropping. Butter, .34c; 
butterfat at the creamery about 41c., 
po.ssibly 42c. Potatoes, > $1.50 per bu.; 
apples, 7.5c per bu. Dressed pork, 14c, 
per lb.; dressed beef, 11 c. per lb. Many 
in this locality ship eggs to New York 
and get within one or two cents of Quo¬ 
tations on date of sale, occasionally, on 
extra fancy stuff get the top price. I 
make my own butter for private custom¬ 
ers and usually get close to the highest 
quotations and sometimes above the 
highest. If I have a surplus 1 sometimes 
ship and then usually get about 10 cents 
under quotations. One .shipment to the 
Department of Poods and Markets 
brought above top quotations for dairy 
blitter, but I have felt that the commis- 
.sion men practically stole several cents 
on each pound of butter shipped them. 
There js practically no garden stuff or 
fruit sold hero, as this is a great dairy, 
poultry and potato country. Most of the 
poultrymen ship their eggs, but aside 
h'om them practically all sales are made 
to local dealers who buy as cheaply as 
possible. Practically all of the local 
milk goes to the creamery and is made 
into butter and the fat is paid for ac¬ 
cording to quotations. I have tried to 
deal direct with the consumer as far as 
pos.sib]e and have had .some very good 
customers and some who were very un¬ 
businesslike. to say the least. I feel that 
the marketing problem is by far the 
greatest problem before the farmer at 
the present time, and that upon its .solu¬ 
tion dei>ends the future of agriculture. 
Bradford Co., Pa. c. s. g. 
