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December 20, 1917 
■Ghe RURAL N E W-Y O R IC E R 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMKHI'IC.—Thobsaiids of rifles, car¬ 
bines and pistols and millions of rounds 
of ammunition were pureliased in this 
country by Capt. von I’apen. military at¬ 
tache of the German Embassy in Wash¬ 
ington, for secret shipment to San Diego, 
Cal., and Javana, according to Henry 
Muck, who said he was an agent of Hans 
Tauscher, New York representative of the 
Krupps and one of the defendants in the 
India conspiracy under trial at San Fran¬ 
cisco. The purchases, according to Muck, 
were made in 1014 and lOl.o, and con¬ 
sisted of two orders, which totalled .$190,- 
000 and .$70,000, respectively. 
Dec. 14 the fir.st army truck train left 
Detroit, .Mich, for the Atlantic seaboard, 
'riie cai-avan consisted of .30 war trucks 
of the I'ackard type. There are also two 
tank trucks, loaded with oil and gasolene, 
and a kitchen truck, for the men will have 
most of their meals prepai-ed by their own 
cooks. The men are from Camp Sherman, 
Chillicoth^. O.. in charge of Capt. Rennet 
Henson and Lieut. C. A. Riley. 
Dec. IS fire destroyed the residence of 
.Tohn 1). Rockefeller at East Cleveland, 
O.. with a loss estimated at .$100,000. 
What is believed to have been an at¬ 
tempt to kill Governor William D. Ste¬ 
phens by means of a powerful e.\i)losive 
bomb early Dec. IS resulted in the wreck¬ 
ing of the Executive Mamsion at Sacra¬ 
mento, Cal., the entire rear of the building 
being blown out. The Governor and Mrs. 
Stephens, as well as the household ser¬ 
vants. were asleei) at the time and all 
escaped injury. 
A verdict again.st the Lehigh Valley 
Railroad Company was given in .Jersey 
f'ity Dec. 18 in the first suit to be tried 
for losses by the exjdosion at Black Tom 
the night of .July .30, 1910. 3'he plaintiff 
was the New .Jersey Fidelity and I’late 
G’ass Jnsurance Company, which sued to 
recover on 000 claims, aggregating $2.3.- 
000. A motion for a non-suit made by 
Liudley M. Garrison, former Secretary 
of War and former Vice-Chancellor of 
New Jersey, was denied by Judge William 
H. Speer. It is said an appeal will be 
taken. The case has been looked upon as 
a test. 
Valuable patterns for the manufacture 
of special equipment for British. French 
and Italian submarine chasers were de¬ 
stroyed Dec. 19 in a fire of undetermined 
origin which ruined much of the manu¬ 
facturing plant of the George H. Thatch¬ 
er Comi)any at Albany. N. Y. The loss 
is estimated at $100,000. Besides the 
contracts for the Allies the plant was 
engaged in fuming out work for the 
Ignited States Emergency Fleet Corpora¬ 
tion and for other Government agencies. 
Fire destroyed the Lakewood Country 
Club at Lakewood. N. .1.. Dec. 19. The 
loss is estimated at $100,000. 
Two persoTis were killed and three 
others hurt Dec. IS when a New York- 
t'hicago express train, travelling two 
hours late on the Grand Trunk Railroad, 
crashed into a freight train which was 
crossing the main line near Stony Creek, 
Ontario. 
The .speeding up of the munitions- 
making industry by educating women to 
do the work of men was pledged at a con¬ 
ference in Boston Dec. 18 of manufac¬ 
turers of ordnance, trade school repre¬ 
sentatives and the New England Com¬ 
mittee on Industrial Training for War 
Emergency. It was pointed out that, as 
the demand for skilled machine Avorkers 
was imperative, no time should be lost in 
establishing new schools, and u.se must be 
made of existing facilities. 
.\n _ alien enemy permit, allowing Fred 
C. Miller. iMayor-elect of Michigan City. 
J_nd.. to enter barred zones in his own 
city, and which it was necessary for him 
to have before he could perform his duties 
as luiiyor adequately, has been issued to 
him. it was announced at Indianapolis, 
Ind.. Dec. IS. Two Michigan City coun- 
cilmen and two members of the police 
force also have received alien enemy per¬ 
mits. Mayor-elect Miller, who is a Ger¬ 
man by birth, declared his intention of 
becoming a citizen of the T’nited States 
in 1912. but had not completed the nat¬ 
uralization process when war was de- 
clai'cd and cannot do so now. 
WASllINGT'ON. — Prohibition, com¬ 
plete and nationwide, was brought mea¬ 
surably nearer Dec. 17. With 20 votes 
more than the necessary two-thirds ma¬ 
jority, the House of Representatives 
adopted the re.solution already passed by 
the Senate submitting to the' States the 
ilry amendment to the Constitution. The 
vote was 282 to 128. The Senate having 
adopted the resolution, the propo.sed 
amendment will now be submitted to the 
States. 
The House voted Dec. 18, by .308 to one. 
and repealed the exemptions of Repre¬ 
sentatives’ and Senators’ salaries from the 
excess profits tax of 8 per cent on all of 
it in excess of $0,000 a year. Through 
an amendment offered by Representative 
Dillon of South Dakota the President and 
the judges of all the courts of the country 
likewise will be subjected to the tax. 
Jtepre.sentative Platt of New York alone 
voted against the repeal of the exemption. 
A resolution requesting the Committee 
on Public Information to inform the Sen¬ 
ate of the amount of salaries or allow¬ 
ances for expenses granted the chairman. 
George Creel, members of his staff or 
others, and as to the committee’s expendi¬ 
tures generally, was introduced Dec. 18 
by Senator Gallinger. the Republican 
leader. It was referred to the Appropria¬ 
tions Committee. 
I_>ec. IS the Senate ordered two investi¬ 
gations. one on the shipping board and 
one on the railroads. .\n imiiortant in¬ 
vestigation into military conditions is now 
in progress. Camp conditions and short¬ 
age of ammunition are receiving special 
attention. The State Department Dec. 
18 telegraphed to American Cansul-Gen- 
eral Garrett at Alexandria. Egypt, .$18.5.- 
000 for relief of the 100.000 sufferers at 
.Jerusalem in want of food and other sup¬ 
plies. Consul-General Garrett was di¬ 
rected to proceed immediately to .Jerusa¬ 
lem to take charge of the distribution of 
this fund and the supplies. The money 
was collected by a .Jewish organization, 
but the supplies are to be distributed 
among the sufferers without regard to 
race. 
J'ARM AND GARDEN.—Government 
control, both as to i)ricp and the making 
of imports and (‘xi)orts! of avooI. Avent into 
effect Dec. 15 as the result of an order 
issued by the War Trade Board. The 
order proA'ides for licenses for avooI im- 
porteiAs. who must agree that they will 
sell no wool to others than manufacturers 
and that they Avill giA'e the GoA’ernment 
the^option of purchasing all importations 
at 5 per cent less than the price paid .July 
.30. 1917. Exporters are not to be per¬ 
mitted to .send abroad an.v avooI or goods 
containing avooI if in the judgment of the 
board the avooI is requii'ed for the use of 
the army or naA’y. 
J'he annual meeting of the NeAv .Jersey 
State Board of Agriculture, also poultry 
shoAV and annual meeting of the NeAV Jer¬ 
sey State Poultry Association. Avill be 
held at the Armory, Trenton, .Jan. 2.3-25. 
Plans are under Ava„ for a “Florists’ 55 
Day.’’ to be held at Ames, la.. .Jan. 29. 
in connection Avith the Winter short 
course and convention AA-eek of Iowa State 
College, ,Jan. 28 to Feb. 2. 
The Binghamton, N. Y.. 5Iilk Pro¬ 
ducers’ Association held their annual 
meeting Dec. 15 and elected as officers for 
191,8 Cash Beall, pres., and Wm. 'I’read- 
Avell. se(;'y. ’Fhey made a price of <Sc per 
qt. to the distributors for .Jan. The or¬ 
ganization has over .300 members and con¬ 
trols over 4.000 cows. If dairy feeds ad¬ 
vance on an average of $2 by Jan. 12 milk 
will advance to qt. for Feb. The 
distributors are retailing bottled milk at 
1.3c. but look for a rise to 14c. There is 
a short supply, OAving to reduction of 
herds and small amount of grain being 
fed. 
President Wilson receiA-ed Dec. 18 a 
pound of butter for bis Christmas dinner 
which cost $.507. It was made by Mrs. C. 
E. Easterday of Marble Rock. la., and 
auctioned at a fair by the Red Cross 
auxiliaries of Union and Scott tOAvnships. 
duction. For several years we were in | 
the dairy business, but quit on account I 
of scarcity of help and amount of hard j 
work. Our principal crop is hay, Avhich 
is Avorth $20 per ton in barn. We .sell all 
the butter we have to spare at 50c at the 
doon Eggs are scarce just now, and can 
get 50c at the door. AVe sell straw at $8 
per load. Corn was not a good crop and 
brings from $1 to $1.25 per basket. Po¬ 
tatoes rotted badly, and sell for $1.50 per 
bu. Live poultry in fair condition brings 
19c per lb. We could get 30c per gal. for 
milk delivered to trolley line, one-half 
mile. Apples from $1.2^) to ,$1..50 per bu. 
Gats sell from granary at 80c. Buck- 
Avheat, .$2 per bu. Good coavs bring from 
.$100 to $12.5. Hogs sell from the farm at 
15c. live Aveight. A’eal cah’es, 12c per lb. 
A\ e h.iA’e no difficulty in disposing of any 
farm produce at the farm. u. r. av. 
Blair Co., Pa. 
Corn, short crop, $4.10 per cwt.; po¬ 
tatoes poor, quite a feAv frozen in the 
ground. 90c per bu.; apples ,a failure here, 
from $1 to .$2 per CAvt.. according to qu<al- 
ity. Chickens. ^20e lb., live. Pork. 20c 
lb.; beef fi-om^ 5 td 714c lb., as to qual¬ 
ity. Butter, oOc iit the stores, not much 
nmde. Eggs, 55c; beans, ,$S per bu. 
A eals. 1.3c, live. This is ,a milk-producing 
country, most of the milk going to New 
lork. The milk busines.s is getting to be 
a i^retty hard iiroblem, prices for Decem¬ 
ber doAvn and feed goes up .$4 a ton. If 
these things keep on they will dri\'e the 
farmer oiit of the milk business, for they 
cannot make both ends meet. c. e. t. 
Bradford Co., Pa. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Pennsylvania Farmers’ Week, State 
College. Pa.. Dec. 26-29. 
AA'inter short courses, A^ermont College 
of Agriculture, Burlington, AT.. Dec. 26- 
Feb. 8. 
Aladison Square Poultry ShoAv. Noav 
York City. Dec. 28-.Jan. 2. 
Delaware Corn Growers’ Association, 
MiddletoAvn. Del.. .Jan. 2-4. ' 
Ncav 5ork State Breeders’ Association, 
Syracuse. Jan. 8-10. 
New York State Fruit GroAA’ers’ Asso¬ 
ciation. Exposition Park, Rochester. Jan. 
9-11. 
Eastern Onta rio Daii'A’inen’s CoiiA'en- 
tion. Perth. Out., Can., Jan. 10-11. 
Rockland County Poultry Association, 
first annual show, Nyack, N. Y.. Jan. 9-12. 
Georgia State Horticultural Society. 
Georgia Breeders’ Association and Georgia 
Dairy and I>ivestock Association, annual 
meetings. Athens, Ga.. .Jan. 14-16. 
Ncav Jersey State Poultry Association 
a«(n’oultry ShoAv, Armory, Trenton, .Jan. 
New .Jersey Corn ShoAV, Trenton, .Jan. 
2.3-25. 
Ncav Jersey State Agricultural Conven¬ 
tion. State Armory, Trenton, Jan. 23-25. 
Jarmers’ AA eek, Ohio State UniA'ersitv, 
Columbus, O., Jan. 28-Peb. 1. 
Convention Aveek. Iowa State College. 
Ames. la., ,Jan. 28-Peb. 2. 
Dairy cows are selling at public auction 
at present anyAvhere from .$1(M) to ,$180; 
feeding steers, bulls or heifers, according 
to quality, from $6.50 to $9 per cwt. 
Milk is sold to the dealers at 27 to 30e 
per gal. Farmers’ roll butter is sold by 
the farmer from 45c a pound up. Avhile 
fancy farmers’ prints are bringing as high 
as 56c. Eggs seem to be very scarce, and 
merchants are paying the farmers from 56 
to 60e a dozen. Potatoes are selling at 
the principal shipping points at 90c to 
$1.10 per bu., while city and town mer¬ 
chants are retailing them anywhere from 
$1.40 to $1.80. Millers are paying from 
$2.10 to $2.1.5 for AA^inter wheat: corn. 
$1.20 to $1.30; oats, 75c; rye, ,$1.60 to 
•‘?l -75. J. AV. .AI. 
I.ehigh Co., Pa. 
Our farm is located 4V. miles from 
Tyrone and 10 miles from Altoona. AA"e 
bought this farm 10 years ago in an un¬ 
cultivated and rundoAvn condition. Soil 
is clay loam on lower and shale loam on 
upland ; responds quickly to lime and fer¬ 
tilizer. Today it is in a fine state of pro- 
A eal calves. 14c per lb.; cows. $75 to 
$100; hogs. live. 20c per lb.; dressed, 
24c; chickens. 22c per lb.; milk. 7.3 lOc 
qt.; cheese. .30c lb.; butter. 4Se; egg.s, 
5.5c.; apples. $1 bu.; potatoe.s, .$1..50 bu.; 
rutabagas. 50c bu.; wool. 64c lb.: hay, 
,$20 ^ton ; onions. .$1.60 bu. C. I. S.' 
AA'uyne Co., Pa. 
Mdk. 10c qt. : potatoes, .$1..50 bu. ; but¬ 
ter. .56c lb.; Avheat. $2.20; oats. 65c.; bar¬ 
ley. $.3; buckwheat, .$.3 per cwt. av. ii. ,t. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
Cows, extra. $100; good. .$80; fat cows. 
Sc p(‘r lb.; calves, 12c lb.; hogs, dressed, 
20c per lb.; hens, 16c lb. Butter, 4.5c; 
milk. .$3 ])er 100 lbs. Buckwheat. $.3.20 
per 100; oats, 90c per bu. Cabbage. ,$24 
lier ton. Potatoes, .$1 per bu. at shipping 
station._ Feeds are very high, running 
from $50 to $95 per ton. Dairying, po¬ 
tato and cabbage growing are the prin¬ 
cipal crojis here. I have a farm of .300 
acres, nice farming land, 25 head of cows, 
5 horses. 19 sheep. 50 hens, .t. r. s. 
Cortland Co., N. Y. 
Coavs, good. $75 to $125: Fat hog.s, 
dressed, 24c per lb. Horses. $25 to $150, 
as to quality. ’Pobacco .selling well, 2.5c 
per lb.: red, 10c; fillers, frosted tobacco, 
15 to 18c: pulled off stock, not tied or 
sorted, nearly all sold. Milk at our cool¬ 
ing station, October, ,$2.65; November, 
.$3.05 per CAvt.. te.st 4 per cent butter fat. 
Lancaster Co., Pa. e. ii. 
Cows, good, at auctions. $90 to $100; 
yearlings._.$.30 to .$.35; hogs, light dre.ssed. 
100 to 1;)0 lbs.. 22c per lb.: heavy, .3()() 
lbs. or more, 20c. I’igs, suckers, four 
AA'eeks old, $.3. Hay, No. 2. in barn, per 
ton. .$14. BuckAA'heat. dry and clean, per 
100 Ib.s., $3; corn, old, shelled, ,$4.25; 
Avheat, per bu., ,$2.20; potatoes. $1.25; 
rutabagas, 75c: cabbage, per 100 head.s. 
.$5; hides, beef. 15A4c per lb. Butter, best 
creamery, retail, ,55c per lb.; farmers’ 
butter, 48c. Poultry, dressed, 24c; eggs, 
strictly fresh. 50c. o. av. c. 
Broome Co., N. Y. 
BuckAvheat. ,$3.25 per CAvt.; eggs, 66c; 
potatoes, $1 per bu.; butter, 48c lb.; live 
veals. 12c: dressed pork, 22c lb. AATieat. 
$2.25; onions. .$1.75 per bu. .Apples 
Avere nearly a failure, selling for .$1 jier 
bu. Hay, $17 ton. Not much Fall ploAV- 
ing done. ()ats Avere a fair crop; buck- 
Avheat only half a crop, and in poor con¬ 
dition for flouring. i.. av i? 
Tioga Co., N. Y. 
CoAA's, $75 to $100; veal calves. 14c; 
pork. 22c ; pigs, 10 Aveeks old, $10 pair. 
Chickens. 20c; butter, 43c; eggs, 50c. 
Apples. ,$1.60 per 100 lbs.; potatoes. $1 
))er bu.; cabbage, $20 per ton. AA'heat. 
,$2.10 at mill; buckwheat. $3.10 per 100 
lbs.: oats. 70c bu.; rye, $1.50 bu. 
Columbia Co., Pa. av. r. ir. 
Grapes are mostly rai.sed in our imme¬ 
diate locality, but our neighboring farm¬ 
ers are getting IS^jc for dressed beef, 22c 
for dressed pork, 46c for butter. $2.40 for 
wheat. Corn did not get ripe this Fall, .so 
of course that has seAU'ral prices, as it is 
all soft. Buckwheat also proved to be a 
failure. Potatoes have been going up and 
doAvn ever since shipping sea.son began, on 
account of poor quality; the last reiiort 
AAms $1.80 per 100. .t. u. 
Steuben Co., N. Y. 
“For the J and’s Sake, use RoAvker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those Avho till it.”— Adv. 
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buildinn expensive, difficult and fraupht with 
costly delays. AVEBCO AVALEBOARB is as 
easy to use in winter as in summer. 
Use it for all interior sheathing. Cheaper 
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like wet plaster. 
Warm, sanitary, 
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Wallboard, Price Per Sheet 
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Several lengths, white 
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