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DOMESTIC. — That ground glass has 
boen placed in canned staple goods of sol¬ 
diers at Camp Sherman. Chillicothe, O., 
was ofBcially reported to camp authorities 
Dec. 19. Orders were immediately issued 
to make rigid examinations of every can 
of hominy and tomatoes which will be 
served. There have beon many reports 
of attempts to poison American army 
camps. In one instance, it was said 500,- 
000 vaccine points were found to have 
been infected with tetanus, or lockjaw, 
germs. Animals used by the army have 
died in mysterious ei)idemics. Court plas¬ 
ter sold or given away in many parts of 
the country has been reported to contain 
tetanus bacilli. In I.os Angeles breakfast 
food given away contained broken glass. 
Forty-seven persons Avere killed and 
about 40 others injured Dec. 20 when 
LouisA'ille and Xashville passenger train 
Xo. f. from ('incinnati to Xew Orleans, 
crashed into the I’ear of an accommoda¬ 
tion train near Shepherdsville Ky. 
Eleven mine7’s wei-e killed in an exolo- 
sion at Mine Xo. of the Dar Dour Coal 
and Coke Company. Catoosa, Tenn.. Dec. 
19. SeA’enty-five were in the mine at the 
time. The cause of the explosion is not 
known. 
A young man at XeAV York named Cer- 
son TIambui'g. Avho fraudulently obtained 
a passport as George Hammond, was held 
Dec. 20 by T’nited States Commissioner 
Samuel M'. Hitchcock for the Federal 
Grand .Tury on a charge of Auolation of 
the espionage act. Hamburg had present¬ 
ed two foT’ged lettei’s to the authorities, 
one purporting to be from a firm by which 
be had ncA’er been employed stating that 
he had Avorked thei-e for a considei’able 
length of time. The other Avas on the let¬ 
terhead of a company that lie had Avorked 
for under his German name. When ar¬ 
rested he Avas Avearing the uniform of a 
Fnited States soldier, 
Charles T. Schenk, general secretary of 
the Socialist party in Philadelphia, and 
Dr. Elizabeth Baer, a member of the ex- 
ecutiA’e committee. Avere convicted in the 
Philadelphia Federal District Court .Tan. 
20 on a charge of violating the espionage 
act by consyiiring to send out circulars 
and other literature denouncing the se- 
lectiA'e draft act. The jury recommended 
mercy. Pending a new^ trial Dr. Baer Avas 
released in ,‘?2.500 bail and f^chenk’s bond 
Avas reduced from .S!10.000 to $5,000. 
Albert C. Kaltschmidt Avas convicted on 
all three counts of an indictment charging 
conspiracy against the I'^nited States by 
a .jury in Fnited States District Court at 
Detroit. Mich.. Dec. 21. Four of the five 
others Avho have been on trial with him 
also Avere found guilty on one or more 
counts in the indictment, Franz Respa 
Avas acquitted. 
Fire of undetermined origin caused 
50,000 damage in a five-story AAmrehouse 
and factor.A’ building Avithin the barred 
zone on the Boston Avaterfront Dec. 29. 
The flames started in the third story, oc¬ 
cupied by the Crucible Steel Company, 
and destroyed the storerooms above tbe 
Sub-Target Gun Company and the West- 
inghouse Electric Company. 
Dr. Hugo ScliAveitzer. president and di¬ 
rector of the Synthetic Patents Company. 
, XcAA’- York. Avho Avas exposed in the Sum¬ 
mer of 1915 as the chief agent in a Ger¬ 
man plot to corner the American output 
of carbolic acid in an effort to cripple am¬ 
munition making plants here, died at XeAv 
York Dec. 29. He had been actiA’^e in Ger¬ 
man propaganda in this country. 
A sentence of five years in the peni¬ 
tentiary at .Tefferson City Avas imposed by 
.fudge Martin .1. Wade of Des Moines re¬ 
cently at B'smands. N. D.. on Mrs. Kate 
Richards O’Hare of St. Douis, Mo., con¬ 
victed of making utterances in a speech at 
BoAvman. X. D.. la.st Summer tending to 
discourage obedience to the military regis¬ 
tration laAAg 
Fire desti-oyed $100,000 worth of prop- 
ert.v on the boardAvalk at Ijong Beach, 
Pong I.sland. Dec. 20. burning up four 
buildings and a part of the boardAvalk. 
F.\RM AXD GARDEX.—Exportation 
of butter except to nations associated Avith 
the Fnited States in the Avar again.st Ger¬ 
many has been prohibited by the War 
Tr.ade Board. This Avas disclosed Dec. 21 
in a sta.tement by the Food Administra¬ 
tion requesting butter makei’S and dealei*s 
to abandon certain types of packages used 
in shipping butter to the Orient, the troj)- 
ics and other countries. 
American soldiers in France soon Avill 
receive .a shipment of .900.000 Missouri 
apples, the gift of produce dealers of St. 
I.ouis. Assembling of the apples was 
completed Dec. 21. and it Avas announced 
that the shipment Avould go foi-Avai-d as 
soon as transportation can be arranged. 
Prompted by the Avarmest Winter 
weather in the history of ^Montana farm¬ 
ers on the Flathead Indian reservation in 
Western 'Montana AA'ere ploAving just be¬ 
fore Christmas b,v night as Avell as day. 
Railroad companies are lending them en¬ 
gine headlights. Winter ploAA'ing in Mon¬ 
tana never had been heard of before be¬ 
cause of severe temi)erature. Wheat acre¬ 
age in Western Montana is nearly double 
that of a year ago. 
Under a ncAV ruling, the Minnesota Su¬ 
preme Court. Dec. 14. reversed the judg¬ 
ment of /the Hennepin County District 
Court and granted ncAV trials in the cases 
of E. P. Moorhead and Josephine Mat- 
theAA’s against the Minneapolis Seed Co., 
which appealed. Blue Stem seed wheat 
guaranteed to be of 99 per cent germina¬ 
ting quality being the seed at issue. Un¬ 
der the neAV ruling where guaranteed seed 
entirely fails to germinate, the buyer is 
entitled to damages in the amount paid 
for the seed, plus the cost of planting, plus 
the value of the use of the land for the 
cropping .season, less the value of its use 
for a proper purpose to which it might 
reasonably have been put on the ascertain¬ 
ment of the failure of germination, and 
not the vahie of the crop Avhich would 
luiA'c been raised if the seed had been true 
lo the \varranty, less the cost of planting 
and producing. 
WASHIXGTOX. — The Federal Farm 
Loan Board announced Dec. 22 that it 
advocates amendment to the farm loan, 
act under Avhich many private farm mort¬ 
gage bankers may enter the GoA/ernment 
system as joint stock land banks. At 
the same time the board also gave warn¬ 
ing that it expected interests seeking to 
break doAvn the system to bring a suit 
.soon to test the constitutionality of the 
act. 
'file aA'ailable labor poAver of the United 
States totals 29.0.50.000 men. according 
to a surA’e.v made by the public service re¬ 
serve of the Department of Labor. The 
I'eserve has been mobilizing aA'ailable la- 
bfu’ for Avoi’k. It has been found more 
labor poAver than can be utilized at this 
time, it reported Dec, 2.5. The require¬ 
ments of the various Avar industries are 
being set off again.st the total of men and 
Avomen aA'ailable for AA'oi-k in specified 
lines. It has been found. hoAvever, that 
the largest mobile labor force is that upon 
the farms of the country, and the.se men j 
are not skilled in the mechanical trades 
that AA'ould make them immediately avail¬ 
able for Avork on Avar supplies. In ad¬ 
dition there ha.s developed a strong pres¬ 
sure to keep these men on the farms. The 
mobile labor force, in the terms of the 
reserve, is the proportion of men in any 
trade or calling that is easily moA'able, 
the “floaters” and others Avho are not at¬ 
tached to the soil or to any community. 
The Department of Agriculture began 
Dec. 20 the first yeai’-end stock taking of 
the amount of food in the I'^nited States. 
A four-page folder bearing questions will 
be sent by mail to every manufacturer, 
Avholesaler and retailer of foods. It is 
hoped to obtain definite figures of the na¬ 
tion’s food Avealth by the end of February. 
Federal agents will make personal sur¬ 
veys in 4.9 typical counties in various 
parts of the country and thus Avill be able 
to check the ansAvers sent to the Govern¬ 
ment by dealers. The survey when com¬ 
pleted will shoAV the amount of food in 
the country on Dec. 91, the schedules pro¬ 
viding for answers in regard to 86 items 
covering more than 100 diflFerent foods. 
With the help of the Government esti¬ 
mates of crops for the year 1918 the Food 
Administration hopes to be able to fore¬ 
cast AA'hen and to Avhat degree rationing 
of products in various districts must be 
enforced. It is hoi)ed also that the figures 
will permit the food officials to estimate 
the prices Avhich consumers should pay 
for various staple foods. It is possibb' 
also that the survey may bring to light 
foods hoarded by profiteers in Avarehouses. 
In this branch of the investigation the 
Department of .Tustice agents will be used. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
XeAV York State Breeder.s’ Association. 
Syracuse. .Ian. 8-10. 
XeAV York State Fruit GroAvers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Exposition Park, Rochester, Jan. 
9-11. 
Eastern Ontario Dairymen’s ConA'en- 
tion. Perth. Ont.. Gan.. Jan. 10-11. 
Rockland County Poultry Association, 
first annual sIioav, Nyack, X. Y.. ,Tan. 9-12. 
Georgia State Horticultural Society, 
Georgia Breeders’ Association and Georgia 
Dairy and Livestock Association, annual 
meetings, Athens. Ga., Jan. 14-16. 
Xew York State Agricultural Society, 
annual meeting. Assembly Parlor of the 
Capitol, Albany, X. Y., .Tan. 1.5-16. 
XcAV .Tersey State Poultry Association 
and Poultry SIioav, armory, Trenton, Jan. 
29-25. 
Xew .Jersey Corn SIioav, Trenton, ,Tan. 
29-25. 
XeAV .Jersey State Agricultural Conven¬ 
tion. State Armory. Trenton, .Tan. 2.9-25. 
Farmers’ Week, Ohio State UniA^ersity, 
Columbus. O., .Tan. 28-Feb. 1. 
Convention week. loAva State College, 
Ames. la.. Jan. 2S-Feb. *2. 
Xew York State Potato Association, 
annual meeting, College of Agriculture, 
Ithaca, X. Y., Feb. 12-19. 
We are located .95 milT‘g northeast of 
St. Ivouis, Mo. We haA’e been in the grip 
of severe Winter recently, Avith mercury 
hanging ai’ound zero ; December 9. 12 de¬ 
grees beloAv. Potatoes Avere a small crop 
here this year ; the merchants are having 
some shipped in from Idaho to retail at 
$1.4,5 per bu. Corn averaging from 20 
to 45 bu. per acre, Avith nearly tAvo-thirds 
severely damaged by early frost. Good 
dry corn selling around $1.25 per bu. 
Oats, 70c per bu.; bran, $40 per ton. 
Hay scarce; am having some shipped 
from Colorado, costing $35 a ton for Al¬ 
falfa laid down here. w. s. R. 
Macoupin Co., Ill. 
Zero temperature was reached Dec. 9 
and 10; have abmit four inches of snow 
on the ground, which is a great protection 
to_ the Pall wheat. Corn crop mostly 
cribbed; crop is better than expected 
early in FaH. Large aerdage of Fall 
wheat soAvn. Xcav corn, $1.25 bu.; Avheat, 
$2.25; oats, $1 bn.; potatoes, ,$2 bu.; 
eggs, 45c doz.; butter, 35c lb.; hens, 10c 
lb. Av. n. 
Grainger Co., Tenn. 
Wheat is sold to the miller and eleA'.ator 
at $2 per bu.; corn (new), $1.25; oats, 
55e per bu.; potatoes, $1.25 per bu.; 
dairy butter is 44c per lb.; eggs, 44c; 
pork, 18 to 20c per lb., dressed; some 
hogs were sold as high as 10c, live weight, 
earlier in the season ; beef is 15c per lb. 
by the carcass (<li’essed). 
Snyder Co., Ra. 
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