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February 23, 1918 
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N. Y. State Grange in Annual Session 
(Continued from page 276.) 
of all kinds of goods, merchandise and 
produce at wholesale or retail.” 
The election of officers occurred this 
year. The first ballot re-elected the fol¬ 
lowing officers • S. .T. Lowell, Fredonia. 
Master; Albert Manning, Otisville, Over¬ 
seer; Fred C. ITecker, Webster, Assistant 
Steward; Rev. E. E. Grosh, Seneca Cas¬ 
tle, Chaplain. The contests centered 
about the offices of Steward, Lecturer, 
Flora and Pomona, F. E. Alexander, 
once before T.,ecturer of State Grange, 
was elected Lecturer. He was voted the 
tallest and handsomest Granger in the 
country, being six feet six inches tall and 
weighing 275 pounds. F. .T. Riley of Sen- 
nett was elected Steward; Mrs. W. D. 
Tallman, Highland, Ulster County, was 
elected Flora, and Mrs. H. B. Eysaman 
was re-elected Pomona. 
The directors of the New York Grange 
Exchange for the first year are: S. J. 
Lowell, Fredonia; W, N. Gile.s, Skane- 
ateles; Ira Sharp, Lowville; B. C. Wil¬ 
liams, Batavia; E. Knickerbocker, Bang- 
all ; E. C. Gillett, Pennyan ; J. W. Scott, 
Copake; W. L. Bean, Mc(^rawville; H. 
H. Wing, Ithaca. Many of the delegates 
remained over in the cRy to attend 
Faripers’ ^Veek at Ithaca the following 
week. A hearty vote of thanks was ten¬ 
dered to SyraciLse for its hospitality. 
M. G. F. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Five persons were killed 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 7 and thirty- 
four others overcome by illuminating gas. 
Hos])!tal facilities and the police were 
taxed to care for the ca.ses. The coal 
shortage, and the use of cheap or .second¬ 
hand gas appliances, is blamed for most 
of the cases. 
Lewis G. Burrell, of Charleston, W. 
Va., was instantly killed at Rich aviation 
field, Waco, Tex., Feb. 7, when his air¬ 
plane collided with another at a height 
of 200 feet. The other aviator was un¬ 
hurt. Burrell was 25 years old. 
Nine of the men convicted, with Franz 
Rintelen, of conspiracy to jilace bombs on 
food ships, were Feb. 8 started to Atlanta 
penitentiary, where they are to serve sen¬ 
tences of eighteen months. 
An indictment charging 55 persons 
with conspiring with William D. Hay¬ 
wood, secretary of the Industrial Work- 
el’s of the World, and others to hinder the 
execution of laws of the United States in 
the prosecution of the war with Germany 
was returned at Sacramento. Cal., Feb. 8 
by the Federal Grand Jury. Forty-six 
of the persons indicted are held in custody 
there. The others live in or about San 
Francisco. Bail was fixed at from .$2,500 
to .$5,000. Separate indictments <-harge 
William Hood and G. F. Voetter. named 
in the con.spiracy indictment, with illegal 
transportation of dynamite. These men 
were arrested in connection with the 
attempted dynamiting of Gov. Stephens’s 
home recently. Hay wood was indicted' by 
a Federal Grand Jury in Chicago some 
time ago and has since been held in jail 
there. The Sacramento indictments re¬ 
sulted from recent investigations by Gov¬ 
ernment agents, who discovered that lead¬ 
ers Avere plotting systematic sabutjige. 
In addition to blowing up factories, plot¬ 
ters in that section had planned to ob¬ 
struct the selective draft, foment strikes 
among workmen engaged in Avar indus¬ 
tries, destruction of fruit trees and crops, 
and to a lesser extent the destruction of 
ships being built in yards along the 
coast. >• 
Two fires of unquestioned incendiary 
origin, which occurri'd in Newark. N. J., 
Avithin a few hours of each other Feb. K). 
are believed to have been the Avork of 
German spie.s. One fire destroyed the 
Oak Island freight transfer station and 
thirty-five freight cars of the liChigh Val¬ 
ley Railroad. The other caused ,$8,500 
damage at the plant of the Klaxon Com¬ 
pany. 
Fire starting in the servants’ quarters 
of Vas.s'ar '(’ollege, Feb. 32, caused a loss 
of $800,000. 
WASHINGTON.—Introducing a con¬ 
stitutional amendment requiring all per- 
.sons who vote for members of Congress 
and' Presidential electors to be American 
citizens, Senator Kenyon (loAva) called 
the Senate's attention to seven States— 
Arkansas, Kansas, South Dakota, Ne¬ 
braska, Missouri, Indiana and Texas— 
Avhich he said permitted aliens to A’ote. 
This condition, he said, is “rather shock- 
nig.” 
Vice-T*resident ^larshall observed he 
thought the number of such States Avas 
nine. 
Many iicav construction projects for the 
army, including munition plants, ordnance 
depots, storage plants, port terminals, 
hospitals, aviation Avork, cantonments and 
housing, Avere disclosed in a statement 
gh’en the Senate Military Committee Feb. 
12 by the War Department. The Avork 
Avill cost $268,650,()00, and, while some 
of the projects had been announced be¬ 
fore, in most cases the location and cost 
had not been given. The statement shoAVS 
that $37,000,000 will be spent in building 
a gasmaking plant at Edgewood, N. J., 
while forty interior storage depots, to 
cost an aggregate of $30,000,000, are to 
be constructed at unnamed points. On 
aviation work, including a new ciniton- 
ment. the location of Avhich Avas not given, 
$46,0(X),000 will be expended. Ordnance 
depots are to be built on the south At¬ 
lantic coast and at “some seaport” at a 
cost of .$4.000.0(X) each. Another on the 
middle Atlantic coast will cost $6,(>(X).(X)0. 
An ammunition depot at “some seaport” 
is to cost $7,500,000 and a like sum is to 
he expended for an ordnance depot in 
Central Pennsylvania. Hospitals for sol¬ 
diers suffering with tuberculosis are to he 
built in Denver, Col., and Asheville, N. C., 
at a co.st of $500,000, and $12,800,000 is 
to be spent on hospitals at thirty-two 
army training camps. 
The Administration bill, already passed 
by the Senate, appropriating $.50,000,000 
to proA’ide housing facilities for employees 
of ship yards engaged in Government 
work, was passed by the House Feb. 12 
Avithout a roll call. The House adopted 
some minor amendments, which the Sen¬ 
ate may accept to obviate the necessity of 
sending the measure to conference. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Henry Mor- 
genthau, ,Tr.. it was announced in MTcco- 
pee, Dutchess county, N. Y., Feb. 7, is 
to take charge of putting 1,500 farm 
tractors in operation in EVance to in¬ 
crease the production of food thei’c. 
Mr. Morgenthau, .son of Henry Morgen- 
thau, Sr., former American Ambassador 
to Turl?ey, learned to operate a tractor 
on his father’s big farm in Wiecopee, and 
recently AA’ent to France, where he will 
set American farm tractors to work this 
Spring. 
Representatives of the egg and poultry 
trade, after a conference wtih Food Ad- 
mini.stration officials at Washington Feb. 
7, named a general committee for each 
trade to draw up definite agreements reg¬ 
ulating the prices and distribution of the 
commodities they handle. If acceptable to 
the Food Administration they will be put 
into force vol' 'tarily. Chief among the 
reforms sought uy the Administration are 
the elimination of unnecessary handling 
and the abolition of speculating. 
Delegates to the Federal Board Farm 
Organizations, in .session at Washington, 
called on President Wilson Feb. 8 and 
urged that he appoint a commission of 
nine from their number to serve as an 
intermediary betAveen the Government and 
the farmers in solving agricultural labor 
and other problems. The delegation pre¬ 
sented a memorial making various sug¬ 
gestions concerning the handling of farm 
problems and the exemption of farm la¬ 
bor from milit.iry service. 
New York State Fruit GroAvers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Poughkeep.sie, N. Y., March 6-8. 
Home-ground Flour 
On page 7 Alvah IT. Pulver tells about 
home-ground flour. It would be easier 
for those who want to grind wheat or 
other grain by hand, first to dry the grain 
almost to parching, in the OA’en ; allow to 
cool, then grind. J. H. C. 
Mendham, N. .T. 
Corn Planting 
Several readers Avho Avant to conserve 
labor this year speak of planting corn as 
folloAvs: They Avill mark tbe ground 
both Avays, drop a handful of fertilizer in 
the hill by hand, use a stabber, and stab 
the seed right through the fertilizer—then 
cover everything Avitli a harroAV. This 
they think Avill save time. It probably 
Avili, but Ave have had better results in. 
Avaiting until the corn A\’as three or four 
inches high, and then scattering the fer¬ 
tilizer around the hill. Some brands of 
fertilizer are strongly acid, and aa'O have 
knoAvn the seed to be more or less in¬ 
jured Avhen put right in with the chemi¬ 
cals. The application of the fertilizer 
later Avill not add to the labor, and our 
OAvn experience shoAvs Uiat it is a more 
efficient way of feriilizins'. 
Value of Sheep Manure 
Of all these men Avho tell of the profits 
of their sheep in the R. N.-Y., I fail 
to see Avhere any of them make any ac¬ 
count of the manure. I call it quite 
valuable, and so do some of our seeds¬ 
men ; they call it worth $8.50 per 
luindred pounds, or $60 per ton F. O. R. 
I keep my sheep-pen clean; I can go 
there at any time after they are through 
eating and take all that is left of their 
feed in a half-bushel measure, and they 
are fed three times a day. They are pure¬ 
bred Oxfoi’ds, and are in as good condi¬ 
tion or better than the average sheep. 
Every fcAV days I take a broom and 
shovel and clean up the manure and put 
it in bags or barrels. It is clean and dry, 
and AA’heii Spring comes I have a number 
of hundred pounds of good fertilizer. 
Ncav Hampshire. J. Av. h. 
Those “Cider Bees” 
I read an article on “Cider Bees,” page 
115, and E. R. Root’s reply. I think Mr. 
Root has missed the point altogether. I 
have seen some of these “bees” here. They 
are a Ioav vegetable organism like yeast 
or perhaps more like the mother of vine¬ 
gar, and Avhen placed in SAveetened Avater 
and kept Avarm, Avill gather in round 
masses half an inch or so in diameter and 
“work” or move up and down contin¬ 
uously. 'The liquid is changed to a mildly 
intoxicating drink or beer. This is drank 
by those who do not want to buy booze 
but want to get drunk. I never heard of 
any curative properties to it before, sim¬ 
ply a means of having a cheap drunk. 
Around here the stuff is known as “beer 
bees.” E. o. somerby. 
Maine. 
