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o/jo RURAL NEW-YORKER 
The Farmer and the Miller 
In your reply to M. F.. in regard to 
selling wheat to his neiglibors for flour 
purposes, will say that the ruling by the 
Food Administration must be .sectional if 
such is the case. A farmer in one of our 
lower counties of this State was taken be¬ 
fore the fond authorities in Baltimore for 
selling 10 bushels of wheat to a friend 
without the accompanying cereal. He was 
not fined, but compelled to sell all the 
wheat on hand. Further, the millers in¬ 
quire if the wheat was grown by the per¬ 
son bringing the wheat to the mill. If 
not, they insist on i)urcha.se of the usual 
amount of cereal or meal. The foool heads 
of Worcester, Somerset and Wicomico 
counties have ordered only lyj i)ounds of 
flour for each person in a family for one 
week’s use. Is this a general i-uling over 
the Ignited States? Fan the local men 
make and enforce such a ruling? a. c. Ii. 
Worcester Co.. Md. 
On page ToO. M. F., Saratoga Co., X. 
Y., says the neighbors are buying his 
wheat and having it ground into* flour to 
avoid buying substitutes with their flour. 
I would Mk(' to ask how they manage to 
get that wheat ground. Here in Wayne 
county w'o cannot get wheat ground uniess 
we sign an affidavit that the wheat was 
rai.sed_ on our own farm. One miller said 
that if I signed I would not have the 
right to lend my neighbor enough for one 
baking. Last year after thrashing, many 
small farmers around here bought wheat 
to feed their cows. ’I’he order forbids the 
feeding of wheat now. They have this 
wheat paid for, cannot feed, cannot get 
it ground into flour for home use. I have 
wheat enough, if I could get it ground, 
to last my family until after harvest. 
There are many others the same as my- 
.s"lf that have a few bushels of wheat th.at 
they paid $2.10 a bushel for that no¬ 
body is getting any good from. If we 
could get it ground, it seems to me it 
would help out the flour shortage more 
than to let it lie dormant. I would like 
to know if the laws are different in Sara¬ 
toga Co.. X. Y.. from Wayne Co., X. Y.. 
as they say that no farmer has a right 
to sell wheat to his neighbor. Is this a 
law or is it not? ,T. c. 
Wayne Co.. X. Y. 
K. N.-Y.—We understand from the 
Food Administration that they have made 
a ruling to the effect that a man may 
have his own wheat ground at the local 
mill, but it must not exceed one month’s 
supply of flour at a time. This would 
be considered half n barrel, and would 
mean sometliing over two bushels of 
wheat. As we understand tliis, the neigliT 
bors w'ho buy wheat not grown, on their 
farm.are not i)ermittbd to have-this wheat 
milled, unless they buy the substitutes 
along with the flour. .\pi)arently this 
yule is now being carried out generally, 
and under it the Saratoga farmer referred 
to was .iustified in selling the wheat to 
his neighbors; but they, under the rul¬ 
ing, could not have it milled unless they 
bought substitutes to go with it. for tKe 
reas'on that it was not grown on their 
own farms. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOiMERTIC.—Private Frank Worni- 
kee. alias Frank Wood.s, te.stified May .30 
at tbe trial of 112 Industrial Workers of 
the World at Chicago that he was a.sked 
by members of the organization to teach 
sabotage in the American Army. Worm- 
keg’s tale of violence by members of the 
organization spanned a period of almo.st 
two years, during a part of which he 
worked as an organizer in. the harvest 
fields, the big lumber camps, the shipping 
districts and the orange belt of California. 
He admitted committing acts of sabotage 
while an I. W. W. delegate, and said he 
received I. W. W. literature in at least 
one instance after he entered the .Tefferson 
barracks. He told of deserting from the 
Colorado Xational Guard, of enlisting la.st 
Summer at Minot, S. D., under a ficti¬ 
tious name to obtain release from charges 
preferred by State authorities, and testi¬ 
fied that he, as a delegate, had been in¬ 
structed to encourage violence. He testi¬ 
fied that while secretai’y of the branch at 
San Pedro, Cal., he attempted to organ¬ 
ize longshoremen with a view to shutting 
dowui export of munitions. M'ormkee said 
members were advised not to resist the 
draft and commit sabotage against big 
war industries. Burning of thrashing 
machines in the grain fields of Wa.shing- 
ton and Montana by I. W. W. workers 
was also brought out in the trial. 
Fire, believed to have been of incendi¬ 
ary origin, early June 1 destroyed the 
.$50,000 plant of the Gleeson Wire Com¬ 
pany, at East Xewark, X. ,1.. and inci¬ 
dentally rendered useless a score of huge 
cases of wire ready for shipment to the 
American forces in France. 
June 1, Mrs. Rose Pastor Phelps, tried 
at Kan.sas City, Mo., for seditious utter¬ 
ances, was sentenced to 10 years impris- 
«mment. 
Fire de.stroyed, early June 2. the ,1. K. 
Mnsser Tanning Company ]ilant at Xoxen, 
Pa., entailing a lo.ss estimated by the 
owner at almost $3,000,000. The tanning 
company is controlled by Armour & Co. 
The Federal child labor law' of 1916 
forbidding interstate shipment of products 
of child labor was declared unconstitu¬ 
tional and invalid .Tune 8 by the Supreme 
Court, Injunctions restraining the Gov¬ 
ernment from putting the statute into ef¬ 
fect and restraining a Charlotte, X. C., 
cotton mill from discharging children em¬ 
ployed by it were sustained by the court. 
.Justices Holmes, McKenna. Brandes and 
Clark dissented. 
WASHIXGTOX.—Withotit a dissent¬ 
ing vote the House passed. May .31. the 
$12.(>42.6S2.000 army appropriation bill, 
the largest sum ever voted for the military 
establishment. The bill now' goes to the 
Senate. Aside from its vast appropria¬ 
tions, the outstanding feature of the army 
bill is the grant of unlimited power to 
the President to call out the man power 
of the nation within the limitations of 
the selective draft as rapidly as men can 
be trained and shipped to France. T'n- 
der this authority the President may raise 
an army of any size, and the strength of 
the army is limited only by tiaiining and 
transportation facilities. Secretary Ba¬ 
ker urged this legislation, saying it would 
have a better p.sychological effect than 
even an authorization for an army of five 
million men, which w’as suggested as a 
substitute plan. 
Orders have been issued by the Secre¬ 
tary of War providing for the segregation 
of conscientious objectors at Fort Leaven- 
W'orth, Kan. Men refusing either to per¬ 
form military service or to accept the al- 
ternative_ of duties classed as non-com¬ 
batant will be transferred from their pres¬ 
ent camps after being interrogated person¬ 
ally by a board of inquiry. 
American women who go into munitions 
factories to replace men called to the fight¬ 
ing line are to receive the same j)ay as 
men in the ordnance industry. This w'as 
announced June 4 by the War Hei)art- 
ment, and simultaneously the statement 
was made that many women are already 
entering munitions factories and arsenals. 
The equal pay for w’omen pfdicy is in line 
W'ith the program of the Xational War 
Labor Board. 
Sweeping recommendations for regula¬ 
tion of the canning industry were ma<le 
.Tune 4 to Pre.sident Wilson by I’lc Fed¬ 
eral Trade Commission, on the basis <if 
inequities discovered in an exhaustive in- 
ve.stigation. Legislation would be re¬ 
quired to put some of the recommenda¬ 
tions into effect, while others may be made 
operative under the food law. Canners 
were found to have averaged ,32 per cent 
profit in 1917 compared with 9 per cent 
the year before. The Food Administr.a- 
tion, the report says, w'as not entirely 
.successful in preventing large .advances in 
the prices of raw' vegetables last year. 
FARM AXD GARDEX.—A United 
States convale.scent hospital is to Im; 
erected at Lawrenceville, X. .1., on a farm 
w'hich has been donated by Dunlevy Mil- 
bank. It is intended to take care of 150 
soldiers at this time, who. ,as f.ast as they 
recover sufficiently, will be instructed in 
agricultural pursuits. The farm contains 
500 acres, and is at present in charge of 
Hr. .1. E. Ru.ssell, dean of the Teachers’ 
College, Columbia University. E. C. ITig- 
hy. of theMinnesota Agricultural School, 
is acting superintendent. 
President Wilson, by proclamation an¬ 
nounced May .30, h<a.s established three 
new' national forests in the East—the 
White Mountain, about .391.000 acre.s, in 
Maine and Xew' Hampshire; the Shen¬ 
andoah. about 165.000 acres, in Virgini.a 
and West Virginia, and the Xatural 
Bridge, about 99,000 acres, in Virginia. 
The latter^ does not contain the natural 
bridge, which is about four miles from its 
boundary. Title to all the lands has not 
been taken, but the areas have been ap¬ 
proved for purchase. The proclamation 
is the last step in carrying out the law' 
passed in 1911 for building up Eastern 
national forests. The Pisgah national for¬ 
est in Xorth Carolina and the Alabama 
national forest in Alabama are the only 
Eastern areas heretofore designated. 
\ 
.Tune 1.5, ini.S 
An order w'as issued recently by Post- 
m.aster General Burleson which w'ill sim¬ 
plify and facilitate shipments of farm 
products by parcel post over a greater 
area. In lieu of the present restrictions 
as to the method of packing perishable 
articles, butter, eggs, dressed fowls, vege¬ 
tables, fruits, etc., may be sent to arty 
post office that can be reached within a 
reasonable time without spoiling, packed 
in crates, boxe.s, baskets or other suitable 
containers, which will properly protect 
the contents and prevent escape of any¬ 
thing therefrom. Heretofore eggs could 
be itacked in this manner only for local 
delivery or from points on local rural 
routes, and other products to points with¬ 
in the second zone (1,50 miles). More 
liberal packing regulations covering 
liquids are also contained in this order. 
Recently the w'eight limit on parcels was 
rai.sed from 50 pounds to 70 pounds w'ith- 
in the first three zones (.300 miles), and 
from 20 pounds to 50 pounds to all other 
zones. 
A meeting Avas held in Rochester on 
May 29 by Farm Bureau agents and bean 
growers of Western Xew York. The ob¬ 
ject was to complete an organization of 
Xew York bean grow'ers. Experts from 
Cornell were present and a rousing meet¬ 
ing W'as held. Our correspondent. H. E. 
Cox, of Indu.stry. was elected secretary, 
.and F. Davis, of Livonia, president. This 
is a time for organizing in all lines, and 
the bean growers are up to date. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings J 
.Tune 26-28—American Association of 
Nurserymen, Chicago, Ill. 
July 24—Xew' Jersey State Horticul¬ 
tural Society Field Meeting, Glassboro, 
X. .1. 
Aug. 26-80—Ohio State Fair, Colum¬ 
bus, O. 
Oct. 10-19—Xational Dairy Show, Co¬ 
lumbus, O. 
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