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S6c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Reports of Dairy Conditions 
I think the dairymen here are planning 
to keep about the same number of cows 
as usual this Winter, and think there is 
about the same amount of roughage in this 
locality as usual. Cows are selling at 
auction from $40 to $80 a head and I 
think it would be easy for one to buy a 
number of good cow's at around $75 each. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. A. J. G. 
There has been but little change here. 
Cows are knocked off a little since a year 
ago; hay is about half an average crop; 
silage a good crop. There are always 
dairy cows on the market in Delaware 
County. Some farmers have more than 
they can stable, but are holding for better 
prices. The outlook is good, only for the 
high prices of grains. I think one could 
buy all the stock wanted right around 
here. J. K. u. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
The hay crop is much under the normal 
for the past two or three years, and corn 
<-rop very poor; but a small amount of 
silage through this locality. There has 
been quite a large amount of stock sold 
around here, and I do not think number 
of cows will be as large as usual that will 
be kept through the Winter. I attended 
an auction recently and cows sold from 
$.‘U) to $70. Extra fresh cows are bring¬ 
ing from $<80 to $100. Hay is $25 per 
ton delivered by car. G. W. S. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
1 think there will be about the same 
amount of stock kept this Winter, but the 
corn crop was poor, and bay is scarce and 
high to buy. Stock is at a standstill now. 
Dealers are offering .‘Ic per lb. for ship¬ 
ping stock now. Cows ai-e around $00 a 
head. I think the dairy business will be 
about the same next Summer. J. w. M. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
As far as I know the dairymen in this 
locality are planning to keep about the 
same number of cows as usual. I hear 
no complaint as to shortage of hay or 
silage; hay crop was usually good this 
ye,nr. I know of no desirable cows for 
sale here. Those that are being sold are 
the scrubs from the dairies. If the price 
of milk stays up the outlook for another 
vear is very good. ii. R. u. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
The farmers around here will keep 
about the same number of cows as usual. 
Hay and corn were fair crops. Cows are 
bringing from $75 to $150. The outlook 
for dairying the coming season looks fair, 
about the same as last season. Farmers 
around here are doing all they can with 
what help they can get. Help is very 
sejirce. It may be better next season as 
the boys come marching home. w. j. c. 
Madi.son Co., N. Y. 
Dairies in this locality are keeping all 
flu* cattle their barns will hold. Most of 
them are .supplied with plenty of hay and 
silage. It would be possible to buy a 
number of good cows in this locality. 
Cood cows are bringing from .$.50 to .$00 
a head. I think the dairy business for 
the coming season will be good. B. c. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
Farmers are reducing stock. Not 
(|uite so many cows will be wintered 
around here. Most farmers have hay and 
silage sufficient; a few are short. The 
local dealers are handling a large amount 
of stock of all kinds. Good springers 
from $100 to $150 per head. Do not 
think there will be any more milk made 
the next year, if as much. J. H. B. 
Greene Co., N. Y. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The shell plant of the 
Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Com- 
T)any, Minneapolis, Minn., was destroyed 
by fire Dec. 1 with a loss estimated at 
$.500,000. One man was burned to death. 
Edward A. Rumely of New York, who 
bought the Evening Mail of New York 
with money said to have been furnished 
by the German Government, was indicted 
by a Federal Grand .Tury at Washington, 
Dec. 2, for failing to report German 
ownership of property to the Alien Pro- 
j)erty Custodian. There were two counts 
in the indictment. The first set -forth 
(hat on Oct. 17, 1917, and since Rumely 
had control of certain shares of stock of 
the S. S. McClure Newspaper Corpor¬ 
ation for and on behalf of the German 
Government and that he had failed to 
disclose this fact. The second count al¬ 
leges that Rumely failed to report that 
he was indebted to the German Govern¬ 
ment in the sum of ,$1,4.51,700. Rumely 
is under indictment in New York on a 
charge of perjury in connection with his 
repoit of the purchase of the Evening 
Mail. 
Frederick Fredericks, alias Capt. Fritz 
•loubert Duquesne, alleged German secret 
agent, was rearrested in New York Dec. 
.*1 on an extradition warrant charging 
murder, i.ssued by United States Com¬ 
missioner Samuel M. Hitchcock at the 
instance of C. Clive Bayley. Consul-Gen¬ 
eral for Great Britain. The defendant 
was indicted nearly a year ago on the 
charge of making a fraudulent claim for 
fire insurance amounting to $.30,000 
against the Stuyvesant Insurance Com¬ 
pany of thi.s city to cover a number of 
cases which he alleged contained motion 
picture films and which were destroyed 
when a Brooklyn storage warehouse was 
burned. \NTiile held on thi.s charge the 
British Government made requisition for 
him to answer to a charge of murder on 
the high seas. It is alleged by the British 
authorities that Frederitks, while work¬ 
ing under instructions of the German 
Government, placed packing ca.ses alleged 
to contain samples of minerals on the 
steamship Tennyson, which sailed from 
Bahia, Brazil, about February 14, 1916. 
Explosives concealed in the packages were 
timed to go off while the boat was at sea, 
it is alleged, for the purpose of destroying 
the ship. An explosion took place and 
caused the death of three men, among 
them M. ,T. Reid, a boatswain, with whose 
murder Fredericks is now specifically 
charged. 
Louis N. Hammerling, whose American 
Association of Foreign Language New.s- 
paper-s, which, he admitted, really was an 
advertising agency under his complete 
control and was used for placing pro- 
German and brewing propaganda, spent 
nearly five hours on the stand in Wash¬ 
ington Dec. .3 at the Senate’s inquiry 
into the relationship between the brewers, 
German propaganda and recent sales of 
newspapers, including particularly Arthur 
Brisbane’s purchase of the Washington 
Times. Mr. Hammerling admitted he 
spent $205,(X)0 for Dr. Rumely in placing 
an advertisement likely to stir up trouble 
in munitions factories; he admitted doing 
about ,$.30,000 worth of business a year 
with Percy Andreae, handler of the brew¬ 
ers’ reptile fund; he admitted that the 
affidavit on which he was naturalized was 
full of falsehoods, and that he had re¬ 
peated the.so, with additions, when he 
swore to an application for a marriage 
license as late .as 191,5. 
WASHINGTON. — Rapidly changing 
conditions of industrial employment 
and the return to peace piasluction 
on the part of the nation’s factories, 
will be met by Secretary of I.,abor Wil¬ 
son, it was announced Nov. 28, with a 
complete reorganization and readjustment 
of the Department of Labor and of the 
different bureaus and boards affiliated 
with it. The most pressing problems the 
Department has to handle related to the 
redistribution of workers who have been 
called into war production among other 
plants and industric's without serious lo.ss 
in time and wages and also the change of 
women war workers to other forms of 
employment more suited to their strength 
and endurance. At the same time the 
Department is facing the task of reintro¬ 
ducing into industry the soldiers dismissed 
from training camps or returning from 
abroad. 
The Federal Trade Commission, in a 
supplemental report submitted to Con- 
gre.ss Dec. 2 charges the five big meat 
packing companies of the country with a 
combination in restraint of trade and 
with controlling the sale of live stock and 
fresh meats. Swift & Co., Armour & Co., 
Morris & Co.. Wilson Company, Inc., and 
the Cudahy I’acking Company are named. 
War expenses, per.sisting in peace times 
but falling off rapidly, will make the 
Government’s outlay in the fiscal year 
1920. beginning next .Tuly 1, .$7,443,- 
415,8.38, of which $.5,212,000,000 will go 
to the War and Navy Departments, 
$89.3,000,000 to pay interest on war debt, 
and .$579,000,000 for continuing the build¬ 
ing of the merchant marine, according to 
departmental estimates presented Dec. 2 
to Congress. These expenses compare 
with the $24,.599,000,000 appropriations 
for the current year, ending next .Tune 
.30, with the .$18,0(X),000,000 which prob¬ 
ably will be .actually .spent this year, and 
with the ordinary annual expenses of 
about a million dollars before the vrar. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Announce¬ 
ment is made by Commi.ssioner of Agri¬ 
culture Charles S. Wilson that the 1919 
bulletin containing a list of farms for .sale 
and to rent in New Y"ork State will be 
ready for distribution in .Tanuary and 
that it will be .sent to anyone making 
application to the Department of Farms 
and Markets, Albany, N. Y. The Farm 
Settlement Bureau, under the direction of 
F. ,7. Carr, prepared the bulletin. Many 
of the farms were visited and inspected, 
so that the descriptions contained are 
authentic and may be relied upon. This 
bureau is prej)ared to furnish more de¬ 
tailed information with regard to the 
farms listed in the bulletin and to a.sfii.st 
any who seek assistance in the selection 
of a farm in the Empire State. 
The formal end of the war through a 
proclamation of peace will not in any way 
affect the fixed price of wheat for the 1919 
crop, it was announced Dec. .3 by the 
Food Administration. It was declared 
that the Pre.sident’s proclamation Sep¬ 
tember 2 that “producers of w’heat pro¬ 
duced .within the United States . . . 
December 14, 1918 
for the crop of 1919” are guaranteed 
$2.20 .a bushel at Chicago means that the 
guaranteed price remains regardless of 
when peace is officially proclaimed. The 
twenty-fourth section of the Lever law 
provides “that the provisions of this act 
shall cease to be in effect when the ex¬ 
isting state of war between the United 
States and Germany will have terminated, 
and the fact and date of such determina¬ 
tion shall be a.scertaiued and proclaimed 
by the President; but the termination of 
this act shall not affect any act done, or 
any right or obligation” according to 
wheat growers. The Lever act also pro¬ 
vides that rights and lijibilities arising 
under it before the end of the war m.ay 
be enforced in the same manner after the 
war and until .Tune 1, 1920, as if the war 
were still in progress. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Fifth Annual National Farmers’ Ex- 
po.sition and Ohio State Apple Show, 
Toledo, Ohio. Dec. 6-14. 
Dec. 19—Northeastern Conference of 
Wisconsin Live Stock Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion, Green Bay, Wis.; A. W. Hopkin.s. 
sccret.ary, Madison, Wis. 
Wisconsin Cheese Makers’ Association, 
Auditorium. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 8-10, 
1919. 
Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety and New York State Fruit Growers’ 
As.sociation. joint meeting, Rochester. N 
Y.. Jan. 12, 1919. 
Third Annual New .Ter.sey Agricultural- 
Convention, lYenton, .Tan. 1.3-17, 1919. 
New .Jersey State Poultry Association, 
annual meeting and exhibition, the Arm¬ 
ory, Trenton, N. J., .Tan. 1.3-17, 1919. 
Jan. 18-26—National Western Stock 
Show, Denver, Colo. 
Jan. 22-2.3—New York State Breeders’ 
Association, Buffalo. N. Y.; H. B. Har¬ 
pending, president, Dundee, N. Y. 
Feb. 8-1.5 — California International 
Live Stock Show, San Francusco, Cal. 
Omaha Inter-State Land Show, Muni¬ 
cipal Auditoidum, Omaha, Neb., Feb. 
12-22, 1919. 
“How’d that restaurant keeper get into 
trouble?” “Mixin’ his drinks,” answered 
Broncho Bob. “I thought Crimson Gulch 
was prohibition.” “It ifi. He put water 
in the milk .”—Washington Star. 
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