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7*# RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Go to Market in Your 
Own Back Yard 
How can you be content with tne 
two-or-three-days-old vegetables and 
green things the markets offer ? Plant 
a garden with 
FERRY'S Seeds 
and pick the choicest varieties of all 
the things you love best, fresh and 
full flavored. 
The Ferry Seeds offered you this 
spring have been tested in our trial 
gardens and greenhouses. As nearly 
as is humanly possible, we have made 
sure for you that locked in the tiny 
cells of Ferry’s Seeds are all those 
superior qualities of luscious tender¬ 
ness, flavor and abundance of pro¬ 
duction inherited from ancestor 
plants that we have grown 
for many generations. 
Ferry’s Seeds are sold by 
dealers everywhere. Send 
today for the beautiful 
new 1919 Ferry "Seed 
Annual”—it is free. 
D. M. FERRY & CO. 
Detroit, Michigan 
(and Windsor, Ontario) 
1919 > 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
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DIBBLE'S 
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FACTS 
It’s the handsomest, most beau¬ 
tifully illustrated and most com¬ 
prehensive strictly Farm Seed Book of 
the year. It tells the truth about the 
Farm Seed situation, gives dependable advice 
as to the values of Farm Seeds, and every 
Farmer should have one before he buys a 
pound this year. 
The descriptions are written by Edward F. Dibble, 
a Farmer and Seed Grower of thirty years’ experi¬ 
ence, and are absolutely accurate. Illustrations are 
in color, showing Dibble’s Farm Seeds in Nature’s 
garb and it is sent Free. Just write on a postal 
card “Sendthe Books,” and we will do 
the rest. Address 
EDWARD F. DIBBLE SEEDGROWER 
Box B Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 
Our regular customers will receive a copy dur- 
ing January,as wc arc mailing thousands daily* 
DIBBLE'S FARM SEEDS are of one quality only, the 
highest grade obtainable. Alfalfa, Clover and Grass seeds. 
Oats, Barley, Spring Wheat, Corn, Potatoes, etc. OVERi 
100,000 Bushels in stock, and at prices you can afford *\ 
to pay. 
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Harris’ Pedigree Seeds 
Harris’ Seeds are different from others.They are raised on our 
own farms and are bred with as much care as thoroughbred 
live stock. Every lot is tested and the percent that germinates is 
marked on the label sothe purchaser cantelljusthowmany willgrow. 
Harris’ Seed Corn is becoming famous for strong vitality and big 
yields. Seed Potatoes selected by the "hill-unit" system. Garden 
Saeds that grow and produce crops that are of the highest type.j^ 
Don't use inferior seeds at 
lowprices.or paymorethan i 
the wholesale price we ask I 
for Harris'Seeds for there arc 
no better seeds at any price, 
ur new catalogue is Full of 
good things. A card will bring it. 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO.^ 
Box 22 Coldwater, N. Y. 
Harris Seeds 
Label on every Lot 
Tells how many 
will 
Grow 
According to our tests 
98 percent 
of this seed germinates 
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When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
DOMESTIC.—An overheated furnace 
in the cellar of the old Y. M. C. A. build¬ 
ing, Mount Vernon, N. Y., started a blaze 
January 3 which caused $100,000 damage 
and threatened the entire business section 
of the city. 
Robert Capelle and Joseph L. Bley, 
self-confessed leaders in a plot directed 
by the German Government to provision 
German warships at sea from San Fran¬ 
cisco. were sentenced to serve 21 and .18 
months, respectively, in the McNeil’s 
Island Federal penitentiary in the Fed¬ 
eral Court there January 3. Capelle was 
a former agent for the North German 
Lloyd Steamship Company at San Fran¬ 
cisco. Bley was a customs broker. 
IV. B. Tredwell, a Hampton Roads cus¬ 
tom house broker and stevedore, arrested 
at Norfolk, Va., January 3, on a Federal 
warrant charging that he defrauded the 
Government of nitrate valued at $50,000, 
was released on $25,000 bail to appear 
January 11. It. is alleged that a consid¬ 
erable quantity of nitrate imported 
through that port and unloaded by the 
defendant was distributed through unau¬ 
thorized channels. 
The State of Connecticut starts the 
new year free of debt and with its Legis¬ 
lature in a position to undertake a con¬ 
structive policy. This is expected to ex¬ 
tend mainly to the promotion of agricul¬ 
ture and live stock rearing, the better¬ 
ment of public health, reconstruction of 
the State’s educational system, improve¬ 
ment of waterways, the cleansing of 
streams now polluted with industrial 
Wastes and increasing facilities for the 
care of the poor and incompetent. 
The squad of agents of the New York 
Bureau of Investigation of the Depart¬ 
ment of Justice, which fought German 
propagandists during the war, has been 
assigned as a unit to combat Bolshevism 
this city. A systematic effort to form 
Soviet organizations here has been dis¬ 
covered. There are reports that $400,000 
remitted by the Lenine government for 
propaganda purposes has reached here by 
way of Sweden. The class to whom the 
Boishcviki propaganda is being largely 
directed is the Russian who has been but 
a few years in this country. It is be¬ 
lieved that the leaders when they claim 
an organization numbering 800.000 in¬ 
clude all of those aliens whose sympa¬ 
thies are with Russia, no matter what 
the current government may be. The I. 
W. W. organization is asserted to have 
become Bolshevist practically to its last 
man. • The radical wing of the Socialist 
party has gone over entire, and it is the 
existing Socialist organization tihat is 
being studied in connection with the 
present output of propaganda. 
Three more States ratified the Federal 
prohibition amendment January 7, mak¬ 
ing a total of 19 States that have in¬ 
dorsed the proposal of Congress. The 
House of the Idaho Legislature voted for 
the amendment, but the Senate tabled the 
proposal, delaying action. The act needs 
to he passed by 17 more States. While 
the proposad addition to the basic law 
was ratified January 7 by the Legisla¬ 
tures of Ohio, Colorado and Oklahoma, 
representatives of the distillery companies 
of the country met in Chicago and decided 
to oppose by every legal means possible 
both the amendment and the war prohibi¬ 
tion law which is to go into effect on 
July 1. The States which have ratified 
the prohibition amendment are Kentucky, 
Mississippi. South Carolina, North Da¬ 
kota, Maryland. Montana, Arizona, Dela¬ 
ware, Texas, South Dakota, Massachu¬ 
setts, Georgia, Iyouisiana, Florida, Michi¬ 
gan, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia and Okla¬ 
homa. 
WASHINGTON.—The War Depart¬ 
ment was sharply criticized in the Senate 
January 3 by Senator Weeks of Massa¬ 
chusetts, Republican, for delays and er¬ 
rors in compiling casualties among the 
expeditionary forces and for failure to co¬ 
operate with the Red Cross in the matter 
of forwarding letters from wounded sol¬ 
diers to relatives in this country. Crit¬ 
icism was directed especially at the office 
of the Adjutant-General of the army, 
Senator Weeks saying that Major-Gen¬ 
eral McCain, the Adjutant-General, who 
retired last Summer to command a di¬ 
vision. and who was succeeded by Major- 
General Harris, should have been re¬ 
tained. 
Twenty-six tons of insurance records 
from the American expeditionary force 
were received January 2 by the war risk 
insurance bureau. The records represent 
$1,000,000,000 of Government insurance 
written on American soldiers overseas, 
and will bring the total of insurance writ¬ 
ten bv the bureau to more than $38.- 
000.000.000. 
January 3 Senator Lodge introduced a 
resolution calling for investigation of 
Henry Ford’s contract for the construc¬ 
tion of 100 Eagle boats to cost approxi¬ 
mately $33,000,000 and the reason why, 
when the delivery of 93 of the craft was 
to have been accomplished on December 
15 last, only seven had been completed at 
that time, by the Senate Naval Affairs 
Committee. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Massa¬ 
chusetts Fruit Growers’ Association will 
hold its annual convention in Horticul¬ 
tural Hall, Boston. Mass., February 11- 
12 These meetings are to be held in con¬ 
junction with the other State associations 
and a very strong program has been 
worked up. Among the different subjects 
to he discussed are “Fruit Packages,’ 
January 18, 1919 
“Winter Injuiy of Fruit Trees,” “Mar¬ 
keting Possibilities: (a) Export, (bt 
New England,” “Orchard, Berry and 
Vegetable Fertilizer,” “Efficient Manage¬ 
ment of Labor on the Fruit Farm,” 
“Fruit Insects and Their Control,” 
“Spray Material.” 
The following organizations will co¬ 
operate in the union meeting of agricul¬ 
tural organizations at Boston Mass., 
February 11-14: Massachusetts State 
Department of Agriculture, Wilfrid 
Wheeler, Commissioner; Boston Chamber 
of Commerce, Committee on Agriculture, 
A. IV. Gilbert, secretary; Massachusetts 
Fruit Growers’ Association, A. R. Jenks, 
secretary ; Massachusetts Dairymen’s As¬ 
sociation, O. A. Jamison, secretary ; Mas¬ 
sachusetts Milk Inspectors’ Association, 
II. E. Bowman, secretary; Massachusetts 
State Vegetable Growers’ Association, H. 
M. Howard, secretary; Massachusetts 
Swine Breeders’ Association, II. C. Bar¬ 
ton, secretary; Massachusetts Bee Keep¬ 
ers’ Association, Miss Dorothy Q. Wright, 
secretary; Massachusetts Nurserymen’s 
Association, A. E. Robinson, secretary; 
Boston Market Gardeners’ Association, 
A. P. Wyman, secretary; Boston Florists’ 
and Gardeners’ Club, A. K. Rogers, presi¬ 
dent ; Boston Poultry Association, W. B. 
Atherton, secretary; Cape Cod Cranberry 
Growers* Association. M. L. Uranu, presi¬ 
dent; New England Corn Exposition, 
Inc., F. L. Weave, secretary. 
At the annual meeting of the Agricul¬ 
tural Seed Trade Association of the 
United Kingdom, held in London last 
month, it was decided not to trade with 
Germany for five years. Special efforts 
are being made to increase seed growing 
in Great Britain. 
The great poultry show in Madison 
Square Garden, New York, will be held 
January 21-25. 
The most serious damage to citrus 
crops in Southern California since 1913 
resulted from the series of frosts begin¬ 
ning Christmas night, according to a state¬ 
ment made January 4 by E. G. Dezell, 
noting general manager of the California 
Fruit Growers’ Exchange. 
Discussion of farm problems was a 
leading feature of the annual conference 
of the National Association of Commis¬ 
sioners of Agriculture at Baltimore. Md., 
January 6-7. David F. Houston, Secre¬ 
tary of Agriculture, gave an address, and 
reports were given by Dr. W. O. Thomp¬ 
son. president of the Ohio State Uni¬ 
versity, and Dr. R. A. Pearson, president 
of Iowa State College, on the results of 
their trip to Europe, where they went to 
investigate agricultural and food condi¬ 
tions. 
The British Government is considering 
a scheme for nationalizing the country’s 
milk supply. In the meantime a pooling 
system has been adopted with the idea of 
diverting supplies into channels not al¬ 
ready sufficiently provided for and equal¬ 
izing distribution. Retailers will have to 
supply the Ministry of Food with returns 
of their trade for previous mouths and 
also report weekly. In this way the Min¬ 
istry will ascertain where the deficiency 
exists and under the provisions of the De¬ 
fense of the Realm act will have power to 
instruct the wholesalers to divert their 
supplies from one district to another. The 
intention of the Ministry is to bring about 
a uniform reduction of supplies to retail¬ 
ers of 15 per cent. This will be pooled 
and augmented by supplies obtained from 
the margarine and condensed milk fac¬ 
tories. Any retailer who is unable to 
obtain 85 per cent, of his former supply 
will get it from the pool thus formed. An 
order has been issued limiting the quan¬ 
tity of milk that may be served in res¬ 
taurants and hotels. For breakfast the 
scale is one-seventh pint, luncheon, dinner 
or tea. one-fourteenth of a pint. Milk as 
a beverage is prohibited, except for young 
children or for invalids. 
INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS. — A 
200 per cent, dividend was declared by the 
directors of the Ford Motor Company at 
their annual meeting. December 31, at 
Detroit. The dividend, which represents 
a disbursement of $4,000,000 among 
seven stockholders, is payable 100 per 
cent January 1 and 100 per cent Febru¬ 
ary 1. It was explained at the offices of 
the company that the dividends just an¬ 
nounced are the first of monthly dividends 
contemplated throughout the coming year. 
Mergers by several of the smaller and 
younger insurance companies with older 
companies possessing a substantial re¬ 
serve is looked for among life underwrit¬ 
ers as a result of the unprecedented num¬ 
ber of mortality claims that have been 
filed in October, November and December 
because of the inlluenza and pneumonia 
epidemic. 
Armour & Co., Chicago packers, were 
cited January 7 to appear before the Fed¬ 
eral Trade Commission February 17 to 
answer a formal complaint that the com¬ 
pany has “for the last three years con¬ 
cealed its affiliation with and control of 
the Farmers Co-operativ^ Fertilizer Com¬ 
pany, Richmond. Va.” The complaint al¬ 
leged that through the concealed control 
the Richmond concern acquired certain 
trade which Armour & Co. could not ac¬ 
quire were the facts generally known. 
Opposition to a prolongation to five 
years of the period of Government control 
of railroads was reiterated January 5 at 
a session of the Association of Railway 
Executives. Ninety-two per cent of the 
mileage of the country was represented at 
the meeting. 
“I see you are keeping a cow,” “Wrong, 
neighbor, wrong; she’s keepiu’ me.”—Tor¬ 
onto Sun. 
