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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
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Extremely thin at no sacrifice 
of accuracy. 21 and 19 jewels 
$125 to $240 or more 
depending upon the case 
'HE watch presents the same ele¬ 
ments of mystery that once sur¬ 
rounded the automobile. Now, 
nearly every one knows something 
about a motor car’s mechanism. It is to make 
the “works” of the watch an “open book” 
that these Waltham advertisements are de¬ 
signed— to instruct and protect you in buying 
a watch. 
The mainspring is the power of a watch. It is a piece of 
specially hardened and tempered steel, about twenty inches 
long, coiled in a barrel between the upper and lower plates 
of the Tiovement. 
It is subjected to varying conditions of service in temper¬ 
ature and tension. The variation in thickness of two one- 
thousandths of an inch, or lack of uniformity in hardening 
and tempering, will decide the time-keeping quality of 
your watch. 
The Waltham Watch Company produces fourteen tons 
of mainsprings every year. It is the largest mainspring 
maker in the world. The Waltham mainspring is cut from 
long rolls of steel of uniform and special quality, then 
tempered in resilient form by a secret process, and is placed 
in the watch coiled into a hardened and tempered steel 
barrel. This is exclusively a Waltham practice. 
The foreign mainspring is not only cut in short lengths, but 
hardened and tempered in short lengths — therefore every 
foreign mainspring is an individual spring of uncertain 
temper, making the watch a liability. 
The foreign maker of watch movements buys his springs in 
the open market. That is one reason why the imported 
watch gives such varying service. An inferior mainspring 
means an inferior watch — no matter how much you pay 
for if 
The uniform superiority of the Waltham mainspring is one of the reasons 
why the horological experts of the leading lations of five continents 
chose Waltham in preference to watches of a../ other make. 
WALTHAM 
THE WORLD'S WATCH OVERTIME 
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Furnishes the sweetest and most luscious creamy nutri¬ 
ment you can imagine. Acclaimed the most important 
horticultural acquisition of recent years. Awarded the 
only medal given for sweet corn by the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society in 67 years. 
De Lue’s Golden Giant is the result of 12 years’ selec¬ 
tion from the product of the Howling Mob crossed with 
Golden Bantam and combines all the good points of 
both parents. 
Stalks very short and stout near the ground. Two to 
three ears; 8 to 9 inches long; cob of small diameter, 
carrying from 12 to 22 rows of long, broad kernels of 
deep orange color. 
This seed offered by the originator is 2 years in advance of that sold by com¬ 
petitors (as to selection). Beware of substitutes. 
It excels all other early varieties in size, productiveness and quality, and all the late 
varieties in quality and early maturity. Growers report that it is from 1 to 2 
weeks earlier than Golden Bantam. It is the one corn for the home or market 
gardener who wants the greatest amount of highest quality corn in the shortest 
period of time from the smallest piece of land. Illustrated circular, “How to 
Know and How to Grow a Perfect Sweet Corn,” sent with order. Price, )4 oz., 
35 cts.; 1 oz. 50 cts.; 1 pint=12 ozs., $5.00; 1 quart, $10.00. 
Send Check or Money Order. No Stamps. 
FREDERICK S. De LUE, M. D., Experimental Farm, Needham, Mass., Dept. A 
. _ „ Get onr. low 191$) prices. Farm- 
Rmnar Twine* er agents wanted. Sample free. 
DIIIUCI I YVIBIIC THE0 BURT g SDNS. Melrose, Ohio 
INCREASE YOUR PROFITS 
Pare IJnleached Hardwood Ashes. The Best Potash 
Fertilizer. The Joynt Brand tho Best by Test. 
Write for Particulars. Agents Wanted. Corres¬ 
pondence Invited. Satisfactory References. Address 
JOHN JOYNT, - Lucknow, Ontario 
Farmer Afient^ SELL teas, coffees, pure 
r«n mu ziyLHis food products. u<>odpr«ntx. 
Any quantity, 1 pound up. Send for wholesale price list. 
Ml*()ItI’KHS >111,1,9 00., Dept. 14, 1/3 Greenwich St., New York City 
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C. N. ROBINSON & BHO., 
HOT BED SASH 
CYPRESS, well made with 
cross bar, blind tenons, white 
leaded in joints. GLASS, $4.50 
per box. Write for circular. 
Dopt 1 4, Baltimore, Md. 
Honest Seeds 
Honest Seeds—Square Dealings—Low Prices. 
FORREST SEED CO,, 
That’s what Forrest Seeds are—tested and 
of known lineage, true to name. Our country 
location and low running expenses with no 
high priced catalogs, enable us to give you 
the best of seeds at very low prices. You 
can save 30# on your seed bill. 
Let us convince you. Write for catalog today, 
Box 32, Cortland, N. Y. 
DOMESTIC.—Jan. 23 the New York 
Assembly voted, SI to GO, to ratify the 
prohibition amendment to the Federal 
Constitution. 
Congress adopted Jan. 2S an amend¬ 
ment to the urgent deficiency bill appro¬ 
priating $208,200 for the payment of 
2,780 claims of persons in New Jersey 
whose property was destroyed in the 
Gillespie munition plant explosions at 
Morgan, N. J., last October. The claims 
are those of poor persons, and immediate 
settlement was urged by the War De¬ 
partment Board, which has been investi¬ 
gating. The larger claims of corporations 
and other business interests will he con¬ 
sidered later by a Congressional commit¬ 
tee. 
For the third time within a few months 
the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House at 
Cornell University. Ithaca, was damaged 
by fire Jan. 20. The loss is estimated at 
$ 00 , 000 . 
Eight lumber companies were indicted 
Jan. 23 by the United States Grand Jury 
in Newark, N. J., for alleged violation of 
the Elkins law. It is charged they dis¬ 
criminated against certain customers and 
that lumber consigned to private con¬ 
cerns was labelled as government pro¬ 
perty to get it through embargo territory. 
British shipping interests Jan. 27 sur¬ 
prised the marine world by announcing 
a cut of more than 00 2/3 per cent in 
all rates to Europe. The new rates do 
not apply to government cargo. Five big 
shipping interests are represented in the 
combination which arranged the cut in 
rates. They are the International Mer¬ 
cantile Marine lines, the Furness, the 
Cunard, the Canadian Pacific and the 
Bristol City interests. The cut is the 
first step in a widespread effort to stimu¬ 
late shipments from America to Europe. 
Although the new rates are much higher 
than they were before the war, they are 
sufficiently low to bring about a big in¬ 
crease in business. Immediately after 
the announcement was made a big jump 
in business was recorded. Under the new 
ruling of the British shipping interests 
rates are reduced from $3.50 to $1 a 
hundred pounds and "from $1.75 to 50 
cents a cubic foot. The United States 
Shipping Board ordered sweeping reduc¬ 
tions in transatlantic freight rates to 
meet the price cutting announcement 
made by British shipowners. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—William A. 
Glasgow, Jr., chief counsel for the Food 
Administration, submitted Jan. 28 to the 
chairmen of the Senate and House agri¬ 
cultural committees a proposed hill appro¬ 
priating $1,250,000,000 and authorizing 
the President “to exercise any of the pow¬ 
ers delegated to the President by the food 
and fuel acts” in maintaining the guaran¬ 
teed price on wheat. In a conference with 
representatives of the packers of the 
country the chief of the meats division 
announced that Mr. Hoover had decided 
upon continuation for the month of Feb¬ 
ruary of the fixed price of $17.50 on hogs 
and declared that the Food Administra¬ 
tion would continue to approve price 
agreements on hogs which would insure 
the margin of profit to the producer 
agreed upon last year until the present 
crop had been marketed or until a reason¬ 
able time had been allowed for market¬ 
ing. 
The following are the daily events at 
the big union meeting of Ma.ssachusetts 
agricultural organizations Feb. 11-14: 
Monday, Feb. 10—Horticultural Hall 
open for setting up exhibits. Tuesday, 
Feb. 11—Meetings of Massachusetts Fruit 
Growers’ Association, Federated Massa¬ 
chusetts Beekeepers’ Association, Inc., 
Massachusetts State Department of Agri¬ 
culture. Wednesday, Feb. 12—Meetings 
of Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, Massachusetts State Yegetable 
Growers’ Association, Boston Market 
Gardeners’ Association, Massachusetts 
Milk Inspectors’ Association, Massachu¬ 
setts State Department of Agriculture, 
Get-together Banquet, Ford Ilall, 0:30 
P. M. Thursday, Feb. 13—Meetings of 
Massachusetts Dairymen’s Association, 
Boston Gardeners’ and Florists’ Club, 
Massachusetts Nurserymen’s Association, 
Massachusetts Swine Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion, New England Corn Exposition, Inc., 
Massachusetts State Department of Agri¬ 
culture. Friday. Feb. 14—Meetings of 
Woman’s National Farm and Garden As¬ 
sociation, N. E. Branch; Massachusetts 
State Department of Agriculture. Satur¬ 
day, Feb. 15—Removal of exhibits. The 
following bodies co-operate in this gath¬ 
ering: Massachusetts State Department 
of Agriculture, Massachusetts Fruit 
Growers’ Association, Massachusetts 
Dairymen’s Association, Boston Chamber 
of Commerce, Committee on Agriculture, 
Massachusetts Milk Inspectors’ Associa¬ 
tion, Massachusetts State Vegetable 
Growers’ Association, Massachusetts 
Swine Breeders’ Association, Federated 
Massachusetts Beekeepers’ Association, 
Inc., Massachusetts Nurseymen’s Associa¬ 
tion, Boston Market Gardeners’ Associa¬ 
tion. Boston Poultry Association, New 
England Corn Exposition. Inc., Woman’s 
National Farm and Garden Association, 
N. E. Branch. 
WASHINGTON. — An appropriation 
of $750,000,000 to continue the financing 
of Government operation ' — n —— 
of the railroads 
February 8, 1919 
was asked of Congress Jan. 24 by Direc¬ 
tor-General Hines in an estimate for¬ 
warded through Secretary of the Treasury 
Glass. A statement accompanying the 
estimate explains that much of the sum 
is to be used in advances to the roads in 
financing betterments and improvements 
and in carrying working capital and will 
be reimbursable to the United States. It 
is proposed, however, to charge off from 
the appropriation, as chargeable to the 
cost of winning the war, a loss of $190,- 
000,000, which is the difference between 
the rental guarantee and the net income 
of the roads for 1918. 
J. Ogden Armour, who testified at 
length before the House Interstate Com¬ 
merce Committee, appeared Jan. 24 before 
the Senate Agriculaural Committee o.t a 
continuation of its hearing on bills for 
regulation of the meat industry. Much of 
the testimony related to profits. Ari.ed *• 
explain the stock dividend of 400 pc* . - : 
declared by his company in 191,,. Mr. 
Armour said this was made possir'e by 
the accumulation of a surplus si ce the 
establishment of the business. 
By a vote of 9 to 2 the House Immi¬ 
gration Committee has 'Ceded to keep 
the four year restriction in the bill pro¬ 
hibiting immigration into tho United 
States. Under the terms of the hill all 
aliens except from Canada and Mexico 
would be barred from entering the United 
States unless they fall under certain 
classifications, which include officials of 
foreign .Governments, tourists, families of 
naturalized citizens, ministers, teachers, 
lawyers, students, authors, artists and 
members of learned professions who can 
prove themselves victims of religious per¬ 
secution. The measure has been strongly 
urged by labor organizations as a neces¬ 
sary means of protecting labor in this 
country from a flood of low-price Euro¬ 
pean labor and as a means of preventing 
serious unemployment situations coinci¬ 
dent with the demobilization of the Amer¬ 
ican Army. 
Final legislative action was taken Jan. 
28 by Congress on the Administration 
bill appropriating $100,000,000 requested 
by President Wjlson for European famine 
relief. The conferees’ report was adopted 
by both Senate and House without debate 
and the measure uow goes to the Presi¬ 
dent for approval. There was no debate 
in . either house. Senator Townsend 
(Michigan), one of the chief opponents, 
announced that in view of the overwhelm¬ 
ing majority by which the Senate had 
passed the measure he thought further 
opposition would be foolish. 
GRAIN CONTROL.—The bill to carry 
out the President’s guarantee of $2.20 a 
bushel for the 1919 wheat crop was taken 
to the Capitol Jan. 28 by W. A. Glasgow, 
of the Federal Food Administration. Its 
terms are so general and sweeping that 
Chairman Lever of the House Agricul¬ 
tural Committee probably will withhold 
the measure 1 from introduction in the 
House until his committee redrafts it. 
Summed up, the Administration bill pro¬ 
vides : 
1. An appropriation of $1,250,000,000 
to be available at once. 
2. President Wilson is authorized to 
carry out the guarantees for 1918 and 
1919 wheat with such agents or agencies 
as he may desire to create, or utilize any 
department or agency of the government. 
3. The President is not only authorized 
to buy and sell wheat and wheat products, 
but “foods and foodstuffs,” and is given 
power to assume absolute control over 
dealers, millers, elevators, exchanges and 
all others having anything to do with the 
distribution, by means of a license sys¬ 
tem. 
4. The President is given complete con¬ 
trol of all exports and imports of “wheat, 
wheat products# and other foodstuffs and 
feeds,” and, to dispose of the American 
surplus of wheat, he is empowered to 
enter foreign markets. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Massachusetts Dairymen’s Association, 
annual meeting, Horticultural Hall, Bos¬ 
ton, Feb. 13. 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, annual meeting, Horticultural Ilall, 
Boston. Feb. 11-12. 
Union meeting, agricultural organiza¬ 
tions of Massachusetts, Horticultural 
Hall, Boston, Feb. 11-14. 
California International Live Stock 
Show, San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 8-15. 
Omaha Inter-State Land Show, Muni¬ 
cipal Auditorium, Omaha, Neb., Feb. 
12 - 22 . 
Meeting of the Massachusetts State 
Vegetable Growers’ Association, to be 
held in Horticultural Ilall, Boston, Feb. 
12 . 
Farmers’ Week. New York Agricultural 
College. Ithaca, N. Y„ Feb. 10-15. 
Hudson River Meeting, New York 
State Horticultural Society, Poughkeep¬ 
sie, F.eh. 19-21. 
Not as much snow and cold weather 
in Franklin County as usual. Farmers 
are making good use of the weather in 
putting up their ice, hauling manure and 
cutting wood. The officers elected by the 
Dairymen’s League of Franklin County 
in Malone are: President. Frank Sehryer, 
Burke; secretary, George Rockwood, 
Bombay: treasurer, C. II. Dwyer, Ban¬ 
gor. No sharp advances in farm pro¬ 
duets are noted. Hay, $28; butter, 68e; 
eggs, 05c. An unusually large quantity 
of very fine Spring wheat has been milled 
bv the farmers in this section this Fall 
and Winter II. T. J. 
Franklin Co., N. Y. 
