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What Peace Brings 
The food demand has been increased 
by peace. Increased crops are again 
a world necessity. Home and foreign 
markets are sure to call for staple farm 
products at good prices. 
A-A-C- Fertilizers 
offer you the means of increasing your crops 
at a handsome profit. If you have never 
used these fertilizers before, do so this year, 
for the prospective demand for farm pro¬ 
ducts never was better. They are sold 
throughout the United States and abroad. 
We sell fertilizer with or without potash 
as you prefer. The potash is soluble in water. 
How to Get a Crop of Potatoes 
is a small but very useful pamphlet on this important subject. We 
have sent out many thousand to interested farmers. It covers the 
fertilizing, growing and marketing of potatoes. This book should 
be of aid to you. If you haven’t had a copy, be sure to send your 
name and address to any one of the offices named below, and it will 
be cent to you free. 
T te American Agricultural Chemical Co. 
Cincinnati 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Appropriation of $125,- 
000 for relief work in connection with 
the Minnesota forest fires of last Autumn 
was announced Jan. P>0 by the American 
Red Cross. The fund, with $970,000 
raised by the Minnesota Forest Fires Re¬ 
lief Commission, will be used largely in 
building temporary houses and in giving 
farmers in the fircswept region aid in the 
form of cattle, seed and agricultural im¬ 
plements. 
Fire of undetermined origin virtually 
destroyed the Federal disciplinary bar¬ 
racks at Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 30 
with a resultant loss estimated at $100,- 
000. In addition, clothing in the Quar¬ 
termaster’s Department, said to have 
been valued at $00,000. was destroyed. 
Prisoners assisted in lighting the flames. 
Two explosions, followed by fire, 
wrecked the plant of the American Ani¬ 
line Products Co. at Nyack, N. Y., Jan. 
31. Three persons were killed. 20 in¬ 
jured, a property loss of $100,000 result¬ 
ing. 
Brooklyn’s worst fire in many months 
resulted Feb. 4 in $200,000 damage, the 
narrow escape of many men, women and 
children from being overcome when 100 
families were driven to the street and 
caused $20,000 damage to the interior of 
the Church of Mount Carmel. The fire 
originated in the one-story frame ware¬ 
house of the Anbacher Fain Manufac¬ 
turing Company. 
The patriotism of Col. Theodore Roose¬ 
velt and his son Kermit, now a captain 
of artillery in the American Expedition¬ 
ary Forces in France, was challenged in 
a cartoon and piece of doggerel that ap¬ 
peared in the September issue of Jere¬ 
miah A. O’Leary’s magazine, Bull, in 1917. 
The cartoon was exhibited Feb. 3 and 
the lines read to a jury that is trying 
O’Leary and his co-defendants on charges 
of violation of the espionage law, alleged 
by the Government to have been perpe¬ 
trated in several issues of O’Leary’s 
magazine. How Dr. Heinrich Albert 
raised a fund of $5,000 for the American 
Truth Society, of which Jeremiah A. 
O’Leary is president, and how the money 
was sent anonymously and in varying 
amount by messenger to the organiza¬ 
tion’s treasurer in Hoboken was brought 
out Feb. 4 in O’Leary’s trial before Fed¬ 
eral Judge Augustus N. Hand. The 
American Truth Society is also a de¬ 
fendant to indictments charging con¬ 
spiracy to violate the espionage law. 
A chemical explosion in the laboratory 
of the soap manufacturing plant of Col¬ 
gate & Co., at 105 Hudson Street, Jersey 
City, Feb. 3. damaged surrounding build¬ 
ings, started a fire that was controlled 
with difficulty, and caused the death of 
two men and the injury of six others. 
Property Wss is put at $10,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Publicity 
has proved such a potent deterrent to 
violators of the New York State fish and 
game laws that the publication monthly 
of the names ot those found guilty has 
been adopted as a fixed policy of the 
Conservation Commission. George D. 
Pratt, head of the commission, has in¬ 
formed the Legislature of the plan and 
of its.successful operation to date. Mr. 
Pratt declared that it was appropriate 
to say that “the better it is understood 
that the law is impartially enforced the 
sooner will violations cease by persons 
whom one would least expect to commit 
such violations.” The “least expected” 
persons, he said, included hunters and 
fishers, both men and women, from all 
walks of life. City police officia s, clergy¬ 
men and many persons prominent in pro¬ 
fessional life were among the classes to 
which he .referred. 
The annual meeting of the Hampshire, 
Hampden and Franklin (Mass.) Bee¬ 
keepers’ Association was held in North¬ 
ampton, Mass., Saturday, Feb. 8. 
A Government regulated monopoly of 
the meat industry was advocated by live 
stock producers Feb. 4 befoi*': the Senate 
Agricultural Committee and. the House 
Interstate Commerce Committee ; , the 
only means of satisfying the producer and 
the consumer and preventing the cattle 
business from being destroyed. George 
Armstrong, cattleman of Fort Worth, 
Tex., recommended to the Senate Com¬ 
mittee that legislation he enacted which 
would give the Government control of .the 
industry and permit it to fix the prices 
of live stock, meat and labor. lie said 
botli producers and consumers had just 
grievances against the present system, 
and that only Government. intervention 
would prevent continued agitation. 
A special one-month course in cheese¬ 
making and in ice cream manufacture 
will open at the New York State College 
of Agriculture on Feb. 24. The course 
is open only to those who have had some 
experience, either in the Winter short 
course of the college or in actual practice. 
Because of the restricted laboratory space 
the number of students who can be regis¬ 
tered in the course is limited. 
The Steuben County, N. Y., farmers, 
represented by the commission firm of 
E. II. Dudley & Co. of Bath, have won 
their action against George W. Perkins 
to recover on potato contracts made by 
Mr. Perkins during the potato famine 
two years ago when he proposed to sup- 
Febrcary 15, 1911) 
ply New York consumers with potatoes 
at $1 per bushel. Mr. Perkins refused to 
pay on the ground the potatoes were not 
properly harvested and decayed badly, 
lie presented a counter claim of $2,046 
to offset the complainants’ claim of $1,- 
936 and the jury rendered a verdict 
against Mr. Perkins of $884.10. 
INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS.—Cur¬ 
rants and Turkish tobacco comprised the 
cargo of the British steamship Cairhva- 
lona, which arrived at New York re¬ 
cently from Saloniea and Patras. Cus¬ 
toms men said that it was the first cargo 
of these commodities received from the 
Near East since the early days of the 
war. 
The entire equipment of the Royal Air 
Force in. Canada has been purchased by 
an American, Roy TJ. Conger, price-being 
put at $10,000,000. The purchase in¬ 
cluded approximately 450 airplanes of the 
Curtiss .1X4 military training tractor 
type, and 1,000 90 horsepower Curtiss 
OX engines, as well as thousands of 
spare parts, struts, wires, and hundreds 
of propellers, wings and fuselages. The 
whole equipment is to be used on com¬ 
mercial routes in Canada. 
From machine guns to sewing machines 
is the modern rendering of the quotation : 
“They shall beat their swords into plow¬ 
shares. and their spears into pruning 
hooks.” Within a month of the signing 
of the armistice Messrs. Vickers, manu¬ 
facturers of the Maxim gun, have trans¬ 
formed their gun factory at Cray ford. 
England, into an up-to-date manufactory 
of sewing machines. 
WHEAT CONTROL.—Grain dealers, 
exporters and millers Feb. 4 presented to 
the House Agriculture Committee varied 
suggestions for methods of carrying out 
the Government’s guarantee to producers 
of $2.26 a bushel for the 1919 wheat 
crop. All agreed that the true market 
price, as determined by world conditions 
would drop below the guaranteed rate 
and that the Government should make 
good the difference directly rather than 
by. maintaining artificially the higher 
price. The witnesses also agreed that 
the existing United States Grain Corpor¬ 
ation or some similar body should be 
maintained as the Government agency for 
supporting the price to growers. They 
differed as to methods to be prescribed 
by legislation which the committee is pre¬ 
paring to draft. The grain dealers pro¬ 
posed that the corporation actually buy 
the grain at $2.26, sell it to millers or 
other consumers at a price dictated by 
world markets and acquire the country’s 
surplus for export. The exporters sug¬ 
gested that the corporation’s functions 
be limited to paying farmers the difference 
between the Government price and the 
market price at which the grain was sold 
without actually taking possession, and 
consequently without piling up a great 
quantity for export. 
The millers were interested mainly in 
having the corporations given authority 
to protect millers against losses growing 
out of the falling off of the wheat price 
from the present artificial level to the true 
world price and the fluctuations in the 
world price before it becomes stable under 
the corporati n’. administration. In the 
main, however, the grain dealers advocat¬ 
ed that tlm grain corporation continue to 
function much as it has done in the past. 
Thus the dealer would collect grain from 
farmers, p;.ying the guaranteed price with 
a small deduction for commission, and 
turn over the grain to the grain corpora¬ 
tion at tin* guarantee price. The cor¬ 
poration then would sc’l it. at the price it 
judges to represent the world price, deter¬ 
mined by international competition, and 
export the surplus. Other suggestions of 
the dealers were that the Government 
should not acquire storage warehouses or 
mills in anticipation of an emergency 
caused by flooding the market after next 
Summer’s harvest, and that the grain 
corporation should not bo called on to 
handle other grains than wheat. 
The millers ask protection against the 
expected decline from the present arti¬ 
ficial level to the open market prices, it 
was explained, only to keep the usual 
quantity of flour in transit to consump¬ 
tion points!, necessary to maintain a 
steady supply. An accounting would be 
maintained with the grain corporation, 
by which the corporation would pay the 
difference between the wheat price on the 
day when flour was shipped and a lower 
mice on the day when the flour was de- 
ivered- 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Massachusetts Dairymen’s Association, 
annual meeting. Horticultural Hall, Bos¬ 
ton, Feb. 13. 
Massachusetts’ Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, annual meeting, Horticultural Hall, 
Boston, Feb. 11-12. 
New England Berkshire Club, annual 
meeting and bred sow sale, Brattleboro, 
Vt. March 11-12. 
Union meeting, agricultural organiza¬ 
tions of Massachusetts, Horticultural 
Hall, Boston, Feb. 11-14. 
California International T.ive Stock 
Show, San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 8-15. 
Omaha Inter-State Land Show, Munic¬ 
ipal Auditorium. Omaha. Neb.. Feb. 12-22. 
Meeting of the Massachusetts State 
Vegetable Growers’ Association, to be 
hold in Horticultural Hall, Boston. Feb. 
12 , 
Farmers’ Week. New York Agricultural 
College, Ithaca, N. Y.. Feb. 10-15. 
Hudson River Meeting, New York 
State Horticultural Society, Boughkeep- 
sie, Feb. 19-21. 
