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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
March 22, 1919 
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300 Vermontand NewHampshire Farms 
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Crops and Farm News 
We had a remarkably warm Fcbnlary; 
it seemed more like April weather. We 
have had but one day of sleighing, and 
that was very thin. The roads are in 
poor condition, on ac.ount of freezing 
and thawing, and heavy autos being used 
on them. Wheat was exposed all Febru¬ 
ary, but is not pulled yet by frost. Clover 
seed is very high in price. Stock is doing 
well, a few steers being fed in this vicin¬ 
ity. Farmers are up against the labor 
problem this year worse than they were 
last year. Wages are higher, and yet the 
cities are crowded with men walking the 
streets. Is this a fair return to the farm¬ 
er, who tried to do his bit during the war 
period in furnishing food and supplies for 
the Allies, laboring under a handicap of 
help and the new timetable? Is this pa¬ 
triotic? does it savor of Americanism, or is 
it Bolshevism? We have been urged, and 
are at present, to raise or produce all we 
can. IIow are we to d it without help? 
Where are the rays of hope, or any in¬ 
ducement for the farmer with the uncer¬ 
tainties that exist today? E. t. b. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
This has boon the mildest Winter we 
have had in a good many years; the cold¬ 
est was three degrees above zero. This is 
a dairy section, and diversified farming. 
There are three dairy breeds represented 
up here. Holsteins, Jerseys and Guern¬ 
seys. Four creameries in (his section 
are well patronized, besides considerable 
cream being shipped to the cities. 
Muskegon Co., Mich. o. F. M. 
This section of Maine is a good dairy¬ 
ing center, although not so extensively as 
a few years ago. Some farmers have 
gone into beef cattle, because of the high 
prices of grain for cows. Farmers at the 
present time are busy hauling wood. This 
has beeu a very mild Winter, and unless 
we get some snow shortly, farmers think 
that they will have to get out their 
wagons. Some potatoes raised here, but 
not so many as farther north. The yield 
in this section was above the average, 
mostly 200 bushels to the acre, and qual¬ 
ity good. Those who sold at digging time 
got $1.25 per bu. Potato buyers are pay¬ 
ing 85c per bu. at sidings. The hay crop 
was good, the farmers selling their hay 
mostly to pressers; average price. $14 per 
ton. Not much poultry raised here, al¬ 
though the demand is good. Eggs dropped 
the past few days to 00c per doz.; butter, 
00c per lb. Live poultry shipped to Bos¬ 
ton, average price this Winter, 27 to 32c 
per lb. New milch cows are in_good de¬ 
mand and bring from $00 to $150; these 
are mostly Holsteins. Sheep raising has 
increased, more so in some sections than 
others. Yellow Eye beans have dropped 
rapidly in market value the past week; 
stores are not anxious to buy at the pres¬ 
ent time; are offering $0 to $8 per bu. to 
farmers. Apple crop light; stock nearly 
all cleaned up last Fall. Meal, $1.47; 
oats. 80c, 32 lbs.; corn, $1.02 per bu.; 
cracked„corn. $1.40 per bu.; bran, $2.90; 
mixed feed. $3.10; middlings, $3; cotton¬ 
seed meal, $3.40 per cwt.; gluten meal, 
$3.35 per cwt. Farmers are looking for 
an early Spring, with help more plentiful; 
the prospects look good for a prosperous 
1919 season. W. H. B. 
Somerset Co., Me. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—March 7 a broker’s mes¬ 
senger was attacked by highwaymen in a 
building in the financial district of New 
York City and robbed of $55,800. The 
boy was seriously wounded by the robber, 
who escaped. 
Countess Bernstorff, wife of the former 
German Ambassador here, is fighting a 
photoplay company here which is en¬ 
deavoring to run films which depict her 
ns an accompli* of her husband in plot¬ 
ting murder and arson and spreading Ger¬ 
man propaganda in this country. Countess 
Bernstorff is ofAmerienn birth, being be¬ 
fore her marriage Jeanne Luekemeyer. 
For the first time in 75 years the head 
chiefs of the Six Nations are to be called 
together in council at the Onondaga 
reservation, in New York State. This 
decision was announced recently by Chief 
George Thomas of the Onondagas, the 
great high chief of the Iroquois nation. 
There is a question whether State or 
Federal authority has power over the 
Indians, and also some complaints regard¬ 
ing the treatment of Indian children in 
the schools. 
George A. Eastman and Pliny T. Clark, 
both of Boston, were arraigned in the 
Federal Court March 7 on indictment 
charging use of the mail to defraud in 
-connection with Oklahoma oil lands. They 
pleaded not guilty and were released un¬ 
der $1,500 bail each. The Government 
charges that the nieu misrepresented the 
value of the stock of the Oklahoma-Bos- 
ton Oil Company, a Maine corporation of 
which Clark is president. 
Woman suffrage lost in the Iowa 
Senate March 11 when that body voted 
to postpone indefinitely the House bill 
granting women primary suffrage and 
then passed the resolution proposing full 
woman suffrage through constitutional 
amendment. „ _ , _ 
Shares in the New England b ish Ex¬ 
change which cost originally $100 have 
been sold for $3,500 each. John M. An¬ 
derson, president of the Atlas Fish Com- 1 
pany, testified at Boston March 10 at 
the trial of several fish marketing firms 
and individuals on charges of conspiracy 
to maintain the price of fish at excessive 
levels. Mr. Anderson said he had received 
dividends of $2,300 on one share which 
he owns. 
Federal authorities have found a new 
method used in evading liquor laws in In¬ 
diana, and have issued instructions to 
search grease boxes of interurban cars for 
concealed whiskey. More than 50 quarts 
of liquor have been found concealed in 
grease boxes of trolley cars operating be¬ 
tween Chicago and South Bend. Cars 
are now searched at all stops. Penal farm 
sentences are being imposed on all vio¬ 
lators arrested. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Poison gas 
developed in war cannot be used to clear 
American farms of insects and rodent 
pests. Secretary Lane has decided, after 
investigation. Experiments showed that 
while pests were killed, there was danger 
of the gas .spreading and destroying live 
stock and persons living nearby in case 
the wind should carry the fumes. Sug¬ 
gestions had beeu made by farmers that 
the deadly gases might prove of great 
value in destroying the boll weevil in the 
South and gophers in the prairie States, 
saving millions of dollars spent in slower 
methods. 
The Department of Agriculture of Co¬ 
lumbia University is giving in co-opera- 
tion with the Division of Agriculture of 
the New York Department of Farms and 
Markets, a series of 10 lectures on farm 
management by Dr. W. J. Spillman, for¬ 
merly chief of the office of farm manage¬ 
ment, Uuited States Department of Agri¬ 
culture. The lectures will be given in 
Room 305, Sehermerhorn Hall, Columbia 
University, on Tuesday evenings at 8.15. 
March 25—A Just Settlement of the 
War Between Producers aud Consumers. 
April 1—Cost of Producing Farm Pro¬ 
ducts. 
April 8—The Road to Farm Owner¬ 
ship. 
April 15—Tenant Farming and Its 
Place in American Agriculture. 
April 22—Economics of the Beef In¬ 
dustry. 
April 29—Economics of the Poultry In¬ 
dustry. 
May 7 —Economies of the Dairy In¬ 
dustry. 
May 14—Fruit and Vegetable Farm¬ 
ing. . 
May 21—Future of the Nation’s Food 
Supply. 
May 28—Factors of Success iu Farm¬ 
ing. 
WASHINGTON.—Future credits of 
the United States to the Allies are limit¬ 
ed nmv to $1,158,000,000 which is left of 
the $10,000,000,000 appropriation, accord¬ 
ing to a report issued by the Treasury 
March 8. Until peace is declared this 
balance can be lent to the Allies for auy 
war purpose, but thereafter, for a. year 
aud a half, credits may be extended only 
to enable Allies to purchase American 
property in Europe or elsewhere and to 
finance purchases of wheat, the price of 
which has been guaranteed by the United 
States Government. The War Depart¬ 
ment’s Liquidation Commission, now in 
Europe, is expected to report soou the 
approximate value of railroad materials, 
army equipment and other property which 
the United States will have for sale in 
Europe. France and Belgium will be the 
biggest borrowers for these purchases. 
Abandonment of the Neville Island ord¬ 
nance plant, planned as the largest mu¬ 
nitions factory in the world, was an¬ 
nounced March 11 by the War Depart¬ 
ment. Not only will construction be 
stopped at once, but the buildings com¬ 
pleted will be dismantled and the tools 
and machinery manufactured or nearing 
completion will be transferred to other 
Government arsenals or sold. The island 
itself, in the Ohio River, near Pittsburg, 
will be turned back to the original own¬ 
ers. Construction and operation of the 
Neville Island project undertaken by the 
United States Steel Corporation “at the 
expense of the Government and without 
profit,” under an agreement entered into 
at the urgent request of the War De¬ 
partment. The estimates called for an 
expenditure of more than $150,000,000, 
the entire plant being designed to cover 
573 acres and to employ 20,000 men when 
in full operation. It was to surpass in 
size and capacity the Krupp works in 
Germany and the Creusot factories in 
France. 
That $0,000,000,000 revenue bill signed 
by President Wilson, besides providing for 
greatly increased taxes on incomes, profits 
and many of the every day things of life, 
carries a rider making the national cap¬ 
ital “hone dry.” The only exception to 
the import prohibition applies to embas¬ 
sies and legations of foreign governments. 
These are considered extra-territorial 
properties and are not affected by the 
“bone dry” provision, according to the 
Internal Revenue Bureau. 
"Did you call Edith up this morning?” 
“Yes, but she wasn’t down.” “But why 
didn’t you call her down?” “Because she 
wasn’t up.” “Then call her up now and 
call her down for not being down when 
you called her up.”—Boston Transcript. 
