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Vie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 2!), 1919 
Crops and Farm News 
No. 5 
TOP DRESSING TALKS 
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VV Ammonia ; why it is the great American Ammoniate; why it is the 
best top dressing for any crop that needs nitrogen; and how to apply it. 
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Address The Barrett Company, Agricultural Department. 
No 20—“Recent Investigations as to Nitrogen Fer- No. 84-“Sulphate o< Ammonia: Its Sourc*, Pro- 
tilizers for Sugar Beets.” ^ duct.on and Use. 
“How to Increase the Yield of Timothy.” 
“Sulphate of Ammonia by Those Who 
Know.” 
“Oats and Their Fertilization in the South." 
“Sulphate of Ammonia vs. the Boll Weevil." 
■“More Cotton.” 
“The Seven Good Ears and the Seven Thin 
Ears of Corn." 
Fertilizer Note Book. 
-Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia Direc* 
tions for Use. 
No. 83—“The Production of Sulphate of Ammonia 
for 1915-1916." 
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-“Fertilizing the Apple Orchard." 
-“More Wheat." 
-“Let Us Help You to Study Farming." 
-“Successful Potato Growing." 
"Sulphate of Ammonia for Vegetables." 
-“Which Source of Nitrogen is Best?" 
-“Sweet Potatoes and Yams.” 
-“Sulphate of Ammonia as a Nitrogenous 
Fertilizer." 
-“Sulphate of Ammonia for Sugar Cane." 
-“Reference List on Sulphate of Ammonia.” 
ARCADIAN Sulphate of Ammonia is the well-known standard article that has 
done you good service in your mixed fertilizers for years past. Especially kiln-dried and 
ground to make it fine and dry. Ammonia 25 % per cent, guaranteed. Made m U.b.A. 
ARCADIAN IS THE GREAT AMERICAN AMMONIATE. 
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Countrywide Produce Situation 
LIBERAL SUPPLIES CONTINUE, WITH GEN- 
ERALLY FAIRLY STEADY PRICES. 
Produce supplies are being taken quite 
well, considering a volume of 30 to 50 
per cent greater than in March of last 
year. The gain compared with a year 
ago is chiefly in fruits and in early 
Northern vegetables. Yet apples are 
selling nearly twice as high as a year ago, 
oranges nearly as high as then, and most 
Southern truck is bringing good prices. 
Old Northern vegetables are not. faring 
as well as these. Onions are higher than 
a year ago, when they brought .$1 to 
$1.75 per 100 lbs, compared to present 
wholesale range of $3 to $4. Cabbage 
was at least $15 per ton lower than now, 
owing to heavy Southern shipments. Po¬ 
tatoes were a shade higher a year ago, 
ranging $1 50 to $2.10 per 100 lbs. in 
Western cities, and $1.80 to $2.20 in 
Eastern markets. Beans were double 
present prices, at $13.50 to $14 per 100 
lbs., against $7 to $7.50 now. 
THE BEAN SURPLUS. 
The bean problem continues serious. 
Stocks are very heavy, especially in the 
West, but neither growers nor buyers 
seem to he doing much; both waiting for 
developments, with a growing impression 
that prices are near bottom. Growers 
are getting $5 to $5.75 per 100 Jbs. in 
the rough. Holders are hoping for large 
purchases for export soon when condi¬ 
tions in Europe begin to settle down, hut 
imports from Asia continue at low prices, 
affording little hope of high values for 
export to competitive markets. 
apples FIRM. 
Very firm prices hold for apples, ex¬ 
cept for some stock in soft condition. The 
range for best cold storage Baldwins is 
$!) to $10.50. with Ben Davis about $2 
below that level. The March cold storage 
report shows stock of barreled and boxed 
apples less than about two-thirds that. of 
a year ago and only about, one-third that 
in* storage last December. Baldwins 
ruled about $5 per barrel a year ago. 
Dealers have about all the apples left 
and growers are interested chiefly in the 
effect of present profits upon the dealers’ 
state of mind when they consider buying 
the next crop. 
POTATOES ACTIVE AND FAIRLY STEADY. 
In the West potatoes seem inclined to 
hold their own lately, even advancing a 
little in some sections. Average price to 
growers in Western producing regions is 
not far from $1 per 100 lbs. Growers 
in Eastern commercial shipping sections 
net 20 to 30 cents above Western. Prices 
for large lots in Eastern cities range 
around $2 per 4CM) lbs. Stocks in the 
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—March 13 the New 
York police arrested four “Reds,” chiefs 
of the United States Soviet, .and captured 
a quantity of incriminating literature. 
One of those arrested was Molly Steimer, 
a young Russian Jewess, already under 
conviction in a Federal Court under the 
espionage law. It is asserted that agi¬ 
tators of this class are now spreading 
Bolshevism among Southern negroes. 
Emery Colson and five of his children 
were burned to death in a fire which de¬ 
stroyed his farm buildings at East Frank¬ 
lin,‘.Me., March 13. The children ranged 
in age from two weeks to 14 years. The 
fire started from an overheated stove in 
the kitchen. Colson was at work in the 
barn when his wife discovered the flames. 
She escaped with the baby. Colson rushed 
into the burning building to bring out the 
other children, who were asleep, and was 
himself overcome by smoke. 
Fire March 14 destroyed a block of 
buildings in the business section of Petit 
Codiac. New Brunswick, va tied at $150,- 
000 . 
The New Jersey State Federation < of 
Labor and the New Jersey State Build¬ 
ing Trades Council held a joint conven¬ 
tion in the Dubois Coliseum in Newark 
March 10 to protest against the prohibi¬ 
tion amendment to the Federal Constitu¬ 
tion. which goes into effect: on July 1. 
Four hundred delegates, representing 
unions with a total membership of 150.- 
000. were present. Many Newark city 
officials were also there, including Mayor 
Charles P. Gillen and City Commissioner 
John S. Monahan. A ’etter was read 
from City Commissioner Thomas L. Ray¬ 
mond protesting against prohibition. 
Federal Court decrees holding that the 
Kansas Natural Gas Company and its 
subsidiaries are engaged in interstate 
commerce and enjoining Missou i and 
Kansas State and municipal officials from 
interfering with rates fixed by the court 
for the distribution of natural gas, were 
set aside March 17 by the United States 
Supreme Court. Injunctions restraining 
the Kansas State Public Utilities Com¬ 
mission fro.. fixing tl 1 rate in that State 
at 28 cents a thousand cubic feet and 
in effect setting aside rates prescribed in 
franchises granted bv various municipali¬ 
ties in Missouri were dissolved by the Su¬ 
preme Court. 
The New Jersey House of Assembly re¬ 
fused March IS by an yea and nay vote 
to ratify the national prohibition amend¬ 
ment. The resolution was presented by 
Hugh C. Barrett of Essex County, Demo¬ 
cratic floor leader. The members are not 
on record as individuals and their votes 
cannot he used against them in the next 
election. The House passed a bill im¬ 
posing a tax of 15 per cent of the gross 
receipts of telephone companies. The 
measure was aimed at the New 1 ork 
Telephone Company. It is* designed to 
secure a refund equivalent to the in¬ 
creased rates put into effect last January. 
The jury in the Nassau County Su¬ 
preme Court at Mineola which lias been 
hearing the evidence in the trial of 
Thomas F. Blcwitt on an indictment 
charging him with manslaughter in con¬ 
nection with the wreck on the. Brighton 
Beach line of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit 
Company last November, when !I2 persons 
were killed, brought in a verdict of not 
guilty March 18. The defendant was su¬ 
perintendent of the division on which the 
wreck occurred. 
Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer denied 
March 18 a motion to set aside the ver¬ 
dict of a jury convicting the American 
Socialist Society of violating the espion¬ 
age law. The society was tried with 
Scott Nearing, charged with- publishing 
and circulating the educator’s anti-war 
pamphlet called “The Great Madness. 
Nearing was acquitted The defendant 
society is liable to a maximum fine of 
$10,(MX). It conducts the Rand School in 
East Fifteenth Street. New York, and 
does a large publishing business. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—An investi¬ 
gation of food held in cold storage, es¬ 
pecially meat, both in public and private 
plants, in New York State, was ordered 
March 13 by the Council of Farms and 
Markets. Commissioner Eugene H. Por¬ 
ter will direct the investigation. 
Appointment of Dr. II. C. Taylor, head 
of the Department of Agricultural Eco¬ 
nomics in the University of Wisconsin, to 
be chief of the office of farm management 
of the Department of Agriculture was an¬ 
nounced March 14 by Secretary Houston. 
The immense fumigation houses that 
the Department! of Agriculture iu its en¬ 
deavors to prevent further introduction 
of the pink bollworm of cotton, is erecting 
at five points on the Mexican border be¬ 
tween Brownsville and El Paso, Tex., are 
rapidly nearing completion and will soon 
be put iu oneration. Some of the build¬ 
ings will take 15 freight, cars at a time. 
Plans are being perfected by A. C. 
Bigelow, president of the Philadelphia 
Wool and Textile Association and of the 
More Sheep and More Wool Association 
of the United States, for a two-day con¬ 
ference to he held at Philadelphia, in 
April, for the promotion of the sheep and 
wool industry in this country. 
More than $30,(XX) worth of dressed 
and manufactured furs were sold March 
18 at the weekly auction of the Metro¬ 
politan Fur Exchange at prices that were 
considered tip to the market. The biggest 
item on the list was 20,000 New Zealand 
dressed rabbits, which were sold at prices 
ranging from 20 cents to 31 cents a skin. 
Dressed beaver brought good prices, the 
highest recorded being $38.50. Among 
the other furs sold and their prices were 
Hudson seal, $2.95; American fox, $18; 
dark Eastern mink, $13 ; South American 
fox, $3.75, and wolf, $15. The manufac¬ 
tured furs include coats, coatees, scarfs, 
muff's, etc., and they all sold at fair 
prices. 
WASHINGTON. — Secretary Daniels 
announced March 14 that he had ap¬ 
proved the valuation of $45(5,744 fixed by 
the Naval Valuation Board on the 5,110.- 
aere tract commandeered at Quant ieo, 
Va., for a permanent Marine Corps base. 
The property was taken over under proe- 
la latiou of the President last November 
and Congress appropriated $475,000 for 
its purchase. 
Chairman Gore of Oklahoma announced 
March 14 that the Senate Agricultural 
Committee would not investigate charges 
made before Chief City Magistrate Mc- 
Adoo in New York that had wheat was 
sold to the Belgian Belief Commission 
and after being milled was sent into Bel¬ 
gium, where it caused the deaths of a 
thousand persons. A resolution by Sen¬ 
ator ('aider of New York providing for 
such an inquiry was adopted by the Sen¬ 
ate, but as the committee was not au¬ 
thorized to sit after Congress adjourned, 
and no provision was made for meeting 
the expenses of investigation, the auditor 
for the Senate has ruled that the com¬ 
mittee has no authority, to make the in¬ 
quiry. 
Italy’s loans from the United States 
were increased March 11 to $1,421 ,i>00.- 
(XX) by a new credit, of $1(5,500,000. This 
made total credits for all allies $8,857,- 
157.000. 
Fifty million dollars was lent March 
18 to Director-General Hines by the War 
Finance Corporation as the first advance 
for the Railroad Administration since it 
was left without, funds by failure of the 
Congress appropriation. Other loans will 
follow a.i rapidly as they can be arranged. 
Tli loan was made to the Director-Gen¬ 
eral as representative of railroads which 
the War Finance Corporation considers 
essential war industries. Adequate col¬ 
lateral was given in the form of railroad 
1 ds and notes, mainly, it is understood, 
bonds of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The 
loan was made at (5 per cent, the same 
rate as is charged by the Director-General 
for most advances to railroads, and is 
payable July 15, with the right on the 
part of the Director-General to repay be¬ 
fore that date. 
