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1h* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
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Ajax 
ORE and more the farmer turns to Ajax as the tires 
_ to save him miles and money. 
More milesl” is every Ajax user’s verdict. 
A3AX ROAD KING 
Ajax Road King yields more mileage because more mileage is 
built into it. The special Ajax feature—Ajax Shoulders of Strength 
—braces and reinforces the tread. See the picture of the Ajax 
Road King. Note how the Shoulders of Strength put more tread 
on the road—how they give more strength where strength is needed. 
Dirt Track Champion 
Ajax tires have won the dirt track championship of America for 
two successive years. In 1918 at county lairs,' etc., all over the 
United States, they smashed 9 world’s records and shattered 49 
track records. 
Tires which. are best for dirt track racing are best for you, for 
dirt tracks are merely country roads fenced in. 
Ajax tires will win for you. Try them. 
Ajax Tires Are Guaranteed In Writing 5000 Miles 
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DOMESTIC.—The New York Senate 
i passed March 20 a resolution providing 
for an investigation of Bolshevism in New 
York City and New York State by a 
committee of four Senators and live As¬ 
semblymen, with an appropriation of 
$30,000 for expenses. The investigation 
will start as soon as the present session 
of the Legislature is ended. The reso¬ 
lution gives the committee authority to 
investigate the “scope, tendencies and 
ramifications of seditious activities and 
report the result to the Legislature.” It 
will have broad powers to subpoena wit¬ 
nesses and compel their attendance and 
to engage counsel to handle the examina¬ 
tions. It. is understood that Senator Wal¬ 
ters has received information that Fed¬ 
eral agents have intercepted drafts for 
nearly half a million dollars which it is 
believed were intended to help spread Bol¬ 
shevist. propaganda in this country. They 
say also that much Russian money is 
being used, and probably German money 
also. 
Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer fined 
the American Socialist Society of New 
York City, a corporation, $3,000 March 
21. The society was convicted of violat¬ 
ing the espionage law by distributing a 
pamphlet called “The Great Madness, 
i by the same jury that acquitted Scott 
Nearing, author of the pamphlet. It, was 
liable to a maximum fine of $10,000. 
Indictments charging bribery of Fed¬ 
eral shoe inspectors and conspiracy to 
defraud the Government in connection 
v ith the manufacture of army shoes, 
were returned by the Federal Grand Jury 
at Boston March 21 against Frank I. 
Sears, vice-president and general mana¬ 
ger, and Thomas Sherwood, foreman and 
sole leather buyer of the A. J. Bates 
Company of Webster, shoe manufacturers. 
I Frank P. Smith of North Abington and 
Timothy II. llonen of Marlboro, inspec¬ 
tors assigned, to the Bates factory, were 
indicted for acceptance of bribes. When 
arraigned all pleaded not guilty and were 
released in bonds. It is alleged that in¬ 
ferior leather was used in the making of 
army shoes at the Bates plant. 
Louis Fraina of Boston, editor of the 
Revolutionary Aye, was held for the 
Grand Jury at Lawrence, Mass., March 
25 on a charge of inciting textile strikers 
to riot. He furnished $200 bonds. News¬ 
paper men who attended a mass meeting 
of strikers on Feb. 21 testified that Fraina 
had made an address in which he told 
the strikers that they did not yet realize 
their power: that the streets belonged to 
them and they should not be afraid of 
being sent to jail. He urged them to 
unite and “form a great fist which would 
smash capitalists.” 
A State tax of one per cent on the 
value of all coal mined and prepared for 
market in Pennsylvania would be estab¬ 
lished for State purposes only under terms 
of a bill introduced at Harrisburg March 
25 by Dr. North, Chester. The bill would 
affect both hard and soft coal. 
A large quantity of tobacco was de¬ 
stroyed March 25 when fire swept three 
barns in West Suffield, Conn., owned by 
the Granby Tobacco Company. Fifteen 
tons of fertilizer, farming tools and other 
material also were destroyed. The hiss 
was placed at $10,000. The fire is be- 
lived to have been caused by sparks from 
a locomotive. 
Fire March 25 destroyed a large part 
of Windsor, Nova Scotia. It was started 
by the explosion of a boiler. The town, 
which has a population of 3,500, was 
destroyed by file in 1S97. 
AJAX RUBBER COMPANY, Inc., NEW YORK 
Factories; Trenton, N. J. Branches in Leading Cities 
'ITEMP'CLIWLffir_ 
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SPREADS EVENLY-QUICKLY 
Any barn manure, fertilizer, lime, ashes, ete. 
Bhreds into wide strips, without clogging or bunch¬ 
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LIGHT DRAFT-ONLY TWO HORSES 
Kerap Climaxis simple, durable, liirht draft. Double- 
self-sliarpenimt teeth bolted W Inclosed Cjll..de. 
self-sbarneninK teeth bolted to Inclosed Cy Under 
practically indestructible. Write for catalog and 
prices. Ask for “Saving and Application of Manure 
by the inventor of the Spreader. We have a good 
proposition for dealers. 
N. J. KEMP CO. 
36 Swan Street, Batavia. N. Y. 
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INTERESTING GARDEN BOOKS 
A Woman’s Hardy Garden—Bp Mrs. 
OM'Drof Gardens—Bp A. M. Earle 2.50 
Flowers and Ferns in Their Haunts 
Bp M. O. Wright . . • • 2.00 
Plant Physiology—Bp Duggan . . 1.00 
For sale by Rural New-Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., N.Y. 
'OP DRESS 
all Crops with 
Nitrate of Soda, no mat¬ 
ter what other fertilizers 
you may have used—100 
pounds peracre for seeded 
crops and 200 pounds per 
acre for the cultivated 
ones. The increase will 
yield large profits over 
cost. 
Write on post card for mur 
money making books 
WILLIAM S. MYERS 
25 Madison Avenue, New York 
WASHINGTON.—Tentative agreement 
has been reached with manufacturers of 
explosives under which 50,000,000 pounds 
of surplus ammonium nitrate and 102,000 
pounds of fulminate of mercury held by 
the War Department will be disposed of 
iu such a way as not to upset market 
conditions. A committee of manufactur¬ 
ers’ representatives will mee': iu Phila¬ 
delphia to work out details. 
Readjustment of shipbuilding costs to 
peace time production is expected by ex¬ 
perts of the Shipping Board to establish 
a basic price in the neighborhood of $150 
a ton for future contracts let to Ameri¬ 
can yards. Recent conferences among 
General Manager Piez of the Emergency 
Fleet Corporation and representatives of 
Pacific coast builders were said to have 
developed virtual unanimity of opinion 
that high cost methods of production 
which prevailed at a time when the na¬ 
tional emergency demanded speed in pro¬ 
duction above everything else, should be 
eliminated as quickly as possible to ob¬ 
tain a return to sound business practice. 
Prospects of keen competition in world 
trade routes, the Western men were told, 
made it necessary to hold construction 
costs to a figure which would permit the 
payment of dividends fr.om competitive 
rates which would have to be established 
in order to get business. . 
The urgent need of the Railroad Ad¬ 
ministration for ready cash with which 
t<> meet current obligations was partially 
met March 21 through payment of $10U,- 
000 000 by the War Department on ac¬ 
count of transportation of troops and war 
supplies. The payment, it was announced 
at the War Department, . covers bills 
already approved, and anticipates bills 
April 5, 1919 
which ordinarily would fall due in the 
next three months. War Department ac¬ 
countants have computed the amount new 
due from the Department to be $65,- 
000,000, while the Railroad Administra¬ 
tion estimates it at $80,000,000. 
The Department of Labor has prepared 
and will urge before the next Congress 
enactment of legislation creating a Fed¬ 
eral Home Loan Bank. It is the De¬ 
partment’s idea that this institution 
would be to the building and loan asso¬ 
ciations what the Federal Reserve system 
is to the banks of the country- It would 
rediscount the mortgages held by the loan 
associations to make their assets more 
liquid and expand their activities. The 
draft of the legislation results from the 
conference of labor officials and repre¬ 
sentatives of the building and loan asso¬ 
ciations. It is the hope that Federal aid 
can in this way be indirectly extended 
to the man on a small salary or wage to 
permit him to become a home owner. 
Nearly half a billion dollars’ worth of 
aircraft contracts had been cancelled and 
suspended up to March 19. according to 
an announcement by the War Depart¬ 
ment. The statement showed that on 
Nov. 3 628 De Ilavilaud four planes bad 
been put into service at the front and 
that 457 were in actual commission on 
that date. The number of those planes 
received at French ports on Nov. 1 was 
1,185, and the total production in this 
country had reached 3,227. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Louis J. 
Raymond, Goffstown, N. II., presented a 
birth certificate March 20, while appear¬ 
ing as a witness in court, showing he 
was born in Canada Nov. 13, 1813. Not¬ 
withstanding his 105 years he is able to 
work his farm at Goffstown regularly, 
according to his testimony. 
Agrarian strikes are spreading in the 
agricultural districts of Argentina, ac¬ 
cording to reports received from several 
provinces. The farmers are refusing to 
plow their ground or to plant because of 
the low prices of agricultural products. 
Capt. J. A. Warner, head of the State 
Constabulary in New York City suburbs, 
has been instructed to order all dogs 
muzzled in six Westchester County towns 
or destroy them forthwith. The : State 
Department of Agriculture, through D. M. 
McLaury, director of the Bureau of Ani¬ 
mal Industry, notified him the depart¬ 
ment has decided to declare a rabies 
quarantine in Nortbcastle, Mount Pleas¬ 
ant, Harrison, Rye, Scnrsdale and Green- 
burg. 
Cleaning up polluted waters through¬ 
out New York State by the Conservation 
Commission, in co-operation with the in¬ 
dustries which are at present discharging 
waste matter into streams and lakes, is 
the object of a bill recently introduced 
in the Senate by Senator Thompson of 
Long Island and iu the Assembly by 
Assemblyman Everett of St. Lawrence 
County. The proposed legislation author¬ 
izes the commission to investigate the 
extent and character of such pollution 
and to work out the most, practical meth¬ 
ods of preventing the contamination of 
public drinking water and the destruction 
of fish, shellfish and other aquatic life. 
The bill calls for an appropriation of 
$10,000 for pushing the work and for the 
employment of engineers, biologists' and 
chemists to work on the complicated 
technical problems involved. 
The quarantine (No. 37) governing the 
importation of nursery stock aud other 
plants and seeds into the United States 
has been amended to permit the importa¬ 
tion of lily bulbs, lily of the valley, Nar¬ 
cissus, hyacinth, tulip and Crocus, packed 
in sand, soil or earth, provided such sand, 
soil or earth has been previously ster¬ 
ilized in accordance with methods pre¬ 
scribed by the Federal Horticultural 
Board. Sterilization must be done under 
the supervision of an authorized inspec¬ 
tor of the country of origin, who must 
certify to it. This provision is amenda¬ 
tory to Regulation 3 of the rules and 
regulations supplemental to the notice of 
quarantine, which required that such 
bulbs when imported must be free from 
sand, soil or earth. It was brought to 
the attention of the Board, however, that 
dry earth is the only suitable material 
known for packing these bulbs, and ex¬ 
perts of the Department of Agriculture 
advised that such material can be cheaply 
and satisfactorily sterilized by boat in 
such way as to involve no additional risk 
of introduction of dangerous plant pests. 
The War Department of March 15 re¬ 
leased to the Department of Agriculture 
to be used as fertilizer 150,000 tons of 
nitrate of soda that had been purchased 
for making high explosive shells. The 
Bureau of Markets of the department 
announces that, every effort will be made 
to distribute 100,000 tons from the IS 
cities in which the nitrate is stored, be¬ 
fore the end of the month. 
Patrons of the parcel post service who 
have claims against the Government for 
loss, theft or damage of insured and C. 
O. D. shipments, will have to wait for 
their money. The Post Office Depart¬ 
ment states that it has no funds with 
which to pay indemnities for such parcels 
of mailing for the present fiscal year, 
owing to the failure of Congress to pass 
the third deficiency appropriation bill. 
Postmasters have been instructed to in¬ 
form their patrons at the time claims are 
filed that, while the Department will con¬ 
tinue to make adjustments aud certifica¬ 
tion of claims for payment, the actual 
payment of such claims cauuot be made 
until Congress provides the necessary 
funds. 
