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<Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 12, 1910 
Up-State Farm Notes 
Arbor Day Dates. —Dr. Thomas E. 
Finnegan, acting Commissioner of Edu¬ 
cation, has announced the following dates 
for Arbor Day observance in-the State: 
Friday, April 11, for Long Island and 
southeastern counties; Friday, April 25. 
for northern counties, and Friday, April 
18, for the remainder of the State. On 
April 5 the trout seasons opens. It was 
thought until last Friday. March 2S, that 
the Spring was unusually early. But 
since the big storm it remains cold, 
and it is now probable that the season 
will be no more than ordinarily advanced.- 
Artificial Ice Plants. —The village 
of Lyons will have an artificial ice .plant 
costing $12,000, as the demand for ice 
promises to be so great. The village of 
Locke is also to equip a plant, using ar¬ 
tesian water. The cost of manufacture 
will be, in the latter place, about $7 a 
ton. Ice dealers have bought up small 
stores of ice and will move them at once 
to their storage houses. 
State Fair Probe. —Governor Smith 
has appointed C. E. Norrir of Carthage 
as commissioner under the Moreland act 
to investigate the affairs and manage¬ 
ment of the New York State Fair Com¬ 
mission. The appointment was made in 
response to charges from the District At¬ 
torney of Onondaga County that “irreg¬ 
ularities amounting' to crimes in many 
instances have existed in the management 
of the affairs of the commission.” The 
investigation is under way, with no in¬ 
dictments found as yet, though several 
have been asked for. 
Highway Bill. —The Machold bill, ap¬ 
propriating $2,050,000 for the repair and 
improvement of highways and -bridges in 
the Indian reservations has been signed 
by Governor Smith. 
Cortland Traffic Club Activities. 
—The Industrial Traffic Club of this city 
has been examining into the new mileage 
scale and freight rates, which, they say, 
if published in full, would mean an up¬ 
ward revision of practically all classrat.es. 
It would also mean a reflection in com¬ 
modity rates. As a sample, the commod¬ 
ity rate on heavy tonnage articles from 
Pittsburg to Buffalo has been 17c, and 
20c for less than carloads. The new 
rates advance to 25c, with 30-5c for less 
than carloads. The club says these rates 
mean hardships and injustice to shippers, 
and advises concerted action in tin- region 
affected, which is all that east of Pitts¬ 
burg and north of the Potomac. 
Teacher Scarcity. —New York State 
is included in the area said by a new 
Federal bulletin to lack 50,000 teachers, 
although using 120,000 that never taught 
before. A new bureau has been created 
at Washington to give free service to 
localities needing teachers, also to teach¬ 
ers willing to take positions. An appeal 
is made to teachers who have married 
and left the work to take it up again. 
Manual training teachers are especially 
needed and the part time plan is suggest¬ 
ed, using skilled mechanics who are high 
school graduates. 
State Income Tax. —Three bills em¬ 
bodying the recommendations of the spe¬ 
cial committee on taxation, and designed 
to raise approximately $25,000,000 to 
meet the prospective loss of excise rev¬ 
enues, were introduced March 31. They 
provide for a 2 per cent income tax with 
virtually the same exemptions as the Fed¬ 
eral, provide increases of from 3 to 4V-> 
per cent on net incomes of corporations 
and a tax of one-half of 1 no’* "ent on the 
assessed value of tangible personal prop¬ 
erty above the value of $3,600. 
Woodcllff 
Riversido 
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. MANAGE¬ 
MENT. CIRCULATION. Etc.., Reuum-d by the 
\„t nf Congress ->t August -4, 191— of THE 
RURAL NEW-YORKER, published weekly at Xew 
York. N. Y.. for April 1. 1919. 
State of New York. I ss . 
County of New York, i . , , 
Before me a Notary Public m and for the State 
and county aforesaid, personally appeared John J. 
Dillon who. hating been dul> sworn according to 
law deposes and says that it,- is the business mana¬ 
ger'of The Rural New-Yorker and that the following 
is to the best, -if his knowledge and belief, a true 
statement of the ownership, management (and if a 
Uai’v paper, the circulation), etc.. " f V 16 af,m *? aid 
pubiieat on for the date shown in tlio above cai> 1 ° ; 
required by the Act of August 24. 1912. embodied in 
section 142. Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on 
the reverse of this form, to-wit: .. 
1 That the names and addresses of the publisher, 
editor, managing editor, and business managers are: 
Publisher: The Rural Publishing Company, 332 West 
30th St.. New York. N. Y. 
Editor: Herbert W. Colllngwood, WoodclilT Lake, 
New Jersey. _ ... , 
Managing Editor! Herbert W. Collingwood, 
Lake. New Jersey. 
Business Manager: John J. Dillon. 4U4 
Drive, New York. N. Y. 
2. That, the owners are: 
The Rural Publishing Company, 323 West 30th st.. 
New York, N. Y. _ . „ — 
John J. Dillon. 404 Riverside Drive. New York. V Y. 
William F. Dillon, 800 Riverside Drive, -New York, 
Herbert \v. Collingwood. Woodclilf Lake, New Jersey. 
3. There are no bondholders, mortgagees, or other 
'^V^That" the' two paragraphs next above, giving the 
names of the owners, stockholders, and security hold¬ 
ers if anv, contain not only the list of stockholders 
and security holders as they appear upon the books of 
the company, hut also, in cases where the stockholder 
or security holder appears upon the hooks of the 
company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, 
the name of the person or corporation for whom such 
trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two 
paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant s full 
knowledge and belief as to the ciicumstanees and con¬ 
ditions under which stockholders and security holders 
who do not appear upon the books of the company as 
trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other 
than that of a bona fide owner; and tills affiant lias 
no reason to believe that any other person, associa¬ 
tion or corporation lias any interest, direct or indi¬ 
rect, In the said stock, bonds or other securities than 
as so stated by him. 
JOHN J. DILLON, Business Manager. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day oi 
April, 1919. , , 
WILLIAM A. CROSBY, [Beal.] 
Notary Public, N. Y. Co., 192. 
(My commission expires March oQ, 1020.) 
Community Kitchens. —Sixteen coun¬ 
ties have reported a total of 41 commu¬ 
nity canning kitchens conducted during 
1918 in this State. These have preserved 
99,507 jars of fruits and vegetables, 9,424 
jars of jams and jellies, 1.529 jars of meats 
and 35,753 pounds of dried materials. At 
least nine kitchens had not reported when 
this summary was made. Two counties 
utilized central kitchens as cooked food 
centers during the epidemic of influenza. 
Plans are now being made in many com¬ 
munities to put the kitchens pii a perma¬ 
nent peace basis and to enlarge their use¬ 
fulness to include other activities besides 
food preservation. 
Better Spray Service.- —From the rec¬ 
ords of Niagara County fruit growers it is 
shown that better control of fruit pests 
and diseases was secured in 1918 than in 
1917. About 900 growers were benefited, 
or one-half the orchards of the county. 
Orchards were in some cases sprayed five 
times, and information was given regard¬ 
ing diseases and insects that affect cher¬ 
ries, apples, pears and plums. L. F. 
Strickland of the State Department of 
Farms and Markets co-operated in giving 
out information. Results show that of 
eight orchards that were sprayed 95 per 
cent of the apples packed Grade A, with 
unsprayed orchards packing 55 per cent 
Grade A. For scab checks, of unsprayed 
trees showed 07 per cent, and of sprayed 
5 per cent. 
Important Bee Work. —Prof. Rea of 
the Department, of Entomology of Cornell 
University was the means of greatly in¬ 
creasing the honey output of the State in 
191S. lie held bee demonstrations in 23 
counties of the State, and helped to or¬ 
ganize nine beekeepers’ associations. His 
demonstration showed methods of manip¬ 
ulating the hives, re-queening, swarm con¬ 
trolling, wintering and combating disease. 
M. u. If. 
Is This a Record Sow? 
I have a sow I think comes near being 
a record breaker. This is her record: 
The first day I moved to my farm, Sept. 
1, 1916. she had 33 pigs, reared 10; Feb. 
28, 1917. 12, reared 33 ; Aug. 26, 193.7, 15, 
reared 12 ; March 2, 1918, 16, reared 13 ; 
Sept. 28, 1918, 15, reared 13; March 28, 
1919. 20; total, 91. Out of the 20 two 
smothered in bed, one crushed against 
the boards, and one died. The remaining 
16 are tine and doing well at time of writ¬ 
ing. Three of her daughters this mouth 
had 10, 9. 32. their first litters, all kind 
mothers. s. slight. 
Connecticut. 
R. N.-Y.—Tigs anyone a sow with a 
better record? 
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