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Vhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 20, 1910 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
D O M E S T I C.—Ninety-two persons 
killed, approximately 300 injured and 
property damage estimated at nearly 
$1,000,000 resulted from a storm that 
swept a portion of Arkansas, North Texas 
and Southern Oklahoma April S. Of the 
dead 75 persons were killed in Texas, 14 
in Oklahoma and three in Arkansas. In 
response to appeals for aid from the 
stricken section of North Texas, where 
about 1,000 persons are reported home¬ 
less, tents and food supplies were sent 
from many points. Hundreds of farm¬ 
houses were blown away and farming 
machinery destroyed, while growing crops 
of all kinds were seriously damaged or 
destroyed. Hundreds of carcasses of 
hogs, cows and mules were scattered over 
the devastated area and fallen trees and 
poles blocked the country roads. The 
counties most seriously damaged were 
Grayson. Fannin, Hunt, Wopd,. Van 
Zandt, Wichita, Collin, Camp and Titus, 
in Texas, and Bryan, Cotton and Pon¬ 
totoc, in Oklahoma. The oil- fields of 
Wichita County and of southern Okla¬ 
homa suffered hundreds of thousands of 
dollars’ damage in wrecked derricks and 
machinery. 
Snowdrifts west of Downs demoralized 
service on the railroads in the north¬ 
western part of Kansas April 10.- A 
passenger train and a snowplow were 
stuck in a drift eight feet deep and a 
half mile long near Downs. Railroad 
men say the storm is the worst April 
blizzard' in the history of that section. 
In Nebraska wire communication was 
badly crippled and railroad traffic almost 
at a standstill on account of sleet and 
snow. 
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, sen¬ 
tenced to 10 yeArs’ imprisonment at. the 
Moundsville Penitentiary for violation of 
the espionage act began his term April 
14 as a clerk in the prison hospital. 
Governor Smith signed April 14 the 
Sage-Adler bill appropriating $1,000,000 
as this State’s share toward starting the 
construction of the New York-Jersey City 
vehicular tunnel. 
A suit similar to those brought in other 
jurisdictions was instituted in the Federal 
District Court at Boston April 14 by the 
New England Brewing Company, seeking 
an injunction to restrain John E. Malley, 
Collector of Internal Revenue, and Thom¬ 
as J. Boynton, United States District At¬ 
torney, from enforcing the war time pro- 
hitioii regulations effective on July 1. The 
companv, which has its principal place of 
business in Jersey City, operates three 
breweries in Boston. The bill of com¬ 
plaint alleges that the regulations pro¬ 
mulgated by the Commissioner of Internal 
Revenue are arbitrary and unauthorized 
because they stipulate the amount of al¬ 
cohol which may be used in the manufac¬ 
ture of beer. 
The trial of Alfred Paul Fricke. charged 
with treason, was continued in the Fed¬ 
eral District Court, New York, April 15. 
Fricke confessed to advancing money to 
Herman Wessels, whom he admitted he 
knew to have come to the United States 
in November, 1910. as a German agent, 
after the United States had become a 
belligerent on April 0, 1917. He told^of 
transactions with Mme. Marie de Vic- 
torica, whom he also knew to have come 
from the German Naval Intelligence Bu¬ 
reau. He confessed to knowledge of ef¬ 
forts by Wessels to import explosives to 
blow up British ships in the months just 
before the United States entered the war. 
He told how Wessels had spoken to him 
of the possibility of importing explosives 
in altar pieces shipped from Holland as 
gifts to Catholic churches. 
WASHINGTON. — Increasing unem¬ 
ployment during the week ending April 
15 was shown in reports from 00 cities 
to the Federal Employment Service. Thir¬ 
ty-eight cities showed a total labor sur¬ 
plus <>f 138.500, an increase of 5,855 over 
the preceding week, while 19 reported a 
labor shortage totaling 4.050, and nine 
showed an equality of supply and demand. 
»Points in New England reported the 
heaviest increases in surplus, although 
increases were indicated generally in the 
Eastern cities. The surplus on the Pa¬ 
cific Coast remained practically station¬ 
ary. while many Southern points contin¬ 
ued to show a labor shortage. 
Gen. Charles G. Dawes, U. S. A., has 
given a statement to the “Stars and 
Stripes.” the organ of the A. E. F. in 
Fra'nce. according to advices received 
April 11, in which he contradicts all ru¬ 
mors to the effect that the French author¬ 
ities had presented an exaggerated bill of 
costs to the United States Government for 
railroad transportation and material sup¬ 
plied to the American forces. The state¬ 
ment says that during the first seven 
months of America’s participation in the 
war the French supplied practically all 
the material required by the American 
forces and that the French Government 
took every necessary step to prevent over¬ 
charging. even requisitioning at low prices 
in some cases. Reports that Americans 
had to buy their cemeteries and pay fox- 
trenches and villages destroyed by Amer¬ 
ican artillery are characteiuzed by Gen. 
Dawes as absurd. 
The War Labor Board in a finding 
banded down April 11 recommended that 
the Western Chemical Company of Den¬ 
ver, Col., give pay to women employes 
equal to that of men for equal work. The 
board also recommended the employes of 
the company to elect a shop committee 
which would take up with the company 
complaints of the employes. 
There were but 125 cases of total blind¬ 
ness and less than 4,000 amputations in 
the American forces engaged in the war, 
it was stated April 15 by the Bureau of 
War Risk Insurance, in an announcement 
concerning the bureau’s activity in sup¬ 
plying crippled soldiers and sailors with 
ai-tificial limbs and in otherwise caring 
for the wounded and disabled. Not even 
all of the 125 cases of total blindness cit¬ 
ed, it is stated, ha 7 e yet been declared 
as permanent by the medical officers in 
charge. Relative to amputations, denial 
is made, on the authority of Surgeon-Gen¬ 
eral Ix-eland and Colonel Charles E. 
Banks, chief medical officei’s of the War 
Risk Insurance, that there were any cases 
in which men lost both arms and both 
legs. There have been more than 500 
artificial limbs furnished to disabled men 
to date by the bureau under the pi*ovis- 
ions of the act of Congress. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Cold storage 
chicken will be used this Summer as a 
substitute for canned beef in feeding the 
United Scates Army in France, Gennany 
and Russia. Four million pounds of chick¬ 
ens have been purchased from Chicago 
dealei-s by the War D< partment for im¬ 
mediate shipment abroad. Since January 
1,250,000 cases of eggs have been shipped 
to Europe. In 1918 only 100.000 cases 
were sent across. 
The annual meeting of the American 
Guernsey Cattle Club will be held at the 
Commodore Hotel, Pershing Square, 42d 
St. and Lexington Ave., New York City, 
Wednesday, May 14, 1919, at 10 a. m. 
The business of the meeting will consist 
of report of the year’s work of the club’s 
office, recommendations of the executive 
committee and election of officers. Op¬ 
portunity will be given for consideration 
of all matters relating to the welfare of 
the club and its work. 
THE MAILBAG 
Destroying White Grubs 
On page 641 E. B. W. asks for a rem¬ 
edy for the white grubs which eat the 
roots of his strawberry plants. A sat¬ 
uration of the soil with strong tobacco 
water will not only do the trick, but will 
wonderfully improve the condition of the 
plants. These grubs are the progeny of 
the so-called May or June beetle, and 
they spend three years in the ground, be¬ 
sides a part of a year in the egg form. 
Dui-ing the first year they are small and 
very close to the surface, and a compara¬ 
tively light application of the tobacco 
water will be sufficient. But with each 
year they become more resistant, and they 
also go deeper into the ground, thus neces¬ 
sitating a heavier application and a strong¬ 
er decoction. This requires a greater ex¬ 
pense, and it thus becomes a local ques¬ 
tion as to whether it will be more profit¬ 
able to fight them or to surrender and let 
them have the plants. The adult insect 
deposits her eggs only in sod, so by keep¬ 
ing a tract continually under cultivation 
there will be no trouble from this pest. 
C. O. ORMSBEE. 
Crawling 500 Miles 
It was necessary for the employes of 
the Seabi'ook Farms Company, Cumber¬ 
land Co., N. J., to crawl more than 500 
miles on their knees while planting the 60 
acres of early onions which that company 
is growing. Instead of planting the seed, 
which matures its crop in September, 
the small onion sets were used. They 
should develop large, fully-grown onions 
early in July, when the entire aei-eage 
will be harvested and shipped to the mar¬ 
kets without delay. The entire planting 
is equipped with overhead spray irrigation 
so that earliness and heavy yield will be 
further advanced. The rows are one foot 
apart and the little sets are stuck in 
every three inches, so that there are ap¬ 
proximately II,000.000 sets in the field. 
The early onions will be followed with 
celei’y or lettuce. R. w. d. 
Scaring Birds from Cherries 
Can you advise any Way to keep birds 
from eating cherries? G. R. w. 
Adams, N. Y. 
Apparently there is no sure way to pre¬ 
vent birds from eating cherries. In Eu¬ 
rope trees are covered with nets for pro¬ 
tection, which is comparatively simple 
with dwarf trees, or with those trained 
upon walls, but with our big standard 
trees this plan is generally regarded as 
impracticable. Many expedients have 
been suggested, and the following are 
some of them : Hanging pieces of look¬ 
ing-glass or shining tin in the trees, the 
reflections being a cause of suspicion to 
the marauders. These sparkling frag¬ 
ments must dangle from the limbs, so as 
to throw out flashes of light. Strings of 
white and bright-colored rags, like little 
pennants, stretched from tree to tree. 
Little whirligigs that will move with 
every breath of air. Little windmills or 
clappers that will make a noise when the 
wind moves them. A method one reader 
describes as an entire success is as fol¬ 
lows: Take a piece of cotton cloth two 
yards long and full width of goods. Tack 
a piece of lath across both top and bot¬ 
tom, so as to hold it flat. Attach a cord 
to center of both top and bottom. Fasten 
the coi’d to one limb at top and another at 
bottom, so that the cloth will be held flat, 
like a bannei*, but so that it will whirl 
back and forth, or round and round, at 
every puff of wind. Apparently the size, 
and the constant motion, is much more 
efficient than small streamers that float 
in the wind. This was said to frighten 
starlings, which are much bolder than 
robins. 
Painting Dwelling and Farmstead 
Having just bought a farm with build¬ 
ings in fair condition, but badly in need 
of paint, would like your advice on same. . 
What colors would you suggest in paint¬ 
ing, and any kind of particular paint? 
Barn and outbuilding have never been 
painted, therefore wood is very porous. 
What colors do you suggest for house, 
color of shingled i-oof, house itself and 
trimmings, window frames, etc.? What 
color for barn and outbuildings and fence? 
My idea is house different color from the 
outbuildings, but something that will look 
good and make a good appearance. 
Pennsylvania. G. P. si. 
It is not easy for a stranger to advise, 
for, when painting, the style of the house 
should be considered. Most farmhouses 
are rather plain in style, and what ai-e 
called Colonial coloi’s ' haimionize with 
them. One attractive style is house of buff 
or soft pale yellow, white trimmings, and 
shingles stained nio&s green. The bai-n 
may match, or if preferred be moss green 
with white trim. Another attractive com¬ 
bination is lead-color or battleship gray 
with white trimmings and red shingles. 
Both these combinations are now very 
popular for country homes and bungalows. 
Any of the big paint companies will send 
you a bcfbklet giving advice about house 
painting and color combinations, and you 
could probably get something of this sort 
from your local dealer in painters’ supplies. 
If the buildings have never been painted it 
is probable that some “filler” must be used 
first; better ask some practical man in 
the neighborhood for an opinion. Paint is 
now very expensive, and it will soak in 
badly before it will begin to make an im¬ 
pression on a weatherbeaten surface. The 
fence should be painted to match the 
buildings. The general effect is better 
when dwellng, outbuildings and fence all 
show the same color scheme. 
The farmers are raising oats, wheat, 
buckwheat and rye. These products are 
all used on the farm. Potatoes are sold at 
the local market for $1.25 per cwt. All 
farmers keep a small dairy. They got for 
their cream at the butter factory 45 to 
48c for butter-fat last year. This year’s 
market is not established yet. E. n. 
Essex Co., N. Y. 
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