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ARCADIAN 
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Ammonia 
TOP DRESSING TALKS 
T HE Great American Cereal is Corn. The Great 
American Ammoniate is 
Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia 
Fertilize your corn at planting as usual, and then top- 
dress it with 100 to 150 pounds of ARCADIAN at the 
first cultivation. The increased yield will more than 
pay for the cost of the application. 
ARCADIAN Sulphate of Ammonia is the well-known stand¬ 
ard article that has done you good service in your mixed fertil¬ 
izers for years past. Especially kiln-dried and ground to make 
it fine and dry. Ammonia 2554% guaranteed. Made in U.S.A. 
For sale by: NEW YORK: New York; The Coe-Mortimer Co., The American Agri¬ 
cultural Chemical Co., Nassau Fertilizer Co., W. E. Whann Co., Patapsco Guano Co., 
The National Fertilizer Co., Bowker Fertilizer Co., Frederick Ludlam Co. NEW 
JERSEY: Chrome; Armour Fertilizer Works, (address Baltimore, Md.) Newark; 
Listers Agricultural Chemical Works. Trenton; Trenton Bono Fertilizer Co. CON¬ 
NECTICUT : Bridgeport; The Berkshire Fertilizer Co. MASSACHUSETTS: Boston; 
The American Agricultural Chemical Co., Bowker Fertilizer Co., The National Ferti¬ 
lizer Co. VERMONT: Rutland; M. E. Wheeler Co. 
For information 
as to applica¬ 
tion, write 
The 
Company 
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT 
New York 
N. Y. 
Shinn-F/at 
and 
Shinn’s Cash Bond 
Shinn-Flat prevents Lightning Losses. 
It enables the electricity in the building to grad 
ually pass from the heavily charged ground into the at¬ 
mosphere above the building-relieving the strain on the building 
caused by the attraction of the electricity in the cloud above, and 
removing the conditions that cause the Lightning Stroke. 
Shinn’s Cash Bond is issued by a large Bonding Companytothe owner 
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'’fn fire*ter Protection Shinn-Flat is the only Lightning Conductor 
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W. C. SHINN MFG. CO. 
1658 Monadnock Building :: Chicago, III. 
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UMMIT PI PE LESS 
F U R N A C E 
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therefore may he installed in an old house as easily 
and satisfactorily as in a new house. Write us for 
particulars and name of nearest dealer. 
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Geneva, N. Y. 
ALLWORK KEROSENE FARM TRACTOR 
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Box 48A. QUINCY. ILLINOIS 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Explosives of half a 
dozen kinds were found May 2 in a room 
of a .suite occupied by the Baldwin Medi¬ 
cal Institute, 155 West Forty-fifth Street, 
New York, by police officials who are 
hunting down the makers of the infernal 
machines which were sent through the 
mails to 25 public officials and prominent 
men of the country. 
An unexploded hand grenade, unad¬ 
dressed, was discovered in the foreign 
mail matter at the Central I’ostoffice, 
Boston, May 4. It was found in a mass 
of matter just received from France, 
having been brought on one of the trans¬ 
ports making that port recently. As the 
grenade was of German manufacture, the 
theory was advanced that it was mailed 
by some soldier to friends. 
Fire wiped out Ilappyland, an amuse¬ 
ment resort at South Beach, Staten 
Island, May 5. destroyed 35 adjoining 
bungalows, burned a half dozen other 
buildings and cost the life of Mrs. Mary 
Autenreith, wife of the operator of one 
of the concessions in the park. The 
property loss is $250,000, mainly un¬ 
covered by insurance. 
Between seven and 10 persons perished, 
a dozen others are in hospitals in a ser¬ 
ious condition and a score more were 
badly hurt in a spectacular fire in the 
heart of downtown Columbus, O., May 
5. Several Were killed and many injured 
by jumping from the upper floors of a 
seven-story building. The fire started in 
a washroom on the second floor, trapping 
most of the occupants of the upper 
stories. 
A petition bearing 125,000 names was 
filed in the Massachusetts State Senate 
May 4 asking the passage of a bill that 
would seek to permit the sale of beer, ale 
and light wines containing not more than 
four per cent of alcohol in that State, not¬ 
withstanding the operation of the national 
prohibition amendment. It was pre¬ 
sented in behalf of the State branch of 
the American Federation of Labor. It 
provides for a local option system, with 
the granting of licenses and collection of 
revenue. 
Three large business blocks and a half 
dozen residences were destroyed in a fire 
that threatened the entire business sec¬ 
tion of Crestline, O., May 5. The loss 
is estimated at between $200,000 and 
$500,000. 
William F. Broening, Republican Dis¬ 
trict Attorney for Baltimore, was elected 
May 6 Mayor by a majority of about 
7.000 over George Weems Williams, the 
Democratic candidate, and will thus be 
the first Mayor of Greater Baltimore. 
This will be the third time the Republi¬ 
cans have elected a mayor since the Civil 
War. 
Amendment of Canada’s immigration 
laws to bar the influx of undesirable per¬ 
sons, including Bolshevik agitators, spies, 
conspirators, etc., is provided in a bill 
introduced by the Government which has 
passed its second reading. The changes 
suggested in the measure.would also keep 
out criminals, mental defectives, persons 
suffering from loathsome diseases and 
others of similar classes. The amend¬ 
ments are regarded as constituting a 
radical departure from the Dominion’s 
recent policy. 
WASHINGTON. — With no formal 
ceremony all the cable systems taken over 
by the Government on Nov. 16, last, were 
automatically turned back to their owners 
May 2. The systems returned were: The 
Commercial Cable Company, which oper¬ 
ates five transatlantic cables, from New 
York, via Canada, to England, the Azores 
and France, and one cable from New 
York to Cuba; the Commercial Pacific 
Cable Company, operating a cable be¬ 
tween San Francisco and the Far East; 
the Western Union Telegraph Company, 
which leases eight cables between New 
York and Europe, four of which have 
been out of operation lor the last year, 
and the Central and South American 
Telegraph Company, which owns a system 
of cables from New York, via Cuba, to 
Panama and South America. 
Counsel for North Dakota May 2 filed 
their brief contesting the Government’s 
authority to interfere with interstate 
freight and passenger rates in the appeals 
brought in the Supreme Court by the 
Government from the State Supreme 
Court decrees enjoining the Northern Pa¬ 
cific Railroad from increasing its rates in 
compliance with an order of the Railroad 
Administration. The brief asserts that 
Congress, in enacting tin* railroad control 
act, had no intention of giving Federal 
officials such authority, and asserted that 
the statute did not confer arbitrary power 
upon the President. 
A determined effort to put through 
Congress legislation which would curb an¬ 
archist activities in this country, prevent 
the display of the red flag and make un¬ 
lawful the circulation of literature advis¬ 
ing the overthrow by violence of the Gov¬ 
ernment of the United State will be un¬ 
dertaken early in the next Congress ses¬ 
sion. In view of developments in the dis¬ 
covery of the bomb plots against prom¬ 
inent men and the rioting in many cities 
May 1, Senators who are interested in the 
legislation were confident that such a 
measure can be passed without delay. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Permanent 
injunction to restrain Mrs. Annette A. 
Adams, United States Attorney, from en¬ 
forcing provisions of the war time prohi- 
May 17, 1919 
bition act of November 21, 1918, and the 
Sheppard prohibition amendment, was 
sought in the United States District Court 
at Sau Francisco May 2 in a petition 
filed by Theodore Bell, an attorney. The 
petition, filed by a wine maker and a 
vineyardist, recites that unless restrained 
by injunction action under these laws will 
wipe out the product of 177,000 acres in 
California, valued at $75,000,000. It al¬ 
leges the war time prohibition act, effec¬ 
tive July 1, 1919, is unconstitutional and 
ineffective since the President in an ad¬ 
dress before Congress stated that "the 
war now comes to an end.” The petition 
charges that Department of Agriculture 
agents and State agents had encouraged 
the production of wine grapes and had 
established an experimental vineyard to 
encourage vineyardists to produce wine 
grapes. The action is based upon an 
agreement by the vineyardist made May 3. 
to furnish wine grapes to the wine 
maker. 
As a result of May Day demonstrations 
in Cleveland and elsewhere in Ohio, L. J. 
Tabor, Master of the Ohio State Grange, 
issued May 2 a ruling to all Granges in 
the State of Ohio that their charters 
would be revoked if they participated in 
any parade or demonstration displaying 
the red flag, or if they permitted any other 
than the American flag to be displayed in 
their meeting places. Tabor said the 
Grange ‘‘must be 100 per cent American,” 
and he is taking this step to guarantee 
“against the things that menace.” 
The Bureau of Chemistry of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture has made a rul¬ 
ing that fruits and vegetables in package 
form should be labeled with quantity of 
contents when shipped within the juris¬ 
diction of the Federal Food and Drugs 
act. The provisions of the net weight 
amendment to the Federal Food and 
Drugs act in its application to the label 
of fruits and vegetables in package form 
■have been widely distributed among ship¬ 
pers and other interested parties. Ship¬ 
pers of these articles who fail to comply 
with the requirements of the law are lia¬ 
ble to prosecution. Instructions have gone 
out to food inspectors to watch interstate 
shipments of fruits and vegetables during 
this season to see that, the packages are 
labeled with the quantity of contents in 
accordance with the law. 
The Bureau of Markets of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture has made plans to 
investigate the possibilities in South 
America for purebred stock from the 
United States, and to stimulate interest 
in importations from this country. Da¬ 
vid Ilarrell of Austin. Tex., who until re¬ 
cently was representative of the War 
Trade Board in Spain, has been appoint¬ 
ed as Live Stock Commissioner to perform 
this work, and he plans to sail" about the 
middle of June, lie will be accompanied 
by II. 1’. Morgan of the Bureau of Mar¬ 
kets as an assistant. Until five years 
ago Mr. Ilarrell had been engaged for 
many years in the live stock business in 
Texas ami Mexico. For some time he 
was an importer and breeder of purebred 
cattle, hogs and Angora goats, 
The entire day’s selling May 3 at St. 
Louis was taken up with 90,000 wolf on 
International Fur Exchange. Timber 
wolf brought good prices throughout, the 
highest figure reached being $52 a pe^. 
for an extra fine pair. The next price 
was $45. then by close bidding down to 
$15 for third grades, the bulk of timber 
selling around $12 to $25. Fine Cana¬ 
dian sold from $18 to $27. North west¬ 
erns ran $10 to $15. Idaho and Montana 
wolf about the same. Texas wolf sold 
around $5 for best grades and down to 53c 
for poor. Utah and Nevada went to $10 
for choice and less than $5 for second 
and third grades. Trade opinion found 
timbers of excellent quality throughout. 
Canadian wolf was of good quality and 
large quantity. Over 200 buyers partici¬ 
pated in the wolf sales with spirited bid¬ 
ding throughout. Improvement in dress¬ 
ing and dyeing processes accounts in large 
measure for the popularity and good 
prices on wolf. May 0 the auction in¬ 
cluded 100.000 mink. The opening lot of 
IS large darks brought $10.25 each and 
10 small darks brought each $15.75. Bid¬ 
ding ran from $0 to $15 for large prime 
darks, although some good lots went be¬ 
low those figures. Pale and poor stuff 
brought from $1 to $5. according to size. 
The highest price was $23.25. Day’s total 
was over $870,000. and sales to date over 
$7,500,000. 
The first shipment of cotton from the 
Belgian Congo has arrived in Antwerp. 
It amounted to about eight tons, but it 
will shortly be followed by larger quan¬ 
tities. Heretofore Belgian industry had 
been relying exclusively on imports from 
America. The first attempts at cotton 
growing in the Belgian Congo were made 
during the war in 1915. Today there are 
already several cotton plantations in op¬ 
eration in the Mauiema and Sankaru dis¬ 
tricts. The 1018 crop yielded about 250 
tons. 
Demobilization of the army mule and 
horse is going forward rapidly, according 
to figures on Government sales just com¬ 
piled by C. <). Moser, live stock inspector 
of the purchasing quartermaster. When 
hostilities ended the Government owned 
about 500.000 head of horses and mules, 
300.000 in the United States and 200.000 
in France, only 70,(MH) of the latter num¬ 
ber having been shipped from this coun¬ 
try. Because of the big demand for these 
animals on Central West farms the Gov¬ 
ernment hue been hurrying distribution, 
and when auctions now advertised are 
completed 15, OIK) animals will have been 
placed back on farms since January 1. 
