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‘Jhe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Crops and Farm News 
Butter, 50e; eggs, 44e; fowls, live, 30c 
lb. Milk, retail to consumer at farm, Sc 
per qt.: $2.75 to $3 per cwt. at milk sta¬ 
tion. Cows, $65 to $140 and up. Po¬ 
tatoes, $1; wheat, $2.30; practically no 
corn of oats for sale by farmers, but to 
farmers and others at warehouse, corn, 
$1.80; oats, 85c. On account of wet 
weather potatoes and corn just about all 
planted. Wheat rank; some will likely 
lodge too early to fill out well. Grass 
fields not well set, except Alsike. Most 
fields contain much whiteweed and other 
trash; there will probably be a decrease 
in the acreage of tobacco of from 15 to 25 
per cent. There still seems to be a short¬ 
age of farm labor. Not much building or 
extensive repairs being done, on account 
of the high price of material and labor. 
Eastern Lancaster Co., Pa. G. M. R. 
Trucks pick up all produce at door; 
cream. 5Sc- per lb. for butterfat. 37c per 
doz. for eggs, 27c lb. for old chickens, $1 
bu. for potatoes. Pork. $24 per 100 lbs., 
dressed ; veal. $12. live weight. Wheat at 
mill. $2.60 per bu.; oats. SOc; buckwheat, 
no sale, with a great deal on farmers’ 
hands. Farm help scarce and work back¬ 
ward. with oats still to sow and not much 
corn planted. Weather very wet and 
cold. Grass is looking fine, with pros¬ 
pects of a good hay crop. Wheat good, 
and lots of fruit blossoms. M. L. T. 
Lycoming Co., Pa. 
Feeding hay, $15 at barn; potatoes, $1 
per bu. Eggs. 42c; milk, $3.02 for 3 per 
cent. Corn, $1.75 bu. at mill; butter. 55c 
at store. Cows, $100 and up ; veals, 13c; 
hens, 33c; pigs, $7 each; seed oats, $1 
bu.; Alsike clover, $26; Red clover. $30. 
Season backward on account of continual 
rains in April and May. Large acreage 
of oats, but very late; mostly in along 
i-iver, but hill farms very slow; no po¬ 
tatoes planted at this date. May 18. and 
smaller acreage on account of high-priced 
fertilizers, lack of help and prospective 
lower prices this Fall. Pastures are in 
fair condition, and meadows good, espe¬ 
cially new seeding. Late heavy frost 
killed red raspberry blossoms, but straw¬ 
berries and blackberries fin ?. S. A. F. 
Broome Co., N. Y. 
Fruit is not hurt; grass and grain are 
fairly good. Prospects good now for a 
good harvest. Butter, 65c per lb.; eggs, 
45 to 48c. Potatoes. 18 to 20c 14-pk.; $2 
per bu. Rhubarb, 5c a bunch ; apples, 25 
to 35c 14 pk. Straw, $15; hay. No. 1, 
$35; oats, 90c per bu.; corn. $1.80 per 
bu. Cows, anywhere from $75 to $125, 
according to size and looks. Beef cattle, 
12 to 16c, according to size. Plenty of 
rain and a little too cool for good grow¬ 
ing. Poultry, 38c alive; dressed, 55 to 60c 
per lb. A. s. b. 
Dauphin Co., Pa. 
Wet weather has delayed all planting. 
Cool nights, with some frost; not a full 
crop of fruit of any kind. A good acreage 
of oats and corn in. Wheat looks well. 
Grass good, but meadows weedy. Farm¬ 
ing as a business seems to be sadly neg¬ 
lected ; so many coal works are near and 
boys go to the mines, as this is the center 
of the Connellsville coal field. Cattle, 
$1S per cwt.; liogs. $21.50; veal calves, 
20c per lb. Horses, dull; cows. $50 to 
$150. Wheat, $2 20; oats, 860 ; corn, 
$1.70; potatoes, $1.75: butter, 60c; eggs, 
40c; chickens, live. 35c lb. Hay, $40; 
straw, $15. We pay for mill feed : Bran, 
$2.75 per cwt.; middlings, $3.50; corn, 
oats and barley. $3; rye middlings. $3. 
Fayette Co., Pa. J. n. B. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
Mitchel Palmer, his wife and young 
daughter. The bomb blew up on his 
doorstep, blowing to fragments the man 
who carried it and completely wrecking 
the front of the Attorney-General's resi¬ 
dence at 2136 R Street, Northwest, Wash¬ 
ington. The Attorney-General has been 
the target for threatening letters and one 
prior attempt at assassination ever since 
he declined to interfere in any way with 
the sentence of the court in sending 
Eugene V. Debs to the penitentiary for 
violation of the spy law. On the former 
occasion when Mr. Palmer was singled 
out for an attack by bomb, it was 
mailed to him from New York on May 1. 
when a number of other similar bombs 
were sent to prominent officials of the 
Government, particularly those who have 
to do with the suppression of alien ac¬ 
tivities during the war. June 3 the home 
of Judge C. C. Nott, of the New York 
Court of General Sessions, was wrecked 
by a bomb, and a watchman killed. The 
same night the residence of a prominent 
business man was bombed at Paterson, 
N. J. At Pittsburg, Pa., June 3, 15 
anarchists, mostly Russians, were ar¬ 
rested as a result of the wrecking of five 
homes there in the nation-wide bomb 
plot. After the explosions in the homes 
of Judge W. II. S. Thompson of the 
United States District Court and W. W. 
Sibray, chief inspector of the Bureau of 
Immigration, the secret service men 
worked swiftly and raided every quarter 
in Pittsburg which was known to house 
Red sympathizers. 
Eleven persons were seriously injured 
in a riot at the plant of the Willys-Over- 
land Automobile Company at Toledo June 
3. The riot was a result of the labor 
disturbance involving 13.000 workers. 
Discharged soldiers, acting as guards at 
the plant, fired more than 100 shots over 
the heads of the rioters, finally dispersing 
them. 
Dismissal by Federal courts of habeas 
corpus proceedings instituted by Edward 
A. Rumely, former publisher of the Eve¬ 
ning Mail of New York, to prevent his 
extradition to Washington from New 
York to answer indictments charging vio¬ 
lation of the trading with the enemy act 
was upheld June 3 by the Supreme 
Court in disposing of appeals brought by 
Rumely. As a result of this action 
Rumely must go to Washington for trial 
on indictments charging him with with' 
holding from the Alien Property Custo¬ 
dian that he had custody of certain 
stock in the S. S. McClure Newspaper 
Corporation belonging to the German 
Government, as well as the fact that he 
owed that Government $1,500,000. 
WASHINGTON. — Secretary Baker 
asked Congress June 2 for legislative 
authority and an appropriation of $10,- 
000.000 for the immediate purchase of the 
Cape Cod Canal. Action by Congress 
was necessary, he said, so that the canal 
might be acquired without waiting the 
pending condemnation proceedings. “It 
is believed desirable in the public interest 
that Government, control of the canal 
continue without interruption,” Secretary 
Baker said, adding that if the property 
reverted to the canal company, title to 
the $400,000 improvements made by the 
Government would go with it. The Sec¬ 
retary said he regarded the company as 
financially unable to provide for main¬ 
tenance. Director-General Ilines wishes 
to relinquish the canal, Mr. Baker said, 
because its “operation adds to the Rail¬ 
road Administration’s expenses.” and 
there is no necessity as far as the Rail¬ 
road Administration is concerned to con¬ 
tinue in possession of it. 
Federal appropriations of $425,000,000 
during the next five years for construc¬ 
tion and maintenance of roads was pro¬ 
posed in a bill introduced June 2 by 
Senator Townsend (Mich.), Republican. 
Establishment of a national highway sys¬ 
tem under a Federal highway commis¬ 
sion, without contributions from the 
States, is proposed. Representative Rob¬ 
inson (Ky.) introduced a similar bill 
providing for the appropriation of $1,000,- 
000.000 during the next four years, 
$100,000,000 to be available next year, 
and $300,000,000 during each of the three 
succeeding years. To obtain the money, 
the States would be required to appro¬ 
priate an amount equal to that given by 
the Federal Government. The bill also 
provides that army trucks and other 
materials for which the army now has 
no use should be turned over to the 
States and used for road building. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The New 
Jersey Legislature has appropriated 
$75,000 for the erection of a horticul¬ 
tural building at Rutgers College, New 
Brunswick. 
June 14, 1919 
As a further means of preventing the 
spread of tuberculosis among livestock, in¬ 
terstate shipments of cattle failing to pass 
the tuberculin test will be prohibited be¬ 
ginning July 1, under a regulation issued 
by the Department of Agriculture. An 
announcement by the department said it 
was believed this restriction would make 
more effective the work of eradication 
which now is being systematically car¬ 
ried on in 42 States. 
With 1,000,000 acres planteo to sugar 
beets, the United States will produce this 
year, it is estimated, a sugar crop of 
11.000.000 tons. This is equivalent to 
20 .000.000 bags of refined sugar, an in¬ 
crease of 30 per cent over 1918. Twenty- 
five beet sugar companies have reported 
officially on their acreage and the total 
for them stands at 818,600. The acreage 
of the remaining companies can safely be 
figured, it is said, at 200,000. Predic¬ 
tions of a great beet sugar crop are based 
not only on the large acreage, but also 
upon the excellent condition of the fields. 
Reports indicate that the yield per acre 
will be 10 to 25 per cent larger than last 
year. 
Furs sold June 3 at the closing ses¬ 
sion of the $1,000,000 auction of the 
Metropolitan Fur Exchange in this city 
brought prices which give no indication 
of a slump in the market. Marmots sold 
from $1 to $1.10, muskrat 43c to $1.95, 
Hudson seal from $1.50 to $2.60, Aus¬ 
tralian opossum from $1.20 to $2.50, rab¬ 
bit from 40c to $1.25, nutria from 95c 
to $2 SO, dog mats from $1 to $2.50, sea- 
lions from $3 to $6 a dozen, brown bear 
$22, beaver from $7 to $19.50, raccoon 
from $1.40 to $3.25 and lynx cats $3.20 
to $5.40. 
The Government has 164,578.000 
pounds of wool available for distribu¬ 
tion. according to an announcement made 
.Tune 3. The Government holdings of 
wool on June 1 amounted to 186,828,000 
pounds, of which 22.250.000 pounds are 
now in transit. The stock is made up as 
follows : Combing, 54,777.000 lbs.; card¬ 
ing, 76,433.000 lbs.; sundries, 718,000 
lb6.; tops, 2,010,000 lbs.; carpet wool, 
including 6S0,000 lbs. of- Iceland wool, 
17,004,000 lbs.; Australian and New Zea¬ 
land, second purchase, 13,636,000 lbs. 
In transit, Australian and New Zealand, 
18,900,000 lbs.; South American, 2,350,- 
000 lbs.; various grades, 1,000,000 lbs. 
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DOMESTIC.—An explosion in the 
fruit warehouse and garage of Del Lelio 
Bros , in Yonkers, N. Y., June 1. started 
a fire which caused $150,000 damage; 
cause unknown. 
What Federal authorities consider to 
be evidence of a far reaching Bolshevik 
plot against this Government was un¬ 
covered June 2 with the seizure of a 
paper purporting to be a commission 
issued by Nicholas Lenine to Harold C. 
Keyes, a member of the I. W. W. and 
former secretary of the League of Con¬ 
scientious Objectors in this city. Federal 
authorities have known him as an anti¬ 
draft schemer, and it was in this capacity 
that he was arrested by agents of the 
Department of Justice in the early days 
of the war. He was a member of the 
“Young Democracy,” but was dropped 
for some unknown reason. He was also 
dropped from the Brotherhood of Rail¬ 
road Trainmen, a patriotic organization 
that would not brook his radical tenden¬ 
cies. He has written for radical publi¬ 
cations at times, and has attempted to 
insert himself into labor bodies with little 
success so far as known. 
An attempt was made to blow up the 
home of Mayor Harry L. Davis of Cleve¬ 
land, O., June 2. No one was injured, 
but a part of the bouse was wrecked. 
The same night premature explosion of 
an enormously powerful bomb probably 
saved the life of Attorney-General A. . 
