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The New York Corn Crop 
The Spring was late here, so not many 
farmers could get in crops early, but 
weather has been favorable since planting 
so corn looks about as well as in former 
years. 1 do not know that anybody 
around here has had any of the Tong 
Island seed corn. New seeding looks fine: 
think we ought to cut a big crop of hay. 
neighbor, next farm, has commenced 
haying already (.Tune 24). J. B. M. 
■ Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
Corn is late, but the best of weather 
at present; T do not know of any using 
the Long Island seed corn. H. R.P 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
I never saw a finer outlook f ’’’ big 
crops of corn than .Tune 19, but n the 
afternoon of said date a severe hailstorm 
passed over this section, practically ruin¬ 
ing crops of all kinds. Corn -was got in 
late but made a wonderful growth. As 
to the planting of Long Island seed corn, 
I cannot say. A very smaller percentage 
of the farms in this section are equipped 
with silos. Oats were looking fine before 
the hail, and wheat was very promising. 
Many acres of onions are destroyed. 
Orange Co.. N. Y. M. n. A. 
Corn acreage about normal, but about 
two weeks late. Most of the corn was 
planted after June 1 to 15; good color. 
If season is right will lihve an average 
crop. F. j. c. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
I think average probably 100 per cent 
for corn crop. Season was late in start¬ 
ing., but weather has been favorable since, 
so it is making a good growth. * Cnee’s 
Favorite was sown probably more than 
any other. Seed was handled through 
Grange and that seemed to be the favor¬ 
ite. Grass is looking good, with consid¬ 
erably larger crop than last year in pros¬ 
pect. Some have commenced cutting. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. E. b. r. 
The corn in this section is very back¬ 
ward ; many did not plant until the sec¬ 
ond week in June. As I grow for seed, 
all my crops are in fine condition. The 
dairymen up here grow silage mostly 
from the big Southern dent. Luce’s Fa¬ 
vorite is not greatly used. Most of the 
silage corn here is just about 4 in. out, so 
I judge it will be much shorter than or¬ 
dinary. A. B., JK. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
There is a great deal larger acreage this 
year than in former years, but the corn is 
very late on account of its filing very 
wet. Some farmers have just finished plant¬ 
ing. but it is making a very rapid growth 
now. The weather i.s very warm, with 
frequent showers, so if there is no draw¬ 
back. and the frost liolcjs off. there will 
be a larger crop than usual. As to Long 
Island seed corn, we have not had. any of 
that kind here. I furnished ~ower to fill 
10 silos last Fall; Luce’s Fhvorite seems 
to be the choice. w. s. 
Jefferson Co.. N. Y T . 
The weather having been so favorable 
in the past two weeks corn through this 
section is looking fine and looks now as 
though we were going to have fully as 
good a crop as in former y p ars. Some 
of the farmers through here have used 
part of the Long Island seed corn for 
silage and like it, so far as I know. I 
have planted some of it this year. 
Chenango Co.. N. Y. F. it. b. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Five robbers June 27 
held up the office of the Middle Fork 
mine, near Benton, Ill., and >fter wound¬ 
ing three employees of the company 
escaped with $41,000. One of the ban¬ 
dits was shot and killed as he ran from 
the office. His companions carried the 
body to a waiting automobile and made 
their escape. 
A sulphur laden shower of rain, a rare 
phenomenon, fell over Dawson, Alaska, 
and its vicinity June 27. A 30 minute 
downpour left pools and sidewalks 
streaked with a yellow substance which 
chemists declared was sulphur and which 
they believed was carried in the upper 
atmospheric currents from some distant 
volcano eruption. A similar precipita¬ 
tion has been reported at Eagle, a hun¬ 
dred miles north of Dawson, and also in 
northern British Columbia. 
The forest fire situation in Alberta. 
Canada, is the worst in years, according 
to E. IT. Finlayson. Forestry Supervisor, 
who said June 28 the flames were raging 
in many districts. Approximately 30,- 
000.000 feet, of valuable timber had 
already been' destroyed, he announced. 
The most serious conflagration, in the 
northwest corner of the Stoney Indian 
reserve, menaces the northern outskirts i 
of Banff National Park. 
William A. English and John II. 
O’Brien, members of the woq) fii;m of 
English & O’Brien, were fined $10.0001 
each and sentenced to serve IS months i 
in prison at Boston June. 21. for con¬ 
spiring to defraud the Government in 
connection with income tax returns. Im¬ 
mediately after the decision was an¬ 
nounced in the Federal court Lewis 
Goldberg, Assistant United States Attor¬ 
ney, stated that the Government would 
institute a civil suit to recover the money 
of which it was defrauded. The defend¬ 
ants pleaded guilty to frauds involving 
$1,379,000. English and O’Brien re¬ 
Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 12, mm 
cently offered to give $1,500,000 to the 
Government-as payment of their income 
taxes and the Internal Revenue Depart¬ 
ment informed the court of its willingness 
to accept the payments. The defendants 
said the offer was conditional on their 
release, as they could not make it good* 
if they were imprisoned. 
A net of evidence which it is believed 
will enmesh men higher up in the nation¬ 
wide plot to swindle prospective emi¬ 
grants and send them to Europe by the 
aid of fraudulent passports was drawn 
tight June 29 by operatives of the Cus¬ 
toms Intelligence Bureau, who were re¬ 
sponsible for the detention at New York 
- 110 Austro-Hungarians about to sail 
>■ Havre by the steamship Rochambeau. 
Edward R. Norwood, head of the bureau, 
found three men alleged to be directly 
connected with the plot to send alien 
enemies to France by the use of fraudulent. 
Greek passports, and interrogated them for 
seven hours at tlm Barge Office. One of 
the men, it is said, made a complete con¬ 
fession, naming tlrt men higher up and 
giving in detail the methods they used 
in defrauding prospective travellers. It 
is said about $850,000 was cleaned up by 
the gang. 
Three brokers were indicted June 30 
by the June Grand Jury at New York, 
which is investigating stock transactions. 
They are Paul A. Newman of Paul A. 
Newman & Co., Walter J. Pierce of Wal¬ 
ter ,T. Pierce & Co. and Charles B. Toole 
of Toole. Henry & Co. Newman and 
Pierce are accused of falsely advertising 
the value of Rangeburnett oil shares, 
which they promoted in a swift campaign 
ending about the middle of May. This 
is the second indietmenfagainst Newman, 
the first one .having charged him with 
forgery in the third degree. Toole is 
accused of selling stock belonging to 
clients and failing to turn the money 
over to them. Toole & Henry, a New 
York Stock Exchange firm, was forced 
into bankruptcy April 2 by creditors. 
The assets were estimated at $(>00,000 
and the liabilities at $980,000. Douglas 
Henry, the other member of the firm, was 
suspended on April 2 by the Stock Ex¬ 
change under the rule requiring that 
action when a member of the exchange 
confesses insolvency. 
A rear-end collision on the New York 
Central Railroad at Dunkirk. N. Y., July 
1 . caused the death of 12 persons and 
injuries to IS others. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—American 
control of the future of the domestic fruit, 
nut and ornamental plant interests is 
sought by Representative Gould of New 
York in a bill which iie has introduced in 
Congress. Dependence for stock now being 
largely on foreign sources, Mr. Gould pro¬ 
poses the appropriation of $30,000 for the 
use of the Secretary of Agriculture in es¬ 
tablishing and maintaining mother or¬ 
chards or plantations for the purpose of 
providing domestic sources of seeds, cut¬ 
tings or other material for propagating 
fruit, nut and ornamental trees and other 
plants. The bill also authorizes the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture to assemble, 
grow and test plant material doomed de¬ 
sirable or suitable for use in the propa¬ 
gation of such trees and plants for the. 
purpose of determining stocks better 
adapted to the climatic soil and other 
conditions under which fruit, nut and 
ornamental plants are grown. The de¬ 
partment is to investigate methods of 
growing stocks, study methods of propa¬ 
gation and encourage the propagation of 
such trees and plants in this country. 
The Ohio State Horticultural Society 
will hold two Summer meetings this year, 
the first one on July 23 in Lawrence 
County and the second one on September 
10 at the Experiment Station. Wooster. 
The program for the first meeting will 
include visits to a number of the well- 
known orchards of Lawrence County, the 
most important apple-producing county 
of the State, and exercises at the County 
Fair grounds, at which time a memorial 
will be dedicated by the Society to the 
Rome Beauty apple. This is the most 
important variety in Ohio, and the 
memorial is being placed in appreciat : on 
of its service to the fruit-growing in¬ 
dustry of the State. The original tree, 
a chance seedling, was set 102 years ago 
within a quarter of a mile of the position 
selected for the memorial. 
At a meeting held in the Town Hall 
at. Vermontville, N. Y., on April 8, 1919, 
the Town of Franklin Improvement As¬ 
sociation came into being. From the 
small start with 32 members it has grown 
to 82. At the first meeting a president, 
secretary and treasurer were elected and 
also a board of directors and buying and 
selling committees. The purpose of the 
association is to improve the methods in 
all branches of farming. Keen interest 
was shown when mention was made of 
raising certified seed potatoes. Nearly 
every member agreed to treat all seed 
used, and spraying and inspection will 
be carried on with the co-operative help 
of the Franklin County Farm Bureau 
and the Franklin County Potato Grow¬ 
ers’ Association, of which each member 
of the newly-formed association must be 
a member. Franklin County potatoes 
have long been among the best shipped 
into the city markets, and it is expected 
that seed stock will be raised this year 
that will equal if not surpass the famous 
Aroostook County, Maine, potatoes. The 
selling committee will handle all potatoes 
raised and ship in carlots. The buying 
committee will buy feeds, flour, sugar, 
etc., in carlots and sell at cost to the 
members. Arrangements were made with 
a creamery at Morrisonville, Clinton Co.. 
N. Y., to take cream at League prices, 
a shipping station made and shipments 
go out three times weekly. Keen com¬ 
petition has arisen among the dairymen 
for the highest testing cream. The record 
is held by Rufus Cass, with 72 per cent 
cream. Meetings are held every other 
Saturday night. At the last meeting two 
representatives of the Burlington (Yt.) 
Rendering Co. were present and made a 
very fair offer for the 1919 wool clip. It 
was also decided to have a field day and 
picnic July 2G. A basket dinner will be 
enjoyed, with music furnished by a band 
or orchestra. Mr. Austin, the Franklin 
County Farm Agent, will deliver an ad¬ 
dress. a professor from the State Agri¬ 
cultural College at Ithaca. N. Y\. and 
Mr. Gelder. manager of the Essex County 
Farm Bureau, will speak. A purebred 
cattle movement will soon chase out the 
scrubs and replace them with the very 
best purebreds. 
The Rutgers College Summer session 
opened June 30 with an enrollment of GOO, 
including 200 wounded soldiers who are 
taking special vocational courses in var¬ 
ious branches of agriculture. Reconstruc¬ 
tion work is being featured at this ses¬ 
sion and the New Jersey Agricultural 
Station is preparing to care for 700 
wounded soldiers in the middle of July. 
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