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DOMESTIC.—July 24 the forest fires 
in western Montana and northern Idaho 
were reported to be under control, as a 
result of heavy rains. In that district 
there have been 612 fires since June 10, 
and about 2,500 men are employed in 
fire fighting. Forest fires in northern 
Michigan assumed serious proportions in 
Antrim and Kalkaska counties. 
The War Department has sold to fine 
United States Equalization Board 37,- 
000.000 pounds of refined sugar, accord¬ 
ing to an announcement made July 2;> 
by George Zabriskie, president of the 
board. As there is an abundance of raw 
sugar the retail price* should not exceed 
11 cents a pound. Refineries now are 
working day and night, Mr. Zabriskie 
said, and their combined output of 41,- 
175,000 pounds a day is being put into 
domestic channels of trade. No sugar 
has been shipped abroad in two weeks 
and exportation will not be resumed until 
all American n.eeds are met. Mr. Zabris¬ 
kie explained that dealers are still under 
the control of the Federal Food. Admin¬ 
istration, and if they profiteer in sugar 
they may suffer the revocation of their 
licenses. The control will continue until 
the peace treaty is ratified by the Senate. 
Eleven boys, all members of the Spring- 
field Boys’ Club, were drowned July 25 
in Big Pond, East Otis, Mass., when a 
flat boat and several canoes in which they 
were being towed were tipped over by 
high waves. 
While emulating Benjamin Franklin 
by flying a kite during a thunderstorm 
July 26, Andrew Loyak, of Scranton, Pa., 
was killed when a bolt of lightning fol¬ 
lowed the wet kite string from the skies. 
Boyak was struck in the back of the head. 
Death was instantaneous. 
The Connecticut Retail Liquor Dealers’ 
Association at a meeting at New Haven 
July 27 decided that no more beer or 
liquor with an alcoholic content of one- 
half of one per cent or over would be 
sold in that State, at least while the war¬ 
time prohibition law is operative. 
Fire caused by a bolt of lightning com¬ 
ing in contact with escaping ammonia 
fumes destroyed the local plant of Swift 
& Co., at Syracuse, N. Y„ July 27. The 
loss is estimated at $100,000. 
Race riots started at a bathing beach 
in Chicago July 27, continuing for four 
days. July 31 it was said that 32 per¬ 
sons had been killed and hundreds in¬ 
jured. The rioting, which was marked 
by extreme savagery, on the part of both 
white and colored, was further compli¬ 
cated by a street-car strike. 
Five airplanes, including three .of the 
largest in the United States, one of which 
was the Martin bomber which was to 
make a one-stop flight from New York to 
San Francisco, were wrecked July 28 at 
Hazlehurst Field, Mineola, by a cyclone 
and thunderstorm. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The British 
House of Commons July 28 unanimously 
passed the second reading of the Govern¬ 
ment bill introduced with the purpose <>f 
aiding the Sudan to raise a loan of 
$30,000,000 for irrigation, railway con¬ 
struction and the development of 300,000 
acres of land at the confluence of the 
White and Blue Nile rivers. The main 
purpose of the bill, which is meeting with 
strong approval in the House of Com¬ 
mons. is to promote cotton cultivation in 
the Sudan and thus render Lancashire 
less dependent on the United States for 
cotton. 
Serious damage to the corn crop, the 
result of excessive heat and drying winds, 
is reported from Indiana. Illinois and 
Kentucky. 
WASHINGTON.—The Special House 
War Investigating Committee which July 
24 heard read War Department records 
showing that three commissioned and five 
non-com missioned officers had been court- 
martialed because of brutalities in hand¬ 
ling American prisoners at camps in and 
near Paris are considering the advisability 
of calling additional witnesses. It is be¬ 
lieved that if more witnesses are called 
they will include a number of army offi¬ 
cers of high rank. The records submitted 
to the committee by Gen. March, Chief 
of Staff, gave the first official confirmation 
to reports of cruel treatment by their own 
officers of American soldiers in France 
which have created an indignant stir in 
Congressional circles. 
July 2S the House approved the repeal 
of the' section of the revenue act passed at 
the last session placing a tax of 10 per 
cent on virtually everything sold at soda 
fountains. A short time later it voted to 
reduce the tax of fruit juices to two cents 
a gallon. Action was taken after both 
Houses of Congress had been flooded with 
petitions urging the repeal. Fully half of 
the petitions received by Congress in the 
last two months have been on this ques¬ 
tion. 
July 20. by a vote of 266 to 4. the 
House ordered Secretary of War Baker 
to place on sale “forthwith” in the mar¬ 
kets of this country exclusively the War 
Department’s huge surplus of food, total¬ 
ling about $124,000,000 worth of canned 
meats and vegetables. The action was 
taken by a House resolution, reported 
out after an investigation by the Special 
Committee on War Department Expendi¬ 
tures, and now goes direct to Secretary 
Baker, as it does not require Senate ap¬ 
proval. Just before the final vote was 
taken the House adopted an amendment 
of Representative Kelley (Pa.), Inde¬ 
<Ibe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 9, 1919 
pendent, providing that the Government’s 
parcel post system shall be used in the 
distribution of the food. Mr. Kelley re¬ 
cently proposed that the prices of food 
be posted in all postoffices, and that 
orders for delivery by parcel post from 
the warehouses where the supplies are 
now stored be taken by postmasters or 
postal employees. The Kelley amend¬ 
ment was adopted by a vote of 152 to 
130. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New York Potato Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion. Fulton. N. Y.. Aug. 0. 
State Federation of Wool Growers, 
field day. Cooperstown, N. Y.. Aug. 13. 
Exposition. Erie. Pa.. Aug. 18-23. 
, Society of American Florists and Orna¬ 
mental Horticulturists, Detroit, Mich., 
Aug. 10-21. 
Annual farmers’ picnic of Cayuga 
County, Hamilton’s Grove, Weedsport, 
N. Y.. Aug. 21. 
Annual field day, Connecticut Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station, Mt. Carmel 
Farm, Aug. 22. 
Ohio State Fair, Columbus, O.. Aug. 
25-20. 
Vegetable Growers of America, annual 
convention. Detroit. Mich.. Sept. 0-13. 
Union Agricultural Association, sixty- 
fourth annual fair, Burgettstown, Pa., 
Sept. 30-()ct. 1-12. 
National Grange, annual meeting, 
Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 12. 
New England Fruit Show, State 
Armory. Hartford. Conn., Friday, Nov. 
14. to Tuesday, Nov. 18. 
Greater Arizona State Fair, Phoenix, 
Dec. 3-S. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, annual meeting, Atlantic City, 
Dec. 1-3. 
I National Farmers’ Exposition and 
'Ohio Apple Show, Terminal Auditorium, 
Toledo, O., Dec. 4-12. 
Up-State Farm Notes 
State Siieef Association Field Day. 
—The Otsego County Sheep Growers’ As¬ 
sociation and the Cooperstown Chamber 
of Commerce will entertain the State Fed¬ 
eration of County Sheep Growers at 
Glimmerglen Farms August 13. Coop¬ 
erstown is one of the beauty spots of the 
State, and one of the finest programs will 
be given. Otsego is the leading purebred 
sheep county in the State. The day fol¬ 
lowing the county association will sell at 
public auction about 300 head of purebred 
sheep of different breeds,/' with E. A. 
Stanford as manager of consignments. 
Borden Plants Burned. —The Bor¬ 
den plant, a 30x100-ft. building at Peru- 
ville, was burned July 24, cause unknown. 
The Borden plant at Theresa was burned 
at the same time. Since the fire Peruville 
farmers draw their milk to Locke, and 
the ice supply is being shipped to other 
stations. 
August Milk Price. —August milk 
testing 3 per cent will bring $3.11 per 100 
lbs., or 12c more than the July price. It 
was based on calculations that included 
the fact that the average July price of 
butter was $.5108 per lb., and of cheese 
was $.3131. It is of interest to note that 
butter is retailing in most Central New 
York stores at 61 to 70c, and cheese at 
40c per lb. The pastures are now very 
short -and grasshoppers are destroying 
them more and more rapidly, being more 
abundant than in many years. 
Farmers to Express Themselves.— 
One country paper correspondent suggests 
the slogan “lie Keeps Us Out of Bed” to 
replace the previous well-known one of 
“He Kept Us Out of War.” Others are 
not so good natured. The dairyman must 
now get his cows from the pasture at an 
hour considerably before daylight in or¬ 
der to get their milk to the station in 
time. It is coming to the point where 
the farmer must shut his cows in the sta¬ 
ble or barnyard at night in order to have 
them on hand at the proper milking time, 
with consequent shrinkage of production. 
The night time is the cow’s natural feed¬ 
ing time now, as they will not eat during 
the heat and the torment of flies by day. 
A movement is quietly under way whereby 
possibly farmers will take action in their 
own behalf since their interests have heen 
wholly disregarded by those in authority. 
And really there is no limit to the power 
the farmers have in their own hands, as 
the source of the country’s food, when 
they are roused enough to use it. The 
injustice of timing their hours of work to 
suit the pleasures of consumers promises 
to stir up a bigger dust of conflict than 
any other item of similar importance has 
in history. 
Epidemic op Escapes.—F ive convicts 
escaped from various road Camps of the 
State within 48 hours last week. All but 
one of these and former escaped men have 
been recaptured by our efficient police net. 
The conditions of road work are such that, 
many convicts, though preferring the out- 
of-doors work, refuse the opportunity to 
go, as they fear yielding to the tempta¬ 
tion to escape, with subsequent recapture 
and lengthened term. Only short-term 
prisoners are let out. 
Dairymen’s Picnic.— The big South 
Otselic dairymen’s picnic will be resumed 
this year, after suspending for several 
years. This day of visiting and recreation, 
attended by farmers of several counties, 
will, be held at that place August 8, with 
an interesting program, including speak¬ 
ing, music by three bands, and field 
sports. A similar picnic meeting of the 
Cayuga County Breeders’ Association 
will be attended by hundreds of the milk 
consumers of Auburn July 31. The breed¬ 
ers are carrying on an educational cam¬ 
paign and are making plans for the big¬ 
gest affair in the history of their organi¬ 
zation. Grange teams will carry on ath¬ 
letic contests. and city people will be given 
a closer insight, into the work of milk 
production. 
State Fair Plans. —The fair commis¬ 
sion announces that the opening day of 
the State Fair will be the biggest one in 
the history of the great exhibition. The 
railroads will return exhibits free of 
charge, such as live stock and racing ani¬ 
mals. The commission is trying to expe¬ 
dite the shipment of exhibition stock from 
the West, that it may arrive well in ad¬ 
vance of the fair. It is probable that the 
railroads will also return to the custom of 
offering special rates to passengers from 
leading points of the State. There have 
been no motor races since the accident 
of 1911. when 11 persons were killed. 
But Saturday of the fair this year will 
see a motor racing program. There will 
be five aerial circuses daily. The farm 
boys’ camp has been abandoned for this 
year. The county exhibits promise to ex¬ 
cel previous displays. 
Potato Growers Meet. —The New 
York State Potato Growers’ Association 
will meet August 9 at Little Utica, Onon¬ 
daga County. At that time the Onondaga 
County Association stages its midsummer 
meeting. Discussions of the crop situa¬ 
tion. particularly of diseases prevalen l 
throughout the State, will feature both 
programs. M. G. F. 
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