The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
.1450 
Paints 
White 
One 
Operation 
V 
will put your poultry houses, stables, dairy buildings, pig 
pens, cellars, etc., in shape for the winter—make them lighter, 
sweet-smelling and sanitary. The work will be easier to do, the 
results better, and the cost no more than whitewash and dis¬ 
infectants—if you use 
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EtROlA 
Lj 
Disinfect ing White Paint \ 
a white pa'nfc in powder form that is combined with a disinfectant many times stronger than 
pure carbolic acid. _ Carbola is neither poisonous nor caustic and is turned into liquid paint 
simply by mixing with water—no straining or waiting. It can be applied with a brush or spray 
pum p to wood, brick, stone, cement or over whitewash. Will not clog t he sprayer. Doeq not 
blister, flake or peel. Has no disagreeable odor. One gallon—less than 10c worth of powder— 
••vers 200 square feet. 
Used Instead of Whitewash and Disinfectants 
It fights day and night against the dangers of the contagious diseases that afTectpouU ry and 
li vestock—helps prevent their introduction andspread among flocks and herds. Carbola kills 
.•sprevcnttheirintroductionandspreadamongfiocksa____ 
lice, mites and fly eggs, but will not harm the smallest chick or stock thatlieks a painted 
surface. It is an excellent lice powder. Shake it into the nests, dust baths ana litter. 
1 ou can get Carbola at your hardware, seed, drug, orpsuntdealer. I f not, order di¬ 
rect— shipment the day order isreceived. Money backif not as represented. 
lOlbt. (10 $laod postage 20 lbs. (20 fats.) $2 dalivercd 
50 lbs. (50 gals.) $4 delivered 
Trial package and booklet for 20c postpaid 
(25% extra in Rocky Mountain States) 
CARBOLA 
CHEMICAL COMPANY, Inc. 
Dept, R 7 Esst 42nd St. 
New York City 
Farmers Have Tested Paroid for 20 Years and More 
Proof of wear-—that’s what most farmers 
insist on knowing before they buy roofing. 
Neponset Paroid, familiarly called ‘‘Good Old Paroid," 
has a wonderful record of protecting cattle, stock, tools, crops, 
garages, and homes from the attacks of rain and sleet, sun and 
snow—at lowest service cost per square foot per year. 
It is beautiful enough for your house and low enough in 
price to use on less expensive buildings. Protects your prop¬ 
erty from fire. Easily laid right over old, under shingles or 
on new r roof boards. Makes an ideal siding 
THREE COLORS 
Impregnated with asphalt and 
surfaced with slate or talc, Neponset 
Paroid is water-proof, tough, strong 
and flexible. Easily laid by anyone. 
Nails and cement coroe with each roll. 
Paroid slate-surfaced comes in two 
beautiful colors — natural slate-red 
and elate-green. Paroid gray is an 
BIRD & SON, Inc, 
unusually thick, heavy roofing. Its 
surface is almost white. 
There’s a Neponset Paroid roofing 
for every need and every purpose. The 
Neponset dealer in your town can 
supply your needs. 
Write us for free booklet, “Repair¬ 
ing and Building.” 
East Walpole, Mass. 
(Established 1795) 
Book Prices Raised 
The following books have been advanced 
to a uniform price of $2.50 per volume: 
Productive Swine Husbandry, by Day. 
Productive Poultry Husbandry, by 
Lewis. 
Productive Horse Husbandry, by Gay. 
Productive Orcharding, by Sears. 
Productive Vegetable Gardening, by 
Lloyd. 
Productive Feeding of Farm Animals, 
by Woll. 
Productive Farm Crops, by Mont¬ 
gomery. 
Productive Bee Keeping, by Pellett. 
Productive Dairying, by Washburn. 
Productive Sheep Husbandry, by Cof¬ 
fey. 
Common Diseases of Farm Animals, by 
Craig. 
Injurious Insects and Useful birds, by 
Washburn. 
FOR SALE BY 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30tli Street New York 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Sixty-two of the 11.000 
touring cars, trucks, motorcycles and 
other machines in Camp Ilolabird, Md., 
the bad condition of which, owing to be¬ 
ing left in the open for so long, was the 
cause of a Congressional investigation, 
were sold Sept. IS at auction. The sale 
realized .$25,000 for the Government. 
Some of the machines went for less than 
their nearly new tires cost. Most of the 
machines, having been exposed to all 
kinds of weather for months, were in a 
very poor condition. 
Reports from the devastated storm area 
in the vicinity of Corpus Christi, Tex., 
served to swell the death roll of the hurri¬ 
cane of Sunday, Sept. 14. slightly, and to 
confirm earlier estimates that the total 
property damage would exceed $20,000,- 
000 . 
Eleven days without food or water. 12 
survivors of the recent hurricane huddled 
in a lighthouse on North Elbow Cav. a 
small island in the Florida Straits, which 
was swept clean of every vestige of hu¬ 
man habitation during the storm, were 
located Sept. 22 by a submarine chaser. 
Huge waves sweeping over the island 
carried away sepulchres containing the 
bodies of former inhabitants, it was re¬ 
ported : swept all live stock into the sea 
and destroyed other food supplies, leaving 
the inhabitants, whose only hope of sur¬ 
vival lay in the impregnability of the 
lighthouse in which they gathered, abso¬ 
lutely destitute. 
Eleven men of the lost British steam¬ 
ship Bayronto and the lone survivor of 
the crew of the American steamship Lake 
Winona were landed at. Tampa, Fla., 
Sept 21 by the fishing smack Ida. With 
15 <>f the crew of the Bayronto landed at 
Charleston. S. C.. on Sept. 16, and IS 
others landed at Havana the same day, 
this accounts for her full complement. 
The men were picked up in open boats on 
Sept. 17. 60 miles from Egmont Light. The 
one from the Lake Winona, a Porto Rican 
negro, was in a boat full of water, eating 
crabs and sea grass._ He had been with¬ 
out other food and drink for seven days and 
nights. The Bayronto. of 11.000 tons, 
loaded with wheat, was bound from Gal¬ 
veston to Marseilles on its first trip after 
damage caused by a torpedo from a Ger¬ 
man _ submarine in July. 1918, had been 
repaired. The survivor from the Lake 
V\ inona reported that 15 members of the 
crew of his ship were afloat in an open 
boat when all were washed away by a 
wave excepting himself and an Italian. 
The latter committed suicide and the Por¬ 
to Rican threw his body overboard. 
Search for the 400 passengers and 88 
members of the crew of the Spanish steam¬ 
ship Vnlbanera, lost off Rebecea Shoals 
Light. 40 miles from Key West, in the 
recent gulf hurricane, has continued with¬ 
out results. The hulk of the wreck has 
been located where sunk. It is believed 
many of those on board went down with 
the vessel. 
The great steel strike which started 
Sept. 22 resulted in sporadic rioting in 
various districts. William Z. Foster, sec¬ 
retary of the national committee for or¬ 
ganizing iron and steel woi-kers, claimed 
Sept. 23 that reports received by him 
showed that 327,100 men were partici¬ 
pating in the steel strike. lie claims, in 
addition, that 5.000 more have quit in 
Pittsburgh. 5.000 in Braddoek. 3.000 in 
Rankin. 20.000 more in the Chicago dis¬ 
trict. 5,000 in Youngstown and 3.000 in 
the Wheeling sector. Representatives of 
the various corporations dispute Foster’s 
word. They say that were his figures cor¬ 
rect many of the districts he mentions 
would be wholly shut down if so many 
men had quit They point to the fact 
that some of these districts are still mak¬ 
ing steel. In Congress Senator Kenyon’s 
resolution calling upon the Senate Labor 
Committee to institute immediately an 
investigation of the strike was. adopted. 
In Pittsburgh strike leaders not only pre¬ 
dicted prolonged continuation of the strike 
but that the strike would spread to steel 
furnaces not yet affected and that an at¬ 
tempt would be made to extend the walk¬ 
out to the great, lakes seamen and the 
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The figures 
for the foreign commerce of this country 
during the year ending June 30. 1919. 
show a remarkable trade. The total busi¬ 
ness between *lns country and foreign 
countries amounted to $10,169,888,111. 
The imports were a trifle over three bil¬ 
lion, and the exports something over seven 
billion. The foreign trade in agricultural 
products totaled $5,770,917,553; that is. 
57 per cent of our total foreign trade was 
in faim products. The imports of fa«r.i 
products amounted to 67 per cent of the 
total, and the exports to 52 per cent. To 
show how this foreign business has iu- 
cre used, five years ago the total foreign 
trade was $4,223,609,682. At that time 
agricultural products gave 54 per cent of 
the total, or 3 per cent less than last year. 
The proportion of imported farm pro¬ 
ducts, however, was greater last year than 
it was five years ago. 
The grain growers of Western Canada 
are being permanently organized as a po¬ 
litical party. The first session of the fed¬ 
eral constituency executive of the grain 
growers’ movement met recently at Re¬ 
gina Sask. 
Recently at a fur sale held in Van¬ 
couver. B. C., one trader from the Yukon 
put 8,000 muskrat skins up for auction. 
There were bidders from New York, Win¬ 
nipeg, Minneapolis, Seattle, Victoria, Chi¬ 
October 4, 1919 
cago, Edmonton and London, and the 
skins were finally knocked down at $2.40 
each, a grand total to the trader of $19,- 
200. The skins when parceled were no 
larger than half a bale of hay. 
Organization of an impartial milk com¬ 
mission similar to the one established re¬ 
cently in New‘York City to determine the 
cost of milk and to fix prices for a year 
based on actual operating cost to the 
farmers is suggested by Milton A. Mail- 
ender, secretary of the Milk Exchange of 
the Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati, 
O., as a means of settling the controversy 
which developed between producers and 
dealers over milk prices as a result of a 
charge made by Mr. Mailender that the 
Queeu City Milk Producers’ Association 
controls the price of milk. Mr. Mailend- 
er’s suggestion followed the issuance of a 
statement made by the executive commit¬ 
tee of the association, which represents 
the farmers, calling for a meeting of pro¬ 
ducers to “make a last appeal to the pub¬ 
lic.” The suggestion, it is understood, 
will be offered to county authorities in an 
effort to settle the milk price controversy. 
The commission, Mr. Mailender suggest¬ 
ed, should be composed of a producer, a 
dealer, a consumer, a laboring man and a 
dairy expert, probably from Ohio State 
University. 
President Wilson expects the industrial 
reorganization conference to be held in 
Washington, D. C„ October 6, will widen 
into others, whore special attention will 
be given to other aspects of the nation’s 
industrial life. Secretary Houston said in 
a letter sent Sept. 23 to agricultural or¬ 
ganizations. His communication was in 
response to inquiries regarding the repre¬ 
sentation of the farmers at. the confer¬ 
ence. “The President,” wrote the secre¬ 
tary, “would have had a larger represen¬ 
tation of farmers if it were not for the 
fact that the question chiefly to be dis¬ 
cussed is that of industrial organization. 
He expects this conference will widen into 
others, where special attention will bo 
given to other aspects of our industrial 
life, including agriculture specifically, and 
I am confident that at such conferences 
lie will seek a more generous representa¬ 
tion of farmers.” Selections of represen¬ 
tatives to the industrial conferences by 
farmers’ organizations were announced 
by the Department of Labor as fol¬ 
lows : G. S. Barrett. Union City, Ga., 
Farmers’ Co-operative Union; J. N. Tit- 
temore, Omro, Wis., American Society of 
Equity, and T. C. Atkeson, Washington, 
National Grange. 
WASHINGTON. — Expressing doubt 
as to whether Congress would be willing 
to appropriate sufficient money to enable 
all reclamation projects now under con¬ 
struction to be completed. Secretary Lane 
and Director Davis of the Reclamation 
Service urged the Senate Irrigation Com¬ 
mittee Sept. 18 to report favorably an 
emergency bill by Senator McNary of 
Oregon to appropriate $50,000,000 for the 
work. Mayor Neuman of Great. Falls, 
Mont., headed a delegation of Montana 
business men and farmers that urged the 
House Ways and Means Committee to 
recommend passage of the Reddick bill, 
appropriating $50,000,000 for reclamation 
work in the West. The delegation de¬ 
clared extension of the Milk and Sun 
River projects were necessary beeausee of 
the drought prevailing there the last three 
years. 
Reciprocal arrangements between the 
United States Government and that of 
the Dominion of Canada, through the De¬ 
partment of Soldiers’ Civil Re-establish¬ 
ment, have just been completed whereby 
each country will undertake wherever oc¬ 
casion arises the after care of dependents 
found within their own borders. In order 
to come to a full understanding of the ob¬ 
ligations which this would involve, the 
Canadian Director of Medical Services 
and Assistant Deputy Minister of the De¬ 
partment of Soldiers’ Civil Re-establish¬ 
ment visited Washington and conferred 
with Lieut.-Col. Charles E. Banks of the 
United States Public Health Service, 
chief medical officer to the War Risk Bu¬ 
reau. also the secretaries of the Federal 
Treasuries. At the conference held in 
Washington the proposal was submitted 
that the United States should effect an 
interchange of medical care with the Can¬ 
adian government whereby any ex-mem¬ 
ber of the Canadian forces resident upon 
this side would receive the same attention 
in the matter of medical treatment as that 
afforded to the men upon the Canadian 
side. Similarly, Canada would care for 
the soldiers of the American Army found 
resident there, each country to reimburse 
the other for all expenses so incurred. 
As evidence of the way manufacturers 
are making use of waste products, one of 
our readers in Missouri sends us an ac¬ 
count of operations near Webb City, in 
that State. At that point there are im¬ 
mense quantities of tailings from the lead 
and zinc mines. This consists largely of 
lime and flint rock which has been crushed 
to get out the metal. There is also a fine 
sand produced in this mining, and a big 
industry has been developed in manufac¬ 
turing these products into concrete blocks. 
These blocks are made with an air space 
from top to bottom. They weigh about 
48 lbs. each and are being used freely all 
over that country for building barns and 
outbuildings, as well as houses. They are 
also used in building fences. In fact, the 
industry has become a big one, as the ma¬ 
terial is cheap and a large demand has 
been created. This shows how a waste 
product can be turned over and developed 
into a profitable enterprise. 
