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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
alzers Seeds 
Since John A. Salzer founded this institu- 
tion in 1868 our practice has been to keep 
quality the highest. Two later generations 
have maintained the standard. 
Years of careful effort in growing, testing, cleaning 
and distributing seeds have gained for us the confidence 
of thousands. To all we say, “This year’s seeds will be 
the best that long experience can produce.” Our 1920 
catalog contains 168 pages and describes the varieties 
we recommend. There are 98 color pages illustrating 
275 special Salzer strains in full color. It gives valuable 
information based on actual experience. Send for a 
copy—TODAY. A post card will 
bring it to your door—FREE. 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. 
Box 144, La Crosse, Wisconsin 
SOY BEANS 
Sweet clover, alfalfa, re<l and alsike clover, earden 
pea, vetch and other legumes do their best when 
treated with 
Acre size $1.00, 
|six for *5.00 pre¬ 
paid. State kind 
wanted, 
It’s more virulent than others^ Full of pep. Gives 
results. Can't fail. Guarantee results or money 
back. Why take chances on others. Ask for our 
booklet, It tells you how and why. 
McQueen Bacteria Co., Box 4, Baltic, Ohio 
Seed to be worth planting at all must 
not only grow, but must grow a profit¬ 
able crop. For years we have been supplying 
seed practically free from weed seeds and deid 
grains, the only kind that will shown profit. 
Samples and our Field Seed Hook, which teils 
exactly “Ilow to Know Good Seed,” are free. To save 
losses from weeds, you need this information. 
Write Today. 
0. M. SCOTT & SONS CO., 70 Main St., Marysville, Ohio 
Hoffman’: 
Sweet Clover 
Best paying farm crop known. Best fertilizer 
and soil builder known. Grows anywhere. I 
grow, buy and sell sweet clover seed. Write for 
sample seed and full and complete instructions 
for growing and handling the crop. 
T. L. PHILLIPS, :: AURORA, ILL 
SweelClover Sow . ,inhulled Whitu Now - * 9 l!u - e*. paid. 
A. III.OOH1.NGIUI.E, 
Schenectady, N. Y. 
Wanted-BEAKiNG Berry Plants «. B .C.. C- Rural New-Y 
Yorker 
Budded Nut Trees of large thin shelled nuts. 
Best Hardy Northern varieties. Catalog free. 
INDIANA NUT NURSERY, Box 55 Rockport, Indiana 
Po UouPelieve- 
Jn farmers’ 
Co-OperativeAssociationsi 
We certainly do. We belong to the Farm Bureau our¬ 
selves and have made special preparation to take care 
of co-operative orders. For twenty years we have led In 
the Alfalfa production movement. We were the first to 
Introduce this plant into the corn belt, first to sell guar¬ 
anteed seed, and first to offer the now famous ‘‘Dakota 
30.” Get our prices on this as well as “Grimm.” 
Sweet Clover is one of our specialties, the greatest soil 
builder and the best pasture plant in the corn belt to-day. 
CLOVER and GRASSES 
Wo will sell you a pound or car load* Wo ask for the moat 
critical buyers and can please you* 
WING’S GARDEN and FLOWER SEEDS 
are grown for tho most critical trade. Write for catalog. 
WING SEED CO., Box 323 , Mechanicsburg, O. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a quick reply and a “square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. t : : 
Clover 
’ Seed 
Easily paases all tests. 
1st. HIGHEST in PUR¬ 
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GERMINATION — the 
very best seed to bow. 
Means more hay 
Write for free copy 
Hoffman’s Seed Book 
gives you the facts on 
Seed you will buy this 
Spring. Offers choicest 
strains of clovers. Alfal¬ 
fa, Corn. Oats, Maine 
Potatoes, Field Peas and 
Beans. 
Seed samples free 
Mention this paper 
A. H. HOFFMAN, Inc. 
Landiiville, 
Lancaster County, Pa. 
00D SEEDS 
GOOD AS CAN BE GROWN 
Prices Below All Others 
I will give a lot of new 
sorts free with every order 
I fill. Buy and test. Return 
If not O. K.—money refunded. 
Big Catalog FREE 
Over 700 illustrations of vege¬ 
tables and flowers. Send youra 
and your neighbors’ addresses. 
R. H. SHUM WAY, Rockford, III. 
Vl 
WkLV ^Weeds are alfalfa’s worst *nemy tho 
first year. The first thing to think 
■ W about in baying alfalfa is purity. Our need is 
l U especially selected and cleaned to be free from 
weeds. Wo have the ordinary and several other 
I varieties. Ask for Field Seed Book giving special in 
I formation on alfalfa, and “How to Know Good Seed. 
10.M.SI 
0. M. scon & SONS CO., 370 Main SI., Marysville, Ohio 
VICK’S^, GUIDE 
For 71 years the leading authority *• , 
M_ on Vegetable, Flower and Farm r-_ 
I INOW Seeds, Plants and Bulbs. Better r or 
I Ready than ever. Bend for free copy today 1920 
I JAMES VICK’S SONS Rochester. N. Y. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Large quantities of 
Communist literature, including thous¬ 
ands of leaflets, were seized Jan. S by 
Department of .Tnstiee raiders at the 
offices of the New York Volks-Zeitung 
and the Chatham Printing Company. The 
visits to these plants were made as the 
result of evidence obtained in a raid upon 
a band of Communists in Hartford, 
when it was discovered that printed mat¬ 
ter being disseminated by the Red revolu¬ 
tionists was issuing from the address of 
these two plants. 
Eire damaged the American liner St. 
I-onis Jan. 8 -at her pier in Hoboken. 
Estimates of the damage range from 
$250,000 to $500,000, but the exact 
amount will not be known until tho. water 
is pumped out and a full inspection of the 
vessel’s interior made. The cause of the 
fire is still undetermined, but the officials 
of the W. & A. Fletcher Company do 
not believe that it was of incendiary ori¬ 
gin. They hold to tho theory that it 
resulted from fresh paint being ignited by 
a workman’s torch. It is likely, however, 
that the United States Shipping Board 
will make a vigorous investigation of this 
and of some of the other fires which have 
boon of frequent occurrence on ships laid 
up at this port. 
The workshop for the Maryland School 
for the Blind was destroyed by fire .Tan. 
9 at Baltimore. The loss is estimated at 
$200,000. including a large stock of the 
handiwork of the students. 
Two large buildings in the heart of the 
business section of Scranton, Pa., occu¬ 
pied by the Household Outfitting Com¬ 
pany. were burned Jan. 9. The loss is 
$400,000. 
Although wages have advanced 45 per 
cent in the garment industry since last 
Spring, production has fallen off $5 per 
cent, according to testimony Jan. 10 be¬ 
fore the committee appointed by Governor 
Smith of New York to investigate dis¬ 
putes in the industry which are curtailing 
production and advancing the prices of 
clothing. The session nearly ended in a 
withdrawal of the manufacturers when 
Meyer London, representing the union, 
said that there was nothing in the con¬ 
tract entered into by the Cloak, Suit and 
Dress Manufacturers* Protective Associa¬ 
tion and the union which denied the work¬ 
er the right to strike for more wages. 
Five thousand quarts of high grade 
whiskey, conservatively valued at $75,- 
000 , said to he part of a large consign¬ 
ment from Baltimore to New York, was 
seized in Wilmington. Del.. Jan. 10. upon 
orders from Attorney-General Reinhardt 
pending a decision as to the validity of 
confiscating the liquor under the Loose 
law operative in Delaware. The driver 
of the truck, II. O’Neill of New York, 
was arrested in Newark, Del., by Con¬ 
st abb 1 A\ illiam Apsley and is said to have 
admitted having received an offer of 
$1,000 if he could bring the liquor through 
safely to its consignees. Under the Loose 
law no intoxicating liquor in excess of 
one quart can be transported through 
Delaware. 
’I’he warehouse of the Richmond Paper 
Company was burned at Halifax, N. S., 
Tan. 12, with a loss of $175,000.’ The 
cause is said to have been defective wir¬ 
ing. 
Two carloads of Canadian whiskey, 
concealed under a layer of lumber, were 
seized Jan. 12 at Perth Amboy, N. .T., by 
revenue agents. It was sealed and 
brought to the New York Custom House. 
The contraband consignment was discov¬ 
ered by a Perth Amboy railroad freight 
agent. He noted that the shipment was 
consigned to the George W. Jackson Lum¬ 
ber Company, and knew there was no 
such concern. 
The State of Manhattan, composed of 
the counties of Suffolk, Nassau, Queens, 
Kings, Richmond, New York, Iironx and 
Westchester, would be sanctioned by the 
New York Legislature under the provis¬ 
ions of u bill introduced Jan. 12 by As¬ 
semblyman Cuvillier, Democrat, of New 
York. Tho act would require ratification 
by a referendum next November. As¬ 
semblyman Leiniger, Democrat, of Queens, 
introduced a bill designed to create a 
State of Greater New York. This is a 
more ambitious plan than that of Mr. 
Cuvillier, as it not only includes all the 
counties in the proposed State of Man¬ 
hattan, but would contain in addition the 
counties of Putnam, Dutchess, Rockland, 
Orange, Ulster, Greene and Sullivan. 
The Statewide prohibition enforcement 
bill, patterned after the Federal Volstead 
act, except that no provision is made for 
an enforcement bureau, was introduced 
in the New York Legislature Jan. 12 by 
Senator Thompson of Niagara and Assem¬ 
blyman Slaeer of Erie, the dry leaders. 
The hill is designed, according to the Anti- 
Saloon League, to place upon State offi¬ 
cers the same obligations to enforce the 
Eighteenth Amendment as the Volstead 
Law places upon Foderal officials and to 
enable New York to concur in enforce¬ 
ment, power. 
Peter J. Nee, of Washington, D. C., 
who says he was swindled out of $35JMM) 
in a Washington hotel in a fake oil stock 
scheme, identified two men held at Fort 
Worth, Tex., Jan 13 as the guilty ones. 
They also are accused of swindling Sheriff 
Frank Norfleet of Hale Center, Tex., out 
of $45,000 by a scheme similar to tho one 
on which Nee was the victim. They were 
arrested in California. 
Miji Cogic, Ellis Island’s oldest inhabi- 
January 24, 1H20 
taut, in point of sojourn, has at last de¬ 
parted for his home in Austria after five 
and one-half years’ involuntary stay at 
the immigration station. He arrived in 
this country August 3, 1914, on the 
steamship Martha Washington from 
Trieste, and was ordered deported on 
account of defective vision. Before he 
could get passage steamship service to 
Austria was interrupted and Cogic re¬ 
mained on Ellis Island until he sailed 
Jan. 10 on the President Wilson. His 
sustenance alone cost the Government. 
$2,04(5, according to the estimate of 
Superintendent Baker of the immigration 
station. Besides getting free board dur¬ 
ing his stay Cogic, who is both a tailor 
and a barber, received permission to ply 
both his trades. When he left the island 
he had accumulated $495 by his services 
for detained immigrants. 
WASHINGTON.—The annual Indian 
appropriation bill carrying $12,816,013, 
or $2,500,000 less than was appropriated 
last year, was passed Jan. 9 by the 
House. The appropriation of $75,000 for 
suppression of liquor traffic among In¬ 
dians, eliminated by the House in com¬ 
mittee of the whole, was retained. 
(’barges by relatives of American sol¬ 
diers buried in France that undertakers 
and others were attempting to conimer- 
cialize their grief in connection with the 
movement to have the bodies brought 
home, were presented to the Senate Jan. 
13 by Senator Thomas (Colorado). In 
the house a resolution was introduced by 
Representative Porter (Pa.), chairman 
of the Foreign Affairs Committee, direct¬ 
ing the President to have the bodies of 
tlie American soldier dead returned home. 
The committee has been holding hearings 
on the question. 
The House Jan. 13. by a vote of 183 
to 123, adopted the resolution of Repre¬ 
sentative Gallivan, of Massachusetts, 
calling upon Secretary of War Baker for 
complete information regarding the 
awards of (lie Distinguished Service 
Medals. Although the author of the reso¬ 
lution is a Democrat, most of the support 
for his resolution came from the Repub¬ 
lican side of the Chamber, and most of 
the Democrats voted against it. Its 
adoption was preceded by several hours 
of stormy debate in which Mr. Gallivan 
took the leading part, charging that the 
morale of the enlisted men in the army 
has been destroyed, that the officers are 
dissatisfied with selections for promotions, 
and that the General Staff has bungled 
the “entire military situation.” 
Appointment of a joint Congressional 
commission to investigate conditions in 
the Virgin Islands with regard to the 
necessity for early establishment of a 
civil government is provided for in a 
joint resolution passed Jan. 12 by the 
House and sent to the Senate. The com¬ 
mission would consist of three members 
of the Senate and three of the House. 
The government of the Virgin Islands is 
now vested in the Navy Department. 
Representative Bee (Texas) Jan. 13 
introduced a bill, endorsed by Postmaster- 
General Burleson, providing for a letter 
telegraph service under the supervision of 
(lie Post Office Department. Under the 
bill the Postmaster-General would be 
authorized to negotiate contracts with tho 
telegraph companies for the letter service. 
Representative Kitehin (North Caro¬ 
lina) also has prepared a similar meas¬ 
ure. which was drawn as an amendment 
to the post office bill now pending before 
the House. Both the Bee bill and tho 
Kitehin amendment would provide that 
the rate on the letters not exceed 30 cents 
for 100 words and that the rate fixed by 
the Post Office Department for the mes¬ 
sage be limited to the cost of the service. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Minne¬ 
sota State Horticultural Society offers 
$1,000 as a premium for a seedling apple 
tree “as hardy and prolific as the Duch¬ 
ess,” with fruit equal to “the Wealthy in 
size, quality and appearance, and that 
will keep as well as the Malinda.” The 
society also offers $100 for a new plum. 
Fund contributed liy J. H. Fiebing. Must 
he an attractive plum, equal to Surprise 
in quality, at least 1% inches in diam¬ 
eter, etc. Tree hardy, productive, an 
early and regular bearer. A. W. Lnthom, 
University Farm, St, Paul, Minn., is sec¬ 
retary. 
Agriculture at Columbia University 
The Department of Agriculture at 
Columbia University, New York, offers 
on the four Tuesdays of February a 
course on livestock feeding and manage¬ 
ment. Professor F. C. Minkler will con¬ 
duct the course. A course in poultry rais¬ 
ing will he given March 19 and 20, and 
March 20 and 27: Professors Benjamin, 
Kent and Botsford will conduct it. A 
course in farm machinery and tractors 
will be given by Professor II. W. Riley 
of Cornell University on April 2 and 3, 
April 9 and 10, and April 10 and 17. 
Long courses extending from February 
through to June and given once or twice 
a week are offered in field crops, soil 
management, farm management, fruit 
growing and vegetable raising. Inquiries 
regarding any of these courses may be 
made to the Secretary of Columbia Uni¬ 
versity or Professor O. S. Morgan. 
“Did Mayrne accept the college profes¬ 
sor?” “No, she wanted an automobile 
and a diamond necklace, so she married 
the skilled day laborer.”—Baltimore 
American. 
