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The Master Spray 
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SULPHUR-FISH OIL-CARBOLIC-COMPOUND 
VOLCANO BRAND 
CHARLES FREMK5 FORMULA'AND PROCESS 
A COMBINED CONTACT INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE 
OF KNOWN RELIABILITY 
For the Control of: 
San Jose Scale; Red Orange Scale; Cottony 
Cushion Scale; Oyster Shell Scale; Aphis, 
Thrips; Pear Psylla, Whitefly; Rust Mite of 
Citrus Fruits; Hangover Fungus Spores of the 
Brown or Ripe Rot of Peach, Plum and other 
Stone Fruits; Peach Leaf Curl; Apple and Pear 
Scabs, and Apple Canker and Anthracnose. 
SULCO-V. B. 
Has that Carbolic Punch that scale insects, 
plant lice (Aphis, Psylla, Thrips, etc.), deathly 
fear, and gives off a clean, refreshing, healthful 
odor in the orchard. 
From Your Dealer or Direct — Go to Your Dealer First. 
Send for our booklet. It tells a complete story of Sulco-V. B. 
ADDRESS 
Cook & swan Co., Inc. 
(ESTABLISHED 1862) 
SULCO-DEPT. R—148 Front St, New York, N.Y.,U.S.A. 
BOSTON OFFICE—141 Milk St., GEO. H. FRAZIER, Mgr. 
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is a prime essential. Time is such an important element that 
costly delays cannot be countenanced. 
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service on spraying outfits for many years. They are famous 
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R. E. OLDS, Chairman 
L Lansing Michigan 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTT' —Window washers in 
Chicago went on strike recently, demand¬ 
ing $4S a week for experienced washers 
who work on extension ladders and $44 
a week for apprentices—men who have 
served less than six months in the busi¬ 
ness. The washers demand pay for forty- 
four hours a week, regardless of whether 
or not work is done. 
Captain Harry S. Hogy, of Bridgeport. 
Conn., and two civilians, Charles A. 
Wirtb, of Bridgeport, and Daniel D. 
Garner, of Detroit, were arrested Jan. 
29 on a charge of conspiring to defraud 
the United States Government by mis¬ 
appropriating Liberty engines at the Lo¬ 
comobile plant in Bridgeport and selling 
them for their own profit. It' is alleged 
that the men conspired to obtain half a 
dozen Liberty motors which were not 
charged to any officer’s account. The 
scheme Started in July, and in August the 
motors had been disposed of. The en¬ 
gines were valued at about $15,000 for 
the six. Finding the engines had dis¬ 
appeared from stock, military intelligence 
agents traced them. 
George Graham Bice, broker and pro¬ 
motor. whose real name is Simon Jacob 
Ilerzig. was sentenced to three years’ im¬ 
prisonment in Sing Sing Jan. 29. Judge 
Malone pronounced sentence in General 
Sessions, New York City, where Rice was 
found guilty of grand larceny. The in¬ 
dictment on which Rice was tried charged 
him with the theft of $721 from R. W. 
Hartman, of Mansfield. Ohio, in January, 
1918. It was charged that he kept this 
money, which Hartman said he had sent 
the broker for the purchase of stock. 
The Pearson hill giving to the State 
Public I T tilities Commission the power to 
fix rates of fare for steam and interurban 
railroads at a rate not exceeding three 
cents a mile, was passed by the Ohio 
State Senate tonight by a vote of 25 to 
1. The House had passed the hill the 
day before. The action means that Ohio 
railroads and iuterurbans may charge 
three cents a mile after the roads are re¬ 
turned to private ownership. 
Fire in the St. Elmo block, Goshen. N. 
Y.. Feb. 1, destroyed the plant of the 
Goshen Democrat and several other busi¬ 
ness concerns; damage $100,000. 
Pitch soon is to be extracted from Ore¬ 
gon firs in an effort to restock the coun¬ 
try’s waning supply of turpentine. A 
permit, the first of its kind, has just been 
issued by the district forester to allow 
the extraction of pitch from Douglas 
fir timber on 100 acres near Disston in 
the Umpqua national forest. 
More than $1,000,000 worth of statues, 
paintings and art treasures by the fore¬ 
most living American artists were burned 
Jan. 30. in a fire which destroyed the 
Fifty-eighth Street Annex of the Amer¬ 
ican Federation of Fine Arts Building. 
215 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York 
City. Of the total damage, which is 
said to exceed $1,500,000. only that done 
to the building is covered by insurance, 
and the loss of the art works which it 
contained will be borne for tlm most 
part by the artists by whom they were 
executed and to whom they belonged. 
Seven persons lost their lives and prop¬ 
erty damage estimated at more than 
$200,000 was caused Feb. 1, by five fires 
in Manhattan, Brooklyn. Yonkers, N. Y r . 
and Hoboken and Newark. N. J. Most 
of the fires occurred while the thermo¬ 
meter registered zero or below, and more 
than a hundred families were forced into 
the streets, while the firemen had great 
difficulty in fighting the flames owing to 
the intense cold, which frose the water 
as it came from the nozzles of the hose. 
All of the mortalities occurred in the 
fire in Newark, in which six persons were 
suffocated and a woman burned to death, 
and more than a score of men, women 
and children were compelled to run from 
their apartments to the homes of neigh¬ 
bors with the thermometer 2 degrees be¬ 
low zero. 
WASHINGTON.—The new indepen¬ 
dent air department bill suffered its first 
serious alteration in the Senate Jan. 29. 
when the proposal to make the director 
of the service a Cabinet officer was elim¬ 
inated on the motion of Senator Smoot. 
Republican, of Utah. A second amend¬ 
ment by the Utah Senator .reducing the 
director’s salary from $12,000 to $8,000 
a year, failed of action for lack of a 
quorum. Sharp opposition to the hill 
developed during the debate. Senator 
Borah, Republican, of Idaho, contended it 
would foster red tape, while Chairman 
Wadsworth, of the Military Committee, 
which reported the measure, argued that 
it would increase efficiency and cut ex¬ 
penditure from $50,000,000 to $00,000,000 
a year on the separate air services. 
Arthur B. Spingarn. of Now York, 
representing the National Association for 
the Advancement of Colored People, in a 
statement to the House Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee Jan. 29. urged that in event the 
Dyer bill, making lynchings a Federal 
offense was held unconstitutional, the 
Constitution be amended. The commit¬ 
tee is investigating the question of lyneh- 
iugs throughout the country and has be¬ 
fore it a bill offered by Representative 
Dyer, of Missouri, to make lynchings a 
crime punishable by Federal laws. 
Secret Service agents of the Treasury 
Department are looking forward to whole¬ 
sale arrests in various parts of the 
country in connection with efforts being 
February 14, 1920 
made to break up an organized and frau¬ 
dulent traffic in War Savings Stamps. Al¬ 
ready raids have been made in half a 
dozen cities, including New York, Phila¬ 
delphia, Baltimore. St. Louis, Kansas 
City and Springfield, Ill., where indict¬ 
ments have been sought against various 
“brokerage houses” alleged to be dealing 
in these securities. Hundreds of thou¬ 
sands of dollars worth of stamps said 
to have been stolen and sold to brokers 
have been recovered. According to the 
Treasury officials, the traffic in stolen war 
savings Stamps has all the aspects of an 
organized effort to defraud the govern¬ 
ment, and in connection with the arrests 
that already have been made vigorous 
legal efforts have been made to prevent 
convictions. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Lavender’s 
Lord, known as the “President’s bull,” 
because he was purchased by Mr. Wilson 
and presented to the Red Cross to be auc¬ 
tioned in a campaign drive, brought the 
top price at Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 30, 
at the Southern Cattlemen’s Association 
sale. He was purchased for $10,000 by 
Robert Jemison. Jr., of Birmingham, one 
of the group which bought him at tlic 
Red Cross sale. 
At the last annual meeting of the 
Dairymen’s and Sugar Maker’s Associa¬ 
tion, held at Burlington, Vt., on Jan. 13, 
14 and 15. the Maple Sugar Makers 
elected nearly a new set of officers for the 
coming year. C. A. Badger, East Mont¬ 
pelier, Vt., a successful farmer and sugar 
maker, was elected president, and M. J. 
Corliss, Berlin, Vt., also a progressive 
farmer and sugar maker, was chosen 
secretary. Both Mr. Badger and Mr. 
Corliss have been ardent workers for and 
supporters of the Washington County 
Farm Bureau and Farmers’ Exchange. 
The former served as president of the 
Farm Bureau for two years, and also 
acted as secretary of the Vermont Fai*- 
mers’ War Council during the war. The 
latter has served as secretary of both the 
Farm Bureau and the Farmers Exchange 
since those organizations were formed. 
He also is well known in Vermont be¬ 
cause of his activities in Grange work. 
The other members of the executive com¬ 
mittee are all able men and sugar makers 
of Vermont. 
Among the many good things held dur¬ 
ing the Farmers’ Week at Hartford, 
Conn., was the Annual Meeting of the 
Connecticut Guernsey Breeders’ Associa¬ 
tion, Feb. 11. There were some excellent 
speeches as well as the regular business 
of the meeting. 
Farm and Home Week will he held at 
the New York State School of Agricul¬ 
ture. Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y., 
Feb. 18. 
Coupling his automobile with a grind¬ 
stone to get quicker results. Jesse Steel¬ 
man. 53 years old, a wealthy farmer of 
Seullville, N. ,T.. started the engine and 
commenced sharpening an axe. _ There 
was a crash, the grindstone split and 
pieces were shot through the sides of the 
garage. One large section struck Steel¬ 
man at the neck, completely beheading 
him. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Winter Course State School of Agri¬ 
culture, Cobleskill, Jan. 5-Feb. 27. 
Winter Courses. Ohio State College, 
Columbus, Jan. 5-Feb. 27. 
Connecticut Farmers’ Week, agricul¬ 
tural and industrial exhibit, State Ar¬ 
mory, Hartford, Feb. 9-14. 
Farmers’ Week. New York State Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 
9-13. 
New York State Potato Association, 
annual meeting. College of Agriculture, 
Ithaca, N. Y„ Feb. 10-11. 
Connecticut Bornological Society, an¬ 
nual meeting. Hartford, Feb. 12-13. 
Farm and Home week. New York State 
School of Agriculture. Alfred University, 
Alfred. N. Y.. Feb. 18-20. 
Farmers’ Week. Maine College of Agri¬ 
culture, Orono, March 22-26. 
Barks for Home Dyeing 
On page I860 is a short letter upon this 
topic in which mention of the butternut 
bark and shucks is made However, I am 
inclined to think that cloth dyed by the 
process described would soon fade. Pos¬ 
sibly boiling in an old iron kettle, as sug¬ 
gested, might so set the color as to prevent 
this, but I can remember when home dye¬ 
ing with various barks was extensively 
practiced, and either copperas or blue 
vitriol was used as a mordant. Some¬ 
times, however, little bits of cast iron 
were soaked in strong vinegar for a year 
or more and the liquor was used instead. 
My memory of the exact processes is 
somewhat indistinct, but butternut bark 
gave a rather dark brown, and aUrr bark 
a much lighter, almost yellow, color. 
White ash gave a gray, striped osier a 
greet, striped or mountain maple a pur¬ 
ple, and white maple a black color. To 
the last a little maple syrup was added 
to give it body and perhaps adhesiveness, 
and the liquid was used for ink. Records 
of tliis town, written more than 125 years 
ago in ink of this kind, and with a pen 
made of a goose quill, are still plainly 
legible, and bid fair to remain so for an¬ 
other century. C. o. ormsbee. 
Beobhs ; “Say what you will of Rjones, 
he lias a lot of good in him.” Slobbs; 
“Perhaps; but it’s a good bit like con¬ 
sulting a reference book without an in¬ 
dex.”—Philadelphia Record. 
