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In this part of the country farming is 
not being engaged in as it should be. The 
majority of the farms are owned by 
people who make the Summer boarding 
business their chief aim. Very little grain 
raised; native hay cut. every year, with 
very little new seeding. No produce of 
any amount raised for market. Potatoes 
are raised by a number of farmers, but 
not in large quantities. The farmers sell 
their milk after the season and during 
the Winter to the local creamery. I grow 
vegetables and small fruits; have three 
cows, hut do not sell milk, as I prefer to 
make butter (sweet) and feed skim-milk 
and buttermilk to pigs and chickens. Eggs, 
THe; butter, 75c lb. Potatoes, $2.25 for 
00 lbs. This is a good, healthy part of the 
State, and in times past lias been good 
farming land. Now the land lies idle, 
practically, in many places. Crops were 
bad last year on account of rain. Farmers 
buy feed from the grain dealers for follow¬ 
ing prices : Middlings. $2.05 ; bran, $2.45; 
horse feed, $3; oats, $2.40; cracked corn, 
$3.15. I. L. w. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
Corn, $1.30 wheat, $2.00; oats, $1.05; 
rye, $1.80; tobacco, 10 to 18c per lb.; 
potatoes, $2 ; hay, $28 to $30 per ton; 
hogs, 18 to 20c per lb.; calves, 17 to 18c 
per lb.; chickens, 25 to 27c; eggs, 75c; 
butter, 70 to 75c. These are about the 
leading farm products in our section. Soil 
is sandy and gravelly mostly in this sec¬ 
tion. Farmers can obtain good results 
from their farms provided there is enough 
rainfall. *'• K - 
Lebanon Co., Pa. 
January 31 finds the mercury 12° be¬ 
low zero;’ we had a lot of cypher weather 
that month. The ice men are a happy 
lot, as a large crop has been secured. 
The roads are badly blocked with snow, 
making it very hard for the mail routes; 
some do not make them. Congress would 
better lengthen them out again. Stock 
of all kinds doing well, with hearty appe¬ 
tites. Wheat, $2.50; oats, 90c; barley, 
$1.50; corn, $2; red beans. $12 per cwt.; 
pea beans, ..0; bran, $2.50 per cwt.; hay, 
$25 per ton ; Alfalfa hay. $32; pork, 14c.; 
veal. 20e; beef, 12 to 15e; lambs, 17c; 
fowls, 25c per lb.; butter, GOc; eggs, 60c; 
potatoes,. $2.30 per bu. E. T. B, 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
Onions, per bu., $1.50; potatoes, 00 
lbs., $1.75; oats, per bu., 90e; rye, 00 
lbs., $1.00; corn, per bu., $1.50; pressed 
hay, per ton. $22 to $24, according to 
per ton, $10; apples, 
according to quality; 
per 100 lbs., $3.68; 
75e; butter, per Hi., 
25c. The potato 
was medium crop. 
rye 
$5 
straw, 
to $8, 
quality 
per bbl., 
milk, 3 per cent, 
fresh eggs, per doz. 
70c; honey, per lb., 
crop was poor and hay 
Oats and rye vehy light. 
K. I., l*. 
Events of the Week 
DOMESTIC.—Benjamin Oitlow, cloth¬ 
ing cutter, one-time Socialist Assembly- 
“1 
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man and more recently business agent 
for The Revolutionary Ayr, a radical jour¬ 
nal, was found guilty of criminal anrachy 
Feb. 5 in the Criminal Courts Build¬ 
ing. New York. Ilis conviction carries 
with it a maximum sentence of ten years’ 
imprisonment. This is the second ease in 
which convictions under the anarchy stat¬ 
utes, passed here following the McKinley 
assassination, have been obtained. 
Damage estimated at more than $500,- 
000 was done by wind and high tides Feb. 
5 at, Ocean View and Willoughby, Vn. 
Officials of the Louisville & Nashville 
and Illinois Central railroads were noti¬ 
fied Feb. 0 after a meeting of Dock Board 
members and representatives of local com¬ 
mercial exchanges that unless work was 
started within 48 hours on ratproofing 
freight terminals on the river front at 
New Orleans use of the buildings would 
not be permitted and steps would be taken 
toward their destruction. The action was 
taken in connection with the campaign to 
prevent a recurrence of the bubonic 
plague. Finns also were discussed for 
socking a State loan of $3,000,000 to rut- 
proof every river front wharf. 
Twenty-five persons, mostly women, 
were burned to death at San Francisco 
Feb. 9 when fire swept through the fash¬ 
ionable six-story Berkshire Hotel. Thirty 
persons were injured by jumping from 
fire-escapes and by burns. The entire 
fire-fighting force of the City of San Fran¬ 
cisco was called to quell t lie blaze. The 
origin of the blaze, which started in a 
hallway on the third floor, is undeter¬ 
mined. 
The British steamer Bradboyne, from 
New York for Cherbourg, is believed to 
have foundered in mid-Atlantic and some 
loss of life is feared, according to mes¬ 
sages received at Halifax Feb. 8. The 
British steamer Oxonian, from New Or¬ 
leans for Liverpool, reported that she had 
rescued 23 of tin* crew, and the British 
steamer Monmouth reported picking up 
two others. 
Fire, starting in the walls of the man¬ 
sion recently purchased by Walter C. Tea* 
gle, president of tin* Standard, f til Com¬ 
pany of New Jersey, at (Ireenwieh. Conn., 
destroyed the building and all its furnish¬ 
ings Felt. 10. The loss is placed at more 
than half a million dollars. 
Four men were killed and 18 persons, 
including a woman, were wounded when 
State troops fired on a mob which was 
storming the Court House at Lexington, 
Ky., Feb. 10 to take out William Lockett, 
a negro, and lynch him. Lockett had con¬ 
fessed to attacking and murdering Geneva 
Hardman, a ten-year-old schoolgirl. 
WASHINGTON.—Secretary Lane of 
the Department of the Interior announced 
that soldiers, sailors and marines who 
served in the world war will have prior 
rights of entry on the vast North Platt* 
and Shoshone irrigation projects in Wy¬ 
oming. which will be opened next month. 
While denying that it had fixed a price 
of 17 cents for Isiuisiana plantation sugar, 
the Department of Justice has informed 
the House that prosecutions based upon 
a contention that prices lower than 17 
cents were “excessive” under tlie Iswer 
law would be ineffectual and unsuccess¬ 
ful. It was explained that the Louisiana 
crop was only 40 per cent of normal and 
that there was a general shortage of sugar 
in the open market. Mr. Palmer urged 
the United States Attorney at New Or¬ 
leans to demand that contracts between 
sugar dealers for prices higher than 17 
cents a pound for yellow clarified and 18 
cents for plantation granulated sugars lie 
abrogated. 
The gross waste of print paper through 
the exploitation of political and other 
propaganda in public documents, circu¬ 
lated by millions, was attacked Feb. 5 in 
the Senate by Senator Reed Smoot of 
Utah. Senator Smoot brought up the 
subject during a discussion of the desired 
readjustment of the wood pulp restric¬ 
tions of Canada. Senator Underwood had 
introduced a resolution calling for the 
creation of a commission to negotiate with 
Canada and if necessary with her several 
provincial governments. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Friends of 
free seed won their annual tight in the 
House Feb. 9 by defeating, 130 to 71, a 
motion to eliminate from the agricultural 
bill jiii appropriation of $239,000 for seed 
distribution to their constitutents at Gov¬ 
ernment expense. 
Investigation of the extent to which 
Federal Reserve banks have withdrawn 
loans on grain held in storage was ordered 
Feb. 9 by the Senate. Chairman Gronna 
of the Agricultural committee, who pro¬ 
posed the inquiry, said the curtailing of 
credit by the banks had resulted in an 
artificial depression of the price of grain. 
He charged that “a situation was being 
forced to move grain from the hands of 
the farmer and country elevators into the 
larger centers.” Federal Reserve Board 
officials said that there had been no order 
to withdraw credits on grain or other ne¬ 
cessities. In other quarters, however, it 
was said that the recent raising of the re¬ 
discount rates at Federal Reserve centers 
would have the effect of curtailing credits 
generally. It was explained that the in¬ 
creased rates would result in a readjust¬ 
ment by the banks of the amounts of 
credits to their customers, and that such 
a readjustment: necessarily would affect 
customers who had borrowed on necessi¬ 
ties held in storage. The increased total 
of interest on their loans also was ex¬ 
pected to curtail the amount of loans cus¬ 
tomers would lie able to carry, it was said. 
With these general reductions in credits it: 
was expected that large quantities of 
goods now in storage on which funds have 
been borrowed would have to be placed on 
the market. Some officials said a reduc¬ 
tion in costs of commodities thus forced 
on tin* market was to be expected. Sena¬ 
tor Gronna introduced another resolution 
authorizing the Agricultural committee to 
investigate the railroad freight car short¬ 
age and also “the reported wilful interfer¬ 
ence with successful operation of railroads 
under government control by certain of¬ 
ficials of the United States Railroad Ad¬ 
ministration.” 
George Livingston has been appointed 
chief of the Bureau of Markets, United 
States Department of Agriculture. lie 
succeeds Charles J. Brand and lias been 
acting chief of the bureau since Mr. 
Brand resigned last July. Mr. Living¬ 
ston is u native of Ohio. He was edu¬ 
cated at Ohio State University, Cornell 
and the University of Halle. He was in¬ 
structor in farm crops. Iowa State College 
of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, in 
1909 and 1910, and taught agronomy in 
Ohio State University from 1911 to 1915. 
During 1914 and 1915 he was acting chief 
of the Department of Agronomy and at 
the same time was associate agronomist 
of the Ohio Agricultural Experimental 
Station. He came to the United States 
Department of Agriculture in 1915 im as¬ 
sistant marketing inspector. In 1910 he 
was made specialist in grain marketing. 
He held that position until he was made 
acting chief. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Winter Course State School of Agricul¬ 
ture, Cobleskill, Jan. 5-Fob. 27. 
Winter Courses, Ohio State College, 
Columbus, Jan. 5-Fob. 27. 
Farm and Home Week, New York State 
School of Agriculture. Alfred University, 
Alfred. N. Y.. Feb. 18-20. 
Somerset-IIunterdon County Holstein 
Breeders’ Association consignment sale. 
New Jersey Agricultural College, New 
Brunswick, N. J., March 19. 
