The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
651 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—An indictment charging 
conspiracy in violation of the Lever fuel 
control act and the Federal criminal code, 
naming 125 coal operators and miners as 
defendants, was returned March 11 at In¬ 
dianapolis by a Federal Grand Jury, which 
has been investigating the coal industry 
since Dec. 17, 1019. Bond was fixed by 
United States District Judge A. B. An¬ 
derson at $10,000 in some of the cases 
and at $5,000 in others. The defendants 
will be arraigned May 4. Names of those 
indicted will not be made public until 
they are arrested. It is understood many 
of the violations charged have no connec¬ 
tion with the strike of bituminous miners, 
but occurred prior to the signing of the 
armistice. The indictment, which has IS 
counts, charges in general that miners and 
operators conspired to enhance the price 
of necessaries by restricting distribution, 
limiting manufacture and by other means, 
and by conspiring to commit offences 
against the United States as designed in 
the criminal code. The penalty on con¬ 
viction is a fine not exceeding $10,000, 
imprisonment for not more than two 
years, or both fine and imprisonment. 
Eleven persons were killed and many 
iniured in a tornado which struck Melva, 
Taney County, Mo., March 11. Three 
men were killed at Nevada, Mo., the 
tornado destroying part of a three-story 
building occupied by the Bank of Nevada, 
and blowing out windows in the court¬ 
house. The tornado lasted only five min¬ 
utes. 
Bandits blew two safes in the Weight- 
man Building, Philadelphia, March 12, 
and escaped with bonds and securities 
valued at $420,000. of which about $120.- 
000 worth are negotiable. From the safe 
in the office of the Ocean County Electric 
Company, on the seventh floor, the ban¬ 
dits stole $808,000 worth of six per cent 
gold bonds, and from the offices of the 
Hydro Electric Finance Corporation they 
obtained' $112,000 of the company’s six 
per cent gold bonds. 
The American Railway Express Com¬ 
pany will inaugurate an air express serv¬ 
ice between New York and Chicago as 
soon as an operating corporation can be 
formed. R. E. M. Cowie, vice-president 
of the company, declared March 12 in an 
address at the National Aircraft Show 
in New York. 
Confiscation of coal by the Railroad 
Administration and the fixing of prices 
at which coal may be sold by the Govern¬ 
ment is held to be legal, in an opinion 
rendered at Cincinnati, O.. March 13. to 
the Smokeless Coal Operators’ Associa¬ 
tion through A. Julius Freiberg of this 
city, their attorney, by former President 
William Howard Taft. For some time 
coal operators of West Virginia have re¬ 
belled against the indiscriminate seizing 
of coal by railroads and the regional 
boards. Protests have been sent to Wash¬ 
ington by operators and coal dealers from 
the Middle West. 
Representatives of the Attorney-Gen- 
o'-al’s office came to New York from 
Washington March 15 to interrogate Ed¬ 
ward 8. Kenny, otherwise known as E. 
8. Maloney, formerly chief traffic regu¬ 
lator of the United States Shipping 
Board, in connection with the Attorney- 
General’s investigation into alleged tim¬ 
ber resale frauds. Kenny, or Maloney, 
who is in the Bellevue Hospital prison 
ward on charges connected with using the 
mails to defraud, was questioned about a 
transaction in which, it is said, one con¬ 
cern was to pay $8,900,000 for timber 
worth fully three times that amount The 
shipping board had classified the timber 
as “third class.” whereas it was actually 
“first class,” according to the investiga¬ 
tors. Kenny obtained his position just 
after completing a five years jail term in 
Detroit. He is held here on indictments, 
one of which charges that he tried to 
swindle physicians by offering for sale 
for $100 each certain automobiles which 
he represented as Government cars pro¬ 
cured by him when the war ended. 
OBIT IT A R Y.—Frederick William 
Bruggerhoff, president of the seed firm of 
J. M. Thorburn & Co., died in New York 
March S, aged 90 years. Mr. Bruggerhoff 
had been a man of note in the American 
seed trade for many years. The firm of 
J. M. Thorburn & Co. was incorporated 
in 1S95 with him as its president: pre¬ 
viously he had been connected with the 
business and associated in his earlier days 
with .T. M. Thorburn for over 50 years. 
Right up to the time of his death he 
remained active in the business and was 
conversant with everything that was go¬ 
ing on. The Thorburn & Co. business 
has been running in this city since 1802. 
Mr. Bruggerhoff was president of the 
V holesale Seedsmen’s League from the 
time of its incorporation until about a 
year ago, when he resigned. IIis wife 
died some years ago. He leaves one sou, 
Edward, and four daughters. 
When Snow Tied Up the Cars 
The last week in December, 1919, in 
the Genesee Valley saw both city and 
county alive with the ever-increasing 
truck and automobile, which have come 
to be rightly recognized as an economic 
necessity. January, 1920. inaugurated a 
decided and unexpected change. Nature 
apparently touched the button as a signal 
for the temporary retiring of all of this 
method of travel and transportation. The 
autos and trucks disappeared as if by 
magic, and after a few days of indecision 
it was discovered that there were stowed 
away in all sorts of out-of-the-way places 
enough sleighs and cutters to keep things 
moving still. By one stroke of Nature 
the country was placed under conditions 
existing before the advent of the truck 
and auto, and we seem to be getting along 
pretty well under these healthy conditions. 
When things get to moving too rapidly 
it is a good thing to have something like 
this occur to call a halt and give us an 
opportunity to takfe note of where we are 
at, and great as man is and wonderful as 
is the world’s progress, we still learn 
that there are forces of Nature to be 
reckoned with. There has been strong 
talk of keeping the main roads through 
the county open to auto and truck travel 
through the Winter months. Some Win¬ 
ters this could possibly be done, but in 
such a Winter as the present this is en¬ 
tirely out of the question. Results could 
not possibly warrant the expense, and 
again this halt and change in conditions 
is good for what ails us as a nation. We 
are going pretty fast. We have been 
told that horses were in light demand, 
especially the lighter class, around 1,100 
to 1.200 lbs., and only the heavier class 
would be sought. Present conditions in 
both farm and road work show that there 
is still a large place for the horse in our 
country conditions. Horses of the lighter 
class are selling here this Spring at auc¬ 
tion around $200—more often above this 
figure—while good heavy stock readily 
brings $300. The good old practice of 
raising a few colts each year has been 
discontinued, and stocks have become 
greatly reduced. The advice of the good 
business man not to give up your present 
job until you are sure of a better position 
is sound. We do not dare give up the 
horse or even the old sleigh or cutter un¬ 
til we are sure that there is something 
that will take its place under all con¬ 
ditions. While the present severe Win¬ 
ter with its heavy snowfall has been a 
source of a great deal of discomfort and 
some loss, upon the whole, if we accept 
it right, it has proved a lesson of value. 
It will teach us to more often practice 
that railroad injunction “Stop, look and 
listen.” ii. e. cox. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MARCH 27, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
A Practical Market . 624 
Day’s Work of a Retired Farmer. 628 
Final Results of the Farm Referendum.641 
The Agricultural Legislative Situation at 
Albany . 641 
Financing the Potato Growers. 641 
A Fair Statement of Farm Conditions.641 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Small Dairy and Milk Distribution. 641 
National Bee Men Meet. 649 
Feeding Brood Sows. 650 
Feed for Pigs.... 650 
Self-feeders for Hogs. 650 
Live Stock Management on Small Place.652, 653. 
Improving a Faulty Ration. 653 
Pasture and Barn Notes.. 656 
The Ox Team for Eastern Farm. 656 
Cream Does Not Churn. 656 
Corn for the Silo. 656 
Ration for Calf. 658 
Rye for Sheep. 658 
Milk Refrigeration: Ration for Holsteins... 658 
.THE HENYARD 
Egg-laying Contest . 663 
Utility of Droppings Board. 663 
Shutting Off the Rooster’s Crow. 664 
HORTICULTURE 
Planting the Home Grounds—Part III.624 
The Hahto Soy Bean as a Lima Substitute.. 624 
Pruning of Top-worked Trees.627 
Blue Hydrangeas . 627 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Problem of Rural Recreation. 626 
Co-operative Food Buying. 630 
Another “Plain Farm Woma’>”. 630 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks.632, 634 
An Appeal for a School. 634 
Care of Breeding Canaries. 634 
Using the Maple Sweets. 636 
Ice Cream Candy. 636 
Cocoanut Jumbles . 636 
Poor Man’s Cake. 636 
Boys and Girls.642, 643 
A Roadside Tea Room. 644 
“Stranger Than Fiction”. 644 
An Ohio Woman’s Adopted Children.... 644 
What Are Women Expected To Do?. 644 
The Home Dressmaker . 646 
Coffee from Old Shoes. 647 
Women and Overal’s. 647 
Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman.660, 661 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The Vitamines in Our Green Victuals—. 
Part 1.623, 624 
Maple Sugar Making—Part V. 625 
Preventing Frosted Windows. 659 
Gilding with Gold Powder. 659 
Removing Dents from Piano. 659 
Treatment of Frozen Vegetables. 659 
Preserving Fish Scrap. 659 
Refrigeration Without Ice.'.. 659 
Making Wood Alcohol. 659 
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