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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—March 28 disastrous 
tornadoes passed over sections of Illinois, 
Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, Wisconsin 
and Missouri. The total death list in the 
six States i« put at 1SI, about 2,000 are 
injured, and the property loss is enor¬ 
mous. In Illinois estimates place the 
loss as high as .$20,000,000; Elgin, Mel¬ 
rose Park and Joliet suffered severely, 
lire following the tornado in many cases 
among the wreckage. Property loss in 
Atlanta, Macon and Washington, Ga., 
and West Point, Ala., was large. 
The steel bridge spanning the Connecti¬ 
cut ltiver at Brattleboro, Vt., was swept 
away by ice and the swift current March 
28, varying with it Cornelius Flanagan, 
75 years old, who was crossing to his 
home. The structure was about 200 ft. 
long and connected the town with an 
island. 
Burglars are believed to have started 
a blaze in the Fidelity Warehouse Com¬ 
pany building. 288 to 200 South street, 
New York, March 28, destroying $250,- 
000.worth of spices, herbs and coffee and 
sending forth thick clouds of acrid smoke 
which hampered the firemen and made 
sleeping impossible in the surrounding 
neighbohcod. 
Frank R. Bartlette, cashier of the Col¬ 
onial State Bank, Newport News, Va., 
which closed its doors last month, was in¬ 
dicted March 30 by a State Court grand 
jury on the charge of the theft of $190,- 
420 from the institution. 
The speed record for air mail service 
between Cleveland and Chicago was 
broken March 30 when Pilot Jgmes II. 
Knight covered the 340 miles to Cleve¬ 
land in two hours and 10 minutes, an 
average speed of 157 miles an hour. The 
previous record, two hours and 12 min¬ 
utes, also held by Knight, was made sev¬ 
eral weeks ago. 
Grover Cleveland Bcrgdoll of Philadel¬ 
phia, the young millionaire who fled from 
the draft, and was the object of a long 
search by the Federal authorities, was 
found guilty by a military tribunal March 
29 and sentenced to five years in a mili¬ 
tary prison. Grover Cleveland Bcrgdoll 
fled from Philadelphia in 1918, after fail¬ 
ing to report for physical examination be¬ 
fore his draft board and failing to re¬ 
turn his questionnaire, lie drew $00,000 
from a Philadelphia bank and spent more 
than a year touring the country in a high- 
powered automobile, lie also took a brief 
sojourn in the tropics. Grover Bergdoll’s 
brother, Edwin, sought on a charge sim¬ 
ilar to that on which Grover was convict¬ 
ed, is said to be a fugitive in Mexico. 
Plans to affiliate all organized labor of 
New York City and State, and all other 
victims of “rent, hogs,” in a gigantic com¬ 
bination to light: profiteering landlords arc 
being drafted as a result of the coalition 
of Jewish labor, social, fraternal and 
other bodies in the Jewish Tenants’ De¬ 
fense League. A general strike of rent¬ 
ers will he invoked as a last resort. The 
campaign calls for 1.000,000 members in 
the city, the organization of a State¬ 
wide movement on similar lines and di¬ 
rect co-operation with the Ceneral Feder¬ 
ated Union and the State Federation of 
Labor. 
Chicago bankers will lend $100,000,000 
during 1920 to home builders in an effort j 
to end the housing shortage, it was an- j 
nounced March 30. Part, of the fund will | 
be made available immediately to enable ; 
victims of the tornado to rebuild their 
homes, the announcement said. 
FARM AND' GARDEN.—Sportsmen 
and game commissioners joined at Albany 
March 24 in urging conservation commit¬ 
tees of the New York Senate and Assem¬ 
bly to repeal last, year’s deer law and re- I 
store the buck law. open the season two ! 
Weeks later and limit the hag to one ] 
buck. More than 20.000 bucks and does | 
were slaughtered last year and preserves 
were, almost exhausted by reason of the 
existing door law. it was contended. ! 
(icorge D. Pratt. Conservation Oommis- j 
sioner, asserted, that the present law also ! 
increases hunting accidents, nine men I 
having been killed and seven wounded last 
j! a 'h V r . Augustus S. Downing of the 
•Mate Educational Department, told the 
committee that "the present law is a 
enme against the door." William B. 
Greeley of the Camp Fire Club and others 
also asked for the repeal of last year’s 
aw and restoration of the bag limit, as 
well as shortening of the season. 
.1 lie horse will be practically banished 
‘' om i Denver’s streets on January 1, 1925, 
it a bill introduced at the March 30 meet¬ 
ing of the council becomes a law. The 
oi (finance provides no horses, cattle, sheep 
eba A b<> ko I vt " ithin the cori*o- 
‘ f hunts of Dcvner, or ridden upon the 
main streets. 
Mil .r. h 30 from El Centro, Cal., 
elfiicr f * at ? n \lions (if army worms, trav- 
V .u to f ' var<1 the green fields of Imperial 
wMl 'll., 01 ? tho , desert west of Dixieland. 
... 1 l 11 "! fought by ranchers, who 
hridiru ,nt ‘P ar iug to place poison on the 
irrigation ditches to pre- 
ivorms' 0 ,,!! 117 ," tlu ; worms. Where the 
deseri , amo h-oni is not known. The 
over u, 1 **. repor ^ covered with them 
Th<>v 11<a several square miles. 
the vaVlev U>VI \vi t0 tb °K l ' owi ng crops of 
crossed i )\ b * re the worms have 
as on 1 lms .7 hlKhwavs automobiles skid 
, a greasy pavement. 
81UNGTON. —An investigation of 
the beet sugar manufacturing industry in 
Colorado and neighboring territory lias 
been ordered by Attorney General Palmer. 
Complaint that the sugar manufacturing 
companies were getting exorbitant profits 
was made by certain of the sugar grow¬ 
ers in this region. On their representa¬ 
tions the Federal District Attorney at 
Denver has been instructed to make a 
searching inquiry. It was indicated 
March 26 at the Department of Justice 
that similar action may be taken with 
respect to other manufacturers of food 
products. 
Without a roll call and with little dis¬ 
cussion the Senate March 21! sustained 
its Committee on Agriculture in striking 
out of the agricultural appropriation bill 
$239,411! for free seed distribution. The 
item had been included by the House, and 
it was expected the Semite would have a 
sharp fight over it. Instead, Senators 
Gronna (N. I).), Kenyon (Iowa), and 
Thomas (Col.), spoke briefly lmt vigor¬ 
ously in favor of discon tilling the appro¬ 
priation and on a viva voce vote it was 
left out. 
Efforts are being made by the ear ser¬ 
vice section of the American Railway As- 
. sociatiou to return to home lines the 
, freight cars of the country which under 
) Federal control were scattered on foreign 
lines wherever they were needed. W. C. 
Kendall, chairman of the commission, 
: announced March 30 a drive to increase 
: bituminous coal production through re¬ 
turn of the cars to the mines as rapidly 
as possible and to expedite the shipments 
of coal through the lake ports and the iv- 
turn <>f on i through these ports by getting 
back to ihe home lines serving these ports 
all of tin 1 dump equipment possible. At 
present it is stated only about 25 per cent 
of the freight cars of the country are on 
home lines and that the oilier 75 per cent 
is scattered about the United States on 
foreign lines. The railroads are making 
■every effort to recover this equipment, 
and under car service rules now estab¬ 
lished ears on foreign lines must be paid 
for at the rate of 90 cents a day, the high¬ 
est rate ever exacted. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
New Jersey Beekeepers’ Association, 
demonstration field meeting, White Horse, 
N. .T.. April 10. 
Foresters’ Week, Syracuse,. N. Y., 
April 12-19. 
Annual meeting of the National Ayr¬ 
shire Breeders’ Association, Chicago, Ill., 
Wednesday, June 9. The second annual 
national sale will be held in connection 
with same on Thursday, June 10. 
Eastern Soil Fertility School, State 
College, Pa., June 28. 
Apple Shippers* Association, Chicago, 
Ill.. August 11-14. 
ITornelt Fair, Hornell, N. Y., August 
51-September 3. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
April 13—Ilolsteins. Complete disper¬ 
sal sale of E. It. Risley’s herd, Walton, 
N. Y. 
Eastern Aberdeen-Angus Breeders’ sale, 
Abany, N. Y., April 20. 
April 20-21—Ilolsteins. Wisconsin 
State Breeders’ sale at Milwaukee. F. 
II. Everson, manager, Lake Mills. 
April 22—Ilolsteins. Southern Hol¬ 
stein - Friesian Breeders’ Association, 
quality sale, Richmond. Va. 
May 20—Ayrshire Cattle Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation of New England, consignment 
sale. Springfield. Mass. A. II. Sagen- 
dorph, Spencer, Mass, sales manager. 
May 20—Ilolsteins. Tri-County Hol¬ 
stein Breeders’ Association. Sidney, N. Y. 
June 10—Ayrshires. Second national 
Ayrshire, sale. Chicago. Ill. Arthur II. 
Sagendorph, Spencer, Mass, treasurer. 
Farm Machinery Course at Columbia 
Columbia University in co-operation 
with Cornell University offers, for a nom¬ 
inal fee, a short course in farm machinery 
and tractors, beginning April- 9. The 
work is offered on Friday and Saturday 
evenings, and with excursions or demon¬ 
strations on Saturday afternoons.. The 
chief topics are: Function, care and im¬ 
proved types of farm machinery; water 
supply and farm engines; farm power 
applications, tractors and trucks. 
Notes by a Holland Farmer 
A few weeks ago I read in The R. 
N.-Y. about oyster shells on land. I am 
a Hollander, and would like to say some¬ 
thing about this. In Holland we also 
have oysters, but more other sea food. 
The kind I refer to is black outside and 
has meat inside like an oyster, but not 
so large. I do not know the name here; 
we call them mosselen. The length is 
about two inches and has a long shape. 
We eat them cooked ; while cooking they 
open, and after they are done take the 
meat out of the shells, put on a plate, 
add a little pepper and vinegar, which/ 
makes a fine dish. I worked on a farm 
on the Island of Wieringen (at present 
ex-Crown I’riuce’s home). The farmers 
there iise those mosselen for fertilizer. 
The fishermen get them by boatloads out 
of the Zuyder Zee. and sell them to the 
farmer, who spreads them over his land 
and plows them under. I have seen many 
times crows picking a mussel up and 
dropping it on the macadamized roads so 
Jlhey would break and then eat the meat 
inside. 
In a recent paper I read about fed 
calves. I will tell how the farmers make 
them fat in Holland. The rich people 
demand for veal a real light color, also 
fat. Most farmers use bull calves, and 
pen them iu a dark place, where no flies 
can bother them, no room for exercise, 
just lying down and getting fat. The 
farmers feed them milk right from the 
cows, increasing every day until 14 or 
15 weeks old. then to be sold to the 
butcher alive by the pound. This is very 
expensive meat, only bought by the rich 
people, who pay a high price for it. Some 
farmers feed only the pure milk and a 
few add calf meal. Sometimes a calf lias 
scours. A remedy we use is to take a 
fresh egg and crush it in the calf’s mouth 
and let it eat) the shell also. Two or 
three eggs will soon stop it. 
District of < ’olumbia. pick prince. 
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