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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK fl 
DOMESTIC.—Twenty-four of the .‘12 
plumbing establishments in.Birmingham, 
Ala., April 2 declared a lockout against 
union plumbers, who are demanding SI2 
a day, with double pay for overtime, Sun¬ 
days and holidays. The eight shops 
which refused to join in the lockout have 
contracts of a nature which would not 
permit suspension of work. The jour¬ 
neymen charge $10 a day, the rate under 
which they have been working, is not 
enough to meet the increased cost of liv¬ 
ing. 
Abraham White of New York, the 
“postage stamp financier,” who achieved 
fame by cleaning up $100,000 on an in¬ 
vestment of -14 cents, was indicted March 
31 for grand larceny. White is charged 
by Mrs. Anna Ilavenor with inducing 
her to purchase $1,500 worth of stock 
in the Auto Frcesseproof Corporation by 
false representation. East November, 
Mrs. Ilavenor asserts, White' said the 
“Du Pont interests” were trying to buy 
control of the Ereezeproof Company, that 
he himself had invested $100,000 in it, 
that it was a going business, with large 
profits, and that the Pierce Oil Company 
had taken a contract for the entire out¬ 
put, all of which she subsequently found 
to bo untrue. White pleaded not guilty 
and was released on bail. 
Broughton Brandenburg of New York, 
magazine writer and promoter, was sen¬ 
tenced by Judge Crane in General Ses¬ 
sions March 31 to two and a halt ycajs 
in Sing Sing prison for grand larceny in 
connection with the sale of stock in a 
Staten Island “asbestos” mine promoted 
a year ago by the New Methods Moulding 
&* Metals Corporation, which Branden¬ 
burg organized. He was released on 
$7,500 bail pending an appeal. 
As a protest against high prices. 500 citi¬ 
zens of Tampa, Fla.,dressed in overalls and 
calico, marched to the courthouse square 
April 4 and signed a petition pledging 
themselves not to buy expensive garments 
so long as present prices prevail. The 
petition, presented later to the mayor, 
appealed for a limit on the profits of 
manufacturers and retailers and charged 
the former with profiteering. City fire¬ 
men abandoned their tailored uniforms 
and went to work in overalls. 
Four officials of the Baited Mine Work¬ 
ers of Illinois indicted by the Federal 
Grand Jury at Indianapolis on conspir¬ 
acy charges, surrendered to 1 nited States 
District Attorney Edward *). Knotts at 
Springfield, Ill., April <>. The four weic 
Frank Ferringtou, president; Walter 
Nesbit, secretary-treasurer ; llarry I isii- 
wick, vice-president, and Benjamin W ll- 
liams, executive board member. They 
were released on bonds of $10,000 caeli. 
Fire that threatened to destroy a block 
of buildings at Broad and East Grand 
streets, Elizabeth. N. J.. called out the 
entire fire-fighting equipment of the city 
April 6, routed scores of families from 
their homes, tied up telephone service for 
a half-hour and caused damage estimated 
at $150,000. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Game pro¬ 
tectors and forest rangers got orders 
April 2 frbm Conservation Commissioner 
George I), l’ratt of New York to wage a 
relentless ‘war upon the beaver. “All 
beaver dams should be cut out immedi¬ 
ately and kept out,” said the order, “and 
where destruction of the beauty <>l lakes 
is threatened or damage to any other 
property is in progress, steps must be 
taken immediately’ to destroy the dams 
and houses. When necessary permits will 
be given upon application to the commis¬ 
sion to trap the beaver and send their 
skins to the commission. 
Two agents of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture from Washington called upon 
Byron II. Fhl, acting Commissioner of 
Immigration at Ellis Island, April 2. with 
a view to ascertaining what can be done 
to induce more immigrants to settle down 
upon the farms in various States, instead 
of segregating in great masses around the 
large cities. They announced the deter¬ 
mination of Department of Agriculture 
heads to take greater interest in immi¬ 
grants to this country than ever before. 
Mr. Uhl told the Agricultural Department 
agents there is little change to be ex¬ 
pected in the drift of immigration in the 
near future. Most of the immigrants 
come to this country with their points of 
destination already determined. 
Damage to the Oklahoma fruit crop, re¬ 
sulting from the freezing temperature ot 
the blizzard April 3-4. will be in excess of 
$5,000,000, according to estimates made 
public by John A. Whitehurst, president | 
of the State Board of Agriculture. 
Every cotton-growing State was repre¬ 
sented at Washington April 0 at a con¬ 
ference called by the Federal Horticul¬ 
tural Board to consider means of meeting 
the situation arising from the reappear¬ 
ance of the pink cotton worm in Texas. 
Only a drastic quarantine can prevent a 
disastrous spread of the pest, experts 
agree. The board suggested that the 
State prohibit the growing of cotton 
within the infected area for a term of 
years and compensate the farmers for the 
crop planted. Governor Hobby of Texas 
and several members of the State Con¬ 
gressional delegation expressed their de¬ 
sire to co-operate with the Federal au¬ 
thorities. If the State government failed 
to act. it was said, the Department of 
Agriculture was prepared to place re¬ 
strictions on the movement of cotton and 
cottonseed from Texas as a means of pro¬ 
tecting other sections. 
According to the Government field 
agent in New Mexico there are no longer 
any wild horses on the range in his State, 
and the number of small Mexican cow 
ponies is rapidly diminishing. The field 
agent in Utah states that horses are lia¬ 
bilities rather than assets in his section. 
In Washington the local representative 
says: “Where a notable reduction has 
occurred in any country it seems due to 
replacemen of horsepower by motor 
power.” 
Simultaneously with the announcement 
that the governors of tin' Chicago Stock 
Exchange had suspended Eugene 11. De 
Broukart of Eugene M. Hoyne & Co. for 
failure to r eet contracts because of un¬ 
protected trades in grain, it became known 
that there would be Federal investigation 
of an alleged attempt of Chicago operat¬ 
ors to corner the May corn market. A 
Federal Grand Jury was sworn in before 
Judge Landis April <5 and indictments 
will be sought against several operators 
for criminal conspiracy to manipulate a 
necessity of life*. 
A patriotic sheep show, sale and public 
shearing will be held at the fair grounds, 
Perry, N. Y.. May 15. Liberal prizes for 
Rambouillet and Delaine sheep and all 
fleeces cut from them at the public shear¬ 
ing are offered. All are invited; no 
charge at the gates. 
Subpoenas have been issued by the New 
York Citv District Attorney’s office for 
several West Washington Market poultry 
commission merchants, who are to be 
questioned concerning complaints that 
shipments of poultry to this city were 
held back to advance prices over the 
Easter and Jewish Passover holiday sea¬ 
sons. 
WASHINGTON. — An American In¬ 
dian division in the regular army may be 
enlisted if an amendment to the army bill 
approved by ihe Senate Military Affairs 
Committee April 2 is enacted into law. 
It was uroposed at a hearing by Dr. 
Joseph K. Dixon of Philadelphia, repre¬ 
senting the Rodman Wanamaker His¬ 
torical Expeditions to the North Ameri¬ 
can Indians. 
Government expenditures have exceeded 
the revenues "from all sources” by more 
than $200,000,000 during the first nine 
months of this fiscal year, and the reduc¬ 
tion of $700,000,000 in the floating debt 
last month is but a “temporary” con¬ 
dition. Representative Mondell of Wyo¬ 
ming. Republican leader, declared April 4 
in a statement. Economy alone, he said, 
could avert a “calamitous* crisis.” Im¬ 
mediately upon the “temporary reduction ’ 
in the floating debt. Mr. Mondell declared, 
the treasury was “in the market for fur¬ 
ther loans, and this month must dispose 
of a further large volume temporary cer¬ 
tificates.” Government financing by short¬ 
term notes, he added, is such as “may 
bring a tremendous increase the very next 
day. week or month,” after an apparent 
reduction for a comparative period. 
Conspiracy to defraud the United 
States of its right of secrecy surrounding 
decisions of the Supreme Court of the 
Enited States, growing out of the alleged 
"leak' in tin* high court several months 
ago, in the Southern Pacific oil lands 
case, is charged in an indictment returned 
April 1 by the Grand Jury of the Su¬ 
preme Court of the District of Columbia. 
The defendants named include Ashton F. 
Embry, former secretary to Associate 
Justice Joseph McKenna; James Har¬ 
wood Graves, a former assistant attorney 
in the Department of Justice; Barnett 
E. Moses, a Washington attorney, and 
E. Millard Mayer. ,Tr., a New York stock 
operator. The indictment avers that the 
above conspired to cheat and defraud for 
the purpose of engaging in speculation 
upon the New York Stock Exchange an 1 
other stock markets. ui>on the faith and 
advantage of private information as to 
the time, conclusion and results of the 
decisions given by the United States Su¬ 
preme Court. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Foresters’ Week, Svraeuse, N. Y., 
April 12-19. 
Patriotic slice)) show, sale and public 
shearing. Fair Grounds. Perry, N. Y.. 
May 15. 
April 17, 1920 
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, I’a.. .Tune 2S. 
Apple Shippers’ Association, Chicago. 
Ill.. August 11-14. 
llorneil Fair, Ilornell, N. Y., August 
31-September 3. 
In my vicinity the principal lines are 
hay, grain and dairying. Good hay in 
this vicinity brings, retail, $45 to $48 per 
ton. Corn on ear, $43 to $45 per ton; 
oats, $1 per bu.; oats generally very much 
discolored from so much rain last season. 
Wheat and rye were a poor crop around 
here, as there were 10 days of rain after 
being cut and shocked, and grain grew 
very badly in the shock, which spoiled 
the grain and made it light, in weight. 
Most of it was sold for chicken feed at $2 
per bu. for wheat; the rye was principal¬ 
ly ground up for pig feed at $1.50 per bu. 
Oat straw brought $20 per ton. Farmers 
receive 8c per qt. for their milk. Several 
farmers in this vicinity have sold their 
dairies owing to high price of feed and 
scarcity of help. Auction sales are still 
on. The outlook for farmers and farming 
looks very gloomy around here, as help is 
scarce, and if you are able to find a man 
to work he wants so much money for his 
work there is scarcely anything left for 
the farmer. If the farmer happens to 
have a son or two they want to go to 
town to work where there are short hours 
and big pay, and lots of fun and amuse¬ 
ments. J. J. L. 
Morris Co.. N. .T. 
Hay, $25 per ton at barn ; butter, GO 
to 65c; eggs. 75c; potatoes. $2.50 per bu.; 
veal calves. 17c. live weight; new milch 
cows. $125; dressed beef. 14 to lGc per 
lb. by the quarter. F. j. s. 
Greene Co.. N. Y. 
“See here. Mr. Jones,” said the medi¬ 
cal man. “it is taking you an awful long 
time to pay that bill of mine.” "I know 
it doctor,” answered Jones, “but you 
ought to remember that you were an aw¬ 
ful long time curing me.”—-Credit Lost. 
£“352 
The increased 
earnings of your herd 
will pay for these comforts 
$25 more a year, from every cow in your herd. 
That’s the added income dairymen 
tell us they have secured by giving 
their cows water the National way. 
Not stale water from a storage tank, 
but pure, fresh water, right from the 
depths of the well, evenly temperatured 
the year around. An increased milk 
yield of from two to ten pounds per 
cow per day. 
These new earnings will equip your 
house and barn with the latest plumb¬ 
ing conveniences. 
Consider Your Family’s Health and Comfort 
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Think what fresh, running water 
would mean to you and your family. 
Fewer steps in the kitchen—no more 
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the Farm 
The National fresh water system will 
make your home far more attractive to 
your boys and girls. Keeps hired help 
on the farm, too. Less drudgery around 
the kitchen, barn and cow-shed—more 
solid enjoyment within the home. 
We want you to know more about the 
National non-storage water system. 
Send for illustrated booklet today. 
NATIONAL UTILITIES CORPORATION 
328 Bellevlew Place Milwaukee, Wls. 
exposure, carrying water from the well 
—real bathing and shaving comfort 
in the bathroom. 
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for small farms. 
NATIONAL 
NON-STORAG E 
FRESH WATER 
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