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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
For Every Home 
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DEPT. R, 
HARRISBURG, PENNA- 
A Much - Appreciated 
Farmers’ Loan Service 
T HE RESPONSE of New York State farmers to the invita¬ 
tion to "Use Our Money to Make Money" has been 
simply tremendous. We would like to take care of every 
one of you but our available funds will not nearly go around. 
We will, however, consider loan applications from 
bona fide New York State farm operators in such order 
and at such times as the business situation will warrant. 
Inquire of your local banker or write us for particulars. 
Farmers’ Fund, Inc. 
Alliance Bank Building 
Rochester :: N.Y. 
M. W. Cole, President 
Executive Committee 
Wra. Church Osborn 
Delmer Runkle 
Frank S. Thomas 
Myron S. Hall 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Profiteering in meat was 
charged May 7 against Armour & Co. and 
its New England manager. John E. Wil¬ 
son. at Boston. Mass. The latter was 
arrested on a warrant issued by United 
States Commissioner Hayes on evidenee 
transmitted by the United States District 
Attorney’s office that lamb, bought for 
less than 10 cents a pound, plus freight 
charges of about four eonts a pound, had 
been sold there for 2514 cents. It is 
alleged that Armour & Co. on May 3 sold 
at 25*4 cents a pound part of a consign¬ 
ment of 100,000 carcasses of lamb brought 
here from New Zealand. After arraign¬ 
ment Manager Wilson said Armour & 
Co. always sold its products at market 
prices, whether for gain or loss. He said 
be did not believe tlie government agents 
had taken into account any overhead ex¬ 
pense in making their figures. The United 
State’s attorney’s office said it had re¬ 
ceived its information from William 
Walsh, an inspector for the State com¬ 
mission on the necessaries of life. 
Eight persons were killed and 32 in¬ 
jured eight miles south of Portland, Ore., 
May 3. when two electric trains of the 
Westside line of the Southern. Pacific 
Company collided head on. 
Four men were burned to death in a 
fire that swept up from the ground floor 
to the roof of the four-story tenement at. 
300 East Sixty-first Street, New York, 
May 0. The flames followed the stair¬ 
way and drove tenants to the fire escapes 
as the sole means of escape. 
Asked to hurry to the hospital at Cam¬ 
bridge, Md., where many surgical cases 
had accumulated, Dr. Robert M. Lewis 
of Baltimore, stepped into a hydroplane 
May 11 from the landing stage at River 
View. Fifty-five minutes later he was 
in the hospital across Chesapeake Ray. 
By taking the air route he beat the train 
and boat schedule by about four hours._ 
The French liner Leopoldina. which 
sailed May 11 from New York for Havre, 
was held two hours past, her scheduled 
time for departure because of a crush of 
steerage passengers, more than 1.100 go¬ 
ing aboard her. She carried also 252 
first cabin passengers, a capacity list. 
Every steamer sailing from New York 
carries many foreign laborers who are 
returning to their native countries. 
WASHINGTON.—Canada soon will be 
represented in the United States by a 
resident Minister, according to an official 
announcement made by the British Em¬ 
bassy at Washington. May 10. The an¬ 
nouncement is the result of diplomatic 
negotiations which have been going on 
between this country and Great Britain 
and official negotiations between Canada 
and the mother country. While the ap¬ 
pointment of a Canadian Minister will 
be a step in recognizing the complete in¬ 
dependence of Canada, the unity of the 
British Empire is maintained. 
Herbert Hoover's suggestion to Senator 
Capper of Kansas that as one means of 
relieving the sugar situation the United 
States seek an agreement with the allied 
nations that there be no international bid¬ 
ding for Cuban sugar brought an official 
protest May 10 from Carlos Manuel de 
Cespedes. Cuban Minister to the United 
States. Such an agreement, the Minister 
said, would amount of “a League of 
Nations to work principally against 
Cuba.” Cuba, the Minister said, would 
willingly abide by such au agreement, 
however, if it were also agreed that there 
would be no competitive bidding on the 
articles which Cuba must buy. 
President Wilson signed May 11 a bill 
amending the deportation law so as to 
make possible the deportation of Germans 
and other aliens who were interned (lur¬ 
ing the war as enemy aliens. Both aliens 
convicted of violating war emergency 
laws and those merely held on Presiden¬ 
tial warrants of arrest would be subject 
to deportation on the order of tin* Secre¬ 
tary of Labor after hearings. Aliens so 
deported would be barred forever from 
readmission to the United States. 
OBITUARY.—Wilmer Atkinson, foun¬ 
der of the Farm ■Journal . died at Phila¬ 
delphia May 10 of pneumonia, at the age 
of 79 years’ lie was a pioneer in journal¬ 
ism. and in 1S66 established at Wilming¬ 
ton the first daily newspaper in Delaware. 
His family had long been prominent in 
Pennsylvania affairs. Three of his an¬ 
cestors came over on the Welcome with 
William Penn. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The thirty- 
fifth annual meeting of the Ilolstein- 
Friesian Association of America will be 
held in the Auditorium, St. Paul, Minn.. 
June 2. 
The 'White House flock of sheep, at 
Washington, which got its start three 
years ago in a modest corral on the south 
grounds, lias outgrown its pasture and 
soon is to have the run of virtually tin* 
whole extent of parks and lawn surround¬ 
ing the executive mansion. A wire net¬ 
ting has been put up around the few 
flower beds and rare shrubs, from which 
alone the sheep are to be excluded. Ar¬ 
rival of a score of Spring lambs increased 
the flock to 43. and if soon cropped the 
May 22, 1020 
stretch of lawn south of the White House 
where it. has hitherto been confined. 
The Provincial government of Manitoba 
is going into th<* banking business to pro¬ 
vide finances for the rural credits move¬ 
ment in that province, it was unofficially 
announced recently. This will be the first 
time in Canada that a province has un¬ 
dertaken such a step. It results from 
the disagreement between the government 
and the banks on the interest rate to be 
charged in rural credits. Banking of¬ 
fices will be opened throughout the prov¬ 
ince, it was said, and the rate of interest 
will be 4 per cent on short-term deposits 
and 4’4 per cent on deposits for more 
than three months. 
Between 0.000.000 and 7,000.000 raw 
pelts, valued at more than $30,000,000 
went on sale at the International Fur 
Exchange’s Spring auction at St. Louis 
May 10. Buyers from all parts of the 
world were in St. Louis for the sale 
which is expected to last about three 
weeks. The fur supply on hand in the 
world’s market is insufficient to meet the 
demand, according to Philip B. Foulko’ 
president of the exchange, who spoke at 
the opening of the auction. American 
women alone purchased approximately 
$300,000,000 worth of furs, he said, add¬ 
ing that there were no indications of a 
relaxation in buying activity. A short¬ 
age may be expected during the latter 
part, of 1920. he said. 
The Association of Producers of Nitrate 
of Chile have made public statistics eon 
corning the consumption of this product, 
which is the principal article of expor¬ 
tation of Chile. In the month of Febru¬ 
ary there was on hand in Europe a stock 
of nitrate of 150.000 tons, and during this 
same month there was imported into Eu¬ 
rope 237.000 tons. Of this total of 387,- 
000 tons, there was delivered to the con¬ 
sumer during February a total of 155.000 
tons, which left on hand for the month of 
March a total of 232.000 tons. The vis¬ 
ible. supply of nitrate reaches 2,102.000 
tons, composed as follows: 1.252.000 
from Chile, 492.000 in Europe, 277,000 in 
the United States, and 81.000 in Japan 
and other countries. To the 237,000 tons 
imported by foreign markets during Feb¬ 
ruary there should be added 12,500 tons 
transshipped in the United Kingdom. This 
gives a total for imports in February of 
249.000 tons. The distribution of these 
mports was as follows. United Kingdom, 
11.000; France. 90.000; Belgium. 21.500; 
Holland, 22.000; Spain and Portugal, 
18.600; Italy, 39.000; Scandinavia. 31.- 
000; Egypt, 7.500; Germany and Baltic 
ports, 9.000. 
. Danish farmers, members of co-opera¬ 
tive societies, will man ships held in. port 
because of the marine strike, and trans¬ 
port their products to American and Brit¬ 
ish markets, according to a statement 
made by one of the leading members of 
the organization. In spite of the strike 
the East Asiatic Company’s fleet of oil- 
driven vessels have managed to kepp go¬ 
ing, otherwise all other shipping is 
stopped, causing great inconvenience and 
annoyance. The trades unions officially 
are not backing the. strikers. 
For the Land’s Sake—Use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers. They enrich the earth and 
those who till it.— Adv. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MAY 22, 1920 
FARM TOPICS 
How to Grow Alfalfa in Southeastern New 
York .971, 972 
What Is a Ton of Manure Worth?. 972 
The Problem of Cotton-picking. 972 
The Non-partisan League. 972 
Crops for the Silo in the North. 973 
Sulphate of Ammonia as Fertilizer. 976 
Destroying Wild Onions. 980 
Culture of Horseradish. 980 
Tobacco Growing for Wisconsin. 981 
Hope Farm Notes.982, 983 
Northern Ohio Notes. 992 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Cost of Marketing Milk. 
The Southern Dairyman’s Problem. 
Connecticut Court Upsets a Milk Law. 
Milk Situation in Madison County, N. Y... 
Pasture and Barn Notes. 
Sheep and the Long Winter. 
Feeding Dry Cows. 
Starting with Pigs. 
Figuring Grain Ration. 
Improving Old Pasture. 
Lame Sow . 
Can a Cow Get Drunk?. 
Extravagant Claims for Rape. 
Worms . 
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HORTICULTURE 
Trimming Pine Trees. 973 
Garden Notes from New England. 9<| 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 9<5 
Dahlias Not Blooming. 975 
Notes on Growing Nursery Stock. 97b 
Poultry and Codling Worms. ;••••••••• 97 j 
Cherries for Now Jersey: Plums fail to Fruit 97J 
Pollinating Burbank Plum. 
Fertilizing a mulched orchard. “gi 
Acid Phosphate for Plums. 9?I 
New Plant Immigrants. 
Hardy Peach Wanted. 
Linseed Oil as Tree Protoctor. M8J 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 
Farm Life in Oklahoma. 
The Rural Patterns. 
Those Irksome Dishes. 
Fruit Juices . 
The Country School in Tennessee 
Setting Colors in Wash Goods.. 
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MISCELLANEOUS 
Events of the Week. 
Rural Education Committee Meet... 
Editorial .... 
Replies from Candidates for Governor 
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