The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
10*9 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC—The transportation and 
freight troubles of this port and of car¬ 
riers entering New York were made 
more acute May 20 by the strike of 200 
lightermen employed in ferrying goods 
from New Jersey railroad terminals to 
coastwise piers in this city for shipment 
south and in taking goods from piers to 
terminals for railroad transportation. 
The strike was in sympathy with the 
longshoremen of the Southern Pacific, 
Clyde. Mallory -and Ocean Steamship 
lines who are out. and in protest against 
the employment by these companies of 
non-union longshoremen. 
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the million¬ 
aire draft dodger, sentenced to imprison¬ 
ment at Fort Jay, Governor’s Island, N. 
Y.. last January after a three-year hunt, 
escaped May 20. He had obtained leave 
from prison upon some pretext, and had 
gone to Philadelphia with a small guard. 
The circumstances of his escape consti¬ 
tute an extraordinary scandal involving 
officials of prominence. 
FARM AND GARDEN—The Summer 
meeting of the New Jersey Horticultural 
Society is planned for Saturday. Julv 
24. at Henry IT. Albertson’s Green Ilill 
Farm, near Burlington. This is one of 
the most interesting fruit and truck sec¬ 
tions in America. 
The Kansas wheat crop will reach 
110.000.000 bushels if the present condi¬ 
tions continue into the harvest. This 
was the estimate made by J. C. Mohler. 
Secretary of the State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture, based upon the reports of the 2.000 
farmer correspondents of the board. This 
is an average yield of 14.5 bushels on the 
7.603.SS0 acres of wheat remaining for 
the harvest. Should the indicated yield 
be realized the crop would be the third 
largest in the history of the State, the 
productions of 1014 and 1910 only ex¬ 
ceeding it. while the average annual pro¬ 
duction in the five-year period of 1915- 
1019 amounted to 04.SS0.46fi bushels. 
A Summer Field Meeting of unusually 
large proportions is to be staged this year 
by the New Jersey Agricultural College 
and Experiment Station at the College 
Farm. New Brunswick, from June lfi to 
10. A cordial invitation is extended to 
everyone interested in agriculture, as it 
is being taught and practiced at the State 
University. Horticultural Day, which 
leads off on Wednesday, will be occupied 
with addresses, field trips, demonstrations, 
inspections and exhibits of fruit and vege¬ 
table work. On the following day, field 
crops will be treated in a similar man¬ 
ner. Friday is to be given over to the 
subject of livestock, 'including a full 
afternoon’s program on dairy cattle. 
Poultrymen of the State will have their 
innings on Saturday, when the whole 
day will be devoted to problems of com¬ 
mercial and farm flocks and fancy breed¬ 
ing. Dr. ,T. G. Liprnan. director of the 
Experiment Station, will make the ad¬ 
dress of welcome each day, and there 
will be informal talks during the morn¬ 
ing’s programs by College and Experi¬ 
ment Station specialists. A picnic lunch 
may be obtained each day on the campus, 
and every arrangement is being made for 
the comfort of those guests who plan 
to stay overnight. 
Charging that farmers in three towu- 
ships in Sequopah Co.. Okla.. are openly 
disregarding the law. John A. Whitehurst, 
chairman of the State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture. asked Governor Robertson. May 25. 
to send a detachment of National Guard 
troops to the scene. The request was 
made after an investigation by White¬ 
hurst, into the dynamiting of dipping 
vats for the eradication of cattle ticks. 
County officials have been unable to check 
the destruction of vats. 
In order to overcome the farm labor 
shortage and insure harvest hands for 
farmers in the vicinity of Columbus, Ohio, 
approximately 2,000 Columbus business 
and professional men announced May 
25. that they will donate one day’s service 
each week to farmers needing assistance. 
WASHINGTON.—A rider aimed at 
President Wilson’s recent veto was at¬ 
tached to the Sundry Civil Appropriation 
bill May 21 by the Senate Finance Com¬ 
mittee. It provides that no new Gov¬ 
ernment publications shall be issued 
without Congressional authority. In 
reporting out the bill the Senate Appro- 
inflations Committee recommended a total 
of $440,212,000 for Governmental activi¬ 
ties covered by the measure. This was 
$208,655,000 less than appropriated for 
the same purposes last year, and $598,- 
462.000 less than estimates submitted by 
executive departments. 
The House refused May 24. 204 to 107, 
to eliminate from the Agricultural Ap¬ 
propriation bill $220,000 for distribution 
of free seeds, and the bill went back to 
conference, the Senate having previously 
instructed its conferees not to accept the 
free seeds item. 
The Sugar Situation 
Fruit growers of the Hudson River sec¬ 
tion have organized to demand that sugar 
be released by speculators for canning and 
preserving purposes. A meeting called by 
'lark G. Du Rois of the Poughkeepsie 
Courier appointed a committee with Fred 
’' • Vail of Milton. N. Y.. as chairman, 
to present the demand to Federal authori¬ 
ties. All fruit growers’ organizations will 
do well to join in the demand. The need 
of sugar also exists for condensed milk 
and dairymen can also join in the de¬ 
mand. 
Note How Essex Trebles 
Motor Power 
The swing of interest to light cars, led by 
champions of the Essex, calls for particular 
caution. 
Some may think of Essex only as one of a 
finer type, marking a general advance in 
standards throughout the light car field. 
But the facts quickly expose that mistake. 
The Essex Motor is patented. No larger than 
standard motors that yield but 18 H. P. at 
utmost, the Essex delivers 55 H. P. And 
Essex performance, so enthusiastically 
admired by all motordom is the product of 
that exclusive invention. 
Essex has set the greatest official endurance 
record of 3037 miles in 50 hours. It has never 
been equalled by any car, regardless of size 
or price. And Essex made the world’s 24- 
hour road record of 1061 miles. 
All Results of 
Its Patented Motor 
For cars of its piston displacement it has 
set every official record from 1 to 50 hours. 
And in its first year it set a selling record 
never equalled in motor history. 
It creates a new standard of light car 
capacity in a totally new type. And it cannot 
be copied. Do not forget that. You can get 
the abilities for which these records stand, 
only in the Essex. 
Essex Motors, Detroit, Michigan 
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An easily applied coat or two of Arlington 
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All paints sold on money-back guarantee. Try 
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Write for money-saving pricelist, color 
cards and other paint intormation. 
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Capacity one million gallons per year. 
905 Arlington Ave., Canton, Ohio 
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method of iceless refrigeration as used^in 
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POLAR ICELESS 
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CO. 
21 Main Sti 
WASHINGTON, 
IOWA 
4 
Indoor Closet $11.35 
Have a sanitary, odorless toilet in the house 
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Strongly made of enameled steel with nicely 
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470 Main Street N. Tonawaudu, N. Y. 
