Tht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
1070 
June 12, 1920 
ONE OF OHIO’S MANY DISTINCTIVE FEATURES 
is the sturdy structural steel arch which gives extra 
strength at the point of greatest strain in a manure 
spreader. Steel arch extending upward from the 
main steel body frame holds spreader securely to¬ 
gether and keeps the bed from sagging. 
The Famous OHIO Spreader 
Lasts Longer--Costs Less to Maintain 
Farm help now costs so much that every hour of it 
must be devoted to actual production. Therefore, you 
should purchase dependable implements, so that your 
expensive men need not spend half their time tinkering 
and repairing. 
Likewise, the increased cost of implements has added 
to your investment so that today you are compelled to 
purchase “Built to Last” machinery. You are obliged 
to purchase quality products; the ones that last longer, 
cost less for upkeep and conserve your labor. 
The Famous OHIO Spreader 
fulfills all of these requirements. 
It is built for the hardest service. 
Every spreader is backed by forty 
years of successful manufac¬ 
turing experience which insures 
you against troubles and expen¬ 
sive maintenance. 
Two styles—Bellevue, No. 10 
and Ohio, No. 15. 
The Famous 
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Cultivators, Listers, 
Disc Harrows, Lever Harrows 
Corn and Cotton Planters. 
Pulverizers, Clod Crushers, 
Spreaders, Hay Presses, 
One-Horse Cultivators, 
Shovel Plows, 
Garden Cultivators, 
Steel Shapes, etc. 
Transfer stocks at convenient 
points insure prompt delivery. 
See your dealer today. 
The Ohio Cultivator Co., Bellevue, Ohio 
SPREADERS 
Just What You Want For Summer Footwear 
CANVAS WELT SHOES til lir ■« li mill Olive 
Grey—will, a fall leather tip, s,ilt,l 
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aitfi taps aewed mi. Either leather 
m Neo)Ill mien, every pail uf the 
Neoiin, carrying a guarantee 
■om the Un.nlyear Tire and 
Itnbher Company. 
Men’s Sires. 6-11 S3.95 
Boys’s Sizes, l-5'/2 3.50 
Little Men's Sizes, 
8-131/2.2.95 
Part-el Paxl 
Prepaid 
Mail Your Order Today 
Delay means Disappointment 
Bank References : 
Brockton National Bank 
Money refunded if not satisfied 
TheB. B. Shoe Co., 47-49-51 Centre Street, Brocton, Mass. 
Feeds and Feeding now $2.75 
This standard book by Henry & Mor¬ 
rison has been advanced to $2.75, at 
which price we can supply it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street New York 
Why injure your 
crops? Whv reduce 
production? W ti y 
kill foliagethat helps 
to feed your plants 
and vines? Why kill 
your trees? 
USE 
BUG DEATH 
Contains no Arsenic or Paris Green 
The safe insecticide on your plants, 
vegetables, etc. Write lor booklets, etc 
0BE BUO DEATH APHIS ON FRUIT TREES 
Uanforth Chemical Co.. Leominster, Mass 
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Rebuilt Motorcycles ni"*JXr te ulZv- 
Davidsons Indiana, X's, etc. #50 up. List H. 
Carl W. Kush Co., 5IG Broad St , Newark, N. J. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The American Woolen 
Company of Massachusetts, a corporation 
which manufactures one-fifth of the 
woolen cloth used in this country; the 
American Woolen Company of New York, 
sales organization for the parent con¬ 
cern, and William M. Wood, president of 
them both, were indicted by the Federal 
Grand Jury for the New York district 
May 26 under those provisions of the 
Lever law which make criminal any deal¬ 
ing in certain necessaries of life at un¬ 
just and unreasonable prices. Account¬ 
ants who came to testify told the jury 
that they had found that the profit of 
the companies during 1919—in which 
year there was a strike lasting five 
months in most of their 46 mills—was 
$15,513,414, the output during the year 
being only 49,000;000 yards, the com¬ 
pany’s normal yearly output being 70.- 
000,000 yards, and that in the present 
year, when apparently for the first time 
the “cost plus” system of price-fixing 
was adopted, the amount of profits aver¬ 
aged seems to be from 300 to 400 per cent 
above those of 1919. 
Leslie II. and Clarence H. Cooke, who 
do business on the curb markets as L. II. 
Cooke & Co.. 200 Broadway, New York, 
were indicted May 28 by the Federal 
Grand Jury on charges of using the mails- 
to defraud investors. Each was held in 
$2,500 bail by Judge A. N. Hand of the 
United States District Court. The brok¬ 
ers applied the instalment plan idea to the 
purchase of stocks, agreeing to buy and 
hold securities for investors upon pay¬ 
ment of 20 per cent of the cost. But 
instead of making the stock purchases 
they diverted the instalments to their 
own use, it is charged, and staved off im¬ 
pending calamity by assuring their clients 
that delay in delivering the stock was oc¬ 
casioned by circumstances beyond their 
control. The indictments refer to four 
excuses employed by the brokers—failure 
of the issuing company to transfer the 
stock ; failure of the issuing company to 
issue certificates; removal of offices and 
consequent confusion; unusual activity of 
the market swamping them with work. 
Eight counts are included in the indict¬ 
ments. 
Convicted of profiteering in men’s cloth¬ 
ing. Weeds. Inc., of Binghamton. N. Y., 
and Gordon II. Smith, general manager 
of the firm, were fined jointly $31,000 
May 28 by Judge Martin T. M'anton of 
the United States Circuit Court of Ap¬ 
peals. This is the second conviction for 
profiteering in clothing in the United 
States, the first one being that of John A. 
Roberts & Co., Inc., of Utica, two weeks 
before in the same court. The Weeds 
firm was convicted on seven counts of an 
eight-count indictment, the remaining 
count being thrown out because of an 
error. 
The traffic bureau of the Merchants’ 
Association of New York City*has made 
a complete survey of the losses to local 
business arising from the harbor and 
railroad tieups. Fifty million dollars 
would not be a high estimate of business 
lost since the start of the coastwise strike 
on March 12. the report states. When 
the railroad “outlaw” strike was at its 
worst, the loss was not less than $1,000.- 
000 a dav. With transportation only 
partly tied up as it is now the loss is 
figured at $500,000 a day. This amount 
does not take into account the loss in 
wages. There are 11.000 workers on 
strike in trades which affect freight move¬ 
ment. These men probably have sacri¬ 
ficed more than $2,000,000 in wages, it 
is estimated. The diversion of exports 
is nut at 40 to 80 per cent. 
Fire on a pier at Galveston. Tex., 
June 1. caused a loss of about $1,000,000. 
Tn addition to the pier damage, an im¬ 
mense qu. itity of sisal hemp was de- 
stroved. 
FARM AND GARDEN. — President 
Wilson issued a formal proclamation May 
20 relinquishing Government control over 
cereals June 1 and returning the trade to 
private control. 
Three big evening sessions are to he an 
important feature of the annual Summer 
field meeting which the State Agricultural 
College and Experiment Station will hold 
at the College Farm. New Brunswick. 
N. J.. June 10-19. inclusive. Hon. David 
II. Agaus. of Three Bridges, is to deliver 
an address on “The Farmer and the Leg¬ 
islature” at the first of these meetings, 
which will be held on Wednesday, June 
10. Community singing, led by I. T. 
Francis, County Agent for Essex, has 
been planned to add to the social aspect 
of the affair, which will end with a recep¬ 
tion to all the field meeting guests, given 
by the Experiment Station and college 
staff. “Developing Community Conscious¬ 
ness and Leadership” will be tin* subject for 
discussion at a joint meeting of tin* State 
Council of County Boards of Agriculture 
and the Extension Division of the college 
to be held on Thursday evening in the 
Ballantine gymnasium. Several noted 
speakers will address the guests at a gath¬ 
ering on Friday evening. W. N. Giles, 
master of the New York State Grange, 
will be introduced by Walter IT. Havens, 
master of the New Jersey Grange. 
According to the report of Alexander 
T. Vogelsang, acting Secretary of the 
Interior, over 1.000.000 acres of agricul¬ 
tural land has been surveyed in the Ter¬ 
ritory of AhiHvit to the eml that it tuny 
be available for entry and patent under 
public domain laws. A considerable part 
of this land is within country traversed 
by or tributary to the Government rail¬ 
road now being constructed in Alaska. 
Under the coal lands leasing law enacted 
in October. 1914, coal lands in Behring 
River, Cook Inlet. Matanuska and Ne- 
nnna coal fields have been divided into 
leasing blocks or units ready for sale. 
The two last-named fields are tributary 
to the Government railroad. New town- 
sites have been established upon the pub¬ 
lic lands along the line of the railroad 
and lots for business and residential pur¬ 
poses disposed of through the Land and 
Industrial Department of the Alaskan 
Engineering Commission. As soon as ar¬ 
rangements are completed for traffic on 
the Government railroad large numbers of 
settlers are expected to rush into the 
agricultural districts. 
WASHINGTON.—By a vote of 52 to 
23 the Senate adopted June 1 a resolu¬ 
tion declaring that “the Congress hereby 
respectfully declines to grant to the Exec¬ 
utive the power to accept a mandate over 
Armenia.” The votes against the resolu¬ 
tion and for the mandate were all cast by 
Democrats. Thirteen Democrats joined 
the Republicans in supporting the reso¬ 
lution. They were: Beckham (Ivy.) 
Chamberlain (Ore.), Dial. Gerry (R. I.). 
Harris (Ga.), Myers (Mont.), Nugent 
*(N. .T.). Poinoreue (Ohio). Reed (Mo.) 
Shields (Tenn.). Smith (Ga.), Thomas 
(Colo.). Walsh (Mass.). 
^ Fuel shortage is widespread in the 
United States, and there is bound to be 
inconvenience and poor transportation un¬ 
til the railroads can build uew equipment, 
Edgar (’. Clark, chairman of the Inter¬ 
state Commerce Commission, revealed 
June 1 in letters to Senator Lodge 
(Mass.) and Senator Kellogg (Minn.). 
House conferees on the Merchant Ma¬ 
rine Bill June 1 accepted with slight 
modifications Senate amendments exempt¬ 
ing ship owners engaged in foreign trade 
from excess profit taxes of an amount 
equal to the net earnings of such vessels, 
provided tin equivalent sum was set aside 
for new ships to be constructed in Ameri¬ 
can yards. To meet the objections of 
New England Senators and Representa¬ 
tives. the Senate and House conferees 
amended provisions prohibiting shipments 
by water between points in the United 
States except in American vessels so as 
to apply to the Alaskan trade only. It. 
was said that such a provision would 
work a hardship against New England. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
June 17-18—Guernseys. Dispersal sale, 
Anna Dean Farm herd, Barberton. Ohio. 
•Tune 18—Ilolsteins. E. E. Risley, 
Walton, N. Y. 
June 19 — Berkshires. Piping Rock 
Farms. Greenwich, Conn. 
June 26—Dispersal sale, registered 
Jersey and Guernsey cattle and registered 
Berkshire swine. Greeuore Farm, 
Penllyn. Pa. 
Oct. 13-14—Ilolsteins. National Dairy¬ 
men’s sale in connection with the Na¬ 
tional Dairy Show. Chicago, Ill. E. M. 
Hastings Co., managers. 
Oct. 14 — Ilolsteins. West Michigan 
Holstein Breeders’ semi-annual sale. W. 
R. Harper Middleville, Mich, secretary. 
Oct. 28-29—Ilolsteins. Green County 
Holstein-Friesian Breeders’ Club sale, 
Monroe. Wis. L. L. Hare, Monroe, Wis., 
secretary. 
Nov. 23-24 — Holsteins. Watertown 
Holstein Sales Co., semi-annual consign¬ 
ment sale at Watertown, Wis. Francis 
Darcey, manager. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Summer Field Meeting, New Jersey 
State Agricultural College. College Farm, 
New Brunswick, June 16-19. 
Eastern Soil Fertility School. State 
College. Pa.. June 28. 
Summer meeting. New Jersey State 
Horticultural Society. Henry IT. Albert¬ 
son’s Green Hill Farm. Burlington. N. J., 
July 24. 
Apple Shippers’ Association, Chicago, 
Ill.. August 11-14. 
1 Tornol 1 Fair, Hornell, N. Y., August 
31-September 3. 
Nova Scotia has been blessed with 
nearly four weeks of continuous fine 
weather. Today (May 27) the Graven- 
stein blossoms are commencing to break 
and we are hurnying up the pre-bloom 
snray of modified Bordeaux. The ques¬ 
tion will not down till it is answered. "Ts 
it a coincidence that when Nova Scotia 
used lime-sulphur our apple crop steadily 
diminished, and when Nova Scotia ceased 
to use lime-sulphur our crop steadily in¬ 
creased.” My own orchard looks better 
than usual, partly because T use lots of 
nitrate of soda (thanking Prof. Ballou 
for this i. spray with scalecide (thanking 
one or two members of New York State 
Horticultural Society for this), and use 
modified Bordeaux with the kick re¬ 
moved for black spot and bugs. 
With the labor shortage which wo have 
here, though not so badly ns with you.' 
many growers are buying dusters. My 
neighbor has sold 22 dusters in his terri¬ 
tory of about 10 miles by four miles wide. 
The United Fruit Companies are also sell¬ 
ing another duster in the same territory. 
Prohablv two-thirds of the dust used will 
be Prof. Sander's copper sulphate and 
hydrated lime compound, though much 
sulnhur dust is also used. 
Our armies last year were harvested in 
had shape. Many of mine were frozen 
from three to six times. There has been 
much Winter injury on low ground 
Novi Srn‘ : q ' JOHN PTICIIANAN. 
