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DECIDIOUS AND CITRUS |FRUIT, 
ORNAMENTAL AND EVERGREEN 
TREES, SHRUBS, VINES, ETC., WITH 
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A COMBINED CONTACT INSECTICIDE AND FUNGICIDE 
• OF KNOWN RELIABILITY 
For the control of SCALE INSECTS, eggs and young of APHIS, PEAR 
PSYLLA, PEAR, CELERY and ONION THRIPS, WHITE FLY, red spider, red 
bug, leaf blister mite, leaf roller, poultry and cattle lice, sheep tick, ETC. 
And for the prevention and control of parasitic fungi, including apple and 
pear scab, canker, peach leaf curl, Ripe Rot of stone fruits, mildew, etc. 
SULCO-V. B. costs no more and is pleasanter to use than LIME-SULPHUR, 
and the execution is far better—therefore much better results, and no NICOTINE 
SULPHATE is required. 
SULCO-V. B. is The Master Spray of the 20th Century. 
“The Spray Material You will Eventually Use.” Better Investigate: 
WE MANUFACTURE STANDARD FISH OIL SOAP IN LARGE QUANTITIES. 
Order Early—Remember the Car Tie-up last Spring. 
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BOSTON OFFICE 
141 Milk St. 
SULCO-V. B. 
DISTRIBUTING CO. 
BOX 554 
Waynesboro. Virginia 
GOOK & SWAN GO., INC. 
148 Front St. PACIFIC COAST SALES CO. 
New York, N.Y.. U.S.A. S ***T1°1 ^ 
San Francisco, Cal, 
AN OPEN LETTER 
TO 
Fruit Growers in the East 
We are writing you in reference to a Spray Mixture that we have 
used the past year which we found to be the most wonderful spray 
mixture we have ever seen. 
Thinking probably that you might be interested in the best spray 
material on the market, we are enclosing you a Pamphlet which will 
explain how the spray material is made. This year we used Sulco— 
V. B. spray material on 1,000 Rome Beauty trees. These trees had 
in previous years been badly infected with Cedar Rust, Mildew, Leaf 
Spot and Aphis. We sprayed at the semi-dormant period for Aphis 
and other troubles, and we controlled OS per cent, of Aphis injury. 
We are entirely free from Cedar Rust, Frog Eye, Mildew and other 
troubles of this k ? nd. Our foliage is wonderful and the tree iy as 
slick as a peeled onion. The finish of the fruit is 20 per cent, better 
than where it was not used on the same varieties and also on other 
varieties. Right beside these are 1,000 Winesaps sprayed with Black 
Leaf 40 and other sprays on which we had over 50 per cent. Aphis 
injury. 
It is an oil preparation combined with Sulphur and Carbolic Acid. 
The specific gravity is the same as water, and it emulsifies with water 
as easily as milk does. Where it hits the foliage or the wood, it 
spreads and covers the surface thoroughly. In this way, it gives a 
better coating, combined with the Arsenate, and it is retained much 
better, as it will not wash off. It does not burn and is not objection¬ 
able to use at all. It is easy on machinery; from the fact, that it 
has no grit to wear out packing and pumps. It does not shoot your 
fru’t full of Silica and Magnesia like Lime Sulphur and Bordeaux, 
causing a serious injury along this line—which this year was as high 
as 20 per cent, on some varieties—and it does not carry the Arsenate 
into the fruit in this way, so has no Arsenatical Poison. 
We are writing this in the interest of the Fruit Growers of the 
East particularly, and if we can produce the finish of the Northwest, 
we certainly can beat them otherwise, and this is what we need in 
order to compete with the Northwest. Our orchard demonstration is 
open to all to sec, and we would he very glad for you to come and 
see it. Or, come to the annual meeting of the Virginia Horticultural 
Society to he held in STAUNTON, Va., November 30th, December 
1st and 2nd. We feel that you will be repaid for doing so. 
We trust that we can interest you along this line for better fruit 
in the East. • • 
ROSE CLIFF FRUIT FARM, Inc. 
Waynesboro, Virginia 
November 10th, 1920 
Buy Fanns in New York State through the 
Farm Brokers’ Association, Inc., an old estab¬ 
lished organization which will give you thor¬ 
oughly reliable information and service. Offices 
throughout the State. Write THE FAUM 
BROKE It S’ ASSOCIATION, INC., Central Office 
Oneida, N. Y., for a brief list and state your 
requirements. 
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DOMESTIC.—Investigators for the 
Lockwood committee, which 1ms been 
conducting the inquiry into building 
scandals at New York, announced Nov. 7, 
that their figures show that Robert I*. 
Brindell, head of the Building Trades 
Council, received at least $482,021 a 
year. According to their calculations, 
$61,621 is said to have been handed over 
to him or his /agents by witnesses who 
testified before the committee. Brindell’s 
salary, paid by members of the Dock 
Workers’ Union, is $35,000 a year, it is 
said. Approximately $115,000 is said 
to have been paid to the Building Trades 
Council for a “compensation bureau.” 
About $90,000 more was paid to agents 
of the council in initiation fees, it is 
charged. The “privilege cards” permit¬ 
ting laborers to work on payment of $10 
a ^ week is said to have brought in 
$165,000 more. To this, investigators 
add $14,000 paid to the council as dues 
for its walking delegates. 
The body of John P. Woodward, air¬ 
mail pilot, was found in the wreckage of 
bis plane at Tie Siding, 40 miles west of 
Cheyenne and 15 miles southeast of 
Laramie, W.vo., Nov. 7. Woodward left 
Salt Lake City at 11:30 A. M., Nov.6, 
and was scheduled to arrive in Cheyenne 
with mail at 3 o’clock the next day. A 
snowstorm was in progress throughout 
that section. It was believed Woodward 
fell while attempting to make a landing. 
Women won in Yoncalla, Ore., in the 
election Nov. 2, an entire municipal ticket 
of women being chosen. Men opponents 
were defeated for all the offices. Mrs. 
Mary Burt is the name of the new 
mayor. 
Judge Jacob Moses, impartial chair¬ 
man for the settlement of disputes be¬ 
tween the Amalgamated Clothing Work¬ 
ers and the manufacturers at Baltimore, 
Md., Nov. 8, gave a decision which is 
expected to have a far-reaching effect ou 
the clothing industry. It recognizes the 
obligation upon the worker to co-operate 
with the manufacturer in efforts to in¬ 
crease. production, even when such co¬ 
operation means fewer days of employ¬ 
ment in the week for the worker. The 
particular case before Judge Moses was 
the right of the Columbia Tailoring Com¬ 
pany, which employs eleven cutters, to 
assign certain of these men to do noth¬ 
ing hut cut. Formerly they marked the 
cloth and then cut it. The workers ob¬ 
jected to the change. They maintained 
that the house, which at present gives 
them employment for only three days and 
a half a week because its orders do not 
warrant more, will now he able to do 
the same work in two and a half days. 
A brisk and profitable trade in pistol 
permits whereby gunmen, ex-convicts 
and criminals have been enabled to pur¬ 
chase and carry weapons under protec¬ 
tion of the Sullivan law. was exposed 
Nov. 8, when Frank T\ Seaman, police 
magistrate of Mineola. N. Y., admitted to 
Judge William H. WacWnims in General 
Sessions, New York City, that during the 
last eight months he has signed at least 
200 permits in blank. Magistrate Sea¬ 
man received $2 or more for each per¬ 
mit, he said. Most of the permits were 
turned over to an_ agent, who sold them 
for as ranch as $50 apiece, according to 
'nformation secured by Assistant Dis¬ 
trict Attorney Alfred J. Talley. The 
first intimation the police had that some¬ 
thing was wrong with the operation of 
the Sullivan law came when they arrested 
Harry Thaler, alias Trone. an ex-convict; 
Fiori Gramaldi, accused of murder; A. 
Baum, thrice convicted of crime, and 
other dangerous criminals, each of whom 
displayed a permit signed by Seaman au¬ 
thorizing him to carry concealed weapons. 
A sweeping investigation into the alle¬ 
gations that graft has been paid to rail¬ 
road employees by shippers for preferred 
treatment in the Summer and Fall in the 
distribution of box and open-top freight 
ears and for the preferred movement of 
freight in transit, was launched Nov. 4, 
by the Interstate. Commerce Commission. 
If the evidence is deemed sufficient the 
matter will be turned over to the De¬ 
partment of Justice. Charges recently 
made by Gibbs L. Baker, attorney for the 
Wholesale Coal Dealers in New York 
City, concerning graft paid to employees 
of the railroads and the preferred move¬ 
ment of cars in transit were primarily 
responsible for the Commission taking its 
action. The inquiry is aimed also at the 
reports that forged permits have been 
used for. the priority movement of coal 
in transit and that the figures of the 
permits have been raised by adding 
ciphers and changing numerals to a 
higher figure, which resulted in- the move¬ 
ment of a larger number of cars under the 
permits than was contemnhited when they 
were issued by the officials of the rail¬ 
roads. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Four men 
from the Bronx went hunting Nov. 1, in 
Nassau county, N. Y. They brought 
down 44 bh-ds, to wit: 26 white throated 
sparrows, nine fox sparrows, one meadow 
lark, one blucjay, four wood robins and 
three chewinks. The small sizn and the 
species of the 44 birds were displeasing 
to John J. Ward, Assistant. State Game 
Warden. He brought the hunters before 
TO. T. Neu, Justice of the Peace at I.yn- 
brook, who fined them $100 apiece. The 
men paid the fines, giving their names as 
John Posse. James Fillipelli, Michael 
Nardi and Joseph Nardi. 
November 20, 1920 
Farmers, shippers, railroad men, ]j V e 
stock handlers and packers met at. Chi 
cago Nov. 5, to devise means by which 
they hope to‘reduce to a minimum th 
yearly loss of 18,000,000 pounds of ra „., 
by damage to livestock. E. S Water 
bury, vice-president of Morris & Co ‘ and 
chairman of the committee on bruised 
livestock of the Institute of American 
Packers, stated that 3,716,141 pounds of 
meat was removed last year on accoum 
of bruises to cattle slaughtered under 
Federal inspection. He placed the es¬ 
timated number of bruised cattle amomr 
those thus slaughtered at 2,926 095 
New York State lost Nov. 9, its effori 
to collect $294,191.68 from the Federal 
(lOvernment as a rental for 4,523 horses 
and mules which went to the Mexican 
border during the 1916 National Guard 
mobilization. The State is not entitled 
to the money, according to a decision 
handed down by the Court of Claims 
The animals were part of the cquin 
ment of the State’s Guard division. 
The New York State Federation of 
Agriculture will hold its farm convention 
at Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 9-10. 
WASHINGTON.—An almost endless 
recital of waste, graft, bribery and cor¬ 
rupt practices in Government construc¬ 
tion and operation of ships at the present 
time was given Nov. 9, before the select 
committee of Congress on United States 
Shipping Board operations by two inves¬ 
tigators, who were employed a year ago 
to inquire into alleged abuses and sub¬ 
mit a report. Representative Joseph 
Walsh of Massachusetts is chairman of 
the committee, which met at the Federal 
Building. J. F. Richardson, one of the 
investigators, told the committee, to 
prove that the board has been over¬ 
charged, that a number of especially 
flagrant examples existed in New York, 
Norfolk, Charleston and Jacksonville! 
He told of one instance where the Hoard 
was charged $208 for replacing a dam¬ 
aged port light, when the usual charge 
was $8. In other cases, Mr. Richardson 
said, skilled mechanics’ wages were paid 
to inexperienced helpers and negro labor. 
In Savannah, he said, the Shipping Board 
paid from 90 cents to $1.20 an hour for 
white labor when the facts showed that 
the contractor was employing negro labor 
at an average cost of 25 to 40 cents an 
hour. He said that in the Savannah 
case the auditor of the Shipping Board 
refused to approve the charge and the 
contractor promptly went to the board’s 
district office at Norfolk and had the bill 
audited there; It. was shown that a bar¬ 
tender, made jobless by prohibition, got 
a job as bookkeeper with the Shipping 
Board at $6,000 a year. A house detec¬ 
tive at. the St. Regis- Hotel received pay 
from I lie Shipping Board as a “sailor,” 
though, he never had been on a ship. Con¬ 
tractors met just outside Shinning Board 
office to decide who would bid on pros¬ 
pective jobs. Defective forgings cause 
one broken propeller each day. Monkey 
wrenches and iron bars are “accidentally” 
dropped upon honest inspectors and time¬ 
keepers. A steward quit on fifth day of 
a 12-day voyage. His successor threw 
supplies overboard so as to get com mis¬ 
sions on new stock. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Nov. 17-18 — AUegauy-Steuben County 
Breeders’ sale, llolsteins, Hornell, N. Y. 
Nov. 20—Poland Chinas. D. E. Boley 
& Sons, Celina, Ohio. 
Nov. 23-24—llolsteins. Watertown 
Holstein Sales Company, semi-annual 
consignment sale. Watertown, Wis. 
Francis Darcey, manager. 
Dec. 2—Duroc-Jerseys. J. Elmer Long, 
Slaty Ridge Farm, Palmyra,. Pa. 
Dec. 3-4. Holsteins. Holstein Breed¬ 
ers’ Sales Co., Fond du Lac, Wis. 
Mar. 29-30, 1921—Holsteins. Water- 
town Holstein Sales Co., Watertown, 
W’s. F. Darcey, Sec. 
May 9. 1921—Holsteins. Brown 
County Holstein Breeders’ Sale at De 
I’ere, Wis. 
May 17, 1921—Holsteins. Wisconsin 
Holstein Breeders’ Sale, West Allis, Wis. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
National Grange, annual convention, 
Boston, Mbss.. November 10-19. 
American Royal Live Stock Show, 
Kansas City, Mb., November 15-20. 
Farmers* National Congress, fortieth 
annual session, Columbus, O., November 
10-19. 
Wisconsin Potato Growers’ Association, 
Potato Exposition, Milwaukee Audi¬ 
torium. Milwaukee, Wis., November 30- 
December 4. 
Dutchess County, N. Y., Poultry and 
Pet Stock Association, Poughkeepsie, N. 
Y., November 17-20. 
North Bergen County, N. J., Poultry 
Association Show, Westwood, N. J., No¬ 
vember 25-27, 
International Live Stock Exposition, 
Chicago, 111., November 27-December 4. 
Ohio Apple Show and American Pomo- 
logical Society, Columbus, O., December 
1-3. 
Seventh Annual Fanners’ Exposition, 
Toledo, O., December 2-10. 
New York State Federation of Agri¬ 
culture, farm convention, Rochester, N. 
Y., December 9-10. 
Illinois State Horticultural Society, 
sixty-fifth annual convention, Blooming¬ 
ton. Ill., December 15-17, 
Vermont State Poultry Show, B. P. 
Greene, secretary, St. Albans, Vt., Janu¬ 
ary 4-7, 1921 
National Western Stock Show, Denver, 
Colo.. January 22-29. 
