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IfK RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December I, lyuo 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Sixteen men of a woods 
crew of 83 who were being carried across 
Chesuneook Lake, Me., in a motorboat 
November 18 were drowned when the 
boat took fire and all hands were obliged 
to jump overboard. The men were being 
taken by A. Y. McNiel of Bangor to the 
Cuxabexis camps of the Great Northern 
Paper Company. The fire, which is sup¬ 
posed to have caught around the gasoline 
well from a spark from a pipe of one of 
the men, started when the boat was a 
mile and a half from Chesuneook village 
and nearly a quarter of a mile from 
shore. Many of the men could not swim, 
while others who ordinarily might have 
been able to reach shore sank from ex¬ 
haustion, chill or the effects of burns. 
Sentences ranging from seven years’ 
imprisonment in the Federal penitentiary 
at Leavenworth to six months in the 
county jail and fines of from .$1,000 to 
$10,000 were imposed on officials and 
directors of the Consumers Packing Com¬ 
pany by Federal Judge Evan A. Evans 
at Chicago November 10. The defendants 
recently were convicted of conspiracy to 
use the mails in a scheme to defraud. 
Among those sentenced to Leavenworth 
are A. J. Messing, former rabbi and a 
director of the company. Three and a 
half years’ imprisonment and a fine of 
$1,500 was his sentence. Edward J. 
Ader, secretary, was sentenced to five 
years on each of 13 counts, the sentences 
to run concurrently, and to two years on 
two other counts. He will serve a total 
of seven years, and is also assessed a 
fine of $10,000. Eli Pfaelzer, president 
of the company, who pleaded guilty after 
the trial was begun, was fined $10,000. 
Miss Goldie Skolnik, secretary to the sec¬ 
retary of the company, was sentenced to 
the county jail for six monthk and fined 
$1,000. Other sentences w T ere: John M. 
Kantor, fiscal agent, $5,000 fine; Benja¬ 
min E. Turner, director, $3,000 fine; Ed- 
ward II. Troost, director, $2,500 fine for 
conspiracy and $500 for contempt in ap¬ 
proaching a juror during the trial, and 
Louis F. Davis, fiscal agent, $1,500 fine. 
Alberta is preparing for the first rush 
by airplane to the petroleum fields near 
Fort Norman, on the Mackenzie River/ 
900 miles toward the frozen north, her¬ 
alded by Dominion surveyors as richer 
than the oil lands of California. Nego¬ 
tiations already are under way, it was 
learned November 18, for the establish¬ 
ment of an aerial service out of Edmon¬ 
ton, with landing stages along the route 
provisioned with food and fuel for pros¬ 
pectors and flying machines. 
Co-operative manufacturing and selling 
establishments of women’s garments are 
to be established by the Ladies’ Garment 
Workers’ Union, according to plans being 
worked out by the executive board of the 
union at Baltimore, Officers of the or¬ 
ganization said November IS that they 
have capital for a $1,000,000 concern. 
James Bolton, a farmer, whose home 
near Germantown, Md., was dynamited 
November 18, died from injuries, bring¬ 
ing the death list in the explosion to 
three. Mrs. Hattie Shipley, Bolton’s 
housekeeper, and whose two small chil¬ 
dren were killed instantly, is believed 
mortally injured. Vernon Thompson is 
being held in connection with the explo¬ 
sion. 
Fire in an apartment house on West 
148th Street, New York, November 20, 
trapped tenants on the fifth floor, and 
caused the death of nine persons, includ¬ 
ing six of one family. Damage to the 
building was placed at $25,000. 
Damage estimated at more than $500,- 
000 was caused November 21 by fire 
which destroyed the stores of the F. W. 
Wool worth Company and Merceau & Co. 
in St. Joseph Street, Quebec. 
While reports from Philadelphia, Chi¬ 
cago and other large cities throughout 
the country indicate that vigorous mea¬ 
sures undertaken by the police have 
checked materially the wave of lawless¬ 
ness, crimes of violence continue to in¬ 
crease in New York City. Thee have 
been 40 murders in the five boroughs since 
October 1, 22 of which have thus far 
defied solution. Burglaries and thefts 
have so increased and have been marked 
by such daring it has been rumored for 
some time that the insurance companies 
have been considering advancing their 
rates for theft insurance. 
Fifteen aliens were denied citizenship 
by Judge Witmer in Naturalize Lon Court 
at Scranton, Pa., November 23, on the 
ground they would not make good citi¬ 
zens. All had claimed exemption from 
military service during the war, and for 
that reason were refused. They were 
given permission to apply once more 
after a seven year interval. 
Figures in a report by Robe-t C. Dom¬ 
ing, State Americanization Comm : ssioner, 
show that 24.72 immigrants will have 
come to' Connecticut in an 11 months’ 
period. Most of the newcomers were from 
southern Europe. 
Appointment of Mrs. Carolyn Votaw, 
sister of President-elect Harding, as 
head of the social,, service. department of 
the Public Health Service, was announced 
Nov. 23 by Surgeon General Gumming. 
Mrs Votaw, who recently resigned as 
a member of the Metropolitan police force 
of Washington, will have charge of the 
Public Health Service’s work with dis¬ 
abled former service men. 
Freight movement on American rail¬ 
roads during September continued to ex¬ 
ceed records for bulk, according to a 
statement Nov. 23 by the Railway Execu¬ 
tives Association. It amounted to 40,999,- 
842,000 ton miles, which was more than 
the total moved in any one month either 
prior to or during the war, though it 
was 1,706.992.000 ton miles less than the 
roads handled in August: of this year. 
Six men were burned to death Nov. 
23 in a fire at the Parrish mine of the 
Railway Fuel Company, nine miles south 
of Jasper, Ala., as a result of a gas ex¬ 
plosion in the mine. Ten others were in¬ 
jured, six of them seriously, and three of 
them died later, bringing the total deaths 
to nine. 
WASHINGTON.—It cost the United 
States Shipping Board $300,000 to dis¬ 
cover that the War Department owed it 
8208.000,000, and it will cost the War 
Department an equal amount to verify 
the account, aeording to testimony given 
by Martin J. Gillen Nov. 18 before the 
Congressional committee Investigating 
the affairs of the Shipping Board. The 
lack of system in „keeping the books of 
the Shipping Board, the witness asserted, 
particularly as to money owed to the 
Board, had enabled the organization to 
function since last Spring without an 
additional appropriation, on funds col¬ 
lected on outstanding bills. Mr. Gillen 
formerly executive assistant to the chair¬ 
man of the Board, said that he had urged 
the Appropriation Committee of Congress 
not to grant more money to the Board 
until it had collected its bills, as it was 
“an awful easy thing to write checks 
against appropriation.” 
Recommendations to Congress for the 
creation of an additional office in the Fed¬ 
eral Government—a Comptroller General 
of the United States—to supervise the an¬ 
nual balance sheet of the nation are under 
consideration by officials of the Treasury. 
In his annual report to Secretary 
Houston, Comptroller Warwick of the 
Treasury recommends centralizing the ac¬ 
tivities of a general accounting office under 
a Comptroller General by means of a legal 
and administrative staff control made up 
of the heads of acounting departments, as 
designed in the budget bill passed by 
Congress at its last session but vetoed 
by President Wilson. 
Secretary Baker announced Nov. 23 
that he had revoked permission granted 
to the Western Union Telegraph Com¬ 
pany last May to lay certain cables in Bis- 
cayne Bay, Miami, Fla. There has been 
an unpleasant controversy between the 
Western Union and the Government for 
some time, and recently the telegraph 
company declined to take any Government, 
messages unless tolls were paid in ad¬ 
vance. 
Marguerites Under Glass 
Will you give instructions for culture 
-of marguerites under glass', giving best 
method of propagation and general care? 
New York. j. u . G. 
Marguerites are very easily propagated 
by inserting the cuttings in sand in a 
shaded bed; same as carnation or ger¬ 
anium cuttings. The cuttings should be 
put in the sand early enough to allow the 
plants to be potted in about 2 1 /£>-in. pots 
and the pots be well filled with roots be¬ 
fore planting in the field. They trans¬ 
plant from the field in the Fall rather 
easily, either into the solid bed or into 
larger pots. If jdanted into large pots 
they will bloom earlier, and possibly more 
freely during the Winter months than if 
planted where they have unlimited root 
action. Any plant that is to be lifted 
from the field in the Autumn and trans¬ 
planted indoors will move better if it is 
planted in the field in the Spring from a 
pot or dirt band than if simply lifted from 
a bed or bench where the roots can wan¬ 
der at will. The pot confines the roots 
considerably, with the result that the 
ball of root« formed by the potted plan* 
will be more compact in the Fall, and 
when the plant is lifted more of the roots 
will remain than would be the case where 
they are more straggly. All buds must 
be kept cut off the plants during the Sum¬ 
mer. Soil should be same texture as 
would be used for Chrysanthemums, and 
about the same care as to watering and 
insects. e. j. w. 
Planting Hickorynuts 
When is the Tight time to plant hick¬ 
orynuts? Do you take the outside shuck 
off or not, and how deep should the nuts 
be put in the ground? J. w. H. c. 
Middletown, N. Y. 
Planting of hickorynuts is often done 
in the Autumn, but to lessen the destruc¬ 
tion by rodents it is more safely done in 
the early Spring. When such is the case 
the freshly gathered nuts, after removal 
from the hulls, should be stored in slight¬ 
ly dampened sand during the Winter. 
Uniformity of growth is promoted by 
planting nuts where trees are to stand, as 
the transplanting process in ordinary sea¬ 
sons is accompanied by considerable loss. 
If trees must be transplanted, it is prob¬ 
ably best to transplant annually in nurs¬ 
ery rows, in rich soil, to promote growth 
of the fibrous roots and to lessen the 
shock of final transplanting to the per¬ 
manent location. t. h. t. 
Root-grafting and Budding 
1. Two years ago I planted some pear 
seed for root-grafting purposes; there 
were 15 large enough to use. The small 
ones were left to grow. Can I use those 
two-year-old trees for root-grafting, or is 
there a better way? 2. Can the peach be 
root-grafted successfully? I know how 
to root-graft, but have never done any 
budding. .T. h. d. 
West Point, Va. 
1. The two-year-old pears can be used 
for root-grafting as well as the one-year 
seedlings. The same kind of seedlings are 
used for root-grafting as for the budding. 
The principal difference is the time of sea¬ 
son, root-grafting being done during the 
dormant season and budding during the 
Summer. 
2. Peaches are the easiest fruit to bud, 
and I would recommend this process, 
though the grafting method could be used. 
T. H. T. 
Culture of Horseradish 
How many horseradish plants are set 
to the acre? How far apart should they 
be planted? Which is the better way to 
plant them, hills or rows? What is the 
best time of year to plant? They will he 
grown a few miles from Buffalo, N. Y. 
Do they have to be transplanted like to¬ 
matoes to get best, results? How long 
from time of planting will roots be ready 
to grind for the market? H. c. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Horseradish rarely produces seed, so 
root, cuttings are used for planting. They 
are made from the small side roots re¬ 
moved from the main roots when trim¬ 
ming the product for market. They are 
usually (5 in. long and % in. through, 
though we have used smaller roots. By 
cutting the top off square and the lower 
end slanting, mistake in planting is avoid¬ 
ed. When trimmed in the Fall the roots 
are bunched and stored over Winter in 
sand, for the Spring planting. The rows 
are laid out 3 ft. apart; and furrows 
plowed, and the roots set. vertically 18 in. 
apart, with the top about 3 in. below the 
surface of the soil. Some early cultivated 
crop, such as peas, may be grown in 
rows between the horseradish rows, this 
giving a return early in the season. There 
are 9,680 plants per acre with plants 
spaced as recommended. Thorough culti¬ 
vation is practised, and as most, growth 
occurs late in the season, the crop is left 
as long as possible before harvesting. The 
roots are dug and trimmed and the side 
roots saved for the next season. It. is 
treated as an annual crop. t. h. t. 
Trying to test mental ability of the 
children, the school inspector wrote upon 
the blackboard: “Do not play with 
matches; remember the Fire of London,” 
and asked the children to invent similar 
pearls of wisdom of the same type. On 
returning to the class after i specting 
other standards he found only one boy 
had genius enough to fulfil the demand, 
and his effort was: “Do not spit.; remem¬ 
ber the flood.”—London Morning Tost. 
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There is a parallel between animal and plant 
nutrition. Crops grow faster, develop more fully 
and yield more abundantly when plant foods are 
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available from germination to maturity. 
But, each crop should have the "ration” suited 
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