the lack of organized effort in the coun¬ 
try, has obtained a business advantage. 
* * $ *!• # 
My own opinion is that farmers in the 
past have been in large part responsible 
for this. For example, when I was a boy, 
it became very evident to us that city 
people were having many comforts and 
conveniences which were denied us. It 
became evident that we never could get 
them unless we went to the city after 
them. The older men of that time could 
not seem to grasp the idea that “youth 
must be served.” Most of those men at 
that time had capital—not much, per¬ 
haps, but a little. A great majority of 
them invested money in city or town en¬ 
terprises. or in Western farm lands— 
practically never in the farm or the home. 
The city enterprise was sure to pull the 
young folks away, and the Western farm 
was sure to drive the Eastern land out of 
business. Had they reversed their plan, 
and put their money into their farms. I 
think it would have been more like trim¬ 
ming the old apple tree close to the trunk 
so that the wound would heal over. But 
the log has gone to ashes. It is time to 
adjourn. Let's take up your second ques¬ 
tion tomorrow night. H. w. c. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The Jahncke Dry Docks 
below New Orleans were destroyed and 
four steamships were damaged December 
16 by fire caused by the breaking of an 
electric wire, which fell into the Missis¬ 
sippi River, creating a short circuit and 
igniting oil spilled from a tanker. No 
lives were lost. Damage to the docks was 
estimated at $2,000,000 and to the vessels 
at $200,000. 
December 17 20 members of the Cut 
Stone Contractors’ Association who were 
recently indicted on charges growing out 
of the Lockwood committee’s housing in¬ 
vestigation pleaded guilty to violations <>f 
the Donnelly anti-trust law in New York 
City. After pleas of leniency were made 
by their counsel, former Judge Clarence 
,f. Shearn. and by Samuel TTitermyer, 
counsel for the committee. Justice Mc- 
Avoy. of the Supreme Court, before 
whom they appeared, imposed flues of 
$2 ."00 each upon the individuals and the 
corporations they represented, bringing 
the penalty of each firm up to $.">.000. 
the full amount allowed by the law. 
December 20 the extraordinary grand 
jury handed down 52 additional indict¬ 
ments. Violation of the Donnelly anti¬ 
trust law is charged. The defendants in¬ 
clude 27 individuals, all engaged in the 
plumbing trades. The accused were all 
members of the John T. Hettrick “Code 
of Practice” group of plumbers, and were 
known to the trade as the “10." Broadway 
Crowd.” This is the address of Hettrick. 
the alleged author of the “Code of Prac¬ 
tice” scheme of collusive bidding. TTet- 
trick. already under indictment with the 
confessed guilty cut stone ring of con¬ 
tractors who subscribed to the scheme, is 
also accused with the present list of 
plumbers. 
Charges that New York State hospi¬ 
tals are profiteering on amounts allowed 
them by the Government for the rehabili¬ 
tation of wounded men were made before 
the House Committee on Public Buihljngs 
and Grounds at Albany December 17 by 
TT TT. Raege of the national legislative 
committee of the American Legion. lie 
charged that the legion had found that 
while the Government was paying tin' 
State about $5 a day to care for these 
men. the actual cost to the State had been 
cut to about 00 cents. Some wounded 
men are being cared for in county poor 
houses. Air. Raege declared. Surgeon- 
General Gumming of the Public Health 
Service substantiated in part the charges 
of the legion representative and joined 
with, him in recommending that all 
wounded men now in State hospitals be 
removed to institutions of the Public 
Health Service. 
Fire in the Lutheran Orphans’ Home 
at Germantown. Philadelnhia. December 
10. caused a loss of $100,000; OS little 
girls were rescued by the matrons. 
Branded as a witch, blamed for sick¬ 
ness, death and misfortune in her neigh¬ 
borhood and threatened with burning at 
the stake, Mrs. Augustino Catario. 7" 
years old. of Ellwood. Pa., has appealed 
to the law for protection. In the mean- 
tune Antonio Capriano. accused by Airs. 
Catario of starting the witchcraft fstory. 
is under arrest. Airs. Cataria said that 
women avoided her in the street, that 
children tied in fright and that she was 
ostracized by neighbors. Threats had 
been made, she said, that unless she left 
Ellwood city she would be tied to a stake 
and burned to death. 
William J. Aloulton <>f Westwood. N. 
J.. an employee of the A'ocational Train¬ 
ing Board, with headquarters in Eighth 
Avenue, near Thirty-fourth Street, was 
sentenced Dec 20 bv Judge Augustus 
N. Hand in the United States District 
Court, New York to serve one year and 
one day in the Federal penitentiary at 
Atlanta, and also fined $1 for having 
forged and passed soldiers’ pay certifi¬ 
cates. According to the indictment. Aloul¬ 
ton. while employed by the ^ Vocational 
T—' 5 ning Board got possession of five 
soldiers’ pay checks aggregating about 
$2,100. They were the pay of five sol¬ 
diers who were confined in a sanitarium. 
Walter R. Alexander, sou of Secretary 
Alexander of the Department of Com¬ 
merce. was killed instantly Dec. 20 at 
Belling Feld. Washington, by the pro¬ 
peller of an airplane in which he was 
Dk rural n 
preparing to make a flight striking him 
on the head. 
A navy balloon which left the flying 
field at Rockaway Point. N. 17, Dec. 13 
flying north, was still missing Dec. 23. 
Search is being made in the Canadian 
wilderness northwest of Ottawa, and in 
the Adirondack forests. 
FARAI AND GARDEN.—The Con¬ 
necticut Agricultural and Industrial Ex¬ 
position will be held at Hartford. Jan. 21- 
2 <>. 
Secretary Roy P. AlcPherson has an¬ 
nounced the days of the annual meeting of 
the New York State Horticultural Society 
as January 12. 13 and 14 and the place 
at Exposition Park. Rochester. Besides 
the display of fruit and exhibits Air. 
McPherson promises that the educational 
features will equal those of previous years. 
The National Grape Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion will hold its second annual conven¬ 
tion at Cleveland. O.. January 11; head¬ 
quarters, the Hollenden Hotel. Secretary 
W. II. Asbury. Unionville, Lake Co., 
Ohio; O. AY. Johnson, president. 
Extension of the pink boll worm quar¬ 
antine to include the State of New Mex¬ 
ico was announced Dec. 17 at the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. The quarantine 
will effect the movement of lint and seed 
from Dona Ana County. Texas and 
Louisiana already are under the quaran¬ 
tine. 
Drastic recommendations for a greatly 
restricted cottou output in 1921. in an 
effort to increase the price of cotton, were 
made in resolutions adopted December 17 
at the nation-wide conference of repre¬ 
sentatives of the National Board of Farm 
Organizations at St. Louis. Present 
prices of cotton are 50 per cent less than 
the cost of production, it was declared, 
and to sell out at these prices means 
bankruptcy for Southern farmers. The 
resolutions urge farmers to store their 
cotton and to restrict the 1921 cotton 
EW-YORKER 
acreage to one-third of the land culti 
Vated. 
Admonition to stop trapping in an ef¬ 
fort to check the rapidly declining prices 
of raw pelts was sent to trappers through¬ 
out the world December 17 by the Inter¬ 
national Fur Exchange. St. Louis. Prices 
of raw hides have declined an average of 
50 per cent in the last year. Albert At. 
Ahern, vice-president of the exchange, 
explained, but these recessions have not 
been reflected materially in retail prices, 
as the furs being retailed at present were 
purchased at the peak prices a year or 
more ago. A fur auction scheduled to be 
held at the exchange December 20 was 
postponed until February, because of the 
unsettled conditions, it was explained. 
James A. Dorsey, cattleman, of Elgin. 
Ill., convicted of dealing in tubercular 
cattle, was recently pardoned by Presi¬ 
dent Wilson. Dorsey was sentenced to 
the Federal penitentiary by Judge Landis 
in 1918 for having swindled thousands of 
persons to whom he sold tubercular cows 
as “high grade blue blooded Ilolsteius.” 
Fse of the mails in his scheme laid him 
open to Federal prosecution. A new trial 
was denied by the Court of Appeals and 
he began his sentence .Tune 4. 1919. His 
sentence was commuted by President AVil- 
sou from eight to four years. That was 
.Tune 18. 1920. Later came Presidential 
clemency and the Elgin man’s release. 
The annual meeting of the Certified 
Alilk Producers’ Association of America 
will be held at the Ansonia Hotel. Broad¬ 
way and 73d Street. New York City, 
Tuesday and AA’ednesday. .Tanuarv 11 and 
12. Harry P. Winters, Albany, N. Y., 
is secretary-treasurer. 
In this mining region the farmers are 
receiving the following prices for farm 
products. Wheat. $1.75; corn, 70c- per 
bn., ears; oats, 65c; hay, $.”>0 per ton; 
15 
straw. $15 to $18; potatoes, $1.75 per 
bu.: pork. 15 to kV. dressed; beef. 16 
to 18c; chickens, live. 55c; eggs, 85c to 
$1 per doz.; butter, 60c. Alilk goes to 
Pittsburg market at 37%c per gal., de¬ 
livered. for 3.5 per cent, butterfat. with 
V- per gal. increase for each one-tenth 
butterfat over 3.5. Price is set each 
month by conference of the Dairymen's 
Co-operative Sales Co. and Pittsburg 
dealers. A majority of farmers in this 
section own their own farms and raise 
just what they can with the help of their 
own families, as it is almost impossible to 
hire efficient help of any kind, as the coal 
companies are paying from $5 to $6.50 
for ordinary laborers. Miners and skilled 
laborers make from $7 to $12 a day! 
AA'estmoreland Co.. Pa. w. j. m. 
AA heat. $1.65 bu.; corn, new, bbl.. 
$4.50; rye. $1.10 per bu.; oats, 60c. 
Apples, 40c per bu. ; potatoes. 65 to 80c 
per bu.; chickens, 23c per lb.; turkeys. 
46c: geese. 50c: guineas. 50c each : pig¬ 
eons, 10c each ; butter, 55c per lb.; eggs, 
doz.. 80c. Timothy hay. $24 per ton; 
clover hay. $20; wheat, straw, $8; hogs, 
16c per lb. The average of wheat per 
acre, about 22 bu.; oats, about 45 bu.; 
rye. about 18 bu. ; corn, about 50 bu. 
AA heat looks fair. We are paying from 
$30 to $00 a tou for fertilizer, and not 
very good at that. Labor is high and 
scarce. Milk cows, from $50 to $100 
each. c. t.. v. h. 
York Co., Pa. 
A til’EST called upon to return thanks 
for the distinguished strangers at a pub¬ 
lic dinner, said; “This is quite unex¬ 
pected ; in fact, when I came into this 
room I felt much like Daniel in the lion’s 
den. AA’hen Daniel got into that place he 
thought to himself, ’Whoever’s got to do 
the after-dinner speaking, it won’t be 
me.’ ”—Seattle Times. 
“Old Number One,” the first Oil- 
Pull, built in 1909, has worked ever 
since and isn’t half through. Re¬ 
pairs cost less than 5c a day. Own¬ 
ed by Frank Schultz, Agar, S. Dak. 
OilPulI Number 174, built in 1909, 
12 year9 ago. The owner, C. J. 
Chandler, Lincoln, Kan., says it 
will last another decade. The only 
renewed parts of motor 
are four piston rings. 
OilPulI Number 314, owned by F. 
Gasperich, Onida, S. Dak. Built in 
1909, it has cropped from 600 to 900 
acres a year. Pulls eight bottoms 
in soil so tough that eight horse9 
can’t pull a single bottom. 
“The Swamp Angel,” so named 
by proud admirers in Northern In¬ 
diana for its ten years’ work ia 
the muck of the famed Kankakee. 
Has a record of marvelous per¬ 
formance and economy. 
OilPulI Number 437,bought in 1910, 
owned by James Moss,Blue Island, 
Ill. Is still “young” after 11 years 
of hard, faithful work on the farm, 
and moving buildings at odd times. 
Buy a Tractor on 
Performance 
~~not Promise 
T HAT’S the one right way to buy a tractor—not on promises of 
what it may do, but on the record of what it actually has dona 
over a long period of years in the hands of thousands of owners. 
The twelve year performance record of the Rumely OilPulI tractor 
stands out as a safe guide post to the tractor buyer. 
The first OilPulI tractor, built over twelve years ago, is still on the 
job. And hundreds of other old OilPulls—still going strong—prove 
that unusually long life is the rule with the OilPulI, not the exception. 
And the OilPulI you buy today has the same basic features of design 
and in addition is greatly improved and refined through twelve years 
of field service and constant factory tests. That is why the OilPulI is, 
as it always has been, cheapest in cost per year of service. 
The OilPulI tractor has for years held all the world’s official tractor 
fuel economy records. It is the only tractor with which is given a 
written guarantee to successfully burn kerosene at all loads and 
under all conditions. 
Economy of upkeep is as marked. Less than $200 has been expended 
on “Old Number One” for repairs during its twelve years of work. 
Truly, it is the part of wisdom to prefer a tractor with a record of per¬ 
formance such as this and in addition you have the assurance of such 
splendid features as 25 % overload capacity, cooled with oil, double 
system of lubrication, Hyatt Bearings, and Rumely service including a 
factory trained expert for every ten tractors in use, scattered through¬ 
out the length and breadth of the land. 
There are four sizes—one to fit your farm—3 to 10 plow. Talk with 
your Advance-Rumely dealer or write us direct. 
ADVANCE-RUMELY THRESHER COMPANY, Inc. 
LaPorte. Indiana 
ADVANCE-RUMELY 
