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WALSH SAMSON Other 
Style*, Breechingless, Back Pad, Side 
Backer*, etc., $66 to $88, Freight Paid. 
f d. M. 
WALSH 
Pres. _ 
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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—A suit for the dissolu¬ 
tion of the Amalgamated Clothing Work¬ 
ers of America, for an injunction restrain¬ 
ing the workers from picketing and for 
$500,000 damages was tiled January 20 
in the New York Supreme Court by J. 
Friedman & Co., acting in behalf of the 
®embers of the New York Clothing Man¬ 
ufacturers’ Association. The suit is simi¬ 
tar to the one brought recently in Roches¬ 
ter against the clothing workers and to 
the Danbury hatters’ case, each of which 
resulted in a victory for the manufac¬ 
turers. 
Joseph Jejois bought the Wesaukee, 
Wis., jail January 20 for $35, and will 
use it. for a woodshed. City officers, in 
explaining the sale, .said that since the 
Advent of prohibition the jail, which has 
been in service for 30 years, has been 
Idle. 
Practically the entire town of Killeen, 
Ala., was destroyed by fire January 23, 
iSve stores, the postoffice and three lodge 
lisalls being consumed. 
Six members of the family of James 
Adkins, living 14 miles north of Wash¬ 
ington Court House, <)., were burned to 
death January 23 when fire destroyed 
their home. Adkins is dying. The fire 
followed the explosion of a coal stove into 
which Adkins poured kerosene on hot 
coals in an effort to start it quickly. 
Ten negroes were killed, a score were 
injured, some probably fatally, and pro¬ 
perty damage estimated at $200,000 was 
caused at Memphis, Tenn., January 24, 
by an explosion of gasoline in a tank car 
at the plant of the Colyar-Reese Company. 
The blast wrecked a part of the oil plant, 
leveled a block of frame dwellings and 
ahook the entire north end of the city. 
Colyar Reese, president of the oil com¬ 
pany, attributed the explosion to sponta¬ 
neous combustion by the vapor, which 
escaped from the tank car when the 
metallic cap was removed preparatory to 
unloading the car, coming in contact with 
the atmosphere. The car. which contained 
8,000 gallons of gasoline produced by the 
Absorption process, was shipped from Kel- 
ieyville, Okla., and was loaded in a low 
temperature. 
A large part of the downtown business 
district of Athens, Ga., was in smoulder¬ 
ing ruins January 24 from a fire which 
swept three entire city blocks and dam¬ 
aged adjoining buildings, causing property 
loss of at least $4,000,000. No loss of 
life was reported. 
A plot to exterminate the entire force 
of prohibition enforcement officers operat¬ 
ing in Northern Alabama has been un¬ 
earthed. according to State Supervisor N. 
L. Pierce. Discovery of the plot, he said 
January 25. followed the arrest of 11 
S ersons in connection with the killing 
anuary 22 of Don Stephenson, a mem¬ 
ber of a prohibition squad, and the 
wounding at the same time of two other 
officers. Mr. Pierce declared there was 
reason to believe that State and county 
officers, as well as Federal, were marked 
for death. 
Governor Morrow of Kentucky said 
January 25 that he would ask the United 
States Government for troops, if neces¬ 
sary, to put down any outbreak by night 
riders, who have warned tobacco growers 
that their barns would be burned and 
their crops destroyed if they sold their 
product at prevailing prices. ITe sent 
word to all county authorities that he 
would support them in any movement 
Against the vandals. 
WASHINGTON.—By a margin of 13 
rotes the Senate January 24 passed the 
long-fought bill for Federal regulation of 
the meat packers and other agencies of 
the live stock industry. The vote was 46 
to 33, and the legislation, the center of 
bitter controversy for a decade, now goes 
to the House with its supporters hopeful 
of final action during the present session 
of Congress. All fundamental features of 
the legislation as presented by the Agri 
Culture Committee as a substitute for the 
original Kenyon-Kendrick bill were re¬ 
tained by the Senate. The bill would 
create a Federal live stock commission of 
three members appointed by the President 
to have jurisdiction over the live stock 
Industry. 
The House voted January 24 to appro¬ 
priate $360,000 for the free distribution 
of seeds by members of Congress. This 
is $120,000 more than was appropriated 
for the current fiscal year. The vote was 
82 to 72. This was the first time in 
years that the agricultural appropriation 
bill provided no funds for seed distribu¬ 
tion. Representative Langley (Rep.), of 
Kentucky, introduced an amendment em¬ 
bodying the appropriation, which was 
adopted after Representative Blanton had 
made an unsuccessful attempt to have it 
ruled out on a point of order. He de¬ 
nounced seed distribution as a “graft.” 
After the appearance January 25 of 
meting Secretary of State Norman II. 
Davis before the Senate Foreign Rela¬ 
tions Committee, where he made a lengthy 
statement with respect to the Island of 
Yap in the northern Pacific and laid be- 
Announcement that William J. Gra¬ 
ham, chairman of the select investigation 
committee of the House, intends to force 
the return to the Government of hundreds 
of millions of dollars, which, he charges, 
was lost to the people by the operation of 
the surplus property division of the War 
Department, has resulted in a flood of 
disclosures. One of these disclosures is 
that hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth 
of caterpillar tractors and other valuable 
road building machinery is in the posses¬ 
sion of the War Department, which will 
not turn it over to the highway building 
officials of the 43 States, as provided by 
laws now in existence, the charge being 
made that the manufacturers of some of 
this machinery obtained the insertion in 
War Department contracts that their 
product should not be used for other than 
war purposes. Much of this machinery 
is said to be rotting in open storage on 
the Mexican border, notwithstanding the 
fact that it is vitally needed for the road 
building programs of the various States. 
It is also charged that 11,000 typewriters, 
many of them in their original crates, 
have been tossed into great junk heaps in 
wooden shacks in Potomac Park, Wash¬ 
ington, where they are now rusting and 
rotting away. Glauses in the contracts 
of purchase of many of these provide that 
the typewriters shall not be sold for five 
years after the war, at which time they 
. will be obsolete. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Somer- 
set-IIunterdon County (N. J.) Holstein 
Breeders’ Association will hold their an¬ 
nual sale at the College Farm, New 
Brunswick, N. J., March 16. 
An open competitive examination for 
plant propagator, with a view to filling 
an $1,800 a year vacancy in the United 
States. Department of Agriculture staff 
at Chico, Cal., will be held on February 
23, 1021, according to an announcement 
of the United States Civil Service Com¬ 
mission. The examination will cover (a) 
practical questions on the handling and 
propagation of new plant immigrants; 
(b) a thesis on the conditions best 
adapted to the successful propagation and 
aftercare of new. plant introductions; and 
(c) evidence of practical experience along 
these lines. At least five years’ exper¬ 
ience in such work must have been had 
by every applicant for permission to take 
this examination. Additional information 
may be secured from the Commis.sion at 
Washington, D. C., or any of its local 
offices. 
A bill backed by the agricultural socie¬ 
ties of New Y'ork State, supported by 
organizations of sportsmen, and having 
for its purpose the protection of the 
farmer from the depredations of hood¬ 
lums armed with hunting licenses, was 
introduced at Albany January 25 by As¬ 
semblyman Charles II. Betts of Wayne 
County. The measure, which carries out 
one of the planks of the Republican plat¬ 
form adopted at Saratoga last July, pro¬ 
vides that no person shall take or disturb 
fish, birds or quadrupeds on any private 
lands used for farming or agricultural 
purposes, or trespass thereon for that 
purpose without the written consent of 
the owner or his agent. 
Establishment of public hunting 
grounds for devotees of rod and gun who 
do not belong to some particular hunting 
or fishing club was advocated at the clos¬ 
ing session of the annual meeting of the 
American Game Protective Association in 
New York January 25. Funds for the 
purchase of such land. Frederick C. Wal¬ 
cott, of New York, explained, could be 
raised by Federal hunting licenses. 
Farm Conditions in Tennessee 
No doubt many of you have dreamed of 
falling from some high elevation and wak¬ 
ing up just before you hit the ground— 
kaehug! If you have, you may form 
some idea of how we tobacco raisers feel, 
only we have actually experienced the 
“chug,” and if not crippled physically we 
are wrecked beyond repair financially. 
Twelve months’ hard labor has been le¬ 
gally stolen. In our own case tobacco 
was a side issue, the tw'o boys and my 
husband working about two acres. The 
canvas for beds was $6; the fertilizer was 
$5.50. The hauling bill was $7, and the 
check for upwards of 700 lbs. of tobacco 
was $19 and some odd cents. While not 
working steadily all the time, we have 
worked off and on at the crop for 12 
months. It has been especially hard on 
the children; such a, disappointment is 
hard to bear. Many farmers had gone 
in debt for high-priced farm machinery, 
stock and land. To such the prevailing 
prices spell ruin. 
Unless there is an adustment made and 
a fair price allowed for farm commodi¬ 
ties, some day some one is going hungry. 
Beans cannot be sold at all ; chickens are 
not worth the price of feeding; hogs, cat¬ 
tle, sheep, wool, cotton, etc., all below 
price of production. How can farmers 
better their living conditions when they 
work year in and year out for nothing, to 
feed the leeches and parasites? It is the 
farmers who should own the stockvards, 
the packing houses, the elevators, the cold- 
storage plants, etc. It is members of 
farming communities who should sell the 
fore Senators the minutes of the Peace farm products to the consumer, and bring 
Conference bearing on it, it became the big end of the consumer’s dollar back 
known that the State Department finds 
itself unable to make any progress in its 
policy of getting Yap internationalized. 
On the contrary, not only does Japan 
hold Yap. but Great Britain takes the 
r ition that the matter has been settled 
the Peace Conference and that if 
there is any adjustment of the future of 
Tap beyond that, it is for the United 
States and Japan to settle. 
to the farm, instead of loaning to the city 
banks for $3 per hundred, and charging 
the hard-pushed farmer brother $6 per 
hundred. They should keep their money 
working at home for home interests. Big 
victories are not easily won, and unless 
the farrpers combine their forces and stand 
up for their rights, they will continue to 
be Urn under dog. MRS. D. B. P. 
Washington Co., Tenn. 
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Dept. 286 
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