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Th* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Listen 
You know now what 
package needs 
vour 
for the coming season are going to be. 
You also know that hv putting off placing an order 
early for your requirements you must either make a 
sacrifice in the quality of the fruit and vegetable con¬ 
tainers you get or else pay more for the same high 
quality packages that we can nonu quote at lower prices 
and assure you prompt deliveries. 
There will probably be more fruit and vegetable pack¬ 
ages of every type (excepting apple barrels) used this 
year than ever before. Get ahead of this demand by 
placing your order as soon as possible for anything you 
will need in 
Standard Fruit and Vegetable Packages 
It will cost you nothing to secure our prices non’ on 
your requirements, whether large or small, and you 
are under no obligations. Write today for quotations 
and compare them with any others for goods of the 
same high quality. 
W c supply direct to fruit-growers and market-gardeners all 
the most ^ approved standard types of baskets, boxes, crates 
and barrels for picking, shipping and storing every variety of 
fruit and vegetable. 
Get Our Free Buyers’ Guide 
it interested in farm, garden and orchard tools or supplies of any 
kind you should write for our “Handbook of Practical Information.” 
it is a handy reference book of the hest equipment for fruit and 
vegetable growers. 
FRUIT GROWERS SUPPLY CO., Inc. 
POTASH-MARL 
Makes Perfect LA WNS--Beautiful 
FLOWERS-LargerFarm CROPS 
Clean and Absolutely Odorless 
Strengthens and increases every crop 
on which used. A remarkable Soil Builder 
and l’lant Food. 
Highly recommended in U. S. Govern¬ 
ment and State Agricultural Reports. 
Prices—-F. O. B. Marlton, N. J„ 50-lbs.. 
SI; 100-lbs., S2; Ton, f30. 
Purchaser pays transportation charprs 
Send All Orders to 
AMERICAN POTASH-MARL CO., Inc. 
11 Thomas Street, New York, N. Y. 
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DRILLING 
A Paying Business 
Everybody wants a dependable fresh water sup¬ 
ply. The contractor with bis Ithaca Well Drill 
finds hardly any limit to his business. We supply 
standard outfits complete, mounted with power, or 
separate outfits to operate w it it your own engine or 
tractor. Widely adaptable in use—Water, (ias and 
Oil Wells, Blast Hole prilling. Prospecting for 
Minerals. Small investment starts operator in 
line paying, permanent business, all ltis own. 
Write for catalog. 
WILLIAMS .OS. 
432 West State St. Ithaca, 
N. Y. 
I 
When It Storms 
Your buildings and your lives are in no 
danger—no matter how near Lightning 
strikes—if you have Shinn-Flat protection. 
Shinn-Fiat 
Lightning Rods Protect 
The Shinn-Flat Conductor is the modem, 
scientific form of Lightning Rod. It is 
woven in a continuous flat cable of oure 
copper wires, one inch wide, with 
greater carrying capacity for electri¬ 
city. Over 200,000 buildings in the 
United States and Canada, including many 
Government buildings, are already 
protected by the Shinn System. 
Free Book Explains 
Lightning 
Send for a copy of our 
free booklet explain¬ 
ing the Cause and 
Control of Light¬ 
ning. 
W.C. Shinn Mfg.Co. 
I24S Litton Bldg. Chicago 
( 74 ) 
The Safety Zone 
MILK COOLER 
Get one now. Save the 
usual sour milk losses. 
Drives out animal odors 
and grassy flavor. By 
far the most efficient 
and easily cleaned 
cooler made. Reason¬ 
ably prompt shipment 
of orders. 
Write for prices at once 
or ask your dealer. 
A. H. REID CREAMERY 
AND DAIRY SUPPLY CO. 
69th St. and Haverlord Ave. 
Box D, Philadelphia, Pa. 
ILLS PEACH TREE BORER' 
Tbio method of destroying PEACH TREE BORERS 
—lo highly recommended by the U. 8. Department 
of Agrlenltnre. For circular write 
HOME PRODUCTS Inc. Rahway. N. J. 
FERTILIZERS 
We Recommend for 
Potatoes, General Trucking, Gardening 
Croxton Brand 
4-8-5 and 4-8-2 Mixtures 
Wo also soil Raw Materials, carloads or 
loss than carloads, as follows: 
NITRATE OF SODA 
SULPHATE OF AMMONIA AND 
PHOSPHATE 
BLOOD AND TANKAGE 
BONE MEAL 
MURIATE OF POTASH 
SULPHATE OF POTASH 
Address Dept. F 
N.J. FERTILIZERS CHEMICAL CO. 
Factory Croxton, Jersey City, N. J. 
Office, 60 Trinity Place, New York 
CANVAS COVERS 
Made of Heavy Waterproofed Double Filled Canvas. 
Free delivery including 3rd zone. 
6 x 12 feet . $ 6.12 9 x 16 foot.$12.24 
3x12 " . 8.16 10x16 “ .l.t.60 
0 x 12 “ . 9 18 12 X 16 ** . 16.32 
10 x 12 “ . 10.20 
other sizes made to order at same price per square foot. 
AMERICAN SAILMAKING CORPORATION 
DEPT. R, 49 & 61 FULTON ST., BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get 
a tiuick reply and a "square deal.” See 
guarantee editorial page. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Thirty special agents of 
the Department of Justice have been sent 
from the New York office to Nashville, 
Tenn.. to attend the trial of H. B. Crone, 
former Government chemist at the Old 
Hickory powder plant; Robert E. Carter, 
former traffic manager of the plant, and 
Abe Both and Flo Weilcr on charges of 
having conspired to rob the Government 
of $S00,000 worth of platinum. During 
the war .$2,000,000 worth of platinum at 
the plant was sprayed on Epsom salts 
and converted into a form ready for the 
making of sulphuric acid. When the 
armistice was signed the Government 
changed it back to tponge form, and 
$800,000 worth was missing, the bottles 
being filled with mud and nicotine. 
The last chapter in the investigation 
of the tragedy on November 14 in a mo¬ 
tion picture house at 6 Catherine street, 
New York, where six children were killed 
as a result of a panic started by a slight 
fire, was written April 1 in the Court of 
Special Sessions. Max Schwartz, one of 
t lie owners of the theater, who was con¬ 
victed recently of having admitted chil¬ 
dren not accompanied by guardians of 
parents, was fined $25. Schwartz’s part¬ 
ner in the theater. Bernard Weinberg, 
who was selling tickets at the box win¬ 
dow when the panic took place, got 60 
days in the workhouse. 
Mrs. A. G. Krebs, wealthy widow of 
Tnmaqua, Pa., told detectives at Toledo, 
O., April 1, she had been swindled out 
of $12,000 by confidence men whose con¬ 
vincing promises lured her from Florida 
to Toledo. The swindlers succcessfully 
resorted to the old trick of “getting inside 
tips on the stock market.” The widow 
entrusted her currency to the ringleader 
in a hotel in Toledo March 4. and when 
she returned three hours later he had fled. 
Mrs. Krebs early last Winter sold an 
apartment house in New York City and 
went alone to St. Augustine. On her 
daily visits to the postoffice there she be¬ 
came acquainted with “a distinguished- 
looking gentleman” and a woman he in¬ 
troduced as his wife. Another man ap¬ 
peared. The two then pretended to play 
the market by ostensibly putting up $10.- 
000 and quickly winning $6,000. Mrs. 
Krebs traveled to New York and pro¬ 
cured a certified cheek for $1,000. Then 
she tyent to her old home in Tamaqua. 
where she obtained the additional $11,000, 
losing all. 
The Federal Grand Jury handed up 
a presentment to Judge John C. Knox 
in New York. April 1, in which it was 
declared that unless the prohibition de¬ 
partment is to be brought into disrepute 
the standard and personnel of local en¬ 
forcement iigcnts will have to be im¬ 
proved. Dismissal of three prohibition 
agents is asked for because their testi¬ 
mony before the Grand Jury, of which 
Robert Adamson was foreman, is said 
to have indicated efforts to extort, money. 
The men named are Peter Beager. IT. I.. 
Everett and Saul Fassler. It was stated 
in the presentment that the Grand Jury 
had observed during the presentation of 
testimony by prohibition agents that al¬ 
most without exception the agents were 
pot men of a type of intelligence and 
character qualified to be charged with the 
enforcement of such difficult and impor¬ 
tant Federal laws. 
The childhood home of Ella Wheeler 
Wilcox, near Madison, Wis.. was de¬ 
stroyed by fire April 4. The structure, a 
frame building with a leanto in which 
Ella Wheeler wrote her first poem, was 
one of the oldest in the State. 
The first sworn testimony of alleged 
peonage conditions on the Jnsner County, 
Georgia, farm of John S. Williams, who 
the S.tato contends caused the murder of 
eleven of his negro farm hands to hide 
peonage from Federal agents, were made 
public at Covington. Ga.. during the trial 
of Williams on a charge of murder of one 
of the negroes. The State has summoned 
a score of witnesses, bv whom it expects 
to support the story of Clyde Manning, 
who declared, according to deputies, that 
he took part in the wholesale killing on 
order of Williams. 
The Federal Grand Jury handed up 
indictments Anril 4 against two members 
of the staff of Collector Byron B. New¬ 
ton. New Y T ork, charging Benedict R. 
Beckman, a customs appraiser’s examiner, 
•ind William JI. Cleverley. a customs in- 
speetor. with violating a section of the 
tariff act by taking sums of money from 
nassepgers on incoming ocean steamshins. 
Beckman is charged with taking $100 
from a passenger arriving on the Olympic 
October 6, 1020. and a similar sum fom 
i passenger on the Mauretania October 
23. It is alleged that Cleverley received 
85 from a passenger arriving on the 
French liner Touraine September 23. and 
the same amount, from a passenger on the 
American liner New York October 12, 
1030. 
The New York Senate passed April 4 
without opposition the Mullan bill abol¬ 
ishing on July 1 (be State military train¬ 
ing commission. This measure was recom¬ 
mended by Governor Miller. 
Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, the “Fly¬ 
ing Parson.” who won the transconti¬ 
nental air Derby from Michel Field. 
N. Y., to San Francisco and back last 
April 16, 1021 
year, raced the Knickerbocker Limited 
train from New York for Boston. April 5. 
and finally got so far ahead that he was 
able to land at I'rovidence and board the 
train. 
Efforts of Erwin R. Bergdoll, Philadel¬ 
phia draft evader, to obtain his release 
from the army disciplinary barracks in 
Leavenwo’rth, Kan., were defeated April 5 
when Federal Judge Pollock of Kansas 
City. Kan., denied Bergdoll’s application 
for habeas corpus. The decision was filed 
in the Federal District Court at Topeka. 
WASHINGTON.—Passports no longer 
are required of Americans leaving the 
ini ted States for foreign shores. An¬ 
nouncement to this effect was made by 
the State Department. April 4, although 
it was made clear that it is important 
that passports be obtained to prevent the 
vexations _ that m ! ay result in foreign 
countries if they are not procured before 
leaving t his country. The passport reg¬ 
ulations governing the incoming of aliens 
remain unchanged. The abolition of the 
requirements of passports for outgoing 
Americans is the result of an opinion 
from the Attorney-General to the effect 
that the passport control act of May 22. 
1918. was terminated by a joint resolu¬ 
tion of Congress passed March 3. so far 
as it relates to American citizens enter¬ 
ing and leaving the United States and 
aliens leaving this country. 
Japanese. Chinese and other aliens not 
eligible to citizenship in the United States 
\\ere held April 4 by the Department of 
Labor to be excluded from the privilege 
granted to men who served in the military 
forces during the war taking qut full 
citizenship papers after two years’ resi¬ 
dence in the country. Some courts, of¬ 
ficials said, already have granted citizen¬ 
ship unden. the. war-time legislation to 
races not otherwise eligible for citizen¬ 
ship. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The first all¬ 
water shipment of California lemons and 
oranges arrived at New York April 1 by 
the Shipping Board freighter Liberator, 
consigned to the California Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Exchange, and the impression of the 
shippers and the consignees is that a revo¬ 
lution in the transportation of California 
citrus fruits has begun. The present rail 
rate on lemons from California is $1 66 Vo 
a hundred, and this, the spokesman oT 
the Fruit Growers’ Kxchange said, is 
more than the industry can stand. The 
trade sot about finding out what could be 
done in the all-water way of transporta¬ 
tion. and six weeks ago sent a small ex¬ 
perimental cargo from San Pedro to 
Philadelphia. The experiment was a suc¬ 
cess. and then the shippers loaded the 
Liberator with 31.148 boxes of lemons, 
about .’>00 to the box, and 990 boxes of 
oranges, costing for shipment by wav of 
the Panama Canal 70 cents a'hundred. 
It takes about 3.5 or 36 days to get Cali¬ 
fornia fruit here by rail, and it required 
only 22 days for the Liberator to make 
the trip. The fruit was not refrigerated, 
but was ventilated, naturally and arti¬ 
ficially. Lemons, the expert said, keep 
better under ventilation than refrigera¬ 
tion. Another freighter, the Cramp, is 
on the way with a larger cargo than that 
of (he Liberator. 
Four hundred hens have 3>een entered 
in a three-year national egg-laying con¬ 
test starting at Murphysboro, Ill., No¬ 
vember 1. The contest was planned and 
will be conducted by Paul Arndt, high 
school instructor of vocational education 
at. Murphysboro. and his class of 40 boys. 
Wide interest has been aroused among 
poultrymen. and <80 breeders from widely 
scattered sections have registered 1 a pen 
of five hens each. Training the boys have 
had. according to Carl Colvin, State Su¬ 
perintendent of Vocational Training, will 
assure breeders that their poultry will 
receive the host attention. Busine*t men 
of Murphysboro and poultry raisers of 
tile vicinity have underwritten the race 
for $1,000. The bovs will market the 
eggs, providing chicken feed in return 
without cost. A market has already been 
arranged for in St. Louis. The privilege 
of selling the eggs, it is believed, will off¬ 
set the entire cost, of the contest. Trap 
nests will,be used to avoid any possibility 
that the hen that does the cackling gets 
undue credit for laying the egg. Poultry 
houses of the latest type are being erected 
by the high school boys on the school 
grounds. Breeders who send their hens 
to Murphysboro for the first year of the 
contest will be privileged to enter a relay 
of fresh birds the second year. 
With 744 head of milk cows for the 
German Government, tin* American steam¬ 
ship West Arrow of the Bull Steamship 
Line, will leave Baltimore Anril 9. The 
cows arrived from South Dakota in 35 
ears. Everyone of the cattle will be in¬ 
spected thoroughly before departure. 
The annual H. S. Firestone scholar¬ 
ship. carrying provision for a four-year 
university course, was presented April 5 
to Miss Katherine Butterfield. 37-year- 
old school girl of Weiser. Idaho. Miss 
Butterfield’s essay on good roads was 
chosen as tin* best in the national contest, 
in which 225.000 high school children par¬ 
ticipated. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
April 31—Cattle Feeders’ Day, Iowa 
State College. Ames, la. 
May 2-5—Thirteenth Annual Purdue 
Egg Show. Lafayette, Ind. 
May 33 — Annual meeting American 
Guernsey Cattle Club. New York City. 
May 19—Washington County, Pa., 
Guernsey Field Day, Washington, Pa. 
