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DOMESTIC.—The captain and two 
officers were lost when the Atlantic Fruit 
freighter Glyndon sank 60 miles off Cape 
llatteras March 22. The remaining 24 
members of the crew were rescued by the 
steamship Cananova of the same line 
when the Glyndon sank in a fierce storm. 
A hint that local income taxes might 
well be substituted for the immense levies 
upon real estate was contained in a mes¬ 
sage submitted by Gov. Smith to the 
New York Legislature March 24. The 
message deals with the constantly mount¬ 
ing burden of taxation and the inefficacy 
of the present system. Without making 
specific recommendations for changes, 
Gov. Smith asked for creation of a State 
Commission which would investigate the 
nature and sources of taxation and sug¬ 
gest relief. Particular emphasis would 
be laid upon raising of funds for school 
purposes, which the Governor said, was 
not being efficiently managed. 
Mrs. Grace Zucker was electrocuted by 
a hair-dryer after she came out of a 
bathing pool at Des Moines, Iowa, March 
24. Her wet hair caused an abnormal 
shock from the dryer, which usually car¬ 
ries only a small voltage. A pulmotor 
was used, but in vain. 
The White Star liner Olympic, bound 
for Cherbourg and Southampton with 1,- 
170 passengers, collided with the Fur- 
ness-Bermuda steamship Fort St. George, 
carrying 275 tourists, in mid-stream or 
the North River off 18th St., shortly 
after 11 a.m. March 22, as both vessels 
were leaving New York. Three persons 
on the Bermuda boat were injured and 
were treated by the ship’s surgeon. The 
(flvmpic was slightly damaged but dam¬ 
age to the Fort St. George was said to be 
about $150,000. 
One hundred and fifty automobile tour¬ 
ists and 45 cars were marooned in a 
great snow blockade at Kendall, a little 
station on the Santa Fe in extreme West¬ 
ern Kansas, March 21. Appeals to Gov¬ 
ernor Davis were made for help in re¬ 
moving the blockade. The Governor di¬ 
rected county officials and highway en¬ 
gineers to rush to Kendall and open the 
trail, over which California and Colorado 
tourists were traveling east. The recent 
snowfall at Kendall was two feet deep. 
A blizzard was raging, piling up drifts 10 
feet high on the old Santa Fe trail. 
Emanuel Rivero of No. 1-0-1 140th 
St., South Ozone Park, Queens, N. Y., 
was awarded $6S,000 by a jury before 
Supreme Court Justice Benedict March 
21 in his suit against the Ninety-two 
Bleecker Street Corporation, which owns 
a 10-story building at the address m Man¬ 
hattan. Rivero said that, Oct. 10, 10--,, 
he fell six stories down an elevator shaft 
there, due to a door being open. His left 
leg was amputated and he was brought 
into court on a stretcher to testify. Ri¬ 
vero, a Porto Rican, is a school teacher 
and veteran of the war. 
Four mail bandits slugged a post office 
messenger at Harvey, a southern suburb 
of Chicago, March 25 and escaped with 
two sacks of registered mail known to 
have contained at least $135,000 in cur¬ 
rency. The bandits were armed with re¬ 
volvers and sawed-off shotguns. The rob¬ 
bers fled in an automobile toward Chica¬ 
go, ramming a light motor truck off the 
highway north of Harvey and outdistanc¬ 
ing pursuers. The rifled mail sacks, rip¬ 
ped open, with a number of registered ’ot¬ 
ters. later were found strewn along a 
road near Hammond, Ind. 
Two women and a man^ were probably 
mortally injured March 25 when a sedan 
in which they were riding was struck by 
a trolley on Harrison Ave., Harrison, N. 
,T. One of the women was hurled under 
the wheels of the trolley car and her right 
leg severed. The other occupants of the 
automobile were thrown against the side 
of the street car and injured internally. 
The woman who suff red loss of her leg 
is Mrs. William' Murray Hills, No. 1 
West 104th St., Manhattan. The other 
injured woman is her daughter, Miss 
Louise Q. Hill. The sedan was driven 
by «. ohn J. Scallan, No. 1200 South 
Broad St.. Newark, president of the Fore- 
AYheel Drive Car Company of that city. 
The injured are in St. Joseph’s Hospital, 
Newark. -The accident occurred when Mr. 
Scallan swerved his car to avert colliding 
with a heavy motor truck. 
WASHINGTON.—The House March 
24 by a vote of 240 to 97 passed the reso¬ 
lution offered by Representative Hamil¬ 
ton Fish Jr, (R., N. Y.). providing for 
an appropriation of $10,000,000 for Ger¬ 
man relief. The chief objection was on 
the constitutional ground that the Con¬ 
gress does not have power to vote money 
for charity. The proposition found hear¬ 
ty acceptance from the agricultural mem¬ 
bers who pointed out the measure would 
aid the farming sections. The resolu¬ 
tion provides that the President shall 
purchase $10,000,000 worth of foodstuffs 
in the United States to be transported to 
Germany in American vessels. 
The Couzens committee, which is inves¬ 
tigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue, 
March 24 requested Nelson Hartson, so¬ 
licitor for the bureau, to furnish it im¬ 
mediately with all papers relating to as¬ 
sessment of taxes and giving of refunds 
to corporations in which Secretary of the 
Treasury Mellon is interested. This action 
was taken after Senator Couzens had 
produced copies of several letters and 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
memoranda concerning the Standard Steel 
Car Company, which purported to show 
at the request of Mr. Mellon, this com¬ 
pany—also called a Mellon concern—was 
made the subject of special consideration 
in the way of speedy examination by the 
bureau. 
The House March 18 passed the $2,- 
000.000,000 soldier bonus bill by a vote 
of 355 to 54, a majority of more than 
two-thirds. The bonus bill as passed by 
the House provides World War veterans 
with paid-up 20-year endowment life 
insurance policies, with cash payments 
only to those not entitled to more than 
$50 in adjusted compensation. The in¬ 
surance may be converted into cash at 
the end of 20 years, when it is estimated, 
82 per cent of the veterans will be alive. 
Payment is at the rate of $1 a day for 
home service, and $1.25 for overseas duty, 
the first 60 days of service not counted. 
It is estimated that 4,477,412 men were 
World War veterans on Jan. 1, 1919, but 
183,805 have since died. To provide for 
compensation proposed for them in the 
bill passed by the House, $50,318,772 
would be needed. Those who served 60 
days or less would get nothing under the 
bill. Those who served from 60 to 110 
days could choose cash payments of $1 
a day for their services over 60 days. 
There are 389.583 of them. The rest. 3,- 
03S.2S3, would receive insurance, calcu¬ 
lated on a basis of $1 a day for home 
service and $1.25 for foreign service over 
the first 60 days. Twenty-five per cent 
would be added to this sum to get the ad¬ 
justed compensation. To reach the value 
of the policy, this figure would be multi¬ 
plied by an arbitrary factor, ranging 
from 2,545 for men of 20 to 1,889 for 
men of 65. The amount to be paid in 
cash to those who served less than 110 
days would be $14,799,470. 
Ration for Grade Herd 
I would like your suggestion on a bal¬ 
anced and economical ration for five milk 
cows. Cows are of mixed breeds, perhaps 
would be called “scrubs,” but are fairly 
good milkers, and we have plenty of corn, 
Alfalfa, clover hay and mixed clover and 
Timothy. I would like to have you sug¬ 
gest some millfeeds which could be fed at 
a profit. I feed each cow a quart of cot¬ 
tonseed meal every evening. E. J. d. 
Ohio. 
Of course you would need to supple¬ 
ment corn with some protein concentrate 
like cottonseed meal or linseed meal. 
However, experience does not justify the 
use of corn and cottonseed meal exclusive¬ 
ly as a basis for a grain ration. Granting 
that corn would provide the most econom¬ 
ical source of energy and that cottonseed 
meal would provide the most economical 
source of protein, the fact remains that 
more variety, more bulk, and a wider 
source for the proteins is necessary for 
the best results. 
By millfeeds I assume that you refer to 
bran and wheat products. For dairy cows 
bran is more desirable and economical 
than middlings or millfeed. This is be¬ 
cause it provides bulk in addition to es¬ 
sential mineral constituents which it con¬ 
tributes. Assuming that you would be 
desirous of mixing a batch of 500 lbs. of 
feed at a time, and that a mixture carry¬ 
ing 20 per cent of protein would best 
serve your purpose, this can be realized 
by combining the feeds as follows: 200 
lbs. of corn or hominy, 50 lbs. 43 per cent 
cottonseed meal, 150 lbs. wheat bran, 100 
lbs. linseed meal. 
Feed the grain in two equal feedings 
morning and night, and let the cows have 
the Alfalfa or clover hay during the mid¬ 
dle of the day. If it is necessary to util¬ 
ize the mixed hay, feed some of this after 
the grain feedings, morning and night. 
There is a distinct advantage in feeding 
the legume hay during the middle of the 
day, for at this time cows will have a 
keen appetite, and it would seem that 
digestion is aided materially by this pro¬ 
cedure. 
So far as the amount of grain to use is 
concerned, I should feed 1 lb. of grain for 
each 3^4 lbs. of milk produced per cow 
per day. For cows which give more than 
40 lbs. it would be well to increase the al¬ 
lowance of cottonseed meal, although a 
20 per cent feed supplemented with Al¬ 
falfa hay is sufficient for the average cow 
on the average farm. From your ex¬ 
perience you know that it pays to feed a 
ration that is well proportioned and that 
will enable the cow to function most ef¬ 
ficiently. F. c. M. 
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been butted by a pet sheep. “But what 
did you do,” his mother demanded, “when 
the sheep 1 nocked you down?” “I didn’t 
do nothin’,” Bobby declared protestingly. 
“I was gettin up all the time.”—Onward. 
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