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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 12, 1924 
Stevens Fertilizer Sower 
Saves Its Cost the First Year 
Makes your fertilizer or 
lime go farther and do 
more good. Sows in 
rows or broadcast, as 
desired. Force feed 
assures even sowing. No 
gears or springs in the 
box—just a simple, posi¬ 
tive agitator that can be 
depended on to keep the 
fertilizer flowing. The 
driver can adjust the 
feed without leaving 
his seat. Land gauge 
assists him in judging 
the right amount. 
Four sizes; one to fit 
your conditions. 
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pamphlets and prices 
Ask your dealer to 
show you the old 
reliable Stevens 
Fertilizer Sower. 
If he doesn’t 
handle it, we’ll 
ship direct to you. 
We also make 
Fertilizer Sowers 
for special pur¬ 
poses. Write today 
The Hampshire 
Implement Co. 
Dept. A, Hatfield 
Massachusetts 
Makers of 
Fertilizer and Lime 
Sowers 
Two-horse Stevens Fertilizer Sower, adjustable for one horse 
We are making it better than ever before 
Adventures in Silence 
By Herbert W. Collingwood 
h J _ i 
' I HIS is the first serious attempt 
A to interpret the peculiar and ad¬ 
venturous life of the hard-of-hearing. 
Beautifully bound in cloth. 288 Pages. 
Price $1.00, postpaid 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 W. 30th St. New York City 
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A GUARANTEED relief for 
Boils, Pimples, Bums, Infection. 
A White Greaselesa Ointment 
Introductory Offer : Aft 
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MINOX COMPANY, 38 Park Place, N. Y. 
CLOTHING 
FOR MEN 
Lot No. 117 R.N.—Mens and Young Mens One Pants Suits 
These garments have the desired snap and pep that every 
man wants. Made of a very neat stripe, fancy mixture pat¬ 
tern, in tan, brown, gray and tweed effects. The coat is 
half alpaca lined and the seams are all piped; a QF 
also comes in neat sport model. Trousers and «p I T.UD 
Vest cut according to regulation patterns and ^ 
well trimmed. Sizes 34 to 42. Only. 
Lot No. 124 R. N.—Young Mens Two Pants Suits 
This suit is made of an all-wool eassimere single-breasted, 
two-button model or three-button conservative model. The 
coat is one-half alpaca lined and the seams 
are all piped. Both pairs of pants are well 
trimmed and nicely tailored. Can be had 
in colors of tan, brown, gray, and blue 
striped mixtures, or tweed d* ^ ms A A 
patterns. Can also be had in«p I L.t«/ 
neat sport model. Sizes 34 to I *1 
42. Only . 
FOR BOYS 
Lot No. 140 R. N.—Boys’ Two Pants Suits' 
Made of 1 a good quality eassimere, up-to-date model, with yoke and 
pleated back. Loose all-around belt and flap pockets. Each suit has 
two pair of pants which are full lined and thoroughly AC 
reinforced. A D 
Can be had in colors of brown, gray, tan and blue. 
Fancy mixtures and stripes. Sizes S to 17 years. Only.. 
Lot No. 141 R. N.—Boys’ Two Pants Cassimere Suits 
Made of all-wool and wool mixed fine cassimere mater¬ 
ials. Latest yoke model with pleated back. Three patch 
and flap pockets; loose all-around, button belt. Each suit 
has two pair of pants which are full lined 
and well made. Can be bad in colors of fmm ns 
brown, gray, tan and blue mixtures and«J)' / . 
(weed effects or stripes. Sizes 8 to 17 M 
years. Only. 
OFFICERS’ STYLE 
Lot Wo. 306 R. N. 
SHOES 
A GENUINE BARGAIN —Officers’ shoes, dark cordovan 
shade, plain toe, Goodyear welt. All leather. Sizes 6 to 
11, in D widths only. Per pair . 
Lot No. 101 R. N.—U. S. Army Regulation Shoes 
Alt solid leather, Goodyear welt, costs our government $0 QQ 
many times our selling price. Sizes 8% to 12. Wide «p^r.OO 
Per pair . 
We pay postage C. 0. D.—You pay postage 
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We will gladly send you our catalog absolutely free containing hundreds of bargains in 
shoes, clothing and household goods. 
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DOMESTIC. — Ilelmuth P. Holler, 
president of Oriental University; Ralph 
A. Voight of Kansas City ; Sam Kaplan 
of Chicago, and Robert Adcox of St. 
Louis, were indicted by the Federal grand 
jury at Washington, March 27, charged 
with conspiracy to use the mails to de¬ 
fraud. The government charges that they 
represented Oriental University there as 
a “bona fide” university and issued de¬ 
grees in medicine.” 
Four Baltimore and Ohio trainmen 
were killed when a freight train on the 
Shawnee division went through a bridge 
south of Newark, Ohio, March 29. High 
water was said to have caused the trestle 
to give way. 
Fourteen persons were killed, hundreds 
were injured and heavy property loss was 
caused in a half dozen States by severe 
storms, March 28-29. Tornadoes, gales, 
wind, snow and hail swept the Mississippi 
Valley from Minnesota to Missouri and 
Kentucky. Eight persons were killed in 
a tornado at Shawnee, Okla., five are 
dead in Southeast Missouri and a boy 
was killed by lightning at Goffs, Kan. 
Thunderstorms were widespread through¬ 
out the affected States of Oklahoma, 
Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana 
and Kentucky. A hailstorm with the wind 
driving 55 miles an hour occurred in Chi¬ 
cago. Train service was delayed and 
wire service badly crippled, and radio for 
news sending was relied upon for a short 
time. Chicago had no connection with 
St. Paul except by way of New York and 
Winnipeg, and numerous _ Wisconsin 
points were isolated for a time. Texas 
was cut off from direct connection with 
Chicago for a time. Damage in Southern 
Missouri aud Northern Arkansas prob¬ 
ably will reach $500,000, according to re¬ 
ports. 
Five persons, members of an entire 
family, were drowned March 29 when a 
tree to which they were clinging was up¬ 
rooted and swept away by the flood wat¬ 
ers of the Potomac River at Kitzmiller, 
Md. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. 
Samuel Beeman, their two children and 
David Beeman, grandfather of the 
children. They had left their home when 
it was flooded and had sought safety in 
a tree. The force of the current, with 
their added weight, uprooted the tree 
and swept it away. Fifteen homes in 
Kitzmiller were carried aiyay by the 
flood. 
Twenty-four men were killed in a mine 
explosion at Yukon, McDowell County, 
W. Va., March 28, according to reports 
to the offices of the Yukon-Poeahontas 
Coal Company. The blast occurred about 
three-quarters of a mile inside the work¬ 
ings. 
Under an emergency message from Gov. 
Smith, the Senate and Assembly at Al¬ 
bany, March 31, passed the Dunnigan 
bill extending until April 1. 1925, the 
period in which new dwellings will be 
exempt from local taxation. Building 
started by that date will be free from 
taxation until April 1. 1932. The ex¬ 
emption law would otherwise have passed 
out of existence at midnight. Originally 
enacted in 1922, it is intended to foster 
construction of dwellings to relieve the 
housing shortage. 
Described by United States Attorney 
Hayward as the “first harvest” of pro¬ 
ceedings that will reveal frauds totalling 
“many many thousands of dollars” in the 
Veterans’ Bureau here, indictments 
charging seven New York dentists with 
filing false claims against the Government 
were filed by the Federal Grand Jury 
March 31. One indictment was sealed. 
The others named Charles Simonson. 291 
Broadway, in 18 counts; Irwin K. Girs- 
dansky, 233 E. Broadway, 13 counts; 
.ambert R. Oeder, 1215 Grand Concourse, 
seven counts; Irving H. Cantor 273 
Grand Street, eight counts; Charles J. 
Meyer, 208 W. 72d Street, six counts, 
and Nathan Fox, 2143 Seventh Avenue, 
nine counts. The maximum penalty is 
$500 fine or two years’ imprisonment on 
each count. The government charges, it 
paid for dental work on former service 
men that never was done. The indict¬ 
ments specify that extractions were 
charged and paid for of teeth that were 
found in patients’ mouths; that charges 
for filling teeth that never had known a 
cavity were made; that expensive bridge 
work was reported installed that could 
not be found by investigators, and that 
many other dental operations were paid 
for but never performed. 
During a violent snowstorm April l a 
rear-end collision on the elevated rail¬ 
road in Fong Island City. N. Y.. caused 
the death of one passenger and injuries 
to 13 others. 
The Woolworth Building in New York 
City, which is described as the world’s 
tallest office building, was sold April 1 
for $11,000.0000 cash. Its original cost 
was $13,500,000. 
Automobiles in New York State killed 
124 persons in March, an increase of 38 
over the same month last year, the Na¬ 
tional Highways Protective Society an¬ 
nounced April 1. March motor fatalities 
in New York City were 76. Trolley cars 
killed only one person ; one was killed by 
a wagon, and two at railroad crossings. 
WASHINGTON.—March 28 Attorney- 
General Daugherty resigned his office. 
His resignation, promptly accepted by the 
president, clears tne Administration 01 
the last of the Cabinet members who 
have been attacked in the oil scandals. 
Prominent naturalists, including W. T. 
Hornaday, Director of the Bronx Zoo in 
New r York, and Dr. E. W. Nelson, Chief 
of the Federal Bureau of Biological Sur¬ 
vey, appeared before the House Committee 
on Agriculture March 29 in support of 
tie Anthony-Brookhart Migratory Game 
Bird bill. Thfs bill provides that the 
Federal Government shall set aside re¬ 
fuges for game birds and shooting pre¬ 
serves to which hunters shall have access 
in the open season on payment of a 
license fee of $1. It is intended to sup¬ 
plement the treaty made with Canada to 
protect the wild life of the two countries. 
Dr. Nelson told the committee that ex¬ 
tinction of migratory bird life is threat¬ 
ened by^ the wide extension of drainage 
in the United States in recent years. He 
testified that, unless the government took 
steps to provide refuges for the game 
birds and supervised huntsmen in pursuit 
of them, in a short time they would en¬ 
tirely disappear. Representative Rubev 
of Missouri presented a brief in opposi¬ 
tion to the bill prepared by Arthur D. 
Holthaus of St. Louis, a former State 
Game Commissioner, who asserted that 
the. legislation proposed was supported 
mainly by men connected with arms and 
munitions corporation. Others who ap¬ 
peared were Wakefield Dort of New York, 
second vice-president of the American 
Game Protective Committee; Dr. B. 
1\ arren. State Game Commissioner of 
Pennsylvania; A. P. Baxter, head of the 
Ohio League of Sportsmen, and W. C. 
Adams of the Massachusetts Game Com¬ 
mittee. 
Future Fruit Market 
APPLE OUTLOOK AT LONG RANGE ; LESS 
NEW PLANTING. 
The orchard fruit outlook is a problem 
by itself, because the plans must be made 
at long range. The big apple crop in the 
odd year, 1923. with shipments of 120,000 
carloads this season, has caused some 
growers to wonder what we are coming 
to. A somewhat definite answer is pos¬ 
sible. 
Surveys of census returns and later re¬ 
ports from the great apple regions lead to 
the conclusion that the planter of an ap¬ 
ple orchard at present probably has less 
to worry about in the direction of general 
competition than at some other times. 
The worst will probably be over by the 
time his trees grow up. The orchards 
planted 15 to 25 years ago will continue 
to increase production for ten years, but 
not many have been planted the past 10 
years, and there are numerous old plant¬ 
ings which have seen their best days and 
year by year some of them are going out 
of commercial production. The great 
plantings in the Middle West about which 
so much fuss was made 25 years ago have 
been going to pieces as the result of num¬ 
erous severe freezes and the blister cank¬ 
er, so destructive to the Ben Davis va¬ 
riety. 
FEW TOUNG ORCHARDS 
The East is about holding its own, with 
little gain except in Virginia and West 
Virginia. The Northwest is increasing 
in production and the usual yield per 
acre on the fresh soil, with irrigation, has 
doubled that of the East; that is, about 
400 bushels per acre in the best sections 
compared with 200 in the East, but the 
West is not making many new plantings. 
Trees in the Northwest are closely set. 
They age rapidly under the forced 
growth induced by irrigation and are past 
the best producing age at 25 to 30 years 
from planting, at a time when a New 
York orchard is in its prime. Probably 
within 10 years, the Northwest apple 
production will have passed its high point 
for a long time to come. Meanwhile 
population is gaining a million or two a 
year, prevailing high wages increase the 
demand, and export trade has grown so 
that it took over 10 per cent of the sea¬ 
son’s great crop. Quite likely there will 
be a period of, say, from 10 to 15 years 
from 1925 onward when industry will 
have another boom. If so, orchards com¬ 
ing into production at about that time 
should be in a favorable market position. 
In the past, it has often proved true that 
a time of severe competition as at present 
was a time not to go out of business, but 
rather to plant new orchards. 
FUTURE RATHER PROMISING 
Altogether, the long-range outlook is 
rather promising and the high cost of 
nursery stock and labor will tend to 
check over planting. Just now many of 
the large new plantings are in the Shen¬ 
andoah and Cumberland Valley and, if 
circumstances permitted a planter to 
choose, probably no better locality could 
be found than this section with its good 
soils and long growing seasons. Another 
favorable location is the comparatively 
frost-free shore regions of the Great 
Lakes in Western New York and South¬ 
er Michigan, or close to large manufac¬ 
turing cities of the East, where the good 
markets offset almost any disadvantages. 
Each section has its good points and 
drawbacks. Skilled orchardists have made 
successes in every section, although it is 
better to be located in regions showing a 
generally high average of success. 
All that has been said for the distant 
outlook does not deny that we are likely 
to have very heavy average crops, per¬ 
haps increasing, as the present. G. B. F. 
