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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 10, 1924 
At the door of the market 
F ARM shippers on the New York 
Central Lines have a great advan¬ 
tage over producers of agricultural 
products located in other sections of the 
country. 
The great city markets in the thickly 
populated industrial section traversed by 
the New York Central Lines are within 
easy shipping range of the farms and 
orchards located on the Lines. 
New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, 
St. Louis, Boston, Pittsburgh, Buffalo— 
eight of the eleven ranking cities in the 
country—are served by the New York 
Central Lines. Fifty million people are 
in this territory. 
With the constant increase in the popu¬ 
lation of the cities, farm shippers on the 
New York Central Lines are assured of 
an ever growing market. 
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•writes J. E. Meyers, of West Salem, 
Ohio. And from that day on Mr. 
Meyer’s crow troubles were over, 
“for," he said further, "I tested your 
Crow Repellent and found it to be 
just as you recommended." 
“Will never try to plant corn with¬ 
out it," is what C. C. Mulchmore, 
Pike, N. H., says about its value. 
“I could not find a hill pulled,’ , 
is the word we get from G. White 
Whitehall, N. Y. 
“I recommend it for every corn- 
raiser," is the way the letter reads 
from J. Putnin, Wolcott, Vt. 
"Crows give my corn-field a wide 
berth,” says H. Van Onlen, Catskill, 
N. Y. 
Stanley’s Crow Repellent 
is the one sure cure for crow troubles. Not only crows, but moles, squirrels 
and all pests will leave your corn-field severely alone, if you coat your seed- 
corn in it, just before planting. You don’t have to wait for it to dry, and 
it positively will not clog the planter. It is not poisonous, and therefore, will 
not kill birds or animals, but, it WILL keep your corn-fields free from damage 
that runs into money and time, if you have to keep re-planting all the time. 
Large can, enough for 2 bu. of seed-corn (8 to 10 acres), $1.50. Half 
size can, $1.00. If your hardware, drug, or seed store doesn’t have it m 
stock, then order direct. Read our “Money Back guarantee. Address, 
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Crickets Troublesome in the House 
IIow can I get crickets out of a house? 
In the Summer brown crickets got in 
the cellar and it was not long before they 
got all over the bouse, upstairs and down. 
They get among the clothes and chew 
holes in them. Neighbors had them in 
their houses also. MRS. J. E. K. 
Kylertown, Pa. 
In cases like the one described one can 
he pretty sure that there is some place 
nearby where conditions are favorable 
for these crickets to live and multiply. 
We have known of instances in towns 
where houses, in the vicinity of a dump¬ 
ing place for old tin cans and other rub¬ 
bish containing more or lees bits of food, 
have been invaded by crickets that lived 
and multiplied on the scraps of food they 
found among the rubbish. I would sug¬ 
gest as the first measure of relief a thor¬ 
ough examination of the neighborhood 
to see if there isn’t an accumulation 
somewhere in the near vicinity of rubbish 
containing scraps of food. If such a rub¬ 
bish heap is found to exist I should in¬ 
sist on its being cleaned up by the town 
authorities. In case no breeding place 
of the crickets is found then there is 
nothing to do hut fight them in the 
house in the best way one can. 
Some have found that fresh slices of 
carrots and potatoes poisoned with Paris 
green and placed about where the crick¬ 
ets are congregated will gradually de¬ 
stroy them. The baits should be removed 
often enough to keep them fresh and 
palatable. Care must also be exercised 
to keep the baits from being eaten by 
pet animals of the household or by chil¬ 
dren. 
Another bait that is recommended for 
crickets is a mixture of corrosive sub¬ 
limate (bichloride of mercury) one tab¬ 
let, dissolved in half cupful of water and 
thoroughly mixed with a cupful of flour. 
A little banana mashed up and mixed 
with the bait will aid in making it more 
attractive. Small quantities of this bait 
should be placed here and there where 
the crickets will easily find it. 
Finally, sodium fluoride is worth try¬ 
ing. This is a white powder which is 
very effective in repelling and killing 
cockroaches. It may be purchased at 
the drug storp and should be freely dusted 
about in the places frequented by the 
crickets. glenn w. herrick. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Gov. Smith signed the 
State-wide Automobile Operators’ Licens¬ 
ing Bill April 25. The bill aims to re¬ 
duce the number of accidents. In 1923 
there were 2,489 fatalities, 55,000 men, 
women and children maimed and prop¬ 
erty damage estimated at $40,000,000. 
Stiff penalties are provided for driving a 
car while intoxicated and licenses may be 
revoked for physical or mental disability. 
A new automobile bureau would be 
created in the State Tax Department. 
Half the personnel and current records 
of a complete insurance company with 
1,800,000 policy holders moved from New 
York to Ottawa, April 24, on a special 
train. Another train left April 25 carry¬ 
ing the other half. The event is the trans¬ 
fer of the Canadian head offices of the 
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 
from this city to Canada. 
A 25 per cent reduction in the direct 
State tax on real estate and personal 
property was effected April 25 when Gov. 
Smith signed the Downing-McGinnies hill 
cutting the tax from two to one and one- 
half mills on each $100. The enactment 
of this law completed the Governor’s tax 
reduction program, which had for its 
chief feature the 25 per cent, reduction 
of the State income tax. previously en¬ 
acted. All told, more than $10,000,000 
is saved to the taxpayers of the State by 
the enactment of the two laws. 
April 26 fire started on the steamer 
Grand Republic tied up at her Winter 
pier at 158th St., Hudson River. New 
York, spread to the steamers Nassau 
and Highlander, and from them to the 
barge William Church, which was also 
destroyed. The Grand Republic, a well- 
known excursion steamer, was a sister 
ship to the General Slocum. It is be¬ 
lieved that the fire started from a ciga¬ 
rette left lying on the newly painted deck 
by a careless workman. The loss is es¬ 
timated at $1,000,000. 
April 25 Denver, Col., had a 6-in. 
snowfall. Heavy snow was reported in 
Northwest Dakota. 
One fireman was killed, eight were in¬ 
jured and a property loss of approxi¬ 
mately $1,000,000 was caused when fire, 
starting April 27 in the heart of the 
business district of Lowell, Mass., swept 
through five buildings. 
Automobiles killed 15.700 in the 
United States during 1923. an increase 
of almost 2.000 over 1922, it was es¬ 
timated April 27 by the National Bureau 
of Casualty and Surety Underwriters. 
The total exceeds 17,000 if grade cross¬ 
ing accidents are included. The esti¬ 
mates are based on statistics of 135 cities 
jvith an aggregate population of 30,12S,- 
555. The 192.3 automobile death rate for 
these cities was 13.4 per cent higher than 
in 1922. Thirty-two per cent of the fa¬ 
talities were to children under 15. This 
indicates about 5.000 children were killed. 
Automobile fatalities have risen to first 
place as a cause of accidental death. 
Motorists killed in grade crossing acci¬ 
dents during 1923. totaled 1,500, and 
about 5.000 were injured, compared with 
1,262 killed and 4,025 injured in 1921. 
April 28 fire started in the plant of 
the Forrest Box and Lumber Co., in the 
Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The flames quickly spread from the main 
building to 15.000,000 feet of pine lum¬ 
ber, and then attacked the premises of 
the National Sawdust Corporation, where 
30 horses were burned to death. In the 
near vicinity were six Standard Oil 
tanks, but at the first alarm all the oil 
was drawn out by emergency pipes to 
Hoboken, removing a serious menace to 
the 250 firemen and 35 pieces of appar¬ 
atus engaged in fighting the fire. The 
loss was $400,000. At the same time a 
fire at the Valva Paper Stock Company’s 
building, 605 Kent Ave., Williamsburg, 
caused a loss of $100,000. 
April 28 an explosion in the Benwood 
mine of. the Wheeling, W. Va., Steel 
Corporation entombed 111 men. Appar¬ 
ently none could be saved, owing to 
poisonous gases in the workings. 
Gov. Warren T. McCray of Indiana 
was convicted April 28 on an indictment 
charging him with fraudulent use of the 
mail. The indictment on which Gov. 
McCray was convicted was based on his 
correspondence and financial statements 
he. Submitted to various banks from 
which he borrowed money. He admitted 
signing names of others to some of these 
notes but denied intent to defraud. An 
indictment against Gov. McCray charg¬ 
ing violation of the National Banking 
Laws is still pending. Besides the Fed¬ 
eral indictments McCray was named in 
15 true bills returned by the Marion 
County Grand Jury. His trial on the 
first of these resulted recently in dis¬ 
agreement. 
One man was reported to have been 
killed and several other persons injured 
in a tornado which struck the northern 
outskirts of Texarkana, Tex., April 29. 
Amendment of the Japanese beetle 
quarantine, so as to take in the town¬ 
ship of Brandywine, New Castle County, 
Del., has been announced by the Federal 
Horticultural Board. The quarantine 
originally covered farm products, nursery 
and ornamental stock, soil, compost and 
manure, and has now been extended so as 
to include "sand, earth and peat.” 
WASHINGTON.—A resolution pro¬ 
posing a child labor amendment to the 
Constitution was passed April 26 by the 
House. It would empower Congress to 
limit, regulate or prohibit the employ¬ 
ment of children under 18 years. The 
vote was 297 to 69, or 53 more than the 
two-thirds required for passage. 
Declaring influences are at work to 
"undermine” the 5—5—3 naval ratio. 
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah. April 
29, asked the Senate to consider careful¬ 
ly the building programs of auxiliary 
craft now in progress in Japan and other 
foreign countries. Auxilaries are not 
included in the 5—5—3 ratio under the 
arms treaty. Chairman Hale, of the 
Naval Committee, agreed to obtain from 
the Navy General Board exact figures as 
to warcraft building abroad. The annual 
naval supply hill, carrying $275,000,000 
was passed by the Senate without a rec¬ 
ord vote. The Senate added about $700.- 
000 to the bill as it came from the House. 
The bill was sent to conference with the 
House, but with few major differences to 
be ironed out. The Senate added $200.- 
000 for the Columbia River naval station, 
$500,000 for a marine headquarters build¬ 
ing in San Francisco and $200,000 for 
operation of the Columbia River subma¬ 
rine and. destroyer base. The section 
suggesting that President Coolidge call 
another international conference on limi¬ 
tation of armament was amended to add 
naval personnel to the topics to be dis¬ 
cussed. and was broadened to extend the 
proposed invitation, hot only to the pow¬ 
ers which participated in the first con¬ 
ference, but "to such other nations as 
the President may deem advisable.” 
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania told 
the Senate Agricultural Committee April 
29 that Henry Ford’s bid for Muscle 
Shoals, if accepted, would "hamstring” 
the South. Declaring the Shoals were 
the key to the power situation in the 
Southeast and the second greatest power 
project in the United States, the Gover¬ 
nor said the Ford bid did not guarantee 
anything except to build up a great in¬ 
dustrial center. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
May 14.—American Guernsey Cattle 
Club, annual meeting, Chicago, Ill. 
Sept. 22-28.—Fifteenth annual Dairy 
Cattle Congress, Waterloo, Iowa. 
Sept. 27-Oct. 4.—National Dairy Ex¬ 
position. Milwaukee, Wis. 
Nov. 1-8.—Fourteenth annual Pacific 
International Live Stock Exposition, 
Portland, Ore. 
