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7ht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 24, 1924 
Crops and Farm News 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
OLD STOCK HELPED BY SEASON’S LATE¬ 
NESS ; OLD POTATOES SOLD FOK NEW ; 
LOSSES IN APPLES ; HEAVY PRODUCTION 
OF EGGS, BUTTER AND CHEESE. 
It is still a backward season but catch¬ 
ing up. The various sections average not 
over a week late now. Spring grains and 
potatoes are in, also most of the corn. 
Southern truck was delayed somewhat 
but enough has been coming to keep the 
markets well supplied. Its lateness has 
given the old stocks of potatoes, onions,' 
and apples, also eggs and dairy products, 
a longer time to clean up. 
The wavering tone of the potato mar¬ 
ket suggested that the late, cool Spring 
was a needed relief. The beet stock has 
held in price quite well around $2 per 
100 lbs. in the cities, and $1 to $1.50 
in the country. Supplies are falling off, 
the worst is over, and only a few thou¬ 
sand carloads are left. They will be in 
some demand for a month or more. New 
potatoes are still two or three times the 
price of old stock. 
OLD-NEW POTATOES 
An odd development was the demand 
at rather high prices for old Bliss Tri¬ 
umphs grown in Nebraska and as a Fall 
crop in some parts of the South. They 
look much like the first arrivals from 
Florida and Texas and retailers were re¬ 
ported selling them as “new’ potatoes. 
They are really of better quality than 
the half ripe and pasty early southern 
stock frequently on sale and sometimes 
keep without shrinking or sprouting 
much until late in Summer. 
The very old fashioned Peachblow is 
grown under various names throughout 
the "South for its great productiveness 
and the quality of keeping firm in hot 
weather. It is a watery potato and not 
in favor when other kinds can be had 
fresh. Northern farmers who live on old 
potatoes until August, might do worse 
than plant a few Pcachblows for use in 
June and July when most old stock is in 
very poor condition. 
Apples are cleaning up with less regard 
to price than to getting them out of the 
way. Cold storage apples selling at $2 
to $3.50 per barrel cost more than this 
last Fall, besides storage charges. Some 
dealers had heavy losses and a few have 
failed. Some growers lost, too. Few of 
them east or west feel much enthusiasm 
for the apple business at the moment. 
Apples are a crop which must be kept 
up in production regardless of poor sea¬ 
sons. The cause of the trouble was the 
big supply from the Northwest. This 
year froet has done some damage in that 
section. The East would be glad of less 
competition because this is supposed to 
be the full crop year in the eastern Bald¬ 
win and Greening apple belt. 
EGGS, BUTTER AND CHEESE 
The egg situation was helped by the 
cold backward Spring. Much cold stor¬ 
age stock that seemed hopeless was final¬ 
ly sold. Storage men kept their courage 
and bought more fresh egge to store for 
next season and the entire outlook is con¬ 
siderably improved as compared with a 
few months ago. The market has acted 
well all things considered but poultry 
flocks are larger and more numerous than 
ever before. 
Even the South is starting many poul¬ 
try farms. In Georgia, for instance, more 
carloads of poultry are shipped in a day 
than formerly during a whole year. 
North and South Carolina are beginning. 
Texas is already a great center for poul¬ 
try, and California for eggs. The South 
will never put the North out of business 
although it has much the same kind of 
advantage as with truck crops. Pullets 
lay at Thanksgiving time and keep it up 
at full speed all Whitt* under good man¬ 
agement. Broilers and roasters are ready 
early in Summer at somewhat less ex¬ 
pense than when raised in cold climates. 
Early chicks are more easily raised than 
late ones. Still as yet there is very lit¬ 
tle that competes directly with northern 
nearby eggs and chickens. The effect of 
heavy distant production is indirect and 
general, resulting in extensive stocks in 
cold storage. 
Butter receipts have been heavy, in¬ 
cluding imports. It looks as if some dis¬ 
gusted milk farmers have been shifting 
to butter. That is at least better than 
cheese, which was produced so heavily 
last season that the markets are still 
weighed down with surplus stocks. 
G. B. F. 
The cool and wet weather has retarded 
fruit buds and all vegetation in this sec¬ 
tion of the State. During the past two 
weeks nearly two inches of rain has fall¬ 
en, according to Department of Agricul¬ 
ture. Florists complain of so little sun¬ 
shine that buds did not open and caused 
a scarcity of flowers for Easter. Car¬ 
nations sold for $2.50 per dozen. Insuf¬ 
ficient sunshine causes the wet to dry 
up slowly. Tempei’atures in general 
were much below normal. Very little 
farm work has been done in this section ; 
some plowing has been done and occasion¬ 
ally some seeding done on the higher 
soils, but elsewhere the ground is too wet 
to work. Winter grains and grasses are 
looking good. Meadows and pastures are 
starting slowly, making the season late 
for turning out cattle, causing farmers 
to use up their hay very close, in some 
cases some had to buy. Apples seem to 
continue dull and some have been taken 
from storage and evaporated. Potatoes 
seem to hold their own selling on the 
Rochester market 80 to 85c. Eggs are 
plentiful and selling for 28 to 30c. There 
seems to be an abundance of eggs. Hold¬ 
ers of hay are anxious to dispose of 
their surplus, prices around $18 per ton. 
The outlook is for a good hay crop. 
Monroe Co., N. Y, J. J. H. 
Season is late here this Spring, and 
farmers are two to three weeks behind 
with their work on account of so much 
rain through March and April. Prospects 
now are good .for a big crop of apples, 
peaches, cherries and pears, as trees are 
blooming heavily. No demand for horses, 
and the price is the lowest in many 
years. Cattle scarce and selling at a very 
good price. Hens, 20c per lb.; eggs, 18c 
per doz.; butter, 25c per lb.; corn, $1 
per bu.; wheat, $1.50 per bu. w. h. 
Grainger Co., Tenn. 
DOMESTIC.—Samuel Moore and Leo 
Unell were indicted at Chicago, May 8, 
for murder by arson. These men are 
charged with setting fire to Curran Hall 
in which 10 firemen lost their lives last 
month. Moore and Unell conducted a 
in the Crager Glass Casket case, recently 
convicted of using the mails to defraud, 
to influence government prosecutors in 
their favor before trial. The indictment 
alleges that Felder, Means and Jarnecke 
were paid to influence former Attorney 
General Daugherty, United States Attor¬ 
ney Hayward and several of the latter’s 
assistants, and conspired to obtain docu¬ 
mentary evidence intended for use in the 
prosecution of the Glass Casket case. 
Four groups of bandits and one lone 
robber, skilful and daring, added to their 
coffers about $5,000 in cash and gems 
May 12 in various parts of Manhattan 
and the Bronx. None of them was cap¬ 
tured, although police took in custody 10 
men as they were being released in West 
Side court from suspicion in robbery 
charges, and rearrested them on suspic¬ 
ion in other cases. Eight robbers almost 
caused six victims to freeze to death in 
the icebox down in the cellar of the 
Lenox Assembly dance hall, 256 East 
Second St., after robbing them of $750 
in cash and as much in jewels. The 
bandits appeared at the close of a wed¬ 
ding party, and after beating three men 
into submission with revolver butts 
forced the surrender of the other three 
and locked them in the icebox. 
Convicted of taking $23 and a watch 
from Kelii Kama, a sailor stationed at 
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on March 23, 
Anthony Barr, 24 years old, was sen¬ 
tenced May 12 to 25 years in the peni¬ 
tentiary by Judge McLaughlin in rhe 
Brooklyn County Court. Three days be¬ 
fore the robbery, Barr had completed a 
term of one year for attacking a patrol¬ 
man. 
A jury in Federal Court at Covington, 
Ky., May 12, found Congressman John 
W. Langley, Kentucky, guilty of con¬ 
spiracy in connection with a whiskey 
transaction in 1921. The jury returned 
its version after deliberating three hours 
and 40 minutes. Milton Lipschultz, 
Philadelphia, defendant with Langley, 
was also found guilty. The jury disagreed 
stead of the 5-5-3 authorized by the 
Washington treaty, was made in a re¬ 
port submitted May 10 by Lieut. Col. 
Theodore Roosevelt, as Acting Secretary 
of the Navy, to Chairman Butler af the 
House Naval Affairs Committee. In the 
5-4-3 ratio cited, the British Navy is 
figured at 5, and the Japanese Navy at 3. 
Equality between the American and 
British navies in capital ships was au¬ 
thorized in the Washington agreement on 
limitation of naval armaments, and Ja¬ 
pan was to have three-fifths the strength 
of the two leading nations. 
Faced by the apparently unalterable 
opposition of the House to any delay in 
operation of the Japanese exclusion pro¬ 
visions of the Immigration bill, conferees 
upon the measure May 10 again agreed 
to make the exclusion effective July 
1, 1924. The agreement has the effect of 
eliminating completely the proposal of 
President Coolidge that this Government 
endeavor to negotiate the abrogation of 
the gentlemen’s agreement prior to the 
effective date of exclusion. 
Carrying the Democratic income tax 
schedules as well as a graduated corpora¬ 
tion tax and the amendments provid¬ 
ing for full publicity of tax returns, to 
both of which President Coolidge strong¬ 
ly objects, the tax revision and revenue 
bill passed the Senate by 69 to 15 May 
10. It will now go to conference with 
the House. The measure bears a Demo¬ 
cratic stamp, Administration recommen¬ 
dations having been rejected in numer¬ 
ous instances. Of the 15 Republicans 
who voted^ against the bill, all except 
Senator Norbeck were Administration 
men. Senator Norbeck, a radical, was 
said to have voted in the negative be¬ 
cause he believed farm legislation should 
have the same legislative chance as tax 
reduction. 
The House of Representatives May 13 
passed the Cape Cod Canal Bill, pro¬ 
viding $11,500,000 for the purchase of 
the waterway. The vote was 149 to 132, 
and it came after a very bitter contest 
and debate in which Representative John 
M. Nelson, leader of the La Follette in¬ 
surgents in the House, charged it was a 
scheme to unload a bad Wall Street bar¬ 
gain on the United State Government at 
a high price. 
Protests from every State in the Union 
against the Norris amendment to the 
Tax Reduction Bill calling for full pub¬ 
licity of income tax returns are causing 
members of the Senate who voted for it 
to weaken. Secretary Mellon is pro¬ 
nounced in his views on this provision of 
the bill. He is opposed to the principle 
of it. 
small novelty company and took out $32,- 
000 insurance on $7,500 worth of goods. 
They were seen to leave the building as 
the fire burst out. A strong feeling of 
indignation against them has spread over 
the city. 
Major Frederick Martin and Sergt. 
Alva L. Harvey, army flyers, lost in 
Alaska, are safe, having arrived May 9 
at Port Moller, Alaska, 200 miles west 
of Chignik. The major, commander of 
the American round-the-world flight, and 
his mechanic walked through the snow, 
blinded at times by fog, for seven days 
before they reached Port Moller. On 
April 30, the day they took off from 
Chignik for Unalaska to join the other 
three planes of the expedition, they 
crashed against a mountain. The plane 
was a total wreck but neither flyer was 
hurt. Abandoning the wreckage, they 
walked a week before finding shelter. 
This was a trapper’s cabin on Port 
Moller Bay. Exhausted. Major Martin 
and Sergt. Harvey rested here for three 
days. They had found food in the cabin. 
After recovering their strength they 
walked along the beach to Port Moller. 
May 10 many persons were overcome 
by automobile exhaust fumes in the twin 
Liberty tunnels through the South Hills, 
Pittsburgh. Pa. The tunnels were 
jammed by excess traffic due to a street 
car strike, and the first aid crews of the 
United States Bureau of Mines and the 
city fire department were rushed to the 
scene. When the rescue men reached 
the tubes they donned oxygen helmets 
and vent in. The tunnels were closed 
to all traffic, and soon the rescuers were 
busy carrying out men and women who 
had collapsed. They were give first aid 
treatment, and more than a score, re¬ 
ported in a serious condition, -were sent 
to hospitals. The tunnels form the main 
gateway into the city from five thickly 
populated suburbs. 
A superseding indictment containing 
the same aecusuations in revised lan¬ 
guage was returned against Color.el 
Thomas B. Felder, Gaston B. Means and 
Elmer Jarnecke at New York May 12 by 
th Federal grand jury. According to 
Hiram C. Todd, special assistant to the 
Attorney General, the language of the 
new indictment “strengthens the old 
charge” that Felder, Means and Jar¬ 
necke received $65,000 from defendants 
in the case of Albert S. Slater, Phila¬ 
delphia. the third defendant. May 13 
both Langley and. Lipschultz received 
sentences of two years in the Federal 
prison at Atlanta. 
Almost $100,000, all the loose money 
in Kansas City that could be gathered 
Saturday afternoon and Sunday, after 
time locks had closed bank vaults, was 
shipped to Springfield, Mo., May 11 to 
stem the tide of rumor-frightened deposi¬ 
tors storming the Union National Bank 
there. The currency was gathered from 
stores, restaurants, theaters and the 
Union Station in exchange for cashier’s 
checks. Word from Springfield received 
May 12 was that $400,000 had arrived 
via airplane from St. Louis and that the 
run on the bank had been stopped. 
Julius Rabiner, a New York broker 
who was convicted of swindling his 
clients out of $400,000, was recently re¬ 
leased by the Parole Board after serving 
only 77 days out of the possible three 
years he should have spent in jail under 
an indeterminate sentence. It was testi¬ 
fied May 13, by witnesses appearing in 
an inquiry into the action of the Parole 
Board, that during the brief time Rabiner 
was supposed to be in jail he was seen at 
large in Broadway restaurants. The 
Parole Board is asked to explain its rea¬ 
sons for releasing Rabiner. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Increased 
territory in several States has been 
placed under the restrictions of the corn 
borer quarantine and a new State—Ver¬ 
mont. has been added to the list of those 
affected by the regulations, it is an¬ 
nounced by the Federal Horticultural 
Board. Two townships in Vermont, Ben¬ 
nington and Pownal. in Bennington 
County, have been quarantined, effective 
May 1, as well as additional territory in 
Maine, Massachusetts and Ohio. Spinach 
has been released from the quarantine, 
and now can be shipped without inspec¬ 
tion and certification, it having been 
shown that this crop, which has been 
under control only in the general Boston 
quarantined area, is mostly shipped 
north and east from that city and that 
practically none is shipped south or west. 
WASHINGTON.—An admission that 
deficiencies in the American Navy at 
present place it on a basis of 5-4-3 in re¬ 
lation to Great Britain and Japan, in¬ 
Annual Meeting of American Jersey 
Cattle Club 
The annual meeting of the American 
Jersey Cattle Club is to be held on Wed¬ 
nesday, June 4, at 10 o’clock a. m. in the 
Roof Garden of the Waldorf-Astoria 
Hotel, New York City. In addition to 
this important meeting other events of 
interest to Jersey breeders have been ar¬ 
ranged. On Tuesday evening, June 3, 
the annual dinner of club members and 
other Jersey breeders and their friends is 
to be held, also at .the Waldorf-Astoria. 
The feature of this dinner will be an ad¬ 
dress by the president of the American 
Jersey Cattle Club, M. D. Munn. Presi¬ 
dent Munn, at the request of the club di¬ 
rectors. will include an account of his re¬ 
cent trip to Europe, and of his stay on 
the Island of Jersey, in his address. This 
account will embody much that is of in¬ 
terest and utility to American dairymen 
and breeders, and will be illustrated by 
lantern slides of Jersey scenes. Another 
feature of the club dinner will be a boys’ 
play called “The Milk Circus.” This 
play has been designed to aid in bringing 
about the more universal use of milk and 
milk products in the United States, and 
will undoubtedly prove both entertaining 
and instructive to the guests at the club 
dinner. 
It should also be noted that a number 
of large sales of Jerseys have been ar¬ 
ranged by breeders within easy reach of 
New York. These sales are scheduled to 
take place on June 2, 3, 5 and 6, so that 
those attending the annual meeting will 
have an opportunity of seeing some splen¬ 
did cattle on sale. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
June 4.—Annual meeting, American 
Jersey Cattle Club, Roof Garden, Wal¬ 
dorf Astoria Hotel, New York City. 
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. 
Cooking Corn in Clambake 
On page 697 F. E. P. says that corn at 
a clambake is always dry and hard. Last 
Fall I put on a small bake for about 125, 
and my corn was Golden Bantam, too 
old, but I soaked it in tubs of cold wa¬ 
ter for two hours before putting it in 
the bake and it was delicious. Every¬ 
one spoke of it; that it was the first 
time they had good corn at a bake. 
c. A. D. 
