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October 11, 1924 
A " For Belter Heating" 
NDES FURNACE 
The Andes 3-Pipe Warm Air Furnace 
has a large one-piece ash pit. Its depth 
prevents ashes piling up under the grates 
and makes ash removal easy. This is only 
one of its many exclusive advantages. 
Stove, Range or Furnace Catalogs on Request 
Phillips & Clark Stove Co., Inc., Geneva, N. Y. 
Manufacturers since 1868 of the famous Andes line of Coal, Gas 
and Combination Ranges and 1-Pipe, 3-Pipe and Pipe Furnaces. 
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Make New Land This Fall 
Fall is the best time of year to get that old 
pasture land ready to produce a crop of corn, or 
for putting newly cleared land under cultiva¬ 
tion. For this work, ,or any tillage work that is 
too difficult for ordinary implements you need a 
Bush and 
Bog Plow 
Made in sizes for two or four horses or tractor. 
The disks are of cutlery steel, forged sharp 
Write us for complete catalog of Clark “Cut¬ 
away” Disk Harrows and Plows and copy of our 
valuable free book, “The Soil and Its Tillage, 
THE CUTAWAY HARROW CO. 
41 Main Street Higganum, Conn. 
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DON’T Wait for Bad Weather 
Install a Hood Furnace NOW 
TAXIDERMIST 
ALL KINDS OF GAME AND DEER HEADS MOUNTED 
BY EXPERTS AT REASONABLE CHARGES 
Established ISM. 
GEORGE H. LESSER 
Johnstown - New York 
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and the BEST WAY for Cleaning Them 
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OUR FINE OLD ENGLISH BLEND 
OF HIGH-GRADE MIXED TEAS is so dif¬ 
ferent and better in every way that discriminating 
people enjoy its superior qualities. Liberal trial 
pkg.. lO cts.; one lb., »1, prepaid. 
VICTORIA TEA CO. B84 Lakewood. N. J . 
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If you keep only ten or a 
dozen liens, there will be 
Satisfaction and Profit in 
knowing just how the 
account stands. This book 
will tell the whole story. 
The account may be begun 
at any time, and the balance 
struck at any time. Simple 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St., New York 
Straight - Sided 
Fire Pot — 
Always Clean, 
Always Hot! 
Before violent winter sets 
in, be sure your Hood Fur¬ 
nace is in shape andopera- 
ting. Then winter need 
have no terrors for you and 
your family. 
Hood Furnaces burn less 
coal for the same heating 
effect. They give better 
results with less furnace 
tending. 
Hard coal, soft coal, gas— 
whatever you burn or 
whatever the size of your 
house, there is a Hood Fur- 
nacemadetofityour needs. 
Ask us the name of the 
Hood dealer near you. 
Hood Furnace £ Supply 
Company 
Dept. F, Coming, N.Y. 
Co °o Bye CAlLOUSES 
Gladys’ Callous Plaster ends cal¬ 
louses on feet no matter how long 
standing. Put on one—c a 11 o n s 
comes off with it. Stops all pain 
in one minute. Send $1.00 for 
sheet. Guaranteed. 
GLADYS ANDREWS. F. S. 
Box 236-R Sewaren, N. J. 
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-lAA FINE WHITE ENVELOPES neatly printed with your 
' llll return name and address on corner, mailed postpaid tor 
■ vv only 50 Cents. Write for samples of letter Heads and 
other kinds printing, R< N. HOWIE f Printer, BEEBE PLAIN, VT. 
D EPENDABLE MERCHANDISE. Esmond Blankets, Indian 
Pattern, $4. American Woven Blankets, handsome, 
durable, variety of colors, price $5.50. Many other bar¬ 
gains. ROYAL‘SALES 00. • Frenchtown, N. J. 
Compost for Fertilizer 
A farmer once told me to make a fer¬ 
tilizer as follows: Dig a hole in the 
ground, use one layer of grass sod or 
weeds, then one layer of building lime, 
then sods again, etc., and let it rot. He 
said it was a good fertilizer for general 
garden use. Is this possible? p. L. H. 
New Hyde, Pa. 
This could hardly be called a “fer¬ 
tilizer” as that word is usually under¬ 
stood. It is a “compost” quite useful for 
supplying humus or organic matter, but 
not what you would call a full fertilizer. 
It would be better to add manure, small 
bones or other wastes to the sods. In 
some cases where lime is freely used, 
wastes or garbage from the kitchen may 
be mixed with the sods. You would 
have a better compost if you added wood 
ashes, acid phosphate or potash to the 
sods, and used extra lime. 
Nitrate of Soda or Salt 
To settle a difference of opinion I am 
asking you whether salt is as good as 
nitrate of soda as a fertilizer. A man 
said that salt was just as good. I said 
no, not by a long shot, that there is no 
plant food 'in salt. To see who is right, 
I told him that I would write and ask 
The It. N.-Y. about it. I also told him 
that he could use the salt, and I would 
use the nitrate of soda. H. b. 
New York. 
You are safe in telling him that he 
can use the salt while you use the nitrate- 
Salt is a chloride of sodium. It contains 
sodium or soda, and chlorine, neither of 
which is an essential element of plant 
food. Soda is found in the ash of plants, 
but most soils contain enough of it to 
supply crop needs. Salt at times has 
some effect upon the soil, and may pos¬ 
sibly give some little result by setting 
free small amounts of potash in certain 
soils, but experience has shown it of so 
little value that it is now rarely used. Ou 
the other hand nitrate of soda supplies 
the most available form of nitrogen, and 
is probably the most stimulating manure 
known. Thus there is no comparison 
between the two chemicals—the nitrate is 
far superior. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — George H. Christian, 
missing member of the firm of Day & 
Heaton, New York stock brokers, is now 
declared to have been responsible for 
defalcations of $1,500,000 before he dis¬ 
appeared a few weeks ago and left his 
partners to discover the loss which re¬ 
sulted in their bankruptcy action and 
suspension from the New York Stock Ex¬ 
change. They reported this Sept. 26 to 
Richard Gibbs, Assistant District Attor¬ 
ney in charge of the criminal investiga¬ 
tion. The partners said the firm would 
lose another million through losses of 
profits and the retirement from business. 
The total loss had been estimated pre¬ 
viously at $700,000. 
Fire made a clean sweep of Midland 
Beach, Staten Island, N. Y., Sept. 26. 
Only one building, a small carousel at the 
extreme north end of the resort, escaped 
the flames. From the next building to 
the south, also a carousel, they were 
driven by a brisk northeast wind straight 
through to the long pier used by excur¬ 
sion steamers. Three hotels were burned 
and residents of adjoining bungalow col¬ 
onies fought incipient fires on the roofs 
of their homes for hours. The loss is es¬ 
timated at $750,000. 
The secretary of State of Vermont has 
been asked to advise the town of Somer¬ 
set, Windham County, which finds itself 
with only two legal voters. The town 
had four voters until recently, but Mr. 
and Mrs. H. W. Leonard are removing 
to a new home. Mr. Leonard is resign¬ 
ing his offices of town clerk and treasur¬ 
er and Mrs. Leonard is resigning as tax 
collector, constable and school director. 
The town maintains one school, which 
has two pupils. The total assessed^ valua¬ 
tion. real and personal, is $106,672. In 
1022 there were 10 legal voters; in 1923, 
five. At the present primary two votes 
were east. 
Sinking of the freighter Clifton and the 
loss of her crew of 2S men was revealed 
Sept. 28 when Captain Hudson of the 
steamship Olencairn notified owners at 
Cleveland that he had picked up wreckage 
from the vessel. The boat left Mackinaw 
Sept 21. and was due in Detroit the fol¬ 
lowing night, but was caught iu storms 
which swept Lake Huron and the North¬ 
west the same night. 
Federal Judge Sheppard in Brooklyn, 
Sept. 30, sentenced Antonio Camardo 
and Giuseppe Romano to 16 months 
each in Atlanta Penitentiary, with fines 
of $1,000, following their recent convic¬ 
tion of smuggling 31 Italian aliens into 
the United States in violation of the im¬ 
migration laws. At the same time iTudge 
Sheppard sustained a demurrer to the in¬ 
dictment made by Louis J. Castellano, 
counsel for the 31 aliens, to which they 
had pleaded guilty, charging them with 
entering this country in violation of the 
immigration laws. Mr. Castellano argued 
that the law punishing aliens illegally 
entering the country was a war-time 
measure only. Judge Sheppard agreed 
and ordered the 31 deported. 
The will of the late Lotta Crabtree, 
famous on the stage 40 years ago, leaves 
the bulk of her estate of $4,000,000 in 
charity. Setting aside only nominal sums 
for relatives, the actress left hundreds 
of thousands for dumb animals, needy 
actors and actresses, hospitals and dis¬ 
charged convicts and the residue to grad¬ 
uates of Massachusetts Agricultural Col¬ 
lege. The will establishes a trust fund 
of $2,000,000 for men and women in the 
service of the United States during the 
World War who were disabled, maimed, 
wounded or sick and their dependents. 
Federal agents, seeking reasons for the 
excessive use of “sacramental wine” in 
Chicago, have discovered that many of 
the “rabbis” signing withdrawal permits 
have non-Jewish names, and that the 
franchises issued to “congregations” in¬ 
dicate a Jewish population exceeding 5,- 
000,000 in Chicago alone. This is 1,- 
500,000 more than the entire population. 
Probing still further, the federal agents 
discovered that the business of furnish¬ 
ing “sacramental” wine was so profitable 
that it permitted the paying of $35,000 
a week in graft. In making their appli¬ 
cation several of the alleged “rabbis” 
gave the names of Protestant churches. 
In other cases their “congregations” were 
purely imaginary. 
Three bandits, using an automobile, 
disarmed Postmaster B. B. Houghton, of 
Crystal City, Mo., Sept. 29. who was re¬ 
turning from the railroad station to the 
post office and escaped with a pouch con¬ 
taining $40,000, mostly currency. 
Sept. 30 earthquake shocks sufficient to 
wake sleeping persons were reported in 
Vermont, Maine, and the Ottawa Valley, 
Canada. The tremors lasted about two 
minutes. 
WASHINGTON.—An affidavit filed in 
Toronto, Canada, late in September, by 
Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, 
special counsel appointed by President 
Coolidge to prosecute the oil cases, con¬ 
tains the charge that former Secretary 
Albert B. Fall of the Interior Depart¬ 
ment had come into possession of $90,000 
worth of Liberty bonds, instead of $24,- 
000 worth previously traced by the Sen¬ 
ate committee. The filing of the affidavit, 
the contents of which became known 
Sept. 30, is made necessary by the Cana¬ 
dian law as part of the procedure neces¬ 
sary to compel testimony in that country. 
The claim for $250,000 damages 
brought against Germany before the 
Mixed Claims Commission by the rela¬ 
tives of Charles Frohman, theatrical im¬ 
presario, who was lost with the Lusi¬ 
tania, has been disallowed by the commis¬ 
sion, it was learned officially Sept. 30. 
The action of the commission is based on 
the general decision in the Lusitania case 
handed down last November, stipulating 
that claimants must show some kind of 
real dependency upon the deceased, which 
they can be held to have been deprived of 
and which Germany is obliged to make 
good under the treaty. In the Frohman 
case it was found that no such depend¬ 
ency existed, though Frohman left four 
sisters and two brothers. The claim for 
$250,000 damages, it is understood, was 
filed by three sisters and one brother. 
The commission also handed down' a de¬ 
cision in the case of Albert C. Bilicke of 
Los Angeles, Cal., also lost with the 
Lusitania. In this case an award is 
made of $140,000, consisting of $50,000 
to the widow and $30,000 each to three 
children. This is believed to be the larg¬ 
est award yet made by the commission 
for loss of life. 
FARM AND GARDEN. — Owing to 
the continued spread of the satin moth 
in New England, the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture has declared an extension of Do¬ 
mestic Quarantine 53 prohibiting the 
shipping from the designated area of pop¬ 
lars and willows. The additional terri¬ 
tory now covered by the quarantine in¬ 
cludes the towns of Amherst, Milford, 
Hudson, and Nashua in New Hampshire, 
and 36 towns in Eastern Massachusetts. 
The reason for putting an embargo on 
the host plants of this insect is said to 
be the extreme difficulty “of detecting 
the inconspicuous webs in which the ca¬ 
terpillars hibernate.” 
Recent investigations indicate that the 
Dead Sea may become the greatest finan¬ 
cial asset of the government of Palestine. 
It has been found that the waters of the 
sea contain a very strong precipitate of 
potash, which, by a simple process, can he 
extracted at an expense of $5 a ton. In¬ 
cluding the. transportation charges and 
the governmental tax, the product can be 
delivered at the port of Haifa at a cost 
of $15 a ton, it is estimated, against the 
price of $30 now obtaining for potash in 
Europe. 
In the Department of University Ex¬ 
tension, Columbia University, New York 
City, several courses in agriculture are 
offered. These courses are under the in¬ 
struction of Professors O. S. Morgan and 
II. Findlay. The subjects are: Field 
crops, soils and fertilizers, farm manage¬ 
ment, tree and small fruits, agricultural 
economics, vegetable gardening, and home 
grounds landscaping. Inquiries should be 
addressed to the secretary, Columbia Uni¬ 
versity, New York City. 
