‘Jbe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1405 
Farm and Garden Notes 
New Jersey’s annual Agricultural 
Week, with the annual meeting of the 
State Board of Agriculture and a dozen 
other farm organizations, and the New 
Jersey Farm Products Exposition, will be 
held at Trenton, January 13-16, 1925. 
A shipment of 3.000 tons of corn from 
Argentina, received at Tacoma, Wash., 
recently, revealed that corn from the 
South American republic could be laid 
down there cheaper than corn from Iowa. 
The British tramp freighter Ashworth 
brought the corn ai’ound the Horn, and 
the rate charged was $6.75 a ton for the 
8,000-mile sea voyage. The duty paid was 
85.40 a ton. making the total cost, in ad¬ 
dition to the price paid in Argentina, 
$12.15 a ton. The rate on corn from 
Iowa is 71 cents per 100 lbs., or $14.20 a 
ton. The South American corn was de¬ 
livered to two milling companies at Ta¬ 
coma. The price paid in Argentina for 
the consignment was not disclosed. 
Mayor Ilylan laid the corner-stone of 
the new $7,500,000 municipal terminal 
market at Exterior and East 161st St., 
New York, Oct. 25. Assisting him were 
Edwin J. O’Malley, Commissioner of Mar¬ 
kets, and Borough President Henry 
Bruckner. The mayor delivered an ad¬ 
dress at the exercises in which he an¬ 
nounced that work would soon be started 
on a similar project in Brooklyn on land 
already owned by the city. The building 
will cost $5,000,000, he said. Another 
market, in Manhattan, has been planned 
at a cost of $10,000,000, and funds for 
the construction of all three markets are 
available, the mayor said. 
The suit of Miss Minnie E. Frazer of 
Hampden, Mass., for $10,000 damages for 
injuries suffered by being butted by a ram 
was begun in Superior Court at Spring- 
field, Mass., Oct. 28. Harvey Chapman, 
owner of a flock of sheep of which the 
ram was a member, is the defendant. 
Miss Frazer tried to drive the ram out of 
her strawberry bed with a broom, but the 
ram knocked her down repeatedly and 
she was compelled to remain motionless 
on the ground 20 minutes until a passer¬ 
by subdued the ram. She alleges her 
knee was fractured. 
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Obituary 
Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture,' died at Washington, October 25 
from complications following an opera¬ 
tion. Mr. Wallace was born in Rock 
Island, Ill., May 11, 1S66, the son of 
Henry and Nannie Cantwell Wallace. 
The father, familiarly known as “Uncle 
Henry,” entered the United Presbyter¬ 
ian ministry, and for several years was 
a highly esteemed pastor in Illinois and 
Iowa, until poor health obliged him to 
live in the open air and thus turned his 
hand to farming He settled in Adair 
County, Iowa, and soon showed what an 
educated man could do as a farmer, be¬ 
coming the recognized leader and teacher 
of his fellows. The elder Wallace was 
also part owner of a county newspaper, 
and his son, the future secretary, not 
only became familiar with the ways of 
farms as a child, learning more and more 
of scientific methods year by year, but 
in the Winters, when school work was 
done, he learned printing, too. In 1885. 
at 19, he entered the State Agricultural 
College at Ames, Iowa, but before the end 
of his second year there the abandonment 
bjt a tenant of one of his father’s leased 
farms caused him to leave college and 
take charge of the property himself. Five 
years later he returned to college and 
finished his course, then being appointed 
assistant professor of agriculture at 
Ames. Entering agricultural journalism 
while at college, Mr. Wallace made his 
start as a publisher. In 1894 with his 
brother John and Prof. Charles F. Curtis 
he launched The Farmer and Dairyman, 
and soon afterward the two brothers took 
sole charge. Six years earlier their 
father had become joint owner with the 
late James Pierce of The Iowa Home¬ 
stead, and they now induced “Uncle 
Henry” to become the editor of their 
paper, celebrating the family union by 
broadening the scope of the publication 
and christening it Wallace's Fanner. 
Henry was assistant editor and general 
manager, and John looked after the ad¬ 
vertising. This arrangement continued 
most successfully until the death of the 
elder Wallace in 1916, when Henry as¬ 
sumed the editorship, which he resigned 
on entering the Cabinet. Three of the 
secretary’s sons are now associated with 
the paper. In addition to his agricul 
tural and editorial duties Mr. Wallace 
was a leader in the Y. M. C. A. of his 
State, serving as Chairman of the State 
Executive Committee from 1914 to 1920 
and personally passing on every Y. M. 
C. A. worker sent overseas from Iowa. 
He was also a member of the National 
War Work Council of the organization 
and of the International Committee. He 
was on the National Forest Reservation 
Commission, the Federal Board for Vo¬ 
cational Education, Federal Power Com¬ 
mission and War Finance Corporation. 
Among the newspaper correspondents at 
Washington he bore the reputation of a 
tireless worker who often reached his 
desk at 8 o’clock in the morning, and 
a cordial and responsive official who 
knew thoroughly the matters in his 
charge, and above all held an unceas¬ 
ing devotion to the interests of the 
farmer. 
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Value of Shade Trees 
Will you advise me as to the valuation 
of fine old specimens of sugar maple trees 
of about 40 years growth, also black wal¬ 
nut and whitewood trees very much older, 
and not such fine specimens? These 
trees, about 12 in number, are to be taken 
for widening and remaking a State road. 
I consider these trees a great asset to the 
property. The removal of them, and the 
land which is to be taken with them, will 
deteriorate the place very much as a 
private residence. e. l. c. 
The value of such trees would depend 
upon their location and value to the 
place and it would be hard to estimate 
their value not being on the ground. As 
a general proposition, I would say these 
trees, where they are in a good healthy 
condition, ought to be worth $200 each, 
In some cases and locations they would 
be worth much more than this. 
Pennsylvania. j. f. jones. 
This is a very difficult question to 
answer, and one that must be decided in 
each individual case, because of the fact 
that from shade trees planted about a 
home, there is usually no cash return. 
Therefore, it is hard to figure in dollars 
and cents, the value of such trees. The 
dividend is usually paid in the comfort 
and satisfaction the owner derives from 
these trees. If the owner is a lover of 
trees, he naturally considers the trees 
almost as members of the family, and the 
loss of them, would be almost irreparable, 
for it is a matter of a great many years 
to get shade trees of a good size. 
Men in the vicinity of New York, fre¬ 
quently pay as much as $500 each to 
have large-sized trees planted about their 
property. Such a price would seem 
ridiculously high to a person whose only 
idea of value of shade trees would be 
the wood and lumber which they got. 
There is no question that shade trees of 
good varieties that are well planted and 
cared for, increase the value of a proper¬ 
ty. All real estate agents agree to this, 
but disagree as to the amount of in¬ 
creased valuation the shade trees bring. 
Probably the average increase would be 
about 25 per cent of the increase of the 
value of the place on account of the shade 
trees. It also makes the place more 
salable which is oftentimes a very de¬ 
sirable factor. JOHN B. BARNES. 
Reimbursement for shade trees removed 
by highway commissions in widening a 
road is more variable than most forms of 
reimbursement. With fruit trees a fair 
estimate can usually be arrived at by 
figuring the return over a period of years 
and transferring it into interest on so 
much money invested. The State and 
Federal commissions eradicating currants 
and gooseberries in the white pine blister- 
rust campaign have a regular sliding 
■scale of 50c for a plant in a good state 
of cultivation and bearing fruit, 35c for 
a plant in sod and bearing fruit. 25c for 
a plant in sod and not bearing fruit, and 
so on down to 10c for practically worth¬ 
less plants. But in the case of ornamen¬ 
tals no such r ,scheme will work. It is 
practically impossible to give any figures, 
for a tree might be better removed than 
not in one instance, and in another case 
a single tree might reduce the value of 
property a thousand dollars. 
As we understand the problem, the 
County Board of Supervisors appoints a 
committee to place a fair valuation upon 
the property to be acquired by the high¬ 
way commission. Ordinarily, these men 
being property owners themselves and 
neighbors of the parties affected, favor 
the property owner and not the county. 
Each case must be considered by itself, 
and where both parties meet fairly a just 
decision is the outcome. 
New York. iiabold b. tukey. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NOV. 1, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Improving Old Pastures. 1402 
The Field Bean Crop in New Jersey. 1402 
Hope Farm Notes . 1410 
Conditions in Central New York. 1413 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Improving of New York State Dairy 
Feeds .'.1402, 1403 
Will Goats Defend Children or Sheep?.... 1403 
Committee of Fifteen Meets. 1413 
November Milk Prices . 1413 
A Stud" of Milk Consumption. 1413 
Aristocratic Stock-killing Dogs. 1413 
Sore on Teat; Shrink in Milk. 1416 
Hog Cholera .1416, 1417 
THE HENYARD 
Analyzing Sunshine Power of the Violet 
Ray .1401, 1402 
Scaly Legs in Fowls . 1418 
An Egg-a-day Hen . 1418 
Buying September Chicks. 1418 
Stuffed Crops . 1418 
Fowls “Going Light” . 1418 
Crowded Flock . 1418 
HORTICULTURE 
Discussion of the “Garden Huckleberry”.. 1402 
What is a Prune?... 1402 
Notes from New England. 1404 
Summer Pruning of Grapes . 1409 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1414 
Sausage Making . 1414 
Tennessee Notes .1414, 1415 
Christmas Preparedness . 1415 
Embroidery Design. 1415 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Notes on School Law..:. 1406 
Collecting School Money from Treasurer... 1406 
Beginning Beekeeping . 1407 
Syrup for Feeding Bees . 1407 
The Autumn Birds . 1409 
Editorials. 1412 
That Child Labor Amendment. 1413 
A Case of Motor Driving Inspectors. 1413 
Publisher’s Desk . 1422 
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