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In the North Carolina 
Mountains 
A perfect day, this second of Decem¬ 
ber. The sun is shining brightly, and it 
is just right for working at the wood- 
pile in shirt sleeves, for wood we must 
have here in sight of Grandfather Moun¬ 
tain, which towers 2,000 ft. above our 
own hills, which rise from 4,000 ft. un. 
Last night the thermometer dropped to 
four below zero, and it W’as lucky that 
we had put the Coutant raspberries to 
bed for the Winter, laying them flat on 
the ground and covering them w’ith earth. 
The Cuthbert and Perfection will stand 
cold weather fairly well, but Coutant ber¬ 
ries are so much larger and finer that 
they are well worth the extra trouble of 
covering them. LaFrance were frost¬ 
bitten last Winter but we are not cover¬ 
ing them, as they are supposed to be 
hardy. Raspberries, currants and goose¬ 
berries are a sure crop here, but the 
standard strawberries are a gamble, with 
odds against us because of the late 
Spring frosts after weeks of warm 
weather. 
It is proposed to establish a national 
park here, to contain over 1,000 square 
miles. Uncle Sam now owns large for¬ 
est reserves here, and the purchase of 
other large tracts is under consideration. 
The Blue Ridge National Park would em¬ 
brace scenery surpassing in beauty the 
Alps and the Cascades. Good roads are 
now being built, and if the park becomes 
a reality many friends of The R. N.-Y. 
will perhaos come to see this section. 
Large wild game, such as deer and tur¬ 
key, were exterminated years ago, but I 
presume the district will be stocked. 
There are still a few bears, plenty of 
quail and pheasant, also catamounts and 
bobcats. * MOUNTAINEER. 
Avery Co., N. C. 
The Black Currant 
Can you give me any information re¬ 
garding the growth, picking, and market¬ 
ing of black currant? This is a fruit 
country and some years back, black cur¬ 
rants were grown on a couple of farms. 
There is none grown here at present and 
the old growers have passed away. We 
had a few bushes op the farm when we 
arrived 15 years ago but these were de¬ 
stroyed. Now I am interested and if 
you can get me in touch with someone 
who is now growing black currants I 
should greatly appreciate it. M. c. 
Ulster Park, N. Y. 
The European black currant is not in 
very great favor just now because of its 
connection with the white-pine blister- 
rust. There are two species of black 
currant, Itubus nigra, the European 
black currant, and Rubus americana, the 
American species. The former, because 
it is superior, is the one commonly grown, 
and it is seldom that a plant is found 
that is not infected with blister-rust. 
For this reason it lias been considered 
a public nuisance, and the law requires 
that a public nuisance be done away 
with. 
The blister-rust spreads from the cur¬ 
rants and gooseberries to the white pine. 
It is considered that the white pine re¬ 
sources are more valuable than the few 
black currant bushes scattered here and 
there. However, in certain sections de¬ 
voted to fruit growing it is customary to 
permit the growing of currants and 
gooseberries. Whether or not you are 
in a district of this kind may be ascer¬ 
tained from the Department of Farms 
and Markets at Albany. 
In Europe the public has become edu¬ 
cated to the flavor of the black currant, 
and it is highly esteemed. In this coun¬ 
try it has never been held in much re¬ 
gard, either because of the strong flavor 
or because the public has not learned to 
appreciate its virtues. At any rate, 
there are very few black currants now 
grown. It would be interesting to hear 
from someone who has grown them. 
H, B. T. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Leo Koretz, master 
swindler, was sentenced at Chicago Dec. 
4 to prison from one to 10 years on a 
charge of larceny, the first of four charges 
to which he pleaded guilty. A receiver in 
bankruptcy took charge of such of his 
assets as could be recovered. Scarcely 
more than .$500,000 of the $2,000,000 he 
obtained and spent in lavish living has 
been recovered. 
Ninety days in jail and a fine of $1,000 
was the sentence imposed Dec. 4 upon 
'William S. Silkworth, former President 
of the New York Consolidated Exchange, 
by Federal Judge A. N. Hand. Silk- 
worth and five others were convicted by a 
jury Nov. 29 of using the mails in a 
scheme to defraud. Sentence was fol¬ 
lowed by immediate notice of appeal and 
the continuation of the convicted man’s 
bail. Silkworth’s punishment was not 
the heaviest one meted out to the defend¬ 
ants. Blaine J. Nicholas and Earl II. 
Truesdell, junior members of the bucket- 
shop firm of Raynor, Nicholas & Trues¬ 
dell, for whom the jurors made recom¬ 
mendations of mercy, were sentenced to 
two years each in Atlanta Penitentiary. 
Five persons were burned to death and 
a number injured when a Detroit-Cleve- 
land limited interurban train struck a 
truck loaded with 40 barrels of turpentine 
at Wyandotte, a suburb of Detroit. Mich., 
Dec. 3. The dead include the motormau, 
three women and a girl. 
Twelve persons, one the Commissioner 
of Police of Weelmwken, N. ,T.. and 10 of 
them policemen, were indicted Dec. 5 by 
the Hudson County, N. J., Grand Jury, 
in connection with the bootlegging scan¬ 
dal which came to light through the activ¬ 
ities of a priest of that city. The twelfth 
man indicted is William Griffin of Jersey 
City, said to be the “master mind” behind 
the ring of liquor smugglers. Charges of 
misconduct in office and of conspiracy to 
violate the State prohibition enforcement 
act were contained in the indictments 
against the police officials. Griffin was 
charged with conspiracy. According to 
one of the affidavits filed with the county 
authorities, and presumably part of the 
testimony before the grand jury, signals 
were flashed from the tower of the Town¬ 
ship Ilall in Weehawken to policemen 
stationed along the waterfront. They, 
in turn, flashed other signals to inform 
incoming rum ships that it was safe to 
land. 
The decision of lower courts in con¬ 
struing the Pennsylvania statute prohib¬ 
iting the use of shoddy in the manufac¬ 
ture of mattresses, pillows, bolsters and 
certain other articles of bedding, was af¬ 
firmed Dec. 8 by the Supreme Court in a 
case brought by the Palmer Brothers 
Company of Connecticut. The company 
contended the statute was unjustly dis¬ 
criminatory because, while it prohibited 
use of shoddy, it permitted use of com¬ 
peting material which has been sterilized 
and disinfected. The lower courts had 
refused an injunction to restrain enforce¬ 
ment. 
Not guilty was the jury verdict ordered 
Dec. 9 by Federal Judge Knox in the 
case of the New York Tribune, Inc., pub¬ 
lishers of the New Y T ork Herald-Tribune, 
charged with unlawful publication of in¬ 
come tax returns. Instructing the jury 
to bring in this verdict, Judge Knox ruled 
that under his interpretation of the stat¬ 
ute the jury could not return a verdict of 
guilty. 
WASHINGTON.—A net loss of near¬ 
ly $4().(>(>0,()00 was sustained by the gov¬ 
ernment in 1923 in operation of the pos¬ 
tal service, it was shown in an expert 
analysis submitted to the Senate Dec. 3 
by Postmaster General New. The report, 
filed in compliance with a Senate resolu¬ 
tion and designed for use in connection 
with the bill proposing general increases 
in salaries of postal employes, found that 
only first-class mail and postal savings 
were operated at a profit. With friends 
of the salary-increase hill, vetoed at the 
last session of Congress by President 
Coolidge, expressing confidence that it 
would be re-enacted, the cost study was 
seen as necessitating a revision of postal 
rates sufficient to bring in $100,000,000 
additional revenue. Mr. New, however, 
made no recommendations. As now 
drawn, the hill provides an average in¬ 
crease of $300 a year to each of the 200,- 
000 employes, with a total added expendi¬ 
ture of more than $00,000,000. 
Senator Pittman (D., Nev.) offered an 
amendment to the new Interior Depart¬ 
ment appropriation bill Dec. 3 which 
would restore the $500,000 item for the 
Spanish Springs irrigation project, elim¬ 
inated by a House Committee. lie de¬ 
clared liis readiness to oppose passage of 
the hill unless the item is restored in the 
Senate. A similar fight by him in the 
closing hours of the last session so tan¬ 
gled the legislative situation as to result 
in the failure of several important meas¬ 
ures. Senator Ashurst (I)., Ariz.) pro¬ 
posed appropriation of $200,000 to com¬ 
plete the first Mesa division of the Yuma 
auxiliary project and $600,000 to reim¬ 
burse the Yuma district for expenditures 
in maintaining the Colorado River levee 
system. 
The Interior Department Appropria¬ 
tion Bill, first of the annual supply meas¬ 
ures, was passed Dec. 9 by the House. 
The measure, carrying a total of $238,- 
000,000, was sent to the Senate minus an 
original provision calling for abolition 
July 1 of 39 land offices. A last-minute 
effort was made to restore this section, 
previously eliminated on an amendment 
by Representative Sinnott (R., Ore.), 
hut it was kept out of the bill by a vote 
of 185 to 162. 
Charles H. Burke, Commissioner of In¬ 
dian Affairs, was charged with maladmin¬ 
istration of the oil-bearing estates of 
three Indians of the Creek tribe in a 
sworn statement inserted in the Congres¬ 
sional Record Dec. 9 by Rrepresentative 
Howard (D., Okla.). The statement was 
made by Hugh L. Murphy, former Coun¬ 
ty Judge in Okmulgee, Okla. The In¬ 
dians whose estates were involved were 
Saber Jackson, Martha Jackson and 
Jackson Barnett. Murphy’s statement 
said Burke had permitted the settlement 
of a case of Saber Jackson for $50,000, 
although this was $250,000 less than had 
been offered in another settlement which 
the Commissioner had refused to ap¬ 
prove. Furthermore, Murphy charged, 
“the $50,000 was $700,000 less than the 
Commissioner, by his own admission, 
was convinced Saber Jackson was enti¬ 
tled to.” 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The New 
York Circuit Court of Appeals Dec. 3 
upheld the order of the Federal District 
Court restraining the Live Poultry Deal¬ 
ers’ Protective Association, Inc., from 
fixing prices and from boycotting com¬ 
mission men and others who sold poultry 
at prices other than those fixed. The in¬ 
junction is effective pending the outcome 
of a suit brought by the United State 
Government under the Sherman act. In 
appealing, the association argued that its 
agreement for price fixing was not an un¬ 
reasonable restraint of trade. Judge 
Learned Hand wrote the courts’ decision. 
Last Winter the State Institute of Ap¬ 
plied Agriculture at Farmingdale offered 
some short courses that were so well re¬ 
ceived by Long Island farmers and others 
in Southern New York that the school is 
offering them in greater variety this year. 
Two courses, one in poultry and the 
other in general farming, begin Jan. 5 
and continue through February. A three- 
day tractor school is scheduled for Jan. 
19, 20 and 21. After the tractor school, 
one day will be devoted to each of the fol¬ 
lowing subjects: Blasting and use of ex¬ 
plosives on the farm; concrete making, 
soldering, saw filing and care of tools, 
framing and construction of small farm 
buildings, farm water supply and se’wage 
disposal, rope splicing, knots and belt 
lacing, electric lighting plants for the 
farm, use of the forge on the farm. It is 
believed that this is the first time that 
such courses dealing with one specific 
subject and covering such a short period 
have been offered. Persons may come in 
for one or more days, selecting only the 
subject about which they desire informa¬ 
tion. Descriptive circulars may be ob¬ 
tained by writing to Director Knapp. 
Wholesale live poultry merchants from 
West Washington Market and operators 
of live poultry slaughter houses from va¬ 
rious points in the metropolitan district 
gathered Dec. 9 to protest against a con¬ 
templated embargo on live poultry due to 
the prevalence of a chicken disease which 
has become epidemic. The live poultry 
brought to New York each week by the 
railroads exceeds 2(H) carloads, with an 
average tonnage of more than 4,090,000 
lbs. II. J. Henry, Director of the Bureau 
of Animal Industry connected with the 
State Department of Farms and Mar¬ 
kets, presided. Cyrus C. Miller, counsel 
for the wholesale live poultry merchants, 
explained at the inquiry that live chickens 
coming from various parts of the United 
States were subject' to a distemper of 
pneumonia and while apparently in good 
condition on arrival, sickened in a few 
days and died. Mr. Miller stated that 
his clients desired to co-operate with the 
State Department of Markets, as well as 
the Board of Health, to counteract the dis¬ 
ease. An absolute embargo, Mr. Miller 
said, would not only be unwise but would 
deprive a large percentage of our popula¬ 
tion of this kosher dressed poultry, which 
was the principal table food of more than 
1,600,000 of the Jewish and an increasing 
percentage of the Italian element. It was 
decided the director would have a further 
conference with the live poultry mer¬ 
chants and would take the matter up 
with the department at Albany and con¬ 
sider plans to prevent the spread of the 
disease. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, DEC. 20, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Mixing Fertilizers by Hand. 1550 
Why Are Eastern Lands So Cheap?. 1550 
Corn Husking in the West..,.. 1551 
The Value of Harding Grass . 1552 
Clover in Pasture. 1552 
Eradicating Nettle . 1557 
Hope Farm Notes .1558, 1559 
Great Value of Drainage. 1561 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Milk Figures and Certificates. 1561 
A Ton Litter of Pigs..... 1564 
Thriftless Pigs . 1561 
Lame Horse ... 1564 
Feeding a Puppy. 1504 
Abortion Disease . 1566 
Cow’s Stomach and Candy. 1567 
THE HENYARD 
The Utility of Crossing Poultry Breeds 
1549, 1550 
Treatment for Pip .1564 
Future of Poultry-keeping . 1566 
Cost of Feeding Hens . 1567 
The Message on An Egg. 1567 
New York Egg Contest. 1569 
That Eastern Exposure to Henhouse. 1569 
HORTICULTURE 
Protecting Chestnut Trees from Goats. 1550 
Sweet Cherry Tree and Wistaria. 1552 
Top-working and Moving Young Apple 
Trees... 1552 
Handling Columbian Raspberry . 1552 
Plums and Prunes Again . 1555 
The South Haven and Rochester Peaches.. 1555 
Propagating Privet .-. 1555 
Apple Tree Has Not Bloomed in 30 Years.. 1557 
Pollination of Peaches. 1557 
Propagating Roses; Late Fruiting of Rasp¬ 
berries . 1559 
Grafting Nut Trees . ,... 1559 
The Cold Emu’sion of Oil. 1559 
Poor Bearing of Grapevines... 1559 
Grafting Crabapple Trees... 1559 
A Suggestion About that Fruit Building... 1561 
WOMAN AND HOME 
The Tree of Light..,. 1562 
A Christmas Eve Adventure. 1562 
The Rural Patterns ... 1562 
Tennessee Notes ...... 1562 
More About Canned Meat. 1562 
Bits of Experience . 1562 
Old-fashioned Mincemeat . 1562 
Fringed Mittens ..... 1562 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Auto Wrecking Business . 1550 
Let the Old Guard Stand . 1551 
Gasoline Ice Saws. 1551 
Solving a Chimney Trouble. 1551 
Organizing a Vigilance Committee. 1554 
“The Other Side of Immigration”. 1554 
Child Labor Amendment... 15*4 
OiVllawed Note . ..1554 
Rearrange the Tariff Rates . 1561 
Back to Economy .. 1561 
When to Study Nature. 1567 
Lobsters? . 1567 
Tecko the Monkey . 156? 
