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|  EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC— Joseph  ,T.  Weil, handler, 
formerly  secretary  and  treasurer  of  .the 
Douglas  Barnes  Corporation,  coal  deal¬ 
ers,  of  673  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  ap¬ 
peared  December  22  in  General  Sessions 
to  testify  against  his  former  partner, 
Douglas  Barnes,  who  is  being  tried  on  a 
charge  of  grand  larceny  in  the  first  de¬ 
gree.  The  indictment  against  Barnes  al¬ 
leges  that  on  August  16,  1920,  he  got 
.$97,000  from  the  National  Bank  of  Com¬ 
merce  account  of  the  Comptoir  des  Con- 
sommateurs  de  Brai  et  Produits  Indus¬ 
trials,  French  coal  dealers,  as  payment 
for  4.000  tons  of  anthracite  nut  when 
what  was  shipped  to  the  French  concern 
was  No.  3  buckwheat.  William  R.  Coyle, 
of  Weston,  Dodson  &  Co.,  coal  dealers, 
testified  that  buckwheat  at  the  time  was 
selling  at  the  mines  for  $2.50  to  $3.50  a 
ton,  although  the  French  concern  is  al¬ 
leged  to  have  paid  $28.50  a  ton. 
Amid  the  hustle  and  bustle  of  a  large 
crowd  of  Christmas  shoppers  in  the  main 
post  office  at  Cleveland,  O.,  December  22, 
came  the  cries  of  a  mother  for  her  lost 
infant.  While  the  mother  was  address¬ 
ing  Christmas  packages  at  a.  table  in  the 
lobby  she  placed  the  child  in  a  market 
basket,  which  she  put  under  the  table. 
Her  packages  ready  to  be  mailed,  she 
looked  for  the  baby.  It  had  disappeared. 
The  basket,  with  its  contents,  had  been 
picked  up  by  a  post  office  employee  and 
thrown  into  a  mail  sack.  Cries  from  the 
child  as  the  sack  was  about  to  be  placed 
on  a  mail  truck  led  to  its  discovery. 
Fire  which  destroyed  the  historic  $1,- 
000.060  Notre  Dame  Church  at  Quebec, 
Canada,  December  22,  is  believed  to  have 
been  caused  by  an  incendiary.  The  rec¬ 
tory  adjoining  the  church  was  damaged. 
The  seminary  buildings  were  threatened 
when  the  fire  was  at  its  height  and  the 
students  were  ordered  out.  The  flames 
leaped  the  street  separating  the  church 
buildings  from  the  business  section  of  old 
Quebec  and  caused  damage  to  several 
buildings.  Only  two  of  the  valuable 
paintings  were  saved,  the  most  valuable, 
“The  Crucifixion,”  by  Van  Dyk.  being 
destroyed.  There  were  others  by  Lebrun 
and  Murillo.  Two  caskets,  containing 
the  relics  of  40  martyrs  who  died  in 
Japan,  were  consumed.  The  interior  was 
redecorated  last  year.  The  insurance 
8t.  Anne  de  Beaupre,  called  the 
was  $210,500.  The  church  and  shrine  of 
“Lourdes  of  America,”  was  destroyed  by 
fire  last  March  29.  8ix  days  later  the 
Church  of  the  Sacred  Heart,  in  Montreal, 
was  destroyed.  The  Convent  of  Notre 
Dame,  in  Montreal,  was  destroyed  April 
19.  St.  Jean’s  Hospital  for  the  Insane, 
in  the  same  city,  was  damaged  by  fires 
on  October  3  and  4.  On  November  14, 
fire  starting  on  the  top  floor  of  the  Uni¬ 
versity  of  Montreal  caused  $300,000  dam¬ 
age.  Sixteen  days  later  the  Laval  Den¬ 
tal  and  Veterinary  College  at  the  uni¬ 
versity  was  destroyed.  Three  students 
lost  their  lives  on  November  25,  when 
fire  destroyed  St.  Boniface  College,  one 
of  the  oldest  and  most  noted  of  the  Cana¬ 
dian  Catholic  institutions,  and  the  fa¬ 
mous  Jesuit  library  adjoining.  The  Rest 
House  of  the  Gentlemen  of  St.  .Sulpice 
at  Oka,  part  of  which  was  used  as  a 
presbytery  for  the  parish,  was  destroyed 
a  few  weeks  ago.  The  Church  of  St. 
Sulpice  was  slightly  damaged. 
Philip  Weiganott  and  Lester  Elston  of 
Shelby,  O.,  December  26,  were  forced  by 
police  to  gaze  for  five  minutes  at  the 
body  of  Robert  Longley.  who  died  from 
the  effects  of  moonshine  liquor  they  ad¬ 
mit  having  sold  him.  Weiganott  and 
Elston  are  held  on  charges  of  murder. 
Two  other  men  to  whom  they  are  alleged 
to  have  sold  liquor  are  totally  blind,  with 
little  hope  for  recovery  of  their  sight. 
Chemists  said  the  liquor  sold  by  the  two 
men  contained  wood  alcohol. 
The  automobile  caused  a  higher  num¬ 
ber  of  sudden  and  violent  deaths  in  Chi¬ 
cago  and  Cook  Co.,  Ill.,  during  the  past 
year  than  any  other  agency,  according  to 
a  report  of  the  coroner’s  office  made  pub¬ 
lic  December  26.  Six  hundred  and  forty- 
one  persons  were  killed  during  the  fiscal 
year  ending  October  31,  the  figures 
showed. 
A  Federal  fugitive  warrant  charging 
use  of  the  mails  in  a  scheme  to  defraud 
in  New  York  was  issued  at  St.  Louis 
December  26  against  William  L.  Cun¬ 
ningham.  a  stock  salesman,  under  arrest 
there.  Cunningham  remained  .in  jail 
when  he  fail  to  furnish  bond  fixed  at 
$5,000.  Cunningham  and  Frank  Carter, 
a  valet  employed  by  Austin  Howard 
Montgomery,  who  is  said  to  be  wanted  in 
Baltimore  and  New  York  for  questioning 
in  connection  with  the  promotion  of  the 
Community  Finance  Company,  were 
taken  into  custody  by  postal  inspectors 
and  private  detectives.  Carter  later  was 
released. 
Cabling  of  greetings  overseas  to  the 
Communist  Internationale  in  Moscow  and 
election  of  Rose  Pastor  Stokes  and  other 
new  blood  to  the  central  executive  com¬ 
mittee  brought  to  a  close  December  26 
the  second  annual  convention  of  the 
Workers  Party  of  America.  The  conven¬ 
tion  had  been  in  session  three  days  at  the 
Labor  Temple.  243  East  S4th  Street.  New 
York.  Launching  an  intensive  propa¬ 
ganda  among  farmers  and  farm  laborers 
the  coining  year  was  signalized  by  au¬ 
thorization  of  a  national  agrarian  organ¬ 
izer.  Resolutions  were  adopted  which 
contained  pleas  for  unity  of  workers  for 
the  “American  Social  Revolution,”  for 
recognition  of  and  loans  to  the  Soviet  of 
Russia,  and  for  support  of  “the  stock¬ 
January  6,  1923 
selling  campaign- of  the  Russian- American 
Industrial  Corporation.”  The  Ku  Klux 
Ivlan  and  the  American  Legion  were 
classified  under  the  same  head,  and  they 
came  in  for  bitter  attack.  Broader  re¬ 
cognition  of  zeal  of  women  workers  was 
also  urged. 
Dr.  B.  M.  McKoin,  formerly  mayor  of 
Mer  Rouge,  La.,  was  arrested  at  Balti¬ 
more  December  26  by  detectives  from 
city  police  headquarters.  Action  against 
the  man  who  fled  the  little  town  which, 
following  the  finding  of  the  mutilated 
bodies  of  Watt  Daniels  and  Thomas  Rich¬ 
ards,  believed  to  have  been  murdered  by 
Ku  Klux  Klansmen,  is  under  martial 
law,  was  taken  at  the  request  of  Gover¬ 
nor  John  M.  Parker  of  Louisiana.  Gov¬ 
ernor  Parker  telegraphed,  asking  that  the 
man  be  held  on  a  charge  of  murder. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Jan.  1-6 — Second  annual  show,  Sussex 
County  Poultry  Association,  Newton.  N. 
J.  II.  D.  Rodimer,  secretary. 
Jan.  2-Feb.  23 — New-  York  State  School 
of  Agriculture,  Cobleskill,  short  course  in 
agriculture  and  ice  cream  making. 
Jan.  10-12 — New  York  State  Horticul¬ 
tural  Society,  Winter  meeting,  Exposi¬ 
tion  Park.  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Jan.  10-12 — Maryland  Horticultural 
Society  and  affiliated  associations,  annual 
meeting.  Frederick,  Aid. 
Jan.  11-13 — North  Bergen  County 
Poultry  Association,  annual  show.  Odd 
Fellows’  Hall.  Westwood.  N.  J. 
Jan.  16 — New  York  Holstein-Friesian 
Association,  annual  meeting.  Yates  Hotel, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Jan.  16-19 — Farm  Products  Show. 
New  Jersey  Farmers’  Week,  Second  Regi¬ 
ment  Armory,  Trenton.  N.  J. 
Jan.  1 6-20 — -Agricultural  Week.  New 
Jersey  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  Tren¬ 
ton.  N.  J. 
Jan.  18-20 — New  Haven  County  Poul¬ 
try  Club.  Inc.,  annual  show,  New  Haven, 
Conn.  Secretary,  E.  A.  Todd,  301  Fed¬ 
eral  Building,  New  Haven,  Conn. 
Jan.  23-27 — Connecticut  Poultry  Asso¬ 
ciation.  annual  show.  Hartford,  Conn. 
Jan.  23-27 — Connecticut  Winter  Fair 
and  Agricultural  Exposition,  Hartford, 
Conn. 
Jan.  24-2S — Madison  Square  Garden 
Poultry  Show,  New  York  City. 
CONTENTS 
THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER,  JAN.  6,  1923 
FARM  TOPICS 
What  Do  New  York  Farmers  Need? .  3 
Farm  Loans  for  Landless  Men .  3 
Cheap  Power  for  Ontario  Farmers — Part  II..  4 
A  Farmers’  Town  Market . . .  £ 
Use  of  Precipitated  Lime .  9 
Leather  Scraps  for  Fertilizer .  9 
Hope  Farm  Notes . 16 
New  York  State  Agricultural  Society .  19 
LIVE  STOCK  AND  DAIRY 
Charges  for  Milk  Testing . 
Temperature  in  Dairy  Barn . 
Obstructed  Breathing  . 
Fistula  of  Withers . . 
Feeding  Beet  Pulp . . 
Feeding  a  Calf . . . i . 
Ration  Deficient  in  Protein . 
Grain  With  Silage . . . 
Beef  Production  in  the  East . . 
Starting  With  Poultry,  Lambs  and  Pigs 
Heaves  or  Emphysema  of  the  Lungs.... 
The  Purebred  Bull  Calf . . 
A  Good  Ayrshire  Bull . 
Destroying  Lice;  Disinfecting  Stable... 
THE  HENYARD 
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Is  an  Egg  an  Egg?..... . 
Poultry  Production  Exhibit . 
Lighting  Henhouse  . 
Composition  of  Mash . 
Profits  from  Small  Flock . 
Requirements  for  Pigeons . 
Colds  or  Roup . 
Sour  Crop  . 
Egg-laying  Contest  . 
Feeding  for  Egg  Production.... 
HORTICULTURE 
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Notes  from  a  Maryland  Garden . 6,  9 
Lime  and  Strawberry  Culture .  . . . . 9 
Propagating  Magnolias  . 12 
Some  California  Products .  12 
Trasplanting  Large  Apple  Trees .  12 
Truth  About  the  Newtown  Pippin  Apple.....  12 
The  High  Bush  Cranberry .  12 
Care  of  Cemetery  Plot . 12 
Culture  of  Ivy . * . . .  12 
Dormant  Budded  Trees . 12 
Pansy  Culture  . .  ,  . ; . .,12 
Blooming  Lily  for  Easter;  Crape  Myrtle  from 
Seed  . .  A  ........  12 
A  Talk  on  Apple  Varieties . 13 
That  Abnormal  Apple . 13 
New  Jersey  State  Horticultural  Society .  14 
Fire  Blight  on  Quince .  14 
New  Seedling  Raspberries. .  14 
Questions  About  Grape  Juice .  14 
Northern  Sweet  Potatoes .  14 
Remedies  for  Apple  Scab .  14 
WOMAN  AND  HOME 
From  Day  to  Day .  20 
Texas  Notes  . 20 
The  Rural  Patterns .  20 
Everlasting  and  Other  Pillows .  21 
Fringe  Mittens  .  21 
Our  Friendly  Neighbors,  the  Stars .  21 
Bread  Made  With  Homemade  Yeast .  21 
MISCELLANEOUS 
He  Trusted  Widely  hut  Not  Well .  4 
The  Gasolene  Migration  of  Humans .  4 
From  New  York  to  West  Virginia — Part  II..  7 
A  Good  Record .  7 
Animals  and  Weather  Signs .  10 
Finger  Joints  Are  Stiff . . .  10 
Overflow  from  Septic  Tank .  10 
‘Youth  Must  he  Served” .  10 
Right  to  Flood  Land .  15 
Father’s  Liability  for  Child’s  Support .  15 
Right  of  Way  for  Telephone  Poles .  15 
Inheritance  from  Joint  Account .  15 
Softening  Cistern  Water .  17 
Crushed  Cherry  Stones  in  Wine .  17 
Dishwater  and  Soapsuds  on  Plants .  17 
Non-freezing  Mixtures  for  Automobiles .  17 
Removing  Tannin  from  Sumac  Berries .  17 
Grape  Juice  Discolored  by  Iron .  17 
Occupations  in  New  York  Legislature .  19 
More  About  Roadside  Markets .  19 
New  York  Primary  Law . 19 
Self-service  for  Apple  Sales .  19 
Apple  Markets  in  Texas .  19 
Countrywide  Produce  Situation .  28 
Publisher’s  Desk  . 34 
