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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
March  24,  1923 
Goodrich'55 
CLINCHER  FABRIC  TIRE 
A  low-priced,  High 
Quality  Tire  especially 
adapted  to  the  require¬ 
ments  of  the  farmer 
This  popular  Goodrich 
Tire  has  demonstrated 
its  worth  and  quality 
in  every  section  of  the 
country  and  under  all 
road  and  weather  con¬ 
ditions. 
It  has  a  thick,  anti¬ 
skid  tread  of  specially 
toughened  rubber  and 
rut  resisting  side  walls. 
This  is  the  tire  for 
Fords,  Chevrolets  and 
other  popular  light 
weight  cars. 
Your  dealer  has  it. 
30*3% 
also  made  in  30*3 
GP^ote:  We  also  make  the  fa¬ 
mous  Goodrich  Silvertown  Cord 
in  the  30  x  size  in  clincher 
and  straight  side. 
B.  F.  GOODRICH  RUBBER  CO. 
Akron,  Ohio 
‘BEST  IN  THE  LONG  RUN  ’ 
HOTS0M 
—  GARDEN  TOOLS  “ 
Six 
Tools 
In 
One 
Combinaton  Seeder  and  Cultivator 
Complete  outfit  in  one  tool.  Plants  any 
garden  6eeds  in  rows  or  hills  any  distance 
apart — 100%  accurate.  Covers  seeds  uni¬ 
formly  at  proper  depth.  Ends  back  breaking 
bending  in  planting.  It  hoes,  cultivates, 
plows,  rakes — any  garden  job  you  wish.  En¬ 
ables  you  to  double  size  of  your  garden  with¬ 
out  increasing  your  work. 
If  you  don't  know  your  Home  Town  Hudson 
Dealer  writeforhisnameand  free  illustrated  catalog. 
HUDSON  MFG.  CO. 
Dept.  382 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Cultivator  Rake— 
handiest  little  tool 
made!  Does  easier,  fast¬ 
er,  better  work.  Adjusts 
7  to  1 8  inches  wide.  Re¬ 
move  center  tooth  to 
straddle  row. 
Glass  Cloth 
a  transparent  wa¬ 
terproof  fabric  ai 
efficient  as  glasi 
for  hotbeds,  poultry  houses,  etc.  Sample  3x9  ft,  P.P.  $1. 
Cat.  Free.  TURNER  BROS.,  Desk  31  Bladen,  Neb. 
EDMONDS’ 
POULTRY 
ACCOUNT 
BOOK 
Price,  $1.00 
To  Canada,  $1.25 
If  you  keep  only  ten  or  a 
dozen  hens,  there  will  be 
Satisfaction  and  Profit  ill 
knowing  just  liow  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 
and  Practical. 
For  sale  by 
RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
333  West  30th  St  ,  New  York 
WINDOW  SHADE 
holesale  Prices 
S 
DIRECT  FROM  OUR  FACTORY  TO  YOUR 
HOME.  CARTAGE  PREPAID.  SATISFAC¬ 
TION  GUARANTEED  OR  MONEY  RE¬ 
FUNDED. 
We  are  manufacturer*,  and  if  you  purchase 
from  us,  you  do  not  only  save  the  middle 
profits,  but  you  also  save  over  head  expenses 
and  freight  charges. 
Shades  made  to  fit  your  windows,  sides 
and  bottom  hemmed,  mounted  on  guaran¬ 
teed  spring  rollers. 
American  Holland.  El .16  value  for  80o. 
Domestic  Holland,  tl.50  value  for  80c. 
Sunfast  Holland,  t2.00  value  for  S1.BO. 
SAMPLES  TOGETHER  WITH  INSTRUC¬ 
TIONS  HOW  TO  ORDER  SHADES.  MAILED 
FREE  ON  REQUEST. 
Standard  Window  Shade  Co., 
428  Gold  St.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
NEcroWN 
GRAIN  DRILLS 
With  Finger  Fertilizer  Feed 
Prices  f.o.b.  Phelps,  N.  Y. 
9-Hoe  Drill . $105.00 
11-Hoe  Drill .  120.00 
Other  sizes  same  proportion. 
Buy  a  NEEDHAM  CROWN  and  bank  the  difference.  The 
lowest  price  yet-  given  on  the  best  line  of  grain  drills. 
Save  money  on  the  purchasing  price,  and  enjoy  owning 
one  of  the  finest  seeding  machines  in  America.  No  crack¬ 
ing  or  bunching  of  grain.  The  newest  and  most  talked 
of  Grain  Drill  <>n  the  market.  Lowest  cost.  Easy  to  set. 
Thoroughly  guaranteed. 
See  your  Dealer,  and  write  us  for  catalog. 
CROWN  MFG.  CO.,  Box  112,  PHELPS, N.Y. 
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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Half  a  million  more 
dollars  for  snow  removal  was  granted  to 
Commissioner  Taylor  of  the  New  York 
City  Street  Cleaning  Department  by  the 
committee  of  the  whole  of  the  Board  of 
Estimate  March  7.  Up  to  that  time  he 
had  received  $5,000,000,  the  last  $800,000 
of  which,  he  said,  was  being  used  to  re¬ 
move  the  latest  fall,  which  brought  the 
total  for  this  Winter  up  to  52  inches. 
It  is  roughly  estimated  that  it  has  been 
costing  about  $96,000  an  inch  to  get  rid 
of  the  snow. 
Damage  estimated  by  insurance  men 
at  more  than  $1,000,000  was  caused  by 
fire  and  water  to  the  Shepherd  stores  in 
the  business  district  of  Providence,  R.  I., 
March  8. 
March  9  fire  destroyed  eight  buildings 
at  Fort  Myer,  Va..  across  the  Potomac 
from  Washington,  D.  C.,  with  an  esti¬ 
mated  loss  of  $100,000. 
Three  bombing  planes  were  sent  to 
Port  Jervis,  N.  Y.,  March  11,  from 
Aberdeen  Proving  Grounds,  Maryland, 
to  blow  up  the  ice  gorges  that  have  filled 
the  Delaware  River  'between  Port  Jervis 
and  Milford,  Pa.,  eight  miles' down  the 
river. 
Benjamin  F.  Hernandez,  aged  28,  for¬ 
merly  a  coal  exporter  at  17  Battery 
Place,  New  York,  was  found  guilty  of 
grand  lr>ceny  in  the  first  degree  March 
9  by  a  jury  before  Judge  Nott  in  General 
Sessions.  Hernandez  was  charged  with 
the  theft  of  $74,000  from  the  Davis  Coal 
Mining  Company  of  West  Virginia.  This 
company  loaded  coal  on  the  steamship 
Modesta  at  Philadelphia  with  the  under¬ 
standing  that  Brown  Brothers,  bankers, 
of  this  city,  would  turn  over  to  them, 
through  Hernandez,  $76,000,  the  cost  of 
the  coal.  Hernandez  had  so  stipulated. 
Herdandez’s  clerk,  acting  on  confidential 
orders,  took  the  check  for  the  coal  as 
soon  as  he  got  it  from  the  Norwegian 
Food  Commission  and  deposited  it  to 
Hernandez’s  account.  Hernandez  checked 
the  money  out  for  his  own  expenses. 
His  commission  should  have  been  only 
$1,300. 
Justice  Bergen  of  the  New  Jersey 
Court  of  Errors  and  Appeals  held  March 
9  as  unconstitutional  the  Runyon  act  of 
1920  exempting  from  taxation  improve¬ 
ments  to  real  estate  for  five  years.  The 
decision,  which  affirmed  the  Supreme 
Court,  upheld  the  assessors  of  Jersey 
City  in  assessing  the  improvement  to 
the  property  of  Pauline  Brunstein  of 
Jersey  City.  Justice  Bergen  held  further 
that  the  act  was  a  violation  of  the  con¬ 
stitutional  provision  and  created  an  ar¬ 
bitrary  classification  of  property. 
A  disturbance  believed  to  be  au  earth¬ 
quake  shook  houses  and  rattled  windows 
and  crockery  at  Chester,  N.  H.,  March 
12.  The  shock  was  felt  in  Derry,  Litch¬ 
field,  Londonderry,  Hocksett  and  Sun- 
cock.  There  were  two  shocks,  with  a 
rumble  between  them  resembling  the  roll¬ 
ing  of  thunder. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  MacKeller,  wife  of  a 
railroad  policeman,  at  St.  Johns,  New 
Brunswick,  said  March  12  she  had  been 
shot  in  the  breast  by  her  18-months-old 
baby  when  she  tried  to  wrest  from  him 
a  revolver  which  he  had  seized.  She  was 
taken  to  a  hospital. 
Justice  Augustus  N.  Hand  of  the 
United  States  District  Court  March  12 
appointed  Miss  Bertha  Rembaugh,  a  law¬ 
yer  of  165  Broadway,  receiver  for  Vin¬ 
cenzo  Tisbo  &  Bros,  of  121  Mott  Street, 
New  York,  “bankers,”  who  disappeared 
March  S  leaving  thousands  of  Italian 
creditors  to  whom  the  brothers  are  al¬ 
leged  to  owe  a  sum  estimated  from 
$500,000  to  $2,000,000.  The  appoint¬ 
ment  of  the  receiver  followed  the  filing 
of  two  petitions  in  involuntary  bank¬ 
ruptcy.  No  assets  were  found.  Crowds 
of  Italian  creditors  have  besieged  the 
place,  many  of  them  poor  working  peo¬ 
ple  who  had  trusted  their  savings  to  the 
alleged  bankers. 
Richard  Chamorra,  22,  of  55  Lenox 
Avenue,  New’  York,  a  young  man  who 
caused  60  persons  to  fall  asleep  March 
10  when  he  opened  a  can  of  ether  in  a 
West  Side  subway  train,  was  sentenced 
by  Magistrate  Rvttenberg  in  ‘West  Side 
court  to  six  months  in  the  Workhouse. 
John  W.  Collom.  probation  officer,  told 
the  court  that  Chamorra  came  here  twm 
mouths  ago  from  San  Salvador  and  that 
he  appeared  to  be  addicted  to  the  use  of 
ether.  He  said  Chamorra  had  caused  ft 
number  of  persons  to  be  overcome  in  the 
house  where  he  lived  because  of  his  use 
of  the  drug  in  his  room. 
WASHINGTON. — The  new  Secretary 
of  the  Interior,  Hubert  Work,  March  12 
came  out  strongly  in  favor  of  reclama¬ 
tion  and  irrigation  projects,  taking  the 
same  position  as  Secretary  Albert  B. 
Fall,  who  frequently  clashed  with  Secre¬ 
tary  of  Agriculture  Wallace  on  these 
subjects.  Secretary  Wallace  has  lined 
up  with  the  Senate  farm  bloc,  which 
maintains  that  it  is  an  unwise  policy  for 
this  Government  to  spend  large  sums  on 
irrigation  and  reclamation  projects  when 
there  are  vast  areas  undeveloped,  lacking 
only  settlers  willing  to  endure  hardships. 
Further,  many  farm  organizations  take 
the  position  that  one  reason  farm  pro¬ 
ducts  are  commanding  such  low  prices  is 
largely  the  result  of  overproduction,  and 
they  are  opposed  to  the  increase  of  acre¬ 
age  which  would  add  to  production.  In- 
supporting  reclamation  and  irrigation 
projects  Mr.  Work  will  renew  the  fight. 
His  position  was  hailed  with  delight  by 
Senator  McNary  (Ore.),  who  sponsored 
a  bill  carrying  an  appropriation  of  $350,- 
000.000  for  irrigation  and  reclamation 
projects  which  died  with  the  last  Con¬ 
gress.  Senator  McNary  intends  to  re¬ 
new  his  fight  in  the  next  Congress.  Sen¬ 
ator  Curtis  (Kan.),  Republican  whip,  is 
strongly  opposed  to  opening  up  new  irri¬ 
gation  projects,  being  convinced  that 
most  of  those  sponsored  by  the  Govern¬ 
ment  are  losing  ventures.  At  any  rate, 
the  settlers  have  failed  to  carry  out  their 
agreement  with  the  Government  in  mak¬ 
ing  repayments.  Senator  Curtis  re¬ 
cently  submitted  to  Congress  a  report  on 
the  projects  showing  that  while  the  Gov¬ 
ernment  has  spent  $130,000,000  on  them 
only  $12,000,000  has  been  returned  by 
the  settlers  who  have  obtained  an  exten¬ 
sion  to  meet  their  obligations. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.  —  Juniata 
Baldwin,  daughter  of  “Lucky”  Baldwin, 
the  famous  horseman,  has  presented  to 
the  War  Department  13  thoroughbred 
horses  from  her  ranch  in  Southern  Cali¬ 
fornia.  Acting  Secretary  of  War  Davis 
said  March  8  the  horses  were  accepted 
with  thanks  by  the  Department  at  the 
suggestion  of  the  remount  division.  They 
will  be  used  for  breeding  purposes.  Mr. 
Davis  said  the  Department  can  accept 
such  a  gift  without  an  act  of  Congress. 
August  Belmont  several  years  ago  gave 
to  the  Department,  a  string  of  highly- 
bred  horses  for  use  by  the  cavalry. 
A  larger  quantity  of  wool  was  used  in 
manufacture  in  this  country  in  January 
than  in  December,  according  to  616  man¬ 
ufacturers  in  their  reports  to  the  De¬ 
partment  of  Commerce.  Consumption  by 
manufacturers  totaled  54,956,160  lbs. 
for  January,  as  compared  with  50,754,- 
888  lbs.  in  December,  1922,  and  45,711,- 
000  lbs.  in  January,  1922.  The  January, 
1923,  figure  includes  45,032,279  lbs.  of 
wool  as  reported  in  grease,  7,626,347  lbs. 
of  scoured  wool  and  2,207,554  lbs.  of 
pulled  wool.  Of  the  total  quantity  of 
wool  used  by  manufacturers  during  Jan¬ 
uary  was  domestic  wool  and  30,738,715 
cent  was  domestic  wool  and  30,73S,715 
lbs.,  or  55.9  per  cent  was  foreign  wool. 
The  carpet  wool  was  all  of  foreign 
origin,  while  57.3  per  cent  of  the  fine 
wool  was  produced  in  this  country,  69.8 
per  cent  of  the  half  blood  and  62.4  per 
cent  of  the  three-eighths  blood,  53.2  per 
cent  of  one-quarter  blood  and  35.3  per¬ 
cent  of  low-grade. 
A  complete  crop  failure  for  a  single 
year  would  wipe  out  the  human  race, 
declared  M.  J.  Murphy,  president  of  the 
New  York  and  Pennsylvania  Joint  Stock 
Land  Bank,  in  an  address  on  the  rela¬ 
tionship  of  agriculture  to  business  con¬ 
ditions  delivered  before  the  New  York 
Credit  Men’s  Association  in  the  Hotel 
Astor,  New  York,  March  13.  “Feeding 
the  world  is  the  largest  job  in  the  world,” 
said  Mr.  Murphy.  “Agriculture  has  a 
bearing  not  only  upon  prosperity,  but 
upon  our  very  existence.  There  is  a 
partnership  between  the  city  man  and 
the  farmer  and  they  are  dependent  upon 
each  other.  For  the  last  50  years  the 
average  return  to  agriculture  has  been 
$14  an  acre,  and  the  average  number  of 
failures  among  business  houses  has  been 
95  per  1,000.  When  agriculture  gets 
over  $14  an  acre  for  production  the  per 
cent  of  failures  falls.  When  it  gets  less 
than  that  the  business  failures  rise. 
Two  wrecking  tugs  have  been  rum¬ 
maging  along  the  New  York  waterfront 
for  477  bales  of  cotton,  any  one  of  which, 
if  not  retrieved,  might  bring  ruin  to  the 
cotton  growing  industry  of  the  United 
States.  There  is  a  reward  of  $15  for 
any  one  who  finds  a  bale  and  notifies  the 
owners  or  the  Government.  The  477 
bales  are  part  of  a  cargo  of  1,377  that 
was  spilled  into  the  North  River  when 
the  barge  Sundial  capsized  at  Pier  71. 
Nine  hundred  have  been  recovered.  The 
barge  lotd  had  come  by  steamship  from 
Egypt.  Dr.  Harry  B.  Shaw  of  the  De¬ 
partment  of  Agriculture  explained  March 
10  that  the  pink  boll  worm  is  active  in 
Egypt  and  other  parts  of  the  Old  World 
and  that  if  any  cotton  not  fumigated  by 
hydrocyanic  gas  got  into  the  country  the 
pest  might  get  into  the  cotton  planta¬ 
tions.  The  1.377  bales  that  sank,  valued 
at  $200  to  $300  each,  were  on  their  way 
to  the  fumigation  plant  of  the  Clark 
Thread  Company  in  Newark. 
OBITUARY. — Hector  F.  Hillenmeyer, 
long  an  occasional  correspondent  of  The 
R.  N.-Y.,  died  at  his  home  near  San- 
dersville,  Ky.,  March  3,  aged  74  years. 
He  was  a  well-known  nurseryman  and 
an  extensive  writer  on  crops,  soils  and 
weather  conditions.  He  is  .survived  by 
a  widow  and  six  children. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Feb.  7-April  23 — Courses  in  agricul¬ 
ture  and  horticulture,  Columbia  Univer¬ 
sity,  New  York  City. 
March  6-7  —  Annual  meeting.  New 
York  State  Vegetable  Growers’  Associa¬ 
tion,  Slocum  College  of  Agriculture, 
Syracuse,  N.  Yr. 
March  12-17  —  International  Flower 
Show,  Grand  Central  Palace,  New  York 
City. 
May  15-16 — American  Guernsey  Cat¬ 
tle  Club,  New  York  City. 
Oct.  6-13 — National  Dairy  Show  and 
World’s  Dairy  Congress,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Dec.  13-15  —  North  Bergen  County 
Poultry  Association,  fifth  annual  show, 
Westwood,  N.  J. 
