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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
.Tune  2,  1923 
WATER! 
Here  is  the  home  water  plant 
that  supplies  plenty  of  water  under 
pressure  for  every  purpose  about 
your  house  and  farm.  It  works 
automatically.  If  you  have  electric 
current,  the  Fairbanks- Morse  Home 
Water  Plant  will  supply  an  abun¬ 
dance  of  running  water  from  cistern, 
shallow  well,  stream,  spring  or  lake. 
This  private  pumping  station 
brings  all  the  convenience  and  com¬ 
fort  of  city  water  service  to  any 
home  anywhere. 
FAIRBANKS  -MORSE 
It's  Automatic 
HOME  WATER  PLANT 
Operates  from  any  electric  light 
circuit  or  home  lighting  plant 
system.  Noiseless,  automatic.  No 
switch  to  turn.  Costs  only  a  few 
pennies  a  week  to  run.  The  un¬ 
usually  large  production  and  great 
manufacturing  facilities  of  Fairbanks, 
Morse  &  Co.  make  these  remarkably 
low  prices  possible. 
If  you  do  not  know  our  local  deal¬ 
er.  write  to  us  and  we  will  send  you 
complete  information. 
FAIRBANKS,  MORSE  &  CO. 
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HAND  CARRIERS,  Peach 
Carriers,  Berry  Crates,  Onion 
Crates.  Baskets, Egg  CaBes,  Bask¬ 
ets  of  all  kinds,  and  other  Fruit 
and  Vegetable  Packages.  All 
these  containers  are  in  as  good 
as  new  condition  and  ready  for 
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Dept.  R,  8111-808  Johnson  Ave„  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
HETZEL’S 
ELASTIC  TREE  CEMENT 
NON-POISONOUS  NON-PENETRATING 
Made  in  Red,  Black,  Brown  and  Gray  Color* 
Write  for  free  sample  and  prices 
Estate  of  J.  G.  HETZEL 
Dept.  R.  N.  Newark,  N.  J. 
EQUIPPED  DAIRY  FARM  ill".  “.W?! 
Large  barn  with  16  stanchions;  horse  barn;  four 
en  houses;  brooder  house;  granary  and  ice  house. 
11-room  boarding  house.  5  minutes'  walk  to  post 
office,  stores,  churches,  and  high  school.  Terms. 
Other  farms.  W.  I).  Utter,  Greenville,  N.  Y . 
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a  package.  Attractive  line  for  agents.  Circulars 
Free.  GEO.  B  TALBOT,  Bax 72  D  Norwood  Man. 
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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Three  women  and  two 
children  were  killed  at  Carlisle,  O.,  May 
21,  when  a  Baltimore  &  Ohio  passenger 
train  crashed  into  a  truck  in  which  they 
were  moving  to  a  new  home  at  German¬ 
town. 
The  Canadian  Pacific  liner  Marvale 
struck  a  rock  near  Trepassy  on  t  lie 
southern  coast  of  Newfoundland  May 
21  and  sank  after  436  passengers  and 
crew  had  been  taken  off  in  the  boats.  A 
great  hole  was  torn  in  the  vessel’s  hull 
when  she  hit,  and  as  soon  as  the  passen¬ 
gers  had  been  taken  off  an  attempt  was 
made'  to  run  the  vessel  onto  a  sandy 
beach.  She  sank  in  seven  fathoms  of 
water  while  racing  to  the  beach.  The 
liner,  which  sailed  from  Montreal  May 
IS  for  Liverpool,  struck  the  rock  during 
a  dense  fog.  She  backed  clear,  but  her 
holds  filled  rapidly,  the  boats  were  put 
out  and  the ;  passengers  and  part  of  the 
crew  were  taken  ashore. 
Bricklayers  struck  May  21  in  the  New 
York  area  on  virtually  all  work  of  mem¬ 
bers  of  the  Mason  Builders  Association 
following  a  disagreement  whether  a  new 
wage  contract  should  be  for  two  years 
at  $12  a  day  or  for  three  years  at  $10. 
Builders  themselves  said  the  walkout  was 
practically  100  per  cent  effective.  Offi¬ 
cial  canvass  by  the  Mason  Builders  As¬ 
sociation  revealed  that  brick  work  had 
come  to  a  dead  halt  on  $170,000,000  of 
contracts. 
Charged  with  having  stolen  from  an 
association  of  Swiss  chocolate  manufac¬ 
turers  in  1919  174,052  pounds  of  cocoa 
beans,  worth  22  cents  a  pound,  George 
S.  Dumont  pleaded  guilty  May  21  in  the 
Court  of  General  Sessions,  New  York. 
pel  payment  of  assessed  taxes  and  that 
those  protesting  the  assessments  must 
bring  suit  later  if  they  want  to  recover 
the  amount  they  claim  to  be  unlawfully 
collected.  Under  the  ruling  Du  Pont 
must  pay  $1,576,000. 
The  Shipping  Board  was  asked  May 
21  for  a  loan  on  the  construction  of  two 
Diesel  electric  freighters,  the  first  appli¬ 
cation  to  be  made  under  the  loan  fund 
provision  of  the  merchant  marine  act 
of  1920. 
Because  the  cost  of  reconditioning  the 
Agamemnon  and  the  Mount  Vernon  will 
be  approximately  $8,000,000  a  ship,  the 
Shipping  Board  May  22  decided  to  aban¬ 
don  plans  to  put  these  vessels  in  commis¬ 
sion  and  will  ask  Congress  to  appropri¬ 
ate  $24,000,000  at  the  next  session  to 
construct  two  new  liners  to  round  out 
the  American  passenger  fleet,  headed  by 
the  Leviathan,  which  will  enter  the 
North  Atlantic  service  on  July  4. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.  —  Poultry 
shipped  as  freight  brought  railroads  a 
larger  revenue  per  net  ton  than  any 
other  commodity  during  1922,  while 
citrus  fruits,  potatoes,  butter,  eggs, 
cheese  and  automobiles  were  other  pro¬ 
ducts  from  which  proportionately  large 
returns  were  obtained,  according  to  sta¬ 
tistics  compiled  for  the  first  time  and 
issued  May  21  by  the  Interstate  Com¬ 
merce  Commission.  Apparently  the 
cheapest  transportation  afforded  works 
out  from  the  rates  applied  to  logs,  posts, 
poles  and  cordwood,  amounting  to  96 
cents  per  ton.  No  attention  was  paid 
to  distances  of  shipment  in  the  Com¬ 
mission’s  figures.  The  rate  of  earning 
per  ton  varied  widely  from  the  rates  of 
earnings  when  applied  to  the  number  of 
cars  ha  .led.  Citrus  fruits  still  ranked 
high  in  the  classification  by  car  reve¬ 
nues.  and  carriers  got  a  net  revenue  of 
This  is  the  way  one  busy  housewife  does  it.  Such  a  woman,  as  you  know,  has  50 
things  on  her  hands  at  once.  Out  in  the  garden,  picking  berries  for  dinner,  the  baby 
goes  along  and  “helps”  by  keeping  out  of  mischief.  Suppose  you  had  such  a  garden 
— right  at  the  back  door.  What  a  help  it  would  be  in  supplying  food  for  the  family. 
The  Swiss  Government,  through  the 
Swiss  Legation  at  Washington,  has  been 
greatly  interested  in  the  prosecution  of 
this  case.  Ir  is  said  that  other  losses 
aggregating  $250,000  in  addition  to  the 
one  which  was  the  subject  of  the.  indict¬ 
ment  were  sustained  by  operations  of  a 
similar  character  put  through  by  Du¬ 
mont. 
Two  men  were  killed,  another  prob¬ 
ably  fatally  injured  and  five  others  hurt 
when  a  touring  car  in  jitney  service  on 
the  Albany-Schenecfady  road  May  21 
skidded  and  plunged  into  the  ditch  near 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.  The  dead  are  John 
Iv.  Roth.  19,  of  .‘>30  Lenox  Street, 
Brooklyn,  a  student  at  Union  College, 
and  John  Dennis,  60,  of  Albany.  A.  J. 
Cunning  of  Albany  suffered  a  fractured 
skull,  broken  leg,  cuts  and  bruises  and 
possible  internal  injuries.  James  Lana- 
han  of  Albany,  the  driver  of  the  car.  is 
held  by  the  Schenectady  police  charged 
with  manslaughter. 
Frank  Miller,  convict  and  gunman, 
killed  two  Jersey  City  policemen  and 
probably  fatally  wounded  another  May 
22  when  they  went  to  his  home  to  ar¬ 
rest  him  for  robbing  a  Public  Service 
Company  messenger  of  $19,000  last  De¬ 
cember.  A  young  woman  who  lived  with 
him  and  who.  according  to  one  of  the 
policemen,  fired  some  of  the  shots,  was 
indicted  with  him  for  first  degree  murder. 
Six  indictments  charging  bribery  of 
revenue  officers  were  returned  May  22 
against  Sam  II.  Cone,  former  chief  pro¬ 
hibition  agent  of  New  Jersey,  by  the 
Federal  Grand  Jury  in  Newark.  Cone, 
a  lawyer,  resigned  last  November  when 
irregularities  were. charged.  lie  was  re¬ 
appointed  as  general  prohibition  age  at 
December  11  by  Commissioner  Haynes 
and  discharged  December  23  by  Collector 
of  Internal  Revenue  Blair. 
WASHINGTON.— In  1922  the  mem¬ 
bers  of  the  Osage  Indian  tribe  of  Okla¬ 
homa  received  $26,079,300  from  their 
“bonuses  and  royalties,”  which  gave 
each  man,  woman  and  child  $11,700.” 
according  to  figures  compiled  by  the  De¬ 
partment  of  the  Interior.  “Production 
of  oil  and  gas  on  their  lands,”  the  De¬ 
partment  says,  “has  outrivaled  alL  rec¬ 
ords  for  any  oil  or  gas  field  at  any  time 
in  the  history  of  the  world.” 
The  Supreme  Court  ruled  May  21  in 
a  suit  by  rhe  Oovenmi^r  against  A.  _I. 
Dn  Pont  that  the  Governmefit  can  com¬ 
$480.34  per  car  handled,  and  $31  per 
ton.  Poultry  revenues,  though  amount¬ 
ing  to  $34.74  per  ton,  were  only  $382 
per  car.  The  log,  post  and  cordwood 
rate  gave  car  revenues  of  $28.81.  For 
butter,  eggs  and  cheese  the  earnings  of 
about  $24  per  ton  were  approximately 
$275  per  car.  All  less  than  carload  ship¬ 
ments  worked  out  to  bring  railroad 
average  revenue  of  $7.36  per  ton  han¬ 
dled,  but  no  car  earnings  were  figured 
on  such  traffic. 
Colonel  Frederick  Stuart  Greene,  New 
York  State  Commissioner  of  Highways, 
has  held  up  all  new  construction  road 
work  in  the  State  because  of  the  short¬ 
age  of  labor,  scarcity  of  materials  and 
freight  embargoes.  The  action  means 
the  postponement  of  about  $16,000,000 
of  highway  construction.  The  decision 
is  in  line  with  the  recommendations  of 
1  Secretary  of  Commerce  Hoover  that  new 
construction  work  be  curtailed.  Colonel 
Greene  said  that  recent  lettings  demon¬ 
strated  that  the  State  is  receiving  no 
real  competition  from  contractors. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
June  13-14 — Farmers’  Day,  live  stock 
show  and  parade,  Pennsylvania  State 
College.  State  College.  Pa. 
June  27-29 — Farmers’  Field  Day.  New 
York  State  College  of  Agriculture,  Ith¬ 
aca.  N.  Y. 
July  30- Aug.  3 — Farmers’  Week.  Con¬ 
necticut  Agricultural  College.  Storrs, 
Conn. 
Oct.  6-13 — National  Dairy  Show  and 
World’s  Dairy  Congress.  Syracuse.  N.  Y. 
Nov.  27-Dec.  1  —  Poultry  Show.  Wash¬ 
ington.  D.  C.  Secretary,  D.  Lincoln 
Orr.  Orr’s  Mills.  N.  Y. 
Dec.  13-15 — North  Bergen  County 
Poultry  Association,  fifth  annual  show, 
Westwood,  N.  J. 
Jan.  23-27.  1924 — Poultry  Show,  Mad¬ 
ison  Square  Garden.  New  York  City. 
Secretary.  ’D.  Lincoln  Orr.  Orr’s  Mills, 
N.  Y. 
Tiie  Long  Island  potato  growers  will 
go  on  a  tour  June  20.  21  and  22.  This 
means  a  run  in  cars  over  the  potato  grow¬ 
ing  sections  of  the  island,  and  during  the 
three  days  the  company  will  cover  about 
all  the  available  territory.  There  will  be 
present  seed  potato  growers  from  half  a 
‘dozen  different  States,  and  experts  of  all 
sorts  will  be  along  to  explain  plant  dis¬ 
eases,  spraying  and  dusting,  and  new 
merhods  generally.  The  potato  growers 
are  planning  for  a  great  time,  and  expect 
a  large  attendance.  Farmers  who  are  in¬ 
terested  in  potato  growing  would  be  well 
repaid  by  taking  a  little  vacation  at  this 
time  and  riding  along  witn  these  potato 
men. 
Countrywide  Produce  Situation 
A  COLD  SEASON,  BUT  LESS  DAMAGE  THAN 
EXPECTED - APPLE  MARKETS  OF  FORTY 
YEARS — GOOD  LONG  RANGE  OUTLOOK  FOB 
FRUIT - MARKET  FULL  OF  OLD  POTATOES. 
Most  of  the  crop  talk  from  producing 
sections  refers  to  the  lateness  of  the  sea¬ 
son.  Michigan  strawberries  will  be  de¬ 
layed.  Apples  and  peaches  seem  prac¬ 
tically  unhurt.  Grapes  and  plums  were 
damaged  slightly.  Illinois  tomatoes  and 
cucumbers  were  slightly  damaged.  Raw 
Valley,  Kansas,  potatoes  will  be  delayed 
about  10  days  on  account  of  loss  of 
plants  above  ground.  The  Ozark  section 
strawberries  will  be  delayed,  with  slight 
loss,  and  some  damage  to  apples  and 
peaches  of  this  section  is  noted.  The 
Colorado  fruit  crop  is  also  slightly  in¬ 
jured.  Reports  from  Texas  are  of  no 
damage,  with  crops  mostly  late.  The 
outlook  for  fruit  and  other  crops  is  fav¬ 
orable  in  the  Pacific  coast  region. 
The  fruit  situation  is  developing  a  few 
surprises.  The  strawberry  crop  of  the 
Southwest  seemed  at  first  not  greatly 
injured  by  frost,  but  later  showed  much 
damage  and  turned  out  only  half  a  crop 
in  some  sections.  On  the  other  hand, 
the  early  reports  of  general  destruction 
of  fruit  in  some  parts  of  the  country 
proved  greatly  exaggerated.  The  season 
was  so  backward  that  the  fruit  had  not 
reached  the  tender  stage  at  the  time  of 
the  severe  wqather. 
THE  APPLE  MARKETS  FOB  40  YEARS 
Looking  over  the  market  records  of  the 
past  42  years  (since  1881),  about  the 
best  general  showing  is  that  made  by 
apples.  Taking  No.  1  Baldwins  as  quoc- 
ed  January  1  of  each  year  in  New  York 
City  as  standard,  the  price  has  tended 
upward  in  a  general  way.  During  the 
first  14  years  the  January  price  fell  be¬ 
low  $2  a  bushel  four  times,  and  reached 
$4  only  once,-  averaging  only  about  $2 
for  the  whole  14  years,  but  going  very 
low  in  the  full  crop  years.  During  the 
second  14  years  the  price  January  1 
went  below  $2  only  once,  which  was  the 
historic  season  following  the  big  crop  of 
1896.  It  reached  $5  once  and  averaged 
about  $3  during  the  34  years.  For  the 
third  and  last  14  years  of  the  42-year 
period  the  January  1  price  exceeded  $6 
three  times  and  fell  below  $3  only  twice. 
It  is  plain  that  the  upward  trend  has 
been  continuous,  and  not  merely  a  recent 
wartime  bulge  in  price.  The  census 
shows  one  reason  why.  Apple  trees  have 
not  been  set  out  in  such  numbers  as  for¬ 
merly.  High  costs,  high  freights,  occa¬ 
sional  low  prices  and  the,  fear  of  new 
insect  pests  all  tended  to  cheek  planting. 
Trees  not  of  hearing  age  numbered  36,- 
000.000  in  3920.  compared  with  66,000,- 
000  in  3910. 
EAST  GAINING  GROUND 
These  young  trees  were  mostly  in  the 
East,  in  New  York.  Michigan  and  New 
England,  and  in  the  Ohio  and  Shenan¬ 
doah  valleys.  Less  than  7  per  cent  were 
in  the  West.  Advancing  freight  costs  of 
I  he  past  few  years  have  greatly  handi¬ 
capped  the  Western  apple  industry,  and 
the  region  is  no  longer  comparatively  free 
from  fruit  pests  and  diseases.  It  appears 
from  this  showing  that  the  East  gener¬ 
ally  has  been  staging  a  comeback  in  the 
apple  industry  and  it  might  be  claimed 
on  the  same  basis  that  the  general  long 
range  outlook,  near  the  big  markets,  was 
never  better.  Conditions  are  likely  to 
continue  favorable  from  this  point  of 
view  until  a  new  line  of  orchard  planting 
comes  on  and  the  new  trees  begin  to  bear 
heavily.  Meanwhile  the  population  is  in- 
creasing  and  the  people  are  becoming 
more  and  more  fond  of  apples. 
What  has  been  said  of  apples  is  true 
more  or  less  of  other  fruits,  and  the  long 
range  outlook  seems  better  for  fruits  as  a 
class  than  for  grains  and  vegetables.  The 
supply  of  orchard  fruits  cannot  be  in¬ 
creased  in  a  hurry.  They  do  not  greatly 
depend  for  a  market  on  such  things  as  the 
tariff  or  the  demand  from  Europe.  Ap¬ 
ples  may  be  an  exception  in  that  way, 
hut  the  export  demand  has  kept  up  sur¬ 
prisingly  well  under  the  circumstances. 
Baldwin  apples  sold  up  to  $8.50  re¬ 
cently  in  the  big  markets,  and  that  would 
not  have  been  considered  bad  even  during 
the  war  boom.  New  York  painters,  car¬ 
penters,  bricklayers  and  the  like,  ask  $10 
to  $35  per  day,  and  why  should  they  not 
buy  fruit  at  any  price?  Some  of  the  city 
fruit  stands  want  25c  each  for  fancy  ap¬ 
ples  and  pears  out  of  cold  storage. 
LAST  CHANCE  FOR  OLD  POTATOES 
The  price  of  new  potatoes  has  been  go¬ 
ing  up  instead  of  coming  down,  as  usual 
in  May  and  June.  There  is  not  much  but 
old  potatoes  to  fill  the  gap  between  Flor- 
idas  and  later  crops.  So  much  the  better 
for  hundreds  of  farmers  with  old  potatoes 
to  sell.  The  markets  are  all  full  of  the 
stock,  much  of  it  is  spongy  and  sprouted, 
and  the  price  is  down  to  a  range  of  $1  to 
$1.25  per  300  lbs.  in  the  Western  cities, 
but  not  so  low  in  the  East,  where  it  sells 
mostly  $1.50  to  $2.  G.  B.  F. 
Fare:  “Say.  driver,  not  so  fast— this 
is  my  first  trip  in  a  taxi.”  Driver: 
“Mine,  too.” — Sydney  Bulletin. 
