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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
June  16,  1923 
MORE  HAULING  AT  LOW  COST 
Actual  photograph  of  Goodyear  Cord  Truck  Tire  in  farm  Hauling  for  George  Ohrt,  Bennington,  Nebraska 
“My  truck  on  Qoodyear  Cord  Truck  Tires  cuts  threshing  laboi 
in  half,  makes  as  many  as  six  long  trips  a  day  with  supplies, 
and  carries  my  livestock  to  market  without  shrinkage  ** 
—  GEORGE  Ohrt,  Bennington,  Nebr. 
15  HOLSTEIN  CATTLE  (Six  Registered) 
REGISTERED  BULL,  15  HOGS,  HORSES 
tractor,  chickens  and  complete  line  machinery, 
crops  included,  12  miles  above  Chestnut  Hill, 
Phila.,  handy  to  trolley,  level  tractor  farm  for 
dairying,  hogs  and  stock;  120  A.:  15  A.  timber;  25 
A.  stream-watered  pasture;  80  A.  deep  loam;  brown- 
stone  dwelling,  historic  fireplaces,  pipeless  heater, 
2  barns,  water  in  dwelling  ;  ready  to  operate,  at 
$11,000.  72-page  catalog  and  circular  through 
REESE  &  LINDERMAN,  9  E.  R.  Airy  St.,  Norristown.  Pa. 
USEFUL  FARM  BOOKS 
Fertilizers  and  Crop,  Van  Slyke. . .  .$3.25 
Feeding  Farm  Animals,  Bull .  2.6U 
Milk  Testing,  Publow . 90 
Butter  Making,  Publow . 90 
Manual  of  Milk  Products,  Stocking.  2.75 
Book  of  Cheese,  Thom  and  Fisk....  2.40 
Successful  Fruit  Culture,  Maynard.  1.75 
Pruning  Manual  Bailey .  2.50 
American  Apple  Orchard.  Waugh..  1.75 
American  Peach  Orchard,  Waugh..  1.75 
Vegetable  Garden,  Watts .  2.50 
Vegetable  Forcing,  Watts .  2.50 
Edmonds’  Poultry  Account  Book...  1.00 
Turkey  Book,  Lamon .  1.75 
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THE  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
333  W.  30th  St.  New  York  City 
I  Was  a 
Pencil-Pusher 
at  13-aWeek 
Other  fellows  my  age  were  earn- 
ing  twice  as  much,  but  I  could 
never  figure  out  the  reason.  It 
was  Jim,  the  new  man  over  at  the 
Town  Garage,  who  told  me  the 
secret.  “Become  an  expert  m 
some  one  thing”,  said  Jim.  “and 
you’ll  never  have  to  worry  about 
a  high-paying  job.” 
Before  I  went  to  bed  that  night,  I 
had  written  to  the  Michigan  State  Automobile 
school  for  their  Free  Book  which  told  me  how 
I  could  become  an  expert  automobile  man  by  studying 
during  my  spare  time  at  home.  Inside  of  a  week  I^iad 
enrolled  for  the  complete  course.  And  almost  before  1 
realized  it,  I  had  finished  it  and  had  jumped  from  a  $13.50 
pencil-pushing  job  into  a  real  job  at  $42.50  a  week  to  start. 
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THE  buoyant  activity  of  Goodyear  Cord 
Tires  is  one  of  their  best  qualities.  They 
get  over  the  roads,  in  any  weather,  at  sus¬ 
tained  speed.  They  lengthen  the  hauling 
radius,  make  more  trips,  and  carry  the  loads 
safely,  dependably,  easily.  Their  earning 
power  and  long  wearing  quality  result  in 
better  performance  at  low  tire  cost. 
The  neui  beveled  All-W eather  Tread  Cord  Tire  is 
made  in  all  sizes  for  trucks  and  passenger  cars 
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TO  PROVE  that  this  new 
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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC — Daylight  saving  will  end 
in  Chicago  on  the  last  day  of  this  month, 
if  the  House  follows  the  action  of  the 
State  Senate.  By  a  vote  of  28  to  15  the 
latter  chamber.  June  1,  passed  a  bill  to 
put  a  stop  to  daylight  saving  throughout 
Illinois  on  that  date  until  such  time  as 
Congress  may  make  the  entire  country 
save  daylight. 
Governor  Smith  of  New  York,  June  1. 
wiped  the  State  dry  enforcement  act  off 
the  statute  books  by  affixing  his  signa¬ 
ture  to  the  Culliver  bill  repealing  the 
Mullan-Gage  law.  In  his  memorandum 
explaining  his  act  the  Governor  vigorous¬ 
ly  condemned  the  Volstead  act  for  de¬ 
fining  an  intoxicant  liquor  as  anything 
containing  more  than  half  of  one  per 
cent  of  alcohol.  This  definition,  he  said, 
was  written  by  “fanatical  drys.”  He 
proposed  that  Congress  should  fix  a  maxi¬ 
mum  alcoholic  content  for  non-intoxicat¬ 
ing  beverages. 
The  Government  won  its  first  victory 
in  its  drive  against  alleged  fraudulent  oil 
promoters  June  5.  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas, 
when  Charles  Sherwin  and  H.  H. 
Schwarz  were  sentenced  to  serve  10 
years  in  the  Federal  penitentiary  and 
pay  fines  of  $15,000  each,  and  “General” 
Robert  A.  Lee  was  sentenced  to  serve 
two  years  in  the  penitentiary  and  pay  a 
fine  of  $0,000.  “General”  Lee,  Schwarz 
and  Sherwin,  officials  of  the  General  Lee 
Development  Company,  were  found  guilty 
on  five  charges  of  using  the  mails  to  de¬ 
fraud  and  one  charge  of  conspiracy. 
From  manufactured  clouds  oyer  a  min¬ 
iature  village  artificial  lightning  of  2,- 
000.000  volts  was  produced  June  5.  at 
the  high  voltage  engineering  laboratory 
of  the  General  Electric  Company  at 
Pittsfield,  Mass.  The  feat  was  said  to 
surpass  any  previous  accomplishment  in 
high  voltage. 
El  win  Albert  Ladd,  superintendent  of 
schools  in  Batavia,  N.  Y.,  for  the  last, 
10  years,  drowned  himself  in  a  cistern  in 
the  rear  of  his  home  June  4.  Worry  over 
the  recent  strike  of  Batavia  students,  fol¬ 
lowing  the  refusal  of  Principal  Howard 
Weber  to  reinstate  a  Miss  Beale  as  in¬ 
structor  in  the  commercial  department,  is 
believed  responsible  for  the  suicide. 
The  doom  of  the  Erie  Canal  in_  Syra¬ 
cuse.  N.  Y..  was  sounded  June.  5.  The 
canal,  generally  credited  with  being  more 
responsible  for  the  growth  of  Syracuse 
than  any  other  factor,  was  ordered  filled 
by  the  board  of  contract  and  supply.  The 
city  recently  bought  the  canal  land  from 
the  State  for  $800,000. 
The  section  known  as  Idylwyld,  Sas¬ 
katoon’s  most  pretentious  residential  dis¬ 
trict.  was  threatened  by  the  rising  wa¬ 
ters  of  the  South  Saskatchewan  River, 
June  5.  Residents  of  the  low-lying  sec¬ 
tions  have  been  ordered  by  authorities,  to 
pack  up  their  goods  and  move  everything 
to  higher  ground.  Floods  have  prevailed 
through  other  sections  of  Alberta. 
Joe  Bernardi,  Frank  Maberto  and 
James  Bertillo.  three  miners  entombed 
bv  the  cave-in  of  a  coal  mine  shaft  near 
Bicknell,  Ind.,  June  2,  were  rescued 
June  5,  after  having  been  imprisoned  for 
more  than  79  hours. 
A  justice  of  the  peace  at  Martinsburg, 
W.  Va..  June  5,  fined  William  R.  Bright- 
well  of  Frederick,  Md„  $3,000  and  sen¬ 
tenced  him  to  serve  14  months  in  jail,  on 
charges  growing  out  of  the  killing  of 
seven -year-old  Kenneth  Kneislev.  The 
boy  was  run  down  by  Brightwell’s  auto¬ 
mobile.  Brightwell  waived  a  preliminary 
hearing  on  a  murder  charge,  which  will 
be  brought  to  the  attention  of  the  Oc¬ 
tober  grand  jury.  He  filed  notice  of  an 
appeal  and  gave  bond  of  $4,000.  He  is 
under  $5,000  bond  on  the  murder  charge. 
Donald  C.  Thompson,  war  photogra¬ 
pher.  was  arrested  at  Chicago,  June  4, 
by  agents  of  the  Department  of  Justice 
on  charges  of  impersonating  naval  officers 
and  passing  worthless  checks.  Thompson 
has  been  arrested  on  similar  charges 
twice  previously,  Federal  agents  asserted. 
He  is  said  to  be  wanted  by  the  New 
York  office  of  the  Bureau  of  Investigation 
of  the  Department  of  Justice  for  having 
posed  as  Commander  Frederick  E.  Pier¬ 
son.  IT.  S.  N..  and  also  as  Lieutenant 
Commander  Wginwright,  and  to  have 
passed  several  worthless  checks. 
Investigations  by  the  New  York  Tri¬ 
bute  are  showing  extensive  frauds  in  the 
peddling  of  cheap  publications  alleged  to 
be  issued  for  the  benefit  of  war  veterans 
and  charitable  people  are  urged  to  dis¬ 
criminate  in  purchasing  or  subscribing 
for  such  papers.  Large  profits  are  being 
secured  by  unworthy  people. 
FARM  AND  GARDEN.  —  Three 
Hits  in  succession,  the  last  week  in 
iy,  killing  frosts  occurred  in  Connec- 
ut.  something  unheard  of  in  the  State 
half  a  century.  Market  gardeners  are 
■ing  flat  failure. 
The  world  sugar  crop  for  1922-23  keeps 
creasing.  A  statement  issued  by  the 
■partment  of  Agriculture  June  1  gives 
>  world  production  for  the  current 
ir  as  269,053  short  tons  more  than  at 
>  same  time  last  year.  The  crop  for 
21- 22  was:  Java,  1.857,744  short  tons, 
cl  the  world  20,268,011.  The  crop  for 
22- 23  was:  Java,  1,992,998,  and  _the 
old  20.537,064.  Cuba  produced  3,478,- 
9  last  year  and  the  total  output  to  date 
is  year  is  3,770.000.  Twenty  Cuban 
itrals  that  closed  in  May  reported 
output  of  577.350.  compared  with 
528,317  last  year.  All  late  estimates  are 
running  above  those  made  early  by  expert 
statisticians. 
Flour  prices  dropped  to  the  lowest  in 
six  years,  when  one  of  the  largest  mills 
at  Minneapolis,  June  5,  cut  the  price  15 
cents  a  barrel  on  family  patents.  The 
new  low  was  $6.25  a  barrel  when  sold  in 
carlots  in  98-pound  cotton  sacks  for  the 
highest  grade  of  family  patents.  Milling 
officials  said  the  price  has  not  been  so 
low  since  'before  the  war.  AVeakness  in 
wheat  was  the  cause  for  the  decline,  mil¬ 
lers  said. 
WASHINGTON.- — The  Supreme  Court 
decided  June  4,  in  cases  brought  from 
Nebraska,  Iowa  and  Ohio,  that  States 
have  no  right  or  adequate  reason  to  pre¬ 
vent  the  teaching  of  the  German  lan¬ 
guage  in  the  private,  denominational, 
parochial  and  public  schools  in  peace 
times.  Justice  SlcReynolds  delivered  the 
opinion.  Justice  Holmes  wrote  a  dissent, 
Justice  Sutherland  concurring.  While 
the  court  held  that  the  desire  of  State 
Legislatures  to  foster  a  homogeneous 
people  with  American  ideals  was  com¬ 
mendable  in  view  of  unfortunate  experi¬ 
ences  in  the  AVorld  War,  it  ruled  that 
*he  means  adopted  in  some  States  ex¬ 
ceeded  the  limitations  upon  the  powers  of 
the  States,  and  conflicted  with  the  rights 
of  people  desiring  to  learn  the  German 
language  . 
On  the  ground  that  it  is  without  juris¬ 
diction  and  without  considering  the  con¬ 
stitutional  questions  raised,  the  Supreme 
Court,  June  4,  dismissed  the  two  suits 
attacking  the  legality  of  the  Sheppard- 
Towner  maternity  act.  The  cases  were 
those  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massa¬ 
chusetts  vs.  Andrew  AAT.  Alellon,  Secre¬ 
tary  of  the  Treasury  et  al.  and  Harriet 
A.  Frothingham  of  Boston,  appellant,  vs. 
Andrew  W.  Mellon,  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  et  al.  Both  cases  challenged 
the  constitutionality  of  the  maternity  act 
which  provides  for  an  initial  appropria¬ 
tion  and  thereafter  annual  appropriations 
for  five  years  to  be  apportioned  among 
such  States  as  accept  its  provisions  for 
the  purpose  of  co-operating  with  them 
to  reduce  maternal  and  infant  mortality 
and  protect  the  health  of  mothers  and 
infants.  It  creates  a  bureau  to  admin¬ 
ister  the  act  in  co-operation  with  State 
agencies.  It  was  asserted  in  the  attacks 
that  these  appropriations  are  not  for  na¬ 
tional  purposes,  and,  together  with  many 
similar  appropriations,  constitute  an  ni- 
f active  means  of  inducing  the  States  to 
yield  a  part  of  their  sovereign  rights. 
It  was  further  alleged  that  the  appropria¬ 
tions  fall  unequally  upon  the  different 
States;  that  the  act  is  a  usurpation  of 
power  not  granted  to  Congress  and  an  at¬ 
tempted  exercise  of  local  self  government. 
The  number  of  American  millionaire 
taxpayers  is  growing  smaller  year  by 
year,  according  to  an  announcement  June 
5,  by  the  Internal  Revenue  Bureau 
of  the  Treasury  Department.  During  the 
tax  year  of  1921  only  21  persons  filed 
income  tax  reports  of  $1,000,000  and 
over.  This  is  a  decrease  of  12  in  one 
year.  For  the  year  1920  33  persons 
filed,  income  tax  reports  at  $1,000,000 
and  over. 
Burdock  and  Ragweed 
Burdock  and  ragweed  are  both  villain¬ 
ous  intruders  and  in  addition  to  their 
damage  as  weeds  they  are  host  plants  for 
stalk-borers  that  infest  tomatoes,  corn 
and  many  other  plants.  This  stalk-borer, 
which  is  distinct  from  the  dangerous 
European  corn-borer,  is  the  larva  of  a 
gray  moth,  which  lays  its  eggs  on  the 
ground,  near  suitable  food  plants,  in  the 
Fall,  where  they  hatch  in  Spring.  The 
worm  bores  into  a  suitable  stalk,  feeds 
within,  and  often  bores  out  again,  mov¬ 
ing  to  a  neighboring  stalk.  Removal 
of  infested  stalks,  clearing  up  of  crop 
remnants,  and  destruction  of  host  plants, 
are  means  of  control.  As  burdock  is  al¬ 
ways  a  nuisance,  and  ragweed  the  chief 
source  of  irritation  in  hay  fever,  neither 
of  these  weeds  should  be  allowed  to  pro¬ 
pagate. 
Burdock  is  a  biennial,  propagated  by 
seeds ;  the  first  year  the  rosette  of  leaves 
may  be  cut  out  with  the  hoe,  and  if  any 
escape  the  flowering  stalk  should  be  cut 
close  to  the  ground  the  second  year  be¬ 
fore  any  of  the  heads  mature.  Burdock 
roots  are  used  to  some  degree  in  medi¬ 
cine.  For  this  purpose  they  are  collected 
in  Autumn  the  first  year  of  growth, 
cleaned,  sliced  lengthwise,  and  carefully 
dried  in  the  shade.  The  price  is  quite 
low,  however. 
Ragweed  is  very  susceptible  to  chemi¬ 
cal  sprays,  and  a  solution  of  iron  sul¬ 
phate  or  copper  sulphate  will  destroy  it 
when  young.  Copper  sulphate  for  w’eed 
killing  calls  for  12  lbs.  copper  sulphate 
to  52  gallons  of  water.  This  will  de¬ 
stroy  the  leaves  of  burdock.  Iran  sul¬ 
phate  is  used  at  the  rate  of  100  lbs.  to 
the  barrel  of  water.  Late  tillage  is  help¬ 
ful.  for  it  is  the  plants  that  bloom  and 
fruit  after  cultivation  has  ceased  that 
continue  the  infestation.  Infested  clover 
fields  should  be  cut  before  the  ragweed 
flowers,  as  its  pollen  is  extremely  bitter, 
and  lowers  the  quality  of  the  hay  even 
more  than  the  dried  plants.  As  physi¬ 
cians  interested  in  hay  fever  prevention 
are  conducting  an  active  campaign 
against  ragweed  effort  should  be  made  to 
control  this  plant.  Any  locality  inter¬ 
ested  in  Summer  boarders  would  do  well 
to  start  a  “community  drive”  against  it. 
