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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
November  17,  1923 
Tire  Values  Are  at  the  Peak 
You  can  see  from  the  above  simple  chart  how 
consistently  Goodyear  Tire  prices  have  been 
kept  below  the  average  price  level  for  all  com¬ 
modities. 
Today  Goodyear  values  are  at  the  peak;  Good¬ 
year  prices,  for  example,  being  45%  below  those 
of  1920,  and  39%  below  those  even  of  1914. 
In  the  face  of  these  low  figures,  Goodyear  Tires 
are  better  than  ever  before,  in  every  respect  of  per¬ 
formance,  reliability  and  freedom  from  trouble. 
Embodying  highest-grade  long-staple  cotton,  the 
improved  and  longer-wearing  All-Weather 
Tread — they  are  the  greatest  money’s  worth  you 
ever  bought. 
Now  is  a  good  time  to  buy  Goodyear  Tires. 
Prices  are  low  and  quality  was  never  so  high. 
Made  in  all  sizes  for 
Passenger  Cars  and  Trucks 
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II*  Intensive  Strawberry  II 
Culture 
By  LOUIS  GRATON 
||  This  book  has  grown  out  of  Mr.  H 
||  Graton’s  more  than  40  years’  experi-  || 
||  ence  as  a  successful  strawberry  cul-  II 
||  turist.  Of  special  value  to  the  home  || 
|!  gardener  and  small  commercial  || 
||  grower,  producing  high  quality  ber-  l| 
II  ries  and  plants.  Price,  $1.00.  For  || 
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gifts.  Send  $  1  cash,  money  order  or  check. 
If  west  of  the  Mississippi,  add  25c  post¬ 
age.  Money  back  if  you’re  not  delighted. 
Dept.  R-ll  Krystal  Kraftcrs  Trenton, N.J. 
A  Man  Who  is  Deaf  Has  Many  Strange  Experiences 
Some  are  amusing  while  others  are  pathetic  and  some¬ 
times  even  tragic. 
Mr.  H.  W.  Collingwood  has  been  deaf  for  years  and  thou¬ 
sands  of  people  have  marveled  at  his  cheerful  disposition 
and  his  ability  to  lead  such  an  active  life  in  spite  of  the 
handicap  of  defective  hearing.  Mr.  Collingwood  has  writ¬ 
ten  a  new  book  that  gives  many  interesting  insights  into 
the  life  of  one  who  is  hard  of  hearing. 
Adventures  in  Silence 
It  tells  of  many  amusing  incidents  and  exciting  adventures 
that  the  writer  has  experienced  because  of  his  inability  to 
hear.  It  pictures  the  lonely  life  of  those  who  are  unable  to 
hear  the  voice  of  their  friends,  the  song  of  the  birds  or  the 
laughter  of  children.  It  explains  in  an  interesting  way, 
many  of  the  little  peculiarities  that  you  may  have  noticed 
about  the  deaf — the  fear  of  darkness,  the  sudden  outburst 
of  temper,  the  unreasonable  suspicions  and  curiosity,  etc. 
It  is  an  interesting  and  a  human  book — the  kind  of  a  story 
that  only  Mr.  Collingwood  can  write. 
The  book  contains  288  pages  and  is  beautifully  bound  in 
cloth.  The  price  is  only  $1.  Just  send  a  bill,  check  or 
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The  Rural  New-Yorker,  333  W.  30th  St.,  New  York 
Garden  and  Farm  Notes 
Leaf  Blight  or  Shot-hole  of  the  Plum 
I  have  a  plum  tree  which  I  put  in 
three  years  ago.  It  was  full  of  bloom  this 
year,  and  set  a  small  crop.  Recently  the 
leaves  began  to  curl,  and  now  the  tree  ap¬ 
pears  to  be  dying.  j.  n.  h. 
Rutherford,  N.  J. 
The  leaves  that  you  sent  were  suffer¬ 
ing  severely  from  the  leaf-blight  or  shot- 
hole  fungus,  as  it  is  variously  called.  The 
trouble  is  caused  by  several  species  of 
fungi,  Coccomyces  Prunopliorae  being  the 
most  common  one.  The  disease  first 
manifests  itself  on  the  leaves  as  circular 
areas,  which  soon  dry  up  and  fall  away, 
or  result  in  yellow  leaves.  The  European 
varieties  are  readily  defoliated,  while  the 
Japanese  varieties  lose  few  leaves,  though 
they  are  riddled  with  holes.  The  fungus 
winters  over  on  the  old  leaves  on  the 
ground,  and  about  the  time  that  the  first 
new  leaves  are  appearing  the  spores  are 
blown  to  them  and  produce  slight  dis¬ 
colored  areas  in  a  week  or  ten  days. 
These  areas  become  larger  and  reddish- 
brown  in  appearance  in  another  week 
and  later  the  centers  may  drop  out,  as 
already  described,  giving  the  leaves  the 
appearance  of  having  been  perforated 
with  small  shot.  Spores  continue  to  be 
discharged  throughout  the  season. 
Control  consists  in  removing  the  source 
of  infection  from  old  leaves  and  in  spray¬ 
ing  with  lime-snlphur,  1  to  50.  just  when 
the  shucks  are  off  the  fruits,  about  two 
weeks  later,  and  again  just  before  the 
fruit  ripens.  H.  B.  T. 
Plum  Pits  for  Germination 
What  care  is  likely  to  preserve  in  plum 
pits  the  highest  germinative  quality  ?  Can 
seeds  of  other  fruits  be  treated  the  same 
as  pits?  s.  G. 
Sergeantsville,  N.  J. 
There  are  two  factors  identified  with 
the  proper  handling  of  plum  pits.  In  the 
first  place,  it  is  necessary  to  secure  viable 
seed — not  an  easy  task.  Some  species 
and  varieties  of  plums  will  produce  a  high 
percentage  of  healthy  seed,  while  others 
will  not.  In  general,  the  native  American 
plums  produce  more  viable  seed  than  do 
the  more  common  European  sorts.  Seeds 
from  cross-pollinated  orchards  is  more  apt 
to  be  good  than  that  from  orchards  of 
one  variety. 
The  next  step  is  to  store  the  seed 
properly.  It  is  customary  to  bury  the 
pits  in  sand  out  of  doors  in  the  Fall.  A 
recent  suggestion  is  to  store  the  pits  in  a 
box  of  sand  in  an  icehouse,  or  even  in 
an  icebox.  At  all  events,  it  is  fairly  well 
established  that  fruit  seeds  require  cool, 
moist  surroundings  over  a  period  of  from 
several  weeks  to  several  months  before 
they  will  germinate.  H.  B.  T. 
EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC.  —  Four  men  driving  a 
large  automobile  robbed  the  First  Na¬ 
tional  Bank  at  Ottawa,  Ivan.,  November 
2,  of  all  the  cash  in  the  vault  and  safe, 
estimated  at  $25,000  and  $100,000  in 
bonds  and  escaped. 
Five  motor  bandits,  wearing  handker¬ 
chiefs  for  masks,  November  2  held  up  the 
paymaster  of  the  John  Wyeth  &  Bros. 
Chemical  Company,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
and  robbed  him  of  a  $4,700  payroll. 
Five  bandits  armed  with  riiles,  robbed 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Bakerton,  I’a., 
November  2.  and  escaped  with  $2,000, 
after  wounding  one  man  and  stealing  three 
automobiles.  Twice  the  bandits’  ma¬ 
chines  broke  down.  Each  time  they  stole 
another  car. 
Smashing  the  windows  of  a  sedan  auto¬ 
mobile,  four  armed  bandits  November  2 
robbed  two  messengers  of  the  Dominion 
Forge  and  Stamping  Company  of  $5,000 
they  were  transporting  from  a  bank 
at  WalkervMle,  Ontario.  The  bandits 
‘escaped  in  an  automobile. 
Three  persons  were  drowned  November 
4  when  an  automobile  in  which  four  per¬ 
sons  were  returning  from  Belding  to 
Lowell,  Mich.,  crashed  through  the  rail¬ 
ing  of  a  bridge  spanning  the  Flat  River, 
and  plunged  into  the  stream.  The  dead 
are  Miss  Winnie  McCall.  16;  Miss  Thel¬ 
ma  Smith.  16,  both  of  Lowell,  and  Earl 
.Tudson.  17.  of  Saranac.  The  other  mem¬ 
ber  of  the  partv.  Faul  Weber,  17,  of  Sara¬ 
nac.  freed  himself  from  the  submerged 
automobile  and  swam  ashore. 
Whiskv  valued  at  between  $50,000  and 
$100,000  was  taken  November  4  from  the 
Wakem  &  McLaughlin  liquor  warehouse 
in  Chicago  bv  nine  men  who  backed  a 
motor  truck  to  the  loading  platform, 
transferred  the  whisky  by  elevator  from 
the  second  floor,  and  then  escaped.  Two 
of  the  gang  stood  guard  over  Harry 
Doherty,  watchman,  forcing  him  to  make 
his  rounds  and  pull  his  alarm  boxes  while 
the  others  transferred  the  liquor.  Thirty- 
seven  barrels  of  whisky  valued  at  $50.(XX) 
were  stolen  from  the  warehouse  about 
three  months  ago. 
The  station  building  at  Ellwood,  N.  Y., 
a  crossing  stop  on  the  Buffalo-Niagara 
Falls  Highspeed  Line,  was  knocked  five 
feet  off  its  foundation  November  3  when 
a  two-car  International  Railway  Com¬ 
pany  train  hurled  an  automobile  against  it 
from  a  distance  of  fifty  feet.  Joseph 
Capello,  driver  of  the  car,  was  thrown 
through  the  top.  He  was  taken  to  a 
Buffalo  hospital  apparently  dying. 
A  band  of  robbers  estimated  from  14  to 
20.  robbed  two  banks  at  Spencer,  Ind.. 
November  6,  of  approximately  $15,000, 
and  wounded  two  citizens.  Traveling  in 
four  automobiles,  the  robbers  first  isolated  I 
the  town  by  cutting  all  telephone  and 
telegraph  wires,  _  then  nosted  guards  to 
pre\  ent  interruption  while  they  blew  open 
the  bank  vaults. 
Magistrate  Folwell,  sitting  in  the  Fifth 
Avenue  court,  Brooklyn,  ]NT.  Y.,  November 
6  was  told  by  Frank  Zollner,  a  general 
manager  for  the  Sheffield  Farms  Com¬ 
pany,  that  $60,000  worth  of  milk  has  been 
stolen  during  the  last  ten  months  from 
Brooklyn  retail  stores  and  milk  depots.1 
He  urged  high  bail  for  Max  Newman,  a 
milk  wagon  driver,  ofl  2036  East  Ninety- 
sixth  Street,  charged  with  the  theft  of  a 
can  of  milk  that  a  Sheffield  driver  had 
left  at  a  store  at  421  Sumner  Avenue. 
Bail  was  fixed  at  $1,500. 
Twenty-seven*  men  were  killed  by  an 
explosion  in  the  Glen  Rogers  Mine  of  the 
Raleigh-AVyoming  Coal  Company  in  a 
remote  mountain  district,  25  miles  from 
Becldey,  W.  Va.,  November  6.  The  mine, 
which  is  one  of  the  deepest  in  West 
Virginia,  was  preparing  for  a  record 
production  day  and  75  miners  had  gone 
down  the  800  feet  of  shaft  to  their  work¬ 
ing  places  before  8  o’clock.  Fire  bosses 
had  inspected  the  mine  as  late  as  7:30 
o’clock  and  pronounced  it  safe. 
Alexander  Kyle,  coal  miner  from  Clin¬ 
ton,  Ind.,  on  his  way  back  to  Glasgow 
after  makimr  a  little  fortune  at  his  trade, 
was  halted  November  6  on  his  way  down 
the  New  York  Anchor  Line  pier  to  board 
the  steamship  Columbia  by  a  a  young  man 
in  a  vivid  check  suit,  who  asked  the  miner 
for  his  ticket  and  income  tax  blank.  After 
looking  it  over  the  young  man  made  pencil 
marks  on  the  blank  and  said  :  “There  is 
$90  more  due  on  this.’’  Kyle  protested 
and  the  young  man  said  :  ‘if  you  stand 
here  arguing  you’ll  miss  your  ship,  so 
you’d  btfcer  pay  or  you  will  be  detained.” 
Kyle  paid.  When  he  was  held  up  by  real 
officials  who  examine  credentials  they 
learned  that  he  had  been  swindled.  Pier 
detectives  went  looking  for  the  man  in 
the  loud  suit,  but  did  not  find  him. 
Coming  Farmers’  Meetings 
Nov.  7-Feb.  24 — Short  Winter  courses 
in  floriculture  and  ornamental  horticul¬ 
ture,  New  York  State  College  of  Agri¬ 
culture,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
Nov.  20-  21 — New  York  State  Farm 
Bureau  Federation,  annual  meeting, 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Nov.  17-24 — American  Royal  Live 
Stock  Show,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Nov.  20-24 — Annual  farm  exhibit, 
Monmouth  County  Board  of  Agriculture, 
Beach  Casino,  Asbury  Park,  N.  J. 
Nov.  24 — Annual  Meeting,  Monmouth 
County  Board  of  Agriculture,  Beach 
Casino,  Asbury  Park.  N.  J. 
Nov.  27-Dec,  1 — Poultry  Show,  Wash¬ 
ington.  D.  C.  Secretary,  D.  Lincoln  Orr, 
Orr’s  Mills,  N.  Y. . 
Dec.  1-8 — International  Live  Stock  Ex¬ 
position,  Chicago,  Ill. 
Dec.  4-6 — New  Jersey  State  Horticul¬ 
tural  Society,  annual  meeting  and  ex¬ 
hibit,  Haddon  Hall  Hotel,  Atlantic  City, 
N.  J. 
Dec.  13-15 — Fifth  annual  poultry  show, 
North  Bergen  County  Poultry  Associa¬ 
tion  of  New  Jersey.  Odd  Fellows  Hall, 
Westwood,  N.  J.  F.  T.  Barnes,  secre¬ 
tary,  Westwood,  N.  J. 
Jan.  1-12,  1924 — Virginia  Breeders’ 
and  Fanciers’  Association,  Inc.,  seven¬ 
teenth  annual  show,  Richmond,  Va.  Sec¬ 
retary,  J.  D.  ILalliban,  2914  East  Broad 
St.,  Richmond,  Va. 
Jan.  15-18 — New  York  State  Horti¬ 
cultural  Society,  annual  meeting.  Roches¬ 
ter,  N.  Y. 
Jan.  15-18 — Trenton  Winter  Poultry 
Show,  Mercer  County  Poultry  Show, 
State  Armory,  Trenton.^  Le  Roy  Sked. 
secretary,  Pennington,  N.  J. 
Jan.  15-18 — Agriculture  Week.  Tren¬ 
ton.  N.  J. 
Feb.  20-22  —  Eastern  meeting  New 
York  State  Horticultural  Society,  Pough¬ 
keepsie,  N.  Y.  Roy  P.  McPherson,  secre¬ 
tary,  Le  Roy,  N.  Y. 
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