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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-18

fro. i@3S 1fcsted tree, but also from
the H.. l. of hairs which are shed
by these eaterpiliarS When they trans
form = the chrySaIiS state The lat
ter fall and find lndgment On clothing.
and frequently cause very agreeable
and extensive netting. the effects Of
which may last Tor months Hreath~i
into the lungs they may cause infiam-
nation and become productiv" of tn
berCulOSis The brown-tail rash IA
Well known throughout the regions in
tested in New England. and thousands
have suffered from il. The death Of one
man employed by the government on
the work Was due to poisoning con-
tracted in field work against larvae
This insect is. therefore A mighty uu-
desirable neighbor even il il were not
responsible for great injury I orch
ards and ornamental trees.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-18
MEXICAN EXPORT OF NEGF-TA-
BIES

During the first three months Of this
year there was an unusually heavy eK-
DOrtation of tomatoes from Mexico
into the United states. The total num-
ber Of car loads exported was III. aS
against 81 for the whole year 1910. II
all. 81 i4,57e pounds Of tomatoes and
green vegetables We're exported dur
ing tn q first three months Of 1911. IN
excess of 9S2 .093 pounds over the to
tai shipments of 1910.
The increase in exportatiOn is duo
mainly to increased production. but
largely also to the fact that the crop
matured earlier this year than last.
These tomatoes. being ready for the
market 50 early in the year. find
large demand in the United states.
Last year the heaviest expectation
took place in April and May and near
" the entire crop was shipped to Los
Angeles and San Francisco. This year
the greater part Vas sent To Chicago,
with large shipments u Kansas city
and ST Louis. as we'll A. the Pacific
coast No attempt * made 10 can these
tomatoes as il i considered more pro
fitahIe t. ship them North for the
early market-Consul Alexander Y.
Dye. sonora
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-18
BROWN TAI. MOTH \ DANGER
Gus PEST
(By G.. l.. Marlatt. }


Early in 1909 it was discovered that
nests Of the brown-tai moth. filled
With hundreds OF small alternating
larvae. We're being introduced into this
country on imported European nursery
stock-chietly from Northern France
and distributed into many States.
These brown-tail moth nests We're first
reported in connection with a con-
signment Of seedlings shipped from
Anglers, France, to New 4ork. The
nests were discovered by the New
York State inS pectOr, and the inform
alton was communicated to the Bu
heau of Entomology by the Commis
siOner Of Agriculture of that State.
Warning letters were promptly sent
out by the chief of the Bureau of En-
tomology to the different entOm olo-
gistS, and special arrangements were
made with the customs office. and by
agreement with the railroads. so that
this bureau was to be informed of all
cases of plants received at customs or
subsequently handled by the principal
railroad companies. BY this means
the receipt and ultimate destination
was ascertained Of much Of the i'm
ported stock that year.
Information was secured concerning
nearly eight hundred shipments. divid-
ed among 80 differedt States. In
shipments to Is OF these States, nests
OF the brOWn-taH moth We're found,
ranging in number from one nest to
many nests in each shipment. These
brOWn-tail nests-little Webbed pack
cts OF leaves containing the very
small alternating larvae to the
number of 800 or 400 In each nest
We're found on the Seeding and other
nursery stock in enormous mum berrs
some 100 nests approximately >
1000 larvae) being found in ship
ments to New York State alone.
Shipments OF nursery stock from
France in 1910 again brought to this
country enormous quantities OF nests
of the brOWn-taIl moth, filled with the
one-fourth grown larvae.
All of this imported European stock
was again followed up as far as posi-
BILE in accordance with the arrange
ment of the previous year with the
customs officers and by agreement
with the railroads. and all reported
shipments We're inspected at their des-
tination.
OF the shipments Of 1910 not less
than POI different lots were found to
be infested with nests OF the brown
tail moth.
AS result of a thorough investiga
ton of European conditions, mucf
better effort during the last year has
been made. notably in France and Bel
ei,,ln. To improve the conditions Of
export stock and as a result the I'M
nortati0nS of the present season 50
far have shown a notable improve
ynant in amount Of infeStation.
IN addition to the great monetary
loss. the broWn-taii moth exercises
Very dpiatariouS effect on health The
hairs which cover the caterpillarS or
this moth are extremely netting, and
not only are they SO from accidental
contact with a caterpillar which may
fall on clothes. neck, face or hands,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-18

Making good. palstabie hay il not
simply a matter Of how quickly ans
how cheaply we can get 4 into the
barn OF stack. but how il can be rror-
erly cured and placed in the NOV
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-07-18

Green oats sweet corn fodder and
rye are excellent green food for both
old and young ducks.
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kinahan could have been such a mug as
to commit these schemes to paper. ano
how Kingdom should have been such
fool as to want to keep them. Id have
let them go down in the Orinoco.
II expect one explanation covers both
cases." said Hughie. Kingdom probably
demanded his orders in black and white
as a guarantee that he you'd get his
money when he had done his job. Other
wise he had no claim on kinahan for a
penny, beyond his ordinary wage as skip
per. Kinahan probably agreed. stipulat-
ing that the letters should be handed back
to him when they squared accounts. II
was a risky thing to do, but when two
thieves can't trust each other. and g
dropping about documentary evidence tt
that effect-well, that's where poor but
deserving people like ourselves come in
No. l shouldn't think Kingdom woulc
want to leave these behind, and | opint
that he's pretty sick man by TINS time
If he has missed them"
He folded the letters up and put then
away carefully.
Now, gentlemen he said, briskly, 81
propose that we go below and see it there
is sufficient steam OH the OrinocO to pumT
the rest Of the water out Of her and gel
the propeller revolving again. Well have
to damp down most of the fires. because
We can't run too many firemen, but think
we ought tosS51ock four or five knots out
of her in ord3hary weather. Luckily, 4,
per cent OF the snip s company are COM
petent engineers. After that We'll have
some breakfast. and after that we'll make
tracks for home. Wen work The
smacked his lips cheerily, like an ener-
getic pedagogue on the first morning OF
term--'in shifts of three. Two men will
run the engine room and stokehold and
the third will take the wheel. The fourth
can sleep. That Will give us each eight
cen hours on and six hours off. l don't
know where We are. and l have no means
of finding out. as Capt. Kingdom has
walked Oft with the chart and most Of
the proper instruments. But we must be
near land, or they would not have taken
to the boats yet. If we keep steamine
steadily east with a little north in it,,
at about a hundred miles a day-Which
fancy is about our limit-we should knock
up against something sooner or later. And
when we do, Well get hold of the proper
authorities. and 1 venture TO think that
with the help Of these two letters and
that doctored bilge valve down below we
shall be able to prepare welcome for
those three boatloads of shipwrecked mar
liners, when they arrive, that will surprise
them Also, I fancy there will be pick
ings for You in the way Of salvage. What
a gamev' Hughie stood up and inhaled
a great breath. This was real lifei Are
you on, boys?'' he cried, suddenly. lis
the old Orinoco going to the bottom this
Journey"
The crew rose at him and gave three
cheers.
ITO be continued tomorrow
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CHAPTER TX.
Litera Scripta Manet.


MIR Marrable, did ever We see drookit
crave"
i No
| We'll see me-" anr ounced Mr. Goble,
complacently.
i He craWled out of the engine room
lcompanionway and sat down OH the deck.
Excessive spruceness had never been II
| foible of his. but now he was an unrecog-
nizable mass Of coal dust, oil and rust.
He was dripping wet. for he had spent
| the last hour in an exhaustive eXamina-
| ton of the Orinocos waterlogged internal
economy. The morning sun was warm,
| and he steamed comfortably as he de-
| tailed the result Of his investigations to
Hughie, who in some imperceptible but
inevitable manner had taken command of
the tiny ships company.
| Shorn OF technicalities and irrelevant
excursions into the regions Of pawky
philosophy, Mr.. Coolies report came to
this:
Mr.. Angus had pumped out the after
ballast tank during the night. allowing
| the water. by means of a specially rugged
| return pipe. to flow into the bilges of the
! ship instead Of escaping overheard. BY
| this device he had altered the Ortnoco's
4
produce the aforementioned down-hill
slant of her decks-a corroborative detail.
as Pooh-Bah would have observed, which
gave a little much-needed artistic veri-
similitude to the Bimbo Brothers bald
and unconvincing narrative of disaster.
Incidentally, he had flooded the forehold
and engine room with sufficient water to
give those members OF the ships COM
pany who were not in their employer S
confidence the impression that she was
sinking, and to furnish those who were
| with a prima facie argument for desert
ing her.
/ But these thoughtful precautions, though
sufficient to procure the abandonment of
the Orinoco, were by no means sufficient
| to send her to the bottom, a consumma-
| ton to be achieved at any cost; for to
| leave your ship lying about in midocean,
| to be picked up by the first chance conner,
check from the insurance company. savors
| Of slipshod business methods: and Mr..
NOddy Kinahan was nothing il not thor
ough.
Now every steamer which plies under
| Lloyds' aegiS is fitted, below the water
line, with q set of what are called bilge
valves. Through these it is possible to
| expel any water which may have found
It's way into the body Of the vessel. AS it
is even more desirable to prevent the en-
| trance Of water into your ship than to
assist its exit, these valves are OF a
strictly "non-return'' variety, and no
amount Of pressure from the outside
should ever prevail upon them to play
| the part of facing both ways. The very
life Of the ship depends upon them. and
| the enterprising individual who hampers
| with their mechanism in such a manner
as to convert what is meant to be an
| emergency exit into a sort of early door
for the rolling deep. does so at the risk
of coming into immediate and painful col
lision with the criminal laws of his coun-
try.
Mr.. Angus, it appeared, had been EN-.
ploying some OF his spare time during the
voyage in reversing one of these ~bilgt
valves. with such skill and finesse that
as We have seen, one had only to give q
turn to q worm and wheel gear in the
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CASH FOR BIG HALL
Money Promised for George
Washington Memorial.
PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED
House. to- House Canvass and Sale of
Memorial Buttons Among
Them.

The campaign to raise funds for the
George Washington Memorial Convention
Hall to be erected in this city will start
with a rush. according to plans outlined
at a meeting of the committee on con-
ventions Of the Chamber of Commerce
last night. Promises of large subscrip-
tons by men and women Of the city have
already been made. One woman, * was
announced last night would send a check
for $1,000. Her name will not be an
nounced until the meeting Of the repre-
sentatives of the various organizations
OF the city at the chamber tomorrow
night. A we'll known merchant will make
another subscription of 81, 600.
A committee in charge of raising the
fund for the George Washington memo
rial. however. desires that every man,
woman and child in the country shall
have share in the building of the
memorial and no subscriptions will be too
small to receive d hearty acknowledge
ment.
Granville NJ. Hunt, chairman OF the
conventions committee. explained the
house-to-hOuse canvass which will be made
to raise funds in this city. 1t was decided
to organise a woman's auxiliary to CO.
operate with citizens at large.
Call for Volunteers.
The delegates who attend tine meeting
tomorrow night will be asked to volun-
teer their aid to the conventions COM
mittee and to raise enthusiasm in their
respective organizations. Each associa-
ton or organization will Be asked to ap-
point a committee of ten to cooperate
with the conventions committee.
The meeting tomorrow night will be
opened by Granville NJ. Hunt. c. E..
Crump. secretary of the committee, will
read letters from we'll known persons
throughout the country promising sup
port to the project. John Dolph. chairman
Of the subcommittee which arranged the
mass meeting will preside.
The speakers will include President
James +. Oyster OF the Chamber OF
Commerce, William F. GUIDE, former
president of the chamber: Dr.. Charles D.
Walcott. secretary Of the Smithsonian In
stitution, Charles j. Bell. treasurer of the
George Washington memorial fund: Mrs.
Archibald Hopkins. one Of the trustees
Of the George Washington Memorial AS
ISOLATION: Henry B. r. mcfarland. j.
Louis Willige and p. j. Haltigan.
The committee decided to invite 100
Washington society girls to canvass the
city and sell George Washington memorial
buttons, the proceeds to go to the build
ing fund.
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BALLOON PILOT KILLED.
Machine Which Sailed Sunday De-
sends and Strikes RreakWater.

kREFELD. Rhenish Prussia March n
The balloon Dusseldorf ~, which as
cended here Sunday, was carried over the
Zuider Zee. an arm of the North sea,
and because of loss of gas was obliged
to descend. The basket struck a break
water violently and the balloon pilot.
Paul Kayser. was instantly killed. A
passenger. Otto Schroeder, a silk manu-
facturer, was badly injured, hut was
creek
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NEWSPAPER MAN ILL,
Thomas T. Williams, Friend of Late
Senator Hearst, in Serious Condition.

NEW YORK, March 21.-Thomas r.
Williams. business manager Of the New
York Evening Journal, is dangerously i'll
at his apartments here with erysipelas
and a complication Of diseases.
Mr.. Williams is well known in the
newspaper world. He was brought to
New York from the west by William
Randolph Hearst, having been a close
friend of Senator Hearst.
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KITTANNING, Pa, March 21.-As a
result OF eating cakes in which strych-
nine had been used in mistake for baking
powder, the three-year-old daughter of
William Fair of Cowansville, is dead and
three other children are in a critical con-
dition. Mrs. Fair, who made the cakes
is seriously hysterlcal over the accident
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Edward B. Abercrombie Dead.

CHICAGO. March 21.-Edward b. Aber-
crombie. an authority on the harness
horse. died at his home here yesterday.
For the last thirty years he had been
the editor of publications devoted to the
harness horse in this city and in New
York
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ly managed railroad in Mexico are profit

ly managed railroad in Mexico are profit
makers. The policy of the company is
to give the Mexican workingman a
chance, and while an American is never
removed for the sole purpose of giving
a lob to some Mexican, it is the rule that
wherever there is competent Mexican
available for an existing vacancy he
shall be appointed in preference to for
eigner.
The National Railways have been yield
ing revenues that are enabling them TO
meet all expenses and fixed charges and
to have a little left over for the divi-
dends Of the preferred stockholders. The
month of February of this year shows
a. healthy increase Of earnings over the
same period last year. 1t is the firm be-
lief of the managers of the federal lines
that every expectation of the parties to
the merger will be exceeded, and that the
indicated growth of business during the
decade ahead will be sufficient to place
the National Railways among the list
of highly successful railroads of the
world.
The vice president of the system, c. r.
Hudson, one of the best seasoned rail-
road men in America, says that 1t is the
trunk lines measure up to the best stand
ards of railroading in the United States
1t has just received a lot of magnificent
oil-burning engines that will compare ia
yorably with the heaviest standard en-
gines i'm use in the United States. and its
main lire tracks have eighty-flve pound
rails. with rock ballast. President Brown
tation for building up the physical prop
critics OF the roads with which he has
been connected.
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The third instalIment of 'The Sovereign
Power" the great serial Of aviation, by
Mark Lee Luther. In our next Sunday
Ma4azine
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Worked Out Plan
to Gain Control.

competition tidt IL
W udAu VVAtiVi' seemed as il a re-
ownership offereS the only way out of its
difficulties. with acquisition by American
interests ALPHABETICALLY inevitable. Diaz and
I.inantour together worked out a scheme
whereby the government could effect a
consolidation of the National and the Cen
trial. with itself in possession of con-
trolling interest in the merged lines. and
the new company a Mexican corporation
in the fullest sense Of the word. They de
cided that they could effect the consolsda-
ton and gain control without paying a
single copper Of government money in
the transaction. The one consideration
was the transferring of the government
holdings of National stock to the new or
ganization and the other that the govern
ment should guarantee one Of the issues
Of bonds of the new company.
How we'll the merger has succeeded
from the standpoint Of the Mexican gov.
eminent is disclosed by the fact that Of
the $46O.OoO,0oO OF stock. Mexican cur
rency the government holds a controlling
interest secured practically on a first in
vestment of $lSO0O,O0O Mexican currency
The authorized bond issue Of the National
Railways ia SAT- 100000. United States
gold. However. only a part Of this has
remainder will be issued In the future TO
meet the cost of extensions and improve
ments.
Since the merger the new system has
enjoyed great prosperity. Instead of the
two main companies fighting one another
for business, traffic is now so divided that
it is hauled to the greatest advantage of
the new system. 1t Is operated at a great
saving over the old method the demands
for rolling stock in proportion to business
handled being cut down, and the CONSOLE
dations of Office forces and other duplica-
tions of work being in the interest of eco
nomical administration.
The operation OF the National Railways
il turned over to officials who operate
them exactly
Government Monopoly as the of,cials
It Not Oppressive. s Dr amy 0: Tss
company enjoys no advantages not given
TO other railroad companies, and instead
of being used to discourage the construc-
ton Of other lines the system is cited
by the government as proof that proper.
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In 1906 the Mexican Central. largely in
the same territory as the National, be-
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two thousand miles Of other lines. The
government Is also interested in another
line, known as the Heart Of the Tropics
route. and extending from Vera Cruz and
TERRA Blanca to Santa Lucretia, in the
southern part Of Mexico, where it con-
meets with the Tehuantepec route. This
line was built by American capital,
financed by the Maryland Trust Com
pany. but the Mexican government Sc
cured complete ownership of the road by
guaranteeing the seven-m illion-dollar gold
bond issue. This road Is operated indie
pendently of the National Railways, but
of course there Is an understanding with
reference to all matters OF mutual inter
est. The Tehuantepec route is also owned
by the government.
The Pan-American Railway, lately TAX
en- over by the national lines Of Mexico,
extends from Gamboa on the Tehuantepec
route to the Guatemalan frontier. paral-
telling the Pacific coast line. This gives
the government direct control Of a
through system from the United States
to Guatemala. The Mexican system OF
government ownership OF railroads has
been free from all the evils that the OPP
ponents of such ownership have asserted
would follow the acquisition OF the rail-
roads in the United States. Whether it
would be possible to copy the Mexican
plan in the United States is question.
but the railroad situation in Mexico does
afford a fertile field for study on the
part of the political economists OF the
United States.
T0morrOw-MEXICO.
VIII-The Tehuantepec Route.
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Government Monopoly a
Il Not Oppressive. =.

company enjoys no advantages not given
TO other railroad companies, and instead
of being used to discourage the construc-
ton OF other lines the system is cited
by the government as proof that proper
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NlREWLNa %A,Ea. STEAMg0AT co.
MODERN STEEL PALACE STEAMERS
10 OLD PrGNT COMFORT MORE FOLK
AND ALL POINTS SOUTH.
Daily. Gas pm, from foot Of ath St 50.
New York and Boston by Sea
CITY Ticket Office. Bond bldg. l4th y. \, ave.
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T0morrOw-MEX
VlII-The Tehuantepec Route.
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!. s,z Tomorrow the Last Day
OF Palais Royal ''Opening'' Souveni


tha o. o
No
made to in andS
ronN
a
OF
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The operation OF the National Railways
il turned over to officials who operate
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In addition to the operation Of thu
lines owned by it, the National Railway
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The story of Mexico's launching into
railway finance begins with 1907 In
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EUROPE A 4Ap ORIENT
20 Aps tours ScsS upward. Frequent saiiines.
18th Annual Orient Cruise Feb. ! 1919; By So
Round the world Tours. 1911; 81 $50 and %.
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