AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

fAustralia & N.Z. Cable Association.] AMERICAN CROPS. NEW YORK, September 3. ’ A Washington message states that the U.S.A. Agriculture Department has reported that unfavourable weather conditions in recent weeks have seriously retarded many crops. Rain has rotted the potatoes in some sections, has hampered the maturity of corn, has flooded the lowland cotton fields, and drenched the soil, and lias also prevented the farmers from ploughing their land for winter wheat crops. Potatoes are doing well in the north east, hut in the middle Atlantic States and in Ohio Valley the rains have caused wet rot. Too severe moisture lias also damaged the late tomato crops. The only crops benefited by the rains are those of tobacco and corn, hut the latter has now had sufficient moisture and needs dry, warm, weather to hasten maturity. Tie sugar cane in the South and the sugar beets in the west arcreported to be in excellent condition, and a big production of them is forecasted.

FLOODS IX CANADA. OTTAWA. September 3. A Winnipeg message states: A week’s delay on the harvesting highways lias been caused by inundated irrigation ditches. There have been torrential rains in Alberta since Monday. They are expected to cease to-day. The shipment of coal in the Maeleod River district has been brought to a standstill and two bridges have been washed out. The conditions in the other piairie provinces aro favourable to an earlier resumption of harvesting, which begins in Manitoba next week. Saskatchewan has suffered the least by the rain, and harvesting begins there immediately.

POISON LIQUOR. NEW YORK, Sept. 3. A Chicago message states: “Mr E. Tellowley, the Prohibition Director in this district, declared that the American liquor drinkers wore going insane and that they had nobody to blame hut themselves. Ho said: “People are consuming dynamite high halls, which come ill bottles with fancy labels. These are leading to insfinity, blindness, and dentil. The cheap ‘moonshine’ handled by the smaller bootleggers is less dangerous than the so-called ‘genuine’ liquor. People might as well mix ether with ginger ale and call it rye ruin, whiskey, or any other name that the bootleggers call tho stuff.”

Mr Tellowley ordered samples to he analysed from a. large liquor haul. Liquors labelled “Bacardi rum,” “Scotch Whisky,” “Canadian Rye,’’ “Old Kentucky,” and “Bourbon,” were found to contain quantities of pyritine wood alcohol, benzol, kerosene, nitro-benzol, pine oil. other, ortoritro and toluol. Mr Tellowley said that in most of the cases where deaths were attributed to (icuto alcoholism, it was nothing mote than a case of poisoning.