Construction of the entire tri-borough subway system of Greater New York with city money was agreed upon last week by the board of estimate and the public service commission as the transit program to be worked out by the new administration.
Representatives of the Farmers' Union appeared before the House committee on agriculture last week to urge the enactment into law of a bill which will put an end to cotton "futures" in the cotton exchanges.
A horticulturist has been engaged by the educational authorities of the Canal Zone to give instruction in gardening in the schools for colored children.
Some time ago a fire insurance exchange was formed in New Jersey, its membership including all the fire insurance companies of consequence and their representatives, and an agreement was entered into which provided that rates should be fixed for the entire territory covered by the exchange; that these rates should be binding upon all members, and that only brokers who had obrained the certificate of the exchange could do business with the companies in question on the regular brokerage basis.
"We have already discovered that the farmer is not getting the exorbitant profits out of the beef he raises," says Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture in discussing the high prices of food supplies.
The state investigation of the price of milk in New York city, shows that one well-known company, controlling twenty-eight per cent of the milk trade in the city, credits seventy-five per cent of its twenty million dollars of capital to "trade-marks and good-will.
A letter has been received from Yukio Ozaki, the mayor of Tokio, Japan, in regard to the two thousand cherry-trees which were presented by that city to Washington, and which are now at Seattle, Wash.
The sixth annual convention of the national rivers and harbors congress, the largest assemblage of representative men interested in the development of waterways ever held in this country, took place in Washington last week.
Secretary Ballinger of the Interior Department has made public a definite policy which is dependent for its execution upon comprehensive legislation by Congress.
