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HORTICULTURE 



August 24, 1907 



SMALL FRUIT AND FIELD CROP 

 OUTLOOK IN NEW YORK. 



The raspberry crop, usually an im- 

 portant one in the western and south- 

 ern part of the state, will be finally 

 gathered this weeli and growers are 

 being offered 30 cents per pound for 

 the dried fruit, but most of them are 

 holding for a higher figure. The dry 

 weather shortened an otherwise light 

 harvest and few growers can boast of 

 more than one-third of a crop. 



Grapes continue most promising. 

 Those who have sprayed most gener- 

 ously report an almost total absence 

 of destructive agents. The crop, while 

 not heavy, will be a good average one 

 of excellent quality, and good prices 

 are anticipated. In fact, grapes are 

 the only fruit in this section which 

 amounts to much this year. 



Investigation and inquiry reveal 

 the fact that the apple condition is 

 most peculiar. While it is well known 

 that the crop generally is close to a 

 failure there are orchards and varie- 

 ties which promise fair yields, and in 

 this year of fruit scarcity they will 

 return their owners more money, per- 

 haps, than the fruit of some big years 

 Have produced. Fruit growers who 

 Iiave kept orchards in first-class condi- 

 tion are looking for a profitable crop. 

 It could not be learned that buyers 

 had as yet invaded this section, but 

 they are working, with little results, 

 this way, and their offers of |4 per 

 barrel for the fruit as it comes from 

 the trees are not being accepted. 

 Growers say that they expect to re- 

 ceive more than $4 for their fruit. 



Peaches are almost a total failure 

 hereabouts. But the statement of Jay 

 E. AUis, of Medina, Orleans Co., is in- 

 teresting. "In my peach orchard," 

 said Mr. Allis, "and I have over 60 

 acres of them, more than 30 in bear- 

 ing the ground has been dragged more 

 than halt a dozen times this season. 

 People have claimed all along that it 

 was a needless waste of time and 

 money to give the trees such atten- 

 tion, but when you stop to think that 

 many peach orchards were winter- 

 killed last year and will not bear to 

 any great extent, and that I will have 

 from 12,000 to 15,000 baskets, it shows 

 that peach growing is a science. 1 

 will have better than 20 tons of plums 

 and several hundred barrels of apples 

 and many growers in the same locality 

 will not harvest any at all. Already, I 

 have sold my pears at $5 per barrel, 

 without barrels." 



With no rain of consequence in some 

 time, the crop situation is becoming 

 more or less critical in several re- 

 gards. Without rain, potatoes will not 

 mature; and late oats will be material- 

 ly affected. This was the statement 

 of one of the most extensive farmers 

 of this region. The drought has 

 worked another transformation in the 

 hazardous prospects of the agricultur- 

 ist, with the result that whereas a few 

 weeks ago he feared the result of cold, 

 raw weather, he now fears that a re- 

 lentless sun, without rain, will burn 

 up his remaining crops. 



Particular concern is felt for pota- 

 toes, farmers say. Late oats are not 

 filling properly. However, with his 

 usual optimism, the farmer is not wor- 

 rying much. He looks for rain in time 

 to save the potatoes and oats, and 

 consoles himself with observing that 



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the hot wave is "making corn hump 

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