No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 599 



MR. EGBERTS: Not very much; the tomatoes, in a measure, keep 

 them from getting too thick. We are not bothered much Avith their 

 getting too thick. The strawberries run under the tomato vines bet- 

 ter than you think. 



Question: What strength do you spray those tomatoes? 



MR. ROBERTS: Just ordinary orchard strength, one gallon com- 

 mercial lime-sulphur to thirty gallons water, two pounds arsenate 

 of lead to fifty gallons of water. 



Our best market for berries is the exchange, and in dealing 

 with the exchange, we have learned a few tilings. All my neigh- 

 bors raise them largely, as I do, and if all shipped to the Philadel- 

 phia market, we Avould glut the market. So we built up an exchange 

 there. We have sold from Moorestown alone, |100,000 worth of 

 berries outside of what went to Philadelphia. In raising for the 

 exchange, we want to raise a good shipping berry. For instance, 

 we use the Superior. That is not a big beriy; not particularly a 

 high-priced berry. It is a little the same as the Gandy. It is a won- 

 derful grower, a good shipper, a little small, may not bring quite 

 the price some of the others do, but it is a money maker. Then the 

 Gandy is a standby, but it doesn't give us quite enough berries. The 

 Stephen's Late Champion is a little soft. We are looking towar.d 

 the Bethel as a good variety, but that is a new one. I Atill tell you 

 why we stick to those three berries, the Superior, the Champion and 

 the Gandy — those berries are sold by our manager and sold ahead> 

 It he has a car of Superiors, see what nice shape he is in. It is ai 

 whole lot easier to sell it than if it is a mixed car. He can sell it and 

 do it easier. When we send a shipment into the exchange and they 

 are busy — they sell may be fifteen cans from ten o'clock in the morn- 

 ing to three in the afternoon, — if Ave send a mixed lot, three or four 

 kinds of berries on one wagon, those bnSy men don't have time to 

 separate them. They put them in the mixed car, and they are all 

 consigned to New York. W^e get more money for the beiries sold 

 at our station than where they are consigned. So Ave are learning 

 to plant a feAv varieties, study those and deA^elop them up to IheiF 

 very best, it pays us better to specialize. We try experiments., but 

 fcr a business proposition, we stick to a very few -varieties. 



THE FIRST FIVE YEARS IN THE ORCHARD 



By PROF. H. A. SURFACE, Economic Zoologist, Harrishurg, Pa. 



(This address was illustrated by Prof. Surface with illustra- 

 tions from photographs taken chiefly in his own orchards, and the 

 following article is not a verbatim report of bis remarks, but an ab- 

 stract giving some of the main points set forth by the ilji^trations^ 

 and the address.) 



