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It haH HurpaHHed Fay's Pri)lifie with us, but I 

 would not nay that it would do so with 

 others. 1 think it should bf recoiurftended for 

 amateur use. 



Mr. Willani I think Moore's liuby the best 

 red currant for talile use I have ever seen, 

 and I endorse all Mr. Hooker has said concern- 

 inp it. 



Mr. Hubbard — I saw this currant fruited on 

 the governuient jirounds at Washington, and 

 was favorably ini])ressed with it. — Vick^i Report 

 of N. \. HorticuUuriil Socuiii. 



The Apple Picker. 



Thk (juestion whether it was advisable to 

 use an apple picker was answered at the meet- 

 ing of the N. Y. State Horticultural Society, 

 by Dewane Bogue of Medina, who said that a 

 grower told him that a Ijuvi'r refused to buy his 

 ai>ples because they were gathered with a picker. 

 Another buyer came along and ])aid five cents 

 more a barrel for the same apjfles because they 

 were not bruised. Mr. Harris, in giving his 

 exjierience with the jiicker, said that with that 

 article apples cotild be gathered at half the 

 cost of hand work and with less damage to the 

 fruit. 



The Use of Coal Ashes. 



EVEKYTHIN(; grows well under a mulch of 

 coal ashes, ])rovi(led that the jilant leaves are 

 not covered, and that the ashes lie stii-red after 

 rains, during the growing season. Without 

 this they jiack so as to exclude the air. In 

 l>lanting the seeds we cover them with soil or 

 leaf mould. We have tried coal ashes, think- 

 ing that the3'oung seedlings might push through 

 the easily broken inch of ashes. But very 

 rarely has a plant appeared through such a 

 covering, because of too clo.se exclusion of air, 

 8on\e being indis])ensable at the moment of 

 germination. — Ch icarfo News. 



A Profitable Use of Apples. 



Some of us are feeding' our apples to stock. 

 I feed them to horses, jugs and i)oultry. For 

 the general ])urpose horse of the farmer I 

 know from experience tliat ap()Ies are a valu- 

 able food. I have had horses that were in a 

 very low condition from worms entirely freed 

 from this trouble by the use of apj>les, and mj- 

 horses always improve in the fall when run- 

 ning among ajiple trees, where they eat all 

 they want. 1 believe that a horse not ai hard 

 work would do as well on 4 qts. of oats and a 

 peck of api)le8 as on a i)eck of oats. If this 

 were so, it would give apples a feeding value of 

 about 24c. per busli. Now if the windfalls and 

 refuse a|>ples are of any vahie, why should not 

 good sound fruit be of still greater food v:due '! 



My pigs eat apples when they don't eat meal. 

 To about 50 hens I feed 2 or 3 tjts. of apples 

 daily, crushing them a little with the foorl. 

 The hens seem to fairly revel in them. — E. H. 



HUTCIIINSIIN. 



Value of United States Fruits. 



Thk census reports, which are, of course, only 

 approximative, give the following value of or- 

 cliard i)roducts in the United .States : For 1880, 

 estimated, ap|)les, .«!.")0,400,000 ; j.ears, 8;l4,l.%,- 

 000: peaches, .•$.")•;, 1.S.5, 000 : grajK^s, .*!2.118,!)00 ; 

 strawberries, -So, 000,000 : <.ther fruits, SIO.OOO,- 

 000. Total, .'?1H7,783,!IOO. hi IHKO, the census 

 report made the whole amount ^^>0,H7C),l')A. 

 The gradual increase since l.s50 was alxmt the 

 following: In Is.oO, .'?7,72.S,000 ; in ISfjO, .$19.- 

 991,000 ; in 1870, !?47,;«r),00O. With the only 

 exception of the deca<le l)etween 1S70 and isSO, 

 the amount has much more than doubled in 

 each decade. 



The Crandall. 



Mr. P.mjkv asked about the Craiidall currant. 

 Mr. Trowbridge was not |)repossessed with it ; 

 had seen it l)ut never fruited it : a black cur- 

 rant originating in Kansas. Mr. Teas — "It 

 belongs to tiie black currant family, and is 

 similar to it for cooking. I consider it valu 

 able. Common ))eople will be reasonably wel- 

 satisfied with it for eating. It is questionable! 

 however, whether it is a hybrid with bur com. 

 mon fruit." 



G rowing- Black Walnuts. 



Mr. (iKoiuJE A\\n HoiTEN, who is regarded 

 as good authority in such matters, says if the 

 husks are removed, it is safe to count that about 

 1,000 nuts will make a Viushel. With the husks, 

 from 500 to (500 ]>er bushel would be a reason 

 able estimate. Some years many of the nuts 

 are abortive, while other years nearly all will 

 gi-ow. A fair estimate of their germinating 

 (pialities can be made V)y cracking a few, as 

 nearly all plump, natural apiiearing kernels 

 will grow under favorable circumstances. It 

 i.«i best to ]>laiit rather more nuts than trees are 

 wanted for ; like most nut-bearing trees, the 

 walnut does not transplant easily. After being 

 gMthered, the seed should not be allowed to dry ; 

 if shipped a distance the nuts will keep from 

 drying out with damp moss almut them. In 

 the fall they can be planted at once, and cov- 

 ered three or four inches deep in well-prejiared 

 ground. If planted in the spring, over winter 

 siiread the nuts two or three layers deep, mixed 

 with earth or leaves, and covered lightly ; if 

 the ground is moist, at least jiart of the rains 

 should be kept off. planting as siion as the frost 

 is out of the ground. (Jood cultivation should 

 be given for the tirst few years, after which but 



be g; 

 littlt 



little further care.— /ojco Uonifstcml. 



