1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
491 
Annua! Strawberry Report, 1895. 
(CONTINUED.) 
the drought considered. They are irregular in 
shape, however, many of the tips being white. 
June 25. This is one of the best latest. It holds 
its size better than any other. Vigorous vines to 
the last. 
Hay’s Prolific or Frostproof. —From Rogers 
Nursery Company, Moorestown, N. J.—We do not 
see anything remarkable in this variety as yet. 
June 14. Large, regular form, rather soft. June 
17. Now in full bearing. Dark-red berries, rich, 
quite firm. Average large and of good form. 
June 18. The berries are now small and lying on 
the soil. June 21. Still in bearing. No special 
merits. 
Chairs. —From W. F. Allen Jr., Salisbury, Md.— 
Received spring of 1894. June 7. Ripening some 
large berries that do not seem to be held up well. 
June 9. This is a handsome berry, and the vines 
are productive. Medium red, regular, nearly 
round and of good quality. June 11. Plants 
healthy and productive, quality fair. June 17. 
The berries hold their size as well as any, and is 
now yielding as many berries as any other 
variety. Parker Earle comes next at this time. 
The peduncles do not hold up the berries; in a 
wet season they would rot. Rather soft. June 21. 
This variety is at this time more prolific than any 
other. It is a pity that the berries were not more 
firm and were not held up from the ground better. 
Greenville. —From J. T. Lovett, Little Silver, 
N. J.—Received April, 1894. June 7. Ripening 
some of the largest size of the Sharpless type. 
Splendid, dark-green foliage. June 9. Great 
yielder, ripening freely. Berries medium to larg¬ 
est, often winged and Sharpless shape. Scarlet 
color, white flesh. Most prolific kind of this date. 
Rather soft. June 11. Height of season. June 
14. A heavy yielder now, but too soft. Quality 
only fair. June 17. About past. June 18. Still 
bearing a few small berries. 
Victor Hugo. —From H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia, 
Pa.—Received spring of 1894. June 7. Stems are 
weak. June 9. Ripening freely. Large, conical, 
medium red, mild—neither acid nor very sweet— 
not very firm. June 11. Bright scarlet, heart- 
shaped, rather conical, large to medium. Pro¬ 
ductive, thrifty vines. Mid-season. June 14. A 
great bearer. Slighly mottled before fully ripe. 
Quite firm, fair quality. Fine vines—worth a trial. 
Pine Hill (B.)—From C. G. Bushnell, Centre 
Brook, Conn.—Received spring of 1894. Very good 
quality, but not otherwise of value as judged at 
this time. June 11. Height of season. Scarlet, 
soft, variable in size. June 16. To-day it yields 
well. Evidently the height of its season. 
Shuckless.-. From H. A. Dreer—Received April, 
1894. June 10. Begins to ripen this date. The 
berry parts readily from the calyx and stem. 
Peduncles strong and tall. June 11. Mealy, light- 
colored flesh, medium to large, broadly heart- 
shaped. The mealiness of the flesh seems to be 
the reason why the berry parts readily from the 
calyx. Often a portion of the flesh attached to 
the stem adheres to the receptacle, leaving a 
wedge-shaped hollow in the body of the berry. 
June 18. Past its best season. June 21. Still in 
bearing—berries soft. 
Staple's No 1.—From D. D. Cottoin, 10 East 5th 
Street, Dayton, O.—Received August, 1893. June 
10. Dark red, regular heart-shaped, medium 
size, red flesh, firm, good quality—good for can¬ 
ning. Plants of medium height and vigor. June 
14. Ordinary in all ways. 
Thompson’s 66.—From the Cleveland Nursery 
Company, Rio Vista, Va.—June 11. Not recom¬ 
mended, berries small. 
Parker Earle. —June 14. Just coming in. Full 
of green berries, a few ripe. 
Jucunda Improved —is not at home here. 
Big Unnamed. —From G. H. & J. II. Hale, Glas¬ 
tonbury, Conn.—Received April, 1895. June 12. 
All that we may fairly say now of tins new 
variety, which we believe is thought to be very 
promising by the introducers, is that it is bisex¬ 
ual and of good quality. In color, it is of a 
medium red, with red flesh and probably of 
variable form. 
Henry Ward Beecher.— From J. T. Lovett.— 
Received August, 1893. The vines were exception¬ 
ally vigorous last year, as then noted. This year 
they have made a more stocky growth, of a dark 
green color, but not so tall. It is a late variety. 
June 14. Holds its peduncles up straight, which 
is the best thing that can be said of the variety. 
June 15. This is now yielding a large quantity of 
ill-shaped berries, small to medium in size. The 
quality at this time is from good to very good. We 
have never known a variety to yield fruit so vari¬ 
able in shape. It is as if every peduncle belonged 
to a different variety. All things considered, we 
do not recommend it for trial. June 17. Every 
berry ill-shaped and imperfect. 
James Truitt No. 38.—Received August, 1894. 
June 21. Fine foliage, dark green. Berries 
round, often puckered about the tip; of excellent 
quality. Seems to be a very late berry; another 
season required. 
DISCUSSION. 
Keeping the Toll at Home. 
J. E. W., Ohio.—The R. N.-Y. asks 
whether farmers can profitably do their 
own grinding. To this I emphatically 
answer, Yes, if they have much to do. I 
have an Aermotor windmill that grinds 
for me and my neighbors. It cost me in 
the neighborhood of $ 100 . Repairs 
have cost but a trifle, say, $2 per year, 
which include new grinding plates when 
old ones are worn. This rig will grind 
in a gale, 150 bushels of grain in a day 
of 12 hours. It will run a corn sheller 
or feed cutter extremely well. It pumps 
water for 500 sheep and other stock. It 
saws wood with a power that is surpris¬ 
ing—will saw about two cords per hour 
with a good wind. There are other mills 
besides the Aermotor that will do sim¬ 
ilar work. 1 like the Aermotor because 
I know that it is a success, and doubt¬ 
less some of the other mills are, too. 
On our farm, this power is worth eas¬ 
ily $30 per year to us. 1 do not know 
but $50 would more nearly express it. 
The mill earns us a stray dollar now 
and then grinding for neighbors. It 
grinds wheat to feed our hogs, corn meal 
and Graham flour for home use, corn 
meal for cows and chicks. The quality 
of work done is equal to any system of 
grinding. In this country, it costs five 
cents per bushel at the mill to have 
grain ground. It can be ground at home 
for about what it costs to haul it to the 
mill and home again. Farmers are not 
so shrewd as they should be in setting 
Nature’s forces to work for them. Wind 
has been long in the habit of slipping 
through the barn cracks, and stealing 
the farmer’s nickels from off his shiver¬ 
ing cows and fattening stock. It is high 
time he set it to work earning back some 
of them by turning some good solid 
machinery—which it does with equal 
willingness. 
How’s Trade? 
J. F. T., Douglas, Micii.—The R. N.¬ 
Y.’s article under this heading, June 8, 
is very suggestive. ‘‘Rusiness is wait¬ 
ing for farmers to buy goods,” with the 
surplus they have been hoarding up 
during the stagnation of all business 
enterprises. Out this way, there is no 
such surplus in farmers’ hands. If any 
have succeeded in keeping out of debt 
with the meager returns from products 
sold, they have done well. The $100you 
would have them send into the cities to 
“ buy goods and start business,” is not 
in their possession. You say that, for 
the past three years these country orders 
have been greatly diminished. I believe 
that the orders sent into the cities by 
farmers are fully equal to their ability 
to pay. ilealtny improvements in farm 
equipments always depend on the in¬ 
come of the farm. The income of the 
farm depends largely on having good 
markets within easy reach. When our 
city friends buy their potatoes, eggs and 
household supplies of home producers 
and farmers, they put money into the 
farmer's pockets which will in due time 
be returned to the city for goods. When 
our city friends buy their supplies in 
foreign markets, they send their money 
out of the country and deprive American 
farmers of a remunerative market. 
This point is well illustrated by the 
weekly wool report from Iloston. “The 
sales aggregate larger than they did for 
the same period last year ; but a very 
large proportion of them were of foreign 
wool.” “The total receipts of foreign 
wools in this market since January 1, 
have been already about 42,000,000 
pounds, against about 8,000,000 for the 
corresponding period last year. During 
the same period, the receipts of domestic 
wool have only been about 25,000,000 
pounds.” These heavy importations, are 
driving American wool growers out of 
the industry. Last year, at this time, 
when the tariff was still operative, but 
soon to be set aside and, therefore, cast 
a dark shadow over the market. “Michi¬ 
gan X, sold at 18 to 19 cents, now 14 to 
1434 cents ; tine Delaine, 23 to 25 cents, 
now 16 to 17 cents.” If we take the loss 
on Michigan X at 4 cents per pound, 
and Delaine at 7 cents per pound, the 
average is 534 cents per pound, and 
aggregates $835,687.38 as the loss on the 
clip of 1894. Then the money paid for 
foreign wools has gone out of the coun¬ 
try ; it is out of the reach of American 
farmers. In view of this low price of 
wool, Michigan flocks from January 1, 
1894, to April 1, 1894, diminished up¬ 
wards of 55,000 in number, and are still 
decreasing. Do you wonder that Mich¬ 
igan farmers do not send money to the 
cities to buy goods and start business ? 
Perhaps some of the farmers over the 
border who are supplying the cities with 
the products of the soil as “ free raw 
material ” can send in that $100,000,000 
to start the wheels of fortune. Ask them ! 
R. N.-Y.—We still believe that out of 
the nearly 10,000,000 farmers and farm 
hands in this country, there are easily 
1,000,000 people who can spend $100 each 
for needed articles without hurting their 
financial standing. If any one will give 
any quicker way of starting up trade, 
we wish to know what it is. 
“ Tint ONLY SUCCESS." 
McCormick Corn Binder 
Chas. McKissick, Supt. “Mayville Farm,” 
Mayville, N. Dakota, says: 
‘ 'll solves the question of handling corn.” 
Wm. E. Dana, East Avon, N. Y., says: 
“J cut 24 acres of corn ranging in 
height from 3 to 14 feet." 
P. F. Huntley Jr.,Le Roy, Minn., says: 
“ Just what is wanted in corn 
districts . ” 
A. 8. Cotton, Manager “Sanitarium 
Farm,” Clifton Springs, N.Y., says; 
“Cuts and binds all com — slightly 
lodged and tangled , as well as standing. 
Have tried many corn harvesters. The 
McCormick is the only success .” 
Man.ifartured hv McCORMICK HARVESTING MACHINE CO., CHICAGO. 
N. H. Leonard, Spring Valley, Minn., says: 
“Binds the corn in great shape, with 
nice square butts for shocking .” 
Lori Wambaugh, Waterloo, Iowa, says; 
■'It works well and to my entire 
satisfaction .” 
J. It. McCullough, Solomon City, 
Kan., says: 
1 ‘ Two men and two horses can cut , 
bind and shock 13 acres a day. ” 
John L. Taylor, Owego, N. Y., says: 
“J cut 50 acres of ensilage corn (some of 
it very heavy). It is a machine which all 
ensilage growers must have." 
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