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son  Valley ,  where  fine  apples  tire  grown,  let  the 
growers  organize  and  put  their  fruit  on  the  market 
right.  Hood  River  is  3,000  miles  from  New  York, 
yet  thousands  of  people  right  here  know  more  about 
Ilootl  River  apples  than  they  do  about  the  Hudson, 
though  the  waters  of  this  river  flow  past  their  door. 
Who  is  to  tell  them,  if  not  the  apple  growers?  And 
here  is  another  thing.  While  our  first-class  apples 
are  winning  these  prizes,  our  culls,  tucked  into  bar¬ 
rels  of  “good”  fruit,  are  ruining  the  reputation  of 
our  State.  When  a  man  reads  about  these  prizes 
and  buys  a  barrel  of  apples  on  the  strength  of  the 
report  only  to  find  it  “stove-piped"  and  salted  with 
culls  he  feels  worse  than  if  he  had  never  read  about 
those  prizes,  for  the  packer  has  thrown  a  rotten  ap- 
1  le  in  the  face  of  an  ideal !  So  this  prize  winning 
will  work  both  ways.  It  will  help  the  honest  pack¬ 
er,  while  the  dishonest  packer  will  injure  the  repu¬ 
tation  of  the  State. 
X  is  about  all  we  have  seen  regarding  one  of  the 
most  brilliant  and  useful  achievements  of  New  York 
people.  Let  a  New  York  prizefighter  go  forth  and 
pound  some  other  human  brute  into  a  bruised  and 
dazed  condition  and  the  press  of  the  State  would 
rush  into  italics  and  ecstaeies.  Let  the  New  York 
baseball  club  win  the  championship  and  half  the 
people  quit  work  to  shout  and  talk.  Let  one  of  our 
several  human  vocal  volcanoes  pour  out  a  flood  ol 
very  common  oratory  and  the  newspapers  devote 
columns  to  the  great  event.  Yet  when  the  good  old 
State  walks  off  eating  the  prize  apples  of  the  world 
10  lines  of  small  type  may  cover  the  event. 
Just  think  what  this  means.  For  years  now  fruit 
from  the  Pacific  Coast  has  been  coming  3,000  miles 
across  the  country  right  Into  New  York  and  other 
Eastern  cities  and  topping  the  market.  It  has  sold 
far  above  our  home-grown  apples,  and  the  commis¬ 
sion  men  and  merchants  have  “boomed”  and  ad¬ 
vertised  it  as  superior  to  all  others.  Ask  them  why 
they,  citizens  of  New  York  State,  do  not  try  to  pro¬ 
mote  the  interests  of  their  own  locality,  and  they 
wave  you  aside  with  the 
statement  that  Pacific 
Coast  apples  are  super- 
much  better 
Big  New  York  Baldwins 
I  ENCLOSE  herewith  a  photograph  of  Baldwins 
raised  at  Red  Cables  Farm  this  year  (see  picture 
below).  The  measurements  given  can  be  attested. 
The  photograph  is  of  interest  merely  as  showing 
v  hat  can  be  done,  by  proper  culture  and  thinning, 
in  the  way  of  raising  “fancy”  fruit  in  Western  New 
York  orchards.  I  believe  that  it  is  quite  possible 
for  Western  New  York  growers  to  compete  with  the 
1  ancy  box  product  of  the  Far  West  in  regard  to  size 
and  color  of  fruit,  while  retaining  our  unquestioned 
superiority  of  flavors.  1  may  add  that  i  am  not  en- 
10 r — very 
than  those  grown  in 
New  York.  For  years 
we  have  claimed  that 
nowhere  on  earth  can 
better  apples  he  grown 
t  h  a  n  those  varieties 
naturally  adapted  to  the 
land  along  the  upper 
Atlantic.  We  can  ap¬ 
peal  to  any  man  with  a 
nose,  a  tongue  and  an 
eye  to  prove  this,  hut 
the  dealers  who  seem 
determined  to  destroy 
the  reputation  of  New 
York  fruit  can  neither 
nor  smell,  n  o  r 
■  mg  corn — that  will  (ill 
j nygJlfiF  his  silo.  We  hear  a  lot 
about  the  heavy  cost  of 
silage.  Well,  if  a  fann¬ 
er  has  to  hire  all  work 
HE— Js  done  at  filling  time,  or 
* .  y charges  up  the  exchange 
iTfTTm  iTn  rr ffmTt r\  f  of  work  with  his  neish- 
l 'jJq  ’ l  1  &  l  1  ■' r  bors  at  four  or  five  dol- 
_ _  lars  per  day  (as  is  usn- 
_ ally  done  by  those  who 
try  to  make  out  that  it 
-  costs  too  much)  it.  is,  or 
would  be  rather  expen¬ 
sive  feed.  We  hire  a 
rig  at  so  much  per  day,  and  the  farmers  all  ex¬ 
change  work  in  filling.  No  money  out  but  for  the 
filling  outfit,  and  two  or  three  men  to  pitch  corn 
onto  wagons. 
I  have  always  grown  Eureka  corn  for  my  silage 
because  I  wanted  the  largest  bulk  from  the  least 
area  of  land.  This  year  I  had  it  well  cured  for  the 
first  time,  the  kernels  being  in  the  milk  at  the  time 
it  was  cut.  Next  year  T  shall  try  some  variety  that 
will  give  more  grain — Hall  Gold  Nugget  I  think  I 
shall  use.  I  have  tile-drained  about  five  acres  of 
muck — three  to  four  feet  deep — which  I  shall  try 
to  com  next  year.  By  the  way,  that  five  acres  is 
Ilcxol red :  Thai  il  will  pan  the  man  with  half  a  taken  out  of  the  pasture,  so  there  will  be  more  need 
dozen  emm  to  build  a  Hilo.'  for  another  silo.  This  closes  the  argument  for  the 
I  SHALL  argue  the  affirmative  side  of  the  above  affirmative.  Let’s  hear  from  the  negative. 
question.  It  is  usual  for  most  writers  to  argue  Jefferson  Co.,  N.  Y.  lee  w.  servey. 
the  negative  side,  but  us  my  argument  is  the  result  - 
of  personal  experience  it  should  have  some  weight. 
My  principal  job  is  market  gardening  and  small 
fruit  growing.  When  I  began,  10  years  ago,  I  A  NUMBER  of  years  ago  it  looked  as  if  shredding 
.should  not  have  had  a  cow  on  the  place  hut  for  the  /"*  corn  fodder  would  become  popular  in  this  part 
fact  that  I  have  some  land  suited  only  for  pastur-  of  the  country.  Farmers  were  averse  to  cutting 
age.  In  the  beginning  I  kept  four  or  five  cows —  com  and  feeding  from  the  shock.  With  no  suitable 
that's  about  what  I  can  furnish  pasture  for.  It  did  place  to  store  so  much  bulky  roughness,  at  best  they 
i.ot  take  long  for  me  to  realize  that  cows — even  for  could  depend  on  only  a  few  months’  supply  from  this 
a  market  gardener — were  a  desirable  addition.  By  source,  as  the  fodder  would  rapidly  deteriorate  in 
having  the  cows  freshen  in  the  Fall  it  gives  a  Win-  value  from  exposure  to  the  weather  when  left  in 
ter  job.  plus  some  money  for  Christmas,  taxes,  etc.  the  fields;  and  to  get  any  good  from  it  they  found 
Five  years  ago  I  built,  my  first,  silo — hemlock  i:  necessary  to  feed  it  out  through  I  he  Fall  months 
stave  10x24.  At  that  time  I  had  five  cows,  and  had  when  other  forms  of  roughness  was  more  or  less 
just  bought  a  purebred  Jersey  bull  and  heifer  calf,  abundant.  With  Timothy  and  clover  hay  advancing 
i  began  feeding  silage  that  Fall  as  soon  as  my  till)  in  value,  and  with  a  growing  disinclination  to  do¬ 
wns  filled,  and  it  lasted  through  until  turning-out  vote  much  space  to  the  grasses  owing  to  the  steatiii.v 
tee 
taste.  The  railroads 
want  the  long  haul  and 
the  dealers  eat  apples  with  a  check  hook  and  so  they 
shut  both  eyes  like  parrots  and  say,  “The  Pacific 
Coast  apples  are  superior.” 
Now  what?  The  New  York  fruitmen  walked 
right  into  the  den  of  lions  and  liars,  picked  up  the 
grand  prize  and  walked  off  with  it.  In  San  Fran¬ 
cisco  the  Pacific  Coast  growers  had  all  the  advan¬ 
tage.  They  were  at  home — close  to  their  orchards 
where  they  could  select  the  best  and  have  the  speci¬ 
mens  fresh.  In  such  a  contest  the  judges  would  nat¬ 
urally  want  to  favor  the  home  growers.  The  New 
York  fruit  was  carried  3,000  miles  away  from  the 
trees  and  yet  with  all  these  handicaps,  it  won  and 
proved  its  superiority,  in  all  seriousness,  what  has 
New  York  Slate  done  in  the  past  1  < *  years  to  equal 
this  in  an  artistic  and  industrial  triumph?  Name 
any  other  line  of  art  or  industry  in  which  the  State 
at  this  great  exposition  has  won  such  honors  in  com¬ 
petition.  Every  paper  in  New  York  State  should 
make  much  of  Ibis  victory  and  tell  the  people  again 
and  again  that  New  York  apples  are  the  best  in  the 
world,  and  that,  as  a  matter  of  State  pride,  aside 
from  any  other  consideration,  they  should  demand 
the  home-grown  product.  New  York  has  been  called 
a  cold-blooded,  selfish  city,  having  very  little  in  com¬ 
mon  with  the  rest  of  the  State.  We  think  a  feeling 
of  State  pride  can  he  developed,  and.  at  any  rate, 
New  York  wants  the  best.  They  buy  the  Pacific 
Coast  apples  because  they  are  told  these  are  the 
best.  Now  New  York  has  beaten  the  country — 
tell  them  that ! 
And  New  York  growers  are  at  once  interested  in 
this  event.  Here  is  their  chance  to  organize  and 
capitalize  Ibis  big  victory.  In  sections  like  the  Hud¬ 
Baldwin  Apples  Grown  in  Western  New  York.  Fig.  2 
gaged  in  growing  this  class  of  fruit,  for  the  simple 
reason  that  I  have  not  yet  seen  my  way  clear  to  han¬ 
dle  it  profitably.  The  Western  New  York  staple  is 
a  good,  clean,  well-colored,  fair-sized,  juicy  fruit, 
well  flavored  from  skin  to  core.  It  is  an  honest 
apple,  good  enough  for  any  man.  I  believe  in  it. 
and  I  believe  that  it.  is  plenty  good  enough  for  us 
tc  raise.  But  any  Western  New  York  grower  can 
raise  “fancy"  fruit  if  he  desires  to  do  so. 
Orleans  Co..  N.  Y.  harrison  e.  webb. 
The  Small  Herd  and  the  Silo 
The  Western  Corn  Fodder  Problem 
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