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RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
January  22,  1910. 
JOHN  ALTER  MAKES  BIG  MONEY  AGAIN 
WA5  OFFERED  AND  REFUSED  $10,5002® 
FOR  HIS  LAST  CROP  FRON 
20  ACRES  OF  SILVER  MEDAL  WINESAP 
Fruit  Notes  from  Southern  Ohio 
Preparixg  for  Spraying. — We  tlecid-  are  graded  and  taken  to  mark* 
ed  in  the  Winter  about  what  we  would  fast  as  the  trade  wants  them, 
need  in  sprayers,  spiaying  material,  apples  rot  mighty  fast,  in  hot 
fertilizers,  etc.,  and  ordered  them  early,  so  the  sooner  they  are  work? 
so  as  to  have  them  on  hand  early  and  more  we  have  to  sell,  and  ns 
be  ready  to  make  use  of  them  when  the  more  we  get.  for  them.  There  i 
time  came.  We  aim  to  commence  spray-  a  greater  glut  after  the  pickim 
ing  in  plenty  of  time  to  get  the  dormant  than  while  people  are  picking, 
application  finished  before  it  gets  too  p,.0ple  think  they  can’t  afford 
late  to  apply  it.  IN  e  also  aim  to  apply  any  time  to  market  drops  w 
the  fertilizers  to  the  orchard  early  are  picking  and  packing  the  g 
enough  to  get  the  elements  dissolved  and  Many  of  them  keep  their  drops 
into  the  soil  before  a  drought  sets  in,  „ot  (]0„e  wjtJ,  the  good  ones, 
and  to  stimulate  the  growth  of  the  trees  pjek  them  up  and  rush  them  t 
and  fruit  buds  or  blossoms,  so  as  to  make  and  find  slow  sale  and  bad  w 
them  stronger  and  set  better.  One  friend  peddle  in.  The  price  seldom  » 
claims  that  he  applied  part  of  bis  nitrate  f,n.  drops,  so  what  rots  cuts  t 
of  soda  real  early  to  Iveiffer  pear  trees,  ,, ff  the  sales.  The  small  drops 
just  as  the  buds  were  swelling,  and  he  the  very  small  picked  ones  w 
had  a  fine  crop  of  pears  and  no  blight  on  preserving  plant  for  making  a 
those  trees.  The  remainder  of  the  or-  ter.  The  price  was  $1  per  bai 
chard  was  treated  a  little  later,  and  all  out  the  barrel,  which  is  usunll 
the  blossoms  blighted  and  had  no  pears  ,,rjce  fov  that  grade  of  fruit, 
on  them.  lie  treated  some  apples.  Olden-  way  for  the  growers  to  do  is  t< 
burg,  real  early  and  had  no  Wight  on  fnijt  s0  ag  to  have  as  little  a; 
them,  but  others  that  were  fertilized  a  0f  that  kind,  but  there  will  a 
little  later  bad  plenty  of  blight.  He  some  left  after  the  most  cart 
thinks  this  early  application  is  a  pre-  ping,  some  scabby,  bail-mark, 
veutive  of  blight.  We  shall  know  more  mbbctl  or  knocked  off,  and  s 
about  it  in  a  year  or  two.  bruises  as  it  falls. 
Bligiit  on  Apples. — The  worst  thing  Early  Buying. — It  most  alv 
that  happened  to  us  on  the  farm  was  to  buy  early.  It  paid  several  d< 
the  blight  on  Jonathan  apples.  There  ton  to  buy  fertilizer  early  last 
was  a  prospect  for  a  fair  crop  on  12-  would  have  paid  $10  to  $15  p 
year-old  trees,  but  the  blight  cut  the  have  bought  next  Spring’s  n 
yield  down  to  about  10  per  cent,  of  a  Fall.  The  man  who  waited  till 
crop.  Grimes  by  the  side  of  them  had  no  his  barrels  last  Fall  had  to  ] 
blight,  and  in  other  orchards  in  less  than  five  to  10  cents  more  per  b 
10  miles  all  the  fruit  was  ruined  by  it.  them,  and  also  bad  to  wait  till 
There  is  no  doubt  that  plant  lice  spread  get.  them.  The  man  who  wait: 
the  blight,  and  Winter  spraying  should  last  to  order  his  sprayer  or  spr: 
kill  most  of  the  eggs  or  early  hatched  terinl  may  not  get  them  in  til 
aphids  and  prevent  some  blight  injury,  bis  work  properly.  The  supplj 
It  is  said  that  the  miscible  oils  kill  the  exhausted  just  then,  or  the  cai 
eggs  more  readily  than  lime-sulphur,  let  it  be  delayed  or  lost,  or  a  1 
and  if  so  who  can  tell  us  from  experi-  stop  transportation  a  few  days, 
once  how  it  worked?  Several  varieties  great  flood  in  the  Ohio  Valley  i 
blighted  badly  and  others  very  little  or  1913. 
none.  In  other  localities  the  varieties 
behaved  differently.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
the  blight  will  not  be  so  bad  again.  We 
have  had  it  over  since  I  can  remember, 
but;  not  so  bad  any  time  before.  I  am 
not  seriously  alarmed  about  it  on  many 
varieties. 
Summer  Strays. — The  nitrate  of  soda 
made  the  trees  grow  well,  the  fruit  set 
well  and  the  acid  phosphate  helped  the 
grass  to  grow  better  than  formerly  and 
fill  the  soil  with  roots  and  cover  it  with 
mulch  which  will  make  humus.  Wo  used 
dilute  lime-sulphur  and  dry  arsenate  of 
lead  for  all  the  Summer  spraying  on  ap¬ 
ples  with  good  results,  the  fruit  matur¬ 
ing  better  than  usual,  but  the  season¬ 
able  rains  had  most  to  do  with  that  in 
all  probability.  It  seems  that  the  rains 
came  more  seasonable  than  in  any  former 
year,  and  still  we  had  less  trouble  from 
fungous  diseases  than  ever  before.  We 
seldom  ever  saw  any  scab,  bitter  rot  or 
cedar  rust.  We  found  about  a  half 
dozen  spots  of  cedar  rust  out  of  nearly 
4,000  barrels,  and  the  two  years  before 
we  coilld  find  nearly  that  many  to  auy 
bushel.  I  am  not  aware  of  any  treatment 
that  kept  it  off.  It  was  probably  the 
season. 
Picking  and  Packing. — We  bought 
our  fruit  packages  early  too,  before  the 
price  got  up.  and  when  the  time  came 
to  pack,  most  growers  ran  short  and  had 
a  hard  time  to  get  more  in  time.  It 
pays  to  have  a  surplus  rather  than  run 
short.  We  paid  a  little  extra  for  labor  so 
as  to  get  enough  hands  to  get  the  fruit 
picked  before  it  got  too  ripe  and  lose 
from  dropping.  The  dropping  was  heavy 
the  last  two  days  of  picking.  We  packed 
as  fast  as  picked  and  as  the  fruit  was 
contracted  before  it  was  picked  we  got  it 
to  the  cold  storage  as  soon  as  possible. 
While  teams  do  most  of  the  hauling  it 
was  demonstrated  last  Fall  that  trucks 
can  be  hired  from  the  city  to  haul  as 
cheap  as  teams  and  get  tile  fruit  moved 
faster.  A  two-ton- truck  took  45  barrels, 
part  of  them  on  a  trailer.  They  could 
make  two  loads  quicker  than  a  team 
taking  20  barrels, 
Utilizing  I)uopb. — We  make  a  prac¬ 
tice  of  picking  tip  the  dropped  apples 
just  as  soon  as  the  trees  are  picked,  and 
in  our  local  markets  there  is  good  de¬ 
mand  for  them  for  immediate-  use,  so  they 
Y  7  bushels  per  tree  from  just  1000  trees!  Think  of  it!  7000  bushels— the  crop 
of  a  single  season  (1915)  from  only  20  acres!  Over  $500.00  per  acre!  This  won¬ 
derful  apple  production  record  was  made  last  season  near  Belle  Plainc.  Kan¬ 
sas,  by  Mr.  John  Alter,  who  in  December  decided  to  hold  for  the  higher  prices 
this  fruit  will  bring  because  of  its  exceptional  size  and  quality.  The  buds  for 
propagating  the  trees  which  produced  this  big -money  crop  were  originally  cut 
from  3  parent  trees,  the  fruit  of  whichwon  theSil  verMedal  at  St.Louisworld'sFair 
Read  Mr.  Aller’s  Own  Statement  tu  JrlQJJi'rl$f  EsflltTVt"'  tree*,  ft 'h  now  in  It* 
10th  year  and  tor  B  #ih'i«»rIvc  jeara  has  homo  a  full  crop  every  year.  Have  always  Rot  JI.A0  A 
bushel  or  better  for  I  bo  IrUltoI  this  orchard.  Mv  latest  thum  show  that  In  ten  yca/rrny  |ieol#.rtcd 
Winesap  have  produced  over  24000  dollar*  worth  of  fruit— an  average  of  at  least  v_M.no  pci  tree. 
CV—  j|c  II/oll  John  Altcr'i  orchard  is  not  the  only  profitable  orchard  of 
111  lflf  i\o  IT  U1I  Monetlcf  Pedigreed  1  ree*.  In  all  parte  of  the  country  every 
king  seaion  now  Is  producing  positive  proof  that  Moncrief  Pedigreed  Tree"  bear 
r,  bear  bigger,  bear  better,  bear  more  regularly— are  therefore  the  eureut,  safest  and 
rrofltable  for  the  Orch  axdist  to  set. 
AI1!/I|.  II nvc  only  Limited  Number  Silver  Medal 
I  Ucl  yillLK  Winesap  Budded  from  Alter  Orchard. 
ftor  nine  yenrn  of  tMtllV»  wo  ofTor  tblrt  yonr .  for  tfin  llrut  limit,  a  timlLrd  number  of  one  year 
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EVENTS  OF  THE  WEEK 
DOMESTIC, 
Four  firms  HulYnml 
heavily  by  a  fire  at  Louisville,  Ivy.,  .Tan. 
0.  The  loss  is  estimated  at  $300,000. 
At  Providence,  R.  I.,  Albert  P.  Miller. 
-Ti\.  a  stock  broker,  is  missing,  charged 
with  embezzlements  amounting  to  half  a 
million  dollars.  The  trail  of  Miller  is 
marked  with  the  apparently  complete 
in  in  of  widows,  the  wrecking  of  orphans’ 
estates  and  the  serious  embarrassment  of 
many  business  men. 
Labor  riots  at  Youngstown,  O.,  .Tan.  7, 
cost  two  lives,  and  property  damage  of 
$1.50Q,000.  Federal.  .State  and  munici¬ 
pal  inquiry  into  the  riots  is  in  progress. 
•Tan.  10  about  000  oil  the  1500  strikers 
returned  to  work  at  the  Youngstown 
Sheet  and  Tube  Company’s  mills.  A 
wage  increase  of  10  per  cent,  is  said  to 
hare  settled  the  trouble. 
.Tan'.  7  the  Creek  steamer  Patris  landed 
at  New  York  177  passengers  of  the  steam¬ 
er  Thessaloniki  of  the  same  line.  They 
had  been  at  sea  52  days,  had  been  close 
to  starvation,  and  in  imminent  peril. 
Their  vessel  had  been  finally  abandoned. 
Auto  bandits  in  a  raid,  Jan.  (>,  on  the 
unguarded  vault  of  the  international  rev¬ 
enue  office  in  the  old  post  office  building 
at  *t.  Paul.  Minn.,  blew  the  vault  door 
with  nitroglycerine,  took  $100,000  in  ne¬ 
gotiable  documentary  tax  stamps,  $5K4  in 
currency  and  escaped.  The  vault  con¬ 
tained  $1,770,000  worth  of  revenue 
stamps  of  all  kinds,  but  the  robbers  left 
unnegotiablc  stamps  worth  approximate¬ 
ly  $700,000  and  $20,000  in  drafts  and  un¬ 
acknowledged  checks. 
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