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October 7, 1922 
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General Farm Topics 
Harvest Time on That Maryland Fruit 
Farm 
“Hello, Joe. How’s the fruit farmerV” 
“Oh, as busy as a boy fighting bumble¬ 
bees on a hot Summer flay, Bill.” 
“Then boo - comes you are down here 
in the railroad yards, Joe? There’s no 
peach trees here, are there?'’ 
“No. Bill, there’s no peach trees here, 
but, believe me, there's some peaches here, 
just the same. See that string of refrig¬ 
erator cars?” 
“Yes.” 
“Well, we load one of them with 
peaches every day. Sunday included.” 
“One every day ! "Whew! There must 
be some gang picking out there at the or¬ 
chards. How many peaches do you load 
in a car?” 
"Oh. they run from 300 to 500 crates, 
depending on capacity of ear and other 
conditions. Mostly wo load from 400 to 
450. The general rule is to pile them 
four crates high. Some short cars will 
only hold a little over 14 rows, while 
others will hold 15 or 10. Each full vow 
consists of 28 crates—seven across and 
four high.” 
“Do you pile them close together?” 
“Not exactly. We could put eight 
crates in a row across the car. hut instead 
only use seven. We divide the extra 
space among the seven. That leaves about 
two inches between each pair for air cir¬ 
culation. The ends are close together, 
but across the top of each end we put a 
1 -in. strip fastened with a four-penny 
nail. That keeps the weight of the next 
crate from resting on the body of the one 
below, and also keeps them from shifting 
about in the ear. ' 
“How big are these crates, and how 
many peaches do they hold?” 
“Well, Bill. I don't know just what 
part of a bushel they are supposed to 
hold, hut crate and contents average 50 
lbs. iu weight. Each crate contains six 
baskets or carriers. If the peaches are 
small or average <ize each carrier holds 
front 40 to 50 poaches, or three courses 
of from 1” to 10 peaches per course. If 
the peaches are large, like J. II. Hale or 
Elberta. they will only hold two courses 
of from six to eight each. (If course you 
have seen the crates at grocery stores 
that oranges and lemons come in?” 
“Yes.” 
"Well, these peach crates are about the 
same size, lint the inside is all in one 
compartment, instead of two. In pack¬ 
ing. three carriers are put in the bottom 
and filled. Then a light loose divider is 
dropped in. and the other three carriers 
put on top and filled. The cover is a 
light spring board about Vi-in. thick. 
This is nailed on snugly, thus holding the 
fruit from shifting about. Just under 
the cover is an excelsior pad to keep the 
peaches from bruising. When wo have a 
run of extra large Hales or Elbertas we 
wrap them in tissue paper, as well, and 
label them '.Special.’ ” 
“Your boss must have a big gang to 
do all that work on a carload every day.” 
“Yes. he has that. Bill. There are 
from 20 to 25 pickers, eight packers, two 
teamsters, three men workers in packing 
house, six girl sorters, a grading machine, 
a truck driver, a loader and a cook and 
his helper. And every one of them has 
plenty to do, too.” 
"Well, as big a gang as that ought to 
he able to do a lot of work all right. How 
about picking? Do they strip the trees?” 
“Oh, it wouldn't do to strip the trees 
the first lime over. Bill. There would be 
too many green fruits. We go over each 
tree several times, picking the peaches 
that are ripe enough to ship. Of course 
we always find some that are over-ripe 
and too soft to ship. They go in the culls 
that are sold »o hucksters and local peo¬ 
ple.” 
“Are there many culls. Joe?” 
“Yes, indeed there are. I don’t know 
just what per cent is put in the culls, but 
I should judge from 20 to 30 per cent.” 
“Do they sell readily?” 
“Not very, Many people come in autos 
and buy what they can use. and a few 
hucksters gel their supplies there. Rut in 
spite of all that, many a basketful has to 
be dumped in the waste pile. It seems a 
pity to waste them, but there seems to be 
no way to avoid it entirely.” 
"Couldn’t they be canned or dried, 
Joe?” 
"It would seem as if they might. Bill, 
but I notice that very l’ew or none of the 
fruit growers equip themselves to utilize 
their culls that way. 1 don’t know why 
that's the case, unless it’s because of the 
high labor cost and probably low quality 
of the finished product. A soft, bruised 
peach, or a green peach wouldn't can or 
dry well, you know, and the Volstead art 
prevents making liquor out of them.” 
“Is the crop as heavy as was expected? 
My two trees are overloaded." 
“Yes, the crop is very much heavier 
than was expected just after that last 
heavy frost last Spring, except on one 
block of old Elberta trees. Hundreds of 
limbs on the Hales and IIHoys arc break¬ 
ing with the weight of their fruit. And 
that on both old and young trees, too.’’ 
"But I thought you fellows thinned all 
of your peaches. Joe?” 
"We did. Bill, but evidently we didn't 
do it hard enough to save all the trees 
from damage. There’s from five to 20 
props set under nearly every tree, too. 
But I notice that many a limb breaks 
right where the prop touches it. It does 
seetu a pity to see so many trees so 
badly injured, but I guess it can’t be 
helped now,” 
"Do you mean to say. Joe. that there 
are five or more props under each of those 
thousands of trees?” 
"That’s just what I do. Bill. I think 
that they will average seven to the tree 
in all of tlie older orchards, but probably 
only about three to the tree in the four 
and five-year-old orchards.” 
“Where in the world did you boys get 
such a lot of props?” 
"Well, after we had gone over all the 
woods that the boss bad and cut all of the 
young trees that would make irrops. we 
found that we were still short many hun¬ 
dreds. To get those hundreds we went to 
cutting down big beech trees that had 
brushy tops. From each of these big trees 
we got from 25 to 100 line props. I sup¬ 
pose that the logs will be cut up for wood 
next Winter." 
"Well. now. that was quite an idea. I 
don't believe Unit I would have thought 
of that.” 
"Necessity is the mother of invention, 
you know. Bill. Here comes another load 
of peaches, so I'll have to go now. So 
long. Bill.” 
“Good-by, Joe.” the hiked man. 
Applying Ammonium Sulphate 
Tell me how to apply the ammonium 
sulphate on the lawn to fertilize the grass 
and kill the weeds. Whether to scatter it 
over or make a solution and put on with 
a sprinkler; how much to how much 
water? J think it is too moist to scatter. 
I have 25 lbs. How large an area would 
that treat? m. j. 
Venice Center, N. Y. 
You can mix the sulphate with several 
times its bulk of sifted coal ashes or dry 
dirt. It will then scatter evenly. Or 
you can dissolve in water and sprinkle. 
A better way is to dissolve the chemical 
and pour il Over sifted coal ashes. The 
ashes absorb the liquid and hold the am¬ 
monia. When the ashes are dry. pulver¬ 
ize and scatter like any fertilizer. 
Value of Ashes 
T saw a quest ion asking tlu* value of 
hardwood ashes. For tin* past years 1 
have had the output of ashes from a saw¬ 
mill. As they burned everything for fuel, 
including some coal and material with 
spikes and bolls, it would require screen¬ 
ing to run through a lime sower, so 1 
mixed, ton for ton. of ashes and raw lime 
and spread oil oat ground, with shovel, as 
evenl.x as possible. We have harvested 
the heaviest oat crop where this was 
spread, and Alsilte and Mammoth Rod 
clover follov ed I his crop w it h an im¬ 
mense crop, uml second crop now in blos¬ 
som. This grown on poor land. F. g. 
New York. 
“Oil. please, sir.” said the mother to 
the English clergyman, "1 was agoin’ to 
ask you. could anything be done to change 
pore little Lloyd George's name ’ere? 
The child's ’ad to sutler sitmmal cruel. 
'E can't do nothin’ right since 'is father 
changed 'i- views about the prime min¬ 
ister!"—Credit Lost. 
