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The RURAL. NEW- YORKER 
November 4, l'.)22 
A PPLES, Peaches, Peers, Quinces, 
“ Plums, Cherries, Apricots, Nut 
Trees—all are tacked oy the com¬ 
bined guarantee of the five Kelly 
Brothers, each of whom person¬ 
ally directs a department of the 
Nursery, 
Fall Planting Pays 
Plant this Fall and save a whole 
5 ear. It puts your trees way ahead. 
Our new Fall Price List, which 
quotes new and attractive prices, is 
now ready. 
Send for you - nee cc i y today—NOW. 
Kelly Brothers Nurseries 
1160 Main St., Daneville. N. Y. 
TOP'H Mvtv ’ torel planting Kelly Trees 
Plant Trees This Fall— 
Save Time Next Spring 
TP REES planted this fall form new’ 
root contacts with the soil before 
winter sets in. They start to grow 
with the first warm days of spring. 
Our hardy fruit trees, grown in New 
England, si? - c t? » winters well. Buy your 
stock from tin original Barnes" Nursery, 
backed by j cars o' satisfactory service. 
Wntc for Ft ice List of Trees and Small 
Fruits Shade Trees. Evergreens. Roses, etc. 
Box 8 
Yalesville, Conn. 
MALONEY TREES 
Fruit, and Ornamentals. Vines shrubs, 
foi fall planting, .elected from the 
choicest stock grown In our tw-acie 
nuiKto U'c. Direct tto you at Cost plus 
one inmlt only, linrdy. fresh dug. 
healthy, true to nnnic— Wntc for free 
ilvwerletltv r»t*log glrlng valunhl. Informa¬ 
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cnruiu.n elinlgcc oil ell OHMrii tear S7.50. 
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Oantvillt’* Finite*> Nor«iri*i, 33 *(»•« SI., Oanxille, N.T. 
Trees. Plants, Shrubs, Vines, Etc. 
Frern >- y, hi tcctf rom NtltSEHV t,> yen., 
Pca-.-1i, A |-rile, frrur, Plata, Cher- — 
re, Qaincc, Apricot Trees, etc, 
Kntwhmy, Bliickborry, ltnep- 
uerr’ Dewberry, Gooseberry. 
Currant, l'.hubsrb, AetiarDgue 
Uni- >.nih etc. Shoilr Trees, Evergreen*. Shrubs, 
; raging. Ido - \1 l«F VCTIdS fil'AKAN". 
Cm Futr c.Vi tT.OG give* price-. ilwri'tioni- 
1 1 1 iMt»- -n*. end complete plant-ug and enUunj SnHtuc. 
tlouo. r.tc today. 
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HEARTS OF GOLD 
CANTALOUPE 
11 yon grow canta¬ 
loupes for home use or 
market, send us your 
address today and we 
will send you some valu¬ 
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R. MORRILL & CO. 
Benton Hnrbor, Mich. 
BERRY AND FLOWER PLANTS 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS for September and October 
planting. Pot-grown and runner plants that will 
fieav tru't react sonaner Also RASPBERRY BLACKBER¬ 
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w>s r s. tnauft. tee r«,i; f lart-ng. Camlcurne frt-n. 
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STRAWBERRIES THE BEST MONEY CROP 
YOU CAN GROW THEM. Gel onr cntiiloenennd 
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THE W. f, ALIEN CO.. 71" W Market SI. Salisbury. Md. 
TULIPS 40 "fop's I - 00 
8 Bulbs each of the 5 superior varieties. Colors all 
dlffereiit. iGunrunteed.) Postpaid. 
HOHROCKS BROS. Concord. Masts. 
Apple and Peach. Trees 
Impi-m - your property. li.crcu** your toconu i’laiit 
fruit m<l= , uee and plant* this tall. Our treus grow, 
go- r'atalog. Vltehel! ► 'Nursery, Beverly, Ohlu 
Rosen Rye 
for Seed, *1,76 per hu. 
riwwoor fiRift r o. so« is 
For Sale HtBAM CLOVER SEED Ik”™ 
and kept i-..-rft < Hy cl cur. therefore absolutely pure. 60c 
pe. lb I • ■ b UelfcaW O Noeli Hordnrr, H*lf»t», Ohl« 
Select Chesapeake Bay Oysters r 1 acY!n re 
•• from m SsELi TO FOUR BOOH m * FfW HOURS " And *0 fat 
thev»e wi-.i.kfrs ui.der their cttiiH. “O Mai. forget 
j itY Irv.i.li lee. 1 ' Gallon, #1160: Half, *1.40, *11 pi-epald, 
Fer/ert SahelacUcn Quarattutd. w» LORO, Ctnbmloe, Md. 
172-Acre Mountain Farm, $3,500 
IS Acres, large houso. I’liGtiLeld. N. J.. 820,000. 
10-room Louse, t nitres fruit. 8ft,ooo. 8-room 
house, viltf,ce, £ Acres, «M,200, Each half cash 
II turn X A T R w*rw(«h, Onoge I ■’ NY. 
j the Pacific coast. Gradually if lias 
worked its way into New York, uni il 
now I here are many plantings as far 
north as the soul hern shore of Lake On¬ 
tario. It is perhaps belter adapted to 
tin- soniheastern section of the S>(ate than 
to file more uortheru and colder parts, for 
the Horae Reauty is not in a class with 
the Wealthy, the McIntosh, the Olden¬ 
burg, as regards hardiness. There is rea¬ 
son to believe, however, that it is hardier 
than the Baldwin, yet bow much so is not 
positive. Certain it is that the young 
trees are tender before they have got a 
good hold, uud therefore are best planted 
in the Spring. Handled in this way. 
there has been no loss of young trees 
from Winter injury. So, then, when you 
are considering tillers for your apple or¬ 
chard, consider the Home Beauty, too. 
H. B. T. 
New England Notes 
A Bit. Apple Chop.— The landscape in 
the vicinity of Springfield. Mass., has 
been dolled with many signboards in 
color, informing the public that this is a 
record-breaking apple year, and urging 
that orders be placed with local dealers 
in order to move the crop promptly. 
These boards are signed by the Henry .7. 
Perkins Company. Mr. Perkins, who is 
one of the largest wholesale dealers in 
New Kngland, told me that more apples 
are coming in this season than any pre¬ 
vious season in his memory, and he has 
been lining business for 40 years. An at¬ 
tempt is being made in some sources to 
discount the big crop in the public mind 
in order to keep the prices up. But 
there is no question of the fact that the 
tills > ear is bilge. Not hwithM a tiding 
that fact, prices are not going as low as 
mighty be expected, and Mr. Perkins said 
tint in his opinion Baldwin and Greeu- 
iug held until Christmas will sell at a 
good price. Such apples as Wealthy and 
M, Tntosli have been bringing So or $0 
when the quality is good. Gov. Cox lias 
-uggesfed that with the big apple crop in 
Yew Kngland it would be possible to find 
large sales outside, but the fact is that 
growers in other States as far west as 
the Pacific Coasr arc shipping heavily to 
this section. According to Mr. Perkins, 
growers who in former years never sold 
their fruit on commission are consigning 
to him. with an understanding that he 
shall do the best lie can for them. 
Basket Packages.— It is a year when 
quality und goud packing count for much. 
An interesting feature of the business in 
Central Massachusetts is the fact that 
baskets arc being used to a very large ex¬ 
tent ns ripple containers. On the other 
hand, very few of these baskets are to be 
seen ill Boston, where a great many 
standard market boxes are used, although 
the majority of apples come to the mar¬ 
ket in barrels. Ale. Perkins has been 
urging the use of baskets, as he believes 
that fruit can be handled to better ad¬ 
vantage and with more profit to the farm¬ 
er when they are used. They are easy 
to handle, and as many ns 240 can he car¬ 
ried mi a good-sized truck. The extent to 
which the use of baskets is. growing may 
be judg'd from the fact that the Hard¬ 
ly iet A ssoeiution bought three carloads 
of ilieu" tljis season. 
Automobile Buyers. —In the opinion 
of Mr. Perkins, the automobile is doing 
Biuch tn keep up the price of apples, as a 
great many people are driving into the 
country and buying the fruit from the 
farmers. In most instances they pay 
fully as much ns they would be charged 
in the city. In fact, a ease came to my 
notice some rime ago where a big de¬ 
partment store sent trucks into the rural 
districts and bought a great quantity of 
apples which were offered the public at a 
special sale. !■ or most of these apples 
the department store paid more than it 
could hav<* bought them ]<>r from rogulflr 
wholesalers. T\ ithout doubt farmers who 
have cold storage facilities at hand will 
do well to hold their Winter apples for 
several months. This will give time for 
the inferior product, to get off the mar¬ 
ket and for better prices to prevail. The 
cider situation, however, is helping to 
keep up ihe price of the poorer grades. It 
is rot uncommon to find SI..10 a barrel 
being paid for cider apples, the fruit be¬ 
ing taken just as it comes. It would be 
well to dispose of the culls as soon as 
possible, for only apples of the best qual¬ 
ity can be stored profitably. 
Pit RIJCG A in 1! \ mu T VO.— I find ihat 
many 7 farmers in New Kngland still prac¬ 
tice^ the old plan of picking and piling 
their apples under the trees in the or¬ 
chard and leaving them there for a week 
or two before they barrel them up. This 
practice is certain to cause decay and 
poor keeping. The important thing when 
handling apples is to cool them as quickly 
as possible. Not only does this prevent, 
rotting, but it also fends to keep away 
skin blemishes, like scald, which impair 
the selling value of the fruit. Moreover, 
il aids in. retaining the aroma of the ap¬ 
ples. which is a somewhat important 
point. . Probably a good many of the .ap¬ 
ples picked in New Kngland this year 
have been overripe, as fanners have hesi¬ 
tated to pick the fruit in many eases be¬ 
cause of the warm weather and a succes¬ 
sion of rainy days. And of course over¬ 
ripe apples sj„,ii much more quickly than 
those which are slightly immature, 
Protection fob Wintkk. — Garden- 
makers who grow the better flowers and 
shrubs must give them a little protection 
when Winter comes. There are a few of 
the garden favorites which will go 
through even a severe Winter without a 
covering of any kind, but. they are the 
exceptions. Before putting the garden 
to hed. though, it is well to understand 
just what the needs of the plants are. It 
isn't necessary that the frost should he 
kept out of the ground. For that reason 
the covering need not be heavy. The 
main purpose is to prevent the alternate 
freezing and thawing which results if the 
ground is left bare, and which tend to 
heave.the plants out of the ground. Even 
then it is not the cold wearher. lint the 
drying winds which do the damage. In 
some instances perennials have had their 
roots exposed until the wind has shriv¬ 
eled theta completely away. Of course 
these plants were lost to their owners. A 
covering which makes a solid mat over 
the beds keeps the air out and causes the 
plants to decay. That is the reason why 
leaves are the least desirable of all the 
common mulching materials. If they can 
be put on lightly and a few loose boards 
or evergreen branches used to keep them 
in place, they will serve fairly well, but 
are not so satisfactory on the whole as 
straw or coarse hay. l’ine boughs and 
other evergreen branches can be used to 
great advantage not only for perennials 
hut also for shrubs of the more tender 
kinds, like Rhododendrons and Azaleas. 
They can also lie used to advantage for 
protecting large rose hushes. They are 
easy to handle, are readily fastened in 
place and help to hold the snow, which is 
au added advantage. 
Coverim Bosks, —The common plan 
of wrapping rose bushes in straw is not 
to be commended to the amateur. In the 
first place it entails considerable labor, 
and in the second place the chances arc 
that the straw overcoats will be made so 
thick that the rose bushes will lie smoth¬ 
ered. The best way to protect the roses 
is to mound up the earth around them to 
the height of a foot. If they freeze back 
to the top of the mound or cone, no harm 
will be done. Pronably they will need to 
be out back to that point, anyway. Ten¬ 
der climbing roses can be laid down on 
the ground and covered with earth. Straw 
should not lie used, as it is likely to at¬ 
tract mice. When a number of rose 
bushes are set close together, boards may 
he placed on edge around them, and the 
space between the boards filled with 
leaves or straw to the depth of a foot. 
Perennials and Evergreens. —Some 
of the perennials, like larkspur, have a 
bad bnbir of rotting during the Winter 
or early in the Spring. This can be pro- 
vented <to a large extent by removing an 
inch or so of the soil for a space a foot, 
wide around each plant, and substituting 
sand. Of course, all the old leaves which 
have fallen mi the ground should lie re¬ 
moved. In fact, they should be taken 
away, by preference, as fast as they fall. 
It. is well to remember that all this work 
of putting ill* garden to bed must not be 
done too early; not, in fact, until the 
ground has been frozen slightly. In the 
iase of evergreens, whether trees or 
shrubs, and whether planted this Fall or 
well established, it is very important to 
give a good application of water. These 
plants require a big store of moisture at 
the roots, and many evergreens which fail 
to come through the Winter ow_e their de¬ 
mise to a lack of water in the Fall. 
E. X. FARRINGTON. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NOV; 4, 1922 
FARM TOPICS 
A Fair View of the Farmer’s Position- 
Cotton in Bergen Co., N. ,T. 
Putting Farms in Cold Storage.. 
Hope Farm Notes.... 
Changes in Eastern Farming. 
Edward J. Dillon, Farmer. . 
Potato Crop in Germany. 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
1306 
1307 
1307 
1316 
1319 
1319 
1319 
Feeding Three Cows. 
Milk Ration for FaU and Winter 
Feeding Apple Pulp. 
The Great National Dairy Show 
1322 
1322 
1322 
1324 
THE HENYARD 
The Jersey Black Giants for Profit.. .1305. 1306 
The Story of a Barbor’s Wife. 1306 
The Veteran Hen. 1326 
HORTICULTURE 
How Peach Trees Are Started. 1307 
The Rome Beamy as a Filler.1307. 1308 
New England Notes. 1308 
Storing Celery . 1308 
Bees u Nuisance on Fruit.... 1308 
He Stands by the Baldwin. 1309 
Fruit Notes from Connecticut..... 1309 
Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits. 
Looking Ahead for the Hotbed. 1317 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day.... . 1320 
Newspaper Mush Toys; the Family Experi¬ 
ments .1320. 1321 
The Rural Patterns.... 1320 
Concerning Christmas Presents. 1321 
MISCELLANEOUS 
How to Raise Prices. 1310 
Sense Out of Nonsense. 1310 
An Experiment in Co-operative Living.... 1310 
A Fox-hunting Nuisance. 1310 
What Doer, the Farmer Need?. 1310 
Indian Summer .. 1310 
A Cord of Wood. 1310 
Tourists in Convention ... 1310 
Texas Conditions .. 1310 
Voters at School Meetings. 1315 
Superintendent's Power to Buy Supplies... 1315 
Paying for Hlgli School Tuition. 1315 
Tlie Business of Breeding White Rats.... 1326 
• Eat Out of Your Hand’ T . 1326 
Bat Breeding in New England... 1326 
Countrywide Produce Situation.,.1328 
Publisher 1 * Desk - . • 1330 
Storing Celery 
We used to store celery for home use 
in the cellar, but for the past three sea¬ 
sons we have left the celery in a trench 
out of doors. In the house cellar we 
packed the plants close together, leaving 
plenty of soil on the roots. We often 
take uuhlanehed plants from the garden 
and pack them ill this way allowing them 
to blanch iu storage, as shown. The 
Blanching Celery in Cellar Storage 
cellar must be cool and the air fairly 
moist. When too dry the leaves shrivel 
up and the stalks become tough. When 
the plants are too wet the pink rot de¬ 
stroys the stems, causing them to rot 
away in a slimy mass. It requires con¬ 
stant care to gi the plants the proper 
degree of moisture so they will Continue 
growing. It is sometimes necessary to 
vpntilate by opening the doors and win¬ 
dows on warm days. 
This season we dug a trench 1 ft. deep 
and 2 ft. wide and packed the celery 
plants in solidly, leaving dirt on the roots 
(see above). As the weather becomes 
cold we shall cover ,rhe plants with 
boards and cornstalks to prevent freez¬ 
ing. and we shall leave this celery to use 
in the Spring. For Fall use a few plants 
will fie placed in the ciiar. l^rehching 
celery as shown in the diagram has 
Celery Grown in a Frame 
proven very satisfactory with us. In 
third cut is shown a frame of celery 
grown by setting the plants 8 in. apart 
eaeh way. As the plants grow they 
blanch themselves. These are protected 
from frost by wnnden rovers and tin 1 
celery kept until after Thanksgiving in 
the present location. Proper ventilation 
is the only essential. T. H. t. 
Bees a Nuisance on Fruit 
What shall I do to guard against the 
recurrence of wlint happened in my gar¬ 
den this Summer? I had n great cron 
of peaches on the few peach trees in the 
garden. As the peaches ripened all those 
that were highest in the trees were stung 
by the bees and wasps. Many of them 
dropped to the ground, and every peach 
on the ground had one or more bees. 
Before the crop all matured these bees 
got to be an awful nuisance. They 
ruined so many of the very best peaches. 
Yesterday I gathered the last and went 
over to get some grapes, and every bunch 
of grapes that was not enclosed in a bag 
was just as badly eaten as were the 
peaches by the bees. They swarmed over 
the grapevines and literally ruined all 
the grapes that were not in bags. Is it 
UllUSUnl, or may we expect it another 
season? What, can we do to remedy the 
matter? I find my neighbors have suf¬ 
fered just as I have. I would he glad to 
havp you give an opinion on the matter. 
Missouri, J. M. 
