1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
MARKET NOTES 
POTATOES.—The receipts have been so 
heavy as to create a surplu.s and make 
conditions in the market unfavorable for 
shippers. The drop in price would be more 
serious if it were not for the comparative 
scarcity of other vegetables and conse¬ 
quent high selling prices. The present po¬ 
tato market conditions are likely to con¬ 
tinue until those who are hurrying to gci 
rid of their early crop finish diggin;- 
apple buyers.—a fruit trade paper in 
this city thus comments on the apple sit¬ 
uation: 
“The Apple Shippers’ Association has an¬ 
nounced its estimate of an enormous crop. 
Before long, we make bold to predict, the 
wail of the poor, honest and unsophisti¬ 
cated farmer will be heard claiming that 
the crop has been sadly over-estimated by 
the Association. As a matter of fact it is 
zero weather in the dog-days when the 
poor farmer gets lost in the shuffle. The 
speculator gets badly burned time without 
number, but it is rarely that the farmer 
comes out at the small end of the horn. 
But he never ceases grumbling in any case. 
If his exorbitant ideas frighten the buyers 
off and he is forced to consign his fruit, 
then it is the commission man who is a 
double-dashed robber; if he sells his fruit 
outright, then he has had the wool pulled 
over his eyes and has been robbed all along 
the line by the ruthless speculator who, as 
all the world knows, is riding in this year’s 
imported automobile purchased out of last 
season’s enormous profits.” 
This attempt to picture the farmer as a 
highway robber, with the innocent fruit 
buyer as victim, is amusing. But does 
this in any way express the viev.'s of even 
a small minority of the reputable fruit 
buyers or commission men? We have 
known a good number of them, and never 
heard any such bitter general arraignment 
of the farmer. There are mean men in 
every business, and perhaps it is just as 
well that they are thus scattered about. 
THE R. N.-Y. has no apologies for the dis¬ 
honest farmer, and gives considerable space 
every year to showing up and condemning 
the fraudulent practices of some growers 
and shippers of fruit and produce. The 
apple speculator always runs risks, and 
often loses money; but he takes the risks 
himself, and is in no way obliged to pay 
the “exorbitant” prices, while the farmer 
who thus drives buyers away runs an equal 
risk of having the fruit left on his hands. 
Any farmer who wilfully misrepresents 
what he has to sell does the buyer, the 
Hade in general and himself an injury, 
even though he may pocket a little extra 
profit for once. There is no ddubt that 
some apple speculators were badly hurt 
last year. In some cases they paid too 
much or made wrong estimates, and in 
others what promised to be good fruit 
turned smutty late in the season. They 
probably feel fully as pessimistic as the 
writer of the item above quoted evidently 
does. So far as we can see the contes 
between producers and buyers is a fair 
one, and neither side has occasion to 
growl. It would certainly seem that th 
buyer must know as much about market 
prospects and be able to estimate orchards 
as well as the farmer. If not, he is in¬ 
competent for this work, and is sure to 
bring loss upon himself and discredit to 
the trade. In regard to the “enormous” 
apple crop predicted, we wonder whether 
it is expected that the farmer shall sit 
down and take whatever is offered with¬ 
out investigation on his part. Producers 
in other lines do not do this, and is the 
fruit grower to be blamed for availing him¬ 
self of the facts about crops obtained 
through horticultural society, telephone, 
telegraph, press, etc.? w- h- 
FRUIT NOTES. 
l,oNU Keeping Apples.— About the 
"Missing Link” apples that will keep until 
apples are again ripe, I have some sound 
ones in the house now, but they have lost 
their good flavor, which they always do 
when kept longer than April. My grand¬ 
father had a tree that bore long-keeping 
apples. They were small, very hard, and 
good for nothing to eat until they were 
kept a year, w'hen they became tolerably 
good eating apples, having lost some of 
their acidity and become a little softer. 
j. w. I. 
The Clyde Straw'berry.—I notice on 
page 572 H. H. Boardman, of Connecticut, 
a.sks whether any of your readers had 
any experience with Clyde strawberry this 
•season. I had about one-quarter acre of 
them this year, from which I sold nearly 
1.200 quarts. Clyde has been a money 
maker with me for six years; always 
yields a big crop of big berries. I do not 
think the foliage is too scant if on good 
ground. Clyde is not intended for a long 
distance shipper, but for nearby markets 
it will outyield anything 1 have tried, and 
big berries, too. One of my neighbors told 
me that I picked as many quarts on my 
one-quarter acre of Clydes as he did on 
an acre of other sorts. c. v. w. 
Orange, Conn. 
Lennig’s White Strawberry.-A re¬ 
cent R. N.-Y. inquiier asks about the 
value of a new white strawberry found on 
a Pennsylvania mountain side. He is ad¬ 
vised that there would be little demand for 
it in market, where only red strawberries 
sell. While this is doubtless true, it 
should perhaps be added that no market 
has ever yet been supplied with a fine 
white strawberry. Not one person in five 
hundred knows what a white ripe straw¬ 
berry is. What a mystic talisman this red 
color Is all through the fruit market. Win¬ 
ter and Summer! Everybody goes for the 
red apple, the highly-colored pear and the 
blushing peach. If we plea.se the eye the 
palate seems to be half won in advance. 
Now the fact is the finest flavored straw¬ 
berry ever grown is a white strawberry 
when ripe, or white tinged with pink. 1 
refer to the old Lennig’s White, which 
originated, I think, in Germantown, Pa. 
many years ago. Nothing finer in the way 
of a strawberry can be imagined, to my 
thinking, and it is a beautiful looking fruit, 
too; far more delicate both in color and 
structure than any other strawberry I 
ever saw. “Flesh soft, tender, juicy, sweet, 
rich, delicious pineapple flavor,” Downing 
says, and he does not seem to have missed 
any of the adjectives either. But there is 
a distinctive character in this flavor which 
is all its own, and I do not like to accuse 
it of misappropriation. The plant is a 
vigorous grower and of fine habit. The 
berries are large, smooth and uniform in 
shape, and separate easily from the hull. 
Its only fault Is lack of productiveness. I 
would not, however, call It a poor bearer 
exactly, as I have had fair crops from it. 
But it does not rank with the productive 
sorts of the present day. It is also rather 
soft for a distant market. But for the 
family table where fine-flavored fruit is 
appreciated the Lennig’s White has no 
equal, either in appearance or flavor. I 
regret to say that I have lost it in my 
garden years ago, and I would be very glad 
to replace it there if I knew where to get 
the plants true to name. h. Hendricks. 
A DISEASE OF CLEMATIS. 
Your brief reference to the Clematis dis¬ 
ease on page 532 is timely and proper. 
Your Syracuse correspondent has doubtless 
been misled in attributing the trouble to 
worms at the roots, as you suggest. You 
call it “stem rot,” but there is a predis¬ 
posing cause back of this decay of the 
plant, which I think is not well under¬ 
stood by florists and plant growers. We 
may as well regard the disease bacterial as 
anything else, perhaps. But this vague 
classification does not help us much. The 
very fact that no remedy has been found 
shows that the disease itself is not under¬ 
stood. If the cause were definitely known 
the disease could be fought intelligently 
and effectually. Who will tell us in what 
respect this Clematis disease differs essen¬ 
tially from the pear blight, for instahee? 
The effect is very much the same. It is 
just as fatal and destructive. This blight, 
we are told, is due to the germs of a 
fungus. Micrococcus amylovorous, to be 
scientifically exact about it. But there is 
no remedy known for it. Closely allied to 
these is the Black-knot, that black flag 
in every plum orchard, with another big 
scientific name. All we can do with these 
mysterious infections is to carry off the 
dead and wounded. 
My own experience with this Clematis 
disease shows that a change of soil and lo¬ 
cation obviates the trouble, even in a plant 
that has been affected for years. That is 
about as far as I have got as yet, but 
even this is worth knowing. I had a vigor¬ 
ous plant of Jackmanni variety growing in 
low alluvial ground, and partially shaded. 
After a few years of sparse bloom it was 
attacked with the disease; not very near 
the ground, but with surprising sudden¬ 
ness. Almost in a single night it came 
and did its work. The leaves drooped and 
died, and the stem dried hard, but cTid not 
rot. Usually only one or two of the stems 
or vines were affected; never all of them. 
I of course removed the affected parts at 
once and new growth started from the 
bottom But the plant was spoiled and 
gave very few flowers. After a few years 
of this I removed the plant to a sunny 
lawn on high ground in a dry situation. 
Since then it has entirely escaped the dis¬ 
ease, and it grows and blooms profusely. 
It would be interesting to know whether 
soil or location was in any way account¬ 
able for this trouble, as this case seems to 
indicate. Further observation and e'xperl- 
ence on this point would be of value. If 
we must remain at the mercy of such de¬ 
fensive measures let us be sure about this. 
Surely this gloriously beautiful flowering 
vine cannot be given up for general culti¬ 
vation. It should have a choice place on 
every lawn in the land. h. Hendricks. 
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his book, “what does a man’s ‘better 
half mean?” “Usually, my son,” re¬ 
plied his father from behind the even¬ 
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says.”—Credit Lost. 
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THE NEW YORK STATE FAIR 
It will be the Best and Largest Agricultural Exhibition ever given in the State. 
Xj iTT© Stocls. -FSTcf-iiToit;. 
Some of the large.st and best known herds in the Country have been entered. Large entries have 
also been made in the Sheep and Swine Departments, while in the Poultry Department there is a big 
increase over last year’s. 
Tla.© Iaxa.i>l©na.©i3L-t TDisiplAT'. 
will exceed the unusually large exhibit of last year. You cannot afford to miss this opportunity of 
seeing the different makes of farm implements in operation and find out their good qualities by com¬ 
parison. Many farmers who contemplate purchasing farm machinery have deferred doing so until 
their visit to the State Fair. 
While the entries in the FARM PRODUCE, DAIRY, FRUIT and FLOWER Departments do not 
close until August 31st, those already received indicate that the exhibit in these departments will be 
much larger and more varied than ever in the history of the Fair, and will prove one of its most 
instructive features. 
PRESIDENT’S DAY, Monday, September 7tli. 
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT will make an address. 
2:34 Trot.$3,000 1:10 Trot.$3,000 
2:08 Pace.1,300 Two Amateur Events: 
IMPLEMENT AND MACHINERY DEALERS’ DAY, Tuesday, Septemter 8th. 
we.$3,000 2:18 Trot.$1,300 
3:05 Pace. 3,000 Two Amateur Events: 
ORANGE DAY, Wednesday, September 9tb 
Appropriate Exercises in the Grange Tent. “Major Delmar, 2:04, effort against world’s trotting 
record. If weather unfavorable, first good day thereafter.” 
3:10 Pace.$3,000 
3:year-old Trot. 1,000 
3:15 Trot. 1,200 
VETERAN’S DAY, Thursday, September 10th. 
Reunion of the Hon Brigade and Meetings of Veterans. 
3:17 Pace.$1,200 
3:08 Trot. 1,200 
GRAND STOCK PARADE, Friday, September 11th. 
•^:13Trot.$1,200 | 3:14 Pace.$1,200 
AUTO.>IOBILE DAY, Saturday, September 12tb. 
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Two Amateur Events: 
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