1903 
TIIK RURAL NKVV-YORKER. 
637 
PROSPECTS FOR THE APPLE CROP. 
I do not think we shall have over 15 per 
cent of a full crop of apples this year. The 
crop will not be more than one-half to 
one-third of last year. Prices are very 
uncertain. Very few are buying yet. All 
are inclined to sell In orchard. 
L. A. GOODMAN. 
Missouri Horticultural Society. 
Perhaps 40 per cent of a crop of apples 
is on the trees but they of inferior quality. 
The scab and the curcullo marks, with 
worms, will reduce the marketable output 
very low below 20 per cent. Peaches and 
pears are a failure; plums, 40 per cent; 
grapes, 60 per cent. Taken altogether, the 
outlook for fruit Is the lowest for* years. 
Indiana Hort. Society. w. b. flick. 
The outlook for apples Is very good In 
this State; scab has been worse than usual, 
also a few other diseases troublesome, but 
there Is no unusual damage. Cannot tell 
about prices. There are practically no 
peaches in the State; a few orchards, how¬ 
ever, have been well filled and paid ex¬ 
cellently. Pears are good In some places, 
but over a large part of the State there are 
very few. J. b. s. Norton. 
Maryland Horticultural Society. 
In this section of the State there are 
practically no apples. I have not yet re¬ 
ceived reports from all the counties, but 
except in occasional instances in sections 
where the frost did not strike so hard last 
Spring, I have yet to hear any favorable 
reports and do not look for more than one- 
fourth of a crop. As we raise mainly Win¬ 
ter fruit It Is too early for prices to be 
fixed. W. D. BAKER. 
New Hampshire Horticultural Society. 
The apple crop in Minnesota this year is 
light, and the amount to be put upon the 
market is not sufficient to have any ma¬ 
terial effect upon prices except perhaps 
during the next few weeks. There are 
practically no Winter apples grown In 
Minnesota In sufficient quantity for market¬ 
ing. Orcharding, however, is developing 
very rapidly with us, and It will not be 
long before this State will be quite a factor 
In this Industry. Next year we may ex¬ 
pect a large crop of fruit for the extent of 
orchards In bearing. a. w. latham. 
Minnesota Horticultural Society. 
For this State generally I do not estimate 
more than 20 per cent of a crop of apples, 
and as to barreling fruit I should say not 
over five per cent. Scab is very abundant 
and general and will reduce the percentage 
of barreling fruit to about the above figure. 
There are some peaches, but very few. 
Grapes in some sections promised about 
one-third crop, but as the season advances 
are disappointing in size and quai.'tity. 
Blackberries were half a crop. The scarcity 
of good apples will make growers watchful 
for good prices on Winter apples. Buyers 
are offering $1.40 to $1.50 for Summer apples. 
Winter, $2. ernest walker. 
Arkansas Horticultural Society. 
The outlook for all fruit except apples 
Is very poor In New Jersey; very few 
peaches and pears, an exceedingly small 
apple crop In northern portion of State; 26 
per cent of a crop of apples in the State 
and 50 per cent in the counties named. 
Burlington. Camden and Gloucester coun¬ 
ties have full yield of Summer and Fall 
apples; few Winter varieties. Not many 
will be held, as apples In these counties do 
not keep long out of retaining houses. 
Prices have been good, 25 to 50 cents per 
three-quarter-bushel basket, and growers 
have realized reasonable returns. The 
leaves of pear trees are covered with black 
spots. The leaves of many apple trees be¬ 
gin to look yellow. The cause I am Ignor¬ 
ant of. H. I. BtTDD. 
New Jersey. 
The fruit situation In Maine is difficult 
to determine. There was a very good 
bloom, but after the fruit set the frost 
killed much of It and injured more that is 
now left on the trees. On the high lands 
the fruit is good. I notice the Fruit Buy¬ 
ers’ Association put the crop at 70 per cent. 
I doubt if It will reach that, and I would 
sooner place it at 60 per cent. The reports 
indicate that the fruit is comparatively free 
from worms and of very good quality, 
though It does not yet appear how much 
the frost-bitten fruit Is injured. Fall fruits 
are In good demand at $1.50, with a pros¬ 
pect of still better price. No prices yet 
niade In Winter fruit so far as I can learn. 
The corn crop will be short anyway, and 
the apple crop will be a great help to our 
farmers. d. h. k. 
Maine Pomological Society. 
The general crop of fruit in Rhode Island 
i.s light. There will be no peaches to speak 
of—a few here and there. Many peach 
trees were knocked out by the late frost 
last Spring, mine among the number. 
Apples are more plenty yet far below an 
average. Pears are fairly good. I do not 
hear of much damage by disease. Speak¬ 
ing generally, fruit ti’ees have a very 
healthy appearance. I cannot inform you 
about prices—in fact, the production of 
fruit In Rhode Island Is of not sufficient 
amount to regulate prices, only locally, 
and for a short time at that. Our prices 
here are governed more by crops of other 
States, principally New York and Michi¬ 
gan. It is the practice of what few grow¬ 
ers we have of apples to any extent to 
place their surplus crop in cold storage 
for market later on. c. w. smith. 
R. I. Horticultural Society. 
Our outlook for apples is very good; a 
large crop of Pippins and much larger 
crop of Winesaps and other red apples 
than was thought some weeks ago. I have 
heard some people say they were being 
troubled with bitter rot and were spray¬ 
ing for it, but I do not think it is very 
general. Winesaps are said to have a good 
deal of scab, though I believe well-sprayed 
fruits are sound (mine are). York Im¬ 
perial is a very good crop in the valley of 
Virginia. I have not heard of any prices 
being actually offered, though buyers are 
in the country looking over the situation. 
I think the feeling is general among grow¬ 
ers that they will get good prices. More 
than common are talking of shipping to 
England direct. The season is at present 
favorable to slow maturing of the crop, as 
it has been generally cold and moist this 
month. WALTER whatelt. 
Virginia Horticultural Society. 
'I'he apple crop will be very light in this 
northern section of Illinois, would .say not 
over 20 to 30 per cent of a crop and fruit 
poor in quality, being small and knotty. 
Apples developed very greatly after this 
time last year, but conditions are different 
this season. There is a shortage here and 
consequently no prices are being made on 
Winter fruit. While the frosts at the time 
of blooming did not seem to kill the blos¬ 
soms here, the cold, wet weather and lack 
of sunshine undoubtedly affected the crop 
greatly. I understand that there are some 
localities in the southern part of the State 
where they have a crop of apples, but can 
not speak from my own observation and 
judge there are few such. In many places, 
in that section, the frost made a clean 
sweep. In northern Illinois, plums are a 
good crop, pears light, and no peaches, with 
a fair prospect for grapes, l. r. ertant. 
Illinois Horticultural Society. 
Michigan has about 80 per cent of a full 
apple yield, Baldwins comprising over 50 
per cent of the crop. All of the large com¬ 
mercial orchards have been thoroughly 
sprayed and cultivated, and some fertilized 
with wood ashes, etc. Most of these or¬ 
chards have now been sold. Where the 
orchards have been lumped off, the price 
has been not far from $1.10 per barrel for 
the estimated crop, firsts and seconds, on 
the trees. The best orchard in this imme¬ 
diate section is that of the Wade Bros. It 
contains less than 18 acres of Baldwins, 23 
years old and has a fine crop. The apples 
have been thinned, sprayed, fertilized with 
wood ashes and the ground cultivated per¬ 
fectly clean. The crop is now estimated 
at 3,200 barrels, firsts and seconds, and has 
been sold to a Chicago commission house 
at $2.40 per barrel, packed. One or two 
first-class orchards are held for $2.50. 
C. E. BASSETT. 
Mich. Horticultural Society. 
Portable Sheep Fence.— On page 626 is 
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Cane Fruits; Strawberry Fertilizer. 
U. Z., Newark, N. J.—l. Will you or some 
of your readers tell me which are the best 
varieties of red raspberries and blackber¬ 
ries for market? I would like early and 
late varieties of both for prolonging the 
season. Could 1 expect a partial crop if 
canes were planted this Fall? 2. What 
would be the best fertilizer for strawber¬ 
ries applied in the Fall? 
Ans.— 1. Miller Red, Ki s end Cuth- 
bert are undoubtedly th <st profit¬ 
able red raspberries for w rket pur¬ 
poses. Among blackberriei the choice 
lies between Early Harvest, yder and 
probably Rathbun for covei the sea¬ 
son from early to late. We would not 
on any account advise planting black¬ 
berries or raspberries in the Fall, as the 
young plants are not likely to make a 
good start and are very subject to win¬ 
terkilling. The plants should be set as 
early in the Spring as the ground can 
conveniently be worked. 2. The best 
fertilizer for bush fruits is probably 
good stable manure, applied at the rate 
of 10 or 12 tons per acre, well worked in 
the soil before planting. If commercin' 
fertilizers are to be depended upon there 
is nothing better than wood ashes and 
ground bone. A half ton of the former 
and 400 or 500 pounds of the latter, 
broadcast and worked in with a harrow 
or cultivator is quite certain to have 
good results. Bush fruits do not require 
great quantities of nitrogen as a rule, 
and are likely to make an overgrowth 
of canes if too highly stimulated with 
this element. 
Farm Notes.-I f you have late cabbage 
that has formed heads too soft to keep 
plow a furrow and set the roots in furrow 
with head leaning against the turned 
earth. Then turn another furrow on the 
roots packing it down with the foot. Set 
out another row of cabbage, plow again 
and keep doing so till the bed is eight or 10 
feet wide, then cover with dry leaves from 
the trees six to eight inches deep and cover 
with tomato tops or other trash to keep the 
leaves from blowing off the cabbage. You 
will find a nice lot of cabbage in Spring 
for eating. If covered too deeply with 
leaves the cabbage will send up seed stalks. 
Ashes from the leach tub spread on an old 
Timothy sod brought in red clover the 
next year as thickly as the Timothy and 
for five or six years the same result fol¬ 
lowed the yearly spreading of the ashes. 
Elmira. N. Y. e. w. e. 
THE CAMEL’S HEAD. 
''Where the camel’s head goes his 
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