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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
PUBLISHER'S DESK. 
The color plate of the new Crimson 
Rambler rose Philadelphia will be found 
in this number, as promised last week. 
We hope everyone will preserve this pic¬ 
ture and frame it. Those who do not 
wish to go to the expense of having it 
framed at the stationer’s, may do so at 
little expense themselves under the in¬ 
structions given on page 875. 
Subscriptions never came in so fast at 
this season of the year as they are com¬ 
ing now. We want to thank old sub¬ 
scribers for sending renewals early. We 
book each name for the rose as the sub¬ 
scription comes in, and the early re¬ 
newals will save much confusion later 
on. Besides, the sooner your renewal is 
in the surer you will be of getting the 
rose early. We plan to send it out as 
early in the Spring as the season will 
permit. 
By the way, we want once more to re- 
cpiest you to show this picture to your 
neighbors and tell them about the rose 
and the paper. If you get them to send 
a subscription or if you send it for them 
we will also send them an extra p’eture 
of the rose as long as the picture supply 
lasts. This will hold good too for auy 
subscriptions that you send as a Christ¬ 
mas present to your friends. 
If you want other papers or magazines 
send us a list and we will quote you 
prices. Perhaps you will find what you 
want in list on page 875, 
We received to-day a chock from the 
Chippewa Commission Company for pro¬ 
duce shipped them last April by the 
Pennsylvania subscriber who entered the 
complaint. Failure to send it before was 
probably an oversight. We are glad 
when we can render a service of this 
kind for our distant friends. 
Mr. Chas. J. Lisk, West Coxsackie, 
N. Y., complained that he sent P. W. 
Duncan, a commission merchant at 248 
Washington St., New York, 28 barrels 
of apples last IMarch, and had not 
been able to get his money for them 
In September Mr. Duncan told Mr. 
Disk’s collector that he had sent the 
check the day before, but it was not 
received. A representative of Tuk R. 
N.-Y. called several times, but did not 
find him at the address given. He seem¬ 
ed to have desk room on the second 
floor, but we were not able to learn that 
he had storage room there. We w’rote 
Mr. Duncan and a check was forwarded 
for the claim. We now have another 
claim from another subscriber against 
Mr. Duncan, and he has neglected to re¬ 
ply to our demands for settlement. The 
only safe way is to look up standing of 
houses before shipping gojds 
The American Farm Company has lost 
in its first round in its suit against Geo. 
J. Westcott of Otsego County. Justice 
l.ambert, sitting at Buffalo in special 
term of the Supreme Court, handed 
dowm a decision changing the place of 
trial from Erie County to Otsego County 
and charging the company with costs of 
the motion. The action was brought on 
two notes given in part payment for 
stock in the company pertaining to their 
operations at Hartwick, N. Y. At least 
one more suit is pending with a resident 
of Hartwick, on the same contentions, 
and payment on other notes will in all 
probability be withheld awaiting the re¬ 
sults in these tw'o actions. Of course, 
from this decision all actions of the 
kind brought by the company would be 
transferred to Otsego County for tr.al, 
and the Buffalo people will probably be 
too busy in other directions to give at¬ 
tention to the following up of a suit in 
Otsego County, w’hich is defended on 
alleged fraudulent grounds. 
The individuals behind the American 
Farm Company have recently reincor¬ 
porated in Arizona for $100,000,000 under 
the name of the Farmers’ Marketing 
Company, with offices at Pheenix, Ariz., 
and Buffalo, N, Y. Fast and cheap print¬ 
ing has greatly facilitated the capitaliza¬ 
tion of large stock companies. A few 
millions more or less don’t count. 
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THE AMERICAN APPLE GROWERS' 
CONGRESS. 
The .second annual meeting of the 
Apple Growers’ Congress was held in St. 
Louis, November 17 and 18. The show 
of fruit was rather small, due to a very 
light crop in the Central West and 
because there were no cash premiums of¬ 
fered. Delegates were present from most 
of the States from Wa.shington, D. C., in 
the East, to the mountain States in the 
West. Senator II. M. Dunlap, of Savoy, 
111., was president, and T. C. Wilson, of 
Hannibal, Mo., secretary. The first 
paper on the programme was Pres. Dun¬ 
lap’s address. Growing a commercial 
apple orchard was the subject of a paper 
by li. A. Goodman of the Missouri Horti¬ 
cultural Society in which he said wo 
must make it a business and love the 
work. He favors heading the trees about 
IS inches high and rmshing the growth 
from the start, forming its shape when 
young. Veneer wrappers pay for them¬ 
selves several times in protecting young 
trees from mice, borers, rabbits and the 
rays of the sun. 'I'hoy have been left on 
for three years without any injury and 
the trees make enough extra growth to 
l)ay for them the first year. Rush the 
orchard along as the stockman does with 
his stock, and get the most out of it in 
the shortest time, dispose of it and grow 
.some more. He uses the dust spray to 
l)revont damage from insects and fungi, 
but is not ready to say that the dust is 
a.s good as the liquid spray using the for¬ 
mer because of its convenience. 
J. W. Stanton of Illinois read a paper 
on the methods of marketing apples. He 
has to comsider the picking and packing 
with the marketing and says too many 
arc taken from the trees before they are 
grown and colored properly and too 
many of them find their way into the 
of the barrel of good ones. It 
be a good idea for the grower to 
some of his own apples to market 
and see how they appear to buyers when 
examined. Summer fruit should be picked 
over several times and the inferior ones 
thrown away. C. H, Williamson, of Illi¬ 
nois, says that the price results from 
quality and not from quantity, and we 
often put a premium on the careless man’.s 
work. A (luestioner wanted to know what 
to do with the culls, as they should not 
be packed. Mr. Cox .'■•aid to thin off all 
the imperfect and very small ones in the 
Summer and throw them away. It is as 
cheap to pick part of them early as to 
leave all of them and have to get a larger 
force to handle them when they get ripe. 
Those that have been left after the thin¬ 
ning are the better for it, and if it will 
I)ay to thin a small orchard it will pay to 
thin a large one. “Mow To Increase the 
Market Demand for A])ples” ■w'as th.e 
title of a paper by Wesley Greene, of the 
low^a Horticultural Society. A few of his 
points are given. The consumption 
reaches the maximum only when the cost 
to the consumers is at the minimum. By 
going to market early we find the best 
.selling first at the top price and more 
apples of the best quality are needed, such 
as Grimes and Jonathan, something that 
will melt in the mouth while eating, and 
they should be put on the market when 
just right. It is a pity that so m.any of 
the apples on fruit stands are of such 
poor quality. ‘‘Bitter Rot Experiments” 
was the subject of an address by T. J. 
Burrill, of the University of Illinois. 
Specimens of the rot and of the cankers 
on the limbs were shown. Prof. Charles 
Crandall, of the University of Illinois, 
gave the results of experiments with the 
Apple curculio. It is not easily jarred off 
like the plum species and is hard to con¬ 
trol. It pupates in very shallow soil, from 
one-half to two inches deep only, even in 
loose soil none went deeper. Cultivation 
brings them to the surface and all that 
were exposed soon died. Early and per¬ 
sistent spraying gave best re.sults. It is 
a bad practice to have a peach orchard 
with apples as the ciu-culio go to the apple 
trees. Wm. Miller and U. T. Cox, of Ohio, 
favored early sprayings as most effective, 
the latter saying a neighbor had tried to 
prevent injury from using the dust on his 
trees, but finally decided he could not get 
favorable results after five years’ experi¬ 
ence and expects to try the liquid the 
coming year. 
'rho apple exhibit at the exposition was 
discu.''sed by Prof. J. T. Stinson instead of 
E. W. Taylor, .\rrangements are being 
made for an Apple Day sometime next 
Fall when the best eating kinds are at 
the best, and all who attend that day will 
be provided with good apples. The next 
annual meeting of the Society will be held 
at the Exposition Grounds August 31 to 
September 2 instead of in November. 
W. B. Waite, of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture, talked of the root di.seases of the 
apple and advised to set trees that were 
free from the disease and in soil that was 
not full of decaying roots where other 
trees had died from a root disease. The 
committee on packages and grades report¬ 
ed in favor of the standard three-bushel 
barrel of flour barrel size apd a. bushel 
box to be llDxllDx20 inches inside meas¬ 
urements. The size of a No. 1 apple must 
be at least 2 V 2 inches in diameter and 
practically free from defacements of the 
skin, and a No. 2 apple shall be one-fourth 
inch smaller than the larger grade and not 
over 20 per cent in the package to have 
any defacements of the skin. A 2V4 inch 
apple of such as Winesap will be a No. 1. 
Prof. J, C. Blair of the University of 
I'linois, talked on preparing and applying 
Bordeaux and had cuts to sho-w' how to 
make appliances for the economical mix¬ 
ing and applying the spray. The cost ('f 
an elevated platform and jiump need not 
exceed $10 or $30 including the tanks and 
other fixtures. Soft water was' said to 
make a better mixture than hard water. 
‘‘Exporting Apples’.’ was the title of a 
paper sent by W. N. White, of New York. 
In the discussions it was learned that 
France was surprised because we could 
keep nice fruit for exhibition and for mar¬ 
ket, and they do not like our best quality 
of red api'les. Foreigners arc eating two 
or three times as many apples now as in 
former years, and we can ship the tender 
Summer varieties in the six-basket car¬ 
riers at a profit. 
‘‘Experiments with Apples in Cold Stor¬ 
age” was the subject of an address by 
G. H. I’owell, pomologist in charge of the 
cold storage experiments of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture at Washington. The 
best temperature has been proven to be 
about 31 to 32 degrees, and when the fruit 
is put in directly from the trees it need 
not be finite so low. The quality is not 
necessarily injured by sucdi storing and if 
the fruit is taken out before its life his¬ 
tory has advanced too far it ■will last 
longer than if stored at a higher tempera¬ 
ture or not stored at all. 'I’hc quick de¬ 
caying that is so often found after it has 
been taken out of storage is because the 
tissues had broken down before its re¬ 
moval, or in others words, it was too ripe. 
'I’he fruit should be well colored and fairly 
ripe when it is picked for bevt keeping, 
and it will keep better on' the tree than 
off when the temperature is warm, unless 
it is kept cold. Fruit of poor color scalds 
the worst, and the trees should be picked 
over two or three times to get it as ■well 
colored as possible. 'I’he sca’d is worse 
whei’C the air is dry, and large apples 
from quick-growing trees will not keep 
as well as those from old or slow-grow¬ 
ing trees. There is the most money in 
well-colored apples, and they keep best in 
tight packages, and the keeping ar.d ap¬ 
pearance is still further i.ni'rovcd by 
wrapping in paper. I’resident Dunlap 
thought the early stored frui. such as 
Jonathan, is shriveled because it is put 
away when the air is dry. Ai'ple.s as a 
food were discussed by T. K. Bruner, sec¬ 
retary State Board of Agriculture of 
North Carolina. 
The old officers were reelected, and after 
adjournment many of the delegates took 
a trip over the IC’xposition Grounds under 
the guidance of Prof. Stinson, of the 
horticultural department there. 
Ohio. _ u- cox. 
White French Artichokes.— Can you 
tell me of anyone who raises the im¬ 
proved White French artichokes? 
West Falmouth, Mass. o. i'. d. 
Seedless 1 'ersimmons.— Referring to 
inquiry of Benjamin Buckman regard¬ 
ing persimmons, one-half mile from my 
residence there is a persimmon tree 
which is old enough and large enough to 
have borne several crops of fruit, but it 
is well known in this locality that it has 
never jiroduced fruit. I have never visit¬ 
ed this tree during the persimmon 
blooming season, but hope to next season. 
If Mr. Buckman wishes to experiment 
with scions from this tree, I will send 
them to him. I have no financial interest 
in the introduction of the Callaway per¬ 
simmon or of any other fruit, but will 
say that the persimmon tree from which 
I cut scions and sent to Mr. Buckman 
several years ago was heavily loaded 
with fruit this Fall and the major portion 
of it was absolutely seedless. It is true 
that some specimens contained one or 
two seeds, but they were the exception, 
and not the rule, 'i’his tree is one of a 
group of several persimmon trees all of 
which I believe bear fruit, similar to the 
one from which the scions were taken. 
The group is isolated several miles from 
any other persimmon trees. If necessary 
I can procure evidence from residents litr- 
ing within .a radius of several miles of 
thc.se trees to verify the statement that 
a large iiercenlage of the fruit borne by 
these trees is absolutely seedless. 
Morgan Co., ill. l. h. callawait. 
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