1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
825 
The Daily $2 Premiums 
last week went to the following club- 
raisers : 
Nov. 26. S. S. Thornily, Ohio. 11 t. 
Nov. 27. G. H. Hale, Oregon. 2 y. 
Nov. 28. Ronson German, Michigan . 3 y. 
Nov. 30. F. E. Van Eps, New York ... 9 y. 
Dec. 1. Ronson German, Michigan . 2 y.; 4 t. 
There was some little improvement in 
the size of the clubs, but they were still 
extremely small. There are yet nearly 
six weeks for the sweepstake premiums 
which go out January 15 next. We never 
gave premiums that promise to go to 
such small clubs. That means, that with 
the commissions and daily premiums, in 
addition to the sweepstake premiums, 
club-raisers never befoi'e got so much 
money for so little work. There are 50 
of the cash premiums—largest SI00— 
going out January 15. Any person who 
gets up a club now, is practically sure 
of a premium check. Can't you get a 
few names ? 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
New York. 
MARKET BRIEFS. 
Picked Up Here and There. 
MILK FIGURES.—The prices offered by 
condensery people in various parts of the 
country for December are as follows: Bor¬ 
den’s, Elgin, Ill., $1.35 per 100 pounds; Delhi, 
N. Y„ $1.50; Johnson’s, N. Y., $1.55. Mt. 
Upton, Norwich and Oxford are the same 
as Delhi; and Millerton, Wassaic and 
Brewster are the same as Johnson’s. At 
Middletown the Anglo-Swiss price for De¬ 
cember is $1.60. Taking average milk, $1.50 
per 100 pounds is equivalent to $1.29 per 40- 
quart can; and $1.35 equals $1.16 per can. 
The Philadelphia Exchange price for No¬ 
vember was four cents per quart including 
freight, which averages not far from one- 
half cent per quart. The New York Ex¬ 
change has raised the price for December 
from three to 3 X A cents for receipts within 
the 26-cent freight zone. The total receipts 
at New York for October were 776,500 cans 
of milk, and 28,700 of cream. This shows a 
slight decrease in cream and an increase in 
milk receipts over the same month last 
year. 
MORE FRAUDS.—A reader asks our 
opinion of a circular which he has received 
from a firm of so-called commission mer¬ 
chants in this city. We have had no per¬ 
sonal dealings with these people, but their 
circular has all the trademarks of the 
standard dyed-in-the-wool swindler. They 
claim to be produce dealers in numerous 
places throughout the United States and 
Canada. It is not said whether they have 
carried on business at such a large number 
of points at any one time, or whether they 
move from place to place in the United 
States as the signs of the moon and the 
wrath of their fellow citizens indicate to 
be wise, carrying on operations tempor¬ 
arily in Canada when the arm of the law 
in this country attempts to embrace them 
too lovingly. Their letter begins thus: ‘‘A 
Few Solid Facts of Interest to Every Ship¬ 
per of Dressed Poultry, Game, Butter and 
Eggs.” These facts (?) are that they are 
ready and willing to buy products for cash 
at prices considerably above the market. 
The letter is dated November 14, and they 
say: “We guarantee to pay the following 
prices for your dressed poultry, game, but¬ 
ter and eggs up to December 1, 1900.” It 
would take a powerful microscope to dis¬ 
cover any good reason why these people 
can compete with scores of other dealers, 
and pay, for example, three cents per 
pound more for turkeys, making a general 
offer in this line for two weeks in advance, 
at a time when the poultry market is 
liable to fluctuate greatly. They promise 
too much, and it is easy to see that they 
intend either to beat the shipper out of the 
whole amount, or’ kick on the inferior 
quality or bad condition in which the goods 
arrive, thus having an excuse for cutting 
down the price to a low figure. At any 
rate everything is on their side, and all the 
shipper can do is to “grin and bear’” what¬ 
ever treatment he gets. The circular is 
whitewashed and lathered over with guar¬ 
antees that are about as substantial as 
soapsuds. Six times they assert that they 
“guarantee” to give the prices named and 
make prompt payment, as though trying to 
persuade themselves that they really mean 
it. The store in which they operate in this 
city is occupied by two other concerns in 
the same line of business, one being a 
fraud who fails periodically, and was ex¬ 
posed only a few weeks ago in this paper, 
but has apparently gone through bank¬ 
ruptcy proceedings and come out in full 
bloom again with a brand-new sign. The 
lesson from all this is that those who send 
produce to men who make extravagant or 
impossible promises as to prices, will be 
quite likely to get some practical lessons 
in discount or total subtraction that will 
make them open their eyes. The feeling 
against these dead beats is very bitter in 
some parts of the country. The writer has 
found neighborhoods that had been so thor¬ 
oughly worked by some scalawag that, 
should he put in an appearance there again, 
he would be immediately invited to a pub¬ 
lic banquet with tar and feathers for the 
first course. A German in eastern Ohio 
who had suffered through nursery sharks, 
told me that he would shoot the first tree 
agent that came into his dooryard. 
_ w. w. H. 
VIRGINIA STATE HORTICULTURAL 
MEETING. 
One of the best meetings of the Virginia 
State Horticultural Society ever held has 
recently closed. It was held November 
20 and 21 at the city of Roanoke, which is 
in the beautiful and fertile valley of Vir¬ 
ginia, lying between the felue Ridge and 
the main Alleghany Mountains. There 
were many large and beautiful specimens 
of the famous Winter apples of that region 
on exhibition. Among them was the New¬ 
town, which bears the local synonym of 
Albemarle Pippin. No larger or fine speci¬ 
mens of that variety were, perhaps, ever 
shown. They were grown in the coves, or 
rich, moist mountain slopes, which are pe¬ 
culiarly suited to apple culture. York Im¬ 
perial, Winesap, Arkansas, Ben Davis and 
many other standard varieties were shown 
in their highest excellence. Among the 
more newly tested kinds was Missouri, 
which is a very handsome red apple of me¬ 
dium size and fair quality and a most pre¬ 
cocious and heavy bearer. Judging by 
these specimens It seems quite sure that 
this variety Is safe to plant as a filler in 
standard orchards in Virginia and adjacent 
regions. This is most fortunate, for such 
an apple is greatly needed among trees 
which are rather tardy in coming into bear¬ 
ing. The attendance was good throughout, 
and several distinguished horticulturists 
were present as invited guests and lec¬ 
turers. Quite an addition was made to the 
membership. In his opening address, 
President Samuel B. Woods, of Charlottes¬ 
ville, referred very happily and truthfully 
to the fact that Virginia is naturally a 
fruit-growing State, as has been proven 
ever since the first settlement at James¬ 
town, almost 300 years ago. The soils and 
climates of the different section are suited 
to almost every fruit of the temperate 
zones. There is no region where choice 
Winter apples may be grown more cheaply 
or in greater perfection than in the Pied¬ 
mont and mountain sections. Peaches, 
pears, cherries, grapes and berries are ex¬ 
cellent in quality and abundant wherever 
reasonable effort is made. Even the fig and 
pomegranate are found in the most shel¬ 
tered places. The president reminded his 
hearers that while honorable and distin¬ 
guished ancestry and family names were 
common in Virginia, and not to be despised, 
yet what is most needed is the application 
of intelligence and industry to the work be¬ 
fore the people of to-day. Fruit growing 
is one of the most noble, useful and profit¬ 
able callings, but it requires willing minds, 
skilled hands and persistent labor to attain 
success. The great markets of the world 
are about as near to Virginia as to any 
other State. Richmond is about the same 
distance from New York as Buffalo and 
Rochester, and the transportation facilities 
good on both rail and water. 
Mr. Van Alstyne, from the Hudson Val¬ 
ley, N. Y., made a very practical and 
pointed talk on the essential points in fruit 
culture. He thought the most important of 
all next to planting the right kinds in the 
right soil and location, was the stirring of 
the soil. He did not believe in deep cul¬ 
ture so much as in frequently stirring the 
surface. He believed that spraying for In¬ 
sects and fungus diseases is so important 
that no progressive fruit grower could af¬ 
ford not to do it. He recited an instance 
of eminent success by one of his neighbors 
in killing the San Jos§ scale in a large 
orchard of large apple and pear trees 
where it had become well established, by 
using 25 per cent of crude petroleum to 75 
per cent of water in one of the new kero- 
water sprayers. He did not believe anyone 
need make a failure of fruit-growing who 
would give his best thoughts and efforts to 
it. Prof. Wesley Webb, of Dover, Del., 
gave an address on peach culture on the 
Chesapeake Peninsula. The early settlers 
in southern New Jersey demonstrated that 
peaches were a profitable crop more than 
150 years ago. They grew them In a crude 
way for home use, and from seeds in nearly 
every case, but the yellows soon began to 
play havoc in their orchards and they 
crossed the Delaware River to the region 
where Newcastle County, Delaware, now 
is. Here the field was fresh and the trees 
were practically free from disease and bore 
well. The peach crop soon became one of 
the leading sources of profit, and larger 
orchards were planted than ever before in 
the history of the world. But the yellows 
was brought over with the trees and it be¬ 
gan to lay waste the orchards. The plant¬ 
ing was moved southward step by step 
until the northern half of Delaware and a 
part of Maryland were either largely plant¬ 
ed to peach orchards or had been so before 
the yellows destroyed them. By 1850 to 
1S60 this region ruled the peach markets 
of America. But the yellows has so de¬ 
vastated the region that very little is now 
done in peach growing north of Dover. 
South of that point there is little yellows, 
owing to more vigorous measures in burn¬ 
ing the diseased trees, but there are some 
who neglect this precaution and continue 
the prevalence of the disease. The dis¬ 
tance apart for planting is 20 feet almost 
universally, and the method of pruning 
principally letting the trees almost alone, 
thus making long straggling branches that 
bear fruit where it is very hard to gather. 
Far too little cultivation and almost no 
thinning of the fruit is done. There is a 
change now setting in to closer planting, 
16 feet or so, vigorous heading back with 
the knife annually, thinning the fruit 
where the trees are overloaded and thor¬ 
ough tillage. Destruction of all trees af¬ 
fected by yellows seems imperative and 
such a law is now in force. 
Prof. W. F. Massey, of North Carolina, 
read a paper on certain theoretical and 
practical subjects connected with fruit 
growing in Virginia. He advanced the 
theory that the top of a tree or plant had 
about all to do with the size and style of 
the root growth, and that it completely 
changed all the underground parts in va¬ 
rietal and specific character. As an illus¬ 
tration of his idea he stated positively that 
if a pear bud or scion is set on a quince 
stock all the wood made after that time 
on the roots is pear wood, and not only 
lengthwise but the new annual layers over 
the old roots as well. He further stated 
that all the sprouts from the roots would 
be pear sprouts, except such as came from 
“dormant quince buds” on the roots. Sev¬ 
eral other similar illustrations were ad¬ 
vanced as proof of his theory. He stated 
that common whitewash is a sure remedy 
for San Jos6 scale on any kind of tree or 
plant. He also claimed that the variety 
of apple called the “Albemarle Pippin” in 
Virginia and North Carolina is distinct 
from the Yellow Newtown, although he o 
not tell when and where the former origi¬ 
nated. Moreover, he declared that alti¬ 
tude had nothing whatever to do with the 
success or failure of this very fastidious 
apple, but that soil and treatment were the 
essential factors. In subsequent discus¬ 
sions all of these theories were flatly de¬ 
nied by Prof. S. B. Heiges, of Pennsylva¬ 
nia, PI. E. Van Deman and others, they 
claiming that the facts were against them 
in every instance. At the evening session 
Mr. M. B. Waite displayed a number of 
lantern slide pictures of peach growing in 
Michigan. Among them were some from 
the famous Morrell orchards, showing that 
high feeding, thorough tillage and severe 
thinning, pay richly. The old officers were 
mainly reelected; Samuel B. Woods, of 
Charlottesville, president; Walter Whately, 
of Crozet, secretary; with able vice-presi¬ 
dents for the various districts. The next 
meeting will be held at Richmond at such 
time next Winter as the executive commit¬ 
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