1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
61 
MARKET NOTES 
EXPENSIVE LAND.—A lot at the cor¬ 
ner of Eighteenth Street and Fifth Ave¬ 
nue, New York, was recently sold for $55 
per square foot. It is needless to say that 
it will not be used for a potato patch. This 
is at the rate of $2,395,800 per acre. An 11- 
story office building will be erected, and in 
spite of the enormous cost of lanu and 
building, the income from rents will be 
sufficient to pay a good profit on the in¬ 
vestment. 
ROSIN AND TURPENTINE.—The last 
census shows that the capital invested in 
this industry has increased nearly 200 per 
cent during the past 10 years. There are 
now over 1,500 establishments engaged in 
the business in the South Atlantic and 
Gulf States. During the last year of the 
decade the yield of turpentine was 754,670 
barrels, and of rosin 2,563,087. About half 
the turpentine and 7*4 per cent of the rosin 
are used in the United States. 
FIRE NOTES.—The total reported fire 
loss for the United States and Canada for 
the year 1901 was $164,347,450, an increase of 
nearly $1,000,000 over 1900. There were 2,522 
fires of greater destructiveness than $10,000. 
Of these, 106 exceeded $200,000 ; 250, $100,000; 
and 500, $50,000. The most extensive loss 
was at Jacksonville, Fla., $10,500,000, and 
next was the Montreal Board of Trade 
building, $2,750,000. An unusual number of 
insurance companies gave up business on 
account of excessive losses. 
BUTTER.—The market has been over¬ 
stocked with lower grades, but a decline 
of one to two cents in price has relieved 
this condition somewhat, and these under 
grades are working out quite freely. The 
price is irregular, largely depending upon 
the buyer and the quantity he will take. 
A little out-of-town demand for prime 
storage creamery is noted at about 21 
cents. There is some business in high- 
grade fresh factory at 17 cents, but most 
sales are within a range of 14 to W/ 2 c. 
POTATOES.—A shipment of 18,500 bush¬ 
els of potatoes from Scotland was recently 
received at Baltimore, Md. This is said 
to be greater than the total receipts of 
foreign potatoes at that port during the 
past five years. A cargo of over 60,000 
hushels of Scotch potatoes has just ar¬ 
rived at New York. The market for the 
better grades was well cleaned up, but 
these large additions will doubtless cause 
some weakness for a time. There has been 
considerable complaint of defective stock. 
Growers appear to have been careless in 
sorting, and have sent a lot of stuff not 
fit for pig feed. Of course this sells very 
low. w. w. H. 
NEW JERSEY STA TE HOR TICUL TURAL 
SOCIETY MEETS. 
Part II. 
Trof. John B. Smith’s paper on modern 
methods of studying and dealing with In¬ 
sect pests brought out a storm of ques¬ 
tions, which were answered in a very sat¬ 
isfactory manner. The following points 
were made clear: The older and Euro¬ 
pean way is carefully to destroy adult in¬ 
sects to save next year’s crop. Americans 
want to save the present crop without re¬ 
gard to the future. Both methods are im¬ 
perfect. The European works all the time 
killing adults, while we are content to re¬ 
duce average injury in bad years and let 
them alone to breed in light years. Pests 
and new insects are at times of advantage 
in forcing investigation. Nearly all our 
reanv dangerous pests are imported, and 
are particularly aggressive because their 
natural parasites were left behind, and the 
balance of nature overthrown. Study of 
parasites is most important and at times 
very successful. Australian ladybirds were 
successful in ridding California Citrus 
trees of Cottony scale in less than five 
years. It is very doubtful whether the 
Chinese ladybird, announced from Na¬ 
tional Department of Agriculture, is bet¬ 
ter than our Twice-stabbed ladybird,which 
is beginnin" to feed on Pernicious scale. 
The Department of Agriculture is bringing 
the Chinese species over in quantity, and 
results may be noted in a few years. They 
have been tried in a small way and did 
not survive first season. There are al¬ 
ready three native parasites on San Jos6 
or Pernicious scale, but the ladybirds are 
most promising. Crude petroleum is ir¬ 
regular in effects, is often fatal to trees 
in the South, but seldom in the North, 
where they become entirely dormant; 40,00(1 
gallons were used in 1901 in New Jersey, 
mainly with success. Use on pear and 
apple any time during Winter, but delay 
until early March for peach, plum and 
cherry. Petroleum often has a good ef¬ 
fect aside from clearing off scale, and has 
apparently killed body-blight in pear trees. 
It took California 20 years to get rid of 
Pernicious scale. We have had it 10 years, 
and have made but little progress in con¬ 
trolling it so far. The lime, salt and sul¬ 
phur wash, so effective in California, is of 
no value on the Atlantic coast. It re¬ 
quires long periods of rainless weather to 
maintain its action. It must be applied 
hot, and takes about two weeks to begin 
destructive effects on scale. Disease ex¬ 
periments by infection with germs are 
generally failures, though Chinch-bug dis¬ 
ease has been successfully spread. Fumi¬ 
gation with hydrocyanic gas is all right if 
carefully done, but is often spoiled by in¬ 
competent management. The possibility 
of breeding scale-proof fruits is worth con¬ 
sidering. Individual trees defy Pernicious 
scale, and by propagating from these an 
immune progeny might be had. Arsenate 
of lead is best for basket worms on ever¬ 
greens; other arsenicals kill evergreen fo¬ 
liage. It can also be safely used on peach 
trees at the rate of one pound to three gal¬ 
lons of water. 
Prof. B. D. Halsted, in his “Hints from 
My Experiment Grounds” furnished some 
facts of service to truck growers. Club- 
root in turnips and cabbage may be eradi¬ 
cated by using stone lime put on in un¬ 
slaked condition in September. Use 35 
bushels per acre, and thoroughly mix with 
soil next Spring. Wild mustard belongs to 
the same family, and is subject to club- 
root, keeps disease in soil, and often comes 
in with grain, therefore cabbage and re¬ 
lated plants should not be grown after 
grain. Bush beans can be grown on same 
ground indefinitely if 20 tons of good ma¬ 
nure are applied each season, sufficient for 
the two crops usually grown. Peas and 
beans depend on nitrogen-gathering tuber¬ 
cles, the same as clover, but to a less ex¬ 
tent. Jersey soil has plenty of the germs 
as a rule, but when they die out the land 
is said to be bean or pea sick as the case 
may be. It Is then best to discontinue the 
crop for a time. When planting peas in 
new land it is well to apply soil from good 
pea land at the rate of 60 bushels to the 
acre to start germs. Peas generally make 
slow and miserable growth for the first 
three weeks, not the effect of cold rains 
and bad weather as commonly supposed. 
The plants depend on nourishment stored 
in seed, and until after “weaning time” 
fertilizers and manures in soil do no good. 
Irrigation doubles yield, but is very costly. 
The gravity system is most economical 
where available. Planters must count cost 
before investing in irrigation plants. Let¬ 
tuce and squashes cannot be profitably 
continued on the same ground; disease 
germs get in soil and winter over. Onion 
smut disease is transmitted by infested 
soil in many instances. The best substi¬ 
tute for spinach in Summer is Swiss chard, 
a beet producing small roots but much fo¬ 
liage. Sow in succession to last of July. 
Poorly fed plants generally give poor re¬ 
turns; 20 tons of manure or its equivalent 
in chemical plant food is needed yearly. 
An excellent paper on Rose Culture was 
read by John N. May, Summit, N. J., giv¬ 
ing from his mature experience, a list of 
roses that may be successfully grown in 
the garden in the latitude of New York. 
The question box elicited information of 
value on many practical points, chief of 
which concerned thinning of fruits. It 
was agreed that fruits must be thinned 
for best market results. Large fruits 
should be thinned to hang from four to 10 
inches apart, the latter for exhibition pur¬ 
poses; peaches and plums from two to 
four inches. It does not pay in New Jersey 
to grow any but best varieties except for 
local market, as local buyers are usually 
less discriminating than those found in 
city markets. Some interesting figures 
were brought out about the large pea can¬ 
nery at Freehold; 1,300 acres of peas were 
planted on land rented at $6 to $10 per 
acre; 400 acres Lima beans, 125 of spinach, 
$18,000 was paid for fertilizers of a special 
mixture; 4,000 bushels of seed peas were 
required, and 1,000 of wheat and 200 bush¬ 
els of Crimson clover for Fall cover crop. 
Individual potato crops in the neighbor¬ 
hood were raised and sold as follows: B. 
Hays, 3,200 barrels from 27 acres, sold for 
$5,800; H. V. Denise, 3,261 barrels from 32 
acres, $5,500; Robinson Bros., 3,378 barrels 
from 37 acres, sold for $6,150.94. These were 
exceptional yields and prices. The potato 
crop was generally unprofitable. A Bur¬ 
lington County correspondent of the vege¬ 
table committee in commenting on the con¬ 
ditions of the season wrote: “The year 1901 
was generally very unfavorable for fru.- 
tification in crops. This caused the market 
supply often to be below its needs, with 
consequent high prices. No years pinch 
the farmer like those in which glutted 
markets proffer his crop less than cost of 
production. The aggregate sales of such 
years are paraded in the papers as agricul¬ 
tural increase, but if such adventures be 
often repeated the farm will soon decline 
in demand and in price.” 
Officers for the ensuing year were elected 
as follows: President, William H. Reed, 
Tennant; vice-president, William Skill- 
man, Rocky Hill; secretary, H. I. Budd, 
Mt. Holly; treasurer, I. J. Blackwell, 
Titusville. Chairmen of committees: 
Vegetable, J. B. Rogers, Newark; special 
fruit and flower, Dr. J. B. Ward, Lyons 
Farms; legislature, J. Warren Fleming, Ti¬ 
tusville; fruit, Charles Black, Hightstown. 
w. v. r. 
STRENGTHENS 
THE STOMACH 
PURIFIES THE BLOOD 
HEALS WEAK LUNGS. 
THE MIETZ & WEISS 
Kerosene Engines 
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electric lighting, grinding 
corn, separating cream 
sawing wood, and all power 
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Buffalo, 1901. Send for Cat 
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Statlonariea, Portables, Engines 
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Send for Illustrated Catalogue and 
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ONCE FENCED, ALWAYS FENCED. 
20 to 3">c. per rod. Strong Colled Spring Steel 
Wire Fence with lleavy Stay Wires. 
Xrw principle. No Locks. Write for cat. Agents Wanted 
Tile Brown Pence Ss Wire Co. ,77 Mason St.,Cleveland,O 
There are only two classes of Root Cut¬ 
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class. Th at o ne is the 
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out all dirt,gravel, etc. Saves 
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roots and vegetables. Pre¬ 
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Veterinary Pixine 
is indicated for the most complicated 
aggravated, offensive cases of grease 
heel, scratches, mud fever, abscesses, old 
sores, hoof rot, cow-pox and skin diseases 
of months’ or years’ standing. No mat¬ 
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Its penetrating, absorbing, antiseptic, 
healing power is marvelously effective. 
Its worth and value to owners of horses 
and domestic animals is inestimable. 
( 2-oz. box, 25c. ) At all Druggists and 
PRICE ■< 8-oz. box, 50c. > Dealers, or sent 
j 5 pounds, $4.) prepaid. 
TROY CHEMICAL CO., Troy, N. Y. 
BARNS 
—Write for free book how 
to build. FRANK BRYAN 
MechanlCBburg, O. 
WIRE FENCE AT WHOLESALE. 
Also Coiled spring, nlsin and Barb wire. Send for Oat. 
and prices. W. II. Mason A Co., Box 67, Leesburg, O. 
Factory to Farm 
at wholesale prices The Best 
Fence on earth. Catalogue free 
THE CLEVELAND FENCE CO , 
Cleveland, Ohio 
WIRE FENCE 
leavy lateral wires, heavy hard steel stays, coiled 
pring wire. Sure Grip lock Instrength, appearance, 
md dumb lity, the Hard Steel cannot be excelled. 
Vrlto for cat alogue and prices. 
THE HARD STEEL WIRE FENCE CO., 
WE DON’T SAY 
that The PAGE Is the best fence, but we would 
like to see another as good. Did you ever? 
PAGE. WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO., ADRIAN, JIICH. 
One Dollar an Acre 
THLj^FROST 
would be too much to pay for some kinds of land. 
There is as much difference between soft or waven 
fencing, and the Frost Fence, as there Is in land. 
Catalogue and prices on application. 
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ARE YOU WITH US? 
The Dealer Is Against Us 
because we sell you wire fence direct from the 
factory at wholesale price*. 
The dealer does not give you a better fence than we do, 
but he charges you more for it. You can buy the 
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direct from us just as cheap as the dealer can. No loose 
ends. All closely interwoven. Cross wires can’t slip. No 
small wires used. Write a postal for circulars and prices. 
Advance Fence Go., 172 K St.,Peoria, ills. 
Why are more American 
Field arid Hog Fences 
sold than any other kind? 
Because farmers see at a glance 
they are 
Practical—Economical 
The simplest, strongest, most 
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—and they last a long lifetime. 
Fully Guaranteed. High grade 
Bessemer steel wires Nos. 9,11 and 
12. Twenty styles. Heaviest gal¬ 
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handled by your dealer, write to 
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