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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 17 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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KEEPING ICE IN TEXAS. 
One of our readers in Texas is a dairy¬ 
man and he finds it necessary to use ice 
nine months in the year. He requires 
about six tons of ice during the season 
and hauls about 600 pounds at a time 
eight miles. It is artificial ice and is in 
two hundred pound blocks. He wants to 
know if this ice would not keep better if 
bought all at one time and stored in a first- 
class ice house. Would he gain anything 
by packing and trying to hold it through 
the season rather than hauling it as he 
now does in small quantities? 
It is our custom to get a supply of ice 
daily, and I do not think it would be eco¬ 
nomical to attempt to get a supply for 
the season and try to carry it for a 
period of nine months. I believe that 
your correspondent will get the best re¬ 
sults if he will get ice just as often as 
he can afford to do so. 
Miss. Exp. Station, w. l. hutciunson. 
Where one cannot put up natural ice 
in Winter with little expense we would 
think an ice house would be a useless 
adjunct and the waste would be great 
during Summer. Living only eight or 
10 miles from market one might carry 
country produce, returning each time 
with sufficient ice to last several days. 
The trip might be made twice a week, 
bringing 300 pounds each time or what¬ 
ever was necessary. This placed in a 
large zinc-lined icebox, holding besides 
the ice several five-gallon cans of cream 
with large pans of butter on top is an 
ideal way of taking care of ice and dairy 
products. At the same time when neces¬ 
sary ice can be cut for home use, and our 
experience is that there is very little 
■waste. A large heavy blanket or old 
comfort should be carried to wrap ice in, 
which beside good protection afforded 
will do away with cost of packing. 
Hungerford, Tex. j. m. t. 
I do not doubt but there is consider¬ 
able loss in transportation of this ice 
eight miles during the heat of the Sum¬ 
mer, yet I think that the loss would be 
much greater if he attempts to keep ice 
in this climate in the Summer season in 
an ice house. If there is anything to be 
gained by a cold storage room, I should 
think that a combination room for stor¬ 
ing the ice, about 600 or 800 pounds, and 
also such articles as was desired to keep 
in cold storage, could be constructed for 
a cost of from $15 to $20, depending upon 
the size of the room. In the building of 
a room of this kind, all that is necessary 
is to construct the walls with two or 
three dry air spaces, which are the best 
non-conductors of heat to be had, and 
doors that fit tightly. The ice can be 
placed on a rack in the top of the room, 
and a space underneath will provide the 
necessary room for such articles as the 
refrigerator is intended to hold. Below 
the rack supporting the ice, some ar¬ 
rangement must be provided to catch the 
drip as the ice melts. This will keep 
the lower part of the room dry. The es¬ 
sential features of such a room are to 
have the dead air spaces in the walls, 
and the doors fitting closely. In case 
the room is intended for ice only, it need 
be no larger than to hold the ice that 
will be procured at one time. 
Texas Agl. College. c. h. alvord. 
Liquid Gluten for Pig Feeding. 
Inquirer, Brantford, Canada.—We can buy 
liquid gluten In large quantities from the 
starch works here at a cent a gallon. 
What do you think of It as an addition to 
pig rations when compounded together and 
boiled with tankage grease, dry blood, tur¬ 
nips and ground barley? 
Ans.—T he writer is entirely unfamil¬ 
iar with such a substance as liquid glu¬ 
ten. One finds nothing concerning it in 
the standard works on feeding. To get 
some light on the subject I addressed 
the Glucose Sugar Refining Co., at Chi¬ 
cago, perhaps the largest manufacturers 
in the country, and received the follow¬ 
ing reply: “We do not know that liquid 
gluten is for sale inanymarket.. It would 
not be practical for the reason that it 
would sour, ferment and decompose. The 
only manner in which liquid gluten 
could be fed would be to have a lot of 
steers in stables at the factory where it 
is made, sufficient in number to take 
each day’s output as it comes from the 
mill. Feeding cattle in this manner, 
however, has never been a success, as 
there are other local conditions that can¬ 
not be overcome.” If our Canadian 
friend could get each day, at Slight cost 
of labor, good sweet liquid gluten for a 
cent a gallon, I see no reason why it 
might not be profitably fed along with 
the other substances he mentions. But 
too much slop does not make the best 
sort of pork. Better rely on the use of 
the ground barley, dried blood and tur¬ 
nips, than the use of a large amount of 
water to get a little nutriment, as no 
doubt would be the case with the liquid 
gluten. c. s. plumb. 
Pear Scab ; Loose-headed Cabbage; Low¬ 
headed Greenings. 
C. F, R-, No. Tonaicanda, N. T.— 1. My 
pears last season were very scabby, botli 
Bartlett and Duchess. We could not spray 
last season on account of wet. Is the cause 
want of spraying, or too much shade? The 
trees are planted too close, 12 x 12 feet; the 
trees are 12 years old and thrifty. The 
leaves get rusty in the Summer; the trees 
have always had good care, and clean cul¬ 
ture. What is the cure? 2. My cabbage 
last season had a large proportion of small 
and loose heads. We planted very late, 
July 15, when the plants were all too large. 
Only a few stood straight. The ground 
had been manured the year before, when 
we turned under a good covering of ma¬ 
nure on Timothy sod. Last year we turned 
this up and applied 300 pounds cheap phos¬ 
phate per acre. Was the poor crop due to 
lack of fertility or late planting or lack 
of sufficient moisture? This whole country 
is first-class hay land, rather low, not a 
stone for miles. 3. This Spring we turn 
up an eight-acre field which had potatoes 
last year planted on Timothy sod. well 
manured. The potatoes amounted to very 
little, being drowned out first week in July, 
just as they were coming through. Now. I 
wish to put this field into cabbage and po¬ 
tatoes. I have no manure for it this year. 
Can I get a good crop by applying phos¬ 
phate? What kinds and what quantity are 
necessary? 4. I planted 100 R. I. Green¬ 
ings two years ago; trimmed them to whip 
stalks, but the new limbs are only five feet 
from the ground. Should I cut them again 
so as to get the tree higher? I wish to 
avoid the error made 23 years ago, when 
setting my first Greenings; I left a nice 
top on them, but the limbs keep getting 
lower yet, so the hogs can reach them. 
How far from the ground should the lower 
limbs be on a Greening? 
Ans. —1. It would seem close planting 
is most to blame for the scabby and 
rusty condition of your pears. Spray¬ 
ing should help to some extent; also 
close pruning. 2. Late planting of 
large plants and insufficient available 
plant food would explain the failure of 
cabbages to head solidly. 3. Cabbage is 
a gross feeder, and in place of abundant 
stable manure should have at least 1,000 
pounds high-grade complete fertilizer to 
the acre, half or more broadcast before 
harrowing, and remainder between rows 
before cultivating, before they begin to 
head. 4. Greening limbs will come down 
as trees grow old when 10 or 12 feet 
high. You can work your trees gradual¬ 
ly higher as top develops. 
Apples for Vermont. 
./. C. A., Brockton, Mass. —1. I wish to plant 
100 trees next Spring in Vermont. Which 
is the best commercial apple for market? 
2. How old should they be before plant¬ 
ing? 3. Whom can you recommend as a 
nurseryman, and how much ought I to 
pay for that many trees? 
Ans. —1. Ben Davis is best for the man 
who has no special experience. For the 
man who understands the business a 
dozen other varieties are better. 2. The 
trees should be two years old. Get 
strong, healthy, first-class stock. Nur¬ 
sery stock is high, and will cost you $20 
to $25 per 100 for the best. You can pay 
either more or less if you choose, but it 
is not to be advised. 3. Write to any 
nurseryman advertising in R. N.-Y. 
F. A. WAUGH. 
A Talk About Peaches. 
•J. E. M., nighlmid. N. V .—Are the Thurber 
and Yellow Rareripe peaches perfect free¬ 
stones? Does the Thurber ripen with the 
Alexander, and is it of good quality? 
Ans. —Thurber is a peach that belongs 
to the Chinese cling type and is a perfect 
freestone. It succeeds well in the South¬ 
ern States, and is really a very valuable 
variety to plant. But it is not a very 
early kind, as it ripens some time after 
Alexander, Triumph and others of the 
very earliest season, and just before El- 
berta. Yellow Rareripe is an old and 
very good peach. It is a freestone. 
Within the last few years its cultivation 
has been largely given up because of the 
greater market value of Elberta and 
some other yellow varieties. Yet, it is 
very good in quality and bears reason¬ 
ably well. h. e. v. n. 
Disparene 
CODLING MOTH, 
Canker-worm, Elm Leaf Beetle, 
Tussock Moth, and all leaf-eating 
insects. 
State Entomologist Sanderson of Delaware, 
says: “Disparene proved very much su¬ 
perior to Paris Green, and destroyed a 
larger percentage of Codling Moth larva; 
than has ever been done before. It re¬ 
mained on the trees all summer in spite of 
very heavy rains.” 
It “ sticks like paint ” and 
never injures the most deli¬ 
cate foliage. 
*1.00 
8.00 
Enough for 80 Gals. Spray - 
“ “ 800 “ “ 
Full directions on every can. 
Order today and ask for our 
rprr Handbook of Injuri- 
rriLL ous Insects and How 
to Destroy Them. 
INSECTICIDE 
CO. 
BOWKER 
43 Chatham St., Boston 
Dr. W. I. Chamberlain, formerly Sec¬ 
retary of the Ohio Board of Agriculture, 
says his ndt profits from five acres of 
bearing apple trees for 1901 were $1,- 
600.35. He adds: “The reason the apples 
were so perfect this off year, when im¬ 
perfect and wormy apples were else¬ 
where so common, was because of the 
thorough late spraying with Bordeaux 
Mixture and Bowker’s Disparene. The 
latter (unlike Paris-green) held to the 
fruit long enough to kill the second 
brood of the Codling moth worms. The 
Disparene sticks on like paint, and kills 
the second brood of the Codling moth 
worm; had it not been for spraying I 
should probably not get $200 from my 
trees this year. 1 know this from a few 
trees we left without spraying, which 
bore practically no perfect apples. The 
sprayed trees bore almost wholly per¬ 
fect fruit.” 
Small crops, unsalable veg¬ 
etables, result from want of 
Potash. 
Vegetables arc especially 
fond of Potash. Write for 
our free pamphlets. 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, 
93 Nassau St., New York. 
LIME FERTILIZER 
Special preparation giving splendid satisfaction. 
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Vegetable Plants 
DELIVERED AT YOUIt ADDRESS. 
Standard Varieties. 
List on 
Application. 
Dost. 
i on 
Cauliflower. 
.75 
J.00 
Egg Plant—New York Purple .40 
1.25 
1.75 
Pepper. 
... .85 
1.00 
1.50 
Sweet Potato.. . 
... .20 
.50 
1.00 
Tomato. 
.75 
1 25 
Lettuce. 
.50 
.75 
Celery. 
. 20 
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Write for prices—1,000, 10,000. 
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84 and 80 Randolph Street, CHICAGO; 
or 14 Barclay Street, NEW YORK. 
Vegetable Plants. 
Asparagus—Conover’s Colossal, very strong. $3; 
Celery, White Flume, transplanted, $2; Horseradish 
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GINSENG CU LTIVATION. 
THE KENTUCKY GINSENG NURSERY, 
Established 1891. 
J. W. SEARS, Proprietor, SOMERSET. KY. 
Prices for Seeds and Roots given on application. 
Publications: “The Ginseng Culturist Guide.'' 
From Seed to Market, Ten Years'Practical Experi¬ 
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Sweet Potato Plants 
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mo 
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Jersey Yellow. 
. $0 60 
$ 0.20 
$1 50 
Jersey Red and Big Stem. 
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.60 
.30 
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Vineland Bush. 
.75 
.50 
3 50 
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I —Carman 
I Carman 
stead of down. 
No. 3, my strain direct from Editor 
himself, and, 1 believe, bred up in- 
E A. HILL, Windham, N. ?. 
C ARMAN No. 3 $4.00 
SEED POTATOES. Per Bhl 
Dewey and Sir Walter Raleigh, $4 per bbl., all bbls. 
4 bus ; Plngreeand W Mammoth $5 per bbl. Wholesale 
list free. GEO A BONN ELL. Waterloo, N. Y. 
49 A I 500 bushels EarlyBIack Cow 
” W ■ dlv Peas at $1.75 per bu.; 600 bush¬ 
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bu.; 500 bushels second-growth Seed Potatoes at $3.30 
bbl.; or $1.10 per bu. J. E. HOLLAND. Milford, Del. 
C elery and Cabbage Plants, ©1 per 1,000 
rimson Clover Seed, $4 per bushel. 
8 LAYMAKER & SON. Dover, Del. 
1,000,000 Tomato Plantsfor the canner; 
500.000 Late Cabbage and other plants. Catalogue 
free. CALEB BOGGS & SON, Cheswold, Del. 
Potted Strawberry Plants, July I. 
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