1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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MARKET NOTES 
FROM OFFICE TO FARM.—One often 
hears of wealthy men past middle age who 
give up business in the city and devote 
their time to making an ideal farm home; 
and on the other hand of city clerks who, 
because of illness or small salary, try to 
improve their condition by going to the 
country. We recently met a city farmer 
who is in neither of these classes. Al¬ 
though young, he has already been so suc¬ 
cessful in business that, as he apparently 
has no desire to be a millionaire, money¬ 
making it no longer a necessity. He has 
developed such a genuine fondness for 
plants that, while retaining an office and 
a few business interests in the city, he 
spends most of his time on a 10-acre farm, 
25 miles distant, for which he paid $500 per 
acre a few years ago. 
THE FINANCIAL SIDE.—People thought 
him crazy tor paying such a price for the 
land, but they have changed their minds, 
as $1,000 per acre is the current price in 
that vicinity now. While not running the 
place to make money, he makes it inci¬ 
dentally. A large part of the farm is de¬ 
voted to fruits and flowers. He reads 
what good authorities have to say. and 
uses his hard business sense in sorting out 
and applying methods best suited to his 
conditions. The local agricultural fair is 
under control of a strong society, offering 
large premiums, and his products have 
won a surprising sum in competition with 
florists and fruit men, although he does 
most of the work himself with ordinary 
help, having no expert gardener. 
A HUNGRY MARKET is nearby in the 
shape of an orphan asylum, hospital and 
other charities, and a fair share of what 
grows on that 10-acre farm is donated to 
them. He makes no splurge or display 
about these gifts, but says that he ll'kes 
to raise the stuff, and that this is a handy 
■way to dispose of it. 
“FUSSING WITH PLANTS!’’—That is 
what he calls it; others would call it 
scientific horticulture, or good farming. 
He is so greatly interested in this work 
that he gets out early in the morning, and 
prunes and grafts, plants and hoes, just 
as though his breakfast depended upon it. 
Then after a little time spent in his city 
office, he hurries back to get at the farm 
work again. It is not a fad, and he does 
not look at it from a sentimental point of 
view. The above facts are given as the 
case seems rather unique. Here is a man 
with energy and hard sense enough to 
make things go in business. Accidentally 
he has become personally acquainted with 
Plants, not the plant kingdom as a whole, 
but with Individual gravevines, plum trees 
and rose bushes. The more he gets ac- 
nuainted the better he likes them, and 
considers no food or treatment too ex¬ 
pensive or too much trouble. It is need¬ 
less to say that the plants appreciate such 
usage, and it is not strange that they turn 
out fruits and flowers that astonish expert 
gardeners who do this work because they 
have to, and feel no special interest in it. 
w. w. H. 
Sod-Grown Apples.— The cold storage 
men are right; of course the sod-grown 
apples keep better. They are tough, green 
and hard, less mature and less liable to be 
attacked by man, beast or buying agent— 
>eason enough why they stay bv you 
longer. E c 
Gunston, Va. 
FRUIT PROSPECTS. 
Peaches, strawberries and cherries are 
all entirely destroyed. After a careful ex¬ 
amination of the apple and prune trees 1 
do not believe they are injured very much. 
Port Byron, N. Y. m. m. 
Peaches had been in blossom for several 
days before the frost, consequently the 
crop was substantially ruined. Early 
cherries were all out and these are gone. 
Late cherries blossomed later and, ap¬ 
parently, will be a fair crop. Bartlett pears 
apparently will give a full crop, but all 
other kinds are badly damaged. Plums 
are partially killed. Early apples were 
more or less injured. Late Fall varieties 
show some damage, while Winter sorts 
now appear to be partially uninjured. 
s. c. B. 
On May 9 we had a very severe freeze 
here, the thermometer registering 13 de¬ 
grees of frost. Fortunately not many of 
the large fruits were in full bloom. The 
injury to fruits from this frost indicated 
at present is as follows: Apples, light; 
plums, destroyed where fully open, but 
only native plums were in bloom at the 
time; cherries, flowers destroyed where in 
full bloom or where buds were showing 
white; strawberries were badly injured 
where the plants had been uncovered early 
and the buds showed above ground. 
Canada. w. t. m. 
Pears generally blossomed very full, ex¬ 
cept Seckel, which is light. Some apple 
orchards in this section which have been 
injured by the Forest tent-caterpillar the 
past two seasons, have few blossoms. 
Where orchards have not been injured by 
this pest there never was a better showing 
for all kinds of apples, with the exception 
of Baldwin. Probably one-third the trees 
of this variety have not blossomed. We 
do not tnink the late frosts injured fruit 
to any extent. It is getting very dry. Pas¬ 
ture is short. Rye is looking well. Oats 
and grass are very backward. Some corn 
has been planted. c. j. l. 
New York. 
NOTES FROM MISSOURI. 
The outlook for small fruit in the south¬ 
ern part of Missouri is rather slim. Straw¬ 
berry plantations suffered very severely 
from drought last year. The acreage will 
probably be less than one-half that of last 
year and most of these plantings show a 
light crop. About one-third the usual sup¬ 
ply of berries from southern Missouri may 
be expected. Raspberry and blackberry 
fields were badly injured by drought, and 
less than one-half crop is expected. Where 
vineyards were cared for, good yield is ex¬ 
pected. Cherries bloomed freely, but lit¬ 
tle fruit remained on the trees. Many 
trees are reported dying from effect of 
drought. Plums promise a fair crop. 
Peach and pear trees withstood the 
drought better than apple trees, and pears 
generally show a full setting. In the 
southwestern and extreme south-central 
parts of the State, the peach prospects are 
good. Almost all peach buds north of Mis¬ 
souri River were killed by the cold of last 
December. Part of Oregon and all of 
Howell County report 50 to 75 per cent of 
a crop, with some localities better. In this 
district are located many of the largest 
peach plantings in Missouri. The pros¬ 
pects for apples are promising in all parts 
of the State. Young trees are showing 
best, and those orchards that have been 
well cultivated show results of such care. 
Secretary Goodman, of the State Horti¬ 
cultural Society, reports that trees still 
show the effect of the severe Winter of 
1899, and the drought of 1901 is quite notice¬ 
able in many of our old orchards. There 
is a large acreage of wheat in this vi¬ 
cinity, most of which is looking well. Our 
farmers generally are using commercial 
fertilizers on their wheat fields with good 
results. One of our most progressive farm¬ 
ers has made a test for several seasons of 
using commercial fertilizer with all his 
field crops and claims that for every dol¬ 
lar invested in fertilizer he secures $5 bene¬ 
fit in one year. We nave had timely rains 
all over the Ozark Region, and the farm 
ers are generally cheerful and expectanl 
of a good season. Stock of all kinds has 
been sold down close, hogs especially being 
scarce. The drought of last season cut the 
feed down, and high prices for stock have 
induced many to sell nearly all they had. 
Mt. Grove, Mo. a. z. m. 
WORK OF A WINDMILL. 
The wheel is placed on the top of a 
mast 9x9 inches square and 27 feet long; 
this mast is placed on the beam of the 
barn, and then stayed with four guy 
wires. This puts the wheel about 15 
feet clear of the ridge. We placed this 
mast on one side of the ridge, so as not 
to interfere with the hay carriage. The 
vertical shafting runs down one corner 
of the mast, to the foot gear, about five 
feet from the barn floor. There is an 18- 
inch pulley on this foot gear. This runs 
from 350 to 400 revolutions per minute. 
This is the pulley we use to run our feed 
cutter, which is a 13-inch Cyclone. The 
cutter has a six-inch pulley, so you see 
it drives it about 1,200 revolutions per 
minute. In a fair wind it is all three 
men care to do to get the fodder to and 
from it; it will cut two tons of dry fod¬ 
der per hour. 
We cut about once a month, and be¬ 
fore this is all fed there is always plenty 
of power to cut more. The grinder does 
not require as much power as the cut¬ 
ter. W'e placed the grinder under the 
barn floor, and put the hopper from it 
up to the floor, where there is a trap 
door to dump grain into. It will grind 
10 or 12 bushels per hour. We also make 
all our own graham flour and cornmeal. 
There is no doubt about the power, if 
you have the wind. Of course you can¬ 
not cut and grind every day, but there 
are plenty of windy days to cut a supply 
to carry you over. There is scarcely a 
day that it will not run the grindstone, 
corn sheller, pump or other machinery 
of like dimensions. As for sawing, I 
have no saw, but one of my neighbors 
has, and he saws all of his wood with 
the wheel. It is the best investment 
that we ever made. Three times the 
cost of it would not remove it if we 
could not get another. The first cost is 
all, after that the wind does the rest. 
Fredonia, Pa. \v. m’k. 
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the clogged system from accumulated 
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grow, with least, expense and bother. Ask for 
new 82 page pamphlet which tells all about 
It. Sent free postpaid. GEO. II. LEE DO., 
Omaha, Neb., or No. 8 Park Place,New York* 
Amateur Poultrymen should use Mapes’ Balanced 
Ration. We furnish the skill, you follow direc¬ 
tions. The hensdo the rest. Made only by 
L. R. WALLACE, Middletown. N. Y. 
por Sale.—Entire stock of W. and B. P. Rocks; low 
prices. Few W. Wyan., W. Leg. and P. Guineas. 
Eggs from all, 26 *1; stamp. Mrs. Helllngs, Dover, Del 
. !• UbUO eggs t0 h atC h at g cents each, send to 
Walter Sherman, 25 Boulevard, Middletown, R. 1 . 
HatTMl KftfKQ (mlV~ Bratne J Bros - strain. Eggs 
Ddiicu nuLAb uuij 13 for $1 Reference> any 
bank In city. L. 8 . TOWNSEND, Wilmington, Del. 
DOGS from Thoroughbred Bar. Wh. Buff Rocks, Br 
Wh. Buff Leghorns, Gold, Wh. Buff Wyandottes, 
Laugshans, Cochins, Minorcas, Hamburgs, Brahmas, 
15, $1; 40, $2. Catalog. H. K. Mohr, Quakertown, Pa. 
-- j/iuuuuwuu, 1UIKE MIZW, 
vigor and purity of stock. Free range and food In¬ 
sures fertility. We agree to please. Write for cir¬ 
cular. WHITE & RICE, Box B, Yorktown, N. Y. 
ting or hundred. 23 varieties of 
, , x , prize-winning land and water 
fowls. Biff catalog free. Our guarantee means some¬ 
thing. PINK TREK FARM, Box T, Jamesburg, N.J. 
JOHN A. IRION, Gallipolls, Ohio, 
Breeder of Barred Plymouth Rocks; 15 choice fertile 
pggs, II. Guaranteed to give satisfaction. 13 Pekin 
Duck eggs, $1; large strain. 
LIGHT BRAHMAS 
els and oO pullets for sale at reasonable prices. Also 
25 B. P. R. cockerels. All bred from Madison Square 
Garden winners. Eggs for hatching from Light 
Brahmas, Barred P. Rocks and W. Wyandottes $2 
per 15. Woodcrest Farm, Rifton, Ulster Co., N. Y 
A Carving Set. 
Every family needs a carving set three 
times a day. This set consists of a Shef¬ 
field carver with eight-inch handmade 
steel blade, buckhorn handle, fork ana 
steel. Price, $1.90; or we will send it for 
a club of two new subscriptions at $1 
each and $1.25 extra money, or free for a 
club of six at $1 each. 
Gold-Shell Rings. 
Most people like a 
nice ring. We show 
three styles. These are 
made by drawing a 
shell of gold over a rod 
of composition metal. 
They are better and 
will wear longer than 
solid gold rings of a 
low carat. The retail 
price would be from 75 
cents to $1. We will 
send one of these rings 
postpaid as a reward 
for sending one new subscription at $1. 
Cut a slip of paper tbe size of finger and 
send for size. 
