1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
835 
Hope Farm Notes. 
(CONTINUED..) 
Madame a year’s supply of shoe leather. It will 
be hard for some people to realize that the shoe 
bill for a horse may be larger than that for a 
farmer. 
A Stormy Thanksgiving.—We awoke Thanks¬ 
giving Day and found a cold rain falling. It was 
a great disappointment for the children, who had 
expected to kick football. I bought them a small 
football for 85 cents last week, and they have 
had great sport with it. After breakfast, we 
went to the barn and had a little game, the Graft 
and the Scion kicking against the Bud and me. 
It was stipulated that I must kick with my left 
foot only! About noon, I hitched old Frank to 
the market wagon, and all hands drove to the 
post office after the mail. We have a number of 
good friends who always write us so the letter 
will come at Thanksgiving time. It is the next 
best thing to having them with us. Our dinner 
was a great success. We didn’t kill the old 
Brahma rooster, as I had suggested, but we had 
a real fat turkey with ail the fixings. About 
noon, the storm changed to snow, and the little 
folks went out into the storm and had a great 
time. 
A Blizzard.—The weather acted like a man 
out of sorts until Saturday afternoon, and then 
the wind started a small blizzard. Sunday morn¬ 
ing found the snow whirling and drifting around 
the house. There was a great drift in front of the 
barn, and the wind had loosened a board and 
sent a dose of snow inside. Our turnips were all 
inside, but the blizzard caught about 2,000 cab¬ 
bage in the field. I tell you the hens hate a storm 
of this sort. They shut right up on their egg 
yield, and Sunday morning caught us without an 
egg to mix with the Madame’s famous fish balls! 
I suppose some of our good friends will be 
startled when I say that Sunday seemed all 
wrong without a good plate of fish balls to start 
us off at breakfast. We had just sorted out six 
large shotes for fattening, and put them in a 
little house in the outside pen. We hung a big 
fertilizer sack over the door, and the shotes piled 
inside together and kept very much to themselves. 
The snow drifted up around their house, but they 
kept quite comfortable. Inside our house we 
kept warm and good natured, with plenty of food 
and fuel. Ou Sunday, we finished up the turkey, 
having left one side from Thanksgiving. The wise 
men tell me that this early blizzard means a 
long, hard Winter! 
Kating Cow Peas.—A neighbor who has 
worked for us quite a little, picked some of the 
cow peas on shares. His family are now eating 
them with great relish. They make them into a 
thick, black soup with a piece of meat boiled 
with them. This man bought some of our yellow 
turnips and cabbage, and with the cow peas and 
bread, is able to feed a large family at a fair 
cost. Potatoes are too high for many people this 
year. Turnips and cabbage mixed make a strong 
combination. If a man like this one could get 
hold of an acre of poor land, have it worked 
roughly, and sown to cow peas, I am sure that 
he could produce more food for a dollar’s outlay 
than in any other way. Ours are the Early Black 
cow peas. I am told that the brown or black 
eyed peas are better yet. I am not sure that they 
would mature In our latitude. u. w. c. 
“DISHONEST APPLE PACKERS 
THE OTHER SIDE OF IT. 
One Class ok Buyers. —In last week’s 
R. N.-Y. is an article from P. II. V. on 
Dishonest Apple Packers. I, of course, 
do not understand the circumstances 
under which the apples he mentions 
were bought, but the following is the 
way apples are bought and packed in 
our county. There is a class of buyers 
who, when they arrive here, go to a 
livery stable, get a horse and buggy, 
drive out in the country, examine or¬ 
chards and make contracts with the 
farmers. They give instructions how 
they want them graded, and call around 
occasionally to see how the packers are 
getting along. Those buyers know 
what they are getting, have the apples 
packed as they wish, pay fair prices, go 
away satisfied, and the farmers are loud 
in their praises. 
Still Another Class. —Another class 
of buyers, as soon as they arrive and 
register at the hotel, are besieged by a 
dozen local buyers. The latter say: 
“ Now you don’t want to go out in the 
country among the farmers, and raise 
the price of apples. You stay right here, 
give us five cents per barrel for our 
trouble, and we will buy all the apples 
you want at less prices than you can.” 
So the jobbers are talked into the game. 
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Farmers that have small amounts of 
apples, or for some reason or other did 
not contract their apples, put them in 
barrels and bring them to town. When 
packing them, they know from experi¬ 
ence that they are to be sold to a lot of 
cutthroats and deadbeats, and they 
pack accordingly; the price will be the 
same whether good or bad go in the bar¬ 
rel. As soon as they arrive in town, 
a half dozen buyers with hatchets get 
on the loads and commence knocking 
the barrel heads off. Before they see 
the apples they say : “ They are no good, 
too small, too large, wormy, windfalls, 
not half packed, small barrels, loose, 
market is way down this morning, lost 
$1,000 in the last shipment. Well, what 
do you expect to get for them ? ” Before 
the farmer gets his horses stopped from 
the racket on the back end of the wagon, 
the buyers have answered half their 
own questions. 
What the Farmer Gets. —The farmer 
looks around at them with that innocent 
smile, and asks what they will give. He 
knows that he might as well take the 
first offer as to wait, for they agree 
among themselves every morning what 
is to be paid that day; so the farmer 
takes what he can get, backs up his 
wagon, and unloads. He keeps his eye 
on his barrels until he is paid, as he 
well knows, oftentimes by experience, 
that he can not collect $10 from the 
whole gang. The stranger from the East 
sits on a barrel, smokes cigars, drinks 
beer and talks politics. When he has 
bought the quantity of apples he wants, 
he goes home and then looks over his 
stock. Of course, it is not satisfactory 
to him, as he has paid for it all. You 
will find in this county as honest, up¬ 
right and conscientious farmers as in 
any other place; but if any New York 
jobber thinks that he can come up here, 
and put up jobs and schemes to do the 
farmers, he has simply struck the wrong 
town. From one who is not a farmer, 
but has dealings with them every busi¬ 
ness day in the year. DANIEL MCCARTHY. 
Niagara County, N. Y. 
FRUIT NOTES. 
Pear Seeds and Peach Pits.— 1. I have some 
pear seed that I got from a free-growing seed¬ 
ling. Will it do to plant, or will it be necessary 
to Import seed from which to grow good stocks ? 
2. Where can I obtain peach pits to grow stocks 
for budding ? l. b. b. 
Waterport, N. Y. 
Ans. —1. A large part of the pear seeds 
and seedlings used in this country are 
imported, but there is no good reason 
why the seeds mentioned by L. B. B. 
should not be used. They should be at 
once mixed with at least four times their 
bulk of earth or sand, and kept damp 
until early Spring, when they should be 
planted. 2. Peach seeds are, probably, 
hard to get so late, for they are usually 
bought up and planted or bedded down in 
the Fall. Some of the southern nursery¬ 
men, especially those in Tennessee, 
Georgia or the Carolinas, might be able 
to direct the inquirer to some one who 
has them for sale. h. e. v. d. 
The Black Twig Apple.— I bought Roxbury Rus¬ 
set apple trees of a New Jersey nurseryman, but 
he substituted Black Twig. What is it, and what 
are its season, eating and keeping qualities, etc.? 
Connecticut. c. s. b. 
Ans. —It is probable that the apple 
sent under the name Black Twig, was the 
variety properly known as Arkansaw, 
but more generally as Mammoth Black 
Twig. Unfortunately, it has, also, been 
confounded with a similar variety that 
originated in Tennessee called Paragon, 
therefore, has that as another of its 
synonyms. The name, Black Twig, has 
long been one of the synonyms of Wine- 
sap, but it is hardly likely that it is that 
variety that was sent to C. S. B. The 
twigs of all the varieties so far men¬ 
tioned are so dark as to be almost black, 
Remember that Bowker’s Animal 
Meal is sold only in yellow bags and 
yellow packages. The original; richest 
in protein.— Adv. 
except those of Roxbury Russet. The 
Arkansaw is a native of the State of Ar¬ 
kansas, and was first brought to public 
notice at the New Orleans fruit show 
in 1884-5, although it had been previously 
called Mammoth Black Twig, locally, 
about its original home. In the last 
official list of the American Pomological 
Society, the name has been spelled Ar¬ 
kansas, which is confusing, because of 
there being two other apples of Arkansas 
origin bearing that name in part. It is 
a dark red Winter apple of medium size 
and fair quality. It is a duller red than 
Winesap, and not so good in quality, but 
larger. As a keeper, it has proved to be 
quite late in the central States. What it 
will do in Connecticut is a matter of 
doubt. h. k. v. D. 
Cow Peas and Clover. —In answer to 
the inquiry about cow peas on page 772, 
I have not tried them this season, either 
among corn or bush fruits. I raised a 
few last year in my plum orchard, sown 
the last of June; part of them got 
ripe. I sowed about one bushel this 
year, May 12, in the plum orchard. 
They got ripe long before frost. I 
cut and thrashed them with the steam 
thrasher, and got 26 bushels. They 
made a fine growth and looked nice in 
rows 28 inches apart and four rows be¬ 
tween each two rows of plum trees. 
About July 4, I sowed Crimson clover 
among them, but they grew so rank that 
they choked the clover badly, and now 
only along the rows of trees is there any 
show of clover. On another part of the 
orchard, I sowed Crimson clover after 
Crimson clover; I sowed it thick about 
August 1, and I have a fine stand. My 
experience with it leads me to believe it 
better sown alone. E. m. g. 
Burnham, Ohio. 
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